The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood (13 ebook reader TXT) 📕

Pitt 67

Podmore 120-1

Portobello 134, 144-5, 148, 181

Prestwood 34, 40, 71, 113, 120, 129, 132, 151

Prosser 162

Pype 40

Railways 127, 150, 156

Rollason 64, 117, 122

Rosedale 111-2, 114, 134, 140

Rowley 37

Rubery 144

Rushall 4, 66-9

Rushbrooke 166, 185

Ryes 73

Sampson 28

Sandbeds 134, 148, 154

Scotland 15

Sedgley 13, 39, 92, 167

Seisdon 6, 12, 15, 27-8, 148

Sewall, Showells, &c. 6, 15, 93-4

Shakespeare 185

Shenstone 40

Shepwell Green 128, 132, 134

Short Heath 110-2, 133-4, 144-5, 148, 155, 164, 183

Sigeric 20-1

Slater 113, 116, 186

Soldier's Hill 9

Solly 178, 186

South Low 7, 9, 10

Spa, Holy Well, &c. 57, 90-4, 179, 187-8

Spring Vale 92

Stephen's, St. 110, 112, 133-4

Stow Heath 12, 15, 17, 30, 99, 112, 116, 122-4, 139, 148-9, 155, 182

Stowman Hill 9

Stretton 81

Sunday, St. 90-1

Sutherland 47, 112

Swynnerton 38

Symmonds 68

Tame 1, 29, 93

Tettenhall 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15, 17-8, 21, 28, 40, 51, 56, 137

Therferth 8

Thorneycroft 107, 165, 176-7

Tildesley 114, 144, 147, 154, 158, 163-6, 177-8, 186

Tipper 164-5

Tipton 65, 136

Tithes 48, 50, 75, 95, 107

Tomkys 44, 121, 131-2, 151, 161

Tonks 146-7, 164

Tramways 156

Trollesbury 32, 95

Tromelow 7, 10, 15

Tumuli 4, 6, 7, 9, 10

Turton 47

Twyford 19

Unett 85-6, 161

Vaughan 114, 147, 164, 166, 186

Vestry 17, 26

Villiers 182, 184, 189, 190

Wakelam 182

Walker 24, 26, 61, 114, 184

Walsall 2, 4, 5, 9, 17-9, 57-9, 60-1, 68, 137, 140

Wednesbury 1, 2, 5, 12-3, 17, 27, 38, 41, 46, 57-61, 65, 67, 137, 152, 167, 180

Wednesfield 2, 5-13, 18, 31, 38-40, 66, 72, 80, 132, 135, 145, 155, 162, l67, 172, 181

Welch 131, 133, 151, 179

Wergs 8, 15

Wesley 57, 143, 145, 152, 175, 177

West Bromwich 113

White 103-4

Whitehouse 105, 107, 144, 187

Whitegreaves 70-1

Willis 89

Wilkes 6, 7, 40, 59, 80, 82-92, 120-1, 138, 141, 144, 160, 164, 179

Willoughby de Broke 75

Windsor 19, 23, 35, 49, 51, 57, 74-5, 99

Wobaston 15, 23, 28, 30, 74-6

Woden Stone 13

Wolfric 12

Wolstanton 37

Wombourn 6, 9, 10, 15, 56

Wren 73

Wrottesley 4, 6, 7, 40, 52, 84,-5

Wulfgeal 19

Wulfruna 12, 17, 22, 92, 94

Wyndefield 39

Young 162

Footnotes:

{88} Claudy Phillips, as he was popularly called, seems to have been a man of considerable genius, though not without some of the eccentricities which sometimes accompany it. He was well known throughout the county, which he used to traverse dressed at one time in laced clothes, at others in garments which betrayed the low state of his exchequer. When drawn to it by stress of financial embarassment, he was not above playing in the evening at inns, and throwing himself upon the generosity of his audiences there. As to his qualities as a musician, it is said his forte was in wild and plaintive melody, dictated by the impulses of his own mind, and subject to none of the ordinary rules of studied compositions; his manipulation of the violin was also distinguished for a rapidity of execution unrivalled in those days. The handsome marble tablet erected to his memory soon after his death, in 1732, by public subscription, shows that he must have been held in considerable estimation by a goodly number of admirers. Indeed, he must have been known to some of the most prominent personages of his time, as the following lines upon him have been variously attributed to Dr. Johnson or to David Garrick:--

Phillips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love, Rest here! distrest by poverty no more, Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before! Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!

(See also Oliver's "Wolverhampton," pp. 98 and 99.)

Publication Date: 11-11-2014

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