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SHROPSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL
HISTORY SOCIETY.

Contents of 4th Series, YoL YI.

Page.

Register of the Names of Boys admitted to Shrewsbury
School from March 5, 1636-7 to November 16, 1664.
Transcribed and edited by J. E. Auden, M.A.,
F.R.Hist.S. .. .. .. .. 1

Names of Scholars, 1664- 1734 •• 7°

Index to Scholars . . . . . . . . 77

Deed of Consecration of the School Chapel in the Old
Schools, Shrewsbury, dated 1 March, 16 1 7. Tran-
scribed by the Rev. C. IT. Dkinkwatek, M.A., with
Introduction bv the Rev. \V. G. D. FLETCHER,
M. A., F.S.A, .. .. .. .. 88

The Old Church of Llanfairwaterdine. By the Rev.

Prebendary W. G. C LARK- MAXWELL, M.A., F.S.A. 97

Two Celebrated Salopian Surgeons (Sir Coesar Hawkins,
Bart., and his brother Pennell Hawkins). By. R. R.
James, F.R.C.S. .. .. .. .. 107

Shropshire and the Trent Basin. By the Rev. U. H. S.

Cranage, Litt.D., F.S.A. .. .. .. 123

The Borough of Cluir. By R. Li.. Ken yon .. 127

The Register of the Council in the Marches of Wales,

1569-1 591. By Caroline A. J-. Sicekl, I). Lit .. 141

Some Notes on the History of the Oakeley Family.

By Captain lvDWARiJ F. OAKELEY . . . . 147

Grant from William Lyster to his Son-in-law Nicholas
Vfaryng and Cristiana his wile, in tail, of all his
lands in Frank well, Shrewsbury, 15 May, 1494-
Transcribed and edited by Major J. Die C. Lai-fan,
R. A. .. .. .. .. .. 161

Shropshire Feet of Fines, A.i). 1218-124S. Edited by

the Rev. W. G. 1). Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A. .. 169

Some Shropshire Incidents in the Fifteenth Century.

By Henry T. Weyman, F.S.A. .. .. 193

The Romance of Shrewsbury School Register. By

Lieut. -Colonel A. C. Yatk, F.R.Hist.S. .. 201

ftolgate and the Cressetts. By the Rev. R. C. PURToN,

M.A. .. .. .. .. .. 211

Bromcrolt, in the Parish of I hddk-bui and its Owners.

liy'Kviti.YM II. Martin .. .. .. 223

IV

Page

Some Old Shropshire Houses and their Owners. By

H. K. Forrest —

VII. The Lynches, Yockleton . . . . 277

VIII. Bentall, near Ford . . . . 281

IX. (a) Ford Hall . . . . . . 285

(b) Ford House . . . . . . 28b

(c) Mansion House, Ford . . . . 292
Institutions of Shropshire Incumbents —

Diocese of Lichfield, 1775-1800 . . . . 295

Diocese of Hereford, 1759-1800 . . . . 304

Shrewsbury Show. By R. Ll. Kknyox . . . . 331
Borough -English and the Manor of Ford. By H. M.

Audkn, F.R.Hist.S. .. .. .. 340

MISCKLLANKA.

I. Appointment by the Fail of Bridgewater of

Richard Wickstead to be official of the

Peculiar of Buildwas, 1635 . . . . i

II. Deed of Manumission of a Bondwoman, 1372 .. ii

III. St. Julian's Church, Shrewsbury . . . . iv

IV. Sale of Old Parr's Cottage .. .. iv
V. Brownesiand, near Asterton . . . . v

VI. Will of Thomas M} tton, of Halston, 1656 .. w
VII. Grant from William Byreton to John Beget and
Benedicta his wife of his lauds in Longden,

near Pontesbury, 28th July. 1416 . . . . vii

General Index to Volume VI. . . . . . . ix

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Fig. 1. Llanfairwaterdine Church in 1793.

ditto 1812.
ditto 1851.
ditto i^49-
Interior of LlanfairwTaterdine Church in 1842.
Llanfairwaterdine West End in 1842.

ditto Holy-water stock, 1S42.

ditto Detail of Capital, 1S42.

9. ditto Inscription on Altar Rail.

All to face page 97
Map of Watershed, Shropshire and Trent Basin (two

miles to one inch) .. .. .. 123

Ditto ditto (six inches to one mile) 126

SHROPSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.

MINUTES OF THE MONTHLY COUNCIL MEETINGS.

Ja?iuary 14///, 1916 — Rev. prebendary Auden, F.SA., in the

Chair.

The Chairman read a letter from the Librarian of the
National Library of Wales, stating that they would be willing
to exchange publications with the Society, so far as it was
possible. The Rev. W. G. I). Fletcher was requested to
com muni cat e with the Librarian.

The Chairman read a letter from Mr. Beddows, Librarian
of the Shrewsbury Free Library, and also a list supplied by
him of the Transactio)is required in order to complete the sets
of the Societies that exchange with this Society. The
Assistant Secretary was instructed to write to the different
Societies requesting them to supply the missing parts.

It was resolved that in future the Transactions of Societies
in exchange should be sent direct to the Librarian, Free
Public Library and Museum, Shrewsbury, and the Assistant
Secretary was instructed to write to all the Societies to that
effect.

February, 9th, 1916— Rev. Prebendary Auden, P.S.A., in the

Chair.

The Chairman read the replies received from the Societies
in exchange, re the missing parts of their Transactions
required by this Society to complete the sets in the Library.

The Assistant Secretary was instructed to ask Mr. Beddows,
the Librarian, Shrewsbury Free Library, to supply the Council
periodically with a list of the Transactions received from the
Societies in exchange, and also to advertise for a copy of the
Archccological Journal For March, 1902.

The question of reducing the number of Transactions
printed, and the surplus copies in the store room, was deferred
to a future Meeting.

March Sth, 1916— Rev. Prebendary Auden, PS. A., in /he Chair.

Frank Gray Ouinby, Esq., M.R.C.S., LR.C.P.. E.D.S.,
Shrewsbury, was elected a meniber of the Society.

Letter it, ul from Mr. \V. Cole, 1-Ion. Secretary of the Essex
Field Club, stating that he was unable to give any explanation
as to why the Society had not received the Essex Naturalist for
the past live \ cai s,

vi

Letter read from Mr. P. II. Foley, Stoke Edith Park,
Hereford, asking if the Society would supply him with certain
volumes of the Transactions. The Assistant Secretary was
instructed to write to Mr. Foley to the effect that if he would
become a Member of the Society the Council would be
prepared to let him have the back volumes at a reduced price.

The Chairman read a letter from the Librarian of the
National Library of Wales, stating that they had the
Transactions of this Society up to the end of Vol. 8 of the
3rd Series, and asking if the Society would complete their set.
He also stated that the publications required by the Society
in exchange would be sent to the Shrewsbury Free Library.
It was resolved that they be supplied with the Transactions
to complete the set in their Library, and the Assistant
Secretary was instructed to forward the parts required.

April \2th, \9\6~Rev. Prebendary Aiuien, F.S.A., in the Chair.

Mr. P. H. Foley, D.L-, J. P., of Stoke Edith Park, Hereford,
was elected a Member of the Society.

Letter read from Mr. T. Shelton Young asking for a copy
of the part containing the Devolution of the Manor of
Edgmond. It was decided that a copy of the part containing
the paper be supplied at a reduced price.

The Chairman, Rev. W. G. I). Fietcher, and Mr. J. A. !
Morris were requested to confer with Messrs. B^own and
Brinnand with reference to the delay in printing of the
second part of the Transactions for 1915.

The Chairman mentioned that an application had been
received from an Heraldic Exhibition in London for the loan
of the Seal of Dame Alize le Strange. The Council gave their
approval, provided proper precautions were taken for the safe
custody of it.

May lOth, 1916 — Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the Chair.
No business of sufficient interest to report.

June )4th, 1916— Rev. C. II. Dr'mkwaUr in the Chair.

Captain Edward F. Oakeley, ol Oxford Barracks, Warrington,
was elected a Member of the Society.

Some discussion took place as to the custody of Urieonium.

It was resolved that the Rev. W. O. Clark-Maxwell be
permitted to have six plates lor the illustration of his paper
on Lianfairwaterdine, provided he was willing to bear half
the cost of the blocks.

Statement of Accounts for 1915 laid on the table, shewing
a balance in hand at the end of the year of £q2 2S. 2d.

Tin- Assistant Secretary was requested to write l<> Messrs.
Woodull and Co. asking for the return of the blocks belonging
to the Society, which they promised to send 111 October last.

VI 1

July 12///, 1916 — Rev. Prebendary Audeu, F.S A. in the Chair.

It was resolved that in the ease of Members in arrear with
their subscriptions, a letter be sent to each stating that, unless
payment was made, the sending of Transactions would be
discontinued.

Letter read from Mr. J. B. Oldham inviting Members of the
Council to inspect the books in the new School Library. Mr.
Pickering was asked to convey to Mr. Oldham the thanks of
the Council, and to ask if the visit could be postponed until a
later date.

September \5th, 1916— Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S. A., in the

Chair.

John Barker, Ksq., of the Old Grammar School House,
Shrewsbury, was elected a member of the Society.

Letter read from Mr. Revell Phillips, Shifnal, asking the
Society to supply him with a copy of a certain part. The
Assistant Secretary was instructed to write to Mr. Phillips to
the effect that if he would become a member of the Society,
as from the ist January, 1916, the Council would be prepared
to let him have the volume in question at a reduced price.

The Chairman reported that he had gone into the question
of the admission to Uriconiuni, and the charges made by the
caretaker were found to be in accordance with the agreement
made with the Research Committee. It was felt to be
desirable that some further supervision on the part of the
Research Committee should, if possible, be exercised over the
caretaker.

The Chairman reported that some of the stones of the North
Wall of Buildwas Abbey had fallen down. He was requested
to write and draw the attention of Air. C. R. Peers (Inspector
of Ancient Monuments), to the matter.

The Assistant Secretary was instructed to again write to
Messrs. Woodall & Co., reminding them of their promise to
return the blocks belonging to the Society.

It was unanimously resolved that the Annual General
Meeting be omitted this year on account of the War.

October 1 1 tit, 1916 — Rev Prebendary Auden, F.S. A., in the Chair.

The Assistant Secretary reported that a representative from
Messrs. Woodall's had called upon him and apologised lor the
delay in sending the blocks belonging to the Society ; the
reason being that the man who had charge of the bhu-ks h id
recently died, but Messrs. Woodall and Co. promised that
they would give the matter their early attention.

Letter icad from Mr. Peers to the effect that lie had written
to the owner about the condition of Buildwas Abbey, but had
not received any reply.

viii

The Chairman reported the death of two Members of the
Society, viz. : — Archdeacon Oldham and Mr. Rvelyn South-
well, and expressed the sympathy of the Council with the
relatives and friends.

The Chairman reported that he, Sir OfHey Wakenjan, and
Mr. Oldham, were going to meet the Vicar of the Abbey, with
reference to the proposal for renting a strip of ground in
iront of the Refectory Pulpit, from the Shropshire and
Montgomeryshire Railway Company.

Mr. Forrest reported that Lord Brownlow had given per-
mission for some excavations at Pan Castle, Whitchurch, on
condition that the work would be properly supervised. The
Council nominated Mr. H. E. Forrest and Mr. E. P. Thompson
to serve on the Supervising Committee.

November 8th, 1916 — Rev. C. H. Drinkwater in the Chair.

Mr. J. A. Morris promised to make a list of the plates which
have appeared in the Transactions, so that the blocks in
possession or Messrs. Woodall & Co. and Messrs. Adnitt &
Naunton may be checked.

December 13///, 1916 — Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the

Chair.

- The Council considered Messrs. Brown & Brinnand's
charges for printing Part 2 of Vol. 5 of the Transactions,
particularly an item of £8 7s. 6d. for the extra cost of paper
and labour, which the printers had included in the Account
without first asking the Council to agree. After discussion,
in which it was stated that the prices charged were below the
actual cost of production, it was decided to allow the charge.

It was agreed to give £1 is. od. towards the cost of St.
Mary's Cottage restoration.

January 10///, 1917— AVc;. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the

Chair.

Mr. Brown, of Messrs. Brown & Brinnand, attended and
stated that the delay in printing the Transactions arose from
the fact that they had lost most of their compositors owing to
the War. He promised to hasten matters by putting out with
other firms certain parts of the printing.

The Council decided to see what efforts Messrs. Brown &
Brinnand would make within the next few months.

February 14///, \9\7—Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the

Chair.

Mr. J. A. Morris reported the steps he had taken to obtain
a complete list of the blocks in the hands of Messrs. Woodall
& Co., and of Messrs. Adnitt X: Naunton. Owing to the
shortage of labour, he was afraid it would be some time
before the Society received the blocks from cither linn.

ix

It was agreed to lend to Major-General Kinehant the block
of Park Hall for use in a book he was publishing on the
Kinehant Family.

Sanction was given for maps for the Rev. Dr. Cranage's
paper, Dr. Cranage offering to pay half the cost.

March \4(h, 1917— AVz>. C. II. Drinkwater in the Chair,

It was decided to bind 6 copies of " The Liberties of
Shrewsbury " ready for sale; also to print some extra copies
of " Shrewsbury School Register," for sale at 2/6 a copy.

May 9th, I$l7—Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the Chair.

An exchange of Transactions with the Carmarthenshire
Antiquarian Society and Field Club was agreed to.

June 13///, 1917— Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the Chair.
No business of sufficient interest to report.

July 11///, 1917— At;'. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the Chair.

It was resolved that £5 be spent in copying MSS. in the
Public Record Office for the Transactions.

September 12///, 1917— Rev. C. H. Drinkwater in the Chair.

Letter read from Mr. R. E. Davies calling attention to the
condition of Sutton Church, and suggesting that the most
urgent needs were : —

The provision of a substantial door to the church, with a
strong lock.

The removal of the overhanging ivy from the south wall.
The clearance of the lumber from the churchyard, and
The substitution of proper railings for the present hurdles.
The consideration of the matter was adjourned to the next
meeting.

October 10///, 1917— AV;'. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A , in the Chair.

It was resolved that Mr. Davies's letter calling attention to
the condition of Sutton Church be sent to the Archdeacon
of Salop.

Messrs. Brown & Brinnand's Account of ^"63 5s. 6d. for
printing Part 1, Vol. 6, of the Transactions was considered.
The Assistant Secretary was instructed to write asking for an
explanation of an item of ^18 13s. ad., being 50 per cent, over
contract price.

A letter was read from the Secretary of the Worcestershire
Archaeological Society asking if his Society could join the
Shropshire Society in printing a joint volume of Transactions
yearly. Tin1 Rev. W, G. I). Fletcher was requested to write to
the Secretary about the matter, and to say that the Council
regret they cannot consider the matter until the War is over,
when the matter might be re-opened.

X

A bundle of old letters and papers relating to the Abbey
Pulpit, handed over by Mr. Herbert Southam, to be kept in
the Society's box for future reference.

It was decided that no General Meeting be held this year on
account of the War.

November \Ath, 1917— Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the

Chair.

Letter read from the Archdeacon of Salop saying that he
was enquiring as to Button Churc h.

Letter lead from Messrs. Brown & Brinnand saying that
the item ot £iS 13s. yd. was charged because of the increased
cost of paper and the advance in wages, and that the sum did
not actually cover their out-of-pocket expenses.

Messrs. Woodall & Co. were requested to send to Shrews-
bury all the Society'.-, blocks now in their possession.

December \2th\ 1917— Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A.,.in the

CJiair.

Mr. Morris reported that the Archdeacon of Salop, the
Rural Dean, and the Vicar of Meole had met at Sutton Church,
and had determined to put in hand the necessary wurk of
clearing and repairing the church.

The Assistant Secretary was instructed to offer the printers
£\$ over contract prices for the last Part of the Transactions
printed.

XI

SHROPSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL

AND

NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1917,

Jkcsibent :
The Right Hon. Lord Barnard.

The Right Hon. The Eari
The Rt. Hon. The Bar), 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 Ken yon
The Right Hon. Lord Forester

Oirr-|Ue$ibents :

Brown low Sir Offlky Wakeman, Bart.

Sir J. Bowen Bowen-Jones, Bart.
Sir Beville Stanier, Bart., M.P.
R. Lloyd Ken yon, Esq.
W. H. Foster, Esq.
Rev. C. A. Aijngton, M.A.
The Hon. Mrs Bulkkley-Owen
Mi's. Baldwyn-Childe
Miss Hope-Edwardes

(Jo until :

Rev. Prebendary T. Auden, M.A.,
F.S.A.,Alderdene, Church Stretton
(Chairman).

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

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

Rev. R. Jowett Burton, M.A.,
Hurlestone, Newport.

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

Rev. I). H. S. Cranage, I) Litt.
F.S.A., Cambridge.

R. E. Davies, Esq., Shrewsbury.

Rev. E. H. Gilchrist de Castro,
M.A., Halford Vicarage, Craven
Arms.

Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, M.A.,.
St George's Vicarage, Shrewsbury.

Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A J
F.S.A., Oxo.n Vicarage, Shrews-
bury.

H. E. Forrest, Esq., Bayston Hill.

H. F. Harries, Esq., Shrewsbury.

Rev. Canon Mori arty, D.D , Bel-
mont, Shrewsbury.

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

Henry T. Wey.man, Esq., F.S.A.,
Ludlow.

(Editorial Committee :
Rev. Prebendary Auden, M.A
Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A. Rev.

fjDtti ^ccretni'i] :
H. W. Adnitt, Eso., The Square,

Assistant ^cctctarji :
Mr. A. E. Cooper, St. Joints Chambers, 42, St. John

, F.S.A.

C. H. Drinkwater,

MA.

Shrewsbu ry.

Hill, Shrewsbury.

W. W. Naunton, Eso

Fm; Capital

o if a s urn:.. :
and Counties Bank, Limited.

Xll

LIST OF MEMBERS, 1916 and 1917.

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

Alington, Rev. C. A., The Schools, Shrewsbury (19 16 only).
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.
Browni.ow, Eight Hon. Earl, Bel toil, Grantham.
Barnard, Right Hon. Lord, F.S.A., Raby Castle, Darlington
(Pnsi(Ie)it).

Berwick, Right Hon. Lord, 59, Pall Mall, London, S.W.
Baldwyn-Childe, Mrs., Kyre Park, Tenbury.
Barker, John, Esc}., Old Grammar School House, Shrewsbury.
Barnes, Mrs., Brookside, Weston Rhyn, Oswestry.
Bartleet, Rev. E. B., B.D., The Vicarage, Much Wenlock.
Bateson, Gordon, Esq., Brookneld, Church Stretton.
Beddoes, W. F., Esq., J. P., Miuton, Church Stretton.
Benthall, E., Esq., Glantwrch, Ystalyfera, R.S.O., Glamorgan-
shire

Beresfbrd, Robert de la Poer, Esq., M.D., Oswestry.

Bibby, F., Esq., D.L., JP , Hardwicke Grange, Shrewsbury.

Birmingham Central Free Library (Reference Department),

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

Shrewsbury.

Brewster, Rev. W., B.A., Fitz Rectory, Shrewsbury.
Bridgeiuan, Rev. E. R. O., M.A., Blymhill Rectory, Shifnal.
Burd, Rev. Prebendary John, M.A., Clawdd-y-dre, Montgomery.
Bind, E., Esq., M.D., J. P., Newport House, Shrewsbury.
Bulkeley-Owen, The Hon. Mrs., The Limes, Shrewsbury.
Burton, Rev. Prebendary, J. R., B.A., Bitterley Rectory,
Ludlow.

Burton, Rev. R. Jowett, M.A., Hurlstone, Newport, Salop.
Burton, li. R. Lingen, Esq., Rose Cottage, Halfway House,
Shrewsbury.

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

Rectory, Bridgnorth.
Clay, J. Cecil, Esq., Donuei ville, Wellington, Salop.
Collett, Rev. Edward, M.A., Retford, Notts.
Colvillc, 1 1 . K., Esq., J. P., Bellaport, Market Drayton,
Cranage, tW« !>• H. S., P. Lilt., F.S.A., S, Park Terrace,

Cambi idge.

Crowle, FreH&Tfck, F.sq., Shirehall, Shrewsbury.
Cunlilfe, Lieul -Col. J. \V., Biadenev, Bridgnorth.

XI 11

lie Castro, Rev. E. II. Gilchrist, M.A , Halfoid Vicarage,
Craven Arms.

Dovaston, Adolphus, Ksq., 14, Madeley Road, Haling,
London, w.

Dovaston, \V. D., Esq., The Nursery, West Felton, Oswestry. -
Downward, Miss Alice, The Cattle, Shrewsbury (1916 only;.
Drinkwater, Rev. C. H., M.A., St. GeorgeS Vicarage,
Shrewsbury.

Kckersley, X. IFariugtoii, Esq., J. P., Trench, Weill.
Eldred, Q. II , I C s q . , Mardol, Shrewsbury.

Forkstkk, Right Hon. Lord. Willey Park, Broseley.
Feilden, Rev. O. M., M.A., Fraiikton Rector}-, Oswestry.
Field eh j E. B., Bsq , J. P., Condover Hall, Shrewshnrv.
Fletcher, Rev. W. G. I)., M.A.. F.S.A.. Oxon Vicarage,
Shrewsbury.

Foley, P. H. Esq.?'l).L., J.P.. Stoke Edith Park, Hereford.
Forrest, H. Iv, Esq , Hillside, Bayston Hill, Shrewshnrv.
Foster, \V. H, Esq., D.L , J.P., Apiey Park. Bridgnorth.

Gongh, Fred. II. Esq., M.A, Merefield House, Crewkerne,

Somersetshire.
Gough, W. Iv, Esq., Clenmore House, Dawley.
Guildhall Library, London, B.C.

Harding. W. E., Esq., Acton House, Shrewsbury.
Harley, John, Esq., M l)., Beediugs, Pulborough, Sussex.
Harries, H. F., Esq,, Tregwynt, Kingsland, Shrewsbury.
Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., c/o Messrs. E. G.

Allen & Son, 14, Grape Street, Shaftesbury Avenue,

W.C.

Heath, J. W., Esq., Pride Hill, Shrewsbury.
Herbert, Colonel, C.P>.. J. P.. Orleton. Wellington. Salop.
1 lev wood. Gerald G. P., Esq., Tickwood Hall, Much Wenlock.
Hill, \V. E., Esq., F.S.S., Wellington House, Town Walls,
Shrewsbury.

Hobson, Hugh, Esq., The Green, Qnatford, near Bridgnorth.

Homer, J. T., Esq,, D.L., J.P., Dormston, Sedgley, Staffordshire.

Hope-Edwardes, Miss, Netley Hall, Salop.

How, W. M., Esq., M.A., Nearwell, Shrewsbury.

Howells, T. Middleton, Highfield, Shrewsbury.

Humphreys, Miss, F.R.G.S., Swan Hill Court House,.

Shrewsbury.
Hunt, Captain, Ruyton Park, Ruyton-xi-Towns.

James, R. R., Esq., F.R.C.S., 12, Gla/bury Road, West
Kensington, W.

Jones, Daniel, Esq., J. P., F.G.S , The Blue House, Albrighton,

near Wolverhampton.
Jones, Heighwav. Miss, Earlsdale, L'oulc.sloid, Salop.
K.KNYON, Right Hon. Lord, Grcdinglon, Whitchurch, Salon.

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Kenyon, Rev. A. H. Lloyd, M.A., The Rectory, Ludlow.
Kenyon, R. Lloyd, Esq., D.L., J. P., Pradoe, West Felton,
Oswestry.

Lichfield, the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of, The Palace,
Lichfield.

La Touche, Rev. W. M. D., M.A., Wistanstow Rectory, Craven
Arms.

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REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS ADMITTED
TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL
From March 5, 1636-7 to November 16, 1664.

Transcribed and Edited by
J. E. AUDEN, M.A., F.R.Hist.S.

The volumes of School Registers still surviving comprise
firstly the Regestum Scholarium transcribed by the late
Dr. Calvert and published by him in 1902. This begins on
December 28, 1562, and ends with November 16, 1635, covering
the headmasterships of Thomas Ashton (1562-71), Thomas
Lawrence (1571-83), and John Meighen (1583-1635). Then
there comes a blank of 16 months before the next Register (the
one printed below) commences. John Meighen resigned on
Sept. 2, 1635, and John Harding was installed as Headmaster
on Nov. 20 following. He, however, only held the post for
six months, leaving on, or about, May 14, 1636. The School
was then carried on for about nine months by the Assistant
Masters, David Evans and Ralph Gittins, till Thomas Chaloner
was nominated as Head Master on Feb. 17, 1636-7.

There is no list of the names of the boys who entered the
School between Nov. 16, 1635, and March 5, 1636-7, though the
teaching was carried on as usual, and the College Registers of
Cambridge record admissions of those who had come to
Shrewsbury in this interval. For instance, Eubulus Thelwall
entered St. John's College in May, 1637 ; Humphrey Blundell,
St. Peter's on June 20, 1644 ; and Robert Jones, (son of Edward
Jones, of Squennan, co. Denbigh), Christ's on June 5, 1641 :
none of their names are found in the School lists, though
the College records state they had been educated at
Shrewsbury.

2

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

The second volume is the following, and extends from March
5, 1636-7 to Nov. 16, 1664, the time of the Headmasterships of
Thomas Chaloner and Richard Pigott.

After this there is a break of 70 years — from Nov. 17, 1664 to
Nov. 16, 1734 (the "large folio volume containing the
admissions from 1664 " being lost by James Atcherley, Head-
master, 1771-98) ; then we have lists for eleven years (Nov. 17,
1734 to Nov. 16, 1745) ; then another break till Dr. Butler
begins his Register on Oct. 1, 1798. Since then, with the
exception of Dr. Kennedy's time (1836 to 1866), which it was
possible to fill up from school lists, &c, careful records of all
boys have been kept.

The Registers of 1734-45, and of 1798-1908, were published
under my editorship in 1908, and now the only hitherto
unprinted Catalogus Nominum Scholasticorum will be found
below.

With regard to to the entrance fees appended to the names,
a paragraph in the School Ordinances will explain the reasons
for the varying sums : —

" Everie scholler shall paie for his admissyon, viz.: —

M A lorde's sonne 10s. ; a knight's sonne 6s. 8d. ; a sonne
and heir apparent of a gent. 3s. 4d. ; and for everie
other of their sonnes 2s. 6d.
!l Any under these degrees abovesaid, and born without

the countie of Salope 2s.
"And any under these degrees and borne within the

countie of Salope is.
" Everie Burges' son inhabitinge in the towne or in the
liberties thereof or of the Abbey Foryat, if he be of
abilitie 4d.

" The son of everie other person there inhabitinge 8d."
For some reason other sums were occasionally charged as
is. 4d., 2S. 8d., 6d. and 2d.

We see that Burgesses, of whatever social standing they might
be, availed themselves of their privilege, and paid only 4c!.
Take as cases in point the Mackworth, Lutwich, Leighton and
Prince families.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL. 3

The oft-recurring entry of the same boy's name is explained
by further ordinances, which I quote in modern English.

11 If any scholar after the liberty at the breaking up of the
School before any of the said feasts of Christmas, Easter or
Whitsuntide to depart from School, or being licenced at any
other time by the School Master, shall not return again within
the space of one whole week after the time of teaching shall
begin again or within the space of one whole week after his
licence expired : that then every such scholar be rejected and
received no more into the said School unless it be proved that
sickness or other urgent cause hath delayed him, or else pay
for his admission as at the first."

M If any scholar, after he is admitted, be wilful or obstinate
concerning any order touching the said School, then every
such scholar shall be expelled and not received again unless
his friends will undertake to the Schoolmaster for his
obedience and good behaviour in all things. And also then to
pay for his admission again as he paid at his first entry."

The absence of fees opposite several names will be noticed.
As this occurs principally in cases of the sons of gentlemen of
good social position, I can only suggest that there was possibly
some difficulty as to the amount to be paid, so the final
decision was deferred till the Annual Audit in November,
when the Headmaster could consult with the Mayor, the name
of the boy, however, being put down on the day he entered
School as a reminder.

Several names in the earlier years are to be found also in
Dr. Calvert's Regestum, among Meighen's entries, their owners
having, for one or other of the above reasons, to repay their
entrance fee during their time under Chaloner's rule.

Sometimes the amount originally charged was reduced on
the second payment, as in the case of Thomas Harris,
who originally gave 6s. 8d. on his first entrance, but only 3s. 4d.
or 2S. 6d. on the four other occasions on which his name
appears, the same being the case with his brothers Paul and
■George.

4

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Boys attending the Accidence School paid no fees and so do
not appear in the Register till promoted to the Higher School,
which took place apparently about Dec. 14, or Jan. 5, when
their education was sufficiently advanced to warrant their
admission.

The round brackets ( ) are in the original register and mark
contemporary additions. The square brackets [ ] enclose
remarks of my own. I had, at first, wished and intended to
give far more biographical notes, but the time required for
such a purpose would probably have postponed the publication
for an indefinite period. The Register is therefore offered in
its original form, with only, here and there, an effort at
expansion, when I happened to be aware of any fact relating
to a name found in it.

1636.

Catalogus nominum Scholasticorum qui ab admissions
Thomae Chaloner in Principalem ljjdimagistrum huius
Scholae Salopiensis inscribkbantur una cum Nummis
quos pro introitu tam oppidani quam exterj soluerunt.

1636, March 5 John Gardner 4d.

[Royalist Officer; Captain in Prince Rupert's
Regt. of Foot].
6 Richard Anwill (G.F.) 2S. 6d.
John Adams is.

[St. John's Coll. Camb., 15. A., 1641 ; Vicar of
Stoke-on-Tern, 1655 ; of Pen ley, co. Flint,
1660; Ejected 1662; Died April 1670.]
Andrew Baddeley is.
Richard Baddeley is.

8 Johannes PurGell (Arm. F. et H.) 3s. 4d.
Edward Mathews 4c!.

9 Henry Davies 2S.
John Davies 2s.

1637, April 15 Ambrose Staueley (G.F.) 3s. 4d.

Charles Halford (G.F.) 3s. 4d.
Thomas Chaloner 8d.

fere decennis nenipe Iunij seque litis die 4(0
[St. John's Coll., Camb.; Master at Nantwich
School, 1655 8; 21ld Master, Newport
Gramniar School, Salop, [658.]

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY 3CHOOL.

5

13 Richard Piper is.

[All Souls' Coll., Oxford, B.A., 1641 ; Vicar
of Bobbington ; sequestered 1655 ; Vicar of
Pitchford and Rodington, 1661.J
Griffith Lloyd 2s.
Edward Gravenor 8d.
Richard Gravenor 8d.

[Royalist Officer ; Quartermaster in Regt. of
Col. Somerset Fox].
17 Robert Gosnell 4d.
Henry Gosnell 4d.
John Grinsell 4c!.
21 Hugh Lloyd 2s. 6d.
Richard Lloyd 2s. 6d.
Fraunces Young 2s. 6d.
Andrew Younge 2s. 6d.

26 John Browne 4d.

[? M.P. 1653, for Wales ; of Little Ness, and
afterwards of Sweeney, co. Salop.]
David Jones 8d.
Robert Oliver 2s.
John Williams 2s.
Maurice Jones 2s.
David Jones 2s.
Kdward Cole 4d.
George Marsh is.

27 Philip Anderton 4d.

[Emmanuel Coll., Camb., B.A., 1649.]
Charles Vaughan 2s. 6d.
John Vaughan 2s. 6d.

[St. John's Coll., Camb., 1641.]
May 2 Humphrey Jones 2s.
Kdd. Morris 3s. 4d.
William Clements 8d.
3 Joseph Lloyd 8d.
William James 2s.

[Royalist Officer ; Ensign in Regt. of Col.
Somerset Fox ; of Newport, co. Salop.]
Rowland Jukes is.
11 John Dod is.

Thomas Nettles 4d.

[St. John's Coll., Camb., B.A., 1641.]
Edward Vaughan 2s. 6d.

14 William Roberts 3s. 4d.
Samuel Ridgway 4d.

June 5 Nathaniel! Ptircell 4d.
7 John Owyn *Sd.
Edward Peihi 8d.

[St. John's Coll., Camb.]
Moses Hughes 2s.

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

John Evans 25.

Richard Davies 2s.

Rowland Griffith 2s.
8 Daniell Richards 25.
o John Davies 2S.

2 William Bowker 4c!.
Rowland Evans zs.
Robert Sandford Sd.

[Royalist Officer; Lieut, of Dragoons in
Regt. of Sir Vincent Corbet; Capt. -Lieut,
in Shropshire Militia, 1660; succeeded to
Sandford Estates, 1652 ; died 1672.]
Arthur Sandford 8d.

[Royalist Orrice-; Guidon of Dragoons in
Regt. of Sir Vincent Corbet.]
Thomas Swan wick 2s. 6d.
Andrew Corbett 6s. Sd.

[Queen's Coll., Oxford, 1658-9; Buried at
Moreton Corbet. Feb. 6, 1671.]
S Richard Williams Sd.
Andrew Paine 13.
Robert Paine is.
Thomas Higgons 4<i.
Richard Higgons 4d.

[Buried at Westbury, co. Salop, Dec. 2, 1653.]
Richard Waring 4d.

[Gray's Inn, 1647 I died March 25, 16S3-4.]
Johannes Wingfeiid 4d.
William Prince 4d.

Second so:: of Sir RicL^ri F:::::e. of the
Abbey Foregate[
Robert Powell 3s. 4c!.

[Christ's Coll., Camb., 1644; migrated to
Pembroke; B.A..164S; Fellow of All Souls'
Coll., Oxon, 1648 ; Chaplain to Charles II,
1660 : Rector of Hodnet and Archdeacon
of Salop, 1661 ; Rector of Whittingtonr
1666-81; Canon of St. Asaph, 1660; Chan-
cellor of St. Asaph Cathedral, 1670; born
1629, buried at Whittington, January 37.
16S0-1.]
Richard Higgons 4c. [ensed]
Samuell Gardner 4d.
John Lloid 4d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb., B.A. 1646,.]

3 Erasmus Lloid 3s. 4d.
Thomas Lloyd 2s. Sd.

4 Francis Lifter 2s. 6d.
John Lister 2s. 6d.
Jenkyn Evans 2s.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

7

24 John Ludford 8d.

Michaell Ludford 8d.
Lewis Morris 2s.
Richard Morris 2s.
David Evans 2s.
Richard Rock 4d.
[? Third son of Richard Rocke of Abbey
Foregate.]
James Rock 4<i.
26 John Mackworth 4d.
Timothy Turner 8d.

[b. 1624; Ch. Ch., Oxon, 1639 ; Capt. in Army
of Parliament ; mortally wounded in a
skirmish at Lilleshall, co. Salop, March
25, 1644.]
Arthur Benion 4d.
John Lloid 4d.
Samuel Lloid 4d.

Foulke Middleton (G.F.) 3s. 4d. ) brothers
Roger Middleton 2s. 6d. f Drotners

William Bennett is.
Isaac Gardner 4d.
Jonathan Gardner 4d.
Rowland Knight 4d.
Paul Clark 4d.
John Buttre 4d.

[Capt. in Army of Parliament in Regt. of
Col. Thos. Mackworth ; afterwards a
Draper in Shrewsbury.]
Edward Dun is.
Thomas Noblett is.
Richard Noblett is.
Edward Morris 3s. 4d.
Richard Taylor 4d.
August 21 David Lloyd 3s. 4d.

23 Kyrle Capell 3s. 4d.
Sept. 7 Silas Tayler 3s. 4d.

[b 1624; New Inn Hall, Oxon ; Captain in
Army of Parliament under Col. Edward
Massie ; Sequestrator in Herefordshire ;
Commissary of Ammunition at Dunkirk ;
Keeper of King's Storehouse and Shipping
at Harwich ; Author of The History of
Gavclki)id, &c. ; Died Nov. 4, 1678. See
Diet. Nat. Biog., xv, 203]
8 John Lloyd 3s. 4d.

David Lloyd 2s. 6d. brothers
Hugh Lloyd 2s. 6d.
10 John Piers 3s. 4(1.

28 Thomas Tristhani (North'tonshire) 2s. 6d.

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Henry Whittingham 2S. 6d.
David Lewis 2s.
Oct. 4 Adam Colfox is.

7 Richard Higgons is.

Edward Higgons is.
9 Andrew Barker 8d.

Robert Salesbury 2S. 6d.
[Died young]
1 Charles Salesbury 2S. 6d.

[Royalist Officer ; Capt. in Regt. of Col. W.
Salesbury, Governor of Denbigh Castle ;
Knighted 1660; succeeded his father at
Bachymbydd, co. Denbigh, 1659]

Thomas Dyas 4d.
14 William Hayward 2s. 6d.

Jo. Corlett is.

[Capt. in Royal Army]
22 Maurice Price 2s.

Timothy Whittingham 2s. 6d.

Charles Morris 2s.
24 Evan Lloyd 3s. 4d.

[125 Entries to end of School year].

Nov. 28 William Lloyd 2s.

Richard Whitakrs 23. 6d.

John Gibbons (fil. Dion. Gibb.) 4d.

Receaved for admission of 128 scholars since my cominge
the sum of 9/. 145. 8d. And I gave upp bill of laying out so
that ther is owing to by me 6s. 2.

Rich. Leeweeun,

Hivliues f RlCH* ^EEWEEUr
15aylmes ( John Whitwick.

Jan. 12 Thomas Corbett is.

[Capt. in Royal Army]
Arthur Hi n ekes 8d.

[Attorney at Law, Shrewsbury]
John Phillips is.
William Clarke is.
17 Francis Wright is.

[Preacher at Hadnall, co. Salop; ejected 1662]

19 Henry Lloyd 2s. 6d.
John Young 3s. 41!.

20 John Kyn.'iston 3s. .|d.
William Fanner is.

26 John Evans 2s.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

9

Humphrey Lee (fil. Baronettj)

Richard Lee (frater)

[Eldest and second sons of Sir
Richard Lee, 2nd Baronet, of
Langley] fburgenses

29 Francis Lee (frater)

[Third son of Sir Richard Lee]
Tho: Lee

[Gray's Inn 1648]

30 Henry Dyos is.
Feb. 11 Richard Roderick is.

[Ch. Ch. Oxon, B.A., 1644; Headmaster of
Wem Grammar School 1650-74 ; Died 1674]
William Davies is.
14 Rise Jones 2s.

Willjam Willjams 2s.
Thomas Edwards 2s.
David Evans 2s.
Samuel Webb 4d.
19 Samuell Gardner 4d.
— Shelvocke 4d.

[i.e. John Shelvocke, Barber Surgeon,
Shrewsbury ; Sergeant Shropshire Militia,
1660J

John Waring is.

Peregrine Rogers is.

Ellis Roberts 2s.

Samuell Dagar is.
22 Francis Adeney is.

Thomas Adeney is.

John Davies 2s. 6d.

Samuell Berisford 8d.

[Queen's Coll., Camb., B.A., 1651 ; ord. to
Tamworth 1652 ; Vicar of St. Werburgh's,
Derby 1657-62; ejected 1662; Died Oct.,
1697*]

John Studley 4d.

John Tench 4d.
26 Edward Bromley 3s. 4d.

William Sontley 3s. 4d.

Robert Laighton 3s. 4d.
March 9 Tho: Phillips 4d.

Rich: Phillips 4d.

John Maull Sd.

John StUdley 4c! .

Tho. Phillips 4d.

Tho. Hays 4d.

Rich. Astuiley 8d.

John Bowers 4d.

Tho. IJoid ,jd.

IO

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

163S, April 1

14
16

20

24

Tho. Haynes
Edward Owen 4d.
[Royalist Officer ; taken prisoner at capture
of Shrewsbury, Feb. 22, 1644-5]

Richard Whitcomb 2s. 6d.

[Capt. of Foot in Army of Parliament ; after-
wards Counsellor at Law ; 2nd son of
Francis Whitcomb of Hardwick and
Berwick Maviston, co. Salop]

Stephen Jacks is.
Daniell Lewis 4d.
Oliver Thomas 2s.

[Vicar of Oswestry 1644-50]
Thomas Adams is.
Thomas Kynaston 2s. 6d.

magna in vin' vis deciderat:
William Paschal (filius Doctoris medici oppt-
danus)

/Adam Oatley (gcneros. oppid.)

[b 1628; Gray's Inn 1647 ; Bar., 1652 ; Town
Clerk of Shrewsbury 1662-81 ; Master in
Chancery; Knighted 30 June, 1680; Died
Oct. 12, 1693]
Richard Oatley (irater)

[b 1626; Gray's Inn 1646; Private in King's
Life Guards, May, 1660; Capt. of Horse in
Shropshire Militia, Oct., 1660 ; M.P. co.
Salop, 1661; D.L. co. Salop, 1660; Knighted
1660; Gentleman of Privy Chamber, 1663 ;
Died in London, Aug. 10, 1670]

Edward Ambler (Burgensis)

John Roden (Ar. F. Denbighensis)

David Lloid 2s.

Daniell Owen ) c .
r 1 r\ ( iratres 4s.

John Owen ) "

John Arthur 2s.

Stephen Stephens is.

Peter Davies 2s. )

[St. John's Coll., Camb. 1642]

John Davies 2s.

Camb. 1642]

gemelli

[St. John's Coll.,
May 22 William Calcott is.
John Calcott is.
Maurice Jones 2s.
David Jones 2s.
Robert Oliver 2s.
Richard Tilston 2s.
Abraham Applebury is.
23 Roger Middleton 2s. 6d.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

1 1

24 Griffith Bodurda 2s. 6d.

[Schol. St. John's Coll. Camb. 1639]
Thomas Jones is.
Lewis Morris 2s.

Hugh Edwards 3s. 4d.
Edward Cadwallader 2s.
Thomas Waring 4d.

[Of Onslow, co. Salop]
Evan Roberts 2s.
Edward Hughes 2s.
Samuell Gardener 4d.
27 John Davies 2s.

Foulke Lloyd 3s. 4d.
Charles Staveley 2s. 6d.
Samuel llee 8d.

Griffith Hughes ) , ,

Rise Hughes ( lratres 5S' IocL
29 Ievan Lloid 3s. 4d-

Thomas Lloid 2s.

Robert Francis 2s.

Thomas Mackworth ) fi ,

Humphrey Mackworth f

[T.M. — b 1626 ; Colonel in Army of Parlia-
ment ; Farmer of Excise in Lancashire ;
M.P. Ludlow 1646-53 ; Shropshire 1656,
165S; High Sheriff co. Salop, 1669; Died
Nov. 12, 1696
H.M.— Bap. at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, May
31, 1631 ; Colonel in Army of Parliament ;
Governor of Shrewsbury Castle, 1654-9;
M.P. Shrewsbury 1654, 1656, 1658 ; Town
Clerk of Shrewsbury 1652-60; Died June,
1681]

Thomas Owen 3s. 4d.

[of Dinthill, co. Salop ; Gray's Inn 1652]
Jonathan Lloid 4d.

[Emmanuel Coll., Camb. (from Oxford) B.A.
1645; Vicar of Dagenham, Essex]
Luke Crompton 2s. 6d.
June 18 Richard Speak is.

Tho. Waring 8d.
Tho. Broughton (opp.)

— Wright (ext.)
Mathew Morgan 3s. *jd.
Thomas Jones 3s. .jd.
Gcdcon Loe 4d.

[Draper, Shrewsbury ; Buried at St. Mary's,
Nov. 8, |6(>8 1

t

12

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Thorns. Lewis, 8d.

Tho. Waren 8d.

Daniel Noneley Sd.

Thos. Butler is.

John Pue 3s. 4d.

Meredith Lloid 2s.

Tho. Parrye 2s.
Sept. 13 Francis Lloid 3s. 4d.

Rise Evans 2s.
25 Edward Kinersley 3s. 4d.
Oct. 2 Edmund Evans 3s. 4d.

21 Cadwallader Edwards 2s.
John Hughes 2s. 6d.

22 John Davies 3s. 4d.
Humphrey Price 2s.

[Entrances in School year 124]

Receyved for Admission of 121 schollers this year,
1638, the sum of 9/. 8s. 6d. given up the sixteenth of
Thomas \ Novembr to Mr. Mayor the first of that Office in
J^es ^Sallop Remayning owing by me at the foot of my
rich. J account 15. 6c/. And then I had allowance of 5/.

augmentacon first given me according to the Com-
pocon of St. Johns Colledg, Mr. Richard Llewellin
& Mr. John Whitwicke Bayliues & my self.

Admitted since the last Auditt, 1638.

In p. William Williams 2s. 6d.
It. Samuell Webley is.
It. Thomas Browne 4d.
It. Frances Selman is.
Richard Emery 2s.

[St. John's Coll., Camb. 1639]
Richard Rieve 4d.
Edward Evans 2s.
Robert Lloid 2s. 6d.
Edward Davies is.
Edward Lloid 3s. 4d.
Jan. 19 Rees Griffith 2s.

Peter Spencer is.
Jan. 27 Thomas Lewis 4d. [?]
Richard Evans is.
Walter Dakers is.
Rowland Pugh 3s.
Feb. 7 Nathaniel Jones 3s. 4c!.
David Jones 2s. 6d.
David Evans 2s.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

9 John Lloyd 3s. 40".

Humphrey Salesbury 35. 40!.

Richard Regnalds 15.

Edward Higgons is.

William Childe 2s.

[of Kinlet ; J. P. co. Salop]

John Matthews 3s. 4d.

John Evans 2s.

Rise Lloyd 3s. 4d.

Rich. Downes is.
March 4 William Price 3s. 4d.

John Evans 2s. 6d.

Tho. Parry 2s. 6d.

Edward Evans f

Rich. Evans S

Meredith Lioyd 3s. 4d.
March 1 Lewis Wynne 3s. 4d.

Tho. Owen is.

Edw. Herbert 2s. 6d.

William Hughes 25.

Rob- Holland 3s. 4d.
6 Hum fry Win 2s. 6d.

William Lloyd 3s. 4d.

Matthias Haynes 6d.

Arthur Harryes Sd.

Brochwell Grihies 2s.

Oliver Thomas 2s. 6d.

Johnjenings )

David Jenings ) 4" '

Henry Davies 2s.

Edward Williams is.

Richard Baddvlav )

Rob* Baddeley ' I 2b'

James Davies is.
[1639] April 25 Thomas Nightingale is.

John Bishop 3s. 4d.

Robt. Whine 3s. 4d.

Rondle Oliver 2s.
28 Maurice Watkyn 2S.

Andrew Warter is.

[Rector of Pontesbury, 3rd Portion, 16

John Kylun 3s. 4<1.

Griffith Kyihn 2s. 6d.

G a well Kyllin 2s. 6d.

Thomas Davies ) .

Edward Davies i

Humphry Lewis 2s. 6d.

Adam Colefox is.

Sam. Gardner 4(1.

Edward Lloyd 3s. jd.

KKGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Thomas Lloid 2s. 6d.
John Hardwick 8d.
William Williams 3s. 4d.
Rise Llo)rd 3s. 4c!.
Humphry Price 2s. 6d.
Evan Vaughan 3s. 4d.
Owen Vaughan 2S, 6d.
Thomas Mercer is.
Andrew Corbett 3s. 4d.
Samuel Roberts is.

June 17 Clement Clark 3s. 4d.
David Morgan 2s.
24 Kdward Price 3s. 4d.
Thomas Bowen 3s. 4d.
Rise Evans 2s. 6d.
John Williams 2s. 6d.
Francis Lloid 2s.
John Dod is.
Thomas Evans 2s. 6d.
Griffith Thomas 2s.
Lewis Edwards )
Rise Edwards J 4 *
Thomas Jones 2s.
Lodowick Lewis 2s.
Morgan Powell 2s.
John Roberts 2s.
Thomas Griffith 2s.
Sidney Ellis 3s. 4d.
Thomas Latewood is.
John Latewood is.
Richard Gilbert is.
Priamus Price 2s.
John Peirce is.
Peirce Rodericque is.

[2nd Master, Wem Grammar School, 1650;
afterwards an Innholder at Wem ; Died
April 27, 1682]
Frederick Lai gh ton 2s.
Oct. John Davies }

Edward Davies j ' '
John Newton 2s. 6d.

[Gray's Inn, 1651; Bar 1666; Cornet of
Horse in Shropshire Militia ; of Chirbury]
8 Francis Pickring 3s. 4(1.
Richard Williams 2s.
Nov. 10 David Griffith 2s.

[Entrances in School year 108]

Received for the admission of 107 schollars this yeare 1639,
the sum of Ten pounds nineteene shillings and feme pence

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

15

given up at the Audit the 16 day of Novemb. 1639 to Mr.
Robt. Betton then Mayor there remayning in my hands
2/. 4s. \d. to be accounted for at the next audit.
Novemb. 18, 1639.

Nov. 18 John Price 3s. 4d.
Dec. 13 Thomas Baker 4d.

[Sergeant, Shropshire Militia, 1660]
Samuell Loe 4d.

[Magdalene Coll., Camb. ; Fellow 1652 ;
Buried at St. Mary's, Salop, Aug. 27, 1668]
Thomas Forster 4d.
James Traford
William Miller is.
Thomas Owen 4d.
Edward Laud [? Land] 8d.
Thomas Grosse (of Huntingdonshire) 2s.
Jan. 5 Owen Edwards 2s. J
Maurice Edwards 2s. >
Edward Price 8d.
William James 2s.
Richard Phillips is.

[Balliol Coll., Oxon ; afterwards Postmaster
of Merton ; B.A. 1651 ; Vicar of Acton
Burnell, 1662 and Rector of Harley, 1663 ;
died 1666]
Nathaniel Purcell 4d.
Thomas Constantine 3s. 4d.
Hugh Edwards 2s.
William Dios 4d.
Nicholas Boyer 4d.
Joseph Fraunce 4d.
Henry Humphryes 3s. 4d.
Rich. Lloyd 3s. 4d.
Edward Lloyd 3s. 4d.
Morgan Jenkins 2s.
Pelham Baddeley is.
Edward Hatton 4d.
Thomas Hardwick 8d.
Samuel Taylor is.

[Magdalene Coll. Camb. ; Minister of
Edstaston, go. Salop; ejected 1662; died
1695, aged 6S |
\ Timothy Taylor is.
Robert Lloyd 2s. 6d.
Thomas Williams 2s.
Hughe Jones 2s. 6d.
David Evans 2s.
William Walker is.

1 6

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Robert Davies 2s.
Rowland Mason 4c!.
March 10 Robert Williams 2$.
John Bagott is.
[1640] April 2 Thorn. Hay man 2s.

Richard Thomas 3s. 4d.
Richard Rise 2s. 6d.
12 Richard Pue 2s. 6d.

David Davies 3s. 4d.
23 David Hughes 2s.
John Roden 3s. 4d.
Rich. Phillips is.
lyumley Thelwall 2s. 6d.

[of Plas Goch, co. Denbigh ; Capt. of Horse
in Army of Parliament for Ireland, 1649]
Daniel Owens 2s.
Arthur Kynaston 2s. 6d.
Francis Griffith 2s. 6d.
Edward Russell 2s. 6d.
David Davies 2s.
Thomas Falkner 4d.
Walter Warley 4d.
Edward Purcell 4d.
Richard Dawson 4d.
John Harries is.
John Davies 3s. 4d. )
George Davies 2s. 6d. j
James Corbett }
Thomas Corbett ) 5
Jonathan Roberts 2s.
Augustine Clarke \ A
Richard Clark i IS* 4a-
William J c k 2S
John )
Roger
Richard
John Boyer 4d.
John Thomas 2s.
Edward Kynaston 2s. 6d.
Ellis Morris 2s
June 5 Robert Eloyd 2s.

Robert Pritchard
Euke Pritchard
David Thomas 2s.
Aristotle Amler is.

[Buried at St. Chad':
1647- 8, aged 19]
Eodoviek Williams 2S. 6d.
John Hughes 2S.
Peirce Eloyd 3s. |<1.

Jones 8d.

4s.

Salop, March 21,

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL. 17

John Lloyd 2s. 6d.
Lewis Powell 3s. 4c!.
David Morris 2s.
John Evans 2s.

l?)in I Fownes 5s. iod.
Win. ) 0

John Roger 2s.

Edward Gryffyth 2s.

Arthur Kynaston 2s. 6d.

David Hughes 3s. 4d.

Humphrey Passand is.

John Lewys 2s. 6d.

William Beecher 2s. 6d.

Ralph Kynaston 3s. 4d.

[of Llansantffraid ; took part in Royalist
attempts of 1655 and 1659, for which he
was twice imprisoned]
Charles Hussey 4d.

[Ensign, Shropshire Militia, 1660]

Bowers 8d.

Rich. Williams is.
Roger Evans 3s. 4d.
Edward Corbett 3s. 4d.
Tho. Lewis 2s.
Lewis Edwards 2s.
Richard Smith 4d.

[of Great Ness ; Capt. of Foot in Army of
Parliament in Regt. of Col. H. Mackworth]
Evan Jones 2s. 6d.
Peter Jones 4d.
Richard Clarke, is.
Samuel Roberts 2s.
Mr. Humphrey Lea
David Jones 2s.
Oliver Jones 2s.
John Myvod 3s. 4d.
Robert Lloyd 3s. 4d.
Morgan Griffith 2s. 6d.
William Griffith 2s. 6d.
Nathaniel Greaves is.
Oct. 14 /Mr. Charles Nedham 10s.

[succeeded as 4th Lord Kilmorey of Shaving-
ton, 1657 ; joined Sir George Booth's rising
in 1659. Died in prison in London, 1660.
See D.N.B., XI, 155.]
/ Mr. George Nedham 10s.

\ [Buried at Holy Trinity, Chester, Sept. 28th,
1644, as "George Needham, Esq., sonne
to tlie Lord KiUmorey." |
Mr. Thomas Nedham, tos.

[Joined in vSir G, Booth's rising, captured,
\ and imprisoned at Chester. |

1 8

REGISTER OF TIIK NAMES OF BOYS

Josua Wright 2s.
John Langharne 3s. 4<i.
Eodovicus Speak is.

[Entrances in School year 120.]

Novemb. 16, 1640. I gave up my accounts for admission
moneys the last yeare wch was just eleven pounds seventeene
shillings and two pence to Mr. Hughe Harries being then
Mayor of Shrewsbury. The number of the schollers admitted
as appeareth 120 remayning in my hands only 3d. This yeare
our bell was made, & the Brickwal behind my House wch 2
days after it was made fel downe again, wch to rebuild cost us
14/. 85. The names of the knaves wch made the wal at first
were John Morris & John Clay. The wall stood in above 40/.

The Sum of the stock remanent at the Auditt was found to be
703/. od moneys & we have good debts owing 50/. 17/. 11/. wch
in all is 781/.

Anno Dni 1640.
Dec. 13 the day of remooving.

Inp. Peter Whitakers 2s. 6d.
Hughe Jones 2s.
Arthur Mackworth 4d.
John Milliard Sd.
Abraham Barton 4d.
John Ridgway 4d.

[Draper, Shrewsbury]
Theodor Walthal 4d.
Nathaniel Hays 4d.
Jonathan Davies 4d.
— Bennett 4d.
Richard Badney is.
Thomas Jones is.
Jan. 25 Ellis Vaughan 3s. 4d.

Thomas Price 2s. 6d.
William Hughes 2s.
Thomas Hughes 2s.
John Vaughan 3s. 4d.
Thomas Williams 3s. 4<i.
John Parry 2s.
Richard Fosbrooke is.
Arthur Chambre is.

[Attorney-at-La\v, Baschurch ]
Robert Salesbury 3s. 4d.
Thomas Griffith 3s. 4a.
Robert Griffith 2s. 6d.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOE.

19

Feb. 15 Edward Evans 2s.

Philip Walford is.
Daniel Harris 4c!.
Robert Eyton 6s. 8d.

[of Eyton, co. Salop]
Andrew Taylor 4d.

[Afterwards at Eton ; Schol. King's Coll.,
Camb.; B,A. 1661 ; Fellow; Head Master
of Shrewsbury 1664-87 ; Buried at St.
Mary's, Shrewsbury, January 20, 1687-8]
Robert Pritchard )
Luke Pritchard f4S'
Philip Hawkins is.
Richard Harries 8d.
Joseph Jones 2s. «6d.
Fra: Sandford 8d.

[of Sandford ; Ensign Shropshire Militia,
1660; the Herald ; Author of Genealogical
History of ihc Kings of England, &c; Born
1630; died 1694. See D.N.B., L, 270]
3 Sandfords of the j gattxew \ ■

e (John j

[M.S., of Edgton ; bapt. at St. Chad's, Oct.

10, 1625 ; buried at Edgton, Sept. 14, 1691
K.S., of Montford, afterwards of Edgton ;

bapt. at St. Chad's, May 21, 1627
J.S., bapt. at St. Chad's, July 3, 1628

All three were sons of Humphrey Sandford
of the Isle]
Philip Wilding 4d.
4 [ 1 64 1 ] Thomas Jenkynne 2S:
Thomas Maule is.
29 Hugh Peake 3s. 4(1.
une 19 William Davies 2s.
John Evans 2S.
Walter Morgan 3s. 6d.
Edward Beavan 2s.
John Griffith 2s.
Jonathan Roberts 2s.
David Hughes 2s. od.
John Burehinshaw 3s. 44.
July 2 Owen Edwards 2s.
John Hughes 2s.
Evan Anwill 2s. 6d.
John Wynne 3s. 4(1.
Francis Thomas 2s.
Thomas Williams 2 s.
Henry Myvod 2s. 6d.
Aug. 6 Thomas Davies 2s.

20

REGISTER OF THE NAMKS OF BOYS

John Humphreys 2s.
Thomas Peirce 2s.
Edward Mercer 3s. 4d.
Roger Blakevvey is.
Joseph Hinckes 4d.
Edmund Hall 4d.
John Cottall is.

1 [See 163S, May 29]
Samuell Garbutt is.
Andrew Savage 2s.
Thomas Whiteombe 2s. 6d.

[of Upton Magna; son of Francis Whiteombe
of Berwick Maviston ; born 1627 ; died
1701]
Thomas Mather is.
Robert Nicols
Hugh Beynion 4d.
Thomas Barle is.
William Medlicott 2s.
Peirce Eloyd 2s.
18 Robert Powell 3s. 4d.
Edward Palmer is.

[Entrances in School year 78]

Novemb. 27, 1641. I Tho: Chaloner gave up my accounts to
Mr. Richard Gibbons, then Mayor of Shrewsbury the Number
of the Schollers admitted this yeare as appeareth is 78 &c.

Admission money was iust seven pounds & ten pence left
uppon the settlement of my account, 61. gs. & Lid.

Nov. 18 Edward Gosnell 4d.

[Mercer, London and Shrewsbury ; purchased
the Rossall Estate; Mayor of Shrewsbury
1682-3; buried at St. Chad's, Oct. 27, 1706]

[T.B. Draper, Shrewsbury
J.B. Christ's Coll., Camb. 1652; ofWilcott,
co. Salop]
William Ambler 4d.
Thomas Passand 4(1.
Thomas Asterley 4d.
Richard Manning 4d.
Richard Tilsley 4d.
John Hughes Sd.
Joshua Pughe 4d.

Thomas
James

Betton 8d.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL,.

21

Richard Pughe 4c!.
John Davies 4c!.

Tho. Price

William Warter 4<i.

John Humphryes 2

Tho. Jones 2s.

John Griffith 2s.

Hugh Peake 3s. 4c!.

Gabriell Pope 2s. 6d.

[of Evenhall, Whittington, co. Salop]

Rowland Mason 4d.

Cassius Benthal 3s. 4d.
[Cornet Royal Army ; taken prisoner at
Shrewsbury, Feb. 22, 1644-5; killed in
action at Stowe-on-the-Wold, March 22,
1645-6]

Anonymus Hinckes is.

Stayd so short a tyme that we knew not his
name

Rise Glynne 2s.

Richard Williams 2s.

William Dager is.

Ellis Vaughan 2s. 6d.

Andrew Savage 2s.

Luniley Thelwall 2s. 6d.
Feb. 12 Thomas Juckes 3s. 4d.

George Juckes 2s. 6d.

William Juckes 2s. 6d.

Agar Price is.

Thomas Griffith 3s. 4d.

George Watkys 2s. 6d.

Robt. Salisbury 3s. 4(1,

Rol>ert Vaughan 3s. .\d.

Griffith Kllis 2s.

David Davies 2s.

Maurice Jones 2s.

John Evans 2s.

John Edwards is.

David Morgans 3s. 4d.

Rowland Clough 3s. 4c!.

Richard Watkys is.

Tho. Watkys is.

Evan Lloyd 3s. 4d.

Maurice Lloyd 3s. 4d.

William Twyne is.
[St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1649; Fellow
1650; Tutor 1654; Rector of Soulderne,
Oxfordshire, 1663; died Jan. 31, 1665 6]

William Lloyd 3s. qd,

Ralph Kynaston 3s. .jd.

22

REGISTER OP THE NAMES OF BOYS

Isaac Saladine 4c!.
["afterwards Solden ; Third Master, Shrews-
bury School, 1 65 1-8 ; then Vicar of
Albrightlee]

Edward Spencer 3s. 4d.

John Madockes 3s. 4c!.

Thomas Evans 2s.

David Thomas 2s.

Thomas Jones 2s.

Tlio: Clough jun. 2s. 6d.

Tho: Palmer is.

Joseph Hatchett is.

John Griffith 2s.

Thomas Davids 2s.

John Mathews 3s. 4d.
June 12 Thomas Kynaston 2s. 6d.
1642 William Urwick is.

Hugh 1,1 ©id 2s. 6d.

John Roberts 3s. 4d.

Thomas Downes 4d.

David Jenkyn 2s. (3d.

William Monington 2s. 6d.

Richard Tilghman 3s. 4d.

Thomas Mathews 4d.

Edward Wynne 3s. 4d.
Oct. 24 Francis Wolryche

Roger Wolryche

William Wolryche

Thomas WTolryche

[F.W. succeeded his father as second Baronet
1668 ; bapt. at Pitchford, October 21, 1627;
Trinity Coll. Camb. 1646; died 12th and
buried at Quat, June 15, 1689
R.W. bapt. at Pitchford, Dec. 14, 1628; dead
in 1662

W.W. Christ Coll. Camb. B.A. 1650; Fellow
1653-60 ; Rector of Quat 1659-72 ; buried
at Wroxeter, Nov. 9, 1673
T.W. Christ Coll. Camb. B.A. 1651 ; Gray's
Inn 1648 ; buried at Quat, No. 7, 1683]
Theodor Walthall 4d.

— Tench L,,

- Tench Pd-

[Entrances in School year 79 )

The Numbr of Schollers admitted this yeare is 79 ut patet
I deliv' my account to worthy Mr. John Studlcy Mayor Novcmb
16. let my successor blame Civill war, & [cmsurr\ Academies
mourne & are desolate, that Colouyes of the Muses arc

20s.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

23

desolate & the Nuiubr of Shrewsbury School for this 2 yeares
is so small. Left oppo' the foote of my account 5/. 3. 7, the
Admission moneys came to 7/. 14. Sd. Schoole chest stands
thus now — Mr. [two lines tor?i out] for the [torn'] his hand and
seale, [iom] Chest. We also lent the Towne 47/. 105. &
have the towne Seale for itt. Schoole bailiffe hath in his
hands 43/. both sums in all 90//. &c. We putt into the Chest
this present 17 of Novber 1642 112/. 3s. &c. & there are
Arrerages of good debts above 120/. Given Mr. Jackson this
Auditt 30J. as the amendemt of his small stipend 2 yeares ago
we gave him 40s. Mr. Ogdon hath obtayned these two yeares
50$. per aim. towards the paymt of his Rent in regard he hath
not habitable lodgings. When the King kept Cort here,
successively these Lords Lodged in the Schooles, viz. L-
Keeper Littleton, Lord Viscount Grandison, Lord Archbp
Williams, L* Cholmeley & Sr Rich: Dyot at my house, at Mr.
Evans his house my L. Gray of Ruthin & L- North his
brother, &c. &c.

Deus pacis pacem indulgeat.

Jan. 8 John Whitakers 4d.

1642 William Jones 4d.
Samuel Hole 8d.
Richard Morris 4d.

tor?i\ Jenkin is.
o?ie name tor?i out here]
John B [torn]
Stephen Studley 4d.
Benjamin Scott 4d.

[of Barbadoes]
Edward Chandless 4d.
David Griffith 4d.
Nathaniel Jones 4^
Edward Meriden 4d.
John Chapman 8d.

— Mansel is.
Samuell Tench 4d.
Richard Tench 4(1.
Nathaniel Stone 4d.
John Wilding 4c!.
John Ilayward 4d.

1643 John Pugh 4(1.
Thomas Corbett 3s. 4d.

[of Stanwardine, co. Salop]

24

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Andrew Lee 4c!.
Samuel Chaloner 8d.
John Chaloner 8d.
Jan. 17 Whitehall Deg 3s. 4d.

Robert Cresset 3s. 4d.

[of Upton Cresset. Buried at Cound, May
29, 1702]
Edward Smyth is.
George Da vies 4d.
Feb. 15 George Savill I eq'tis aurati filij — 13s. 4.
William Savill Jeboracensis

[G.S. b. 1633; M.P. Pontefract 1660; Created
Viscount Halifax 1668 ; P.C. 1672 ; Mar-
quis of Halifax 1682; Lord Privy Seal;
Author The Character of a Trimmer; Died
April 5, 1695. See D.N.B., L. 356]
Feb. 20 Robert lOwende j

Richard jWoodhouse i 5S* IO*

[Rob. O. High Sheriff, co. Salop 1667 ; Died
1696]
Richard Hughes 2s.

— Evans 4d.
Waties Corbett 6s. Sd.
[of Elton, co. Hereford; buried at Leebot-
wood, Feb. 20, 16S9-90; Son of Sir
Edward Corbett, 1st Baronet of Longnor]
William Kerry 3s. 40I.
Andrew Thornes 3s. 4d.

[Son of Francis Thornes, of Shelvock, co.
Salop ; bapt. at Moreton Corbet, Jan. 13,
1627-8]
Thomas Thornes 2s. 6d.

[of Shelvock ; bapt. at Moreton Corbet, Sept.
26, 1630; died Aug. 26, 1678]
John Ridgway ) g^
Jonathan Ridgway)
G-ge}WeIdl3S.4.

[G.W. of Willey; M.P. Wenlock 1660;
Deputy Lieut, of the Tower of London.
Died Sept. 14, 1701, and buried at Willey,
Sept. 17

J.W. Merchant ; Buried at St. Mary Magda-
lene's, Bridgnorth, Jan. 29, 1679. Eldest
and second sons oi Sir John Weld, Knight,
of Willey]

Thomas Coney 4(1.

Walter Hattpn 4c!.

Thomas Corbett 2s. 6d.

Sampson Puller .pi.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

25

Joseph Passand 40I.
John Maddox is.
Edward Gronous 2s.
Nich. Felton 8d.
May Richard Davies 4d.

Henry Bromley j ,
John Bromley j 5S' IOQ'

[J.B. b. 1632; M.P. co. Worcester; of
Shrawardine Castle, co. Salop, and Holt,
co. Worcester- Died Sept. 30, 1670]
Walter Rand 3s. 4d.
June 26 Roger Rogers 4d.

Andrew Reeve 4d.
Thomas Meredith 4d.
Edward Edwards 40!.
Richard Jones 3s. 4d.
July 10 Thomas Maddoxe is.

Basil fitz Herbert 3s. 4d.

[of Boscobel]
Evan Davies 2s.
Somersett Philips is.
John Gosling 2s.
John Reynolds 2s.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1648]
Tho. Laighton 3s. 4d.
Oct. 9 Thos. Owen 3s. 4d.

Arthur Chambre 2s. 6d.

Tho. Harries (Baron etti filius) 6s. 8d.

[of Boreatton ; succeeded his father as 3rd
Bart. 1644; was sequestered as a "delin-
quent" and fined; took part in the
Royalist attempts of 1665 and 1659;
Captain of Horse in the Shropshire Militia,
1660; Died 1662]

[Entrances in the School year 70J

The number of the schollars this yeare admitted is 70, the
account given up die statuto To Mr. Robt Betton Mayer.
Remayning uppon at the foot of my account 2/. 2s. 2d. instead
of the banquet we had a dinner Novemb. bee' they of
Denbighshire did not hold their Holt the War is like to be
prolongd to a great & tedious war iXaBt Kupie (TTfrnTevfAa rcov,
Mr. forster last yeare receyved to be laid out in books x/i. zl.
whereof I have, since the last Anditt the Town borrowed too/.,
we have now in chest about 40/. Mr. Jackson is leaving the

26

KEGISTKR OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

place: to whom departing is given 4/., he gave our library
polani syntagma.

1643 Admitted Nov. 19.

Thomas Acherley 4d.
Nov. 27 John Barber 2s. 6d.
John More
John Sadler 4d.
Thomas Acherley 4d.
Humfry Finch 8d.
Howel Vaughan 4d.
Jan. 15 Walter Wrotesley 6s. 8d.

[of Wrottesley, co. Stafford ; succeeded his
father as 2nd Bart. 1659; born 1631 ; was
one of the Crown Trustees for the Pendrell
family annuity, 1675 ; died 1686]
I Edward Littleton 6s. 8d.

I [of Pillaton, co. Stafford ; succeeded his
j father as 2nd Bart. ; died 1709]
I James Littleton 6s. 8d.

Thomas Maddox is.

John Maddoxe is.

— Piper 4d.
Wrottesley Prince 6s. 8d.

[ofAbcot; buried at Clunguntord, Aug. 18,
1677] See 1645, Nov. 17
Morgan Wynne 3s. 4d.
John Fowler 3s. 4_d.

[of St. Thomas', Stafford]
Thomas Fowler 2s. 6d.

— Whitakers 3s. 4d.

— Penrhin Sd.

— Lloyd 2s. 6d.

— Morgan is.

— Lutwich

[i.e. Edward L. b. 1634; Gray's Inn, 1652;
Bar. 1660; Sergeant at Law 1683 ; King's
Sergeant and Knighted, Nov. 14, 1684 ;
Chief Justice of Chester 1684-6; Justice of
Common Pleas 1686; died June, 1709. See
D.N.B., xxxiv, 302 J

Feb. 19

July 10

Aug.

More owe 6s. Sd.

in Chest I think 12//.

[Entrances in School year 22 |

The Number of the Schollars admitted this year is 22, I gave
up my account to Mr. Mayer Charles Benion die statllto, &C,
because my disbursements were more then my receipts I quite

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

-7

left out io^r. wch I usually sett down for the Charges in
keeping cleane the Library & Chappel And also seven
shillings & sixpence paid for Mr. L,loids new chaire & this I
entend to reckon this yeare now current, uppon the foot of my
accounts remaynes about 4 or 5s. Wheras I sayd the last
yeare we had about 40//'. in Chest, tis thus 32 therof Mr.
Forsfeer had to be put up : & kept it in his hands, wch being
borrowed by the Mr. Betton the Maior was paid to me; & had
not that come to my hands we schoole mrs had bin unpaid a
great part of our salary. I gave account at the Audit for 30/,
since R. Gittins hath 2//.

Nov. 20 David Morris 3s. 4/d.
1644 Samuel Davies 2s.
Richard Beavan is.
Gilbert Fovvnes 2s. 6d.
Thomas Mason 4d.
Humphrey Tomkys 4d.
Thomas Gravenor 8d.
Michael Brigdale 4d.

[Son of Alderman Daniel Brickdale,

chandler, of Shrewsbury; bapt. at St.

Chad's, Nov. 17, 1633]
Thomas Betton 4d.
Samuel Beddow 4(1.
Thomas Owen 8d.
Nehemiah Cheshire 4d.
Richard Spenser 4d.
Francis Cadwallader 4d.
Jan. 8 George Harris 6s. 8d.

[Bapt. at Baschurch, 31 Oct., 1631; succeeded

his brother as 4th Baronet]
Paul Harries 6s. 8d.

[Bapt. at Baschurch, April 8, 1634 ; Queen's

Coll. Oxford; Gray's Inn 165 1 ; succeeded

his brother as 5th Barpuet ; buried at St.

Chad's, July 19, 1666]
Thomas Harries 3s. ^d.

[3rd Baronet; re-entered. See 1643, Oct. 9]
Jeremy Wildinge is.
Gedeon Lowe 4c!.
Samuel Lowe 4d.
Thomas Matthews 4c! .
John Wildinge 4(1.
Kdvvard Harris is.
Howel Porter 8d.
Walter Haynes 41!.

28

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

William Haynes 4d.
Thomas Moore o o o
Robert Corbett 3s. 4c!.

Salopia a Parlamentariis capta est ffebr. 22, anno Dni 1644.
Ego autem bonis omnibus exutus a-Treo-KopuKlo-Orjv, Ritonij
[Ryton by Basehurch] per septem eirciter menses ludo aperto
tandem pertaesus illius loci villanus evasi Neunensis f Newnes
near Ellesmere], inde Londinium profectus pacem victus petij
& conditiones admisi & Rei et conscientiae meae perquam
graves. His peractis, has Aedes Betulienses a[Birch Hall]
hospitium preearium nactus sum quo cum familia commigravi
tertio Die April is Anno Dni 1646. qui 11 to autem die sequenti
e vivis excessit filiola Maria (quam secundam eo nomine
baptizavimus) menses eirciter 11 nata, Die sexto ludum aperio
quod felix faustumque reddat divina dementia discipulorum
nomina huic regesto inserenda judicavi, Nam Syracusis
exulans Corinthi tyrannidem molior.

[After the expulsion of Chaloner there is a blank in the
Register of 10 months, i.e. from Jan. 8, to Nov. 17. Richard
Pigott, Chaloner's successor, did not begin his work for some
time, and in the interval the charge of the few boys still
attending the school was in the hands of David Evans, the
Second Master. The names of new comers were not
recorded, though we know of at least two who must have
entered then, and who afterwards went up to St. John's
College, Cambridge :

Samuel Walthal, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1652; B.A. 1655;
Fellow 1656.

Samuel Paddy, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1654; B.A. 1657].

[The following names begin at page 109 of the manuscript].

The names of all the Schollers admitted into the free
schoole in Shrewsbury since the 17 of November 1645 until
this present 1 6 of November 1646.

— Rickets 3s. 4<1,

a In the margin " Birchall Blirch Hall."

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL,.

29

Rowland Nichols 4CL.

[Gray's Inn, 1648; Buried at Kinlet, July 8,
1687]
Richard Salter is.
Robert Thelwall 2s. 6d.
David Colvin
Hugh Price 2s.

— Wilson is.
Robert Owen 3s. 4d.
Richard Owen 2s. 6d.
Theodorus Winne 3s. 4d.
John Lloyd
Thomas Powell 3s. 4d.
Charles Humphreys 2s.

[Vicar of Cleobury North, 1653-60 ; Lecturer
St. Zachary's, London, 1660; ejected 1662.
See Calamy's None. Mem. iii. 144]
Reece Jones 2s.
Richard Morris 2s.
John Price 3s. 4d.
Chads Price 2s. 6d.
Edward Jones 2s.
Samuell Wrenford 2s.
Thomas Griffiths 3s. 4d.
Robert Griffiths 2s. 6d.
William Parrey 2s. 6d.
Richard Pugh 2s. 6d.
Henry Price 4d.
John Thomas 2s.
Hugh Watkins 2s.
John Hodgkins is.
Edward Erthigs 2s.
William Morgan 2s.
Lewis Owen 3s. 4d.
Henry Lucas 2s.
Gabriell Jones 2s.
Thomas Blake is.
Lewis Gwine 2s.
Phillip Prince 4d.

[Of Abbey Foregate ; born 1630 ; High Sheriff
Co. Salop, 1671 ; Capt. of Horse in Shrop-
shire Militia, 1660; buried Dec. 4, 1690 J
Wretchley Prince 4d.

[See 1643-4, Feb. 19. Both were sons of Sir
Richard Prince]
John Browne 8d.
George Rider .pi.

[Gray's Inn, 1653]
Nehemiah Williams 4c!.
Samuel Cunney <id.

3Q

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Edmund Barkley, 4d.
James Brookes 8d.
John Rimor Sd,
Henry Coughen 8d.
Edward Pierce 2S.
Thomas Houghton 2S.

[Emmanuel Coll. Camb. 1649]
Richard Yorke 4d.

[Vicar of Rushall, co. Stafford ; ejected 1662.
Died May, 1666]
William Gosnell 4d.
William Laiigtoii 2s. 6d.

[Emmanuel Coll. Camb. 164S]
John Laiigtoii 2S. 6d.
George Lloyd is.
Josuah Edsbury 3s. 4d.

[Entrances in School Year 52]

The Schollers admitted into the Free Schoole of Shrewsbury
from the 17th day of November 1646 until the 16 day of
November 1647.

1646 Nov. 17 John Poole 4d.

Thomas Poole 4d.

Arthur Harryes 4d.

James Wellings 4d.

Roger Hayward 4d.

[Magdalene Coll. Camb. 1654; St. John's
1656; B.A. 1657; Vicar of St. Chad's,
Shrewsbury 1662 ; Prebendary of Lichfield
Cathedral 1669 ; Chaplain to Charles II.
Died Nov. 4, 16S0]

Robert Evans 44.

Benjamin Thropp 8d.

Andrew Wilcocks Sd.

Richard Tench 4d.

John Harrison Sd.

Edward Pinner is. 44,

John Lutley

[Of Hroncroft Castle, co. Salop ]

Richard Hill

[Of Soulton, co. Salop ; Gray's Inn 1657 ;
took part in Sir G. Booth's rising in [659]

Henry Langley 4(1.

[Lincoln Coll. Oxon 16^3 ; migrated to
Wadham; B.A. 1657/ Of The Abbey,
Shrewsbury; Knighted 1680; Buried N> V,
3, 1688]

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31

Thomas Burton 3s. 4c!.

[of Lon^ner, co. Salop ; Lincoln's Inn 165 1 ;
Bar 1655; Steward of Shrewsbury, 1676;
Justice of the Great Sessions for North
Wales ; Buried at Atcham, April 27, -1697]
Samuel Bruen Sd.
John Higgons is.
John Lea 4d.
William Fallowes Sd.
Richard Harryes 2s. 6d.
Kdward Edwards 3s. 4d.
Robert Edwards 2s. 6d.
Richard Herbert 3s. 4d.

[Of Oakley Park, co. Salop, or of Dolgiog,
co. Montgomery]
Stephen Charlton 2s. 6d.
James Kdwards 2s.
George Harryes 2s. 6d.
Paull Harryes 2s. 6d.
Thomas Harryes 2s. 6d.

[See 1644-5, Jan. 8]
Robert Evans 2s.
Jenkin Prichard 2s. 6d.
Lancelot Stevens 3s. 4(1.
William Hughes 3s. 41!.
Rowland Price 3s. 4d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1648]
Thomas Wood 2s. 6d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1648]
Arthur Lloyde 3s. 4d.
William Vaughan 3s. 4d.
John Price 2s. 6d.
Edmund Jones 2s.
Thomas Price 2s. 6d.
Richard Tom li ns is.
Robert Winne 3s. 4d.
Owen Winne 2s. 6d.
David Mathews 3s. 4d.
Richard Yorke 4a.
Richard Davis 4c!.
Mathew Herbert 3s. 4d.

[ Of Brom field, co. Salop ; Knighted J
Kdward Herbert 2s. 6d.
Kdward Jones

[Capt. of Horse in Shropshire Militia, [660]
Thomas Higgons is.
John Higgons is.
Edward Evans 2s.
John Morgan is.
Morris Thomas 2S.

32

REGISTER OF THE NAMES DF BOYS

Humphrey David 2s.
Richard Davies 3s. 4d.
Thomas Jones 3s. 4c!.
Theodar Winne 3s. 4d.
Charles Bodwell 3s. 4d.
Thomas Iyloyd 3s. 4(1.
Edward Lloyd 3s. 4d.
Rhoderick Lewis 3s. 4d.
Owen Price 3s. 4d.
Richard Morris 2s.
Samuel Juckes is.

[Of Downton, co. Salop]
William Price 2s. 6d.
Richard Edward 2s.
Richard Whitworth is.
John Crow 8d.
William Angell 2s.
Morgan Gwinne 2s.
Evan Davies 3s. 4d.
Humphrey Ellis 2s.
Thomas Lewis 3s. 4d.
John Morris 3s. 4d.
Thomas Price 2s.
John Lloyd 3s. 4d.

[Of Aston, co. Salop ; Gray's Inn 1656 ;
Bar 1663]
Owen Jones 2s.
Richard Illedge is.
Mandrick Price 2s.
William Fownes is.
John Fownes is.
Richard Hunt 4d.
Roger Chapman 4d.

(Of St. John's Coll. Camb. 1656J
Owen Mad rin 3s. 4c!.
John Hotchkis is.

[Vicar of High Ercal, 1660]
William Tuthor 3s. 4d.
Richard Hunt is.
William Davies 3s. 4d.

[? afterwards of Brompton, Benington]
John Regnalds 2s.
Thomas Betton 4d.

[Entrances in School Year 90]

The names of all ye Schollers admitted into the free schoole
of Shrewsbury from the 17th day of November 1647 until] the
16th day of November [648.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL-

33

Samuell Fisher 8d.

Thomas Paggett 8d.

Thomas Hunt 4d.

George Gardner 4d.

Joseph Whitteekars 4d.

Charles Davis 4d.

Joseph Oliver 4d.

Jonathan Price is.

Joseph Browne is.

John Betton 4d.

Samnell Bouldler 4d.

John Passand 4c!.

Thomas Riton

John Blunt Sd.

Carburv Trice 2s. 6d.

Arthur Walthal 4d.

[Of Edge, co. Salop. Buried at Pontesbury
Sept. 18, 1705]

Nehemiah Bently 4d.

Joseph Evans 8d.

Benjamin Rawson 4d.

Robert Richards 4d.

George Davies 8d.

Kendrick Edisbury 2s. 6d.

John Whitefoote pauper

Francis Chapton 8d.

Pontisbury Usgate 4d.

Richard Warter 4d.
[Merton Coll. Oxford, B.A. 1661 ; M.A. from
Queen's Coll. Camb. 1665; Vicar of Meole
Brace, 1661. Buried there Oct. 3, 1678]

Thomas Gravener 8d.

John Richards 2s. 6d.

John Maddox is.

Arthur Price 3s. 4d.

Edward Pugh 2s.

John Gough is.

William Jones is.

Charles Humphrys is.

David Pugh 2s.

William Tidder 3s. 4d.

John Vaugham 2s. 6d.

Edward Nanny 2s. 6d.

John Davis 2s. 6d.

Evan Hughes 2s. 6d.

William Vaugham 2s. 6d.

Richard Medlicoate is.

Cadder: f Cadwallader] Ellis 2s.

Tho: Habberly is.

Reese Lloyd 3s. .jd.

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

John Glyne 2S. 6d.
Isaak Morgan 8d.
Isaak Browne is.

[Apprenticed to Capt. Price, Merchant and
Master of a ship ; died in the Bay of
Bengala in the East Indies, May, 1658,
aged 20]
Edward Cole 8d.

[of Cole Hall, Shrewsbury]
Henry Goleburn 2S. 6d.
John Goleburne 2s. 6d.
Will : Owen 3s. 4d.

[of the Council House, Shrewsbury]
Rhese Jones 2s.
Edward Jones 2s.
Abraham Jones 2s.
William Mathews 3s. 4d.
John Smout 4d.
Robert Stubbs 4d.
John Evans 2s. 4d.
Thomas Evans 2s.
Thomas Morris 2s.
Robert Edwards 2 s.
Edward Arthur 2s.
Richard Butler 8d.
Richard Lloyd 2s. 6d.
[of Aston, co. Salop ; Fellow of All Souls'
Coll. Oxon ; D.CX. 1662; Knighted
1676-7; Judge of the Court of Arches and
Admiralty ; died June, 1686, aged 52]
Samuel Lloyd 2s. 6d.

[brother of the preceding]
Guilbert Cole is.

[Curate of Condover and Vicar of Hughley]
John Cole is.

[Joined Sir G. Booth's rising in 1659; of
Upper Rossall, co. Salop]
Titus Thomas is.

[Chaplain at Aston ; ejected 1662 ; afterwards
a Physician at Shrewsbury ; died Dec. 10,
1685]

William Watkins 2s.
Morris Owens 4c!.
Edward Owens 4d.
Robert Owens 4a.
Gilbert Fownes is.
George Fownes is.

[M.A. Cambridge ; Vicar of High Wiekh.un ;

displaced 1660; Anabaptist Minister at

Bristol; died Nov. 29, 1685]

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

35

Richard Hollies is.
Edward Beavan is.

Richard Yorke 4d. _ r^r\r^A ^

John Brookes 3s. 4d. IcJ 05019

Thomas Harris 3s. 4d.
William Adams 3s. 4d.

[of Longden, co. Salop ; Gray's Inn, 1654;
Magdalen Hall, Oxon ; buried at Pontes-
bury, May 19, 17 16]
Richard Adams 3s. 4d.

[Buried at the Abbey Church, Shrewsbury,
Sept. 4, 1723]
Joshuah Llewellin 4d.

[Entrances in School Year 83]

The names of all the schollers admitted into the free schoole
Shrewsbury sithence the 17th day of November 1648 untill
is 16th day of November 1649.

Morgan Harbert 3s. 4d.
Abraham Philips 4d.
Thomas Davies 4d.
Robert Haughton 4d.
James Griffiths 4d.
John Cheshire 4d.
Francis Acherlye 4d.
Thomas Sandford 4d.
Thomas Watson 4d.
John Browne 4d.
Edward Minors 4d.
Philip Batter 4d.
Thomas Fryer 4d.
John Key 4d.
John Banester 4d.
William Griffiths 8d.
John Asterly 8d.
John Griffiths 8d.
John Lloyd Sd.

[Buried at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, Oct. 9,
1649I

Christopher Price Sd.
Benjamin Clifton 8d.
Evan Evans 8d.
Charles Hughes is.
Rowland Bright 8d.
Philemon Hayes 4d.

[Clare Coll. Camb. B.A. 1660; Vicar of

Shelve 1663 ; afterwards of Child's Brcal.

Buried at St. Julian's, Shrewsbury, Sept.

28, 1677]

36

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

John Griffiths is.
John Davies 2s. d.
Paul Prichard 2S. 6d.
Ellis Cadwallader 2s.
Peeter Bradely is.
William Barkly ad.
Richard Jones is.
Thomas Watkis is.
William Owen 3s. 4d.
William Morgan 3s. ad.
John Betton 4th
Edward Griffiths 2s. 6d.
Thomas Griffiths 2s. 6d.

[of Nanneah, co. Flint]
Evan Jones 2s. 6d.
Hugh Nanny 2s. 6d.
James Baskervile 3s. 4d.
John Morgan 3s. 4d.
John Price 3s. 4d.
Edward Jones 3s. 4d.

[Trinity Coll. Camb. ; Fellow ; Dean of Lis-

more ; Bishop of Cloyne 1682 ; Bishop of

St. Asaph 1692. Died March 10, 1703,

aged 62]
Henry Morgan 3s. 4d.
Thomas Pugh 8d.
John Kiuaston 3s. 4d.

[of Lea, co. Salop : Gray's Inn 1652 ; Bar

1660]

Edmund Merrick 2s. 6d.

[Jesus Coll. Oxon, 1656; M.A. ; Fellow;
Vicar of Eynsham, 1663, and of Llangar-
then, &c, co. Carmarthen ; Canon of St.
David's, 1690, and Treasurer 169 1]
John Lea 4d.
Richard Evans is.
Joseph Evans is.
John Peirce is.
William Peirce 4d.
Thomas Jones 3s. 4d.
Richard Lister

[of Rowton Castle, co. Salop ; Gray's Inn
1655 ; joined Sir G. Booth's rising in 1659]
John Allen 2s. 6d.

[Trinity Coll. Camb. B.A. 1663]
Edward Pugh 2s.
Owen Price 2s.
Owen Win 3s. 4(1.
Teagc Price 3s. 4c!.
Robert Morris 2s.

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37

Peter Davies is.
Richard Owens 2S. 6d.
William Gosnell 2S. 6d.
John Wood 2s. 6d.
John Foulks 2s.
Thomas Cotton 4d.

[Draper, Shrewsbury]
Anthony Poole 3s. 4d.
John Fonlks 2s.
Robert Fonlks 2s.
William Williams 3s. 4d.

[Schol. Jesus Coll. Oxon 1652 ; Gray's Inn

1658; Recorder of Chester 1667; M.P.

Chester 1675-81; Speaker 1680; Solicitor

General and Knighted 1687 ; Baronet 1688 ;

M.P. Montgomery 1685 ; Beaumaris and

Carnarvon 1687. Died 11 July, 1700. See

D.N.B. lxi. 477]
Abraham Jones 2s.
Griffith Kiffin 3s. 4d.
Robert Edwards 2s.
Thomas Edwards 2S.
Richard Powford is.

[Writing Master, Shrewsbury School. Died

Sept. 4, 1683]
Esay Thomas is.

[of Bishop's Castle]
William Griffiths 3s. 4d.
Samuel Price 3s. 4d.
Philip Prince 4d.
Rochly Prince 4d.
Charles Jones 2s.
Robert Owen 3s. 4d.
John Owens 2s. fid.
John Williams 3s. 4d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1654]
Arthur Williams 2S. 6d.
Edward Morris 2s.
John Lloyd 4d.
Owen Tither 2s. 6d.
John Ken rick is.
Ro1)crt Evans 2s.
John Foulkes is.
Thomas Jones 2s.
Thomas Humphrys 2s.

[Entrances in School Year 94]

The names of all the schollers admitted into the free schoole
in Shrewsbury sithence the 17th day of November 1649 untill
this 16th day of November 1650.

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

David Evans 2s.
Thomas Frankland 8d.
Samuel Prichard 4d.
William Clemson 4d.
George Gewen 4d.
William Wilcox 4d.
John Clearke 4d.
Thomas Cadwallader 4d.
Edward Mitton 4d.
Roger Oles 4d.
Christopher Eiton 4d.
Henry Brigdel 4d.

[Queens' Coll. Camb. B.A. 1661 ; Vicar
Condover 1664, of Pulverbatch 5*167
Buried at Condover, May 9, 1705 ]
John Beddow 4d.

[Vicar of Smethcote 1662]
Edward Haignes 8d.
Joseph Betton 4d.
Francis Davies 8d.
Thomas Greene-bank 4d.
Edmund Puller 4d.
Abraham Bennion 4d.
James Browne 4d.
John Cotton 4d.
Henry Nevit is.
John Wood 8d.
Charles Hughes 8d.
Benjamin Evans, pauper.
Kenrick Foulkes 2s.
Edward Price 8d.
Edward Barret 3s. 4d.

[of Syberscott, co. Salop : Gray's Inn 165
Bar 1657]
Pontesburye Husget 8d.
Foulke Tither is.
Arthur Harris 3s. <$&

[of Prescot, co. Salop.]
John Lloyd 3s. 4d.
Richard Pryce 3s. 4d.
Charles Pryce 2s. 6d.
William Williams 3s. 4d.
Abraham Jones 2s.
Andrew Bosthock is.
Robert Evans 2s.
Thomas Harris 3s. 4d.
Owen Auwill 3s. 4d.
William An will 2s. 6d.
John Roberts 2s.
John James 2s. 6d.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL-

39

John Prichard 2s. 6d.
Andrew Mauncell 3s. 4d.
George Founes is.
Esay Thomas is.
William Williams is.
Humphrey Tompkins 4d.
Edward Mitton 4d.
Owen Edwards 2s.
John Parry 2s.
Hugh Griffith 2s.
Thomas Bo we 11 is.
John Eloyd 2s.
Stephen Hardyng 4d.
Theophilus Evans 3s. 40.
William Griffith
Maurice Price is.
John Whitichers 2s.

[Entrances in School Year 60]

The names of all the schollers admitted into the free Schoole
Shrewsburye sithence the 17th day of November 1650 untill
lis 16th day of November 1651.

Richard Lindon 8d.
Joseph Bibby 8d.
Peter Davies is.
Walter Merrick 4c!.
John Tench 8d.
William Davies 4d.
Benjamin Wilding 4d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1660]
Richard Righton 4d.
Samuel Minors 4d.
Jonathan Jones 8d.

[Magdalene Coll. Camb. B.A. 1664; Clerk
1665-7; Chaplain 1667-8; Rector of Holy
Trinity, Guilfield, 1679]
J0I111 Gibbons 8d.
Richard Dod 8d.
Richard Yoppe is.
John Davies 4d.
Joseph Haynes 8d.
Mathew Higginson 4<L
Thomas Warter 4<i.
Thomas Ellick
Francis Goldstone 4d.
Thomas Kvans 41!.
Abraham Hennion 4c!.
William Bright is.

I

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Ralph Needhonie is.
Thomas Richards 4d.
Robert Richards 4A.
Simon Harcotte Sd.
Kdward Lutwich 40*.
Lewis Lloyd 2s. 6d.
Edward Whittingham 3s. 4d.
Thomas Powell
George Wright 4d.

[Caius Coll. Camb. B.A. 1664]
William Formston 2s.
John Formston 2s.
Richard Tinder
Francis Handbnry 2s.
Richard Adams 4d.
John Griffiths 8d.
Robert Goodwin 3s. 4d.
Charles Fyge 8d.
William Fyge Sd.

[Entrances in School Year 40]

The names of all the schollers admitted into the free Schoole
Shrewsbury sithence the 17th day of November 1651 until]
e 16th day of November 1652.

Edward Adams 4d.
Thomas Browne 8d.
William Humphrys 8d.
Richard Wilcox 8d.
Alexander Adams 4d.
Samuel Barton 8d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1664; Minister
of Aston J
Robert Dod Sd.
John Rider 4d.
Griffith Griffiths 4d.
Adam Browne 4d.
Robert Edwards Sd.
James Gibbons 4d.

['•Served faithfully three Kings in Civil
Employment." Died 1712]
John Cooke 4(1.
Robert Humphreys Sd.
Richard Phillips 4d.
Thomas Fuller Sd.
Daniel Evans is.
[Jesus Coll. Camb. 1660; Nonconformist
Minister successively at Norwich,
Woolwich, and Bethnal Green. Died
July, 169S, aged 58]

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

41

John Formston is.
Samuel Pritchard 4d.
Richard Yoppe 8d.
Thomas Whittichers 8d.
Thomas Gough 4d.
Richard Twisse 4d.
Robert Adams 4c!.

[Magdalene Coll. Camb. B.A. 1661 ; Rector

of Shravvardine 1665- 17 10. Buried there

Oct. 16, 1710]
William Walthall 4d.
William Peirce qd.
William Williams is.
Robert Owen
John Fonlkes 2s.
Thomas Ryder
Richard Jones 2s.
Morrice Humphreys 2s.
Robert Ellice 2s.
Owen Price 3s. 44,
Richard Tidder
Thomas Eacon 2s. 6d.
George Lacon 2s. 6d.
Rowland Bayley is.
Peter Bradney is.
Thomas Eangley is.
Samuel Orpe 8d.

[son of Thomas Orpe of Stanton ; of Queen's

College Oxford 1661; Vicar of Cheswardine

1663-1724; Curate of the Clive 1679. Died

May 11, 1724, aged 86]
David Jones 2s.
John Hollier 2s. 6d.

[Mercer, Shrewsbury]
Walter Hollier 2s. 6d.
Reynald Wooderton is.
Edward Tompkis is.
Humphry Hanmer is.
William Lewis 2s.
John Kite

Anthony Thomas 3s. 4d.
Richard Burnell is.
Evan Sathon 3s. 4d.
Richard Briggs 8d.
John Price 3s. 4d.
John Evans 84.
Richard Yeamans is.
John Yoppe is.
Charles Eovelocke 4c!.
Rees Iyloyd 3s. 4(1.

42

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Ellis Lloyd 2s. 6d.
Richard Prowde is.

[Draper, Shrewsbury]
Thomas Prowde is.

[Buried at Ateham, June 15. 1663J
Richard Wickstead
Thomas Owen 3s. 4d.

[of the Council House]
Rees Evans 3s. 4d.

[Entrances in School Year 65]

The names of all the Schollers admitted into the free schoole
in]Shrewsbury sithence the 17th day of November 1652 1111 till
the [6th of November 1653.

John Haynes 8d.

[Magdalene Coll. Camb., B.A. 1664 ; Vicar
of St. Julian's, Shrewsbury, 1665 ; 2nd
Master, Shrewsbury School 1668-72]
Dorotheus Faukner 4d.
John Adams 4d.
John Brigdall 4d.

[son of Daniel Brigdall ; bapt. at St. Chad's
1645 ; died June 10, 1689]
Edward Banaster 8d.
Charles Fox 4a1.
Jonathan Walthall 4d.
Robert Williams 4d.
Henry Stones 4d.
Benjamin Evans 8d.
John Mi 11 ward 40! .
Richard Lawrence 8d.
Edward Brigdall 4d.
Richard Evans 8d.
Francis Jefferies 4d.
Alexander Patience 4d.
Edward Lawrence Sd.

