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SHROPSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL

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ESTABLISHED 1877.

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SHROPSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.

CONTENTS of 2nd Series, Vol. IX.

Page

A Shropshire Robin Hood. By S. Clement Southam ... 1

On the Parish Registers of Waters Upton. By the Hon. and

Rev. G. H. F. Vane, M.A 21

A Shrewsbury Man in Ireland in the Sixteenth Century By

the Rev. G. W. Fisher 34

Selattyn : A History of the Parish. By the Hon Mrs. Bulreley-

OWEN.

The Rectors (continued), the Curates, Parish Clerks,
Registers and Parish Books, Accidents, Music and
the Musicians, Charities, &c, Note to Chapter VI.

64, and 219

Further Notes on the History of Chetton. By the Rev. RALrn

C. Puhton, M.A 73

Notes on the Election of Burgesses in Parliament for Shrews-
bury in 1584 and 1586. By the Rev. G. W. Fisher ... 91

Grant of a Market and Fair at Chetwynd, to Sir John de
Chctwynd, 1 7th July, 1318. Extended and translated by
the Rev. C. H. Drink water, M.A.... ... ... ... 93

Abstracts of the Grants and Charters contained in the Char-
tulary of Wombridge Priory, Co. Salop. By the late
Mr. George Morris of Shrewsbury ... .. ... 96

History of Shrewsbury Hundred or Liberties. By the late Rev.
John Brickdale Bi.akeway, M.A., F.S.A. Edited by the
Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A.

The Isle, anciently Up Rossall 107

Rossall, anciently Down Rossall ... ... ... 163

Sutton ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 171

Sansaw... ... ... ... .. ..• ... 179

Shelton 181

Wolascot 189

Welbach and Whitley 198

Woodcote and Horton 205

Old Shropshire Wills. Part III 215

The Lordship of Shrawardine ... ... ... ... ... 284

The Early Manuscripts belonging to Shrewsbury School. By

Stanley Leigiiton, M.P., F.S.A 285

West Kelton Church. By R. Lloyd Kenyon 809

Shropshire Placo-Numcs. By W. II. Duignan 385

IV

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Facsimile Signature of Win. Daker

Tho. Hanmer ...

W. Roberts

J. R. Lloyd

Whitehall Whitehall Davies . .
George Newton Kynaston Lloyd

C. A. A. Lloyd

H. J. Lloyd

John Husband ...
James Strangward Rogers
Rossendale Lloyd
Maurice Williams
Jo. Trevor
Richard Jones ...
Gronow Owen ...
P. Morris
Edward Maurise
Owen Reynolds ...
John Tomkies ...
Owen Owen

Facsimile of Inscription round Selattyn Chalice

West Felton, the Old Church To face page

West Felton Church (partly rebuilt) „

SHROPSHIRE ARCH GEOLOGICAL AND
NATURA L HISTO RY SOCI ETY.

ANNUAL MEETING.

Tins Annual General Meeting of this Society was held at the Musjc
Hall, Shrewsbury, on Monday afternoon, February J_!nd, 1897. The
Rigkt Hon. Lord Kenyon presided, and there was a large attendance
of both ladies and gentlemen.

ANNUAL REPORT.

Mr. F. Goynk (Secretary), read the Report of the Council as
follows : —

The Council, in presenting their Annual Report, have to regret the loss
since the last Annual Meeting of one of their most diligent members. Tho
Rev. E. Myers took a keen interest in Archaeology, as he did in all branches
of science, and during the time he was a member of the Council he brought to
their proceedings all that industry and conscientious regard to detail, which
was a leading characteristic of his public life. The Society has also, quite re-
cently, lost another of its members, to whom local archeology was largely in-
debted. Mi-. C. C. Walker, of Lilleshall, not only took great interest in tho
earlier literature of England, especially as embodied in the drama, but by his
excavations at Lilleshall Abbey, contributed largely to a more accurate
knowledge of the architectural history and arrangement of that important
edifice. The Council aro glad on this occasion to report some improvement
in tho financial position of the Society. This is mainly due to the successful
series of lectures on English Cothic Architecture given, on behalf of the
Society, last spring by Mr. T). H. S. Cranage, which resulted in a profit of
£'20. The Council, however, feel strongly that the finances of the Society
ought not to stand in need of such special and adventitious help, and they
venture again to appeal for a large increase of members from among the
inhabitants of the county. During the past year overtures have been made
in the direction of amalgamation, wholly or in part, between this Society and
the Powysland Club, representing Montgomeryshire. Communications aro
still going on, but circumstances connected with papers now in course of
issue in the Transactions of tho two Societies make it undesirable to proceed
further at present. The Council have lately issued a circular, drawn up by a
sub-committee appointed for the purpose, in support of a scheme inaugurated
by Mr. W. P. W. l'hillimore, for the printing of the earlier marriage registers
of tho county, such registers being specially valuable for genealogical pur-
poses. In conjunction with tho Powysland Club, this Society gave its
assistance to form tho loan collection which was such a successful feature of
the Church Congress in October last. So much interest was deservedly taken
in that collection that the suggestion has been made that a somewhat similar
loan exhibition should be held at a future time under tho immediate auspices
of tho Society, in order to bring together a still larger collection of objects of
historical interest from the treasures of the county. The Council have
adopted the suggestion, and propose to hold such an exhibition in the spring
of next year. They venture at the earliest moment to bespeak tho favour-
able consideration of this scheme on the part of all who have such objects,
and to ask that, when tho time draws nearer, thoy will cordially respond to
tho request which will bo made for tho loan of sueh treasures as thoy may
possess. —(Signed) Thomas Autkn, M.A., E.S.A., Chairman of the Council.

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The Statement of Accounts showed that the receipts for the year
amounted to £193 lis. 7d., and that after meeting the expenses there
was a balance of 18s. 6d. On the special fund for illustrations there
was a balance of £2 5s. 6d., and on the transcribing account a balance
of £23 9s. 2d. The general balance sheet, however, showed a defi-
ciency of £19 2s. lid.

The Noble Chairman moved that the Report and Statement of
Accounts be adopted and circulated amongst the subscribers. He
remarked that in a county like Shropshire it was hardly decorous — if
he might say so — that the Archaxuogical Society should need any
aid at all. (Hear, hear). But the Society did want members, and
surely it was possible to raise a sufficient number to keep it on a
substantial pecuniary basis. (Hear, hear) He was glad to see such
a good attendance that day. The Council had made a new departure
this year in inviting some of their interested friends to listen to a
lecture by Mr. Cranage, and he hoped the welcome given them
would be appreciated, and that they might secure a few new members
as a result. (Hear, hear). He did not know that in the whole of
England there was a more interesting county, from an archaeological
point of view, than Shropshire. (Hear, hear). He believed that he
had driven over almost every road and passed through every town in
it — from Whitchurch to Ludlow, from Market Drayton to Oswestry,
and from Shrewsbury, as the centre, to all the various old and in-
teresting border towns. Each one had a history of its own. He did
not know in the whole of England a fairer town than Ludlow, with
its beautiful church and castle overlooking the river, and the curious
old Feathers Hotel. Then there was the quaint old town of Bridg-
north, with its rugged streets, and then they came to the beautiful
old town in which they were met that day. What a history was
attached to Shrewsbury, the capital of the borders ! He did not
pretend himself to have any acquaintance with scientific archaeology;
but surely to any of them who loved their own country and
the associations about them a town like Shrewsbury must appeal
with great force. (Applause). Look ot the beautiful Abbey, which
they had seen so handsomely restored of late years, and which he
hoped might be still further restored. (Hear, hear). Should a
Society which proposed to rake up the old records and protect, as far
as it could, those ancient buildings of which they were so proud,
suffer for the sake of a few members and a few pounds? He hoped
that they would endeavour to the best of their power to supply what
was lacking in this respect. If each one would introduce one fresh
member during the year it would put the Society on a sound financial
basis. (Hear, hear). No doubt Mr. Auden would be able to tell
them mote about the proposed loan exhibition than he (Lord Kenyon)
could ; but he might say that lie felt certain that any residents,
landowners, or others in the county who possessed documents and so
forth would be glad to lend them for such a purpose. It was extra-
ordinary to think of the wealth of interesting things stored up in the
country houses in England. If they wanted proof of that, let them

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go to the winter collection in London, where they would hardly ever

see the same picture twice. He hoped that the proposed exhibition
would be well supported and thoroughly successful. (Hear, hear).
Shrewsbury itself was to be congratulated on having such a collection
of interesting documents, going back as they did to the time of King
John. (Applause).

The Rev. T. Auden, F.S.A., in seconding the adoption of the
Report, said that Lord Kenyon had so well put the position of the
Society and the claim which it had on the public, that he should not
say a word on that topic ; but he wished to make a few remarks
on one paragraph in the Report to which his Lordship had alluded,
namely, the proposed loan collection Many of those present, he
knew, attended the loan exhibition — and some of them more than
once — held in connection with the Church Congress, and those of
them who had something to do with getting that collection together
from the county and immediate neighbourhood knew how up to the
very last moment they constantly came across people who said they
had things in their possession, and would have been delighted to lend
them, but it did not occur to them to do so. When it was too late
they had a considerable number of offers of things that would have
been interesting to visitors, and a suggestion was made to the Council
of the Society that they should have an exhibition of their own, so to
speak. He only mentioned it then in order to give emphasis to the
paragraph in the Report, because, as they would thoroughly under-
stand, an exhibition of this kind depended not alone upon the energy
of those who were working as a committee for the purpose, but on
the cordial co-operation of those who possessed the treasures they
wanted to get together. (Hear, hear). It was proposed to hold the
exhibition about April in next year. In due course sub-committees
would be formed to take the matter in hand, and he was very anxious
to take the opportunity at that Annual Meeting of ventilating the
matter, so that when they asked for help they might have it extended
to them. (Hear, hear). Lord Kenyon had alluded to the treasures
of country houses, and he (Mr. Auden) fully endorsed what had been
said. There were treasures to be met with about which very little
was known, so that it would be good for the owners as well as those
who did not possess them that the Society should bring them into
light. (Hear, hear).

The Report was then adopted.

THE COUNCIL.

Sir Offley Wakeman, Bart., moved, and the Rev. T. M. Bulkeley-
Owen seconded, the election of the Council, which was constituted the
same as last year with the exception that Mr. Herbert Southam takes
the place of the late Rev. E. Myers. — The resolution was carried.

ELECTION OF AUDITOR.

Tlio Hon. and Rov. («. IT. F. Vane proposed the re-election of
Dr. Calvert as Auditor, together with a hearty vote of thanks to him

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for his past services. — This was seconded by the Rev. 0 M. Feilden
and carried unanimously.

Archdeacon Maude, in moving a vote of thanks to Lord Kenyon
for presiding, said that the best way in which they could show their
indebtedness to his Lordship was by some of them becoming members
of the Soeiety. (Hear, hear). They had heard something about Sliiows-
bury from an archaeological point of view, and he might state that he
had recently entered into possession of a house — Swan Hill House —
which had tome historical connection attached to it. In the garden
there was an extraordinary building, called an oratory, which was put
up by Archdeacon Owen, who seemed to have been a great archaeolo-
gist., and he had been told by a gentleman who had seen it that its
proper place was not in the garden where it now stood, but in the
Museum* (Laughter, and hear, hear). He would remind them,
however, that he had a good watch dog on the premises, which would
protect it if necessary — (renewed laughter)— but at the same time he
should be very glad if any member of the Archaeological Soeiety
would interpret the meaning of a stone in the oratory to himself.

The motion was seconded by tho Rev. A. Thursby-Pelham and
carried unanimously,

Lord Kenyon suitably replied.

MR. cranage's lecture on "a medieval abbey witii special

REFERENCE TO SHROPSHIRE RELIGIOUS HOUSES."

A Lecture was then delivered by Mr. D. H. S. Cranage on " A
Mediaeval Abbey, with special reference to Shropshire Religious
Houses." Ho said lie felt highly honoured by being asked to lecture
at that Annual Meeting. Th« subject chosen was " A Mediaeval
Abbey," but he almost regretted that he had promised to make
special reference to Shropshire buildings, for a very wide subject was
thereby opened out, which he could not adequately deal with in one
short lecture. He regretted too that he felt compelled to leave out
almost all reference to Cistercian houses, and to confine himself
chiefly to the Benedictine. The term "Abbey "he would use in a
wide sense, not merely to signify a religious house governed by an
Abbot or Abbess. To understand a mediaeval abbey it was most
important to know something of the history of Monasticism. Of
course, it was not his business that day to express an opinion on the
merits of the system ; he simply took it as an historical fact. How-
ever, whatever their opinions might be, all must allow that some of
tho finest men that had ever lived had been monks, and also that at
times the corruption of ilio monasteries had been a scandal to
Christendom. The cradle of Monasticism might be said to to Kgypt,
and its chief founder St. Anthony, at the end of the third century.
A li ii mlrcd years later, according to St. Jerome, no less than 50,000
monks met at the annual gathering of those who followed the rule of
St. I'acomo, Later on tho rule of St. Ilasil had great influence, but
for their consideration those were of slight importance compared with

the rule of St. Benedict, which was written in the early part of the
6th century. A study of this rule would be of much service in
understanding monastic houses, for all the monastic orders were
influenced by it. The keynote of the rule might be found in the
words, " Let all things be done with moderation on account of the
faint-hearted." An amusing instance of this is seen in the direction
for reading after meals — "not the Pentateuch or Kings ; for, to weak
intellects, it will be of no use at that hour to hear this part of
Scripture." The flesh of quadrupeds was to be abstained from by
every one except the weak and sick. The interpretation of this order
varied. Some slid that fowls might be taken, as they were not
quadrupeds ; others that, as fowls were nicer than quadrupeds, a
fortiori they were forbidden. Their idea of moderation would, pro-
bably, not tally with St. Benedict's, for tho monks had to rise two
hours after midnight for worship and perform eight other services in
the course of the day. They were never allowed to break their fast
till noon ; from September to Lent the meal was three hours later,
and in Lent it was later still. Asceticism like this often proved too
severe lor the ordinary person, and various plans for circumventing
the rule were adopted. One of these was to be bled frequently,
because after this operation monks were allowed to live in the in-
firmary for a time, and have a more generous diet. The rule of
St. Benedict was never widely followed in England till after the
Conquest. The most important Benedictine house in that part was,
of course, the great Abbey of Shrewsbury. In tho 10th century the
Cluniac order was founded, as a reformed Benedictine community.
All the houses were dependent on the parent Abbey of Cluny, and
were priories. Of these Much Wenlock was one of the finest in
England. A still more important order was the Cistercian, founded
at the beginning of the 12th century by Stephen Harding, an
Englishman. Under the magnetic influence of St. Bernard, the order
spread far and wide. The first English house was founded in 1129
at Waverlcy, and for a long time the Cistercian order was the popular
one, and attracted the most men and money. All the Cistercian
houses were ruled by abbots ; the characteristic plan is partly shown
at Buildwas. The Carthusian order, founded by St. Bnmo in 108G,
was the strictest of all ; and though there were few houses in
England, much of the early fervour was preserved till the Dissolution.
Benedictines and Cluniacs were called Black Monks, Cistercians
White Monks. Nunneries of the first and last of these orders were
not uncommon ; thus near Brewood there were convents of Black
Ladies and White Ladies. Besides the monks proper, houses of
regular canons demand attention. Secular canons were pretty much
what canons arc nowadays; regular canons lived cloistered lives
according to rule, and were almost monks. Important abbeys of
August inian or Black Canons can bo seen at llaughmond and Lilies-
hall. There were priories at Wombridge and Ohirbiiry. Prcmons-
tralonsiun or White Canons wore stricter 1 ban ( hose, but, as a rule,
Canons woru not so ascetic as monks. "Among those," says

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Guyot de Provins in the 13th century, "one is well shod, well
clothed, and well fed." There were houses of " canonesses " also.
Tlio order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham included men and women in
the same institution. Canons were always ordained men ; monks
were not necessarily so. Friars should be carefully distinguished
from both; they did not live apart from the world. The 13th
century was their golden age, and they were divided into four main
orders : — The Franciscan or Grey Friars, the Dominican or Black
Friars, the Carmelite or White Friars, and the Austin Friars. The
White Friars settled in Ludlow, and the Grey Friars at Bridgnorth.
In Shrewsbury the Franciscans, Dominicans, and Augustinians had
houses. There are considerable remains of the Franciscan house at
the bottom of St. Julian's Friars.

After this historical introduction, Mr. Cranage proceeded to describe
the chief buildings in a Mediaeval Abbey, illustrating his remarks by
a number of plans and views reproduced as lantern slides. Special
attention was paid to a conjectural view of Durham before the
Dissolution, in connection with "The Rites of Durham" — a minute
account of the monastic observances, written by a monk in the reign
of Elizabeth. The cloister was described as the centre of the
monastic life. The north walk, next the church, was the scriptorium
where the monks studied. The east walk gave access to the Chapter
house, and also to the parlour or slype, which led to the monastic
cemetery. This was always east of the chapter house, as was recently
seen at Shrewsbury Abbey, when a new drain was being laid along
the road. The west walk of the cloister was the novices' schoolroom.
At Durham it gave access to the monks' common room, with the
dorter or dormitory over ; beyond was the bowling alley, one of the
many indications they had of monastic recreations. The lavatory
was in the centre of the cloister garth ; there the monks washed their
hands before going into the f rater or refectory, which was alongside
the south walk of the cloister.

The disposition of the infirmary, and the hospitate and menial
buildings of an abbey were illustrated by plans of Canterbury. The
12th century arrangament of this great monastery was shown by a
reproduction of a remarkable Norman drawing made circa 1160.
Attention was called to the highly scientific devices for bringing fresh
water to the monastery and removing the refuse. The plan of
Westminster was referred to, and the lecture concluded with descrip-
tions and views of Ely, Chester; Gloucester, and other great mediaeval
abbeys.

Archdeacon Batiier proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Cranage for
his interesting lecture, As an outsider, he said their thanks wer3
also due to the Society for inviting them to be present. (Applause).
Personally, he wished to show his own gratitude by not remaining un
outsider any longer, but intended to become a member. (Hear,
hear). With respect to the strictness of the rule of St. Benedict, he
thought they would all agree that the strict rule of Benedict was
pleasanter to listen to than to adopt ; and lie did not think there

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were many amongst them-— not even Father Ignatius himself — who
would return to it and all its ceremonies. Still they could not help
feeling that the men who founded these great houses, of which they
had heard so much were very real men, and did a great work under
the providence of Cod in those times ; and when they looked at our
great cathedrals, or those buildings which they regretted to see so
much in ruin, they felt that the men who built them had their hearts
in the right place, and men who taught them lessons they had not
come up to yet, as to what was due to the dignity of the worship of
Almighty Odd. (Heat, hear). l»y his vivid description and the aid
of the beautiful views, Mr. Cranage had impressed something upon
them they were not likely to forget. (Applause).

The Rev. T. Auden, in seconding the motion, said ho did so as
representing the Council of the Society, who were deeply indebted to
Mr. Cranage for his services. (Hear, hear). He called attention to
the excellent example set by Archdeacon Bather, and hoped a good
many others would follow it (Hear, hear).

Tho resolution was carried with acclamation, and Mr. Cranage
suitably replied.

The company were afterwards entertained to afternoon tea) The
lantern used for showing the views during the lecture Was manipulated
by Mr. J. Marsh, Castle Street, Shrewsbury.

ANNUAL EXCURSION.

The excursion of the abovo Society, made annually to some object of
antiquarian interest in the county, took place this year on Thursday,
July loth. The place chosen was the neighbourhood of the Brown
Glee Hill, with the special object of paying a visit to Abdon Burf,
which crowns its summit. Accordingly, on the morning in question^
the members of the Society, to the number of about L'O, who had
previously sent in their names to Mr. K. Coyne, the secretary,
proceeded in a saloon carriage to Ludlow, where they arrived soon
after eleven o'clock. At the station carriages were in readiness, and
they drove in the direction of Bridgnorth as far as Cleobury North,
enjoying pleasant views as they went, the Titterstono Cleo being a
prominent object throughout the route. Arrived at Cleobury North,
the party ft rat examined the church This is of various dates, and
some of its ancient features have been destroyed in so-called restora-
tions, ll retains,. however, an interesting chancel arch, unusually
depressed in shape, which belongs to the Karly English period, and
there is a southern arcade which corresponds. In the aisle is a
I'ei pmdn nlar screen, which now surrounds the font. The pulpit
hears llu; date KJ-J.S, and near it is a double seal of oak belonging to
tho same period. The font, which is ligured in Ky ton's AutH/uitien,

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has the dog-tooth ornament round it, and must probably be attributed
to the early part of the 13th century. These ancient features of the
church were explained by the Rev. I). H. S. Cranage, M.A., F.S.A.,
whose " Architectural Account of Shropshire Churches," now in
course of publication, will be known to many of our readers. When
tho inspection of the church was concluded the carriages conveyed
the party to the foot of the hill. The ascent, of course, had to be
made on foot, and the extreme heat of the day made this somewhat
toilsome, though the path is neither steep nor difficult. The top,
however, was gained in due course, and the party stood within the
enclosure of Abdon Burf, and enjoyed the panoramic view which it
commands. The distance was somewhat obscured in haze, but the
near prospect included some of the fairest scenery of the county of
Salop. But archaeology and not scenery was the order of the day.
And so, as the company arranged themselves in groups among the
stones which once formed l-he cuter wall of the enclosure, addresses
were delivered on the characteristics of the spot. The first paper
was the following, by the Rev. Thomas Auden, M.A., F.S.A., Vicar of
Condover, and Chairman of the Council of the Society, who was in
charge of the party : —

ABDON BURF.

The question which everyone naturally asks in connection with
such an excursion as this is, What is Abdon Burf ? There is no
difficulty in giving the answer that it is a pre-historic, or, as it is
more customary now to express it, pre-Roman settlement. The real
difficulty begins when the attempt is made to go into details and
decide something as to the race who formed it and the time at which
they lived. The data for arriving at a definite decision on these
matters are not at present fully in our hands. We need to know
more about the point of civilization to which the>e people had
attained, as shown by the implements and utensils they made use of,
and their customs with regard to the burial of the dead ; but I think
* the data which w e do possess may enable us to form some fairly
accurate ideas on the subject.

Looking, then, at the spot as it presents itself to our eyes at this
moment, it will be observed that it is an enclosure surrounded by a
rampart of stone — a wall, and not an earthwork, Within this Bur/ —
which is probably a Britis.li word meaning enclosure — there may be
traced a considerable number of stone circles, and there are also in
dillcrent directions depressions in the turf. A few of these depres-
sions are modern, and are the remains of shafts made in the present
century in search of coal, but 1 am alluding to those in which the
soil has clearly not been disturbed for many years. 1 do not propose
to say anything now about the stone circles. It happens that I had
the opportunity last week, while staying with a friend in Wiltshire,
of visiting the great circle of Avebury, which completely dwarfs
anything we can show in Shropshire, and possesses greater antiquarian
interest even than Stonehenge. I hit alone circles are a problem yet

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unsolved, and I shall not attempt to touch the subject now : suffice
it to say that they appear almost certainly to be connected with
worship, either of the sun or some other of the forces of Nature.
When, however, we turn to the other characteristics of the spot which
1 have mentioned we are on surer ground. But in crder to under-
stand the choice of such a dwelling-place at all, we must remember
the condition of the surrounding eountry in early times. The plain
on which we look down in all its beauty of meadow and cornfield was
a tangled forest interspersed with swamps, and forests clothed the
sides of the hill itself. It was a matter nut so much of choice as of
necessity that early man should make his abode on high ground.
And what were the dwellings of thc.se remote ancestors? We have
the remains of these in the pit-like depressions already alluded to.
Originally dug out to a depth of seven or eight feet, or even more,
they were roofed over with thatch or boughs, or possibly stones
resting on wood, and entered by a sort of sloping shaft. Their shape
was invariably round. The ancient Briton, like the modern Kafir,
could make a circle with unerring accuracy, but was hopelessly
incapable of anything angular. It is this fact that the inhabitants
of Abdon Burf lived in pits below, and not huts above, ground, which
helps us to form an idea as to the period when they flourished. I do
not mean that we can fix on a given century, or even a period of ten
times that length, and say that this spot was then inhabited. The
chronology of years is utterly beyond its depth in dealing with pre-
historic events, but we know something of the sequence of races in
England ; and the remains they have left behind them help us to
decide to which of these races any particular people belonged.
Leaving out Palaeolithic man, of whom no clear traces have been
discovered in Shropshire at present, we come to the men of the later
stone age — to the Neolithic men — whose traces are fairly abundant.
The earliest of these were Iberians — short of stature, dark of com-
plexion, and with elongated skull. To this race, we know from
Tacitus, belonged the Silures who inhabited South Wales, and as far
north as Shropshire, and who caused the Itomans the greatest trouble
in their subjugation. To these non-Aryan, dolicho-cephalic, swarthy
Iberians, the ancestors of the Silures, probably belonged the men
and women who dwelt whore we arc now standing. I say probably,
because, as I observed before, data arc- at present wanting to decide tho
question absolutely. There is not, as far as T know, any record of tho
discovery near the spot of human bones which would decide the question
of stature, that is, whether they belonged to the race I have described,
or to tho large limbed, fair haired, brachy-eephalic Celtic race which
followed them. And there seems also to have been found but few of
the implements which they used, which J need not say are of the
utmost importance in arriving at a decision. Mr. Dodgson, however,
tells me that Lord Boyne has in his possession a fine specimen of a
polished axe-head of local stone, found a few years ago in the gardens
at Burwarton. This, as far as it goes, exactly confirms what I have
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light other stone implements, both of flint and of hard material found
nearer home, and that the Neolithic date of Abdon Burf will by
degrees be as clearly proved as the late Mr. Luff proved the existence
of a similar settlement in the neighbourhood of Clun. It only re-
mains that I should say a word as to the relation between Abdon
Burf, where we stand, and Nordy Bunk, which is on the spur of the
hill below us. That is generally regarded as a Roman camp, and if
not originally constructed by them — which, I think, is doubtful — it
was almost certainly occupied by them in the campaign of Ostorins
Scapula against Caractacus in the middle of the 1st century ot the
Christian era. Be it observed that there is no necessary connection
whatever between the two. The settlement on Abdon Burf was
probably founded centuries — I might almost say ages — before the
Roman invasion, and though, of course, it may have been, and very
possibly was, still occupied by the Britons when the Romans held
Nordy Bank, no confusion must be made by thinking of it as an
encampment of that date. Supposing, however, that it did form an
intrenchment of Caractacus against his foes, who held the lower
height, it forms an interesting parallel to a case in Wiltshire, which
came under my notice last week. Some of those present may know
that along the Downs of North Wilts there are a complete series of
British earthworks or " camps." One of these — a remarkably fine
one — which I visited, is known as Barbury Castle. I was much
struck by the fact — having in mind Abdon Burf and Nordy Bank —
that on the lower ground below Barbury was a smaller earthwork,
whoso square, symmetrical shape showed it to be unmistakably
Roman. But this paper is already more than sufficiently long. It
has but touched the fringe of a great subject, but if ii has served to
justify the selection of Abdon Burf as the scene of the excursion of
our Archaeological Society this year — if it has shown those present,
who have had the fatigue of climbing up, that what seemed at first
casual heaps of stones, are nothing less than an integral part of the
history of their country — if, in fact, it has brought home to any the
force of Shakespeare's words that there are "sermons in stones, and
good in everything," its object will have been fully attained.

At the conclusion of Mr. Auden's paper, a short address was de-
livered by Rev. A. Thursby-Pelham, M.A., Rector of Cound, and a
member of the Council of the Society.

Mr. Pelham said : — The great enclosure on Abdon Burf, ci owning
the summit of the Brown Clec Hill, is probably the oldest arclueolo-
gical monument in the county of Shropshire. 1 shall hope to show
that it is a spot of unusual interest. The question which naturally
suggests itself is, whose vrork is it, and what was its object? There
are about eighty camps of various sizes on the borderland of the
Welsh Marches between the mouths of the Severn and the Dee.
Some are undoubtedly British, and some are undoubtedly Roman.
As a rule they arc earthworks. As a specimen of a grand British
earthwork we' have that at Old Oswestry, and of a Roman work we
have Norton Camp and the walls at Chosterton. The three enclosures

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of tlio Cleo Hills, Abdon Burf, the Clco Burf, and that on the Titter-
stone differ in character from such as these. They aro sacred en-
closures for sacred uses. How old they may bo wo know not. That
they are of great age wo may bo sure. We may be equally sure that
they aro pre historic, and what is called Neolithic. By pre historic I
do not mean non-historic, for I conceive that they have a great
history attached to them. Let us consider their history. It may
seem strange to go to Holy Scripture for evidence of a heathen temple,
but 1 think we may do so in the case before us. In Genesis xxxi., 44,
Laban says to Jacob, " Come thou, and let us make a covenant, I and
thou : and let it be for a witness between mo and thee. And Jacob
took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. And Jacob said unto his
brethren, Gather stones : and they took stones, and made an heap,
and they did eat there upon the heap. And Laban called it Jegar-
sahadutha ; but Jacob called it Galeed." Here we have the setting
up of a pillar for a religious purpose, and the heaping of stones. We
are reminded of the stone pillar which Jacob had before this dedi-
cated at Bethel by anointing it with oil. Laban and Jacob did what
wast customary among the people in the East. Laban and Jacob set
up their pillars and heaped stones for a particular purpose. They
did, so to say, what came to hand, and did it for a good purpose.
Laban and Jacob did not stand alone in their time. All through the
then known world wo meet with stones erected for religious purposes.
We meet with them north, south, east, and west, and wonder what
they mean. We sometimes call them needles. Technically, they are
called menhirs, or large upright stones. People in the neolithic age,
who set up these menhirs, had lively imaginations. They were like
children playing with wooden bricks, which are put up and made to
stand for people ; so in those far distant times primitive people set
up stones, consecrated them by sacrificial blood and oil, and made
them stand for living beings. In their eyes they became " lively
atones." I suggest this as a key to the meaning of the wonderful
alignment of menhirs at Carnac in Brittany. There are two primi-
tive Phoenician hypictliral temples at Malta and Gozo, constructed of
menhirs put in circles, beehive fashion, with smaller stones heaped
around them. I believe this is the only place where they are to bo
seen entire. One of the temples in Malta is at Hagiar Kim ; that at
Gozo is called the Gigantea. Possibly these temples aro as old as the
times of Jacob. We find numerous examples of dolmens, which are
stono tables used as altars. Wo constantly meet with circles of
6toncs in connection with Baal, or sun-worship, and we often find
cromlechs, or covered vaults for sepulchral purposes. You may say
that neolithic man expressed his religious ideas in a rude way.
Doubt less he did so. Ho chose the hardest and most durable material
he could fmd to express his ideas. His menhirs were consecrated,
and his heaps of stone were, in his imagination, instinct with life.
But this was not all. He i-iined in his worship to get as near to
heaven as he could, and therefore, where it was feasible, ho erected
his sacred structures on the highest spots. The mountains of Moab

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are crowned with such memorials of neolithic times. We find the
same thing in Cornwall, and the same in Shropshire. On the western
slopes of Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall, are several
neolithic stone circles in regular sequence. Abdon Burf, the summit
of the Brown Clee Hill in Shropshire, is crowned with a large neolithic
enclosure, artificially constructed of Dhu stones heaped together,
within which, doubtless, originally stood a large hypaethral temple,
probably built up, beehive fashion, like the temples in Malta and
Gozo, with its dolmen-altars and mystic circles. Nor did it stand
alone. Carrying your eye in a straight line southwards, you see
before you the summit of the Titterstone Clee Hill, with its even
larger hazor, or sacred enclosure, of similar construction ; and between
the two is the Clee Burf, a shoulder of the Brown Clee, and there, too,
can be traced a third sacred enclosure, completing the trilogy of
neolithic temple-worship. These three summits dominate, so to say,
the whole country, east and west. They are the natural sites of
neolithic " cathedral " life. Baal-worship, creature-worship, sun-
worship, Druid-worship, call it what you like, primitive, rude, childish,
ghastly, it may be, still here it is. Go up some early summer
morning to the summit of the Brown Clee Hill, to Abdon Burf, and
see the sun rise, and spell out the lesson for yourself. For centuries
the neolithic priesthood from there watched the sun rise and set ; and
to them the stones they had heaped together with such labour seemed
to live. Barbarous rites, no doubt, went on ; they tried to draw in
their inspiration from the sun, and all the time they were in darkness.
At last the Romans came. The country on this side the border of
Wales was contested inch by inch. Witness the many British strong-
holds all along the line. Those who stirred up the patriotism of
their compatriots were not likely to commend themselves to the
conquering race. We know that they massacred the Druids in
Anglesey, and, doubtless, the great company of priests on the Clee
Hills met with no better fate. The hypsethral temples were thrown
down, the dolmens were over-turned, the menhirs were shivered, and
yet enough remains to tell the story of the sites. The sacred en-
closure is still there; many stone ' praying" circles (shall I call them1?)
are still there. The pits in which they lived are still there. The
Roman camp at Nordy Bank, where Roman soldiers saw that the
ruined temples should keep in ruin, is still there. Each has its story
to tell. Neolithic Baal-worship is a thing of the past ; the Roman
occupation is a thing of the past. Both were strong and mighty in
their day ; both tell us, in parable, wherein our true strength lies.
As neolithic man was a man of lively imagination, and the Romans
conquered all before them, so it is for us Christians to endeavour that
our imaginations may be lit up more and more with the true light
within, and that by the grace of God we may be " more than
conquerors."

It was now time to think of returning, and so, under the guidance
of Mr. W. I j. Dodgson of Cleobury North Court, who with several
members of his family had joined the party on their arrival, the

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descent was made through the pleasant grounds of Lord Boyne to
Burwarton. Here a refreshing tea was ready at the Boyn3 Arms
Hotel, which everyone voted a welcome episode in the day's proceed-
ings. There was only time for a flying visit to Burwarton Church,
but this was worth making, and the party again had the advantage
of Mr. Cranage's accurate knowledge. There is only a fragment
remaining of the old church, of which there is an engraving in Eyton.
The fragment consists chiefly of the chancel arch, of Transitional
Norman work; and, looking at it in conjunction with the picture
which Eyton gives of the complete chancel, one cannot help regret-
ting that it was taken down and a new church substituted. For-
tunately, the ancient font has been preserved in tho new edifice.

But the time was come for the drive back to Ludlow. Accordingly,
saying " good-bye " to those on the spot who had contributed to the
enjoyment and interest of the day, the party re-entered the carriages,
and, in due course, made their way home in the saloon which had
brought them down.

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A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

By S. CLEMENT SOUTHAM.

An adventurous Salopian, who appears to have been a
veritable Robin Hood, had an extraordinary career in
the tyrannous days of bad King John, and his doings
were chronicled in a French poem written during the
reign of Edward II., a manuscript of which still remains
in the British Museum.1 We are indebted to that
indefatigable Shropshire antiquary, Thomas Wright,
for much information obtained from this source, both in
his Essays on the Middle Ages published in 1846 and
his History of Eulk Eitz-Warine, edited for the Warton
Club in 1855, and, as popular legend appears to have
died out in the vicinity of Whittington, where this
once-famous Outlaw resided, I have thought that a
slight sketch of his adventures may be of interest.

It is perhaps needless to remark that all songs and
stories of popular heroes, in the times when such com-
positions could only be conveyed orally or by very
un frequent manuscripts, are liable to the addition of
many wonderful and impossible episodes added from
reminiscences of former traditions or from legends of a
semi-theological nature based upon far oil" myths of
Odin and Thor, or of other glorified beings of ancient
mythologies. As an instance of this I may mention
the " Wild Edrio" of the days of William the Conqueror,
who is, or perhaps I should say was, supposed to lead
a phantom hunt in the hills of West Shropshire, and
whose memory was almost certainly perpetuated in
some long extinct song or story, substituting his name

1 Mus Hi it., MS , Keg. 12, o. \u.
Vol. IX 2nd S.

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A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

for that of Odin or Wustan in the ancient Saxon
legend, and giving him the legendary white horse and
a wife named Lady Godda in place of Frau Gauden
(Holda).

These additions are especially probable when the
story takes the form of a poem such as would be recited
by wandering minstrels, who embellished the few facts
in their knowledge with such romantic additons, sug-
gested by former ballads, as might take their fancy,
and generally added a death-breathing dragon " to
give an air of verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and
unentertaining narrative" after the fashion of the im-
mortal Japanese official. Other family legends also
may have been appropriated to one favourite hero.

