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FOURTH SERIES,
VOLUME V., 1915.
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SHROPSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL

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NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1915.

$r»ibtnt: 1905O18
The Right Hon. Lord Barnard.

The Right Hon. The Earl Brownlow
The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Bradford
The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop

of Lichfield
The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of

Hereford
The Right Hon. Lord Berwick
The Right Hon. Lord Kenyon
The Right Hon. Lord Forester
Sir Offley Wakeman, Bart.

Sir J. Bowen Bowen-Jones, Bart.
R. Lloyd Kenyon, Esq.
Rev. Prebendary H. W. Moss, M.A.
W. H. Foster, Esq.
Beville Stanier, Esq., M.P.
Rev. C. A. Alington, M.A.
The Hon. Mrs. Bulkeley-Owen
Mrs. Baldwyn-Childe
Miss Hope-Edwardes

Rev. Prebendary T. Auden, M.A.,
F.S.A., Church Stretton (Chair-
man).

Miss Auden, F.R.Hist.S., Church
Stretton.

Rev. Prebendary J. R. Burton, B.A.,
Bitterley.

Rev. R. Jowett Burton, M.A.,
Eaton Constantine.

Rev Prebendary W. G. Clark-Max-
well M.A., F.S.A., Bridgnorth.

Rev. D. H. S. Cranage, D.Litt.
F S.A., Cambridge.

R. E. Davies, Esq., Shrewsbury.

Rev. E. H. Gilchrist de Castro

M.A., Halford.
Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, M.A.,

Shrewsbury.
Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A.

F.S.A., Oxon.
H. E. Forrest, Esq., Bayston Hill.
H. F. Harries, Esq., Shrewsbury.
Rev. Canon Moriarty, D.D., Shrews

bury.

J. A. Morris, Esq., Shrewsbury.
J. B.Oldham, Esq., M.A. .Shrewsbury
T. E. Pickering, Esq., M.A., Shrews
bury.

Henry T. Weyman, Esq., F.S.A.
Ludlow.

(frbitorial Committee :
Rev. Prebendary Auden, M.A., F.S.A.
Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M A , F.S.A. Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, M A.

|)oh. Stmtaq) :
H. W. Adnitt, Esq., Coney Green, Shrewsbury.

gissistant ^errcturji :
Mr. A. E. Cooper, St. John's Chambers, St. John's Hill, Shrewsbury.

;JUbitor ;

|t :: .: r W. W. Naunton, Esq.

<f rcjisums :

The Capital and Counties Bank, LIMITED,

SHROPSHIRE ARCH/EOLOGICAL AND NATURAL
HISTORY SOCIETY.

CONTENTS of 4th Series, Vol. Y.

Page.

The Members of Parliament for Bridgnorth. By

Henry T. Weyman. F.S.A. . . . . i

Burwarton. By the Rev. R. C. Purton, M.A., and

R. R. James, F.R.C.S. . . . . . . 77

Two Salopian Deeds. (1) A Licence from Queen
Elizabeth to Edward Foxe, Esq., to alienate land in
Novers, Cainham, Snytton, and Bennett's Ende to
Richard Churchman, clerk. (2) Fine between
George Hayes and Thomas Garlick, complainants,
and James Kettleby, deforciant, of lands in Stepple,
Neen Savage, Nash and Cleobury Mortimer, 6
George II. Transcribed and Edited R. R. James,
F.R.C.S. .. .. .. .. 97

The Rev. Francis Leighton, 1767-1813. By Frances C.

Baldwyn Childe . . . . . . 105

Contemporary Letter as to the Death of Lord Clive.

By Andrew South .. .. .. ir6

Ludlow Castle in 1631. By Caroline A. J. Skebl,

D.Lit. .. .. .. .. ..119

Inquisition Post Mortem Sir Roger Owen, of Condover,
Knight, 3 April, 1619. By the Rev. W. G. D.
Fletcher, F.S.A. .. .. .. 124

Sutton, near Shrewsbury. By J. A. Morris . . 125

The Parish Registers of Sutton . . . . . . 149

Some Old Shropshire Houses and their Owners. By
H. E. Forrest.

I. Whitton
II. Marshe Manor

169
175
3i3
321
33i
334

III. Braggingtou

IV. Dinthill..
V. Whitley..

VI. Plas-y-Court

Institutions of Shropshire Incumbents, 1705 to 1775 . . 185

Sir John Burgh, Lord of Mawddwy, By Frances C.

Baldwyn Ciiilde. . .. .. 209

The History of Wrockwardine. By Florentia C.

Herbert . . . . . . . . 225

Early Quakerism in Shropshire. By the Rev. Pre-
bendary T. Auden, M.A., F.S.A. .. .. 29]

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FaSe-

List of English Words usual in the Marches of Wales

(17th Century). By Caroline A. J. Skeel. D.Lit. 338

The Goughs of Newton-on-the-Hill. By \. V. Gough 341

MISCELLANEA :—

I. Sir Adam Mytton's Mansion. Shrewsbury .. i

II. Novers : A Correction . . . . Hi

III. Diddlebury Church and the Cornewalls . . ' Hi

IV. Some Shropshire Indentured Apprentices . . iv
V. A Business Letter of Bishop Squire, 1765 . . v

General Index to Volume V . . . . ix

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Burwarton Old Church . . . . . . 91

Sutton Church — North side .. .. 125

Sutton Old Hall and Church . . . . . . 143

Marshe Manor . , . . . . . . 169

Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury . . . . 248

William Howard. Viscount Stafford . . . . 24^

George Talbot. 6th Earl of Shrewsbury ... . . 249

Sir George Saviie, Marquess of Halifax . . . . 249

Braggington Hall (exterior) . . . . . . 312

(interior) . . . . . . 31S

Arms to illustrate " Some Old Shropshire Houses and

their Owners " . . . . . . 330

V

SHROPSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.

ANNUAL MEETING.

The Annual Meeting of the Shropshire Archaeological and
Natural History Society was held at Shrewsbury, on
Wednesday, October 13th, 1915, under the presidency of the
Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., Chairman of the Council.
The Meeting was of more than passing interest owing to the
presence of Mr. J. P. Bushe-Fox, who has been superintending
the excavations at Uriconium, and gave a valuable report
of the work carried out there.

Amongst those present were Sir J. Bowen Bowen-Jones,
Bart., Mr. R. Lloyd Kenyon, the Rev. Prebendary Clarke-
Maxwell, F.S.A., the Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, the Rev. W. G.

D. Fletcher, F.S.A., the Rev. E. H. Gilchrist de Castro, the
Rev. R. C. Purton, Messrs. T. E. Pickering, J. B. Oldham, H.

E. Forrest, R. E. Davies, H. F. Harries, J. Nurse, Hugh
Hobson, H. W. Male, Mrs. John Lee, Miss H. M. Auden,

F. R.Hist.S., Miss A. Downward, Miss L- S. Wright, etc.

THE ANNUAL REPORT.

1 The Annual Report of the Council was read by the Rev.
Prebendary Auden, as follows: —

The experience of this Society during the time covered by
this Report has been similar to that of others in being affected
by the war. This has shown itself not only by an unusual
number of resignations of membership, but especially by the
fact that the excavations at Wroxeter have had to be
discontinued. With regard to the former, a hope may be
entertained that some who have expressed the wish to resign
will reconsider their decision. With regard to the latter,
representatives of this Society attended a meetiug of the
Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries in April
last, when it was unanimously decided that in view of scarcity
of labour and other difficulties the work at Wroxeter should be
suspended till further notice. Apart from this, except that
the Annual Excursion was omitted, the ordinary work of the
Society has been carried on without interruption. It lias been
decided, however, in future to print the Transactions in
Shrewsbury, as affording greater facilities for communication
between the authors of papers and the publishers. In the
autumn of last year a suggestion was made in the Corporation

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of Shrewsbury that the building containing the Free Library
and Museum should be converted into Municipal Offices.
Your Council would have had no choice but to oppose this
suggestion, but this was rendered unnecessary by the
withdrawal of the proposal on the part of the Corporation.
As, however, there were only two survivors of the eight
Trustees originally appointed to carry out the transfer of the
Museum collections to the Corporation, your Council took the
opportunity of tilling up the number by appointing six new
Trustees to watch over the interests of the Society in that
relation. Among the members who have been removed by
death, special mention should be made of one who has passed
away within the last few days. Mr. Charles Fortey was one of
the oldest members, and for a considerable number of
years served on the Council, contributing occasionally to the
Tra?isactio?is. As long as he resided in the county he took a
keen interest in everything archaeological and scientific, and
the Museums of both Shrewsbury and Ludlow were largely
indebted to his care. A few years ago he removed from his old
home at Ludlow to Bristol, but he continued his membership
of the Society to the end, and has just passed away at the ripe
age of eighty-four. — Thomas Auden, M.A., F.S.A., Chairman.

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS-

The Rev. Prebendary Auden also presented the Statement
of Accounts, which showed that the Income for the year,
including Members' Subscriptions of £165 17s., amounted to
£179 is. 1 id., and at the end of the year there was a
balance in hand of £21 7s. 2d., as against ^5 93., the
balance at the end of the preceding year.

The Rev. Preb. Auden moved the adoption of the Report
and Accounts, and referred to their good fortune in securing
the presence of Mr. Bushe Fox to give them some account of
the excavations at Uriconium.

The Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher seconded the motion, which
was carried.

ELECTION OF COUNCIL.

Sir J. Bowen Bowen-Jones proposed the re-election of the
Members of the Council. Mr. R. Lloyd KENYON seconded the
motion, which was carried.

The Council consists of the Rev. Prebendary T. Auden,
M.A., F.S.A., Church Stretton (Chairman); Miss Auden,
F.R.Hist.S., Church Stretton; the Rev. Prebendary J. R.
Burton, B.A., Bitterley ; the Rev. R. Jowett Burton, M A.
Eaton Constautine; the Rev. Prebendary YV. (;. Clarlc-
Maxwell, M.A., F.S.A., Bridgnorth; the Rev. P. 11 S Cranage,
D. Litt., F.S.A., Cambridge; Mr. R. B. Da vies, Shrewsbury;
the Rev. E. II. Gilchrist de Castro. M.A.. Kalford;

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the Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, M.A., Shrewsbury ; the Rev. W.
G. D. Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A., Oxon ; Mr. H. E. Forrest,
Bayston Hill ; Mr. H. F. Harries, Shrewsbury; the Rev. Canon
Moriarty, D.D., Shrewsbury; Mr. J. A. Morris, Shrewsbury;
Mr. J. B. Oldham, M.A., Shrewsbury; Mr. T. E. Pickering,
M.A., Shrewsbury ; and Mr. Henry T. Weyman, F.S.A.,
Ludlow.

ELECTION OF AUDITOR.

On the motion of the Rev. R. C. Purton, seconded by the
Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, Mr. W. W. Naunton was re-appointed
Auditor.

Mr. Lloyd Kenyon said he should like to know if the
Council was going on spending the same amount of money
next year as it had in the past year, having regard to the war.
In every other place they were stopping every kind of expense
that was not necessary for the country, and it certainly
occurred to him that it might be desirable to suspend the
printing altogether and return the subscriptions. They must
realize that our country was in a very serious position in
respect to money, and would be in a much more serious
position next year, whether the war ended or not. He thought
it very doubtful whether it was justifiable on behalf of the
Society for the Council to go on spending ^150 a year on their
Tra?isactions. His doubts were increased by hearing that ten
members had already withdrawn from membership. That was
a large number out of their Society, and they had done it
before they felt the pinch of the war. He certainly should
like to refer the matter to the Council to consider whether the
» whole operations of the Society should not be suspended, at all
events for that year.

The Rev. Prebendary Auden said he thought they should
refer that matter to the Council, and he was sure the Council
would consider it. Of course they would be very sorry if they
were obliged to suspend work altogether ; but he admitted the
cogency of what Mr. Kenyon had said.

Mr. Kenyon said he should move that the matter be referred
to the Council with power to diminish or suspend the printing
and subscriptions.

Mr. H. F. Harries, Shrewsbury, seconded the motion,
which was carried.

report on uriconium.
Mr. J. P. Bushe Fox, who has had charge of the excavations
at Uriconium during the past three summers, reviewed the
work accomplished there. He said that in the first year they
found three long houses, probably shops, facing on the street
and furnished With porticoes. In 191 3, they uncovered the
remains of a fine temple of a partly Gaulish, partly Italian

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type. It was a very interesting structure, and somewhat
similar to examples at Caerwent and Silchester. Unfor-
tunately, they found no inscriptions. The top of an altar
was, however, found, but it was broken off at the part
where the inscription would have been, so that they were
unable to trace the deity to whom the temple was dedicated.
It must have been an imposing structure, as several fragments
of carving were found which showed that the temple was
decorated in an elaborate fashion, and there were also frag-
ments of statuary, some life size and others more than life
size, indicating that there were big statues standing in the
temple.

Last summer, he said, they probably did more work
than in any one of the three years, principally owing
to the large amount of money they received from
the Birmingham fund. They uncovered about two acres
altogether, and the work was extremely interesting.
There were the remains of many houses (of different
periods) super-imposed one upon another, the earlier
ones of wattle and daub, must have been similar to
the half-timbered houses so common in Shropshire to-day.
The roofs appeared to have been made of either the Roman
roofing tiles or stone slats. Practically nothing of the first
buildings remained, owing to their fragile character ; probably
most of them were burnt down, judging by the indications.
They dated between 75 — 120 A.D. Upon the remains of these
three houses were built, which lasted until the middle of the
second century, when they were incorporated into one large
house. This house consisted of many rooms, and two court-
yards and long corridors into which the rooms opened. Several
of the rooms were heated with hot air. Three of them had fine
mosaic pavements in different colours, but these unfortunately
had been broken up. There was a small bath building to the
south, consisting of a vestibule, a tepid room, a hot room, and
a place which might have been a sweating room, or might
have contained a hot water tank. There were also two octagon
rooms which were apparently used as cold baths.

One of the most interesting points about this building was
the drainage system. A large water main appeared to have
run down the street, and from this at intervals channels
branched off through the different houses. The mouths of
these channels were laised seven or eight inches above the
level of the water main that rati down by the road. It seemed
probable the water in the main only rose in ordinary circum-
stances to four or five inches, but there were sluice gates at
intervals, and when these were closed the water rose ami was
diverted through the house, flushed out the drains and carried
everything away and discharged into the Severn. As far .1^ IS
known this is the first time that sluice gates of this descrip-
tion have been discovered in a Roman town. This large house

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appeared to have lasted until the end of the second century or
the beginning of the third, when it was very considerably
altered. Several of the rooms in the centre were swept away,
and the two court-yards were amalgamated into one and
the house converted into a type common in Roman
Britain, consisting of a large court-yard, surrounded by
a corridor, into which opened a series of rooms. The
bath house was entirely destroyed, and a new wing was
built on to the house at that side, and at the west end
a verandah was added, with a floor of red tesserae. At
the back of this building was another large structure,
which, he was sorry to say, they could not completely ex-
cavate, as it extended underneath the modern road. It con-
sisted of two walls, about 13 feet apart, enclosing a space of
about 180 feet long and 150 broad. No building of that
description had been met with in any Roman town, and it was
not easy to say what was its original use. The probable
solution seemed to be that the two walls supported wooden
seats, and amusements, such as bull baiting, were carried on
in the space enclosed.

During the three years of excavation they had found a very
large number of small objects — the greatest number, of
course, pottery — some very interesting. A tew pieces dated
back as early as 60 A.D. The evidence of the coins pointed to
an early date for the occupation of the town, as there were a
large number of the Emperor Claudius and quite a number of
other early coins. The tombstones in the Museum also
showed that the place was occupied by the 14th Legion, which
left this country in 70 A.D., but up to now they had found no
trace of the early Legionary camp, so it was a curious point,
finding so many early coins and so very little of the pottery
or brooches that belonged to the same date. The only solu-
tion seemed to be that they were on the outskirts of the
Legionary Camp, and those coins and the other early objects
found were dropped by the inhabitants outside the boundaries
of that fortified camp. The last coins found were those of
Theodosius the First and Arcadius, 393 A.D. It appeared
fairly certain the town was abandoned or destroyed about that
period. They had found one or two isolated human bones,
but nothing more than one would expect to find in turning
over the amount of soil they had done, and there was
absolutely no evidence that there was a final massacre and
that the town was destroyed b> fire. They had some hundreds
of brooches — some very interesting, some finely enamelled.
There were several rings, two finely-cut little cameos, a very
fine clasp-knife carved in bone, etc.

The Chairman expressed the warm thanks of the members
to Mr. Bushe-Kox for coming there ami telling them what he
had done.

MINUTES OF THE MONTHLY CCUNCIL MEETINGS.

January 13th, 1915 — Rev. Prebendary Auden. F.S.A , in the Chair.

A letter was read from Mr. R. E. Davies definitely resigning
his membership of the Society, and the Council received his
resignation with regret.

The Sub-Committee appointed to decide the change of
printers recommend that the printing of the Transactions after
the close of the present year be withdrawn from Oswestry and
executed in Shrewsbury and they further recommend that the
estimate of Messrs. Brown & Brinnand, Ltd., be accepted for
that purpose.

It was resolved that the Report of the Sub-Committee be
adopted.

February 10th, 1915 — Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A , in the

Chair.

It was resolved that Mr. R. E. Davies be elected an
Honorary Member of the Society, and also that he retain his
seat on the Council.

The Assistant Secretary was instructed to write to Mr.
Davies to that effect.

The Rev. E. C. Pigot, M.A., Moreton Corbet Rectory, was
elected a member of the Society.

March 10th, 1915 — Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the Chair.

A letter was read from Mr. R. E. Davies thanking the
Council for electing him an Honorary Member of the Society.

It was resolved that Mr. J. A. Morris be allowed to purchase
from the Society 19 parts of the Second Series of the
Tra?isac(ions for the sum of £3 3s.

April 14th, 1915— Rev. C. H. Drink water in the Chair.

The question of re-opening the excavations at Uriconium in
the Summer having been considered, it was resolved that,
considering the shortage of labour and the the difficulty in
getting competent men, it is desirable that the work
at Uriconium should be deferred this year.

May 11th, 1915 — Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the Chair.

The Chairman read a lettter received from Messrs. Woodall
& Co., and also his reply sent to them in the matter &f the
change of printers.

It was resolved that Mr. J. A. Morris be allowed to purchase
from the Society 6 parts of the First Series of the / na
for the sum o{ £1 us. 6d.

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June 9th, 1915— Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.SA., in the Chair.

A further letter was read from Messrs. Wood all & Co., and
the Chairman was requested to reply to it.

It was unanimously resolved that in consequence of the
present crisis the Annual Excursion be omitted this year.

July 14th, 1915— Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the Chair.

The Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher was requested to write to
Messrs. Woodall & Co., asking them to return to the
Assistant Secretary, all Blocks of Illustrations, etc. belonging
to the Society.

The Chairman and Mr. Fletcher were appointed a Sub-
Committee to inquire into the cost of printing the Guides to
Uriconium.

The Statement of Account for 1914 was laid on the table,
showing a deficiency at the end of the year of ^4 195. 2d.

September 8th, 1915 — Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the

Chair.

A letter was read from Messrs. Woodall & Co., stating that
the blocks of illustrations, etc., belonging to the Society would
be forwarded to the Assistant Secretary in October.

A letter was read from Mr. H. E. Forrest asking the Council
to sanction the making of certain blocks to illustrate his series
of Papers on " Some Old Shropshire Houses." The Assistant
Secretary was instructed to reply to Mr. Forrest, requesting
him to make inquiries as to what blocks are already in
existence.

It was resolved that the Research Committee of the Society
of Antiquaries be requested to make their own arrangements
in future with regard to the printing of the Guides to
Uriconium, quite irrespective of the Shropshire Archceolo:
Society. The Assistant Secretary was instructed to write
to Mr. Wilmer, the Treasurer, to that effect, and also to send
him the Society's Account amounting to £16 9s. 2d. for the
Guides supplied to date.

It was agreed that the Annual General Meeting be of a
formal character only, that it be held on Wednesday the 13th
of October at 3-30 p.m., at Messrs. Adnitt & Xaunton's Room,
and that the Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., be requested to
take the Chair.

The Rev. T. H. Parker. M.A., Burwarton Rectory.
Bridgnorth, was elected a Member of the Society.

October 13th, 1915— Rev. Prebendary Auden, F S An M the Chair.

Mr. Forrest reported that 4 blocks only were in existence
that would be suitable for illustrating his series of Papers on
11 Some Old Shropshire Houses," and that for 500 prints of
these the cost would be £1 10s.

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It was resolved that Mr. Forrest be permitted to get the
blocks, the Society agreeing to pay £i for 250 prints. He was
also allowed to have pen drawings of Bra ^gington made/

November 10th, 1915— Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the

Chair.

The Chairman read a letter from the Editor of the
Athenaeum Periodical Index, stating that the Society's
Transactions had been placed upon the List of Periodicals to be
included in the Index, and asking for a copy of the
Transactions issued since 1st January, 1915. The Assistant
Secretary was instructed to send a copy of the Fourth Series,
Vol. 5., Part 1.

The question referred to the Council at the Annual Meeting
as to whether the Society should suspend or diminish the
printing and the Subscriptions was discussed. Whereupon
it was resolved that during the period of the war, from 1st
January, 19 16, the Subscription shall be half-a-guinea, and
only one part of the Tra?isactio?is be issued for each particular
year.

December 8th, 1915 — Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the Chair.

A Circular letter was read from the Librarian, National
Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, stating that if the publications
of the Society came under the Copyright Act, 191 1, the
Library was entitled to be supplied with Transactions as from
the date the Act came into force, viz: — istjuly, 1913, but if
this was not the case the Transactions would be welcomed as a
gift.

The Assistant Secretary was instructed to reply that the
Publications of this Society do not come within the terms of
the Copyright Act, and that the Council would be prepared
to give further consideration to their request should the
National Library of Wales be in a position to exchange
Catalogues or such other periodicals as may be issued by the
Library.

A letter from Mr. Fowler Carter was laid before the Council.
It was decided that in future all applications for Parts of the
Transactions should be dealt with by the Council.

The Assistant Secretary was instructed to write and ask
Messrs. Brown & Brinnand for an estimate for Author's copies-
of the Papers printed by them in the Transactions.

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LIST OF MEMBERS, 1915.

Adnitt, H. W., Esq., Shrewsbury.

Alington, Rev. C. A., M.A., The Schools, Shrewsbury. -
Auden, Miss, F.R.Hist.S., Alderdene, Church Stretton.
Auden, Rev. Prebendary, M.A., F.S.A., Alderdene, Church
Stretton.

Bradford, Right Hon. Earl of, Weston, Shifnal.
Brownlow, Right Hon. Earl, Belton, Grantham.
Barnard, Right Hon. Lord. Raby Castle, Darlington
(President).

Berwick, Right Hon. Lord, 59, Pall Mall, London, S.W.
Baldwyn-Childe, Mrs., Kyre Park, Tenbury.
Barnes, Mrs., Brookside, Weston Rhvn, Oswestry.
Baitleet, Rev. E. B., B.D., The Vicarage, Much Wenlock.
Bateson, Gordon, Esq., Brookfield, Church Stretton.
Beddoes, W. F., Esq., J. P., Minton. Church Stretton.
Benthall, E., Esq., Glantwrch, Ystalyt'era, R.S.O., Glamorgan-
shire.

Beresford, Robert de la Poer, Esq., M.D., Oswestry.
Bibby, F., Esq., D.L., J. P., Hardwicke Grange, Shrewsbury.
Birmingham Central Free Library (Reference Department),

Ratcliff Place, Birmingham.
Bowen-Jones, Sir J. Bowen, Bart., Council House Court,

Shrewsbury.

Bretherton, G. L., Esq., M.A., Wem Grammar School,
Shropshire.

Brewster, Rev. W., B.A., Fitz Rectory, Shrewsbury.
Bridgeman, Rev. E. R. O., M.A., Blvmhill Rectory, Shifnal.
Burd, Rev. Prebendary John, M.A., Clawdd-y-dre, Montgomery.
Burd, E., Esq., M.D., J. P., Newport House, Shrewsbury.
Bulkeley-Owen, The Hon. Mrs., The Limes, Shrewsbury.
Burton, Rev. Prebendary J. R., B.A., Bitterlev Rectory, Ludlow.
Burton, Rev. R. Jowett, M.A., The Rectory, Eaton Constantine,
Shrewsbury.

Burton, E. R. Lingen, Esq., Rose Cottage, Halfway House,
Shrewsbury.

Chance, A. F., Esq., M.A., TLe Schools, Shrewsbury.
Chitty, Miss Lily F., Hanwood Rectorv, Shrewsbury.
Clark-Maxwell, Rev. Prebendary, M.A., F.S.A., St. Leonard's

Rectory, Bridgnorth.
Clay, J. Cecil, Esq., Donnerville, Wellington, Salop.
Collett, Rev. Edward, M.A., Retford, Notts
Colville, H. K., Esq., J. P., Bellaport. Market Drayton.
Craig, Miss Eileen, Kingsland, Shrewsbury.

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Cranage, Rev. D. H. S., D.Litt., F.S.A., 8, Park Terrace,
Cambridge.

Crowte, Frederick, Esq., Shirehall, Shrev/sbury.
Cunliffe, Lt-Col J. W., Bradeney, Bridgnorth.

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Craven Arms.

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London, W.

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THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR
BRIDGNORTH.
By HENRY T. WEYMAN, F.S.A.

The Borough of Bridgnorth has sent Members to Parlia-
ment ever since that memorable Parliament of 1295, which
has been called the Model Parliament, in which for the
first time Edward I. summoned the three Estates of the
Realm, the Barons, the Commons, and the Clergy, to
sit together ,in the same place. It was not the first time
that the Burgesses of the Boroughs had sat with the Knights
of the Shires in Parliament, as Simon de Montfort, the
great Earl of Leicester, had called two Burgesses from each
of certain Boroughs to the assembly, in which the County
Representatives sat ; thus in eftect founding that great
Council of the Nation, which has continued to the present
day as the House of Commons. Unfortunately, no records
exist of the names of those who sat in Simon de Montfort's
first Parliament, and it is not possible to say whether any writ
was issued to the Borough of Bridgnorth to return repre-
sentatives. It is believed that there were Borough members
in the Parliament of 1282-3, and in that held at Shrewsbury
in 1283, but to the latter only representatives of London
and 20 other Cities and Boroughs were summoned, so that
it is not likely that so small a Borough as Bridgnorth
would be honoured. No Boroughs were included in the
writs for the Parliaments of 1290 and J 294, and we then
come to that summoned to meet at Westminster on the
13th November, 1295, and it is in this year, and in the
Parliament, which marks such an important epoch in the
History of England, that Bridgnorth began (so far as is
known) its Parliamentary representation.

From 1295, when the Model Parliament met, down to
the Re-distribution Act of 1885, which swept so many
small Boroughs out of existence as Parliamentary units —
a period of well nigh 600 years — Bridgnorth continued to

2 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

be directly represented in the House of Commons. The
list of its members is fairly perfect, ,tnd as, so far as the
writer is aware, no complete list has ever been published,
it is the object of this paper to compile such a list, so far
as it is possible to do so, and to say something of the
various men who have represented the old Borough. - The
list is in the main taken from the official record of the
House of Commons, but additions have been made from
Prynne's Brief Register, and from the local records, in
which latter it is alone possible to find the names of
the members at the end of the 15th and early part of the
1 6th centuries, as all the official returns have been lost.
A list of the members from 1295 to 1472 (somewhat imperfect)
was given by Mr. Hubert Smith, the late Town Clerk of
Bridgnorth, in " Salopian Shreds and Patches " for 1887,
and further lists of the members from 1670 — 1880 were
published in the same volume ; but these lists omit
altogether the representatives in the various Parliaments
between 1473 and 1660, a period of nearly 200 years, in
which many men of distinction sat for the Borough.

Bridgnorth must have been called upon to return members
to this 1st Parliament of 1295, because it was at that time,
like Shrewsbury, recognised as a Borough. The writs for
this Parliament were directed to the Sheriffs of the various
Counties, and called upon them to return two Knights, to
be chosen out of each County, and two Burgesses out of
each Borough ; but no Boroughs were named. The Cities
and Boroughs were not, like the Counties, well-known units,
and it seems to have been left to the discretion of the
Sheriffs as to which Boroughs should be selected to return
representatives. It has been said by an authority on the
subject that the Sheriffs took great liberties, both in returning
some Boroughs which had no right to the honour, and
omitting others who ought to have been summoned. How-
ever this may have been, Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth were
the only Shropshire Boroughs which at that time, and for
well-nigh 200 years afterwards, had the right of representation
in Parliament. There was probably no complaint by the

MEMBERS OP PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH. 3

other Boroughs, as the representation of the nation in
Parliament was then considered as a burthen rather than
au honour, the elected members being at that period, as
now, paid by their Electors. Many Boroughs were anxious
to escape this payment, small though it was, and it. was
reckoned a privilege at that time to be exempted from
returning members to Parliament. "To find or send Bur-
44 gesses to Parliament was anciently reputed a matter of
14 great pains and expense, yea, a great damage and oppression
44 to the Burgesses and the Boroughs that elected and paid
41 them."*

The right of representation in Parliament is not mentioned
in any of the Bridgnorth Charters, but the two earliest of
these, the one granted by Henry II., in 1157, and the other
by King John, in 1215, were obtained long before any Borough
returned members to Parliament. There was no reason for
any reference to Parliamentary representation in the later
Charters, as the privilege of the Borough (if it was a privilege)
was then well recognised.

The actual payment made by Boroughs to their members
in old days was one of 2s. per day for each day that Parliament
sat, with an allowance of a few days for going to, and
returning from, the place of meeting — thus, four to six days
were allowed for Bridgnorth if the Parliament were held in
London, and three at Salisbury, five in the latter case "in
winter snow."

It is not clear in whom the right of electing the members
was vested originally. In the reign of Edward IV. the right
apparently rested with the Court L,eet, if we may judge
from the following extracts from a copy of the old Court
Leet book: —

!46i— -Sept. Humphrey Blount was made a Burgess for
Parliament, for which cause he has his Burgess-ship.

1467— May 25. William Clerk, Esquire, was created a
Burgess and sworn, and was elected a Burgess for
Parliament.

• Cunningham's Rights of Election, XXVI.

4 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

1470— Nov. 23. John Hord and John Gatacre were elected
Burgesses of Parliament.

1488 — Aug. 26. Rowland Grauvnor paid, because he was
a Burgess of the Parliament held at Westminster.

1494-5 — Feb. 9. At a view of frankpledge Symond
Harrington was elected a Burgess and paid the
sum because he was a Burgess of the Parliament.

These entries are especially valuable because they are the
only evidence that the persons named were members for
Bridgnorth, there being no official returns for these Parlia-
ments extant, and it is rare to obtain evidence as to the
members even from local records.

At a later date (1609), the right of election was vested in
the Burgesses (all sons of burgesses being entitled to take
up the freedom of the Borough) 4< resident and inhabitant.'*
In Merewether's History of Boroughs (1816), it is stated that
the right of election then lay with the burgesses and free-
men, both within and without the Borough, there being
then about 700 voters, so that Bridgnorth was not a "close"
borough in the strict sense of the word ; though we shall
see that one family was represented in almost every Parlia-
ment for 200 years. In 1710 over 1000 burgesses actually
voted at a contested election, while in 1727, 1734 and 1741,
the numbers were over 1200.

Bridgnorth was not so conspicuous as other boroughs in
the county for the number of petitions against undue
returns that followed its contested elections but it had its
fair share. In 1609, Sir George Howard, the defeated
candidate at a bye-election, petitioned against the return of
Sir Francis L,acon on the ground that there were disturbances
at the election, that the Sheriff to whom the writ was
directed had not returned the writ, and that the Bailiffs had
used the wrong seal, " the Ale seal " being used in lieu of
the Town seal, and for other causes. The Bailiffs were
sent for by the Committee of the House of Commons to
whom the matter was referred, but after being kept in
attendance for some time were allowed to go home " and

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH. 5

to return again in 8 days." Apparently the return of Sir
Francis Lacon was held good, the Ale seal notwithstanding,
and the Bailiffs were left in peace. There were petitions again
in 1679 and 1698, "on the ground of undue practices"
but no result has been handed down to us, and the same
remarks apply to the election of 1710 and 1734, bribery being
alleged on each of the latter occasions. There does not
appear to have been another petition until 1837, when
Robert Pigot (367) succeeded in unseating Henry Hanbury
Tracy, who beat him by 4 votes, on the ground that the
Mayor closed the poll before the proper time. Fifteen years
later Sir Robert Pigot himself lost his seat on a petition in
1852 by the Hon. Frederick Cadogan on the ground of
bribery by his agent. The last petition was in 1S65 when
Sir John Acton was returned over Mr. Henry Whitmore
by a majority of one vote, 289 to 288 ; but upon a scrutiny
Mr. Whitmore was found to have a majority of valid votes
and was declared duly elected, and Sir John was unseated.

Bridgnorth seems to have had more than its share of
contested elections, some of which were very close and
very bitter. It is unfortunate that the numbers of many of
the polls cannot now be ascertained ; but enough have
been preserved to shew us that, as a general rule, party
feeling ran very high. The first contest of which we have
the figures was in 1710 when there were four candidates
who (as will be seen) ran a close race, the figures being
520, 511, 501 and 471 ; and it is not surprising to read that
there was a petition by the unsuccessful candidates on the
ground of bribery, but the sitting members held their seats.
It was singular to notice that in 1784 two Tory candidates
won their election by polling 662 and 646 votes against
381 who voted for the opposing Whig, but at the very
next contested election the highest on the poll ^a Tory)
only polled 268 votes, while the beaten Whig candidate only
rallied 57 supporters; so that in the one contest [043
voted, while in the other only about 300 — a striking
difference. The election of 1826 when two of the Whitmore
family were successful (polling respectively 000 and 401^

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against Sergeant Ludlow, Recorder of Bristol (354) is
recorded as "a great contest lasting five days." The election
which followed it 4 years afterwards (1830) may well have
earned the description of a great contest too ; as though
it only lasted three days, and again the two Whitmores
were successful over Richard Arkwright by a large majority,
the expenses were enormous. The account of the publicans'
claims on this occasion has very fortunately been preserved,
and throws a good deal of light on the very different way in
which elections were conducted in the good old days of
open voting (and open treating too) to that in which such
contests are conducted to-day ; when we boast that such
inducements to the free and independent electors as bribery
and treating are no more. It is certainly true that pecuniary
bribery and open feasting, such as must have taken place
in Bridgnorth in 1830 are now uncommon, but specious
promises to electors of benefits that will happen to them
in the event of their supporting certain political candidates
are not unknown even in these (so called) enlightened days.

The Publicans' claims in the Bridgnorth election of

1830 amounted to no less a sum than ,£4,927 18s. od. and

it must not be forgotten that "publicans' claims" were

only a small part of the expenses of an election ; and that

no notice is taken therein of certain payments in coin of the

realm, which were then the almost invariable necessity of

an election. The details ot the publicans' claims which are

set out in " Salopian Shreds and Patches," vol. IX, p. 169,

are as follows : —

4,380 breakfasts.
1,880 luncheons.
10,786 dinners.
3,193 suppers*

13,130 gallons of ale and porter.
689 gallons of cider.
2,196 bottles of wine.
^888 for spirits.
£\i ,, shrub.
£2% ,, tobacco.
£22 „ lodging.
£38 ,, hay and com.
£19 ,, breakages.

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The voters on the occasion in question were under 1,100,
so that they must have had a royal time indeed, and we
do not wonder that the Burgesses of Bridgnorth took care
that uncontested elections were rare; when a contested
election was such a gold mine for the Borough. The numbers
of the various polls, so far as they have been preserved,
are given with the names of the successful candidates in
the returns for each Parliament.

Comparatively few men of great eminence in the State
have represented Bridgnorth, but there are some brilliant
exceptions who have distinguished themselves above their
fellows, and brought honour to their constituency. Con-
spicuous among these is Sir Thomas Bromley (M.P. 1557),
who became Lord Chancellor of England ; and in that
capacity presided at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots. Sir
Thomas's nephew Sir Edward Bromley (M.P. 1586 — j6io),
was one of the Barons of the Exchequer. Another dis-
tinguished lawyer who represented Bridgnorth in 1626 was
Sir George Vernon, also a Baron of the Exchequer, and a
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. George Lord Pigot
(M.P. 1768— 1775), a friend of the great Lord Clive, was
Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Madras, and in that
capacity successfully defended that city ; while his brother,
Hugh Pigot, who succeeded him in the representation of
Bridgnorth, was Admiral of the Blue as well as one
ol the Lords of the Admiralty and had the honour of
receiving the surrender of Malta from the French. Another
prominent Shropshire man was Robert Clive, who not only
was M.P. for Bridgnorth in the Long Parliament, 1645 —
1648, but was one of the Commissioners of the Parliament
who received the surrender of Bridgnorth Castle and Town
in 1646. It was of him that the doggrel was written 44 From
Clive of the Styche, Good Lord deliver us." On the side of
literature Bridgnorth had at least one distinguished member
in Edward Hall (1541), who was common Serjeant of ihe
City of London, but who attained his great fame as a
historian by the authorship of the H Union of the families
of Lancaster and York." Coming to modern time Brulg-

s

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

north's best known member was Sir John Acton (afterwards
Lord Acton) who was not only a Lok" in Waiting to Queen
Victoria and one of her most trusted advisers, but was one
of the greatest literary men of his time. Many other
members might be mentioned who have done good service
to the State, and deserved well of the borough, but the- above
are those who appear to have been most conspicuous in
work for the nation.

The outstanding feature in connection with Bridgnorth
Elections is the predominance, which the Whitmore family
occupied in the representation of the Borough Mr. Henry
Whitmore, M.P., the last of the family to represent Bridg-
north in Parliament, wrote thus in a letter dated the 4th
March, 1869. "A letter has appeared in the 'Times' and
other papers in which reference is made to our Borough
and my family. I think public attention should be called
to the fact (which I imagine has not a parallel in Parlia-
mentary history), namely that since the year 1678, with the
exception of 4 years, the Borough has been represented by
a Whitmore." This was a record of which the member may
well have been proud. Mr. Whitmore was not strictly
correct in the exception of 4 years, but he might have
gone further back than 1678 as his starting point. It will be
seen from the list below that between [661 and 1870 there
was only 15 years in which a Whitmore did not repesent
Bridgnorth, namely from 1699 — 1705 and from 1725 — 1734.
and it is worthy of notice that during part of the first
period Roger Pope, whose sister married William Whitmore,
was one of the members, while the second period is the life
of one Parliament only. Thus a Whitmore represented
Bridgnorth in every one except 5 of the Parliaments and for
194 years out of the 209 which elapsed between 1661 and 1870,
and frequently the family supplied both members, a wonderful
record. In addition to this, one of the family was M.P. for
the Borough in the 3 parliaments of 1620, 1623 and 1625
and again from 1640 — 1645 when he was "disabled" from
sitting in this, the Long Parliament. In Merc wether's
History of Boroughs (1816), it is stated that Thomas

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH. 9

Whitmore, Esq., was the Patron of the Borough, and the
hereditary connection with Bridgnorth might well justify this
appellation. It is curious to find that the two representatives,
though of the same family, were not always of the same
political colour. For instance, in the Parliaments of 1826
and 1830 Thomas Whitmore was a Tory, while his' fellow
member, William Wolrych Whitmore, was a Whig.

It was probably this predominance of the Whitmore family
in the representation of the Borough which gave rise to the
old saying, "All on one side like a Bridgnorth election,"
though the late Mr. Hubert Smith suggested that it had its
origin in the one-sided nature of the contest in 1880. The
saying was, however, certainly current long before 1880.

The writer has endeavoured to make this record of the
members of Parliament for the Borough of Bridgnorth more
complete by adding a short memoir of each representative,
containing all the particulars which he has been able to
glean, but he is well aware how imperfect any such account
must be. He only hopes that those few details may be of
some interest to the present inhabitants of an old Borough,
whose Parliamentary history goes back to 1295, to the reign
of King Edward I.

The writer has drawn freely on Eyton's Shropshire, and
on the Shropshire Subsidy Roll, edited by the Rev. W, G. D.
Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A., for information as to the early
members, and he considers himself fortunate in having had
access to a copy of the old Leet book for the Borough, from
which he has obtained the names, so rarely procurable, of
the representatives in the Parliaments of Henry VII.

LIST OF MEMBERS.

The numbers affixed to the names in parentheses refer to
the short memoirs which follow : —

EDWARD I.

Kegnal Anno
Year. Domini.

23. 1295. (1) Andrew Bolding and (2) Fremund de Krdington.
26. 1298. (3") Roger Bonamy and (4) Thomas de Isenham.

,}

10 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

Regnal Anno
Year. Domini.

28. 1300. (3) Roger Bonamy and (5) Richard Roberd.

29. 1301. do. do.

30. 1302. do. and (6) John Brun.

1307-
1309.

I311-
1312.
1312-
1313-
13*3-
1315-

1319-
1321.
1322.
1322.
1323
1325
1326

EDWARD II.

(7) Reginald de Leghes and (3) Roger Bonamy.
(5) Richard Roberd and (8) John Hendemon.
(9) Robert le Palmer and (10) Walter de Aldenham.
(11) Geoffrey le Blnnt and (12) John de Brngge.

13. (9) Robert le Palmer and (13) John de Isenham.

(8) John Hendemon and (14) William Panning.

(15) Robert de Beuleu and (13) John de Isenham.

(16) Edmund le Palmer and (7) Reginald de
Leyghes.

. (17) William de Dunfowe and (18) John de Kington.
. (19) Henry Geffrey and (9) Robert le Palmer.
. (18) John de Kington and do.
. (19) Henry Geffrey and (8) John Hendemon.
-4. do. and (20) Hugh Wederove.

do. and (9) Robert Palmer.

-7. do. and (21) William de Hulle.

I.

1327.

2.

1328.

2.

:328.

3-

1329.

4-

1330-

4-

I330.

5-

1331.

6.

133*.

6.

1332.

6.

1332-

8.

1333-

8.

1334-

EDWARD III.

(19) Henry Geffrey and (22) William Bonamy.

do. and (23) John Pule.

(9) Robert le Palmer and (24) Richard de Bruges.

(18) John de Kington and (23) John Pule.

(19) Henry Geffrey and (25) John Dod.

(9) Robert le Palmer and (12) John de Bruges.
(19) Henry Geffrey and (26) Walter le Palmer.
(27) John de Isenham .md (28) Adam del More.
(9) Robert le Palmer and (19) Henry Geffrey.

do. do.
(25) John Dod and (29) John Peres.

(38s. allowed for 19 days' sitting).
(19) Henry Getfrey and (30) John de Nethertou.

MEMBERS OP PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH. II
Begnal Anno
Year. Domini.

9- *335- (25) John Dod and (18) John de Kington.

Each allowed £26 12s. od. for 18 days.
Parliament sat 18 days only. This far
exceeds the usual allowance.
r335-6- (31) Peter de Bruges and (32) John de la Grene.
I33^ (19) Henry Geffrey and do.
x336-7» (l8) John de Kington and (25) John Dod.
I337- (32) John del Grene and (33) John atte Yate.
Allowed £$ 4s. od. for 16 days.

1337- 8. (18) John de Kington and (27) John de Isenham.
x338- (19) Henry Geffrey and (32) John del Grene.

1338- 9. (18) John de Kington and (34) Walter le Palmer.
1339. (33) John atte Yate and (35) Robert de Bergham.
1339. (40) John Crouck and

John Crouck allowed 68s. for 34 days.
(40) John Crouck and (18) John de Kington.

John Crouck allowed 76s. for 38 days.
(40) John Crouck and (21) William de la Hulle.
(19) Henry Geffrey and (37) Hugh de Berene

(38) William de Pitchford and (36) John Crouck

(39) Edmund de Pitchford and (40) William
Selymon.

(39) Edmund de Pitchford and (41) John de
Pitchford.

(42) Richard de la Haye and (43) William de
Eweldon.

84s. allowed for 21 days. Parliament sat
13 days at Westminster.
(44) John de la Hulle and (45) John de L,eynthall.
(32) John de la Grene and (46) Henry Goldsmith.

(47) Thomas Skynner and do.
(44) John de Hulle and (45) John de Leynthall.

(48) Walter de Aidenham and (33) John del Yate.

(49) William Selmon and (45) John de Leynthall.
(47) Thomas Skynner and (46) Henry Goldsmith.

do. and (49) John Cmne.

(50) Nicholas Palmer and (49) John Cannc.
do. do.

14.

1340.

15-

I34I-

*7-

r343-

10.

!344*

20.

I346.

21.

1347-

22.

1348.

25.

I35i.

28.

1354-

29.

1355.

32.

1358.

34-

1360.

34-

1361.

36.

1362.

37-

1363-

38.

1365-

40.

1366.

12 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

Regnal Anno
Year. Domini.

43- i369- (45) John de Leynthall rad (51) William de
Isenham.

45- 1371- (50) Nicholas le Palmer and (52) Nicholas Fillilode.

£8 12s. od. for 43 days.
46. 1372. (47) Thomas le Skynner and (53) Hugh Dyer.
47- x373- (52) Nicholas Fillilode and (54) William Boulewas.

50. 1376. (47) Thomas Skynner and (33) John atte Yate.

£16 8s. od. allowed for 82 days at West-
minster. Session lasted 74 days.

51. 1377. (45) John de Leynthall and (54) William Boulewas.

RICHARD II.

1. 1378. (56) William Goldsmith and (54) William
Boulewas.

2- r379« (57) John Taylor and do.

3. 1380. (58) William Palmer and (56) William Goldsmith.

£11 12s. od. allowed for 58 days at West-
minster. Session lasted 48 days.

4. 1380. (59) John Kene and (60) John Enefeld.

£8 4s. od. allowed for 42 days. Session
lasted 33 days.

5. 1381. (45) John Leynthall and (61) Thomas Goldsmith.

5. 1382. (62) Thomas Grene and (58) William Palmer.

6. 1382. (45) John Leynthall and do.

6. 1383. (63) Hugh Cressage and do.

7. 1383. (45) John Leynthall and do.

7. 1384. (59) John Kene and (64) Ralph Bernard

8. 1384. (58) William Palmer and (56) William Goldsmith.

9. 1385. (65) Richard Selymon and (66) John Farnals.

11. 1387. (58) William Palmer and do.

12. 1388. do. and (56) William Goldsmith.

13. 1389. do. and (66) John Farnals.

15. 1391. do. and (67) Thomas Horde.

16. 1392. do. and (66) John Farnals.
l7' x593- (68) Thomas Palmer aud do.

18. 1394. (58) William Palmer and do.

20. 1396. do. Mid (69) John Blockley

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

13

gnal

ear.

Anno
Domini.

1399.

I402.
1406.
I407.
I4IO.
I4II.

HENRY IV.

(67) Thomas Horde and (58) William Palmer.

£11 16s. od. for 40 days.
(70) Hugh Harnage and (71) John Bruyn.

do. and (72) Walter Grene-.

(73) J°hn Cooke and do.

(74) — Lange.

(75) Thomas Hopton and (76) Hugh de Stanford.

1. 1413-

1414
1417
1419
1420
142 1
1421

HENRY V.

(77) Thomas Grene and (76) Hugh de Stanford.

Prynne gives these members as being
Thomas Otyes and Richard Parlour.

(78) Richard Horde and (79) Richard Parlour.

do. do.
do. do.
do. and (80) William Stapeley.

(77) Thomas Grene and (81) Robert Aylesbury,
do. and (79) Richard Parlour.

£.
2.

3-

4-
6.
8.

9-
10.
11.
14.

20.

25-
27.
28.
29.

1422
i423
1425
1426
1427
1429

1430
1432
H33
H35
H36
1442
1446
1448
1449
1450

HENRY VI.

(78) Richard Horde and (79) Richard Parlour.

do. and (77) Thomas Grene.

do. and (71) John Bruyn.

(79) Richard Parlour and (82) Leonard Lyney.
(78) Richard Horde and (77) Thomas Grene.

(83) William Lawley and (84) Richard Blyke.
(85) John Corbyn and (86) Thomas Clerk.

(78) Richard Horde and (84) Richard Blyke.

(79) Richard Parlour and do.

(87) Andreas Wolrych and do.

(88) John de la Wele and do.

(89) Thomas Horde and do.

(90) Thomas Mayue and (91) John Lawley.

do. and (92) John Merwall.

(89) Thomas Horde and (91) John Lawley.

(84) Richard Blyke and (93) John Cardeinaker.

14 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

Regnal Anno
Year. Domini.

31. 1452. (84) Richard Blyke and (91) Join Lawley.
33. 1455. (94) Thomas Persons and do.

38. 1459. (84) Richard Blyke and (95) Roger Haughton.

39. 1460. (95A) Humphrey Blount.

EDWARD IV.

1. 1461. I returns found.

3. 1463. I

7. 1467. (98) William Clark.

9. 1469. No return found.

10. 1470. (96) John Horde and (97) John Gatacre.
12. 1472. do. do.

17. 1477. (98) William Clark and (99) Sacrus Brooke.

22. 1483. No returns.

RICHARD III.
1. 1484. No returns.

HENRY VII.

1. 1485. No returns.

3. 1487. (iooa) Rowland Gravenor and (100) Thomas
Wildecote.

7. 1491. (ioob) Humfrey Blyke and (100c) Humfrey
Whitell

11. 1495. (iood) Simon Harrington and (iooe) John Brooke.

12. 1497. (iooa) Rowland Gravenor.

HENRY VIII.

1. 15 10. Thomas I^aken and Edward Gray.

(There is no direct evidence of this).

6. 1515. ! No returns forthcoming.
14- 1523. '

21, 1529. (101) Humfrey Goldiston and (102) George
Hayward.

33. 1542. (103) Edward Hall and (104) William Gray.
37- 1545- No returns.

MEMBERS OP PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

EDWARD VI.

15

Rognal Anno
Tear. Domini.

1. 1547-
7- 1553.

i553«
1554-
1554-
1555-
1557-

1. 1559

5- 1563

13^ i57i

14. 1572

27- 1584

28. 1586

30. 1588

35. 1592

39. 1597

43. 1601

(105) Roger Smythe and (106) John Pulley.

(107) Ambrose Gilbert and (105) Roger Smythe.

MARY.

(108) Sir George Blount and (109) Jerome Horde,
(no) William Acton and do.

(in) John Horde and do.
(no) William Acton and do.
(113) John Brooke and (114) Thomas Bromley.

ELIZABETH.

(108) Sir George Blount and (115) Richard Prynce.
(113) John Brooke and (116) Edward Cordell.
(117) Henry Townshend and (118) Thomas Ottley.

do. and (119) Thomas Sackford

(120) Jerome Corbet and (121) Walter Lee
(122) Edward Bromley and (123) John Lutwich.

do. do.

do. do.

do. do.

do. and (24) Thomas Horde.

JAMES I.

1. 1604. (122) Edward Bromley and (125) Sir Lewis
Lewknor.

9. 1609-10. (126) Sir Francis Lacon vice Bromley, made
one of the Barons of the Exchequer.
Sir George Howard contested this election
unsuccessfully, and afterwards petitioned
against Sir Francis Lacon's election, but was
again unsuccessful. The numbers of the
poll are not known.

12. 1614. (127) John Peirse and (128) Richard Synge.

18. 1620. (129) Sir John Hayward and (130) William
Whitmore.

21. 1624. (131) George Smythe and (130) William Whitmore.

l6 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH,

CHARLES I.

Regnal Anno
Year. Domini.

i. 1625. (132) George Vernon and (130) William Whitinore.

This is taken from the official return, but
the Crown office list gives Sir George Paule
and George Vernon as returned for the
vacancy (133). Browne Willis gives Walter
Acton and John Bennett.

1. 1625-6. (132) George Vernon and (134) Sir Richard
Shiltou

3. 1628. (133) Sir George Paul and (134) Sir Richard
Shilton.

16. 1640. (135) Thomas Whitmore, son of Sir William
Whitmore, and (136) Edward Acton, son of
Walter Acton.

16. 1640. do. do.

COMMONWEALTH.
1645. (137) Robert Clive and (138) Robert Charlton.

Vice Whitmore and Acton disabled.
1654. (139) William Crowne.
1656. (140) Edmund Waring.

1659. do. and (141) John Humphry.

1660. (142) Sir Walter Acton and (143) John Bennett.

CHARLES II.
13. 1661. (143A) Sir William Whitmore and (143) John
Bennett.

15- 1663. (144) Sir Thomas Whitmore vice Bennett deceased.
31. 1679. do. and (143A) Sir William

Whitmore.

31. 1679. do. do.

On this occasion John Wolrich contested
the seat unsuccessfully, and then petitioned
against the return of his conqueror on the
ground of undue practices by the Bailiffs,
but the result is not given.

33. 1681. (144) Sir Thomas Whitmore and (143A) Sir
William Whitmore.

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

iagMl Anno JAMES II.

Y«*ar. Domini.

1. 16S5. (145) Roger Pope and (143A) Si. William Whitmore
4. 1689. (146) Sir Edward Acton and do.

WILLIAM AND MARY.

2. 1689-90. (146) Sir Edward Acton and (143A) Sir William

Whitmore.

WILLIAM III.
7. 1695. (146) Sir Edward Acton and (143A) Sir William
Whitmore.

10. 1698. (146) Sir Edward Acton and (143A) Sir William
Whitmore.

At this election Roger Pope was a
candidate, and being unsuccessful petitioned
against the return of Sir Edward Acton,
on the ground of corrupt and undue practices.
No result is given, and the numbers of the
poll are not known.
It. 1699. (147) Roger Pope, Jun., Alderman of Bridgnorth,
May. vice Sir William Whitmore, deceased.

12. 1701. (146) Sir Edward Acton and (147) Roger Pope, Jun.

13. 1701. do. do.

ANNE.

1. 1702. (146) Sir Edward Acton and (148) Sir Humfrey
Briggs, Bart.

4- I7°5- (r49) William Whitmore and do.
7. 1708. do. do.

9. 1710. (150) Richard Cresswell, Jun., and Whitmore Acton.
Poll — Cresswell . . . . 520
Whitmore Acton .. 511
Sir Humfrey Briggs. . 501
William Whitmore .. 471
Sir Humfrey Briggs lodged a petition on the
ground of bribery and other unwarrantable
practices, but no decision appears to have
been given.

12. 1713- (149) William Whitmore and (152) John Weaver.

I

1 8 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

GEORGE I.

Regnal Anno
Year. Domini.

i. 17 14 5. (149) William Whitmore and (152) John Weaver.
8. 1722. do. do.

11. 1725. June. (153) St. John Charlton vice Whitmore
deceased.

GEORGE II.
1. 1727. June. St. John Charlton and John Weaver.

Poll— Charlton .. ..666
Weaver . . . . 621
Sir Whitmore Acton 507
Edward Acton . . 316
Edward Bridgen . . 94
8. 1734. ri54) Thomas Whitmore and (155) Gray James
Grove.

Poll — Thomas Whitmore . . 727
Gray James Grove . . 714
Sir Richard Acton, Bart. 511
Sir Robert Lawley, Bart. 484

Sir Richard Acton and Sir Robert Lawley

petitioned, but no result is given.
15. 1741. (154) Thomas Whitmore and (156) William

Whitmore.

Poll—Thomas Whitmore . . 878
William Whitmore . . 829
Lancelot Lee .. 552

Sir Richard Acton . . 30
Henry Mytton . . 2

Sir Walter Bagot . . 1

William Lacon Childe . . 1
21. 1747. (154) Sir Thomas Whitmore and (157) Arthur

Weaver.

27. 1754- (i56) William Whitmore and (158) Hon. John Grey.

GEORGE III.
1. 1761. (156) William Whitmore and(i5S) Hon. John Grey.
6. 1766. do. re-elected on appt as Warden

of Mint.

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MEMBERS OP PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH. 19

Begnal Anno
Year. Domini.

8. 1768. (156) William Whitmore and (159) George Lord
Pigot.

11. 177 1. Sept. (160) Major Thomas Whitmore vice Wm.
Whitmore, deed.

15. 1774. (161) Thomas W7hitmore, of Wolstaston and

George Lord Pigot.

16. 1775- Feb. (162) Vice-Admiral Hugh Pigot vice Lord

Pigot, deed.

21. 1780. do. and (161) Thomas Whitmore.

23. 1782. do. re-elected on appointment as one

of the Lords of the Admiralty.

24. 1784. (161) Thomas Whitmore and (163) Isaac Hawkins

Browne.

Poll — Isaac Hawkins Browne T. . 662
Whitmore T. . 646

Admiral Hugh Pigot W.. 381
30. 1790. Same and same.

35- 1795. (164) John Whitmore, London, vice T. Whitmore,

deed.

36. 1796. do. and (163) Isaac Hawkins Browne.

42. 1802. do. do.

Poll— John Whitmore T. . 268

Isaac H. Browne T.. 237

Sir George Knudson W. . 57
46. 1806. (163a) Thomas Whitmore and (163) Isaac

Hawkins Browne.
48. 1807. do. do.

53. 181 2. do. and (165) Hon. Charles Cecil

Cope Jenkinson.
58. 1818. do. and (167; Sir Thomas John

Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart.

GEORGE IV.
1. 1820. (163a) Thomas Whitmore, T and (167) William
Wolryche Whitmore, W.
Ralph Benson was a Candidate but did not
go to the Poll.

20 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

Regnal Anno
Year. Domini.

7. 1826. Thomas Whitmore an i William Wolryche
Whitmore.

Poll— Thomas Whitmore T . . 699
W. W. Whitmore W. . 461
Ebenezer Ludlow W.. 354
(Recorder of Bristol).

A great contest, the poll lasting 5 days.

WILLIAM IV.

1. 1830. (163a) Thomas Whitmore and (167) William Wol-

ryche Whitmore.

Poll— T. Whitmore T. . 721

W. W. Whitmore W. . 669
Richard Arkwright W. . 369

Poll lasted 3 days.

2. 1831. (168) James Foster and (167) William Wolryche

Whitmore.

3. 1832. (169) Robert Pigot and (170) Thomas Charlton

Whitmore.

Charles Hanbury Tracy Leigh was a Candi-
date but did not go to the Poll.
5. 1835. (169) Robert Pigot and (170) Thomas Charlton
Whitmore.

Poll— T. C. Whitmore T. . 490

Robert Pigot T. . 423

Henry Hanbury Tracy W. . 353

VICTORIA.

1. 1837. (170) Thomas Charlton Whitmore and (171) Hon.
Henry Hanbury Tracy.
Poll— Whitmore T.. 429

Tracy W. . 371

Robert Pigot T.. 367

Robert Pigot petitioned against Mr. Tracy's
return on the ground of the Mayor having
closed the Poll before the proper time. Mr.
Tracy's election was declared void and the
seat vacant. 727 voted.

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH. 21

Rtfn&l Anno
Te»r. Domini.

2. 1838 Feb. (169) Robert Pigot vice Tracy, unseated.
5- 1841. do. and (17 }) Thomas Charlton

Whitmore.

Poll— T. C. Whitmore T. . 492

Robert Pigot T. . 472

Frederick J. Howard W.. 222
N. Throckmorton \V. . 66
703 voted.
Colours — Whitmore — green and yellow.

Pigot — Naval blue, primrose and white.
Howard — Red and white.
II. 1847. (169) Robert Pigot and (170) Thomas Charlton
Whitmore.

Poll— T. C. Whitmore Tv 611

Robert Pigot T. . 388

Sir John Easthope WT. 368
16. 1852. (172) Henry Whitmore and (169) Robert Pigot.

Poll— Whitmore T. . 442

Pigot T.. 360

Hon. Frederick Cadogan W 284
On petition Sir Robert Pigot was unseated
for bribery by his agent during the election
and his seat was declared vacant.

l7- l853- (*73) Jonn Pritchard (T), vice Pigot unseated.

20. 1857. do. and (172) Henry Whitmore.

21. 1858 March. Henry Whitmore re-elected on appoint-

ment as a Lord of the Treasury.

22. 1859. (173) John Pritchard and (172) Henry Whitmore.
28. 1865. do. and (174) Sir John E. Dalberg Acton.

Poll— Pritchard T. . 299

Acton W.. 289

Henry Whitmore T.. 288

Upon a scrutiny of the votes after a petition,
it was found that Henry Whitmore had a
majority of valid votes and he was declared
duly elected and Sir John Acton was
unseated.

22 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

Begnal Anno
Year. Domini.

29. 1866. (172) Henry Whitmore re-elected on appointment
as a Lord of the Treasury.

Under the Reform Act of 1867, the representation of
Bridgnorth was reduced to one Member.

32. 1868. (172) Henry Whitmore.

Poll— Whitmore T. . 548

Sir John Acton W. . 497

33. 1870 Feb. (175) William Henry Foster, vice Whitmore

resigned.

37. 1874. ('75) William Henry Foster.

Poll— Foster C. 701

George Barbour L. . 275

43. 1880. (175) William Henry Foster.

Poll— Foster C. . 641

Edward Reid Vyvyan L,. . 321

By the Re-distribution Act of 1885, Bridgnorth as a Parlia-
mentary Borough ceased to exist and was merged in the
Ludlow Division of the County.

(1) Andrew Bonding (1295), who was one of the first
Members of Parliament for Bridgnorth, was probably the
son of William Bolding, Provost of the Town in 1272, 74
and 77. Andrew Bolding was himself one of the Chief
Bailiffs who represented Bridgnorth at the County Assizes
and who held office from 1292 — 1294.

(2) Fremund (or Ferdinand) de Erdington (1295), who
was doubtless seated in the Domesday Manor of Erdington,
from which he took his name, was the son of Reginald Red,
of Erdington. About 12831 the Member is recorded to have
bought a capital messuage and land at the Hay, from Thomas
de la Haye, and he then bound himself to supply Thomas
with all the necessaries of life. In 1292 this Member was on
the Jury for Bridgnorth at the County Assizes, and 1304
was foreman of the Bridgnorth Jurors. He seems to have
acquired considerable possessions on both sides of the Severn,

1 Eyton's Antiquities, I., Iz6.

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and to have been a man of great importance in his day. The
Inquisition Post Mortem shews that he was dead in 1308, that
he had a messuage within Bridgnorth Castle, which he held
of Roger Bonamy (the next M.P.) and that Reginald, his
son, aged 16, was his next heir.

(3) Roger Bonamy, of Bridgnorth (1298) was probably the
son of William Bonamy, who upon more than one occasion
was Provost of the Borough, an office which he himself held
from 1300 to 1302.

(4) Thomas de Isenham (1298) was one of a family of
which several members represented Bridgnorth in Parliament,
but very little is recorded of them.

(5) Richard Roberd (1300-1301-1309), who represented
Bridgnorth in each of these 3 Parliaments, was one of the
Provosts of the town from 1297 — 1300. He was one of the
Sub-Taxers for the Borough and Liberties of Bridgnorth
for the Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327.

(6) John Brun was with his fellow Member, Roger Bonamy,
Provost of Bridgnorth from 1300 — 2, so that in the latter year
they were acting both in the capacity of Chief Magistrates
and Burgesses of the Parliament. John Brun was engaged
in the cloth trade, and was in 1292 reported for having sold
cloth contrary to the Assize, i.e., above the fixed price.

(7) Reginald de Leyghes (1307, 15) otherwise de Erdiug-
ton, was son of Fremund de Erdington1 (No. 2 above) and
was born in 1292, so that he was only 16 years of age. He
was a party to, and witness of many deeds in the reign of
Edward II., and was, like his father, not only M.P. for
Bridgnorth, but also one of the Provosts of the Borough
(1306 — 7 and 1321). In 1324s a license was granted to
Reginald de Leyghes to found a Chantry in St. Leonard's
Church, Bridgnorth, and to endow it with one messuage,
4 acres of land and 50s. rent in Bridgnorth, no inconsiderable
endowment. He was M.P. for Bridgnorth again — 13 15 — and
was alive up to 1329. There is a representation of the
Member's seal in the Shropshire Visitation, No. 21.

1 li) ion's Antiquities, I., 126. 1 Kyton, I., 342.

24 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

(8) John Hendemon, who was M.P. for Bridgnorth in 3
Parliaments — 1309, 1313, and 1322 — wa? probably a descendant
of Richard Hendemon, Provost of the town about 1265, but
nothing is known of him.

(9) Robert le Palmer (1311)1 was the first of, a great
family, intimately associated with Bridgnorth, to represent
the Borough in Parliament. He seems to have been the son
of Roger le Palmer, the eldest son and heir of William Fitz
Hamon, who was Provost of Bridgnorth before 1251. The
Member was himself Provost for at least 6 years, and M.P. in 4
Parliaments. He was living as late as 1342.

(10) Walter de Aldenham (131 i) was, no doubt, one of
the family seated at Aldenham and whose names appear in
various Charters in the 13th and 14th Centuries. The
member was probably the son of John de Aldenham, who
in 1284 held Aldenham under Walter de Baskerville. Roger
Aldenham is found in the 1327 Subsidy Roll, in the parish
of Highley, while William was one of the Sub-Taxers for
the parish of Quatford.

(11) Geoffrey le Blount (13 12) does not appear in the
family pedigree and the name is not found in the Subsidy
Roll of 1327. He may have been the father of Thomas le
Blount, who acquired the manor of Worfield by his marriage
with Julian Leybourne in 1326.

(12) John de Brugge (1312) was the son of Simon de
Brugge, whose family doubtless took their name from the
old name of Bridgnorth — " Bruges." John de Brugge was
also M.P. for Herefordshire in 1322 and again for Bridgnorth
in 1330.

1*3) John de Isenham (1313) was probably the son of
Thomas de Isenham, No 4 above.

(14) William Panning (131^) was apparently one of a
family living in Bridgnorth, as two others of the same name,
Walter and Richard, were his manucaptors, and another,
Stephen Panning, had been manucaptor for Roger Bonaray
and John Brun (3 and 6 above) in 1303.

1 Eyton, I., 365, &c.

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH. 25

(15) Robert de Beuleu (1313) is probably the same person
as Robert de Bellem, whose land in Br iseley was escheated
in 1349.

(16) Edmund le Palmer (1315) was another member ol
the great Bridgnorth family of Palmer. He was the son of
Nicholas le Palmer, and died about 1331. Edmund Palmer's
house in the High Street was dignified with the name of
Hall (Aula). He was assessed in Astley Abbots in the
Subsidy Roll in 2od. and in Bridgnorth in 2/-. This Member
was also Provost of the Borough in 1323.

(17) William de Dunfowe (1319) was one of the family
settled in Astley, part of which was called Dunfowe and gave
its name to the family. The Member is named in the Lay
Subsidy Roll in Alveley, where he is assessed at i2d., and
another of the family was one of the Sub-Taxers for the
parish. William de Dunfowe does not seem to have served
the office of Provost, which makes it more probable that he
did not reside in Bridgnorth. He was admitted a Burgess
of Shrewsbury in 1318, of which town his father was Bailiff
for 8 years.

(18) John de Kington (1319-22-28-35-6-7-8-40) was M.P.
for Worcester in the Parliament of 1339. He does not appear
in the Lay Subsidy Roll nor in the list of Bailiffs (up to 1334),
and was probably an outsider.

(19) Henry Geffrey (1321-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9, 31-2-4) repre-
sented Bridgnorth in no less than 12 Parliaments. He was
in all probability a descendant of John Geffrey who was
Provost of Bridgnorth several times in the latter part of the
previous century.

(20) Hugh Wederove (1323) described as "de Bruges,"
is mentioned in the Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327 and is there
assessed at 8d.

(21) William de la Hulle (1326, 41) appears in the
Subsidy Roll in Bridgnorth and is there assessed at the
high amount of 20/-, with one exception the highest in
the Borough and Liberties. He was Provost from 130a to

26 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

1304 and again 1308-9-10. A license was granted by the
Crown to this M.P., described as of Bridgnorth, to assign
his messuage there with 30 acres of land and 60/- rent to
3 Chaplains, who were to pray daily in the Church of St.
Leonard, for the souls of his father and mother, William and
Margaret, for his own soul and those of his 2 wives, Mabel
and Isabel, and his children. A subsequent license was
granted to William de la Hulle in 1336, which recited the
former one and gave him the power to assign the Charity
to Trinity Hospital.1 These licenses give us some
particulars of the family of one who was evidently one of
the most wealthy and considerable Bridgnorth men of his
time. William de la Hulle was M.P. for Shropshire in
1327-8, and in 1340 was one of those who was returned either
for the County or Bridgnorth under the writs by which
the Sheriffs were directed to send a specified number of
Merchants to a Council of Merchants to be held at London
or Westminster on the 21st August, 1340. This shews us
clearly the importance and the occupation of the Member.

(22) William Bonamy (1327) was probably the son of
Roger Bonamy (No. 3 above). He is mentioned in the
Subsidy Roll, and assessed in Bridgnorth at I2d.

(23) John Pule (1328 and 9) probably was a son of Nicholas
Pule, who is reported at the Assizes in 1292 to have appro-
priated part of the King's highway at Bridgnorth.

(24) Richard de Bruges (1328) was doubtless of the same
family as John Brugge (No. 12) above.

(25) John Dod (1329-33-35-36-7) is mentioned in the Lay
Subsidy Roll, and is there assessed at iad. in Bridgnorth,
Simon Dod being charged with 5/- and Richard Dod 4/.
A Roger Dod was one of the mauucaptors for Roger le
Palmer, M.P., in 1322, so that the family must have been
an influential one in Bridgnorth. The M.P. was allowed 38/-
for 19 days attendance at the Parliament of 1335.

(26) Walter le Palmer (1331, 8) is assessed at nd. in
the Subsidy Roll. He is another member of a great ttridg-

»Duke's Shropshire, XXXVII.

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH. TJ

north family. The return for 1331 is given in Prynne's writs
only, and not in the official list.

(27) John db Isenham (1331-6-7). In 1333 John de
Isenham, described as of Bridgnorth, granted 3 houses 30
acres of land in Bridgnorth, and a rent of 5/-, to the Master
and Brethren of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity there. It
is quite possible that he is the same person as the Member
in 1313 (No. 13 above).

(28) Adam del More (133 1) was the son of Roger del More,
who was Provost or Bailiff of the Borough in the reign of
Henry III. and also on many occasions in the reign of
Edward I. and II. (1273-7-95-6-1303-5-11-14). This member
was also M.P. for Ross in 1305.

(29) John Peres (1333) is described in the Return as of
Bridgnorth, but is not mentioned in the Subsidy Roll of
that parish. There is a John de la Pyrie taxed at i2d. in
Astley, who may be the same man.

(30) John de Netherton (1334). Netherton, from which
this Member took his name, was near Quatford between
that place and the bridge or ferry which crossed the
Severn there.

(31) Peter de Brugge (1335) was an Usher in the
Court of King Edward III in 1339, as appears by a Record
exonerating the Abbey of Wenlock from a corrody which
the King had granted to his Usher. In 135 1 a license
was granted to this Member to grant lands of the annual
value of 40/- to a Chaplain to pray for his soul in the
Chapel of St. Leonard and the Hospital of St. James in
Bridgnorth.

(32) John de la Grene (1335, 7, 8, 54) was one of the
family of de la Grene of Hordley and Astley and was
probably a son ot Nicholas de la Grene of that place, who
was a Juror in 1292, and who is assessed in the Subsidy
Roll in two shillings.

(33) John atte Ya/te (1337-9)- John atte Vate and his
fellow M.P. were allowed £i 12s. od. each (2/- a day) lor

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MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

their attendance for 16 days at this Parliament. He was
a member of a family resident in Wcrfield, where Thomas
atte Yate was assessed in the 1327 Subsidy Roll.

(34) Walter le Palmer (1338-9) is probably the same
person as No. 26 above.

(35) Robert de Bergham (1339) was Provost of Bridgnorth
in 1327, and was one of the Sub-Taxers in the same year for
the Subsidy Roll for the Borough.

(36) John Crouck (1339-40-41-44). John Crouck, of Bridg-
north, was one of the merchants (4 for Shropshire) whom the
Sheriff was commanded in July, 1340, to send to a Council
of Merchants to be held at Westminster in August of that
year, the 3 others being his fellow Member, William de la
Hulle, Adam de la Home and John de Shrewsbury, of Ludlow.
Mr. Crouck was allowed 68/- for 34 days attendance at the
Parliament of 1340, and 76/- for 38 days attendance at that
of 1341. The Member, who was evidently one of Bridgnorth's
principal men of the time, was Provost of the town in 1318,
1319 and 1324. He was assessed to the Subsidy Roll of 1327
in 10/-, at Bridgnorth (one of the highest there), and in i8d.
at Oldbury.

(37) Hugh de Berene (1343) is certainly identical with
with Hugh de Bruyn, who was assessed to the Subsidy
Roll in the parish of Claverley and was a member of an
old family of importance in Bridgnorth and its neighbourhood.
He was probably the son of John Bruyn, M.P. in 1302.

(38) William de Pitch ford (1344) was probably a son
of Nicholas de Pitchford, whose estate at Bridgnorth was
assessed to the Subsidy of 1327 at the highest sum in the
whole of Shropshire and who was also the chief landholder
at Pitchford. Their Bridgnorth estate probably lay in the
suburb of Little Brug, which is said to have been granted
by Henry I to Sir Ralph de Pitchford, to be held by the
service of finding dry wood for the King's Great Chamber
in the Castle whenever he should come there. On .111
inquest on one of his descendants 150 years after the grant
(1253) the tenure is said to be the same.

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH. 29

(39) Edmund de Pitchford (1346 and 7) was probably a
brother to William de Pitchford, Membe/ in 1344.

(40) William Selymon (1346, 60) was probably the son
of William Selymon, alias Tinctor, who was Provost of
Bridgnorth 1297-1300. He himself was doubtless the Bailiff
of the Borough in 1334. William Selymon was assessed
at i2d. for the 1327 Subsidy. In 1370 he and others gave
to 3 Chaplains, 6 houses and 18 acres of land in Bridgnorth
to celebrate Divine Service daily in St. Leonard's Church
for the souls of the Burgesses of the Town.

(41) John de Pitchford (1347) was doubtless one of the
same family as William de Pitchford, M.P. in 1344, and
Edmund de Pitchford, M.P. in 1346-7, probably a brother.

(42) Richard de la Have (1348) was one of the family
resident at The Haye in Astley, probably a son of Nicholas
de la Haye, who was tenant at The Haye to the Abbey of
Shrewsbury during the latter part of the 13th century, and was
taxed at i4d. in the Subsidy Roll of 1327.

(43) William de Eweldon (1348) was no doubt one of the
family of de Eweldon whose name occurs frequently in
connection with Dudmaston, the Member being assessed at
I2d. to the 1327 Subsidy in that parish, and at 8d. in
Bridgnorth. The Member was in 1343 a witness to grant
of property which Matilda, widow of Richard de Eweldon
then held in dower.1

(44) John de la Hulle (1350-57). This Member was also
M.P. for the County of Worcester in the Parliaments
1340-41-48). He was probably the son of William de la
Hulle, who was assessed to the 1327 Subsidy in Bridgnorth
at 2od., and was also taxed in various neighbouring parishes.
John de la Hulle himself was assessed in Worfield at i8d.
The family seems to have been a wealthy and powerful one.

(45) John de Leinthall (1350* 57> °°» 69» 76> 8l» 82» 83). It
is difficult to identify this man or even his family, as no
one of his name appears in the Subsidy Roll for Bridgnorth

> Eyton, 111., 195.

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or any of the neighbouring places. As he represented
the Borough in 8 Parliaments, ranging over 33 years, he '
must in some way have been intimately connected with
the place and been a man of considerable consequence. A
question arose as to certain fee farm tenures of Bridgnorth
in the reign of Henry III, when a complaint was made
against Philip de Leinthall, who was Bailiff of Edmund de
Mortimer1, and the Member may have been descended from
him. A Roger de Leinthall was assessed to the Subsidy
Roll in the parish of Bromfield and the son of Richard
Lord of Affcott (Wistanstow) was in 1316 married to
Roger's daughter, but no other mention of the family is
found in the Roll. Leinthall is in the County of Hereford
and gave its name to a family, of which Sir Rowland
Leinthall (who fought at Agincourt), Mr. Speaker Leinthall
and Sir John Leinthall were distinguished members. The
Bridgnorth Member was possibly of this family.

(46) Henry Goldsmith (1354, 55, 62). Two of this family
were Sub-Taxers for Bridgnorth and its Liberties to the
Subsidy Roll and each was assessed at 2/-. Simon Goldsmith
was Provost of Bridgnorth in 1327 and 1331 and several
of the same name held office in the previous century.

» The family of Goldsmith was, no doubt, as powerful in
Bridgnorth as in other places at that time.

(47) Thomas Skinner (1355, 62, 63, 72, 75). It is curious
that one of the Members for Shrewsbury in two of these
Parliaments bore the same name.

(48) Walter de Aldenham (1360) was doubtless one of
the family seated at Aldenham, and was probably a descendant
of Walter Aldenham, M.P. in 1311. This Member is con-
nected with the one old Shropshire feudal custom which has
survived, and with the feudal service which is still annually
observed. Walter de Aldenham, the record .of 1379 says,
holds land of the King in the Moor in the County of Salop
(the moor being now in Kardington) by the service of rendering
to the King yearly 2 knives on the morrow of Michaelmas

• Byton 1, 312.

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH. 31

Day, together with a hazel rod of a year's growth and a cubit
long, the one knife to be good so as to cut the rod at one
stroke, and the other to be very blunt and unable to cut
the rod. The apparent object was that the rod should be
tested as good and sound with the very bad (pessimum)
knife, and that the rod should then prove the other knife
to be good enough for the King's own use. This custom
is observed every year still, and it serves to remind us of
this Member for Bridgnorth, of whom otherwise little is
known.

(49) John Canne (1363, 66) was probably a relative of Henry
Canne, who was one of the Sub-Taxers for the Subsidy Roll
of Bridgnorth in 1327, and was one of the Provosts of the
Borough in 1324. Looking at the many methods at this time
in spelling the same name, this may be the same man as John
Kene who was M.P. for Bridgnorth in 1380 (No. 59 below).
John Canne was a member of a well-known Bridgnorth
family, from whom Cann Hall in the Low Town took its name.

(50) Nicholas le Palmer (1364-66-70-71). This was doubt-
less a member of the great Bridgnorth family, so many of
whom represented the Borough in Parliament in the 14th
Century.

(51) William de Isenham (1369), another member of the
family of whom 3 represented Bridgnorth previously.

(52) Nicholas Fillilode (1370-3), described as of Shrewley,
Warwickshire, was the brother of William de Fillilode of
Astley, Alveley, and joined with his brother in the purchase
of Shrewley, for which they had to obtain a pardon as they
bought without a license from the King. In 1369, the
member endowed a chantry at the altar of the Virgin
Mary in the Royal Chapel of Alveley, and upon an inquisition
ad quod damnum it was found that he would still hold lands
in Bridgnorth, Astley and elsewhere. Astley seems to have
been held by the service of finding a horseman to serve for
40 days in Wales. Nicholas Fillilode died without issue
in 1381, leaving John, his great nephew, his heir.

32 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

(53) Hugh Dyer (1372). was probably of the same family as
Adam le Dygher and John le Dygher mentioned in the
Subsidy Roll and as William le Deyere who was one of the
Manucaptors of the M.P's. in 1307. He was also probably
a descendant of one of the many " Tinctors M who were
Provosts of Bridgnorth in the 13th century.

(54) William Boulewas (1373-6-8-9) was probably a son
ol Sir John de Boulewas or Bolas, who settled Bolas upon
his wife Petronilla and himself in 1349, and who held the
Manor and that of Isombridge in chief by the service of
keeping the King's Forests in Shropshire, including the
Forest of Morffe. Sir John was living in 1360, but both he
and his wife were dead in 1370.

(55) John atte Yate (1375-6) may have been the same
man as the M.P. in 1337-9, or his son or other relative.

(56) William Goldsmith (1378-9-84, 8) who represented
Bridgnorth in these 4 Parliaments was doubtless one of the
same family as the M.P. in 1354 and 1381, probably a son of
the former and a brother of the latter.

(57) John Taylor (1379). This was probably a son or
descendant of John Taylor, who was assessed to the Subsidy
in Bridgnorth in 1327 in the sums of i2d. and i6d.

(58) William Palmer (1379-82-2-3-3-4-7-8-9-91-2-5-7-9) re-
presented Bridgnorth in no less than 14 Parliaments, and
must have been a man of great importance in his day. Ht
was no doubt one of the Bridgnorth family (probably the
chief family there) who furnished so many Provosts and
Members to the Borough, and who held large properties
there, especially in High Street and Mill Street and in Astley
Abbots.

(59) John Kene (1380 and 4) was M.P. for Newcastle-
under-Lyme in the Parliaments of 1379-80 and 1387-6, A
family of this name, who also were styled Fiti Fulco, WtK
seated in the 13th Century at Leigh Hall (now Lye Kail)
in Quat, and the Member was probably a membei of tins

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH. 33

family. He may be identical with John Canne, M.P.
(1363-6), as the spelling of names wis a matter of perfect
indifference in those days.

(60) John Enefeld (1380). Richard de Enefeld was Lord
of Enefeld, Staffordshire, in 27 Edward III (1354) and he
had a brother John, who was doubtless the Member for
Bridgnorth.

(61) Thomas Goldsmith (1381) was no doubt one of the
same family as the Members in 1354 and 1378.

(62) Thomas Grene (1382) was one of the family who
had possessions at Hordley and Alveley and was probably
a descendant or kinsman of John de la Grene, M.P. in 1335.

(63) Hugh Cressage (1382), may have been a son or
kinsman of Robert de Cressage who was assessed to the
1327 Subsidy Roll in 2/-, and of another of the same name
who was witness to a deed in 1294.

(64) Ralph Bernard (1384). This member was one of the
Bernard family who had been settled at Chetton from a
very early date. In the Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327, Adam
Bernard and Walter Bernard are both assessed in Highley
and John Bernard in Kinlet.

(65) Richard Selymon (1385) was probably a son of
William Selymon who was assessed in 1327 in the Bridg-
north Subsidy Roll in i2d. and was Provost of the Borough
»n 1334

(66) John Farnals (1385, 7, 9, 92,4, 5). This Member, with
William Palmer (No. 58 above), was one of the Com-
missioners appointed in December 1390, to enquire touching
the dilapidations and waste in the Priory of Alberbury
(otherwise New Abbey) suffered by Geoffrey Stafford the
late Farmer thereof. Mr. Farnals was probably of the same
family as William de Farnals who was assessed in the
Subsidy Roll in the parish of Chelmarsh and may have
resided there.

(67) Thomas Horde (1391 and 9) was the son of Rogei
Horde, of Stanwardine, who was Sheriff of Shropshire 111 [381

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Thomas Horde was the first of that distinguished family to
take up his residence near Bridgnorth as he obtained Horde's
Park by marriage with Alicia, daughter and heiress of John
Palmer, of Bridgnorth.

(68) Thomas Palmer (1393). This was doubtless, another
of the family of Palmer who lived and thrived in Bridgnorth
in the 14th century.

(69) John Blockley (1397). Perhaps a son of Judge John
Blockley, of Blockley, in Worcestershire.

(70) Hugh Harnage (1402-5) who was Bailiff of
Bridgnorth in 1403, married Margery, daughter of Sir
Richard Lacon. Mr. Harnage was resident at Codnor and
was Lord of the Manor of Sheinton and was Sheriff of
Shropshire in 1424. Mr. Harnage is stated in the Shropshire
Visitation and in Blakeway's Sheriffs to have also represented
Bridgnorth in 1419 and this is probably based on Prynne's
Right of Elections, but the official return gives Richard
Horde and Richard Parlour as Members in that year. Mr
Harnage sold, in 1452, his lands in Bridgnorth and Erdington
to John Bruyn, his fellow M.P.

(71) John Bruyn, of The Hay, Bridgnorth (1402 and 25)
was one of an old family settled at Bridgnorth and whose
son bought large estates from this Member's colleague,
Hugh Harnage. The M.P. was Sheriff of Shropshire in
1420 and 1424 when he had by letters patent the Forestership
of Morfe Forest. In 1407 he was one of the Bailiffs of
Bridgnorth.

(72) Walter Grene (1405, 7) was one of a family which
furnished several Members of Parliament for the Borough.

(73) John Cooke (1407). The original return to the writ
for this election is given in ex'e?iso in Prynne's Parliamentary
WTrits, vol. I, p. 263. The Member is there described as a
Vintner and a Burgess of the Borough. He seems to have
sat for Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1393.

(74) [ ] Lange (1409). The return for this writ is

torn and the Christian name of the Member is gone. The

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name may easily have been intended for Lyney or Luyn, as
one John Luyn was Bailiff of Bridgnorth i i 1407. ^ or> ^ -

(75) Thomas Hopton (141 i). This member was doubtless
Thomas Hopton of Hopton Castle who was Sheriff of
Shropshire in 1430 and whose only surviving child became
the wife, first of Sir Roger Corbet of Moreton and carried
with her great estates (Blakeway's Sheriffs 68) and secondly
of Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester.

(76) Hugh de Stanford (1411-13) represented Newcastle-
under-Lyme in the 4 Parliaments of 1420-21-22 and 23. This
member was seated at Hexstall in the County of Stafford,
and was appointed Escheator of that County on the 6th
November, 1403, and was re-appointed in December 1407.
He was Sub-Sheriff up to 14 14. In 1426 he charged one
John Northwood with lying in wait to kill him.

(77) Thomas Grene (1413-21-21-23-27) was possibly
Thomas Grene of Green's Norton, near Adderley, whose
daughter married Ralph Hill of Court of Hill.

(78) Richard Horde (1414-17-19-20-22-23-25-27-32) was
M.P. for Bridgnorth in 9 Parliaments and was appointed
Escheator of Shropshire on the 9th December, 1419. He was
the son of Thomas Horde (No. 67), who married Alice, daughter
and heiress of John Palmer of Bridgnorth. The marriage
with an heiress seems to have been hereditary in the family
as he himself married the only heiress of John Perell and
his sou, Richard, the co-heiress of Sir John Stapleton.

(79) Richard Parlour (1414-17-19, 21-22, 25, 33) was M.P. for
Bridgnorth in 7 Parliaments. The only mention which the
compiler has found of this Member is that in 141 1 there was
a feud between Walter Elyot, Parson of the Church of
Ribbesford and Richard Parlour and his wife Margery, about
houses, lands, and commons in Colynwick and Alveton.

(80) William Stapelky (1420). There w.is 1 family of
this name settled from very early times at Stapeiev, Upton
Cressett, and this Member was probably one ol "that family.

36 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

(81) Robert Aylesbury (1421). Probably a member of the
family of Aylesbury, of Blatherwyck, Staffordshire, which
ended in the heiress of Sir Thomas Aylesbury marrying a
Stafford.

(82) Leonard Lyney (1426) was probably the son or some
other relative of Roger Lyney, who married Agnes, the widow
of Thomas Styche, " Dominus de Styche." In the original
return for 1407, printed in Prynne (p. 263), Sir John Lyney
was one of the Burgesses assembled for the election of the
Members of Parliament, and this M.P. was no doubt of his
family.

(83) William Lawley (1429) was doubtless a member of the
Shropshire family of Lawley, from which the Lords Wenlock
are sprung, but no mention of this M.P. has been found
except in the original return.

(84) Richard Blyke (i429-32-33-35-37-4I"50"53-59) repre-
sented Bridgnorth in no less than 9 Parliaments. He was
seated at Astley in the Parish of Alveley, and was born about
1396, and lived until Michaelmas 1464 (Sh. Ar. Tr.. 2d Ser.,
Vol. v., p. 70). Richard Blyke was the sou of John Blyke, who
married Katherine de Fillilode, the heiress of her brother
Giles de Fillilode, who brought to her husband the Astley
and Shrewley estates. Richard Blyke was married and his
wife Katherine survived him, leaving a son, another Richard
Blyke, to whom the estates descended.

(85) John Corbyn (1431) was the second son of William
Corbyn, whose family had long been seated at Corbyn Hall,
Kingswinford. He was probably a relative of his fellow
Member, Richard Blyke, whose father's only sister Elizabeth
married a Richard Corbyn. The Member was described in
1452 as a citizen and goldsmith of London.

(86) Thomas Clerk (1430).

(87) Andrew Wolrych (1435) was the eldest son of
Roger Wolrych and Margaret, the heiress of Dudmaston,
who brought that estate to the Wolrych family. Andrew
himself married the daughter and heiress of Thomas Walton,
of Staffordshire.

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(88) John de la Wele (1436) was probably the 2nd son of
Edmund Wele, of Cotes, in this county. A John Wele
represented Shropshire in the Parliament of 1413-14, and
may have been the same man.

(89) Thomas Horde (1441-9), of Horde Park, Bridgnorth,
was the eldest son of Richard Horde (No. 78 above), and
married Joyce, daughter and heiress of Sir John Stapleton.
He was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1457 and 1470, and seems
to have been a man of considerable importance in his day.
Fie is said to have espoused warmly the Yorkist cause, and
it was probably on this account that in 1457 Shrewsbury
"paid for a breakfast to Thomas Horde and Thos. Acton
"for their good council touching the return of a precept to

the Duke of York directed to the Bailiffs for surety of the
u peace." There is the following further entry in the
Shrewsbury accounts : — " Money paid for the expenses of
44 Thomas Horde and Wm. Lyster riding to the Lord Duke
44 of York at Ludlow to get the said precept dissolved."1

(90) Thomas Mayne (1446-8), who represented Bridgnorth
in these 2 Parliaments, was M.P, for Newcastle-under-Lyme
in that of 1449. His will was proved in 1450 at Colchester.

(91) John Lawley (1446-9- 1452-5) was the first Bailiff
elected for the Borough of Much Wenlock, and on that
occasion he was described as 44 in lege peritus." Mr. Lawley
was the son of William Lawley, No. 83 above, and was a
member of the family so long settled at Wenlock. The
Member seems to have also been associated with Wiltshire,
as in the 2 intervening Parliaments of 1448 and 1450 he was
M.P. for Downtou and Wootton Bassett respectively.

(92) Richard Merwall (1448).

(93) John Cardemaker (1450), The only mention of the
name which the compiler has been able to find is as witness
to a lease from the Abbot of Build was to Richard Bruyn, of
a garden, in Frete Street, Bridgnorth, in 1453. As the witness
is called John Cardemaker, Jun., he was probably the

1 Bellctt's Bridgnorth, 113.

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Member's son. Hugh Cardemaker, probably a brother of
the M.P., was appointed Prior of the Hospital of St. John the
Baptist in Bridgnorth in 1453.

(94) Thomas Person (1455) was no doubt the ancestor of
another Thomas Person, merchant of the Staple of Calais,
the son and heir of Edward Person and Annie, wife of the
said Thomas, daughter of John Petit, Esquire, on whom
lands and tenements at Bridgnorth were settled in 1499,
February. The Member was Bailiff of the Borough in 1450
and 1461. There is a mention in the Court Leet Book under
the date of February, 1456, of the " Hospice of Thomas
Persons in the High Street of the Town," as being one of
the bounds of the rye and barley markets.

(95) Roger Haughton (1459), of Beckbury, was the son
of Roger Haughton, of Sweeney, near Broseley, and married
Margaret Woolrich, of Dudmaston. Richard Haughton,
probably a son of this member, was appointed Constable
for life of the Castle ot Bridgnorth.