[B.N.C., Oxon]
Jeremia EveraU is.
Thomas Rogers is.

[Trinity Coll. Camb., B.A. 1660; Vicar of
Clun 1671 ; Canon of Hereford. Buried
Oct. 29, 1709]
Richard Churchyard 4d.
Richard Nickolls 3s. 4c!.
Maurice Lloyd 2s. 6d.
Abraham Farre 8d.
Evan Lloyd 2s.
Anthony Thomas 3s. 4d.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

43

John Coughen 3s. 4c!.

Owen George 2s.

John Jefferies 3s. 46!.

[of Acton Park, Wrexham ; High Sheriff co.
Denbigh, 16S0]

Thomas Jefferies 2s. 6d.

[Merchant of Alicante; Knighted 1685;
Britisli Consul at Alicante and Madrid ;
Knight of Alicantara]

Edward Jefferies 2s. 6d.

William Jefferies 2s. 6d.

[S.John's Coll. Camb., B.A. 1664]
*George Jeffereys 2s. 6d.

[b. 1645 ; Trinity Coll. Camb. 1662 ; Bar
(Inner Temple) 1669; Common Sergeant
1671 ; Knighted 1677 ; Recorder of London
1678 ; Sergeant at Law and Chief Justice
of Chester 16S0 ; Baronet 1681 ; Chief
Justice of the King's Bench 1682 ; Baron
of Wem, and Lord Chancellor 1685. Died
April 18, 1689. See D.N.B. xxix, 277]

Richard Wooding 3s. 4d.

Thomas Nickolls 4d.

Charles Nickolls 4d.

Thomas Mericke 4d.

Samuel Morris 4d.

Henry Hughs 4d.

Joseph Walthall 4d.

Thomas Jevon, se. [senior] 4<3.

Richard Jevon 4d.

William Bell 4d.

Humphrey Scott 44.

Joseph Price 4d.

George Williams 4d.

Thomas Jevon, hi [iunior] is.

Thomas Oram 4d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb., B.A. 1663]

Thomas Wright 4d.

[Emmanuel Coll. Camb., B.A. 1665 1

Theophilus Price 4d.

Stephen Harding 4d.

Arthur Atcherley 4d.

William Barkley is. 4d.

Richard Hollies

Richard Pigott 8d.
[St. John's Coll. Camb., B.A. 1660]

Phillmon Hayes 4fl.

Thomas Shaw

Edward Reynolds 3s. 4c!.

* In the margin : " 1685 made Lord Chancclor of Inglund."

H

KEGISTKR OF THE NAMES OF ROYS

Richard Wicksted 3d.
John Cole 4d.
Richard Briggs 8d.
Owen Lloyd 2S. 6d.
Robert Hughes 3s. ^d.
John Rider 4d.
George Clive 4d.
Francis Baxter is.
John Gervace 2s. 6d.
John Crow
Joliu Powell 3s. 4d.
John Humphreys
Edward Llovd 2s.
Oliver Morris 3s. 4d.
Thomas Parton is.
Henry Davies 4d.
Griffith Jenkins 2s. 6d.
Edward Price 2s.
Richard Milward is.
Edward Evans 3s. 4d.
Reniald George 2s. 6d.
Henry Ap- Parry 2s.
Joseph Allen 2s. 6d.
Edward Gibbons 4d.
Thomas Davies 3s. 4d.
Edward Owen 3s. 4d.

[Capt. of Horse in Shropshire Militia 1660]
Humphrey Owen 2s. 6d.
Robert Parry 2s. 6d.
Griffith Thomas 2s.
John Voughan 3s. 4d.
John Evans 2s.
William Hanbury 2s. 6d.
Griffith Nanney 2s. 6d.
Charles Lloyd 3s. 4d.
John Lloyd 2s. 6d.
Thomas Lloyd 2s. 6d.
Ricliard Lloyd 2s. 6d.
Price Devereux 3s. 4d.

fofVaynor, co. Montgomery; Ch. Ch. Oxon
1654; Gray's Inn 1658 ; Royal Navy. Died
on board Admiral Barkeley's flagship off
the Foreland, 1666]
Thomas Lloyd is.
Robert Jones 2s.
John Ellis 2s.

[St. John's Coll. Camb., B.A. 165S]
William Ellis 2s.
Robert Top 3s. 4d.
John Bembow 2s.

[Entrances in School Year 102]

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

45

The names of all ye schollers admitted iuto ye free schoole
of Shrewsbury sitheuce the 17th of November 1653 untill the
16th of November 1654.

Griffith Lloyd 3s. 4d.

I Buried at St. Chad's, March 25, 1654]
Ralph Jones 4d.
Thomas Trevenor 4d.
John Price 4d.
Edward Stanley 8d.
Richard Bott 8d.
John Bircli 4d.
Thomas Humphreys 8d.
Francis Davies, pauper.
Thomas Ward is.
Ellis Ap-Ellis 3s. 4d.
Anthony Thomas 3s. 4d.
Samuel Firnihaugh is.
John Pugh 2s.
Thomas Jones 2s.
Thomas Evans is.
John Ellams 4d.
Richard Wilding 4d.
Samuel Price 4d.
Joseph Lindon 8d.
James Browne 4d.
Rowland Bright 8d.
Charles Owen 2s. 6d.
Henry Owen 2s. 6d.
Evan Davies 2s.
Thomas Pearson 4d.
John Harris is.
Henry Price 2s.
John Poole is.
Thomas Lister 4d.
John Edwards 3s. 4d.
John Pugh 3s. 4d.

[of Methhaveu, co. Montgomery]
James Worthington 3s. 4c!.
John Loinax 2s. cd.
William Otty is.
Hugh Nanney 2s. 6d.
John Lloyd 3s. 4d.
Mathew Gittins 2s. 6d.
Morris Williams 2s. 6d.
John Peirce 2s. 6d.
Anthony Thomas 3s. 4c!.
Evan Meredith 3s. 4d.
John Lewis 2s. 6d.
William Brookes 2s.

46

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

William Williams 2s. 6d.
William Felton 2S. 6d.
Jeremiah Everall is.
James Betton 4d.
Richard Clutton 4d.

[Magdalen Hall, Oxon, B.A. 1667; died
March 5, 1670-1"]
John Hunt 4d.

[Gray's Inn 1666; Bar 167 1]
John Pigot 8d.

[St. Catherine's Coll., Camb. B.A. 1666]

[Entrances in School year 51J

The names of all ye schollers admitted into ye free Grammar
Schoole of Shrewsbury sinse ye 17th day ot November 1654
until ye 16th of November 1655.

Joseph Cooper is.
Jacob Bryan 8d.
George Griffith 8d.
Robert Jones 8d.
Samuel Key 4d.
Joseph Wilkes 4d.
Thomas Stubbs 4d.
Edward Peers senior 8d.

[of Cressage, co. Salop]
John Weston 4d.
John Goodall 8d.
John Selby 8d.
Edward Bucknall 4d.
Francis Bucknall 44.
William Burraston 8d.
Joseph Hale 8d.
George Price 4d.
Thomas Pitts 8d.
Edward Peers junior 4(1.
Thomas Aulkins 4d.
Joseph Paddy 8d.
Abell Longner is.
Joseph Pearson 4d.
Thomas Crump 2s.
John Crump 2S.
Thomas Lloyd 2s. 6d.
Robert Hosketh 2S. 6d.
Charles Morris 2s.
Richard Mitton 4d.

[of Pontyscowyd, co. Montgomery; High
Sheriff co. Montgomery, 1674 ]
James Mitton ad.

[Hart Hall, 6x011, 1662]

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL. 47

Edward Jones 3s. 4d.

John Milward 4d.

John Hay is.

Wilcock Evans 2s. 6d.

John Leech 3s. 4d.

Francis Leech 2s. 6d.

Thomas Morgans 2s. 6d.

Marmaduke Price 2s. 6d.

Daniel Davies 2s. 6d.

Edward Hall is.

John Lloyd 2s. 6d.

Timothy Hammond

[Ch. Ch. Oxon, 1666; B.A., 1669; Vicar of
Barnetby le Wolds, 1672]

David Griffith 2s.

Henry Purselow 2s. 6d.

Richard Monntford is.

Roger Kinaston 3s. 4d.

Humphry Kinaston 2s. 6d.

David Evans 2s.
May 7 Daniel Jones 2s. 6d.

Faulk Bakar 4d.
18 Thomas Cox is.
24 David Lloyd 2s. 8d.
June 11 John Jones 2s. 6d.

13 Anthony Thomas 3s. 4d.

18 John Evans 2s.
Watkin Lloyd 2s. 6d.
George Hodson is.
Jenkin Morris 2s.
John Williams 3s. 4d.
Joseph Nock is.

19 Hugh Jones 2s.
Robert Wood 3s. 4d.

26 Robert Roddrick 2s. 6d.
28 John Pugh 3s. 4d.

Byron Bradshaw 2s. 6d.
July 5 Edward Brees 2s.

9 Francis Bullock 3s. 4d.
11 Rees Winne 2s. 6d.

John Winne 2s. 6d.
26 William Winne 3s. 4d.
Richard Ratcliftc 3s. 4(1.
William Ratclifle 2s. 6d.
Aug. 30 Thomas Bradshaw 3s. 4d.
Sept. 14 William Turner is.
23 Andrew Bright 2S.
Oct. 1 Samuel Hopkins is.

[St. John's Coll. Catnb. B.A. t66o]

48

REGISTER OF THE NAME! OF BOYS

2 Thomas Owen Alius Rogeri Owen Armigeri

3s. 4d.
4 John Bright is.

[Magdalene Coll. Camb. B.A. 1660] v
io William Whittingham is.
Nov. 7 Thomas Lloyd 2S. 6d.

[Entrances in School Year 79]

The names of al the schollas admitted into the free grammar
schoole of Shrewsbury — Since the 17th day of November 1655
until the 16th of November 1656.

Nov. 19 William Williams 2s. 6d.
Dec. Richard Meighen 4d.
Thomas Morris 8d.
Richard Coney 4d.
Neheniiah Scott 4d.

[of the Friars, Shrewsbury ; Bapt. at St.
Chad's 3 Nov., 1644; Alderman 1687;
died 171 1 J
Richard Peake 8d.
Robert Hood 4d.
Joseph Beddow 4d.
Thomas Butler 8d.
Thomas Bradeford 8d.
Jacob Morris 8d.
Andrew Lea 8d.
Edward Burges 4d.
Robert Asterly 8d.
John Bennet 4d.

r St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1667]
Richard Jones 8d.
Richard Beddow 4d.
Foulke Edwards 8d.
Cornelius Davies 4d.
Robert Sherrat 8d.
Jan. 9 Jolm Betton 4d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1659]
Thomas Ambler 2s. 6d.
William Amblei 2s. 6d.
16 John Salesbury 2s. 6d.
Gabriel Salebyry 2s. 6d.
Thomas Jones 2s.
21 John Griffiths 2s.

21 John Pugh 3s. 4d.

22 John Bowen is.
25 Hugh Morris 2S.

28 Lewis Meywriche 2s. 6d.
John Milward 4d.
Robert Owen 3s. 4d.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL. 49

Richard Owen 2s. 6d.
Feb. 13 Robert Lloyd 3s. 4d.

David Lloyd 2s. 6d.
March 3 Richard Corfeild is.
Thomas Cox is.
John Brigdal 4d.
5 William Biggs 2s. 6d.
Vincent Owen 2s. 6d.

[Trinity Coll. Camb. LLD. 1673; Vicar of
Munslow. Died 1702]
John Hodson is.
12 Richard Meriden is.
April 14 Samuel Oram 4d.

22 William Collen 3s. 4d.
Edward Chid 3s. 4d.

[Of Orleton, co. Salop ; Gray's Inn, 1664.
Died Oct. 18, 1721]
Charles Clud 2s. 6d.

[Colonel in the Guards. Killed in action at
Landen, 1693]
24 Richard Jones 2s. 6d.

Richard Sommerfeild 2s. 6d.
Thomas Bennet 3s. 4d.
May 19 John Jones 3s. 4d.
June 2 Thomas Williams 3s. 4d.
Evan Williams 2s. 6d.
John Williams 2s. 6d.
Thomas Littlehales 4d.
Richard Mitton 4d.
Roger Pope 4d.
Thomas Pope 4d.
4 Jenkin Maurice 2s.
Edward Bowen 3s. 4d.
Richard Bowen 2s. 6d.

19 John Lewis 3s. 4d.

20 John Phillips 3s. 4d.
Walter Price 3s. 4d.
John Lewis 3s. 4d.
John Lloyd 3s. 4d.

John Whittingham 3s. 4d.

Evan Thomas 2s. 6d.
Aug. 1 Thomas Doughty 4c!.

George Couldham 2s.
18 Samuel Price 2s.
26 Charles Doughty 4d.
Sept. 10 Samuel Ireland 4d.

Edward Ireland 4d.
18 Richard Humphreys 3s. 4d.
20 William Williams 2s.

Daniel Jencks 4c!.

i

5°

KKGISTKK OF THE NAMKS OF BOYS

Richard Bradshaw 2S. 6d.
Oct. 8 Richard Sandford 2s.

[of Rossall, co. Salop. Buried at Fitz, July
29, 1676]
13 Humphrey Wearing is.

[of Mitton, co. Salop ; baptised at Fitz, April
22, 1645. Buried there Jan. 20, 1723-4J

15 George Hodson is.

16 James Betton ^d.

[Entrances in School Year 82]

The names of all the Schollers admitted into the free

Grammar Schoole of Shrewsbury, since the 17th day of

November 1656 until the 16th of November 1657.

Dec. 5 6 Edward Phillips 4d.

[Mercer, Shrewsbury, died 16931
Griffith Jones 4d.
Richard Lewis 8d.
Samuel Ellams 4d.
James Kinsey 8d.
Samuel Ridgway 4d.
Richard Griffith 4d.
Michael Betton 8d.
Isaac Sankey 8d.
John Eccles 8d.
Daniel Meachen 4d.
George Bennet 4c!.
George Tither 4d.

Richard Andrewes 4d. Minr. of Upton, &c.
[St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1667; 2nd
Master, Shrewsbury School 1672 ; Vicar
of Upton Magna and Withington 1673.
Buried at Withington, Dec. 20, 1726]
John Dax 4d.
William Haile 4d.
Thomas Hampton 4d.
John Baker 8d.
Edward Kinsey 8d.
Jan. 7 Richard Lewis 8d.

Richard Matthews 8d.
Charles Mathewes 8d.
Andrew Mathews 8d.

; St. John's Coll. Camb. 1663 J
William Mathewes 8d.
Edmund Peirce 8d.
Peter Browne 4d.
Paule Browne 4d.
12 William Jones 2s. 6d.
14 John Owen 3s. 4d.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

51

March 9
April 17

29

May 4

15
29

Aug. 3
Oct. 9

Feb. 13 Oliver Price 3s. 4c!.
21 Humphry Jervis 2s.

27 Francis Bedford 2s. 6d.
[Queen's Coll. Camb. B. A. 1667]

John Pugh 2s. 6d.
Thomas Bostock 4c!.

[''a scoller who was drowned," buried at
St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, July 15, 1657]
Thomas Berington 4d.
John Griffiths 2s. 6d.
Michael Sanky 8d.
Andrew Meredith 2s.
26 Humphrey Pugh 3s. 4d.
June 1 Thomas Hoggins is.
John Hunt —
Kdward Kvans 2s.
Griffith Davies 2s. 6d.
John Powel 2s.
Hugh Morris 2s.
Evan Humphreys 2s.
Rowland Evans 2s.
William Robinson 8d.
Thomas Atkis is.
Kvan Lewes 2s.
Nehemiah Scott 4d.
David Madox 4d.
William Bennett 4d. Minr. of St. Chadds.
[St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1670; Vicar of
St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, 168 1. Died Jan.
15, 1720-1]
Richard Onslow 4c! .
Ralph Hood 4d.

28 Richard Bott 8d.

[Entrances in School Year 56]

The names of all ye schollars admitted into ye free grammar

schoole of Shrewsbury sincere 17th day of November 1657

untill ye 16th of November 1658.

Dec. 14 Samuell Watkins 4d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1664]
Richard Ellis 8d.
Stephen Pugh 4d.
Adam Butler 8d.
Moses Williams 8d.
Jeremiah Phillips 8d.
Phillip Sand ford 4d.
[of Christ Church, Oxford. 1664-5; B.A.
1668; M. A. from Jesus Coll. Camb. t68o;
Vicar of Wroxham, Kent, l68o; son ol

Richard Sandford, ol Shrewsbury

52

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Joshuah Everall 8d.
Francis Thomas 4(1.
William Heath 4(1.
Rowland Langly 4d.
William Griffiths 8d.
John Heath 4d.
Nicholas Clarke 4d.
John Hilton Sd.
John Davies 4d.
Thomas Perry 8d.
Isaac Bullock is.
Martin Dongcaster 4d.
Rich. Sherrat 4d.
Samnell Hinde 4d.
Samnell Hnbbals 4d.
John Kvans 8d.
Josias Willies 4d.
Roger Darbishire 8d.
Josias Loyd 4(1.
Rich. Jones 4d.
William Davies 4d.
Jan. ii Arthur Atcherly 4d.

Richard Proude 4d.
15 William Bnttry 4d.

[C.C.C. Camb. 1669]
20 John Beeston is.

[Trinity Coll. Camb. B.A. 1670]

25 Tho. Mill ward 2s.
Feb. 1 Edward Burgess 4d.

11 Henry Hencock 2s.
March 1 Rowland Evans 2s.
Evan Lewes 2s.
John Lloyd 3s. 4d.
April 22 Rich. Lewes 2s.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1672]
F[r]ancis Davies Sd.
[Ch. Ch. Oxon. B.A. 1667 ; Vicar of Shels-
bury, Oxon, 1672J
George Williams 4d.
Edward Peerce 3s. 41! .
Abraham Giles 4d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1669]
Edward Parcel 1 4(1.
Michael! Purcell 4d.
May 3 James Burchall is.
24 David Price 3s. 4c!.
John Eaton 2s.
June 7 Thomas James 26.

Edward Bucknall <|d.

26 William Price is.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

53

July 9 John Ellis 2s.

Aug 1 6 Samuel Evanson —

Thomas Littlehales 40!.
21 Thomas Pay ton 2s. 6d.
Algernon Payton 2s. 6d.

[Created a Baronet March 21, 1666-7 I °f
Doddington, eo. Cambridge]
30 John Evans, 8d.
Isaac Lewes
Sept. 14 Richard Lewes

17 Thomas Berrington 4d.
Oct. 7 Edward Rogers is.
19 Edward Bucknall is.

Thomas Farmer is.
25 James Burchall 4c!.

[Entrances in School Year 64]

The names of all ye schollers admitted into ye free grammer

schoole of Shrewsbury since ye 17th day of November 1658

until! ye 16th of November 1659.

Nov. 24 Richard Meighan 4d.
29 Charles Jones 2s.
Dec. 14 Samuel Dowries 4d.

[Pembroke Coll. Camb. B.A. 1666]
Thomas Betton 4d.
Arthur Key 8d.
John Bucknall 44.
Robert Betlon 4d.
Edward Fawlknei'4d.
Peter Griffiths 4d.
Richard Jones 4d.
Richard Dax 4d.
Samuel Griffiths 4d.
Richard Scot 4d.

[Bapt. at St. Chad's 7 Jan. 1648 ; died 1693]
John Cooper 4d.
Francis Watkins 4d.
Gilbert Jones is.
Isaak Pugh 4d.
Richard Evans 8d.
John Price 8d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1669]
Jan. 10 Gabriell Bunny 8d.

Richard Corfield is.
12 Richard Lea 4c!.
George Proude 8d.
Beniamin Peerce 4d.
Nicholas Jones 4c!.
John Jones 4c!.
Joh Payne 4d.

REGISTER OF THE NAMRh OF BOYS

17 William Davies 4<i.
19 David Humphreis 2s.
21 Richard Lounds 3s. $d.

29 Richard Brompton 4c! .
31 Joseph Pearson 4d.

Feb. 16 Christopher Murrell is.
21 Thomas Roberts is.
24 Philip Buttler 8d.
March 4 Thomas Peyton 3s. 4<1.

9 Christopher Love 3s. 4d.
George Bradshewe 2s. 6d.
April 11 John Doughty 8d.

18 Richard Meighen 4c!.

19 Edmund Peirce 2s, 6d,
Robert Peirce 2s. 6d.

21 Nehemiah Scot 4d.

22 David Maddox 4d.

24 Thomas Atkins 4d.
Edward Cludde 3s. 4c! .
Richard Heath 8d.
William Heath 8d.

25 Thomas Wingfield 4c!.

[of Preston Brockhurst ; Gray's 11111,^1664;
Ch. Ch. Oxon 1664; High Sheriff co.
Salop 1692 ; Baptized at St. Chad's Apr. 25,

1644]

Richard Wingfield 4d.

[brother of the preceding ; Ch. Ch. Oxon
1666 ; Gray's Inn 1668 ; Captain in .the
Army; Baptized at St. Chad's March^i2,
1647-8 ; died 1690]
Walter Wingfield 4d.
May 4 Griffith Jones 4(1.
11 Thomas Jackson 4(1.

30 Edward Baker 2s.
John Baker 2s.
William Jenkin 2s.
William Aston is.

June 1 Thomas Rock 4d.

[Buried at the Abbey Dec. 13, 1703]
William Hale 4d.
Richard Powell 3s. 4(1.
Beniainin Oliver 4c! .

5 John Cressit 2s. 6d.
Andrewe Cressit as. 6d.

[Buried at Cound Dec. 29, 1663]
Edward Cressit 2s. 6d.
Richard Fonlk is.

6 Francis Hincks 41!.
Mathewe Stevans is.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

55

David Loyde 2S.
Richard Jevon 4d.
Francis Thomas 4c!.
8 Richard Connv 40*.
13 Thomas Edwards 4d.

LQueerfs Coll. Oxon 16^4; Gray'a Inn 1665 ;
Town Clerk of Shrewsbury 1681-1726; of
the College. Shrewsbury. Buried at St.
Chad's Feb. i, 1726-7. Son of Sir Thomas
Edwards, Bart.]
15 Edward Meridew 40*.
17 John Davies 4d.
21 Richard Jones 2s. 6d.
27 Thomas Jevon is.
George Beacoll 4d.
George Shevock 4d.
July 12 Joseph Allen 2s,

25 John Ellis 2s.
Aug. 1 William Price 2s.

3 Nehemiah Scott 4d.

[Eldest son of Richard Scott, of Shrewsbury,
draper; bapt. at St. Chad's 3 Nov. 1644;
of The Friars, Shrewsbury]
Sept. 14 John Gittins 4d.

19 Richard Sandford 3s. 4d.
21 Edward Gethin 3s. 4d.

Oct. 3 Robert Bettou 4d.

[of Berwick, co. Salop. Died 1725")
Thomas Betton 4d.
Samuel 1 Hind 4c!.
Samuel 1 Adderton 4d,

[of Shrewsbury, draper, and of Preston
Montford; Mayor 1694; High Sheriff, co.
Montgomery 1700. Buried at the Abbey,
Shrewsbury, May 24, 1707, aged 61]
5 Richard Conny 4d.
10 Edward Peirce 41!.
12 Daniel Methen 4c!.

20 Arthur Tonge ^d.

[Attorney at Law, Shrewsbury. Died Sept.
21, 1729J

[Entrances in School Year 93]

The names of all the Schollers admitted into the free

grammar schole of Shrewsbury since the 17th day of November

1659 until the 16th day of November 1660.

Dec. 14 Reece Griffiths is.
1659 David Davies [d.

Johanne s Griffiths 8d,
Michael Jones .jd.

56

REGISTER OF THK NAM J \S OK BOYS

Rrichardus Price 4c!.
Samuel Lea ^d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1664]
Guliehnus Cary 8d.
Johannes Read is.
Johannes Heneox 4d.
Obadiah Hubl)ols 4d.
Daniel Faulkner 4d.
Josua Ireland 4c!.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1670 ; Fellow

1674 J Gray's Inn 1674]
Samuel Person 4(1. Vicar of ye Holy Cross.
[Kino's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1671 ; Vicar of the

Abbey, Shrewsbury 1676. Died Now 16.

1727]
Johannes Pugh 4d.
Joseph Proud 44.

[Emmanuel Coll. Camb. B.A. 1670; Vicar of

Steyning, Kssex]
Johannes Singleton is.
Jonathan Scot 4d.

[of Betton Strange, co. Salop. Alderman

and J. P. and Mayor 1689. Second son of

Richard Scott, draper. Bapt. at St. Chad's

23 May, 1647, and bur. there 30th May,

1716]

Pellum [Pelham] Corbet 4d.

[baptized at St. Chad's Feb. 23, 1648-9, son
of George CorbettJ
Jonannes Bell 4d.
Samuel Cooper 4d.
Richard Haulkshead 8d.
Richard Allet 8d.

[baptized at St. Chad's Jan. 14, 1648-9, son
of Richard Allott]
Johan. Jones 8d.
Joseph Barker 8d,

[St. Catherine's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1674]
Thomas Wright 8d.
Daniel Peirson jd.
William King 4a.
James Hill Sd.
Samuel Mosse 4(1.
Johannes Downes is.
George Farre 4(1.
Johan. Ragg is.
Thomas Mall 4(1.
John Loilgner .jd.
Jan. 16 William Jones 3s. 4<1.
25 Thomas I,oyd is.

ADMITTKD TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

57

Feb. i
6
16

2 I

March 8

1.6

JO

April 7
18

May 7
18

21
22

28

June 19
21

22
23

July

5

10
1 1
16

Aug. 6

John Smith 2 s.
Robert Needhani is.
Richard Ellis 2s.
Rich. Humphries 3s. 4d.
Thomas Brome 3s. ^d.
Fransis Weston is.
John L,oyd 2s. 6d.
David Loid 3s. 4(1.
Edward Evans 2s.
Roland Kvans 2s.
Thomas Matthews ad.
John T re vis 3s. ad.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1669 1
Richard Trevis 2s. 6d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1672]
David Pugh 2s. 6d.
Thomas Price 2s. 6d.
John Price 2s. 6d.
Caleb Kvans is.
Thomas Atkins is.
William Thomas 2s.
William Purcell 4d.
Samuel Biggs 2s. 6d.
Mathew Mathews 2s. 6d.
Thomas Hunt 4d.
Thomas Moore is.
Griffith Jones 3s. 4d.
Evan Jones 2s. 6d.
Cadwallader Loyd 2S. 6d.
Richard Ap-Evan is.
William Hanckocks is.
William Cleaton 2S. 8d.
Thomas I nee 2s. 6d.
Richard Lewis 2s.
Robert Philips 2s.
Reese Jones 3s. 4d.
Arthur Humphreys 2s. 6d.

[Balliol Coll. Oxon B.A. 1666-7; Rector of
St. Peter the Martyr, Bedford, 1673; of
Barton le Clay, Beds, 1677]
John Price 3s. 41I.
John Lloyd 2s.
Henry Blundell 3s. 4d.
Owen Jones 2s. 6d.
Daniel Whittingham 3s. 4d.
Richard Wittingham 3s. 4d.
John Smith 2s. 6d.
John Lloyd 4d.
John Roberts
John Morris 2S.

5»

REGISTER OF THK NAMKS OF BOYS

Thomas Hollier 2s. 6d.

[Admitted to Mercer's Company, Shrews-
bury, 1661]
8 Maurice Jones 2s. 6d.
20 Thomas Stones 4d.
23 Humphry Humphreys 2s.

[Jesus Coll. Oxon, 1665; Fellow; Chaplain
to Bishop of Bangor; Dean of Bangor
1680; Bishop of Bangor 1689; of Hereford
1701. Died 1712]
Sept. 3 Walter Grinsell 4(1.
7 Peter Neuten 4d.
16 William Burscoe 8d.

27 William Harper 8d.

28 Joseph Tike is.
Thomas Lloyd

Oct. 5 William Thomas 2s.
25 Robert Winne 2S. 6d.
27 Reese Evans 2s.
Bazel Wearing 4d.

[of Onslow, co. Salop]
Nov. 12 Edward Jucks 4'd,
15 Bithel Jones 2s. 6d.
Richard Jones 2s. 6d.

[Entrances in School Year 98]
The names of all ye schollers admitted into the free
grammar Schoole of Shrewsbury since ye 17th day of November
1660 untill ye 16th day of November 1661.

Dec. 14 Richard Lloyd 8d.

Jeffry Beddow 4d.
John Gewin 4d.
Richard Baldwin 4d.
John Withy 8d.
John Williams
Thomas Cooper 4d.
George Cooper 4d.
William Nithingale 4d.
Richard Oacley 8d.
Adam Waring 4d.

[of Woodcote, Shrewsbury; St. John's Coll.
Camb. 1669; Gray's Inn 1670; Banister.
Died 1700J
Thomas Dawes 4d. Mini of St. MarLs.

[Queen's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1671 ; Vicar of St.
Mary's, Shrewsbury 1679 1714. Died Jan.
10, 1714-5]
Thomas Tither 4<1.

[ St. John's Coll. Caml). 167(1 |
Samuel Meacheu »sd

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

59

Robert Lea 4c!.
Joseph Baker 4c!.
John Price 8d.
Robert Foulks —
Toseph Lea 40!.

[Clare Coll. Caiub., B.A. 1668]
John Atcherly 4c!.
Benjamin Edwards 4d.
[Clerk to St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
London. Died Oct. 12, 17 1 5]
Jeiemiah Milward 4c!.
Titus Browne 4d.
Thomas Morgan 4c].
Jan. 14 Walter Wingfield 4(1.
Francis Thomas 2s.
21 John Rowley 4d.
30 William Roberts 3s. 4d.
Arthar Tongue 4d.
Feb. 13 Samuel Barton 4d.

[Jesus Coll. Camb., B.A. 1671J
16 Edward Leighton 4c!.

[of Wattlesborough, co. Salop; created
Baronet 1693; M.P. for Shrewsbury, aud
Shropshire; High Sheriff co. Salop.
Died 1711]
Thomas Leighton 4d.
25 Griffith Morris 2s.
Hugh Morris 2S.
Thomas Aston is.

[St. Peter's Coll. Camb., B.A. 1670]
March 1 Timothy Hammond is.
4 Josiah Willis 4d.
6 Henery Turner is.
Samuel Hubbals 41 1,
francis foulke 6s. 8(1.
April 26 Morris Jones 2s.
May 8 Richard Rider is.
10 Roger Panter is.

Lewis Owen 2s. 6d.
12 Lewis Griffith 2s. 6d.
Charles Moore 2s. 6d.

( of Millichope, co. Salop; Univ. Coll. Oxon.
1666]
John Moore 2s. 6d.
21 Thomas Shelvocke is.
24 Griffith Griffiths 2s.
Owen Lewis 2s.
William Bostocke is.
June 10 Rowland Kllis 2s.

Griflith Roberts 2.s.

6o

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

John Whrighte 2s.

Edward B urges 4d.

Humphry floide 2S. 6d.
17 Richard Lister is.

[St. John's Coll. Camb., 1663-4 ; M.D. 1679]
21 Hugh Humphris 2s.

24 Pelham Corbet 4d.
26 Richard Powis 4d.

July 8 Owen Jones 2s.

12 Henery Parry 3s. 4d.
Aug. 5 Richard Anwill 2s. 6d.

Robert Maddockes 2s. 6d.
23 Thomas Hume 2s.
Oct. 1 David Price 2s.

Thomas foorde 2s.
Hd ward Brooke 3s. 4d.

25 Samuel Brompton 4a!.
Nov. 4 Jolin Bowen 2s.

[Entrances in School Year 71]

The names of all ye schollars admitted into ye tree grammar

schoole of Shrewsbury, since ye 17 day of November 1661

untill ye 26 of August 1662.

Nov. 24 I wan Bowen is.

1 66 1 Humphrey Sand ford —

[second son of Richard Sandford of The
Isle; Gray's Inn 1670]
Dec. 14 Richard Price 4d.

Thomas Heyries [? HeynesJ 4d.

John Ward [?] 4d.

Thomas Allkins —

Ben. Greenebanke 4d.

Robert felton 4d.

Abraham Crouder Sd.

William Price —

John Adderton 8d.

Thomas Couper 4d.

Thomas felton 4d.

Richard Me rid en 4d.

Thomas Wotley—

Richard Betton 4d.

Michael Meredith Sd.

Joseph Brodhurst —

William Groves Sd.

Thomas Bradsheu 4d.

William Boulder 4c!.

Kdward Wolley —

Richard Price 8d.

William Dax 4d.

lolin ttreese

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

6l

John Jones 8d.
John Poyner 4c!.
James Scrimshew 4c!.
Daniel Frank 4c!.
William Jones
Jan. 10 Griffith Price 2s. 6d.

27 Owen Jones 2s. 6d.
Humphry Saiidfdrd is.

[son of Richard Saudford of Whitchurch,
vSt. John's Coll. Camb. 1669; B. A. 1672;
Fellow 1672. Died Oct. 28, 1712 ; buried
at St. Chad's]

28 Gilbert Jones 2s.
Feb. 3 George Bracall 4d.

John Breese 4d.
18 Thomas Atcherly is.

[of Martou, in the parish of Myddle]
Andrew Atcherly is.
March 10 Thomas Oakley 8d.

[son of John Oakeley of Shrewsbury]
John Oakley 8d.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1672. Brother of the
preceding]
11 Samuel Watkins 4d.
April 10 William Reignalds is.
William Atkis is.
Joseph L,oe 4d.
15 Daniel Benion 2s.

[Oriel Coll. Oxon 1665-6; Gray's Inn 1666;
of Ash, co. Salop]
Robert Whitcombe .}d.
30 Richard Alkins 4d.
Charles Winde
Hussey Lee
David Lloyd 3s. 4d.
June 4 John Davies 4d.

10 William Bridgwater is.

25 Price Clunne 3s. 4c!.

26 George Browne is.
Richard Browne is.

Aug. 3 Stephen Crosse 2s.
James Crosse 2s.
7 William Harrison is.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1672]
20 Francis Dosset is.

25 Evan Thomas 2s.
Robert Jones 2s.
Nehemiah Millward .pi.

26 Andrew Phillips is.
Thomas Phillips is.

62

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

[Richard Pigot suspended, Sept. 8; Edward
Cotton, the second master, supplying "the
Head Schoolmaster's place." J

The names of the Schollers that were admitted into the Free
schoole since September 8th 1662 while Mr. Edward Cotton
supplied the head-Schoole -masters place.

Humphrey Kinaston 2s.
Richard Kinaston 2s.
John Kinaston 2s.

[of Hard wick : M.P.Shrewsbury 1695-1708 :
High Sheriff co. Salop 1690 ; Mayor of
Shrewsbury 1696 ; buried at Hordley, Sept.
*733> aged 69]

Oct. 10 William Jones 2s.
20 John Lyth is.

[Entrances in School Year 74]

Nov. 30 Richard Wemm is.
Dec. 8 John Hammond is.

[Ch. Ch. Oxon., B.A. 1672; Rector of
Gawsworth, Cheshire 1684; buried there
April 15, 1724]

The names of those who removed out of Mr. Godheards
Schoole into Mr. Tailors at Christmas.

William Warom 8d.
John Millington 4d.

[Magdalene Coll. Camb., B.A. 1671 ; Vicar
of Kensington; Founder of the School
scholarships]
William Phillips 8d.
Isaack Giles is.
John Harding 6d.

[Ch. Ch. Oxon., B.A. 1673; Vicar of Chir-
bury 16771
Andrew Vivers 6d.
Richard- Farmer is.
William Jones 4d.
Edward Boulde is.
Richard Price is.
John Hatchett4d.
Thomas Peake 8d.
John Morris ad.
William Davis is.

Sept. 25

3°

Thomas Sheaphard is.
Thomas Owen is.
John Fewtrell is.
James Scrimshaw 4d.

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

&3

Phillip Wilding is.
Richard Wilding 4d.
John Hough 8d.
Thomas Clarke 4d.
Josuah Clarke 401.
Decemb: 15
Tlie 17 daw Edward Hughes 2s.

9 Mieah Meiedeath 4d.
15 George Llewillin 4c!.
[Gray's Inn 1673]
Jan. 12 John Adams is.

15 Robert Baddeley 2s. 6d.

Robert Pierce 2s. 6d.
25 Samuell vSukar 2s.
John Price is.
Feb. 7 Charls Price

17 Robert Toppe 2s.

[Queen's Coll. Oxon 1667J
Edward Toppe 2s.
25 Edward Rock 4d.
Elisha Fowler is.
[St. John's Coll. Camb. ; B.A. (f rom Queen's)
1671J
John Prowler is.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1667-8]
[Thomas Challoner reinstated as Headmaster]
[** I.T.C., alter an exile of nineteen years return to my
ancient province. I removed hither [from Newport] with
some young gentlemen whom I placed in their several classes
on the 4th of March."]

Redeo Thomas Chaloner post exilium 19 Annorum ad
antiquam provinciam. Hypodascalus n. Neuportanus ita
imperiose, & dolose mecum egit, ut illius consortium diutius
lene lion valcns hue commigra[ver]im cum uxore secunda &
tyronibus quibusdam generosis quos admisi in suas quemque
classes Maitii 4to.

4 Robert Sontley

Francis Walker 3s. 4d.

[of BringwoodJ
Humphry Brigs 6s. 8d.

[of Haughton Hall, co. Salop; succeeded as
Baronet 1691. Died Jan. 31, 1699]
John Grosvenor 6s. 8d.

[High Sheriff co. Merioneth. Died 1691]
Edward Winford
Robt. Winford

Nicolas Serle, who after a fortnights stav
departed from schoole having never pd
admission.

Robt. Serle 2s. 6d.

<>4

REGISTER OF THE NAM KS OF BOYS

John Norgrave 2S. 6d.
Francis Isiorgrave 2s. 6d.
Littleton Powys 3s. 4c!.

[St. Edmund Hall, Oxon, 1663 ; Bar. (Lin-
coln's Inn) 1671 ; Second Judge of Chester
1689 ; Sergeant at Law 1692 ; Knighted
Dec. 4, 1692; Baron of the Exchequer
1695; judge of the Queen's Bench 1700,
retired 1726. Died March 1731-2. See
Diet. Nat. Biog. xlvi. 269]
Thomas Powys 2s. 6d.

[brother of the preceding ; Queen's Coll.
Oxon 1664; Bar (Lincoln's Inn) 1672;
Solicitor General 1686; Knighted Ap. 25,
1686; Attorney General 1688; Judge of
Queen's Bench 17 13 (removed 17 14) ; M.P.
Ludlow 1701. Died 17 19. See Diet. Nat.
Biog. xlvi. 269]
Samuel Powell 3s. 4d.

[of Stannage Park, co. Radnor]
Littleton Powell 2s. 6d.
Francis Charlton 6s. 8d.

[of Ludford, co. Salop ; St. Edmund Hall,
Oxon, 1666; succeeded his father as
Baronet. Died 1729]
William Charlton 6s. 8d.

[St. Edmund Hall, Oxon, 1666]
John Manwaringe is.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1664 |
Richard Owen 3s. 4d.
William Baldwin 3s. 4d.

[son of Sir Samuel Baldwin. Queen's Coll.
Oxon 1666. Buried at Stokesay 1669]
March 10 Charles Baldwin 2s. 6d.

[of Stokesay; Queen's Coll. Oxon 1667;
M.P. Ludlow 1688-95; Chancellor of Here-
ford Cathedral. Died Jan. 4. 1706]
Tho. Adeney 2s.
Charles Bathurst 2s. 6d.
Theophilus Ellis ?s.

[St. John's Coll. Camb., B.A. 1666]
Henry Paget is.
Thomas Edwards —
Edward Brookes 3s. 4d.
Thomas Whitmore 2s. 6d.

[of Apley Park, Bridgnorth]
Richard Jones 2s.
John Bach is.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1007. Buiicd at All
Saint's, Cambridge, [607]

ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

*>5

Charles More is.
[son of Thomas More of Millichope, of Univ.
Coll. Oxon. 1666]
John More is.

[brother of the preceding]
Randolph Jones is.
John Morris 3s. 4d.
Tho. Morris 2s. 6d.
Tho. Downes is.
Humphrey Jones is.
John Roberts is.
Francis Harris 3s. 4d.
John Evans is.
Buckley Mackworth 3s. 4d.

[of Betton Strange ; Magdalen Coll. Oxon.
1671 ; High Sheriff co. Salop, 1714]
William Jones is.
Thomas Lloid 3s. 4d.
John Lloid 2s. 6d.
June 1 Meredith Morgan 3s. 4d.
15 Thomas Barrar is.
20 Ellis Vaughan 2s.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1668]
John Hughes is.
July 2 Edward Kynaston 3s. 4d.
Thomas Walker
Charles Baylie 2s. 6d.
Vincent Prichard is.
Gabriell Winn 3s. 4d.
Richard Jones is.
John Jones is.
John Purcell is.
Isaac Purcell is.
10 Isaac Phillips is.
20 Richard Scott die xxmo. 4d.
Thomas Wingfeild 4d.

[son of John Wingfeild of Alderton ;
buried at St. Chad's December 7, 1666]
John Wingfeild 4d.

[of Shrewsbury; bapt. at St. Chad's,
November n, 1651] '
Jonathan Wingfeild 4d.

[Of Alderton, co. Salop ; bapt. at St.
Chads, March 17, 1652-3. Died March
15, 1701-2]
Griffith Jones.
Aug. 10 Thomas Morris 2s.

Thomas Edwards 2s.
17 William Harrison 2S. 6.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1669, B.A. 167J J

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

John Prichard is.
Richard Parry 3s. 4d.
Sept. 6 Humphrey Jones 3s. 4d.

Richard Whittingham 2s. 6d.
Tho : Roberts is.
12 Benjamin Crofts 3s. 4d.
14 John Baylie 2s. 6d.
Francis Gwilt 2s.
Joseph Tipton is.
Kdward Tipton is.
16 William Kyffin ) 3s. 4d.
Griffith Kyffin J 2s. 6d.
John Shelvocke is. \
Samuel Shelvock is. j Mr. Tayler.
John Davies is. )
Oct. 16 Benjamin Jenkes 2s. 6d.

[Rector of Harley, 1668-1724 ; buried there
May 16, 1724; Voluminous religious
writer]
Jonathan Theane 3s. 4d.
Benjamin Jenkes 4d.
Richard Scott 4d.
The whole is 81 is 6 my account given to
Mr. Jonathan Langley Mayor when my
disbursements amounted to il 1 ad more
then I had receyved then also I put into
my accounts the Chimney money to the
king which was noght ['?] spoke against
so passed.

Paid for writing the prayers to Mr. Tayler 3s.
Dec. 9 Daniel Pigeon 8d.
1663 Josua Jones 4d.

John Beddowe 4d.
Tho : Matthews 4d.
Robt : Baldwin
Sam : Scarlett
John Usgate 8d.
Rich : Burley 4d.
Joseph Cowkley 4d.
David Price 4d.
Ed : Grinsell 4d.
John Cank 8d.
Tho: Kenderdine 2s.
Rich : Hancoxe 4d.

[Magdalen Col. Oxon, B.A. 1675]
John Owen 8d.

[son of Edward Owen of Shrewsbury ; of All
Souls' Coll. Oxford 1670, B.A. 1674. H P
1685]
Rob : Austen 8d.

ADM ITT KD TO SHRKWSBURY SCHOOL

6?

Kdward Ellis 4d.
Sam Owen Sd.
Edw. Owen 4^1.
Rowland Windsor is.
John Bromley 4d.
Samuel Billings 4d.
Samuel Price 8d.
Sylvester Hays 4d.
Thomas Hen 4d.
Joseph Watkins 4d.
Richard Ateherly is.

[of Weston Lullingfield]
Samuel Powys is.
Rich. Harwood 8d.
Johu Sterom 4d.
Francis Nicolas Sd.
Timothy Waring 4d.

[Army ; Capt. of Foot. Killed in action at
Aughrim, Ireland, 1691]
Thomas Jackin 4d.
John Jackin 4d.
John Williams 4d.
Nehemiah Thomas is.
Thomas Adderley is.
George Badiley is.
Jan. lilt. Thomas Bright is.

Ivdward Morgan 3s. 4d.

["of Place" — written above Morgan]
Feb. 2 William Rudge 2s.

George Barkley 2s. 6d.

[ Queen's Coll. Oxon. 1664]
Ehs Price 2s. 6d.
Henry Price 2s. 6d.
David Roberts 2s. 6d.
Henry Griffith 2s.
Morgan Pugh 2s. 6d.
Thomas Kvans is.
Henry Corviser 4d.
Thomas Bayly is.
Kvan Jones 2s. 6d.
Thomas Humphreys is.
William Lloid 2s. 6d.

mas pandy [i.e. of Maes-y Pandv ]
Griffith Lloid 2S. 6d.
Hugh Owen 3s. 4d.
Thomas Jones 2S.
Kvan Wynne 2s. 6d.
John Davies 2s.

William Lloide [ These names are smudged
Griffith Lloide over. ]

I

KKGISTKR OF THE NAMES 01< BOYS

David Lloyd ) false haife Crowne
Edward Lloid J 2s.
March 15 Morgan Pugh 2^.

Henry Parry 3s. 4d.

— Jones 3s. 4d.
April 2 Richard Abraham 2s. 6d.

Humphrie Lloid 2s. 6d.
May 3 — Vanghan 2s. 6d.
June i Samuel Wilson is.

[Ch. Ch., Oxon 1670]
William Price is.
4 Nathaniel Willjams is.
Richard Davies 2s.
[St. John's Coll., Camb. 1671 ]
9 Maurice Evans 2s.

Cadwallador Vanghan 2s.

[Jesns Coll., Oxon. B.A. 1668; JVicar of
Belton and Rector of Osgathorpe co.
Leicester 1679]
Richard Lewys 2s.

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 1668-9.]
25 Moris Evans 2s.
July 2 Thomas Footman 2s.
John Holland is.
Rich. Sanchy is.
Thomas Jones 2s.
John Jones is.

[of London, once Capt. in the Army.]
Hugh Wilson 2s.
Thomas Piper 2s.
Oliver Owens 2s.
Thomas Morgan 2s.
John Wenlock is.
*A morte Dni Chalouer

Thomas Piper 2s.
Moses Lewis 2s.

— Chilton is.

[The following memoranda occur on the right of the Column
of names for the year 1637 : — ]

paid the glasier for Chappeil windows
work 2I.

the Smith for a grate for the Chimney and

a Greiper 17s. 6d.
kfor a bolt tor the outward gat
To the Joy nc r
Desk in the Chappeil 10s.
bedsted il. 10s.

bench in the hall with other things 7s.
• Chaloner was buried Oct. 24, 1664.

ADMITTED To SHREWSBUR ! SCHOOL,.

69

Smith
a key 4d.

Grate for the Chimney in the Chamber,
for Curtain rods fitting and work -in Mr.
IJ vans his Chimney 14s. 2d.
Lock and key is.
bell rope is. 6d.
To ffernes 3s. 4d.
To goodwife ffisher 4s.
for the Grate and brick for the hill-Gate
for sweeping Chappel and Librarye 5s.
for setting up the Bookes 3s. 6.
Rope for the Clock 2s.
To a Messenger yt brought Orig' from
Cheshire for Clensing Mr. Gittins
lodgings is. 2d.
[Chaloner's M.S. also contains the following lists, &c :]
p. 44. List of Scholars at Birch Hall, from April 6, 1646.
p. 49. Appointment to Market Drayton School, &c.
p. 51. List of Scholars at Hawarden, from March 19, 164^,
p. 65. List of Scholars at Overton, Feb. 9, 164;.
p. 73. List of Scholars at Stone, Feb. 6, 1648 .
p. 80. Names of friends in Shrewsbury — " Companye-Keeper*
at the Sextrye."

Sir FYancis Oatley.

Mr. Richard Oatley.

Mr. Ponsbury Owen.

Mr. Tho. Barker.

Mr. Ireland.

Mr. John Nedham.

John Brigdale.

Jack Usgate.

Jack Willjams.

Sir Michll. Ernley.

Sir William Vaughan.

Sir R. Lee.

Mr. Rich. Owen.

Mr. Kynaston of Oatley.

Sir Th. Lister.

p. 81. Jan. 1, 1652. My acquaintance with whom I was most

familiar." List of 21 names,
p. 82. List of Scholars at Ruthin, August 10, 1653.
p. 93. 1655. The Protector's Kdiet, and Chaloner's troubles,
p. 99. List of Scholars at Newport, 1658 (242 names) in hand-
writing of Thomas Chaloner, the younger.
[At the other end of the M.S. are these :]
Ashton's ordinances.
The Bayliffs' ordinances.
An Indenture dated nth Febiuan. 20
Elizabeth.

70

KKGISTKR OK THE NAME'" OK BOYS

List of Scholars (? at Burch Hall) arranged
in classes, 28th June, (1645 ?)

Notes on controversial theology.

Riderulus, Sept. 16, 1653 (the beginning of
a Greek and Latin Dictionary.)

Statutes of Ruthin School.

" Scholars of the foundation in the Free
Grammar Schoole of Newport, June
26th." (no year — ? 1658). (25 namesj.

Commencement of a Sermon beginning,
" Let us lift up our eyes to the Hils."

[Notk. — The foregoing list of Scholars was transcribed by the Rev.
J. E. Audcn from a copy of Chaloner's Register made by the
Rev. G. YV. Fisher ; but it has been carefully collated with
Chaloner's original Register by Mr. T. E. Pickering and the
Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, who have also added the headings at the
beginning of each year, Chaloner's interesting notes, and a list of
the other contents of the M.S. The Alphabetical Index of the
names of Scholars was compiled by the Rev. J. E. Auden,
and the pages in which the names occur were added by the
Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher.]

NAMKS OF SCHOLARS, 1664— 1734.

The following list is an attempt to bridge over the gap
between Nov. 17, [664, and Nov. K>, 1734, caused by the loss
of the official Register. The Rev. John Newling, Fellow of
St. John's Coll., Camb., and son of the Rev. Clias. Newling,
Headmaster 1754 70, wrote to the Rev. J. B. Hlakewav (when
the latter was preparing the third volume of his History of'
Shrewsbury^ which was to contain the account of the Schools,
unfortunately never published, owing to his death in KS26) : —
"There was a large folio volume of the admissions at the
Schools, which, after being filled to the period of my hither s
resignation, was given to Mr. Atcherley that lie might
continue it in the same manner." Hut this has been Utterly lost,

The following names are extracted from the published
Registers of St. John's, Christ's and St. Peter's Colleges, at
Cambridge, supplemented by the addition of those douors to
the School Library, who appear in the catalogue as " formerly
a scholar of these schools." Of course it would be very eaS)
for anyone, who has access to the Admission LiStS ol the

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other Cambridge Colleges, and of those at Oxford, to make a
list much more valuable and complete. But this was not in
the power of the present Editor. — J. 1$. A.

Andrew Taylor, Head Master 1664 — 1687. v

Edward Powys, Fellow Commoner, Trinity Coll., Oxon. Died
1668, aged 18. [M.S. Edwardus Powys, Films natu
tertius Thomae Powys, Armigeri de Henley, agro
Salopiensi...Scholae Salopiensis olim alumnus, nuper
Coll. Trin. Oxon : commensalis, in cujus gremio
expiravit anno Salutis 1668, aetatis 18 (Monument in
Magdalen Parish Church, Oxford)]

Thomas Clarke. Died at the Schools, 1684, aged 17; Buried
at St. Alkmund's [Fitz Register]

Robert Digby, Magdalen Coll. Oxon. 1670; M.A. 1676;
succeeded his father as Baron Digby of Gleashill,
Ireland 1670; M.P. Warwick 1677. I^ied Dec. 29, 1677.

Robert Pryce, Fellow Commoner St. John's Coll. Canib. 1672;

Lincoln's Inn 1673 ; Bar 1679 ; Attorney General of
S. Wales 1682; Recorder of Radnor 1683; Steward of
Shrewsbury 1685-8; Town Clerk of Gloucester 1687;
Justice of N. Wales 1700; Baron of the Exchequer
1702; Justice of Common Pleas 1726; M.P. Weobley
1685 — 1702. Died Feb. 2, 1732-3, aged 79. See Diet.
Nat. Biog., xlvi. 337.

Oswald Smith, Ch. Ch. Oxon. B.A. 1671 ; 2nd Master,
Shrewsbury 1672 — 1715; Founder of two School
Exhibitions. Died July 26, 17 15.

Andrew Griffiths, B.A. Oxford ; M.D. Cambridge 1686. Died
1688, aged 34.

Edward Baldwin, of the Inner Temple, succeeded to the
Abbev estate, Shrewsbury 1701. Son of Francis
Baldwyn. Of Wad ham Coll. Oxford, 1687. Buried at
Pontesbury Nov. 26, 1735. Monument at Holy Cross,
Shrewsbury.

Henry Binnell, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1674 ; (born at Burcott).

Richard Bradley, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1674 ; (born at Worthen).

Henry Wollaston, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1674 I (horn at
Bishop's Castle ; buried there 23rd May, 1702).

Richard Hill (also at Eton) St. John's Coll. Camb. 1675; BA-
1678; Fellow 1679; Deputy Paymaster in Flanders
1601 ; Envoy extraordinary to Turin 1699; Lord of the
Treasury 1699; Lord of the Admiralty 1702; Envoy
extraordinary to the Italian States 1703 : to the Nether-
lands 1709; Fellow of Eton; built Hawkstone co.
Salop. F.R.S., and Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford. Born
1654 ! died ii June 1727. See Diet. Nat. Biog., xxvi. 405,

Richard Lloyd (son of George L), St. John's Coll. Camb. [676;
B.A. 1679; Fellow 1685; Headmaster of Shrewsbury
1687 — 1723; Vicar of Sellack, co. Hereford, and

72

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Prebendary of Hereford and Brecknock. Died Oct. 17,
1733-

Thomas Bowers, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1677 ; Vicar of Hoo,
Sussex; Prebendary of Canterbury 1715 ; .Royal
Chaplain 1717 ; Archdeacon of Canterbury 1721 ; Bishop
of Chichester 1722. Died Aug. 22, 1724.

William Waring, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1677 I Headmaster of
Peterborough Grammar School; Precentor of Peter-
borough Cathedral ; Vicar of St. John the Baptist,
Peterborough ; Rector of Alwalton. Died 1726.

Evan Lloyd, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1677.

Richard Lloyd, (son of Griffith L.), St. John's Coll. Camb. 1678.

Henry Johnson, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1682; B.A. 1686; 3rd
Master, Shrewsbury, 1688. Died 1690.

David Davies, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1682.

Robert Griffith, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1682.

Robert Solden, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1682-3.

John Weaver, Teacher of Dancing; introduced pantomimes
and the ballet into England ; Author Histojy of
Da?ici?ig, Lectures on Dayicing, &c. Born 1673. Buried
at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, Sept. 28, 1760, aged 87. See
Diet. Nat. Biog., lx. 91.

Arthur Maynwaring, Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1683 ; Inner Temple 1687 ;
Commissioner of Customs 1695, M.P. Preston 1706;
West Looe 1710-2; Auditor of Imprests 1705; Author
Taiquhi and Tvllia ; The King of Hearts, &c. Born
1688. Died Nov. 13, 1712. See Diet. Nat. Biog., xxxv. 346.

Peter Lloyd, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1683.

Robert Mathewes, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1683; B.A. 1685 ; 3rd
Master, Shrewsbury 1690; Curate of Clive 1694.
Buried at St. Alkmund's, Shrewsbury, Feb. 12, 1700-1.

Edward Phillips ; "Doctor of Physiek." Died April 4, 1713,
aged 45.

[ Robert Phillips, Ch. Ch. Oxon., B.A. 1690-1 ; Vicar of Kinlet
1696 — 1727; Official of St. Mary's, Shrewsbury 1717;
Headmaster of Shrewsbury 1727 — 35. Baptized at St.
Chad's, Sept. 11, 1670. Died Oct. 11, 1735; buried at
St. Mary's.

Thomas Rock. Buried at the Ahbey, Shrewsbury, Dec. 13,
1703. Son of Thomas Rocke, of Shrewsbury.

Richard Lloyd, Headmaster 1687— 1722.

John Waring, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1690.
John Cooper, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1691.

Ambrose Phillips, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1693; B.A. 1696;
Fellow 1699; Secretary to Archbishop of Armagh 1724 ;
M.P. Armagh 1725 ; Jud<;e of the rrorogative Court,
Ireland, 1733; author of The Pastorals, Odes to Children,
&c. Baptized at St. Alkmund's Oct. 9th, 1074- Died
June 18, 1749, aged 74.

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Francis Clarke, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1694; Accidence Master

Shrewsbury School 1699-1706.
Roger Rennikers, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1695.
Isaac Clopton, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1695 (born at Llandrinio).
George Gibbons, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1695.
John Ellis, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1696.

John Sneyd. Fellow Commoner, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1697

(of Keele co., Stafford).
William Coleman, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1697.
Rowland Tench, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1697; B.A. 1700;

Vicar of Astley 1714-28; 2nd Master Shrewsbury

School 1715-28 ; Vicar of Church Stretton 1728. Born

1679. Died 1748, aged 71.
Henry Gibbons, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1698.
Robert Hollier, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1698.

Thomas Cooke, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1699 (son of John C. of
Shrewsbury),

William Kinaston, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1699; (son of William
K. of Ryton, co. Salop); Recorder of Shrewsbury;
Master in Chancery 1721-49; M.P. Shrewsbury 1741,
^744. 1747-

George Kinaston, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1700 (son of Edward K.)
John Cumberlege. St. John's Coll. Camb. 1700 (son of John C,

M.D., of Newcastle, co. Stafford).
Lawrence Gardiner, schol. Peterhouse, Camb. 1700; Chapel

Clerk 1702; B.A. 1703.
John Ctton, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1702; Vicar of Meole

Biaee 1709; Rector of Hanwood 1716 34 ; Vicar of St.

Aikinund's, Shrewsbury, 1734. Baptized at St. Julian's

Feb. 24, 1685. Died Dec. 26, 1757.
Samuel Pearson, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1702; Viear of

Cheswardine 1741.
Edward Minshull, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1702.
Joshua Johnson, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1702; B.A. 1706;

Accidence Master, Shrewsbury School 1706-13.
Thomas Heath, Fellow Commoner, St. John's Coll. Camb.

1703 (son of Thomas Heath). Baptized at Moreton

Corbet June 8, 1686.
Thomas Bennett, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1703.
John Caleott, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1704.

James Pearson, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1704 ; Vicar of St. Julian's,
Shrewsbury 1720-56. Died 1756. Buried at St. Julian's.

Edward Ilarwood, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1704.

Thomas Cooke, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1705 (son of Samuel C.
oi Shrewsbury).

John Jennings, St. John's Coll. Camb 1705.

John Lloyd, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1706; Fellow: Vicar of
St. Mary's, Shrewsbury 1715-43; also Rector of
Berrington, co. Salop (son of John L. of Shrewsbury),
Buried at St. Mary's, May 21, 1743.

74 K KG I STICK OF THE NA MHS 01- HOYS

Thomas Hall, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1706.

Edward Lloyd, Fellow Commoner, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1708
(son of Humphrey L. of Gortree (? Mochtre) eo.
Montgomery).

Richard Lyster, Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1708; Inner Temple, 1708;

M.P. Shrewsbury 1721-34; afterwards for Shropshire;

of Rowton Castle, eo. of Salop. Died April 13, 1766.
Thomas Lyster (brother), M.A., King's Coll. Camb.; Rector

of Westbury 1st Portion 1722-72 , and also Neeuton

1721-68. Buried at Westbury, Feb. 19, 1772.
John Phillips, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1709; (born at Linley,

co. Salop).

John Lloyd, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1709 (son of Richard
Lloyd, Headmaster) ; Barrister; Ordinary and Official
of St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, for 25 years. Died May 26,
1760, aged 67. Buried at St. Mary's, May 29.

Leonard Hotchkis, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1709; B.A. 1712;
Accidence Master, Shrewsbury School 17 13 ; 3rd Master
17 15 ; 2nd Master 1728; Headmaster 1735-54; Vicar of
Battlefield 1749-71 ; Editor of Hcfihaestion, &c. Died
Nov. 12, 1 77 1 , age 80; buried November 15, at St.
Mary's.

Alexander Hatton, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1710; Accidence
Master, Shrewsbury School, 17 15 ; 3rd Master 1754.
Died Aug. 10, 1755.

John Thomas, Catherine Hall, Camb. 1710; B.A. 1713 ;
Chaplain to English Merchants at Hamburg 1725 9;
Chaplain to George II. 1729; Rector of St. Vedasts,
Foster Lane, London; Dean of Peterborough ; Bishop
of Lincoln 1744; Bishop of Salisbury 1761. Died July
20, 1766. See Diet. Nat. Biog., lvi. 183.

John Jaundrell, St. John's Coll. Camb. 171 1 (son of Abraham J. of
Pitchford). Baptized at Pitchford on St. James' Day, 1693.

John Griffiths, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1712.

William Clark, St. John's Coll. Camb. 171 2 ; B.A. 1715; Fellow
1716-7; Chaplain to Bishop of St. David's; afterwards
Domestic Chaplain to Duke of Newcastle ; elected
Headmaster 1723, but resigned; Rector of Buxted,
1724; Prebendary of Chichester, 1738; Chancellor of
Chichester and Rector of Chillin^ley and lYveusey
1770; Author lite Connection of the Konnin, Savon, and
htigNsk Coins, <Sfc. Bom at Haughmoiid Abbey, Dec-
ember 25, 1695. Died Oct. 21, 1771 ; buried in Chichester
Cathedral. See Diet. Nat. Biog., x. 441;.

John Jandrell, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1714; (sou of John J.
of Shrewsbury).

Richard Bowdler, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1714.

Thomas Cartwright, Christ Coll. Cam. 1714-3 : B.A. 1718*9
ord. 1719; Fellow 172034; Stcwaid 1722; Piaelectoi
1723; Senior Dean 1728; Vicar of Gatley 173 c < | Rector

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75

of Hornsey and Chaplain to the Bishop of London
1734 I Archdeacon of Colchester 1737. Died Nov. 8, 1747.

James Doughty, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1715 (nominated Oct. 31,
1728, by St. John's Coll. 3rd Master of Shrewsbury, but
did not accept the post).

Thomas Evans, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1716 (born at Mont-
gomery).

Robert Davies, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1716.

Richard Hotchkis, St. John's Coll. Camb. 17 16 ; ord. 1719-20 to
the Curacy of Withington, co. Hereford, afterwards
Rector of St. George's, Barbadoes.

Moses Lloyd, St. John's Coll. Camb. 17 19 ; Fellow 1726.

Samuel Jones, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1719.

Thomas Parry, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1719 ; B.A. 1724; Rector
of Manafon 1731 ; Newtown 1732 ; Llanynys, co. Brecon
1739.

William Adams, Pembroke Coll. Oxon. 17 19 ; B.A. 1723;
Fellow and Tutor ; Yiear of St.. Chad's, Shrewsbury,
1731-75; Rector of Cound 1755; Master of Pembroke
Coll. and Prebendary of Gloucester 1775 ; Kxamining
Chaplain to Bishop of LlandafF, and Archdeacon of
LlandafT. Died 1789. Friend of Dr. Johnson. See
Diet. Nat. Biog., i. 106.

John Taylor, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1721 ; B.A. 1724; Fellow
and Tutor 1726 ; Librarian of Camb. Univ. 1732 ;
Kegistrary 1734 ; Advocate in Doctor's Commons 1741 ;
Chancellor of Lincoln 1744-66; ord. 1747; Rector of
Lawford Essex, 175 1 ; Archdeacon of Buckingham
1753; Prebendary of St. Paul's 1757; Editor^ of
Demosthenes, Lysias, 6cc. Author The Elements of Civil
Law, &c. Died April 4, 1766. See Diet. Nat. Biog.
lv. 440.

Richard Dodd, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1721; B.A. 1725;
ord. 1726.

Hugh Owen, Headmaster 1723 — 1727.
John Mall, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1724; Fellow 1731-7; Head-
master of Bishop's Stortford Grammar School 1734 ;
Vicar of North Weald, Essex, 174S. Died Jan. 18, 1755,
aged 45.

Humphrey Johnson, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1724; 2nd Master

Shrewsbury 1728-35.
Vincent Price, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1724 (son of Vincent P.,

Surgeon, Shrewsbury).
Richard Phillips, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1724; Vicar of

Battlefield and Broughton, co. Salop, 1734.
Thomas Gou^h, Christ's Coll. Camb. 1721 ; Schol, '.7:5 • B A.

1727-8; ord. 1729 (l)orn at Kvton, co. Salop).
Francis Calcott, Christ's Coll. Camb. i;.''*; Seh«»l. 1727; II. A..

1730-1.

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George Costard, Wadham Coll. Oxon. 1725-6 ; B.A. 1731 ; Fellow
and Tutor ; Proctor 1742 ; Vicar of Whitchurch, Dorset ;
of Twickenham 1764 ; Author History of Astronomy, Sec.
Died Jan. 10, 17S2. See Diet. Xat. Biog. xii., 274.

William Watkins, ord.

John Cotton, Bookseller, Shrewsbury.

Rice Jones, of Blaenau, co. Merioneth ; J. P. County Merioneth ;
author of a volume of Poems. Died 1S01, aged 81.
See Diet. Nat. Biog., xxx. 153.

Robert Phillips, Headmaster 1727 — 1735.

Robert Wood, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1727-8.

Job Orton, Minister of the Presbyterian Chapel in Shrewsbury
for 26 years, 1741-1766; Author of the Life, of Dr.
Doddridge, and many volumes of sermons. [In a book
he gave to the School Library he wrote : — " in his
scholis linguarum cognitionem studio decennali
hausi."] Born 1717. Died 17S3. See Diet. Nat.
Biog., xiii. 271.

Mansfield Price, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1728; Fellow 1735;

2nd Master, Shrewsbury 1735-7 ; Junior Bursar St.

John's Coll. 1760. Died Oct. 5, 1765.
Benjamin Wingfield, St. John's Coll. Camb. 172S; Rector of

Hanwood 1734; of Pontesbury 1st Portion 1750; of St.

Mary's, Shrewsbury 1744. Died Sept. 26, 1763. Buried

at Pontesbury.

John Phillips, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1728 (son of Robert P.,
Headmaster).

John Brickdale, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1731 : B.A. 1734; 3rd
Master 1735-7.

Richard Podmore, Christ's Coll. Camb. 1731 ; schol. 1753;

B.A. 1734-5; Curate of Condover 1739-83; Rector of
Coppenhail, Chester, 1750-83. Died April 30, 1783

Arthur Vauglian, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1732 ; ord. 1736 to
the curacy of Puddington, Beds. ; 3rd Ma.-ter, Shrews-
bury 1737-40; Vicar of Hereford 1740. Died Aug. 12.
1749, aged 36.

Edward Tipton, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1732 ; Rector ot Eaton

Constantine 1739-49.
John Waring, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1733 ; B.A. 1757 ; ord. to

the curacy of Dunsby, co. Lincoln 1743. Died Oct. 11.

1794. aged 78. Buried at Atchaui.
John Brooke, St. John's Coll. Camb. 173;; 3rd Master

Shrewsbury 1740; 2nd Master 1754; Rector of Upton

Parva 1 74 1 . Died Nov. 29, 1763.
John Lloyd, St. John's Coll. Camb. 1735; ord. to curacy of St.

Ives, Hunts 1742.
Thomas Colefax. St. John's Coll. Camb. 1740 ; Chaplain to the

East India Co. 1 751. Died at Fort St. George, Madras.

Aug. 1752.

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INDEX TO SCHOLARS.

[An asterisk * denotes that the name occurs more than once on the page.]

Abraham, Rich., 68.
Acherley, Tho., 26*.
Acherlye, Fran., 35.
Adams, Alex., 40 ; Edw., 40 ;

John, 4, 42, 63 ; Rich., 35, 40 ;

Rob., 41 ; Thos., 10 ; Win., 35,

75-

Adderley, Thos., 67.
Adderton, John, 60 ; Sam., 55.
Adeney, Fran., 9 ; Thos., 9, 64.
Allen, John, 36 ; Jos., 44, 55.
Allet, Rich., 56.

Allkins (Alkins), Rich., 61 ; Thos.,
60.

Ambler (Amler), Aristotle, 16;

Edw., 10 ; Thos.. 48 ; Wm.,

20, 48.
Anderton, Phil., 5.
Andrewes, Rich., 50.
Angell, Wm., 32.
Anwill, Evan, 19; Owen, 38;

Rich., 4, 60 ; Wm., 38.
Ap-Fllis, Ellis, 45-
Ap-Evau, Rich., 57.
Ap-Parry, Hen., 44.
Applebury, Abr., 10.
Arthur, Edw., 34 ; John, 10.
Aston, Thos., 59 ; win., 54.
Asterly, John, 35 ; Rich., 48 ;

Thos., 20.
Asturley, Rich., 9.
Atcherly (Atcherley), And., 61 ;

Arth.,43,52; John, 59; Rich.,

67 ; Thos., (>i .
Atkins, Thos., 54, 57.
Atkis, Thos., 5 1 ; Wm., 01 .
Aulkins, Thos., 46.
Austen, Rob., 66.

B [torn], John, 23.
Bach, John, 64.

Baddcley, And., 4 ; Pelham, 15 ;

Rich., 4,13; Rob., 1 3, 63.
Badiley, GeO., 67.
Badncy, Rich., 18.
Bagott, John, 16.

Baker (Bakar), Edw., 54 ; Faulk,

47 ; John, 50, 54 ; Jos., 59 ;
Thos., 15.

Baldwin, Chas., 64; Edw., 71;

Rich., 58 ; Rob., 66 ; Wm., 64.
Banaster, Edw., 42.
Banester, John, 35.
Barber, John, 26.
Barker, And., 8 ; Jos., 56.
Barkley, Edm., 30 ; Geo., 67 ;

Wm., 36, 43.
Barle, Thos., 20.
Barrar, Thos., 65.
Barret, Edw., 38.
Barton, Abr., 18 ; Sam., 40, 59.
Baskervik', J as., 36.
Bathurst, Chas., 64.
Batter, Phil., 35.
Baxter, Frail., 44-
Bay ley, Rowl., 4 1 .
Bayly, Thos., 67.
Baylie, Chas., 65 ; John 66.
Beacoll, Geo., 5 5.
Beavan, Edw., 19, 35 ; Rich., 27.
Beddow (Beddowe), Jefiry, 58 ;

John, 38, 66 ; Jos., 48 ; Rich.,

48 ; Sam., 27.
Bedford, Fran., 5 1 .
Beecher, Wm., 1 7.
Beeston, John, 52.

Bell, John, 56 ; Wm., 43.
Bembow, John, 44.

Bennett (Ilennet), , 18 ; Geo.,

50; John, 48; Thos., 49, 73;

Wm., 7, 5 1 .
Bennion (Benton), Abr., 38, 3-; ;

Arthur, 7 ; Dan., 6l ,
Benthal, CftSSius, - 1 .
Bentlv, .\\h., 33.
Beristord, Sain., 9.
Bcrington, Thos.. 5 1 .

Bet tOU, J as., jo, 40, 50 ; John,

33i $6, 48 ; Jos., 38 ; Mich., 50;

Rich., (><.; Rub., 53, 55 ; Thos.,

20, .17, 3-', G
Bcynfon, Hugh, n >.
Bibby, Jos., 30,

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REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Biggs, Sam., 57 ; Win., 49.

Billings, Sam., 67.

Binnell, Hen., 71 .

Birch, John, 45.

Bishop, John, 13.

Blake, Thos., 29.

Blakewey, Roger, 20.

Blnndell, Hen., 57 ; Humph., 1.

Blunt, John, 33.

Bodurda, Grin., 1 1.

Bodwell, Chas., 32.

Bosthock, And., 38.

Bostoek (Bostocke), Thos., 51 ;

Win., 59.
Bott, Rich., 45, 51.
Boulde, Edw., 62.
Boulder, Wm., 60.
Bouldler, Sam., 33.
Bowdler, Rich., 74.
Boweu, Edw,, 49 ; Evan, 60 ;

John, 48, 60; Rich., 49, ; Thos.,

I4> 39.

Bowers, , 17; John, 9; Thos.,

72.

Bowker, Wm., 6.

Boyer, John, 16 ; Nich., 15.

Bracall, Geo., 61.

Bradeford, Thos., 48.

Bradely, Peter, 36.

Bradley, Rich., 71.

Bradney, Peter, 41.

Bradshaw (Bradsheu), Byron, 47 ;

Rich., 50 ; Thos., 47, 60.
Bradshewe, Geo., 54.
Brees, Edw., 47.
Breese, John, 60, 61.
Brickdale, John, 76.
Bridgwater, Wm., 61.
Brigdall (Brigdel), Edw., 42 ;

Hen., 38 ; John, 42, 49 ;Mich.,

27.

Briggs (Brigs), Humph., 63 ; Rich.,
41, 44.

Bright, And., 47 ; John, 48 ;
Row!., 35, 45 J Thos., 67 ; Wm.,
39-

Brodhurst, Jos., 60.

Brome, Thos., 57.

Bromley, Edw., 9 ; Hen., 25 ;

John, 25, 67 .
Brompton, Rich., 54 ; Sam., 60.
Brooke, Edw., Oo, 64 ; John, 76.
Brookes, J as., 30; John, 35 ; Wm.,

45-

Broughton, llios., 1 1.

Browne, Adam, 40; Geo., 01;

Isaac, 34 i Ja&M 3*. 45 \ John,

5, 20, 3 5 ; Jos., 33 ; Paul, 50 ;

Peter, 50; Rich., Ol ; Titus, 59;

Thos., 12, 46,

Bruen, Sam., 31.

Bryan, Jacob, 46.

Bucknall, Edw., 46, 52, 53 ; Fran.,

46 ; John, 53.
Bullock, Fran., 47 ; Isaac, 52.
Bunny, Gab., 53.
Burchall, Jas., 52, 53.
Burchinshaw, John, 19.
Burges (Burgess), Edw., 48, 52,60.
Burley, Rich., 66.
Burnell, Rich., 41 .
Burraston, Wm., 46.
Burscoe, Wm., 58.
Burton, Thos., 3 1 .
Buttre, John, 7.
Buttry, Wm., 52.
Butler (Buttler), Adam, 51 ; Phil.,
54 ; Rich., 34 ; Thos., 12, 48.

Cadwalladcr, Edw., 11 ; Ellis, 36 ;

Fran., 27 ; Thos., 38.
Calcott, Fran., 75 ; John, 10, 16,

73 ; Wm., 10, 16.
Cank, John, 66.
Capell, Kyrle, 7.
Cartwright, Thos., 74.
Cary, Wm., 56.

Chaloner, John, 24; Sam., 24;

Thos., 4.
Chambre, Arthur, 18, 25.
Chaudless, Edw., 23.
Chapman, John, 23.
Charlton, Fran., 64 ; Steph., 31 ;

Wm., 64.
Chapman, Roger, 32.
Chaptou, Fran., 33.
Cheshire, John, 35 ; Xeh., 27.
Childc, Wm., 13.
Chilton, — , 68.
Chureyard, Rich., 42.
Clarke (Clark), Augustine, 16;

Clem., 14 ; Fran., 73 ; Josuah,

03 ; Nich., 52 ; Paul, 7 ; Rich.,

K>, 17 ; Thos. ,63,71 ; Will., 8,74,
Cleaton, Wm., 57.
Clearke, John, 3h.
Clements, Wm., 5.
Clcuisou, Wm., 38.
Clifton, Ben., 35,
Clivc, Geo., 44,
CloptUU, Isaac, 73.
Clough, Row., 21 ; Thos*, 22.
Clttdd, Ch.is., 40 ; l'Mw., 40. $4,
Cluillie, Trice. 61
Clutton, Rich., 40.
Cole, Edw., 5, 34; Gilbert, 34;

John, 34, 44.
Colefox (CoK-fax), Ailam, >. 1;,

Thos., 70.

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79

Coleman, Win., 73.
Collcn, Wm., 49.
Colvin, Dav., 29.

Coney (Conny), Rich., 48, 55+ ;
Thos., 24.

Constantine, Thos., 15.

Cooke, John, 40 ; Thos., 73*.

Cooper, Geo., 58 ; John, 53, 72 ;
Jos., 46 ; Sam., 56 ; Thos., 58.

Corbett (Corbet), And., 6, 14 ;
Edw. 17 ; J as., 16 ; Pel ham,
56, 60, Rob., 28 ; Thos., 8,
16, 23, 24 ; Waties, 24.

Corfield, Rich., 49, 53.

Corlctt, John, 8.

Corviser, Hen., 67.

Costard, Geo., 76.

Cottall, John, 20.

Cotton, John, 38, 73, 76 ; Tho., 37.

Coughen, Hen., 30 ; John, 43.

Couldham, Geo., 49.

Couper, Thos., 60.

Cowkley, Jos., 66.

Cox, Thos., 47, 49.

Cressit (Cresset), And., 54 ; Edw.,

54 ; John, 54 ; Rob., 24.
Crofts, Benj., 66.
Crompton, Euke, 1 1.
Crosse, Jas., 61 ; Steph.,61.
Crow, John, 32, 44.
Crouder, Abr., 60.
Crump, John, 46 ; Thos., 46.
Cumberlege, John, 73.
Cunney, Sam., 29.

Dagar (Dager), Sam., 9 ; Wm., 21

Dakers, Walter, 12.

Darbishire, Roger, 52.

David, Humph., 32.

Davids, Thos., 22.

Davies, Chas., 33 ; Cornel., 48 ;
Dan., 47; Dav., 16*, 21, 55,
72; Edw., 12, 13, 14; Evan,

25, 32, 45 ; Fran-> 3«, 45> 52 ;
Geo., 16, 24, 33 ; Griffith, 51 ;
Hen., 4, 13,44 ; Jas., 13 ; John,
4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 21,
33. 36, 39, 52, 55. Gt, 66, 67 ;
Jonath., 18 ; Peter, 10, 37, 39 ;
Rich., 6, 25, 31, 32, 68 ; Rob.,
16, 75 ; Sam., 27 ; Thos., 13,
19, 35, 44 ; Wm., 9, *9i 32, 39,
52, 54, 62.

Dawes, Thos., 58.

Dawson, Rich., 16.

Dax, John, 50 ; Rich., 53 ; Wm.,
60.

Deg, Whitehall, 24.
Dcvereux, Price, 44-

Digby, Rob., 71.

Dod (Dodd), John, 5, 14 ; Rich.,

39, 75 ; Rob., 40.
Dongcaster, Martin, 52 ;
Dosset, Fran., 61.
Doughty, Chas., 49 ; John, 54, 75 ;

Thos., 49.
Downes, John, 56; Rich., 13;

Sam., 53 ; Thos., 22, 65.
Dun, Edw., 7.

Dyos (Dios, Dyas), . Hen., 9 ;
Thos., 8 ; Wm., 15.

Eaton, John, 52.

Eccles, John, 50.

Edisbury, Keudrick, 33.

Edsbury, Josuah, 30.

Edward, Rich, 32.

Edwards, Benj., 59; Cadw., 12;

Edw., 25, 31; Foulke, 48;

Hugh, 11, 15 ; Jas., 31 ; John,

21,45 ; Eewis, 14, 17 ; Maurice,

15 ; Owen, 15, 19, 39 ; Rise, 14 ;

Rob., 31, 34, 37, 40 ; Thos.,

9, 37, 55, 64, 65.
Eiton, Chris., 38.
Ellams, John, 4s ; Sam, 50.
Elliee, Rob., 41."
Ellick, Thos., 39.
Ellis, Cadder, 33 ; Edw., 67 ;

Griffith, 21; Humph., 32;

John, 44, 53, 55, 73 ; Rich., 51,

57; Rowl., 59; Sidney, 14;

Theoph., 64 ; Wm., 44 ;
Emery, Rich., 12.
Erthigs, Edw., 29.
Esay, Tho., 37.

Evans, — , 24 ; Benj., 38, 42 ;
Caleb, 57 ; Dan., 40 ; Dav.,
7, 9, 12, 15, 3S, 47 ; Edm., 12 ;
Edw., 12, 13, 19, 31,44, 51, 57 ;
Evan, 35 ; Jenkyn, 6 ; John,
6, 8, 13, 17, 19, 21, 34, 41, 44,
47, 52, 53, 65 ; Jos., 33, 36 ;
Maur., 68 ; Moris, 08 ; Rees,
42., 58 ; Rise, 12, 14 ; Rich.,
12, 13, 36, 42, 53 ; Rob., 30,

3»» 37, 3*> ; fcogcr, 17; Row.,

(), 51 1 5*i 57 ; Theoph., 30 ;

Thos.. 14, 22, 34, 39, 45, (,;. ;

Wilcock, 47.
Evanson. Sam., 53.
Everall, J ere 111., 42, 40 ; Josh.. 52.
Kyton, Rob., 1 <>.

Palluwcs, Win., ; 1
Farmer, Rich., 62 ; Thos , t 1
Wm., s.

So

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

Farre, Abr., 42 ; Geo., 56.
Faulkner (Falkner, Fawlkner),

Dan., 56 ; Dorotlieus, 42 ; Edw.,

53 ; Thos.:, 16.
Fcltou, Nick., 25 ; Rob., 60 ;

Thos., 60 ; Win., 46.
Fewtrell, John, 62.
Finch, Humph., 26.
Firnihaugh, Sam., 45.
Fisher, Sam., 33.
FitzIIerbert, Basil, 25.
Floide, Humph., 60.
Foorde, Thos., 60.
Footman, Thos., 68.
Formston, John, 40, 41 ; Win., 40.
Forster, Thos., 15.
Fosbrooke, Rich., 18.
Foulkc (Foulk), Fran., 59 ; Rich.,

$4>

Poulkcs (Foulks), John, 37*, 41 ;

Kenrick, 38 ; Rob., 37, 59,
Fowler, Elisha, 63 ; John, 26,

63 ; Thos., 26.
Fownes, Geo., 34, 39 ; Glib., 27,

34 ; J01*11, 1.7, 32 \ Wm., 17, 32.
Fox, Chas., 42.
Frank, Dan, 61.
Frauklaud, Thos., 38.
Francis, Rob., 1 1 .
Fraunce, Jos., 15.
Fryer, Thos., 35.
Fuller, Thos., 40.
Fyge, Chas., 40 ; Wm., 40.

Garbutt, Sam., 20.
Gardiner, L,awr., 73.
Gardner, Geo., 33 ; Isaac, 7 ;
John, 4 ; Jonath., 7 ; Sain.,

6, 9, 11, 13-
George, Owen, 43 ; Reniald, 44.
Gervace, John, 44.
Gethin, Edw., 55.
Geweii (Gewin), Geo., 38; John, 58.
Gibbons, Kdw., 44 ; Geo., 73 ;

Hen., 73; Jas.,40; John, 8, 39.
Gilbert, Rich., 14.
Giles, Abr., 52 ; Isaac, 62.
Gittins, John, 55 ; Matt., 45.
Glyne, John, 34.
Glynnc, Rise, 2 1 .
Goldstone, Fran., 39.
Goleburue (Goleburn), Hen., 34 ;

John, 34.
Goodall, John, 46.
Goodwin, Rob., 40.
Gosling, John, 25.
Gosnell, b.ilw., 20 ; Hen., 5 ; Rob.,

S ; Wm., 30, 37 ; John, 33 ;

Thos., 41, 75 -

Gravenor (Gravener), Edw., 5
Rich., 5 ; Thos., 27, 33.

Greaves, Nath., 17.

Greenebank, Thos., 38, 60.

Griffies, Brochwell, 13.

Griffith, Daw, 14, 23, 47'; Edw.,.
17 ; Fran., 16 ; Geo., 46 ; Hen./
67 ; Hugh, 39 ; John, 19, 21,
22; Lewis, 59; Morgan, 17;
Rees, 12 ; Rich., 50 ; Rob.,
18, 72 ; Row., 6 ; Thos., 14, 18,
21 ; Wm., 17, 39.

Griffiths, And., 71; Edw., 36;
Griffith, 40, 59 ; J as., 35 •
John, 35, 36, 40, 48, 51, 55, 74 ;
Peter, 53 ; Reece, 55 ; Rob.,
20 ; Sam., 53; Thus., 29, 30;
Win., 35, 37, 52.

Grinsell, Ivdw., (>(> ; John, 5 •
Walter, 58.

Gronous, Edw., 25.

Grosse, Thos., 1 5 .

Grosveuor, John, 63.

Groves, Wm., 60.

Gwilt, Fran., 66.

Gwine, Lewis, 29.

Gwinne, Morgan, 32.

Habberly, Thos., 33.
Haignes, ivdw., 38.
Haile, Wm., 50.
Hale, Jos., 46 ; Wm., 54.
Halford, Chas., 4.
Hall, Edin., 20 ; Edw., 47; Thoi.,
74-

Hammond, John, 62 ; Tim., 47,

• 59.

Hampton, Thos., 50.

Han bury, Wm., 44.

Hanckocks, Wm., 57.

Haucoxe, Rich., 66.

Handbury, Fran., 40.

Hanmer, Humph., 41.

Harbert, Morgan, 35.

Harcotte, Simon, 40.

Harding, John, 62 ; Stephen, 43.

Ilardwick, John, 14 ; Taos., 1$.

Hardyng, Stephen, 39.

Harper, Wm., 58.

Harries, John, 16 ; Paul, 27 ;

Rich., 19 ; Thos., 25, 27.
Harris, Arthur. j8j Dan., 19;

Edw., 27 ; Fran., 65 ; Geo., 27 ;

John, 45 ; Thos.. 55, ;S.
Harrison, John, 30 ; Win., 6l,

llanycs, Aithui, 13,30; OtOv^JI ;

l'aul, 31 ; Riv h., 31 ; Thds., j|,
Harwood, Edw., 73 ; Rich., 67.

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8r

Hatchett, John, 62 ; Jos., 22.

Hatton, Alex., 74 ; Edw., 15 ;
Walter, 24.

Haiightpu, Rob., 35.

Haulkshead, Rich., 56.

Hawkins, Phil., 19.

Hay, John, 47.

Hayes, Philemon, 35, 43.

Hay man, Thos., 16.

llavnes, John, 42 ; Jos., 31) ;
Matthias, 1 3 ; Thos., 10 ; Wal-
let, 27 ; Win., 28.

Hays, Xath., 18; Thos., 9; Syl-
vester, 07.

Hayward, John, 23 ; Roger, 30 ; |
Will., 8 ;

Heath, John, 52; Rich., 54;
Thos., 73 ; Win, 52, 54.

Heneoek, Hen., 52.

Hencox, John, 50.

Herbert, Edw., 13, 31 ; Matth.,
31 ; Rich., 31.

Heyries {or Ileynes), Thos., 60.

Higginson, Matt., 39.

HiggoiiS, Edw., 8, 13 ; John, 31*,
Rich., 6*, 8 ; Thos., 6, 31 ;

Hill, J as., 56 ; Rich., 30, 71.

Hilton, John, 52.

Hinckes (Hincks), Anonymns, 21 ;
Arthur, 8 ; Fran., 54 ; Jos., 20.

Hinde (Hind), Sam., 52, 55.

Hodgkins, John, 29.

Hodson, Geo., 47, 50 ; John, 49.

Hoggins, Thos., 51.

Hole, Sam., 23.

Holland, John, 68 ; Rob., 13.

Hollier, John, 41 ; Rob., 73 ;
Thos., 58 ; Walter, 41.

Hollies, Rich., 35, 43.

Hopkins, Sam., 47.

Hoskcth, Rob., 46.

Hotchkiss, John, 32 ; Leon., 74 ;
Rich., 75.

Hood, Ralph, 51 ; Rob., 48.

Hough, John, 63.

Houghton, Thos., 30.

Hubbals, Sam., 52, 59.

Hubbols, Obad., 56.

Hughes, Chas., 35, 38 ; Daw, 16,
17, 19; Edw., 11, 63; Evan,
33 ; Griffith, 1 1 ; Hen., 43 ;
John, 12, i(>, 19, 20, 05 ; Moses,
5 ; Rise, 1 1 ; Rich., 24 ; Rob.,
44 ; Thos., 18 ; Win., 13, 18, 31.

Hume, Thos., 60.

Humphreys (llumphrcis, Humph
ris, Humphryes), Arthur, 57 ;
Chas., 20, 33 ; Dav., 54 ; Evan,
5 1 ; lien., 1 5 ; Hugh, Go ;
Humph., 58 ; John, 20, 21, 44 ;

Morrice, 41 ; Rich., 49, 57 ;

Rob., 40; Thos., 37, 45, 67;

Win., 40.
Hunt, John, 46, 51 ; Rich., 32* ;

Thos., 33, 57.
Husget, Pontesburye, 38.
Hussey, Chas., 17.

Hen, Thos., 67.
Illedge, Rich., 32.
luce, Thos., 57.

Ireland, Edw., 49 ; Josua, 56 ;
Sam., 49.

Jackin, John, 07 ; Thos., 67.

Jacks, Stephen, 10.

Jackson, Thos., 54.

James, John, 38 ; Thos., 52 ;

Wm., 5,15.
Jandrell, John, 74.
Jaundrell, John, 74.
Jeffereys, Geo., 43.
Jefferies, Edw., 43 ; Fran., 42 ;

Geo., 43 ; John, 43 ; Thos.,

43 ; Win., 43-
Jenkes (Jcucks), Benj., 66* ; Dan.,

49.

Jenkin, — , 23 ; Wm.,#54.
Jenkins, Griffith, 44 ; '.Morgan, 15.
Jenkyn, Dav., 22.
Jenkynne, Thos., 19.
Jenings, Dav., 13 ; John, 13.
Jennings, John, 73.
Jervis, Humph., 51.
Jevon, Rich., 43, 55 ; Thos., 43*,
55-

Johnson, Hen., 72 ; Humph., 75 •
Josh., 73.

Jones, — , 08 ; Abr., 34, 37, 38 ;
Bithel, 58 ; Chas., 37, 53 ; Dan.,
47 ; Dav., 5*, 10, 12, 17, 41 ;
F,dm., 31 ; Edw., 29, 31, 34. j6,
47; Evan, 17, 36, 57, 67;
Gabriel!, 29; Gilbert, 53, 61 ;
Griffith, 50, 54, 57, 65 ; Hugh,
15, 18, 47 ; Humph., 5, 65, 66 ;
John, 47, 49, 53, 56. 6*i <>5i 68 ;
Jonath., 39 ; Jos., 19 ; Josh.,
60; Maurice, 5, 10, 21, 58;
.Midi., 55; Morris, 50; Nath.,
12, 23 ; Nich., 53 ; Oliver, 17 ;
Owen, 32, 57, Vh>, &| ; Petei,
1 ; ; Ralph, 45 ; Randolph. 65 ;
Recce, jo ; Ree.se, 57 ; Rheso,
34 ; Rice, o, 76 ; Rich., 10, 15,
t<5, 41, 4S, 49, 52, 53, 55, 58, £4,
65 ; Rob., 1, 44, 40, 01 ; Ro^et,
K) ; Sam., 75 ; Tlu>.v, 11 * 14,

1

*2

REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF BOYS

18, 21, 22, 32, 36, 37, 45, 48, 67,
68 ; Win., 23, 33, 50, 56, 61,
62*, 65.

Juckes (Jucks, Jukes), Edw., 58 ;
Geo., 21 ; Rowl., 5 ; Sam., 32 ;
Thos., 21 ; Wm., 21 ;

Kenderdine, Thos., 66.
Kenriek, John, 37.
Kerry, Win., 24.

Key, Arth., 53 ; John, 35 ; Sam.,
46.

Kiffin, Griffith, 37.

Kiuaston, Geo., 73 ; Humph., 47,

62 ; John, 36, 62 ; Rich., 62 ;

Roger, 47 ; Win., 73.
Kinersley, Edw., 12.
King, Wm., 56.
Kinsey, Edw., 50 ; Jas., 50.
Kite, John, 41.
Knight, Row., 7.

Kynaston, Arthur, 16, 17 ; Edw.,
16,65 ; John, 8 ; Ralph, 17,21 ;
Thos., 10, 22.

Kyffin, Gawcll, 13 ; Griffith, 13,
66 ; John, 13 ; Wm., 66.

Lacon, Geo., 41 ; Thos., 41.
Laighton, Fred., 14 ; Rob., 9 ;

Thos., 25.
Langharuc, John, 18.
Laugley, lien., 30; Row., 52;

Thos., a; 1 .
Langton, John, 30 ; Wm., 30.
Latewood, John, 14 ; Thos., 14.
Laud (? Land), Edw., 15.
Lawrence, Edw., 42 ; Rich., 42.
Lea, And., 24, 48 ; Humph., 17 ;
John, 31, 36; Jos., 59; Rich.,
53 ; Rob., 59 ; Sam., 56.
Eee, Fran., <; ; Humph., 9;
Hussey, 61 ; Rich., 9 ; Sain.,
1 1 ; Thos., 9 ;
Eeech, Fran., 47 J John, 47.
Leigh ton, Edw., 59 ; Thos., 59.
Lewis (Eevves, Eewys), Dan., 10 ;
Dav.,8; Evan, 51, 52; Humph.,
13; Isaac, 53; John, 17,45,49* ;
Eodowick, 14; Moses, 68 ;0wen,
50 ; Rich., 50*, 52, 53, 57, 68 ;
Rhoderiek, 32 ; Thos., 12*, 17,
32 ; Win., 41.
Lindon, Jos., 45 ; Rich., 39.
Eister, Fran., 6 ; John, 6 ; Rich.,

36, 60 ; Thos., 45.
Litthhales, Thos., 49, 53-
I4ttlc(oti, Edw., 26 ; James, 20.
IJewelliii, G o., 63 ; Joshua, 35.

Lloyd (Lloid, Lloide, Loid, Loyd),
— , 11, 26 ; Arthur, 3 1 ; Cad-
wall., 57 ; Chas., 44 ; Daw, 7,
8, 10, 47, 49, 55, 57, 61, 68 ;
Edw., 12, 13, 15, 32, 44, 68, 74 ;
Ellis, 42 ; Erasmus, 6 ; Evan,

8, 11, 21, 42, 72 ; Foulke, 1 1 ;
Fran., 12, 14; Geo., 30; Grif-
fith, 5 , 45, 67* ; Hen., 8; Hugh,
5, 7, 22 ; Humph., 68 ; Jevan,
11 ; John, 6, 7*, 13, 17, 29, 32,
35, 37, 38, 39, 44, 45, 47, 49,
52, 57*, 65, 73, 74, 70 ; Jona-
than, 11 ; Jos., 5 ; Josias, 52 ;
Lewis, 40 ; Maurice, 21, 42 ;
Meredith, 12, 13 ; Moses, 75 ;
Owen, 44; Peirce, 16, 20;
Peter, 72 ; Reese, 33, 41 ; Rise,
13, 14; Rich., 5, 11, 15, 34,44,
58, 71, 72 ; Rob., 12, 15, 16,
17, 49 ; Sam., 7, 34 ; Thos., 6,

9, 11, 14, 32, 44*, 46, 48, 56,
58, 65 ; Watkin, 47 ; Wm., 8,
13, 21, 67*.

Loe, Gedeon, 11 ; Jos., 61 ; Sam.,
15-

Lomax, John, 45.

Longner, Abel, 46 ; John, 56.

Lounds, Rich., 54.

Love, Christ., 54.

Lowe, Gedeon, 27 ; Sam., 27.

Lovelocke, Chas., 41.

Lucas, lien., 20.

Ludford, John, 7 ; Michael, 7.

Lutley, John, 30.

Lutwich, Edw., 26, 40.

Lyster, Rich., 74 ; Thos. 74. See

also Lister.
Lyth, John, 62.

Mackworth, Arthur, 18 ; Buckley,

65 ; Humph., 11, 20 ; John. 7 ;

Thos., 11, 20.
Maddockes (Madockes), John. 22,

Rob., 60.
Maddox (Madox), Hav., 5 1. 54;

John, 25, 26, 33 ; Thos., 25. 26.
Madriu, Owen. 32.
Mall, John, 75 ; Thos., 56,
Manning, Rich., 20.
Mansel, — , 23.
Man\varim;r. John, 64.
Marsh. Gro., 5 .

Mason, Row., 10, 21 ; Thos., 2;.

Mather, Thos , 10.