The history of Fulk Fitz-Warine1 (Fouke le fitz
Guarin) has many obvious additions of this kind, but
as a story of wild times on the Welch Border during a
lawless age, it is well worthy of preservation. The
manuscript of the Fitz-Warine Chronicle was apparently
written before the year 1320, but Mr Wright believed
it to be a paraphrase of an older poem composed before
the end of the thirteenth century, the author an Anglo-
Norman " trouvere" in the service of the Fitz-Warine
family. The grandfather and father of the subject of
our paper bore also the same name ; the latter married
Hawyse, youngest daughter of Sir Joce de Dynan
(Dinham), the castellan of Ludlow, and is said to have
been a man of note at the Court of King Henry II. ,
though Eyton "greatly doubts the truth of this." He
died about the year 1197, leaving five sons. His eldest
son, Fulk Fitz-Warine the 3rd, was educated with the
young princes, and, when he arrived at man's estate,
was made Guardian of the Marches by Richard I., but
John, after his accession to the throne, remembered
some boyish quarrel (according to the MS. Chronicle),
and deprived him of his guardianship, confiscating also

1 1 have adopted Wright's (spelling of the English rendering of tho
name,

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3

his estate of Whittington1 (" Blamiche-Ville," White
Town), which he gave to Morys Fitz-Roger of Powis,
u bitter enemy of Fitz-Warine. Eyton, in his antiqui-
ties of Shropshire, thus succinctly records the real
cause of quarrel. "In the year ending Mich8, 1200
(though his fathers fine of 40 merks still remained
on the Rolls), Fulk Fitz Warine (III.) fined JClOO with
King John 'to have judgment concerning Whittington
Castle and its appurtenances, as his right, which had
been adjudged to him by consideration of the Curia
Regis.' This Fine was in opposition to a nearly con-
temporary Fine by Meuric de Powis, who, being in
possession of Whittington, offered the King 50 merks
for a confirmation thereof. It is evident that the latter
Fine was accepted by the King, and that this was the
provocation which, in 1201, threw Fulk Fitz Warine and
his friends into rebellion." In the hope of obtaining
redress Fulk and his four brothers immediately repaired
to the Court at Winchester, and, finding appeal of no
avail, then throw up their allegiance and set out to
return in company with their cousin, Baldwin de
Hodnet. The King sent fifteen knights after them
with orders to bring back as prisoners the five daring
rebels who had thus defied him, but, after a desperate
struggle, the victory remained with the Fitz-Warines,
who continued their journey after slaying many of the
aggressors. The King then proclaimed F ulk an outlaw.

The first act of the outlawed man was to visit his
mother at Alberbury, and to collect all portable
property, with which he and his brothers managed to
escape to Brittany, where they remained some time.
Tired of his exile, he and his four brothers, William,
Philip, John, and Alayn, having with them Baldwin de

1 Whittington, as will be seen later, was afterwards restored and
remained in the Fitz-Warine family until 1420. The castle was
fortified in 1138 by William Pavcrel. Fulk Fitz Warine I. was in
company during the Civil Wars with the Poverels, and was probably
related to them.

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A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

Hodnet1 and another cousin named Audulf de Bracy,2
landed in England in disguise ; they concealed them-
selves by day and travelled by night until they reached
the Manor of Alberbury, where Fulk heard of his
mother's death.3 Collecting all his friends and re-
tainers he repaired to " Babbyng" forest, near Whit,
tington, where they lay concealed hoping for a fuvotu able
opportunity of attacking Morys Fitz-Kogcr, the pos-
sessor of Fitz-Warine's domains. It was not long
before one of Morys' retainers caught sight of the Out-
law, and warned his master, who promptly started
forth in full armour and carrying a green shield bearing
golden boars and azure fleurs de lis ; he was accompanied
by thirty knights and five hundred foot soldiers to
capture or slay his enemy. In spite of the enormous
odds Fulk drove the at larking party back into the castle,
wounding their leader in the shoulder, but receiving
himself an arrow in the leg from a bowman in the
Castle. Morys sent messengers to inform the King of
the return of the outlaw, and a hundred knights were
immediately despatched to secure him. Tartly from
dread of this doughty fighter, and partly, it is assumed,
from personal friendship and it may be consanguinity,
this expedition was totally unsuccessful, as his pursuers
were never able to meet with him. Fulk now retired
to the forest of " Bradene'' (probably the Breidden),
and here his reprisals against the King commenced, and
it is worthy of note that all his forays were made

1 Baldwin, eldest son of Odo do Hodnet, who died in 1201, tho
year of the rebellion. Ho held Welbacli and Moston under Fitz
\Variuo, and they were fellow Vassals of Corbet of Caus. Baldwin
married, in the year 1204, Ceeily, daughter of Alan de Madley, and
widow of Roger Corbet of Tasley.

- Of Moolo Brace, who was iu litigation, during this reign, with
Roger de Mortimer of Wigmoro as to the Manor of Moolo.

3 So, according to thu Chronicle; Eyton .says, however, "1 think
that llawise de Dinah was surviving at least as late as the year 1'22G.
In the year ending Michaelmas, 111)8, she was lined 110 Merits that
she wight not bo obliged to remarry, showing death of Fulk l«'iU-
Warm (II.") - Antiquities oftihrops/ure.

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5

solely upon the King and his agents. His first capture
consisted of ten merchants carrying a rich load of
cloths, spices, furs, and other merchandise, all of which
belonged to King John. The band of outlaws, headed
by John Fitz-Warine, defeated the convoy, and carried
them into the depths of the forest, where Fulk awaited
them. He divided all the wealth fairly, measuring out
the cloth and furs with his lance and bestowing them
upon his companions according to rank ; after this he
feasted the defeated party and sent them off with his
salutations and thanks to the King, who, furious with
rage, issued a proclamation offering a reward of a
thousand pounds in silver and all the outlaw's lands in
England to any person bringing him Fulk Fitz-Warine,
alive or dead. Fulk left his hiding place ard travelled
into Kent, where, with characteristic hardihood, he con-
cealed his band in aforest and rode alone out on the high
road. Here he met a messenger, who rode singing by,
a chaplet of red roses ( un chapelet de rose vermayl ) on
his head. At Fulk's request the chaplst was given
him, and he sent the messenger away with a fee, but
this injudicious prank cost him dear, for the fellow, well
knowing the outlaw, rode with all speed to Canterbury,
and immediately gave information to a band of knights,
who proceeded at once to the wood, which they sur-
rounded, posting villagers at various points to give the
alarm. The outlaws, hearing the sound of a bugle,
dashed upon the knights and cut their way through,
but, instead of wisely retreating, turned about and re-
newed the attack until, the numbers of their enemies
increasing and John Fitz-Warine being dangerously
wounded, they were compelled to fly, and made for a
neighbouring abbey to claim Sanctuary, This they
reached without being seen by their pursuers, whom
they left far behind, and here Fulk, who seemed
to love an escapade as much as he was de-
void of fear, put on a monk's habit, and, taking
a staff, limped down the road towards the approach-
ing enemy. When he met them, and was questioned

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A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

if he had seen any armed knights, he replied that
he had not only seen them, but they had run over
him and ill-treated him, upon which he was assured
that he should have his revenge, and the pursuing
party galloped past the abbey. While the outlaw was
still waiting in the road to see what would next happen,
a knight named Sir Gyrard de Mai fee and ten com-
panions approached, and began to make sport of the
supposed monk, who, without replying, uplifted his
staff and brought it down on the knight with such
goodwill that he rolled in the dust. At the sight of
this Fulk's companions rushed out of the abbey and
attacked the party, leaving them bound and seizing
their horses. They then galloped olf, and eventually
reached Huggeford (Higford, near Shifnal, Huchefor in
Domesday Book), where Sir Walter de Huggeford, a
kinsman of the Fitz-Warines, and, so far as can be
judged by slight evidence, an uncle of Fulk and his
brothers, gave them shelter until John recovered from
his wound. Walter was afterwards slain by Robert
White (Albas), who fled, and was outlawed for the
murder. A messenger sent by Hubert, Archbishop of
Canterbury (1193 to 1205) to request a meeting, found
Fulk at Huggeford, and he and his brother John, dis-
guised as merchants, entered Canterbury, and proceeded
to the Archbishop's palace, where the prelate told Fulk
that his brother Theobald was dead, and that the
widow, Maude de Cans, had taken shelter in the palace
from the pursuit of the King. He urged Fitz Warine
to marry her, and the outlaw agreeing, the wedding
took place, and after two days with his bride, the new
made benedict rejoined his companions in hiding, where
the story of the change in his condition excited much
merriment ( Yl ly cscJiamycrent e rierentye leapelerent
' hosebaimdc \ e ly dcmanderent oh il amerreit la bele
dame, le quel al chastel ou a le boys). It is but right
to say that, although Fulk certainly married Maude de
Caus, widow of Theobald (or, more correctly, Maude le
Vavasour, as the title " de Caus" would seem, by

A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

7

Eyton, to have been more applicable to her father's
mother), the Close Rolls of King John do not show-
that it was while her former husband's brother, Hubert,
was Archbishop of Canterbury, or, indeed, earlier than
1207. In recounting the lady's further adventures, we
have to ignore this anachronism.

Fulk was much annoyed by a northern knight named
Piers de Bruvyle, who took his name and committed
many outrages on honest people, contrary to the
practice of Fitz-Warine, who warred only with the
King and his satellites. This fictitious outlaw broke
into the house of one of Fulks friends and bound and
ill-treated the owners; but our hero happened, fortun-
ately, to be journeying in that neighbourhood. Seeing
lights and hearing sounds of revelry, he managed to
reach the hall window unperceived, whence he saw
the band of masked freebooters carousing, while his
friend, Robert fitz Sampson, together with his wife and
domestics, lay bound on the floor. He heard the dame
appealing to de Bruvyle, under the name of Sir Fulk,
and expostulating with him for his ill-treatment, and,
seized with rage, he climbed into the hall alone. Fulk
compelled the robber knight to bind his companions
and then to cut off their heads, after which the knight
himself was decapitated by Fitz-Warine, and the ill-
treated pair and their household were unbound ; Fulk's
companions were then summoned, and they all "supped
there and enjoyed themselves greatly " (e soperent la,
e se ft/rent bien aeese ).

The old story of the reversal of horses' shoes in order
to mislead a tracking party is told of Fulk. In Shrop-
shire Folk-Lore it is narrated of Wild Humphrey
Kynaston, an outlaw of some 300 years later date, to
wiiom popular tradition has, perhaps, transferred older
legends of the forgotten Fitz-Warine; but this legend
seems to be universal, and the writer remembers being
told at Lurkenhope (Radnorshire Border) that it was
so called because " Queen Elizabeth lurked there after
her was beaten in a battle with Caractacus, and her

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A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

fastened her horses' shoes on the wrong way so as he
shouldna know where her had gone." The simple lapse
of fifteen centuries between the victor and the defeated
did not trouble the narrator !

From Alberbury Fitz-Warine sent one of his
companions, John de Raunpaygne, to Whittington,
disguised as a minstrel, and with instructions to
ascertain the intentions of his enemy, Morys fitz Roger.
As he professed that he was a northern minstrel, Fitz
Roger asked him for news, and was told that people
were talking of the death of Fulk, and that he had
been killed while robbing his friend Fitz Sampson.
Sir Morys gave him a silver cup for his good news,1 and
John managed to obtain the important information that
the donor was going to Shrewsbury next day with only
a small escort. Raunpaygne returned to his chief, and
an ambuscade was made between Whittington and
Shrewsbury, at " the Pass of Ness " or Nessclirf, with
the result that Fitz Roger and all his companions were
slain, including four sons of Guy Fitz Candelou of
Porkyntone.

After this episode Fitz-Warine and his band attached
themselves to Lewys (Llewellyn) Prince of Wales, who
was in arms against the King of England, and took
Whittington Castle, where he remained in possession.
During the frequent skirmishes which took place two
of Fulk's brothers, Alayn and Philip, were severely
wounded at a fight at Middle, and his cousin, Audulf
de Bracy, was captured and sent a prisoner to Shrews-
bury, where the King held his Court at the time,
according to the story. As but a short shrift awaited
any of Fitz- Warine's relations and the gallows were
ready, Fulk lost no time in sending John de Raun.

1 Tho practice of giving valuable Towards to minstrels was very
prevalent about this time. According to William of Malmcsbury,
Quoen Matilda, wife of Henry 1.., gave moat of her income in this way,
and was compelled to deal hardly with her tenants in order to obtain
a further supply.

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9

pay £iie upon another mission, and the latter sallied
forth again as a minstrel, this time as a black one, or
early " Ethiopian Serenades. Arriving at Court the
primitive banjoist kneeled to the King, and, in answer
to his questions, assured him that his great renown had
induced him to journey to the Court, at which the
King, who appears in the story to have been as gullible
as he was vicious, gave him a hearty welcome. As
King John, however, was not at Shrewsbury until long
after Fulk's outlawry had ceased, the presence of
royalty was, probably, added to give additional interest
to the story.1 When the monarch retired the minstrel
was sent for by Sir Henry de Audeley, who was con-
stable of the Castle, and, after the disguised Fitz-
Warinite had played and sung and a carousal had taken
place, the constable sent for Audulf de Bracy to give
him a merry night before his execution on the morrow.
De Raunpaygne took the opportunity of singing one of
Sir Audulf s own songs, which was recognised by the
prisoner, who had the presence of mind to satisfy him-
self as to the identity of his disguised friend without
causing any suspicion to the constable and guard. The
minstrel courteously took the cup round to the enter-
tainers, taking the opportunity of dropping into it a
certain opiate, which speedily brought slumber to all
except himself and the prisoner, who had abstained from
drinking. Placing the sleeping form of a Court Jester
in de Bracy's place the two friends made a rope of the
table linen and everything else suitable, and with this
they let themselves down from a window of Shrews-
bury Castle, and dropped on the bank of the river,
whence they found their way to Whittington and
joined Fitz-Warine.

During all these stirring times the wife of Fulk had
gone through many adventures. She remained during

1 " Adventures in which King John himself is hero mado to tako
a part in person ,may really have occurred with some of his great
olhccrs." — T. Wright.

Vol. IX., 2nd S. B

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A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

the first year of her marriage in Sanctuary at Canter-
bury, where a daughter was born, whom the Archbishop
baptised by the name of Ha wise, and who became
" dame of Werame." Fulk took his wife away, and
they travelled by night, arriving safely at Huggeford
and Alberbury. Here she was traced by the King,
and, in her husband's absence, she was compelled to fly
to Shrewsbury, where she again took Sanctuary in St,
Mary's Church (la eglise Nostre-Dame a Salobares ).
In this church she gave birth to another daughter.1
She succeeded in rejoining her husband, and her third
child, a son, was born among the Welsh mountains, and
baptised John in a rill flowing from " the , Maiden's
Well" (la fontaigne de Pucelcs, wherever this may be),
though he received the name of Fulk at Confirmation.
The King having written urgent letters to " Lewys,
Prince of Wales" (Llewellyn, married in 1204 to Joan,
illegitimate daughter of King John, not of Henry II.,
as given in the " Chronicle" and Leland), Fitz-Warine
was compelled to leave Wales and the border, which
were getting too hot to hold him, and he visited
France, incognito, where he was well received, and
took part in tournaments. When his name was dis-
covered the French king begged him to remain and
join his service, offering him lands and rewards, which
were declined by the Englishman, who answered "Truly,
Sire, he is not worthy to receive lands of another's gift,
who cannot hold rightfully those which are his own by
direct heritage" (que les sucns dedreit heritage ne puet
tenir a resonj.

Fulk retired to the sea coast, where he made the
acquaintance of a sea captain named Mador, when this
interchange of medieval wit took place. " Truly," said
Fulk, " you have a very perilous occupation. Tell me,
Mador, lair sweet brother, of what death died thy

1 Joan, married to Sir Henry de Pembridgo. Eyton suggests that
ITawise married William 1'antulf, Baron of Wem, before the year
1220.

A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

11

father ? " Mador replied to him that he was drowned
in the sea. " How thy grandfather ? " " The same."
" How thy great-grandfather 1 " " In the same
manner ; and all my relations that I know to the fourth
degree." " Truly/' said Fulk, "you are very fool-
hardy that you dare go to sea." " Sir, " said he,
" wherefore ? Every creature will have the death which
is destined for him. Sir," said Mador, " if you please,
answer my question : where did thy father die 1 "
"Truly, in his bed." " Where thy grandfather?"
"The same." "Where your great-grandfather ? "
" Truly, all my lineage that I know died in their beds."
"Truly, sir," said Mador, " since all your lineage died
in beds, I marvel greatly that you have dared to go
into any bed."

Fitz-Warine availed himself of the services of Mador
to fit out and man a ship, with which he turned sea
rover and robbed the king's ships upon the coast of
England. Here the narrator gives full play to his
imagination : the adventurers visit a mysterious island
three days' sail from the Scotch coast, and are intro-
duced to six tall and fierce countrymen armed with
hu£e clubs, who first challenge Fulk and his friends to
a game at chess, when the rovers are easily beaten ; a
quarrel follows, and the countrymen are killed. Fulk
takes a horn from the hand of an old woman, the mother
of the vanquished men, and finds seven wonderfully
beautiful damsels, who " were very richly dressed and
wore very rich work " (molt rlchement furent vestties, e
molt riche oevre fesoient). These were captives, who
implored help, which the hero promised. Much treasure
and fine armour also rewarded the victors, and Fulk
gained on this occasion a splendid " haubergeon"1 (or,
as Leland describes it, "a hauberk of harde Steele "),
which ho ever afterwards wore privately, and would

1 A breastplate of mail, or of cloac steel Nares believes, correctly,
that the hauberk was larger than the haubergeon (lials, the neck, and
bergou, to eover), and this is borne out by Skcat.

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never discard. Having well armed his band, Fulk blew
the horn1 he had captured, and was immediately assailed
by the other inhabitants of the country, who were all
robbers. These were speedily defeated, and over 200
slain. The damsels were taken back to their native
island and restored to King Aunflour, who was the
father of one of them, The adventurers then continued
their voyage, sailing round "la Petite- Bretaygne,
Yrlande, Gutlande, INorweye, Denemarche, Orkanye, la
Graunde-Eschanye " (Scandia or Scandinavia). '* In
Eschanye dwells do man but serpents and other foul
beasts. And there Fulk saw horned serpents and the
horns were very sharp pointed ; and they have four
feet and fly like birds." One of these cheerful creatures
attacked Fulk and pierced his shield with its horn, but
was killed by his sword. It is interesting, by the bye,
to compare this monster with Professor Owen's descrip-
tion of the horned and armoured Lizard of the Pleisto-
cene period, Megalania prisca, as given to the Iioyal
Society. This brute, at least 20 feet in length, was an
inhabitant of the Australian continent. The narrator
of Fulk's veracious history asserts that all the venemous
creatures expelled from Ireland by St. Patrick were
shut up in Eschanye.

After proceeding as far north as the ice permitted,
the ship was turned again towards England, but was
driven by a fifteen days' tempest to the Spanish coast
and Carthage (probably Cartagena, in Spain), where
Fulk acted the part of St. George, for, finding the
country devastated by a huge flying dragon, which
carried off damsels and devoured them, he penetrated
into its den, consoled the weeping maiden, and awaited
the return of the monster, which is vividly described,
with the naive remark added, that " si fust trap lede

1 Those interested in Folk-Lore will recall many instances of Magic
Horns in European fable. Perhaps one of the most widely known is
Sir Walter Scott's story of the magic horn and sword of the Eildon
Hills, in his " Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft."

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13

beste" it was a very foul beast! The 11 foul beast"
appears to have been of luxurious habits, for it had a
couch of gold in order to cool itselt " by reason of its
hot nature ! " We will not linger over the details of
the fight, which much resembles many legendary en-
counters, such as the battles with the Lindworm in the
Langobardian legends, but the hero was victorious after
a hard struggle, restored the Princess to her father, the
Duke of Carthage, and received from him many rich
gifts, but declined the offer of the lady as his wife on
the plea of being married already. This dragon fight
was a valuable piece of decoration to many an ancient
romance, and must have been always welcome to the
uncritical hearers, to whom the dragon such as is
described in the middle of the thirteenth century by
Bartholomew Anglicus, " most greatest of all serpents
.... and hath teeth like a saw, and hath strength,
'and not only in teeth, but also in his tail, and grieveth
both with biting and stinging," was a well-established
fact. St. George was not, by any means, the only saint
who vanquished a dragon after a desperate combat, and
the "Legenda Aurea," written by the Archbishop of
Genoa in the year 1260, describes many of these
struggles. The "loathly worms" must have been
fairly plentiful in our own country, if we may take any
note of the number of legends in existence, for even so
near home as Bromfield there was a huge serpent, which
committed depredations there in 1344 until destroyed
by a Saracen physician employed by Earl Warren.1 But
we must return to Fulk and his companions, whose
history we may accept as true in outline, in spite of
errors and anachronisms, but with occasional embroidery
to give a zest to the tale.

1 As an ardent Folk-Lorist, perhaps I may be pardoned for remark-
ing upon the immense antiquity, as well as the frequent recurrence,
of the Dragon Legend, and for expressing my belief that it is but the
echo, repeated from generation to generation, of the combats ot
primitive man with those terrible and gigantic lizards, which have
left their traces in the ancient deposits.

14

A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

Arrived once more in England the little band of
adventurers concealed their ship under the charge of
Mador, and started for Windsor, where the King was
at that time. As they hid themselves in the forest
Fulk heard the sound of horns, and, leaving his party,
he set out to ascertain the cause. He met a charcoal
burner on his way, so the knight took his clothes, char-
coal, and three pronged fork, paying him well for his
outfit, and sat down, disguised, at the work he had
disturbed ; 1 he had not long to wait before the
King and three knights appeared on foot. The Royal
party made sport of the supposed peasant, and ques-
tioned him about a stag they were pursuing, on which
he willingly offered to guide them in the right direc-
tion, of course taking them towards his concealed band,
who quickly surrounded them. John, thoroughly
frightened, bestowed his royal pardon on Fulk Fitz-
Warine, and promised the restoration of all his lands,
swearing to observe these conditions if he and his com-
panions were set free, which was done ; oaths, however,
did not trouble the kingly conscience, and when he was
fairly out of danger, he collected his Court and raised
a hue and cry after the outlaws.

Sir James of Normandy, with fifteen companions, all
in white armour and with white steeds, now led the
pursuit, but was attacked by the resolute band, and he
alone was captured alive, all his companions being
slain. The victors put on the armour borne by the
attacking party, and Fitz-Warine, gagging Sir James,
exchanged armour with him, and led him back to the
King, who was completely deceived, bestowed a horse
upon Fulk, and sent him in further pursuit of the
supposed scattered band, while he ordered the hapless
James to be hanged on a tree. Upon the removal of
his liBhnet for the substitution of a rope the King was

1 Compare Fulk's disguises with those of Eustace the Monk,
" Roman d'Eustaphe lc Moigno, pirato famoiu du xiii0 sioelo," Paris,
183 1, and of ileroward the VVako.

A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

15

much dismayed to find he was on the point of despatch-
ing his own friend, and that his Protean enemy had
again escaped him, and he swore he would never take
off his hauberk until he had caught him : if he kept his
oath he must have experienced some discomfort!
Mustering a large body of men, the Royal traitor
zealously pursued the outlaws, attacked and defeated
them, so that they escaped with difficulty to the ship,
carrying the severely wounded Fulk and compelled to
abandon his brother William, also badly wounded, whom
they were unable to take with them, and who was, of
course, captured. The Earl of Chester treated him kindly
" e le mccunda a une abbeyc pur medeeiner" but the
King discovered him and carried him off. Instead of
putting him to death, as might have been expected,
King John appears to have spared him and kept him
prisoner after his wounds were healed. The fugitives
found the ship safe in the charge of Mador, and Fulk
eventually recovered from his wounds. Here, however,
the romancist introduces a wild adventure. A voyage
of six days brought the ship to an uninhabited island
near Spain, named Beteloye, where all landed except
Fulk, who lay sleeping. A " hideous wind" (hydous
vent) broke the rope by which the vessel was moored,
and she drifted until she reached Tunis, where Messo-
bryns, the King of Barbary, witnessing the strange
arrival, sent two officers to board her. These men
awakened Fulk, but one was slain and the other put to
flight before the doughty fists of the wounded knight :
a hundred other soldiers presently captured the English-
man after a stru^le, and brought him to the King,
whose daughter took compassion on him, and, asking
his name, was told a moving tale, absolutely newly in-
vented, by the cunning outlaw, who added that he was
called Marin le Perdu of France. The difficulties of
language" did not seem to trouble our veracious his-
torian ! The lady, not to be outdone, filled up Fulk
with a dragon story, and, no doubt, greatly interested
him. A light was arranged between the King's men,

16 A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

with Fitz-Warine's assistance, and the soldiers of the
Duchess of Carthage, when Fulk encountered a gallant
foe, with whom he fought hard all day (s'entrecom-
batyrent durement tot le jour.) At last this warrior
turned out to be Fulk's brother, Philip the Red, who
had been taken, with the rest of the party, from the isle
of Beteloye,by the Duchess. A peace was made, the King
married the Duchess, and all the paynims were baptized.

The adventurers now returned once more to England,
wealthy men, and John de Raunpaygne, who seems to
have been looked upon as their most useful spy, was
again disguised and sent to London. Richly dressed
and speaking a Latin jargon, he introduced himself to
the Mayor, who took a fancy to him, and who conducted
him to Westminster, and presented him to the King.
De Raunpaygne fluently asserted that he was " a
merchant of Greece, and had been in Babylonia1 and
Alexandria and India Major, and had brought a ship
laden with rich cloths, pearls, horses, and other riches,
which might be of great worth to the kingdom."
Welcomed by the King, he and the Mayor dined with
his Majesty, and saw a tall knight, meanly clad, brought
in by two "serjauntz de mace " and fed, who was shown
to him as William Fitz-Warine. De Raunpaygne was
delighted to find his leader's brother alive, and took
the earliest opportunity of informing Fulk, who brought
his ship up the Thames, and as close to the city as he
dared. The disguised merchant gained still more the
King's favour by presenting to him a valuable horse,
and became free of the Court to wander as he pleased,
Taking advantage of this position, he brought the rest
of the°band, all armed beneath their sailor's gowns, to
the Court at Westminster, where they met with much
courtesy, and, watching their opportunity, they attacked
the guard of their chiefs brother, rescued the prisoner,
and, carrying him off in triumph to the ship, promptly
made for the sea, and landed in Britany.

i Cairo.

A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

17

Here they stayed some time, but eventually sailed
again for England, and landed in the south, hiding
themselves in the New Forest. One day they had the
good fortune to capture the King, who was hunting
wild boar with an escort of only six knights, and they
carried them away to their ship. The King rightly
•expected that his former treachery would now be
revenged, and threw himself on the mercy of his
captors. Fulk treated his prisoner with courtesy, and
so far won upon him that a real reconciliation took
place, and the outlaw knight was taken into the Royal
favour. All this story of the reconciliation is, unhappily,
fictitious, as King John was in Normandy, and did not
return to England until more than two months after
the Pardon, signed at Caen, was given. This Pardon
is still preserved, according to Thomas Wright, in the
Patent and Close Polls, and is thus worded : —

Kex, &c, justiciariis, vicecomitibus, &c. Sciatis quod nos
recepimus in gratiam et benivolentiam nostrarn Pulconem
filium Guarini, ad petitionem venerabilis patris nostri J,
Norwicensis episcopi, et comitis W. Sarisberiensis, fratris nostri,
remittentes ei excessus quos fecit, eique perdonantes fugam et
utlagariam in eum promulgatam. Et ideo vobis mandamus et
tiriniter praecipimus quod in iirmarn pacem nostrarn habeat
ubicumque venerit. Teste, &c.

It was dated the 15th of November, 1203, and
contains a list of 53 of Fitz-Warine's companions
(among whom some interesting Shropshire names occur,
as Baldwinus de Hodenet, Henricus de Pontesbiria,
Philippus de Hanwuda, Philippus de Wemma, Henricus
filius Roberti le kinge de Uffinton, &c), but was pre-
ceded by Safe Conducts issued in the previous Septem-
ber, In 1204 the Castle and estate of Whittington
were restored by a Patent of October 17, the fine of
200 merks and two Destriers, or war-horses being
imposed. The Bishop of Norwich undertook to pay
the money for Fitz-Warine, who, for some time, appears
to have remained faithful to the King. His name is
given, however, as one of the rebel Barons in April,

Vol. IX., 2nd Si 9

18

A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

1215, by Matthew Paris, and he also appears to have
been excommunicated by Pope Innocent III. on Decem-
ber 16th, 1215. It is staced in Owen and Blake way
" that Oswestry was burnt by King John in August,
121G, probably to prevent its falling into the hands of
Fulk Fitz- Warm." " On Sep. 10th, 1217, a writ of
young King Henry declares Fulk Fitz Warin to be an
open enemy to the Crown, and consigns his Leicester-
shire Manor of Norborough to the Earl of Warwick,
under whom it was held. . . . On November 4th,
Fulk Fitz Warin, having made his peace, had the King's
order for reseizin of his lands in Leicestershire, Shrop-
shire, Lancashire, Norfolk, and Suffolk." (Ey ton, vol.
vii.). After this date Fulk appears to have been in
favour; but a Writ of June 4th, 1221, shows that
the King did not permit Whittington Castle to be
strengthened without security for the turbulent Baron's
loyalty; and again on November 11th, 1222, another
Writ urges the Earl of Chester to take care that this
Castle is not made stronger than was necessary to
repel the Welsh, who, by the bye, besieged it in 1223.
On March 8th, 1238, Fitz-Warine was called to Oxford
to consult with the King as to the aggressive attitude
of the Welsh, and in June, 1245, he was deputed by
the other aggrieved nobles at Dunstable and Luton to
proceed to London and give Martin, the Papal Nuncio,
formal notice to leave the kingdom (but perhaps this
was his son, as there is no clue to guide us, and the
names were identical).

The date of our hero's death is uncertain, but he is
believed to have been alive in 1256, when his son was
described as Fulk Fitz-Warine the Younger. Wright
mentions, in an essay on the subject, that "Dugdale has
led many writers into error by confounding Fulk Fitz-
Warine with his son, who was drowned at the Battle of
Lewes in 1264."

Alter his wanderings were over our Shropshire
Robin Hood (according to the so-called " Chronicle"),
founded " a priory in the honour of our Lady St.

A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

19

Mary of the Order of Grandmont, near Alberbury, in a
wood, on the river Severn ; and it is called the New
Abbey," 1 and on the death of his wife, Maude, he
married Clarice de Auberville "une molt gentile dame
A pathetic story is told of the declining days of the
once daring knight. One night he was lying awake
while his wife slumbered beside him, and his heart was
heavy for the sins of his youth. Suddenly the chamber
was filled with a great light, and he heard a voice " as
it were of thunder in the air," and it said, 1,1 Vassal,
God has granted thee thy penance, which is better
here than elsewhere." The lady awoke and saw the
light, and covered her face for fear ; and the light
vanished, but Fulk remained blind until his death,
which took place seven years afterwards. lie survived his
wife, Clarice, one year, and died at White-Town (Whit-
tington), and was interred at the New Abbey, " de la
alme de cut Dieus eit merci?

During his outlawry he never appeared to do wilful
outrage to harmless folk, but to have carried out the
principles of his near contemporary, the Robin Hood of
the ballads, who thus instructed his followers, according
to " A lytell Jeste of Robin Hood" (1508)—

" Never fear, said Robin,

We shall do well enow

But look ye do no husband harm

That tilleth with his plough ;

No moro ye shall no good yeoman
That walketh by greenwood shaw,
Nor no knight, nor no squire,
That would be a good fellaw \ "

but, at the same time, both were prepared to fight to
the death with their oppressors and to carry on a tire-
less system of reprisals when possible. Among the
mingled elements of truth and fiction, of fact and
legend, there is much in this old world story of a Salopian
and his followers which claims instant recognition as

1 Eyton says about 1220

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A SHROPSHIRE ROBIN HOOD.

undoubted reality ; even the misplacement of dates
and incidents does not take away from its real worth,
and cannot be considered unnatural after a century of
verbal transmission with no probable means of access to
written records. I think that the fact of Fulk Fitz-
Warine's blindness during the last year of his life is
one to be accepted, especially as there is no record of
his appearance anywhere within seven years of his
death, and the stately and pathetic figure of the blind
old knight, left alone with his memories of his turbulent
youth, adds a touch of tenderness to the conclusion of
the adventurous history of our Shropshire Robin Hood.

21

ON THE PARISH REGISTERS OF
WATERS UPTON.

By the Hon. and Rev. G. H. F. VANE, M.A., Rector of Wem.

This little parish, formerly called Upton Parva, and
containing at this day just about two hundred souls, is
a limb lopped from the mighty trunk of Ercall Magna,
alias High Ercall. Eyton1 states that in 1341 the
assessors reduced the taxation of Great Ercall Church
from £20 to £13 Gs. 8d., for the ninth of wheat, wool,
and lamb, because the Chapels of Rodington and Upton
Parva were now separated from the Mother Church,
and assessed as distinct parishes to the current tax,
and for other reasons. Yet the little daughter excels
in the antiquity of her registers her venerable mother ;
for while the parochial records of the latter, "since the
burninge of the old register," begin " the first day of
Januarie in the yeare of our Lord God 1585," the
register of Upton Magna may be said to resemble
Melchizedek, and to have no " beginning of days." A
solitary leaf, indeed, sere and yellow, having suffered
many things of time and of the waters of Upton, has
in the autumn of its days fallen from off the thin and
coverless quarto in which the earliest existing records
are to be found. This melancholy fragment has no
heading, showing apparently that other leaves are as
hopelessly lost as the MBS. of Aristotle were once
supposed to be. It appears to contain christenings
from 1549 (or possibly from 1547) to 15G4, a highly
respectable antiquity, considering that the royal injunc-
tion of Henry VI 11. on the subject was published by

1 Vol. vii., [>. 381 ; Lx., [>. 111.

Vol. IX., 2nd kS. d

22 ON THE PARISH REGISTERS OF WATERS UPTON,

Cromwell in 1538, and that a parchment book was not
ordered until 1597. The first page which yet adheres
to the book contains two christenings of 1564, two of
1565, three of 1567, and so on, with fair regularity.
Towards the end of the book, however, Dryasdust will
light upon a list of weddings from 1547 to 1612. 1547
is, therefore, the earliest date of which any Uptonian
record has survived.

To take first, however, the list of christenings. Each
page of these until 1616 is signed " by me Roger Lowe,
rector ; " and Roger Lowe's signature is found again
after an interval of 15 years, in 1631, thus embracing
the huge total of fourscore years and four. The ex-
planation of this thing incredible is, no doubt, to be
found in the fact that the first few pages of his record
are a copy which he made of the old " paperbooke," now
perished. His burial at High Ercall in 1632 would
imply that the signature in 1631 is genuine. No
rector's name is entered after his until 1699, when one
Miles Field appears, and makes this entry concerning
himself: — " The fees for churching and registering was
demanded Jan. 14, 1699, by me Miles Field and
rendered before Rich : Jucks warden.'7 Here surely
we have bad law going hand in hand with bad grammar,
for the prayer book speaks of " accustomed offerings"
at churchings, and not of fees. However, the overseers
of High Ercall paid tenpence eacti for " the Registering
of two children " only four years after the combative
Miles took the field at Upton, and "churching fees"
varying from sixpence to one and threepence from the
middle of the century onward.

1 1 ark we back now to the baptisms in the waters of
Upton. In 1568 was christened Richard ap Robert;
in 1585 Ambros ap Thomas, son of John Thomas; in
1589 Roger ap Homfrey, son of Homfrey ap even (?) ;
in 1620 Anne ap Hugh, daughter of Ralfe ap Hughe,
while in 1574, 1588, and 1622 respectively Ales ap
Robet, John ap Richard, and Richard ap Hughe entered
into the holy estate of matrimony. Though the de-

ON THE PARISH REGISTERS OF WATERS UPTON. 23

limitation of the boundary between England and Wales
was not finally completed till the 28th year of Henry
VIII., it is interesting to find the Welsh patronymics
and the ancestors of our common Pugli, Probert,
Pritchard, &c, recurring so frequently, and well on
into the 17th century, in the registers of a tiny parish
at least 20 miles from the Welsh border. This "ap"
is, I believe, philologically the same word as " of," and
our favourite Shropshire " off."

In 1598 we find the first mention of any man's
occupation, and in 1604 the first base born child so
described. Illegitimate births in Upton appear to be
fewer in proportion than in Seville, where they cause
small scandal, as being possibly only the result of
having eaten of the lily, which is sacred to the Virgin I1
It is refreshing to find baptisms of such at Upton at
such intervals only as 1604, 1616, 1625, 1627, 1680,
and 1705. In the evil times of the last century, how-
ever, they become much more numerous, and baptisms
are also very frequently noted then as having been
performed in private. Is there any connection between
these two things? or did the private ministration of
the first sacrament "proceed much from the pride of
women, bringing that into custom which was only
indulg'd in case of imminent danger, and out of necessity
during the Rebellion and persecution of the Clergy in
our late civil wars ? " The latter suggestion is from
pious John Evelyn,2 and was urged by him upon the
Bishop of St. Asaph and the Archbishop of Canterbury
in 1689. Their lordships assented " utterly disliking
the practice as novel and indecent."

To return, however, to the occupations of fathers and
men of honour at Waters Upton, In 1598 the word
" husbandman " has been added to two baptismal
entries, and " weaver " to one, the parents being un-
described in the remaining three. In 1603 "labourer"

1 Wanderings in Spam, by Augustus J. C. Hare, 1883, p. 117.

2 Diary, 12' April, 1689.

24 ON THE PARISH REGISTERS OF WATERS UPTON.

first appears, and in 1605 " yoman." In 1604 one
Socrates Poole is described as a smith, who on his
marriage two years before posed as a " joyntemaker."
"Taylier," "carpenter," " poore traveller," " blake-
smith," and tl baker/' come into view in the next few
years, and in 1611 and 1612 the less common occupa-
tions of " vintener, of London," " whitesmith," and
"wood colliar." In 1616 the parish boasted of a
clothworker, and in the f ew years following of a
"joyner" and a "my liar." In 1631 the entries begin to
be in Latin, and accordingly some of our old friends re-
appear as " pistor,'"' " textor," and " molitor."