(95A) Humphrey Blount (1460) is not mentioned as M.P.
for Bridgnorth in the official returns, but his name has been
found in the old Leet Book of the Borough, a manuscript
copy of which has fallen into the hands of the writer. It is
there said under the date of 1460, September, " Humphrey
" Blount was made a Burgess of Parliament, for which cause
" he has his burgesship."

Humphrey Blount was the eldest son of John Blount, and
succeeded to the Kinlet Estate on the death of the surviving
co-heiress of Sir William Lychfeld about 1446. Full par-
ticulars are given of Humphrey Blount in " Notes on Kinlet,"
edited by Mrs. Baldwyn Childe, in Sh. Ar. Transactions,
Vol. VIII. (3rd Series) pp. 119 — 121, but some details may
be added. Humphrey Blount was Sheriff of Shropshire in
1460, and again in 1475, being described on the first occasion
as Esquire, but on the second as Sir Humphrey Blount,
Knight. He was knighted by King Edward IV., on the
battle field of Tewkesbury, on the 4th Aug., 1471 , so thai
he must have served under the Yorkshire Rag in that battle.

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so disastrous to the Lancastrian cause, the last of the battles
of the Wars of the Roses. Sir Humphre> married Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Robert Winnington, and died on the 1st
October, 1477, having by his will directed that he should be
buried within the Chapel of St. Katherine in the Parish
Church of Kinlet.

(96) John Horde (1470,72) was the son of Thomas Horde,
who was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1457. John Horde, the
M.P., is said in the Shropshire Visitation to have been
himself Sheriff of the County in 1488 and this may be so,
though the name of Thomas Horde is given in Blakeway's
Sheriffs for that year as well as for 1484. Blakeway makes
Thomas to be the son and heir of the Sheriff of 1457, but no
such son appears in the Visitation pedigree. Blakeway,
in a paragraph relating to Thomas Fermor who married
the heiress of the Hordes, calls the Sheriff of 1488 "John,"
and this was probably correct. John Horde married Mary,
daughter of William Bulkeley, of Beaumaris, and died in
the life time of his father.

(97) John Gatacre (1470-2) of Gatacre, was a Member
of the well-known old Shropshire family. He was the
eldest son of John Gatacre and married a daughter of Sir
Adam Bostock. His eldest son, Robert, married a daughter
of his fellow Member, John Horde. Mr. Gatacre was Bailiff
of Bridgnorth with his brother-in-law, Thomas Horde, in the
years 1463, 1465, 1469 and 1475.

(98) William Clkkkk (1467, 1477) of Wenlock, who was
the first Member of Parliament for that Borough, was on
1467, May 25th, elected a Burgess of Bridgnorth and the
Leet Book proceeds : " He was elected a Burgess for
Parliament," being described in the records as " arniiger."
Mr. Clerke was certainly a man of considerable position,
aud one who interested and distinguishedhimselfinnat10H.il
as well as local politics. He was a steady adherent of the
Yorkist cause, aud apparently had his reward. On the 6th
May, 1463, a grant for life was made to "the Kin^'> servitor
William Clerke of Wenlock Esquire of the office oil Keeper

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of the King's Castle of Bridgnorth alias the office of
Constable of the said Castle from the 6 May ist Edw. IV.
receiving 6d. daily from the fee farm of Bridgnorth and
the Mills of Pendeleston in the County of Salop." Mr.
Clerke evidently continued his adherence to Richard III.,
and became a man of considerable consequence, as he was
of sufficient importance to be included by name in the Act
of Attainder of i Henry VII. for having assembled on
21 August, 1485, in the County of Leicester (no doubt at
the Battle of Bosworth, a battle fraught with such important
consequences to the Kingdom) with Richard III. and others
in arms against the King. He was attainted of high
treason, and his goods and lands were forfeited. Mr.
Clerke appears to have got his attainder reversed, as on St.
Thomas's Day 5 Henry VII. (1489), he was elected Bailiff
of Much Wenlock.

(99) Sacrus Brooke (1477) was the son of Thomas Brooke
and Margaret, daughter of Richard Spicer, of Claverley. He
married Eleanor, daughter of John Bruyn of The Ley, near
Bridgnorth, and doubtless took those estates in right of his
wife.

(100) Thomas Wyudbcotb (1487). There is no mention of
this member in the official returns, but there is an entry in
the Bridgnorth Leet accounts which leaves no doubt that
he was M.P. for Bridgnorth in this Parliament, of which the
original writs have been lost. The entry is as follows : —
" Memorandum that on the day of election of Burgesses in
" the 16 year of Henry VII. Thomas Wyldecote was created
" a Burgess for his labours in Parliament, that is in the
u second Parliament of the King aforesaid." ^

Thomas Wyldecote was of Hexton, Staffordshire, and was
Escheator of the County of Salop and the Marches of Wales
in the reigns of Edward IV., Richard III. and Henry VII.
In 151 1 a pardon and release were granted him in that
capacity. In 1484 he was one of the grooms of the Kind's
Chamber, and as such he obtained a grant of the Manor of
West Capleton, Somersetshire, lately belonging to the 1C.it 1
of Devon.

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(iooa) Rowland Gravenor (1488) was amongst the early
Bailiffs of Bridgnorth, and was probabl/ one of the family
who at the date of the L,ay Subsidy Roll of 1327 was seated
in Claverley Parish, one of that name, William de Gravenor,
being the Sub-Taxer, and another, Stephen, also appearing
in the Roll. Rowland Gravenor's name does not appear in
the official records, but he is mentioned in the old Leet Book
as one of the Burgesses of the Parliament in 1488. He was
apparently also the Member for the Borough in later
Parliaments, as in 1505 the usual fees were paid to him for
his "services in London." Mr. Gravenor was Bailiff of
Bridgnorth in the years 1495, 1499, 1502, 1505, 1508, 1510, 1514,
15 17, 1520 and 1523, so that he must have rendered good
service to the Borough.

(ioob) Humphrey Blyke (1491) was the son of Richard
Blyke, of Astley, and grandson of Richard Blyke, No. 84
above. The Member was born about 1460, and is said to
have practised the law in Shrewsbury, and to have been
Attorney for that Borough in 1502. 1 Humphrey Blyke died
on the 5th November, 1613, when on an inquisition post
mortem it was found that he was seized of lands in £)uatt and
Hordley.2 In 1492 Mr. Blyke was one of the Coroners for
the County of Salop.

(100C) Humfrey Whytell (1491). The writer has carefully
searched the Leet Book, which contains many lists of the
principal burgesses of Bridgnorth in the latter half of the
15th century, but has failed to find any mention of this
Member. He was probably one of a family seated at
Wheathill.

(icod) Symon Harrington (1494-5, Feb.), is mentioned as
M.P. only in the Leet Book and not in the official returns,
which are incomplete. This Member was one of the family
of Harringtons seated at Bishton, and is stated in the
Shropshire Visitation to have been "Clerk of the Crown
in the time of Henry VII." In 1493 George Talbot. Karl of
Shrewsbury, granted to him certain lands in Stanton, Within
> Owen and Blakcway, I., 274. « Sh. Ar. Tr. (scr. 2). V.. 71.

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the demesue of Shifhal " for good counsel given and to be
given" to the Earl.1

(cooe) John Brooke (1495). The authority for including
John Brooke among the Members for Bridgnorth is the
following entry in the Leet Book : — " 1495/6 January. - John
Brooke of London, Merchant, was made a Burgess and the
commonalty of the Town, pardoned and gave the payment
for divers causes." A very similar entry is made in other
cases where the Burgess was undoubtedly M.P., as for
instance : 44 Rowland Gravenor paid because he was a
Burgess of the Parliament," " Thomas Wildecote was created
a Burgess for his labour at the Parliament of our Lord the
King." John Brooke was probably the nephew of Sacrus
Brooke, M.P., 1477, being the son of John Brooke, of
Beventon, his elder brother.

(ioof) Thomas Laken and ioog, Edward Grey (1 510). Here
again there is no actual evidence that these were the Members
of this Parliament, for which no returns are extant, and
the authority for their inclusion is the fact that they were
both elected together as Burgesses for Bridgnorth on the
same day, that they appeared to have no connection with
the borough, and that in the case of Edward Grey "he came
and was created a Burgess. He is quit." The suggestion
is that he was quit for his services in Parliament.

(ioof) Thomas Laken or Lacon (1510) was the sou of Richard
Lacon of Willey and his wife, Alice, daughter of Thomas
Horde. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Corbett,
and was Sheriff of Shropshire in 15 10. Thomas Lacon
was undoubtedly knighted, but it was after his term of
office as Sheriff.

(ioog) Edward Grey (1510) of Kinver, who married Joyce,
daughter of John Horde, was knighted at Christmas, 1513.
He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire. He died on Feb. 4.
1528, and was buried at Kinver. His will was proved in
the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1529.

• Sh. Ar. Tr. (scr. J) XI., KM.

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(101) Humfrey Goldiston (1529), or Goulston, of Goldstone,
was the son of Hugh, of the same pla> e. He was party to
a fine in 3 Edward VI. (1549) of lands in Goldston and
Cheswardine, which he apparently sold to or settled on his
son John, who married Anne, daughter of Thomas Broughton,
of Henley, Ludlow. Mr. Goldston was admitted as a Burgess
of Bridgnorth in February, 1522, and was Bailiff of the
Borough in 1524 and 1537.

(102) George Hayward (1529) was either the father or
the grandfather— probably the latter — of Sir Rowland
Hayward, Knight, Lord Mayor of London in 1570. The
family is included in the Shropshire Visitation, and is there
styled "of Bridgnorth." The Member was probably the
grandfather, as in the Bridgnorth Corporation MSS. there
is a memorandum of a bond for the good behaviour of George
Hayward the younger, by which it was stipulated that " he
11 suffer no unlawful games to be kept within his house, nor
u use none himself in no place." This is dated in 1542, so
that the father was then apparently alive and was probably
the Member.

(103) Edward Hall (1541) was probably one of the most
eminent of the Members for Bridgnorth. He was the sou
of John Hall, of Northall, Shropshire, and was born in
London about 1499. He was educated at Eton and King's
College, Cambridge, taking his degree of B.A. in 1518. He
entered Gray's Inn, of which he became Autumn Reader in
1533, and double Lent Reader in 1540. In 1532 Mr. Hall
was, at the request of the King, appointed Common Serjeant
of London, an office which he held until 1535, after which
he became Secondary of one of the City Compters. His
great work was done as a Historian in his " Union of
the families of Lancaster and Yjrk," which he produced In
1542, and which, though after the fashion of the time W9A
very eulogistic of the King, is a work of Sterling merit.
Edward Hall obtained in 1542 a considerable grant of lands
at the suppression of the religious houses. Mi. Hall was
M.P. for Wenloek in 1529. He died 111 1547, and was buried

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at St. Benet's, Sherehog, London. His will was proved in
the same year in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

(104) William Gray (1542) was like his fellow Member,
Edward Hall, a Barrister of Gray's Inn, of which he was
Autumn Reader in 1529. He was one of the seven sons
(represented on their father's monument in Kinver Church)
of Sir Edward Gray, Knight, of Enville, who was Sheriff of
Staffordshire in 1528, and who married Joyce, daughter of
John Horde, of Horde Park, hence the Member's connection
with Bridgnorth. Mr. Gray was also M.P. for Reading in the
Parliament of 1547.

(105) Roger Smythe was the eldest son of Richard
Sniythe (or Smith) of Morville Hall. He was Bailiff of
Bridgnorth in 1545 and seems to have shared considerably
in the plunder of the Church Estates on the Suppression
of Religious houses. He obtained a grant of the Morville
Church property and also the Tithes which had belonged
to the dissolved Collegiate Church of St. Mary Magdalene,
Bridgnorth. Articles were afterwards exhibited against
the Member that " he prevented the Town of the
Chantry of St. Leonard, that he hath gotten into his hand
the Hospital of St. James, that he doth occcupy the Town's
land and holdeth the same with force," and in consequence
of these complaints it was ordered that he should have no
benefit from his Burgess-ship. Roger Smythe obtained
the St. James' property from Sir James Perrott in 1556.
Mr. Smythe married Frances, daughter of Richard Cressett,
of Upton Cressett. He died about 1557 and his will was
proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in that year.

(106) John Pulley (1547) was one of an old Bridgnorth
family. He was Bailiff of the Borough in 1566 and 1573.
Administration to his effects was taken out in the Prerogative
Court in 1583, and he was then described as of Bridgnorth
and Bewdley.

(107) Ambrose Gilbert (1552), described in the return .is
" Armiger," does not seem to have been a Shropshire man.
He married Grace, one of the (laughters of Sir Robert

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Townshend, Chief Justice of Chester, and his name appears
as her husband on Sir Robert's fine monument in Ludlow
Church. It was probably this connection which brought
him into Shropshire. He (or some one of the same name)
was M.P. for Camelford in 1553 and for Looe in 1554, both
in Cornwall, but in 1557-8 he was returned for King's Lynn
in Norfolk, Sir Robert Townshend's native county. In the
Crown office return the name is struck out in 1558, and
the word "mortuus" written against it. This probably
gives us the date of his death. The arms of Ambrose Gilbert
on the Townshend monument are those of the Devonshire
family of Gilbert.

(108) Sir George Blount (1553-9) was the eldest son of
Sir John Blount of Kinlet, and Katherine, daughter and
co-heiress of Hugh Peshall of Knightley, in the County of
Stafford. The Member is recorded to have served with
distinction while a youth in the French and Scottish cam-
paigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI., and to have been
in high favour at the Court of the former King, probably
through his sister Elizabeth, who, the beauty of her day,
was the King's mistress and the mother of his natural son,
Henry, Duke of Richmond. Sir George, who was knighted
on the 13th May, 1544, at Leith, was a member of the Council
of the Marches of Wales, and served the office of Sheriff
of Shropshire in 1564 He married Constance, daughter of
Sir John Talbot, who died in 1584, and by whom he had
only one child, a daughter Dorothy, who was married
twice, first to John Purslow, and secondly to Edward
Bullock of Bradley. Sir George was not only returned five
times to Parliament for Wenlock (viz., in 1554, 1555, 1558, 1562
and 1572), but also sat for Bridgnorth in the two Parliaments
of 1553 anc* 1559) aud represented the County of Salop in
those of 1545 and 1547. He d;ed in 1581, and was buried
in Kinlet Church, where there is a magnificent monument
in alabaster to his memory, said to be one of the nio>t
beautiful Elizabethan monuments in England. By his will,
proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1581,
Sir George left his great estates (for some leason which it

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unexplained) away from his daughter to his nephew,
Rowland Lacon. There is still at Ki ilet a portrait of Sir
George Blount taken in 1546.

(109) Jerome Horde (1553-4-4-5), wno represented Bridg-
north in 4 successive Parliaments, was the second son of
Richard Horde, of Horde's Park. Mr. Horde was one of the 39
Independent Members who seceded from the House of Com-
moms to avoid sharing in the Court measures for the advance-
ment of Popery. These Members were prosecuted, but owing to
the death of Queen Mary the proceedings were discontinued.
Mr. Horde's will was proved in the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury in 1578, he being then described as of Kingslowe
in the Parish of Worfield.

(no) William Acton (1554-5), of Longnor, was the second
son but ultimate heir of Thomas Acton, of Aldenham, his
elder brother, Griffith Acton, having died without issue. The
Member married Cicely, daughter of Richard Cressett, of
Upton Cressett.

(in) John Horde (1554) of Park Bromage, in the County
of Salop, was the eldest son of Richard Horde, second son
of John Horde, Sheriff of the County in 1488. The Member
married Katherine, daughter of Adam Ottley, of Pitchford,
and had a numerous family. In the same year in which he
was Member, there was entrusted to him the custody of a
messuage "weak and ruinous," within the Castle of Bridg-
north, for 21 years. John Horde's fellow Member was his
brother Jerome. Mr. Horde's will was proved in the
Prerogative Court in 1582.

(113) John Brooke (1558 and 1562-3), who was born about
1538 was the eldest son of Sir Robert Brooke, Chief Justice
of the Court of Common Pleas and Speaker of the House
of Commons, who bought the old Court House at Ifadeley,
and died in 1558. John Brooke seems from the epitaph on
his monument to have been a lawyer, but little is recorded
of him. He married Ann, daughter of Francis Shirley, by
whom he had 5 children, and he died on the 20th October,
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1598, but it is at Madeley that there was a monument to his
memory. He is there said to have bee 1 " distinguished in
the science of law and other learning, being of a very
liberal mind and universally beloved."

(114) Thomas Bromley (1557) was probably the -most
distinguished man who has represented Bridgnorth. He
was the second son of George Bromley, of Hawkestone and
Hodnet, a distinguished lawyer (Sheriff of Shropshire in
1522), and his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Lacon,
of Willey. Thomas Bromley was born about 1530, was called
to the Bar at the Inner Temple, of which he was Autumn
Reader in 1566 and Treasurer in 1574. He soon attained
great eminence in his profession, of which he was a dis-
tinguished ornament, and was appointed Recorder of the
City of London in 1566. He held this office until the 25th
March, 1569, when he became Solicitor-General, an appoint-
ment which he held for 10 years. The Member succeeded
Sir Nicholas Bacon as Lord Chancellor of England on 26th
April, 1579, and was knighted. He presided as Chancellor
over the Commission issued in October, 1586, for the trial
of Mary Queen of Scots, and in that position is said to
have conducted himself with great decorum. He died on
the 12th April, 1587, at the age of 57 years, and was buried
in Westminster Abbey, where a splendid monument was
erected to his memory. Sir Thomas married Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue, and had a large family.
His will was proved in the Prerogative Court in 1587. Sir
Thomas was seated at Rodd Castle.1

(115) Richard Prynce (1559) was the celebrated Shrews-
bury lawyer who obtained a large portion of the Abbey
lauds at the Dissolution, and with the materials of the
Monastery built the mansion now known as Whitehall.
He was a son of John Prynce, Master of St. Giles' Hospital,
Shrewsbury, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple
in 1553- He practised in the Court of the Marches, k
styled " Counsellor at the Bar" there, and obtained so good

1 Dictionary of National Biography, vi., 400.

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a practice that he amassed a large fortune. In 1551 he was
admitted a Burgess of Shrewsbury, being then described as
" Literatus," and in 1569 he obtained the appointment of
Feodary of Shropshire. Mr. Prynce married Dorothy,
daughter of William Leighton, of Plaish, by whom he left
several children, one of whom, Sir Richard, was Sheriff of
Shropshire in 1627. The Member died in October, 1598,
and his will was proved in the Prerogative Court in February,
1599. Mr. Prynce was M.P. for Ludlow in 1557-8.

(116) Edward Cordeix (1562) was M.P. for Portsmouth
in 1557-8. He married Abigail, daughter of Sir Arthur
Heveningham and widow of Sir George Digby, knighted
for his services at Zutphen. Mr. Cordell was one of the
6 Clerks of the Chancery, and was described as of the Parish
of St. Dunstan, London, and of Long Melford, Suffolk. His
will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
in 1590.

(117) Sir Henry Townshend (1571 and 1572) was the third
son of Sir Robert Townshend, Chief Justice of Chester, whose
monument is still in Ludlow Church. Sir Henry was ad-
mitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1559, and was called to the Bar
on April 12, 1569, was made a Bencher of the Inn in 1579,
and was Autumn Reader in 1580. In an old manuscript of
1576 he is described as " sonne to Justice Towushende and
well learned." In the Early Chronicles of Shrewsbury (of
which place he was Recorder) he is called "a most worthy
Esquire," and it is said of him that " he was so full of pitie
and mercie that he did what was possible for the lyfe of the
prisoners." Henry Townshend married the daughter of Sir
Rowland Hayward, of Cound. He was M.P. for Bridgnorth
1571-83, Justice of Chester 1576 to 1621, Steward of Shrewsbury
1597, Burgess of Ludlow 15F4., M.P. Ludlow 1614, one of the
Council of the Marches of Wales 1574, Knighted 1604,
Recorder of Ludlow 1577-1621, first Recorder of Oswestry
1617, Recorder of Leominster 1590. He died in December,
1621, and was buried at Cound. He " reckoned himself"
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(118) Thomas Ottley (1571) was possibly the second son
of Adam Ottley of Pitchford and Mary, daughter of Richard
Mainwaring. (He cannot have been the eldest son of
Richard Ottley as the latter was not born until 1566). If
this is correct, the Member married Christabel, daughter of
Richard Lyster of Rowton.

It is, however, possible that the M.P. was the eldest son
of John Ottley of Hencote, and of Whittington, Staffordshire,
where also the Member lived, afterwards moving to
Rodington. He married Isabel, daughter of Richard Mytton,
and had 3 daughters1 and apparently a son Richard.*2 In
1563 Thomas Ottley purchased a house at Ford and probably
went to live there. The Member is, no doubt, the Thomas
Ottley who was buried at Pitchford as "owner of Ford,"
on the 1st March, 1622.

(119) Thomas Sackford (1572), or Seckford, is difficult
to identify. There were two of the same name returned to
this Parliament, the one for Bridgnorth, and the other,
described as "Junior," for Ipswich. The family was an old
one, settled at Seckford in Suffolk, and the Dictionary of
National Biography gives an account of this Member which,
somewhat abbreviated, is as follows: — "Second son of Thomas

« Sackford, born about 1515, admitted to Gray's Inn 1540, one
of the Masters of Request in 1558, and Surveyor of the Court
of Wards and Liveries and Steward of the Court of Marshalsea,
one ol the Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes in 1570,
M.P. for Ipswich in 1572 as well as Bridgnorth. He was
buried on 15th January, 1588, at Woodbridge, Suffolk,
where he founded almshouses which still exist."

This account seems rather to confuse the two men, probably
father and son, as it is Thomas Sackford the younger who
was Master of Requests. The father died in 1575. Thomas
Sackford the younger was in 1572 appointed Porter and
Keeper of the Prisoners in the Marches of Wales, and this
would bring him into immediate relations with Bridgnorth
and Ludlow, and probably account for his representation

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of the former place. One of the finest black and white houses
in Ludlow is Castle Lodge, and this was described by
Churchyard in his Worthiness of ^Vales as " a fair house
of Mr. Sackford's which he did build." This house, in the
close vicinity of Ludlow Castle, was no doubt convenient
for the one who held the honourable office of Porter and
Keeper of the Prison. The will of the younger Thomas
Sackford was proved in the Prerogative Court in 1587.

(120) Jerome Corbet (1584) was the 4th son of Roger
Corbet, of Moreton Corbet (Sheriff of Shropshire 1530), and
Anne, daughter of Andrew Lord Windsor. He followed the
profession of the law, and practised at the Court of the
Marches. In a letter addressed by William Gerard, one of
the Council of the Marches, to Sir Francis Walsingham, in
1575, Mr. Corbet is described as " a young man, an utter
Barrister in Court, but so slow of despatch as not meet
for that Court." Notwithstanding this scathing report,
Jerome Corbet seems to have made his way, and in 1586 he
was appointed one of the Council of the Marches. He
married Dorothy daughter and heiress of Thomas Poyner,
of Beslow, by whom he had three children, and he seems
to have gone to Beslow to reside. Mr. Corbet was buried at
Moreton Corbet on the 30th July, 1598.

(121) Waltbr Lee (1584) was the eldest son of Richard
Lee of Langley and Eleanor, daughter of Walter Wrottesley.
The Member was admitted to Shrewsbury School in 1562,
being described as " armigeri filius et hceres" He was
entered at the Inner Temple in 1569. In 1583 Walter
Lee bought 4 Mills at Shifnal, and in 1585 he obtained the
pardon of Queen Elizabeth for purchasing the Manor of
Kemerton. He died unmarried in the lifetime of his father,
who lived till 1591.

(122) Edward Bromley (1586-1610) was one of the most
eminent of the Bridgnorth Members. He was the second
son of Sir George Bromley, Knight, Justice of Chestei and
nephew of Lord Chancellor Bromley, and was baptised at
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bury School, which he entered in 1577 and was admitted
to the Inner Temple where he was called to the Bar in
1590 and was Lent Reader in 1606. He was appointed
one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in February,
1 610 and this vacated his seat for Bridgnorth. He was
knighted on the 25th March, 1610. He married Margaret,
one of the daughters and heiresses of Nicholas Lowe of
Tymore, but had no issue. He died on the 2nd of June,
1626 and was buried at Worfield, where there is a fine
monument. His will, which was edited by the Rev. W. G. D.
Fletcher, F.S.A., in the Tra?isactions, (2nd Series) vol. V., 226,
was proved in the Prerogative Court on the 20th November,
1626. The Member was appointed Recorder of Wenlock
in 1607 and in that capacity seems to have received many
presents from that Borough, including silver bowls, both
in 16 1 7 and 1618. His wife was buried at Loughborough,
Leicestershire, 23rd March, 1656-7. Her will was proved
28th May, 1657.

^123) John Lutwyche, of Shipton Hall, who represented
Bridgnorth from 1586- 1600, and was one of the Bailiffs in
1580 and 1586, was the 6th son of Richard Lutwyche, of
Lutwyche Hall, and is described in the Shropshire Visitation
as "of Lincoln's Inn, 26 December, 1586." In Blakeway's
Sheriffs he is said to have been an eminent Attorney, and
to have been one of the Executors of Judge Owen of
Condover. He is stated to have been a man of piety and
munificence, and to have rebuilt the chancel of Shipton
Church, in which chancel he was buried on the 25th May,
1615. His will was proved at the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury in the same year.

(124) Thomas Horde (1601) was the eldest son of John
Horde, of Park Bromage, who was M.P. for Bridgnorth
in 1554. He married Mary, daughter of Edward Foxe, of
Ludford, and had several children. The Member sold the
family estate of Horde Park to Sir William Whitmore, of
Apley, in 1619. Mr. Horde was High Bailiff of Bridgnorth
in 1603, 1610 and 1616, and was also Recordct Ol the
Borough.

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(125) Sir Lewis Lewknor (1603-4) was admitted to the
Middle Temple in 1579 as the son and heir of Thomas
Lewknor, of Shelsley, Suffolk, and was no doubt attracted
into Shropshire by the Court of the Marches. Lewis
Lewknor took his degree of M.A. at Cambridge before
going to the Middle Temple. He obtained a position at
Court, and was made Master of Ceremonies to King James I.,
who knighted him at Newark in April, 1603. Sir Lewis
Lewknor probably owed his seat at Bridgnorth to the
influence of his relative, Sir Richard Lewknor, C. J. of
Chester. The Bridgnorth records for this year, 1604,
contain this entry : V Sugar loaves bestowed on Sir Richard
Lewknor, Knight, 28/-," and in the same paper, " Paid for
returning the Burgesses' names to Parliament 4/-." Sir
Lewis was M.P. for Midhurst in 1597, and died in 1626.

(126) Sir Francis Lacon (1610) was elected for Bridgnorth
at the bye election caused by the appointment of Sir Edward
Bromley as one of the Barons of the Exchequer, and as
this did not take place until February, 1610, the return
cannot have been made in 1604, as stated in the official
list. Francis Lacon was the eldest son and heir of Rowland
Lacon, of Willey, Sheriff of Shropshire 157 1, and was born
in 1568. He was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1588, and was
appointed one of the Council of the Marches of Wales on
the 19th June, 1609. Sir Francis, who was the first of the
family to live at Kiulet, was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1612.
He was knighted at Dublin on the 13th July, 1599. Sir
Francis married Jane, daughter of Lord Montacute, and had
a son Rowland Lacon. He and his wife seem to have
been both Roman Catholics, and in 1624 he was reported
by the House of Commons as being a Justice of the Peace
for Shropshire who was suspected of being a Popish recusant.
Sir Francis died in or before 1646. The administration
to his estate was only granted in 1650.

(127) John Peirse (1614) was probably one of an old
Bridgnorth family, as the name frequently appears in the
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possessions of the late Chantry of St. Leonard granted
these lands to John and Edward Peirse of Bridgnorth
Mercers for £800. The former of these was no doubt the
M.P. His son married Mary, the daughter of Sir Edward
Corbet, in July, 1636. There was a family of this name
seated at this time at Cressage.

(128) Richard Synge (1614) was, like his fellow Member
John Peirse, one of a family long settled at Bridgnorth,
and was himself Bailiff in 1605 and other years and was
also an Alderman of the Borough. He was the eldest son of
George Synge, and married Alice, daughter of Roger Rowley,
of Rowley, by whom he had a son George. This son
became Bishop of Cloyne, and one of the Irish Privy
Council, his brother Edward Bishop of Cork, and his
nephew Archbishop of Tuam. Richard Synge died in 1631
and was buried at St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth.

(129) Sir John Hayward (1620) was the son of Sir
Rowland Hayward, Lord Mayor of London 1570, who was
himself son of George Hayward, of Bridgnorth. His mother
was Sir Rowland's second wife, Catherine Tyllsworth. The
father amassed a fortune, which the son proceeded success-
fully to dissipate. The son John Hayward took the degree
of B.A. at Oxford (from Pembroke College, Cambridge),
was M.A. 1584 and D.C.L. 1616. He was an advocate of
Doctors Commons, and was knighted on the 9th November,
1619. The Member sold Cardington and Lydley to Edward
Corbett in 1623 for ^3,200, and also disposed of most of his
lather's other estates before he died. He seems to have lived
at Acton Burnell, which was soon after sold to the Smythes.
Sir John was Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1633, and M.P.
for Saltash 1626. He was married, but died without issue
011 the 27th June, 1636, being buried in the Parish of Great
St. Bartholomew, London. By his will dated August, 1635,
Sir John gave £100 to the Bridgnorth Grammai School,
founded by his father, Sir Rowland.1

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(130) William Whitmore (1620-23-25) was the eldest
son of William Whitmore, of London, and Anna, daughter
of William Bond, Alderman of London, and was born on the
4th November, 1572. Sir William was called to the Bar
at the Middle Temple, was a member of the Haberdashers'
Company, and bought the Apley Estates, which remained
for so many generations in the hands of the family. He
was High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1620, and was knighted
at Greenwich on 24th June, 1621. Sir William was married
twice, and by his second wife Dorothy, daughter of John
Weld, he had, with other children, a son Thomas, who
succeeded him. The Member was a faithful adherent of
the Royal cause in the civil wars, and was taken prisoner
when his house at Apley was captured by the Parliament-
arians, under Sir John Price, in 1645. He suffered severely
for his loyalty, as all his effects were seized and sold for
the benefit of the State for £583 3s. 2d. ; while he had to
compound for his estates in the sum of ^5,000. Bridgnorth
Castle became Sir William's property about 1629. He was
buried on the 22nd December, 1648, at Stockton.

(131) George Smythe (1623) was the eldest son of John
Smith, of Morville, by his second wife. He married Jane,
daughter of Sir Hugh Brawne, of Ne wing ton, Surrey, by
whom he had 2 children, a son John who was killed when
fighting for the Royalist cause at the battle of Edgehill,
in 1642; and a daughter Jane, who married Arthur Weaver,
of Bettws, Montgomeryshire. She carried the Morville
estates to her husband. George Smythe himself was called
to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1616, but his later
history is uncertain, and it is said that he went to Ireland.

1625-6, April 26. There is a good deal of confusion
about the returns for this Parliament. The official list
gives the names of Sir William Whitmore, George Veinon.
and Sir George Paule as Members for Bridgnorth, with a
footnote that the Crown ofhce list gives Sir George Panic,
Knight, and George Vernon as returned lor one vacancy.
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and John Bennett. Willis is probably wrong, but it is
difficult to say which of the others is correct. There may
possibly have been a double return, but there is no mention
in Carew's Right of Elections of any petition in this year.

(132) George Vernon (1625 and 1626) was the son of
Sir Thomas Vernon, of Haslington. Becoming a member
of the Inner Temple in 1594, he was called to the Bar
in 1603, and was Reader in 162 1. Speaking of 1627,
Sir James Whitelocke in his Liber famelicus says of this
Member, " This Michaelmas term George Vernon, of
Cheshire, a Reader of the Inner Temple, was for money
made Sergeant and Baron of the Exchequer, dedit aurum"
Whatever the reason may have been, in November, 1627,
George Vernon was made a Baron of the Exchequer, and
in May, 1631, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He
was knighted on the 23rd December, 1627. He married
twice, first Jane, daughter of Sir George Corbet, and secondly
the daughter of Sir George Booth. Sir George Vernon
died in Sergeant's Inn on the 16th December, 1639, and
was buried in the Temple Church. He was described by
a brother judge " as a man of great reading in the law,
and of extraordinary memory,"1 but he seems to have been
subservient to Court influences.

(133) Sir George Paule (1625 — 1627), described as of
Lambeth, was born about 1563, 2 and at 21 was in the service
of Archbishop Whitgift. In 1599 he was made Controller
of the Archbishop's household. He was M.P. for Downtou
in 1597 and for Hindon in 1601. In 1603 he was appointed
Registrar and Clerk of the Acts, and he was knighted on
the 5th July, 1607. Sir George was afterwards appointed
Principal Registrar to the High Court for Ecclesiastical
Causes and Chief Clerk in the King's Bench. The Member
published a life of Whitgift under the patronage of the
Duke of Buckingham. He is said to have taken a prominent
part against Benevolences without the authority of Parlia-
ment, bat died shortly before 16th April, io/vs Sir George

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is believed to have been the son of Richard Paule, a member
of an old Bridgnorth family.

(134) Sir Richard Shilton (1625-7) was also returned to
this Parliament as M.P. for Guildford, but elected to sit for
Bridgnorth.1 He was the elder son of Richard Shilton, of
Birmingham, mercer, and Barbara, daughter and heiress
of Francis Stanley, of West Bromwich. Richard Shilton
entered the Inner Temple in 1597, was called to the Bar in
1606, was a Bencher of the Inn in 1622, Reader in
1624 and Treasurer in 1628. He enjoyed the patronage of
the Duke of Buckingham. He was appointed Solicitor-
General in 1625, and was knighted on the 31st October
in that year. Sir Richard was compelled to resign his office
in 1634, being, according to Clarendon, " an old, illiterate,
useless person." He married Lettice, daughter of Sir Robert
Fisher, and died in December, 1647, being buried at West
Bromwich.

(135) Thomas Whitmore (1640). There were at least 3
of the same name alive at this time, but there is fortunately
no difficulty in identifying the Member, as the official return
gives him as "son of Sir William Whitmore, Kut." He was
Sir William's eldest son by his second wife Dorothy, daughter
of John Weld, and was born in London on the 28th
November, 1612. Thomas Whitmore matriculated at Trinity
College, Oxford, in January, 1630, took his degree of B.A.
1631, and went to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1639.
He was disabled as a Royalist from sitting in the House
of Commons on the 5th February, 1644. Thomas Whitmore
was created a Baronet in his father's lifetime, on the *8tfa
June, 1641, and was knighted the same day at Whitehall.
He married at Leytou, Essex, on 16th April, 1635, Elizabeth,
daughter and heiress of Alderman Sir William Acton, Knight
and Baronet, and had several children. Like his father,
Sir Thomas took the side of the King in the Civil Wars,
and was with his father and Sir Francis Ottlev taken prisonfit
at Apley, in February, 1645, and taken to Wein. IK paid

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the penalty for his loyalty, and had to compound for his
estates in the sum of £5,000. Sir Thomas died in May, 1653,
and was buried at Stockton. His will, with a codicil dated
24th February, 1652, was proved at London 20th September,
1654, by his son, William Whitmore. His Sequestration
Papers have been printed in the Transactions, 4th series," Vol.
IV., pages 265, &c.

(135A) Thomas Whitmore (1640, October). It would
appear certain that the Thomas Whitmore who was elected
M.P. for Bridgnorth in October, 1640, was the same
person as the Thomas Whitmore who was returned only
6 months earlier for this Borough, but it was almost
certainly not so. This Thomas Whitmore is described in
the official return as son of Sir John, whereas the earlier
one was described as son of Sir William and although
John Whitmore of Ludstone was not ''Sir" John, still he
seems to be indicated. It is rendered more certain by the
fact that when the Royalist Member was '-disabled" from
sitting in 1646, he was described as Thomas Whitmore,
Esquire, whereas the Member in the earlier Parliament had
been made a Baronet in 1641.

Thomas Whitmore of Ludstone, the eldest son of John
Whitmore. of the same place, and his wife Frances, daughter
of Wm. Billingsley of Astley, Salop, was born on the 12th
February, 1598-9. He matriculated at Wad ham College,
Oxford, on the 21st February, 1616-17, was called to the
Bar at the Middle Temple in 1626, and became a Bencher
of that Inn in 164S. He married Anne, daughter of Thomas
Corbet of Longnor, but had no issue. The Member was
assessed on the 19th June, 1646, in the sum of ^300, by
the Committee for Compounding, so that he evidently took
the Royal side in the Civil War. This is more clearly
proved by the fact that he was "disabled"' from sitting in
the House. Mr. Whitmore, who was M.P. for Wenlock.
165S— 1660 and Recorder of that place, died In 1077 and
was buried at Claverley on the 30th May, His will WM
proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

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(136) Edward Acton of Aldenhain (1640) was the eldest
son of Walter Acton, of Acton Scot! and was born about
1600. He was a devoted adherent of the Royal cause in
the civil troubles, and was for his loyalty created a Baronet
by Charles I., on the 17th January, 1644. He was one of
the signatories of the engagement and resolution of the
principal gentlemen of the County for raising forces for
the Royal cause in 1642, and is said to have had the honour
of entertaining the unfortunate Sovereign, at Aldenham,
where the bed in which the King slept is preserved.
Charles I. was at Wellington from the 18th to the 20th
September, 1642, and this was probably the occasion on
which he visited Sir Edward. Sir Edward was amongst
the Members of Parliament "disabled" from sitting in 1646.
Sir Edward was in Bridgnorth upon its surrender to the
Parliamentary forces on the 26th April 1646, and was one
of those leaders specially mentioned in the 5th article of
the treaty, which is as follows : — " Sir Robert Howard,
Sir Vincent Corbett, Sir Edward Acton and Sir Francis
Ottley, each with horses and arms and 2 men apiece with
their swords and wearing apparel, shall have liberty to go
home, and in 2 months to make peace with the Parliament,
and go beyond the seas or to a garrison on engaging
themselves to do nothing prejudicial to the Parliament in
the meantime." Sir Edward had to pay heavily for his
loyalty, as his composition amounted to no less than ^2,000.
Sir Edward married Sarah, daughter of Richard Mytton,
of Halston, and had, with other children, a son who
succeeded him as Sir Walter. Sir Edward died in 1659.
He rebuilt the house at Aldenham, according to an in-
scription at the west end of it.

(137) Robert Cuve (1645) was the well-known Parliament-
arian, of whom the distich was written and said to be
included in the Shrewsbury Loyalists' Litany—

From Wem and from Wyche
And from Clive of the Styche
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He was the son of Ambrose Clive, of the Styche (Fellow
of St. John's College, Cambridge), and Alice, daughter of
Thomas Townshend, and was educated at Whitchurch
Grammar School and St. John's College, Cambridge. He
married Mary, daughter of Sir E. Abyn, and had 3 children.
Robert Clive took a very prominent part on the Roundhead
side, and is said to have shewn great zeal, courage and
activity both in Shropshire and Cheshire. He was appointed
one of the -Parliamentary Committee for Shropshire, and
was one of the sequestrators of the Royalists' estates in
1644. Col. Francis Billingsley, writing in the latter year
to Sir Francis Ottley calls Clive " that desperate fellow,
Col. Clive." Robert Clive was one of the Commissioners
at whose orders the successful attack on Shrewsbury was
made, and who reported the capture to the Parliament,
and was also one of those who accepted the surrender of
Bridgnorth in April, 1646. Robert Clive survived all the
dangers and difficulties of the Commonwealth, and though
Sir Richard Ottley was ordered to arrest him in 1665 as a
traitor and rebel, he lived to be Sheriff of Shropshire in
1674, under Charles II. Mr. Clive was one of the Members
of the Long Parliament, who was "excluded" by the Army
in 1648. Col. Robert Clive must have lived to a very old
age, as he did not die until 1697, being buried at Moretou
Say on the 16th November in that year.

(138) Robert Charlton (1645), one of the Members of
Parliament for Bridgnorth in the Long Parliament, was the
5th son of Andrew Charlton, of Apley, and was born about
1618. He was a Barrister. He took a leading part on the
Parliamentary side in the Civil Wars, though his mother
was on the other side. In consequence of the attitude of
this Member, Apley Castle, which belonged to his nephew
Francis, then a minor, was gnrrisoned by the King, taken
by the Parliament in 1644, though it was afterwards retaken
by the Royalists, and by them dismantled. Robert Charlton
was like his fellow Member, Robert Clive, one of the
Parliamentary Committee for Shropshire, and was associated
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the report of this success to the Parliament, and in the
acceptance of the surrender of Bridgi orth. Richard Baxter,
the well-known divine, who married Robert Charlton's sister
Margaret, describes this Member as " a comely sober man."

(139) William Crowne (1654), who was the only Member
returned for Bridgnorth in this Parliament, was a Colonel
in the Parliamentary Army, and brother-in-law of Humphrey
Mackworth, the well-known governor of Shrewsbury. When
in 1655 there was a Royalist endeavour to surprise Shrews-
bury Castle, it was to Col. Crowne that a Commission was
sent by the Lord Protector Cromwell to raise an infantry
regiment in Shropshire to secure the safety of Shrewsbury.
The interesting correspondence on this occasion is given
in the paper on Shropshire and the Royalist Conspiracies,
in the Transactions 3rd Ser., x., 140, &c. The Member
married Agnes, daughter of Richard Mackworth, of Betton
Strange. The Protector Cromwell wrote a letter to William
Crowne on the 24th March, 1655, in which he addressed
the latter as " Governor of Shrewsbury," but no other
indication of his appointment has been found. In 1644
William Crowne (then described as of London) was in
correspondence with Lord Denbigh as to some intrigues
which were taking place in Worcestershire, to remove his
Lordship from his command of the Parliamentary forces in
that County.1

(140) Edmund Waring (1656 and 1658) was the son and
heir of Richard Waring, of Grotton, Suffolk, was born about
1620, and seems to have come into Shropshire during the
troublous times of the Commonwealth. His name first
appears as Major Waring in the Roll of Justices of the
Peace for the County in 1654, but he quickly obtained a
very prominent position. He was of course a virulent
Roundhead, and is said to have been an Anabaptist, which
would probably account for his sudden advancement. He
was Sheriff of Shropshire from 1657— 1659, and in 1658 was
described as "Captain of the County Troop." Edmund

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Waring was very active in Cromwell's service, and prompt
to report all rumours of trouble. In Ai gust, 1659, he was
appointed Governor of Shrewsbury, an office which he held
until the following February, when he was superseded and
arrested upon the approach of the King's restoration, but
was soon released. When this event took place it is said -that
Edmund Waring narrowly escaped being excluded from the
Act of Grace, but no proceedings seem to have been taken
against him. He purchased the estate of Humfreston from
Lady Briggs and settled there. His wife was Elizabeth,
daughter of John Ash, of Freshford, Somersetshire. Mr.
Waring was buried on the 30th January, 16S2, at Donnington,
and there is a tablet in the church there to his memory.
Mr. Waring is said to have been suffocated in a spot called
" Mun's Hole," after a carousal at Albrighton, on the
anniversary of the execution of King Charles I.

(141) John Humfry (1658) is not mentioned in the
official returns, which are quite incomplete, but his name
is given as M.P. for Bridgnorth in Willis's Parliamentaria
Notitia, and in more than one contemporary broadside.
He was also returned for Midhurst, but preferred to sit
for Bridgnorth. John Humphry was the son and heir of
Col. John Humfry (who was Swordbearer to the Lord
President Bradshaw and Colonel in the Parliamentary Army
in 1646), by Elizabeth, daughter of Herbert Pelham, of
Michelham, and was born about 1622. Like his father, he
was before 1651 a Colonel in the Service of the Parliament.
In December, 1651, it was resolved by the House of Commons
that "Col. John Humphry, son of Col. John Humfry. de-
ceased, be admitted and hereby enabled to execute all the
public places and employments which the said father had
in his lifetime as well by the several Acts for the sale of
goods of the late King, Queen" and Prince as otherwise."
John Humfry was a Commissioner for Middlesex under the
Commonwealth Scandalous Ministers' Act 1654. He *afl
also one of the Trustees for the maintenance of Ministers
under the famous Act of 1649-50 "for the better propagation
of the Gospel in Wales." Col. Humfry disappear*) At the
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(142) Sir Walter Acton, of Aldenham (1660), described
in the official return as " heretofore called Sir Walter Acton,"
was the eldest son of Sir Edward Acton, M.P. for Bridgnorth
1640 (see above), and succeeded as second Baronet in 1659.
He married Catherine, daughter of Richard Cressett, of
Upton Cressett, and had several children. He died in 1665.

(143) John Bennett (1660 and 1661) was John Bennett
of Abington, Cambridgeshire, who married at Stockton,
on the 5th April, 1654, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas
Whitmore, of Apley, hence the Member's connection with
the Borough. In his return he was described as of Gray's
Inn, to which he was admitted 22nd June, 1642, and at
which Inn he was called to the Bar. Mr. Bennett died
shortly before 17th July, 1663, as on that day Sir Thomas
Whitmore, K.B., was returned as M.P. " in the place of
John Bennett, deceased." The Member was buried in
Mercers' Chapel, London.

(143A) Sir William Whitmore, of x\pley (1661 — 1699),
who represented Bridgnorth continuously for 38 years, was
the second Baronet. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas
the first Baronet (No. 135 above), and was born on the
8th April, 1627. He married in October, 1658, Mary,
daughter of Eliab Harvey, but had no issue, and on the
Member's death on 30th March, 1699, the Baronetcy expired.
Sir William died in London, and was buried at Stockton
on 14th April, 1699, aged 62. His will, by which he gave
his estates to his godson, William Whitmore, of Slaughter,
co. Gloucester, is dated 12th November, 1695, and was
proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on the nth
November, 1700. Sir William was one of the Members for
the County in the Parliament of 1660.

(144) Sir Thomas Whitmorf (1663—1685), who represented
Bridgnorth in Parliament for 22 years, was the second son
of Sir Thomas Whitmore, first Baronet ^T°- *35)i aiui the
brother ot the other Member, Sir William Whitmore
(No. 143A), and was born in 1642. Sir Thomas was described
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and married Frances, daughter of Sir William Brooke, alias
Cobham, K.B., a lady of great beauty, by whom he had 3
daughters. He succeeded in the representation to his
brother-in-law, John Bennett, and the election is thus re-
corded in Mercurius Publiais: "In the place of that worthy
person Mr. Bennett, lately deceased, Sir Thomas Whitmore,
KB., after a long contest was chosen for the Town of
Bridgnorth." Unfortunately no record of this contest has
been handed down to us. The Member was made a Knight
of the Bath on 23rd April, 1661, at the Coronation of
Charles II. He died in London in 1682, and administration
of his estate was granted by the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury to his widow on 2nd June, 1682.

(145) Roger Pope (1685) was the eldest son of Roger Pope,
of Wolstastou, who had succeeded to that estate as heir of his
mother, Lucia, daughter ot Thomas Edwards, of the College,
Shrewsbury. Roger Pope was a Colonel in the Parliamentary
Army, serving under the well-known Major-General Thomas
Mytton, and is said to have been an able and trustworthy
officer.1 Col. Pope was one of the Commissioners who
received the surrender of Beaumaris Castle and Anglesey
on the 14th June, 1646, for General Mytton. The latter
is believed to have disapproved later of Cromwell's Govern-
ment and to have retired into the background. Col. Pope,
who married a daughter of General Mytton, seems to have
shared his views, and in a letter from the latter's kinsman
to him, dated in 1649, there is this expression : " Col. Pope
will be with you before the receipt hereof and his nephew,
both for foreign parts, to avoid future danger. I wikh
others as provident and far seeing."2 The Member
apparently disappeared for some years, but was received
into favour after the Restoration. In 1680 he was appointed
one of the Commissioners for executing the place ot tjfaster
of Horse to the King, while in 1694 he became Kquerry
to William III. In 1685 he was made Commander ot a
troop of horse, which he raised at Bridgnorth. Col. fop*

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was very successful in the racing world, and having won
a large stake at Wallasey with a horse called Diamond,
he spent the money on building a large house at Bridgnorth,
which he called Diamond Hall. Roger Pope was buried
at Wolstaston on 9th August, 1710, and must have been a
very old man.

(146) Sir Edward Acton, Bart. (1689—1705), was the
eldest son of Sir Walter Acton, of Aldenham {No. 142
above), and succeeded him in the Baronetcy. He was
born about 1650, matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford,
in May, 1666, and took his degree of M.A. there. He then
entered the Inner Temple, went to the Bar, and was
Recorder of Bridgnorth in 1701. Sir Edward was Sheriff
of Shropshire in 1685. He married Mary Walter, and died
on the 28th September, 1716. He was one of 11 Members
who in 1697 was ordered by the House of Commons to be
taken into custody for non-attendance.

(147) Roger Pope, Junr. (1699, 1700-1), who was elected
to the vacancy caused by the death of Sir William Whitmore,
and represented Bridgnorth in the next 2 Parliaments, was
the son of Roger Pope, M.P. in 1685 (No. 145 above). He
was born about 1645, matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford,
in 1663, and was an Alderman of Bridgnorth at the date
of his return. The Member seems to have held a Com-
mission as captain and Major in a troop of horse which
after the battle of Sedgemoor became part of the Earl of
Shrewsbury's Regiment of Cuirassiers (now the 5th Dragoon
Guards), commanded by his father. Roger Pope, described
in the Register as "Junior," was buried at Wolstaston on
the 27th February, 1706.

(148) Sir Humphrey Briggs, of Haughton (1702), the
fourth Baronet, and the third in succession of the same
name, was the eldest son of Sir Humphrey BriggS, of
Ernstrey Park, who died on the 31st January, 1699, tged
49. The M.P. was born in 1670, matriculated at Wadham
Coll., Oxford, on the 2nd July, 1687, and was admitted
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M.P. for the County of Salop from 1700— 1701, and sat for
Wenlock from 1716 to 1727. He died unmarried on the
8th December, 1734, aged 64, and was succeeded by his
brother, Sir Hugh Briggs.

(149) Wiluam Whitmore (1705-13-14-21), of Apley (born
about 1682) was the son of Richard Whitmore, of Slaughter,
in the County of Gloucester, and Ann, daughter of Sir
John Weld, and matriculated at Ch. Church, Oxford, on
the 16th April, 1698. He was also elected in this same
Parliament for Wenlock, but he elected to sit for Bridgnorth,
and he represented that Borough in the Parliaments of
1705— 1708, 1713, 1714-15, and 1721-2, and in fact, sat
continuously till his death. Mr. Whitmore is described
in the Shropshire Visitation as a Baronet, but this is clearly
an error, as in all the official returns he is styled an
Esquire, and in the return of his successor in the repre-
sentation of Bridgnorth, the return describes the Member
as elected " vice William Whitmore, Esquire, deceased."
Mr. Whitmore, who succeeded to the Apley estates on the
death of Sir William Whitmore, second Bart., in 1699,
married Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Pope, of Woolstaston
(No. 147 above), by whom he had, with other children, a
son, Sir Thomas Whitmore, Knt., who succeeded him.
The M.P. died on the 24th May, 1725, and was buried at
Stockton.

(150) Richard Cresweix (17 10- 13) has generally been
considered to be the Richard Creswell, of Sidbury, who
was Sheriff of Shropshire in 171 1, and was the son of
another Richard Creswell (Sheriff in 1670), who was buried
at Sidbury in 1708, aged 88. The Member is described
in the official return in 1710 as "Junior," and as the father
was then dead, this description would not be applicable
to the first-named Richard Creswell. The Mcinhci la de-
scribed in a contemporary list as 41 of ShefSton Mnfcaey,
in the County of Wilts, Esq." This makes it ele.u that
the M.P. was Richard Creswell, eldest SOU and hen of the
Richard Creswell who was Shcriil" in 1711. ami ot his wile.

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a sister of the first Lord Ducie, and the Member married
Elizabeth, the daughter and eventual heiress of Sir Thomas
Esteourt, of Pinkney. Mr. Creswell sat in the next Parlia-
ment for Wootton Bassett, which is close to Sherston
Pinkney, a seat which was held in 2 later Parliaments by
his son, Thomas Esteourt Creswell.

(151) Whitmore Acton, of Aldenham (1710), was the
eldest son of Sir Edward Acton (No. 146 above) and succeeded
him as 4th Baronet. He was born about 1677, matriculated
at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1695, and went to the Bar
at the Middle Temple in 1698. The Member married
Elizabeth, daughter of Mathew Gibbon, by whom he had
a son and 3 daughters, the son Richard succeeding him
in the Baronetcy. Sir Whitmore died on the 9th January,
1732. He served the office of Sheriff of Shropshire in 1728.

(152) John Weaver, of Morville (1713-34), was the son
of Arthur Weaver, of Bridgnorth and Morville, and his
wife Maria Careswell, of Shifnall, and was a great grandson
of George Smythe, M.P. 1623 (No. 131). John Weaver
married Sarah Acton, and was one of the grooms of the
Privy Chamber. He is said in Wasey's Ancient Parishes
(p. 54) and in County Seats of Shropshire to have left no
issue, but this is clearly a mistake. By his will1 dated
25th May, 1746 (proved February, 1747) he left the whole
of his estates to "his beloved son Arthur," who was M.P.
for Bridgnorth in 1747. Mr. Weaver also left a sum of
£200 to improve the living of Morville, and dying on the
9th January, 1747, was buried at Morville.

(153) Captain St. John Charlton (1725-34). of Apley
Castle, was the second son of St. John Charlton and Anne,
daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Chivertou, Lord Mayor
of London 1658. The Member was a Captain in the Navy,
in which he greatly distinguished himself. Captain St.
John Charlton died without lawful issue 011 the Mh Sept
1742, and was succeeded in the Apley Castle RsUtei by

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his brother William. His will was proved on the roth
September, 1743.

(154) Thomas Whitmore (1734—47) was the second son
but ultimate heir of William Whitmore, of Apley (No. 149
above), and was born at Apley on 21st December, 17 n.
He was made a K.B. on 1744, May 28. Thomas Whitmore
married Anne, daughter of Sir Jonathan Cope, Bart., by
whom he had 3 daughters but no son, and upon his death
at Bath on 15th April, 1773, he was succeeded in his estates
by his nephew, Thomas Whitmore (No. 160), who had
married his daughter Anne. He was buried at Stockton.
His will, dated the 26th July, 1771, was proved in the
Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Mr. Whitmore was
Recorder of Bridgnorth from 1741 to his death, and in 1748
was Treasurer of the Salop Infirmary.

(155) Grey James Grove 1,1734) of Pool Hall, Alveley,
was the son of James Grove, Sergeant-at-law and of Hon.
Anne Grey, sister of Thomas 2nd Earl of Stamford, and
was baptised at Alveley on the 10th November, 1682. Mr.
Grove was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1731 and M.P. for
Bewdley, 1715 — 22. In 17 15 he was one of the Commissioners
for Army Debts. He married Penelope, daughter of Thomas
Lord Jermyn. Mr. Grove was buried at Alveley on the
12th April, 1742.

(156) William Whitmore (i74x» 54-61-66-68) was the 3rd
sou of William Whitmore of Lower Slaughter and Apley
(No. 149 above). He was born in May, 17 14 and was the
owner of the Lower Slaughter family estate. William
Whitmore raised the 53rd Regiment of Foot, the well-
known Shropshire Light Infantry, and was its first Colonel.
He was raised to the rank of Lieut. -General IB 1760 and
died in 1771. He held the office of Warden of the Mint in
1766. He died on the 22nd July, 1771. and was luincd at
Lower Slaughter.

(157) Arthur Weaver (1747) was the onl>' 800 o! I°^n
Weaver, M.P. 1713- 1734, and his wile Sarah Avion. \\r
died at Hammersmith on 5th April, 1759, and was buried

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at Morville, having by his will, proved in the Principal
Registry on the 2nd May, 1759, entaik d the Morville Estates
on his uncle, Edward Weaver. Arthur Weaver married
Susannah, daughter of David Papillon, of Acrise, Kent, on
25th August, 1754.

(158) Hon. John Grey (1754 and 1761), of Enville Hall,
Staffordshire, was the second surviving son of the 3rd Earl
of Stamford, and Dorothy, daughter of Sir Nathan Wright,
Keeper of the Great Seal. The Member married 26th May,
1748, Lucy, daughter of Sir Joseph Dan vers, Bart., but had
no issue. Mr. Grey was on the 6th April, 1754, appointed
one of the Clerks Controller of the Board of Green Cloth,
and represented Tregony in the Parliament of 1768, being
then described as of Parliament Street, Westminster. Mr.
Grey died in 1777.

(159) George Lord Pigot (1768 and 1774) was tne eldest
son of Richard Pigot of Westminster and was born on 4th
March, 1719. He entered the service of the East India
Company as a writer in 1736 and he became a great friend
of Lord Clive, the founder of the Indian Empire. When
a member of the Council at Fort St. David, he was sent
with Clive to Trichinopoly, and was appointed Governor
and Commander-in-Chief at Madras on 14th January, 1755
in which capacities he successfully conducted the defence
of that City in 1758-9. On the capture of Pondicherry,
George Pigot took possession of the place and destroyed
the fortifications. He resigned office in 1763, returned to
England and was created a Baronet on 5th December, 17(14.
Sir George was M.P. for Wallingford, 1765-8, being created
an Irish Peer as Lord Pigot on 18th January, 1766. In
1775, Lord Pigot was re-appointed Governor of Madras,
but quickly got at variance with the Council, as a result
of which he was arrested and imprisoned. This action iras
found unjustifiable and those responsible for it were tried
and found guilty. Lord Pigot was ordered to be restored
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India on nth May, 1777, and was buried in St. Mary's
Church at Fort St. George. Lord Pigot w^s never married.1

(160) Thomas Whitmore (1771-95) of Apley and Wolstaston,
was the son of Charles Whitmore of Southampton (who
died in 1770), and was grandson of William Whitmore.
The Member, who was Major of the 9th Foot Regiment,
was like his grandfather, also returned tor Wenlock, and
also like his grandfather elected to sit for Bridgnorth in
preference to Much Wenlock, sitting for that Borough from
this time until his death. Major Whitmore married firstly
his cousin Mary (who died in 1776), co-heiress of her father,
Sir Thomas Whitmore, K.B., and on his father-in-law's
death on the 15th April, 1773, he succeeded to the Apley
Estates. Major Whitmore, who married secondly Mary,
daughter of Thomas Foley, was drowned in a well in the
garden at Apley on the 17th April, 1795, aged 52, and was
succeeded by his son by his second marriage. He was
buried at Stockton.

(162) Hugh Pigot (1778-80-82) was brother of George
Lord Pigot (No. 159 above), and was born 28th May, 1722.
He served for 4 years as an able seaman in the Navy,
and was promoted Lieutenant in 1742. In 1747 he was

1 appointed as Commander of the Ludlow Castle in the West
Indies, and in 1775 was made Rear Admiral. In March,
1782, Admiral Pigot was appointed one of the Lords of the
Admiralty, and promoted to be Admiral. Admiral Pigot
was twice married, and his son, Sir Henry Pigot, received
the surrender of Malta from the French. The Admiral
contested Bridgnorth again in 1784, but was defeated. He
died at Bristol on 15th December, 1792. 2 He married first
Elizabeth, daughter of Philip le Neve, of Norfolk, and
secondly Frances, daughter of Sir Richard Wrottesley, But

(163) Isaac Hawkins Browne, of Badger [1784-1811),
was the son of Isaac Hawkins Browne, M.P. for Wenlock.
and was born on 7th December, 1745. He was educated
at Westminster School, matriculated at Hertford College,

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Oxford, in 1763, and took his degrees of M.A., in 1767 and
D.C.Iv. in 1773. Mr. Browne was M P. for Milbourne Port
1774-5, and was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1783. He was a
much-travelled man, and was a F.R.S. Mr. Browne was
twice married, but left no issue, and died in South Audley
Street, London, on 30th May, 1818. He bought the'Badger
Estate from the Kinnersleys, and built a fine mansion there.
In Parliament the Member was a constant supporter of Mr.
Pitt.1 A grant of arms to the Member, dated 14th May,
1779> is given in Miscellanea Genealogica el Heraldica, N.S.,
III., 41. He married first, May, 1788, Henrietta, daughter
of the Hon. Edward Hay, Governor of Barbadoes, and
secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Boddington, of
Clayton.

(163A) Thomas Whitmore (1806 — 31) was the son of
Thomas Whitmore, of Apley (No. 160), by his second wife,
Mary Foley, and was born on the 16th November, 1782.
He went to Christ Church, Oxford, and took his degree of
M.A. in 1802. Mr. Whitmore was also Recorder of Bridg-
north, and was Sheriff of Shropshire 1805. He held the
office of Lay Dean of the Royal Peculiar of Bridgnorth.
Mr. Whitmore, who married Catherine, daughter of Thomas
Thomasson, M.D., died on the 6th February, 1846, and was
succeeded by his son, Thomas Charlton Whitmore, No. 170
below. It was this member of the Whitmore family who
rebuilt Apley.

(164) John Whitmore (1795 — 1806) described in the return
as of Loudon, and who resided at Epsom, was the eldest
son of John Whitmore and grandson of William (No. [56
above). He was born in St. Lawrence Pouutney, in 1750
He married Caroline Williams, by whom he had 8 children,
and died in 1826. He was one of the Governors of the
Bank of England, and was Diiector in iS

(165) Hon. Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson (i3i2-iM.
second son of Charles 1st Karl of Liverpool. \\ 11

the 29th May, 1784, and was a Page of Honour to George III.

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He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1801, and
was created D.C.L. in 1841. Mr. Jenkinson was M.P. for
Sandwich 1807 — 1812, and for East Grinstead from 1818—1829,
when he succeeded his half brother as 3rd Earl of Liverpool.
Mr. Jenkinson filled various important offices, being Under
Secretary for the Home Department 1807, and for the War
and Colonial Department in 1809-10, having previously been
Secretary of Legation at Vienna. Lord Liverpool was Lord
Steward of the Household 1841 — 1846, was made a Privy
Councillor in 1841, and created G.C.B. in 1846. He married
the daughter and heiress of Sir George Evelyn, and died
leaving daughters only, on 3rd September, 1851. Pitchford,
the old family seat of the Ottleys, was devised by the last
of the family to his distant kinsman, this Member for
Bridgnorth.

(166) Sir Thomas John Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart. (Tory)
(1818-20) of Stanley Hall, was the eldest son of Sir Thos.
Tyrwhitt Jones, M.P. for Shrewsbury, and was born on 12th
July, 1793. The Member, who was Sheriff of Shropshire
in 1816, married a daughter of John Macnamara, of St. Kitts.
Sir Thomas died from the effects of a shooting accident
at Emstry on the 5th October, 1839, being succeeded in
the baronetcy by his son, Sir Henry. He was buried at
St. Alkmund's, Shrewsbury.

(167) William Wolryche Whitmore (1820-1832), a Whig,
of Dudmaston Hall, was the eldest son of William Whitmore,
of Dudmaston, and was born in 1787. He was educated
at Shrewsbury School, entering there in 1799. He married
on the 29th January, 1810, Lady Lucy Bridgeman. daughter
of the 4th Earl of Bradford, but had no issue. Mr. Whitmore,
who represented Wolverhampton in the first Parliament
after the Reform Act, was a very strong and consistent
advocate for the abolition of the Corn Laws and .1 Ku-.u
supporter of Free Trade before it was accepted by either
political party. Mr. Whitmore was Sheriff oi Shropshire
in 1838. He died in 1858 and left his estates to his sister's
son, who took the name and arms of VVlutnuue

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(168) James Foster (Whig) (1831) of Coton Hall, was
the second son of Henry Foster of Stourbridge, and was
an eminent ironmaster. Mr. Foster, who was High Sheriff
of the County of Worcester in 1840, was never married
and died on the 12th April, 1853, leaving his estates to
his nephew, William Orme Foster.

(169) Robert Pigot (Conservative) (1832-7 and 1838- 1853),
was the second son of General Sir George Pigot, and was
born in 1801. He succeeded his father as 4th Baronet, and
was twice married. He died in 1891, June, at Bracknell,
in his 90th year. The Member was unseated on petition
in 1853 for an act of bribery by his agent in the 1852 election.

(170) Thomas Charlton Whitmore (Conservative),
1832- 1852, was the son of Thomas Whitmore, of Apley
(No. 163A), and was born on the 6th January, 1807. He
matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1824, and took
his degrees of B.A. in 1828 and M.A. in 1832. Mr. Whitmore,
who was High Sheriff in 1863, married the eldest daughter
of the 5th Marquess of Queensbury. He died on 13th
March, 1865.

(171) Henry Hanbury Tracey (Whig), 1837, was the
second son of Charles Hanbury, afterwards 1st Lord Sudeley,
and was born on the nth April, 1802. He was married
and had several children. The Member's tenure of the seat
was short, as he was unseated on petition in consequence
of the Mayor closing the poll before the proper time. The
Hon. H. Hanbury Tracey died in April, 1889, and was
buried at Tregynon, Montgomeryshire.

(172) Henry Whitmore (1852-7-8-9-66-8) was the last
representative for Bridgnorth of the family of Whitmore,
from which for 250 years one or another ot its members
had almost always been taken.

Henry Whitmore, of Sunnyside, Coaibrookdale, who w.is
the youngest son of Thomas Whitmore (No [63A ftbeve), Mid
was born at Apley on the 17th October, [813, was educated
at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating there iu L$JO He
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Coalbrookdale. At the General Election of 1865 Mr.
Whitmore was beaten by Sir John D. 1 cton by one vote,
but on petition Sir John was unseated and Mr. Whitmore
regained the seat, which he otherwise held uninterruptedly
from 1852— 1870. Mr. Whitmore was twice appointed a
Lord of the Treasury in the Administrations of Lord Derby
and Mr. Disraeli, and for some time acted as Conservative
Whip. He was Keeper of the Privy Seal to the Prince
of Wales 1858-9. Mr. Whitmore died in London on the
2nd May, 1876, and was buried in the family vault at
Stockton. His constituents at Bridgnorth erected a memorial
to him there.

(173) John Pritchard (1853-69), of Stanmore Hall, Bridg-
north, was born in 1796, and was admitted to Shrewsbury
School in 18 10. He went late in life to the Bar, and was
called at Lincoln's Inn in 184 [. Mr. Pritchard was the
senior partner in the well-known Shropshire banking firm
of Pritchard, Nicholas, Gordon and Co. He died on the
19th August, 1891, in his 95th year, and was buried at
Broseley.

(174) Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1865),
» who as a Liberal beat Mr. Henry Whitmore by one vote,

but was afterwards unseated on a scrutiny, was born at
Naples on January 10th, 1834, being son of Sir Ferdinand
Acton, of Aldenham. Being as a Roman Catholic refused
admission at Cambridge, he studied at Munich with Dr.
Dollinger. Having travelled widely, Sir John turned his
attention to literary pursuits, and not only edited various
periodicals, but wrote much himself. He sat for Carton
in the 1859 Parliament, and in 1869 a well-merited peerage
as Lord Acton was bestowed on him by Mr. Gladstone,
who was a life-long friend. Froi.i 1892 to 1895 Lord Ki ton
was a Lord in Waiting to Queen Victoria, and enjoyed a
large share of her confidence. At the Diamond Jubilee of
1897 Lord Acton was made a K.C.V.O., having in 1895
been appointed by Lord Rosebery as Regiusi ProfeltMM Dl
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years before had refused him admission as a student. His
libraries, especially that at Aldenhati, which had no equal
amongst private libraries, were known everywhere, and it is
said that his Lordship was one of the most learned men of
his time. He was a Fellow of All Souls', D.C.L. Oxford,
and L.L-D. Cambridge, besides having various r foreign
degrees. Lord Acton, who married the daughter of Count
Arco Valley, died at Tegernsee, Bavaria, in June, 1902,
being succeeded by his son the present Lord Acton.

(175) William Henry Foster (1870—85), the last M.P.
for the old Bridgnorth Borough, and the only surviving
Member, is the son of William Orme Foster, of Apley
Park, and was born on the 9th April, 1846. He matriculated
at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1864, and is a Justice of the
Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the County. Mr. Foster,
who was High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1903, has been and
is a great friend of, and benefactor, to Bridgnorth.

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Acton, Edward, 1640, 1640 58

do. Sir Edward, 1688-1705 64

do. Sir John E. D., 1865 73

do. Sir Walter, 1660 62

do. Whitmore, 1710 66

do. William, 1554, 5 46

Aldenham, Walter, 1311 24

do. Walter, 1360 30

Aylesbury, Robert, 1421 36

Bennett, John, 1660-1663 62

Berene, Hugh de, 1343 28

Bergham, Robert de, 1339 28

Bernard, Ralph, 1384 33

Beuleu, Robert de, 1313 25

Blockley, John, 1396, 7 34

Blount, Sir George, 1553, 8 45

do. Humphrey, 1460 38

Blunt, Geoffrey le, 1312 24
Blyke, Richard, 1429, 32,33,35,

37,41,50,53,59 36

Blyke, Humphrey, 1491 41

Bolding, Andrew, 1295 22
Bonamy, Roger,

1298, 1300, 1, 2, 7 23

Bonamy, William, 1327 26

Boulewas, William, 1373, 6, 8, 9 32

Briggs, Sir Humphrey, 1702-10 64

Bromley, Edward, 1588-1604 50

do. Thomas, 1558 47
Browne, Isaac Hawkins,

1784-1812 69

Brooke, John, 1557, 62 46

do. John, 1495 42

do. Sacrus, 1477 40

Bruges, John de, 1312, 30 24

do. Peter de, 1335 27

do. Richard de, 1328 26

Brun, John, 1302 23

Bruyn, John, 1402, 25 34

Canne, John, 1363, 4, 6 31

Cardcmaker, John, 1450 37

Charlton, Robert, 1645 59

do. St. John, 1725 34 66

Clerk, Thomas, 1430 36

do. William, 1467, 1477 39

Clivc, Robert, 1645 58

Cooke, John, 1407 34

Corbet, Jerome, 1584 50

Corbyn, John, 1430 36

Cordcll, Edward, 1562 48

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Cressage, Hugh, 1382 33

Creswell, Richard, 1710 65

Croucke, John, 1339, 1340, 1,4, 28

Crowne, William, 1654 60

Dod, John, 1329, 33, 35 26

Dunfowe, William de, 1319 25

Dyer, Hugh, 1372 32

Erdington, Fremund de, 1295 22

Enefeld, John, 1380 33

Eweldon, William de, 1348 29

Farnals, John, 1385,87, 89, 92-95 33

Fillilode, Nicholas, 1370, 73 31

Foster, James, 1831 72

Foster, William H., 1870-85 74

Gatacre, John, 1470, 72 39
Geffrey, Henry, 1321, 3, 5, 6, 7

8,9,31,32,34 25

Gilbert, Ambrose, 1552 44

Goldston, Humfrcy, 1529 43

Goldsmith, Henry, 1354. 55, 62 30

do. Thomas, 1381 33

do. William,

1378, 79, 84, 88 32

Gravenor, Rowland, 1487, 97 41

Gray, William, 1541 44

Grey, Edward, 1510 42

do. John, 1754-68 6S
Grene, John de la,

1335,37,38,54 27

Grene, Thomas, 1382 33

do. Thomas, 1413, 21, 23,27 35

do. Walter, 1405, 7 34

Grove, Grey James, 1734 67

Hall, Edward, 1542 43

Harnage, Hugh, 1402, 5 M

Harrington, Simon, 1495 41

Haughton, Roger, 1459 H

Haye. Richard dc la. 1348 B

May ward, George, 1528 43

do. Sir John, 1620 N

Hcndemon. John, 1309, 13. 22 24

Hopton, Thomas, 1411 38
Horde, Jerome, 1553

do. John. IMS, 4, 5 46
do. John. 1470, '

do. Riehard, 1414, 17, 19,

20, 21!. 23, :.v I a 35

76

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRIDGNORTH.

Horde, Thomas, 1391, 9
do. Thomas, 1441, 9
do. Thomas, 1601

Hulle, John de la, 1350, 57
do. William de la, 1326, 41

Humfrey, John, 1658

Isenham, John de, 1312, 13
do. John de, 1331, 36,
do. Thomas de, 1298
do. William de, 1369

Jenkinson, C. C. C, 1812
Jones, Sir T. J. T., 1818

37

PAOE

33
37
51
29
25
61

24
27
23
31

70
71

32

Kene, John, 1380, 84
Kington, John de, 1319, 22, 28,

35, 36, 37, 38, 40 25

Lacon, Sir Francis, 1603, 4 52

do. Thomas, 1510 42

Lange, ( ), 1409 34

Lawley, John, 1446, 49, 52, 55 37

do. William. 1429 36

Lee, Walter, 1584 50
Leinthall, John de, 1350, 57, 60,

69,76,81,82,83 29

Lewknor, Sir Lewis, 1603 52

Leyes, Reginald de, 1307, 1315 23

Lutwych, John, 1586-1601 51

Lyney, Leonard, 1425 36

Mayne, Thomas, 1446, 48 37

Merwall, John, 1448 37

More, Adam del, 1331 27

Netherton, John de, 1334 27

Ottley, Thomas, 1571 49

Palmer, Edmund le,

1315, 25, 28, 30
do. Nicholas le,

1364, 66, 70. 71
Robert le, 1311, 12, 21,

do.

do.
do.
do.
do.
83,

22, 1332, 2
Thomas, 1393
Walter le, 1331
Walter le, 1338
William. 1379, 82,
83, 84, 87, 88, 89,

24

25

31

& 28
34
26
28

82,
91,

92, 94, 96, 99
Panning, William, 1313
Parlour, Richard,

1414, 17, 19, 21, 22, 25, 33
Paule, Sir George, 1625, 27
Peirse, John, 1614
Peers, John. 1333
Person, Thomas, 1455
Pigot, George Lord, 1768- 1778

82
24

35
55
52
27
38
6H

PAGE

Pigot, Hugh, 1778-84 69

do. Robert, 1832-37, 1838-53 72

Pitchford, Edmund de, 1346, 47 28

do. John de, 1347 29

do. William de, 1344 28

Pope, Roger, 1685 63

do. Roger, jun., 1699-1702 64

Pritchard, John, 1853-68 - 73

Prynce, Richard, 1558 47

Pule, John, 1328, 29 26

Pulley, John, 1547 44

Roberd, Richard, 1300, 1,9 23

Sackford, Thomas, 1572 49

Selmon, William, 1346. 60 29

Selymon, Richard, 1385 33

Shelton, Sir Richard, 1625, 27 56

Singe, Richard, 1614 53
Skynner, Thomas,

1355, 62, 63, 72, 75 30

Smythe, George, 1623 54

do. Roger. 1547, 52 44

Stanford, Hugh de, 1411, 13 35

Stapeley, William, 1420 35

Taylor, John, 1379 32

Townshend, Henry, 1571, 72 48

Tracy, Henry Hanbury, 1837 72

Vernon, George, 1625, 26 55

Waring, Edmund, 1656, 58 60

Weaver, Arthur, 1747 67

do. John, 1713, 14, 22, 27 66

Wederove, Hugh, 1323 25

Wele, John la, 1436 37
Whitmore, Henry,

1852-65, 66-70 72

do. John, 1795-1806 70

do. Thomas, 1640 56

do. Thomas, 1640 57

do. Sir Thomas. 1663-85 82

do. Thomas. 1734-54 67

do. Thomas, 1771-95 69

do. Thomas, 1806-31 70
do. Thomas Charlton,

1832 52 72

do. William, 1620, 23, 28 54

do. Sir William, 1661 98 62
do. William,

1705, 8, 13. 14. 21 86

do. William. 1741,54 71 61
do. William Wolrych,

1S20 32 71

Humphrey . 1 181 41

, Andrew. 1435

M

Whvtell.
WolYvch

\V\ IdeCOtc, Thomas. 1 !S,

Yatc. John uttC,

1337. 39, 6

27 A 32

77

BURWARTON.

TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BLAKKWAY M.S.S. IN THE BODLEf AN
LIBRARY (VOL- X., FOL. 227) WITH NOTES AND ADDITIONS

BY THE

Rev. R. C. PURTON, M.A., and R. R. JAMES, F.R.C.S.

I conceive this Manor to derive its name from tire first
Saxon settler, Burrard.1 A Saxon named Azar held it in
the Confessor's time. It is written Burerton in Doinesday.
It was then holden by Ralf de Mortemer under Earl Roger ;
but the immediate occupier was Helgot, lord of Castle
Holgate on the other side of the hill. It was rated to the
Danegeld at half a hide ; but there were three carucates
of land,2 one of which was occupied under Helgot by
two villans.

[A space here in the M.S. — Ed.]3

I do not find any further mention of this Manor till the
Testa de Nevill, when Thomas de Costentin is found to
• hold the third part of a Knight's fee in Burwarton of the
Barony of R. de Mortuo Mari.

Alan de Burerton is a frequent witness to deeds at Hadnall
about this time, but I do not perceive that he had any
property in this place whence he derived his name. It
appears to have descended through the same hands as Eton

» F. Edmunds in his "Names of Places" (p. 146) derives Burwarton
from barw a grove ; but Blakeway is probably right, though the •• s " docs
not usually drop out. The name Burhweard is found in Burwardeslcv
(Broseley). One may perhaps hazard the suggestion Burh-u-fort -tun,
i.e. VVarton on hill.

' Not " carucates of land" but " plough-teams. " The Domcsdav cntrv
runs :—" The same Ralf holds Burertone and Helgot (holds of him. \ , .
held it. Half a hide is there. There is land for hi ploughs u vill.ms there
have i plough. It was waste, now it is worth ii shillings."

» The authority for the early period is of course ' Kvton's tattquttfot,
vol. Ill, p. 31- Helgot's holding passed to the family of Dti GilTO* The
sister of Robert de Girros was wife of Thomas de Costcntinc, wilQf
Thomas was lord of Burwarton in 1255 His daughu-1 and heir, Isabella,
became the second wife of Adam de Montgomery,

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BURWARTON.

Costentine to which the reader is referred. In 9 Edw. I.
Walter de Hopton and 13 Edw. I. Adam de Montgomery
had grants of free warren in Borewarton.1

William, son of Richard de Leghton, claimed the Manor
of Borewarton, and among the Assizes taken at Lodelowe,
24 Edw. L, is one to enquire if Walter, son of Walter de
Hopton, Thomas le Costentyn (so it is in the roll) and
others disseised him of this manor. Hopton makes answer
as tenant, and says that one Isabel de Montegomery, his
cousin, whose heir he is, died seised of it in fee, and that
he entered upon it after her death. The plaintiff Leghton
admits the seisin of Isabel, but says that he married her
and had by her issue, viz. : — a son and a daughter, who
are now living, and therefore that he ought to hold it
per legem Anglie. The marriage of Mr. Leghton with the
heiress of Burwarton was, however, as may be seen under
Eton Costentine, a questionable point. To his plea in the
present assize the tenant Hopton replies that the complainant
never was married to his cousin. Certain it is that Leghton
made default, and that Hopton continued to enjoy the
Manor.2

In 9 Edw. II. Burwarton was in the custody of the King
by reason of the minority of Walter de Hopton, the same
I suppose, who with Joan his wife in 2 Edw. III., he being
then a Knight, were deforciants in a fine of the manor
and advowson, and granted it to Ela le Bottillere of Wemme
(the complainant) for life, remainder to John, son of Alan
de Charleton and Elizabeth his wife, in tail.

1 Adam de Montgomery, by Isabella (de Costentine) had a son Robert,
who died without issue before 1304, and was succeeded by Walter de
Hopton, grandson of Joan, co-heir (with her sister Isabella) of Robert
de Girros.

3 In Blalteway's account of Eton Constantine we have a simil.ir pica
of the same Leghton against Richard Earl of Arundel and others, hut
two years earlier (22 Edw. I.) Leghton is here described .is .1 nvishcr
and adulterer," while Isabella is stated to have become the wife of one
Roger Brun, but this marriage was of doubtful validity. The verdict
on this occasion appears to admit Lcghton's claim, lie wm lord ol 1 I
9 Edw. IL (Norn. Vt.ll.), yet Hopton had established his title before 135

BURWARTON. 79

Notwithstanding this sale1 it must h^ve reverted to the
Hoptons. In 8 Hen. VI. Thomas Hopton, Esq., had a
confirmation of the grants of free warren here, made in
9 and 13 Edw. I. Their heiress, Elizabeth, married Sir
Ro^er Corbet, of Moreton, and brought this with their other
estates to her husband. Roger Corbet, fourth in descent
from this marriage, died 30 Hen. VIII., seized of the Manor
of Burwarton. Robert Corbet, his grandson, left issue two
daughters, one of them Elizabeth, the wife of Sir Henry
Wallop, Kt., of Farley (Co. Hants), ancestor of the present
Earl of Portsmouth, and son of another Sir Henry, an
eminent statesman, and one of the Lords Justices of Ireland
in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. This manor, with many
other of the Corbet estates, descended to his son, Robert
Wallop, who died 1667, as I find in an account of the
Brown Clee Hill (in a MS. of Bowen) that Mr. Robert
Wallop had 800 acres of waste laud belonging to his manor
of Burwarton. This was the unfortunate gentleman who
after the Restoration was drawn from Newgate to Tyburn
on a sledge with a halter about his neck, degraded of his
gentility and imprisoned for life.3

Walker of Ferneyhall3 sold the Manor of Burwarton to

I A settlement rather than a sale. Blakeway was evidently not aware
that Sir Walter Hopton left a daughter and heir Elizabeth, wife of John
Fitzalan de Cherleton, and that their son John was declared heir to Sir
Walter at the Inquisition on his death (42 Edw. III.) This John assumed
the name of Hopton and continued the line. It is possible that Florentia,
wife of William Thornhull, whose name often occurs in connection with the
Costentine estates, was another daughter of Sir Walter Hopton, and thus
co-heir with her sister.

~i See the account of his career in Diet. Nat. Biogr. It appears from
a Burwarton Deed that Robert Wallop sold the Manor and Advowson
of Burwarton to Francis Walker, of Bringewood, in 1655, the same vear
that he sold Hopton Castle to Bartholomew Beale. Nevertheless, Robert
Wallop presents to the Rectory and also to that of Hopton in 1662. at
which time, however, he was in complete disgrace

» Francis Walker, son of John Walker of Bringewood, was of Wooton
(Onibury) and of Ferney Hall (Clungunford), where he died in 1663, By
Rebecca his wife he was father of Richard Walker (ob. 1666). whose son
(by Mary daughter of Sir Henry Herbert) Job Walker (ob. 1712). presents
to the Rectory of Burwarton in 1686 and 1689. He married Rebecca
daughter and co-heir of Thomas Lord Foliot and had two sons. Fractal
and Thomas Foliot, and a daughter Rebecca, wife of Humphrey Sandford
of the Isle. The elder son Francis Walker who presented to the RcctOT]
in 1719, was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1725. By his wife Arabella Ac had
(with two daughters, Anne wife of Thomas Foliot Baugh, and RebeOCa), .1
son Francis, who devised his estates to his cousin Frederick Cornwall of
Diddlcbury. But the Burwarton lordship had been sold long previous!)

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BURWARTON.

[Anne wife of]1 William Holland, Esq., who was born
in 1704.

The Hollands of Burwarton are reported by their own
tradition to be descended from the eminent family of that
name in Denbighshire, and both sprung from the same
stock with Thomas Holand, who by marriage with the
relict of the Black Prince raised himself to the Earldom
of Kent, and his descendants to the Dukedoms of Exeter
and Surrey, a fearful height which exposed them to the
vicissitudes of a century of civil war, while their name-
sakes, perhaps their relations, continued here or in the
vicinity for a period of not less than 500 years. Richard
de Holond is co-witness with Hugh de Neenton to a deed
in North Cleobury, 15 Edw. II, and seven years 4ater he
witnesses a deed of lands in Sydenhale.2

But the first of the family whom I find actually settled
in Burwarton was William Holland. Sir Richard Corbet
of Moreton Corbet was an early adherent to the cause of
the Earl of Richmond. He met him at Shrewsbury with
a stout band of followers, not less than 800 in number,
collected from his various lordships, and amongst the rest
from this, which he inherited from his mother. William
Holland distinguished himself so honourably at Bosworth
fight that his landlord rewarded him with a messuage and
yard land (30 acres) in Burwarton, and a lease of his
capital messuage and demesne. William was much in his
master's confidence and accompanied him to Calais when
he was appointed to that government. He established his
family in good credit at Burwarton, and his grandson*

1 These words are added by Blakcway in pencil. As early as 1702 J.
Millichope and Edward Botterall of the Heath agree to close all suits in law
or equity with Thomas Holland of Burwarton, and disown and disclaim any
rights as Lords of the Manor in Burwarton or to any lands there reputed to
belong to Thomas Holland; but, having only seen this abstract. I am
unable to gather the exact purport of the Deed. Anne Holland presents to
the Rectory in 1 736 as a widow, and on behalf of her son Thomas, a minor

t Sidnall is in Prior's Ditton. The Hollands of Hurw.irton w e i e COD
nectcd with this parish long after, and it is possible that they originally
came from thence to Burwarton.

3 Rather his son Thomas' grandson, according to the f.imth Pedigree
(see below).

BURWARTON.

Si

(by a younger son) Dr. Thomas Holland, was an eminent
theologian of his day and died Regius Professor of that
faculty at Oxford, at whose funeral the heialds are said to
have exhibited the arms of the Earls of Kent.

[To this last paragraph Blakeway adds the following
footnote.]

M This however is not strictly true. Dr. Holland's arms,
according to my authority were Azure, a lion rampant
argent. The Earls of Kent gave, Azure a lion rampant
argent with fleur de lys as the field. Sir Otes Holland,
a younger brother of the first Earl, bore the same coat,
except that his lion was argent,1 in 20 Edw. Ill, i.e. before
the Earl's illustrious marriage. The Earls afterwards
gave the arms of England within a border."

Note. — Blakeway's account ends here. Burwarton
eventually passed to Benjamin Baugh, who had married
Elizabeth, sister and heir of Bernard Holland (ob. 1803).
Their daughter and heir, Harriet, married in 1796 Gustavus
sixth Viscount Boyne, whose descendant, Frederick Gustavus
Hamilton Russell, is the present possessor.

The following entry is detached : —

" 20 Jul. 6 Hen. 7. Will. Constantyne late of London Esq.
grants to Jo. Petits gent, all his lands and tenements within
and without the lordship of Burwarton, which Thos. de
Coston formerly had of the feoffment of Adam de Mont-
gombery, Knight, which lands and ten'ents contain a mess'
and close called Home Cloos in Burwarton and other lands
there described. Rent ^5, to be pd. half yearly in the
body of the Church of St. Thos. the Martyr called de Aeon
in London. Hiis test. Thome Hord arm., Tho. Cresset
arm., Joh'e Hord arm., Rich. Haughton gent., Will. Holland
et mult. aim. Dat. apud Burwarton. (e coll. Win. .Mytton
from a deed penes Gul. Holland de Brrwarton 1733)."

1 There must be some slip of the pen here, unless my transcript ig
at fault. The Hollands of Burwarton bore (according to tho Hcr.iUs
in 1623), Azure, a lion rampant guardant argent, between ten plates, all
within a bordure of the second I do not think they ever exhibited < In-
Held flcury, though it is crusuly on a monument at StokeMV (to the
daughter of a younger son), and as borne by Thomas Holland of Hurw.u ton
ob. 1722). See Transactions, 1st Scries, vi, 352.

i

$2

BURWARTON.

THE HOLLAND FAMILY.

The following Pedigree is taken from various sources,
but those parts which are within quotation marks are from
a family document transcribed by Blakeway (Bodl. MS. 5,
fol. 353a),

(I) William Holland " serv'd Sir Richd. Corbet at the
Battle of Bosworth field 1485, in which Battle Wm. Holland
gained so much honor yt ye sd. Sir Richd. Corbet gave
him a messuage and yard land in Burwarton in Com. Salop.
And his Capital Messuage and Demeasne in Lease ; all
amounting to half ye manor. And his posterity have enjoyed
it ever since. Sir Richd. Corbet was mad governor of
Cales in France thither this Holland waited on him and
there Sr. Ri. Corbet died. This Wm. was first of ye name
at Burwarton. And by ye report of his children came out
of Denbighshire descended of those Hollands. Since , ye
Hollands came first to Burwarton till this year 1729 is 234
years. It is supposed by Camden that ye Hollands had
their name from a certain village in Lancashire called Holland
near the Town of Wiggan."

" He took to wife Matilda, ye daughter of William of
Willaston1 as is reported."

(II) Thomas Holland. "He was marr'd to a daur.
of . . . Wall of Wheathill of an honest family." His
wife's name was Elizabeth, by whom he had, besides a son
and heir William, a younger son John, father of Thomas
Holland, the theologian, who is stated (Diet. Nat. Biog.)
to have been a native of Ludlow, B.A. 1570, D.D. 15S4, and
Regius Professor of Divinity. He died 1611-12. By his
wife Susanna he had issue — Captain William Holland, Anno,
wife of Dr. John Whetcombe, and Susanna, wife of John
Vernon, Rector of Hanbury. «■ This Dr. Holland bare
Lyon rampt. argt. in a field azure as 'twas approved by ye
Heralds at arms at his funerall in ye University & is ye
coat of Arms given at this day by ye family of ye Hollands
and by ye Hollands Earls of Kent."

1 Qu. Williams of Willaston ?

BURWARTON. 83

Thomas Holland, of Burwarton, appears to have had
another son Richard, who had a lease or a messuage for
lives in Burwarton from Wallop in 1600, and his son John
purchased a messuage there from Robert Wallop in 1649,
This John married at Stottesden in 1600 Elizabeth Fewtrell
(probably of Wrickton), by whom he had issue.

(Ill) Wiluam Holland, "who serv'd 4 times in ye field
of Burwarton. He marr'd with Alice a daur of Jno.
Dedington al's Detton of Detton, a gentleman as ancient
as ye conquest." In 1557 there is a Writ of the Court of
Queen's Bench in a suit between William Holland, of
Burwarton, Robert Detton and Thomas Smythe, as to the
manor and lands of Wheathill, Egerton and Bromdon, and
the advowson of Wheathill. In 1562 we have a reciprocal
Release as to moieties of the manor, etc., of Wheathill
between William Holland, of Burwarton, and Robert Detton,
of Ingwardine.1 William Holland also purchased lands in *
Ashfield and Routhall, besides the lands of the Petite
family in Burwarton. He was buried at Burwarton in 1590,
and his wife two years earlier. They had four sons and
six daughters.

(i) For Thomas, the eldest son, see below.

(ii) William Holland, the second son, of Canon's Frome
(Heref.) is described as of "Carton Co. Salop" in Harl.
M.S. 1396, which states that he was twice married — first
to Joyce Woodcock,3 and secondly to Joan. The latter
is said by Harl. M.S. 1241 to have been the daughter of
John Meirigge and to have had a daughter Fortune.

(iii) Francis Holland, the third son, of Moreton Corbet
and Burwarton, held a farm in the latter place under
Wallop. He was buried there in 1621 (Will proved P.C.C.
"83 Dale"). He married Thomasine, daughter of Robert

1 The manor and advowson of Wheathill continued to be held in two
moieties by the Hollands and the Dettons of several generations. The
Detton portion passed by inheritance to the Crumps of Bouldon.