M. it thews (Mathewes, M&thtWt),
Amir., 50 ; Chas., 50 ; D.iv., 1| j
Edw., .\ ; John. 1 ?, 12 ; Math.,
57 ; Rich., 50 ; Rob., ft ; I'hos..
22, 27, 57. 61 ; Win., JO,

ADMJTTKD TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

Maulc, Thos., 19.
Maull, John, <j.
Maun cell, And., 39.
Maurice, Jeukin, 49.
Maynwaring, Arthur, 72.
Meachcu, Dan., 50 ; Sam., 58.
Medlicoate, Rich., 33.
Medlicott, Win., 20.
Meighcn, Rich,, 48, 53, 54.
Mercer, Edw., 20 ; Thus., 14.
Meredeath, Micah, 63.
Meredith, And., 51; Evan, 45;

Mich., 60 ; Thus., 25.
Meridcn, Edw., 23 ; Rich., 49, Co.
Meridew, Edw., 55.
Merieke, Thos., 43.
Merrick, Edin., 36 ; Walter, 39.
Methcn, Pan., 5 3-
Meywriche, Lewis, 48.
Middleton, Poulkc, 7 ; Roger, 7,

10. f',V
Miller, Wm., 15.
Millington, John, 62.
Milward (Millward), Jerein., 59 ;
John, 42, 47, 4,8 ; Nell., 61 ;
Rich., 44 ; Thos., 52.
Minors, Edw., 35 ; Sam., 39.
Miushull, Edw., 73.
Mitton, Edw., 38, 39; Jas., 46;

Rich., 46, 49.
Monington, Wm;, 22.
More (Moore), Chas., 59, 65 ; John,

2°> 59, 65 ; Thos., 28, 57.
Morgan, — , 26 ; Da v., 14 ; Edw.,
67 ; Hen., 36 ; Isaac, 34 ; John,
3 i , 36 ; Matt., 1 1 ; Meredith,
65 ; Thos., 59, 68 ; Walter, ty ;
Wm., 29, 36.
Morgans, Day., 21 ; Thos., 47.
Morris, Chas., 8,46 ; Da v., 17, 27 ;
Ivdw., 5, 7, \j ; Ellis, 10 ;
< iriflitli, so ; Hugh, 48, 5 1 , 50 ;
Jacob, 48 ; Jeukin, .\y ; John
32, 57, 6i, 05 Lewis, 7,11;
Oliver, 44; ; Rich., 7, 23, 20,
32 ; Rob. , \(> ; Sam., 43 ;
Thos., 34, 48, 05 *.
Mosse, Sam., 56.
Mount ford, Rich., 47.
Milliard, John, 18.
Murrell, Chris., 54.
Myvod, Hen., 19; John, 17.

Nauuey (Nanny), Edw., 33 ;

(Griffith, 44 ; Hugh, 30, 45,
Nedhani , Chas., 17; < »co., 17 ;

Tiros., j 7.
Necdliatu, Rob,, 57.
Wcdhoine, Ralph, 4 ).
Nettles, Thus,,, 5.

Xeuten, Pet., 58.

Nevit, Hen., 38.

Newton, John, 14.

Nichols, Row., 29.

Nickolls, Chas., 43; Rich., .42;

Thos., 43.
Nicolas, Fran., 67.
Nicols, Rob., 20.

Nightingale (Nithingale), Thos.,

13 ; Wm., 58.
Noblett, Rich., 7 ; Thos., 7.
Nock, Jos., 47.
Noiieley, Dan, 12.
Norgrave, Fran., 64 ; John, 64.

Oacley, Rich., 38.
Oakley, John, 61 ; Thos., 61.
Oat ley, Adam, 10 ; Rich., 10.
( )'les, Roger, 38.

Oliver, Ben., 54 ; Jos., 33 ; Rob.,

5, 10 ; Roudle, 13.
Onslow, Rich., 5 1 .
Oram, Sam., 49 ; Thos., 43.
Orpe, Sam., 41 .
Orton, Job, 70.
Otty, Win., 45.

Owen, Chas., 45 ; Dan, 10 ; Edw.,
I a, 44, 67 ; Hen., 45 ; Hugh,'
67 ; Humph., 44 ; John, 5, io,
50, (>() ; Lewis, 29, 59 ; Rich.,
24, 20, 40, 04 ; Rob., 24, 20,
37, 41, 48; Sam., 67; Thos.,
1 1, 13, 15, 25, 27, 42, 48, 62 ;
\ incent, 49 ; Wm., 34, 36.

( hvens, Dan., \(> ; Edw., 34 ;
John, 37 ; Morris, 34, Oliver,'
6S ; Rich., 37 ; Rob., 34.

Paddy, Jos., 40 ; .Sam., 28.

1'agO, lien., 64.

i'aKgell, Thos., 33.

I'aiue, And., fi ; Rob., (>.

Palmer, Ivdw., 20 ; Thos., 22.

ranter, Roger, 50.

Parry (Parrey), lLn., Go, 68 ;

John, 18, 30 ; Rich., GG ; Rob.,

44 ; Tho»., 12, 13, 75 ; Wm., 29.
Partou. Thos., 44.
Paschal, Wm., 10.
Passant, Humph., 17 ; John, jj ;

J os. , .25 i Thos. , jo.
Patience, Alex,, 42.
Payne, JoU, 53.
Pay toll (IVvlou), Algernon,

Thus., u,5.|i
Prake, Hugh, hi, J 1 ; Ru li., ,

Thos., i.j.
I'eaisoii (lVft*ttt), Jav, , , ; jnv,

I'1, v| ; Sam., s<», 73 ; Thov, \ >

S4 REGISTER OF THE

Peerce, Ben, 53 ; Edw., 52.
Peers, Edw., 40*.

Pciree, Edin., 50, 54 ; Edw., 55 ; '

John, 14, 36, 45 ; Rob., 54 ;

Thos., 20 ; Wm., 30, 4 t .
Peirs, Ed., 5, I
Peirson, Dan., 56.

IVnrhin, — , 20. i
Perry, Thos., 152.

Phillips (Philips), Abr., 35 ; Ambr., !

72 ; And., 61 ; Edw., 50, 72 ; I

Isaac, 65 ; Jer., 51 ; John, 8, |

49i 74' ~(> I Rich., 9, 15, if>, 40, ;

75 ; Rob., 57, 72 ; Somersett,

25; Thos., 9*, 61 ; Wm., 62.
Piekring, Fran., 14.
Pierce, Ivdw., 30 ; Rob., 63.
Piers, John, 7. 1
Pigeon, 1 )an., ( >6.
Pigot (Pigott), John, 46 ; Rich., 4 ].
Pike, Jos., 58.
Pinner, Edw., >.
Piper, — , 26 ; Rich., 5 ; Thos., OS*.
Pitts, Thos., 46.
Podniore, Rich., 76.
Poole, Anthony, 37 ; John, 30,

45 ; Thos., 30.
Pope, Gabricll, 21; Roger, 49;

Thos., 49.
Porter, Howel, 27.
Powell, John, 44, 51 ; Lewis, 17 ;

Littleton, 64 ; Morgan, 14 ;

Rich., 54 ; Rob., 6, 20 ; Sam.,

64 ; Thos., 29, 40.
Powford, Rich., 37.
Powis, Rich., 60.

Powys, Edw., 71 ; Littleton, 64 ;

Sam., 67 ; Thos., 64.
Poyncr, John, 61 .
Price, Agar, 21; Arthur, 33;

Chas., 29, 63 ; Carbnry, 33 ; Chr.,

35 ; Day., 52, 60, 66 ; Edw.,
14, 15, 38, 44 ; Flis, 67 ; Ceo.,
46; Griffith, 61 ; Hen., 29, 45,
67; Hugh, 29; Humph., 12,
14 ; John, 15, 29, 31, 30, 41, 45,
53. 57*- 59, 63 ; Jonathan, 33 ;
Jos. ,43; Maudrick, 32; Man -
field, 76; Marmaduke, 47;
Maurice, 8, 30; Oliver, 51;
Owen, 32, 36, 4/ ; Prianius, 14 ;
Rich., 56, r.o*, 62 ; Row., 3 1 ;
Sam., 37. 45i 49, 67 I Teage,

36 ; Theoph., 43 ; Thos., 18,
21, 31, 33. 57 ; Vine, 75 ; Wal-
ter, 4>y ; Will., 13. 32, 52, 55,

fK>j OS.

Ptichard, J en kin, 31 ; John, {9,
Paul, 36 ; vSam., j8 ;
Vincent, 65-

na*:ks of boys

Prince, Phil., 29, 37; Wm., 6;
Wrottesley (Rochly), 26, 29,

37;

Pritchard, I.uke, 16, 19 ; Rob., 16,

10 ; Sam., 41.
Prowde (Proud, Proude), Geo, ; j;

Jos., 56 ; Rich, 42, ^2 ; Thos.,

42.

Pryce, Chas., 31s ; Rich., 58 ;

Rob., 71.
Pue, John, t 2 ; Rich., 16.
Pugh, I)av., 33, 57 ; Edw., 33,

30 ; Humph., 5 1 ; Isaac, 53 ;

John, 23, 45*,. 47, 48, 51, 56;

Morgan, 07, 68; Rich., 29;

Row., 12; Steph., ^1 ; Thos.,

3<>-

Pughe, Joshua, 2c ; Rich., 21.
Puller, Iulin., 38 ; Sampson, 24.
Purcell, Edw., 10, 52 ; Isaac, r>; ;

John, 4, f*g ; Mich., ;2 ; Nath.,

5, 15 ; Wm., 57.
Purselow, lien., 47.

Ragg, John, 56.

Rand, Walter, 25.

Ratcliffe, Rich., 47 ; Wm., 47.

Rawson, Ben., 33.

Read, John, 56.

Reeve, And., 25.

Regnalds, John, 32 ; Rich., 13.

Rcignalds , Wm .,61.

Rennikers, Roger, 73.

Reynolds, Ivdw., 43 ; John, 25.

Richards, Dan., 6 ; Johu, 33 ;

Rob., 33, 40 ; Thos., 40.
Rickets, — , 28.

Rider, Geo., 20 ; John, 40, 44 ;

Rich., 50.
Ridgway, John, 18, 24 ; Jonatli.,

24 ; Sam., 5, 50.
Reeve, Rich., 1 2.
Righton, Rich., J9.
Rinior, John, 30.
Rise, Rich., 16.
Riton, Thos., 33.

Roberts, Daw, 07; Fllis, w;
Evan, 1 1 ; Griffith, 59 ; John,
14, 2_\ 38, 57, 65 ; Jonathan,
1 6, 19 ; Sam., 14, 17; Tho>.,
54, (>() ; Wm., 5, 59.

Robinson, Wm., 5 1 .

Roeke (Rock). Fdw., 63 ; Jas..
7 ; Rich.. 7 ; Thos., 54.

RodvU, John, i< rt»,

Rodciii k (Roddrick, Rodcricqne),
Pciriv, 1 3 ; Un h ., •> ; Rob.. 4-.
Roger, John, 1 7.

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85

Rogers, LCdw., 53 ; Peregine, 9 ;

Roger, 25 ; Thus., 42.
Rowley, John., 59.
Rudge. Win., 07.
Russell, Iidw., 10.
Ryder, Thos., 41 .

Sadler, John, 26.

Salad hie j Isaac, 22.

Salesbury, Chas., 8 ; Gabr., 48 ; j
Humph., 13 ; John, 48 ; Rob.,
8, 18 ; .1

Salisbury, Rob., 2 1 .

Salter, Rich., 29.

Sauchy, Rich., 68.

Sandford, Arthur, 6; lvdw., 19; I

Fran., 10; Humph., 60, 61 ; ;

John, 10 ; Matthew, 10 ; Phil., ;

51 ; Rich., 50, 55 ; Rob., 6 ;

Thos., 35.
Sankcy (vSanky), Isaac, 50 ;

.Mich., 51.
Sathon, Ivvau, 41 .
Savage, And., 20, 2 I .
Savill, Geo., 24 ; Win., 24.
Scarlett, Sam., 66.
Scott (Scot), beuj., 23 ; Humph.,

4^ ; Jouath., 56; Nell., 48, 51, j

54, 55 ; Rich-, 5.b 65, 06.
Scrimshaw (Scrimshew), Jas., 6i, 1

Selby, John, 46.

vSelman, Fran., 12. 1
vSerle, Xich., 63 ; Rob., 03.
Shaw, Thos., 43.
Sheaphard, Thos., 62.
Sherrat, Rich., 52 ; Rob., 48.
Shelvocke (Shelvock), John, 9, 66 ;

Sam., 66 ; Thos., 59.
Shevock, Geo., 55.
Singleton, John, 56.
Smith, John, 57*; Oswald, 71; j

Rich., 17.
vSinout, John, 34.
Smyth, Lvdw., 24.
Sncyd, John, 73.
Solden, Rob., 72.
Sommerrield, Rich., 49.
Sontlcy. Rob., 9 ; Wm., 9.
Speak, I.odovieus, 18, Rich., 1 r. |
Spencer (vSpenser), lvdw., 22 ; ,

Peter, 1 2 ; Rich., 27.
Stanley, lvdw., 45 .
Staveley, Ambrose, 4 ; Chas., 11.
Stephens, Stephen, 10.
Sterom, John, 07.

Stevens (Stevails), banc, 31 ; i

Matth., $4.
Stone, Nalli., 2 j,

Stones, Henry, 42 ; Thos., 58.
Stubbs, Rob.", 34 ; Thos., 46.
Studley, John, 9 ; Stephen, 23.
Sukar, Sam., 63.
Swauwicke, Thos., 6.

Taylor (Taylor), And., 19; John,

75 ; Rich., 7 ; Sam., 15 ; Silas,

7 ; Tim., 1 5.
Tench, — , 22* ; John, 9, 39 ;

Rich., 23, 30 ; Row!., 73 ; Sam.,

23.

Theane, Jonathan, 06.

Thelwall, Kubulus, 1 ; Lumley,

16, 21 ; Rob., 29.
Thomas, Arth., 41, 42, 45*, 47;

DaVi, 16, 22 ; Ivsay, 39 ; lvvan,

40, 61 ; Fran., 19, 52, 55, 59 ;

Griffith, 14, 44; John, 16, 29,

74; Morris, 31 ; Neh., 67;

Oliver, 10, 13 ; Rich., 16 ; Titus,

34 ; \\ Tm., 57, 58
Thornes, And., 24 ; Thos., 24.
Thropp, Benj., 30.
Tidder, Rich., 41 ; Wm., 33.
Tilghmau, Rich., 22.
Tilsley, Rich., 20.
Tilston, Rich., 10.
Tinder, Rich., 40.
Tipton, lvdw., 66, 76 ; Jos., 66.
Tither, Foulke, 38 ; Geo., 50 ;

Owen, 37 ; Thos., 58.
Tomkys, Humph., 27.
Tomlins, Rich., 3 i .
Tompkins, Humph., 39.
Tompkis, lvdw., 4 1 .
Top, Rob., 44.
Toppe, lvdw., 63 ; Rob., 63.
Tonge (Tongue), Arth., 55, 59.
Trevenor, Thos., 45.
Trevis, John, 57 ; Rich., 57.
Tristham, Thos., 7.
Turner, Hell., 59 ; Tim., 7 ; Wm.,

47-

Tuthor, \\ m., 32.
Twisse, Rich., 41.
Twyne, Wm., 2 1 .

I'rwiek, Wm., 22.

T'sgate, John, f>(> ; Pontisbury, 33.

Yaughau (Vaugham), — , (<S ;

Arth, 76 ; CaawalL, 68 ; Ctat.,

; ; lvdw., 5 ; Ivllis. 18, ll| 6j ;

ivvau, 14 ; Ilowdl, 20 ; John.

>, 18. ^ >. 44 ; ' )well, 1 4 ; Rob.,

2 I ; Will., 31, JJ.
Vivers, Audi ., (<:.

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REGISTER OF THE NAM.vS OF BOYS

Walford, Phil., 19.

Walker, Fran., 03 ; Thos., 65 ;

Wm, 1;.
Walthal (Walthall), Arth., 33 ;

Jonathan, 42 ; Jos., 43 ; Sam.,

28 ; Theod., 1S, 22 ; Wm.,41.
Ward, John, 60 ; Thos., 45.
Warcn, Thus., 1 2.
Waring, Adam, 58 ; Humph., 50 ;

John, 9, 72, 76 ; Rich., 0 ;

Thos., 11*; Tim, 67 ; Win., 72.
Warley, Walter, 10.
Waroiii, Win., 02.
Waiter, And., [3; Rich., 33;

Thos., 39 ; Win., 2 1 .
Watkins, Fran., 53 ; Hugh, 20 ;

Jos., 67 ; Sam., 51, 61 ; Wm.,

34, /<>■

Watkis, Thos., 36.

Watkyn, Maurice, 1 3.

Watkys, Geo., 21 ; Rich., 21;

Thos., 2 i .
Watson, Tho., 35.
Wearing, Bazel, 38.
Weaver, John, 72.
Webb, Sam., 9.
Webley,.Sam., 12.
Weld, Geo., 24 ; John, 24.
Wellings, J as., 30.
Wemm, Rich., 62.
Wen lock, John, 68.
Weston, Fran., 57 ; John, 46.
Whitakers, — , 26; John, 23;

Pfeter, IS ; Rich., 8.
Whitteckars, Jos., 33.
Whitichers (Whittichers) , John,

30 ; Tho., 4 1 .
Whitcombe, Rich., 10 ; Rob.,

61 ; Thos., 20.
Whitei'oote, John, 33.
Whitmore, Thos.. 64.
Whit worth, Rich., 32.
Whittingham, Dan., 57 ; Kdw.,

.40 ; Men., 8 ; John, 49 ; Rich.,

57, 66 ; Tim., <S ; Wm., 48.
Wickstead (Wieksled), Rich., 42,

44.

Wilcocks, And., 30.

Wilcox, Rich., 40 ; Win., 38.

Wilding, Henj., 10 ; Jeremy, 27 ;

John, 2 5, 27 ; Fhil., 10, 03 ;

Rich., 45, 63.

Wilkes, Jos., 46.

"Williams, Arthur, 37; Fxhw, 13;
Evan, 49 ; Geo., 43, 52 ; John,
5. '4, 37, 47, 49, 67 ; Lodo-
vick, 16 ; Morris, 45 ; Moses,
51 ; Nath., 68 ; Nch., 20 ;
Rich., 6, 14, 17, 21 ; Rob., [6,
42 ; Thos., 1 5, iS, [9, 49 ;
Win., 9, 12, 14, 37, 3S, 59, 41,
40,43,49-

Willies, Josias, 52.
i Willis, Josiah, 59.

Wilson, — , 29 ; Hugh, 68 ; Sam,
68 ;

Win, Humph., 1 3 ; Owen, 56.
! Winde, Chas., 61.
i Windsor, Row!., 07.
[ Wintord, Kdw., 63 ; Rob., 63.
i Wingfield, Benj., 76 ; John, 6,
65 ; Jonathan, 65 ; Rich., ^4 ;
j Thos., 54, 95 ; Walter, 54, 59.
j Winne (Winn), Gabriel, 65 ; John,
! 47 ; Owen, 31 ; Rees, 47 ;

Rob., 13, 31, §§ ; Theod., 29,
j 32 ; Wm., 47.
! Withy, John, 5N.
i Wotlaston, Hen., 71.

Wolley, F,d\\\, 60 ; Thos., 60.
Wolryche, Fran., 22 ; Roger, 22 ;

Thos., 22 ; Win., 22.
Wood, John, 37, 3S ; Rob., 47, 7' i ;

Thos., 3 1 .
Woodertou, Reyuald, 41 •
Wooding, Rich., 43.
Worthington, Jas., 45.
Wreiiforcl, Sam., 20.
Wright (Whrighte), — , 1 I ; Fran.,
S ; Geo., 4 ^ ; John,0<>; Josua,
IS ; Thos., 43, 56.
Wrotesley, Waller, 20.
Wynne, I'.dw., 22 ; Fvan, 07 ;
John, [9; Lewis, 13; Morgan,

2(>.

Viannins, Rich., j 1 .
Yorke, Rich., 30, 31, 35.
Voppe, John, 4 t ; Rich., 30, \ \.
Younge (Younr), And., > ; Ft. 111.,
> ; 'John, S. '

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ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.

Page 8, lines 16-17. After "Jo. Corlett Is." delete " [Capt. in Royal Army]."

Page 9, line 41. After "Robert Laighton 3s. 4d." add "[Capt. in the
Shropshire Militia 1660]."

Page 25, line 32. For " Royalist attempts of 1665 and 1659," read " Royalist
attempts of 1655 and 1659."

Attention may well be directed to a valuable Paper by the Rev. George W.
Fisher, entitled " Notes on certain Names in the Dictionary of National
Biography," printed in the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological
and Natural History Society for 1899, Second Series, Volume XI, pages
10-15. It relates to forty-two names of Scholars (Adams to Sandford)
contained in the first fifty-six volumes of the Dictionary.

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DEED OF CONSECRATION OF THE SCHOOL CHAPEL
IN THE OLD SCHOOLS, SHREWSBURY,
DATED ist NOVEMBER, 1617.
Transcribed by the Rev. C. H. DRINKWATER, M.A.,
with Introduction by the Rev. W. G. D. FLETCHER,
M.A., F.S.A.

The Consecration Deed of the old School Chapel was
recently found by Mr. W. M. How, the school bailiff, amongst
some old papers in his office, and by him given (with the
consent of the municipal authorities) to the School, where
it is now preserved in the new Library. The following
transcription of the Deed was made by the Rev. C. H.
Drinkwater. It should be stated that in certain places it is
much faded and worn, and impossible to decipher. This is
all the more to be regretted, because the original Episcopal
Register for this period at Lichfield is believed to be lost,
and therefore the missing words cannot be ascertained from
any extant Register Book at Lichfield, where we should
expect to find it enrolled. Fortunately, however, a MS. given
by the late Archdeacon Lloyd to the School Library contains
a copy of this Consecration Deed, and a collation with this
copy has enabled the faded and worn words to be restored.

Fisher, in his Annals of Shrewsbury School, pages 83-84,
states that the newly-finished room on the ground floor under
the library, which was consecrated as the school chapel on
Wednesday, September 10th, 161 7, was not originally intended
for a chapel, but when it became inconvenient to frequent
St. Mary's for divine service, it was resolved to adapt it for the
purpose. Prior to this the scholars had used the chapel on
the south side of the chancel of St. Mary's, which was known
as 11 the scholars' chapel." This was kept in repair out of the
school funds, and an allowance was made to the curate of
St. Mary's for saying the service and catechising the scholars.

Dr. John Overall, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry,
consecrated the new chapel. The sermon was preached by
the Rev. Sampson Price, D.D., Incumbent of AU-Halibws-the-

DKKl) OF CONSECRATION OF THE SCHOOL CHAPKL. S9

More, Thames Street, London, a former scholar, and son of
the Rev. Thomas Price, Vicar of St. Chad's. It was afterwards
published, under the title of "The Beauty of Holiness; or
the Consecration of a House of Prayer by the Example of
our Saviour. — John x. 22, 23. A Sermon preached in the
Chapell of the Free Scole in Shrewsbury. London, 1618."
The bailiffs (John Nichols and Richard Winne) and corporation
of Shrewsbury attended the service; and John Meighen, chief
schoolmaster, Robert Master, LL.D., Chancellor of the Diocese,
Francis Gibbons, D.D., and Thomas Master and Joseph Hill,
both Canons of Lichfield, are mentioned as being present at
the Consecration. By the Deed the Sacraments of the Lord's
Supper and Baptism might be celebrated in the new chapel
and marriages were permitted to be solemnised ; and it would
appear that at the Consecration ceremony the Bishop himself
administered the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and also
ordained certain persons, whose names do not appear, to the
order of priesthood.

A picture of the chapel fitted up for service is given in
Fisher's Annals^ page 84, and also in the History from the
Blakeway MSS., &C, published by Adnitt and Naunton in
18S9, page 90. Since the School was removed to Kingsland
in 18S2, and the old buildings were given to the Town for the
purpose of a Free Library and Museum, the old Chapel has
been converted into a Newspaper and Reading Room.

A few words in brackets [] are readings adopted by the writer
of the MS. book referred to, which to the transcriber do not
seem a correct rendering of the original Deed.

A few notes about some of the persons named in the Deed
may well be added. John Overall, the Bishop, was a very
prominent personage. He was Dean of St. Paul's, prolocutor
of Convocation, and took part in the Hampton Conference.
To him the explanation of the Sacraments in the Catechism
is attributed ; and he was one of the Old Testament revisers
in i6ri. He was consecrated Bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield in 1614, but was translated to Norwich in t6l8,
and died the following year. (Diet. Nat. Biog., xlii. 375).

Of John Nichols and Richard Winne, the bailiffs, some

90

DEED OF CONSECRATION

notices will be found in the Transactions, 3rd Series, v. 138,
and vi. 182.

John Meighen was Headmaster 1583-1635, when he resigned.
A full account of him is given in Fisher's Annals of Shrewsbury
School, pages 73—131.

Robert Master, the Chancellor of the Diocese, was D.C.L.
and Fellow of All Souls', Oxford; Principal of St. Alban Hall,
Oxford, 1599-1603, and M.P. for Cricklade 1601. He died
10 July, 1625. {Foster's Alumni Oxonienses, Early Series, p. 986).

Francis Gibbons was D.D. of Christ Church, Oxford, and
Vicar of Holy Cross, Shrewsbury, 1610-1639, and Chaplain
to Charles I. He died 7 Jan. 1639-40. (Owen and Blakeway's
Shrewsbury, II. 146).

Of Sampson Price, D.D., something has already been said.
He was a noted preacher in Oxford, and Chaplain to James I.
and Charles I., and died in 1630. (Diet. Nat. Biog. xlvi., 324).

Thomas Master was B.D. and Fellow of Merton College,
Oxford, Master of the Temple 1601-1628, Prebendary of Pipa
Parva in Lichfield Cathedral 1613-1628, and Archdeacon of
Salop 1614. He died in 1628. He was a brother of Robert
Master, the Chancellor. {Foster's Alumni Oxonienses).

Joseph Hill was collated to the prebend of Sandiacre in the
Church of Lichfield 3 Jan. 1616-17, but soon quitted it for
Whittington, to which he was collated 29 June r6i7. He was
B.D. of Hart Hall, Oxford ; rector of Hinton Waldrish, Berks,
1604, and of Loddington, Northants, 1618. He seems to have
died in 1639. {Fosters Alwmii Oxonienses, p. 712).

Of the notaries public, Patrick Melvill and Michael Davvkins
(or more probably Nichols), no information has been found.

Universis et Singulis Christi fidelibus ad quos presentes
literae testimoniales pervenerint aut quos infra scripta tangunt
seu tangere poterint quouiodo libet in futunim Johannes
permissione Divina Coventrensis et Lichfeldensis EpiseopuS
Salutem in Domino sempiternam ac fidem indubiam preseutilnis
adhiberi Ad universitatis vestrae notitiam deducimus ac
deduci volumus per presentes quod die Meiviiiij vi/.l. dccilUQ
die mensis Septembiis Anno Domini Millesiino SexcciUcsilllO

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91

decimo septimo et nostrae Consecrationis anno quarto inter
horas uonas et decimas ante meridiem ad ostium sive introitum
Capellae sive oratorij nuper eoustructi infra parochiam sanctae
Mariae Salopiae in Comitatu Salopiae et in nostra Diocesi
et annexi Scholae Grammaticali per piam provisionem et
donacionem serenissirni in Christo principis ac domini
Domini Edwardi Sexti Regis Angliae fundatae coram nobis
Kpiscopo autedicto comparuerunt personaliter Johannes
Nichols Richardus Winne Balliui dicti oppidi Salopiae
Johannes Meighen in artibus magister paedagogus dictae
Scholae Regiae conjuuctimque eiusdem et possessionum eius
ex provisione dicti serenissirni principis gubernatores et
curatores pro tempore existentes et allegarunt quod hoc
novum aediricium super proprijs dictae scholae terris
proprijsque suis ex sumptibus et possessionibus exstructum
et eidem annexum secundum piam dicti principis donacionem
et provisionem in Capellam et oratorinm convertere
proposuerunt et intenderunt quo melius commode et tempore
opportuno ad eandem Capellam ad Divina audienda ac pias
et religiosas devotiones Deo Optimo Maximo debitas
praestandas pueri et in Schola Regia educati cum Ludimagistris
eorum et reliquis Scholae gubernatoribus accedere valeant
et possint. Allegarunt insuper eandem Capellam sive
Oratorium dictae Scholae Curatoribus et in eadem studentibus
destinatum suggesto mciisa sedibus convenientibus alijsque
necessarijs ad divinum cultuin decentcr et sufiicienter
instructum et ornatum esse Humiliter petendo tarn nominibus
suis proprijs quam nomine omnium eiusdem Scholae
Curatorum et Scholarium quatenus nos Kpiseopus antedictus
predictam Capellam sive oratorium in usus sacros et diviuos
respective dedicandum et cowseerandiim lore decern ere ac
auctoritate nostra Kpiscopali respective dedicate et consecrate
dignaremur. Untie nos Episcopus antedictus pio et religiost)
fllonmi desiderio annuentes ad eorum petitionetn praedictam
Capellam sive oratorium respective dedieaudum et COUSe-
Crandum lore juxta eorum in line parte petita ac ad
conseeracionem eiusdem procedetidutll fore dccrevitllUS ct atl
Stat i 111 sic processimus ac in Capellam predictam hit! ttvillltlS

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ibidemque iudicialiter sedentes ac rite et legitime predictam
[proeedentes] Capellam sive oratorium divino Cultui divinorum
officiorum celebrationi ac tain ad Sacramenta Coeuae Domini
et Baptismatis in eadem ministranda quam ad matrimonia
ibidem Solemuizanda divinas preces Deo fnndendas et Verbuni
Dei pure et sincere juxta antiquam [antiquae] PZcclesiae
doctrinam in hoc regno nostro professatn predicandum et
proponendum ac reliqua sacramentalia ibidem exequenda ac
exercenda in Dei honorem ac pro salute animarum meliori in
studijs progressu et usu predictae Scliolae Regiae Curatorum
et Studentium pro tempore existente [existentium] (quantum
in nobis fait ac de jure legibus statutis et canonibus hujus
inclyti Regni Angliae potuimus et nobis licuit) Dedicavimus
et Consecravimus per uoineii L,iberae Capellae Regiae Scholae
Regiae infra Salopiam annexae et sic dedicatam consecratam
et assignatam fuisse et esse ac perpetuis futuris temporibus
remanere debere palam et publice pronunciavimus decrevimus
et declaravimus et per no men Iviberae Capellae Regiae (prout
prefertur) perpetuis futuris temporibus uoininandum et
appellaudum fore decrevimus privileges insuper omnibus
et singulis in ea parte usitatis et requisitis et capellis ab
antiquo fundatis competentibus hujusmodi Capellam sive
oratorium ad oinnein juris effectum munitam esse voluimus
et volumus ac quantum in nobis est ac de jure possumus sic
muni mils et stabilimus per presentes vSalvo semper jure et
interesse matricis Kcclesiae vi/.t. vSanctae Mariae in cujus
parochia dicta Capella sive oratoriuin sita et situata est in
omnibus et singulis privileges jnribus et emolumentis eidem
debitis quibuscumque Ac proviso semper quo<] gjubernatores
dictae Scliolae pro tempore existeiltes idoneiim presbyteruni
ad Divina olficia predicta exequenda et celebrauda in eadem
Capella auetoritate loci ordiii.irij pro tempore exislente
(existcntisj de tempore in torn pus apptobanduin et
licentianduui nominabunt et sustinebnnt Quae omnia et
singula premissa quatenus in nobis est et de jure possumus
sic decrevimus et stabili vinius uti decerniiuus et stabilnnus
per presentes. His quidem sic pcraclis ac prccibus (liviuis
Secundum lilurgiam Kcclesiae nostiae Anglicauae alijsque

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sole ni u i zan tibu s in hac parte usitatis et observatis finitis Nos
Episcopus antcdictus sacramentum Coenae Dominicae et
sacros presbyteratus ordines in eadein Capella jnxta irioruna
et ritunm Ecclesiae nostrae in hac parte edita administravimus
Super quibus oninibtis et singulis dieti Gubernatores Seholae
requiviserunt Patricium Melvill et Michaelem Dawkins
[Niehils] notaries publieos Registrarij nostri deputatos tunc
presentes ad conficiendum sibi unum vel plura publicum vel
publica instrumentum sive instrumenta super his rebus sic
(ut prefertur) actis testesque presentes testimonium inde
perhibere presentibus tempore cousecrationis capellae predictae
Venerabilibus viris Roberto Master juris doctore et uostro
Cancellario ffiancisco Gibbons Sampsoue Price sacrae
Theologiae professoribus Thoma Master et Josepho Hill
Canonicis Ecclesiae Cathedralis Lichfeldensis in sacra
Theologia Baccalaureis et alijs testibus in hac parte requisitis
In quorum omnium et singulorum premissorum fidem ac
testimonium hac presentes literas testimonials ad petitionem
dictorum Ballivorum et Ludimagistri fieri cum sigilli nostri
Episcopalis appensione mandavimus et fecimus. Datum
primo die Novembris Anno 1617° et nostrae Cousecrationis
anno quarto.

Jo Coven Lichfeld.
[translation.]

To all and singular the faithful of Christ to whom the
present letters testimonial shall come, or whom the things
written below affect, or can affect in whatever way hereafter,
John by Divine permission Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
(sends) everlasting greeting in the Lord, and undoubted faith
is to be attached to these presents. To the knowledge of you
all we convey and we wish it to be conveyed by these presents,
that on Wednesday, namely the tenth day of the month of
September in the year of our Lord 1617, and in the fourth
year of our Consecration, between the hours of nine and ten
in the forenoon, at the door or entrance of the Chapel or
oratory lately built within the p;u i.sh of St. Mary iu Shrewsbury
in the County of Salop and in our Diocese;, and annexed to
the Grammar School founded by the pious provision and

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DEED OF CONSECRATION

donation of our most serene prince in Christ and governor
the Lord Edward the Sixth King of England, there appeared
, in person before us the aforesaid Bishop John Nichols (and)
Richard Winne Bailiffs of the said town of Shrewsbury, and
John Meighen master of arts the schoolmaster of the said
Royal School, and together with them the governors and
guardians for the time being of the same and the possessions
of the same by the provision of the said most serene prince,
and alleged that they purposed and intended to convert this
new edifice, built upon the lands belonging to the said school,
and at their own cost and (from their own) possessions, and
annexed to the same (school) according to the pious donation
and provision of the said prince, into a Chapel and oratory,
that in a more fit manner and at a more convenient time the
boys educated in the Royal School, with their Schoolmasters
and the rest of the governors of the School, should have
power and ability to enter the Chapel to hear Divine service
and to perform the pious and religious devotions due to
Almighty God. Moreover they alleged that the same Chapel
or oratory of the said School, designed for the Guardians
and those studying in the same, had been becomingly and
sufficiently fitted and adorned with pulpit, table, convenient
seats, and other things necessary for divine worship.

Humbly beseeching, as well in their own names, as in the
name of all the Guardians and Scholars of the same School,
that we the aforesaid Bishop as far as in us lies would deign
to decree that the said Chapel or oratory should be severally
dedicated and consecrated to sacred and divine uses, and
that we by our Episcopal authority should severally dedicate
and consecrate (the same). Wherefore we the said Bishop,
giving assent to their pious and religious desire, at their
request have decreed that the aforesaid Chapel or oratory
shall be severally dedicated and consecrated according to
their petition on this behalf, and that the consecration of the
same should be proceeded with ; and so we immediately
proceeded, and entered the aforesaid Chapel, ami theie silling
judicially, and rightly and lawfully proceeding, VVc h ue
Dedicated and Consecrated the said Chapel or oratory for

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95

divine Worship for the celebration of divine offices", 3&d as
•well lor the ministration of the Sacraments of the Supper of
the Lord and of Baptism in the same, as for the Soleiunh atW'a
of Marriages there, the pouring forth of divine prayers to
God, and the preaching- and setting forth of the Word of God
purely and sincerely according to the ancient doctrine of
the Church professed in this our realm, and for the performing
and exercising there of the rest of the sacramental rites, to
the honour of God and for the welfare of souls, for the better
progress in their studies and for the use of the Guardians and
Students for the time being of the aforesaid Royal School,
(so far as in us lay, and so far as we rightly were able, and
it was lawful for us, by the laws statutes and canons of this
famous realm of Kngland), by the name of the Free Royal
Chapel to the Royal School within Shrewsbury annexed,
and we have pronounced decreed and declared openly and
publicly that it was and is so dedicated consecrated and
assigned, and ought so to remain in all future times,
and we have decreed that it shall be named and
called by the name of the Free Royal Chapel (^as
is aforesaid) in all future times. Moreover, we have
willed and we do will that the Chapel or oratory shall be
secured in every effect ot law with all and singular the
privileges customary and necessary and belonging to Chapels
of such a character founded of old, and so far as in us lies
and we lawfully are able, we so secure and establish it by
these presents. Saving always the right and interest of the
mother Church, namely St. Mary, in whose parish the said
Chapel or oratory lies and is situate, in all and singular
the privileges rights and emoluments whatsoever due 10 the
same. And provided always that the governors of the said
School for the time being shall nominate and maintain a
fit priest to perform and celebrate the Divine offices aforesaid
in the same Chapel, to be from time to time approved and
licensed by the authority of the ordinary of the place for
the time being. All and singular which premises, so far as
in us lies and we rightly are able, we have so decreed and
established, as we decree and establish by these presents,

96 DEED OF CONSECRATION or THE SCHOOL CHAPEL-

And these things being thus completed, and divine prayers
according to the liturgy of our Church of England, and other
solemnities accustomed and observed on this behalf being
finished, We the Bishop aforesaid have administered the
sacrament of the Lord's Supper and the sacred orders of the
priesthood in the same Chapel according to the manners and
rites of our Church in this behalf set forth. And upon all
and singular these things the said Governors of the School
have required Patrick Melvill and Michael Dawk ins [Nichils],
notaries public, the deputies of our Registrar, then present
to prepare for them one or more public instrument or
instruments concerning these matters so (as is aforesaid)
done, and the witnesses present therefore to bear witness;
these being present at the time of the consecration of the said
Chapel, the Venerable Robert Master, doctor of law and our
Chancellor, Francis Gibbons and Sampson Price professors of
sacred Theology, Thomas Master and Joseph Hill, Canons
of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, Bachelors in sacred
Theology, and other witnesses required on this behalf. In
trust and testimony of all and singular which premises we
have commanded and caused these our present letters
testimonial to be made with the attachment of our Episcopal
seal, on the petition of the said Bailiffs and Schoolmaster.
Dated on the first day of November in the year 1617, and in
the fourth year of our Consecration.

Jo Coven Lichfeld.
The Deed is endorsed thus : —

1st Nov. 1617.
Liberae Scholae Capellae Consecratio per Episcopuni
Lich. Covent.

B. No. 12.

Fig. 4 -Llanfairwatcrdinc Church in 1849.

Fig. 5 Interior of Llnnfairwatc rdinc Church. 1842.

Fig, 6 — Llanfairwaterdine ; West End in 1842.

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Fig. 7 Llanfairwaterdine Holy-water Slock. 1842.

Fig. 8 - Llanfairwaterdine ; Detail of Capital, 1842.

THE OLD CHURCH OF IXANFAIRWATERDINE.

With some account of its destruction and an interpretation of the
inscription formerly in the rood-screen.

By Thk REV. PREBENDARY W. G. CLARK-MAXWELL,

M.A., F.S.A.

The Rev. D. H. S. Cranage, Litt.D., in his monumental
" Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire," p. 445,
characterises the destruction of the old church of Llanfairwater-
dine, in the extreme S.W. of this county, as " one of the most
wicked cases of vandalism I have ever come across." From
what he had been able to gather of the character of the building
he concludes that with its oaken pillars, with capitals carved
into the figures of men bearing the arches on their neck, it must
have been " almost, if not quite unique."

The supplementary information which I have been able to put
together in this paper will in no wise soften our condemnation
of the rebuilders of the church in 1853, or our regret that they
were able to accomplish their purpose. It is, however, of melan-
choly interest to publish the record at least, of what has been
lost, lest even that should disappear through the chances of fire
or of hostile air-craft.

I.

There are in existence, as far as I know, three pen and ink
drawings of the exterior, and one in pencil, heightened with crayon.

1. British Museum, Add. MSS. 21018 f.8o,b. The sketch is
dated 1793, but seems to be a copy made about 1840, as the
figures of the Census of that year have been added to the accom-
panying description in the same handwriting as the rest of the
MS. A reproduction is given in fig. 1, shewing the church in
so ruinous a condition that one is tempted to suspect some
exaggeration, either on the part of tiie artist or of his copyist, in
the search after the picturesque. The chancel shews a 3 -light
east window with (oiled heads and a 2 -light window and a priest's
door in the south wall ; there is a south aisle, with roof appar-
ently continuous with that of the nave, having an east window
of indeterminate 'form, apparently round -headed, and two south

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windows, one of two and one of three lights, all trefoil headed.
There are two clumsy buttresses of " Debased " type, and a south
porch with timber framing. The ridge of the roof has- fallen
in two places much below its level, and there is a growth of
vegetation on each buttress.

2. The next representation is in a volume of sketches by Arch-
deacon Owen, now in the possession of Col. Hope-Edwardes, of
Netley Hall, near Dorrington, by whose kind permission it is
here reproduced (tig. 2). It is dated 1812. In general features
it closely resembles the earlier sketch, but varies in some slight
points, so that while we have confidence in their general trust-
worthiness, we do not venture to argue from mimttia of detail.
The porch lies further east than we should judge from No. 1, and
the roof looks better preserved than in that view. But the chief
interest and value of this representation of the church lies in
the sketches of two of the oaken capitals drawn in, in the upper
corners of the sketch. They are octagonal, and surmount pillars
of the same shape with chamfered edges. The alternate faces
of the capital are occupied by heads, in one case those of a king
and queen, in the others grotesques, and the rest is covered with
foliage.

3. The third view is an Anastatic drawing in the church vestry,
dated 1851, very shortly before the destruction of the building,
and is signed M H.N.," initials which may possibly be those of the
architect of the new church (fig. j.) This is a careful and minute
study, but lacks the artistic freedom of the earlier sketches. It
shews, in addition to the features already noted, a low tomb recess
in the S. wall of the chancel, while the 2-light window in the aisle
has a containing arch, and its K. window is a mere square hole
of small size.

This drawing was given to the Rev. C. II. Stoker, Vicar of
IJanfairwaterdine, i8<)ft-i(jo2, and by him given to till! church.

4. There is also in the collection of views of ehltfclies in l ho
Diocese of Hereford, formed by the late II. C. Beddoe, Kmj., for
many years Assistant Registrar, a pencil sketch of I. Ian lair
Waterdine Church, dated 1840, which is here reproduced by
kind permission of his daughter, Mi>s M. 0. Hcdihv jV
This shews us the church in the same general aspect . but gives
the impiession of a taller building than do the tlthcts, The
window at the l<«. end of the aisle IS shewn as trefoil headed, anil

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99

the recess in the chancel wall is indicated though the ground
levels have evidently given some trouble here.

Taking these four views together, we can decide with fair
certainty that the church consisted of nave with south aisle,
the latter having a single-light window to the east, and to the
south two, of two and three lights respectively. There was a
south porch at, or near, the W. end of the aisle, and in the chancel
an east window of two trefoil lights, a priest's door to the S., and
K. of this a two-light window with recess, perhaps for a tomb,
below.

Besides these representations of the outside of the church, we
have in a portfolio of drawings collected by the late Archdeacon
Vickers and presented by his sister to the Stackhouse Library
in St. Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth, an interior view, looking W.,
sketches of the W. end, of a " Benatura " or holy water stock in
the porch, and of one capital the same as represented in the right
hand of fig. 2. These are reproduced in figs. 5-8. The west end
shews a double lancet window with one bell hung in a sort of
recess above it ; the S. aisle, which we see to have been the only
one, has a small square window at the west end, rather like that
represented in fig. 3 at the east. The picture of the benatura calls
for no special remark beyond that the walls of the porch seem
to be made of slabs or planks of wood, and possibly the holy
water stock itself may have been of the same material, as its
plan has a strong resemblance to that of the oaken pillars of the
interior. But it is by the view of the interior that our interest
is chiefly aroused, and our regret heightened that so eurious and
picturesque a building should not have survived. The view is
taken apparently from just inside the chancel, looking SAV.
The object in the foreground seems to be the pulpit and reading
desk, though the pulpit hangings look niueh more like (ullage.
In front of it is seen the clergyman in surplice proceeding towards
the west cud, where a christening party is evidently gathered
round the font. This last is plain and tub-shaped, like many
fonts in the district dating from about the [4th century, Alx>V4
it we see the interior view of the West window, a very simple and
pleasing composition ol the 1 ;th century, IhotUjli so plain
externally. There are two large square |>e\vs, the rest are open
benches. The eolunms au- shewn as si\ in nuinbei, the western
most apparently standing against the wall, and .it le.isi mfc is

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THE OLD CHURCH OF LLANFAIRWATKRDINK.

hidden from view at the east end.1 From the capitals spring the
arches of the aisle arcade and from the post above each the couples,
with tiebeam, collar-beam, and diagonal braces which support the
nave roof. There are wooden cross-ties from pillar to pillar,
and the aisle roof is worked in with these and with the capitals
in a way which it is not easy to describe, but which may be under-
stood from the drawing. Altogether it is a very skilful and pic-
turesque piece of carpentry, and we may assign it, speaking rough-
ly, to the fifteenth century. The drawing is signed " K.B."
and dated 1842. The small sketch of one capital, which is
evidently like the W. end and the " benatura," the work of the
same artist, represents as stated above the same crowned female
head as is represented in fig. 2, but viewed as is manifest through
a very different artistic atmosphere. Here the head looks half
classical, half Egyptian ; there it is wholly if somewhat bar-
barously Gothic, and we must award the palm to Xo. 2 for
greater fidelity to the spirit of the original. Still this shews what
the other does not, the cross-tie from pillar to pillar, and the post
rising higher to support the roof couple, while the sides of the
pillar are shewn to be concave, a feature which would lead us to
assign a date in the late perpendicular period, if in such an
abnormal instance one dares to assign a date at all !

Beyond these pictured representations, we have some inter-
esting examples of what the men of those days thought of the
old church of Llanfair.

In the British Museum MS. mentioned above, from which
fig. 1 is taken, there is the following description of the church
Llanfairwaterdine : " . . . . The Fabric is of stone without any
steeple, the walls are much out of the perpendicular, and its
general condition is bad ; the roof is uneven and out of repair,
the floor is in a sad state. The chancel is separated by cumbrous
tabernacle work from the nave, and a south aisle separated from
the nave by large wooden pillars grotesquely carved. The chan-
cel contains five pews, the nave thirty-one pews, the south aisle
nineteen, all of which are irregular and extremely dirty. A bell
is hanging at the west end of the south aisle within the roof .
at the west end of the nave is much vacant space, but loaded \\ ilh
rubbish and filth. The pulpit is unstable."

This was written about 1840. Another British Museum MS
(Add. 2*1,237, <llU)tc(l by Dr. Cranage as the W illiams MS ),

» The pillars are taller and more slender than one would jvdgv From the

outside view ; probably the artist is here .it fault.

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IOI

speaks on p. 356 of a " handsome carved screen and rood loft "
(Cranage p. 996).

Dr. Cranage (p. 445) also quotes the " Shropshire Gazetteer "
of 1 85 1 as speaking of a south aisle " which is separated from the
body of the church by a row of oak pillars, beautifully carved."
Lewis' Topographical Dictionary, iii. 112, dismisses the church
with the curt description of " a mean building without a steeple."

" The Archaeologia Cambrensis " vol. ii. (1S47) P- 298L has
a long and fanciful article by Sir Samuel Meyrick on the inscrip-
tion mentioned below, which he there maintains to be music !
I extract from it some notices of the rood screen, of which that
inscription originally formed part, and of the oaken pillars.
" The columns within, instead of stone, consist each of one
large piece of oak with rude but curiously carved capitals. These
represent bold projecting foliage, with large grotesque human
heads in the midst. Between the nave and the chancel are the
remains of the oaken rood loft, which now only show the stiles
and transomes of screen work that supported an enriched canopy,
the panels having been long ago destroyed."

II.

The first steps in connection with the repair of the old church
were taken apparently in 1852. At a vestry meeting held on
June 23rd of that year " a specification of repairs to be done "
was submitted, which included stripping and retiling the roof,
stone tile to be supplied where required, and the ridge to be covered
with " Broseley crest. Take down the defective part of north wall
from the pulpit to the chancel, and also the whole of the south
wall. Build up the north and south walls ; the south wall to be the
same height as north wall . . . shortened to the length of the church
on the east end, with 4 upright buttresses on south side, standing
out six inches. Porch to correspond. A new window of two lights
with gothic head " was to be inserted " on the north-east side
of porch," and a window of one light of the same kind, " on the
south-west side of the porch," i.e. in the south wall east and west
of the porch respectively, " a small belfry to be fixed over the
west end window like the belfry at Chapel Lawn or Newcastle
. . . Oak weather boards west and east ends and firestooe
coping on the top. Rise that part of ridge which is now Ik low the
other parts, up level and straighten the old surface of roof, 1,3,5,6, }

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THE OLD CHURCH OF LLANF AIK WATERDINK

frames to be taken away from the present roofing, between 5th and
6th frame new pair of blades and beam. All the blades to be taken
down and tenanted anew. Seven beams to be lengthened and
cramped. Present old windows in sonth side to be put in the
north side. Ceiling of south aisle to be raised to the same height
as the body of the church."

It will be seen that the above represents a pretty extensive
work of repair, and when read in conjunction with the sketches
here reproduced, is fairly easy to follow, though it is not readily
intelligible how, if the south wall (i.e. of the aisle) was to be raised
to the same height as the north, and the ceiling of the south aisle
raised to the same height as the body of the church, it was pro-
posed to keep the old framing of the roof, as they evidently
intended to do. The S. aisle, which the sketch of 1851 shews to
have been slightly longer than the nave, was to be reduced to
the length of the church, and possibly they intended to make
a new and independent roof over the S. aisle.

At the same meeting however the question of an entirely new
church was also raised, and an estimate of this was to be obtained
and submitted with the estimate for the repairs, on July 14,
to which date the meeting was adjourned.

At the adjourned meeting it was unanimously agreed that
the plans of a new church sent in by Mr. Nicholson, architect, of
Hereford, be adopted, " and that if Mr. Nicholson will take off £50
from the sum specified according to Mr. Nicholson's plan of
£650 for the body of the church, vestry room, and organ loft,
that the parishioners will at once accept his plan and tender,
and that this meeting stand adjourned to Wednesday, the 28th
of July, 1852, to receive his answer."

The minute is signed by the Rev. John R. N. Kinchant as
chairman, two Churchwardens, and four others.

At the adjourned meeting of 28th July however Mr. John
Davies was in the chair, and the meeting objected " to pay the
expense to the architect employed by the Rev. John K. N.
Kinchant, and that the same be paid by the said John R. N.
Kinchant, for the plan of rebuilding the Parish Church of Uan-
i'aiiwaterdinc." This is signed by John Davies, chairman, and
seven others ; to the names of live of these a pencil note " no
ratepayer " is added, a warning of the coming storm.

A further minute records that at the s.unc meeting it was

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103

resolved and " ordered that the Parish Chureh of Llanfairwater-
dine be repaired at an expense not exceeding One hundred and
fifty pounds, and be not rebuilt," and the work was entrusted to
John Davits, of Knuekless, apparently not the same person as
the chairman. The same named sign this minute also.

The next meeting was held on Aug. 30th, with the Incumbent,
J. R. X. Kinchant. in the chair, at which it was resolved, by
twenty-nine votes to four, that the tender of Mr. William Jones,
builder, of Brecon, to rebuild the church according to Mr.
Nicholson's drawings, etc., for £600 be accepted, an amendment,
" that the old church be not pulled down " being lost by twenty-
live votes to three.

The names of those voting for and against the rebuilding
are appended, three of the majority being noted as " a bad vote."

A further resolution deals with the architect's remuneration
at £5 per cent, and provides that subscriptions should be raised,
grants if possible obtained from any sources available for church
building purposes, and the remainder raised upon the rates of
the parish, payment to be spread over twenty years. This was
carried by Kj to 2. A committee of eleven was appointed to act
with the Incumbent in carrying these resolutions into effect.

This would seem decisive for the rebuilding, but the non-
eontents were not yet done with : a meeting was held on Oct.
13th, at which it appears (for the record is somewhat confused)
that twenty-seven proprietors or occupiers of land or premises
in the parish signed a resolution to resist any rate levied for the
purpose of rebuilding the church upon the ground " that the
same is unnecessary, as the present church can be repaired at a
moderate expense."

They followed this up by a further meeting on 24th January,
1853, at which they record their opinion that the church can be
repaired according to an estimate " by a competent person '•*
capable of doing the same, for the sum of £15 to £20, ami that
the church will then stand as long as it has hitherto done, the
interior of the church and chancel having been done anew
within the last fifteen years, and will be a very good church and
sufficient lor the wants of the said parish, and we think it will
1*2 a wanton and reckless expenditure of the parish money to
build a new church which is not wanting, ami we will do all we
can to resist such an imposition."

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104 THE OLD CHURCH OF LLAN1VIRWATKRDINK.

The meeting further agreed to entrust Mr. John Griffiths with
the work for £15, he undertaking to keep the church in good
repair for 20 years for £2 per annum.

The minute is signed by Geo. Davies, chairman, and by eight
persons present, and by John Griffiths, mason.

It was also agreed to send notice to Mr. Nicholson that " if
he should dare to pull down the old church and erect a new
one," they would commence an action against him, " inasmuch
as the old church can be repaired at a small expense."

The resolution however apparently came to nothing, and the
next relevant entry is dated Oct. 15, 1853, when a meeting was
called to " consider the agreement that was made between the
Parish and Mr. Jones, the builder of the new church, and see
how far that agreement has been carried out up to the present
time." Mr. Kinchant was in the chair and the meeting was
adjourned till Oct. 31, and on that date postponed to Nov. 21,
and again to Dec. 21, on which day it was eventually held, the
malcontent party moving that the agreement be adhered to, the
Incumbent refused to take the minutes and left the chair. This
was taken by George Davies, the leader of those opposed to
rebuilding, and the meeting unanimously resolved to hold Mr.
William Jones to his bargain, and that he should forfeit the
penalties therein expressed for non-fulfilment.

Meanwhile, as early as June, 1853, the Churchwardens had
borrowed /350 from the Public Works Loans Commissioners,
the balance required to meet the cost of rebuilding the church,
which came to £650 after all, and records of special rates for the
repayment of this sum occur for the next few years, and pre-
sumably continued till the debt was extinguished.

The only fragments now surviving of the building pulled down
in 1853 are portions of the rood screen, worked up into the
present altar rails, which Dr. Cranage describes as " highly
carved with vegetable and animal forms. Among the latter one
can perhaps distinguish a deer, a pig, a hare, two rabbits, and
two dogs, besides a lion, a dragon, and some birds. There is the
figure of a man, and two female figures with the pcdiniental head
dress. This latter detail, combined with .some square four-leafed
flowers, fixes the date as the latter part of the rerpcmlu ul.u
period. The carvings of grapes and other fruit, oak loaves and
acorns are bolder than one sometimes gets at that time."

THK OLD CHURCH OK LLAN FAIRW ATKKDINE. IO5

In Sir S. Meyriek's paper referred to above, we read (p. 310)
4t Of the rails that formed the screen not two had their sculptured
parts alike. On one there are dogs hunting animals of -the
chase."

The bell (cast by Abraham Rudhall, 1723, see Transactions,
3rd Ser., V . p. 12) also survives.

III.

It remains now to add a word on the famous, or notorious
inscription on what is now part of the altar rail of Llanfairwater-
dine Church, which has been so long an unsolved enigma. A
photograph of it may be seen in Dr. Cranage's book, p. 446, and
the accompanying letterpress states that it is suspected to be
Welsh, but has hitherto baffled all interpreters (see fig. 9). The
very last piece of work, so far as I know, which was done by the
late Sir John Rhys, whose death was so great a loss to Celtic
scholarship, was an elaborate discussion of the inscription,
published posthumously in the Proceedings of the Hon. Society
of Cymmrodorion. In this he gives first a reading of the letters
which is almost identical with one attempted, quite independ-
ently, by the present writer. He reads :

syr made | amurac | pichgar | col
unw I agosod' | oddec | pund | cyrufudd

and interprets it thus :

" Sir Matthew and Meyrick Pichgar of Gun set it1 up for
ten pounds together."

Amongst the very few names of pre-Reformation incumbents
of the chapelry of Llanfairwaterdine occurs that of Matthew ap
Ievan in the years 1485 and 1520 ; and with him accordingly Sir
John identities the " Sir Matthew " (in Lathi Dominns M alliens)
of the inscription. The character of the mouldings, figures and
foliage accord well with this date, though they would equally
suit one 50 or even 100 years earlier.

Sir John Rhys further mentions that there was in existence
in io'^7 a fragment of another 2-line inscription of the same
character, but containing only two words, " Maria . . . .
Willi aed . . ." He sees in the first word the name of a bene-
factress to the church ; but it seems at least equally likely to
be the beginning of an invocation in Latin 0/ tin- Virgin Mary,

1 i.<., the rood screen of which it originally formed a part.

106 THE OLD CHURCH OF L,I«ANFAj RWATERDINE.

to whom the church is dedicated, e.g. some such sentence as
Maria matey Dei miserere met. The other word seems to mean
" made," and if the inscription were preserved complete, we
might have found in this line the name of the benefactor to whose
liberality the church owed its rood-screen ; possibly also the
oaken pillars. If this were so, we should have inherited an
exceptionally full record of what had been done.

What part are we to assign to Dan Mathew and Meyrick
Pichgar of Gun ? Were they only the contractors, as we should
call them now, for the work, or were they the master craftsmen
also ? There is no possibly of a certain decision on the point ;
yet the priest may have been a skilful carpenter and carver ; for
we know that in Wenlock Priory, to which the advowson
of Gun, the mother-church of Llanfair, belonged, there was a
certain William Corvehill, priest, who possessed according to
Thomas Butler's Register (Transactions VI. 105) an almost be-
wildering variety of talent, which included " reryng & buldyng of
the new ruff " in Wenlock Church, and " kerving," and it may
have been that Meyrick Pichgar " re red " the screen and Dan
Mathew " kerved " it. If so, one would think he must have taken
a cynical pleasure in puzzling the generations to come, as well
as his own, by the characters he employed.

It is" related of the Emperor Charles V. that when in passing
through Cordova he saw the new work which the canons had
built in the midst of the famous Mosque, to serve as the Choir of
their Cathedral Church, he administered to them the following
rebuke : " Gentlemen, you have built here what you, or any one,
might have built anywhere ; but you have destroyed what was
unique in the world." In something of the same spirit, after
this review of what can now be known of what the old church of
Llanfairwaterdine was like, and how it came to be pulled down,
we may reflect that sixty years ago they destroyed what was
unique in Shropshire, if not in Kngland, to set Up what might have
been built anywhere, in the present badly-built and feeble
substitute.

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TWO CELEBRATED SALOPIAN SURGEONS.

Sir Caesar Hawkins, Bart., and his brother PenneH Hawkins,
with some account of their ancestors and descendants.

By R. R. JAMES, F.R.C.S.

Though the connexion of Sir Caesar Hawkins with Shropshire
was mainly that of birth, his father and paternal grandfather
were both resident in the county, and it is fitting that a short
account of him and his family should appear in our Transactions,
for in all probability he was quite the most distinguished surgeon
that Salop has ever produced.

The Hawkins family trace their descent from Colonel Caesar
Hawkins, who commanded a troop of horse for the King during
the civil war, and tradition has it that he was baptised on August
6th, 1593, at Wolford Magna,1 Co. Warwick ; I cannot verify this
statement, as I am informed that the registers of the parish for
baptisms commence in 1656.

Colonel Hawkins is chiefly to be remembered for his gallant
defence of Greenland House, Bucks ; on which subject Whitelock's
Memorials2 has as follows: "Major General Brown, with his
whole brigade came and joined with the forces before Greenland
House, and continued the batteries, upon which Col. Hawkins,
the Governour of Greenland, sent out for a treaty, and rendered
the fort to Major-General Brown upon conditions," while
Clarendon3 says : M There was about this time by the surrender
of Greenland House (which could not possibly be longer defended,
the whole structure being beaten down by the cannon), the
regiment of Col. Hawkins inarched into Oxford, amounting to
near three hundred men, to which as many others joined as made
it up to four hundred men."

1 Wolford Ma^na, a parish in the Hrails division of the hundred of

Kington, (our miles from Shipston-on-Stotir. Lewis' Topographical

Dictionary of England.
'-' Oxford edition lK.SK, vol. 1, p. 27S.

History of the Rebellion, Oxford edition, 1825. (Soolt VIII.) Vol. IV,

p. 695.

108 TWO CELEBRATED SAI.OI'IAX SURGEONS.

The surrender of Greenland House occurred in 1044. There is
no reference to it in Cromwell's letters, but doubtless the Protector
had other more urgent matters on his mind at the time..

The date of Col. Hawkins' death is not ascertained, but it
seems clear that he had three children, Caesar, Thomas, and
Priscilla, the last named marrying in 1663 Richard Howes, and
having a son Thomas, born in 1667, for whom his uncle Thomas
Hawkins stood sponsor. It is probable that the name of Col. Haw-
kins' wife may have been Priscilla Wakelyn, for such a couple were
married by license at Ludlow on Dec. 22nd, 1622, and Caesar
as a christian name is distinctly unusual,1 while the fact that the
name of his only daughter was Priscilla is to my mind extremely
suggestive.

The Rev. Sir John Caesar Hawkins, Bart., the present holder
of the title, has been so kind as to supply me with much of this
early family information, and he informs me that there is in
his possession a small book printed in 1622, entitled the " French
Littleton," by Claudius Holy band, on the fly leaf of which are
written the names of Thomas Hawkins of Pottersbury, and Caesar
Hawkins, with the dates 1642 and 1648. The latter of these
(Caesar) is known to have had two children, the elder Thomas,
born in 1662, and Caesar, born in 1665, for whom his grand-
father, Col. Hawkins, stood sponsor.

The connexion of this family with Shropshire commences with
this third Caesar, born 1665, for we find him living at Broseley
at the close of the xviith century, and the parish registers2
inform its that his wife's christian name was Mary, and that the
following children were baptized there : Caesar, b. i(>88 ;
Joseph, b. 1690,3 Elizabeth, b. 1692 ; buried, 1700 ; Mary,
b. 1694 ; John, b. 1696 ; Samuel, b. 1698, and Henry, b. 1701.

From his will it appears that Mr. Caesar Hawkins of Broseley
was a surgeon ; he was probably what would now be called a
general practitioner. At the present time the apprentice books

1 Certain correspondence in the Lansdown MSS. between Sir Julius
Laisar, sometime Master of the Rolls, and Sir John Hawkins (fol. 17-1)
has been searched to see it' it threw iUlV li^'11 011 «" i^m of the

connexion between the names C;csar and Haw Kins, but it uppe&rs that
the Hawkins ot these letters w;is a member ut the Devonshire sea*furing
family.

'-' Lanj»Jey. Parish Registers of Broseley, vols. I. and II,

-* This may possibly be the Joseph Hawkins buried .it l.udlow in 1714

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of the Barber Surgeons Company are not available, and so I
have not been able to find out if he was apprenticed at the Hall
in London, or if he was elected to the livery : the latter rise in
professional status usually implied a seven years' apprenticeship,
and I think it far more likely that Mr. Hawkins was bound
apprentice to a country surgeon. He died in Ludlow, probably
at the house of his son Caesar, and was buried there on Sept.
22nd, 1707. His will was proved on June 8th, 1708, and the
following is an abridged extract from the records of the District
Probate Court at Hereford. " In the name of God Amen. This
24th day of February, 1704, I Caesar Hawkins of Broseley,
Chirurgeon, weak in body, but of good and perfect memory,
thanks be to God, do make and ordain this my last will and
testament in manner and form following. First I recommend my
soul to Almighty God, and my body to the earth from whence
it came, to be devoutly buried therein at the discretion of my
executor hereafter named ; and as for the worldly estate and
goods wherewith it has pleased God to bless me, I bequeath to
Mary Hawkins my wife the house or tenement wherein I now
dwell, with garden, yard, orchard, and all other appurtenances,
to have and to hold to her during her natural life, and after her
decease my will is that my second son Caesar shall have and hold
the same during the residue of the term to run and unexpired.
As for all the rest of my goods, cattle, chattels, and household
stuffs of what nature or quality soever they be, my will is that my
dear wife after my debts, largesses, and funeral expenses shall
have been paid and discharged, shall have the first use of them
during her natural life, and that after her decease they shall
be divided amongst my children, and my said wife's, as my
executor shall think tit. And I hereby nominate and appoint
my loving neighbour Robert Whitmore of Broseley to be my
executor of this my last will and testament, and do give and
bequeath to him the sum of twenty shillings to buy him a ring,
and so renouncing all other wills by me made, I have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the day and year above written. Caesai
Hawkins."

The second son referred to in the above will, Caesai. baptized
at Broseley, Oct. 2jrd, 1O88, we find married and settled in
Ludlow early in the XVIIIth century. His wife's name was Ann
Bright, and his profession that of snrgeiv. This gentleman

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supplies us with some eorroboratory information about his
ancestors in a letter written from Ludlow, June 19th, 1737, to
his eldest son Caesar, at that time rapidly rising into fame- as a
surgeon in London. This letter is still in the possession of his
descendants, and Sir John Caesar Hawkins has very kindly
allowed me to make the following extracts from it.

" I am very glad your business is improving, and hope I shall live
to hear you answer what I have always expected of you." The
son had recently married a lady of armigerous family, as appears
from Sir Caesar's book plate, and he must have asked his father
for information about his own family's coat of arms, for the letter
continues : " That we had a coat of arms I am certain, but
what I never had opportunity to know, nor indeed was I ever
inquisitive about it ; our family had a good estate at Pottersbury1
in Northamptonshire, Long Compton2 in Warwick, and Black-
stone3 in Worcester, and my great grandfather had a regiment of
horse in Charles i's Army, which my father told me was the
beginning of our ruin."

Mr. Hawkins was a surgeon, or more probably a general
practitioner like his father before him ; his name does not occur
on the roll of freemen of the Apothecary's Company of London,
nor in Munk's Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, and it is
exceedingly unlikely that he can have been a graduate of either
of the English Universities. In all probability he was entered
as an apprentice at an early age to some country surgeon, possibly
his father, under the old system, which was in force until about
the middle of last century, and that, when his articles were out,
he settled down in practice on his own account in Ludlow.

Mr. Caeser Hawkins was married in 1710, and the following
children were born and baptized at Ludlow : Caesar, afterwards

1 Pottersbury, or Potterspury, ;i parish in the hundred of Cleley. Co.
Northunts, 2& miles N.W. of Stony Stratford.

2 Lonj» Compton, 9 parish in the hundred of Kington, Co. Warwick,
miles from Chipping Norton.

a Blaekstone. 1 have been unable to lind any plaee of this name, bill it is
possible that the hamlet of HlaeUwell in the parish <>l Trednn;t . wi .
hundred of < )s\valdslo\v, Co. Worcester, '2 A miles from Shipston on KttlUt,
and mar Wolford Magna, is the place referred to by Mr. Hawkins.

Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of l£nglan<l.

TWO CELEBRATED SALOPIAN SLRGEONS. Ill

Sir Caesar Hawkins, Bart., the eminent serjeant surgeon1 to
George II. and III., b. 1711, Anne b. 1713, Mary b. 1714, buried
(Ludlow) 1746, Pennell b. 1716, Charles b. 1717, buried 1722,
John b. 1721, buried 1722, Richard b. 1723, Elizabeth b. 1724,
and Katherine b. 1725. The baptism of the youngest child
took place the day before the burial of Mrs. Caesar Hawkins,
and I may perhaps be allowed to surmise that she died in child-
birth. She was buried at Ludlow. The father appears to have
taken a prominent part in the civil life of the borough, and he
was thrice bailiff ; he was also churchwarden of the parish
church in 1725, and in 1748 he was elected one of the trustees
to superintend the rebuilding, and enlarging the galleries in the
church, and to settle disputes and award sittings in the rebuilt
galleries. From the minute book of the Ludlow Corporation
we learn that Mr. Hawkins was unanimously elected an honorary
burgess of the Corporation on the 4th of September, 1724, and
he was ordered to be sworn in accordingly, paying a fine of six
shillings and eight pence, the usual fine ; on the same day he
was unanimously elected a common council man of the chamber
in the room of Mr. Samuel Waring, who had been elected alderman
in the room of Mr. Thomas Tillotson deceased, and Mr. Hawkins
was accordingly sworn in. Mr. Waring represented Broad Street,
but we do not have any evidence to show that Mr. Hawkins
succeeded to his ward.

In 1 73 1 Mr. Hawkins was elected low bailiff of the town, his
colleague the high bailiff being Mr. Somerset Jones: the names
of these gentlemen, Soniersett Jones, Ksqre., and Caesar Hawkins,
gent, occur on the 7th of the peal of eight bells which hang in the
tower of the glorious parish church of St. Laurence, Ludlow.

1 The office of serjeant surgeon is one of some antiquity, it implied an
obligation on the part of the holder *o attend the King Whenever he
went into battle ; the holder received a quarterly salary of .CIO, which
in Later days, when the office was practically a sinecure (George II. at
Dettingen in 1743 being the last English King to lead his troops into
battle), was commuted for an annual salary. The office was held for
life, and there were usually two serjeant surgeons, though Occasionally
I believe there was only one serjeant surgeon. The list of Serjeant
surgeons beginning with John of Arderne, a noted surgeon of his d.n .
who was present at Crecy with Edward III., is highly incomplete and,
as usually given, wrong in one particular, as I shall have occasion to
show when I come to treat of Sir Casar's nephew, Mr. George Kdw.nd
Hawkins. Maysmor's list of serjeant surgeons.

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TWO CELEBRATED SALOPIAN SURGEONS.

The churchwarden's accounts printed in " Walter's Church Bells
of Shropshire " show that the whole peal was recast in this year
by Abraham Rudhall, the Gloucester bellfounder, towards the
expenses of which undertaking the sum of £8y was raised by
subscription in the town and neighbourhood, each of the bailiffs
subscribing one guinea.

In 1737 Caesar Hawkins gent was high bailiff, while in 174b
Caesar Hawkins, Ksqre held the same office. He died in
1750, and was buried in the church on March 3rd. The grave
of himself and his wife is in the north transept, and I am very
much indebted to the kindness of Mr. Henry T. Weyman, F.S.A.,
for the following copy of the inscription : —

" In memory of Caesar Hawkins, gent, who died ye 1st
of March, 1750, aged 62."

" Here lieth the body of Ann, the wife of Caesar Hawkins,
gent, who departed this life the 15th March, A.D. 1725.
Born the 24th June, 168 — (blank)."

The records of the District Probate Court at Hereford do not
contain a copy of the will, but I found that letters of adminis-
tration of the estate of Caesar Hawkins anniger were granted
at Ludlow on May 7th, 1751, so that he must have died intestate.

The Corporation records at Ludlow inform us that Sir Caesar,
Pennell, and Capt. Richard Hawkins, of Bromsgrove, were also
burgesses of the town, but I do not suppose that they even
exercised any of the functions of the olhee. From the same
source we learn that Caesar Hawkins was for some years a sub-
scriber to the charity school in Mill Street, Ludlow, and it will
be seen later that I have reason to think that his sons must have
been educated at that school.

The family pedigree gives the following marriages as having
been contracted by Caesar Hawkins' children. Anne — John
Tasker, this is possibly the Anne Tasker buried at Ludlow in
1754. Pennell=Sarah Chetle, Richard ■■■-Mary Chetle, a son
of this marriage was baptised Caesar at Ludlow in March 174S.
and this Caesar is in all probability the nephew Caesar mentioned
in Sir Caesa 's will ; this Caesar was also a burgess of Ludlow.
Elizabeth Hawkins was twice married, first to Herbert Wvlde
Ksqre of Ludlow, possibly a son of the Reader's, but ous fai .1*-

TWO CKMCBKATKl) SAl/H'IAN SUK(iKONS

I can gather this marriage did not take place in the parish church,
and secondly in 1759 to Sir Herbert Perrot Pakington, Bart.,
of Westwood House, Worcestershire. By this second marriage
she had several children, John, Thomas, Elizabeth=William
Russell of Powick, co. Worcester, Dorothy, Louisa, and Anne.
Elizabeth Lady Pakington died at an advanced age in 1812,
her husband having predeceased her in 1795 at Bath.1 The young-
est daughter of Mr. Caesar Hawkins, Katharine, was married by
license at Ludlow, 18th Oct., 1749, to Mr. Herbert Cole, possibly
a son of Brian Cole, the then Rector of Ludlow. She died in
December, 1752, having given birth to a daughter Jane* in the
previous October. Jane is mentioned in Sir Caesar's will.
Mr. Herbert Cole must have married again, for the registers inform
us that Thomas Caesar, son of Herbert Cole and Mary, was bap-
tized at Ludlow in 1766.

Sir Caesar was born on Jan. 10th, 1711, and baptized in the
parish church on Jan. 31st ; he was probably educated at the
grammar school in the borough, for although there are now no
registers of that date, as far as is known, in existence of the entry
of pupils in that very old foundation, yet it is difficult to imagine
that he can have gone to school anywhere else but in his native
town, and there exists carved in the panelling of the grammar
school the name Hawkins and the date 1726. I am inclined to
think that this may have been cut by Sir Caesar, who would
have been about sixteen years old at the time.

Sir Caesar, like his more famous surgical contemporary, Mr.
John Hunter, must have come up to London at an early age, as
the following extract from Younge's Annals of the Barber Sur-
geons Company testify :

" 1st July, 1735. Mr. Caesar Hawkins surgeon in Bloomsbury
who had lived several years with his father a surgeon in the
country, and afterwards with Mr. Ranby, a foreign brother of
the company, but not bound an apprentice at the Hall, was in
consideration thereof admitted into the freedom of the company
for six pounds six shillings, which he paid and was SWOme.
At the same time the said Mr. Caesar Hawkins was examined
touching his skill in surgery, his answers were approved of and

1 Pakington. See Hampton. Foster's Peerage, 1882.

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TWO CELEBRATED SALOPIAN SURGEONS.

he was ordered the diploma under the hands of the governors,
and the seal of the company, testifying his skill and impowering
him to practice."

19th August, 1736. — " Mr. Hawkins was admitted to the
livery, and the same day was chosen a demonstrator of anatomy,
being then but twenty-five years of age."

18th August, 1737. — " Mr. Caesar Hawkins, one of the demon-
strators of anatomy attended at this eourt and surrendered the
said office, and after returning this court his thanks for the
honour they had done him to choose him one of their demonstrators,
acquainted them that he being appointed surgeon to His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, and also surgeon to one of, the
troops of Guards, could not perform the office of a demonstrator,
and therefore the court accepted of such surrender."

In 1735, June 25th, Mr. Caesar Hawkins was elected surgeon
to St. George's Hospital, an institution at that time barely
three years old, situated in the fields at Knightsbridge, his sur-
gical colleagues being Messrs. Ambrose Dickins, Claudius Amyand,
David Middleton, all of whom were at some time Serjeant sur-
geons, and Mr. William Cheselden at that time at the head of
the surgical profession in England.

It is a very remarkable thing that this young man coming up
to London from the little country town of Ludlow, should have
so quickly risen to such an eminence in his profession, for excluding
Mr. Ranby, surgeon to St. Thomas' Hospital and Serjeant
surgeon, he can have had very little backstairs influence in the
profession. As most of his children were baptized at St. James,
Westminster, he must have left ISloomsbury when he began to
get busy, and have gone to live in that parish.

On Sept. 7th, 1747 he was appointed Serjeant surgeon to
George II. and he held the same office to George III., while his
connexion with the active surgical staff of St. George s Hospital
lasted till 1774. He was the second master of the old Company
of Surgeons after they separated from the Barbel Surgeons,
his year of office being 1748, when he succeeded Ranby, the first
master; he was also a member of the court of assistants and
examiners of the Company of Surgeons from 1747 to 1 7 7 S . he
retired in the latter year, and was the recipient oi an address
of thanks.

TWO CELEBRATED SALOPIAN SURGEONS.

Sir Caesar's portrait by Hogarth now hangs at the Royal
College of Surgeons and St. George's Hospital possesses a very
good copy of the picture, presented by his grandson, Caesar H.
Hawkins, F.R.S., surgeon to St. George's Hospital, serjeant
surgeon to Queen Victoria, and twice President of the Royal
College of Surgeons of England. This picture has never been
engraved .

Very little unfortunately is known about Sir Caesar, he is
not known to have published any surgical work, but he is reputed
to have been a most dextrous operator, and to have mad. more
than £1,000 a year for many years by phlebotomy alone, it
being customary at that time for everyone to be bled regularly
twice a year, in the spring, and at the fall of the leaf ; he also
invented an instrument known as the cutting gorget, in 1740,
according to Wadd's memorials and maxims, an invention said
to have been due to a favourite instrument becoming so much
worn by constant use, as to have become sharpened. This is an
instrument rarely, if ever used in England now, it went out of
fashion when the perineal section for lithotomy was discarded
in' favour of the sura-pubic route, but we may gather I think
from this fact that Sir Caesar must have been a very expert
lithotomist. In 175c) Sir Caesar purchased the Kelston property
near Bath from the Harington family, and in 1764 he pulled
down the old house, having employed an experienced architect,
John Wood the elder of Bath to build the present edifice.1

Sir Caesar was consulted in 1701 by Gibbon for some rather
bad symptoms, and he appears to have taken a serious view of
the case, but in spite of this Gibbon did not have to consult a
doctor again till shortly before his deatli in 1 7(^4 . and in the
meanwhile he had written his history and enjoyed his life.*
Another patient of Sir Caesar's was the Princess Elizabeth, and
he was present at the Palace at Kew when she died there.

In 1763 or thereabouts in conjunction witli Dr. Ileberden,
Mr. " Surgeon " Hawkins was ordered by the House of Commons
to attend the celebrated Mr. Wilkes, M.P. of the North Briton
for the publication of No. 45 of which periodical he was subjected
to a state prosecution. On July 25th, 177^, His Mujesty George

1 Miscellanea Gunealogica ct Hcraldicn, 1877. New ScricH, Vol. II.

2 Men an J Letters 1901. Paul.

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III. created him a baronet, and he died at Kelston on Feb. 13th,
17S6, and was buried there. His monumental inscription is on
a large mural tablet against the south wall of the south aisle
of Kelston Church.1

Deposited in a family vault
in the adjacent churchyard are the remains of
vSir Caesar Hawkins, Bart.,
eldest son of Caesar Hawkins, Esq., of Ludlow,
in the County of Salop.
By the exercise of superior faculties
he improved and promoted the science of his profession.
Unwearied in the cause of humanity,
In his domestic and social relations

worthy of all praise.
He married Sarah, only daughter of
John Cox, gent, of London,
By whom he had 111 any children.
He died Feb. 13th, 178b, aged 74.
This tablet was placed here by his widow
as a testimony of her affectionate regard.

In the same vault are deposited
the remains of Sarah,
Widow of the above Sir Caesar Hawkins, Bart.
She quitted this life in full assurance of a better,
on the 17th day of March,
1 80 1, aged 82.

The following notice appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine,
1780 : "On Feb, 13th, at his seat at Kelston, near Bath, Sir
Caesar Hawkins, Bart., Serjeant surgeon to His Majesty." Similar
notices appeared also in the London Chronicle, and Morning
Chronicle, and London Advertiser.

Sir Caesar's will (B.C. C. Norfolk 151)) was proved in London
on March 14th, 178O, by his exors., George Thornhill his son in
law, Charles, Edward and Ann Hawkins his children. It is a
lengthy document with two codicils, but contains nothing of
Salopian interest. It was signed on June 28th, 1785, m the

1 Miscellanea Genealo^ica et Herakiica, 1877. NYw Series, Vol. II.

TWO CKLR9RATBZ) SALOPIAN SURGEONS.

presence of amongst others Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington, his
brother in law, Charles Gunning, and the housekeeper at Kelston.
It appears from it that besides Kelston, Sir Caesar was in possession
of a freehold messuage in Pall Mall, and several leaseholds in Pall
Mall and Pall Mall Court, and one in Jermyn Street.

Before treating of Sir Caesar Hawkins' children and their
descendants, it will be convenient to set out what I have been
able to discover about his younger brother Pennell ; this gentle-
man was born in Ludlow and baptized there on May joth, 1716.
It may be that the name carved on the panelling in Ludlow
Grammar School in 172b is his ; presumably he was apprenticed
to his father at an earl)' age, for in the letter previously quoted,
written in 1737 from Ludlow to the future Sir Caesar in London,
the father writes : " Pennell is very sober and diligent, and I do
not fear but he will do well." Mr. Pennell Hawkins followed
his elder brother to London, and became surgeon to the Middlesex
Hospital. In 1778 he was elected Master of the Company of
Surgeons. His wife's name was Sarah Chetle, and he had at
least two children, a daughter Augusta, who married the Rev.
Samuel Nott, of Ealing, and a son George Edward, who was
surgeon to St. George's Hospital 1 780-1783, and surgeon to
George III. George Edward Hawkins must have died in harness,
for the minutes of St. George's Hospital in Oct. 1783, record the
calling of a special court of governors to elect a surgeon in the
place of George Hawkins deceased.

The following extracts from the Lord Chamberlain's records
of household accounts are inserted here to clear up the rather
vexed question of the Royal Appointments of Pennell, and his
son George,1 as well as his nephew Charles Hawkins.

" Penel Hawkins to be sworn surgeon in extraordinary to His
Majesty. These are to, etc. -Penel Hawkins, Esqic, into the
place and quality of surgeon in extraordinary to His Majesty,
to have and to hold, exercise and enjoy the said place, together
with all rights, profits, priviledges, and advantages thereunto
belonging. Given this nth day of December, 17O0. in the hist
year of His Majesty's reign."

1 George Hawkins is given as Serjeant surgeon in at least two lists, 10 my
knowledge; these extracts prove definitely t hat he never held th.it o I Vice.

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TWO CEI.KBRATKD SALOPIAN SURGEONS.

" 17th Jan., 1770. Penel Hawkins to be sworn principal
surgeon and serjeant surgeon in Ordinary to His Majesty."

" 14th Jan., 1776. George Edward Hawkins to be sworn
surgeon to His Majesty."

" Oct. 1 783 . Charles Hawkins, Esqre, to be sworn surgeon to
His Majesty in the room of George Edward avvkiiis, deceased."

Pennell Hawkins died at Kew, and the following obituary
notice is from the Gentleman's Magazine. " 25 til Dec, 1791 :
At his house on Kew Green, Pennell Hawkins, Esqre, surgeon
and page to the King," while an exactly similar notice appeared
in the Morning Post of Wednesday, Dee. 28th, 170,1 . His will
(P. C. C.( Fountain J4) was proved in London, 21st Jan., 171)2,
having been signed on 2(>th Sept., 1787, in the presence of Henry
Hayes, Esqre, of Kew, and Edward Bunce, solicitor. Pennell
described himself as of Kew parish, and desired to be buried at
Kew, to be carried to the grave by six poor men, who were each
to receive half -a -guinea apiece. He left everything to his wife
Sarah, with the contents of his house in St. James' Palace, and
at Kew, satisfied that at her death, she would make suitable
provision for his daughter Augusta, wife of the Rev. Samuel Xott,
and the two children of his late son George Edward. His wife
to be sole executrix.

Sir Caesar married in 1735 Miss Sarah Coxe, and had a very
large family, no fewer than 10 it is said, of which I can account
for a dozen, and while the connexion of this family with our
county of Shropshire has by this time ceased, it may add to the
interest of this article if I indicate briefly the chief facts about
some of them. His two eldest sons died without issue in vita
patris, while the third son John also died before his father,
so that the baronetcy descended to Caesar, eldest sou of John and
Anne Colbourne, who died aet 12 years at Eton, and wits succeeded
by his brother John Caesar, who married Charlotte Cassandra
Surtees, whose eldest son was John Caesar Haw kins, w ho married
Louisa Ricketts, and who died in vita pat 1 is, leaving his only son
the Rev. Sir John Caesar Hawkins to succeed his grandfather OS
fourth Baronet in 1 cSbi .

Both by Sir Caesar's fourth and in the hue of Ivdward his
youngest son the surgical connexion of this family was cotltlUUCd
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Charles Hawkins, the fourth son, was born in 1749, and was
baptized at St. James', Westminster. He entered the old
Company of Surgeons in 177J, and was elected Master in 1790,
when the Company was in extremely low water, and again in
1799. When the old Corporation of Surgeons was newly con-
stituted by Royal Charter under the title of the R.oyal College
of Surgeons of London, Mr. Charles Hawkins was elected as
first Master, an office which he held for three months. He was
again elected Master in 1S06. He was elected Assistant Surgeon
to St. George's Hospital in 1774, and Surgeon in 1776, he
served this office till 1792 and then resigned, but was re-elected
in 1798, and served till 1800. The hospital minutes give no
reason for these rather peculiar facts. He was as we have seen
surgeon to George III. and he succeeded his father as Serjeant
surgeon ; like his father he is reported to have been a great oper-
ating surgeon, but little is really known about him, save that he
lived in Sloane Street, was twice married, and died in i8ij,
probably at Cheltenham.1 I have not been able to find that he
was the author of any published work. The address of welcome
published in 1900 by the Royal College of Surgeons of England
to celebrate its centenary gives a photograph of a pastel of
Charles Hawkins by Roupel, which shows him to have been a
remarkably handsome man.

Mr. Charles Hawkins by his first wife was the father of the
Rev. Charles Hawkins, rector of Kelston 1 806-1831. 2

Sir Caesar's youngest son Edward was rector of Bisley, Co.
Gloucester, and afterwards of Kelston. He was born in 1753,
and died in 1806, his wife's surname was Howes, and by her he
was the father of a large family. Three of his sons were very
distinguished in after life, while the youngest, Robert, was vicar
of Lamberhurst in Kent. Edward Hawkins' eldest son was
Edward, the well-known Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, and
Canon of Rochester.

Francis, the second son, was a distinguished physician in
London. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School, and
elected a fellow probationer of St . John's College, Oxford, in t8ia.

1 Brighton. Alumni Westmonastericnsis.

Miscellanea uenealogica ct HeraUiea, 1877. Vol, 11. New So us

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TWO CKLKK RATED SALOPIAN SURGEONS.

In 1S13 he won the Newdigate prize, the subject being " The
Pantheon," and in 1819 he took his B.CX1 ; he entered as a
student of St. George's Hospital, and obtained his M.B. in
1820, and his M.D. Oxon 1823, and his F.R.C.P. 1S24. v

Francis was physician to the Middlesex Hospital 1824-1858,
and held the chair of Professor of the Theory and Practice of
Medicine at King's College, London, from 1 831 -1836.

At the Royal College of Physicians he was Goulstonian
Lecturer 1820, Censor 1827, Croonian Lecturer 1827, ^28, 1829,
Lunileian Lecturer 1832, 1834, 1840, 1841, Hafveian Orator 1848,
and Registrar of the College 182c) to 1858, on his resignation the
College voted him an address of thanks and a gratuity of 100
guineas, to buy a piece of plate with, as a token of esteem."

On the formation of the General Medical Council, Francis
Hawkins was elected Registrar, and served that office till 1876,
when on his resignation he received another address of thanks,
and a further sum of two hundred guineas. He was Physician
to the Household of William IV. and of Queen Victoria, and
Physician to the Duchess of Gloucester. His published work was
a volume of Rheumatism and Diesases of the Heart (182O).

Caesar Henry Hawkins, F.R.S., the third son, was born in
1798, and was educated at Christ's Hospital. He qualified
M.R.C.S. in 1821, and was elected Fellow in 1843, from 1829 to
1 86 1 he was Surgeon to St. George's Hospital ; his services to the
Royal College of Surgeons were numerous, viz., member of council
1840, member of the Court of Examiners 184c), President 1852
and 18O1, Hunterian Orator 1849. He represented the Royal
College of Surgeons on the General Medical Council 1865-1870,
and was a trustee of the Hunterian Collection 1871. His 1 .K S
dated from 1850. On the death of Sir Benjamin Biodie 111 [862
Mr. Caesar H. Hawkins succeeded him as Serjeant .surgeon to
Queen Victoria. He died in 188.J, and for many years was one
of the foremost of Ullglish .surgeons. His published uoiks
included two volumes entitled " Contributions to Pathology
and Surgery."

1 Foster's Alumni Oxonicnscs. Vol.11.

* Munk's Roll of the Royal College of Physician*.

TWO CELKBRATKD SALOPIAN SUKGKONS.

121

On the death of his widow in 1913, a portrait of Mr. Pennell
Hawkins by Zoffany passed under his will to the Royal College
of Surgeons of England.

It will be remembered that Sir Caesar after settling in the
Metropolis wrote home to his father to ask about the family coat
•of arms ; when he was made a baronet no patent of arms, by
some departmental neglect presumably, was conferred on him.
The arms he used appear from his book plate, which may be
dated about 1740, and which can be described as follows : "On
a Scotch mantle, fringed with two tassels, surrounded by books
in pile, Argent, on a saltire sable, live fleur de lys or, on an
escutcheon of pretence, Barry of six, or and azure, on a canton
argent, a lion's head erased. On a scroll beneath, the name
Caesar Hawkins." In the older baronetages the saltire is given
as engrailed, but on the book plates of both Sir Caesar and
Pennell it is certainly not so. The Rev. Sir John Caesar Hawkins
informs me that his ancestor must have adopted without authority
the arms of another Hawkins family (that of Nash Court, Co
Kent).

A new patent of arms was granted in 1909 by the Herald's
College to Sir John Caesar Hawkins, in which the new coat is
differentiated from that of the Nash Court family, by replacing
the central of the five fleur de lys by a quatrefoil, while under
the hoof of the hind in the crest is placed a cannon ball, or gun
stone ; this alteration in the crest forms an appropriate memorial
of the siege of Greenland House.

In concluding this brief and, I fear, somewhat fragmentary
article on a famous surgical family, I wish to express my best
thanks to the Rev. Sir John Caesar Hawkins, Bart., not only for
allowing me to make the researches, but also for placing at my
disposal numerous papers of interest to his family, and for much
kindly and generous help, to the Council of the Royal College
of Surgeons and the Governors of St. George's Hospital tor leave
to search their records, to the Librarian of the Society of
Apothecaries for leave to consult the Roll of freemen, and to
Mr. Henry T. Weyman, L.S.A., and to Mr. R. B Tim Hall, head-
master of the ancient Grammar School at Ludlow , foi much
help in that part of the paper which dials with Mi CacSUI
Hawkins of Ludlow ; lastly I am very much indebted to Miss

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TWO CELEBRATED SALOPIAN SURGEONS.

A. G. Sheridan for undertaking researches at the Record Office,
and the British Museum lor me, and to Dr. George C. Peachey
the Historian of St. George's Hospital, for allowing me. to see
his notes as far as they concern the Hawkins family, and for
showing me the book plate of Sir Caesar, and describing it to me.
Most of the references from published works are either given in
the text or in a footnote.

\( > TK. — Thin Plan is reproduced from the Ordnance Survey Men with
(he s<(,u-tioii 0/ the Controller of ILM. St«ti»i<< try Office,

123

SHROPSHIRE AND THE TRENT BASIN.
By this Ricv. D. II. S. CRANAGE, Utt.D., E.S.A.

The Pennine Chain, which forms the great backbone of the
north of England, ends in Derbyshire and on the borders of
Staffordshire and Cheshire. It is the watershed, running almost
due north and south, which separates the rivers draining to the
North vSea and Irish Sea respectively. South of this Chain the
dividing line is not nearly so clear. The Nen, which runs to
the Wash, actually rises west of the Avon, a tributary of the
Severn. Several tributaries of the Thames rise almost within
sight of the lower part of the Severn Valley.

In all the books I have seen referring to the subject it is stated
that Shropshire lies wholly in the western system. A few square
miles in the extreme north, forming a belt of varying width from
Ash Magna to Woore, drain into the Weaver system and so to
the Mersey. A considerable part of the north-west falls into
the Dee, which is the county boundary for some miles near Chirk ;
near Whitchurch too some of the water finds its way to the Dee.
With these exceptions, however, it is always assumed that the
whole of the county drains into the Severn or one of its many
tributaries. The Victoria County History, vol. L, has a valuable
map, coloured according to river systems, to illustrate the
botanical districts. It is, however, misleading, as it classes
the Weaver system near Adderley with the Tern, hike all
other authorities it puts all the eastern part of the county in
the Severn or one of its tributaries. A careful study of the
Ordnance Map convinced me that there was some doubt of this
as regards the country between Bishop's Wood and the railway
line east of Albrighton station. I made sure that the six inch
map would settle the point, but found that it did not, and that
even the twenty-live-iuch map left it in doubt. There was
nothing for it, therefore, but a tramp along 1 1 u boundary, and
this I carried out with a friend on July $th, tOl6,

I24

SHROPSHIRE AND THE TRENT BASIN.

It was clear from the map that Kiddemoor Green, Chillington
Pool and Codsall drained into the Penk or its tributaries, and
so into the Sow and the Trent (see the accompanying' repro-
duction of the half-inch Ordnance Map). It was equally clear that
Tong, White Ladies, Shackerley, Donington, Albrighton, Boningale
drained into the Worfe or its tributaries and so to the Severn.
I had already convinced myself that for many miles north and
south of the district chosen the water in the county went directly
or indirectly to the Severn.

We walked first from Albrighton station along the road north
of Beamish Pool (see the accompanying reproduction of the six-
inch Ordnance Map). A heavy storm of rain came on, which
was not without its value in determining the slope of certain
critical ditches. It seemed clear that High House Wood and
the Shropshire land south and west of it did not drain eastwards ;
the 400 contour line is quite near. Little Harriot's Hayes and
the fields north of it are very puzzling, but there is no evidence
that their water crosses the County Lane and we felt pretty sure
that it goes west. The two first Staffordshire fields north of
Husphin's Lane certainly drain eastwards. A tributary of the
Penk rises there and crosses the lane east of the cottages shewn.
Prom that point there is a rise to the cross roads continuing
for some 30 yards west of the boundary. Some Shropshire water
may therefore come over this road to the Penk system, but we
thought it might go into High House Wood and so westwards.
Proceeding northwards along the County Lane we felt fairly
sure that the land around Harriot's Hayes, Holly Hurst, and
The Poplars drained westwards. The same is true of a few-
Staffordshire acres west of Codsall Wood, including a small south-
ern portion of Big Wood. Nearly all this wood however drains
into Chillington Pool and so into the Penk.

I always felt that the critical point would be where the boundary
turns a right angle near the north end of Big Wood, and so it
proved to be. The boundary near Kent Pit and Old Mail
Pit is practically the ridge of tin- watershed. Where. however,
it rejoins the road at the 453 mark, Shropshire gets into the
Trent system. Part of the field West of the mark and nearly all
the two next northern fields certainly drain into the ditch which
passes under the road by a pipe and joins the little Stream marked
on the map north-east of 453, This stream, .is shewn b\ the

SHROPSHIRE AND THK TRENT BASIN.

125

arrow mark in Big Wood, goes into Chillington Pool. The land
west of these fields slopes rapidly westwards, and there is no
doubt as to the destiny of its waters.

The next critical point is the junction of Spring Coppice with
Langley Plantation. Some of the latter drains eastwards and
it will be seen by the arrow mark that a stream east of the road
goes into the Brick-kiln Osier Bed and so into The Pool.

However, between Spring Coppice and Langley Plantation
there is a ditch which falls northward, past a small pond till it
comes to Old Coppice, where another ditch takes its water west-
wards. Most, if not all, of Old Coppice, in Staffordshire, and
the whole of Royal Oak Wood, in Shropshire, are in the same
Severn system, as are also the Royal Oak itself and Boscobel
House. Where the boundary rejoins the road it is clearly for
the next furlong on the western slope from the 500 contour line.
Beyond the cottage marked Lodge it looks at first as if a small
part of Shropshire drained eastwards towards Kiddemore Green
and Brewood. A more careful examination, however, shews
that the two fields on either side of Boscobel Dingle and adjoining
the road drain either into the Dingle itself or into the road ditch
which goes into the Dingle, and so finally to the Severn.

The boundary now bears sharply to the left and includes
White Oak Lodge in the same river basin. The large field,
however, east of Park Pales House, with the footpath marked
across it, slopes northward from the 500 contour line and drains
into a brook near its northern edge. This brook unmistakably
proceeds to the tributaries of the Penk. The next field westwards
is in the same system, but when the little cross road is reached
the land begins to slope sharply to the west and south and we
are in the Severn basin once more. Weston Park is the same,
though the bulk of it drains north to Aqualatc Mere and on to
the Mecsc and the Tern before it reaches the main stream. Sherifi
Hales, which has been entirely in Shropshire since 1895, is in
the same system, though its eastern limit is quite ileal the
rise of Whiston Brook, a tributary of the Penk. P10111 this
point northwards all is plain sailing. All the Salopian land is
in the Meese or Tern system till we come to the Weavtil basin
on the far side of Market Drayton.

