REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION 3 1833 00855 2017 GENEALOGY 942.4501 SH84T 1918-1919 TEANSACTIONS SHROPSHIRE ARCH^OLOGICAL NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. KSTABLISHKD 1 877. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FOURTH SER I E S , VOLUME VII., ijiS-iQiji. (volume XL.) • PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY. SHREWSBURY: ADNITT AND NAUNTON, THE SQUARE. BROWN AND BRINNAND, LTD., CLAREMONT STREET. OF THE AND 1905020 BROWN AND ERINNAND, LTD., PRINTERS, ETC., CLAREMONT ST., SHREWSBURY. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/transactionsofsh4719shro SHROPSHIRE ARCH^OLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII., 4th SERIES. Page. The Names of Boys admitted to Shrewsbury School from November i6, 1734 to November 15, 1746 : Supple- mental Names of Scholars 1746 — 1798. With Index. By the Rev. J. E. Auden, M.A., F.R.Hist.S. ... i Oswestry Borough Gaol. By R. Ll.'Kenyon ... ... 21 The Penderel Annuities in 1665. By H, M. Auden F.R.Hist.S. ... 29 Will of Thomas Harris, of Prescot, Gent. 1674 ... ... 42 The Sequestration Papers of Sir Thomas Harris, Third Baronet of Boreatton, and of Lady Anne Harris, his stepmother. Edited by the Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A. ... ... ... ... ... 43 The Statue of Edward III., on the Tower of the Abbey Church, Shrewsbury. By Colonel H. R. H. Southam, V.D., F.S.A. ... ... . ... ... ... 93 Lord Clive and the Rev. Dr. Wilham Adams of Shrews- bury. By Colonel H. R. H. Southam, V.D., F.S.A. 96 Grant by John de Hastings to Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells, of the Manors of Condo\Tr and Wolverhampton, 1283. ... ... ... ... 108 Extracts from a Manuscript Book in the Library at Sweeney Hall. Transcribed by Rachel Leighton ... 109 Some Old Shropshire Houses and their Owners. By H. E. Forrest X. Charlton Hill. XL Eyton-on-Severn. XIL ' High Ercall Hall. XIII. Tlie Old Hall, Welling- ton. XIV. Dothill. XV.Arleston. XVI. Hadley Manor House ... ... ... ... 131 The Manor of Rorrington. By Sir Ofeley Wakeman, Bart. ... ... ... ... ... 159 Institutions of Shropshire Incumbents. (Concluded.) ... i()3 Kingsland and Shrewsbury Show. By John Barker ... 173 Dame Margaret Eyton's Will, 1642. By C. StI'ILVRT Betton ... ... ... ... ... 189 An Order of the Council in the Marches, July 1571. l^y Caroline A. J. Skeel, D.Lit. ... ... ... 203 Medical Men in practice in Shropshire, 1779 — 1783. By R. R. James, F.R.C.S. ... ... ... ... 205 The Sequestration Papers of John Yonge the elder of Pimley, and of John Yonge his son. By the Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A iv Page Sir Thomas Harris, third Baronet of Boreatton. Supple- mental Notes. By the Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A. ... ... ... ... ... 239 Shropshire Transcripts at Hereford. By the Rev. F. C. Norton. ... ... ... ... ... 254 MISCELLANEA. I. Memorandum as to the Families of Baudewin and Baldwyn, 1672 ... i II. A Muster Roll of Sheriff Hales, 1539 ii III. Grant of Arms by John Touchet, Lord Audley, to John Macworth and Thomas Macworth, I Auejust 1404 ... Oil V IV. Early Stoup at Shawbury vi V. Elizabethan Coins found at Hanwood ... vii VI. Vaughan's Mansion ... vii VIL Stone Hammer found at Onslow viii VIII. Old St . Chad's Shrewsbury ix IX. High Ercall Hall xi X. Grant of Arms to William Pytt of the Pirrie, 1570 ... xi XI. The Jersey House, Shrewsbury xiii General Index to Volume VII. XV ILLUSTRATIONS. Facsimile Signatures of Sir Thomas Harris and Lady Anne Harris ... ... ... ... 74 Statue of Edward III., Abbey Church, Shrewsbury ... 95 The Rev. William Adams, D.D. ... ... ... loi High Ercall Hall ... ... ... 143 Arleston House ... ... ... ... ... 151 Hadley Manor House ... ... ... ... 154 View of Kingsland, prior to 1845 ... ... ... 173 Map now in Reference Library, Shrewsbury... ... 175 Kingsland and its Arbours... ... ... ... 177 Arms and Baiuiers of Clothworkers, Shoemakers, Glovers, and Weavers ... ... ... ... ... 178 ,, Taylors, Bakers, Butchers, and Smiths ... ... 179 „ ,, ,, Saddlers, Bricklayers and Carpenters, and Hatters... 180 Map of Kingsland, by Wm. Phillips, F.L.S. ... ... 187 Shoemaker's Arbour, Kingsland (since re-erected in Quarry Dingle.) ... ... ... ... 188 Facsimile Signature of John Yonge ... ... ... 227 V SHROPSHIRE ARCH^OLOCxrCAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. THE ANNUAL EXCURSION. The Annual Excursion of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, was held* on Tuesday, August I2th, 1919, the neighbourhood chosen being that on the ]\Iontgomery- shire border. It was the first Excursion held since July 1914. The party which numbered about 20, left Shrewsbury Station Yard at 10-45, and motored to Westbury, passing by The Lynches, the old seat of the Ashby family, and through Yockleton. The first halt was made at Westbury Church, which was described by the Rector, The Rev. E. M. Cooke. The building was in a very dilapidated state until 1887, when it was restored, and several interesting features were brought to light, including the orna- mental timbering of the nave roof and the water-holding moulding of the bases of the pillars of the nave arcade. CAUS CASTLE. From Westbury the party drove to Cans Castle, and under the guidance of Mr. Cooke, explored the scanty remains of the Castle, wliich are now almost hidden by trees and undergrowth. It is a most commanding site, with a wide outlook on every side, and the fortress dominated one of the main thoroughfares from England to Wales. Its first Lords were the Corbets, who built the Castle of Cans very shortly after their arrival in England with William the Conqueror, Roger Fitz-Corbet being the Lord at the Domesday Survey. John Corbet, the last Baron of Cans, died before 1347 without issue ; and though he nominally succeeded his brother Peter in 1322, he never enjoyed the estates, which were held until 1347 t)y his widowed sister-in-law Beatrice. On her death the estates were divided between the heirs of two aunts, Alice wife of Robert lord Stafford, whose descendants became barons of Cans, and Emma wife of Brian de Brompton, the ancestor of the Harleys. Cans went to Ral})h Stafford, Alice's great-grandson, who was lord of Cans in 1350. The Accounts of his grandson Edmund, Earl of Stafford, in 1399, contain many interesting details of Cans Castle. Considerable repairs were done that year to the walls and gatehouse. Five windows were mended in the hall, and three in the lord's room. The lord's stable in the outer bailey was of half timbered work, but the outer and inner gatehouses were of stone, and the Castle towers were roofed with lead. vi Earl Edmund fell at the battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. His son Humphrey, created Duke of Buckingham by Henry VI, in 1444, was slain at the battle of Northampton in 1460 on the Lancas- terian side. His son was killed at St. Alban's ; and his grandson Henry, the second duke, fell a victim to the mistrust of Richard HI, and after hiding on the borders of Staffordshire and Shropshire, was taken prisoner near Wem, it is said by Thomas Mytton of Shrewsbury, and was beheaded at Salisbury, November 2nd, 1483. Henry VH. restored the estates to his son Edward, the third duke, who in turn was beheaded by Henry VHI in 1521. Edward's son Henry Stafford was restored to his barony in Edward VI's reign, and was summoned to Parliament as Baron Stafford in 1548. He was a learned man, a friend of Erasmus, and an advocate of the Reformed Faith. He died in 1563, and a note in the Pontesbury Register states that he was buried at Worthen. His eldest son Henry died childless in 1566 ; and Dorothy, one of the two daughters, seems to have taken Cans to her husband Sir William Stafford, although the descendants of her brother Edward carried on the title until the year 1639, when it was surrendered to the Crown, owing to the poverty of the last Baron Stafford who only held it for two years. In 1591 Cans Castle belonged to the Th^^nne family. It is said to have been sold by Lady Stafford to Sir Rowland Hayward, whose daughter Jane married John Thynne the founder of Longleat, who died in 1604. Sir Henry Frederick Thynne during the Civil War was the owner of Cans Castle, which became a garrison for the King. In June 1645 it was captured by Colonel Hunt after a seven days' siege. Sir Henry was taken l)risoner to Shrewsbury, and was fined £1760 for his delinquency. The party assembled on the keep mound whilst Prebendary Clark Maxwell read a paper by Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., on the Castle. Some discussion followed, and Mr. J. A. Morris mentioned that a moulded stone in situ in the wall of the keep pointed to the date of its erection as having been about 1225. Prebendary Clark Maxwell told a story of the Duke of Buckingham's reproof of Cardinal Wolsey's arrogance ; and Mr. Medlicott spoke of the descent of the Moinor of Cans, and of the advowson of Wentnor which belonged to the Staffords. TRELYSTAN AND WORTHEN. The cars were then rejoined, and the drive continued to Marton, where some of the party proceeded to walk to Trelystan Church, under the guidance of the Rev. H. J. Bardsley, who was taking the place of the vicar of Marton. Only seven succeeded in reaching it ; but they were rewarded for their long hot walk by the quaint lialf-timbered building with its oak screen. The history of Trelystan (or Wolston Mynd) still remains to be written. Being in Montgomeryshire, it is outside Vll the scope of Ey ton's Antiquities of Shropshire, and being in the Diocese of Hereford it is not included in Archdeacon Thomas's History of St. Asaph Diocese. The party re-assembled at Marton, and drove to Worthen, where tea on the Rectory lawn was provided by the kind hospitahty of Prebendary and Mrs. Alford. After tea, Worthen Church was inspected, with its Georgian chancel attached to an Early English nave and tower, and its Jacobean fittings. After the thanks of the Society had been voiced by Lieut. -Colonel White, the cars started for Shrewsbury, and a pleasant drive home ended an interesting day. No Annual Meeting of the Society was held in 1919. i> 7 viii MINUTES OF THE MONTHLY COUNCIL MEETINGS. January gih, 1918 — Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S. A., in the Chair. Messrs. Brown and Brinnand's account, amounting to £6';^ 5s. Od. was ordered to be paid. Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Pickering were asked to see the printers, and endeavour to get them to complete without further delay the Part now in their hands. Mrs. A. E. Corbett of Column House was granted the loan of the block of Caus Castle to illustrate her book now in preparation on the Family of Corbet. Sir R. Talbot to have vols. VIII and X of the ist series of the Transactions for £1 is. ; or, if parts only of the volume were wanted at 7s. 6d. each part. Mr. H. W. Adnitt having resigned his post of Honorary Secretary through faihng health, the Chairman was requested to convey to him the sincere regret of the Council that, after 40 years con- nection with the Society, he should feel compelled to resign owing to ill-health. Mr. Adnitt assisted in the formation of the Society in 1878 ; for many years he acted as Secretary to the Editorial Committee, and since 1906 he had been Honorary Secretary of the Society. February i^th, 1918 — Rev. Prebendary Atiden, F.S. A., in the Chair. Mrs. Martin to be supplied with ten volumes of the Transactions for £3 15s. March 13th, 1918 — Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, in the Chair. Letter read from the North Staffordshire Field Club asking for an exchange of Transactions. The Assistant Secretary was instructed to ask for a copy of the Club's publications, to enable the Council to decide as to the advisability of exchanging. April 1.0th, 1918 — Rev. Prebendary Aiiden, F.S. A., in the Chair. Mrs. Martin to be charged £1 for six odd parts of the Trans- actions supplied to her in March. It was reported that the printing of Transactions had not advanced since the last Meeting of the Council. Mr, Fletcher and Mr. Drinkwater were asked to see the printers, and urge them to proceed with the work without further delay. ix May 8th, 1918 — Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the Chair. Mr. Fletcher reported that the printers were making progress with the Part in hand. An exchange of Transactions with the North Staffordshire Field Club was agreed to. June 12th, 1918 — Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S. A., in the Chair. No business of sufficient interest to report. July 10th, 1918 — Rev. Prebendary Atiden, F.S. A., in the Chair. Letter read from Rev. Dr. Cranage, calling attention to certain errors in the last published part of the Transactions. The Chairman, Mr. Metcher, and Mr. lu)rrcst were requested to interview the printers, with reference to the printing of the next volume. Mr. Morris called attention to the want of care at Uriconium, and particularly to damage to one of the tesselated floors. September iith, 1918 — Rev. Prebendary Aitden, F.S. A., in the Chair. Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Leslie, of 31 Kenwood Park Road, Sheffield, was elected a Member of the Societv. Messrs. Brown and Brinnand's account for £80 3':. id., for print- ing Part 2 of Vohmie VL ordered to be ])aid ; and Messis. Adr.itt ar.d N:>unton's account (£12 5s. was presented. The Assistanc Secretary pointed (jut that the Annual Income of the Society, owing to the reduction oi the Subscription, was now less than £80, and that after payment of rent of room, Assistant Secretary's salary, postages, cS:c., very little would remain for printing. It was decided to reduce the number of pages in the next volume, so that the printer's account lor each part should not exceed /50 to /"(x). Some correspondence with Mr. Peers as to the condition of Uriconium was read. Miss Auden offered to get together a few voluntary workers, to cover up the floor at Uriconium now being damaged, and so prevent further harm during the coming winter. The Chairman was asked to inform Mr. Peers of this offer, and ask if his Connnittee approved. • October gih, 1918 — Rev. Prebendary Anden, F.S. A., in the Chair. A letter read from Sir Offley Wakeman, calling attention to three stones badly decayed in the Abbey Pulpit, and offering to liave them replaced. The offer was gladly accepted. X A discussion took place as to the care of Uriconium, and Mr. Morris undertook to write to Mr. Bankes on certain points. It was reported that Rowley's Mansion was about to be offered for sal? by public auction. November 13th, 1918 — Rev. C. 11. Drink-mter, 'in the Chair. Mr. Morris stated that he had cut away some of the weeds at Uriconium, and that the floor was in a better state than had been anticipated. He also reported that a new caretaker had been appointed. It was reported that the tenant, Mr. R. A. Downes, had pur- chased Rowley's Mansion, and that he did not intend making any alterations in the old building. December nth, 1918 — Rev. Prebendary Atiden, F.S.A., in the Chair. The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop oi nereiora ana the Rev. Prebendary The Lord Wenlock were elected Members of the Society. It was resolved that after igi8 the annual subscription revert to its original amount of £1 is., and that a printed post-card be issued early in January informing Members of the change. Mr. Morris stated that he had visited Buildwas Abbey, and found there was no further sign of the vaulting giving way, but in his opinion this and the groining should be strengthened. He thought also that a great deal of the ivy should be cut down, and that certain small repairs which could be carried out at little cost needed immediate attention. Mr. Morris was asked to do what he found possible, and report to the next meeting. January Sth, 1919 — Rev. Prebendary Aiiden, F.S.A., in the Chair. A vote of condolence on the death of the Right Hon. Lord Barnard, the President of the Society, was passed, and the Chair- man was requested to convey the same to Lord Barnard's relatives. Mr. Fletcher laid on the table for the inspection of ]\rembers a Stone ILunmer that was j)loughed up some years ago on Onslow Bank, in the field at the corner of Preston Montford Lane, — a new locality for pre-historic implements. Its weight is 3 lbs., length 7 inches, and diameter 2 inches ; and it belongs to Mr. Joseph Cooke, of the Grange Farm, Bicton. The Chairman undertook to see if Mr. Cooke would present the Hammer to the Shrewsbury Museum. xi February 12th, 1919 — Rev. Prebendary Andeii, F.S.A., in the Chair. The Chairman read a letter which he had received in reply to the vote of condolence on the death of Lord Barnard, as follows : — Uppington, Wellington, Shropshire. ()lh February, 1919. Dear Mr. Auden, Lord Barnard desires me to thank you for your letter of January 14th, enclosing copy of resolution of the Council of the Shropshire ArclKL'ological Society, and requests that you will kindly express to them his very great appreciation of their resolu- tion, and the esteem in which his father was held, expressed therein. Believe me , Yours very truly, E. C. Sowerby. Rev. Preb. Auden. Miss H. M. Auden, F.R.Hist. S., was unanimously appointed Honorary Secretary of the Society. Sir Offley Wakeman, Bart., was unanimously nominated as President of the Society by the Council, who will ask the next Annual (icncral Meeting to confirm the appointment. March 12th, 1919 — Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, F.S.A., in the Chair. Letter read from Sir Offley Wakeman, accepting the office of President of the Society in succession to the late Lord Barnard. Miss Auden stated that she had much pleasure in accepting the office of llonorar}^ Secretary of the Society. The death of Miss Hope-Edwardes was reported ; and the follow- ing memorandum, prepared by the Chairman of the Council, was ordered to be placed on the minutes : — The Council desire to place on record their sense of the loss which the Society has sustained by the death of Miss Hope-. Edwardes, who had been a member since 1901, and for the last four years of that period had been one of the Vice-Presidents. Her interest in the work of the Society was keen and appreciative, and the papers she contributed to the Transactions were wide in their range and extensive and careful in their research. Her ill- ness was short, and the end was unexpected. Its sadness was increased by its following close on that of her brother. Letter read from Sir Offley Wakeman, suggesting that Mr. Forrest should \vi iie a short account of the work done at Vaughan's Mansion. XII April gth, 1919 — Rev. Prebendary Anden, F.S.A., in the Chair. Letter read from ]\Ir. R. E. Davies, stating that building oper- ations would shortly be commenced on Wynne's Cottage lilstate, and that, as a Roman Road ran through the estate, a look- out should be kept whilst the excavations were in progress for interesting remains. He reminded the Council that a Jar had been found in the vicinity some years ago. May 14th, 1919 — Rev. Prebendary Anden, F.S.A., in the Chair. Miss Auden, Hon. Secretary, 'reported that she had written to Mr. Hugh Corbet with reference to old documents relating to the Sundorne Estate. Letter read iwnw Mr. J. A. Morris, stating that he had seen Mr. Dyke, who offered to allow the Society to select such objects as they might think desirable from his pre-historic collection at Maiden Hill, All Stretton. The Chairman was requested to convey the best thanks of the Council to Mr. Dyke. It was resolved that the Excursions be resumed, and that the next be held towards the end of June in the Bridgnorth district. Prebendary Clark-Maxwell was asked to prepare a draft itinerary, and make prehminary arrangements. Jime nth, 1-919 — Rev. Prebendary Anden, F.S.A., in the Chair. The proposed Excursion in the Bridgnorth District was aban- doned this year. It was decided that, if possible, it should take place in the Cans Country ; and a Sub-Committee, consisting of Miss Auden, Mr. Morris and Mr. Eorrest, was appointed to arrange the details. Jidy gth, 1919 — Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, F.S.A., in the Chair. The Rev. H. P. Alford, rector of Worthen, attended and gave information as to the district covered by the suggested Cans Excursion. The Assistant Secretary was instructed to see the Midland Motor Car Co., with reference to the cost of a car for the Excursion. It was agreed that the date of the lixcursion be postponed until August I2th. Letter read from Mr. Jerome Bankes as to the present condition of Uriconium. The matter was referred to Mr. I\Iorris. August 13th, 1919 — Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, in the Chair. No business of sufficient interest to report. xiii September loth, 1919 — Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the Chair. Letter from Mr. J. A. Herbert, Assistant Keeper of MSS. British Museum, asking for a paper by Mr. Stanley Leighton, containing a Catalogue of the MSS. in the Shrewsbury School Library. It was decided to present a copy of the Volume of Transactions in which the paper was printed to the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum. October 8th, 1919 — Rev. Prebendary Attden, F.S.A., in the Chair. Miss Auden reported that Mr. Bankes had recently visited Uriconium, and found that the present caretakers were taking an interest in their work, and that there had l^een a good number of visitors. Some conversation took place with regard to the Querns collected by the late Mr. Dyke of Maiden Hill, Church Stretton, which had been inspected by the Chairman and Mr. Cobbold. November 12th, 1919 — Rev. Prebendary Auden, F.S.A., in the Chair. Letter read from Mr. J. A. Herbert, thanking the Council for the copy of the Transactions containing Mr. Stanley Leighton's paper on the Shrewsbury School MSS. Mr. E. W. Bowcock, of Vron Villa, Wem, was elected a Member of the Society. Notice read of Meeting of the Congress of ArchcTological Societies to be held on November 28th, but no Delegates were appointed. December loth, 1919 — Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, in the Chair. The Rev. R. Jowett Burton having resigned his membership, owing to his leaving the neighbourhood, the Assistant Secretary was asked to write to him, accepting his resignation with regret, and thanking him for his past services on the Council. It was reported that the British Archaeological Association had expressed their intention of holding their Meeting in Shrews])ury in Kj^o. It was decickHl to give the Association ail tiie assistance possible in making the local arrangements. XIV SHROPSHIRE ARCH^OLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1919. The Right Hon. Lord Barnard. Wxct-'^xt'ittJtniB : The Right Hon. The Earl Brownlovv The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop OF Lichfield The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Hereford The Right Hon. Lord Berwick The Right Hon. Lord Kenyon Sir Offley Wakeman, Bart. Sir J. Bowen Bowen-Jones, Bart. Sir Beville Stanier, Bart., M.P. R. Lloyd Kenyon, Esq. W. H. Foster, Esq. The Hon. Mrs. Bulkeley-Owen Mrs. Baldwyn-Childe Countil : Rev. Prebendary T. Auden, M.A., F.S.A., Church Stretton (Chair- man). Miss Auden, F.R.Hist.S., Church Stretton. Rev. Prebendary J. R. Burton, B.A., Bitterley. Rev. R. Jowett Burton, M.A., Eaton Constantine. Rev. Prebendary W. G. Clark-Max- well, M.A., F.S.A., Bridgnorth. Rev. D. H. S. Crana(je, D.Litt., F S.A., Cambridge. R. E. Davies, Esq., Shrewsbury. Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, M.A., Shrewsbury. Rev. VV. G. D. Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A., Oxon. H. E. Forrest, Esq., Bayston Hill. H. F. Harries, Esq., Shrewsbury. Rev. Canon Moriarty, D.D., Shrews- bury. J. A. Morris, Esq., Shrewsbury. J. B.Oldham, Esq. ,M. A., Shrewsbury. T. E. Pickering, Esq., M.A., Shrews- bury. Henry T. Weyman, Esq., F.S.A., Ludlow. Rev. Prebendary Auden, M.A., F.S.A. Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A. Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, M.A. Miss Auden, F.R.Hist.S., Alderdene, Church Stretton. Mr. a. E. Cooper, St. John's Chambers, 42, St. John's Hill, Shrewsbury. W. W. Naunton, Esq. ^xtnBuxtXB : Lloyd's Bank, Limited (Capital and Counties Branch), Shrewsbury. XV LIST OF MEMBERS, 1919. Auden, Miss, F.R.Hist.S., Alderdene, Church Stretton. Auden, Rev. Prebendary, M.A., F.S.A., Alderdene, Church Stretton. Brownlow, Right Hon. Earl, Belton, Grantham. Barnard, Right Hon. Lord, Raby Castle, Darlington. Berwick, Right Hon. Lord, 59, Pall Mall, London, S.W. Baker, C. J., Esc]., M.A., Kingsland, vShrewsbury. Baldwyn-Childe, Mrs., Kyre Park, Tenbury. Barker, John, Esq., J. P., Old Grammar School House, Shrewsbury. Barnes, Mrs., Brookside, Weston Rhyn, Oswestry. Bateson, Gordon, Esq., Brookfield, Church Stretton. Beddoes, W. P., Esq., J. P., Minton, Church Stretton. Benthall, E., Esq., Countess Weir, Exeter. Beresford, Robert de la Poer, Esq., M.D., Derwent Grange, near Oswestry. Bibb}^, F., Esq., D.L., J. P., Hardwicke Grange, Shrewsbury. Birmingham Central Free Library (Reference Department), Ratcliff Place, Birmingham. Bowcock, E., Esq., Vron Villa, Wem, Salop. Bowen- Jones, Sir J. Bowen, Bart., D.L,, J. P., Shrewsbury. Brewster, Rev. W., B.A., Fitz Rectory, Shrewsbury. Bridgeman, Rev. E. R. O., M.A., Blymhill Rectory, Shifnal. Bulkeley-Owen, The Hon. Mrs., The Limes, Shrewsbury. Burton, Rev. Prebendary J. R., B.A., Bitterley Rectory, Ludlow. Burton, E. R. Lingen, Esq., Rose Cottage, Halfway House, Shrewsbury. Chance, A. F., Esq., M.A., The Schools, Shrewsbury. Chitty, Miss Lily F., Hanwood Rectory, Shrewsbury. Clark-Maxwell, Rev. Prebendary, IVI.A., F.S.A., St. Leonard's Rectory, Bridgnorth. Clay, J. Cecil, Esq., J. P., Donnerville, Wellington. Salop. Colictt, Rev. Edward, M.A., Retford, Notts. Colville, H. K., Esq., J. P., Bellaport, Market Drayton. Cranage, Rev. D. IL S., D.Litt., F.S.A., 8, Park Terrace, Cam- bridge. Crowte, Frederic k, Esq., Shirehall, Shrewsbury. Cunliffe, Lt.-Col. J. W., Bradency, Bridgnorth. xvi Dovaston, Adolphns, Esq., 14, Madeley Road, Ealing, London, W. Dovaston, W. D., Esq., The Nursery, West Felton, Oswestry. Downward, Miss Alice, The Castle, Shrewsbury. Drinkwater, Rev. C. H., M..A.., St. George's Vicarage, Shrewsbury. Eckersley, N. ffarrington, Esq., J. P., Trench, Wem. Eldred, G. H., Esq., Mardol, Shrewsbury. Feilden, Rev. O. M., M.A., Frankton Rectory, Oswestry. Fielden, E. B., Esq., J. P., CondovtT Hall, Shrewsbury. Fletcher, Rev. W. G. D., M.A., F.S. A., Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury. Foley, Paul H., Esq., J. P., Stoke Edith Park, Hereford. Forrest, H. E., Esq., Hillside, Bayston Hill, Shrewsbury. Foster, W. H., Esq., D.L., J. P., Apley Park, Bridgnorth. Gough, Fred H., Esq., M.A., Merefield House, Crewkerne, Somer- setshire. Guildhall Library, London, E.G. 2. Hereford, The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of. The Palace, Hereford. Harding, W. E., Esq., Acton House, Shrewsbury. Harley, John, Esq., M.D., Beedings, Pulborough, Sussex. Harries, H. F., Esq., Tregwynt, Kingsland, Shrewsbury. Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., c/o. Messrs. E. G. Allen cS: Son, 14, Grape Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C. 2. Herbert, Colonel, C.B., J. P., Orleton, Wellington, Salop. Hobson, Hugh, Esq., The Green, Ouatford, Bridgnorth. Homer, J. T., Esq., D.L., J. P., Dormston, Sedgley, Staffordshire. How, W. M., Esq., M.A., Nearwell, Shrewsbury. Howells, T. Middleton, Esq., Highfield, Shrewsbury. Humphreys, Miss, F.R.G.S., Swan Hill Court, Shrewsbury. Hunt, Captain, Ruyton Park, Ruyton-xi-Towns. James, R. R., Esq., F.R.C.S., 22, Norfolk Square, Hyde Park, London, W.2. Kenyon, Right Hon. Lord, Gredington, Whitchurch, Salop. Kenyon, Rev. A. E. Lloyd, M.A., The Rectory, Ludlow. Kenyon, R. Lloyd, Esq., M.A., D.L., J. P., Pradoe, West Felton, Oswestry. Lichfield, The Right Rev. Lord Bishop, The Palace, Lichfield. La Touclie, Rev. W. M. 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Merioneth, i7-)8. vSon of Rev. vSamuel Pahner. Born at Rrompton, co. Hereford, 1723. Died Oct. 29, 1749, aged 26] George Parker William Raynor David Rowlands John Walters John Wingfield [full name John Tombes Wingfield ; Trinity Coll. Oxon. B.A. 1749; Fellow of All Souls' ; Vicar of vSt. Julian's, Shrewsbur}^ 1756-91 ; also Vicar of Atcham, and .Minister of Berwick. Son of John Wingfield, M.D. hovn at Shrevvsbur}^ '7-7- Buried at St. Julian's Sept. 15, 1791J Henry Winn Froini Nov. 16, 1735 to Nov. 15, 1736. Charles Bentley John Betton [Admitted a burgess of Shrewsbury, 11 Dec, 1753 ; father of vSir John Betton. Died 1764, aged 37, buried at Holy Cross] William ]k)vv(ller Wellings Callcot [Minor Author and Itssayist. Son of Matliew Calcott. Bapt. at vSt. Chad's Jan. 27, 1725-6. See D.N. 15., viii. 235] Thomas Clarke Thomas Davies Corbet Edwards John lillesniear [Son of Edward KUesmere, of Newtown. Died 1770, buried April 30. at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury] !Moses Griffiths [St. John's Coll. Camb. 1742 ; University of Leyden, M.D. 1744; L.R.C.P. (Loud). 1747; Physician in l/Midon. and afterwards at Colchester; Author Prmtiial (^bscrvaiiofis 071 the Cure of iJie Hectic and Sloiv Fevers and the Puhnonary Co7isuviption. Born at Lop- pington. Died 1785. See D.N.B. xxiii. 225] Edward Hotchkis P'rancis Hotchkiss John Lea Richard I^ittlehales i I i i I i KnoiDinK Ul^ Hil\ XSA.MhS Ol' J50YS John Maddox [Chancery Barrister; K.C. ; M.P. West])ury 17S6-90. Died Sept. 23, 1794, aged 71] Benjamin Mathews Edward Morgan [Died 1790, aged 64] Henry Morgan Thomas Oswald Thomas Parr Noel I'rankett Thomas Presland [of Walford, co. Salop. Died Oct. 5, 1778, aged 51. He bequeathed £20 to St. Julian's] John Pritchard Lewis Pugh Richard Scoltock Benjamin vStannier Thomas Swanwick David Salter Swinton Walter Young [or Yonge ; P'ellow Commoner, St. John's Coll. Canib. 1748; of Charnes Hall, co. Stafford. Eldest son of Vernon Yonge of CharnesJ P'rom Nov. 16, 1736 to Nov. 15, 1737. Thomas Ambler [Ch. Ch. Oxon. B.A. 1750; Impropriator of P'ord, and Vicar 1757-93. Son of John Ambler of Ford. Bapt. there Dec. 6, 1726. Died Feb. 17, 1793] John Astbury James Barnett George Baxter [Jesus' Coll., Oxon., B.A., 1745. Son of John Baxter. Born at Newtown, Montg., 1722] George Bowdler [Pembroke Coll., Oxon., 15. A. (from Ch. Ch.) 1749. Son of George Bowdler. Born at Shrewsbury 1727] Thomas Bowdler Richard Calcott Corbett Evans [Son of John Evans ; bapt. at St. Mary's,. Shrewsbury, Aug. 14, 1725] John Evans [Brother ; bapt. at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury,. Nov, 2, 1726] Edward Gould Joseph Hayward ADMITTED TO SHKKWSBORY SCHOOL. 5 Job Jusoii James Latham [Son of Rev. John Latham ; bapt. at St. Chad's July 1 8, 1726] Jenkin Lloyd Thomas Llovd William Mall Shadrach Alnlliner Edward Price Richard Price Lewis Pngh [See 1735] John Spencer Josiah Th waits Thomas V()nn<:; From Nov. 16, 1737 to Nov. 15, 1738. Thomas IHakeway [Son of Thomas Plakewa\', of Shrewsbnr)'. Porn 1728. Ikiried .it vSi. .Mary's, Shrews- bnr}', Ai)ril 26, 1766] Pvdward Jhace [St. Jolin's Coll., Camb., 1743; ord. 1750, as Minister in the Lsland of liarbadoes. Born in Middlesex J John Bnrlton John Cleobury [vSt. John's Coll., Camb., P A., 1742 ; Chaplain to the Pisliop of St. David's; Vicar of \Vol)nrn, Pncks, 1753, and of Oreat Marlow, Bucks; J. P. CO. Bucks 1754. Died Aug. 14, 1801, aged 83] Til o mas Cor fie Id [Ch. Ch. 0.\on., B.A., 1750. vSon of Thomas Corfield. Born at Newman Hill, Salop, 1729] William Corfield James Cross George Davies Corbet P^dwards [See 1735J Rol)ert iid wards John Kvans [? See 1736] Benjamin Fox John P'ox John Hawkins Benjannn Hughes Thomas Mansel Robert Metcalf Richard Morgan I I I i i 3 i i RHGISTKR OF THE NAMKS OK BOYS Deveraux M>ltoii [of Garth, co. IVIontgoiiiery ; Capt. Montgomery Militia 1760-91. Died May 12, 1809, aged 84] Peregrine Thomas Necoytt Charles Peake Thomas Bettison Pickering William Povvel [Curate of Fit/, co. Salop, 1750; buried there Aug. 27, 1765. Great grandfather of William Powell Frith, R.A.J Price Swancott John Taylor ' Lancelot Taylor Robert Tench [Jesus Coll., Oxon., B.A., 1745. Son of Rev. Carbury Tench, of Llanwryn, co. Montg. Born 1724] Thomas Warter [Oriel Coll., Oxon., B.A., 1749. Son of Thomas Warter. Born at Shrewsbury 1727] Borlase Wingfield [St. John's Coll., Camb., B.A. (Jun. Opt.), 1752; Fellow of St. John's 1755-63; Rector of Bolas, Salop, 1758-60; of Lopham, Nor- folk 1760-82. vSecond son of Borlase Wing- field of Preston Brockhurst. Bapt. at Shawbury Aug. i, 1729. Died March 4, Rowland Wingfield [Oriel Coll , Oxon., 1746; High Sheriff co. " Salop 1753 ; of Preston Brockhurst and Onslow. Son of Borlase Wingfield. Born at Preston Brockhurst, Bapt. at Shawbury Oct. 28, 1727] Richard Wood house From Novkmber 16, 1738 to Nov. 15, 1739. Richard Beddes Thomas liriscoe Robert Cotton I iMill name — Robert vSalusbnry Cotton ; M.P. CO. Chester ; succeeded his father as 5th Bart. 1775; of Combermere, co. Chester. Died 1807) Thomas Cotton [Brother] William Cotton [Brother; Lieut. 27th Foot 2 Feb. 1757 ; Major 4 Dec, 1779; served in American War of Independence 17S0-2 ; retired as Lieut. -Col. ADMITTSD TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL. 7 David Davis George Devereux [of Tregoyd, co. Brecon] Edward Dickeii John Dicken Kdward Edwards [Jesus Coll., Oxon., B.A., 1747 ; Fellow. Son of Lewis Edwards. Born at Talgarth ^736] Hugh Edwards John Edwards John Ellis John lUsniere I Son of Samuel EHesmere. Bapt. at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, April 27, 1727] Francis Frances John Griffiths William Halliwell Benjamin Harvey John Harvey Zaclieus Jones David lyloyd John Lowe [Son of lulward Lowe. Bapt. at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, July 21, 1724] James Morgan . ^ John Nicholas Thomas Ore Richard Parrot [afterwards Perrott ; succeeded his uncle as 2nd Hart. 1759; Queen's Coll., Camb., B.A., 1743; A.D.C. to Duke of Cumberland at Culloden, April 16, 1746 ; afterwards H.Ii.LC. Service ; subsequently in service of P'rederick the Great of Prussia; served in Seven Years War (Order of Red Eagle) ; Lord High Admiral of Prussia 1758 (Order of Black ]\agle) ; created a Baron of P'rance bv Louis XV. Died Jan. 22, 1796. See D.N.B., xlv. 29 J Corbet Price [Son of Corbet Price. Bapt. at St. Mary's> Shrewsbury, P"eb. 19, r727] Lewis Pugh [See 1735, 1736] David Richards Samuel Symonds Samuel Thomas Richard Tibbots i 'i' ■♦ :i! i t I 'i I \ t KKGISTKR OF THK NAIMKS OK BOYS Thomas Urwick [Glasgow University; published sermons; Minister of Angel Street Congregational Church, Worcester, 1754-75 ; of Narborough 1775-9, and Clapham 1 779-1807. Born 1727. Died 1807. vSee D.N.B., Iviii. 57J From Nov. 15, 1739 To Nov. 15, 1740. James Acherley [or Atcherley. Magdalene Coll., Camb., B.A. (Jun. 0])t.), 1753; 3rd Master Shrewsbury School 1755, 2nd Master 1763; Headmaster 1771-98; \'icar of Lydbury North 1798-1804. Died at liridgnortli March 3, 1804] Charles Bernard [of Tibberton, cu. Gloucester] John I^ernard [Wadham Coll., Oxon., B.A., 1753. Son of Rev^ Thomas liernard. Born at Earl's Colne, Essex, 1733] Luke Bennett John Bowdler John Burchall James Durston Francis Eastope Corbet Edwards [See 1736] Robert lul wards [See 1737] Samuel hdsmere [or Ellesmere. Son of Samuel Ellesmere. Bapt. at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, March 17, 1726] Henry Goughe John Grey John Griffiths [See 1738] Samuel Griffith [Fellow Commoner, St. John's Coll., Camb., 1750; High Sheriff co. Salop 1759; of Dinthill, co. Salop. Son of Eeighton Owen Griffiths. Bapl. Aug. 12, 1731. Buried at Alberbur}^ Nov. 6, 1767] John Hatton [Son of Rev. Alexander Hatton, a master at the School. Baptised at St. Mary's, Shrews- bury, Nov. 12, 1728] John Lee Plumphrey Eittlehales John Lloyd ADMITTIU) TO SHREWSBURY SCiloOl.. 9 llugli Morgan Charles Nevvlin^ • [St. John's Coll., Camb., B.A. (Sen. Opt.). 1747; Fellow 1752-55 ; Headmaster Shrews- bnry School 1754-71 ; Rector of Pontesbury (2nd portion) 1764-9 ; of St. Phillip's. Bir- mingham, and Predendary and Treasnrer of Lichfield Cathedral 1770-87; Vicar of West- bury, vSalop, 1772-87 ; also Domestic Chaplain to Lord Ferrars ; formerly Vicar of Bicton, and Official of St. Mary's. Shrewsbury ; J. P. COS. Salop and Warwick. Died March 17, 1787. Son of Rev. Adam Newling, Rector of vShrawardine] Thomas Norgravc Roderick Richards John Spenser John Thomas John Thorn es John Rose Waring I Son of Rev. Richard Waring, born at Hereford. St. John's Coll., Camb., B.A., 1748 ; Vicar of Bishop's Castle 1753-77] Walter Waring [vSon of Robert Waring of Owlbury ; Si. John's Coll., Camb.; M.P. 1-lishop's Castle 1755-9 ; Coventry 1772-80; Hi<;h Sheriff co. Mont- gomery 1774 ; ofOwl])iny. Died 1780] John Whittin^ham I Magdalen Hall, Oxon., B.A. (from St. l{dmund Hall), 1749; Curate of Gorton, Manchester, 1765-1800- vSon of luiward Whittingham. Born at Dawley 1727. Died Nov. 1, 1800] From Nov. 16, 1740 to Nov. 15, 1741. Peter Berkley Millin<^ton Buckley jolin Doubty Thomas iCvans Jtrremia Griffith Richard Grincell George Hodi^es Robert Latham (jcorge Littlehales John Lloyd James Lolley K(>])ert Morgan John Rice l^ancis Spenlove KHGISTKR OF THK NAIMES OF J^uYS Vernon Young [or Yonge ; St. John's Coll., Camb,, 1752; ord. 1756; Curate of Pontesbnry 1756; ot Meole Brace, 1761. Son of Vernon Yonge, of Charnes Hall] Walter Young [or Yonge. Brother. See 1735] From Nov. 16, 1741 to Nov. 15, 1742. William Bennet Abraham Bernard John Bright Thomas lUirgess George Clarke Thomas Cross Thomas Davies Jonathan Downes [St. John's Coll., Camb., B.A. (Jun. Opt.), 1753 ; Fellow 1755-62. Son of Jolm Downes, Counsellor, America, i.e., St. Thomas, Bar- badoes] William Duke [St. John's Coll., Camb., 1750; ord. 1758. vSon of William Duke, la\V3er, America, i.c.y BarbadoesJ Thomas Kdwards Richard (^.ifford [Halliol Coll., O.xon., B.A., 1748; Vicar of DulTield 1759; of North Oxcndon, l^ssex, 1772. Author Contci)ipla(io?i, a Poem, etc. ; Son of Rev. John Gifford. Born at Bishop's Castle 1725. Died JMarch 7, 1807. See D.N.B., XXI. 305] Thomas Hanmer «• [St. Jolin's Coll., Camb., 1751 ; ord. 1758 ; Curate of Montford 175^^-75; Vicar 1775-89. Died Dec. 1789, aged 58. Son of Henry Hannicr, of IVlontford] Thomas Humphreys [St. John's Coll., Camb., 1752; B.A. 1764; ord. 1755 ; 2nd Master Bridgnorth Grammar Scho(d : 3rd Master Shrewsbury vSchool 1763; 2nd Master 1771-83; Vicar of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, 1775-83. Born at Upton Magna 1730. Died Oct. 22, 1783] William Humphries John Jones William Jones Thomas IJttlehales Philli]) Morrice ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHCOL. II Charles Osborne Richard Pinches Robert Powell David Rice David Richards Roderick Richards [See 1739] William Stannier [Son of Benjamin Stanier of Shrewsbur}'. Born 1731. Died 1784] Robert Waring [Pembroke Coll., Oxon., 1752. Son of Kdmund Waring. Born at Bishop's Castle 1733] Thomas WoUey From Nov. 16, 1742 to Nov. 15, 1743. Thomas Bagshaw Baxter John Botevile John Bowyer Thomas Boycot [J. P. CO. Denbigh; of Trevelyn near Gresford. Born ]3ec. 22, 1734. Died June 29, 179S] Edward Collins [This name occurs twice this year] Timotliy Davies W^illiam Davies John Freeman John Giiftith • Joseph Griffith Ricliard Griffith Thomas Griffith Richard Hill [Magdalen Coll., Oxon.; M. A. 1754; Contro- versialist ; succeeded his father Sir Rowland Hill as 2nd Bart. 17^3; M.P. co. Salop 1780-1806 ; Major Shropshire Yeomanry i798-i8o'] Frn ncis Ore Richard Owen James Parrot [M.D. University of L,eyden ; Medical Practice, Tewkesl)ury] Richard Reynolds From Nov. 16, 1744 to Nov 15, 1745. Henry Baker Ro))ert Betridge Richard ]k)tevile William l^otevile James Hriarle}' Rowland Calcot Francis P^d wards William Jones Samuel Prichard John Temple Charles Tomkis Edward Williams ADMITTKI) TO SIIRHWSBUKV SCHOOL. 13 Fkom Nov. 16, 1745 to Nov. 15, 1746. Richard Adney Thomas Calcot John Davies Griffith Griffith Samuel Hattoii Thomas Hattoii [St. Jolin's Coll., Cam])., 1753, B.A. ; ord. 1758 ; Rector of Waters Ujiton 1764-1807. Son of Alexander Hatton. BaiH. at St. Mary's, Shre\vsl)nry, Oct. iS, 1735. Died May 18, 1807] Henry Hennings [Jesus Coll., Oxon., 1747. Son of Henry Hennings. Born at Llang\ nog, co. Montg., 1739] John Holmes David Jones Thomas Jones Richard I.eake Thomas Morhall [of Onslow J Richard Scott [of Betton Strange, co. Salop. Son of Richard Scott. Bapt. at St. Chad's Sept. 2, 1731. Died Sept. 1770] Richard vSi)arkcs Peter Vaughan SUPPLEMKNTAI. NAMES OF SCHOLARS. 1746-1798. Kdward Ilarvvood, St. John's Coll., Camb., 1757; ord. 1755; Vicar of vShcnstone 1759- 82; of Sutton, Shropshire, 1775. Born in Kent. Died April 18, 1782. Thomas Houlston, St. John's Coll., Camb., 1757; B.A. (Jun. Opt.) 1761 ; Fellow of St. John's 17(>3. Died May, 1775- Thomas l^uke, vSt. Jolin's Coll., Camb., 1757; ord. 1760. Born in l^arbadoes. Samuel Johnson, St. John's Coll., Camb., 1758; B.A. 1771 ; 3rd Master Shrewsbury School 177 1 ; 2nd Master 1783 ; resigned 1798 ; author of several vols, of poems. Died Sept, 2, 1798. Richard Harrison, vSt. John's Coll., Camb., 1759; ord. 1763;^ Curate of Woolstaston, co. Salop, 1763 ; of Wortlien 1765- i i i Thomas Cradock, St. John's Coll., Camb., 1760; Rector of - Drung and Laragh 1767-1827; Prebendary of St. i Patrick's Cathedral, l)ul)lin, 1774-1827. l^rother of ! next. Born at Wolverhampton. I)ied 1827, aged 83. \ William Cradock, St. John's Coll., Camb., 1760 ; Rector of j Lurgan ; Archdeacon of Kilmore 1770-6; Prebendar^^ ' of St. Patrick's, Dublin, 1774; Dean of St. Patrick's 1775; Registrar of the Order of St. Patrick. Horn at Wolverhampton. Died May i, 1793. George Warrington, vSt. John's Coll., Camb., 1761 ; ord. 1769; ! Prebendary of St. Asaph 1776; Vicar of Queen's Hope, I CO. Flint, 1778; of Plealey, co. Derby, 1793. Born in Lancashire. Died 1830. William Davies, St. John's Coll., Camb., 1762. Samuel Sneade, vSt. John's Coll., Camb., 1763; LL B. 1769; ord. 1768 ; Patron and Rector of liidstone, co, Salop, 1772-1809. Son of the Rev. vSamuel Sneade, Rector. Born at Churchstoke. Died 1820. Theophilus Houlbrooke, vSt. John's Coll., Camb., 1763; LD.B 1769; Rector of vStockton-on-'l'eme 1770-88. Became a Unitarian, l^orn at Lichfield. Charlton Leigliton, St. John's Coll., Camb., 1763; M.P. vShrewsbury i78:)-4; succeeded his father as 4th Bart. 1780; of Loton Park, co. Salop; M.P. for Shrewsbury 1780. Died Sept. 9, 1784. Samuel Pear.son, St. John's Coll., Camb., 1765 ; ord. 1771 ; Rector of St. Martin's, l^irmingham ; Vicar of Osmaston- by-Derl)y ; of Weston-on-Trent 1807; P'.S.A. Died June 13, 1811. John Pearson, St. John's Coll., Camb., 1766. Richard Podmore, Schol. Christ's Coll., Camb., 1764 ; LL.B. 1769; ord. 1766; Curate of Rochdale 1766; Vicar ot vSittingbourne, Kent, 1776. Born at Condover 1744. Henry Lea, Christ's Coll., Camb., 1763; Scholar 1764. Boru at Rugeley, co. Stafford, 1745. Kdward Waring, Exhib. Magdalene Coll., Camb. ; B.A. (Senior Wrangler) 1757; 3rd Smith's Prize for Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; Lucasian Professor of Mathe- matics at Cambridge 1760 t)8 ; M.D. 1767; Physician to Addenbrooke Hospital 1771 ; h\R.vS. ; Gold Medallist, lioard of Longitude. Born 1734. Died Aug. 15, 1798. See D.N.B., lix. 383. William Newling, Farmer, Sliravvardine, Salop. Died Aug. 14, 1814, aged 81. Brother of Rev. Charles Newling. Watkin Lewis, M.P. City of Lomlon ; Ahlerman of Lime Street Ward; Sheriff of London 1772; Knighted ]<'eb. 5. 1773- ^5 Kdward Blakeway, Kxhib. Magdalene Coll., Camb. ; B.A. (nth Wrangler) 1756; Fellow; Rector of Long Staunton, Canib., 1764-79; of Fitton, Gloucester, 1777-95; of Neen Savage. Salop, 1786-95 ; Mayor of Shrewsbury 1793. Born Feb. 5, 1736-7. Died Feb. 17, 1795. Son of Peter Blakeway, and uncle of John Brickdale Blakeway. CHA.RLKS Nkwung, Headmaster 1754-71. During Mr. Newling's Head-niastership, he had, as a rule, more than sixty boarders in his house. ' (Rev. J. B. Blakeway)]. James Atcherlhy, Headmaster 1771-98. John Hill, succeeded his brother as 3rd Bart. 1809 ; of Hawke- stone ; M.P. vSlirewsbury 1781-90; and 1805-6; Col. Shropshire Yeomanry 1814-24. Died 1824. Rowland Hill (!)rother), St. John's Coll., Canib., 17^14; B.A. (Jun. Opt.) 1769; ord. 1777; Minister of Wootton Chapel, Gloucester; of Surrey Chapel, London, 1785-1833. Born 1744. Died April i, 1833. vSee D.N.B., xxvii. 411. Robert Hill (brother), Pembroke Coll., Oxon. ; B.A. 1769; Fellow of All Souls'; Rector of l^olas Magna 1772; of St. Mary's, Chester, 1772; Vicar of Talk o' the Hill, Staffs, 1803-31. Born May 17, 1746. Died Jan. 31, 1831, aged^85. Thomas Jolines, M.P. Cardigan Boroughs 1774-80; Radnor- shire 1780-90; Cardiganshire 1796-1812; Lord Lieut. CO. Cardigan; Col. Cardiganshire Militia; Auditor of Land Revenues; P'.R.vS. ; Translator of Froissart and Monstrelet ; of Hafod, co. Cardigan, liorn 1748. Died April 3, 1816. See D.N.B., xxx. 2. John Wingfield, Vicar of Montford, co. Salop, 1790-1830; of St. Issy, Cornwall, 1803-30. l)ied Sept. 18, 1830, aged 75. Son of Thomas Wingfield, (^i Alderton. Thomas Wingfield (brother), of Dinthill Bapt. at Great Ness July 25, 1750. Died Aug. 19, 1812, aged 62. Rowland Hunt, J. P., co. Salop ; of Boreatton. Son of Thomas Hunt. Born 1753. Died i8ii,aged 58. Thomas Jones, vSt. John's Coll., Camb.; migrated to Trinity; B.A. (vSenior Wrangler) 1779; Mrst vSmitli's Pri/.enuin for Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 1779; Fellow and Tutor of Trinity. Born 1756. Died July i8, 1807. See D.N.B., xxx. 167. Charles Oakeley, H.E.I.C. Service 1766; Governor of ALadras 1790-4; created a liaronet 1790; Hon. D.C.L. Oxon. 1825. Born 1751. Died Sept. 7, 1826. See D.N.B., xli. 284. William Oakeley (brother), J. P. co. Merioneth; of Plas Tan-y-bwlch, co. Merioneth. Died i8ii. io Knuibl iiK C)l' TliK NAMKS OF I50VS j j Jonathan Scott, H.E-T.C. Service ; retired as Captain ; Private j vSecretary to Warren Hastings; afterwards Professor | of Oriental lyangnages at liaileybury; Hon. D.C.L. ■ (Oxon.) 1805; Hon. LL.l). (Cain'b.) 1808; translated many hooks from Arabic, Persian, and Hindnstani. Born 1754. Died Feb. 11, 1829. See D.N.B., li. 58. Edward Newling. Sou of Rev. Charles Newling. Bapt. at ! St. Mary's, Shrews])nry, Sept. 12, 175S. Died at i Berwick, co. Salop, 1790, aged 32. I John Newlin.u:. St. John's Coll., Camb. ; B.A. (12th Sen. Opt.) , 1785; Fellow of vSt. John's; Vicar of Chirbury 1789- i 1802; of Ford, Salop, 1793-1820; Rector of Ditchin^j:- ' ham, Norfolk, 1802*; Canon of Lichfield 1807-38; Chaplain to Lord Sidney; J.P. co. Salop and vStafTord ; Anti(juary, many of his MSS. are in the vShrewsbnry F'ree Library (MSS. 3010 107). Ijorn 1762. Died 1838. Hugh Owen, vSt. John's Coll., Camb,; Ji.A. 1782; Vicar of St. Julian's, vShrewsbur\-, 1791-1827 ; Archdeacon of Salop 1821 ; Prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral 1822; Mayor 1819. l^orn 1761. Died Dec. 23, 1827. See D.N.B., xlii. 415. John Brickdale Blakeway, Oriel Coll., Oxon.; B.A, 1786; Rector of Fitton. Somerset, 1795-1816; of Neen Savage, Salop, 1795-1826; of Kinlet 1800-16; Joint Author with Hugh Owen of History of Shreivslniry. Died * March 10, 1826. See D.N.B., v. 189. William (jorsuch Rowland, Ch. Ch. Oxon.; B.A. 1790; School ILailiff 1805-39; Prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral 1814-51 ; Vicar of St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, 1828-51. Died Nov. 28, 1851, aged 81. Daniel Rowland (brother), Barrister; P\vS.A. ; FMitor of Blakeway's Sheriffs of Slnopshire\ Author of a work on the Nevill P'amily. Born 1778. Died 1859. See D.N.B., xlix. 349, Joseph Thomas, St. John's Coll., Camb.; P. A. 1789; Vicar of Elmswell, Suff.dk, 1809. John Groom Smythe, Lieut. Ancient British Fencible Cavalry ; served with Regt. through the Irish Rebellion of 1798; subsequently Major Shropshire Militia; J.P. and D.L. CO. vSalo}) ; of Hilton, co. Salop. Died Dec. 8, 1835, ^igtid64. William Louis Beaufort, Trinity Coll., Dublin, D.D. ; Rector of Glanmire, CO. Clare ; Prebemiary of Cork Cathedral. Died 1831. Grandfather of Mrs. Henry W. Moss, wife of the Headmaster, 1866-1908. Roger Atcherley, St. Mary Hall, Oxon. ; ord. ; Curate-in-Charge of Slieinton, Salop, 1817-24. Richard vScott, B.N.C., Oxon.; B.A. 1803; Vicar of Condover 1807; Chaplain to the Prince of Wales 1808. Died Oct. 6, 1848. The great benefactor to the churches of Shrewsbury. Richard Wace, Solicitor, Shrewsbury. Died 1866, aged 88. Edward Bather (also at Rugby), Oriel Coll., Oxon. ; B. A. 1803 ; Vicar of Meole Brace 1804-47 ; Archdeacon of Salop 1828 ; Prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral 1828. Died Oct. 3, 1847. Author of religious works. See D.N.B., iii. 403. John Bather (brother) (also at Rugby) ; Trinity Coll, Oxon. ; Bar (Lincoln's Inn); Recorder of Shrewsbury; of Dinthill, co. Salop. Died Nov. 8, 1839. Bourne At Shrewsbury School 1787-8, with W. L. Beaufort. Bourne (brother) Cooper Palmer Palmer (brother) According to a nephew, Robert, Lord Clive, of Indian fame, was for a short time at school at Shrewsbury, but in the absence of documentary evidence we can hardly claim him for certain as a Salopian. Robert Clive was born 1725. The above list could be very considerably lengthened by anyone who could afiford the time, and would take the trouble, to transcribe the names cut on the panelling of the Old Schools. This would be a very useful and interesting piece of work. INDEX TO SCHOLARS. Acherley, J as. 8 Adney, Rd. 13 Ambler, Tho. 4 Astbury, Jn. 4 Atcherley, Jn. 2 ; Rog. 16 Bagley, Tho. 2 J3agslui\v, Tho. 11 Ikikcr, IhMi. iz ]3arnctt, Jus. 4 leather. Edw. 17 ; Jn. 17 Baxter, — , 11 ; Geo. 4 Beaufort, Wm. L. iG Beddcs, Kd. 6 Bennet, Wm. 10 Bennett, Luke, 8 Bentley, Cha. 3 Berkley, Pet. 9 Bernard, Abr. 10 ; Chas. 8 ; Jn. 8 Betridge, Rob. 12. Betton, Jn. 3 Binnel, l^ob. 12 Blakeway, Edw. 15 ; John B. 16 ; Tho. 5, 12 Bolas, Cha. 2 Botevile, Jn. 11 ; Rd. 12 ; Wm. 12 Bourne, — , 17 Bowdler, Geo. 4 ; Jn. 8 ; Tho. 4 ; Wm. 3 Bowyer, Jn. 11 Boycot, Tho. 1 1 Brace, Edw. 5. Briarley, Jas. 12 Bright, Jn. 10 Briscoe, Tho. 6 Buckley, Mill. 9 Burchall, Jn. 8 Bur^^ess, Tlio. 10 Burley, Jas. 12 Burltori, Jn. 5 Calcot, Rowl. 12 ; Tho. 13 Calcott, Rich. 4 Callcot, Wellings, 3 Clarke, Geo. 10 ; Tho. 3 Clcobury, Jn. 5 CUve, Rob. 17 Collins, Edw. ir ; Wm. 12 Cook, Tho. 2 Cooper, — , 17 Corfield, Tho. 5 ; Wm. 5 Cotton, Rd. 2 ; Rob. 6 ; Tho. 6 ; Wm. 6 Cradock, Tho. 14 ; Wm. 14 Cross, Jas. 5 ; Tho. 10 Davies, Dav. 7 ; Geo. 2, 5 ; Jn. 2, 13 ; Jos. 2 ; Tho. 3, 10 ; Tim. II ; Wm. II, 14 Devereux, Geo. 7 Dicken, Edw. 7 ; Jn. 7 Doubty, Jn. 9 Downes, Jn. 2 ; Jona. 10 Duke, Tho. 13 ; Wm. 10 Durston, Jas. 8 Eastope, Fra. 8 Edwards, Corbet, 3, 5, 8 ; Edw. 7 Era. 12 ; Hugh, 7 ; Jn. 7 ; Rd. 2 ; Rob. 5, 8 ; Tho. 10, 12 Ellis, Jn. 7 EUesmear, Jn. 3 Elsmere, Jn. 7 ; Sam. 8 Evans, Corbett, 4; Jn, 4, 5; Sam. 2; Tho. 9 ') Farmer, Jn. 2 Fox, Benj. 5 ; Jn. 5 Frances, Fra. 7 Freeman, Jn. 11. Gifford, Rd. 10 Giltins, Tho. 12 (joughe, I len. 8 Gould, ICdw. 4 Grey, Jn. 8 Griffith, Griffith, 13 ; Jer. 9 ; Jn. II ; Jos. II ; Rd. 11 ; Sara. 8 ; Tho. II. Grihitlis, Calcott, 12 ; Jn. 7, 8 ; Moses 3. Grincell, Rd. 9 Ilalliwell, Wm. 7 Ilannier, Tho. 10 ADMITTED TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOI,, 19 Harris, Edw, 2 Harrison, Rd. 2, 13 Harvey, Bcnj. 7 ; Jn. 7 Harwood. Edw. 13 Hatton, Jn. 8 ; Sam. 13 ; Tho. 13 Hawlcins, Jn. 5 Hayward, Jos, 4 Hennings, Hen 13 Hill, Jn. 15 ; Rd. n ; Rob. 15 ; Rowl. 15 Hodges, Geo. 9 Holme, Sam, 2 Holmes, Jn. 13 Hotchkis, Edw. 3 Hotchkiss, Era. 3 1 loiilbrooke, Theoph. 14 Houlston, Tho. 13 Hudson, Tho. 3 Hughes, I3enj. 5 Humfries, Jn. 12 ; R. 11 ; Tho. 11 Humphreys, Tho. 10 Humphries, Wm. 10 Hunt, Rowl. 15 Jarman, Jn. 11 Johnes, Tho. 15 Johnson, Sam. 13 Jones, Dav. 13 ; Jn, 10, 11 ; Jos, II ; Tho. 13, 15 ; Wm, 10, 12 ; Zach. 7 Juson, Job, 5 Kyffin, Geo. 12 Latham, Jas. 5 ; Rob. 9 Lea, Hen. 14 ; Jn. 3 Leake, Rd. 13 Lee, Jn. 8 Leighton, Charlton, 14 Lewis, Watkin, 14 Littlehales, Geo. 9 ; Hum. 8 ; Rd. 3 ; Tho, 10 Lloyd, Dav. 7 ; Jenkin 5 ; Jn. 8, 9 ; Tho. 5, II Locket, Tho. 1 1 ; Wm. 1 1 Lolley, Jas. 9 Lowe, Jn. 7 Maddox, Jn. 4 Mai). Wm. 5 Mansel, Tho. 5 Mathews, Benj. 4 Metcalf, Rob. 5 Morgan, Edw. 4 ; Hen. 4 ; Hugh. 9 ; Jas. 7 ; Rd. 5 ; Rob. 9 Morhall, Tho. 13 Morrice, Phil. 10 Morris, Tho. 11 Muckleston, Jn. 12 Mulliner, Shadr. 5 Mytton, Dev. 6 Necoytt, Pereg. Tho. 6 Newling, Cha. 9 ; Edw. 16 ; Jn. 16; Wm. 14 Nicholas, Jn. 7 Norgrave, Tho. 9 Oakeley, Cha. 15 ; Wm. 15 Ore, Era. 12 ; Tho. 7 Osborne, Cha, 1 1 Oswald, Tho. 4 Owen, Hugh, i(3 ; Rd. 12 Palmer, — , 17 ; Littleton 3 Parker, Geo. 3 Parr, Tho. 4 Parrot, Jas. 12 ; Rd. 7 Peake, Cha. 6 Pearson, Jn. 14 ; Sam. 14 Perrott, see Parrot Pickering, Tho. B, 6 Pinches, Rd. 11 Pirrill, Wm. 11 Pod more, Rd. 14 Powel, Wm. 6 Powell, Rob. 1 1 Powis, Tho. 12 Prankett, Noel, 4 Presland, Tho. 4 Price, Corbet, 7 ; Edw. 5 ; Rd. 5 Prichard, Sam. 12 Pritchard, Jn. 4 Pugh, Lewis, 4, 5. 7 Raynor, Wm, 3 Reynolds, Mich. 12 ; Rd. 12 Rice, l^av. 1 1 ; Jn, 9 Richards, Dav, 7, 11 ; Rod, 9, ii Rowland, Dan. 16 ; Dav, 3 ; Wm. G, 16 Scoltock, Rd. 4 Scott, Jona. 16 ; Rd. 13, 16 Smythe, Jn. G. 16 Sneade, Sam. 14 Sparkes, Rd. 13 Spencer, Jn. 5 Spenlove, Era. 9 Si)enser, Jn. 9 Stannier, Benj. 4 ; Wm. 11 I- i ^^xo ^xj-»iix X X J. x^J^ xv-» OXiXV-Xi VVC3UUi<.l C5C±lUOL<. Swancott, Price, 6 Swanwick, Tho. 4 Swinton, Dav. S. 4 Symonds, Sam. 7 Tanner, Tho. 12 Taylor, Jn. 6 ; Lane. 6 Temple, Jn. 12 Tench, Rob. 6 Thomas, Jn. 9 ; Jos. 16 ; Sam. 7 Thornes, Jn. 9 Thwaits, Josiah, 5 Tibbots, Rd. 7 Tomkis, Cha. 12 Turner [? Tanner], Tho. 12 Urwick, Tho. 8 Vaughan, Pet. 13 Vernon, Moses, 12 Wace, Rd. 17 Walters, Jn. 3 Waring, Edw. 14 ; Jn. 2 ; Jn. Rose, 9 ; Rob. 1 1 ; Walt. 9 Warrington, Geo. 14 Warter, Tho. 6 Whittingham, Jn. 9 Williams, Edw. 12 ; Rice, 12 Wingfield, Borl. 6 ; Jn. 3, 15 ; Row]. 6 ; Tho. 15 Winn, Hen. 3 Wolley, Tho. 11 Woodhouse, Rd. 6 Young (Yonge), Tho. 5 ; Vernon, 10 ; Walt. 4, 10 21 OSWESTRY BOROUGH GAOL. By R. LL. KENYON. Blackstone says that it is a principle of law that a gaol can be erected only by the authority of Parliament, and that when once erected it belongs to the Sovereign. But for many centuries Oswestry possessed a gaol which was not erected by the authority of Parliament, and which did not belong to the Sovereign. The gaol finally disappeared in 1869, and in 1877 the Borough was deprived of all vestiges of prison authority ; but it may be of some interest to record what is known of the history of the gaol. The Charters under which it was maintained are all printed and abstracted by the late Mr. Stanley Leighton in Vols. II. to VII. of the Transactions. The earliest known Charter to the Borough of Oswestry was granted by the Lord of the Manor, John Fitzalan, Lord of Arundel, and is dated 12 Jan., 1262. It gives the Burgesses the right to make ordinances for their own profit and well- being, the Lord's prerogative being reserved ; and it grants that if any persons living in the town not having the freedom of the Borough buy merchandise in the suburbs before it has been brought to the accustomed place in. the town for selling and buying such things, if such persons be taken " they shall be carried by our officers to the prison to be provided according to the discretion of our Bailiffs of our said town.'^ This seems to indicate that no prison was in existence, but that one was to be provided which was to belong to and be under the control of the Lord of the Manor. A Lord of a Manor had not ordinarily the right to have a prison, but the Fitzalans held the Hundred of Oswestry with Palatine jurisdiction, the King's writs, except as addressed to the Lord, did not run in the Hundred,* and he would have • Eytonx.,316. 22 OSWESTRY BOROUGH GAOI.. as I^ord of the Hundred the royal right to erect and maintain a prison. As prisoners were compelled to pay fees the right was a profitable one, and accordingly in 1276, when the I,ord was a minor and the Hundred therefore in the hands of the King as his guardian, among the profits accounted for by the Gustos were profits of the Gaol 9s. 4d." (Eyton x. 331). The gaol contemplated in 1262 had therefore been provided by the Bailiffs of the Lord before 1276. In 1397 by the attainder of the then Earl of Arundel, the lyordship of Oswestry was forfeited to the King, who visited the town soon afterwards, and granted a Charter dated 14 A^ug., 1398, by which among other things he grants that the Burgesses may have a prison of their own and the custody of all prisoners sent to prison within the liberties of Oswestry. The Charter contains a reference to persons being imprisoned within the Castle. The attainder was reversed on the deposition of Richard 11. and the Lordship restored to the Earl of Arundel, who granted a new Charter dated 25 Jan., 1407. This does not explicitly refer to King Richard's Charter, which the Earl probably wished to be considered illegal, but it contains a grant to the Burgesses of a prison in exactly the same words as the Royal Charter, adding, however, this saving clause for his own rights ''except those who are arrested by our servants or those of our successors on the days of our foreign courts," courts for non- burgesses. From this time therefore the Burgesses were entitled to have a prison independent of that of the Lord, but the Lord might also maintain one. Accordingly, it would seem that two prisons were maintained in 1582, for an agreement dated 22 May of that year between the Burgesses and Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, who had inherited the title and the Lordship of Oswestry through his mother, from the last of the Fitzalan Earls of Arundel, provides among other things that the Bailiflfs appointed by the Burgesses shall receive certain fees hitherto paid to other ofl&cers, and in consideration thereof shall repair the walls, the pavements, and the prison houses of the town, and buy bolts and locks for prisoners. OSWESTRY BOROUGH GAOL. 23 But in 1590 this Earl Philip was attainted, and the Lordship of Oswestry was again forfeited to the Crown ; and in 1594 the Attorney General issued a Quo Warranto challenging the right of the Burgesses to the privileges granted by their Charters and alleging that they exercised them '* without warrant authority or royal grant," among the privileges so challenged being the right to arrest and imprison defendants. It would probably be argued that Richard II. 's Charter had been ignored and treated as illegal, and that the charters granted by the Earls became void on the forfeiture of their jurisdiction to the Crown. These proceedings, however, were ultimately dropped, and the Lordship was granted in i James I. to Earl Philip's half-brother, Thomas Howard Earl of Suffolk. (Trans, viii. 164). But serious differences continued between him and the Burgesses about their rights, and at last he petitioned King James to grant a new Charter, which he did on 15 March, 1617. This gives to the Bailiffs, &c., authority to act as justices ot the Peace, and to commit to the County Gaol persons charged with felony or who refuse to be bound over to keep the peace, but it also authorises them to have a gaol of their own, and to commit to it for trial such persons as they may think fit, and to appoint the gaoler. In 1624 the Earl of Suffolk sold the Lordship of Oswestry to Lady Craven, from whom it was inherited by her son the first Earl of Craven, a very active Royalist. After the Restoration a great number of burgesses subscribed for obtaining a new Charter, and a joint petition was presented by the Earl of Craven and the Bailiffs and Burgesses a.sking for a renewal of the Charter with additions and alterations, and in particular that there might be a Mayor instead of the two Bailiffs, and that " the popularitie be excluded from the election of the Mayor Aldermen and Common Council for the prevention of blood shedding and other great disorders." The new Charter with these and other alterations was granted 13 Jan., 1674, ^^^^ the provisions about the gaol was the same as those of James ist's Charter. This Charter of 1674 governed the town until 1836 when the Municipal Corporations Act came into force. 24 OSWKSTRY BOROUGH GAOL. The place used as a Prison was the New Gate in Church Street, of which there is a picture iii Price's " History of Oswestry," and in Trans. V. 162, and which is said in Price's ' History to have been built in the reign of Edward II. There = are many records in the Corporation books of prisoners \ confined here, among others of " women led from the Gaole in New Gate " to the Pillory, there to be whipped till their backs be bloody." Similar sentences are to be found in the ' records of the County Quarter Sessions, and were quite common for thefts and other crimes. In 1689 Earl of Castlemaiue (husband of Barbara Duchess of Cleveland, the lavourite of Charles II.) was arrested by the Mayor as an active adherent of James II. and confined in the New Gate for a month, before being transferred to the Tower (Trans. VIII. 113). In 1704 there is an entry in the Corporation Books " Paid the High Constable towards building a Gaole 8," but this would be for - the new County Gaol which was built at this time, not for the Oswestry Prison. In 1739 a Committee of the Corporation was appointed "to view the Gaol in the Town of Oswestry called Ivoft a Teer and to report the condition of the same to the next House Meeting." I^lofft-y-Tir means in Welsh " Land Loft." It was probably the room over the New Gate, and as the Gate was used for collecting tolls for use of the Lord, the room over it may very likely have been used for collecting his tithes or other land dues, and so got this name, which however does not seem to occur elsewhere. (Trans. VII. 271, VIII. 149). On 15 Jan., 1741, a House Meeting ordered that '* whereas for want of a proper and convenient place to confine prisoners within this town divers evil-disposed persons," &c., have escaped due punishment, &c., "the Gate commonly called the New Gate be put in good and sufl&cient repair and rendered commodious and safe Gaol for the confinement of all prisoners and that a sum not exceeding ijd. per £ be assessed and levied on the inhabitants for the purpose." On 20 April, 1743, Mr. John Morphet was employed " to make a plan for the rendering of the New Gate a safe and commodious. OSWKSTRY BOROUGH GAOL. gaol," and to make an estimate of the expense. A presentment was made at Quarter Sessions of the want of a gaol, which was a necessary preliminary to building one, and on 20 Sept. 1743 a rate of 5d. in the £ was levied for the purpose and Mr. Morphet was to do the work and be paid £i\(> for it. But on 16 Sept. 1782 an agreement was made between the then I,ord of the Manor the Earl of Powis and the Corporation, by which it was agreed that the three then existing Gates of the Town, Willow Gate, Beatrice Gate, and New Gate, which had hitherto been repaired by the Lord of the Manor, who received "Toll Thorough" of id. from passengers through them, but which were narrow and inconvenient for carriages, should be pulled down, that out of their stones the Corporation should erect where the Gates stood pillars according to the design shown on the deed, and that with the rest of the stones a prison should be built. The pillar on the site of New Gate is still to be seen in Churcli Street.