CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

I. Its Name and Its Antiquity

II. The Battle of Wednesfield.

II. The Saxon Settlement

IV. The Founding of Wulfruna's Church, 996, A.D.

V. The Collegiate Establishment

VI Willenhall at the Norman Conquest (1066 - 1086).

VII. A Chapel and a Chantry at Willenhall.

VIII. Willenhall in the Middle Ages.

IX. The Levesons and other old Willenhall families.

X. Willenhall Endowments at the Reformation.

XI. How the Reformation Affected Willenhall.

XII. Before the Reformation and After.

XIII. A Century of Wars, Incursions, and Alarms (1640 - 1745).

XIV. Litigation Concerning the Willenhall Prebend (1615 - 1702).

XV. Willenhall Struggling to be a Free Parish.

XVI. Dr. Richard Wilkes, of Willenhall (1690 - 1760).

XVII. Willenhall "Spaw."

XVIII. The Benefice.

XIX. How a Flock Chose its own Shepherd.

XX. The Election of 1894, and Since.

XXI. Willenhall Church Endowments.

XXII. The Church Charities: The Daughter Churches.

XXIII. The Fabric of the Church.

XXIV. Dissent, Nonconformity, and Philanthrophy.

XXV. Manorial Government.

XXVI. Modern Self-Government.

XXVII. The Town of Locks and Keys.

XXVIII. Willenhall in Fiction.

XXIX. Bibliography.

XXX. Topography.

XXXI. Old Families and Names of Note.

XXXII. Manners and Customs.

INDEX

Footnotes:

[Copyright]

The
Annals of Willenhall

—by—

Frederick Wm. Hackwood

AUTHOR OF

“The Chronicles of Cannock Chase,” “Wednesbury Ancient and Modern,”
“The Story of the Black Country,” “Staffordshire Stories,”
&c., &c.

“I cannot tell by what charm our native soil captivates us,
and does not allow us to be forgetful of it.”

—Ovid.

Seal of Willenhall Local Authority

Wolverhampton:
whitehead bros.,
St. John’s Square and King Street.

1908.