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SHROPSHIRE AND THE TRI NT BASIN.

To sum up. The county boundary of Salop and Stafford from
Bishop's Wood to Beamish Wood runs mainly along the watershed
between the Severn and Trent basins. Nearly all the Shropshire
land drains to the great Shropshire river, but at two points a sub-
stantial amount is in the other system, some 20 acres west of
Bishop's Wood and some 30 acres north-west of Chillington Big
Wood in addition to a possible small patch west of Codsall
Wood. All this may not constitute a great or important fact,
but it is surely an interesting point to Salopians that an appre-
ciable if small part of their county drains into the Trent and so
to the North Sea instead of the Severn and the Bristol Channel,
as has always been supposed.

127

THE BOROUGH OF CLUN.
By R. IX. KENYON.

The Charter by which Chin was made a Borough is not
known to exist. In Lewis' Topographical Diciioyiary, where a
good deal of information about Clun will be found, it is said
"Clun, formerly a Lordship in the Marches, was first
incorporated by the Lords Marchers, whose Charter was
confirmed to Thomas Earl of Arundel in the reign of
Edward II., at which time its prescriptive right was admitted ;
but the Charter not having been enrolled in Chancery, and all
the records of the Lords Marchers having been destroyed,
its being an incorporated Borough was .proved by parole
evidence ; it was formerly the head of a hundred of the same
name, which has been incorporated with that of Purslowe."
But Edmund, not Thomas, was Earl of Arundel during the
-whole of the reign of Edward II. until he was beheaded in 1326.
He, of his own authority, granted a charter creating a Borough
in Ruyton in 1308, 2 Edward II, and though he obtained a
Royal Charter in 5 Edward II. for a market or fair in Ruyton
Manor, nothing is there said about a Borough. There is no
trace of any royal authority for the creation of a Borough
either at Clun or at Ruyton, and the Earl of Arundel being
Lord of both in all probability treated both in the same way,
and gave to Clun much the same privileges as to Ruyton.
Neither was a borough in the sense of having any national
privileges, they merely had such rights of self government and
such privileges in his extensive estates as could be given by
the Lord of the Manor. The Ruyton charter is reprinted in
Shropshire Archaeological Transactions, Vol. IX. 244, and
explained in 2nd series, Vol. III. 237.

The only known Charter to the Burgesses of Chin is one In
which the same Edmund, Earl of Arundel, in 1325 confirmed to
them in general terms all liberties and charters, &c, which
they have had from him or his aneestois, and remits all
claims he may have against them for penalties for having

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128 THE BOROUGH OF CLIN.

become adherents of Roger de Mortimer and sworn
fealty to him. A translation of this Charter is given in
Vol. XL of the Transactions, in a paper by the late Mr. T.
Salt, on the Honor Forest and Borough of Clun, in which will
be found most of what is known of their mediaeval history ;
and the Charter is quoted verbatim in the Charter of Con-
firmation printed at the end of this article. The previous
confirmations recited in this show that Clun Castle was occupied
by the Earls of Arundel down to the end of the reign of Henry VI.
But the history is carried down to the end by the Reports on
the Borough of Clun by the Municipal Commissioners of 1835
and 1880, all the material parts of which are given below. In
consequence of their Reports an Act was passed in 1883, under
which Clun and Ruyton, and a large number of other boroughs
or reputed boroughs, ceased to be such for any purposes after
25th March, 18S6. The Reports show that neither Clun nor
Ruyton lost anything by this, their municipal privileges had
long ceased to be of any value. The Report on the Borough
of Ruyton is published in the Catalogue of " Shropshire
Parish Documents" issued by the County Council in 1904.
The maces of both boroughs still exist. Ruyton had ouly
one, presented about 1640, with a seal at each end, and had
one serjeant-at-niace. Clun had two serjeants-at-mace, and
two maces, which are described in the report. The arms of
Howard, Earl of Northampton, fix their date between 160S,
when I.ord Northampton received the Garter, and 1614, in
which year he died and his title became extinct. The writer
saw these maces 9 August, 1S99, they were then in the
possession of a cottager whose grandfather is believed to have
been the last to carry them. They are about the same size as
the Ruyton mace, but each has a small knob at one end, and
the arms described in the report at the other. There is 110
inscription, except that the motto of the Gaiter is round the
Karl's arms, above which is his coronet.

Rki'ort hy thk Municipal Commissioners on th;:
Borough of CLutC, [835.
1. The Borough of Clun, in the Count vol 'Salop, now greatly
declined from its ancient station, appeals houi Dttgdfle

THK BOROUGH OF CLUN.

I29

(Bar. 1. 314) to have been of sufficient importance, in the
age immediately succeeding the Norman Conquest, to have
conferred a title upon the celebrated family of Fitzalan of
Clun, the founder of whose power in England, Alan, the
son of Flathald, obtained by the gift of William the Conqueror
the Castle of Oswaldster, with the territory adjoining.

" In 3 Steph., when divers of the great men armed
themselves in the behalf of Maud the Empress, Win. Fitz Alan "
(his sou), "then governor of .Shrewsbury, and Sheriff of the
County, did so likewise, and held the castle of Shrewsbury
against that king until it was taken from him by assault. He
was also with her at the siege of Winchester Castle in 6th
Steph., where she and her whole arm}' were put to flight; and
afterwards adhering stoutly to her, was constituted sheriff of
the County of Salop, so soon as her son King Henry 2nd
attained to the Crown. In which office he continued till his
death, viz., in 6 Hen. 2; lor in that year Guy Kstrange, then
sheriff of that shire accounted to the King for the profits of
his lands, for the one half thereof; and also for money paid in
wages to the servants in his castles of Clun, Blancminster
(id est Oswaldster) and Ruthin. And having married Isabel
de Say (daughter aud heir of Helias de Say), niece to Robert
Earl of Gloster, Eady of Clun, left issue by her William his son
and successor," &c.

He died 19 Hen. 2 •* leaving Win. Fitz Alan his son and
heir," which William " in 6 John obtained a charter for a fair
yearly, to be kept at his manor of Norton (now called Cheping
Norton) in county Oxou. ; and another at Clun, in county
Salop."

The Earldom of Arundel vested in John Fit* Alan, the
nephew and successor of the latter William, in 28 Hen, 3,
"upon partition then made of all the lands of Hugh de Albiui,
Earl of Arundel, by right of descent from Isabel his mother,
one of the sisters and co-heirs of the same Hugh. And SOOfl
after that, in consideration of^iOOO fine, he had Livery ol his
own castles of Blancminster, Clun, and Sehrawui tlnn "

And in stating the vast possessions of this family in the

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THE BOROUGH OF CLUr

Marches of Wales and throughout England, the same author
uniformly gives a conspicuous place to the manor and castle
of Chin.

Its condition at a later date may be inferred from the
description given b*y Iceland, V. 28,9. (quoted).

Camden states that it continued in the Earls of Arundel till
Queen Elizabeth's time, when the last Earl died ; and adds
that a Court called -'Wood Plea Court" is held twice a year
in this forest for determining all matters of wood and
agistment there. The Hundred of Chin was reputed part
of Wales, and out of this County, all the suit and service done
to the honor was in Wallesheria, or according to the Welsh
laws." Cough's Camden, II. 404.

2. The ancient title of the manor of Chin was " the Honor,
Hundred, Borough and Manor of Clun." The present Lord of
the Manor is the Earl of Powis, who appoints a steward and
deputy steward. These offices are at present held by, &c.
The manor however is now incorporated with a Lordship
extending over several other manors, viz. : those of Temsater,

*and of the Five Towns, which latter are Bickton, Shadwell,
Newcastle, Whitcott, and Keven Colonog (or Kolonek). The
borough is precisely co-extensive with the township, the
boundaries of which are perfectly well known and defined, and
have never been the subject of litigation. It extends about
2 miles on all sides of the town, which lies nearly in its centre.

3. There is a tradition in the borough of the existence of
a Charter granted by some of the Earls of Arundel, Lords
Marchers of Wales, and of its having been formerly in the
custody of Mr. Walcot, from whom the Earl of Powis purchased
the Lordship and Honor of Clun, but the possession cannot at
present be traced. In Lewis' TopOg. Did. it is stated that
Clun, formerly a Lordship (ecc. as quoted above). The name
Thomas in the above extract must have been inserted by
mistake for that of Edmund, who held the Earldom of Arundel,
through the entire reign of Edw. 2 (Dugd, Bar. I. Jt6) and who
would, in all probability, confer upon the more important
Borough of Clun the same privileges whieh lie conceded to
his burgesses of Ruyton (see Report thereon),

THE BOROUGH OF CLUN. 131

5. The officers are —

Bailiffs 2
Recorder 1
Sergeant at Mace 2
The Constables are sworn at the Court Leet held for the

lordship at large, and are not officers of the Corporation.

6. The bailiffs are elected by the burgesses at large, in
common hall assembled, yearly on the Sunday next before
Michaelmas day, from the body of burgesses, whether resident
or non-resident. They serve for one year, and the practice has
generally been to take all the burgesses in rotation for the
office.

7. The bailiffs do not act as Justices of the Peace, but they
preside in the Court of Record, assisted by the high steward or
his deputy, and by the Recorder, the process therein being
directed to them.

They also appoint the sergeants at mace.

8. They have no emoluments other than the right of
common hereinafter mentioned, which they enjoy as burgesses
merely. A regular list of the borough bailiffs, from the year
1714, is found in the corporation books.

9. Although the Recorder assists in the borough Court, he
has always in practice been an officer of the Lordship, and
appointed by the L,ord of the Manor ; and in former times the
deputy steward has commonly holden the office. He keeps
also the books of the corporation.

10. The Serjeauts-at-Mace are appointed for one year by
the bailiffs ; the same individuals are generally re-appointed.
They bear 2 silver maces ; the one engraven with the
quarterings of France and Knglaud, ;.he other with the arms
of Howard ICarl of Northampton, one of which family, Henry
Howard, founded Cluu Hospital, hereinafter mentioned, in
1614.

11. They serve the process of the Court of Record, and
receive each 10/- yearly, together with pickage at the fairs
producing about the like sum, and 1/- at each court leek

12. Freedom is obtained by birth, those children onh .11 e
entitled who were born after the father had been admitted and

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THE BOROUGH OF CLU >

sworn. Tl:e swearing-::: ;akes yl.uv Ve:o:c ov.c ci ;::o ';v-.*."-.'.Vs
at a common hall. Freedom may also be acquired by election
of a majority of the burgesses at a court day.

13. The burgesses serve on juries indiscriminately with
other inhabitants, but the foreman of the jury has always been
a burgess, except in one instance, when the rule was departed
from. Their only privilege is an exemption from toll at the
fairs, of which there is 3 ; two chartered, viz., on Whit
Tuesday and 22 November.

14. There are 24 burgesses ; 11 resident within the borough,
13 without the limits.

15. The authority of the corporate officers was early in
collision with that of the lord of the manor, as appears from
one of the minutes of Anthony Morris, bailiff of the borough
of Cluu in 1679; ''When Isac Morgan was deputy steward in
the Countey Court and bailiffe of the corporation court, he
and John Price, in the behalf of the lord of the manor, would
have sworn John Fidoe burgess ; and I took the Bible out of
the Serjeant's hand, and stroke Fidoe's hand off, and he was
never sworn at all." Even this vigour, and his defence, as
" the King's capitall bailiff," to an indictment preferred
against him, at the instance of Mr. Walcot, the Lord of the
Manor, for forcing Richard Vaughan to an oath to serve upon
the watch, have not been found of avail to preserve the
independence of the burgesses.

16. No fees appear to have been ever taken upon admission
of the burgesses or choice of their officers.

17. The extent of the powers exercised by the early
proprietors of this Lordship is sufficiently manifest from 2
documents which accompany this Report (not printed).

The power of life and death over criminals taken upon fresh
suit, and with the mainour, is thus defined.

" P'lita Corone A° 20 Ed. 1. county Salop. Ft dieunt quod
cum aliquis latro, captus cum secta et inannopere. suspend]
debeat in hundredo p'd'co (de Ptisselowe) p'd'eus conies (de
Arundel) per ballivos suos p'd'eos latrones ducere facit extra
comitatum istum et hundred inn istuiu, usque ad Clou lie, et
ibidem subire judicium."

THE BOROUGH OF CLl^ 133

The exercise of the royal prerogative of pardon is attested
by an Indre. executed 21 Dec. 12 Henry 8 between Thos.
Earl of Arundel and John Clon, whereby the latter, upon pay-
ment of 100 marks (of which 20 are remitted) was absolved
from the legal consequences of the death and murder of Roger
Lawe, through a charter of pardon thereby covenanted by the
said Karl in due form to be made, afore the Feast of Corpus
Christi next ensuing."

18. At present the only Court held exclusively in and for
the borough is the Civil Court of Record, the antiquity and
former importance of which may be inferred from the
inquisition taken upon the death of Richard Karl of Arundel, in
30 Edward 1., "entitled Esc. A°3o Ed. 1, No. 30 Extenta honoris
de Arundel," from which the following is an extract. " lit
omnes predicti tenentes tain de * * * quam de Walescheria
debent sequi curiam de Clonne de tribus septimanis in ties
septimanas Item placita et perquisita curiae de Clonne valent
£6. Et dicunt quod Edmundus, filius predicti comitis Ricardi,
est propinquior lieres ejusdem comitis, et estcetatis 16 annorum.

The Court is still held before the bailiffs, assisted by the
recorder and steward, every 3rd Wednesday by adjournments,
and causes may be tried in it to an unlimited amount, but the
business actually transacted is now of trilling extent ; the fees
taken in the Manor Court in which the deputy steward presides,
are much lighter, and the declension of business in the
Borough Court is attributed to this circumstance.

In 1825 only 2 causes were entered. In 1826, 6, in one of
which the sum in dispute was above ^50, in another between
^20 and ^30, and in the remaining 3 [sic] under ^20. In 1827
there were 4 between £20 and ,£30. No instance is recollected
of a cause proceeding to trial ; all being compromised, 01
judgment taken by default. The process, which is by
summons or distringas, used formerly to go in the name of the
Lord but is now tested in the King's name, and directed to the
bailiffs. There is no restraint upon anyone from practising iu
the Court, nor fees taken on admission.

19. One Jury is sworn lor the borough, anothci foi the
manor of Temsater, and a 3rd tot that ot the l;ivc 1\ >

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THE BOROUGH OF CLUN.

The Courts are all held in Chin at the same time. The bailiff*
select the borough jury and the sergeants at mace summon
them. The bailiff of the lordship returns the other'2 juries
The borough jury used to receive, on court days, entertainment
from the lord of the manor; they now have only an allowance
of ale from the bailiffs.

20. The borough bailiffs do not interfere in the appointment
of the constables. Two are appointed at the Leet by the
steward, and used formerly to be sufficient for the preservation
of the peace; but the people are said not to be so quiet since
the establishment of the beer shops.

21. There is a Lock-up under the town hall, the property
of the Lord of the Manor. It was made a subject of complaint
that the ancient court house of the borough had been pulled
down by the Lord of the Manor. Whatever the merits of the
case, the event occurred so long ago as 17S0. It was stated
that previous to that time, the court house stood adjoining to
the castle (now in ruins) ; that it had 2 entrances, one to the
Lord's own Court, the other to that of the borough ; that the
borough court was in fair order, wainscotted and floored, with
a place of confinement for prisoners underneath. Whereas
the lord's court was an unfloored and ruinous barn.

In confirmation of this statement, among various documents
produced on behalf of the burgesses, was one entitled " Clun
Villa. The answere of the bayliffes and burgesses of
the burrow and corporason of Clun to the proposialls of
Heny. Howard, Esqr., Ld. of the Honor of Clun, touching the
said bayliffes and burgesses priviledges there, as followest.
Pr. 1669."

The 4th article of which is in these terms : "And in answere
as for our part of the court house, and the dungeon underneath,
it was built in our late Queen Elizabeth's time. Questionless,
ye one part, where ye said lord keeps his court ban on, by ye
said Lord ; ye other part, where we keep our corporason and
King's Court, by us, as well as our market house, and built
upon our own burgesses undivided land, as, for example. U
separated with a greet hill, and there being 2 doreS, ye one
into the Lords end, ye other into our end, and that we have

THE BOROUGH OF CL.UN I35

kept our corporason and King's Court ever since it was built, and
areasted there with the sace at all times and imprisoned
allways several persons in our dungeon and repaired our said
end ; which possession is a good title, whereas no one can
gainsay to the contrary."

Of course this amounts only to their own allegation, made
at a remote period, as to the right.

22. (No fines are imposed for any purpose).

23. The burgesses claim to have formerly had the ex-
clusive ownership and enjoyment of certain undivided lands,
lying in 9 fields in different parts of the manor and forest of
Clun, and containing altogether upwards of 1700 acres, of
which above 200 acres are woodland. And they allege that
the right now claimed and exercised by the freeholders at
large, to turn their cattle upon these common fields, has
originated in usurpation.

The right, however, is exercised without stint by all parties,
and for all commonable cattle. The burgesses turn on,
whether they have ancient enclosed lands or not.

24. (Some enclosures were made by cottagers, who paid
nominal rents to the burgesses. The burgesses raised the
rents, were resisted at law, were successful, but the costs,
which the cottagers could not pay, were £joo, so the burgesses
had to sell all the enclosures, and still owe £So to ^100 to
their attorney, who detains their common seal for it !)

25. A common of turbary, together with the foregoing
rights of pasturage and cutting wood (of little value as now
enjoyed), are accordingly the whole property now possessed
by the burgesses of Clun.

26. The bailiffs of Clun for the time being have a share in
dispensing the patronage of the " Hospital of the Holy and
Undivided Trinity in Clun" (founded by Hy. Howard Karl of
Northampton in 2 James).

27. . . . Small chief rents are payable by the freeholders
to the Lord ; some as low as .jd., and the highest atiiouuting to

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19/4, in the nature of Castle Guard rents, paid in consideration
of the protection anciently afforded by that fortress against
the inroads of the Welsh borderers; and even these small
payments are not made without a grudge.

30. There is a Fiee School in the town, endowed by Mr.
Richard Gough, a member of the Wesleyan congregation,
resident in Chin, with certain lands and funds. It is a
condition in the endowment that the children should attend
the Established Church for morning service, and the Wesleyan
Chapel in the evening. The number of scholars on Sundays
is about 120. On week days it fluctuates from 60 to 80.

Agricultural labourers earn 9/- a week, at which employment
may readily be procured.

Report of 1880 on Ci^un.

We could obtain no evidence as to the accuracy of the
Report oi 1835.

The borough of Chin at present apparently exists only in
name.

It was described to us as having been defunct for 30 years.
Some of the burgesses who formerly enjoyed the privileges
of the borough are still alive.

The court of record mentioned in the former Report has not
been held since the opening of the County Court. The
recorder, Mr. Newill, is still living, but performs no duties and
receives no salary.

At the date of the former Report there was still landed
property belonging to the corporation over which rights of
common existed.

In 1839 there was a special Inclosure Act, and in the years
1843-4 the whole property was sold in two lots. The proceeds,
afterpayments of debts incurred chiefly on account ot various
legal proceedings, were divided among the burgesses.

The corporate seal and silver ItlUCCS belonging lo the
corporation are in the custody ol the representatives oi the
former bailiffs.

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137

The county magistrates, who have entire jurisdiction within
the borough, sit at Worsley between 3 and 4 miles off.

Latin Charter of Ci/un, 12 June 8 Henry VII.

Thomas Comes Arundell et dominus de Montravers et de
Clonne universis Christianis fidelibus presentem Cartam visuris
vel audituris salutans in Domino. Sciatis nos inspexisse
Cartam quam carissimus pater noster Williamus Nuper Comes
Arundell dominus de Montravers et de Clonne fecit
Burgeusibus nostris ville de Clonne et heredibus suis in hcec
verba, Universis Christianis fidelibus presentem Cartam
nostram visuris vel audituris Williamus Comes Arundell
Dominus de Montravers et de Clonne salutans in Domino,
Sciatis nos inspexisse Cartam quam Johannes Nuper Comes
Arundell dominus de Montravers et de Clonne fecit
Burgeusibus nostris ville de Clonne et heredibus suis in luce
verba, omnibus Christianis fidelibus presentem Cartam nostram
visuris vel audituris Johannes Comes Arundell Dominus de
Montravers et de Clonne salutans in Domino, Sciatis nos
inspexisse Cartam quam Thomas Nuper Conies Arundell et
Surrey et Dominus de Clonne fecit salutans, Sciatis nos
inspexisse Cartam quam Kicardus pater noster Nuper Comes
Arundell et Surrey et Dominus de Clonne fecit Burgeusibus
nostris ville de Clonne et heredibus suis in luce verba, omnibus
Christianis fidelibus presentem Cartam visuris vel audituris
Ricardus Comes Arundell et Surrey et Dominus de Clonne
salutans in Domino, Sciatis nos inspexisse Cartam quam
Edmundus Comes Arundell et Dominus de Clonne Avunculus
Noster fecit Burgeusibus nostris ville de Clonne et heredibus
suis in luec verba, omnibus Christianis fidelibus preseus
scriptum visuris vel audituris Edmundus Comes Arundell et
Dominus de Clonne, salutans in Domino, Noverit universitas
vestra nos concessisse pro nobis et heredibus nostris omnibus
Burgeusibus nostris ville nostras de Clonne et heredibus suis
quod habeant et teneant omnia terras et tencmenta Mia OlUlieS
libertates consuetudines et leges pro nobis el heredibus DOStl IS
adeo ltbere et ititegre sicut et predicti Burgenses et anteees:
sui de nobis et antecessoribus nostris tenueruut. et pleniuS

THE BOROUGH OF CU'N.

-et liberius concessimus etiam pro nobis et heredibus nostris
predictis Burgensibus et heredibus suis quod habeant et
teneant omnes cartas et confirmationes quas habeant ex
con cession e nostra seu anteeessorum nostrorum, et locum
-decreto teneant, et stabiles et inconcussce permaneant in
perpetuuin. Ac etiam concessimus et omnino remissimus
pro nobis et heredibus nostris predictis Burgensibus nostris et
heredibus suis omnes et singulas exactiones et demandas
vindicationes et calumpnias que vel quas habuimus vel habere
poterimus quoquo modo versus predictos Burgenses seu heredes
suos occasione adventus Rogeri de Mortuo Mari inimici et
rebelli adversum Regem ad Castrum de Clonne eo quod predicti
Burgenses fidelitates fecerunt et adherentes fuerunt predicto
Rogero et adherentibus suis, Ita quod nos nec heredes nostri
nec aliquis alius nomine nostro colore vel ingenio
predictos Burgenses vel heredes suos occasione predicta
decreto calumniare seu vindicare poterimus in perpetuum.
In cujus rei testimonio sigillum nostrum presentibus est
appensum. His testibus Gulielmo Boteler Gulielmo de
•Grealawe et Walter Hungerford Militibus, Rogero Carles,
Alexandro de Shavington et aliis. Datum apud Haghmon
octavo die Januarii Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis
Edwardi decimo nono. Nos autem donationes concessiones
et confirmationes predictas ratificatas habentes et gratis pro
nobis et heredibus nostris quantum in nobis est predictis
Burgensibus nostris de Clonne et heredibus suis concedimus
ratificamus et in omnibus confirmamus in perpetuum, prout
ipsi Burgenses et antecessors gui Burgenses ejusdem villa
secundum Cartam predictani rationabiliter testatum usi
fuerint et gavisi. In cnjus rei testimonio huic presenti con-
finnationi uostrae sigillum nostrum duxiinus apponendum.
His testil)us Johanne Daundesey, Johanne Kallesley, Rogero
Cheyne et Pagauo Tippstaff Militibus, Domino Johanne de
Kingesfold Thonia Young tunc seuesehalo de Clonne et aliis.
Datum in eastro nostro de Clonne notlO die Mensis Anno
Regni Regis Ricardi secundi post eonquestum secundo. Nos
antein Johannes Comes ArUlldcll dominns de Montiaveis a
de Clonne donationes concessiones et confirmationes predlCUs

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139

ratificatas habentes et gralia eas pro nobis et heredibus
nostris quantum in nobis est predictis Burgensibus nostris
de Clonne et heredibus suis concedimus ratificamus
et in omnibus cQiifirmamus in perpetuum prout ipsi
Burgenses et antecessores sui Burgenses ejusdem villae
secundum Cartam predictam rationabiliter testatum usi
fuerint et gavisi. In cujus rei testimonio huic con-
firmationi nostne sigillum nostrum duximus apponendum,
His testibus Ricardo de Laken Milite, Hugone Burgh Domino de
Monthesay Gulielmo Boerly Thoma Barrett Thoma de Hopton
Galfredo Harley tunc seneschalo de Clonne et aliis, Datum
in castro nostro de Clonne vicesimo die Mensis Aprilis Anno
Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post conquestum octavo. Nos
autem Gulielmus Comes Arundell dominus de Montravers et
de Clonne donationes concessiones et coiifirmationes predictas
ratificatas habentes et gratia eas pro nobis et heredibus nostris
quantum in nobis est predictis Burgensibus nostris de Clonne
et heredibus suis concedimus ratificamus et in omnibus con-
firmainus in perpetuum prout ipsi Burgenses et antecessores
sui Burgenses ejusdem vilke secundum Cartam predictam
rationabiliter testatum usi fuerint et gavisi. In cujus rei
testimonio huic confirmation! nostra? sigillum nostrum
duximus apponendum. His testibus Johanne Sideny Gulielmo
Ryman Johanne Winsburg Hugone Crissett Thoma Hopton
tunc Seneschalo de Clonne et aliis. Datum in castro nostro de
Clonne vicesimo die mensis Septembris Anno Regni Regis
Henrici Sexti post conquestum deeimo 110110. Nos autem
Thomas Conies Arundell dominus de Montravers et de Clonne
donationes concessiones et confirmatioues predictas ratificatas
habentes et gratia eas pro nobis et heredibus nostris quantum
in nobis est predictis Burgensibus nostris de Clonne et
heredibus suis concedimus ratificamus et in omnibus
confirmanius in perpetuum, prout ipsi Burgensiset antecessors
sui Burgenses ejusdem vilke secundum Cartam predictam
rationabiliter testatum usi fuerint et gavisi. In cujus rei
testimonio huic confirmationi nostrse sigillum nostrum duximus
apponendum. His testibus Domino Johanne Arundell Milite
carissimo fratre nostro Henrico Rees Milite Gulielmo Vouug

140 THE BOROUGH OF CLUN.

Milite Johanne Harley Milite Johanne Dudley Johanne Cook
Mauri co Ludlow Thoma Hood Ricardo Littleton et Gulielmo
Skriven annigeris et multis aliis. Datum apud Ludlow
duodecimo die mensis Junii anno Regni Regis Henrici Septimi
post Conquestum octavo.

I4i

THE REGISTER OF THE COUNCIL IN THE '
MARCHES OF WALES, 1569—1591.

Published by the Honourable Society of Cymmkodorion,

1916.

By CAROLINE A. J. SKEEL, D.Lit.

The Register of the Council in the Marches, ably edited by
Mr. Ralph Fleiiley, from the Bodley MS., No. 904, is a volume
of much interest for students of local government in the
Elizabethan period, and especially for dwellers in Shropshire,
the chief seat of the Council's activities. It deals with a
period which is just half-way between the foundation of the
Council in 1471 and its final dissolution in 1689, covering the
major part of the Presidentship of Sir Henry Sydney (1559 —
1586) and the early years of that of the Earl of Pembroke
(1586-1601). In his introduction the Editor discusses fully
the nature and contents of the Register, its value for the
general history of the period and the condition of Wales and
the Marches, and the light thrown on the relations of the
Council in the Marches with the Privy Council and with local
authorities. He observes that the Register "displays the
somewhat monotonous labours of a group of officials who were,
to judge from this record, painstaking and conscientious."
Their chief difficulty lay, not as in the days of Bishop
Rowland Lee, in the disturbed state of the region under
their jurisdiction, but in the uncertainty as to the limits of
their power. During Sir Henry Sydney's tenure of office we
find Worcester, in the person of Robert Wilde, first challenging
C 1 574) — though unsuccessfully — the authority of the Council ;
we find also in the instances oi conflict between the Council
and the Courts at Westminster an anticipation of quarrels
which led to the Council's downfall in 1042.

The Register naturally contains many references to Shi op-
shire places and persons. Of the entries, 48 are dated from

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THK REGISTER OF THE COUNCIL

Ludlow, 13 from Shrewsbury, 6 from Bridgenorth. The entries
dealing with Ludlow, the head quarters of the Council, are of
considerable interest; one is the warrant (1560) to the Lord
President, Sir Henry Sydney, and two of the Council, for the
repair of Ludlow Castle, the cost to be defrayed out of the
fines of forfeitures taken in the Court. Twenty years later (1580)
is another order signed by Sir Henry Sydney, Whitgift Bishop
of Worcester and three other Councillors touching repairs to
the Castle ; it had been found "very necessary and convenient
that a chimney of stone be newly erected within the hall of the
said Castle as well for the safety of the castle from danger of
fire which happened in Xmas last by reason there is no
chimney but a "lover" (i.e. a louver or hole in the roof for the
passage of smoke), as also for the better avoiding of smoke
and the clean keeping of the house which now for want
thereof is very troublesome. And upon further survey and
view of the bridge leading from the Castle hall into the Castle
garden they find that the same bridge being of timber is in
great decay, having no better stay than a rotten post very
dangerous to pass over." One result of this order must have
been the " fair large stone bridge into the said castle with one
great arch in the midst and two at both sides" mentioned in
the list of Sydney's repairs printed by Clive in his Documents
connected ivith the History of Ludlow" In 1578 Thomas Higge,
"deacon in Ludlowe" who had had charge of the clock in the
Castle petitioned for an annuity, and received the sum of o 8
for his services to date, with a promise of an annual stipend of
13/4, which was subsequently increased to £1. The annual
fair at Ludlow on St. {Catherine's Day, Nov. 25th, was evidently
an occasion for disorder. Oil Nov. 24th, 1576, the Council
called the Bailiffs of the town before them, because "many evil
disposed persons will come to pick and steal and to use some
shifts and disordered trade, or to fight and quarrel rather than
for any good intent." Many persons disposed to fighting and
brawling would, it was feared, come to the fair "bearing upon
them gleves, spears, javelins or pikestaves so Long as to be
monstrous to behold;" the Bailiffs were therefore to make
proclamation that no weapon should be worn in ihc fail . if

IN THK MAKCHKS OF WALKS, 156c— 159 i. |^

they found any weapon over six feet long, they were to reduce
it to a reasonable length, sending any obstinate persons to the
Council. Another entry of interest connected with Ludlow is
that respecting the institution of the Marshal's office in 1574;
his duties were to see that the court was clean and the
cushions laid before the Court sat, also to see 'that the bar for
the Councellors be not dusty or filthy and the place where they
stand covered with rushes, renewed once or twice a week/
Like cleanliness was to be observed in the chief clerk's and
attorney's seat, rushes being placed underneath and a cushion
provided for the chief clerk. For his services the Marshall
might at the end of term gather in a box, purse or glove, the
'benevolences' of the councellors, attorneys and suitors.
More necessary than the institution of this new office was the
care of the Council's records, respecting which Thomas Sherer,
Clerk of the Council, petitioned in 1570. He wrote : —

" Your orator has charge of divers Records of the Council,
and as Clerk Examiner by letters patent of the examinations
of witnesses. For these records there is an office in the Castle
of Ludlow which place being compassed with walls of stone
hath much impaired the Records being in paper by reason of
the moistness of the stones. Also the room is too small which
by continuance of placing records there will cause disorder ;
further the building is unfinished. May it please your lordships
to arrange for some further building and repairs in order that
your petitioner may more properly do his work."

In response the order was issued that the record office
should be repaired as the petitioner thought fit, the cost being
defrayed out of the fines.

Mention is, of course, frequently made of Sir Henry Sydney,
the Lord President, whose tenure of office was the longest in
the two centuries of the Council's existence. Many of the
documents entered are signed by him, and a memorandum
under date 1575 recites that he came on August 1 3 1 li to
Ludlow Castle to appoint his deputy before leaving tor Ii eland.

"After making abode at Ludlow about the space often days
he set forward on his journey towards Ireland, taking Shrews
bury, Moieby Corbet (presumably Morton Corbet, the home

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THE REGISTER OF THE COUNCIL

of the new Vice-President, Sir Andrew Corbet), Holt Castle
and Chester in his way. And the 25th of August at Shrews-
bury, he placed Sir Andrew Corbett, Kt. by her Majesty's
warrant to be Vice-President of the same Council in his
absence, and also by the same warrant swore Jherom Corbet,
Esq., to be one of the Council, and the nth September being
Sunday, at 7 p.m. at Prestelly beside Beaumaris he took ship
toward Ireland."

The Lord President's more famous son, Sir Philip Sydney,
is twice mentioned in the Register, once as arbitrator in a
controversy touching the office of Clerk of the Signet in the
Council in the Marches, and once as leader of 200 men from
South Wales to be sent into the Low Countries for the
campaign of 1586, in which he met his death.

Among persons of local importance is the above-mentioned
Sir Andrew Corbet ; when, owing to ill-health, he was
succeeded as Vice-President by Bishop Whitgift, the Queen
required him to repair to her presence as soon as possible,
that she might understand from him the state of the Marches.
The Clerk of the Council, Thomas Sherer, was also a Shrop-
shire man, having a house at Shrewsbury. Several other
Shropshire notables are to be found as Councillors or Justices
of the peace, e.g., in the list of J.P.'s for Salop in 1582 (p. 216).

The Register does not throw much light on the religious
changes of the period, but it contains a Commission of Oya
and Terminer for Uniformity of Religion in the County of
Salop, dated Oct. 28th, 1573. The Commissioners (Sir Henry
Sydney and others) were to enquire especially concernin g any
ofTences against the Act of Uniformity. With regard to
economic and military matteffS the Register contains some
details of local interest; thus in an entry respecting the
making of caps mention is made of the poor cappers of Bridge-
north and Shrewsbury, who, with those ot other places, w eie
to receive a share of the forfeitures for breach of the act lor the
continuance of the making of caps; one ol the Bye auditors
for the receipts and expenditure involved in this mallei Was
to be appointed by the Bailiffs of Shrewsbury. Shroj»shir< is
one of the counties mentioned in a lettei of 1573 as containing

IN THE MARCHES OF WALES, 1569-1591. 145

an excessive number of alehouses. In a letter from the
Queen in 1577 respecting musters and training it is ordered
that Shropshire shall furnish 300 men ; the county is noted
as having returned a certificate of its doings respecting
musters — a duty which several counties had neglected to
perform — but the certificates returned were so imperfect that
the commissioners were bidden by the Privy Council " to take
more pains therein." Another entry of 1577 orders that
" those now appointed to be trained shall be levied not only
of the bodies of the shires but also of all the places being
liberties within the said counties and pretending by any
previlege or charter to be exempt from the rest of the shire
in or for musters. This shall be done according to the
following rates :— The town of Beaumaries 15 soldiers,
Haverford West 10, Shrewsbury 10, Ludlow 10, city of
Hereford 20, Worcester 30, Gloucester 41, Bristol 40."

Other entries of local interest are as follows: — the appoint-
ment of a water-bailiff of the river Severn ; an order for putting
a forger in the pillory at Shrewsbury; a warrant dormant for
red and fallow deer for the Council from the royal forests and
chases in Shropshire, etc. ; a warrant for wood for Ludlow
Castle to be felled in Mochtree Forest, Bringwood Chase, and
Orleton Wood. There is also a copy of an indenture (1577) be-
tween Henry Earl of Derby and a certain " George Lighe towns-
man of Shrewsbury gent." respecting lands in the manors of
Kllesmere, Hampton and Coolemere, co. of Salop ; the names of
certain parcels of land are given (Shadwell More, Stanke
May re, Whelpeseroft, e^c.) Finally it is recorded that during
the Assizes at Bridgenorth in July 1577 two Justices died of
the plague, as did also Richard Stephens, an ex-Councillor,
George Fettiplace, a Councillor, and others. " These causes"
it is added, "hindered the keeping of the Assises lor Salop so
that the gaol being pestered with many prisoners which came
from Shrewsbury in a boat some of the prisoners died upon the
water in the boat and the rest returned to Shrewsbury again
without trial."

The above account of the Register is sufficient to show its
historical value, and the benefit conferred on historical

146 REGISTER OF THK COUNCIL IN THE M VRCHKS OF WALES.

students by the editor and by the learned society that has
published the volume in its Record Series. Mr. Flenley notes
that a similar Register for the period 1586 — 1642 exists among
the Dovaston MSS. This MS. was acquired a few years ago
by the British Museum, and is now numbered Egerton MS.
2882. It may be added that a volume very similar to this,
entitled Welsh Pate?its, is now in the National Library of Wales
at Aberystwyth (formerly No. 6462 of the Phillipps Collection).
An account of these two Registers was given in an article by
the present writer on ' The Council of the Marches in the
Seventeenth Century' in the English Historical Review for
January, 1915.

i47

SOME NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE OAKELEY

FAMILY.

By CAPTAIN EDWARD F. OAKEEEY.

The early history of the family is veiled in the mists of
obscurity, from which, like rocks appearing out of the sea, a
few individuals emerge. The family was presumably Norman
in origin, from the Christian names: tradition says that two
brothers settled near Bishop's Castle about the time of the
Conquest, the one becoming an undertenant at Oakeley or
Acle : the other at Snakescroft. The arms of the latter branch,
which branch now has descendants settled in Monmouthshire,
one being the late Rev. W. Bagnall Oakeley, of Trecefn,
Monmouth, are, appropriately, three snakes and their motto
" Sapientia Dei donuin." The Snakescroft property was
sold in the 19th Century: I have been informed by the
Rev. W. Bagnall Oakeley that his uncle destroyed an
illuminated Oakeley pedigree by cutting it up to cover a book.
To return to the Oakeleys of Oakeley. Most of the early
information is recorded in Ey ton's Antiquities of Shropshire,
from which the following is taken :

"The Haltons held Oakley: the undertenants were (i)
Pagan de Acley, who attested a deed of the 12th Century.
The same, or another Pagan de Acley sued Adam de Halton
in 1221 for disseizing him of common pasture in Acle. He
was non-suited and Roger de Bnterli stood surety for his
Amercement (Assi/.es 6 Henry III. Mem. 5). In I22ti Kigali
de Acle lines forlicense to accord some lawsuit. His successor
appears to have been Adam de Oakley who was deceased
before May 1259, when Richard, son of Adam de Oclee takc^
out a writ of mort d'ancestre against Simon de Halton foi a
tenement in Oclee. (Patent, 43, 4 \, 45 Henry lii.) The result
is not recorded, but we find the same Richard KiUaddtU taking
out similar writs in Nov. 1250, and Feb. 1261. Again, in tUe

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SOME NOTES ON THE

Easter Term, 1260, Geva widow of Adam de Okeley sues
Simon de Halton for her dower, viz. J of a messuage, and 7
acres in Okeley: Simon pleaded the deceased was his villain,
but the Jury found him to have been a free tenant : so Geva
recovered her dower (Plac. Pasc. Term, 44 Henry iii, Mem. 1)."

In Shirley's Noble and Gentlemen of England, 1S59. we find
the following :

" All ancient family, descended from Philip who in the reign
of Henry iii was Lord of Oakeley in the parish of Bishop's
Castle, from whence he assumed his name, and which ever
since has been the inheritance of his descendants." (Note,
sold since). "See Blake way, p. 132 — 173, and Morris MSS.
These arms are with those of the Plowdens, and the families
of the vicinity allusive to the services of ancestors, who fought
under the banner of the great suzerains ol the district, the
Fitzalans, in the Crusades, and the Battlefields of France."

" The mitred Barons who sat enthroned in Hereford
Cathedral were the suzerains of Plowden, Walcot, and Oakeley,
and the arms of these prelates were charged with fleurs de lys,
hence perhaps the arms."

I have no trace of Philip at all.

It is interesting to note in this connection that " Lvdebury
North (18,000) acres) was originally given to the See of
Hereford by a Saxon nobleman, Edwin Shakehead, in the reign
of King Offa, in gratitude for his cure from palsy, wrought at
the shrine of St. Hthelbert. Confiscated by Oneen Kii/abeth."

Kytou says " Stephen de Ackley, who occurs in connection
witli Plowden in 1203 possibly took his name from Okley,
Bishop's Castle, and ma)' have been the ancestor of the later
Lords of Oakley."

I shall have occasion to touch upon this later, when I notice
the Oakeleys of Norton-in-Hales.

A few extracts relating to the early history of the family
may now be recorded.

In 1292 Robert, Clerk of Oclec sat as Mh J in or foi the
Purslow Hundred. In the Shropshire [«ay Subsidy Rolls,
hundred of Putslow, we find : «

HISTORY OF THE OAKKLHY FA MILY. 149

i Edward iii : a twentieth, A.D. 1327.
Okleyc.

De Johanna de Okleye xviijd
Ric'o HI' Joh'is v\d

Lynleyc.

])e Hugone de Okleye. xd

~ 6 Edw. iii., a tenth and a fifteenth, A.D. 1332.
Lee et Okleye.

De Johanna de Okleye xviijd

From Eccles. Commissioners. Hereford Bishopric estates :
" Red Book" referred to in Butterfield's survey.

A.D. 1473. Fol. 201-202. Rental of Bishop's Castle :
Michaelmas. 13 Edw. iv.

Lucia Okeley, pro dimidio burgagio. iijd : and on 12 March
I3]f. Extent of Bishop's Castle . . . William de Ocley is
one of the Jurors (referred to later).

The following two extracts relate to a Philip de Okeley, vicar
of Chirkbnry.

K

1. From Morris MS. sh. iv.

1404 A.D.

Sciant &c. quod nos Johannes Colle de Salop Senior et
Agnes uxor ejus dedimus &c. Ph'o Okeley Vicario ecclesie de
Chirkbnry, J ohanni Pannton Johanni Shelve CapellanoNieholao
Boirley Rectori ecclesie de Westbury Thome Harley et Johanni
Lewys Capellanis omnia terras et servieia tenementa iedditus
cum omnibus suis pertinentiis quae habemus die con feet ion is
prcsentium tarn infra libertatem Villi! Salopi.e in COUliUltll
Salop' quam in villa et comitatu Stall' ac eliain in OiU\
(or Okley ?) et aliis locis. Habendum dfec.j in peipctuinn
De Capitalibus dominis feodi. lliis tesiibus : BilUOUC four
et Will'o Forster'tunc ballivis Vill.e Salop', Walto Sun \ . K
Bonell, Rogero Foirtes Joke Hulle. et aliis. Datum Rpu<|
Salopiam die domiiuco proximo ante festum NativitatlS SttUCti
Joh'is Baptiste anno regni Regis I h-nrici Ouaiii post
conquestum qui into.

SOME NOTES ON THi'

2. Feet of Fiues, Case 195, file 19, No. 6. June 24— July i,
A.D. 1390.

Final concord made at Westminster, in the Octave of St.
John the Baptist, 14 Richard ii., between Philip de Okeley,
Chaplain, plaintiff, and William, son of William Hancokes of
Ludbury and Joan, his wife, deforciants, of one messuage, one
ploughlaud, two acres of meadow in Lydom and Farcote.

William and Joan quitclaim the premises to Philip from
themselves and the heirs of Joan for one hundred marks of
silver.

In the Visitation of Shropshire. 1623, from Visitation of
1584 (Harleian Society), is the pedigree of Ockley of Oakley,
near Bishop's Castle. The Arms are recorded as argent on a
fesse between 3 crescents gules as many fleurs de lis or.
These have always been the true Oakeley Arms.

The pedigree commences with John Ockley de Ockley,
(probably about 1260 A.D.), and ends with William, who
married Alicia, daughter of John Haddocks.

Quite lately a document has come to light which is of great
importance.

This is Harl. MS. 1984, "a collection of the Descents of
Shropshire Gentry Registered by the Hands of Sir Henry St.
George (perhaps then but Richmond Herald), Mr. Thomas
Knight (Chester Herald) and other officers of Amies." Fo.
189 b. etc. (catalogue entry) (fo. 251. b) This commences with
William ap Reynald, of Colbach, whose daughter Johan
married John Rogers, son of Roger, son of Jeilkitt de Okely,
8.H.6. Now from Harleian MS. 19S2, fo. 38b, we know that
Jenkin was the sou of William who was the son of " Roger
Ockley of Ockley in Com. Salop." This brings the pedigree
straight back to about 1370 A. I)., without a break. The Last
named Roger may have been the son of William de Okeley
of Ludlow and Joan daughter of Ralph Le birches, whom I
mention later on, christened Roger perhaps after Roger de
Mortimer, whom' William de Okeley supported* This MS.
is confirmed by Harl. MS. 2152, fo. 133.

To resume, John Rogers and Johan had 2 sons, William
Okeley of Okeley and Fdward ; and 0 daughters, the marriages

HISTORY OF THE OAKELEY FAMILY. 151

of whom are recorded. William married "Ellen, daughter of
Mason of the Castell," and they had 3 sons. Rowland Okeley
of Okeley, Frauncis Okeley, and Robert. Francis married the
" daughter of Longwell," had 3 sons and 2 daughters, and was
buried at Bishop's Castle, as we learn from the Register, on
the 20th Jan., 1587. Robert died apparently umarried, and
was buried at Bishop's Castle on the nth February, 1572.
Rowland married the "daughter of Hotchkiss of Ledbury"
(perhaps an error for Lydbury North, where man)- of the
Hotchkiss family are noted.) They had two sons, John Okeley
of Okeley and Edward of Bishop's Castle who married Kath-
erine daughter of Tho. ap Owen ap Edward and Daley.
John married the daughter of" Raff Marston of Wolston, widow
of Humphrey Baker" : this is confirmed by the Marston
pedigree. Their children, as recorded in this pedigree, are
Anne who married Bright of Eyton, and Rowland Okeley of
Okeley who married Mary daughter of John Crowther of
Bedston. This tallies with what is already recorded, except
that Mary was recorded as the daughter of William Crowther.
From my investigation I know that William was a bachelor,
and therefore John is probably correct. This pedigree ends
with Rowland's children, correctly given. There seems no
doubt of its accuracy, and its discovery, due to Miss Martin of
7J Grove End Road, London, N.W., is most satisfactory.

Before 1 end this paper on the early history of the family,
I will touch upon the Oakeleys of Norton in Hales : and a
certain William de Okeley. I am unable to determine in my
own mind whether the Okeleyes of Norton-in-Hales belong to
the same family 01 not. Their arms in the Chetwode records
are given as Sable, 3 Leopards heads jessant de lis argent.

In St. Dunstan's in the West, London, the Okeley Aims,
quartered in the Chetwode, are Or on a Fess between three
mascles gules three bezants.

"John Chetwode, sonne and heire of Roberte married
Elizabeth, sister and heire to William de Okeley lived 1 1 K. 3 —
36 E. in."

I have previously noticed a Stephen de Aclc at Bishop's
Castle, date 1203: the following extract might pOS&ibly refel to

SOMIC NOTES ON TFK

the same Stephen, in which case the two places belonged to
the same family, and possibly were left to two sons,
respectively, of Stephen.

In 1260 — 1270 A.D., Lucia heiress of Roger de Cole'shasel
(probably Corselle Manor, near Hinstock, Market Drayton)
and heiress of Henry de Coleshasel, married Richard de
Okeleye, son of Stephen de Okeleye, 1203, founder of the
family. (Eyton viii. 25.)

In the Feet of Fines, we find May 2, 1283, a Final Concord,
11 Edw. I., between Stephen, son of Stephen de Ocle, plaintiff,
and Thomas de Coleshasel, and Millicent his wife, deforciants,
concerning land in Norton -in- Hales, which Thomas and
Millicent quit-claim to Stephen for seven marks of silver.
(Eyton ix., 368), Again on June 20th, 12N9, there is a Final
Concord, 17 Edw. I. between William de Tynteleye, plaintiff,
and Richard son of Stephen de Okleye and Lucy his wife,
deforciants, regarding land at Coleshasel. Margery is
mentioned, " who was the wife of Roger de Coleshasel,
and who now holds the lands in dower of the inheritance
of Lucy." William had to "pa)- by the year an clove gilly-
flower at Easter and now pays down one sore sparrowhawk."
(Eyton viii., 25-26).

There is a curious extract from the Morris MSS.. as
follows : —

mi 128; John Abbot of Salop recovered his . . . against
Stephen de Hocle, the parson, and Henry son of Henry of
his ... in Norton-in-Hales, which belonged to his free
tenement of Accton . . . Lime. Augt. 25, vi. (p. 58).

"In 1272 a suit of Mort d'Ancestre concerning land at
Gravenhunger was concluded in favour of Robert de Oclee,
and mention is frequently made in earlier deeds ol Stephen de
Ocle, who took his name from Oakley, in the Parish of
Mucclestone, and who was one of the tenants of Shrewsbury
Abbey in Norton-in-llales." (Shropshire Lay Subs. Roll,
1327). Gravenhunger Moss is near Wbore,

From the frfmrw MSS.

i "Stephen de Acleye occurs as a witness to a deed 111 the
Chartulary No. 91, Stephen de Ocley in No. o:: "Hocleye"

HISTORY OF THK OAKKUiY FAMILY. 153

in No. 297. Still, I do not believe this Stephen to belong
properly to the family under notice, but to have taken his
name from the Ocleys or Oakleys, Co. Stafford.
Harkian MS.

Folio 112. Grant by Richard, son of Thomas de Hocley, to
Stephen, son of William de Knechton, of three acres of land
between land of Roger de Knechton and Alan of the same,
and land of William de Aula etc. Stephen de Hocley is a
witness (not dated, but ?i2oo).

Grant by the same to the same: dated at Newcastle 1291 :
19 Edw. I.

Grant by Stephen Gamul of Kneyton to Richard his son, of
land and meadow, which the said Stephen bought of Richard
son of Thomas de Ocley and Richard son of Adam de Kneyton,
&c. Stephen de Ocley is a witness. 1295.

Grant by William, Lord of Knighton. Alan de Knichtou,
Stephen son of Gamul, Richard son of Roger de Knighton,
Richard son of Thomas de Ocley, and John son of Richard de
Ley, to Thomas son of Reginald de Ocley of a plot of waste
land in Kineton. Stephen de Ocley is a witness. Undated.

Grant by William son of Stephen Gamul of Knyton in le
Halys to Richard his son of . . . which Thomas de Ockeley
held by leave of William, Lord of Knytton. Stephen de
Ockeley, Adam his brother, William son of Reginald de
Ockeley, are witnesses.

Grant by William, sou of Stephen Gamul of Knyton in le
Halys to Richard his son of a fourth part ol a plot of land in
the fee of Knytton which Thomas de Ockeley held by Leave ol
William, Lord of Knytton. Stephen de Ockeley, Adam his
brother, William son of Reginald de Ockeley are wituesses,
(Not dated).

Grant by Thomas de Ocley, living at Woninlon, to William,
son of Stephen Gamul of Knctton »Kl Isabel his w ile, in tail,
of half a messuage with the moiety of a croft which the said
Thomas had by gilt of Richard le llevi of KuytUttt, who had
the same lioiu Alan Dinyau ot KllctlOll, and the lltoicty ol .1
messuage in Knetton. Stephen de Ockleye is a witness*
(Not drfted).

154

SOMK NOTES ON VHE

Feet of Fines, 1334. William sou of Stephen de Okeleye,
the younger, and Elizabeth his wife, plaintiffs, by James de
Podmor, attorney of Elizabeth.

Lawrence de Woure deforciant.

One mill, three ploughlands, ten acres of meadow and 5/- of
rent in Betton under Lyme and Norton in le Hales.

Lawrence grants to William and Elizabeth and the heirs
male of William in tail, two thirds of the premises and the
reversion of the other third part after the death of Maud, who
was wife of Stephen de Okeleye and now holds it in dower of
the inheritance of Lawrence. If William have no issue male
successive remainder in tail male to Maud, Elizabeth and
Margery, his daughters, and to the right heirs of his daughter
Maud. This concord was made in the presence of and with
the consent of the same Maud, formerly wife of Stephen, and
she did fealty to William and Elizabeth in the same court,

Release by Stephen son of Richard le Heyre of Knyhton
to William Gamul of Kniton and his wife. Richard son of
Adam, Lord of Muccleston, and his wife, John de Huutenbach
and his wife, and Richard Gamul of Knithton and his wife, of a
plot of land which Thomas son of Reginald de Ockeley held in
Fee of Knyhton, Stephen de Ockeley and William, son of
Reginald of the same are witnesses (15 Ed. ii. 1321-22).

'J he following relate to a Mill at /Jetton, &e.

Morris MS. 20, in Shrewsbury Free Library, folio 38.

No. 27S. Agreement between William, Abbot and the
Convent of Shrewsbury, and Stephen son of Stephen
de Ocleg, respecting their mill at Betton under Lyme.
H. T. Will'o de Tynteleg tunc vicecom' Salop. Will'o de
Hodenet, Thorn. Corbet, Rob. Bromleg, Hen. de Cressewelle,
militibus ; Regiualdo de Sehauyton, Will'o de Norton, Will'o
de Caluhale, Ph'o de Dunstal, &c. Dat. Salop Mcnse Maij,
A.l). 1294. (See Ivy ton ix. 200).

Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1343.

Confirmation of a giant by William, late Abbot of SkreWS-
bury and the Convent of that place to Stephen SOU ol StepUeU
de Oclege of (1) license to repair a stank in Norton -iu« Hales
and hold the same in fee and (:) a Mill in BettOU.

HISTORY OK THIS OAK1CLUY i'AMII,Y. 155

Morris MSS.

Rex confirmavit Will'o de Okely in feodo, quoddam stagnnm
in Norton-in-Hales, Salva Abbati Salop libera piscaria sua in
aqua de Lyme necnon molendinnm dieti Abbatis in Betton pro
annuo redditu octo marcaruni ad manerium suum de Betton.

From Morris MSS. and Lloyd's Antiqs. of Shropshire.

A Fine was levied 8th Edward iii, 1335 A.D. between
William, son of Stephen de Oeleye Junior plaintiff and
William son of Stephen de Oeleye senior deforciant of certain
messuages in Oeleye in com. Staff, and of lands in Norton-
in-Hales, com. Salop.

Release by Adam, son of Alan de Knychtton to Thomas de
Ockeleye, living in Woniuton. Stephen de Ockeley is a witness,
(not dated).

Grant by Isabel, formerly wife of William Gamul of Knyton
in le Halys to John son of Richard de Hunderbach, William
son of Stephen de Ocley, Adam de Ocley, and William son of
William of the same. 1333 — 34.

Patent Rolls, 13 13.

Pardon to William, son of Stephen de Okeleie for the death
of William le Hore of Norton under Lyme as it appears from
the records of Richard de Harleie and Thomas de Tynteleie
Justices of gaol delivery for the Castle of Shrewsbury that he
killed him by mischance.

Patent Rolls 1293.

Pardon to Osbert de Okleigh in Stafford in gaol for the
death of William Hore, as it appears by the record of John of
Berevvyk and his fellows, justices in eyre in the co. of Stafford
that he killed him by mischance.

Patent Rolls 1296.

Letters of attorney, Stephen de Ocklee, staying in England,
nominating John de Ocklee ill Ireland for one year.

Patent Rolls, 1296.

Protection with clause votnmm in Ireland for one year, to:
Stephen de Ocklee, staying in England.

A William de Ocle was one of the murderers ol Edward ii.
(Morris MSS.)

SOMH NOTES UN THK

HISTORY OF THE OAKEEKY FAMILY. 157

This concludes my notes upon the Oakeleys of Norton-in-
Hales ; I should be very glad of any further information,
especially any which would throw any light on their con-
nection with the Oakeleys of Oakeley, Bishop's Castle.

I will now touch upon an interesting character, William
Oakeley, of Ludlow ; up to the present I have come across
nothing to show that he belongs to the family, although the
proximity of Ludlow to Bishop's Castle would render the
supposition highly probable.

This William was foolish enough to rebel against Edward
the Third, when the latter took steps to overthrow the
malevolent ascendency of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March.
William suffered the loss of his estates which were bestowed
upon Stephen de Bitterley, the King's vSergeant at Arms.
William himself had the wisdom to escape.

The first extract is from the Patent Rolls of Edward ii, 1322.
44 License for . . . William de Okleye, . . . notwithstanding they
found mainpernors that they would come to the King in the
■ Northern parts to go against tin* contrairients, to go with
Joan, . the wife of Roger de Mortuo Mari of Wygemor to the
parts of Southampton to stay with her."

Pa I cut Rolls, 1326.

41 Whereas William de Okie acquired in fee in the time ol
Edward i. from John de IMecy 40 acres of land in lledleigh,
co. Surrey, held in chief ..."

Ch'se AV/A-, 1330.

To the Sheriff of Northampton. Whereas the King learns
that .... and William de Ocle, who are charged with divers
offences in this realm, propose leaving this realm secretly, and
divers evils may arise through their malice, the King orders
the sheriff to cause all seaports and other places in the
bailiwick, where ships arrive, and where theie is a passage Oi
ships, to be so kept that the said man mav not pass out ol the
realm."

The following may be the same William, in which cttSC the
connection is proved.

SOME NOTKS ON THE

Records of the Ecclcs. Comms. Hereford Bisho prick Estate.
The Red Book referred to in Butterfietd's Survey.

2 March, 1316 — 1317. Extent of Bishop's Castle made 011
Wednesday, after the Feast of St. David, 1316. William de
Ocley is one of the jurors.

Rytner's Eoedcra, 1330.

" Warrants for arrest to several sheriffs of John Mautravers,
Thomas de Gurnaye, John Wyard, William de Exon late
Constable of Wallingford Castle, John Deveroil and William
de Ocle from his bailiwick, and to take them, and cause them
to be brought to the King."

Exchequer K. R., 1331 -

Writ to make an extent of the Manor of Bernes, which was
held by Roger de Mortimer, late Earl of March, and of the
lands, which were held by William de Okleye in Shropshire ■
now in the King's hands by reuson of their forfeiture.

Exch. 1 33 1.

" Extent made at Lodelowe . . .
William de Okleye had in the vill. of Cyneton one message
worth by the year i2d. beyond reprises — one hundred acres of
arable land by the greater hundred, worth by the year 30s.,
value of an acre 3d. — two acres of meadow worth by the year
2s., value of an acre i2d — rent of cottages, 17s., of which 4s. Sd.
is paid out to the King, and 2s. to Sir John le Estrange— of
the said hundred acres of land, thirty acres are sown with
wheat, and the crop is worth 60s. The said William had.
within the fee of Dudlebury a plot of meadow for terms of the
next eight years, worth by the year 6s. Sd. He has it by lease
of Thomas le Walshe to whom he has paid beforehand the
whole farm for the said term. At Cyneton one acre is sown with
peas, and the crop is worth i2d.

Exch. 1 33 1. Extent made at Lodelowe . .

William de Ocleye had in the vill. of Lodelowe one tene-
ment, newly built, in which he lived, worth by the yeai 16s, 8d
beyond reprises, save to the chief lord .is. by the year. In a
street called le Castelstret, six burgages worth by the > e.u
36s. beyond reprises, save to the lords ol the fee OS. by the ytMl

HISTORY OF TH'K OAKKIJiY l-Y MIJ.Y. 159

for rent. In le Mulstret one tenement worth by the year 8s.,
save to the chief lord I2d. by the year for rent, and to the
Altar of Blessed Mary 2d. Three messuages with courtyards
worth by the year beyond reprises 3s., one dovecot worth' by
the year 2s. beyond reprises, of which 2d. by the year is due to
Chaplains of the pilgrims — one shop in le Bucheresrewe, worth
by the year beyond reprises, 5s., save to the lord 2d. by the
year. One parcel of meadow land at Galdeford worth by the
year 3s. In the fields of La Sete two acres of land worth by the
3rear 6d. save to the lord 2d. by the year : they are not sown
this year."

I have two full accounts taken from Chancery Miscell.
Inquis., File 115, No. 7, which are very interesting, but will
occupy too much space, concerning the estates "qui fuerunt
Willelmi de Ocle inimici et rebellis nostri."

Two further accounts are in Rymer's Foedera 237, p. 207,
membrane 24, and p. 215, part i., 5 Edw. iii.

The next, although lengthy, is full of interest.
. E.xcliq. A'./v. extents, No. 68-1331.

" . . Henry de Bisshebury, Sheriff of Shropshire and
Staffordshire, went to the house of William de Okele at
Lodelowe together with . . . and John de Wouneton (note, would
this be the same as Woninton, mentioned above, at Norton-in-
Hales ?) Appointed by the King to survey . . . found
them, viz. :

One horse value 5s., one cow worth 6s. 8d., 23 quarters of
wheat, value of a quarter 6s. 8d., 2 quarters 3 bushels of oats
worth 6s. 9(1., one quarter of barley malt (brasium capitate)
worth 6s. 8d. ; 2$ quarters of buckwheat (brasium curali)
worth 10s. ; two carcases and one quarter of an ox, worth
10s. 8d., venison worth [2d., three quarters of a cask of weak
wine worth 40H, ; one whole raved elolll 40s,, 10 ells of colouicd
cloth worth 13s. ad., six ells of canvas worth i8d., three hia/cii
pots worth 12s., one basin with a civer worth 2SM two andnons
worth 6s. 8d., two pewter pots worth .pi., one cauldron worth
2S» two napkins worth 4c!. , Four benches worth $s., one flask
worth .pi., two chests worth .'s , two panieis COVCrCil with

LOO SOME NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE OAKELEY FAMILY.

leather worth 6d., one pair of plates of mail broken and two
pair of mail gauntlets broken worth 2s., one helmet of war
worth 8d., two leather cuirasses worth 2s., one head piece and
one crupper worth 6s. 8d., five lances worth 13d., one tabard
worth ad., one cart worth 5s , five worn out wheels worth
2S. 6d., three empty casks worth iSd., one brazen mortar with
iron pestle worth 5s., timber worth _)os.. small household
utensils worth 6s. Sd. All of which goods and chattels are sold
to John de Evesham parson of the Church of Lodelowe for
21 li. 1 8s. 6d.

There are some other extracts, Patent Rolls 1332, 1334,
Close Rolls 1338, Patent Rolls 1343, concerning William, and
the bestowal of his lands and goods upon Stephen de Bitterley.

We will close with the following extract, which throws just
light upon William : —

Close Rolls, Vol. 243, 1346.

" Whereas the King granted to Stephen de Bitterleye, late his
Sergeant at Arms, by letters patent ... in Smynton, co.
Salop, and those 100 shillings ... in Lodelowe in that
county, which belonged to William de Okie, late the King's
enemy and rebel, and which was escheated to the King by his
forfeiture . . . and now the King has learned that Joan
daughter of Ralph le Birches of Lodelowe has arraigned an
assize of novel disseisin before .... concerning tenements
in Lodelowe . .

Ami because the same William de Okie, Joan's husband, is
still alive. ..."

With this, I end the short account of the Oakeley family in
the early ages,1 and trust it may prove of some interest to
those interested in the old families of the county. Someday
may be, when those treasures which are now in private hands,
often never lookevi at, someti nies even forgotten, are accessible
to the public, as they should be, at the Public Recoi d Olhce,
it will be possible to reconstruct the ancient tree if not the
branches, at all events the main stem, to the CompieM.

1 Attention may here bo directed to The Sequestration Papers oi KicharU
OaUelcy of OaUelev," printed in the VruHStiCtians for hTJ, 4l.ll &
Vol. II.' |>.i}.;es I IK) -US.

GRANT FROM WILLIAM LYSTKR TO HIS SON-IN-LAW
NICHOLAS WARYNG AND CRISTIANA HIS WIFE,
IN TAIL, OF ALL HIS LANDS IN FRANKWELL,
SHREWSBURY, 15TH May, 1494.

Transcribed and Edited by MAJOR J. DE C. LAFFAN, R.A.

(The end of lines in the original are marked i, 2, 3, etc.)

Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Willelmus Lyster nuper
ville Salopie mercator dedi concessi et hac presenti carta mea
indentata confirmavi Nicholao Waryng1 ville supradicte
mercatori et Cristiane nxori sue filie raee omnia mea terras
teneinenta orrea prata pascuas et pasturas cum omnibus eorum
comoditatibus et pertinentiis que habui seu habeo3 in quodam
vico vocato ffrankevyle suburbio ville Salopie et in Campis
de ffrankevyle habendum et tenendum omnia predicta terras
tenementa orrea prata pascuas et pasturas'1 cum omnibus
eorum comoditatibus et pertinentiis prenominatis Nicholao et
Cristiane et heredibus suis de eorum corporibus inter eos
legitime procreatis imperpetuum de capitalibus domini feodi
iljius4 per servicia inde debita et de jure consueta. Ac si
con tin gat predictos Nicholaum Waryng et Cristianam obire
sine heredibus de eorum corporibus inter eos legitime pro-
creatis5 quod tunc volo et concedo per presentes quod omnia
predicta terras tenementa orrea prata pascuas et pasturas cum
omnibus eorum pertinentiis integro remaneant Ricardo Lyster
filio meo et heredi'1 ac heredibus suis in perpetuum Tenendum
de capitalibus domini feodi illius per servicia inde debita et de
jure consueta. Et ego vero predictus Willelmus Lyster et heredes
mei omnia7 predicta terras tenementa orrea prata pascuas et
pasturas cum omnibus eorum comoditatibus et pertinentiis
prefatis Nicholao et Cristiane et eorum heredibus de suis
corporibus inter eos legitime8 procreatis et ob defectum
taliuin hereduni predicto Ricardo et suis heredibus contra
omnes gentes Warantizabimus et imperpetuum deffeitdeuiUS
per presentes In cujus rei testimonium0 huic present! carte
mee indentate sigillum meum apposui litis testibus Wiliehuo
Colle et WiUelmo Pontyshttry tunc balllvfo ville Satapit
Thoma Mitton Thuina1" Poutysbltry Nicholao L'ORtysbttry de

GRANT OK LANDS FROM WILLIAM LVSTER

Salopia et inultis aliis Data apud Salopiam predictam die Jovis
proximo ante ffestum pentecoste anno regni Regis Henrici
Septimi post Conqnestnm Anglie nono.

(Seal missing).

[Endorsed:] " Ric. Waring," and "Win. Lyster to Nic.
War." And in a more modern hand: "9 H.7, 1493. Wm.
Lyster gives all his estate in Frankwell to Nich. W. & Cristian
his Wife Daughter of sd. Wm. in special tail."

Notes made from Owen and Blakeway's History of Shrewsbury
and from various volumes of the Transactions of the
ShropsJiire Arclucological Society.

William Lyster was probably a younger son of the Lysters
-of Craven ; the identity of armorial bearings was in that age
uncontrovertible proof of consanguinity. He came into Shrop-
shire as an attendant upon Sir Hugh Burgh Knight. He was
admitted burgess at Shrewsbury in 145 1 being described as
" serviens " to Sir Hugh and paying 46s. 8d. and 3s. ad. fee.
He married Elizabeth Leighton by whom he had daughters
Agnes and Christiana and a son Richard. In 1457 he with
Thomas Hood was paid 4s. iod. for their joint expenses in
riding to the Duke of York at Ludlow to get a precept (directed
to the bailiffs of the city for surety of the peace) dissolved. In
1482 he purchased the estate of Rowton in the parish of
Alberbury and founded a family which continued to maintain
its place in the 6rst rank of Shropshire gentlemen. Richard
Lyster was Sheriff in 1683, his grandson Richard was M P. for
Shrewsbury 1728 and for 30 years. The latter's younger brother
Rev. Thomas Lyster was great grandfather of Richard Lyster
M.P, for Shrewsbury who died in 1819, his son Henry Lyster
succeeding to the estate.

Richard Lvstkr, William's son, was admitted at Shrews-
bury in 1495-6 w» a " forrener " to membership of the Drapers'
Company and " paied to lyne" 26s. Sd., and witli two other
new members paid 4s. for "six gallons of wyne" and there LS .1
note "item on William Sugden is hands a gage of 20s, tor
Richard Lister." In 1497-8 be figures among u six men
brethiren ol the same ifiaternyte" chosen to "here the
accompte of the affoi enanu-d old wardens" and there is 1 note

TO HIS SON-IN-LAW AND WIPE. 1 63

*4 resting in Richard Lister is hands of his fy lie XXs. to pay
yevery quarter Vis. Vllld. till it be paid" ; further " Richard
Lister for his fvne for lakke of serves of stuardship for the
office of warden Receved by the hands of Thomas Wall in
silver iiii'i." In 1499-1500 he was chosen one of the wardens
of the 1 ffraternyte " for two years and for not serving as steward
he paid fine of " XLd. according to the woords of the corapo-
sicion in that case ordeyned." On 25th April he receives
u 0011 key of tresour door." •• Item Richard Lyster owith for
parcell of his ffyne unpaid XXs." In 1 501-2 the new wardens
"charge them sellfe with the acreage of Richard Lyster" and
his fellow wardens, viz. £22 os. nd. " Item Recevyd of the
dette of Richard Lister XXs." In 1503-4 he was again chosen
warden for two years and receives " ii keys of the koffer in the
hall." In 1505-6 his accounts for the two years are passed. In
1507-8 he has in his 'kepyng a pece of John Gyttyns price
20s.,' also in ' sory money' 20s. "item in money left in the
purse which Richard Lyster most answer XX Vis. lie and his
fellow wardens figure for £$6 is. 71I. arrears "Item Richard
Lister owith to the place XX Vis " " Item the said Richard most
answer for a pece of John Gyttyns which is yn plegge with
Sir William Lyngall for \ ills. IVd. of Thomas Wall debt
XXs. " In 1522-3 he was again warden and in 1523-4, and was
also during the latter period bailiff of the company. He was
Town bailiff in 1506-7. In connection with the dispute
between the Abbot of Haughmond and the town, he that year
made three journeys to Loudon, one in Michaelmas term for
which he received 40s. On the 5th May he received £13 13. 4d.
for his second journey, which sum includes a reward to
Mr. Dudley £6 13s. 4d., 20d. to his servant, and tor exchange
of money (owing to the bad state of the coin of the realm] lod.
Actual costs ^14 2S. id. making him 8s. t;d. out of pocket.
For his third journey he received £13 6. Sd. including " drink
with our Councell " 10. 1, " expences at the tavern with our
Councill rid," expences for ii hernesues, viij rabbetts. item a
dosin quavles and a pyke to present Mr. Kinson " 9s. gd, In
money paid to Mr. Kmson £$. He remained in town tins
time 3 weeks and 4 days. Total expenses /, "i | 14*, jjd

The VVakynos were old residents in Shropshire ami held a

164 GRANT Ol' LANDS FROM WILLIAM LYSTKR

large^ property in Shrewsbury and Shelton. Warin or Waryn
de Houndeslowe or Andeslowe who stands at the head of the
pedigree was alive in the 12th E. i. (1283-4). He seems to have
been a person of decent opulence, he may have descended
from the Wariug, son of Olthef or Warin Algef, who from the
evidence of Alberbury Priory had land in the Market Place of
Shrewsbury at a very early but undated period. In 12 Ed. I.
Roger de Horton grants to Waryn de Andeslowe and Alice
his wife half a virgate of land in Wodecote and a meadow.
The descendants of Robert his eldest son adopted the name of
Waring, those of his younger son Roger that of Onslow.
Robert, variously described as Robert son of Warin de
Hondeslowe, Robert Waryng and Robert Warynges, is on
the roll of Burgesses for Shrewsbury in 1318. In 17 and 19
Ed. ii. (1323-4 and 1325-6) Thomas, son of Hugh de Wodecote,
releases to him all his right to land in Wodecote being a
messuage and 13 acres. In 7 Ed. iii. (1333-41 Matthew de
Rosshale releases to him and Cicely his wife and heirs his
claim to all lands and tenements of the said Robert which
formerly were of Tho. Goderiche in ' Scheltone.' Robert had
several sons and at least four daughters. Richard, a younger
son, had a wife Agnes who survived him ; he, sometimes called
Richard Garines, had land in Shelton a messuage 9^ acres. In
13 Edward iii (1339-40) Robert grants to Richard in tail with
remainder to his son Adam the messuage and 13 acres he
received from Thomas son of Hugh de Wodecote. Richard
was dead by 4 Rich ii. (1380-1) and his estate passed by entail
partly to his brother Adam and partly to his four sisters.
Mabel the wife of John de Hanewode of Ondeslow, Agnes,
Cicely, and Elena. He left no issue. Adam another younger
son in 40 Edward iii. (1366-7) grants all his lands in Wodecote
to his brother Richard and his nephew Richard son of Roger
Waryng. In 1 Rich. ii. (1377-8 he granted 'sex landas Unc"
in Woodcote to Sir William de Bottefield, chaplain. In
4 Rich. ii. (1380- 1) he grants the land he inherited from his
brother Richard to his nephew Richaul and his wife Catherine ;
he died without issue. Roger, son of Robert, acquires In-
deed 1 1 Rich. ii. (1387-8) the purparty of a messuage ill Shelton
which descended to various relations 011 the death oi his si

TO HIS SON-IN-LAW AND WIVE. 165

Elena, and probably of his other sisters. In 14 Rich, ii (1320-1) *
Agnes widow of Richard senior releases to Richard son of
Roger, her dower in Wodecote and from this time the Waring
estates in Woodcote descend in uninterrupted succession. In
21 Rich. ii. (1397-8) William Ellesmere and William Preston
chaplains grant to Richard Waryng son of Roger and his wife
Catherine for life all their lands-tenements in Wodecote
remainder to Simon son of said Richard in tail remainder to
Roger brother of Simon and heirs of blood of Richard. In
the 15th century the Warings increased their property
in Sheltou bv becoming lesses of the Tithes of St. Julian's
Church. In 10 Hen. vi. (1431-2; the rector Roger Yvne
demises to Simon Waryng all tithes belonging to the said
free chapel for 20 years at a rent of 20s. Simon made his
will on St. Luke's Day, 1449 devising all his lands and
tenements in Shelton Wodecote and Frankvyle to his wife
Margaret for her life, if she keeps herself sole but he was still
living in 35 Hen. vi. (1456-7) and in prosperous circumstances
as he was able to recover possession of land which his uncle
had been obliged to alienate by mortgage. By deed of this
date John Philyppes town clerk of Shrewsbury grants to him
the lands and tenements in Shelton which John's father Philip
had in pledge from John Warynge son of Richard Warynge to
hold the same in pledge for the sum of £5 13s. 4d. In 12 Hen.
vi. (1433-4) John Colle of Salop senior demises to Simon
Waryng lands and tenements in the town and fields of Shelton.
In 9 Hen. iv. (1407-8) John Colle of Salop senior and John
Colle his son-heir demise lands in Shelton to Richard Waryng
of that place. A Richard Waryng was elected Councillor of
Shrewsbury in 1444 lie married Agnes daughter of Nicholas
Clement, a fellow councillor. In 1465 he executes a deed of
which Roger Wyswall is witness.

Nicholas Wakyng, son-in-law of William Lyster. was 5th
in descent from Robert son of Warin ; he was a merchant in
1474 when he leases a tenement in Wyle Cop to Thomas Oteley,
William Oyster was one of the witnesses. Nicholas WAfl bailiff
of Shrewsbury in h|9S?& »" MfiNW 0,1 lne llealn of Kicholti
Pontysbiiiy and again in 1510-11 in which period he bimieM

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GRANT OF LANDS FROM WILLIAM LVSTKR

died. Iii 1506-7 he was paid 4<L as his share of joint expenses
in riding to Withington with Thomas Couppere (the town
clerk) to talk with the Abbot of " Haghmau." In 1507 by a
deed he agrees witli Thomas Horton and John Bayly to
divide the property of Woodcote. Richard Waring a
descendant was son of a Nicholas Waring and Mary daughter
of Richard Barker, Recorder of Shrewsbury ; his mother on 24th
December 1648 releases to him her jointure land at Woodcote.
On 3 Jan. 1649 he buys land in Frank well and Woodcote. He was
Mayor of Shrewsbury in 1666. The last heir male of the family
Richard Hill Waring died in 1798 and the estates passed to
Major John Scott grandson of Richard's aunt Dorothy Waring,
he assumed the name of Waring, his second surviving son
John Scott Waring sold the property early in the 19th century.

The family of Cou.F or Colk were resident burgesses of
Shrewsbury longer than any other family. Hugh Colle and
Nicholas his sou were on the roll in 1209 and Hugh's father had
been in the Guild. They lived at Cole Hall an ancient stone
mansion of which the remains are or were at the back of
Claremont, anciently called Dog Lane or Houndestrete.
Nicholas was on the roll Oct. 12, 1239 and on June 12, 1252 he
was on the roll with his sons Hugh, Stephen, and Nicholas ; he
was still alive in 1280. Hugh son of Nicholas was provost in
in the reign of Henry iii. bailiff in 1272 and on three other
occasions ; in 1278 he held §| burgages in the town and in
Frank well. Thomas Colle son of Hugh was bailiff in 1290 and
coroner 1296 to 1299 and 1302 to 1306. Thomas Colle son ol
Thomas was bailiff 1324, 1331, 1339 and M.P. 1 337-1341.
Together with his brother Hugh he grants 40s. a year to
Sir Richard Fox as requiem for their father Thomas and Agnes
his wife and their grandfather Hugh and Agnes his wife,
John Colle was bailiff in 1453 1457. Lucia Colle and her heirs
are on the burgess and gild roll lor 1372. Thomas Talbot
eldest son of 1st E. ol Shrewsbury by a deed in 15 Henry VI.
(1436-7) leased to William Colle a hall in High Pavement
(now Pride Hill and Castle Street) near the Putter Cross,
William CoLLK, witness to the deed, was bailiff in 1493 and
149S and 1502. In 1 Henry Vlfi (1485-6) he grafltsi a h .1 e ol a

TO HIS SON-IN-LAW AND WIFK. 167

messuage and land to William Fysher, shearer. By a deed
dated 5th Feb., 1490 in which he is described as son and heir
of John Colle he gave to John Oteley and Sibylla his wife
daughter of the said William Colle all that pasture called Colle
furlong at the back of the Castle ; this same Colle furlong is
named in a deed 16 Rich. ii. (1392-3). In 1491 he paid a
benevolence of ^10 as the administrator of the goods of
Robert Onnyslowe. Edmund Colle, William's only surviving
son was the last legitimate male descendant who was resident
in Shrewsbury. He was bailiff 1522, 1528, 1533, 1537, M.P.
1523. In 1539 he joined with David Owen, the Prior of the
hospital of St. John the Baptist at Frankwell, for an action of
novel disseisin against Adam Wiswall, vintner, for messuages
and 20 acres of pasture in Frankwell. Finally in 31 Henry
viii. (1539-40) an award was made tor delivery and possession
of the property to Edmund as against the Prior and Wiswall
defendants. The family of Colle had along connection with
the hospital and their property must have been much inter-
mixed. On 5th October 1465 John Colle, Edmund's grand-
father, by deed demises to the custos of the hospital the chapel
of St. George in Frankwell. In 15 Ed. iv. 1475-6 John Colle
demises to Thomas Whitefield of Salop a parcel of land
outside the Welsh gate. In 32 Ed. (1303-4) Richard son of
Hugh Colle had granted to Simon Colle five acres in the fields
of Frankwell. The last burgess of the family John Cole died
23rd Feb. 1751 aged 94. A large number of deeds of the
family were in 1848 in the possession of Mr. William Higgins,
solicitor, whose great grandmother was one of the daughters
of John Cole above named.

The family of Pontvshukv long subsisted as an opulent
family at Albrightlee within the liberties of Shrewsbury
and held considerable property in the town itself,
William, son of Geoffrey de Pontysbury, held a burgage
in Shrewsbury under Robert de Staunton in 1227. Richard
Pontysbury was M.P. 1373 and an original councillor
in 1380 In 1400 a William Pontysbury died and was buried
in St. Alkmund's. THOMAS Pontyshuky was bailiff in 1469,
1473, 1480, I489. He held the estate of I.eaton in 1 |0J 9

1 68 GRANT OF LANDS FROM WILLI VM LYSTER.

in 1491 paid a benevolence of £6 13s. 4c!. He was a merchant
of the staple of Calais, died 26 March 1514 and was buried
in St. Alkmund's where there existed formerly a brass with his
name and that of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard
Grafton, who died 9th Sept. 1513. Nicholas Pontysbury,
brother of Thomas, was a mercer, bailiff in 1485, 1492,
*499' 1590, in which last period he died, Nicholas Waryng
succeeding him. In 1 Rich. iii. (1483-4) he claims a shop,
garden and tenement in High Street on the site of Lloyd's
Bank from Amery Eathbury. William Pontysbury, son of
Thomas, was bailiff in 1493-4, with William Colle, he was a
mercer; his will bearing date of probate 15th March 15 10
mentions Elizabeth his wife and his daughters Dorothy and
Helyne (then married to Thomas Baryton). His son George
Pontysbury married Jane daughter of Sir Richard Lacon. He
•died 10th Oct. 1550 leaving two sons and one daughter, viz.,
Thomas the elderwho died without issue 17th March 1603, having
sold Leatou to Edward Owen in 1596-7. George the younger
died without issue 7th April 1589 ; the family thus became
extinct in the male line and the property devolved on their
sister Dorothy, who married Edward Owen, draper, of
Shrewsbury.

Thomas Mitton was one of the Bailiffs of Shrewsbury
eleven times between 1464 and 1504. He represented the to*rn
in Parliament in 1472 and was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1483 in
which year he arrested Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
who had headed a rising in the West of England against
K. Richard III. Eor his services he was given the Castle
and lordship of Cawes. When the Earl of Richmond wished
to enter the town in 1485, Thomas Mitton, the Senior Bailiff
replied that * before he should eatre there he should goe over
hys belly.' When it was finally decided that the Earl should
be admitted, in order to save his oath 1 the said Mitton lay along
the ground and the Earl stept over li3rm.' (Taylor MS. s.a )

Owen and Blakeway in a note say that a story precisely
similar is told of Rice ap Thomas, ami believe thai both
accounts ate unhistorical.

169

SHROPSHIRE FEET OF FINES, A.D. 1218— 1248.

(Continued from 4th Series, Vol. IV. page 177.)

The following Feet of Fines have been transcribed from the
originals preserved in the Public Record Office, and translated
by Mr. W. K. Boyd. The Feet of Fines are amongst the most
important series of Records that we possess for tracing the
devolution of landed property. Nominally they are the official
"finis " or end of a fictitious judicial action, but in effect they
are deeds for transferring land. Very early they became a
popular method of conveyance, as a duplicate of each Fine was
preserved in the custody of the King's Court, and so safety
was ensured to the purchaser. We glean from them the names
of Shropshire landowners 700 years ago, and their dealings
with their land.

The Fines lor the reigns of Richard I. and John are printed
in the Transactions, 2nd Series, Vol. X., pages 307-330; and
those for the reign of Henry III. in 3rd series, Vol. VI., pages
167-178, and Vol. VII., pages 379-389, and in 4th Series, Vol I.,
pages 385-401, and Vol. IV., pages 161-177. The present
instalment carries the Fines down to the year 1248.

Several of the Fines relate to gifts to Religious Houses*.
Buildwas, Combermere, Haughmond, Shrewsbury, Wenlock
and Wombridge are all mentioned. Nos. 123, 124, 130 and 131
are interesting documents. At the Assizes of November, 1240,
four Placita Nativitatis (Pleas of Naivty or Villeinage) were
heard ; and these resulted in Fines by which Otes (01 Odo] de
Hodnet released the Villeinage and servitude and planted
manumission to five tenants-in-Villeina^e, who thus became
free men. These were Richard de WlllfriutOn and William
his brother, who paid two marks for their freedom ; William
Sylyon, who paid six and a half maiks, Henry Sylton, who
paid six and a half marks; and William son of l.cucnath. who

170 SHROPSHIRE FEET OF FINES, A. ). I2l8 — 1248.

paid twenty shillings. These are, I think, the earliest Shrop-
shire manumissions that are known. At the Assizes of 1256,
John de Plessetis recovered the person and chattels of
Robert de Bollisword, his native or villein, whom he had
previously sued for in the County Court ; and in 1272,
Ralf le Butiler and his wife had a Placitum Nativitatis against
Robert son of Klias Pullihare, and by a subsequent Fine gave
him his freedom, for which he paid half a mark and a sore
hawk. (See Ky ton's Antiquities, IV. 150, and IX. 170).

An Index of the places mentioned in these Feet of Fines
follows.

YV.G.D.F.

Feet of Finks, Saeop, Case 193, File 3. 3-32 Henry III.

118.

At Shrewsbury, on the octaves of St. Martin 25 Henry III.

Between Alan Shitte, plaintiff, and William Lunet and
Margery his wife, tenants, ol two messuages with the appurten-
ances in Shrewsbury. William and Margery acknowledged
the said messuages with the appurtenances to be the right of
the said Alan. And for this acknowledgement, etc., the said
Alan granted to the said William and Margery one of the
aforesaid messuages with the appurtences, which is called the
"Malthus" (malt house). To have and to hold to the same
William and Margery all their lives from the said Alan and
his heirs. Rendering therefor Sd. yearly at Michaelmas for
all service and exaction. And moreover he granted to the
said Willam and Margery one bushel of charcoal [carbonmn
ardenciiim) to be taken every day from the oven of the said
Alan and his heirs all the lives of the said William and
Margery. After the decease of the said William and MaTgery
the aforesaid Alan and his heirs shall be quit of the said
charcoal. And moreover the said messuage With the appur-
tenances shall revert to the said Alan and his heiis entircl)
and quietly for ever.

119.

At Shrewsbury, on the Morrow of St. Martin t$ Heniv III.
Between Geoffrey de Oriddon, plaintiff, and Willi. on de
Middleton, tenant, of one knight's fee and 1 .} vif gates rl land

*

SHROPSHIRE FEET OF FIXES. A.D. 1 2 18—1246. iyi

in Griddon and Todestil. Wherefore the assize of inort
dancestor was summoned between them. William quitclaimed
all the said land and knight's fee to Geoffrey and his heirs for
ever, for which Geoffrey gave him 5 marks of silver.

120.

At Shrewsbury, on the Morrow of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between John de Molleg', plaintiff, and William de Wheybul,
tenant, of 1 acre of land in Cleybiry. Wherefore the assize of
moit duiieestor was summoned between them. William
acknowledged the said land to be the right of John, for which
John granted all the said land to William. To have and to
hold of the said John ami his heirs for ever. Rendering there-
fore 1 2d. yearly for all service and exaction.

121.

At Shrewsbury, on the octaves of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between Adam son of Richard, plaintiff, and Richard de
Saunford, whom Adam le Venur called to warrant and who
warranted to him, of ii virgates of land in Saunford. And be-
tween the same Adam, plaintiff, and the aforesaid Richard, whom
William son of William called to warrant and who warranted
to him, of half a virgate and 8 acres of land in the same vill.
Adam quitclaimed to the said Richard and his heirs all right
and claim which he had in all the said land for ever ; and
moreover he granted to the same Richard 3 nooks (uocas) of
land, to wit, all that land which the same Adam held in the
saute vill on the day this concord was made. To have and
to hold to the same Richard and his heiri of the chief lords
of that fee for ever. Doing therefor all the services which
pertain to the said 3 nooks for all service and exaction. And
for this quitclaim Richard granted to the same Adam a fourth
part of the manor of Whitekcshal. To have and to hold to the
same Adam and his heirs of the chief lords of that fee for evei.
Doing therefor all the services which pertain to the fourth
part of the aforesaid manor for all .service and exaction.

122.

At Sluewsbury, on the Moirowol St. Marti It, lleni> III.
Between Richard de I,npintnn. plohttifT, and Unbelt de
Btlfghclton, tenant, of 3 hides of land in Bnrjielton Ku h.ud

172 SHROKSHIRK FKKT OF FINKS, A D. I2l8 — 1248.

acknowledged the said land to be the right of the said Robert.
To have and to hold to the same Robert and his heirs of the
said Richard and his heirs for ever. Doing therefor three-
fourths of the service of one knight (whereof 5 hides "of land
make the service of one knight) in the Lord the King's army
as often as he shall be summoned, between Pouwiz and England
in the time of war for 40 days at the cost of the said Robert
and his heirs ; and doing therefor foreign service as much as
pertains to the said 3 hides of land for all service and exaction.
And for this acknowledgment Robert gave to the said Richard
4 marks of silver.

123.

At Shrewsbury, on the Morrow of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between Otes de Hodenet, plaintiff, and Richard de
Wulfrinton and William, his brother, concerning the naivty of
the said Richard and William. Otes acknowledged that the
said Richard and William are free men, and absolved the said
Richard and William and their heirs from all kind of naivty
and servitude for ever, for which Richard and William gave to
the said Otes 2 marks of silver.

124.

At Shrewsbury, on the Morrow of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between Otes de Hodenet, plaintiff, and William Sylyon,
concerning the naivty of the said William. Otes acknowledged
that the said William is a free man, and absolved the said
William and his heirs from all kind of naivty and servitude,
for which William gave to the said Otes 6k marks of silver.

125.

At Gloucester, in three weeks from the Day of St. Michael,
25 Henry III.

Between Geoffrey le Poer, plaintiff, and Richard le Archei
and Margery his wile deforciants of 2 virgates Qjf land in
Rameslega. Wherefore a plea of warranty of chattel was
summoned between them in the same court, Richard and
Margery acknowledged the said land to be the right of the
said Geoffrey. To have and to hold to the same Geoflre) .nid
and his heirs for ever. Doing therefor all the Service* which

SHROPSHIRE FEET OF FINES, A. D. J2lS — 1248. 173

pertain to the said land for all service and exaction. And
for this acknowledgment, etc., Geoffrey gave to the said
Richard and Margery 20 marks of silver.

126.

At Shrewsbury, on the Morrow of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between Richard son of Hugh, plaintiff, and Hugh son of
Ralph, tenant of two-thirds of one carucate of land and
one (tpw) messuage in Lockesford. And between the same
Richard, plaintiff, and the said Hugh, whom Roger le
Concs^able and Alice his wife called to warrant, and
who warranted to them, concerning the third part of
one carucate of land in the same vill ; and wherefore the
assize of mort dancestor was summoned between them.
Richard quitclaimed to the said Hugh and his heirs all
right and claim which he had in the said land and messuage,
for ever, for which Hugh gave him 40s.

127.

At Shrewsbury, on the Morrow of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between Isolda who was the wife of Benedict de Aston,
plaintiff, and Stephen de Aston, tenant, of one carucate of
land in Subegh. Isolda quitclaimed to Stephen and his heirs
all right and claim which she had in the said land, for ever,
for which Stephen gave her 10 marks of silver.

128.

At Worcester, in 15 days from Kaster Day, 25 Henry III.

Between Geoffrey le Comaundur and Alice his wife, plaintiffs,
and Master Lawrence de AluedeP [AlveleyJ, tenant, of 1
virgate of land in Slauerlega [Claverleyj. Geoffrey and Alice
quitclaimed to Lawrence and his heirs all right which they
had in the said land, for ever, for which Lawrence gave them
5 marks of silver.

129.

At Shrewsbury, on the Morrow 01 St. Martin, 25 Henry III
Between Richard de Straton, plaintiff, and Robert Marshal
(Marescallus), tenant, of half a virgate of land in Cleoton.
Wherefore the assize of mort dancestor was summoned
between them. Robert acknowledged the said land to be
the right of Richard, for which Richard grunted the said land

17*} SlIKul'SlIIKK 1«KKT OF FINES, A.]). 121$ — 1248.

to Robert. To have and to hold to the same Robert and his
heirs of the said Richard and his heirs for ever. Rendering
therefor 4s. yearly for all service and exaction.

130.

At Shrewsbury, on the Morrow of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between Otes de Hodenet, plaintiff, and and Henry Sylton,
concerning the naivty of the said Henry. Otes acknowledged
that the said Henry is a free man, and absolved the said
Henry and his heirs from all kind of naivty and servitude for
ever, lor which Henry gave him 6A marks of silver.

I3.I ■

At Shrewsbury, on the octaves of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between Otes de Hodenet, plaintiff, and William son of
Leuenath, concerning the naivty of the said William. Otes
acknowledged that the said William is a free man, and
absolved the said William and his heirs from all kind of naivty
and servitude for ever, for which William gave him 20s.
sterling.

i32-

At Shrewsbury, on the Morrow of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between Robert the clerk (clericus), plaintiff, and Henry
son of Robert, tenant, of 4 acres of land and 8 acres of wood
in Bruges and Wurdefeud. Wherefore the assize of mort
danccstor was summoned between them. Henry acknowledged
the said land and wood to be the right of Robert, for which
Robert, at the request of the said Henry, granted to Roger,
son of the said Henry, all the said land and wood. To have
and to hold to the same Roger and his heirs of the said Robert
all the life of the said Robert. Rendering one mark of silver
yearly, and doing therefor to the chief lords of lli.it fee .ill
other services which pertain to the said laud and wood. And
after the decease of the said Robert the said Roger and Ins
heirs shall be quit of the payment of the said mark yearly,
And they shall hold the said land and wood of the chief lords
of that lee for ever. Doing therefoi all llie Services wllicll
pertain to the said laud and wood lor all service and exaction,

*

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175

L33-

At Shrewsbury, on the octaves of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between William de Eyton and Matilda his wife, plaintiffs,
and Roger de Roehull, tenant, of two-thirds of one virgate of
land in Roehull. And between the same William and Matilda,
plaintiffs, and the aforesaid Roger, whom Agnes de Rochnll
called to warrant, and who warranted to him. of the third part
of one virgate of land in the same vill. Roger acknowledged
ail the said land to be the right of the said Matilda. And
for this acknowledgment the said William and Matilda granted
to the said Roger all the said land. To have and to hold to
the same Roger and his heirs, of the said William and Matilda
and the heirs of the said Matilda for ever. Rendering 20s.
therefor yearly, whereas formerly it used to render 14s., for
all service and exaction.

134-

At Shrewsbury, on the octaves of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between William de Eyton and Matilda his wife, plaintiffs,
and Henry son of Leonard, tenant, of the third part of 6 acres
of land and 2 messuages in Little Legh. Wherefore the a>s;ze
of mort daneestor was summoned between them. William and
Matilda quitclaimed for themselves and the heirs of Matilda to
the said Henry and his heirs all right which they had in the
third part of the said land and messuage, and likewise all right
which they had in all the lands and tenements which the same
Henry held of the inheritance of the said Leonard, his father,
on the day this concord was made, for ever. And for this
quitclaim, etc., Henry gave to the said William and Matilda
4 marks of silver.

At Shrewsbury, on the octaves of St. Martin. 25 Henry III.

Between John de Whytintou, plaintiff, and Walter son of
Maurice, tenant, of half a virgate of land in Hope I'agaid
Walter acknowledged all the said hind to be the right of the
said John, for which John granted all the said land to the said
Walter. To have and to hold to the said Walter ami his
heirs of the said John and his heirs for ever. Rendering
5s. sterling therefor yearly, ami doing as much Eon .

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service as pertains to the said land for all service and
exaction. And this agreement was made in the presence of
Robert Bagard, of whom the said Walter formerly held, and
who granted it.

136.

At Lichfield, on the Morrow of St. Nicholas, 25 Henry III.

Between Nicholas, abbot of Bildewas, plaintiff, and Alan La
Zouche, deforciant, of 2 carucates ot land in Rocleg.' Where-
fore a plea of warranty of charter was summoned between
them. Alan acknowledged all the said land to be the right of
the said abbot and of his church of Bildewas as those which the
same abbot and his church had of the gift of Sir Philip de
Beaumeys, kinsman of the said Alan, whose heir he is. To
have and to hold to the same abbot and his successors and to
his church aforesaid in free, pure and perpetual alms. (With
a clause of warranty). And moreover the same Alan granted
for himself and his heirs that the said abbot and his successors
have common of pasture for all manner of cattle of theirs of
their grange of Rocleg' everywhere within the said Alan's
manor of Tonge, except in his park of Tonge which is called
"Holy," and in his wood which is called Rocleg'; and that
the said abbot and his successors have a fishery in the wood of
Brewode in a suitable place. And if that wood shall be . . . *
with mast so that pigs shall be agisted there, the said abbot and
his successors shall have in the said wood 20 pigs only for
their own nutriment, quit [of payment] of pannage ; and if they
have more they shall give reasonable pannage for every pig.
like as the other neighbours of the country who shall have
their pigs agisted there. He also granted for himself and his
heirs that the said abbot and his successors have every year in
the aforesaid wood of Brewode S cart loads of great or small
wood fit for making timber, at the will of the said abbot and
his successors, to wit, 2 cart-loads of oak and 0 | carl-loads ] of
ash, alder, "arable" and "btil" by the view of the forestei
of the said Alan and his heirs who for the tittle -hall be
forester. And if the said forester shall be warned by the
grange-keeper of the aforesaid grange and shall afterwards

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absent himself, nevertheless it shall be lawful for the said
abbot and his successors to take the said timber without
hindrance of the said Alan or of his heirs. Moreover it shall
be lawful for the said abbot and his successors to take in the
wood of Rocleg' their estovers for burning in the said grange
from the dead wood, to wit, as much as they can take therein
with " crok " and hand without view of the said forester, for
ever. But it shall not be lawful for them to cut anything in
the aforesaid wood with an axe or with another instrument of
iron. And the same abbot received the aforesaid Alan and
his heirs in all benefits and orations which from henceforth
shall be made in their church of Bildewas, for ever.

