The
Annals of Willenhall

Chapter.

Page.

I.—Willenhall—Its Name and Antiquity

1

II.—The Battle of Wednesfield

5

III.—The Saxon Settlement

11

IV.—The Founding of Wulfruna’s Church, a.d. 996

17

V.—The Collegiate Establishment

22

VI.—Willenhall at the Norman Conquest (1066–1086)

27

VII.—A Chapel and a Chantry at Willenhall

32

VIII.—Willenhall in the Middle Ages

37

IX.—The Levesons and other Old Willenhall Families

41

X.—Willenhall Endowments at the Reformation

48

XI.—How the Reformation Affected Willenhall

52

XII.—Before the Reformation—and After

57

XIII.—A Century of Wars, Incursions, and Alarms (1640–1745)

65

XIV.—Litigation Concerning the Willenhall Prebend (1615–1702)

72

XV.—Willenhall Struggling to be a Free Parish

77

XVI.—Dr. Richard Wilkes, of Willenhall (1690–1760)

82

XVII.—Willenhall “Spaw”

90

XVIII.—The Benefice

95

XIX.—How a Flock Chose its own Shepherd

103

XX.—The Election of 1894, and Since

110

XXI.—Willenhall Church Endowments

116

XXII.—The Church Charities: the Daughter Churches

129

XXIII.—The Fabric