* In the same year, 1782, the Corporation ordered "that the present Wool Hall be taken down and that the site thereof with the materials be given up and appropriated to the erecting a convenient prison and house of correction for the use of the Town." This must have been carried out before 1786, for in that year they ordered " that a building lease for 99 years be granted to the best bidder by auction of the waste ground at each end of the new Prison or House of Correction, subject to repair and other usual covenants." Mr. Stanley lycighton in Trans. VI. 299 says that the Municipal Buildings (on Bailey Head, on the site of the present Guildhall) were erected at this time, and two prison cells were provided, and he gives two drawings of these buildings, which were pulled down in 181 1, when the present Guild Hall was built. Probably the prison built on the site of the Wool Hall was found unnecessary after the cells on Bailey Head had been provided, for the Borough accounts for 1812-13 contain the following items: "Sold old prison to Westleans £'^00. Received of Wm. Jones, ironmonger, for * This is the only pillar on the original site. The Beatrice Gate pillars were unfortunately removed about 1881 to the Castle Bank, where they now are, and the others have been destroyed. ,4 .J 26 OSWESTRY BOROUGH GAOL. two plots of ground at each end of prison £2^0. Received from County towards expenses in fitting up the magistrates' office ^100. Repurchased Prison £857 15." This old prison- in 1812 was clearly the new prison of 1786, with the two plots' of wastr ground at each end of it, built on the site of the ; \ Wool Hall. The Records of the County Quarter Sessions of Oct. 1813 agree with the Borough accounts, as they say that the County paid the Borough ;^ioo towards cost of erection of! new Lock-up, on condition that the County Magistrates have the use of the Town Clerk's office, and of the cells for the confinement of prisoners. A framed document recording this agreement was hung up in the Town Clerk's office (Trans. VI. 301). None of the Deeds of Conveyance for carrying out the above transactions appear to be among the documents in the custody of the present Town Clerk, and it is curious that there seems to be neither record nor tradition in Oswestry as to where the Wool Hall was or what it looked like, though when Oswestry was the centre of the Welsh wool trade the Wool Hall must have been the most important building in the town. The transactions quoted in this paper seem to make it probable that it stood on or near the site of the present Christ Church. The new Lock-up built in 1813 was evidently a part of the Municipal Buildings, for in 1814 " the Town Clerk's office. Gaoler's House, Prison, Schoolroom, and other offices" of brick, stone, and slate, adjoining each other, on the Bailey Head, were insured in the Salop Fire Office for /800 (Trans. VI. 301). But in 1826 a new Gaol was built by the Borough. There is nothing in the minutes of the Council on this subject, except a minute of thanks to Lord Powis for the gift of the site, which seems to show that it was not on exactly the same site as the previous one, but it was certainly on the site of the present Christ Church. A stone in the wall was inscribed Borough Gaol 1826 John Jones Esqr. Mayor John Mytton Esqr. Coroner. These gentlemen held office 1825-6. An acknowledgment under the seal of the Council dated 16 June 1827 stated that the County paid £1^0 for the use of this new gaol for prisoners until they shall be either discharged or OSWESTRY BOROUGH GAOL. 27 committed to the County Gaol. A return made by the Corporation to the Government in 1829 stated, Prison consists of 2 cells capable of holding 4 prisoners. Total number of prisoners admitted 1827-8, 14. Greatest number at one time 4. There are two airing yards, 4 lock-up cells, but no work rooms or day rooms. The Gaol has been lately built but upon a small scale and may be extended. The allowance is 5d. per head per day." The prison here referred to would be the one built in .1826. But several Acts from 1822 onwards imposed obligations on gaol authorities to improve their construction and management, and authorised Boroughs to contract with Counties to receive their prisoners and thereupon to discontinue the use of the Borough Gaols, and in 1842 at the request of the Borough of Oswestry the County contracted to receive all Oswestry prisoners in the County Gaol, the Borough paying per head what had been the average cost in the previous year, and certain other contingent expenses. The Oswestry Gaol continued to be used, but only as a temporary lock-up, and in 1846 we find the County Quarter Sessions complaining of the conduct of the Oswestry gaoler, and threatening to write to the Secretary of State if anything further occurs." In 1865 another Prisons Act was passed, which left the Borough still the Prison authority, bound to maintain its own prisoners either in its own prison or by contract with some other authority, but which restricted its power to build a new prison by requiring the sanction of the Secretary of State and imposing conditions as to accommodation, &c., among others that a chapel must be provided ; and the Act authorised the Prison authority to sell any prison which appeared to be unnecessary in consequence of provision having been made for prisoners elsewhere. The Oswestry Gaol had nothing like the accommodation required, nor was there space for providing it, even if it had been otherwise desirable, and the agreement with the County made it unnecessary. Therefore in 1869 when the trustees of the old Chapel of the Independents applied to purchase the old Gaol the •Corporation determined to sell it to them, the old gaol 28 OSWESTRY BOROUGH GAOL. (though not older than 1826) being reported as inconvenient, unhealthy and defective. The agreement was for the sale of 150 square yards in the Pitcher Bank on which the Borough Gaol or Lock-up stands, with the buildings thereon, to the trustees **of the Church or Society of Congregatioualists or Independents meeting in the old Chapel in the town of Oswestry," and the trustees were to erect for the Borough a new Gaol or Lock-up on a site near the Horse Market, containing 155 square yards and being part of the Red Lion property near the back of the Powis Market, the Borough paying ;^ioo towards the cost. Of the gaol so sold and pulled down Bagshawe's Gazetteer of 1851 says it is " a brick structure in Castle Fields erected in 1826, which contains three cells and two airing 3^ards. It is now used as a lock-up, under the control of the borough and county magistrates." On the site, with other land, the Congregatioualists erected their present Christ Church. The building substituted for the Gaol did not attempt to comply with the statutory requirements as to accommodation in gaols, and was therefore not a gaol to which persons could be committed on being sentenced, but only a lock-up for the temporary detention of prisoners whose cases had not been disposed of. The Borough no longer possessed the gaol to which all its charters had entitled it, but it continued to be nominally the Prison Authority, and to be bound to maintain its own prisoners, until the Prisons Act of 1877 transferred the responsibility to the Secretary of State. The Oswestry Borough Police had been voluntarily transferred to the County in 1861, and the Local Government Act of 1888 made the County the Police Authority in the Borough, so that the County and not the Borough has to maintain the Lock-ups, and there no longer is or can be an Oswestry Borough Gaol. 29 THE PENDEREI. ANNUITIES IN 1665. By H M. Auden, F.R.Hist.S. I The Church books of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, contain many I items of interest relating to both the parish and the town of : which it forms so large a part, and incidentally to other I subjects. The advowson of the Church, on the Dissolution I of the College of St Chad (which consisted of a dean and ten ; canons, with the Bishop of I^ichfield as patron), passed into ; the hands of the Crown. In 1579 Queen Elizabeth granted all the possessions of the Deanery that remained to the ; Crown " to Sir Christopher Hatton, '* the dancing chancellor," t and though he conveyed them to Thomas Cronipton and John ' Morley, and they the next year to Thomas Owen and Rowland t Watson, they seem to have been resumed by the Crown on ■ the fall and forfeiture of Sir Christopher in 1591. The s Corporation bought back some of the other tithes in 1581. I In the following century those of Crowmeole, sold in 1549, I after passing through many different hands, were restored to ; the Church in 1674 by Nathaniel Tench, of London. Sir ' Christopher Hatton's portion was charged with the payment I of £15 a year to the two parochial clergy of St. Chad's and \ £^ 6s. 8d. to the curate of Broughton. The Hattons were a Shropshire family, seated on the border I of Cheshire. The Shrewsbury branch were descended from Richard Hatton of Ellesmere, eldest son of Peter Hatton, who is reported in the Heralds' Visitation of Cheshire to have fled out of Cheshire for murder. The Hattons of Holdenby, I CO. Northants, who ended with the Chancellor and his brother Thomas, and their sister's son, William Newport, who died in 1597, were descended from Richard's brother Henry, who married the sister and heir of William Holdenby, a North- ? amptonshire landowner. According to the Heralds' Visitation ^ of Shropshire each ot the 8 sons of Peter Hatton of Kistibriches, 30 THK FENUKKEI, ANNUITIES IN Lbb^. who lived in the time of Henry VI., founded a branch (five of them in Cheshire), and left descendants to the 4th and 5th generation. Kdward Hatton of Shrewsbury, who was a contemporary of Sir Christopher of Holdenby, called his second son Christopher, and it is possible that it was through this kinship that Sir Christopher knew of the unsold Crown property in St. Chad's parish. As before mentioned, Sir Christopher died in 1591, and apparently the Crown paid the stipends due to St. Chad's and Broughton, but regarded the property from which they were derived as Crown land, for, in 1664, a rent charge on it of £6 Ss. lod. was among the items that went to form the annuity of £400 granted by Charles II. to the five loyal Penderel brothers who helped him in his wanderings after the Battle of Worcester in 165 1. Hence among the things recorded in the St. Chad's Parish Books is the complete list of the Rents granted to the five brothers and their descendants in per- petuity, and those that made up the ;^5o granted to the Widow Yates for her life. Mr. Allan Fea in his book " The Flight of the King " gives a copy of the list, but many of the place names are incorrectly spelt, which makes them difficult to identify. Mr. Fea's list is that given in the grant of 1675, in which Sir Walter Wrottesley, Richard Congreve and John Giffard and their heirs and assigns for ever were appointed as trustees of the annuities. The list in the St. Chad's Parish Book bears the date of 1664 when the grant was first made. It has been carefully copied by Mr. J. A. Morris, and has been compared by Mr. C. W. Giffard Inge of lyichfield with the copy of the grant in his possession and some slight differences are noted in square brackets. The names in parentheses printed in italics are the present names of some of the places. The list in Mr. j Allan Fea's book gives one or two apparently different items, I as the chapel of Dawley," "Tithes in Shipton, Moorhouse, ! &c.," and £4. from ''the Co. of Clothiers in Shrewsbury." This last item suggests the paid by the Shearmen's Company to the Vicar of St. Julian's, but that was never THE AiNiN uillJib IXM luu^. diverted, and remains to this day the only remnant of the mediaeval endovi^meuts of that parish. Sir Christopher Hatton is said on the Lichfield list to have been the possessor of land in the Abbey Foregate once belonging to the Abbey. The Shrewsbury Hattons also had an interest in that part of the tov^n, and lived there. A Copy of the Rents granted to the Pendrills, By King Charles 2nd, 1664, in Revirard for their particular Faithfulness to him in his obscurity at Boscobel and at their House 1655. Com. Staff. £ s. d. From Iverley Wood near Kinfare Forest. . . . 2126 From the Monastery of Ronton & Rectory of Seyford [Sedgford] .. 800 From Lands in Oresley [Oresley] formerly be- longing to the Monastery of LilleshuU in Com. Salop .. .. .. .. ..2000 In Titenshore [Tittensore], formerly belonging to the Priory of Stone, in the Tenure of Thos. Shelly . . . . . . . . . . 2 13 4 From the Rectory of Swinnerton . . . , 2 00 o From Farley & Cotton in the Parish of Alton the inheritance of Mr. Owen «& Mr. Blake formerly belonging to the Monastery of Croxdon in Com. Staff .. ., .. ..250 From the Mannour of Wetton & Butterton the possession of Mr. Jo. Crimes [Crymes] in the parish of Matchfield [Mathfield] {Mayfield), formerly belonging to the Monastery ot Tutbury in Com. Staff . . . . . . . . 4 4 2^ From the Rectory of Shenton [Shenstone] formerly belonging to the Monastery Xti & btae (Beatae) Marie Virginis [Christchurch and the Blessed Virgin Mary] in Oxon the inheritance of Mr. Ed. Williams. . . . . . . . 5 19 2^ From Ric. Trenthaui formerly belonging to the Monastery of Rocester in Com. Staff . . . . 3 15 o '0' From diverse Lands in Stone Durleston & Walton the possession of James Collier formerly be- longing to the Priory of Stone . . . . 3 i6 6^ In Great Wierley [Worley] the possession of Mr. Wilson formerly belonging to Hatton's Chauntry in ye City of Lichfd . . . . 2 9 10 From the Church of Church Eaton in ye County of Staff, formerly belonging to the Monastery of Polesworth, Com. War. . . . . . . 10 00 o From the Rectory of Bradley in the County of Staff, formerly belonging to the JMonastery of Darley Com. Lincoln {Derby) . . . . 360 From the Rectory of Kinvare belonging to Mr. VJm.VJ&T\NOO& {Whorwood) formerly belonging to the Monastery of Bordesley, Com. Wigorn . . 240 From Lands in Burlaughton Staff", formerly be- longing to the Monastery of LiHeshuU Com. Salop , . . . . . . . . . 5 16 8 From the Manour of Mosehouse in Shenston Com. Staff", formerly belonging to Christ Church in Oxford (Abbot of Oseney) . . . . . . 19 o 9^^ From the Priory of Trentham in Com. Staff" . . 105 00 o In Calmore Com. Staff", granted to Richard Lydall & Thos. Bostock formerly belonging to the Guild of Walsall Com. praed. . . . . 2 00 o From the Rectory of Stone and in the Hamlets of Walton, Stoke, Darleston, Aston, Mayford (Meaford), Alton [Olton] , Cotwalton, Wood- houses, Modershall, Spotfulford, Beech and Stallington with Mormilote Grange [the Grange of Normicote], in Com. Staff, formerly belonging to the Priory of Stone . . . . 19 00 8 From the Rectory of Stone in the Holding of Robert Weston . . . . . . . . 26 9 8 From the Tythes of Rocester the possession of Wiseman & Moore formerly belonging to the Monastery of Rocester in Com. Staff. 8 13 4 8 00 {>! THE PKNDKRKIv ANNUITIES IN I665. 33 From the Tythes of Breedon (? Griudon) 26s. 8d. and Calton 20.S. in the parish of Wotenhall in Com. Staff. .. .. .. ..268 In Alvecote the Holding of Mr. Thos. Bache in Com. Stafif. (? CO. Oxon) formerl}^ the Estate of Robert Earl of I,eicester . . . . . . 500 From an Acre of Land near lyichfield with a Croft and Pasture in the Holding of Rd. Hamersley formerly belonging to the Chantry of St. Michael [St. Nicholas] in the City of Lich- field .. .. .. .. ..300 County of Hereford. From the Parsonage of Shumingfield {S hinfield) in Com. Berks, belonging to the Cathedral of Hereford .. .. .. .. ..500 From the Manor & Rectory of Wombridge ( IVormbridge) formerly belonging to the Priory of Dynmore granted to Sir Christopher Hattou 842 COUNTY OF SALOP. From the Manor of [Gittin otherwise] Eaton formerly belonging to the Monastery of Wenlock granted to Sir Jo. Packington .. .. 485 In Morveld [MorvilU) one Messuage with Garden, Orchard and one Close and one Orchard near a Close called Pool's Close and 30 acres of arable Land with other Lands and Tenements in the parish of Morveld granted to Jo. Dudley Viscount Lisle formerly belonging to the Monastery of Salop . . . . , . ..308 From [Shiffenham or] Sheffenhall (Shifnal) in Com. Salop formerly belonging to the Monastery of Wombridge in Com. Hereford (co. Salop) . . 200 From the Tythes of Barrow 12/6 Possenhall 12/6 Arlestry [Arlestree] 12/6 and Swinney 12/6 granted to Edward Downing and Peter Ashton formerly belonging to the Monastery of Wenlock . . . . . . . . ..2100 ■1 34 THK PENDERKL ANNUITIES IN 1665. From the Manour of lyilleshuU granted to Ja. Leveson formerly belonging to that Monastery 4 4 oj- The Tythes reserved in the Manour of Burton {Bourton) & Calloughton in Com. Salop, granted to Ri. Lawley . . . . . . . . 3 i From Lands formerly belonging to the Monastery of LilleshuU in Cora. Staff, granted Jacob. Leveson Armig. [James LevesonJ .. .. 444 Tythes reserved in the Mannor of Hardwick formerly belonging to the Monastery of Haugh- mond Com. Stafford [Salop] . . . . 308 In Vill. Salop. Lands formerly l^elonging to the Monastery of Salop .. . . .. ..400 In Le Fforiett in vel juxta Vill. Salop formerly parcel of the possession of the Monastery of St. Peter and Paul Salop. [Granted to Sir Christopher Hatton Knt] . . , . . . 444 From all the Rectory of Ercol granted to Downeing & Ashton Com. Salop . . . . ..1000 For the Lands and Tythes of the Chapel & College of St. Mary Magdalene in [within the Castle of] Bridgnorth pd. by several persons .. . . 19 19 4 From the Great Tythes of Nese [Great Nesse, Nesse Strange or Nesse Strand], Hopton & Shutterton {? Alderton) granted to [Richard] Moore & [Francis] Philips nuper possession' Monaster' St. Petri et Pauli in Villa Salop . . 700 All the Rectory of Marchomley in Com. Salop belonging to that Monastery . . .. .. 302 From the Great Tythes of Weston, Hopton and Mucliall [Muckhall] &c. in Com. Salop, granted to Philips & Moore. (Now Mr. Myttou's) 4 13 4 The Great Tythes of Calton and ( Calloughton) [or Walton in the parish of Much] Wenlock .. 4 13 4 From the Glebe Lands & Tythes of the Church of St. Cedd [Chad] granted to Sir Christopher Hatton who pays ^15 pr. an. Stipend to two Curates in the Church of St. Cedd [Chad] & o X o t THE PENDEREL ANNUITIES IN 1665. 35 7:4—6—8 for a Stipend to the Curate of Church i905020 Broughton in Vill. Salop [and 6d. to the 1 Speaker of the Convocation]. . .. . . 8 6 lo ; County of Wigorn. • From the Great Tythes of Willersley in Com. Wigorn, granted to Sir Chrisr. Hatton for- merly belonging to the Monastery of Kvesham 922 The Grange & Tythes of Defford in Com. Wigorn 400 The Rectory & Tythes of Ombersley formerly belonging to the JNIonastery of Kvesham in Com. Wigorn to Sir Robert Constable & Saml. Sands [Sandys] Ar. . . .. .. 32 18 4 In all . . 4 1 1 00 o In the County of Warwick belonging to the Widow Yates From the Rectory of Wolliamptou [Woveucote or Wolfhamcote] formerly belonging to ye Coll. of ye Virgin Mary in Warwick granted to Sir Chris. Hatton by Q. Eliz. . . . . . . 24 13 4 From St. Michael's Rectory in Warwick granted to that Corporation formerly belonging to the Virg. M. College . . . . . . ..6134 From the Rectory of Thurnby [in Co. of Leicester] formerly the possession of Jo. Beaumond de- funct granted since Downing & Ashton . . 10 00 o The Tythes of Workington, Newbold, &c. [Staunton and Willeston] in Com. Leicester for- merly to Breedon Coll. nowto Ashton &I)owning 968 In all . . 50 13 4 Granted to Ric. Pendrill and Mary his wife. pr. ann. . . . . . . . . . . 100 o o To Wm. Pendrill & Jone his wife pr. ann. . . loo o o To Jo. Pendrill pr. ann. .. .. . . 66 13 4 To Hump. Pendrill pr. ann. . . . . . . 66 13 4 To George Pendrill pr. ann. . . . . . . 66 13 4 In all . . 400 To Wid, Yates for her Life pr. ann. . . • . 50 36 THE PENDKKEIv ANNUITIES IN 1665. The list of the sources from which the annuities to the Penderell family were derived is of interest as showing that 100 years after the spoliation under King Henry VIII. Church lands were still regarded as, to some extent, at the disposal of the Crown. Almost the whole of the ;^400 was raised from land originally belonging to the Church, either to Monastic houses or parish churches. Some of the property had reverted to the Crown, such as that once the property of Sir Christopher Hatton, or the Earl of Leicester. It seems as it the estates of the Religious Houses had been sold with some reservation of Crown rights, as otherwise the IvCvesons, for instance, would hardly have been prepared to find the annual sum of 8s. 4id. from their land that once had belonged to Lilleshall Abbey. The religious houses mentioned on the list are, in Salop : Lilleshall, Wenlock, Shrewsbury, Wombridge, and Haugh- mond A])beys, and the College of St. Mary Magdalene in Bridgnorth ; Rowton, Stone, Croxden, Tutbury, Rocester and Trentham in Staffordshire ; two chantries in the city of Lichfield and the Guild of Walsall ; Polesworth in Warwickshire, and the College of St. Mary in Warwick ; the Abbey of Evesham in Worcestershire, and the small Cistercian house of Bordesley ; the Priory of Dinmore in Herefordshire, and the house of Darley in Derbyshire (not Lincolnshire as the list writes it). The maker of the list was evidently vague in his knowledge of counties. He puts Wombridge into Hereford, confusing it with Wormbridge, and Hauglimond into Stafford. Burloughton, generally now called Burlington, is partly in the parish of Shifnal and partly in that of Sherififhales, just on the border of Shropshire. The parish churches charged with a payment to the Penderels are Swinnertou, Shenstone, Seighford, Kinver, Church Eaton, Bradley, Stone, Stoke, all co. Staff.; High Ercall and St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, and tithes from several other Shropshire parishes ; Wormbridge in Herefordshire ; Shinfield in Berkshire, and Wolfhamcote and St. Michael's, Warwick, in Warwickshire. The monastery and church of St. Mary in Oxford is mentioned as having possessed Shen- THB PENDEREL ANNUITIES IN 1665. 37 Stone, and the college of Breedon co. Leicester had been the possessor of tithes granted to Downing and Ashton, who seem to have been speculators in church property, as they also held tithes near Wenlock, the rectory of High Ercall, and that of Thurnby co. Leicester, with tithes in Warwickshire charged with the ^50 annuity to the Widow Yates. Shinfield, with its chapel of Swallowfield, was given to the Cathedral of Hereford in 1269 by the Abbot and convent of Lyre, who received in return a confirmation of their right to tithes from Marcle, Fownhope, Linton, Bridstow, Tenbury and other churches in the diocese, and the Abbot was made €X officio and canon of the Cathedral. In 1319 the income derived from it was secured to the fabric fund, as at that date the Cathedral was in need of repair. Of the monastic orders to whom the property charged with the annuities had once belonged, Shrewsbury, Evesham, Tutbury and Polesworth were Benedictine ; Croxdeu and Bordesley Cistercian, and Much Wenlock, Cluuiac. The Austin Canons had lield LiHeshall, Wombridge and Haugh- niond in Salop ; Stone, Ronton, Treutham and Rocester in Staffordshire; Dorley in l)erb>'shire ; Breedon in Leicester- shire, and a charge on Christ Church, Oxford, had once belonged to their Abbey of Oseney. The Knights Hospitallers of Dinmore in Herefordshire had owned the Manor and Rectory of Wormbridge, which paid over ;^8. Sir Christopher Hatton's property there and at Willersley, co. Worcester, and at St. Chad's had been apparently nearly a century in the hands of the Crown, as had that of Robert, Earl of Leicester, at Alvecote in Oxfordshire, as Sir Christopher was attainted in 1 591 and the lyirl of Leicester in 1588. Nearly all the shares are small, the majority being under ;^io, and many under The Priory of Trentham paid the largest — an annual charge of ^105. The Rectory of Stoke paid ;^26, and that of Ombersley over ;^32, while St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth, the Rectory ot Stone with its hamlets, and the manor of Morehouse in Shenstone parish each paid over ;!^i9. The Penderel annuities are still paid to the descendants of the five brothers, William, John, Richard, Humphrey and 38 THE PENDKREI. ANNUITIES IN 1665. George, who so loyally stood by the King in his time of need. Another brother, Thomas, had fought for him at Stow-on-the- Wold in 1646, and was commonly reported to have been killed there, but was among the prisoners sent to the sugar plantations, as his will was proved in Barbadoes in 1669, when he left 1,000 lbs. of sugar to his Knglish kinsfolk. The care of the King at Whiteladies and Boscobel was shared by two Francis Yates. One, whose wife was named Elizabeth, guided Charles from Kinver Heath, and placed him in the care of the Penderels. He was executed at Oxford for his loyalty. The other Francis Yates, whose wife Margaret died before the Restoration, provided the King with money when he left Hobbal Grange to try to cross the Severn at Madeley. He was rewarded with an annuity, which his descendants enjoyed till 1834, when it was commuted for ;^i,8oo by Thomas Waddington, whose mother was descended from Francis and Margaret. Francis and Elizabeth, according to the carefully drawn out pedigree in Mr. Allan Fea's "The Flight of the King," were represented in 1908 by a Mrs. Greenwood and a Mrs. Williams in England, by Dr. Thomas Walker in New Brunswick, and a Mr. Adlam in India, as well as descendants in New Zealand and other parts of the Empire. Of the Penderel brothers, William's annuity was shared in 1908 by a Mr. Moss, a Mr. Rice, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Pring, Mrs. Price, and Mrs. Yeomans, while another branch doubly descended from William's granddaughter commuted their share in 1879 for ;^250. John Pendercl's descendants in tlic male line continued till 1899, when the annuity passed to a daughter. His descendants through the female line are numerous. His grandson John settled at Storrington in Sussex, and held property there. Richard's descendants in 1908 seemed to be represented solely by a Mr. MacLaren. Humphrey is represented by the Penderel-Brodhursts, and by a Mr. Gould, and George's branch still exists in the male line in America, where George Washington Pendrell, born at Philadelphia, was living in THK PENDERRL ANNUITIES IN 1665. 39 1908, and it may be that his four sons took their part in the Great War. , Charles II. owed his escape in a great measure to the organisation by which the priests of Roman Catholic congre- gations could be passed on from one house to another in spite of the severe penal laws of the 17th century, The bull of Pope Pius V. in 1570, which declared Queen IHizabcth a usurper and absolved her subjects from their allegiance, placed many loyal Englishmen in a .very equivocal position. They had continued to adhere to the Roman obedience throughout the changes of the English Reformation, but were not the less loyal to their Queen. In some cases they had continued to attend their parish church, and openly enter- tained itinerant priests of their own Communion, or shared in the ministrations of a chaplain at one of the larger houses. The Papal bull changed all this, and they found themselves regarded with suspicion by their neighbours, and their priests denounced as a danger to the realm. The Pope's edict was met by severe penal measures towards those who professed obedience to him. The priests especially were hunted down as political agents (as some of them undoubtedly were), till almost every Roman Catholic family of standing had a hiding place (a " priest's hole ") in their houses. Nicholas Owen, a Jesuit lay-brother, planned such secret hiding-places in many 17th century houses, and those at Boscobel are attributed to him. There naturally came into existence a certain amount of organisation by which men with a price on their heads could be safely handed on from one family to another. Charles Giffard, one of the King's small band of followers after Worcester fight, was a Roman Catholic from the neighbourhood of Boscobel, with kinsmen living at White- ladies and Blackladies, once two nunneries in the Forest of Brewood, on either side of the hunting lodge of Boscobel. He was thus able to put the King in touch with men to whom the handing on of a fugitive was no new thing. Father John Hudleston, the chaplain to the Whitegreaves at Moseley Hall, is said to have planned the royal journey after Boscobel. Charles did not forget his knowledge of the disabilities of his 40 the; pknderkl annuities in 1665. loyal Roman Catholic subjects, who had helped him so well, and he showed his gratitude by exempting them and their descendants from the penalties of recusancy. In 1715 this claim was allowed by George I., at which time there were some 33 persons entitled to the privilege — 8 Penderels, 3 Giffards and one Yates being among them. The then tenant of Boscobel was Thomas How, who had married Catherine, granddaughter of William Penderel. John Penderel, grandson (or great grandson) of John, was of Parham in Sussex, and Richard, grandson -of Richard (though called of Hobbal Grange) lived in I^ondon, where he was an apothecary, while Richard, grandson of Humphrey, seems to have lived in London and in Italy. The connection with Sussex was probably in the first instance through the Howards, Earls of Arundel, who held property both in Shropshire and in Sussex, and who were of the same communion as the Penderels. The half-timbered mansion at Whiteladies seems to have been pulled down before 1715, and its place taken by two cottages, which were in turn pulled down about 1815, and the materials used up in the present Whiteladies Farm, which stands about half-a-mile from the site of the convent. The gatehouse was converted into a cottage, and stood till the beginning of the 19th century, but Humphrey Penderel's mill seems to have disappeared earlier. When Charles II. was sheltered there, Whiteladies was very unlike what it now is. Henry VIII. at the Dissolution of the Religious Houses decreed that the site of an abbey should be inhabited, and that the lands should not be in any way depopulated. The order was carried out for the time, and the new owners either adapted the conventual buildings for their own use, as at Haughmond and Buildwas, or built a Jiouse on the site as at Blackladies, and possibly Whiteladies. The abbey buildings in many cases proved too large and expensive to keep up, and smaller houses were built from the stone of the earlier fabric. Then as the years went on and the King's edict became considered obsolete, in many cases the ruins were left in solitude with only the foundations of the later house left to THK PHNDEKEL ANNUITIES IN 1665. 41 mark the time of transition from ecclesiastical to lay tenure. The list of the money granted to the Penderels is only one example of the wholesale alienation of Church property, and we of the present day can only be thankful that St. Chad's still retains a fraction of its original endowments wherewith to meet the pressing needs of Church work in the 20th century. i 42 WII.Iv OF THOMAS HARRIS, OF PRESCOT, GENT., 1674. Will dated 22 Feb. 1674. To be buried in the cliurcli of Bascliiirch. To Edward Donne of Place of Court co. Salop, Gent, and Edward Holland junr. of said co. Gent., tytlies etc. of laud in Little Ness co. Salop etc. etc., for use of my eldest son Arthur Harris, subject to payment of ^400 to my younger children viz. to my youngest son Joseph Harris £0o, my daughter Sarah Harris /,\So, my daughter Tliomasine Harris ;^8o, my daughter Martha Harris ^80, and my daughter Anne Harris ;^8o. My tythes etc. in Eaton etc. to Alice my now wife for life. My messuage etc., in Prescot & Eaton etc., after death of my wife Alice, to my said son Arthur iu strict tail male, with remainder over. £^ to my grandson William son of my daughter. . . West. Personal Estate to my Wife Alice. los. to my daughter West. Executors — my Wife Alice and my sons Arthur Harris & Thomas Harris. Witnesses— W^illiam Tydder, Thomas Cotton & Thomas Shalluocke. Inventory 24 Nov. 1674 appraised by William Statham Thomas Cotton & Thomas Shelluocke, sum ;^i84 8s. 4d. Proved at Lichfield 26 October 1675 by Exors. The testator was buried at Baschurch 21 November 1674. The Armorial Seal affixed to the Will (Barry of eight ermine and azure, over all three annulets or) shows that he was a member of the Cruckton and Tong Castle family, whose pedigree is given in Harl. MSS. 1396, fo. 135, and 1982, I'o. 22b. He was the eldest son of Arthur Harris of Prescot (by his wife Jane Newton), who was a younger brother of Sir Thomas Harris, ist baronet, of Tong Castle. Sir Thomas was third in descent from John Harris of Cruckton. (Harl. Soc. Vis. of Shropshire, pp. 223-4.) W.G.D.F. 1) 43 THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREA'ITON, AND OF LADY ANNE HARRIS, HIS STEPMOTHER. Edited by the Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A. The Sequestration Papers which follow conclude the series purchased by our Society from ]\Ir. G. B. JMorgan, and published in these Transactions. A list of those already printed, with a reference to the volumes in which they occur, may well be given here : Bridgeman, Sir Orlando ... ... 3rd Series, II. i. Edwardes, Sir Thomas ... ... 3rd Series, I. 321. Eyton, Sir Thomas ... ... 3rd Series, VIII., 337. Newport, Sir Richard and Sir Francis 2nd Series, XII., i. Oakeley, Richard ... ... 4th Series, II., 193. Pigott, Thomas... ... ... 3rd Series, VI., 67. Smalman, Thomas ... ... 3rd Series,III., i. Walcot, Humphry ... ... 3rd Series, V., 308. Weld, Sir John, Senior and Junior ... 3rd Series, I., 135. Wliitniore, vSir Thomas ... 4th Series, IV., 265. Wolryche, vSir Thomas ... ... 4tli Series, IV., 107. Besides these Sequestration Papers, there are very many others relating to the sequestered estates of Shropshire Royalists, not yet transcribed or printed, which remain amongst the Interregnum Papers in the Pul;lic Record Office. A list of these can be found in the fiv^e printed volumes of the Calendar of the Cofnjnittee for ConipoiDiding. »Some valuable notes as to the members of the Shropshire Committee for Sequestrations are given in the Transactions, 2nd Series, VI., 19, in a Paper by I\Ir. R. 1^1. Kenyon, on the " Committee for the Sequestration of the Estates of Shropshire Delinquents." I i 44 THE SEQUKSI^RATION PAPERS Sir Thomas Harris was leaMy very young to have taken much part in the first Civil War. He was born in or about 1629, and entered Shrewsbury School soon after the war broke out. Y^t he was sequestered by the Committee of vSalop " for adherin^^^ to the forces of the Kinge in both Warrs." He was however really punished, together with his step-mother, " for the dehn- quency of Sr. Paule Harris Baronett, late father of Sr. Thomas, in the first warr." Pie could only have been about twenty when, in 1649, he preferred his Petition to be admitted to a composition for his delinquency. Prior to this, on i6th October, 1648, the Parliament Committee had ordered that the Sequestrations and Compositions of Sir Thomas Harris, Baronet, and others be employed for them till £5,000 be raised. (P.R.O., Interregnum papers, G.247, p. 138, also Gi, pp. 217-218). Sir Thomas was the eldest son of Sir Paul Plarris, second Baronet, and grandson of Sir Thomas Harris, first Baronet. He entered Shrewsbury School on 9th October, 1643, and succeeded to the title and estates on the death of his father in July, 1644. He must have left school for a time after his father's death, as the School Register records that he re-entered, together with his younger brothers George and Paul, on 8th January, 1644-5. The three boys were no doubt at School when Shrewsbury was captured by the Parliamentarians on 22nd P'ebruary, 1644-5, for the name of Sir Thomas Harris, Baronet, occurs in the list of prisoners taken. Thomas Clialoner, the head master was expelled from his office, and the school became practically empty ; on its re-opening under Richard Pigott, who was appointed by the puritan authorities of the town, the three boys returned to school, and re-entered some time between November, i()4(), and November, 1647. Tlie name of " Thomas Harris " again occurs in the School Register as entering in 1647-S, and also in 1649-50, but this is probably some other boy of the name. He would hardly enter tlie school at the age of twenty, when he was already petitioning to compound as a deHnquent. The family of Harris originally came from Condover. Roger Harris, a draper in Shrewsbury, who lived in the parish of St. Julian, and filled the ofiice of bailiff in 1578, founded the fortune^ of the family ; he was the son of John Harris, yeoman, of Con- dover, and was admitted a burgess of Shrewsbury 4th March, OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 45 155 1-2. The following is an extract from the Shrewsbury Burgess Admission Book B., folio 40 : Villa Salop'. Sessiones Admissionis nouorum burgensium in Gildam marcatoriam ville predicte &c. die veneris quarto die Marsij Anno R.R. Edwardi Sexti sexto. Rogerus Harries de villa Salop' generosus filius Johannis Harries de Condover in Comitatu Salop' yoman similiter admissus est liber Burgensis eiusdem ville qui super Sacramentum suum dicit quod nullum habet exitum Et solvit pro feodis &c. In 5 Edward VI. 155 1, Roger Harries was elected Clerk of the Fellowship and Fraternity of Drapers, at the annual fee of ten shillings ; and two years later on 6th April, 1553, he was admitted a combrother of the Fraternity. He thrice served the office of Warden of that Company, namely in 1557, 15^7. ^^i*^ I575- On nth April, 1577, he was elected an " assistant " (or sessor) to the Master and Wardens. He is noted in the Drapcrs'Company Book (1460-1609) as being present at Assemblies of the Fraternity on nth January i and 2 P. & M., 28th April 11 Eliz., 3rd April 18 Eliz., and 21st Dec. 23 Eliz. In 1573 the Master and Wardens borrowed money from various Drapers " for the setting furthe of necesserye busyness towelling tlieym," and Roger Flarries, Draper, lent them xls. The following entries in the Drapers' Company Book refer to the admission of Roger Harries : fo. 209. Edward VI. 155 1. 5 yeare. Md. that at this assembly they be aggreeyd that Roger Harries hereafter named shall)e the clerck of the said felowshipp and fraternitye havinge for his ffee by yer xs. fo. 210. Edward VI. 1553. 7 yeare. Md. that upon Thursday, being the vjth day of Aprell Ao. RR. Ed. Sext. vijo, Roger Harries sonne of John Harries of Condover in the countie of Salop ys admytted combrother of the said ffraternytye and hath paj'^ed for his ffyne in hand [^blank'] and for the Wyne xvjd. A list of the names of the brethren of the Fraternity, 28th May, 5 Elizabeth, includes about sixty names of Drapers, amongst whom are these : Willelmus Harries, Rogerus Harries, Edwardus Harries (foHo 367). Tempore Rogeri Luter Ricardi Whytacres Ballivorum ville predicte. 46 THK SEQUESTRATION PAPERS In the year 1585 Roger Harries entered his pedigree at the Visitation of Salop. It is recorded at the College of Arms in G.15, fo. 127, as follows : Thomas Harreis of Condover in com. Salop, gent. [No Arms are tricked.] Richard Harreis= Elizabeth, da. of Condover, serient of the cellar to K. H. John Harreis: of Condover son & heire to . . . Hubald of Ludlow, esq. iMargaret, da. to John Gascoigne of Dodins^ton in com. Salop, esq. John Harreis 2 Sonne, master cooke to K. H. 7. Richard= Margery Harreis da. to base Edmond Sonne VVeale of Shrcwsburye gent. Richard Harreis of Condover Roger Harreis of Condover Anne, da. to John Gennowe of Lea in com. Salop. Richard Harreis son & heir apparent 15S5. Thomas 2 Sonne Hugh 4 Sonne I I George 3 Sonne Arthur 5 Sonne I Ursuley 1 daughter wife to Henry Bentall of Bentall near Shrawardine, gent. I Wynifrede 2 daughter wife to Roger Oswwell of Shrewsbury I I I Marye Eleanor 3 daughter 4 daughter wife to Richard Sara Betton 5 daughter of Berwick. ROGER HARRIS. This pedigree, since it was certified by Roger Harris himself, and entered at the Visitation of Salop, is no donbt the correct pedigree of this family. Another pedigree in the College of Arms (Vincent's Salop 134, fo. 181) follows tlie Visitation pedigree, except that it interpolates an older " Richard Harris of Condover, anno 11 J'^dwaid IV., married Matilda, da. and heir of Ricliard Tompkin " : it makes him to be son of " Thomas ilarris of Condover, yeoman," and the father of Richard Harris who married "Elizabctli, da. of Walter Hubald, yeoman." A pedigree in Le Neve's Baronets, II., fo. 40, also in the College of Arms, begins with " Richard Ilarris, sergiant of l!ie celler to K. Henry 8." 1 I OF SIR THOMAS HAKKIS. 4/ Elakeway, in his Sheriffs of Shropshire, page 105, states that Roger Karris, draper, was " son of WilUam Harris, yeoman, of W'heathill, in the parish of Condover " ; and this is repeated in a pedigree by the Rev. W. A. Leighton in the Transactions, Vol. X., p. 336. But it is undoubtedly erroneous, for the Shrewsbury Burgess Admission Book and the Drapers' Company Book both state distinctly that Roger Harris was the son of John Harris of Condover, yeoman ; and Roger himself, in the pedigree certified by him in 1585, gives his father's name as John. The mistake no doubt arose from confusing this Roger with another Roger Harries of Shrewsbury, draper, the son of WilHam Plarries of Wheathill, yeoman, who was admitted a burgess on 12th Sep- tember, 1581, and a combrother of the Drapers' Company on 22 November, 1583. Of Roger Harris's sons, Richard, the eldest, entered Shrewsbury School in January, 15 71 -2, became a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and D.D., rector of Gesthngthorp and Bradwell, in Essex, and in 1612 published Concordia Anglica)ia. (See Diet. Nat. Biog., XXV., 22). Thomas was created a baronet. George was baptized at St. Alkmund's, 24th October, 1564, and buried at Baschurch, roth May, 1636, as " Mr. George Harris, of Bor- eatton." Hugh, the fourth son, was a draper in Shrewsbury, bailiff in 1610 and mayor in 1640 (Transactions, 3rd series, v. 139 and vi. 197), and was baptized at St. Alkmund's 26th February, 1566-7, and buried at St. Chad's, i6th June 1641 ; he married twice, first Jane, daughter of John Owen Vaughan, she died 26th j\Iay, 1594 (see Owen & Blakeway, H. 232), and secondly EHnor, daughter of Richard Purcell, by whom he had a son and six daughters, all baptized at St. Alknumd's, i595-i()05. Arthur, the fifth and youngest son, was baptized at St. JuUan's, 15th December, 15 71 ; he married Dorothy, daughter of John Harrys, of Brocton, and left three daughters and coheirs ; he was buried at Condover 21st February, 1615-16, and his widow, who gave a comnumion cup and cover to Condover Church in 1629, was buried there i()th August, 1631 . (See Pedigree of Harris in Harleian M.S. 1241, fo. 65b). Roger Harris was buiied at St. JuHan's on 21st September, 1598, his widow on ist January, 1611-12. Their Wills are as follows : — Will of Roger Harryes, of Shrewsbury, co. Salop, gent. 48 THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS Dated 17th December, 1593. To be buried in the church of St. JuUan the Virgin, Shrewsbury, near the place wliere I usually kneel. I desire that my wife Ann Harris should occupy all those messuages or tenements in Shrewsbury in a certain street called under the wylde which I lately purchased of Margaret Boughe alias Bulghe, widow, deceased, and John PVritt and Alice his wife for the term of three score years, for her life, and after her decease I bequeath the same premises unto her executors and during the term of 21 years next ensuying after her decease according to the purport of a pair of indentures dated loth Dec. and made between me the said Roger Harryes and Nicholas Gybbons of Shrewsbury, gent, and William Kynge of the same, draper, and after the expiration of the said 21 years I will that the same premises shall entirely remain to the use of my son Hugh Harryes and his heirs ; also I will that my said wife Ann shall have my capital messuage in Condover, co. Salop wherein I formerly lived, and the moiety of all my copyhold lands, etc., within the manor of Condover for her life. And whereas I have purchased divers messuages and lands in Great Berwick als Berwick Leaborne, Newton upon the heath, the town of Shrewsbury and in Foryatt Monachorum CO. Salop together with other lands &c. of the gift, grant or feoffment of Richard Betton, gent., the elder, deceased and of Richard Betton the younger gent., son and heir of said Richard Betton the elder and Mary now wife of the said Richard Betton the younger, nevertheless upon condition of redemption upon payment of the sum of £400 in one whole and entire pa^^nient on the 20th May, 1597, moreover, if the said Richard Betton the younger and Mary his wife do not pay the said sum of £400 for the redemption of the said premises then I give and devise the same to my said wife Ann for her life, and if the said £400 be paid in redemption of the premises then I will that my said wife shall receive and have the same, and I give the same ;f400 unto my said wife, also to my said wife all my household goods, plate, &c., so long as she remains unmarried and she at her decease to give and bestow the same where she shall think fit. To my son George Harryes £10, and concerning all the rest of my children that I have not given a legacy by reason that I have heretofore bestowed upon them a sufficient child's part either by assuring of land or in ready money. 10 ilr OF SIR THOMAS HAKKIS. 49 Wife Anne executrix. Witnesses, Nicholas Gibbons, Wm. Roberts, Wni. Corlield, Fowke Genowe. Proved in P.C.C. 29 Sept., 1598, by Richard Stubbes Not. Pub. hi Anne Harryes reUct and executrix. (73 Lewyn.) Will of Anne Harris, widow, late wif^ of Roger Harris, gent., deceased, of Shrewsbury co. Salop. Dated 26 April lOog. To be buried in the parish churcii of S. Julian neare my said late husband. Whereas 1)y a certain bill o])ligatory I stand bound to Richard Harries niy eldest son to make him my executor of and for the receiviui^ of £.]oo to be paid to me or my executors by Richard Betton my son-in-law or ]\rary his late. wife or the heirs of the said Richard Betton according to the tenor of an indenture tripartite dated 13 Aug., 36 EHz. made between the said Roger Harries of the first part and Richard and Mary Betton of the second part and Nicholas Gibbons and William Kinge of the third part now in accomplishment thereof and in performance of the condition of the said bill I do give and bequeath to the said Richard Harris my son the said ^^400 and my best silver salt guilt over for his whole portion and executor of that only. Whereas the said Roger Harris in his Ufetime by sufficient conveyance in law as by his last will did convey and give to me the said Anne all those messuages and tenements in Shrewsbury in a certain street called under the wild which he lately purchased of Margaret Bough alias Bulgh, widow, deceased, and of John l<'yrret and Ale5 his wife for three score years iniediately ensuing after his decease, I do now therefore devise and bequeath the said houses, messuages, ike, to my executor hereinafter named, provided always that if I high Harris my son and his lieirs permit my said executor peacefully and quietly to enjoy and occupy the same for one year next after my decease without interruption then this present bequest and estate limited to my said executor shall cease and be void from and after the end of the one year and after the said one year I give and bequeath the premises to my said son Hugh Harris for the residue of the term. 50 THK SEOUESTKATION PAPK>iS I will the plump of lead with the pipes of lead together with the cistern of lead standing in the backside of the house as also the furnace, &c., to the use of my son Hugh. To my son Arthur Harris all my goods and household stuff now remaining at my house at Condover where he now dwell'^th and my silver saltscller parcel guilt and my silver goblet parcel guilt on which is engraven " Bcnedictus deus in donis suis." To my son George Harris my silver goblet parcel guilt on which is engraven " In God is all my trust," and two silver spoons with flat guilt ends for his whole portion of or concerning my goods for that heretofore in my widowhood I have given him (40 wliich was paid to one Sir Robert Hami)Son, knt., citizen and aldernuin of lyondon and also a debt of / jo with one John vSmytli, draper of Shrewsbury for cloth. To my daughter Winifred Mountgomery a silver salt-seller and a gold ring. To John Harris son and heir apparent of my son Thomas Harris my best silver goblet parcel guilt. To Samuel More son and heir apparent of m}' son-in-law Richard More my second best silver goblet parcel guilt. Whereas my son Richard Harries by his deed obligatory stands bound to me for £it>o for the payment of /80 within 3 years after my decease I do give the said sum to my executor hereinafter named. Provided that if the portion bequeathed to my said executor shall amount to £100 or more then my executor shall distribute the said £8() due by bond to my children's children. To IMary Griffiths, daughter ol my son-in-law, Henry Grifliths, £^2 IDS., for which sum I have taken bond in her name of John Berker, of Haughmond, Esq., and Thomas Colfex, of Ufhngton for £100, and to her sister Martha Griiiithes /30. To John Kinge son of my son-in-law William Kinge £10, to his sister Sara Kinge £^0, and their sister Priscilla Kinge £20. To the five children of my daughter Mountgomery namely, Joseph, Mary, Elizabeth, Sara and Abigail £10 each, when 21. To the poor of vS. Julian's, S. Alkmon's, vS. Marie's, S. Chad's and the Holy Cross, Shrewsbury, four marks each. To the following for mourning : son Richard £3 6s. 8d. ; son Thomas £b ; son George £5 ; son Hugh, ^5 ; son Arthur, £5 ; son-in-law Henrie Grifhthes 40/- ; son-in-law William Mount- gomery, £^ ; son-in-law Richard Betton, £^ ; son-in-law William OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 51 Kynge, 50/-. To every servant, 40/-. To Morgan Genowe, 40/- To Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Revell, my tenant, 20/-. To my maid servant Katherine Genowe £3 besides the 40/-. The residue of all my goods to my son-in-law Richard More whom I appoint my sole executor. Witnesses — Richard Huggons, bailiff of vShrewsbury, Nicholas Gibbons, William Rowley, Roger Browne. Will proved iS ^lay, i()i2, by Richard ^iore, the executor. (39 Fenner.) The Harris family were tenants of lands in tlic manor of Condover from a very early period. A volume of Condover Court Rolls preserved at Eyton Hall contains a great deal of information about this family.^ As early as 1363 Thomas Henr' held two messuages and a noke of land and a quarter of a noke at Condover at the rent of 2s. 3d., and either he or another Thomas held a messuage and a noke of land at Wheatehall at the rent of 2()d., whilst John flenr' held the third part of half a virgate of land at Dodingtonne (Dorrington) at the rent of 13d. and 8 mites, and a cottage at Ruiton ]\ragna (l\yton) at the rent of 4d. This Thomas Harrys (for so the name is counnonly s})elt in the Court Rolls) died in 1377, and his lands passed to Agnes, or Alys, his wife, during her widowhood, but were forfeited to the lord of the manor " for that she kept her sellfe not pure wedowe." The same year ]\Iargery, the daughter of Thomas Harrys, paid ud. to the lord to have license to marr}^ " and no more because she was poore." It is difficult to trace the descent of the Harr3's family, because there seem to liav^e been several diTferent families of the name living in Condover at the same time, from tlie fourteenth century onwards, and their surrenders and admissions do not all apf)ear on the extant Court Rolls. In May, 1394, Richard Harrys held two messuages and half a yard land in Ryton ; and Thomas Harrys, son of Richard, paid i()S. line to have seisin of two messuages and two nokes of land 1 I am indebted to the Rev. C. H. DrinUwatcr for the loan of a copy of this Court Book, that was made by him some years a^o. 52 THK SEQUICSTKATION PAPERS which were his father's. At a court held in July, 142 1, it was found that Thomas Harrys, Alice Harrys, Thomas Harrys the younger of Wheatehall, and Thomas Harrys of Condover,all held lands in the manor. Richard Harrys (brother of Thomas) held lands in 1425. In 1636 Thomas Harrys is mentioned as having married Sybil, daughter of Richard Adyes, and five years later his son Richard Harrys is mentioned as having married Maii^aret the daughter of John Peers. Tliere was also another son Thomas. vSybil died in 147 1. In 1453 the township of Wheathill presented that Thomas Harris, who held a messuage and half a yard land there, was dead. Eight years later his lands were surrendered to bis son William. In i^iA) Richard Harrys and IMatilda his wife, who was daughter and heiress of Richard Tomkyns and cousin and heir of John Dager, were admitted to a messuage and noke of land in Condover. Richard died in 1471, and IMatilda in 1475 ; . they had issue two sons, — ^John (the father of William Harrys), and Richard, who succeeded to the estate by the custom of the manor. John Harrys died in 1497, when his land passed to Alys, his wife. In 1506, Robert Harrys, son and next heir of Richard Harrys esq., was admitted to two messuages and four nokes of land in the town and fields of Condover, of which his father died seised. Thomas Harrys of Wheatehall died in 1508, leaving a widow Margaret (daughter and heir of Richard Wheathall), and a son Thomas. The next year John Harrys of Wheathall had a grant from vSir Thomas I.eigliton of waste there called Woodlands ; he died in 15 12, when it was found that his nephew Robert Harrys was his next heir. This Robert was the son of Richard Harrys of Shrewsbury, esq., and Elizabeth his wife. His elder brother John Harrys, seems to have had issue three sons, — John, Thomas, and William. John Harrys of Wheathall died in 1525, leaving a son William, aged twelve years. William Harrys had, by Agnes his wife, two sons, WilHam and Richard. In 1579, William and his two sons had a lease for lives of lands in Wlieatill. A Survey of the Manor of Condover taken in September, 1545, shows that Richard Harrys, of Shrewsbury, held a messuage, the nether mill, a close by the rnyll lane, and a mese plot by Houghton's lane, in Condover. Thomas Harrys of Wheatehall held a clo.se in longnors twofield, a close in the lyttyll two, two closes called OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 53 the helde, a close called the heUie, a close under lyttyll Ryton, and a close called Shakellforde. William Harrys of Wheatehall held two closes called the Woodlande, a close called Cockshute, and a close called the helde. In 1580 Roger Harys senior hch^ 9 nooks, 20 acres in Byrrywoode, Catslowsyorde, and other lands in Condover. On 12th September 1581 Roger Harries, of Shrewsbury, draper, son of William Harries, of Wheathill, yeoman, was admitted a burgess of Shrewsbury. Roger Harrys junior held a considerable estate in Wheathull, Little Righton and Condover. William Harrys held land in Wheathall ; and Richard Harry.s and William Harrys held land in Chalford. In 1585, Ricluird Harrys, of Cond(wer, Richard Harrys of Wheathall, and John Harrys occur. Roger Harris of Condover, gent, occurs in 163S. In i()5i Arthur Harris occurs ; in i()^2 and 1055 vSir 'J'honias Harris is on tlie lord's rent roll ; and in 1659 Richard Harris surrenders to Adam ?I arris. The entries relating to the Harris famil}'- in the Condover Court Rolls are so ver}' numerous that it is impossible to do more than very briefly summarize a few of the more important entries. John Harreys the younger of Condover, in his Will (proved atlyichfield in I55(>) mentions his father, his brothers Richard, WiUiani, Thomas, and Roger Harreys, his brother Richard's son Roger, his sister Catheryn, his brother Richard Shurethes, Richard Harreys of Stapulton, and many others. Aijparently this testator w^as uncle to the first baronet. The Will of John Harryes, of Chatford, 1595, sliows that he had two sons, Richard and Thomas ; a brother Rowland Harryes, parson of Stapleton ; and a sister Alice, the wife of Lewis Poyner. The testator's wife was Joane, daughter of Thomas Smith of Chatford. Richard Harryes of Coleham, tanner, son of William Harryes of Chatford, was admitted a burgess nth October, 1573. It is not easy from these Court Rolls and records to put t()gether a connected pedigree of tlie Harris family. And at present we have nothing more dehnite than the pedigree already given, as recorded in the College of Arms M.SS. There is also a similar pedigree {hut omitting the names of the wives) in the Additional M.S. 14,314, fo- 13-^, the British Museum. \ i 54 THE SEQUKSTKATION PAPERS Sir Thoivl^s Harris, ist Baronet. The first baronet was a barrister of lyincoln's Inn, and in 1583 was made a Master in Cliancery, In 1586 he was elected a Member of Parliament for vShrewsbury, and in 1O03-4 was made a Serjeant-at-law. He had purchased a large property in Shrop- shire, including the manors of Lebotwood, Baschurch, Boreatton, Onslow, RatHnghope, Wooderton, Great I^yth, and Smethcote. In December, 1622, on the recommendation of the Earl of Anglesey, Thomas Harris was created a baronet. The chief gentry of the county protested against this honour being conferred on him ; they dechired that he was not by birth ca])alj»le of that dignity, and was of very ill report for usury, cunning, and crafty dealing ; they felt much injured that Sir Thomas should have place and precedence over them, and they considered his elevation to a baronetcy as a disgrace to themselves. The result was a good deal of litigatio:: in the Karl Marslial's Court, the Court of Chivalry, the Court of Star Chamber, and the Court of Chancery, to which Sir Thomas had appealed for redress. ^ A sunnnary of the proceedings connected with this litigation is given in the Transactions, 2nd Series, Vol. X., pp. 77-92, in a ver}^ able p^aper on " Sir Thomas Harris and his I'amily," by the Rev. Cr. \V. l-isher. The Additional M.S. 6297, fos. 38O-393, and the Harleian MS. 6591, fos. 83-9(), in the British Museum, also contain a detailed account of the " Proceedings at the Court of Chivalry held in the Painted Chamber at Westminster, 24th November, i()23." The plaintiff in the cause against Sir Thomas Harris was one Captain Simon l^eake, a gentleman who had been employed by the Harris family to procure the necessary documents in support of their pedigree, and who had been treated most generously by them. I can only conclude that the Shropshire gentry, who were aggrieved at Harris being made a baronet, paid I.eake, who knew so mucli about Harris's ancestry, a larger fee to work ag.'unst him ! If so, it was scarcely an honourable action ou his part. lycake's arguments against Sir Thomas Harris's gentility are these : — (i) The Condover Court Rolls prove that his ancestor Thomas Harris of Condover was not a gentleman, and that his son John Harris was presented for an aleseller in i ] Henry VI., and they were the father and grandfather of Sir Thomas's great- OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 55 grandfather Richard Harris. (2) John Harris served the office of constable of Condover in 21 Edward IV. (3) Sir Thomas Harris's grandfather John Harris is called ^' yeoman " in the Court Rolls. (4) In the Shrewsbury Burgess Admission entry, Sir Thomas's father Roger is thus admitted : " Rogerus Harris gen. filius Johannis Harris yeoman." (5) Roger Harris is styled " yeoman " in two bonds made to Sir Richard Newport, when he was his Under-Sheriff, dated 4 cV' 5 P. and and 11 T'.liz., and he is not styled " gentleman " until 11 iUizabeth. (b) Roger Harris was disclaimed in 1585. Sir Thomas Harris's Answer fills five pages in the Harleian MS. 6591, and begins " My just defence and apologie of my Gentry." He meets Leake's charges thus : (i) He denies that Thomas and John were his ancestors. There are many other Harris's in the Court Rolls, and the lands said to lun e belonged to John Harris never came to an}^ of his ancestors. The X'isitation of 1585 shows that his ancestor Tliomas Harris was father of Richard Harris. This Thomas Harris was living in 13 Henry VI., when he surrendered his land to Richard Harris his son. (2) John Harris the constable was not his ancestor ; there were others of the name living in 21 Edward IV. ; ])ut if he was his ancestor, all have to serve the ollice of constable in their turn. (3) John Harris yeoman named in the Court Rolls was not his grandfather : there were others of the name living then. (4) This contention is absurd ; the term " yeoman " is inconsistent with " gentleman." (-,) In II Elizabeth, a Commission was issued to enquire into the lands of the Eord Eovell attainted, and Roger Harris is named first after the " esquires," and is styled " gentleman " in the Commission. He is also called " gentleman " in the Burgess Admission entry ; in the purchase deeds of Eybottwood Manor, 2 and 4 Eliz. ; in the payment of his homages into the Exchequer ; and in an Obligation of 4 Elizabeth under his seal of Arms. His grandfather John Harris had £2,000 by his marriage ; his means were not so great as his father's, nor had he freehold lands ; but after his marriage he always styled himself " gentleman," and sealed with his seal of arms. (()) Roger Harris was not disclaimed in 1585 ; he was disclaimed in 1584, but the disclaimer was not executed. Richard St. George, Norroy King of Arms, drew up the case and presented it to the Ivirl Marshal, Thomas, Ivarl of Arundel. St. George states that Sir Thomas's father and grandfather were styled ** gent," and used arms. His great-grandfather was styled " esquire," and remunerated for his good service done at Bosworth Field against Richard III. His great-grandfather's brother, whose heir he was, used the seal of arms temp. Edward IV. His father Roger entered the pedigree in 1585, after the disclaimer of 1584. But Roger was not really disclaimed. Arms are the true and essential marks of the Gentry, and they distinguish nobilem a pleheio. St. George's Report fills four pages in the Harleian MS. 6591. A MS. Book in the College of Arms contains a Report to the Karl Marshal, dated i8th November, 1622, signed by R. vSt. George, Norroy, and two other heralds, stating that vSir Thomas Harris was son of Roger Harris and grandson of John Harris, who bore on their seals these arms : or three hedgehogs azure. The case came before the Court of Chivalry under the presidency of the Earl ^larshal, on 24th November, 1023, but was adjourned. In November or December, 1024, in default of his appearance, the Court of Chivalry formally pronounced Sir Thomas to be " no gentleman " ; but at the same time declared that it had no power to revoke a patent of baronetcy. Early in 1025, Sir Thomas petitioned the King to appoint a Commission of Appeal to decide the question of his gentility. The King assenting, a Court of Referees was nominated by the Duke of Buckingham. Sir Thomas's pedigree and gentry were proved by the Visitation of Shropshire 1585, and by deeds, seals, and court rolls from 1473 to 1623 ; and the Connuissioners were so satisfied with these proofs that they decided at once in his favour, in ^March 1625. A month later his son Mr. Paul Harris was knighted. Sir Thomas died not long after, on 26th Jaimar}^ 1629-30, and was buried at Baschurch on 27th January. His Will and Inquisition post mortem follow. The latter shows what large estates he held and their value. Will of Sir Tho7nas Harris, of Shre7usb7(/y, co. S'llop, Baronet^ 1630. To be buried in some convenient place in tlie parish church of Baschurch. Whereas I have by an Indenture made between me of the one part, and Richard More of Eynley, co. Salop, Esq., and i \ OF SIR THOMAS HARKIS. 57 Saiiiiiell More Esq. his son and heir, of the other part, settled all m,y manors lands &c. in co. Salop on the said Richard More and Samuel 1 More for the term of 100 years, Upon Trust that they should imploy the rents &c. unto such of the children of me the said Sir Thomas Harris as I should limit and appoint. Now my Will is that they shall permit my wife Sara during her natural life to enjoy my Manor of Lybotwood. And after her decease to my eldest son Sir Paul Harris knight and the heirs male of his body, to hold during the residue of the same term. And after my decease the said Sir Paul Harris, and the heirs male of his body, and in default of such, the heirs male of my body, to hold and cnjo}^ the residue of the said term, the manors or lordships of Baschurch, Bore Atton, Onslowe, Ratlinghope, Wooderton, Great I^ythe, and Smethcote, And all my farms, messuages, lands, &c., in Bore Atton, Baschurch, Onslowe, Ratlinghope, Woodderton, Great I^ithe, Smethcote, Ilanwoode, Nobold, and Brace Meale in the said county. And out of the profits of my lauds in Willaston, Wynington, and Hargreave, and of the profits of my lands in Trevenant, Edgerley, and Stanwardine in the fields, and of my messuages lands &c. in the Towne of Shrewsbury, and all other my lands in co. Salop, and of my personal estate, pay to my said wife £20 for her part and porcon of my goods and chattels ; but she is to have the use of my plate and household stuff, as also her owne Jewells and apparell, so long as she keeps sole and unmarried. And that my Trustees give to my daughter Anne ;^iooo at her marriage, if she marry with the consent of her mother and brother Sir Paul Harris and of the said Ricln*rd More, or the more part of them. And likewise to my daughter h'leanor the same sum or more, but not to exceed ^1500, so as she be ruled in her marriage by her mother and brother Sir Paul Plarris and the said Richard More, or the more part of them. And that they i)ay to my son Roger Harris one annuitie of ^30 per annum for his life. And to my son William Harris 58 THE vSEQUKSTKATlON PAPERS one annuitie of ;^i5 per annum for his life. And to my sous Edward and Robert Harris, after their apprenticeship expires,. ;^500 each. And forasmuch as I am in some good hope that my son Humphrey Harris will give himself to his books and will become a good Scholler, and continue at one of the Universities in studdy, my will is that the said Richard More and Samuell More allow him one annuitie of £^o per annum for his life. Executors : my brother-in-law Richard More, and the aforesaid Samuell More my nephew. Dated 26 January 1629. (.S'/V';^(fc/) Thomas Harris. Witness : Hugh Harris, George Harris, George Peers, Richard Percevall, Thomas Knight, John Prowd, Rowland Lateward, Thomas Harris. Memorandum that the 26 January 1628 upon the reading of Sir Thomas Harris' Will, the said Sir Thomas Harris directing his speech to Richard More, esq., one of the executors used words to this effect, " You marvaile that so small porcons are given to some of my children, but they have not followed my advice, but if hereafter they behave themselves it is in your power to make addition thereunto." The said Richard More answered that he heard nothing to that effect in the Will, and for the sake of his reputation he desired that Sir Thomas Harris would in the presence of the witnesses further express himself, who in their presence said That he did leave it to his executors to enlarge the porcons out of the lands or personall estate lymitted to that use, and if God spared his life he would revise his Will which upon that suddaine he had made, but if not he did comitt the care thereof to his executors of wliose fidelitie he doubts not. Witness hereof, Hugh Elarris, Thomas Knight, John Prowd, Richard Percevall, Thomas Harris. Will with Codicil proved in P.C.C. 24 April 1630 by Richard More and vSamuel More the executors. (28 Scroope.) OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 59 InquisiLioii post morlem Sir Thomas Hari is^ of Doreatton, Batoiiet, 28 Sepicviber 1631. {Chancery Inq. p.vi., S.II, vol. 486, 710. 