At Shrewsbury, on the octaves of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between Henry, abbot of Shrewsbury, plaintiff, and Geoffrey
de Ledwic deforciant of the advowson of the church of Abbeton.
Wherefore the assize of last presentation was summoned
between them. Geoffrey quitclaimed the said advowson to the
said abbot and his successors and to his church of Shrewsbury,
for ever , and the said abbot received the said Geoffrey and
his heirs in all benefits and orations which from henceforth
shall be made in their church of Shrewsbury, for ever.

138.

At Shrewsbury, on the octaves of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between Roger son of William, piaintiff, and Simon de
Haueston and Alditha his wife, tenants, of 1 virgate of land
in Haueston. Roger acknowledged all the said laud to be
the right of the said Alditha, for which Simon and Alditha
granted to the said Roger 6 acres of land and one messuage
of the same land, to wit, 2 acres which extend to the meadow
of Hauestead ; one acre called " I,ongesmale Loud " ; one acre
upon " Pulewellefurlung " ; 2 acres and one messuage which
William Pay 11 held. To have and to hold to the same Robert
and his heirs of the aforesaid Sim Oil and Alditha and the
heirs of the said Alditha, forever. Rendering llierefoi yearl)
2s. sterling for all service and exaction.

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*39-

At Shrewsbury, on the Morrow of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between Imbert, Prior of Wenlock, plaintiff, and Stephen
de Hope deforciant of the customs and services which the
same prior exacted from the said Stephen for his free
tenememt which he holds of him in Chelmundewyk ; and
wherefore the prior exacted from him that he should render
to him half a mark yearly for the said tenement; which
services the same Stephen did not formerly acknowledge to
him. The said Stephen granted for himself and his heirs that
they will render for r£ virgates of land half a mark to the
prior and his successors, for which the prior remitted to
Stephen and his heirs all his damages which he said he had by
reason of the detention of the said service.

140.

At Shrewsbury, on the octaves of St. Martin, 25 Henry III.

Between William de Erleton, plaintiff, and Richard de
I^egton, concerning this, that the same Richard did not permit
him to have his reasonable estover in the said Richard's wood
of Legton, which he ought and is wont to have therein. And
wherefore the same William complaiued that the said Richard
did not permit him to take husbote and heybote and his
reasonable estover for burning and inclosing in the aforesaid
wood. Richard granted for himself and his heirs that the
said William and his heirs have husbote and heybote and their
reasonable estover for burning and inclosing in the said wood
by the view of the forester of the said Richard and his heirs
who for the time shall be foresters without hindrance of the
said Richard or of his heirs. And for this grant, etc., William
gave to the said Richard one young sparrow-hawk.

141.

At Westminster, in one month from Kaster Day, 26
Henry III.

Between Reginald de Wythiford, plaintiff, and Giles de
Erdinton deforciant of the said Reginald's estovers to bo taken
for husbote and heybote in the said Giles' wood m Ileiiiiuesle,
and of having mast in the same wood foi the piopei |M£S o(
the said Reginald and ol all his villeins <>! Wythyfonl ; wlueh

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estovers and mast the same Reginald claimed to have in the
same wood as appertaining to his free tenement in Wythiford.
Reginald remitted to Giles all right and claim which he had in
the said estovers and mast, and likewise in the common of
pasture which the same Reginald claimed to have in the said
wood, for ever. For this remission Giles gave to the said
Reginald 10 marks of silver.

142.

At Westminster, on the octaves of St. Michael, 26 Henry III.

Between Simon, abbot of Cnmbermere, plaintiff, and Ralph
le Butiler and Matilda his wife deforciants ol the Manor of
Clyue, with the appurtenances, Wherefore a plea of warranty
of charter was summoned between them. Ralph and Matilda
acknowledged the said manor to be the right of the said abbot
and of his church aforesaid, as that which the same abbot and
church have of the grant and confirmation of the said Ralph
and Matilda. To have and to hold to the same abbot and his
successors and to the church aforesaid in free and perpetual
alms. Doing therefor the royal service which to the said manor
pertains for all services and exaction pertaining to the said
Ralph and Matilda and the heirs of the said Matilda (With a
clause of warranty). And the abbot received the said Ralph
and Matilda and the heirs of Matilda in all benefits and
orations which from henceforth shall be made in the church
aforesaid, for ever.

143-

At Westminster, on the Morrow of St. Martin, 27 Henry III.

Between Roger de la Mersse, plaintiff, and Ascelina de
Bredeshull, tenant, of 30 acres of land in Kyton. and of ;>
bovates of laud, with the appurtenances, except one messuage
in La Mersse. Ascelina acknowledged the said tenements to
be the right of the said Roger, lor which Roger granted to the
said Ascelina half a virgate of laud of the said 3 DOVates in
La Mersse, to wit. that half virgate which Griffin Le Paumei
held. The same Roger also granted to the said Ascelina
a moiety of one piece of meadow ill Ufudcshllll, Culled
4i Bradcmcdwe," to wit, that moietv which ties towauU the
west. To have and to hold to the game Ascclinu all hei life, >>:

I80 SHROPOHIRE FEET OF FINES, A.D. I2l8 — 1248.

the said Roger and his heirs. Rendering therefor yearly one
pair of white gloves or id. at the Feast of St. Andrew for all
all service and exaction. And moreover the same Roger
granted for himself and his heirs that they from henceforth
would render every year to the same Ascelina all the life of
the said Ascelina 19 pence. And likewise the same Roger at
the request of the said Ascelina granted to Robert, son of
Matthew de Eyton, nephew \nepoti) of the said Ascelina, 12
acres of land of the said 30 acres in Eyton, to wit, those 12
acres which Ralph le Bonde at one time held. To have
and to hold to the same Robert and his heirs of the
said Roger and his heirs for ever. Rendering therefor
yearly one pair of white gloves or id. at the Feast of
St. Andrew, and doing therefor the foreign service which
pertains to the said 12 acres for all service and exaction. After
the decease of the said Ascelina the said half virgate and the
said moiety of the said piece of meadow shall revert to
the said Roger and his heirs.

144.

At Westminster, on the octaves of Holy Trinity, 27
Henry III.

Between Nicholas, abbot of Byldewas, plaintiff, and Thomas
Corbet deforciant of a certain way in Munsterleg', which the
abbot claimed to have beyond the said'Thomas' meadow in the
same till as far as the said abbot's meadow in the same vill.
The abbot quitclaimed for himself and his successors to
Thomas and his heirs all right and claim which they had of
having the aforesaid way, lor ever. And for this quitclaim the
same Thomas granted for himself and his heirs that the Mine
abbot and his successors from henceforth have free ingress
and egress everywhere beyond the lands and meadows of the
said Thomas and his heirs and of their villeins 111 the same
vill at the time ol mowing to the aforesaid meadow of the said
abbot and his successors where they shall deem most
expedient for them for mowing, raising and carryiug then hay
from the same meadow. So nevertheless that the same
Thomas or his heirs or their villeins shall have no damage o:
loss by their carriage in their meadow 01 corn, unless it should

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happen by chance that their meadows should not be mowed in
the hay time ; and then the same abbot and his successors,
nevertheless, shall carry their hay beyond their unmowed
meadows. But if the abbot and his successors should wish to
graze their said meadow after the hay time with their cattle,
they shall not be able to claim or demand any way for driving
their cattle beyond the lands or meadows of the said Thomas
or his heirs or of their villeins in the same vill, for ever.
Moreover, the same Thomas granted for himself and his heirs,
as much as to them pertains, that if the foals, lambs, calves or
young pigs oi the said abbot or of his successors till they shall
be one or two years old shall enter into the forest or hays of
the same Thomas or of his heirs by escape they shall give
nothing for that escape. But they shall give for the escape of
a foal of either sex after it shall be oue year old |d., till it shall
be two years old, and afterwards 3d. ; and for the escape of
everyvyoung ox or heifer of one or two years |d. till they shall
be three years old, and afterwards 3d. And this agreement
was made between them saving to the same abbot and his
successors and to the church aforesaid and likewise to the
•same Thomas and his heirs all the other articles which are
contained in a certain other chirograph formerly made
between them in the court of the same King before his Justices
in eyre at Shrewsbury.

145.

At Westminster, on the octaves of St. Hillary, 27 Henry III.
Between Imbert, prior of Wenlock, plaintiff, and William de
la Lee, deforciant of the third part of half a hide of land in the
manor of Stokes. The said William quitclaimed the .said
third part to the said prior and to his successors for ever.
And moreover the same William granted to the said prior the
two other parts of the said half hide of land, which half hide is
called " La Lee," and quitclaimed them to the same prior and
his successors for ever. And for this donation, etc . the prior
<raVe to the said William 100s. Stg. And be it known that the
first fine made of the aforesaid other third part of the half hide
of land is annulled by this line.

l82 SHROPSHIRE FKET OF FINKS, A.D. 1216 — 1248.

146.

At Westminster, on the octaves of Holy Trinity, 27
Henry III.

Between Henry, Abbot of St. Peter, Gloucester, plaintiff, by
Thomas Maloysel, put in his place to gain or lose, and Robert
de Wdeton, tenant, of 30 acres of land and 10 acres of wood in
Bromfeld. The abbot acknowledged the said land and wood
to be the light of the said Robert. To have and to hold to the
same Robert aud his heirs, of the same abbot and his
successors and his church aforesaid, for ever. Rendering
therefor yearly 3s. stg. for all service and secular exaction.
And for this acknowledgment, etc., the same Robert granted
for himself and his heirs that the same abbot and his successors
from henceforth have free chase throughout all the lauds of
the said Robert and of his heirs in Wdeton Onyber' and
Walton for all hinds of wild beasts, except in the park of the
said Robert and his heirs, for ever. So nevertheless that it
shall not te lawful for the same abbot or his succesors to
course in the corn or meadow of the said Robert or of his heirs
in the aforesaid vills from Whitsuntide till that corn and the
hay of the first mowing shall be carried away, nor to seek any
beast, unless perchance it shall happen that any beast shall be
found outside the corn or those meadows, and then it shall be
lawful for them to pursue that beast through the corn and
meadows till the taking of that beast. And likewise the same
Robert granted for himself and his heirs that the same abbot
and his successors have free fishery throughout all running
waters in the aforesaid manors of Wdeton, Oneber' and
Walton. So, to wit, that where the land of the said abbot lies
on both sides of the said waters the same abbot and hi*>
successors shall have their free fishery without any common
[of fishery] which the aforesaiu Robert or his heiis might
there demand, for ever, Aud likewise the same Robert and
his heirs shall have their free fishery throughout all the waters
in the aforesaid manors where the land of the aforesaid Robert
lies on both sides of the aforesaid waters quit without any
common which the aforesaid abbot 01 his SUCCetSOm might
there demand, for ever. Aud moreover the same Kobeit

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granted lor himself and his heirs, a.^.d the same abbot
[granted] for himself and his successors that, where the land
of the said abbot lies on the one side of the aforesaid waters
and the land of the said Robert [lies] on the other [side] the
fishery should be common in those waters for the aforesaid
abbot and his successors and for the aforesaid Robert and his
heirs, for ever. And besides the same Robert gave to the
aforesaid abbot 2 marks of silver.

147.

At Westminster, in one mouth from the Day of Holy Trinity,
27 Henry III.

Between Robert de Drayton, plaintiff, and William de
Drayton, tenant, of one carucate of land in Drayton.

William acknowledged the said land to be the right of
Robert, and for this acknowledgment, etc., the same Robert
granted the said land to the said William. To have and to
hold to the same William and his heirs begotten of his body
of the chief lords of that fee, for ever. Doing therefor all the
services which pertain to the said land. And if it happen
that the said William should die without issue, then the said
carucate of land shall revert to the said Robert and his heirs,
for ever.

148.

At Westminster, on the Morrow of the Purification of the
Blessed Mary. 28 Henry III.

Between Mathias de Mara and Florence, his wife, plaintiffs
and Roger de Leyburn, tenant, of the manor of Berewik,
which the aforesaid Mathias and Florence claimed to be the
reasonable dower of the said Florence which belonged to her
in respect of the free tenement which belonged to John de
Lcyburn, formerly her husband. The said Mathias and
Florence remitted all right and claim which they had 111 the
said manor in the name of (lower, to the said Roger and hta
heirs, for ever, for which Roger gave them one young sparrow-
hawk.

At Westminster, on the Morrow of All Souls, jo Henry in.
Between Hubert (Ilyinbci tu.O. piuu of Wcnhvk. plaintill.

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and Robert de Gyroys deforciant of the manor of Oxenebode.
Wherefore a plea of warranty of character was summoned
between them in the same Court. Robert acknowledged the
said manor to be the right of the said prior and of his church
of Wenlock, as that which the same prior and his church
aforesaid have of the gift of the aforesaid Robert. To have
and to hold to the same prior and his successors and to his
successors and to his church aforesaid in pure and perpetual
alms, free and quit from all secular service and exaction, for
ever. (With a clause of warranty). And moreover the same
Robert quitclaimed for himself and his heirs to the said prior,
etc., all right and claim which he had in a moiety of the
advowson of the Cell of Preone, with all its appurtenances,
which is subject to the aforesaid priory of Wenlock, for ever.
And the same prior received the aforesaid Robert and his
heirs in all benefits and orations which from henceforth shall
be made in his church aforesaid, for ever.

150.

At Westminster, in 15 days from Easter Day, 29 Henry III.

Between Imbert, prior of Wenlock, plaintiff, and Thomas de
Longa Stanton deforciant of the advowson of the church of
Long" Stanton. Wherefore a plea of warranty of charter was
summoned between them. Thomas acknowledged the said
advowson to be the right of the prior and his church of
Wenlock. as that which the same prior and his church have of
the gift of the said Thomas. To have and to hold to the same
prior and his successors in pure and perpetual alms, foi ever.
(With a clause of warranty). And the prior received the afore-
said Thomas and his heirs in all benefits and orations which
from henceforth shall be made 111 his church, for ever.

At Westminster, 011 the octavo of Holy Trinity, 29 Hen: v III.

Between William Dod, plaintiff, and ttaldwitl, prioi <>f
Wambrig, tenant, of half a virgate of land in Uppillton, and
half a virgate of land in Whythel William acknowledged the
said land to be the right <>! the pTMM and oi his elmich of
Wambrig, as those which the same pilot, etc.. have ot the gill
oflsolda, mother of the aforesaid Willi. mi, whose hen lie iv

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To have and to hold to the prior and his successors and to his
church aforesaid, of the said William and his heirs in pure and
perpetual alms, free and quit from all secular service and
exaction, for ever. (With a clause of warranty). And the
prior received the said William and his heirs in all benefits and
orations which from henceforth shall be made in his church
aforesaid, for ever.

152.

At Westminster, on the Morrow of Ail Souls, 29 Henry III.

Between Ralph le Buteler and Matilda, his wife, plaintiffs,
by the said Ralph put in Matilda's place to gain or lose, and
Ralph de Hodenet, tenant, of two parts (two-thirds) of a
knight's fee in Cuneshasel. Ralph de Hodenet quitclaimed
the said two parts to Ralph le Butler and Matilda and to the
heirs of the said Matilda, for ever, for which Ralph and
Matilda gave him 40 marks of silver.

153-

At Westminster, on the Octaves of the Purification,
29 Henry III.

Between Gilbert, abbot of Hawemon, plaintiff, and Robert de
Gyroys, deforciant, by Richard de Cruce put in his place, of
the manor of Gulydon, except the park of the same manor, and
of 1 virgate of land, 2 tofts and 2 mills in Fyttesho, and the
advowson of the chapel of the same vill. Wherefore a plea of
warranty of charter was summoned between them. Robert
acknowledged the said manor, etc.. except the said park, to be
the right of the said abbot and of his church of Hawemon. as
those which the same abbot and his church have of the gift of
the said Robert. To have and to hold to the abbot and his
successors in free, pure and perpetual alms, for ever. (With a
clause of warranty). And the abbot received the said Robert
and his heirs in all benefits and orations which from hence-
forth shall be made in his church aforesaid, for ever.

154-

At Westminster, on the Octaves of St. Michael, 29 Henry 111.

Between William de Hedleg', plaintiff, and Baldwin, prior of
Wembrig, concerning this, that the same prioi exacted Horn
him the ninth part of all thillga which renew to him \e.ulv

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within the manor of Ercalewe ; and wherefore the same
William complained that the said prior drew him into £
plea in a Court Christian concerning his chattels which die
not belong to a testament or matrimony. William granted foi
himself and his heirs that the said prior and his successor-
have for ever the ninth part of all sheaves and hay issuing
from 3 carucates of laud which the said William held in his
demesne in Ercalewe on the day this agreement was made,
whosoever should hold that land ; and likewise that they have
the ninth part of the sheaves and hay in respect of all lands
which he or his heirs shall assort or break up (for ploughing)
in the said manor which were not tilled on the day this
agreement was made. And for this grant, etc., the prior
quitclaimed for himself and his successors to the said William
and his heirs all right and claim which they had in the
exaction which the same prior made from the said William in
respect of the ninth part of the sheaves and hay in the vill of
L,a Mora, and likewise all right and claim which he had in the
ninth part of all his movable things, for ever.

155-

At Westminster, on the Octaves of Holy Trinity, 29
Henry III.

Between Gilbert Marshal (Marescallus) and Alice, his wife,
plaintiffs, and Nicholas le Despenser and Cristiana, his wife,
tenants, of a moiety of one virgate of land in Wylleleg', which
the said William and Alice claimed to be the reasonable share
of the said Alice which belonged to her in respect of the
inheritance which belonged to Walter le Stalkere. fathei o(
the said Alice and Cristiana, in the same vill. William and
Alice quitclaimed for themselves and the heirs of Alice to the
said Nicholas and Cristiana and the heirs of Christian* all
right and claim which they had in the said loud, foi ever, foi
which Nicholas and Cristiana gave to the said William and
Alice 5 marks of silver.

15O.

At Westminster, in 15 days from Bastei Day, jo Henry HI.

Between Isabella de KodiugtOU, bv Kohcil. SON of Baldwin
Wychard, put in his place, Roger de Appelcg* and Cl uicia,

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his wife, Richard de Flotebrock aiu1 Juliana, his wife,
plaintiffs, and Adam, abbot of Salop deforciant, by John le
Clerc, of Shrewsbury, put in the said abbot's place, of the
advowson of the church of Rodington. Wherefore a
plea of last presentation was summoned between them.
The plaintiffs quitclaimed the said advowson, for them-
selves and the heirs of the said Isabella, Claricia and
Juliana, to the said abbot and his successors for ever. And
the plaintiffs granted that the abbot and his successors should
from henceforth have their reasonable estovers for husbote and
paybote and for burning and inclosing, and common of
pasture for all manner of cattle of theirs everywhere in the
wood of the said Isabella, Roger and Claricia, Richard and
Juliana, of Rodington, with free entry and exit and way
without hindrance of the plaintiffs or of the heirs of Isabella,
Claricia, and Juliana, by the view of the foresters of the
plaintiffs and the heirs of Isabella, Claricia and Juliana, forever.
And the abbot received the said plaintiffs and the heirs of
Isabella, Claricia and Juliana in all benefits and orations which
henceforth shall be made in his church aforesaid, for ever.

157-

At Westminster, in 15 days from the day of St. Hillary,
30 Henry III.

Between Henry de Bradelegh and Isabella, his wife, plaintiffs,
by Hugh de Hauyiye put in the place of Isabella, and
Richard son of William deforciant of the manor of La Baehe.
Wherefore the aforesaid Henry and Isabella complained that
the said' Richard did not render to them 42s. which thev OUglit
to render to them yearly, as it contained in a chirograph
formerly made between them William son of Ashill, father of
the aforesaid Richard, and the aforesaid Isabella. Richard
granted for himself and his heirs that they from henceforth
will render every year to the said Henry and Isabella all the
life of the said Isabella the said 42s. for the aforesaid manor, at
Audelebyry. (With a clause of distress ill OSUie D
payment). And the said Richard gave to the said Henry and
Isabella 100s. stg. for their damage*,

SHROPSHIRE FEET OF FINES, A.D. !2lS — 1 248.

158.

At Westminster, on the Octaves of St. John the Baptist,
31st of Henry III.

Between Nicholas, abbot of Bildewas, plaintiff, and Alan La
Zuche, deforciant, by Walter son of Warin put in his place, of
2 carucates of land in Rockley. Alan acknowledged all the
said land, with the appurtenances, with the site and exit of the
said abbot's grange in Rockley, and whatsoever he holds
between the said land and the water of Wrgh descending to
the wood of Rockley, without common of the said Alan and his
heirs, to be the right of the said abbot and of his church of
Byldewas, as those which the same abbot and his church
have of the gift of Philip de Balmeis, kinsman of the said
Alan, whose heir he is. To have and to hold to the same
abbot and his successors and to his church aforesaid in pure
and perpetual alms, free and quit from all secular service
and exaction, for ever. (With a clause of warranty). And
moreover the same Alan granted for himself and his heirs
that the aforesaid abbot and his successors and his church
shall take dry wood everywhere in the wood of Rockley for
burning in tire said abbot's grange of Rockley, to wit, as much
as the said abbot's men shall be able to take with crook and
hand without the view of the forester of the said Alan and of
his heirs, for ever. So nevertheless that it shall not be
lawful for them to cut anything in the said wood with an axe
or with any other iron instrument. And likewise the said
Alan gave and granted to the aforesaid abbot and his chinch
the whole tenement which the same Alan had in Upton on
the day this agreement was made, without any withholding.
To have and to hold to the abbot and his successors and to
his church aforesaid, of the said Alan and his heirs in free and
perpetual alms, for ever. Doing therefor as much foreign
service as pertains to so great a tenement of the same fee, in
the same vill, for all service, suit of court. CUStDUl and
exaction. (With a clause of warrant y against the duel loi Is
of the fee). The same Alan also granted for hi 111 Self and Ins
heirs that if the cattle of the said abbot OC dJ hi- Successors
should enter into the land of the said abbot 01 ol ftis

SHROPSHIRE FEET OF FINES, A D. I2l8 — 1248. 189

successors, in the manor of Thonge, by escape, they shall not
be impounded or troubled 011 that account, but shall be chased
back without damage of the said cattle. The same Alan also
granted for himself and his heirs that the abbot and his
successors and their church from henceforth have a large way
to their grange of Rockley as far as the bridge towards
Doniton for chasing their cattle towards the pasture of
Douiton, and re-chasing, for ever. And for this acknowledg-
ment, grant, etc., the abbot quitclaimed for himself and his
successor and their church aforesaid to the said Alan and his
heirs all right and claim which he had in the common of
pasture which they were accustomed to have in the manor of
Thonge for all kinds of cattle of theirs of their grange at
Rockley, together with 8 cartloads of wood suitable for timber,
which they were accustomed to have every year in the said
Alan's wood in Brewude, and with the stye {porcaria) which
the same abbot was accustomed to have in the same wood.
The abbot for himself, etc., also quitclaimed to the said Alan
and his heirs all right and claim which he had in one virgate
of land which the abbot and his church had of the gift of the
black nuns of Brewude, for ever, saving nevertheless to the
abbot, etc., a certain site for making a mill in Tylemoneslode,
with the pord and watercourse, and with a reasonable way to
that mill ; and saving to the abbot and to his successors and
church land in a suitable place near the said mill for repairing
the pond of the same mill as often as it shall be necessary.
And likewise the abbot quitclaimed for himself, etc., to the
said Alan and his heirs all right and claim which he had in
the common of pasture of Lusyard, against the said abbot's
grange of Lilleshull, for ever.

159-

At Westminster, on the Octaves of St. John the Baptist,
31 Henry III.

Between Nicholas, abbot of Byldewas, plaint ill", ami Osbett do
Styrcheleg' deforciant of 2 virgates of land in Btyreholej»\
Wherefore there a plea of warranty of chai lei was *ll til IUO tied
between them. Osbeit acknowledged the said land to be the
right of the said abbot as that which the same abbot and Kin

190 SHROPSHIRE FEET OF KINKS, A D. 1218 — 1 248.

church have of the gift of the said Osbert. To have and to
hold to the same abbot and his successc rs and to there church
aforesaid, of the said Osbert and his heirs, for ever. Doing
therefor as much foreign service as pertains to so much land
on the same fee in the same vill for all service and exaction.
(With a clause of warranty). And moreover the same Osbert
granted to the said abbot and his church 2 virgates of land,
60 acres of wood and two mills in the same vill which the same
Osbert at one time held in demesne, together with the capital
messuage of the same vill and a moiety of the garden to that
messuage pertaining, with the great meadow which lies between
the said mills, a moiety of the meadows of Crumbwelle Medue,
two small plots lying in the same meadow, a moiety of the
meadow of Nordwelle Medue with a certain small piece of
meadow in the same meadow by the Yardcroft, with a certain
meadow called Platte, another meadow called Clokerwell,
and a meadow lying in Milnefeld by the land of the said abbot,
and with the homage and the whole service of Robert Alleyn
and of his heirs in respect of the whole tenement which the
same Robert formerly held of the same Osbert in the same vill.
To have and to hold to the same abbot and his successors, etc..
in pure and perpetual .ilnis, free and cjuit from all secular
service and exaction, for ever. (With a clause of warranty).
And the abbot received the said Osbert and his heirs in all
benefits and orations which from henceforth shall be made 111
the church aforesaid, for ever.

160.

At Huntingdon, in 15 days from the day of St. Martin. 32
Henry III.

Between Nicholas, abbot of Byldewas, plaintiff, and William
de Bykedou, deforciant of 2\ virgates of land in Bykedou.
Wherefore a plea of warranty of charter was summoned
between them. The said William acknowledged the said
land, together with the site of the grange of Bykedou and
3 sehons of land lying by the court of Gilbert SOU o! W
in the same vill, and with the messuages, tofts, 1
meadows, pastures, ways, waters, pools, mills, LUOOrs,

SHROPSHIRE FKKT OF FINES, A D. I2l8 — 124S. 191 '

fishponds, fisheries, and all other things to the said
land and tenements pertaining to be the right of the said
abbot and of his church of Byldewas as those which the same
abbot, etc., have of the gift of the said William. To have and
to hold to the same abbot, etc., in pure and perpetual .alms,
free and quit from all secular service and exaction, for ever.
And moreover the same William granted to the said abbot
and his church a certain way, of the width of 16 feet, which
leads from Bykedon to the highway which goes from
Moneford Bridge to Shrewsbury, together with the whole
meadow called Martini's Medue, and with the whole land and
moor by that meadow, to inclose and do therewith whatsoever
he wishes, without common of the said William or of his heirs,
for ever. And likewise the said William granted for himself
and his heirs that the said abbot and his successors from
henceforth have common of pasture for 18 oxen and 24 cattle,
with their sequel of one year [old], and for four horses in all
the defences which the same William or his heirs shall make
for their own oxen or cattle ; and from 'henceforth they have
common of pasture for 300 sheep (by the long hundred)
everywhere in the pasture of the said William and his heirs in
Bykedon ; and that from henceforth they take every year 8
cartloads of brushwood with poles in the said William's wood
of Bykeleg'. and his heirs, between the Feast of iSt.
Martin and the Ascension, without view or gainsaying or
hindrance of the said William or of his heirs or of their
foresters. And it shall not be lawful for the same William
or his heirs to assart or sell the said wood or any part of it,
whereby the abbot and his successors should not have the said
brushwood in the same wood according to what is aforesaid,
for ever. And moreover the same William granted that the
abbot and his successors from henceforth take every year
heath and turves sufficient foi their granges of Mole and
Bykedon throughout all the heath of Bikedon, and 30 cart-
loads of "furgwode" and of turves which are commonly
called "peth" everywhere in llaremos. (With a clause of
warranty). And it shall be lawful for the abbot and his
successors to inclose all the said lands with ditch and hedge.

102 SHROPSHIRE 1-EET OK KINKS, A.I) . I2l8 — 1 248.

I6l.

At Gloucester, in one month from Easter Day, 32 Henry III.

Between Walter de Clifford, plaintiff, and Gilbert, abbot of
Haggeniau, deforciant of the advowsou of the church of
Culmethon. Wherefore the assize of last presentation was
summoned between them. The abbot quitclaimed the said
advowsou to the said Walter, for which the said Walter
granted to the abbot and his church of Haggeman the homage
and the whole service of Richard Belle and of his heirs for the
tenement which the same Richard held of the said Walter in
in Sydinton on the day this agreement was made.

INDEX TO THE PLACES NAMED IN THE FOREGOING
FEET OF FINES. TEMP. HENRY III.

No.

Abdon.. .. ..137

Bachc (Culmington) .. 157

Hicton .. ..160
Brewood (Staffordshire) .. 158

Bridgnorth .. ..132

Bromfield .. ..146

Burleton .. .. 122

Chelmick .. .. 139

Church Preen .. ..149

Claverley .. ..128

Cleeton .. .. 129

Cleobury [? North] . . 120

Cliff Grange (Sutton) .. 142

Corselle (Hinstock) .. 152

Criddon (Chetton) .. 119

Culmington . . . . 161

Drayton .. ..147

Ercall Magna . . . . 154

Eyton (Caus) .. . . 143

Great Berwick .. ..148

Haston (Hadnall) .. 138

Hemmeele (Withiford) .. 141

Hope Baggot . . . . 135

Leighton .. .. 140

Leonard's Lee .. 134

Losford .. ..126

Marsh (Caus) 143

No.

Merrington (formerly

Gulydon)

.. 153

Minsterley

.. 144

Monk Meole

.. 160

Onibury

. . 146

Oxenbold

.. 149

Rodington

. , 156

Romsley

. . 125

Ruckley (near Tong)

136. 158

Ruthall

.. 133

Sandford (Prees) . .

.. 121

Shrewsbury

.. 118

Stanton Long

.. 150

Stirchley

.. 159

Stoke St. Milburg

.. 145

Subegh (Aston-under-thc-

Wrekin)

.. 127

Tedstill (Chetton)

.. 119

Tong ..

.. 158

Tylemoneslode (?)

. . 1 58

Uppington

.. 151

Walton

146

Whitekeshal (?) . .

.. 121

Wichley (Uppington)

.. 151

Willcy

. . 1 55

Withiford (Little)

141

Wootton (Stanton Lacy)

.. 146

WorhVld

.. 132

SOME SHROPSHIRE INCIDENTS IN THE
FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

By HENRY T. WEYMAN, F.S.A.

There are four old Shropshire Families whose estates
adjoined one another and who have owned those estates from
so early a period in English history that no authentic records
of their origin and beginnings can now be traced. The
families alluded to are the Plowdens of Plowden, the Mores of
More and Linley, the Oakeleys of Oakeley and the Walcots of
Walcot. There are fortunately representatives of the two first
families with us to-day still holding those estates which their
forefathers have held for so many centuries; a Plowden still holds
Plowden and a More, More and Linley. The Oakeley estate has
passed away from the old family of which there is no male
representative now in the county, and even the name of the
estate has been changed, but there are still representatives of
the old family of Walcot resident in Shropshire, though the
Walcot estate was sold to Robert Lord Clive of Plassy in the
latter half of the iSth century, and is now the property of the
Lord Lieutenant of the county. The writer knows full well that
there are other old knightly and gentle Shropshire families
going back in similar fashion to times as far away as those
who have been named — the Corbets, the Leightons, the
Sandfords of Sandford, the Eytons of Eyton, and perhaps
others, but the four who have been mentioned above differ
somewhat from the others as their estates are contiguous and
in a remote part of the county. Representatives of three of
the families, Roger de Plowden, a Walcot of Walcot and an
Oakeley of Oakeley served together with Richard Cauirde Lion
in the Crusade, and took part in the Siege and capture of
Acre, so distinguishing themselves that they obtained from
the King the right to add the fleur de lys to their anus.

The incident upon which this paper is founded relates
only to two of the families — the Plowdens and the Walcots,

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but it is so illustrative of the state of the country in the 15th
century, a time of general lawlessness, that it -seems worthy of
record in a Shropshire Society's Transactions. It forms a
supplement to the papers of the Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, F.S. A.,
on "The Assize Rolls of 1414" and "The Escapades of
Richard Peshall," published in the Transactions 01 1906 and
1907. The following is the report of an inquest held at
Ludlow in 1463.

"Inquiry held at Ludlow by the oath of John Leighton
" Esquire, Robert Cresset Esquire, Roger Eyton Esq.,
" Edward Del a mar Esq., Maurice Ludlow Esq.,
lt Edward Leighton, William Minton, Richard James,
11 Thomas Rowley. Thomas Waring, John Hewes, William
" Legge of Wenlock and Thomas Hudson who say on
" their oath that Edward Plowden of Plowden County of
•'Salop gentleman and Roger Plowden of Plowden
"gentleman on Saturday, before the Feast of St.

Bartholomew 2 Edward IV. at 4 p.m. at the town
11 of Walcot in a certain lane called Mersh Lane of
"the same town with bills and bows attacked William
" Walcot and the said Edward Plowden threw a bill
"worth 4d. which he held in his hand at the said
" William Walcot and so gave him a mortal wound of
14 which he died on the Tuesday after the Feast of the
"Beheading of St. John the Baptist. (29 August), and so
•' murdered the said William Walcot. And they further
" say that Edward Plowden of Plowden gentleman John
"Plowden of Plowden gentleman Robert Corbet of
11 Bishop's Castle gentleman Richard Burley of Shrews-
11 bury gentleman Roger Betley of Betley yeoman received
" and comforted the murderers."

Such is the short and succinct account of the crime, and
we regret that we are not told more. We can only conjecture
possible causes of the quarrel which led to so tragic an ending
between the members of two great neighbouring families.
The times were very disturbed, for it must be remembered
that they were the days of the Wars of the Roses. The
battles ol Mortimer's Cross and TowtOtl which placed

IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 195

Edward IV. on the throne of England had been fought a
year earlier, but feelings still ran high bet ween the adherents
of York and Lancaster. Henry VI. was free and in Scotland,
where he had strong supporters, and incursions by the Scotch
were feared, invasion was threatened by the King of France,
and only a few months earlier John de Vere, Earl of Oxford,
a great Lancastrian noble, had perished on the scaffold. It
may be that this tragic rencontre between the Plowdens and
William Walcot had some connexion with those State
questions which were agitating all men's minds at that time.
The Walcots of the day probably had Red Rose sympathies,
as one of the family was high in favour with Henry V., but
the writer has not been able to ascertain the leanings of the
Plowdens in those days.

The quarrel may have arisen out of some trouble in
connection with the family estates, it may have been a dispute
about hunting or sporting, or it may have been a mere vulgar
brawl. The story arouses a wish for fuller information as to
the actual facts of the fracas. We know little of the parties
concerned. William Walcot was possibly a son of either
John Walcot who married Maud Cornwell in 1413, or of his
son Roger Walcot whose wife was Margaret Lloyd of
Mathavern. While the Plowdens were certainly not the heads
of the clan, still it is beyond doubt that the parties
were members of the old families, the scene of the murder
being close to their estates. The fact that the jurors 011 the
Inquest included some of the principal men in the county,
John Leighton (who was M.P. for Shropshire and Sheriff of
the county), Robert Cresset (Sheriff in 1469), Roger Eyton
(Sheriff in 1466), and Morris Ludlow of Stokesay, indicates
that the inquiry was an important one. The record of the
Inquest is silent as to the subsequent proceedings, but some
little may be gathered from the Controlnient Rolls of the
period, From these it would appear that the case never came
on for trial, as the Plowdens disappeared, no unusual thing
in those days. The entry in these rolls in 3 Edward IV.
states that Edward Plowden and Roger Plowden . late of
Plowden, gentlemen, indicted for " certain felonies and

196

SOME SHROPSHIRE INCIDENTS

murders, and Edward Plowden, John Plowden, Roger Corbet,
Richard Burley, Roger Bexley and Join Blyke for being
accessories" did not appear, -consequently they were outlawed
after being called in the usual manner at successive County
Courts. This outlawry extended in the case of the Plowdens
for at least 10 years, but Edward Plowden the accessory, not
the murderer, and Roger Corbet were then returned as dead,
Roger Bexley and John Plowden were acquitted.

Outlawry in the 15th century was not quite so serious a
matter as it had been in earlier times, when it was not only
the right but the bounden duty of every subject of the King
to kill at sight any outlaw, i.e., a man who was declared to be
outside the King's Peace or the protection of the law. As
may be imagined this gave rise to so much abuse that in the
reign of Edward III. it was provided that none but the
Sheriff, having lawful warrant therefor, should put to death
any man outlawed.

It appears to have been but seldom in those days that a
murderer or other gross malefactor met the punishment he
deserved, and it appears only too certain that in cases of men
of high standing very little effort was made to bring them to
justice. The offender probably escaped to another county,
and though his whereabouts were perfectly well known, the
Sheriff of the County where the offence was committed and
whose duty it was to arrest him, would return the writ " iicn
inveniendus." The offender would then be called openly in
4 successive County Courts, and if he did not put in appearance
(and of course he did not) nothing could be done but outlaw
him, and there the matter ended.

If the murder resulted from any family feud between the
Walcots and the Plowdens this was probably put an end to in
the next century by the marriage of John Walcot of Walcot, the
then head of that family, to Margaret daughter of the great
lawyer Edmund Plowden of Plowden.

The Rolls from which the incident related above
is taken shew us that the above is not an Isolated
case, but that crimes in which the members ol some of the
principal Shropshire families were involved were, alas.

IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 197

very common, nor is the above th- only tragedy in
which the Plowden family were involved. The Assize
Rolls1 for the year 1414 contains a presentment that
in the year 1399 "John Plowden of Co. Salop Esquire at
Ludlow feloniously slew John Caumvile." We have only the
bare fact, and no particulars are given, but in this case
retribution followed as "John Plowden Esquire on Good
Friday in 14 1 at Lydbury when going to hear divine service
there," was (as was alleged) murdered by John Abrahall Esquire
and others.

The companions of John Abrahall on this occasion are
described as of " Irehenfield Sondeours," which seems to
represent " messengers, in this case, probably ecclesiastical
messengers, i.e. apparitors, and this gives some clue to the
nature of the incident. In 141 1 John Plowden had been
appointed by Robert Mascall Bishop of Hereford as his Warden
of Ashwood, while John Abrahall the alleged murderer was a
man of high standing in the County of Hereford, and as he
represented the City of Hereford in Parliament in 1419, and
the County of Hereford in 143 1, it is clear that he did not
incur the penalty of this alleged murder. As he was accom-
panied on this occasion by apparitors from Archenfield, still a
deanery of the diocese ot Hereford, it is probably safe to
assume that he had a commission from the Bishop on some
complaint against the latter's Warden of Ashwood, John
Plowden, and that in resistance to arrest or by some other way
the latter was killed.

In 1414 John Burley, probably the son of the M.P. for
Shropshire 1403-1411 and brother of William Burley, Speaker
of the House of Commons, was indicted for two atrocious
murders; Reginald Vernon, Parson of Wheathill, was charged
with the premeditated murder 01" John Hunt and John Wele
(M.P. for the County at the very time) was charged with .»
violent outrage. The names of a Corbet, a Cornewall, a
iV'shall and an Kasthope of ICaslhope were among those in the
same year against whom serious crimes were alleged.

1 Transactions, 3rd Scries, VII, 391, &e.

I9S SOME SHROPSHIRE INCIDENTS

Only a few years later than the incident related above, there
was another cause celebre in the County affecting still another
County family living in the immediate neighbourhood of the
Plowdens, Oakeleys and Wjilcots.

At the Sessions of the Peace held at Shrewsbury in 1466. the
Jurors presented that " Alice Hopton of Hopton, widow, in
•* the 12th year of the reign of Henry VI. (de facto but non de
"jure, King of England), did feloniously poison murder and
"kill Thomas Hopton of Hopton Esquire, formerly her
"husband, at Hopton, and that William Pryce of London
''gentleman feloniously received comforted and sustained
" her." The Sheriff was ordered to have her body at
Bridgnorth, but we know no nior.\ A curious feature of
this case, which is only mentioned as shewing the prevalence
of crimes of violence, is that the presentment of the jury was
not made until some thirty years after the offence was alleged
to have been committed.

Another example may be given of the existence of disorder
amongst the higher classes in the County in the reign of
Kdward IV. In the 13th year of his reign (1473) an inquest
was held at Shrewsbury, the importance of which is shown by
the constitution of the Court, which consisted of Henry, Dnke
of Buckingham (Lieutenant of the King in Shropshire, High
Steward and Constable of England), John Earl of Shrewsbury
(Chief Justice of North Wales), Thomas Lord Maltravers (who
became Earl of Arundel, John Lord L* Estrange (who married
a sister of the Queen), and Richard Fiennes, Lord Dacre, the
Constable of the Tower, with whom were associated the great
lawyer Sir Thomas Lyttleton and William Alington, a member
of the Council of the Marches of Wales. The Jury was
worthy of the Court, and comprised most ol 'the principal men
of the County. The alleged criminal was Humphrey Cotes
of Wodecote, who was charged with "having gathered to
" himself many malefactors and disturbers of the peace to the
14 number of 20, armed with lances, swords, bows ami mrows,
"on'tln- jjnd J auuary, i.}7~\ took ami imprisoned Margaret
"BuiIlv, widow, at Little Wenlock, ami led In 1 uwtt) lo
"Wodecote against her will, and lllCll led hci a\\a\ to

IN THK FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 199

" Owettyshaye on the 24th January, and from there led her to
" Lyndon in the County of Salop, where on the 26th the same
"Humphrey feloniously 1 rapuit ' the same Margaret Bnrley
"and that John Cotes of Woodcote and others feloniously
" assisted the said Humphrey Cotes." The result is not
related. Before the' same Court, Robert Corbet, of Hopton,
gentleman, was charged with the murder of John Acheley,
at Aldon, and Richard Lee, of Berrington, Esquire, was
accused of the murder of William Lyster, Chaplain. An
extraordinary list for one Assize.

In the same year, at Ludlow, Howell Clun, of Chin Castle,
gentleman, was indicted for various offences ; first, that he
with armed assistants had violently entered the house and
land of William Mattys and Alice, lately wife of Edward
Colbach, at Colbatch, and ejected them ; secondly, that this
so-called gentleman had counterfeited various coins of the
realm, nobles, half nobles, obulos, groats, .Sic, at Clunton,
and thirdly, with burglary at Stowe.

These examples taken from assize rolls of one year present
us with a shocking picture of the lawlessness of those good
old days of King Kdward IV.

To revert to the families with which the early part of this
paper dealt, the Oakeleys, the Plowdens and the Walcots. In
the following century it was the lot of members of the Oakeley
family to fall tinder an accusation of murder. An enquiry was
held in which the principal question involved was whether the
old Manor House of Coston in the parish of Clunbury was an
appanage ol the Priory of St. John of Jerusalem (the Knights
Hospitallers) and as such entitled to be considered as a place
of Sanctuary. The evidence given took the form of proof that
two young men of the Oakeley family (being of kindred to
the Curate of Clunbury) "did discover nnto him that they
stood in doubt, that they had killed a man, whereupon the
Curate took them to Coston and that the said Oakeleys .it the
house of the said Sanctuary stayed and took Sanctum

The above cases could be multiplied without number, but

sufficient has been said to show that lawlessness and ciniie
were not in those days (or in these) confined to the SO-Called

200 SHROPSHIRE INCIDENTS IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

lower orders, but were more conspicuous amongst those who
ought to have shown better examples in this proud Count}' of
Salop. The cases are of some importance as they throw light
on a period of English history of which there are fewer records
extant than of any other. It is not to be thought that Ihose
who have been pilloried above were worse than their neighbours
or than other classes of the same period. The whole tone
of society was terribly low, religion had but little power, the
Government was paralysed and law was openly set at defiance.
This 15th Century has been described from different points of
view as a golden age, and an age of wretchedness, but the few
instances set out above, if the)- are fair examples of the state
of the country generally (which a perusal of the Paston
Letters puts beyond much doubt) shew that it was certainly an
age in which anarchy and violence reigned supreme.

201

THE ROMANCE OF SHREWSBURY SCHOOL
REGISTER.

By Eikut.-Coi.onkl A. C. YATE, E.R.G.S., F.R.Hist. Soc.

Most Public Schools have within the last half-century, if not
earlier, taken steps to transcribe and publish their Registers,
in so far as they survive intact, from the date of their
foundation onward. We use and consult those Registers, but
I doubt if we often give a thought — I speak for myself at all
events — to the infinite kaleidoscopic mutations of the fortunes
of life which are summarised in their bald lists of names. The
Rev. J. E. Auden, in his second edition of the Shrewsbury
School Register 1734-1908 has succeeded in very main- cases in
tracing the careers of the boys through life. In short, he has
furnished his School with its " Who's Who" over a period of
a century and three-quarters. The same School is deeply
indebted to the late Dr. Edward Calvert, sometime Assistant
Master, Bailiff and Treasurer, for the transcription of its
earliest Register from 1562-1635, which was published in
Shrewsbury, in 1892. The conclusion of Dr. Calvert's Preface
to that work shews that the Rev. G. W. Fisher, to whom the
School is for all time indebted for its " Annals" published in
1899, had "collected valuable notes" for the illustration of
this Register. Dr. Calvert's expre. sed hope that Mr. Fisher
might be induced to prepare those notes for the press, by way
of, supplement to the Register, has not, as far as I am aware,
been realised, but the notes are preserved in the School Library
and will doubtless enrich some (uture Record of/the School's
achievements. He, however, refers those who would "follow
out the history of many distinguished names included ill the

202 ROMANCE OF SHREWSBURY SCHOOL REGISTER.

lists" to "Wood's Athene Oxon.," Cooper's " Atheme Cantab.,"
the Dictionary of National Biography, Owen and Blakeway's
" History of Shrewsbury," Blakeway's " Sheriffs of Shropshire,"
and the "recently published history of Shrewsbury School."
To this list we must now add the Rev. G. W. Fisher's
"Annals" and Baker's "History of St. John's Coll. Camb.,"
edited by Professor J. K.« B. Mayor, and there is even a large
thin folio volume, illustrated with lithographs, entitled
"Memorials" and published at Shrewsbury in 1843, which
may be allowed the privilege of being added to the School
Bibliography. Finally, the " Shrewsbury School Register
1636 to 1664" appeared in 1917.

"Country Life" of Nov. 18th, 1916, availing itself of the
knowledge and literary abilities of Captain Desmond Coke,
paid a tribute to the School which, under Dr. B. H. Kennedy
and the Rev. Prebendary H. W. Moss- may be said in the
sixties of the last century to have attained the zenith of its
reputation as a training-ground in accurate Classical Scholar-
ship. But, I must say at once, I have not taken up my pen
now to follow out the careers of "distinguished names," or to
say a word of those "Honours" which are recorded on the
School Boards. What set me thinking about my old School
and its Registers was a paragraph in an article on Ludford
House 111 " Country Dife" of %vd March. 1917. It was this : —
" Eleven years later, the boy, aged 15 :; and still at Shrewsbury

1 Published in 1 889 by Adnitt and Nauntou of Shrewsbury, with
illustrations by Alfred Rimmer, 4to.

^ He passed away on 14th Jan. last. An admirably written review of his
42 years Headmaster ship appeared in the Times of Huh Jan. 1917. The
110 years rule of Butler, Kennedy and Moss a record, one might
almost think— are commemorated in the Carmen Salofiit'HSi ol their
suceessor, the Rcvd. C A. Alin^ton : — " Ceteri dum nudist rm um
LugCtlt breve fatum, Fas jactare inform. itorum Hie Triumvi. .Hum

Thomas Longueville, at p. id of his k,l.if« oi .i Conspirator" (Sir
i :\crard 1 )i^hy), shews evidence thai Sir H vera rd I »ii;ln \\."^ married
at 15; ami Mr. \V. S. Childe lYmbcrtou (/■'//' ,.i/»rf/i UUNHtt f>, .'ID Sta«Ct
that the Duke of Richmond mid Somerset, the natural son id llcurv
VIII. by Klizahetli Mount of Kitilet hi Shropslure, imirricd >t M ti c
Lady Mary Howard.

ROMANCE OF SHREWSBURY SCHOOL REGISTER. 203.

School, is married to the twelve year old daughter of Adam
Ottley of Pitchford. To these two four and twenty children
were bom." The name of this boy was Edward Fox.
Anyone who has access to Dr. Calvert's Regestum will find
the name " Edwardus Fox " occupying the second place on
page 1. That was in 1562, a year after his marriage to the twelve
year old daughter of Adam Ottley. He was 16 years old and
second boy in the.School. In those days and long afterwards,
as we know, boys went from School to Oxford and Cambridge
at ages varying from 12 to 16, or thereabouts. Phillip Sydney
went from Shrewsbury School to Christ Church, Oxford, at
the age of 14. A boy of 16 would therefore in those days be
naturally, if possessed of fair abilities, near the head of the
School. Even in my own time I can remember one boy, who
at 16 was head boy of Shrewsbury School, and afterwards
Senior Classic. Had not Mr. H. Avray Tipping been afforded
special opportunity for searching into the records of the
former owners of Eudford House, what would the name of
Edward Fox have conveyed to most of our minds ? Nothing.
And yet here we have one whose philoprogenitive record
certainly seems hors concours. I speak not of Oriental
personages who enjoy — if they do enjoy? — the privileges of
polygamy.

Edmund, the father of Edward Fox, died in 1550, and thus
Edward had a long minority. Trouble, we know, was in
attendance upon him, and how far that quiverful of 24, which
was his at the age of 50, was a comfort to him, we know not.
Had he been a citizen of Rome in the days of Augustus, the
24 would, under the Lex Papia Popp.iea, have seeureil him
valuable privileges. When we read that a grandson succeeded
to his property, the first appalling thought is that all his male
offspring predeceased him. Hut that, of course, is an erroneous
inference.1 Life did not deal kindly with his fortunes, hut \\c

1 The Ucy.il. W. (I. 1). Fletcher informs mc thai " ITiorc is an excellent
paper <»ii 1 The la'oxc I'aniily ' by Mr. I lenry Wcyman, ill the ?7"»tiis 11
for U)0() ; and ;it pp. lai A mi necounl is ^iven of lulward Koxc mimI is nl
his 2.-1 children. Scvrr.il <>l liis sous were educated .a Shrewsbury
School. Ivdward Koxe lived till Ik- waa Nl."

204 ROMANCE OK SHREWSBURY SCHOOL REGISTER.

have nothing to show that his family sufered as did that of
Sir Henry Colet, Lord Mayor of London in 1486, and father of
John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's, founder and endower of St.
Paul's School, an accomplished scholar and keen school
reformer. We have it, on the authority of Erasmus writing
in 1519, just after the death of his close friend John Colet, that
when he first knew Colet in 1497, he was the only survivor of
the eleven sons :\nd eleven daughters to whom the wife of Sir
Henry Colet had given birth.1

As both Dr. Calvert and the Revd. G. W. Fisher have
indicated, there are in this Register, as indeed in any great
Public School Register, the seeds of an incalculable wealth
of domestic, social and national history. As Ludford House
passed from the Foxes to the Charltons, so we may pass from
the one name to the other in the Register. Charlton is a
name that looms large in Shropshire, too large for detail here.
On the portrait of Sir Job Charlton in the Speaker's house are
the words : — " Given by his descendant Stanley Leighton,
M.P." There is no Index to Dr. Calvert's book, and an Index,
of course, is wanted. We used to do penals" in my day at
the Old Schools facing the Castle, the honour of providing
material being then delegated to Milton. I venture to suggest
that the indexing of the Regestum Scholtu ium Regiae Sc/iolac
Salopioisis 1562 1635 would be an admirable subject for

1 John Addington Symonds in liis Sketches in Italy and Greece mentions
that two of the most conspicuous figures in Italian history of the Nth
and 15th centuries, St. Catherine of Siena ami Pope Pius 11. (.Kneas
Sylvius Piccolomini) were members of unusually large families. I quote
his words: " St. Catherine was the (iil lighter of a tradesman over
whelmed with an almost fahulously numerous progeny," being "one
of twenty-five children born in wedlock to Jacopo and Lapa Bcnincasa,
citizens of Siena." (Op. cit. 2nd ed. pp. 4 i> :ind IS). " .Paicas SylviUI
Piccolomini was perhaps the most remark. ible man tli.it Sien.i has
produced. Like St. Catherine he was one of a large famil) ; twenty
of his brothers and sisters perished in a plague. " (p. 58). William
Moulting, the latest Knglish biographer of lineas Sylviuft, My* (p. 5)
•« Of all the sixteen children of S\lvio and Vittoria i Piccolomini). only
two lived to see /Tineas' rapid advancement in the Church, 1\ ttilcnce
almost ilecimateil this faintly, as it did most families in the liftcenth
century."

ROMAN CK OF SHREWSBURY SCHOOL RKGISTKR. 205

"penals," until such time as that Index was added as a
Supplement to the patient work of Calvert and Fisher.

To mention Sir Philip Sidney and Fulke Greville, Lord
Broke, is superfluous. They are among the "distinguished''
men. I cannot, however, refrain from quoting as a tribute to
Sir Philip, a passage from the letter of a fine young officer, of a
family well represented in the Registers of Shrewsbury School,
who fought at Kut-el-Amara and fell at Ctesiphon in Sept. -Nov.,
1915. His mother showed me the letter. The passage is this :
" Some of the sights we saw were horrible. These Turks are
wonderful fellows, almost like animals in the way they will
go on, when fearfully badly hit. I passed one poor devil on
the morning of the 28th (Sept., 1915) sitting up, with his left
foot completely shot away above the ankle and lying beside
him. He asked me for water, and, loth as I was to part with
the little water I had left in my bottle,1 I could not pass him
by, and so he drained the bottle and smiled at me with
gratitude. I do not know if he ever got in alive." The
incident naturally recalls Sir Philip at Zutphen. Human
sympathy and self-denial on the plains of Mesopotamia rank
pari passu with the same qualities on the flats of the Low
Countries.' There is only this difference. The scene at
Zutphen lives on the lips of men. That of Kut-el-Amara may
grace the symposia iV outre iombe.

On the first page of the Regestum we find at least four
names of note in Shropshire — Otley, Manwarynge, Onneslowe,
and Mytton, and over-leaf Cludde, Chorlton {sic) Smyth,
Corbett, Burton, and so on. Welsh names are many, and
among others we find that of "Johannes Oronnowe," a family
for the history of which I must refer you to Bernard Burke
and to that very entertaining book 11 The Reminiscences and
Recollections of Captain Gronow (Grenadier Guards) 1810-1 Sew"

1 How General Townshend's Army lived, marehed, worked and fought on
about a pint of water per man from 7 p.m. on "J7th to V) a.m. on 29tll Sent.,
1915, is not a matter of eommon knowledge. Those whom it mteieMs
will learn something from myartiele entitled " Kut el Amaru and After"
in the United Service Magazine for June, 1916.

206 ROMANCE OF SHREWSBURY SCHOOL REGISTKR.

Any single person, with some knowledge of Welsh and Welsh-
Border counties, and some taste for genealogy, could take this
Regestnm and, coupling his perusal possibly with a modicum of
research, revive memories of great interest. But, when it
comes to going through the whole volume, the keenest would
hesitate. A hard-worked Salopian cleric of my own day writes
to me: — "The School Fasti would be immensely improved if
annotated as you suggest. But who would be 'sufficient' (as
St. Paul says) for such a task ? "

The name of " Humfridus Packinton filius et heres Johanni
(sic) Packinton Chadsley armigeri in civitate (sic) Vicorniae 6°
no. Maii (1565)" is replete with suggestions. The first thing that
it suggests is to look up and read No. 1 12 of the Spectator for
July 9, 171 1, and then go to Hampton I^ovett Church, near
Droitwich, in Worcestershire, and visit the monument put up
in that Church to Sir John Pakington, the original of that
delightful old country gentleman, " Sir Roger de Coverley."
It is beyond my sphere to trace the relationship of Humphrey
Pakington of Chaddesley Corbett, and Sir John Pakington
of Hampton Lovett ; but of Mary, the eldest daughter and
co-heiress of Humphrey Pakington, the boy whose name is in
the Shrewsbury School Register for 1565, I feel justified
in saying a few words. She was a woman of mark in
Worcestershire in the 17th century. She married Sir John
Yate of Buckland in Berkshire, the head of the Roman
Catholic branch of the Berks and Oxou family of Yate. She
brought to the family of Yate of Buckland that wonderful
old house of Harvington Hall, near Kidderminster, moated
and riddled with priests' hiding holes, which has been
preserved for posterity as a national monument by the late
Sir Benjamin Stone's camera, and pictured in the pages of
Doin Bede Canim's " Forgotten Sli ri nes.'' She was very staunch
to her faith, and, if proof of that be sought, it will be found in
the pages of " Gervase Sacheverell," by Theodore Gallon, an
historical novel which pictures Worcestershire Societ) and
life in the 1 7 th century. 1 1 nniphi ey's mother w.is a Sadie Verdi,
Dame Mary Yate lived through all those years oi Lroubl< tu .1

ROMANCK OF SHREWSBURY SCHOOL RKGISTKR. 207

great old age, surviving her husband, her son Sir Charles, and
her grandson, Sir John Yate, the last baronet of that name, of
Buckland, who, having adhered to the cause of James II.,
went with him to Paris and died there at an early age. His
memorial tablet, till about the middle of the 19th century,
was still to be seen in the Convent of the English Augustinian
Nuns, in the parish of St. Etienne du Mont. When in Paris
some years ago I called upon M. le chanoine Lesetre, cure de
St. Etienne du Mont, a cleric of some note in his day, and
sought for information of Sir John Yate's tablet, but failed to
get it. M. le chanoine Lesetre took me into the cloister of his
church and shewed me — with some pride, I think— the tablet
of a Protestant Englishman in the suite of James II., whom
the immortal Bossuet had won over to the Church of Rome.
It at least interested me to know that James II. numbered
among those loyal to him not Catholics only, but Protestants.
I also consulted M. Georges Cain, the Curator of the Mus'cc
■Car?iavalet, but he told me that he knew nothing of the tablet.
The inscription on it was copied years ago and exists. Mary,
the sister of the last Sir John Yate, married Sir Robert Throck-
morton of Coughton Court in Warwickshire, and Buckland and
Harvington passed into the possession of that family. Dame
Mary Yate left endowment for a priest both at Buckland and
Harvington, and also endowed a school and almshouse at
Harvington, where in 1696, in the 86th year of her age. she
died. Her elaborate monument and those of her father and
mother, Humphrey Pakington and Abigail Sacheverell, are in
Chaddesley Corbett Church. Her husband the first Sir John and
her son Sir Charles Yate are buried at Buckland. Sir Charles'
sister, Anne, who married the Hon. Thomas Talbot, is buried
in the quaint little old church or part of a church, still
generally known, I was told, as the " Roman Catholic
Chapel," at Longford, near Newport, in Shropshire. The
name of Edmund Campion is so well known, that it may be
permissible here to mention that he was Captured in July.
1581 in the house of Thomas Yate of Lyfonl. a place only a
few miles from Buckland in Berkshire, and owned by one of
the same family of Yate. A charming description of this

208 KOMANCK OF SHREWSBURY SCHOOL REGISTER.

country is given in Miss Eleanor Hayden's " Islands of the
Vale." The most generally known account of this capture is
that given in Froude's History ; but having visited the house
and heard the story, which is indeed a romance, from several
lips, my own version has shaped itself in my mind. Thomas
Yate was then in the Tower, and it was his wife who
sheltered Campion in the moated residence of Lyford Grange.
Treachery — or shall we say " loyalty"? — was at work, and brought
about a search by magistrates and soldiers. Rumour has it
that the courteous magistrate, before commencing his search,
invited Mrs. Yate to choose her own room, in which she should
have perfect privacy. She chose, as might be expected, the
room communicating with the hiding-hole. Two exhaustive
searches failed to uneartn the Jesuit. As the search-party,
utterly foiled, was going down the staircase to leave the house,
one of them smote the wall with his fist or a stick. It sounded
hollow. Tools were brought, the wall opened up, and there
was the Jesuit. The rest is history, grievous to read. The tale
of torture makes the mind sick. The staircase at Lyford has
gone, and the hiding-hole with it. I find one Yate, " Kdwardus
Yate," 1612, in Dr. Calvert's Regestum ; but we know nothing
of him. Shropshire in its day has had a good many families of
that name, and I gather, from the occasional appearance
of the name in local papers, that descendants still
exist.

I feel tempted, before laying aside my pen, to pass on from
the Regestum of Calvert to the Register of Auden, in order to
touch upon the career of a 19th century Shrewsbury School
boy whose name, if reminiscent of anything, is reminiscent of
"millions." Take the name (Auden, p. 30) of "Abraham
Cawston, left 1817. Took Holy Orders. Died 1840." Would
this suggest aught but innocence? But read Dr. Butler's note
below. " Left Oct. 1817, with a fortune of some millions left
by a stranger, which proved all a hoax." Even this note
leaves us hopelessly in the dark. What inspired Mr. Charles
Whibley, the author of the Letters of an &Uglisknmny to
complete the story for us in the columns of the Daily Mail?

KOMANCK OF SHREWSBURY SCHOCI, KKGISTKK. 201)

I must ask you to read the last four pages of the first series of
those Letters. I can only quote here one or two sentences: —
'•He was born in 1800. Gifted with an intelligence far above
his fellows, he was sent, though a peasant, to Shrewsbury
School. There he became an accomplished scholar, and what

is more to our point the cleverest impostor of our time

He was the creditor of every crowned head in Europe,

.... Bankers vied with one another in giving him credit

He made one mistake and was ruined.1 . . . Yet his youth
and ingenuity pleaded for him. He suffered no
punishment, and when at last the fame of his exploits
had fallen into oblivion, he took orders and became a
successful if obscure tutor." What Mr. Charles Whibley
does not tell us is : Had he the entree of Carlton
House ? His debut almost coincided with the eclipse of
Beau Brummell.

My study of an old School Register convinces me that the
Dictionary of National Biography has a great deal to learn.
In vain in it do I seek for any trace of some of the interesting
personalities whom I have "dug out" (quite a classical word
in these war days !) of my old Salopian lists. I find actors
and journalists et hoc genus ovine, but when you come to the
people wdio have stoutly fought the battle of life according to
their lights, and loved and hated and suffered and rejoiced,
they are forgotten. The Thespian art takes precedence of the
world's stage, and journalism looms more prominently before
the eyes of the National Biographer than the silent record of
high principle, self-sacrifice and courage. Anyone who has
lived through this war, has seen human nature at the very
nadir of its baseness and the very zenith of its grandeur and
beauty. And in that zenith shine no two brighter stars than
those which Alfred de Vigny has immortalized as " Scrvik

1 The mistake he made was to invite friends to drink his vintage wine*
from his Silieian vineyards, ami then allow U Cork, Stamped with (he
name of a well-known London wine merchant, t<; f ill into the lunds <<f

one of his quests.

2iO KOMANCK OK SHREWSBURY SCHOOL REGISTER.

ct grandeur militaire" Those stars have girded the counsels
of every public school in Great Britain since this war broke
out ; and nowhere, even in the " dark December " of the war,
has their light beamed more truly and their pathos penetrated
more simply yet deeply than in the poem, u The School at
War," which the Revd. C. A. Alington has bequeathed, not
only to Shrewsbury and Eton, but to the War Poetry of
England.

" The School will not forget"

211

HOLGATE AND THE CRESSETTS.
By thk Rkv. R. C. PURTON, M.A.

At a place called Stanton in Corve Dale, Helgot, the tenant of
Earl Roger, built himself a castle, one of the four castles in
Shropshire mentioned in Domesday. This castle took its name
from the founder and became known as Castle Holgate. There
is now but a fragment of it remaining, but the present parish of
Holgate represents the Church with its priest which was here
at the time of the Survey. Although it was the "Caput" of
a Barony this castle does not play any conspicuous part in the
history of the county. King Henry was entertained here in
1 109 by Herbert the son of Helgot, but as early as the reign of
Edward I. it was reported as practically ruinous, and little
more is heard of it, though it was garrisoned for the King
during the great civil war. 1

The early history of the Manor will be found in Eyton.-
Helgot died soon after Domesday, and his son Herbert had a
son of the same name, known as Herbert cle Castello, who died
without issue, when Holgate passed to a remote kinsman
Robert de la Mare, the Crusader, who died in foreign parts,
leaving a daughter Agnes, widow of Robert Mauduit. Her son
Thomas Mauduit sided with the Barons against King John
and forfeited his estate here, but on returning to his allegiance
was reinstated. He died 1234, and his son William about 1 258
alienated his Barony to Richard, Earl of Cornwall, w ho eon
veyed Holgate to the Knights Templars, who in [276 paid a
firm of ^50 for the manor to Edmund the last Kail. A leu
years later Holgate was held by Robert Bui m il, Bishop ot

1 Tnms.u lions, IfrU Scries, III. !ft>7.

'-' Antiquities, IV. 51 ; sec ulso Transactions, 2ml Scries, IV,

212

HOLGATK AND THE CKESSETTS.

Bath and Wells. This prelate, who was Lord Chancellor for
eighteen years, was a notable person in his day, and was a
native ot the county, though the genealogy made by the
monks of Bui Id was is a concoction. I lis career (any notice of
which would be outside our subject) will be found in the
Dictionary of National Biography. "By the acquisition of
Castle Holgate from the Templars and the Karl of Cornwall
Burnell had obtained an honour the possession of which made
his heirs peers of the realm." (Ibid). He died in 1292, the
holder of 82 manors, 21 being in vShropshire, among them
Castle Holgod, which he held by the Service of two Knights
at Montgomery Castle in time of war.

His heir was his nephew Sir Philip Burnell, who wasted his
uncle's patrimony and died in 1294, leaving issue by his wife
Maud, daughter of the Earl of Arundel, a son Edward and a
daughter Maud. Sir Edward Burnell was summoned to
Parliament by the name of Edward Burnell, Knight, Baron of
Plolgot, but died without issue in 13 15, when his sister became
his heir. This lady was twice married; her first husband was
John Lord Lovel, but at the time of Sir Edward's death her
second husband became holder of his estates in right of his
wife. According to Blakeway1 he prevailed upon her to join
in a settlement of her estates on her male issue by him to the
exclusion of the son of her first husband. Banks says that, on
the decease of her brother, the honour terminated with him. as
she could not make herself heir to him so as to take anything
by virtue of the record of his creation ; wherefore John Handlo,
being seised of the manors of Holgate, etc., for life in light of
Maud his wife, remainder to Nicholas their son (by a fine in
court), the said Nicholas was summoned to Paliament as Baron
by reason of this fine and as possessor of the caput batouia' (i.e.
Holgate), and not John Lovel.

Nicholas Handlo, who assumed the name of Burnell. died in
1383, when he was found to have held the tliatlOl ol Castle
Holgate by the service of providing two men mounted at

1 BodlciiUl MSS.

HOLGATK AND TIIK CRKSSKTTS. 213

Montgomery for 40 days in time of war. His only son Sir
Hugh Burn ell held Holgate, Clee St. Margaret, Longden
(in Pontesbury) and Condover, and died in 1420, having
survived his only son Edward, who left three daughters his
co-heirs, though only two are mentioned in the Inquest. The
husbands of these ladies, who all left issue, appear to have
held Holgate jure nxoruvi, but their estates passed eventually
to the Lovels, as representatives of Maud Burnell's
first husband. John Lord Level died 4 I<d. IV. seised
of Holgate, and was succeeded by his son Francis, who
was in high favour with King Richard, for whom he fought
at Bosworth. The career of this unfortunate nobleman and
his mysterious end will be found in the Dictionary of National
Biography. On the accession of King Henry VII. his estates
were forfeited and Holgate, among others, was bestowed upon
Jaspar, Karl of Bedford, the King's uncle, on whose death in
1497 they reverted to the Crown. In 1513-4 Holgate was
granted to Thomas Howard, Karl of Surrey, and in 1532-3
the Kstate Tail was converted into an Estate in Fee in favour
of his son Thomas, who in 1543 conveyed it to Sir John
Dudley1 : — " Holgate Castel," says Iceland, "stondeth under
the Cle Hilles hard by Corvesdale a vi. miles from Ludlo.
The Duke of Northfolk exchaungid it for other Landes with
Mr. Dudeiey " (I tin .) . In 1548, as Karl of Warwick, Dudley
granted a lease of this manor with Rushbury and Long
Stanton to William Heath for 200 years at a rent of
^32 3s. id.2 But the year following the King granted these
manors to Nicholas Heath, Bishop of Worcester, " to be
holden of us as of our manor of Ombresley in co. Wore, in
socage and not in capite."1 Probably this was an exchange
to the disadvantage of the Bishop, who was hardly a persona
grata just then. Thus the over-lordship of Holgate became
vested in the Bishopric.

• BlaUeway MSS. Bodl.

- Pari. Survey of 1647 ; it ispossihlctli.it the uumc William is an error,

and that Lessee and Grantee were the same person.

a BlaUeway.

2I4

HOLGATK AND THE CKESSETTS.

In 1551 Heath conveyed the leasehold M this manor, with
Rushbnry and Long Stanton, to Henry Cresset gent., who
held court here by Chas. Fox his steward.1 By his will
(5 Eliz.) he settled these manors, with the capital messuage
of Clee vSt. Margaret, on his nephew Richard Cresset of Upton
Cresset, remainder to John Cresset brother of Richard,
remainder to Francis Cresset (of Cotes) in tail. Mary, widow
of Henry Cresset, was re-married to Morice Ludlow of Moor
House, who is styled "of Hoi gate " in right of his wife, who
held court here. In 1531 Richard Cressett was lord. He was
Sheriff in 1584 and died in 1601 without male issue. I suppose
he must have suffered a Recovery of the manor, and so gained
the fee simple, for by his will he gave it to Kdward, the
younger son of Francis Cresset of Cotes, to the exclusion of
the elder brother Francis. This Edward was a strong
Royalist, and lost his life fighting for the King at Bridgnorth
(1645) ; but his son Richard veered round to the side of the
Parliament, and in consequence did not have to compound
for his estates. Under the Commonwealth all Kpiseopal
Estates were sold, Holgate among the number. In 1661 we
have particulars of Royal Rents in the County purchased in
1651 "of the then pretended Parliament" by Richard Cressett
I£sq., and conveyed by him to Thomas Wells of London, who
after the Restoration claimed them of his own right and not
in trust, and the King confirmed them to him.-' Holgate
returned to the Bishopric and Cressett retained the leasehold,
which continued to be enjoyed by his descendants for many
generations. In 1791 Miss Elizabeth Cressett, as Lady of the
Manor of Holgate under lease from the Bishop of Worcester,
filed a Hill in Chancery against Thomas Mytton of Cleohury
North for common on the Hrowii Ch e.1 She was the l ist of
the Cressetts, and 011 her death in 1702. Holgate, with Upton

Cressett and other estates, passed to hei kinsman Henry

1 ftlukcway MSS.
3 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

HOLGATE AND THE CRKSSETTS. 215

Pelham, whose daughter Frances (sister and heir of John
Cressett Pelham) married the Rev. George Augustus Thursby.

All that remains of Holgate Castle is the round tower, built
into a farm house, which "seems to be part of the Norman
building, and has the narrow lancet window peculiar to early
English architecture." 1 There are traces of a moat.

THE CRKSSHTT FAMILY.

The earliest recorded home of the Cressets was at Little
WithiCo.nl in the parish of Shawbnry. William Cresset (or
Crasset) of that place had two sous John and Thomas. In
1327 Thomas Cresset was assessed to Subsidy for lands in
Leighton. In 1360 there is a deed of John Cresset of
Garmeston to Thomas his brother and Constance his
wife.2 This Constance, wife of Thomas, was daughter of
John de Upton (relict of Philip de Presthope) and by this
marriage Upton eventually devolved upon the Cressets, who
gave the parish its distinctive name. Thomas and Constance
occur again in a deed dated n Ed. II.3 Their son Thomas
was a minor at his father's death and the ward of John Lord
of Leighton. He was of Garmeston 42 Ed. III. and was put
into the entail of Upton 6 Rich. II. and died 22 Rich. II.,
leaving a widow Alice and a son Hugh Cresset of Garmeston.
who was of Upton 19 Hen. VI. and served the office of Sheriff
111 1435. He was dead 1440, leaving a widow Florence1 and
a son Robert, to whom by his will (Sept. 22nd 1407) he left
" meum gladium cum scuto."5 Robert Cresset, who was
Sherili in 1469, married Christina "the daughter of Margaret
the daughter and fourth heir of John Stepnlton." He died

1 Hare's " Shropshire," p. SI.

'-' Transactions, 1st Series, IX. 40'2.

1 Ibid, p 101.

i Mentioned in a deed of 1402, Ibid. p. 404.

r> Blakcway liodl. MSS.

<■ See Tr.nis. 4th Ser. V. 222.

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HOLGATK AND THE CRKSSKTTS.

in 14901 and was succeeded by his son Thomas, who married
Jane daughter of Sir Roger Corbet of Moretm. His will is
dated Aug. 20th 12 Hen. VIII : — He enfeoffs John Iyeighton,
John Salter, Harry Eyton and John ap Howell, parson of
Upton, to the uses of his will ; he gives his brother-in-law
Edward Burton2 ^41 ; owes his son-in-law Lawrence Ludlow
£So for the marriage of his daughter Anne ; is indebted to his
son-in-law John Lawley, late deceased, in £66 8s. od. for the
marriage of his daughter Mary ; mentions the said Edward
Burton, and Richard Lane late of Hyde, deceased, as standing
boundeu to Richard Wrottesley, Esq., in 300 marks for the
performance of covenants of marriage between his son and
heir apparent Richard Cresset and Jane daughter of the said
Wrottesley.3 Besides Anne, wife of Lawrence Ludlow of
Moor House (Shipton), and Mary, wife of John Lawley of
Wenlock, there may have been a third daughter Jane, wife
of Thomas Whittou (Harl. MS. 1396). 4 There was also a
younger son Thomas Cresset of Cotes, of whom hereafter.

Richard Cresset of Upton (19 Hen. VIII.) by his wife
Jane Wrottesley had issue, besides a son Edmund and two
daughters, Jane and Mary, who appear to have died young, the
following children : —

(i.) Robert, who succeeded him at Upton (see below).

(ii.) Henry Cresset, of Ilolgate ( 1 55 1 ), who married Mary,
daughter of William Cheney of Cheney Longville and died
without issue (as recorded above).

(iii.) Frances, who was four times married, first to Roger
Smith of Morville, secondly to John HoptOU of Roekhill,
thirdly to Francis Hord, fourthly to William Clench of
Bridgnorth.

1 When his son Thomas was thud for not Appearing at the Court of
Leigh ton. Trans. 1st Scr. IX. 40ti.

'-' On this relationship see Blake way's " Sheriffs,1 p 165.

3 Blake way Bodl. MSS.

4 But the pedigree is in a ehaotic condition.

HOLGATE AND THE CRESSETTS- 21 J

(iv.) Dorothy, wife of William Mynde of Myn.de.
(v.) Cecily, wife of William Acton of Longnor.
(vi.) Margaret, wife ot Thomas More of Larden.

Robert Cresset of Upton (28 Hen. VIII.) married Katherine,
daughter of William Charleton of Apley (M arr. Settl. Au^r.
10th, 19 Hen. VIII). He was dead 1574 and had, besides two
sons Thomas and Peter, who appear to have died young, two
sons and three daughters, viz : —

(i.) John Cresset of Upton, who died 8 KHz., appears to
have had issue (by his wife Catherine, daughter of John Harley
of Brampton) a son Thomas, born in 1556, who died young.

(ii.) Richard Cresset of Upton, devisee of Holgate under
the will of his uncle, was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1584. He
married Jane, daughter of John Hoptori of Rockill, by whom
he had a daughter Mary, wrife of Edward Blennerhasset of
Blunham (Beds). Richard Cresset died in 1601 and was buried
at Upton, where he had built the Manor-house, still standing, in
1580. His widow re-married Samuel Lewknor, and was in
occupation of Upton in 1603. Richard Cresset devised his
estates by will to his cousin Edward, younger son of Francis
Cresset, of Cotes.

(iii.) Thomasina, wife of Richard Draper, and secondly of
Francis Holland of Burwarton.

(iv.) Jane, wife of Thomas Chetwyn, and secondly of Roland
F'ewtrill of the Down, buried at Chetton 1593.

(v.) Cecily, wife of Richard Leighton, of Cotes.

(vi.) Elizabeth, wife of Adam Uutley of Bromcroft.

We now return to the Branch of the Family seated at Cotes
in the parish of Rushbury.

Thomas Cresset, as " Thomas Cresset gent, sou of Thomas
Cresset of Upton, Esq.,'' purchased lands in I.udlow. and W9lS
admitted a Burgess 5 Ed. VI.1 lie was of Cotes, and married
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edmund Cornwall, Bnroil of Bill toi J,

1 Blakeway Bocil. MSS.

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HOLGATE AM) ThH CRKSSKTTS.

and was buried at Stanton Lacy 1565-6. Besides a daughter
Joyce, wife of Thomas Boterel of Aston, h ; had a son and heir
Francis.

Francis Cresset, of Cotes and Holgate, was Kschaetor for
Radnor 10 Kliz., and was buried at Upton in 1605, being there
probably as guardian of his .-,011 Edward, who had inherited
the estate and was a minor. Francis Cresset married first,
Katherine daughter of William Slade of Wotton, i)y whom he
had issue: — Elizabeth, baptised at Stanton Lacy 1564, wife of
William Aston of Ludlow: Francis, of whom later; Jane,
baptized 1568 ; Edmund, baptized 1570, died s.p. ; and
(according to Hai l. MSS., 1241, 13^6) another daughter And rev,
whose husband's name was Hargill. Francis Cresset married
secondly, Martha daughter of Nicholas Wilford of London
(buried at Upton 1617), by whom he had a son Richard, who
died in infancy, and a son Edward, devisee of Upton and
Holgate under the will of his cousin.

This Edward Cressett (as the name was now to be spelt) was
baptized at Stanton Lacy in 15-^0. lie married at Couud in
1603 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Town she nd of that
place (marr. settlement of the capital messuage and demesne
lands in Upton for her life). The Townshends at this time
held a Lease of Cound from Sir Richard Hay ward for lOO years.
In 34 Eliz. Hayward alienated the manor to Sir Adam Littleton
and George Holland, to the use of Sir James Pytts and
Edward Cressett, .subject to this lease. Edward Cressett was a
Strong Royalist and signed both the " Declaration and
Protestation," ot 1642 and the " Ingagement and Resolution."
He was slain at Bridgnorth in 1645 1 By his wife Elizabeth lie
had a large family, viz : —

(i.) Richard, who succeeded his father, of whom presently.

(11.) Elizabeth, baptized at Upton tOil.

(iii). Francis, the second son, is 1 suppose the Mr. Prmucta
Cressett who appears to have been employed by Cliarlesi I
during his confinement at Carisbrooke a- a channel of

1 Sec Transactions, 2nd Scries, viii. 299.

*

IIOLGATE AND THE CKKSSKTTS. 2IQ

correspondence with his friends.1 He married a daughter of
Sir Henry Robinson.

(iv.) Henry Cressett died an infant.

(v.) James Cressett was baptised at Upton 1615. M.A. Oriel
Coll. Oxon. Rector of Connd 16622 and of Ritshbury 1673. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of John Edwards of Middleton
Scriven (Marr. vSettl. Jan. 29th, 1646-7), by whom he had issue,
John, Andrew (bapt. at Connd 1649, and died young), Edward
(bapt. and bur. 1653) and James (bapt. 1654). The Rev. James
Cressett was buried at Cound 1683-4, an<a n*s widow in 1692-3
(aged 77).

(vi.) Mary died an infant.

(vii.) Edward Cressett was a captain in the Royalist Army
and was buried at Cound in 1676.

(viii.) Henry Cressett, baptized at Upton 1618, is I suppose
the " Mr. Henry Cressett of Lower Cound" buried in 1699.

(ix.) Mary, baptized at Cound 1619.
(x.) Martha died an infant,
(xi.) Margaret, baptized 1621.
(xii.) Theodocia, baptized 1623 and buried 1646.
(xiii.)' Rachel, baptized at Cound 1628, married at Upton to
Rowland Berkeley 1647.
(xiv.) Bridget.

Elizabeth; wife of Edward Cressett, was buried at Cound in
1635. He married a second time (at Cound 1638) Elizabeth,
widow of Francis Berkeley of Ewdness (daughter ot Rowland
Duttou), who was buried at Cound 1639,

Richard Cressett, who succeeded his father at Upton.
Cound3 and Holgate, was baptized at Upton in 1 60S, He
eventually sided with the Parliament in the Civil War, and
was "thought fit to bee of the Thiul Claasis." He married

1 Nichols Hist. Leie. iv. 734,

2 Inducted thou, but he had been " minister '* there main \cai> previously,

3 He appears as Lord of the Manor in 1655, with reference to hit uncle

Warren Townshend, his tenant at Cound Farm, W'hoSC est.itcs had been

sequestrated. (Committee for compounding),

4

220 HOLGATK AND THE CKESSKTTS.

Jane, daughter of John Huxley of Edmonton (marr. settl.
Nov. 8th 162S), who was buried at Upton in 1640. For the
brass to her memory there see Transactions, 2nd Series, vii.
452. By her he had issue : —

(i.) Katherine, baptized at Cound 1629, wife of Sir Walter
Acton, of Aldeiiham.

(ii.) Robert, of whom presently.

(iii.) Elizabeth, baptized 1633.

(iv.) Alice, baptized 1634-5.

(v.) Anne and Jane, baptized 1636.

Richard Cressett was buried at Upton in [677.

Robert Cressett, his son and heir, was baptized at Cound in
1631. He married Catherine, daughter of Sir Robert Berkeley
of Spetchley (marr. settl. 1652), who was buried at Cound
1680-1. He died in 1702, and was buried at Cound, having
had issue : —

(i.) Robert, of whom presently.

(ii.) Catherine, married in 1696 at Atcham to Edward
Phillips, Rector of Rushbury, where she was buried in 17 17,
aged 58.

(iii). Edward, died an infant.

Robert Cressett was of Ball. Coll. Oxon. in 167 1, aged 17.
He died before his father in 1678. and was buried at St.
Bride's, London. He married Elizabeth, daughter of James
Huxley of Darnford, by whom he had a son Edward Cressett,
who was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1702 aud married (at
Atcham in 1695) Elizabeth, daughter of John Doughty of
Betton (buried at Upton 1743), by whom he had issue : —

(i.) Robert Cressett, baptized at Cound in 1696 and buried
there in 1728. He married Barbara, daughter of John James
of Cwm Dee (1723), who was buried at Cound in 1736. Their
only child Edward was baptized at Cound in 1724, and buried
there in 1731-2.

(ii.) Edward Cressett, baptized at St. Chftd'a 1697, became
Bishop of Llandaff. He succeeded to the family estates, aud
was buried at Cound in 1755. He married first, Albina.
daughter of Griffith Price of Newtown ; and secondly I- i.i -.ko.

HOLGATE AND THE CRKSSETTS.

221

daughter of Thomas Pelham of Lewes (marr. settl. 1736), and
left an only daughter Klizabeth, who was buried at Cound in
1792, unmarried.

(iii.) Elizabeth, baptized at St. Chad's 1699 ; (iv.) John,
baptized there in 1700; (v.) Thomas, baptized there 1703;
(vi.) Letitia, baptized there 1705 ; (vii.) Jane, baptized at
Cound 1709.

To return again to the Cotes branch of the family, —

Francis Cresset, eldest son of Francis Cressett of Cotes (by
Katherine Slatle), was baptized at Stanton Lacy in 1566. He
was of Ball. Coll. Oxon. in 1581, and of Kinlet in 1602,
afterwards of Holgate and Cotes. His will is dated 1640. He
married Margaret, daughter of John Fowler of Rushall, by
whom he had issue : —

(i.) Edward, of whom presently.

(ii.) Thomas.

(iii.) Francis, who with his brother Edward occurs in a
Royalist letter of Lord Newport to Sir Richard Ottley in a
list of persons to be apprehended and detained.1

(iv.) Henry Cressett, who appears to have been church-
warden of Stanton Lacy in 1640. He married (at Oldbury
1633) Elizabeth Hoskys.

(v.) Margaret, married (at St. Leonard's, Bridgnorth in 1634)
to Richard Oldbury.

Edward Cressett of Cotes was born in [60G and was buried
at Holgate in 1672. He was one of those reckoned lit to be
of the fifth Classis vlCM7)" ft* married fust. Margaret,
daughter of William Millichap of Heywood, by whom he had
a son Kdwatd, aged 30 in 1663, who was buried at Holgate in
i()6f>, without i.ssue, and a daughter Elizabeth, living in [0

1 Transactions, 4th Scries, I. 315.

Transactions, Hrd Scries, II. U28.

3 Perhaps the lUhsabeth CrctMtctt married .a Ludlow in 1875 to William
Hill. Blalicway savs she was wife til John Miuton of Com (murrfod a
Lccboiwood in |t!Mt)i bul tlw: date is ton laic

2 2 2

HOLGATE AND THE CRESSET TS.

Edward Cressett married secondly Eleanor, daughter of
Thomas Wickstead, buried at Holgate ir 1705, by whom he
had issue : —

(iii.) Thomas, aged 14 in 1663, executor to his father's will.1
(iv.) Mary, married at Ludlow in 1673-4, to Benjamin Baxter
and buried at Holgate in 1674.

(v.) Eleanor, married at Holgate in 1676 to Edward Hussey.
(vi.) Anne, buried at Holgate in 16S4.

(vii.) Jane, mentioned as youngest daughter in her father's
will. The Will of Edward Cressett of Cotes, dated 1670 and
proved at Hereford in 1672, gives portions to the five daughters
to be raised out of his Farm " Coates under Lyth," by virtue of
a deed executed by him and his Cousin Richard Cressett of
Cound, Esq. Witnessed by Thomas Littleton, John Powell
and Osias Browne.

1 There was a Thomas Cresset gent, buried at Iiittcrley in 1678-9, who
by his wife Anne had two children, Anne and Edward, baptized there
and buried in infancy.

223

BROMCROFT,
In tiiic Parish of Diddlrbury, and its Owners.

By EVELYN H. MARTIN (?iee SWIN N E RTON-DY E R) .

Airs. Stackhouse-Acton, in her Garrisofis of Shropshire
daring the Civil War, tells us that little is known of the
origin of Bromcroft Castle. Iceland, circa 1540, calls it " a very
goodly place like a Castle, longing to the Krle of Shrewsberie,
and standith on Clee Hill." Its present appearance (1867) is
that of a Farm House. It had been made a Garrison for the
King, but the soldiers had quitted it before June 1645, when
" there was d 1 ai ne out of Shrewsbury Garrison, 500 foot and
300 horse, part of Captain Mackworth's and Captain Lloyd's
regiments, both of them marched along in the service ;
our forces marched within 5 miles of Ludlow, the design being
to reduce that part of the country, and to secure it, by placing
some Garrisons there, to block up Ludlow ; with a party of
horse they viewed Howgate (Holgate) and Braincroft Castles,
both of which the enemie had much demolished ; notwith-
standing, they placed the Lord Calvine in Brain croft Cattle,
and fell to repair and fortify it." It was at that time the
property of Mr. John Lutley, whose descendants occupied it
for several generations.1

Bromcroft probably derives its name from Broom and (
(or meadow). It is situated about eight miles north -east 0!
Ludlow.- Kytou thinks that Bromcroft was one of the Rhii
Be re Wicks mentioned in Domesday Hook as belonging to the
manor of Corfham, which was then held by Karl Rogei de
Montgomery, but in Saxon times had been held b\ Ring
Edward .:{

1 Garrisons of Shropshire, pp. IW, 40. Vickcrs's Ituflliltgl ItUM not
consumed.

- Castellated Structures of Shropshire, hj UUwarJ ISdwanfci
3 Antiquities of Shropshire, v. 145, Ui5

BROMCROKT AND ITS OWNERS.

Iii 1642-3 Bromcroft Castle was fortified by the Royalists,
but in 1645 it was garrisoned by the Roundheads. In Pcrjcct
Occio -fences, August 20th and 27th. 1645, Bromcroft occurs in a
"list of the garrisons taken by the Shropshire Committee
since they first took the field." In 1645, October 15. is a
note that Bromcroft Castle was owned by Mr. Lutley, the
Governor being Lord Calvyn. In a letter to Sir Francis Ottley,
dated from Ludlow, 22 January 1645-6, Sir Thomas Edwardes,
Baronet, a Royalist, mentions his sufferings at Bromcroft
Castle : — li I lately suffered from Bromcroft Castle, the Lord
deliver us out of the hands of these oppressors."1

At the Battle of Wettleton, Sir Michael Woodhouse, Governor
of Ludlow, and forces from Hartlebury and other garrisons, all
of which made up a body of about 200 horse and foot, marched
up near Bromcroft Castle, and being too weak to encounter
with them marched to Wistanstow within a mile of Stoke.

Amongst the Shrewsbury Corporation Records, is the
following Petition lo the Mayor and Corporation : —

To the Kighte Wor'll the Maioi Aldermen and Assistants of
the Towne of Shrewsbury.

The humble peticon of Thomas Langford of the said Towne
Free Mason.

Humbly showeth that bee hath bene a workman to the
Corporation for the space of 20 years, ami when a Garrison
was placed in Bromcrofte Castle yo'r petitioner adventured his
life to make up the Towre there, when other workmen refused
it, as is well known to most of the no'ble Committee. That
beinge marryed within the Towne to a Widdowe, not havinge
any divide by her nor likely to have any. yet is very desirous
to make Himself* a free B urges of this Towne, if yo'r Wor'pps
will bee pleased to accept of such reasonable Fyne. and to be
paid at such reasonable Lymes as yo'r petitioner is able to paye
the same. The p'misses considered His humble desire unto
yo'r Wor'pps is to accept of X £, whereof XX* in hand and
XXh yearly upon honest seenritye. till the Y / bee paid, ami
yo'r petitioner as his duty he is bound shall ever piav fbl yo'i
Wor'pps.
1 Ti .ms.u tions, 3rd Series, I. 334.

Ii ROM CROFT AND ITS OWNERS. 225
7 Appriles 1648.

To pay XXs- in hand and & XXs- yerely upon good security
till V£ be paid.

XX\T. April.

Agreed to pay XXs- in hand & XXs- yearly upon good'
security.

On the old oak front door of Bromcroft Castle is a shield
outlined in iron nails, in the centre of which is "J.L-, 1674."

Blakeway, in his Sheriffs of Shropshire, page 60, states that
in his opinion Bromcroft in Corvedale, "has since been called,
but I think without any authority, Bromcroft Castle." This
place must not be confounded with another Bromcroft in
Kenley parish, whose history is given by Eyton (Vol. VI., p. 91).

In Bagshaw's Directory (1851), Lower Park and Broncroft is
said to comprise 795 acres of land. At the census of 1841 there
were five houses and 26 inhabitants. The Dean and Chapter
of Hereford were the impropriators.

A paper preserved amongst the Bromcroft Deeds, 1664,
states that "in the memory of man there are no rolls of Court
or any rolls prior to 1601."

Mr, Augustus Hare, speaking of Bromcroft in 1898, says: —
" Recently it has been well restored, and is a very fine
specimen of a fortified house of the XIV. century, with a grand
main tower at one end of the domestic buildings, and, in its
red sandstone colouring, it is exceedingly picturesque." 1

The present Lord of the Manor gives this description of
Bromcroft: — " The oldest part of the house is the Tower on
the right of the front door, including what was once a larder,
and two rooms over the kitchen, a part of it is all that remains
of the old house. The present Castle was built by the
Johnstone family. The Library tower is modern. The wailed
tree in the garden is the remains of an old dove cot. The only
date I have seen is on front door, 1 167.}.' There is no Chapel
Room. The old Walls are about 4 feet thick. A lew of the
windows are leaded, but not diamond panes."

1 Marc's Shropshire, p. 84.

226

BRQMCKOKT AND ITS OWN1CKS.

Some further details about Iironi croft during the Civil War
are recorded in "Memorials of Old Shropshire," pages tSg,
190, 107.

I. — Tyre i, of Bkom croft.

Mr. Kyton says that this Manor was held under the Lords
of Corfham by the family of Tyrel. Richard Tyrel occurs in
1243; and in January 1246 he was second on a great Inquest
taken by Knights from all parts of Shropshire. In November
1248 he was a Coroner for Shropshire. In 1250 he lined 5
merks "that Wyloc might be under pleviu." Wyloc was a
Corfham Tenant. Tyrel was connected with Norncote in
1255, and with Cold Weston in .256. About 1257 Sir Richard
Tyrel attested a Corfham Deed. His successor in Shropshire
was Roger Tyrel. In 1292 Roger Tyrel was reported by the
Coriham Jurors as non-attendant at the Assizes 1

A line is extant temp. Kdward III. (1327-77) Between Hugh
Tyre 11 and Margerie his wife, plaintiff, and Bartholomew
Tyrell, John Wisseman, and William Surrey, deforciants,
concerning laud in Bromcroft. (Feet of bines, Salop, Kdw.
III., 306).

In 8 Kdward III. (1334-5), Hugh Tyrell had a grant of
free-warren in Midlehope, Bromerofte, Nonnecote, Heath,
Rothale and Aston in co. Salop. (Rev. lulward Williams's
MSS. TV., pp. 124 and 333, in Shrewsbury Free Library).

An Inquisition was taken after the death of Hugh Tyrel! of
Bromcroft in 17 Kdward III. (1344). The Jurors say that
Hugh Tyrell held one messuage and 3 acres of meadow in
Little Sutton, and a tenement in Clcoburv. He also held the
Hanilett of Bromcroft witli the appurtenances to the same
belonging of Joan le Strange, by service of the sixth part of
one Knight's fee, jointly with Margeria his wife, and 9 .
in Marshaton. John Tyrell was his son and heir, and was
4 years old. (Kdward Williams's MSS. IV. 1 10).

An Inquisition was taken 18 May, ij}> atlci the death ol
Johanna Tyrel, widow of Roger Tyrel. The Jurors found
that she held the Hamlet of Middlehope, whicli belonged to

John, son and heir of Hugh Tyrel, son ol the said JoliatllUU
1 Antiquities of Shropshire, V. 1(>5, lUi.

B ROM CROFT AND ITS OWNKRS. 227

In which hamlet is a certain capital messuage, which was
worth xs- per annum, and a dove-cot worth xija- per annum,
and land worth 2 marcs per annum, and 4 acres of meadow
worth 6s. per annum, and also pasture, wood and common
worth per annum; and a water mill out of repair. For
assi/.e worth xxvjs- viij'1- Rent of assize worth xxxxiij3-
(hup p.m., iS Edward III.)

In 34 Edward HI (1360-1), it is stated that John Tyrell
owned Sutton, Middlehope, Bromcrofte and Normecott, and
died seised of lands in Bromcrofte (Kdward Williams's MSS.
IV. 307.) *

Dukes in his Antiquities of Shropshire carries on the history
of Bromcrolt later. He says: —

The Hamlet of Bromcroft was reputed to be one of the fees
of the Lords of the Castle of Corfham. In 8 Edward III.
(1335) Hugh Tyrrel had free warren in Bromcrofte. In
34 Edward III. (1361) John Tyrrel died seized of lands in
Bromcrofte. An attachment went out from the Exechequer,
6 Henry IV. (1405), against John Burley, tenant of the
Manor of Bromcrofte, which had been the inheritance of
David Hammer. A fine was levied 32 Henry VI. (1454) of the
Manor of Bromcrofte, Marshe, Munslow, Clungunford, Brom-
rield, Aulden, Alghamptou, Brocton, Thongeland, Afcot,
Norton in Hale and the Advowson of Norton in Hale, by
William Burley, whose daughter and co-heir Johane married
Thomas Littleton, Lord of Frankley, Justice of the Common
Pleas. Sir Thomas Littleton, Speaker of the House of Commons,
sold it on 3 June 1657 to John Walcot of Walcot, CO, Salop.
In 6 James I. (1609) the King demised to George Lawlev,
gentleman, lands in Bromcrofte dc tt-rris Jokannu Lpi/ej
recusantis for 21 years.

II. — Burlky of Bromcroft Casti.i:.

The Arms borne by various members of this family were not
always the same.

John Burley who was sheriff in 1409 bore -Vert, 3 boars
heads couped close 2 and 1 argent.