9 William Holland married at Aston Boterel in 1679, Joyce, daughter
of Leonard Boterel of that place.

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Russell,1 who was ^buried at Burwarton iu 1615. By
whom he had a son William, bur.ed in 161 1, and four
daughters, viz :— Brigit, wife of Thomas Targle (Harl. M.S.
1396, but not mentioned in her father's will) ; Mary, twice
married, first (at Burwarton in 1605) to Robert Lutley
(fourth son of Adam Lutley of Bromcroft), who was buried
at Burwarton in 1613, leaving a son and a daughter, and
secondly (at Burwarton in 1617), to Charles Baldwin of
Elsich ; Alice, married (at Burwarton in 1602) to Henry
Baugh of Aldencourt, buried at Richard's Castle in 1662,
aged 79 ;3 Frances, who is probably the " daughter Phillpott "
mentioned in her father's will. The estate of Francis
Holland, at Burwarton, was inherited by Thomas, son
of Robert Lutley above mentioned. His sister Anne
married (at Burwarton in 1634) William Lewis of Sutton
(Diddlebury). In 1649, Robert Wallop of Farley sells to
Thomas Lutley of Burwarton, gent, the capital messuage
or farm in Burwarton, lately occupied by Thomas, and
all those parcels of ground lying on Brown Clee in Bur-
warton, 292 acres used as common by the occupiers of
the capital messuage, mines being reserved.

(iv) George Holland, the fourth son, was of Bal. Coll.
Oxon, in 1583, aged 20, and of Clement's Inn in 1595. He
held an estate in Purslow (Clunbury), and was buried at
Clunbury in 1645, his will being proved the following
year (P. C. C. " Twisse 41"). He married (at Tugford in
1595) Cecily, daughter of Adam Lutley of Bromcroft, buried
at Clunbury in 1652. They had a son Walter Holland of
Purslow, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward
Lutwyche,3 and was buried at Clunbury in 1649; and two
other sons,4— James who died an infant ; Adam (bapt.

1 Cresset, according to the Cresset pedigree. According to the Li.irUer
pedigree, Francis Holland married Dorothy, daughter of William Barker
of Hopton Castle.

» On the Baugh Monument at Stokesay her arms are given as.
Azure, crusuly, a lion rampant argent.

» Elizabeth Holland, widow, married Thomas Holland, gent, at Clun
bury in 1650.

« Probably more; William Holland was buried at Clunbury in It-,
and Richard Holland, gent, in 1640.

BURWARTON. 85

iq 1607) of Jesus Coll. Oxon. in 1626; also five daughters-
Frances, married in 1630 to Stephen E fans ; Lydia (bapt.
in 1605) ; Gertrude, married in 1625 to Stephen Grindley ;
Sara (bapt. in 1616) married in 1643 to Richard Higgins ;
Mary (bapt. in 1617). George Holland left his estate in
Purslow to his son Walter, remainder to daughter Frances,
remainder to daughter "Gertras," etc. Stephen Evans
was of Purslow in 1663, when he " disclaimed " arms.

The daughters of William Holland were — Anne, wife of
John Doughty of Duddlewick; Margaret, wife of Alan
Hammond ; Elizabeth ; Mary, wife of Thomas Russell of
Ditton (married at Burwarton 1577) ; Thomasine ; Brigit,
wife of Edward Colinge (married 1583).

(IV) Thomas Hou<and " was Student of ye Middle Temple
de Burwarton Et de Medio Templo L,ond. Ao. 1591, had
offices of credit in his country and had good advancemt.
with his wife. He marr'd wth Alice a daur. of Thos. Cocke
of Pickthorne in Com. Salop a man of worth and credit."
Thomas Holland was Collector of Rents in the Royal
Manor of Stoke St. Milburgh in 1570. He married Alice
daughter of Thomas Cocke (and Agnes his wife) at Wheat-
hill in 1573. In that year there is a Deed of Settlement
(on his marriage) with Thos. Cocke of Pickthorne, the
Trustees being Jo. Purslowe, Esq., Robert Detton gent.,
John Doughty and Robert Cocke gents, of the moiety
of the Manor of Wheathill etc. and of lands in Ashfield,
Rowthill (both in Prior's Ditton), Bromdon, Egerton and
Clee Downton, and a messuage in Burwarton. In 1578
Thomas Holland purchased lands in Cleobury North, Bold
and Charlecote. In 1591 he settled lands in Loughton,
Cleobury and Bold on himself and his wife Alice, and in
1598 he made a settlement of Pickthorne, leased under
Purslowe of Sidbury, on his wife and sous Michael and
John. In 1603 occurs a lease for lives from Sir Henry
Wallop and Dame Elizabeth his wife to Thomas Holland.
William his son and Margaret his son's wife, of a messuage
in Burwarton, occupied by William Holland. Rent £l os. 41I ,

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a Heriot of the best living beast and bushel of good oats
yearly to be paid at the house oi Francis Holland, of
Burwarton. Thomas Holland was buried at Stottesden in
1612, and his widow in 1622. In his will (proved P.C.C.
" 19 Capell," in 1613) he is styled of Pickthorne, no mention
being made of Burwarton. He had five sons and four
daughters.

(i) George Holland, the eldest son, died unmarried before
his father, who desires to be buried beside him.

(ii) For William, who succeeded his father, see further.

(iii) Michael Holland was of Pickthorne. He was baptized
at Burwarton in 1584.-5, and married for his first wife (at
Chelmarsh in 161 1) Jane, daughter of Adam Detton, of
Sutton, by whom (who was buried at Stottesden in 1632)
he had issue— William (bapt. at Chelmarsh 1615), who died
s.p. ; Thomas (bapt. in 1618, bur. at Stottesden 1635) ; John
Holland, of Pickthorne, who married Dorothy Hill, of
Bickley, and had two sons, William and Thomas;1 Allen
(bapt. 1622) ; Alice (bapt. 1612-3), wife of Francis Overton ;
Jane, wife of Andrew Talley. Michael Holland married a
second wife Anne (buried at Stottesden in 1644), by whom
he had three sons — Francis (bapt. in 1633), who had a son
John (bapt. in 1660) ; Thomas (bapt. in 1636, bur. 1652) ;
Edward (bapt. in 1643) ; and a daughter Ann (bapt. in 1638).
Michael Holland was buried at Stottesden in 1655.

(iv) John Holland, fourth son, inherited from his father
an estate in Charlecote, held under Lacon. He married
Mary, daughter of Richard Colling, of Neeuton. His will
was proved in 1642 (P.C.C. u2 Campbell") by Chas. Baldwin
and Jo. Collinge.

(v) Allen, youngest son, is mentioned in his father's will.
The four daughters of Thomas Holland were:— Man;

Ursula, wife of Richard Crowther, of Bedstone (married at

Burwarton in 1609); Ann, wife of John Heath, of the Heath ;

Joan (mentioned in her father's will).

1 Thomas Holland, gent., married Elizabeth Kettlcby, .it StOttlld— )
in 1678.

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(V) Wiujam Holland "2 son & heir Ao. 1623 he lived
at Burwarton in great repute and had 6 children living at
ye time of his death viz. 1. Tho., 2. Rich'd, 3. Francis, 4.
Edward. 5. Alice, 6. Anne, who were all preferred in
marriage. He marr'd with Margaret a daur. of Thos.
Smalman of Wildertop in Com. Salop Esq. who was reader
of ye inner Temple and one of ye Justices of ye Council
of ye Marches of Wales." William Holland was baptized
at Burwarton in 1574, and buried there in 1642 (Will proved
P.C.C. "94 Campbell"), his widow being buried at the
same place in 1643. To him his father bequeathed his
Bible and " Great Chronicle."

(i) For Thomas, the eldest son, see below.

(ii) Richard Holland, the second son, born in 1603, was
of Neeuton, where he was buried in 1676. He married
Mary, daughter of Francis Rockald, of London, by whom
he had a son, Thomas, who died an infant, and another
son, Edward, who became Rector of Waltham-on -the- Wolds*
and died in 1684, having been twice married and leaving
issue.1

(iii) Francis Holland, third son, married (at Ludlow, in
1630-1) Joyce Hill, and had by her a son William, who

1 died au infant.

(iv) Edward Holland, fourth son, was baptized at Bur-
warton in 1 61 1. He married (at St. Mary's, Salop, in 1645)
Mary, whose surname is left blank in the Register, and
had by her a son Edward, buried at Burwarton in 1647.

Of the two daughters, Alice, who was baptized at Bur-
warton in 1607, was married there in 1632 to Thomas Harris,
of Prescott (Baschurch).

(VI) Thomas Holland fil p'm'gen. at. 21, 1623, he had
2 sons and 5 daurs. viz. Win., Henry, Catherine, Margaret,
Ann, Elizabeth & Mary, who were all married. He marr'd

1 By his first wife, Grace, daughter of John Bradbury, of HoultOfl Hall
(Dcrb.), he had two sons Bpiphanius (of Jcs. Coll. C.imb. in 1700) , Bdwunl
(Emm. Coll., Camb.), who succeeded his father at Waltham , and three
daughters — Grace, Dorothy, and Mary. His second wife was Hannah,
daughter of Thomas Hriggg.

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with Eliz. a daur. of Win. Worvield Esq. a gent, of good
repute who was marr'd to Cath. Berkeley of an honourable
family in Worcestershire." William Worfield, of Bransford
(Wore.) married Catherine, daughter of Rowland Berkeley,
of Cotheridge. Their daughter, Mrs. Holland, was buried
at Priors Ditton in 1689, aged 89. She is described as " of
Ashfield " in that parish, and a widow, in 1663, and her
husband was apparently living there in 1634.

Their second son, Henry Holland (M.A. Emm. Coll.,
Camb., 1663) was Rector of Wheathill, and married there
in 1676 Martha Shepheard, who was buried in 1720. He
died in 1684.

Of the five daughters of Thomas Holland, who all appear
to have been married, Margaret is known to have been the

wife of Deverell, of Richard's Castle, where she was

buried in 1714-5, aged 83. 1

(VII) William Holland, "a Student in ye University &
in ye Inns of Court he had 3 sons and 3 daughters viz 1—
Thos. Lutwich & Edward, Elizabeth Lettice & Mary. He
marr'd with Eliz. a daur. of Mrs. Lntwich & sister to Sr.
Edw. Lutwich who was Chief Justice of Chester & of ye
Councill in ye Marches of Wales & afterwards one of ye
12 Judges of England."

William Holland married at Rushbury in 1660, Elizabeth,
daughter of William Lutwyche of Lutwyche, by Elizabeth,
daughter of Richard Lyster of Rowton. A deed of 1677
recites a former deed of 1660 (apparently his marriage
settlement) between himself and his mother and others of
lands in Loughton, Wheathill, Rowthall, Pryor's Ditton and
Coreley. He lived many years at Ludlow, where he owned
lands at Dinham. He appears to have died in 1699.

(i) For Thomas, who succeeded his father, see below.

(ii) Lutwich Holland was baptized at Ludlow in 1670;
he was afterwards of Crotte (Co. Heref.)

» Blukeway surest* that tfli/.abcth was wife of Thomas Shcpp.ird. m4
that Mary was wife of Edward Winwood, of Hardiston. In the case of the
latter, however, the arms on her monument hear a ercsccnt for CftdefIC)

BURWARTON. 89

(iii) Edward Holland was baptized at Ludlow 1672-3. 1

(iv) Elizabeth married Thomas Fre^en, of Brackley
(Northants).

(v) Lettice, baptized at Ludlow in 1664, married John
Harding, of Halse.

(vi) Mary, baptized at Ludlow in 1668. 2

(VIII) Thomas Hoixand " came to his estate ye 27th
day of July 1699 aged 34 years at which time his Father
dyed he had 5 children viz. : — William, Thomas, Bernard,
Edward & Elizabeth. He marr'd with Eliz. a daur. of
Bernard Hammond of Ludlow gent. July ye 8th 1703."
Thomas Holland was baptized at Ludlow in 1665-6. He
married Elizabeth Hammond at Cleobury North, and was
buried at Burwarton in 172 1-2. His wife was buried there
in 1721.

(i) For William, the eldest son, see below.

(ii) Thomas, the second son, born in 1706, appears to
have died young.

(iii) Bernard Holland, the third son, baptized at Bur-
warton in 1708, was of the Rea, and married (at Quatford,
in 1743) Catherine, daughter of William Holmes, of Stanford
(Edgmond),3 by whom he had four sons — Thomas, of Moreton
Say, who married Mary, daughter of Rev. Benjamin Wase,
of Great Bolas, and had a daughter Elizabeth, wife of Rev.
John Churton, Rector of Wheathill and Burwarton ; Roger,
of Brick House; Bernard, and William; and three
daughters — Catherine, wife of Samuel Monger, of Ludlow \*
Martha, wife of Thomas Baddeley, of Newport, and Eli/a.
wife of W. Buzzard, of Lutterworth. Bernard Holland, the
tather, was buried at Burwarton in 1766.

» Mr. Edward Holland, of Sidnall, married at Chctton, in 1710, Mrs.
Dorothy Fleming, who as Dorothy Holland, of Sidnall. loft £20 to the poor
of Chetton.

a Mrs. Mary Holland, of Sidnall, was buried at Chetton in 1686
' " Mrs. Catherine Holland, from Newport," was bum ,1 M l-M^mond
in 1783.

* Married there in 1737.

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(iv) Edward Holland, the fourth son, baptized at Bur-
warton in 1714, is described as of St. Clement's, London.
He was buried in 1741.

(v) Elizabeth, the only daughter, baptized in 1716, was
wife of Edward Lee, of Ludlow.

(IX) William Holland, " being eldest son is aged 15
years or thereabouts this 29th day of October 1719." He
was buried at Burwarton in 1736. He married Anne,
daughter of William Lee, of Little Hereford, by whom (who
was buried at Burwarton in 1771, aged 67) he had two sons
and four daughters : —

(i) Thomas, baptized at Burwarton in 1729 and buried
in 1740.

(ii) Bernard Holland, baptized in 1730- 1, of St. Mary
Hall, Oxon., in 1749, and buried at Burwarton in 1803.

(iii) Martha, baptized in 1727, married in 1765 to James
Compson, of Cleobury Mortimer, and buried in 1775.

(iv) Anne, baptized in 1728 and buried next year.

(v) Elizabeth, baptized in 1733, married at Ludlow in
1772 to Benjamin Baugh, Town Clerk of Ludlow (ob. 1809).
Their daughter and heir, Harriet, married Gustavus, 6th
Viscount Boyne, at Ludlow, in 1796.

(vi) Margaret, baptized in 1735 and buried in 1808.

HOLLAND OF BRIDGNORTH.

Rowland Holland, who heads the Pedigree entered in
1663, is described as a younger son of Holland of Denton
(Co. Lane); and the Arms allowed are those of that family,
with the lion debruised by a bend. But in 1561 adminis-
tration of the goods of John Holland, of St. Leonard's,
Bridgnorth, was granted at Lichfield to bis SOU Roland
Holland, and to his grandson, another Roland. Moreover.
Francis Holland, of Burwarton, who died 111 1021. in his
will mentions " my cousin Thomas Holland of Bridgnorth.'1

BURWARTON. 9 1

Roland Holland had a son, John Holland, who married
Jane Steward, and was father of Thomas Folland, of Bridg-
north, who died in 1649. His will is dated 1646, but was
not proved till 1654 (" Alchin 484.") He married Margery
Harrison, of Stourbridge, and had two sons and. five
daughters : —

(a) Thomas Holland, the elder son, appears to have been
buried at St. Leonard's in 1667.

(b) John Holland, the younger son, was dead (s.p.) in 1663.

(c) Jane, wife of John Farmer, of Bridgnorth, a widow
in 1646.

(d) Eleanor, called " Eleanor Hill" in her father's will,
and then a widow, afterwards married to Jeroboam Worsley,
of Bridgnorth (Vis. 1663).

(e) Mary, called " Mary Stanton, widow," in her father's
will, afterwards the wife of Edward Walker, Rector of
Glazeley (Vis.)

(/) Margery, wife of Thomas Synge, and afterwards of
Robert Richards.
(g) Alice, wife of John Rogerson, of Bridgnorth.

In the Extracts from the Registers of Bridgnorth (Shrews-
bury Free Library) there is the record of the burial of
Frances, wife of Thomas Holland, at St. Leonard's, in 1626,
and his marriage with Margery Hord at St. Mary's, in 1630,
she being buried in 1639 at St. Leonard's, where also Thomas,
son of Thomas Holland, gent, was baptized in 1616, John
in 1618, and his daughter Alice in 1621. John Holland,
of Caun Hall, Bridgnorth, entertained Prince Rupert in 1642.

RECTORS OF BURWARTON.

The old Church, the ruins of which stand in the middle
of the Churchyard, dates from the latter half of the twelfth
century j1 and was partly demolished in 1877, after the new
Church had been opened. It was quite inadequate for the
needs of the Parish at the time that the new Church WES

1 See Dr Cranage's Account.

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erected, and it was thought that it would look more
picturesque if the roof were taken off and ivy allowed to
grow at will all over the outside walls. It may be regretted
that this course was adopted, more especially as the old Bell
of Burwarton was taken down and lost sight of.1 The fittings
were removed ; the old Norman Font was placed in the new
Church ; the best of the Jacobean woodwork went to the
Church at Prior's Ditton, while the Communion Table is
believed to have found a home in the Church of Chelmarsh.

The Registers date from 1576. In 1870, when the Rev. A.
James went to Burwarton as Rector, the old volume was not
in the Parish Chest ; it was discovered at Wheathill in 1882
by the Rector of that Parish (Rev. F. F. Bradford) among
the Parochial books and papers, and restored to Burwarton
by him.

The Family Vault of the Hollands is outside the Church
at the East end, immediately beneath the East window. It is,
or was, enclosed by iron railings, and twenty years ago it
was much overgrown and contained three large slabs, the
inscriptions on which were for the most part undecipherable.

The old house of the Hollands, pulled down after the
* erection of the present Hall, is said to have stood nearer the
high road from Ludlow to Bridgnorth. Its site was partly
occupied by a rose garden in the late nineties.

The following list of Rectors is partly taken from the
Blakeway M S. at the Bodleian (M.S. 14, f. 45).

Alan, Rector temp. Edw. I.

1290. 6 cal. jun. Audoenus (Owen) de Montgomeri 25 Edw.
I. when he had a protection. Prynne iii. 595. A Subdeacon.
Presented by Sir Adam de Montgomery, Kt.

1310. id. Aug. Master Robert Peet. priest. Presented by
the King, by reason of the custody of the land and hctr of
Walter de Hopton, deceased.

1341. June 5. Sir Thomas de Boulwas.

Sec Transactions, 3rd Scr. ii, 222.

• • BURWARTON. 93

1349. Aug. 27. Thomas de Ercalwa, 38 Edw. III. Pre-
sented by Sir Walter de Hopton, Kt.

1373. Aug. 4. Sir William Strichesley. Presented by the
Bishop jure devol. Resigned 1384 for his successor's pre-
ferment.

1384. April 21. Sir Hugh Davys, late- Vicar of Maumle,
which he resigned for this. Presented by Sir John de
Hopton, Kt. He resigned 1390 for his successor's preferment.

1390. Jan. 4. Thomas Crenche, Vicar of Penn (Co. Staff.),
which he resigned for this.

1407. Jan. 16. David Driewe, priest. Presented by Walter
Hopton, lord of Borewarton.
Sir Thomas Fillesone resigned in 1428.

1428. Jan. 20. Sir John Thurnour, Vicar of Meole Brace,
which he resigned for this. Presented by Thomas Hopton.

Sir Mylys Herteley died in 1523.

1523. Aug. 27. Sir John Worall, priest. Presented by
William Leyghton, grantee hac vice of Sir Robert Corbet, Kt.

1525. Dec. 18. Thomas Parsones (vaL 4. 8.) Presented
by Lady Elizabeth, relict of Sir Robert Corbet, Kt.

1572. Oct. 16. Sir John Morgan. Presented by Sir
Andrew Corbet, Kt.

1575. April 17. Sir Fulke Smyth, 1587. Presented by
the same.

1606. May 15. Thomas Flaskett, M.A.

1613. Sept. 22. Richard Taylor, B.A. Buried 1645.

1662. June 12. Humphrey Tudor (Tydder). Buried 1685.
Presented by Robert Wallop, Esq.

1685. Jan. 26. Thomas Pipard. Resigned. Presented by
Job Walker, Esq.

1689. Oct. 12. Thomas Pepyr, B.A. Buiied at St.
Leonard's, Bridgnorth, in 1719-20. Presented by Job
Walker, senior.

17 19. Feb. 29. Lawrence Lewis. Presented by Francis
Walker, Esq.

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1736. Sept. 27. Thomas Taylor, M.A. Presented by Anne
Holland, widow, lawful guardian of Thomas Holland, an
infant, the true patron. He was also Rector of Wheathill,
and died in 1765.

1765. John Attwood. Presented by Bernard Holland,
Esq. Also Rector of Wheathill. Buried at Cleobury
Mortimer in 1798.

1800. July 4th. John Churton. Resigned 1849. Rector of
Wheathill, 1800. Vicar of Tenbury, 1849. Patron of
Burwarton.

1849. Theodosius Theodosius. Incumbent of St. James',
Sedgley, 1824 to 1848, died at Stafford 1 Jan., 1853, agec* 79-

1865. William Waring, M.A. Resigned 1870. Archdeacon
of Ludlow and Canon of Hereford.

1870. Alfred James, M.A., J. P. Buried 1897.
1897. Norman Robert Ramsey, M.A. Resigned 1904.
1904. Thomas Cromwell Bush, M.A. Resigned 1908.
1910. Arthur Evans Moule, B.D. Archdeacon of Mid-
China 1883— 1910. Resigned 1915.

APPENDIX.

The following Abstracts of Deeds, from the MSS. of the
late Rev. A. James, and published by kind consent of F.
Hamilton Russell Esq., appear to be of some interest. As
most of them are without date no attempt has been made
to arrange them in chronological order.

(1) Hugo Speyche Roberto de Cottoney et Agneti .... uxori,
terras in villa et in campis de Burwarton. Test. — Roger
Costantine, Wm. de Logtone, Walter de Constantine, Johu
Specy. Dated at Burwarton 5 Hen. IV.

(2) Aliscia filia Henrici le | Wycup] de Aston Boterel
Rogero filio Thomce le Constantine de Burwarton pro wii
solidis unam acram terrae in campo de Burwarton quae
vocatur Wallemore de quinque seliouibus. Test.— Thos.
de Constantin, Edmund de Cherlcote, Richard Clerico de
Middleton etc.

BURWARTON. 95

(3) Thomas de Burwarton filius Wilhelmi de Hereforsire
Rieardo filio Thomae de Beggesori vi sehonibus terrae in
campo de Burwarton inter villam de Burwarton et villam
Cleobury North juxta terram quam Robertus de L,ucketon
aliquaudo tenuit et extendentem de terra rectoris ecclesia
de Burwarton usque ad terram Alexandri de Burwarton
pro fidelitate sua et servicio suo. Test. — John de Egerton,
Philip de Cherlcote, etc.

(4) Philip son of Philip de Gyrros gives to Helyas de
Eosteucham half a virgate of land in Burwarton which
his father held for homage and service etc. Test. — Walter
Hackech, Roger de Nechbury, Thomas de Cleyburi, Alex,
de Cleyburi, Robert de Bolda, Roger de Burwach, Helyas
de Bolda.

(5) Margery daughter of Peter the Weaver of Burwarton
gives to Thomas son of Christopher le Yede of Burwarton one
acre of land of five selions in Burwarton field etc. reaching
from the land of the Rector of the Church at Burwarton up
to the Wallesmore brook etc. Test. — Henry le Beggesore,
Richard Constantyne etc. Dated 9 Edw. II.

(6) Thomas de Hereforsire gives to Richard son of Thomas
de Beggesthore for one mark of silver one acre of land
in the capital land of Burwarton lying near the land which
Robert the Miller held and stretching from the land of the
said Richard to the land of Robert de Luce at a peppercorn
rent due Christmas Day. Test. — John de Esthope, Adam
de Bolda, Roger de Tuchetort, Peter son of Reginald de
Rothall, Robert " clericus " of Burwarton, Samson de
Querlcote.

(7) Thomas son of Roger Bonest of Burwarton gives to
Thomas son of William de Welseley of Burwarton for seven
" solide" one acre in the Walleinor field of Burwarton lying
by land of Thomas le Constantine at a rent of one M obolns "
at Michaelmas. Test. — Richard 11 clericus " of Myddleton etc.

(8) Thomas de Hereforsire of Burwarton gives to Richard
de Beggesour of Cleyburie one acre in Burwarton fields,

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etc. Test. — John de Esthope, Thomas de Baggesouer,
Thomas de Cherlcote, Roger de Tu^geford etc.

(9) Thomas de Burwarton, son of Walter de Hereforsire
gives to Richard son of Thomas de Beggesoure four acres
in Burwarton field, between the village of Burwarton and
the village of Cleyburie North etc. Test. — Philip de
Beggesouer, Philip de Cherlcote, Thomas Bonest, Richard
"clericus" of [Middleton], Roger de Tuchfort, Simon
"clericus" of Cleyburie North.

(10) 5 Hen. IV. Grant of Henry de Cornwayle to Robert
de Stanford of lands in Burwarton " subter le Clee." Test. —
John Botterell, Roger Costyntyn of Burwarton, John Hunte
of Wheathill.

(11) 17 Hen. VII. Thomas Pette son and heir of John
Pette of Bagesore Esq. sells to Philip and William Pette
all rights in a messuage in Burwarton. Test. — Thomas
Horde Esq., Richard Haughton gent., William Holland.

(12) 6 Ed. VI. Dorothy Howel of Pelshall (Co. Staff.) to
Thomas Kynnersley her son of a messuage in Burwarton.
Attorneys, Francis Pygott and John Simm, of Cleyburie
North.

(13) 1522. Thomas Smalman of Midleton to John Mon-
gombie and his wife Elizabeth (daughter of Smalman) of a
Tenement and 15 acres called Hexenhall in Burwarton.
Attorney, Richard Smalman of Ditton Pryors.

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TWO SALOPIAN DEEDS.

1. A LICENCE FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH OF ALIENATION OF
LAND IN NOVEKS, CAINHAM, SNYTTON, AND BENNET'S ENDE,
FROM EDWARD FOXE, ESQ., TO RICHARD CHURCHMAN,
CLERK.

2. FINE, 6TH GEORGE II, BETWEEN GEORGE HAYES AND
THOMAS GARLICKE, COMPLAINANTS, AND JAMES KETTLEBY,
DEFORCIANT, RE LANDS ETC., IN STEPPLE, NRRN SAVAGE,
NASH AND CLEOBURY MORTIMER.

Transcribed and Edited by R. R. JAMES, F.R.C.S.

The two deeds which form the basis of this short article
belonged to my father (the Rev. Alfred James, Rector of
Rurwarton), and they were given to me by the executor
of his will in 1914.

The first is the original parchment, measuring 13^ inches
by 5J, and it is beautifully written in small chancery hand ;
it is in a good state of preservation, but the seal, I regret
fo say, is missing. The second is merely a paper copy of
the original made in 1844, by permission of the Master of
the Rolls, in whose custody the original was preserved.

The first is endorsed on the back " A licence of alienation
from Edward Foxe to Richard Churchman," and runs as
follows : —

Elizabeth dei gratia Anglie, ffrancie et Hibernie Regina
fidei defensor et cetera Omnibus ad quos presentes littere
pervenerint salutem. Sciatis quod nos de gratia nostra
speciali ac pro octo solidis decern denariis et obolo solutis
mrmariis nostris virtute litterarum nostrarum paten li urn
concessimus, et licenciam dedimus ac pro nobis heredibtlS
et successoribus nostris quantum in nobis est per presentes
concedimus et licenciam damns dilecto nobis Rdwardo tioxt,
Armigero quod ipse duo messuagia quatuor acras terrt sex
acras prati quadraginta acras pasture et coinmum ni pasture

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pro omnibus averiis cum pertinentiis in Novers, Caynham,
Snytton et Bennet's Ende, in comitatu nostro Salopiensi que
de nobis tenentur in capite ut dicitur dare possit et concedere
alienare aut cognoscere per finem vel per recuperationem
in Curia nostra coram justiciis nostris de Banco aut aliquo
modo quocumque ad libitum ipsius Ed ward i dilecto nobis
Ricardo Churchman Clerico. Habendum et tenendum eidem
Ricardo ac heredibus et assignatis sills ad opus et usum
ipsius Ricardi ac heredum et assignatorum sucrum in
perpetuum de nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris per
servicia inde debita et de jure consueta et eidem Ricardo
quod ipse predicta messuagia terras tenementa ac cetera
omnia et singula premissa superius expressa et specificata
cum pertinentiis a prefato Edwardo recipere possit et tenere
sibi ac heredibus et assignatis suis de nobis heredibu> et
successoribus nostris per servicia predicta sicut predictum
est in perpetuum tenore presentium similiter licenciam
dedimus ac pro nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris
predictis specialem. Nolentes quod predictus Edwardus
vel heredes sui aut prefatus Ricardus vel heredes sui ratione
premissorum per nos heredes vel successores nostras aut per
justiciaries escaetores vice comites Ballivos aut alios ofheiarios
seu ministros uostros aut dictorum heredum vel succe^sorum
nostrorum quoscumque inde occasioneutur inolestentur
impetantur vexentur in aliquo seu graventur nec eorum
aliquis occasionetur, molestetur impetatur vexetur in aliquo
seu gravetur. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras nostras
fieri feci m us patentes. Teste me ipso apud Westmonasterium
secundo die Septembris anno regni nostri tricessimo octavo

Bacon.

TRANSLATION.

Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England, France
and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc., to all whom 'lie
present letters shall have come, greeting. Know ye thai ere,
of our special grace and for eight shillings, ten pence and
a halfpenny paid to our fanners by virtue «>! <>ui letters
patent have granted and given licence and lor us oui heirs
and successors as much as in us lies have by these present!

NOVERS, CAINHAM, STEPPLE, NEEN SAVAGE. 99

granted and do give licence to our beloved Edward ffoxe,
Esq., that he may be able to give and grant to alienate or
to acknowledge by fine or by recovery in our Court before
Justices of the Bench or in any other way whatsoever at
the will of the said Edward, two messuages, four acre,'] of
land, six acres of meadow, forty acres of pasture, and
common of pasture for all beasts with the appurtenances
in Novers, Caynham, Snytton and Beunet's Ende in our
county of Salop, which are held of us in chief as is said
to our beloved Richard Churchman clerk. To have and
to hold to the same Richard and his heirs and assigns to
the use and behoof of the same Richard and his heirs and
assigns for ever of our heirs and successors by the services
due therefore and of right accustomed. And likewise by
the tenor of these presents we have given licence and for
us, our heirs, and successors aforesaid do give our special
licence to the same Kichard that he may be able to receive
and to retain from the atore-mentioned Edward the aforesaid
messuages, lands, tenements and all and singular the other
premises above set out and specified with their appurtenances
and to hold them to him and his heirs and assigns for
ever of us, our heirs and successors by the aforesaid services
as is abovesaid. Being unwilling that the aforesaid Kdward
or his heirs, or the aforesaid Richard or his heirs should
by us, our heirs or successors, or by our justices or escheators
sheriffs bailiffs or other our officers or servants or by the
heirs or successors of any of our said officers be in the
matter of these premises disturbed, molested, impeached
or vexed at all or oppressed and that any of them should
be disturbed, molested, impeached, vexed in anything or
oppressed. In witness whereof we have caused these
our letters to be made patent. Given by me at WestmiiisU m
on the second day of September in the thirty-eighth year
of our reign. Bacon.

This deed passed in the year 1596, and the only unusual
point in connexion with it is the word Novers, as there is
no such place in Shropshire. In the fust place, Ihcrt 1-
absolutely no doubt that the word is Novers, 111 v l.ithct read

IOO

TWO SALOPIAN DKKUS !

it as such, for he endorsed the word on the back of the
deed, and neither Mr. J. Gibbons, of Broadstairs (to whom
I am very much indebted for the care he has bestowed on
this and the succeeding deed, and for his valuable corrections
of my faults in transcribing, as well as for the translations),
nor myself can make it any other word than Novers.
Snyttou is mentioned in Eyton under Caiuham, and mention
is also made of a family, tenants in Cainham, of the name
of Beneth, from which the Bennet's Ende may well be
derived ; in passing I may note that Bennet's Knde is now
for the most part in the parish of Knowbury ; but I fear
I shall never find out what Novers means. It is well
known that at the Domesday Survey Cainham was in Overs
Huudred, and was the only land in that Hundred held by
Mortimer under the Earl. Ralph Mortimer granted Cainham
to the Abbey of Wigmore, and his son tried to wrest
Suytton from the Monks, as he found it a convenient
resting place between his castles of Wigmore and Cleobury
Mortimer, but he was frightened into restoring it to the
Monks by the premature delivery of his son at Suytton
while the Countess was breaking a journey there (vide
Eyton, Corbet-Anderson, etc.;

After the Battle of Evesham, Cainham was separated from
Overs Hundred and placed in the franchise of Mortimer,
and at the lapsing of that franchise Cainham instead of
being restored to Overs was annexed to the Hundred of
Stottesdon (Eyton IV. 298, Overs Hundred).

Whether the manor ot Cainham came into the Sovereign's
possession at the dissolution of the Monasteries, or whether
Edward Mortimer Earl of March was possessed of it when
he ascended the throne as rid ward IV, 1 .1111 tillable to say,
either is possible; at any rate, the Crown granted luud
there, and Oueen Elizabeth had as tenant there Edward
Foxe, Esq., a member of the family of Foxe of Cainham,
Bro ill field, Greet, etc., a copy of whose pedigree will be
found in the Visitation of Shropshire, \ (Harleian Society's
publication vol. 28). According to the rtarleian mss

NOVBRS, CAINHAM, STEPPtE, NEEN SAVAGE.

I'M ward Foxe, Bishop of Hereford (1496- 153b) was a member
of this family, and if so, then Richard Foxe, Bishop of
Winchester, was also connected with it, for it is stated
in the Dictionary of National Biography that they were
related to each other.

I imagine that the Edward Foxe to whom the licence
is granted was the brother of Charles Foxe, of Ludlow
and Bromfield, the originator of Foxe's charity in Ludlow.
This Charles Foxe in 1 590 made a will by which he directed
his executors, one of whom was his brother Kdward, to
complete the building of certain almshouses in Ludlow in
connexion with St. Leonard's Chapel, which he (Charles
Foxe) had already begun ; he also left two bells to the
aforesaid chapel. Arising out of this bequest the Corporation
of Ludlow got itself into legal hot water early in the 19th
century ; the account of the proceeding was published and
printed by William Felton, the publisher of the Ludlow
Guide for 1812, in 1819. A copy of this little brochure is
in my possession, and it is interesting to find that while
the inhabitants of Ludlow, the plaintiffs in the action, were
able to call several aged inhabitants to witness that the
chapel was in fairly good preservation and was being used
for divine service shortly before it was demolished by the
Corporation, the latter had no difficulty in finding an equal
number of elderly people to swear the exact opposite.

A reference to the Harleian pedigree fails to establish
that Charles Foxe had a brother Kdward, but in all proba-
bility Charles at the time when he made his will was in a
better position to know his brothers than the compilers
of the pedigree in 1623.

I have not been able to find anything out about Richard
Churchman.

The Stepple deed does not possess the same interest. A
recent article on the Kettlebys of Stepple, by the Rev. Ralph

C. Putton (see Trans. Shropshire Archaeological Society,
ath series, vol. 2) shows that James kelllebv \va> Lk« last

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TWO SALOPIAN DEEDS !

of his family to own Stepple, and tnat he died heavily in
debt in the year succeeding the fine in question. Probably
this represented a last despairing eflort on his part at
''raising the wind." The Hue runs as follows: —

Inter Johanneni Hayes generosnm et Thomaiu Garlicke
qnerentes et Jacobum Kettleby generosnin deforcientem.
I)e maneriis Stepple alias Stepplehall et Neen Savage cum
pertinentiis ac de decern messuagiis, decern horreis duobus
columbariis, duobus molendinis gianaticis aquaticis, mille
acris terre, duceutis acris pniti, trescentis acris pasture,
centum acris jampnorum et bruere et communam pasture
pro omnibus averiis cum pertinentiis in Stepple, Neen
Savage, Nash et Cleobury Mortimer, et parochiis de
Stepple, Neen Savage et Cleobury Mortimer. Unde placitum
convencionis summonitum fuit inter eos et cetera. Scilicet
quod predictus Jacobus recognovit predicts maneria tenementa
et communam pasture cum pertinentiis esse jus ipsius
Johannis. Ut ilia que iidem Johannes et Thomas habent
de dono predicti Jacobi et ilia remisit et quietum clamavit de
se et heredibus suis predictis Johanni et Thome et heredibus
ipsius Johannis in perpetuum. Ut preterea iidem Jacobus
concessit pro se et heredibus suis quod ipsi warrantizabunt
predictis Johanni et Thome et heredibus ipsius Johannis
predicta maneria, tenementa et communam pasture cum
pertinentiis contra predictum Jacobum et heredes suos in-
perpetuum. lit pro hac etcetera iidem Johannes et Thomas
dederuut predicto Jacobo duo mille et sexcentos libras
sterlingorum.

Die 15 Saucti Martini anno regni Georgii
secundi dei gratia Magne Brittanie,
iTrancieet Hibernie Regis, fidei aefeusoris
et cetera a conqueslo sexto.
In dorso proclamatio

Termina sancti Micliaelis anno Regis QOStri
(•eorgii secundi ilei gratia Mague Brittailllic
et cetera sexto.

Secundum forinam st.Uuti.

Salop

mgrossa.

NOVKRS, CAINHAM, STEPPLE, NEEN SAVAGE. IO3

TRANSLATION.

Between John Hayes gent and Thomas Garlicke com-
plainant and James Kettleby gent, deforciant. About the
manors of Stepple alias Stepplehall and Neen Savage with
their appurtenances. And about ten messuages, ten barns,
two dovecotes, two water corn mills, a thousand acres of
land two hundred acres of meadow, three hundred acres
of pasture, a hundred acres of furze and heath, and common
of pasture for all beasts with their appurtenances in Stepple,
Neen Savage, Nash and Cleobury Mortimer and in the parishes
of Stepple, Neen Savage and Cleobury Mortimer. Whence
a plea of agreement was summoned between them etc., to
wit, that the aforesaid James acknowledges the aforesaid
manors, tenements, and common of pasture with the appur-
tenances to be the right of the said John. As that which
the said John and Thomas have of the gift of the aforesaid
James. And he has remitted and quitclaimed them of
him and his heirs to the aforesaid John and Thomas and
the heirs of the said John for ever. And besides the same
James has granted for him and bis heirs that they will
warrant to the aforesaid John and Thomas and the heirs
of the said John the aforesaid manors, tenements, and
common of pasture with their appurtenances against the
aforesaid James and his heirs for ever. And for this, etc.,
the said John and Thomas have given to the aforesaid
James two thousand and six hundred pounds sterling.
The 15th day of St. Martin in the sixth
year of the reign of George the second
Salop ■{ from the conquest by the grace of God \- engrossed
King of Great Britain, {Trance, and Ire-
land, defender of the faith etc.

PROCLAMATION.
In Michaelmas term, in the sixth year of the
reign of George the second by the grace of
God of Great Britain etc.

According to the form of statute.
The first proclamation was made on the twenty eighth
day of November in the Michaelmas term in the sixth yc.u

TWO SALOPIAN DEEDS.

of the within written King. The s ?cond proclamation was
made on the ninth day of ffebruary in the Hilary term in
the sixth year of the King within written. The third
proclamation was made the twenty-sixth day of April in
Easter term in the sixth year of the King within written.
The fourth proclamation was made the twenty-first day of
May in Trinity term in the sixth year of the King within
written.

Justices.

Coram Robto Eyre

Robto Price
Alexandre Denton
et John Fgrtescue Aland

examined and agrees with the original in the Chapter
House Record Office, Westminster.

Fred Devon, Assistant Recorder.

As Mr. Gibbons has pointed out to me, the latter deed is
very carelessly copied, either in the original or in the
official copy. The acreages in all these Fines must not
be taken literally, they are largely formal. The sum of
money paid to James Kettleby is no doubt the amount
actually paid for the property.

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THE REVEREND FRANCIS LEIGHTON, 174
By FRANCES C. BALDWYN CHILDE.

The following Extracts are taken from a little note
,book in the handwriting of my great aunt, Emma Leighton,
of Ford, one of the sisters of General Sir Baldwin Leighton,
'Governor of Carickfergus. The book was given to me
by a cousin, to whom she left it many years ago, and
contains the original Memoir and prayers of her great aunt,
Mary Forester, Maid of Honour to Queen Anne, and the
unhappy betrothed wife of Sir George Downing, the
founder of Downing College, Cambridge. Of this MS.
copies have been made for Loton and Willey.

Of Francis Leighton, not only her cousin, but her
brother-in-law (having married as his 2nd wife her sister
Victoria), she writes: — "Sept. 7th (1813), after a few hours
illness, aged 66, died Rev. Francis Leighton, of Ford, near
Shrewsbury. This melancholy event took place at
Worcester when on a visit to the family of his sou
(Colonel Kuyvett Leighton, who at that time had the
supervision of Lucien Buonaparte, then in England on
parole). Francis Leighton was sincerely and highly re-
spected by all who knew him as a man eminent for his
true piety, charity and benevolence, and learned in
etymological studies and antiquities. It is much to be
regretted he did not publish the Monastic Antiquities of
Shropshire for which he was so eminently qualified, and
for which he had made ample collections.

M Mr. Leighton gave the account of the Roman silver
and copper coins in Gough's Camden, Vol. III., p. s6 -7."

106 THE REVEREND FRANCIS LEIGHTON.

A RIDDLE.
By FRANCIS LEIG/ITON.

Come thoughtless sinner, read the instructive line,

Pierce the dark meaning of my mystic strain :
Like mine commenced, conclude thy life-like muse

And own one riddle, not composed in vain.

Like thee, forgetful of my nobler birth

For mean delights I passed the fleeting hours ;

I crawled degenerate on the sordid earth,
And with gross food repaired my languid powers.

O shame, that beings meant by heaven to rise

Above the sublunary sphere subHme,
Born to high ends, and destined for the skies,

Should waste on earth their thoughts, their powers, their lives.

Not long thank Heaven the grovelling earth could charm ;

Filled with base pleasures and low thoughts care —
Behold me, sinner, seized with just alarm,

Retired and pensive, for the tomb prepare.

On me grim death exerts his transient power,

O'er me, o'er thee he claims no lasting right,
We sink, but like the day, the herb, the flower,

Oppressed by winter — or obscured by night.

From the burst tomb kind heaven deliverance gave,
I dropped my earthly spoils, on buoyant wing,

Rose to sublimer scenes — where boasting grave,
Is now thy victory ? where O death, thy sting ?

A form more glorious, purer joys I own :

So soon may'st thou, new gifts, new powers display ■

Contemptuous on my former life, look down,
Soar in the skies, and drink ethereal day.

Come thoughtless sinner, read the instructive line,

Pierce the dark meaning of my mystic strain.
Like mine commenced, conclude thy lite like nunc.

And own one riddle— not composed in vain,

THE REVEREND FRANCIS LEIGHTON. 1 07

HYMN.
By FRANCIS LEIGHTON.

To Thee, my God, though late at last I turn,
Not for my sufferings but my sins I mourn,
For all my crimes Thy mercy I implore,
And to those mercies Thou hast shewn before,
Add Lord Thy grace, that I may sin no more.
I beg Thy goodness to prolong my breath
And give me life — but to prepare for death.
Pardon, O pardon my transgressions past,
Lord, I repent — let my repentance last —
Let me again this mortal race begin,
Let me live on — but not live on to sin —
Which of Thy heavenly wisdom find unfit
Thy will be done — I humbly do submit —
But let Thy sovereign mercy bear the sway,
Let justice throw the flaming sword away
Or man can ne'er abide the dreadful day.
O by the Cross and Passion of Thy Son,
Whose sacred death the life of man began,
By that dear Blood which our redemption cost
And by the coming of the Holy Ghost
Deliver us amidst the life to come,
In the last hour— and in the day of doom.

The Jollowing Character and Memoir of dearest Mr. Leigh (on
was written by Rev. J. B. Blakeway, Vicar of Kinlct.

E.L. (Emma Leighton).

The Revd. Francis Leighton, whose death we have noticed
in p. 302 ("Gentleman's Magazine," 1813) was the onlv
son of Herbert Leighton, Esq., a Captain in tlu Auny and
Equerry to the late Prince of Wales (eldest son of Daniel
Leighton, Esq., Lt.-Col. of the 3rd Regt. of DTftgOOMS, "ho
was the eldest son by the 2nd marriage ot Sil lulu. ml
Leighton, Bt, of Wattlesborough Castle and l.oton in the

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108 THE REVEREND FRANCIS LEIGHTON.

County of Salop, and was born at London, November 4th,
in the year 1747). He received his education at the School
of Kingstone upon Thames, then of great celebrity, under the
care of Mr. Woodeson and entered at an early period of
life into the 3rd Regiment of Dragoons. But he quitted the
Army on his marriage and took orders ; tho' being possessed
of a good private fortune he never sought after nor obtained
any ecclesiastical preferment, except that at two several
times he held a benefice in the diocese of Norwich for the
accommodation of some young relations. To the manly,
honourable and generous spirit which most loftily distinguish
where they do distinguish ancient family, and to the
frankness, valour and loyalty of his early profession, Mr.
Leighton added the firm faith, the warm piety, the extensive
benevolence, the active charity of a Christian and a
clergyman.

His talents were of the brightest lustre ; his acquirements
vast, diffusive, elegant and profound. In his early youth
he was prevailed upon to print a collection of poems in-
scribed to his great-uncle, General Francis Leighton, under
the title of the " Muse's Blossoms," and though the singular
distaste which he afterwards conceived for any thing like
worldly distinction prevented him from giving any more
of his poetical effusions to the public, yet he continued
through life to cultivate his talent in this department of
literature, both Latin and English, for his own amusement
and the gratification of a few select friends.

As a scholar and a linguist, the extent of his information
was astonishing, and in this respect he was scarcely
surpassed by any of his contemporaries, unless perhaps
by the late estimable and lamented Sir William Jones

While but a subaltern in the army and engaged in .ill
the gaieties of that time and mode of life, Mr. Leighton
did not intermit his acquaintance with the Greek md
Roman Classics, in which he was joined by two of his
brother officers, one of whom has risen to the dignity oi
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and with whom

THK REVEREND FRANCIS LEIGHTON. 109

he continued in habits of friendly intercourse to a late
period of his life.1

It was at the same time probably that he acquired that
intimate knowledge of the sublime inspiration of the Italian
Muse which formed through life the entertainment of his
leisure hours. But he could scarcely have sat down to
the study of Hebrew with that intensity of application
which, joined to surprising quickness of comprehension,
characterised all his pursuits and gave him the mastery
and precision of a critic in that tongue till his attention
was drawn to the sacred language by his new profession ;
and vhe assuredly did not commence his researches into the
Welsh language and its cognate dialects, Gaelic, Irish,
Manks, Breton and Cornish, in which his knowledge
exceeded that of most of the natives, till he came to settle
at Shrewsbury and conceived the plan of writing an
" History of Shropshire."

The above is a very imperfect sketch of Mr. Leighton's
attainments in language. He was well read in Spanish,
acquainted with the Anglo-Saxon and German, and had
lately commenced the study of Swedish. It is scarcely
^necessary to add that Mr. Leighton was perfectly familiar
with French, but he did not love either the principles
of that people in taste, morals and religion ; and he was
an indignant spectator of the rapid strides they have recently
made to universal dominion. This rare combination of
talents and acquirements Mr. Leighton adorned by manners
the most unassuming. It is not often that anyone is seen
to recede from distinction to which he has a claim.
Seldom can the man of family, of fortune, or of learning
forego the satisfaction of making his associates sensible
of their inferiority. But nothing of that sort was visible
in the subject of these memoirs — he was in the best sense
of the word a perfect gentleman. Rich as was his conver-
sation in anecdote and information, open and communicative

1 Lord Erskine was not, however, it is believed, at any time in the same
regiment with Mr. Leighton.

no

THE REVEREND FRANCIS L.EIGHTON.

as was his whole temper, he would listen with the most
benignant attention to those whom he was much better
qualified to instruct, and delighted to show forth their
powers by his condescending encouragement.

In etymological researches he was, as might be expected,
singularly successful ; his ample command of language
fitted him more than most men for this task ; in con-
versation he loved to erect them into an irrefragable
proof of the mosaic account of the origination of nations.
His communications to the late Mr. Boucher would have
added greatly to that gentleman's projected provincial
Glossary, and his letters to a learned peer of the highest
rank, on the subject of general language, evince in the
opinion of those who have seen them a reach of intellect
and compass of information altogether extraordinary.

But though his dislike of distinction deprived the world
of those fruits of his studies by which it might have been
so much benefitted; yet this retirement from public life
was no indication of timid bashfuluess, or unmanly distrust
of his own powers ; nor did it proceed from any selfish
indifference to the general welfare. Whenever he thought
the constitution of his country in danger, or the truth of
his religion assaulted, he stepped forward with alacrity;
aud in his speeches on public occasions, in the town of
his residence, were heard with deference and conviction,
as they are remembered with regret and admiration. Not
even the infirmities of his later years could at such times
suppress his patriotic zeal. But he never willingly gave
anything to the public except the juvenile collection
already mentioned, which perhaps was wrested from him
by the authority of his elders. His account of the
Wroxeter Baths in the 9th vol. of the Arckmhgi* 19*1
only a communication to Mr. Go Ugh (with whom he
occasionally corresponded, and who has acknowledged his
obligations in his edition of Camden) for the pUTpOftC ol
explaining the drawings of Mr. Telford.

THE REVEREND FRANCIS LEIGHTON.

Ill

His few communications to the Gen+lemarCs Magazine
were anonymous ; and the two excellent sermons (one of
them on the recovery of his Majesty, for whose character,
both regal and domestic, he cherished an enthusiastic
veneration), which he committed to the Press, were re-
stricted to private circulation.

At an earlier period he had meditated a 11 History of
Shropshire," but circumstances on which it would be
invidious to dwell, but which we cannot cease to lament,
prevented this design from being carried into effect. If it
had been executed, it is probable the world would have
seen a topographical work superior to any that has
appeared in this country.

The writer cannot dissemble to himself that to those
who had not the advantage of Mr. Leighton's acquaintance,
the present imperfect sketch may seem to be composed in
a strain of too unvaried panegyric ; but on a diligent
review I cannot discover a single passage which I can
conscientiously expunge, and I am persuaded that those
who knew him best will be the first to tax me with
falling very short of the original.

I do not mean to pronounce that original free from
imperfection, but I can affirm with scrupulous veracity
which should dictate my deposition in a court of justice,
that I have never known a man at once so brilliant and
so solid, so high-spirited and so unassuming, so amusing
and edifying, so liberal and so pious. His charities were
at the same time extensively munificent and judiciously
discriminated, and his best eulogiuin will be read in the
lamentations of his poorer tenants and indigent neighbours.

Gentle?na?Cs Magazine, 1813, pages 398-9.

EPITAPH IN ST. CHAD'S CHURCH, SHREWSBURY,

On a large oblong Grecian tablet is the following
inscription in Latin. It is probable that this, which ia .1

112

THE REVEREND FRANCIS L.EIGHTON.

very good specimen of the Latin Epitaphs of the 18th and
19th centuries, was written by the Rev. J. B. Blakeway.
For the translation which follows we are indebted to the
Rev. Prebendary W. G. Clark-Maxwell, Vicar of St.
Leonard's, Bridgnorth.

H. S. E.

FRANCISCUS LEIGHTON

ecclesiae Anglicanae Presbyter,
e pervetusta sui nominis in hoc comitatu prosapia oriundus.

Vir

quern silere nefas ; laudare arduura :
adeo

summas Naturae dotes, ingenium acre, et venam Poeticae
uberera, optimarura artium disciplina, et multiplici
linguarum, peritia excoluerat : gravitatem sermonis colloquio
lepido, sententiarum vim facetiis honestis temperavit :

adeo

Pius in Deum, liberalis erga pauperes, amans Regis ac patriae,
comis, facilis, idemque constans amicus evasit.
Decessit 71110 die Septemb : A.S. MDCCCXIII annos natus

LXVI

Nemini nisi malo civi infensus.
Consortem habet sepulchri
quae fuerat tori,
CLARAM

Johannis Boynton Adams de Camblesforth in agro Ebor : arm :

sororem et ex semisse haeredem,
omnibus, quae matrem-familias decerent, virtutibus exorn.ua:n.
demortuam 3° die Octobris MDCCCI, selatis anno LXVI.
Juxta avitos cineres contumulantur
St. Leger et Carolina Leighton,
Ille infra bieuniuni extinctUS,
Haec undecimo vitie tnense vix exacto
fratri addita.
Franciscns Knyvctt Leighton
optimis paicntibiis et liberie
H.M 1\C.

the reverend francis leighton. 113

(translation).
Here Lies

Francis Leighton, a Priest of the Church of England,
sprung from the ancient family of his name in this county,
a man whom to pass over were a crime, yet hard to praise
duly: so highly had he cultivated his great natural
endowment, his keen intellect, and fertile vein of poetry
by training in the most excellent arts, and by skill in
many languages. The seriousness of his speech he tempered
with familiar and pleasant talk, the force of his convictions
with wit not ill-timed.
So

Godfearing, liberal to the poor, a lover of his king and
country, courteous, affable, and firm a friend was he to
the end. He died on the 7th day of September, 1813, at
the age of 66. To no one a foe save to a bad citizen.
There shares his tomb, as formerly his marriage bed,
CLARA,

sister and co-heiress of John Boynton Adams, of Cambles-

forth, in the County of York, Esquire,
a woman adorned with all the virtues which befit a matron.

She died 3rd October, 1801, in her 66th year.
Near the ashes of their grandparents are buried St. Leger
and Caroline Leighton. He died in his second year, and
she, the eleventh month of her lite barely completed,
joined her brother.
Francis Knyvett Leighton
erected this monument to his dear parents and children.

LEIUTENANT-COLONEL BURGH LEIGHTON,
1761—1^33.

Burgh Leighton was the younger brother ot Goik-t.i1 Sir
Baldwin Leighton, Bt., Governor of Cafrigkfecg lift and of
Major-General Thomas Leighton, of the Indian Aiinv. and
brother-in-law of Rev. Francis Leighton. having mamcd

*x4 THE REVEREND FRANCIS LEIGHTON.

his cousin, Victoria, Colonel Burgh Leighton's sister. He
was born 1761, and baptised at Cfrston, Shropshire, on
February 14th. He received his commission in the 4th
Dragoon Guards (Queen's Own) 1778, Lieutenant 1789,
Captain 1798, Major 1808, Lieutenant-Colonel 1808.

The history of the 4th Dragoon Guards gives the following
account of the regiment and of Colonel Leighton in the
Peninsula Wars in May, 181 1 : —

Lieutenant-Colonel Burgh Leighton, 4TH Dragoon

Guards.

Extract from the History of the 4th Dragoon Guards : —
"In 1809 Lieutenant-Colonel Leighton accompanied his
regiment to the Peninsula, and was present at the battles
of Busaco, Talavera, Badajoz, and Albuera, in the latter
of which the 4th Dragoons greatly distinguished themselves.
Two squadrons, commanded by Lieut. -Colonel Leighton,
were among the British Cavalry who dashed up the hill
on the foreign lancers with signal gallantry, and their
charge was executed with such effect that the infantry
had time to rally and reform their ranks. Many officers
and men who had fallen into the enemies' hands obtained
their liberty, and the Fusilier Brigade had an opportunity
of gaining a most important position, which led to the
overthrow of the enemy. The two squadrons were after-
wards employed in covering the right of Major-General
Coles' division, and were exposed to the fire of the French
Artillery.

"After four hours of serious fighting the enemy were
driven back, and the Allied Army stood triumphant on
the field of battle. The loss of the 4th was four raok and
file killed, 20 horses, three officers, one sergeant, and 18
men wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Leighton wis rewarded
with a medal, and the regiment with the privilege of bearing
the word 'Albuera' on its guerdon and appointments."

Colonel Leighton was never wounded, bin lie had m.iuv

hair-breadth escapes. A French sergeant hit hi la an the
bridle arm (but fortunately with the Sal sidl ol hil IWOXd

THE REVEREND FRANCIS LEIGHTON. 115

he was instantly cut down by one of the 4th. Again
charging in a skirmish at the head of his regiment, he
advanced too far, and was surrounded by the French
Lancers, but their swords were not drawn, and they could
not succeed in hitting the little man (who was only 5ft.
2in. in height) with their lance points before his own
men rescued him. On one occasion a French captain of
Cuirassiers advanced and challenged any Englishman to
single combat. Colonel Burgh, with more valour than
prudence, at once accepted the challenge, received the
Frenchman's heavy blow on his sword, which still bears
the mark, and returned it with a thrust through the body,
which killed him. Next day the body of the Frenchman
was found with a slip of paper fastened on it, on which
was written, " Here lies the great Goliath, killed by little
David."

Colonel Leighton died in Shrewsbury, May 3rd, 1836,
and is buried at St. Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury.

In St. Alkmund's Churchyard, on the north side of the
Church, is a monument to several members of the Leighton
family, including the following inscription: — "Also of
Lt-Col. Burgh Leighton, 4th Dragoons, son of Baldwyn
'Leighton, Esq. Born February 14th, 1760. Died May 3,
1836."

n6

CONTEMPORARY LETTER AS TO THE DEATH
OF LORD CLIVE.
By ANDREW SOUTH.

The following letter from Mr. Robert Pardee, an Attorney
of Lincoln's Inn, London, addressed to Francis Walker, Esq.,
of Ferney Hall, near Ludlow, is dated only four days after
Lord Clive's death, and throws altogether new light on its
cause. Hitherto, it has always been believed that Lord
Clive committed suicide. Lord Macaulay, in his celebrated
Essay on Lord Clive, says : — u His strong mind was fast
sinking under many kinds of suffering. On the twenty-
second of November, 1774, he died by his own hand. He
had just completed his forty-ninth year." His death took
place at 45, Berkeley Square, and it was believed that the
deed was done by a penknife being applied to his throat.

Mr. Pardoe's letter contradicts altogether the idea of
suicide. He states that the idea of Lord Clive dying un-
naturally, is without foundation ; that he had taken opium
for years to relieve a complaint from which he suffered, and
one day finding the disorder very painful, "he took a double
dose against advice, and died in a fit."

It does not appear to what family Robert Pardoe belonged,
but he was not a member of the Cleeton or Faintree families
of that name. He was, however, presumably a Shropshire
man, and seems to have had some dealings with Lord Clive's
affairs, as these are mentioned in earlier letters to Mr. Walker.

Of Mr. Francis Walker, mure is known. He was the only
son of Francis Walker, Esq., of Ferney Hall, aforesaid, who
served the Office of Sheriff of Shropshire in 1725. Mr, Francis
Walker, jun., to whom the letter in question ttafl iddn (SI

was articled to Mr. Charles Baldwyn, Attorney of Uncoln'a

Inn, and alter a few years, appears to haw irtired into the

THE DEATH OF I/DRD CUVB. 117

country and managed his estates, together vrth those of the
Lady Mary Herbert, the widow of Henry Loid Herbert, who

# died in 1738. Mr. Francis Walker, jun., died 5th August, 1776,
without issue, having by his will, dated 29th May, 1776,

- devised his Estates to his cousin, Frederick Cornewall, M.P,
for Leominster; he also left instructions in his will that Mr.
Robert Pardoe should be provided with a memorial ring.
Frederick Cornewall died in 1783, when the Estates passed to
his brother, the Rev. Folliott Herbert Walker Cornewall,
who in 1797, was consecrated Bishop of Bristol ; in 1803 was
translated to Hereford ; and in 1808 to Worcester. The
Estates have now passed from the Cornewall family. With
the kind permission of Mrs. Ada M. C. South, of Kingston-on-
Thames, who is a great grand-daughter of Dr. Cornewall,
the then Bishop of Worcester, this letter is now printed.

Mr. Walker is possibly [sed qu.~] identical with one " Francis
Walker" who accompanied John Wesley to Shrewsbury on 29th

i March, 1762, on his second visit to the town. Wesley in his
Journal says : — " I took horse (from Hereford) at six, with

; William Crane and Francis Walker. The wind was piercing
cold, and we had many showers of snow and rain, but the
worst was, part of the road was scarcely passable ; so that at
Church Stretton one of our horses lay down, and would go no
further ; however, William Crane and I pushed on, and before
seven reached Shrewsbury. A large company quickly
gathered together, many of them were wild enough, but
the far greater part were calm and attentive, and came
again at five in the morning."

The following is Mr. Pardoe's letter :—
Dear Sir,

I believe I omitted to return you thanks for the basket
you sent me last week, which I duly received, and for
which I am much obliged to you

I am very sorry for the death of Lord Clive, which
was sudden. He had taken opium for many yens, and
finding the disorder in his bowels very painful, he took

n8

THE DEATH OF I,ORD CLIVE-

a double dose against advice, and died in a fit. He had
several of those fits before. Soma friends of mine have
seen him seised with them in the Rooms at Bath, so
that the little surmise of his dying unnaturally is without
foundation. I mention this for fear it should reach
the country.

Mr. Johns is come to town. He called here this
evening in my absence.

I am, Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

Robert Pardoe.

Lincoln's Inn,

Nov. 26th, 1774.

H9

LUDLOW CASTLE IN 1631.
By CAROLINE A. J. SKEEL.

The following letter preserved among the Ludlow Castle
Papers (59) at the Bridgewater Trust Office, Walkden, is
of considerable interest as giving a description of the
Castle before the Civil War. The letter is dated 30th
April, 1631, and is written by George Betts, steward of
the Castle, to George Stnalman, at Bridgewater House in
Barbican. So far as I know, it has not been printed or
referred to by any writer on the history of Ludlow Castle.
It may be usefully compared with the description of the
Castle printed from the Blakeway MSS. in the Bodleian
Library in the article by Sir W. H. St. John Hope, in
Archceologia, Vol. LXL, pages 257-328.

Worthy Sir,

I receaved your lettere the 28 of Aprill beinge Thursday,
att ten att night; and have wth the Clarke of the Kitchine
; Mr. Lance, done our best endeavors to give you satis-
faction on this short time, my desire is that my lord
should be rightly informed of all particulars that belonges
to my place, or in any thinge else wherein I may do his
Lop service.

First, consearninge the roumes, that are not disposed of
I will demonstrat as well as I can in wrighting, you
partly know the Castle, especiall my Lord's Lodginge, I
meane that part of the Castle, the Couusill chamber
below the stayres, the drawing Chamber to that, beyond
that my lord's Lodging Chamber wth a Chamber wlhin that,
these are furnished, the Cheefe Justis now lyes theire.

Above the stayres over these roumes the great Chamber,
the drawing Chamber, my ladyes Heed Chamber, tbfeM 3
Chambers for the most part were hanged, for 2 of them

120 LUDLOW CASTLE IN 1 63 1.

there is necessitie, the drawing Chamber and my Ladyes
and the great Chamber as occasions were, and my Lady's
Closett att the end of the great Chamber was allwayes
hang'd, one little Chamber wthin my Lady's Chamber, and
a Chamber up one payre of stayres hyer, where my ladyes
gentlewomen did Ly; one Chamber next to the top of
the Leeds, one Chamber under the Lower drawing Chamber
where Mr. Goodwin and his wyfe did Lodg ; and a Closett
to that and one Chamber wthin it, for servantes, these are
all att that end of the Castle. You know the Cheefe
Justice Lodgings for himselfe and servants who lodg all
at that end as yo goe through the Lower end of the hall.
Att the topp of the stayres att the goinge into the halle
there's a Chamber for the 2' gentlemen ushers, my Lord's
and my Ladyes, and for 2 gentlemen more wth a Little
rome for these men. Over the Clarke of the Kitchines
Chamber, if you know it one (sic) the right hand as you
go into the Kitchine, one Chamber where my Lord's
secretary was lodg'd, and one Chamber wthin that, and
two little Chambers more up the same stayres.

There is one Chamber up those stayres where Justis
Waytis Lyes, where my Lord of Northampton that now
is before hee was married was wont to Lodg when hee
came to Ludlow Castle, over the rydinge house one
Chamber for the gentlemen of my Lord's horse and a
saddle horse, where 2 were wont to Lodg. Tow {sic)
Chambers more one {sic) the right hand to the going out
of the Castle into the bowlinge greene, one for gentlemen,
the other for yoemen. The Justicis you know are Lodg'd
over the gate, the rest I refer to the Inventory, wch will
best Certifie, and how they are furnished, wch I have sent
you, att the end of the great Chamber, att the turninge
in to my Lady's Closett, there's a payre of stayres w^h
goes up to my Lord Presidentes Wardrop, where was wont
to be 2 beedes, I think I have not forgott any ionics,
but what are allreadie disposed of, wch the Inventory will
expresse. The groumes of the stable are Lodged in the
stable.

LUDLOW CASTLE IN 1631.

121

Consearninge the repayre of the Castle, the Constable of
the Castle doth by undertakinge keepe all that is covered
\vth slates, the mud walls and teayreing (?) walls in
sufficient repayre and find all the Lockes and keyes
belonging to the Castle for wch hee hath payd him out
of the fines i5u yearly ; all wcb hee doth well performe:

For any other repayre that is thought necessary it is
by the Lord President and Counsill appointed, the Constable
overseeinge the same, and the Charge to be payd out the
fines. It seemes my Lord is informed of the danger the
Castle is in for fallinge one that part where his honor is

, to be Lodg'd it is trew theire is a Cracke goes through
part of that end of the Castle, by the appointment of the
Late Lord President and Counsill, theire hath bin many
times workmen that have survay'd it, and they have bine
of different opinions ; it hath bine as now it is this many
yeares, so sone as the Counsill come together, wch wilbe
wthin 14 dayes, I will intreat them to take a view of it
wth the best workmen wee have, and to Certifie theire

I opinions ; and if it wilbe mended in any short time it
shalbe done, but I thinke it is in no danger of fallinge.
For the order of howshold, accordinge to your demands
wee made an abstracte thereof and sent you as allso the
warrant dormant for forests, Chases and Parkes.

It seemes my Lord is informed of some abuses wch hath
< bine or is in the feedinge grounds for the howse. Hee that
I hath done so hath bine more busie than honest. I esteme
my creditt more than my worth and do assure you there
shall not be the lest wrong done. I remember I told
you I had as heretofore at Culmington one hundred pounds
a yeare for the howse 6011 in pasture and 40" in meadow
I ground, wob I do stock wtb cattle in May for the whole
yeare, I mean for oxen, heyfers and runts and feed weathers
amongst them. Allso I have a ground not farr from the
Castle at io11 io8, p. Ann. wob I keepe killinge shepe, and
What horses there be are put into that ground if the
I Cheefe Justis put any out hee shall give allowance accord-

sji at j nob

122

LUDLOW CASTLE IN 1 63 1.

ingly towards the rest of the ground wch I thinke
will not be above 3 att the most, for I wilbe sure to keepe
good store of grasse there. I will assure you uppon my
perrill there shalbe no uniust thing done. Consearning
the Chambers that are unfurnish'd I have inclosed a note
thereof, all the Kinges goods as of late, but all thinges
ells I referr to the Inventory. If theire be any thinge
forgotten if you please to wright I shalbe readie to aunswere
your expectation. I thinke it were a good course if

my to send downe some understanding man that

may see the Chambers, then hee may know how to furnish
them accordingly and fitt for those that shalbe lodged in
them, the times being uncertain and necglected bruinge
of March beere. I ever heeretofore put 30** strick of
mault into ten hodgseerdgs (sic) of ordinary beere, and for
one head of alle (sic) 4 stricke more ; these deere times
it pleasd th** Justis to lessen 5 stricke of the 30**, wch is
somethinge smalle and not so fitt to keep stalle as before ;
of all wch I shalbe glad to know my lord's pleasure, for
Beere must be bru'd beforehand and the Caskes kept full.

For the manner of my accounts I cannot well express
them unless you see the bookes for your understandinge ;
so wth my loving respects I rest

Yours to be Commanded,

GEORGE BETTS.

Ludlow Castle the
Last of A prill, 1631.

Postscript. You shall receave by Henry Hold Carrier a
long black Box wth the Inventory, warrant dormant aud
all other things wch is directed to you. G.B.

Encl : A note of Chambers unfurnished in Ludlow Castle.
The Great Chamber above stares.
The Drawing Chamber to that.
The Countesses Chamber next to that.
The Inner Chambr to that.

The Gentlewomens Chambei one stares higher.
One Chamber over that.

LUDLOW CASTLB IN 1 63 1. 123

The Chambr under the Lower Drawing Chambr wch Mr.

Goodwyn lay in.
The Inner Chamb* to that.
The Gentl8 Ushers Chambr at ye hall stares.
The Chambr where my Lord Compton did lye at the

comeing in of the gate neere Mr. Justice Wayfies

Chamb*-

The Gentlemen of the Horses Chamb* over the Rydeing
howse.

The Saddlehowse next to that.
Hanginges wanting

To furnishe the Countesses Chambr 30 yards about 12
foote high.

To furnishe the drawing Chamb1 next to that 32 yards

about 12 foote high.
To furnishe the great Chamb1 next to that 36 yards

about 12 foote high.
To furnishe the Clossett at the end of that, 16 yards

about 9 foote high.

I24

INQUISITION POST MORTEM SIR ROGER OWEN,
OF CONDOVER, KNIGHT, 3 APRIL, 17 JAMES I, 1619.

The following Inquisition is extracted from Additional MS.
30,319, fo. 163, in the British Museum. Sir Roger Owen was;
the eldest son of Sir Thomas Oweu, Judge of Common Pleas.
He was M.P. for Shrewsbury 1597, and for Shropshire, 1601,
and Sheriff, 1604. By Ursula his wife, daughter and heir of
Alderman William Elkyn, he had two daughters, Alice and!
Ursula. He died in London 29 May, and was buried at)
Condover 5 June 1617.

INQUISITION taken at Salop 3 April 17 James I, after'
the death of Sir Roger Owen of Condover, Knight. The
Jury find that he was seised of the Manors of Condover and
Cantlop in Co. Salop, the Manor and Advowson of Church
Pulverbatch, the Manor Grange or farm of Hencott with
all its rights members and appurtenances in the said Co. j
of Salop, half the water-course and fishery in Hencott poole
only excepted, a meadow called Hencott Moore or the
King's Moore now or late in the occupation of Geoffrey
Baugh, a pasture called Oateleyes meadow or Oateleyes
moore, and a pasture called Cote furlouge in the said Co.
of Salop, and of all tithes of wheat, grain and barley, and
small tithes annually increasing and growing within the
Manor Grange or farm of Hencott aforesaid. That the
said Sir Roger Owen died 29 May 15 James at London,
without heirs male ; and that Ursula his wife was living.
That the Manor of Condover was held of the King &c.
And the Manor and Advowson of Church Pulverbatch were
held, &c, And that the Manor of Hencott and Hencott
Moore was held of the King as of his Manor of East Green-
wich, and was worth one grain of pepper during the term
of 72 years ; and Oateleyes was held of the Bailiffs and
Burgesses of Salop at the rent of 33s. 4d. per annum, and
was worth 3s. 4d. besides ; and Cotes furlong was held of
the said Bailiffs and Burgesses ; and the tithes of Hencott
were held of the King as of his Manor of East Greenwich,
in free and common socage, and were worth nothing during
the life of Thomas Burton, esq., of Seaven's Longuor.

[The full Inquisition post mortem may be seen at the
Public Record Office : Chancery Iuq., Series II, 17 Jac. I ,
vol. 373, no. 1, and vol. 374, no. 86. Court of Wards, vol.
59, nos. 51 and 145.] W.G.D.P,

125

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.
By J. A. MORRIS.

The parish of Sutton — South town — lies to the southward
of Shrewsbury, about i£ miles from the centre of the town.
It is a peaceful, rural spot, with a few scattered houses and
a thirteenth century church now rapidly falling into decay.
It has changed but little since the far off days of the seventh
century when tradition states that the Manor of Sutton was
presented by some Saxon Thane to the Abbey of Wenlock,
and it remained unalienated through the Norman conquest
until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It is the Sudtone
of Doomsday, in which it is described as follows : —

*In Sciropesberie (Shrewsbury) Hundred the church of
St. Milburga held (in Saxon times) and holds Sudtone.
There there is i hide. There there are 8 men, counting
(inter) freemen (francos) and villeins, with 4 ploughs. It
was worth 12 shillings, now 16 shillings.

'Between the years 1141 and 1155, " Ivo Pantulf gave to
Shrewsbury Abbey the site of a mill under Sudton on
either side of the water " — the stream referred to being
the river Rea which runs alongside of Sutton and eventually
finds its way into the Severn at Coleham Head. This
grant was confirmed by Henry II in 1155. In 1234, Henry
Abbot of Shrewsbury and Humbert Prior of Wenlock came
to an agreement about several matters in dispute, chietly
about the mill under Sutton and some land in Coleham.
The Wenlock monks complained of the site and disposition
of the mill stank, and the waste caused by inundations.
The Shrewsbury monks alleged similar wastes against the
Wenlock monks, in the direction of Chongede-Mulne.

'Victoria Counties Histories, Shropshire, page 313.
» By ton, Vol. VI, pp. 303 S.

126

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

1lt was agreed that the site of the said Mill, the land at
Coleham, the attachiaments of the mill stank, the trench
towards Chongede-Mulne, the island lying between the said
trench and the banks of Meole brook, together with the
ancient water course, should remain to Shrewsbury Abbey
for ever ; but the said Abbey was to make good all damages
occasioned by the water, banks, stanks, etc., to the lands of the
said Priory, A second agreement, dated May 1240, implies
that the Prior accepted another equivalent. By this deed
the Prior of Wenlock concedes to Shrewsbury Abbey the
Mill of Sutton, with the island on which it was situated, and
the trenches there made, at an annual rent of 8 marks.
Witnesses — John Archdeacon of Salop. Nicholas of Withebroc.
William de Poyswick.

The Wenlock Hundred Roll of 1255 notices Sutton prope
Salop as a manor of the Prior, and specifies its contents as
one hide. The taxation of 1291 values the Prior of Wenlock's
temporalities in Sutton at £2 10s. 8d. per annum, viz. : 3
carucates of land £1 ; from 2 acres of meadow 4B« ; from
assized rents and a mill £1 : and from tallage 6s* 8d-

The Inquisition of 1278 gives the names of the tenants,
and states that the Prior of Wenlock holds the whole vill
of Sutton of St. Milburga as appurtenant to the Priory of
Wenlock from a time whereof the memory of man is not
to the contrary, but under what title they know not. It
contains the first reference to the existence of the church,
and states that there was one church in the patronage of
the said Prior, the demesne (glebe) of which was 24 acres,
and the said church and glebe was of the value of 100s. per
annum. The following extract relating to Sutton is copied
from Joseph Morris' original transcript in the Shrewsbury
Reference Library (M.S. No. 28). It is an InquisitioTi of
the Town and Liberties of Shrewsbury taken in the year
1278, and it is unique. No other copy of this Inquisition is
known.

1 Eyton's Antiquities, Vol. 6, pp. 3H3-5.

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY. 1 27

INQUISITIO QUO WARRANTO.

Veredictum duodecim Juratorum Ville et i^ibertatis Salopie.

7. Ed. I. (1278).
Feoda Prions de Wenloke.

Prior de Wenloke tenet villam de Sutton de Sancta Milburga
ut pertinet ad prioratum suum de Wenloke a tempore
que non extat memoria nescit quo warranto.

Et idem Prior tenet ibi in dominico tres carucatas terre et
valet per annum sex libras, et unam acram prati, et
valet per annum dimidiam marcam, et unum molend-
inum que valet per annum octo marcas.

Et sunt ibi octo villani videlicet : —

Willielmus filius Willielmi tenet dimidiam virgatam terre
pro quinque solidis per annum, et valet modo tantum.

Ricardus de Ambaldestine (tenet) dimidiam virgatam (terre
pro) quinque solidis (per annum, et valet modo) tantum.

Willielmus filius Ricardi tenet dimidiam virgatam (terre
pro) quinque solidis (per annum, et valet modo) tantum.

Willielmus filius Rogeri tenet dimidiam virgatam (terre
pro) quinque solidis (per annum, et valet modo) tantum.

k Rogerus filius L,ouckyn tenet dimidiam virgatam (terre pro)
quinque solidis (per annum, et valet modo) tantum.

Hugo de Bradley tenet dimidiam virgatam (terre pro)

quinque solidis (per annum, et valet modo) tantum.
Ricardus filius Thome tenet dimidiam virgatam (terre pro)

quinque solidis (per annum, et valet modo) tantum.
Johannes filius Willielmi tenet dimidiam virgatam (terre pro)

quinque solidis (per annum, et valet modo) tantum.
Est ibi xcocem (coem ?) ibi Regis nomine teuetur parva domus

de dicto Priore pro duodecim denariis per annum, et

valet modo tantum.

1 " coccm " may be an error in the transcript for " co'em," i.e.
" eommuncm " or some similar word.
The words in parentheses throughout the above document arc omitted
in Mr. Morris's transcript, but are added to make it more clear.

128 SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

Est ibi una Ecclesia de ejusdem Prioris patronatu, et habet
in dominico viginti quatuor acras terre et dicta
Ecclesia in terre predicta valet per annum centum
solidos.

(TRANSLATION).
INQUISITION QUO WARRANTO.
Verdict of twelve Jurors of the town and Liberties of Salop.

7 Edward L (1278).
Fee of the Prior of Wenloke.

The Prior of Wenloke holds the town of Sutton of St.
Milburga, as it belongs to the Priory of Wenloke from
time immemorial, he knows not by what warrant.

And the same Prior holds there in demesne three carucates
of land, and they are worth £6 per annum ; and one
acre of meadow, and it is worth half a mark per annum ;
and one mill, which is worth eight marks per annum.
And there are there eight villains, namely : —

William son of William holds half a virgate of land for five
shillings per annum, (and it is now worth) as much.

Richard son of Ambaldestine (holds) half a virgate for
five shillings (and it is now worth) as much.

William son of Richard (holds) half a virgate for five
shillings (and it is now worth) as much.

William son of Roger (holds) half a virgate for five shillings
(and it is now worth) as much.

Roger son of Louckyn (holds) half a virgate for five
shillings (and it is now worth) as much.

Richard son of Thomas (holds) half a virgate for live
shillings (and it is now worth) as much.

John son of William (holds) half a virgate for five shillings
(and it is now worth) as much.

SUTTON, NKAR SHREWSBURY. 129

There is a ^cocem) there in the name cf the king, there
is held a little house of the said Prior for twelve pence
per annum, and it is now worth as much.

There is there a church in the patronage of the said Prior,
and it has in demesne twenty four acres of land, and
the said church is worth, in the land aforesaid, one
hundred shillings per annum.

Joseph Morris also says : " Sutton is the only part of the
Liberties of Shrewsbury which shows on its surface (in the-
year 1848) features similar to what it presented in the
period of the Inquisition. The admeasurement of the
parish as above computed would be 524 acres, on which
there were residing the Bailiff of the Prior and 8 tenants
at rack rent.

The Parish of Sutton now (in 1848) comprises : a small
church, a mill and five farms, together with about 700 acres ;
these farms or some of them are enlarged by having other
lands attached thereto."

3 Farm-houses, buildings, lands, cottages, tithes, and mill
the property of Lord Berwick. ^"1016-0-0.

The next reference to Sutton after the Inquisition of 1278
is to be found in the inquiry which was held by the Bishop
of the diocese in 133 1 as to the possessions of Wenlock
Abbey.

3 " Letters patent of Thomas late Bishop of Hereford
dated Mamberfeld 6 Kalend. Junii 1331, sygnifying to all
persons interested that on Thursday after St. Ethelbert the
King and Martyr then last, in the parish church of Wenlock,
the prior and convent, at his summons, had showed their
titles in the churches and chapels which they claimed to be
appropriated to them, as well as, all portions, pensions,
parochial, tithes and other obventions which they receive,
to wit : — amongst others — Sutton by Shrewsbury."

1 Assuming this word to be a contraction of 41 communcm " it maybe
translated " common land," or — land for the public use.
-' Joseph Morris. MS. No. 28. Shrewsbury Reference Lihrary.
a Calendar of Patent Rolls. 1348-1350. page lSb>.

130

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

William de Bareuse was Rector of the church of Sutton,
2 Ed. II. 1308, C.R. of Salop.

During the latter portion of the 14th century the presenta-
tion to the living of Sutton appears to have been in the hands
of the King as the following extracts explain : —

1 *349- Presentation of John Alghynton chaplain to the
church of Sutton in the diocese of Hereford, in the King's
gift, by reason of the temporalities of the alien Priory of
Wenlock being in his hands, because of the war with
France.

8 1377. Presentation of Richard Gay, parson of the church
of Tydringtou in the diocese of Worcester, to the church of
Sutton in the diocese of Hereford, in the King's gift, etc., etc.,
on an exchange of benefices with Richard Reydon.

3 1379. Presentation of Ralph Birch, parson of the church
of Billingesley, in the diocese of Hereford to the church of
Sutton, in the same diocese, on an exchange of benefices
with Richard Gaye.

* 1382. Presentation of Richard Aston, chaplain to the
church of Sutton, in the diocese of Hereford, in the King's
gift, etc., etc.

5 1391. Presentation of John Fekenham, chaplain to the
church of Sutton by Shrewsbury, in the King's gift, etc., etc.

6 1392. Ratification of the estate of Richard de Aston,
as parson of Sutton by Shrewsbury.

7 1394. Aug. 28th. Presentation of John Fekenham,
chaplain to J. Bishop of Hereford, for admission to the church
of Sutton in his diocese, in the King's gift, etc., etc.

8 1394. Sept. 25th. Ratification of the estate of John
Fekenham as parson of Sutton in the diocese of Hereford.

i Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1348-1350 p. 302.

1377-1381 p. 6.
1377—1381 p. 325.
1381- 1385 p. 184.
1388-1392 p. 482.
1391 — 1396 p. 122.
1391-1396 p. 482.
1391-1396 p. 499.

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

1 In 1494 a Papal Bull finally severed the connection
between the Priory of Wenlock and Cluny, and made it
independant of its foreign mother.

3A Valuation of the possessions of Wenlock Priory
taken in 1379 estimates the receipts from Sutton as £1 us. od.
viz : — a messuage, value — nothing, besides the expenses
thereof; 2 carucates of land yielding 10 shillings; an acre
of meadow 1 shilling ; a water mill 14 shillings and 6 pence ;
assized rents of free tenants 6 shillings and 8 pence.

3In 33 Henry VI (1454-55) it was found that Sir William
Lovell held the Manor of Sutton, etc.

4The Valor of 1535 — 6 gives the Prior of Wenlock as in
receipt of £11 7s. os. from the rents and farm of Sutton.

RIn 1534, £3 of the tithe of Sutton was annexed to
the Vicarage of Wenlock.

6 In 1543, the Abbey of Wenlock was suppressed and a
considerable portion of the landed estate including the
Manor of Lylleshull, lands at Wyldmore, Donnington
Wood, Tibberton, Sutton, etc. were purchased by James
Leveson,7 Merchant of the Staple for the sum of
^2725 13s. 6Jd. The following is an extract from the
» grant : —

"July 1543. Grant in fee (inter alia) — The Manor, farm,
and tenement of Sutton, in Sutton parish, Salop, which
belonged to Wenlock Priory and all appurtenances of
the premises in Sutton, Salop. Also lands in Colnham,
Salop, leased with the aforesaid Manor of Sutton to
William and Thomas Prowde, and two water mills in
Sutton in the tenure of Richard Oseley."

1 S.A S. Transactions, 3rd Series, Vol. IX, p. 142.

2 Ryton's Antiquities, Vol. VI, p. 363.

3 Chancery Inquisition p m. 33, Henry VI, No. 28.

4 Hyton's Antiquities, Vol. VI, p. 363.

5 Eyton's Antiquities, Vol. Ill, p. 269.

6 Letters and papers, temp. Henry VIII, Vol. 18, l.g.981. (53).

7 James Leveson was a Commissioner of the Peace, and on the Sheriff
Roll of Staffordshire in 1543 — 5. His purchase included the advowsons
of the rectories of Dowles, Newport and Longden ; he also purchased
from Anthony Forster the Manor and advowson of Wenlock Parva.

l32 SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

*By deed dated 19th May, 36, Henry VIII (1544). "James
Leveson sells the same againe to John Mackworth and his
heirs.

2 In a statement prepared by Herbert Mackworth in 1754,
describing his title to the property, he stated

*' King Henry VIII, granted the mannor and farme of
Sutton to James Leveson to be held by him in capite by
the 20th part of a Knight's fee, and 19s. 4d. which ■ rent
was granted to one Hadnall and soe by mean conveyances
is come to Sir John Weld ot Willy Knight who hath long
received it of my father."

3John Mackworth was descended from the ancient family
of Mackworth of Mackworth county Derby. In the year
following his purchase of Sutton he obtained a license to
alienate the property : —

40ct. 26th, 1545. John Mackworth to Rog. Luter and
Thomas Hosyer for life, with the remainder to the right
heirs of the said John. The Manor, farm and tenement
of Sutton in Sutton parish, Salop, and lands in Sutton
and Colneham, Salop, leased with it to William and Thomas
Prowde and two water mills in Sutton in the tenure of
Richard Oseley.

6In 13 Elizabeth (1570 — 71) John Mackworth was found
to be seized of the Manor of Sutton. He died 15th January
last, leaving Thomas Mackworth, then aged 25, his son
and heir.

°In 27 Elizabeth (1584—85) Thomas Mackworth Esq.,
and Dorothy his wife convey by fine, messuages, lands
and rents in Sutton and the advowson of the church of
Sutton to John Vyckars and . nother.

»— aSir Thomas Phillipps' manuscripts, No. 11237, now in the Shrewsbury

Reference Library, M S. No. 110.
3S.A.S. Transactions -nd Series, Vol. 1, pp. 390 -3.
♦Letters and papers temp. Henry VIII, Vol. 20, ll.g. 707 (52) p. 39
Chanc. Inq. p.m. 13 Elizabeth, Vol 159, No 44.
cFeet of Fines, 27 Elizabeth.

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY. 133

1 In 29 Elizabeth (1586-87) Thomas Mackworth Esqr. was
found to be seized of the Manor of Sut on. He died 22
August last, and Richard Mackworth, then aged 15, was his
son and heir.

2 In Easter Term 29 Elizabeth (1587) a recovery was
suffered between Humphrey Lee and Richard Otley
getleman, and Thomas Harrys, Richard Mackworth vouchee ;
concerning two mills in Sutton, and the advowson of the
Church of Sutton. Richard Mackworth resided at Sutton
Hall. A letter in his handwriting has been preserved
amongst the manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillipps, as
follows : —

Right Wor*-

Coming home to my house yesternight late. I under-
stand by my wyefe, yesterday she sent before you a Pillfer,
ye rogue together with a Turkie henne of hers, which
he had stolen in the sighte of my owne people; and
further she advertised, she heard you purposed this daye
(if you heard not from me) to release the said Rogue
notwithstanding he have bene found bye, apprehended,
and whipped for the lyke facts (within the towne and
liberties). My request therefore unto your worships is that
you would commit the said Rogue to the Gaol to receive
his tryall as a Rogue, and on your owne discretion for
this pettilarceny, sending my wief her Turkeye by this
bearer. This with rememberance of my Dutye I rest
Your loving friend to use

RICHARD MACKWORTH.

Sutton, February 4, 1606.

To the Right Wor11 William Wilkes and
Arthur Kinaston or either of them.
Bailiffs of the towne of Shrewsbury, these.

3 In 15 James I (1618) it was found that Richard Mack-
worth Esq., was seized of the vill of Sutton and the mills

1 Chancery Inq. p.m. 29 Elizabeth, Vol. 213. No. 68.

2 Recovery Roll, liastcr Term. 29 Elizabeth, rot. 11.

3 Chancery Inq. p.m. 15. James I, Vol. 365. No. 145.
Court of Wards Inq. p.m. 15 James I, Vol. 56. No. 70.

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there, and died 20 May last. He had married Dorothy the
daughter of Lawrence Cranage of Keele, co, Stafford.
Humphrey Mackworth aged 16, was his son and heir.

1 In Trinity Term, 22 James I (1625) a recovery was
suffered between Thomas Walker and another, and' John
Edge, Humphrey Mackworth vouchee, concerning the
advowson of the church of Sutton.

2 In 14 Charles I (1638) Humphrey Mackworth conveyed
by fine to Thomas Lyster 12 messuages and the advowson
of the church of Sutton.

3 In 15 Charles I (1639) it was found that Humphrey
Davenport Esq., held Sutton Hall and a mill in Sutton ;
and died leaving Humphrey Davenport, aged 4, his son
and heir.

Bulkeley Mackworth was the eldest son of Thomas
Mackworth of Betton, born in 1653, died in 173 1 unmarried.
He resided occasionally at Sutton Hall, and also at
Buntingsdale in this county ; his mother being the daughter
and heiress of . Richard Bulkeley of Buntingsdale.

4In 1662, William James, Rector of Sutton prope Salop
contributed twenty shillings to the Free and Voluntary
present to King Charles II.

5Bulkeley Mackworth Esq., left £20 to poor housekeepers
of St. Chad's parish ; distributed 1st and 2nd April, 1731.

During his lifetime an agreement was made with the
then incumbent of the Rectory by which a fixed annual
sum was to be paid to the incumbent in lieu of tithe. This
arrangement appears to have been continued to the
present day. A copy of this document included amongst
the Phillipps M.S. is as follows: —

This indenture made the twenty-fifth day of November
in the third year of the reign of our sovereign lady Queen

1 Recovery Roll. Trinity Term 22 James 1. rot. 31.

2 Feet of Fines. Trinity Term 14 Charles I

3 Chancery Inq. p m. Scries II. Miscellaneous 522 No. 64

4 S A.S. Transactions, 4th Series, Vol. II. p. 213.

6 Owen & HlaUeway's History of Shrewsbury , Vol. II, p 229

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY. I35

Aniie, by the Grace of God etc. etc. a.d. 1708. Between
Jeremiah Kitchin, Rector of Sutton in the County of Salop
and Diocese of Hereford on the one part and Bulkeley
Mackworth of Buntingsdale in the same county aforesaid,
on the other part. Witnesseth that the said Jeremiah Kitchin
for divers reasons, good causes, and considerations known
here-unto moving, hath devised granted sett and to farm
lett and by these presents doth demise to let unto the said
Bulkeley Mackworth his heirs and assigns all the tithes and
Corne Graine and yearly coming renewing and growing
within the township of Sutton and Diocese of Hereford, in
the County of Salop aforesaid, and now held by the tenants
of the said Bulkeley Mackworth, to have and to hold take
and enjoy all the said tithes of Corne Graine and hay unto
the said Bulkeley Mackworth from and immediately after
the date of these presents, during the natural life of the
said Jeremiah Kitchin from thence next ensuing fully to be
completed and ended and that in as large and ample a
manner as the said tithes were lately enjoyed by the said
tenants.