114.) {See a /so Wards hiq. p.m., vol. 82, 710. 10). Writ de inquirendo dated 20 June 7 Car T, [1631.] Inquisition taken at Bishop's Castle 28 September 7 Car I, [163 1 ], before Thomas Bromehall esquire Kschetor, after the deatli of Thomas Harris Baronet deceaseci, ])y the oath of Richard Nowell esq. Francis Morris gen. John Heath gen. Thomas Clonne gen. John Bowen gen. William Jones gen. Charles More gen. Roland Baker gen. Robert Wallis gen. Hopkin ap Owen gen. Andrew Baugh gen. Philip Jones gen. Edward Medlicott gen. William Bright gen. Edward Maddocks gen. John Evans Edward Strevard Evan Meredith John Pryce gen. Nathaniel Mathews gen. and John Blucke gen. Who say on oath that one George Onslowe esq. Thomas Clive gen. and Mary his wife were seised of the manor of Baschurch, immediately after the decease of Mary Vernon now the wife of Robert Vernon Knight, and formerly the wife of Thomas Onslowe esq. deceased, and of lands in Baschurch, Newtowne Baschurch, Bagley, Prescolt, Nonil}^, I^Iore and I,ee in co. Salop, and by Indenture dated 12 November 5 Jac. [1608] conveyed the reversion of the Manor of Baschurch, a capital messuage in Bureatton, and all other premises, &c., to Thomas Harris and Panl Harris and the heirs of the said Thomas Harris. And that Thomas Corbett esq. and Jane his wife, and Edward Corbett esq. and Margaret his wife were seised of lands &c. in Eibotwood, and by Indenture dated 19 July 22 Jac. [1625] conveyed the same to Thomas Harris and Paul Harris and the heirs of the said Thomas Harris. By virtue of which grants the said Thomas Harris and Paul Harris were seised of the reversion of the Manor of Baschurch and other premises in Baschurch, Newtowne Baschurch, Bagle}^, Noniley, More and Lee, the said Thomas Harris in fee, and Paul Harris for his life. And the said Thomas Harris was seised in fee of the Manor of Lith Magna, Libotwood, Smethcote and Ratlingliope, and of lands in Lith magna, Libotwood, Smethcott and Ratlingliope, and in Church 6o THE SEQURSTRATION PAPERS Hanwood, Newton, Nobold, Brace Meole, Welshampton, Gotham, Wollaston, Hargreave, Wilmington, Brechill, Whitfield and Weston lyiillingfield in co. Salop. And the said Thomas Harris and Paul Harris were seised of the Manors of Baschurch, Wooderton, and Onslowe, acquired of the said George Onslowe, Thomas Clive and Mary his wife, Kdward Onslow, Thomas Corbett and Jane his wife, Edward Corbett and Margaret his wife. And the said Thomas Harris and Paul Harris by Indenture dated 3 March 22 Jac. [1625-6], in consideration of a marriage to be solemnised between the said Paul Harris and one Anne Paul widow, conveyed the Manors of I^ith Magna, Libotwood, Smithcott and Ratlinghope to trustees, to the use of the said Thomas Harris till the said marriage should be solemnized, and after the solemnization thereof as to the said manors, and half the manor of Baschurch, and lands in Baschurch, Newtowne Baschurch, Bore Atton, Birch and Weston Lullingfield, to the use of the said Paul Harris for his life, remainder to said Anne Paul for her life for her jointure, remainder to the heirs male of the bodies of said Paul Harris and Anne Paule, remainder to said Thomas Harris and his heirs. And as to the other messuages and lands in the same Indenture named, to the said Thomas Harris and Lady Sarah for their lives during the life of the said Thomas Harris, and after their decease to said Paul Harris and Anne Paul and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to the heirs of Thomas Harris. And that after the execution of this Indenture the marriage between the said Paul Harris and Anne Paul was duly solemnised. By virtue whereof the said Paul Harris was seised in tail male of the premises. And the said Anne was seised for her life for her jointure. And the said Thomas Harris and Lady Sarah were seised of the manor of Libotwood for their lives and the life of the longer liver of them. And the remainder of all the premises belongs to said Thomas Harris. And said Thomas Harris was seised in fee of a messuage in Edgerley, and of two messuages two mills and lands in Trevenant in co. Salop, and by Indenture dated 26 January 5 Car. [1629-30] he demised the same to Richard More esq. and Samuel More gen. for 100 years. And the said Thomas ITarris OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 6i was seised of the manors of Walford and Ei^ton, and of lands there, obtained of the said Thomas Clive. And that he died on 26 January 5 Car. [1629-30J. And that the said Lady Sarah, late wife of the said Thomas Harris, is living, and Mary Lady Vernon is living. And that the said Paul Harris is now knight and baronet, and was son and next heir of the said Thomas Harris, and is aged 30 years and upwards. And the Jur}^ say that the Manor of Bascliurch was lield of the King in capite by military service, but by what part of a Knight's fee they are ignorant, and it is v/orth per annum And that the Manor of Libotwood and premises there were held of the King in capite by militur}^ service, viz., the 40th part of a Knight's fee, and are worth per annum £4. And that the Manor of Ratlingliope was held of the King in capite by military service, but by what part of a Knight's fee they are ignorant, and it is vvortli per annum 30s. And that the Manor of Woodderton was held of the King in capite by military service, but by what part of a Knight's fee they are ignorant, and it is worth per annum 40s. And that the Manor of Onslowe and premises in Onslowe were held, but of whom and by what service the jury are ignorant, and they are worth per annum £4. And that the Manor of Walford was held of Walter Barker in socage as of his Manor of Haghniond, and is worth 20s. And that the Manor of Kyton is held of Thomas Karl of Arundel in socage as of his manor of Wem, and is worth los. And that the Manor of Smethcott and premises in Smethcott were held, but of whom and by what service the Jury are ignorant, and they are worth los. And that the premises in Wollaston Winuington, Brechill, and Whitfield, were held, but of wliom and by what service the Jury are ignorant, and they are worth los. And that the manor of Lith magna, and premises in Lith magna, were lield in fee of the King as of the Castle of Caurse by military service, and are worth 30s. And that the premises in Hargrcave and Trevenant were held of Richard Hiissey Knight deceased as of his Manor of Nethergorda in co. Montgomery, and are worth los. And that the premises in Stan warden in le feld, Welshampton, Weston Lullingfield, Church Han wood, 62 THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS Newton, Nobold, Shrewsbury, Colham and Edgerley, are held, but of whom and by what service the Jury are ignorant, and they are worth 20b. And that Lady Mary Vernon has the issues and profits of the Manor of Baschurch. And Sarah lyady Harris has the issues and profits of the Manor of Libotwood and premises in Libotwood. And Mary Clive widow has the issues and profits of the Manors of Walford and Eyton and premises there, And Richard and Samuel More have the issues and profits of the premises in Edgerley and Trevenant. And the said Paul Harris has the issues and profits of the rest of the premises from the decease of the said Thomas Harris to the time of taking this Inquisition. And the said Thomas Harris had no other Manors or lands &c. In witness &c. The Inquisition is signed by " Tho. Bromhall escheator," and by all the Jurors. Sir Thomas Harris was twice married, first to vSara Kyffin, and secondly to Sara, daughter of William Jones, alderman of Shrewsbury. His second wife was buried at Baschurch 9 April 1641, and administration to her estate was granted at Lichfield 10 May, 1641, to herson Roger Harris of Leebotwood, esquire. In it she is described as Dame Sarah Harris of the parish of St. Alkmund, Salop. By her he had issue eight sons and three daughters, all baptized at St. Julian's, namely : (1) John, baptized 23 June 1594 ; entered Shrewsbury School 17 March, 1605-6 ; buried at St. Julian's 21 February, 1612-13. (2) Paul, afterwards second baronet. (3) Elizabeth, baptized 20 November, 1597. (4) Jacob, baptized 9 September, 1599. Was dead before 1666. (5) Roger, afterwards sixth baronet. (6) Anne, baptized 29 December, 1603. (7) Ellner, baptized 27 February, 1605-6, married to Sir William Middleton, 2nd Baronet of Hoddesdon, Herts. (8) William, baptized 30 April, 1609; entered Shrewsbury School 19 April, 1624. Was dead before 1685. OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 03 (9) Edward, baptized 17 March, 1610-11 ; entered Shrewsbury School 19 April, 1624. Was dead before 1685. (10) Robert, afterwards seventh baronet. (11) Humfrey, baptized 16 March, 1 614-15; entered Shrewsbury School 14 January, 1627-8. George and Hugh, who are named as two of Sir Thomas's sons in tlie pedigree given in the Tra7isactio?is, X. 336, and somewhat doubtfully by Mr. Fisher in the same, 2nd Series, X. 79, were not Sir Thomas's sons, but his brothers. They were the third and fourth sons of Roger Harris, draper. Sir Thomas names all his sons in his Will, and neither George nor Hugh occur. Sir Paul Harris, 2nd Baronet. Sir Paul Harris, second baronet, succeeded his father in January 162S-9. He was baptized at St. Julian's, Shrewsbury, on 30 December, 1595, and was admitted to Shrewsbury School 17 March, 1605-6. He was knighted in his father's lifetime, at Whitehall, on 30 April, 1625. In 1628 he was appointed Surveyor of the Ordnance ; and in 1637 he was Sheriff of Shropshire. When the Civil War broke out. Sir Paul joined the rox'al cause. He signed the Declaration and Protestation of the Gentlemen of Salop, agreed upon at the Assizes held on 8 August, 1642. his name appearing at the head of the Grand Jur3% He also subscribed the Ingai^ement and Resolution of tlie Principal Gentlemen of the County, for raising and nminlaining forces at their own charge. In December 1642, and in January and P'ebruary 1642-3, he committed several prisoners to the Spring Assizes for treasonable words against His Majesty. Amongst the Ottley Papers is the following letter (No. clix) from Sir Paul Harris to Sir Francis Ottley : — Sir, — I sent some of my goods & Arms to one of my tenants howses at Onslow for the better safety against the parliament forces, and I am informed tliat yor Soldiers have been there this day, and have taken away my Arms, and offered to break open my trunks, the cause hereof I know not, nor by what authority it is don, therefore, I desire to 64 THE vSHQUESTRATlON PAPERS be satisfyed by 5^011, and to know wlietlier I may have my goods restored without further complaint, and rest. Yor IvOving frend, Bore Acton, Paul Harris. 17 June 1643. Sir Paul Harris was an unpopular man both with his equals and inferiors, which may account for the conduct of the soldiers from the Shrewsbury garrison. Sir Francis Ottley disregarded his complaint, and Sir Paul made his trouble known to Chief Secretary Edward Nicholas, who wrote to Sir Francis Ottley from Oxford, on 22 July, 1663, begging that the Arms taken away from Onsluw un.^iii b-: restored to Sir Paul, and stating that he had engaged him.selt " for ye restitution of these Arms to this Gent." (Letter, No. clxxvi.) Gough, the historian of Myddle (page 67), says : " Sir Paul Harris of Boreatton was a Commissioner. Hee was a person not well beloved by the autient gentry of this county, for beeing (as they termed him) but a bucke of the second head ; yet, being a Barronett, and a proud imperiouse person, hee tooke place of those that were of an Lieut Knii;ht's degree. Neyther was hee beloved by the common people. . . Sir Paul Harris sent out warrants requiring or comanding all men, both housholders with theire sons, and servants, and sojourners, and others within the Hundred of Pinihill that were beetween the age of 16 and three score to appear on a certaine day upon Myddle Hill. I was then a youth of about 8 or 9 years of age, and I went to see this great show. And there I saw a multitude of men, and upon the highest banke of the hill I saw one Robert More standing, with a paper in his hand, and three or four soldiers' pikes stickd upright in the ground by him; and there hee made a proclamation, that if any person would serve the King, as a soldier in the wars, hee should have 14 groats a week for his pay." For his delinquency, his estate was sequestered by the Parliamentarian Committee of Salop. He did not live to see Shrewsbury captured by the rebels, but died in July OK SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 65 1644, and was buried at Baschurch on the iStli of that month. H e was twice married, first to Anne, daughter of William Brett of Rotherby, co. Leicester, and widow of Richard Paul (she was buried at Baschurch 20 January 1638-9) ; and secondly, 19 April, 1643/ to Anne .... (surname at present unknown) who afterwards married John Worth, and was living in July 1660. By his first wife Sir Paul Harris had issue 4 sons and 4 daughters : (1) Thomas, who succeeded as 3rd baronet., (2) George, baptized at Baschurch 13 Oct., 1631, entered Shrewsbury School 8 January 1644-5, succeeded his brother as 4th baronet. Le Neve styles him baronet, and states that he died s.p. (3) Paul, baptized at Baschurch 8 April, 1634, entered Shrewsbury School 8 January, 1644-5, matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, 2 April, 1652, entered Gray's Inn 1651, succeeded as 5th baronet, died s.p. and was buried at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, 19 July, 1666. (4) Richard, baptized at Baschurch 9 August, and buried there 10 August, 1637. (5) Sara, baptized at Baschurch 27 vSeptember, 1627, died unmarried. (6) Elinor, baptized at Baschurch 16 February, 1630. (7) Anne, baptized at Baschurch 12 June, 1635. (8) Mary, died of the small pox, and buried at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, 24 November, 1648. By his second wife he had an only daughter Lettice, who was baptized at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, 28 July, 1644. IVi// of Sir Paid liar? is, of Doreaiton^ co. Salop, Kyiight and Barroiieti, i^'45' Dated 12 July, 1644, being sick &c. To be buried in my Chappell in the parish church of Baschurch in the vault there. As to my sonne and licire apparent uiidfi' Ji, I ln-scci-li the King's Majesty (whom I praye God longe to prosper and assist in his most righteous cause, wherein to have continued longer an unworthy instrument would have been the greatest M643, April 19. Sir Paul Harris and his Ladie were married. (Baschurch Register). THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS happiness of my life) and his Counsell of the Wards, graciously to grant the wardship of the body and lands of my son to my executors. Whereas Samuell More esq. (son of Richard More deceased) is seised to my use of lands in Stanwardine in the fields, Willaston, Winnington, Hargreave, Brechill, Whittfielde, Trevenant, Edgerley, and Shrewsbury in co. Salop, and of houses in Loudon, I desire him to convey the same to my wife Dame Anne and my brother Roger Harris. My wife to have my lands in Willaston, Winnington, and Hargrave for her life in lieu of dower. To my daughters at 21 or marriage one thousand marks, if they marry with her consent ; but if not, one hundred pounds only. To my younger sonnes five hundred pounds each. My wife to inhabit my house at Boreatton during the minority of my son. I appoint my wife Dame Anne and my brother Roger Harris executors of my Will. Will proved in P.CC. 15 May 1645 by Dame Anne Harris, the relict and executrix, power reserved to Roger Harris. (73 Rivers.) Sir Thomas Harris, 3RD Baronet. Sir Thomas Harris succeeded his father as third baronet in July 1644. He could then have been only about fifteen years old, and as we have seen was at Shrewsbury School, which he left for a few months but again re-entered with his younger brothers George and Paul on 8 January, 1644-5. When Shrewsbury was captured by the parliamentarians six weeks later, Sir Thomas Harris, Bart, was claimed as one of their prisoners. He and his step-mother, the Lady Anne Harris, were both very keen supporters of the King, and were engaged in Lord Byron's rising in August 1648. For this, as well as for the delinquency of Sir Paul Harris deceased, their estates were sequestered by the Committee of Salop. Lady Harris was herself imprisoned lor sixteen la I- OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 07 weeks ; Sir Thomas had fled. On 4 May, 1849, they petitioned to compound for their delinquency, and on the 27th of September they were fined in the large sum of ;^i572 3s., being one-sixth of the value of their estate. He was also assessed at ;^6oo on i September 1651 by the Committee for the Advance of Money ; this was to pay the Commonwealth troops. A letter of Edward Mytton^ addressed to Major-General Thomas Mytton, and dated "Salop, frydaie 26 Jan. 1648-9," has the following allusions to Sir Thomas Harris's movements : . . . Some report but Sir Thomas Harries ys gone to London, but for certen Mr. Walter Harries of Graye's Inne, that doth sollicitt for the sisters, did take post towards London on Saturdaie morning, aboute their busynes, eyther to procure a lease of the house and demesnes of Boreatton, or ells about his composition, or to insist upon his justification, and to cleere himself, or to compound with the horse gwarde, who are to have the profytts of his land in the meane time, or what ells I cantiott conceave, yf you could use any meanes to make him more respective of you by preventing these designs, they do make use ot, sir . . . Kinge, of neere relation to the Generall These comittees did not long synce send to the judges to have theire opinions, whether Sir Paule, being a delinquent and sequestred, could by will chardge his land or devise his personal estate, but theire opinion not yet certified, which may occasyon Harris posting. . . . E. Mytton." " . . . . This fridaie night Cousin Nycholas came hither and acquainted me that you and Mr. Harris have agreed to stale all proceeding until 5^ou and his returne in the busyness of his daughter Harris." Another letter from Edward Mytton to Major-General Mytton, dated Salopp, Tuesdaie 24 April 1649," alludes to Sir Thomas's wife expected your answeere heere more, for which purpose I came hither, but have no letter from you, only have seen that you sent to my Ladie 1 I am indebted to Mrs. Martin for the two letters of Edward Mytton. THE SKQUESTRATION PAPERS Harris which is not your writing, therefore I suspect your health which I daylie prais for and hartilie wishe you more than his that ys yours, E. Mytton." In 1654-5, Sir Thomas Harris was concerned in a plot with Ralph Kynaston, esq., of Llansaintfraid, to seize the Castle in Shrewsbury. Their plan was to send six gentlemen, two of them dressed in female attire, on the 8th of March, who should beg leave to view the Castle, which was garrisoned with 70 men. At a given signal a number of adherents he had engaged were to rush out of certain alehouses and overpower the garrison. Sir Thomas Harris was to have had a rendezvous in Boreatton Park early that afternoon ; but the plot failed through the indiscretion of Mr. Kynaston, who on March 7th openly enlisted 50 troopers for the service of King Charles II. within ten miles of Shrewsbury. On news of this reaching the ears of Colonel Hunt, the Governor of Shrewsbury, he collected his forces, and immediately sent a party to Boreatton Park, where Sir Thomas Harris and several of his friends were arrested. Fuller details of this episode, which was only part of a general scheme of revolt, will be found in the Transactions, 3rd Series, vol. X, pages 139 ct sec]., and in an extract from Merciirins Politiciis for March 17, 1654-5, given in the appendix. Sir Thomas was evidently ver}^ troublesome to the authorities in power. A letter from Richard Griffith and Joseph Prowde, dated from Shrewsbury 29 October 1659, addressed to the Commissioners for Sequestration, with reference to his being concerned in General Booth's rising, states that " Sir Thomas hath not been only guilty in this insurreccon, but in all others since 1648, and hath beene a prisoner in the Tower a long tyme. And hee had not been at home three daies but hee engaged in this insurreccon." Presumably he was sent to the Tower as a punishment for his attempted rising in 1655, and must have remained there between four and five years, for the same Shrewsbury Commissioners again write, on 7 December 1659, that "Sir Thomas Harris . . . hath beene a prisoner in the Tower for many yeares, and we thinke not yett discharged, but upon Baile." For his abortive rising, his estates were OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 69 again sequestered, aud seized by the County. Before the sequestration was removed, he seems to have sold or attempted to sell several of his manors and farms, and in particular some time in 1658 he made a Lease of his estates for a thousand years to one Mr. Beverley, which was deemed to be invalid. The rents of the property had been received by John Kvanson, the agent, during the Sequestration. Probably this second Sequestration ruined Sir Thomas Harris ; at all events he sold a good deal of his property. In 1658 Thomas Harper bought the manor of Onslow, which his grandfather Thomas Harris of Salop, esq., had purchased in 1617 from Edward Onslow of Onslow, esq., for £2,120. In 1663 the Boreatton estate was conveyed to Colonel Thomas Hunt. The Restoration of Charles II. would put an end to the sequestration, which had not been formally annulled. In June 1660 Sir Thom;is applied for a lease of the Post Office, for which he offered to pay ;^i5,ooo. If he were successful in obtaining it, he must have sold his Shropshire property in order to obtain the necessary : purchase money. When he died or where he was buried I have not been able to ascertain, nor have I found his Will or Letters of x\dniinistration at Somerset House or at Lichfield. Sir Thomas Harris when very young married Mary, daughter of Thomas Mytton of Halston, the Parliamentary General, and had issue an only daughter Magdalen, who was baptized at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, ^29 April and buried there 4 May 1648. His marriage to ^slary Mytton is recorded in Le Neve's i Baronets, Vol. II., fo. 40, in the College of Arms, and in the Harleian MS. 1982, fo. 43 (now fo. 50) at the British Museum. Both MSS. state that Sir Thomas died sijie prole. His wife was living in 1649, but she was probably dead before 1656, as she is not named in her father's Will which was proved 4 November 1656. Sir Thomas survived her, and was alive in 1660, but must have died shortly after. It was probably due to the influence of his father-in-law General Mytton that his life was spared after his capture. On Sir Thomas's death the title presumably devolved successively on his brothers George and Paul (the second ilii the Register Sir Thomas Harris is styled *' knight," no doubt the clerli's mistake for " baronet." 70 THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS and third sons of Sir Paul), who became 4th and 5th baronets. Le Neve, Norroy King-at-arms (who lived 1661 — 1729), states that both George and Paul were baronets and that tliey died sine prole. (Le Neve's Baronets, II., 40, MS. in College of Arms). Neither could have possessed the title more than a year or two, as the burial of Sir Paul Harris is recorded at St. Chad's Shrewsbury, on 29 July 1666. The title then passed to Sir Paul's uncle Roger Harris (the fourth son of the first baronet), who thus became 6th baronet : he was baptized at St. Julian's on 7 October 1601, but died without male issue, and was buried at Leebotwood 2 March 1685-6. Robert Harris, a younger In other of Sir Roger, and the seventh son of the first baronet, succeeded as seventh and last baronet: he was baptized at St. Julian's on 24 May 1612, entered Shrewsbury School on 14 January 1628-9, was apprenticed to the Drapers' Company in 1631, and made free of that Company in 1638 ; he probably carried on the business in Shrewsbury founded by his grandfather Roger Harris. He was buried at St. Julian's on 26 May 1693 as "Sir Robert Harries, Barronet, from ye Aby parish." On his death without male issue the baronetcy is believed to have become extinct. His wife predeceased him. She was buried on 23 April 1688, at St. Chad's as Dame Hannall, wife of Sr. Robert Harris." The Will of the last Baronet is as follows : Will of Sir Robert Harries, of the Tow7i of Shrewsbury in CO. Salop, Barrontti, 1694. To be buried at the discretion of my executors. I give and confirm to my servant Margaret, the wife of Richard Pritchard, and her heirs all my messnages, gardens, lands, &c., situate in Shrewsbury, according to a conveyance or deed to her the said Margaret (therein written Margaret Cooper). I give to the said Margaret £^ and one half of my household goods, and to the said Richard Pritchard 20s. To Richard Cooper, baker, and to Thomas Cooper, glover and skinner, each 20s. To my kinsman Robert Price, esq., 20s. for a ring. To my kinsman Thomas Jones, son of William Jones, 20s. for a ring. To Thomas Wright £10, to be allowed out of ^60 he OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 71 oweth me by Bond. To Naboth Harnage the debt he oweth me by Bond. To Kdward Burley, gent., ^5. To my executors, to dispose of the yearly rents unto such poor people as they shall think fit, all my right and title in messuages, lands, &c., situate in the parishes of Averhavis and Tregunnon in co. Montgomery, by virtue of a lease from Mr. Edward Blaney, gent. To the said Richard Pritchard all my wearing apparel. To Mary Cooper 20s. I appoint Edward Burley and Richard Cooper executors of my Will. Dated 8 Octo])er 1692. (Signed) Robert Harris. Witnesses: Thomas Falkner, Edward Griffiths, Richard Tecko, Will. Burley. Will proved in P.C.C. 3 July 1694 by Edward Burley and Richard Cooper, the executors. (154 Box.) The descent of the baronetcy has never yet been quite correctly printed, so it will be useful to set forth the correct descent here. Roger Harris, of Shrewsbury, draper, buried at St. Julian's, Shrewsbury, 21 September, 1598. Sir Thomas Harris, 1st baronet, =:Sarah, daur of created a baronet 22 December I William Jones, 1622, died 26 January 1629—30, Alderman of Shrewsbury. buried at Baschurch. | (Second wife.) 1 I Sir Paul Harris: 2nd baronet ; bapt. at St. Julian's 30 Dec. 1595 ; buried at Baschurch IS July 1644. He mar.2ndly,19April 1643, Anne . . Sir Thomas Harris = May, daur 3rd baronet ; j of Thomas Anne, daur of William Brett, and widow of Richard Paul, buried 20 Jan. 1638, at Baschurch. (1st wife.) Sir Roger Harris, 6th baronet, bapt. 70ct. 1601, died s.p m. and buried 2 March 16S5— 6 at Leebotwood. Sir Robert H arris, 7th baronet bapt. 24 May 1612, and buried 26 May, 1693, at St. Julian's. born circa 1629 died circa 1663. Mytton, of Halston. Sir George Harris, 4th baronet, bapt. at Baschui ch Sir Paul Harris 5th baronet, bapt. at Haschuich ISOctober 1631, 8 ApriM634, died s.p. buried at St. Chad's 19 July 1666. Magdalen, bapt. 29 April, and buried 4 May 1648, at St. Chad's. The ARMS of Harris are : — Or, three hedgehogs, two and one, azure. 72 THE SEQUESTKATION PAPERS Neither of the three last Baronets ever owned or resided at Boreatton Park, which had been sold to Colonel Hunt in 1663. This house was taken down by the new owners. Mrs. Stackhouse Acton {Castles and Old Maiisions of Shrop- shire, page 57), has given a sketch of the old house at Boreatton, which was built by the Hunts subsequent to the Civil War period, on the site of the house that belonged to the Harris family. Part of this house has also been taken down, and a new mansion erected. No portion of the baronets' house remains. A good deal of ill-feeling grew up between the Harris and the Hunt families, and lasted so long, that in 1709 when Eleanor Harris left by Will a valuable property in Stanwardine and Weston Lullingfield or elsewhere in the parish of Bascliurch, to support a school in Baschurch and to apprentice boys, she directed that the heirs of Rowland Hunt of Boreatton, and any person enjoying Boreatton under him by descent or settlement, should never be trustees of her charity, but should be for ever excluded therefrom. And that the minister should preach a sermon on the Sunday next after the anniversary of her death (February 22nd), at which time the principal directions of her Will should be publicly declared, and never concealed or suppressed. In 1840 the income of this charity amounted to ;^323 los. a year. (Charity Commissioners' Report for Salop, pp. 442-444.) The founder of the School, Elianor Harris, describes herself in her Will as "surviving daughter of Sr. Paul Harris late of Boreatton, Knight Barronett deceased." As she was baptised in February 1630-31, she must have been 78 years of age when she made her Will, and 86 when she died on 22 February 1716-17. She expressed the wish to be buried in St. Margaret's Westminster, near her sister Anne Harris. She leaves legacies to her kinsmen Sir Hugh Middleton and his sister Charlotte Middleton, the widow Woods aunt of Sir Hugh Middleton (her executrix), Mrs. Jane Abbott, Mrs. Mary Powell and her sister Elianor Warre, and Mrs. Elizabeth Jones and her daughter Ballue. There are legacies to several others who are not termed ''kinsmen." She devised her OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 73 messuage and lands in Stanwardine in the Fields, formerly called Higley's tenement, to Mrs. Margaret Jones (granddaughter of my uncle Sir Roger Harris, Baronet deceased), in tail, and in default of issue to her Trustees, in trust for her School. The Will, with two Codicils dated 28 July, 1713 and 13 March 1715, was proved in the P.C.C. 7 March 17 16-17 by Klizabeth Woods. (61 Whitfield.) The Rev. Edward Williams in 1794 noted these Inscriptions in the Church of Baschurch. {See Addii. MSS. 21236, fo. 118): Upo?i Benefaction Tables erected 1779. Madam Hi^kanor Harries gave by Will certain lands in ye Township of Stanwardine in ye Fields and Weston Lullingfield, for ye founding and endowing a charity School for ye purpose of educating and apprenticing ye Children of ye Poor of this parish for ever. Upon a brass plate^ against the side of the gallery. This Gallery is the property of Mrs. Harries' Charity School in Newtown Baschurch erected by the Trustees 1768. The Harleian MS. 1241, fo. 65b., has a good pedigree of some collateral branches ; by some oversight it was omitted in the printed Visitation of Shropshire 1623. Another family of Harris, in no way related to the baronets of Boreatton, resided in the parish of Baschurch. Arthur Harris of Prescot was the third son ot John Harris of Cruckton, and a younger brother of Sir Thomas Harris, Baronet, of Tong Castle ; he married Jane Newton of Prescot, and his descendants for several generations were settled there. Their arms were : Barry of eight, ermine and azure, over all three annulets or. The Sequestration Papers which follow were copied from the original documents preserved at the Public Record Office. 74 THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS SEQUESTRATION PAPERS. I. SIR THOMAS HARRIS AND LADY ANN HARRIS PETITION TO COMPOUND. To the Right hono^^o the Goniission»^s for Composicons with Delinquents sitting at Goldsmith's Hall. The hnnible petition of Sr Thomas Harris of Boreatton in the Count}^ of Salop Harronett and the Lady Anne Plarris his mother in law : Sheweth That the estates of your peticoners are sequestred by the Comittee of Salope for adhering to the forces of The Kinge in both warrs and for the delinquency of Sr Paule Harris Baronett late father of Sr Thos. in the first warre. They humbly praye that your liono'^'* would be pleased to admitt them to a favourable composicon for their estates and delinqnencyes and for the delinquency of the sd Sr Paule. And they shall pray 8lc. Interregnum G. 217. No. 407. Reed 4th May 1649 and referred to the sub-Comittee. J. Leech. OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 75 II. A PARTICUI.AR OF THEIR ESTATE. G. 217. No. 409. A full and perfect particular of the estate of Sr Thomas Harris of Boreatton in ye County of Salopp Barronet And the I^ady Anne Harris his Mother in Law. The said Sr Thomas Harris is seized in ffee of and in ye Mannor of Baschurch in the County of Sallop and of and in certeyne Messuages Tenem*^ Lands and premises in Boreatton in the Parish of Baschurch aforesaid of the cleere yearely value before the warr of ^141 3s. 4d. Hee hath the like estate of and in a Messuage or tenemt. and ffarme in the Parish of Nobuld Newton and Edgbold in the said County of Salop w*^'^ ye appurtenances of the cleere yearely value before ye warr of ;^40. Hee hath the like estate of and in certeyne Tenem*^ and premisses with the appurtenances in great Leith in the Parish of Cundover in Com. p'dict of the cleere yearely value before the warr of £16 8s. Hee hath the like estate of and in a Tenement and certeyne lands and premisses in Church Hanwood in Com. p'dict. of the cleere yearely value before ye warr of £i[. Hee hath the like estate of and in the Manor of Leebotwood in Com. p'dict. of and in certeyne Messuages Tenem*^ Lands and premisses there of the cleere yearely value before the warre of ;^74 11 4. Hee hath the like estate of and in the Manor of Ratlinghope in Com. p'dict. with the Messuages Tenem^s lands and premises there with their appurtenances of ye cleere yearely value before the warr of £2g 168. Hee hath the like estate of and in certeyne Tenem'^ lands and premisses with their appurtenances in Wartherton in the Parish of Clierbury in Com. predict, of the cleere yearely value before the warr of ;^40. Hee hath the like estate of and in a Tenemt- Lands and premisses with the appurtenances in Onslowe in the Parishes 76 THE SKQUKSTRATION PAPERS of Ponsborough and Chad in Com. predict, of the cleere yearely value before the warr of ;£76. Hee hath the like estate of and in certeyn Lands and premisses in Welch Hampton of the cleere yearely value before the warr of lo o. The said I,ady Anne Harris is seized of a ffrank Tenem^ for her life as for her joyuture of and in certeyne Messuages Tenem^^ lands premisses in and neare the parish of Obberbury in the said County of the cleere yearely value before the warr of £ioo i6 8. There is to remaine and come into the said Sr Thomas Harris the said Messuages lands Tenements and premises in Joynture to ye said Lady as abovesaid ;^ioo i6 8. The said S'^' Thomas Harris conceives liimselfe to have an Interest in Law or equity in certeyne Messuages Tenem^^ Lands and premisses in London and in ye parishes of Baschurch Smethcott Posborough, Chad, Lebotwood Nobald Newton and Edgbolt and elsewhere in Com. Salop, but he hath noe rentalls or other writings in his possession concerning any of those lands nor was ever possessed of any part of them and cannot at present discover either his Interest in (or ye value of) them ifor these he prayes a saving with liberty to compound for them and every of them as he shall recover. The Comt^o foj- Sequestracons for ye County of Salop have formerly Sequestred ye estates of the compounders for ye delinquency of S*^ Paul Harris Barronet deceased late ffather of the said S^' Tho. Harris in the first warr against the Parliam* they therefore pray to have the delinquency of ye said S"^ PauU Harris likewise discharged. Tho. Harris. Annk Harris. III. A RENT ROLL OF THE LANDS OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. G.236. No. 24. A rent role of the lands and tenem^^ of S^' Thomas Plarries, Barronett as they were before these late wanes. "i anwood Magna I George Passant Noball I Symon Downes W. Lore Onslowe Thomas Griffiths A messuage and lands late in the po^s of Tho. Bolas Thomas Beddington Coleham Two Teuem*^ Boare Acton The demeasnes and milns Stanwardine of the feild Thomas Dountout James Dodd Richard Smyth William Vaughan Thomas Higley Richard Clarke and John Griffiths of Kdgerley Widdovv Madder Humfrey Ward Richard felton Thomas Calcott John Tonge William Walley Richard Harrison Chiefe Rents. The Townshipp of lyce 'I'lic Tovviicshij)p of Bagley Richard Paliii The Towneshipp of Niineley The Towneshipp of Prescott £ s. d. 14 o o 30 o 9 15 o o 60 o o 22 o o 100 200 150 o o 280 o 13 4 100 100 200 23 o 2 4 2 18 2 8 0 15 2 4 1 4 3 14 o 7 10 086 068 050 026 3^10 18 10 70 THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS botwood & Smythcott £ s. d. Thomas Kindricke I 0 0 Richard Davies 3 0 0 Thomas Botfield sen 3 0 0 Idem more for other lands 0 0 Thomas Botfield jun I 10 0 Roger Harries farme att ;^50 out of which hee ought to pay £20 per An. his Annuity being but £\(d 20 0 0 Thomas Hey way . . * . . 4 2 6 John Hotchkiss 3 6 8 Idem more . . 6 0 0 Jane Bright widd 5 0 0 Richard Harries 9 10 0 Idem more land 4 0 0 Sarah Chidley 7 0 0 Thomas Wicke 2 0 0 Newall Davies 7 0 0 Richard Scottocke 0 16 0 Silvanus Sankey 0 3 4 Tho, Harries nowe Rich. Rogers 2 0 0 William Rogers 4 0 0 Richard Kendricke . . I 0 0 Edward Wicke 0 3 6 Katherine Davies 0 13 4 Mary ffarnier 2 0 0 Edward More I 6 8 Idem more held by him 6 0 0 Edward Wilding 10 0 0 William Chidley 4 10 0 Cottingers in Lybottwood and Smythcott. Edward Wilkes Dorothy francis Katherine Davies Mary farmer Jjinc Wooscll 036 o 10 o 0 13 4 1 0 o I 12 8 Isaac Sankey . . . . . . . i 13 4 Richard Jorden . . . . . . . . i 13 4 Laud held by Richard Kindricke and Richard Harries . . . . . . . . 7 10 o 140 19 2 Smythcott Tho. Rogers for the Coppy house . . . . 4164 William Hall for Howells Cottage and Bollinses i 17 o Create Lyeth William Sturchley . . . . . . ..286 Idem another tenem^ on the rocke . . 2 £ o o John Moseley .. .. .. .. 500 Griffith Owen . . . . . . . . i 10 o Wotherton Thomas Williams or his undertenant . . . . 30 o o A particular of the estate of Thomas Harries returned by ye Com^°° of Salop. 66 II 10 140 18 2 340 18 I 54S 8 10 IV. REPORT. G. 217. No. 403. S"^ Thomas Harris of Boreatton in the County of Salop Baronett and Daine Anne Harris widdowe his Mother in Law desireing to Compound for their owne THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS delinquency and for ye delinquency of Paul Harris Baronett deceased father of the said S"^ Thomas. The delinquencies that the said Paul did assist ye forces raised for ye Parliam^ in ye first warr for which his estate was sequestred. And the pet^^ also adhered to the said forces since his death. They petitioned here ye 4th of May 1649. They compounded &c. The said Thomas Harris is seised in fee to him and his heirs of and in ye Mannor of Baschurch, Lebotwood and Rustlinghope in ye said County of Salop and of divers other lands and hereditam*'^ in Baschurch Boreatton Nobale Newton and other Townes in ye said County in his particular named being altogether of ye yearly value before ye warrs £^2^ 4 4. That from and after ye death of ye said Dame Anne Harris there will come and remaine to him and his heirs certaine other messuages lands and tenem*^ in Obberbury in ye baid County being her jointure of the yearly value of ^100 16 8. The said Dame Anne Harris is seized of a ffrank ten' for her life of the said Lands in Obberbury aforesaid the Revercon as before being of ye yearly value of ;^ioo 16 8. He conceaveth he hath a right to certaine Lands in Baschurch Smethcot Polsborough and other Townes in ye said County and to other lands in ye City of London of w^^ he never could gett possession nor hath yet writings or Rentalls to discover ye land or yearly values. And therefore he prayes a saveing to compound for the same when he should recover them by suite in Law or otherwise. D. Watkins. 27 Sept. 1649 J. Readinge. 27. 7^^^ 1649 I ffine at - j{, 1572 3 o 6 OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. V. I^ETTER FROM COUNTY COMMITTEE, 21 JUNE 1 649. G.236. No. 25. ^ Right hono^ie Wee received yo^^ of the xxv^^ of Aprill last wherein ' wee are required to find an account unto yo"^ Lopi^^ of the : rents and estates of certaine delinquents menconed in an I ordinance of Parliament of ye xvi'^ of October last amongst ' w^^* Sir Thomas Harries barronet was one, noe other of the delinquents named in the said ordinance haveing any estate in this Countie to our knowledge. Unto all w^-^ wee humbly returne this answere. That wee have not reed any rents, out of the estate of the said Sr Tliomas Harries since the said ordinance of the xvi^-^ of October came to our hands, And touching the rents accrueing due the xxv^^ of March last wee as yet suffer the same to remaine in the tenants hands according to the late notes ot the ho^^" house of Comons. And wee have here inclosed sent unto yo'^ Lopi'^ a particular ; Rent rolle of the estate of the said S"^ Thomas Harries, as neer as we can at present discover, a fifth part whereof wee § have allowed to the I^ady Harries wife to the said vS*^ Thomas f Harries according to the ordinance of Parliament All w^^ wee j leave to your I^ow^ further consideration. I And rest i Loi'ps humble servants, I H. Mackwortu. Tho. Nicoi,s. F Shrewsbury 21st June 1649. FINED AT ONE SIXTU, 27 SEPTEMBER 1649, £lS72 3S. G. Vol. 6, p. 2x6. Thursday 27th vScpt. 1649. vSir Thomas Harris & Dame Harris for ye delinquency of Sir Paul Harris. THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS past In fee per ann. 423 : 4:4 In revercon 100 : 16 : 8 The lady For her life 100 : 16 : 8 A saveing He hath a right to lands fine per ann. G. 248. No. loi. 1649, December 18. Order of the Committee at Goldsmith's Hall that the Treasurer pay the fines of Sir Thomas Harris (and others) to the Haberdashers' Hall Committee, and no abatement be made for rectory tithes or otherwise. [G. 6, p. 249.] VII. HE BEGS TO COMPOUND FOR HIS SAVING. 1 6 JANUARY, 165O. G. 207 [? 217], No. 406. To the Right ho^^^ the Com**^*^ for Composicons. The humble peticon of S*^ Tho. Harris Barronett, Sheweth. That yo*^ pef^ hath formerly submitted himselfe to his composicon and paid and secured his ffine. That upon his particular he prayed a savinge for some landes to w<^^ he conceived he had a good title and for w^^ he now desires to compound. Yo^ pef^ therefore prayeth he may be admitted to perfect his particular as to those lands and be admitted to compound for them. And he will pray &c., THO. HARRIS. Reed. 16 Jan. 1649 and admitted. viir. NOTE, THAT THEY HAVE A SAVING TO COMPOUND FOR I.ANDS IN SMETHCOT, POI,SBOROUGH, &C. 31 AUGUST 1652. G. Vol. 12, p. 517. 31st. August, 1652. Savings. Adhuc Salop. Sir Thomas Harris of Boreaton and Dame Ann 1269^^ 13S 302 10 —1572^' 3S OF JSIK THOMAS ±1AKK1». Co. 2690. Harris widow have a saveing to compound for certaine lands in Smethcot, Polsborough and other townes and to some estate in London when he should record ye same. IX. THE COUNTY COMMITTEE REPORT HIM AS GUILTY IN AI^I, INSURRECTIONS SINCE 1 648, AND HATH LONG BEEN A PRISONER IN THE TOWER. 24 OCTOBER 1659. G. 263. No. 87. Salop, Octob^' the 29^^ 1659. May it please yo^* Hono^'^ Wee have here enclosed in a box sent up the Coppies of what depositions have beene taken since the last wee returned there are many of them that have considerable estates Wee desire yo*" Hono'^s Order upon them, the severall persons that have procured Orders from you do not prosecute them. It was only to delay time for they cannot cleare themselves. S^' Thomas Harris haih not been only guilty in this insurreccou but in all others since 1648 and hath beene a prisoner in the Tower a long tyme and hee had not been at home three daies but hee engaged in this insureccon. * * Richd Griffith Joseph Prowde These ffor the Hono^ie the Com'^s for Sequestracon at Haberdashers Hall present in London. for ye Service of ye State. X. THK COMMITTER FOR SEQUESTK ITIONS GRANT LtAVE TO EXAMINE WITNESSES WITHIN TEN DAYS, OR NKGLECT TO BE CERTIFED, 3 1 OCTOBER 1 659. G. 59. No. 170. Gent. Wee have receiv'd yo^^ of the 26th of Octob. concerning Mr. Lyster and S*^" Thomas Harris. They did petition as 84 THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS for a copy of their charge and liberty to examine witnesses for their defence and that in the meane time they might enjoy their estates upon security (which wee could not deny) but they will be mistaken if they thinke to gaine much tyme by it. Wee therefore desire you will send a summons forthwith to them and all others who have brought you such orders from us and whoever els you have the oaths of two persons against as to any Act yt may make them liable to Seqcon and require them within ten dayes after that summons to produce and examine such writings [? witnesses] as they have for their defence and alsoe within yt tyme to cross examine such as have bin examined agt. them w^^^ you are to returne to us or certify their neglect And wee shall thereupon direct publication or otherwise give judgment upon their default. Yours &c. 31 Oct. 59. XI. THE COUNTY COMMITTEE STATE THAT A LEASE FOR lOOO YEARS. UNDER WHICH MR. BEVERLEY CLAIMS THE ESTATES, IS INVALID. 7 DECEMBER 1659. G. 236. No. 26. May it please y*^ Hon^^ We received y*^ Orders upon the peticon of Mr. Beverley laying clayme to the estate of S^" Thomas Harries of this County dated a moneth since but ci»me to our hands but three daies agoe wherein he alleadges that hee hath taken a lease for a Thousand yeares and this deed was made to him the last yeare. Now with submission to yo'^ liono^*" judgment wee conceive the deed or lease invalid and that Thomas Harries had not power to grant any such. In regard he hath been under Seq^^" this many yeares and his estate sequestred And now gieate sumes of money remaining in the late agents hands w*^^* we humbly conceive ought to bee paid in to the Comonwealths use, we shall desire yo^' answere wheather wee call the said agent to accompt and require him to make payment of what moneyes is in the sd agents hands his name OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 85 is John Evanson. ffurther wee accquaint 5^0'^ Hon'^s that S"^ Thomas Harries hath sould severall Mannors and fFermes Since his former Seq^^^" of w^^ hee was never yett discharged, and hath beene a prisoner in the Tower for many yeares and wee thinke not yet discharged but upon Baile. The evidence taken against him for his severall former engagements against the Comonwealth were taken before S^' John Reignalds whose Gierke had them in Custodie, but we having the witnesses neare unto us shall examine them againe And leturne them yo*" Hono'^''^ as alsoe the Coppies of Ord"^ for his Seq'^o" wee desire yo'^' further advice therein and remaine Yo"^ Hono^« Servants Rich. Griffith Joseph Prowde Salop Decemb. the 7th 1659. XII. THE COMMITTEE ORDER THAT IF HIS ESTATE WAS SEQUESTERED FOR ANY ACT SINCE 31 JANUARY 1648-9, IF EARI,IER THEY HAVE NO POWER. [?] I4 DECEMBER 1659. G. 59, No. 171. Gent, * * * The like course you are to take w'^ Evanson if you find yt S'^ Thomas Harris his estate were sequestered for any Act comitted since the last of January 1648. But if the cause of his seq^o" did precede that tyme, hee is not within y^' cognizance As soon as money comes to yo^" hand wee desire you would return it by exchange with what convenient speed you may. xni. THE COUNTY COMMITTEE CERTIFY THAT HE WAS SEQVESTERED FOR DELINOUENCY COMMITTED 8 MARCH 1 654. 21 DECEM13HR 1 659. G. 164. No. 48. May it please yo*^ Honors * * * 31- q^homas Harries was Sequestered for an Act of Delinquency committed the 8^^^ of March, 1654 ^^^^ 86 THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS particulars w^*^ the depositions we are preparing to send w^^ is all at present from Yo^" Hono'^s Servants Richd. Griffith Salop Decemb. Joseph Prowde the 2ist 1659. XIV. THE COUNTY COMMITTEE REPORT THAT JOHN EVANSON, SEQUESTRATION AGENT, HAS RECEIVED THE RENTS. 7 JANUARY 1659-60. G. 164. No. 57. May it please 3 0^ Honors * * Wee did formerly acquaint yo^" Hono^"^ with the case of S^* Thomas Harries that he wiis under Seq^"^" since March 1654 for his delinquency and his rents issueing from his estate received by our John Kvanson a late agent for Seqcoii ill tiiij^ County who we heare hath most of the money in his hands Soe that we thinke that what estate S"^ Thomas Harries hath sold or Mortgaged since is not good And wee desire yo^ Hono^*^ Order whether wee shall proceed wee have severall Orders upon record for Sequestring him at that tyme ^ycb ^J^QQ have Copyed out concerns S*^" Thomas w^^' w*^ further proofe wee shall send if yo** Hono»^s not already satisfied. * ^- * Yo'^ Hono'^s Servants Rich^^ Griffith Joseph Prowde Salop January the 7"' 1659. XV. THE COUNTY COMMITTEE REQUEST ORDERS FROM THE COMMITTEE OF SEQUESTRATION ABOUT THESE ESTATES. l8 JANUARY 1659-60. G. Vol. 264, p. 67. May it please your honours Wee received yours of the nth of this instant requiring us to returne a list of all persons of our county that engaged in the late insurrecion. In obedience to your command wee have enclosed sent another list agreeable to the former lately sent which we conceive is methodicall in regard wee had your 3r: OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 87 honors approbation of it ; Wee did aboute a fortnight sence give your honours an account how that wee have above 600 li worth of iron piggs of Sir Thomas Midleton in this county and that wee did contract with Mr. William Wilson of Denbighshire for them, who hath now refused to medle with them being threatened by some of the late partnours of Sir Thomas Midleton who pretend a share in them, but cannot make appeare that they have any right to the same, wee haveing full testimony that it solely belonged to Sir Thomas Midleton. But since it is that the said Wilson liveth in the county of Denbigh wee cannot compell him to take theise iron piggs without further power from your honours, and cannot returne any moneyes till then, hee beeing to pay for them upon the delivery thereof. Wee did alsoe acquaint you with debts due to Sir Thomas Midleton out of Worcester shire and Stafford shire of which wee have the accompt and bonds but have not renewed your honours dirreccion in it as alsoe for Sir Thomas Harries who appeares to bee under sequestracion for an act comitted aboute the 8th of March 1654 and the rents issuing from his estate received and much of it in the custody of one of the late agents. The said Sir Thomas Harries hath sold leased and mortgaged severall of his lands since ; we desire to know your pleasure in it and alsoe if wee may proceed against those that acted in 1651 in the Worcester engagement there are many of them amonge us. This being all att present from Your honours servants Rich. Griffith Joseph Prowde Salop January the i8th 1659. answered [Endorsed] Theise For the Hono^ie the Com^^ for Sequestracon sitting att Habberdashurs Hall present in lyOndon For ye service of ye Commonwealth. 88 THE SKQUKSTRATION PAPERS XI. THE COMMITTEE FOR SEQUESTRATIONS ORDER AN ACCOUNT TO BE DEMANDED OF JOHN EVANSON, AND PROOFS AGAINST SIR THOMAS TO BE EXPEDITED. I9 JANUARY 1660. G. 59 p. 172. Gent. We have reed yo^^^ of ye 7tli of January instant wherein you desire our orders and direccons touching ye case of S** Thomas Harris and Tho. Midleton As concerning S^' Tho. Harris wee desire that you would summon John Evanson the Agent who hath reed ye profits of S'^ Thomas his estate during ye seqcon and demand an account of him touching the same as alsoe paym^ of such moneys as he hath in his hands and yt you would expedite such orders and proofes as you have agt ye sd S^' Tho. whereupon we shall give you o*^ further order touching him. COMMITTEE FOR THE ADVANCE OF MONEY, p. 79. Parliament Order, i6 October 1648, that the sequestration and composition of Sir Thomas Harris (and others) were engaged to reimburse certain persons who had advanced money. And Sir Thomas Harris has paid in part his fine. p. 1388 A. Vol. 73, p. 161. Salop. Persons assessed Sommes Sept. I, 1 65 1. assessed Sir Thomas Harris for the ^ delinquency of Paul Harris. I 600 1572 li : 09 : 00 : ) APPENDIX. Extract from Mercurius Politicus, 1654 1655. From Shrewsbury, March 17, [1654-5.] Upon Thursday morning March 8, the Governor had intelligence from 4 severall parts of this county, to this effect, OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 89 that there was a general insurrection intended al over Northwales, that one Sir Arthur Blaiiey who was to command the Montgomeryshire forces, was that night to have a Rendezvous and seise on Chirk-castle; and that Sir Tho^nas Hcuries was at one of the clock at night to have a rendezvous of severall persons he had engaged, in his own Park, 5 miles off this place, and was very confident of this Town and Castle that night : I^ikewise that one Mr. Ralph Kinasion ten miles hence liad the 7 of Marcli publickly lifted 50 troopers for the service of Charls 2. Thereupon the Governer having but 70. foot in the Garison in the Garison and a troop that was commanded to come from Hereford to his assistance not coming in season, he immediately cald in all his men into the Castle, planted the guns as advantagiously as he could ; set a file of soldiers at every Gate of the town that none might stir, seised of 20 the best horse he could find in any stables, and mounted so many of our Friends, with onier to secure all persons in Sir Thomas his house, and search it for Arms, which accordingly they went about, and at their coming to Boratto7i^ found some trying to escape, whereof 2 got clear away, some endeavouring to make resistance, but finding themselves overpowred, yeelded upon quarter ; there were taken Sir Thoinas himself and about five gentlemen more, som 15 horses, so many case of pistols, 7 of them found hid under straw in the Barn, and a little barrell of Gunpowder, a good quantity of bullets in his study, new made of lead took from off his house : He confidently for all this denies any design he had against this Garrison ; but Ralph Kinasion being taken by Rcdcasile forces, hath confessed the whole business and that the way intended for the surprise of the Castle was thus ; About 4 of the clock in the afternoon March 8 there were two gentlemen appointed that knew the Castle, and two other gentlemen in women's apparell, and 2 serving-men to attend them, who should enter the Castle (under the pretence of showing the Castle to the pretended Gentlewomen) to keep the Gates open and the bridg down until a party designed to seise upon the castle should rush out of certain alehouses neer unto the Castle, where they 90 THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS were to be ready at the discharging of a Pistol. The Governor has seised on all the eminent Cavaliers in this county and finds good cause of suspicion against most of them, but they act very warily ; and he had certain Intelligence the Malignants left unseised were very high, and had taken new courage, seeing so small forces in the Town ; and as we are credibly informed, did intend afresh to stir, but I believe the arrival here of Commis: gen: Reynolds has quite dashed those thoughts who hath Commission to settle this place and all Northwales before his return. From Shrewsbury, April 4. [1655.] All here is now in a perfect quiet; two of the prisoners engaged in the late Plot against this place, viz. Mr Armstrong and Mr. Ralph Kinaston went from this Garison for London on Monday last by Order from his Highness. On Sabbath day night Mr. Eytoji, an agent that Sir Thomas Harris used to draw in his several Friends in his late designe, escaped out of the House of Correction, though he had irons on his legs ; and notwithstanding all possible diligence hath been used for his retaking, yet we can hear nothing of him. EXTRACTS FROM THH CALKNDARS OF STATE PAPERS. DOMESTIC SERIES. (State Papers, Domestic, Charles I., Vol. DXV., No. 143.) List of the names returned from Shrewsbury. It comprises 51 names of gentry in co. Salop, including Sir Thomas Harris. (?i647.) ORDNANCE OF PARLIAMENT, 16 October 1648. (State Papers, Domestic, Charles I., Vol. DXVI, No. loi.) Ordinance of both Houses, 16II1 October 164S, tliat the secpiestrations and compositions of Sir Thomas Harris, l^art. [and others], shall from henceforth be employed and disposed for the payment of guards ot horse attending the Parliament, until £^000 be raised thereout for this purpose. OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. 91 PETITION OF DAME MARY HARRIS, 5 May 1657. (State Papers, Domestic, Vol. CLV., No. ii.) 1657, May 5. Proceedings of Council. /j. The Petition of Dame Mary Harris, on behalf of her husband, Sir Thomas Harris, Bart., now a prisoner in the Tower, read. PETITION OF JOHN EVANSON, 21 December, 1658. (State Papers, Domestic, Vol. CLXXXIV., No. 55.) 1658, Dec. 21. Petition of John Evanson of Shrewsbury to the Protector. In the insurrection of March 1655, the judges were seised upon at Salisbury assizes, and the same design was carrying on in several parts of England. On information that Sir Thos. Harris, living 5 miles Irora Shrewsbury, was ready to head a party of horse and foot, I and others were sent to apprehend him. We found him with 20 others in arms, 20 horse with saddles fitted for holsters, 14 castrs of pistols, and a barrel of gunpowder, and after some opposition, we seized him and 7 others — the rest escaping through by-ways — and brought them to Shrewsbury, whence he was sent to London, and committed to the Tower. His estate being sequestered by the Commissioners for securing the peace, I was entrusted with the management of it; but after two years, he obtained leave to return home, and now he distrains his tenants for the money received by me. I beg a speedy course for their relief and indemnity. Note of reference thereon in Council. (Dec. 21.) Order 23 Dec. PETITIONS OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS, BART., 1660. (State Papers, Domestic, Charles II, Vol. VI., No. 102.) Sir Thomas Harris petitions the King, P'or the Farm of the Post Office, for ^15,000 a year, ^14,000 being the largest sum yet paid. June 1660. 92 THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF SIR THOMAS HARRIS. (Ibid, Vol. VL, No. 34.) Sir Thomas Harris, Bart., petitions the King, For the arrears unaccounted for remaining in the hands of Mr, Bond, late receiver of fines for compositions in the Alienation Ofiice. Note, that this is granted to Mr. O'Neale. November, 1660. PETITION OF RICHARD REYNOLDS, 1665. (State Papers, Domestic, Vol. CXLH., No. 195.) He petitions the King, For a letter to the Justices of Shropshire for the next reversion of the place of Keeper or Master of the house of correction there. He was in vain tortured, and tried for life in that house, and then sent up to the Tower, examined before Oliver, and confronted with others to induce him to discover those concerned in the intended rising with his late master, Sir Thos. Harris, Bart., in favour of the Restoration. ADDENDUM— Page 65, lines 20 and 21. (6) Elianor, bapt. at Baschurcli, i6th February, 1630. • Founder of the School at Bascliurch, 1709. Will, dated 17th May, 1709, with two codicils proved in P.C.C. 7th March, 1716- 17, by Elizabeth Woods, widow, the executrix. (61 Whitfield.) To be buried in St. Margarett, Westminster, near my sister Anne Harris." She died 22nd February, 1716-17. ; (7) Anne, bapt. at Baschurch, 12th June, 1635. Was buried j at St. Margaret's, Westminster. | THE STATUE OF EDWARD III., ON THE TOWER OF THE ABBEY CHURCH, SHREWSBURY. By COEONFX H. R. H. SOUTHAM, V.D., F.S.A. For centuries this stone figure, supported by a bracket in a niche, and with an elaborate canopy above, has been in its present position over the large west window of the Abbey Church of Holy Cross. In the past, statements and suggestions have been made, from time to time, as to the person this figure represented. Long ago it was said to be Roger de Montgomery, the the founder of the Abbey ; and later, that it was Edward III., which it surely is. Again, a suggestion was made, a few years ago, by an old and valued friend of mine, that it portrayed Richard II. There is some reason for his theory ; as he draws attention to the fact that there is no record of Edward III. visiting the town or Abbey ; and it is not known that he benefited the latter in any way. It is well known that the Parliament of 1398 was adjourned from Westminster to Shrewsbury, and that the King presided at this assembly, held in the Chapter House of the Abbey. I do not think that Richard wore armour frequently, and that if it was intended to place his figure on the tower, then it would have been clothed differently. I, also, think that it was not usual to erect, at that period, a statue of a living monarch, and that it certainly could not have been placed after his death. Richard — as his father was never king — may have desired that his grandfather should have an effigy on the tower : but if it was not placed there after the death of Edward III., then it may have been erected in commemoration of the 50 years that this king had reigned (25 January, 1327 — 24 January, 1377. He died 21 June, 1377). Surely there is some reason I I v.- If 94 THE STATUE OF EDWARD III. for this, my suggestion, that if it was not erected until some time after Edward's death, then it might have been Henry IV. who proceeded in the matter. We know that he was at Shrewsbury before the battle and what the Abbot did towards peace. Richard, who was only 30 at the time of his visit, wore a small moustache and thin peaked beard ; and the figure shows a much older man with a long drooping moustache, such as we know Edward wore. In 1907, during the repair for the preservation of the tower, under the direction of Mr. Harold Brakspear, F.S.A., I asked the late Mr. William Bowdler, of Shrewsbury, to whom was entrusted this difficult work — which he carried out so well — if he would photograph for me the figure and take measurements. This he very kindly did, and thus, for the first time, the details of the figure can be seen and examined. Owing to the narrow platform it was found impossible to photograph from the front, but he made a sketch which was photographed, and is shown in the illustration here given. After examination of these photographs I think it must appear that the effigy is that of Edward III. The height of the statue is, from top of helmet to sole of foot, 9 ft. 4^ in. If it was intended to represent — at the height on the tower — the height of the king as he really was then — by comparing the measurement of the face of the figure with that of a man, of same age, at present time, it is probable that the king stood nearly 6 ft. The features are "clean cut" and have weathered the westerly wind and rain in a remarkable manner. The chain-mail camail hangs gracefully, the bascinet is encircled with a royal crown and in the right hand is a kingly mace. The armour is certainly of the time of the king's death. Eocal examples of this can be seen in the brass of Sir Nicholas Burnell at Acton Burnell, 1383, and also the alabaster figure of Sir Fulke Pembruge (d.1409) at Tong. He is shown as wearing armour of an earlier period to that of his death. ON THK ABBEY CHURCH TOWER. 