His son Sir William Burley* who was sherifl in 1426, bore
Argent a lion rampant Sable, mined and latlglied gltles,

228

BROMCROFT AND ITS OWNERS.

debruised by a fesse componee Or and Azure. (Blakeway's
Sheriffs, pp. 5S, 65). Morris gives tliL Arms of Sir
John Burley Knt. and his grandson Sir John as Barry
of six Sable and Or, an inescutcheon barry of six gules and
ermine, on a chief Or, two pallets of the first. And he says
that the same Arms were borne by Sir William Burley Knt.
and his wife Margaret 32 Henry VI. (1434)1

Blakeway in his Sheriffs of Shropshire, who is followed by
Burke [^History of the Commona ».?, ///., 527), states that the
family derived their name from Burley in co. Hereford, which
place they held under their superior lords, the Mortimers.
Early in the thirteenth century, one Simon de Bnrlega, knight,
witnessed a deed of Ralph de Mortimer

The Pedigree of Burley, given in the Shrewsbury School
MS. of the Visitation of Shropshire2 (under Hopton), differs
from that printed in Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire,
pp.58 — 60; and as the latter is undoubtedly more correct, as
will be shown presently, it will be best to follow it in the
present account of the family.

The Burleys seem to have come into prominence through
WALTER Burlky,3 a fellow of Morton College, Oxford, acting
as preceptor to the Prince of Wales (afterwards luiward III ),
and afterwards to the Black Prince. He appears to have
introduced at Court his relative, Sir Simon de Burley, one of
the most accomplished men of his age, and as Mich appointed
Governor of the young Prince Richard (afterwards Richard II).
Sir Simon, and his two brothers Sir Richard and Sir John, are
styled " men of worth and valour," and are named among the
officers despatched by the Black Prince in 1366 to escort
Don Pedro, the deposed King of Castile, from Corunna to
Bordeaux.

Sir Simon de Burlky was a very promineut man. He wua
a younger son, and his patrimony was small, it did not
exceed twenty marks, the historian Knighton says, but

1 Transactions, VI. 237. Sec also llurlciun Society's Visitation of Shrop
shire in 1623, p. 254.

lkul Soe., Visitation of Shropshire, pp. 25tt- 5.
;j Dictionary of National Biography, VII 'Si 1

BKOMCROFT AND ITS OWNKKS. 229

wealth and honours were lavishly poured upon him by the
favour of his sovereign. In 137711c was created a Knight of
the darter,1 and the same year was appointed keeper of
Windsor Castle for life. The next year L,ansteplian Castle was
conferred upon him. In 1380 he was one of the King's
Commissioners to treat with the German Princes. In 1382, he
was nnder-Chamherlain and Master falconer to the King, for
which he received a fee of rid. a day. lie also received grants
of the Manor of Parrock in Kent, Castle Kmlyu in Kermendin,
and Ley borne Castle in Kent, late the property of Juliana de
Leyborne, and of liberties at his Castle of Lennalx in
Herefordshire. In 1385, he was one of the executors of the
Will of Joan, Princess of Wales, and the next year was granted
the Cattle of Frome. lie was also a Knight Banneret, Warden
of the Cinque Ports, and Constable of Dover Castle. In spite
of his high position and his possessions, he was beheaded on
15 May, 1388, and his estates forfeited to the Crown.

Sir John Buklkv (Sir Simon's brother) was created a
Knight of the Garter in 1377. He had been a witness of the
Will of Edward III., and in 1377-8 had a grant of the custody
of the forest of Harwood. He had three sons : —

1. William, who was seated at Burley, co. Hereford.

2. Sir Richard, an eminent man, created a Knight of the
Garter in 1382. He was also privy councillor to John of Gaunt,
whom he accompanied into Spain, and dying 23 May, 1387,
was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. His wife was Beatrice,
daughter of Ralph, Earl of Stafford, and widow of the 2nd Karl
of Desmond.

3. Sir Roger Burley, who married Lucy, daughter of
William Gilford, and relict of . . . Browne, and was father
of the Sheriff of 1409.

John Bi;ki.ky of Brouicroft (son of Sir Roger) served the
ofhee of Sheriff of Shropshire in 1.109, and was Knight of the
Shire in 1401 ami in 1412. In 1401 he petitioned Parliament to
restore the forfeited lands of Simon de Burley, Knight, to him

1 SStoaws's Knighta of BnglanU, I. 5, UicUonury of National Biography,

23O BROMCROFT AND ITS OWN1-.KS.

as "son and heir of Roger de Burley, who was cousin and heir
of Simon," and his Petition was granted- In J40S he was one
of the Commissioners of Array for Shropshire. He was one of
the standing Council to the Karls of Arundel and Stafford, and
in that Capacity attested as first witness the Charier granted
by the former to the lhirges.^es of Oswesfcly on 25 January
8 Henry IV. (1406-7). 1 It senis clear that he was a Barrister-at-
Law. He appears to have been Steward of the Karl of
Stafford's Court, as in the Accounts of Kduiund, K:irl of
Stafford in 1309, occur.-, this entry under Cans Castle : —
Keod. Johannis Burley Seneschal, cur. d'ni in hac patria
^6 13s. ad." '"Of the fee of John Burley, Steward of ihe
Lord's Court in this county, £6 13s. 4d." The accountant
John Turvey received Is- a day in March 1399, "lor going to
warn John Burley Esq., of Bromecrott and Thomas Gurney oi
Slbdon to attend the Council." This journey took two days.
In 1 4 1 4 , King Henry V. granted a license to William Walleford
and John de Water to alienate lands in Alveley, &c, to the
Abbot and Convent of Shrewsbury, to find a chaplain to pray
for John Boerley of Broineroft and Julian his wife during their
lives, and for their souls, &c, after their deaths - His wife was
a daughter of Reginald. Loid Grey de Ruthvn, according to
Owen and Blakeway ; but he is also stattd to have married
Alice, the daughter of Sir Richard I'einh: idge. and sister and
co-heir of Walter Pembridge.3 His nuncupative Will is
preserved at Somerset House, ami is as follows :

Win, OK John BtJKIvKY, 1415.

In the Name of God, A men. In the month of October 1 \ 1
I, John Burley, Hsquire. in the County oj Salop. > 01111 d in
mind and of good memory, make iny Will. I leave my soul
to my Omnipotent Creator, to the Blessed Mary the Virgin,
and all the Saints, ami my hotly to be buried where God

1 Transactions, II. 204, 206. Ills name is givm in llic Charter .is
" Johannes Rocrlcc."

- Owen & Blakeway's History of Shrewsbury, 14. I9W« The arnw « i
Sir Uichard Hurley, K.C., and Beatrice St a nurd Ins wile, were in the
««rc:ti west window of the Abbey Church.

;i Marl. Site. Visitation of Shropshire, p. 1254.

BKOMCKOFT AND ITS OWNERS. 231

shall dispose. I leave my true and legal heirs all my
immoveable goods. To my executors all my moveable goods
to be disposed of for my soul, and the souls of my parents,
and of all the faithful. My executors vSir Richard Laeyn,
Knt., and Roger Corbet, domieellus1 of the said county.
Proved in P.C.C. 18 February 1415-16. (31 Marche.)

John Burley, the Sheriff, had issue2 : —

1. Sir William Burley, Knt., of Brom croft, Sheriff in 1426.

2. Another son, ancestor of the Burleys of Malehurst,
Pontesbury, and of Shrewsbury.

3. Jocosa (or Joyce), who married John Gat acre of Gatacre,
and was living in the reigns of Henry IV., V., VI. Their
great grand-daughter Joyce, married Thomas Heynes of
Church Stretton.

4. Kli/.abeth, married Sir Reginald Corbet of Lee, Knt.

5. Katherine, married Geoffrey Harley of Brampton Bryan.

6. Maud, married Plowden of Plowden.

7. Klinor, married John Corbet of I,ee.

8. Anna, married Rowland Wvnesburv.

9. Margaret, married Mytton of Weston.

John Burley was succeeded by his elder son,

Sir William Burley, Knt., of Bromcroft. The printed
Visitation of Shropshire calls him Sir John Burley, but his
name was certainly William. Sir William Littleton, Knt.,
of Frankley (the eldest son and heir of Johane Burley, who
married Sir Thomas Littleton, Knt.), mentions in his Will
dated 2 November 1507, and proved 7 February, 1507 8, " My
grandfather William Burley." William Burley was a barrister
like his father, and seems to have had a standing fee paid
him by the town of Shrewsbury .3 He was She-riff in 1626, and
M. P. for Shropshire in several parliaments from 1417 to 1151.

1 Domieellus or Damoisel, " a young gentleman professing armcs, and not

yet knighted."

These ure given as his children in the Harl. Sue. Visitation ol Shropshire,
p &56. Rut the eldest son is then- wrongly named Sir John, and the
second son is called William.
3 In denanis solutis Willielmo Uoerley de Bromerolt pro teodo sno h.-e
anno sjs. (Shrewsbury Bailiff's Accounts, Stt HctM \ V I 1

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He filled the post of Speaker of the House of Commons in
1436 and 1443. 1 He married Alice, the elf lighter of Richard
Grey, Lord Grey of Wilton.

Close Roll, 39 Henry VI. No. 4.

In 1461 George, Duke of Clarence, released to Thomas
Lyttelton, one of the Justices of the King's Common Bench,
and to William Lyttelton Esquire, his son, all right he had in
the manor of Cressage, Co. Salop, and the Manor of Areley,
Co. Stafford, which manors Sir William Hurley bought of
Richard, lately Duke of York, father of the said Duke. (Rev.
Ldward Williams' MSS., IV., 76.)

In an Inquisition, dated 4 March, 1429, taken after the
death of Reginald Mitton of Salop, who died on 20 Dec. 1424,
it is stated that Hugh Boerley, late of Bromscroft, received
the rents and profits of Mitton's lands from the time of the
death of the said Reginald Mitton till the time of taking this
Inquisition. (Inq. p.m., 7 Henry VI., No. 68.)

By Patent dated 15 February, 9 Henry VI. (1430-1), the
King, referring to this Inquisition, notifies to his bailiffs that
he is informed by William Boerley of Bromseroft and Sir
Thomas Straunge, Knight, that Reginald Mitton held other
lands than those mentioned in the Inquisition; and that
Alice, his widow, without the King's licence conceded her
life interest in these lands to the said William Boerley and
Thomas Straunge, by the name of Thomas Straunge, esquire,
and Hugh Burgh, esquire, and one William Foster, since
deceased. The King, for £\6 paid to him, pardons these
transgressions, and concedes that the said William Boerley
and Thomas Straunge may hold these lands during
Alice Mitton's life." (Patent, 9 Henry VI., Part I. m. 17.)

Sir William Burley died 12 December, 1470. lie lett two
daughters and co-heiresses : —

1. Elizabeth Burley, who married first Sir John Hop to u,
and secondly Thomas Trussell, Ksquire.

2. Johanna Burley, who married first Sir Philip Chctwyild,
and secondly Sir Thomas Littleton.

1 Dictionary of National Biography, VII. 3^6,

- Historic. >l Collections For Staffordshire, N.S.. 11 . M5 in> Hugh is

clearly an error for William.

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BKOMCKOI T AND ITS OWNKKS. 233

His Bromcroft property passed to his daughter Johanna.

1. RlizaiikTH IUjklkY married first, Sir J rim Hopion, Knt.
the eldest son of Sir John Hoptou, Knt., of Stanton, by his
wife Alice, the daughter of Lord Strange.

Walter de Hopton, who owned the Manor of Hoptou as early
as 1255, died in 1305, leaving a son Walter de Hoptou, from
whom descended Sir John Hopton, Knt. Walter de Hopton
paid subsidy iiij* and Thomas de Hopton paid ijs- The eldest
line of the family ended with an heiress Elizabeth, who in
the 15th century carried the Hopton estates to her husband
Sir Roger Corbet of Moreton Corbet.

A younger branch of the family resided for some generations
in the parish of Iuduiebury. their name apptaring in the early
parish registers : —

1583- 4, March 2: — John, son of Ralph and Jane Hopton.
baptized.

1584- 5, January 19 — Adam Dycke and Margaret Hopton,
married.

15^6, June 12 — Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Hopton and
Jane his wife, baptized.

I5>6, November 9 — John Hopton and Johane Jurden, married.

1568-9, January 23 — Ankerat. daughter of William Hopton
and Elizabeth his wife, baptized. -

1588- 9, February 21 — Thomas, son of John Hopton and
Johane his wife, baptized.

1589- 90, March 8 — Richard, son of Ralph Hopton and Jane
his wife, baptized.

The descendants of the Hoptons inter-married with many of
the leading families in Diddlehury. A Richard Hopton married
Johane, daughter ol John Eanglord of Diddlebury, and bad
issue two daughters: — (1, Johane, married Ralph Maistou,
probably of the family of Marston of Marston ill Diddlebury
and (2) Alice, married William Higgins.

John Hopton. who was SheiilT of Salop ill 1575, married
Frances, the daughter of — Cressett of Upton Cressett, and
their daughter Elizabeth, married William Littleton of Stretton.

These families are connected by marriage with the lialdwyns
of I >iddlebury-

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Klizabeth Burley, Lady Hop ton, married secondly Thomas
Trussell, and had issue (i) Sir William Trussell, who married
Margerie, the daughter of John Ludlow of Stokesav, and 2)
Isabella, wife to Sir John St. Peter of Shoeklash co. Chester.
Sir William Trussell died 23 January 14S1, leaving is.<ue Sir
Edward Trussell, who died 18 April, 14 Henry VII. vx499>)-
His son John Trussell, died, aged 10, on 20 December. 15 Henry
ATT. (1499). His (John's) sister and heir Elizabeth, who was
aged 3 in 1506, married John Vere. 15th Karl of Oxford, and
Great Chamberlain. K.G., who died in 31 Henry VIII (1539).
In one of the windows in the church of Sheriftliales are ihe^e
arms : — Argent a fret gules, on each joint a bezant, TkUSSKIX,
impaling Argent a lion rampant sable debruised by a fret
coiiipony or and azure, BuRLKY. The pedigree of Trussell of
Sheriff Hales is given in the printed Visitation of Shrop>hire,
pp. 466-7.

2. Johank Burlky. of Bromeroft. Sir William's other
daughter and co-heir, married first Sir Philip Chetwynd, Knt.,
ol Ingestre, Co. Stafford, and secondly Sir Thomas Littleton,
Knt., of Teddeslcy, Co. Stafford. By her second marriage
her Shropshire estates became the property of Sir Thomas
Littleton. The estate of Alley remained in the Littleton
family until 1779, when Thomas, Lord Littleton, the son of
George Littleton, who was tenth in descent from Sir Thomas,
gave it by will to his nephew George Annesley, the son of his
sister Lucy, the wife of Viscount Valentia.

Sir Thomas Lyttleton1 was one of the great law luminaries
of his country. In 1456 he was called to be serjeant-at-law,
and the next year was constituted King's Serjeant and justice
of assize on the northern circuit In 1464 he was a Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas ; and in 1473 was made a Knight
of the Bath. He was the author of the celebrated Ttcatiss on
Tenures. He died at Fraukley 23 August 14S1, and was
buried in the Cathedral Church of Worcester. His widow
survived him 24 years, and died 22 March 1505, aged nearly
eighty, leaving a great estate, which came to hei eldest - n.
Sir William Lyttleton.

1 Dictionary 0! National ltiu||ranhy, XWIII.a;.*.

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JJROMCROl-T A.NJJ ITS OVv'NKRS. 235

Wiu. of Sir Thomas Littij.ton. Knt., 1461.
Will dated 22iul of August, 14.S1.

I wnile that Rieharde my sonne have the revercion of ihe
Mama of Moelston besyde Clybery co. Salop, etc. Also I
epieath to Dame Jone my wyf £20 in money in recompense of
a sylwr basonne the which wa> soinetyroe her husband's
Sir Philip Chetwin's. to the said Dame Jone my best habyt,
that is to say, my gowne, cloke. and hode. Also to my
donghter Hlyn. my seconde best habyt in a lyke forme. Also
to Alice my daughter, my thyrd beste habyt in lyke tonne.

Proved in P.C.C. 1481. (3 Logge).

Inoi isi itoX Post Mortem Sir Thomas Littlkton*.

Sir Thomas Lyttelton was found to have died possessed of
the Manor of Frankley and Spechley co. Worcester, of
messuages and lauds in Cuddeley, Bradiestre, and White
Lady, Aston, land in Upton Suddebury, in Stone, in Crowie,
and in Pirton. The Manors of Moseley and Coulesden all in
Worcester, the Manor of Areley and of Tixhale, of twelve
houses in the City of Lichfield and of the Manor of Aspiety in
Shropshire.

Inouisition Post Mortkm Joiiakk I.ittu:ton, 1505.

Inquisition taken in 1505 after the death of Johane, the
daughter and co-heir of Sir William Hurley of Hronuroft, in
the County of Salop, Knight, and the widow of Sir Thomas
Littleton. Knight, who died in 1481. She was found to have
held the Manors of Hromcrolte, Baldcote, Merstoii, Mtluslowe,
Henley, Tug ford, Brockton, AIhIoii, Tliouglatid, Iliddlebtiry,
AfcOle and Aka.ston with the lands and tenements in
Wonnruu, Abuon, Winstanlon. Hromi.ehl, Cokericll, Walton.
Rowthal, llnllon, DtUdlchury, Aston, Bodcuhopc, and the
Chapel of Merston, all in Shi opshil e. And hei heir was her
son Sir William Littleton, Knt . aged 03 years.

Sir VVi Ilia ill Lyttleton was Knignied by Henry VII. at the
battle of Stoke 15th June, 14s;. for bringing aid against the
Earl of Lincoln. lie married two wives: SttM 1:11a, widow ot
Thomas Pielding, Hsquire, and daughter and en hen of
William Walsh of Wanlip, co. Leicester, Ksquire, and secondly
Mary, daughter of William Whiltiugtoti oi Pantlev, v

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Gloucester, Esquire, by Elizabeth his wife, who was daughter
of Reuifrede Arundel, Esquire, one of ihe noble house of
Lanherne, eo. Cornwall, and by her had one son John and one
daughter. Sir William Lyttelton was the first of his house
who bore his arms with supporters. It seems an honourable
addition, but upon what occasion it was given him is uncertain.
He died at Frankley in December, 1507, aged 65, and by his
Will bequeathed his body to be buried frith in the Monaster}' of
Halesowen, eo. Salop, before the image of the Virgin Mary,
near the place and grave where his first wife Ella was buried,
lie settled on Mary his second wife, the Manor of Frankley,
Coulesdon in Worcester, Ridgeaker in Salop, and Over Areley
in Stafford. He gives 500 marks in marriage portion to his
daughter Elizabeth, if she married with her mother's consent.
He orders that his obit be performed every year in the
Monastery oi Halesowen, and his executors are to pay 13s. 4d.
for it.1 John his son and heir endowed his family (says
Mr. Habington) with a brave Dame of noble blood by marrying
Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton,
co. Worcester, by Joan Beaufort, one of the daughters and
co-heirs of Edmund, Earl of Somerset, son of John of Gaunt,
— in right of whom he and his heirs have since rightly
quartered the Arms of England within a bordure gobony, —
by whom he had issue seven sous and two daughters.

The following Lyttleton Charters preserved at Hagley relate
to the family of Hurley. (The numbers refer to the deeds in
the calendar).

351. 20 December, 144.S. Grant in trust from Richard,
Duke of York, Earl of March, to Ralph. Lord Cromwell,
William Oldehail, Kilt., William Hurley, and Margaret his
wife, John Wynuesbury, and Thomas Hoptou ol Ktkhill,
Manors of Ciessage co. Salop and Alley eo. Stafford.

354. 21 October, 1449. Ouit-claim from Ralph, Lord
Cromwell, William Oldhale, Robert, and Thomas Hoptou of
Kokhull 1 Rockhill) to William Hurley of lirotllCroft eo. Salop,
ami Margare t his wile-, Mauoi of Arley,

1 Will at Sn William Lyttleton, p.aol in r C.C. iso. (3'J Ul< mm |

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237

362. 3 August 1456. Grant from V/'illiam Burley of
Bromcroft, Do minus of Arley to Thomas Churchyard, of all
lands within the Lordship of Arley.

379. 7 March, 1465. Lease of Co years from Margaret,
widow of William Burley of Bromcroft and David-ap-JeVan,
Rector of Acton Burnell and William Tagge, Rector of
Norton-in-Hales, her trustees under her husband's will, to
Thomas Littleton, Guy Westcote, and others. Manor of
Arley.

In Duke's Antiquities of Shropshi) e, under Munslow, mention
is made of a Fine levied 32 Henry VI. (1453-4), between
AVilliam Burley and Margaret his wife, complainants, and
Thomas Acton, deforciant, of the Manor of Munslow.

Under Clungunford, there is mentioned a Fine levied in
32 Henry VI. (1453-4), between William Burley and Margaret
his wife, complainants, and Thomas Acton, deforciant, of the
Manor of Bromcroft.

There was a Grant in 1443 from William Burley and Isabella
his wife of a tenement in Bromcroft.

The following proceedings at the Shropshire Assizes ot
1414 concern one John Burley the younger, of Dallicott in
the parish of Claverley, whose relationship to the Bromcroft
family has not yet been ascertained.

John Buklky, the Younger, of Dai. cote.

Proceedings at tlic Shropshire Assizes held at Shrewsbury in lilt.
[Assize Rolls, No. 753, m. 18).
By John Gauvill and his fellows Bailiffs, etc. of the Liberties.
The jurors present that John Burley the younger, ol Dalcote,
co. Salop, " Squyer," together with many malefactors
unknown, on Monday next after the Feast of St. Lawrence in
the 14th year of the reign of King Henry IV. (1413) at
Ludlowe with force and arms, viz. : armed with tunics.
" palettes," "doublettes tie defenso," and arrayed in wailikc
manner, lay in wait to beat or maihem William Mounselowe
of Ludlowe, against the peace, etc.

Item, they present that the aforesaid John Burley on Friday
next after the Feast oi the Invention of the Holy CrOSS 111 the

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nth year of the reign of King Henry IV. (1410) having
assembled with him ten other malefactors unknown, armed
and in warlike manner arrayed, namely with tunics,
'* palettes," " doublettes de defenso," swords, bows raid arrows
at Ounebury (Onibury) feloniously lay in wait of their malice
and old hatred to slay and murder John Staunton, and there
a long time awaiting the coining of the said John Staunton,;
and perceiving that the same John would cross over from the
vill of Stokesay that way to his house, and when the same
John Staunton arrived at the place aforesaid, suddenly the
aforesaid John Hurley with the aforesaid malefactors made an
assault on the said John with his sword drawn, and before
the said John could descend from his horse the same John
Burley struck the said John Staunton's horse with his sword
on its hind legs, so that the same horse immediately fell to
the ground, and then the same John Burley before the said
John Staunton could rise again, struck the said John Staunton
on his head, his shoulders, his legs, and on divers other parts
of his body, and gave him seven mortal blows, and so h'ing
in wait there he feloniously slew ami murdered him. And
that Roger Auldon of Bradston, 1 yeoman, Richard Dolfyu of
Corvedon (Corfton), yeoman, Thomas Holder of Wotton,
yeoman,, and William Bygley the younger, of Duddelbury,
yeoman, were then and there present, and aiding to commit
the felony and murder aforesaid in form a foresaid. -

The Burley family were Lords of the Manor of Malhurst
in the parish of Pontesbnry, probably of the same family as
John Hurley, one of the Council of the Barony of Cans in
1408. Their names appear in the early registers oJ Ponlesbury,
and their pedigree is given in the printed Visitation oi
Shropshire.3 They are there stated to be descended from a
younger son of John Burley, the Sheriff of 1400.

William Boreley of this family was Bailiff of Shrewsbury in
1426, and he again served the office in [434, [439, 1414. 1 ||S,
and 1454. He was also M.P. for Shrewsbury in 1427. Richard

I liiwdstouc, in the parish of Aston Munslow.
a Vrnmth Hum, :<nl Scrii-s, vol. VII., ai>;i 4.
m n.u ksiu'n Soeiviy, vol. XXVill., p. 255.

]> K OJ1CKOFT AND ITS OWNIiKS. 239

Boerley, his brother, who was a draper in Shrewsbury, was
Bailiff in 1438, 1442, and 1452. On 1 October, 1450, John
Boerley, who is described as "son of William Boerley of
Malelrarst," and as "one of the valets of the Crown of our
Lord the Kim',/' was admitted a free burgess of Shrewsbury
without fine, at the special request ami by letter of King
Henry VI. His descendants continued at Malehurst and
Asterley in the parish of Ponteshury, at The Marsh in
Westlmry parish, and at Habberley and Alberbury, whilst
some were tradesmen in Shrewsbury.1 There is a pedigree
of the family of Hurley in the late Mr. Joseph Morris's MS.
collections, page 533.

William boerley of Shrewsbury married Isabel, daughter
and heir el William de Tour ot Shrewsbury, and left an only
daughter and heir Agnes, who married Thomas Mytton of
Vaughan's Place, Shrewsbury. Thomas Mytton was living
in 1440, but died before June 1443. 3

Will of James Buklky, 1399.
(P.C. Hereford, Bundle I.) Will dated (no day or month) 1309.

My bodie to be buried in the Church of the Carmelite Friars
of Ludlow amongst my ancestors. £.\ towards the building of
a Chapel there to which the bones of myself, and my ancestors
are to be transferred. My wife Margery, my son William Hurley,
my brothei John Pmrlev.

Wii.i, or William Buklky, of Mynstkki.ky
in Tim Parish or Wkstmjky, 1551.

(P C. Hereford, Bundle 1. 8.) Will dated 14 August 1551.

To be buried in Our I,adic Chapped of Poutysburye. To
my wife Anne, oxen, etc. The rest of my cattle to be dis-
tributed amongst my children. My wife executrix, she to
order my children and their estate till they are 01 age.
Thomas Burley my brother and Thomas Wilk> my brother-in-
law and John Corbett my brother to be overseers. Witnesses :
Richard Key, clerke, Edward Corbett. Thomas HytltOll

(No proof or act).

' Transactions, Itril Scries, vol. II F, pp, ;F I 5, 377

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Wn.L ov Thomas Burlky ok MaXkchurch -Maliiurst"
Gentleman 1561.

(P.C. Hereford, Bundle II.) Will dated 2S December, 1561.

My body to be buried in the Ladye Chappell of Pontysbur)
nigh to my father. To Thomas Burley my son and heir all 111}
lands at 21. My' wyfe Jane to have her joynture duringe hei
life, and to ever)' other of my children £2 when marryed, 0111
of my landes. Residue between my children and my wife
Jane. My wife and Robert Eaton my brother-in-law to be
executors. Overseers : My father-in-law Mr. Thomas Hytoi
and Mr. Edward Corbet of Longnor. Witnesses: Thomas
Lake, gentleman, Thomas Tybbye, yeoman, Thomas Sabey
(No act).

Will of Thomas Burlky, ok Forpen, 1621.
(P.C. Hereford). Dated 8 January, 1621.

My sons Thomas, John, and William Burley ; they to be
executors.

Will of Richard Buki.kv,
of the Towne ok Shrewsbury, IIekold Painter, 1755.
Dated n September, 1755.
To my sister Mary Newman for her life that new house
which I dwell in. My son Richard Burley ; he to be executor.
Codicil dated 11 September, 1755. Proved 21 September, 1756,
in the Peculiar Court of St. Mary, Shrewsbury.

HI. — LUTLEV OF LUTLKY, BROMCROFT, CORFTON, I. AW roN,

Stanton Lacy, SlQ,
Arms of L.utlcy.

Quarterly of four: 1. Quarterly Or and a/ure four lions
rampant counter-changed. (I«UTI.EY). Ardent. 111 chief
three ravens sable. (Cokhyn). 3. Argent, in chief a lion
passant-guardant gules, in base three leopards faces sable.

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(Fiui.odk). 4. Azure, a cinquefoil ermine within a bordure
engrailed of the second. (Astlev).

On a monument in Eaton Church to Philip Lutley and
Penelope Barneby his wife are the Arms of Lutley, impaling
Barneby, — Sable, a lion passant guardant between 3 escallop
shells argent. Crest : A lion rampant per fesse Or and Azure.
The Arms also occur on a Hatchment in Katon Church, 1796,
and on a monument to Hester, wife of Adam Lutley in
Stanton Lacy Church.1

The pedigree begins with two brothers, Philip and Adam de
Lutley.

Philip de Lutteleye, Lord of the Manor of Lutley, in
the parish of Enville, co. Stafford, was living 20 Edward I.
(1291-92). His line terminated with an heiress in the time
of Henry VI. (1422-1461). In the Register of John de Trillek,
Bishop of Hereford, is a licence dated 20 July, 1352, from the
Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, for Katherine, the widow
of Philip de Lutteley, to take the vows and receive the ring
and garments of perpetual widowhood from any English
Bishop.

In the Wombridge Chartulary2 are contained three grants
by the Lutleys to the Prior and Convent of Wombridge of
land and rents at Uppington. These were made between
1300 and 1320.

No. 1 1, vii. Know all men, etc., that I Sir Philip de Lutteleye
have given, etc., to God and the church of Blessed Leonard
of Wombridge, etc., ten shillings annual rent, etc., of Adam
Cocus of Uppington from three nokes of land, etc., in
Uppington, etc. These being witnesses: Sir Roger Corbet
of Hedeley, Sir Walter Hugeford, Peter de Kyton, and many
others. In pure and perpetual alms.

No. 12, ix. To all etc. Philip, Lord of Lutteleye, son and
heir of Philip de Lutteleye etc. Know ye that I have granted
etc. to the religions men the Prior and Convent of Wombridge
etc, all my right etc. in ten shillings annual rent in UpilltOtl

1 Sec Transactions VI., 495, for these and other Anns <>f Lutlev
* See Transactions, IX., 308, S09, 314.

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under Mount Gilbert etc. These being witnesses : Roger
Corbet oi Hedlege> John his son, Knights, Peter de Eyton,
and many others.

No. 32. xxix. Know all men, etc., that I, Philip Lord of
Lutteley have granted, etc. to Adam Chepingnorton, Cook,
and his heirs or his assigns, etc. All my right, etc. in one
messuage and three Nokes of land in the town and territory of
Upinton, etc. to be paid to me and my heirs or my assigns,
ten shillings, etc., annually in my court of Lutteley to be
received from the said Adam and his heirs or his assigns, etc.,
saving to him his heirs and assigns reliefs and escheats when
they happen. For which concession relief and quitclaim he
gave to me the aforesaid Adam 30s. sterling. These being
witnesses : Roger de Mora of Brugg, John Costatyn of Eyton,
Richard de le Buri of Upynton, and others.

Some Charters preserved at Hagley amongst the Lyttleton
evidences, relate to the family of Lutley. (The numbers refer
to the deeds).

42. 2nd February, 1293. Philip de Lutteley is witness to a
grant from William Le Gerrus to Roger son of Henry de
Hexton— Vill of Arley.

45. 13th Cent. Adam de Lutley is witness to a grant from
Henry, Dominus de Haggeley — Manor of Hagley.

109. 3 October 1338. Philip de Lutley is witness to a quit-
claim from Isabella and Johanna, daughters and co-heirs of
John Pikard— Vill of Arley.

172. 15 Aug. 1365. Covenant whereby Philip de Lutley
agrees to perform homage and service to John Bottourt,
Seigneur de Welegh, for the Manor of Lutley.

180. 8 June, 1368. Grant from John, son of Andrew de la
Lone of Wolverhampton to Philip de Lutteley of all his lands
in Alveley, co. Salop.

Philip de Lutteley had a younger brother,

I. ADAM i>K Luttei.KY, whose son Sir William Luilov,
Knt., was of Munslow, 1 and whose descendant, John Lnlky

1 "The old house ;it Munslow, which \\-»s occupied b] the Lutlcyt, it

now the school house." (Hromeioft papers)

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of Bromcroft, was living in 1623, when the Lutley pedigree
was entered up at the Visitation of Shropshire 1

II. Sir William Lutlky of Munslow Hall in the parish
of Munslow, eo. Salop, Knight, is the first of the name
mentioned in the Visitation of Salop. He was the son of
I. Adam de Lutley and nephew of Philip de Lutteley, Lord
of Lutteley, who is mentioned in the Lyttleton Charters, and
the Charters of Wombridge Priory. He married Johanna,
the daughter of Sir Philip Younge, Knight, of Kenton (or
Caynton), co. Salop, and left issue two sons.

1. Sir Philip Lutley, Knight, who married Johanna the
daughter of William Paekington and died without issue. (In
the pedigree amongst the Bromcroft deeds William Lutley
is stated to be the son of Sir Philip and no issue is given of
Nicholas Lutley).

2. Nicholas Lutley, of whom next.

III. Nicholas Lutley, of Munslow, married Anne, the
daughter of William Littleton of Munslow and Church
Stretton, and had issue a son.

IV. William Lutley, probably of Munslow, married
Alice, the daughter of Richard Daver, and had issue two sons.

1. John Lutley, ancestor of the owners of Bromcroft.
(This John Lutley is not shown in the Bromcroft pedigree,
the descent being from the second son).

2. William Lutley, who married Sibella, the daughter of
William Wilkes or Wykes, of Darleston, and had issue;

(1.) William Lutley, married Johanna, the daughter of John
Lee, and had issue [1] John Lutley, [2] Mariana Lutle\ , who
died without issue, [3] Elisabeth Lutley died unmarried.

(2.) John Lutley, of whom nothing is known, nor does he
appear to have married.

V. John Lutley, the elder son of William and Alice
Lutley, married Lli/.abeth, the daughter and heiress of Thomas
Corbin by his wife Elizabeth, the daughter and co- heiress of
Giles Fililode of Alveley, co. Salop, and had issue one son.

VI. William Lutlky, who married Blizabeth, the
daughter of John Ringley, and had issue

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1. John Lutley of Corfton, the first to be styled as of
Bromcroft, of whom presently.

2. Nicholas Lutley, of whom next.

3. Maria Lutley, who is stated to have married first Thomas
Haward, and secondly George Jenkes.

4. Jocosa, or Joyce Lntley.

5. Elizabeth Lntley.

2. Nicholas Lntley (the second son of VI. William Lntley)
married, but his wife's name is not recorded ; he left issue.

(1.) Thomas Lntley of Lawton, also described as of Lutley,
who married Mary, the daughter of Roger Woodhouse of
Glapwell, co. Derby, and had issue, [1] Margaret Lutley, and
[2 I Maria Lutley, who is also stated to have married Thomas
Haward. There is some co?i fusion between this Maria and
her aunt of the same name. Neither of these daughters are
shown in the Shrewsbury MS.

(2.) Elizabeth Lutley, married Humphrey Temple.

Under the account of Shropshire Pilgrims who visited Rome,
was one Philip Lutley, who was admitted in September, 1621,
then aged 20, and was ordained a priest in 1624. He was born
at Bromcroft in Corvedale, and is described as the fifth son.
The account goes on to say that he was the youngest of the six
children' of Richard Lutley and Magdalena his wife, who were
both members of the Church of Rome, that his father's income
from land was about ^300 a year, and that he was descended
from Nicholas Lutley of Lawton and Diddlebury.

VII. John Lutlky of Bromcroft and Corfton, married
Katherine, the daughter of William Jenkes. She married
secondly John Bray, of Queenhill.

John Lutley had issue :

1. Adam Lutley of Bromcroft, of whom presently.

2. Richard Lutley of Diddlebury,

3. Charles Lutley of Diddlebury.

4. Thomas Lutley of Diddlebury.

5. Mary Lutley.

6. Anne Lutley.

7. Margaret Lutley, man led Gregory, son of George Moore
of Peaton.

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In the Diddlebury Registers are several references to the
Moore famibr :

1593< July 29. Ann, daughter of George Moore and Ann his
wife baptized.

1594, Mar- 23- Francis, son of George Moore and Ann his
wife buried.

1595, May 18. Mr. Gregory Moore, gentleman buried.

1596 (no month). Edwin ap Humffrey and Clemanta More
married.

I597> 25. William, son of George More and Ann his
wife baptized.

8. Dorothy Lutley, married George Croft, probably one of
the family who owned Croft Castle, qo. Hereford. In the
Bromcroft and Visitation pedigrees it is stated that she
married — Webb, but she is mentioned as " Dorothy Croft " in
the will of her brother Adam Lutley who leaves a legacy to
her daughter Elizabeth Shepherd widow.

9. Elizabeth Lutley, married Edward Bellars.

Richard Lutley of Diddlebury (the second son of John Lutley
VII.) married Jane, the daughter of William English, and had
issue :

(1.) John Lutley, who died before his father.
(2.) and (3.) Two sons who died young.

(4.) Margaret Lutley, the daughter and heir, who married
John (or George), the son oi 'I nomas Jenkes of Wolvertoil by
his wife Joyce, the daughter and heir of John Baldwyn of
Under Heyton in the parish of Stanton Lacy. This Thomas
Jenkes had four daughters, all of whom married into families
connected with the parish of Diddlebury. Elizabeth Jenks was
the wife of Edward Marston of Ateote. Mary Jenkes ma;
John Marston of Afcote and Marston. Edith Jenkes married
Thomas Shepherd of IJrocton. In the Terrier ol the parish
dated 1637, under Spa reh ford, is mentioned the grounds and
meadows belonging to the harm in Sparcllford in possession
of '1 nomas Shepherd, gentleman. Kalherine Jenkes married
her cousin Thomas Jenkes ol /Vstoil ill Munslow.

Margaret, the daughter and Ueii ol John L'crkes, married
Richard Moore *>1 Diddlebury. She was buried there ■',

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January, 1584. Her daughter and heir Mary Moore, married
Rowland Jenkes of Wolverton and had iss ie two sons : (1)
Edward Jenkes who had issue a daughter and heiress who
married Thomas Hughes of Diddlebury. Audrey the daughter
of Sir Adam Littleton married — Hughes. (2) John Jenkes
married Elizabeth, the daughter of Edward Leighton of Cotes,
and had issue two sons : William Jenkes who married
Elizabeth, the daughter of William Adams of Ludlow, and had
issue a daughter Frances Jenkes of Aston in Munslow, who
married William Downes of Diddlebury; and Arthur Jenkes
who married Alice, the daughter of Thomas Moore of
Millichope in the parish of Munslow. Thomas Jenkes, the
second son, married Joyce Baldwyn, and his sister Elizabeth
married Edward Mars ton of Marston and Afcote.

In the Visitation of Shropshire is given the marriage of
Mary Brooke and — Lutley. She was the daughter of Sir
Robert Brooke, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 8 October,
1552, who was created Knight 27 January 1555, died 6
September 1558 and is buried at Claverley ; he married
Dorothy, the daughter of William Gatacre of Gatacre. In
the parish registers of Diddlebury we find:

1585, March 28. Ann, daughter of Ralp Brooke, baptized.

1590, November 3. Richard Brooke and Frances Tailor,
married.

1 59 1, March 2. Catherine, daughter of Richard Brooke and
Frances his wife, baptized.

1592, April 16. Frances Brooke, the wife of Richard Brooke,
buried.

Charles Lutley, of Diddlebury (the third son ot John Lutley
VII.) had issue a daughter, Margurut Lutley, buried at
Diddlebury 30 March, 1583.

There is a burial 26 February, 1590, of Siblye ye hastarde
daughter of Charles Lutley. The Registers ol Diddlebury
and the Transcripts from iso" onwards t *- > i 00 years are
missing.

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Thomas Lutley of Diddlebury (the fourth son of John
Lutley VII.) married Elizabeth, who was buried at Diddlebury
22 Nov. 1585. He married there secondly, 9 January, 1586,
Anne Posterne, and is described as " Thomas Lutley,
gentleman." The family of Posterne owned the hamlet of
Poston in the parish of Diddlebury.

VIII. Adam Lutley, of Eromcroft. He signed his
pedigree at the Visitation in 1584. He married Elizabeth,
the daughter of Robert Cressett, of Upton Cressett. He is
appointed executor in the will of John Littleton of Munslow,
dated 12 August, 1560, and proved in P.C.C. 10 June, 1562
{15 Streat). " My friend Mr. Adam Lutley executor, my wife
to give each of the executors 40s." Adam Lutley was also a
witness to the will, which he proved.

In the Calendar of Ancient Deeds (Exchequer Treasury of
the receipt A. 13204.) is mentioned an Indenture of award
dated 18 October 8 Elizabeth (1566), by Thomas of the .Moore,
co. Salop, and Adam Lutley of Bromcroft in the said county,
gentleman, between Anne power of Oxenbold in the said
county, widow, and William Gower, one of the sons of
Thomas Gower late of Oxenbold deceased, touching letters
of administration obtained by William Gower out of the
Couit Prerogative in the Arches upon his surmise then made
thereof his said father died intestate, which was an untruth.
Will ok Adam Luti.ky of Bromcroftk, 1588.
Will dated 6 October 30 Elizabeth (1587-8).

To my three daughters Anne, Cicely, and Joan Lutley ,£200
each out of my lands and tenements left to my eldest son.
To John Lutley my eldest son the Manors of BroiUCrofte,
Stan way and Abdon, and my lands and tenements in Munslow,
Thonglain}, Walton, Ludlow, Bromcrolte. Stat) way, and
Ledivetch, which I late purchased. To William Lutley my
second son all my Manor of Lawtoi. to him and his hens lor
ever. To Robert Lutley my youngest son all my lamls and
tenements in the County of Wigorne (Worcester), and 1 will
that Robert Lutley shall possess the lann of Corfton CO,
Salop, and my tenements in Holdfast CO. WigOniC 1<m 80
years. My daughter Anne is to receive h< 1 £200 w it Inn I

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years after my decease, and my daughter Cicely to receive her
portion within two other years, and Johane, within two years
next after. To the poor about Queenhill £13 6s. Sd. in
discharge of my conscience for my father-in-law in his will
John Bray and Nicholas Bray. To the poor of Shropshire
£6 13s. 4d. To Thomas Stedman and William Stedman his
brother each 20s. To Richard Bubbe £\. To Elizabeth
Sheppard, widow, the daughter of my sister Dorothy Croft £4.
My will is, that Agnes Penkarde shall be maintained at my
house during her life. To every of my daughters married
and unmarried a feather bed, except Frances Littleton and
Katherine Price which have already been delivered to them.
If John Lutley and William Lutley ray sons do not allow
Robert Lutley my son to take the profits of the farm of
Corfton and the tenement in Holdfast for the lease thereof,
then Robert Lutley to take double the value out of their lands.
To Margaret Powell sometime servant £5. To Richard
Richards my servant 40s. To Adam Bishop my servant ^3.
To Isacke Adice my servant 40s. To Adam Wei lens my
godson 20s. To Thomas Wellens and Frances Wellens 6s. <Sd.
each. To Thomas Wellens, the son of Anthony Wellens,
6s. Sd, each. To Thomas Keysell my kinsman 20s. to dole it
out amongst his children. To Alice Evans alias Tyler my
servant 20s. My son John Lutley to enter at once on my
Manors of Bromcroft, Stan way, Abdon and Ledwitch, and to
have the oxen, kine, etc. there. John Lutley to keep and
maintain my daughters till married. If the legacies are paid
before iny sons are of age the overplus to go to my daughters.
To Jane Richards 20s. The poor to whom anything is given
about Oueeiichill shall be bound by the woids in John Bruy'8
will. To Matthew my servant 20s. To William Lutley my
son all the goods which came to me after the death of my
brother, Thomas Lutley, and Gregory Moore of Pee ton, and
the whole benefit of the farm of Peeton when it shall happen.
To Robert Lutley my son my household stuff, implements, etc
at Qneenehill. I give to William Lutley my SOU the tenements

purchased of William Sherry. To Frances my eldest daughtei
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decease to Adam Littleton her son. To her husband and
every of their children a silver spoon ril which I have
delivered with my own hands. To my daughter Margaret
Hopton one of the white bowles which I had of Slade, also to
her and her husband and each child a silver spoon. Anne,
my daughter, shall have one of the silver bowles I had "of
Slade. Katherine Price my daughter the third silver bowle
which I had of Slade, and she and her husband and each
child a silver spoon. Cecely and Joane shall have two smaller
bowles parcel gilt and each a silver spoon. To my two
younger sons William and Robert Lntley £ico. The poor of
my kindred to receive 40s. each till £100 is expended. The
residue to John Lutley my son, he to receive the rents of my
lands and tenements in Lawton, Oueenehill, and Holdfast till

1 April 1591. I owe my son-in-law Kdward Price for marriage
goods ^5. My signet ring to my son John Lutley. To
Charles Lutley my brother 10s. per annum for life to be paid
out of my lands in Lawton. To the sons of John Habberley,
cierk, Vicar of Diddlebnry, 20s., to be paid out of Lawton.
To Thomas Bayley. parson of Tugford, ami Margaret Bayley
his wife 20s. To my loving kinsman George Croft £5. To
George Brocton of Ludiow. in discharge of debts which Adam
Jenkes, late of Munslow owe him, 20s. To Ralphe Bubbe

2 bushels of corn. I will the rents of Lawton, Oueenehill,
Holdfast and Corfton, after April next, be equally divided
between my >ons William Lutley and Robert Lutley dining
the life of Thomas Lutley my brother, and after his decease
William Lutley my son shall have them. Executors.: my
sons-in-law Thomas Littleton and Thomas Hopton, and my
eldest son John Lutley, my loving brother-in-law Richard
Cressett. Esquire, and my brother Thomas Lnlley to be
overseers. Proved in P.C.C. 19 November 1590, (74 Drury).

Ad. mi Lutley was huiied at Tngloid, b) licence ol John
Habberley Lhe Vicar of Diddlebnry, dated 12 October 1590,
and in it he is described as •• Adam Lutley gentleman "
He had issue :

1. Adam Lutley, living in IS&fc died without 1SHU« in III*
fathei \s lifetime.

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2. John Lutley, of whom presently.

3. William Lutley of Lawton, called "my second son " in
his father's will.

4. Richard Lutley, died without issue.

5. Robert Lutley.

6. Frances Lutley, the wife of Thomas Littleton.

7. Margaret Lutley, married Thomas Hopton of Bitterley,
probably of the same family as the Hoptons of Bromcroft.
She is mentioned in the will of her father in 1588.

S. Anne Lutley, married John Knight of Warwick, men-
tioned in the will of her father in 1588.

9. Katherine Lutley married Edward Price of Kerry, and
also mentioned in her father's will in 1588.

10. Cecily Lutley married George Holland of Purslow, who
was the fourth son of William Holland of Bnrwarton.

11. Johanna Lutley married Oliver Brigges of Krmestree
Park in the parish of Diddlebury ; both are mentioned in her
father's will in 1588.

Robert Lutley of Corfton (fifth son of Adam Lutley VIII.)
lie is called " my youngest son " in his father's will, and in the
Bromcroft pedigree. He was living at Bnrwarton, and married
there, 28 January 1605, Mary, daughter of Francis Holland of
Bnrwarton, and had issue :

(1.) Thomas Lutley, baptized at Clunbiuy (9 November,
1609.

(2.) Anna Lutley.

(3.) Tacee Lutley, who is mentioned in Charles Baldwyn's
will in 1675.

Robert Lutley died in June 16 1 3. His widow married secondly
18 June 1617 at Bnrwarton, Charles Baldwyn of Klsich, in
Diddlebury.

Frances Lutley (the eldest daughter of Adam Lutley VII I) was
born in 1562. She married Thomas Littleton, the eldest son
of the Rev. John Littleton of Stoke St. Milblirg.

His father in his Will left him the Manor of Munslow, and
the advowSOU of Stoke St. Milblirg. He is mentioned in the

Will ol Ivdward Littleton of Longford 1500 as 11 cousin."

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Thomas Littleton, Armiger, occurs as a Freeholder at vStoke
St. Milburg. (Rev. Edward Williams' MSS. II. fo. 153b.)
Thomas Littleton was buried at Munslow 31 January, 1621.

Will ok Thomas Littleton ok Stokk Milburgh, 1621.

Will dated 21 January, 162 1. My debts to be paid out'ot
my rents in Clee Staunton, Naisha, Naunton, Minton,
Munslow, Aston, and Diddlebury, co. Salop, Llauvarreth co.
Radnor, and Alcester co. Warwick. To my son-in-law Mr.
James ,£140. To my son Adam Littleton £210. To John,
son of my brother Adam Littleton, £100. My cousin John
Littleton to be maintained at my house at Stoke till this is
paid, the plate and other property is in the hands of his
grandfather Edward Lacon and some household stuff is in
mine. My brother Lutley. My daughter Cecelie ^300.
My daughter Joane £200. When my debts are paid my son
Thomas shall have my lands in Minton. My son John my
land in Nashe. My son George ,£100. (A long list of debts
owing to testator). William Corfield and Kdmond Habberley
owes me ^"50. For arrearages due for the rent of the land
that was William Baldwyn's in Munslow £6 10s. od. My
cousin Anne Ilopton £10. My sous, Adam, Thomas, and
George, executors. Witnesses: Margaret Ilopton, John Jeames,
Elizabeth Stedman, Richard Littleton, William Yarnells.
Proved in P. C.C. 9 July, 1622, by Adam, Thomas ami George
Littleton. (63 vSavile).

Prances Littleton was buried at Munslow 7 Feb., 164N. in
the 86th year of her age, and the 27th year of her widowhood.
(Munslow Registers).

Thomas Littleton and Frances had issue —

1. Sir Adam Littleton, 1st Paronet.

2. George Littleton, Rector o! Munslow.

3. Thomas Littleton, Vicar of Hales Owen.

4. John Littleton.

5. Cecelia Littleton.

6. Joane Littleton.

Our daughter married Mr. John Janus, and the otlui
Humphrey Walcot, Ksquire,

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Sir Adam Littleton, ist Baronet (the eldest son of Thomas
Littleton and Frances Lutley) is described as of Broni croft.
He is mentioned in the Diddlebury Terrier of 1637 — " Adam
Littleton Esquire of Bromcroft to pay to the Vicar 7s. yearly
in tithe."

George Littleton of Mnnslow (the second son of Thomas
Littleton and Frances Lntley) was Yicar of Stanton Long and
Rector of Munslow. In his will, which is dated 26 April, 1675,
and was proved 2S January, 1675 — 6, is this clause — " I will
that my son Thomas Littleton have my freehold lands after
the expiration of my lease of Bromcroft Park.''

IX. John Lutley of Bromcroft, second but eldest
surviving son of Adam Lutley VIII.. married Mary, daughter
of John Packington of Chadesley Corbet, co. Worcester. He
was an ardent Royalist, and was educated at Shrewsbury
School, which he entered on 14 January, 1627-6.

Amongst the Walcott MSS. is a deed dated in 44 Elizabeth
(1601-2), between John Lutley of Bromcroft, gentleman, and
John Packington of Bromcroft, gentleman. After reciting
that Thomas Corbett ol Aston Pygott, and Lienor Corbett,
his wife, did by Indenture dated 24 January 20 Elizabeth
(1577-8) let to Kdward Newport of Sibdon lands then in
tenure of Richard Weaver, after the death of Richard Weaver,
for 21 years, the said John Lutley and John Packington did
settle on Francis Reynolds of Aston, blacksmith, tine son
of Bridget Parkes, all their right in the said lands for residue
of the term. Signed by John Lutley and John Packington.

John Lutley in 1605 made a settlement of his property on
his children. The Deed, of which the following is an abstract,
is preserved with the Bromcroft muniments : —

By an Indenture dated 10 November 2 James 1. [1005 |, and
made between John Lutley of Bromcroft. gent., on the one
part, and William Mynde of Cleburie Northe, gent . and
George Moore of Peaton, gent., on the other part. It w,h
witnessed that the .said John Lntley (lO citMiie a MillKieiit
maintenance for him, and a fortune lor Maiic his wile), did
grant and ciileo! to the .said William Mynde and GcOfgC
Moore, the Manors ol Bromci oil. Slanwax and 1. aw ton. ,nid all

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messuages, &c, in Bromcroft, Stanway, Lawton, Mounslowe,
Thonglands, Walton, Ludlowe and Ledwych, to hold to the
said William Mynde and George Moore (except the Manor of
Lawton) to the use of the said John Lutley for his life, and
after his death to the use of Adam Lutley his son and heir
apparent, remainder to the first, second, third and other sons
of the said Adam Lutley successively in tail male ; remainder
to the use ot Humfrey Lutley, second son of the said John
Lutley, for his life, with remainder to his sons successively in
tail male ; remainder to the use of John Lutley, third son of
the said John Lutley, for his life, with remainder to his sons
successively in tail male ; remainder to the use of Phelippe
Lutley, fourth son of the said John Lutley, for his life, with
remainder to his sons successively in tail male ; remainder to
the heirs male of the body of. the said John Lutley, remainder
to the heirs of his body, remainder to his right heirs for ever.
And as to the Manor of Lawton, to the use of the said John
Lutley for his life; remainder to Humfrey Lutley, his second
son, for his life and then to the heirs male of his body ;
remainder to John Lutley, third son of said John Lutley, for
his life, and then to the heirs male of his body ; remainder to
Phelippe Lutley, fourth son of the said John Lutley for his
life and then to the heirs male of his body; remainder to the
heirs male of the body of the said John Lutley, remainder to
the heirs of his body, remainder to his right heirs for ever.
Clause of Warranty by the said John Lutley. Proviso that
it should be lawful for the said John Lutley during his life,
and after his death for any of his said sons being in possession
of the premises, to limit and appoint for his wile, any of the
said manors, messuages, &c, not exceeding one half of the
premises whereof he is seised (other than the capital messuage
or demesne lands of the manors of Bromcroft and Lawton),
for a term of 21 years, as a jointure for the use of such
wife.

Executed by the said John Luttley, and livery of seism
executed by the delivery of " twigg and turfe in the ganieu
of the premises," on 15 March 2 James I., by said John Lutkv
to George Moore, gent., one of the tc^oilco, 111 the presttlCe

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of William Lutley, Henry Dike, William Raynolds, David
Weaver, Anthony Wigley, Adam Crnmpe, and Richard Stoke.
[Sea/ missttig.]

A memorandum is endorsed that Edward Sheopard and
John Pakingtoii, gent., who had a lea^e of the premises, did
attorn tenant to the feoffees.

John Lutley, died 23 January, 1644. He had issue :

1. Richard Lutley, who died in his father's lifetime. In
the Diddlebury Registers is this entry : —

" 1595. Richard, ye sonne of John Lutley and Mary his
wife of Bromcroft, was buried at Tugford ye 19 July by licence
of ye Vicar, at ye special request of ye said Mr. John Lutley."

2. Adam Lutley, of Law ton, of whom next.

3. Humphrey Lutley.

4. John Lutley.

5. Philip Lutley.

6. Maria Lutley, who married John Russell of Malvern.

7. Johanna Lutley, who was living unmarried in 1623.

8. Magdalena Lutley, who married William Berrington of
Motehall. co. vSalop.

9. Dorothy Lutley, who was buried at Diddlebury, 17
December, 1665.

X. Adam LUTIJBY of Bromcroft and Lawton (second but
eldest surviving son of John Lutley IX.), was born at Brom-
croft in 1 5^7 • Other accounts give the date of his birth as
1600. lie married Elizabeth, the daughter of William Smith
of Whitchurch, co. Berks. She was executrix to her husband's
will which she proved in 167S.

There are two other Adam Lutley's living at the same time ;
one married Cecilia, the daughter of John Cressett of Upton
Cressett, near Bridgnorth, and the other married Elisabeth,
the daughter of Thomas Cressett of Upton Cressett. by Jane,
the daughter of Sir Robert Corbctl of Moreton Corbel : out
neither of them am I able to connect with the family living .it
Bromcroft. Adam Lutley is mentioned in the DiddUbury
Terrier of 1637 as owning lauds ami tenements in Lawton ami

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and paying 2od. yearly in tithe. He was aged 60 on 17 August,
1663. when he entered his pedigree at the list Visitation of
Shropshire. His Will is as follows :

Wiu. of Adam Lutley, of Lawton in the parish of Diddlebury,

Esquire, 1677.
(Hereford, Register 5, folio 2.)
Will dated 5 February, 1677.

To my sons Thomas Lutley and George Lutley 20s. apeese.
To my daughter Mary, the wife of William Jones of Diddlebury
20s. For the use of the poor of Diddlebury 40s. to be added to
the poor stock to the use and benefit thereof, to be disposed of
to the poor of the saitl parish and towards their maintenance.
The Residue to my wife Elizabeth, whom I make executrix.
The mark of Adam Lutley.

Witnesses: B. Lutley, John Coling, Edward Pulley.

Will proved at Ludlow 7 January, 1676.

Adam Lutley had issue :

1. Bartholomew Lutley. of whom presently.

2. Thomas Lutley, of Ludlow, of whom next.

3. George Lutley, of Howarth in the parish of Burfield.

4. Mary Lutley, who married William Jones of Diddlebury.
Thomas Lutley of Ludlow (second son of Adam X.) married

Elizabeth Withers, and had issue a sou and a daughter:

(1.) Thomas Lutley of Ludlow, buried there 2S August,
1741.

(2.; Elizabeth Lutley, married at Eaton under Haywood,
19 September, 1689, Thomas Baldwyn of St. Chad's,
Shrewsbury.

He was buried at Ludlow 23 November, 1721. and his widow
on 12 July, 1741. His Will is as follows :
Will of Thomas Lutley, or Lidlow, Gentlkman. 1721
(Hereford Wills, 22, folio 80V Dated 19 April. 1721.

To my wife Elizabeth my house in Ludlow on the east side
of Broad Slrcet, now in the possession of Thomas Lutley, for
her life, llietl &i Itfjf nephew Philip I.ulk\ of Ludlow,
gentleman. Whereas 1 hold by lease for the residue of a
term ol 99 years under Francis Smith of Aston CO, Salop.
Esquire, lately deceased, if Thomas Lutley mv son vv1 lotlg

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live, one messuage or farm with the lands arid appurtenances
thereto belonging and situated in Aston, late in the possession
of Thomas Tipton, yeoman, in consideration that if Francis
Smith his heirs or assigns should pay to me year by year for
so many of the 99 years as my son should live £20 per
annum, then the indenture is to be void. This farm I
bequeath to my wife Elizabeth Lutley, subject to the provisos
contained in the lease, she to keep and bring up my son. My
wife Executrix, my nephew Philip Lutley to help. Witnesses :
Elizabeth Symonds, W. Rea, Benjamin Karver.r Proved at
Ludlow 10 April 1722.

XI. Bartholomew Lutley of Bromcroft and Lawton
vyaS 'born in 1639. He married 11 October 1662 Margaret, the
daughter and heir of Herbert Jenkes of Newhall and Moate
Hall. The marriage settlement is dated i October, 14 Charles
II. (1663).

Settlement on the Marriage of Bartholomew Lutley
and Margaret Jenks, 1063.-
Indenture dated 1 October 14 Charles II., Between Adam
Lutley of Lawton, the son and heir of John Lutley, Esquire
and Elizabeth, now wife of the said Adam Lutley, of the first
part, Bartholomew Lutley, gentleman, son and heir apparent
of the said Adam Lutley and Elizabeth his wife of the second
part, and Vincent Edwards of Dirslertou, co. Salop Esquire,
William Berrington of Moatehall, co. Salop, Benjamin Jenks
of the Cittye of Worcester, gentleman, and Elizabeth Jenks,
widow, late wife of Herbert Jenks, late of Moate hall, co. Salop
deceased, and Margaret Jenkes, only daughter of the said
Herbert and Elizabeth Jenks of the third part, It was
witnessed that in consideration of a marriage intended to
be solemnised between the said Bartholomew Lutley and
Margaret Jenkes. And of the sum of £ 100 to be paid bv the
said Elizabeth Jenks to the said Adam Lutley as part of her
marriage portion, and also that the said Margaret Jenkes hath
granted etc. to the said Adam Lutley Ins executors and
assigns one demise or lease to her the said Margaret K nkcs

1 Tins name may be Darver.

Deed in possession of H. B. Whitakcr, Dromcroft Castle,

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and Elizabeth Jenkes her sister lately deceased heretofore
made by the said Herbert Jenkes deceased, I y an Indenture
dated 29 January 1650 of certnyne messuages, lands, etc., in
Eaton, co. Salop, for the term of 30 years from the day of the
death of the said Herbert Jenkes. And for the settling of a
Joynture to and lor the said Elizabeth now the wife of the
said Adam Lutley in case she shall survive her said husband
and also for settling of a Jointure to and for the said Margaret.
In case the said intended marriage take effect and the said
Margaret shall survive the said Bartholomew and for a
competent livelihood and may ntainaunce for the said Bar-
tholomew and Margaret from and after the said marriage.
And the settling and conveying of the Inheritance of the
Castle or Scyte of the Castle of Bromcroft with appurtenances
and all and ever)' the manor, messuages, lands, etc. hereafter
mentioned in the name and blood of the said Adam Lutley so
longe as it shall please Almighty God to permitt the same and
otherwise to and for the said several uses, Intents and purpose
hereby mentioned. It was covenanted, granted and agreed by
and between all and every party, and the said Adam Lutley
and Elizabeth his wife and Bartholomew Lutley did covenant
etc. with Vincent Edwards, William Berrington, and Benjamin
Jenks that they should at the equal costs and charges of the
said Adam Lutley and Batholomew Lutley ou and before the
Feast of Pentecost now coming prosecute against the said
Adam Lutley and Elizabeth his wife one Writ of Eutrye into
Retornable in the Kings Matie Court of Common Pleas at
Westminster and demand against them the said Adam Lutley
and Elizabeth his wife all that Castle or Scyte of the Castle of
Bromcroft with the appurtenances, and all and every
messuages, lands, and hereditaments, etc., belonging to the
Castle or Scyte situated etc. in Bromcroft in the County of
Salop, and also all the Mannor or Lordship of Lawlon with
the Right members and appurtenances thereof!*, and all and
every the messuages, lands, and hereditaments of the laid
Adam Lutley, Elizabeth his wile and Bartholomew Lutley 01
any of them situated or lying in Lawton. And also all and
every the several messuages, etc. ol the said Adam Lutley and

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Elizabeth his wife and Bartholomew Lutley situated in
Brouicroft, Tugford, and Balcott, in the enure and occupa-
pation of Adam Lutley and Bartholomew Lutley, and all lands
and tenements in Munslowin the occupation of Mary Longuer,
widdow, and all the hereditaments of them the said Adam
Lutley, Elizabeth his wife, and Bartholomew Lutley situated
lying and being in Overstanway in the said County of Salop
in the occupation of the said Adam Lutley and Bartholomew
Lutley or their tenants. Also two messuages of the said
Adam Lutley, Elizabeth his wife, and Bartholomew Lutley
situated in Ledwich in the County of Salop in the occupation
of Christopher Wilson and Richard Hale. Also all and every
the mannors and messuages etc., of Adam Lutley, Elizabeth
his wife, and Bartholomew Lutley lying in the Villages,
Townshipps, and Hamlets of Munslow, Aston, Tliouglande,
Brodston, Hungerford, Long Stanton. Walton, 'Alfayton,
Ludlow and Ruthall or elsewhere in the County of Salop, and
all houses, buildings, meadows, etc., belonging to the said
Castle or Scyte of the Castle of Bromcroft, and the Mannor of
Lawton. Also the fourteen messuages, three cottages, three
tofts, one water corne mill, two dove houses, fourty gardens,
four hundred acres of land, one hundred acres of meadow. live
hundred acres of pasture, one hundred acres of wood, and one
hundred acres of furze and heath and thirty-four shillings of
rent in Bromcroft, Lawton, Tugford, Balcott, Munslow. Over-
stanway, Led with, Aston, Tliouglande, Brads ton, Hungerford,
Long Stanton, Walton, Ludlow, and Ruthall, belonging to the
said Adam Lutley and Elizabeth his wife.

The said Bartholomew Lutley entered into a warrentve. SO
that a perfect judgement shall be had. The said Vincent
Edwards, William Berrington, and Benjamin Jeukes to
recover against the said Adam Lutley and Elizabeth his wile
all the aforesaid Castle, Scyte, Manor, Lordship, messuages,
gardens, lands, etc., and Adam Lutley and [ilizabeth his
wife to Recover over in value against the said Bartholomew

Lutley, and the said Bartholomew Lutley to recovei ovei
value against the common vouchees nccordiug t<> the common

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recoveries of assurance, etc. And it was agreed between the
said parties, and the said Adam ^utley, Elizabeth his wife,
and Bartholomew Lutley agrees with the same Vincent
Edwards, William Berrington, and Benjamin Jenkes, that the
premises should remain to the use of Adam Lutley and his
heirs until the solemnization of the said intended marriage
between Bartholomew Lutley and Margaret Jenkes. And as
to the Manor of Lawton, to the use of the said Adam Lutley
for his life, and after his decease to Elizabeth his wife for her
lite and Joynture, and then to Bartholomew Lutley for his
life, and then to the first son of Bartholomew Lutley and
Margaret, and if the eldest son die, to the second sou, and so
to the use of all the sons successively, and then to the
■daughters of the said marriage.

Signed by Ad: Lutley and Elizabeth Lutley. [Seals
missing.]

Witnesses : Thomas Hall, Tho. Lane, Richard Hayiies,
Fran. Lutley, John Holland, Henry Gaye.

Bartholomew Lutley died in 17 16, and was buried at Eaton
under Heywood. His will is as follows :

Will of Bartholomew Lutley, of Lawton, in the
Parish of Diddleburv, Esquire. 1716.

(Hereford Register 19, folio 13). Will dated 29 November, 17 16.

To my daughter Mary Lutley ^1200, to be paid a year after
my decease, and ^30 more for her maintenance that year.
To my daughter Magdalen Lutley £50 per annum. To my
son Adam Lutley £200. To my nephew Bartholomew Lutley
^100, to be paid to his father Adam Lutley within 12 months
after my decease. To my niece Mary Pardoe, £40. To my
two nephews Herbert and Bartholomew How. ml £100 each,
when 21, and £5 per annum each until they are 21. To my
daughter Magdalen Lutley all the goods and lTiiniture ill the
closet and chamber she usually lyeth in, commonly called
her closet and ehamber. The l est of my moveable goods to
my daughter Maty Lutley and my son Philip I.nllev, and my
son Adam Lutley. The residue to my .son Philip I.nllev. he

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to be executor. Bartholomew Lutley his mark. Witnesses :
Richard Ward, William Jones, Thomas Norniecott. Proved
at Ludlow 15 January 1716.

Bartholomew Lutley had issue :

1. Philip Lutley, of Lawton, of whom presently.

2. Adam Lutley, of Stanton Lacy, of whom next.

3. Magdalen Lutley. who was buried at Stanton Lacy
1 March 1739.

4. Mary Lutley.

5. Margaret Lutley, married Pardoe.

6. Sarah Lutley, married first Howard, and secondly

Baldwyn.

Adam Lutlky of Stanton Lacey (second son of Bartholomew
XI) was born in 1674, and is mentioned in his father's will in
171C. He married in 1703 Hester, daughter of Richard
Wredenhall of Dowuton near Ludlow.

The following is the Settlement made upon his marriage :
1 Indenture Tripartite dated 20 April 1703, between
Bartholomew Lutley of Lawton and Adam Lutley of Lawton
the second son of Bartholomew Lutley of the 1st part, Richard
Wredenhall of Dowuton and Hester Wredenhall of Dowuton
spinster, the daughter of Richard Wredenhall of the 2nd part,
and Philip Lutley of Lawton, eldest son and heir of
Bartholomew Lutley, and Charles Pearce of the City of Hereford
of the 3rd part. It was witnessed that Bartholomew Lutley, in
consideration of a marriage between Adam Lutley and Hestei
Wredenhall and of the sum of ^Soo unto Bartholomew Lutley
and Adam Lutley to be paid by Richard Wredenhall as the
marriage portion of Hester Wredenhall, did convey the capital
messuages, bam, stables, orchards, etc., known as [ligwatdilie
Farm in the parish of Stotesdeil in county of Salop, late in the
tenure of Tomlings, yeoman, and then of William Walts; and
the appurtenances called [llgwardille hills late 111 possession of
Margaret Edgley, widow; and all parcels of land lying LU
Wheathill purchased by Sir Adam Littleton. V.ai onet. deceased,
from Thomas Shcppard gentleman, deceased, m the tenure of
Thomas Tomkings and William W itts. A ud .ill tenements,

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26l

lands, etc. and three quarters of a meadow called the Coppice
in Ingwardine in possession of Thomas Brookes called Hall
Meadow. To hold to the said Philip Lutley and Charles Pearce
upon trust : To the use and behoof of Bartholemew Lutley
and his heirs until his marriage. Then to the use of Adam
Lutley lor his life, remainder to Hester Wredenhall for life for
her jointure, remainder to Richard Wredenhall for 200 years,
remainder to the use of the first son in tail male of the said
marriage, remainder to the second, third, fourth, fifth and all
and every other son of Adam Lutley and Hester Wredenhall
successively in tail. In case the said Hester Wredenhall
should at the time of the decease of Adam Lutley happen to
be with child then to the use of Philip Lutley and Charles
Pearce until Hester Wredenhall fee delivered or die, interest
for the sons if any, with remainder to the daughters if no sons,
and failing issue to the sons of Adam Lutley by his second or
any other wife, or his daughters, with remainder to
Bartholomew Lutley in fee. The said Hester Wredenhall, or
any other wife, to have for her joynture ^500 to be laid out at
5 per cent.

JBy a Recovery dated in Hilary Term, 6 Anne (1707) Thomas
Barnsley, gentleman, and Adam Lutley, gentleman, demand
against Roger Williams Esquire, and William Rawlins,
gentleman, the scite of the Castle of Bromerofl and the
Manor of Lawion, 18 messuages, 3 Tofts, 1 waterconi mill,
2 dovehouses, 40 gardens, 400 acres ol land, 1 cx> acres ol
meadow, 500 acres of pasture, 100 acres of wood, 100 acres
of furze and heath and £60 rent in Bromcroft, Lawton,
Tugford, Balcott, Mnnslow, Over Slanclway, Aston, Thongluml,
Bradstone, llungcrford, Longstanton, Walton, Ludlow, and
Ruthall.

Adam Lutley died on 13 July, 1724, and there is a
monument in Stanton Lacy Church to Ins memory, Willi
this inscription: 41 Here lyeth the body of Adaill Lutley,
gentleman, who departed this life the 13 day «>i July Anno
Domini 1724, .Ltatis Suae 50." In the Rcgtstei this entry

1 lirurncroft I >ecU.

262 BROMCROFT AND ITS OWNERS.

dated 16 August 1724: " Paid 10s. for mortuary for Mr. Adam
Lutley, gentleman, of Stanton Lacy by his executor Mr.
Lutley."

His wife survived him, and died 10 April 1728. There is a
monument to her memory in Stanton Lacy Church : " ILere
lye th the body of Hester Lutley relict of Adam Lutley
gentleman who departed this life April 10 Anno Domini 1728
^Ltatis suae 57." Arms of Lutley (as in Katon Church)
impaling Six roundles, 3, 2, 1 and a chief nebuly. She was
buried on 13 April 1728.

Adam Lutley had issue three children :

(1.) Bartholomew Lutley, of Stanton Lacy.

(2.) Elizabeth Lutley, baptized at Stanton Lacy 9 October
1705, and buried there 10 March 1706.

(3.) Hester Lutley, baptised at Stanton Lacy 3 June 1707,
and buried there 20 April 1 781, aged 74.

By her Will, dated 20 February 1781, and proved at Hereford,
Hester Lutley of Stottesdon leaves £40 to her servant Mary
Griffiths, and the rest of her estate she leaves to her three
cousins Anne, Elizabeth and Susannah Pardoe.

Bartholomew Lutley died in 1728. His will is dated 31
October 1774, and is as follows : —
Will of Bartholomew Lutlky of Stanton Lacy, 1774.
Will dated 31 October 177.1.

I give t° Hiy sister Hester Lutley my farm and ten emeu ts
situate at Ingwardine in the parish of Stottesdon and
Wheathill, in the tenure of John Williams, for her lite, and
then to Bartholomew Richard Lutley subject to the payment
of ^500, to be paid to such person or persons as tiestei shall
by will appoint.

Proved at Hereford 4 May 1778.

Although Bartholomew Lutley devised the premises to
Bartholomew Richard Lutley, who took tin* name of B.uneby,
he had no power to do so; and on the death ot uimsell and
his sister without heirs the same legally reverted to tlu: right
heirs ot Bartholomew the Settloi in 1703, r>., riulip Lutley

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. second sou. Philip Lutley had two sons, Jenks Lutley who
died intestate, and Bartholomew Richard Lutley who took the
name of Barneby, whose son and heir was John Barneby.

Adam Lutley had no second wife. Bartholomew Lutley
the Settlor in 1703 made his will, but did not devise any real
estates. Philip Lutley made a will, but did not devise the*
reversion. Jenks Lutley died without issue intestate, and the
estates descended to Bartholomew Richard Lutley, afterwards
Barneby, who died in 1782, leaving John his eldest son.
There is no title deed, except the settlement made in 1703,
that is to be found. But Bartholomew Lutley the Settlor, in
1703 enjoyed the premises, and so did his son Adam, and his
grandson and grand-daughter, Bartholomew and Hester, and
his other grandson Bartholomew Richard Barneby.

We revert now to the eldest son of Bartholomew XL, namely :
XII. Philip Lutlky of Bromcroft and Lawton, Lord of
the Manor of Eaton under Hey wood. He married on 30
December 1707, Penelope, the only daughter and heir of
Richard Barneby, of Brockhampton co. Hereford. She was
born on 4 October 1685.

The family of Barneby owned lands at the Heath in 1555,
and other lands in Shropshire and Herefordshire. In 38
Elizabeth' (1596), Eleanor Barneby married Sir Thomas
Baskerville ; her sister Jane Barneby married — Briggs of
Ermestry Park in Diddlebury. Nicholetts, the son of Sir John
Barneby was baptized at Bockleton 22 April 1644 ; he married
in 16S2 Anne, the daughter of Sir William Childe of Kinlet.
The following Settlement was executed oil his marriage :
Indenture Ouadrui)arUte dated 11 December 6 Anne ( 1 707).
Between Bartholomew Lutley of Lawton, Esquire, and Philip
Lutley of Lawton, Esquire, his son and heir apparent, of the
first part, Richard Barneby of Brockhampton, co. Hereford,
and Penelope Barneby, spinster, only daughter of the -aid
Richard Barneby, of the second part, Thomas Barneby of the
City of Worcester, gentleman, and Adam L^tlcv of Stanton
Lacy, gentleman, of the Lhihl part, Roger Williams of Qray'a
Inn, co. Middlesex., Esquire, and William Kawlhig oi Chancery

Lane, London, gentleman, ol the fourth pat I. It Willi Wltlie&fted

264 BROMCROFT AND ITS OWNERS.

that Bartholomew Lutley and Philip Lutley, in consideration
of a marriage shortly to be solemnized bet veen Philip Lutley
and Penelope Barneby, and to provide a competent Jointure
for the said Penelope in some measure answerable to her
Quality and fortune in case the said marriage shall take effect,
and should she happen to survive the said Philip Lutley' her
intended husband, and for settling and assuring of the Castle
or Scyte of the Castle of Bromcroft with the appurtenances,
and the manor, messuages, lands, tenements, etc., they the
said Bartholomew Lutley and Philip Lutley did grant to
Roger Williams and William Rawling all that Castle or Scyte
of the Castle of Bromcroft with the appurtenances, and all
hereditaments belonging to the said Castle, situated in
Bromcroft, CO. Salop, in the tenure and occupation of the
said Bartholomew Lutley or his under tenant. Also all the
Manor and Lordship of Lawton, with the messuages, buildings,
etc., belonging to Bartholomew Lutley and Philip Lntley,
situated in Lawton, part of the said manor. And all lands,
messuages, etc., of Bartholomew Lutley and Philip Lutley,
situated in Bromcroft and Baleott in the occupation of
Bartholomew Lutley and Philip Lutley. Also all that
messuage (alsoe the old June with the buildings) with lands,
etc., lying in Munslow now in the occupation of one Jeremiah
Tippin as undertenant Also all messuages of the said
Bartholomew Lutley and Philip Lutley, situated in Over
Stan way in the parish of Rnshbnry, in the occupation of
ffrancis Wainwrick, William Pinches, and John Sankey, and
all that messuage commonly called by the several names of
the New Leasow, adjoining the River Corye, tin- Rose Yard,
Conny 1 1 ills Acre, the Upper Yard, Seedway Lane, Whitchbach,
the two IStockins, the Nine Rudges of arable land in ihc new
tineing, the Hive acre in the little [field, | acres of pasture
moor, the Rough Wood, 5 acres el arable land that goes up
to the new tineing, the vSeven Acres of land in Green way,
and other names they are distinguished with, situated in
Hnngerford, late in the possession of lulward I lo wells, and
then in the occupation ol Cornelius Maddox as undertenant,
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in Hungerford, late in the possession of Edward Howells,
then in the possession of Cornelius Maddox, purchased by the
said Philip Lutley of the said Edward Howells and Joyce his
wife, William Brownbill and Margery his wife, John Toinkins
and Joane his wife. And all tenths of Corne, Graine, etc.,
growing in the townships of Hungerford, Over Millichap,
and Nether Millichap, in the county of Salop, and all those
chieffe rents of them the said Bartholomew Lutley and Philip
Lutley. situated in the township and village of Thon gland,
Bradstbne, Hungerford, Long Stanton, Walton, Alcaston, and
Ludlow, amounting to £$ per annum, and all the manors,
messuages, etc., of them the said Bartholomew Lntley and
Philip Lntley, situated in Munslow, Aston, Thongland,
Bradston, Hungerford, Long Stanton, Walton, Alcaston,
Ludlow and Rnthall county Salop. And all houses, buildings,
stables, gardens, meadows, etc., belonging to the said Castle.
To have and to hold the said Castle, Lordship and Manor, etc.,
unto the said Roger Williams, and William Rawlins. To the
only use and behoof of the said Roger Williams and William
Rawlins, upon the Trusts therein declared.

(Philip Lutley was to enjoy the said Castle, Manor, Lordship,
etc., during his life, and then to go to the heirs ot his body
by his intended wite Penelope).

Signed by B. Lutley, R. Barneby, Ph. Lutley, Penelope
Barneby, Thos. Barneby, and G. Lutley. (Seals missing).

Witnesses : John Barneby, Thos. Joring, John Downes,
Elizabeth Marshall, Edni. Barneby, and others.

Philip Lutley of Lawton served the office of Churchwarden
of Diddlebuty in 1723, and in 1724 he was Overseer for the
Highways. (Churchwardens1 Books). He died on 20 Octobci
173 1 . and was buried at Eaton under Hey wood. A monument
in the Church beais this inscription :

"Here lies interr'd the Body of Philip Lutley Esquire Loid
of this Mannor of Eaton and Patron of this church and heir of
Bartholomew Lutley Esq tl ire, late of Lawton in this county
and Margaret his wile, who also are interr'd heie. Lie was a
most affectionate husband, a most prudent and Lender Luither,
a sincere Friend who living was esteemed and dying

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lamented by all who knew him. He married Penelope, only
daughter and heir of Richard Barneby of Br )ckhampton in the
County of Hereford Esquire, by whom he had two sons Jenkes
and Bartholomew Richard, and four daughters Isabella,
Penelope, Margaret and Sarah, all living. He departed this
life the 20th of October in the 64 year of his age.
Ann Dom 1731."

His widow survived him, and died 7 March 1745. In the
same Church is a monument to " Penelope Lutley of Hen wick
in the County of Worcester, wife of the aforesaid Philip Lutley
Esquire, who died the 7th of March in the 60th year of her
age 1745."

Philip Lutley died at Henwick in Hallow near Worcester.
His will is dated 8 May, 1728, and was proved 11 March,
1732.

Philip Lutley had issue seven children :

1. Jenkes Lutley.

2. Bartholomew Richard Lutley, who assumed the name of
Barneby.

3. Samuel Lutley, baptized at Ludlow, 1 March 1718; died
in his father's lifetime.

4. Isabella Lutley, married Major John Clements.

5. Penelope Lutley, baptized at Ludlow, 11 November 1712,
She married Richard Sclater, alderman of London, and died
in 1796, aged 84, leaving a daughter Penelope.

6. Margaret Lutley, baptized at Ludlow, 8 May, 17 16, died
unmarried.

7. Sarah Lutley, baptized at Ludlow 1 March 1717. died
unmarried.

XIII. Jknkes Lutley of Bromcroft and Lawtou, Lord of
the Manor of Eaton tinder Hey wood, was baptized .it Ludlow
on 27 June, 1710. He died unmarried 27 January 17. aged
35. In Eaton under Heywood Church is a monument to his
memory, with this inscription :

"To the memory of Jenkes Lullev of Lawloti in tin- CollUlf
of Salop Ksquire, who dyed the 27 day of Juiiuarj in Hie 35II1

yeai <>! Ills a;.;e 1 7 |S "

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The Chancel of Haton Church was beautified, and the burial
vault built, at the charge of the above mentione 1 Jeiikes Lutley,
Esquire, in the year 1743.

He was succeeded by his brother.

Bartholomew Richard Luti.ky, who assumed the name
and arms of Barneby in 1735, under the Will of his grandfather
Richard Barneby. He was Lord of Manors of Bromcroft,
Lawton and Eaton under Hey wood. He was baptized at
Ludlow 22 February 17 13. He married at Whitborne 21 October
1756, Betty, the daughter of John Freeman and his wife Ann,
of Gaines in the parish of Whitborne, who both witnessed the
marriage. Bartholomew Richard Barneby was then described
as of the parish of Bromyard. He died on 21 December 1783,
and his widow on 14 May 1785. By his Will, dated 18
September 1783, he gave to his son John Barneby all his
Manors, Rectory, Advowson, Messuages, Lands, etc. in the
County of Salop, he to pay to testator's younger children
^50 each till 14 years, and £tio each till 21. He left with other
bequests to his son Lutley ^2000 at 21 ; to his son Richard
£2000, and to his daughter Abigail ,£3000 ; and appointed his
wife Kxecutrix of his Will.

He had issue :

1. John Barneby, of whom next.

2. Philip Barneby, baptized at Brockhainpton 9 September

1763, Receiver-general for co. Hereford.

3. Lutley Barneby, baptized at Brockhainpton 22 October

1764, a merchant of the City of London.

4. Richard Barneby, baptized at Brockhainpton, 21 March
1 769, of Worcester.

5. Thomas Barneby, baptized at Brockhainpton 16 August
1773, Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and rector of Stepney.

6. Penelope, baptized at Brockhainpton 21 Deceuibei 17581
married at Bromyard 22 January 1782, Thomas Newnhaiu ot
Broad was.

7. Abigail, baptized at Brockhainpton 21 Decembei 1701,
died unman ied in Jul) 1805.

8. Betty, died yonng.

9. lvli/.abeth, died young.

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XIV. John BarNEBY was baptized at Brockhampton it
December 1757. He was the last owner of Brc 111 croft and Lawton,
of the Lutley family. He married at St. George's, Hanover
Square, on 17 July 1792, Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir oi
Robert Bulkeley, of Bulkele}- in Cheshire by whom he had issue,
3 sons and a daughter. The marriage settlement is dated 14 July
1792. In it Elizabeth Bulkeley is described as of Uxbridge.

By an Indenture dated 18 July 1801, he conveyed the
Ingwardine estate for a term of 1000 years to Henry Ckelling-
wqrth, in consideration of ^2000. He must have sold the
Bromcroft and Lawton property to Thomas Royds in or shortly
before the year 1807.

Two Affidavits preserved amongst the Bromcroft deeds give
some further information about the Lutleys and their
Bromcroft property.

Affidavit of Penelope Lutley Sclater, of Tangier Park, co.
Hants, and of the City of Worcester, spinster, aged 70 years
and upwards. That she was the daughter of Penelope Sclater,
formerly Penelope Lutley who was aged 84 when she died in
1796, who was the daughter of Philip Lutley who resided at
Hen wick in the parish of Hallow co. Worcester, and Queen
Square, co. Middlesex, and held property in the County of
Salop. That the eldest sou of this said Philip Lutley was
Jenks Lutley, who died without issue, and his next brother
was Bartholomew Richard Lutley who took the surname of
Barneby during his brother's life, and succeeded to the
property of the said brother Jenks Lutley, who died (1735)
at Lawton Hall in the County of Salop when aged 25. And
the eldest son of Bartholomew Richard Lutley, afterwards
Barneby, was John Barneby of Brockhampton, co. Hereford,
where the said Bartholomew Richard Lutley resided at the
time of his death, and many yens before. She docs not
remember the father of Philip Lutley, or his brother, but
recollects a Bartholomew Lutley who died a bachelor, and a
Hester Lutley his sister who died unmarried, who were both
first cousins of the said Bartholomew Richard Lutley andt
Penelope Lutley afterwards Selatei. Swortl by L\ L. Sclater,
in the presence of Richard barneby, a Master in Chancer}

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Affidavit of Richard Barneby, of Worcester, made 3 .March
1825. That in 1804, in making out the abstract of title of his
eldest brother John Barneby, late of Brockhampton, since
deceased, to certain estates called the Lodge and Park Estates,
which the said John Barneby had agreed to sell to Messrs.
Adams and Wainwright, found that by deed enrolled in
Chancery dated 2 December 1737, made between Humphrey
Walcot of Bitterley, son of John Walcot ofWalcot of the one
part, and Andrew Hill then of Henley Hall in Henley in the
parish of Bitterley of the other part, the said Humphrey
Walcot sold to Andrew Hill the estates called the Lodge and
Parks, which had been lately purchased by John Walcot from
Thomas Littleton, late of London, then lately called Sir
Thomas Littleton, Baronet, and Dame Ann his wife, and
Edward Littleton of All Souls Oxford, gentleman, and to
have been before the lands of Richard Maining, Esquire, and
Anne his wife, and Edward Maining, whose messuages were
held of George the brother of Humphrey Walcot. That by
certain Indentures bearing date 1 and 2 December 1737, made
between Humphrey Walcot of the one part and Andrew Hill
of the other part, Humphrey Walcot was entitled to the
inheritance on the decease of his brother George Walcot, and
Andrew Hill had agreed with Humphrey Walcot for the
absolute purchase of the reversion, the said Humphrey Walcot
did grant, bargain and sell to Andrew Hill the same premises.
That by Indentures of Lease and Release dated 24 and 25
March 1752, made between Andrew Hill of the Court of Hill
of the first part and Bartholomew Richard Barneby of Brock-
hampton (who was the Deponent's father) of the other part.
The premises were granted and sold by Andrew Hill to
Bartholomew Richard Barneby. In the year 1817 John
Barneby died, and his widow Elizabeth Barneby now of
Brockhampton did on the 22 March instant, sign, seal
and deliver the deed of release of Dower produced.
Sworn by Richard Barneby, before J as. Best, a - Master in
Chancery.

The Arms of Barneby are, Sable, a lion [>assaut guard an I
between three escallops Argent. Their Pedigree was (filtered

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at the Visitation of Worcestershire in 1682, and it is given in
"Burke's History of the Commoners, IV., 1 7.

IV. Rovds of Bromcroft.

Thomas Royds purchased the Bromcroft Kstate from John
Barneby in or shortly before the year 1^07. He was descended
from an old Lancashire Family, and was the third son of
John Royds of Falinge near Rochdale.

The Arms of Royds are Ermine, on a cross engrailed
between four lions rampant gules, a spear in pale proper,
between four bezants.

Some deeds preserved amongst the Bromcroft evidences
relate to his tenure here.

By a document dated 27 July 1S07, Thomas Royds of
Rochdale, co. Lancashire, Lord of the Manor or Lordship of
Bromcroft, deputes Samuel Trice of The Lodge to be his
Gamekeeper within his said Manor.

Signed by Tiios. Royds, in the presence of John Peel
Frederick Peel.

Footnotes endorsed on the above document :

"Mr. Price.

Mr. Yate. Steward to my Lord Craven, may have liberty to
hunt Hares on any of my Estates. Thomas Royds

" Pray say by post if he have any and what Birds this year,
as I think 1 shall come over to the Dale about i^t Septemb.
next."

In US07 Thomas Royds lets to Samuel Price, a Farm called
the: Lodge. In 1N0.S there is ail Agreement by him with
John C.itlins for the occupation of a Farm called llionicrott ;
ami the same year an Agreement with Jehu (.ittius for the
occupation of I ugw ai dine Farm.

Thomas Royds was born 21 Oct >ber 1704. On 13 September
1783, he married at Rochdale, Betty, the daughter of Char lea
Smith of Summer Castle, and by her had issue foil I sous .uid
(bur daughters. [lis eldest sun was John Gilbert Koyds, bom
30 July 1734* and the others were William, a ColoucJ 111 the
Army, Thomas, in holy orders, and Francis, lli^ daughters

BROMCROFT AND ITS OWNKKS. 271

were Caroline wife of Robert Holt, Jane who died young,
KHen wife of Jonathan Haworth Peel, and Elizabeth wife of
William Ingledew. He died in March 1819. His Will, dated
16 September 18 17, was proved 15 January 1825.

In August 1824, the executors of Thomas Royds sold the
Bromcroft estate by Auction, when it was purchased by-
George Johnstone.

V. — Johnstone of Bromcroft.

George Johnstone, the purchaser of the Bromcroft estate
in 1824, was the fourth son of Charles Johnstone of Ludlow,
and grandson of Colonel John Johnstone, who was killed at
Carthagena in 1741, by his wife Charlotte Van Lore,
Marchioness of Annandale, and daughter and heir of John
Vanden-Bempde of Hackness. Colonel John Johnstone was
the younger son of Sir William Johnstone, 2nd Baronet of
Westerhall.

The Johnstones are a very ancient Scottish family, and trace
their descent from Hugo de Johnstone, who held estates in East
Lothian early in the 13th century. Sixth in descent from
Hugo was Sir Adam Johnstone of Johnstone who died in 1455 ;
he married Janet, daughter of George, nth Earl of Dunbar
and March, and was father of two sons. (1) Sir John
Johnstone, the elder son. was ancestor of the Marquess of
Annandale, and of the Marquess ol Linlithgow. (2) Matthew
Johnstone, the younger son, was ancestor of the Baronets of
Westerhall, and of Hackness (created Lord Derwent), and of
Johnstone of Bromcroft.

CllAKljiS Johnstone of Ludlow (the father ol the purchaser
of Bromcroft) was born in 1736, and baptized at St. George's,
Hanover Square; he married in 1778, Mary, the daughter of
John Beddoe of Haverfordwest. lie died 8 May, and was
buried at Culmington on 11 May 1805. His widow died 11
March 1809, aged 47 years. There are monuments to their
memory in Culmington Church. lie had issue, with BIX
daughters, seven sons :—

1. The Rev. William Johnstone, rector of Culmington.

2. Charles Philipps Johnstone, 3rd Dragoon Guards,

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3. John Johnstone, of Mainstone Court, co. Hereford.

4. George Johnstone, of Bromcroft Casth .

5. Richard James Johnstone, of Manorbeer Castle, co.
Pembroke.

6. Bempde Johnstone, Lieutenant R.N.

7. James Johnstone, died an infant in 1796.

His eldest son, the Revd. William Johnstone, although he
did not own the estate of Bromcroft, is described as " of
Bromcroft Castle," and presumably resided there. He was
born 22 October, and baptized at St. Martin's, Haverfordwest,
on 25 November 1779. He married 16 June, 1804, Catherine,
the daughter of Thomas Sellick Broome of Colwich. He was
Rector of Culmington from 1804 to 1856, which living was
bought by his father. He died 9 April 1856 without issue.
There is a mural tablet in Culmington Church erected to his
memory, with this inscription : —

" To the memory of the Rev. William Johnstone, eldest son
of Charles Johnstone, Ksquire, ot Ludlow, Shropshire, 52
years rector of this parish. He departed this life on the 9th
of April 1856, aged 76 years."

"Catherine, the truly Christian wife of the Rev. William
Johnstone, Rector of this Parish, ceased from her labours of
love, and died in the Lord May 21st, MDCCCXXXIII, aged
58 years."

Gkorgk Johnstonk, the purchaser of Bromcroft, and Lord
of the Manor, was born 1 August 1784, and served for some
years in the 5th Dragoon Guards. He married first, 4 October
18 1 5, his cousin Margaret Anne, the eldest daughter ol Sir
Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone, 1st Baronet of Hackness.
She died 26 June 1819. By her, he had issue a daughter.

1. Anne Georgina Johnstone, of Bromcroft.

He married secondly Jane, the daughter of Hugh Hdwanls.
of Borthwynog, co. Merioneth, and had issue :

2. Charles Kdwards Johnstone.

3. Hugh Kdwards Johnstone.

4. Marianne, the wife of William Stlltfield

George Johnstone restored LJromeroft Castle. He seems to
have mortgaged the property in 1825 to Ins fathei in law

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Sir John Vanden Berapde Johnstone of Hackness, as appears
by the following Bond, which is preserved amongst the Brom-
croft deeds. There are also some letters from Messrs. Dennett
and Co., and others, dated in 1819 and 1820, about this
property, which show that the Bromcroft Estate was then
being "surveyed on behalf of Sir John Johnstone," presumably .
with a view to its being purchased for his son-in-law
George Johnstone, and his mortgage loan.

1 Bond from George Johnstone, Esquire, to Sir John Vanden
Bempde Johnstone of Hackness, co. York, Baronet, and
Samuel Duckworth of Lincoln's Inn, Richard Richards of
Bedford Square, and the Rev. Gabriel Edwards Gillet of
Guildford Street, co. Middlesex, in the penal sum of ,£32,607,
for securing to them the sum of £16,335 and interest, also
secured by a mortgage dated 27 July 1825.

George Johnstone died 15 October 1856, and was buried at
Culmington, where there is a monument to his memory with
this inscription :

" Sacred to the memory of George Johnstone, Esqre., fourth
son of the late Charles Johnstone, Esqre. of Ludlow, who
departed this life the 15th of October 1856, in the 73rd year of
his age."

" Anne Georgina Johnstone, eldest daughter of George
Johnstone, Esqre. of Bromcroft, died 22nd July 1888, aged
69 years."

He was succeeded at Bromcroft by his elder son by his
second wife.

Charlus Edwards Johnstonic, who thus became Lord of
the Manor of Bromcroft. He restored the castle. He married
22 November 1848, Jane Elizabeth Balcombe, only daughter of
Edward Abel, but left no issue. He was succeeded in the
Bromcroft estate by his brother,

HUGH EDWARDS JOHNSTOKIC, Lord pf the Manor of Brom-
croft, who married Mary, daughter of Mr. Tudor, of Portland

1 Bromcroft Deeds.

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Place, Loudon, but left no issue. Mr. Hugh Johnstone added
to the Castle. On his death the propeity passed to his
half-sister,

Anne Gkorgina Johnstone, who thus became Lady of
the Manor of Brorncroft. She died 22 July 18SS, and was
buried at Culmington, where there is a stone monument
erected in the chancel to her memory, with this inscription :

"Anne Georgina Johnstone, eldest daughter of George
Johnstone, Ksqre. of Brorncroft, died 22nd July 1888, aged
69 years."

There is also a window in Diddlebury Church erected to her
memory by Sarah Clarke. On her death the Brorncroft estate
passed to her half-sister,

Marianne Johnstone, who had married on 9 August 1853,
William Stutfield. Their son,

Charles Stutfield, succeeded as Lord of the Manor and
owner of Brorncroft. lie sold the estate in 1889 to James
Whitaker.

The Arms ot Johnstone are : Argent, a saltire sable, on a
chief gules three cushions or, in base a man's heart ensigned
with an imperial crown proper. Colonel John Johnstone of
Netherwood, who was second son of Sir William Johnstone, the
second Baronet of Westerhall, recorded these Arms, with a
crescent for difference, in the Lyon Office between 1700 and
1729. (See The Heraldry of tJic Jo/uisto?ies, by G. Harvey
Johnstone, 1905).

.VI. — Whitaker of Bromcroft.

James Whitaker (second son of James Whitaker of Broad -
clough, co. Lancaster, by Harriet his wife, daughter of John
Ormerod of Bankside, near Manchester), of Hampton Hall.
Worthen, co. Salop, purchased the Manor of BrotUCfdfi from
the Johnstone family in 1S80. He was born 1 November
1831, and married 3 March 1863 Lli/.abeth, the daughter ot
Lieut.-Colonel livery Clayton of Rowley, Ileal lHnnlcv. \\c

BROMCROFT AND ITS OWNERS.

275

died iSjune, 1913, his wife on 26 December, 1900. His elder
son, Henry Ernest Whitaker, who was born 1^9, and married
15 August 1899 his cousin Margaret Louisa, daughter of John
Whitaker of Broadclough, is now Lord of the Manor of
Bromcroft.

The family of Whitaker trace their descent from Thomas
Whitacre of Whitacre, living 1525. His son John Whitacre
and grandson James Whitacre were of Bacup. At the close of
the sixteenth century they removed to Broadclough, where
they have resided ever since.