Yielding and paying thereof yearly and every year during
the said term to the said Jeremiah Kitchin the sum of Ten
kPounds of good and lawful money by even or equal portions
at the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
and the Feast of St. Michael the Arch Angel and if it
happens that the said yearly rent of ten pounds to be behind
or unpaid in part or in all by the space of forty days
next following either of the said feasts, being lawfully
demanded, then it shall, and may be lawful to and for said
Jeremiah Kitchin to recover, and the said tithes to have
in his own possession. And the said Jeremiah Kitchin
for himself doth covenant grant and agree to, and the said
Bulkeley Mackworth, that he the said Bulkeley Mackworth
his executors and assigns shall and may be al all times
thenceforth for and during all the said term hereby granted
have hold, occupy, possess, and enjoy all the said tithes
I of Corne, Graine, Hay, paying the rent before reseived
without any manner of lett or disturbance or contradiction

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SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

of him the said Jeremiah Kitchin or of any other person
or persons by his consent or procurement.

In witness whereof the said Jeremiah Kitchin hath here-
unto sett his hand and seal this day and year first above
written.

JEREMIAH KITCHIN.

Sealed and delivered
in the presence of
Oliver Preston
Peter Haywood.

*In Michaelmas Term, 12 George II (1738) a recovery was
suffered between Herbert Mackworth Esq. and Thomas
Juckes of the Manor of Sutton.

Herbert Mackworth M.P. for Cardiff succeeded to the
property in 1731, he was the eldest son of Sir Humphrey
Mackworth, Senior, and died in 1765. He resided at
Gnoll near Neath, Glamorganshire, his mother having
been the daughter and heiress of Sir Herbert Evans who
had an extensive estate in that county.

Herbert Mackworth had been engaged in the develop-
ment of coal mines and copper smelting on his estate in
South Wales early in the eighteenth century. It is possible
that he made an attempt to raise minerals on his Shrop-
shire property, as there were at one time coal pits in the
neighbourhood, and some cottages on the estate are known
as Y Coal-pit Cottages."

There was a Forge at Sutton about this time * In 1726
the clapper of the great bell ol St. Chad's was repaired
at Sutton Forge. A tract published in 1725 on " The
interest of Great Britain in supplying herself with iron"
includes Sutton amongst the forges in the county, and
says that " it has made 100 tons now makes 50 tons ot
iron." The site of the forge has been forgotten. The
following entries in the register of St Giles show its
existence in comparatively recent times.

John and Richard, infant sons of Richard and Margaret
Jones of Sutton Forge, 1742 and 1744.

1 Recovery Koll, Michaelmas, 12 George U, rot. 271.

2 S.A.S. Transactions, 4th Series, Vol. Ill, Miscellanea VII.

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY. 137

Margaret Jones, 1783 aged 65.

John Robinson of Sutton Forge 1792 aged 79.

Herbert Mackworth was probably only an occasional
visitor to Sutton, and like his predecessors had neglected
to maintain the custom of holding Court Leets and the
exercise of Manorial Rights.

IQ l753 trouble arose between the magisterial authorities
of Shrewsbury and the owner of Sutton. In the early
charters of the borough, Sutton is described as being
included in the hundred of Shrewsbury, and within the
Liberties. Acting under a general order for the appoint-
ment of constables, the Shrewsbury Session Court appointed
William Boycott, a tenant on the Sutton estate to serve
the office of Constable for the parish, and on his refusal,
by the instructions of his landlord, to acknowledge the
authority of the Court, an action was commenced against
him : —

The King v. Boycott.

"William Boycott of Sutton, Yeoman, presented to serve
the office of Constable. Nevertheless the said William
Boycott, his duty on that behalf not regarding, but wholly
did neglect to serve the said office and contemptuously
did refuse."

Mr. Mackworth instructed Counsel to defend the case on
behalf of Boycott, and accumulated a considerable mass of
evidence to prove that Sutton had never acknowledged
allegiance to the town, on the contrary, he stated in his
defence : —

Sutton is a Manor Rectory and township within itself and
has no episcopal jurisdiction. The Rector being paid by
Mr Mackworth a yearly stipend for officiating, and all the
messuages and lands within the parish belong only to Mr.
Mackworth. The tenants from time immemorial have been
exempt from the appointment of parish officers, having by
rotation amongst themselves filled the various offices and
maintained their own poor.

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SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

The action failed, the Court holding that the evidence was
not strong enough to support the indictment, and that
proper notice had not been served on the defendant. A
letter written by Mr. Mackworth on the receipt of his
legal adviser's report, gives interesting details of the pro-
ceedings of the Court L,eet, and his subsequent actions.

Gnoll, August 17th, 1754.

I have your favour of the 10th inst, and ye particulars
and accounts of what took place on ye indictment against
Boycott at the Assizes. As the case was opened by Mr
Morton I must acknowledge that it was strongly in favour
of the Corporation, if there had been evidence to support
their case, such has would have been admitted. From 1508
to 1556 Sutton being said to be within ye Priory of Weulock
claimed no exemption during that time. What jurisdiction
was claimed or exercised by the Corporation, from 1556 to
1586, a period of 30 years, when Constable was appointed
at Leet ? In J588 the same. From thence another
vacancy of 4 years, when Sutton was assessed with the
town and Liberties and the Assessment collected by ye
then Constable, but by whom appointed it is not said. No
notice of Constable until 1623 only my ancestor excused
appearing at ye Leet in 1605. In what capacity was he
to appear? From 1623 to 1643 another vacancy of 20 years.
In 1647, Humphrey Mackworth being then Recorder never
attempted to exempt Sutton, but in 1649 one Richard Sutton
was presented by John Ellis. Vacancy until 1660, and the
Constable chose in 1664 and no more to this time— 90 years.

What the Judge declared upon hearing one side of the
case only, appeared very strong for the Corporation, and
I own has some weight with me, as he had formerly gone
to the circuit and his relatives are in my neighbourhood
of Shropshire; he may possibly have thrown out that
purposely; at the same time he directed the jury to find
for the defendant. That I might be well advised and
prepare before another Indictment was right on the same
point. And I suppose the verdict will acquit iuc of ill

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY. 1 39

costs for what is passed, though it will not enable me to
recover any against the King.

It just now occurs to me that by holding a Court Leet
at Sutton and swearing a Constable there, may have
some weight against their proceedings by indictment. A
constable to be sure there ought to be, and for want of one
a remedy is provided by law. But when a Constable has
been appointed by the proper authority, it becomes a question
of private property, in which ye King's name ought not
to be made use of. At least it would not be necessary for
ye end proposed, by having such an officer to preserve ye
peace, which who ever is sworn in may so effectually, and
will equally, be obliged to do so, whether he be appointed
by one jurisdiction or another.

H. MACKWORTH.

Mr. Abraham Jones of Shrewsbury was at this time acting
as Steward of the Manor, and he duly advised the Cor-
poration authorities, Edward Elisha Esq. Steward, and
Edward Blakeway Esq. Mayor, that William Boycott had
been sworn in as Constable at the Court Leet. The duties
of the office do not appear to have been very onorous as
» the report below suggests : —

16th September. 1663.

Presentments of the Township of Sutton.

I have nothing to present but all good and fare by me.

John Furmstone, Constable.

There is nothing to present only it is humbly desired
yr worP8 will please to appoint a new Constable and that
the old Constable may be dismissed.

I present Raynold ap Reece an inhabitant.

Ed. Bould, Constable.

The Court Leet appears to have developed into a convivial
meeting between landlord and tenants, as the following
letter suggests : —

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SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

Gnoll Oct. 7th. 1767.
Letter to Abraham Jones Esq. Stewari.
Dear Sir,

As I propose being at Shrewsbury on Tuesday senight
ye 27th. inst. I would take this opportunity of holding
a Court Leet at Sutton. I hope you will be able to
attend for that purpose. I shall be glad if you will
order Boycott to prepare a dinner for ye tenants at
Sutton Hall and I will take care of ye liquoi. I suppose
we should dine about two o'clock. You will be so
good as to give the proper notice to all persons to attend
who owe suit and service to the Court.

Your obdfc Servant,

H. MACKWORTH.

This was probably the last Court held by Herbert
Mackworth as he sold the property in 1775 to Thomas Hill
Esq. of Tern Hall. It has remained in the possession of
the family until this time, the present owner being the
eighth Baron Berwick of Attingham.

*In 15 George III. (1775) Herbert Mackworth Esqr. and
his wife conveyed by fine the Manor of Sutton and the
Rectory and advowson of the church of Sutton to Thomas
Hill Esq.

2In 1790 Arthur Richards was appointed Constable; there
are no further records of these appointments.

In 1826 another attempt was made to raise the question
of the rights of the Corporation of Shrewsbury by summoning
John Beamond, a tenant on the Sutton estate, to serve as
a juror at the Shrewsbury Quarter Sessions. Mr. T. F.
Dukes was then Steward of the Manor, and he has preserved
a memorandum setting forth the conversation which took
place between himself and Mr. Joseph Loxdale the Town
Clerk; he stated "that Lord Berwick as owner of the
estate was very particular to preserve Sutton lrom all
liability to serve any office of the town and Liberties of

1 Feet of Fines. Salop. Faster Term. IS QtOTgl Ht<

2 Sir Thomas Phillipps' MS. 11837.

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY. 141

Shrewsbury, and that its exemption was to be strongly
defended." Mr. Eoxdale replied that ti e summons was
probably the work of "George Wingfield and Old Bob
Hill," he should not fine Beamond if he did not attend.
He professed 44 his respect for his lordship V and said that
he 44 should not trouble him about it further."

There the matter ended and the question as to whether
Sutton is, or is not, within the legal jurisdiction of the
town and liberties of Shrewsbury, has never been decided.

Herbert Mackworth appears to have been in doubt as
to his exact rights in the presentation to the living of
Sutton and obtained counsel's opinion on this matter and
the tithes : —

OPINION ON SUTTON TITHE.
Here seems to be something erroneous with respect to
the Rectory Impropriate and the advowson of the Rectory.
Since the suppression of Monasteries a layman may have
a Rectory Impropriate and all glebe lands together with
oblation, obventions, etc., in such a parish, but he cannot
have such Rectory Impropriate and the Advowson in right
of presentation to such Parish Church, Semel et Simul,
' because when such Rectory or Parish Church is made
presentable it disimpropriates the same from being a lay
fee, and re-unites it to the Ecclesiastical policy of the realm
and makes it of a spiritual nature.

Indeed a man who has a Rectory Impropriate may have
the advowson of the Vicarage of the same Church, as every
Rector is the natural patron of the Vicarage and therefore
here may be a lay impropriation to the Vicarage of ye
Church, but that description is not kept up in this description,
there being mention made here both of the advowson and
right of patronage, and right of presentation to the Rectory,
and of the Rectory Impropriate itself and of all the glebe,
tithes, tenths, etc.

The grant of the advowson, right of patronage, presentation,
etc., only gives to a purchaser or grantee ■ right of nomin-

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SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

ating to a Bishop such or such a person as fit to do the
duties of the Cure, and to take the glebe, lands, tenths,
tithes, and other ecclesiastical dues himself. The grant of
Rector Impropriate and of glebe lands, tithes, etc., gives
to the grantee or purchaser a right to hold the glebe land
himself, and to take the tithes and other ecclesiastical dues
to his own use without any account to ye Bishop or any
incumbent whatsoever. Here is therefore something
erroneous which he hopes Mr. B. will find sufficiently
explained when he comes to look into the supplementary
abstracts which he proposes to go upon immediately.

This document is dated from Lincoln's Inn 5 May 1755
and initialled J.B.

Going back to pre-reformation times, we find that there
was a substantial residence at Sutton in the 14th century,
occupied by a representative of the family of Prowde,
xwho farmed the land from the Prior of Wenlock. In 1403
William Prowde and Richard Prowde were lessees, and, the
suit rolls of the Manor of Sutton proved the family con-
tinuous until 1573.

2In 1569 George Prowde was Bailiff of Shrewsbury. In
the printed Visitation of 1623, the name of William Prowde
is included in the list of those who were disclaimed by the
herald in 1585.

The same authority has the following references to the
family : —

Alicia Clough married Leonard Prowde of Sutton.

Dorothy the daughter of John Prowde of Sutton married
John Benbow of Newport.

John Harries of Crucktou married Eleanor the daughter
of Thomas Prowde of Sutton.

1 Owen & Blakeway's History of Shrewsbury, Vol. I, p. 408.

2. Arms of the Prowde Family. Or a chevron tarry of tta gules and
sable. The family held a prominent place in tin- civil lifc of Shrews
bury in the 17th century. They resided ill the old timber KouM in
Milk Street now known ug the Post Office Inn.

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY. 143

John Gardiner, Bailiff of Shrewsbury 1614, married
Eleanora daughter of William Prowde by Johanna daughter
of Arthur Mackworth.

This marriage shows that there was a relationship between
the Prowde and Mackworth families, and may have lead
to the purchase of Sutton by the Mackworth family.

SUTTON HALL.
The house now known as the Church Farm is in all
probability the successor of Sutton Hall, where the
Mackworth family resided in the 17th century. It has a
modern appearance, and is stated to have been rebuilt on
the site of the old house. The entrance door is of oak
studded with nails and may have belonged to the mediaeval
house ; it has an iron ring handle, which also answers as
a knocker.

THE CHURCH OF ST. JOHN, SUTTON.

Within a few yards of the house stand the remains of the
13th century church, enclosed with iron fencing. The space
on the south side, now covered with debris, and used for
a wood pile, is in all probability the grave yard. Interments
were made here as recently as 1851, when tombstones
were erected to the memory of members of the Beamond,
and Towers families, but cannot now be found. In
1886 the church was stated to be 41 used as a farm building,
the roof ruinous, windows unglazed, and the door open to
sheep which grazed in the church-yard. The Norman
font and Holy table remaining in the general neglect."
As the result of complaints, the roof was repaired, and the
churchyard enclosed as before stated. The "holy table"
was removed to Meole Church, and placed under the
tower. The bell disappeared about this time, and has not
been traced. Nothing is known of its antiquity; it is
stated in Browne Willis' MS. to have been in existence in
1752, and was rung at the peace after the Crimean War.

In the succeeding year (1887) the Archdeacon ot Ludlow
referring to the church in his Charge said : 't* through the

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liberality of I^ord Berwick, the preservation of the remains
in the future, and the protection of the consecrated ground,
had been secured in a most satisfactory manner."

The earliest record of the church is contained in the
Inquisition of 1278 ; it was probably erected early in that
century. The existing building is about 30ft. long and 19ft.
wide. It extended further west previous to the 18th
century, when a portion was taken down and a brick wall
erected which forms the west end of the church. The
ancient walls are built of rubble stone, with dressed
masonry at the quoins and windows. There are three
lancet windows on each side ; in the east end are three
similar openings, the central window being higher than the
other two. Internally, the windows have widely splayed,
plastered jambs, and are covered with many coats of color
wash. Damp and exposure has caused the color wash to
peel off, and in many places the mediaeval decoration is
exposed ; this consists of spiral lines made with a red
pigment, with conventional ornaments painted in a yellowish
color.

The extent of the original church is uncertain. It has
been suggested that in a dry summer, traces of foundations
can be seen in the parched turf, extending for some distance
westward. It seems improbable that a church provided
to serve the needs of such a small community can have
been very extensive. During all the centuries of its
existence the population of the parish can have varied but
very little, and in the absence of any definite evidence it
may be conjectured that one bay (say 10 feet) was destroyed
at the west end, before the present gable was erected.
At the north-west angle are remains of the jamb of a
doorway, which shows that the church did extend beyond
its present limit.

The old building has survived many periods of neglect
and decay. Before the dissolution of Weillock Abbey it
was in the care of the Prior. Since that date, the main-

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY. I45

tainance of the building has been the sole charge of the
owners of Sutton. It is stated that tbtre are no records
of the appointment of Church wardens or other ecclesiastical
officers.

Extensive repairs were carried ont shortly after John
Mackworth purchased the property in 1544. The upper
portion of the south wall was rebuilt and a new roof con-
structed, in which some of the old timbers have been
re-used.

The central roof principal with its moulded tie beam and
pendant, undoubtedly dates from the Elizabethan period.
The north side of the roof is covered with riven stone
slates, which may have been taken off the earlier roof.

The new Free Schools requiring a third master, Richard
Atkis was appointed in 1561. Possibly with a view to
augmenting his salary, he was probably presented to the
benefice of Sutton, *and being a strong supporter of the
reformed religion, it is probable that any ornaments in
the church that did not accord with his views would
be destroyed. The pulpit and reading desk were con-
, structed during his incumbency, the latter bearing the
inscription : —

Richard Atkis. 3. Scolemaster. 15S2.

It has been stated that 2,1 many years ago, Lord Berwick
in the course of alterations in the church, had the back
and upper part of the pulpit made into a reading desk "
This is possible— as the panelling in both are moulded
alike, and they were evidently constructed at the same
time; but apart from the fact that the panels are of different
sizes and do not look as though they would connect
together, one would like to think :,that they separately
iorm the earliest dated examples in the county. The

1 Fisher's Annals of Shrewsbury Schools, pp. 52 > s
3 Shropshire Notes and Queries, Feb. 1. F895.
8 Cranage's Churches of Shropshire, pp. LtBI S.

146

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

communion rail with balustrade, in an excellent state of
preservation, belongs to a somewhat later period.

In the south west corner of the Church is an ancient
stone font which may date from Norman times. It has a
rudely cut bowl with chamfered edge, the hole in which
the staple for securing the cover was fixed, still remains.
It stands upon a plain circular base.

The church was at one time fitted with pews, " many
years ago (18th century) a former L,ord Berwick, the patron
of the benefice caused the old square pews to be replaced
by rows of seats." These have since been removed.

A newspaper correspondent in 1895, stated that the
communion vessels were in the custody of IyOrd Berwick.

A list of Rectors appears in the S.A.S. Transactions, 2nd
Series, Vol. IX, pp. 174-7. The account of Sutton given
in pages 171-178 should also be referred to.

In the aisle are two large stone slabs, with the following
inscriptions : —

In a vault underneath
this stone lie the remains of
John Bemand
for 50 years an inhabitant
of this parish
who departed this life July 12th. 1847.
in the 66th. year of his age.
Requiescat in pace,
also of
Sarah Bemand
Relict of the above
who departed this lift Jan. 20th. 1851.
likewise of Sarah Bemand
youngest daughter of the above
John and Sarah Bemand
who departed this life June 4th. 1851.
in the 25th. year of her age.

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY. 147

In a vault beneath this stone
is interred the body of
Ellen

youngest daughter of
John William and Ellen Towers
of Sutton Cottage near Shrewsbury
who died on the 7th. October 1851.
age 3 years,
also William Jones only
Son of John William & Ellen Towers
Died June 5th. 1853, Aged 10 years.

The old building presents a picturesque appearance, being
covered with ivy which will speedily hasten its destruction.
After having stood the storms of many centuries, it is now
rapidly falling into decay, and the generation that worshipped
within its walls having passed away, there are none who
care to tend the graves of those who lie beneath its
shadow.

"SUTTON SPA."

An account of Sutton would be incomplete without some
description of the spring which issues from a rocky stratum
of ash-coloured clay, or argillaceous schistus, in a little
dell near the margin of the Rea Brook. The water is
colourless, and exhales a faint sulphureous smell which
is much more preceptible in rainy weather. It sparkles
little when poured into a glass, having no uncombined
carbonic acid in its composition. When first drawn its
strong salt taste is evidently mixed with a chalybeate
flavour, but the latter is wholly lost on exposure for a few
hours, bubbles of fixed air separating slowly, and a reddish
sediment lining the sides of the vessel. These results
may be the effect of the water acting on pyrites contained
in the coal measures which are found in the neighbourhood.
It has been compared with the Cheltenham water, and it
is supposed to contain nearly the same ingredients, but in
reality it bears a stronger affinity to Sea-water, possessing
however an advantage over the former in that it contains iron

148

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

1 An analysis of the water published in 1854, *s as follows :—
Eleven cubic inches of the waUr contain about half
a cubic inch of carbonic acid, partly free and partly
in a combined state, a quarter of a cubic inch of
atmospheric air, and a trace of sulphuretted
hydrogen.

Sixteen fluid ounces contain of : —
Iodme and Bromine, each a trace.
Carbonate Iron, about 07 grain.
Carbonate Lime and siliceous earth, each a trace.
Anhydrous muriate magnesia, 8*8 grains.

lime, 30 grains.

soda, i2i*3 grains.

The water has been found beneficial in the treatment of
scrophula, and other diseases of the skin. A tumbler
glassful acts as an aperient.

2Writing in 1824 Dr. Evans a local medical practitioner,
stated that M a twenty years attendance at the Salop Infirmary
as well as in private practice, has furnished me with abundant
proofs of its success in the treatment of scrophulous
affections."

The importance of this spring has been known for many
years, and it has been suggested that it might be made of
greater use to the community, if exploited as a health
resort. In comparatively recent years the late Lord Berwick
sent samples of the water to a well-known Analyst who
obtained results which confirmed the earlier analysis.

Excavations have since been made with the object of
ascertaining whether it would be possible to increase the
supply, but they had the opposite effect, as the How of
water almost entirely ceased.

In course of time the spring has resumed its normal
flow, but it is improbable that it can ever be of much value
owing to the limited supply.

1. Pidgeon'l Memorials of Shrewsbury. ISM, p W9t

2. Shropshire Gazatecr. 1824, p. 649,

149

THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON.

The Parish Register Abstract of 1831 states, "No Registers
to be found prior to 1814." The Report to the County
Council issued in 1903 mentions four volumes, and says
they commence in 1769. Both accounts are inaccurate.
There are in reality five volumes, the earliest of which
commences in 1709. They are as follows : —
L General Register, 1709 — 1812.
II. Baptisms and Marriages, 1813 — 1833.

III. Baptisms, 1813— 1868.

IV. Burials, 1847— 1853.
V. Marriages, 1838 — 1870.

Volume I is a small quarto paper book in boards, 8 inches
in length and 6J inches in width. It contains entries of
8 marriages and but one burial ; all the remaining entries
are births or baptisms.

Volume II is a paper book, bound in tree calf, the same
size as the preceding. It contains 4 marriages, all the
other entries being baptisms.

Volume III is the usual printed Register of Baptisms.
The first 33 entries were copied from Volume II into this
book by the Rev. William John James, curate of Berriugton
and Sutton (afterwards Vicar of The Clive) in 1S32,
presumably because the small quarto Volume II was not
one ol the official Register Books. Baptisms were continued
in it until 1868, when children were no longer baptized
at Sutton.

Volume IV is the usual printed Register of Burials. Then
were only 5 from 1847 to 1853; and in four ol these the
officiating minister has omitted to cuter the year ! The
date of the last entry is shown by the extant Certificate ol
Registry oi Death.

j

THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON".

Volume V is the official Marriage Register. There were
but 8 weddings between 1838 and 18-0, the date of the
last wedding solemnized at Sutton.

Volume II was transcribed by Mr. J. A. Morris; Volume
III by the Rev. F. Adeney Allen ; and Volumes I, IV, and V
by the Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, who has also collated the
transcripts with the original Registers, and carried them
through the press. The Registers are now printed by
the kind permission of the Rev. W. H. Bather, the present
Rector of Sutton.

THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON BY
SHREWSBURY.

Vol. I. Baptisms and Marriages, 1709 to 18 12 (and one

burial).

Register of Sutton, 1755.
[Scribbled inside the cover:] Joseph Thorp at the Justice

Rotherhith London Wall. Oround, Wormwood, Scerve

grass, Hishope, Fetherfew, Robin, Planton, Rew.

Chickinweed, Five finger grass.
Edward the son of Edward and Susanna Dixon was baptized

Feb. 12, 1709.

Samuel the son of Thos. Ratcliffe and Alice his wife was

baptized November 12, 1710.
John the son of Edward Dixon and Susant his wife was

baptized March 30th, 17 12.
The Revrd. Mr. John Cotton minister of Meole-Brace and

Mrs. Elizth. Marygould were married in Sutton Chappie

May 26th, 171 2.

Mary > e daughter of Edwd. & Margt. Gough was bom July
27th, 1730.

[After this, the entries are here abbreviated.]

1731, Dec. 13. Edwd., s. of Edwd. >S: Margt, Gough . . born

1732, Jan. 13. Margt, d. of Edwd & Margt. Gough .. born
1735-6, Jan. 30. Willin, s. of Edwd. & Margt. Gough . . bap.
1737, Aug. 4. Elizth, d. of Edwd. & Margt. Gondii born
1744, July 10. John. s. of Edwd. & Margt. Gough . bap.

THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON. 151

1745, Apr. 1. Richd., s. of Edwd. & Marg\ Gough . . bur.

1745, June 3. Thos., s. of Richd. & Margt. Jones . . bap.

1747-8, Feb. 14. Margaret, d. of Richd. & Margt. Jones bap.

1747, May 10. Margaret, d. of Edwd. & Mary Russel bap.

1748, Oct. 9, Hannah, d. of Edwd. & Mary Russel . . bap.

1748, July 29. Martha, d. of Willm. & Mary Boycott bap.

1749, May 14. Willm, s. of John & Mary Rowley .. bap.

[An entry is torn off here.]

1750, Feb. 10. Lambert, s. of Lawrence & Iribell Sturges bap.
I75°> Jan- l5- Mary, d. ot Willm. & Mary Boycott . . bap.

1750, June 20. Mary, d. of Edwd. & Mary Russel . . bap.

1751, Dec. 8. John, s. of John & Mary Rowley . . bap.

1752, May 20. Willm., s. of Richd. & Margt. Jones . . bap.

1752, July 12. Edwd., s. of Edwd. & Mary Russel . . bap.

[An entry is torn off here.]

1753, Sept. 11. Willm., s. of Willm. & Mary Boycott . . bap.

1753, Oct. 14. Mary, d. of John & Mary Rowley . . bap.

1754, Oct. 3. Ralph, s. of Willm. & Mary Boycott .. bap.

1755, Apr. 13. John, s. of Richd. & Margt. Jones . . bap.
1755, Oct. 12. Willm., s. of John & Margaret Robinson bap.
1755, Dec. 12. Benjamin, s. of Willm. & Mary Boycott bap.

1757, Jan. 23. Robert, s. of Richard & Margaret Jones bap.
' 1757, Jan. 23. Tabitha, d. of Edward & Mary Russel bap.

1758, Aug. 29. Thomas, s. of Wm. & Mary Boycott . . bap.

1762, Jan. 30. John Pembrey & Sarah Lewis (both of

this p.) by lie. by John Allen . . mar.

1763, Feb. 8. Robert Harper, of p. of St. Chad,

Shrewsbury, & Margaret Harper of

this p., by lie, by John Brooke . . mar.

1766, Oct. 5. John Tannet of p. Middle & Ann Boycot

of p. Sutton, by lie, by John Allen. . mar.

1768, Jan. 31. Thomas Pughof p. Brace- Meole & Mary
Jones of this p., by banns, by John

Allen .. .. .. mar.

1776, Nov. 3. John Evans of p. Holy Cross and
Catherine Williams of this p., by

licence, by J. Jones .. .. mar,
Witness: Thos. Jones, Thos. Pugh.

THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON.

1770, Nov. 11. John, s. of John & Mary Davis , . bap.

„ Nov. 11. Ester, d. of Humry & Mary Hartshorn bap.

1772, May 10. Thomas, s. of Jane Robinson, a bace child bap.
,, Aug. 9. George, s. of Catherine Williams, a bace

child . . . . . . bap.

1773, Nov. 14. Leah, d. of Humpry & Mary Hartshorn bap.

1774, May 8. Caziah, d. of Catherine Williams, a bace

child .. .. .. bap.

1775, Nov. 12. Richard, s. of Humpry & Mary Hartshorn bap.
1775, Nov. 12. Ester, d. of Thos. & Mary Pugh .. bap.
1772, Apr. 12. Leah, d. of Humphrey & Mary Hartshorn bap.
1774, Feb. 13. James, s. of Thos. & Elizabeth Canadine bap.
1774, Oct. 9. Mary, d. of John and Mary Davis . . bap.

1774, Oct. 26. Priscilla, d. of Edward & Elizabeth Wade bap.

1775, Oct. 8. Elizabeth Farnhill, d. of William &

Esther Salter . . . . . . bap.

1777, Mar. 9. Mary, d. of Peter & Annah Russell . . bap.

1778, Dec. 13. John, s. of John & Elizth Haycock .. bap.

1778, Dec. 13. Rachel, d. of Humphery & Mary

Hartshorn . . . . . . bap.

1779, Sept. 30. Frances, d. of John & Sarah Jones . . bap.

1780, Jan. 9. Elizabeth, d. of Arron & Elizabeth Stanly bap.

1780, Dec. 10. Leah, d. of Humphery & Mary Hartshorn bap.

1781, Nov. 11. John, s. of Arron & Elizabeth Stanley. . bap.

1782, Sept. 2. Thomas, s. of John & Mary Cleaton .. bap.

1783, Mar. 9. Edward, s. of Humphery & Mary Harts-

horn.. .. .. .. bap.

1783, Mar. 16. Elizabeth, d. of John & Elizabeth Ha\ cock bap.

1785, July 10. Elizabeth, d. of John & Mary Cleaton . . bap.
1785, Aug. 14. Priscilla, d. of Humphery & Mary

Hartshorn . . . . . . bap.

1788, Mar. 10. Ann. d. of Thomas & Shusanah Owen. . bap

1788, Oct. 12. Mary, d. of Humphery & Mary Jouea . . bap.

1796, June 12. Thomas, s. oi John & Mary Cooper .. bap.

171)8, Sept. 16. Ann, d. ot John *N; Mary Qpoper . . bap.

1799, July 14. "Thomas, s. of Edward & Mary Cartwright bap.

1800, April 13. Jane, d. of Hannah & William Robarts bap

1 801, July 12, Frances, d. of William & Mar) A.ndaraoa bap.

THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON. 153

1S04, Dec. 9. Mary, d. of John & Mary Cooper . . bap.
[" R.H," i.e. Richard Hill, rector, is appended to the last
4 entries].

1812, Mar. 8. Elisabeth, d. of Benjamin & Sarah Jones bap.

By me G. A. Maddock, Curate.
1812, Dec. 13. Martha, d. of Thomas & Martha Rogers bap.

By me G. A. Maddock, Curate.
1809, Mar. 16. George, s. of George & Margaret Lloyd

Heath (born Feb. 11, 1802) chr. by me

Richard Hill, Rector of Sutton.
1809, Mar. 16. Samuel, s. of the above George and

Margaret Lloyd Heath (born June 8,

1804) chr. by me Richard Hill,

Rector of Sutton.
1809, Mar. 16. Margaret, d. of the above George and

Margaret Lloyd Heath (born Mar. 14,

1807) chr. by me Richard Hill,

Rector of Sutton.
1809, April 23. James, s. of John and Mary Cooper chr.

by me Richard Hill, Rector of

Sutton.

1809, April 23. Anne, d. of William & Anne Palmer
chr. by me Richard Hill, Rector of
Sutton.

[The next 4 entries are on slips pasted into the Volume].

1768, Jaii. 31. Thomas Pugh & Mary Jones mar. at
Sutton Chapell.

1772. Thomas, s. of William & Jane Robinson,

born May 8, 1772, baptized at Sutton
Chapel near Shrewsbury or at St.
Julian's Church Shrewsbury.

1799, July 14. Thomas, s. of Edward & Mary Cart-
wright, bap. by me Rd. Hill, Curate of
Sutton.

1801, July 12. Francis, d. of William and Mary Aiulci
son, bap. by me Richard Hill. Curate
of Sutton.

154

THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON.

[At the end of the Volume :]
1756, May 16. Edward Mathews of p. [ . . ]ly, co.

Salop, & Elizabeth Key, sp. of this p.
mar. by banns by me H. Butler,
Curate.

Witnesses • Thomas Key, Wm. Boycott.
Banns published April 26, May 2 and 9, 1756.
1783, Nov. 14. Edward, s. of Thos. & Mary Pugh

bap.

Vol. II. Baptisms and Marriages, 18 13 to 1833
Baptism's at Sutton.
Charlotte daughter of John & Sarah Bemand, born October
the 8th 1813, Baptized October the 10th in the same year
by me G. A. Maddock, Curate.
William son of Richard & Elizabeth Wall, Born January the
12th 1814 and Baptized February 13th in the same year
by me G. A. Maddock, Curate.

[After this, the entries are here abbreviated].
1 814, March 13. Thomas, s. of Samuel & Elizabeth Trevor,
born 10th, bap. by me G. A. Maddock.
Curate. [Signs the next 10 entries].
Sarah, d. of Thomas & Ann Trevor,
born 5th . . . . . . bap.

Seliua, d. of John & Elizabeth Evans,
born 12th . . . . . . bap.

John, s. of John & Sarah Bemand, born
Oct. 4th . . . . . . bap.

Christen. April 12th, 1815.
1812, Oct. 11. Henry, s. of George & Margaret Lloyd

Heath, b. Sept. 20th . . . . bap.

Christened Jan. 27th, 1815.
1816, Feb. 5. Joseph, s. of William & Mary Rowlands.

b. 29 Jan. . . . . . bap.

& Christened March 10th 1816.
„ Apr. 14. Richard, s. of John & Sarah Beniond,

b. 11 Ap. . . . . . . bap,

,, July 14. Mary, d. of Richard & Margaret White-
foot, b. Nov. nth, [815 .. .. Chi

,, March 13.
» Aug.
Oct.

14.

THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON. 155

1816, Aug. 21. Richard, s. of George & Margaret Uoyd

Heath, b. July 13th , . . . bap.

„ Sept. 8. Hannah, d. of Samuel & Elizabeth

Trevor, b. 3rd . . . . . . bap.

Nov. 5. Sarah, d. of John & Mary Jones, b.Oct. 21st bap.
& Xtnd Nov. 10th, 18 16.

1817, May 11. Mary, d. of Benjamin & Sarah Jones, b.

5 Ap. bap. & xnd. by me Richard
Hill, Rector. [Signs the next 5
entries].

1817, Aug. 27. William, s. of John & Sarah Bemand,

b. 21st . . . . . . bap.

1818, Nov. 8. Richard, s. of Richard & Elizabeth Wall,

b. 22 Oct. . . . . . . bap.

1S19, Apr. 11. Mary, d. of John & Mary Jones, b. 4th. . bap.
,, Feb. 14. Mary Anne, d. of John & Sarah Bemand,

b. 12th . . . . . . bap.

1820, Mar. 12. Elizabeth, d. of Thos. & Ann Trevor,

b. 9th . . . . . bap.

,, Dec. 10. Henry, illegte s. of Mary Jones, p. of St.

Julian in Shrewsbury, was bap. by me
Robt. Edwards, M.A., Cler., Officg.
Minr.

182 1, Mar. 11. John Plant, illegitimate [written over in

pencil] s. of John Plant & Harriet
Davies, b. 1st March . . . . bap.

by me Richard Hill, Rector. [Signs
also the next 6 entries],

1822, Mar. 29. Ellen, d. of John & Sarah Bemand, b. 23rd bap.

Christened Oct. 23, 1827, By mo J. M
Wakefield, Curate.

1823, Jan. 21. Hannah, d. of Thomas & Anne Trevor bap.

Christened on 11 May, 1823.
July 13. Charlotte Elizabeth, d. of John and

Sarah Bemand, b. 8th . . bap
Christened by me, Oct. 23. 1S27. J. M.
Wakkfikld, Curate.

156 THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON.

1824, Jan. 11. Benjamin, s. of Benjamin & Sarah Jones,

b. Dec. 11, 1823. . .. .. bap.

,, Aug. 8. Elizabeth, d. of John & Mary Jones, b.

27 July . . . . . . bap.

,, Sept. 27. Samuel, s. of John &Sarah Bemand, b. 22nd bap.

Christened Oct. 23, 1827, by me J. M.

Wakefield, Curate.

1825, Dec. 15. John Davies Corrie, of p. Welsh Pool, &

Mary Anne Meire of this p. was married
by license by E. Evans, Curate, in the
presence of Elizabeth Pitt, Thos. Wm.
Thornes, J. Meire.

1826, Aug. 11. Sarah, d. of John & Sarah Bemand, b. 8th bap.

by me E. Evans, Curate of Sutton
near Salop.

Christened Oct. 23, 1827, by me J. M.
Wakefield, Curate.

1827, Apr. 8. Henry George, s. of Mary Corbet, base

child, born Feb. 25, 1817 .. .. bap.

by me J. M. Wakefield, Curate of
Sutton nr. Salop.

1828, Sept. 14. Martha, d. of Thomas & Anne Trevor,

b. 13th . . . . . . bap.

Christened Oct. 12, 1828 by J. M.
Wakefield.

1828, Oct. 28. George Whitfield Lovegrove & Mar-

garet Heath, married by license in this
Chapel of Sutton by J. M. Wakefield,
Curate of Sutton. Witness thereto :
Charles Pugh, Benjamin Boudler.
Nov. 9. Susan, d. of John & Mary Jones, b. Oct. nth chr.

1829, July 12. Hannah, d. of Richard & Mary Scutt,

b. 10 June . . . . . . bap.

by Revd. Maddy, Officiating Minister.
1829, Sept. 9. Emily, d. of George Whitfield & Mar-
garet Lovegrove . . . . bap.

by Revd. J. M. Wakhi-ii:i.i\ Curate
of Sutton.

THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON. 157

1830, May 6. William Richards, of p. St. Chad,
Shrewsbury, bachelor, & Ann Kerry,
of this p., spinster, married by banns
by me W. J. James, Curate. In the
presence of Samuel L,angford, Sarah
Thomas.

,, June 1. Mary Frances, d. of Samuel and Frances
Henrietta Antonia Jeffreys, born May
31st . . . . . . . . bap.

by me W. J. James, Rector of Sutton.
1S33. Sept. 23. John Harris of this p., bachelor, & Charlotte
Wiicox of p. Meole Brace, spinster, married
by banns, by me W. J. James, M.A., Curate.
Witnesses: Cornelius Wilcox, Sarah Harris.

Vol. III. Baptisms, 1813 to 1868.

[The 33 Baptisms entered on pages 1 to 4 of this volume
are the same as those in Vol. II, from 10 October, 1813,
to 9 September, 1829, already printed. They were copied
into this book by the Rev. W. J. James, Curate, in 1832,
as appears by the following memorandum written on
page 5.]

Note. The foregoing Baptisms, thirty-three in number
were carefully and truly copied from the old but irregular
Register for Baptisms, &c, for the Parish of Sutton (the
abodes and professions of the parties not appearing therein)
this eight day of October, 1832, by me William John James,
Clerk, B.A., Curate of Berrington and Sutton.

Baptisms for 1829, 1830, 1831, 1S32, 1833, and 1S34.

1830, June 1. Mary Frances, d. of Samuel & Frances

Henrietta Antonia Jeffryes, Sutton, Gent,
born May 31 [bap. by] W. J. James, Curate.
[Mr. James signs all the entries to 1853, except where other-
wise stated.

1 831, Apr. 24. Harriet Eliza, d. of Samuel ft Fianoes

Henrietta Antonia Jeffryes, Sutton. Gent,
born April 21.

I58 THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON.

1 83 1, Dec. 11. Joseph, s. of Richard & Sarah Sket, Sutton,

Labourer, born Nov. 20.

1832, July 19. Helen, d. of Samuel & Frances Henrietta

Antonia Jeffryes, Sutton, Gent, born July 16.

1833, May 12. Anne, d. of John & Mary Jones, Sutton,

Labourer.

i833» J^y 14. William, s. of John & Rebecca Griffiths,
Sutton, Brickmaker [ bap. by J William
Vaughan, Offe Clergyman.

1834, Feb. 20. Ann, d. of Richard & Sarah Sket, Sutton,

Labourer.

1834, May 11. Elizabeth, illegitimate d. of Elizabeth Evans,
Sutton.

1834, July 13. Fanny, d. of Samuel & Frances Henrietta

Antonia Jeffryes, Sutton, Gent, born July 6.

1835, Nov. 23. Eliza, d. of Richard & Jane Lewis, Sutton

Gate, Collier.

1835, Dec. 13. William, s. of William & Frances Rogers,

Sutton Mill, Labourer [bap. by] L- Ottley,
Offe Min.

1836, Jau. 25. Samuel, s. of Samuel & Frances Henrietta

Antonia Jeffryes, Sutton, Gent.

1836, Mar. 23. Emma, d. of Adam & Sarah Purcell, Sutton

Brickyard, Labourer.

1837, Dec. 2. Robert, s. of Thomas & Elizabeth Evans,

Sutton Gate, Gate Keeper.

1838, Sep. 9. Eleanor, d. of John & Sarah Davies, Sutton

Mill, Labourer.

1839, July 27. Ann, d. of Adam & Sarah Purcell, Sutton,

Labourer.

1840, Mar. 23. Ann, d. of Robert & Mary Rogers, Sutton

Mill, Labourer.

1840, June 22. Eliza, d. of Samuel & Elizabeth Lloyd, Sutton

Gate, Gate Keeper.
1840, Dec. 12. George, s. of William & Elizabeth Downes,

Sutton, Labourer.
1843, Feb. 12. David, s. of Richard & H.nin.\h Taylor,

Sutton, Labourer.

THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON. 159

1843, Aug. 28. George King, s. of Richard & Elizabeth

Sutton Bemand, Sutton, N. ercer.

1844, Jan. 24. William Jones, s. of John William and Ellen

Towers, Sutton Cottage, Postmaster.
1844, May 12. John, s. of Richard and Hannah Taylor,
Sutton Gate, Labourer.

1844, Oct. 14. William, s. of William & Harriet Evans,

Sutton Gate, Tailor.

1845, July 11. Edith Elizabeth, d. of John William & Ellen

Towers, Sutton Cottage, Postmaster.

1846, Jan. 11. Richard, illegitimate son of Martha F.ogers,

Sutton.

1846, Mar. 8. Sarah, d. of John & Elizabeth Hughes, Sutton

Mill, Miller.

1847, 3. Joseph Cecil, s. of Joseph and Mary Antrobus

Clay, Sutton, Veterinary Surgeon, born
March 24.

1848, Sept. 29. Ellen, d. of John William & Ellen Towers,

Sutton, Postmaster.
,, Oct. 8. Mary Emily Rosa, d. of Joseph & Mary
Antrobus Clay, Sutton, Veterinary Surgeon.

1850, Aug. 11. Alfred Brocas, s. of Joseph & Mary Antrobus

Clay, Sutton, Veterinary Surgeon, born
July 9-

1851, Jan. 12. John, s. of William & Harriet Evans, Sutton,

Tailor.

,, Apr. 13. Emma, d. of Thomas & Margaret Purslow,
Sutton, Labourer.

1852, July 11. Thomas, s. of Joseph & Ann Seabury, Sutton,

Labourer.

1853, Apr. 10. Thomas, s. of Thomas & Margaret Purslow,

Sutton, Labourer, [bap. by] T. H. N. Hill,
Rector.

1855, Nov. 11. George, s. of Thomas & Sarah Morris, Sutton,

Labourer, [bap. by J T. H. N. Hill, Rector.
[Signs the next 6 entries also].

1856, Aug. 10. George Henry, s. of George <S: Sarah Meredith,

Sutton, Farmer.

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THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON.

1857, Oct. 11. Richard, s. of George & Maria Thompson,

Sutton, Labourer.

1858, May 9. Margaret, d. of Richard & Jane Davies, Sutton,

Labourer.

1859, April 13. George, s. of Richard & Jane Davies, Sutton,

Labourer.

,, June 12. Henry John, s. of George & Maria Thompson,

Sutton, Labourer.
,, Sept, 11. Richard, s. of Edward & Elizabeth Griffiths,

Sutton, Labourer.

1863, Dec. 13. James, s. of Charles & Elizabeth Biddle,

Sutton, Labourer, [bap. byj Wilfred Roxby,
Curate of Berrington. [Signs also the next
3 entries].

1864, Nov. 13. Mary Jane, d. of George & Jane Rowlands,

Brace Meole, Carpenter.
,, Nov. 13. Henry Edward, s. of Edward & Sarah Row-
lauds, Brace Meole, Carpenter.

1865, Mar. 12. Sophia, d. of Herbert & Ruth Davies, Sutton,

Labourer.

,, July 16. George, s. of William & Ann Jones, Sutton,
Labourer, [bap. by] Rev. J. Coling, by
request of Rev. H. N. Hill.

1866, Jan. 14. Amelia Emma, illegitimate d. of Ann Parr,

Sutton, [bap. by] Wilfrid Roxby, Offe Min.
1868, Feb. 9. Ann, d. of Charles & Elizabeth Biddle, Sutton,
Labourer, [bap. by] B. C. Mortimer, Offr
Min.

Vol. IV. Burials, 1847 to 1853.
Burials in the Parish of Sutton 111 the County of Salop.
1847, July 16. John Bemaud, Sutton, 66 yrs.
[1851], Jan. 24. Sarah Bemand, Sutton, 60 yrs.
[1851], June Sarah Bemand, Sutton, 24 yrs.
[1851], Oct. 11. Ellen Towers, Sutton Cottage, parish of St.
Julian, 3 yrs.

[1853], June 11. William Jones Towers, Sutton Cottage, parish
of St. Julian, 9 yrs.
[All five buried by W. J. James, Officiating Minister.]

THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON. l6l

Vol. V. Marriages, 1838 to 1870.

Marriages solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of
Sutton, co. Salop.

No. 1 1838 I Vincent Crump
June 5 J Elizabeth Legh

of full age I bachelor
of full age I spinster

Confectioner

Wyle Cop, p. of St. I Thomas Crump ! leather dresser

Julian, Salop I
Parish of Sutton | Corbet Legh | Farmer

Married by licence, by William John James, M.A. in the

presence of Willm. Crump, Margaret Legh.
[This Licence dated 25 May, 1838 was given by Waties Corbett,

Vicar-General and Official Principal of the Bishop of

Hereford.]

No. 2 im

August 15

George Davies
Margaret Legh

bachelor

of full age

of full age I spinster

Edward Davies Coachman
Farmer

Married by licence by W. J. James, M.A., Offe Minr, in the

Wyle Cop, p. of St.
Julian

Sutton, p. of Sutto$ I Corbet Legh

presence of Willm. Crump, Elizabeth Davies.

1842

John William Towers

of age

bachelor

No. 3 March

29

Ellen Bemand

under age

spinster

Postmaster of
Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury John Towers Gentleman

Sutton John Bemand Yeoman

Married by licence by John Poole, P.C. of Llandysilio,
Montgomeryshire, in the presence of R. Patten, Mary Anne

Bemand.

No. 4

1843
April
19.

George Bemand Smith
Mary Anne Bemand

Pentrc, Montgomery-
shire
Sutton

of full age ] bachelor Farmer
full age
Edward Smith
John Bemand

spinster
Farm ci

Yeoman

Married by licence by Kdwd. Bather, Archdeacotl of Salop,
in the presence of John Bemand, Kdwd. Smith, Charlotte

Klizth. Bemand, G. Mountford.

162

No. 5

1852
April

8.

full age

widower

Innkeeper

Wellington

full age

widow

Sutton

THE PARISH REGISTERS OF SUTTON.
William Dolphin
Elizabeth Gittins
John Dolphin Butcher
Thomas Owen Wheelwright

Married by licence by Edward Sandford, P.C. of Bicton, Salop,
in the presence of Joseph R. Austin, Anne Cadwallader.

No. 6 1857
September

10.

Joseph Morgan

full

age

bachelor

Merchant

Shrewsbury

Martha Brown

full

age

spinster

Sutton

Joseph Morgan
Jacob Brown

Farmer
Farmer

Married by licence by T. H. N. Hill, Rector, in the presence
of James Jones, Jane Brown.

No. 7

1868

Henry Burnet

full age

bachelor

Grocer

Novr.

&

17.

Mary Anne Jones

full age

widow

Parish of Sutton

James Burnet

Parish of St. Mary, Shrewsbury | Jacob Brown

Farmer
Farmer

Married by licence by T. H. N. Hill, Rector, in the presence
of Joseph Morgan, Martha Morgan, James Burnet.

No. 8

1870

May
12

David Key

32

bachelor

Farmer

Kirk Michael, Dum

frieshire

Jane Brown

35

spinster

Sutton

William Key
William Brown

Foreman
Butcher

Married by Daniel Ace, D.D., Officiating Minister, in the
presence of John Baseley, Sarah Wilde.

[The following Memorandum is written on page 5 : ]

Memorandum. Marriages being no longer solemnised in
the Church of St. John, Sutton, owing to Its rutUOQS state,
the duplicate Hooks are disused at this point by direction
of the Registrar General. Nor.i. A HUMPHREYS, ChiefClerk.
General Register Office, Somerset House, 6th January, 1899

sutton, near shrewsbury. 163

Extracts from the Registers of the Bishops
of Hereford.

The Registers of the Bishops of Hereford, now in course
of publication by the Cantilupe Society, contain many
references to Sutton. The Registers of nine Bishops, dating
from 1275 to 1404, have been already printed. The items
relating to Sutton are as follows : —

The Register of Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop of
Hereford (1275 — 1282).

page 24. November 16, 1275. Mandate to induct John de
Hodenet to the custody of the church of Sutton, if the
result of the usual enquiry be found satisfactory, reserving
the institution for the Bishop.

Suttone. — Officiali Herefordensi salutem. Johannes de
Hodenet, presbiter, nobis nuper ad ecclesiam de Suttone
presentatus, litteras clausas sigillis magistri Ricardi, com-
missarii vestri, et Decani de Pontesbury sigillatas nobis
exibuit, super inquisicione facta de persona sua et ecclesia
predicta, ut dicit. Quia vero dicta sigilla 11011 novimus,
volentes dicti Johannis parcere laboribus et expensis, vobis
mandamus quatinus, receptis ab eo litteris supradictis et
istis, si inquisitionem inveneritis rite factam et pro ipso
presbitero facientem, ac ipsum tali beneficio esse dignum,
eidem vice nostra custodiam dicte ecclesie committatis, et
in corporalem possessionem ipsius ecclesie nomine custodie
inducatis eundem. Institucionem tanien, et alia que sunt
gracie, nobis specialiter reservetis. Datum Londoniis xvj
Kalendas Decerabris. (folio 10).
page 36. Feb. 19, 1276. Institution to Sutton of John de
Hodenet, presented by the Prior & Convent of Wenlock. in
accordance with the Constitution of the Second Council
of Lyons. Mandate for Induction.

Suttone. — Thomas, etc. Johauni le Hodenet salutem, etc.
Ad ecclesiam de Suttone vacantem te, ad pre&etttacionem
fratrum Johannis, Supprioris de Wenlake, et Etogeri de
Parva Herefordia, Procuratorum fratris Johannis. Prions
de Wenlake, et ejusdeill loci convenlus, vcronnn patrotiorum
ejusdeni, adinittinius ill forma Coustlttuciouial ill CoilciltQ

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SCTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

Lugdunensi per Dominura Gregoriura Papain Decimum
promulgate ; et Rectorem instituimus in eadem. In cujus,
etc. Datura Herefordie, xj Kalendas Marcii, anno Domini
MCCLXX quinto. Mandatum est Officiali quod mittat
eum in corporalem possessionem, (folio 13).
The Register of Richard de Swinfield, Bishop of
Hereford (1283 — 1317).

page 540. 1312, March 12. Sutton by Shrewsbury: William
de Pembridge, priest, presented by the Bis.iop, in com-
mendam for Hugh de la Barewe, duly presented to it.

page 543. 13 15, Dec 22. Sutton by Shrewsbury : William de
Barewe, acolyte, presented by the prior and Convent of
Weiilock. The same day he had a license of non-residence
for study for three years.

The Register of Adam de Orleton, Bishop of Hereford
(1317— 1327).

page 390. On Nov. 30. 1318, a dispensation for absence was
granted to William de Barewe, Rector ot Sutton-next-
Shrewsbury, subdeacon, for study tor one year. On
March 5, 1320, he received another year; and on Sept. 26,
132 1, a further year; and another on March 30, 1322.

The Register of Thomas de Charlton, Bishop of
Hereford (1327— 1344).

page 90. On May 22, 1330, William de Barewe, Rector of
Sutton by Shrewsbury, had a dispensation for non-
residence, till Michaelmas 1331, for good reasons.
The Register of John dk Trillek, Bishop ot Hereford

(1344— 1361).

page 381. On Nov. 10, 1349, Roger de Lutteley, clerk, was

instituted to Suttou, presented by the King, in right of

his possession of the temporalities of Wenlock Priory.

during the war in France,
page 396. 1350, Nov. 29, Rogei de Lutteley. Rector of Sutton

by Shrewsbury, deacon, had a dispensation for absence,

for study, for one year,
page 549. Dec. 18, 1350, Roger do Lutteley. Rector of the

church of Suttoue by Shrewsbury, was ordained priest on

the title «>! lii^ own ch n ivli .

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY. 165

The Register of Lewis de Chari/tone, Bishop of
Hereford (1361 — 1369).

page 72. On July 9, 1364, William Martyn, Rector of Sutton,
had a dispensation for absence.

The Register op Wiixiam de Courtenay, Bishop of.
Hereford (1372— 1375).

page 22. On Sept. 21, 1370, John Haukyns de Suttone was
ordained acolyte.

The Register of John Gilbert, Bishop of Hereford,

(I375—I389)-

page 117. On Dec. 5, 1381, Richard Astoun, chaplain, was
instituted to Sutton by Shrewsbury, presented by the
King, in right of his possession of the temporalities of
Wenlock Priory.

page 144. On May 19, 1380, Phillip Brooke, de Suttone, was
ordained Kxorcist.

page 131. On Sept. 19, 1377, John of Sottone, received the
first Tonsure.

page 157. On March 5, 1383, John Suttone was ordained
Acolyte.

page 177. On June I, 1387, John Suttone, of St. John's
Hospital, IyUdlow, was ordained subdeacon.

The Register of John Trefnant, Bishop of Hereford,
(1389— 1404).

page 179. On Sept. 1, 1394, John Feckenham is instituted
to Sutton, presented by the King, in right of his possession
of the temporalities of Wenlock Priory, vacant after an
inquiry by the Commissioners.

page 181. On Dec. 21, 1396, John Wythyngton is instituted
to Sutton by Shrewsbury, presented by the King.

Charters and Records of Hereford Cathedral I pages
156 and 172. Elyas de Suttone appears as a witness to .1
quit-claim by the Prior and Convent of Wenlock Oi 1
house at Diddlebury, March 24, 1286; and to a grant In

the Abbot and Convent of Shrewsbury of tfce advowsoo
of Tugford, etc., to Bishop S win field, circa [JQO.

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SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

ADDITIONAL NOTES ON SUTTON.
The following notice of Sutton is taken from the MSS.
Collections for Shropshire of the late William Hardwicke of
Bridgnorth (1772 — 1843) ; and throws some light on the place
as it was between eight)' and ninety years ago.

" Sutton near to Shrewsbury contains [blank] acres of land ;
is bounded on the north by the Meole Brook which separates
it from the parish of the Holy Cross in Shrewsbury ; on the
east by that of Atcham, on the south by Berrington and
Condover, and on the west by Brace Meole. The manor and
estates are the property of Rt. honble. William Hill, baron
Berwick of Attingham, late ambassador at the court of Naples.

It consists of four farms — the old hall standing near to the
church with its farm is occupied by Samuel Jeffeiies ; to the
south of this about a quarter of a mile stands a modern
brick built house which with its farm is tenanted by Mr.
Joseph Meire ; to the west of the latter about half a mile but
near to Brace Meole is another held by Mr. George Heath ;
and to the east of the latter about a quarter of a mile and
near to the hall is another held by Mr. John Bemand ; aud
the mill at a short distance to the west of the last upon
Meole Brook is occupied by Mr. Samuel Southam."

The "old hall" near the church is now known as the Church
Farm ; as far as one can tell from the exterior, it appears to
have been rebuilt some time in the early portion of the last
century. There is an extensive garden, enclosed by walls
built with bricks similar to those in the west end of the
church, but otherwise there is little to suggest that its pre-
decessor was the home of the Prowde family from the 14th
century until the dissolution, and, in after /ears, the
occasional residence of the Mackworth family until they sold
the property in 1775.

The "modern brick house" once occupied by Mr. Joseph
Meire is now described as Upper Sutton farm, The fata
house held by Mr. George Heath Stands on the ftidfi
the road from Shrewsbury to Bayston Hill, and has been

SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

I67

known for a century as Sutton Villa. At he corner of the
lane opposite Sutton Villa some of the buildings of Sutton
Forge remain, but the house and forge have disappeared. A
witness in the action between the Corporation of Shrewsbury
and Boycott in 1754, stated that he remembered an attempt
being made by the town officers to arrest a person at Sutton
Forge for some offence committed in the town. He escaped
arrest on the ground that he was outside the jurisdiction of
the town. Another witness remembered that his father was the
tenant of land some of which was in Sutton parish, and he,
having been informed that the town officers were coining to
"press" his team for the purpose of carrying soldiers'
baggage, instructed his son to drive the horses on to the
Sutton portion of the holding, whereby he successfully resisted
their demands.

The farm which was held for several generations by the
Bemand family has a modern house, and is now described as
Lower Sutton Farm.

xThe records of Coroner's Inquests at the beginning of the
14th century contain several references to Sutton. We are
told that 12 jurors of the districts of Sutton, Noubalde and
, Polyleye held an enquiry in 1297, about the death of a man
who was killed on the road " which leads to Noubalde." In
1304, a similar enquiry was held about Hugh de Bradeleye,
who was going "by night towards the mill of the Prior of
Wenlock (at Sutton) and when he came near the aforesaid
mill he entered into the water and was drowned." Another
enquiry was held in 1306, in reference to William of Longeuile
who " was working at a certain marl pit in the held of the prior of
the vill of Sutton, and was overwhelmed." A comparatively
modern account of an inquest at Sutton is included unoogsl
the MSS. of Sir Thomas Phillipps, it refers to the death ot a
little girl named Martha Boycott, who was killed bv the felling
branch of a tree. At the inquest held on April 15, i;m, In
the house of her father William Boycott, the COronei Thomas
Dickill was represented by his deputy Abraham Jones who mi
l S.A.S. TrunilUQtioflli aYd Hcricn, Vol. V, pp. 154, 107, 173.

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SUTTON, NEAR SHREWSBURY.

also the Steward of the Manor. The jurors returned a
verdict of accidental death ; their names were as follows: —
Robert Harper, Richard Littlehales, Richard Williams, Francis
Woodham, Thomas Spendlow, John Checkington, Robert
Jones, Roger Green, John Barber, Thomas Richards, and
Thomas Edgerley.

In 1757, Robert Harper was appointed supervisor of the
Highways, and a voluntary rate of 2d. was levied on the
principal occupants of the parish for the repair of the roads.

£ s. d.

assessed on

Margaret Harper
William Boycott
Thomas Edgerley
Richard Breather
Richard Scoltock
David Jones
James Hartshorne

£94

£30
£30
£10

13

6

5
5
5
1

£2 12

iTwo inhabitants of Sutton were assessed to the Subsidy
of 1327, which was granted by the First Parliament of
Edward III, to meet the expenses of the Scotch War. The
Recora gives this : —

SUTTONE. Joh'e le Reue xviijd.

Ric'o fil' Ric'i .... ijs.

The illustrations have been re-produced from photographs
taken by Mr. J. W. Heath. The one represents 11 Sutton
Church and the Old Hall" and shows the 18th century brick
gable of the church with the site of the old grave yard on
the right. The other illustrates the north side of the Church,
with the ancient stone slab roofing ; part of this roof collapsed
a few years ago, and has been repaired with The
window openings have no glazing, but are protected with
wire lattice.

1 P.R.O., Exchequer Lay Subsidy, 166—1. I KJw^rJ III S

169

SOME OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES AND THEIR

OWNERS.

By H. E. FORREST.

I. WHITTON.
Whitton is situated in the Parish of Westbury within a
mile of the church. In Norman times it belonged to the
Corbets of Caus and was held under them by a family called
after the place "de Whitton." Richard de Whitton was living
here in 1209 and was succeeded by Simon ; then by Robert,

, (122 1 — 1274) — possibly two of the same name — and then by
another Simon de Whitton, who was also known as Simon

j Lowys (1292 — 1327). John de Whitton was sheriff in 1362,
and Thomas de Whitton in 1407. The last heir male was
John de Whitton who was living here in 1450. His daughter
and heiress married

William Lingen who belonged to a branch of the family
I long seated at Lingen in Herefordshire. His son

John Lingen married a Welsh wife, the daughter of David
I ap Griffiths, perhaps of Wollaston. He had a son

William Lingen who married Margaret Chetwynd. His son

vJohn Lingen, who disclaimed arms in 1584, married Eliza-

| beth Corbet and had a son
Edward Lingen who married Elizabeth Lyster of Rowton,

I and was father of
Thomas Lingen. He married the sister of the learned Hugh
Broughton, the divine, and Rabbinical scholar (1549 —
1612) who came from Owlbury near Bishop's Castle.
The eldest daughter
Elizabeth Lingen married in 1594

Alexander Topp (I) (described in Ins marriage settlement as
of Fisherton near Salisbury) who thus came into the
Whitton estate. He was of Stockton Co. Wilts, and
came of an ancient family which had long flourished to
Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. "At an eftrlj fcgt he
put himself under the tuition of the very learned Hu^li
Broughton, and accompanied bin Into QenMBJ Kfl

/

I
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17° OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES

1589 that he might receive the bem fit of his instructions.
His attachment to this eminent scholar wls rewarded
by the hand of his niece," as mentioned above. He
died at Whitton in 1663 and was buried 23rd June in
Westbury church. His son

LlNGEN Topp was twice married. With his first wife Mar-
garet he lived at Chatford in the parish of Condover
where three sons — Alexander, Francis, and John — were
born to him between 1632 and 1636, but they all died
young. His wife Margaret died in 163S and was buried
on 1st October at Pontesbury. By his second wife
Dorothy who died in 1663 he had two daughters and
three sons. The eldest, Alexander, succeeded him at
Whitton ; the second, Robert, born in 1647, was in Holy
Orders and lived at Chichester; while the third, Edward,
was agent to his kinsman Sir John Topp of Todmai ton,
and was buried there in 1699 aged 50. Lingeu Topp
was churchwarden of Westbury in 1662 and sheriff of
Shropshire in 1679. His son

Alexander Topp (II) enjoyed a long life for he was born
about 1640 and was buried at Westbury 15th April 1722.
Like his father he was twice married. By his first wife
Barbara daughter of John Corbet of Glyn (buried at
Westbury 20th January, 1691), he had three daughters
and one son, John, born 1683, and by his second wife
Penelope a son, Robert, born 1692 and a daughter, Mary.
The present Hall at Whitton was probably built mainly
by this Alexander Topp. His son

John Topp (I) appears to have completed the work begun by
his father, and to have added a dovecote and outbuildings,
to be mentioned presently. The inscription on his
tombstone in Westbury church is as follows --" This
stone is placed in memory of John Topp 01 Whitton
Esq. whose singular virtues gained him general esteem,

He departed this life (much lamented) lOtfa March 1736
in the 54th year of his ige. And also in pious memory

of Ursula, widow and relict of the aforesaid John Topp

who died June 4th 1747 BBtSt 51,

AND THEIR OWNERS. 171

In faith she died, in dust she lies
But faith foresees that dust shall rise
When Jesus calls, while hope assumes
And boasts her joy among the tombs."
John Topp's wife Ursula was the daughter of Richard
Payne of the Mere Bank, Baschurch, and widow of Ward
Offley of Hinton. She was survived by two daughters
Jane (born 1724 married — Pryce) and Sarah (born 1728
married Richard Lloyd of Shrewsbury) and by one son
John Topp (II) (born 1721) Sheriff of Shropshire in 1765.
He married in 1755 at St, Mary's, Shrewsbury, Sarah,
daughter of Thomas Kynnersley of Wrickton, Stottesden,
but lost his wife in 1768, and as there was no issue of
the marriage, when he himself died in 1778 (he was
buried at Westbury 18th April) Whitton passed to the
son of his sister Sarah, Richard Lloyd, who thereupon
took the name of
Richard Topp. Although then nearly thirty he was a
bachelor, and it was not till 1790 that he married by
license at Westbury church on 2nd December, Ann
Hughes of Shrewsbury. From the mural tablets in
Westbury church we learn that Richard Topp died 12th
July 1829 aged 80, and his wife Anne 1st February 1854
aged 88. She appears to have lived at Whitton up to the
time of her death, for Bagshaw's Gazcteer, 1S51, mentions
" Mrs. Topp " as sole landowner of Whitton, and gives
her address as "Whitton Court." This old lady .survived
all her children. To the eldest son
John Topp there is in Westbury Church a large marble
tablet recording in Latin that John Topp of Whitton.
priest in the Anglican Church, died at Pisa in Tuscan v.
22nd December 1836, aged 45. His remains were brought
home and buried here by his widow M.uv. daughter of
William Harley of Shrewsbury, who died 17th April 1875,
She lived at Whitton the latter part of her lilc. The
marriage is thus enti ied in St. Chad's redisti l : "i.v\\
Aug. 12th. — John Topp, clerk, par. oi Wcsthuiv \o Maria
llarley of this parish, spinster."

172

OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES

[The last survivors of the family w°re her two daughters
Agatha Cecilia (1828-1887) and Isabella Christina
(1831-1883) who lived for many years in Belmont,
Shrewsbury, where they are still remembered].

To the second son Richard is a tablet as follows :— 4 ' To
the memory of Richard Topp, second son of Richard Topp
Esq. of Whitton, ensign in the XCIVth Regiment, who having
strongly recommended himself to the notice aud approbation
of his superior officers in the Battle of Vittoria and many
other engagements in the Spanish Peninsula and the South of
France, after sustaining a most gallant defence against a
greatly superior force, fell, universally beloved and lamented,
in the passage of the Garve River, February 24, 1814, aged
20 years."

Edward Lingen Lloyd Topp, youngest son, died December
5, 1822, aged 27.

Sally, wife of Revd. Charles Leicester, rector of the second
part of Westbury Parish, eldest daughter of the late Richard
Topp and Anne, died at Ostend 10 September 1843, aged 44,
and was buried in the English Cemetery at Bruges.

Of the other three daughters, Anne Penelope, born in 1802,
married the Rev. Thomas Parr, rector of the first portion of
Westbury, son of Thomas Parr of Lythwood; Susanna
Emma (1804) married Thomas Beck of Llwynderw ; while
Catherine (1806) married James Fortnum of Cheltenham.
There are no monuments to these ladies in Westbury Church.

Amongst the local charities we find that John Topp (I)
by deed dated 1716, left a yearly rent charge on certain
lands in Vennington on trust to dispose of the same /early
in the education of poor children of the parish of Westbury,
and in putting out such children apprentices.

The arms of the Topp Family were "Argent on I canton
gules a gauntlet clasped proper." In Blafciway'l > •
Shropshire they are given thus for both Linden Topp^K-o
and John Topp (1765). On the tomb »| John Tmt (1 nil
coat of arms and crest are depicted in low relief and OOlOUrtd,

AND THEIR OWNERS. 173

the whole surrounded by elaborate scrolls. The arms of the
Topp family as above are here shown impaling those of his
wife (Payne) namely :— "Or, three hurts on a chief engrailed
azure three bezants." The Topp's crest, shown on the
tombstone surmounting an esquire's helmet, was " A gauntlet
proper grasping a naked hand couped at the wrist guttee de
sang." This crest carved in wood was used as a finial to a
quaint wooden summer-house still standing in the garden
to the rear of the Hall at Whitton. This was probably built
by John Topp (I).

From the above historical sketch it will be seen that by
marriage of the heiress in each case Whitton passed
successively from the de Whittons to the Lingens, Topps,
and Lloyds, though the last holders assumed the maternal
name of Topp. It now belongs to the Wallop estate.

Although there must have been a house here from very
early times, there are now no remains of the early building
except its site which is marked by a rectangular moat ; and
traces of a mill which existed in the last century. The
mill-pond is still there and below the overflow is a paved
, portion of the brook, adjoining the road, known as the Horse
Wash ; probably because the mill wagon-horses used to have
their legs washed there.

The present house, known as Whitton Hall, is a good
example of the early Georgian period, commonly called
" Queen Anne." It is of brick with stone facings. Its plan
is square with projecting wings in front, while the wings
have stone-coped gables rising higher than the central ba>
The floor-levels are outlined by projecting courses of stone
running across the frontage, while the doorway and central
bay have characteristic triangulai entablatures with deep
mouldings. The central upper window only is round-headed,
the rest being square with the thick-ban ed MShCfl char-
acteristic of the period. The central bay at the ic.u projects
slightly and has a raised parapet with open balustrade
centre.

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Of the interior features the staircase is perhaps the most
remarkable : the balustrade has three c ifferent patterns of
balusters disposed seriatim — plain-turned, fluted, and spiral;
the handrail terminating at the foot of the stairs in a spiral
curve outwards. The step-ends are adorned with a peculiar
double scroll. Several of the rooms are wainscotted : the
dining-room has the usual large bevelled panels, the lower
series forming a dado, while a fluted pilaster reaching from
floor to ceiling stands on either side of the fireplace. Strange
to say these are of deal, not oak. One of the upper rooms is
lined with Jacobean panelling ; three of the upper panels
bear inscriptions : —

I.N.R.I. TS'M. S.P.E.

These, however, look as if they had been inserted in modern
times.

The kitchen has an immensely wide fireplace, now enclosed
and occupied by a range. A window on the back stairs with
oak mullion and transom, has leaded lights with small square
panes of greenish glass. This appears to have come from an
earlier house as it is older than the present building. The
front garden is enclosed on either side by a long range of
stabling and out-buildings. That on the West bears on the
top a handsome vane of wrought ironwork with the inscription
14 1.T., Esq., 1756." The initials are those of John Topp, the
second of that name : the use of the term " Esq." here betrays
some conceit in this gentleman.

The house was probably built by the second Alexander
Topp, but finished by his son the first John Topp. Several
inscribed stones belonging to demolished buildings are to be
seen in the garden walls marked j ^ U. w^u various dates —
1727, 1731, etc: the initials are those of John and Ursula
Topp.

Adjoining the South-west corner is a circular dovecote of
the same period as the house, with nest holes ioi 590 pigeons.
As is usual in brick dovecotes the nest-holes aie L-shapcd. the
cavity enlarging inwards and being prolonged towards the K it
to give room for the sitting biwl's tail. The revoking pole

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with arms for a ladder is still there, but there are no
indications of the ladder having been nai ed to the arms :
possibly it hooked on to them. There is a leaded cupola top
supported on turned pillars, while there are also in the roof
two "dormer" windows with rounded heads. Half-way up,
and just beneath the eaves, the walls are relieved by courses
of ornamental brickwork.

II. MARSHE MANOR.
The Marshe appears to have been, like Whitton, part of
the barony of Caus. The earliest holder of whom we have
distinct mention is

*CI35°) John Eighton (or Eyton) de Marshe who was here
in 10th year Richard II (i.e. 1387). His father was
William Eyton of Eyton, Alberbury, and his mother
the daughter and heiress of the third Fulk Fitzwarin.
John Eyton's wife is described as 11 Alicia daughter
and heiress of Robert Marshe of Marshe Co. Salop"
from which we gather that the first holders under the
Corbets of Caus took their family name from the place.
They were called " de Marshe" just as the holders of
Whitton were called 44 de Whitton." John Eyton seems
to have had no son, for the Marshe passed next to his
daughter and co-heiress
Johanna (or Joan) who married
Roger Clayton. Their only child was a daughter
Eleanor who married

John ap Griffith whose ancestry is traced back for
six generations in the Herald1 s Visitation, 1623. Anyone
who is interested in Welsh genealogies can look up
the details therein, but apart from this a reference to
the pedigree of Gough of the Marshe in the I'isitatisn
reveals the curious fact that the son and heir of John ap
Griffith and his wife Eleanor did not take hi.s pttfOt&j
but was called

(1380)
(1410)

•Note. The approximate dates of birth, reckoning :*0 yc.irs to c^h
generation, are noted in brachcts opposite MOB MOM

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(1440) John Gough (I) of Marshe. Why was this? I think
it probably arose thus. Both father and son were named
John, and in order to distinguish them apart some
epithet had to be applied to the younger. He chanced
to have red hair so the lad was called John Goch, i.e.
Red John. Even after he grew up, and after his father's
death, the name stuck to him, and it was handed on
to all his descendants as a surname, for "Gough" is
merely another form of the Welsh word " Goch " (Red).
He married Goleubridd, daughter of Meredith ap Jenkin
and was succeeded by his eldest son

(1470) Roger Gough (I) who married Jane Gray, and was
I succeeded by his eldest son, also named

(1500) Roger Gough (II). His wife was Cecilia Yonge of
I Caynton. The next owner was their son

(^o) John Gough (II). He married Joan Lyster of Rowton
Castle. He was buried at Worthen in 1576. The
existing house is early Elizabethan, so was probably built
by him. His eldest son was

(1560) Thomas Gough (I), whose first wife was Margery
Hardwicke of Hardwicke, Co. Stafford. Up to this
point we are left to conjecture the dates when the various
holders of the Marshe were born, but the parish register
of Worthen, records on February 4th, 1592, the baptism
of "Thomas, son of Thomas Gough of Marsh." He had
also two daughters by his first wife, while by his second
wife Margaret, daughter of Edward Lloyd of Croesmere,
he had three sons and two daughters. Many interesting
particulars may be gathered from his will which was
proved by the widow, sole executrix, in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury, 30th June, 1614. (56 Lawe.)

The following is an abstract of his Will. " Will
of Thomas Goughe of the Marshe in the parish of
Westburye and diocese of Mere lord and County of Salop
gentleman. To be buried in the parish Church of
Westburye. To the poor of that parish I give 44 I
give all my lands etc. in the Marshe and in VenuiQgtoa
Co. Salop, and in Varchoeed Co. Montgomery, and in

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Cricketh Co. Salop, to my son and heir Thomas Goughe
and to his heirs male to be begotten in the body of
Ciceley Goughe, his now wife. Remainder to my second
son Frauncys Goughe in tail male. Remainder to my
son Thomas Goughe in fee, pursuant to articles between
Richard Stevens of Minsterley and myself in con-
sideration of a marriage solemnized between the said
Thomas Goughe and Ciceley the sole daughter of the
said Richard Stephens. To my daughter Elizabeth
Gough £40. To my youngest daughter Mary Goughe
£40. To my son Peter Goughe £40. To my daughter
Annie Noblett wife of Daniell Noblett £40. To
Margaret Goughe my wife my mansion house at the
Marshe with garden and the New Leasowe for two years
after my decease. To my son Francis Goughe a
messuage, two cottages etc. in L,ake Co. Salop. Mentions
a messuage in Shrewsbury let to Thomas Harries Esq.
for 21 years. I appoint my wife Margaret Gough to be
executrix of my will. Dated 11 April 1614, 12 James I."

The beautiful Jacobean gable on the north side of
Marshe Manor, dated 1604, was probably added by this
Thomas Gough (I), and he may very possibly have com-
pleted the building of the mansion begun by his father.
Thomas Gough, on his death in 1614, was succeeded at
Marshe by his eldest son
592 — 1 63-?) Thomas Gough (II), who, as we have seen by
the above will, married Cicely, only daughter of Richard
Stephens of Minsterley. She bore him eight daughters
but only one sou. As he was born in 1592, and the Will
speaks of him in 1614 as newly married, he appears to
have been only just of age at the time of the wedding,
We have no exact record of the dates when his children
were born, but in the Herald'* l lsitaiiou, 1623, they aie
given in the following order: — Maria, Sara, Debora,
Hester, Elizabeth, Margery, Roger, Cecilia, Abigaill.
Roger must therefore have been boi 11 about l6aO— I, 01
his sister Sarah, more anon. The pedigree LS Signed
by the father-in-law, Richard StepheneS, We learn

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from his own pedigree, which is given in the same
volume, that he was thrice married and that the above-
named Cicely was his only child by his third wife,
Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Lewis of Shrewsbury.

(1620— 1680) Roger Gough (III) was twice married. His first
wife Martha, died in May, 1648, and her only child
Thomas, born 1646, died in 1649. His second wife Susan
bore him six daughters (Mary b. 1656; Elizabeth 1657—
70; Hester 1658—60; Deborah 1662; Susan 1663;
Gertrude 1664 ; and two sons — the eldest, Thomas, born
15 June, 1654, and the youngest, Roger, 30 April, 1668
(afterwards Captain Roger Gough). Roger (III) died in
1680 and was buried at Westbury, nth May. His wife
Susanna was buried there 4 February, 1678. A quaintly
worded entry in the parish register records under the
date April 12, 1664, that Sir Henry Fredericke Thynne [of
Caus Castle ; Sheriff, 1634] and Roger Gough of the
Marshe, gent, erected two seats in the middle aisle of the
Church of Westbury, facing towards the parson's desk
and pulpit. " The great and large seat next to the said
deske and reading place being the seat of the said Roger
Goughe and his heires for ever." Roger was succeeded
by his son

(1654 — 1702) Thomas Gough (III). He married Mary,
daughter of John Severne of Wallop, who died in
November, 1693, by whom he had six sons and two
daughters; Roger, bapt. 14 Sept., 1681 ; Thomas,
12 June, 1683; John, 2 June, 1686; Mary, 9 Dec. 1684;
Charles, 17 Feb., 1687 — buried 1 Jan., 1693 ; Samuel. 14
Oct., 1689 (died young) ; Elizabeth, 28 Oct., 1690 — buried
19 May, 1691 ; and William, 1 April, 1692.

From this point onwards it is q<'ite impossible to trace the
pedigree with any certainty, for it appears from the parish
register that there were a large number of Gottghs 111
Westbury, at least three of whom were named Thomas, and
were married men with families. It seemS thai the family
were reduced in circumstances, too, for none Ol the entries

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in the register after 1703 describe them as "gentlemen" or
"of the Marshe." The fact that the family fo 'tunes had now
waned is borne out by the terms of Thomas Gough's (III)
Will. It will be noticed that he died at the comparatively
early age of 48, when his children were still minors. Of his
eight children four sons only are mentioned as then surviving.
He was in debt and the inference to be drawn from all this
is that he was a spendthrift. The following is an abstract of
his Will, which was proved in the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury, 23 Feb. 1702, by Thomas Severne, Esq. and
Samuel Severne, gent., the executors (29 Degg): —

" I devise all my messuages lands etc. in the Marsh alias
Marsh in the Parish of Westbury to my brothers in law
Thomas Severne of Shrewsbury Esq. and Samuel Severne of
Shrewsbury gentleman, upon trust by sale or mortgage to
raise money sufficient to pay my debts and ^300 for my three
youngest children, viz: for Thomas £100; for John ^100;
and for William ^"ioo ; at twenty one : if any die under
21 his share to go to the others; but Roger Gough my eldest
son is not to have any share or benefit thereby. I bequeath
my personal estate to my said brothers in law towards
discharging my debts. If my eldest son Roger Gough do
•within twelve months after my death discharge my debts
and pay the said ^300 then the said Samuel Severne and
Thomas Severne shall convey the messuages and lauds to the
said Roger and his heirs for ever. My three younger sons
to be maintained out of the profits of the lands until the ^300
be paid them. If the lands be sold my sou Roger shall have
the surplus after paying the debts and the £300. If he refuse
to join in any deed he shall have is. only. Thomas and
Samuel Severne appointed executors. Dated 10 January 1702.
Witnesses Thomas, John, and W. Hurley." (There is a brass
to the Burleys in Westbury Church).

To revert for a moment to the children of Thomas Gough
(II). The will of Sarah, the second daughter throws some Ugh!
on the history of her near relatives. The will, dated 19th
September, 1697, describes her as of Klsmeie, Counts Salop,

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Spinster, and appoints as executor her nephew, Mr. Richard
Crompton of Great Ryton, parish of Coidover, County Salop.
Inventory, dated 17th August, 1698, gives the amount as
^408 10s., and the will was proved at Lichfield, 5th October,
1698.

"Owing to my sister Mrs. Hester Wicherley upon bond
^15 6s. 3d. I give to my nephew Mr. Thomas Mainwarings
daughter Mrs. Chaclet now the wife of the lord Moham ^50.
To my nephew Mr. Thomas Gough £20, to his eldest son Mr.
Roger £20, to his brother Captain Roger Gough £20, to his
sister Mrs. Mary Bristow £10, to his sister Mrs. Susana Gough
^13. To my nephew Mr. Nathaniall Gittenes £20. To my
nephew Mr. Thomas Wicherley £10, to his daughter Mrs.
Hester Wicherley £20. To my niece Mrs. Deborah Crompton
£10, to her daughter Mrs. Sarah Crompton £10. To my niece
Mrs. Cecily Jones £10. To my niece Mrs. Hester Wicherley
£10 I am holding for her."

The Marshe seems to have passed from the Gough family
early in the 18th century. Towards the end of that century it
was the property and residence of John Clavering Wood, who
died, aged 57, in July, 1835, and was buried at Hauwood. A
notice of this gentleman from the pen of Mr. William Phillips
(under the pen-name of "Walter Cross") appeared in
Shropshire Notes a?id Queries, 22 Sept., 1905. He is described
as of an amiable but shy disposition but a keen botanist and
ornithologist, and well-known for his scholarly attainments to
the scientists of his day. He was succeeded by his soil, a
rather eccentric gentleman, who died in 1900 aged 72, and
who lived at the Marshe all his life. The property was
purchased by Mr. F. W.Wateridge, the present owner, in tS .:.
The Manor house was at that time untenantable, and had been
allowed to be used for no better purpose than sheltering
cattle. Previous to this, the house had been occupied sis three
cottages. At the same period there stood faring the northern
gable an old mill house and corn barn with a watei wheel
12 feet high, Which was fed from the ovei-lhnv of the uio.it
and fish pond.

AND THEIR OWNERS. l8l

The Arms of Gough of the Marshe are " Sable, three horses'

heads erased argent.

The Manor House of Marshe is a timber building of unusual
beauty and interest, and, although some modern additions in
the form of bay windows and portico have been made at the
rear, the main structure remains substantially the same as
it was originally. The timbers of the frame are stout and
set close together. They are all straight and nearly all
vertical or horizontal except in the western gable, where some
of them are set diagonally so as to form a diamond pattern.
So closely are they set that the spaces between are no wider
than the timbers themselves. This lavish use of oak shows
that the house was erected at an early period when oak trees
were abundant in the district, for we know that as the forests
were thinned the beams were smaller and the spaces between
greater. Taking these facts into consideration we should
judge the Manor-house to be early Elizabethan, and to have
been erected in the time of John Gough (II) who died in 1576.
Another feature of the building which points to the same
conclusion is the great chimney stack at the eastern end. The
ibase is formed of large stones but all the rest is of brick. The
bricks used are very thin — barely two inches — but the mortar
joints between are very wide ; so wide, indeed, that there is
nearly as much mortar as brick in the structure. The
excellence of the mortar is shown by its sound condition
after more than three centuries of exposure to the weather.

Although the Manor-house as a whole is early Elizabeth. m.
one part of it — the northern gable — is of later date. The
framework is divided into small panels, each having diagonal
bracings shaped so as to form a tar-pattern. The whole
effect is charming. This style of ornament is Jacobean, the
period during which it was in fashion extending from about
1600 to 1630. If we look closely we can discover on the
carved Snial of this gable, now much decayed, the figures [604,
It is probable therefore that the Manor house was begun by

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John Gough (II) but completed by his son, Thomas Gough (I)
who added the Jacobean gable.

There is another feature of this gable-end which is probably
unique. In the second edition of my Old Houses of Shrewsbury
I appended a short chapter on Marks on Timber Houses. I
pointed out that each piece of timber in the frame of a timber
house was marked with a Roman numeral and a sign to show the
position it was to occupy when the frame was fitted together.
A peculiarity of the Tudor carpenters was that they never
used subtraction numbers such as IV, IX, XIX : they put
instead IIII, Villi, XVIIII. Also they never extended a
series of numbers beyond the thirties because XL is a
subtraction number. Furthermore, to save labour, they did
not put three separate X's for thirty, but put three diagonal
strokes crossed by one stroke which thus converted each of
the three into an X. Now a glance at the illustration will
show that the frame of the Northern gable at Marshe Manor
contains over forty pieces of timber, and it is the only
instance, so far as I can discover, in which the Tudor
carpenter has extended his series of numbers into the forties,
and he has avoided the use of the subtraction number XL (i.e.
ten from fifty) in a most ingenious way. He has made XXXX
by putting two parallel strokes and crossing them with two
other strokes diagonally ! The further mark to indicate the
timbers belonging to this particular face of the building is an
arrow-head, which may be seen at one end of the final stroke
in each number.

In all early mansions the hall was the chief room of the
house and the front door opened either directly into it or into
the " Screens " and thence through an arched opening into
the hall. Nowadays, the front door opens directly into the
hall of Marshe Manor, but a brief examination of the timbci
frame shows that this was not so originally. The tnfcin
entrance was through a door at the west end ol ihe house into
the Screens and thence through an arch in the screen Itfmigfct
forwards into the hall. The outline ot the dooi w.iv can fttftl
be traced though now filled up with tinibeis to match tin rt Hi
of the wall. Across the old opening has been fixed, low down,

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I83

I the moulded base of an ancient oak-mullioned window. The
lower sockets ot the mullions are seen to be very near

, together — less than six inches apart — and this, again, shows
that the house is an early Tudor one, since these close-
mullioned windows are seen only in houses of that period.
The window-base is, of course, not in its original position, and
to account for its presence there, a recent tradition says that
the holes in the timber (mullion-sockets) were for the ale
glasses used by the gentlemen of the Hunt when there was a
meet at Marshe Manor !

Near this end of the house formerly stood a circular stone
dove-cote, but the greater part of it was pulled down in the
last century and only the base remains to a height of about six
feet. There are no nest-holes in this part. It has been roofed
over and is now used as an engine-house. The interior of the
house was restored and altered, with careful regard to the
preservation of its antique character, by Mr F. W. Wateridge,
who resided there till a few years ago. He inserted much oak
work in the shape of panelling, fireplaces, etc. The hall and
dining-room still retain their wide ingle nooks, while the
latter yet displays the open hearth for burning wood. There
sare two staircases situated one in the south-east, the other in
the south-west corner of the hall. Both are of solid oak
blocks (not boards). The one in the S.E. corner was the
principal staircase : it ascends straight at first (the step-blocks
being fastened into the wall on either side) and then spirally
round a newel-post. The two corner posts of the western gable
have bracket heads, and there is a post with elaborately carved
scroll-shaped bracket-head on the north side of the hall. The
ceiling of the hall is of oak beams crossing its width so as to
divide it up into large oblong panels. Their position shows
that the present western wall of the hall is a modern Insertion,
since it crosses the middle of one of these panels. The
original screens with buttery-hateh, etc., probably stood
several feet more to the west Under the next beam. Almost
all the windows are modern, though fashioned \\\ the old
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OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES.

square oaken bars set diamond-wise between the mullions.
When these were in use the windows were probably without
glass. The only similar instance I know of is at Rudhall,
Herefordshire.

Altogether, with its beautiful garden, sparkling fountain,
ornamental water, and picturesque gables, Marshe Manor is a
charming dwelling-place, reminiscent of bygone times, sweet
memories, and old fashions : a place to study, to love, to
contemplate, and to linger in.

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INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

(Co?itinued from \th Series, Vol. IV.y page 194.)

The Institutions of Shropshire Incumbents already printed
in the Transactions are as follows : —

From the Bishops' Certificates. First Fruits.
Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield.

1560 — 1605. 3rd Series, I. 257-262.
1605—1634. 3rd Series, V. 349-354-
1634 — 1705. 4th Series, IV. 179-194.

Diocese of Hereford.

1589— 1634. 3rd Series, VIII. 39-54-
1634— 1759. 4th Series, II. 55-1 11.

From the Libri Institutionum.
Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield.

1556 — 1660. 3rd Series, I. 262-266 (Salop Deanery).

3rd Series, V. 354-356 (Newport Deanery).

3rd Series, V. 356-357 (St. Cedde Deanery).
1660—1680. 3rd Series, V. 369-373.

Diocese of Hereford.

1556— 1660. 3rd Series, V. 357-369.
1660—1680. 3rd Series, V. 373-376.

These references will enable the Institutions of any
Shropshire Incumbents between these dates to be readily
found.

The documents now printed are the Bishop of Lichfield's
Certificates of the induction of Incumbents to benefices in
the Diocese of Lichfield, from June, 1705 to March, 1775; and
they have been extracted by Mr. W. K. Boyd, for the Society,
from the original Bishops' Certificates preserved in the Public
Record Office, London.

We have now in the Transactions all the Lichfield
Certificates from 1560 to 1775, and all the Kerefotd Certificates

1 86 INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

from 1589 to 1759. Those for that portion of Shropshire that
lies in St. Asaph Diocese will be found in Archdeacon
Thomas's History of the Diocese of St. Asaph.

A few words explanatory of these Bishops' Certificates
might be given. The Certificates are addressed by' the
Bishops to the Barons of the Exchequer, and they certify the
induction of the Clergy to benefices to which they had been
presented, with a view to the First- Fruits, or first year's profits
of the benefice after a vacancy, going to the Crown. At the
Reformation, King Henry VIII ordered these First-Fruits
to be paid to the Crown, and the Statute 32 Henry VIII.,
cap. 45, established a Court of First-Fruits, where the Bishops'
Certificates of the Institution ot Incumbents to ecclesiastical
benefices were entered. Queen Mary dissolved this Court,
and abolished First- Fruits ; but in Elizabeth's reign they
were revived, by the Act 1 Elizabeth, cap. 4, and put under
the Survey of the Exchequer. This lasted until 1837, when
the Office was finally abolished. From April, 1642, to April,
1660, during the Commonwealth period, there were no
Certificates of First-Fruits.

From these Certificates we are able to ascertain the names
of the patrons of the benefices, as well as to compile a fairly
complete list of the incumbents of the parishes in the County,
and often the reason of the vacancy, whether by death or
resignation of the preceding incumbent.

The LibH Ins titutiomun, also preserved in the Public Record,
Office contain abstracts of the Bishops' Certificates, and give
much the same information tabulated in columns containing
name of the parish, incumbent, county, deanery, date of in-
duction and patron. They are not, however, always quite as
accurate as the Bishops' Certificates themselves. These wc
have printed lor botli the Lichfield and the Hereford Diocese*
from 1556 to 1680.

For the ecclesiastical history of any parish, it evident
that these Bishops' Certificates are invaluable documents.

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FIRST FRUITS. BISHOPS' CERTIFICATES.

Diocese of Coventry and Lich.teld.

Co. Salop.

File 27. April 1705— April 1710.

On 29th June, 1705, George L,luellyn, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the vicarage of the parish church of Condover,
co. Salop, presented by Roger Owen, of Condover, esq.,
22nd June.

On 25th August, 1705, William Williams, clerk, B.A., was
instituted to the rectory of the parish church of Stoake upon
Tearne, presented by Thomas Husbands, of Drayton in Hales,
co. Salop, patron for this turn, 20th August, 1705.

On the 23rd Oct., 1705, William Cradock, clerk, M.A.. was
instituted to the rectory of the parish church of Donnington,
presented by John, Lord Gower, Baron of Stittenham, patron,
13th Oct., 1705.

On 9th June, 1706, Thomas Hodgetts, M.A., was collated to
the vicarage of Frees.

On 3rd Aug., 1706, James Devey, clerk, B.A., was instituted
to the rectory of Kemberton, presented by John Forster, esq.,
patron, 30th July, 1706.