95 A ver}^ good example is that of the brass of Sir Robert Sw5'nborne — 1391 — at lyittle Horkesley, Essex. An illustration of this appears in the special ''Battle of Shrewsbury" publication of the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1903. On page 12, I^ord Dillon writes concerning the armour worn at and earlier than the battle, and his remarks "The rich military belt, to which the sword and dagger were suspended, and which itself was maintained in position by some unseen and at present not known arrangement, the cingulum, . . " is well shown in the present illustrations of Edward III. There is no indication that a dagger had ever been on the right side of the figure, but I think there may have been a sword on the left. There is no evidence that the figure has ever been painted or that coat-armour ornamented the surcoat. surcoat. When I sent the photographs of the figure to Lord Dillon in February, 1909, he gave the following very valuable information : — " I am returning the photos and drawing of the figure which no doubt belongs to about 1375 so far as one can see the details — Edward III. died 1377 so with the crowned bascinet and the rest, there can be no other attribution than Edward III." 96 LORD CUViv AND THE REV. DR. WILLIAM ADAMS OF SHREWSBURY. By colonel H.R.H. SOUTHAM, V.D., F.S.A. lu 1905, Mr. Peach, bookseller of Leicester, advertised for sale a very interesting letter written by the great Lord Clive to the Rev. William Adams, D.D., Vicar of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury ; and very kindly lent me the letter, with permission to use the same in any article I might write concerning Dr. Adams. Circumstances have prevented this article being completed until May, 19 19. I am now able to print this letter, which is interesting from the historical and local point of view: — ''Calcutta, 29^^^ Septr 1765. To the Revi D^" Adams. Sir, Bengali will at Last afford you some agreeable news after the many disastrous accounts of Massacres Mutinies «S:c. Peace and Tranquillity is at last restored to these much Distressed Provinces, and I think, I may say, I have Established affairs upon such a Solid Basis, that we need entertain no Apprehensions of Revolutions in future, b\' the Trenty of Soujali Doulia Vezier of the Empire, the Company receives 600,000 sterling the one half was paid upon Signing the Treaty, the other will be paid in Twelve months, for which, we have the best Security, the Great Mogul who is established at Mahabad in affluence and Grandeur out of Gratuity for the many great services rendered him, has Granted to the East India Company for ever All the Revenues of Bengali Bahar and Orissa, upon certain conditions, The Company's Income, by this, will Exceed Two Millions Sterling p'' Annum clear of all Military and Civil Expenses, Be assured this is not an Imaginary Revenue but is paid monthly by in hand money. If I was to give an account of all our proceedings LORD CUVE AND THK RKV. DR. WILUAM ADAMS, 97 in Bengali ; Volumes wo'^ not Suffice. I shall only observe, that upon my arrival at this Place ; I found it overwhelm'd with Luxury and Corruption, the Company's Affairs totally neglected. There Orders from home sett at Defiance, the spiritts of the Unhappy Natives sunk with the ravages of War and Oppression, in short the revenues of these Provinces have been divided amongst Civil and Military, to the Great Detriment of the company and the Dishonour of the Nation. The length of our passage will make my stay I^onger in India, than I at first Intended, however no Consideration on Karth shall Keep me in Bengali longer than December 1766 and I hope to be in Kngland in April or may 1767 my best wishes attend &c. ClivK. Make my Compliments Acceptable ) " to all my well wishers in Shrewsbury ' Sir John Malcolm, in his life ofClive, quotes a somewhat similar letter ot Clive's to Sir Matthew Feal herstonhaugh, dated Calcutta, 30th September, 1765, with reference to the payment of the ;^6oo,ooo by Sujah-u-Dowlah, and to the corruption existing amongst the Company's servants. And in a letter, bearing the same date, to his friend Walsh, Clive mentions that, " No consideration on earth shall prevail upon me to stay beyond the month of December, 1766 ; and my friends may be assured, if no accident happens to me, of hearing of me from Kurope in April or May, 1767." Whatever may have been Clive's faults, during the time of his authority in India, I feel persuaded — by the tone of the above letter — that he set out to do his duty honestly to the Company and Great Britain. The information sent to a friend, must have been read by many, and it is to be hoped that his action, and that of the company at home, soon caused a cessation of the terrible abuses he so strongly condemns. The Rev. G. R. Gleig, in his ''Life of Robert, First Lord Clive"— 1869 — states: — No wish to benefit himself, no desire to screen or slur over the faults of others, seems to have been present with him throughout. Whatever he did had been done in obedience to that strong sense of duty which, if we 98 I,ORD CLIVE AND THE take it as our sole principle of action in private life, may perhaps stiffen rectitude into severity, but which, to public men, is the only guide that can lead them straiglit to the point which they ought to seek — their country's well-being and their own honour as connected with its advancement." Clive left India at the end of January, 1767, and landed at Portsmouth on the 14th July. " Not only the pilferers and oppressors whom he had removed from the public service in Bengal, but relatives of these men, their friends, and acquaintances, combined to wori: him harm." Broken down in health and disappointed — as he must have been by the unthankfulness of his country — he ended his life, as is well known, on the 22nd November, 1774. Malcolm in his Life of Clive, vol. III., pages 371 and 372, states as follows : — " He suffered from a derangement of the liver, the fatal disease of warm countries, which exposed him to frequent and violent attacks of bile. But above all, he had been subject to excruciating attacks of pain from gall-stones, attended with severe spasms, both before he left India and since his return. To moderate these he had long called in the dangerous aid of opium. In November, 1774, when in Berkley Square, he had a violent return of the complaint. On the the 2ist and 22nd he endured extreme agony, and had recourse, for relief, to powerful doses of laudanum." This corroborates the statement in the letter of Mr. Robert Pardoe, printed in the Tra)isaclio7is, 4th Series, vol. V., pp. 117, iiS. Sir George Forrest, in his " Life of Lord Clive," publislied in 191S, says: — "Body and mind became more affected by the prolonged agony, and in a moment of collapse and excruciating pain, his intellect lost its balance, and Clive died by his own hand on November 22, 1774." According to the Parliamentary Return of Members of Parliament-Blue Book, 187S, — Lord Clive was one of the members for Shrewsbury from 1761 until the time of his death in 1774. Burke's 1914 edition of the Peerage" gives 1760 as the date of his first election, and the " Dictionary of National Biography " infers the same in the following quotations : — REV. DR. WII.UAM ADAMS. 99 "Cliveleft India for the second time on 25 Feb, 1760," and "In the year of his return he was elected member f(3r Shrewsbury, which seat he retained until his death " I think this is an error; because George II. died 25 Oct. 1760, and the Parliament which had been summoned to meet at Westminster on the 31st May 1754 — was dissolved 20th March 1761, and the first Parliament, after the Accession of George III. met at Westminster on the 19th May, 1761. The " Blue Book " states as follows : — Robert Clive, Esqr. of * Date of Return The present town house of the Earl of Powis is 45 Berkeley Square: Rider's "British Merlin," 1824, gives this number, which is, I believe, the same house as that inhabited by Lord Clive in 1761. Malcolm states : — lyord Clive purchased, as his town residence, the lease of the excellent and spacious house, which still belongs to the family, in Berkeley Square." In the above remarks with reference to L,ord Clive, I do not presume to attempt to give any history, but only sufficient information to show the type of man who was connected with ties of personal friendship to Dr. Adams; and also his connection with the town of Shrewsbury. Clive's letter to Adams in a manner concerns all whose ancestors lived in Shrewsbury when Dr. Adams, by his conduct and ability, was loved by all classes in the town. Dr. WILLIAM ADAMS was certainly one of Shrewsbury's greatest sons, unfortunately not very much is uow known of his early life. He was descended from an old Shropshire and Shrewsbury family, and was the eldest son of Ah. John Adams of Shrewsbury, Mayor in 1726 ; who had married at St. Chad's Church, Shrewsbury, 13th June, 1705, Elizabeth, daughter of Berkeley Square, County Middlesex. Robert Lord Clive. 27 March, 1761. 9 March 1768. Robert Lord Clive, Baron Clive of Plassy iu the Kingdom of Ireland. 14 Oct. 1774 lOO LORD CLIVE AND THK Edward Jorden, Esq., of Prior's lyce, County Salop, whose grandson, Edward Jorden, was High Sheriff of the Count)^ in 1720. Mr. Adams, who died 15th July, 1752, was buried in St. Alkmund's Church; as also was his wife, who died nth Jan., 1753, aged 79. The entries of burial are as follows: — '* 1752, July 17. Adams, John Esqr. a senior Alderman and Justice of Peace aged 75 Bur." "i753» Jail- 14th. Adams, Mrs. Elizabeth, widow aged 81 Bur. N.B. She was Relict ,of J. Adams Esquire buried in last July." Owen and Blakeway mention an inscription in the Old Church of St. Alkmuud to "John Adams, alderman, 1752, 77. Elizabeth, his wife, 1753, 79 " ( Vol. //.,/• 296.) Dr. Adams was born at Shrewsbury on the i7tli of August, and baptized at St. Chad's on the 3rd of Septem])er, 1706. He had two brothers and four sisters. His maternal grandmother was Margaret Wightwick, daughter of Anne Wightwick (daughter and co-heir of John Hunt of Shrewsbury), who had married Alexander Wightwick, of Wightwick, (15S7-1658) who was grandson of Humphrey Wightwick, who died in 1594. The above Humphrey was a first cousin of Richard Wightwick, a co-founder of Peml)roke College, Oxford. Dr. Adams was baptized at St. Chad's Shrewsbury sometime in August or September 1706, the date is illegible. Owen and Blakeway give it as 3 September. He maintained his connection with his native county when he married at St. Chad's 12th July, 1742, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Hunt of Boreatton. She died in April, 1785, at Oxford, and was buried at St. Aldate's Church ; by her he had two children : Tlioinas, ])aptized at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, 5th December, 1744, and buried there on 17th of same month : and Sarah, who was born 28tli March, and baptized at the same Church, 29th April, 1746. Slie was a favourite of the great Dr. Johnson, who affectionately called her " Slim." There are several references to her in Boswell's " Life of Johnson," one of particular interest, which expresses that her " good qualities, merit, and accomplishments and her THE REV. WILLIAM ADAMS. REV. DR. WILLIAM ADAMS. lOI constant attention to Johnson were not lost upon him." She married lo July, 1788, Benjamin Hyett, Esq., of Painswick House, Co. Gloucester, and died, childless, in 1804, aged 58. There is some difference of opinion as to the school at which Dr. Adams was educated, whether at Shrewsbury or Abingdon. The Rev. D. Macleane in his " History of Pembroke College, Oxford," implies that Adams was educated at Roysse's Free School, "The School of the Blessed Trinity " at Abingdon. On pages 197 and 200: — " Besides Tesdale and Wightwick Abingdon School has had several generous benefactors. Its many eminent sons witness to the utility of their bounty." Several people are mentioned, then, " It has given seven Masters to Pembroke etc." ; he then gives Dr. Adams as one of them. Again, in connection with the same school, "has had such a close connection with Pembroke College, which it claims as a daughter." The present Head Master of Abingdon School informs me that, " we have no School Register going further back than an isolated list of 1732." The Bursar of Pembroke states that there is no mention of the school at which Adams was educated in the Admission Book of that College. The Rev. J. K. Auden, in his " Shrews- bury School Register page 75, infers that Adams was educated at that school ; and this information was likely obtained from the statements in Fisher's "Annals of Shrewsbury School," page 206, in which " among the distinguished men who were educated at Shrewsbury in Richard Lloyd's time . . . Dr. William Adams, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, Samuel Johnson's friend." In a foot-note to page 207 : — " He is described in the Register of Shrewsbury School, to which he was a benefactor in 1738, as a former sclolar." This raises the question that he may have been at Shrews- bury before he went to Abingdon. Possibly he went to both Schools. Sir Francis Adams Hyett, of Painswick Plouse, Nr. Stroud, Co. Gloucester, possesses a portrait of Dr. Adams, painted by Opie (1761-1807); and also a small oil painting, painted in 102 DORD CUVE AND THE 1784, by James Roberts (fl. 1766-1809), and a profile vignette, made in wax, by Isaac Gosset, a noted modeler (1713-1799). He has kindly provided a photographic reproduction of Opie's portrait as an illustration for this article. A copy of this picture was presented to Pembroke College by Mr. F. B. de Sausmarez about 25 years ago; it hangs in the Hall there. Sir Francis Hyett's great-grandfather was John Adams of Shrewsbury, a brother to Dr. i).dams. Mr. Benjamin Ilyett, of Painswick House, who died in iSio, not having had a child to succeed him, devised his property to William Henry Adams, a son of the John Adams above mentioned, and this gentleman's son, also named William Henry Adams, in 1813 took, by Act of Parliament, the surname and arms of Hyett. At his death in 1877, he was followed by his surviving son, the present owner of Painswick House. Dr. Adams matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, 6th August, 1720, being of the kin of the co-founder. He was admitted on the loth of same month. It is generally stated that he entered the above College at the age of 13. As a matter of fact he was just seven days short of his fourteenth year. He took the degree of B.A.. 5th June, 1724. proceeded M.A., i8th April, 1727, and B.D. & D.D., 12th July, 1756, being a Grand Compounder for the latter. He became a Fellow of the College in 1723, and succeeded his cousin, William Jorden, as tutor in 1731. His name is not on the " batell " books after 7th March, 1734-5. It is evident that Fellows were appointed at a much younger age at that period. The " D.N.B." gives the date 1730 as tiiat when he became tutor ; I think this is not correct. He vacated his Fellowship after Easter 1732, and became minister of St. Chad's Shrewsbury, to which he was admitted 26tli February 1731-2. He then became, in succession. Prebendary of Lichfield in 1747, Canon of LlandafT, 1749, and Precentor in 1750. He was appointed Rector of Holgate, Salop, 1748, of Bedwas, Co. Monmouth, and of Cwm, Flintshire, 1774, and Archdeacon of Llandaff in 1777. The following particulars have been supplied to me by the Bursar of Peiabroke College, Oxford : — REV. DR. WILI^IAM ADAMS. 103 " Guil. Adams admissus est scholaris consanguiiieus e fundatione Richardi Wightwicke in locum Briani Roberts die Aug. io"^° 1720." " Gulielmus Adams admissus fuit socius consanguinsus e fuudatione Richardi Wiglitwicke in locum Briani Roberts 15^ die Maii 1723." " Gulielmus Adams admissns fuit ad gradum Bac: iu Artibus 5*0 die Junii ter^" S.S. Trinit: 1724." In 1755, Mrs. Eliza])eth Cresset, of Cound, Co. Salop, had presented him to the living of Cound, this he retained until his death. Ou the death of Dr. Ratcliflf, 13th July, 1775, " Dr. Adams, though forty three years absent from the College, and though he had outlived almost all his contempories was, on July 26th, elected Master." Chalmers writes that this was done ** as a mark of respect due to his public character." He obtained a Prebend of Gloucester, as this was attached to the Mastership, which he retained until his death. In 1775, when elected Master of Pembroke, he resigned the living of St. Chad's to the lasting regret of hearers, as well as of the inhabitants at large, to whom he had long been endeared by his aimable character, and pious attention to the spiritual welfare of his flock." Chalmers also adds the following interesting information with reference to his ministry and town work: — 'Mie discharged the duties of his ministry with exemplary assiduity, patience and affection, and contributed a very active part in the foundation of the Salop Infirmary and promoting its success," As this was written about 20 years after the death of Dr. Adams, we can conclude that the praise is not exaggerated. Prebendary Auden states in his ^'Shrewsbury'' page 256, that Dr. Adams resided for some years at Rowley's Mansions in Hill's Lane. He was succeeded at St. Chad's, loth November, 1775, by the Rev. Thomas Humphries. Johannes Hay ward Gulielmus Adams admissi fuere ad gradum magistri in artibus 18^ die Aprilis term^' Pascliatis 1727." I,ORD CLIVE AND THE He died in the prebendal house at Gloucester, 13 January, 1789, and is buried in the Cathedral church of which he was a Prebend ai|f. There is a monument on the inside wall of the Cathedral, showing the head of Dr. Adams in relief, and also a long inscription, which I give below. In 1905, when I first collected some notes, I was informed that the stone on the floor over the grave was ^very much worn. The mural sculptural tablet is of considerable size,, and is affixed to the South wall, (South aisle) near the east end. The grave stone, which is immediately in front of above, has the following cut into the stone :— W. ADAMS, D.D. The inscription on the tablet is as follows : — Sacred to the Memory of WILLIAM ADAMS D.D. Master of Pembroke College Oxford. Prebendary of this Cathedral, and Archdeacon of Landaff. Ingenious, I,earned, Eloquent, He ably defended the Truth of Christianity. Pious, Benevolent and Charitable, He Successfully inculcated its sacred Precepts. Pure and undeviating in his own Conduct, He was tender and compassionate to the failings of others. Ever anxious for the welfare and happiness of Mankind. He was on all occasions forward to encourage Works of Public Utility and extensive lieneficence. In the Government of the College over which he presided, His vigilant Attention was uniformly exerted To promote the important objects of the Institution : Whilst the mild Dignity of his Deportment, His Gentleness of Disposition and Urbanity of Manners, Inspired Esteem, Gratitude and Affection. Full of Years and matured in Virtue. He died January 13th 1789. Aged 82. RKV. DR. WILLIAM ADAMS. I05 Dr. Adams has been described as a Whig and low churchman, and Courtney in the " Political Review," 1785, writes : — Candid Adams, by whom David fell, Who ancient miracles sustained so well." He is referring to Adams' principal publication, "Essay on Hume's Rssay on Miracles," 8vo, 1752, which, according to Chalmers, "was long considered as one of the ablest answers that appeared to Mr. Hume's sophistry, and was distinguished for acuteness, elegance, and urbanity of style." Dr. Adams, a man of polite manners and extensive learning, and an able controversial writer, will be long more particularly remembered as the friend of Dr. Johnson, with whom he once studied in this college (Pembroke) and whose last days he frequently cheered by his hospitality." There is no doubt as to the fact that he was a very intimate friend of Johnson, who had great regard for him : and it is curious that men, so far apart in questions of polite manners and such like, should have managed to be together for fairly long periods without any record of disagreements which might have broken the friendship. This speaks much for the kind heart and thoughtfulness of Adams. In June 1784, Johnson and Boswell stayed with the Master at Pembroke College for a iortnight, and again, for a few days, in the ISlovember of the same year: this, however, was the last visit, as Johnson returned to London and was dead before the end of the year. Dr. Adams told Boswell that Johnson was caressed and loved by all about him, was a gay and frolicsome fellow, and passed at Pembroke the hapi)iest part of his life." Boswell relates : — " Dr. Adams, the worthy and respectable master of Pembroke College, has generally had the reputation of being Johnson's tutor. The fact, liowever, is, that in 1731 Mr. Jorden quitted the College and his pu[)ils were transferred to Dr. Adams ; so that, had Johnson returned, Dr. Adams would have been his tutor. It is to be wished that this connexion had taken place. His equal temper, mild disposition, and politeness of manners might have insensibly softened io6 I,ORD CLIVK AND THK the harshness of Johnson. . . Dr. Adams paid Johnson this high compliment. He said to me at Oxford in 1776, I was his nominal tutor ; but he was above my mark. When I repeated it to Johnson his e3''es flashed with grateful satisfaction, and he exclaimed, ' That was liberal and noble.' Adams' compliment certainly appears to imply that Johnson was actually under his tuition." Johnson's name ceased to be on the books after Oct. 1731, and between 1730 and that date he only resided for short periods; so that it is hardly possible that he was. It is much to be regretted that Dr. Adams, evidently a man of great genius and warm sympathy, did not leave to posterity some written work, of a spiritual nature, suitable to all times and for all men. His only writings, other than the Essay, mentioned above, are the following, which seem to have given rise to some controversy. Chalmers sums up his remarks when mentioning these, in the following words : — " Dr. iVdams's first publications were three occasional sermons, printed, 1741, 1742, 1749 and, "His sermon entitled 'On true and false Doctrine' which appeared in a volume with other occasional sermons and involved him in controversy." It was delivered at St. Chad's Sep. 4, 1769, and challenged some of the principles of Methodism. "The dispute turned principally on the degree of Calvinism to be found in the Articles, &c., of the Church of England." (Authorities The Life of Robert, Lord Clive." Collected from the Family Papers Communicated by The Earl of Powis. By Major General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B. F.R.S. &c. 3 Vols. 1836; Gleig's " Eife of Eord Clive"; Blakeway's " Sheriffs of Shropshire" ; " Owen and Blakeway's History of Shrewsbury " ; " Salopian Shreds and Patches," vol. 3, 1878-9 ; Gregory's "Shropshire Gazetteer," 1824; "The Gentleman's Magazine," 1752 and March 1789, etc.; "Oxford Honours," 1220-1894, Clarendon Press; "Dictionary of National Bio- graphy " ; Boswell's " Life of Johnson " ; Macleane's " History of Pembroke College, Oxford," 1897, Oxford Historical h REV. DR. WILLIAM ADAMS. IO7 Society; Burke's " I^anded Gentry," 1914; Private notes of the Adams' family made by Sir Francis Adams Hyett ; " Catalogue of Graduates," Oxford University 1659-1850 ; "Alumni Oxonienses," J. Foster, 188S ; **The General Biographical Dictionary," A. Chalmers, 1812; "A History of the Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings attached to the University of Oxford," Alex. Chalmers, 1810; Information suj)plicd by the Master and Bursar of Pembroke College ; the Head Master of Abingdon School ; and other sources.) Pkdigkkks of the Family of Adams of Shrewsbury. The Transactions for 1913, 4tli Series, vol. III., pages 24 and 25, contain a pedigree of the above family. In the l^odleian Library, at Oxford, there is a pedigree in Blakeway MvSvS., vol. 5, ff. 10 and 11. In this, however, I think that there are errors of dates, etc. In the pedigree of Wightwick, in the History of Pembroke College, there is an entry of a few of the family. io8 GRANT BY JOHN DE HASTINGS TO ROBERT BURNEIvE, BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS, OF THE MANORS OF CONDOVER AND WOLVER- HAMPTON, IN EXCHANGE FOR THE MANOR OF WOTTON NEAR NORTHAMPTON. 1283. Know all men present and to come that I John de Hastings have given granted and by this my present charter have confirmed to the lord Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells, my manors of Cundover and Wolverhamdon with all their appurtenances as well in demesne as in the services of free men, villeins with their villeinage and chattels, in exchange for the manor of Wotton near Northampton with the advowson of the church of the same manor : which manor with the advowson of the church aforesaid the said lord Robert Burnell gave to me in exchange aforesaid freely quietly entirely and hereditarily for ever : rendering to the chief lords of the fee the services therefore due and accustomed. And I the said John and my heirs will for ever warrant the saitl manors of Cundover and Wolverhamton with all their appurtenances to the said lord Robert and his heirs and assigns whomsoever against all people. And if it shall happen that I John and my heirs shall not warrant or shall be unable to warrant the said manors of Cundover and Wolverhampton with their appurten- ances to the said lord Robert and his heirs and assigns whomsoever, then I will and grant for me my heirs and assigns that the said manor of Wottone with the advowson of the church of the same manor, with all their appurtenances, shall fully and entirely revert to the said lord Robert his heirs and assigns without contradiction of me or my heirs. So that this my gift grant and confirmation of my present charter may for ever remain firm and stable, I have to this present Charter set ray seal &c. These being witnesses : Sir William de Stepelton, Adam de Lacie, Robert de Stepelton, John du Lee, Knights; William Burnell, Richard Burnell, F^ngelard de Polileye, Randulph de Harcott, and many others. [Translated from a Latin copy of the charter, preserved amongst the Condover muniments. It is referred to by Eyton (vi. 17), who states erroneously that this Deed " exists only in an abridged form."] — W.G.D.F. 109 EXTRA.CTS FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK IN THE LIBRARY AT SWEENEY HALL. Transcribed by Rachel Lkighton. This MS. Book was bought by Mr. Stanley Leighton in 1872, at the Sale of Henry Pidgeon's Library. It is a 410 volume bound in parchment, the paper is of the time of James I. It is entitled " Old Book of Remarkable Occurrences of Bailiffs, Mayors and Sheriffs, of ye Towne and County of Salop." In his Report on the Sweeney MSS. made for the Historical Manuscripts Commission by .Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte in 1885 some extracts are given and the contents described as : — F. I. Copy of the confirmation by Henry VI. ot the agreement between the Bailiffs and the Community of Shrewsbury, with the oatlis of the different officers of the Corporation. F. 21. "The names of the Villages within the franches of Shrewsburie." F. 23. " A noate of those that have been Baylifes of the towne of Shrewsburie, beginning in the 46th year of King Edward the third," with historical notes in the margin. The present transcript begins at f 21. In the MS. the information is arranged in four columns, as indicated by the " Noate " on f. 23. In order to save space, the years in which no "remarkable occurrence" is noted have been omitted. The Report is printed, with some of these Extracts in Shropshire Notes and Queries, Vol. II., p. 177 (for November 5th 1886). The Book appears to have been compiled al>out 1619 from earlier sources, the handwriting is clear and careful, with the exception of the notes in the years 1429, 1589, 1599, which are inserted by a different hand. From 1675 onwards the entries are made by two persons, successively, who note the events of their own day. no EXTRACTS FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK The lyist of Mayors. Slieriflfs and Under Sheriffs is carried on up to 1790, but from 1726 the List is presumably in the handwriting of Mr. Pidgeon. There are twenty-four blank pages at the end of the Book. These extracts are now printed by permission of Major Parker Leighton. THE NAMES OF THE VILIvAGES WtIN THE FRANCHES OF SHREWESBURIE. Stone warde Olde Lyberties. Sutton Nobouldej Edgboulde Newton \ Pulley vetus libbi and meele Brace f Pulley Forren ] Eongnor supersabrinam Stone warde Newe Eyberties. Betton Strange 1 Alkmcre \ Eittle Hanwoode [ Woodhall and Whelbetche f Whitley ) Woodhouse ) hamletes So there is the stone warde xiiij villages. Welshe Warde Olde Eyberties. Munke Moore, Gooshill, Shelton and Oxon. Welshe Warde Newe Eyberties. Woodkott \ Preston Monford \ dyntle and I Rosshall superior t great han wood J Rosshall subterior) So there is in the Warde xiij villages. Castle warde Oulde Eyberties. Hencotte and Darvalle. Castle warde newe Eyberties. Onslowe Horton & Bicton Alman Parke w^ Berwicke Berwike Eeborne Newton w*^^ abouthe ye leathe Eeaton and Wollaskot Mereden and Harlskot Pymley Ashley Haston Shotton Alderton Clive Sonsowe Smethcott Albright Hussey ^ Broughlon w* yortoii Acton Reynold and Grinsell Hadnole & P>es Abritkley Preston gubbalds So there is in the Castle warde xxvij^' villages. Totall in the iij Wardes liiij villages. IN THE I^IBRARY AT SWKKNKY HAIX. Ill A noate of those that have been Bailifs of the towne of Shrewsbury begiiiiiinge in the 46th yere of Kinge Kdward the third Noted with the yere of our I,ord God, and the first daie of the raigne of the kinges of this realme of Englande. Note yet the beginneth the 25th Marche. [Only the names of those Bailiffs in whose year of office remarkable occurrences are recorded, are transcribed.] Anno Domini raigne 1372. Thomas Birington. Roger Attiate. 46 1378. William de Birrington. James le Dier. This yere it was granted that every person aboue 14 yeres ould should paie 4d. to main the warse. 1381. Thomas le Skinner. Richard Russell. Wat Tylor and Jack Straw rebels. 1385- William de Birrington. Ileughe Wigor. King Richard entered Scotland and burned divers townes and viliges. 1398. Robart Thornes. Wm. de Birrington. This yere K. Rich, ye 2 set ye realme to farnie to ye yearle of Wilshire and iij knightes but the same yere he was deposed. 1399. Thomas Pounceby. Richard Aldrskott. Tliis yere k. Rich, ye 2 was put to death at Porafret Castle by Sir Pearce Kxton Knight. 1400. Jacobe le Dier. Thomas Porter. *This yere battle feelde where Sir Wm. Percy was slaine and Sir Henry Percy was hedded in Shrewesbury. 1403. Symon le Tawre. William Froster. The Kinge was crowned. 1405. William Tower Wm. Birrington died ) John Pearle junior ) This yere was an Earle hanged for murtheringe the Duke of Glosester. 1406. John Pearle jun. John Skriven. The arche-bishop of Yorke beheded for treason. 1429. Roger Corbet. Richard Hoorde. This yere the King conquerred France. * Wrong year. Battle of Shrewsbury was fought in 1403. 1 112 EXTRACTS FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK 1432. Robert Whitcome. Thomas Thornes. This yere Kinge Henry ye 6th crowned Kiuge of France. 1434. Thomas Forster. Willm. Burley. This [yere] poles-steple was sett on fire wt lightninge and also from St. Katerns day till St. Valeutyne's day yer was a frost men might wt carts passe over temes from place to place. 1444. Wm. Burleighe. Ric. Sturry. The King gave to this towne a newe composition, chosen ye baylifes the Fryday next after Michalmas date. 1450. Robt. Skriven. Thomas Lloid. Blakeheath Feelde. 1455. Roger Ryton. John Trentam. Tliis yere Qr. M'gett gave bages, and my Lord of vSlirowsbnry and Jno. Trentam varyed and had either of them a man slayne, 1457. Nic. Fiharben. Roger Addis. Blower heath Feelde. 1458. Robt. Skreven. Nic. Stafford. Northampton Feelde. 1459. John Trentam. Thomas Birrington. Fame Sonday Feelde. 1461. Thomas Wynne. Thomas Stone. This yere Q. slewe ye duke of Norfolke and herle of Warwike at St. Alban's, and Shee delyvered the K. out of Prison. 1464. Rich. Sturry. Thomas Mytton. This yere the Kinge was secretly murthered, and his Sonne taken prsoner. 1468. Thomas Mytton. Thomas Goldsmithe. This yere the yerle of warwike made the k. flie ye realme, & k. henry ye 6 proclaimed. 1469. Willm. Oteley. Thomas Pontesbury. Barnet Feelde. 1472. Tho. Mytton. John Trentam. this yere the Duke of Yorke was borne at the ''^gray fryers in Salop. * The Black Friars is named as his birthplace in other chronicles. IN THE LIBRARY AT SWEENKY HALL. II3 1474. Willra. Otley. Roger Horton. This yexe the k. went to France. 1475. John Cole. Robert ap. Egnion. this yere the Lord Mayor *' Ry vers "] and ye L. Ric. went to Oswestree. 1487. Ric. Wantnor. John Otley. the Diike of Buckingham beheded. 1488. Tho. Mytton. Roger Knight. This yere K. H. ye 7th came to Salop. 1490. John Gittyiis. Robt. Thorues. This yere Kinge Henry ye 8 was borne at greenevviche. 1491. Tlio. Trentani. Florence Somper. This yere K. Henry the 7 went to bullan. 1494. John Giltins senior. Lawrence Hosier. This yere K. H. 7th with the queene and prince Arthor came to Salop and the same yere the esche(|uir was built. 1495. Nic. Waringe. Houghe Walker. this yere David Lloid and Heugh Porter were behedded. 1496. Tho. Mytton. lulward Hosier. This yere was ye battle of ye b. heathe. This yere prince Ar. died at Ludlowe. 1501. Tho. Knight. Edward Hosyer. This yere the pullinge out of the bage for Election of Officers. 1502. Willm. Cole. Rich. Dicher. This yere Q. Eliz. died. 1516. Tho. Trentani jun. Tho. Hosier. this yere was ill may daiein london. 1518. Rich. Mitton. Rich. Purcell. Towney was delivdred to ye Frenche K. and a peace was concluded. 1520. Randle Biston. Edward Bent. This yere Griffith Mitchell was drawne throughe Shrewbury and hanged etc. 1524. David Ireland, Randle Biston. This yere wheat at vjd and Rie at iiijd the bushell. 114 EXTRACTS FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK 1525. Roger Thomas. Tho. Hosier. this [yere] the sickness in Salop, and money and gold was altered. 1526. Robt. Dudley. Edward Bent. this yere was gret darth men died iu divers places for want of bred. 1529. Thos. Hosier. Randle Beston. this yere was ihe parlenient pristes that they should have but one benefice. 1532. Tho. Birrington. Nic' Pursell. this yere the K. went to calis, and maryed q. Anne, and this yere ye Pope was deposed. 1535. John Thornes. David ap O ven. this yere ({. Ann was put 10 death with divers others, and ye Duke of Somerset & the Duke of Noriolk was in Salop. 1536. Roger lyawes alles Pope. Nic. Purcell. this yere the north Rist. 1537. Edmond Cole. Addam Mitton. this yere K. E. ye 6tli was borne, and q. Jane — his mother died, and bishopp Lattinier was deposed. 1538. Tho. Birrington. Tho. Irelande. this yere the L- of Exeter beheaded. 1541. Addam Mitton. Edward Hosyer. this yere q. Katerin was behedded. 1543. Tho. Ireland. Roger Enter. this yere BuUen was gotten, and angelles fell to viijs. 1545. Tho. Montgomery. Richard Dawes, this yere the stone gate fell. 1546. Addam Mytton. Roger Pope alles Eawes. this yere was Musklebowe Felde. 1547. Edward Hosyer. Wm. Whitekers. this yere was the insurrection in ye uorthe. 1548. Tho. Birrington. John Mackworthe. this yere bullen was sould by ye L. pagett. 1550. Nic. Parcell. Tho. Ireland, this yere Swetinge sickness. 1551. Roger Euter. Ric. Whittekers. IN THE LIBRARY AT SWEENEY HALI,. 1 15 this yere i2d. fell to gd, & gd to 6d. T552. Addam, Mitton, knight. Roger Lawes alles Pope. *Mr. Aston's first play. 1553. Richard Mytton. Roger Dawes ["Lewes alles Pope" erased.] this yere the L. Tho. Grey was taken in Oswestree by Rich. Mitton then Raylife of Shrewsbury & sherif of ye sheere. 1557. Rich. Mytton. John Mackworth. this yere Callis was lost. 1561. Ric. Mitton. Ric. Dawes. 4 June Panics steeple was burned (was set on fier by liglitinge) wch. began in ye top of ye steple & burnt d own e ward es & so consumed ye steple and 4 great ruffes iu less the. 4 howers. 1562. Rog"^ Luter. Ric. Owen, mercer, this yere Newe haven was. 1563. Humphrey Onslowe. George Higgons. this yere Mr. Aston's second play. 1566. Robt. Allen. Robt. Irland. this yere the riall exchange began to bee built by Sir Tho. Gressam knight. 1568. George Leighe. Ric. Owen. this yere was a yerthquake in Salop, and this yere was Mr. Aston's third play. 1570. ITumfrey Onslow. Henghe Baynes. this yere w is Dotor Story was (sic) hanged drawn and quartered. 1571. Wm. Peerce. Tho. Burnell. this yere the Duke of Norfoke beheded. 1572. Tho. Sherer. Willm. a lyowe. this yere 2 June ye duke of Norfolke beheaded at tower hill. 1573. Ric. Owen senior. Richard Powell. this yere a poulter's weif was brought to bedd of 4 children. * Head Master of Shrewsbury School. Il6 EXTRACTS FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK 1575. Di^vid Lloid. John Ockley. this yeie the plague in Salop, and there was a great crosse in ye Clement, and ye fayer was kept in Kingesland. 1577. Tho. Sherer. Tho. Chorlton. this yere the haule adjoyninge to ye checker was reedifyed and builded. 1580. Willm. Jones. Willm. Heringe. Sir Henry Sidney I^. President kept St. George's feast in this towne because he was a knighte of the garter. 1581. Tho. Sherer. Tho. Lewes. this yere captaine Mackworth slayn in Ireland, and ther was 76 burgeses taken into the towne. 1585. Rich. Owen. Rich. Dawes. This yere the queeue gave the abbey forriate to be of ye librties of Shrewsbury. 1589. Tho. Lewes. John Davis. This yere too semen were hanged for Cilange a man for cutinge dowe ther tree. 1592. Robt. Ireland. Michall Chanibre. This yere Sir Tho. white money sett. 1593. Kdward Owen. Humfrey Houghes. This yere was p'chased xx^^ marks a yeie to mayntayne a p'cher. 1595. Wm. James. Tho. Chorlton. This yere was ye towne m'get erected, ye first stone of ye foundation began and laid ye 15' June and ye woorke so furthered by ye diligence of the Bailife yt. ye same house was covered and were fynished before thend of there ofiSce. 1596. John Webb. Nic. Gibbons. This yere wheat was soulde for xviii s, and Rie for 17s. a bushall. 1599. Tho. Edwards. Edward Owen. Mr. Edwards Refused to were scarlet at Crisraas and the accostomed feste. IN THE LIBRARY AT SWRENKY HALL. 117 1604. Richard Cliirwill, died. Edward Downe. Tho. I^ewes, died. Robt. Betton. this yere the plague was in Shrewsbury. this yere Addam Bradshowes wieflfe was brouglit to bedd of iiij children, to witt iii boyes & one girle. 1605. Rowland I^angley. Robt. Steephens. this yere ye K. of Denmarke came to Englande. 1606. Willm. Wilkes. Arthur Kinasou. this yere coton hill was burnt. 1610, Tho. Jones. Henghe Harris. This yere Bishop of Coventree & Lichfield was in Shrewsbury, and p'ched in St. Chad's, and did co'firiiie many. 1613. Richard Betton. Richard Hunt. Thomas Gardner. The Exchequer robbed. 1616. John Nicolls. Richard Wynne. This yere the Lottarie was in Shrewsbury. 1621. Roger Pope. Howell Vaughan. iu St. Alkmonds was five bells made of three. 1630. George Hunt. Symon Weston. this yere the plage was in Shrewsbury. 1634. Charles Benyon. Thomas Hayes. This yeare was a great sno, and man}'' were Lost in it. 1637. Richard Lcwellin. John Whitwick. These were the 2 last BaylifFs of the Towne of Shrewsbury. This yeare the government was altered from Bayliffs and Burgesses to Mayor, Aldermen and Common Councell men. [Here follows a List of Aldermen and Common Councellors. These are printed in Owen and Blakeway's History, I. 407-409. But the MS. notes that Thomas Jones, Robert Betton, Hugh Harris, and Richard Hunt, "being eldest Aldermen are Justices for their lives, likewise the quond'maior."] The names of all the Mayors of the Towne of Shrewsbury Begining in the fowerteenth yeare of the Raigne of King Charles the First. Anno Dom. 1638. Thomas Jones, Esq. ist. Mare. Il8 EXTRACTS FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK 1641. Richard Gibbons. this yeaie tlie Rebells in Ireland rose ag* the King English and great hurt with tyrannous blood sheding was then donne. 1642. John Studley, draper. the King, Prince, and the duke of York came to Salop the ig^^ of Septb, and marched from thence the 12*^1 of Octob. with a great Army and went toEdgehill Battell. 1644. Charles Benyon. November the 20*^ the Parliament voted the Common Prayer booke downe, Shrewsbury was betrayed to the Parliament forces the 22"^^ of February which in memory they kept a holy day untill the returne of King Charles the second. 1645. Thomas Nicholls, Esqr. this yeare Excise was first paid in Shrewsbury. 1648. Owen George, mercer. King Charles the first was sentenced to death by Bradshaw that bloody Traytor and murthered by his owne Subjects at Whitehall January the 30*^* . 1649. Thomas Hayes, draper. This yeare the plague begun & ended in June 1651. 1650. John Proud, draper. ye Welsh market altered out of the Towne hall and now in ye Woole hall. 1651. Charles Benion. This yeare the King came to Worcester with a great Army, And beeing worsted by Cromwell, was preserved in the Royall Cake, And from thence conveyed by Mrs. Jane T^ane beyond sea. 1655. Adam Webb, draper. in his time maior Smallman of Wildertop was putt in the stocks for sweareinge, and 2 parcells of Welsh Testaments was sent to him from Doctor Gouge to bee given freely into Wales, but liee solde ym. to Esaw Watkiss a Bookseller and he to Jon. Hughes of Wrexam, and they made great proflitt of them, butt they all 3 waxed extreanily poore and Mr. Web died a prisoner. IN THE LIBRARY AT SWEKNRY HALL- 119 1659, John Walthall. This yeare King Charles the seconde of worthy memory reteurned into England from his longe Banishment from Breda and arrived to Dover, and soe to London. 1661. Richard Bagot. This yeare the King and Parliament passed an Act for the Regulacion of Corporations and ai)pointed Cora'^^ for that purpose, which Com'^^ sat in the Castle at Shrewsbury the viijth day of Auguste, where they commanded Richard Bagot, Mayor of tliis Towne to appeare and there dischardged him of his oflice. And placed Robert Forster sen. to serve out that yeare instead of the said Richard Bagott and likewise displaced all other officers, and made Tymothy l urner Esq , one of the Justices of the Marches of Wales Recorder, & Thomas Baldwyn Esq. Steward, and likewise Adam Ottley Esq. Towne Clarke, Mr. Robert Forster jun. Mr. George Hosier, Chamberlaines, Mr. Arthur Hincks and Mr. Thomas Harris, Coroners, and these persons following Aldermen and Comon Coiincell: The Names of the Aldermen. Sr. Richard Prynce knt, Timothy Turnor Esq. Richard Wareing gent. Robert Betton gent. John Harding gent. Samuell Loyd gent. Richard Taylor gent. Thomas Cotton gent. Gabriell Wood gent. Roger Griffiths gent. Daniel Jevon gent. Thomas Myrick gent. Rowland Middleton gent. Robert Forster sen. gent, Andrew Vivers gent. Thomas Rock Esq. Phillip Prynce Itsqr. Jonathan Eangley Esqr. Ed. Kynnaston Esqr. Francis Burton P>qr. Tlio. Bawdew3'n lisqr. Saui. Wiugfield Esq. Francis Newton gent. The Names of the Councillors. John Gardner Hugli Phuigen I20 EXTRACTS FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK Joseph Baynes Tho. Bowdler Daniel Brigdale Stephen Davies Richard Wright Collins Wolrych William Hill James Vanghan Rowland Pritchard William Owen Richard Bromptou Rowland Jencks John Seavorne Thomas Loyd William i Thyun James Betton Rowland Tench Thomas Langley George Hosier Thomas Tipton Rohert Forster John Harwofxl lulward Phillips Abraham Gik-s Thomas Hayes George Lewellin Thomas Barnston William I^oyd William Pearse Rowland Collins Richard JL/Oyd Thomas Baker Arthur Hincks Jacol) Bathoe Richard Bowdler Richard Cocks John Shelvocke Thomas Jackson Edward Griffiths John Gawen Rich. Griffiths William Watkis Kd. Bayton Thomas Ryton The Names of the Mayors since the Regulation 1661. Robt. Forster. this yeare and Ancient man went up the outside of St. Mary's Steeple and tooke downe foure yards of the same steeple, and built it up again. 1662. Sir Rich. Prynce, Kut. This yeare came the Bishop of Coventry and Liclifeild to Shrewsbury, who did re-establish the Bookc of common prayer and allsoe did confirme many in St. Chad's Church & there did preacli. 1663. Jonathan Langley Ksq. this yeare the Castle was given to the King, also never requested itt of the towne. 1665. Francis Burton, Esq. This yeare happened a great plague in Eondon whereof there died of all Diseases in one Week, 8,297. IN THE UBRARY AT SWRKNEY HALI,. 121 1672. Dan. Jeven, draper. , This yeare was such a vast flood in Shrewsbury that it threw down the Welsh Gate and did other great spoyles besides. ^ 1674. Will. Thynne, lawyer. I ye great flood yt overthrew ye Tower on ye Welsh i Brido^e and ye Arch under itt. 1675- John Sevorne, gent. in his time the drawe bridges were taken away, and ye places layd and paved. 1679. Arthur Hincks, attorney. ' ye very last daie of his maiordoni, hee unpaved ye !: high streete to make worke lor his successor. I 1681. Geo. Llewellin, draper. I this maior most Court dayes borowed The. Cooper ye ' miller of Rowsell mill his horse to ride up to Ride up ^ to [ ] Courtt on Tuesdayes. i; 1683. Collins Woolrich, apothicary. This Mr. Woolrich did render up ye charter to K. [ James unasked for, and it cost ye towne 200 li. to gett = a new charter. This yeare Lord Russell and Coll. Sydney were be- headed for conspireing against ye King & Duke of I Yorke. I 1684. John Wood, atorney. He died in his mayordome and Robertt Wood apothicary suplied about 6 weekes. 1686. Tho. Baldwin, gent. in Mr. Baldwin's time there was a grait Terror yt. ye Irish Brigade were comeing with fire and sword to ] Burne and kill all, wch. did soe afrighte him yt. he out run his horse in the towne and all in ye night. ^ Duke Monmouth Beheaded. [The following is closely written on a separate : sheet, pasted into the Book.] In Mr. Baldwin's time King James came his progress to Holywell in vSept. and on the Wilde-cop, Mr. Mayor presented him with ye keyes of the gates and a purse 122 KXTRACTS PROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK of gold, hee Rec'd them and did give the keyes to Seriaut Willm. Bowers who was one of the ye mayors seriantts then, and hee kept them till the comeing in [ofj the Prince of Orange and then delivered them in the chequer. When King James was at super in the great Chamber in the Counsell house, hee caused the Chamber to be propt up for feare of ffaljing : and hee had 3 dishes of flesh, 3 of fowle and 3 of sweetmeats, 9 in all to super: and no more. Mr. Patrick Lamb his head-cooke brought them all 9 to "the Table and did [^/r] presentt them on his knee, hee Brought all his household goods with him and his owne Beere and Wine and Bed, etc. On the morow, being Friday, all the fish that could bee had was brought up and presented and in order for his dinner and the maior and alldermen being 12, and assistants 24, came to attend him : but he stayed not to dine, nor to see them : butt gott down a private back staires and for hast got upon the wrong side the horse, and to Whitchurch yt. night : this I had from one yt. saw him take horse. in the morning the prisbyterian preachers, John Brian, Francis Tallents preachers att Olivers Chapell in the high Streete, and Mr. Rowland Huntt, Doctor Jackson, Doctor of physick, Daniell Jenks, Ironmonger, Joseph Pearson CutU:)r, presented him with a purse of Gold suposed to bee 100 li. and were freely accepted, butt still lying ye obligation on them to chose such members for next parliament as should bee for takeing of ye penall lawes and Test : and to yt. end he left beliinde him William Pen, chiefe and head of the quakers who began to speak at Mardole head : butt ye Rabble suposing what he could be att, the mob gave a shoutt and over Bawled him, so hee desisted and gott his way, the mob knocking the Bulks as he pased. This St. Oliver's Chapell in ye Streete ye prisby- terian meeting house was soe called by reason, one Thomas Olivers a Turner lived in ye house and his IN THK I^IBRARY AT SWEKNKY HALI.. 123 Garden where his Timber stood was Builded the chapell wch was ye first yt. was Baptized there. When King James came intoTowne a man climed up and gott to stand on the top stone of St. Mary's steeple and held by ye cross Barr with a fiagg in his hand all the while the K. was Touching for the King's Evil in ye Church under him, and when the King came out of ye Church ye man on the steeple shot ofif a pistol! wch. made K. James ask what meant that : and it was answered him yt. it was for joy of his person : the King said it was a presumtious thing to doe itt ! Butt I never could learned the man ever got a farthing for his paines. Upon ye high conduitt on ye top of the conduitt in an alabaster stone about 2 feet square was ye King's Arms ingraveu and stood facing ye Castle on ye side ol conduitt next ye high cross, wch. alabaster stone with ye King's arms on itt, ye very same day and at ye same time yt. King James went by to go up to ye Councill House where hee lodged : the stone fell downe and all Broke mid dashed in peeces, for yt. stone was much whiter and higher than ye rest, for yt. it was alabaster and all ye rest was Grinshill free stone. 1687. Richard Salter, draper. in his time Mass was in a house of Mr. Jevons, wch. is betwixt the high cross and ye high Conduitt, sang openl)'^ and one Judge Alibond who satt then as judge of nisi prius, went of the Bench to mass in that liouse ; K. James 2nds time. 1688. Richard Mucklestone, taner. Mayor by K. James mandamus butt he continued butt some six wcokes. John Hill, Beerebrewer. in his time came in Wm. Prince of Orange and sent to sumons this towne b}^ Mr. Moore of Linly, Esq., wch. was presenly granted, and yt. lyOrd Herbert of Chirbury and Sir Jon. Morgan tooke possession. Collins Wood ridge, Deputy Mayor. 124 KXTRACTS FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK 1689. Jona. Scott, brewer. now Mardol conduitt was taken downe and a wood one sett up in its stead, ye stones was caried to help to repaire Cotton Hill Wall. King James 2nd abdicated. 1690. Jona. Scott, Brewer. While King James 2nd a Regulation was made butt of 12 aldermen & 24 assistants, and a new mare made yt. was [the following eleven words are erased — *' Richard Muckleston, taner, he wasmaior a month or 6 weekes."] King William 3d. and Queen Maryproclmd February 13th, 1689. 1691. Samll. Thomas, mercer. the French proclaimed war against England. 1692. Charles Kynaston, gent. in his time the Jaroye Schole was made a counter for prisoners to bee kept in, and each serj. paid 5 pound a peece for ye keeping of it yearly for 3 years : the first keeper was Richd. Clievlis [?] in halis. 1693. John Holiar, mercer. partt of Rowsell lower wall repaired. 1694. Arthur Tonge, Atorny. about this time died one John Jones and Jone his wife, the one 100 and 2 yeeres old, ye other 100 butt 2 yeares, for betwixt ym. Both 200 yeares old, they lived about the middle of the High Street and Lye. Buried in St. Chad's Churchyard. 1695. Samll. Atherton, draper. all the aldermen and assistants paid 2s. 6d. ordinary of their owne charge : on the making this new maire : the poor members hee pd. for wch. saved ye towne 32. 06. 00. as was pd. ye yeare before, also after hee had paid above 200 and odd pounds of the towne's debt, hee brought into ye hall 100 & 20 pounds more in aBagg: the like was never seen before. This Mr. Atherton rl ined his sword bearer the 3 seriants and their under officers and cryer of } e Court every day during his mairalty, hee did iustice to Poore ' and Rich. IN THK I^IBRARY AT SWEENKY HALT.. 12$ in Feb. was buried Queen Mary, a very sumpttous Funerall. 1696. Simon Hanmer, grocer. at the usuall Maior's Feast hee feasted both aldermen & councellors att his owue charge. towards the later end of Feb. was-, discovered a great plott to kill ye king, etc., and about ye middle of Aprill died one Chernock : kings and keyes and about 9 dayes after died vSir William Perkins and Sir John Friend : for acting in yt. plott to assianate K. William 3rd. About the middle of Aprill the asosiation was sett on foott and was signed by all, the maior ye Eecorder the Aldermen and Counsell and above 600 liandes of ye best of the towne except some lew [" which was Richd. Lloyd head schoole master then and Mr. Talbott parson of St. Julians, Squire Humph. Sandford of the Yle, and 2 or 3 more." These names are erased, and a note in the margin says they joyned in the asosiation after.] about the latter end of Aprill was executed Brigadeer Rookwood Maior I.owick, who died a proteslant. A Rejoiceing day was held for ye discovery of ye plott. A great Bonfire with aluminations, great store of wine, Beere. Tobaco att ye Towne Hall : and an efegie of the French King made in sumptions manor : and caried along ye streets and Burnt at the High crose in most splendid manor, etc. May 4th, 96 : all Base and dipt moneyes called in. 17th ye Tax of Coles taken of to ye great joy of ye Broseley colliers. Best merchants cloathing woole sold at 30"- per stone this yeare. this yeare ye Lord Newport now Earle of Bradford begun and Builded a new Brick house in Dogpole, and ye old Timber house yt. stood there before was sett up on ye Right hand as you go into the Castle facing ye schoole house wall. 126 EXTRACTS FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK Aug. 7th, yt. day at a meeting of ye house it was agreed that Mr. Barkly ye present Recorder should 20 li. per ann. as his reward for his servis as Recorder till further order. Also yt. advice should be taken this Asises whether ye new erected Keyes or Wharfes bee not in ye power of ye towne to pull downe. and if there should bee any suitt comenced agst. ye parties yt. does itt : tlje the towne is to defray ye charge. 1696. John Kynaston, esq. Att his election it was voted that ye presentt Recorder Ed. Barklye whose salary formerly was 4 li. per ann. was now agreed to bee 20 li. per ann till further order. Friday, October 2nd this mayor was sworue and there was only 100 and ninet}^ pounds yt. the towne then owed wch. was oweing to St. Chadds parish poore. Saturday, Oct. 3rd was at ye Old Heath brought one Richard Jonson to be hanged : & though sentenced i6th day of Aug. at ye asises last past : and in order thereto made a long confession on the ladder, and also beggd. ye under sheriff Mr. Joe Edwards of Brid-enorth yt. he may not be stript for that hee had ye pox, butt to bee lay'd in his coffin in his cloathes : and so hee easily turned himselfe of the ladder, where hee hanged about half an hower, ye spectators marvailing he was not dead in all yt. time for they observed him still to heave up his shoulders, which caused one, Jo. Blankley, to run up ye ladder, and open his shirtt on his Bosom : where they found hee had 2 shirtts on and under ym. att his throat an Iron hook wch, had att each end an hook, the upper hook much broader than the lower, wth. a coard comeing to his navell and about his tliighes and about his middle and over his shoulders and under his twisst with a towel wrapt close about it yt. it may nott hurtt him when hee hanged, the coards was tyed over the under shirtt and another haland shirtt was over them all : and his perewigg on, that IN THE IJBRARY AT SWEENEY HALL. 1 27 no one could discern the least of them ; and a crick or slifter 3 quarterrs of a yard long in ye coffin to take his breath out of ; and he always beggd. the sheriff hee may be put in his coffin in his cloathes and not to be stript, for he said he had ye pox, and therefore beg'd. hee should not be stript. Butt ye hook, etc. being- discovered itt was openly shewed to all ye people and ye coard of 8 yards long and ye towels, etc., and after he was stript his two shirts downe to his waste and hanged downe righte, without confessing a word or declaring where he was born or anything else. A roll of wond [rest cut off] [continued in the margin] about 12 o'clock at nighte hee, in his coffin was pult into ye Jaylor's porch, wch. cost ye under sheriff ijs. to bring him to ye galowes, where hee was putt in a hole, and his coffin Broke, and his Coffin broke and hee lay above ground severall dayes for ye world to see it was hee yt. was yn. executed. 1696. About this tiuie died one Martha Farmer, a single woman who left a peece of ground, it lyes on ye left hand as you go to ye old heath adjoining to a peece of Mr. Jonsons, dyer, ye Rentt of it being 7 li. per ann., to go yearly in course to ye poore of these four parishes, first St, Chadds in Salop, to Monford, to Guillsfield, to Kinerley and then to begin at St. Chadds again, and so continue forever : it was pur- chased of Mr. Rowland Huntt of Boraeton by her Brother George Farmer, taylor, hee died a Batchelor and ever since its called ye Taylor's peece. This Mayor dined all the Aldermen and Councillors noblely with divers gentlemen att his owne charge. Att this mayor s swearing it was ordered yt. every seriantt should gather ye towne rentts within his Wards.. This mayor was one of ye members of parlmt. foi this towne as well as mayor for yt., hee was chiefe Burgese for Parliament before he was elected mayor and served as member at all yt. session of Parliament 128 EXTRACTS FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK and ye senior aldermen served every one his month as mayor till his returne. On Thursday, Jan. 28th, was beheaded att Towerhill Sir John Fenick for plotting against K. William etc. This Christmas came not in ye 20^ of Mr. Owen's of Cunders money from Mr. Cookes of Wanton's estate to be distributed amongst poore housekeepers ye Thursday before Christmas as usually, whereupon Mr. Maior called a house, and it was ordered a suite should be soone comenced, and an entry made of Mr. Cooke's estate wch. was accordingly done and Mr. Cooke was put to charges and 16 new trustees chosen being most of ye aldermen then liveing, and some other gentlemen added to yni. and alsoe the usuall sum of 20 li. was paid in towne upon Thursday, January 28th, 1696 : was a called at Preston Gubballs for yt. : there was a cottage lately erected on ye Wast yt. one person Ursgate lived in wch. was presented to Shrewsbury court and the Mayor's officers demanded Rentt lor ilt. Butt ye Rentt was never had for ye Trustees for vSquire Cleaton ye heir of ye Lea hall sd. yt. anything erected on ye waste belonged to ye heires of Sir Rieh. Lea of the Lea hall : and for that end they called called [sic'] a courtt on purpose to invilidate Salops power and to strengthen their owne Title. About this time, neare Darbye, died one Mrs. Brooks widow, her maiden name was Pritcliard she was borne in Salop : shee in her lifetime placed out 100 pounds at 5 li. per ann. interest, wch. interest she equally gave to be given in Bread to ye poore every saboth day of St. Julians and St. Talkmans parishes to the poore of them for ever. 1697. Robert Sheppard, mercer. Upon Thursday after Easter was a meeting of the house and there was found an incroachratt. on the towns land by Mr. John Twiss cloathier, one of ye Comon Couns. valued at 2d. per ann., it was incroached by putting out a peice of Brick building at ye lower IN THE LIBRARY AT SWEENEY HALI,. 129 eud of Beeches I^aiie and then ye house solde it him for 20 years purchase forever. This yeare it was ordered by Mr. Ed. Barkly, Recorder, yt. there should bee uo arest of any man's person or goodes that lived within ye libertyes of Salop : but first hee should have summons a full week, and then upon the officers returning a non est inventus next courtt day upon yt. complaiutt there should bee granted out a destringues [sic'] to lease of either Body or goodes. This yeare was granted the great Tax called ye Capitation Tax in wch. was taxed all sortts of people and servantts exceptt such who by reason of their poverty could not pay to ye poore. they paid every head a penny a day for 13 monthes & ye pd. 50^ for every 100 pounds work of trading goodes & ye pd. 12^- for every 100 pounds worth of Stock of Land and live catle, 25«' for every 100 pounds for moneys at use or on any mortgage : at ye same time there was a tax upon Tobaco pipes, glass, & glass botles and Earthern Botles and all earthern ware and Drinking glases, and 2^ upon windowes for 10 yeares. and 20^- per strike upon salt and 6^- per strike upon all maullt. and 3'*- per every 20^- worth upon all sortts of Leather Taners and Glovers whatever sortt, be it what it will. 20 pounds per every 100 pounds worth of all white paper and upon parchment velom, etc. 25 pound upon every 100 pounds worth of foreign paper. 3'= per every 20^- worth of Browne paper, etc. and the least seale for all Bonds and bills to bee 6d., and soe upwards to bee 2^ » 6^ ' others 5^ ' others 10 others 20^ ' as the Clerk of Parlimtt. will informe you more at large and 500 li. forfeitt for anyone yt. shall counterfeitt any seale and 4^- for every pound upon laud or iiouses, etc. and i6^- exise on every strike of maullt Brewed into ale or Beere, besides ye exise upon all sorts of Brandy 130 EXTRACTS FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK AT SWEENEY HALL. and strong watters and ye aditionall exise upon perry cider, mum, etc. besides ye Actt. for 4^- for every Buriail, 3s- for every Birth dead or alive. 4^- for every wedding, ye poorest that was maried or Burid. Butt if any persons of quality or sufficiency ye tax was accordingly i^- for being either widower or Batchelor to be pd. yearely. This yeare was chosen John Button distiller an overseer of the poore lor ye yeare ensueing, and next saboth day hee with ye Wardens and other 3 were . likewise published, but yt. weeke following the mayor etc., lay'd all aside and another one Edward Poole in his stead who did officiate ye place. On ye 9th of June it was agreed by ye house yt. on condition St. Alkmonds parish should bring 10 li. and paj^ it into the Chamberlain's hands towards ye repaire of the long causye, on the old heath : that then ye towne should be at ye rest of ye repaires and charges and so to keep it forever. Alsoe then Parson Pearson ye Parson of the Abbye Church did petition the towne to have ye tower at ye spoutt hole and a garden place without ye Walls by ye side of ye spoutt hole and ye mixon place under ye tower without ye Walls for 31 yeares att 6^- 8^- per yeare. 1732. Richard Lloyd, draper. Rowsill Walls repaired. 1739. Brockwell Griffith, esq. Great frost. 1742. Wm. Turner, draper. repaired Rousell Walls. 