1706. May 28th, Basil Brooke, Esq. of Madeley gave by will £40, to which
an addition of £60 was made by unknown Benefactors, wherewith certain
Cottages and Premises were purchased and conveyed to Trustees for the
benefit of the Poor of this Parish.
1800. The yearly sum of five shillings was given to the Poor of this
Parish to be paid out of the Rates of the Premises lately belonging to
Mr. Richard Beddoes, but now in the possession of Walter Bowdler, of
Madeley.
1825. Joseph Reynolds, Esq., of the Bank House, presented a Service of
Communion Plate for the use of this Church, of the value of £100.
1810. Sept. 6th, Mr. William Yate, of this Parish, gave by will to the
Churchwardens for the time being in Trust, four kneelings in his Pew, No.
13 in the Gallery, for the benefit of the Sunday Schools of this Parish.
1852. Thomas Lister, Esq., of Broseley, gave £100 to the Sunday and
National Schools connected with the Parish Church of Madeley, which sum
was invested in the three per cent Consolidated Annuities, on the 19th
day of January, 1853, in the names of Rev. J. H. A. Gwyther, John
Anstice, and Thomas Smith, Vicar and Churchwardens, Managers of the said
Schools.
The Foundation Stone of this Church
was laid by the Rev. George Pattrick, L.L.B.,
September 22nd, 1794.
Divine Worship first performed therein by the Rev. Samuel Walter, A. M.,
Curate of this parish, on Easter Day, being
April 16th, 1797.
William Purton, Thomas Wheatly, } Churchwardens.
MADELEY.
EXTINCT AND ANCIENT NAMES.
An old book containing tithe charges has names of places now no longer
known. In 1786, for instance, Mr. Botfield is stated to occupy under the
family of the late Sir Joseph Hawley some pieces of land called the Hoar
Stones. The Rev. Charles Hartshorne in his Salopia Antiqua describes
hoar stones at some length and quotes passages from sacred and profane
writers to shew that they were in some cases memorial, and in others
division marks between property. They occur at a place called Hoar, or
“Whure Edge,” on the Titterstone Clee, and in several other places in
Shropshire and neighbouring counties, whilst in Wales, both north and
south, they are still more numerous.
Among old names of places applying to portions of Madeley Court property
we find the Hopyard, adjoining “the slang,” a piece of 11 acres, 2
perches, and 16 roods, formerly in the occupation of Mr. W. Purton, and
belonging to Richard Dyott Esq.; and the Coneberry, and Coneygrey; Deer
Close, and Battlefield, all belonging to the same in 1787.