The learned language, however, held sway only for
five years, and after a spasmodic reappearance in 1673,
became dead for the second time in 1675. In the second
volume, which covers nearly the whole of the 18th
century, only "householder/' "pauper," " Attorney -
at-Law," " wheelwright," and "ship-carpenter, late of
Bristol, " need be noted.

Among the older baptisms, that of the child of a
tailor from Whixall, in 1609, has appended the
" memod. that John Crumpe of Bowton gave his worde
(?) to discharge the p'ishe from the childe." It appears
to be the only one so guarded, though in the Ercall
register there are several.

Between 1643 and 1646, when " war and battle's
sound was heard the world around/' and when High
Ercall Hall was stoutly but vainly defended for God
and King Charles by "212 souldiers and officers, all
good plucked, brave fighting men," there are no entries
in the Upton register, though that of the mother parish
confusedly reflects the turmoil of the times. Two
baptisms in 1646 have for their sequel an "hiatus valde
de^endus," for cold steel and wicked mishief have cut
out at least one page, and perhaps more. Waters
Upton in the time of the Commonwealth is a blank :
no record of birth, no note of a lay register, no " inten-
tion of pjatrimony 1" Perhaps loyalty, moro zealous
than discreet, made it so at a later date. Yet before

Otf THE PARISH REGISTERS OF WATERS UPTON. 25

Miles Field, as a brass in the church asserts, William
James, M.A., rector, "laboured here in the word and
doctrine 04 yeares," and died in 16(J1, at the age of 81.
This Jong life, whose ministry seems strangely to have
begun when Lowe was yet rector, and at the extremely
uncanonical age of 17, bridges the chasm, and preserves
intact the Church's continuity. Of the vicissitudes of
this ministry, however, the ejection and usurpation, the
return and re-possession, if such there were, the parochial
records show nothing. Leap then we the chasm, and we
find ourselves in 1663, with a notice that " this yeare
should be inserted at the bottom." And no wonder, for
the remainder of the page shows the records of 1660,

1661, and 1662 in order. Moreover, the year 1663, which
came before its time, tells not only of two who were
M babtized," bat also of one who was buried. Never
before was any buried in Waters Upton, save three in

1662, which follows 1663 ! They buried again in 1679,
two, both in woollen, as the powers had just ordained ;
and in 1680, one, also in woollen; and in 1681, one,
not in woollen; in 1687 and in 1692, one each year,
both in sheep's clothing. After that they let wool
alone, but they went on burying, about two in each
year, some at Upton, and some at Bolas. And where
did they bury before ? Well, the Insurrection will
show. However, Ercall churchyard contains certainly
a vast quantity of Upton bones, and Ercall register
many Upton burial entries. And a late rector of
Upton — of whom more hereafter — enters among mar-
riages in 1793 the following note, which is as clear as
mud : — " Waters Upton Rectory is not dependent
upon High Ercal Vicarage, except that it pays Eight
Pence to the Vicar of High Ercal for every Person
buried in the Parish." Moreover, as Pepys phrases it,

it is pretty to observe," that at the end of vol. 2 of
the High Ercall records is a " "Regis trum Rodintonia)
et Waters- Upton per se separatum et inchoatum
Undecimo Die Octobris Anno Christi 1679." This
extends to 1685, and contains five burial entries from

26 ON THE PARISH REGISTERS OF WATERS UPTON.

Upton. Being the handiwork of " Johannes Hotchkis
minister Ecclesise de Ercal," it is writ very large indeed,
and two dubious entries in the Upton book become
clear enough when placed side by side with the fasti of
the caligraphist of Ercall. These two burials are, in
fact, recorded in the books of each parish ; and so is
yet another, for Hotchkiss, " pious towards God and
painfull in his place," as his epitaph records, went on
with his appendix in his next volume. This second
appendix extends from 1G86 to 1692, and contains
eleven other entries from " Aqua-Uptonia vel Uptonia
juxta aquam," which the Uptonian scribe has not
inserted in his own register.

From the first volume of the Upton registers, with
its tangled chronology, we have now only to extract
the following couple of couplings, which must surely be
rare in the annals of matrimony : —

1607. Richard Upton thelde of Waters Upton yoman and
Anno Rodon of Weston in the p'ishe of Norbury wyddow were
married the xvith daye of November An'o Dm. 1607.

Richard Upton the younger of Waters Upton yoman and
Judith Rodon of Weston in the p'ishe of Norbury were married
the xvith daye of November Ano spdict.

On opening the thin octavo which forms the second
volume of the Fasti Uptonenses, and which, as it covers
the period from 1718 to 1792, is nearly coseval with
the long life of John Wesley, we find ourselves con-
fronted by the following record, which is eloquent
enough of the age to which it belongs : —

" Anno Mm Xtianre 1718.
"(Ego) Johan Tourneour, ad Rectoriam Ecclesiio parochialis
de Waters Upton alias Upton Parva in Com : Salop in Diocses :
Gov: & Licli : per serenissimum in Xto Principem ac Dofn :
Fistrum Dom : Goorgiuin, Dei Gratia Magn : Brittan : &c.
Regem, fnuscntatus fni, dcciuio nono die mensis Aprilis,
institutus ad Rectoriam pracdict : per Reverend: in Xto Patri
ct Dom : Dom : Edv: Gov: et Lich: Episcopum decimo quinto
die Mensis Mali Iiiductus in llcalom ct Uorporalem Posses-

ON THE PARISH REGISTERS OF WATERS UPTON. 27

sionem ejusdom Ecclesice et Rectoriae per Reverend. Jonath.
Laurence vie: de Wrockwardine decimo septimo die Mensis
Maii."

O shade of Cicero ! O " ampullas et sesquipedalia
verba." 0 Georgian junction of Church and State,
royal arms and sacred offices ! The " calamus velociter
scribentis " of the dying nineteenth century wearies and
wears in copying. Yet the grandiloquent Tourneour
found a more grandiloquent successor. " I Thos.
Hatton was inducted Hector of this Parish April 21st,
1764, by James Hewitt Curate of Stoke. Hevd. Borlase
Wingfield present "is a simple record, and a sufficing.
But the learned leisure and loose Latinity of a descend-
ant of the dancing Chancellor of Queen Elizabeth
swelled and inflated it into " Anno Salutis 1764.
Ego &c. &c. &c. per serenissimum in Xto Principem ac
Dominum nostrum Dom. Georgium tertium, Dei Gratia,
Magnoe Britan. Francise et Hiberniae Ilegem Prcesenta-
tus fui . . Institutus . . . per Ilev. in Chris to Patrem
et Dom. Dom. Fredericum Gov. et Lich. Episcopum
decimo quinto Anno Consecrationis . . . Induct us &c.
&c. &c." To quote in full would weary writer and
reader alike. Yet the present rector informs me that
this Thomas Hatton was a remarkable man, and a
devoted parish priest. Village tradition yet recalls
how evil boys would pilfer his wig and his cane,
and how in the absence of she-bears he himself would
pursue these youths " trium literarum " along the
street ; and this when he kept a free day school, and
himself was their Orbilius. But boys are not always
respecters of benefactors, and the activity inherited
from that ancestor who "led the brawls" before good
Queen Bess was useful oft times. Hatton was buried at
Waters Upton in 1807, and his hatchment exhibiting
the armorial bearings of the family of the Earls of
Winchelsea is yet in the vestry, and his record exhibit-
ing himself in the book.

This record is fuller than that of Magniloquus No. 1,
for the entries of Johan Tourneour contain little of

28 ON THE PARISH REGISTERS OF WATERS UPTON.

interest besides his pompous manner of recording
weddings "after a Canonicall Publication of the Banns
of Marriage in both churches," or " by virtue of a
License directed to this church," as the case might be,
and his love for " Mrsd Xtianae." Wedged in between
the two, however, comes plain John Brooke, who " was
Inducted Bector of this Parish September ye First

1741. " Soon follows the brief entry, "Anno Dom.

1742. The Church new Built." Of this building I need
only say that it continued to be used until 1864, when
it became too small for the congregation, and being
considered unsightly to boot, was pulled down, and
gave place to the present substantial and suitable
building.

And now for Thomas Hatton's long reign, which,
beginning in 1764, continued for 43 years. Clear is his
caligraphy, and most careful are his entries. Christen-
ings, weddings, and burials are now separated, while
his predecessors had for the most part recorded them
confusedly. Very many of the christenings, as the
manner of the age was, were private, and to these the
date of reception into the Church is for the most part
added. Occupations and the manner of death add
interest to the record : as for instance, "late a private
Soldier in the first Regiment of Foot, of a Consumpn ; "
" drowned wth 2 horses at Slape Bridge the preceding
day " she dy'd of a Consumption " NB The above
Wm. Turner is a Sergeant in the 38th Begt. of Foot
lying at Dublin in Ireland ;" " He was kill'd by a loaded
Waggon going over him;" "late a Soldr in ye 47th
Beg1 of Foot commanded by Gen1 Lascelles & reed a
Pension from Government." These all occur between
1773 and 1778; but in 1769 and the following year
the note of a Malignant Small Pocks," or an equivalent
thereof, occurs no less than live times, and shows that
that loll diseaso, which filled the places with the dead
bodies and smote in sunder the heads over divers
countries, which had once smitten a Queen of England,
had recently slain a Queen of Sweden, and was about

OS THE PARISH REGISTERS OF WATERS UPTON. 29

to strike a King of France, spared not the humble and
the poor in our tiny village. " An Infant aged 2 years;"
" She was a faithful servant, patient in her sickness, &
dy'd in Faith ; " "15 days after sick:" these are
pathetic additions to the black list which Jenner's great
discovery was so soon to curtail, if not to abolish. A
still more awful death, and that at the holy season of
peace and goodwill, is thus recorded by Hatton in
1785: — "Jan. 4th, Octavius Csesar Augustus Hitchcock,
aged 22, murdered by John Gore, Publican, Dec. 30th,
1784, 10 p.m., according to the Verdict of the Coroner's
Inquest which finally sat upon the Body Jan. 4th."

This imperial Hitchcock's tragic end is one of those
recorded between 1783, "New Act commences Oct.
1st," and "Oct. (?) 6th, 1794, Duty expired." These
brief notices, the first of which is repeated among the
baptisms, refer to the objectionable Stamp Act, which
for the first time imposed a duty of threepence upon
every entry in a parish register. That Act continued
in force only for the eleven years indicated in our
register, after having sat as light as air on the rich,
and pressed as a burden grievous to be borne upon the
poor. Moreover, it had pressed the clergyman into the
service of the State as a tax-gatherer, though good old
Hatton, ever "painfull in his place," was too con-
scientious to omit registration under it, as did many
parish priests. Nay, things of supererogation he in-
serted sometimes, as for instance among his marriages
a statement that a parishioner of his and a parishioner
of Hodnet were "thro' Ignorance or Misinformation
married by Banns at High Ercall, Feb. 11th, 1793. As
the Marriage was illegal I insisted upon my Marriage
Fee and was paid it upon Mar. 18th, as Witness my
Hand the Day and Date above written : Thos. Hatton,
Hector." Hatton's neat handwriting ceases in 1798,
illness with age having perhaps laid him low. A
gap melancholy to behold then occurs in the register
until 1804. After this some illiterate clerk writes of
"Shusanna" and " Lidea" and "Margreat," and other such

Vol. IX, 2nd E

30 ON THE PARISH KFOISTKUS OF WATERS UPTON.

perversions, and makes about one entry per annum,
while llatton had made about three, then suddenly
buries twelve in one year and five in the next ; and in
fact, makes wof'ul exhibition of grievous incompetency
and carelessness that deserves the severest rebuke.
Contrast herewith the care and precision of one of
Hattons later entries: — 1790, Sep. 19. Privately
baptis'd Hortense the Daughter of Capt11 Ixene' Neve' and
his wife Lady Theresa Beatrix L'lssoir. She was born
the preceeding Day at ^ past 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Reed into the Church Nov. 22nd 1790. Sponsors,
Mr. and Mis. Jones and Mrs. Adney." This was the
second daughter of these portentous personages, the
first being named Maria Cleophile, and both being
provided with a fill Icomplement of god-parents. It
will be observed how much more the names of these
sponsors savour of our native Salopia than do the names
of the parents or children ; for, indeed, the Captain and
his Lody were French refugees, and copies of these
entries were sought fur and obtained by two visitors
from France but a few years since.

And now note another work of mischievous imagina-
tion carried out by ruthless steel. Vol. 3 contains
baptisms and christenings from 1793 to 18 1G. It
contains also one wedding, which was solemnized shortly
before the battle of Waterloo was fought; but that
wedding page is more than half cut out, an omen of
divorce, which, I hope, found no fulfilment ; and about
ten other pages are cut out altogether, after which the
record marches solemnly on to our own day in the dull
and formal manner which the prosaic conscience of the
nineteenth century demands.

INCUMBENTS OF WATERS UPTON.

In compiling the following list, I have had the
assistance of the Rev. J. D. Davies, the present rector,
and in consulting the Kpiseopal Act I Joules at Lichfield
1 have boon much aided by the Ilev, W. U. I >. Klotolior,

ON THE PARISH REGISTERS OF WATERS UPTON. 31

The iirst eleven names are taken bodily from Eyton's
great work (vol. viii.,p. 58). The Episcopal Act Books
supply the names following up to 1529, after which
date the names occurring in the Parish Registers have
taen mostly corroborated from the " Liber Institu-
tionum " or from other sources. The Abbey of S.
Peter, Salop, appear to have obtained the advovvson
about 1*245, and to have always presented up to J 529,
at least, i.e., until their dissolution.

Peter, Parson of Upton, was found dead in his bed,
as reported by the Bradford Jurors at the Assizes of
1256. lie had been buried without view of the
Coroner, an omission for which the Vills of Upton,
Grudging ton* How ton, and Cold llatton were answer-
able.

John le Enfaunt, being dead on Jan. 27, 1310, Master
John do Bruneshope was instituted to Opton on the
presentation of the Abbot and Convent of Salop, who
likewise presented in the following instances until their
dissolution : — Sir Ilobert Itidel resigning the Curative
Chapel of Upton Parva on June 29, 1318,

Sir John de Hatton, Chaplain, was admitted on July
14 following. He is, probably, that " John, Parson of
Upton Waters" who occurs in 1345-6 as having been
disseized of a considerable estate in High Hatton.

Sir John de Hodynet, Rector, dying on April 23,
1350,

William de Walsche, Chaplain, was admitted on
May 11 following. He died in 1382, when on June 27

John, son of Thomas Gech, having the First Tonsure,
was instituted to this Free Chapel. He died in 1387,
when on May 23,

William de llodenhurst, Priest, was admitted. Pie
resigned in 1389, and on July 3 .of that year, Nicholas
de Peshale was instituted. In 1384 Peshale, till then
rector of Kyngeslyne, in the diocese of Lincoln, became
rector of Edgmoncl by exchange.1 He resigned Edgmond

1 Cfi Uyton, vol. ix., p. 129.

32 ON THE PARISH REGISTERS OP WATERS UPTON .

in 1425, having apparently held Waters Upton as well
for some years.

Thomas Harlyng, Rector of Upton Parva, died in
1423. On the death of Harlyng

Dom. Johannes Corbet was instituted 5 Aug., 1423.
Corbet boxing resigned,

Dom. Willelmus Slepe was instituted 24 March, 1427.

Dom. Thomas Mynde, rector, resigned before 31 Jan.,
1477, when

Dom. Robert Wellyn Achadcn Ep'us was instituted.

This " Kev. Father in Xt. Robert Bp. of Achaden."
as he is called on his resignation, is somewhat puzzling.
One Robert Wellys was Bishop of Achonry, in Ireland,
for some years after 1473, though a correspondent in
Noies and Queries insists that Episcopus Achadensis
must mean Bishop of Aghadoe, which See is now united
to Limerick and Ardfert. Anyhow, this rector appears
to have been an Irish Bishop. On the resignation of
Wellyn

Thomas f.ylleshull was instituted 21 July, 1483.

John llyll, rector, having died, was succeeded on 6
April, 1529, by Kogerus Haynson.

In the Valor of 1534-5 the preferment of Roger
Haynson is put at iM, chargeable with two shillings
lor procurations and 10 id. for synodals.

Roger Lowe had no degree and no license to pveach.
He signs the registers from 1 547 to 1631, and was
rector from at least 1002 to the latter date. He and
his wife were both buried at Ercall Magna.

William James, M.A., was instituted 10 April, 1G32,
on the presentation of the King. Died 14 Feb., 1691,
set. 82. Buried at Waters Upton, where a memorial
brass states that he laboured 04 years !

Miles Field occurs hi the register as rector in 1G99.

John Tourneor was instituted 19 April, 1718, on
the presentation of the King ; died 2 July, 1741; buried
at Hoi as Magna.

John Brooke, instituted 1 Sep., 1 74 1 , was also second
mauler of Shrewsbury Grammar School. During his

ON THE PARISH REGISTERS OF WATERS UPTON. S3

incumbency the church was " new built" in 1742, and
a silver flagon, chalice and paten were presented in
1748. He was buried at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, in
17G3, and was commemorated there by a brass tablet
behind the choir stalls.

Thomas Ilatton, B.A., was instituted 22 Feb., 1764,
and inducted 21 April, on the death of John Brooke
and on the presentation of the King. He and his wife
were buried at Waters Upton.

Bobert W. B. Hill succeeded Hatton in 1807, was
buried at Waters Upton in 1815, and is commemorated
by a brass in the church there.

Richard Hill, 1815-1 822, lived principally at Hawke-
stono with his father; Sir John Hill. Buried at Prees.

llicbard Corlield, 1 822- 1 865, was also rector of Pitch-
ford, and lived but little at Waters Upton. Buried at
Llangattock-upon-Usk, where his son William was
rector and his grandson William Booth is the present
rector.

John Bayley Davies, M.A , Cantab., instituted 16
Jan., 1866, is the present rector.

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34

A SHREWSBURY MAN IN IRELAND IN THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

By the Rev. G. W. FISHER.

In the first School List that Shrewsbury can boast, that
of 15G2, the name of Humfrey Mackworth occurs in the
2nd Glass. The boy is described as an Oppidan, and
the son of a Bailiff or past Bailiff of the Town of
Shrewsbury. His father was Mr. John Mackworth,
who had filled the office three times, in 1540, 1548, and
1557. In all probability, Sir Henry Sidney took
Humfrey Mackworth with him to Ireland when he
went there for the first time as Lord Deputy in
January, 1560-7. Writing of him some time after-
wards, he speaks of having known him from his youth,
and calls him " a boy of my own breeding." Humfrey
Mack worth's name is frequently spoken of with com-
mendation in the Irish State Papers. In 1579, at the
capture of Carigfoch, a stronghold of the Desmonds,
Captain Mackworth was the first to enter the Gas tie.
In a letter to his successor, Arthur Lord Grey, written
when he was leaving Ireland in 1580, Sir Henry Sidney
described Humfrey Mackworth as " the best worthy of
the Gaptens " that he " left behind him." About this
time Mackworth married Elizabeth, the widow of
Captain Henry Davolls, who had held the post of
Constable of Dungarvan Castle, and who, after many
years' good service, had been murdered by the Irish
shortly before August 5th, 1579. In 1581, as appears
from a letter of the Lord Deputy to Lord Burleigh,
dated August 31st, Capt. Mackworth was in command
of a body of soldiers who had been detailed to keep
watch on the O Mores and the O'Connors. The ibice

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A SHREWSBURY MAN TN IRELAND. 35

at his disposal consisted of 500 foot soldiers and 50
horsemen. But his wife was Irish, and had good means
of her own, and, if we are to believe Sir Nicholas
Malhye, Mack worth became infected by the disease to
w hich, Sir Nicholas declares, all Englishmen were liable
under such circumstances ; instead of using forcible
measures, he tried to attain his ends by " plots and
practices," showing favour to some of the Irish chief-
tains with the view of so securing their support for
the Knglish cause. Both Sir Nicholas and the Lord
Chancellor warned Mackworth that Cormack O'Connor,
whom he thought he had secured as a friend, and who
bad promised him to kill Ttye O Connor, another of the
O'Connor chieftains, was secretly on the best terms
with him, and strongly urged him to go in pursuit of
Cormack with her Majesty's forces. Though doubting
the accuracy of the information which had reached the
Council, Mackworth followed the advice given him, and
succeeded in effecting the capture of Tajc O Connor.
Subsequently, however, he solicited and obtained a
pardon for Tc(/e, and a protection for the third O'Connor
chieftain, who seems to have been known indifferently
by the names Cole, C&hitt, and CalloUgK. But this
Irish rullian, soon after, induced Mackworth to meet
him on the pretence of having a secret i communication
of importance to make to him. Mackworth was on
horseback ; and, while they were conversing, three of
Cole O'Connor's " kernes " came secretly behind him,
and, having pulled him from his horse, carried him off
into the woods. lie was, probably, murdered at once,
hut his fate was not known for a time in Dublin. On
May 15th, 1582, the Dublin authorities had heard that
the O'Connors had treacherously surprised Capt. Mack-
worth at Itoskyr, and carried him off into the woods,
and wrote to that effect to London. On the same day
Sir Nicholas Malbye wrote to Walsingham at length on
the subject, lie speaks of Mackworth as " very valy-
cnt," expresses sorrow at his mishap, and hopes for his
deliverance, But, at the same time, he tells Walsing-

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A SHREWSBURY MAN IN IRELAND.

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ham that he thinks Mack worth had received " his just
reward" for " practising with the Irish," for u bering
out and bowlstering .... rebelles and traytors," and
for " mislyking any of his own nation that dwelt within
20 miles of him." No account of Humfrey Mackworth's
death is to be found in the Irish State Papers. But
the omission is supplied by the writer of Taylor's MS., to
whom the details had, doubtless, been communicated
by some of the Mackworth family at Shrewsbury.

1582. This yearo and in the month of mayo one captcn
jiiackworthc bemge a Shropshire man and borne in shrosberio
towne servlngo of longc tyme in Ireland and as bold a man as
over served there (who in hys tymehad slay no greatc nombers
of Iryshe rebelles) was taoken by a trane goingc ft'pin dynelyn
whom to hys house by those wch he mystmsted least and so
by hys cnymys was cruelly dismcmberyd and manglid in peces
savinge hys headd wch was cutt of whole and no p* thereof
defacid and the same sennt to the Earle of desmonde.

On May 25th, 1583, Lord Ormonde wrote to the
Council in England pleading the cause of Mrs. Mack-
worth and her children, on the ground of the services
rendered to the State by both her husbands. The Lord
Justice of Ireland supported this appeal, and in the
course of the year grants were made for the support of
both families.

(Irish State Papers, Sidney State Papers, and
Taylor's MS.).

SKLATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

By TfiE Hon. Mrs. BULKELEY-OWEN.

Continued from 2nd Serifs, < Vol. Vlfl., p. 98.

1710. Henry Sacheverell (continued). The following
is a description of the Portrait of Dr. Sacheverell, and
of the two Playing Cards (Six and Ten of Diamonds),
of which illustrations are given in the Transactions,
vol. viri.j pages 78 and 81.

Catalogue of Satirical Prints and Drawings, B. M., Vol. T[.

No. 1501. To the unknotyn Author of the High Church
Champion and his two seconds.

An engraved broadside, with a design representing two
Angels supporting an Fngraved Portrait of Sacheverell. Fame
hovers over the portrait with her trumpet at her lips, and a
laurel wreath in her hand. On the ground lie Fully and Envy

This is a reply to No. 149S. Below are engraved: —

See Spightfnl Numskul of Fanatick brood,

Once in thy Life thy qualities do good

See whom thou strivs't to tarnish .shine more bright;

So innocent a thing is Foolish Slight.

See him ascend with Eame and Angels round,

Whilst thy two Emblems grovel on the ground,

lint if thou sayest, " Those Emblems arc not mine "

Then take the Devil, for the Devil's thine.

1 own Shallow Fool that your Emblem in print

Is brim full of Wit, or the Devil is in't.

CARDS A1J0UT SACUKVKRELL.

No. 1 540. Six of Diamonds.— Sacheverell in his Coach
received in Wales with acclamations. The people appear to
he miserably poor. Goats scamper up the mountain sides of
the background.

Uoro Welch Parishioners attend his Coach,
And joy to See their Minister's Approach.

Vol. IX., 2nd S. V

38

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

No. 1546. Ten of Diamonds. — Saclieverell receiving from
the Bishop of St. Asaph Institution to the living of Selattyn,
Shropshire.

St. Asaph's Bishop, for his Flock's Instruction,
Allows his Institution and Induction.

1713.

" Master of Arts, of Trinity
College, Cambridge, was
inducted Hector of the
Church and Parish of Selat-
tyn by the patronage of Robert Lloyd of Aston, Esq.,
June 23, Ano Dora. 1713."1

He compounded for the firstfruits 4 June 1713, and
is styled Esquire in the Composition Book.2

The earliest mention that we have of the family of
Daker (or Dager, as it was spelt until the middle of the
17th century), is that of " Thomas Dager," one of the
Burgesses of Shrewsbury, to whom Edward II. granted
protection for a year, upon Aug. 24, 1312. 5 Fifty
years later we find Richard and llobert Dager tenants
ot the Royal Manor of Condover, Co. Salop.

Whether the family had their origin in the town or
country, we do not know. Their name — Dager, Degher,
i.e., Dyer, seems to point to the town. Thomas Dager
was, probably, a member of the Mercers' Company, of
whom the 1 )yem would form a part.

The boys mentioned as oppidans in Shrewsbury
School Register : — 15G3, Thomas Dager; 157 1, llogerus
Dager; 1 580, Andrew and Danyell Dager; 1585, Dan niell
Dager — were, doubtless, the descendants of the burgess
of 1312. Be this as it may, they do not concern us,
for the Bector of Selattyn belonged to the Condover
branch of the family.

1 Selattyn Register.

2 I'Vlfruita Clomp Ilk., WW O.

:t Cal. Put Kolla, 0 ICd. 1 1 , p. 187,

SHI, ATT VN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

3D

In the Court Rolls of Condover1 the first entry of
the Dagers is that of: —

37 Ed. III. Ricus Dager tenet de domino2 ij mesuagia et
dimidiatam virgatam terre secundum consuetudinem manerij
ct reddit per annum iijs vid.

Under the same date appears : —

Riiiton Magna.3 Robertas Dager etNich'us le Wallshe tenent
do clqmo unuiii mess' ct di virgat ter' scdm &c. iij8 iiijd.

On the Tuesday before S. Luke, 50 Ed, III. (1376),
11 Dyonyse Dager surrendered, and Cicely allso; one
sellyon1 of lande in Lyttyl Ryton3 in Willerslowe" . . . ;
and on 16th Feb., 51 Ed. 111. (1377), " Dyonyse Dager
was presented [at the Court] for nott making her
inclosure att yernall at Gainesbridge end."6

We do not know what relationship existed between
Richard, Robert, Dyonyse, and Cicely Dager, and of
the ladies we hear no more.

Robert Dager died 18 Rich. II. (1394), and upon
" Friday after the Feast of S. Margaret " of that year,
" the homage do say, that Robert Dager and . . . dyd
holde certayne cotagis of the Abbotte of Saloppe and
other lands and ten'ts of the lorde and dyed in cotages
of the abbotte and coventts, yett the lorde owght to
have the harryotte and Escheates." . . .

Richard Dager was alive in 1376 and 1377, for both
those years he " payde pannage of his swyne." lie
probably died the end of 1377, for on the Monday
before the Feast of S. Thomas the Martyr (Dec. 29), 1
Rich. II. his son Thomas Dager appears to have been

1 From his copy, kindly lent to me by the Rev. C. H. Drinkwater.

2 Nicholas Burnell.

3 lUerowick of Condover.

4 "Kioin the I'Yeneh ' seillon,' which signifies a ridge of ground
arising between two furrows, and contains no certain quantity." —
Law Diet., Jacob.

Vernal!, hieinalt', i.e., Christinas, but hero it may be a place name.

40 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

in possession, for he "surrendered halfe a noke1 of lande
with the appurtenances of the lords' demaynes for the
which he payd ij8 vjd.

There seem to have been two Dagers bearing the
Christian name of Thomas holding lands separately and
together. A statement of their possessions is given to
the Court on the "Monday before 8. Peter ad vincula
9 lien. 5" (1421). I think we may assume that Thomas
Dager, junior, was the son of Richard Dager, its the
first entry of their possessions is identical.

Thomas Dager Junior, dyd knowledge hymselfe to holde in 1
flee aceording to the Custome of the Manner ij mesys and ij
nooks of lande and doth render therefore by yeare iij3 vjd.

To his paternal holding he added the following : —

The same Thomas doth hold iij pereclls of demayne lande
by eoppie of Cowrtte Rowll not yett shewed wherefore he hath
daye to she we untyll the next Cowrtte and rendryth therfore
by yeare xviij'1.

rlhe same Thomas holdcth a p'cell of grounde called the
riiyll dyche and payeth yerely ld. Item he holdeth att will
halfe the lande called Cooks plaee and rendryth therefore by
yeere iijb viJ. Item he holdcth j acre in Endsbridge in burttons
tielde of the waste and rendryth by yeare iiijd.

Thomas Dager, junior, also held "one pasture grounde
called Elmllurste by dede . . . and pa yd xijd."

" rPhomas Dager the elder" held " in ifee i mese and
i noke of lande and rendreth by yere ij" ij'1. item he
holdeth one acre of land in fee . . . id."

Then " Thomas Dager the elder, Thomas Dager the
younger, William Botte and Richard Botte helde all
the foresayd purtenances of the demayne lands and
rendreth by yeare xxijH." This was granted to them ;
by the Lord u for the terme of xx yeares " at the Court
held " Wednesday after the Ffc of Saynte Benedicte
8 Men. IV."

1 "12 acres and a half of land, but tlio ipiaiility is generally un- j
certain." — Law Diet., Jacob.

"Tin; (|;Uarter of u yard land, which varies according to the plucu."
-r-J/utliioclt Did.

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

41

Resides these " Thomas Paget the elder" held " viij
acres which late were of Richard Woode under Bury
Woode and rendreth by yeere ij8." And 44 Thomas
Dager Junior " held iij acres called the longe acre att
will . . . ijB."

At this same Court (.1421), Thomas Dager "surren-
dered . . . one noke of Land with the appurtenances
of the demaynes which he payde ijd vjd a yeare for."

The following year 44 the daye before All Saints I
Hen. VI," it is stated, Thomas Dager, junior, held "a
eortayno pasture called the Myddyll lve," and that he
44 was complayned upon for holding it," as it 44 was
won't to he eom'on after the hey was carryed."

On the 44 Monday in the Feast of S. Luke, 4 H. VI."
(1425), Thomas Dager, the elder, 44 made fyne ... to
inquire whether he might geave a Messuage and a noke
of lande in Condover, which was sometime Geffry
Barrett's to whom hi tt pleased him and they say he
might," so he 44 surrendered halfe of his demayne which
ho did holde with John Adams . . . and it was granted
unto John Adams for xx yeares for the rentt of xxxij8
per annum."

At the same Court he " surrendered to Thomas
Dager the younger one assarte1 against the woode called
the newe place lately of Richard Dellwood and the
same Thomas suit1 the same agayne unto the foresayd
Thomas the elder for time of his lyfle and after his
decease to remayne to the sayd Thomas the yonger and
gave the lorde for a fyne xijd.

The following year, 5 Hen. VI., the Court granted
to 44Thomas Dager junior to have the mete, and Loundes
of a parcell of lande against Wylckynslye and another
at Smetheshale," and it re-granted to him 44 a portion
called Elmhurste whiche John Smythe lately helde by
the rent of xijli and a moore called Elmhurste more, of

1 " Assart lands ate parts of forest cleared of wood, and put into a
statu of cultivation." — Ihdiiwell Did.

42 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

the rent of iiij'J a yeare . . , and gave for fyne v8 and
was admytted.''

In G lien. VI., "Thomas Dager junior dyed and the
land remayned to Sybbyll his wife." Sybbell died the
same year, and the lands went to "John her sonne."
So at the Court held Wednesday before S. Luke, G Hen.
VI. (1427), we find " John Dager sonne of Thomas
Dager junior gave xxvj8 viijd for fyne to have all those
landes wch his father dyd hold of the olde tenure."

At the same time for Thomas Dager, he " payde for
a harry otte a bullocke price xiij8 and for escheates ij
colltes p'ce iiij8 vjd, ij equos pryce vja and vj piggs iiij8
vjd and the lande remayneth to John sonne of the sayd
Thomas." Also for " Sybbell Dager . . . payde for a
harryote a bullock p'ce viijs and the same is in the
custodye of John her sonne."

The first mention of John Dager was two years
before, when he came with three others "and made
fyne " to know " whatt waye they ought to have to
the Churche of Condover and where the same is they
were accustomed to have."

In 7 lien. VI,, "The Bayly was to answer for a Ccck-
shute1 lett to the Vicker of the Church of Condover,
iiijJ and for the like to John Dager."

En 9 Hen. VI. John Dager got into trouble for en-
closing " a certayne p'cell of lande lyoing next berry-
woode w(:h vvas waste to becom'en," and he was amerced.

In 10 Hen. VI. arose a "question betwixt liichard
Harrys and John Dager for the chesne."

11 Hen. VI. "John Dager stopped a com'en waye
leading to hynford's bridge unto the fields of burtton
and then he turned the water upon Cloyhale," and in
18 Hen. VI. he stopped ''a certayne waye by wh men
went from the Towne of Condover to burtton."

1 OooUhIuiIo, a glado in the woodn, down which t ho woodcock cumo
and were caught in llffitM Hirclchcd ttcruss lor (hut juirjiosc. The
annuiil rental of tlicao wan Id. or Gd., and Lhcro waa noma compel i-
tion for {\\vin.

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43

The following year, 11 Hen. VI., Raphe Condore
surrendered "half a mese and notte of lands in Condover
to the use of John Dager . . . John gave ijd for a fyne
and was ad my t ted."

12 Hen. VI., 0 John Dager dyd make a reskue of his
cattell taken for damages done unto Rio. Harrys wch
cattell the forresayde Hie. wolde have ympounded . . .
Amerced . . . John Dager in xijd for the reskue afore-
sayd."

In 15 Hen. VI. (1436), there seem to have been two
Da^ers bearing the name of John, one of whom was son
and heir to William Dager, and the other the son and
heir of Thomas Dager, junior. Roth of them claim the
lands of Thomas Dager, the elder, who was, apparently,
now dead. " William Jones and John Dager came to
inquire if they ought to have a messuage and noke of
lando in Condover wch they hadde of Thomas Dager
senior for a certaine some of money which they payde
unto tho sayde Thomas" (i.e., which he had mortgaged
to them) " unto the which John Dager makyth clayme
to have according to the custome." No verdict was
given by the Court, for in 18 Hen. VI f William Jones
and John Dager make again the same enquiry.

The Court 15 Hen. VI. says that " John Dager is
the sonne and heyre of William Dager cussyn and heyre
of Thomas Dager Senior/' and that he " tooke of the
lorde one mese and the noke of lande in Condover . . .
and gave for fyne iij8 hijV Also they say " Maty Ida
Dager is deaseesed and payde the better parte of a
cowe for a harryotte the wch was praysed at vj* viijd.

In l(i lien. VI., the other John Dager apparently
came to make enquiries. The Roll says :— " John
Dager came to enquere whatt landes and tenements
Thomas Daerer the elder had of the olde tenure and of
his own purchase, and whatt William Jones and John
Dager dyd goavo in money for the samo landes and
whether they bought the same landes joyntly and
what! value they rereavyd of the same landes sythens
the purchase of the same. The homage sayth the

44 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

landes of the olde tenure was bowght and the purchasyd
lands was gevynne."

In 17 Hen. VI. we have a further description ot
these latter : — " The homage sayth that a acre in Crog-
genhelde and another parcel! called Kodmore's yelde >
and a p'cell called by newaye and Sprydwycks was of 1
Thomas Dager's purchasyd lande."

In 18 Hen. VI., ' The Lord granted to Thomas j
hodgis, John dager, and davyd buttler xij acres of
waste lande lyeng in Whetehall1 whereof ij acres ys in
the lordes handes and for the resydue they gave vj8 p.
anil."

J 9 Hen. VI., John Dager was Reve.

21 Hen. VI., "John Dager surrd . . . one messuage
wh was Thomas Dagers Senior's, one p'cell of land
called horshall, two sellyons of lande called theves stye,
3 medowes lyenge in the fieldes agaynste Aldfelde, and
a cotage lying next the house of John Dager to the use
of Deyo buttler and John bullocke who gave iiij3 for a
fyne." Apparently he regretted this, for 29 Hen. VI.
and 30 Hen. VI., John Dager was "at varyauns" with
them about these lands. The jury decided against him.
25 Hen. VI. he was aaain in trouble about the common
land: "John Dager and Richard harrys were com-
plained of for kepynge the lyons in severall, which
ought to be Com 'en land every third e yeare." lie was
related to Richard Harrys, for the latter witii "Matylda
his wyfle, daughter and lieyre to Rich. Tomckyns and
cosin and heyre of John Dager the elder," recovered a
clayme they brought against Alys Buttler and John
Ihilloeko in HOG.

