Wro Surname Ancestry ResultsOur indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'wro'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 24 records (displaying 11 to 20): Single Surname Subscription | | Buying all 24 results of this search individually would cost £122.00. But you can have free access to all 24 records for a year, to view, to save and print, for £100. Save £22.00. More... |
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(1317-1321) The Patent Rolls are the Chancery enrolments of royal letters patent. Those for the 11th to the 14th years of the reign of king Edward II (8 July 1317 to 7 July 1321) were edited for the Public Record Office by G. F. Handcock, and published in 1903. The main contents are royal commissions and grants; ratifications of ecclesiastical estates; writs of aid to royal servants and purveyors; and pardons. Most extensive are the commissions of oyer and terminer to justices to investigate complaints about specific crimes and wrongs in particular counties.WRO. Cost: £2.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Charter Rolls
(1050-1326) This abstract of the surviving charter rolls for 1300 to 1326, in the reigns of kings Edward I and II, was prepared by C. G. Crump and A. E. Stamp and published in 1908. The charter rolls not only recorded royal grants of lands, liberties and offices, but also enabled landowners to have their existing charters, their deeds of title, registered by the process of inspeximus and confirmation. After the Statute of Mortmain of 1279, this was of particular importance to religious houses, now greatly restricted in their ability to receive new donations of land, and anxious to prove title to their ancient property. Consequently, many charters of great age were copied onto the charter rolls.WRO. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Lancashire landowners and their tenants
(1310-1333) This compilation of abstracts of Lancashire inquisitions, extents (surveys) and feudal aids (taxes) was prepared for the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society and printed in 1907, from originals in the national archives of the Public Record Office. Almost all the material has been translated from the original abbreviated Latin: where surnames have been Anglicized, the original is shown in italics, as with the word 'faber' in the sample scan. WRO. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Lancashire and Cheshire tenants, patrons and friends of Whalley abbey
(1178-1350) About to leave for the Holy Land in 1178, John, constable of Chester, founded an abbey at Stanlawe (Stanlow) in Cheshire, endowing it with the townships of Staneye (Stanney) and Aston. Inundated by the sea at Stanlow, the monastery was removed to Whalley in Lancashire in 1294, and this foundation of Cistercians (grey monks) became one of the wealthiest in northern England. It received grants of lands in Ince, Garston, Childewall, Aykebergh, Little Woolton and Warrington in southwest Lancashire; Eccles, Barton, Maunton, Swynton, Pendleton, Worsley, Hulton, Westhalghton, Rumworth, Pendlebury, Cadishead and Denton in the south; Spotland, Chadwick, Castleton, Marland, Todmorden, Rochdale, Whitworth, Heley, Falenge, Chaderton, Wardle, Howarth and Saddleworth in the east; Wytton, Derwent, Plesyngton, Balderston, Salebury, Read, Downham, Clithero, Ribchester, Withnall, Wheelton and Stanworth in Blackburn hundred; and Warton, Carleton, Steyninges, Elswick and Preston in Amounderness hundred; as well as further property in Cheshire, in Chester, Nantwich, Northwich, Aston, Backford, Walton and Wynlaton. A careful copy of all these grants was compiled in the 14th century in what is called the Coucher Book or C(h)artulary of Whalley Abbey. The evidence had been carefully sorted and collated in twenty chapters or titles, each containing a transcript of the grants and evidences relating to a separate parish or township. The people that appear in these deeds are the donors, the witnesses, and occasionally tenants or occupiers of adjoining plots of land. The Coucher Book was edited for the Chetham Society by W. A. Hulton, and published in four volumes, starting in 1847. WRO. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Agbrigg Ash wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Dewsbury, Huddersfield and Wakefield.WRO. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Barkstone Ash wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Selby, Sherburn-in-Elmet and Tadcaster.WRO. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Morley wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Bradford and Halifax.WRO. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Skyrack wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Bingley and Otley.WRO. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Staincliff wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Keighley, Settle and Skipton.WRO. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Inhabitants of Yorkshire: The Ainsty
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around the city of York.WRO. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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