The Arms of Whitaker are — Sable, three mascles argent.

The following Will of John Barbar of Bromcroft Park is
preserved at Hereford : —

Will of John Barbar, of Bromcroft Parke in the
Parish of Diddleburv. 1589.

[Hereford Probate Court, Bundle I. 8.) Will dated 20 May 1589.

To William, son of Thomas Barbar .... To Edward,
son of Charles Bayton ..... To Thomas Lewes of
Tycklarton my sister's son £\o. To my brother in law
John Brome .... Thomas Lewes to be bound to pay
yearly to my brother Thomas Barber and after his decease to
Gregory Moore and Thomas Lyttleton, during the life of
Anne, wife of George Laiigford, my daughter. To William
Churchman a tambe, for one of his children. If the said
Katherine, base daughter of my son John deceased, do not
many Richard Lewes, the son of Thomas Lewes, .she shall
marry no one else without the consent of my friends Adam
Lyttleton, Parson of Rushbuty, John llabberlev. \'n\u ol
Diddlebury, Richard Churchman, Vicar of Long Stanton,
Mr. Gregory Moore of Pet Oil, William Newton, Arthut
Crowther, Thomas Barber my brother and Elizabeth Mauml,
Mother of the said Katherine. Thomas Lyttleton, Thomas

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Barber and Thomas Lewes to be executors. Witnesses:
Gregory Moore gent., William Churchman, John Henson,
John Partriche. (No proof given.) (This Will is much
damaged in places).

In the Kenley Registers is an entry of the burial of
William Kvason, of Bromcroft, on 13 April 1762.

SOME OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES AND THEIR
OWNERS.

By H. E. FORREST.

VII. THE LYNCHES, YOCKLETON.

The Lynches, near Yockleton, was probably the dower
house of the Warings of Onslow and Ford. Their line is
said to reach back to Saxon times, though this is doubtful.
In any case they have been seated here from the fourteenth
century, when, according to the Heralds* Visitation, Simon
Waring held Onslow. His son Richard Waring was a member
of the town council of Shrewsbury in 1444. His will was
dated 7 November 1455. Five generations later we find two
brothers, William and Basil, members of the council under
the new charter granted by Charles I. in 1638. The entries
of their children's baptisms in St. Chad's Register show that
William was a shearman, and Basil a draper. From the
same register we learn that Mr. Nicholas Waring, who married
Mrs. Mary Barber 31 March 1625, and who died in December
1630, lived at Wuodcote (not far from the Lynches). His
son Richard (^baptized 2 March 1626) was an alderman of
Shrewsbury in the new council appointed by Charles II. in
1664, and was mayor of Shrewsbury in 1666. Amongst the
benefactions to Westbury church it is recorded that 11 Richard
Waring of ye Linches gave ^10." This appears to be the
only actual record of any Waring residing at the Lynches.
No date is given but most probably this Richard was the
alderman of 1664.

It is a very singular coincidence that the Lynches, with
other property, passed soon afterwards into the possession of
another family of Warings not in any way connected with the
foregoing — the Warings of Humphreston and Lea near
Wolverhampton* The two families were quite distinct and
bore different arms. The Onslow Warings bore " Gules on

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a fess engrailed or between three bucks' beads caboshed
argent as many bugle horns sable." The Humphreston
Warings bore "Sable a chevron between three storks' heads
erased at the neck argent." The most notable member of
this latter family was

Edmund Waring. He was a very zealous Parliamentarian,
and styled successively captain, major, and colonel. He
was sheriff of Shropshire in 1657-9, and governor of
Shrewsbury in the latter year. A letter from him In this
last capacity, to the Council of State, dated Shrewsbury
21st August 1659, ten at night, was printed in London
soon after. At the Restoration a few months later
Governor Waring was thrown into prison in Shrewsbury,
but released shortly afterwards. He was M.P. for
Bridgnorth 1658. He died 30 Jan. 1683, aged 62, and
there is a brass plate to his memory in Donington church.
Tradition says that his death was a tragic one: he was
smothered in " Mini's Hole " when returning home to
Humphreston after a carousal in celebration of the
execution of Charles I. Colonel Waring is usually
described as of Humphreston though he did not acquire
that estate till late in life. He is said to have bought
the Humphreston manor and estate in 1664 from Dame
Cresagon Briggs of Haughton, co. Salop ; but there is a
constant local tradition that he seized upon Humphreston
between 1653 and 1657 when he became Sheriff of Shrop-
shire and was then styled "of Humphreston." In the
marriage settlement ot his elder daughter and co-
heir Klizabeth (bearing date 1676) certain lands are
mentioned, among them Woodwall Coppice and Derbyes
Coppice situated near [Stoney] Stretton ; a messuage
called Iyinches ; two mills under one roof, etc., in
Yockleton, all which lordship ofVockleton was conveyed
to Kdmund Waring on the 7 August 17 Charles II.
[i,e> 1666) for the sum of ^3,200. Matthew Morgan Esq.
is mentioned in the deed ; all the other parties being
Warings. Col. Waring apparently purchased the manoi
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of which had interests in it which were all included in the
conveyance to him. The Yockleton Warlngs named were
Walter Waring of Yockleton and his wife Jane ; his eldest
son Edmund and wife Mary ; and two younger sons
Humphrey and Ralph. Colonel Edmund Waring died as
already mentioned 30 January 1683, and as both his sons
had pre-deceased him, his estates passed to his two
daughters as co-heiresses. The Lynches passed, with
other property, to his younger daughter Hannah who was
married at Albrighton 7 November 1682 to

Gkorgk Ashby (1656-1728). He came of a family long seated
at Quenby, eo. Leicester, and was tenth in direct lineal
descent from Richard de Ashbylord of South Croxton and
Ouenby county Leicester 1297. The fourth but eldest
surviving son of George and Hannah Ashby was

John Ashby (I.) born at Ouenby 27 November 16S7. He
seems to have been the first of the family to reside at the
Lynches : he died there and was buried at Westbury
27 July 1756. As regards the Leicestershire estates, he
had been disinherited, so that his younger brother
Waring Ashby became the owner of Quenby. By his
wife Hannah (nee Johnson of Hull, who died in November
1781) John Ashby had six sons and two daughters. As the
names of one of the daughters and three eldest sons do
not appear in the baptisms in the Westbury register,
whilst the other daughter and three younger sons are
entered therein — the earliest in 1723 — we are enabled to
fix the date when John Ashby came to live at the Lynches :
it must have been about 1723, and he resided there till
his death on 20th July 1756, aged 69. Of his six sons only-
two survived him — John (born at Quenby 9 May 1722) and
Edmund (born at Westbury 1730 ) The elder

John Ashby (II.) became an attorney, and seems to have
resided during his mature years in Shrewsbury, with the
civic life of which he altogether identified himself. This
was doubtless the reason why he let his lu other reside .it
the Lynches instead of living there himself. lie Was

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Mayor of Shrewsbury in 1759, and Town Clerk from 1767
till his death 3 February 1779. He was b iried at Westbury
where there is a monument to him with his arms impaling
those of Wingfield. He married at St. Julian's 13
December 1763, Jane daughter of Borlase Wingfield of
Preston Brockhurst, but had no issue. He was one of the
esquires to Lord Clive at his installation as Knight of the
Bath 15 June 1772. In 1766 some buildings projecting into
the street at the bottom of Dogpole and blocking the
passage of traffic, were purchased by the Corporation in
the names of Edward Klisha and John Ashby esquires,
from Mr. Thomas Fox, skinner, & pulled down, thus
widening the street. The purchase money £115 was
raised by subscription.

Edmund Ashby succeeded his brother John at the
Lynches. He was the youngest of the family, having
been baptized at Westbury 15 January 1730. On 28
March 1758 Edmund Ashby married Elizabeth, third
daughter and co-heir of William Ash of Paston co.
Northants. He died 20 November 1785 and was buried
on the 25th at Westbury, leaving two daughters. The
elder Elizabeth Freeman (born 27 May 1759) married
4 September 1783 Robert Hall of Meole Brace : the
younger Hannah Maria (born 16 September 1763) married
9 January 1787 John Maddock of Cross Hill and Green-
fields, Shrewsbury. Through her cousin George Ashby,
son of Waring Ashby of Quenby and Naseby, this lady
inherited the Naseby estate, which passed next to her
son, the Rev. George Ashby Maddock.

In 1789 the Lynches was sold to Rowland Wingfield,
the purchaser of Onslow. Since that date it has formed
part of the Onslow estate, and has been tenanted as a
farmhouse by successive generations of the Bromley
family, who have held it to the present day.

Incidentally it may be added that reference to the
Lynches is made in the following entries. EiailWOOd
Register : —

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261

1673, May 17. Thomas Davies de Lynches, bur.

1674, Feb. 7. Marrianna Preece de Lynches, bur.
{probably servants or cottagers under the Warings).
Humphrey Robinson of ye Linches gave £10 to the
poor of Westbury parish. No date.

In Owen and Blakeway's History of Shrewsbury I.
25S, mention is made of " T. Kynaston of Lynchis "
as paying money on behalf of the late Robert Thornes,
anno 1491, but this would be the Linches near
Baschurch.

The arms of Ashby are "Azure a chevron ermine between
three leopards' heads or."

The house itself is mainly of seventeenth century brick and
is L-shaped in plan. There are flat stone buttresses at the
corners, and several portions of ancient sandstone masonry
built up into the walls irregularly. In the drawing room is a
very fine carved oak mantelpiece of late Jacobean design.
Several of the rooms are lined with paneling of Elizabethan or
Jacobean date, and there is a staircase of the latter period.
One of the attics was reached by a ladder-like stone staircase,
now faced with a wooden one. At the rear is an ancient
chimney stackr at the base of which was found during recent
alterations an inscribed stone bearing a date, but so weathered
as to be undecipherable. At a short distance stands a circular
brick dove-cote surmounted by an open-arched cupola, and
still tenanted by pigeons.

VIII. BE NT ALL, NEAR FORI).

Bentall was- the home successively of the Griffiths and
Biggs families. In the early part of the 17th ceiiluiv there
were two brothers, Thomas and Samuel Griffiths, at Bentall,
and both of them had children baptized at Alberbuiy, in
which parish Bentall is situated, although it is nearer to Ford
Church. Both of the brothers had seats allotted to them in
1626, while in 1O42 Thomas Griffiths was one of the parish-

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ioners who signed the register as consenting to the election
of Thomas Rignalds as parish clerk of Alberbury. The
earliest mention of the place in the register i^ in 1611 when
Thomas Griffiths of Bentall had a son Henry baptized on
27 March. Later on occur entries of the burial of a
daughter Elizabeth 12 August 1614, and of his wife
Anne 28 June 1639. The brother Samuel was buried in
1654. (Samuel had a son Thomas born in 1617, and a
son John buried in 1619). From the above records it
will be seen that there was a dwelling of some kind at
Bentall, at least as early as 161 1, but the present house
was built in 1660 by Thomas Griffiths and his son Henry,
whose initials appear on a stone let into the chimney.
Thomas was buried 2 December 1660 — very soon after
the completion of the building — leaving

Henry Griffiths sole survivor. He appears to have died
soon afterwards, as Bentall was next occupied by

Henry Biggs (I.) and his wife Sarah. They had four
children born at Bentall — Henry (1673), Thomas (1674),
Samuel (1677-1698) and John (1679, died an infant).
Henry Biggs (I.) was buried 1688, and his widow Sarah
1724.

Henry Biggs (II) was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1706. He
was evidently a well-to-do gentleman, for, although
the house was almost new, he spent a considerable
amount in altering and enlarging it, his work
being easily recognised by its "Queen Anne"
features. By his wife Lucy he had a son Nicholas
Biggs who was born in May 1700, but died a
minor in October 1719: also two daughters Lucy and
Sarah. Of these the former, born in 1701, married
Richard Oakeley, but died without issue ; while the latter
born 1704, married at Han wood 4 September 1735 George
Smythe of Nibley, co. Gloucester, and afterwards of
Ben thai 1 in right of his wife. Of these more anon.
Henry Biggs (II.) died in 1700 at the early age »>J 33, but
his witlow Lucy survived till i;s>s- She had lost both hot

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husband and son, whilst her two daughters had married
so that she was left a lonely old lady in the mansion at
Benthall. Still she kept up a stately household as became
a sheriff's lady, and it is related of her that she used to
drive to Alberbury Church on Sundays in a coach drawn
by four (some say by six ! ) big black Flemish horses. On -
her decease in July 1758 Benthall went to her son-in-law

. George Smyth (who had married her daughter Sarah). Their
second son

Nicholas Smythe was sheriff of Shropshire in 1772. He
became seated at Coudover by virtue of his marriage with
Anna Maria eldest daughter of Sir Charlton Leighton,
bart, of Loton by his first wife Anna Maria d. and heir of
Richard Mytton of Halston and Loctitia his wife d. of
Roger Owen of Coudover (sheriff 1708) and sole heir of
her brothers Edward and Thomas Owen. Nicholas
Smythe being the 2nd of three brothers was equally
cut off from the freehold and copyhold estates of his
father— since in the manor of Alberbury copyholds went
to the youngest son. He engaged at an early age in the
service of the East India Company. By his wife Anna
Maria Leigh (who died Mar. 1777) he had an only son
Nicholas Owen Smythe-Owen, born 7 Mar. 1769, and
three daughters.

Bentall is a three-storeyed building of mellow old brick on
a sandstone foundation, dating from the days of the Civil War.
The bricks are all small and irregular, and but little thicker
than those used in the Elizabethan era. There aie two great
chimney stacks, plain except for a string of bricks set
obliquely; on the back of the rear stack is a square stone
inscribed

1660
G.
T. II.

the initials being those ol Thomas Griffiths and his SOU
Henry. Usually the initials on a house aie those ol the

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builder and his wife. In this ease, however, the builder had
lost his wife twenty-one years before, so he put his son's
initial instead. Doubtless the house was some time in
building, and was completed in 1C60. Thomas Griffiths
himself died towards the end of that year. The plan of the
house appears to have, been L-shaped. In general style,
though not in form, it resembled Braggington Hall, and like
that house had a large number of windows, many now
blocked up. The floor levels are outlined by projecting
strings of bricks — three deep, the middle row rounded on
the outer face. The original entrance was on the K. side,
but about the year 1700 Henry Biggs the Sheriff made
considerable alterations here, moving the entrance to the
left, and adding a new dining room with bedroom over. The
dining room is completely lined with large oak paneling in
"Queen Anne" style. When Henry Biggs made these
alterations he pulled down part of the original house on the
same side, and used the bricks from it in his new building,
with the result that one now finds exactly the same kind of
brick used in buildings of two periods separated by an interval
of half a century. This interval — short as it was — wrought a
complete revolution in the style of domestic architecture:
it witnessed the last of the so-called Jacobean style (which
had actually prevailed throughout the r;th century) I and the
introduction of the Dutch or Flemish style to which the
term " Queen Anne " has been applied. In Bentall we have
typical examples of both styles. The staircase is Cro m well ian
{i.e., a somewhat heavy form of Jacobean) with round balusters
and square newels with knobbed fitiials. The principal
bedroom is paneled and has a carved fire-place with the
peculiar ornamentation characteristic of the time of Charles II.,
in which the diamond-shaped lo/.enye is always a prominent
feature. Another of the bedrooms in the old part of the
house is lined with tapestry, but this has almost perished
with age, and is now papered over. Several ol the rooms
have (plaint little hob grates. The Staircase IS earned right
up to the roof, ami the space between the third llooi celling
and the rafters is divided up into attics, one oi which has a

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fire-place, though whether they were actually occupied is
doubtful, since there are no windows to light them. At the
back of the house a small projecting bay has betn added in
modern times to accommodate a back staircase. It is shaped
to match the old bay, but lacks the projecting brick-
courses at the floor-levels which are seen on all the original
walls.

IX. — FORD.

In the neighbouring village of Ford there are three houses
of note, known respectively as Ford Hall, House, and
Mansion.

IXa. FORD hall.

As a whole this building appears to date from about the
time of Cromwell, and to have been constructed entirely of
brick. The staircase is of that date and has square newels and
round balusters with hand-rail shaped to the hand. It was
probably built by George Crosse (I). Over a narrow eastern
window is a stone inscribed G.C. 1729. The initials are those
of another George Crosse (II.) nephew of the first, who was
born in 1670. He did not re-build or add to the house, but
made considerable internal alterations, such as fitting new
doors and fireplaces. The most interesting of his innovations
was the construction of two "powdering" closets, for dressing
and powdering the hair of the inmates. Kach closet serves
two rooms, being placed between them with a door opening
into each chamber. There is a large arched recess in the
dining room with a very deep alcove on each side of it.

William Ckosse (I.) is mentioned in the Manor Court Rolls as
j a freeholder of Ford in 1610. The Hall w^is probably built by
him or his eldest son, as it appears to date from about the time
of Charles 1. By his wife lClinor, who died in i(>| j. he had
six sons and one daughter. William Crosse and his eldest
sou George were accused before the Committee foi
Compounding of "having impressed men lo serve against
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from Shrewsbury ; plundered iron from the ironworks of
Sir Thomas Middleton and General My ton, and sold it
for their own benefit : also of seizing the works and iron
for the king's use." Of the six sons of William three
married and had children, namely George (1619-1676),
Thomas (1622-1664), and William (II.) 1639-1678.) The
! eldest son

George Crosse (I.) had by his wife Dorothy five daughters
but no son. The eldest daughter Margaret (born 1644)
was married in 1666 to Zaeharias Lewis of Alberbury
( 1 631-1699) to whom she bore a son and daughter.
George (I.) having no son, the estate passed on his death
I in 1676 to his only surviving brother

William Crosse (II.) who, although twenty years younger
only lived to enjoy it two years. By his wife Anne he had
three sons and two daughters,* but the firstborn son
William died an infant. The second Francis, born in
1666, appears also to have died young, so that on the
death of William (IT.) in October 1678 the estate seems to
I have passed to the third sou

George Crosse (II.) then a lad of eight. Apparently he never
married since the inscribed stone dated 1729 bears only
his own initials. Evidently, too, he was the last of the
family to reside here, for no person named Crosse occurs
in the Ford register after that date. As none of the
Crosses— except William (I) and George (I) at their
burials— are entitled "Mi." ill the registers, they
evidently did not rank highci than yeoman, and there was
little, il any, landed estate. loiter Oil some of the L,eigllton

family lived at Ford Hall and the register records
18 Nov. 17S7 the baptism of John son of John and
Elizabeth Leighton.

•The elder daughter Anne Cross (b. 1 *i 17) married Thomas LccofWn
in 1(382, at St. Alltmund's.

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This is a pure "Queen Anne" house, built of red brick with
white stone quoins and cornices, adorned with stone urns at the
corners towards the garden. This last is beautifully terraced
and has a modern flight of stone steps leading from the lower
level to the entrance on that side, the whole forming a charming
vista. The interior presents the characters usually found in
houses of the early eighteenth century, the most notable being
the handsome paneling with decorated cornice in the dining
room, and the fine hall and staircase : the latter has a balustrade
arranged in a triple series of banisters — fluted, round, and
spiral, but there is no dado on the staircase wall corresponding
to the balustrade. There is not a trace of an earlier house on
the same site, so we must conclude that the old house was
entirely demolished when this one was erected, or that the
black and white house just below is a fragment of the original
house of the family. Most probably it was built by John Ambler
(IV). It is thought, however, that the early home of the
Amblers was an L,-shaped timter house, with outbuildings,
between the brook and churchyard, part of which remains
as a large cottage. Like the Warings the Amblers were
seated at Ford from earlier times than the beginnings of
parish registers. In May 1564

Hrnry Ambler married Cicely Waring at Alberbury, and had
four sons — William, Thomas, Griffith, and Robert. The
eldest

Wiluam Ambler died in 1609 leaving a widow Katherine
who took for her second husband John Reynolds. They
were married at Alberbury 18 June 1620. John Reynolds
died in March 1625, but Katherine outlived her son and
grandsons, being buried at Alberbury 14 August [66a
She was the last survivor of the elder branch of the family,
so at her death the estate passed to the descendants of
Thomas Ambler, younger brother of William named above.

John Amhi.kr (I.) was baptized it! March 1600. t,ike Ilia
neighbours John Waring and George Crosse he Supported
the Royal cause in the Civil War, and thercb]

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brought trouble 011 his mother, for we read in the
•'Calendar of the Committee for Compounding" page
2537, under date 5 September 1650 "Katherine widow
of John Reynolds of Ford mother of John Ambler
complains that the Committee have disturbed her
possession of Ford Rectory and other lands which
John Gaibett late of Shrewsbury [of St. Chad's parish]
for ^440 conveyed to her late husband and his
heirs by her with reversions to herself and Robert her
younger son, and then to John Ambler her eldest son for
whose pretended delinquency the lands are sequestered.
Her husband bequeathed to her all his goods lands tithes
etc. which the Committee pretend belong to John Ambler.
They have forced her to pay for her own goods etc. and
threatened to carry away her cattle etc. Ordered to
report cause of sequestration and restore her writings."
On the 26 March 1651 the Committee reported that John
Ambler was proved a delinquent and has an estate of
^*ioo a year and a large personal estate which they have
seized tho' he pretends to have compounded." On
6 June 1651 an order was made for sequestration. On
11 June it was reported that the County Committee had
sequestered the estate but that John Ambler had since
died. (He was buried at Alberbury 24 May 1651.) An
order was made to continue the sequestration. It is
evident from the wording of the above report that I he
tithes and lands in dispute were purchased not by one
of the Amblers but by Katherine's second husband
John Reynolds. H ? was evidently a man of means and
good family as lie Is described in the Alberbury Register
as "gentleman." By his wife Margaret, John Ambler (I.)
had four sons and two daughters. John, baptised 28
November 1626, was buried at Alberbury 19 February
1627; Aristotle, baptised 24 October 162S, was buried in
St. Chad's Church, Shrewsbury 21 March 1 648; he 1^
described in the register as "son and heir of John Amler;
the other children — Reynold boin 1630, Mijy 1631,
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young, leaving their grandmother Katherine Reynolds
sole survivor of this branch of the family. On her death
in 1660 the estate went to
Thomas Ambler (III.) (1622-1672) grandson of Thomas
Ambler (I.) ( — died 1609 and his wife Margery — 1622)
and son of Thomas Ambler (II.) (1591-1632 ?) and his wife
Joan. Thomas (III.) was the eldest of six children the
others being Edward (1624-1625) ; John (II.) born about
1626, married Sarah Hall, and was grandfather of
George Ambler, a wealthy Shrewsbury draper, buried in
St. Alkmund's 1756; Jane 1627-1629 ; Elizabeth 1629;
and William 163 1. By his wife Anne, who was buried
9th September 1669, Thomas Ambler (III.) had a daughter
Katherine, bapt. 4 May, 1663, and a son
John Ambler (III.) baptized 5 March 1665. He was only a
lad of seven when by the death of his father Thomas (III.)
in April 1672 he succeeded to the estate. In 1684 he
married Elizabeth Waring (died August 172S) by whom
he had a sou John (IV.) who succeeded to the estate on
the death of his father in December 1699. The entry in
the parish register of Ford reads as follows: " Mr. John
Amler Impropriator of Ford buried in his chancel." It
is worth noting that there was at that time no burial
ground attached to the church at Ford, and interments of
parishioners were usually made at Alberbury, The
families of Amler & Waring, however, had vaults in Ford
Church, and were laid to rest there. John Ambler's (III.)
widow survived her husband thirty years ami was buried
13 August 1728. The only son
John Ambler (IV.) was bom in 1694, alul died 30 July [731
and was buried in the chancel of Ford Chinch 011
1 August, the entry in the parish register being in the
same words as the quotation above. By his wife Margaret
Waring, who died 17 February 176VS aged 73, he li.ul four
sons— John, Thomas, William and George— and two
daughters. The eldest son
John AmmjCR (V.) was born 111 1717, and was shell!) »>i
I Shropshire iu 1758, He married at St. Chad's Church on

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291

31 August 1748, Mary daughter of Thomas Morhall of
Onslow, but died without issue 15 Dece.uber 1786, the
entry of burial being in the same words as above. His
widow was buried by his side 14 September 1790. His
I younger brother

Thomas Ambler (IV.) was baptized 6 December 1726. He
I graduated M.A. at Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1757
he married his neighbour Mary daughter of Joseph
Waring of Ford (1724- 1790) and settled in Ford as curate
of the parish, which position he retained till his death
in February 1793. They had one son and one daughter :
(the latter, named Frances, was born in June 1758 and
married at St. Alkmund's on 23 February 1784 Charles
j Fowler of Bellstone, widower : they had a son Charles
baptized 6 November 17S4; and a daughter Frances, 22
September 1785, who married 6 September 1804 Samuel
Allsopp of Burton-on-Trent ; they had issue Sir Henry
j Allsopp, Lord Hindlip, and Frances who married William
Wybergh How of Nearwell, Shrewsbury).
John Ambler (VI.) son of the Revd. Thomas Ambler, was
born 26 June 1760, and married at Nunton, Wilts, 28
August 1788, Sarah daughter of John Lloyd of Wyle Cop
in St. Julian's parish. He went to live in Cruckton
where a daughter Frances was born 18 July 1789 ; she
was the last of the main line of the Amblers and sole
heiress; she married William Edward Tomline of Riby
Castle, Lines., whose father became bishop of Lincoln.
The married life of John Ambler (VI.) was very brief, for
he died the following year and was buried on 8 December
L7yo by his father the Rev. Thomas Ambler.

As Ford House apparently dates from about 17:0 it
seems probable that it was built by John Ambler {IV.)
It is quite likely that the Rev. Thomas Ambler lived
latterly in the Mansion House of the Warings since Ins
wife was the last of the Ford branch of that family, whilst
tlie last owners — her brother and nephew— do not appeal
to have occupied it themselves. The connection between
the two families was long and intimate for IK-niv AmluYi

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in 1564, and John III. and IV., as well as the Rev. Thomas
Ambler, all married ladies of the Waring family. Griffith
Ambler (son of Henry) also married his cousin Margaret
Waring at Alberbury in January 1610: a daughter
Katherine was baptized a year later on 29 January.

IXc. MANSION HOUSE, FORD.
To outward appearance, as seen from the churchyard, this
is a large brick house of the late iSth century. A closer
examination, however, shows that this is only partially true.
All this front part has been added on to an older house of
Jacobean date, constructed of timber and brick, and, although
the latter is still there, it is so completely enclosed by the
brick walls of the later building, that it is nowhere visible.
The old house is •'sandwiched" between later additions to
the front and rear, while even the ends are hidden by carrying
the newer brick walls past them to the back corners, where
they can be seen overlapping but not tying into the old ones.
The frontage presents a somewhat imposing aspect and is
adorned with a low triangular pediment with stone festooned
shield. On the left-hand end is a handsome leaden spouthead
dated 1779 and bearing in high relief the Waring crest — a
hand grasping a falcon-lure. The interior presents features
characteristic of the periods in which each part of the house
was built. For instance the older part has a Jacobean
staircase, while the front staircase is 01 stone with continuous
handrail and slender cast-iron balustrade. The fire-places in
this par: are in the Adam style, but in the old kitchen there
is a wide ingle with (originally) an open hearth. All the
rooms in the front are lofty, and so is the hall ; in the old
part they are much lower.

The Mansion at Ford was the seat of the Waring family,
who appear to have sprung from the same stock as the
Warings and Onslows of Onslow. The Waiings were a
numerous family. There were usually at least two households
in Ford besides a branch resident in Shrew-bury or Hicton.
The elder branch lived in the man-ion at Ford, and in order
to rt-lltlci the subject cle.u we -hall gl?e the direct line of

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293

descent only, ignoring the younger members. Although
there are Warings mentioned in the Alberbv.ry and Ford
registers at somewhat earlier dates the earliest head of the
Ford branch of whom anything is distinctly known was

John Waring (I.) who married at Ford Church 29 December -
1604 Elizabeth Waring, probably a cousin. By her he had
I a son

John Waring (II.) born 19 August 1621. John the eider was
buried in Alberbury Church 27 April 1649. He was
churchwarden of Ford in 1632. John the younger
married Kleanor Owen 30 December 1650 and died at a
ripe old age in November 1708. The two Johns were
Royalists and the charge was brought before the

i Committee for Compounding that John Waring set out
his son John in arms against the Parliament. The

f Jacobean portions of the Mansion still standing are
probably the remains of the house which the latter
occupied, and there is little doubt that cither he or his
father built it. He was succeeded by his son

Joseph Waring (I.) who was baptized at Ford 11 November
! 1675. He married on 3 February 17 16 Sarah Chambre of
Petton who, when left a widow married for her second
husband George Calcott of Ford 3 June 1731. Joseph
j Waring was admitted a burgess of Shrewsbury 1 April
1 7 1 2. He was churchwarden of Ford in 1723, and on his
death 25 November 1727 was interred in the family vault
there. He left ^10 by his will to the poor of Ford parish.
Besides two daughters and a posthumous son who died
in infancy, he had three sons John, Joseph, and Francis.
John, born 16 December 1716, took holy orders and died
in 1794. Joseph (II.) born 27 February 171S, was admitted
a burgess in 1773, he settled in London where he died
S February 1775 and was buried at St. Marys, Broad Street.
Westminster. In 1737 he married Margaret Gooding
(1715-1763) by whom he had a numerous family, the eldest

son being named Francis, of whom more anon. Tlu Fad

property went to the third son oi Joseph Waring (I.)

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OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES AND THEIR OWNERS.

Francis Waring (I.) born 12 December 1721. He married
Mary daughter of Leighton Owen Griffiths of Dinthill, by
whom he had a son Leighton Samuel Waring, born in
June 1759, but both mother and infant died soon
afterwards. Francis Waring (I.) died 24 March 1776
and was succeeded by his nephew

Francis Waring (II.) son of Joseph Waring (II.) He is
described as of Thomas Street [London?] In 1 781 he
insured his Ford property in the Fire Office for ^1300.
As the spout-head on the Mansion bears the Waring
crest, and is dated 1779, it is evident that the extension
and the partial rebuilding of the house was the work of
this Francis Waring (II.), though it is not certain that
he ever occupied it. Although twice married, 1st to
A line Barnes of Islington, and 2nd to Anne Wright, lie
left no issue, and the estate seems to have passed to his
aunt Mary who had married Rev. Thomas Amler, vicar
of Ford, on 13 June 1757, thus finally uniting the fortunes
of the two principal families in Ford. See under Ford
House.

295

INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.
{Continued from <\th Series, Volume V.} page 208).

The documents which follow are the Bishops' Certificates
of the induction of Incumbents in the Dioceses of Coventry
and Lichfield and of Hereford for the following periods :

Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, 1775 to 1S00.
Diocese of Hereford, 1759 to 1800.

We have now in the Transactions fairly complete lists of
Incumbents in the Diocese of Lichfield from 1560 to 1S00, and
of Incumbents in the Diocese of Hereford from 15S9 to 1S00.
The volumes in which they occur will be found noted on page
185 of the last published volume of the Transactions, together
with some explanatory remarks on these Certificates.

The documents now printed have been extracted by Mr.
W. K. Boyd, for the Society, from the original First Fruits
Certificates preserved in the Public Record Office, London.

W.G.D.F.

FIRST FRUITS. BISHOPS' CERTIFICATES.

DlOCHSK OF COVKNTRY AND LlC II FIELD.

co. Salop.
File XLI. April 1775 — April 1780.

John Tombes Winglield, clerk, M.A., instituted to the
vicarage of Atcliam, co. Salop. Presented by Robert Bui ion.
Vacant by death of Thos. Iloulston. Instituted July 17th,
1775. Deanery of Salop.

Edmund Dana, clerk, instituted to the vicarage of Wroxcter,
co. Salop, July 24th, 1775. Presented by William Pulteiu v,
esquire, committee of the estate of John Newport, esquire, a
lunatic. Vacant by cession of the said UdlUUlld Pain.
Deanery of Salop.

INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

Henry Bromwich, clerk, instituted to the vicarage of
Worfield, co. Salop, Sept. nth, 1775. Prevented by Daniel
Chard in Davenport, esquire. Vacant by resignation of John
Bromwich. Deanery of Lapley and Treizull.

Thos. Humphries, clerk, instituted to the vicarage of St.

Chadd in Salop, November 10th, 1775. Presented by King

George III. Vacant by the resignation of William Adams.
Deanery of Salop.

John Hallward, clerk, M.A., instituted to the vicarage of
Shawbury, co. Salop, Jan. 1st, 1776. Presented by Richard
Hill, esquire. Vacant by cession of James Stillingfleet. Deanery
of Salop.

George Whitmore, clerk, B.A., instituted to the rectory of
Quatt, co. Salop, June 12th, 1776. Presented by William
Whitmore, esquire. Vacant by resignation of Richard Dovey.
Deanery of Lapley and Treizull.

James Hallifax, clerk, D.D., instituted to the rectory of

Whitchurch, co. Salop, March nth, 1777. Presented by

Francis, Duke of Bridgewater. Vacant by cession of
Henry Kgerton. Deanery of Salop.

Michael Pye Stephens, clerk, instituted to the rectory of
Sheinton, . co. Salop, July 17th, 1777. Presented by Thos.
Stephens, esquire. Vacant by resignation of Robert Williams.
Deanery of Salop.

John Breck, clerk, M.A., instituted to the vicarage of
Ellesmere, co. Salop, 6th Sept., 1777. Presented by Francis,
Duke of Bridgewater. Vacant by death of Joshua Adams.
Deanery of Salop.

Stephen Panting, clerk, M.A., instituted to the rectory of
Wellington with Kyton annexed, co. of Salop, Jan. 17th, 177S.
Presented by Thos. Kyton, esquire. Vacant by resignation of
Thos. Warter. Deanery of Salop.

William Judgson, clerk, M.A., instituted to the rectory of
Ilinstock, co. Salop, Aug. 6th, 1 7 7 s . Presented by Jane Corbet,
of Adderley, spinster. Vacant by death ul Francis Probart
Deanery of Newport.

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William Pigott, clerk, EL.B., instituted to the rectory of
Edgmond, co. Salop, Feb. 25th, 1779. Presented by Robert
Pigott, of Ghetwynd, esquire. Vacant by death of William
Pigott. Deanery of Newport.

William Pigott, clerk, I.L.B., instituted to the rectory of
Chetwynd, co. Salop, Aug. 9th, 1779. Presented by Robert"
Pigott, esquire. Vacant by cession of the said William Pigott.
Deanery of Newport.

Henry Burton, clerk, B.A., instituted to the vicarage of
Atcham, co. Salop, 19th Dec, 1779. Presented by Robert
Burton, esquire. Vacant by resignation of John Tombes
Wingfield. Deanery of Salop.

Pile XLII. April 1780 — April 1785.

Francis Henry Egerton, clerk, M.A., instituted to the rectory
of Whitchurch, co. Salop, 24th Feb., 1781. Presented by the
Duke of Bridgewater. Vacant by the death of James Hallifax,
clerk. Deaner}' of Salop.

Edmund Dana, clerk, instituted to the rectory of Eaton
Constantine, co. Salop, 13th March, 1781. Presented by
committee of the estate of John Newport, esq., a lunatic.
Vacant by death of James Dewhurst, clerk. Deanery of Salop.

Edmund Dana, clerk, instituted to the rectory of Harley,
co. Salop, March 13th, 1781. Presented by a committee of the
estate of John Newport, esquire, a lunatic. Vacant by death of
James Dewhurst, clerk. Deanery of Salop.

Edmund Dana, clerk, instituted to the vicarage of Wroxeter,
co. Salop, March 17th, 1781. Presented by committee of the
estate of John Newport, esquire, a lunatic. Vacant by cession
of the said Edmund. Deanery of Salop.

Richard Watson, clerk, D.D., instituted to the rectory of
Kinnersley, co. Salop, 10th April, 1781. Presented by Bar]
Gower. Vacant by resignation of William Hinton, clerk.
Deanery of Newport.

John Mayor, clerk, B.A., instituted to the vicarage of
Shawbury, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop* 22tld Oct , 17M.
Vacant by cession of John Hallward. Presented by Richard
Hill, ol Hawkestone, co. Salop, esquire.

2oS INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

Henry Binfield, clerk, M.A., instituted to the vicarage of
Abrighton alias Albrighton, co. Salop, Dean ery of Newport,
12th Aug., 178c. Vacant by death of John Hale. Presented
by the Master and four Wardens of the Art or .Mystery of
Haberdashers in London.

William Oakeley, clerk, M.A., instituted to the vicarage of
St. Cross, co. Salop, 22nd Aug., 1782. Deanery of Salop.
Vacant by death of William Gorsueh. Presented by the King.

Henry Burton, clerk, B.A., instituted to the vicarage of
Atcham, co. Salop, deanery of Salop, 19th Sept., 1782. Vacant
by cession of the said Henry Burton. Presented by Robert
Burton, of Longnor, co. Salop, esquire.

John Rocke, clerk, M.A., instituted to the vicarage of
Wellington with the rector)- of Eyton upon the Wildmoors
annexed, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop and Newport, 17th of
Oct., 1782. Vacant by death of Stephen Panting. Presented
by Thos. Eyton, of Wellington, co. Salop, esquire.

Joshua Gilpin, clerk, instituted to the vicarage of Wrock-
erdine, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, 19th Dec, 1782. Vacant
by death of Stephen Panting. Presented by the King.

Osborne Wight, clerk, M.A., instituted to the vicarage of
Condover, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, 26th Feb., 1 7S3.
Vacant by death of Roger Barnston. Presented by Nicholas
Owen Smythe, a minor, by the advice and with the approbation
of Nicholas Smythe, esquire, his father and lawful guardian.

Thos. Stedmau, clerk, instituted to the vicarage of St. Chadd,
co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, 8th Dec, 1783, vacant by death of
Thomas Humphreys, clerk. Presented by King George III.

Henry Pleteher instituted to the rectory of Sinethcote,
co. Salop, Deanery of Salop. I Stll May, 1784, vacant by death
of David Rice. Presented by Ruth Lacy, of Shrewsbury, widow.

George Dickin, LL.B., instituted to the vicarage ofStaunton
upon Iline Heath, co, Salop, Deanery of Salop, isih June,
17S4, vacant by death of Thomas Hughes. Presented by
Andrew Corbet, of Moreton Corbet, co. Salop, esquire.

Brian Hill, M.A., instituted to the vicarage of I.opi>ington,
co. of S.ilop, Deanery of Salop, 19th Aug., 17s. j. v.u.mt by
death of Thomas Hughes. Presented by the King.

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File XLIII. April 1785— April 1790.

John Chappel Woodhouse instituted to tb ± rectory of
Donington, co. Salop, Deanery of Newport, 12th Nov., 1785,
vacant by resignation of the said J. C. Woodhouse, clerk.
Presented by Karl Gower.

Richard Mountford, clerk, instituted to the rectory of Ryton
alias Ruiton by Beckbury, co. Salop, Deanery of Newport,
10th Dec, 1785, vacant by the resignation of John Chappel
Woodhouse, clerk. Presented on the petition of the said
Richard Mountford, patron.

Richard Basnett, clerk, Lly.B., instituted to the vicarage of
Loppington, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, 7th Feb., 1786,
vacant by the resignation of Brian Hill, clerk. Presented
by King George III.

William Judgson, clerk, M.A., instituted to the vicarage of
Drayton in Hales, co. of Salop, Deanery of Newport, J8LI1
March, 1786, vacant by death of Samuel Burslem, clerk.
Presented by Corbet Corbet, Adderley Hall, co. Salop, esquire,
for this turn.

George Dickin, clerk, LL.B., instituted to the rectory of
Moreton Corbet, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, 13th of July,
1786, vacant by death of William Clark. Presented by
Andrew Corbet, of Moreton Corbet, esquire.

Laurence Dundass Henry Cokburne, clerk, instituted to the
rectory of Norton in Hales, co. Salop, Deanery of Newport,
14th of July, 1786, vacant by death of George Gretton. Pre-
sented by the King for this turn by reason of the lunacy of
William Cotton.

John Holme, clerk, instituted to the vicarage of Leigh ton,
co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, 19th October, 1786, vacant by
death of Stephen Prytherch. Presented by Thos. Prytheieh,
an infant (by and with the advice and approbation of
Mary Prytherch, widow, his mother and guardian) in full
right.

John Holme, clerk, instituted to the rectory of Sheinton. CO,
Salop, Deanery of Salop, 1st Jan. 17S7. vacant by Cession ot
Michael Pye Stephens, Presented by Thomas Stephens, ot
Broseley, co. Salop, esquire.

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INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

Rowland Chambre, clerk, A.M., instituted to the "rectory of
Berrington, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, June 6th, 1787,
vacant by death of Daniel Austin, clerk. Presented by Lord
Berwick.

Richard Mountford, clerk, instituted to the rectory of
Kemberton with the vicarage of Sutton Maddock annexed, cb.
Salop, Deanery of Newport, 12th July, 17S7, vacant by death of
George Baker, clerk. Presented by Plowden Slauey, of Hatton
Grange, co. Salop, esquire, the revd. Peter Broughton, of Market
Drayton, and Richard Corbet, of Shiffnal, both in co. Salop,
patrons appointed by deed 8th Feb., 1765.

John S my the, clerk, instituted to the vicarage of Condover,
co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, 5th Oct., 1787, vacant by the
cession of Osborne Wight, clerk. Presented by Nicholas
Owen Smythe, of Condover, a minor, by the advice, &c, of
Nicholas Smythe, esquire, his father and guardian.

Reginald Heber, clerk, M.A., instituted to the rectory of
Hodnett, co. Salop, Deanery of Newport, 23rd Nov., 1787,
vacant by death of Lord James Beauclerk. Presented by
Fysh Bnrgh, esq., representative of his late father John
Coppinger, surviving trustee of the last will ol Henrietta
Vernon, late of Hodnett, spinster, patron.

David Kvans, clerk, instituted to the vicarage of Ryton, co.
Salop, Deanery of Salop, 26th Sept. 1788, vacant by death of
David Owen. Presented by the King.

Thomas Goodinge, clerk, LL.D., instituted to the rectory
of Counde alias Cunde, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, 4th Feb.,
1789, vacant by death of William Adams, clerk. Presented by
Elizabeth Cressett, spinster.

Thos. Smith, clerk, instituted to the vicarage of EUesmere,
co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, 12th Oct., 17S9, vacant by death of
John Breck. Presented by the I hike of Bridgewater,

Edward Davenport, clerk, instituted to the vicarage of
Worfield, co. of Salop, Deanery of I.apley and Trei/nll. 17th
Jan., 1790, vacant by death of Henry Broinwich. Presented
by William Yelverton Davenport, of Davenport Mouse,
co. Salop, esquire.

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File XLIV. April 1790 to April 1795.

John Wingfield, B.A., instituted to the vicarage of Monfford,
co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, 28th June, 1780, presented by
Edward, Lord C.live. Vacant by death of Thos. Hauiuer.

Joseph Aldrich Cotton, M.A., instituted to the vicarage of
Kllismere, co. Salop, deanery of Salop, 24th Aug., 1790, pre-
sented by Francis, Duke of Bridgewater. Vacant by death of
Thomas Smith.

Edward Povvys, M.A., instituted to the rectory of Stapleton,
co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, 4th October, 1790, presented by
Sir Richard Hill, of Hawkestone, co. Salop, bt., patron for this
turn by virtue of a grant made to him by Thomas Jelfe Powys, of
Berwick, co. Salop, esquire. Vacant by death of Samuel Langley.

Roger Clayton, A.M., instituted to the rectory of Stirchley,
co. Salop, Deanery of Newport, 17th May, 1792, presented by
John Oakeley, of Fir Grove, Salop, and Samuel Sneade, of
Ludlow. Vacant by death of John Rogers.

William Judgson, A.M., instituted to the rectory of Adderley,
co. Salop, Deanery of Newport, 30th July, 1792, presented by
Henry Calveley Cotton, of Harley Street, London, esquire, for
this turn. Vacant by death of Robert Clive.

Richard Huntley, A.M., instituted to the vicarage of Idsall
alias Sheffnall, Deanery of Newport, co. Salop, 14th Feb., 1793,
presented by Richard Huntley, of Boxwell, Gloucester, clerk,
for this turn. Vacant by death of John Rogers.

John Pountney Stubbs, M.A., instituted to the vicarage of
Drayton in Hales, co. Salop, Deanery of Newport, 1st March,
1793, presented by Henry Calveley Cotton, of Harley Street,
London, esquire, patron for this turn. Vacant by cession of
William Judgson.

George Taylor, clerk, instituted to the rectory of I linstock,
co. Salop, Deanery of Newport, 5th March, 1793, presented by
Henry Calveley Cotton, of Harley Street, London, esquire, lor
this turn. Vacant by cession of William Judgson.

Henry Crump, instituted to the vicarage of Lcighton, co
Salop, Deanery of Salop, 3rd March, 1794, presented by
Thomas Hall, of Bridgnorth, Salop. Surgeon. Vacant h\
death of John Holme.

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Ralph Dovvnes, A.B., instituted to the rectory of Petton, eo.
Salop, Deanery of Salop, 8th May, 1794, presented by Che King.
Vacant by death of Thomas Roberts.

Nathaniel Hinde, instituted to the vicarage of Idsal, other-
wise ShifTnal, co. Salop, Deanery of Newport, 7th Nov.,
1794, presented by Henry, Lord Bradford and John Cotes,
esquire. Vacant by cession of Richard Huntley.

File XLV. April 1795 — April 1800.

23rd April, 1795, Archibald Alison, LL.B., instituted to the
vicarage of Krcal, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, vacant by death
of Henry Wood, presented by Sir William Pulteney, bt.

21st May, 1795, Richard Spearman, A.B., instituted to the
rectory of Preston upon Wildmore, co. Salop, Deanery of
Newport, vacant by death of Henry Wood, presented by
Charles, Karl of Mounteath, and Henry, Lord Bradford, for
this turn.

22nd Oct., 1795. Thos. Lloyd, A.M., instituted to the vicarage
of Albrighton, co. Salop, Deanery of Newport, vacant by death
of Henry Binfield, presented by the Master and four Wardens
of Haberdashers in London.

10th May, 1796, Richard Mountfort, instituted to the rectory
of Stockton, co. Salop, Deanery of Newport, vacant by death
of Henry Whitmore, presented by Thos. Whitmore, of Apley,
Salop, esquire.

1st Aug., 1796, Richard Slaney, A.M., instituted to the
rectory of Kemberton with Sutton Maddock vicarage, co.
Salop, Deanery of Newport, vacant by cession of Richard
Mountfort, presented by revd. Peter Broughtou, of Tunstall,
Stafford, and Richard Corbett, of Idsal, Salop, gentleman.

5U1 Sept., 1796, Townsend Forester, A.B., instituted to the
rectory of Sheinton, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, vacant
by death of John Holme, presented by John Stephens, of
Bridgnorth, Salop, esquire.

3rd Nov., 1796, Joseph Dickenson Nickliu. A.M., instituted

to the rectory of Ryton, co. Salop, Deanery of Newport, vacant
by resignation of Richard Mountfort, p reseated i>\ G
MolineilX, of Wolverhampton, esquire.

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17th Dec, 1796, Francis Meeks, A.M., instituted to the
vicarage of Frees, co. Salop, Deanery of Sa1op, vacant by
death of Richard Jackson, collated by the Bishop.

27th Feb., 1797, George Scott, instituted to the rectory of
Berrington, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, vacant by death of
Rowland Chambre, presented by Thos. Noel Hill, Lord -
Berwick.

26th Aug., 1797, Forester Leighton, A.B., instituted to the
vicarage of Condover, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, vacant by
death of John Smythe, presented by Nicholas Owen Stnythe
Owen, of Condover Park, esquire.

nth Sept., 1797, Francis Henry Kgerton, A.M., instituted to
the rectory of Middle, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, vacant by
death of Richard Smith, presented by Duke of Bridgewater.

30th January, 1798, George Fieldhouse Molineux, A.B.,
instituted to the rectory of Ryton, co. Salop, Deanery of
Newport, vacant by resignation of Joseph Dickenson Nicklin,
presented by George Molineux, esquire.

21st May, 1798, Sir John Thomas Cholmondley Edwards, bt.,
A.B., instituted to the rectory of Frodsley, co. Salop, Deanery
of Salop, vacant by death of Sir Thos. Edwards, bt., collated
by the Bishop by reason of lapse of time.

10th Aug., 1798, Thos. Crane Johnstone, A.M., instituted to
the vicarage of Worfield, co. Salop, Deanery of Lapley and
Treizull, vacant by cession of Edward Davenport, presented
by William Yelverton Davenport, esquire, of Davenport
House, Salop.

7th December, 1798, Charles Walcot, A.M., instituted to
the rectory of Pilchford, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, vacant
by death of Adam Ottley, presented by Thos. Oltle\ . <>f%
Pitchford, esquire.

3rd January, 1799, Richard Parkes, A.B., instituted to the
vicarage of Loppington, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, vacant
by death of Richard Basnett, presented by the King.

25th Jan., 1799, Archibald Alison, A.M., instituted to the
rectory of Rodington, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, vacant
by death oi Charles Wylde, presented by the King.

304 INSTITUTIONS OK SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS.

6th Feb., 1799, Hon. Richard Hill, A.M., instituted to the
rector)' of Berrington, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, vacant by
resignation of George Scott, presented by Lord Berwick.

3rd Jan., 1800, William Smith, A.M., instituted to the
vicarage of Worfield, co. Salop, Deanery ol Lapley and
Treizull, vacant by death of Thus, Crane Johnstone, presented
by William Yelverton Davenport, esquire.

File XLVI. April 1800 — April 1805.

10th June, 1800, Thos. Presland, LL.B., instituted to the
vicarage of Baschurch, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop, vacant by
death of Robert Jeffreys, presented by the King.

20th Oct., 1800, George Martin, instituted to the vicarage of
Ness Magna otherwise Nestrange, co. Salop, Deanery of Salop,
vacant by death of Thos. Parry, presented by the King.

FIRST FRUITS. BISHOPS' CERTIFICATES.

Diocese of Hereford,
co. Salop.

Fjle XXXI. October 1759— October 1764.

On nth Feb., 1760, the Hon. John Harley, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the Archdeaconry of Salop, void by the death of
Egerton Leigh, clerk, D.LI., collated by the Bishop.

On the same day Francis Edwardes, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Greet, Deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by J
the resignation of Thomas Edwardes, clerk, presented by Sir
Henry Edwardes, bt.

On 7th Oct., 1760, John Fletcher, clerk, was admitted to the
vicarage of Madeley, Deanery of Wcnlock, co. Salop, void by
the cession of Rowland Chamhre, clerk, presented by Edward
Kynaston, esquire, and instituted.

On 3rd April, 1761, John Baldwin, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Corely, Deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void
by the (hath of Andrew Baldwin, clerk, presented by Frances
Baldwin, widow, and instituted.

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On 19th August, 1761, Thos. Devey, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Silvington, Deanery of Ludlow, co. Salop, void
by the death of Andrew Baldwin, clerk, presented by~Thos.
Hill, of Court of Hill, esquire, and instituted.

On the 15th May, 1762, William Pemberton, clerk, M.A.,
was admitted to the rectory of Rushbury, Deanery of Weulockr
co. Salop, void by the death of Thos. Stonsleigh, clerk,
presented by Elizabeth Cressett of Cund, co. Salop, spinster,
and instituted.

On 5th June, 1762, William Smith, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Hope Baggott, Deanery of Ludlow, co. Salop,
void by the death of Henry Butler, clerk, collated by the
Bishop of Hereford, patron for this turn by lapse of time, and
instituted.

On 31st July, 1762, Richard Morgan, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Clungunford, Deanery of Chin,
co. Salop, void by the death of Thos. Evans, clerk, presented
by Henry Arthur, Earl Powys, Hugh Owen of Woodhouse,
co. Salop, esquire, and John Davies of the town of Shrewsbury,
gentleman, surviving devisees in trust named in the will of
Richard Rocke, of Trefnanny, co. Mont., esquire, and
instituted.

On 14th Oct., 1762, John Harding, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Chirbury, Deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop,
void by the cession of Richard Morgan, clerk, presented by
the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Shrewsbury and
Charles Newling, clerk, head schoolmaster of the Free
Grammar School in the town of Shrewsbury, and instituted.

On 18U1 Oct. aforesaid William Smith, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Hope Baggott, Deanery of Ludlow,
co. Salop, void by the resignation of the last incumbent
presented by William, Earl of Bath, committee of the estates
of John Newport, esquire, now under a state of insanity, and
was instituted.

On 2nd Nov. 1762, Thos. Rocke, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Ludlow, CO, Salop, void by the resignation of
Nicholas Herbert, clerk, presented by King George III,, and
instituted.

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On 8th Nov. aforesaid Edward Poole, clerk, M.A., was '
admitted to the rectory of Munslow, Deanery of Wenlock,
co. Salop, void by the cession of Thomas Powys, clerk,
presented by Thos. Powys, of Lilford, co. Northampton,
esquire, and instituted.

On 28th Dec, 1762, Joshua Piatt, cle^k, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Sutton, near Salop, Deanery of Pontesbury,
co. Salop, void by the resignation of Thos. Fewtrell, clerk,
presented by Herbert Mackworth, of Neath, co. Glam.,
esquire, and instituted.

On 16th June, 1763, Joseph Ball, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Ditton Priors, Deanery of Stottesdon, co.
Salop, void by the death of William Rutter, clerk, presented
by Charles Holland, of Cleobury Mortimer, co. Salop,
gentleman, and instituted.

On 27th Oct., 1763, Stephen Panting, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Chelmarsh, Deanery of Stottesdon,
co. Salop, void by the death of William Rutter, clerk, presented
by Sir John Seabright, bt., and instituted.

On 1st Nov., 1763, Thos. Parry, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Hanwood, Deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop,
presented by George Smyth, the younger, of Nibley, co.
Gloucester, esquire, and instituted.

On 19th Dec. 1763, David Pritchard, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of the third portion of the parish
of Ponsbury otherwise Pontesbury, Deanery of Pontesbury, co.
Salop, void by the resignation of Roger Barnston, clerk,
presented by Sir Richard Corbett, of Longner, co. Salop,
baronet, Godolphin Kdwards, of Frodgley, co. Salop, esquire,
and Thos. Hill, of Team, co. of Salop, esquire, devisees named
in the will of Letitia Barnston, deceased, and instituted.

On the 10th February, 1764, Roger Baiiuston, clerk, M.A.,
was admitted to the Rectory of ilie first portion of the parish
church of Ponsbury otherwise Pontesbury Deanery of Pontes-
bury, co. Salop, void by the death of Benjamin Wingfield,
clerk, presented by Sir Richard Corbelt, baronet (etc. as next
above).

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307

On 19th Sept., 1764, William Pugh, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the Rectory of Shelve, Deanery of Pontesbnry, co. Salop,
void by the death of William Sneade, clerk, presented by
Robert More, of Linley, co. Salop, esquire, and instituted.

On 25th Sept, 1764, John Hawkins, the younger, clerk, M.A.,
was admitted to the rectory of Bedstone, 'Deanery of Clun,. co.
Salop, void by the death of William Snead, clerk, presented
by Samuel Snead, clerk, rector of Snead, co. Mont., and
instituted.

File XXXII. Oct. 1764 to Oct. 1769.

On 27th Nov., 1764, George Kimber, clerk, D.LI, was
admitted to the rectory of Wistanstow, Deanery of Ludlow, co.
Salop, void by the death of Joseph Dixton, clerk, presented by
Fuller, Lord Craven, and instituted.

On 29th Nov. aforesaid, Charles Newling, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the second portion of the rectory and parish
church of Ponsbury otherwise Pontesbury, Deanery of
Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the death of William Dale,
clerk, presented by Richard Corbett, of Longner. co. Salop,
baronet, Thomas Hill, of Terne, co, Salop, esquire, and
Godolphin Edwards, esquire, trustees in the will of Letitia
Barnston, late of Condover, co. Salop, deceased, for and on
behalf of Anna Maria Leighton, spinster, an infant under 21
years, grand-daughter and devisee of the said Letitia, the true
patroness thereof, and he was instituted rector in the same.

On 19th March, 1765, John Atwood, the younger, clerk,
B.A., was admitted to the rectory of Wheathill, Deanery of
Stottesdon, co. Salop, void by the death of Thos. Taylor, clerk,
presented by Bernard Holland, of Burwarton, co. Salop, esquire,
and instituted.

On the same day, John Attwood, the younger, clerk, B.A.,
was admitted to the rectory of Burwarton, Deanery of
Stottesdon, co. Salop, void by the death of Thomas Taylor,
clerk, presented by Bernard Holland, of Burwarton, co. Salop,
esquire, and instituted.

On the 1 2th April, 1765, Edmund Pryce, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Upton Cressett. Deanery of

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Stottesdon, co. Salop, void by the death of Thos. Taylor, clerk,,
presented by Elizabeth Cressett, of Counde, eo. Salop, spinster,
and instituted.

On 19th April aforesaid, Edward Baugh, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Ribbsford otherwise Wribbesford,
with the chapel of Bewdley thereunto annexed, in the Deanery
of Burford, co. Salop, void by the death of Thomas Knight,
clerk, presented by Arthur, Earl of Powis, and instituted.

On the 24th July in the year aforesaid John Hawkins, the
younger, clerk, M.A., was admitted to the rectory of Wortheu,
Deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the resignation of
John Hawkins, the elder, clerk, presented by Francis Leighton,
of Queen's Square, Bloomsbury, London, esquire, lieutenant-
general of His Majesty's Forces, and instituted.

On 20th Sept. in the year aforesaid, Charles Grainger, clerk,
M.A., was admitted to the vicarage of Alberbury, Deanery of
Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the cession of Bryan Fausett,
clerk, presented by the Sub-Warden (in the absence of the
Warden) and College of All Souls, Oxford, and instituted.

On the 14th of Nov. 1765, Henry Rowland Berkley, clerk,
was admitted to the rectory of Onibury, Deanery of Ludlow,
co. Salop, void by the cession of George Kimber, clerk, D.LI.,
collated by the bishop for this turn by reason of the lapse of
time, and instituted.

On the 3rd March, 1766, Robert Clive, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Chin, Deanery of Clun, co. Salop,
void by the death of Humphry Walcott. clerk, presented by
Lady Margaret Clive, wife of Robert, Lord Clive, Richard Clive,
of Lower Grosvenor Street, George Clive, of Bedford Row,
Henry Clive, of Berkeley Square, John Walsh, of Chesterfield
Street, and John Kelsall of Berkeley Square, co. Midd., esquires,
trustees of Robert, Lord Clive, and instituted.

On the 18th July, in the year aforesaid, Evan Humphreys,
Jerk, B. L1-, was admitted to the rectory of Clungunnus other-
wise Claugunus otherwise C.luugunford, Deanery of Clun, co.
Salop, void by the death of Ric hard Morgan, clek, presented
to John Rocke, of Trefnany, co. Mont., esquire, and instituted.

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On 26th Aug., 1767, Charles Edmund Wyide, clerk, B.U.
was admitted to the united rectories of Chetton, Deuxhill and
Glazely, Deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop, void by the cession
of the last incumbent, presented by Thomas Wilde, of Belle
View. co. Som., esquire, and instituted.

On 18th Feb., 1768, John Bishop Humphreys, clerk, M.A.,
was admitted to the rectory of Greet, Deanery of^Burford, co.
Salop, void by the death of Francis P^dwards, clerk, presented
by Sir Thos. Edwards, of Gerrard Street, parish of St. Anne,
Soho, Miud., bt., and instituted.

On 8th March, 176S, Thos. Warter, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Cieobury North, Deanery of
Stottesdon, co. Salop, vacant by the death of Richard Adney,
clerk, to which he was admitted on the petition of the said
Thos. Warter and Anna Maria Warter, his wife, formerly
Adney, daughter and sole heiress of the said Richard Adney,
deed., patrons, and instituted.

On the same day the said Thomas Warter, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Hope Bowdler, Deanery of Wenlock,
co. Salop, vacant by the death of [? the last incumbent, pre-
sented by] John Stanier, of Uppiugton, co. Salop, gentleman,
and instituted.

On 22nd June, 1768. Edward Harris, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Hanwood, Deanery of Pontesbury,
co. Salop, void by the resignation of Thos. Parry, clerk,
presented by George Smith, of Nibley, co. Gloucester, esquire,
and instituted.

On 5th Sept., 1768, Evan Evans, clerk, was admitted to the
rectory of Silvington, Deanery of Ludlow, co. Salop, void by
the death of Thos. Devey, clerk, presented by Thos. Hill, of
Court of Hill, parish of Bnrford, co. Salop, esquire, and
instituted.

On 2nd Feb., 1769, Robert Clive. clerk, M.A.. was admitted
to the Archdeaconry of Salop, void by the resignation of the
Hon. John Harley, clerk, collated by the Bishop, and
instituted.

On 26th April, 1769, Thos. Hodges, clerk, M A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Brom field. Deaueiy ot l.udlow,

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co. Salop, void by the death of Rowland Baugh, clerk,
presented by Henry Arthur, Karl of Pow is, and instituted.

On nth May, 1769, Sir John Button Colt, bt., clerk, was
admitted to the rectory of Cold Weston, Deanery of Ludlow,
co. Salop, void by the death of Rowland Baugh, clerk,
presented by Somerset Davies, of Ludlow, esquire, and
instituted.

On 1 st Sept., 1769, Edward Harries, clerk, ALA., was
admitted to the vicarage of Cleobury Mortimer, Deanery of
Burford, co. Salop, void by the death of John Atwood, clerk,
presented, by Charles Baldwyn, esquire, and Catherine
Baldwyn, wife of the said Charles, of Kinlet, co. Salop, and
instituted.

On 24th Sept., 1769, Edward Leighton, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the second portion of the rectory of Ponsbury
otherwise' Pontesbury, Deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop, void
by the resignation of Charles Newling, clerk, presented by
Nicholas Smyth, of Condover, co. Salop, esquire, and Anna
Maria, his wife, late Anna Maria Leighton, granddaughter
and devisee of Eetitia Barnston, deceased, patrons thereof,
and instituted.

File XXXIII. Oct. 1769 to Oct. 1774.

On iSth Jan., 1770, George Hodges, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of YVolstaston, Deanery of Wenlock,
co. Salop, void by the death of Thos. Bradburne, clerk,
presented by Sir Thomas Whitmore, K.B., and instituted.

On 15th May, 1770, John Purcell, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Sidbury, Deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop, void
by the death of William Hale, clerk, to which he petitioned
to be admitted, asserting himself to be the true patron thereof,
and he was duly instituted rector.

On 1 2th Aug., 1770, James Bowles, clerk, B.IJ., was
admitted to the rectory of th : third portion of the parish
church of Burford, Deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by the
death of William Hale, clerk, presented by Humphry Howies,
of the parish of Burford, esquire, and instituted.

On yyth September, 1770, James liowleS, clerk, was ad llitted

to the rectory of the first portion of the parish church of

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Burford, Deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by the resignation
of Jonathan Green, clerk, presented by Humphry Bowles, of
Burford, esquire, and instituted.

On the same day Jonathan Green, clerk, B.L,1., was admitted
to the rectory of the second portion of the parish church of
Burford, Deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by the resignation
ofThos. Littleton, clerk, presented by Humphry Bowles, of
Burford, esquire, and instituted.

On 21st Sept., 1777, John Stanier, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Hope Bowdler, Deanery of Wenlock, co.
Salop, void by the resignation of Thomas Warter, clerk,
presented by John Stanier, of Uppington, co. Salop, gentleman,
and instituted.

On 21st Dec, 1771, John Purcell, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Sidbury, Deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop,
void by the resignation of the last incumbent, presented by
John Purcell, clerk, and instituted.

On the 9th March, 1772, Daniel Price, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Holgate, Deanery of Wenlock, co.
Salop, void by the death of Samuel Fowler, clerk, to which he
was collated by the bishop, and instituted.

On 8th May, 1772, Charles Newling, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of the dexter part of the parish church
of Westbury, Deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the
death of Thomas Lyster, clerk, presented by Nicholas Smyth,
of Condover, co. Salop, esquire, and Anna Maria, his wife,
grand-daughter and devisee of Letitia Barnstou, deceased, the
patrons thereof, and instituted.

On nth June, 1772, Samuel Sneade, clerk, B.LI., was
admitted to the rectory of the parish church of Bedstone,
Deanery of Clun, co. Salop, void by the resignation of
John Hawkins, clerk, presented by Samuel Sneade, of Shu WS-
bury, clerk, and instituted.

On the 22nd June, 1772, John PhillippS, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Stoke St. Milboiough with t'.ie
chapel of the rectory of the Heath thereunto annexed, Deanery

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of Ludlow, co. Salop, void by the death of John Pearce, clerk,
presented by William Pearce Hall, es mire, and instituted
vicar in the same.

On 20th Oct., 1772, Thomas Baines, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Richard's Castle, Deanery of Ludlow,
counties of Hereford and Salop, void by the death of Richard
Pritchett, clerk, presented by James, Bishop of Worcester, by
virtue of his bishopric, and instituted.

On 26th July, 1774, Herbert Wilde, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Aston, Deanery of Cluu, co. of Salop, void by
the death of James Bey 11011, clerk, presented by Somerset Davies,
of Wigmore, co. Hereford, esquire, and instituted.

On 6th Aug., 1774, Thomas Williams, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Tugford, Deanery of Wenlock, co.
Salop, void by the resignation of James Pratchet, clerk, to
which he was collated by the bishop, and instituted.

File XXXIV. Oct. 1774 to Oct. 1779.
On 30th Jan., 1775, Neville Maskelyne, clerk, was admitted
to the rectory of Shrawardine otherwise Shraden, Deanery of
Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the death of John Forster, D.D.,
presented by Edward, Lord Clive, Baron of Plassey, and
instituted.

On 4th Feb., 1775, Richard Davies, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Cardiston otherwise Cardestou otherwise
Carston, Deanery of Pontesbury, co. of Salop, void by the
death of Thomas Gongh, clerk, presented by Sir Charlton
Leighton, late of Loton, co. Salop, but now of Imley Park, co.
Northt., bt., and instituted.

On 20th April, 1775, Iidinund Dana, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Aston Botterell, Deaneiy of Stottesdon, co. Salop,
void by the death of Nehetniah Jenks, clerk, presented by
William Pulteney, of Haiti House, parish of St. George,
Hanover Square, Midd , esquire, committee of the estate ol
John Newport, esquire, a lunatic, and instituted.

On 3rd Aug., 1775, Robert Taylor, clerk, M.A.. was admitted

to the rectory of Shelve, Deanery of Pontesbury, CO. Salop,
void by the death of William I'llgll, clerk, presented by
Robert More, of Liuley, co. Salop, esquire, and instituted.

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On iSth Aug., 1775, Edward Leighton, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Cardeston, Deanery of Pontesbury,
co. Salop, void by the death of Richard Davies, clerk, pre-
sented by Charlton Leighton, esquire, and instituted.

On 30th Aug., 1775, Edward Leighton, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the second portion of the rectory of Pontesbury,
Deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the cession of the
last incumbent, presented by Nicholas Smyth, esquire, and
Anna Maria Smyth, his wife, and instituted.

On 6th Sept., 1775, Edward Harwood, clerk, M.A.. was
admitted to the rectory of Sutton near Salop, Deanery of
Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the resignation of Joshua
Piatt, clerk, presented by Thos. Hill, of Shrewsbury, co. Salop,
esquire, and instituted.

On 9th Nov., 1775, James Pratchet, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Holgate, Deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop, void
by the resignation of Daniel Price, clerk, to which he was
collated by the Bishop, and instituted.

On 15th May, 1776, Robert Taylor, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of More (Moor), Deanery of Clun, co. Salop, void
by the death of Thos. Hazlewood, clerk, presented by Robert
More, of Linley, co. Salop, esquire, and instituted.

On 16th May, 1776, John Harding, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Middleton Scriven, Deanery of Stottesdon,
co. Salop, void by the death of John Reynolds, clerk, presented
by Thos. Rowley, of Broseley, co. Salop, surgeon, and instituted.

On the same day, Richard Powell, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Munslow, Deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop,
void by the death of Edward Poole, clerk, presented by Thos.
Powell, gentleman, and instituted.

On 7th June, 1776, John Bate, clerk, was admitted to the
vicarage of Cainham, Deanery of Ludlow, co. Salop, void by
the death of Edward Poole, jlerk, presented by Joseph
Oldham, of Hopton Court, co. Salop, esquire, and instituted.

On 15th Aug., 1776, William Stratum Uddiard, cleric, M A.,
was admitted to the vicarage of Stannlon I.acv, Deanery of
Ludlow, co. Salop, void by the death ol William Sllcppard,
clerk, presented by William, Lord Craven, and instituted.

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On 24th Oct., 1776, John Harding, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Chirbnry, Deanery of Pontesbury,
co. Salop, void by the cession of the last incumbent, presented
by the Mayor, etc., of Shrewsbury, and James Atcherley,
clerk, head schoolmaster of the Free Grammar School in
Shrewsbury, patrons, and instituted.

On 7th April, 1777, Michael Pye Stephens, clerk, was
admitted to the rectory of Hughley, Deanery of Wenlock,
co. Salop, void by the death of William Corfield, clerk,
presented by Sir Henry Bridgeman, bt., and instituted.

On 15th May, 1777, George Neehell, clerk, was admitted to
the vicarage of Highley otherwise Higley, Deanery of
Stottesdon, co. Salop, void by the resignation of John Fleming,
clerk, Doctor of Laws, presented by the said John Fleming,
patron, and instituted.

On 13th June, 1777, Thos. Moses Lyster, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Billingsley, Deanery of Stottesdon,
co. Salop, void by the death of John Lloyd, clerk, presented
by William Pulteney, of Bath House, parish of St. George,
Hanover Square, Midd., esquire, committee of the estate ot
John Newport, lunatic, and instituted.

On 18th June, 1777, Francis Kinchant, clerk, B. L1-, was
admitted to the vicarage of Stokesay, Deanery of Ludlow, co.
Salop, void by the death of William Williams, clerk, presented
by Thos. Lloyd and Robert Pardoe, of Lincoln's Inn,
gentleman, the devisees under the will of Lucius Henry
Hibbins, clerk, deceased, and instituted.

On 9th July, 1777, William Taylor, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Kasthope, Deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop, void
by the death of William Corfield, clerk, presented by William
Lutwyche, esquire, and Mrs. Sarah Win ford, and instituted.

On 3rd Sept., 1777, MichaoJ Pye Stephens, clerk, was
admitted to the rectory of Hughley, Deanery of Wenlock, CO.
Salop, void by the neglect or default of the- said Michael Pye
Stephens, the last incumbent, in not conforming to t lie
Several acts of Uniformity now in force, to which 111 was
presented by Sir Henry llridgeman, bt., and instituted

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On 9th Oct., 1777, Isaac Frowd, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Bishop's Castle, Deanery of Clun, co. Salop,
void by the death of John Roos Waring, clerk, presented by
Edward, Lord Clive, and instituted.

On 10th Oct., 1777, John Witts, clerk, was admitted to the
vicarage of Cardington, Deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop, void
by the death of Francis Southerne, clerk, presented by
Rowland Hunt, of Boreatton, esquire, and instituted.

On 6th Nov., 1777, Jonathan Green, clerk, B. LI., was
admitted to the vicarage of Cainham, Deanery of Ludlow,
co. Salop, void by the death of John Bate, clerk, presented by
Joseph Oldham, of Hopton Court, parish of Hopton Wafers,
co. Salop, esquire, and instituted.

On 26th Nov., 1777, Jonathan Green, clerk, was admitted
to the rectory of the second portion of the parish church of
Burford, Deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by the cession 01
the last incumbent, presented by Humphry Bowies, of the
parish of Burford, esquire, and instituted.

On 1st April, 1778, John Bather, clerk, was admitted to the
vicarage of Brace Meole, Deanery of Ponte^bury, co. Salop,
void by the death of John Allen, clerk, presented by John
Bather, gentleman, and instituted.

On 6th April, 1778, Herbert Oakeley, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Hopton Castle, Deanery of Cluu,
co. Salop, void by the death of Robert Pembertou, clerk,
presented by Thos. Beale, and instituted.

On nth June, 177S, James Atcherley, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Lydbury North with the chapel of
Norbury annexed, Deanery of Cluu, co. Salop, void by the
death of Herbert Oakeley, clerk, presented by Andrew GrilTiths,
Surgeon of His Majesty's Ship The Guadaloupe, and instituted.

On 12th June, 177S, Thos. Nash, clerk, B.D.. was admitted to
the vicarage of Chelmarsh, Deaueiy of Stottesdon, co. Salop,
void by the cession of Stephen Panting, clerk, presented by
Sir John Sebright, of Beeehwood, co. Hartford, bt., and
- instituted.

On 23rd June, 1778, William Thames, clerk, B A., v a>
admitted to the vicarage of Albei bin y. Deaiierj of FontesbUT] .

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•co. Salop, void by the death of Charles Grainger, clerk, j
presented by the Warden and College of Ml Souls, Oxford, and
instituted.

On 24th June, 1778, John Hem us, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Beckbury, Deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop,
void by the death of John Hayle, D.D., presented by- King
•George III. and instituted.

On 10th Aug., 1778, Herbert Oakeley, clerk, M.A„ was
admitted to the rectory of Lydham otherwise Ledom,^Deanery
of Clun, co. Salop, void by the death oi Herbert Oakeley,
clerk, presented by John Oakley, esquire, and instituted.

On 20th Aug., 1778, Morgan Jones, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Willey, Deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop, void by
the death of John Haile, D.D., presented by George Forester,
•of the parish of Willey, esquire, and instituted.

On 21st Oct., 1778, Joseph Morris, clerk, was admitted Lo the
rectory of Tasley, Deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop, void by
the death of John Shuker, clerk, presented by Mary White, of
Bridgnorth, co. Salop, widow and administratrix of John White,
late of Bridgnorth, gent., deceased, and instituted.

On the 19th Nov., 1778, Myles Cooper, clerk, D.LI., was
admitted to the vicarage of Neen Savage, Deanery of Stottesdon,
co. Salop, void by the death of Thomas Howard, clerk, pre-
sented by Kiug George III., and instituted.

On 30th May, 1779, Edward Northey, clerk, was admitted to
the vicarage of Cleobury Mortimer, Deanery of Bur ford, co.
Salop, void by the resignation of Edward Harries, clerk,
presented by William Childe, of Kinlet, co. Salop, esquire, and
instituted.

On the same day, John Roeke, clerk, B.A., was admitted to
the rectory of Clungunford, Deanery of Clun, co. Salop, void
by the resignation of Evan Humphreys, clerk, presented by
John Rocke, of Trefnanny, co. Mont., esquire, and instituted.

On 22nd July, 1778, Richard Garrard, clerk. B.A., was a i-
mitted to the vicarage of Staunton Lacy, Deanery of Ludlow,
co. vSalop, void by the death of William Stiat^on Liddiaid.
clerk, collated by the Bishop, patron for this turn by u .1 oil of
the lapse of time, and instituted,

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On 3rd Nov. 1779, William Jesse, clerk, B.A. was admitted to
the rectory of Dowles, Deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by
the death of Butler Cowper, clerk, presented by Henry Morley
Herbert, of Droxford, co. Hants, and instituted.

On 15th March, 1780, Edward Baldwin, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Abdon, Deanery of Wenlock, co.
Salop, void by the death of John Collier, clerk, presented by
John Brooke, of Haughton, co. Salop, clerk, and instituted.

On 27th March, 1780, Thomas Russell, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Long Staunton, Deanery of
Wenlock, co. Salop, void by the death of Charles Hicks, clerk,
presented by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, and instituted.

On 23rd May, 1780, Lewis Williams, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Woolstaston, Deanery of Wenlock, co, Salop,
void by the death of George Hodges, clerk, presented by
Thomas Whitmore, of Apley, co. Salop, esquire, and instituted.

On 29th May, 1780, James Chelsum, D.D., was admitted to
the rectory of Badger alias Bagsore, Deanery of Wenlock, co.
Salop, void by the death of Thomas Hartshorne, clerk, to
which he was presented (on the nomination of Hawkins
Browne, esquire) by King George III., patron thereof in full
right, and he was instituted rector into the same.

On 21st June, 1780, John Cooke, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the rectory oi Wentnor, Deanery of Clun, co. Salop, void by
the death of George Hodges, clerk, presented by the Dean
and Chapter of Oxford, and instituted.

On 1st Aug., 1780, Richard ' Wilding, clerk. M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Kasthope, Deanery of Wenlock,
co. Salop, void by the death of William Taylor, clerk,
presented by William Ivtitwyche, of Lutwyche, co. Salop,
esquire, and instituted.

On 16th January, 1781, John Glascott, clerk. B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Acton Scott, Deanery of Wenlock,
co. Salop, void by the death of John Fleming, clerk, D. 1,1..
presented by John Stackhouse, of Peudarves, co. Iftruwatl,
esquire, and instituted.

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On 4th June, 1781, Thos. Warter, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Aston Botterell, Deanery of Stottesdon, co.
Salop, void by the cession of the last incu ubent, presented by
William Pulteney, of Bath House, parish of St. George,
Hanover square, esquire, committee of the estate of John
Newport, esquire, a lunatic, and instituted.

On 7th Sept., 1 781, Abraham Rudd, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Diddlebury, Deanery of Ludlow,
co. Salop, void by the death of Robert Watkins, clerk,
presented by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, and instituted.

On 1st Oct., 1781, John Pyefinch, clerk, was admitted to the
rectory of Pulverbatch, Deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop,
void by death of John Kyton, clerk, presented by Nicholas
Owen Smythe, of Condover, co. Salop, esquire (by and with
the advice and approbation of Nicholas Smythe, of Condover,
esquire, his father and guardian), and instituted.

On 29th Nov., 1781, Edward Northey, clerk, M.A.. was
admitted to the vicarage of Kinlet, Deanery of Stottesdon,
co. Salop, void by the death of Robert Watkins, clerk,
presented by William Childe, of Kinlet, esquire, and instituted.

On 12th Dec, John Smythe, clerk, was admitted to the
rectory of the left part of Westbury, Deanery of Pontesbury,
co. Salop, void by the death of John Eyton, clerk, presented
by Nicholas Owen Smythe, of Condover, co. Salop, esquire,
(by the advice and approbation of Nicholas Smythe, of
Condover, esquire, his father and guardian) patron thereof,
and instituted.

On 13th June, 1782, George'Nugent, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Worthen, Deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop,
void by the death of John Hawkins, clerk, presented by
Charlotte Leighton and Frances J,eighton, of Wimpole Street,
Cavendish Square, co. Midd., Spinsters, and patronesses, and
instituted.

On 4th July, 1782, George James Kdmonds, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Clun, Deanery of Chin, co. Salop,
void by the resignation of Robert Clive, clerk, presented by
Edward, I,ord Clive, and instituted.

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On Au^ , : 7 m . Isaac F:cwd. clerk. M.A.. wis s.dmitied
to the rectory ofShrawardine, Deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop,
void by the cession of Nevil Maskelyne, D.D., presented by
Edward, Lord Clive, and instituted.

On 29th Aug., 17S2, John Smythe, clerk, was admitted to the
rectory of Sutton near Salop, Deanery of Pontesbury, co.
Salop, void by the death of Edward Harwood, clerk, presented
by Noel Hill, of Tern, co. Salop, esquire, and instituted.

On the same day, John Smythe, clerk, was admitted to the
rectory of Westbury on the left part, Deanery of Pontesbury,
co. of Salop, void by the resignation of the last incumbent,
presented by Nicholas Owen Smythe, of Condover, co. Salop,
esquire (by the advice and approbation of Nicholas Smythe, of
Condover, esquire, his father and guardian) patron thereof,
and instituted.

On 30th Oct., 17S2, John Jones, clerk, was admitted to the
rectory of Hanwood, Deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop, void
by the resignation of Edward Harries, clerk, and instituted.

On 4th March, 1783, Osborne Wight, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of the first portion of the parish church
of Pontesbury, Deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the
death of Roger Barnston, clerk, presented by Nicholas Owen
Smythe, of Condover, esquire, a minor (by and with the advice
and approbation of Nicholas Smythe, esquire, his father and
guardian) and instituted.

On 23rd July, 17S3, Edward Whitehurst, clerk. B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Hopton-wafers, Deanery of Burford,
co. Salop, void by the death of Robert Edwards, clerk, pre-
sented by Thos. Whitehurst, of the parish of Chirk, co.
Denbigh, gent., and instituted.

On 18th Nov., 1783, James Ingram, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of the third portion of the parish church of
Burford, Deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by the death of
James Bowles, clerk, presented by Humphrey Bowles, of
Wanstead, co. Essex, and instituted.

On nth December, 1783, Jonathan Green, clerk, D. El. was
admitted to the rectory of the Inst portion of the parish church

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of Burford, Deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by the death of
James Bowles, clerk, presented by Humphrey Bowles, of
Waustead, co. Essex, and instituted.

On ioth March, 1784, Richard King, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Worthen, Deanery of Pontesbury,
co. Salop, void by the cession of George Nugent, clerk, pre-
sented by John Gascoigne Fanshaw, of Bedford Row,
co, Midd., esquire, and instituted.

File XXXVI. Oct. 17S.4— Oct. 1789.
On the 18th Feb., 1785, Thos. Rocke, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Silvington, Deanery of Lualow,
co. Salop, void by the death of Evan Evans, clerk, presented
by Lucy Hill, of Court of Hill, widow, and instituted.

On 22nd Aug., 1785, Edward Kynaston, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the vicarage and parish church of Madeley,
Deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop, void by the death of
John Fletcher, clerk, presented by Roger Kynaston, of
Hardwick, co. Salop, esquire, and instituted.

On 26th June, 1786, Henry Burton, clerk, B. A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Madeley, Deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop,
void by the resignation of Edward Kynaston, clerk, presented
by Roger Kynaston, esquire, and instituted.

On 5th July, 1786, Michael Pye Stephens, clerk, was
admitted to the rectory of Little Wenlock, Deanery of Wenlock,
co. Salop, void by the death of John Hay ward, clerk, presented
by George Forester, esquire, of Willey, co. Salop, and
instituted.

On the 8th July, 1786, Edward Blakeway, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Neen Savage, Deanery of
Stottesdou, co. Salop, void by the deatli of Myles Cooper,
clerk, D.D., presented by King George III., and instituted.

On 17th July, 1786, Thomas Eden, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Greet, Deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by
the death of John Bishop Humphreys, clerk, presented by
Sir Thos. Edwards, bt, and instituted.

On the same day, William Watkins, clerk, was admitted to
the vicarage of Bucknell, Deanery of Chin, co. Salop, void by

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the death of John Bowdler, clerk, presented by the Wardens
and Commonalty of the Mystery of Grocers of the City of
London, patrons, and instituted.

On 20th July, 17S6, Clarke Prescot, clerk, was admitted to
the vicarage of Down to 11, Deanery of Clun, co. Salop, void by
the death of Thos. Pryce, clerk, presented by King George III.
and instituted.

Oii 25th Sept., 17S6, John Stanier, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Eaton, deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop, void
by the resignation of William Oakley, clerk, presented by Timor:
Gwynn, of Ludlow, clerk, and instituted.

On 27th Oct., 1786, Evan Morris, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Much Wenlock, deanery of Wenlock, co.
Salop, void by the death of Stephen Prytherch, clerk, presented
by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, of Wynnstay, co. Denbigh, bt.,
and instituted.

On 13th March, 1787, Thos. Moses Lyster, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Neenton, deanery of Stottesdon, eo.
Salop, void by the death of John Purcell, clerk, presented by
Richard Lyster, of Rowton, co. Salop, Esq. (now resident at
Richmond, in Surrey), and instituted.

On 27th Aug., 1787/ William Calcott, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of W'estbury, deanery of Pontesbury,
co. Salop, void by the death of Charles Newling, clerk, presented
by Nicholas Owen Smythe, of Condover, co. Salop, esquire, a
minor (with the advice and approbation of Nicholas Smythe,
esquire, his father and guardian), and instituted.

On 5th May, 1788, John Smythe, clerk, was admitted to the
rectory of the right part of the parish church of Westbury,
deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the resignation of
William Calcott, clerk, presented by Nicholas Owen Smythe,
of Condover, co. Salop, esquire, a minor (with the consent and
approbation of Nicholas Smythe, esquire his father and guardian),
and instituted.

On 1 8th June, 1788, Joseph Pickering, clerk, M.A., was ad-
mitted to the vicarage of Staunton Lacy, deanery of Ludlow,
co. Salop, void by the death of the last incumbent, presented
by William, Lord Craven, and instituted.

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On iOth Dec, 1788, Francis Coke, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Culmington, deanery of Ludlow, co. Salop,
void by the death of John Nicliolls, clerk, presented by John
Woodhouse, of Yatton Court, co. Hereford, esquire, and instituted.

On 10th Feb., 1789, Edward Evans, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Upton Cressett, deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop,
void by the death of Edmund Price, clerk, presented by Elizabeth
Cressett, of Upton Cressett, spinster, and instituted.

On 13th March, 1789, George Holland, clerk, M.A., was ad-
mitted to the rectory of Mind town, deanery of Chin, co. Salop,
void by the death of Edward Rogers, clerk, presented by Edward,
Lord Clive, and instituted.

On the same day, Evan Morris, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Much Wenlock, deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop,
void by the cession of the last incumbent, presented by Sir
Watkin Williams Wynn, bt., and instituted.

On 15th May, 1789, John Newling, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Chirbury, deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop,
void by the death of John Harding, clerk, presented by William
Oakeley, esquire, Mayor of Shrewsbury, and James Atcherley,
clerk, chief schoolmaster of the Free Grammar School of the said
town, patrons, and instituted.

On 18th June, 1789, John Holme, clerk, was admitted to the
rectory of Middle ton Scriven, deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop,
void by the death of John Harding, clerk, presented by Thos.
Rowley, gent., and instituted.

File XXXVII. Oct. 1789— Oct. 1794.

On 2nd March, 1790, John Holland, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Greet, deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by
the cession of Thos. Eden, clerk, presented by Sir Thos. Edwards,
bt., and instituted.

On 31st May, 1790, James Woodhouse, clerk, M.A.. was ad-
mitted to the rectory of Culmington, deanery of L,udk>w, co.
Salop, void by the resignation of Francis Coke, clerk, presented
by John Woodhouse, of Yatton Court, co. Hereford, esquire,
and instituted.

( >n iytll Jmie, 1790, Samuel Burrows, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Iligley, deanery of Stottesdon, co Salop, void

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by the death of George Metehell, clerk, presented by Matthias
Burrows, of Aldersley, parish of Tettenhall, eo. Stafford, gent.,
and instituted.

On 25th Oct., 1790, Thos. Gwynn, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Baton, deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop, void
by the resignation of John Stanier, clerk, presented by Thos.
Gwynn, of Ludlow, co. Salop, clerk, and instituted.

On 22nd Feb., 1791, William Towne, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Upton Cressett, deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop,
void by the death of Edward Evans, clerk, presented by Elizabeth
Cressett, of Upper Grosvenor Street, parish of St. George, IMiover
Square, and instituted.

On 28th March, 1 791, Morgan Jones, clerk, was admitted to
the vicarage of Ditton Priors, deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop,
void by the death of Joseph Ball, clerk, presented by John Baxter,
of Middleton, parish of Ditton Priors, gentleman, and instituted.

On 7th May, 1791, Thos. Crane Johnstone, clerk, was admitted
to the rectory of Hope Baggot, deanery of Ludlow, co. Salop,
void by the death of William Smith, clerk, presented by William
Pulteney, of Bath House, Piccadilly, esquire, and instituted.

On 14th July, 1 791, Robert Augustus Johnson, clerk, was
admitted to the rectory of Wis tans tow, deanery of Ludlow, co.
Salop, void by the death of George Kimber, clerk, presented by
William, Lord Craven, and instituted.

On 1 2th Oct., 1 791, James Hastings, clerk, was admitted to
the rectory of Bitterley, deanery of Ludlow, co. Salop, void by
the resignation of Thos. Rocke, clerk, to which he petitioned to
be admitted, asserting himself to be the true patron, and he was
instituted.

On 14th Eel)., 1792, Robert Augustus Johnson, clerk, was
admitted to the rectory of Wistanstow, deanery of Ludlow, co.
Salop, void by the promotion of the last incumbent, presented
by William, Lord Craven, and instituted.

On 4th Aug., I7<)..\ Joseph Plyiuley, .M.A., was admitted to
the archdeaconry of Salop, void by the1 death of Robert Clue,
clerk, and instituted.

On 7th Sept., 17<)~5, Thos. Baines, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Cainham, deanery ol Ludlow, co, Salop, void

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b} the death of Jonathan Green, elerk, presented by Edward
Green, of Ashford Hall, co. Salop, clerk, and instituted .

On 17th Oct., 1792, St. George Bowles, clerk, B.A., was ad-
mitted to the rector)- of Burford, deanery of Burford, co. Salop,
void by the death of Jonathan Green, clerk, presented by George
Bowles, of Wansted, co. Essex, esquire, and instituted.

On 8th Nov., 1792, Edward Green, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the rectory of the second portion of the parish church of
Burford, deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by the death of
Jonathan Green, clerk, presented by George Bowles, of Wansted,
co. Essex, esquire, and instituted.

On 1st May, 1793, George Holland, clerk, M'.!A.; was admitted
to the rectory of Hanwood, deanery of Pontes! )ury, co. Salop,
void by the death of John Jones, clerk, presented by Samuel
Holland, of Tea bury, co. Worcester, gentleman, and instituted.

On 2 1st June, 1793, Maurice Wynn, clerk, B.IJ., was admitted
to the vicarage of Much Wenlock, deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop,
void by the death of Evan Morris, clerk, presented by Sir Watkin
Williams Wynn, bt., with the advice and approbation of Dame
Charlotte Williams Wynn, his mother and testamentary guardian,
and instituted.

On 8th Oct., 1793, Thos. Moses Lyster, clerk, M.A., was ad-
mitted to the rectory of Oldbury, deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop,
void by the death of Thos. Eittleton, clerk, presented by King
George III., and instituted.

hiXE XXXVIII. Oct. 1794— Oct. 1799.

On 28th March, 1795, Job Walker Baugh, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Diddlebnry, deanery of Ludlow,
co. Salop, void by the death of Abraham Rudd, clerk, presented
by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, and instituted.

On 2nd April, 1795, John Brickdale lilakeway, clerk, M.A.,
was admitted to the vicarage of Neeu Savage, deanery of Stottes-
don, co. Salop, void by the death of Edward Blakeway, clerk,
presented by King George III., and instituted.

On 2jnd April, 1795, Forester Leighton, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the third portion of the rectory of Poutesbury,
deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by Lhe death <>t David
Prichard, clerk, presented by Nicholas Owen Smythc Owen, of
Condovcr, co. Salop, esquire, and instituted.

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325

On 30th April, 1795, James Bullock, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of Long Staunton, deanery of Wenlock, co.
Salop, void by the resignation of Thos. Russell, clerk, presented
by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, and instituted.

On 9th May* 1795, Phineas Pett, clerk, B.D., was admitted to
the rectory of Wentnor, deanery of Chin, co. Salop, void by the
death of John Cooke, clerk, presented by the Dean and Chapter
of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford, and instituted.

On the 15th May, 1795, William Smith, clerk, was admitted
to the rectory of Bagsore, deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop, void by
the cession of James Chelsum, D.D., presented (on the nomina-
tion of Isaac Hawkins Browne, esquire) by King George III., and
instituted.

On 1st June, 1795, Edward Baugh, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Xeen Sollers with the chapel of Milson annexed
to the deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by the death of Kdward
Baugh, clerk, presented by Richard Payne Knight, of Downton,
co. Hereford, esquire, and instituted.

On 22nd Sept., 1795, John Waleot, clerk, B.Lh, was admitted
to the rectory of Bitterley, deanery of Imdlow, co. Salop, void by
the cession of James Hastings, clerk, presented by Sir John
Dashwood King, bt., and John Walcot, esquire, patrons, and
instituted.

On 15th April, 1796, Richard Rowley, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Middle ton Scriven, deanery of Stottesdon, co.
Salop, void by the death of John Holme, clerk, to which he
petitioned to be admitted, asserting himself to be the true patron,
and he was instituted.

On nth May, 1790, Saint George Bowles, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of the fust portion of the parish church
of Burford, deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by the death of
Jonathan Green, clerk, presented by George Bowles, and
instituted.

On 18th May, 179b, Thos. Crane Johnstone, clerk, 15. A., was
admitted to the rectory of Aston Bottcrcll, deanciv of Stottesdon,
co. Salop, void by the death of Thos. Waiter, clerk, presented by
vSir William Pulteney, of Bath House. London, hi., and instituted,

On i~th June, 170O, Thos. Cox, clerk, M.A.. was admitted to
the reetor\ of Cleobury North, deanery of Stottesdon, 00 Salop,

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void by the death of Titos. Warter, clerk, to which he petitioned
to be admitted, asserting himself to be patron thereof, and he
was instituted.

On 17th Dec, 1796, Samuel Johnson, clerk, M.A., was ad-
mitted to the rector}- of Hope Baggot, deanery of Ludlow, co.
Salop, void by the resignation of Thos. Crane Johnstone, clerk,
presented by Sir William Pulteney, and instituted.

On 22nd Dec, 1796, Henry Cay Adams, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Brace Meole, deanery of Pontesbury,
co. Salop, void by the death of John Bather, clerk, presented
by Martha Hannah Bather, of Shrewsbury; widow, and instituted.

On 5th Jan., 1797, Richard Walond, clerk. M.A., was admitted
to the rector}' of Tugford, deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop, void
by the cession of Thos. Williams, clerk, to which he was collated
by the Bishop, patron thereof, and instituted.

On 4th May, 1797, Matthew Pilkington, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Hopesay, deanery of Gun, co. Salop,
void by the death of Charles Tucker, clerk, presented by Thos.
Pilkington, of Bridgnorth, and instituted.

On 2 i^t Aug., 1797, Job Walker Baugh, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Diddlebury, deanery of Ludlow, co.
Salop, void by the cession of the last incumbent, presented by
the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, and instituted.

On 5th Sept., 1797, Forester Leighton, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the third portion of the rectory of Pontesbury, deanery of
Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the cession of the last incumbent,
presented by Nicholas Owen Smythe Owen, of Condover Park, co.
Salop, esquire, and instituted.

On 19th Sept., 1797, John Pyefinch, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the rectory of the right part of the parish church of Westbury,
deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the death of John
Smythe, clerk, presented by Nicholas Owen Smythe Owen, of
Condover Park, esquire, and instituted.

On 25th Oct., 171)/, Henry Burton, clerk. H.A., was admitted
to the rector}' of Sutton, ncai Salop, deanery of Pontesbury,
co. Salop, void by the death of Jolui Smythe, clerk, presented by
Thomas Noel. Lord Berwick, and instituted.

On nth Nov., ljt)y, Charles Waleot. ek-rk. MA., w US admitted

to the rectory of Culmington, deauery of Ludlow, eu, Salop,

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void by the death of James Woodhouse, elerk, presented by Sarah
Ann Woodhouse, of Siefton, co. Salop, widow, and instituted.

On 27th March, 1798, Nathaniel Cotton, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Hopton Wafers, deanery of Burford,
co. Salop, void by the death of Edward Whitehurst, clerk,
presented by Joseph Cotton, of Layton, co. Essex, esquire, and
instituted.

On 30th March, 1798, Richard Foy, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Habberley, deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop,
void by the death of Thos. Mills, clerk, presented by John Myttcn,
of Halston, co. Salop, esquire, and instituted.

On 16th April, 1798, Edward Davenport, clerk, was admitted
to the united or consolidated rectories and parish churches of
Glazely, Deuxhill, and Chetton, with the chapel of Eoton an-
nexed, deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop, void by the death of
Charles Edmund Wylde, clerk, presented by Valentine Yickers,
the elder, of Chesterton, gentleman, Valentine Vickers, the
younger, of Cranmere, gentleman, and Ralph Browne Wylde
Browne, of Caughley, esquire, co. Salop, patrons, and instituted.

On 10th Oct., 1798, Lawrence Panting, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Hope Baggott, deanery of Ludlow,
co. Salop, void by the death of Samuel Johnson, clerk, presented
by Sir William Pulteney, of Shrewsbury, bt., and instituted.

On 3rd Jan., 1799, the Hon. George Rushout, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of the first portion of the parish church
of Burford, deanery of Burford, co. Salop, void by the resignation
of Saint George Bowles, clerk, presented by George Bowles, and
instituted .

On 23rd Jan., 1799, Richard Hill, M.A., was admitted to the
rectory of Sutton, near Salop, deanery of Pontes bury, co. Salop,
void by the resignation of Henry Burton, clerk, presented by
Thomas Noel, Lord Berwick, and instituted.

On }ist Jan., 1799, the Hon. George Rushout, clerk, M.A..
was admitted to the rectory of the third portion of the parish
church of Burford, deanery of Burford, co. Sulop, void by the
resignation of James Ingram, clerk, presented by George Bowles,
and instituted.