32 Hen. VI. " John Dager junior made inquescyon
whether John Dager senior dyd sell unto Deyo buttler
and John Ryddell (sic) a messuage and a cottage and a
hoko of lande in Condover wtL appurt8 and whether
Jyhn J Aigor junior be his li9yer and ought to have the
Haniu for a some of money." And 34 Hen. VI., "John

1 Whcutlmll, u bcrowick of Comlovur.

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45

Dager the younger came to enquere whether he might
redeme the same agayno and hett was sayde that John
Dager the elder lyvinge lie cowlde nott."

35 lien. VI. " John Dager senior sonne of William
Dager surrendered a tofte and a noke of lande . . . in
Condover to the use of Dackyn ap Atha1 and Alys hys
wy fie and John Bullocke." This was called " Dager' s
place lyoing by Endsbridge of the newe haye." Alys
surrendered it in 14 73-4.

1 Rich. 1U. (May, 1 434), "John Dager senr dyede
whom helde a messuage and two nokes of lande which
remayned to Sybbyll/' The lieriot paid was "a cowe
brinddyd p'ce vi8.,;

But we must go back to 3 Ed. IV. (14G3), when
" Richarde Dager and Sybbell his wyfie" lay claim to
some lands in Little llyton, which they do not get.

The next year, 4 Ed. IV., John Adams claims some
land in their tenure.

8 Ed. IV./' John the sonne of Rich. Dager" enquires
if "he had mote right to a messuage and a noke of
land . . . than John Da^er had in his holding." He
says "he payed x merckes " for them. The verdict
about this was ordered to be given 14 Ed. IV., and
" the jury was fyned in vi8 and viijd a pece" for not
having given their verdict.

8 Ed, IV, " John Dager gave for a fyne for a noke
and a half of land vi8 viijJ.

1 1 Ed, IV., John Dager came and said he should not
alienate his lands, " butt that the same shulde descend
after his decease and Sybbell hys wyffe unto Robart
his sone."

21 Eil. IV. (January 20, 1482), " John Dager junior
made clayme unto vj acres of arrable land and 6 acres
of medowe in Lyttyll Ryton in the holding of John
hodgis."

1 Dackyn up Atha ia tlio only Welshman mentioned in Condovor,
nn<l f ii ■ »■ ihoy murdered in M(»l l2. His wife Alys was daughter to
John West lity. (Ap Allm heroines Hullm, ami thence Hatho, I tut hoe,
Mid Hathcr).

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1 Ed. V., " John Dager1 surrd all his landes and ten1'
wh was sometyme Sybbell his mothers in Lyttyll Ryton
to the use of John Hodgis paying ii1' a yeare . . . and
for a fyne ijd and was admytted."

John Dager, junior, must have been dead by 1494,
for his son Robart Dager makes enquiries 10 Hen. VII.
as to what rent he ought to pay " for lands in Ryton ;"
and in 11 Hon. VII. he asks "whether he had right
unto a messuage and lands called Hallwardyn's place," I
which appears to have been mortgaged to Fullcke
Gosenell by John Dager. An agreement was made
between John Gosenell and Robart Dager, but one
Robart Gosenall renews the dispute in 17 Hen. VII.
and 23 Hen. VII.

Robert Dager appears to have been the rightful
owner, for he surrenders the lands to " John Harrys of
Wheatehall and Alys hys wyile," and gives " the lorde
vj8 and viijd for a fyne."

1G Hen. VII., Robert Dager's temper was short, for
" a payne of vj8 and viij4 was layde upon him for dis-
turbing the Covvrtte with great and unhonest wordes."
. . . 11 butt ytt was pardoned for that he sued in the
Cowrtte in the office of underbayly.- "

22 Hen. VIE, Robert Dager enquires concerning right
to lands mortgaged to him in Doddington by Thomas
and Alys Ilodgis.

22 Hen. VIE, 1, 2, and 7 Hen. VIII., he disputes
with John and Isabell Longdon about "a mese and a
halfe yarde of lande in Great Ryton," and the jury
give against him.

In 8 Hen. VIII., he " carry ed away the corne and
hey owte of yemall before ho hav satisfyed unto John
Longden the rentt of the same."

The next year, 9 Hen. VIII., Thursday after S. Mark, j
1517, " Robart Dager wch held a messuage and cotage ;
with appurt8 ys deade and payde for a harryote, the
better part of an oxe and for escheats iij piggs, \f° iij8

John, son of Richard and Sybbell Dager.

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and a white collt pryce ij8 and a gelded colt p'ce xviij
and that William Dager is his hey re and the lands
rem ay no to Margery his wyffe."

11 Hon. VI 11., "William Dager hath stopped a
s'tayne place att the ( lannowe bridge ende, and also he
hath inclosyd, and inclosyd holdeth, a certayne percell
of tho com'en there."

12 Hen. VII I., 30 April, he enquires " whether he
hath muro right to a meso and ij nokes of land in
l)oddington called Bullocke's land than the same
Bullocke." Ho also " made clay me to a messuage and
u noko of lando in Condover called Mawde Da^er's
grouudo." Ho and his mother " Margery Dager widowe"
were presented lor having " sett quycke setts upon the
lortle'a groundo at Callstocks sprynge after they had
Monycyon and Injuncyon to tho contrary, that
they ahulde nott do so uppon payne of fourttye
shillynges."

13 Hen. VTTT. one "Richard Botte is dead, and
" Johane wife of John Harrys of Chatforde, Margarett
wife of John Hodgis of Ryton, and the wife of William
Latewarde, Elynor Dager be his sisters and next
heyres." I do not know the relationship of Elynor
Dager to the others. An undated entry in the Court
Rolls says : — >u Take order for the cotage that Elynor
Dager holdeth of houghtons grounde " and "cause
Elynor Dager to buylde her barne agayne." In " 1579
Elynor Dager gave Richard Harrys ij days Reping to
tho intent he sholde cutte my hedge." Coudover
Register gives her burial 27 March, 1579.

15 Hen. VIII., "William Dager continued his formall
claymo touching hall wardens landes."

19 Hen. VIII., *' He shall suffycently make at the
Gannowbridge end, and shall amende the come'n waye."

20 Hen. VIII., his mother "Margery Dager, the
wyl'e of Robert Dager tho wch did hold a messuage and
iij nukes of lande in Condover ys deade and payde for
a Imrryoto a ( Jowo. And for a messuage in howghton
thor ciimo nothing."

48 SKLATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

21 Hen. VTIL, 11 William Dager gave vj8 viijd for a
fyne of a messuage and iij nokes of lande, one cotage
with an orchard in Condover, the \vcL Margery Dager the
wife of Robert Dager dyed seisyd of and it wasgranted."

22 Hen. VIII. , William Dager exchanged lands with
John Harrys and "gave the lorde xijd for a fyne."

2(> Hen. VI IT. he makes enquiries about a hedge
" betwixt Catlowe's Lane and the Lymes," and his
right to a pasture called " Cooks place."

20 Hen. VII I. another John Dager appears, in a
dispute about an orchard, and in 2G Hen. VIII. about
ua tenement in Condover/' He appears to have kept i
an alehouse, for " The jury do putt a payne that every j
victuler within the lordship of Condover shall sell by
Lawful! measures, viz. owte of the house, A quarte I
and a pynte of Ale and within their howys according
to the measure of Katheryne Sondford, called the oken
potte. The tasters of bredde and Ale saye upon theire
othes that Nicholas White, John Dager and William
Mynsterley sell bredde and Ale excessively and there-
fore they were severally am'ced in xxd a pece. "

27 and 37 Hen. VIII., William Dager is mentioned
as being Attorney for one Thomas Lake.

29 Hen. VIII. they say " John Harrys ought to
have of William Dager the iij sholfe [sheaf] that he had
growen in Croggenhelcle," and " William Dager surrtl ij
percells in the moore " in 3 and 4 Philip and Mary,
lie died that year, and then wero " paid for escheats a
col It and vij piggs."

27 lien. VIII., Richard Dager is " payned to amende
the fosters Lake," and " Item to knowe whereby
Kichardo Dager holdoth his house in Chatlbrd."

31 lien. VIII., " Md that upon Sundayo yo 7 June j
Thomas Ilaywarde tooke occasyon to speake to the
good wyfe Dager as she came to Churche and sayde if
she wolde take a cowple of chickyns and go to Mr.
Lcighton1 to plysshe, he wolde showe her howe she

1 William Leightou of Plush muv. Murgoiy, d. uud coheir of l-'ulko
^prondtcHUi, who diud in 1490.

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49

sholde cast the Woode open. Robart Dager yt is to
be suspected gave liis mother consayle and allso en-
couraged her unto the trying of the hedge."

37 Hen. VIII., "The Lurde's Wastes . . . Watkyn
Parcke in the tenure of John Dager."

"John Dager of Cardyton holdeth by Copye of
Courtto Roll of 15 May 26 lien. VIII. one close or
parcel! of lande called Watkyns parcke."

20 Uliz. (-Uh and 5th Sep., 1578), "Roger Harrys
Bonior had carry ed owte of the Woode lesswes two
croppes of the aoree trees ... by Richard Harrys and
John Dainir."

6 Sent., "Thomas Dager ys to answer for that my
bayly delyuord his oxen owte of Thomas a Wood's
foldo vjV

•JG Oct., 1578, gives Thomas Dager and John Dager
in a list of tenants.

157(J, "Anne Dager threated that she wolde cawse
Richard harrys1 to cutte my hedge."

Anne Dager, spinster was bur. 24 Feb., 1609.

1580, 15 January, " Thomas Gabbett of Condover
confessyd unto me that John Dager, Thomas Dager's
sonne dyd both plucke and cutte his mare's tayle and
that hys father was privy thereof and ys a noble to tiie
lord.

The first Sundaye in lentt we are viij or x playe'g at
Shovill a. horde att Richard harrys of Condover as yt
was sayde by Robart Dager and confessyd by Thomas
Ball."-

1580. "John Dager holdeth 3 nooks of cus-

Now tomary landes and a cottage and payeth

Sam. 1 )ager vjs and vli.

and " Item he holdeth six acres iij quarter

Will. Dager in Berry wood by copie decre iij8 iiijd ob.

1 Ho was living at Wheathall.

2 The uj>aync for playing alt IjowIch, tables, or cardos for goldo or
Bylluur l>y ilayo or by night " wins "iij' iiijd 32 lieu, VIII." The
game wits I'l.iyiul on a board, by sliding niotal piocos at a mark. -
Walktr'* Did., ud. 1831.

50 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

" Item in like of the mannor per aim.
or a messuage in howghton.

"Item he holden in the Broken iiij
acres ija.

" Ttem a pasture at wyll called
Whytleys lye, per arm. xxvV
1580. "Ilobart Dager holdeth a cottage at

Since wyll, one percell of the Abbey grounde
Will. Dager and payeth yearely xijJ."

158 1, 19 August, k< Edward Crompton junr and
Robart Dager were huntting at Mablyns Crosse with
ether of them a greyhound."

1581. Some lands were in question between John
Dager and Rich. Mynsterley.

1582. Amongst " leasers of corne contrary to the
payne " was " Robart Dager one boye."

1583. 6th June. Amongst a list of tennis players is
44 Thomas Dager junior."

Ibid. John Dager was 11 a carryer of tymber to
M'8 ITenry Townsende."

1584. " Vewe what John Dagor hath done abowth the mowth
of tho tleaine, it is sayde he hath pleached into the water, and
sticked the same to make it sando and ympeayre the fleame.

Asko Thomas Dager what words were spoken agaynsto me
or my brother at Kowtts shoppe that night I went to seo tho
dysordro there.

Tho 15 Mayo Thomas Dagor and Richard Dagor did laye a
stallnette by fhoinas Taylor's Cookcmoro, and afterwards went
up the river groping of trowghtcs and camo not homo untyll
abowtes ij of the clock Satcrday morning, teste W. Gahhett."

1595. "A survey of Landes and tout*.

A. U. P.

One close called ye now hayo (oxchanged
with William Dager lor a little meadow
by leas) ... ... ... ... 5 00 16

One close of John Dagers1 adjoyning to ye

1 This is, probably, the John Dagar who married Johanc Shulker
U July, 1595, and Lad children :•- William, bapt. 17 Nov., 1597 ;i
'Wumuia, ban. 12 March, bar. *J0 April, 1590; Dory, hap. 22 Jan.,
loOJ. lie was bur. 3 Dee., lu'07. His will is at LicLlield, proved 1G08

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51

way to Cantlop and frodgloy and yo gato

of Condover Green . . . ... ... 2 02 15

One clo.se of Widow Dager's adjoiningo to

yo sanio ... ... .. ... G 03 12

39 Elizabeth (159G-7), A presentment ef John Hynes, Bayly
of the M inor upon John Dagar, Richard Dagar and Thomas
D.igar for fysshingo in the lord's river ut patct. A pay no v3
on each of them."

These extremely interesting entries concerning the
ancestors of our Rector, conclude with : —

"Ixmso granted by me and others, Lady Day 1051.
Henry Dager Copyhold 0 4 0."

Condover Register has the baptism of Henry, son of
John Dager, 15 Feb., 1G00.

The Will of John Dagar of Condover : —

1 "In Dei Nomino Amen.

Tho 21 dayo of Sopt. 1549 (3 Ed. VI.).

I, John lWar ot Condover I give and bequetho

my soule to Almightio God and to our Lady Saynt Mary and
to all tho holy company of heaven and my body to be buryed
in the Churcneyarde of Condover.

I give ... to John Dagar my brother's son all my taking
in Wallys and sixo kyne and then the sayd John shall paye to
his brother Richard xxvi8 viijd the which I do owe to the sayd
Richard and yf he will not so doo I will he shall havo fouro
poundes of money.

1 give ... to Margot Dager my sorvant 40*.

to Katoryn bradfold two ycrlin^ heyfres.
to John Dagar the sonno of William Dagar a pott,
to M argot Dagar his systor a pann.
to Thomas Dagar the sonno of Richard Dagar
my howso and thappurtenances set and lying in Condover
paying to Alice my daughter G3 8J yerely out of tho samo
during her naturall lyfc and then tD nave tho hole after her
decease to hym and his heyres lor ever and for lacke of heyro
of the said fhomas to remayne to my brother William and
his heyres for over.

I give to John Wolfe my best rogge Cote ... to Richard
Powell o8 4d . . . to Thomas 1 ley wood 3s 4'1 to Jane Rradfojd
3' 4 '.

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52 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

I will that John Orompton my sonne in lawe shall choice1
whether he will he satisfied and contented with the pareells
ol' goodes that 1 have delyvered unto hym.whicho I esteyin to
he worthe twentye nobles and better, or else to repaye them
againe to my executors and to take of them vi1 88 4a.

The rest of my goodes, my debtes, and bequests discharged
and paidc, and 1 being brought home, I give ... to William
Dagar my brother ana Thomas Dagar, the sonne of Richarde
Dagar whom I make executors.

Witnes. William Heynes, Roger Anns, Thomas Smythe,
William Shrygley Clerk with others.

lVob. granted P. CH Cant. Nov. 14, 154!).
to Thomas and William l)agar."

Thomas Dagar and his cousin John Dagar, both dying
in 1593, four months after each other, the property
descended to Samuel, the son of John Dagar, and;
continued in the direct male line for four generations,
when it passed by the marriage of Ann Daker, in 17G5,1
to the Harleys. It is now possessed by Phillip Edward
Daker Hurley, Esq.

There is a tablet in Condover Church to the Rev.
Edward Daker, the last of his family, who died May 30,
1820, s.p., aged 80. ITe never held any cure of souls,1
but resided for neurly 50 years ut Condover House.1
He founded a charity at Condover in 1808.

We have no fucts to record of the live years incum-
bency of William Daker at Selattyn. His Will is dated

Tcb. 23, 1714.

lie bequeathes his " real and personal estate to my nephew'
William Daker son of my late brother Edward Daker of]
WheataU" with a charge of "£10 on my tenement in Pontesburyj
to the daughter ol my late brother Edward Daker, my niccoi
Margaret Daker. j

I give . . . to Sister Thomas £5 . . . to my brother Samuel
I hiker of Condover £5." - •

Selattyn Register tells us that " William Daker,!
1U.A., died Feb. 19, and was buried at Condover," and

1 TIiLh information was kindly given by hia great-great nephew,
the present owner, Phillip I'M ward l)aker lhirley, Kh<|.
- Will S. Asaph Dib. Registry.

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the latter states that "William Daker, Clerk, was buried
yo - 1 at hYbruary, 1718."

DAOER, OH DAKER, OF CONDOVER.

AUMS: (><i (i fii'l'l gules 6' escallops dry.
Cutsr: A bull pass. <ja. dacallij gorged and chained or.

Thomas Dager, Rurgess of Shrewsbury, 2 4 Aug., 1312 (Cal.

Pal. Hulls, G I'M. II.)
Itfohard Dagor, 37 I'M. IU (1303-4), alivo in 1377.
UoUti Mager, 37 I'M. Ill , (1. 1 3!) 4.

Thomas Dager, son and heir of U it ha it i m. Sybbell (who died
1-1*2?). Ho served on .Juries of tin1 Court of Condover
14034, 1 1-2G-7, and died 1 1-27.

John Duifer, son and heir.

Thoimus Dager, senior, in. Juliana, d. of Goffry Barrett. He

was dead in 1 430-7.
William Dager.

John Da^er, his son and heir, m. Sybbell. In 1436-7 he is
called cousin and heir of Thomas Dager, senior. He died
1484.

Richard Dager m. Sybbell. Ho claimed lands 3 Ed. IV. (14G3).

His son and heir,
John Dager, m. Sybbell. He was dead in 1494, leaving a son

and heir.

Robert Dager, who. in. Margery (who died 1528); he died

1517, leaving 2 sons, William and John.
(1) William Dager son and heir.

(1) John Dager of Cardyton, who held Watkyn's Park in 1534.

He died 154!), leaving one dan., Alice, m. John Cromptoii.

Will dated 21 Sep., prov. Nov. 14 (R.C.C Populwell 42).
Robert's elder son,

William Dager, Attorney, d. 1557. Will pro v. 1558. (Lichfield,
No. 128). He left 2 sons and a daughter.

(1) John.

(2) Richard, of Ohatford, bur. 7 March, 158<J.1 Son Thomas
bur. 23 Oct., 151)3. Will 1593 (Lichfield 02).

(1) Margaret.

John Dager bur. 22 June, IMl Will 151)3 (Lichfield 92).

Had issue a son and dau.
(1) Samuel.

(I) Mary, bap. 1 April, 1593.

1 All llwj family wore bap. and bur. at Condover, except where
otliei u i.se .stated.

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54 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

Samuel Dagar, bap. 1 Dec , 1580, m. Joane (bur. 31 Oct., 1G29),
bur. 24 July, 1647. He had 4 sous and 3 daus.

(1) John, bap. 19 Feb., 16.14, bur. 18 May, 1015.

(2) Samuel, bap: 15 Oct., 1020, bur. 10 Feb., 1690.

(3) John, bap. 15 April, 1623, bur. 18 Dec , 1666.

(4) William.

(1) Anne, bap. 3 March, 1615.

(2) Dory, bap. 15 March, 1617.

(8) Marie, bap. 31 May and bur. 9 Nov., 1629.

William Dager, the 4th son and eventual heir of Samuel, was

bap. 22 Oct., 1626; mar. Margaret. He was bur. 15

March, 1692. He had 6 sons and 1 dau.
0) Thomas, bap. 27 Oct., 1653.

(2) Samuel.

(3) William, bap. 21 Feb, 1666. Rector of Selattyn 1713-

1718*; d. 19 Feb., bur. 21 Feb., 1718.

(4) John, bap 26 March, 1672, bur. 27 Jan., 1682.

(5) David or Daniel, bap. 10 Nov., bur. 23 Jan., 1674.

(6) Edward of Wheathall. He m. Susan .... (who was bur.

1 May, 1 j 35). He had a son and 2 daus.

(1) William of Wheathall, bap. 12 Aug. 1697, who was
heir to his uncle, Rev. Win. Daker. He m. Frances
. . . (who was bur. 27 March, 17 59). He was bur. 6
June, 1744, leaving 2 datik, Margaret bap. 10 July,
1730, and Elinor, bap. 16 Oct. 1733.

(1) Margaret, bap. 3 May, 1696.

(2) Dorothy, bap. 28 Aug., 1698.

(1) Anne, bap. 7 June, 1670, mar. privately at Staple ton, 21
Jan., 1092, Thomas Thorucs of t lie Argocd, Kinnerley par.,
gent. They had 4 sous and 2 daus., all of whom were
bap. at Kinnerley.

(1 ) Thomas Tiiorncs, born 27 Mar., bap. 5 April, 1694.

(2) Samuel, born 14 July, bap. 5 Aug., bur. 17 July, 1700.

(3) Edward, born 12 Feb., bap. 5 March, 1699.

(4) Samuel, bap. 28 Jan., 1708.

(1) Anne, born 6 April, bap. 26 April, 1698.

(2) Margaret, bap. I January, 1711.

Samuel Daker, second son of William, bap. 26 Dec, 1663, in.
Joyce . . . (who was bur. 19 March, 1726). He founded
a charity at Condover in 1732, and was bur. 23 Sep., 1741.
lie had 2 sous aud 2 daus.

(1) Samuel, bap. lb March, 1692, bur. 28 Oct., 1715.

(2) William.

(I ) Auue, Lap. 16 . . . 1689.
Margaret, bap. 5 April, 1695.

SKLATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 55

II is second son and heir,

William Dagcr, Imp. 29 Sep., 1703, m. Ann Dcnstone, or Dun-
stone, at S. Chad's, Shrewsbury, 2G Dee., 1 720. (She was i
bur, from Salop 4 July, 1771). He was bur. 24 Nov.,
1 710. IIo had 5 sons and 3 dans.

(1) Samuel, Lap. 10 Oct, 1732, bur. 22 July, 1740.

(2) William, bap. 8 Sup., 17;H, bur. 29 July, 17-10.

(3) John, bap. 7 Nov., 1730, bur. 7 Aug., 1740.

(4) Edward.

(5) Thomas, bap. 15 April, 1744, bur. from Salop 19 Sep., 1759.
(1) .Joyce, bap. 21 Dec, 172a.

Margaret, ban. 20 Dee., 1730, bur. 28 Nov., 1737.
(3) Aim, bap. 4 Feb, 1738, in. at Shrewsbury, 21 Feb, 1705,
Samuel Harley, Alderman of Salop, Mayor 1784. Sho
died 15 July, 1799, bur. at S. Chad's. He died 28 July,
1S07, aged 07.

Edward Daker, tbo 4th Bon, hap. 4 Jan, 1740, B.A. 17G3, M.A.

1700, Clerk in Holy Orders, Senior Fellow of Magdalen

Coll, Oxford. Ho was the last of his name. Dying 20

May, 1820, l>equoathed his proporty to Edward, the second

Hon of his sistor Ann Harloy.
(Robert William Daker Harley, the present owner of Brampton

Brian, Co. Hereford, is her great-grandson).
Edward Harley of Bristol, heir to his uncle Edward Daker, m. I

Fli/.abeth Lang (who d. 18G3). Ho died 8 March, 1851, |

leaving an only son,
Edward Harley of Bristol, b. 19 July, 1816, m. Mary Anne

Pahher (who was b. 25 Nov, 1810, d. 7 Sept., 1894). Ho

died 25 Oct, 1888, having had 3 sons.
(1) Edward Arthur.
(2; George Ernest.

(3) Philip Edward Daker Harley, the present owner of Con-
dover Houso, m. 27 June, 1895, Ada Helon, tlau. of C.
Tyldon Wright, of Ashley Grovo, Worksop.

1719.

M.A. Trinity Coll., Cam-
bridge. Tie was ordained
Deacon1 by the Bishop of
Ely2 21 Dec., 1707, and
Priest1 by the Bishop of St. Asaph,3 25 Sept., 1709.

1 KeeordH at S. Asaph Palace,
r .John Moore 3 William Fleetwood.

no' sMattyn': A HISTORY OF THE PAlU.Sll.

The Bishop's Certificates, St. Asaph, state1 that he
was presented to Selattyn Rectory L8 May, 1 7 1 9, by
Robert Lloyd, Esq., and the Records at St. Asaph j
Palace give the same date of his collation. Selattyn. j
Register states he was " Chaplain to the llonred Robert
Lloyd3, Es<j., Lord of the Mannor." I suppose by this j
he also ofliciated in Aston Chapel.

He was the son of Roger llanmer of Pentre David,
and his wife Margaret Lloyd, of Aston. It is un-
necessary to repeat all the information given about him
in Chapter 111. ; but it may be well to state that I
Thomas and Roger llanmer, grandfather and father of I
this Rector, were tenants, not owners, of Pentre David.

It was not until 1825 that George Henry Warrington
added Pentre David to the Pen trepan t estate. It was
given to him in exchange for other lands by the Hon.
Frederick West (3rd son of John, 2nd Earl De la Wair),
who, probably, became possessed of it through his
second wife Maria, second sister and coheir of Richard
Myddelton of Chirk Castle, who died in 1796. It was,
doubtless, part of the lands which were her share of
the Myddelton estate.

Pentre David has lately changed hands again. It
was purchased by William, Lord Harlech, together
with the Pentrepant estate, in 1895. He is also the
owner of the other farm of this name, which was bought
by the Brogyntyn trustees in ]822, from Thomas
Jackson of I enti'ewern, who had purchased it from
Mr. Birds, who in his turn had bought it from .Miss
Baugh, who had inherited it from her father, Thomas
Raugh.2 It had previously belonged to the Owens of
Woodhouso, and was by them sold to Mr. Uaugh.

Hut to return to our Rector, St. Asaph records tell
us that he was w Resident" in his parish, by no means

1 P.R.O.

2 " 1 781. Surah Baugh of Pentro David, bur. 28 Oct." Selattyn
lteginter.

" I MOD. ThonutH Nnugh, gout., I'ontro David, aged 84, died 9th,
bur. 1 3th Dee." Selattyn Itegiater.

SfcLATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

57

a common occurrence in those days, and he seems to
have attended to his spiritual duties, for we are told
that in 1712 there was " service every Friday through-
out the year, catechising in Lent, Holy Communion
monthly, and at ICaster '200 Communicants." A goodly
number for the population, which was, probably, much
the same as that given in 1081, when it was stated
there were l< about 120 families" residing in the parish.
In 1741) there was also catechising on Sundays. Thomas
llanmer seems to have been a very popular Rector, to
judge from the verses written in his honour the year
before his death, at an ICisteddfod held at Selattyn on
Easter Monday, 1748 :— 1

lliinuior fwyn dyner mown doniau — cyncs
Aim-union teg eiriau ;
Da fywi.vdwr defoidiau,
lUgl y cloll' — a bugail clau.

Jonathan Huuinw.2

Gwych Hanmer dyner waed enwog— Llewalwad,
Lly vvelyn Aur Dorchbg ;
Rhwydd am orchwyl rhydd Marchog,
Bur wycli a glan baroh i'w glod.

Arthur Jonks.3

Hanmer is kind and alwuya right,

His purposes are warm and bright ;
He lives a pure devoted life,
And keeps Ida sheep from nought and strife.

Hanmer descends from noble blood,

Llywelyn Uolden torque, wlio.se good
Deeds like stars are shining brightly
In the page of Cambria's story.4

1 From tho Almanack, for 1775, of John Cain Jones of Corwen.

2 Ho resided all his lifetime at Pengwern, a small farm near
Llangollen. Ho was considered a very good poet, and bore an
excellent character.

3 He lived at Cyldini, near Moelfrc Pool, and was Parish Clerk of
Llangadwuladr.

* The Ki.gliah translations wore kindly mado forme by Mr. Henry
Rowlands (Llywarch Hen), to whom also I am indebted for the notes
on the bards.

58 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF TflE PARTS 11,

The Rector gave the Easter Feast as a subject for |
composition at this Eisteddfod, and there were other j
verses, including some in honour of John Arthur, a
resident of Sehittyn, who convened the meeting. They j
are too long to print here. We must conclude with
two upon Selattyn : —

Lie cynar gtaiar fel glyn — er iachus 1
Ar ochor y boneyn ;
Bron ir braf ar ben bryn,
A boo) ydtir yw Solatyn.

Eurfrig fro ysdig frasdir— di oerfel, |
Ar derfyn y ddwy air ;
0 ddioldiog dda ddoldir,
Lie gwreiddia bara a bir.

John Edwards.1

A warm nook where bards are cosy,
On a sidebank looking pretty ;
An early land where corn is growing,
This will make Selatiyn charming.

A lovely country eaeh admires,

Bordering on two ancient shires ;
A bright bank like gold in harvest,
Where the summer days arc longest.

The Hector died the following spring. '* 1749, March
the 3i(h Buried the Uev. Mr. Thomas ITanmer, M.A.,
Late Uector of Selattyn, who departed this life Feb. 27,
17 l'J," is the entry in the Register. It is followed by
these lines : —

Krgo, Quintiliurn perpetuus sopor
IJrget, I Cui Pudor et justiciar soror
Incomipta lidos, Nudaqno Veritas
Quando ullum invoniont I'arein '{ 1) I).

1750.

Rorn at Ohirk 17 18. Brasenose Coll., Oxford, B.A.

1 John lid wards was a native of (Hyn Ceiriog, and was author of j
Hcvoral Welsh books.

w u.

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59

1741, M. A. . . . Ho was presented by Thomas Lloyd,
Esq., to Selattyn, *J 8 1 1 1 April, 1750,1 who had given
him the Rectory of Whittington the year before.
\V. Roberts tells us in the Iiegister of the latter parish
that it, was conferred upon him " unsolicited."

1 lo "resided at Whittington, having a dispensation,"2
and the curate, Edward Maurice, lived in Selattyn
Rectory. His father, Robert Roberts, was Vicar of
Chirk 1709-41, the author of "Catechism preparatory
to receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, in
Welsh and English, for the use of the Parish of Chirk,
1720." William Itoberts wrote a MS. history of events,
chietly relating to Whittington parish, which is still
preserved there.

He records in Whittington Register the death of his
mother, Mary Roberts, at her house in Oswestry, on 2
March, 1770, "of the Influenza," and makes some
remarks upon it, which may be interesting at the
present day. In 1775, many persons in Whittington
died of the influenza, and he thus described it : —

" The disorder of tho Season from its universality is called the
Influenza, and is supposed to take its rise from a foggy air and
easterly wind, it makes its attack in various shapes, its general
attendant is a severe cough, which oft proves fatal to old
People, or when it falls upon weak lungs. W. Roberts."

lie gives a further account of it in Selattyn
"Register : —

J7S2. This year being remarkablo for Cold and wett about
springtime much against the Farmers concern in general,
which brought on Disorder of the nature of a Violent Cold,
which raged so general thro' both England ami Wales and all
European Countries, which in Kngland was commonly called
the Influenza, and which happily was not very mortal There
was scarcely one escape;! this Distemper.

This was the year that the influenza was said to be
fatal to 41 a thousand a day in Kconigsberg,"3 and

1 Bishop's Cfertif , S. Asaph, P.U.O.

- RcconU ut S Asaph IVilaco.

a A»HJ<mliU$5 to Professor Luiuuiendi of Madrid.

GO

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

that it attacked a squadron of our Fleet under the
command of Admiral Kempenfelt off the Coast of
France, so severely that they were forced to return to
England.1

To the time of William Roberts' incumbency belong
the first Terrier of Selattyn, the survey of the Bound-
aries and the Enclosure Act ; but we shall deal with
them when we come to the Legacy Book in which
they are recorded.

We learn from S. Asaph Records2 that in 1753 there
were 120 families in Selattyn, that there was no
Meeting house, that the Monthly Communicants
numbered between 10 and 30, and that there were 160
at Easter.

The Arms borne by William Roberts show that he
belonged to the family of Roberts of Rhydonen. Their
ancestor Rhys ap Rotpert is said to have descended
from Ednyfed Vychan of Anglesey, the distinguished
general of Prince Lly welyn ap lorwerth.

Rhydonen is a very pretty place in the Parish of
Llantisilio, near Llangollen. It came by the marriage
on 25 Sep,, 1729, of Katherine, d. and heir of Henry
Roberts (Sheriff Co. Denbigh 1722), to John Ffoulkes
oi Iiriviat, ami was sold by his great-grandson to Lord
John Tottenham, Bishop of Clogher, whose family are
the present owners.

William Roberts married two heiresses, Margaret
Owen and Elizabeth Maurice. The former owned
PI as Nantymeichiad (Meifod parish), which was pos-
sessed by the Owens in 1 GO 1 , and, probably, much
earlier. One of this family was Sheriff Co. Montgomery.3
Her only son, Owen Roberts, sold Nantymeichiad to
Sir Henry Williams Wynn.

The Maurices of Honfaeh (Llanrhaiadr-yn-Mochnant)
were a branch of the Maurices of Lloran (Jehaf (Llan-
silin), and descend from Bleddyn ap Cynlyn, Prince of

' (,'lolc now tamper, 1HDU.
'-' S. AyupH 1'uluoo.

9 Wo iiru indebted for this infornmtion to Archdeacon Tlionmb.

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARTS H

Gl

Powis, whoso son by his 4th wife, liirid, was called the
Lord of llenfaehau. He was killed at the battle of
Llechryd 1087.1

By his second wife William Roberts had seven
children. Ho was buried in the vault of the Maurice
family at Llanrhaiadr, where a tablet was erected to
iiis memory, surmounted by a shield " (Jules, ou a
chevron or, between <>' mullets of the same." Arms of
Roberts of Khydonen, impaling " Or a lion ram}),
yules." Arms of Maurice, those of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn.

Tlio inscription is as follows : —

Near this place arc deposited the remains of
tiie Reverend William Roberts, M A.
Hector of Whiltinglon and Sylattyn
and one of hi.^ Ma jesty's J list ices of
the Peace for the County of Salon,
Who died 14 Septemher, 1784, aged GO.
Ho was an upright yet humane Magistrate,
A pleasing and instructive Pastor,
An affectionate Husband,
A tender Father and a kind Master,
Merit, beaming and Religion were in hint happily united.
Society has lost a valuable Member!
The Poor a worthy Benefactor.
And his Friends a Friend indeed.
Ho first married Margaret, eldest Daughter of Richard
Owen, Fs(jr., of Aston ana Nantymeichied, hy Catherine his
Wife, ono of the Daughters of hi wynymaen. liy her he had
Issue Owen, soon alter whose birth she died.

Ho afterwards married Susanna, a Daughter of Edward
Maurice of llenfache, IJsq1'., and Issue by her, William, Susanna,
Margaret, Nathaniel, Sarah, and Pell.

His Widow
who retains tho greatest regard for a person
whom every amiahle Quality
Had endeared to her
Hath dedicated THIS to his memory.

Hoy. Robert Roberts, Vicar of Chirk, 1709-17 41, m. Mary. She
died 2ml March, I77(i, agoij SO, bur. Chirk.

Son William Roberts, b. Chirk 17 IN. Renter Whittingtou
I749-17M4, Rector Selattyn 17.00-1784. Mar. 1st, Margaret t

» Hist. I'owys Fadoy, vol. iv., p. 351; Marl. MS. 2,209,

Vol IX. Und S. I

62 SELA.TTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

bap. 16 April, 1720, at Oswestry, d. and h. of Rick Owen

of Aston and Nantymeichiad (he was born 6 th. bap. 14
Nov., 1G83, at Oswestry, and was son of John Owen
of Aston, bap. 16 Oct., 1663, at Oswestry, bur. there 31
Aug., 1G96. The first mention of this family we have at
Oswestry is the death of " Ellen, d. of John, wife of John
ap Owen of Aston, 21 May, 1583," and his second marriage
with "Joane, d. of Robt, 18 Nov., 1583"), by Catherine,
d. of Andrew and Elizabeth Lloyd of the Fords, West
Felton; she was bap. 5 March, 1696, at West Felton, and
was bur. 4 March, 17 54-, in the graveyard at Aston Chapel.
There is a gravestone to her memory, and one to her
daughter "Margaret, eldest d. of Richard Owen, Esq, and
wife of the Rov. Mr. Roberts, Died Sep. 27, 1743, aged 23."
She left an only child, Owen Roberts, born 1743.

The 2nd wife of William Roberts, Susannah Maurice, was d.
and coheir of Edward Maurice of Henfach, who mar.
Margaret Maurice, heir of Trefdryd, in Meifod. Her
sister Elizabeth Maurice, mar. Thomas Trevor of Bodynfol,
Vicar Oswestry 1736-1784, Vicar Ruabon 1770-1784.

The children of William Roberts by Susannah were : —

1. William.

2. Nathaniel Roberts, born 2, bap. 23 June, 1755, at

Whittington, mar. Frances, d. of John Matthews
of Eyarth and Plas Bostock, Ruthin. Her sister
Eleanor Matthews m. Sir William H. Roger Palmer,
Bt., of Castle Lackin, Co. Mayo.
Nathaniel Roberts ds.p. By will 7 April, 1826, he
left the Trefdryd property to his wife, who left it
to her nephew Sir Roger W. H. Palmer (born 22
May, 1832), who sold it in 1877 to Messrs. Dewhirst
and Segur of Manchester.

1. Susannah, born and bap. 20 July, 1749, at Whittington.

2. Harrietta, born 23 July, bap. 6 Aug., 1750, Whitting-

ton, d. 13th, bur. 16th April, 1753, at Selattyn.

3. Margaret, born 22, bap. 23 April, 1754, Whittington.

4. Sarah, born 13 Jan., bap. 8 Feb., 1760, Whittington.

5. Bell, born 12 Dec, 1763, bap. 3 Jan., 1764, Whittington.

1785.

