Date:1647
Description:A similar receipt features in the rent role of Francis Parkes for Wolverhampton from 1647 for ‘the sum of ten shillinge(s)’ which was given ‘to the use’ of the ‘usher in the Gramm[ar] Schole in Wolv[er]hampton’. The donation was ‘the gift’ of Sir Richard Leveson K[nigh]t’. The receipts in these accounts indicate that the Leveson family paid an annual sum to support the Usher of Wolverhampton Grammar School, a practise which continued into the nineteenth century.
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Educational provision in Wolverhampton was greatly improved by Sir Stephen Jenyns in the early sixteenth ...
The Leveson family are extremely significant in Wolverhampton’s history. During the early sixteenth ...
A document inside Thomas Clarke’s accounts dated the ‘xvi daye of Aprill 1606’ states that ’William ...
A similar receipt features in the rent role of Francis Parkes for Wolverhampton from 1647 for ‘the sum ...
In 1829 Mr. Tindall, the Usher of Wolverhampton Grammar School, wrote to Mr. Lowndes, the London solicitor ...
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