On 14th Oct., 1706, Thomas Pinches, clerk, B.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Bliinhill, presented by Mary Levett,
widow, patron for this turn, 9th Sept., 1706.

On 17th Oct., 1706, Francis Williams, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the vicarage of Ness-Strange, presented by Queen
Anne, 9th Sept., 1706.

On 25th June, 1707, Daniel Adamson, clerk, B.A., was
instituted to the vicarage of Worfield, presented by Sharington
Davenport, esq., patron, 12th June, 1707.

On 13th Aug,, 1707, Richard Deane, clerk, B.A., was
instituted to the vicarage of lilies mere, presented by the Barl
of Bridgewater, 25th July, 1707.

On 6th Oct., 1707, Peter Leigh, clerk, M A., was instituted
to the rectory of Whitchurch cum Marbury, presented by Jane
Countess Dowager of Bridgewater and Scroope Sari Of

Bridgewater, patrons, 27th Sept., 1707.

188 INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

On 8th May, 1708, Thomas Beddow, clerk., was instituted to
the rectory of Smethcott, presented 16th Feb., 1707-8.

On 26th Feb., 1708-9, Thomas Adams, clerk, was instituted
to the rectory of Ightfield, presented by Knight Justice, gent.,
patron.

On 19th June, 1709, Robert Eyton, clerk, B.A., was instituted
to the rectory of Eyton on le Wildmore, Deanery of Salop,
vacant by the death of John Eyton, presented by Elizabeth
Eyton, widow, patron, as it is said, 14th March, 1708-9.

On 19th June, 1709, Henry Wood, clerk, B.A., was instituted
to the vicarage of Wellington, Deanery of Salop, presented by
Soulden Eyton, esq., a minor, and William Wood, his
guardian, patrons, 20th March, 1708-9.

On 3rd March, 1709-10, Edward Chandler, clerk, S.T.P., was
instituted to the rectory of Wem, Deanery of Salop, vacant by
the death of Henry Aldrich, presented by the Hon. Henry
Newport, esq., Lord Newport, patron, 4th Jan., 1709-10.

On 12th March, 1709-10, Benjamin Clemson, clerk, B A., was
instituted to the vicarage of Lilleshall, Deanery of Newport,
vacant by the death of Henry Haughton, presented by John
Lord Gower, Baron of Stittenham, and Katherine Lady
Gower, widow, mother and guardian of the said John, 10th
* March, 1910-11.

File 28. April, 1710 — October, 1 714.

On 19th June, 1710, Robert Tonge, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the vicarage of Montford, Deanery of Salop,
vacant by the resignation of Richard Llewellin, presented by
John Bromley, esq., patron 22nd Dec, 1709.

On 24th Aug, 1710, John Haynes, clerk, was instituted to
the rectory of Longford, Deanery of Newport, vacant by the
death of Richard Richards, presented by John Talbot, esq.,
patron, 23rd Aug., 17 10.

On 25th Sept., 1710, John Collier, clerk, was instituted to

the vicarage of Ness-Strange, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the

death of Francis Williams, presented by Qoteo Anne,
patroness, 24th Aug., 1710.

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On 4th Jan., 1709-10, Richard Chambre, clerk, B.A., was
instituted to the vicarage of the parish churcn of Eoppington,
Deanery of Salop, vacant by the death of Thomas Gittens,
presented by Queen Anne, patroness, 23rd Dec, 1709.

On 2nd July, 1711, Richard Binnell, clerk, was instituted -to
the vicarage of the parish church of Shawbury, Deanery of
Salop, vacant by the death of John Etherington, presented by
John Lord Gower, Baron of Stittenhara, and Catherine Lady
Gower, widow, his mother, patrons, 28th June, 1711.

On 19th Dec, 171 1, Samuel Jones, clerk, was instituted to
the vicarage of the parish church of Atcham, Deanery of
Salop, vacant by the death of Abraham Butler, presented by
Robert Burton, esq., patron, 19th Dec, 171 1.

On 15th Jan., 1711-12, Thomas Cooke, clerk, B.A.. was
instituted to the vicarage of the parish church of Stanton on
Hineheath, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the death of Samuel
Holebrook, presented by Richard Corbet, esq., patron, 12th
Oct., 1711.

On 13th Sept., 1712, Thomas Wilks, clerk, S.T.B., was
instituted to the rectory of Pitchford, Deanery of Salop, vacant
by the death of John Wilks, presented by Adam Ottley, esq.,
patron, 10th Sept.

On 12th Feb., 1712-13, William Roe, clerk, was instituted to
the rectory of Frodesley, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the
death of John Wilkes, presented by Samuel Edwards, esq.,
patron, 9th Oct., 1712.

On 16th Feb., 1712-13, Robert Eyton, clerk, was instituted to
the vicarage of Wellington, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the
death of Henry Wood, presented by Soudley Eyton, esq .
patron, 5th Jan., 1712-13.

On 20th Sept., 1713, Peter Studley, clerk, M A., tu
instituted to the rectory of Acton Burnell, Deanery oi Salop,
vacant by the death of James Greaves, presented by BLichm 1
Studley, of the town of Shrewsbury, patron for this nun. .
June, 1713,

On 8th Oct., 1713, Thomas Cooke, eleik. wis instituted

to the vicarage of the parish church of Leightou, Deanery of

190 INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

Salop, vacant by the death of Henry Biunell, presented by
John Lacon, esq., patron, 26th June, 1713.

On 21st Dec, 1713, Peter Edwards, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Moreton Corbet, Deanery of Salop,
vacant by the death of Peter Gibbons, presented by Richard
Corbet, esq., patron, 3rd Nov., 1713.

On 1st Feb., 1713-14, Richard Hughes, clerk, was
instituted to the vicarage of Stanton on Hine-Heath, Deanery
of Salop, vacant by the cession of Thomas Cooke, presented
by Richard Corbet, esq., patron, 25th Jan., 1713-14.

On 22nd Feb., 1713-14, William Dicken, clerk, B.A., was
presented and instituted to the rectory of Sheinton, Deanery of
Salop, vacant by the death of Henry Binnell, John Dicken,
gent., patron for this turn.

On 2nd March, 1713-14, William Janns, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Hordley, Deanery of Newport,
vacant by the death of Richard Smallman, presented by John
Kynaston, esq., patron, 22nd Jan., 1713-14.

On 7th July, 1714, William Socket, clerk, was instituted to
the rectory of Preston on L,e Wildmore, Deanery of Newport,
vacant by the death of Samuel Pritchett, presented by the
Hon. Thomas Newport, esq., patron, 30th June, 17 14.

File 29. Oct., 17 14 — April, 1720.

On 12th Oct., 1714, Adam Newling, clerk, was instituted to
the vicarage of Monford, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the
death of Robert Tongue, presented by John Bromley, of
Horseheath, esq., 2nd Oct., 1714.

On 27th Sept., 1715, William Banks, clerk, was instituted
to the rectory of Stirchley, Deanery of Newport, vacant by the
death of George Arden, presented by William Banks, gent.,
patron, 19th Sept., 1715.

On 27th Feb., 1715-16, Thomas Brooke, clerk, was instituted
to the rectory of Rytou, Deanery of Newport, vacant by the
death of Robert Brooke, presented by Anne Brooke, widow,
patroness, 15th Feb., 1715-16.

On 2nd Aug., 1716, Gersham Rawlins, clerk, w.is Instituted
to the rectory of Roxeter, otherwise Wroxeter. Deanery ol

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Salop, vacant by the death of Thomas Markham, presented by
Richard, Earl of Bradford, patron, 27th July, 716.

On 7th Aug., 1716, John Lloyd, clerk, M.A., was instituted
to the rectory of Berington, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the
death of Jo. Hughes, presented by the Chancellor, &c, of the
University of Cambridge, by virtue of the Acts of 3 James I.,
1 Wm. & Ma., and 12 Anne, patrons for this turn, 12th June,
1716.

On 29th Sept., 1716, William Roe, clerk, M.A., was instituted
to the rectory of the parish church of Pitchford, Deanery of
Salop, vacant by the cession of Thomas Wilkes, S.T.P., pre-
sented by Adam Ottley, of Pitchford, esq., patron, 20th Sept.,
1716.

On 4th May, 1717, Geoffrey Williams, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Kinnersley, Deanery of Newport,
vacant by the death of Egerton Harding, presented by John,
Lord Gower, Baron of Stitnam, patron, the same day.

On 4th Sept., 1717, Lawrence Gardner, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the vicarage of the parish church of Magna Ercall,
Deanery of Salop, vacant by the death of Richard Blakeway,
presented by Richard, Earl of Bradford, patron, 24th Aug.,
1717.

On 15th May, 1717, John Tourneor, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Walters Upton, otherwise Upton
Parva, Deanery of Newport, vacant by the death of Benjamin
Clemston, presented by King George, patron, 1st May, 17 17.

On 15th May, 1718, John Tourneor, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Walters Upton, otherwise Upton
Parva, Deanery of Newport, vacant by the death of Benjamin
Clemston, presented by King George, patron, [St May, 17 1S.

On 5th Dec, 17 18, Robert Eyton, M.A., was instituted to the
rectory of Wem, Deanery of Newport, presented In King
George, patron for this turn, 31st Oct., 1718.

On the 1st May, 17 19, Lawrence Gardner, clerk. M A.,
was instituted to the rectory of Byton on Will mores,
Deanery of Newport, presented by Blizabetfa Kyton. widow,
patroness, 24th April, 1719.

192

INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

On 8th March, 1719-20, Vincent Corbe , clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Eyton on Wildmore, Deanery of
Newport, vacant by the death of Lawrence Gardner, presented
by Elizabeth Eyton, widow, patroness, 5th March, 1719-20.

File 30. April, 1720 — Oct., 1724.

On 9th June, 1720, Vincent Corbet, M.A., was instituted to
the rectory of Morton Corbet, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the
resignation of Peter Edwards, presented by Andrew Corbet,
patron, 7th June, 1720.

On 16th June, 1720, Benjamin Clive, B.A., was instituted to
the rectory of Adderley, Deanery of Newport, vacant by the
death of Robert Adams, presented by Robert Corbet, Bart,
16th April, 1720.

On 8th July, 1720, John Fieldhouse, B.A., was instituted to
the vicarage of Shawbury, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the
death of Richard Binnell, clerk, presented by John, Lord
Gower, Baron of Stitnam, 4th June, 1720.

On 5th Oct., 1720, Edward Jeffries, clerk, B.A., was instituted
to the vicarage of Ruiton, otherwise Ryton, Deanery7 of Salop,
vacant by the resignation of William Griffiths, clerk, pre-
sented by King George, patron, 7th Sept., 1720.

On 21st Nov., 1720, Henry Egertou, Doctor of Laws, was
instituted to the rectory of Middle, Deanery of Salop, vacant
by the cession of Hugh Dale, clerk, presented by the Duke of
Bridgewater, 9th Nov., 1720.

On 29th Nov., 1720, John Collier, M.A., was instituted to the
rectory of Petton, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the death of
Richard Lloyde, clerk, presented by King George, patron. 17th
Oct., 1720.

On 3rd Feb., 1720-21, Thomas Adams, M A . was instituted
to the vicarage of St. Chad, Deanery of Salop, vacaul by the
death of William Bennet, presented by Kiuv; George, patron,
20th Jan., 1720-21. (Not in charge).

On ioth June, 1721, James Jones was instituted to the

rectory of Cound. Deanery <>t" Salop, vacant by the promotion

of Adam Oately, ST. IV, to the l»i^ho] Si. tyavid's,

presented by King George, patron, 15th April, 17:1

INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS. 193

On nth Nov., 1721, Lawrence Gardn er, M.A., was
instituted to the vicarage of Magna Ercal, Deanery of Salop,
vacant by his resignation, presented by Richard, Earl of
Bradford, patron, nth Nov., 1721.

On 23rd Feb., 1721-22, Theophilus Rider, clerk, LX-B., was
instituted to the vicarage of St. Chad, town and Deanery of
Salop, vacant by the death of Thomas Adams, clerk, presented
by King George, patron, 23rd Feb., 1720-21.

On 24th Oct., 1722, Richard Husband, clerk, was instituted
to the rectory of the parish church of Roddington, Deanery of
Salop, vacant by the death of James Talbott, presented by
King George, patron, 4th Oct., 1722.

On 27th Aug., 1723, Stephen Parker, clerk, was instituted to
the vicarage of the parish church of Baschurch, Deanery of
Salop, presented by King George, 8th Aug., 1723.

On 3rd July, 1724, William Painter, clerk, B.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Harley, Deanery of Salop, vacant
by the death of Benjamin Jencks, clerk, presented by Henry,
Earl of Bradford, patron, nth May, 1724.

File 31. Oct., 1724 — Oct., 1729.

On 3rd Oct., 1726, John Haynes, clerk, M.A., was instituted
" to the rectory of the parish church of Hinstock, Deanery of
Newport, vacant by the death of Griffith Vaughan, clerk,
presented by Robert Corbet, of Adderly, Bait., patron, 24th
Sept., 1726.

On 5th Oct., 1726, Samuel Garret, clerk, M.A., was collated
to the archdeaconry of Salop, vacant by the death of Griffith
Vaughan, clerk, by the Bishop of Coventry and Lich field,
patron, in right of his bishopric.

On 5th Jan., 1725-26, Samuel Fowler, clerk, NLA., was
instituted to the vicarage of the parish church of.Attmghatn
otherwise Atchain, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the death «>1
Samuel Jones, clerk, presented by Robert Buiion, of Uongtier,
co. Salop, esq., patron, 16th Nov., 1 7 j .s •

On 26th Feb., 1725-20, Francis West, derk, S.T.&., vna
instituted to the vicarage of the palish chuieh of AlbrightOU,
Deanery of Newport, vacant by the death of Thorn. .s Wood,

194 INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

clerk, presented by the Master, etc., ct the fraternity of
Haberdashers in the City of London, patrons, nth Feb.,
1725-26.

On 30th April, 1726, Thomas Hall, clerk, B.A., was
instituted to the vicarage of the parish church of Sutton
Maddock, Deanery of Newport, vacant by the death of Daniel
Baglys, clerk, presented by John Pitt, of Shiffnall, co. Salop,
gent., patron, 22nd, 1725.

On 27th Feb., 1726-27, John Huntbach, clerk, B.A., was
instituted to the rectory of the parish church of Hordley,
Deanery of Newport, vacant by the resignation of William
Janns, clerk, presented by John Kynaston, esq., patron, 25th
Jan., 1726-27.

On 27 April, 1727, William Janns, clerk, M.A., was instituted
to the rectory of the parish church of Upton otherwise Upton
under Haugh, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the death of
Richard Andrews, clerk, presented by John Kynaston, esq.,
patron, 27th Dec, 1726.

On 18th Dec, 1727, John Latham, clerk, was instituted to
the vicarage of the parish church of Holy Cross within the
monastery of Salop, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the death of

Pearson, clerk, presented by King George II., patron,

28th Nov., 1727.

On 12th Feb., 1727-28, William Bill Saunders, clerk, M.A
was instituted to the rectory of the parish church of Chetwynd,
Deanery of Newport, vacant by the death of Francis
Skrymsher, clerk, presented by Robert Pigott, esq., patron,
31st Jan., 1727-28.

On 22nd July, 1728, Joseph Dixon, clerk, M.A.. was instituted
to the rectory of the parish church of West Felton, Deanery
of Salop, vacant by the death of Daniel Griffith, clerk,
presented by William Craven, Baron of Hamstead Marshal,
patron, 9th July, 1728.

On 23rd Sept., 1728, Robert Daubrie, cleik. M A . mi
presented to the rectory of the parish Churcfa of Stockton,
Deanery of Newport, vacant by the death of John Bvani
clerk, presented by Thomas Whitman-. 6Sq., patron,
July, 1728.

INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS. 195

On 10th Sept., 1728, Seth Sheppard, clork, B.A., was
instituted to the vicarage of the parish church of Idsall,
[ Deanery of Newport, vacant by the death of Daniel Piper,
clerk, presented by Sir Humphrey Brigges, Bart., patron, 7th
Sept., 1728.

On 14th Dec. [1728], Benjamin Reed, clerk, was instituted
to the vicarage of the parish church of Wrockwarden other-
wise Wrockwerdine, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, presented by
King George II., patron, 31st Oct. [1728].

On 8th July, 1729, Richard Brooke, clerk, was presented to
the vicarage of the parish church of Idsall, otherwise Shifnall,
j Deanery of Newport, vacant by the resignation of Seth
Shepperd, clerk, presented by Sir Humphrey Brigges, of
Haughton, co. Salop, Bart., patron, 8th July, 1729.

File 32. Oct., 1729 — Oct., 1735.

On 8th Nov., 1729, Roger Kynaston, clerk, was instituted to
the rectory of Upton under Haughmond, Deanery of Salop,
vacant by the death of William Janns, clerk, presented by John
Kynaston, esq., patron, 8th Oct., 1729.

On 24th Sept., 1730, Samuel Burslem, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the vicarage of Drayton in Hales, Deanery of
Newport, vacant by the death of Richard Price, clerk,
presented by Sir Robert Corbett, of Adderley, Bart., patron,
22nd Sept , 1730.

On 3rd Nov., 1730, Rowland Hill, clerk, M.A., was instituted
to the rectory of Hodnet, Deanery of Newport, vacant by the
death of Richard Price, clerk, presented by Sir Rowland Hill,
Bart., Samuel Hill, esq., and Thomas Hill, esq., patrons for
this turn, 27th Aug., 1730.

On 26th Feb., 1731-32, William Adams, clerk, M A . was
admitted to the vicarage of St. Chudds otherwise St Chad, ill
the town of Shrewsbury, presented by the Killg

On 10th July, 1732, John llolte, cleik. LI P.. was collated to
the archdeaconry of Salop by the bishop, beloiiy tO his
donation by reason of his bishopiu

196 INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

On 15th Aug., 1732, Thomas Baker, ckrk, was instituted to
the rectory of Petton, Deanery of Salop, presented by the King,
patron.

On 28th Sept., 1732, Samuel Jenks, M.A., clerk, was
instituted to the vicarage of Ellesmere, Deanery of Salop,
presented by the Duke of Bridge water, patron.

On 5th Oct., 1732, Samuel Parry, clerk, was instituted to the
vicarage of Nessestrauge, otherwise Ness-Magna, Deanery of
Salop, presented by the King, patron.

William Laplain, clerk, presented to the vicarage of Wrock-
werdine, Deanery of Salop, by the King, void by the cession of
the last incumbent, and instituted May 22nd, 1733.

Thomas Hughes, clerk, B.A., presented to the vicarage of
Stanton upon Hine-Heath, Deanery of Salop, by Andrew
Corbett, esq., void by the death of Richard Hughes, and
instituted August 24th, 1733.

Richard Phillips, B.A., clerk, nominated by Andrew Corbett,
esq., to the perpetual curacy of Battlefield, co. Salop,
and licensed to the same Sept. 23rd, 1734. Not in charge.

William Vyse, clerk, M.A., was collated to the Archdeaconry
of Salop, 13th March, 1734, vacant by the death of Dr. John
Holte.

John Craven, B.L,., clerk, presented to the rectory of Felton,
Deanery of Salop, by William, Lord Craven, void by the
resignation of Joseph Dixon, clerk, was instituted to it April
28th, 1735.

Samuel Burslem, M.A., clerk, presented to the rectory of
Norton in Hales, Deanery of Newport, by Richard Cotton, of
Bellaport, esq., void by the death of William Sorton, clerk, w.is
instituted to it June 12th, 1735.

John Dickenson, M.A., clerk, nominated to the perpetual
curacy of Childs Krcal otherwise Little Brcal, Deanery of
Newport, by Sir Robert Corbet, Bart., void b) the death of
Joli 11 Addeilbrooke, clerk, was licensed to it June [8th, [735,

Henry Corbet, M.A., clerk, presented to the vicarage oi
Drayton in Hales, Dcanciy of Newport, bj Sir Robert Corbet,
Bart., void by the resignation of Samuel Burslem, clerk, was
instituted to it June [8th, 1735.

INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS. 197

Henry Corbet, M.A., clerk, presented to the rectory of
Adderley, Deanery of Newport, by Sir Robert Corbet, Bart.,
void by the resignation of Benjamin Clive, clerk, was instituted
to it Sept. 9th, 1735.

Robert Phillips, D.D., presented to the rectory of Upton
Magna, Deanery of Salop, by Corbet Kynaston, esq., void by
the death of Roger Kynaston, clerk, was instituted to it
Sept. 30th, 1735.

File 33. Oct., 1735— Oct., 1740.

William Grascome, M.A., clerk, was presented to the
rectory of Upton-under-Hamond, Deanery of Salop, by
Corbet Kynaston, esq., void by the death of Robert Phillips,
clerk, and instituted March 27th, 1736.

George Tyler, B.A., clerk, was presented to the rectory of
Petton, Deanery of Salop, by King George II., void by the
death of Thomas Baker, clerk, and instituted June 12th, 1736.

Edward Cresset, M.A., clerk, was presented to the rectory of
Cund, Deanery of Salop, by Thomas Pelham, esq., for this
turn only, vacant by the resignation of Thomas Hensleigh,
clerk, and instituted May 4th, 1737.

Robert Fowler, M. A., clerk, was presented to the rectory of
Douington, Deanery of Newport, by John, Lord Gower, void
by the death of William Cradock, clerk, and instituted July
8th, 1738.

Robert Cartwryght, M.A., clerk, was presented to the
vicarage of Wroxcester, Deanery of Salop, by Mrs. Anne Smith,
void by the resignation of Gershaiu Rawlins, clerk, ami
instituted July 31st, 1738.

Richard Cross, B.A., clerk, was presented to the rectory of

Stepleton, Deanery of , by Thomas Powys, esq., and

Bridget his wife for this turn, void by the death of Thomas
Royston, clerk, and instituted Sept. 30th, 17;^.

Humphrey Parry, M.A., clerk, was presented by Godolphin
Edwards, esq., to the vicarage of [*eighton, Deanery oi Salop,

void by the death of Thomas Cook, clerk, instituted April 4th,
1739-

INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

Edward Tipton, B.A., clerk, was presen ed by Mrs. Anne
Smyth, as guardian to John Newport, esq., to the rectory of
Eaton Constantine (super Wildmore), Deanery of Newport,
void by the death of John Barham, clerk, and instituted May
7th, 1739.

John Haynes, M.A., clerk, was presented by Sir Robert
Corbet, Bart., to the rectory of Hinstock, Deanery of Newport,
void by the resignation of John Haynes, clerk, and instituted
May 22nd, 1739.

Roger Barnston, M.A., clerk, was presented by Trafford
Barnston, esq., and Letitia, his wife, to the rectory of
Cundover, Deanery of Salop, void by the death of George
Lluellyn, clerk, and instituted Oct. nth, 1739.

William Pigott, M.A., clerk, was presented by Robert
Pigott, esq., to the rectory of Edgmond, Deanery of Newport,
void by the death of Dryden Pigott, clerk, and instituted
March 19th, 1739-40.

Robert Binnell, M.A., clerk, presented by Humphrey Pitt,
gent., to the vicarage of Sutton Maddock, Deanery of Newport,
void by the resignation of Thomas Hall, clerk, and instituted
Sept. 22nd, 1740.

File 34. Oct., 1740 — Oct., 1745.

John [Hargreaves], M.A., clerk, was presented by John,
Lord Gower, to the rectory of Kinersley, Deanery of Newport,
void by the resignation of Jeffrey Williams, clerk, and
instituted June 13th, 1741.

[Samuel Jones] clerk, was presented by Godolphin Edwards,
esq., to the rectory of Frodsley, Deanery of Salop, void by the
death of William Roe, clerk, and instituted Aug. 13th. 1 74 1 .

[John Brookes], M.A., clerk, was presented by King Gta rgt
II. to the rectory of Upton Parva, Deanery of Newport, void by
the death of John Tourneour, and instituted Allg. 20th, 174I.

Thomas Griffith, clerk, was presented by Sii Rowland Hill,
Bart., to the Rectory of Bolas, Deanery of Newport, void by the
death of John Tourneour, clerk, and instituted Sept. 14th, 1741.

John Davies, clerk, D.D.. was presented by Adam Ottley,
esq., to the rectory of Pitch ford, Deanery of Salop, vacant by

INSTITUTIONS OP SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS. 199

the death of William Roe, clerk, and instit ited Nov. 28th,
1741.

Richard Jackson, clerk, M. A., was collated to the vicarage of
Prees, Deanery of Salop, vacant by the death of Thomas
Hodgetts, clerk, Feb. 3rd, i74i[-42].

William Oakeley, clerk, B.A., was presented by Adam Ottley,
esq., to the rectory of Pitchford, Deanery of Salop, vacant by
the death of Dr. Davies, clerk, and instituted Sept. 8th, 1742.

Robert Jeffreys, clerk, M.A., was presented by King George
II. to the vicarage of Baschurch, Deanery of Salop, vacant by
the death of Richard Jeffreys, clerk, and instituted Sept. 8th,
1742.

Daniel Austin, clerk, M.A., was presented by the University
of Cambridge to the rectory of Berrington, Deanery of Salop,
void by the death of John Lloyd, and instituted Aug. nth,
1743.

George Podmore, clerk, B.A., was presented to the rectory of
Sheinton, Deanery of Salop, by Elizabeth Dicken, widow, void
by the death of William Dicken, and instituted Oct. 26th, 1743.

File 35- °ct'» i745~ Oct., 1751.

Henry Corbet, clerk, M.A., was presented by Sir William
Corbet, Bart, to the rectory of Stoke upon Tern, Deanery of
Newport, void by the death of William Williams, clerk, and
instituted June 14th, 1746.

Samuel Burslem, clerk, M.A., was presented by Sir William
Corbet, Bart., to the vicarage of Drayton, Deanery of Newport,
void by the resignation of Henry Corbet, clerk, and instituted
June 18th, 1746.

Egerton Leigh, clerk, L.L.D., was presented by John, Duke of
Bridgewater, to the rectory of Middle Deanery of Salop, void
by the death of the Rt. Rev. Henry, Bp. of Hereford, And
instituted July 17th, 1746.

Richard Newcombe, clerk, D.D., was presented by John,
Duke of Bridgewater, to the rectory of Whitchurch. IV.mcn of
Salop, void by the death of Henry. Bp, of Hertford, Uld
instituted Sept. 1 ith, 1746.

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200 INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

Joseph Orme, clerk, was presented b> Catherine Pope,
spinster, to the rectory of Smethcote, Deanery of Salop, void
by the death of Thomas Beddow, clerk, and instituted Oct.
16th, 1746.

Adam Ottley, clerk, M.A., was presented by Adam Ottley,
esq., to the rectory of Pitchford, Deanery of Salop, void by
the resignation of William Oakeley, clerk, and instituted Feb.
20th, 1746.

l[ ] Jenkins, clerk, B.A., was presented to the rectory

of Petton, Deanery of Salop, void by the death of George
Tyler, clerk, and instituted June nth, 1747.

[William] Pigott, clerk, M.A., was presented by John
Corbet, esq., to the rectory of Upton Magna, Deanery of Salop,
void by the death of William Grascombe, clerk, and instituted
Aug. 21st, 1747.

James Dewhurst, clerk, B.A., was presented by William,
Earl of Bath, to the rectory of Harley, Deanery of Salop, void
by the death of [William] Painter, clerk, and instituted Nov.
25th, 1747.

James Ralph, clerk, M.A., was presented by the King to the
rectory of Fitz, Deanery of Salop, void by the resignation of
Adam Newliug, clerk, and instituted Nov. 27th, 1747.

Geoge Gretton, clerk, B.A., was presented by Rowland
Cotton, esq., to the rectory of Norton, Deanery of Newport,
void by the resignation of Samuel Burslem, clerk, and
instituted March 8th, i747[-8],

John Hale, clerk, M.A., was presented for this turn by the
Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of London, Governors of
Christ's Hospital, to the vicarage of Albrighton, Deanery of
Newport, void by the death of Dr. Francis West, clerk, and
instituted March 17th, i747[-48].

Charles Du Gard, clerk, B.A., was presented by John. K.ul
Gower, to the vicarage of Lillyshall, Deanery of Newport, void
by the death of Benjamin Clemson, clerk, and instituted Sept
17th, 1748.

1 Christian Name obliterated

INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS. 201

On 18th Nov., 1749, Peter Leigh, clerk, B.L., was admitted
to the rectory of Middle, Deanery of Salop, void by the cession
of Egerton Leigh, on the presentation of Francis, Duke of
Bridgewater.

On 24th Nov., 1749, John Douglas, clerk, was admitted to the
rectory of Eaton Constantine, Deanery of Salop, void by the
death of Edward Tipton, on the presentation of William, Earl
of Bath.

On 27th March [1750], David Rice, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Smethcot, Deanery of Salop, void by the
death of Thomas Beddow, on the presentation of Richard
Beddow, dyer.

On 26th July, 1750, Robert Clive, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Adderley, Deanery of Newport, void by the
death of Sir Henry Corbet, on the presentation of Elizabeth
Corbet, spinster.

On 8th Aug., 1750, William Gorsuch, clerk, was admitted to
the vicarage of Holy Cross within the Monastery of Salop,
void by the death of John Latham, on the presentation of King
George II.

On 4th Sept., 1750, Vincent Corbet, clerk, M.A , was
admitted to the rectory of Stoke upon Tern, Deanery of
Newport, void by the death of Sir Heurv Corbet, on the
presentation of Elizabeth Corbet, spinster.

On 17th Sept., 1750, St. John Haynes, clerk, M A., was
admitted to the rectory of Longford, Deanery of Newport, void
by the death of John Haynes, clerk, on the presentation of
Robert Eyton, esq.

On 19th Dec, 1750, John Douglas, clerk, M.A . wrasi
instituted to the vicarage of High Ercal, Deanery of Salop,
void by the death of Lawrence Gardiner, on the presentation
of William, Earl of Bath.

On 14th June, 1751, James Dewhurst. clerk. B.A., W%B
admitted to the rectory of Eaton Constantine, Deanery of
Salop, void by the cession of John Douglas, on the presentation
of William, Earl of Bath.

File 36. Oct., 1751— Oct., 1755.
On 31st Oct., 1751, Sauiuel Snialbtoke, M.A , was Instituted

to the rectory of VVem, Deanery of Newport, void b) the death

202 INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

of Dr. Robert Eyton, on the presentation i f Diana, Countess
of Mountrath.

On 14th December, 1751, Richard Smith, M.A., was insti-
tuded to the vicarage of Wellington, Deanery of Salop, void by
the death of Dr. Robert Eyton, on the presentation of Thomas
Eyton, esq.

On 6th May, 1752, Francis Wilde, B.A., was admitted to the
vicarage of Ryton, Deanery of Salop, void by the death of
Edward Jeffreys, on the presentation of the King.

On 28th May, 1752, Robert Binnell, M.A., was admitted to
the vicarage of Idsall otherwise Shifnal, Deanery of Newport,
void by the death of Richard Brooke, on the presentation of
Sir Hugh Brigges, Bart.

On 24th Aug., 1752, Roger Bromley, B.A., was admitted to
the rectory of Ryton, Deanery of Newport, void by the death
of Thomas Brooke, on the presentation of Margaret Brooke,
widow.

On 29th Sept., 1752, Corbet Browne, B.A., was admitted to
the rectory of Upton Magna, Deanery of Salop, void by the
resignation of William Pigott, on the presentation of John
Corbet, esq.

On 23rd Nov., 1752, Joseph Dixon, M.A., was admitted to
the rectory of Westfeiton, Deanery of Salop, void by the death
of John Craven, on the presentation of Fulwar, Lord Craven

On 2nd April, 1753, Thomas Hughes, B.A , was instituted to
the vicarage of Loppington, Deanery of Salop, void by the
death of Richard Chambre, on the presentation of the King.

On 17th June, 1754, Robert Binnell, M.A., was admitted to
the rectory of Kemberton, Deanery of Newport, void by the
death of James Devey, on the presentation of Humphrey Pitt,
gent.

On 23rd Dec, 1754, John Brooke, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Shifnal, Deaneiy of Newport, vonl hv the
resignation of Robert Binnell, 011 the presentation of S11 Ktlgfa
Brigges, Bart.

On 23rd April, 1755, William Adams, M.A., was instituted to
the rectory of Cound, Deanery of Salop, void by the death of
Dr. Edward Cresset, on the presentation of Rlllftbetfa CretSett,
widow.

INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS. 203

File 37. Oct. 1755— April, 1760.

On 15th March, 1756, Rowland Chambre, M.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Sheinton, Deanery of Salop, vacant
by the death of George Podmore, on the presentation of
Elizabeth Dicken, widow.

On 14th Feb., 1758, Samuel Jones, B.A., was instituted to
the vicarage of St. Alkmund, in Shrewsbury, void by the death
of John Cottom, on the presentation of the King.

On 21st March, 1758, John Foster, M.A., was instituted to
the vicarage of Montford, Deanery of Salop, void by the death
of Adam Newling, on the presentation of Thomas, Lord
Montfort.

On 5th May, 1758, John Lea, M.A., was instituted to the
rectory of Acton Burnell, Deanery of Salop, void by the death
of Peter Studley, on the presentation of Samuel Lea, clerk.

On 26th June, 1758, Edward Fosbrooke, B.A., was instituted
to the rectory of Stirchley, Deanery of Newport, void by the
death of William Banks, on the presentation of Robert
Moreton, esq., and Revell Phillips, esq.

On 3rd Nov., 1758, Borlase Wingfield, M.A , was instituted
to the rectory of Bolas, Deanery of Newport, void by the death
of Benjamin Wase, on the presentation of Sir Rowland Hill,
.Bart.

On 15th January, 1759, John Leigh, B.A., was instituted to
the rectory of Middle, Deanery of Salop, void by the death
of Peter Leigh, on the presentation of Francis, Duke of
Bridgewater.

On 14th June, 1759, Robert Reynolds, M.A., was instituted
to the rectory of Middle, Deanery of Salop, void by the
resignation of John Leigh, on the presentation of Francis,
Duke of Bridgewater.

On 19th June, 1759, Henry Whitmor *, M.A., was admitted to
the rectory of Stockton, Deanery of Newport, void by the
resignation of Robert Daubrie, on the presentation ot Sir
Thomas Whitmore, K.B.

On 25th Jan., 1760, John Fieldhouse, M.A.. instituted to
the rectory of Morton Corbet, Deanei v ot Salop, void In the
death of John Fieldhouse, on the presentation ot liianvilc.
Earl Gower.

204

INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

On 3rd March, 1760, St. John Haynes, M.A., was instituted
to the rectory of Stoke upon Tern, Deane/y of Newport, void
by the death of Vincent Corbet, on the presentation of Mrs.
Frances Corbet, for this turn.

On 15th April, 1760, Francis Edwards, clerk, was instituted
to the rectory of Frodesley, Deanery of Salop, void by the
cession of Samuel Jones, on the presentation of Godolphin
Edwards, esq.

File 38. April, 1760 — April, 1765.

Francis Probart, clerk, B.A., was admitted on 6th June,
1760, to the rectory of Hinstock, Deanery of Newport, void by
the resignation of St. John Haynes, on the presentation of
Elizabeth Corbet, spinster, for this turn.

Richard Smith, B.D., was admitted on 3rd July, 1760, to the
rectory of Eytou on the Wildmoors, Deanery of Newport, void
by the death of John Fieldhouse, on the presentation of
Thomas Eyton, esq.

John Leigh, clerk, B.A., was admitted on 22nd Aug.. 1760,
to the rectory of Kinnersley, Deanery of Newport, void by the
death ol John Hargreaves, on the presentation of Granville,
Earl Gower.

On 28th Jan., 1761, Thomas Griffith, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Bolas, Deanery of Newport, void by
the cession of Borlace Wingfield, on the presentation of Sir
Rowland Hill, Bart.

On 21st May, 1761, Thomas Lewis, B.A., was admitted to the
rectory of Sheinton, Deanery of Salop, void by the cession of
Rowland Chambre, on the presentation of Mr. William Dieken.
of Madeley Wood.

On 28th Sept., 1761, David Owen, clerk, was admitted to the
vicarage of Ryton, Deanery of Salop, void by the death of
Francis Wilde, on the presentation of the King.

On 15th June, 1762, Joshua Adams, clerk, was instituted t<>
the vicarage of Ulksmere, Deanery of Salop, void by the death
of Samuel Jenks, on the presentation of Frauds. Duke ol
Bridgewater.

On 29th July, 1762, William Anwyl, B.A., wis instituted to
the vicarage of Cheswardine, CO, Salop, Deaneiv of T.aplcv and

Trei/.ull, void by the death of | ] Pearson, on the

presentation of Watkin Wynne, esq,

INSTITUTIONS OP SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS. 205

On 21st Oct., 1762, Leonard Hotchkis, M..A was collated
(by lapse) to the rectory of Ryton, Deanery of Newport, void
by the death of Roger Bromley.

On 18th April, 1763, John Bromwich, clerk, was instituted to
the vicarage of Worfield, co. Salop, Deanery of Lapley and
Treizull, void by the death of Daniel Adamson, on the
presentation of Sherington Davenport, esq.

On 9th June, 1763, Samuel Sneade, M.A., was instituted to
the vicarage of St. Alkmund, in the town of Shrewsbury and
Deanery of Salop, void by the death of Samuel Jones, on the
presentation of the King.

On 7th July, 1763, George Baker, M.A., was instituted to the
rectory of Kemberton, with the vicarage of Sutton Maddock
annexed, Deanery of Newport, void by the death of Robert
Binnell, on the presentation of Humphrey Pitt, esq.

On 17th Oct., 1763, Robert Markham, M.A., was instituted
to the rectory of Chetwynd, Deanery of Newport, void by the
death of William Bill Saunders, on the presentation of Robert
Pigott, esq.

On 22nd Feb., 1764, Thomas Hatton, B.A., was instituted to
the rectory of Upton Parva, Deanery of Newport, void by the
death of John Brookes, on the presentation of the King.

On 20th July, 1764, Joseph Dixon, B.A., was admitted to the
m rectory of West Feltou, Deanery of Salop, void by the death of
Joseph Dixon, on the presentation of Fulwar, Lord Craven.

On 18th Oct., 1764, Henry Wood, clerk, was admitted to the
vicarage of High Ercal, Deanery of Salop, void by the cession of
John Douglas, D D., on the presentation of Harry Pulteney, esq.,
committee of the estate of John Newport, esq., now a lunatic.

On 21st Feb., 1765, Stephen Panting, clerk, was instituted to
the vicarage of Wrockerdine, Deanery of Salop, void by the
death of William Leplain, on the presentation of the King.

File 39. April, 1765— April, 1770.
On 23rd Sept., 1765, William HintOl , M.A., was instituted to
the rectory of Kinnersley, Deanery of Newport, void by the
death of John Leigh, on the presentation of Granville. Bar!
Gower.

On 16th Jan., 1766, Thomas Parry. H.A.. Wtl Instituted to
the vicarage of Nestrauge, Deanery ol StlOf>, vonl In the
resignation of William Parry, on the presentation ot 'the King,

206

INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

On 17th Feb., 1766, Daniel Griffiths, B.L., was instituted to
the rectory of Hordley, Deanery of Salop, void by the death of
Thomas Barrett, on the presentation of Edward Kynaston, esq.

On 3rd March, 1766, William Pigott, B.L., was instituted to
the rectory of Chetwynd, Deanery ot Newport, void by .the
resignation of Robert Markham, on the presentation of
Robert Pigott, esq.

On 24th June, 1766, Thomas Roberts, B.A., was instituted to
the rectory of Petton, Deanery of Salop, void by the death of
John Tomkins, on the presentation of the King.

On 12th Sept., 1767, Richard Smyth, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Middle, Deanery of Salop, void by
the death of Robert Reynolds, on the presentation of Francis,
Duke of Bridgewater.

On 6th Jan., 1768, Thomas Edwards, clerk, B.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Frodesley, Deanery of Salop, void
by the death of Francis Edwards, on the presentation of
Godolphin Edwards, esq.

On 26th April, 1768, James Stillingfleet, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the vicarage of the parish church of Shawbury,
Deanery of Salop, void by the death of John Fieldhouse, clerk,
on the presentation of Richard Hill, of Hawkston, esq., patron.

On 16th June, 1768, William Clarke, B.A., was instituted to .
the rectory of the parish church of Morton Corbet, Deanery of
Salop, void by the death of John Fieldhouse, clerk, on the
presentation of Andrew Corbet, esq., patron.

On 31st March, 1770, Henry Egerton, clerk, M.A., was
instituted to the rectory of Whitchurch (with the chapel of
Marbury), Deanery of Salop, void by the death of Richard,
Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, on the presentation of Francis,
Duke of Bridgewater, patron.

File 40. April, 1770— to April, 1775.

On 15th Aug., 1770, Egerton Leigh, clerk, M A . WU
collated and instituted to the Archdeaconry of Salop, void by
the death of William Vyse, clerk

On 20th Sept., 1770, George Butt, clerk, M A . WU instituted

to the rectory of Doaoington, Deanery ot Newport, void by

the death of Robert Fowler, clerk, on the presentation of
Granville Leveson, Earl Gower, pat ion

INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS. 207

On 26th March, 1771, Robert Williams, clerk, was instituted
to the rectory of Sheinton, Deanery of Salop, void by the
cession of Thomas Lewis, clerk, on the presentation of Thomas
Stephens, esq., patron.

Rectory of Ightfield. John Salusbury, clerk, LL-B.,
instituted. Deanery of Newport. Vacant by death of John
Justice, clerk. Date of institution, Oct. 31st, 1771. Philip
Justice, of Plymouth, co. Devon, esq., patron.

Rectory of Quat. Richard Dovey, clerk, M.A., instituted.
Deanery of L,apley, co Salop. Vacant by death of William
Roden, clerk. Date of institution, 18th Nov., 1771. Thomas
Weld, of Dudmaston Hall, co. Salop, esq., patron.

Rectory of Donnington. George Butt, clerk, M.A., insti-
tuted. Deanery of Newport. Vacant by cession of the said
George Butt. Date of institution, 23rd Dec, 1771. Granville
Leveson, Earl Gower, patron.

Vicarage of Atcham. Thomas Houldston, clerk, M.A.,
instituted. Deanery of Salop. Vacant by death of Samuel
Fowler, clerk. Instituted 25th Feb., 1772. Robert Burton, of
Longnor, co. Salop, esq., patron.

Bolas alias Bowlas rectory. Robert Hill, clerk, LL.B..
instituted. Deanery of Newport. Vacant by the cession of
.Thomas Griffiths. Instituted 25th June, 1772. Sir Rowland
Hill, of Hawkston, Bart., patron.

Lilleshall vicarage. Richard Ogle, clerk, instituted.
Deanery of Newport. Vacant by the death of Charles Dugard.
Instituted 27th May, 1772. Granville Leveson, Karl Gower,
patron.

Shiffnall alias Idsall vicarage. John Rogers, clerk, M.A.,
instituted. Deanery of Newport. Vacant by the resignation
of John Brooke. Instituted 4th July, 1772. The said John
Brooke, of Haughton, co. Salop, clerk, patron.

Wroxeter vicarage. Edmund Dana, MA., instituted.
Deanery of Salop. Vacant by the death of Robert Cartwrighl
Instituted 7th Nov., 1772. William Poulteuey, esq., Committee
of the estate of John Newport, esq., a lunatic, patron

Stoke upon Tern rectory. George Cotton instituted.
Deanery of Newport. Vacant by the death ot St John Ktynet,
Instituted 15th Jan., 1773. Mary Corbet, spinster, pation

208 INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

Longford rectory. Robert Outlaw, B.A., nstituted. Deanery
of Newport. Vacant by the death of St. John Haynes.
Instituted 22nd Feb., 1773. Damaris Haynes, widow, patron
for this turn.

Ryton alias Ruiton by Buckbury rectory. George Butt,
clerk, M. A., instituted. Deanery of Newport. Vacant by the
death of Leonard Hotchkiss. Instituted 27th April, 1773.
John Chappel Woodhouse, clerk, patron.

Ryton alias Ruiton by Buckbury rectory. John Chappel
Woodhouse, clerk, instituted. Deanery of Newport. Vacant
by the resignation of George Butt. Instituted 6th Sept., 1773,
on the petition of the said John Chappel Woodhouse, patron.

Donnington rectory. John Chappel Woodhouse, clerk,
instituted. Deanery of Newport. Instituted 6th Sept , 1773.
Granville Leveson, Earl Gower, patron.

Wellington cum Eyton vicarage. Thomas Warter, clerk,
M.A., instituted. Deanery of Salop. Vacant by the death of
Richard Smith. Instituted 27th Nov., 1773. Thomas Eyton,
esq., patron.

St. Alcman's vicarage. Charles De Courcy, clerk, instituted.

Deanery of Salop. Vacant by the death of [ ]. Instituted

1st Feb., 1774. The King patron.

Ightfield rectory. William Burslem, clerk, M.A., instituted.
Deanery of Newport. Vacant by the death of John Salusbury.
Instituted 5th March, 1774. Philip Justice, of Plymouth,
patron.

Fittes alias Fitz rectory. William Hopkins, M.A., admitted.
Deanery of Salop. Vacant by the death of Jatnes Ralph.
Admitted 17th Aug., 1774. The King patron.

Thomas Hanmer, M.A., Moutford vicarage. Edward, Lord
Clive, patron. Vacant by death of John Foster. Instituted
13th Feb., 1775- Deanery of Salop.

John Rogers, M A. Stirchley rectory. Presented by Sarah
Atkis and Thomas Carter Phillips, gent Vacant by death of
Edward Fosbrooke. Instituted 9th Match, 1775. Deanery of
Newport.

John Rogers, M.A. Shrffhall vicarage. Presentee1 by John

Brooke, clerk. Vacant by the resignation ot the said John
Rogers. Instituted 1 6th March, 177s De.im i \ oi Newport

2og

SIR JOHN BURGH, LORD OF MAWDDWY.
(Born at Wattlesborough Castle, 1414. Died 1471)
By FRANCES C. BALDWYN CHILDE.

A Record of his Estates and those of his wife Jane, daughter
and co-heir of Sir William Clopton of Radbroke and Clopton
in Gloucestershire, and their sub-division between their four
daughters and co-heiresses, who married Newport, Leighton,
Lingen and Mytton in the 15th Century. These deeds are
preserved at Loton and Halston, and in the Hengwert MSS. ;
also Extracts from the "Princes of South Wales" and the
"Princes of Upper Powys " by the Hon. and Rev. George
Bridgeman, Sir John Burgh being the representative and
heir through his mother, the daughter of Sir John de la
Pole, the heir of Griffith de la Pole, son of Gwenwynwyn
Prince of Powis, Lord of Trefgarn.

. Sir John Burgh was son and heir of Hugh Burgh, who in a
pedigree in the Visitation of Shropshire, 1564, is stated to
have been of the family of the Barons Burgh of Gainsborough,
descended, as it is said, from Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent.
Hugh Burgh died 1430. His wife was Elizabeth, sole heir
of her brother John, Lord of Mawddy, Trefgarn, Wattles-
borough, &c. She was born at Wattlesborough, and
baptised at St. Peter's, Alberbury, and died before 1430.
Their son and heir, John, was born at Wattlesborough Castle,
and baptized in Alberbury Church on the 12th June, 1414,
as was proved by Roger Forster, 60 years of age, who said th.it
he had a fall from his horse and broke his right leg DMI the
Church on the same day on which John Burgh was baptised,
by which he well remembers he is of the age 57, as stated in
the Inq. P.M. 147 1 . John Lord Talbot gave him (beiftg oil
godfather) a cup of silver gilt with a covei I.awieiuc

2IO

SIR JOHN BURGH,

Merbury was the other godfather and Lady Joan Prayers his
godmother.

He proved his age at Shrewsbury on June 28th, 1435, before
Humphrey Cotes, the King's Escheator for Salop. By his
marriage with Joane Clopton, the daughter and heiress of Sir
William Clopton of Radbroke and Clopton in Gloucestershire,
he added greatly to his own vast inheritance.

He was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1449, 1453 and 1463-4.
Blakeway in his History of the Sheriffs of Shropshire states
that Sir John Burgh, Knight, was a person of great mag-
nificence, and in common with other eminent Englishmen,
signed himself on his seal still extant, "S.J. Burgh Sr (signeur)
de Olonde p.s. (pres.) le Chatel de Chirbourgh." In 1461 his
seal appended to a deed relating to Alberbury Priory is a lion
rampant, a border indented, the legend being " S. Johannis
Burgh." These are the arms of the Princes of South Wales,
his right to them being through his mother, Elizabeth, heiress
of Fulco Lord of Mawddy. The arms of Burgh are azure
a chevron between three fleur de lis ermine. All these arms
appear among the quarterings of their descendants.

A curious letter at Loton from Sir John Lingen to Sir
Thomas Leighton suggests an ingenious mode of settling the
estates between the heiresses by dividing them in four equal
portions, enclosing the names in wax, each heir taking her
portion without knowing what it would be, but the result
appears to have been quite satisfactory. (See deed of
Partition, 1501).

The daughters were : —
X. Elizabeth, who married William Newport of High Ercall,
co. Salop, died before her father in 1471. Her portioa
was Trefgarn Owen and mat y manors in Pembrokeshire.
Worcestershire and Warwickshire from the Princes of
South Wales, 4th part of Walton, Houses and gaidcns in
Shrewsbury.

2. Ankeret, who married Thomas Leighton of Leighton.
Stretton in le Dale, ami St.ipleton, ShzOpthilfe Hci

I

LORD OF MAWDDWY. 211

portion consisted of the old family home, Wattles-
borough, where her ancestors had been born and baptized
in the Church of St. Peter, Alberbury, and the Lordship
and Manor of Clopton in Gloucestershire, 4th part
of Walton, &c, Carston and Park, Loton, Bausley, &c.

3. Isabel, the wife of John Lingen of Lingen, in Hereford-

shire, where their tomb is still to be seen. She inherited
the Lordship of Radbroke, part of the Forest of Caus,
4th part of Walton, &c. Sir John Burgh dates one of his
letters from Radbroke, and in Atkyns' History of
Gloucestershire, 1768, we read " Sir William Clopton
died seized of Radbook, 7 Henry V. Mr. Lingen hath a
fair house and good estate in this place."

4. Elizabeth, who married Thomas Mytton, was born 1445.

Her portion was the Lordship and Manors of Mawddy
the inheritance of hei grandmother, the heiress of the
Princes of Powis and South Wales.

The descendants of these four heiresses still exist — Leighton,
Lingen and Mytton in the male line, and until 1834 (when
John Mytton of Halston sold the Barony of Mawddy) in
possession of their old estates ; but Robert Lingen of
Radbroke who died 1805 assumed the name of Burton, and
Lady Anne Newport, sister of Richard, 2nd Earl of Bradford,
married Sir Orlando Bridgeman, and thus the Newports are
now represented by their descendants, the Bridgemans, Earls
of Bradford, in the female line.

Inquisition Post Mortbm of Sir John Burgh

Elizabeth — Sir John Newport
Tregarne Owen, S. Wales
Harley

Kenley
Hem

Houses and Gardens in

Shrewsbury
Kynton

Brocktone Mill

Bychemershe (Warwick-
shire)

Crome Syinond 8t d'Abitol

Symond

Boughton

Ky res well

i of Walton

212

SIR JOHN BURGH,

2. Ankeret— Sir John
Stapleton.

Wattlesborough
Bradeshill (Bretchel)
Haye and Wodecote
Carston and Park
Shirtley (and advowson)
Ballisley (Bausley)

on of Leighton, Stretton,

Braggington

Loughton (L,oton)

After ( Clopton Glouces-

death of j tershire

Jane U of Walton(Salop)

3. Isabel — Sir John kingen of Lingen, Herefordshire.

Yockleton
Stretton with Mills
Stirchley and Kyn'ton
Wentmor (Wentnor)
Gravenore (advowsons)
Overs and Shelve
i of Walton

Park part of the Forest of

Caus

After
the

death
of

Jane

Radbrook

Gretson

Wykeiford

Upton Hazelor

Exall

Binton

Barton

Betford

Benhall

Myhleton

Elizabeth — Thomas Mytton of Halston, and William
his son.

Mawddy (Mowthy)
Diuas Mawddy
Habberley
Haghton
L,ee Brockhurst
\ of Walton
Morehall
Over Quinton
Wyke Ramford

Halford

Camden

Birlingham

Powick

Holbestre

Tenements in Aleester

Defford

Bronie

From a MSS. of the late Mr Joseph Morris.

The lands in South Wales which came to Hugh Burgh by
his marriage with the Lady of Mawddy :--

LORD OF MAWDDWY.

213

Trefgarn cum membris, viz :

in
South
Wales

in

Cardiganshire

Trefgarn
Gilleugh
Dy Hryn-Taf

High Hilton and Symondeston
Snaylton
Le Dale
Le Hill
Bykton
Sutton
Walton
Lanberton
Herbraundston

Reiner's Castle

Gwynnyonyth cum membris, viz. Westva.

The Lordship of Haverford West
and Seynt David in South Wales
and the Lordship of North Wales.

DINAS MAWDDY
(the inheritance of Elizabeth Mytton).
Dinas Mawddy is the capital of the Lordship of Mawddy or
'(Mouthey). It is now but a small village of mud cottages,
but it was formerly a fortified town and endowed with
considerable privileges. It yet retains the insignia of power,
the maces — standard measure — stocks — whipping post — and
the fag-fawr or great fetter; and its humble mayor and
alderman are still Justices of the Peace for the extent of their
little region. — (Pc?ina?it's Tours in Wales).

WATTLESBOROUGH CASTLE
(the inheritance of Ankeret Leighton) is still inhabited as a
farm house and the Norman Tower remains much as it must
have been more than 600 years ago. The well-known
architect, Mr. Edward Blore, who visited WattlesborOUgh
about 50 years ago, says "The tower is quadrangular in plan
and at the present time about 50 feet high, but the original
summit has been destroyed and is now covered by -i modem

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SIR JOHN BURGH,

square roof; externally the masonry is ^ood square well-
dressed ashler, remarkably well built and exhibiting no
symptoms of decay ; the walls are 6ft. thick and the angles are
finished with broad flat buttresses 6ft. wide and io inches
deep. I think it may safely be referred to the close of the 12th
Century. Though not the only residence of its successive
owners, it appears to have been constantly inhabited, for not
only, as previously stated, was Sir John Burgh bcrn here in
14 14, but his mother the heiress of the Mawddys and the
Leightons have lived there constantly till Sir Edward
Leighton removed their residence to Loton."

Letter from Sir John Lyngen to Sir Thomas Leighton,
proposing to divide the inheritance of Sir John Burgh.
About 1500.
(From a copy at Loton).
"To my Ryght Worshipfull Cosyn Sir Thomas Leighton ;
This delivered in all hast.
Right Worshipfull Syr, — I recomaunde me unto you
desyring to here of yr. Prosperitie which J'hu p'serve Amen
lettyng you to understond that my Brother Mytton and my
Newow John Newporte hath wryttyn unto me to have
Partyc'on of all the londs that wher my Fader in law Sr. John
Burgh's and my Lady ys Wyff and I have wryttyn unto Them
under this form That We shold have a Mettyng and there to
have a comynycac'on for the Partyc'on of said Londs and to
put the 4 Partyse of the Londs equally devydyd in waxe and
so to take the Parts as thereof as Fortune comythe yf so be
that They fynde eny Defaunte in the maekyug of the Books of
Partyc'on lett them amende hytt also I have Poynted the Plase
of mettyng at Lodlow the 7th day of the monythe of May and
yf so be that ye wylle be greable thereto praying yow to
sende me in wryttyng under yor. seale whethr. ye wylle be
greable or no by my Servt. the whyche shalle bryng yow
aonswere betwxte this and Estyr as aboute the inaryage
betw'xte my Cosyn Acton and my Dartyre Jane. No nunc
unto yow at this tyme but J'hu p'serve Amen
Yor. lovyng Uncill]

John Lyngkn Knw.ht "

baa

I.ORD OF MAWDDWY. 215

j 501 .—Division of the Estates of Sir John Burgh and his
wife between their daughters Lkighton, Newport,
Mytton, Lingen.

11 This indenture quadripartite, made the 12th day of May,
in the sixteenth yeare of the raigne of king Henry the
Seventh (1501), betweene John Lingen, knight, and Isabel his
wif, one of the daughters and heires, as well of John Burghe,
knight, as of Jane his wif, one of the daughters and heires of
William Clopton, knight, on that one parte, and Thomas
Leighton, knight, sonne and heire of Ankerete, on other of ye.
daughters and heires of the said John Burghe and Jane his
wif on ye second parte, and John Newport, esq., sonne and
heire of Elizabeth the third daughter and one of the heires of
the same John Burghe and Jane his wif on the third parte, and
Thomas Mytton, Esq., late husband of Elizabeth, the fowerth
daughter and one of the heires of the sd. John Burghe and
Jane his wif, and William Mitton, sonne and heire of the sd.
Thomas Mytton and heire of the same Elizabeth his wif on the
fourth parte, Witnesseth that partic'on and severance is made,
concluded, and fully determinallye agreede, betweene the said
parties, and by their comon assent with the grace of God
perpetually to endure betweene them and their heires for ever,
'for, of, and upon all such lordshippes, manors, lands,
meadowes, pastures, woods, rents, comons, patronages,
advowsons, liberties, franchises, and hereditaments, whatso-
ever they be wch after the decesse of the said John Burgh
and Jane his wif and either af them, discended, remayned or
in any wise benne comon to the hands of the said parties in
demeane, possession, service, use, or profitte, as well in
England as in Wales, as by these present indentures
appeareth ; that is to say, the lordshippes and manors of
Yocelton and Stretton, with the myll and the parke parte of
the (forest of Cawes, Kynurton, SturJiley, Wentnor wth the
advowson of the church, Gravenor, Overs, Shelve, and the
fourth part of Walton, wthin the countie of Salop, l.uuls .uul
hereditaments in Yockletou, Stretton, Cawes, Kynn'ton,
Sturchley, Wentnor, Gravenor, Overs, Shelve, .md the fourth
part of the lands and tenements in Walton, with the

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SIR JOHN BURGH,

appurtenances in the sayd countie, been allotted, assigned,
and appoynted to the said Sir John Lingen and Isabell his
wif, to have, possede, and enjoy, to them and to the heires of
the said Isabell as her parte for her advauncement of the
inheritance to them belonginge after the death of the sayd,Sr
John Burgh ; the lordshipps and manors of Rodbroke,
Gretstou, Wykelfford, Upton Haselor, Exall, Binton, Barton,
Betford, Benhall, and Mykleton, wthin the countie of Warr',
lands and hereditaments in Rodbroke, Gretston, Wikelford,
Upton Haselor, Exall, Binton, Barton, Betford, Benhall, and
Mykleton, with the appurtences, been allotted, assigned, and
appoynted to the said Sr John Lingen and Isabell his wif, to
have, possede, and enjoye, to them and to the heires of the
said Isabell, as her parte for the advauncement of the
inheritance to them belonginge after the death of the sayd
Jane Burgh. The manors and lordshipps of Wattlesburgh,
Bradsill, haye, Cardeston, Ballesley, Braginton, Lughton, and
Woodcote, and the fourth parte of the lands and tenements in
Walton forsaid, in the said countie of Salopp, been allotted,
assigned, and appoynted, to the said Sr Thomas Leighton,
knight, to have, possede, and enjoy, to him and his heirs
as his parte for his advauncement of the inheritance
to him belonginge after the death of the said Sr John Burgh,
knight ; the lordshipp and manor of Clopton, wth appurts
in the countie of Gloucester, lands and hereditaments in
Clopton wthin the said countie, been allotted, assigned, and
appoynted to the said Sr Thomas Leigh ton, knight, to have,
possede, and enjoy, to him and to his heires, as his part and
for his advauncement of the inheritance to him belonginge
after the death of the said Jane Burgh. The lordshipps and
manors of Tregarn Owen, wth the members and advowsuns of
the churches ther in South Wales, Hem, HyutOtl, burgages,
howses, and gardens in the towne >f Shtrewsberye, the iu> lie
of Brocketon, the fourth paite of Walton, wthin the COttMH of
Salopp, lands and hereditaments in Tregarn-Ow -en, Eiem,
Hynton, Sherosberye, Brockton, and the founh nail of
the land and hereditaments in Walton tot said, been
allotted, assigned, and appoynted, to tin- a\d John NeW|

I,ORD OF MAWDDWY.

217

to have, possede, and enjoye, to him and to his heires, for his
parte for his advauncement of the inheritance to him
belonginge after the death of the said Sr John Burgh; the
lordshipps and manors of Byckemshe in the countie of Warr',
Crome Symond, Boughton, Kyrreswell, and Crome Abitot,
wthin the countie of Worcestre ; the lands and hereditaments
in Bickemshe, Crome Symond, Boughton, Kyrreswall, and
Crome Abitot, been allotted, assigned, and appoynted, to the
said John Newport, to have, possede, and enjoy, to him and
to his heires, for his parte for his advancement of the
inheritance to him belonginge after the death of the same
dame Jane Burgh. The lordships and manors of Mowthoy,
wth advowsons in North Wales, Haberly with advowson,
Haughton, Librokelhurst, and the fourth parte of Walton,
wthin the countie of Salop, the lands and hereditaments in
Mowthoy, Dynas Mowthoy, with advowsons in North Wales,
Haberly with advowson, Haughton, Librokehurst, and the
fourth part of the lands and hereditaments with appurtences.
in Walton, been allotted, assigned and appointed, to the said
Thomas Mytton and William his sonue, to have, possede, and
enjoye, to them and to the heires of the said William Mytton,
for his parte of the inheritance to the sd William belonginge
after the death of the said John Burgh; the lordshipps and
manors of Morehall, Over Quynton, Wykewanford, Haltord,
Camden, Birlingham, Powick, Holbestre, Tents, burgages,
and gardenes, wth rents in Alsetr, Defford, and Brome, wthin
the counties of Warr', Glowcestre, and Worcestre, lands and
hereditaments in Morehall, ov'Quynton, Wykewanford,
Halford, Camden, Billingham, Powick, Holbestr, Alsetr,
Defford, and Brome, with appurts, been allotted, assigned,
and appoynted, to the said Thomas Mytton and William his
sonne, to have, possede, and enjoye, to them and to the heires
of the said William Mytton, in allow. mce of his parte of the
inheritance to him belonginge after the death of the said dame
Jane Burgh. It is also agreed, graunted, and appoynted,
betweene the said parties by thes' p'sents. that foi an equal]
partic'on of ye p'mysses to be hadde, made, and COtlti&twd,
that the said Sr Thomas Leighton and his heires shall Content

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SIR JOHN BURGH,

and pay unto the said Thomas Mytton and William Mitton his
Sonne, and to the heires of the said WilliaLi Mitton an annuall
rent of XXs. goynge out of the foresaid lordshippe and manor
of Clopton paieable yearely at the feasts of Snt Mychell the
archangell and the anuciac'on of our ladie by equall porc'ons :
ffor the annuall rent it shalbe lawful for the said Thomas
Mytton and William Mytton to enter unto the said manor of
Clopton and to distraigne, and the distresses thereof taken to
leade, drive, convey, and ympark unto the time they be thereof
satisfied and payed. In witnes wherof to that on parte of tries'
indenture quatriparte toward the forsaid John Lyngen and
Isabell his wif, remaynynge, the said Thomas Leighton, John
Newport, Thomas Mytton, and William Mytton have sett
their seales ; and to the seconde pt thereof wth the said
Thomas Leighton abydinge, the foresaid John Lyngen and
Isabell his wyf, John Newport, Thomas Mytton, and William
Mytton, have sett ther seales ; and to the third parte of thes
indenture toward the said John Newport remaynynge, the
forsaid John Lingen and Isabell his wif, Thomas Leyghton,
Thomas Mytton, and William Mytton have sett ther seales.
And to the fourth parte therof with the said Thomas Mytton
and William Mytton abidinge, the forsaid John Lingeu and
Isabell his wif, Thomas Leighton, and John Newport, have
sett their seales : written the day and yere abovesaid."

The above transcript is preserved among the Heugwrt MSS.,
where it is said to be taken u out of a coppie wth John Brooke,
recorder of Mowthoy, wrot out of the originall."

BAUSLEY.

Release of Dallisley, etc,, 16 Henry VII., John Lingkn to
Thomas Lhighton.
(From Copy at Loton).
Omnibus Christian' Fidelibus av1 Quos praesens Bcriptam
p'venerit Joh'es Lyngen Armiger Filius et Hacics apparent
Joh'is Lyngen militis et Isabellae uxoris Fjus unius Pillar1 et

Haered' Joh'is Burgh militis et Johanna* uxoiifl ejus Defancf

qua quidem Johanna fuit Una Pillar1 et Haered1 Willi' Clopton
militis defuncti Salt'm Sciatis mc praefat1 Joh'ettl Lyngen

LORD OF MAWDDWY.

219

Armig' remississe relaxasse et omni'o p'me et Haeredibus
nieis in p'petuu' quiet' clamasse Thoraae Leighton militi filio
et Haered' Ankaretae alterius Filiar' et Haered' eorurad'm
Joh'is Burgh et Johannae Haeredibus et assignatis suis totum
jus Tit'lum clameum interesse et demand' qua* habeo h'ui seu
quovismodo in futuro h'ere potero de et in omnibus illis
manerijs Terr' et Ten'tis cum eorum pertin' de Watilsburgh
Bradsill Hey Cardeston et Parco devast'on' in eodem bosco de
Shirteley advocac'one Eccl'iae Ballesley Bragynton Lei^hton
Wodcote Quarta Parte de Walton in Com' Salop et de et in
manerio de Clopton cum Pertin' in com Glouc'. Ita quod nec
Ego praefat' Joh'es Lyngen Armiger nec Haeredes mei nec
aliquis alius nomine n'ro siue alicujus n'rum aliquid Jus Tit'lum
Clameum Inte'es' et Demand' de et in omnibus Praeno'iatis
manerijs Terr' et Ten'tis cum eorum Pertin' nec in aliqua
Parcella eorum de caet'o exigere clamare seu vindicare
poterimus nec debemus set ab omn' acc'one Juris Tit'li et clame'
inde petend' in p'petuu' simus exclusi p' p'sentes Et ego vero
praefat' Joh'es Lyngen Armiger et Haeredes mei omnia et
singula maneria Terras et Ten'ta superius specificat' praefat'
Thomae Leighton Haer'ibus et assignatis suis contra abbatem
Westm' et successores suos warrantizabimus et in perpetuu'
,defendemus p'p'sentes In Cujus Rei Testimoniu' huic Praesent'
scripto meo Sigillum meum apposui Dat' vicessimo die
Maij anno Regni Regis Henrici Septimi post conquestu'
sexto decimo.

" The like release was also executed by John Newport and
William Mytton."

30 h. 6 1452

Agreement made at the ?na?riage oj Thomas Mytton sou
of Tho?nas Mytton with Euz : dau : of Syr John Burgh

Thys indenture made betwyx John Burge Knyght on thai
one part & William Burley of Shrewsbury, Isabel] his \wt and
Rog. Eyton & Agnes hys wyf on that other part wittenessetb
that they ben fully acordet, apoyntet concludct and endet, as
for a marriage to be hadde and don betwyx Thomaa Mutton
sone & heyre to Thomas Mutton & ElUth, the JTODgetl daughtei

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SIR JOHN BURGH,

of the seyde John Burgh in the forme tht t followeth that is to
with that the seyde Thomas Mutton schalt wedde & have to
wyf the seyde Elizabeth & also that the sevde John Burgh
shall have the reule, gouvnance and keping of the seyde
Thomas and Elizabeth til they come to pleyn age, fro the day
of the marriage & also at that same tyme schall be delyvdet to
the seyde John Burgh alle the landes & tents, rentes &
services that vveron Thomas of Mutton fader to the seyde
Thomas that now is wit. allthyngs that longeth to him in
possession except a tent, late in the tenur of Richard Bentley
& his moder dowere only with the reversion of alle landes &
tents being now in the handes of John Mutton hys Unkel
when they fallen, during the nonr;ge aforeseyde & also the
costes of the seyde marriage schall be don by the seyde John
Burgh — for the which marriage the seyde John Burgh shall
paye to the seyde John Burley & Isabell his wyf iij xx mrks.
and x and that to be payet in thys forme — that is to witte xx
mrks. in the day of the mariage & xx mrks. by that day of
twelfmoneth & at that day of twelfmoneth next after then in
fulle payment of the hole summe foreseyde— & also the seyde
William Burley & Isabell his wyf & Roger Eyton & Agnes his
wyf schall warrant that the seyde Thomas shall be agreet to
his seyde marriage and p'forme hit, he being at lawful age
of fourteen yeares & yif he at that tyme disagree, joe fro
hit and will not p'forme hit, that then the seyde William
Burley and Isabell his wyf & Roger Eyton & Agnes his wyf
schall repaye agayn to the seyde John Burgh alle the seyde
sume of money & the costes bothe made payed & don by him
in the seyde marriage & in case also if the seyde Elizabeth
disagree hire marriage goe fro hit and will not p'forme hit
that then the seyde John Burgh alle the Seyde costea and
moneys don and payed aforetyme be lost & lye in his ch.u^c
& furthermore that the seyde William Burley [aabel Ins
wyf schall do make a sufficient astate of twenty {nmiules
worthe of lande of yerly rent of theyre hoth lyfiodea to Thoi
Mutton aforeseyde & to the heyres betwene the fbreaeyde

Thomas and Elizabeth daughter to the leydc John BurgO

after the disceses of the seyde William & [sabell vS, &gnea

LORD OF MAWDDWY. 221

the daughter of the seyde William and Isabell & of Roger
Eyton husband to the seyde Agnes — in case schee ouer lyve
;. the seyde William & Isabell fader & moder to the seyde
Agnes & for defaute of issue betwen the the foreseyde Thomas
Mutton & Elizabeth his wyf betwene hem lawfully begetten
the seide twenty pounds worthe of lande to remayn to -
remaynd to the next heyres of the said William Burley and
Isabell his wyf, and to all these and syngler conditions
aforeseyde on eyther party well and trewly to be holden,
fulfilled, don, p'formet and endet — the p'ties aboveseyde to
these p'sent endentures, enterchangeablement have putte to
theyre seales — these witnesses

Thomas Forster of Shrewesbury, John Mutton, Mayster
Lawrence Roche clerk William L,yngen John Marshall
and other — The dat at Watelesburgh on Tuesday next
afore the fest of the Apostell Symon & Jude the yere
of the reyne of King Harry the Syxte thrythy. (1452).

STAPLETON.

De Banco, Easter, 10 Edw. 4., No. 343.
Salop. John Eeghton, Richard Bondes & Joan his wife,
Robert Cresset & Christine his wife, — Robert Mountfort &
Thomas Acton were summoned at the suit of Thomas Horde
& Joyce his wife in a plea that they should permit a partition
to be made of the manors of Stepulton, Aruiegrove &
Folhampton which formerly belonged to John Stepulton,
Armiger, the father of the said Joyce, and of whom she was
one of the heirs, between the said Joyce & the Said John
Leghton son & heir of Elizabeth, daughter and the second of
the heirs of the said John Stepulton and the said Richard &
Joan the daughter and the third heir of the said John
Stepulton & Robert Cresset and Christine the daughter of
Margaret, the daughter and fourth heir of the said John
Stepulton, and the said Robert Mountfort in right of Mary
late his wife and another of the heirs of the said Margaret, &
Thomas Acton in right of Mary late his wife, the daughter and
fifth heir of the said John Stepulton. The defendants did not
deny that they held "pro iudiviso " the said manors, as staled

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SIR JOHN BURGH,

by the plaintiffs and conceded that a partition should be made.
The Sheriff was therefore ordered to take with him 12 free and
loyal men of the vicinage & to go in person and make a
partition in presence of all the parties and to return the
partition under his seal on the morrow of All Souls, m. 343.

N.B. The pedigree seems to be : —

John Stepulton, Armiger.

Joyce = Elizabeth ss Joan =s Margaret = Mary s=

Thomas Horde Leghton Richard Bondes Cresset Thomas Acton

John Leghton |

I I
Chri8tine= Mary —

Robert Creaset Robert Mountfort

WATELBROW the Hall of Mr. Leighton 1562— 1567.

From a Welsh MSS. in the handwriting of Griffith Hiractog
the lamous Welsh Genealogist and Herald and Bard.

—(Hengwrt MSS.)

On the small standing place above the head of the parlor.
[These Arms are tricked : Quarterly 1 & 4, Quarterly per fesse
indented or & gules, Leighton ; 2 & 3, Two bars between 6
roses, 3, 2 & 1. Crest: A wyvern with wings expanded sable.]

In the same upper room Le Strange quarteriugs together in
a garter.

Above* the top of the chimney 12 Shields together: 1
Leighton, 2 Cambray, 3 Stapleton, 4 Drake, 5 Frems, 6 Shelley,
7 de Burgh, 8 Mawddy, 9 Corbet, 10 Warren, 11 Devereux,

12 Leighton.

Ihe Window in the Stone Upper Room.
1st Leighton & Stapleton quartered,
2d Leighton quartered with Mawddy.
3d Leighton & Devereux.
4th Leighton & Drake.

13 Coats above the chimney is painted— the wyvcin ptMftUt—
a mantle gules doubled & a wreath. 01 & piles.

LORD OF MAWDDWY. 223

The Hall (the window on S. side 6s in the end.)
Four Coats — 1st Or a Lion R. arg. border Azure.

2d Leighton quarterly or & gules indented & in

1st quarter A Lion Sateant Arg.
3d Arg. a Chevron or between 3 fleur de lis.
4th Or, A fess gules, 5 pears.
hi the 2d light. — The arms of Leighton quarterly or & gules
indented & in the end 2 halves vairee or & gules &
above Arg. a fess gules & above the fess 3 roundles
gules.1 [Devereux].
The opposite side window. — The arras of Leighton & at the end

Argent 3 Boars heads erased or.
The great window in the Parlor . . chamber of 4 lights, 13 coats.

1 Leighton.

2 3 Boars Heads erased armed Argent— Cambray.

3 Azure a Lion his tail forked.

4 A Wyvern sable within gold the ears long without a

beard — Drake.

5 Or 3 Bends gules.

6 3 Hanging Escallop Shells or.

7 Azure a chevron or 3 fleur de lis Argent.

8 Or, a Lion Rampant gules a smooth border azure.

9 Or, a Crow sable — Corbet.

10 Gules & Or quartered in the 1st quarter a lion sateant.

1 1 Gules, a fess Or. . . 5 pears

12 Quarterly 2 gules & Or., .indented.. .

13 The field " halved " Argent in the upper Azure a fess or

and above the fess 3 000 [three torteauxes].
Another light in a garter 8 coats.

1 Or 2 Lions passant.

2 Azure, gold (sic) a Lion R. argent.

3 Argent, a saltire engrailed gules upon 2 Lions azure.

4

The 4 other Shields.

Gules a cross molines argent.

Sable a cross engrailed or & these quartered and in the
garter all.

1 Arms tricked : Sir Thomas Leighton impaling the arms of Ins wife,
Elizabeth Devereux.

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SIR JOHN BURGH.

The 3d light as the 1st.

The 4th as the 2d.
The Boars Heads erased Sable and the goat Sable are the arms

of Karabre according to Mr. Leighton.
The golden Lion double tailed in Azure — Stapleton.
The Escallop shells or in Azure.

f 3 Fleur de lis argent and [? de Burgh.]

( The Chevron are the arras of the daughter of Clopton.

Or gules quarterly indented — A lion passant Argent in the 1st
quarter or — the pears and the arms of Leighton.

Close to the head of the "bardd " in the same Parlor within a
yard's length and (enclosed ?) in metal the same arms and
they are in the 3d window 1st Light, but in the 7th Shield
though effaced the fleur de lis and chevron could be plainly
seen and the 12th plainly indented as Leighton & for the
crest a Wyvern without a Beard wreathed gules & or — a
mantle doubled and gold — supporters 2 naked children

and in the South corner the arms in the 2d light of

the front windows are the Queen's in the Garter and

below in the Lower corner two letters in gold & a

roebuck's head or.

In the same Parlor in the border.

the above arms or & gules quartered indented &

quartered with the Wyvern sable K in gold (query Kawr
a stag ?)

On the other side of the Parlor in the Lower corner.

The Arms of Leighton and at the end of the field .... argent

a fess gules & above the fess 000 gules, the lower corner of

the field vairy gules & or.
Above the cupboard.

The Arms of Leighton or & gules indented quartered after

the. quarters a Lion of gold, R. in Azure.
In the same Parlor at the extremity & in the border ?

Twenty letters VIRTUTI OMNIA POSTPONE, (it will

be observed there are 20 letters in this motto)
Poesy at the foot of them

225

THE HISTORY OF WROCK WAR DINE.
By FLORENTIA C. HERBERT.
Continued from <\th Series vol. I., page 231.

THE LORDS OF THE MANOR, {continued.)
Before continuing the history of the Lords of the Manor
from the death of Ankaret, Baroness Strange in 1413, it is
necessary to correct a mis-statement inadvertently made, as
regards Hamon le Strange, the Crusader. (See Transactions
4th Scries, vol. I, page 206). It was there stated that the said
Hamon died unmarried in the Holy Land. It appears to be
correct that he died in that country while taking part in the
Crusade with Prince Edward, who was afterwards Edward I.,
but Mr. Hamon le Strange of Hunstanton has drawn my
attention to a statement in the "Assises de Jerusalem " which
shows that Hamon contracted a somewhat interesting
marriage in 1272, but of which there was no issue. His wife
was Isabelle d'Ybelin, daughter of Jean d'Ybelin, and Alix,
daughter of the Duke of Athens. The said Isabelle was the
widow of Hugh II. King of Cyprus, who died at the age
of 14, in 1267. Isabelle married a third time in 1277, which
proves that Hamon was then dead, and ultimately she took a
fourth husband, but had no children by any of them.

The following is the account in the " Assises de Jerusalem "
in the quaint old French : — " Jehan " (de Ibelin or Ybelin) " fu
Seignor de Baruch puis la mort son Pere, & esposa Aalis la
fille dou Due d' Athenes, and orent 2. filles Isabeau & Esehive,
Isabeau esposa Hugues fis de Henry Roy de Chipre qui moru
a 14. ans si com a est6 dit ci devaut, puis esposa 1111 Bnglea
qui avoit 110m Heimout l'Estrenge. puis esposa Nicole SeignOI
de Cesaire, puis esposa Huille Barlais, & moru sans hens."1

1. " Assises et bons usages du Uoyaumc dc Jerusalem." (p, 225.) Tins
d'un Manuscrit de la Bibliothcquc Vatieanc. Aviv DOttO, etc d< UMpard
Thaumas dc la Thaumassiore. M.DC. XC. There is HO Other edition I f
the " Assises" published at Paris in 1843.

4Mi

226

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINK.

Hamon was a life-long friend of Prince Edward ; they were
both of about the same age and had served together as young
men in Gaseony in 1253, where Hamon received a patent,
dated in Camp at La Reole, 9th September, 1253, granting him
30 marks a year at the Exchequer for life, or until the King
should provide for him to that value in wards or escheats.1

Another error inadvertently made was in giving John le
Strange (III.) the father of the above-mentioned Hamon, only
three sons and one daughter, whereas he had four sons and
two daughters, by his wife Lucia de Tregoz. Namely : —

i. John (IV.) who succeeded his father.

ii. Hamon, of Wrockwardine, Ellesmere, etc. (The

Crusader.)

iii. Roger, of Little Ercall, Ellesmere, etc.

iv. Robert, of Wrockwardine, the ancestor of the Lords
Strange of Blackmere.

i. Hawise, who married the Prince of Powis, and died in
1310.

ii. Alice, who on her marriage circa 1260 — 1, had land
given to her in Litcham, Norfolk, the Manor of which
then, but not now, belonged to the le Strange family.

But to return to the account of the Talbots of Wrockwardine,
after the death of Ankaret, Baroness Strange, in 14 13.

Sir Gilbert Talbot, 5TH Baron Talbot, was the next
Lord ot the Manor of Wrockwardine. He succeeded hi;*
father in 1396, and was summoned to parliament from August
25, 1404, to Oct., 1417. His father had, in the 15th vear of
Richard II., succeeded to the lands of the family of Hastings,
Earl of Pembroke, derived through his great grandmother,
Joane de Valence, sister and 00 heir of Aviner. Sari ol
Pembroke, and wife of John Coniyn of BadtftOCh, Sir Gilbert,
therefore, as heir to the Earls of lVmluoke. claimed the right
to carry the great spurs, at the coronation of Henry V, S

1. From information given to me by Mr. Hamon l« Strong* of Hun
stanton. For other grants to the Crusnocr Hamon let IVnninctioui, 4th
Series, Vol. I, page 2w,

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE. 227

after this, he appears to have been constituted justice of
Chester, and subsequently took part in the French wars. In
the 4th year of Henry V., he was appointed guardian and
Captain-general of the Marches of Normandy, and was a
knight of the Garter. He was twice married ; first to Joan,
daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester,
youngest son of King Edward III., by whom he had no issue ;
secondly to Beatrix, a Portugese lady of the house of Pinto,
and supposed to be the illegitimate daughter of John 1. King
of Portugal ; she was the widow of Thomas, Earl of Arundel,
and by her Sir Gilbert, Baron Talbot, had one daughter,
Ankaretta, who, upon his death in 1419, succeeded him in the
Baronies of Talbot, and of Strange of Blackmere.1

Ankaretta, Baroness Talbot, Baroness Strange of
Blackmere, was the next possessor of the greater part of the
Manor, two thirds of it being held on her behalf, as she was
an infant, by her uncle Sir Thomas Talbot, who in Burke's
Extinct Peerage is described as " of Wrockwardine." The
remaining one third of the Manor was held by Ankaretta's
mother, the widow of Sir Gilbert, as her dower. Sir Thomas
died Sept. 16, 1419, leaving Ankaretta as his heir. The
following is the Inquisition Post Mortem taken at his death.2

"Chancery Inq. Post Mortem. 7 Hen. V. No. 68, m. 19.

Writ to the escheator in co. Salop &c. to enquire what lands
and tenements Sir Thomas Talbot, chivaler, held in his
bailiwick on the day that he died. Dated at Westminster
17 Oct., 7 Hen. V. [1419].

Inquisition taken at Wrokwardyn before Roger Corbet, the
King's escheator in co. Salop and the Marches of Wales
adjacent to the said county, on Wednesday next after the feast
of St. Andrew the Apostle 7 Hen. V. [6 Dec. 1419] occ. The
jurors say on their oath that Sir Thomas Talbot, chivaler, held
in his demesne as of fee on the day that he died two thuds of
the manor of Wrokwardyn, with the appurtenances, in Cp,

1 See Burke's Dormant and Kxtinct Peerage.

2 Unless it is otherwise stated, the Inquisii IOM and other old document!
were translated for me by Mr. \Y . K. Howl, to whom I .im tmu h
indebted for his valuable help.

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THE HISTORY OF WRCCKWARDINE.

Salop, by knight service and 8/. by the year to be rendered
to the King. And they say that the aforesaid Thomas died
on Saturday next before the feast of St. Matthew the Apostle
last past [16 Sept. 1419], and that Ankaretta, daughter and
heir of Sir Gilbert Talbot, chivaler. brother of the said
Thomas, aged 4 years and more, is next heir of the said
Thomas."

After the death of the above-mentioned Sir Thomas Talbot,
it is said that Sir William Talbot, Knt. ''had the custody of
the Manor of Wrocwardyn then being in the hands of the
King by the death of Sir Thos. Talbot Knt. brother of the
said William, and by reason of the Minority of Ankaret
Daughter and Heir of Gilbert Talbot deceased."1 She died
in 1421.

"Chancery Inq. Post Mortem. 9 Hen. V., No. 44, m. 14.

Writ to the King's escheator in co. Salop and the Marches
of Wales adjacent to the said county, under the teste- of John,
Duke of Bedford, custodee of England, 15 Dec. 9 Hen. V.
[1421] to enquire what lands and tenements came to the
King's hands, and so remain in his hand by the death of
Sir Gilbert Talbot, chivaler, and by reason of the minority of
Ankaretta. daughter and heir of the said Gilbert.

Inquisition taken at Shrewsbury on Monday next after the
feast of the Epiphany of the Lord 9 Hen. Y. [12 Jan. 1421-2",
before William Horde, the King's escheator in co. Salop and
the Marches of Wales adjacent to the said county &c. The
jurors say on their oath that two thirds of the manor of
Wrokwardyn. with the appurtenances, in the county aforesaid,
by the death of Sir Thomas Talbot, chivaler, who held the said
two thirds of the King in his demesne as of fee on the day that
he died, and by reason of the minority of Ankaretta, late
daughter and heir of Gilbert, brother of the said Thomas, of
which said Thomas the said Ankaretta was heir, came to the
said King's hands, and that the said two thirds as yet are in

1 From a MS. " History of the Manor of WrocWwardine," by T. F. Dukes.
Steward. 1825. now 'jaX Orleton, but I have not come across the
original document from which he quotes.

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINK. 229

the said King's hands, and Beatrice, late the wife of the said
Gilbert, as yet living, holds the third part of the s^id manor in
dower, the reversion thereof belonging to the sajd Sir John
Talbot, chivaler. and his heirs. And they say that the said
two thirds and the said third part of the said manor are held
of the Lord the King in chief by the service of 8/. to be paid
yearly to the Lord the King. In which said two thirds of the
manor aforesaid there is no capital messuage, but there are
there 3 carucates of demesne arable land, each carucate
whereof is worth by the year beyond outgoings — ics. And
there are there 160 acres of wood and underwood, each acre
whereof is worth 6d. by the year beyond outgoings. And
there are lliere 6/. rot. of rent of assize by the year. And they
say that the aforesaid Ankaretta died on Saturday the feast of
St. Lucy the Virgin last past [13 December], and that Sir John
Talbot, chivaler, aged 30 years and more, is kinsman and next
heir of the aforesaid Ankaretta, namely, brother of the
aforesaid Gilbert, father of the aforesaid Ankaretta."

Sir John Talbot, Baron Talbot, 1st Karl of Shrews-
bury, to whom the Manor of Wrockwardine now passed, was
born in 1390, and was therefore at this time thirty years of age.
He had married first, Maud (or Matilda) Nevill, daughter and
heir of Thomas Nevill Lord Furnival, to whom that Barony
had been conveyed by his first wife Joan, sole daughter and
heir of William Lord Furnival.1 Lord Talbot was therefore,
by right of his wife, summoned to Parliament in 1409, as
"Johannes Talbot de Furnyvall.'' Tie was also Baron Strange
of Blackmere. He was the great soldier who won renown in
the reigns of Henry V. and Henry VI. in the war in France,
lie is said to have won 40 pitched battles, and specially
distinguished himself at the siege and capture Of Me.mx. In
141 2 he had been appointed Lord Justice of Ireland, and two
years later Lord Lieutenant of that country. In 14:9, Jeanne
d'Arc stopped his successes in France by defeating him at the

1 Hr, us Sir Thomas Nevill, married as his second wife, AnUarct. widow of
Sir Richard Talbot, and Lady of the Manor of WroeLw.wdinc.
grandmother of John, 1st H.irl of Shrewsbury. Trans. 4th Series,
vol. II, p. 227.

230 THE HISTORY CF WROCKWARDINE.

battle of Patay,1 at which he was taken prisoner, and remained
in captivity four years, when he was released in exchange for
a noted French officer, upon the payment of a sum of money.
In 1442, he was created Earl of Shrewsbury, and again
appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

In 1446 he was created Earl of Waterford, in the peerage of
Ireland, and appointed Lord High Steward of that country.
A few years later, he was appointed Lieutenant of the Duchy of
Aquitaine, and commissioned to raise 3,000 men to help the
English force which was losing ground against the French.

At first the great captain was successful, and moved south to
Guienne, where he received reinforcements, under the
command of his eldest son by his second wife, Lord Lisle (or
de Lysle). But in July, 1453, the French appeared in over-
whelming force and laid siege to Castillon, on the Dordogne.
Talbot marched to its relief, but the enemy was too strongly
entrenched. During a furious attack by the English, Lord
Shrewsbury was struck by a cannon ball which broke his
thigh. His sons, Christopher Talbot, and John, Lord Lisle,
together with his body-guard of Shropshire men, fought
valiantly to defend him after he was wounded, but they were
nearly all slain.2

The bodies of Lord Shrewsbury and his son Lord Lisle, were
found side by side ; the latter, when he found he could not
save his father's life, having made a desperate attempt to
rescue his body from the foe.

It was not until fully fifty years later that Shrewsbury's
body was brought from Rouen, by his grandson, Sir Gilbert
Talbot of Grafton, co. Worcester, and buried in the church at
Whitchurch, co. Salop, in a tomb under a window in the south
aisle, upon which was placed a recumbent figure of the great
Earl, in the man-tie of a knight of the Garter. His heart was
interred in the porch of the church, under a stone with the
following inscription : —

u Orate pro anima praenobilis Domini, domini Johannis

1 The Political Hist, of England, Ed. by Hunt & Poole, vol IV, p 908

2 Political Hist England, vol. IV, p. 360.

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE. 231

Talbot, quondam comitis Salopise, domini Furnival, domini
Verdon,1 domini Strange de Blackmere, et Mareschalli
Franciae qui obiit in bello apud Burdeaux Julii VII.,
MCCCCUII."

There is now in the porch a brass with the following
inscription :— " Beneath this Stone in the Porch rests the
embalmed heart of John Talbot 1st Earl of Salop who
for 24 years fought his Country's battles against the French
and was slain at the battle of Bordeaux A.D. 1453. When
lying wounded on the field he charged his faithful guard or
Whitchurch men that 'in memory of their courage and
devotion his body should be buried in the Porch of their
Church that as they had fought and strode over it while
living so should they and their children for ever pass over it
and guard it when dead.' The Original Stone which was
destroyed by the falling of the Old Church A.D. 1711, was
replaced and this tablet erected by the men of Whitchurch
A.D. 1873." The urn containing the heart was found while
digging for the foundations of the second church but the
tablet was not then replaced. Talbot's tomb and the canopy
over it were destroyed when the old church fell, but the
recumbent figure was saved, and placed on a slab on the
window sill in the south aisle, and there remained until 1874.
Earl Brownlow, the then owner of the Blackmere property,
had married the Lady Adelaide Talbot, daughter of the 18th
Earl of Shrewsbury. She desired to restore the tomb of her
great ancestor, and a copy of an old drawing of the original
tomb being in existence, it was restored to what it had been.
Beneath the slab on which the figure lay, the bones were
discovered, with a fracture on the skull, which showed that
death must have been caused by a blow from a battle axe,
while Talbot lay on the ground after his leg was broken. On
April, 1874, the bones were reverently re-interred in the tomb
with a short service, and the inscription replaced. On a thick
stone slab the recumbent figure was placed, on which weic en
graved a cross, and the words :— " Talbot 1453 — re-intei ted

1 It is said that he had no ri^ht to the Barony of Verdon, of which Ins w itc
was but a co-heir. See Complete Peerage, by Q*B«C*i vol. VII

232

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDTNE.