/ <Tf // s b- 21 Feb-> 1758 ; LLB- Trinity

^LC^*** > Coll., Cambridge, 1785 ;x Hector
f Whittington 1784, Selattyn, 6

January, 1 7 85^

1 (Jraduati Cantab.

SELATTVN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

63

He was the son of the Rev. William Lloyd, by
Elizabeth, d. of William Sneyd of Bishton, Co. Stafford,
Esq., and was the owner of Aston II all and patron of
both the livings.

The Bishops' Certificates, S. Asaph, state that he
was presented to Selattyn by Peter Davies and John
Sneyd, Esquires. They must have acted as trustees.

The Rev. J. R. Lloyd rebuilt the house at Aston.
He was Mayor of Oswestry in 1795. In 179G he
received the Gold Medal of the Society for the En-
couragement of Arts, etc., for having planted 60,000
oaks on his property.

In 1797 he was appointed Chaplain to the Shropshire
Supplementary Militia.1 He mar. Martha, d. of Arthur
Shaks(>eare, Alderman of London, and left three sons
and two daus. (See Chap. 1., p. '28).

We have nothing further to record of him, except
that he kept a pack of harriers, and that there is a
very good miniature of him in a red coat at Aston. He
died 10 August, 1801, and was buried at Aston Chapel.

1802.

Born 1764 ; edu. Macclesfield School, under Dr. Ingles ;
Christ Cull., Cambridge ; senior optime and B.A. 1787;
M.A. 17902 and Fellow. Rector Whittington 10 Dec,
1301-9; Rector Selattyn 13 Jan., 1802-10.

He was the only son of Peter Davies of Broughton,
Co. Flint, an ancient family descended from Cynric
Efell, whose Arms they bear : — Gules, on a bend arg.,
a lion pass, sable.

The Parish Church of Whittington was rebuilt under
his direction in 1803 and 1806. 3 It is an ugly brick

1 Shrop. Arch. Trans., vol. vii., p. 213.

*-' (iraduali Cuntub.

" Sec VVhitlingtoij Register,

6 4 SELATTYN : A WJSTORY OF THE PA1U.SH.

structure ; fortunately, he left Selattyn Church un-
touched, " the house and Church there being in an
excellent state of repair."1

Selattyn parish is stated to have contained in 1809
157 houses and about 700 inhabitants.

In 1809 W. Davies resigned tha Rectory of Whit-
tington, and in 1810 that of Selattyn. In March of
the latter year he became possessed of the Llannerch
estate, Co. Denbigh. It belonged to his family through
the marriage of Robert Davies of Gwysaney, born 19
Feb., 1616 (High Sheriff Co. Flint 1644-45 and 1660),
"a Staunch Cavalier," with Anne, d. and coheir of Sir
Peter Mytton of Llannerch Park, Kt., Chief Justice of
North Wales, and M.P. Carnarvon.

Robert Davies married when he was aged 15, Anne
Mytton, 20 July, 1631, at Gresford Church, Co. Denbigh,
lie was bur. at Mold, 4 Oct., 1666. She was bur.
there 14th Oct., 1690. 2

Whitehall Davies was second cousin to the patron of
Whittington and Selattyn, the Rev. John Robert
Lloyd's grandfather having married Jane (born 1698),
d. of Robert Davies of Llanerch, and of Letitia Yaughan,
sister of first Viscount Lisburne.

He succeeded to Broughton, in the Parish of Wor-
thenbury, Co. Flint, in November, 1810, and made
many additions to that beautiful old brick and timber
house, which is said to have been built in the reign of
Hen. VII. He also joined with George, Lord Kenyon,
in building and endowing a Church at Threapwood,
' and in building a parsonage house there. This church
was consecrated 8 January, 1817. He died at
Broughton, 10 June, 1 824, and was buried at Worthen-
bury, where there is a tablet to his memory. He was

1 Inspection of Eccles Buildings of the Deanery of Oswestry, 13
J tine, 1832, St. Asaph Palace.

- We owe the Information eoneorning the Broughton and Llanerch
pedigree to P. Davies Cooke, of (Jwysaney, Esq., and to Sir T. H.
I'uleston's History of Worthenbury.

SELATTYN : A HISTOKY OF TT1R PARISH. 65

succeeded by his sister Ann Elizabeth Da vies, widow
of the Rev. (Jeor^e Alhuison.

Handle Broughton of Broughton, m. Margaret, d. and heir of

David a|> El is of Eyum, Bhuabon.
Son and heir John Broughton, in. Margaret, d. of William ap

William of ( ochwillan.
Son and la ir Handle Broughton, m. Jane, d. of Roger Ruleston

of Enmd, who died 1572.
Son and heir John Broughton, m. Susanna, d. of Edward

llellot of Morion, Co. Chester, Esq. He was buried at

Wort hen bury, 4 Feb., 1655; she was bur. 2 March, 165.1.

Thty had 2 sons and one daughter.

1, .John Broughton in. Audrey (0 He died s.p.; bur. Wor-

llu-nhury 1702. She was bur. 24 April, 161)5, aged 09.

2. Thomas, d s.p.

1. Eli/.aUth Broughton m. at Worthonbury, 11 June, 1650,
Rowland Whitehall of Lock wood, Kingley par., Co.
Station I.

Thoir son and h. John Whitehall born 1660, rn. Mary, d. Sir
And row Hackot of Moxhul, Co. Warwick. They had 1
son and 3 daughters.

I. Uroughton Whitehall, b. 1685. He mar. Letitia, d. of
Robert Davies of Gwysaney, Co. Flint, and of Llanerch
(he was the collector of the Llanerch Library, and was
born 1658; bur. Mold, 11 July, 1710), by Letitia, d. of
Edward Vaughan of Trawseoed, Esq., M.P. for Co. Cardigan.
He died s.p. 19th, bur. 22 Sep., 1734 (tablet in Worthen-
bury Church). His wife Letitia was bur. IS Dec., 1741.

1 1 is il. Letitia Whitehall in. 1734, her lirst cousin, Robert, son
of Robert Davies of Gwysaney (he was born 2 Sep., 1084,
bur. Mold, 3 June, 1728, where there is a large moil, to
him), by Ann, d. of John Broekloy, Esq., of Claughton,
Lancashire. Mar. 2 Sep., 34 Charles JL; bur. Mold, 16
June, 1764.

Robert Davies bur. Mold, 28 Nov., 1763, and Letitia 2 Sep.,
1745.

1. Elizabeth, coheir to her brother Broughton Whitehall, m.

Reter (4th son of Robert Davies and Ann Brockholes),
who. d. Nov, 1810.

2. Susannah mar. John Broughton Whitehall; shod. 1762.

3. Mary mar. Robert Dod of Cl'overloy.

Elizahdh Whitehall and Ruler Davies were the parents of
Whitehall Whitehall Davies (Rector of Selattyn and
Whitlington), d.s.p 10 June, 1824, and of 'Ann Elizabeth,

66 SELATTYN: A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

Da vies, m. 10 Nov., 1794, at Worthenbury, Rev. George
A Hanson of Middleton Guernliow, Co. York, Prebend, of
Kipon and Rector of JLodnet, Co. Salop (was bur. at
Worthenbury ; tablet in Church). She d. August 18-11,
aged 78, bur. Worthenbury, having had 2 sons and 2
daughters.

1. George Allanson, d.s.p.

2. Cuthbcrt Allanson, d.s.p.

1. Elizabeth Allanson, mar. 1822, John Whitehall Dod of

Clovorley. (They sold liroughtoii in 1852).

2. Dorothy All anson in. July, I MO, at Wortlienhury, Sir

Digby Cay Icy of Rroinpton, Co. York, lit. (he was b. 13
March, 1507, d. 23 Dec, 1883). She died 4 April, 1881,
and had issue

Sir George Allanson Cayley, b. 31 Dec, 1831, died Oct, 1805,
leaving by Catherine, dau. of Sir Win. Worsley, Bart, 2
sons; the eldest, now Sir G. Everard A. Cayley (9th Bart), is
present owner of Llanerch Park.

1810.

Born 23 Aug., 1786. Trinity Coll., Camb., B.A. 1809,
M.A. 1813, Rector of Selattyn 25 Sep , 1810, Mayor
of Oswestry 1817. He was the third son of the Rev.
J. R. Lloyd (Rector 1785-1801) of Aston.1 His marriage
is thus recorded in Selattyn Register : —

"George N. K. Lloyd and Ann Cory, daughter of
James Cory, Rector of Kettlestone and Sheringford,
Co. Norfolk, were married in St. Mary's Church,
Islington, by Mr. Marshall, curate of that parish, June
9, 182G, in the presence of the Rev. D. lluell, Minister
ofPentonvillo Chapel, and Mrs. Forster."

They had one son and two daughters : —
1. George Newton Lloyd, bap. 19 July, 1831, at
Selattyn. Scholar of 1 latf. Hall, Durham, RA.
1 855, M.A. l8.r)<J, Deacon l85.r>, Priest 1850,

1 Chap. I, p. 28.

SRLATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 07

Vicar of Bicton, Co. Salop, 1875-1888. He in.
Ellen, d. of Lancelot J lee J of Graysmoor, Co.
Camb. ; d. 24 April, 1888.

1. Martha Jane, bap. 8 Jan., 1835, at Selattyn.

2. Charlotte Elizabeth, bap. 29 Sep., 1.836, at Selattyn.
Selattyn School was built by him in 1811, and anew

Rectory in 1812. lie also built a small Church at
the llengoed, which was opened on Christmas Day,
1S35. This, after the consecration of the new Church
in I 853, was made into a schoolroom.

lie gives us in the Register the first record of those
continued. The numbers were: — 1825, -15 confirmed ;
182S, UU continued ; 1831, 25 confirmed. Population,
1 1 12. 1831, 50 confirmed ; 1837, 36 confirmed ; 1840,
42 confirmed. Population, 1128. 1844, 09 confirmed.
In 1817 (the year after his death) only 18 were con-
firmed, (ioorge Lloyd died 17 January, 1810, and was
bur. in Selattyn Churchyard, where there is a grave-
atone to him and his wife (see Chap. VI.). He was a
very saintly man ; thirty years after his death his
memory was still venerated.

1810.

b. at Aston, 22 January, 1785,
Trinity Coll., Camb., B.A. 1800.
M.A. 1809, Hector Whittington
1809, and of Selattyn 1810.
Mayor of Oswestry 1813. lie was the second son of
Rev. J. R. Lloyd of Aston.1 lie mar. Hannah Simpson
Cowan, and had two sons and one dau.
1. Albany llossendale Lloyd, b. 3 June, 1817, at
Whittington. Trinity Coll., Camb,, M.A.,
Deacon 1810, Priest 1811, Curate Padiham,
St. Johns, Liverpool, and Selattyn, Incumbent
St. Harnabas, I tangoed, 1H53. (This Church
was mainly built athis cost. The foundation
stone was laid by him 10 Aug., 1819. It was

OR

SELATTYN : A UfSTOKY OF THIS I'AUISH.

opened 1850, but not consecrated till 15 Aug.,
1853, owing to the want of a sufficient endow-
ment. He was a frequent writer botli in prose
and poetry. lie d. unmar. 13 March, 1895,
bur. Hengoed).

2. Newton Rossendale Lloyd, b. 4 Oct., 1818. S.
Davids Coll., Lampeter, 1844, Deacon, 184G,
Priest, 1847, Curate Birmingham and Kirk-
heaton, V. Mold Green, Iluddersfield, and of

Milnsbridge, Huddersfield. Mar

and had a son and a daughter (who mar. Rev.
F. Campbell of Torquay). lie d. 7 Dec, bur. 9
Dec, 1 893, at S. Luke's, Milnsbridge, in a vault
beside his wife and son.

1 Lloyd, m. Lev. Christopher Aldersou, Vicar

Kirkheaton.

Charles Arthur Albany Lloyd was bur.atWhittington,
1 August. 1851, where there is a marble tablet on the
south wall of the chancel to his memory. The inscrip-
tion is : — " Sacred to the memory of the Reverend
Charles Arthur Albany Lloyd, Lector of this Parish
above 40 years, who died deeply lamented on the 24th
July, 1851, aged GG. lie most zealously preached
Christ crucified, was a true and tried friend of the poor
and most warmly and energetically advocated the cause
of the Church Missionary {Society, remembering and
obeying the Scripture precept, 4 'fell it out among the
brethren that the Lord is King.' — Psalm, xcvi., 10."

1852.

Trin. Coll., Camb., R.A., 1816,
M.A. 1822, Rector Selattyn, in-
stituted 27 Jan., inducted G
March, 1852.

lb; was the fifth sou of Francis Lloyd of Domgay,
Co. Montgomery (who was M. P. for that county 4
April, 1795 to 1799, when he died), by Elizabeth; d. of
Arthur Craham of Hockley Lodge, Co. Armagh, and
coheir of John, Earl Ligonier,

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69

This family of Lloyd descend from Tudor Trevor.
Their Anns are: — "Per bend, erm and ermines, over all
(t hon rahip or, a bordure <ju/cs." Their ancestor,
Handle Lloyd of Croesmere, Ellesmere parish, Co. Salop
(living 1001) was tho son of Robert ap John of Bangor,
by Matilda, d. and heir of David Lloyd of Penley. Co.
Flint, ICsq.

His great-grandson, Edward Lloyd, who. d. 1093,
settled at Leaton, near {Shrewsbury, lie mar. Mary,
d. of Edward Muckleston of Penylan, Co. Salop,1
Recorder of Oswestry, and by her (who d. 17^1) left a

Edward Lloyd of Leaton, b. 1089, Sheriff Shropshire
17-7, in. Susan, d. Peter Scarlett of llogstowe, bur.
S. Mary's, Shrewsbury, 29 May, 17G-1, left a son,

Edward Lloyd of Leaton, b. 1714, m. Jane, d. and *
heir of Thomas Lloyd of Domgay, Co. Montgomery,
son and heir Francis Lloyd. lie was father of: — L.
Francis, d.s.p. 1814 ; 2. John Arthur (builder of Leaton
Church), d.s.p. 1864; 3. Charles Spencer, d.s.p. 1876;
4. Thomas Henry, d. 1811 ; 5. Tlev. IT. J. Lloyd, mar.
Elizabeth, 2nd d. Philip John Miles of Leigh Court,
Somerset, M. P. for Bristol, and had issue 2 sons and a
daughter : —

1. Arthur Philip Lloyd, b. 11 Sep, 1835 (succeeded

his uncle Charles in 1876), of Leaton Knolls,
m. 18 Sep., 1863, Katherine Selina, d. Vice-
Admiral lion. Charles 0, Bridgeman, and had
issue one son and five daughters. He died 9
Feb., 1893, bur. at Leaton Church ; sue. by his
son, Arthur IT. O. Lloyd, b. 31 May, 1804; m.
10 Aug., 1893, Anna Maria, d. of Arthur Pem-
berton TIeywood of Cloverley and Shavington,

2. Henry Graham Lloyd of West Pel ton Grange, m.

Eleanor O'Grady. lie has three sons : — I.
Slandish ; 2. William ; 3. Francis ; and one
dim., Mary Violet, who d. 1890.

i /list, of tfi/dilh, p. 127.
Vol. IX. 2ml S.

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70 SELATTYN: A 1JJSTORY OF THE PARISH.

1. Elizabeth Maria Lloyd, m. 26 July, 18G6, her first
cousin, Charles John William, third son of Sir
William Miles of Leigh Court (b. 16 Jan., 1832,
d. 2 June, 1874). She d. 188 . . s.p.
"Selattyn Bectory was rebuilt of stone in 1854,

with money (£7 70) borrowed from Queen Anne's Bounty

Fund by the Rev. Henry Lloyd."1 lie d. at Brighton

3 Sep., 1853.

1853.

X/ </f /B.A. 1821, M A. 1825,

[/(/ fmsJfUJP^lW Fellow of Magdalen

■ ~ Coll. .Cambridge, curate

S. Matthew's, Buckley, near Chester, 18 J 8, and of
Neston, Cheshire, 1822, Bector Selattyn, October,
1853.

He bought the living of Selattyn from Louisa, widow
of William Lloyd of Aston. He mar. Charlotte, d. of
Edward Jones of We pre Hall, Co. Flint (who d. 31
July, 1857), and had two sons: —

1. 'John Edward Colville. St. Bees 1853, Deacon

1853, Priest 1854, Curate Whitchurch-Cani-
corum, Dorset, Selattyn and Madron, Truro,
1868-70. He m. . . .

2. Sydney.

A very important change in the area of Selattyn was
made at this time. On 3 J January, 1854, the Jlengoed
was gazetted as a parish. It comprised the lower
division of Porkington, population 41)6; and the town-
ship of Day well in Whitlington, with an area of 773
acres 35 p., and a population of 351. The whole popu-
lation of Selattyn was thus reduced by 847.

The formation of the Ilengoed parish began, as we
have seen, in 1835 and 1849.

Selattyn School was enlarged in 1863. at a cost of
.1*1 15.- A School and Teacher's House at Pantirlas

1 Si^iityn 'Ityrior, 7tli Aug., 1850.

2 Indtmivu of a debt of X77 and Law expenses £45 10s.

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

71

were built by J. R. Ormsby-Gore (first Lord Harlech)
in L8Gl,and enlarged in 18(55. An Evening Service
was held there from 18GG to 1870.

A salver sold at the sale after Mr. Husband's death
bore his Anns, impaling those of his wife.

1 and 4. " Arg, on a fesse cotised, between 3 martlets
gu. as many mullets of the field." (Husband).

2 and 3. " . . a chev. . . between 3 mullets . . "

1 and i. " Az. a chev. between 3 cocks arg. armed,
crested and jelloped or." (Jones of We pre. The Aims
of Owen of Caerbellan, etc.).

2. " (ill. 3 snakes enowed in a triangular knot arg."
(Rdnowaiu ap Bradwen and Owen of Caerbellan).

3. " . . on a chev. . . a mullet for difference."
Crest : 11 A bird's head couped holding an ear of

corn."

This Rector died 30 January, 1869, aged 80, and was
bur. in Selattyn Churchyard, where there is a grave-
stone to his memory (see Chap. VI.).

1869.

Born 12 June, 1832. Edu. Oswestry Grammar School,
8. Aidan's, Birkenhead. Deacon 1857, Priest J 858,
Curate Sittingbourne and I wade 1857, Westerham
1859, South llanuingfield 18G3, St. .hide a, London,
1864, St. Clement's, London, 1806, P.O. Grange, Dio.
Carlisle, 18(;7, Rector Selattyn 18(59.

lie was the son of Mr. Thomas Rogers of Oswestry.
He mar. 6 August, 1861, Isabella Stewart Gray, by
whom he had eight children.

1. James (bay Strangward, d. agod 9,

2. Thomas.

3. Stewart.

4. Harry.

5. ( /ImrloH Ibgby.

I'l SELATTYN: A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

1. Isabella Gray Strangward mar. June, 1884, Rev.

Henry Walters.

2. Melicent Margaret.

3. Lucy Elizabeth.

He died of influenza 18 Feb., bur. 25 Feb., 1890, in
Selattyn Churchyard.
1890.

Born 14 Sept., 1863, bap. West Felton, 1863. Educated
Winchester College and Jesus College, Cambridge.
B. A. 1885, M.A. 1890, Deacon 1887, Priest 1888,
Curate Brecon 1887-1890, Rector Selattyn May 19th,
1890.

He is the third son of Col. Lloyd of Aston, who mar.
Lady Frances Hay (see Chap. L, p. 29).

FURTHER NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE
PARISH OF CHETTON.

By Hrv. KALPH C. PURTON, MA.

(1) FAINT REE. (See Trans., 2nd Series, Vol. II. ,

!> 5211).

As examination of certain deeds relating to Faintree
thrown additional light on the history of that Manor,
and adds to our knowledge of the families of Whitton
and Briggs.

21 Sent., 43 Elizabeth, we have Indentures between
Whorwood Whitton, gent., son and heir of Francis
Whitton of Whitton (Co. Salop), and Edmond Whitton,
gent., second son of the said Francis Whitton, of the
one part, and Richard Wright and Thomas Covell,
citizen and goldsmith of London, of the other part,
being a mortgage to secure £104 upon the scite of the
Manor, etc. of Fay n trie, called the Hall of Fayntrie,
with the lands thereunto belonging.

Nov. 13, 44 Elizabeth, we have a License from the
Crown to the aforesaid Francis Whitton and Elizabeth
his wife, Whorwood Whitton, Richard Wright, Thomas
Covell and Anthony Whapland to convey the Manor,
etc., of Fay ntre with 4 gardens, 300 acres of land, 30
acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, and 40 acres of
wood with the appurtenances to Bonliani Norton and
John Norton to hold in fee.

March kJG, 3 James L, the same Francis Whitton,
Elizabeth his wife, and Whorwood Whitton convey the
Lordship or Manor of Fayntre, alias Fayntree, alias
Phcntru, with all etc. to Sir John Whitbrooke of
Bridgnorth.

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FURTHER NOTES ON THE HISTORY

Nov. 1st, 8 James I. Indentures of confirmation
between the above-mentioned Sir John Whitbrooke, of
the one part, and Oliver Briggs of Great Aston (Co.
Salop), of the other part, reciting the former convey-
ance of Francis Whitton of Whitton (now deceased),
Elizabeth his wife, Whorwood Whitton, his son ami
heir, and Elizabeth his wife ; and since the said convey-
ance the said John Whitbrooke, together with John
Norton and Henry Walton, by their indentures con-
veyed the Manor, etc., of Faintree to the said Oliver
Brings and his heirs.

Richard Briggs, son and heir of Oliver, died
May 10, 1G20, his next heir being his brother
Humphrey, who married at Easthope, Dec. 1st,
1025, Dorothy, daughter of Edward Lutwyche, Esq.
Their eldest son Edward married (1G57) Mary, daughter
of Edward Baldwin of Middleton Scriven ; marriage
settlement (of a capital messuage in Upper Faintree)
dated October 1 2th, 1G57. He married a second time
Christabela Burghe ; marriage settlement (of the Manor
of Faintree) dated April 27th, 1GG7. (Blakeway Bodl.
MS. 2).

June 14th and 15th, 1G69, Indentures of lease and
release between Edward Briggs of Shrewsbury, of the
one part, and Sir Humphrey Briggs of iiaughton, Bart., '
of the other part, being a conveyance to Sir Humphrey
by t he said Ed ward of Upper and Nether Faintree.

By similar Indentures, dated May 7th and 8th, IG77,
Sir Humphrey Briggs; Bart., and Dame Magdalen his
wife, convey the Manor, etc., of Faintree to Thomas
Pardoo of Grid don.

According to the terms of the Inquest on the death
of Sir John de Perton the Sheriff (p. 222), his posses-
sions passed to his nearest male heirs, the sons of
'Margery do Stirohloy and of Matilda del Oroueh (hiquis. x
p. moti, 12 Rich M i -1*0 ; but on the failure of their
lino, (ho Manor of For ton devolved, in accordance with
the Huino inquest, on William, sou ol Leo do Perton.
Leo de Perton was a youngorson of Sir John de Perton

OF THE PA HIS If OF CHETTON.

and Felicia de Tresel, and held lands in Wightwick and
Morfe.1 lie was a person of some consequence, and sat
as Knight of the Shire for Worcestershire 3G Edvv. Til

(2) CHETTON. (See Trans., 2nd Series, Vol. VI.,

p. 177).

Blakeway in his notes on Chetton (MS. Bodl. 2)
writes : — " Ralph Browne Wyldo Browne, Esq., Lord
of the Manor of Chetton, holds his Court baron in y°
Maimr house of Kudon Burnall for yti whole parish."
Whence it appears that the manorial rights had been
acquired hy the Wylde family, probably with the
ad vow son. Since Robert Cresset (according to Blake-
way) wan possessed of Chetton in 14G4, and Francis
and Edward Cresset present in 1G03 (not apparently
as grantees), their interest in the presentation, which
is next in the hands of Wylde, may point to some
connection of the advowson with the manor.

The Down. — Blakeway has the following vague note,
without dates: — "The Down in ye parish of Chetton
was bought from . . . [blank] by Lee of Wroxeter,
from whom it descended to Dr. Blakeway, who left it
to his father, the late Edward Blakeway, Esq., of
Broseley, who was obliged to sell it."

The Church — The Brief for re-building Chetton
Chinch, bearing date 15 George III. (Brit. Mas., B.
xv., 1) represents that " Whereas it has been repre-

1 His ancestors had held lands in this neighbourhood beforo him —
at Hallon in Worfield, to which parish the forest of Morfo extended.
"John de Perton, Lord of Perton, par. Tcttenhall, Co. Stafford, died
(seized thereof (i.e., Hallon) in 1257. In direct descent from this
John de Perton was John Perton of Hallon, Where he died '1535,
when (>d. was paid to tho Chantry Priest of Worfield to pray for his
soul. The family afterwards removed to l'aulon Bnrnell, pur. Chetton,
Co. Sail op, and became possessed of Kainlrey Manor, by marrying
the heiress of the Pardoes of that place." (.S. 13. James, J/txtury of
WcrtieUI, p. 30).

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FURTHER NOTES ON THE HISTORY

Rented to us, as well upon the humble petition of the
minister and Churchwardens, etc., as by certificate
under our trusty and well -beloved Justices of the peace,
etc., that the parish Church of Ohetton aforesaid is a
very ancient building, and by length of time it is become
so ruinous that the parishioners cannot assemble lor
divine worship without manifest danger of their lives,
and the same must be taken down and rebuilt, etc.
[estimated cost £ 1,052, exclusive of old material] ...
We do by these presents nominate the Right Rev. !
the Lord Bishop of Hereford, Charles Baldwyn, Thomas ]
Ottley, Esquires, the He v. Thomas Warter, the Rev. |
Joseph Ball, Clerks, John Purton, Thomas Pardoe,
Edward Milner, John Reese, John Nicholls, Jacob
Smith, Thomas Stevenson, and John Stevenson, gentle-
men, Trustees and Receivers of the Charity, etc., etc."

From an old Plan of the Church at Chtttcn Rectory,
it appears that there was formerly a porch with a stair-
case leading up to the gallery. This, I suppose, was
pulled down when the tower was erected, and the
church lengthened, in 182G.

The population of the parish in 1831 was 515 (262
males, 253 females), inhabited houses, 99, uninhabited
2, building 1; families 102— employed in agriculture
81, in trade, etc. 15. The Rectories of Glazeley and
Deuxhill were consolidated with the Rectory of Chetton
in 1759.

The Communion Plate consists of a Flagon, a Paten,
and two Chalices with covers (shaped like small patens).
Of these, one chalice cover is dated 1571. The Flagon,
Paten, and one Chalice were presented by Susannah
Yickers in 1820. The ITall-marks of the older pieces
are almost worn away. The two chalices are identical
in shape and pattern.

The "Holy Well"-- R. C. Hope, in " Holy Wells of j
England," writes (on the authority of Alias E. L. j
Meale) : — " In the parish of Chetton there was formerly
a holy well or spring. It is not known whether it had
any special dedication, but the Church is dedicated to

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77

St. Giles, and the waters of the spring were supposed
to possess a healing virtue for cripples or weakly
persons. The last person who was dipped in the well
was Mary Anne Jones, about the year 1817 ; she sub-
sequently died about 18o0, aged 24 years, and was the
eldest sister of my informant, one of the oldest inhabi-
tants of the parish. Though considerably covered up
with undergrowth, the spring is not vet entiiely lost."
Mary Anno Jones of the Old Field, was buried at
Chetton, Feb. 19th, 1840, aged 23 years. The Well is
now quite dry and hardly discoverable. It lies a few
yards below the spring now used by the villagers, west
of the Church. I am told that in quite recent times,
one of the villagers used to bathe his eyes there
yearly.

The Glebe. — The original glebe, or at least a part of
it, lay a quarter of a mile S.W. of the Church, where a
cottage, now demolished, used to be pointed out as the
" Old Rectory.' The land here was exchanged for
other land, now forming part of the glebe adjoining
the Rectory.

(J) EUDON GEORGE. (See Trans., 2nd Series,
Vol. VI., p. 201).

Though William de St. George is alone mentioned as
Lord of ftudon in 1305, the interest of Geoffrey de
Overton (one of the possessors of the Manor in 1255)
continued, for his son Peter de Overton had, by his
wife Joan, daughter of Sir Roger Baskerville of Pick-
thorn, a son John de Overton of Eudon George, whose
daughter and heir Joan carried the estate into her
husband William Worthyn, whose family was seated
here for some generations, till Ellen, daughter and heir
of Thomas Worthyn, brought Kudon into the family of
Rruyn, through whom (as already recorded, p 202) it
passed l<> thii Otoloys. Though devised by will to the

I

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FURTHER NOTES ON THE HISTORY

Oteleys of Forde,1 Eudon appears to have reverted to
the Pitchford branch, for the Hon. Charles Cecil Cope
Jenkinson (afterwards 3rd Earl Liverpool) possessed
the estate here, he hein<( the heir of Adam Ottley of
Pitchford, the last of his house, whose father, Thomas
Ottley, is mentioned in the Brief for rebuilding Chetton
Church, cited above.

tl 1 E CHTJR CI I WARDENS' ACCOUNTS
OF CHETTON.

These Accounts, covering a period from 1599 to 1743,
are contained in one volume, made up of parchment
and paper, loosely bound, with no proper cover, for the
most part perfect, though badly torn in one or two
places. The entries are written in every conceivable
style of hand, and the Accounts themselves vary greatly
in respect of the carefulness with which they have been
kept. Since similar Accounts have already been pub-
lished in the Transactions, only the more important
entries are here given. The opening statement stains,
however, worthy of being reproduced in full, and is as
follows : —

1509. " Money given to the p'shc of Chetton to rcmayne a
Rtocke for over and to ho used in manor and fonno following©.

"Imprimis the Church wardens of the p'isho of (Jhctton
shall have the chardge and the use of the money for one whole
yoaio and si mil sett it out to the host use and commoditio
thoy can devise and shall yearly give and delyver unto the
pooie ol the same p'she all the annnytie and increase thereof
that they have made and received by the sayd stockeof money
and also shall delyver unto the p'shoners in writynge what

1 So the Editor of the Visitation of 1023 (I fart. Soc. rub., p. 381, n.)
on the authority of Duke; but the Pedigree of Ottley in Transaction*,
2nd Si r., vii., 303, which adds two generations here, makes it probable
thai l l»ia, with other estates, was devised to Thomas Ottley of
I'tUhfuid, sou and heir of William, husband of Margery ftruyn ; and
that therefore Kudou never went out of the l'itehford braneh till it
expired.

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79

thoy liavo received liow they liavo bestowed yt and uppon
whomo aeeordingo to the purpose and trewe meaning ot tho
|fy vers thereof.

" rtem the owldo wardons of Chetton aforosaido shall yearelio
upon l ho Feast thiy of All Saiutes in the presonco of the
p 'si inner* then assembled delyver unto the nowe wardens that
shall then bo nomynaled and chosen all the whole stocke of
money that is <»r shall he given hereafter.

•' Item tho nowu Wardens ymmediatolie uppon tho recoipt
of the money shall sett it fortho and omploy yt to tho uses
ftfonsaido.

•* I tuiii yt is agreed and thoughto convenient that allwayos
np(H>n tho Sonday before the Feast day of All Saiutes tho
Wardens doo eat her up or liavo in a redynosso tho prineipall
Stocke ami tno yucreaso thereof whereby they may make
thoyre necomnto m wry tinge what they have done.

" Articles ol Agreement made by consent of the parishionors
of Chetton, Anno Domini 1599.

" Imprimis, yt is covenanted graunted and agreed by generall
consent of the parishioners of Chetton that hereafter whoso-
ever shal be wardens ot the church aforesaid that they thoyro
executors admynystrators and assignes shal be answerable and
stand bownde by these presents to make good tho whole stocke
of money that is or shal be given hereafter.

" Item yt is agreed that tho wardens shall yealde up thoyro
nccompte upon tho Feast day of All Saints according to tho
uuneyent custom of tho parish, and that the owld wardens
shall gather up all dueties and lewnes whiche they have
begonno to gather and make a just accompte unto the parish
of all tho whole doynges together so that the new warden shall
not bo molested or troubled to gather up any dewties which
were payable the yeare before Provided allwayos that if the
owldo Wardens shalbo forced or compelled to sue for any
dewties unpayed yt shalbo upon the chardges of tho whole
parish and the newe wardens shall disburse the same.

"The names of them that have given tho money abovo
specified, the sommo and tho yearo wherein it was given: — "

Sir William Oowburne, Parson of Chetton, xxs. 1574.

Richard Wall and Margaret his wife, xs. 15cSS.

Rowland Few troll, xs. 1595.

Kdmond liockwith, vis. 1590.

John Wrednall, xs 1597.

Thomas Wrednall, his. iiiid. 1597.

Ami'; Fyd bin gent., xls. I .">D«S.

Tl km nas Wyldo of Glassloy, gent., xxs. 15yo.

80 FURTHER NOTES ON THE HISTORY

Thomas Lewis of Chetton, Carpenter, xs. 1602.

Sir William VVrodnall, Parson of Chetton, xxs. 1603.

Francis Blakemoro of Overton, xxs. 1603.

Sir Tliomas Lavve, Vicar of Aladeley, vis. viiid. 1604.

Thomas Wrednall ami Joan his wife, xs. 1609.
"The stoeke of the parishe was ineroasod by tho parties
abovo nominated and by the parishioners nnto Tonne Poimdes
and Tenne Groates and soe sett forth in anno D'ni 1610."

Francis Farmer gont., xls. 1610.

The names only of the above are entered ; in the
following cases the bequest is more fully given. That
of Moreton Briggs of Faintree is printed in full in
Tra/isactlons, vol. vi., p. 217, and may serve as a
specimen, the rest being couched in very similar
terms : —

Humphrey Tedstell of Tedstell xxis. viiid.; also a further
sum of iiis. iiiid. "for (lie place of his buryall in tho
church," was devoted, by consent of the parish, to
the same purpose, 1615.

Richard Colborne the elder and Elizabeth his wife, xxs.
1615.

Jane Greynowso, daughter of William G. of Eudon

Burnell, xxs. 1617.
Thomas Cheese the elder, ixs. 1618.
Katherine Farmer, widow, xxs. J 620.
Thomas Farmer of Eudon Burnell, xs. 1622.
Matthew Gallimoie of Eudon Burnell, xs. 1622.
.J one Cbeese, widow, of Criddon, vis. viiid. 1622.
William Grenos, xxs. 1622.
Itichard Grcuos, citizen of London, £5 [no date].
Moorton Brigges of Eayntrie gent., "six poundes," 1631.
William Cheese "of the Towne and parishe of Mildcnhall

in the county of SufFolke, gent." .£3. 1(536.
Thomas Cheese of Criddon, yeoman, xs. 1637.
Kichard Ifewtrell, gent., X10. 1610.

Frances Fewtrcll relict of Richard F of the Downo, gent.,
,C5. | No date, but the names of t he Wardens fix it
at 1650, the year of her death ].

Richard Fleocko, xxs. I 6 14.

The abovo seems to bo a laudable attempt on the
part of tho parishioners of (Jltetton to be a Poor Law
to (homselves. If is worth noticing, however, that in

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81

spite of all these arrangements for the proper use of
the money, none of the above charities now exist.
Were they swallowed up in the expenses connected
with the rebuilding of the Church in 15 George HE.?
'1 he entries for 1 599 are given in full as a specimen: —

"Tho uccomptos of Stcphon Farmer and Richard Cowburno
Churchwardens of tho parish of Chetton anno Doni. 1509.

Imprimis wo havo gathered and received three lewnes

nil xixs. iiid.
Item of tho communicantos at Easter viis. iiid.
l(em from Loughton vs. viiid.
Item of William Walker for bis last yearo xiid.

Tho whole iiiil. xiis. iiid.

Kxponsos and chargos this yeare : —

Imprimis tho gaylo and may mod souldyers and tho now

collection xxxiis. viiid.
I tout llroado and wyno xs. viiid.

It. Tho Register booko in parchment and a paper book

for accompts vs.
It. For tho Queen's Injunctions vid.
It For certifying of the reensantes vid.
It. a new clapper for the fourth bell vis. viiid.
It. a baldriek for the greate bell xvd.
It. To Rie'd Buchen for plate nayles and for his owno

labfour] iii . . .
It. Tho Ringers on the Queene's holyday iis. Gd.
It. To Thomas Lewis for mending the bells xiid.
Jt. To increase the parish stocke his. ivd.
It. Restowod on them that did help to mendo tho bells

viiid.

It. to Rowley for carrying the clapper and fetchinge a

baldricko iiiid.
It. to Thomas Levington for writting; ii lewnes iid.
It. at the Archdeacon's Visitation xd.
It. lor putting in the presentment at HorofTd iis. vid.
It. for sending in a copio of the Register booko vid.
It to Sir Richard Nixson for copying out tho olde Register

booko iiis. ivd.

Tho whole iiil. xvs. viid."

Tho names of the poor, to whom parish money was
given, follow. rlne majority of tho above entries occur
constantly. For the "certifying of Recusants" see

Vol. IX., 2nd S. M

8^

FURTHER NOTES ON THE HISTORY

Canon 114 of 1604. The present Registers from 1538-
1599, are in the hand (as we learn from these Accounts)
of'* Sir Richard Nixson," copied in accordance with the
"Mandate issued in 1597, which also ordered a copy to
be annually forwarded to the Episcopal Registrar.