1745. John Langley, attorney. A Rebellion in his time, & Rebells defeated at Cullader by ye Duke of Cum. 1760. John Rocke, esqr. 25 Oct. 1760. King Geo. 2d. dyed. K. Geo. proclaimed. [On a later page :] Jesus, 1612. Mr. William Jones, deceassed the 15th] day of July Anno Domini 1612. ) [The list of Mayors is continued up to 1790, and of Sheriffs and Under-Sheriffs to 1788 ; but no further Remarkable Occurrences " are noted.] Mr. 131 SOME OI.D SHROPSHIRE HOUSES AND THEIR OWNERS. By H. E. FORREST. We shall now deal with a group of old houses in the neighbour- hood of WelHngton. X. CHARI.TON HII.Iv. This house dates from about 1660 and has come down to us practically unaltered. It is of brick with stone facings and is nearly square, but has a projecting porch with a short flight of semi-circular steps leading up to it. The bricks are of the medium size characteristic of the period. The most interesting features of the house are its internal fittings, for it is a perfect museum gf old-time furniture and utensils. Amongst the more remarkable of these are a set of spits in the kitchen, including several in cage form for roasting poultry of different sizes. Some of the rooms are panelled, and the massive oak staircase has flat cut-out balusters, some with incised ornamentation. Quaint cupboards abound, and there are several fine old hob-grates. The house is full of old furniture and fittings, many of the pieces being very quaint. There is a fine old harpsichord. Also many rare ar.d valuable old books including an original Eikon Basilikc, as we'll as the later edition. Although the land belongs to the estate of lyord Barnard, the house itself has always been occupied by the Jenkins family. The reason for this unusual state of things will presently appear. The house was built by : — Richard Jknkins (I) who came of an old family of clothiers who were living first at Piniperne, Dorset, and afterwards at Blandford, where he was born in 1621. He attached himself to the celebrated RoyaHst, Lord Colepeper and was with him at St. Gerniains in 1649, afterwards accompanying him when ambassador to the Emperor of Russia, " all the time employed in business of trust and importance in all wiiich he demeaned OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES himself faithfully, diligentl}^ and discreetly." In 165 1 he returned to England. Amongst his friends he numbered I^ord Newport, lord-lieutenant of the county, who was then seated at Eyton-on-Severn . He urged him to settle near him, offering him a site for a house on his estate free. Mr. Jenkins at length accepted the offer and built the house at Charlton Hill. Prob- ably Lord Newport intended to convey the land to his friend, but died without having done so. In order to afford easy communication between the two friends a direct roadway was made between the houses at Eyton and Charlton, which is still extant : the pubHc road is very circuitous. Soon after- wards Richard Jenkins married Mary, daughter and co-heire^ of Richard Bagot, esquire, of Hargrave, on the Long Mountain, and with her acquired that and other estates in the parish of Alberbury. He died in 1697 and his widow Mary in 171 7. He was succeeded by his son Thomas Jenkins (I), who was sheriff of Shropshire in 1729, and died 29th December, 1730. His tombstone on the floor of the Abbey Church, near the pulpit, depicts his arms and crest, and states that he was in his 54th year, so he must have been born in 1676. He built the beautiful " Queen Anne" house facing the east end of the Abbey Church in Shrewsbury about 1706, and resided there during the rest of his life. Many of his descendants were baptized and buried in the Abbey Church close by. In 1708 he married Gertrude, daughter of Captain Richard Wingfield, of Preston Brockhurst, by whom he had five sons and three daughters. Three of the sons died unmarried but the other two married, and had families. The eldest Richard Jenkins (II) succeeded to the Abbey Foregate and Hargrave properties, to which by his marriage with Letitia, only daughter and heiress of John Muckleston, Esq., of Bicton, he added another property at that place. He and his descend- ants for four generations resided at Bicton until the property was sold by his great great grandson Colonel Richard Jenkins (V) (1828-80). His father, Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B. (1785-1853) was a man of note in the Indian diplomatic service, of whom a full history is given in the Dictionary of National Biography. Charlton Hill, however, went to another branch of the family — the descendants of AND THEIR OWNERS. Thomas Jenkins (II) (1715-43), younger brother of Richard (II). He married Rachel, daughter of Sir Edward Leighton, Bart., of lyOton, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. The younger daughter, Emma (1740-64) married her cousin John Jenkins (1740-71) of Bicton, and from their union came all the later members of the Bicton branch mentioned above. Of the three sons two died young. The survivor was Edward Jenkins of Charlton Hill. , He was born at Abbey House in 1738, so must have been a mere boy when he inherited this property, for his uncle Richard died in 1742, his father Thomas in 1743, and his mother Rachel in 1745. The inscrip- tion on his monument in the Abbey Church states that ** the early part of his life was devoted to the service of his country and during the first American War, being then a lieutenant in the 60th Regiment, he underwent the greatest hardships, and was twice left prisoner in the hands of the Indians. On the return of peace he retired to a country life in his native county, where he acquired universal esteem for his benevolence and kindness of heart." He married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Richard Boycott, of Whittington (1736-81) and had issue a son Robert Charlton, who died an infant ; a daughter Emma Gertrude, born 1775, who married Francis Blythe Harries of Benthall and Cruckton (estates which later passed to the Jenkins family) and a son and heir Robert Boycott Jenkins (i 781-1836) who succeeded to Charlton on the death in 1820 of his father Edward at the mature age of 80. He married his cousin Elizabeth, second daughter of Richard Jenkins (II) of Bicton, and sister of Sir Richard Jenkins the Indian diplomat. By her he had issue three sons and a daughter. The eldest son Edward Eeighton Jenkins succeeded to Charlton on the death of his father in 1836. He was born in 1816 and died unmarried in 1875. His sister Miss Eouisa H. Jenkins occupied Charlton till her death in 1886, when her brother Robert Jenkins (1825-94) went to reside there. He was in the Navy and attained to the rank of vice-admiral of the Fleet. His wife Maria Catherine Hornby, of I^ythwood Hall, survived 134 OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES him and continued to reside at Charlton Hill till her death in 1915. Subject to her life-interest Admiral Jenkins left Charlton Hill to his nephew — the present holder — Lieut. -Colonel Charles Bradford Harries Wolseley Jenkins. He was the younger son of Major-General Charles Vanbrugh Jenkins (1822-92) of Cruckton, which estate the General succeeded to under the will of his first cousin Francis Blythe Harries on the death of Colonel T. Harries in 1879. General Jenkins had by his wife Annette Louisa Robertina Aylward, three sons, of whom the eldest, Robert Edward Arthur Jenkins (1845-76) who predeceased his father left a son Captain Charles Edward Jenkins, the present holder of Cruckton, to which he succeeded on the death of liis grandfather in 1892. Colonel C. B. H. Jenkins, who was born at Cruckton in 1856, married in 1885, Ada Frances Alice Wolseley and assumed the additional name and arms of Wolseley. Arms of Jenkins : Argent a lion rampant regardant sable. XI. EYTON ON SEVERN. Eyton was a very ancient possession of Shrewsbury Abbey,, being part of its original endowment by Earl Roger de Mont- gomery. The Abbot used it as his country seat. Thus in 1506 the bailiffs accounts record " expenses of Thomas Cowper (Town Clerk) and the sub-bailiff (Edward Hosier) riding to the Abbot of Shrewsbury at Abbot's Eyton 8d." The Abbot then was Richard Lye. Eyton remained the property of the Abbey until the Dissolution in 1539, when it was purchased by Chief Justice Bromley, whose only child Margaret took it to her husband Sir Richard Newport. Their son Sir Francis Newport was a great builder. He not only rebuilt the family seat at High Ercall in 1608, but built an entirely new house on a different site at Eyton on Severn. The old Abbot's house has entirely disappeared, tliougli its site can still be traced in dry weather owing to the burning up of the grass over the foundations. The house erected by Sir Francis was a stately Elizabethan mansion resembHng Condover Hall, with a terrace terminating in an octagonal summer house at each end. The house was destroyed by fire and only the terrace with one summer house now remains. One gable of the AND THEIR OWNERS. iiouse was standing within living memor}^ The spot is marked by a soHtary oak tree in the field, which stood close to the wall : the latter was taken down because it was tottering. In the Gentleman s Magazine 1816 is a drawing by David Parkes of Kyton as it appeared in his day. It is taken from outside the terrace and shows the eastern summer house in the foreground with the roofs of both staircase turrets visible over the top. To the left is an ivy mantled gable, with two square-headed muUioned windows, but the architectural features are shown so vaguely that it affords very little help to us in judging of the appearance •of the old mansion. As usual with Parkes the buildings are grouped picturesquely rather than accurately, and as a matter of fact the mansion stood much further off the terrace than it appears in the drawing. The existing summer house is still intact except that the lower storey, which was an open arcade, has been enclosed by blocking up the arches. The upper storey, and the roof, are reached by a stair turret, the stairs winding round a central newel post terminating in a ball at the top. The flat lead roof is sur- rounded by an open stone balustrade, while the stair turret terminates in a cupola above its level. There was a chapel at Eyton in connection with Wroxeter, and certain blocks of sandstone in the buildings to the rear of the house are said to have belonged to its structure. It was still standing a century ago. In a coppice nearer the river there still remains the Abbot's wine-cellar — a kind of cave cut out of the sandstone rock. At Eyton on Severn is an ancient looking cottage (a very short distance from the present house) the lower part of which is of red sandstone, the upper part of timber, with stone-slabbed roof. On a beam of the gable end are the following letters in two monograms S.F.N.K. 1607. These stand for vSir Francis Newport Knight. This was probably the house of his farm bailiff or other retainer. An avenue of Spanish chestnut trees, now dying down, was planted by the same Sir Francis Newport, in conformity with the fashion of the period. Aston Hall has a similar avenue, the chestnut being rare until the i6th century, when it began to come into general use. The T^romleys took their name from the village of Bromley in the parish of Ivcclcshall, Staffordshire. They were remarkable for I 136 OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES the many eminent lawyers they produced in Tudor times. The connection of the famil}^ with Shropshire commences about the beginning of the fifteenth century when WiLUAM Bromley, of Mitley (? Mickley, Prees) married Beatrice daughter of Humphrey Hih, of Blore and Buntingsdale, Market Drayton. The eldest son George Bromley (I) was seated at Hawkstone and was sheriff of Shropshire in 1522. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Lacon of Willey, by whom he had two sons, Sir George (H) and Sir Thomas (I) of whom the former was chief justice from 22 to 31 Elizabeth, while the latter became Lord Chan- cellor in 1579, dying in that office 1587. Roger Bromley (younger brother of the above Wilham Bromley) married Jane, daughter of Thomas Jennings, of Wellibourne, and had three sons, of whom the second, Sir Thomas Bromley (H) had a distinguished career. He was entered at the Inner Temple where he was reader in 1532. From 1540 when he became a serjeant at law liis rise was rapid, for in little more than four years he was made a Judge of the King's Bench. He was in favour with Henry VIII., who be- queated him a legacy of £300 and made him one of the executors of his will, in which capacity he became one of the regency council on the accession of Edward VI. He also retained the favour of Queen Mary, who raised him to the head of his own court. He died I5tli Ma}^ 1555, and was buried in Wroxeter church, where there is a splendid monument to him and his wife Isabel, daughter of Richard Lyster of Rowton. Sir Thomas Bromley purchased the manor and estate of Eyton- upon-Severn at the Dissolution of the Abbey of Shrewsbury in 1539. At his death it passed to Sir Richard Newport (I), who had married his only daughter and heiress Margaret, and thereupon appears to have removed from High Ercall to Eyton. He died in 1570, and was also buried at Wroxeter, where there is another fine monument to him and his wife, whose death is thus recorded in the Taylor M.S. : " 1598. This yeare Eady Margaret Newport of Eyton . . wj^dowe departid this present lyfe the Xltli daye of August and was buried at Rocksetter the next day. . .and the XXIXtli AND THEIR OWNERS. day of August all the bells in Shrusburry dyd ringe in remem- brance of hyr the whiche towne she lovyed well and she was belovyed of the inhabytants therein there was bestowyde uppon the poore that day XXI. besyds many other places in the countery very amply. She was a verteous lady in all hyr lyfetyme and verey good to the poore." The same chronicle describes Sir Richard Newport as " a valiant knyght of Shrop- shire and of a pryncely personage." Four sons and four daughters were born to them, and q.re depicted on the monu- ment at Wroxeter. The youngest daughter, Magdalen, married Richard Herbert of Montgomery, by whom she was mother of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and of George Herbert the eminent divine, both of whom were born at Eyton and spent part of their boyhood there. The eldest son Sir Francis Newport (I) had a great passion for building, and having resided much in London and stayed at many of the best country houses, conceived that the old family houses of High Ercall and Eyton-on-Severn were unworthy of his position, and undertook to rebuild them. That he felt himself full)^ qualified for this work will be seen by a letter he wrote to the Bailiffs of Shrewsbury in which he says : " Good Mr. Bayliefs, whereas I am informed that you intend to buyld a new market house of stone in that Towne, and to go forward with the work next spring, I pray you let mee comende a Mason of approved skyll and honestye, one Walter Hancock, unto yo for the doing thereof. I think it is nott unknowne to you that I have had great cause to make tryall of workmen, and therefore can well write unto you of myne owne knowledge and experience that you cannott match the man in these parts (with any of that occupacon) neyther in scyence and jugement of workmanship, nor in playnes and honestye to deal with all. And therefore doe pra^^e you that he maye undertake the worke, which I assure you I doe wishe more in good will to the Towne (to have the work sufhcyently and truely done) than unto him (although I love the man well). I know that if Mr. Justice Owen [of Condover] were in the countre^^ he would say as much on Hancock's behalf as I have done. And so praying you to regard him tlie rather for my sake, doe, with my very hartie comniendacons, committ you to God — . High Ercall, the OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSHS Xlth of November, A.D. 1595." Mr. Justice Owen built Condover Hall, the architect of wliich, we are for the first time informed, was honest Walter Hancock. One would like to know whether the bailiffs adopted the recommendation of Francis Newport to employ Hancock in building our old Market Hall. It is probable that besides Eyton, Brcall, and Condover, we have examples of his handi- work at Soulton Hall, near Wem, Preston Brockliurst, and Wilderh^ope. Walter Hancqck hved to a good old age and died in September, 1599. He was buried on the 15th at Much Wenlock, and the church register contains the following notice showing the high esteem in which he was held : " This man was a very skilful man in the art of masonry, in settinge of plottes for buildinges and performing of the same, ingravinge in alebaster in other stone or playster, and divers other giftes that belonge to that art, as doth appeare by his workes whiche may be scene in divers partes of England and Walles, most sumpteouse buildings, most stately tonibes, most curyous ' pictures. And to conclude in all workes he took in hand he ; hath lefte behind him longe lastinge monuments of skilful i workmanship, and besides theese qualityes he had others whiche : passed these : he was a most honest man, devout and zelouse 1 in reUgion, pittiful to the poore, and had the love and good will ! of all his honest neighbours." Sir Francis Newport died in 1623, leaving by his wife Beatrix I^acon of Willey a son Sir Richard Newport (II) who in 1642 was raised to the peerage by Charles I under the title of Baron Newport of High Ercall. , His gallant defence of High Ercall against the Roundheads ' is a brilliant episode of the Civil War in Shropshire. After ' the Civil War, Eyton became the chief seat of the Newport 1 family, and descended with most of their property to the present owner, I^ord Barnard. By his wife Rachel lycveson Sir Richard had a son. Francis Newport II., 2nd Lord Newport, who was later on created ist Earl of Bradford. The Parliamentary Sequestrators fined him more heavily than any other Shropshire Royalist — ■ ^^5,284, and £iyo per annum. He succeeded on the death of his father in February, 165 1, but lived in partial retirement till AND THEIR OWNERS. the restoration of Charles II. One of the first acts of the king was to appoint him Lord Lieutenant of the county, and two years later he received the grant of Shrewsbury Castle. In 1672 he was made Comptroller and Treasurer of the Household, and in 1675 was created Viscount Newport of Bradford. On the accession of James II he was continued in these offices for a short time, but a few months later was superseded because he refused to carry out the odious services demanded by the king. A very full account of his work as lord lieutenant, with many of his letters, and a portrait, are given in the Transactions Slirop. Arch. Soc.y 1904, 141. By his wife Lady Diana Russell, daughter of the Earl of Bedford, Lord Bradford had a son Richard who succeeded him as second Earl of Bradford on his father's death 19 September 1708. By his wife Mary, third daughter of Sir Thomas Wilbraliam, Richard had three sons who each in turn succeeded to the Earldom — Henry, Richard, and Thomas, who became respectively third, fourth, and fifth Lord Bradford, the title becoming extinct with the last-mentioned. Henry, third Lord Bradford, succeeded to the title and estates on the death of his father in 1723, and himself died 26 December 1734, leaving only a natural son John Harrison, by Mrs. Ann Smith to whom he left the bulk of his property. This son took the name of Newport. He was of weak intellect and died unmarried in 1783. There being no direct heir the large estates passed on his decease partly to the Crown, and partly to the representatives of his mother. She having disposed of the reversion during her lifetime the property eventually devolved upon the present holder, Lord Barnard. XII. HIGH ERCALL HALL. Eyton devotes no less than 31 pages to the early history of High Ercall. " Here," he writes, " the co-heirs of Hamo Peveril retained their last hold on the county which had nursed their fortunes. Here the chancellor Burnell, never sated with acqui- sition, reconsolidated in himself a seigneury which had been severed more than a century. In later times Ercall was the caput 140 OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES of those vast estates which formed the heritage of the Newports — • a heritage than which none greater has accrued to any single family since the advent of the Normans." Hamo Peveril owned High Ercall in 1098 and it remained with his descendants till 1271, when the homage of their knightly tenants the de Erkalewes was granted by the last of the Peverils to Sir Richard Burnell, Archbishop of York. About 1294 William de Ercall, the vassal of Bishop Burnell, married Petronilla, the bishop's niece. The de Ercalls remained here down to 1346, when, on the demise of William de Ercall, his cousin and heir WilUam de Careswell (or Caverswall) took possession. In 1391 Peter de Careswell enfeoffed Thomas Newport, parson of the church of Eyton, in the manor of Ercall, retaining the life interest for his own and his wife's lives with remainder to Thomas Gech and his heirs. This Thomas Gech was nephew of Thomas New- port the parson, and Thomas Newport of High Ercall, sheriff in 1403, was his son. William Newport was sheriff 1473 and John Newport 1490, 1500 and 1510. Thus the Newports became lords of Ercall. When the family attained knightly rank is uncertain, but early in Elizabeth's reign the titles of Ercall, which had belonged up till the Dissolution to Wombridge Priory were given toji^ Sir Richard Newport, Knight (I) (Sheriff 155 1, 1557 and 1568), the same who married the heiress of Eyton as related in our account of that place. The existing Hall at High lucall was begun in 1608 by his son Sir Francis Newport, Knight (I) (Sheriff 1585, 1600), on the site of, or adjoining, the ancient residence of the de Ercalls, as shown by this inscription on one of the three northern gables. " An. Dni 1608, oetat vero suoe 52 P'rancs Newport miles Hoc cedificium Deo incoepta Secundante, incohavit peregit." A few years later Sir Erancis (who died in 1623) appears to have built a strong defensive wall round the enclosure within the moat while his son vSir Richard (Sheriff 1627) constructed a drawbridge over the latter. These outer works made the place into a kind of fortress, with a baile}^, enclosed by a moat and AND THEIR OWNERS. 141 wall, defences which were very shortly afterwards to prove most useful. Their construction is recorded on an inscribed stone now built into the garden wall in line with the northern ■ face of the house. It runs thus : " Pars ista hujus dom incohata fuit 14 Martii Ao 1617 finita vero 13 Octobris Ao 1620 opera inipensis I'rancisci ! Newport niilitis." On either side of the above are the words " This Bridge " . " S. R. N." These stones are obviously not in situ. The house is of three storeys, the lower part of large squared stones, the upper of dia- pered brickwork. The walls are very strongly and massively built. The stones are traditionally said to have come from the ruins of Uriconium and Haughmond Abbey, and as there are no local quarries of this red sandstone it is not at all improbable that they did come from those ancient buildings. In various parts of the grounds traces of the foundations of the larger resi- dence and fortifications are still discernible, especially on the eastern side. It was here that in levelling a mound about forty years ago a store of about 1,000 coins, weighing 12 J lbs., were found, mainly of Klizabeth and Charles I. These w^ere doubtless hidden there at the time of the famous siege, the story of wliich has now to be told. I In the quaintly entitled books of the period published by the I Parliamentary faction Sir Richard Newport is described as a man of vast estates, having many tenants, and being nearly allied to I other count}^ gentlemen by the marriage of his daughters, of whom he had many. His son Sir Francis Newport (II) resided at Ej'ton , on Severn, but both appear to have shared in the fighting at High Ercall, for in the list of sums paid to the Sequestrators by Shrop- shire Royalists, Francis Newport of Eyton " Esquire " heads the list with £5,284 and £170 per annum, while Sir Richard Newport of High Ercall comes fifth with £3,207, and £170 per annum. The Parliament would not recognize titles conferred by King Charles on his supporters : hence they ignore the fact that vSir Richard had been created in 1643 Baron Newj^ort of High Ivrcall ! He was indeed a most ardent supporter of the king, for, at the ver}^ beginning of the war he advanced a great loan of money and plate amounting to £6,000 for the King's use to put the artillery 142 OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES in order for the campaign, which opened at the Battle of Kdgehill. He next garrisoned High Ercall Hall and fortified it at his own expense. Forces sent out from here demolished Apley Castle to the great damage of Mr. Francis Charlton, who was a ParHament man and whose daughter was married to Richard Baxter, chap- lain to Oliver Cromwell, and a nativ^e of this parish. In 1645 the " Shrewsbury Connnittee " of the Parliamentary Army, which had just taken the town and castle, sent a strong force to besiege this place, and raised a very strong work " within musket shot of the walls, by means of which the enemy could not stir in or out." This work is said to have been in a banky field called Birch-tree Bank, so named from a Inrch tree then growing there, from the top of which the drummer of the Roundheads daily beat a chal- lenge to the beleagured garrison to surrender. Eventually one of the garrison, who was a good shot, brought down the drummer from his perch with a musket ball. The church also was converted into a fortress and occupied by a portion of the garrison, which comprised over 200 foot and 40 horse soldiers. So strong was the place and so gallant the defence that High Ercall held out for more than a year after the fall of Shrewsbury. At length the besiegers brought up reinforcements from Weni and Shrewsbury, with a battery of cannon. The guns were placed on a little hill near the Hall, and thence the place was battered gradually to pieces. Its strength may be imagined from the fact that the besiegers used twenty barrels of gunpowder, " slaying and wounding many, beating down the drawbridge, and making a great breach in the church." On May 27th, 1646, the besiegers sent a sunnnons to the gallant garrison to surrender, and the defenders desired a parley. The Roundhead chronicle records that at this parley " it was concluded that the horse, all but forty, should march away without arms, that the foot should all leave their arms behind them, and that they should all leave their ammunition and provision (of which there was great plenty) behind them, and they were to have convoy to Worcester, the place they made choice to go unto. There marched out 212 .soldiers and officers (all good plucked brave figliting men) out of this strong garrison, and thus Shropshire, the bravest souldiers in the world, by God's great niercie, and indefatigable Industrie, care, and valour of their committee, is now well cleared of all her ■ enemies." Immediately " after the crowning victory of High AND THEIR OWNERS. H3 Ercall in Shropshire by order of the Commons assembled in Parliament " a day was set aside for a public thanksgiving " for the great success gained by that valiant battel by our brave Shrop- sliire force." Ercall was the last place in Shropshire to hold out for the King, except Ludlow Castle. High Ercall and Eyton remained with the Newport family continuously afterwards, and both manors descended with other family estates to the present owner, Lord Barnard. (See under Eyton.) There is an efhgy of a cross-legged knight in armour, dating from about iioo, in High Ercall church, said to represent one of the de Ercalls. High Ercai^l Hau.. The existing mansion — now occupied as a farmhouse by Mr. Davies — has come down to us practically intact from 1608, although the outer works and drawbridge have disappeared and most of the moat has been filled up. It is of three storeys and of lofty proportions. The lower part is of red sandstone in large square blocks ; the upper of diapered brick work of the same period. The plan is ly shaped, but modi- fied by three projecting gabled baj^s on the north side, another at the N.W. corner, and a porch to the S. of this last. The porch has a square opening— no trace of the Tudor arch with mouldings in three orders. All the windows, which are numerous and of greatly varying size, are square headed without dripstones, and where they consist of more than one light they have stone mullions. These, and the quoins of the brickwork are of white freestone, quite different from the red sandstone of the lower walls. A projecting cornice runs right round the building above the second storey, and a chamfered plinth round the lower walls. The chimneys are of moulded bricks forming a chevron ornament up each side. In the courtyard on the E. side of the house, but some twenty yards away, stands a row of four arches resting on round pillars. These are very puzzling. From their position they cannot have formed part of the house itself, yet they apjjear to be of the same date — certainly not earlier, so that the suggestion that they belonged to the old house of the de Ercalls is untenable. The outer surfaces are quite smooth too — there is no trace of any stone or brick work having been joined on to them. I can i 144 OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES only conjecture that they were entrances to stables of wood, put up to accommodate the horses of the 40 cavalrymen who were here during the siege of 1645-6. The interior of the mansion has few features of interest. The rooms have been modernized to a great extent. For instance all the great ceiling beams are encased, so that they appear quite Hat on each of the three faces. The fireplaces still retain the Tudor arch, though in a very depressed form, as we should expect at that date. The most striking internal feature is the series of attics. They are very large and lofty, with fine open timber roofs. One of them has a good stone fireplace with open hearth, while another has a concrete floor. This was used as a granary and has a trap door through which the sacks of grain were hoisted. High Ercall Almshouses. Near the church are seven almshouses for poor people of both sexes. They are of brick with stone facings, and form a straight frontage with projecting wings at each side. Each tenement consists of two rooms, one above the other, but the end houses are larger than the others, and have an extra room. Between the houses and the road is a pretty garden surrounded by a high wall. Over the central house is a large stone inscribed : Deo. O.M. In sustentationem Sex pauperis quibus Senis et labore confectis Niiiil aliud reliquum est Quam vivery et precari Has a^des (Ere suo extructas et dotatas In grati aninii testimonium Dat Dicat Dedicat Eranciscus Comes de Bradford Anna salutis 1694. XIII. THE OLD HAEE, WEUJNGTON. Tliis house has had so many adcHtions made to it in the course 'of the last century, when it was occupied as a school, that it does not now look at all antiquated. There are, however, two parts of the building which are ancient : though both are timber- framed one is earlier than the other. The oldest portion is the AND THEIR OWNERS. part which runs parallel with Watling Street. It is built in. a succession of bays in a straight line, and is a timber structure of two storeys, the uprights stout and set close together with no transoms between the floor levels. This is a very early type of timber frame and dates from the fifteenth century. There is no doubt that this was the original house, and that it was built by Edward Forester about 1480. He is described as " of Wellington or WatHng Street," and as he is the first of the family so described it seems that he was living at first elsewhere in Wellington, but moved into his new house at Watling Street as soon as it was ready. The house was occupied by four generations of Foresters without alteration until it was inherited by Francis Forester (I) in 1591. At that time he was under twenty, but he was a wealthy man and not only added to the family estates, but built a new wing on to the Old Hall at Watling Street. This is the Jacobean wing with gable end towards the roadway. It contains a panelled room and carved oak mantelpiece, and was probably erected about 1620. Francis Forester was the head of the family, and in that capacity signed the pedigree in the Herald's Visitalicr. of 1623. He died in 1637. His building has the square open panels usual in the frames of Jacobean houses : they present a strong contrast to the framing of the older portion adjoining. It is worth noting that in the upper rooms of the older building the massive timber frame and roof timbers are exposed to view in the interior. The Forester family were hereditary foresters of that portion of the forest of the Wrekin, or Mount St. Gilbert, known as Wellington Hay. The name is perjoetuated to this day in Haygate and Haybridge. The estate here has probal)ly descended in the male line from the time of William the Conqueror, but the first direct ancestor of whom we have actual record was Hugh I'orester, who lived in the time of Henry II and Richard I. He died about 1200, when he w:is succeeded by RouERT (1'oresti:r) of Wellington (1), and he al^out 1242 by Robert Forester (II). He died 1278 when his son Roger Forester (I) took office, but died soon afterwards, in I 1283, when his son 'J 146 OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES Roger Forester (II) was a minor. He attained his majority 3 May, 1285, the duties of his office having been performed meanwhile by John Fitzhugh of Bolas. This Roger was admitted a Burgess of Shrewsbury in 1319. He died in 1335, when his son ( John Forester (I) was also a minor, though he attained his majority the same year. At the inquest held in Wellington to prov^ his age one of the witnesses was John de Arleston, who remembered the date of his. birth, 20 July, 13 14, because on that date his house was burned down, John died 10 Sept., 1349, followed by his brother William Forester (I). He died in 1394, leaving a son Roger, who, however, died before attaining his majority, so was succeeded by his cousin Roger Forester (III) in 1397. On his death six years later I his son Roger Forester (IV) inherited the estate, being then 26 years I old. He died 1443 and was followed by his son John Forester (II) who died in 1466, leaving a son Edward Forester, who was then aged 36. He is the first of tlie family who is described as "of Wathng Street or Wellington," and as the Old Hall dates in its oldest portion from the latter half of the 15th century, there can be little doubt that he built it and on its completion went to reside in it. He appears to have been succeeded by a son or grandson John Forester (III) and he by another John Forester (IV), who as " John Forster the younger " witnesses a deed in 1506. He was twice married ; first to Alice, daughter of Thomas Charlton, Ksq., of Aj^ley Castle ; and secondly to Isabel, daughter of Richard Lyster, Esq., of Rowton. By his first wife he had an only daughter, but by his second two sons — John and Richard. The latter acquired the manor of Sutton Maddock, where he died in 1587. He was secretary to Bishop lionnor from 1540 to 1550 and again from 1553 to 1559, when the bishop was again deprived on the accession of Queen Elizabeth. The elder son John Forester (V) went to London as a young man, and was made a freeman of the company of patten makers. He becaiiic attached to the conrt of Henr}^ VIII, who styled him " our yd AND THEIR OWNHKS. trusty and well-beloved John Forster of Wellington gentilman," in a grant dated 1520 whereby because of certain bodil}^ infirm- ities affecting his head his Majesty licenses him to " were his bonet on his hede at all tymes and in all places as well in our * presence as elsewhere." This grant is still preserved in the muniment room at Willey. On his retirement from court John Forester resided at Kasthope instead of at the Old Hall, lie increased his estate by marriage with Joyce, daughter and heiress of Philip Upton, of Upton Magna, and Oteley, and had ^ a numerous issue, of whom John and Richard, the two eldest sons, predeceased him without issue. The third son William also predeceased him, but left a son Francis Foricstkr (I) who was nineteen years of age in 1591 when his grandfather John died. His estate comprised (in addition to the possessions of his ancestors in Welhngton and Watling Street) lands and houses in Little W'enlock, h'arnley, Arleston, Shifnal, Hodnet, etc. William Forester resided at Upton Magna, where his sons John and Francis were baptized in 1570 and 15 71 respectively. The elder died without issue, I but Francis succeeded his grandfather John and went to li\'e |. at the Old Hall, to which he added the eastern wing with gable j towards the road. He was probably also the builder of the fine I old timber house at Arleston described on another page. He ! purchased from vSir John Hayward in 1623 the Manor of IJttle j Wenlock. By his wife Cicely, daughter of Andrew Charlton, Esq., of Apley Castle, he had four sons and two daughters. He died in 1637, and was succeeded by his son ' Francis Forester (II), who by his wife Dorothy Skrimsher, of ' I Norbury, Staffs, had an only son Francis Forester (III) who left the Old Hall and went to reside at Dothill Park, his wife's estate. It came to her, and so to I the Foresters, in this way. Francis Forester (III) married j Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Newport (Baron Newport 1642), ' widow of John vSteventon of Dothill. By her first husband, who died two years after the marriage, she had a son Richard Steventon, baptized at High Ercal 11 April 1637. The grand- father William Steventon died at Dothill in 1647, so the estates devolved upon young Richard vSteventon, then a boy of twelve, i His mother married hVancis I'orester (III) in J()^^, and with her 148 OLD SHKOPSHIRK HOUSES second husband removed to Dothill the seat of her son Richard Steventon. By her second marriage she had four daughters and two sons Francis and Wilhani, of whom the elder died in infancy. Richard Steventon was the last in the male line of that family. He died and was buried at Wrockwardine in April 1659, having attained his majority a few days before, and made a will bequeathing the mansion and estate at Dothill to his mother Mrs. Mary Forester, with remainder to his half- brother, her son Wilham Forester. Francis Forester (III) was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1652*. He lost his wife Mary in 1661, but himself survived till 1684. His son Sir Wiujam Forester (II) of Dothill was created a K.B. by William III in i68(). He married in 1680 Lady Mary Cecil, third daughter of James Earl of Salisbury, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. On his death in I'ebruary 1718 he was succeeded by his eldest son WiLUAM Forester (III) of Dothill, who was M.P. for Wenlock 1714 and 1734 to 1754. I^y his wife Catherine, daughter of William Brook, Esquire, of St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, he had three sons and three daughters. On his death in 1758 he was succeeded by his eldest son Brooke Forester of Dothill, who also represented Wenlock in Parliament for most of the period 1738-1768, On his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of George Weld of Willey, he went to reside at Willey for several years. By this lady he had four sons but of these two died in infancy, the survivors being George, born 1735, who succeeded him, and William, who died abroad unmarried. On the death of his first wife lirooke Forester married again, his second wife being Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Barnstone, of Chester, by whom he had a daughter Harriet, who married Thomas Mason of vShrewsbury, but died without i.ssue. Brooke Forester died at Dothill in 1771, and was succeeded by his brother George Forester of Willey, the famous hunting squire. He died unmarried in 1811, and devised all his estates to his cousin, Cecie Forester (brother of Brooke Forester) afterwards Lord Forester, who took the additional name and arms of Weld. The present Lord Forester is his descendant. AND THHIK OWNERS. 149 XIV. DOTHIIJv. In olden times this place-name is spelt Dudhill or Dodliill, but its origin is unknown. There must have been a house here from very early times, as Dodhill was one of the five berewicks comprised in the manor of Wellington. The first family of whom we have record here was that of the Hortons, from whom it passed in 143 1 by marriage of the heiress Alice (daughter of Robert Horton of Dothill) to William Steventon. It remained in that family for five generations, when, about 1564, Anna, only child and heiress of Richard Steventon of Dothill, married Philip Upton of Oteley. Their daughter Joyce married John Forester of the Old Hall, Wellington, whose grandson Francis h'orester (II) eventually inherited Dothill and went to live there. His son Sir Williruu Forester ; grandson William ; and great-grandson Brooke Forester : all resided here, but upon the marriage of the last- named to the Weld heiress he. removed to Willey, which has been the chief family seat of the Foresters ever since, although Dothill still belongs to them. The existing house at Dothill consists of two distinct portions. The front is of brick with stone facings and dates from about 1820. It is chiefly remarkable for the loftiness of the rooms, and windows, especially on the ground floor. The rear part is also of brick, but of an earlier type. A sculptured stone on the southern gable bears the date 1628 and initials W.S., indicating that it was built by William Steventon (III). There is a large central chimney stack connected to the newer part of the house by a sort of flying buttress. Originally this old house was much more exten.sive, but a large portion was pulled down by a former owner as it was deemed too big a place to keep up. The existing farm buildings and barns are contemporary, and are on a very big scale, having evidently belonged to a larger mansion than the present one. Detached from them is an octagonal dovecote, DOTIIIIJ,. The pedigree in the Ilcrald'a Visitation begir.s with Thomas Stkvknton, who was living about the year 1300. His I son Nicholas vSticvicnton was living in 1342 ; his .son Walticr Sticvkxton (I) in 1387. He had a son also WAivrKR Stkvicxton (II), whose son OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSKS WiiXiAM Steventon (I) in 1431 married Alice, daugliter and heiress of Robert Horton of Dotliill. From this we learn that Dothill belonged originally to the Horton family, who were living here about the year 1400 and possibly earlier. It now passed b}' marriage to the Steventons, but we are not told where they had been domiciled up to this time. William and AHce had a son WiEEiAM vSteventon (II) of Dothill, who was living here in 1^7.^ He married four times, but left issue only by his first wife Margaret, daughter of Robert Charlton, b}' whom he had two daughters and one son Richard Sticvicnton (I) of Dothill, who married lUeanor, daughter I of John Dodd, of Cloverley. His son John Steventon (I) married IMargery, daughter and heiress of John Bridgman of Little Dean, by whom he had four sons and one daughter. The eldest son Richard Steventon (II) was living at Dothill in 1564. By his wife IMargaret, daughter of Thomas Needham of Shavington, he had an only child Anna, who was liis heiress. She married Philip Upton of Oneley, whose daughter Joyce married John Forester of the Old Hall. On Richard's death Dothill passed to his nephew, WiELiAM Steventon (III) (son of his brother John) who rebuilt the house in 1628. By his wife Sara, daughter of John Dawes, he had eight daughters but onty one son, OHN Steventon (II), who married ]\Iary, daughter of Sir Richard Newport (Lord Newport 1642), by whom he had a son Richard, the last in the male line of the Steventons. John Steventon died two years after the marriage. Later his widow Mary took for her second husband Francis ForivSTER (HI) of Watling Street, who thereupon took up his residence at Dothill. Young Richard Sticventon died in 1659, and left Dothill to his mother, Mrs. ]\Iary Forester, with remainder to his half-brother William Forester. Richard Stevington by will dated 23rd March, 1658, devised a rent charge of £10 per annum for the poor of WelHngton parish, to be paid out of certain lands called the Bury Yards. These are two helds near the town, one of which was sold 1.)y Lord I'orester about 1820. The £10 is still paid by AND THEIR OWNERS. his lordship and is laid out in cloth coats for men and warm gowns for women. He also left an annuity of £b 13s. 4d., payable out of lands at Arleston, to the schoolmaster of High Ercall for the gratuitous teaching of children resident in that parish. The rest of the history of Dothill will be found in our general account of the I'orester family of the Old Hall. XV. ARI^ESTON. This place-name is of .Saxon origin, and is a contraction from Alured's town. The hamlet consists of a scattered group of cottages, mostly timber-framed, and a large house standing alone on the top of a low rounded hill, with a wide outlook in every direction. This is now known as Arleston House, and was the property of I^ord Forester, but now belongs to ]\Ir. Charles P^xley who lives there. Arleston was a member of the great manor of Wellington, and was in King John's time a more populous town- ship than Wellington. According to Kyton King Henry II. made this place his abode on his hunting expeditions to the Wrekin I'orest, and an interesting story in connection with the same is related in our account of Pladley Manor. Forty acres of land were then granted by royal gift to an ancestress of the Corbets of Hadley. Arleston does not appear to have belonged to the Foresters in early times, but is first mentioned as part of their estate in the time of Henry VIII or Elizabeth, when John Forester (V), who died in 1591, owned amongst other property, " three messuages and thirty acres of land, three acres of meadow and ten acres of pasture in Arleston next W^ellington." John I'orester's son W^illiam died in his father's lifetime so that the estates passed on John's death in I5()r to his grandson I'rancis I'orester (I). In the marriage settlement of the hitter's son I'rancis I'orester (II) in it is stated that Arleston was " held of William vSteventon, I^sq., as of his manor of W^ellington in free socage." Tliis William vSteventon was of Dothill Park, and the connection l)y marriage between his family and tlie I'oresters will be found in our account of that place. It will be seen from this, therefore, tliat the vSteventons of Dothill were lords of the manor of Wellington, including Arleston, and that the latter, as well as Dothill, came to tile I'orestcis by intermarriage with that family. Arleston 152 OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES House appears to have been built in two distinct halves, side by side, but the left portion is longer than the right, so that it projects beyond the latter at both front and rear. Both are dated on the front gable, the larger one to the left 1614, the other 1630. The whole structure is timber-framed and a fine example of its period. The four gables are fitted with panels with shaped Ijracings forming a star pattern. The two lower storeys, however, are close-timbered, all the blocks being stout and straight. Those in the lower storey are vertical ^with transoms halfwa}^ up, but most of those on the next storey are set diamond-wise, while the corner posts and some others have the cable moulding. All these details correspond with similar j)arts of Ireland's Mansion in High vStrcet, Shrewsbury, and if it were not for the dates on tlie gables I should feel inclined to suppose that Arleston House was erected at about the same period — 1370-1390. Still, as the dates are quite distinct and jDresumably authentic, we may accept this as an interesting example of the continuance of a style beyond the period in which it usually prevailed. Most of the windows are supported by leaf-scroll bracket , and the two front ones on the first floor have carved arcading under them, like the Council House Gateway in Shrewsbury (1O20), though not so bold in design. There is a big central chimney stack with beautiful cluster of shafts at the top, the sides adorned with a chevron ornament which is continued in the projecting cornice. The bricks are all of the thin type in use at that period. The storeys overhang about 18 inches all round the house. With the exception of the cable ornament already mentioned and one or two bracketed posts, none of the timbers are carved, and there are no barge-boards to the gables now, thougli there may have been originally. According to local tradition Arleston House was built as a hunting lodge for King James I, though others say that it was built by the h'oresters for the same purpose. Probably l)otli statements are correct. The J'orester family (of whom I.ord Forester is now the head) liave been hereditary custodians of the portion of the Wrekin Forest known as Wellington Ha}- since the 1 2th century, and their name itself is derived from their profession. At the time when Arleston House was erected the head of the AND THEIR OWNKRS. family was Francis Forester, living at Watling Street in the house now known as the Old Hall. In our account of that place we have given a history of the Forester family, and shown that Francis (I) added a wing to the Old Hall, as well as building Arleston House. Both halves of the latter were erected in his lifetime (1614 and 1630), for he died in 1637, seven years after its completion. Corroboration of the fact that it was built by him is afforded by the designs on the remarkable plaster ceiling in the drawing room at Arleston. This is certainly one of the most striking examples in Shropshire, though the workmanship is very crude. The entire surface of the ceiling, including the beams and cornice, is covered with a network of geometric mouldings en- closing a great variety of heraldic devices, while along the beams an endless Pomegranate stem runs its sinuous course. The pomegranate was a popular Tudor emblem originally the badge of Katherine of Arragan. Another Tudor device many times repeated is the Dragon, which was then the supporter of the royal arms in place of the latter-day unicorn. St. George and the dragon also appears in many places. Also the Liox rampant, the arms of the Charltons of Apley, Francis Forester having mar- ried a daughter of that ancient family. Other devices alluding to the Foresters and their profession are, the Forester's Head, with plumed hat ; Fai.cox displayed, typical of the art of falconry ; Stag and Stag's head with spear thrusting into the neck ; and the Talbot (hound) with curved leash ending in a knot (the Forester crest). Besides these there is the ]\Iermaid, a device that appears on the Council House Gateway (1620) at Shrewsbury ; and a Ricindeer's head with sprig of oak in the mouth, crest of the Eytons of Eyton. In a smaller room adjoining is another plaster ceiling and frieze, but it is much less elal)orate, and only covers a small part oi the surface. Tlie frieze consists of Tudor dragons in pairs, wliile along the side of the main beam runs a row of birds, apparently ravens- crest of the Corbet family. On the end of a bracket- beam over the fireplace is a small coloured figure said to represent James I, for whom h'rancis h'orester Iniilt the house. By-the-way this monarch could only have occupied the iirst-erected part of Arleston House, since the second was not built till live years after bi.^. death, at whirh time Charles I was king. 154 OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES XVI. HADLKY MANOR HOUSE. This fine old timber-framed house is interesting as having come down to us almost untouched by modern alterations or additions. It is of three storeys and presents two large equal gables in front and one to each end, but none to the rear. The timbering is of a simple character, with no carved ornament except bracketed posts at each corner and a pair of diamond-shaped enil)ossed logcnges between the principal front windows. This ornament is characteristic of the time of Janies I and Charles I, and indicates that the house dates from the early part of the 17th century. The staircase, which winds round a central newel post, and a cupboard with cut-out balustrade forming a grille, are of the same date. There is a large central chimney stack massively built of squared stones, with thin brick shafts at the top. But the niost interesting feature of this building is the series of car- penter's marks on the timbers of the frontage. This being the northern side, they are, as usual, but little weathered. I believe Hadley Manor is unique in that the whole of the timbers forming this frontage are numbered in one continuous series, beginning at the top right hand corner and counting from right to left (instead of left to right) and running into the eighties, formed thus XXXXXXXX. The units are also reversed, 9 is iiiiv. not viiii. Some years ago a workman carrying out certain repairs at the old manor house found in a cavity by one of the beams in the wall a small pewter drinking cup about three inches high, the sides embossed with figures of gnomes. With it were some old coins and a copper token. In the front garden stood a very old mulberry tree, said to be the largest but one in luigland. Sad to say it was blown down by a gale in July, 1915, but though ]nostrate, i)art of the tree is still ali\'e. Mulberry trees were introduced into Ivngland al)Out the middle of the ibtli century, so the tree was proljably at least as old as the house. [A short distance K. of the Manor stands another timber- framed house, now known as "Post Office Buildings." On the tie-beams is carved WMvW. i()jS. Tlic (nerhang of the first lloor is su])i)orted l)y Inackcled corner ])()sts, but the car\-ing is ol" crude workmanship, and the buihHng is altogetlier inferior to the Manor.] AND THEIR OWNERS. 155 The Manor of Hadley was held in the time of William the Conqueror by Goisfrid under Rainald. Soon after Domesday one William de Hadley was lord of the manor and a man of importance, having married Seburga, daughter of Hamo I^everell. lie, with his wife Seburga, and son Alan founded in the neigh- bouring wood ai)out 1 1 JO the Priory of Wonibridge. There nuist have been a manor house here at that time as one of tlie priests from this priory used to officiate in the i)rivate chapel in the house. The lady of the manor outlived her husband some 20 years and Kyton relates an interesting story about her. On one occasion King Henry II. came down to his hunting lodge at Arleston. The old lady upon hearing of the royal visit sent a present to his majesty, consisting — according to local tradition — of cakes and wine made by her own fair hands. She followed this up by a personal visit, and so pleased was the king with the interview that he presented her with forty acres of land at Arleston where they met. Later on Henry III attempted to reclaim this land, but the Corbets, who had then come into possession of Hadley, established their title to it by recounting the above incident. The Lady Seburga seems to have held the Manor of Hadley in her own right, so that it was not till her death about 1160 that her son Alan de Hadley succeeded to the estate. He made several additional grants of land to Wombridge Priory. He had a grant from King Henry II of the I\Ianor of Bromley Regis in Staffordshire. He died about 11 70, leaving by his wife Alice Pantulf, a daughter and heiress Cecilia, who had High Hatton as her dower. She married Sir Roger Corbet (II) son of Roger Corbet (I) by his wife — the heiress of Tasley, near Bridgnorth. The manors of Hadley, Tasley, and Bromley Regis, with High Hatton, remained in the Corbet family for nearly four centuries. Roger left a son Thomas Corbet (I), who was succeeded on his death in 1247 by his son, Roger Corbet (HI) of Hadley. He died in 1259, leaving by I his wife Kddilena Fitz-Phihp a son Tpio:\rAS Corbet (II), then a boy of eleven. He died in 1300 I and was succeeded by his son, Sir Roger Corbi;t (IV.), who was then 28 years old. He died I about 1360. By his wife Joan Lovel he left a son 156 OLD SHROPSHIRK HOUSES Sir John Corbet (I), who died in 1365. He left by his wife I Agnes a son Sir Robert Corbet (I). This knight, lord of Hadley, on 21 May, i377> concedes to John Prior of Wonibridge a messuage, a v half virgate, a mill, and a croft in Hadley, for a term of 99 }'ears, during which the said prior was to provide a brother canon and a chaplain to celebrate services in the chapel within the gates of Hadle}^ manor house for the soul's health of the said Sir Robert and his relations on Sundays and Wednesdays and Fridays weekly. On his death in 1405 he was succeeded by his son (by his wife Joan de Thornbury) Sir Robert Corbet (II) who was sheriff in 1414 and died about 1419. His daughter and heiress Sybil married John Greville of Campden, Glo'stershire. They were childless, however, and, by a family arrangement were succeeded at Hadley and Hatton by Sybil's cousin Sir Robert Corbet (HI), son of Sir Gu}- Corbet, younger brother of Sir Robert Corbet (II). He married ]\Iaud, daughter of Sir John P^ortescue, but the union was an unhappy one, and they separated. Sir Robert married secondly I.ettice, daughter of vSir John Shirewood of Coventry, but as he had not been divorced, this marriage was not a legal one. Hadle}^ however, remained in the possession of his descendants for three gener- ations, until, about the year 1620, it was purchased by Richard Corbet, of Chesthill Grange, near Market Drayton, whose son, John Corbet (II) was afterwards the first baronet of Stoke and Adderley. Richard died in 1621, and as the existing Manor House at Hadley dates from about that time there is little doubt that it was bult by the baronet. By his wife Anne Mainwaring he had no less than twenty chiklren, of whom seventeen grew up to men and women. Sir John himself probably never lived at Hadley, but he appears to have Vjuilt it either for one of his sons, or as a dower house, or ])erhaps merely as a mode of aggrandisement, for he was wealthy and hud only . re^cently ])C'cn created a l)aronet by Charles I, about 1627. He was sherilT in i()2(j. Sir John entered into the public life of the county with great zeal, and soon got to be recognised as leader by the local malcontents. His activity in opposing the tax AND THEIR OWNKKS. called Ship Money, earned him the title of "The Patriot," but also landed him in prison, though he appears to have soon been released, probably through the influence of his mother, who was a daughter of Lord Chancellor Thomas Bromley. In many other wa}'s Sir John Corbet exhibited a strength of mind which might be called by the less polite term of obstinacy ! How long afterwards Hadley remained in the Corbet family is not known, but it appears to have passed out of their possession before the end of the eighteenth centur3^ XVII. lAUi H.ALL, KLrjCSMKRK. This charming old timber-framed house, is the residence of Miss Louisa Jebb. The front part, dated 1594, has diagonal bracings forming a diamond pattern. The r<:ar part has a frame of rather small .'Square panels, witliout braces, and dates from about 1550. Originally it was a two-store>-ed cottage, converted into a mansion by the addition of a larger frontage,, the whole being T-shaped in plan. The two staircases confirm this. Lee was built by a Mr. Charleton, agent to the Earl of Bridgewater (who enlarged it in 1594). In 1634 he sold it to Mr. Richard Hatchett, whose son Stephen added paneling and a carved fireplace in the drawing-room in 1657, and the quaint porch-like projecting chamber on tlie east side in 1651, Thk Hatchett Family of Lke. Richard Hatchett (I) was born at Acton Reynald in 1583. In 1611 he married Alice .... (born 1595). He was admitted l)urgess of Shrewsbury 1624. In 1634 he purchased the Hall of Lee (alias Leigh) with lands in Lee and Kenwick Wood, all of which he settled on his son, Stkphkm Hatchett, who married in 1640, Sarah, daughter of Richard Lloyd of Emstrey near Shrewsbury. Richard died 1654-5. Stephen's wife Sarah appears to have died before 1657, as the mantel-piece at Lee bears that date and the initial of his second wife ii^lizabelh, who was buried at Ellesmere 5 Aug., 1677. Stephen was born 1616 and tlied 16S2 : he wiis buried with his first wife Sarah in the chancel ofEllesmeie Church. By his will dated 30 Oct. 1677 he settles Lee in jointure on his son, 158 OLD SHROPSHIRE HOUSES AND THEIR OWNERS. Richard Hatchett's (II) marriage in Dec. 1665 to Elizabeth eldest daughter of John Lyth of Lee. Richard was born 164 1, and is described as of Haughton Farm as well as of Lee. By his will dated 8 Feb. 1710 he settled Lee on his son, Richard Hatchett (III) on the latter's marriage at Myddle in 1690 to Mary Richards of Tethill, Co. Salop, daughter- in-law of Francis Morris of the same place. Richard was born 1666, and was receiver for the Earl of Bridgewater within the lordship of Ellesmere. His will is dated 7 March, 171 2. His son, Edward PIatchett, of Lee, married Elizabeth, only daughter of Richard Bulkeley, of Coedana, Anglesey. He was born 1696, died 1754, and was buried at Ellesmere. His son, Richard Bulkeley Hatchett, of Lee, born 1720, died aged 80 in 1800 and was buried at Ellesmere, his will being dated i Dec. 1797. He married in 1748 Martha Owen, daughter of Thomas Owen, of Llynlloedd Co. Mont- gomery, who was born 17 13, and dying at Lee in 1792, was also buried at Ellesmere. There were two sons, Hugh, born 1751, and Bulkeley 1760. Of these the elder, Hugh Hatchett, was High Sheriff of Anglesey in 1812. He succeeded to Tedsmore Co. vSalop, and in 1804 by royal leave assumed the name of Owen after his mother's death. He died at Tedsmore in 1818, and was succeeded by his nephew Thomas Bulkeley Hatchett — see below. Hugh's younger brother, Bulki':lu'y Hatchktt was high sheriff of Merioneth in 1800. He married in 1789 Mary, only daughter of Thomas Mainwaring of Bromborough, at St. Julian's. He died aged 80 in 1830, and his widow aged 75 in 1837, both being buried at Ellesmere. Tiieir son, Thomas Bulkeley Hatchett, succeeded to Tedsmore on the death of his uncle Hugh (Owen) in 1818. He dropped the name of Hatchett and by royal license assumed that of Bulkeley-Owen. He was born in 1790 and died in 1867, leaving by his wife Mariainie (Thelwall) a son, Bulkeley Hatchett Bulkkley-Owkn (1824-1868), who sold Lee to Salisbur)' Kynaston Mainwaring of Oteley, father of the present owner. 159 THE MANOR OF RORRINGTON. By sir OFFLEY WAKEMAN, BART. The Manor of Rorrington is exceedingly small in area, con- sisting as it does of one Township only within the Parish of Chirbury. At Domesday it was a divided Manor. Half was held by Robert Fitz Corbet with Leuric as nnder-tenant, and the other half by Roger Fitz Corbet, and Ossulphus under him. Eacli half included a wood for the fattening of swine, from which we may infer that oak wood was as conspicuous a feature of the landscape then as now. The value of each half was VI Solidi, in the time of King lidward III and VII Solidi respectively. Eyton says " It is singular that, after Doraes- " day, we never hear of any Seigneury at Rorrington, asserted, " "or maintained," by the Corbets of Cans - - - - . Possibly " *' those Barons, at some early period, had surrendered their " "Seigneury at Rorrington to their Kinsmen, the Fitz" Herberts." At any rate we find that family in possession of half the Manor in 1255. From the time of the Seigneury of the Fitz Herberts we have no record of the devolution of the Manor until the period of the Reformation when it was held by the Commandery of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem at Dinniore in Hereford- shire, and was seized by the Crown. In 1545 Henry VIII granted the Manor with the Eands and Buildings belong- ing to the Knights to John Warner, one of his Chaplains, who in the same year sold the whole to W. Kerry or Kery, a Salter of London, one of a family who alread}^ held lands in -I AM H\'' l63 THE MANOR OF RORRINGTON. the adjoing parish of Worthen. The Visitation of 1623 shows a pedigree of Kerry of Worthen, to whom two Coats of Arms are ascribed, viz : — (I) Per Saltire AzAire and Ermine, (II) Quarterly land IV per Saltire Ermine and Azure, II and III Quarterly i and 4 Or a lion rampart requardant gules, 2 and 3 argent 3 boars heads, couped, close sable for Powell. I think that the Kerrys must at first have occupied the Old Buildings, which then included a Chapel, since in the Inventory of 1553 the Vicar (John Myddelton) and the Wardens (Jno. Bady and Walter Hocculton) of Chirbury report, " To the Chapell of Roryngton belongythe " Ite' on' Pyxe of Copper Ite' on' Chales of Sylver w a patene of the same. " Ite' on' vestment of Red chamlet Ite' one bell "The P'ochianers there do saye that aboute IX yeres past they solde three belles of theires for the some of XII'^ whiche " XIP» was delyvered unto oon S^' John Braye clerke for the ** space of sixe yeres then next following and he for his s'vice ■** there to have thencrease thereof durynge the said terme and *'to redelver the said XIP' to the p'ochianers there at the end of the said sixe yeres and althoghe he was desyred dyverse ^' times to redely ver the same as yet he had not done so," See Transactions, Vol. XII., 1900. Of this Chapel there is now neither trace nor tradition ; perhaps it was pulled down when the present Hall was built on the site of the former buildings probably early in the 17th <:entury. In 1637 W. Kerry (Arm.) and George Kerry (Gen.) sold the Manor and I^ands to John Edwards for ^1390. I have in my possession a Bell with an inscription in 17th century characters round the outside ''John Edwards de Rorington," which I take to be the Bell referred to in the Inventory of 1553 re-cast by John Edwards on his purchase of the Buildings. THK MANOR OF RORRINGTON. i6i During the 17th century the Edwardses of Rorrington inter- married with many of the families of the district including the Lloyds of Maesmawr beyond Welshpool, John Edwards Rorrington marrying Thomasin Lloyd towards the end of the century ; their descendants Lloyd Edwards (son) and John Edwards (grandson) held both Rorrington and Maesmawr until the death of the latter in 1763, when a nephew, T. Lloyd Jones the son of H. Morris Jones and Mary Edwards, succeeded to the estate. In the next generation John Jones of Maesmawr in 1828 sold the Manor and Lands at Rorrington to Sir Henry and Lady Wakeman, who already owned adjoining lands in Rorrington and Wotherton which Lady Wakeman had in- herited from her mother Sarah Penbury. The late Mr. Whettal of the Green, who died only a lew years ago told me that he remembered tlie Manorial Pound and Stocks close to the Bridge at Rorrington behind the Hall, and that the Pound Keeper and Commoners used on occasions to round up and impound all strange cattle etc found on Rorrington Hill, and I find that Courts Leet were occasionally held during my father's lifetime, but now-a-days the Manor is of historical interest only. Amongst the trees to the East of the Hall are the remains of the Manorial Mill to which water was brought by a lengthy cut from the Halliwell brook in the Mount Dingle — so named from the Tumulus shown on the Ordnance Map to the S E of the hamlet and now known as The Mount— whilst the brick Dovecote within the grounds of the Hall now affords accommo- dation for a Bull. On Rorrington Hill at the extreme eastern boundary of the Manor is a small Stone Circle known as the Hoar Stone, the stones of which are now completely covered by the heather, and on the crest of the Hill 1200 ft above the sea is situated the Holy Well, which in former days was the scene of the Halliwell Wakes on Holy Thursday as is mentioned in Miss Sophia Bourne's "Shropshire Folklore." A pedigree showing the descent of the Manor through the Edwards and Jones families is appended. I I l62 THE MANOR OP KORRINGTON. 