1874." And on the back of the tomb has been placed a brass
plate with the inscription : — "This Tomb was restored in the
year of our Lord 1874, by Adelaid Countess Brownlow, Daughter
of the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury." The following description
has been given of the recumbent figure, so fortunately
preserved from destruction: — "The face, as far as we can
judge from its fractured condition, possessed fine character;
the wrinkled forehead and sunk cheek of age are ably
expressed by the sculptor. The Earl wears the mantle of the
Garter of which he was a Knight. The tassets of his armour
and cerisses are fluted. The greaves are broken away. His
feet rest on a couchant talbot or hound."1

The following is the Inquisition Post Mortem of the 1st Earl
of Shrewsbury : —

u Chancery Inq. Post Mortem, 32 Hen. VI., No. 29, m. 23.

Writ to the King's escheator in the county of Salop and the
Marches of Wales adjacent to the said county to enquire what
lands and tenements John, Earl of Shrewsbury, held on the
day that he died. Dated 10 Sept. 32 Hen. VI. [1453]-

Inquisition taken at Wenlok 18 Oct. 32 Hen. VI. [1453]
before Thomas Horde, the King's escheator in co. Salop and
the .Marches of Wales adjacent to the said county &c. The
Jurors say on their oath that John, late Earl of Shrewsbury,
named in the writ, was seised in his demesne as of fee of the
manor of Wrocwardyn, with the appurtenances, in the county
aforesaid, which is worth 6oj. by the year beyond outgoings,
and is held of the King in chief by the service of the 20th part
of one knight's fee and by the rent of 8/. to be paid to the
King at two terms of the year. And he died seized in his
demesne as of fee of one messuage, one caracal e of land, and
3 acres of meadow in Le Yeye by Corfaia, in the county
aforesaid, worth 135. 4^. by the year beyond outgoings. And
they say that the said Earl died on the roth of July last past,
and that John, now Earl of Shrewsbury, aged 40 years and
more is sou and next heir of the aforesaid late earl "

1 The account of the tomb and inscriptions is takefl Iron M fti tide by the
Rcv. Prcb. W. H. Ligcrton, in Shrop. Arch. Socfcty'l
vol. VIII, pp. 416 — 4'JO.

THE HISTORY OP WROCKWARDINE. 233

In the Patent Rolls dated May 16, 1440, which was shortly
before Talbot was created Earl of Shrewsbury, the following
entry concerning Wrockwardine is to be found : —

" 1440, May 16. Grant in survivorship to John Hampton
Windsor esquire, and Bewes Hampton esquire from

Castle. Easter last, of the 8£. a year which William

Flour had in his life out of the farm of
Wrotworthin or Wrotwrdyn, by the hands of the sheriff of
Shropshire or the occupiers of the said farm or of the manor
of the place. By p.s."1

There is in the Bodleian Library a Roman Missal, inside the
cover of which is written : — " This missal probably belonged
to Sr Tho. Montgomery Kt. of the Garter. Temp. Edw. IV.
The arms in ye beginning being incompassed with the Garter
& the very same as belonged to ye antient Earls of
Shrewsbury, viz. Azure, Lion Rampant within a bordure Or"
Below is written in pencil: — "This missal was written for
John Lord Talbot afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury, XIV Hen.
VI. elected K.G. 2 K. Hen. VI. ." A little lower down is
written, also in pencil : — "This MS. must have been written

between 1424 & 1 " (the rest effaced). The missal is

illuminated, the pictures round the Calendar being of quaint
rural and domestic scenes.2

The Earl of Shrewsbury had married as his second wife,
Lady Margaret Beauchamp, daughter and co-heir of Richard,
Earl of Warwick. It was her eldest son, John, created
Baron de Lisle in 1444, and Viscount in 145 1, who died
trying to save his father's life, or at least to rescue his body
from the foe.

John, Viscount Lisle, appears to have been Lord of the
Manor of Wrockwardine, according to the Inquisition Post
Mortem given below, but whether conjointly with his father,
or whether the death of the latter occurred immediately after
he had made it over to de Lisle does not appear. But both lie
and his father were "seized " of it at their death. A third part

1 Calendar of Patent Rolls, 18 Hen. VI. Purl 2, Membrane 3,

2 Ref. at Bodleian for the missal ; MS. Oough Liturg. 7.

234

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE.

of the Manor was assigned as dower to the above-mentioned
Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury, the reason given being,
that her husband only became possessed of it after he had
married her, his second wife.

" Chancery Inq. Post Mortem, 38-39 Hen. VI., No. 62. ,
Writ to the King's escheator in co. Salop and the Marches

of Wales adjacent to the said county, dated 27 Nov. 39 Hen.

VI. [1460] to enquire what lands and tenements John,

Vicount de Lysle, deceased, held in his bailiwick on the day

that he died.

Inquisition taken at Shroesbury, co. Salop, on Monday next
before Christmas 39 Hen. VI. [22 Dec. 1460] before Roger
Kynaston, esquire, the King's escheator in co. Salop, &c. The
jurors say that John, late Viscount de Lysle, named in the
writ, died seised in his demesne as of fee of the manor of
Wrokwardyn, in the county aforesaid, worth 10 marks by the
year beyond outgoings, and it is held of the Lord the King
in chief by the service of the 20th part of one knight's fee, and
by the rent of 8/. to be paid to the King yearly &c. And
likewise the jurors say that after the death of the said late
viscount, and after the death of John, formerly Earl of
Shrewsbury, the third part of the manors aforesaid in the
King's Chancery were assigned, amongst other things, to
Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury, to hold as her dower, of
the endowment of the said John, formerly Karl of Shrewsbury,
late her husband, because the said late earl was seised in his
demesne as of fee of the manors aforesaid after espousals
were celebrated between the said late earl and countess. And
that John, late Karl of Shrewsbury, son of the said late earl,
took and had all the issues and profits of two parts of the said
manors from 20 July in the 31st year of the reign of the
King aforesaid until the 10th day of July in the 38th
year, by what title the said jurors are ignorant. MsO
they say that the aforesaid late viscount, Damed in the writ,
died on the 20th of July in the said 31st yeai [ M53]- Alao
the jurors say that Thomas, now Viscount Lyttle, [a son ami
next heir of the said John, and is 12 years of age and more "

THR HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE. 235

John, 2nd Eari, of Shrewsbury, must presumably be
considered as the next Lord of the Manor, of which he held
two thirds. In the Inquisition quoted above upca Viscount
de Lisle, which is dated 1460, it is said by what right the said
John, took and held all the issues and profits of two parts of
the manor, from the date of the death of his father and brother,
(although Lisle had a son and heir) until the death of the said
John Earl of Shrewsbury is not known, but his claim appears
to have been allowed. According to Burke, he had been Lord
Treasurer of Ireland during his father's administration, and
later, Lord Treasurer of England. He was a loyal adherent of
Henry VI., and at the battle of Northampton, July 10, 1460,
was killed, together with his brother, Sir Christopher, fighting
for the cause of the Red Rose, against the Yorkists, under the
Earl of Warwick. Shrewsbury, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir
William Lucy and others, made a stand near the King's tent,
fighting desperately to allow time for him to escape. They
were all slain, and their efforts failed, as Henry was taken
prisoner. His Queen, Margaret, and her little son, Prince
Edward, had been sent away, for safety, before the battle, and
had taken refuge in Staffordshire.1

The second Lord Shrewsbury married 1st, Catherine,
daughter and co-heir of Sir Edward Burnel, who died s.p.
2ndly Elizabeth, daughter of James Butler, Earl of Ormonde,
who took the veil after her husband's death.2 The Inquisition
that follows, not having been taken, until the 5th year of
Edward IV. of the line of York. King Henry VI. is described,
as by fact, but not by right, King of England.

"Chancery Ino,. Post Moktkm. 5 EpW. IV., No. 41. (of John,
2nd Earl of Shrewsbury.)
Inquisition taken at Newport, in co. Salop, before Hugh
Hernage, esquire, the King's escheator in the county aforesaid,
by virtue of his oftices on Friday next, after the least ot the
Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr 5 Kdw. IV. [5 Jan.
1465-6]^^. The Jurors say on their oath that John, late Bar)

1 See Political History of England, vol. IV, p. 903,

2 o.H.C's. Complete Peerage.

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THE HISTORY OF WROCKWAR DINE.

of Shrewsbury, son and heir of John, formerly Earl of Shrews-
bury, held in chief on the day that he died, of Hen. VI., late
by fact but not by right King of England, the manor of
Wrokwardyne in his demesne as of fee &c. worth 4/ by the
year beyond outgoings [Also other manors The Jurors

further say that the said late Earl died on the 10th of July in
the 38th year of the reign of the said late King [1460] and that
John, now Earl of Shrewsbury, aged 19 years and more, is his
son and next heir."

John, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, succeeded his father as
Lord of the Manor of Wrockwardine. He was born in 1441,1
and was therefore still only 20 when, as is recorded, he fought
in the second battle of St. Albans in 1461, in which the
Yorkists were defeated and King Henry VI. rescued from his
enemies.2 The young Lord Shrewsbury was then knighted
by Edward, Prince of Wales, immediately after the battle.

The following entries in the Patent Rolls belong to the time
when this 3rd Earl was in possession : —

'l 1466 Grant for life to the king's servant Thomas

April 26 Sandelaud of the town of Shrewsbury of an

Westminster annuity of 10 marks from Michaelmas last
from the farm of the manor of Wrokwardyu,
'Co. Salop in lieu of a like grant to him from the farm of the
town of Shrewsbury by letters patent dated 22 June. 5
Edward IV. surrendered.

By p.s.3

1468 Whereas on 24 August, 4 Edward IV. by

May 18 letters patent the king granted licence to John,

Westminster. Earl of Shrewsbury to enter into all castles.

lordships, manors, lands, rents, reversions,
services, fees, advowsons, possessions and hereditaments, Kite
of John, late earl of Shrewsbury, his father, in Btlglaud, the
marches of Wales and the lordship of Ireland, and accordingly
he entered into and was seised of them, but by an inquisition

1 Sec Burke's Peerage.

2 Political Hist, of England, IV. 402-3.

3 Calendar of Patent Rolls. 6. Edward IV. Membrane 15. (From printed

copies at P.H.O.)

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE. 237

taken at Newport co. Salop, on Tuesday after the Translation
of St. Thomas Martyr, 5 Edward IV. before Hugh Harnage
esquire, then escheator to the county, it was found that the
said late earl held in chief of the late king the manor of
Wrokwardeyne, Co. Salop, in his demesne as of fee by a rent
of S£. yearly and the manor of Cheswardine, etc., etc. (The
rest does not concern Wrockwardine).

1469 Grant for life to the King's servant Thomas

May 25 Sondeland, one of the yeoman of the chamber,

Dogmersfield. for his good service to the King's father in
England and Ireland and to the king, of an
annuity of 10 marks from Easter, 8 Edward IV. from the farm
of the manor of Wrokwardyn, Co. Salop.

By p.s.

Mandate in pursuance to the sheriff of Salop or the bailiff,
farmer or other occupier of the said manor."1

Lord Shrewsbury was appointed Administrator, Guardian
and Special Councillor to the Prince of Wales in Feb. 20, 1473.
He had married about 1467, Lady Katherine Stafford, 5th
daughter of Humphrey 1st Duke of Buckingham, and she
survived her husband who died June 28, 1473, and held as her
{lower the manor of Wrockwardine and others.3

"Chancery Inq. Post Mortem, 13 Edw. IV., No. 52, m. 8.
(of John 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury).

Inquisition taken at Shrewsbury on Saturday next after the
feast of St. Lawrence 13 Edw. IV. [15 Aug. 1473] &e. The
jurors say on their oath that John, Earl of Shrewsbury, was
seised in his demesne as of fee on the day that he died of a
certain annuity of 20/. to be taken yearly for the support of the
name and dignity of Earl of Shrewsbury, by the hands of
the sheriff of the comity abovesaid for the time being from the
issues and profits of the said county. And the jurors sav that
the said annuity of 20/. is held of the Lord the King by grand
serjeanty. And the aforesaid jurors say that the said Bad w.i>

1 Cat. Pat. Rolls, 8 lulw. IV., Part iii, Membrane II, and 9 LiJw. IV,

Part i, Mom. 11.

2 See Doyle's " Official Baronage of Bnglamfl," vol in.

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THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE.

seised in his demesne as of fee on the day th.it he died of the
manor or lordship of Wrokwardyn, with its appurtenances, in
the aforesaid county. And they say that the aforesaid manor
or lordship with its appurtenances is held of the Lord the
King in chief by knight service and by the rent of 8/. to be'
paid yearly to the said Lord the King, and it is worth 30/. by
the year beyond outgoings. [A ho other manors, &c] The
said Earl died on Saturday next after the feast of the Nativity
of St. John the Baptist in the 13th year of reign of the Lord
the King who now is [26 June 1473] and that George, now
Earl of Shrewsbury, aged four years and more is his son and
next heir of the said Earl."

Katherine, Countess of Shrewsbury, thus became Lady
of the Manor of Wrockwardine, which she held until her
death on Dec. 26, 1476. She is mentioned in the following
entries in the Patent Rolls : —

" 1473 Assignment for life in dower to the king's

Sept. 6, kinswoman Katherine, countess of Shrews-

Nottingham, bury, late the wife of John earl of Shrewsbury,
of the manors and lordships of Wrokewardyn,
(and others) with all towns, lauds, annuities, knight's fees,
advowsons and other members and appurtenances.

By p. s.

1475 Grant to the king's kinswoman Katherine,

March 12, countess of Shrewsbury, late the wife of John,

Westminster, late earl of Shrewsbury, of the manors and
lordships of Wrokewardyn, Sutton Maddok

(and others) Co. Salop, with all towns, lands, annuities,

knight's fees, advowsons and other members and appur-
tenances, of which her husband was seised and which aie in
the king's hands by reason of the minority of George his son
and heir, to hold for life in full allowance of her dower, with
all issues from the death of the said earl,

By p. s.'»»

1 Cat. of Patent Rolls, 13 lulw. IV., I\»rt i, Memhr.me N , .unl Is 1 J*
IV., Membrane 12.

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE. 239

"Chancery Inq. Post Mortem, 16 Edw. IV., No. 58.
(of Katherine, Countess of Shrewsbury)

Inquisition taken at Attyncham, co. Salop, 6 Feb. 16 Edw.
IV. [1476-7 J before Thomas Eyton, the King's escheator in co.
Salop, &c. The jurors say that Katherine, late Countess of
Shrewsbury, held in dower on the day that she died the
manors and lordships of Wrokewardyn, Sutton Maddok, and
Tasseley, with the appurtenances, in the county aforesaid, of
the inheritance of George, now Earl of Shrewsbury, son and
heir ot John, late Earl of Shrewsbury, being under age and
in the Lord the King's custody, the reversion belonging to
the said George as son and heir of the said late earl, as
parcel of the said Katherine's dower of certain manors, lands
and tenements which belonged to the said Earl, her husband,
by assignment of the said Lord the King by his letters patent,
the date whereof is 12th March in the 15th year of the said
King, made to the said Countess, amongst other things,
after the said late earl's death, &c. The said Countess died
on the 26th day of December last past [1476], and the said
George, aged seven years on Thursday next after the feast
of St. Hillary last past, is son and next heir as well of the
said late Countess as of the said late earl."

George, 4TH Earl of Shrewsbury, who was heir both of
his father and his mother, was the next Lord of the Manor.

Born in 1468-9, he was knighted by Edward IV. on April
18, 1475. He was Bearer of the Sword "Curtana" at the
Coronation of Henry VII., and installed as a Knight of the
Garter in 1488, as a reward for his valiant conduct at the
battle of Stoke, on June 16 of the previous year.1 He again
bore the Sword "Curtana" at the Coronation of Henry VIIL,
and was Lord Steward of the Household to that monai cfa as
well as Chamberlain of the Exchequer. He was employed \n
several embassies, including that sent by the King to Pope

1 It was at the battle of StoUe, that the insurrection ifl fftVOMf of the
impostor Lambert Simnel, was crushed, notwithstanding the support
lie received from troops sent by M.ir^.uet, Dueluss of Hurpnuh.
sister of KdwarJ IV.

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THE HISTORY OF WROCKWA.KDINE.

Julius II., ou November 11, 1511. 1 Lord Shrewsbury was in
command of the vanguard of the English army in 1513, which
invaded France, and he conducted the siege of Therouanne,
a small well-fortified and strongly garrisoned town in the
upper valley of the Lys, which was looked upon as a standing
menace to the Flemish border. He also took an active part
in the "Battle of the Spurs," about a league and a half from
Therouanne, in which Henry VIII. fought, and the Emperor
Maximilan served as an English soldier, the Frencn being
defeated and fleeing without drawing rein till they had
reached their camp ; the Chevalier Bayard was among the
prisoners taken. Therouanne soon after capitulated, the
garrison, 4,000 strong, being allowed to march out witli the
honours of war.2 Lord Shrewsbury was present at the famous
interview, in June, 1520, between Henry VIII. and Francis I.
of France, on the Field of the Cloth of Gold, in Picardy, the
entertainments and festivities lasting 20 days.3 In 1529, he
was one of the Lords who subscribed the articles against
Cardinal Wolsey, and the following year the letter to the Pope,
urging the divorce of Queen Catherine.

In 1536, Shrewsbury was in command of the King's troops
sent to put down an insurrection of the people and clergy in
the north of England, which went by the name of the
"Pilgrimage of Grace," caused by indignation at the spoliation
of monasteries and churches by the King, and the desire to
obtain certain reforms and concessions. The insurgents
were, however, defeated, and suffered cruelly from the royal
vengeance.4

In accordance with the Act 28 Hen. VIII. (1536), he was
adjudged to have forfeited the Earldom of Waterford and
all his Irish property for non-residence. Lord Shrewsbury
was High Steward of many Abbey B, among which may be

1 See G. E. C's. M Complete Peerage," Doyle's " Official H.u-on.igc ol
England," etc.

2 Political Hist, of England, vol. V, pp. 181-3.

3 Idem. p. '229.

4 Political Hist, of England, vol. V, pp. -107 417. Sec ftlM N tM

Albrighton," by H. E. J. Vaughan, Shrop, Arch. So< n
3rd Series. Vol. IX, pp. 31 M,

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mentioned :— Shrewsbury, Byldwas, Haghniond, Lylleshull
and Wenlock.

He had married, 1st, Anne, daughter of William, Lord
Hastings, K.G., by whom he had six sons and five daughters ;
2ndly, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Sir Richard
Walden, Knt. of Erith in Kent, by whom he had only one
surviving daughter.

George, Earl of Shrewsbury, died July 26, 1538, and was
buried at Sheffield, being succeeded in the Earldom by his
second, but eldest surviving son, Francis.

The following extract from the Patent Rolls in Richard
III.'s reign, and the indenture of the reign of Henry VIII.,
belong to the time when the 4th Earl was in possession of
the Manor : —

" 1484, Grant for life to the King's servant Thomas

April 2. Sandeland of the town of Shrewsbury, for

Nottingham. his good service to the King's father in
England and Ireland and to the King and his
great labours and expenses in the same without reward, of
an annuity of %£. from Easter last from the farm of the manor
of Wrokewardyn, co. Salop."1

"Indenture dated 14 March 29 Henry VIII. (1537-8), by
which Richard Mourton of Haugzkton, co. Salop, Squier,
leases to Thomas Berde, of Wrocwarden, webster, all that
his messuage place in the town and fields of Wrokwarden with
all meadows, leasows, pastures, and crofts, arable lands and
commons, in as ample a manner as William Browne deceased
late occupied, for 51 years, paying yearly to the said Richard,
his heirs or assigns 10s."2

El.IZABKTH, COUNTKSS OF SlIRE WSBURY, the widow of
George, 4th Earl, was the next T,ady of the Manor of
Wroekwardine, it being left to her as her dower, by hei
husband. The following Court Roll mentions her, and is
dated less than two years after George, I,onl Shrewsbury's
death. This Court Roll is of especial interest, being the

1 Calendar Patent Rolls, I Richard 111.

a From Indenture belonging to Col. IS, \v. Herbert, at Orleton,

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THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINK.

earliest one still extant, so far as is known, of the Manor of
Wrockwardine : —

" Wrokewarden. View of Frankpledge with the Court of
recognizance of the tenants of the most
noble Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, held the last
day of March in the 31st year of the reign of Henry VIII.
[31 March, 1540] by the grace of God King of England and
France, Defender of the Faith, Lord of Ireland, and on earth
supreme head of the Anglican Church, before John Moreton,
esquire, Thurston Woodcoke, and Roger Breyre, com-
missioners of the aforesaid Countess, by virtue of her
commission, to them, with Thomas Stanley, directed. Jurors:
Thomas Pornner, Thomas Sugden, Richard Clude, esquire,
Richard Morton, esquire, John Phillips, John Pornner, Roger
Berd, Richard Freer, the elder, Roger Roo, William Berde,
Richard Freer, the younger, William Alkocke, Richard Upton,
Thomas Berd, Richard Peele, John Dawe, Richard Benell,
John Medowes, William Norton.

At this Court came Richard Clude, esquire, and Thomas
Clude, son and heir apparent of the aforesaid Richard, in
their proper persons, and surrendered into the hands of the
aforesaid Countess two messuages with eight nooks of land,
with their appurtenances, lying in the hamlet of Nashe, to the
use and behoof of the aforesaid Thomas Clude and Agnes,
"his wife, and of the heirs of their bodies between them
lawfully begotten. And for default of such issue to remain
thereupon to the use and behoof of the heirs of the said
Thomas, for ever, according to the custom of the manor
there. Which said Thomas Clude and Agnes, his wife, came
in the Court in their proper persons and took of the aforesaid
Countess the messuages and nooks of land aforesaid, with
all and singular their appurtenances, to have ami to bold
to them and to the heirs of their bodies between then
lawfully begotten. And for default of such issue to remain
thereupon to the right heirs of the said Thomas, foi ever, M
the will of the said Countess According to the custom of the
manor there, by the rents ami services thereoi formerly due

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i

243

and accustomed. And they give to the lady for a fine
69- 8d- And they did fealty. And they are admitted tenants
thereof.

At this Court came John Dawe and Isabella his wife, in
their proper persons, and the said Isabella being examined
alone before the Steward, of her spontaneous grant, and not
coerced by her husband — surrendered into the hands of the
lady one messuage and one nook of land lying in Admaston,
to the use and behoof of Roger Dawe and Sibyl, his wife,
their heirs and assigns for ever. Which said Roger and
Isabella came in the Court in their proper persons and took
ol the lady the messuage and nook of land aforesaid, with
their appurtenances, to have and to hold &c. to them, their
heirs and assigns for ever, at the will of the lady, according
to the custom of the manor by the rents and services thereof
formerly due and of right accustomed. And they give to the
lady for a fine 68- 8d- And they did fealty. And they were
admitted tenants thereof. And afterwards, in the same Court,
came the said Roger and Sybil in their proper persons and
surrendered a moiety of the said messuage and nook to the
use and behoof of the said John and Isabella for the term of
their lives and the longest liver of them, according to the
custom of the manor. To whom the lady granted them, to
have to them in form aforesaid. And they gave to the lady

for a fine . And they are admitted tenants thereof.

Examined and they agree with the Rolls.

Thomas Tetenhall

Steward there."1

The above mentioned Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury,
died in 1568, therefore her stepson Francis 5th Bar! of
Shrewsbury was never in possession of Wrockwardine, as
he pre-deceased her in 1560, and she held the manor until
her death.

George, 6th Earl ok Shrewsbury, was the next Imd
of the Manor, from 1568. He was the eldest son ol the 5th
Earl, by his 1st wile, Mary, daughter of Thomas, Lord Deen

1 From the original belonging to Col. U. \V. Herbert.

)

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of Gillesland, and was born before 1528. He was knighted
with forty others, Feb. 20, 1546-7, at the Coronation of
Edward VI. Before he succeeded to the Earldom, he was
summoned to Parliament in his father's Barony, as Lord
Talbot. He served under his father, with distinction, in the
Army of the North, during the Scotch invasion. He, as well
as his father, signed the letters patent, 16 June, 1553, settling
the Crown upon Lady Jane Grey. He was elected K.G.
22 April, 1561, and was Lord Lieutenant of sevetal counties.
Lord Shrewsbury was custodian of Mary Queen of Scots from
December, 156S, till October, 1584, and, jointly with Henry,
Earl of Kent, assisted at her execution, Feb. 8, 1587. He wa.i
appointed Lord High Steward of England upon the arraign-
ment of the Duke of Norfolk, and after the execution of the
latter, was made Earl Marshal of England, January 2, 1573.

He married 1st, Lady Gertrude Manners, elder daughter of
Thomas, 1st Earl of Rutland, about 1548, and by her had four
sons and three daughters. She died 1556. Lord Shrewsbury
married 2ndly, in 1568, Elizabeth, daughter of John Hardwick
of Hardwick, Dowager Lady St. Loe, of Chatsworth, co.
Derby, by whom he had no issue. They are said to have
lived on very bad terms, and that Queen Elizabeth had often
to be a peacemaker between them. The sort of woman she
was is shewn by Burke, in a quotation from Lodge : —

w She had already been thrice married ; to Robert Barley,
Esq. of Barley, co. Derby ; to Sir William Cavendish; and to
Sir William St. Loo, captain of the guard to Queen Elizabeth.
She prevailed upon the first of these gentlemen, who died
without issue, to settle his estate on her and her heirs, who
were abundantly produced from her second marring* Her
third husband, who was very rich, was led by her persuasions
to make a similar disposition of his fortune, to the utter
prejudice of his daughters by a former wile ; and now. linsated
with the wealth and caresses of three uuabauds, she finished
her conquests by marrying the Earl of Shrewsbury, the riches!
and most powerful peer of his time. To Mini Up liet character,

she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct .

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE. 245

proud, furious, selfish and unfeeling. She was a builder, a
buyer and seller of estates, a money-lender, a faimer, and a
merchant of lead, coals, and timber. She lived to a great old
age, and died in 1607, immensely rich."

It is also recorded that while her husband was custodian of
Mary, Queen of Scots, his " termagant countess" accused him
of undue intimacy with that lady. He was formally cleared of
the charge, but as the captive Queen appeared to think she
had won him over to her cause, she was transferred to the
charge of Sir Ralph Sadler, a man of 76. Lady Shrewsbury
was, at the same time, sent to the Tower, and it is said that
Lord Shrewsbury thanked Queen Elizabeth for having thus
"relieved him of two demons."1

The following is from the Inquisition post mortem of
George, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, who died Nov. 18, 1590, at
Sheffield Castle, and was buried at Sheffield.

" Chancery Ino. Post Mortem, Ser. II, vol. 231, No. 106.

Inquisition taken at Derby 13 April 33 Eliz. [1591]. after
the death of George, late Earl of Shrewsbury. The jurors say
that the said earl died the 18th day of November last past,
and that Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, aged 37 years is his
son and next heir."

Mr. W. K. Boyd, who translated this, adds : (This
inquisition is almost illegible. u Palmer's Indexes," vol. 141,
p. 44, mentions an Inquisition by which it appears that this
earl held the manor of Wrockwardyne).

The following Indenture, between the above mentioned
George, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, and another, is now at the
Shrewsbury Free Library, and is endorsed as follows: —

" 10 Sept. 24 Eliz., 1582. Abstract of Conveyance from the
Earl of Shrewsbury To Walter Levison Esq1- of the Wildmore
County of Salop in consideration of 40^. per Annum, [ssuing
out of the Manor or Dissolved Monastery of L> lishall,

On 10 September 24 Eliz., 1582, by Indenture George, Kail
of Shrewsbury granted to Walter Levison his Efeirfl All .V

1 Political Hist, of England, vol. VI, p. 385.

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Singular That Moore Common or Waste Ground of the said
Earl called the Wildmore in Co. of Salop ex. ending in length
between a place called Sleford Head near Sleape in the said
Co. and the Town of Newport in sd- Co. Saving to and for all
the Tenants and Inhabitants within the said Manor of
Wrockwardine All such sufficient Common in and from the
said premises as they or any of them of right Ought to have
And the said Earl for the same con'sons Did Grant to the said
Wr- Levison All & Singular his Lands Tenements Fishings
Commons Woods underwoods Royalties Liberties Jurisdictions
Privileges Profits Commodities Advantages Emoluments
& Hereditaments whatsoever with All & Singular the
Appurtenances (except before excepted) situate being arising
growing happening or renewing in & from the said Moore or
Waste Ground called Wyldmoor And in consideration thereof
the said Walter Levison for himself his Heirs & Assigns Did
Give Grant and Confirm unto the said Earl & his Heirs &
Assigns One Annuity or Yearly Rent of 40^. issuing out of
the Manor or late Dissolved Monastry of Lylishall in the
said County of Salop to be paid as therein mentioned.1

George, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, who died, as has been said,
in 1590, had issue by his first wife, four sons and three
daughters. The eldest son Francis, Lord Talbot, married
Anne, daughter of William Herbert, 1st F)arl of Pembroke,
but died s. p. in 1581. The second and third sons, Gilbert
and Edward, succeeded as 7th and 8th Earls of Shrewsbury ;
they died, the first without heirs male, the second without
any issue. The fourth son Henry, died unmarried during
his elder brother's life. Of the three daughters Catherine,
Mary and Grace, the eldest married Henry, 2nd Earl of
Pembroke, but died without issue during her father's life ;
the 2nd, Mary, married Sir George Savile of Thornhill co.
York, Bart, and had issue, of whom presently; the third
daughter Grace, married Henry Cavendish, eldest ion oi Sir
William Cavendish, who died during his father's life, and llicv
had no issue.

1 Sir T. Phillipp's MS. 11237, in Shrewsbury Pre* Library . MS, 1 10

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE. 247

The above-mentioned George, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, by
indenture dated Oct. 1, 11 EKz., 1569, settled certain of his
estates including the Manor of Wrockwardine, on himself
for life, with remainder to Elizabeth, then Countess of
Shrewsbury, for her life, then to each of his sons and their
heirs male successively; failing such heirs the estates in
question were to be divided between his three daughters and
their respective heirs male, with remainder over to Henry
Cavendish the husband of the third daughter Grace.

Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, widow of George,
6th Earl, was therefore Lady of the Manor of Wrockwardine,
from her husband's death in 1590, until she died, February,
1608.

Gilbert, 7TH Earl of Shrewsbury, succeeded as Lord
of the Manor from his stepmother's death. He was born
Nov. 20, 1552; matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford,
about 1566 ; was also educated at the University of Padua.
He was M.P. for Derbyshire from 1572-83, and was summoned
to Parliament in his father's Barony as Lord Talbot, on
Nov. 12, 1588. He succeeded his father Nov. 18, 1590; was
installed a K.G. on June 19, 1592. He was sent as
Ambassador to Henry IV. of France, Sept. 6, 1596, upon
which occasion he appears to have used the following titles : —
" Gilbert, Conte de Shrewsbury, Baron Talbot, Strange de
Blackmere, Corny 11 de Badenoch, Valence, Montchensi,
Furilival, Verdon, et Lovetot.'1 He was Privy Councillor to
Elizabeth in 1601, and to James I. in 1603. He married Mary,
daughter of Sir William Cavendish, by Elizabeth (nee
Hardwick), afterwards Countess of Shrewsbury. The bride's
brother Sir William Cavendish, was later created 1st Earl of
Devonshire. Gilbert was only Lord Talbot when he married
Mary Cavendish, on the same day that his father married the
said Mary's unamiable mother.

The Henry Cavendish, who married Gilbert's youngest SftStet
Grace, was also the son of the said Elizabeth, Collins Sftys
that Mary appears to have inherited no ft mall portion of hei

1 Complete Peerage by G.H.C.

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THE HISTORY CF WROCKWARDINE.

mother's extraordinary disposition.1 Gilbert died at his house
in Broad St., London, May 8, 1616, aged 63, and was buried at
Sheffield the following August. His two sons died young, and
he only left three daughters: 1st, Mary, who married William
Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, and died s.p. ; 2nd, Elizabeth,
wife of Henry, 8th Earl of Kent, who also died childless ; 3rd",
Alethea (or Aletheia), god-daughter of Queen Elizabeth, who
married Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, and had issue.

At Gilbert's death the Baronies of Talbot, Furnival and
Strange of Blackmere, fell into abeyance between his three
daughters and co-heirs, until Alethea, on the death of her
surviving sister on Dec. 7, 1651, inherited the three Baronies.
Her descendant, the present Duke ot Norfolk, still possesses
extensive estates in south Yorkshire that formerly belonged to
the Talbot and Furnival families.2

Edward, 8th Eari, of Shrewsbury, succeeded his brother
Gilbert as Lord of the Manor, being the last who held it
undivided, until 1823, when the three portions were again
united, in the possession of William Cludde, of Orleton.

Earl Edward was the 3rd son of his father by his first wife ;
he was baptised at Sheffield, Feb. 25, 1561 ; matriculated at
Magdalen College, Oxford, June 6, 1579, aged 18; was M.P. for
Northumberland 1584-87; and succeeded to the Earldom but
to few of the estates, of his brother Gilbert, in 1616. He
married, Nov. 23, 1584, Jane, eldest daughter and co-heir of
Cuthbert Ogle, 7th Lord Ogle, and died s.p. in London Feb.
8th, 1617-8, being, it is said, buried the following day at
Westminster Abbey. His wife survived him for some years.

After the death of Edward, the Manor was divided into three
portions; and the tracing of the successive owners of the
different parts has been a matter of no little difficulty. It seems
best, for the sake of greater clearness, to give first a brief
sketch of its descent by inheritance or purchase to the various

1 Collins' Peerage, with additions by Sir K. Bridget, Vol. Ill*, p 27.

2 Complete Peerage, by G. li. C. (but the courtesy title ol \.oiA Talbot
appears still to have been borne by the eUlest son ol the I .it Is ol
Shrewsbury.

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE. 249

Lords and Ladies of the Manor, and subsequently to give a
short account of each owner in turn, where it has been
possible.

It will be remembered that, by the terms of the indenture
dated 1569, the whole Manor was settled upon Gilbert for his
life, after the death of his stepmother, in 1608, but, owing to
his having no surviving heirs male, he could not bequeath it to
anyone after his death, as it was settled upon his brother
Edward for his life, and then 011 his sisters. One third of the
Manor was however his to dispose of after Edward's death,
being the portion which, had she lived, would have come to
his eldest sister, Catherine, Countess of Pembroke. As she
died during her father's life, it appears to have reverted to the
Earldom, without any conditions attached to it. Gilbert
therefore, by indenture settled certain estates in the County of
Salop, including this one third of Wrockwardine, on his third
daughter Alethea, Countess of Arundel and Surrey. Her
grandson, Henry Stafford Howard, Earl of Stafford, who
inherited it, sold it in 17 15 to the Rt. Honble Richard Hill of
Hawkestone. It was eventually inherited by the descendant
of a nephew of the said Richard Hill, Thomas Noel Hill, 2nd
Baron Berwick of Attingham, who in 1812, sold it to William
•Cludde of Orleton.

The second portion of the Manor was that which by the
terms of the indenture, was settled upon Lady Mary Savile
{the second of the sisters) and her heirs male, after the death of
her brother Edward without issue. She appears, however, to
have pre-deceased him, but her direct heirs inherited the one
third of Wrockwardine in succession, until Sir George Savile
{who later was created Marquis of Halifax), on Jan. 12, 1665,
sold it to Edward Revell of Shiffnal, whose descendant Revel)
Phillips of Shiffnal, sold it in 181 1, to William Cludde of
Orleton.

The remaining one third of the Manor, should have eouu to
Lady Grace Cavendish, the survivor of the three sisters, after
her brother Edward's death. But she, having no bsiic, and hex
husband Henry Cavendish being dead, did by Indenture, dated

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THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE.

Nov. 25, 14 Jas. I. 1617, " grant bargain and sell n to her brother
Edward, her one portion of Wrockwardine a few months
before the death of the latter. The estates, of which he had the
power to dispose, including the one third of the Manor, Earl
Edward devised to his wife Jane, Countess of Shrewsbury, for
her life, and at her death to his kinsman and heir, George
Talbot, who succeeded as 9th Earl of Shrewsbury, and was the
son and heir of John Talbot of Grafton, co. Worcester.

Thus this one portion of Wrockwardine Manor remained in
the possession of the succeeding Earls of Shrewsbury, until
Charles, 15th Earl, in July, 1823, sold it to William Cludde of
Orleton, and there was again one Lord of the Manor, only.
During the divison into three parts, certain portions, especially
in Wrockwardine Wood, were alienated, and this will be re-
ferred to later.1

Alethea, Countess of Arundel and Surrey, was the
first "Lady of the Manor," of the 1st portion of it, after the
death of her uncle Edward. She married Thomas Howard,
grandson ot Thomas 4th Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey, etc.,
who was attainted and beheaded, June 2, 1572, in the reign of
Elizabeth. Thomas's father, Phillip, 1st Earl of Arundel, was
also attainted and died in the Tower, the honours of both being
forfeited. The husband of Alethea was born July 7, 1585. By
Act of Parliament in 1604, he was " restored in blood," and to
the titles of Earl of Arundel and Surrey, and to such honours
as his father enjoyed, and the Baronies that had been possessed
by his grandfather the attainted Duke. He was a Knight of
the Garter, and from 1621, Earl Marshal of England. In Charles
I.'s reign he presided at the trial of Strafford. In February,
1642, he embarked with the Princess Mary to conduct her to
her husband, the Prince of Orange, and appears never bo have
returned to England, but died at Padua in 1646, and by his
own request was buried at Arundel. He was a great art
collector, his "Arundel Marbles" being said to have been the

1 In tracing the history of the Lords of the Manor, I §h«U Call the 1st
portion that which EaH Gilbert left to Alethe.i, Countess of Armniel ; the
'2nd that which the Saville family inherited, and the 3rd portion the

one which remained with tin- ESarlv of Shrewsbury,

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first large collection of works of art in England. Lord Arundel
had been created Earl of Norfolk by patent, Ji&te 16, 1644.
Brought up as a Roman Catholic, he became a member of the
Church of England in 1615.1

His wife appears never to have assumed the Norfolk title,
for in the first record of the Lord and Ladies of the Manor,
in what is (so far as is known) the earliest extant volume of
the Wrockwardine Court Rolls, under date Oct. 15, 1650, her
name is given as " Aletheia, Dowager Countess of Arundell
and Surrey," and so continues till her death, which took place
at Amsterdam, May 24, 1654, but she was buried at
Rotherham, co. Yoik.3 She must therefore have been in
possession of the one third of the Manor, for 37 years.

Sir Henry Howard, at the present time (1916) British
Minister Extraordinary to the Papal Court, possesses a
miniature of Alethea, which came to him from the Petre
family ;3 and there is at Oxford in the Hope Portrait
Collection, a print of her. In the Bodleian Library there is
a MS. letter in Latin from Richard Neyle, Archbishop of
York, dated 1632, in which he admonishes the Earl of Arundel
and Alethea his wife, to return an Inventory of the goods of
Mary, Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury (Alethea's mother)
who had died intestate.4

Sir William Howard, Viscount Stafford, was the next
Lord of the Manor of Wrockwardine, in succession to his
mother. He was the third, but second surviving son, of
Thomas, Karl of Arundel, and Alethea. Born Nov. 30, 1614,
he married Mary Stafford, only sister and heir of Henry, 5th
and last Lord Stafford, who died in 1637. William Howard
and his wife were created by Charles I. Baron and B.uoness
Stafford, by letters patent, dated Sept. 12, 1641, with remainder
to their heirs male, failing which to tl eir heirs female. Two
months later, Lord Stafford was created Viscount Stafford.

1 Complete Peerage. Dictionary of National Biography^
Complete Peerage.

3 I am indebted for this information to Mr. Henry P. J. Vuugtiait.

4 Refer, in Bodleian; Douce MS. 383, (p. 53),

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When the civil war broke out he retired to Antwerp with his
wife, but returned to England in June, 1645, a pass being
granted to him. The following year he obtained leave to go
to Flanders to fetch his wife and family, but later was again
abroad, as he wrote from Amsterdam, Jan. 1, 1656, to
Cromwell, in which after referring to a former letter regarding
his nephew Thomas, Earl of Arundel, he petitions for leave
to repair to England, to communicate personally to Cromwell,
" a business of far greater importance wholy concerning your
owne person and affayres." He was allowed to return, but
there is no record of any interview with Cromwell having
taken place. It is stated that Stafford, after the restoration,
considered that he had not been rewarded by Charles II. as
he deserved, but as "G.E.C." remarks in a note, "as he had
fled from England in 1643 or previously, and had
corresponded with Cromwell, his deserts as a Royalist do not
seem of much account."1

In 1678, Viscount Stafford, together with the Earl of Powis,
and Lords Arundell of Wardour, Belayne and Petre, were
arrested in consequence of the perjured evidence of the
infamous Titus Oates, who accused them all of a plot against
the King's life. Charles II. did not believe the accusation, as
the evidence was palpably false, but he was helpless, on
account of the agitation against all papists that the supposed
plot aroused. The five Roman Catholic peers were committed
to the Tower and impeached. In 1680, the fury of the House
of Commons was specially turned against Lord Stafford, he
being the oldest of the prisoners, and it was thought, the least
able to make an effective defence. He was impeached by the
Lower House, and brought before the House of Lord> to
answer the charge. For six days he did his utmost to confute
the conflicting evidence brought against him by Oates himself,
by Dugdale, Turberville, and other no more reliable witm KM
making a far more able defence than had been anticipated.
But from the first the prisoner had no chance of acquittal.
Many voted against him simply because they believed thai I

1 Complete Peerage.

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popish plot had existed ; among these were included
Sunderland and Essex. Lord Halifax who, a'- Sir George
Savile, had at one time been one of the Lords of the Manor of
Wrockwardine with Stafford and Lord Shrewsbury, voted in
his favour, bnt the numbers were fifty-five against, to thirty-
one for him. The prejudice excited against the accused is
shown by the words of Finch, Earl of Nottingham, then Lord
Chancellor, who in pronouncing sentence, made the un-
warrantable assertion, that the Roman Catholics had kindled
the great fire of London.

Lord Stafford was beheaded on Tower Hill, Dec. 29, 1680,
and buried in the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the
Tower, but the exact spot is unknown. He was the last
victim of the supposed popish plot.1

In the Wrockwardine Court Rolls, his name appears among
the Lords of the Manor, from 1654 to 1680.-

In consequence of Lord Stafford's attainder, his honours
were forfeited, while for the same reason his wile's barony
could not be inherited by her children. But on Oct. 5, 1688,
Viscountess Stafford was created Countess of Stafford for life,
and on the same day her eldest son Henry Howard, who took
the name of Stafford Howard, was created Earl of Stafford
with remainder in default of male issue, to his brothers.

In the Wrockwardine Court Rolls dated March 20, 1681, "the
Right Hon. Mary Lady de Stafford, widow," is given as a Lady
of the Manor, but presumably she was acting for her son
Henry, as though she did not die until 1693-4, snt only
appears in the Court Rolls on that one date, so the portion of
the Manor can hardly have been left to her as her dower.

The Honble Henry Stafford Howard, afterwards Earl
of Stafford, was therefore the next possessor of tins first

l Complete Peerage. Political Hist, of Bng, vol. VIII, pp. 166, I7?>tv

Diet, of Nat. Biog. vol. XXVIN. pp 81. 82
'2 But on Oct. 23, 1064, *• William EurU of Stafford" is kivc,; is vraU ae

11 William Viscount Stafford 11 further down. 1 have (ailed to Rnd inj

Earl of Stafford, whether peer or eldest son living al tli.it date, Of lie
might have been acting as trustee for Lord Shrewsbury . 1 Imagine
therefore, it must he a mistake of tin clerk*! which he forgol to eraSf
But it occurs a second time in the following January

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portion of Wrockwardine. Notwithstanding the forfeiture of
his father's honours, Henry appears in the Court Rolls of
Oct. 14, 1684, under the name of the " Right Honble Henry
Stafford alias Howard, Viscount de Stafford, son of William
Viscount de Stafford deceased," and appears under that name
until 1694. In the Court Rolls dated Oct. 1696, and those of
1697, and 1698, Lord Stafford's name does not appear at all,
but that of Anthony Keck Esq. who presumably acted as his
trustee. On April 9, 1700, he appears again, as Henry Earl of
Stafrord. The previous absence of his name may be accounted
for by the fact that he accompanied James II. to France, upon
his abdication in 1688, and there married in 1694, Claude
Charlotte, elder daughter of Philibert, Comte de Gramont.
" G.E.C." says that L,ord Stafford and his wife appear to have
been on the worst of terms, and refers to the former speaking
of her in an amusing and abusive manner; also leaving her by
his will only 45 brass halfpence, ''which will by her a pullett
to her supper'' But another account quoted from Lord
Hervey's Memoirs, describes her as u An old French lady who
had as much wit, humour and entertainment in her as any
man or woman I ever knew, with a great justness in her ways
of thinking and very little reserve in her manner of giving her
» opinions of things and people."

Henry, Earl of Stafford died s.p. in 17 19, but he had
previously on July 29, 1715, sold and conveyed his one third of
the Manor of Wrockwardine, to the Rt. Honbl° Richard Hill
of Hawkstone.1

The Rt. Hon. Richard Hill, statesman and diplomatist,
was the next possessor of the 1st portion of the Manor. He was
the second son of Rowland Hill of Hawkstone, co. Salop, by
Margaret, dau. of Richard Whitehall of Doddington in the
same county. Born at Hawkstone, baptised March 23rd. 1654,
he was educated at Shrewsbury School and St. John -
Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1O7.S. and was a fellow

l There is a copy of the indenture, among Sir T. Phillips' IAS8 at \ he
Shrewsbury Kree Library MS. 110. He M described .is 'Tin-
Honourable Richard Mill of HowlstOO in llu Count] dI S.dop." .ui l
appears to have paid £8400 for one third of the MatlOf <>( \\ i ocLw M dine,
and the Manor of Sutton Maddoclt.

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE. 255

of his College. For nine years he was Paymaster General to
the Army in Flanders, under William III., and at the same
time Envoy Extraordinary to many Princes. At length
returning home he was made one of the four Privy Councillors
to Prince George of Denmark, the Lord High Admiral of
England. He was again sent as Envoy Extraordinary with
full powers to all the Princes of Italy except the Pope. In
1703, he was sent in the same capacity to the Duke of Savoy,
afterwards 1st King of Sardinia, and Hill was so successful in
his mission, that he detached him from the interests of
Louis XIV., and brought him into the Grand Alliance.

Hill is said to have been in deacon's orders, but to have " laid
them aside" while occupied in civil and diplomatic affairs.
When he retired from public life, he resumed his clerical
character, and was ordained priest and became a fellow of
Eton College. Towards the end of his life he lived at
Richmond, Surrey, and died there, but was buried in Hodnet
Church, co. Salop, where there is a monument to his memory,
with an inscription giving a full account of his services to his
country, erected by himself in 1726. 1 He died unmarried
on June nth, 1727, aged 72. He was possessed of considerable
property, including besides Hawkstone, Sheustone, co.
Stafford, and Attingham, co. Salop. He refused the highest
honours for himself, but received a baronetcy for Rowland
Hill, his nephew and heir-at-law, Jan. 17, 1727. 2

Richard Hill's name does not appear in the Court Rolls,
but from 1716 to 1727, Samuel Hill is mentioned among the

1 The Rev. J. A. Sharrock, Rector of Hodnet, informs me that the
monument was formerly against the north wall at the cast end of the
Church, which is now the Chancel ; underneath was the Hill family
vault, in which Richard Hill is buried. Mr. Sharrock has been told that
when the Vernons, the ancestors of the Hcber Percys, bought the
advowson of Hodnet from the Hills, the parties to the sale Btgreed to the
removal of the monument to the west wall at its south end, where it
now stands. In the registers, the burial of "The Rev. and Hon. Mr.
Rd. Hill" is notified, on June 29, 1727. His baptism is rIm m the
registers, dated March 23, 1654. In those days, the civlesi.istu.il J c.ir
still began on March 25.

2 See the preface to "The Diplomatic Correspondence of the Rt. Hon.
Richard Hill, etc." Ed. by the Rev. \V. Blackley Also Burfce'l
Landed Gentry," 1808, " Burltc's Peerage," 1889, »• Diet, of National
Biography," XXVI, p. 403-4.

I

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Lords of the Manor. He must have been acting for his uncle
until 1722, when the Manor was made over to him by Richard
Hill, as a marriage settlement. There is in Shrewsbury Free
Library (MS. no) " The Honble Rich* Hill's Rental of One
Third part of the Manor ot Wrockwardine," giving the names
of his tenants and the rents they paid. It is dated 1722, and
may have been written about the time of the transfer
to his nephew.

Samuel Hill (formerly Barbour) of Shenston Park, Esq.
whose mother was a sister of Richard Hill, succeeded his uncle
as a Lord of the Manor of Wrockwardine. He married Lady
Elizabeth Stanhope, daughter of Phillip, Earl of Chesterfield.

By a settlement on his marriage, dated March 6, 1721,
Richard Hill placed with other property, the one third of
Wrockwardine in trust for the use of the said Samuel Hill for
his life, and after his death for the dower of his widow ; with
remainder to his first and other sons and their heirs male.
Failing such heirs to Thomas Hill of Tern (formerly Harwood)
another nephew, for himself for life, and his heirs male
lawfully begotten. Failing all these, to his nephew Rowland
Hill.

As the Court Rolls are missing from 1727, for some years,
there is no record of how long Samuel Hill held the Manor
beyond that date, but he died s.p. and was succeeded as
possessor of the 1st portion of it, by his cousin the above-
mentioned Thomas Hill 01 Tern ; Shenstone and other
entailed estates came also to the latter and his heir.

Thomas Hill of Tern, Esq. appears in the Wrockwardine
Minit Book, among the Lords of the Manor, from Oct 4. ; 1,
until Oct. 27, 1 781, inclusive. Burke says that he was Offered
an Irish peerage during the Newcastle Administration, but
declined it from the most honourable motives ; that he was I
member of many parliaments, representing Shrewsbury until
late in life, when he resigned in favour of his sun Noel,
afterwards member for the count> of Salop. Thomas Hill
married as his second wife, Susanna Alalia, eldest daughter
and co-heir of William Noel, one of the Judges of the Court of

THE HISTORY OP WROCKWARDINE. 257

Common Pleas. Their eldest son Samuel, died young, and
;he second was Noel, afterwards ist Lord Berwick.

Noel Hill, ist Baron Berwick, succeeded to the one
:hird of the Manor, presumably upon the death of his father,
aeing entered in the Minit Book, among the " Lords M of it, on
Oct. 18, 1782, as Noel Hill Esq. He represented the County
of Salop in three Parliaments, and was elevated to the
Peerage on May 19, 1784, as Baron Berwick, of Attingham,
and subsequently appears in the Minit Book under that name.
He had married, Nov. 17, 1768, Anne, daughter of Henry
Vernon, Esq. of Hilton, Staffordshire, and by her had a son,
Thomas Noel, who succeeded him in the Barony.

Thomas Noel Hill, 2nd Baron Berwick, is first men-
tioned in the Minit Book as one of the Lords of the Manor,
under date Oct. 29, 181 1. He was born Oct. 21, 1770, and
married Oct. 8, 1812, Miss Sophia Dubouchet, who died Augt.
29, 1875. Lord Berwick died s.p. in 1832. He had by
Indenture, dated March 25, 1813, sold and conveyed to
William Cludde of Orleton, Esq. for the sum of ^5540, his one
third of the Manor of Wrockwardine. with the exception of
certain mines, minerals, etc. situate in Wrockwardine Wood,
"with Cottages, .Tenements, Hereditaments, Timber, trees,
rents and other payments " in the same place.

Such is the history of the first portion of the Manor of-
Wrockwardine, from the death of Edward, 8th Earl of
Shrewsbury, until it was purchased by William Cludde, the
great-grandfather of Col. E. W. Herbert, the present Lord of
the Manor.1

1 In working out the history of the successive owners of this, and the
other two portions of the Manor, I have studied various pa peri belonging
to Col. E. W. Herhert, in the keeping of Salt & Sons. Shrewsbury, tUCO
as Abstracts of Title to the possession of the respective portion! ol the
Manor, copies of Indentures and Conveyances, including the Indenture
by which George, Gth Earl of Shrewsbury left tin- M.mor divided
between his three daughters, failing any heirs male of Ins sons dso
copies of marriage settlements, w ills, etc. thawing how the various
Lords and Ladies of the M inor e.une into possession of it. I RMMl .dso
mention the manusei jpt "Salop Records" by T. P, Dukes, belonging to

Salt eY Sons, of which Mrm, Mr. Dukes was a partner, in tin- tarlj p

of last Century, and also for in. my \e.w. Si, u ml ol th« ManOV of
Wrockwardine. I uni indebted to the l ite Mr. 0eOTg« M Salt, for the
loan of these records some years ago, with permission to eop\ ,uid u c

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THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE.

The 2nd portion of the Manor, which should first have
belonged to Lady Mary Savile, had she no\ died before her
brother Edward, presumably was inherited by her grandson
George Savile, after the death of his great-uncle, Earl Edward.
The said George being then only six years old. He was the
son of Sir George Savile, Knt. eldest son and heir of Sir George
Savile, ist Bart, and Lady Mary, and was knighted in 1603.
He married in 1607, Ann, daughter of Sir William Wentworth,
and sister of the Earl of Strafford, beheaded in Charles I.'s
reign. Sir George died during his father's life, in 1614, leaving
two sons who both succeeded to the Baronetcy in turn.

Sir George Savile, 2nd Bart, of Thornhill co. York, is
therefore, so far as can be ascertained, the first owner of the
2nd one third of Wrockwardine, upon its division. Born about
1611, he was 11 when he succeeded his grandfather in the
Baronetcy in 1622. He matriculated at University College,
Oxford, May 5, 1626, aged 15, and died the following 19th Dec.
unmarried, He was buried at Thornhill, Jan. 20, 1626-7.

Sir William Savile, 3rd Bart., of Thornhill, was the next
owner of this portion of Wrockwardine. Born about 1612, he
matriculated at University College, Oxford, Dec. 8, 1626, aged
14, succeeding his brother as 3rd Baronet, a few days later.
He was M.P. for Yorkshire from April to May, 1640, and for
Old Sarum about Feb. 1641, till disabled. He is said to have
suffered much in the Royal cause, and was in command of a
Regiment of Foot. He married Anne, daughter of Thomas
Coventry, ist Baron Coventry, of Aylesborough, Lord Keeper
of the Great Seal. She survived her husband, and her zeal for
the King's cause, is recorded to have been even greater than
that of her husband.1

Sir William Savile died at York, Jan. 24, 1643- 4, and w.is
buried at Thornhill. Immediately before his death, he was
sent by the Earl of Newcastle "to subdue the West Riding,

anything in them that I thought would be of use in writing the History
of Wroeltwardine. They have hern of great assist > n. r . and in I
eases give details I have failed to find elsi wluwv. hut which iht BOVfM
of events prove to he correct.
1 Complete Baronetage by G.E.C. vol. I. pp. 19— 50.

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE. 259

The men of Bradford and Halifax, with the help of some
troops from Hull, commanded by young Sir Thomas Fairfax,
defeated Savile, and made the Earl retreat to York although
they were not strong enough to profit by their victory."1
Whether he died of wounds or of sudden illness does not
appear.

Sir George Savile, 4th Baronet, the next Lord of the
Manor, succeeded his father when nine years old, being born
Nov. 11. 1633. In the first record of the Lords of the Manor,
in the earliest volume of Court Rolls, under date Oct. 15, 1650.
the name of " Lady Savile widow," appears, probably acting for
her infant son. Afterwards, until Sir George came of age,
"The Trustees of Sir William Savile, Bart, deceased" are
entered. There is no evidence that Lady Savile had the
portion of Wrockwardine as her dower, and though she lived
till about 1661, she is said to have married again. Sir George,
who owed his early education to his mother, married Dec. 1,
1656, at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Dorothy, daughter of Henry
Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, who was still living when he
was raised to the peerage. He was M.P. for Pontefract in
1660, and also Captain of a troop of Horse. Probably in
recognition of the zeal of both his parents in the Royal cause,
he was created, on Jan. 13, 1668, Viscount Halifax, co. York ;
on July 16, 1679, being advanced to Earl, and on Aug. 17, 16S2,
to Marquis of Halifax. Of him in a note 11 G.E.C." says : 11 He
was a Statesman of the first grade, the greatest probably of his
period, tho' according to Bishop Burnet, he changed sides so
often that in the conclusion no side would trust him. Hence
he was nicknamed The Trimmer."3

He himself justified his conduct in steering the "ship of
State," in a pamphlet called : M The Character of l Trimmer,"
in which he urged it might be worth examining " whether he
is such a Beast as lie is painted." "This innocent word
Trimmer signifieth no more than this, That if Men are
together in a Boat, and one part of the Company would weigh

1 Political Hist. England, vol. VII, p. 280.
I Complete Peerage by O.B C.

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it down on one side, another would make it lean as much to
the contrary; it happeneth there is a third Opinion of those,
who conceive it would do as well, if the Boat went even,
without endangering the Passengers." His great love
for his country is thus expressed in the same pamphlet : —
" Our Trimmer is far from Idolatry in other things, in
one thing only he cometh near to it ; he doth not Worship
the Sun, because 'tis not peculiar to us, it rambles about
the World, and is less kind to us than others ; but for
the Earth of England, tho' perhaps inferior to that of
many places abroad, to him there is Divinity in it, and
he would rather dye, than see a spire of English Grass
trampled down by a Foreign Trespasser." Some other words
of his may be of interest at the present time: — " A Nation is
a great while before they can see, and generally they must
feel first before their sight is quite cleared. This maketh it so
long before they can see their Interest, that for the most part
it is too late for them to pursue it : If Men must be supposed
always to follow their true Interest, it must be meant of a New
Manufactory of Mankind by God Almighty ; there must be
some new Clay, the old Stuff never yet made any such
infallible Creature/'1

Lord Halifax died April 5, 1695, aged 61, but before his
elevation to the peerage, he had sold his one third of the
Manor of Wrockwardine, on Jan. 12, 1665, to Edward Revell of
Shiifnall, Esq., with the exception of some mines and other
property in Wrockwardine Wood, which will be referred
to later.2

The next four Lords and Lady of the Manor possessing the
2nd portion, are given in the Court Rolls, but of the first three
there are no particulars to be found.

Edward Rkvkix, gent, who bought it from the Marqilil Ql
Halifax, from April 20, 1666 to 1675.

1 Tin". Complete Works of Cicoroe SttvHc, MarqtlCM ol Halifax, IM uith

ttn Introduction by Walter RaMgh, 1912.

2 Sec below p. '2(>1

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26l

Rosamond Revell, Spinster, from April 13, 1675, to April
17, 1689, inclusive, but on one occasion, Oct. 8, 7687, Edward
Revell's name is given instead.

Edward Revell, gent, from April 21, 1691 to 1696.

John Reveix, gent, from Oct. 10, 1696, till his death in
1729. There is a gap between the end of the 1st volume of -
Court Rolls, in 1727, and the beginning of the Minit Book
-from Oct. 4, 1762, to Oct. 14, 1795, but copies of wills, extracts
from registers, etc., make it possible to trace the remaining
owners of this portion of the Manor belonging to the family
of Edward Revell.

The above-mentioned John Revell, by his will, dated July 31,
1718, and proved April 29, 1729, left his third part of Wrock-
wardine (one copyhold apparently excepted), in trust for his
daughter Sarah, wife of Robert Moreton, gent, for her life, for
her own sole and separate use, and " not to be subject to the
controul and disposition of her said Husband." He devised
the same after her death, to her first and other sous in succes-
sion and their heirs male. Failing such heirs, to his grand-
daughter Sarah Moreton, Junior, the daughter of the above-
mentioned Sarah, Mrs. Moreton, for her life, and after her
death to his daughter Anne, the wife of Revell Phillips, gent,
'but not to be subject to the controul of her husband. It was
left to her for life, and to her heirs male, failing which to the
heirs of the body of his two daughters Sarah and Anne,
lawfully begotten. Failing all such heirs, to his son-in-law
Revell Phillips, and his heirs male.

Sarah Moreton, wife of Robert Moreton, was therefore
Eady of the Manor, owning the 2nd portion, from 1729 until
her death. According to an extract from the Shi fn.il
Registers, she was buried Dec. 30, 1757. Her sister Anne
Phillips, had pre-deceased her, being buried, Attg. 10. 1746.
Revell Phillips, the husband of the latter, was also dead, so by
the terms of the will of John Revell, tlu n son John Revell
Phillips succeeded to the 2nd portion of the Manor, upon the
death of his aunt, Mrs. Sarah Moreton.

jonn Revell Phillips, gent, fust received the rents

due from his one-third of the Manor, at I..u!v Day, r;(>o His

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name occurs in the Minit Book as one of the Lords, from the
beginning of it, under date Oct. 4, 1762, to April 15, 1765,
inclusive. He left a will, dated Oct. 21, 1765, which was
proved August 21, 1766, leaving his one-third of the Manor of
Wrockwardine, and other property, to his wife Sarah for her
life, should she remain unmarried. After her death, or
re-marriage, whichever occurred first, to his son Thomas
Carter Phillips, his Heirs and Assigns lor ever, subject to the
payment of ^2,400 to the younger children, directing that if
the second son Revell Phillips, succeeded to the estates before
the money had been paid to the younger children, on their
attaining the age of 21, he was not to share it.

Sarah Phillips, widow and relict of John Revell
Phillips, gent, deceased, held the one-third of the Manor,
appearing in the Minit Book, from April 27, 1767, to Oct. 2,
1769, inclusive, but whether she then died or re-married, does
not appear.

Thomas Carter Phillips, Gent, who, during his
minority, was represented by Peter Wicksted, gent, held the
third of the Manor, from April, 1767, until his death, early in

1783.

By his will, dated Dec. 10, 1782, proved Feb. 14, 1783, he left
the one-third of Wrockwardine Manor to his wife Margaret
Phillips, for her life, and then to his own right Heirs for ever.
His wife pre-deceased him, and he was succeeded by his next
brother Revell Phillips. A certain portion of the Manor, had
to be mortgaged to pay the debts of Thomas Carter Phillips,
but it was later released.

REVELL Phillips Esquire, therefore inherited the 2nd
portion of the Manor after his brother's death, Appearing in
the Minit Book among the Lords, from Oct. 29, 1783.

In Shrewsbury Free Library, there is the following " Claim
of Revell Phillips, Gent, In respect of Waste Kind to be
Divided in the Manor of Wrockwardine. Dated Nov. 34,
18101.

1 SirT. Phillips' MSS. Free Library, MS. 110,

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"Revell Phillips of Shifnal in the County of Salop,
Gentleman, one of the Joint Lords (with the Honourable
Charles Earl of Shrewsbury and the Honourable Thomas Noel
Lord Berwick) of the Soil of the Manor of Wrockwardine
otherwise Rockardine in the said County, Claims to be entitled
to One third share of all the Manorial Rights Priviledges
Hereditaments and Premisses appurtenant to the said Manor,
and as such Claims to be Entitled to his proportional share of
all Commons and Waste Lands within the said Manor
and in particular of and in a certain Waste in the Wildmoors
called Small Moor and Sidney Moor about to be enclosed and
divided by the Sole Commissioner John Bishton — Junior
Esquire by virtue of an Act of Parliament obtained for that
purpose in the Fortyfirst year of the reign of his Imperial
Majesty George the Third 1801.

And the said Revell Phillips doth further claim such his
proportional share of All common or Waste to the said Manor
appurtaining including Small Moor and Sidney Moor as he
maybe entitled unto in right of his' one third share of the
following Freehold Messuages Lands and Tenements and also
of a Copyhold Estate his sole property and of two other
Estates his sole property in respect whereof the said Revell
» Phillips doth Claim an unlimited Common of Pasture for All
commonable Cattle Horses Sheep Pigs, etc." Then follows a
list of the tenants. The Act referred to was for " dividing,
allotting, enclosing, draining and improving several Common
Moors called Sydney Moor, Small Moor, Rod way Moor,
Waters Upton Moor, and other Commons and Waste Lands"
within several Parishes, of which one was Wrockwardine. In
a similar claim made by Charles, then Earl of Shrewsbury and
the other two Lords at the same date it is said : —

"And we do further claim that the Boundary of the laid
Manor of Rockwardine extends further over the said Common
Moors and Waste Lands than Appears upon the Plan K 11 by
the said Commissioners at the Long Lane lor the Inspection
of the Persons interested in the Inelosuie ol the said COBMBOBt

and that the Boundary ot the s od Manor of Rock ward ine
includes the whole of the said Common Moot s called

vib

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THE HISTORY OF WKOCKWAKDINE.

Moor Small Moor and Rodway Moor, and that the same are
within the said Manor of Rockwardine." Which side won in
the dispute there is nothing to show.

On June 24, 181 1, in consideration of the sum of ^7105 paid
by William Cludde, Revell Phillips did convey and sell to him
and his trustee, one third part of the Manor of Wrockwardine
and estates within that Manor. It included the third part or
rent charge of ^40 yearly, issuing and payable out of the
Manor or Lordship of Lillishall or some other Lands thereunto
belonging in the County of Salop, theretofore the Estate and
Inheritance of Sir Rd- Leverson, Kut of the Bath deceased, or
for and out of certain Lands Meadows and Pastures in
Wildmoor within the same said Manor or Lordship of Wrock-
ardine, otherwise Wrockwardine theretciore held and claimed
by the said Sir Rd- Leverson." This must be the land referred
to above (p. 245-6) and appears to have been rented by the
Marquis of Stafford, at the time when the third part of the
Manor was bought. At the end of the Conveyance, it is
specificially stated : — " Except the mines and minerals in and
under such part of certain woodlands called Wrockwardine
Wood situate and being within the said manor of Wrock-
wardine of or to which the said last-mentioned Revell Phillips
, supposes that he is not now seised as entitled."

Thus this 2nd portion of the Manor w is the first to pass by
purchase into the possession of William Cludde, and as has
been shewn, he obtained the 1st portion in the same way, from
Lord Berwick, on March 25, 1813.

The 3rd portion of the Manor, which 09 has been already
stated, was sold to Edward, 8th Earl ol Shrewsbury, by his
youngest sister, Lady Grace Cavendish, was left by him to his
wife for her life, as her dower, and then with other estates
of which he had the disposal, to the heir to the Earldom.

Janr, Countess of Shrewsbury, was therefore a Lady of
the Manor of Wrockwardine, from Kcbin.uv, 1M7 8. until her
death. Burke says she was buried Jan. 7, l62«

Gkorgk, (/ni Earl qk SukKWsnuMY, who sftei the death
of the widow of Earl Bdward, must have possessed the 3rd

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWAS DINE- 265

portion of the Manor, was a cousin of his predecessor in the
Earldom, being son and heir of John Talbot of Grafton, co.
Worcester, and of Albrighton, co. Salop, by Katherine,
daughter of Sir William Petre. Sir John was descended from
Sir Gilbert Talbot, K.G. (3rd son of John, 2nd Earl of
Shrewsbury) to whom the estate of Grafton was granted by
Henry VII. The above-mentioned George, Earl of
Shrewsbury, was born before 1565, and ordained a priest of
the Roman Catholic Church before he succeeded to the
peerage. He died unmarried, April 2, 1630, and was buried in
Albrighton Church, his name being in the registers.

John, ioth Earl of Shrewsbury, the next possessor of
the portion of Wrockwardine, was nephew and heir of George
the priest, being son and heir of. John Talbot of Longford, co.
Salop, by Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas
Bakerville of Wolvershill, co. Worcester ; which said John was
the brother of the last Earl, and died in 1607. John ioth Earl
was born before 1601. He married 1st, before 1619, Mary,
daughter of Sir Francis Fortescue, K.B. of Salden, co. Bucks.
Her burial is thus recorded in the Albrighton registers : —
" The Right Ho'rab' Ladie the Countesse of Shrewsburie was
buried at this Church upon Twelfday at night, being the sixth
of January, Anno Dom' 1635." He married 2ndly before
Feb. 15, 1648, Frances, daughter of Thomas Arundell.
Baron Arundell of Wardour. In the Albrighton regisl
11 Countesse of Shrewsbury " is given as buried in 165s, which
must be this second wife, but the page is torn, and the dav
the month and some other word is missing. Lord Shrewsbury
died Feb. S, 1653-4. His eldest son George, Lord Talbot,
married Mary, daughter of Percy Herbert, 2nd Baron IV* i-*,
the father of William, 1st Marquis of Powis. Lord Talbot
died s.p. during his father's life, and was buried at Albrighton
near his uncle, the date of the burial of" George Lo Talbott "
being given as Mar. 22, 1642. 1

In the first entry in the earliest volume of Wrockwardine
Court Rolls, the name of this John, Earl of Shrewsbury is

1 Albrighton Registers (printed). G.IvC gfott the date of death of Lord
Talbot as " about Kol " which is clearly incorrect.

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THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE.

given, under date Oct. 15, 1650, but from April 12, 1651, to
Oct. 9, 1652 inclusive, only his Trustees are mentioned, but
their names are not given. It was soon after John succeeded
to the peerage, that on Nov. 29, 7 Charles I. (1631), a dispute
as to the lawful ownership of the different portions of
Wrockwardine Manor, caused the matter to be brought to"
arbitration. By the award given, it was decided that John,
Earl of Shrewsbury, should have quiet and peaceable
possession of the third part of the said Manor. The claim of
the Earl Marshall (the Earl of Arundel) to one third part on
behalf of his wife Alethea, was also allowed. It was arranged
that that, and other Manors should be divided into three parts,
" the Earl Marshall was to choose one third, the other two to
be written on scrolls and called by the name of ' Pars secunda
and Pars Tertia,' and put into a hat box or such like, and the
Earl of Shrewsbury should out of these two of every of the
divisions aforesaid take out one as his Lot."1 This seems to
have been done.

Francis, iith Earl of Shrewsbury, the next owner of
this one third of the Manor, was the second son by his first
wife of the last Earl, and was styled Eord Talbot after his
elder brother's death, until he succeeded to the peerage in
* 1654. He was a Captain in the Royal army in 1651, and
Thomas Blount in his " Boscobel " mentions him as having
with him about 60 horse, before the Battle of Worcester, his
brother-in-law Mervin Touchet (or Tuchet) of whom more
hereafter, being his Lieut. Colonel.

The following is the account given by Blount, of the part
Lord Talbot took in helping Charles II. to escape, and of his
own danger : —

"After the loss of the Battle of Worcester and the Bight of
the King, Talbot was asked (being of * h at county) if lie QOUld
direct the way northwards. TTis lordship answered, that he
had one Richard Walker in his troop (formerly a SCOUtmaStei
in those parts), that knew the way well, who was accordiugly

1 I<rom the " Abstract of Title of Charles Earl of Shrewsbury I© MM third
of the Manor of Wrockwarilinc. "

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINK. 267

called to be the guide, and performed that duty for some
miles; but being come to Kinver-heath, not far from
Kederminster, and daylight being gone, Walker was at a
puzzle in the way. The King then consulted with the Duke
of Buckingham, Lord Derby and others, and was advised of
some honest people and a good place of concealment at
Boscobel House." Blount continues :— " The Lord Talbot
being made acquainted therewith, and finding Walker dubious
of the way, called for Mr. Charles Giffard (a faithful subject,
and of the ancient family of Chillington), to be his majesty's
conductor, which office Mr. Giffard willingly undertook,
having one Yates a servant with him, very expert in the ways
of that country ; and being come near Sturbridge, it was under
consideration whether his majesty should march through that
town or not, and resolved in the affirmative, and that all
about his person should speak French, to prevent any
discovery of his majesty's presence." General Leslie with the
Scottish Horse had now taken the more direct way northward
by Newport, and with the King were only the Duke of
Buckingham, the Earls of Derby and Lauderdale, Lord Talbot
and a few others; but when Mr. Giffard arranged to take the
King first to White Ladies, belonging to the Giffords, and
£hen sent him to Boscobel under the care of the Penderel
brothers, the King's safety appearing to be thus secured,
Derby, Lauderdale and Talbot, with Mr. Giffard for their
guide, being altogether not more than 40 Horse, marched
northward by Newport, hoping to overtake Leslie with the
main body of Scottish Horse. But they were attacked by
the rebels and Derby, Lauderdale, and Giffard taken prisoners,
Lord Derby being beheaded on Oct. 15th.

"The Lord Talbot (seeing no hope of rallying) hasted
towards his father's house at Longford, near Newpoi t , when
being arrived, he conveyed his horse into a neighbouring
barn, but was immediately pursued by the rebels, who found
the horse saddled, and by that concluded my lord not to be far
off, so that they searched Longford House narrowly, and some
of them continued in it four or five days, during .ill winch
time my lord was in a close place in one of the OUt-hoUSes,

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THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE.

almost stifled for want of air, and had perished for want of
food, had he not been once relieved in the d-ad of the night,
and with much difficulty by a trusty servant ; yet his lordship
thought it a great providence, even by these hardships, to
escape the fury of such enemies, who sought the destruction
of the nobility, as well as of their king."1

Upon the restoration of Charles II. Francis, who had
succeeded as nth Earl of Shrewsbury, was Bearer of the
Second Sword at the coronation of the King, on April 23, 1661.
In June of the same year, he was confirmed in the Earldom
of Waterford, which together with the Irish estates had been
forfeited by George, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, on account of
non-residence.

Lord Shrewsbury married 1st, Anne, daughter and heir of
Sir John Conyers, of Sockburn, Co. Durham. 2nd, Jan. 10,
1658-9, at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Anna Maria, daughter of
Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan, by his second wife.
Anne, daughter of Thomas Savage, Viscount Savage, and his
life was saddened by the unfaithfulness of this second wife.
He fought in a duel with George Villiers, 2nd Duke of
Buckingham, on her account, and died from his wounds,
while it is recorded that Lady Shrewsbury, dressed as a page,
stood by holding the horse of her lover, while her husband
was mortally wounded.'2 He died March 16, 1667-8, at
Arundel House, and was buried at Albrighton, April 10, 1668. 1
In his will Francis, Lord Shrewsbury expressed a wish to be
buried at Albrighton. He appointed his " very kind father-in-
law, the Rt. Hon1'10 Robert Earl of Cardigan,'' bis " brother*
in-law the Hon1'10 Mervyn Tuckett Esq," his kinsman William
Talbot of Whittington, Esq, and Gilbert Crouch, gent, fcS
guardians to his three children, Charles. Lord Talbott.
Mary Talbott, and John Talbott. According to Collins, tins
John Talbot was killed in a duel with Henry, i>t Duke of

1 Blount's Boscobel. lid. by Charles G. Thomas, pub. IS M. pp 1 M ; '
:*9 40.

2 Political Hist, of England, vol. VIII. p. 94.
'-i Albrighton Registers, p. (;,»

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWAREINE.

269

Grafton, Feb. 2, 1685-6, when the former was within a few
days of attaining his majority.1

• The name of Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury does not appear
in the Court Rolls, the L,ords of the Manor being given as
follows : — on Oct. 25, 1654, a few months after he succeeded
his father—" Rt. Hon. William Earl of Stafford, Right Hon.
Henry Lord Herbert, George Blunt Esq., John Rushworth
Esq., George Gery gent., Jonathan Barthropp gent. The Rt.
Hon. William Viscount Stafford and the Trustees of Sir
William Savile, Bart."2

Henry, L,ord Herbert, presumably one of the Trustees
acting for Lord Shrewsbury, must have been Henry Somerset,
eldest son of Edward, 2nd Marquis of Worcester, who was
styled Lord Herbert until his succession to the Marquisate on
April 3, 1667, and was created Duke of Beaufort Dec. 1682;
died 1699. Lord Herbert was connected with the Talbots, as
his sister Elizabeth married William Herbert, 1st Marquis, and
later the only Duke of Powis, the brother of Mary, Lady
Talbot, before-mentioned. George Blount, presumably also
Lord Shrewsbury's Trustee, appears in the Court Rolls until
Jan. 26, 1654, inclusive, on which date he is described as George
Blunt Barr (Baronet), instead of Esq. He must be Sir George
iUunt (or Blount) of Sodington, and of Mawley Hall, both in
co. Worcester, and succeeded to the baronetcy August 27,
1654, married Mary, daughter and heir of Richard Kirkham
(son and heir of Sir William Kirkham of Blagdon). Sir
George Blunt died Nov. 12, 1667, at Mawley Hall.3 On Oct.
l7, I055> the Trustees given are Anthony Craven and
Robfc Sawyer Esqs, and they continue until Oct. 10, 1663,
inclusive, but from Oct. 20, 1662, Anthony Craven is described
as " Knt. and Barr." He appears to have been the son of
Thomas Craven, a first-cousin of William, 1st Earl of Craven ;
which Earl died without male heirs, and his Sister ami co-heir,
Elizabeth, married Percy Herbert, 2nd H iron Powis, and then

l Collins' Peerage, vol. III. 0 39,

See p. 253, Note 2, as to William Bar/ of Stafford, being probably aa

error of the dcrk's, which lie forgot to i r.isc
3 Complete Baronetage, hy G.E C, vol. II, pp. 202 3

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daughter was the Mary, widow of Lord Talbot, the elder
brother of Francis, nth Earl. From April 20, 1666, to 26th
June, 1668, Lord Shrewsbury's representative in the Court
Rolls is "Mary, Lady Talbott." But by the latter date, her
brother-in-law had been killed in the duel.

Charles, 12TH Earl of Shrewsbury, and later Duke
of Shrewsbury, was the next owner of the third portion of
the Manor. He was the third, but eldest surving son of the
late Earl by his second wife, was born July 24, 1660, and was
the godson of Charles II. He was styled Lord Talbot until he
succeeded his father in the Earldom when only seven years
old. Soon after he came of age, influenced, so some people
thought, by the excitement caused by the supposed Popish
Plot, invented by Titus Oates, Charles seceded from the
Roman Catholic Church and became a member of the Church
of England. He was Lord Lieut, of Staffordshire from
1681-87, and then with others, was dismissed by James II.
He was Extra Gentleman of the Bedchamber 1683-5 I bearer
of the Sword "Curtana" at the Coronation of James II. on
April 23, 1685, and Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Horse
from 1685-87. He was by then no longer loyal to the King,
and his name appears among the seven signatures to the letter,
dated June 30, 1688, to the Prince of Orange, urging him to
come over with an adequate force by the end of the year.
Lord Shrewsbury was soon in great favour with William III.
and was made a Privy Councillor. Also Secretary of State for
the North 1689-90; K.G. June, 1694. The previous April
he had been created Marquess of Alton, CO. Stafford, and
Duke of Shrewsbury. He was Lord Lieut, of several
Counties including Salop. During King William's temporary
absences from England, the Duke was one of the Lords
Justices appointed Regents lor some months at a time, from
1695-97 inclusive, and after Anne's death in 1714. He was
Chamberlain of the Household to William HI., Oneen Anne
and George I. Ambassador to Paris 17 12- 13. He was also
Viceroy of Ireland 1713-14 ; Lord High Treasurer from July

to Oct. 1714, during the last days of Queen Anne and until the

arrival of her suecessor, and Groom of the Stole and Heepei

THE HISTORY OF WROCFWARDINE. 271

of the Privy Purse to George I. in 1714. Although as has
been stated, he helped to place William III. ol the throne of
England, he corresponded with James II. in exile, and in 1695,
after the attempted Jacobite rising, a prisoner, Sir John
Feriwick, disclosed the secret intrigues of Shrewsbury and
others, on behalf of the exiled King. Later, in George I.'s -
reign, when he was in office, and his wife in the service of the
Princess of Wales, he was again in active correspondence with
the Jacobites and with the Stuart Prince, who should have
been by right, King James III.1 The Duke is said to have
been a benefactor of the parish of Albrighton, and to have
improved his estates, which he found in debt upon his
succession to the peerage, and left unencumbered, having
increased his income from ^"4000 to £8000 per annum. He
procured an Act of Parliamen in 1700, to prevent the
alienation of any of his estates from the earldom.3

The Duke married at Rome, August 20, 1705, Adelhida,
daughter of the Marchese Paliotti, a Bolognese, and widow of
Count. Brachiano, who was in the service of Queen Christina
of Sweden. Before her marriage she abjured the tenets of
the Roman Church. She was said to be maternally descended
from Sir Robert Dudley, son of the notorious Earl of Leicester,
'Queen Elizabeth's favourite. When George I. came to the
throne, the Duchess of Shrewsbury was appointed to be a
Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales.
Swift, in his journal to Stella, March 24, 171 1-12, speaks of
the Duchess as 41 a most agreeable woman, and a great
favourite of mine." The Duke himself was very handsome,
except that he had but one eye, and had the most winning and
attractive manners, which in his younger days, won him the
nickname ol 11 King of Hearts."3 But his history leaves
the impression that he was of a most vacillating character, as
regards his political opinions, and in Irs loyalty, or want of it
to his respective sovereigns. But as regards his becoming I

1 Political Hist, of England, vol. VIII. p. 401, ami IX. pp. 244 I

2 A printed copy of this Act, dated 6 Geo. 1. 1700, II ftKKMf ffct p . ; p c r s
belonging to Col. E. W. Herbert.

3 History of Albrighton, by the late RtV. J. B, BlaUcu .< \ . MM
2nd Scr. v. 11, pp. 38 and 72.

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THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE.

member of the Church of England, he appears to have
considered the question for two years, and only to have
decided after a very critical and anxious inquiry, into matteis
of controversy. Collins, quoting the biographer of the Duke,
says that the young Earl of Shrewsbury persuaded hjs
grandfather, the Earl of Cardigan, to collect all the arguments
on the one side, from Roman Catholic priests, which he then
brought before Dr. Tillotson, afterwards Archbishop of
Canterbury, and took his answer back to Lord Cardigan.
This went on for nearly two years, by which time Shrewsbury
was completely alienated from the Church of Rome, while a
visit to Rome appears only to have confirmed his antagonism.
Upon his deathbed he asserted that he died in communiou
with the Church of England, and received the Holy
Communion from the hands of his friend and kinsman,
William Talbot, Bishop of Salisbury.1

The Duke left his wife a jointure of ^1200 per annum. He
died Feb. 1, at his seat at Isleworth, co. Midx. and was buried
on the 23rd of that month, 1717-18 at Albrighton. His widow
died in 1726, and was also buried at Albrighton, being
described in the Registers as " Lady Dutches of Shrewsbury,"
on July 15 of that year. The Marquisate and Dukedom
became extinct, as Charles had no children. His heir was his
cousin Gilbert Talbot, a Roman Catholic priest.

Iu the Wrockwardine Court Rolls, from May 24, 1671, to
Oct. 5, 1680, among the Lords of the Manor are given as
" Guardians of the Right Honbl° Charles, Lord Talbott, Karl
of Shrewsbury, Waterford and Wexford during his minority,"
— Robert, Earl of Cardigan, Hon. Mervin Tutchet and John
Talbott Knt. This corresponds with the will of Francis, nth
Earl of Shrewsbury as quoted above.2

Mervin Tuchet, sometimes called Tutchet or Touchet, WM
the third and youngest son of Mervvn Tuchet alia* Audley,
2nd Earl of Castlehaven, by his 1st wile. He married M.kv.
widow of Charles Arundell, and daughter Of John, 10th Bar]

1 Collins' Peerage, vol. ill pp. 40, 16

2 Sec p. 268

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE. 273

of Shrewsbury, by the latter's first wife, Mary Fortesctie.
Mervin Tuchet succeeded his brother as 4th Earl of Castle-
haven, Oct. 11, 1684, and died Nov. 1686.

In the Court Rolls the name of Charles, Earl of Shrewsbury
appears after he came of age, from March 20, 1681, until Oct.
10, 1696, when he had been made Duke of Shrewsbury, and is
thus described until his death in 1716.

Gilbert, 13TH Karl of Shrewsbury, first-cousin and
heir of his predecessor, must have been the next actual owner
of one third of the Manor. He was son and heir of the Hon.
Gilbert Talbot, of Batchcote, uncle of the Duke ; was born in
1670 and being a Jesuit monk never assumed the title, but died
unmarried July 22, 1743, aged about 73, and was buried at St.
Pancras, Midx.

George, 14TH Earl of Shrewsbury, nephew and heir of
the above-named Jesuit, was eldest sou and heir of the Hon.
George Talbot, his mother being Mary, daughter of Thomas
Fitzwilliam, 4th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion. "G.E C."
quotes from Harley's 44 Memoranda " about these two : — " This
George Talbot owing to the non-assumption thereof by his
eldest brother, did pretend to the title, and his widow is so
silly as to pretend to it, and suffers her three daughters to be
* called Ladies and puts the Earl's coronet on glasses and upon
plate, but durst not put it on the achievement, nor coach,
tho' in writings she signs Mary Talbot."1

In the Court Rolls of 1719, till 1727. among the Lords of the
Manor appears " The Right Noble George Talbott Esq. (called
Earl of Shrewsbury)." It is to be noted however, that he was
buried at Albrighton, Dec. 24, 1733, under the name of George
Talbott Esq., therefore there seems no cause to include him
among the Lords of the Manor, but conclude he acted as
Trustee only to his elder brother. His son, the above-
mentioned George, Earl of Shrewsbury, was born in 1718, Bad
succeeded to the Earldom upon the death of his uncle the
Jesuit priest. He married Nov. 21, 1753, Elizabeth, daughter
of John Dormer, 7th Baron Dormer of Wing, and died s.n.
l Complete Peerage.

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THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE.

July 22, 1787, in his 68th year, at Heythorpe (or Heathropp)
co. Oxon. His name appears in the Mimt Eook as one of the
Lords of the Manor, from Oct. 4, 1762, to Oct. 24. 1786,
inclusive.

Charles, 15TH Earl op Shrewsbury, was nephew of the
last peer, being eldest son and heir of Charles Talbot of
Horecross in Yoxhall, by his second wife, Mary, daughter of
Sir George Mostyn, 4th Baronet, of Talacre, co. Flint. He
was born March 8, 1753, and married at Bordeaux, Elizabeth,
eldest daughter of James Hoey, a printer at Dublin, which
lady was about to take the veil. He died s.p. 1827, and was
buried at Heythorpe. His name appears in the Wrockwardine
Minit Book, as one of the Lords of the Manor from Oct. 16,
1787, until the end of the book, Oct. 14, 1795, and in the 2nd
volume of Court Rolls from May 9, 1810 till he sold his one
third of the Manor in 1823.

By Articles of Agreement, dated Nov. 2, 1822, between the
above-mentioned Charles, Earl of Shrewsbury and William Cludde
of Orleton, it was covenanted that for the sum of ^3,740 to be
paid by William Cludde to Lord Shrewsbury, on or before the
24th day of June, next (1823) the latter should grant convey
and assure to the said William Cludde and his heirs " All that the
undivided third part or share of him said Charles Earl of Shrews-
bury the whole into three equal parts or shares to be divided
and in All that the Manor or Lordship of Rockwardine otherwise
Wrockwardine in said County of Salop with the Rights Members
and Appurt's thereof." Details were given as to various lit ssu igi -
Cottages, Tenements, Farms, etc., included, in the Manor and
Parish of Wrockwardine, giving the names of the Tenants at
that time ; mentioning also " one undivided third part, or other
part or share of him said Earl of Shrewsbury ot and in an annual
Rent paid by the Marquis of Staltord for or in respect of certain
Lands in the Manor of Lilleshall .a said County ot Staitord.''
Although the undivided third part is thus mentioned, it Ifl as in

the case of the other two portions of the Manoi when they wen

sold: "Save and except and always reserved to said Earl ot
Shrewsbury his Heirs and Assigns the M( »\ »C ttagl - Tent ;

Lands Rents Royalties Privileges Payments Mines Minerals Rocka

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275

Quarries and other the Estate and Interest of him said Earl of
Shrewsbury situate lying and being in upon or und it that part
of said Manor and parish of Wrockwardine commonly called or
known by the name of Wrockwardine Wood and which were not
intended to be comprised in the now abstracting Articles but
were reserved unto said Earl of Shrewsbury his Heirs and Assigns."

The Conveyance appears to have been ultimately signed July
31, 1823, from which date the Manor was once more united,

William Cludde being the sole Lord of the Manor.

William Cludde, Esq., of Orleton, was therefore, as has been
shewn, the possessor of one third of the Manor from June 24,
1811 ; of two thirds from March 25, 1813, and of the whole from
June 24, 1823, although the final transaction is dated a month
later.

William Cludde was the eldest son of Edward Pemberton, Esq.,
of Wrockwardine, and Martha, youngest daughter of William
Cludde of Orleton, who was High Sheriff in 1723. He was
baptized June 8, 1755 ; and married at St. Alkmund's Church,
Shrewsbury, Jan. 24, 1781, Anna Maria, daughter of Edward
Jeffreys of Shrewsbury, Esq. He took the surname and arms of
Cludde only, by Act of Parliament in 1785, in accordance with
the will of his uncle, Edward Cludde of Orleton, who, dying
unmarried, made his sister's son his heir. At the time of the
French Revolution, he was among the first to come forward in
defence of the country, and raised a troop of cavalry. Later he
was appointed Lieut. Colonel of the South Shropshire Yeomanry,
with whom he was very popular. In 1795 he was Mayor of
Shrewsbury, and in 1814 High Sheriff. He died Augt. 25, ll
and was buried at Wrockwardine.

Edward Cluddk, Esq., the next Lord of the Manor, was the
eldest and only surviving son of William Cludde. He was born
April 26, 1783, and baptized at Baschutch, CO Salop. Ho
married at Hath, May (>, 1828, Catherine Harriett, daughter of
Lieut. General Sir William Cockburn. Han., and by her had an
only daughter and heir.

He died Nov. 29, 1840, and like his father, was buried it
Wrockwardine Church in the vault nndei the Cludde Chapel
His name is given in the Court Rolls as Lord of the Manoi fiom

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THK HISTORY OF W ROCK WARD INK.

Oct. 13, 1830, until his death, and from Oct. 27, 1841, "The
Devisees in Trust under the Will of Edward Cludde Esquire,
deceased " are entered as the Lords of the Manor until October,
i843-

Anna Maria Cludde, only daughter and heir of Edward
Cludde, was born Sept. 9, 1830, and baptized at
Wrockwardine. She married in London, at St. George's,
Hanover Square, on June 22, 1854, the Hon. Robert Charles
Herbert, and had four sons and three daughter:; ; one son
died in infancy. She died in London, March 13, 1906, and
was buried at Wrockwrardine. Her name as Lady of the Manor
appears in the Court Rolls from Oct. 27, 1843, until Sept. 12,
1854, when " The Honorable Robert Charles Herbert and the
Honorable Anna Maria Herbert his Wife (lately Anna Maria
Cludde, Spinster) " are Lord and Lady of the Manor.

The Hon. Robert Charles Herbert, by right of his wife, a
Lord of the Manor of Wrockwardine, was the 4th son of Edward,
2nd Earl of Powis, by Lucy, daughter of James, 3rd Duke of
Montrose. He was born June 24, 1S27 ; educated at Eton and
St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. (1st class
in classics) 1849. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1853.
In 1875 he was appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Lichfield,
by his friend and former tutor, George Augustus Selwyn. who
was at that time Bishop of Lichfield, and formerly 1st Bishop of
New Zealand He was High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1878. and
dying Oct. 31, 1902, was buried at Wrockwardine.