1G01. Among receipts occurs viis. viiid. "from Loughton and
Mydletpn for the Queue's caryage," and similarly among
disbursements xxiiis. hid. "■ for the Queen's caryage from
Brudgnorth to Ludlow." Also iiis. iiiid. " for tho killing
of a foxe," an entry which often re-appears in subsequent
years. Id. was paid to Richard Butcher for "a priokell
of a hell," and viis. iiiid. to Mr. Gryce "for ii sermons."

1G03. The sum of xiid. is paid " to him that is to amend the
Steple and iis. iiiid. "for heving the hell against the
parson's huriall," — Sir William Wrednall, Hector of
Ghctton, being buried May 4th.

This year one of the bells was re-cast, as the following

entries testify : —
Ttm in drinke on the bell founder that came first iiiid.
It m bestowed upon the bell founder and his men at

sundry tyines in drinke iis. id.
Ttm geven to the hell founder's men iis. vid.
I tin bestowed on the ladds that carried the bell in drinke

iid.

Itm in wyno for y° bell founder and some moore company
xixd.

Itm at an other tyme for our dynner the bell founder and

his men and moore company iis. iiiid.
Itm a bond wherein the bell founder is bound to make

the hell sound and tuneable xvjd.
Ttm to the bell founder for castinge the bell iiiil.
J tin layed out in cakes and drinke for them that did help

down with the bell xd.
Itm on them that did help up with the hell iiis. iiiid.
Itm for fower hell ropes and brmginge of them iiiis. id.
Itm to John Britten for two newe clappers for the fore

bell and the second iis. vd.
Itm to Richard Elcocke for hangingo the bell and mend-

inge the wheeles of others iiis. iiiid.

Few years pass without some reference to the bells
in the Accounts.

100 k This year XI 2 14 8 was spent on " glaso for the stecplo
and repuracious," but a page is torn out. here.

OK THE PARISH OF Cf JETTON.

S3

1 605. Tlio effect of the Canons of 1 G04- becomes very marked: —
It. lor a CUrJpett Cor tiie Comumou (able viii. vd.
It, lor a pewter pott lor tin: Comunion table and for tho

mending of the frame is. iiiid.
It. for tin; making of the eomunion table xd.
It. lor the making of the new seat for the parson xvii. ivd.
It. tin; mending of the Church floor and fastening of tho
pulpit iiiid.

It. for iv pay ring tho old covering of the eomunion tablo

unto 'I hoi nas Tedstell iiiid
Also charges for paving tin; church floor and the porch,
and sums given to the " peynter" and " plymer." For
all these entries sue Canons S2 and .S3 of IGOI, which
require "a convenient and decent table for the cele-
bration of tho Holy Communion to be kept and
repaired from time to time in a decent and seemly
manner and covered in time of divine service with a
c arp.;i of silk or ot her decent stuff, etc.," also " a con-
venient seat for the minister to read service in" and
" a comely and decent pulpit." his was also paid for
" repayring the Paraphrases," i.e. of Erasmus, ordered
to bo used by the clergy as early as the Visitation of
1547. Also iiiid was spent on "a paper bookc to
record preachers," in accordance with Canon 5 2.
1G0G. "It. the convoying ot an answere to 1 1 ay ward Townes-
end lor a contribution to Cound iiiid." Hay ward Towns*
hend being eldest son of Sir Henry Townshend of Cound,
by his first wife Susannah Hayward. The bells were rung
on the 5th of November; and this becomes a permanent
entry.

1G07. " Keecypts of comunycants after tho rate of everyone

id. besyds some twelve that payd not anythingo amounteth

to the some of xvs. iiiid."
1G08. " Receaved of Nicholas Hashold of the yongc menno's
money vs. viid."

" Ivoeoaved of Thomas Lovington for a bell if tho parisho
be soe contented xviiid."

" Momorartd' for the avoydingof cavillacion hereafter that
whereas the former wardens have recorded they have
xixs. iiid. in sloeke to be dclyvercd to the newo
wardens and iis. iid .oh. to bo added unto tho parisho
slockii to make the same Tonne pouudos: so it was
by a publicko motion inatle and by a generall consent
concluded upon that a marko of the sayd money
shuld mako out the stock for the poore lull Torino

84 FURTHER NOTES OX THE HISTORY

pounds wh' was presently donne at the Communion
table. And (lie rcsydue payd the quarter gayls'
money at Ester Sessions then being vi i is. id. ob. and
so the accounts examined rest true confessed and
continued and the stock was sett forth according to
the forme."

1010. " For ropaireing the table of sanguinity and affinity iid."

1011. " I'iiytl for Jewells' booko, and the bringing of it from

Ludlow xxvs. iiiid."
The "Apology "of Bishop Jewell had, in the previous

reign, been ordered by Convocation to be placed in

churches. This year one of the bells was re-cast.

Among the charges for this (similar to those given

under 1603) we have: —
" It. his [the lounder'sj ernest for to cast the bell xiid.
It. lor the taking downe of the bell iis.
It. the waying of it before it went to be cast at Chetton xvd.
[t. payd for the band of securyty for the bell vid.
It. payd to the bell founder at Wellinton iiil. vis viiid.
It. spent at the weying of the bell when it came whome

xviiid.

It. spent on those that wound up the bell in ye stepell
xviiid.

1G12. "Pd for the church beinge presented for defective
glasse his."

1G13. " For fetchinge on[o] load of sand at the ould Spitle iis."

1014. "it to Posse [Will1" I'eesc, the Apparitor] for to line
the eourte for that we had not the bibell iiiid." "It.
for the bibell and the cariage xl. viiis."
" It at the making of a certificate to ccrtinc the .... of

the bibell spent iiiid."
This, probably, refers to the version of 1611, though it
was never strictly " authorized " either by Convoca-
tion, Parliament, or the King.

1G15. "To the Apperettor for the continewanco of three
courtes coneerningo the Terier of t he gleab lands iis."
Also xviiid. spent at " the makeinge of tho said
Teryer;" and vid. for "one skync of parchment to
make the same;" and viid. "lor the deliveringc of
the said Torier unto the Chancellor to be recorded."

10 Hi. " It. ihu retorningo in of one presentment touchingo
tho seholes vid."
" It. the collection to Virginia to Mr Chaunccil iiis. iiiid.;"
and similarly next year '* towards the building of a
Coledgo in Virginia iiis. ivd."

OF THE PARISH OF CHETTON.

85

Money paid, upon brief, for prisoners taken by the Turks,
becomes a (reuuent entry just now. Thus in 1017,
iis. vid. is paid "to Thcodoriece Palomby a greeke
Christian uppon a eertyfycate under the hand of the
lo. Adiuerall of England, his wife and children being
prisoner with the tiukes."

10 IN. "It. payd for a booke wherein was shewed what
excreyses were tolleratcd by the King upon the

Saboth day, to the deane at Stotesdon Mr H

of lligley iiiid.," referring, of course lo the " Hook of
Sports" published by King James this year.

1010. " Rec'd oi Kdward Todstill by the parishe consent for
I he old bibles wis."
" It. for setting up an order laid downe by the clarke of
the market lor wayghts and measures and a bord
viiid "

" It. paid for tho timber tliat is put in tho Wrood lofto iis."

" It. to l*M waft] Tedstill for his oxpenee at the court for
the ould bible iis. xd."

" It. to Thomas Cheese and Thomas Gough being called
to the Court in our year to answer upon their oath
whether all communicants did rcceave or not in their
yeare [1013] iiis. xd." See Canon 112 (1604).
1020. "Ano order layd downe by the Churchwardens and
Sydemen of the parish of Chetton the 18th day of
A prill 1020 conceminge kneelinges within the parish
churche of Chetton aforesaid as followeth viz: That
it is agreed by the said Churchwardens and sydemen
with (lie assent of some of the auncient men of tho
said parish and by the report of the said auncient
men it hath been heretofore showed, yt is newly
ordered tho day aforesaid that in the uppermost
forme and kneelinge on the north side of the said
church right under the pulpitt, Thomas Cheese of
Criddon is to kneele and sytte next the wall in the
said forme and next to him Thomas Lovington and
next to the alley [aisle] Stephen Fanner or (Jeorge
farmer his sonne, which order is to be observed
throughout all the churche, as well in men's formes
as also in women's, which order hath formerly been
used and kept for the space of xl or 1 years to our
remembrance." Signed by Thomas W red-mill and
William (Ireenhowse, Churchwardens, and Henry
1*0 w trull, Thomas Cheese, Rowland Over 1.00, Thomas
Cough, John Harris, and Richard Kowtroll.

further notes on the history

iis. is given " to one Mr John Jones, a strainge preacher ;"
and iiis. mid. " to I\Ir Rich. Jones tor a sermon."
xvid. is spent " for prosen tinge for not eommingo to
churche att the severall tymcs, before Mr Acton at
Morvilde, for writtinge ytt. and our cs ponces there
those two Lymes."

1621. This year one of the bells was re-cast. iiis. iiiid. is paid
" to the protestantes of France/' i.e., the Huguenots,
who were engaged in a bitter struggle at this period,

1023. This year considerable sums were spent on the Pulpit,
and xiis. iiid. on " the new Communion Table cloth;"
and finally xvd." for certifying of the court at Ludlow
for the performance of those things that were com-
manded to be provided."

1G24. Robert Overton is rewarded for " fraying an owle out
of church."

1G28. Various repairs to the church amount to £24 11 8.

Money also spent on the bells, the "great bell" and
" 3 Httell belles" being mentioned. Also iiis. "for
the exiled ministers of the Palatinate."

Ifi29. Arabic numerals are first used. 2s. is spent on "2
bookes commandinge the publique faste."

1030. "It. for a dyrection or forme of reading devyne service
delivered by the Apparytor vid." "For a surplesse,cloth,
and making xxis. ixd." " For a carpett for the Com-
munion Table and the making of the same xxviiis. iid."

1631. "For three lockes, keys and hinges for a poorc man's
box iis. iid." See Canon <S4 (1004).

1032. "It. to Win Smalmari for 14 day us carrying of water
with his horses carte and vessels for the worke aforc-
sayd [mending the steeple] lis."
" It. to Win Talbot for 14 dayes carringe of water for tho
work aforesayd with his mare carte and vessel 10s. 8d."
" It. to Wni. Marries and John Charles for 2 dayes labour
in gathering stones togeather and laying them under
the yewe tree Is. 4d." Doubtless the yew, which still
detics wind and weather, west of the tower.
" It. to Paxter and other worke men for setting np of
boords of a scaffold made for the church worke
which the Players pulled downe 2s."
"The said Thos. Cheese also upon the 23ld day of Aprill
anno 1033 made a careful] tender ol (lie XI 2 stocko
aforesaid upon the table-boordc in tho chancell of tin:
p'ish ( 'lunch of ( ■hcllon aforesayd according to the;
antient customo elc."

OF THIS PAIirSH OF CHETTON.

87

1G33. Is. is paid for a badger's head.

1(>;J4. " For a capias to arrest Lc'c for the £12 parish stocko
wh. lilakoway Iato one of the churchwardens had
reccaved <sd." lUakcway was warden in 1032, and
died in otlicc. In that year mention is made of a
suit against his administrators.
2s. is paid to a " preach ingo mynistor," also 2s. 8d. to
Mr Phillips a preacher.

1G36. 2d. is paid " for an urchin's or hedgehogg's head," and
simitar entries occur constantly, the killing of foxes,
badgers, urchins, and crows being rewarded by the
( Churchwardens.

1G:17. This year we have signs of the Laudian Rdgimo:
"Spent at IJndgnorth in goingo to see the liayle
about tlus Table Id." "For the Connnunion Table
10s." '' For the liayle about the Table . . ." "Spent
at the settingo un of the Table and Kaylo Is." " For
carry ingo tho 1 able and Kaylo 2s." All this in
accordance with Laud's order issued in IGoo.

1G40. " For mending the bower glasso 2s "

1G44. "For a draught of a petition to the Bishop Is.;" and
mention is made of a journey to Hereford made by
six parishioners Aug. 24th, 1 (343, which cost 15s.

1(347. " Laido out at Salop for a derectory Is." " Laide out
when we brought in the bookc ot common prayer Gs."
The "Directory" for Public Worship, put forth by
the Westminster Assembly, was enacted for use Jan.
3rd, 1645.

1G48. " For ringing the 5th of November 1048, by the consent
of divers parishioners of good credit 9s. This item
continues throughout the Commonwealth. " To tho
elarko for inakoingo the church oloauo after the
Scots (?) 2s. (id." The last word is badly written,
but I can make nothing else out of it. " For a
warrant to conipell the ould churchwardens to make
their accounts id."

1G50. " For taking tho indictment of tho high roads £1 15 G."

1G5U. "To Thomas Harvey for the dyall and lead for the
church etc. 18s."
" For pulpitt cloath CI." xls. loft by Edward Gallimoro
of (lie Hill for the poor is acknowledged.

l(jl>~>. •« Disbursed at the meotingo of the (Jhcilfo of tho parish
coneeruinge a minister 2s." "To Abraham Williams
for y° tetters in tin pulpitt cloath and the tassells of
the cushen 2s. Gil." "Spent by us churchwardens,

88

FURTHER NOTES ON THE HISTORY

1G59.

being summoned to come in before the Justices and
high constable at Bridgnorth and make our accompts
concerning the poore and other matters att 2 severall
dayes Is."

105G. "for conveying a certificate for the Savoys collection
to London 2d."
"Spent when wee paid in our collected moneys for
Paoland and our aquitance 4d." " To the glasier for
mendinge the glasse in the greete windowe 2s."
" Pd to \Vm Harries for a standcrt for the Bason and
a Kipe (() Is.''

1661. "Our attendance 7 or 8 sovorall daies about the forest
service 10s."

I " Spent on ringers Coronation and Thanksgiving 7s."

1GG2. " For one booko concerninge his Majesty's preserva-
tion Gd."

"For anew pott to fill out wine at the Sacrament 4s."
The " rayles " are put up "about the Communion
Table," and (3d. is paid "for washing the Communion
Table Cloth against Ester." " Payd for ringing the
29th of May 1GG2, 2s."
1GC3. "For the serplesso for thrid and the making of the
same and the washing of it to times £2 10 0." " For
the booke of coiuon prayer for tho booko of articles
and the booke of degrees lis. Gd." "For the blacke
clothe to cover the beere £1 10 0." " For the Homily
Booke 10s."

1GG4. " Payd to W" Harris for a peace of tymber to propo up
the Loft over the minister . . . ," which may refer to
a sounding-board. " Payd to the parritorfor a Table
exhibittinge ye times of mariagc, and a cony of the
llisliopc's letter for prayer Wensdaycs and friilayes . . ."

1665. " Keeeved of \V,M Felton for charges which tho parish
of Chetton have beene at in voiding of the said Felton
out of the said parish of Chetton £3."
" For washing the surplos and scou ring y° poot and

COOpO . . ."

1GGG. " Towards tho relief of tho poore in tho citty of London
at the request of the Bishop . . . ." Also two moro
collections for the "distressed poore," and a sum
"collected at the fasts in Nov. and Dec. for tho pooro
in London,
the dale.

clamation and the booko for (Ik: observation o( tho
last in Angus!

\

i\J l IIC 1 IIOU) 111 A 1 W V . (111*1 I / V/Vii 1V/1 l IIU £#\_/\/A \J

all of which is sulliciently explained by
" I'd. to the Ap'itor for the King's pro-

OK THE PARTS!! OF CHETTON.

89

1009 " Paid for two orders, one to remove Tho" Perry and
the other lo remove .John Mars toil 2s." "For two
warrants tho ono to bring Thomas Perry to the house
of correction and the other to bring George Kushbery
to Bridgnorth 2s." Similar warrants occur from time
to time -the result, I suppose, of the Aet of Settle-
ment of 1002.

1071. " Payd to y apparitor for taking in of the href money
concerning going to apneare at Stottesden concerning
y* fellow christians in Turkish slavery 2s. id."

1075. In this year £8 l«Ss. Od. was spent " for repairing y°
Parish Church."

1G70. 44 Tor a proclamation for the observing the 30Ul of
January (id.''

A Heipiesi of £5 for the poor by Fdnumd Wyldo is
acknowledged.

1079. Paid for a booke for di[re]etion to burey in [Woollen].

IGSk "To Fdward Leister (a cheat) pretending loss by lire at
Leister, and when discovered openly whipt at Salop
Js. 4d." " To George Aston for heads of pyes, erowes,
rook< s etc. 2s."

1G3G. " Collected in this parish toward the relief of the frencli
prodestants, £2 1 1 5." The Protestants in France
were at thr. period sulfcring bitter persecution under
Louis XIV.

1090. " Pd for a booko entitled his Majestye's Letter to the

Bishopps Is."

1091. 44 Pil to 4 severall companies of Irish Protestants 4s."
44 For a boss for the dishe 4d."

1093. 44 lor an order for yc repairing yc Highwaies Is. Gd.

In conscouonco, probably, of t lie Highway Act of 1091

1095. " For Tore book es of prayers and Thanksgiving and a
proclamation 4s. Od." 44 Pd. to Richard Phayley for
toling yc bell upon y° Queen's burial 1 day Is."

1098. " Pd lor takeing downe part of the Steeple as was

shattered with [tempest t] 4s. Gel." "For hooks and
spikes to fasten a chaine about the ould Spire 2d."
" For a new Weathercock etc. 0s."
44 For a book against prophane swearring lid." 44 For a
booke of Thanksgiving Is."

1099. 44 Pd lor a post letter to Mr liridgin Is. 3d."

1700. ' Por a new llagon and plate fur t he comniuuion 5s. Od."
41 For an act against profane swearing etc. (id."

1701. " Paid for repairing of y" gate in y° porch Od." " Paid to

the Parritor for Instructions to pray forye Queen Od."
Vol. IX. Hud JS. N

90 FURTHER NOTES ON THE PARISH OF GHETTON.

1702. " Pd for a new Common Prayer Book 12s." From this

year onward the names of tlio Surveyors of Highways
for the year are given.

1703. "Pd to ye Ringers being ye Queen's succession to y*

Crown Is."

1707. " For four prayer books and a direction for the altering

the Common Prayer booke 4s. Gd."

1708. "The account of the Repairing and Rebuilding the

north corner of the Steplo" this year occupies a
separate page.

1714. " Pd to the Clcarkfor attending Wednesdays and fridays
which was agreed on by the parishioners to have it
so long as Prayers continuo those days 5s." The
"galory " of the Church is mentioned this year.

There are no further entries of importance. The
killing of foxes is rewarded to the end of the book.

91

NOTE ON THE ELECTION OF BURG ESSES OF
PARLIAMENT FOR SHREWSBURY IN
1584 AND 1586.

Hy tub Kkv. G. W. FISHER

In Taylor's MS., the Chronicler refers to the two
Elect ions as follows : —

1584, Kliz. 20. — "This ycaro and the iihth daye of November
the burgoses of Shreusbery asseniblid together at the boothe
hall for tho Elocc'on of two burgesis for the parly met and
beingo three of them in choyse and not lawfully to be iudgid
wcho twoo of them should bee whose names were mast' thomas
owen, mr Richard barkar & mr harris they were commadid to
goe throughe the doore by pole and theire voyees wrytten and
so there was uppon. owen syde 366 voyces. uppon barkars syde
200. and uppon harris syde 176. so that owen and barkar were
made by most elect5n burgesis of the parlimet for this towne
of Shreusberie."

1586, Eliz. 29. — "This yeare were chosen burgesis of the
p'limet for the towne of Shreusberie mr thomas harrys lawiar
and master charles scriven gentill."

In vol. i. of Owen and Blakeway's History of
Shrewsbury, the Mr. Thomas Harries, Lawyer, who
was elected M.P. in 1586, and was, doubtless, the un-
successful candidate in 1584, is identified with Mr.
Thomas Harries of Cruckton, and the Middle Temple,
who became in after years Sir Thomas Harries, Bart.,
of Tong Castle. The authors seem entirely to have
forgotten that another lawyer of the same name, the
son of Mr, Roger Harries of Shrewsbury, Bailiff 1578-
79, was resident in Shrewsbury, and, for many reasons,
much more likely to be consulted in legal matters by
the ( corporation, and to be elected by the Burgesses as

02 ELECTION OF BURGESSES FOR SHREWSBURY.

their Member, than Mr. Thomas Harries of Oruckton.
But the Inns of Court Registers and the Parliamentary
Lists together put the matter beyond a doubt.

Thomas Harries, the eldest son of John Harries, Esq.,
of Oruckton Hall, was bapt ised at Pontesbury, January
23rd, J 549-50. He entered School in 15G5, and was
placed in the 2nd Class. Subsequently he became a
student in the Middle Temple, and in 1584 he was
made a Serjeant-at-law. In 1584 he was elected M.P.
for Callington, and in 158G and 1588, l'or Portsmouth.
He was returned for Bossiney in 1592 and 1597, and
for Truro in 1 GO 1 . Callington, Bossiney, and Truro
were all Cornish Boroughs. In the Ileturn for 1588 he
was described as of the Middle Temple, and in those
for 1592 and onwards as Serjeant-at-law. It is plain,
therefore, that Thomas Harries of Cruckton and the
Middle Temple was not elected for Shrewsbury in 1586

Thomas Harries of Shrewsbury, who entered School
in 1571, became a Member of Lincoln's Inn, and was
made a Master in Chancery in 1583. As a distinguished
lawyer, the son* of a Bailiff, and resident for many years
in the Parish of St. Julian, as the baptismal entries of
his children show, he was quite a suitable and natural
person to be consulted by the authorities of the Borough
and to be elected its representative in Parliament.

93

GRANT OF A MARKET AND FAIR AT
CHETWYND, TO SIR JOHN DE CHETWYND,
17th JULY, 1318.

Kxtkndku and Ti<assi.atkij uv TiiK Ubv. C. H DRINK WATKK, M A.

This Grunt by King Edward 11. to Sir John de
Chetwynd of a Market and Fair at Chetwynd, of
which a transcript and translation are here given,
shows tliat Chetwynd must formerly have been a place
of some importance. The Charter is noticed by Eyton
(Antiquities, viii., p. 88), and also by Chetwynd-
Stapylton, who says that it " was due to the interest
of Sir John Chetwynd's liege lord, Edmund Fitzalan,
Earl of Arundel, and it was a gain to Fitzalan as well
as to Chetwynd. Both would be interested in the
profits to be derived from the droves of cattle which
came that way out of Wales to relieve the famine which
was then desolating a great part of England ; and both
would be glad to set up a rival to Newport, which was
fast becoming a thriving town." (The Chetwyrids of
liu/eatm, p. 2(5) The grantee was the third John de
Chetwynd, who obtained Chetwynd and Weston from
his cousin Reginald, and was living in 1351. He occurs
as a knight in June, 1318.

Tho witnesses to the ('barter were Walter Raynold,
Archbishop of Canterbury ; Walter do Langton, Bishop
of Coventry and Lichfield; Thomas de Brotherton,
Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal (a son of Edward 1.);
Humphrey do Bohnn, 4th Fail of Hereford and 3rd of
Fs.se x, and Lord Nigh Constable; Edmund Fitz-Alan,
8th Hurl of Arundel (who was tho chief lord of Chet-
wynd); Bartholomew do Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badles-

94 GRANT OF A MARKET AND FATU AT CHETWYND,

mere; and Robert Fitz-Payne, 2nd Lord Fitz-Payne.
The Charter is in excellent preservation, but the Seal

is wantng. The reference to the copy enrolled in the
Public Record Office is— Rot. Cart., 12 Edw. II.,
No. 91.

Edwardus Dei gratia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie et Dux
Aquitannie — Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Abbatibus, Prioribus,
Comitibus, Baronibus, Justiciaries, Vicecomitibus, Prcpositis,
Ministris et onniibus Ballivis ct fidelibus suis, salutem. Sciatis
nos coneessisse et hac carta nostra confirmasse dilccto et fideli
nostro Johanni de Chetowynd, quod ipso et heredes sui imper-
petuum habeant ynum mercatuin singulis septimanis per diem
Martis apud mancriuni suum de Chetewynd in Comitatu
Salopiensi/ et vnam feriam ibidem singulis annis per tres dies
duraturam, videlicet in Vigilia, et in die.et in crastino Omnium
Sanctorum. Nisi mercatum illud et feria sint ad nocumentum
vicinorum mercatorum et vicinarum feriam m. Quare volumus
et rirmiter precipimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris, quod
pred ictus Johannes et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant pre-
dicta mercatum et feriam apud manerium suurn predictum
cum omnibus libertatibus et libris consuetudinibus ad hujus-
modi mercatum et feriam pertinentibus. Nisi mercatum illud
ct feria ilia siiit ad nocumentum vicinorum mercatorum et
vicinarum feriarum sicut predictum est. lliis testibus, Vener-
abilibus patribus W. Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo totius Anglie
Pryrnate ct W. Couentrensi et Lychefeldensi Episcopo, Thoma
Comite Norftolkiensi ct Marcscallo Anglie, llumfrido de Pohun
Comite iierefordensi et Essexensi, Edmundo Comite Arundell,
Bartholomeo do Budelosmcre, liobcrto iilio Pagani et alijs.
Datum per manum nostram apud Norhamptonam decimo
septimo die Julij, Anno regni nostri duodecimo, per ipsum
Ilegem.

(Endorsement in a modern hand, 18th century ?)
2U2. Grant of a Markett & (fair To John do Chetwynd by
King Edward.

TRANSLATION.

Edward by the grace of God King of England, Lord of
Ireland and Duke of Aquitaino to the Archbishops, Bishops,
Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, Justices, Sheriffs, Provosts,
Ministers, and all liailills and his faithful men Greeting.
Know yo that wo have granted and by this our charter have
confirmed to our beloved and faithful John de Chetowynd

TO STR JOHN DE OHETWYND, 17TH JULY, 1318. 95

that he and his heirs may hold for ever one markec in each
week on Tuesday at his manor of Chotewynd in the County of
Salop, and one fair there in every year to last for three days,
namely, on the Eve and on tho day and on the morrow of All
Saints (Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 and 2). Unless that markot and
that fair should be to the detriment of neighbouring markets
and neighbouring fairs. Wherefore we will and do (irmly
enjoin for us and our heirs that the atoresaid John and his
heirs for ever may hold the aforesaid market and fair at his
manor aforesaid with all liberties and free customs pertaining
to a market and fair of this kind. Unless that market and
that fair should bo to the dotriment of neighbouring markets
and neighbouring fairs as is aforesaid. These being witnesses :
The Venerable fathers YY. Archbishop of Canterbury Primate
of ull England and \V. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield,
Thomas Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England, Ihnnfrey de
Hohun Earl of Horoford and Essex, Edmund Earl of Arundell,
Hartholomow de 15adelesmere, Robert fitz Fayn and others.
Given by our own hand at Northampton tho seventeenth day
of July in the twelfth year of our reign (1318). By the King
himself.

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ABSTRACTS OF THE GRANTS AND CHARTERS
CONTAINED IN THE CHARTULARY OF
WOM BRIDGE PRIORY, CO. SALOP.

Rv the L.vtb Mr. G HOUGH MORRIS, of Shrewsbury.

[Continued from 2nd Series, Vol. page 310).

385. lix. Sciant &c ego Helyas Uoquus de Brocton dedi &c
(to Wombridge Priory) [>' salute a'i'e mee & succ' meor' una'
acra' t're apud Brocton in campo qui vocal' Bedlesdun
scilicet acram que jacct iux' bertheria p'dcor' (Priory) tend' &c.
11. T. Llenr. oxtraneb Nicholao de Ivembricton Joh'e Hi' Sibille
& ni.a.

380. lx. Sciant &c ego Elyas Cocus de Broctona [H. prior.]
dedi &c (to Wombridge, Priory) p' q'da' debito tres acras in
campo de Brocton &c tend' de rae et de her' ineis &c p' spaciu'
viginti annor' scil' ab anno quo' castellu' Matildo firmatu'
fuit Si d'ns U. de noua uilla cancel larius olectus fuit in arch-
iej)'m lit'a D'nicali existent®, e. illi' anni. Et h' concessio
sc'pta fuit & sigilli mei imp'ssiono roborata vi jino kalendas
nonembris. II. T. D'no Madoco de Sutton et Griilino fro ejus
Nicolas sac'doto Will'o de Sutton llenr' Extraneo & m.a.
387. lxj. Sciant &c ego Fulco le Straunge d'n's [q. c. & c]
de Sutton madoc1 remisi continnavi &c p' salute a'i'ar' n'rar'
(self and heirs) quiet' clamam (to Wombridge Priory) totu'
meu' jus &c in toto ten' cu' orn'ib' suis n'tin q' Joh'is de Broc-
tocton (sie) c'lico aliqu' tenuit in villa de Brocton, Hend' &o
i'p'p'm co'firmavi & ratificavi p'dc'is Can. &c oin'es donac'oos
&c. quo qus Kog's Brusebon til' JSich'i Brusebon' de Monte-
gomori p'd'eis Can' fecit de ton' suo in villa de Brocton p'teroa
concossi &c om'es possessio'es pr'r' &c q's ip'i Can' optinuer'nt
infra man'iu' men' de Sutton: Concessi &c d'eis Can' et eor'
sue' et oi nib* suis tenetib' de Sutton & de B. comuna' pastur'
p' totu food u1 men' de Sutton ad oni'ia an'ia sua ca[)ria tu'
OxeCpl' in boso' vast' carect' & in oni'ibus aliis locis &o. If. T.
{Yno lloborto Corbot D'no Tlioma Corbet Will'o do Iluggeford
Kic' llord & m.a.

(J RANTS AND ITIIAUTMUS', WOMWUDOFK PRIORY. 97

3S8. lxij. Omil/ &c Fulco Kxt*ncus d'ns do Sutton [q. c]
[c. 1300- 1 IU0. | Madoke iVc nou'it mo pro salute a'io moo (anc. &
sue.) rciiiisisso \rc (to Woiuh'ridtje lU'iory) tutu' jus &c in tota
pra' ij'im il'ci Cam/ici h.ViU in Mora do Hrocton in Mancrio do
Sutton in cauipo do llabenhull q'm ijuid' t'oiuier'nt die s'ci
Haruaho ap'li An. ab. [near. M" coc*4^ &c. II. T. D'no Symono
do l.oyboorno, h'no putrodc Kvton Mag'ro Ad' lo Gust Koctoro
ivrlio ilc Vdcshnll Ifog'o til' Joh'is Joh'o Stiuinton & a.
3V.». Iiiij. Si'iuut &c ogo Hio' fd' Editho do H. dedi &c. p'
tt'i'ul/ alio. & hue. (<o irom&W</</<! Priury)2h ac" t'ro liarabil'in
campU upoctantib' ad villa' do B. (scil. 1 in llabonhull & 1 in
Itraylo.sun'ro) on' prato int'd'eam acram ot Madebrok ad d'eani
nrr.mi p'tiu' et \ p't' oin'i p'tor* p'tino'eiu' ad vna' dim' virgata'
t'ro in villa do Hrocton q'm quiilc' t'rani p'tc' p'torum l£go Hio'
consuevi p'cipo. Ho'ditar' do quadam dim' virgata t'ro qu
I tog1 do la Knoll tonot in villa do Hrooton ten'd' &c inp'pet.
It. T. Joh'o do Krcalowo Joh'o fd Dor' militib' Joh'e do Stiuin-
ton Joh'o do (Jronhull Herberto do Wyk Adam Pollarde
Itob'to til* eius Oliu'ro do la Knoll & m.n.
III>0. Ixiiiji Hco est conu'eno'o facta int' Hog' Brusobon HI'
Hroymero Nieh'i Brusebon do Montogom'et Womb. Priory.
Kinoniarfro Hog' (led it &c (to Priori)) 1} acr. in campis do
Wodfold. Hrooton &c in escambiu' p' 1 acre in Breylmero
U'end* fcc. (Seals.)

31)1. lxv. Omib' &e Nicolaus filius Walteri tie [Hie. Knolle
C iron hull ot Alicia vxor ejus quo fuit film Ilenr. Nic. Pirn]
fd' Nicolai dc Hrocton &e nou'ite nos dedisse &c(to WombriUge
Priori/) 1 ac. in villa do Hrocton quo jacet int' Domu' D'ni
Kadulf do Montford q'm Walt1 bercarius de eod'tenuit & t'ram
p'or &c. in excambio p' 1 acr. in campo do Hreylesmere.
ll'onda &c imp'p'm 11. T. Thorn do Hrocton Joh'o do Stiuinton
.Joh'o Oiico do Hrocton Hog' Hrusebon Hog' extranco do
Hrocton & in. a.

•102. lxvj. llec est conucnc'io f'taint' Ilog'm [Ph'm prior
Broubbemere Hrusebon do Hrocton &; Womb. Thorn, de H.]
Hrancrofte Priory. Kog's tradidit &c in es- [Rog'i hi
Lo Crusting cambiu' quoddain mesuagiu' & Yuon]
Longefurlong. croftu' adjacent in villa do H. cu' [liic'do Sont-
roihlitu & seruicijs (juo d'u's molondinar' & herod' fordo
suid'eo llog' tfo herod' stiis fae'e tonebant imp'p'm Hob' Bodi]
Tradidit eoia' & in oxcambiu' dodit d'o's Hog' \\\hn CAid
d'e'o p'iori \ c tota' t/ra' q'm h'uit in la I hirst (pie Tho Donnyng
est iiit' viain regiam & campu' d'ni do Sutton lien. Kwoyn
ot \ ac. juxta ehcsmodcwo & 2 seiliones ( I juxta Hie. Ancup'
t'ra prior' dia juxta t'ra Hog'i fil Yuon') Kt vna' Alox. lo (Jolt]
Vol. IX , 2ml S. , O

98 ABSTRACTS OF TflB GRANTS AND CHARTERS,

acra' t're integ'm quo jacet int' t'ra p'or k t'ra Ric' de la Knoll
&g. Et 1 ac. juxta chyrchehriigge Et £ ac. sup' le Milnehul 2
half iic8 in lo Wodefekl quar' vna extendit se ab alt'a via vsq'
Boubbemcro Et alia jacct jux' lo Brodeg°nc kc. \f p'dcis v°
omib' p'd'c'is (Priory) dcdonmt p'dc'o Rog'6 & llcr' suis in
oxcambiu' beta1 t'ram q' h'ucr'nt in assarto juxta Orassewalle-
mor q'd yuo do Brocton quond' tonuit & bk acres do d'nico
suo in campis do B . . . II. T. Jub'o do Stiuinton Ph'o do
Bckkeburi liad'o de Gronhul Thoma do Brocton k a.
303. lxvij. Seiant kc. ego Hcnr' de Idosliale eapellan' dedi
kc (to Wombridge Priory) tota' t'ra' cu' omib' p'tin' suis q'
h'ui in villa do B. do dono Rog' Du'nig llcnd' &c. 11. T. D'no
Will'o Hugeibrd Nicb'o fr'e ejus Ph'o do Beckeburi Joh'o do
Gronhul Will'o do Ruton Joh'o do Stiuinton li'berto do Wyk
k a.

394. lxviij. Hec est conuec'o facta int' Rog'm Brusebon de
B. et Womb. Priory. Rog's Brusebon' concessit kc (to Priory)
in oxcambiu' q'ddam messuag' k croftu' adjacens in villa do
Brocton &c cu' redditu k seruiciis q' Ric' xMolend' k her' sui
dc'o Rog' k Her' suis fae'e tenebanf imp' (I'm t'didit t' k in
escambiu' tota' t'ram sua' q'm hu'i in llurste k £ ac. quo se
extendit juxa achesmedowe & 2 seyllones (quar' vna jacct iuxa
t'ram p'or' k alia juxa t'ra Rog' fil' luonis k 1 ac. q' jacet int'
terra' p'or' k t'ra Kic' do la Knoli 1 ac. juxta ckirehebrugge £
ac. sup' lo milnehul p' p'd'eis v° omib' d'ei (Priory) deder'nt
in escambiu' 4 aca t'ro do d'nico suo in campis do B. II. T.
Thomo do Brocton Joh'o Cl'ico Nick' Rim HenY Wein Ric' do
la K nolle do codem et in. a.

