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HISTORY OF MADELEY, INCLUDING IRONBRIDGE, COALBROOKDALE, AND COALPORT,
INTRODUCTION.
PREFACE.
MADELEY.
King Charles’s Visit to, and Concealment at, Madeley.
The Great Fire of London.
Assessments in Madeley, and Abolition of the Chimney Tax or Smoke-Penny.
The Law of Settlement.
Vagrants and Sturdy Beggars.
The Oaths of Supremacy.
The Poll Tax.
Assessment for carrying on a Vigorous War.
Press Laws.
Tax upon Marriages, Births, Burials, &c.
Rent and Value of Lands in the Lordship of Madeley, in 1702.
The Coal and Iron Industries of Madeley.
The First Ironworks.—The Reynoldses.
William Reynolds.
Events relating to the Social and Political History of Madeley, from the 13th to the 19th Centuries, not previously noticed.
Scarcity of Wheat in Madeley in 1795.
The Church, and the Moral and Religious Aspects of the People of Madeley.
Rev. John W. Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley.
Mr. Fletcher as Head of Lady Huntingdon’s College.
Mr. Fletcher as a Controversialist.
Mr. Fletcher as a Politician.
Mr. Fletcher as a Descriptive Writer.
Mr. Fletcher in the Pulpit.
Mr. Fletcher’s Charity and Love of the Poor.
Mr. Fletcher’s Last Illness and Death.
Testimonies of the Life and Character of the Rev. John Fletcher.
Epitaph on Gravestone.
MRS. FLETCHER, OF MADELEY.
Religious Aspect of Madeley in Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher’s day.
Religious Aspect of Madeley in 1777 and 1877.
Ironbridge Church.
Coalbrookdale.
Wesleyan Methodism.
Primitive Methodists.
The New Connexion.
Baptists.
Congregationalists.
The Madeley Wood Works.
The Clay Industries of the district.
Maw and Co’s Tesselated, Mosaic, and Majolica Works.
Jackfield Pottery and Porcelain.
Coalport Porcelain Works.
MADELEY CHINA WORKS.
MADELEY CHURCH.
Benefactions.
MADELEY. Extinct and ancient names.
MADELEY MARKET.
Madeley as a part of the Franchise of Wenlock.
SHEEP STEALING IN SHIRLETT: CUNNING DEVICE.
PETTY SESSIONS.
COURTS FOR THE RECOVERY OF DEBTS, COUNTY COURT, &c.
MANORIAL COURT.
THE DISPENSARY.
MADELEY UNION.
THE CHOLERA.
THE SEVERN.
THE SEVERN AS A SOURCE OF FOOD.
FLOODS.
COALBROOKDALE.
COALBROOKDALE BRICK, TILE, AND TERRA COTTA WORKS.
Coalbrookdale Coalfield.
IRONBRIDGE.
THE SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY WAS AUTHORIZED IN 1853.
THE WELLINGTON AND SEVERN JUNCTION RAILWAY
ST. LUKE’S CHURCH.
THE SANITARY STATE OF THE PARISH.
THE STEAM ENGINE IN ITS INFANCY.
PATENT MUSEUM,
CAPTAIN WEBB.
Hotels, Inns, Public Houses, and Beershops, in the Parish—their Signs, &c.
THE BROOKE FAMILY.
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS.
INDEX.
APPENDIX.
King Charles’s Oak.
Old Family Names.
FOOTNOTES.
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