Shropshire Its Early History And Antiquities Comprising A Description Of The Important British And Roman Remains In That County

Author : John Corbet Anderson
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ISBN 13 : 9780901598462
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Shropshire: Its Early History and Antiquities written by John Corbet Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ... a quarter of a mile from the village of Cressage, on the road to Shrewsbury, is the shattered trunk of an old oak tree. Tradition has it, that under the once wide-spreading branches of this identical oak, Christian missionaries preached to our pagan Saxon forefathers the unsearchable riches of Christ. 1 Domesday, fo. 259, a 2. After Romish error had corrupted the purer faith of the early British church, the tree alluded to acquired the title of the Lady Oak, in honour of the Virgin Mary. Domesday says, that: --" Rannulf Peurel holds Cristesache of Earl Roger. Edric held it, and was a free man. Here i hide and a half geldable. In demesne are iii ox-teams; and viii serfs, vii villains, xi boors, and iiii cottars,1 have iiii teams; and still there might be ii more teams here. Here is a fishery of 8s. annual value, and a wood capable of fattening 200 swine. In time of King Edward the manor was worth 110s. annually; now 10. When he Rannulf received it, it was worth 6."4 The Norman scribe who penned the above appears to have been very particular in preserving the name Cristesache. The fishery spoken of here, doubtless, was a weir in the adjacent Severn; the wood, Cressage Park. We have before alluded to the mystery respecting the Peverels.3 A forfeited estate, Cressage reached the hands of Henry II., who annexed it to the barony of de Lacy, as a member of which the Lacys of Cressage long held the manor. The Church. Cressage church was for many centuries a chapel dependant on Cound. Early Incumbent.--Robert, parson of Cristeshethe, 1232. Normannus Venator held one manor in Condover Hundred, for we read in Domesday Book, that, " Normannus holds Cantelop of Earl Roger. Edric held it in Saxon times, and was a free man. Here i hide geldable....