WM. lxix. Sciant kc. ego Rog's Dunnyg do [Ric' lo oyse-
Longefurlong Brocton dedi kc (to Wombridge lur
Brod shord Priory) illud messuagiu' cum Hour. Extra-
Grymescroft tot.o crofto k curtilagio q'd keli- nei
Caldewolle- cia q'nda' vxor Will'i Du'nig Hob! de'Ifoy-

hull. tonuit in villa do B. no'io dotis glond.j

cum 11 acr' t'ro arabil' infra teritoriu' de B. (5 in oampo de
llabenhul 3j in Rraiiesiuere 2£ in lo Wodefolde). Ilohd' &c
inp'pet. II. T. Will' do Ruton' Joh'o do Grenhull Joh'o do
Stiuint' I Puerto do Wykos Hug' Rim de Brocton k m.a.
:JIM). Ixx. Nouoriut &e qd. Womb, Priory concesserunt
&i; Will'o I Sag do IJroeton (h'rs k ass.) 2j ac" in villa do K
cjuasi duo jniMiiit sttiiu I in habinhull jux11 lo gorobrod v.i diniid'
uera juxta t'ra llio'i do lo Knollo &u in oxcauibio p' 'A ac"

(pic siuiu) iaoent in Habinhull. II. T. Walt'o de Ikoeton
■lolt'o Ulieo do oad' Will'o ('ndo Nich' Pymo Itio'o ('udo k m.a.
;>:>7. Ixxj. Uub|or*is kc I'JIyas lil' liob'li do [Willi Oooi

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99

Feckcnham ka nou'it me dedisse kc (to Worn- Henr. Extra*
br'ulye Priory) ncu L'rc intcrritoriq do II. nei.]
quor' (1 jacet subt' liabinhull 1 in Droitem' 1 in la Wodcfeld
en la cristing quo so extondit do la longelonene vsq' ail scmita
Milourg' Beg llend'a &c sibi k sue. ]>' salute a'ie meo eL ane.
imn'p'm. 11. T. Joh'e do Stiuinton Thorna de Brocton Joh'o
Cl'ico ile cadem Will'o Bag Walt'o do eadein k ni.a.
308. Ixxij. Nou'int &c Kog' Brusebon do B. concessit &c
(to Woiabridyc Priory) vna' acra' t're in villa do Brocton
jaeet jux11 ortum Gaudi lo Kola in exeambiu' p' vna' aca do
duob1 soy Ion1 de t'ra d'ei p'or' que jaeet in Longoforlong quo
so uxtendit a lluiiauiestret vsq' ad forora' Uio'i ancupis 11. T.
Joh'o Cl'ico Walt'o do Brocton, Will'o & m.a.
nil!). Ixxiij. Oniib' «.Ve Joh'es do Brocton el'icus &c nou'itis
mo dedis.so kc (to Womurlihjii Priori/) IS acres t're in campis
do Brocton vid' in campo do llabonliul o; in Broylomere 0 &
in Wodefcld (i. in escuuibiu' \> totidein acris t're do p'or' in
ojusdem campis cum pratis adjacentib' llend' &c imp'p'ui
11. T. Joh'o do Stiuinton Walt'o do Brocton Will'o Bag Hug.
By in Bio' lo cryselur k m.a.

400. lxxiiij. Sciant kc Bog' Brusebon fiT Nich' [Will'i Cud
Bnisebon do Monto gom'i dedi kc (to Worn- Bie. do la
bridge Priori/) 14$ aeB t'ro cu p'tin' in toritorio Knollo
do Hroeton soil' in campo do Uabenhull 5 J. In Thome do
Breylemere 5 ac9, in le Wodetelde 4 acB. llend' Brocton.]
&c imp'p'm II. T. Ph'o de Beckeburi Joh'o de Grenhull Will'o
do Baton Joh'o de Stiuinton Herberto do Wyke Alano do
Kombriton Joh'o do Brocton cl'ico Will'o Bag do eadem & m.a.

401. lxxv. Sciant &c (same j)erson) dedi kc (to WombriJge
Priory) p' salute a'ie mee tota' p'to' mea' pra'ti de trib'nocat'
t're in Urodmedewe de Brocton q'm accipo consueui llend' kc
imp'p'm II. T. Willo Bag do Brocton Joh'e Clieo de ead' Walt'
do oiid' k a.

402. lxxvi. Hoc ost con'ue'co f'ta int' Rog' Brusebon de
Hroeton et d'nm Ph'm B'ore de Womb. &c Itog'us concessit
(lo Priory) in excambiu' quoda' mcsuag' k croftu' adjaeens in
villa do Hrooton cu' rodditu k soruiciis q' Bie' molendinar' et
her' sui d'eo Bog'o t'ae'e tenobant imp'p m (samo as No. 392
down to Brodog'no) et vna acam t're in villa do Brocton quo
jacet juxta ortuin Taudi le Kold ot 4 soilionos t're in la Wode-
leld qUar' 2 jacont ad Martinospolo 1 int' t'ra' Will'i (Judo ot
I'rnui .IkIi'is do Gronhul I jaeet int' t'rain p'or' ot t'ram Bog'i
lil' Yuonis ou' tota |>'to sua pHti q'd vacatur achosinodowo quo
oido' rogo aoeido' consuouit rae'ono dimid' Krondoll k diinid'
nocato t'ro ot vna aollui torro ot dimid' do quib' k jacet in

100 ABSTRACTS OF THE GRANTS AND CHARTERS,

campo de Breylemere in Gnmescroft k jacet ad Kinemarefor'
i ad 1c Weylheld cu' prato ad capud int' t'ra'd'ei p'or' & t'ram
Bog' id' Vuonis &q p' p'd'eis v'i omib' p'd'cis p'or ct eonue't
dedor'nt p'd'co Kog'o &, her' suis in excanibiu' tota' t'ra' q'
habuer't in assart' jux' Crassowallcmor quod Yuo de Brocton
quonda' tenuit & 8 aea t're de d'nieo suo in cainpis de ]3rocton
ttec. II. T. D'no Radult' de Santforde ilic' fi 1* ejus Joh'o de
.Beckebur' Joh'e de Stiuinton Radulf de Grenhull Joh'e til'
Tho' de Brocton Kic' Bag de cade' & in. a

40<J. lxxvij. Sciant cV:o ego Rug' Bruscbono (as before) dedi
&c (to Wombridge Priory) $ acres l'ro cum p'tin* int'ritorio do
Brocton quor: 1 jacet in habenhul 2d subt' Jla'boiiliul X'1 ad
Berdeleg 4th in campo de Breylesmere 5th eitra Broylmere GtU
ad la veringrewe 7l1, in la Wodet'elde 8lh sup' WillistamtV.
Dedi p'terea p'd'eis Can. 5 ac9 in p'dco t'itorio de Brocton quor'
1 jacet in Campo de Breylesmere in Bromcrofte J ac. ultra
Breylesmere h ac. sup' Habqnhull \ ac. subt' Berdelec h ac. in
la Wodet'elde £ ac. in code' campo J ac. int' t'ram Tho' de
Brocton et t'ram Ric' Pym i int' t'ra's Willi Kud de Jjrocton
J ac. jux. t'ra Kic' de la Knolle tiend' &c imp'p'm 11. T. Ph'o
de Buckebur Joh'e de Grenhulle WhTo de Ruton Joh'e de
Steuinton Ii'bert'o de VVyke Alano de Kembriton Joh'e de
Brocton cli'co Wili'o Bag & m.a.

404. lxxviij. Sciant &c ego Bog Brusebon de Brocton dedi
&c (to Wombridge Priory) p' q'da' suma' pecunie sex solid'
anuui reddit' quos uV ad tola' vita' mcam anuati' solu'e tene-
bant' H. T. Tnoma de Brocton, Joh'o de Stewinton Had' de
Grenhull Wili'o llodo Wili'o de Dewyses Rob'to Chop. Hug.
Colle & m.a.

405. ixxix. Seiant &C ego Rob' de Hongelond [ Hugh Pym
dedi &c (to Womb/idge Priory) vnu' soylone' Joh'n do
t're sup' eamj>u' de Habenhul p' quod a' su'ina Grenhull.]
argenti Slg. lLend' 0:0 imp'pel. 11. T. Joh'e de Brocton Cleric.
Waltero de eadem Wdl'o Bag et a.

40G. xx II. Seiant &c ego Madocus de Sutton dedi &c (to
Wombridge Priory) p' salute a'io mee (anc. & sue.) duos solid'
annui redditns &o in villa de Brocton quos Ada' Attctunes-
hendo in' p' vna v'gata t're sing'lis j*nnis redd'e consueuit &c
eisdetn dedi &c llend &e &c. il. T. D'no Walt'o de Dunstah-
ttill Walt'o de Ituggelerd Odone tie llodenet Kog'o Corbet
Symono do London Rog'o do I'ywoston Walt'o do Kemering-
l.iitt Ihrb'todo Ydeshallg et m.a.

•107. xxllj. Seiant &u ogo Madocus d'no de Sutton dedi &c
(to Womb ridge Priorjf) p' salute a'io ineo (anc. & sue.) duos
solid' an'ui rodditus &o in villa de Brocton &c quos Elias cocua

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singul. annis soluero consueuit pro vna virgata t'rc q'm aliqu'
tonuit. 11 end' &o inip'p'm 11. T. Walt'o do Dunstanuil D'no
Walt'o de Hitggoford Walt'o do Kembrieton ph'o cJc pros pho
do Beckobur Joh'e do Buton Badulph' Broctun Cl'ieo & m.a,
40$. xxllij. Soiant &c ego Madocus d'us do Sutton dodi &c
p' salute a'10 moo & anc. (to Wombridge Priory) viia' placia'
terre in villa de Sutton jacento in longitud. jux' cimit'iu'Ecc'ie
boato mario ejusde' villo v'sus p'tem australem tond' &o
imp'p'm 11. T. Olu'o do Stocton ph'o do pros Joii'o do Kuton
Joii'o do G'nhull Vuon' do Broeton Thoma do ead'm

409. vijxll Soiant &c ego Madocus d'us do Sutton Hat' &
Pm' h'ui & p'nti so'pto co't'maui (to Womb ridge Priory) \>
salute a'io moo (anc. & sue.) reddit. xij denar' que quod' redditu'
Madocus filius Goruas Gooh bisd'm contulit cano'ic' da t'ra' quo
fuii falcon' ci'ici de dono G'ffiii lil Goruasi Goch vnu' redditu'
in villa do Sutton do dono Willi Cooi i virg. ot land, a mes-
suage & a croft ct q'mda ac'ui t're cu' p'tin' in Hrooton vna cu'
quoda' redditu an'uo sox dollar' do dono p'd'ei Griffini fii'
Geruas Goch, vnu eurtilagiu' eu' p'tin' in Sutton & reddit' xij
donar' do terra q'm Uobt'o Cocus aliqu' tonuit in ead'm villa
I lend' &c, 11. T. D'no Walt'o de Dunstancuil D'no Walt'o do
lluggotord Walt'o do Kembriton ph'o de pros ph'o de Bekebur
Joh'e do Uuton Radii If Britton el'ieo & a.

410. .will. Sciant &c ego Grilinus lilius Geruasii Goch dodi
kc (to Wombiidge Priory) p1 salute a'io meo & anc. rodditum
vnu' in Suttona que* ml ot hered' mois Thomas & llor. sui p'
vno assarto p' solu'o dobuerunt sell' 20 Gallinas & 4 Gallos &c

II. T. llugoiio Cap'llo de Brocton Bic' fr' ejus Hob. do Ston'
Nicholau eapp'll'o fr'e ejus Joh'e Cap'llo do Palmar' do
Wroco' Hug' de Bekobur Walt' do Hugfort Galfrido Grid'on
&l m.a.

III. xvll. Uniuersis Madoc fill' Geruasii Ghoc' &c sciatis
c. 1200. mo p' saluto a'io nice & (lather and mother and

predec.) concessisso (to Wovibridge Priory) totu' jus aduoca-
c'onis cccl'ie meo do Suttona q'ntum ad me spectat voloq' &c
vt d'oi Can' & ci'ici sui p'dcam cccl'iain cu' omib' p'tin' &c
possidoant corpus q' incu' vbieumq' defunct' fu'o apud Monast'm
b'i loonardi prioriatu modis omib' volo supoliri duos ecia' solidos
sing'iis an'is vite mo ad fratorhilale' d'ni moi s'ei loonardi
maintommda ad 1". sl Mich, cohleram &e. 11. T. liie' Archid'
Salop Majg'ro Bob. docauo eido' loci Mag'ro Walt'o do Dunstan-
uil id'ioo Bob. dooano do Droiton Willi) K: Krealou Bornardus
do llutona & Nichol' do Abb'tona & Will'o de Dalilea p'bris
prtgano do lloodloa & Bic' nepotib' suis potro do Hoiton'i &
Bad' do llorliton & Mag ro Bic' do Ydeshall & n> a .

102 ABSTRACTS OF THE GRANTS AND CHARTERS,

412. xiiijll. Sciant &c ego Griffinus filius Gcrvasii Goch rata'
h'oo donac'onc &a concessiono' Madoclii f'ris mei sup' cccl'iam
do Suttona p' salute a'i'ar' mam ('ctp'doe. nost.) factain (Worn-
bridge Priory) secundem teriore carte ipsiivs Madochi Dedi
quoque & concessi (to same) mamtene'da' xij d. do terra
falconis Cl'ici annuatim perci|)ieudos imp'p'in viJ ad Annunc.
b'o Marie vjd ad f. Sl Michael' Insuper &; corpus men' si mo in
Anglia mori contigerit apud Wombruge on' p'dcis fr'ib' meis
canonicis uolo modis omib' sepeliri &c. H. T. Walt o do Dust'
& militib' suis petro Hlio Thoreti & ph'o & Bertumino filijs suis
Reginald* do Danieil & Faresin do fraci WiU'o dc Medleia &
Ramon fr'o suo & Gali'rido Kussolo WiU'o do JJeggesour
Henrico Ruffo do Wrocworyni Wurgona Cadugana Helia & m.a.

413. xiijll. Omib'&c (Jrilfinus filius Jareford Goch &c Sciat
&c ego G. dedi &c (to Wombrichje Priory) p' salute a'ie mee &
M. ext'nee vxoris mee & heredum meorum et (anc.) totam
terrain et boscum meum do Berdeleia quod est in manerio
meo do Suttona cu' om'i investitura sua et cum omib' p'tinetijs
suis &c Ita vid' ut liceat p'd'eis cano'ic' et de terra & de bosco
illo p' voluntate sua disjionere v'i de illo assartando vl aliud
quid p' b'n placito suo ad commodum eccl'ie suo hide faciondo
Ip'e ante alt'ec'ono q'm erga ilomu' illor' & ip'os habebam lib'alit'
attendontes in reeognie'ono' g'ro q'm illis coutuli dextrar'm
vnu' ferandum & palet'ridum vnu' m'grum michi centulerunt
&6. H. T. Hugone & Ricardo capellanis de Sutton Walt'o de
Dunstanuill p'sona eccl'ie de Yde-dial' Warino do Bunvardesleg
ph'o de Linle' Ric do Ruiton Rob'to de Sutton Rog'o Corbet
WiU'o do llodlo' Bartholomeo til io pet' & Walt0 fr'e ejus
Walt0 do Godmoneston ph'o de YYleshall llelia Coco Walt'o
Clatle' Ada Ivarecario & m.a.

414. xij 11. Sciant &c ego Madocus d'no de Sutton Rat [c.j
& f'm' h'ui &c (to Wombvidge Priory) p' salute a'ie mee (anc.
& sue.) tola' t'ra' & boscum de Berdeleya &e ilia vid' t'ra &
boscum q'm Griflinus lilius Varoford Goch eisdem contulit
cano'ic' &c II. T. D'no Walt'o de Dunstanuill D'no Walt'o de
lluggeford Walt'o do lveinbriton ph'o de pros ph'o do Hekeburi
Joh'o do Ruton & m.a.

415. xill. Hoc est conuen'c'o facta int' (Worn- [Phi. p'or.]
bridge Priory) et Fulconom d'em extraneum do Suttono.
(S<1 Priory) dederunt p'd'co Fulconi (h'rs & ass.) molendinu' sun'
do Had in ton q' h'uern't do dono d'ni Madoci du Suttohe cum
tota sequoia ho'im do Suttono &c imp'p'm p'd'eis voro p'or' &
CoriucY &c Wanmtizab &e pro hac uonac'ono &c p'd'eis fulco
oxLrr.uous dedit &<3 (io said Priory) vnu' mesuagiu' cum or to
et ct'olto oi, cum mediotato crofti palmerii cum \ virg. t'ro & J

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103

npka p'tis fc o'ib' p'tin' kc infra ilium Jo Brocton ot extra.
II. T. D'n:> Uob'o Corbet D'no Tlioma Corbet D'no Will'o
llugofordo Vuone de Soultono Kic'o Hoard v.v; m.a.
4 1 1). x II . Scuint iVe ego Madoeus d'ns do Sutton dedi *?v:c (Zo
Woinbridtie Priory) [> salute a'i'o moo (brs, ane.& sue.) molen-
dinu' mou' de Sutton mini oinil»' p'tin' Sec & cu' vnu'i'sis seq'lis
hoinin' moor* do toto man'io do S. &e 1'rotcrea dedi &c (to
sumo) vnu* vniu'sis liceneiam merenu' eapiondi iusu forestarii
p' toium boscum do S. (to repair, ice., said mill) licence to eut
turf, \c, ingress and egress to tho mill, t\c. 11. T. D'no
Walt'o ilo Dunstanvillo D'no Walt'o dc Iluggeforde Waltero
do Kembricton ph'o do pros ph'o do Bcckeburi Joh'ede lluton
Uadulplio Uuton Cl'ieo a,

417. i x 1 f . Kdwardus doi gra. Ilex Ang. D'ns Hib. Dux Aquit*
oinnib* kc lieot do commune consilio regni n'ri p' indorim' q'd
non licoat v iris religiosis sen nil is ingl'di feodum alicujus ita
quod ad mortuam manu' denomatsino licencia n'ra etcap. d'ni
do (iuo r».s ilia immediate tonetur volontes tamen dilecto nobis
Job i lo C'ler do Brocton juxta S. Madokc gra'm fae'e specialem
dedirn' et liceneiam quu'tum in nobis est, quod i p'o vnu' mesua-
giu' el vnu' virgata' L'ro cum p'tin' in J J. dare possit & assing-
naro dileetis nobis in Chr. (Womb. Priory). llend'&e imp'p'm
iV'e saluis tamen cap. d'nis feodi illius scrvie'. T. me ip'o ad
Herdeby 20 Nov. Ann° regni n'ro decimo nono

418. viijll. Sciant &c ego Itog'ns Ponnyg do [Walt Cud
Brocton dedi ScQ llonr' vicario do Sutton & her' Hob. Kngo-
vnu' placea' tone in villa do Brocton cum decern loud],
ncris terre in cam pis do 13. quar' 1 cxtendit a crofto Tbomo de
li. vsq' ICueknesmedew \ jacet hit' duos riuulos currentes do
Doggbcwall h jae. jux via rcgia do Eadlog 1 jacot sup Dynte-
low 1 ox tend it so usq' ad cruccm Hobti 1 sup lo Woilhcldo
\ ac. extend, ad vivid via 4 extend, ad lluwcpull J extend, a
cap' v'uid' vio vsq' ad Madobrogo 1 sup habenbull £ ac. in
BrancroTt J extend, vsq' ad via' que vadit v'sus Ituyton J sup'
lo Ifelac I sup' Moreforlong Mend' &G p' .">(> sol et 4 den' Bodd.
4 den' annualim II. T. ph'o do Bokkcbur Job'o de (irenbull
Walt'o de Brocton Will' Bag do Brocton Joh'e Cl'ico do eadem
Hugo Pyni & a.

410. vijll. Sciant &c ego (same to samo) 5 ac. in campo do
B. (pii vocatur lo Wodefeldo quar' vna ac' cxtond' so ad
logi'oue Brydowote 1 extend, ad erueo' Bob'ti \ sup tyntelowo
A.-e. Hend' &ii iiup'p'm Beddendo 2 denar' & pro hivi: conees-
sioiic vVc dedit ml 20 solid' argent i c\c II T. ph'o do Bcckeburi
Jub'e do (Itvnhulj St^pb'oilfj Cbateleg W'iU'o Bago Job'e (Tiro
Henr' III' Niebolai Ilugon' I'ym et m.a

104 ABSTRACTS OF THE GRANTS AND OH A*HTKHS,

420. vill. Hec est conuen'co facta inter Roor'um * something an to

. i M ii rni > /• > • il.'itoHiiu ront omit"

Donnyg do hrooton & J. ho irom ejus ox viia tc«i in uriginai.
p'te Gt D'um ilenr' vicar' do Brocton ex altera p'd'cis Thorn'
assensu ct conce'su Rpg'i fr'is sui tradidit &e d'co Honr' 4 ac.
in campo de B, qui vocatur le Wodefejde quar' | ac. extendit
sc vsij'ad legrejie Lydewete &c. Jl'endas &c. 24 yrs. incipiente
ad f. Sl Mario in rnar'co anno terminus* &c pro hac ante tra-
dic'ono &c dedit p'dcus Honr* p'deo Thome g solid arg. II. T.
Hie' do Knoll Will'o Bag Honr' til' Niohol Hugon' Pym Joh'o
cl'ico ot in. a.

421. vll. Sciant &c ego Thomas Oonnyg do [q. c]
15. (piietu clamam &c D'no llcnr' Vicario do Sutton & assig.
totum jus &c in 4 aca t're in campis do B. quas tcnui do Ilog'o
fro meo quar' \ ac. in Wodefeldc (same as last) p' hac ante
concessionc &c dedit mihi p'dcus Ilenr' 9 solid' argenti II. T.
pli'o do Hckkoburi Joh'o do Grenhull Will'o Bag Ilenr' hi'
Nicholai Ste])h'o de Checlewe Hug' Pyme Joh'o Cl'ico h a.

422. iiijll. This endentur wittenessylh yat the p'or of Wora-
brugge & Con'ent of the same place haue g'unted & lett to
forme to Bog' Davysse a cotage in Sotton Madock fro thys
p'sent Dat vnto the end & terme of lx yore next ensuyg yeldyng
y'for to the seyd prior & his succ. yerely xiju at Seynt M' day
in March doyng & kopyng All man' of custom' be longyng to
the man' y' yat is for to soy reprac'onis sewtte of court llarryed
both ho & hys assigncs to the seyd prior & to Ins succ. duryng
the terme aforseyde &c &c. Witn. Bog. Hadynton Vicar of
Sutton Bic Fowler of Brocton and ors Dat apud Womb. 15
June 8 Harry 7

423. iiill. Hcnr' dei gra Bex Angl. & dux norm & Aquit. &
Comes And. Arehep'is Kpis' Abbit' Coinitib' haronib' justiciis
vicccom' & omnib' balliuis & lidelib' suis salt' Sciato mo [)' dei
nmoro & p'aiab'anc. & succ. & pro aiab' om'i' lideliu' defunctor'
dedisso &c (to JVvmbvutye Priory) Eccl'iam de Suttona cum
omib' p'tinenciis suis salua tcnura Bad' Cl'ici temp'ibus vitosue j
sed'm conu'cc'one int' ip'os can' et ip'm Kail' fact am. T. Hug. '
Diinolm Tot" Menovon Kpis' ll.docano Kborae' Banu'do (llan-
vill fr'o Koi/'o Klemosinario IhiLfon do Morvich & Husr. Bard
dapih-ris Apud Clarendorsam

424. ijU. Ollieial' d'ni \Y dei gra' couentr' & [H. Hugh]
\yv.W ep'i diserelo vi'ro ollic' Arcliid. ttalopp, salt'm in auctore
.salute. Meminim' vuhin alias inandasso <|'d (hi inodo iV forma
t.axaconis viuario do Suit, on diligent/ inquirct' & nobis p' J'ras
)m;is eonstar' lac'ot, de eisdem aliiq' nobis rescripsente quod
mandatu' n'ru' frust' rou'ent oxeeuti (amen p' I'rar' v'rar' inspex-
c'onr non fuim' cor! oris oll'ci (juare nobis itato mandamus

WO M BRIDGE PRIORY, CO. SALOP, 105

qutim' p'or'o & can. do Womb, qui d'cam Eccl'iam in p'pos q°
sustenot1 p'omptorie citet' quod cora nobis comp'oant in cccl'ia
fr'ra cauonicor'jux. Staflbrdo die Sab. qua cantatur sciciontes
instriimotu'u' sup' ultima taxacone d'ce vicario fc'm si quod
hu't exibitur Et quia nolum' sub lioc dubio exibiconis faciende
u'ue il'ca vicaria ult'ius remaneat intaxata vobis mandanc'
q'tin' roctorcs vicarios capellanos p'pinquiores d'ce Eccl'io do
Sutton ac 12 laicos p'bos viros qui melius nou'int veritate' veri
valoris Eccl'io do Sutton p'emptorio citet' quod coram nobis
v'l c'missariis n'ris comp'eant die lune p'p'x ante d'nicam in
ramis palmar' in occl'ia parroehiali Vombrugi veritate veri
valores d'ce Eccl'io dc Sutton manifestaturi Annuciontes d'cis
p'ori et Can. q'd ibid int' sint si sibi vidcrint expedire vos q'
similit' int' tit' ib'm Qual'r mandatu' fuerit' executi d'co die
sabb'i in celebracone ordinu' p' i'ras v'ras patentes bar seriem
continentes nobis constare faciat' Dat. ap'd lloywod die Mar-
cur p'x postfestuin b'i Oedde ep'i Anno d'ni M.CO. octuag' p'mo
425. ill. In doi nomine Amen nos llog'us p'missione Diuina
Couentr' & Lych' Ep's vicariam de Sutton jux' Bruges tali t*
duxim' ordinand' vid' quod vicarius qui pro tempore fuerit
h'eat mansum competentem in solo Eccl'iastico cum vna
dimidia virgata t're om'imoda mortuaria decima' feni de Sutton
& badynton decima' lane agnor' porcellor pullor' vitlor' albi
mollis ducar' pomor' & pannagii It'm tota' decima' om'i ortor' &
cfb'ftor' pcilo cultor' p'eipiat ec'iaidom vicarius om'es oblac'oncs
& obucncones ad altare qualit'cumq' p'venientes It'm decima'
piscarie totius parochie Item decima' molondinor totius
paroehio It. decima' de Bosco vendito infra parochia' It.
decima' lyni & Canaby. Dat le Loe Idus Marcii Anno d'ni 1285
& conferac'onis n're 29.

•12G. 11. In dei nomine Amen nos Rogerus &c (as in last to
('.maby), ordinauimus ins up* q' vicarius qui pro tomp'e fnit
p'luto ecol'ie & p'ochis ejusde' in divinis olliciis suis sumptib'
cungerio faciat ministrari (Jet'a vero on'a sine ordinaria sine
eVordinaria oidem eccl'io qualit'cumq' incumbencia dicto
Kocl'io K'cores suboat & agnoscant Dat quinto dio Marcij 1270
& n'ro conseeracones Anno octauo concordat cum registro
Couo'tr' & Licit' dioc.

Ki ego vero Thomas Mollesey clericus Wynton dioc' sup' -
dicta dotao'oehi viearie de Sutton juxa Br if go registratam
in registro reu'endi in Xpo [/Vis & d'ni d'ni roginaldi dei g'ra
Couentr. & Lich. dioc' ep'i vidi et inspcxi no' rastfin non
I'unccllatain nec in aliqua sui p'to viciat' & ip'am dota-
c'ocm tidelil' do verbo ad verbu' nicbill adde's vel dimi-
nuons (j' sensum mutet v'l vieiot iiiLollcctii' transcripsi

IOC) GRANTS AND CHARTERS, WOMB RIDGE PRIORY.

I

examplum seu sumpsi ip'm q' transcriptu' excmplu'
sou sumptu' vna cum infra sc'pt' testibus diligen-
cius ascultam & scripsi omia suprascripta. Et quia
h'mo'i dotaco'em in oniib' re|>'i concordar' mo subscript
ac ec'ia publicam om'ia p'notato meo q' signo consueto
signam rogat' & requisit' Anno d'ni mill'mo cccclno
septimo iudic'oo q'inta pont' scissum in Xno p'ris & d'ni
n'ri d'ni Calisti diuina p'uidencia nape t'cii Anno terc'o
xxvj die mensis Augusti apud Lien' p'sentib' ib'm Ric'o
pede iuris doctor' & mag'ro J'h'a Mille iuris bacalario
Ilerefordco' dyoc' testib' ad hoc vocat' specialit' & rogat'
427. llj. llonr' niiserac'one diuina Couentr' Ep'i omib' p'
ep'aturn Gov. constitut' gra'm & b'ndicc'one' vniu'sitati n're
notum facim' nos eonfirmasse can.f Womb.) Eccl'iam de Sutton
cum omib' p'tin' &c sicut in carta Hour, regis 2lli continetur
saluo nobis jur1 Ep'ali. 11. T. II. Archidiac. Cestr. A. Arch.
Stafford. Willo Dqrdcnt Mag'ro RicGnoweth Mag'ro Hel' Had'
I Capp'lo Mag'ro Nich' de Gunedour Mag'ro Nich' do Haniton

Mag'ro Walt' de Dunstanuill Mag'ro Kob' do Cappenhall
Dunano de Stokes Ric' de Hanewd Petro Gap'llo de Morton
Will'o Capp'llo qui carta ista sc'psit & p'lib' aliis
42s. llij. Hugo niiserac'one diuina Gouontr' ep's omib' tarn
cl'ieis q'm laicis p' ep'atum &c facimus nos attendentcs reli-
gione canon' &c Womb, cor' q' paup'tate co'cessisse eidem
eccl'ie & can' sup'd'eis eccl'iam do Suttona cu' omib' p'tine'ciis
suis &c co'cessimus cc'ia cis capellain do vppintona cum omib'
p'tin suis kc. &c. Dat apud Lychfeld in crastino s'ci Glementis
Anno quo Rex. Aug. Ric' Hour' p'fectus est presentib' hijs R
archid. Gest. A. Arch id' Stafford. R. Archidiac. Salop' Mag'ro
Rob' de Salopesb' Mag'ro Herb' to Rad' Gap'llo Magro' Phil'
Sanson' Mag'ro Phil' do Ileref'orde Phil' do Wellinton Ric'o
Gl'ico Mag'ro Walt'o Phil* de Kinton & in. a,
421). lliij. P. dei gra' Gant' Archiep's Totus Angl. P'mas &
Ap'lice sod' legatus omib' Xp'i lidelib' &c u'ro noticiam uolum'
p'iienir' nos ex carta d'ni n'ri illust's Anglo' regis llenr' secundi
Intel lexisso ip'm conccssisse & dedisse in p'petua' clemosina'
Eccl'iam de Suttona cu' omib' p'tin &c Gano'icis eccl'ie ( Womb.)
I Et quia conccssiono d'ni rcg' ct stabile' uolum' eisdem can'

sup' d'ea eccl'ia fcara f'mat'ate exp'ssa qua fungun* confirrnam'
& sigilli n'ri app'ono com'unim'. 11. T. Mag'ro Silu'ro Mag'ro
Rad' do s'co martino Joh'o de Kxun' Uali'rido ft 1 io Tenia
Willo de Piud'uma Evstach'de Wilton Galfrido Eorti & a in.

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■

HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY HUNDRED OR
LIBERTIES.

Ry the Late Rev. JOHN BRICK DALE BLAKEWAY, M.A , F.S.A.
Edited dy the Rev. \V. G. D. FLETCHER, M.A., F.S.A.

Continued from 2nd Series, Vol. VIII., p. 174.

THE ISLE, anciently UP ROSSALL.

Ross all occurs in two entries of Domesday , and in
each is written Rosela. The first entry comprises three
carucates1 and a half, the property of the Church of
St. Chad ; the second two carucates,1 holden of Earl
Roger by Rainokl the Sheriff, and under him by one
Albert. In conformity with this division two places
still bear the name : Down Rossall, so called because it
lies lower down the Severn, that is, nearer to its mouth;
Uj) Rossall, lying nearer to the head of the river, called
also the Isle,2 from the remarkable manner in which it
is surrounded by the Severn, being indeed a peninsula,
with an isthmus about twelve score yards across. I
shall begin with this last.

1 [Not carucates, but ploughs or teams of oxen. — Ed.]
3 [Eyton thinks that Up Rossall comprised, not only the manor of
Rosela, hut also the contiguous manor of Aitone (or Eyton), which
Albert likewise hold under Rainald the Sheriff. In the time of
Edward the Confessor Leuric held Aitone. There were two hides.
In the demesne was one plough ; add 4 serfs, 2 villanes, and 3 bordars
with another plough. There was a mill of 10s. value. The site of
Aytono was, probably, the peninsula of the Isle. The common tenure
of Roscln and Aitone soon caused them to be named by a single name,
Rosshall. I /. Eyton, x., 87. Mr. II. S;uidlord thinks that Eyton
wus wrong in his opinion, ami that Aitone was on the opposite bank
of the Severn, and is represented by the modern Yeaton. ~ En.J
Vol. IX, '2nd S. T

108

HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

One Hunni had held the Isle in the Saxon times ;
but upon the conquest, he gave way, as I have said, to
a person of the name of Albert. Albert was not a
mesne tenant, i.e., he did not hold immediate of an
holder in capite, but he was a sub-tenant (or holder
from such mesne tenant) of some consequence, Besides
this place, he held Yeaton, Middleton Scriven and
Ensdon. What became of him or his family I cannot
say. The Fitz Alans succeeded to the estates of
Rainold, and the Liber Niger, 1167, gives Hugh, son
of Albert, as holding the fee of one knight, and three
muntators and a half (whatever that may mean) of the
fee of William fitz Alan ; but that this Albert, father
of Hugh, was our Albert tenant of the Isle, I will not
undertake to pronounce.1 At the time of the Liber
Niger, the mode of distinguishing people by the place
of their residence was by no means advanced with
general use, so that we are seldom able to connect the
persons named in that record with the holders in
Domesday. Indeed, the revolt of Robert de Belesme
dislodged an ample proportion of the Norman proprie-
tors of Shropshire; and upon the whole it is impossible
now to ascertain whether any of them gave birth to
the family which soon occurs as owneis of Rossall and
borrowing their name from that place.

[Hero follow two or three incomplete pedigrees of Rossall, which I
havo thought it useless to print. — Ed.]

The name is sometimes corrupted into Russel, but I
must not therefore affirm that William Russel, who
appears by the Testa de Nevill, 12 and 13 John, to
hold by castle ward at Shrawardine, was of this family,
though I think it very probable that he was so, and
though that castle belonged to the Fitz Alans. Vivian

1 [Hugh fitz Albert was, probably, a grandson or great-grandson
of the Domesday Albert. Jle occurs 1155-GO as witnessing a Charter
of l he lirst William iitz Alan, lie was, probably, dead in 1170, as in
that year Warin litz Hugh seems to have had livery of his inheritance.
I'ipe'ltoll, 10 lien. 11., Sttlop.-^Ei).]

THE ISLE, ANCIENTLY UP ROSSALL.

109

de Rossale1 and Ralph his brother were living in 2
Hen. TI L Pipe Rolls H Hen. ill. ( L217-18) : Vivianus
de Rosshall reddit compotum de 2 marcis pro de
liheratione Radulfi de Rosshall fratris sui qui captus
fuit in castro de Crocfergus. Tlie former had a son, of
whom it is said in that part of the same record which be-
longs to the reign of Hen. III. (1240), Thomas de Roghale
holds a fee and half in Roghale of the barony of J. fitz
Alan. This Thomas was afterwards knighted, and had a
son Vivian, also a knight.2 In the Fcodary of Pimhill
28 Kijvy. I.,3 Tlios. de Rossall holds great Rossall of the
feo of John fitz Alan by service of a knight in time of
war at ( >swestry.4 Another Thomas, for it could hardly
be the same,5 was no mean person in his county, being
one of the three gentlemen whom Edward I. assigned
to see Magna Charta observed in Shropshire in 1300,
when he wished to win the hearts of his subjects by
popular measures in order to obtain large supplies from
them in furtherance of his views upon Scotland. In
1303 I find him witnessing a grant of the bailiffs and
commonalty of Salop to Richard Sturi, of land behind
the walls, under the title of Thomas de Rossale, knight.
He died in 1310 leaving issue, Thomas, his son and

1 [Eyton thinks it is all but certain that Warin fitz Hugh aud
Vivian de Rosshall are one and the same person. He first occurs
under the latter name in 1190 ; in 1203 he appears as a knight and
a juror, and in 1233 as a commissioner for collecting the subsidy.
Of, Eyton, x., 88.— Eo.]

2 [Vivian succeeded his father Sir Thomas before 1263. By a Fine
levied 1G Feb., 1278, ho settles his manors of Rossall, Eyton, etc., on
Thomas de Rossall, Isolda his wife, and the heirs of Thomas. He
was soon succeeded by his son and heir, the said Thomas Of. Eyton,
x., 90.— En.]

3 [This Pimhill Tenure-Roll is really of the year 1279.— En.]

4 To this is added in the original " Yeton is a member of Rossall."
Aitone in Domesday was holden by Albert the occupant also of
Rossall. This perhaps adds some probability to the supposition that
the Russales were descended from Albert.

5 [Ejftoii says it was the same Thomas, He was a Knight of the
Shire in 1301 and 1302, and a Collector of the Aid in 1306.— En.]

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heir, then 26 years of age. Esc. 4 E. 2 (1310) : The
jurors find yt Tho8 de Roshale held of Edmund earl of
Arundel ye manor of Roshale with its members, to wit
Eton & Yokedon by 1 knits fee : Tho8 his son & heir
was of ye age of 26 years on yc day of Sfc Peter ad
Vincula last past. (Doclsw. v., 48). Alan de Rossale
and Stephen his son occur in 1317 ; the latter also in
1336. In 1 348 I find a John de Rossale, knight, whose
son Sir Walter, lord of Rossale, was living 1377, when,
by deed dated at llundumby, in co. York, he enfeoffed
Thomas Barker, chaplain, and John Hawlych of Byke-
doun in all lands, tenements, rents, &c, as well of free
men as of natives in the said town of Hundumby : all
which the said feoffees regrant to him and Beatrice his
wife for their lives, without impeachment of waste ;
remainder to John de Rossale their son in tail ; remain-
der in tail to the said Walter and Beatrice ; remainder
to the right heirs of Walter.

4 Hen. V. (1417) Fine of a moiety of the manors of
Rossale, Yuketon and Slepe to John Mortimer, Esq.,
and Eleanor his wife. Thomas Earl of Arundel and
Surrey holds the other half for the life of Beatrice,
relict of Sir John Pendirgest knt.