Colonel Edward Herbert, C.B., late of the King's Royal
Riile Corps, eldest son of the last-mentioned possessors, became
Lord of the Manor on Feb. 9, 1901, when by .1 " I Vol of Appoint-
ment " The Hon. Robert Charles, and Anna Maria Herbert, made
over to him the Orleton Estates, which included the Man
Wrockwardine. He was born in London, March 22, \\.i>
educated at Eton ; served with his regiment in the Zulu W .:
1879, the Sotldan Expedition in 1884, when he was protnob
Brevet Major ; and in South Africa, in iooj. when Ik WUS made

a C.H. He was the Colonel Commanding the Rifle Depot,
Winchester, l'roin 1004-8, and ivtiicd from the Army in ioio.
He married in January, 1887, licatriee Anne, eklei duughtci of
Sir Hedwortli Williamson, <sth Dart of Whitburn Hall, 00 Din

THE HISTORY OF WROCK WAR DINE. 277

by Elizabeth, 4th daughter of the 1st Earl of Ravensworth, and
has two sons and two daughters.

Thus the Lords and Ladies of the Manor ot Wrockwardine have
been traced without a break from Roger and Jonas de Powis, in
the reign of Henry II., until Col. Herbert, the present possessor :
giving also the history, so far as is known, of Roger de Mont-
gomery and his two sons, who were in the earlier days Lords
-of the Manor, from William the Conqueror's reign to that of
Henry I., when for a time the King did not assign it to any
subject, but kept it, so far as can be ascertained, in his own
hands, and it so remained until Henry II. 's time.1 The fact that
Wrockwardine was a Royal Manor has made it possible so fully
to trace its history, and it is of some interest to note that the
connection with the Crown continued until 1672, when the three
Lords of the Manor were the infant Charles, Earl (afterwards
Duke) of Shrewsbury, William, Viscount Stafford, and Edward
Revell, gent. At the present time Col. E. W. Herbert pays a
Fee Farm Rent to the Earl oi Pembroke and Montgomery, for
the Manor, of £8 2s. 2d. A few years ago, Col. Herbert, not
knowing the reason of this payment, wrote to his friend the late
Lord Pembroke and asked if he knew why this yearly payment
was made. The latter was unable to give the desired inform-
ation, and therefore applied to his solicitor. On Jan. 4, 1910,
Lord Pembroke enclosed a copy of the answer he received to Col.
Herbert, which was as follows : —

" My Lord,

" My father is away, so I am answering your letter to
him about the Fee Farm Rent of £8 2s. 2d., which Colonel
Herbert pays you for the Manor of Wrockwardine.

" On the original grant by the Crown of the Manor of
Warkewarden also Wrockenden &c. in the County of
Salop, a Fee Farm Rent of £8 was reserved, and this w.is
paid to the Crown till 1672. By Acts of Parliament in
Charles II. 's reign, certain Fee Farm Rents belonging to
the Crown were vested in Trustees for Sale. By .1 deed
dated 8th June, 1674, this Fee Farm Rent boning ont ol Hr
Manor of Warkwarden was conveyed with ot lie- 1 Fee l'.um

1 For the History of the early Lords of the Manor, ice rnt*Mf f t#*f , 4th
Series, vol. 1., pp. LUI 227.

278 THE HISTORY CF WROCKWARDINE.

Rents by Francis Lord Hawley and others (the Trustees
under the Acts) to John Lindsey. After passing through
various hands this Fee Farm Rent with many others was
bought by Sir Matthew Decker from the Earl of Carnarvon,
1717. Sir Matthew Decker's daughter married Richard
Viscount Fitzwilliam, and the Fee Farm Rent became the
property of the Fitzwilliam family. In 181 6 on the death
of the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam it passed under his will to
the Earls of Pembroke in fee. I hope that this will give you
all the information you want.
" I have the honour to be,

" Your Lordship's most faithful servant,

" Charles R. I. Nicholl.
" The Earl of Pembroke & Montgomery."1
The earliest extant Court Roll of the Manor of Wrockwardine,
so far as can be ascertained, has already been given, dated
March 31, 1540, when Elizabeth, widow of George, 4th Earl of
Shrewsbury, held the Manor as her dower. With that exception
the earliest Court Rolls are in a bound volume dated Oct. 15,
1650, to April 21, 1727. The first three pages are in Latin ;
then from May 23, 165 1, until Oct. 11, 1662, they are written
in English, reverting to Latin on the latter date, and so continue
till the end of the volume, after which they are in English.
The first printed form was used on Oct. 28, 181 2.
Immediately before the date of the earliest Court Roll in this
first volume, Oct. 15, 1650, the following " Wrockwardine Ls.
(Lord's) presentment of the Jury " was made on Oct. II.

" Encroachments upon the Lord's Land.
The Jury met at the Ancient place where the Manor House
Stood Called the Hall Yard where they found that Thomas Roe
had Encroached upon the Hall Yard & So they went olo&g the
Town to a place of Wast ground called FJaxhiU wYh Kb bounded
with the Lord's Demesne Land very near round about ami lyetll
open to the Lord's Wast where by the Way thev found the sd,
Thomas Roe had made another Encroachment at Shingle poole
And that at Flaxhill ye Inh'itants of Wi ockwaul me li.ul kept B

l Sidney Herbert, Nth K;irl of I'einhrnkr, wu* ttlC 2nd m 11 of SJih\

Herbert, uftcrwardM created Lord Herbert of Lea, tlic Bo* •
War 111 IHftUi Lord Pembroke was born in I HSU, nuccccded hi* brothci
;ts Burl oi Pembroke in LtiBS, and died March JO, 19)3, Ma eldest ton
being the present EarL

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE. 279

Gate from the Lord's Free Streake by dividing the Lord's Waste
to their own Use and from thence they went down a Lane called
Humbrey Lane leading towards Alscott & the Jury went on upon
the high Way in Humbrey Lane w'ch is the direct Streake way
from Wrockwardine Mannor House unto the Wildmoore where
they found Encroachmt. upon the sd. highway made by
the sd. Thomas Roe in Sev'all places whereof one is in His yard
betwixt his Coale & Thomas Viccars his house. Wee present
Rogers Roe and Thomas Binnell for not Scouring a Watercourse in
the lower end of Humbrey Lane to the Nusance of the Way and
so they went along to Alscott and so along the Lane towards
the Wildmoore and within the Town'pp of Alscote they Found
that Thomas Binnell had Encroached in his Backside being the
Lord's Wast They also then Found about three Roads of the
Lord's Wast Encroached (being a wett Spott) in Thomas Binnell's
Backside For w'ch he Compounded at 2d. Pr. Ann. They then
also found that the sd. Thomas Binnell had Encroached upon
the Lord's Wast in a place called the Oke yard Furlong and that the
sd. Thomas Binnell had Encroached upon the Lord's Wast in
a place Called Rushmoore Furlong they Found other Encroachmts
upon the sd. Rushmoore Furlong in the poss'ion of Thomas
Bathoe They find that Mr. Langley had made a small En-
croachmt upon the Lord's Wast out of a Peice called Powkewall
.They found that William Okes had Enclosed about one New
Measure Sowing in the Lord's Wast and had Compounded for it
at 2s. Pr. Ann. They found that Thomas Maddocks had Enclosed
two parcells of the Lord's Wast with a house in the Long Lane
Containing about a Quart'r of an Acre and Compounded for it
at 2S. 6d. Pr. Ann. They Found that John Bratton had Encroached
ab't one Hoop Sowing in the Long Lane and Compounded foi it
at is. Pr. Ann. They found that Thomas Taylor of Long Had
Compounded For a little Encroachm't w'ch he had made in Long
Lane at 2d. Pr. Ann. They found that Morrice Blaney living
within the Liberties of Long had Compounded For an Encroach-
ment w'ch He had made in Long Fan- at 6d, Pr. Ann. They
Found that Ralph Pierce Had Compounded for Encroaching
with a House and Small Garden in Long Lane at is Pr. Ann
They found that Francis Matthe ws had Encroached with a
House and two inclosurcs in the Long Lane being pari ol the
Wast in Wrockwardine Ifannoi Containing about a Quartej ol

28o

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINK.

an Acre into w'ch Sr. Thomas Eyton maketh Claime at Stafford
Gate John Pemberton is Questioned For a pr'ten- ed Encroachm't
in the Backside of his Barre adjoining to the High Way leading
From Wrockwardine to Ad mas ton/ 11

The following are the names of the Stewards of the Manor of
Wrockwardine, so far as can be ascertained from the existing
Court Rolls.

Thomas Tetenaix is mentioned as Steward in the Court Roll
of Henry VIII. 's reign, dated March 31, 1540.

John Traunter, entered as Steward from Oct. 15, 1650, and
described as " Chief Steward " from April, 1656, until July, 1706.

John Blakemore, on his appointment as Steward, writes a
formal letter, which is with the Court Rolls, dated July 26, 1706,
acknowledging the receipt from Mr. John Traunter, late Steward,
of " A paper booke bound up wherein are severall Surren'rs
Licences and Admittances Entred — belonging to the Lords of the
Mannor of Wrockwardine in the County of Salop which said
booke beginneth with A surr 'r Att A courte held for the said
Mannor the Fifteenth day of Octtober In the Twenty Third year
of the Raigne of our late Sovraigne Lord Kinge Charles the first

and ends with A Surr'r made the 29th day of April.

1704 " This letter is of some interest, as it shows that

even at that date, the Court Rolls earlier than 1650 were appar-
ently not in the possession of the Lords, but whether they may
still be in existence, and if so where they now are, it seems
impossible to discover.

The following is a summons to those holding land belonging
to the Manor to attend one of the Courts : —

" John Blakemore gent Chiefe Steward of the Rt. Noble Charles
Duke of Shrewsbury the Right Honoble Henry Earle of Sta fiord
and John Revell gent Lords of the Mannor of Wrockwardine
aforesaid To the Bayliffe of the said Mannor and also to the under
bayliffe and minister of the said Court there Greeting. B) verttM
of my office I require and Command yo 1 and eithei ol yon Thai
you or any of you doe Sum 'on and i'orewarne All Freeholders
Copyholders Tenants by the Indenture Tenants att Will ie-i i
or not residents and all resiants and others the Inhabitants < t the
mannor aforesaid within the Limits '>t the lame llaOSHM (with

1 Sir T. Phillips' MSS.

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE.

28l

the members thereof) That they and every of them bee and
personally doe appeare before mee or my lawful deputy at the
next view of Frank Pledge Courte Iyeete and Coarte Baron of
the Mannor aforesaid to bee holden att the usual place upon
Monday to witt the Twenty sixth-day of April instant by nine of
the clock in the aforenoon of the same day then and there to doe
and p'form All and singular theire and every of theire sevrall suites
and services of Courte accordinge to Lawe and the Antient and
laudable Custom of the Mannor aforesaid, And alsoe that you or
one of you doe cause to Come before mee or my lawful deputy att
the Tyme and place aforesaid Twelve honest and lawful men,
as well of the resiants and Inhabitants as of the aforesaid Tenants
of and within the Limits of the Mannor aforesaid to make A certain
Jury of that Mannor to Enquire of and upon all such Articles as
shall then and there be given them in Charge as well on the parte
and behalf of the Queenes Majestie as on the parte and behalfe of
the Lords of the Mannor aforesaid And Lastly That you doe then
and there give your Attendance in your own p'son for the
Execuc'on of your severall offices And that you have then and
there the names of such Jurors togeather with this Script. Given
under my hand and seale by which I use this Office the Ninth-day
of Aprill — In the yeare of our Lord 1708 And in the seaventh
yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lady Anne Queen of Great
» Brittaine etc.

John Blakemore, Steward."1

Owing to the Court Rolls being missing from April 21, 1727,
when the first volume ends, until the first date in the Minit Book,
which is Oct. 4, 1762, it is impossible to know how long John
Blakemore was Steward, and who succeeded him.

Walter Stubbs, Gent, was Steward on Oct. 4, 1762, according
to the first entry in the Minit Book, and continued in office until
April 15, 1765.

Samuel Dickenson, Gent, from April 27, 1767, to Oct. 21.
1771, and from Oct. 1772 he was Chief Steward.

Thomas Dickenson, Gent, Steward from Get. 18, 1 ->:. to
the end of the Minit Book, Oct. 14, 1705 Then the Court Rolls
are missing again until l8t0.

I Sir T. Phillips' MSS. Mn c w slni.y IVa l.ibr.m. M B IM. ItistK

oriizinul document with tin ieiil< Another .ilm>>st miuiImi dim dated
1712, is in the possession of Col. E, W. Herbert,

282

THE HISTORY OP WROCKWARDINE.

Joseph Dickenson was Steward on May, 9, 1810, his name
occurring on a Court Roll pasted into the beginning of the second
volume, which is dated outside Oct. 29, 1811, to Oct. 21, 1814.

Robert Pemberton, Esquire, of the Town of Shrewsbury, is
appointed to be true and lawful Steward of the Manor during
the will and pleasure of the Ivords of the Manor, on Oct. 7, 1811,
the Lords at that date being Charles (15th) Earl of Shrewsbury,
Thomas Noel, Lord Berwick and William Cludde of Orleton,
Esquire. A year later the old formula of " The view of Frank-
pledge, Court Leet and Court Baron," was used for the last
time, and " The Court Baron and Court Customary " was the
usual description given of the Court. Robert Pemberton was
Steward until March, 181 6.

Thomas Farmer Dukes was Steward from Oct. 27, 181 7,
until 1839.

Thomas Salt, Gentleman, was Chief Steward from April 29,
1839, until 1853, but from Oct. 1850, George Moultrie Salt acted
as Deputy for his father.

George Moultrie Salt, Esq., succeeded his father as Chief
Steward from June 18, 1853, until his death Feb. 2, 1907.

Reginald N. Salt, Esq., is the present Steward, and was the
eldest son of his predecessor.

There only remains to give what evidence is still in existence
as to the circumstances under which the mines and lands at
Wrockwardine Wood became alienated from the rest of the
Manor. T. F. Dukes, Steward of the Manor of Wrockwardine
from 1817 to 1839, to whose manuscript " Salop Records "
reference has already been made, says in them that the mines of
coal and iron-stone had apparently been opened and work* I
in Wrockwardine Wood from early in the seventeenth century,
under leases granted by the three proprietors or Lords. " 1
its name and other circumstances, there seems little doubt but
that Wrockwardine Wood was formerly a wood which was tioin
time to time cut down for the purpose of fusing the iron cue found
under it. Before the discovery of coil coke, wood coke WM tht
only method known of smelting iron ore, and woods ol consid* 1

able extent in this and Other countries are well blOWD to have
fallen a sacrifice to Mich puipose. As the kind bee. one gradUAll)

dear of the wood which covered ii. the Inhabitant*, with the

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283

consent of the noble proprietors, brought it into cultivation, and
on that account were suffered to occupy it at nn derate rents, this
fact being brought out by an answer of one of the tenants to a
Bill pled against him in Chancery, about the year 1757." By the
assistance of machinery and the great improvements of later years
in working mines, the coal and iron works were carried on, on an
extended scale in Shropshire, especially by the Lilleshall Com-
pany, within the field of whose operations, Wrockwardine Wood
lay ; resulting in the greater value of the surface of the land,
and an increase of population.1

As regards the first portion of the Manor, including one third
of the land in Wrockwardine Wood, it will be remembered that
it was sold by Henry, Earl of Stafford, to Richard Hill in 1715.
When the second Lord Berwick, who had inherited it, sold it to
William Cludde he retained the mines and certain lands, tene-
ments, etc., in Wrockwardine Wood. In 1819, there appears to
have arisen a question as to Lord Berwick's right to some portion
of the mines, the tenants claiming it as their property. From a
letter in Shrewsbury Free Library it appears that a certain Mr.
Sinclair applied to Mr. Dukes for proofs of Lord Berwick's right.
Mr. Dukes in his reply said : " I have made a search among
Lord Berwick's deeds both at Attingham and Shrewsbury for
documents relating to the Wrockwardine Wood Instate, but have-
not as yet made any material discovery which tends to the par-
ticular case of Lathum's Tenement I find that some oi

the persons who set up adverse claims to the three proprietors of
the mines have given up their pretentions, and accounted to
the Lessees of the Mines for the Coals, etc., which they had
unadvisedly raised."

Later on, Lord Berwick sold the mines in Wrockwardine Wood
to Lord Granville, and again in the lawful ownership was in

dispute. A certain Mr. Lowndes, on behalf of the- latter, wrote IS
follows to Mr. Dukes : " the object of my visit on you was to
enquire after any old papers or prior title you ttiaj possess to the
mines at Wrockwardine sold by Lord Berwick to Lord Granville
anterior to the abstract delivered, old leases 01 rentals "i an)
evidence of possession of the tuines would be ol great service to

1 Tin- MS. "Salop Rtcordii " by T, K; Duke*, iMtaaglAg 0. s..it a Sons,

Shrewsbury.

284

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE.

me at present. One of the owners of the Land in Wroek'e has
commenced working and getting Coal and I am About to file a
Bill of Injunction against him in which I must allege and prove
long possession in support of my title. Allow me to request you
will let me know what documents you possess which would
assist me and to request the loan of them, as Lord Granville's
title is derived from Lord Berwick." In the course of his reply,
dated Feb. 4, 1825, Mr. Dukes writes : " You are perhaps aware
that some difference of opinion prevails, in regard to the legal
right to a portion of the Lands at Wrockwardine Wood, undei
which the Mines that were recently purchased by Lord Granville
from Lord Berwick are imbedded, and this point having been sub-
mitted to the consideration and management of another profes-
sional gentleman who has put the same into a train of investiga-
tion, and wherein I am not otherwise concerned, than as supplying
what information it may be in my power to afford, on the occasion
of it, and as the Title to these Lands, as well as to the Mines
under them, are similarly circumstanced in many respects, I feel
rather delicately situated as respects the promulgation of the
Title to the Surface part of the Property, lest by so doing I might
inadvertently prejudice the interest of my client." Evidently
Lord Berwick had only sold to Lord Granville the Min>:s, himself
retaining possession of the surface.

On the 25th of the same month, Mr. Lowndes writes again,
not having received certain documents promised by Mr. Dukeg
" I beg to remind you of my application to you for any old docu-
ments or papers which may tend to establish Lord Berwick's
title to the mines at Wrockwardine Wood. I am aware that there
are questions now pending as to the title to the surface but I
wish to keei> that question quite distinct to the title to the mines.
I believe the title to the Land is questioned on the ground oi
usurpation and nonclaim, But this will not be the case with
regard to the mines as the Lords have always exercised then
rights. And it is to enable me to shew si. eh exercise by Lord
Berwick I apply to you. Should in investigating the claim
to the mines any document or information he discovered which
would aid your claim to the land I shall of course feel m\ Sell bound

to communicate ii t<> you because in fact pursuing the muh'
inquiry tho' for different objects, and I ihm you will see the

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285

propriety of furnishing to me on behalf of Lord Granville any
evidence that will be useful." He then asks questions as to
the three co-heiresses, and how the title had devolved to them,
referring to the indenture of George, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
Also respecting certain suits in Chancery as to Mr. Charlton's
third part (which apparently he bought, as will be seen, from one
Butler) of the mines. He thinks that if they can go back to Mr.
Charlton's purchase, they could prove Lord Berwick's concurrent
enjoyment, or that of his predecessors. Mr. Dukes sent him some
extracts of the Wrockwardine Court Rolls, and particulars as to
the history of the Manor, but what was finally the result of the
enquiries, the correspondence does not show.1

The whole question of the lawful ownership of these mines is
too complicated to make out satisfactorily, but certain con-
veyances must be mentioned. Sir George Savile, who owned
the second portion of the Manor, until he sold it to Edward Revell,
did by Indenture of Lease and Release of the 18th and 19th
July, 1660, in consideration of £1,801 10s. od. grant and convey
to Francis Butler, Gentleman, " All that his (Savile's) third part
of the Coal mines or Coal works in Wrockwardine Wood or
Wrockwardine or elsewhere in the County of Salop, then in the
Tenure of the said Francis Butler, or his assigns, with full powei
of digging and getting the same." He appears also to have
conveyed to Butler certain Lands, Tenements, Mills, etc., specially
named, many of which were in Wrockwardine Wood, " to hold
the same unto the said Butler his heirs and assigns for ever.''
On the same date, by an indenture which is now in the parish
chest at Wrockwardine, Sir George Savile, did Grant and Convey
to Edward Pemberton of Admaston, yeoman, Thomas Binnell
(or Bynnell) of Buicott, and Richard Ball of I'ockwarden Wood,
yeomen, in the County of Salop, in consideration of Ss. od„
his third part or share of and in divers Tenements 01
Cottages, Lands, and Hereditaments, situate in Wrockwardine
Wood, and some in Wrockwardine, to them and theil liens and
assigns for ever. In this last conveyanee. the mine- sold to
Butler should have been excepted, but this was uol done CI
appears to have been an agreement previously made that cert in
lands should be sold by Butler, and by Peuilicrton, Binnell and

1 The correspondence is itmong Sir T Phillip* MSS

286

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINE.

Ball to the tenants then holding them. When the omission in the
Indenture was discovered, several sub-purchasers immediately
began to take advantage of it, and claimed the third part of the
mines under the lands they had purchased, interrupting Butler
in working them.1 This at once, and many times later, led to
Suits in Chancery, as has been seen in the correspondence between
the representatives of Lord Berwick and Lord Granville quoted
above, the claims of the three owners being so intermingled.

On 21st and 22nd August, 1673, Francis Butler sold and con-
veyed to Francis Charlton of Apley Castle in the County of Salop,
Esq., his third share of the said mines, and certain lands, etc.,
in Wrockwardine Wood. The said Francis Charlton was Sheriff
in 1665, his father Francis Charlton, having been Sheriff in 1626.
His sister married Baxter. Disapproving of the aggressions of
James II. against the Constitution of the country, he took part
in the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth, and in consequence
had for a time to disappear, but returned to Apley in William
III.'s reign. His descendant, the present Sir Thomas Meyrick
(formerly Charlton) owned the mines in question, or some part
of them, until a few years ago.

The mines belonging to the 3rd portion of the Manor remained
in the possession of the Earls of Shrewsbury, up to, and after
the rest of the one third was sold by Charles, 15th Earl.to William
Cludde, he specially mentioning and retaining them in his own
possession. In accordance with an Act made in the first year of
George I. to oblige Papists to register their names and real estates,
the said Charles made a statement of his property in the " Parch-
ment Book " kept by the Clerk of the Peace for the County of
Salop, which is still at the Shire Hall. In that he mentions :
" One undivided third part of the Manor of Wrockwardine with
its Rights Members and Appurtenances Courts I.i-et and Baron
with the Profits thereof in the Parish of Wrockwardine now m
my own Possession .... One undivided third part of several
Chief Rents payable to the said Manor of Wrockwardine amount

ing to £8 18s. 3jd. yearly One annual Rent of /t;> fe, Sd.

payable to me by the Marquis of Stafford I >ne Undivided

third Part of the Mines of Coal and Ironstone in WfOCkWferdinc
Wood and of the underwoods there in the said l\ui li ol Wo eft

1 "Salop Ucconls," by T. P. OultC*.

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287

wardine Let by Lease for 21 years by George late Earl of Shrews-
bury to the Marquis of Stafford, Thomas Gilbert, Esq., and John
Gilbert at the Yearly rent of £200." There eeems no more
information to be obtained as to the ownership of the various
portions of the Manor of Wrockwardine.

TABLE showing the Lords and Ladies of the Manor of
Wrockwardine owning the whole or one-third only, from
George, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, to William Cludde, Esq.

GEORGE 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
d. Nov. 18, 1590. Had on Oct. 1,
1569, by Indenture, settled the
Manor on his wife for her life, then
to his sons successively and their
heirs male. Failing such heir, it
was to be divided between his 3
daughters

= (1st) Gertrude, dau. of Thos 1st
Earl of Rutland; by her
Lord Shrewsbury had 4 sons
and 3 daughters.
(2nd) ELIZABETH, a widow,
dau of John Hard wick. Esq.
She held the Manor as her
dower. Died 1608.

Francis,
Lord Talbot
mar. Anne,
dau. of
William. 1st
Earl of Pem-
broke, d.
s.p. 1581.

I

GILBERT, 7th=
Earl of Shrews-
bury, d. Mar. 8,
1616 Held the
Manor from
1608 until his
death, May 8,
1616 Left l-3rd
of the Manor to
his dau.

Marv, dau.
of Sir W.
Cavendish,
and Ehz.,
afterwards
Countess
of Shrews-
bury.

EDWARD, 8th = J AN'E, elder

Mary,

I1KIIT.

William
3rd Earl
of Pem-
broke,
d. s.p

I

Elizabeth,
mair.
Henry 8th
Earl of
Kent,
d. s p.

I

ALETHEA,=
d. May 24,
1654. Left
the I -3rd of
Manor to her
2nd surviving
son, William
Howard.

Thomas,
Earl of
Arundel.
Died
1646.

I

WILLIAM, Viscount:
Stafford, formerly Sir
William Howard, un-
justly attainted anJ
beheaded, 16S0.

Earl of Shrews-
bury, the last
who held the
whole Manor.
But l-3rd of it
settled to come
to his youngest
sister, Lady
Gr.ice, was sold
to him by her.
He left that por-
tion to his wife
for her life, and
then to his suc-
cessors in the
Earldom. It so
remained until
Charles. 15th
Karl, sold it to
William Cludde
in 1823.

MARY, sister and heir of
Henry 5th B.n on Stafford.
Her h lisband and s!u | n
ated Baron and Baroness
Stallord. and Ik- .ilso

Viscount StufforJ

dau. and co-
heir of Cuth-
bert 1st Lord
Ogle. She
and Lord
Shrewsbury
died S.p. She
held l-3rd of
the Manor as
her dower
from 1617-18
till her death
in 1625-26.

HENRY, Earl of Stafford, = Claude Charlottt, dau
cr. 1688 d. s.p. 1719. Bhihbcrt, Coilttt dc
On July 29. 1715, he sold OmmOnt
his I di d of the Manor to

28S THE HISTORY OF WROCKWARDINK.

The Rt. Hon. RICHARD Hill, of Hawkstone,
He died unmarried, leaving the l-3rd of the
Manor to his two nephews in succession a -.d
their heirs male.

SAMUEL Hill,
formerly Bar-
bour, d. s.p at
date unknown,
but before Oct.
1762.

Elizabeth, dau.
of Phillip, Earl
of Chesterfield.

THOMAS Hill, :
of Tern, former-
ly Harwood,Jied
before Oct. 1782.

I

Henry, d.

unmarried

during his

brother

Gilbert's

life.

I

NOEL, 1st
Baron Berwick,
cr. 1784.

: Susanna Maria,
elder dau and co-
heir of William
Noel, Judge of
Common Pleas.
(2nd wife).

- Anne, dau. of
Henry Vernon,
Esq.

THOMAS NOEL,
2nd Baron Berwick.
Sold his 1 -3rd of the
M.mor to William
Cludde, March 25,
1813.

I

Catherine,
marr. Henry
2nd Earl of
Pembroke,
d. s p. before
her father,
therefore the
l-3rd of the
Manor set-
tled upon her
reverted to
her eldest
surviving
brother, Earl
Gilbert, who
left it to his
youngest
daughter,
Alethea.

Mary, — Sir George Savile,

of Thornhill,
Bart. Died
1622.

died before
her brother
Edward,
8th Earl^

SirGeorge Savile— Ann, dau.
lint, d. 1614. of Sir William
Went worth.

I

Grace, marr.
Henry Caven-
dish, died s.p.
She on Nov.
25, 1617, sold
the l -3rd of the
Manor settled
on her to her
brother, Earl
Edward.

Sir GEORGE
Savile, 2nd Bart,
inherited the
l-3rd of the Manor
as his grand-
mother, Lady
Mary, was dead.
He was born
about 1611, d. un-
married, 1627-8

Sir WILLIAM = Anne. dau.

Savile, 3rd Bart
Born about
1612. Sue. his
brother, died
Jan. 24, 1643 4.

of Thos.
1st Baron
Coventry .

Sir GEORGE Savile, 4th
Bart. cr. Marquis of Hali-
fax, 1682. On Jan. 12, 1665,
sold his 1 3rd of the
Manor to

Dorothy, dau. of
Henry, 1st Barl
of Sunderland .

EDWARD REVBLL, of ShiiYnai. feat,

of whom no p.irluiil.irs aiv knuwn, nor
of his successors

ROSAMOND & EDWARD Revet!

JOHN Rcvdlss (name of wife unki

THE HISTORY OF WROCKWAKDINK.

289

b I b

SARAH. = Robert Morcton
She held l-3rd of the
Manor from 1729 till
her death, 1757.

Ann r= Revell
d 1746 Phillips

JOHN Revill Phi!lips = SARAH. Sur-
inherited l-3rd of the name unknown.
Manor as his mother She held the
was dead, when his l-3rd of the
aunt, Mrs Moreton, Manor as her
died. dower.

THOMAS Carter Phillips
d. s.p 1783, his wife hav-
ing predeceased him, held
l -3rd of the Manor.

REVELL Phillips in-

herited the l-3rd of
the Manor at his
brother's death and
sold it June 24, 1811,
to William Cludde,
Esq.

Note. — Those who actually held the whole Manor or one-third have their
first name in capitals.

The William Cludde (formerly Pemberton) who re-united
the divided Manor of Wrockwardine, was descended on his
mother's side from the Cluddes of Cluddeley, and the de
Erleions of Erleton, now known as Orleton. In the Cludde
pedigree, possessed by Colonel E. W. Herbert, the first name,
given without any date of either birth or death, is that of
'Richard Cludde of Cludley, co. Salop. The name of his wife
is not given, but his son William is said to have married the
daughter and co-heir " of. ... Orleton of Orleton, co. Salop,
1331," and the following statement as to his arms or crest is
given : — " Eegitur quod Will's filius Ricardi Cludd portabit
in sigillo suo unam Antelopam passantem regardentem
tempore E. III."

There is a monument in Wrockwardine Church to a later
William Cludde, in which he is said to be descended from
the above-mentioned William Cludde "who married Margaret,
daughter of William Orleton of Orleton, in the fourth year of
Edward III." This can hardly be the fact, as the only
William de Erleton of which there is any record, died on or
before 1295, and Adam, his son and heir, was at that data U
years old. Adam died in 1305, leaving an eldest SOD John,
who was deaf and dumb, born on May 31, 1301, There was

290

THE HISTORY OP WROCKWARDINE.

another son Warin, whose descendants eventually inherited
Erleton, when John's grandson Richard diec as a child.

Chanc. Inq. P.M., Edw. I, File 74, No. 18. 4 Jan., 1295-6.
Inquisition respecting the lands and tenements which be-
longed to William de Erleton on the day that he died, made at
Shrewsbury on the 4th day of January in the 24th year of the
reign of King Edward by Michael de Morton &c. Who say on
their oath that the said William held certain lands and
tenements in Erleton on the day that he died in chief of the
Lord the King by the service of rendering 6s. 8d. to the
exchequer. There is there a certain messuage which is worth
with the curtilage and fruit of the garden 3s. by the year.
There are there 60 acres of arable land, each of which is worth
4d. by the year. Sum 20s. There are also 3 acres of meadow,
each of which is worth i2d. by the year. Sum 3s. The fishery
of a certain fishpond is worth 2s. by the year. There are there
of rent of free tenants at the feast of St. Michael 16s. 6d. and at
the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary 16s. 6d.
Sum 33s. Whereof he renders to the Lord the King half a
mark, as above ; and so there remain clear 26s. 4d. Sum total
54s. 4d.

Also they say that the said William held in Clotleye a
certain tenement of the house of St. Andrew by the service of
rendering 12(1. by the year to the church of St. Andrew. And
there are three acres of land each of which is worth 4d. by the
year. Sum i2d. which he renders to the church aforesaid.
And there are there of rent of free tenants at the feast of St.
Michael 3d. and at the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed
Mary 3d. And they say that Adam, son of the said William,
is the next heir, and was 22 years of a^e at the feast of Ka-tcr
ill the 23rd year of the reign of King Edward.

The name of this William de Krleton occurs as witness to |
charter dated Feb. 6, 1292, whereby Richard, Lord of LeghtOO,
granted to the abbot and convent of Buldewas a plot of land
in Leghton.

NOTIi. -The date of death of William, Viscount SmIT.m J VTM 1680, MM

I860 as given below his portrait in the plutc facing p.»^>

29i>

EARLY QUAKERISM IN SHROPSHIRE.

By Rev. T. AUDEN, M.A., F.S.A.
Prebendary of Lichfield.

I.— Introductory.

Among the religious movements of the middle of the 17th
century in England the most important and far-reaching in its
results was that known as Quakerism. The time was one of
great religious upheaval — many-sided in its aspects and admitting
of very different views when looked at from different standpoints
— and accordingly it is a period which has been very variously
estimated by writers of different schools of thought. Viewed in
one aspect it was a period of struggle for religious freedom,
while in another it was a revolt from all that was most venerable
and sacred in the history of the past. Looked at however in
any light it was a time when men thought for themselves, and as
the result it was a time when they were peculiarly open to the
influence of leaders who came with the promise of help in indivi-
dual difficulties on the strength of individual experience. Among
the middle and lower classes Puritanism was the prevailing
sentiment, but it did not represent a united force. Presbyte-
rianism was yielding to Independency, and beside these two more
influential parties, there were numerous other bodies who were a
law unto themselves, and whose chief characteristic was separ-
ation from every one else. Among these smaller bodies of
Separatists — besides the Baptists, who were somewhat more
numerous — there were Muggletonians, Eamilists, Ranters, Seekers,
and others who early passed into oblivion.

At this juncture there came on the scene a young enthusiast
in the person of George Fox. He was born in Leicestershire in
1624 of a stock which was Puritan in its associations and na lm
ations. His father had filled the office of churchwarden of his
parish, and was clearly a man of a religions turn ot mind ; and
this description also applied to his mother, The bos was accord'
ingly brought Up to act on the highest principles ( and long hours

292 EARLY QUAKERISM IN SHROPSHIRE.

of solitude in charge of sheep owned by his father helped to give
tone to a mind that was naturally inclined to mysticism. His
education was that of a boy of the yeoman class, but not enough
to prepare him for literary work. He was, however, emphatically
homo unius libri, a man of one book, and that the Bible. It was
the study of this from the Puritan standpoint, attaching equal
value to the Old Testament and the New, which not only shaped
his own life, but furnished him with his weapons of controversy.

For some time he led a wandering life, seeking satisfaction
among the professors of various sects, but the result was to throw
him back on himself ; and he gradually elaborated a system of
his own, the essence of which was what he called the doctrine of
the Inner Light or, as Barclay calls it in his Apology, the doctrine
of Immediate Revelation. Fox taught that we have a message
from God not only in the Scriptures, but by the Divine Spirit in
our own hearts, that everyone is the subject of direct revelation by
that Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

If he had been content only to give emphasis to this truth he
would have done good in his day and generation, but the world
would have never heard of him. He thought, however, that he
found in his Bible teaching of another kind which was connected
with it. Impressed strongly with the value of the individual
he passed on first to deny the duty of showing any signs of outward
respect to those occupying positions of authority. He would have
no one to pay tithes, he would greet every one as Thee or Thou,
he would not remove his hat in the presence of magistrate or
judge. He had come to the conclusion that religion had sunk
into mere formality, and therefore he was always ready to inter-
rupt service either in a "steeple house," (his name for a Church) or
any other place of worship, and freely to denounce cither teaching
or form of worship.

The result of this was inevitable. People who cared little
about theological views had strong feelings about social order
and respect for those in authority, with the necessai y consequence
that opposition was everywhere aroused and Fox soon kiu \\ tin
inside of a prison.

It was in Lb4u, when he had reached the age of 23, that he begail
to think of proclaiming his ideas to others. In the ye.u following
his preaching took more definite .shape, and he began to \ i-it

EARLY QUAKERISM IN SHROPSHIRE.

293

various places to make converts. At first his travels did not
extend beyond the North of England, but there his success was
great. For this he was largely indebted to the family who had
their seat at Swarthmore, near Ulverston. The head of the
family was Thomas Fell, a member of the Long Parliament, and
a Judge of Assize, but in this connexion the interest mainly
centres in his wife Margaret. On a certain day in 1O52 Fox called
at the house with a friend, and, with Mrs. Fell's approval, spoke
to the household and others who came together. Mrs. Fell was
completely carried away by what she heard, and from that time
the house became a basis of operations for Quaker work. On
the occasion of this first visit Judge Fell himself was away on
circuit in Wales, and at first he strongly disapproved of what
had taken place. He was, however, persuaded to take a more
tolerant view, and he allowed the use of his horse in connexion
with the movement though he never became a Quaker himself. He
died in 1658, and eleven years afterwards his widow married Fox.
Swarthmore had already become the preacher's home as far as
such a determined wanderer could be said to have one. His
travels up and down the country were only rivalled by those of
John Wesley a century later, but in Fox's case they were varied
by terms of imprisonment, extending in two cases to more than
twelve months.

» It was not only " priests " in their " steeple houses," — not only,
that is, the Episcopal clergy, — to whom he became an object of
dislike. Reading men of the Puritan party had no good word to
say for him and his followers. The gentle Baxter, who was a
SI ropshire man by birth and largely by association, disliked
both their doctrines and their practices, and he published as the
first of a series of controversial pamphlets, One sheet against tJic
Quakers, " containing those Reasons which should satisfie all
sober men against their way."1 And if we turn to a Puritan of
a sterner type — a man whose religious experience had more in
common with Fox than Baxter — we have in Bunyan equally
strong words of condemnation. In 1656 he held a public dispu-
tation with them at Bedford, and soon after published a treatise,

Some Gospel Trutlis Opened, which was largely directed against

them. In one passage he closes a description of theil doctrines
1 Reliquiae Baxteikin;ie (1690) vol. I., p. 116.

294

EARLY QUAKERISM IN SHROPSHIRE.

and practices with the words, " It makes me wonder to see the
patience of God, in that He doth not command, either the'ground
to open her mouth and swallow them up, or else suffer the devil
to fetch them away alive to the astonishment of the wholeVorld."1

To these adverse opinions others might easily be added, including
that of Wesley, who instances Fox as pre-eminently foul-mouthed
to all that contradicted him,'2 but a better idea of the estimate in
which the early Quakers were held by the world in general may
be gathered from a paper which appeared in the Taller under the
date November 30th, 1710. It came from the pen of Steele,
and professes to describe a waxwork exhibition of figures repre-
senting .the various sects which then flourished in England.
Having described various other figures he goes on, "The next
figure was a man that sat under a most profound composure of
mind. He wore a hat whose brims were exactly parallel with the
horizon. His garment had neither sleeve nor skirt, nor so much
as a superfluous button. What they called his cravat was a little
piece of white linen quilled with great exactness, and hanging
below his chin about two inches. Seeing a book in his hand, I
asked our artist what it was, who told me it was the ' Quaker's
Religion,' upon which I desired a sight of it. Upon perusal I
found it to be nothing but a new-fashioned grammar, or an art of
abridging ordinary discourse. The nouns were reduced to a very
small number, as the Light, Friend, Babylon. The principal of his
pronouns was thou, and as for you, ye, and yours, I found they were
not looked upon as parts of speech in this grammar. All the
verbs wanted the second person plural ; the participles ended all
in ing or ed, which were marked with a particular accent. There
were no adverbs besides yea and nay. The same thrift was ob-
served in the prepositions. The conjunctions were only Jicm !
and ha ! and the interjections brought under the three heads of
sighing, sobbing, and groaning. There was at the end of the
grammar a little nomenclature, called the ' Christian man's
vocabulary,' which gave new appellations, or if you will. Christian
names, to almost everything in life. 1 replaced the book 111 the
hand of the figure, not without admiring the simplicity of the
garb, speech, and behaviour."3

1 Bunyan's Works (I860) vol. II., p. 153

l Quoted in Journal of Friends' Historical Society, vol II., p

3 Tatler No. 257.

EARLY QUAKERISM IN SHROPSHIRE

It was the mingled characteristics indicated in this extract
which formed both the strength and the weakness of Quakerism.
On the one hand its eccentricities and obstinate refusal to con-
form to established custom could not fail to call down, first,
ridicule and then persecution ; but on the other hand the unmis-
takeable earnestness of life — the practical godliness— the simple,
straightforward adherence to what was right — secured the respect
even of those most opposed to some of their tenets. Their garb
might be eccentric and their mode of speech ridiculous, but the
motive that regulated their life was clearly inward and spiritual
— the light of the Spirit of God.

II. — First Preachers.

I turn now more definitely to the history of Quakerism in the
County of Salop, and for much of the material which follows I
am indebted to MSS. left by the late Mr. W. G. Norris, of Coal-
brookdale, which have been kindly placed at my disposal by Mrs.
Squire, to whom they now belong. They are of great and varied
interest, and include much information not only on Quakerism,
but other aspects of the history of Coalbrookdale.

In a record of what took place at a meeting of men Friends
which was held in 1680, the following entry occurs : " Wee did
kby diligent search find that Elizabeth Leven (or Leavens) and
Elizabeth Flasher (or Fletcher) weare the first friends that came
with the true message of glad tidings to Shrewsbury in or about
1654. For which they were examined and committed, but were
garded out of Tonne with a pass towards their own Country, but
two Friends of Shrewsbury, that is to say, William Payne and
Katherine Broughton, brought them on their way,"

This account was printed in Part 5 of The First Publishers of
Truth, issued by the Friends' Historical Society in 1907. Tin u
are some other accounts of these two first preachers, from which
we gather that the home 01 both of (hem was Kendal, and both
were young girls at the time, indeed F.li/ >lvth Fletehei Was only
seventeen. They were evidently young enthusiasts whose teal
outran discretion, for when they went togethei to< txford , Elizabeth
Fletcher, though she is described as a very modest grav< young
woman, was so carried away by licr enthusiasm that she went naked
through the streets of the city as a sign against hypocritical pi<^

296

EARLY QUAKERISM IN SHROPSHIRE.

fession. She is described as " little," but it seems doubtful
whether this alluded to her stature or was an epitiet of affection.
The\' were both subjected to ill-treatment at Oxford, including
a whipping. Elizabeth Leavens in the same year married
Thomas Holme (or Holmes) and for some time she and her husband
continued their work together.1

It appears from his journal that Fox himself was in Shropshire
in 1657, 1663 and 1667. These journeys were, however, largely
devoted to Wales, with which Shropshire was practically identified,
and for the most part he had as his companions two who belonged
to the Principality. These were John ap John and Richard
Davies. The former, whose name is sufficient to show his nation-
ality, came from the neighbourhood of Wrexham, and as he spoke
Welsh his help would be very valuable. He was the first in the
Principality to suffer for his Quakerism . Richard Davies belonged
to Welshpool, but was apprenticed to a hatter at Llanfair, and
while still an apprentice embraced Quaker opinions. In a quaint
autobiography (which will be found almost entire in the first
volume of " Byegones ") he tells how his master's wife almost
broke his head for addressing them with the Quaker " thee "
and " thou." He seems to have possessed a considerable amount
of conceit, but he was content both to labour and suffer for his
opinions, and as he mentions that he preached in Welsh, Pox
must have found him of the greatest possible use.

Fox gives few particulars of his work in Shropshire on the two
first occasions of his visiting it, but when he came to Shrewsbury
in 1667 he met with considerable opposition on the part of the
authorities of the Town.

Meanwhile his followers were busy in other places, and the
following account of what occurred at Cressage well illustrates
what often took place.

" On the 5H1 of the 8th month, 105b, being the first day of the
week, several Friends were met together to wait upon the I.ord
and worship Him in a place near the Steeple house Yard at
Cressedge ; where as one of them was preaching, main ptopk
came out of the Steeple House, and pushed fuiiouslv upon them,
and laid violent hands on several ; a Constable that was with
them took the Preacher away, ami carried him into tlw Town,
1 llruithwuitc'n Ucginningi of Quakerism," p 2U

EARLY QUAKERISM IN SHROPSHIRE. 297

where he, having opportunity, preached to the People, who atten-
tively heard him . When he had done Preaching he went to Prayer
•but as he was praying the Servants of Samuel Smith, Priest of
the Parish, came out with kettles, and beat upon the one with a
key, and another with a stick, and a third with a candlestick and
frying pan, on purpose to drown the voice of him that prayed ;
and being asked why they did so the Priest's man answered, "He
that set us to do it will bear us out." The Priest's maid also,
and others, threw water in the faces of many of the Friends.
The Priest who excited these disorders did not himself then
appear, but soon after applied to the Justices, and got a Warrant
for seven of the Friends to appear before them, namely, William
Paine, Constantine Overton, John Paine, Humphry Overton,
Thomas Jenks, John Farmer, and James Farmer, who accordingly
appeared, but although several of the Priest's Hearers attested
that they saw nothing done by those Friends but what was
peaceable and orderly, yet did the Justices commit them to the
Common Gaol, there to be till the Assizes on the 14th of the 1st
Month following ; and though no breach of the law could at the
Assizes be proved against them, yet the Judge, taking occasion
from their keeping on their hats in his presence, fined them for a
contempt, and recommitted them to Prison, where they lay three
months longer."1

Of course this account is from the Quaker point of view, and
though our ideas of toleration are greatly changed since then, we
must not forget the other side, and that there was much in the
conduct of the Quakers to cause annoyance and provoke hos-
tility.

Indeed the incident at Cressage illustrates not only their
method of procedure, but also shows the indiscriminateness of
their attack on established order. Samuel Smith, the " Priest
in question, was a Presbyterian Minister presented to the Living
of Cressage during the Commonwealth period, and it might
have been expected that his Puritan opinions would have com-
mended him to greater consideration on the part of the Qaakeil
Such however was not the case; it was sufficient thai ho Npfe*
sented what was established, and therefore in then 00 what
was formal and false. Samuel Smith was in realit) I man of

1 Hesse's " Sufferings," vol. I., Shropshire.

208

EARLY QUAKERISM IN SHROPSHIRE.

considerable note, well-known as a preacher and author, both in
London and in the country. He is describrd by Calamyt as
" a very pious and judicious man."1

As a further illustration of their methods two short extracts
may be quoted from the M.S. of a contemporary clergyman, the
Rev. Ralph Josselin, who was Vicar of Earl's Colne, in Essex.
He left behind him a diary, lately printed by the Camden Society,
which is full of quaint entries. Under the date August, 1659, is
the following : "A Quaker wench came boisterously into the
Church up almost to the desk. I perceived persons expected some
disturbance, but she staid the end, and then went out quietly,"
again : " Preacht at Gaines Coin, the Quakers nest, but no dis-
turbance. God hath raised up my heart not to feare, but
willing to beare, and to make opposicon to their waves, in defence
of truth."

Ill . — Organization.

Something must be said as to Quaker organization. Its
essential principle was individualistic. It originated with an
individual, George Fox, and he regarded as his work the bringing
others to realise the inner light of the Spirit, each one for himself.
In its beginning Quakerism was not a sect : it was at most a
number of groups in different places associated together for the
cultivation of the spiritual life — it had no specially appointed
leaders and no organized form of worship. It was impossible,
however, that this could go on. As the " Publishers of truth."
as they were called— the men and women who went about full
of their message — gathered in those who were " convinced by
their message, a certain amount of organization became necessary,
At first all difficulties were referred to Fox himself, who from
time to time wrote letters of direction; then leadership iras
unconsciously given to others who had shown individual force of
character, but it was gradually felt that no Society could maintain
its existence without something in the way of Rules. L'\MS had
laid down some such rules and enforce,] them by hi- own practiot
such as the refusal of " hat-honour, ' the use ot " thee and
" thou," the refusal to take an oath, the changing ot the names
of the months and days of the week, ami the refusal to pay titm -
and church rates. These were generally adopted At ail early
1 Nonconformists' Memorial, vol. Ill , p. IN.

EARLY QUAKERISM IN SHROPSHIRE.

299

period, and were constantly the cause of trouble to those who
professed the new opinions, but there were others which became
necessary for internal management.

The most important of these was the institution of periodical
meetings of members — on the first day of the week for worship,
and also monthly, quarterly and annually. Some of these, as r
just mentioned, were for purposes of devotion, while others were
for business, and Mr. Norris's MSS. contain many records of
business transacted on such occasions.

Among other work was that relating to Quaker family life.
From the first there seems to have been among the leaders a
considerable proportion of shrewd business men, who, while they
stood aloof from prevailing customs, felt that it was necessary to
record events which affected them as citizens. Accordingly from
an early period they kept Registers. As it was part of Fox's
teaching to ignore the Sacraments they took no note of Baptism,
but they registered the birth of Quaker children. They were
specially particular as to marriages, taking care to secure publicity
'by the presence of numerous witnesses, and as regards deaths they
purchased in various places plots of ground to be used as Friends'
places of burial. These registers relating to Shropshire, and par-
ticularly Shrewsbury, were transcribed by Rev. G. Eyre Evans
, and printed by the Shropshire Register Society in 1903, with a
valuable historical note by Mr. Norris. The following is the
first Certificate of a Quaker marriage in the County :

" This nth of the 6th Month 1(^57. Wee whose names are
hereunto subscribed beinge eye and eare witnesses of the thing
hereafter mentioned doo in the presence of the living God testify
to all whome it my concerne. The Lawful] Marriage and joyning
together in the Lord of our Brother and Sister, viz. Willyam
Trattle and Katharn B rough to 11, both Members of the Meeting
of the ford's people at Shrewsbury and inhabitants of that
place, and in Testimony of the Truth of the things afore
.mentioned, now Subscribe our names Tins nth of the fith Month
called by the world August, 1657. Wit. ! Constantine Overton,

Humphrey Burton, John Paine, William Payne, Saml Overton,
Tho. Jackson, John Millingtou, Elizabeth Loppiugton, Mary
Millington."

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These marriage certificates vary a little in form, sometimes
giving fuller description of the bride and bridegroom, and in one
case apparently withholding the consent of the Meeting until the
bridegroom had given satisfactory evidence that he had made
over part of his estate to his children by a former wife. The
number of witnesses was invariably large, in some cases being
more than thirty.

The following is the earliest entry of a Birth :

" Jane Overton, 14th 7 mo. 1656. Upon the first day of the
week, being the fourteenth day of the seventh month, 1656, was
borne Jane, the daughter of Constantine Overton, by Jane his
wife, in the Town of Salop. "

The following is the first register of a Burial : —

" 1659. Jonathan, the sonne of Humphrey Overton, Wid-
dower, now of the meeting of the Lord's people in Shrewsbury
and Inhabitant of this place, the eleventh day of the 12th month,
called by the world ffebruary, being the 7th day of week, he
the said Jonathan, departed the body, and the 13th of the same
month, being the second day of the week following, was buried
in the ground of John Millington in the said Towne of Shrewsbury,
and in Testimony of the truth heereof wee have heereunto set
our hands. Wit : Will. Trattle, John Millington, Thomas
Studley, Owen Roberts."

The " ground of John Millington " appears to have been recently
given to the Society as a burying place. It formed part of the
Quaker property on St. John's Hill, which is now occupied as
the Offices of the Atcham Union. There was another Burying
ground at Coalbrookdale.

It will be observed in the Certificate that February is described
as the I2th month of the old year, the new one commencing in
March.

The year 1660 may be taken as marking a period when Quaker-
ism had become a power in the religions life of England, Meetings
had been established here and there 'II over the Kingdom,
particularly in the North and Midland districts. There Are BO

trustworthy statistics as to the number of its adherents, but
possibly all told they amounted to from thirty tq forty thousand,'

and this of course represents a larger proportion U) tlu whole
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population than would be the case now. Their strength lay in
the middle classes, as was the case with all the movements founded
-on Puritanism. " Friends " were recruited largely from those
engaged in farming, but the movement hardly touched the gentry
011 the one side or the labourers on the other.

In Shropshire for the next half century the movement continued
to grow and make steady progress without many incidents of
special interest. The work was consolidated, meetings were
established, numbers increased, and meeting houses were erected.
Their outward prosperity however does not seem to have kept
pace with this growth in numbers and in 1708 there is a memor-
andum from the Shropshire monthly meeting that the Friends in
Shropshire were " but few in number and of mean estate." This
however was soon to be changed, and the change was mainly due
to one family, and had its centre in one spot. That centre was
the Coalbrookdale Ironworks, and the family was that of Darby.

It is outside the scope of this paper to relate the story of iron
manufacture as carried on in Shropshire, and at Coalbrookdale
in particular. Suffice it to say that the county was the scene of
such work from an earlier period, and to a greater extent than is
now realized. As far back as the reign of Henry VIII. Leland
visited Shropshire and made two entries in his Itinerary bearing
on the subject. Speaking of the neighbourhood of Cleobury
Mortimer he says of the stream which still bears the name of the
Mill hrook, " There be some bio shopps to make yren upon the
ripes or bankes of Mylbroke." The other entry had reference to
the part of the County with which we are immediately concerned.
" Yerne is made yn certen places of Shropshire, and especially
yn the wooddes betwixte Belvoys (Buildwas) and Wenloke."

It will be observed that these entries of Leland throw light on
the early process of the manufacture of iron by their allusion to
wood, from which was made the charcoal to be mixed with the
iron ore for the purpose of smelting, and also by their allusion to
streams as the spots where such " blow shops " or forges Were
to be found. As a matter of fact almost every Stream in the
County had in early times one or more of such forges somewhere
in its course,1 and we see the importance of this when we realise

I There is a list among Mr. Norris's MSS.

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that these early workers had to depend on water power for what-
ever they possessed in the way of machinery.

It was in the year 1700, that Abraham Darby, a native of
Dudley, and evidently a man of keen inventive mind, hearing
that an Ironwork was to be had at Coalbrookdale, became its
purchaser. This was the beginning of the prosperity of the Dale,
and it went on increasing. Under this Abraham and his son
and grandson, who also bore the name of Abraham, the business
was developed until the company not only represented the
perfection of iron manufacture as then understood, but brought
large fortunes into the purses of those who had shares in it.

It would be out of place here to trace the progress of the
Coalbrookdale Company, or to speak of the works carried out by
it — commencing with the use of coal instead of wood for smelting,
and ending with the construction of the first Iron bridge over
the Severn it must suffice to say that all the Darbys and most of
those associated with them were Quakers, and the members of
that body in the County felt the benefit of this increased wealth
and prosperity. In a letter written by Abiah, the wife of the
second Abraham Darby, to her sister in 1757, she says : "I don't
say all this boasting, but with a thankful heart to the Almighty
that He hath put it in our power to help our fellow creatures,
, and given us hearts to do it. If blessings will avail us, we have
that from multitudes .... Five pounds a week doth not excuse
my husband for these several months post. We don't confine
ourselves to our own Parish, but all are welcome that come.

I know the poor out of eight parishes come to us Our

family of poor to-day was 270 odd ; so that upon an average
one may record 250 every day. and intend doing so until corn
becomes easy for the Poor to buy.''

This tradition of liberality was maintained by another who was
closely connected with the Darbys. viz. Richard Reynolds, (kbo
a member of the Society of Friends, who came from Bristol.
He gave large smib to the poor and was known ftS " Richard
Reynolds the philanthropist," but he is perhaps best remeint>ered
now by the tact that James Montgomery the poet dedicated to
his memory some of his jHiems. In these lie Appear* IS the
wealthy man using his wealth for the benefit of others, but
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which shows him as a judge of a good horse. It relates how on a
certain occasion he tested the powers of the horse he was riding
, against those of one ridden by Lord Thurlow, who was staying
in the neighbourhood. Quaker though he might be, there was in
him a strong instinct of sport. Nor was Richard Reynolds alone
in these tastes — a member of the Darby family, Francis, who was
partly his contemporary, was accustomed to hunt in pink. It
is true that he gained for himself the name of the " gay Friend,"
but he was well known in the political world and enjoyed the
confidence of the statesmen of his time.

Speaking of costume, it is worthy of note that the Quaker
dress was not of the nature of a uniform enjoined by authority,
but was a common dress of the day which commended itself by
its simplicity, and so was adopted and used as most suitable to
the ideas which Quakerism embodied.

IV. — Religious Aspect.

It now only remains to show how local contemporary records
throw light on the more serious aspects of Quakerism as a Religious
profession — the profession of which, in spite of eccentricity and
mistaken zeal, made its adherents a power in the land — which
made them willing to endure the loss both of their worldly goods
and personal liberty, and rendered them conspicuous for Christian
virtues.

The following narrative relates to a family whose name is of
constant occurrence in the early Quaker records. It relates the
experience of Klizabeth Farmer, afterwards Elizabeth Andrews,
and is placed at my disposal by Miss Farmer, of the Leasowes,
Cound, a member of the same family. A copy of the document
is also to be found in Mr. Norris's manuscript, but this was
transcribed from Miss Farmer's copy. It is called " An Account
of the Birth, Education and Sufferings for the Truth's sake of
that faithful Friend, Elizabeth Andrews."

" I was born in the County of Salop, at a place call'd Cuud-lane
end, within 5 mile of Shrewsbury ; mv parents were honest
people, and of good report. My Father's name was John
Farmer, he was a Man come of a Substantial Family near where
we live, he was called by many honest John Farmer, he was a man
of strict life and was called a Puritan and after that a Roundhead
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words, nor go among other children to play, but would say, ' Go
to your books and learn to fear the Lord.' I from my childhood
had a desire after the Lord ; when I was sent to School I have
gone under a hedge and pray'd to the Lord to keep me from
sinning against Him. But being grown up to 12 or 13 Years of
age, and our nearest neighbour was called the Lord of Newport,
since Earl of Bradford, he and his wife and children came often
to our House, and loving me more than all my Father's Children,
and I waiting on them when they came to our House, I was lifted
up into pride, so that it troubled my Father, who did much
restrain me from it. I fearing to offend my Father, but in the
year 1653 I had a book of the trials of George Fox, and James
Nailer at Lancaster, and when I had read it did believe it was the
truth, and that they were Holy Men, and I desir'd much to see
them, which I afterwards did. I went twice to Lancaster to
visit George Fox, when he was prisoner there, and twice to
Worcester, when he was prisoner there, though I had been at
meetings many times before and after. The first meeting I was
at was hearing Alexander Parkes, then did I stand boldly for the
Truth and took up my Cross and did bear my testimony for the
truth first before those great people : and they Lov'd me very
well and proffer'd me great gifts if I would be as before ; the Lady
(so Call'd) came with her attendance to my Father. , . . .
twenty pounds. I answered, ' If I might have all Eyton Hall,
I durst not do it for all honour belongeth to God, and the Angel
which revealed the Revelations to John (when John would have
bowed to him) said ' See thou do it not, for 1 am thy fellow ser-
vant, and of thy brethren the prophets ; Worship God.' Then
says he, 1 Why do you not speak to people when you meet them
as you were wont to do.' I answered, ' It is written in the Scrip-
tures, Go thy way, If thou meet any man salute him not, and if
any salute thee answer him not again," and in John's Epistles
to the Elect Lady and her children he saith to them that whoso-
ever transgresseth and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ hath
not God, he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ he hath both
the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you and bring
not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid
him God Speed.' After this manner he discoursed with me all
that afternoon. How many great gifts did he proffer nie to leave
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made me stand boldly for the truth in that public House. But
I was afterwards married to a very honest man, a friend of Truth,
a Mercer by Trade, Living at Hoult in Denbighshire There for
opening our Shop Windows on the day calledd Christmas Day,
we had stuffs taken from us worth £i 6s. c)d. and for not paying
the Sunday Shillings (so call'd) Cloth worth £3 16s. 5d. Many
were the exercises I had in that County, I being a Widow at that
time, and Excommunicated for not paying the Sunday shillings
I was brought before the Justices and all the Dissenters thereabouts
and they being call'd made many excuses, but when I was call'd
the Justices ask'd me whether I was at Church the last 3 Sundays,
I asked them whether it was lawful for excom'd persons to come
into their assemblies, they said No, then said I by your law I am
clear, they have Excom'd me and taken away my Goods, and now
they have brought me before you. They said it was very hard,
but it was the King's law and they durst not disobey the Laws.
I said if the three Children had not stood faithful, when Nebuchad-
nezer the King of Babylon made a decree, God had not been
glorified, and the Lord hath had many faithful witness's in this
our day, which rather than we should offend God would give up
our lives unto death. Many more words we had, and those
Justices were ever after very loving to me, for great was my
exercise in that County. I went to the Judges at the Assizes at
Ruthin (in Denbighshire), there were many prisoners at that
time. There was James Fletcher, and my then husband, and
my Father-in-law, and many more Friends which were set at
liberty by the Judge yet kept in prison by the Gaoler for fees,
then I went to the Judge's chamber, and by much intreaty and
discoursing with them I had the Judge's note to the Gaoler that
their fees were remitted to them. This was after King Charles
came in. After this I was sent for to Shrewsbury by Friends to go
to Lord Newport to get Win. Gibson and John Moone out of
prison, they had been prisoners about hull a year ; he sent .1
Letter to the Magistrates and they were released. Another
time my Brother-in-Law Constantine Overton and his Brother,
and Timothy Greaves and some other Friends were taken prisoners

at Wrexham Assizes when they were about theii lawful

Business, then I went to Judge Lloyd and he set them at liberty,
but as they were coining home they were taken by Si 1 John
Salisbury and sent to prison again, then I had to go to Sit Job,,

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Salisbury 40 miles from my own House to a place call'd Llanrust,
but he would not release them ; then I went to Lord Newport,
he wrote to one Sr. Job Charlton (a Judge of that circuit) and by
his letter I got Friends' Liberty, and much more that is too tedious
to mention. For great was his service in that County in getting
Friends Liberty.

" But the Lord had a further service for me ; I not having my
health my relations ad vis 'd us to come and live in the Country
where I was born, and about the year 1(72 my Brother took a
House and Shop in Brosely (within 6 Miles of the place where
I was born) where no Friends had liv'd before we came ; it was a
place of great trade, we had Mercers Goods and many other things
to sell. People coming to buy of us and discoursing with us,
many were convinced of the Truth, and some stand faithful to
this Day, but many seeing our great persecution turn'd back.
We kept a Meeting at our House with those that stood faithful,
but the Priest began to rage and excommunicated us. We sowed
half a Strike of Hempseed, and for refusing to pay him tithes out
of it, he said he would ruin us if it cost him £500, and indeed
he ruined us ; we had bought £50 worth of Grocery goods at
London the summer before, and had our Shop full of Goods, but
being Excom'd did not sell so much as would buy us bread.
The Priest did say he would excommunicate all of his Parish that
did buy or sell with us, so great was his rage against us, so we had
little or no trade at all, we were forced to go to a Town 5 miles
off to sell some of the Grocery, and took a Standing in the Street.
Great part of the Winter which was in 1674 We did not go to the
Monthly Meeting at Shrewsbury and acquainted friends of the
dealings of the Priest with us. Thomas Taylor a faithful friend
being there wrote a letter to him and appointed a Meeting at our
house, and for that Meeting the Priest got an order to seize all
our Goods. £20 for the Preacher, £20 for Friends that were at
the meeting, and £10 for my Husband, and me for being in our
own house, they came upon us so suddenly and in a gieat rage,
took all our Cloth, Stuffs and shop gcx ds ; and would give us
no time to take an account of them so great was their rage against
us, but after some time through much Intrcaty the Church-
wardens told us they were not prai/eo1 to the one fourth ol then
value tho' the)' were praixed to The heav\ hand of God

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Tobiah Ogden, who afterwards was grieviously troubled with the
Stone, and liv'd not long afterwards. Another Priest came after
him in the Year 1688 who for not paying him 12s. 6d. h 1 demanded
for tithe took from us 2 Cows and the very Bed we lay on, Sheets
and all, and all our household stuff, and did not leave us so much
as a chair to sit on. As for entertaining Friends that travell'd
in the service of Truth we entertained all that came to Malpas
Meeting which we belonged to before we came to Broseley. I
cannot remember the names of all but these I do, viz., George Fox,
Francis Howgill, Thomas Holmes, Elisabeth Holmes, Thomas
Salthouse, Thos. Briggs, John Moone, Richd. Hubberthorne,
Jas. Sparkes, Jas. Harris, Jas. Adamson, James Fletcher.

Elisabeth Andrews."

At a meeting held 25, 11 Mo., 1675, the minutes record that " a
collection was ordered towards reimbursing Roger Andrews in
his deep suffering upon acct. of a Meeting held at his house."

The other record bearing on the religious aspect of early
Quakerism has special interest inasmuch as it not only throws
light on that profession, but also introduces us to Dr. Johnson,
and tells us what was the opinion he had formed of it — an opinion
marked by the dogmatism — not to say prejudice — which char-
acterised him. It is among the papers copied out by Mr. Norris,
but it is not quite complete. It breaks off in the middle of a
♦sentence, as though Mr. Norris had been interrupted in the middle
of writing, but the story is sufficiently complete for our purpose.

Extract from a letter from Miss Seward to Mr. Boswell on
the subject of Mr. Johnson.

" You ask for the minutes of a conversation that passed at
Mr. Dilly's at a literary party in which Dr. Johnson and Mrs.
Knowles disputed so earnestly. As you seem to have an idea
of inserting this dispute in your picture work (the Life of Dr.
Johnson) it is necessary something should be known concerning
the young person who was the subject of it. Miss Jenny Harry
was — for she is now no more — the daughter of a rich plantei in
the West Indies. He sent her over to England to be educated
in the house of his friend Mr. . where the ingenuous

Quaker lady, Mrs. Knowles, was a frequent visitor. The affected
wits were perpetually rallying her on the subject of hei Quaker
principles in the presence of this young, gentle and ingenuous

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Miss Harry, who at the age of 18 had what is termed a polite and
proper education without being much instructea in the grounds
of her religious belief. Mrs. Knowles was often led into a serious
defence of her devotional opinions upon these visits at Barn Elms.
You know with what clear and graceful eloquence she speaks on
every subject. Her antagonists were shallow theologists, and '
opposed only idle and pointless raillery to deep and long studied
reasoning on the precepts of Scripture, delivered in persuasive
accent and harmonious language, Without any design of making
a Proselyte she gained one. Miss Harry grew serious and
meditated constantly on all which had dropped from the lips of
her Quaker friend , till it appeared to her that Quakerism was true
Christianity. Believing this she thought it her duty to join at
every hazard of worldly interest that class of worshippers. On
declaring these sentiments several ingenious Clergymen were
employed to talk and argue with her, but all know the force of
first impressions in Theology, and Mrs. Knowles was the first
she had listened to on this important theme . Miss Harry was
reasoned with and threatened in vain. She persisted in resigning
her splendid expectations for what appeared to her the path of
duty. Her Father, on being told of her change of principles,
informed her she might choose between a hundred thousand
pounds and his favour, if she continued a Church Woman, or two
thousand and his renunciation, if she embraced the Quaker tenets.
She lamented her Father's displeasure, but thanked him for the
pecuniary alternative, assuring him that it included all her wishes
in point of fortune. She soon left her Guardian's House and
boarded in that of Mrs. Knowles, to whom she often observed
that Dr. Johnson's displeasure, whom she had often met at her
Guardian's house and who had always been kind to her — was
amongst the greatest mortifications of her situation, and she once
came home in tears and told her friend she had met Dr. Johns ffl
in the street and ventured to ask him how he did, but he passed
scornfully on, not deigning to speak to her. She lidded, "You ire
to meet him soon at a literary party ; plead for me."

You remember our all dining together at Mr. Dilly's and the
conversation alter dinner was begun by Mrs. Knowles Allying

"I am to entreat your indulgence, Dr.. towards a gentle
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loss of that kindness. Jenny Harry weeps at the consciousness
that thou wilt not speak to her."

Dr. Johnson : " I hate the odious wench, Madam, and desire
you will not talk to me about her."
Mrs. Knowles : " Yet what is her crime ? "
Dr. J. : " Apostasy, Madam, from the community in which
she was educated."

Mrs. K. : " And surely, Dr., the quitting of one community for
another cannot in itself be a crime, if it is done from motives of
conscience. Hadst thou been educated in the Romish Church I
must suppose thou wouldst have abjured its errors, and there
would have been merit in the abjuration."

Dr. J. : " Madam, if I had been educated in the Romish Church
I believe I should have questioned my right to quit the religion
of my forefathers. Well therefore may I take the arrogance of a
young wench who sets herself up for a judge of theological points
and deserts the religion in whose bosom she was nurtured."

Mrs. K. : "I hope she has not done so. I hope the name of
Christian is not denied to the sectaries."

Dr. J. : " If the name is not, the common sense is."
Mrs. K. : "I will not dispute that point with thee. It would
carry us too far. Suppose it granted that in the eyes of a girl
the weaker arguments appeared the stronger, the want of jttdg-
, ment demands thy pity, not thy anger."

Dr. J. : " Madam, it has my anger and always will have it."
Mrs. K. : " Consider, Dr., she must be sincere ; consider what
a noble fortune she has sacrificed."

Dr. J. : " Madam, Madam, I have ever taught myself to con-
sider that the association of folly cannot extenuate guilt."
Mrs. K. : " Ah ! Dr. can we suppose that . . . ."
Here the MS. ends.

One would like to know what was the ultimate issue of the
incident, but judging by similar narratives it was only one more
instance of Quaker stedfastness in the face of opposition on the
part of relatives.

I have no clue as to where the original letter is to l>e found in
complete form. It does not appear in Miss Sewurd's P ecYai
Works with Extracts from her Correspondence, published in t8xo, or
her Letters, published in 1811. The incident referred to 1-. how-

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ever, related by Bosvvell under date of April 15th, 1778, and he
adds a note to the effect that another account, contributed by
Mrs. Knowles, was to be found in the Gentleman. Magazine for
June, 1791. All the versions differ slightly as to detailed expres-
sions made use of, but all agree as to the main features of the
conversation and Dr. Johnson's overbearing manner on the
occasion.

It will have been noticed in the course of the paper how largely
the spread and influence of Quakerism was indebted to women.
In the absence of a recognized order of ministers this was natural,
not to say inevitable, but some of those who figure in the early
accounts of Quakerism were women not only of high personal
character, but of intellectual power. As shown in the last
quotation Mrs. Knowles was such, and among those connected
with Shropshire two may be specially mentioned. One of these
was Abiah Darby, a letter from whom has been already quoted.
She came of a Yorkshire Quaker stock, and left for the benefit of
her children a considerable record of her early spiritual experi-
ence. Abraham Darby was her second husband, and she
was diligent to use the means which this marriage brought to her
for the good of others, both temporally and spiritually. She
travelled extensively and was the author of a considerable number
of pamphlets in support of Quaker principles. Her old age may
best be described in the words of an American Friend from
* Philadelphia, who visited Coalbrookdale in 1789. He says :
" 21st 11 Mo., We came to the Dale, where we were kindly
received by Richard Reynolds and his wife. While at Dale, I
attended an evening sitting at Abiah Darby's, an ancient woman
and a Princess in Israel, of great earthly possessions and much
Christian meekness." She died in 1794.

Another Quakeress whose work is specially noteworthy was
Deborah Darby. She too hailed from Yorkshire, but in 1770
she married Samuel Darby, and soon after settled at Coalbrook-
dale. In 1781 she began to travel, " with a certificate of the unity
of her monthly meeting." and she continued her evangelist LC
work for the next thirty years, including a visit of sonic length
to America. Her greatest work, however, was indirect and in .1
sense unconscious. Somewhere about the year 1797 she made the
acquaintance of Elizabeth Ourney, then a girl of 17, full of gaiety
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Deborah Darby, anxious for the girl's welfare, pleaded with her
for a more earnest life, and her words had their effect. Elizabeth
Gurney, who by her marriage became Elizabeth Pry, was the
great Prison Reformer of whom the whole world has heard. It is
interesting to know that her great philanthropic work owed its
origin to Deborah Darby of Coalbrookdale.

It is time to bring this paper on the early history of Quakerism
in Shropshire to a close. It would be easy to add to it from the
"materials available, but I hope it is sufficient to give a clear idea
of the salient features of the system, and of the way, in wh ch it
took root in the County. I have said little about Quaker worship,
and little seems necessary. Some will remember Charles Lamb's
essay on " A Quakers' Meeting," in which he dwells with much
appreciation on the value of silent contemplation. No doubt
the idea of gatherings for worship without a recognized ministry,
or prearranged order, had its weak places, but the Quaker system
gave special emphasis to the reality of the presence of the Divine
Spirit in the individual heart. It is not difficult to point out
mistakes which George Fox and his early followers made— we
can smile at eccentricities which have gradually died of their own
accord — but there was behind them the force of deep religious
principle, and they gained a permanent hold on the country by
the combination they exhibited of medieval mysticism with a
* shrewd faculty for business. They showed how — in the words of
Lewis Morris :

" Not only in the cloister the rapt soul
Dwells with Him, or beneath the midnight stars
Mingles with Him, and bears the sacred wounds
Of the Passion, but along the well-trod road
Of daily trivial life the race is run
To where the crown awaits him, and the palm."1

1 Lewis Moi i is " Vision of Saints." lilizabcth. Fry.

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OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES AND THEIR OWNERS.
By H. E. FORREST.

III. BRAGGINGTON.

Unlike the two houses already dealt with in this series,
Braggington has no very early history, for, until the existing
hall was built there was no house or family of consequence in
the hamlet. The register of Alberbury — in which parish Brag-
gington is situated — contains a good many entries relating to
this place in the early part of the seventeenth century. From
these we learn that there were three families residing here (prob-
ably small holders) the heads of which were Alexander and
Margaret Morris ; Edward and Anne Oakley ; and Edward and
Elizabeth Brownbill. With none of these, however, are we
now concerned, since it is quite evident that they were not in any
way associated with Braggington Hall.

The building itself is now somewhat difficult of access, owing
! to our modern roads following routes which do not pass near to it.
Nevertheless it is worth while to traverse the short distance by
fields and lanes from the high road to visit this fine old place.
It is a large three-storeyed house of brick, with red stone facings,
and is E-shaped in plan, though the wings and central portico
do not advance so far forward as in Elizabethan houses. The
most striking external feature is the front entrance, which,
instead of standing within a porch, has a large round pillar on
each side, while above is a Hat architrave with deep mouldings
bearing the inscription :

God is our house.

Tho. Owen, 1075.

Owing to the weathering of the soft sandstone the lettering
is now barely decipherable, and the bases ot the pillars have
nearly disappeared. Indeed the whole building llAS a decayed
and weatherworn appearance which gives an impression oi

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greater age than the facts warrant. Several writers have
expressed the opinion that it is a century older than the date
on the portal, but I see no reason to suppose that such is the
case, while the facts set out at the commencement show that
the Hall was not standing in the early part of the 17th century.
Further evidence to the same effect is afforded by the family -
history, which shows that the building could not have been
begun before the middle of that century. If we examine the
existing Hall we notice that it has gables terminating in knobbed
finials of stone ; projecting stone cornices along each floor-level ;
stone mullioned windows with square heads but without drip-
stones ; and large stone quoins at the corners. None of these
features are P'lizabethan or Jacobean — they are characteristic
of the times of Charles II. The same remark applies to the stone
portico, the cornice of which bears ornaments in relief — the
Tudor Rose, a cross with enlarged ends, and XX within an oval
border. The number of windows (more than half of them now
blocked up) is very remarkable, reminding us of Hardwick Hall,
of which a Derbyshire saying runs :
" Hardwick Hall,
More glass than wall."
At the back of the house are two small oval windows splayed
on the inside : one of these is on the main staircase but near a
larger window, so that it was not needed to light the stairs.
It was most probably used as a lantern to guide wayfarers across
the open country to the house at night. The other oval window
is at the top of a small projecting bay at the S.W. corner of
the building : this bay forms cupboards opening out of the rooms
on each of the floors, except the attic, where there is no visible
means of accesss to it, so that we may conjecture that the little
window lighted a secret hiding place which may have been
reached from the chimney, or the cupboard beneath. At each
corner of the central bay is a large and elaborately ornamented
leaden spout-head : these were added later, as they bear the date
1717 and the initials L.O.G. (= Leightoti Owen Griffiths). The
main door is of oak planks, vertical on the outer side, horizontal
on the inside, and is studded with large iron nails. This and sonic
of the other doors have good wrought iron hinges. Several of
the chamber doors are of a curious construction : they are made
of planks quite Hat to begin with, but other boards are applie 1

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to the outer face, so as to give the effect of panels. They are
merely barred at the back. The fireplaces are very characteristic :
they have square openings with a simple moulding running round,
but the special feature is the upper transverse stone ; this is very
deep — at least two feet wide vertically— and has a projecting
moulded cornice along its upper edge, forming a mantel-shelf.
All but one are quite flat and plain, but this one has a raised
ornament, the pattern being in the form of a horse's bit. The
grandest feature of the mansion was the staircase, but, sad to
relate, this has recently been sold and removed. It had wide
steps and a massive balustrade with splendid newels adorned with
heraldic devices, including the Owen arms, and having tall
finials similar to those shown on page 16 of The Old Houses of
Shrewsbury. On the first landing is a small square opening,
deeply splayed inside, which may have been a loophole for firing
a gun, though subsequently glazed. It certainly was not needed
for light, as there is a large window close to it, as well as the oval
lantern window previously mentioned. There is a second stair-
case in the opposite wing of the house, smaller and much inferior
to the other. It is of the same period ; the balusters stand on a
sloping string and are bulbous in form, while the newels are
square and the handrail shaped to the hand. The woodwork is
very rough and done entirely with gouge and chisel.
, Reverting for a moment to the exterior we notice on the
second floor over the entrance a doorway opening now to the air,
but an examination of the adjacent walls shows that there was
originally a balcony here to which the door gave access. Through-
out the entire building the bricks are laid in alternate courses
all with their ends, or all with their sides outwards. The walls
are about two feet thick, and the bricks are but little thicker
than those used in Elizabethan times. On one of the stone quoins
at the S.E. corner is inscribed in old-fashioned characters :
T. A. 1704. In addition to the three storeys above ground,
the house has large cellars. A eonstructive feature which I do
not remember having seen elsewhere is that the tiansoms of the
windows, as well as the heads and sills, are prolonged or eithei
side into the brickwork.

Braggington Hall is now occupied as a farm house. It reverted
to the original family ownership last century bv purchase, the
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On the ordnance map several " coal-pits ;' are marked at
Braggington. The following advertisement refers to these :

" Shrewsbury, June 1st, 1786. To be sold by auction at the
Elephant & Castle in Mardol, on Saturday the 17th instant,
between the hours of 4 and 6 o'clock in the evening, subject to
such conditions as shall be ageed upon at the time of sale ; One-,
half of the Coal Works at Braggington, belonging to Mr. Thomas
Davies, of Worthen, under lease, 17 years of which were unexpired
at Lady-day last. For particulars in the meantime apply to Mr.
Davies aforesaid."

Like many other old houses Braggington is reputed to be
haunted. One of the upper bedrooms had " blood stains " upon
the floor where a murder is said to have been committed : the
" ghost " which appears to anyone who sleeps in this same room
takes the form of a huge black dog !

The Shropshire Owens were a large family with many branches,
and they were related by marriage to many of the other prominent
county families. Among the houses built by them may be
mentioned Bellstone House and Owen's Mansion in Shrewsbury ;
Condover Hall, built by Judge Owen ; Whitley, near Hanwood ;
and Braggington. It is impossible here to give more than a bare
outline of their relationships, but anyone interested will rind
them stated in the Herald's Visitation, 1623. pages 3S3-390.
It may be convenient here to begin with

Richard Owen, son of Howel Owen of Machynlleth, who was
half-brother to another Richard Owen of Shrewsbury, who
j married Mary Oteley, and was father of Judge Owen of
Condover. Richard married Alice, daughter of David
Ireland of Shrewsbury, and had two sons and three daughters
The eldest,

Kdward Owen, who was bailiff of Shrewsbury in 15S2-03-00
and 1603, built Bellstone House. He was cousin to fudge
Owen of Condover, and one of his ex vutors. Another cousin.
Richard Owen, built Owen's Mansion. Shrewsbury, in 1592,
and died in 1594. Edward married Joan PutceU, of Dinthill.
and there was an altar tomb to them in old St. Chad's church.
They had four sons. Richard, the eldest, was of Lincoln s
Inn, and died unmarried, so that in the Hcr*ld'& VisHm

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1623, the second son, Robert, is described as son and heir;
of him more anon. The third son, Thomas, who lived at
Dinthill, was Town Clerk of Shrewsbury from 1609 upwards,
being reappointed to that office under the new charter of
incorporation granted by Charles I. in 1638, but deprived
by the Parliamentarians in 1645. He died in 1661. The
youngest son, Nathaniel, was in 1623 " Receptor domini
Regis in comitatibus Northamptoniense et Rutlandiense."

Robert Owen, the second son, was the founder of the family
of Owen of Woodhouse, near Rednal, though he himself
is usually described as of Shrewsbury. He was Sheriff of
Shropshire in 161 8. He married three times and had a
numerous family. By his first wife, Susanna, daughter of
Lancelot Bathurst, Alderman of London, he had three sons,
Edward (born 1C02), Richard, and Thomas ; by his second
wife, Elizabeth Hunt, of London and of Longnor, he had
one daughter, Elizabeth ; by his third wife, Mary, daughter
of Thomas Leighton, of Wattlesborough, he had three sons,
Leighton, Robert, and William ; and four daughters, Dorothy,
Judith, Mary, and Martha. It is with this last family we
are mainly concerned in our present history. There is little
doubt that as Braggington formed part of the Leighton
estate some family arrangement took place on the marriage
of Robert Owen and Mary Leighton by which she took
4 Braggington to her husband. This seems clear, because the
eldest son of the marriage,

IvKlCHTON Owen, is described as " of Braggington," and appears
to have inherited the manor through his mother. His father,
Robert Owen, was buried at St. Chad's, 14th March, iOj<).
Leighton Owen was born about ibu, and his brother Robert
(afterwards of Woodhouses) about 1014. Leighton was a
fierce Parliamentarian and Anabaptist, which explains why
there are no entries of the baptisms of his children in the
parish register, although their burials are duly recorded. Ik-
married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Powell and hud
three children, Thomas (born about 1O44. died t6fi
Martha (about 1648— 1730) and Daniel (buried at WestbUQ
1657). Leighton Owen took an active part in the local
military operations during the Civil War ; he was one of
the six signatories to a letter written t<> the Speaker of the

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House of Commons, dated 24th February, 1644, describing
the taking of Shrewsbury Castle. He died in 1657, the burial
of " Mr. Layton Owen " being recorded in St. Chad', register
on 13th April. He was succeeded by his son
Thomas Owen, the builder of Braggington Hall, which he finished
in 1675. It is probable that the building was begun in the
lifetime of his father, for the whole family were living at
Braggington then, so that there must have been a dwelling-
place here of some kind, though possibly only a small one.
(William Hayle, clerk, — apparently curate of Alberbury, —
was of Braggington in 1616). Thomas Owen with his mother
and sister Martha lived together in Braggington Hall after
the death of his father. The wedding of Martha Owen took
place from the Hall. She was married to Edward Griffiths
at Alberbury church, nth May, 1682, and went to live with
him at Old Marton. Thomas Owen was then left alone at
Braggington with his mother. Why he did not marry we
shall never know, but he died a bachelor in 1685, and was
buried at Alberbury, 30th December. His will was proved at
Hereford in October following, and is an interesting and
valuable document, as it not only proves the identity of the
Thomas Owen who built Braggington —hitherto in doubt —
but shows his relationship to several other families.

Abstract of will : -I Thomas Owen of Braggington in the
4 County of Salop . . . this 24th day of December 1O85 do
make and declare my last will . . . and as to my real and
personal estate 1 thereof dispose as followeth . . Unto my
dear mother Mrs. Elizabeth Owen . . all my manor of
Braggington, capitall messuage, lands, tenements and
hereditaments in Braggington aforesaid or elsewhere in
the parish of Alberbury with their respective appurtenancies
for and during the term of her natural life, and after her
decease to her executors or administrators during the
minority of my nephew Edward Griffiths eldest son of my
sister Martha Griffiths to enable my said Mother and her
exors. to pay and discharge my debt*, personal expense*
and legacies. And I devise and bequeath to mv said
Mother power to fall and dispose of such woods and trees
growing upon the premises as shall raise two hundred
pounds towards the ends aforesaid if she pfeoK M shall

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think it requisite. After the death of my Mother and my
said nephew's attainment of 21 years, I give and devise
all the said manor, etc., and all my messuages, tenements,
etc., in Henle Havod, etc., unto my said nephew and the heirs
of his body, etc. . . If he die without issue the same to go
unto the heirs of my said sister Mrs. Martha Griffiths . . and
for the want of such issue to my uncle, Mr. Robert Owen of
Reddnall, for life, then to his son Robert Owen of Hereford
for life, then to Robert Owen grandson of said uncle and
his heirs male . . . For want of such issue then to Richard
Owen eldest son of my cousin Robert Owen of Wilcott and
the heirs male of his body. For want of such issue then to
the second third and fourth or other sons of said cousin
Robert Owen of Willcott successively and their heirs. . .
The Manor of Braggington to be charged with the annual
payments of legacies, etc. viz., Unto my said uncle Robert
Owen of Rednall, gent., five pounds yearly ; to my cousin
Waitstill Edwards of Shrewsbury, spinster, rive pounds for
life ; to my servant Martha Davies ten pounds yearly for
life ; to my cousin Robert Owen of Hereford ten pounds
yearly for ten years ; to my aunt Susanna Edwards of Shrews-
bury five pounds. I give to my dear mother bills, bonds,
jewels, goods and chattels. ... I appoint her sole executrix,
etc. . . . Witnesses : — Edward Donne, Maurice Jones, Hugh
Pritchard, Thos. Davies. Will proved 15th October, 1686,
by Elizabeth Owen.

It will be noticed that the testator made the above will
within a day or two of his death. It contained careful pro-
vision for every imaginable contingency as to heirship of the
estate. Subsequent events in relation' to the principal
persons named were as follows : The youthfu heir Edward
Griffiths died in December, logo, in his 8th year, when his
parents were living at Old Mar ton. Two other sons. I^eightoo
Owen Griffiths and Thomas Griffiths (afterwards vicai oi
Altoertmry) were born to them, however, the eldei eventually
becoming the heir through his mother, Mis. Martha Griffiths
The testator's mother appears to have resided at Braggingtou
till her death in 1702, when liei daughtei Martha returned
there with her sons. She h.ul also .1 daughtei Uluabetli
who died in 1722, The faithful servant Martha Davies

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enjoyed her pension for ten years : she was buried at Alber-
bury in 1696, being described in the register as an " old
servant." Another " ancient servant at Bragingt m , " Henry
Jones, was buried 18th December, 1708, and yet another,
Anne Hodnett, 31st March, 1709. Martha's husband, Edward
Griffiths, died about 1695, but she survived till 1730, being
buried at Alberbury, 15th August. Her son,
Leighton Owen Griffiths, does not seem to have resided long
at Braggington, for from 1725 to 1733 he lived at Preston
Montford, while in 1734 he built the Hall at Dinthill, of
which we shall treat next in this series of papers. He was
buried at Alberbury 25th October, 1748, and his wife Anne
(niece of the great Lord Hill) on 14th February, 1746. He
had five sons, but three of them predeceased him. The third
son,

Samuel Griffiths, succeeded him, but, dying without issue, the

estates passed to his brother
Joseph Griffiths, and then to his (Joseph's) son,
Richard de la More Griffiths, and lastly to
Leighton de la More Griffiths, who sold them.

Details regarding these later holders are given under the

head of Dinthill.

IV. DINTHILL.
An old black-and-white farmhouse known as Dinthill Grange,
of which only part now remains, was for generations tenanted
by the Purcell family, some of whom held office as bailiffs of
Shrewsbury. The estate did not belong to them, however, but
to the Levesons. In the days of Queen Elizabeth
Edward Owen, of Bellstone, took to wife Joan, the daughter

I of Richard Purcell, of Dinthill, and their third son,
Thomas Owen, Town Clerk of Shrewsbury, purchased the Dinthill
estate from the Levesons, and resided there up to the time
of his death in 1661. He was displaced from his post of
Town Clerk " for delinquency " by the Parliamentary party,
17th November, 1045. His estates, including Dinthill,
were sequestrated, and he was fined £294 on 1 St h March,
1647. Dinthill was discharged from sequestration 8th March,

1655. When his son
Edward Owen in 1633 married, Thomas settled .\ farm .it

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Dinthill on his daughter-in-law Anne : when in 1647 the
Committee for Compounding held its sittirgs in Shrewsbury
Anne Owen claimed this farm at Dinthill as her right. In
the St. Alkmund s register there are entries of the baptisms
of a son and two daughters of Edward and Anne Owen at
Dinthill — Thomas 1635, Ann 1636, and Martha 1642 ;
while on 30th April, 1642, their firstborn son Edward was
buried. The second son Thomas also appears to have died
young, for on the decease of Edward Owen, probably about
1645-6, Dinthill passed to his cousin of Braggington,
Leightox Owen, and then to his daughter Martha, who
married

Edward Griffiths, of Old Marton. Edward and Martha
Griffiths had one daughter, Elizabeth, of Braggington, who
died unmarried 1st November, 1722, and three sons — Edward
who died young, Thomas who was vicar of Alberbury 1714
to 1740, and

Leightox Owex Griffiths, who, as before stated, succeeded
to both Braggington and Dinthill. He also owned Preston
Montford and lived there from 1725 till 1733, all his children
being born there and baptized at St. Alkmund 's. It has
been stated that he purchased Dinthill from a Mr. Amler,
mealman, of London, but, if so, it was probably only some
additional land — not the main estate. He was evidently
a man of means, for he not only added to the estate in the
way just mentioned, but built the existing Hall at Dinthill,
which bears his own and his wife's initials, with the date
1734 on the spoutheads : he also added the elaborate leaden
spoutheads to the frontage of Braggington Hall. These are
dated 1717, and they bear only his own initials, L.O.G.,
because he was at that date a bachelor. He married about
1725 Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Hill, of Tern,
who was therefore a niece of the great Lord Hill. She was
born in August, 1691, and buried at Alberbury 14th 1-Vluuarv
1743. By her he had a son Thomas (born 1726, died 1738)
twins, James and John, who died infants, and we.e buried
12th September, 1729; a daughter Muy (bora 173:, died
1759), who married Francis, son of Joseph Waxing, of Vou\ .
and two sons, Samuel (born 1731) and Joseph [bom 1734),
The eldest of these

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Samuel Griffiths, succeeded to the estates on the death of his
father in October, 174S. As he was baptized 12th August,
1 73 1, he was then a youth of seventeen. On 6th March,
1753, he married Catherine, daughter and cc -heiress of
Joseph Muckleston, of Greenfields, Shrewsbury. In 1759 he
was sheriff of Shropshire. At the Lent Assizes, 1764, two
men named Donnelly and Newcombe were condemned and
executed for robbing the house of Samuel Griffiths, of Din thill,
Esq., of a large quantity of plate, etc. His wife died in
April, 1766, and he died the following year, being buried
at Alberbury, 6th November. As he was childless the estates
passed to his surviving brother,

Joseph Griffiths, who was born in December, 1734. He also
held office as sheriff in 1771, and died the following year,
being buried nth June. By his wife Letitia, daughter of
Robert Moore, of Hereford, he left a son

Richard de-la-More Griffiths. As his father was only 38
when he died, Richard must have been very young when he
succeeded to the estate. He was a wild young fellow, and
by the mad pranks he played on the wives and daughters
of the farmers returning from market along the high road he
earned the soubriquet of " The Devil of Din thill." He
married a lady named Anne, probably older than himself,
for she was 67 at the time of her death in June, 1827, her
husband having died before that date. By her he had a
daughter Anne Elizabeth, born 2nd April, 1781. He appears
also to have had a son or brother, who succeeded him,

Leighton De-la-More Griffiths, who in 18 ir devised Dinthill
to

Thomas Wingfield (eldest son of Thomas Wingfield, of Aldertou,
who was clerk of the peace and mayor of Shrewsbury in
1767), who thus became seized of Dinthill. He had married
in January, 1785, Anne, daughter of William Griffiths, of
Woodgate, near Eoppington, but had no issue by her.
How she was connected with Leighton Del&more Griffiths
does not appear, but they evidently were in SOIM W9J . elatol
Thomas Wingfield died 19th August, l8rt, Aged 6fl , and
his widow, Anne, 7th April, 182O. Dinthill then passed t<>
Thomas's only brother, the Reverend

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John Wingfield, Vicar of Montford, and on his death, 8th

| September, 1830, it devolved on his eldest su viving son,
Charles Wingfield, of Oxford, surgeon, who was born in
1787. In 1846 he sold the Dinthill estate to his distant
kinsman, Colonel

John Wingfield, of Onslow, who was Sheriff of Shropshire in
1824 and Mayor of Shrewsbury in 1834. On his death
without issue 31st August, 1862, Dinthill passed to his
nephew, Colonel

Charles George Wingfield, of Onslow, Sheriff in 1873. He
married on 1st February, 1865, his cousin Jane Mary Anne,
daughter of Clopton Lewis Wing jeld, Esq., of Rhysnant.
On his death, 5th May, 1891, Dinthill passed to his only son
and heir, the present owner,

Charles Ralph Borlase Wingfield, of Onslow, Esq., sheriff
of vShropshire in 1913 and Mayor of Shrewsbury three ti i.es.
None of the Wingfields resided at Dinthill Hall : it has during
their ownership always been let with the farm. In 1824
the tenant was John Bather, Esq. ; in 1851 Mr. Thomas
Hawkins occupied it ; while Mr. Thomas Gresty is the present
tenant. In 1807 Louisa, daughter of Francis Knyvett
Leigh ton, Esq., was born at Dinthill, and christened at Ford
in 1810.