1 63 INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS. [Concluded from \{h Series, Volume VI., page 330.) The documents which follow complete the records of the Institutions of Shropshire Incumbents. They are extracted from the Libri Insiitiitioyiwn, 1800 to 1838. The entries in these books are a summary of the Certificaies of First Fruits^ which are not permitted to be searched without payment of fees after the year 1800. The Shropshire entries do not extend beyond the year 1816. The Institutions of Incumbents in the Shropshire portion of the diocese of St. Asaph have not been printed in the Transactiojis, as they can readily be found in Archdeacon Thomas's " History of the Diocese of St. Asaph." The Institutions here given are those of Shropshire In- cumbents in the Dioceses of Coventry and Lichfield, and of Hereford, from 1800 to I816 inclusive. Also a few institutions for the Diocese of Hereford for the years 1726 and 1727, which were by some oversight omitted by our transcriber when he extracted the entries on File 24. (See 4th Series, Volume II, page 91). W. G. D. F. First Fruits. Bishops' Certificates. Diocese of Hereford. File XXIV. April 1725 to April 1730. On 22nd November, 1726, Hugo Whishaw, clerk, Bachelor of Arts, was admitted to the Vicarage of Diddlebury, Deanery of Ludlow, vacant by the death of the last Incumbent, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, and instituted. On 8th December, 1726, John Acton, LL-D., was admitted to the rectory of Acton Scott, Deanery of Wenlock, vacant by death of the last Incumbent, on the presentation of Edward Acton of Acton Scott, esquire, patron. 164 INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS. On 27th December, auno supradicto, William Dale, clerk,. A.B., was admitted to the second portion of the Rectory of the parish church of Pontesbury, vacant by the death of the last Incumbent, on the presentation of Edward Owen, esquire, patron. On 24th January, anno supradicto, Richard Crosse, lyly.B., clerk, was admitted to the Archdeaconry of Salop in the Church of Hereford, vacant by the death of the last archdeacon, on his own patronage, and was collated and canonically instituted. On 9th February, anno supradicto, Page Newborough, clerk, A.M., was admitted to the rectory of Onibury, in the deanery of I^udlow, vacant by the death of the last Incumbent, on the presentation of William Lord Craven, Baron of Hampstead Mashall in the County of Berks, patron, and instituted. On the same day, Antony Seymore Onians, clerk, was admitted to the vicarage of Stokesay, in the deanery of Ludlow, vacant by the death of the last Incumbent, on the presentation of Lucius Henry Hibbins, esquire, patron, and instituted. On the last day of March, anno supradicto, William Read, clerk, A.M., was admitted to the first portion of the Rectory of Burford, in the deanery of Burford, vacant by the death of the last Incumbent, on the presentation of William Bowles, esquire, patron, and instituted. LiBRi Institutionum. 1800 to 1838. Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. St. Alkmond's V. Shrewsbury. Edward Liuzee, instituted 16 July, 1806, patron The King. Acton Burnell R. Robert Hesketh, instituted 8 January 1813, patron Robert Hesketh, clerk. Baschurch V. Thomas Presland, instituted 10 June 1800, patron The King. Baschurch V. Frank Blakiston, instituted 27 May, 1806, patron The King. INSTITUTIONS OF SHROPSHIRE INCUMBENTS. 165 Bicton P.C. Henry Campbell, instituted 20 July, 1807, patron The Vicar of St. Chad. Broughton P.C. Francis Salt, instituted 25 May 1812, patron Richard Lyster, esquire. Condover V. Richard Scott, instituted 17 July 1807, patron William Smith Peml^erton, esquire. Chetwynd R. William Otter, instituted i August 1811, patron Thomas Borrow, esquire. Chetwynd R. William Otter, instituted 23 December 1811, patron Thomas Borrow, esquire. Condover V. Lawrence Gardener, instituted 17 March, 18 16, patron Edward William Smythe Owen, esquire. Cound R. } 10 6 per annum at 47s. an acre upon an average. See printed History p. 121. The Orphan Hospital — A House for the reception of Several Orphans from the Foundlings' Hospital at London, was at first opened at Doglane, in the year 1759, and continued so, till the present large and elegant building was erected on the bank of the Severn opposite the Quarry. This House was begun in 1760, and finished in five years, by direction of proper persons, appointed by and at the expense of the Manager of the Hos- pital at Lomlon. '0' I KINGSLAND AND SHREWSBURY SHOW. 1 83 Children were sent down in their infancy, and put out to nurse in the Country for many miles about, under the inspection of neighbouring gentlemen, and at a proper age I were brought into the House, where under the care of proper i masters and mistresses, the boys and girls were instructed in sewing, knitting, carding, spinning, and several other branches of a woollen manufactory, begun and carried on there, until a proper age to put out apprentices. For several years past, the Managers of the London Hospital have not thought proper to send any more children, the House in consequence broke up, and has been for some J time uninhabited excepting in one part, where a considerable I manufactory in the woollen branch is carried on by Messrs. j James and Thos. Baker. > The expense of erecting this Building was al)ove ;^i2,ooo. I It consists of a front with two wings, and all necessary outhouses and conveniences, ^ Application is intended to be made to the Governor of the 1 Foundling Hospital at London by the several parishes in this , Town, who have in view the renting of this House to make \ use of it as a general Poor House. { In the Shrewsbury Reference Libraiy there is a most ; interesting MS. " History of Shrewsbury Show" composed by S. J. M. Hulbert, who died in 1842 aged 22. The following extracts give us a vivid description by a youthful eye witness : 1 "The History and description of the festivities of Show Monday in and near Salop's Metropolis will be found entirely original with the exception of the ancient History by Mr. Phillips in 1777 in the History of Shrewsbury." After quoting from the History he adds — "I shall now enter into a more minute description." " On Kingsland several arbours (or feasting houses) still remain, the most curious ami ancient of v/hich is the Shoe- makers' ; in front stands an archway of free stone, of the date of Henry VIII, with two mutilated figures, probably of Crispin and Crispianus, on eacli side over the arch. The arbours contain a dining room, and a small house for cooking — which is tenanted the whole year; before this building is a small KINGSLAND AND SHRKWSRUKY SHOW. enclosure, a suitable place for * tripping the light fantastic toe ' — a windmill stands on the South side of this cluster of Arbours.' Then follows a quotation from the Shrewsbury Chronicle giving * A description of the procession of 1831 — During the whole of the previous week great preparations were made for the coming festival, and about eleven o'clock the gentlemen of the various companies met each other at the inns fixed for their starting place — parading the principal streets before meeting at the jCastle — those assembled on the street called Pride Hill, are enlivened by two men of the Butcher's band playing on a fife and drum their favourite tune of ' Oh, the roast beef of Old England.' The procession is led by a 'king' on horse back, gaily dressed with crownlets and gauds of rare device, either representing the monarch who granted their charters or some principal personage of their trades, before proceeding to dine at Kingsland. The Tailors were headed by two persons dressed in imitation of our first parents, Adam and Eve, wearing a flesh coloured leathern dress partly concealed with leaves sewn together in imitation of the first human covering ever invented — after these two (or rather between) came a man bearing a tree with a number of apples tied on its branches, of which the happy pair plentifully eat — round the stem of the tree is the ' subtle serpent' (who proved the frailty of woman). Flax Dressers &c., represented by two men, although in this case one personifies a woman, dressed in stuff" similar in quality to sack cloth, called 'Jobson & Nell' (who acted man and wife) and are the principal characters in a farce bearing that name ; Nell, the wife, held a distaff" covered with flax, she occasionally partook of the contents of a wine bottle (which if once filled would soon be empty) but her husband, when he thought she was drinking more than her share, would give her a smart tap on the shoulders with a leathern belt, for he, like Roderick Random, possessed a friend ' Strap,' Jobson compels her to surrender the bottle and then himself * Takes a sup and drinks it up ' much to his own gratification and the amusement of the beholders. KINGSLAND AND SHREWSBURY SHOW. 185 It has been the practice ot the Companies at Kingsland to provide (in addition to themselves) refreshments for the Mayor and Corporation at their respective arbours. Various were the means provided for entertainment, * Ups and downs ' 'Jerry-go-rounds' for the juveniles, whilst those whose could muster ' the matter o' threepence' with Light and slack rope dancing, Hocuspocus, Punch and his family. Towards evening began the Publican's harvest — their tents were crammed, and it seemed a hard task to supply their customers fast enough. The proceedings at Kingsland and Shrewsbury have been conducted for the last few years in a very degraded manner by a number of low and dissolute persons, who have gone to such immoderate excess on the occasion, as to render what was once a pleasing institution now a digusting one. In consequence of the dissolution of the Corporation Companies (trading) &c., this custom (Shrewsbury Show) has become vohmtary for the burgesses to observe, whereas before 1835 they were compelled to feast the Mayor and Corporation on that day," Charles Hulbert the author of the History of Shrewsbury^ in his book " Memoirs" 1852, gives interesting topographical sketches. On p. 190 he says: — "I passed over Kingsland, visited the Arbours of the Trading Companies ; sat a few minutes at the Kingsland Cofifee House, kept by Mrs. Oliver; formerly by a Mr. Johnson, who lost his life in the river Severn, at a time ot the great flood in 1776, while endeavouring to save property floating down the stream. From thence I proceeded to the Mouse of Industry (late Orphan Asylum) the inmates were not very numerous, and the house seemed to be under good management. I was very much amused with the eccentricities of one of its inmates, livan Thomas, ' Prince Thomas, Astrologer,' as he called himself. He had written verses for the Shrewsbury Almanac ; but his great pretension was to the knowledge of the fate of man, IVom the aspect ot the vStars. Sometimes he took a stroll from his Palace, as he called it, and solicited the favour of a shilling to make known the destiny of the giver. l86 KINGSLAND AND SHREWSBURY SHOW. On one occasion he called at our house, and obtained the usual fee from the nurse maid. On examining her hand, he foretold that 'she would be very happily married, and become very rich.' On hearing this she exclaimed, ' I am married very miserable, and made very poor, give me my money again.' The demand was complied with, and Prince Thomas lost his fame." In Field's life of John Howard, the prison philanthropist, p. 321, he describes Howard's second visit to Shrewsbury, visiting the Kingsland Prisoner of War detention Camp : — " Proceeding to Shrewsbury, he found a prisoner who had been for five years under sentence of transportation. A large building, erected on the banks of the Severn, in 1765, for the reception of children from the Foundling Hospital in London, contained at this time 338 Dutch prisoners of war. Most of them were barefooted, having received no clothing from the States, as the French and Spanish prisoners bad from their respective governments. British benevolence had therefore been excited in their behalf and contributions had been raised to supply them with requisite apparel. Clothes were purchased, but the Commissary had forbidden their distribution, with the base design of forcing them to enter our Navy, having an officer in attendance to receive all who would consent, Howard first made a donation of ten guineas to the fund. He learned that access to the prisoners was refused. Having an order from the Transport Board for free admission into the Prison, he desired that the Articles which had been purchased might be brought there, and the Commissary, not daring to resist him, he had the prisoners assembled and distributed the clothing amongst them. He then told them that, if any of them should so far forget their duty to their countr}' as to serve against her, though in the pay of England, he would take care that their names should be transmitted to Holland, where, if ever they were taken, they would most certainly be hanged. Then charging the subordinate officers that the articles were properly applied, he took leave, after giving them a small gratuity. Amongst the captives in this temporary prison w\'is a com- mon sailor conspicuous for his attention to his fellow- KINGSLAND AND SHREWSBURY SHOW. 187 prisoners who were sick. He sat up with them, he administered their medicines, lie prepared their food, and, which accounts for his sympathy and self-denial, he * prayed by them.' Howard heard of him, and, attracted by the kindred spirit of a Christian, he inspired what he could do that might best conduce to his comfort. He found the man content in his captivity, and, whilst cheerfully devoting himself to the relief of many sufferers, he sought no earthly recompense; he would ask nothing for himself. At last his visitor discovered that, when wear}^ with watching, a cup of tea was especially grateful to him. About a week after, this Dutch sailor received a loaf of sugar, a pound of tea, a kettle, with all other apparatus required for a favourite repast." lu 1878 the Shrewsbury Show was suppressed by order of the Home Secretary, and Kingsland was laid out for Villa residences. In 1882 the Shrewsbury School was transferred to Kingsland and the vacated old buildings became the Free Library and Museum. The stone gateway of the Shoe Makers' Arbour still survives, having been re-erected 'in the Quarry Dingle Salopian Shreds and Patches, p. 222, Sep. 1877. ** Memorials of the Cholera 1832. Two grave stones mark the spot where the victims were buried, in a field near the House of Industry, one bearing the following inscription : — * Sacred to the memory of Mary, the beloved wife of Wm. Johnson, Wyle Cop, who died August nth 1832 aged 36.'" Ibid. Feb. 1884. p. 15. The Harbours, a name which means a place of entertain- ment, but, in accordance with a local dalectic peculiarity, it became changed into Arbour. The interior fittings of all the Arbours v/ere of a like character. A central table extending the whole length, with benches on either side, a raised chair with a canopy for the Mayor or presiding warden, at the upper end, and at the lower, a buttery for the viands enclosed by a partition. Attached to the hall were other buildings for the use of the people who had care of the place, and a court or space of ground, usually rectangular, was surroundetl ))y a hedge and a ditch, with an entrance gateway more or less ornamental. i88 KINGSLAND AND SHREWSBURY SHOW. The largest and most interesting was the Shoemakers*" Arbour. It was composed of a timber frame and lattice work, but differed from the others in shape, being octagonal. The close or area in which it stood was entered by a stone archway of Doric design, which was erected in 1679 at a cost of £2'^ 6s. yd. and in 1684 two stone statues of Crispin and Crispanianus were placed in the tympanum, with the following lines inserted on a panel : — We are but images of stonne ; Do us no harme, we can do nonne. They have, however, been sadly and wantonly mutilated. The Cherry tree still growing in Mr. Pickering's garden stood in front of the Shoemakers' Arbour. In this Arbour was born the wife of Councillor John Oliver, one of the first labour men appointed as Borough Magistrate. His younger brother Edward is the present Schools Estate Engineer. Salopian Shreds and Patches, 1883, p. 151. Adjacent to the Shoemakers' Arbour was a maze, generally known as ' The Shoemakers' Race.' It formed a labyrinth of walks, containing a measured mile within the compass of a few yards. It was destroyed in 1796 when a large brick wind- mill was built on part of its site. This windmill was demolished in 1861. Shropshire Notes and Qneries, 1898, p. 43. The frontispiece to Phillips' History is a 'south view of Shrewsbury taken from Hermitage Coffee House,' ' The Salutation,' Kingsland. Shropshire Notes and Queries, 1895, p. 73. The Kingsland ' Bee-hive ' public house, bore on its sign : — Within this hive, we are alive Good liquor makes us funny, If you are dry, come in and try The flavour of our honey." In ' Memorials of Shrewsbury,' 1851, page 226, Pidgeon states, * Kingsland' is spelt ' Chingsland' in an early Norman grant. SHOEMAKERS' ARBOUR. KINGSLAND. iSnici' U( 't'rcrted in the Qitirrry hinnlc). i89 DAME MARGARET EYTON'S WII.L, 1642. By C. STUART BETTON. The will of this lady is remarkable for mention of no less than 40 relatives. The copy in Somerset House runs as follows : — *' In the Name of God, Amen. The nynth day of June in the Eighteenth yeare of the raigne of our Souraigne Lord Charles by the Grace of God k England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c I Dame Margarett Eyton Widdow and Relict of Sir Phillipp Eyton late of Eyton in the Countie of Salopp Knight deceased, beinge weake of bodie, but of good and perfect meniorie praised be God doe make ordaine and declare this my last Will and Testament in writinge in manner and forme followinge Vizt ffirst I comend my soule into the hands of Allmiglity God my Maker and Redeemer hopeing assuredly through the only merritts of Jesus Christ my Saviour to bee made partaker of life everlastinge And my body to be buried in the parrishe Church ofSainte Chadde in the Countie of Shreresburie in ye said Countie of Salop And I doe give and bequeath unto my Brother Robert Betton the some of ffoure pounds of lawful Englishe monie wherewith to buy him a mourninge Gowne to weare after my decease And I doe also bequeath unto my Brother ffrancis Betton the some of Eight pounds to be yearly paid by my Executors to the said F. B. and Katherine his wife duringe their nrall lifes, and ye life of the longer liver of them and after the decease of the said ffrancis and Katherine then to bee paid yearly to Charles Betton soune of the said flfrancis, and lilizabeth Betton daughter of the said ffrancis, and 3'e longer liver of them beinge equally divided betwixt them whilst they both are alive and after the decease of either of them then the whole Eight 'pounds to bee paid yearly to the survivor of them. Alsoe I give and bequeath unto James Betton Doctor in Divinitie over and above more then the I90 DAME MARGARET EYTON'S WILI.. hundred pounds w<^^ lie hath already of mine in his hands the some of ffortie pounds of like monie. Also I doe give to my Cousin Joseph Betton Tanner his children to be equally divided amonge them the some of Tvventie pounds And to my Cousin Robert Betton Esquie^ the some of ffifde pounds Likewise I do give & bequeath to my Cousin Kdward Purcell gent the some of Thirtie pounds over and aboue more then the Twentie pounds w'^^ he halh already in his hands. And to my Cousin Richard Owen Gent more than the hundred pounds w'^^ he hath alreadie receaved the some of Threescore pounds And alsoe to my Cousin James Proud Gent more than what I have already given ffiftie pounds, likewise I doe give to my Cousin Cousin IMr. John Studley ffiftie pounds whereof he hath alreadyin his hands ffortie pounds And to my Sister Mrs. Klinor ffreebodie ffortie shillings wherew*^ to buy her a Ringe And I doe give to my Kinswoman Mrs. Sarah Wightwicke twentie pounds more then what she hath already receaved I do also give to my Cousin Richard Betton Vintner ffiftie pounds over and aboue besides those somes he hath already receaved Item I doe leave to my Brother in lawe Richard Wicherley Gent twentie pounds And to my Cousin Mr Daniel Wicherley B itchelor in Divinitie the some of one hundred pounds more than the former hundred w^^^ he hath already receaved I doe leave alsoe to my Cousin Margarett Donne the daughter of William Donne of Little Ness deceased ffiftie pounds to be sett forth by my Executo^ for her use till she come to age And to my Cousin Mrs Elizabeth Donne widdowe the some of two hundred pounds w^^ she hath alreadie receaved I also give to my Cousin Nathancll I^ea Mercer the some of twentie pounds w^^^ said some he hath alreadie receaved And I give to Edward Wildinge of Shreresbury Mercer twentie pounds Likewise I give to the children of my Cousin Mr Ricluird Betton of Nerwick [lierwick] one hundred pounds to bee ecpially divided amonge them Moreover I give to William Eyton my son in lawe tlie some of iliftie pounds w<^^' said some he hath already in his hands And I doe give to William Cheshire of Eyton ffive pounds Antl to Mrs Friinces Cliarlton the wife of DAME MARGARET EYTON's WILL. 191 Andrew Charlton ofTearne Gent Twentie pounds in money and my chaine of gold and my silver Cann Also I doe give to Cadwalader Kllies and his wife Margarett beinge now my servant the some of ffive pounds Item I give and bequeath to Jane Massey, beinge my servant Twentie pounds Aud to my •servant Ellinor Sambrooke Ten pounds and to Philipp Steeventon Three pounds Item I doe leave to the poore of the parrishe of Wellington in the Countie of Salop ffive pounds Item I doe give to my Cousin Sidney Betton Twentie nobles in monie And I doe give unto Stephen George sonne of my Cousin Owen George that my lease for the yeares yet remayinnge of and in one Tenement in Trewnsnt now or late in the liouldinge of William Rogers and Keignald Rogers or one of them their or one of their assignes or undertenants w^^ I have of the graunt of Edward Tannat and Anne his wife ffor the Terme of ffive hundred 3^eares Uppon condition of I redemption by payment of one hundred Twentie and ffoure pounds sixteen shillings at a day menconed in the same Condition, as by the lease thereof bearinge date the Eleventh day of October relacon thereunto beinge had more may j appeare And if the said Tenement shalbe redeemed by ! payment of the aforesaid some of [^124 16 o] as aforesaid ; Then T doe give unto the said S.G. the same some of [124 16 o] and all and eury other somes of monie w^^ shalbe paid or accepted for and in redemption of the premises in Trevnant aforesaid Also I doe give to my Cousin Thomas Rocke of Shrewsbuiie Esquiour ye some of Thirtie pounds. I doe alsoe give the some of ffiftie pounds to be disposed of at the discretion of my Executo^ hereafter named for the augmentation and increase for ever of the maintenance of the Minister of the parishe church of Sainte Cadd in Shrewsbury for the time beinge. Item I doe give to Ellinor the daughter of my Cousin Thomas Betton draper the some of Ten pounds Item I doe give to Margaret the daughter of my Cousin John Betton of Shrews])urie draper one hundred pounds Item I forgive William Pitchford of Pulley yeoman the some of Twentie pounds w*^'^ he oweth to mee Alsoe I bequeath to Philipl) the sonne of Thomas li^yton Ivsquio'' Two guilt wine 192 DAME MARGARET EYTON's WII^L. bowles and to Thomas the second sonne of the said Thomas Eyton Esquiour one guilt wine bowle Likewise I give to my Cousin Edward Davies of the Middle Temple in London one hundred pounds Item I give to Margaret the wife of my said Cousin Edward Davies a nest of silver and my best second sault being over guilt Moreover I give to Edward the sonne of my Cousin Owen George Gent a silver vioall and one dozen of silver spoons And to Stephen the sonne of my said Cousin Owen George Gent a silver ^violl and one dozen of silver spoons Item I doe give to Marie Betton and Abigail Bettou daughters of ray Cousin Mr John Betton Draper Two guilt bowles Moreover I doe give all my household stuffe, Pewter, Brasse, Beddinge, Linnen, and the rest of my Plate un- bequeathed unto my Cousin Marie the wife of my said Cousin Owen George Gent And I will that all my kindred to whonie by this my Will I have given Legacies shall eury of them at his and her owne charge buy them black mourninge Gownes and Cloakes to weare at my funeral And all the legacies aforesaid to be paid w*^^ in the space of Three yeares except such as my P^xecuto^ in their discrecion shall see cause to be sooner paid And all the rest of my monies, Corne, Cattle and personall estate whatsoever \\^^ I have not in this my last Will and Testament perticulerly given and bequeathed unto others (my debts Legacies and funerall expenses paid and discharged) I give and bequeath to each of my P^xecuto^ hereafter nienconed Vizt to Owen George and John Betton Lastly I doe make constitute and appoint my welbeloved Cousin Owen George of Shrewsbury Gent, John liettori of the said Towne Gent, and Edward Davies of the Middle Temple in London Gent to bee the Executo*^ of this my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have to eury leafe or sheete of this my present last Will and Testament sett my hand and seale The day andyeare first aboue written Memorand that theis words (vizt to Owen George and John Betton) were interlined before the sealinge thereof. Sealed signed and published ])y the w^-^'in named Dame Margarett Eyton as her last Will and Testament iu the presence of ffrancis Baynes, Thomas Betton, Thomas Alcocke, Rich. Poole. DAME MARGAKET EYTON'S WILL. 193 Probatum [etc] Secundo die Mensis Decembris A.O. Millimo Sexceno qiiadragesimo secundo Juramento Kdwardi Davies unius Executoi um [etc] Reservata p'tate similem Com" facienci Oweno George et Johaimi Betton Ceteris Kxecutor [etc] Admiiiistraconis bonor diet' defunct' Ultimo mensis Augusti Millesimo sexceno quadragesimo secundo quibusdam Richardo Betton senior et Richardo Betton junior commissionis prius revocats Probatum ac per sententiam diffinistram approbatum .... Vicesimo die mensis Januarii Anno Mill, sex quad secundo Juramento . . . Oweni 'George et Johaunis Betton [etc] . [P.C.C. 3 Crane.] Two of the Executors were residents in the Town of Salop. John Betton was an inveterate litigant ; and after his failure to establish a workhouse for poor cliild*-en in the Jersey House was described in 1642, by Thomas Jones of Salop, as of well- I known peevisli and fierce disposition," which he may have I inherited from his Welsh mother. In tlie litigation which he instituted concerning the Will, considerable allowance must be made both for liis irascible temper and political rancour. It is stated tliat, on the day Dame Eyton died, the local executors placed the will in a sealed letter and posted it, via Nantwich Co. Chester, to Davies in London to be proved ; and that John Betton wrote a letter to John Robinson, who •was his partner in Woollen Trade in London, informing him how the will was being forwarded. This second letter was sealed and left at the " Mancon House of one Richard Betton in Shrewsbury, vyntner and then postmaster (and a maligant and disaffected person and an open and professed enemy against the vStates) to be posted away unto London." Obviously it could not have been in connection with this Will case that on Aug. 22, 1642, the Plouse ot Commons ordered that Richard Betton Receiver of letters at Shrews- bury " was to be replaced by John Hopton ; who, according to a local counter petition (Ottley papers fo. 109 Phillipps MSS 224 in Slir. Ref. Lib.) was " a bad fellow, neither of Abillitie, honnestie, or Creditt, and a factious person." 194 DAME MARGARET RYTON'S WILIv. In the narrative of the conspirac}^ the Vintner is accused of having opened, read, resealed and dispatched the 2nd letter, and in confederation with " Richard Owen, then of Shrewsbur}', gent, a malignant also and enemy to the States," " by force with about xoo persons entered and took possession of deceased's dwelling house, turned her servants out of doors, took away her cattle, and reaped her corn." (Affidavit by J.B. House of Lords Calendar). In a later chancery suit against Richard Betton, draper, Trumper and his wife, and Thomas Purcell, the confederates names then also included the 4th Richard Betton of Berwick and his wife, and Elizabeth wife of the vintner; all of whom are alleged to have taken " a company of unruly and disordered persons with them ... to the house in Pulley . . . armed with divers kinds of unlawful weapons on or about Aug. 19, 1642 . . . broke open the doors . . . took . . . all the goods, plate, ready money, household stuff . . . remayning ... in trunks, chests, presses . . . & carried away the same in cartes, waynes," etc., & (in 1646) ** refuse any manner of satisfaction for the same, and shift the same from hand to hand and place to place in such private and covert manner that your orator cannot come at them" (Chan. Proc. Chan I. G. 13/33). After which, the vintner " rideth away with one ffyges, then his servant, unto Stone Co. Stafford," and there tried to persuade the servant of the Nantwich postmaster to open the packett ; which, however, was safely delivered to Mr. Challoner, postmaster at Stone ; who delivered it to the post for Lichfield, which was the next stage. Foiled in their first attempt, R.B. and F. then '* wayted the Boyes going forth of Stone on the 24th August and the Lordes day," persuaded him to return to his mother's house, and there got the will, and *' upon the Monday following, did ryde post unto London," and confederated with R. B. draper, Purcell, and Trumper, to suppress the will. But J. B., on hearing from Robinson that the will had not been received, made enquiries at Nantwich and Stone ; and the post boy, on l)cing ])rought DAME MARGARET EYTON'S WILI.. I95. before Thomas Crompton, Justice of the Peace for Co. Stafiford, confessed that a letter bad been taken from his bag. Whereupon J. B. " took horse and did ride with all possible speed unto London and came thereupon ... 2 days after admon " had been granted to R. B. Vintner and R. B. draper. It does not transpire on what grounds admon had been granted to a nephew and great nephew of Dame Kyton, who, even had she died intestate, "had two brothers both of them living in Shrewsbury, and two sisters to witt, one in London, and the other in or near Henley in Arden." In one suit, R. B., draper, states he was credibly informed that Dame Kyton died intestate ; Trumper and wife, and Purcell, answer similarly. However, J. B. and Davies repaired unto Dr. Allett, and the letters of admon were cancelled; and the Lords of Most High and Hon, Court of Parliament ordered that a messenger be sent to call the accused ; so Mr. Cuxton proceeded to Salop, and arrested Richard Owen, ''but was taken from him by force and strong hands of malignants and disaffected persons"; and R. B., vintner, concealed and hid himself; and R. B. draper "was attached in London, and remayned a prysoner under the Clarke rodd " (Chan. Proc. Char. I. B 32/33)- It is evident that J. B's affidavit, attached to the 3 executors' petition to the House of Lords on Aug. 30th, caused the 3 accused to be sent for as *' delinquents " ; and that the petition of R. B. draper, of his "being apprehended by this House for suspicion of a Riot, and no charge against him " was read on Sept. 21st, and he was released on Bail; and that on Oct. 7th the executors petitioned the case " may not be heard until all the parties and witnesses can appear" before the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (House of Lords Journal). Finally, the will was proved by Davies on Dec. 2, power reserved for the other two executors, who proved Jan. 20, 1642-3 P.C.C. 196 DAME MARGARET EYTON's WILL- Presumably, as no one was hanged, and everyone pursued their ordinary avocations, it was found that J. B's sensational allegations were somewhat exaggerated. But, jointly with the other executors, he continued litigation till Davies' death in 1645 ; after which, with Owen George. By June 1646 other relatives had been dragged into the case; John Bishop of Muckleton and Edward Betton of Lombard Street being bound with Trumper in a recognizance by order of the Court of Chancery (Close Rolls, 22 Chas I., 20th part, M. 140 and 225). Naturally by this time litigation had " caused the wastage of a great part of the estate," and several of the legatees and Owen George had died by 1653. Echoes of the case are heard in Chancery suits of succeeding generations e.g. in 1657, when Rowland Hunt was defendant in a suit (Chan. Proc, Bridges before 1714, 406/128). In 1661 a specall capias ut legatim against the body and lands" of the 5th Richard Betton of Berwick directed to the Sheriff of Salop was taken out by a son of Thomas Purcell, touching a matter of debt, but the outlawry proceedings were stopped (Chan. Proc. Bridges 433/44). On May 6, 1667 John Betton " being sicke in body but of perfect memory, blessed bee God " made his own will and was buried at St. Alkmunds two days later, and apparently litigation ceased. In tracing all the parties mentioned in Dame Eyton's Will and Chancery, suits, some curiously complex relationships are disclosed. Only "Cousin Sydney Betton" remains unidentified, possibly a child, for the term cousin includes nephews, nieces, and their children both by blood and alliance. Dame Margaret was a daughter of the 2nd Richard Betton of Great Berwick by his wife Eleanor Jenckes [? of Dorrington] and was christened at St. Alkmunds, Salop, Dec. 13, 1573. If DAME MARGARET EYTON's WII.I,. I97 She married firstly luUvard Donne, Mercer, Bailiff of Salop in 1604 etc. ; of whose family some details are given in Shr. Arch. Trans. Ser. 3, vol. 5, p. 135. In 1604 the Manor of Broncoppol alias Builthy, which was then in Co. Montgom, but now is in Wollaston par., County Salop, had been mort- gaged to him (Newling's MSS. 31, fo. 108, Shr. Ref. Lib.), and by his will pr. P.C.C. 1629 was left to William Donne of Little Ness, his nephew both by blood and by alliance. The latter in 164 1 willed that, out of his tenement hi Placey Court, ;^500 was to be raised for his wife Elizabeth "to be paid at the decease of Lady Dame Margaret Eyton of Pulley, widdowe, at which time the tenement in Little Ness, wherein I now dwell, falls from her." Edward Donne's will mentions " Anne Pitcliford, widow, my sister," and her 3 children, one of whom may be " William Pitchford of Pulley yeoman " in 1642. The rest of his property, including the messuages and lands which they had in Bangor, Co. Plint, he left to his wife; who must have been a fascinating widow of 58 when, as Mrs. Margaret Donn, she married with Lysence Sir Philip Itonn at St. Chads Feb 3, 1630-1. Philip Eyton of Eyton had been Knighted at Tamworth 1619 and by his first wife Mary Yale, who died Oct. 1630, had sons William and Thomas (afterwards Sir Thomas ICyton, Royalist). Sir Philip was Sheriff of Co. Salop 1633, and of Co. Montg. 1634. He died 1636, and by his will, pr. PCC. 1637, left to Dame Margaret his " welbeloued and good wife . . . all beasts, cattels, . . . corne and grayne . . . and all my coales which are now gotten & doe reniayne aboue the grounds in Malensle, . . . all . . . except my old bay stoned horse and my pyed mare which I doe most usually ryde on my selfe," and all else to her for life, then to his eldest surviving son Thomas. The Sole Executor was to be Margaret, " who sayetli she is now well pleased & contented with this my present last will." Dame Margaret was in June 1641 a wealthy widow residing at Pulley, made her last will in the following year, and died 198 DAME) MARGARET KYTON'S WILI.. Aug. 13, *' at or within a messuage & tenement wherein shee manye tymes dwelt & still kept separate scituate in Pulley, and was buried Aug. 18 at St. Chads, Salop. Of her II or 12 brothers and sisters : — I. The 3rd Richard Betton of Berwick had died 1613, when Bailiflf of Salop, leaving, by his first wife Mary Harryes, I. The 4th Richard of Berwick, who md. Eleanor Purcell and had a large family, of whom : — (z) Richard Betton, Draper of London 1642, and a Blackwell Hall trader to I655, afterwards the 5th •Richard of Berwick. Possibly his first wife was Katherine [? Purcell] bd. at St. Dunstans in the West 1640. He certainly md. at St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, 1648, Elizabeth Carver (on his decease in 1671, she md. 2ndly Joseph Tipton, widower, tanner, of Coleham : their wills pr. Lichfield 1693 and 1711 in which year she was buried at St. Marys from St. Julians par.) (iV) Edward Betton, Silkman, 1646 of St Edmunds par, Lombard Street ; 1669 of St Saviour's, Southwark bd. Salop that year, admon P.C.C. {Hi) Anne Betton md. John Bishop, 1646 of Muckleton, 1656 of Lacon. Bd. Wem 1678 & 1684 respectively. {iv) Margaret Betton, md. William Trumper, 1640 Mercer of St Augustine's par, London ; 1662 of Hardwick, Co. Hereford. II. James Betton, D.D. Puritan, who 1628 md. Sarah, widow of George Ludford of Ansley Co War., will of latter pr. P.C.C. 1627. Siie had 7 children by her I St husband, and eleven by her 2nd. (She was only dau. of Thomas Warren of Bittel, par Alvechurch, Co Wore, Clerk of Arraigns, will pr. P.C.C. 1617, whose widow Sarah was later of Coventry, will pr. P.C.C. 1661). DAMK MARGARET EYTON'S WILL. 199 III. Joseph Betton, Tanner of Salop, d. Dec. 1642. IV. Eleanor Betton, md. Edward Purcell of Onslow ; both bd. at Wortheu 1679 and 1666 respectively. His brother Thomas Purcell, draper of St Edmunds par, London, had his shoppe att the signe of the Goulden ffleece in Lumbard Street," and by his wife Lucy, sister of Capt. William and Sir Joseph Throckmorton, Kt. left 5 sons.& 3 daus. His will pr. P.C.C. 1661. 2. Robert Betton, Mayor of Salop 1639, died 1646, whose sons I. Robert, Royalist, Mayor of Salop 1643, died 1658. II. John, Mayor 1658 [? md. Mary, dau of Andrew & Frances Charlton of Tern]. III. Thomas, Royalist, d. 1655 ; whose dau. Eleanor Betton md. Robert Passand, Apothecary (son of Thomas Passand by his first wife Ann, dau. of Roger Blakeway) on whose death in 1661 she probably md. 2ndly Collins Woolrich as his 2nd or 3rd wife. 3. John Betton, chr. 1560, md. Frances Bangor of Aberapull ; (whose arms possibly were Gu. a chev. between 3 leopards faces or, langued az, a chief erm., granted about 1445 to Smith als. Bangor ; for on their son's will 1667 is a poor impression of a seal with a chev. betw. 3 leopards faces barely discerned, impaled with the Betton Armsj. He died before 1642, leaving I. John Betton, the only child recorded in Heralds Visitation of Salop, born about 1600, draper of Salop, inveterate litigant and executor of Dame Eyton. His widow Lucy died 1678 at East Lavant Co Sussex, of which her son John was then Rector. 4. Francis Betton, chr. 1567, Corvizor of Salop, died before 1657, his wife Catherine having predeceased him in 165 1. 200 DAME MARGARET EYTCN's WILL. 5. Thomas Betton, chr. 1575, was "of the Gullet" and died from plague 1631. (His widow Aiine nid. 2iidly 1635 Thomas Allen, owner of the Bear' in the Gullet," and cousin of William Berrington of Moat Hall, Pontesbury. He was a widower with 2 children by his first marriage, when his will was proved P.C.C. 1655). His son was that L Richard Betton, born 1601-5, Vintner of Salop, and 1642 Postmaster; in 1648, he leased ''the Gullet Inn " from Thomas Hunt, and in later years was " decayed in his estate by being plundered . . . by the Parliamentary party and souldiers ... in the late unhappy times of warrs to value of ;^2000, for being a servant & Icyal subject to late King Charles," and died 1671 ; his wife Elizabeth was living 1656. (6). Margery Betton md. 1588 Richard Wicherley, Mercer of Wem. They were bd in Wem 1637 and 1643 respectively, leaving : — I. Daniel Wicherley, D.D. Preqend of Hinton and Rector of Witney Co. Heref till 1677, who had an only son Daniel living 1670. II. Elizabeth Wicherley, who md William Donne of Little Ness & Plas-y-Court, as previously mentioned ; whose eldest son Edward Donne, Chr. at Little Ness, 1642, md. Mary Wynne. (Their joint initials PIM., & date 1678 appear on the fireplace at Plas-y-Court. In Shr. Arch. Trans. Ser. 4, vol. 5, p. 334, their descent is erroneously given). III. Mary Wicherley md. 1616 Owen George, Mercer, Mayor of Salop i6-]8, Wills pr, P.C.C, 1670 & 1654 respectively, of whose children, Edward George chr. fOi7, mercer, d.s.p. Will P.C.C. 166.) ; »Stcphen George, mercer, chr 1620, died 1657; and Mar^^'lret George, md 1637 lulward Davies of Middle Temple DAME MARGARET EYTON'S WILI.. 201 whose Wills were both pr. P.C.C. 1645. The latter's dau. Mary Davies md Rowland son ot Colonel Thomas Hunt. (7) . Ann Betton, clir. 1570, may be the Ann Betten of Wootten Waven whose marriage bond with Richard Dale, yeoman of Claverdon Co. Warw. is dated July 9, 1599 (vVorc. Prob. Reg.) ; & one of the 2 surviving sisters of Dame Eyton who 1642 was living in or near Henley in^ Arden." (8) . Alice Betton md. istly in 1592 Richard Prowde, draper of Salop who was bd at St Alkmunds 1608, Will pr. P.C.C. 1609, by whom she had I. James Prowde, living 1642. II. Eleanor Prowde, chr. 1592, md. St Alkmunds 161 1 Richard Roche "the younger," who born 1594 was Sheriff of Co. Montg 1620 in succession to his father. Their Wills pr. P.C.C. 1633 & 1628 respectively ; their dau. Alice Rocke md. 1635 Nathaniel I^ea (son of Rev. lyawrence Lee of Whittington, & mercer of Salop, whose Will pr. Lichfield 1676. III. Margaret Prowde md. Richard Owen of Lythwood & Salop; they died 1645 & 1652 respectively. IV. Sarah Prowd, chr. 1600, md. John Wightwick, Draper, Bailiff of Salop 1637, as his 2nd wife : his Will pr. P.C.C. 1639. V. Mary Prowd, chr. 1595, md. John Studley, draper, Bailiff of Salop 1624, Mayor 1642, as his 3rd wife, & their son John Studley was chr. 1623. (John Studley the Bailiff by his ist wife Anna Kdwards had Lucy Studley, who md. 1625 John Betton an executor of Dame Eyton). Alice, widow of Richard Prowde, aid. 2ndly at St Alkmunds 161 1 Richard Rocke, who born 1564 was Sheriff of I \ » I 202 DAME MARGARKT EYTON'S WILI.. Co. Montg. 1620, iu which year he died and his will pr. P.C.C. (By his first wife, he had Thomas Rocke, draper of Salop, who md. Mary Scott of Bettou Strange; and Richard Rocke "the younger," who md. Elinor Prowde aforesaid). Aiice was thus both mother in law and step-mother of Richard Rocke the younger. She and her dau. were married at St. Alkmunds the same day. 9. Elinor Betton chr. 1582 md. John Freebody (Visitation of London, and will P.C.C. pr 1658) ; both buried in St. Andrew Under-shaft, d.s.p. 203 AN ORDER OF THE COUNCIL IN THE MARCHES, JULY 1571. By CAROLINE A. J. SKEEL, D.Lit. The following Order of the Council in the Marches (Brit. Mils. Add. Charters 40,858) is of interest as being one of the comparatively few records of the Council that escaped destruction after its abolition in 1689/ The Shrewsbury and Ludlow records contain a fair number of Orders from the Council, and many are entered in the Register for 1586 — 1642 (Brit. Mus. Egerton MS. 2882), but this document would seem to have been filed among the Council's records at Ludlow Castle. The Order shows that the complaint against the Court o{ the Marches of extending its jurisdiction over cases which could be sufficiently determined by common law was not always justified. The Order was issued during the presidency of Sir Henry Sydney (1559-86). It is signed by Thomas Sherer, who was Clerk of the Council for many years: details of his work are given in the preface (p. 25) to the Calendar of the Register of the Council in the Marches of Wales (1569-1591) published as No. 8 of the Cymmrodorion Record Series (1916). Apud Bridgnorth Quarto Julii anno Regni domine nostre Elizabetlie dei gracia Anglie ffrauncie et hibernie Regina fidei defensor etc. decimo tertio, Inter Richardum Culmer et florens uxorem eius Querentes et Johannem Edwardes, Rogerum Tanner, Ricliardum Budd, Johannem Bluck, Johannem Smythe, Johannem Tanner senior (sz'c), Johannem Robertes, Dauid Waters, Richardum Waters, Aliceam Wotton, Maltildam (sic) Tanner, Edwardum Lewis, Thomam Robins, Lawrence Waters, Thomam Wotton, Johannem Tanner Juniorem, Dauid Rowland et Edwardum Gittoes defiendentes {sic). At which daye Richard Culmer and fflorence his wyelf planytiffes and John Edwardes one of the deffendauntes together with Charles Boutlie, Attorney for the other 204 AN ORDER OF THE COUNCIL IN THE MARCHES. deffeiidauntes, appeared before the Queues niajestie's Counsaill 111 the marches of Wales. By whom the matter toiichinge the arrerages of rente in these bookes menconed was examyned. And consideracions had unto the answere of the deffendaunt whereby it appeareth that the said plaiiitiffes heretofore exhilMted their bill of Complaynte unto this Courte agaiiiste the said Awardes as well of for and conteyniiige the rentes of the premysses as alsoe the use and occiipacioii of the landes in the byll menconed, uppon which bill exhibited and the matter pleaded to Issue and ' delyberat hearynge and examinacion of the same the said defiendaunte was by order beringe date the Vth day of Ifebruary Anno Regni Regine Elizabethe etc. decimo dismissed owte of this Courte and reserved to the tryall of the common lawe, of which order of dismission there is not any mention made in the bill of Complaynt hereunto annexed nor yet of any order made and taken by the said Counsaill dated decimo tertio die Januarii Anno Regni Reginae Elizabethe etc. Septimi, wliereby it appeareth that the said deffendaunte was ordered unto the rentes in these bookes menconed. Therefore it is by the said Counsaill considered and ordered that the deffendaunles be eftesones dismyssed owte of this Courte and referred to the tryall and order of the Comon lawe — where the said John Edwardes upon on accion broughte against hyin shall answere the plaintyffe without any synister delaye, and in case the plain tiffe recover or have any verdicte or Judgement upon demurrer with them or eyther of them upon an accou broughte agaiiiste the said Edwardes by order of the Comon lawe, then the plaintiffe to take their remedy againste thother deffeiidauntes (and euery of them by order of the comon lawe or elles where, any order heretofore taken in any wise notwithstaiidinge. examinatur per Houth T. SiiERiCR Sol(utum) endorsed Richard Culmer. (on the left-hand side of the order are two parallel incisions showing that it has been filed). 205 MEDICAL MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSIillM-, 1779— 1783. By R. R. JAMES, F.R.C.S. Ill the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England there are three small volumes, copies, of the earliest Medical Directories published in this country ; these volumes are very scarce, and to find a complete set in one library must be almost unique; I believe I am correct in stating that the library of the British Museum is without one.i After the year 1783 no further attempt to publish a complete list of the medical men in practice in Great Britain was made till 1845, when the Directory which is issued annually at this day was published in two small volumes, Vol. I. the London Directory, and Vol. 2, the Provincial Directory. Of these three early Directories, that for 1783 is indexed, the others are not ; the volume for 1779 was printed for J. Murray, of 32, Fleet Street ; that for 17S0 by Fielding and Walker, of Paternoster Row ; and the last of the three by Joseph Johnson of 73, St. Paul's Churchyard. Besides other matters of medical and surgical interest, the medical men in practice in the various English counties are given, arranged together under their particular county. I propose in this article to group the names together in the order in which they are printed and to give notes about such of the men, that I have been able to discover, under their individual names ; were I to transcribe the list afresh for each of the three years there would be much needless repetition. I hope that readers of the Transactions will be interested to see the number of men in practice in any particular town or part of the county, in comparison with that of the present day. 1 There is a complete set in the Library of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1, Wimpole St., W. ^o6 MEDICAL MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. The sources from which the annotation notes are drawn are the usual ones, I have a very good collection of books dealing with my native county and I have searched everywhere for details ; in addition I have derived much assistance from Anderson's lists of Edinburgh Medical Graduates, 1705-1866, Foster's Alumni Oxoniensis, and the various lists of Cambridge graduates. The lists printed by the company of Surgeons are preserved in the library of the Royal College of Surgeons, of those who passed their qualifying examinations, they begin in 1777 and last to 1799; in 1800 the company became the Royal College of Surgeons of I^ondon, and later the Royal College of Surgeons of England, but these later lists hardly concern us here. I may perhaps be allowed to draw attention to three mile- stones in the medical history of this country, the separation of the Surgeons from the Barber Surgeons Company in 1745, the passing of the Apothecaries Act in 1815, which was the first attempt made by law to regularise the position and status of the general practitioner and the formation of the General Medical Council and the institution of the Medical Register, in 1858. Medical men of the period 1779-1783 may be divided into three classes, Physicians, Surgeons and Apothecaries, the physicians were of course graduates of a University, usually either Edinburgh, Cambridge, Oxford or Eeyden. Surgeons obtained their riglit to practice either l)y passing a qualifying examination at vSurgeons' Hall, or much more frequently by being apprenticed for a term of years to some surgeon already in practice, either in Eondou or in the provinces; as regards the apothecaries, they, like the surgeons, were apprenticed, either at the Hall in Eondon, or to a country apothecary ; in Shrewsbury the apothecaries names as a rule seem to be entered on the books of the Mercers' Company. Men who were apprenticed to the more eminent of the Eondon surgeons often paid very large sums of money for their apprenticeship ; if they could afford the time and money to do so, they would most likely take out a course of instruction at some Eondon or Provincial hospital, and MEDICAL MRN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. 207 walk the hospital as it was called ; many of the Salopian practitioners during the latter part of the XVIIIth century became pupils at St. George's Hospital, partly I suppose owing to the fact that Sir Caesar Hawkins, Bart., an old Ludlow boy, was surgeon to the hospital from 1735 to 1774, and also probably to attend the teaching of the celebrated John Hunter, surgeon to the hospital from 1768 to 1793. There would have been nothing to stop their attending the practice of other hospitals if they could afford the necessary time and fees, the Borough Hospitals, St. Thomas's and Guy's, had a deservedly high reputation as a* teaching school, while the reputation of Pott and later that of Abernethy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital must have attracted many students to that famous old hospital. SHROPSHIRE. SHREWSBURY. The Salop Infirmary founded in 1747, for all diseases save small pox is supported by voluntary contributions and contains about 70 beds. Mr. William Sandford, Apothecary to the Infirmary resides in the house. ^ William Sandford was appointed to his post Sept. 30th, 1777, it may be that the William Sandford who entered at St. George's Hospital on Oct. i, 1782, for a six months course under John Hunter is identical with this man, he retired from his post at the infirmary on Oct. 19, 1784 ; this is presumably the same William Sandford who later settled in Worcester, who was surgeon to the Worcester Infirmary for 27 years and who died on Jan. 26, 1823, aged 64. He was the author of an article on the medicinal effects of wine and spirits. In his obituary notice in the Gentleman's Magazine it is stated that he was born in Shrewsbury, the son of a surgeon. Physicians. Cheney Hart, M.D. ; Price Owen, M.D. ; Samuel Harwood, M.B. ; John Evans, M.D. ; W. H. Muckle- ston, M.B. Cheney Hart, who heads the list in 1779 and 1780, was born at AVarrington, Co. Lanes, in November 1726, he was educated at Warrington, Glasgow and Edinburgh, he became 1 This is an abstract from the 1783 Directory. 208 MEDICAL MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. M.D. Kdiii. in 1748, the title of his thesis being " de cortice peruviano." He was in practice in Shrewsbury for 33 5'ears, his election to the staff of the Salop Infirmary took place on October 13, 1750; he resigned his office on November 5, 1765, and was succeeded by Dr. Berington, the latter dying 1766, Dr. Hart was re-elected on March 18 and served till February 5, 1782. On his retirement he was elected Physician Extraordinary. Dr. Hart died June 21, 1784, at the age of 58, and was buried in St. Giles' Churchyard, he was J. P. Salop and was the father of Ro-bert Cheney Hart, M.D., of Shrewsbury. He published in 1748 his thesis, De Cortice Peruviano, l^dinburgh, quarto, and was the author of an article entitled, An account of the effects of electricity in the county hospital at Shrewsbury, which was published in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. 48, 49. In the Shrewsbury Free Library there is a MS. by Dr. Cheney Hart, entitled " The History of Anatomy"; also a MS. in three volumes, Remarks on the Materia Medica": collected chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Charles Alston 1744-1747, with additional observations by Cheney Hart (Nos. 139, and 140-142.) Pryce Owen was son of Lingen Owen esq. and great nephew of Hugh Owen, IM.D. of Shrewsbury, he graduated M.D. at Kdinburgh in 1757, the title of his thesis being " de mercurio ;" he was Physician to the Salop infirmary from November 22, 1757 till his death in 1786. He was Mayor of Shrewsbury in 1763. His wife was Bridget only daughter of John Whitfield of Shrewsbury, and Archdeacon Hugh Owen who was baptized at St. Mary's in 1761 was their only son. Pryce Owen died on July 31st, 1786, aged 55 and was buried in St. Julian's Church where there is a tablet to his memory. He was the author of an essay on the good effects of large doses of musk in convulsive disease, in the third volume of medical observations and enquiries. A copy of his bookplate is in ray collection of the plates of medical men.i Samuel Harwood was a son of Samuel Harwood, esq., of Cound, he w^as baptized at Cound 12 December, 1744, and 1 The plate is identical with that of E. Pryce Owen, M.A., figured in Trans. Shrops. Archaeol. Soc. 3rd series, vol. 5, p. 298, No. 14, with a different inscription. MEDICAL MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. 20g matriculated at Christ Church College, Oxford on November i6, 1762, at the age of 17. He was the grandson of John Harvvood who matriculated at Christ Church College Oxford in 1679. He became B.A. in 1766, M.A. and M.B. 1772. Samuel Harwood entered as a pupil at St. George's Hospital in April 1771; he was Physician to the Salop Infirmary from August 6, 177 1 to June 27, 1789, when he sent in his resignation and was elected Physician Extraordinary. In Foster's Alumni Oxoniensis he is given as of Crickheath and Kenwick, while from his obituary notice in the Gentleman's Magazine we learn that he was a J. P. Salop (appoinfed 1799), and that he died at his seat, near Oswestry, Sept. 14, 1816, aged 72. It is probable that some of his medical education was received in Edinburgh, for a Samuel Harwood was elected a member of the Medical Society of Edinburgh on December 31, 1768. John Evans was born at EEwyngwes, Co. Montgomery, on July 4, 1756, he graduated M.D. at Edinburgh in 1778, the title of his thesis being " de F'oetus Humani Nutrimento"; he was Physician to the Salop Infirmary from Feb. 5, 1782 to Dec. 17, 1814, and also for many years Physician to the County Gaol, which latter post he also resigned in 1814. 1 am informed that he lived in the Council House and that he died at Heversham Vicarage (the house of his second son, Archibald ICvans) in 1846. On the death of his father in 1795, he succeeded to the paternal estate of LLwyngwes. He was the author of a book on bee culture. William Hawkins Muckleston was a son of Richard Muckleston, esq of London and a brother of Joseph Muckleston of Merrington. Sheriff of Shropshire in 1788. Dr. Muckleston was born in 1756, baptised July 23, he matriculated at Brazenose College Oxford, Jan. 26, 1774, he became B.A. in 1777, M.A. in 1780, and proceeded to the degree of M.B. from Pembroke College in 1782. He was Physician to the Salop Infirmary from P'eb. 5, 1782 to May 10, 1783, when he was elected a Governor and appointed Physician to St. George's Hospital, London, by a majority of 15, 127 Governors voting. He resigned his appointment for reasons of ill health on May 2, 1787, and died in the same year, being 2IO MEDICAL MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. buried at Baschurch. His wife was Frances, daughter of Thomas Presland of Walford, Salop, their only daughter Elizabeth, was heiress to her uncle Joseph, the Sheriff above mentioned and in 1812, she was married to Robert Aglionby Slaney esq of Hatton Grange. Dr. Muckleston's letter of resignation, a copy of which is preserved on the minutes of the Weekly Poard of St. George's Hospital, was written from his wife's house at Walford. Surgeons. Mr. Peter Blakeney, Mr. William Cooper, Mr. Samuel Sandford, Mr. Francis TyOmax, Mr. John S. Dod, surgeons to the Infirmary. Mr. Morris, Mr. Dirties, Mr. Samuel Winnall (member of the company of surgeons), Mr. Allen Wheeler. Mr. Peter Blakeney, — (his name is given correctly in the 1780 and 1783 Directories as Blakeway) — was the first surgeon elected to the Salop Infirmary, on April 25, 1747. In Bevan's records of the Infirmary he is said to have resigned on October 8, 1766, but as Bevan gives no other surgeon to the Infirmary of the name of Blakeway at about the time I am writing of, I assume that the Directory is in error. He was born in 1707, married Dorothy, only daughter of Joshua Johnson, one of the masters of the Free School, and died 12 June, 1794, aged 87. His grandson was the historian of Shrewsbury. William Cooper was surgeon to the Infirmary from October 8, 176"), to his death, he died in 1781, aged 43, and was buried in old St. Chad's. A man of the same name was a student at St. George's Hospital in September 1765. A William Cooper (son of William) was baptized at St. Chad's on 18 April 1734), and another of the same name on 16 October, 1739- Samuel Sandford entered as a surgical pupil at St. George's Hospital in June 1764, he was surgeon to the Salop Infirmary from October 8, 1766, to February 25, 1812, when he retired and was iilccted Surgeon Kxtraordinary. He died in Shrews- bury in January 181;^, aged 69. I assume that he was a relation, possibly an elder brother of William Sandford, the MEDICAL MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. 211 resident apothecary. Samuel Sandford, esq., and Miss Hannah Sandford were married at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, on 7 June, 1791. William Sandford was a witness to their marriage. Francis^ Lomax was surgeon to the Infirmary from November i, 1768, to October 9, 1781 ; he died in 1782, aged 44, and was buried 6 July in St. Chad's churchyard. He was the son of Francis Lomax, and was baptized at St. St. Chad's September 2, 1737. John Salusbury Dod was elected surgeon to the Infirmary •on the resignation of Lomax, on October 9, 1781, he served till February i, 1791 ; he and his wife Hannah liad a son, Charles Sandford Dod, who was baptized in St. Chad's in 1784; it is possible that J. S. Dod was a brother of Robert Dod of Calverall, who was born in 1724, if so, he must have been a son of John Dod and his wife, who was a daughter of Charles Sandford. William Morris was elected surgeon to the Infirmary on October 9, 1781, he resigned on December 21, 1786; I have not been able to find out anything further about him. Mr. Allen Wheeler (see below) entered as a pupil at St. George's Hospital in February 1764, he was apothecary to the gaol from 1780 to 1784. Mr. Samuel Winnall was the only surgeon in Shrewsbury at this time who was a member of the Company of Surgeons. I find the Winnalls of Shrewsbury a little perplexing; it will be seen later that among the apothecaries in practice in the town were Messrs. Winnall and son. I assume that Samuel was the eldest son of James Winnall, (for the pedigree, see Tra7isactions 4th series, vol. 4, page 103). He was born in 1748, was admitted a burgess of Shrewsbury on July 2, 1777, and he was of Muxton Parish in 1786. The 1780 directory informs us that Mr. Allen Wheeler (see above) had lately removed from Kidderminster to Shrewsbury to replace Mr. Samuel Winnall who is now an army surgeon. Johnston's roll of the army medical service tells us that Samuel Winnall was appointed surgeon, 91st Regiment of Foot on December i, 1779, and that he retired on half pay (the regiment being 212 MEDICAL MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. disbanded) in 1783. He was appointed surgeon to the army of reserve, Salop district, July 30, 1803, presumably succeeding William Fleming, surgeon to the recruiting district of Salop, who died in 1803, and who was buried in Shrewsbury. Winnall retired from this appointment January 24, 1804. He died April 25, i8i6. Mr. Birtles. I have been unable to find out anything about this man. Apothecaries. Mr. Thomas Boteogle, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Fowke, Messrs. Holt and Bromfield, Mr. William Sandford (apothecary to the Infirmary), Mr. Symonds, Mr. Tudor^ Messrs. Winnall and Son, Mr. Wynne, I\Ir. Yeomans. The first of these names does not occur in the 1779 or the 1780 Directory; it is obviously a misprint, for Thomas Botevyle, who was a son of Richard Botevyle, sadler, of Shrewsbury, and of Elizabeth his wife ; he was baptized at St. Chad's January 15, 1705, and buried there November 11, 1783. He was apprenticed to Rowland Jencks, Apothecary of Slirewsljury, in 1720; among his own apprentices on the books of the Mercers' Company (see Tra7isaciio)is, vol. 8), occur the names of George Adney, son of the Rev. George Adney, of Cleobury North, in 1735, and of his nephew, Richard Botevyle, in 1748. Mr. Cartwright is William Cartwright, Apothecary, probably more famous as a non-juror and for his Chronological History of the town (see Tiansaclioiis, 4th series, vol. 4, page i), where the late William Phillips states that he was a surgeon in practice in Shrewsbury, and was better known as Bishop Cartwright. He was a son of William Cartwright, an exciseman, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stalls. He was apprenticed to John Dod, of Shrewsbury, Apothecary, in 1745. He married Sarah Sophia, daughter of Thomas Deacon, a non-juring bishop residing in Manchester, h'or our })resent puri)oses it will be sufiicient to state that he died in October, 1799, aged 69, and that he was buried in St. Giles's churchyard. His wij^low died on October 6, i8oi, aged 70, and was buried in the same tomb. Mr. Cartwright had a partner, William Thomas, A pothecary. MKDICAL MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. 