INSTITUTIONS OF Sli Kol'Sll IKK INCUMBENTS.

On 22nd Feb., 1799, Richard Baugh, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Burwarton, deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop,
void by the death of John Atwood, clerk, piesented by Bernard
Holland, of Ludlow, esquire, and instituted.

On the same day, Richard Baugh, clerk, B.A., was admitted
and instituted to the rectory of Wheathill, deanery of Stottesdon,
co. Salop, void by the death of John Atwood, clerk, presented
by Bernard Holland, of Ludlow, esquire.

On 5th April, 1799, George Frederick Nott, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Wistanstow, deanery of Ludlow, co.
Salop, void by the death of Robert Augustus Johnson, clerk,
presented by William, Lord Craven, and instituted.

On 28th June, 1799, Thomas YVatkins, clerk, B.A., was ad-
mitted to the vicarage of Eaton, deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop,
void by the death of Thos. Gwynn, presented by Thos. Gwynn,
of Ludlow, clerk, and instituted.

On 15th July, 1799, James Johnson Baines, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Cainham, deanery of Ludlow, co.
Salop, void by the resignation of Thos. Baines, clerk, presented
by the said Thos. Baines, of Batchcott, co. Hereford, clerk, and
instituted.

Fii,e XXXIX. Oct. 1799— Oct. 1804.

On 24th Oct., 1799, John Gibbons, clerk, M.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Aston Botterell, deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop,
void by the death of Thos. Crane Johnstone, clerk, presented by
Sir William Pulteney, bt., and instituted.

On 4th Nov., 1799, Townsend Forester, clerk, B.A., was
admitted to the rectory of Broseley, with the chapel i>f Ianlev
annexed, deanery of Wenlock, co. Salop, void by the- death ot
Daniel Hemus, clerk, presented by George Forester, of Willey,
co. Salop, esquire, and instituted.

On a2ii(] Nov., 1799, Joseph Flvmley, elerk, .M A . vvus admitted
to the rectory of Coreley, deanery of Bui hud, co, Sulop, void by

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the cession of John Baldwin, clerk, presented by Robert Corbett,
of Longuor, in the said county, esquire, and instituted.

On 29th Nov., 1799, John Bissell, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the vicarage of L,eintwardine, deanery of Clun, co. Salop, void
by the death of James Bull, clerk, presented by Edward, Earl of
Oxford, and instituted.

On igtli March, iSoo, Joseph Langford, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the first portion of the rectory and parish church of
Pontesbury, deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the death
of Osborne Wight, clerk, presented by John Hana, of Whitchurch,
in the said county, esquire, and instituted.

On 27th March, 1800, Lawrence Panting, clerk, M.A., was ad-
mitted to the left part of the rectory and parish church of West-
bury, deanery of Pontesbury, co. Salop, void by the death of
Osborne Wight, clerk, presented by Nicholas Owen Smythe Owen,
of Condover Park, in the said county, esquire, and instituted.

On 24th June, 1800, John Bright Betton, clerk, M.A., was
admitted to the vicarage of Lidbury North, deanery of Clun, co.
Salop, void by the resignation of James Acherley, clerk, presented
by John Bright, of Totterton, in the said county, esquire, and
instituted.

On 24th July, 1800, John Churton, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Burwarton, deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop,
void by the resignation of Richard Baugh clerk, presented by
Thos. Holland, of Moreton Say, in the said county, gentleman,
and instituted.

On the same day, John Churton, clerk, B.A., was admitted
to the rectory of Wheathill, deanery of Stottesdon, co. Salop,
void by the resignation of Richard Baugh, clerk, presented by
Thos. Holland, of Moreton Say, in the said county, gentleman,
and instituted.

On 12th Aug., 1800, Thos. Albau, clerk, was admitted to the
rectory of Culmington, deanery of IauIIow, co. Salop, void by
the resignation of Charles Walcot, clerk, presented by Charles
Johnstone, of L,udlow, esquire, and instituted.

On nth Nov., 1800, George Moultrie, clerk, was admitted

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to the vicarage of Geo bury Mortimer, deanery of Burford, co.
Salop, void by the resignation of Edward Northey, clerk,
presented by William Guide, of Kinlet, in the said county, esquire,
and instituted.

On iSth Dec, 1S00, John Brickdale Blakeway, clerk, M.A.,
was admitted to the vicarage of Kinlet, deanery of Stottesdon,
co. Salop, void by the cession of Edward Northey, clerk, pre-
sented by William Childe, of Kinlet, esquire, and instituted.

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SHREWSBURY SHOW.
By R. IX Kenyox.

Hulbert's History of Shrewsbury, published in 1837, gives some
account of the history of this show, and of the proceedings there
in its palmy days ; and a much fuller account, derived to a great
extent from the Guild books in the possession of the Corporation
of Shrewsbury, was written in 1802 by Mr, Pidgeon, Treasurer
to the Corporation, and published in The Reliquary for that
year, and reprinted in Vol. VI. of the Transactions, with wood-
cuts of the " arbours " on Kingsland in which the different
guilds met at the time of the show. It originated in a religious
procession on the festival of Corpus Christi, the Thursday after
Trinity Sunday, which was an old institution in the reign of
Henry VI., in which many of the guilds were bound by their
rules to take part. They inarched to a stone cross, believed to
have stood at the boundary of the Parish of Holy Cross and
St. Giles, and there bewailed their sins, whence the cross was
called the Weeping Cross, and chanted petitions for a plentiful
harvest, and after this there were three days of recreation.
Similar celebrations of Corpus Christi day were common, both in
England and on the Continent.

At the Reformation religious processions were discouraged
and the excessive number of holidays was considerably curtailed,
but though Puritanism was unable to stop the Corpus Christi
holiday, the show unfortunately became divorced from the
religious feeling in which it had its origin, and it seems to have
been restricted to the Monday following Corpus Christi ; but on
that one day there was a most elaborate show and a Very pe.it
festival, l/roin as early as Queen l\li/ahcth's time it was held
on Kingsland, where the Corporation allotted spaces to many of
the Guilds 011 which they built " arbours " or meeting houses foi
the occasion, furnished with a long table and Ixniches and
equipped with a buttery, and in these on the show da) the) cutei
taincd the Corporation, who followed the procession from the

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town on horseback, the guilds marching in a settled order of
precedence, with music, Hags, and emblem itic figures, and with
their officers in robes. The whole population attended them,
and it was a great day for the town. The proceedings are very
fully described in the papers above mentioned, and we are here
to relate not the glory of the show, but its decline and fall. In
1S25 ^ appears from the account in Hulbert's " History " to
have been celebrated in its full magnificence, except that the
Corporation followed on foot instead of on horseback, but it is
said then to have been " exhibited in rather better style than of
late years ; the weather was favourable, the tradesmen were in a
great measure unanimous, the count}" folk attended in multitudes,
decked out in all the gaiety and variety of summer." Seven
guilds took part, each preceded by a king or queen or an emblem-
atic figure of some sort. But in 1837, when Hulbert's book was
published several of the arbours had already been taken down,
though ten or twelve remained. In 18O2, when the article in
the Transactions was written, only five remained, and these were
in process of being transferred from the Guilds to the Corporation
in order that Kingsland might be built upon and improved.
The wardens and stewards of the Guilds had ceased to accompany
the procession, and it was no longer followed by the Corporation.
The dinners were held not in the arbours but in some of the inns
in the town. The withdrawal of the better classes had its usual
effect. The show continued to be held, but became more and
more an opportunity for drunkenness and debauchery for the
lowest classes of the people. Then came the proposal for the
removal of the Grammar School from its historical but confined
site near the Castle to some larger and more healthy place, which
at the same time should be as convenient as possible for the town
boys. After long discussion Kingsland was fixed upon as by
far the best site, but it was recognised that it would be impossible
to place the School there if the Show was to continue, and accord-
ingly the Corporation and most of the principal residents in the
town petitioned the Home Secretary that the Show might be
abolished. The following letters are sonic of the answers sent
to his enquiries as to whether this was desirable, and they show
pretty clearly the degradation into which the once Splendid
show had fallen.

SHREWSBURY SHOW.

333

Borough of Shrewsbury.

Febru iry ioth, 1S78.

Sir,

In compliance with the request of the Secretary of State I beg
to make a special report in reference to Shrewsbury Show.

The Shrewsbury Show is attended by very many people from *
this and adjoining towns in the country. It is regarded as their
annual holiday, and affording great enjoyment to them. Years
ago it was the cause of much disorder and immorality, chiefly
arising from those congregated on Kingsland being allowed to
remain there all night and supplied with drink. Also by the
different trades having each a ball at public houses in the town,
which were kept up all night. These evils being removed and a
reasonable time fixed for closing public houses, the police now
find a great change for the better, both Kingsland and the streets
being cleared in reasonable time on the night of the show, and
there are very few crimes requiring to be brought before the
magistrates on the following da}'.

I am, etc.,

(Sd.) John Davies,

Chief Constable.

Chief Constable's Office,
Co. of Salop,

Shrewsbury.

Sir, iS December, 1S77.

I beg to ackuou ledge the receipt of your letter Xo. 6 1 621
of 13th instant, on 17th idem, enclosing application praying
that Shrewsbury Show may be abolished, also several Memorials
which have been addressed to the Secretary of State, both for
and against such proposed abolition, and requesting me in return-
ing the same to report as to the objectionable results which are
represented to follow on the Show, whether it is attended by
disorder and immorality and whether in my opinion the reason-
able enjoyment of any class of people will lie interfered with by
the abolition of the Show.

I will Qfst State that Kingsland. where the .show is bekl is nut
within the jurisdiction of the County Constat Allary, and that
the Police duties have hitherto been carried out on the day
preceding the Show, and afterwards, U) the Horn' Constabulary.

£>ilKU\YbJ*UKY SHOW.

The show is held on Monday, and this appears to me an objec-
tionable day, inasmuch as Sunday becomes a day of assembly to
see the preparations, large crowds frequent Kingsland on this
day, this might be avoided by the Show being held later in the
week— on Wednesday or Thursday.

I have attended the procession assembled in the town previous
to proceeding to Kingsland, and have gone to the Show at differ-
ent hours afterwards, early and late in the day, and have not
witnessed disorder and immorality to a greater extent than at
Fairs and Races. Tradesmen in the town complain of the
absence of some of their hands during the entire week, and there
is no doubt a great deal of hard drinking. The Show is largely
attended by the lower orders from all parts of the County and
from adjoining Counties. The Boro' Police appear competent
to maintain order, and have not applied to me for assistance at
any time during the period of ilj years of my tenure of office.
There is some force in the remark made by the Petitioners in
favor of the Show being maintained, as to the locality — Kingsland
is outside the Town, and the least possible inconvenience is caused
to the Residents. On the other hand, the Agricultural Show is
held in the Quarry within the town, the preparations for this, the
show itself (of two days duration only) and the dismantling of
the stalls, occupied the best part of four weeks on the last occa-
sion, and were a source of much annoyance to the surrounding
residents.

I observe the Masters of the Grammar School have all signed
in favour of the abolition of the Show. If the School be hereafter
transferred to Kingsland^ and the Show be continued there, it
would be a serious evil to the School. At present the School is
less affected by the Show than it is by the November Races,
which extend over four days, and which bring a far more objec-
tionable class of people into the town than the Show does.

Many of the Clergy who have signed in favour of the abolition
of the Show are in the habit of taking their schools elsewhere for
a holiday on the day of the Show, and thus removing the children
from all temptation.

The Tradesmen in favor of the maintenance of the Show are
largely composed of Beer and Public House keepers, and petty
Tradesmen, not employing many hands. The Show no doubt
a source of income to the town.

SHREWSBURY SHOW.

335

It is a little difficult for me to say whether the reasonable
enjoyment of any class of people will be interfered with by the
abolition of the Show. The tendency of the day in many classes
is to do the least possible work for the largest obtainable wages,
and Shropshire is no exception to this unhealthy feeling, but I
would respectfully submit that after a careful consideration ot
the whole question and of the papers you have forwarded, and
which I now return, I do not consider that on the ground of
disorder and immorality, that a case has been made out by the
Petitioners in favour of the abolition of Kingsland Show.
I am, etc.,

(Sd.) R. J. Hdgell, Colonel,

Chief Constable of Shropshire.

The Rt. Hon.

The Secretary of State,
Home Department,

Whitehall.

Pradoe,

West Pelton, R.S.O.,

Shropshire.

4 March, 1878.

Sir,

I have had the honor of receiving the letter, dated 22 Feb.,
1878, written to me by your direction, transmitting to me copies
of Reports received by you from the Chief Constable of Shrop-
shire and the Elead Constable of the Borough of Shrewsbury, on
the subject of the Pair known as " Shrewsbury Show," and
asking for my observations on the question, now under con-
sideration, of the abolition of that Show.

I have carefully read those reports, and considered the question,
and I am clearly of opinion that the Show (night to be abolished,

It is not a fair for trading purposes. It is, and has long been,
practically, no more than a " Pleasure Fair," attended chielly
— almost exclusively — by the lower orders, and it has the char-
acter of being, and I believe it is, an occasion lor drunkenness,
licentiousness, and immorality, and useful for no good purpose,
and quite unnccefsary.

I believe that, at the time of " the Show," the Police give their
attention diii ily to cases oi " crimes requiring to be brought

SHREWSBURY SHOW.

before the Magistrates," (the only class of offences noticed by the
Head Constable of the Borough in his Report), and that they are
very blind to drunkenness, and take no cognizance of many other
kinds of immorality and vice.

This is confirmed by the Report of the Chief Constable of the
County. He says that " there is, no doubt, a great deal of hard
drinking," and I am informed, and believe, that a large number
of persons who, being found drunk, are locked up by the Police
during the night, are, in the morning, let out without being
brought before the Magistrates, or other notice being taken of
them, or record kept.

No one, who has had any experience in such cases, can doubt
that where there is such " hard drinking " there is other immor-
ality and vice, and, accordingly, the Chief Constable states that
he has " observed disorder and immorality/' tho' he adds " not
to a greater extent than at Fairs and Races."

Fairs and Races are, unhappily, as is well known, attended by
much immorality and vice, but " the Show " has not any such
countervailing benefit as Fairs and Races have in promoting
trade, the breed of horses, etc. It is wholly useless.

The fact that the Clergy of the Town, on the day of the Show,
take their school children away from the town, to avoid the evils
of the Show, is a strong practical evidence of the extent of those
evils, and of the prejudicial character of the Show.

" The Show " also leads, as the Chief Constable states, to the
desecration of the previous Sunday.

And it is the cause of many workmen forsaking their masters
and their work during the whole week,, which they spend in idle-
ness, drunkenness and their consequences.

For the above reasons alone, if there was no other, I should
be of opinion that the Show is (to use the words of the Act of
Parliament of 1871, under which you are asked to order its
abolition) " unnecessary," and " a cause of immorality," and
M an injury to the town," and that accordingly it " will be lor the
convenience and advantage of tl e public that it should be
abolished."

But there is a further reason why it will be lor the advantage
of the public that it should be abolished.

It is very much desired, and it will be a public benefit, that

the Shrewsbury School- which under an Act of Parliament is

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337

to be moved from its present site in the middle of the town-
should be moved to Kingshmd, where the .Show is held, and eon-
traets have been made for the purchase of the ground there,
conditionally on the abolition of the Show, which would be (as
tlie Chief Constable says) " a serious evil to the School."

The site is one of the finest in the Kingdom for the purpose, -
and the Corporation of Shrewsbury, owners of part of the land
required, and one of the contracting parties, have applied for,
and got, the consent of the Lords of the Treasury to the sale of
land to tlie Governing Body of the School for the purpose.

The Privy Council have approved of it, on the application of
the Governing Hod)' of the School, and the Local Government
Hoard have approved of it, on the application of the Trustees
of the late House of Industry, owners of another portion of the
land required.

The Kingshmd site was considered so especially advantageous
for the School, that Mr. Secretary Hardy, who had been in
negotiation for it for Barracks, gave up the negotiation in order
that the School might have the advantage, and Lord Salisbury,
as one of the Public School Conniiinissioners, recommended the
abandonment by the Governing Body of a negotiation for another
site, in order that this very preferable site might be obtained.

It will be a serious injury if all this is rendered useless by the
continuance of " the Show," which is itself worse than useless.

At the time when these contracts were made, the de. ire
that the Show should be abolished was supposed to be universal,
and that an order for it would be obtained was not doubted.

The Corporation accordingly have applied lor it under the
Act of Parlt. of 1871 ; most of the respectable inhabitants of the
town, the Mayor and others who have held that office, most of
the Justices of the Peace of the Borough, and, I believe, all the
Clergy have supported that application.

The parties who oppose it are, I understand, chiclly the keepers
of, or persons interested in Beerhouses ami Public Houses, and
Petty Tradesmen who derive profit from the frequenters of the
Show.

Being myself well acquainted with the site, and considering it
an excellent one, and that it it is not obtained the School must be
moved t<> a site far less eligible, and al .hi inconvenient distance
from the town, which would he an iujlll v lo it , I .1111 o( opinion

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SHREWSBURY SHOW.

tor these reasons in addition to those which I have stated above-
that it will be " an injury to the Town not to rbolish the Show,"
and that it is for the " convenience and advantage of the Public
that it should be abolished."

I have the honor to be, Sir,

Your obedient humble servant,
J. R. Kenyon,
Chairman of the Shropshire Quarter
Sefsions.

The Right Honble.
Mr. Secretary Crofs,
etc., etc., etc.

After receiving these Reports, the Home Secretary made the
following order : —

THE FAIRS ACT, 1871.
Shrewsbury Show.
Whereas a representation has been duly made to nie, as
Secretary of State for the Home Department, by the Town
Council of Shrewsbury, as owners, that a Fair known as
" Shrewsbury Show," has been annually held on the second
Monday after Trinity Sunday on certain land called " Kingsland,"
in the said Borough, and that it would be for the convenience
and advantage of the Public that the said Fair should be
abolished.

And Whereas notice of the said representation, and of the
time when I should take the same into consideration, has been
duly published in pursuance of " The Fairs Act, uS;i."

And Whereas, on such representation, and consideration, it
appears to me that it would be lor the convenience and advantage
of the public that the said Fair should be abolished.

Now, therefore, I, as the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, in exercise of the Powers vested in me by " The
Fairs Act, 187 1 do herein' Order that the Fair known as
" Shrewsbury Show," which has been annually held 011 the second
Monday after Trinity Sunday on certain land called " Kuigslaiid,"
in the Borough of Shrewsbury, shall be abolished as from the
date of this order.

Given under my hand at Whitehall, tins btli da) <-! March,
1878.

Richard Asshetou Crofs,

SHREWSBURY SHOW.

339

Thus the Show, which had for centuries been one of the glories
and pleasures of Shrewsbury, came to an unregretted end on
()th March, 1878. The stone gateway to the Shoemakers' Arbour,
which was the largest of the Arbours, may still be seen in the
Dingle, in the Quarry, though not in its original situation. It
was erected in Sonic of the armour and (1iv>sln used in

the- procession are in the Shrewsbury Museum, and no doubt
there are other relics in private hands.

34Q

BO ROT IGM-KN GUSH AND THK MANOR OF FORD.
By H. M. Audjcx, i'.R.IIist.S.

The custom of Borough-lvnglish, i.e., descent to the youngest
and not the eldest son, is said to have existed in nine Shropshire
manors. Among these are Ford, Edgniond, and Condover, and
according to some authorities, Foppington and Wein. In
comparatively recent years the custom has been enforced in the
case of land at Chatford in the Manor of Condover, and at Great
Wollaston in that of Alberbury, when the owners died intestate.

The origin of the custom is lost in remote antiquity. It has
been conjectured that the fact of its existence in some manors,
but not in others in the same neighbourhood, points to the
settlement of different Saxon tribes, who brought with them the
customs of their native provinces. Very various reasons have
been alleged for this descent to the youngest son, but the most
probable seems to be that it is derived from the habit of a strong
race living in warlike times, when the elder sons went out to carve
their own way in life, leaving the youngest to take care of the
parents as they grew old, and to inherit the family roof -tree.

The Rev. J. B. Blakeway, in his Sheriffs of Shropshire, p. 205,
says : " In the Manor of Alberbury, as in most others in Shrop-
shire, copyholds descend by the custom called Borough-English
to the youngest son." The estate of Benthall, however, to
which the remark refers, though in Alberbury parish, is called
in the eighteenth-century parish books " Ford in Alberbury,"
and its tithes are still paid to Ford.

In 1080 Ford was an unusually large and important manor,
with fourteen bercwicks. In Saxon times it had been held by
Karl Edwin, and paid U) a year. After the Conquest it was
conferred on Roger de Montgomery, the Norman Fail of Shrews-
bury, to whom it (>aid /..;| yearly.

Alter the forfeiture ol the last Korniun Karl ol Shrewsbury,
Robert de Ikiesine, it was held by tin- Crown till lijw, wlien
Hen rv III. granted it to Henry de And ley, It remained with the

BOROUGH-KNGIJSH AND THK MAYOR 01- KOKD

34 1

Atldleys till 1392, alter which it passed through several hands to
the family of Troutbeck, who held it till 15 II, when it canie to
the Talbots of Longford. Though the head of a hundred, the
manor was extradiundredal, and was represented by a provost
and several jurors at the assizes. The local details of the history
of Ford have, in consequence partly of this independent status',
not come down to us, exeept the fact of occasional Welsh inroads.
In 1213, and again in 1200, the Welshmen came with fire and
sword and carried away considerable booty, a fact of which the
memory probably survives in the name of Welshman's Ford, as
applied to one portion of the brook which Hows through the
village .

The fourteen berewicks of Domesday are all in the parish of
Pontesbury, Ford parish only extending to the township of Ford
itself. Benthall and Little Shrawardine in the parish of Alberbury
were later additions.

Edgmond, another vShropshire manor where descent was by
Borough-Knglish custom, was also granted to the Audleys, and
had a somewhat similar history, and similar status, to that of
Ford.

Two copies exist of the " Decree out of Chancery between the
lord of the Manor of Foorde (als ffoordsholme) and the tennts
thear." One, elaborately written, is in the Reference Library
at Shrewsbury Free Library ; the other, apparently a copy of it,
is among the Bowen MSS. (folio 4) in the Bodleian Library at
Oxford. The latter contains a list of the tenants of the manor
which is missing in the Shrewsbury MSS. The formal drawing-up
of this deed of the customs and rights of the manor seems to have
originated from a dispute with the then lord, John Talbot, of
Grafton, co. Worcester.

"A copye of a decree out of Chancery between the Lord of
the Manor of Foorde (alias ffordshome) and the tenants thear.

Jacobus dei gratia Anglic ffraneic et hibernie Regis lidei
defensor &C. Sexto et Scotie quadragesiino (prillio) Omnibus ad
quos presentes litere pervenerint Salutem. Inspeximus Irotnla-
menturn Judicii sive decrete Coram nobis in Cancellar' nostra
inter Thomam Purcell arm. Johem Harris Ren. Arthur Ward -en.
Cicelie Barker vid. Thoina' Jcnnyncs gen. I-li/a belli Hosiei
vid. Oeorg'm Hosier gen. Thoma' dough RCll, Rdwd Onslow
gen. Ricum Tipton gen. Oeoig'iu ttrowili! gcll, Ricuiil Wilcox

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342 ROK0UGII-KNGIJS1I AND THE MAYOR OV FORI).

gen. Ed r 'in Hennedge gen. Cicely Hennedgc his wief Robttuii
lMiilli] >ps gen. Regynald Higgons gen. Johem Evans Simonein
Callcott William Xonniley senior Mariam Nonniley vid. William
Nonniley junior Johem Harris de Lyncheis gen. Johem Peers
gen. Abraham Gennow Margarett Cowp' vid. Simon Cowp'
Thomam Cowp' Johem Harris junior Ricum Waring Annam
Waring vid. Johem Waring junior Johem Jelies Ricnm JeiTes
Rosani Willeox vid. Hngoneni Phillipps Rieum Peers senior
Thomam Amler Robtnm Amler Elizabeth Higgons vid.
Richard Higgons her Sonne WiU'inm Deimys et Anna' uxor' eius
Thomam Griffithes (Ricu' Griffithes) Rogeru' Dyos Thomam
Heyward et Margaret' uxor' eius Johem Warter Rieum Phillipps
Thomam Polemere Kdr'm Polemere Willi 'um Aplebury Ricum
Higgons senior Johem Waring senior Ricum Amler Leonard Dax
Ricum Phillipps James Carter Ricum Evans Margarett a]) David
vid. Griffith Griffithes Richardum Wall Henricu' Callcott Rogeru'
Griffithes Richard Griffies Johem Onslow Johem Betchcott Ricum
Betchcott his son Thorn a' W7arter Johem Dovaston Johem Teage
Thomam Jones Edr'm Griffithes Elizabeth I^ee vid. Randulph Lee
Thomam Peers Griffinu' Amler Johem Evans Junior Willi'uin
Teage Richard Peers Junior Thorn a' Winne Willi'um Griffithes et
Ric'm Pennall Coppiholders and customary tenants of the mannor
of ffoorde als ffoordshom in the County of Salop exhibited their
bill of Complaynt unto the Ho'ble Court of Chancery against
John Talbot of Grafton in the County of Worcester, esq., sheweth
therby That Wearas the said John Talbot was and yeat is lawfully
seised as the said Complainants weare informed to him and his
heyres of and in the said mannor of hoord als ffoordshom with the
app'tence And wearas allso they the said Coinplts weare and yeat
are severally and respectively lawfully seised in their Demesne as
of fee according to the custome of the said mannor of Ifoord als
ffoordshom of and in divers and sundry copyhold messuages
lands tenements and hereditaments p'cell of and belonging to
the said mannor and Demysed and Dcmysnble by Copp) of Cort
roole according to the custome of the said mannor to any p'sotltl
or p'sonns that will take the same in fee simple fee tayle 01 Um
terme of lyeff, lyeffsor yeares And that wearas allso Theis Comp'ltS
and their severall ancestors and those who.se estate the\ severally
have clavmed the custoine of the said mannor of and concerning

the said Coppihold and premiss' to be us heretofore i> expressed

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343

for and concerning w'ch customs and claymcs divers suyts ques-
tions and controversies have grone betwene the lorde of the said
manner and the coppiholders before named and others before
them coppiholders of the same p'miss for the final! ending and
appeasing of all well questions controversies snvts and debates
and for avoyding of all snvts doubts and controversies con-
cerning the said customs the said Deft and the said Complts of
their mutual consente and agreeniente aboute three moneths
then last past (was as the Complts alledged) Did conclu.de and
agree that the custome of the said mannor of and concerning
the said coppihold p'miss' thencfortli for ever shold be estemed
and taken to be as hearafter is expressed.

(Rents to be Pa yd Yearly).

Kirste that all and every the rente of the Coppyholders or
customary tennantes now in the tenure of saide Complts have
p'snally bin payable and ought to have bin payd yearly and shall
be frome henceforth be p'snally payed uppon the feast day of
vSt. Michael the archangel and the feast of the annunciacion of
our blessed lady St. Mary the virgin or within seaven dayes next
after every of the said feast dayes yf the Cort be not kept before
the end of any such seaven dayes by equal! porcons unto the Lord
of the said Mannor for the tynte being or unto his baylief steward
improver or receiveiver for the tyme being, etc.

Di; CENTS

Also wheare any Coppiholder dyeth sole seised of an estate
of inheritance in fee simple according to the custom of the Mannor
of any Coppyhold or customary messuages lands tenements or
hereditaments now in the tenure of any of the Complts of or in
the said mannor in possession remainder or revercon Then the
messuage lands tenements and hereditaments whearcas such
Coppyholder dyed sole seised and the inheritance the. nut from
and after such decease ought must and shall decend and conic
by the custom of the said mannor unto the congest sonne ol the
said Coppyholder having more sonns then one or els to the sonne
of the Coppyholder having butt one sonne And \i the yottgcsl
sonne shall dye without yssue of his hotly then to the next
yonge^t son and lor default of sueh ySSUe Uiule «»! the bodvo! the
said Coppilx'ldci Then to the yollgest daughtei having .Inn-

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BOKOUGH-ENGIJSH AND THH MAYOR OF FORD.

daughters or els to the sole daughter of the said Coppyholder
having |>ut one daughter And yf the yougesl daughter shall dye
without yssue then to the next yongest daugliter and for want of
daughters and yssues of their bod yes Then to the next yongest
brother of the whole blond of the said Coppiholder having more
brothers than one of the whole blond or els to the sole brother
of the whole bloud of the said Coppyholder having butt one such
brother And for default of such brothers or brother to the yongest
sister of the wole bloud of the said Coppyholder having more
such sisters then one or els to the sole sister of the whole bloud of
the said Coppyholder. And for default of such sisters or sister
then to the yongest uncle of the said Coppyholder on the pte. of
the father of the said Coppyholder And for default of such uncle
or uncles then to the yongest or sole Aunt of the said Coppyholder
on the pte of the said father yf the said messuage lands
tenements or hereditaments did or doe descend to the said
Coppyholder as heyre to the father of the said Coppyholder or
any of his ancestors according to the custome of the said mannor
Butt if the same messuage lands tenements and hereditaments
did doe or shall descend to the said Coppiholder so dying seised
as heyre to the mother of the said Coppyholder or any of her
ancestors according to the custom of the said mannor Then after
the decease of the said Coppyholder the same ought must and
shall descend for default of such sister or sisters as aforsaid to the
yongest or sole uncle of the said Coppiholder on the pte of the
mother of the said Coppyholder Ami for default of such uncles or
uncle Then to the yongest or sole Aunt of the said Coppyholder
on the pte of the mother of the said Coppyholder as heyre to the
said Coppyholder so dying seised according to the custom of
the said mannor And for default such uncle or aunt the same rule
of Discent of Inheritance to be observed touching the heyrcs of
further degree in bloud to the said Coppiholder so dying Seised
And yf any such soun daughter uncle aunt or cosen being heyre
appellant to the said Coppiholder so dying seised That is to say
bee or slice to whom the p'misscs whearof the same Coppiholdei
dying seised as aforsaid ought or shall deceud alter the decease
of the said Coppyholder according to the custom lieartofore
specefyed do dye in the lie f tyme of the said Coppyholdei then
tin- said p 'misses ought or shall descend uftei the decease "i the
.said Coppyholder so dying seised imlu such sou daughtei uncle

BOROUGH- KNOUSH AND TlIK MAYOR Ol FOR])

aunt or coussen of such hcyre apparraiit ol' the said Coppyholder
to whom the same p'niisses ought or shall !>y the same custom
heartofore sjHJcetied descend yf the said heyrc apparant had
dyed thereof seysed as aforsaid. And the same Custom and law
to hould and take place of for and touching the discent of the
right of inheritance in fee simple wch any psonn according to the
custom of the said mannor hath or ought to have in of or to any
Coppyhold or customary lands tenements or hereditaments in
the said mannor at the time of the decease of such psoiin or psnns.

Surrenders .

Allso that any Coppiholder seised of any estate of inheritance
in fee simple in p'ssion remainder or reversion according to the
custom of the said mannor may surrender the same Coppyhold
or customary lands tenements or hereditaments or any pte or
pcell thearof into the hands of the lord of the said mannor for
the tyme being or of the high steward or deputy steward of the
said I,ord of the said Courte of the said Mannr for the tyme being
or keeping any such Cort their or into the hands of any two
Coppy holders or customarye tennts of the said mannor out of
the Cort to the use of the same Coppyholder so surrendering of
any other psonn or psonns of or for any estate in fee simple or
in fee tayle general! or speciall or for any terme or termes of one,
two, or three lyves in p'ssion remaynder or reversion And that
any Coppyholder seised or possessed of any ol the aforsaid Coppi-
hold or customary lands tenements of hereditaments of any
estates for Kef lyves or yeares in p'ssion remainder orrevercon
according to the custom of the saide mannor may make surrender
thearof or of any pte thearof in forme aforsaid to the use of any
psonn or psonns for all or any pte of such tearine or estate of such
Coppiholder so surrendering then hath in the same p'misscsso to
be surrendered.

In tiii: Right ok 1 1 is VVikk.
And that any Coppyholder seised in the right ol his wief of
any estate of Inheritance in fee simple in p'ssion ivmaxndei oi
revercon according to the custom of the said mannor of and in
any of the aforsaid Coppihold oi customary lands tenements
and premises the said Coppiholder and his said wief ma) sill
render the said Coppyhold oi eustouian pmissi'S «u ,m\ pK
thearof into the hands ol the said l/>rd of Ihc said Muilltoj 01 into

KOROITC.H-KNGIJSH AND THE MAY.OK OF l'OKD

the hands of the high steward or deputy steward in the Cort of
the said manner, And so that the same wief be thear sole examined
according to the custom of the said mannor.

Descents by Intayms.

Allso that wheare any Goppiholder dyeth seised of any estate
of Inheritance in fee tayle or in any the aforsaid Coppihold or
customary lands tenements or hereditaments in pssion remaynder
or reversion of or in the said mannor That then after the decease
of the said Coppyholder the said Coppihold ])inisses vvhearof the
said Co])])iholder so dyed seised ought and shall descend to such
yongest or sole sonne yongest or sole daughter yongest or sole
brother yongest or sole sister yongest or sole uncle or sole aunt
or yongest or sole cossen of the said Goppiholder inheriditable
thearuuto according to the form of the en tayle as by the custom
heartofore specified shall or ought to inherite as heyreby descent
of inheritance unto any Goppiholder dying seised of any of the
said Goppyhold lands tenements or hereditaments of or in the
said mannor of any estate of fee simple according to the custom
of the said mannor, And that no wief or widdow of any Coppy-
holder of any of the said coppihold or customary landes tene-
ments or hereditaments of or in the said manor ought shall or
may after the decease of her husband have or claymc to have any
estate title or interest for her dower or free bench of in or to any
of the said lands tenements or hereditaments weh her said hus-
band hath or held of any estate of inheritance in fee simple fee
tayle or lor lief or lyves other then Well shall deeend or be con-
veyed unto her as aforesaid, And that the Lord of the said Mannor
for the tyine being for himself or by his said Steward or Deputy
Steward ought and shall adinitte every such he vie by Descent
of Inheritance in fee simple or fee tayle as aforsaid unto all and
every the said Coppihold or Customary lands tenements 01
hereditaments the weh shall descend or ought to descend to the
said hey re according to the cnstoinc of the said lliaillior <>l Tel ill tc
of in and to the said Goppyhold or customary |>niisses And thereof
to grant seison to the said hcyre by the rood according to the
custom of the said mannor And in like inannci ami Sortt! ought
and shall ad m it t ever)' psonn 01 psoilUS to whole IMC any Slieli
surrender shall be made as aforesaid according l<» I he eiisltwi <>t
the.said mannor ten lite oj tennUs of in 01 Ui all atld ever) such

liOROUGH-RNO.USH AND TlIK MAYok OF IOK1)

347

of the said Coppihold or custoinai y tenements of hereditaments
as be or shall he so surrendered to his her or tl eir use as aforsaid
and to him her or them to whole use such surrender be or shall
be so made to graunt the same pmisses so surrendered and seison
thearof by the rood according to his her or their estate or estats
in the same surrender limited and declared according to etc.,
without any unnecessary delay after reasonable demand And that
every such heyre yf such heyre shall be admitted within one yeare
next after the deeeasse of the ancestor of such heyre or without
admittance at the end of the said yeare shall pay unto the Lord
of the said niannor for the tyme being for a tyme so much money
as shall amount to the value of one year's rent of the rent now
answerable, due or payable unto the said Lord for the said
coppyhold pmisses whearof the said heyre shall be admitted
tennte and no more.

Herriotts.

And that the Lord of the said niannor for the tyme being
have allway so used and for ever hearafter shall and may by
himself, his Baylief or other officer sease and take for a herriott
the best beast of any Coppy holder dying sole seised of any
estate of inheritance or for tearm of lief of or in any of the afor-
said Coppihold or customary messuages lands or tenements of or
within the said niannor or wch the said Coppyhokler shall have
at the tyme of the decease of the said C. And if the same C.
so dyiiu* sole seised shall be a feme Convert then the best beast
that her husband shall have at the tyme of her decease and such
C. at the tyme of his or her decease or such husband at the time
of his wieves decease shall not have any beast then the Lord shall
have some other the best other thing of the psonnable goods
and chattells that such C. or such husband shall have at the
tyme of the decease of such C. as the Lord or his baylief or ym-
prover or other officer shall best like of seise and take.

Admittances,

And that every psonn to who-e use such surrender shal be
made as aforsaid of any of the aforsaid Coppihold 01 customary
tenements ymediatcly uppou such admittance us ilforsaid ol
the same psonn or tennte to the- same coppy hull Id [ttltisses so
surrendered yf such admittance shall be admitted within one
yeare next after the decease of the anccsUu of Mich luyie 01

HOKOUC.H-ENniJSH AND THE MAYOR OF FORD.

without admittance at the end of the said yeare shall |>av unto
the Lord of the said nuuinor lor the lyilie being for a tyme so
much money as shall amount to the value of one year's rent of
the rent now answerable, due or payable unto the said Lord for
the said Coppyhold pmsses whearof the said heyre shall be
admitted tennte and no more. And that the said Lord shall
have of every Coppyholder of Inheritance ... no use over in
fee simple of intayle according to etc shall pay unto the lord for
a Itarr ffee two shillings and no more."

Reward to the Lord.

That if a Copyholder's heir was under age the lord should not
have his wardship nor any control over his lands, but his mother
or the next of kin who was not his heir, should have custody of
him and hold the lands for him.

That leases were to he made by permission of the lord of the
manor the lord receiving " as man)- pence in money as the
number of yea res in such lvccnce con taym.il and no more."

No Forfeiture for Wast Comitted.
That no lord should have power to deprive for waste com-
mitted.

That account should be kept on parchment in the Court rolls
of all business relating to the Manor, and that a copy on parch-
ment of any items should be given to the person therein concerned
on parti i cut ol' win.d., and Ihal lite olliccrs of the lord should
make no further charges on any occasion.

That any person complaining of infringement of his rights by
another, should on payment of -is. to the use of the lord, have
the matter tried by a Jury or Inquest of 12 men, by whose verdict
the matter should be decided.

That any question of boundaries, moors, ways, or watercourses
should on payment ol Od. to the use of line lord, be tried in the
court of the manor by i_> or more of the Copyholders, and the
verdict duly recorded on the Court Rolls.

That the amount due to the bold on the surreudei ot land
should be decided in the Court of the Manor.

That all customs ol the manor should be kept inviolahle foi
ever by the complainants and defendant and then Ueirs,

BOROUCH-KNGLISH AND THE MAYOR OK FORD.

349

"And whearas allso the said John Talbot in consideration of
the some of £1880 ijs. of lawfull english aioney to hhn by the
complainants well and truely paid is well pleased that the said
customs shall be allowed on behaulf of the said complainants
and their heirs and assigns and that he and his heirs and assigns
w ill hold themselves bound by these customs. The complainants
fearing that in short time this agreement might lie forgotten,
procured its decreeal by the High Court of Chancer}', June 11,
(1. James J. Thomas Lord Elsmere, Chancellor of Kngland."

(Then follows a repetition at length of all that has already
been stated as to the custom of descent, etc.)

Of the foregoing list of tenants and copyholders who paid
John Talbot {"1860 ijs., that they might retain the customs of
the manor set forth in the deed, Richard Harries, George Hosier
and Arthur Ward were also freeholders of the manor, as were
William Cross, who held Ford Hall, and Francis Adams of
Longden, who held the " Mills at Ponsford."

The purport of the whole deed is shown by its marginal notes :

".Marginal notes to an agreement relating to the Manor of Ford
given at Westminster July 21, i>. J as. I. (l0o8).

" The yongest Sonne shalbee Heire to A Coppy holder."

" For default of Issue male to the yongest daughter."

" Any Coppieholder may surrender his lands into the hands ot
the Lord of the Mauuor or to liis Steward at the Court, or into
the hands of 1 Coppieholdcrs out of ye Court."

" A Coppieholder seised in Right of his wife may surrender.
The wife to be examined in open Court."

Dkcknts uy Intaii.i:.
" Noe Wife or Widowe shall clayme any estate lor her Dower."

Livery and Seisin iiy run Rom>,
" The lx.*st l)east of any Coppieholder for a lierriott."
" Two shillings to be paid to ye Lor 1 for .1 tare lee."
" Coppieholdcrs may I,ea>e w ith Lycenee of the bold ul his
Steward "

" N«u- forfeiture to br taken foi any W;iste
'" Surrender to be recorded in parchment."
' A jury ol twelve or more to ti \e Right.

350

BOROUGH-ENGLISH AND THE MAYOR OF FORD.

Wayks and Watkrcoursls.

Bounds and Mkares.

" Surrenders to be presented in the Court."
" Customs to be observed."
" Submission to the customs."

" The Auneient Customs to bee for ever observed
Contirnieth."

In ye part of the Father."
" To tlie yongest or sole Sonne.''

Daughter."
Brother."
14 Sister."

Uncle."
Aunt."

"In ye part of ye Mother." (T/ie same order). (This
pealed.

MISCELLANKA.

( VHulcr (lu's limiting the Editors will be pleased to insert notes-,
and short articles relative to recent discoveries in the County,
or oilier matters oj archceological or historical interest.
Communications are invited, and should be addressed to I he
Editors, cjo Mr. .1. E. Cooper (Assistant Sec), 42, SI. John's
Hill, Shrewsbury.)

I.

APPOINTMENT BY THE EARE QW BRIDGE WATER OF
RICHARD WICKSTEAD TO BE OFFICIAL OK THE
PECULIAR ()F BUILDWAS, ib^.

For the following document, and the Earl's covering letter,
I am indebted to the kindness of Major Moseley, of Buildwas
Abbey. They show what were the duties of the Official of the
Peculiar of Buildwas in the seventeenth century.

" Know all men by these presents that I John Earl of Bridge-
water, the true and lawful lord and possessor of the Abbe}' or
Manor of Buildwas in the Count)- of vSalop, with all and singular
the rights spiritual and temporal jurisdictions members and
appurtenances thereto belonging, to my beloved in our Lord
Jesus Christ Richard Wickstead A.M. preacher of the Word of
God, rector of the parish church of Harley, send greeting. 1
the said Earl do give the Peculiar of Buildwas aforesaid [to the
said Richard Wickstead j , to have exercise hold and enjoy all
and all manner of spiritual jurisdiction ; and to hear and deter-
mine all causes and complaints in the said Peculiar in all cases,
at whose or whosoever suit or suits tin- same are or shall be
commenced ; and to prove and sign and con linn all Wills and
Testaments whatsoever within my said Jurisdiction, and to grant
Letters of Administration of all and singulai the goods chattels
and credits according to the laws and statutes now m King
of this Kingdom by persons dying intestate. Ami I the said
Earl do of my own freewill of myself depute and give by these
presents to the said Richard Wickstead authority and |X)\VCJ 1<>
make exercise and try all and sillglthll causes suits au<! trials
within the Peculiar Jurisdiction <>t Buildwas aforesaid, And 1
the said Kail do make ordain constitute and appoint linn my
lawful Official of the said Peeuliai during iu\ will mid pleasure,

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MISCELLANEA.

Iii witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand and seal the
first day of May in the eleventh year of the reign of King Charles
and in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six hundred and
thirty-five." J. Briuokwater.

Mr. \\ 'iekstead, .My many Busnesses have made me hitherto
deferr sending unto you concerning the Kcclesiastical Jurisdiction
in Buildwas. And I doubt had it not been for your letter (written
about two months sithence) I should scarcely have yett remem-
bered. I have sent you the Authority for Kxecution of the
same, which now I do under Scale. 1 could have beeue glad
I had done it sooner. Butt 1 cannot remember all things in soc
litt time as I desire. Nowe (though I doubt uott butt that you
understand the place bettei than myself) I will acquaint you
with some Informations as I have formerly received from sonic
who have executed that place whereto I have nowe deputed
and appointed yourself e, Vi/.t. : That the plaee and parishioners
are Exempt from the power, censure, or Sentence of the Bishop
of the Diocese, neither can the Bishop or Yicear Generall, Surro-
gate or Archdeacon hould any Visitation there or call them
elswhere. Only it is subject to the Visitation Metropoliticall.
The Power of the Jurisdiction there, is to houlde visitation, to
kecpe Courts of Correction, to proceed against delinquents with
publique pennances, etc. To prove Testaments tit \\ 'ills, c\: to
graunt Letters of Administration. To gram it Faculty tV
Dispensation for Marriage, & to certilie against persons con-
tumelious & Recusants. In all which I doubt not butt that
you will carefully take pains and see the trust reposed in you to
bee discharged to the glory of God & good to the Government
c\: the people under it. Which I shall Kxpeet att your hands.
And so for the present I Bidd you farewell & rest your very
Loving friend. J- BRIDOI5WATKK.

loth May, l6j5-

At the ArehBishops Visitation the parson & churchwardens
arc to be present, as I am informed. And I doubt not butt your-
self will be here to observe what is done & w hat directions are
given."

W. G. D. LLKTCIIKK, F.S.A.
II.

DHKD OK MANUMISSION oh A BONDWOMAN, i ;;j
The following is a transcript of a leed which u,b found among
the papers of a lady deceased by her nephew. There appears
to be no evidence of the circumstances of her getting |MISSCSSU>U
of it, but she herself was an accomplished linguist , artist, musician .
and also a great traveller.

There an- difficulties connected with it. Tlun welv lhie<
places in Shropshire known as "Album iltoiiustcrtum," uutllcl}

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Whitchurch, Oswestry, and Alberbury Priory. If the place
named in the deed be in Shropshire, Whitchurch would seem to
be the most likely of the three. There was a vSir John Blanc-
minster, Knight, belonging to Whitchurch in the reign of Edward
II. The witnesses' names do not help us ; and there is no
" Hename " (where the deed was executed) in the County.
There is, however, a village of Henham in Essex.

The deed, whether it belong to Shropshire or not, is an inter-
esting specimen of the manumission of a bond-woman ; and its
date is 6th April, 1372.

" Noverint universi per presentes quod ego Johannes de Albo
monasterio miles manumisi et liberam feci ac infranchiavi
Agnetem de Lindhillokes per manus feid (?) de speclow cum
omnibus bonis et catallis suis et cum tota sequela sua procreatis
vel procreandis donium et mansionem eligendum ubicunque
voluerit Nichil juris vel clamei michi, nec heredibus meis in
predicta Agnete bonis et catallis suis seu sequelis suis ratione
nativitatis vendicando seu retinendo in posterium sed per
presentes exclusi simus imperpetuum. Et ego vero predictus
Johannes et heredes mei predietam manumissionem contra
omnes mortales Warantizabimus in perpetuum. In cujus rei
testimonium presentibus sigillum nieiun apposui Hijs testibus
Johaune de Drenger, Willelrno de Eeghe, Roberto Grondoloce,
Nicholas Proddynger cud (?), Rogger de Exe, et alijs. datum
apud Hename die Martis proxima post festum Saneti Ambrosii
Anno regni Regis Edwardi tercij a conquestu Englke quadra-
gesimo sexto."

(Fragment of seal attached, a fret, and . . . iohe, a part of
legend.)

Translation.

" Know all men by these presents that I John of the White
Abbey Knight have manumitted and made free and enfranchised
Agnes of Eindhillocks, by the hands of feid (?) de Speclove or
Speclow] , with all her goods and chattels, and with all her issue
born or to be born, to choose her house and dwelling wherever
she will, Claiming or retaining hereafter no right or claim to me
or my heirs in the said Agnes her goods and chattels or her issue
by reason of birth, but that we may be for ever excluded by these
presents. And I the said John and my heirs will for ever warrant
the said manumission against all mortals. In witness whereof
I have to these presents set my seal. These being witnesses :
John de Drenger, William de I<eghe, Robert Orolldo Lace.
Nicholas lVroddynger cad (?), Hugger de Oxe, and others, Hated
at Hename (?) on Tuesday next aftei the beast of St. Ambrose
in the 46th year of the reign of King Edward the Thud from the
Conquest of England."

[lindorscd : Manumission of a Bond -woman,)

C. II. DRlSlKWATKR

.MI.-.CK.LI.ANKA.

III.

ST. JULIAN'S CHURCH, SHI EWSBURY.

In looking over some old papers I have found two letters
addressed to me by Mr. Richard Sims, of the British Museum,
author of several manuals to facilitate antiquarian research.
They are dated June 1885, and relate to investigations made for
me into the history of St. Julian's Church. The first letter has
reference to the Map of Shrewsbury, in which one of the gates
is marked in Lord Burleigh's handwriting. This is well known
and a copy can be seen in the Shrewsbury Museum, but the other
deals with details not equally accessible, and I think it may be
worth while to reproduce its contents in the pages of Miscellanea.

Mr. Sims writes as follows : " The lady who is making the
search under my direction has found in Add. MS. Jr.oi^ two views
of St. Julian's Church (south and north) taken down in 1748.
The drawings are said to be made from others in the collection
of Mr. Rd. Greene, of Lichfield, size Sin. by bin. Then follow
drawings of the ancient Font, a tile dug up, ancient inscribed
monument to Thos. Hussey, 12 pages of monuments in the Church
and Churchyard, with many coats of arms, arms hi the cast
window, arms presented by the Earl of Tankerville in 1806,
N.W. view of the church with part of the West end of St. Alkmond,
5 Jin. by 4, short notice of the church. There is also in Add.
MS. 21,016 drawings of a stone built in the wall of a house adjoining
St. Julian's churchyard, and remains of an ancient coffin lid
found in another house near to the church. There is also a
drawing j|in. by j of a foliated tabernacle with a figure of St.
Julian built into the wall of the South side of the Chancel.
Appended is a brief biography of St. Juliana."

There is one inaccuracy in the above. The inscribed monu-
ment to Thomas Hussey is a palimpsest ; it originally com-
memorated Edmond Troumwyn, and was in a much later age
appropriated by the Hussey family. The slab now lies inside
the South door.

T. AUDEX, ES.A.

IV.

SALE OF OLD PARR'S COTTAGE.

It may be well to place on record here- that the \\ 'inuington
Estate, the property of Sir Clive L'liillipps VVoliey, including
Old Parr's Cottage, was sold by auction in Shrewsbury on ilst
September, 1917. The cottage was sold to Mi. [oha Tan. ol
Newton Heath, Manchester, for £lJO, but will continue in 11k
occupation of Mr. II. E. Forrest, who lias converted it into 1
museum of antiquities illustrative of old r.m und his limes
open to the public on payment of a small fee, Mi. John Tan

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does not claim descent from Old Parr, but from Dr. Samuel Parr.
A brief notice of the cottage is given in the Transactions for 1914,
page 264, but it may be of interest to add that corroboration of
Taylor, the Water Poet's statement as to the successive leases
of this tenement granted to Old Parr is to be found in the Pari-d:
Register of Alberbury. Taylor states that the cottage belonged
to a family named Porter. The first lease was for 21 years and
was granted to Thomas Parr by Lewis Porter about 1522. John,
son of Lewis, granted a further lease for 21 years, and his son
Hugh another lease for the same period. Lastly John, sou of
Hugh, gave Thomas Parr a lease for life, he being then over 102
years old. In connection with this last lease Taylor relates the
story of Old Parr and the pin, he pretending to his landlord's son
Edward, a mere boy, that he could see the pin lying on the lloor,
although he was actually almost blind. We find by the Alberbury
register that the Porter family were real people, not figments of
Taylor's imagination, and that the two later generations bore
the names attributed to them. The widow of Johu Porter, who
granted the last lease for life, was buried in 1642, while the boy
Edward Porter married about 1010 a wife named Catherine, by
whom he had several children. In 1642 he was one of the signa-
tories to the appointment of a Parish Clerk at Alberbury. He
lived at Wilmington and died in 1G60. Taylor distinctly states
that he obtained these details from " relations " and these are
the only particulars that could be tested by reference to the
register, and prove to be correct. We are justified in concluding
that the rest of his story is also correct.

H. E. FORREST.

V.

BROWNESLAND NEAR ASTERTON.

The Rev. C. H. Drinkwater has recently transcribed a deed
which may be of some interest as relating to a part of the county
which has little recorded history.

It is an indenture made 8 Oct., 1639, in the 15th year of " our
Soueragne Lord Charles, by the grace of God, Kinge of Imglaud,
Scotland, France and Ireland," between John Oakes of Little
Stretton, co. Salop, yeoman, and Joane his wife, on the one
part, and " Alice Medlicott natural! daughter of the sayd Joane
on the other part," of the sale to Alice- for £30 and a rent of £7 o| a
messuage, toft and half yard land m Astanton co. Salop, called
Brownesland, with all rights thereto belonging. " All which
premises were sometime the inheritance of William Yoppe
deceased, father of the said Joane and arc- now m the tenure and
occupation of the sayd John Oakes and Joane 01 of their under-
tenants." Paying yearly to the said Joane during the tenia of
her natural life, an annuity of £7 " of lawful money of Knglaud."

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at the feast of " St. Michael! Tharchangell and the feast of
Thannuncia'con of our Blessed Lady, viz , Mary the Virgine."
The first payment to be at Michaelmas 1640, and if the rent be
at any time not paid within 20 days of the time for paying, forty
shillings to be paid as a forfeit.

Astanton, once Esthampton, is now known as Asterton. It
was a member of the wide manor of Lydbury North under the
Bishops of Hereford. It is in the parish of Norbury, but is
generally considered to go with My nd town. There is said to
have been a chapel there, but it may be another Asthampton.
In 1327, Philip Yoppe was one of the inhabitants of "Astamton."
In 1563 the Jones family of Leebotwood had property there,
when Richard Jones of Astanton married .Anne, daughter of
John Leigh ton of Leighton.

H. AI. AUDEN, F.R.Hisx.S.
VI.

WILL OF THOMAS MYTTON, OF HALSTON,

1656.

The following is an abstract of the Will of Thomas Mytton,
the celebrated Parliamentary General. I do not know definitely
who his wife, the Lady Barbara Stapleton, was, but I conjecture
that she was the Hon. Barbara Lennard, daughter of Thomas,
Lord Dacre, and second wile (and widow) of the distinguished
Parliamentarian Sir Philip Stapilton, Knight, of Warier on the
Wolds, who died at Calais in 1647.

Thomas Mytton, of Halston, co. Salop, esquire. Will not dated.

" To my three daughters Magdalen, Christian and Sarah,
£1,500 each for their portions, which is to be raised out my
lands and rents within the several counties of Salop, Merioneth,
Middlesex, Gloucester, Devon, Mint, Carnarvon and Anglesea
and elsewhere. To my wife the Lady Barbara Stapleton all her
jewels and one piece of gold which she now has worth / -}, and all
the furniture in the chamber where she now lodge th, excepting
my black cabinet and one steel spanner one gilt seal of arms and
one 22s. piece of gold which same things I bequeath unto my son
Richard Mitton (under age). To my daughter Magdalen my
wrought purple bed. To my grandchild Thomas Pope {100 a
year of my fee farm rents which I have purchased in Anglesea.
To my brother Sir Richard Napetre best grey stone horse. To
my friend Master Thomas Kdwaids of Kelelcnd 1 ay my watch
with the alarm. To my servant John Houth £5 yearl) to be
paid out of lands in Houghton. Executors: m\ kinsman Rogei
Kinaston of Hordley, Esq., Win. Jones of Sand foul, Esq., and
daughter Magdalen Mitton."

Proved at London 4th Nov., 1(150, by Magdalen Mitton. pOWCI
reserved to the other executors. ( 570 Berkley.)

W. G. D. bl.l/lYHI'.K. b s \

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VII.

GRANT FROM WIIJJAM BYRETON TO JOHN BEGET AND
BENKDICTA HIS WIFE OF HIS LANDS IN EONGDEN,
NEAR PONTESBURY, 28 JULY, 1416.

(Translation.)

" Know all men present or to come that I William Byreton
of Longford have given and granted, and by this my present
charter have confirmed, to John Beget of Shrewsbury and
Beuedicta his wife, all my lands and tenements meadows feedings
and pastures with all their appurtenances whatsoever which I
have in the vill and fields of I/mgedon near Pontesbury, To
have and to hold all the aforesaid lands tenements meadows
feedings and pastures with all their appurtenances "to the said
John Beget and Benedicta his wife their heirs and assigns, of
the chief lords of that fee by the serviees therefor due and of
right accustomed. And moreover I the said William Byriton
and my heirs will warrant and for ever defend all the said lands
and tenements meadows feedings and pastures with all their
appurtenances to the said John Beget and Benedieta his wife,
their heirs and assigns against all persons. In witness whereof
I have set my seal to this my present charter. These being
witnesses: John Mastoke [or Mastote , Roger Longdon, William
Mastoke of Pontesbury, and many others. Dated at Longedon
the 28th day of July in the fourth year of the reign of King
Henry the Fifth after the Conquest." (28 July, 141b).

William Byreton the grantor was a son of William de Byriton,
senior, who served the office of Bailiff fifteen times between the
years 1355 and 1405, in which last year he died, while in office,
at a very advanced age. In 1391 William de Byriton, senior,
was manucaptor (or surety) in a penalty of {.40 that Thomas de
Byriton and William de Byriton, the sons of Willi. an (senior)
should keep the peace towards the Abbot of Ilanghmond and
his servants. Thomas de Byriton had been bailill in 136O and
1372. The family derived their surname from the village of
Berrington, and they were burgesses of Shrewsbury from a very
early period. Moat Hall, near llanwood, was long the residence
of the family. (See Transactions, 3rd Series, II., 275-277.)

John Beget, the grantee, was a son of John Beget of London,
and great-grandson of John Beget who held a burgage in l'r.mk-
well in 1^78. His son, also named John, was bailill 111 [436, and
one of the hist twelve Aldermen created in Shrewsbury. [Sc<
Transactions, 3rd Series, 111., 370-7*)

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GENERAL INDEX TO VOL. VI.
Compiled by F. A. MACLEOD.

(The figures in parentheses show how many times the
subject occurs in the same page).

A

Abdon, 177 235, 247, 248
Accounts, 1916, xviii
Adforton, 258 .
Afcot, 227, 235, 245, 246
Albcrbury, 239, 281, 283
Albrightlee, 167
Albright on, 123
Alcaston, 235
Aldon, 199
Alghampton, 227
Alveley, 230, 242, 243
Arley, 234, 235

Ar.mokial Bearings.

Ashby, 281

Barncby, 239

Hurley, 227 (2), 228

Hawkins, 121

Johnstone, 274

Littleton, 236

Lutlcy, 240, 241, 262

OakeJey, 1 IS, 150, 151, 193

Plowden, 103

Royds, 270

Trussell, 234

Walcot, 193

Waring, 277, 278

Whitahcr, 275
Asli Magna, 123
Ash wood, 197
Aspicty, 235

Ast.-rl. v, Pontesbury, 239
Aston, 226, 235, 245, 246, 251, 256,
258

Aston Piggotfc, 252

Auden, H. At., P. R. Hist. S ,
Borough English and the
Manor of Ford, 340; Browncs
laud near Astcrton, v

Auden, lv\v. J. I"., M A., F.R.

Hist . S , IvYgistcr of the Names
of Hoys admitted to Shrews-
bury School from 5 Mar. 1030 7
to It. Nov., 1001, I .

Auden, Rev. Prcb. T., F.S.A., St.

Julian's CI lurch, Shrewsbury, xv
Aulden, 227

B

Hachc, Culmington. 187

Buldcote, 235, 258.

Barber Surgeon's Company, Ex-
tracts from Younge's Annals,
1 13

Beamish Pool, 124 ; Wood, 126
Bcnthall, near Ford, 281, 340
Betton under Lyme, 154
Bicton, 130, 190
Bishop's Wood, 123, 126
Bitterley, 250
Bodenhope, 235

Bondwoman, Deed of Manumission

of a, 1372, it
Borough English and the Manor of

Ford, H. M. Auden, F.R. Hist.

S., 340
Brampton Bryan, 231
Pre wood. 125. 170. 189
Bridgnorth. 142, 1 1 1, 145, 174, 198.21 1
B met on, 227, 235, 245
Brodston, 25h

Bromcroft, in the Parish of Diddle-
bury, and its Owners, b)
Evelyn H. Martin, 223
Tyre I, 226; Barley, 227; Lutlcy,
240; Barncby, 207: K'ovds, 2t S
270 ; Johnston 27 I ; WlutaUe.
274

Lutlcy Settlements, 10 Nov.,
1605, 252 ; I Oct.. 1663, 256 ,
30th April, 1703, 200 J 1 1 Do
1707, 263
Garrison at. 221
BromHeld, IS2. 235
Bros. Icy, 108

Brownesl.md. near Asterton, j' ,
Buildwas Abbey. 100, 170. 1 ■".

188, l8U, loo. i ,i
Buildwas. I Peculiar of i
Biirlton, 171

.1

GKNKKAL INDEX TO VOI, VI.

Burwarton, 250

Byreton, W illiam, Grant of lands
in Longden, near Pontesbury,
to John Beget and Bencdicta
his wife, 28 July, 1416, vii

Caus, 168

Chaddesley Corbett, co, Worcester,
206

Chatford, Condover, 340
Chelmick, 178

Chillington Pool, 124 ; Big Wood,
126

Church Preen, 184
Civil War

Bromcroft Castle, 223

Greenland House, Bucks, Siege
of, 107

Holgate Castle, 223

Charles 1. at Shrewsbury, 23

Royalist Officers, 4, 5 (2), 6(2),
8 (3), 10, 17 (3), 21, 25, 30, 34,
36, 2S5, 288, 293.

Parliamentarian Officers, 7 (3),
10, 16, 17, 278.
Clakk-Maxwi-ll, Rev. Preb.W.G.,
M.A., F.S.A., The Old Church
Llanfair Waterdinc, 97
Claverley, 173
Clee St. Margaret, 213
Clee Staunton, 251
Cleeton, 173
Clcobury, 171, 235
Cliff Grange, Sutton, 179
Clun, The Borough of, R. LI.
Kenyon, 127

Charter of Liberties, 1325,127;
8 Hen. VII., 167

Report by Municipal Commission-
ers, 1835, 128 ; 1880, 136

Lnclosure Act, 136

Pair, 6 John, 129

Wood Pica Court, 130

Civil Court, 133

Borough Officers, 131

Burgesses, 132

Freemen, 131

Commoners' Rights, 135

Seals and Maces, 12S, 131, 136

Castle, 128, 199

Hospital, 131, 135

School, 136

Lock Up, 13 1
Clunbury, 250
Cllingunford, 227, 237
Codsall, 121
Cokeridge, 235
Cold Weston, 226
Coin be r i i h' i e Abbey, 169, 179
Condover, 213, 310

Consecration of the School Chapel
in the Old Schools, Shrewsbury,
Deed of, 1 Nov., 1617, Tran-
scribed by Rev. C. H. Drink-
water, M.A., with Introduction
by the Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher,
M.A., F.S.A., 88

Coolemere, 145

Corfham, 223, 226, 227

Corfton, 240, 244, 247, 24S, 249

Corsclle, Hinstock, 152, 185

Coston Manor House, Clunbury, 199

Cotes, Rushburv, 217, 246

Cound, 218, 219^ 220

Ckanagk, Rev. C. H. S., Litt.D..
F.S.A., Shropshire and the
Trent 1 *asin, 123

Cressage, 232, 236

Crusades, Rich I , Salopions at, 193

Culmington, 192, 271

D *

Dallicott, Claverley, 237
Dee, River, 123

Diddlebury, 158, 233, 235, 24!, 245,

246, 251, 251
Donington, 189, 278
Drayton, IS3

Dkinkwatkk, Rev. C. H., M.A.,
Deed id' Consecration of the
School Chapel in the Old
Schools, Shrewsbury, 1 Nov.,
1617, 88

Deed of Manumission uf a Bond
woman , 1372, it

Grant from William Byreton to
John Beget and Benedicts his
wife of his lands in l.ongd. 11
near Pontesbury , 28 July, 14 16,

67

Raton under Haywood, 241, 26(
Hdgmond, 3 10, 341
Lllcsnicrc, 145
l-dsieh, Diddlebury, 250
bUeal Magna, 186
Hrmestree Park, Diddlebury. 25(1
Fyton, 179

F

Families.
Audley, 311 Mack worth, 2
Barncbv, 263 Moore, $15
Burlcv.*22/ More. 193
Bvret'on. I 1 Oakcley, 1 17, |WI
Colic. 1 1>G Onflow, I6<

Cressett, -15 Plowdcn. 193
I 'it/.d.oi of I 'out \ sbui ) , lo-

Clllll, I2JJ Poller. I
I'OXC, 203 (.1) Pi uu e. 2
Hawkins, 107 ICoyds, !£70

GKNKRAL INDEX TO VOL VI.

xi

Hopton, 233 Talbot, 341
Johnstone, 271 Troutbeck, 341
Leighton, 2 Tyrel, 226
Littleton, 234 Walcot, 193
Lutley, 240 Waring, 163, 277
Lutwich, 2 Whitaker, 274
Lyster, 162 Yate, 206
Fareote, 150

Feet of Fines, Shropshire, A.D.
1218-1248, 169 ; Index to ditto,
192. See also 154, 155, 226.

Fletcher, Rev. W. G. D., M.A.,
F.S.A.

Appointment by the Earl of
Bridgewater of Richard Wick-
stead to be Official of the
Peculiar of Buildwas, 1635, i

Deed of Consecration of the
School Chapel in the Old
Schools, Shrewsbury, 1 Nov.,
1617, Introduction, 88

Shropshire Feet of Fines, A.I).
1218-1248, 169

Institut ions of Shropshi-e Incum-
bents, 295

Will of Thomas Mytton, of
Halston, 1656, vi
Ford Hall, 285
Ford House, 268

Ford, The Manor of, and Borough
English, H. M. Auden,
F.R.Hist.S., 340
Chancery Decree, 6 Jas. I., 341
List of Tenants, 6 Jas. I., 341
Welshman's Ford, 341
Ford, Mansion House, 292
Fork est, H. E., Sale of Old Parr's
Cottage, iv
Some Old Shropshire Houses and
their Owners :

VII. The Lynches, Yocklcton,

2/7

VIII. Henthall, mar Ford, 281
IXa. Ford Hall, 285

IXn. Ford House, 288

IXc. Mansion House, Ford, 292

CI

Gravenhunger, 152
Great Berwick, 183
Gulydon, Mcrrington, 185

11

Habberley, 239
Hadnall, 177
Halesowen , 236
Hampton, 1 15

Haughmond Abbey, 169, 185, 192
Hawkins, Sir Ctvsar and his brother ,

sfc Two Celebrated Salopian

Surgeons
Hemmesle, Withiforil, 178

Heath, 226
Henley, 235

Henry I. at Lolgate, 211

Holdfast, 248, 249

Holgate and the Cressetts, the Rev.

R. C. Purton, M.A., 211
Hope Bagot, 175
Hopton, 233
Howarth, Burfield, 255
Hulton, 235
Humphreston, 278
Hungerford, 258

I

Incumbents, Shropshire.
Abdon.317

Acton Burnell, 15, 237

Acton Scott, 317

Adderley, 301

Alberbury, 282, 308, 315

Albrightlce, 22

Albrighton, 298, 302

Astley, 73

Astou-on-Clun., 312

Aston Botterell, 612, 318, 325. 328

Atcham, 2D5, 297, 2iJ;s

Badger (Bagsorc), 317, 325

Baschurch, 304

Battlelield, 74, 75

Beckbury, 316

Bedstone, 307. 31 1

Berrington, 73, 800, 303, 304

Billingsley, 314

Bishop's Castle, 315

Bitterley, 323, 325

Bobbington, 5

BromHeld, 309

Broselcy, 828

Broughton, 75

Bucknell, 320

Burfo.d, 310. 311 (2), 315, 819,

320, 324 (2), 325, 32/ (2)
Burwarton, 807, 32K, 329
Cainham, 313. 315, 323, 328
Cardeston, 312, 313
Cardington, 3 1 5
Chehnarsh, 306, 3 I .'■>
Chetton, 80;», 32/
Chctwynd, 297
Cheswardine, 4 1
Child's Ercall. 35
Chirbury, 62. 149, 305, 314, 322
Church St ret ton, 73
Cleobury Mortimer, 810 31G, :UW
CUiobur) Nrn th. 29, SUt), 325
Clive, 41, 72
Clint, 42. 30S. 818
ClunjMinloi J, 30.,, .U)S, 316
CM West,..., 31(1

Comlover, 31. 3s, /6,29s. TOO, 3o;<
Core ley, :nil, 32H
Cound, 75, 219, 300

GENERAL INDEX TO VOL. VI.

Incumbknts - continual

Culmington, 271, 322 (2), 326 329
Deuxhili, 309, 327
Diddlebury, 249, 275, 318, 324,
326

Ditton Priors, 306, 323
Donington 299
Dowles, 317
Downton, 321
Easthope, 314, 317
Eaton, 3.21, 323, 32S
Eaton Constantino, 76, 297
EJgmond, 297
EUesmere, 296, 300, 301
Ercal, 32, 302
Ford 291
Frodeslcy, 303
Glazeley, 309, 327
Greet, 304, 309, 320, 322
Habberlcy, 327
Hadnall, 8
Halesowen, 251

Han\vood,73, 76,306, 3i 9,319,324

Barley, 15, 66, 297, i

Heath Chapel, 311

Highley, 314, 322

Hinstock, 296, 301

Hod net, 6, 300

Holgafe, 311, 313

Hope Bagot, 305 (2), 323, 326, 327

Hope Bowdler, 309, 311

Hopesay, 326

Hopton Gastle, 3L5

H opt on Wafers. 319, 327

Hughley, 34, 311 (2)

Kernberton, 3()(), 302

Kinlet, 72, 318, 330

Kinnersley . 297

Lcighton, 299, 301

Lcinl wardine, 329

Lirtley Chapel, 328

Llanfnir Waterdine, 98, 102, 105

Loppington, 298, 299, 303

Ludlow, 1 13, 160, 305

Lydbury North, 315, 329

Lydham, 316

Madeley, 304, 320 (?)

Market Urayton, 299, 301

Meole Brace, 33, 73, 315, 326

Middle, 303

Middlelon Scrivcn, 313, 322, 325
Montt'ord, 301
More, 315

Moreton Corbet, 299

Mm. slow, 49, 251, 252, 306, 313

Myndtown, 322

Neen Savage, 316, 320, 32 I

Ncen Kollars, 325

Necnton, 74, 321

Ness Magnn, 301

Ntoi'burv, :;15

Norton-in-Hales, 237, 299
Oldbury, 324
Onibury, 308
Oswestry, 10
Petton, 302
Pitchford, 5, 303

Pontesbury, 13, 76, 306 (2), 307,

310, 313, 319, 324, 326, 329
Prees, 303

Preston-on-the-Weald Moors, 302
Pulverbatch, 38, 318
Cjuatt, 22, 296
Richard's Castle, 312
kodington. 5, 303
Rushbury, 219, 275,305
Ruyton-xi-Towns (Ryton) 30")
Rvton, by Beckbury, 299,302. 303
Salop, Archdeaconry, 6, 90, 304,

309, 323
Shawbury, 296, 297
Sfeemton, 296, 29!), 302
Shelve, 35, 307, 312
Shifnal, 301, 302
Shrawardinc, 41, 312, 319
Shrewsbury. Abbey, 56, 90, 29S

St. Alkmund, 73

St. Chad, 30.51, 75.89,296, 298

St. Julian, 42, 73, 165

St. Mary, 58, 72, 73, 74, 76
Stdbury, 310, 311
Silvington, 305, 309, 320
Smctheotc, 38. 298
Stanton Lacv, 313, 316, 321
Stanton Long, 252, 275, 317, 325
Stanton upon Hi'ne Heath, 298
Stapleton, 301
Stirchley, 301

Stockton, 302

Stoke on-Tern, 4

Stolic St. Milborouftli, 250. 31 1

Stolicsa) , 31 t

Sutton, nr. Shrewsbury, 306, 313,

319, 3 ?6, 327
Sutton Maddock, 300, 802
Task v. 316
Tugford, 312, 326
Tugford, 312, 326
Unton Crcssclt, 216, 307. 322, 323
I ipt on Magna, 50
Upton Pnrva, '/'>
Wellington. KHi, '.'9 I
Wculock, Much. 321, 322. 321
Wen lock, I .ttle. :C20
Wentnoi . 317. 32S
\\ estburv. 71. 149. all. <IS 319,

321 ('*(, 3"6.

wi.«- ithnl, i*>7. :t«7, < 28, :i Ri

Whitt hur. h Ifilti,

VViiiaingioii, <.. m
Willey, 316

W, t.inst-w . 30, . .i (2) 32S

GENERAL 1NDKX TO VOL.. VI.

xiii

Incumbents — continued

Withington, 50

Wolstaston, 310, 317

WorHeld, 296, 300, 303, 304

Worthen, 308, 318, 320

Wribbesford. 308

Wrockwardine, 298

Wroxeter, 295, 297
Ingwardine, Stottesdon, 260, 262,
268

Inquisitions Post Mortem.
Littleton, Johane, 1505, 235
Littleton, Sir Thomas, 235
Mitton, Reginald, 1 Mar., 1429,232
Tyrrell, Hugh, 17 Edw. I'll., 226
Tyrrell, Johanna, 18 May, 1345,226

Institutions of Shropshire Incum-
bents, 295

Inventor)' of Goods, William
Oakeley, 1331, 159

Isle, The, 19

J

James, R. R., F.R.G.S., Two Cele-
brated Salopian Surgeons (Sir
Caesar Hawkins, Hart., and
his brother Pennell Hawkins),
107

K

K en yon , R. Ll , The Borough of
Clun, 127
Shrewsbury Show, 331
Keven Colonog, 130
Kiddemoor Green, 124

L

Lafean, Major J. de C, R.A., Grant
from William Lyster to his son-
in-law Nicholas Waryng and
Cristiana liis wife, in tail, of all
his lands in Frankwell, Shrews
bury, 15 May, 1494, 161

Lawton, 210, 244, 247, 249, 252,
253, 254, 257

Leaton, 167

Ledwitch, 247, 218. 253, 258
Lee, 231

Leighton, 178, 215
I .eon aril's I .ee, 175
Ltanfairwaterdinr, Rev. Preb. \\r. G.
Clark-Maxwell, M.A., L.S.A.,

97

Longden, Pontesbury, 213, 349, vii
Longford, 250
Longford Chapel, 207
Loppinglon, 3 10
Losford, 173

Ludlow, 1(18, 109, 142, 158, 191, 237,
217, 253

Broad Street, 255
Carmelite Church, 239
Castle, 142
Fair, 142
Ludford House, 202, 204
Lydbury North, 148, 197
Lydham, 150
Lynches, Yockleton, 277
Lyster, William, Grant in tail of all -
his lands in Frankwell, Shrews-
bur)', to his son-in-law Nicholas
Waryng and Cristiana his wife,
15 May, 1494, Transcribed and
edited by Major J . de C. Laffan,
161

Lyttelton Charters relating to
Burlcy Family, 20 Dec, 1448,
21 Oct, 1449, 236; 3 Aug.,
! 1456, 7 March, 1465, 237

Lutley Family, 2 Feb., 1293, 3
Oct.. 1338, 15 Aug., 1365, 8
June, 1368, 242

M

Malehurst, Pontcsbury, 231
Marches of Wales, Register of the

Council in, 1569-91, Caroline

A. J. Skeel, D'.Lit , 141
Entries concerning Ludlow, 142
Entries concerning Shropshire

Notables, 144
Entries concerning Religion, 144
bail l ies concerning Trade, 144
Entries concerning Alehouses,

145

Entries concerning Musters, 145
&V# also Bridgnorth, Ludlow,
Shrewsbury

Marsh, 227

Marsh, Cans. 179

Marshaton, 226

Marston, 246

Martin, Evelyn H., Bromcroft in
the parish of DIdUlcbury, and
its Owners, 22.'i

Mi esc, river, I 25

Members, List of, mi

Members of Parliament.
Bridgnorth, 27S
Ludlow, 11, 64
Much Wcnlock, 24
Shropshire, 195, 197 (2), 231
Shrewsbury, I 1, RA, KS, 74, 162.
166, 167 (2), 168, 23S

M erst on, 235

Middlchope, 22G (2), 227

Military Must.-. . 1577, 145

Millichnne, 246

MiiisteVley, IHU
Mini mi, 251

xiv

GKNKUAI. INDIiX TO VOL. VI.

Moathall, 254, vii
Monk Meole, 191
Montford Bridge, 191
Moreton Corbet, 143, 254
Munslow, 227, 235, 237, 242, 250,
251, 252, 253, 258

N

Naisha, 251

Naunton, 251

Nen, river, 123

Newcastle, 130

Newport Grammar School, 4

Norncote, 226 (2), 227

Norton-in-Halcs, 151, 152, 154,227

C)

Oakeley, Capt. Edward F., Some
Notes on the History of the
Oakeley Family, 147
Oakeley Family, Some Notes on
the History of, Capt. Edw. F.
Oakeley, 147
Oakeley of Oakeley, 147

,, of Norton in Hales, 151
Oakeley Property in Ludlow :
Castle Street, 158
Mill Street, 159
Butcher's Row, 159
Galdeford, 159
La Sete, 159
Old Parr's Cottage, Sale of, iv
OKI Salopians at Oxford and Cam-
bridge :
Cambridge :
Caius, 40

Catherine Hall, 74

Christ's, 6, 20. 22 (2), 52, 74,

75 (2), 7(5
Clare, 35, 59
C.C.C., 52

Emanuel, 5, 11, 30 (2), 43, 56

Jesus, 40, 51, 5i)

King's, 19, 56, 74

Magdalene, 15 (2), 30, 39, 41,
42, 48, 62

Pemhroke, 6, 53

Peterhouse, 59, 73, 79

Queen's, 9, 33, 38, 51, 63, 67

St. Catherine's, 4(>, 56

St. John's, 1 ('-!), 5 (3), 10 (2),
11, |4, 21,28, 28(2), 30,31 (2),
32, 37, 39, 10, 13 ['>), 44, 47,
48 (2), 50 (2), 81 (2), 52 (2),
53, 56 (2), 57 (2), 88 (2), (iO,
61 (2), 63 (2), 64 (3), 65 (2),
68 (2), 71 (6), 72 (12), 73 (26),
7 1 (10), 75 (13), 76 (II)

Trinity, 22, 36 (2), 42, 13, 18,
49, 52

Oxford :

All Souls', 5, 6, 34, 66
Ballioi, 15, 57

Ch. Ch., 7, 44, 47, 51, 52,54 (2),

62 (2), 68, 71, 72 (2), 74, 203
Hart Hall, 46
Jesus, 36, 37, 58, 68
Lincoln, 30
Magdalen, 65, 66, 71
Magdalen Hall, 35, 46
Merton, 15, 33
New Inn Hall, 7
Oriel, 61
Pembroke, 75

Queen's, 6, 41, 55, 63, 64, 67

St. Edmund Hall, 64 (3)

Trinity, 71

University, 59

Wadham, 30, 76
Onibury, 182, 238
Oswaldster, Castle of, 129
Oswestry, Charter, 8 Hen. IV., 230
Oxen bold, 184, 247

P

Pan Castle, Whitchurch, viii
Peculiar of Buildwas, appointment
by the the Earl of Bridgcwater
of Richard Wickstead to be
Official of, 1635, i
Pedigrees.

Ambler, 288 Lutlev, 241
Ashby, 279 QaUelej , 150, 156
Burley, 228 Waring, 278. 293
Cross, 287
Penk, river, 124

PtiKSONS.

AbrahalL John. 197
Adams, Francis, 349
William, 75
Adderton, Samuel, 55
| Aluedel, Lawrence de, 173
I Ambler, John, 288

Applcg', Roger dc, 186
Archer, Richard le, 172
Arundel, Edmund Karl of, 123
,, Thomas, Earl of, 133,
137

Ashby. George, 279
| Ashton. Thomas, I

Aston. Is,, Ida ilf, I /3
j Atchorlcy. James, St

Audio . Ilcnrj de. 310

Barncby, John, 2k;

Bcaumcys Sir Philip Jc, 176. 188

Bedford, Jasp. .-. Km I ..f, 113

1 Bcpi t . John, VU

i Berislor.l, Samuel, t)

I IWUrj , R< >;•.<■ , L>»

OKNKRAL INDKx TO VOI,. VI.

XV

Person s — continued
Biggs, Henry, 282
Birches, Ralph le, 15U
Bitterley, Stephen de, 157
Blancminster, Sir John, Hi
Bolliswood, Rohert de, 170
Bowers, Thomas, 72
Bradelegh, Henry de, 187
Bredeshull, Ascclina de, 179
Bridgewater, John Earl of, i
Brooke, Mary, 246
Browne, John, 5
Burley, Elizabeth, 233

Johane, 234

John, 197, 229, 237

Sir John, 229

Margaret, 198

Richard, 197

Sir Richard, 229
,, Sir Simon, 228

Walter, 228

William, 197, 227

Sir William, 231
Burnell, Sir Philip. 212

,, Robert, Bp Bath and
Wells, 211
Buildwas, Nicholas, Abbot of, !

176. 189, 18S, 189, 190
Burghelton, Robert de, 171
Butler, Dr., 2

Buteler, Ralph le, 170, 179, 185
Bykedon, William de, 190
Byreton, William, vii
Caumville, John, 197
Cawston, Abraham, 208
Chaloner, Thomas, 1, 4,2S, 63, 6S
Chetle, Sarah, 117
Chetwode, John, 151
Clark, William, 74
Clifford, Walter de, 192
Clon, John, 133
Clun, Howell, 199
Coleshascl, Lucia de, 152

,, Thomas de, 152

Colle, Hugh, 166

„ John, 167

,, William, 161, 166
Comaundur, Geoffrey le, 173
Combermere, Simon, Abbot of,

179

Corbet, Sir Andrew, 111
Robert, 194, 19S
,, Thomas, ISO
Corbett, Waties, 24
Costard, John, 76
Cotes, Humphrey, 198
Cotton, Edward, 62
Coxe, Sarah, 116, 1 IS
Cresset, Edward, 214,218, 220
Hlisab th, 214
Francis, 218

Cresset, 1 lenry, 214

Richard, 216. 217
,, Robei t, 195, 215
Thorn; s, 216
Crosse, William, 285, 349
Davies, George. 104

John, 1U2
Despenser, Nicholas de, 186
Dod, William, 184
Drayton, Robert de, 183

William de, 183
Dudley, Sir John, 213
Edwards, Thomas, 55

Sir Thomas. 224
Erdinton, Giles de, 178
Erleton, William de, 178
Estrange, Guy, 129
E\ ton, Matthew de, 180
" „ Roger, 195
,. William de, 175 (2)
Fitz Alan, William, 129
Flotebrock, Richard de, 187
Fox, Edward, 203
Gamul, Isabel, 1 55

,, Stephen, 153
Gardner, John, 4
Gloucester, Henry, Abbot of, 182
Gibbons, Francis, 89, 90
Gosnell, Edward. 20
Griffiths, Thomas, 282
Gyroys, Robert de, 184, 185
Halton, Adam .le, 147
Hancokes, William, 150
Hancllo, John, 212
Harding, John. 1
Harries, Richard, 349
Harris, Thomas, 3, 25, 27
Haueston, Simon de, 177
Haughmond, Gilbert, Abb' t >f,

185, 192
Hawkins, CSCSIU' (I), 107
• „ C;esar (2), luS
„ . Urcsar (3), 108

Caesar (4), 108. 109
Ciesar (5), 110
Sir Cesar (6). 107. 1 I 1
Caesar II., 115, 121
Charles, 1 19
Edward, 119
,, Francis, 1 19

Geor-c Edw., 117. 1 IS
Pcnncll, 1()7. Ill, 117.
IIS

Haynes, John, 42
Ha) ward, Rogci

Heath, Nicholas, Bp, Worcester,
2 1 3

HcdlCtf, William de, 185
tielgot, 211
Hill, Joseph S:> ')()
Hill, Richard, 7

xvi

GENERAL INDEX TO VOL VJ.

Persons —continui d

Hodnet, Odo de, 169, 172 (2)

174 (2)
Hodnet, Ralph dc, 185
Hope, Stephen de, 178
Hopton, Alice, 198

Elizabeth, 233
John, 233
„ Thomas, 198
„ Walter de, 233
Hosier, George, 349
Hotchkis, Leonard, 74
Howard, Henry, Earl of North-
ampton, 131
Howard, Thomas, Earl of Surrey,
213

James, William, 5
Jeffreys, George, 43
Jeffcrics, Thomas, 43
Jenkes, Benjamin, 66
Jenks, Margaret, 256
Johnstone, George, 271
Jones, Edward, 36

,, Richard, vi

,, Somerset c, 1 11
Kennedy, Dr., 2
Knighton, William de, 153
Langford, Thomas, 224
Lawley, George, 227
Lawrence, Thomas, 1
Ledwic, Geoffrey de, 177
Lee, Richard, 199
Lee, William de la, 181
Legton, Richard de, 178
Leigh ton, Elizabeth, 162

,, John, 195
Leuenath, William, son of, 169,

174

Lcyburn, Roger de, 183

Lighe, George, 145

Littleton, Sir Adam, 252
Lord Keeper, 23
,, Thomas, 251

Sir Thomas, 227, 234
Sir William, 235

Lloyd, Richard, 71

Long Stanton, Thomas de, 184

Lopinton, Richard dc, 171

Lovel, John Lord, 212, 213

Ludlow, Morris, 195

Lunct, William, 170

Lutley, Adam tic, 212

,, Bartholomew, 256

Bart. Richard, 262, 267
„ (Catherine, 241

PhjUp dc, 241, 244
Lutwich, Edward, 26
Lyster, Cristiana, 161, 162
Richard, 162
William, 161, 162

Mackworth, Humphrey, II

Mackworth, Thomas, 11
Mara, Mathias de, 183
Mare, Robert de la, 211
Marshal, C ilbert, 186
Robert, 173
Master, Robert, 89, 90

Thomas, 89, 90
Matthew ap levan, 105
Mattys, William, 199
Mauduit, Thomas, 211
Medlicott, Alice, v
Meighen, John, 1, 89
Merrick, Edmund, 36
Mersse, Roger de la, 179
Millington, John, 62
Mitton, Thomas, 161, 168
Molleg, John de, 171
Montgomery, Roger dc, 340
Moore, Gregory, 244
Morris, Anthony, 132
Mortimer, Roger de, 128, 150, 157
Mytton, Thomas, vi
Oakeley, Adam de, 147

,, Geva de, 148
Joan, 150, 160

,, John, 151

,, Pagan de, 147

,, Osbert de, 155

Philip de. 148, 149, 150

,, Roger, 150

,, Rowland, 151

Stephen de, 148, 151,

152. 155
William, 151. 155/157
Oakes, John, v

Oatley (Ottley), Adam, 10, 203
Richard, 10
,, Thomas, 165
Orton, Job, 76

Overall, John, Bp. Lichfield, 89
Owen, Dorothy, 168

Robert', 24
Pakington, Humphrey, 206

Mary, 206
Payn, William, 177
Pembroke, Earl of 141
Phillips, Robert, 72
Philyppcs, John, 1 65
Pichgar, Meyrick, 105
Pigott, Richard. 2, 62
Plessetis, John dc, 1 70
1 Mowden, Edward, 1;' I
John, 197
,, Margaret, 196

Roger ue. 19 i, 191
Poor, Geoffrey le, I 72
Pontytbury, Nicholas, 1 68

,, Thomas. 161, 167

William. K.I , 167, 168
I 'owrll . Robert . 6
Powfbrd, Itichard, >

GKXJ£KAI. INDKX TO VOL. VI.

t Vll

Persons— continued
Powys, lid ward, 71
Littleton, 64
Price. Sampson, 88, 90
Prince, Philip, 29
Pryce. Robert, 71
William. 198
Pullihare, Flias, 170
Rochull. Roger de. 175
Rhys. Sir John, 105
Rodington, Isabella de, 186
Rosshale. Matthew de, 164
Royds, Thomas, 270
Sale<bury, Sir Charles, S
Sandford. Francis. 19
,, Humphry, 61
Robert, 6
Saundford, Richard de. 171
Savill. George. 24
Say, Isabel de, 129
Sherer. Thomas, 143. 144
Shitte. ALin, 170

Shrewsbury, Adam, Abbot of, 187

Henry, Abbot of, 177
Smythc, Nicholas, 2S3
Stafford, Henry, Duke of Buck-
ingham, 16S
Stapleton. Lady Barbara, vi
Staunton. John, 238
Straton, Richard de, 173
Styrchleg. Osbert da, 189
Sydney, Sir Henry, 141. 143

,, * Sir Philip,' 144, 205
Sylton, Henry, 169
Svlvon, William, 169, 172
Talbot, Elizabeth, 236

John, 341
Taylor, John, 75

Silas, 7
Thomas, John. 7 i
Thursby (Pclham) Frances. 215
Trussell. Thomas, 234
Tyrol, Richard. 226
Vernon, Reginald, 197
Wakelyn, Priscilla, 108
Walcot. John, 196, 227

William, 194
Ward, Arthur, 349
Waryn de Houndeslowe. 164
Waring, Adam. 164
,, Fdmund, 278
Hannah, 279
John, 293
Nicholas, 161, 165
Robert, 164
Richard, 166, 277
Richard Hill, 166
,, Simon, 277
Weaver, John, 72
Wdcton, Robert de, 132
Weld, George, 24

Wenlock,, Imbert, Prior of, 17S

181, 183, 184
Wheybul, William de, 171
■ Whitmore, , Robert, 109
Whytinton, John de, 175
Wickstead, Richard, i
William ap Reynald, 150
Williams, Abp'., 23

Williams, 37
Wolryche, Francis, 22
Wombridge. Baldwin, Prior of.

184, 185
Woodhouse, Sir .Michael, 224
Wulfrinton. Richard de. 169, 172
Wylde, Robert, 141
Wythiford, Reginald de, 173
Yate, Anne, 207

,, Dame Mary, 206
Yoppe, Philip, vi
,, William, v
Zouche, Alan la, 176, 188
Plague at Bridgnorth and Shrews-
bury. 1577, 145
I Pleas of Xaivtv, Nov. 1240, 169,

172, 174 ; 1272, 170
1 Plowden, 148

Pontesburv, 231, 233, 239
Pontesford* Mill, 349
Poston, Diddlehury, 217
Powy bland, 172
Purslow Hundred, 127. 132
Pirtov, Rev. R. C, M.A., Holgate
and the Cressetts, 21 1

Q

Queenhill, 248, 249
R

Recusants, 227

Register of the Names of Boys
admitted to Shrewsbury School
from March 5, 1686 7. to Nov.
16. 1664, transcribed and
edited by the Rev. J. F
Auden. M A.. F.R.Hist.S., 1
Old School Register. 1, 2. 4
School Bell. 18

,, Ordinances, 2, 3

Memoranda, 68

Names of Scholars, 1664 — 1734,
70

Index to Scholars. 77
Rodington, 187

Romance of Shrewsbury School
Register. The. by Lt. Col. A C.
Yate, P R.O.S., F R.Hist S .
201

Roinaftey, I 72
iv\.:>cs. Wain Of, 191
Rossall, 20

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GKNHKAI, INDEX TO VOL. VI.

Rothale, 226, 235
Rowton, Albcrbury, 162
Rucklcy, Tong, 176, 1S8
Rushbury, 213
Ruthall, 175, 258
Ruyton, 127, 128

S

Sandford, Prees. 171
Severn Basin, 123, 124, 125
Schrawurthin (Shrawardine)

Castle, 129
Shadwell, 130
Shelton, 164
Shcriffhales, 234

Shrewsbury, 142, 144, 166, 170,

224, 231
Abbey, 169, 177, 187, viii, x
Castle, Siege of, 3 Steph., 129
School, Deed of Consecration of

the School Chapel in the Old

Schools, 1 Nov., 1617, 88
School Register, see Register of

Boys, and Romance of,
School Books dealing with, 201,

202

School Removal to Kingsland,
332

Show, R. LI. Kcnyon, 331,

Origin, 331 ; Abolition, 332 ;
Shoemakers' Arbour, 339
Places :

Colle Furlong, 167

Frank-well, 161

High Pavement, 166

High Street, 168

Hondestrete, 166

Market Place, 164

St. Alkmond's, 168

St. Oeorge's Chapel, 1(57

St. Julian's iv ; tithes, 165

St. Mary's, scholars' chapel, 88

Sextry, 69

Vaughan's Place, 239
Welsh Gate, 167
Wylc Cop, 165
Shropshire, Feet of Fines,
1218 1248. Rev. W. O. 1).
Fletcher, 169
Shropshire Houses, Some Old,"and
their Owners. 11. 12. Forrest

VII. The Lynches, Yockleton,

277

VIII. Benthall, nr. Ford, 281
IXa. Ford Hall, 285

IXu. Ford House, 288
IXc. Ford Mansion House, 292
Shropshire Militia, Officers in, 9,
10, 14, 15, 19, 25, 29, 31, 44, 87
Shropshire, Some Incidents in the
1 St li Century, 19.1

Shropshire and the Trent Basin,
Rev. D. H. S. Cranage, Litt.D .
F.S.A , 123

Sibdon, 230, 252

Skeel, Caroline, A. J., D.Litt.,
Register of the Council in the
Marches of Wales, 1569-91, 141
Stanton in Corvedale, 211
Stanton Lacy, 240, 245, 261
Stanton Long, 184, 213, 258
Stanway, 247, 248, 252, 253, 258
Stirchlcy, 189

Stoke St. Milborough, 181, 251
Stokesay, 234
Stretton, 233, 243

Subegh (Aston-under-the- Wrekin) ,

173
Sutton, 227

Sutton, Shrewsbury, ix, x
T

Tedstill, Chetton, 171
Temsatcr, 130
Tern river, 133
Thongland, 227, 235, 247, 253
Tixhalc, 235

Trent Basin. Shropshire and the.
Rev. I). H. S. Cranage, Litt.D.,
F.S.A., 123
Tugford, 235, 249, 258
Two Celebrated Salopian Surgeons,
R. R. James, F.R.C.S., 107
Hawkins, Sir Cajsar, Descent, 107
Birth, 110

Appointments, 113, 114
Monument, 1 16

Portraits: SirC;esar,by Hogarth,
115

Charles Hawkins, by Ron pi I, 119
Pennell ll.o.vk.ns. by XolY.on , 121

U

Uppington, 18 1, 241, 242

Upton Cresset, 215, 233, 247, 254

Uriconium, vi, vii

W

Waleot, Lydbury North. 148. 194
Walton. 235, 217. 253, 25S
Weaver, river, 123
Weeping Gross, 331
Wem. 340

,, Grammar School, B, 14

Wcnloclt Abbey, 169, 178. 181. 183.
181

Wesihm v, 239. 279
Weston, 231

Wi yman. Him.v |\, F.S A . Some
Shropshire Incident:, in the
1 5ill Cotll io n , 193

GENERAL, INDEX TO VOL,. VI.

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Wheathill, 260
Whitchurch, Hi
Wichley, Uppington, 184
Wills.

Barbar, John, 20 May, 1589, 275
Barneby, Bartholomew Richard, J

18 Dec ,1783, 267
Burley, James, 1399, 239

John, 18 Feb., 1415-6, 230 j
Richard, 11 Sept., 1755,
240

Thomas. 28 Dec, 1561 ;

240 ; 8 J mi , 1621, 240
William, 14 Aug., 1551,

239

Colle, William, 15 March, 1510,
168

Cressett, Edward, 1670, 222
Francis, 1640, 221
Henry, 5 Bliz.. 214
Robert, 20 Aug., 12

Henry VIII., 216
Hawkins, Caesar (3), 8 June,

1708, 109
Sir Cajsar, 14 March.

1768, 116
Penned, 21 Jan., 1792, \

118

Littleton, George, 28 Jan., 1675,

John, 12 Aug., 1560,247 j
Thomas, 21 Jan., 1621,
251

Sir Thomas, 22 Aug.,

1481, 235
Sir William, 2 Nov ,

1507, 231

Lutley, Adam, 6 Oct., 1587-8, 247 ;

5 Feb. 1677, 255
Lutley, Bartholomew, 29 Oct.,

1716, 239 ; 31 Oct, 1774, 262
Lutley, Bartholomew Richard,

18 Sep., 1783, 267
Lutley, Hester, 20 Feb., 1781,

262

Lutley, Thomas, 19 April, 1721,
255

Myttou, Thomas, 4 Nov , 1656. vi
Waiyng, Simon, 18 Oct., 1449,
165

Willey, 186

Winstanton, 235

Wistanstow, 307

Withiford, Little, Shawbury, 215
Whitcott, 130
Wollaston, Groat, 340
Wolverton, 245, 246
Wombridge Priory, 169, 1S4, 185,
241

Woodcote, 164, 166, 198
Woo re, 123

Wootton, Stanton Lacy, 182
VVorfe, river, 124
WorHeld, 174
Wormcott, 235

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