To revert to an earlier period : under the date 7th February,
162 1, it is recorded in the register of St. Alkmund's that
" Robert O . nslow gentleman and reader in Bicton dyed at
Dintle and was buried in St. Chad's." As he is described ss
,1 gentleman it is clear that he was a layman, and he doubtless
belonged to the Onslow family of Onslow. Possibly he
lived at Dinthill just prior to its purchase and occupation
by Thomas Owen.

Dinthill Hall, near Ford, Salop, is a typical "Queen Anno
house with flat frontage but projecting wings in the ieai. The
wings have g ible ends with moulded Stone GOpingSi but the
frontage has a straight parapet Willi projecting cornice fusl bcl m
it. The front doorway lias a rounded pediment, and the cornet -

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have stone quoins. On each side there is a handsome leaden
spouthead inscribed in raised characters ;

G

L A .
J734

The initials are those of Leighton (Owen) Griffiths and his wife
Anne (niece of the great Lord Hill)., builder of the house, while
the date is that of its erection. On entering the house we notice
- that the rooms are large and lofty as usual at the period, and it
has a handsome " Queen Anne " staircase with spiral balustrade ;
but the house has one unexpected feature : — the hall and -everal
of the rooms are wainscoted, but the panels instead of exhibiting
the large size and bevelled edges of the Georgian era, are entirely
Tudor in character, and are mainly Elizabethan. Obviously
they have been taken out of an earlier house, and most likely
they were brought from the Grange, to be described presently.
Otherwise the existing Hall is all of one period and workmanship,
the bricks used being slightly smaller than those used at the
present day. Near the S.W. corner stands an octagonal brick
dovecote with open-arched cupola : the nest holes, like those
at the Lynches, do not enlarge inwards. On the cupola is a
wrought iron weathercock, the vane having the date 1870
perforated through it. This is evidently a renewal, for the
4 dovecote itself is of the same date as the Hall. There are still
pigeons here, but the revolving ladder has disappeared, a floor
having been inserted to convert the lower part into a cow-house.
A tine, but comparatively modern avenue of limes, oaks, etc.,
leads from the main road to the front door.

A short distance from the Hall to the West is a blaek-and-
while building, now utilized as cottages and farm buildings.
This incorporates the remains of the ancient Dm thill Grange,
where the Purcells and Owens lived. The only feature of interest
preserved here is a fireplace witli deep stone lintel ornamented
with raised scroll-work and oak leaves : this appeals to be ol
Cromwell or Charles II. 's time and ma/ have been inserted by
Thomas Owen the Town Clerk, who lived here till his death
in 1 60l. There is, however, a tradition that this mantel-piece
was brought from a house in the field near, now (Hilled down,
though the foundations can still l>e traced in dry we.it In i

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Parochially, like all the St. Alkmund's estates in or near
Shrewsbury, Dinthill with Preston Mont ford were subject to
the church of St. Alkmund, and remained so till 1853, when they
were transferred to the newly formed parish of Bicton.

There is a small estate lying a little to the West of Dinthill
farm buildings, and south of Chavel, consisting of a messuage
called Dinthill Cottage and sixteen acres of land, which belongs
to the Cooper family. It was purchased by Nathaniel Cooper,
. coach maker, of Shrewsbury, who was admitted a burgess of
the town on 3rd October, 1777, and as a " foreigner " to the
Company of Painters, etc., on 25th April, 1788, for which he
paid a fine of £10. This small property lies in Ford parish, and
was never part of St. Alkmund's.

In 1774 John Donnelly, of Dinthill, had a daughter baptized
at Ford. It is an uncommon name which renders it probable
that this man was a relative of the robbers executed in 1704.

The Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher has contributed the following
account of the early history of Dinthill, which has never before
been written. There is of course a brief notice in Eyton's
Antiquities (vol. VII., pages 196-197), but it was altogether
omitted by Blakeway in his History of the Liberties of Shrewsbury.

Dinthiu, (in Domesday called Duntune) before the Conquest
belonged to St. Alkmund's Church, which still retained it after
that event, and held it in demesne. The Domesday account of
Dinthill, in Ruesset Hundred (which in the time of Henry I.
was done away with, and replaced by the Hundred of Ford),
is as follows : — " The same Church held and holds Duntune.
There one hide pays geld. In demesne there is one plough team,
and (there are) one villein and one bordar with half a plough.
It was and is worth eight shillings." Owen and Blakeway think
that Dinthill, with the numerous other possessions of St. Alkmund 's
was bestowed upon that Church by EtheHleda, the Lady of Mercta

In the twelfth century Lilleshall Abbey was founded, and it
was endowed with the Church of St. Alkmund and all its DOS
sessions. Pope Alexander III. between 1 1 s<) and 1 1 Si confirmed
Duuthull to Ulleshall Abbey ; and on 31st August, 1100. King
John confirmed the possessions of the Abbey, including Punt hull
and other manors as appurtenances of the Church of St Alkmnnd
In October, 1200, and again at the Assizes ol [803, fotm
Simon (or de Duuthull) sued the Abbot of LjUeshall fol D VtxgatC

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of land in Dunthull. In September, 1257, an(l again in August,
1270, Giles de Norfolk, clerk, sued William de Dunthull (or de
Dintehill) for a tenement in Dunthull. The Lilleshall Chartulary
states that the Abbot paid to the Crown one shilling at Michaelmas
in lieu of the suits of Preston Montford and Dinthill to the
Hundred -Court. An Abbey Rent-Roll states that the Abbot
received a ferm of 5s. 4d. at Michaelmas and Mid -Lent from
Dunthull. In 1316 the Abbot is named in the Nomina Villarum
as the Lord of Dunthull.

Morris suggests that Dinthill was first placed in the Liberties
of Shrewsbury by the charter of King Henry VII., dated 14th
December, 1405, when all the vills, townships , hamlets, etc.,
without the town of Salop, within the parishes of St. Alkmund,
etc., were declared to be within the Liberties and jurisdiction
of the town of Shrewsbury.1 By an Inquisition taken at Shrews-
bury in October, 15 15, the Commissioners found " that the town
of Preston with its hamlet of Dyntehill was within and of the
parish of St. Alkmund," and also " that the aforesaid town of
Preston with its hamlet of Dynthill is within the hundred of
Forde, and should be taxed, and has been wont to be taxed
separately by itself, to a certain XVth and Xth at xixs. iijd."'-
Preston Montford and Dinthill both belonged to St. Alkmund 's,
and were both in the Domesday hundred of Ruesset and later
of Ford, and were always very much mixed up together.

The Valor Ecrfcsiastictn of 1535-0 does not specifically mention
Dinthill; but the Minister's Accounts of 1541-2 state that the
Abbey had received (2 6s. 8d. annual rent for the manor of Dint-
hill. In October, 1538, Lilleshall Abbey surrendered its estates
to the Commissioners. In 1543 King Henry VI 11. granted to
James Leveson, merchant of the staple, Dynthill Grange, farm,
and tenements, in the parish of St. Alkmund, Shrewsbury, in
the tenure of Richard Pyrcell, late parcel of the [XKSessions of
the dissolved monastery of Lilleshall.3 Thus Dinthill [Kissed
into lay hands. James Leveson married Marjory or Margaret,
daughter of Richard Wrottesley, and died ;th July, 1 SS > Hie
Levesons were descended from Richard LeveMm of Wilknhall.

1 VrMMW'tms, U Ser., 1, 18'> ini. Owen and I Make way' 1 ii^t-iv. 1
~ Transactions, 2 Sir., II, 72-75.

3 Pntertt, 05 Henry VIU, pun 15. Letters .mJ l>apcri, Hcng VIII, vol
XVIII, p. 535.

32$ OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES

living in the reign of Edward I., and their pedigree is given in
Shaw's History of Staffordshire, II. 169. 1 On J ones Leveson's
death Dinthill passed to his eldest son Richard, who received
the honour of knighthood at the coronation of Queen Mary, 2nd
October, 1553. Sir Richard married Mary, daughter of Edward
Freton, of Gosworth. The Inquisition taken 9th April, 1561, ,
after his death, states that he died on 27th October last, seised
of the Grange of Dynthill, and that Walter Leveson, aged 10
years and 4 months, was his son and heir. At that early age
Walter had already married Anne, daughter of Sir Andrew Corbet,
knight ; she was living at Morton Corbet.2

Walter Leveson was Sheriff of Staffordshire when he received
the honour of knighthood, at Theobald's, on 10th July, 1587.
By Indenture dated 29th November, 1585, he settled his Dinthill
and other estates to himself for life, with remainder to his son
and heir Richard Leveson in tail male. He died 29th October,
1602. The Inquisition taken 15th September, 1604, after his
death, states that he died seised of the farm culled Dynthill, and
of 640 acres of land in Dynthill in the parish of St. Alkmund,
held of the King by fealty ; and that Sir Richard Leveson, aged
33 years and upwards was his son and heir. '' After the death of
his first wife Sir Walter married Susan Vernon, of Hodttet, but
had no issue by her.

Sir Richard Leveson was a prominent personage. He entered
the Navy, and in 1588 at the age of 19 distinguished himself in
battle against the Spanish fleet. In 159b at the storming of
Cadiz he was in command of the expedition, and was knighted
by the Lord Admiral and the Earl of Essex. The following year
he engaged in open battle with the Spaniards at the Azores.
In iboi he destroyed the Spanish fleet off Ireland. In 1602 he
captured a great ship returning from the East Indies laden with
treasures, off the coast of Portugal, and brought it to England ;
and the next year was made Vice- Admiral. In 1605 he was
marshal of the embassy, to arrange peace between England and
Spain. The inscription on his monument in Wolverhampton
Church sets forth all his exploits. He had married Margaret,

1 The Dukes of Sutherland are descended from Nicholas Lvwaon, Lor4

Mayor of London, an elder brother of JumuM I >. <■ sou
Si I nq. p.m., Chancery, vol. 131, no. 186; Wards and Uvtffes, vol B,na N
J Inq. p.m., Chancery, Series II, vol. no. 90,

AND THEIR OWNERS. 329

daughter of Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, and Lord
High Admiral, but died in London, 2nd August, 1605, without
issue. His wife survived him. He was the devisee md heir male
of his cousin Sir Richard Leveson, K.B., of Lilleshall and
Trentham. The Inquisition taken 28th August, 1610, after his
death, states that he held messuages and lands in Dynthill, but
by what services the jury were ignorant ; and that his aunt
Lady Mary Curzon, wife of Sir George Curzon, was his next heir,
being the daughter of Sir Richard Leveson, father of Sir Walter
Leveson, who was father of the deceased Sir Richard Leveson ;
and that she was 40 years of age and upwards.1 His will is dated
25th March, 1605, and proved in P.C.C. the same year (59 Hayes).
He was buried in Wolverhampton church, where, in the south
wall of the chancel, a stately monument of black marble was
erected in 1633, with a life-size brass effigy of Sir Richard. During
the Civil War this effigy was removed by the Parliamentarians,
with the intention of casting a gun, but Lady Leveson managed
to obtain it from them, and placed it temporarily in Lilleshall
church, until the monument was repaired. Brass plates are
fixed underneath, containing a long inscription. The cost of
this monument was £300."'

His aunt and heir, Lady Mary Curzon, was wife of Sir George
Curzon of Croxall, Co. Derby. They had issue two children, —
4 Walter Curzon who died without issue, and Mary, wife of Edward
Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset, K.G.

Lady Curzon (or possibly her daughter, Lady Dorset) must
soon have parted with the Dinthill estate, presumably to Thomas
Owen, the Town Clerk of Shrewsbury, as he was living there in
the reign of Charles I., and also made a settlement of the property.3

The Purcells were an old Shropshire family, long seated at
the adjoining estate of Onslow, and entered their pedigree at the
Visitation of 1623. A branch of this family resided at Dinthill
for several generations, as tenants to the mouks of Ulfeshall
and later to the Levesons. Richard Purcell was living there in

1 Inq. p.m., Chancery, Scries II. vol. 312 no. 158; Ward* and LlweriM,
vol. 43, no. 81." A biography of Sir Richard LevCMHl is given in the
Diet. Nat. Bio^., xwiii, 145.'

% The inscription is printed in Shaw'i Histor) of Staffordshire, II, 158;
and Facing ps»gc IW is ;in engrajving of the monument ind iu-> tog]

•1 Calendar of the Committee for Compounding, II, Wl 1

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OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES

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ARMS TO ILLUSTRATE l4SOMK OLD SHROPSHIRE 1IOUSR9
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AND THKIR OWNERS. 331

1543, and bis daughter Joan married Edward Owen (the Town
Clerk's father). In 1559 Nicholas Purcell is described as of
Dinthill, when he made his will. This was proved in the
Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1559 (4° Chayney).

The descent of Dinthill through the families of Owen, Griffiths,
and Wingfield to the present owner has been before sufficiently
traced.

V. WHITLEY.
Richard Owen (I.) (son of Owen ap Griffith ap Madoc of
Machynlleth) was admitted a burgess of Shrewsbury 21st
February, 1520. He married twice, but had issue only
by his first wife Mary (daughter of Thomas Ottley, Esq.,
of Shrewsbury) who died in 1568 and was buried in St.
Alkmund's. Richard died in December, 1575. His eldest
son Thomas was an eminent lawyer and judge, and built
Condover Hall in 1598, dying 21 December that year.
The second son

Richard Owen (II.) of Shrewsbury and Whitley was admitted
of the Drapers Company 1572-3, and died 25th October.
1594. On his monument in old St. Chad's was a brass
plate recording that he was " one of the Counsell and
Chamberlayne of this Towne when he lived ; which married
Sara, the daughter of Thorn. Ireland, Esq., who had issue
two sons and three daughters : he was son of Richard
Owen and brother of John Owen, both of the Counsell of
this Towne, they lived and are buried in this chappell."
It was this Richard Owen who built the house opposite
Ireland's Mansion in High Street, Shrewsbury. He also
probably built the original house at Whitley (which wa-
in St. Chad's parish) since we have no record of a house
there before this time. His eldest son

Richard Owen (III.) (1577-1652) was of Whitley in l6*0 and
1O14, but afterwards of Lythwood, where. by In- wile Mary
Trowde of Shrewsbury, he had a family who settled in the
neighbourhood of Pulley. When he left Whitley his younger
brother

Thomas OwEN (I.) succeeded him there. He sat 111 Parfiamenl
for Shrewsbury 1O24-40, as "Thomas Owetl of Whltlej
He was a Ueut.-Col. in the Royalist aimv and WAS I ken

332 OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES

prisoner at the capture of Shrewsbury, 21st February, 1644.
He was buried at St. Chad's, 12th July, 165c. By his wife
Ann (buried at Hanwood, 25th October, 168L), he had two
sons and three daughters. The elder son
Thomas Owkn (II.) is described on the Court Roll of Ford,
nth April, 1678, as " Thomas Owen, sen., ot Whitley, gent."
but, like his father, he seems to have left Whitley to his
younger brother William, for later on he is described as " of
Panson, late of Whitley, gent." He was buried at Hanwood,
1st March, 1690. He was a burgess of Shrewsbury in 167G,
when he voted for Edward Kynaston, Esq. By his wife Ann
he had a son Thomas Owen (III.) and a daughter Elizabeth
Owen, the latter of whom was buried at St. Chad's, 25th
June, 1667. The younger brother of Thomas Owen (II.)
was

William Owen, of Whitley, who was also a burgess of Shrews-
bury in 1676, when he voted for Sir Richard Corbet. He
had estates at Newton in Westbury, Hoyston, and Minsterley
as well as properties in Shrewsbury. He died at Worcester
in 1697, his will being proved P.C.C. 1st January, i(><j8.
By his wife Mary he had three sons and two daughters, but
the two elder sons predeceased their father, so that the
third son Edward succeeded to the freehold estates. William
Owen almost entirely rebuilt the house at Whitley, intro-
ducing the fine staircase and a stone gateway bearing the
lion rampant and canton — both stairs and doorway being
dated 1667. It seems somewhat strange that William
Owen should go to so much expense in rebuilding the bouse
i since Whitley was not his own property. It belonged to
I his elder brother Thomas Owen (II ), upon whose death in
I 1690 it descended to his only son, who was also named
Thomas Owen (III.). He appears to have lived at Whitley till
I 1716, when, although he had two som living to inherit, ho
I sold Whitley Hall and Farm to William Turner, draper,
of Shrewsbury, for £3,730, thus finally severing the con-
nection of the family with the estate (it now belongs to the
representatives of the late Mrs. Scott of BettOn). Thomas
Owen (III.) married at Hanwood. isth October, 1689,
I Mary, daughter of Arthur Wnlshall and Martha in- wile
I According to one pedigree Thomas Owen i^ supposed to

AND THEIR OWNERS. 333

have been twice married, both wives being named Mary.
By one or other of his wives — if he had two —he left a son
Edward Owen, of Pontesbury, who was sworn a I urgess of
Shrewsbury in 1721. His wife Anne (Matthews) was buried
at Pontesbury, 19th February, 1731. "An antiquated
mansion near or upon the site of St. John's Chapel, Prankwell,
was sold in October, 1719, to John Griffiths, Esq., of Salop,
by Thomas Owen — then called late of Whitley — gent.,
Mary his wife, Edward Owen their eldest son, and Anne his
wife." Edward Owen's eldest son

Robert Owen baptized at Pontesbury, iqth February, 1723,
settled in Ireland, first in Dublin, and later at Summerseat
three miles from Wexford town, where he was living in 1798.
He died in 18 10. From him are descended the Loftus Owens
of Shropshire and other branches elsewhere.

The present Hall at Whitley appears to be almost entirely of
the date inscribed on the portal and staircase — 1G67. An
examination of the site shows, however, that there was a moated
house here before the present one, for about half of a large square
moat still remains ; the other half has been filled up, and the
present house built over that side of it. There is also a small
square moat about 200 yards off, and a third a quarter of a mile
away at Panson, almost perfect, and still containing water, and
having a group of cottages within its area. (Thomas Owen (II.)
was " of Panson.") It seems probable that the moated house
at Whitley was Elizabethan, since so many of the mansions
erected in that period were moated ; and that it w as built by
Richard Owen (II ) the first of the family who is know n to have
lived there. The date of erection would be about 1570, so that
it was standing only about a century when demolished in 1O07
to make room for the Hall built in that year by William and
Mary Owen. This Hall, ignoring modern additions, is square
There are no stone quoins, but each floor is outlined by pro
jecting courses of brick, the lowermost course consisting of
headers set obliquely so as to form a chevron ornament. The
roof has eaves flat underneath and of only moderate projection,
The present entrance to the house opens on to the first landing
of the staircase, but the original dooi was lower down Oil tin
right hand side. The door was within a stone archway (nOW

334 °LD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES

blocked up) bearing on the top the inscription

WO
1667

and the coat of arm? of the Owens of Whitley — a lion rampant
with a canton in dexter chief. This doorway gave access to a
large hall (now partitioned off and used partly as a dairy) with,
a wide open fireplace surmounted by a ilat-ribbed cornice serving
as a mantel-piece. From the left-hand back corner of the hall
ascended the grand staircase which reaches to the attics — four
storeys. The staircase is one of the finest in Shropshire, and
resembles in style the one in Jones' Mansion, illustrated on page
16 of The Old Houses of Shrewsbury. It is, however, more
massive altogether, especially the newel posts, which are elab-
orately carved : one of them is inscribed in relief on the front
W.M., while on one side is 16 and on the other 67 ; indicating
that the house was built by William and Mary Owen in 1667.

The fireplaces have no mantel-shelves, being merely surrounded
by wooden mouldings as in " Queen Anne " houses. The panelling
in two of the rooms is of the style then in vogue — intermediate
between Jacobean and " Queen Anne " : larger than the former,
but lacking the bevelled edges seen in the latter. ( >ne room has
Klizabethau panelling, which was evidently not made for it, as
it does not fit : this probably belonged to the earlier moated
house here. In this room is a "salt cupboard," reminiscent
of the period when there was a heavy duty on salt, and the
careful housewife kept the salt-cellar under lock and key between
meals.

VI. PLAS-Y-COURT.
This is a plain red brick farmhouse, situated on the south
side of the main road between Shrewsbury and Welshpool, near
Middletown station, and close to the county boundary between
Shropshire and Montgomery. The name itself is probably a
corruption of Plas-y-eoed- Hall in a wood ; or possibly Plas-y-
cwrt— Hall in a court or enclosure. Tfee Structure AS now seen
is in no way remarkable, but when it was rebuilt .> centur) 01
so ago the staircase of the original house was retained and fitted
into the new one. This staircase is a very fine one ami \\\ all
essential details resembles those at BraggittgtOU And Whitley
already described. The newels have tall e.uwd filliala and

AND THEIR OWNERS. 335

pendants, while their faces are adorned with sunken long-shafted
fleur-de-lis. It has been described as Elizabethan, but, as I
have shown in the case of Braggington and Whitley, it s actually
much later. In fact all three belong to the time of Charles II.
In the case of Plas-y-court, there is no date or initials carved on
tht stairs, but in one of the upper bedrooms is a cast iron fire-
plate inscribed 1678 D.-E.M. The initials are those of Edward
Donne and his wife Mary, while the date is probably that of the
year in which he built or finished the house There was a house
here before that date, however, for the Alberbury register
mentions Margaret, wife of Humphrey Crump, of Place-y-courte,
buried in 1623 ; and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Jane
Raphes, ot Place-y-courte, buried in 1649. These were probably
only small holders and not permanent residents since the families
who occupied it changed in 26 years. If the reader will turn back
to our account of Braggington he will find that one of the
witnesses to Thomas Owen's will in 1695 was Edward Donne.
He was then living at Plas-y court, which he had built seventeen
years before. Prior to the time when he bought this estate he
had lived at Little Ness. The history of the family so far as it
can be traced commences with

Edward Doxxe (I.) a wealthy mercer of Shrewsbury, of which
town he was bailiff in 1604, 1607 and 1628-9, dying in the
latter year while in office. He was buried at St. Chad's
1 25th May, 1629, the register describing him as bailiff and
alderman. He was liberal in his benefactions to the Shrews-
bury churches, as shown by the following records. St.
Chad's : Edward Donne, mercer and alderman, gave /J200
to buy land to bind six poor children apprentices, half of
them to be of this parish. St. Julians : Mr. Edward
Donne, alderman of this town, anno 1629, gave five nobles
to be yearly paid to apprentice one poor child of this parish.
(The following benefactions, without date, to St. Ajkmund's,
refer to another Edward Donne, as the alderman was not
of Plas-y -court. " Edward Donne, of Place -y-cotirt, gent .
gave £1 13s. 4d. yearly to apprentice out one pool child."
Also " {20 the interest to be given every fourth day of April
to ten poor housekeepers of the parish uot receiving alms
and to be approved by his heirs. This donoi was probably
Edward Donne II.) We have no evidence to show wlu-tlu 1

336 OLD SHKOPSHIRE HOUSES

the alderman was married, but he does not seem to have left
any issue. His brother
Roger Donne (I.) was a member of the first .own council of
Shrewsbury formed under the new charter of incorporation
given by Charles I. in 1638. A daughter of his, Ann, was
buried at St. Chad's, 10th August, 1626. In 1637 Margaret
Donne, possibly also his daughter, was married by license
at St. Chad's to Richard Charlton on 8th September. His
son

John Donne, whose wite's name was Elizabeth, had a son

I

Roger Donne (II.), christened at St. Chad's, 25th March, 1637.
J This Roger's son

Edward Donne (II.) was the first to be described as of Plas-
y-court, and he was undoubtedly the builder of the house
there. No doubt it took several years to build and was
only completed in 1678, the year inscribed on the hearth
plate. Indeed the plate may have been made after the
house was finished. However that may be, we know that
Edward Donne was living at the Plas five years before that,
for the Alberbury register records the baptism of " Jane,
daughter of Edward Dunn, of Place of Court, Esq., and Mary
his wife, 20th January. 1674." Before that date two sons
had been born — Edward (III.) and Richard. In the books
of the Guild of Mercers, Ironmongers, Goldsmiths, etc., is
an entry : — Richard Donn, son of Edward Donn, of Place
Co'rt, co. Salop, gent., apprenticed to Philip Downes, 1680."
Later on we find Richard Donne in business for himself,
for in 1692 Thomas Murrall was apprenticed to him.
Edward Donne (III.) son of the preceding, succeeded his father
at Plas-y-court. In 1686 he married Rebecca, daughter
of Edward Barrett, Esq., of Shrewsbury. In 1715, to deal
with serious local riots, an artillery regiment was raised
in Shrewsbury through Thomas Severne of Wallop, whose
town house was at the Bellstone. There were four honK
officers : Henry Viscount Newport, colonel and captain ;
Sir Charles Lloyd, Bart., of Garth, major 1 William Cynaston,
of I,ee, lieutenant; and Edward Donne. Esq . comet. At

this time he was IJy.B. of Queen's College, Cambridge, but
soon nfterwards took orders and, by the Interest of Lord

AND THKIK OWNERS. 337

Bradford, became a prebendary of Salisbury, where he died
15th January, 1745, aged 59. He appears to have been
the last of the family, and to have left no issue, so that
Plas-y-eourt passed into other hands. The Alberbury
register records on 13th August, 1797, the burial of Elizabeth
wife of John Harries, Place a Court. Since that time the
place has been let as a farm house, but it is to the credit of
the owners, whoever they were, that when they rebuilt it
a century ago they retained the grand old staircase as a
memorial of its past history.

The Anns of Edward Donne, Alderman, were — Azure a
wolf rampant Argent.

338

LIST OF ENGLISH WORDS USUAL IN THE
MARCHES OF WALES (17th Century).
By C. A. J. SKEEL. D. Lit.

In the Cambridge University Library there is a small MS.
Volume (1305 Ff. v. 15) of some interest to philological
students. It is an attempt at a glossary of words found in
Mediaeval MSS. mostly Latin but partly Welsh, e.g. arthel,
cantred, etc. No date is given, but the handwriting is
apparently that of the seventeenth century. The glossary
was not carried very far, many pages of the volume being left
blank, but at the end there is an interesting list of " English
words usual in the Marches of Wales." Most of these are to
be found in the English Dialect Dictionary, but some are not :
these are marked with an asterisk in the following transcript,
in which the numerous abbreviations have been extended.
♦Evens or staves evens, timber quartred out for stafes but not

made into staves.
*Yevel, a muck yovil or mtick forke.
Glat, a gate, a sharde.
*Oxles, ossers. alder trees.

A Sheame of wood, an horse lode of woode, Summagium

(E.D.D. gives seam, seame).
A Dingle, a piece of ground scituate betwixt two nils.
A Rise or etheringe (? a twig or branch of heather. Cf. Guv

Mannering : " This is the last reise that I'll ever cut

in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.")
A By-let, a peece of ground compassed about with w.iu 1.

(E.D.D. gives By-flete. Cheshire. A. piece of land cut

off by the change of a river's course which uscu to

belong to the other side).

ENGLISH WORDS USUAL IN THE MARCHES OF WALES. 339

A nooke of errable land. Some say it is the land over that
lyeth fallowe, yet I have seen mention made of ij.
nookes of errable land. A noke is the 4th parte of a
yard land and containeth for the most parte about 15
acres.

(E D.D. gives under 'nook' the meaning (5) a small
field or farm. Cumberland. An old legal term for I2±
acres of land).

A darke man. A blind man.

A twil. Linnen cloth, the web and wofe being one of teere
and the other of hardes ; query twi — file.

[The MS. is hardly decipherable here; teere
may be some fine kind of material in contradistinction
to hardes, which means the refuse or coarse part of
flax.]

A hongoll of corne. A handful of leasinges of come.
(E.D.D. has hangall, hankie, a twist, tangle).

A lownd or yoking is as much as a teame can plowe in a day,

as much as 3 bushes of bali [sic) will set.
A ffine or fhnestal, vinestallum, a place where thei lai wood for

their boileries in Droitwich.

(Perhaps connected with finery, one of the furnaces in
a forge, E.D.D.).

* A wauling or Buttery of salt water in Droitwich.
Aunderne. Evening.

(E.D.D. gives undern, aunder, etc., with the same
meaning).

A lowne. A levy of monye, taxation, or assessment.
(This spelling is not given in E.D.D.).

A folde. A courte or yarde.
In hole or childbed.

(E.D.D. gives hole — a house or room).

Tacke. Taking of cattle to tacke or agisting of cattle.

* Tenstry a yreli (sic). Summe of nioui paid in gefal (i.e.,

gafol) at Shuflenhal 111 com' Salop.

(Evidently connected with the Shropshire word
tensors, persons who not being burgesses carried on

340 ENGLISH WORDS USUAL IN THE MARCHES OF WALES.

business in the town as tradesmen upon payment of
certain fines, so E.D.D.).

* A leaker or hedlond.

* Landskerred, and meered out and landscarnd. Carnedd is a

heape of stones and in meering out and dividing of
landes thei cast in the meers smal heapes of stones in-
Wales — landscarred quidam putant esse land-skarred.
Hagard or ricke.

Dinders, old Roman coins. Nota ther is a hil in hereford-
shire so called.

* Leetefieldes or commonfields.

* A Gladmer is a devise made of dry lether and sewed up

together round a hollowe like a futbal set upon a staf
and filled with little stones. This being shaked maketh
so fearful a noice to cattle that they will not endure
within the noice therof.
A teale of pilcorne (i.e. a measure of oats).

34i

THE GOUGHS OF NEWTON-ON-THE-HIEL.
By A. V. GOUGH.

The following Paper is in continuation of, and supple-
mentary to, an earlier Paper contributed to the Transactions in
the year 1893, entitled: "The Goughs of Myddle and their
Descendants." (See Second Series, Volume V, pages 261
to 292).

A searcher lately sent me the following abstract of the Will
of " Richard Gough the third."

Will of Richard Gough, of Newton-on-the-Hill in the
parish of Middle, co. Salop, yeoman. To be buried in the
church of Middle near my kneeling place. My son Richard
Gough of Acton Reynald 2/-. — My son-in-law Thomas Gough
2/-. — Elizabeth and Margaret, daughters of my said son-in-law
Thos. Gough 13/4. — Joane Gough one ewe and lamb and 40/-. —
Elizabeth wife of my son-in-law Michael Baughe 10 o. —
Poor people of Middle 10/-. — My son John Gough my bed
&c. — Residue of personal estate between my sons John, Roger,
and William. — Ralph Kinaston parson of Middle to pay to my
executors the £10 he owes me. — Executors: sons John and
William Gough.

Dated 1 April, 1625. Proved 27 June, 1628, in P.C.C. (61
Barrington).

This Will amplifies the existing account of the family. The
historian of Myddle records that his great-grandfather (" ,A-
vus") had, by his second wife,1 three sons: John. Roger, and
William; and one daughter, Elizabeth, married to Michael
Baugh of Clive. We now see that he had another daughter,

1 Owen (not Anne) Baker.

342

THE GOUGHS OF NEWTON- ON-THH- HILL.

not named, who married Thomas Gough. Her name was
Anne, as I shall presently show ; and Thomas her husband
was also her first cousin, being the son of the above testator's
brother, Thomas Gough of Isiewton and later of Weston
Lnllingfield, husbandman, who died in 1602.

Richard Gough of Acton Reynold, the testator's eldest son
(by his first wife, Joan1 Crump), was executor and " brother-
in-law " to Thomas Gough, the second of Weston Lullingfield,
husbandman, who died in 1630. Elizabeth and Margaret, the
two daughters mentioned 1625 of this Thomas Gough, were
baptized at Baschurch in 1607 an<^ 1609, ana" Anne his wife was
buried there 25 Feb., 1610-11. The daughter Elizabeth
married one Robert Baugh.'2 For —

Roger Gough, of Newton, in his Will (17 Aug., 1637)
mentions Elizabeth Baugh, " my sister Ann's daughter," and
Robert Baugh, Elizabeth's husband. And —

William Gough, of Sweeney, in his Will (8 Jan., 1667-8)
mentions the three daughters of " my cousin " Robert Baugb.

Light is thus shed on a number of things which puzzled me
in writing my former Paper, " The Goughs of Myddle and
their Descendants." In the key-pedigree there, the line
connecting Richard Gough's children may now be extended
over this Anne. She was almost certainly, however, senior to
her sister Elizabeth.

In regard to that Paper, I should like to say here that, as a
result of finding occasional inaccuracy and even confusion in
Gough's narrative, I became too prone to distrust him. For
instance, in the second note on p. 268 I unjustly accuse him of
a slip in the Christian name of Michael Baugh's son Thomas.
I have since learned that the full quotation from Roger
Gough's will is : " to Michaell Baugh, second sonne of Mich.icll
Baugh aforesaid" ; so that the note should really have run !
"2He had also a son Thomas (Gough's Myd(Me) who
married three wives, &c."
The conjectures in the third note turn out to be correct.

1 Not Elizabeth.

'l Whether related to Michael or not, I do not Know.

THE GOUGHS OF NBWTON-ON-THE-HIIX. 343

Again, I was in too much of a hurry to "cut down the
number of Richards" (p. 264) merely because Gcugh's pedigree
is faulty. Gough most likely had something to go upon
which I have not, when he claimed to be " the sixt Richard."
To avoid begging the question of number, it will be con-
venient to adopt his Latin terms in a short discussion of the r
difficulties.

Aiavm. — A likely approximate date for his birth would be
14S0. He does not occur at all in the Myddle register, which
begins in 1541, when he may have been dead; and no will of
his is extant. According to Gough, he was a lease tenant in
Newton under the Ban asters of Hadnall. The other details—
that his name was Richard, and his wife's Anne, by whom he
had two sons Richard and Roger — are undoubtedly true of
Richard Gough abavus, as they may also be (wholly or in part)
of him.

Abavus. — Probably born about 1510. Richard Gough of
Newton yeoman and Anne his wife first occur in the Myddle
register in 1544, and their burials are recorded there in 1575
and 1584. His will 1575 is at Lichfield. Besides Richard and
Roger above referred to, he had issue : Thomas Gough of
Weston Lullingfield, and Margaret, wife of Richard Payne of
' Eardeston. [Gough omits the son Roger (see a/avus) and is
particular about his wife's name Gwen, which was actually the
name of the second wife of Richard Gough proavus).
" Richard Gough the second " (writes Gough) " purchased the
tenement wherein I dwell, of Richard Banaster of Hadnall
Esq. and Peter his son." We are bound to accept so definite a
statement. A pedigree drawn up by the late Mr. Bickerton1
gives 1551 as the date of purchase "from Peter Banaster of
Hadnall." Now this last must have been some additional
purchase only, it we are to believe the Myddle register, which
shows that in 1544 abavus was already possessed of freehold
in Newton: a point which I had previously overlooked,
perhaps through allowing too much weight to the Ipecious
date 1 5 5 1 . Gough's words, too, point to an earlier original
purchase, of Richard Banaster, Peter's father.
1 W. H. Bickerton, Ksq., of Newton on the- 1 lill. I>. 1911, d, 1870,

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THE GOUGHS OF NEWTON- ON- THE-HIIX.

Proavus.— Probably baptized at Myddle before the register
was commenced. Richard Gough of Newton, veoman, was
buried there, very old, 10 March, 1627-8. As is often the case
with the eldest son, he is not mentioned in his father's will
1575. His own will stands at the head of this note. He
married twice, and Gough bestows a wrong Christian name on
each of his wives (pp. 265, 266), partly (it would seem) from a
confusion with abavus (q.v.)

Avus. — Always spoken of as Richard Gough of Acton
Reynold, where he lived all his life. Baptized at Shawbury
in 1575, and buried there 1646. When his father died at a
great age in 1628, his son Richard "the fift " was fully grown
and presumably lived at Newton.1 Joan Gough, to whom
her grandfather bequeathed a ewe and lamb in 1625, was a
daughter of this Richard Gough of Acton Reynold.

It is unnecessary to carry our enquiry further down. We
are now nearing the historian's own times, and shall not
expect to find any serious discrepancy between his and other
contemporary records. I have sought to show that, while
Gough's account will not quite do as it stands, still, in agree-
ment with it is the fact that his abavus Richard was a freeholder
at Newton at least as far back as 1544; so that we must not
lightly reject the assertion that this abavus succeeded an
atavus- of the same name, who had leased the same tenement
before him. Indeed, we may "rationally guesse" that Gough
held documentary evidence to that effect.3

Harmoniously with this pious restoration, it may be added
that, if Gough's pedigree is sometimes confused, Mr.
Bickerton's is confusion itself. Consequently, pp. 2vS;, 28S of
my Paper had to be rewritten. The necessary corrections
appeared in Tra?isactio?is, 1902, p. 294. Later still. I came

1 In 1637, the three successive Richards then living are thus referred to m
Roger Gough's will: Richard Gough "my brother" (avns\ ; KVh.ird
Gougli of Newton (pater) ; and Richard "my godson," son of the s.t id
Richard Gough of Newton (propositus, then aged two and .1 half),

2 Whether [Richard] Gough atavus was son of Roger Oough of ISftte)
(1455-1538), cannot at present be decided (sec p. -61); but there is no
chronological objection to the surmise.

3 As also of the Tylley origin of his family.

THE GOUGHS OF NEWTON-ON-THE-HILX. 345

across the following entry at Edstaston : 1738-9. Mary, wife
of Samuel Patrick, buried 11 March, — which satisfactorily clears
up the descent of the Bickertons Irom Richard Cough.

346

THE GOUGHS OF NBwTON-ON-THE-HIIX.

The Bickertons have left Shropshire, and with them
Gough's MS., which is now at Mickleover, near Derby, in the
possession of W. H. Bickerton, Esq., a great-great-grandson of
William Bickerton, the first of Newton-on-the-Hill.

A good deal of fresh material has accumulated since 1893 ;
and, among other mistakes, there are two1 I should like to
point out. The date on the bell (p. 274) is 166S, not 1663.
And the date 26 May, 1697, given on p. 275 for the marriage
of the historian's son William (I believe on the authority of
Morris's MS.) seems wrong; for I find the date of the licence
given as 1699.

Two entries in the Wem register confirm the pedigree at
what was a weak spot (p. 278) : —
1673-4. Margrett the daughter of Richard Gough Taner and

of Martha his wife was baptized March 13th.
1676-7. Richard the sonne of Richard Gough Tanner and of
Martha his wife was baptized the 12th day of January.

And we have to alter the number of their children from
seven to eight, the remaining six being baptized at Shawbury.
Richard, born 1677, is my ancestor.

1 Also two slips of my own : at the foot of p. 270, the second Richard

should be Roger ; and Clowes (p. 276) was tenant not of Sleap

Hall, but of Marton.

MISCELLANEA.
[Under this heading the Editors will be pleased to insert notes
and short articles relative to recent discoveries in the County,
Of other matters of archceological or historical interest.
Communications are invited, and should be addressed to the
Editors, c/o Mr. H. IV. Adnitt (Hon. Sec), The Square,
Shre2vsbury~\.

I.

SIR ADAM MYTTON'S MANSION, SHREWSBURY.

In the eastern basement wall of the house in Dogpole Court,
formerly used as the Telephone Office, and now belonging to
Mr. Edwin Cole, was an odd aperture, and its fellow has lately
been discovered. As they are considerably below the level of
the garden and have been strongly barred, their use is not
very evident. If they were windows they could have
given very scanty light. Their shape, size, and situation
preclude the possibility of any connection with the adjacent
rampart of the town. They have square heads, and measure
about two feet by one. They are splayed inwards for one foot,
and have a chamfer of six inches outside. The masonry is of
Grinshill stone, but the wall, which is two feet thick, has been
rebuilt in brick above its lowest courses. Southwards, there is
a third opening, which has been partly cut away. The
plainness of the architecture prevents our assigning it to any
particular style, although it is distinctly Gothic, probably of
the Tudor period. These windows, and fragments of masonry
in other directions, seem to indicate the existence of a stately
mansion on this site. Such a mansion was »4 The great house,
with a garden annexed, called the Georgie," and although the
situation is not exactly as described by the Rev. J. 13. Blakewav
(^Transactions, 1906, page 383) I think that we may reasonably
infer that here lived Sir Adam Mytton, Knight, whose nephew,
Richard Mytton, sold it to Robert Rowles. baker, tor fifty
marks. In the Corporation Rent Roll for 1657, is this entry ! —
M Randall Roles for 2 posts at his seller on the Wile Copp at
the sign of ye George in ye tenure of Edward Wolfe bakci 01
his undeitenents, 00. 04."

Through three centuries, from 1373 to 1686, many members
of the Mytton family served their generations in public
positions of dignity and consequence, About the middle ol

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the epoch arose Sir Adam Mytton, the most distinguished of
them all. He was great grandson of Reginald Mutton, who
settled at Vaughan's Place ; and grandson of Thomas Mitton,
who married the heiress of the Tours, and Pride, families.
His half brother William quitted Vaughan's Place, built a town
house at Coton Hill, and bought the Halston estate. A kinsman,
another Adam Mytton, was Town Clerk from 1578 to 1608.
He himself was a very important personage, a man of many
parts. He was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1554. At Ludlow he
acted as a member of the Council of the Marches, and at
Bridgnorth as Recorder of that Borough. His native town,
however, held the highest place in his regard, and the welfare
of Shrewsbury claimed his constant care. In 15 18 he was
admitted a brother of the Drapers' Company, and soon after-
wards was appointed a warden of that wealthy and influential
guild, an office which he filled for more than twenty years.
Besides being an Alderman of the Borough, he was elected a
Bailiff no fewer than seven times, in the years 1523. 1527, 153 1 ,
1537, 1541, 1546 and 1552. His legal training qualified him to
render very valuable service in the repeated disputes between
the Corporations of Shrewsbury and Worcester concerning the
jurisdiction over the Severn. One of his letters herein is
preserved amongst our municipal archives, with his diary of a
journey to London on the same business. He represented
Shrewsbury in the Parliaments of 1520, 1522, 1523. 1529, and
lastly in the momentous one of 1534, which abolished the
Papal supremacy in England.

He and Edmund Cole were the Bailiffs in 1538 when Henry
the Eighth was preparing for the spoliation of the religious
■houses, and sent his visitor, the Suffragan Bishop of Dover
here. They attended him in inspecting the three friaries, and
taking inventories of the goods, which were then committed
into their custody until the final seizure by the Crown.
Although not the senior bailiff, Adam Mytton made "great
suit" to Lord Cromwell, with whom he stood in much favour,
to spare the prosperous priory of the Dominicans. He wa^ the
head of the commissioners whom the Regency Council of
Edward the Sixth appointed to report on the communion
plate remaining in the churches of Shrewsbury in 1552.
About this time, and probably for this service, the honour of
knighthood was conferred on him.

A vague item of St. Mary's parish accounts is mentioned by
Owen and Blakeway in their History of Shrewsbury, (825, At
page 344, vol. 2, they say 44 We have an entry of the first year
of queen Mary, when the popish ritual was restored ' Paid foi
settinge an altar before Sir Adam Mytton, 3s.', i.e., we m.iv
presume, before the place of his sepulture," but it is known
that he was living in the reign of Elizabeth.

His personal history, like the history of bis mansion, 13
strangely and provokingly obscure. His birth IS HOt recorded,

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Hi

and we do not know when he died, and where he was buried.
Anyhow, we are fain to conclude that he was a Proud Salopian
of whom Shrewsbury may indeed be proud, a id gratefully
. revere his memory, although

" No monumental stone preserves his fame,
Nor sky aspiring pyramids his name."

R. E. DAVIES.

II.

NOVERS : A CORRECTION.

Mr. Henry T. Weyman, F.S.A,, has kindly pointed out to
me an error in my paper on 44 Two Salopian Deeds," in the
Transactions, 4th Series, Vol. V., p. 99. I made the statement
that there was 110 such place as Novers in Shropshire— this is
quite wrong. I ought to have written that I had been unable
to find any such place in Shropshire, for not only can Novers
be found in maps of the Caynham district, but the adjacent
lime quarries are, I am told, well known to residents in those
parts as the Novers quarries.

Novers farm can be found on the Ordnance map at a spot
approximately i\ miles, 44 as the crow flies," east of Caynham,
under a spur of the hill called Knowl hill, close to Hope
Bagot, and not very far from Bennett's Ende. I very much
regret that this error should have arisen through my
carelessness.

R. R. JAMES.

There is a second Novers, in or near Ford parish. It is a
stretch of rough ground on the bank of the river towards Little
Shrawardine.

There is also a place called Novers Hill in the parish ot
Stretton. It is a piece of wooded hill-side, between Church
Stretton and All Stretton, on the west side of the road leading
to the latter place.

EDITORS.

III.

DIDDLEBURY CHURCH AND THE CORNEWALLS.

On perusing the article on Diddlebury Church, printed in
the Transactions for 1886, Vol. IX., p. 294, I notice several
inaccuracies in the inscriptions, etc., on the mural tablets is
described.

With reference to the tablet to the memory ot Anne, wiU ol
F. H. W. Cornewall (line nine), it is stated that F. 1 1 \Y
Cornewall was of*4 Decan Court " ; this should read P. H W.
Cornewall, Dean of Canterbury. The transcriber has evidently

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taken the abbreviation Dec. (of the Latin noun Decanus) for
" Decan," and the abbreviation Cant, (of the Latin
Cantabrigiensis) for " Court."

This tablet is not fixed in the Church, as stated, but in the
Cornewall Chapel. The lady's Christian name is wrongly
given as Anna ; whereas it should have been Anne.

Another error is as regards the Arms accorded to Frederick
Hamilton Cornewall. The writer gives him the Arms of the
see of Worcester on the same shield as those of Cornewall.

Frederick Hamilton CornewaU's Arms were : Quarterly,
i and 4. Argent, a lion rampant, gules, ducally crowned, or,
within a bordure, engrailed sable bezantee (Cornewall); 2.
Gules, three lions rampant, 2 and 1, argent armed and langued
azure (Herbert) ; 3. Gules, a cross raguly, between 4 lions'
heads erased argent, crowned or (Walker).

Crest : On a wreath or and gules, a Cornish chough proper.
Motto : Semper pro patria.

Folliott Herbert Walker Cornewall (Bishop of Worcester).
Arms : Argent, 10 plates, 4, 3, 2 and 1, gules (see of Worcester),
impaling Cornewall, quartering Walker and Herbert.

In the paper on The Cornewalls, printed in the Transactions
for 1913, Fourth Series, Vol. III., p. 298, it is stated that Ada
Mary Cecil Cornewall married Andrew South, of East Ealing,
Middlesex. The place should have been given as " Ealing "
simply.

As regards the family portraits, some were sold in 1905, but
those of the Right Revd. Folliott Herbert Walker Cornewall,
.Bishop of Worcester, and Captain James Cornewall, R.N., were
retained, with sundry other paintings.

ANDREW SOUTH.

IV.

SOME SHROPSHIRE INDENTURED APPRENTICES.

The system of Indentured Apprenticeship, of which 80
much was said in the outcry against "Chinese Slavery"
in S. Africa is of long standing in our Colonial History.
The following is a copy of the conditions under which
some men from Lydburv North under the headship o\
a Ludlow gentleman went out to the sugar plantations
of Barbadoes in the time of Charles I. Hiomas H
the owner of the estate, was a cousin oi Humphrey
Walcot of Walcot, and this explains his attraction
the men of Lvdbury North. The family nl Sherman was
of long standing in Ludlow. When the Registers Ol l.vdbuiv
North are printed it would be easy to ascertain the agCS Ol

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tliese 4 Apprentices.' and also whether they came back to their
native village. John Shipman was Bailiff to Humphrey
Walcot. The original deed is still in existence. Cromwell
did actually sell many Royalists as slaves to the V/est Indies.

J. R. BURTON.

"This Indenture wittnesseth That John Sherman sonne of
John Sherman of Ludlow in the county of Salop gent. William
Home John Williams Thomas Higgs John Reynolds and
Samuell Clee of the parish of Lid bury North in the said
County of Salop doe covenante promise and agree with
Thomas Hayle gent, forthwith (by God's assistance) to passe
over with him into the Isle of Barbadoes and to serve him the
said Thomas Hayle as his Apprentices or servants from the
day of their arrival there for and duringe the termes and tymes
hereafter expressed videlt. the said John Sherman for fower
yeres William Home John Williams Thomas Higgs John
Reynolds and Samuell Clee for rive yeares a peece And the
said Thomas Haile in consideracion of their severall service to
be done for him doth covenante promise and agree with them
and every of them to find and mayutaine his said servants
during the severall termes aforesaid with competent and
necessary meate drink, and apparrell and at the end of their
severall termes afore mencioned to pay and deliver to each of
them the somme of Ten pounds a peece of current english
money or the value thereof in Goodes accordinge to the
custome of the said Island. In witness whereof the said
Thomas Hayle and his said servants have hereunto put their
hands and seales the tenth daie of November in the xxiijtu
yere of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles by the grace
of God of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland King
Defender of the faith &c. Anno Dni. 1647."

Tho. Hayle [l.s.]

Sealed and delivered in the

presence and sight of
John Shipman
Sam : Reynoldes
Rich Bowen
Edward Eyton

V.

BUSINESS LETTER OF BISHOP SQUIRE, 1765.

Samuel Squire (1713-66) was Fellow of St. John's College.
Cambridge, 1735 ; M.A., 1737. According to the D.N.B.. be
curried favour with Newcastle and Chesterfield, and by this
means obtained the Deanery of Bristol, 176c*, and the Bishopric

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of St. David's, 1761. He published Historical Essays and pro-
moted the study of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge. His letter
gives strong evidence of a mind trained by mathematics.

The Tithes of Kerry for several generations were leased by
the Bishops of St. David's to ladies of the Walcot family,
probably beginning in the time of Bishop Adam Ottley,'
1713-24. Barbara, daughter of John Walcot and widow of '
William Oakley, married as her second husband Sir William
Gresley, Bt., and was the mother of Bridget, who married
Adam Ottley of Pitchford. Also Sir Samuel Baldwyn of
Stokesay married Elizabeth Walcot, and their youngest daugh-
ter Anna married, 1668, Dr. Adam Ottley, Archdeacon * of
Salop, and afterwards Bishop of St. David's.

J. R. BURTON.
Harley Street, njan: 1765,

Madam,

I duly received your Letter, wherein you acquaint me that
you are willing to renew your late sister's Lease of the Great
Tythes of Kerry, if it be agreeable to me. It is very agreeable
to me, Madam, to renew your Lease if we can agree npon
Terms. My constant Terms with all my Tenants are, one
year and a quarter of the improved Value of ye Lands for
seven years lapsed. The Question therefore is what is ye real
Value of the Tythes before us. I have been informed by the
best authority, authority whose authentickness cannot be
disputed yt allowing for some modus's, &c, the clear Value of
ye Great Tythes, one year with another, amounts to ^200 p.
'An. Now out of this amount ye reserved Rent & what is
payed to a Schoolmaster must be discounted to ye Amount of
about ^27 p. An. - This will leave ^173 for ye net profit of ye
Tythes net. I mean between ye Lessor & Lessee. Nor as to
ye Expence of Collecting the Tythes, this together with
parochial Taxes are never considered in Bargains of this
nature. According to this Computation the Fine would
amount to more than £212. However, Madam, to shew you my
Readiness to renew, I will estimate ye clear Value of the Great
Tythes of Kerry at no more than ^150 An. & according to vs
computation ye fine will amount for a year & quarter to
^187 : 10 sk. : o. Still Madam farther to oblige you, I will
strike off the £j 10 sh. and in one word, if you will agree to
pay a fine of £lSo I will order my Steward to make out a mw
Lease, in your Name I suppose, for 21 years.

If these Terms are agreeable to you, as I am certain they
will appear reasonable to every competent Judge. I shall
expect to hear from you again within a month — but 11 they
should have the misfortune to be disliked by you, as they are
(I think) ^30 higher yn ye Fine taken by mv Predecessor, JfOU
need not give yourself any further Trouble of writing, foi I

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viz

shall not abate (tho I will not promise yt I will not raise my
demands if not complied with in a month). The great Readi-
ness which yon have shewed to renew, as soon as ye seven
years were elapsed, has been ye Reason, why I have fixed the
fine lower yn I at first intended. I am, Madam,

Your most obednt humble Serv*-

S. St. Davids.

ix

GENERAL INDEX TO VOL. V.
Compiled by F. A. MACLEOD.

(The figures in parentheses show how many times the
subject occurs in the same page).

Acton Burnell, 53

Admaston, 243

Alberbury, 209

Albrighton, 265

Aldenham, 24, 58, 74

Alscott, 279

Alvelcy, 31

Annual Accounts, xx
„ Meeting, v
„ Report, v

Apley, 54, 59, 70

Armegrove, 221

Ahmorial Bkarings.

Baugh,84n Kent, Earls of, 81
Burgh, 210 Leighton, 222, 223
Cornewall, iv Owen, 315
Cludde, 289 Shrewsbury, Earls
Donne, 337 of, 233

Gough, 181 Topp, 172, 173
Holland, 81, 82, 90

AshHeld, 85

Astley, 25, 31

Astley Abbotts. 25

At ting ham, 255

AuDKN, Rev. Prebendary T., M.A.,
F.S. A., Early Quakerism in Shrop-
shire, 291

B

Barton, 216
Bausley, 216, 218
Benhall, 216

Bennett's End, 97, 100, Hi
Bet ford, 216
Binton, 216
Bold, 85

Boscobel House, 267
Bradsill, 216, 219
Braggington, 216, 219, 313
Bridgnorth, Members of Parliament
for, by Henry T. Weyman, P.S A 1

Chronological List of, 9

Index to, 75

Bridgnorth.
Cann Hall, 91
Diamond Hall. 64
Grammar School, 53
Hospital of St. James, 27, 44
St. Leonard's Church, 23, 26, 27,
29, 44

St. Mary Magdalene, 44

Trinity Hospital, 26, 27
Brockton, 216
Bromdon, 83, 85
Broseley, 306
Buntingsdale, 134
Buildwas. 241, 301

Burgh, Sir John, Lord of Mawddwy,
by Frances C. Baldwyn Childe,209
Documents: Inq p.m., 211
Letter from Sir John Lingen, c.

1500, 214 ;
Papers re Division of Estates, 1501,
215 ;

Release of Bausley, 16 Hen. VII,
218 ;

Agreement at Marriage of Thomas
Mvtton and Elizabeth I laugh,
1452, 219;

Division of Manor of Staplcton, 10
Edw. IV, 221 ;

Wattlesborough Hall, 1562 <^7, 223
Burton , Rev. Prcb. J. R , H A.

Some Shropshire Indentured Ap-
prentices, iv

Business Letter of Bishop Squire,
1765, v

Bur war ten, Transcribed from the
Blukcway MSS., with note* and

additions, by Rev. R C. Purton.

M.A .and R. R James P R C S .77
The Holland Family, U
Rectors. 91
Registers. 92

Abstracts of Deeds, l) I
Busni I'ox, J. P. R« pOrt «»' Uri
coniunii \ ii

X

GKNKKAL INDEX TO VOL. V.

Cantlop, 124
Cardeston, 216, 219
Cardington, 53
Caus, 215

Caynham, 97, 100, Hi
Chantry

B.V.M., Alvelcy, 31
Charlecote, 85
Chelmarsh. 92

Childk, Frances C. Baldwyn.,
The Rev. Francis Lcighton, 1747-
1813, 105

Sir John Burgh, Lord of Mawddwy,
209

Chongede Mulne, 125
Church Pulverbatch, 124
Claverley, 2S
Clee Downton, 85
Clcobury Mortimer, 97, 301
Clcoluiry North 85, 95, 96
Clivc, Lord, Contemporary Letter as
to the Death of, Andrew South, 1 16
Clopton, eo. Glos., 209, 211
Coalbrookdale, 301
Cole ham, 125. 131
Condover, 124

Council Meetings, Minutes of, x

Cound, 303

Coreley, 88

Cotes, 124

Cressagc, 296

Culmington, 121

D

Davies, R. E , Sir Adam Mytton's

Mansion, Shrewsbury, i
Dinas Mawddwv, 213
Dinthill, 316, 324. Early history of,

326

Donnington Wood, 131
Dowlcs, 131n
Dudmaston, 36

E

Egerton. 83, 85
Erdington, 22, 30
Eaton Constautine, 77
Exall, 216

F

Families.

Beamond, 143
Cornewall, Hi

Darby, 301

Cough, 341

Grifhths, 321

Holland of Bur-
warton, 80, 82

Holland of Bridg-
north, 90

Horde, 34
Leinthall, 30
Leveson, 327
Mackworth, 132
Mytton, it
Owen, 316, 331
Palmer, 24. 32
Prowdc, 142
Pureell,321,329

Topp, 169 Whitmore, 8

Towers, 143 Wolrych, 36

Wingfield, 323
Fletcher, ^ev. W. G. D., M.A.,
F.S.A.

Inquisition p.m. Sir Roger Owen,
of Condover, Knight, 3 Apr.,
1619, 124

Institutions of Shropshire Incum-
bents, 1705-1775, 175

Early History of Dinthill, 326
Folhampton, 221
Ford, Hi

Forrkst, H. E., Some Old Shrop-
shire Houses and their Owners.

1. \S hitton, 169
II. Marshe Manor, 175

III. Braggington Hall, 313

IV. Dinthill, 321
V. Whitley. 331

VI. Plas-y-Coui t, 334

G

Gough, A. V., The Goughs of Newton-

on-the-Hill, 341
Gravcnor, 215

H

Habberlcy, 217
Hadnall, 77
Haughmond, 241
Haughton, 217
Hawkstone, 255
Haye, 216, 219
Hem, 216
Hencott, 124
Henle Havod, 320

Herbert, Florentia C, The History

of Wrockwardinc, 225
Hod net, 255
Hoyston, 9*2
Hynton, 2i6

Incumbents, Shropshire.

Acton Burnell, 189, 203

Adderlcy, 192, 1U7, 201

Alberbury, 320, 322

Albrighton, 19;l. 200

Ateham, 1S9, 193, 207

Baschurch, 191, 199

Battlefield, 19(S

Berrington, 149, 191, 199

hillingsley, 130

Blimhill, 187

Bolas. 198, 203, 204. 207

Burwarton. 89. 91 (4), 93 (18). 9 J (9)

Chesw ardine, 204

Chetw ) mi, 184, SOS, ft B
Child's Brcall, 196
Ciivc, 149

GENERAL, INDEX TO VOL. V.

XI

I ncum bents —continued

Condover, 187, 198
Cound, 192, 197, 202

Cressage, 297

Donnington, 187, 197, 206, 207, 208

Drayton-in-Hales, 195, 196, 199

Baton Constantino, 198, 201 (2)

Edgmond, 198

Ellesmere, 187, 196, 204

Ercall Magna, 191, 193, 201. 205

Eyton-on-the-Wildmoore, 188, 191,

192, 204
Fitz, 200, 208

Frodesley, 189, 198, 204, 206
Glazeley, 91
Harlcy, 193, 200
Hinstock, 193, 198, 204
Hodnet, 195
Hordley, 190, 194, 2u6
Ightfield, 188, 207, 208
Kemberton, 187, 202, 205
Kinlet, 107

Kinncrslcy, 191, 198, 204, 205
Lcighton, 189, 197
Lillcshall, 188, 200, 207
Longford, 188, 201, 208
Loppington, 189, 202
Ludlow Archdeaconry. 94
Marbury, sec Whitchurch
Maumlc, 93
Meolc Brace, 93, 150
Montford, 188, 190, 203, 208, 324
Moreton Corbet, 190, 192, 203, 206
Myddle, 192, 199, 201 , 203 (2), 206,
341

Ness Strange, 187, 188, 196, 205
Norton-in-Hales, 196, 200
Petton, 192, 196, 197, 200, 206
Pitchford, 189, 191, 198, 199, 200
Prees, 187, 199

Preston -on-the-Wi Id nioore, 190
Quat, 207
Roddington, 195

Ryton, Newport, 190, 202, 205, 208 (2)
Ryton, Shrewsbury, 192, 202, 204
Salop, Archdeaconry, 161, 193, 195,

196, 206, vi
Sedgeley, 94
Shawbury, 189, 192, 206
Sheinton, 190, 199, 203, 204, 207
Shifnal, 195 (2), 202 (2), 207, 208
Shrewsbury, Holy Cross, 194, 201
St. Allunund, 203, 205, 208
St. Chad, 192, 193, 195
Smethcott, 188, 200. 201
Stanton-on-Hine- Heath, 189, 190, 196
Stapleton, 197
Stirchley, 190, 203, 208
Stockton, 194, 203
Stoke-on-Tern, 187, 199,201,204,207

Sutton, 130 (7), 134, 135, 145, 149,

150, 162, 163, 164 (3), 165 (4)
Sutton Maddoek, 194, 198, 205
Tenbury, 94

Upton Magna (Upton under Haugh)
194, 195, 197 (2), 200, 202

Waters Upton (Upton Parva), 191,
198, 205

Wellington, 188, 189, 202, 208

Wem, 188, 191, 201

Westbury, 172

West Felton, 194, 196, 202, 205
Wheathill, 88, 89, 94 (3)
Whitchurch, 187, 199, 206
Worfield, 187, 205
Wrockwardine, 195, 196, 205
Wroxeter, 190, 197, 207
Indentured Apprentices, J. R. Burton,
B.A., \v

Institutions of Shropshire Incum-
bents, Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, 185
Inquisitions Post Mortem.
Burgh, Sir John, 211
Erleton, William dc. 4 Jan., 1295 6,
290

Leveson, Sir Richard, 9 Apr., 1561,
328

Leveson, Sir Richard, 28 Aug.,
1610, 329

Leveson, Sir Walter, 15 Sep. 1604,
328

Lisle, John Viscount de, 22 Dec,
1460. 234

Owen, Sir Roger, 3 Apr., 1619, 124

Talbot, John, 1st Farl of Shrews-
bury, 10 Sep., 1453. 232

Talbot, John, 2nd Earl, 5 Jan.,
1465-6, 235

Talbot, John, 3rd Earl, 15 Aug ,
1473, 237

Talbot, George, 6th Earl, 13 Apr..
1591, 245

Talbot, Katherine, Countess of. 6

Feb., 1476-7, 239
Talbot, Sir Gilbert, 12 Jan., 1421 2,

228

Talbot, Sir Thomas, 6 Dec , 1419.
227

Ironworks, Early Salopian, 301
J

Jami:s, R.R., F.R.C.S., Burwarton,
transcribed from (he Lilukcw&V
MhS, with notes and additions. 77
Two Salopian Deed

Novers ; a Correction, iti
Johnson, Dr., and Quakerism, 907

K

Kerry, vi

xii

GENERAL INDEX TO VOL. V.

Kinlet, 39, 45
Kinnerton, 215

L

Lambert Simnel, revolt of, 239
Lee Brockhurst, 217
Leighton, 219

Leighton, Rev. Francis, 1747-1813,
Frances C. Baldwyn Childc, 105
Poems, 106

Memoir (Gentleman's Magazine,

1813), 107
Epitaph, 112
Leighton, Lt. Col. Burgh, 1761-1833,
113

Service in the Peninsula War, 114
Lilleshall, 131

Lilleshall Abbey, 241. 245, 326
Longden, 131n
Longford, 267.
Loughton, 85, 88

Ludlow Castle in 1631, Caroline A. J.
Skeel, D. Lit., 1 19

Lord President's Lodging. 119

Chief Justice's Lodging, 120

Riding House, 120

Bowling Green, 120

Repairs, 121

Food of Household, 121

Brewing, 122

List of rooms, 122
Ludlow, Castle Lodge, 50

St. Leonard's Chapel, 101
Lughton, 216
Lydbury North, iv
Lydley, 53

M

Madeley, 47

Marches of Wales, English words in
use in 17th Cent., 338

Marshe Manor, Owners, 175
Description of house, 181

Mary Queen of Scots, Imprisonment
and execution, 244, 245

Mawddwy, 211

Members, List of, xiii

Minsterley, 332

Monumental Inscriptions.
Beamand, 1847, 146
Leighton, Francis, 1801, 112
Shrewsbury, John 1st Earl of,

1453, 230
Topp, 1814, 172; 1836, 171
Towers, 1851, 147

Morris, J. A., Sutton, near Shrews-
bury, 125

Myddle, 341

Mykelton, 216

N

Nash, 97, 242
Neen Savaga, 97
Newport, 131n
Newton, Westbury, 332
Newton-on-the-Hill, the Goughs of,

A. V. Gough, 341
Nobold, near Shrewsbury, 167
Novers, 97, 99, Hi

O

Oatleys Moore, 124
Orleton, 289
Overs, 215

Owen, Sir Roger, cf Condover,
Knight, Inq. p.m., 3 Apr., 1619,
124

P

Panson, 332

Parish Registers, Extracts from,
Shrewsbury, St. Giles, 136
Sutton, 149
Parliament, Members of, for Bridg-
north, 1
Pedigrees.

Bickerton, 345 Lingen, 169
Gough, 176 Stepulton, 222

Holland, 82 Topp, 169

Pkusons.

Acton, Sir Edward, 58
,, Sir John, 5, 21
„ John E. E. D., Lord, 8, 73
„ Thos., 221
Aldenham, Walter de. 30
Andrews, Elizabeth, 303

Roger, 307
Arundel & Surrey, Alethea. Coun
tess of, 248, 250
Thomas, Earl of, 250
Atkis, Richard, 145
Azar, 77

Banaster, Richard, 343
Baugh, Geoffrey, 124
Harriet, 81, 90
„ Michael, 342
Baxter, Richard, 292
Beamond, John, 140, 146, 166
Beauchamp, Margaret, Countess of

Shrewsbury, 233
Beaufort, Henry, Duke of, 269
Betts, George, 119
Berwick, Noel, 1st Baron. 2r>7

„ Thomas. 2nd Baron, 257
283

Bickerton, W. H., 342
Blount, Elizabeth, 45
,, Sir George, 45

,, Humphrey . :<. 38
Blunt, Sir George, 2G9
Bondes, Richard. 2J1

GRNERAL INDKX TO VOL- V.

xiii

Persons — continued

Boycott, Martha, 167

„ William, 137, 167
Boync, Gustavus, Vise, 81, 90
Briggs, Sir Humphrey, 17
Bromley, Sir Edward, 7, 50
Sir Thomas, 7, 47
Broughton, Hugh, 169
Broughton, Katherine, 295, 299
Brown, Isaac Hawkins, 69
Bulkcley, Dorothy, 134
Burlcy, Thomas, 179
Burgli, Ankeret, 210

Elizabeth, 211, 219
„ Elizabeth (Newport), 210
„ Isabel, 211
Hugh, 209
Sir John, 209
Burrard, 77
Butler, Francis, 285
Cavendish, Lady Grace, 249
Charlton, Francis, 286
„ John de., 78
,, Robert, 59
Churchman, Richard, 97
Clerk, William, 3, 39
Clive, Robert, 7, 58

Lord, 116
Clopton, Jane, 209
Cludde, Anna Maria, 276
,, Edward, 275

Richard, 242, 289
William, 249, 250, 264, 274,
275, 289
Cocke, Alice, 85
Constantine, William, 81
Corbet, Elizabeth, 79

Sir Richard, 80, 82
,, Sir Roger, 79
Corbett, Edward, 53

,, Sir Vincent, 58
Cornewall, Anne, Hi

,, Frederick, 117
•, Frederick H . , iv
Costentin, Thomas de, 77
Cresset, Robert, 221
Crouck, John, 28
Crowne, William, 60
Curzon, Lady Mary, 329
Darby, Abiah, 302, 310

,, Abraham, 302
Davics, Martha, 320
Dawe, Roger, 243
Detton, Robert, S3
Dickin, Thomas, 167
Donne, Edward, 320, 335, 336
d'Ybelin, Isabclle, 225
Erdington, Fremund de, 22
Eyton, John, 175
Erleton, William de, 289

Farmer, John, 297, 303

„ James, 297
Fell, Margaret, 293
Fletcher, Elizabct i, 295

,, James, 305
Forester, Mary, 105
Fortey, Charles, vi
Fox, George, 291, 304
Foxe, Charles, 101

„ Edward, 97, 100
Fry, Elizabeth, 311
Gardiner, John, 143
Garlicke, Thomas, 97
Garret, Samuel, 193
Gatacre, John, 4
Gif'fard, Charles, 267
Gough, John, 176

,, Richard, 341, 346

,, Thomas, 176
William, 346
Granville, Lord, 283
Grauvnor, Rowland, 4
Grey, Lady Jane, 244
Griffiths, Edw., 319

Leighton Owen, 314, 320,

322, 325

Griffiths, Richard de la More, 323

„ Samuel, 323
Gwenwynwyn, 209
Hale, Thomas, iv

Halifax, George, 1st Vise, 249, 259,
285

Hall, Edward, 7, 43

Hanbury Trace)', Henry, 5, 20, 72

Hardwiek, Elizabeth, Countess of

Shrewsbury, 244, 247
Harnage, Hugh, 34
Harrington, Symond, 4
Harris, John, 337
Harry, Jenny, 307
Hayes, George, 97
Heath, George, 166
Hclgot, 77

Herbert, Edward, 276

,, Robert Charles, 276
Hill, Anne, 322, 325
,, Samuel, 256

„ Hon. Richard, 249, 254, 283
„ Thomas, 140, 256
Holland, Francis, 83
,, George, 84
John, 91
Rowland, 90

Thomas, 81, 82, 85, 87, 89
William, 80, 82, 83, 87 SS

90

Hopton, Elizabeth, 79
Walter de, 78
I lord, John, 4

„ Joyce, 221

„ Thomas, 31, 37, 51. 221

xiv

GENERAL INDEX TO VOL- V.

Persons— continued
Howard, Sir George, 4

„ Sir Robert, 58
Hulle, William de la, 25
Jefferies, Samuel, 166
Jenkinson, Hon. Charles C. C., 70
Jenks, Thomas, 297
John ap John, 296
Johnson, Samuel, 307
Jones, Abraham, 168
Kettleby, James, 97, 101
Kitchen, Jeremiah, 135
Lacon, Sir Francis, 4, 52

Rowland, 46
Leighton, Burgh, 113
Francis, 105
Sir John, 212
John, 221
Mary, 317
William de, 78
Lcinthall, John de, 29
Leven, Elizabeth, 295
Leveson, James, 131, 132, 327
Sir Richard, 328
Sir Walter, 328
Levison, Walter, 245
Leyghcs, Reginald de, 23
Lindsey, John, 278
Lingen, Sir John, 212
William, 169
Lisle, John, Viscount de, 233
Lovell, Sir William, 131
Lutley, Thomas, 84
Mackworth, Bulkeley, 134

Herbert, 132, 136
,, Johanna, 143

John, 132
„ Thomas, 132

Marshe, Alicia, 175
Metre, Joseph, 166
Millington, John, 299, 300
Montfort, Robert, 221
„ Simon de, 1
Montgomery, Isabel de, 78
Moreton, Sarah, 261
Mortemcr, Ralph de, 77, 100
Mytton, Sir Adam, i, ii

Thomas, 212, 219
Nevill, Thomas, Lord Furnival, 229
Newport, Sir John 21 1
Oatcley, Adam, 192
Ogden, Tobiah. 307
Oscley, Richard, 131
Ottley, Adam, vi

„ Sir Francis, 58
Overton, Constantinc, 297, 299, 300,
305

Overton, Humphrey, 297, 300
Owen, Edward, 316

,, Leighton, 317

„ Richard, 316, 331

Owen, Robert, 317
„ Sir Roger, 124
„ Thomas, 317, 319, 321, 329,
331

William, 332
Paine, John, 297, 299

„ William, 295, 297, 299
Palmer, Alicia, 34
,, Robert le, 24
William, 32
Pantulf, Ivo, 125
Pardoe, Robert, 116
Paule, Sir George, 55
Pemberton, Edward, 285
Pembroke & Montgomery, Sidney,

Earl of, 277
Phillips, John Revell, 261

Revel, 249, 262, 264
Pigot, George Lord, 7, 68
„ Hugh, 7, 69
„ Sir Robert, 5, 21
Pope, Roger, 8, 17, 63
Prowdc, Eleanor, 143
,, George, 142

William, 131, 142
Prynce, Richard, 47
Purccll, Joan, 316, 321
Pyrcell, Richard, 327
Revell, Edward, 249. 260, 285
Reynolds, Richard, 302
Rowlcs, Robert, i
Salisbury, Sir John, 305
Sandeland, Thomas, 236, 241
Saville, Sir George, 2-19, 258, 259
,, see Halifax

Lady Mary, 249
Sir William, 258
Severne, Thomas, 179
Shrewsbury, Henry Abbot of, 125
„ John, 1st Earl of, 229
,, John, 2nd E. , 235
John, 3rd E , 236
George, 4th E , 239
„ Francis, 5th E., 243
„ George, 6th E., 243
Gilbert, 7th E , 247
Edward, 8th E , 248, 250
George, 9th E.. 2(^1
John, 10th E., 265
,, Francis, 11th E., 266
Charles, 12th E., 270
Gilbert, 13th E , 273
,, George, 14th E , 273

Charles, 1 5th E.. 250, 274,

286

Shrewsbury, Kathcrinc, CoUQtCSI
of, 23S

Shrewsbury, Elizabeth, Countess

of, 241, 244, 247
Smalm. in, George. 1 19

Smith, Samuel, 297

GENERAL INDEX TO VOL. V.

XV

Persons— continued
Sou t ham, Samuel, 166
Squire, Samuel, v
Stafford, Henry Earl of, 249, 253,
283

Stafford, William, Viscount, 251,
290n

Stephens, Cicely, 177
Strange, Ankaret, Baroness, 227
„ Hamon le, 225
„ John le, 226
Talbot, Sir Gilbert, 5th Baron, 226
Topp, Alexander, 169, 170
„ Lingen, 170
„ John, 171
Touchet, Mervin, 266, 272
Towers, John William, 147
Townsend, Sir Henry, 48
Trattle, William, 299
Vaughan, Griffith, 193
Vernon, Sir George, 7
Vyckars, John, 132
Walcot, Barbara, vi
Walcot, Elizabeth, vi
Walker, Francis, 79, 116

Richard, 266
Wallop, Sir Henry, 79

Robert, 79
Waring, Edmunh, 60
Weld, Sir John, 132
Wenlock, Humbert Prior of, 125
Whitmorc, Henry, 5, 8, 21, 72
„ Sir Thomas, 56, 62
Sir William, 54
William, 67
Whitton, Richard de, 169
WingHcld, Thomas, 323
Wolrich, John, 16
Wood, John Clavcring, 180
Pickthorne, 85, 86
Pitchford, 28, 71
Plas-y-Court, 334

Popish Plot, 1678, Execution of Vis-
count Stafford, 252
Preston Mountford, 322
Prior's Ditton. 85, 88, 92
Pulley, near Shrewsbury, 167
Pukton. Rev. R. C.. Burvvarton,
Transcribed from the BlaUeway
MSS. with notes and additions, 77

Quakerism, Early, in Shropshire,
Rev. Preb. T. Audcn, 291

I. Introductory, 291
II. First Preachers, 295

III. Organisation, 298

IV. Religious Aspect, 304
Quaker registers, 299
Quat, 32

Quatford, 24

R

Radbroke, co. Glos., 209, 211, 216
Rowthali, S5, 8S

S

Shelve, 215
Shipton, 51
Shrewsbury.

Parliamentary representation of, 2
Hereditaments in, 216
Bellstone, 316
Dogpole Court, i
Mansions : Mytton's, i

Owen's, 316
St. John's Chapel, Frankwell, 333
St. John's Hill, 300
Whitehall, 47
Shropshire Houses, Some Old, and
their Owners, H. E. Forrest
1. Whitton, 169
II. Marshe Manor, 175

III. Braggington Hall, 313

IV. Dinthill, 321
V Whitley, 331

VI Plas-y-Court, 334
Shropshire Light Infantry, 67
Shropshire, Some Indentured Appren-
tices, iv
Shuffcnhal, 339

Sidnal, Prior's Ditton, SOn, 89n
Skeel, Caroline A. J., D. Lit.,

Ludlow Castle in 1631, 119.

List of English Words usual

in the Marches of Wales, 17th

Cent , 338
Sleape, 246
Snytton, 97, 100

South, Andrew, Contemporary Let-
ter as to the Death of Lord Clive,
116

Diddlebury Church and the Corne-
walls, Hi

Squire, Bishop, Business letter of,

1765, v
Stapleton, 221
Stepple, 97, 101
Stirchley, 215, 219
Stretton, 210, 215, Hi
Sutton, near Shrewsbury, J. A.
Morris, 125
Early Valuations, 1278, 127; 1331.

129; 1379, 131
Court Lcet, 139, 140
Bishop of Hereford's Registers.

extracts from, 163
Tithe, Opinion on. 14 1
Constables of Sutton. 137. 139, 140
Incumbents of, 130, 134, 135, I 15,

150, 162, 163, Uvl (3). hv> (4)
Principal Inhabitants, 127, 168

xvi

GKNKKAL INDKX TO VOL. V.

Sutton —continued

St. John's Church, 143: Altar, 143;
Reading Desk, 145; Communion
Rail, 146; Norman Font, 146;
Memorial Slabs, 146

Forge, 137, 16/

Hall, 143

Mill, 125, 126

Spa, 147

Parish Register of 149 (for Index of
Register see Appendix)
Sutton Maddock, 238

T

Tasley, 239
Tibberton, 131

Timber Houses, numerical marks on,
182

Trefgarn Owen, S. Wales, 210, 216
Two Salopian Deeds: 1. A License
of Alienation of Land in Novers,
Cainham, &c., from Edward Foxe
to Richard Churchman, 38 Ehz.
2. Fine between George Hayes
and another and James Kettleby,
of lands in Stepple, Necn Savage,
Nash and Cleobury Mortimer,
6 Geo. 11,97

U

Upton Haselor, 216
Uriconium, vii

W

Walton, 210, 211, 215
Waks.

Civil, 57, 259, 299

Hundred Years, 229, 240

Roses, 235

Spanish, 172, 328
Wattlcsborough, 209, 211, 213, 216,

219, 222
WenlocU, 301
Wenlock Abbey, 125, 241
Wenlock Parva, 131 n
Wcntnor, 215
Wem, 346

Weyman, Hlxky T., F.S.A. The
Members of Parliament for Bridg-
north, 1

Wheathill, 83, 85, 88

Whitchurch, Tomb 1st Earl -of

Shrewsbury, 1453, 230
Whitley, 331 333
Whitton, Wctbury, 169, 173
Wigmore Abbey, 100
Wills.

Gough, Richard, 1 Ap., 1625, 341
Roger, 17 Aug., 1637, 342
„ Sarah, 19 Sep., 1697, 180
„ Thomas, 11 Apr., 1614; 176
„ Thomas, 10 Jan , 1702-3, 179
William, 8 Jan., 1667-8, 342
Owen, Thomas, 24 Dec, 1685-6, 319
Phillips, John Rcvell, 21 Oct., 1765,
262

Phillips, Thomas Carter, 10 Dec,

1782. 262
Revell, John, 31 July, 1718, 251
Shrewsbury, Francis, 11th Earl of,

268

Woodcote, 216, 219

Worcester, Battle of, 266

Words, List of English, usual in the

Marcbes of Wales, 17th Cent., C.

A. J. Skeel, 338
Wortield, 24, 28, 51
Wrexham, 305

Wrockwardine, the History of,
Florentia C. Herbert, 225.
Court Rolls, 31 Mar., 1540, 242

15 Oct., 1650, 251

20 Mar., 1681, 253

Oct., 1669, 254

15 Oct., 1650, 266, 278

26 Apr., 1706, 280
Table shewing Lords and Ladies of

the Manor, 1569-1823, 287
Stewards of the Manor, 280, 282
Partition of Manor, 284. Reunion,

275

Wrockwardine Place Names, 1650:
FJaxhill, Hall Yard, Humbrcy
Lane, Long Lane, Oke Yard Fur-
long,, Powkewall, Rushmoore
Furlong, Shingle Pool, 278

Wrockwardine Wood, 282

Wroxetcr, v ; see also Uriconium

Wykelford, 216

Y

Yockleton, 215

XVI I

THE PARISH

APPENDIX.

INDEX TO
REGISTERS

1709 TO 1870.

OF SUTTON.

Places.

Berrington, 157, 160
Bicton, 162

Kirk Michael Dumfrieshirc, 162
Llandysilio, 161
London, Rotherhithe, 150
Mcole Brace, 150, 157, 160
Myddle, 151

Pentre, co. Montgomery, 161
Shrewsbury, Holy Cross, 151

St. Chad, 151, 157

St Julian, 153, 155, 160, 161

St. Mary, 162

Wyle Cop. 161
Sutton Cottage, 159*, 160
Sutton Gate, 158
Sutton Mill, 158
Wellington, 162
* Welshpool, 156

Persons.

Ace, Dan., 162
Allen, Jn., 151

Anderson, Fra., 152, 153; My., 152,

153 ; Wni„ 152. 153
Austin, Jos. R.. 162
Baseley, Jn , 162
Bather, Edw., 161
Bemand (Bemond), Charlotte, 154 ;

Charl. Eliz., 155, 161 ; Ell , 155,

161 ; Eliz. S., 159 ; Geo. K., 159 ;

Jn.,154', 155*, 156*, 160, 161: My.

Ann, 155, 161*; Rd., 154, 159;

Sam., 156 ; Sar., 154*, 155*, 156*,

160*; Wm., 155
Biddle, Ann, 160; Chas. 160*; Eliz.,

160*; Jas., 160
Boudler, Ben., 156
Boycott (Boycot), Ann, 151 ; Ben,

151 ; Martha, 151 ; My., 151*;

Ral., 151; Thos , 151; Witt., 151*,

154

Broolte, Jn., 151

Brown. Jac , 162*; Jane, 162 •

Martha, 162; Wm, 162
Burnet, Hy , 162; Jas.. 162* ; My

Ann, 162
Butler, H., 154
Cadwallader, Ann, 162
Canadine, Eliz., 152; Jas., 15? •

Thos. 152
Cartwright, Edw., 152, 153; My

152, 153 ; Thos., 152, 153
Clay, Alf. B., 159; Jos, 159*; Jos.

Cec, 159; My. A., 159*; My.

E. R., 159
Cleaton, Eliz., 152 ; Jn., 152*; My

152*; Thos., 152
Coling, J., 160

Cooper, Ann, 152 ; Jas., 153; Jn.,
152*, 153*; My., 152", 153*;
Thos., 152
Corbet, Hy. Geo., 156; My., 156
Corbctt, Watics, 161
Cotton, Eliz.. 150 ; Jn., 150
Corrie, Jn. I)., 156 ; My. Ann, 156
Crump, Eli/.., 161 ; Vin., 161; Wm ,
161

Davies (Davis). Edw., 161 ; Elea.,
158; Eli/.. 161; Geo.. 160, 161;
Bar., 155; Herb., 160; Jane,
160* ; Jn., 152*, 158; Jn. P.,
155 ; Mgt., 160, 161 ; My., 152*;
Rd.. 160* ; Ruth, 160; Sar., 158;
Soph., 160

Dixon, Edw., 150* ; Jn., 150 ; Sus.,
150*

Dolphin, Eliz., 162; Jn., 162; Wm.,
162

Downes, Eliz., 158; Geo. 158;

Wm., 158
Edwards, Robt., 155
Evans, E., 156* ; Eliz., 15-1, 158' ;

Har., 159*; Jn, 151, 154, L59;

Kath., 151 ; Robt., 158; Sctiiw,

154 ; Thos., 158 ; Wm., 159*

xviii

SUTTON REGISTERS.

Persons — continued

Gittins, Eliz., 162

Gough, Edw., 150, 151 ; Eliz., 150,

162; Jn., 150; Mgt., 150* ; My.,

150 ; Rd., 151 ; Wm , 150
Griffiths, Edw., 160 ; Eliz., 160; Jn.,

158; Rob , 15S ; Rd., 16C* ; Wm.,

158

Harper, Mgt., 151 ; Robt , 151
Harris, Chad., 157; Jn., 157;

Sarah, 157
Hartshorn, Ed., 152; Est., 152;

Hum., 152*; Leah, 152"; My.,

152*; Pris., 152; Rach., 152;

Rd., 152
Haycock, Eliz., 152*; Jn., 152*
Heath, Geo., 153*, 154,155; Hy.,

154; Mgt., 153, 156; Mgt. LI.,

153*, 154, 155 ; Rd., 155; Sam.,

153

Hill, Rd., 153*. 155*; T. H. N., 159,
160, 162

Hughes, Eliz., 159; Jn., 159; Sar.,
159

Humphreys, Noel A., 162
James, Wm. Jn., 157*, 160, 161'
Jeffreys, Fan., 158; Era. Hen. A ,
157, 158* ; Har. Eliz., 157; Hel ,
158; My. Fra., 157*; Sam., 157,
158*

Jones, Ann, 158, 160; Ben., 153,
155,156*; Eliz., 153, 156; Fra.,
152; Geo., 160; Hy.,155; Hum.,
152 ; Jas., 162; Jn., 151, 152, 155*,
156*, 158; Mgt., 151*; My., 151,
152*, 153, 155*. 156*, 158; My.
Ann, 162; Rd., 151*; Robt., 151 ;
Sar., 152, 153, 155*, 156; Sus.,
156; Thos., 151*; Wm., 151, 160

Key, Dav., 162; Eliz., 154; Jane,
162 ; Thos., 154 ; Wm., 162

Kerry, Ann, 157

Langford, Sam., 157

Lcgh, Corbet, 161*; Eliz, 161;
Mgt., 161*

Lewis, Eliza, 158; Jane, 158; Rd.,
158 ; Sar., 151

Lloyd, Eliza, 158; Eliz., 158;
Sam., 158

Lovegrove, Em., 156; Geo. W.,
156*; Mgt., 156*

Maddoek, G. A., 153*. 154

Maddy, Rev., 156

Marygould, Eliz , 150

Matthews, Edw., 154 j Eliz., 154

Meirc, J., 156 ; My. Ann, 156

Morgan, Jos., 162 ; Martha, 162*

Morris, Geo., 159; Sar., 159;
Thos., 159

Mountford, G., 161

Meredith, Geo., 159 ; Geo. Hy.,

159 5 Sar., 159
Mortimer, B. C, 160
Ottley, L., 158

Owen, Ann, 152; Sus., 152; Thos.

152, 162
Palmer, Ann, 153*; Wm., 153
Pcmbrey, Jn., 151 ; Sar., 151
Parr, Am. Em., 160; Ann, 160
Patten, R , 161
Pitt, Eliz., 156
Plant, Jn., 155*
Poole, Jn., 161

Pugh, Chas., 156; Edw., 154 ; Est.,

152 ; My., 151, 152, 153, 154 ;

Thos., 151*, 152, 153, 154
Purcell, Adam, 158*; Ann, 158;

Em., 158 ; Sar., 158*
Purslow, Em., 159; Mgt., 159*;

Thos., 159*
Ratcliffe, Ann, 150; Sam., 150;

Thos., 150
Richards, Ann, 157; Wm., 157
Robarts, Han., 152; Jane, 152, 153;

Wm., 152
Robinson, Jane, 152, 153; Jn., 151 ;

Mgt., 151; Thos., 152, 153 ; Wm.,

151, 153

Rogers, Ann, 158; Fra., 158;

Martha, 153*. 159; My., 158;

Rd., 159 ; Robt , 158 ; Thus.,

153; Wm., 158*
Rowlands, Edw., 160; Geo , 160;

Hy. Edw., 160; Jane, 160; Jos.,

154 ; My., 154 ; My. Jane, 160 ;

Sar., 160 ; Wm., 154
Rowley, Jn., 151*; My., 151*; Wm.,

151*

Roxby, Will., 160*

Russell (Russel), Ann, 152; Edw.,

151 ; Han., 151 ; Jn., 151*; Mgt.,

151 ; My.. 151*, 152 ; Pet., 152 ;

Tab., 151
Salter, Eliz. F., 152; Est. 152;

Wm., 152
Sandford, Edw., 162
Scutt, Han., 156: Mary, 156; Rd.,

156

Seabury, Ann, 159; Jos, 159;

Thos., 159
SUet, Ann, 158; Jos., 158; Rd.,

158*; Sar., 158*
Smith, Edw., 161*; Geo B., 161 ;

My. Ann, 161
Stanley (Stanly), Arron, 152*.

Eli/.., 152*; Jn., 152
Sturgess, Iribell, 151 ; Lam., 151 .

Law., 151
Tannat, Ann, 151 ; Jn.. 151
Taylor, Dav., 158; Han., 158, LS8 .

Jn., 159; Rd., 158. 159

SUTTON REGISTERS.

xix

Persons — continued
Thomas, Sar., 157
Thompson, Geo., 160*; Hy.. 160;
Hy. Jn , 160; Maria, 160*; Rd.,
160

Thorncs, Thos. Wm., 156
Thorp, Jos., 150

Towers, Edith Eliz., 159 ; Ell., 159*,
160. 161 ; Jn , 161 ; Jn. Wm.,
159*, 161; Wm Jones. 159, 160

Trevor, Ann, 154, 155*, 156; Eliz.,
154, 155; Han.. 155*; Martha,
156; Sam., 1^4, 1^5; Sar., 154;
Thos., 154*, 155*, 156

Vaughan, Wm., 158
Wade, Edw.,152; Eliz., 152; Pris.,
152

Wakefield, J. M., 155*, 156*

Wall, Eliz., 154, 155 ; Rd., 154,

155* ; Wm, 154
Whitefoot, Mgt., 154; My., 154;

Rd., 154

Wilcox, Chart, 157 ; Cornelius, 157
Wilde. Sar., 162

Williams, Caziah, 152; Geo., 152;
Kath., 151, 152*

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