2X3 Among the apprentices of William Cartwriglit were his son Thomas Theodorus, in 1778, William Meteyard, of Nantwich, Cheshire, in 1795, and Richard Careless, of Shrewsbnry, ward of Richard Oakley, of Stapleton, in 1781. Mr. Cartwriglit was apothecary to the gaol from 1784 to 1789, at a salary of £26^ per annnm. Mr. Fowke. I have not been able to find out anything about this man. Messrs. Holt and Brorafield were evidently in partnership ; I have no notes about Holt, but in Leighton's Guilds of Shrewsbury I find an entry that a Thomas Brom field was admitted an apothecary by purchase {£^0) May 30, 1771. Mr. Bromfield, surgeon of Shrewsbury, was an original subscriber to Phillips' History of Shrewsbury. Mr. Symonds I take to be Samuel Symonds, Apothecary, a son of Samuel vSymonds, joiner, of Shrewsbury; he was apprenticed to his uncle Joshua Symonds, Apothecary of Shrewsbury in 1742. He married Priscilla, daughter of the Rev. John Cotton, vicar of St. Alkmund's, and dying in 1805, was buried in St. Alkmund's churchyard. His son Robert was apprenticed to him in 1777. Mr. Tudor is Thomas Tudor who was resident apothecary to the Infirnuiry, or House Surgeon as it would be called now, from May i, 1770 to September 20, 1774. I have no further notes about him save that some of his children were baptized in vSt. Mary's, and that he subscribed to Phillips' History of Shrewsbury. Messrs. Winnall and Son. The father must be James Winnall, who was descended from a Worcestershire family of that name. He was apprenticed on the books of the Mercers' Company on June 16, 1736, to Benjamin Stanier, of Shrewsbury, apothecary, and is described as the stepson of Richard Rowley, of Oakengates. He was admitted an apothecary on June 17, 1745; a burgess of Shrewsbury, October 5, 1761, and he was mayor of Shtewsbury in 1773; he was the father of Samuel Winnall, mentioned above ; I assume that h6 is the Mr. Winnall, Apothecary in Shrewsbury, who died in July, 1793, buried, St. Julian's July 19, 1793. (Musgrave's Obituary). 214 MKDICAL MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. The son may be either James Winnall of Shrewsbury, ironmonger, admitted a burgess August 27, 1773, admitted to the Mercers' Company, Salop, June 14, 1773, or John Winnall, born in 1753, and admitted a burgess of Shrewsbury June 7, 1796; a Mr. Winnall, junior, was apothecary to the gaol from lySoto 17^4, with Mr. Allen Wheeler, above mentioned, at a salary of ^10 per annum. Mr. Wynne is probably the John Wynne admitted an apothecary by purchase (^10) on June 28, 1770 ; he was elected warden of the Apothecaries' Company in 1787. He married I£lizabeth Davies at St. Chad's Church in 177 1, and seven of their children were baptized there. From 1769 to 1772 Mr. Wynne was steward of the company. In 1802 a R. Wynne was the senior apothecary in practice in the town of those who signed a memorial to Kdward Jenner, possibly this was his son. Mr. Yeomans ; all that I have been able to discover about him is that he was dead in 1800, when his daughter married Henry Smith, esq., banker of Haddington, the marriage notice in the Gentleman's Magazine states that she was a daughter of the late Dr. Yeomans, Physician in Shrewsbury, but I assume that an apothecary is meant, he was possibly a son of Joseph Yeomans, churchwarden of St. Julian's from 1756 to 1770. ALBRIGHTON. Mr. Crump. George Crump, surgeon of Albrighton, his wife's christian name was Sarah and they had a large family, figuring Irequently in the Albrighton parish registers. George Crump died in 1799, aged 54 and was buried at Albrighton on June 5. BISHOPS CASTLE. Mr. Drew, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Meyrick, Mr. Woollaston, these names occur in the 1779 directory, while in the 1780 directory the name of V/illiam Nathaniel Davies is added and that of Mr. Meyrick drops out in the 1783 directory. Enquiries which have been made for me at Bishop's Castle have not been very productive, I am informed that Mr. Drew owned-some property in the town, that Mr. Woollaston was probably a member of an old Bishop's Castle family and that Mr. Davies left a charity for the use of the poor of the town, MKDICAI, MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. 215 but I was not able to get the dates of the deaths of any of theiu for certain, though the Mr. J. Woollaston, senior Alderman and many years coroner of that district of the county, who died at Bishop's Castle in 1830, aged 84, may possibly be the Mr. Woollaston referred to here. BRIDGNORTH. Mr. Beale, Mr. Evans, Mr. Hall, Mr. Wilkes, these names occur 1779, in 1780 the name of Mr. Coley appears for the first time and they were all in practice there in 1783. ^ . Here again my enquiries have not resulted in gaining much information, Mr. Hall may possibly be the Joseph Hall, elected a freeman of the borough in 1799, while Mr. Coley must be William Coley, who was elected a freeman in 1789 and and who was bailiff in 1804, 1815, 1821 and who was the father of John Coley, freeman 1805, and Mayor in 1824. In the Gentleman's Magazine for February, 1785, is an article by William Coley describing a form of ague which was then prevalent at Bridgnorth and its treatment. William Coley, surgeon, died at Bridgnorth, July, 14, 1841, aged 84. BROSKLKY. Mr. Corbett, Mr. Wyke, Mr. Rowley, these names occur in all three directories. 1 have no positive facts about any of them, Daniel, William and Richard Corbett and James Wyke, all figure in Langley's Parish Registers of Broseley, but my letter to the Rector did not produce anything definite. CHURCH STRKTTON. Mr. Home, Mr. Richard Langslow, these names occur in 1779, 1780. In 1783 Mr. Langslow is noted under Ludlow to have recently moved there from Church Stretton, and Mr. Home stands alone. 1 have no notes about him. CLKOBURY MORTIMER. Mr. Whitcombe, this name occurs in 1779, the name of Mr. Seager appears for the first time in 1780. Mr. Whitcombe was lulmund Whitcombe, Apothecary, he was also one of the coroners of the county of Salop, from 1763 till his death ; he died January 17, 1782, being buried on January 20, at Cleobury Mortimer, aged 49; for not attend i 111', the county sessions in January 1765, he was fined the sum often shillings. 2l6 MEDICAL MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHKOPSHIRE. Mr. Seager was Kdmund Seager, also one of the Coroners of the county ; in my possession is a copy of the findings at an inquest held by him at Stanton Lacy, on the death of a child and the deodand resulting therefrom . DRAYTON. Mr Beardmore, Mr. Grosvenor, Messrs. Nicholls & Son, Messrs. Pretty & Son, Mr. Judgson. All these names occur in 1779, 1780; Mr. Beardmore's name is omitted in 1783 and the name of Mr. Arthur Blainey is added. In I^ee's History of Market Drayton I find references to a Robert Beardmore, a John Grosvenor, a Thomas Nicholls, and a Princeps Pretty, for the most part under sittings in the church at about this time. Mr. Judgson was James Weston Judgson, a member of the Company of Surgeons, his name occurs on the lists at the Royal College of vSurgeons from 1777 to 1786, and as it does not figure there in any subsequent years, it is probable that he died then. It may be that he was related to the Rev. W. Judgson, Rector of Drayton from 1785 to 1794. A John Pretty died on Novembei 20, 1800, aged 86, while Dr. Princeps Pretty died between 18 16 and 1820 (Salopian Shreds and Patches). KlyLIiSMKRU. Mr. Betenson, Mr. James. I have no notes about either of these men. HALI^SOWEN. Mr. Dixon, Messrs. Gaunt, father and two sons. Mr. Dixon's name is omitted from the 1780, 1783 Directories, but I have not been able to find out anything about them. LLANYMYNECH. Mr. Llewyllyn. A George Llewellyn's name occurs on the Barber Surgeons lists in 1776, he was Warden in 17S9 and steward in 1777 (see Traiisaciions, vol. 5, page 278). LUDLOW. Tlie Ludlow Dispensary opened in Feb i nary, 1781 ; 391 patients were treated in the first year ; the first year's subscriptions amounted to ^66 and the exi)enditure to £^1. Physicians. Dr. John Ward, lately removed from Gainsborough, Lines., this name occurs in 1779, 1780, but is omitteci in 1783. He does not appear to have been a graduate at either IMinburgh, Oxford, Leyden or Cambridge. Martin Dunne, M. H., this name occurs in all three years. lie was a MEDICAL MEN IN PRACTICK IN SHROPSHIRE 217 son of Thomas Dunne, esq. of Aymestiy, Herefordshire, he matriculated at Brazenose College, Oxford, March 26, 1760, aged 19. became B.C.L. from Oriel College in 1768, and M.B. in 1770, he was afterwards of Gatley Park, Hereford and died at Ludlow in 1814, aged 74. Surgeons. Mr. Richard James, Mr. Richard Turner. Mr. James was the first surgeon elected to the Lndlow Dispensary, he was a subscriber (6 copies) to Hodges' Historical account of Ludlow Castle. Mr. Turner was a membei of the Company of Surgeons, his name occurs on the College lists from 1777 to 1788, but I have no more notes about him. Apothecaries. Mr. Herbert Cole, Mr. Gilley Pritchett, Mr. Henry Davies, Mr. William Baldwyn, (Mr. Langslow in 1783-) Air. Cole was the apothecary to the Dispensary, I assume that he was a son of the Rev. Brian Cole, Rector of Ludlow, he was twice married, first to Catherine Hawkins, sister of Sir Cccsar Hawkins, Bart, and daughter of Ccesar Hawkins, surgeon of Ludlow, by her he had two children, a daughter, Jane and a son named Peneal in the Ludlow Registers, who is undoubtcdl}' the Pennell Cole who entered as a sur»;ical pupil at St. George's Hospital in "March 1772, he was House Surgeon to the Hospital in July 1772, and became a member of the Company of Surgeons. Pennell entered the Army Medical service as Regimental Mate in the Guards, 1774, in January 1776 he was appointed Staff Surgeon to the forces in North America and he served in the American War of Independence. He was on half pay December 1783 and retired from the service on half pay, April 25, 1816. In July 1821, he became Brevet Deputy Inspector of Hospitals and he died at Worcester on June 25, 1833. Mr. Herbert Cole's second wife had the christian name of Mary and by her he had a large family. He was Lovy l^ailiff of the town in 1757 and High Bailiff in 1764, 1770. He was buried at Ludlow on January 6, 1791. Mr. Gilley Pritchett may have been a son of Gilley Pritchett of Richard's Castle and Mary Dale of Culmington, who 2lS MKDICAL MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. were married at I^udlow on April 17, 1727. He entered as a twelve month's pupil at St. George's Hospital on October 9, 1775, under the care of Mr. Charles Hawkins, son of Sir Caesar Hawkins, Bart. In 1794 a Mr. Gilley Pritchett ot Ashford subscribed to Hodges' Historical account ot Ludlow and this is probably the same man. Mr. Henry Davies may possibly be the Henry Davies, Gent, who was buried at Ludlow on December 18, 1800. A. H. Davies of Ludlow was a subscriber Hodges' Historical account of Ludlow Castle. Mn Baldwyn does not figure in the 1783 Directory, a William Baldwyn, Gent., was buried at Ludlow on November 7, 1780, which may very well be the same man. Mr. Langslow was Richard Langslow late of Church Stretton, his name figures in the Ludlow registers as the father of a family; can it be that the Richard Langslow, M.D., member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and late Physician to the Lying In Charity in London, who died at the Hot Wells in 1813 and one of whose sons died at Tiverton in 1807, aged 18, is identical with our Ludlow apothecary of 1783 ? MADKLlvY WOOD. Mr. Stanley, Mr. Wright, Mr. liowden. These names occur in all three years; enquiries which have been made at Madeley tor me have not resulted in any information. NKWPORT. Mr. Browne, Mr. Stanley, Mr. Collins, Mr. Jones. Of these Mr. Jones is William Clunn Jones, a member of the Company of Surgeons. Mr. Stanley's name is omitted in 1780 and the name of Mr. Collins is added. NORNCOTT. Mr. Francis Bray. This name appears in the 1780 and 1783 Directory but I have not found out anything about him. OSWluSTRY. Mr. Cotterell, Mr. Evans, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Langford, Mr. Lovett, Messrs. Price and Son, Mr. Reade. All names occur in each year. Although the first name is spelt throughout, Cotterell, I assume that it is an error for Cocker^ell, the father of Roger Mercer Cockerell, surgeon, of Oswestr>', and Mayor in 1827. II is father was a surgeon and his mother a professional midwife. I MEDICAL MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. 2ig Mr. Griffith must be William Griffiths, apothecary, Mayor of Oswestry in 1775, who died 011 November 14, 1791, aged 80, and to whom there is a memorial tablet in the old church. Mr. Lovett is presumably John I^ovett, surgeon, Mayor of Oswestry in 1762, who died on May 11, 1795. Messrs. Price and Son. The father I assume to be Richard Price, apothecary, Mayor of Oswestry in 1762, Alderman in 1778, who died on September 26, 1790, aged 80, and to whose memory there is a tablet in the old church. I have no information about any of the others, save that Mr. Kvans is John Kvans who was the author of two articles in the Medical Commentaries, vol. 6 ; the first, the history of a case of retroverted uterus ; the second, on certain obstinate affections of the bowels. PRESTON BROCKHURST. Mr. Johnson. This may be Benjamin, son of Samuel Johnson, of Shrewsbur}^ school- master, who was apprenticed to John Wood, apoth.ecary of Shrewsbury in 1754. SHIFFNAI.L. Mr. Stanier, Mr. William Young. Mr. Young was a member of the Company of Surgeons ; his name occurs on the College lists from 1777 to 17S8, so he probably died in the latter year; Mr. Stanier may be the Francis Stanier who entered at St. George's Hospital in January 1764; the name is a very well known one in the county, but I have not been able to find out any facts for certain about him. WKLI.INGTON. Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Doughty, Mr. Roe, Mr. vShelton. These names occur in all three years. Mr. Cartwright is William Cartwright, surgeon, of Wellington ; he was a subscriber to Phillips's History ol vShrewsbury, his original copy is now in my possession ; ])ound in full calf, it is in perfect condition and it contains a co[)y of his 1)o()kplate, which is subscribed William Cartwright, vSurgeon, Wellington. I have not been able to find out anything further about him. I know no].hing a])out either Mr. Doughty or Mr. Roe, but Mr. Shelton may possibly be the Mr. She lion win; entered at St. George's Hospital as a })upil of Mr. Hawkins's in 1774. 220 MKDICAI, MEN IN PRACTICE IN SHROPSHIRE. WEM. Messrs. Beetensoii and son, Mr. Higgins. Arthur Beetenson was a subscriber to Garbett's History of Wem, he lived in New Cripple Street, while the son may possibly be the A. Beetenson who died at Wem on April 9, 1825. WENLOCK. Mr. Edward Grainger, Mr. Edward Corfield ; the latter I assume to be the Edward Corfield, son of William Corfield, of Harley, Salop, Gent, who was apprenticed to John Dod, apothecary, of Shrewsbury, in 1739. WHITCHURCH. Air. Brookes, Messrs. Wickstead and Meakin, Mr. l{d\vard Jones ; of these Mr. Jones was Edward Jones, a member of the Company of Surgeons, his name occurs on the College lists from 1777 to 1799, so it is pro1)able that he died in the latter year. Messrs. Wickstead and Meakin were evidently in partnership, Mr. Wickstead may possibly be the Archibald Wickstead who was a pupil at St. George's Hospital in 1764. In presenting this article for publication in the Traiisaciions I am conscious of Imving assumed much that I cannot at present prove, I hope I shall be for^^iven for any mistakes which I may have made; the subject of the biography of the rank and file of the medical profession is one that has never been satisfactorily worked out, anyone who has had to consult either the obituary notices in the Gentleman's Magazine or any of even the later medical directories will know how diflicult it is to ])lace one's men, so frequently they are entered as plain Mr. and no Christian name or initial is given. I can only say that I have spared no pains to try and get the infornmtion as complete as possible ; I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Miss H. M. Auden and to the Rev. W. G. Dimock Fletcher for much assistance with those men who were in practice in Shrewsbury. The minutes of the weekly Board of St. George's Hospital are open to my inspection at any time by leave of the chairman of the Board, the records of the medical school are in my custody as Dean. 221 THE SKQUESTRATION PAPERS OF JOHN YONGE THE EEDER OF PIMEEY, AND OF JOHN YONGE HIS SON. By the Rev. W. G. D. FlETChkr, M.A., F.S.A. John Yoiige the elder of Pimley and John Yonge his son and heir apparent were fined as delinquents in May 1646, for adhering to the Royal cause, at one- tenth, £^00. In the following March the}^ were assessed by the Committee for the Advance of money at ^150, which they were ordered to pay, and they were not finally discharged until October 1651. Their offence was that the father left his own house at Pimley, and went to live in Eudlow which was one of the King's Garrisons, where he acted as Steward of the household belonging to the Council of the Marches of Wales, whilst the son was in Anns for the King until about September 1645. The Yonges of Pimley were not connected with the old Shropshire family of Yonge of Caynton, whose pedigree is recorded in the Visitation of 1623 (see Harleian Society, XXIX., page 517), but were descended from the Staffordshire family of Yonge of Cluirnes, whose pedigree was entered at the Visitation of that county in 1614 (see William Salt Collections, vol V., part ii., page 336). A lull pedigree of both families of Yonge is given in the late Joseph Morris's MSS., vol. Vn. As the pedigree of Yonge of Pimley has never been printed, it is here given, founded on the pedigree in Morris's MSS., folios 3478-9, with many additions from Wills, Deeds, and the Registers of Fitz and Uffington, &c. Pkdigrek of Yonge of Pimley. Arms: Azure a buck's head cabossed or, a chief sable. (But John Yonge of Cliarnes was disclaimed in 1583, and Thomas Yonge of Charnes was declared to be "Ignobilis" in 1614). ^ I. John Yonge of Charnes Hall, co. Stafford, (son of James Yonge of Cliarnes by his wife Anne, daughter of . . . 222 SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF JOHN YONGE Peryniie of Brocton), living 1546-1600. He had also an estate at Pimley, co. Salop. His Will dated 10 Dec. 1600, was proved in P.C.C. 19 May 1701. (34 Woodhall). He married Anne, daughter of Robert Pigott of Chetvvynd, and had issue : 1. Thomas Yonge of Charnes Hall. 2. John Yonge of Pimley, of whom next. 3. A daugliter married to John Sudley. 4. Mary, buried at Uffigton i Nov. 1626. 11. John Yonge of Pimley, co. Salop. In 1851-2 he had a release from Anthony Forster 'of Watling Street of all his right in the great tithes of Roden in the parish of High Krcall. In 15S8 his father levied a Fine to Kdward Hussey and John Badeley of all his messuages, lands, »&:c., in Salop, Uffington and Pimley ; and on 30 September 1590 executed a deed, whereby he declared the uses of the Fine to be to the use and for the promotion of his son John Yonge the younger. On 3 Jan. 161S, John Yonge of Pimley, in conjunction with his son and heir apparent John Yonge junior and ICllener his wife, conveyed the tithes of Roden chapel to Sir Francis Newport of High l^rcall. In the list of Trained Soldiers in 1587, John Yonge, gent, of Pymley is named as having a bow and arrows, sword and dagger, skull and callyver furnished. He was buried at Uffington 13 January 1634-5, Inventory at Lichfield 1635. ^^'^ married Joyce, daughter and C(jlieir of Richard Horner of Pimley, by his wife Joan, daughter and coheir of Philip Upton, and by her (who was buried at Uffington 23 May 1607) he had issue : 1. John Yonge of Pimley, of whom next. 2. Anne, baptized at Uffington 2 Feb. 1581-2, married there 17 Nov. 1603 to Francis Lokier, gent., bailifl' ofWenlock in 1622 (see pedigree of Lokier in Vis. Salop 1623). He was buried at Wenlock 15 February 1635-6. 3. Dorothy, baptized at Uffington 23 October 1583, buried there 5 Sept. 1606, married there 12 Nov. 1601 to George Dodd of Stoake, gent., and afterwards of ^ Petsey, and had a daughter Margaret, who was l)aptized at Uffington 26 Aug. 1C06 (see pedigree of Dodd in Vis. Salop 1623). OF PIMI.EY, SENIOR AND JUNIOR. 223 III. John Yongk (called " the elder" in the Sequestration Papers), of Fitz and afterwards of Pimley, co. Salop. Espoused the royal cause in the Civil War, was sequestred as a delinquent, and fined ;^200. In 1637 he was engaged in a lawsuit with the Corporation of Shrewsbury for enclosing Pimley Wood out of the Old Heath, and obtained a judgment in his favour in the King's Bench in iCaster Term 1638. In Trinity Term 1639 he obtained a similar judgment against Humfrey Raven and others, as tenants to one Mr. Thomas Jones, who claimed common of pasture .in Pimley Wood. He does not appear to have taken any very active part in the Civil War, beyond leaving his dwelling-house, — which he says he did only for the preservation of his wife and family and to save his personal estate from plundering, — and going to reside in Ludlow, where he was employed as Steward of the household belonging to the Council of the Marches. Becoming " sensible of his error," he returned to the Parliament's Quarters about 10 November 1645, and made an application to compound. He was seised of the capital messuage or farm and lands in Pimley, worth ^^95 per annum, of a messuage in Corvisor's Row in Shrewsbury, and of personalty valued at ;^6o, and his wife had a moiety of a messuage in Mitton, He was baptized at Uffington 19 March 1585-6, and buried there 13 Dec. 1655, M.I. His Will dated 18 May 1653, was proved in London 18 Feb. 1655 (72 Berkeley). He was twice married, first at Upton Magna 2 Nov. 1603, to Eleanor daughter of Thomas Charlton, gent, (she was baptized at Upton Magna 2 Nov. 1603) ; and secondly at Fitz 30 August 1608, to Eleanor daughter of George Southern (or Sotlierne) of Fitz (she was baptized at Fitz 8 October 1591, and buried at Ufiington 10 October 1671). By his second wife he had issue nine children : 1. A child unbaptized buried at Fitz 2 Nov. 1609. 2. John Yonge, of whom next. 3. Liipretia, baptized at Fitz 16 Jan. 1612-13, married to Richard Wickstead, and had issue — ^John, Thomas, and Eleanor, all baptized at Uffington. 224 SEQUKSTKATION PAPERS OF JOHN YONGP: 4. George Yonge, baptized at Fitz 14 Feb. 1615-16. 5. Richard Yonge, baptized at Fitz 28 July 1617. T^iving 1,654 1672. 6. Thomas Yonge, baptized at Fitz 2 Nov. 16 18, buried at Uffington 7 March 1621-2. 7. Francis Yonge, baptized at Fitz 15 Nov. 1621. 8. Henry Yonge, baptized at Fitz 5 Nov. 1622 ; named in his father's will 1653 as disobedient to his father and mother. 9. Alexander Yonge, called " youngest son " in his father's Will 1653. IV. John Yongk of Acton Reynold. A royalist, and sequestered as a delinquent for being in arms against the Parliament, but laid down his arms about vSeptember 1645. He was about 31 years of age when the Civil War broke out. He was baptized at Fitz 28 July 161 r, and died at Shelvock early in 1677. His Will dated 12 Dec. 1676, was proved in the Manor Court of Ruyton 26 April 1677. He married Elizabeth, fifth daughter of Sir Andrew Corbet, Knight, of Moreton Corbet, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Boothby (she was baptized at Shawbury 13 Nov. 1618, and buried at St. Alkmund's, vShrevvsbur3% 26 Feb. 1644). They had issue a son and a daughter. 1. Thomas Yonge of Acton Reynold, living 1680 and 1696. Admon. granted at Lichfield 4 April 171 1. His wife Dorothy occurs in 1696. 2. Elizabeth, baptised at Uffington 11 August 1640, nmrried to Peter Leigh. I am unable to carry on the pedigree any further. Wz// of John Yotmge of Chaymes, co. Stafford^ Gent. 1601. Dated 10 Dec. 1600. To be buried in the churchyard of Eccleshall. To my son Thomas Younge cattle, implements of husbandry, etc. To my son John Younge two oxen in his posses- sion and one steere in Wales. To my son-in-law John Sudley and my daughter his wife, each 5s. My nephew John Hinton. (Other relatives are named). My daughter Marye Yonge is OF PIMLEY, SENIOR AND JUNIOR. 225 to live with my son John, and to have ;^4o. at marriage. Executor : ray son the said John Younge. Overseer : my cosen Robert Peshall. Will proved P.C.C. 19 May 1601 by John Yonge, the son and executor. (3/] Woodhall). Wi7/ of JoJni Yo2ingc of Phnley, co. Salop, Gentlcmaii. 1655. Dated i8tli May 1653. To be buried without any great cost or charge. To my eldest son John Younge my best bed and bedstead and the furniture belonging thereto. To my son Richard Younge 20s. To my grandchild Klinor Wickstead To my son Henry Yonge (notwithstanding his dis- obedience to me and especially to his mother) ^30. Whereas a great sum of money is due to me by Humphery Mackworth, esq., and William Jucke, gent, (brother-in.law to the said Humphery Mackworth), I direct my executor to get it, and to pay thereout to my son Henry Yonge ;^20, to my son Richard Yonge ^10, to my servant Richard Whilstone ^5, to my daughter Lucretia Wickstead ^5, and to my son Alexander Younge ^5 ; and the residue of the said debt between my eldest son John Yonge and my youngest son Alexander Yonge, my grandchild Elinn Yonge and my wife Elenor Younge. My wife is to have for her own use all moneys in her hands, or arising from the sale of a tenement in Mitton in the parish of Fitts to one Henry Highley, and all rings, jewels, &c,, in her trunke, and the bedstead, etc. And I appoint my wife Elenor Yonge executrix. Will proved in Eondon 18 February 1655 by Elline Yonge, the relict and executrix (72 Berkley). Monumental Inscription formerly at Uffington. (From Additional MS. 21,236, folio 366. Rev. Edward Williams's MSS.) HERE LYETH THE BODY OF iohn yonge of PYMLKY gent, who deceased the 13 day of DECEMBER 1655. 226 SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF JOHN YONGE In the vShnewsbury Corporation Court Books, William Yonge of Pymley occurs in 1508, but I cannot locate him. John Yonge gent, of Pimley occurs in 1564, and John Yonge gent, and John Yonge junior in 1597. "Alexander Younge 1656" is scribbled on the second page of the Uffington Register. Thomas Young of Fitz names in his Will, dated 20 March 1728, and proved at Lichfield 29 Oct. 1729, his wife Martha, his son Thomas, his daughter Martha, and his brother William Young of Albright Hussey and John Young of Bickton. William Young of Albright Hussey, names in his Will, dated 5 Oct. 1743, and proved at Lichfield 31 Oct. 1746, his niece Jane Eddovves, William Yonge son of his late brother John Yonge, and Francis France son of his brother-in-law Francis France. No part of the old house of the Yonges at Pimley remains. The present house was erected by Andrew William Corbet, esq. in 1849. The history of Pimley is given in the Shropshire Arch. Society's Transactions, 2nd Series, vol. VIII, page 160, &c. The Sequestration Papers which follow were extracted by the Rev. \V. G. D. P'letcher from the original documents preserved in the Public Record Office. SEQUESTRATION PAPERS. I. JOHN YONGE THE ELDER AND JOHN YONGE THE YOUNGER PETITION TO COMPOUND. Interregnum G. 180. No. 453. To the honi^io Com"ee at Goldsmiths Hall for Compoundinge with Delinquents. The humble peticon of John Younge the elder of Pimbley in the County of Salopp gen. and of John Younge his sonne and heire apparent. Slieinge. That yo^" Pet^' John Younge the elder, did onely for preservncon of his life wife. Children, and family, and to saue his personall estate from plunderinge absent from his owne dwellinge house and went into Lndlowe a neere Garrison OF PIMLEY, SENIOR AND JUNIOR. 227 of the Kings, where he staid for some tyme, and was then imployed as Steward of the household belonginge to the Councell for the Marches of Wales, where after some tyme, being sensible of his error, returned into the Parliam^" Quarters about the loth of November 1645, at which tyme he sent upp an expresse to John Crewe Esqr. a member of the hon'J^'^ howse of Comons, that he would be pleased that some Course might be taken to make his Composicon with the Parliam*^ for cleeringe him from his Sequestracon at as easy a rate as might be, and not longe after ^yo'^ Pet"^ came upp hither and peticoned the hon^'^ Com^"'' of Lords and Comons for Sequestracons, hopeinge to haue cleered himselfe of his Delinquency his offence beinge noe other than as aforesaid. Yo*" Pct^' John Younge the younger, haueinge bin in Amies hath laid downe his Arnies about September last, and submitted himselfe to all orders and Ordinances of Parliam^'^ and the said John the elder haueinge taken the Negative oath and Nationall Covenant, and his said son likewise as he will make it appeare, or to undertake that he shall soe doe hereafter. Therefore the said John Yonge the elder, for himselfe and his said sonne doe pray that they may be admitted to their Composicon to free their p'sons and estates as others. And they shall praye &c. A PARTICULAR OF THEIR KSTATK. G. 180. No. 448. A iust Particular of all the estate reall and personall of John Younge the elder of Pimbley in the County of Salopp gen. and John Younge the younger of the same his Sonne and heire apparent. Impr. I the said John Younge the elder am seized of a ffranckten'te for and duringe tearme of my life, the remainder to my wife for life, the remainder to my said sonne II. 228 SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF JOHN YONGE for life, and to his eldest sonne in taile, and soe to all other his sonnes in taile with seuerall remainders over, the remainder to the right heires of me the said John Younge the elder, of and in one Capital messnage or ffarme and divers Lands and Ten'ts to the same belonginge lyinge and beinge in the County of Salopp of the yeerely value before theis troubles 95 li. out of which there is yeerely paid to Sr. Vincent Corbet Knight for a quit rent 13s. 4d. per ann. for euer. That I the said John the elder am seized of a fFranckten't duringe the tearme of three Hues yet in beinge of and in another Messuage or Ten'te with'the Appurtennes lyinge and beinge in Corvisor's rowe in the towne of Salopp of the cleere yeerely value before theis troubles ouer and aboue the rent reserved — 61i. 17s. That I am seized of a ffranckten'te duringe the life of my wife Klinor Younge, whereof shee is seized in ffee, and I as Tennant by the Cnrtesye, of and in one nioyety of a Messuage or Ten'te lyinge and beinge in Mitton in the said County of the yeerely value before theis troubles 7 li. That I the said John the elder was owner and possessed of a personall estate in Goods, Cattel, Chattells debts and howse- hold stufTe to the value of 60 li. the greatest parte of which the Sequestrators have seized, and I am oweinge to divers other persons in the some of 260 li. This is a true p'ticular of all our Estates reall and personall for which wee onely desire to compound to free them out of Sequestrreon and doe submit unto and undertake to satisfye and pay such ffine as by this Comt'^^ for Composicons with Delinquents shall be imposed and sett to pay for the same in order that the ffreedome and dischardge of our p'sons and estates. John Yonge. G. 3. No. 78. 16° April 1646. Mr. Stephens Mr. Bateman Mr. Shute Mr. Jenner Mr. Alexander Mr. Waring Sir D. Watkins Mr. Moyer Mr. Herring John^ Younge of Salop Peticoned, refer'd to the Sub- Committee. OF PIMLEY, SENIOR AND JUNIOR. 229 III. Report. G. 180. No. 446. John Younge the elder of Pimbley in the County of Salopp, gen., and John Younge his sonne and heire apparent. The fathers Delinquency, for disertinge his owne howse and goinge to Ludlowe to live there, beinge one of the King's Garrisons and holdeu against the Parliament®- and was the Steward for the Kings howse for providinge things necessary for the lord President and Councell and their officers and attendance in the Marches of Wales. And.it doth appeare by the Certificate of John Crewe esq. one of the members of the hon^^*^ howse of Conions^ that whiles the Compounder was yet in Ludlowe, he did wriglit to him divers monthes sithence, wherein he desired to come off without chardge or if that could not be that he might compound upon easy tearmes and sent by an expresse which the lord Roberts doth certefye to have scene, and the Compounder doth depose that this letter was sent about the beginninge of November 1645, in manner as is certefyed, but his peticon came in sithence the first of December last. He hath taken the Naconall Covenant before Willm. Barton minister of John Zacharies the 14th of Alarch 1645, and the Negative oath heere the i2tli of March 1645. The sonnes Delinquenc3^e, that he was in Arnies against the Parliam^^ and rendered himselfe in September last. They compound upon a perticuler deliuered in under their hands, by which the father for both doth submit to such ffine &c. and by which it doth appeare. 230 SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF JOHN YONOE That the said John Younge the elder is seized of a ffranckteii^® duriiige tearme of his life, the remainder to his wife for life, the remainder to the said sonne for life, and to such wife as he should marry for life, and to his eldest sonne in I have taile, and to the heires males of the body of such p'used Sonne, and soe to his other sonnes in taile, with this other remainders over, the remainder to his deed. right heires, of and in one Capitall Messuage or fifarme, and of diners Lands and Ten'ts to the same belongeinge lyinge and beinge in Pimbley aforesaid in the Count}' of Salopp of the yeerely value value before theis troul)les oner and abuue the 94 li. 6s. 8d. rents issueinge — 94 li. 6s. 8d. That the said John Younge the elder is seized of a ffranckten^^ duringe tearme of 3 lives yet in value beinge, of and in another Messuage on Ten'te 67 li. 17s. ' with the Appurten°<^3 lyinge and beinge in pd 8d. Corvisor's rowe in the towne of Salopp of the Junij: cleere yeerely value before theis troubles ouer 1646. and aboue the rents reserved — 6 li. 17s. That the said John Younge the elder is seized of of a ffranckten'te duringe the life of his wife Elinor Younge who is seized in Ifee, of and in one moyety of another Messuage or Ten'te value lyinge and beinge in Mitton in the said County 7 li. of the yeerely value before theis troubles 7 li. That he was possessed and Owner of a personale estate in Goods Chattells, debts and howsehold stufle, to the value of 60 li. which the Sequestrators in the County haue seized, and he is oweinge as he alledgeth to diuers persons seuerall somes of money, amountinge to the some of 260 li. D. Watkins. 1 60 Maij 1646 Jkro^ Alexander. Fine — 200 li. OF PIMLEY, SENIOR AND JUNIOR 231 IV. CERTIFICATE OF THE COUNTY COMMITTEE AS TO HIS DELINQUENCY. G. 180. No. 460. To the light \ion^^^ the Comittee of Lords and Comons for sequestrations. Wee the Comittee for Sequestracons in the Countie of Salopp doe certifie : That wee find by the testimonie of one witnes that John Yonnge of Pimley in the Countie of Salopp gent: was at lyudlow a garrison kept against the parliament. And that hee did execute the place of a Collector for the gatlieringe ot moneies for payment of souldiers there, and that hee did reside in the said Towne for aboute half a yeare And beinge called to his answeare hee saied. That hee aboute a yeare and half paste was chosen in the place and roonie of Henry J^cleston esquire to bee Steward for the kings house at Ludh^w Castle for providinge of things necessarie for the Lord p'sident and Couusell and their officers and atteiidaunce in the Marches of Wales, Sir Thomas Milward and Sir Adam Litleton twoe of the Justices of the said Couusell and their attendauntes and other officers belonginge to the same beinge then resident there. And by reason thereof hee did repaire to Ludlow Ludlow Castle and did execute the place of a Steward there accordingly. But denieth that bee was a Collector for payment of souldiers. All w^"^ wee humblie referre to the iudgni' of this ho^''^ Comittee whether the said John Younge bee sequestrable by the ordinauiice of sequestracons. TlI. NICCOLI.S II. MACKWORTli LEIGH. OWEN xio Marcij 1645. To the right ho^'" the Comittee of Lords and Comons for sequestracons. [Endorsed :] John Yonge No. 339, of Pimbley, Salop. Report past 24^^ Dec, 1647. ^ ffiiie 200 li. May 1646. AND. LLOYD KOBT. CHARLTON. 232 SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF JOHN YONGE V. CERTIFICATE THAT HE TOOK THE NEGATIVE OATH. G. i8o. No. 455. These are to certifie all whome it may Concerne that the bearer hereof John Younge hath freely and voluntarily taken the Oath prescribed by Parlym^ the i2th of March 1645 Att Gouldsmiths hall Lond. Jo. Leech, CI. VI. ' CERTIFICATE THAT HE TOOK THE NATIONAI, COVENANT. G. 180. No. 456. These are to certifie that John Yonge of Pimley in the County of Salop, Gent, did freely and fully take the Nationall Covenant and subscribe the same. Upon the flfourteenth day of March 1645 The sayd Covenant being administred unto him according to order by me. William Barton Minister of John Zecharies I^ondon. VII. FINED AT ;^200. G. 3. No. 118. 230 Maij 1646. Mr. Jenner Mr. Shute Mr. Herring Sr. David Watkins Mr. Packe Mr. Moyer Mr. Wareing John Younge sen' of Pinibley in the County of Salop gent., and John Younge his son and heir apparent, fhne 200 li. VIII. DEPOSITION THAT HE APPLIED TO COMPOUND IN NOVEMBER 1 64 5. G. 180. No. 458. John Yonge of Pimbley in the Countye of Salop doth make oathe that he by his l"^*^ beeringe date aboute 3 weeks before the ist of December 1645 did desire John Crewe esq. one of the members of the hon'^^" house of Commons that he would please to use his beste meanes, that a coniposicon might be OF PIMLEY, SENIOR AND JUNIOR. made for the saide John Yonge at as easye a rate as it possiblye might be paled, or in words to that efifecte, And that the wife of the saide John Yonge did hire a messenger on purpose to goe to London w*^'^ the said letter, that it migh^e Come in due time to the hands of the said Mr. Crewe. John Yonge. Jur. 140 Maij 1646. John Page. Mr. Crew did some months since shew a letter to the comittee of both kingdoms which imported a desire of composition from one in the kings quarter. This I certifie 15th May 1646. J, RoBERTES. Mr. Young aboue mentioned being at Ludlow dyd write me a letter divers months since, wherein he desired if he might to come offe without charge, or if that could not be that he might compound uppon easy termes. His letter was to that elfect, and sent, as I take it, by a messenger on purpose diverse months since, I cannot charge my memory w'^ the particular time. Jo. Ckkwe. May 14, 1646. IX. NOTE AS TO THEIR DELINQUENCY, THE VALUE OF THEIR ESTATES, AND THE FINE IMPOSED. G. 180. No. 450. December 20th 1647. John Younge sen. of Pimbley in the County of Salop gen., and John Younge his sonne and Co. 74 lieire apparent. The ffatliers delinquency That 339. hee left his habitacon and resided in the enemies Quarters ; The deliiKpiency of tlie sonnc tliat hee was in Amies against the Pailiameiit. They rendered before December 1645 Tlie estate in -> fTee per Annum 94 11. 6s. 8d. iTrom 3 lives per Annum 6 li. 17s. ffor one life })cr Annum 7 li. ffor which the ffine at a tenth is 200 li. 234 SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF JOHN YONGE COMMITTEK FOR THK ADVANCE OF MONEY. I. JOH^ YONGE SENIOR IS ASSESSED AT ;^I50, AND IS SUMMONED TO PAY. A. 112. No. io6. March 6° 1646. These are to give you notice, that you are Assessed by the assessors sitting at Haberdashers-Hall, London ; appointed to assesse such as have not contributed upon the Propositions of both Houses of Parliament, or not in Proportion to their Estates, at the suniuie of One Jmndred and JJlflie i)ounds, by vertue of the late Ordinance of both Houses of rarlianient for assessenient of the tvventyeth pari ; And you are hereby required to appear at Haberdasliers-Hall, London ; to give satisfaction to the said assessenient within ten dayes after notice hereof. lo Joint Yoitnge senV oj Fimblcy in ConC Salopp. ffyi. J.H.D. CopiaJunei20 [Printed form, except words in italics] A. 71-71. March 6, 1646. John Younge sen of Pimbley in Com. Salop. Somes assessed 150-00-00. II. CERTIFICATE BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THAT HE PAID ;^20 TO THE COUNTY TREASURY. A. 112. No. 107. These are to Certifie to all whom it may concerne that John Younge of Pimly in the Countye of Salop gentl' hath been Assessed within the said Countye by order of this Com^^e upon the proposicous of Parl^ of the ffifte and Twentieth parte And upon the xxvith daye of ffebruary. 1645 Contributed and paytle the Some of Twenty pownds into the Treasurye of said Countye for the use of the State accordinge to the Ordinance of Parl^ in that behalfe (a Note of Receipt whereof under the liandes of some of the Members of the said Comittee bearinge date of the said xxvith daye of fiebruary 1645 remayneth in the Custodye of the said Mr. OF PIMLEY, SENIOR AND JUNIOR. Yolinge for his security for repayment of the same upon the publique ffayth). In testimony whereof Wee of the said Comittee for safety of the said County of Salop whose names are subscribed have hereunto put o'^ handes this xith daye of June in the three and twentyeth yeare of the raigne of o*^ Soveraigne Lord Kinge Charles of England &c. Annoque d^ 1647. H. Mackworth Tho. Niccols Leigh Owen» III. ordp:r that they pay ;^43, half in fourteen days, AND half in a month. A. 9. No. 423. Die Veneris ymo. ffebr. 1650. Young. In the case of Mr. John Young of Piniley in the County of Salopp and John Young his sonn concerning an Assessmt upon them for their 20th part Upon perusal I of the Perticular of their Estates and calculating the same deduction being made of such Debts as they owed upon the 2oth of May 1642 It is ordered that the said John Young thelder and John the younger do pay to Mr. Dawson Tre'r the some of fforty three Pounds in this manner vizt. one halfe thereof within foureteene dayes and thotlier halfe thereof within a moneth after, In which time they liaue liberty to produce Certificate to be proued upon oath before the Coniiss' for Sequestracons in the said County of what they haue paid for their 5th and 20th partes in the Country which shalbe defaulked out of the said fyne And your entry of their acquittance w'^ the Auditor shall then haue a full discharge of and from their Assessm** for ye 20th part. IV. CERTIFICATE HY HUMPHREY MACIiWORTH THAT HE PAH) ^20 INTO THE COUNTY TREASURY. A. 112. No. loS. These are-'to Certifye all vvhome it may Concerne that John Yoiige of Piniley in the Countye of Salop gent, hath bene assessed within the said Countye by order of the Committee 236 SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF JOHN YONGE there upon the proposicoiis of Parliamente of the fifte and Twentieth p'te, And upon the xxvith day of ffebruary 1645, Contributed and payd the somme of Twentye pounds into the Treasurye of the said Countye, As upon enquirye appeares, lor the use of the states, beinge the somnie assessed upon him by the Committees of the said Countye of Salop, Witnes my hand this xxvith day of Aprill 1651. H. Mackwoth. V. CEF^TIFICATE OF JOSEPH PROWDE TO THE LIKE EFFECT. To the Honorable the Conimitionors for Aduanc of money sitting at Haberdasher's Hall, London. Thease may Certyly that IVir. John Younge of Pimly in the County of Salop was Aseascd by the Commite for safety of this County uppon the ordinanc off the 5th and 20th at the some off 20 li. wich some was payd into the treasury of this County and the Committee gave him a recayt for it under theare one hands : all wich I make bold to Certify your Honors off and rest Yor Honors seruant Joseph Prowde. Salop this 25th of June 1651. VI. order THAT THEY HAVE TWO MONTHS TO PROVE THAT THE ;^20 IS NOT DOUBLED, SOLD, OR GIVEN AWAY. A. 112. No. no. Haberdashers liall London. ffryday 27° June 165 1. By the Comiss'is for aduance of money (Sic. In the Case of John Yonge of Pimley in the County of Salop and John Yong his sonne concerning an assessm^ upon him for his 20th part, upon reading our order of the ytli ffebry last whereby the sume of ffortie three pounds was imposed upon the said partyes as a fine for their 20th part Twenty three pounds whereof they payd unto o^' Tre'r. Now upon heareing of Mr. Walter Harris on their behalfe who produceth Certificates of Twentie pounds payd in the Countrey for their 20th part desireing deduction thereof out of the said ffine according to our order of the ytli of ffebruary last It is ordered i OF PIMLEY, SENIOR AND JUNIOR. 237 ! That the said John Younge senior and junior haue two I moneths tyme to make othe before the Comiss^'s of the County ■ of Salop, that the money menconed in the said Certificates is i not doubld sold giuen away or made use of and then wee shall , take the same into consideracon. j ffr. Squibb Ja. Russell Willm. Molins Ric. Moores Vera Copia: Exr. Tho. Detton. Mallison. Intr. vir. DEPOSITION BY JOHN YONGE THE ELDER THAT THEY HAVE NOT DISPOSED OF THE £10, A. 112. No. III. John Younge the elder of Pimbley in the Countye of Salop gent, maketh oath this fiifteenth day of Auguste 1651 before us, That neither he nor his sonne John Younge the younger, have sould, given away, doubled, or anye other way disposed of the Twentye pounds, w^^ he paid into the Treasurye at Shrewsburye to the use of the State, for his fifth and Twentieth p'te, nor of any p'te or p'cell of the same. John Yonge, sen. Sworne before us by vertue of an order from the Com^^^ for aduance of money dat' 27° Junij 1 65 1. W. Crowns ) Com'^s for seqns William Kynge J in Shropshire. VIII. CERTIFICATE THAT JOHN YONGE SENIOR WAS EXAMINED UPON OATH. A. 112. No. 112. Honoble : In persuanc of yo^ order of the xxvith day of June last in the Ca^^e of John Yonge senior and John Yonge junior of Plimley in the County of Salop concerning their twentieth part Wee did in order thereunto Examine upon othe the said 238 SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF JOHN YONGE. John Yonge senior senior touching the same and haue herein enclosed sent you his Deposition humbly leaveing the same to yo^ hon^^ Consideration and remayne Yo^ hon^s humble servants W. Crowns William Kynge. Salop 15th of August 1651. IX. ORDER FOR THEIR DISCHARGE, 22 OCTOBER 165I. A. 17. No. 63. Wednesday: 22 Oct. 1651. Present : ( Mr. Moyer Mr. Molins } Mr. Squibb Mr. Winslow ( Mr. Berners Young. ) John Young upon order 27 June Intr. ) Discharged. 239 SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. SUPPLEMENTAI, NOTES. By the Rev. W. G. D. FLETCHER, M.A., F.S.A. Through the kindness of Mr. Richard Hunt of Boreatton Old Hall, I huve been permitted to see some old title deeds, which throw a good deal of fresh light upon the Harris family and their Shropshire property. To the Rev. C. S. James I am indebted for abstracts of several Harris Wills preserved at Lichfield. And Mrs. E. H. Martin, who has made consider- able research into the life of General Mytton and his connections, has supplied me with several additional facts relating to Sir Thomas Harris. All this additional information, as also some documents from the Public Record Ofhce and Somerset House, I have put together in the form of these "Supplemental Notes" to the Paper on Sir Thomas Harris's Sequestration, which is printed in the present volume of the Tra7isacti07is, pages 43-92. The Manor of Baschurch was conveyed in 1604 by Sir William Leighton of London, knight (cozen and next heir of Thomas Onslow of Boreatton, Esquire, deceased) and George Onslow of Walton Grange, co. Stafford, gentleman, to Thomas Clyve, of Walford, gentleman, and his heirs. In December 1607, Thomas Clyve (son and heir apparent of Edward Clyve of Walford, Esquire) married Mary Onslow, a daughter of George Onslow then of Boreatton, and on their marriage the Manor of Baschurch, the capital messuage mansion house and tenement in Bore Atton, and lands in Noniley, Baschurch, and Byrcli, were settled on George Onslow for his life, with remainder to Thomas Clyve and Mary in tail, ultimate remainder to Thomas Clyve in fee. 240 SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. In 1613 Thomas Harris of Shrewsbury, Esquire, had a lease for seven years of lands in Egerley, Baschurch, Newton Baschurch and Birch, and a capital messuage in Cayhowell, from Thomas Clyve. The Cayhowell property had belonged to Clyve's mother Blanche Clyve, who was a daughter of Thomas IJoyd of Cayhowell, and had married Edward Clive ofWalford. On 20th April 1617 Thomas Harries purchased from Thomas Clyve, for ;^3,300 the Manor of Baschurch, the capital messuage in Boreatton, and all Clyve's lands in Baschurch, Boreatton, Birch, Bagley, Prescott, Noniley, Ley, and Newton Baschurch, in fee. Seven months later, on 12 November 1617, George Onslow and Thomas Clyve and Mary his wdfe, convey to Thomas Harries and Paule Harries his son and heir apparent, and the heirs of Thomas Harries, the Manor of Baschurch, eight messuages in Baschurch, the capital messuage of Bore Attoii and lands in Baschurch, Bore Atton, Birch, Bagley, Prescott, Noniley, Meyre, Ley, Newtowne Baschurch and Stanwarden in the fields, three parts of the manor of Wooderton, and a capital messuage in Edgerley. In 1621, Thomas Harries bought for £go a messuage in Baschurch from Thomas Cotton of Prescott and William and Francis his sons. All the foregoing deeds relate to purchases by the first Baronet. Those which follow relate to dealings with the property by the third Baronet, In 1649, Sir Thomas Harries of Boreatton, Baronet, leased the Manor of Baschurch aud the capital messuage of Boreatton lor 99 years to John Merrick In Trust for Lady Anne Harries (his step-mother) ; and the following year he conveyed his lands in Boreatton, Birch, Wyllaston, Hargreave, Winniugton and Traveiiant, to trustees, to provide a marriage portion of 1000 marks for his sister Eettice Harries. She was the only daughter of the above Lady Anne Harries, and was then but five years old. Owing to his sequestration Sir Thomas had to raise money. In December 1654 he mortgaged his manors of Boreatton, Birch, Eybotwood and Ratlinghope to Richard Hampden of Londo'n, Diaper, for ^2000; and four years later this mortgage was transferred to James Beverley, Esquire, SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. 24I of Begwraye, Bedfordshire. On 3 July 1661, Rowland Hunt of Shrewsbury, Esquire, lent Harries ;^I500 011 mortgage of the Manor of Baschurch, Boreatton, Byrch, I^ybotwood and Ratlinghope. On 9th January following Sir Thomas Harris and Sir James Beverley (his mortgagee) for ;^3500 conveyed to Rowland Hunt in fee the Manors of Boreatton, Birch, Lybotwood and Ratlinghope. This is the last deed to which Sir Thomas Harries was a party. In the Chirk Castle Accounts he is named as living on 20 November 1661, but he must have died shortly afterwards. Sir Thomas's brothers and sisters' evidently had some interest in the estates, for in December 1664, in consideration of ;^520o, Sir George Harris of Boreatton, Baronet (brother and heir of Sir Thomas Harris, Baronet deceased), and Paul Harris, Elianor Plarris and Anne Harris (brother and sisters of Sir George), convey to Rowland Hunt in fee the Manor of Baschurch, and lands in Baschurcb, Boreatton, Birch, Newtown Baschurch, Bagley, Prescot, Noniley, Meere and Lee, and all other the lands of them, and of Sir Paul Harris their father deceased, in the said manor and townships. Also in consideration of ^1700, they convey to him the manor of Ratlinghope, Stanwardiue in the fields, and lands in Eeebotwood. When Lettice Harries came of age in 1665, she quit-claimed her interest in the property, in consideration of ;^^20. Sir George Harris must have died in 1665, for on 6 March 1665-6 "Sir Paul Harris of the town of Salop, Baronet" entered into a Bond with Rowland Hunt, Esquire. In March 1670, Elianor Harris and Anne Harris of London spinsters, " for a competent sum of money to them paid," bargained and sold to Rowland Hunt of Boreatton, Esquire, the capital messuage called Boreatton, and the manor, advowson, rectory and tithes of Ratlinghope. This Elianor was the Foundress of the School at Bascluuch. This is the first deed in which Rowland Hunt is described as *' of Boreatton." It is clear from these deeds that Rowland Hunt was the purchaser of Boreatton, and not his father Colonel Thomas 242 SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. Hunt, as is stated 011 pages 69 and 72. The succession of the Baronets is quite correctly given in the pedigree on page 71, as these deeds witness. A note endorsed on the Conveyance to Hunt of 9 January 1661, states that Rowland Hunt is deceased, and the Manors, &c. descended to Thomas Hunt his son and heir, who is about to marry Jane Ward ; and that the Manors, &c. were conveyed to Trustees by Indentures dated 29 and 30 April 1701. The Boreatton and Baschurch property had belonged to the Harris family only for about fifty years. It is clear that Rowland Hunt's first interest in it was as mortgagee, in July 1661, though he became purchaser of it six months later. He does not however appear to have gone into residence at Boreatton much before 1670. Rowland Hunt was a strong Puritan, and it might be mentioned that he and Thomas Hunt of Shrewsbury (presumably his son) were two of the executors of the Will of the Rev. Richard Baxter. There was a Suit between Eleanor Harris and Anne Harris, plaintiffs, and Rowland Hunt and others, defendants, in 1668, but of this suit I have no details. I have how^ever the Bill and Answer of a Chancery Suit, — William Mountgomery v. Rowland Hunt and others — in 1667, which throws some fresh light on the descent of the baronetcy, and as to the dealings with the property. (Chancery Proceedings before 1714, Hamilton 482 89.)- Bill of complaint to Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Chancellor of England, dated November, 1667, by William Mountgomery of CO. Salop, gentleman. That Sir Thomas Harris of Boreatton, Baronet, was seised of the manors of Bastchurch, Booreattori, Byrch, Eybottwood, Ratlinghope and Coates, CO. Salop, Slc. of the yearly value of ;^i5oo; and in the year 16 .. he borrowed of Thomas Taylor ;^i44, and plaintiff and Richard Scriven of Frodgeley, esquire, became bound with Sir Thomas to Thomas Taylor for the payment thereof. That Thomas Taylor died, and his widow married Bevis Lloyd gent, who sued plaintiff and Scriven, and obtained judgment. That the saici manors &c. were conveyed to several persons, namely Rowland Hunt of Boreatton, esq., Thomas Hunt of SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. 243 Shrewsbury, esq., John Thomas of Shrewsbury mercer, John Shelvock and Richard Reynolds both of Shrewsbury, Eleanor Harris and Anne Harris sisters and heirs of Sir Thomas Harris, and to Sir Roger Harris uncle of Sir Thomas Harris. And he prays that they may appear and answer. The Answer of John Shelvocke and Richard Reynolds alone is preserved, and it is dated 19 January 18 Charles 11. They say that Sir Thomas Harris is dead, that deft. Reynolds was his servant for several years, and therefore Sir Thomas gave him a messuage in Baschurch of the yearly value of ;^i4. for his life. That "Sir Paul Harris [fifth] baronet deceased, who was brother and heyre to Sir George Harris [fourth baronet] deceased, dying without issue, who was brother and heyre to the said Sir Thomas Harris," was seized of lands and tenements parcel of the said real estate whereof the said Sir Thomas Harris died seised. That Sir Paul Harris on 16 July last past made his Will, and appointed the defendants Shelvocke and Reynolds his executors, and devised his estate (except three tenements in Lyebottwood) to his executors, to sell and raise money for the payment of his debts, and a debt of £60 owing by Sir Thomas to Sir Joseph Sheldon, and discharging his funeral expenses which cost above £70^ and paying legacies, and the overplus to Sir Roger Harris [6t^i baronet] who was uncle to the said Sir Paul [stli baronet] to witt his father's brother. And as to the three tenements in Lyebottwood, testator devised one to deft. John Shelvock, another to deft. Richard Reynolds, and the other to his friend Richard Jordan for his life with the remainder to the said Sir Roger Harris and his heirs. The Writ of Subpoena to Sir Roger Harris baronet, John Shelvocke, and Richard Reynolds, gen. is dated 11 December 18 Charles IL, but I have no note of any further proceedings in this Suit. Of the j^ounger daughters of Roger Harris named in the pedigree on page 46, Eleanor the 4th daughter became the wife of William Kinge, and Sara the 5th daughter, who was baptized at 6t. Julian's on 5 August 1570, was married there on 22 May 1592 to Richard More of More, garden and Einley. 244 SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. The eldest son of this marriage was Samuel More, and a younger son John was baptized at St. Julian's on i6 Jan. 1602-3. Roger Harris had two younger sons who are not named in the pedigree, namely William his 6th son, who was baptized at St. Julian's 22 November 1573, and buried 3 July 1583, and John his 7th son, baptized there 16 April 1575, presumably dead in 1685, when Roger entered his pedigree. Sir Thomas, the first Baronet, served the office of Sherift of Shropshire in 1619. The Cale7idar of State Papers (Domestic Seiies, James I.) shows that Captain Simon L,eeke, who had been employed by his son Paul Harris to procure the necessary certificates in support of the pedigree, received in payment for his services ;^30. (See p. 54.) The State Papers give some further particulars about Lady Anne Harris, the second wife of Sir Paul Harris, second Baronet. A letter written by Robert Jones, dated Shrewsbury 6 August 1648, states — we have taken the Lady Haris and divers others prisoners." In a petition dated i July 1660, she mentions that in 1648 she was herself imprisoned for sixteen weeks. Some time after her husband's death she married John Wroth of Hollingbourne, and now she petitions for a })lace for him. *'0n ist July 1660, appeared Dame Anne, the widow of Sir Harris of Boreatton, Shropshire, and now wife of John Wroth, and petitioned for a place for her husband. She had shown extraordinary zeal for the late King, had concealed Lord Jiyron when the Shropshire gentry rose, was herself imprisoned for sixteen weeks. Sir Paul Harris, a Commissioner of Array for the late King, had dyed the i8tli of July 1644, distracted at the disasters of Marston Moor." This Lady Anne Harris was the second daughter of Sir William Caulfield, 2nd Lord Caulfield of Charlemont in the Peerage of Ireland, and she was three times married : first to Si-r Ralph Gore, 2nd Baronet ot Manor Gore, M.P. for Donegal (he died before i Fet). 1661-2) ; secondly 19 April 1643 to Sir Paul Harris, 2nd Baronet; and thirdly to John SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. 245 Wroth of Blenden Hall in Kent (he was created a Baronet 29 Nov. 1660, and died about 1672. )i She had children by each of her husbands, namely 1. Sir William Gore, 3rd. baronet. 2. Lettice Harris, born in 1644. 3. Sir John Wroth, 2nd baronet. 4. Henry Wroth. 5. Sophia Wroth. The Chirk Castle Accounts, written by Thomas Pritchard, steward and secretary to Sir Thomas Myddelton, Bart., have these entries relating to Sir Thomas and Xady Mary Harris : — 1656- 7, Jan. 4. Paid yor selfe in the draweinge roome the day my ladye Harries was att the Castle ;^i-o-o. 1657- 8, Jan. II. Paid Monsieur Myddleton at hys goeinge to my ladye Harrys is. [" Monsieur Myddleton " was Samuel Myddelton, son of Richard Myddelton of Jersey, by his wife Elizabeth le Cousteur. He died at Chirk Castle in 1678, aged 98.] 1661, Nov. 20. Paid to my Mr. att the Beare in Drury Lane with Sr. Tho. Harris los. The Will of John Harreys the younger of Condover, 1556, is noticed on page 53. The Wills of two of his brothers, William and Thomas, are as follows : — Will of William Harreys of Co7idover, 1554. Dated 28 August 1553, To be buried in the churchyard of St. Andrew, Condover. To my brother John ;!^2o, and I make him executor. To my brother Thomas the yeres and takyng of the parke. My brother Roger. My sister Kateren. The residue to my father and mother. Overseers: my father. Sir Thomas my brother, and my brother Roger. Will proved at Lichfield, 21 April 1554. Inventory, Sum ^38 5s. W/ill of- Thomas Harreis, clerk, parson of Siaplet07i, 1581. Dated 13 January 1580-1. To be buried in Cundover Church. My^ brother Roger Harreis* sons, Thomas, Richard, 1 This is entirely due to the researches of Mrs Ahirtin. 246 SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. and eight other children. My brother Richard Harreis' son Thomas, and six other children. William Harries' son of Condover. Catherine Harreis. The blind Harreis. Richard Harries' ni}^ kinsman. Richard Sniythe my brother-in-law. William Adams my brother. Executors : William Cronipton and Roger Harreis. Will proved at Lichfield i March 1 580-1. These three Wills give the following pedigree of the testators' immediate relations. It should be compared with the tabular pedigree on page 46. John Harris of Condover, residuary legatee of his sons William in 1554 and John in 1556, by Margaret his wife had issue : 1. William Harris of Condover, Will 1554. 2. John Harris of Condover, Will 1556. 3. Thomas Harris, parson of Stapleton, Will 1581. 4. Richard Harris, had issue — Roger, Thomas, and five other children. 5. Roger Harris of Shrewsbury. Will P.C.C. 1598. Had issue — Richard, Thomas (the first Baronet), and eight other children. 6. Katherine. 7. A dau. mar. to Richard Shmethes [or Smythe]. 8. A dau. mar. to William Adams. The Will of George Harris, 3rd son of Roger Harris, and next brother of Sir Thomas the first Baronet, is an interesting Will. He was baptized at St. Alkmund's 24 Oct. 1564, and buried at Baschurch iq May 1636. (See page 47.) IVz// of George Harris of Boreatto7i, co. Salop, Gentlemayi, 1637. Dated 22 Jan. 1635. To be buried in the parish church of Baschurch in the vault there lately made by me. Kxecutor : my well-beloved nephew Sir Paule Harris, knt. and baronet. To the children of Sir Paule Harris, namely, George Harris, my godson, ;^ioo ; Thomas Harris, his eldest son, ^10; Paul Harris another son ^10 ; Mary, Sara, Elinor, and Anne, four of his daughters, each ^3 6s. 8d. for a ring. SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. 247 My executor to put out £20, to purchase an annuity for my cosen Roger Harris, one of the sons of my late brother Sir Thomas Harris, baronet, deceased. To Richard .lyateward, a servant of Sir Paule Harris, 20s. To Jeflfery Beddowe, butcher, 20s. By a Codicil, dated 3 May 1636, George Harris revoked the legacy to George Harris, and bequeathed £^ to the Ladie Harris, wife of Sir Paul, for a ring. Will proved P.C.C. 4 November 1637 by Sir Paul Harris, knight and baronet. Sentence &c. (145 Goare.) Will of Williavi Harreys of Stepulton^ Cojidovcr, 1556. Dated 4 February 1556. To be buried in the churchyard of St. Andrew of Condover. To Rychard my son in tail two tenements in Chatford, after the decease of Jone my wife. To Margaret, Mary and Alys my iii deytherne f? daughters] ;^io each at marriage. To Roger my son, goods. The residue to Jone my wife, she to be executrix. Overseers : my brother Sir Thomas and my brother Roger Harreys. Witnesses : Thomas Harreys prest, John Harreys the elder, John Harreys the yoner, wt. other. Debts I owe : my brother Sir Thomas £'^, my brother John 26s. 8d., Maued Butter 20s. Total 6s. 8d. Will proved at Lichfield 4 May 1556. Inventory appraised by David ap bowen and Rychard Harreys the younger. Sum ;^27 los. Will of Richafd Harryes of Condover^ 1590. Dated 29 May 1590. To be buried in the churchyard of Condover. Elynor, daughter of my son John Harryes. Roger, son of my son William Harryes. Kxecutors : my wife Katlierine and son John Harryes. Overseer: my kinsman John Heynes of Condover, yoman. Witnesses: Thomas Fletcher clerk Vicar of Condover, John Heynes of Con- dover, &c. J Will ])roved at Lichfield 24 September 1590. Inventory taken 31 August 1590. Sum ^41 iis. 4d. 248 SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. Will of Dorothye Harries of Bicton^ widozv, 1597. Dated 8 Oct. 1597. To be buried at Monford. My sons George, Thomas, Roger, John, and Andrew Harries. My son in law John Burlom [?]