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The Catholic Community in Walsall 1720–1824
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
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Walsall in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a large parish containing a small borough. The borough claimed to be ‘by prescription’, but it had charters including one given by King Charles the First in 1627. This secured to the corporation ‘of the borough and foreign of Walsall’ authority in the parts of the parish outside the borough. These, called ‘the foreign’, had a vestry meeting of their own at the chapel-of-ease at Bloxwich. They supported their own poor through churchwardens and overseers elected there, but they were obliged to contribute to the repair and improvement of the parish church where they were married and in whose churchyard they were buried until 1733.
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63 BAA Sedgley.
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81 SCH 13, 1973, p. 39.
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85 Pp. 14-5.
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90 Mrs. Ankrett had been Sarah Rock, married to Thomas on 13 November 1789. Hence her insistenceon the Thornhill connection celebrated on the tablet in St. Mary on the Mount. The Bagnals wouldhave made more of Ralph Manley.