. Executors : ilarrye Cunde clerk and John Danlom. Witness : Richard Harries, Thomas Harries, John Harries, Andrewe Harries, Syna Chesshyre, and others. Will proved at Lichfield 18 January 1597-8. Inventory taken 19 October 1597. Sum ;^78 6s. 8d. Will of William Harrys of Salop ^ draper, 1604. Dated 16 August 1604. My son-in-law Thomas Browne, taylor, executor and residuary legatee. Will proved at Lichfield 5 February 1604-5. Inventory taken 4 February 1604. Sum £1 5s. 6d. Will of Rola7id Harris of Uffiiiglon, hushajidman^ 1609. No date. To be buried at Ufiington. My son Thomas, and two other children. Kxecutrix : my wife Joane. Witness : my brother Thomas Hotchkiss and others. Will proved at Lichfield 4 May 1609. Inventory taken 26 March 1609. The next Will is that of Dorothy Harris, daughter of John Harrys of Brocton, and widow of Arthur Harris (the youngest brother of the first Baronet). She was buried at Condover 16 August 1631, and left three daughters and coheiresses, viz. (i) Anne wife of Richard Harrys of Stockton, (2; Sarah baptized at Condover 19 August 1595, married at St. Chad's 16 January 1622-23 to Robert Betton of Salop, and (3) Martha, baptized at Condover 14 January 1596-7, wife of Thomas Wynne of Garth. (See page 47). Their only son Roger was baptized at Condover 7 November 1603 and buried there 30 December 1605. Will of Dorothy Harris of the town of Shrewsbtiry^ widow, 1632. Dated 18 November, 1630. To be buried at Condover. To my son in law Robert Betton and Sara his wife £6 for SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. 249 mcuruing, and £20 to said Sara. To my son in law Thomas Wynu and his wife £Z for mourning, and £20 to my daughter Wynn. To my brother Arthur Harris 20s. for a ring. To my kinsman John Harris, eldest son of my brother Richard Harris, 20s. for a ring. To Katherine wife of Roger Harris of Condover 40S. To Jane Jennins my now servant maid £'^ and goods. To the said Robert Betton all my lands tenements etc. in Stockton for 21 years, or until my son in law Richard Harris pays ;^ioo to William Whittingham (for the payment whereof the said Robert Betton and Richard Harris became bound). And then the Mill Meadow and the Mill Leasowe in Stockton, occupied by Kdmonde Lloyd, to m}^ grandchild Richard Harris, eldest son of my said son in law Richard Harris; and the residue of the premises at Stockton to my daughter Anne Harris for life, remainder to my grandchild Richard Harris. To my daughter Sara Betton my best beare boule and best wine boule. To my daughter Martha Wynn my other two silver bowls. To my daughter Anne Harris silver salt, bedding, etc. Executrix : my daughter Anne Harris. Witness : Arthure Harris, Tho. Lloyde clerke, Abraham Higgons. Will proved at Lichfield 4 April 1632. Inventory of Dorothy Harris of St. Alkmund's parish, CO. Salop, widow, appraised 2 April 1632 by Thomas Lloyde clerk, John Rusback clerk, and John Walthall. Sum ;^33 i6s. The next Will is that of Hugh Harries, mayor of Shrewsbury in 1640, who was buried at St. Chad's 16 June 1641, By his second wife Elinor Purcell he had issue an only son, Thomas Harries (who by his wife Mary daughter of Edward Corbett of Newton had issue — Elinor, Sara, and Anne), and six daughters, — Sara wife of Richard Moynes, Martha wife of John Gibbes, Anne wife of William Sturchley, Dorothy wife of Andrew Bayne, Hester (or Easter), and Winifred. (See page 47, and Harleian MS. 1241, fo. 65 b.) 250 SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. U^z'/l of Hugh Harries of the town and county of Salop, esq., and mayer of the said town. 1640. Dated 19 March 1640. To be buried in the parish church of St. Chad's in Shrosbury, near my toume I there caused to be* made at the burial of my first wife as may appeare, and then I caused my second wiffe lickwise to [be] buried tliere, and wold be myself lickwise be there buried. To my only son Thomas Harries my now dwelling house, with all wonscott tabell bords benches which joyn therunto, and other things in the brewhouse wheare nowe he dwelleth, excepting the hey bed and truckell bed in my brothers Mores chamber, which I will hereafter bequeath to some other of my children, on condition that he pay for my funeral. If he refuse, he is only to have the house I dwell in, the brewliouse and maltliouse, but the moveable things to go to my executors. But I hope he will performe to pay for all that belongeth to my funeral, natur sholde soe bynde him, knowing howe loveing a father I have byn to him, that had power in myself to sett my forsaid house from him to what child I wold for three liffes or one and twenti yeres, but did not, and hee beyng soe disobedient a child to mee in all his liffe time, as hee was and yet is, and maring agaynst my mynde and comfort, which had but a honderd pounds with her, wheare I might have had eight hounderd pounds. And of the 100 li. hee had with his wiffe, hee had all the money to himself, and I never had penny thereof, and soe my affection was soe towards him made a perfect estate to him of my howse in consetheration of xxx li. od money and sessers of hyt indifferently chossen as is expressed in deade to uses, unto well deade reffere myself. For all the writings of the howse is in the custody of Mr. Howse, Mr. Homffrey [ ] them indifferent betwixt me and my sonne in a box. And nowe for the disposings of my temporall estate, if my sonne dooth performe my desire before expressed for my funerall, I am willing he should have all the particullers before expressed and bequeathed unto him, if not, then my will is my executors SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. 25I and oversears of this my will shall have all the disposing of all my goods movabell to performe my funerall and paying of my debts, &c. I give to my daughter Easter Harris bed, &c. To my daughter Wynefred the standing bedd and truckle bed in my brother Mores chamber, &c. To my grandchild Elynore Sturchley, bed &c., for that she was bred and borne in my howse and hath been trewe and trustie to me and her granmother. To my daughter Martha, quilt in my brother More's chamber. And if I liad more I would have byii more bountiful, the mean tyme, I hope you will all of you tacke hit in good parte. My cossen Abraham Griffies. Danell Ryder. My son in law William Sturchley. To my daughter Anne Stnrchley, her mother's silke gowne. My daughter Sara Moyes. To all my sonne Thomas' two daughters Elynor and Sara, ICS. each ; and lickwise to the six other children of William Sturchley which nowe is living, besides Elyner Sturchley, los. each. To Sara Moyes now living los. My goods in the house or in Mr. Thomas Bettones by inventory. Executors : Mr. Edward Griffies and Thomas Griffies of Bentall. Overseers : Mr. Robarte Betton the younger and Mr. Thomas Betton. Witness: Daniel Porta, John Watmer, Homfray Richards. Debts I owe: Mr. John Birch mercer, ^3. Thomas Meredieth cooper, £S. My daughter Wynefrede £^ by bill. Beatreche Anderton, widow, by bond due 24 August next, ^10. Item I owe \_b/a?i/y;] brethren, being yonge men and mercers without bill, according to their note for stoffe I had of them for my use. Edward Griffithes of Edgerley gent, and Thomas Griffithes of Bentall gent., the Executors, renounce executorship 19 252 SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. June 1641 ; and appoint Richard Walmsley gent, proctor on 15 Sept. 1641. Witnesses : Thomas Harris, Thoraas Meredieth, Rowland Tenche, John Lande. Administration was granted at Lichfield 21 October 1 641 to Richard Venables, a creditor, the executors named in the will having renounced. [For account of Hugh Harris, mayor in i64i,see TransactionSy 3rd Series, V. 136, VI. 197.] Will of Elizabeth Harris of Pitchford, spinster, 1681. Dated 10 October 1680. I give the interest of ^100. left me by the Will of luy aunt Joane Browne, to my father Richard Harris and my mother Margaret Harris for their lives ; and after their decease I give ^30 to my sister Sarah Harris, ;^30 to my sister Margaret Harris, ^5 to my cozen Thomas Russel, and £5 to his sister Joane Russel, ^20 to my cozen Richard Russel, and £^ each to my executors. Executors: William Cound and William Russell, both of Pitchford. William Cound renounced executorship 22 February 1 680-1. Inventory 22 February 1680, sum ^15 9s. 2d. Will proved at Lichfield 19 April i68i. Will Nuncupative of Richard Harris of Leebotwood, 1681. Dated 20 March 1 680- 1. My grandchildren Thomas Russell, Richard Russell and Joan Russell, and my daughter Margaret. Executors : My wife Margaret Harris and my youngest daughter Sara Harris. Inventory 28 March 1681, £62 los. Will proved at Lichfield 19 April 1681, by Margaret Harris, Sarah Harris [or Hughes] having renounced. • Will of William Harris, of Shreivsbury Town, esq,, 1684. Dated 21 November 1684. All to my wife Anne Harris, whom I appoint executrix. [^Seal : three hedgehogs; and crest.] Inventory 18 December 1684. Sum £66 13s. lod. Will proved at Lichfield 3rd April 1685. SIR THOMAS HARRIS, THIRD BARONET OF BOREATTON. 253 I presume that this last Testator was the eighth child of the first Baronet, and was baptized at St. Julian's 30 April 1609. He entered Shrewsbury School 19 April 1624. His father left him by Will an annuity of ;^i5 per annum for his life. He was buried at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, 14 December, 1684. Had he lived four months longer he would have succeeded to the baronetcy. An error that has crept into G.E.C.'s Coynplete Baronetage^ vol. I. page 216, may well be corrected here. G.E.C. states that the Will of Lady Anne Harris, widow of Sir Paul Harris, second baronet, was proved in the P.C.C. in 1676, (39 Box.) A reference to this Will shows that the Testatrix was quite another person. This Dame Anne Herris mentions in her Will her daughters Mrs. Argall and Mrs. Port, her son Sir William Bo;vyer, her sisters Mrs. Anne Harris and Mrs. Mary Harris, and her sons Kdward, Arthur, and Thomas Harris. She appoints her son Mr. Thomas Harris executor, and desires to be buried at Arnall in Essex, where her son Port did dwell. This testatrix died on i April 1676; her will was proved 20 April 1676 by her son Thomas Harris ; and on 23 March 1692 Administration de bonis non was granted to Alice Argan widow, the daughter and next-of-kin of Lady Anne Herris deceased. The names of her children show that there was no connection with the Shropshire family. CORRIGENDA. Page 46. — Pedigree, line 19. Ursuley the daughter married Henry GrifBths of Bentall, and not Henry Bentall as stated. Page 53, line 24. For Rychard Shurethes" read " Rychard Shmethes." 254 BISHOP'S TRANSCRIPTS AT HEREFORD. By the Rev. F. C. NORTON. The Transcripts of Parish Registers at Hereford were formerly supposed to begin in 1660, but as a matter of fact they certainly began at least as early as 1600. From that date to 1660 only 49 Shropshire Parish Registers have been found. They were discovered by me in the summer of 1903 when cleaning up the muniment room over the north porch of the Cathedral at Hereford. The surnames in the Shropshire Returns for the Archdeaconry of I^udlow were all copied, and in some cases the whole of the Return. The early Returns from parishes in the Archdeaconry of Hereford were indexed, bift not copied. The early Returns of both Archdeaconries were made up into bundles and placed on the shelves in the room. Other Returns may have been found since 1903, but the following lists prove that Returns certainly began as early as 1600, and 710I 1660. Early Returns before 1660. Shropshire 37. Herefordshire 16. Worcestershire 6. Montgomeryshire 5. Radnorshire 3. Early Shropshire Parish Returns. Acton Round 1638. Acton Scott 1638. Aston Botteral 1638. Alberbury 1638. Bagsore 1638, 1640. Bentall 163S. Bettus 163S. Cleobury North 1637. Meole Brace 1638. Madeley 1638. Neen Sollers 1638. Oldbury 1631. Preen (Church) 1638, 1640. Ratlinghope 1638. Shrawardine 1638. Stretton (Church) 1638. bishop's transcripts at HEREFORD, Deuxhill and Glaseley 1638. Ditton Priors 1638. Dovvnton 1638. Eaton u: Haywood 1638. Edgton 1638. Habberley 1638. Hopton Wafers 1638. Munk Hopton 1638. MilsoEQ 1638. Myntowne 1630, 1638. Midletou Scriven 1638. Shelve 1638. Sibden 1638. Sidbury 1638. Tugford 1638. Upton Cressett 1637, 1638. Wentnor 1638. Wenlock (Parva) 1638. Whistanstow 1638. Willey 1600, 1605, 1608, 1614, 1620, 1622, 1626, 1638. Early Montgomery Parish Returns. Bnttington 1638. Churchstoke 1638. Forden 1638. Hussington 1638. Woolstanmind 1635. Early Radnorshire Parish Returns. Knighton 1639. Norton 1631. Brompton Bryan 1638. Early Worcestershire Parish Re/urns. Bockleton 1638. Clifton on Team 1638. Hanley William 1638. Knighton on Team 1639. Manible 1638. Rock 1638. Early Herefordshire Parish Returns, Aston 1630, 163 1, 1638. Edwin Loach 1638. Bayton 1638. Henley 1638. •Dowles 1638. ^ Kyre Wyard 1638. Edwin Ralph 1640. Eeintwardine 1638. 256 bishop's transcripts at HEREFORD. Lindridge 1638. Sapey Lower 1638. Leisters 1638. Stockton 1638. Pen sax 1638. Shelsley Walsh 1638. Rochford 1638. Stanton on Arrow 1642. From 1660 the returns of 191 Parishes in the Archdeaconries of Ludlow and Hereford, including: — 113 Shropshire Parishes. 55 Herefordshire ,, (including 3 Border Parishes). ID Worcestershire ,, ( n 2 ). 7 Montgomery ,, ( 6 „ ). 6 Radnorshire i >» )• These were cleaned, arranged and tied up in bundles, and a complete copy made of 95 Shropshire Parish Returns for the Archdeaconry of Ludlow, in which 27 Church Registers were lost, and 89 gaps missing. These were all restored, and a copy made of the whole collection from 1600 to 18 12, which is now in the College of Arms, London, E.C. MISCELI.ANEA. [Under this heading the Editors will be pleased to insert notes and short articles relative to recent discoveries in the County or other matters of archceological or historical interest. Com- munications are invited, and should be addressed to the Editors^ c\o Miss H. M. Auden, F.R.Hist.S. (Hon. Secretary), Alderdene, Church St ret ton.] I. MEMORANDUM AS TO THE FAMINES OF BAUDEWIN AND BALDWYN, 1672. During a recent visit to Oxford I found the following paper amongst the Blakeway MSS. at the Bodleian Library. I take the writer to be Thomas Baudewin (or Baldwyn) of Diddlebury and of Shrewsbury, barrister-at-law, recorder of Shrewsbury 1676 and Mayor 1686. He was the second son of Edward Baudewin of Diddlebury, who had entered his pedigree at the Visitation of Shropshire in 1623, by his wife Mary, the daughter of Edward Lutwich. His "cozen Charles Baldwyn of Stoke " is presumably the father of Sir Samuel Baldwyn of Stoke Castle. John Baldwyn of Munslow, who " was turned off without any coate at all," was son of William Baldwyn of Aston Munslow by his wife Joyce, daughter oi Roger Foster ; he was baptized in 1598 and died in 1680. (See the Transacfio?is, 4th Series, vol. II. for further details of all these men). Dugdale was at Ludlow on August 17 and 18, 1663, and amongst the pedigrees then entered at his Visitation of the County are those of Bawdwyn of Didlebury, Baldwin of Elsich, and Baldwin of Munslow. To the last is prefixed '^n.iP {i.e., 7iulla insignia), not entitled to bear Arms. Edward Baldwyn of Astley Abbotts disclaimed at the same Visitation. (Blakeway's Salop MSS. vol. V., fo. 30, in Bibl. Bodl.) Difference between Baudewin & Baldwyn's family. Memorandum found among the papers of Mr. Charles Bawden in 1734-5- That Mr. Baldwyn of Munslow came to the King at armes in Ludlow & told him his name was Baldwyn, & his coate of it MISCKI.I.ANKA. arms was a Salter sable, field argent, & that he was the most antient family that bore that coate of armes ; & shewed him a deed wherein the name was Bawdewin, & of land which theretofore belonged to Didlebury & not to him, — but long since sould. To which the herald answered that those armes belonged to Bawdewin & not to Baldwyn, & that he found no armes belonging to Baldwyn in this county. Soe Mr. John Baldwyn of Munslow was turned off without any coate at all : and no relation to us, but by matching into our family. My cozen Charles Baldwyn (Baudewyn) of Stoke was likewise with the herald ; & on debate at first had like to have been disallowed our coate. But making appeare to the herald that he came out of Didlebury house soe lately, his coate as second family was to him confirmed, with distinction, that is, the halfmoon. But withall the herald told him he must write, if he would write Baldwyn with alias Bawdewin, or else could not presume to beare that coate, for it belonged to Bawdewin only, & not to Baldwyn : & allowed it my father ( ) without scruple. Bawdewin & Baldwyn are both very ancient familys, & not so late as man's memory. And our family shewed a dozen generations since they came to Didlebury, & matches with gentility, which was proved by the several deeds of joyuture, & a competent estate so long remaineing to it, better that Munslow. Though Baldwyn of Munslow is as good or better family then Briggs, or any of that name in this county &ca. lyUdlow 1672. This paper will shew the interest excited among the gentry of the county by the heraldic visitations, and the soUicitude with which genealogical pre-eminens was then guarded. Mr. Baudewin's jealousy on the subject of family is as characteristic as that of a Cambro Briton could be. W. G. D. FI^KTCHKR, F.S.A. II. A MUSTKR ROIvL OF SHERIFF HALES, 1539. A.D. the Public Record Office, Loiidon. 1539- T.R. Miscellaneous Books, No. 48, Muster Rolls, Salop. The muster taken before Thomas Newport and William Yonge es(juiere att Newport the laste daye of Marche in the 3'ere of the Rayuge of our sovereign lord King Henry MISCRI.I.ANEA. til the viij'b of the one part of the hundred of Brad fort w^'^'in the Countie of Salop and all ther men here Insuing wlios namys be heryn wryttyn are abull men. Shereff Hale. Thorn's Eyton hath harness for hymself. A.D. */« ihe Public Record Office, London. 1539 State Papers — Do7?iestic — Henry viii Muster Rolls. Folio S. pp. 87, 88. Cutleston hundred. Shrevehales cum membr. Thes psons foloing be abull men bowes and have harnes & artilleri as folrith their nams I" p'mis Xpofer Cowy I' Rob'rt Blockley a bow & a sheff arr. I*- Thom's Moston a bow & sheff arr. P Thom's Huntbach (crossed out) P John Berber a bow & a sheff arr. ft John Grae a bow & xij arr. ft Thom's Buck I' Ric. Hewes It Will"! Dyeser Thes psons foloing be abull men w* billes & have hemes I" p'mis John Drew a gestion & a bill It Will"^ Taylor a gestern Thom^ Hewer a gestern a owle a per of gussets of yayle & arr It Will'^ Bayly It Will'^ Hewes 1^ Willi" Chapma' I*^ Hu'frey London a peyr of splents I^" John Lookley P Edward Hart P Will"! Mills a gestern & sallet & bill Geffrey Chorme a per of splents a wallet a bow & xij arr P John Barber a bow & a sheff of arr ft Roger Stalbroke a bill I' Ric MuUyns a peyr of splents & a gorget P John Littlehales a sallet I*- Henry Whytmore a bow & a bill P Ric Leke V' Thom^ Gryse a gestern P Thrist Glover a bill & a sheff of arr It Will"! Add'ms hemes for a ma' It Will Cotes I* John Woodfen a liorse&hernes foraman P Tliom« Patrick a ])ill am indebted to Mr. W. N. Landor for calling my attention to the existence of this Roll. iv MISCBI.I.ANEA. These psons foloing have hemes as heraft foloith their nams jn pmiB John Carte a gesterti a perr of splents & a bill & a sallett P Thorns Hawle a gestern and a sallett It John Sanbrok a peyr of splents & a bill P George Howie a byll It John Bromfeld a gestern I^ Ric Chapman a gestern a sallett & a peyr of splents It Will"^ Horsbrok a gestern & a sallett Jt Rob'^t Bowy a gestern and a bill J^- John Hawle a peir of splents a bow vj arr & a bill Jt John Dycher a sallett & a bill Jt Rog Lockley a hors a sallett and a bill J** Rog Morgan a gestene J t Thoni^ tookeley a hors a sallett & a bill Jt Humfrey Wotton a gestene Jt Ric Poler a gestene a sallett & a bill Jt Thomas Hewes a bill a sheff of arr Jt Will Herve a sheflf of arr P Wtro Smyth a bill J' Ric Bower a gestern and a bill Jt John Moston a gorgett Jt Will Chapman a sheff of arr NoTR. Thomas Eyton of Shirilhales, gentleman, was one of the witnesses to the deed of surrender of Lilleshall Abbey to the King, i6 October, 1538, and is no doubt, the Thomas Eyton whose name comes first on the above Roll. He must have been very young at the time, if he was the same Thomas Eyton, husband of Fortune, whose son, Thomas, was baptised here 18 May, 1584. He probably resided at the Manor house, which was then the property of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford in right of his wife, the heiress of the Trussells. The Trussells had acquired the Manor by the marriage of Richard Trussell with the heiress of the Pantulplis, the early lords. The Eytons bear the arms of Pantulph, and there was presumably some connec- tion between them and the lords of Hales. As Thomas Eyton is the only able man in that part of the parish lying on the right hand bank of the Worfe, and in the hundred of Bradford, we may assume that there was then no other dwelling-house on that side. The surnames of most of the men on the Roll of the Cutleston Hundred side appear in the early pages of the parish register, which begins in 1557. On some FUizabethean Rolls the men are those "within the age of three-score years and above the age of sixteen years," but we should expect more bearing the same surnames, if this Roll embraced any so young as sixteen. A. T. MICHEI.L, F.S.A. MISCELLANEA. 1) III. GRANT OF ARMS BY JOHN TOUCHET, LORD AUDLEY, TO JOHN MACWORTH AND THOMAS MACWORTH, I AUGUST 1404. (Queen's College, Oxford, MS. 139, No. 3.) A tous Ceulx qui ces lettres verront ou orront: Johan Tochet siue Daudeley Salus. Sauoir vous faisons nous per Considera- tion que nos eschiers et bienamez John Macworth et Thomas Macworth sont Frere estraitz de et vaillants gens et aulli pour le bon Service, que leurs ancestrez on faite a noz ancestres nous voudrions leement fere que purroit honurer, et auances leurs estatz. Si a nous en auancement et honnour des estatz des ditz John et Thomas lour donne parcelle de nos Amies, Daudeley et de Tochet auoir et porter ouec certaines differences Conipiert per un Escuclieon dessoutz paintz les Coulors Sable et Ermine partez et endentez ouec un Cheueron de gules frettez d'or et le Daudeley Et un Crest. Cest assauoir un eele g'est parcelle de notre Crest Daudeley De quele ele les plumes serront des Colours de Sable et Dermi [n] Auoir et porter les dites Armes auec autielx dififerences Come lour Semble mieux affaire hors de Mesmes les armes a eulx et a leurs heires de nous et de noz heires pur tous iours Saitz empeschement de nous ou de noz heires queconque per le temps auenir. En testmoi[n]gnance de quele chose aicestes noz presentes lettres nons auons fait mettre notre seale : Donne loubz notre Manoir de Marcheton le primer iour D'august Ian du grace Mile quatre Centz quart : &c. [Seal of John lord Audley of Heley.] The foregoing Grant is of considerable interest. It was made not by the King but by a great lord, Sir John Touchet, Baron Audley of Heley, to two brothers John Macworth and Thomas Macworth, whose ancestors had done good service to Lord Audley's ancestors. The Arms of Touchet were: Ermine a chevron Gules, and of Audley, Gules a fret Or ; and he now grants the brothers a clever combination of these Arms, viz., Per pale indented Sable and Ermine, a chevron Gules fretty Or, and for crest, a part of the crest of Audley : a wing, the feathers Sable and Ermine. It is curious that the present Mackworth Baronets, who trace descent from the younger brother, Thomas, do not use these Arms exactly, but varied thus — Per pale indented Sable and Ermine, on a chevron Gules five crosses patee Or, with an entirely different crest. Lord Audley, the grantor, was grandson of Sir John Touchet, gf Markeaton, co. Derby, by Joan his wife, daughter of James Audley, Lord Audley of Heley and Red Castle, who fought at Crecy and Calais, and in her issue heiress of her brother Nicholas Audley, Lord Audley. He was born in 1370-71, was vi MISCRI^LANEA. summoned to Parliament in 1403, and died five years later. See William Sail Historical Collections for Staffordshire, N.S., vol. ix, p. 245, etc. Of the grantees, John Mackworth was LL.D., Prebendary of Empingham 1404, Dean of Lincoln 1422, and died in 1451. Thomas Mackworth of Mackworth, co. Derby, died between 1433 and 1446 ; he married Alice, sister and heiress of Sir John de Basinges, knight, and had issue two sons, i, Henry, of Mackworth and Empingham, and 2, Thomas, of Meole Brace, co. Salop, ancestor of the baronets. This must be one of the earliest grants of arms extant. W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. IV. EARLY STOUP AT SHAWBURY. A remarkable carved stone was recently discovered near Shawbury Church. It is thus described by the Vicar, the Rev. Frederick Vernon, M.A., in a letter of February 17th, 1919 : — " In 1896, the 9th year of my incumbency, we took a considerable portion of entirely new ground into our Church- yard, on the south side of the Church. In this new ground, ol which the soil is very sandy, the sexton was digging a grave last summer . . . and when he had dug out the soil to about the depth of 6 feet, he came upon the piece of carved stone lying entirely by itself embedded in the sand. There was no other stone of any kind near it. The spot where it was found is some yards outside the previous boundary wall of the churchyard." The stone was exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries on February 20th, 1919. There can be no doubt that it was a holy-water stock or stoup of the pillar type. It is evidently not the angle- shaft of a doorway, as the capital is carved all round. The basin, too, has every appearance of being original and of not being cut out of an earlier feature. The material is evidently sandstone from the neighbouring Grinshill quarries. There is no sign of a lead lining to counteract the porous nature of such a material. The date is late Norman, probably towards the end of Henry II. 's reign, and it is the earliest example in the county. The capital is cut up into rudimentary foliage, as is common at the period, and nail-heads are added. The details fit in well with those of the south and north doorways, the latter removed to its present position when the aisle was rebuilt. We do not know which doorway it stood near. The village is on the north side, so that the north doorway may always have been, as now, the main one. Niche stoups frequently remain, but the pillar stock was naturally often removed when its use had passed away. . rr MISCEIvI^ANEA. vn From their comparative rarity, therefore, it must uot be assumed that the pillar type was much less common than the other. Stoups are clearly a survival of the laver in the atrium of a basilican church, which in turn was derived from the similar feature in the ritual of the Jewish Temple and Tabernacle. The whole subject, for its full treatment, awaits the attention of the architectural antiquary. D. H. S. CRANAGE, F.S.A. V. EUZABETHAN COINS FOUND AT HANWOOD. On Nov. 25th and 28th, 1919, three silver coins, viz., an Elizabethan shilling and two sixpences, were dug up by schoolboys at the end of a small glebe field adjoining the schools in a plot which has recently been lent to Hanwood School for cultivation (the field is named Podlin or Padlin's Door in the glebe map of 1843). The coins, especially the shilling, are in a good state of preservation ; Mr. I^loyd Kenyon states that they are of common type. Each bears on the obverse a profile portrait of Queen Elizabeth, facing left, and on tlie reverse a shield quarterly France and England. The mint mark of the shilling is a tun (barrel) indicating the date 1592-5 : the inscription reads : — Odv.: KUZAB.' D.'G.* ANG.* FR'. ET : HIB : REGI.' J^ev,: POSVI DEV.' adivtorem. mev.' The inscriptions on the sixpences are similar, but on the obverse the words Elizabeth and regina are written in full and only the first two letters of hi[berniae] are given. One sixpence bears as mint mark an ermine (in use 1571-3) and on the reverse the date 1573 : the other has a Greek Cross (1577-81) and the date 1578. In every case the mint mark precedes the inscription. LILY F. CHITTY. VI. VAUGHAN'S MANSION. This fine old building was seriously damaged by fire in February, 1917, the beautiful hammer-beam roof, with quatre- foiled panels being destroyed, and the surface of the great oak screen badly charred. The former has now been replaced by a new oak roof copied from the old one, though modified by the insertion ot dormer windows to admit more light, while the latter has been re-faced by cutting away the charred surface. Unfortunately in the process the ancient carpenter's marks, which were remarkable for their great size, have entirely vnt MISCRI.I.ANEA. vanished. The heat caused the plaster on the walls to fall off in places, bringing to light two large stoue-mullioned windows on either side, which had been blocked up for more than a century. These have now been cleared and, though still blocked up, vshow their original form. The great oak screen has also been cleared and now shows the doorway and buttery- hatch, the former of which has the typical flattened arch of Tudor date. Two of the windows are seen from the outside in the sketch of Vaughan's Mansion on page 38 of my "Old Houses of Shrewsbury." These, and the screen, date from about the year 1500, so were probably inserted by William Mytton who owned and lived in the mansion at that time. A still more interesting discovery was made by the workmen a few months ago — a small doocway of stone with pointed head and chamfered edges. This is to the left of the screen, and partly hidden behind its end-post, so is obviously of earlier date, apparently about 1300. There can be little doubt that it is part of the original structure erected by Sir Thomas Vaughan about that date. It was a back door giving access to the area now known as College Hill, but which was at that time the garden of Vaughan's Mansion. It may also have been used as a means of reaching the Chapel of St. Blaise which stood on the site of the garden of Swan Hill House, and which is supposed to have been the private chapel of Vaughan's man- sion. The only doorway comparable to this one in any domestic building in Shrewsbury, is that in Messrs. Hall, Wateridge & Owen's Auction Mart (formerly the Shearmen's Hall) leading from the Mart to the offices. This also dates from the first quarter of the 14th century. There is a third arch somewhat similar near the High Street end of Golden Cross Passage, but this is wider and less acutely pointed, so is probably nearly a century later. H. E. FORREST. VII. STONE HAMMER FOUND AT ONSLOW. A Stone Hammer, recently exhibited to the Council, was dug up by a workman whilst ploughing in the field called Onslow Hill, which lies at the corner of the Pool Road and the lane leading therefrom towards Montford liridge, on Onslow Bank. The hammer weighs 3lbs., and it is 7 inches in length and 2 inches in diameter. It is in the po.ssession of Mr. Joseph Cooke of the Grange P^arm, Bicton. It is probably of rather late date in the Stone Age. Onslow township is quite a new locality for pre-historic implements. W. G. I). FI^ETCHER, F.S.A. MISCEI,I.ANEA. ix VIII. OI.D ST. CHAD'S, SHREWSBURY. The following extracts from the Parish books, during the latter years of the Old Church, and the earlier years of the New Church, are of interest: — Easter 1783. — Expenses attending the new roof and new Piers in the Bishop's Chancel (detailed bills) 6 7i Easter 1784. — Received for Iron of the old Clock £^ II 6 Paid 3 Men cleaning and polishing the Altar Piece . . £^ 8 0 Hughes s Bill for repairing th-e Church £?, 10 4 Payton's Bill for Beer had at the repair- ing of the Church £1 1 1 8 ,, John Fradyley's Bill for repairing the Steeple and Sconces 18 10 Spendlove for work done to the Altar Piece 4 0 Carrying away rubbish from the Church £^ 8 8 ,, Mr. Humphrey's Bill being what he expended in cleaning and polishing the Altar Piece £5 1 1 NoTK.— The Parish Book ends with 1785 ; the Tower fell on July 9th, 1788 ; and probably the Church accounts for the next few years were retained by the Church wardens. The minute book of the Committee for the building of the new Church commences in 1789 : the majority of the Church wardens having been in favour of the restoration of the Old Church, had opposed the Act of Parliament for the building of the new Church ; and had refused to hand over the monies in their hands to the Trustees appointed under the Act, unless they were allowed to deduct the legal costs of their opposition, which the Trustees refused to permit : legal proceedings were commenced against the Senior Warden (Mr. Sampson Morris) to recover the sum in his hands, which were eventually with- drawn, and the matters in dispute arranged. July 9th, 1789. — At a meeting of the Trustees for the building of the new Church. Resolved : that Mr. Stewart's plan of the intended new Church, marked No. 4 now produced, is approved and signed by the Chairman, and that the Revd. Mr. Stedman be requested to wait on the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry for his approbation thereof. Resolved. That the Communion Table, the ten Command- ments, and the Apostles Creed in the Chancel of the Old Church be given for the use of Bicton Chapel. ^ Note : — The above mentioned Altar Piece still exists in the old Church at Bicton — it has evidently been cut down, and its proportions spoiled in adapting it for its present situation. X MISCELLANEA. Sept. 8, 1789. — Extract from a letter written by the Architect Mr. Stewart in reply to one from the Committee asking for his opinion as to the possibility of there being an echo in the New Church, owing to the unusual shape of the building. "A similar circular building designed for a tea-drinking place in the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell is now a chapel : it will contain 7 or 8000 people and has no echo : the preacher is wonderfully well heard." "A new Church at Eden of an oval shape is much approved." Nov. 5, 1789. — Mr. Bromfield (the Surveyor) having made a report of the state of the Bishop's Chancel of the Old Church and given an estimate of the probable expense attending the repairs thereof it was resolved that the same be immediately repaired and made convenient* for the Minister for the time being to do the necessary duty. Nov. 21, 1789. — Ordered that the Bishop's Chancel of the Old Church be immediately repaired, pursuant of the order of the meeting of the 5th inst. and that the same be covered with slates. That Mr. Smith pay such a price for the tiles taken from the roof as the Surveyor shall fix upon, which he has agreed to do. Nov. 26, 1789. — Mr. Stedmau having proposed to give up to the Parish, his proportion (as one of the Impropriators) of the stone and other materials of the Chancel of the Old Church. Resolved that the same be accepted and that the thanks of the Meeting be given to Mr. Stedman for his liberal ofifer, and that the Chairman be requested to write to the other Gentlemen Impropriators to solicit the like favour from them. Mr. Bromfield, Surveyor, having produced a sketch of the intended alterations and repairs of the Bishop's Chancel of the Old Church, the same being approved by the Trustees present : it is ordered, that he proceed to the completion thereof in the plainest manner possible — and that the floor of the Old Chancel be raised under the direction of Mr. Stedman Mr. Owen and Mr. Gittins. Ordered that a wall of 4ft. height, a brick and a half thick be built with the old bricks produced from the old Church between the intended new Church Yard and certain houses adjoining known by the name of Jukes's houses. Note: — All the suitable stone from the old Church was built into the foundations of the new Church, the Trustees having purchased horses and Carts for hauling, and employed labour to put in the foundations before the Contract was made for the building of the new Church. Dec. 31, 1789. — Ordered that a Bell be put in the Bishop's Chancel of the Old Church now repairing and fitting up for the use of the Parish, but which bell, when the new Church is completed is to be taken down unless the Parish at the time shall think proper to pay for the same, and defray the expenses of putting it up. 1 MISCKLLANEA. 17 NoTi{ : — There is a Bell in the Old Church. Apl. 4, 1790.— The Committee appointed to view the state of the Old Church having viewed the same — reported the state thereof. It is ordered that the Surveyor be directed to fill up the Oimmery and level the ground thereabout in the best manner he can. Ian. 6, 1791. — The propriety of giving the old stained glass belonging to the old Church of St. Chad for the use of St. Marv's Church in this town— having been considered. It is resolved unanimously that the same be given for that purpose accordingly. Note : — In later years the seats in the Bishop's Chancel were taken down, some of them being used for wainscotting against the walls, and further repair- were made f^rom time to time. j. A. ATORRIS. IX. HIGH ERCALL HALL. Since my paper was printed I have learnt that the arches at High Ercall Hall are not m situ. It seems that they were removed and re-erected in their present position some half-centur}^ ago when the Stedman faiDily were residing there. A drawing in Mrs. Stackhouse Acton's Cas/les and Mansions, shows them as forming part of the main building on the same side as the Church. This disposes of my suggestion that they were possibly the entrances to wooden stables for the cavalry horses during the famous siege, and I now withdraw that theory altogether. H. E. EORREST. X. GRANT OF ARMS TO WILLIAM PYTT OF THE PIRRIE, 1570. (also of Kyre Wyard and Broome, Hopesay, Salop.) To all & singular as well as nobles & gentlemen & others to whom these presents shall com Robert Cooke Esq alias Clarencieux principall Herault & Kinge of Armes of the Southe easte ^ w este partes of this Realm e of England from the river Trent Sowth- wards sendeth greeting In our Lord (lod everlasting Whereas aun(^iently from the beginning tlie valiaunt c\: vertuous acles of worthy persons have been comended to the world with sundry monuments & remembrances of their good deserts & amongst the which the chefest & most usuall hath ben the bearynge of signes Ui shildes caled armes which are evident dcmonstracon of prowes and valour dyversely distributed according to the qualities & descente of the jjersons, which order as yt was prudently devised in the begening to stir & fondell the har^es of men to the ymitation xii MISCELLANEA. of vertue & nobles even so hath the same ben & yet so continually observed to thend that suche as have don comendable servyce to their prince or contry either in warre or peace may both receave due honor in their Lives and also devise the same successively to their posteritie x\nd Whereas Wyllm Pitt of the Pyrry in the Countie of Hereford gentleman hath required me Clarencieux Kynge of Amies to make search in the registers & recordes of my office for suche amies & creast as he may lawfully beare without preiudiceng of any person, whereuppon I have found that he may lawfully beare the amies and creast hereafter hallowing that ys to sayebarr3^of ten peses gold&azuran urle of Inscochens silver and to his creast on a Torse gold &^azur standing on a branch of oke a rowe buck in proper coolar, horned golde mantled gules doubled argent as more playnly aj)peareth depicted on the margin To have (k holde the saide amies cS: creast unto the said \\ illm Pitt gentle- man cS: to his }:)osteritie with their dcwe difference & they the same to use l\: beare and shew for ever In their cote armour or otherwise & therein to be revested cS: his & their libertie & pleasure without i prejudice let or interruption of any person ox persons. In witnes whereof I have set herewith my hande and scale the fyve and twentieth day of June in the yeare of oure Lord God a thousand five hundred and seventy and in the 12th 3'ere of the reign of our sovereign lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England France & Ireland, defender of the faitli &c. Rob. Cooke Alias Clarencieux Roy Darmes William Pitt who died 1571 to whom these Arms were granted was the Representative of an ancient family settled at Kyre Wyard and the Perrie in Worcestershire in the 14th Century. His brother Thomas in his finely emblazoned Pedigree describes himself as " Standard Bearer to King Henry 8th at the Battle of Bologne." W^illiani had several sons,— Sir Edward knighted in 1602, and W^illiam of Brome in Hopesay, Shroj)shire, wIkj signs the Shropshire Visitation of i()2j. He was also connected with Pontesbury, prolxibly through his wife, a daughter of Leonard Lister and widow of Richard Tipton of Pontesford. There are two coats of Arms granted, one by 1^. Cooke Clarenciux, and the other of about the same date with tlie quarterings of Hinckley, de la Pok' and Hyde grant(>d by Norroy Roy D' Amies. At the back <»l Cooke's giant there is contenq)oraneons willing J'artly iMegible but also gi\ing (in Sir lulward Pitt's handwriting) the births of his chiklren. OLD PKDir.RKK. Tlie ]\Hligree & Descent of the ancient family of Pitt Ke}'er Wyard in tlie County of Worcester. Pitts Coat with quarterings of Hyde Pok' cv Hin( k]ey. • MISCKLI.ANKA. Xtn Motto : " ASTRA REGUNT." These ars the Armes of the ancient family of Pitt of Kyer-Wyard in the Countie of. Worcester as they are registered in tlie office of Armes. Edwd. Norgate Windsor. F. C. BALDWYN CHILDE. XL THE JERSEY HOUSE, SHREWSBURY. By the statute of 43 EUzabeth (1602) Church Wardens and Overseers were required to maintain and employ the " impotent and poor " of their several parishes, they were authorized to build or purchase suitable premises, and to " contract with any persons for the lodging, keeping, maintaining and employing of all such poor in their respective parishes." In 1728 the Corporation made an order that St. Chad's Parish should have the Jersey House " for their work house." This building still exists at the end of St. Austin's Street, opposite Claremont Bank. I^xcepting that it has a comparatively modern brick front, it might date from the time of the passing of the Act of 1602. It has two floors and a basement, and internally remains much as its original condition. The parish officers at first, appear to have managed it them- selves, but in 1730 they decided " to give ye woman at the work- " house a month's notice to make up her accounts with the " officers, and deliver the accounts of the parish to such person as " the officers should place in her room." In 1732, the parish agreed " to contract with George Alker of Wigan for the erection " of a work house, and the employment and maintenance of the " poor of the parish for a period of 7 years." In 1738, they further decided that they " would indemnify the Wardens irom " any lease for a term of years that they slKJuld make with Mr. Cole for the work house." In 1744 a parish meeting decided to purchase three messuages in Barker Street, adjoining the work house, as stated in the following resolution :- - Copy of a Parish meeting from the Old Church Book, Folio 17.1, relating to the purchase of the Old Work house : — At a public meeting of the Parishioners of Saint Chad assembled in the Church after usual notice the thirteenth day of May in the year of Our Loid One I housand, seven hundred and forty-four. It was unanimously agreed and ordered. That the Churchwardens and Over- seers of the Poor of the said Parish should purchase of xiv MISCKIXANKA. Samuel Pearson, Clerk all those three Messuages with the Appiirtaiices situate in the Barker Street in the Town of Shrewsbury in the Names of Trafford Barnston, William Tayleur, William Turner Esqs., Richard Wooley, Wine Merchant, Joseph Muckleston, John Gorton Gentm. William Bennett, Timber Merchant, John Scott, Draper. Richd. Gwynn, Milliner, John Spencer, Grocer, Richard Morgan, Ironmonger as Trustees for the said Parish. And should give him the sum of Two hundred and thirty- five Pounds for the same. And it was further agreed and ordered That One Hundred Pounds given by the Will of Frances Swift Widow,' for the benefit of the Poor of the said Parish in such manner and for such uses as appears in the Church Book Po. 117. Ten Pounds given ])y the Will of Mr. John Lloyd, the Interest whereof is to be distributed in Bread to the Poor of the said Parish every second Day of November, and every second da}' of February for ever. Ten pounds which was in the hands of Widow Grosvenor, the Interest whereof has with other Money been given in Bread to the Poor of the said Parish every Sunday. And One Hundred Pounds secured by Willm. Tayleur Esqr. to be paid at his Mother's Death, to I the said Parish, to be disposed of for the benefit thereof, in such manner as the Parishioners at their meetings from time to time shah direct and appoint. Should be laid out in the purchase aforesaid. John Leigh. John Walford. Fra. Lomax. Thos. Bennett. Thos. Addenbrocke. Jno. Gorton. Willm. Grosvenor. Josh. Muckleston. Thos. Prosser. ivichd. Gwynn. Thos. Warter. S. Cheeke. Edmd. Littlehales. Richd. Baxter. Robt. Evans. Robt. Hill. Edwd. Jones. In 1746 Mr. Newall was appointed Master at a salary of £20 a year. In 1785 the property was leased to James and Thomas Baker, Drapers, for a term of years, conditionally upon the erection of certain additional buildings, and leaving them in struct\u-al repair, at the termination of the lease. In later years Mr. i^aivcr purchased the freehold. Tlie old building has since been occupied as the head quarters of a company of Rifle Volun- teers, it has been a church room, and is now used for office purposes. It has been little altered from the time when it served as the last refuge of the " impotent and poor." J. A. MORRIS. XV GENERAL INDEX TO VOL. VIL Compiled by F. A. MACLEOD. (The figures in parentheses show how many times tlie subject occurs in the same pa<2^e). A Adams, Rev. Dr. William, of Sliri!\vsl)iiry, and Lord CMivc, I'artMilagc, 99 Education, loi Marriage, 100 Portraits. 10 1, 102 Ecclesiastical Appointments, 102 Master of Pembroke Coll., Oxford, 102, E05 Death, 104 j Epitapli, 104 j Writings. 105, 106 | Alberbury, 132 j Annual Accounts xxii | ., Excursion, V Apley Castle, 142 Arleston, 147, 151 Description of house, 152 ; j remarkable ceiling, 153 | Armorial Bearings. j Baldwyn of Munslow, ii of Stoke, ii I Bangor, 199 | Harris of Boreatton, 56, 71 | of i^rescot, 42, 73 Jenkins, 134 Kerry, 160 Mackworth, v Pitt, xi Touchet, V Yonge, 221 Civic Companies : Cloth- workers, Shoemakers, Cdovers, Weavers, 178; Tailors, Bakers, Butchers, Smiths, 179; Saddlers, Bricklayers and Cari)eiiters, Hatters, 180 Arms, I'^arly (".rant of, 140^. v, vi ^Audkn, Miss II. M.. I'.K.Ilisl.S., 'I'he I'endercl Annuities in i()05, 29 AunEN, Rev. ]. E., M.A., V.R. Hist.S.," 'Klie Names of l^oys admit- ted to Slirevvsbury Sciiool from Nov. i(>, 1734, to Nov. 1.5, I7-1<^> I B Baldv^^yn Ciiilde, F.C, Cirant of Arms to William Pytt of the I'irrie, 1570, xi Barker, John. Kingsland and Shrewsbury Show, 173 Baschurch, 54, 60, 239 Baudewyn and Baldwyn, Mem- orandum as to the families of, 1672, The Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, i Betton, C. Steuart, Dame Margaret Evton's Will, 1642, 189 Berwick, Great, 48 Bicton, 132 ; Altar piece from Old St. Chad's, ix Bishop's Transcripts at Here- ford, by the l^ev. F. C. Norton, 254 Boreatton, 54, 59, 239 Boscobel, 38 Boys admitted to Shrewsbury Scliool, from Nov. 16, 173.1, to Nov. 15, 1746, Names of, bv tlie Rev. J. IC. vVutlfMi, M.A., F.JMIist.S., 1 l.iuildwas Abbey, x C Cambridge, St. John's College, Cans t astle, v Cayliowell, 2.}0 Charles I at Shrewsbury, 118 Charles II, l{scai)e of, XV z Chirk Castle, 245 Chittv, Lily F, Elizabethan Coins found at IJanwood, vii Charlton Hill, 131 Chivalr)', Proceedings of the Court of, 24 Nov., 1O23, 54 Civil War, Commonwealth and Restoration. Ivoyalist Plot to seize Shrews- bury Castle, 68, 8() Se(]uistration l'aj)ers; Sir Thomas Harris of Bore- at ton, 43 ditto, John Yonge the IClder of f'inilcy and Jt)hn Vonj^i' his son, 2 J I Siege of llii^h ICreall Hall, 138, 1 1 « Sict^e ol Cans Castle, vi Clive, Lord, Letter to the Rev. Dr. Adams, of Shrewsbury, y6 Condition of Bengal 1765, 96 Death of Lord Clive, 98, 99 Coins, I'dizabcthan, found at Han wood, vii Condover, 44, 48, 51, ff., 108 ; Church ])late, 47 Condover Hall architect, 138 Places : liyrrywoode, 53 Catslowsyorde, 53 CJiatford, 33 Coekshntt, 53 lioughtons Lane, 52 Shakellford, 53 Council in the Marches, An Order of, July, 1371; by Caroline A.J. Skeel, D.Lit", 203 Ckanai:i:, Kev.D. U.S., Litt.l)., L.S.A., Itarly Stoup at Shawbiiry, vi Culloden, 7 D Dame Margaret Ey ton's Will, 1642 ; by C. S. Steuart J3etton, 189 Litigation, 193-196 Diddlebury, i Dorrington, 51 Dothill, 149 D»thill Park 147 E Easthope, 147 Eyton on Severn, 134 F l-'AMlLIIiS. Baldwin, i Baudewin, i lictton, 198 Brondey, 135 Corbet, v, 155 hitzalan, 21 Eitzherbert, 139 h'orester, 143 Harris, 42, 51, 34, 33 Ilatchctl, 137 Hatton, 29, 31 Horton, 14^) Kerrv, 160 Pfveril, 140 Stafford, v Ste'venton, 147, 149 Thynne, vi N'onge, 221 Fletcher, f^ev. \V. G. D., M.A., i-.S.A. Grant of Arms by John Touchet, Lord Audley, to J(;hn Macvvorth and Thomas Macworth, i Aug., 1404, V Grant by Henry IH to Philip Marmion of a Market and h'air at Pulverbatch, 20 i-eb., 1234, 172 Institutions of Shropshire In- ciun bents, 163 Memorandum as to the fami- lies of Baudewin and Bald- wyn, 1672, i Se(|uest ration l^apcrs ; Sir Thomas Harris, 3rd Haronet oi Bort\itton, and of Ladx' Anne Harris his stepmother, 43 ; Supplemental I^[otes, -^39 Ditto : John Yonge the Elder of Pimley, and of John Y^onge his son, 221 Stone Hammer found at Ons- low, via Forrest, H. E. Some Old Shropshire Houses and their ( )wners, 131 Charlton Hill, 131 Jtyton on Severn, 134 High Jircall Hall, 139, xi Dothill, 149 Arleston, 151 Hadley Manor House, 134 Lee Hall, Ellcsmere, 137 Vaughan's Mansion, vii xvti G Grant of Arms to William Pytt, of the Pirrie, 25 June, 1 570, XL Grant of Arms by John Touchet, Lord Audley, to John Mac- worth and Thomas Mac- worth, I Aug., 1404, V Grant by John de Hastings to iiobert Burncll, Bishop of Bath and Wells of the Manors of Condover and Wolverhampton, in Ex- change for the Manor of Wotton near Northampton, 1283, 108 H Hadley Manor House, 151, 154 Carpenter's marks, 1.54 Han wood, Elizabethan Coins found at, ijii Hargrave, Long Mountain, 132 Harris, Sir Thomas, of Bore- atton and Lady Anne Harris his stepmother. Sequestration Papers of, 43, 74 ; Supplemental Notes 239 Harris family, origin of, 44 Pedigree, 46, 71, 242, 246, 253 Property at Condover, 31 Large Instates held by ist Hart., 54. -40 Disposal of, 241 Proceedings at the Court of Chivalry, 1623, 54 Jealousy of County gentry, 54. 64 lm])hcation in Koyahst ])lot, 08, 8*> Descent of Baronetcy, 71 Rent Roll, 1649, 76 Henry II, 151 High Ercall Hall, 139, 143 High Ercall Almshouses, 144 I Incumbents, Shropshire, Insti- tutions of, 1725 to 1730; 1800 to 1838 : Rev. W. G. D\ Fletcher, 163 Incumhents, Shropsiiire. Acton Burncll, 1O4 Acton Scott, 163 Aston Botterell, 167 , Atcham, 3 iiaschurch, i(;4 (2) JU'ckbury, 1O7 Incumbents — continued l^edstonc, 14, 167 Berwick, 3 Bicton, 9, 1O5 Bisho})'s Castle, 9 Bolas, Magna, 6, 15 Broughton, 165 Bucknell, 168 Burford, 164, 168 Burwarton, 167 Cainham, 168 Cardcston, 168 (2) Cardington. 168 Chetton, ib8 Chctwvnd, 165 (2) Chirbury, 16, lOo, 168 Church Strettoii, 170 Cleobury Mortimer, 168 Clcobury North, 168 Clun, 1O8 Clungunford, 168 Cold Weston, 168 (2) Condover, 16, 165 (2) Cound, 165 Culniington, 168 (3) Diddlcbury, 163 Dowles, 168 Eat(^n, 169 (2) Edgmond, 1O5 Ercall Parva, 165 ICyton, 140 Eitz, 0 Ford, 4, 16 I-'rodesley, 163 Grinshill, 1O3 (2) Habberley, i6<) Han wood, 1O9 Harley, 165 Highley, 169 I linstock, i()3 I lodnet, 1 05 (3) Holgate, 102, 1 09 (2) Hope Bowdler, 169 Hopesay, 169 Hopton Castle, 169 Hopton Wafers, 169 Hordley, 165 Ilughley, 169 Kinlet, 16, 169 (2) Kinnersley, i06 Lee bot wood, Leighton, 1 ()() ( \) Lillcshail, 106 (2) Little Wcnlock, 169 Ludlow, 1O9, 217 Lydbury North, 8, 170 Lydham, 169 Maiustone, 1O9 Market Drayton, 21O xviii Incumbents — covtinncd Meole Brace, i, ii, idy ]\li(ldlcton Scrivi'ii, 170 IMiiultowu, 1 70 iMontford, 10, 15 Morcton Say, 1O6 Munslow, 170 Ncen Savage,. 1 5, 16 Nccu Sollars, 170 Ness Magna, lOO Onibury, 1O4 Pitchforcl, 166 J'ontcsbury : ist Portion, 170 ; 2nd, 9, 164, 170 ; 3rd 170 Precs, 166 ridvt'rl)alch, 170 ()uaU, iO() (2) Richard's Castle, 170 (2) / Kushbiiry, 170 Salop, Archdeaconry of, 17,164 Sheinton, 16, 166 Shifnal, 105, ibh Shrawardine, 9 Shrewsbury, Abbey, 130, 160 ; St. Alkmond, 164 ; St. Chad, 10, 90, 102, 103, 177 ; St. Juhan, 3, 16, 125 ; St. Mary, 9, 16 , Stapleton, 53, 245 Stanton Lacy, 170 Stanton Long, 169 Stockton cum iionnrnghall, 166 (2), 1 07 Stockton-on-Tenie, 14 "Stoke upon Tern, 166 Stokcsay, 164, 171 Stottesdon, 170 (2) Sutton, 13 Tong, 167 Tug ford, 171 Upton Magna, 167 Waters Upton (Ui)ton Parva) 13. 1(^7 (^) Wcm, 167 Wentnor, 171 Westbury, 9 ; Right Portion, 171 ; Left, 171 (3) West Felton, 167 Weston on Trent, 14 Wheathill. 171 Wislanslow, 171 (2) Wilhington. i()7 (2) Woolsianton, 171 Wonibridge, 167 (2) Worfield, 167 Worthc-n, 171 (2) Wro.KcUr, i(>y In(|. post mortem, Harris, Sir Thomas, 28 Sept., 1031, 39 J j.\MEs, R. R., I'.R.C.S.. Medical Men in practice in Shr(j])sliire, 1779- 1783. 203 James, 1 152 James 11, at Shrewsbury, 121, 123 ; Touching for King's Iwil, 123 K Kenyon, R.LL, Oswestry Borough Gaol, 21 Kingsland and Shrewsbury Show- by John Barker, 1 73 Origin of Show, 180 Mayor's i 'rocessiou, 178 Arbours, 187 Shoemakers' Arbour, 177, 183 Horse races, 1 76 Kingsland, enclosure, 177 L Lee Hall, Ellcsmere, 157 Lcebotwood, 54. 5.5. 57. 59, 75 Leighton, Rachel. Extracts from a MS. Book in the Library at Sweeney Hall, 109 Ludlow, 223, 229 Dispensary, 216 Lyth, Cireat, 54 M Malinslee, 197 Marmion, Philip, Grant by Henry 111 of a market and fair at Pulverbatch, 20 Feb., 1254, 1 72 Medical Men in practice in Shropshire, 1 779-1 783, by K. R. James. L.R.C.S., 205 Baldwyn, Wm., 217, 218 Beale, Mr., 215 Beardmore, Mr., 216 Beetenson & Son, 220 Betenson, Mr., 216 Hirtles, Mr., 210, 212 Blakeney (Blakeway) Peter, 2 10 Boteogle (BoLevyle) Thomas, 212 Bowden, Mr., 218 Bray, hrancis, 218 Jkomfield, Thomas, 212, 213 lirookes, Mr., 220 Cartwright, William, 212, 219 Cole, Herbert, 217 XIX Medical Men — continued Colcy, William, 215 Collins, Mr., 218 Cooper, William, 210 Corbett, Mr., 215 Corfield, Edward, 220 Cotterell, Mr., 218 Crump, George, 214 Dixon, Mr., 216 Da vies, Henry, 217, 218 William N, 214 Dod, John S., 210, 211 Doughty, 219 Drew, Mr., 214 Dunne, Martin, 21O J'A'ans, John, Joy, 209, 2i() I'A'ans, Mr., 21.^, 218 I'owke, Mr., 212, 2J3 daunt, Messrs., 21O Grainger, Edward, 220 Griffith, Wilham, 218, 219 Grosvenor, Mr., 216 Hall, Mr., 215 Hart, Cheney, 207 Harwood, Samuel, 207, 208 Higgins, Mr., 220 Holt, Mr,, 212, 213 Home, Mr., 213 James, Mr., 216 James, Richard, 217 Johnson, Mr., 219 J ones, .'Edward, 220 William, Clunn, 218 Judgson. J . W., 216 Langford, Mr., 218 Langslow, Richard, 215, 218 Llewellyn, Mr., 216 Lomax, Francis, 210, 211 1-ovett, John, 218, 219 Meyrick, Mr., 214 Morris, William, 210, 211 Muckleston, Wilham Haw- kins, 207, 209 iS'icholls cNc Son, 21O (Jwen, Price, 207, 208 J'rctty cV Son, 21 0 Trice & Son, 218, 219 I'ritchett, Gilley, 217 J K'owlc)', Mr., 213 Santlfoid, Sainiielf 210 William, 207, 2 12 Seager, Julmund, 215, 21O Shelton, Mr., 219 Stanier, Mr., 2i») Stanley, Mr., 218 Synionds, Siimiicl, 212, 213 Ihomas, Mr., i.| Medical Men — continued Tudor, Thomas, 212, 213 Turner, Richard, 217 Ward, John, 216 Wickstead, & Meakin, 220 Winnall & Son, 212 Winnall, James, 212, 213 ,, Samuel, 210, 211, 213 Wheeler, Allen, 210, 211 Whitcombe, Edmund, 215 Wilkes, Mr., 215 Woolaston, Mr., 214 Wyke, Mr., 215 Wynne, John 212, 214 R.,214 N coiuans, Mr., 212, 21 4 \'oung, William, 2 1 9 Medical Directory, the earliest, 205 ; Classes of Practi- tioners, 206 ; Their train- ing, 20O, 207 Mitchell, A. T., F.S.A., A iMuster Roll of Sheriff Hales, 1539, ii Mitton, 223, 228 Morris, J. A., Old St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, ix The Jersey House, Shrews- bury, xiii N Newton on Heath, 48 Norton, Rev. F. C, Bishop's Transcripts at Hereford, 254 O Onslow, 54, 60 ,, Stone Hammer found at, X, via Oswestr}' Borough Gaol, by R. LI. Kenyon, 21 Oswestry, Charters, 12 Jan., 1262, 21 ; 14 Aug. 1398, 22 ; 23 Jan., 1407, 22 ; 13 Mar,, 1017, 23 ; 13 Jan., 1074, 23 Oswestry, Manor of, 22 Places : Jieatrice Gate, 23 ; New Gate, 24, 23 ; Willow Gate, 25 ; Pitcher iKink, 28 ; Wool Hall, 23, 2(> P Parliament, Shropshire Mem- bers of, Clive, Jvobert Lord, 1761-74, <>8 I'orester, Jirooke, 1738-O8, 148 Harris, Sir Thoiims, 158O, 34 XX Parliament, Shropshire Mem- bers OF Hill, John, 1784-90, 15 Kynaston, John, 127 Leighton, Charlton, 1780, 14 Maddox, John, 1786-90, 4 Waring, Walter, 1772-80, 9 Pedigrees. Adams, 107 Edwards and Jones, 162 Forester, 145 Harris, 71, see 242, 246, 253 Stevonton, 149 Wightwick, 107 Yongc, 221 Pendcri'l Annuilics, t()()5, 1)V II. M. Auden, I- . K. lii.st.S.. 29 i'aynienls iri)ni ; Co. Hereford, 33 Salop, 33 Staffs., 31 W'ores., 33 Kehgious Houses, 36 Parish Churehes, 36 Pimley, 221 Persons. Adams, Sarah, 100 William, 96, 99 Ambler, Thomas, 4 Atehcrley, James, i, 8 Atherton, Samuel, 124 Arundell. see Fitz Alan. JBaldwyn, Charles, i John 1 Bagot, Mary, 132 Riehard, 119 Barnard, Lord, 138 leather, I'Alvvard, 17 John. 17 liaudewyn Thomas, i liaxtcr, J^ichard, 242 Betton, John, 3 (2) 192, 193, 199 ]31akeway, Edward, 15 JohnBrickdale, 15, 16 Thomas, 5 (2) Bolas, Charles, 2 Bowcn, James, 173, 174, 175 Brondey, Sir (Icorge, 134, 136 Margaret, 13.1 Sir Thomas. 13O Buikeley Owen, Thomas Bulkeley, 158 Burnell, Hp. Robert, 108 Calcott, Wellings, 3 Castleniaine, luirl of, 24 Carcswc il, William dc, 1 CarLwrigId, William, 212 Persons — continued Charleton, 157 Cleobury, John, 5 Clive, Kobert Lord, 17, 96 Clyve, Blanche, 240 Thomas, 239 Cole, Pennell, 217 Corbet, Sir John, 150 Roger, 155 Cotton Robert. Salusbury, 6 1. Craven, ist Earl of , 23 Cross. Richard, 164 Culnier, Richard, 203 Davies, Edward, 192, 193 Edward HI, c)3 J'Mwards, John, 1O2, 203 iut:all, William de, 140 I'Aanson, John, Eyton, Margaret, 189, 96 Thomas, iv Farmer, Martha, 127 Fitz Alan, John, 2 1 Fitz Corbet, Robert, 159 .. Roger, v., 159 Forester, Edward, 143, 146 ,, Frances, 143, 149, 151 Hugh. 143 John, 146, 131 Forster, Robert, 119 I'Yith, William Powell, 6 C.eorge, Lwen, 192, 200 C.iflard, Charles, 39 Richard, 10 Griffiths, Moses, 3 Samuel, 8 Hadley, Seburga, 133 William de, 1 33 Hampden, Richard, 240 Hancock, Walter, 137 Harper, Thomas, 69 Harris, Anne, 42, 244 Eleanor, 72, 241 Sir (ieorge, 4th Bt., 69 241 Hugh, 47, 249 ,, Lettice, 240 Sir Paul, 2nd Bt., 44, Oo, 62 3lh iU.. 69, 241 Richard. 47 I'Jobert, 7th Bt., 70 J-, -y] ( )Uley , Sn" ]''raii( is, (13 Persons — continued Owen, Hugh, r6 Nicholas, 39 ,, Richard, 194 Penbury, Sarah, 161 Perrott, liichard, 7 Penderel, Humphrey, 38 John, 38 William, 38 Peveril, Hamo, 139, 140, 155 Pytt, William, xi Reynolds, Richard, 243 Richard iP 93 I^owland, P)aniel, 16 William, Gorsuch, 16 Scott, Jonathan, 16 Richard, 13, i6 Sherer, Thomas, 203 Shelvocke. John, 243 Smallman, Thomas, 118 Stafford, Alice, v Henry, vi Steventon, Alice, 149 Mary, 147, 150 Richard, 147, 150 Richard, 147 William, 149 Stewart, Mr. (architect), ix, x Sydney, Sir Plenry, 203 Tench, Nathaniel, 29 Thynne, Sir Henry Fred,, vi Touchet, John .Lord Audley, v Upton, Phili]), 140 Urwick, Thomas, 8 Wakeman, Sir Henry, 161 Waring, Edward, 14 John, 2 Warner, John, 159 Warwick, Thomas, 8 Weld, lillizabeth, 148, 149 Wingfield, Borlase, 6 John Tom Pes, 3 Rowland, 6 Wroth, John, 244 Yates, Francis, 38 Elizabeth, 30, 38 Pre-historic remains, collection of, xii, xiii Pulley, 194 Pulverbatch, Market and h'air, Grauletl lo Philip Mar- mion, 20 l'"el)., 1234, 172 Pytt, William, Grant of Arms to, 1370. R Ratlinghope, 54, 73 l^oden, 222 Ivomau Road, (\V)'une's Cottage iCstate), xii XXll Rorrington, The Manor of, by Sir Offley Wakeman, Bart., J 59 Hoar Stone, lOi Holy Well, lOi Descent of Manor, 162 Pound and Stocks, 161 Ryton, 51 S Salop Infirmary, 103, 207 Sequestration J'apers : Sir Thomas Harris, 3rd Bar- onet of Boreatton, and of l.ady Anne Harris, his* Stei)mother, 43, 74 John ^'on,^e the I'Tder, of J'nuley, and John Yonge his son, 11 1 Pa})ers already printed, list of, 43 Shawbury, Early stoup at, iv Shelve, 255 Sheriff Hales, A Muster Roll of, 1539, Shrewsbury. Abbey, 93 ; Abbey House, 132 ; Pulpit, ix Bailiffs, 1 372- 1661, III Castle, 68, 1 19, 120 DrajDers Company, 45 Histories, 173, 174. 175 Kingsland and Shrewsbury Show, by John Barker. 173 Mayors. Adams, John, 1726, 95 Baudewin, Thomas, 1686, i Betton, Robert, 1639, 199 Blakeway, lulward, 1793, 15 J^olas, Charles, 17O5, 2 Harris, George, 1640, 47 Owen, I'ryee, 17O3, 208 Names of Villages in the Liber- ties, I 1 o Places. Abbey Foregate, 48 Castle Gates, 125 Corvisor's Row, 223, 228 Council 1 louse, 1 22 DoK Lane, 1H2 Dog pole, 125 J ligh -Conduit, 123 High Cross, 1 25 Jersey House, xiii Mardol Conduit, 124 Mardol I lead, 1 23 ( )li\ ( r's Chapel, i 22 Orpluin's I lospital, 124 Places — continued Rowley's ^lansion, x Roushill Wall, 124, 177 Stone Ciate, 1 14 Welsh Bridge, 121 Welsh Market, 118 Wyle Co}), 48, 121 Vaughan's Mansion, vii Quarry, trees planted, 176 School Names of Boys admitted to, by the Rev. j. L An den, M..\ . P.R.IIist.S., 1 ; In' dex to, 18 School Bailiffs, 16 I\L\STEKS. Atcherley, i, 8, 15 Chaloner, 44 Hotchkis, 1 Pigott, 44 Hatton, 8 Humphreys, 10 Johnson, 13 Lloyd, 125 Moss, 16 Newling, 9, 15 Senior Wranglkrs. Waring, Kdward, 14 Jones, Thomas, 15 St. Chad's, 29, 181, 189, 191. Advowson of, 29, (jld St. Chad's, ix St. Mary's, 123 Statue of Kdward HI on the Tower of the Abbev Church, 93 Shropshire. High Sheriffs. Wingfield, Rowland, 0 Griffiths, Samuel, 8 Rowis, Thomas, i 2 Sibdon, 253 Sid bury, 235 Skeel, C'akolixe a. J., iJ.Lit.. .Vn Order of the Council in the Marches, July 1371, 203 Smethcote, 54 SouTiiAM, Col. H. R. H., V.D.. J'.S.A., The Statue of Ed- ward HI on the Tower of the Abbey Church, Shrews- bury, 93 J..or(l Clive and the Rev. Dr. William .\dains of Shrews- bury, 90 Statue of lulward Hi on the Tower of the Al)l)e\- (."hurch, Shrewsbury, 1)V Col. H. R. 1 1. Southani. \ "D., !• .S. A.,93 CM\)unds ol iilentification, 93 xx7n Sutton Maddock, 146 Sweeney Hall, Extracts from a MS. Book in the Library at, Transcribed by Rachel Leighton, 109 Names of Villages in the Liberties of Shrewsbury, 1 10 Remarkable Occurrences, Taxation, 1 1 1 , 129 Birth of Richard Duke of York, 112 Plague, 114 (2) 118 Earthquake, 115 Flood, 121 T Tedsmore, 158 Trelystan, vi Tugford, 255 U Uffington, 222 Upton Cressett, 255 Uriconium, ix(2), x W Wakeman, Sir Offley, Bart., The Manor of Rorrington, 159 Welhngton, The Old Hall, 144 Westbury, v Wheathill, 52 Whitchurch, 122 Whiteladies, 38, 40 Willey, 148 Wills. Donne, Edward, 1629, 197 Eyton, Dame Margaret, 2 l^ec. 1642, 189 Philip, 1037, 197 Harris, Anne, 29 Apr. 1609, 49 ,, 20 Apr. 1676, 253 „ Dorothy, 8 Oct. 1597, 248 Dorothy, 18 Nov. 1630, 248 Wills — continued Harris, Eleanor, 1709, 72 Elizabeth, 10 Oct. 1680, 252 George, 22 Jan. 1635, 246 ,, Hugh. 19 Mar. 1640, 250 John, 1556, 53 Sir Paul, 1645, 65 Richard, 29 May, 1590, 247 20 Mar. 1680-1, 252 Sir Robert, 1694, 70 Roger, 1593, 48 Rowland, 248 Sir Thomas, 1630, 56 Thomas, 1674, 42 ,, 13 Jan. 1580-1 245 William, 28 Aug. 1.553 245 ,, 4 Feb. 1556, 247 16 Aug., 1604, 248 21 Nov. 1648, 25-: Tipton, Elizabeth, 1711, 198 Joseph, 1693, 198 Yonge, John, of Charnes, 10 Dec. 1608, 224 John, of Pimley, 18 May, 1653, 225 Thomas, 29 Oct. 1729, 226 ,, William, 31 Oct. 1746, 225 Wentnor, vi, 255 Wenlock Parva, 255 Wistanstow, 255 Wollaston, 197 Wombridge Priory, 155 Wooderton, 54, 60 Worthen, vi Wrekin Forest, 151, 152 i 4th Series, Vol, VII., Part L OF THE Shropsbin Jlrcba^ohgkal AND natural fyistor^ Socktp KSTABtlSiJED 1877. 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