Claus. Rot. 4 Hen. V. (1417).

Indenture between Sir John Mortemer knfc and Eleanore his
wife one of the dairrs and heirs of Sr Walter Rossall k* of one
part, and Philip Ingilfeld Esqr late husband of Alesia another
of ye dau'rs and heirs of the sd AValter on the other part, con-
cerning partition of the Manor of Houndemanby co. York and
the Manor of Rossall co. Salop : witnessed by W,n Fulthorpe,
Ralph Yver knts, John de Aske Esqr, Richd Fairfax, Robert
Martyrii of Yorkshire, Adam Rosalc, fen4, Rich*1 Lakyn kn* &c.

Inq. at Salop Monday after Xmas 5 Henry IV. (1402) after
ye death of John Rossale, nothing in chief. {> Manors of Rossale,
Yakedon, Slepe juxta Bylemarsh, all holdon of Thos Earl of
Arundel by kl service — Adv. Eccl. libere capelle de Rossale :
wtu ye reversion of yc other \ of thorn after y° death of Beatrix
his mother: ho died Saturday bef. Sl Mary Magalen last.

John Rossall (for tho disuse of tho prefix began to
be very general in his time) died in or about the fourth

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year of Henry V. (1417). In the Inquisition after his
death, in which he is called John Russet, his two sisters
are found to be his coheirs : Alice, wife of Philip Engle-
field, Esq., and Eleanor, relict of Sir Nicholas Dagworth,
knight. Sir Nicholas was a personage of high extraction
and official dignity. He was descended from Lora, one
of the sisters of Simon de Scaccario ; and his father,
Sir Thomas de Dagworth, a famous general in the
French wars, on whose martial exploits Walsingham
(Ypodigma Neustrix, 517, 518), and for whose base
and cruel murder in time of truce, Barnes (Life of
Ediv. III., p. 445) may be consulted, had summons to
Parliament among the barons of the realm. His son
Nicholas acted a considerable part on the theatre of the
world, though he never attained that honour. He was
employed by Edward III. in the Cabinet and in the
field, and served his successor also in the former of
those capacities. He even experienced some troubles
from the party in opposition to the Court, under the
name of one of the evil counsellors of Richard II., but
at length died in peace at his manor of Blickling, in
Norfolk (where his monument, engraved in Gough,
Sep. Mon., v., 2, is still remaining), in January, 1401.
He appears to have had no issue by the coheiress of
Rosale, who after his death became the wife of Sir
John Mortimer, I presume of the Attilborough family.
Blomefield is, as usual, full and accurate on the subject
of the Dagworths in his account of Blickling (Hist, of
Norfolk, vol. vi., p. 384, 8vo.).

Philip Englefield, the husband of the other sister,
derived his pedigree, with more probability than for
the most part attaches to such remote traditions,
from Hasculf de Englefyld, an illustrious Saxon
who lived in the reigns of Cnute and Harold
Harefoot. It is certain that the family had been
long conspicuous in Berkshire, and Sir Roger, the
grandfather of Philip, occurs in Rowe-Mores's Nomina
(7 Insignia with the same coat-armour which is still
borne by his descendants. By the marriage with the

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heiress of Rossall the Englefields came to have much
concern in the affairs of Shropshire. Thomas Englefield,
the great-grandson of Philip, often occurs in the re-
spectable character of umpire between litigating parties
on matters of great importance. " For that I am your
ordinary," writes the Bishop of Lichfield to the bailiffs
of Shrewsbury, " ye being under my pastoral jurisdic-
tion, I exhort and advertise you to remember this holy
time of Lent, when every Christen man ought, to be in
perfect love and charity ; 1 would be right glad to take
the pain and labour upon me to come amongst you this
easter week, and Thomas Englefield with me at my
charges, if ye " (the bailiffs and town on the one side,
and the abbot and convent on the other) " would remit
all your matters and causes to the said Thomas Engle-
field and me, taking us as indifferent and not partial."
He was of the Council of Wales (Churton's Life of
Bishop Smyth, p. 63) and justice of Chester; was created
a Knight of the Bath at the marriage of Prince Arthur,
and served the honourable office of Speaker of the
House of Commons in 1496 and again in the first
Parliament of Henry VIII. His son of the same names
adopted the profession of the law, and was called to the
degree of Serjeant in 1522, was appointed kings serjeant
with a pension of £100 for life in 1524, and three years
later was created a Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas.

But his son Sir Francis1 was destined to exalt his
house to the highest dignity, and to sink it to the
lowest depth which it ever attained. He was born in
the year 1522, and early attached himself to the
fortunes of the Princess Mary. How greatly that
princess appreciated his services may appear from her
letter in Fox, to the protector Somerset, 27 June, 1549,
in which she complains heavily that the counsel had
sent for " master Englefield her servant." " I suppose,"
she says, i( that I shoa not have been used so ungently

1 llo accompanied Hon. VJlf. to Llio aioge of Boulogne.

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at your hands, in sending for him, upon whose travail
doth rest the only charge of my whole house : whose
absence therefore shall be to me and my said house no
little displeasure." He even suffered imprisonment for
hearing mass in her house. But on King Edwards
decease he reaped the advantage of his adherence to
his mistress, being constituted Privy Counsellor, and
promoted to the great and lucrative office of master of
the wards. These brilliant prospects were dissipated
by the accession of Elizabeth, when not able to endure
the demolition of everything worthy, in Ins sight, of
religious veneration, he obtained the Queen's licence to
travel into foreign parts.

The machinations of the English exiles rendered
necessary the statute of fugitives in the 13th of this
reign, by which every native or free denizen of the
realm departing from the same without licence, or who
having licence, shall not return within six months after
its expiration, was to forfeit the profits of his lands
during life. In consequence of this Act an Inquisition
was on the 29th of October in her 15th year (1573)
taken at Shrewsbury on the oaths of Ilichard Lyster,
gent., and others, before Sir Andrew Corbett, knt.,
Robert Nedham and Roland Lacon, Esqrs., by which it
was found that Sir Francis Englefield remains abroad
in contempt of the Queen and against the form of the
statute, and that at his departure he was seised in his
demesne as of fee in the following lands and tenements.

One Tenement with the appurts. in Up Rossall and Udling-
ton in the County aforesaid of the yearly rent of £8 Gs. 8d. in
the tenure of Richard Sandford gent. And of and in one
Tenement with the appurts. in Up Rossall and Udlington
af'sd in the tenure of Hugh Bradock of the yearly rent of £3.
And of and in one Tenement with the appurts. in Up Rossall
and Udlington af'sd in the tenure of Roger Griffiths of the
yearly rent of £3 7s. And of and in one Tenement with the
appurts. in Up Rossall and Udlington af'd in the tenure of
Richard Williams of the yearly rent of 10s. 4d. And of and
in one pasture with the appurts. in Up Rossall and Udlington
af'sd catted Little Udlington in the tenure of Thomas Paviesof

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the yearly value of 10s. And of and in two pastures with the
nppurts. in Up Rossall and Qdlington af'sd called the Warofield
in tlie tenure of Catharine Evans widow of the yearly rent of
£2 13s. 4d. And of and in one Tool with the appurts. in Up
Rossall and Udlington af'sd in the tenure of Richard Mytton
esq. of the yearly rent of 3s. 4d. And of and in one Tenement
with the appurts. in Yctton and Agdon in the county af'sd in
the tenure of Thomas Baker the younger of the yearly rent of
£1 14s. lOd. And of and in one Tenement with the appurts.
in Yetton and Agdon af'sd in the late tenure of Thomas
Brayne deceased of the yearly rent of £1 15s. lOd. And of
and in one Tenement with the appur'ts in Yctton and Agdon
afsd in the tenure of Richard Scott of the yearly rent of
£1 10s. 4d. And of and in one Tenement with the appur'ts
in Yetton and Agdon af'd in the tenure of John Porter of the
yearly rent of £1 8s. lOd. And of and in one Tenement with
the appurts in Yetton and Agdon af'd in the tenure of Thomas
Baker the elder of the yearly rent of 13s. 4d. And of and in
one Pasture in Agdon af'sd called Agdon in the tenure of
William Hickin of the yearly rent of 13s. 4d. And of and in
one Water Mill in Yetton af'sd in the tenure of Richard
Sandford gent, of the yearly rent of £1 17s. Od.1

On the 17th day of the following June, 1572, her
Majesty grants her interest in that tenement in Rossall
and Udlington, which was late in the tenure of Hoofer
Griffith, to Richard Sandford, Esq., of Plowden, and
Thos. Baker, junr., of Yetton. In the 28 tli year of
her reign (1585), and on the 8th of August, she granted
to llumfrey Foster and George Fitton, gentlemen, a
tenement in Up Ilossall and Udlington, late in the
tenure of Ivichard Sandford, gent., deceased, and now
of Humphrey his son, of the annual rent of £8 Gs. 8d.,
to hold to them for forty years. They were, I conceive,
trustees for young Mr. Euglefield.2 On the 31st of
March, 1581), sho granted the reversion in fee in the

1 [Tlicso parcels arc added from a copy of the above Inquisition in
the possession of Humphrey Sandford, Esq. — Ed.]

2 In 2(J Eliz., 14 Aujj;., was a Court Baron holden, entitled Up-
rossall cum Yeaton and Yagdon. Curia baronum cum curia wupervis'
Humfridi Foster urm. et Ueorgii Kit ton gou'. tirmarioruin domine
llegitio Manerii predict! ad specialcm instantiain Francisci ljlnglofield
arm.

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premises to Thomas Crompton, Robert Wright, and
Gelly Meyrick of London, Esqs. ; they on the 28th of
the following July convey it to Thomas Owen and
Thomas Leighton, Esqs., who on the 12th of the ensu-
ing February, 1589-90 (by which time Owen was be-
come a serjeant) sell it to Thomas Lascells and Edward
Barton, Esqs. The wife of Humphrey Sandford last
mentioned was a Lascelles, and this purchase was, I
apprehend, in trust for the Sandford family, for on the
20th of May, 4 Jac. I., 1G06, the said vendees, by the
names of Sir Thomas Lascells of Brakenburghe, co. York,
and Edward Burton of Whenby, in the said county,
Esqs., demise their capital messuage in Up Rossall,
otherwise the Isle of Rossall, to Humphrey Sandford of
the same place, Esq., for 21 years, at the yearly rent of
£30. In a bill filed by this last gentleman in 1609
concerning the Isle pool, he states the conveyance of
the Isle farm from the Queen to Crompton, &c, and
from them to Owen, &c, whose interest, he says, is
now by good conveyance vested in himself ; and from
that period his descendants have continued in the un-
interrupted possession of this estate, to which they
have by subsequent purchases annexed the whole of
this beautiful property bounded by the river Severn,
and comprised under the denomination of the Isle.

The family of Sandford of the Isle is an early offset
from the ancient family of the same name, which has
been seated at the place from which they derive their
appellation. Nicholas Sandford of Calverhall, third son
of Nicholas, lord of Sandford, temp. Edw. III., was the
ancestor of this branch. His descendants allied them-
selves to some of the most respectable families in
Shropshire, and became possessed of numerous, though
dispersed, and not very productive estates. The Lee,
Edgeton, Bayston, and Allfield were their ancient in-
heritance or matrimonial acquisitions. Yet the family
seems never to have been in affluence, and about the
middle of the 16th century to have sunk into distress-
ful circumstances, such as are with difficulty reconcile-

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able to the undoubted fact of their landed estates.
Thus Humphrey, the heir apparent of the family, was
glad to accept the humble office of resident abroad with
Sir Francis Englefield, and his occasional messenger
into England on the domestic affairs of that illustrious
exile, or on concerns connected with the safety of the
State ; and this employment, to which he was recom-
mended by his maternal uncle, the celebrated Edmund
Plowden, and which demanded a rare union of courage,
fidelity, discretion, and dispatch, was the ultimate
cause of his posterity becoming possessed in perpetuity
of this delightful residence. But they had to struggle
with numerous difficulties arising from the res angusta
domi ; and a narrative of the cruel manner in which
Mr. H. Sandford's well grounded expectations of a
recompense for his perilous and delicate services were
at one time, to all appearance, in danger of being
defeated by the treachery and ingratitude of Mr. Francis
Englefield, the nephew and heir of his patron, is an
interesting document, which will make a proper appendix
to the present article. Some letters from Sir Francis
and his secretary Dyer to one Humphrey Sandford are
subjoined, which partly elucidate some of the trans-
actions referred to above.

The survey of the manors of Up Rossalle and Udlington by
John Lovell, steward for Mr. Francis Englctield, 1587, states
the former to lie within the hundred of Forde within the
liberties of Shrewsbury, and parish of St. Chad, to be sur-
rounded by the Severn, except about twelve score yards, and
therefore to bo called the Isle of Rossall, and to be in circuit
about three miles, and to contain about 401 acres and a halt
of the statute of Winchester, accompting fyve score to the
hundreth.

The manor house hath bene scituato in a certen ground
there now called by the name of the orchard, yt hath bene
moted about, and no buildinge no we remayneth.

Udlington also seineth in tymes past to have bene a mannor,
for there ys a place where a manor house (as yt semeth) hath
bene scituato.

There is a comon called lUcton heath, wherein the tenants
of the lie havo common of pasture, it seemeth the lord of

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Rossallo to be owner of the soyle and some tyme the same
parcel of the manor of Udlington, for that the lord of Rossall
hath a pool there, wherein is great take of eles, now in the
tenure of Richd Mitton Esqr and called Oxon pool.
CJprossall ^ Curia baronuin cum cur' supervis' Humfridi
cum Yeaton -foster ar' et Goorgii Fitton gen. firmariorum
& Ycagdon Jd'nc Regine manerii predicti, ad spccialem in-
stantiam Francisci Englefield arm', tent' 14 Aug. 29 KHz.

The homage finds that Wm Wollascote Esqr holdeth the
manor of Wollascot of the lord of this manor by free deed, but
whether by knights service or no tho Jury is ignorant: and
payeth yearly at the feasts of the Annunciation and Sfc
Michael 12d.

John Cole gent, holds a pasture in Udlington called Moat
close containing by estimation 10 acres, and other lands there
called Udlington pasture containing 56 acres at a rent of £8.

The old house of the Sandfords at the Isle, which is
now the farm house contiguous to their present mansion
house, contains several hiding holes and secret rooms,
as is usual in the houses of Roman Catholics. Over
the fire-place of an upper room is a large plain crucifix.
This was the residence of old Richard Sandford, as
mentioned in Mr. Blunden's MS., and of his sou
Humphrey, the agent of Sir Francis Englefield ; but in
the orchard near this house is a large quadrangular
area surrounded on three sides by a deep moat and
lofty rampart ; the fourth side, which overhangs the
river, is defended by the precipice. It is so different
from the sites of most castellated mansions which 1
have seen, that I should be almost tempted to suppose
it some remains of the Romans, but that the survey of
1587 expressly states it to have been the manor house,
and that immediately contiguous to the south side of
it is a field called the Chapel Hill, and the rudiments
of an oblong pit lying due east and west with a few red
stones, which appears to have been the ancient chapel,
which, according to tradition, was burnt down at the
Reformation, being set fire to by a woman indignant at
the idea of its falling into the hands of the Protestants.
This area was, no doubt, tho ancient residence of tho
Rossalls.

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It would be uninteresting to pursue the history of
the remaining property within the Isle, from its separa-
tion by the forfeiture of Sir Francis Englefield to its
re-union by the late Humphrey Sandfoid Esq.,1 the
first person since the extinction of Englefield's interest,
who was proprietor of the whole. I may briefly mention
that the remainder, which on that event became the
property of William Emarton, was ultimately vested in
Seymour, whose descendant sold it to Mr. John Stanier
for the benefit of Mr. Sandford last mentioned, who, in
1748 becoming possessed of the present mansion house,
greatly improved it and made it his residence.

[The Sandfords were enfeoffed of Sandford probably in the reign of
Henry I., and, as Eyton thinks, were allied with or descended from
the great house of Fitz Warin.

4th Hen. VI, April 4th, 1125, Nicholas of Calverhall (third son of
Nicholas de Sandford, Lord of Sandford, Sheriff of Shropshire 1385,
and nephew of Sir Richard de Sandford, who was slain 31 July, 1409,
fighting on the king's side at the battle of Shrewsbury, having been
knighted on the morning of the same day) was, according to the family
pedigree, supposed to have been drawn up by Francis Sandford the
Herald, the eleventh of the name, being tenth in descent from Thomas
de Sandford, who " came in with the Conqueror." He obtained a
grant of lands and tenements in the Lee, within the Lordship of
Whitchurch, to himself and Thomas his son, and the heirs of the said
Thomas lawfully begotten. H. T. Georgio de Hawkston, Kogero de
Cloveley, Thoma de Whetenhall, Willielmo Coton de Coton, llogero
Bromleyo de Netteley, et aliis. His son,

xii. Thomas Sandford, living 33 Hen. VI. and 5 Edw. IV., was
father of xiii. William Sandford, who married Sibilla, dau. and co-
heiress of Sir Fulke Springseaux, Kt , and Margery his wife, sole
heiress of John Wynnesbury, descended from Simon de Winsbury
and Anna his wife, dau of Roger de Edgton. She in her widowhood
granted all her lordships and all her lands and tenements in Mont-
gomery, and elsewhore, within the hundred of Chirbury, of Edgton,
Wolston, find Brunslow, co. Salop, to her dans, and heirs Margery
Lee, Mary Springseaux, Margaret Tyndale, and Sibilla Sandford, and
the heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten ; under which grant, dated

1 [This Humphrey Sandford was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1787.
Baystou, consisting of 300 acres and upwards, throe miles from
Shrewsbury, and adjoining the turnpike road leading to (Jondover,
was sold by his younger son Major Kdward Sandford, IS. I.C.S., in
1800, and has since formed part of the (Jondover Hall Estate— En. J

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9th Ed. IV., 23 April, 1479, the Sandfords still retain the Lordship
of the Manor of Edgton.

xiv. Richard Sandford succeeded his father (who died 21 Hen'. VII ,
1505), and married Jane, dau. of William Bromley of Hodnet, the
grandfather of Sir Thomas Bromley, Knt., Lord Chancellor of
England 1581, and of Sir George Bromley, Knt., Chief Justice of
Chester, and Custos Rotulorum co. Salop, and came into possession
of Baystpn and Alvelde, in the parish of Condover. He died c. 1550,
and was succeeded by his son,

xv. George Sandford, married Anne, dau. of William Ottley of
Titchford, and dying 24 Oct., 1585, was buried at Ightfield, co. Salop,
and father of

xvi. Richard Sandford, who upon the attainder of Sir Francis
Englefield obtained from Queen Elizabeth, by the advice of William,
Lord Burghley, Treasurer, and Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and the Barons of the Exchequer, a grant of lands in
Rossall and Udlington, and married Margaret, eldest daughter of
Humphrey Plowden. They were buried in the Plowden Chapel at
Lydbury, 13 Feb., 1587-8, and 25 March, 1590, respectively; and in
the Private Chapel at Plowden are figures representing Humphrey,
his wife and seven daus., and the following inscription on a brass
tablet : — " Hie jacet Humffridus Plowden Armiger, filius Johannis
Plowden, filii Edmundi Plowden et Elizabetha uxor ejus, filia Johannis
Sturry de Down Rossale Armigeri, et quondam uxor William Wyllas-
eot ; qui quidem Humffridus obiit decimo die Martii anno domini
millesimo quingentesimo quinquagesimo septimo et habuit liberos ex
dicta Elizabetha procreatos Edmundum juris peritum commorantem
quandoque apud Shiplake in comitatu Oxon, quandoque apud Burgh-
field in comitatu Berks, Johannem qui obiit sine exitu, et Edwardum
et septem filias, viz. Margaretam uxorem Richardi Sandford, Janam
uxorem Richardi Blunden defuncti, et postea uxorem Ludovici Jones,
Elizabetham uxorem Petri Greeneway, Ancoretam uxorem Rowlandi
Eyton, Annam uxorem Thonue Higgs, Mariam uxorem Caroli Need-
ham, et Janam uxorem Leonardi Meysic."

xvii. Humphrey succeeded his father, being the party referred to
in the long narration hereinafter written by Mr. Andrew Blunden
relative to the wardship of Francis Englefield. He married Anne,
dau. of Francis Lassells of Braekenbury, co. York, and dying 5 July,
1G11, was buried at Lydbury.

xviii. Humphrey Sandford their son was a staunch Royalist, and
as a Popish recusant had his property sequestered, having to pay the
annual sum of JU4G 5s. He married Jane, dau. of Edward Ciii'ard of
the White Ladies, co. Stafford. He had seven children and a son-in-
law living with him in 1G44 ; and dying 25 May, 1054, was buried
in the ehancel at Fitz, and suceeeded by hia son,

xix. Richard Sandford, married at St. Julian's, 27 March, 1G37,
Franees, oldest dau, of Sir Wm. Owen, Knt., of Condover, Sheriff of
Shropshire, 1G23. He is described as '* a Protestant, and usually

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frequents the Church." He obtained a discharge from the sequestra-
tion 23 Feb., 165G-7; and was buried at Condover, 30 March, 1669,
leaving two sons, Richard (who married Frances, daughter of Edwd.
Brooke of Church Stretton, and dying without surviving issue 26
July, 1676, was buried in the chancel at Fitz) ; and Humphrey, a
Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, who died unmarried 28 Oct.,
1712, and was buried at St. Chad, having devised his estates to his
cousin Humphrey Sandford of Horderlcy, in the parish of Fdgton,
eldest son of Matthew Sandford, and grandson of Humphrey Sandford
the Royalist, and Jane Giffard his wife. He married Elizabeth, dan.
of William Evans of Mindtown, and dying 9 June, 1734, was buried
in the chancel at Edgton.

xxi. Humphrey Sandford, his eldest son, married Rebecca, dau. of
Job Walker of Ferncy Hall, near Ludlow, by the Hon. Rebecca
Folliott his wife, second dau. of the Right Hon. Thomas Lord
Folliott, Baron of Ballyshannon, Ireland, and dying 25 March, 1741,
was buried at St. Chad's, and succeeded by his son,

xxii. Humphrey Sandford, Sheriff of Shropshire 1787. He married
Elizabetl), dau. and heiress of Hugh Jones of Shrewsbury, by Eliza-
beth his wife, dau. of Michael Middleton of Chirbury, and dying 31
July, 1791, was buried in the Sandford vault under the north-west
Chapel at Bicton, added to the Church by himself and Mr. Hawtayne
of Down Rossall, 1754.

xxiii Folliott Sandford (whose elder brother Humphrey died in his
father's lifetime) married Isabella, dau. of Wm Deuchars of the city
of London. He spent the later years of his life in Bath, and dying
27 April, 1841, in his 90th year, was buried in the Parish Church of
Walcot, he with his father having been in possession of the family
estates 100 years and upwards ; was succeeded by his son,

xxiv. Humphrey Sandford, Rector of Edgton, and Perpetual Curate
of Bicton from 1817 to 1851, married his cousin Frances, dau. and
heiress of the Rev. George Holland, rector of Han wood and of
Mindtown, and dying 13 Sept, 1856, was buried at Bicton, and
succeeded by hisson,

xxv. Humphrey Sandford of St. John's College, Cambridge, M.A.,
Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple, London, and J. P. for Shrews-
bury and co. Salop, married Anne Taylor, 5th dau. of Joseph Armitage
of Milnsbridge House, Huddcrsfield, J. P. and D.L. for co. York, and
has, with other issue, a son Humphrey and a grandson Humphrey.

The Arms of Sandford are, Per chevron sable and ermine, in chief
two boars' heads couped close or, a mullet for difference.

Up Rossall and Down Rossall have long been amongst the Liberties
of the Welsh Ward. In the Lay Subsidy Roll of 1 Edward III.,
1327, the following were taxed under Roslialu' : — Reginald de Roshal'
xxd , Roger dc Fyttcs x.vd., Adam do Bykedon iijs , Peter son of John
xiijd., and Reginald de Bykedon iijs. iiijd.

In an Inquisition of the Liberties taken in 1515, it was found that
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of the parish of St. Chad, and within the hundred of Pirahill, and
has been used to bo particularly taxed, with thc'vill of Eton in the
same hundred, to a certain xvth and xth to 12s.1

Amongst the Trained Soldiers of Shropshire temp. Elizabeth, these
names occur in 1580 under Up liossall : Richard Sand ford, gent.,
Roger Griffithes and Thomas his son, Hugh Braddock and Richard
Ffallpwa his man, Hughe Jeffreys and James Nonylye and Richard
Tompkys his men, and Roland Mylward. In 1587 these names
occur : Hughe Jeffers and Jcvan ap John and Homfrey Harries his
servants, Hughe Braddocko and Lewis ap Thomas and Evan ap Jcvan
his servants, Thomas Griffies, Richard Dawsone, and lioland Millward.2

The following account of a moated area near the Isle is taken from
" Salopian Shreds and Patches " : — Near the house, on the west side
of the isthmus formed by the Severn, is a moated area of great
interest. The moat remains on the north west and south sides, and
on the we6t side descends abruptly to the river. The span within
the defences is about fifty feet each way, and must have formed an
exceedingly well-protected stronghold. Its general character and
known history point it ont as a Saxon burg rather than a Norman
stronghold..?

Pedigrees of the ancient family of Sandford were entered at the
Visitations of Shropshire in 1G23 and 16G3-4. Very full Pedigrees
are given in Blakeway's Salop MSS 6, fos. 283-290, and in Bowen's
MSS. 2, fos. 428-439, in the Bodleian Library. One given in
Additional MS. 28, GIG was drawn up by Francis Sandford the Herald.
Others are in the Wm. Salt MSS. (at Stafford) 290 and 355, &c— Ed.].

CHAPEL OF ROSHALL.

[This Chapel seems to have attained an early independence. In
the taxation of Pope Nicholas in 1291 it was valued at £1 13s. 4d.
per annum. It is not mentioned in the Valor Ecclesiasticus temp.
Henry VI II. Its List of Incumbents runs from circa 1240 to 1444.
The site of the Chapel is still pointed out. It stood outside the
rampart and moat, which mark the stronghold of the Rossalls, but
must have fallen into decay in the 15th century.]

INCUMBENTS OF IiOSSALL CHAPEL

(From MS. Blakeway 15, Eyton x., 92).

c. 1240-1250. Thomas, Chaplain of Boshplj.,
occurs as witness to a grant of
land to Haghmond Abbey.

1 H A. y'mww., 2nd Sor., ii., 74.
9 Ibid, ii., lJ7i>; iii., 140.

3 "jftilvpiuii tihi-uduuml PutoliOM," 10 Jan., 18N1).

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Sir Matthew, rector of the
Chapel of Rosshale, occurs be-
fore 13 17, and died 3 Feb., 1324.

1325-6, 4 Non. March. William de Rossall,
clerk ; son of Sir Thomas de
Rosshall; died 14 Dec, 1333.

1333, 19 Kal. Jan. William de Appleby,
acolyte, inst on the resignation
of William son of Sir Thomas
de Rossall; d. about Michael-
mas 1349, probably of the
plague.

1349-50, 18 Kal. Feb. William de Al-
brighton, chaplain.

Sir Philip Lee, styled Gustos
or Rector of Rosshall Chapel ;
died in 1398-9.
Jan. 2V. Mag. William Newhawe, ex-
changed preferment with his
successor.
Feb. 9. Mag. William Newport, late
Canon of St. John's, Chester,
exchanged preferment with
Wm. Newhawe, but resigned
immediately.
19. Sir William Walford, re-
signed in 1418.

Sir William Felton, chap-
ain.

1399,

1399,

1399,

. Feb.
1418, Nov. 5

Adam, Incumbent of Rossall,
died 1442.

1442, Aug. 23. William Marchall, died 1444.

1444, Oct. 24. John Smith. This is the
last Institution recorded in the
Lichfield Diocesan Registers.

Sir Thomas do
Rossall, knt.

Sir Thomas de
Rossall, knt.

Richard, Earl of
Arundel, pro
hac vice.

John de Roshale.

The noble Philip

de Yngelfeld,
Lord of Rossale.

Robert Encrle-

rield, Esq.

A PPENDIX — AN DREW BLUNDEN \S MS.

yongc student
(liligeiito . .
had great .
ularies

I refer re .
. business,

him . . . howe paino
. . Afterwards when
ho . . . until (pi

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They doe obiect that sir ffraunciss entertained Mr Plowden
when lie had noe house of his owne, his father being then alive
. . . it was true and it was a g . . . was don to him
in queene mares time . . . old and ruynouse, hoggs .

. . p'ler & hallo And ne . . . ffrauncis then bearing
. , . sumc such as wold ke . . . Therefore sir ffraunciss
. . . time & before his de . . , gro'nds •" • ru0U(J> . . .
And I think it w . . . any [wold r . . . fine for o
. . . for it, no ... of noe g . . . done . . .
Nowe . . . his . . Sr frauncis . . . t ever did to Mr
Plowden . . . frauncis beinge a privie consoler ....
countenance . Alas mo . . . Mr Plowden was then . . .
very great practises, of . thought of then, then, had

. . . selfe vnto, and needeth not . . . ous else, And
soe this obiection . . . s beneficy five markes annuity for
abouts . . . onts low other yeares, amounting in all but
. . . shiplake which would not have yielded a 100 m'kes
. . . name in queene maries time which I accompt . . .
Now I ask whether Mr Plowden himself in his time did not
fully & completely repay Sir ffrauncis his benefitts, And heare
in I shall be compelled to recount . . . the benefitts done
by Mr Plowden to these persons . . . which I should
be loth to doe were I not by this caluminous upbraiding thereto
compelld yet I may the better doe it in that yonge Mr Englefield
. . . nd in an answer by writinge did the . . . snail be
. . . sliewen herafter . . . Mr Plowden followed his
lawe causes went . . . ring tooke vpon him the whole
. . . rder & sent that sir ffrauncis . . . greatly be-
holdingo yea & much . . . thcr could bo any sufficient
. . . for tlio xxtle nobles annuity . . . his busines
growinge greater . . . for soe smalo a some . . . hen
his busines vppon hd ... hath reaped more . . .
busines he was . . . then the annuities . . , could
. . . could doe him good . . . not
As for the howso quid x ... in the fewer . . . Then

of Shiplake touchiuge tho . . . that cann bo

yt was a answered . . . wore ruynous . . .

verie erronouso halle & such . . . for cattell, And
thingo when Mr houses & places . . . taken it, was

plowden cam . . . wollascot att T in re-

to yt pa'cons and . . . more than would

li . . . was littlo worth to a . .
ned by it tho whole ... he raysod thereby ; b . . ,
in hospitality, ho keep . . . men & specially for . . ,
hang"s on ; they had n . . . stabliugo & couusoll g . . .

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124 HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY -LIBERTIES.

whatso'er y did before . . . these last xx .... for
lawe . . . every cheat . . . pfession to ... I
will not . . . then ser . . . to gether . . . move
sum . . . bestowed vppon . . . Mr John Englefild
. . . and espetiall . . . them this farme had beeno
smaie . . . ko they them selves will not deneye . . .
the very first yeare of the queens . . . ne maries time a
privie concellor . . . wards wch office he lost or yelded vpp
. . . t study paines & care Mr . . . ases writinges yet
extant wth mo . . . p'vailed not) he never tooke greater
. . . and er in al his cases vsed Mr Plowdens . . . m had
many & sundry lawe matters wth . . . itcd them all to Mr
Plowden whoe . . . one busines ; nay many and sundry
times . . . importance to doe sir frauncis his busines.
. . . credibly reported that for divers yeares . . . n
(and yett I spake moderatly) a sixt pte , . . nitie of them
I doe omitt,) only one matter . . . e manor of Whitley Sz
Sonninge beinge . . . auncis by lease for many yeares in
13° of Mr . . . leases goods and chattels were given to
the . . . queene her m,ics and Mr Plowden for Mr . . .
(ed statute to have theese leases or ... d did defend it in
such sort for sr . . . o the state that it was resolved
. . . 11 them beinge at rcadinge) that . . . n the
liberty & practizo of the . . . honorable Sr Cristophcr
. . . then ordinary mcanes for . . . Plowdens liffe his
only patro . . . p'fessed beinge contrary to . . . lsoe
was the Right honorable . . . 'all frind to Mr Plowden
• . . Nowe1

Nowe I aske you whether yf Mr Plowden had noe more
done for Mr Englefild whether he had not well deserved a lease
of the farme of shiplake I doe not doubt but you will answer
yea And yet must 1 tell you this that in all his lile time and
notwthstandmge all the p'misses he could never get of sir
firauncis any certenty, And requesting^ a lease for his wife he
was flatly and resolutly denied mary for himselfe sir frauncis
made a lease for xxi yeares yf ho lived soe longo powdrid wh
such condic'ons p'visos & revocations that I much marvel that
soe wise a man as Mr Plowden would havo excepted it at his
handes. Well yet Mr Plowden continued still his villained
friendshipe & sincere good will his paines care & travell to-

\ [As will be scon, the MS. is deficient down to this point, large
portions of the pages being torn off. Ed.]

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wards the house of Englefild, Mr John Englefild died1 frauncis
Englefild his sonne & hoyr beinge a child of the age of abouts
v or vj yeares and fell in ward by reason of a terme in capity2
to the queene.

Mr Tlowden then beinge at london having intelligence
thereof in a morninge very early vpon the ncwes p'sently rose
out of bed & went to the court, he then being of counsell in
lawe causes wth william3 the earle of Pembroke one of her
mties privie counsell wch earle had often times before praide
Mr Plowden to espie out some suit to the queene worth five
hundred pounds and p'mised he would obtaine it, sainge he
was indepted to Mr Plowden in soemuch he came to the earl
told him of the death of Mr John Englefild and of the wardship
of his sonne, put him in mind of his p'mise praid therle to gett
the wardship for him in liew o: recompence of his Lo : p'mise.
And Mr Plowdens service to his lordship, the earle beinge
(although vnlerned) an excolent wise man and knowinge the
good will Mr Plowden bare to the house of Englefild Answerd
true Mr Plowden my p'mise is so but I meant it for your owne
good & not for the good or comodity of any other, yf I obtain
this suit for you you will not benifitt your selfe therby but you
will bestow it upon the widowe or at sir ff'rauncis' dirrectio'
and therefore I pray you said he seeke out some other thinge
this will not be for your p'ritt & I therefore am loath to deale
therein. Sir said Mr Plowde' 1 bescch you leave that to my
discression, I will accept it at your handes insted of any good
torne and as a guift to ine by you honor of 5001'

The earle seeinge Mr Plowden thus earnest beinge then a
bedd rose went to hir mtics & afterwards to the master of the
wardes, and fully obtained it for Mr Plowden, & caused the
same to bo entred accordingly wU)in halfe an hower after &
before Mr plowden departed the court the lord hunsden cam

1 Mr. John Englefield died April 1, 1567. Ashmole ut supr : his
son was then within three months of completing his fifth year.

2 This is a mistake of the transcriber for a tenure in capite.

3 This seems to mean William, Karl of Pembroke, but according to
Collins, he died 15G9, which must have been the year in which young
Englefild was born, if he died, as Kimber says he did, in 1631 at the
age of G2 ; and consequently live or six years before the death of his
father. Earl William's successor was Henry, and he lived to 1600.
But Kimber is wrong. Sir Francis Englefield, baronet, the young
man in question, died, as appears by his cpit, printed in Ashmole's
Hcrfahire, on tho 26th of October, 1631, at the age of GO years, 3
months, and '27 days; consequently he was born June 31, 1562.

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to have optained it but it was in vaine for it was gone before
as aforesaid.

When Mr Plowden had obtayned this, howe carefully he
brought vp youngo Englefild in learninge and vertue what
paines labour and travaile he tooke in quieting his causes &
matters in la we what toiles & suits in lawe he had sundry
yeares together for tottenhoe [in Buckinghamshire] beinge
then for the most p'te litigiouse in lawe, how he to his very
great charge he quieted the same duringe the mynority of
yongc Mr Englelild if they shnld deney it beinge now fresh in
memorie wold torne them to great discredit, I dare boaldly
atfirme that in this one matter he did more benifitt the yonge
gentleman then hee or his vncle ev' did to Mr Plowde'.

I might recken hit for a singular benifitt or pleasure that
when her matie had vppo' sir tfrauncis his disloyalty in not
rcturningo into England accordingc to the p'clamac'on in that
behalfe made forfaited the issues & p'litts oi his lands, that
M' Plowden for many yeares together gave sir ftrauncis xxlie
pounds anuity p'cured sundry other anuyties for him was the
meane to gett from the Lo : treasurer k sir waiter mildmay an
estate to Mrs Englelild in the houses & demeanes of Englefild
and synd'sham wbout wch she could not have well lived, but if
I sliuld come to such smale benifits they would recmiere long
tyme for they are almost intynitt and are to tedious to be
rehearsed I will therfore omitt them.

But you will demaund whether did not Mr Plowden marry
yongo Eng : or tender him to one of his ownc daughters
he havinge two for then yonge Eng : was thought a competent
mariadg for a good mans daughter by reason of his greate
oxpectac'on; Tn truth he was so and soc did Mr Plowden
accompt him ; To be playne wth you I for my p'te did sundry
and oftentimes deal wth Mr Plowden to that end prayed him
to have consideration of his owne estate yf there were not
some secret trust betwixt Sir fra : and him therein that eyther
he should inforce him to marry one of his daughters or to pay
for the marriadge ; he in most vehement wordes (beinge ther-
mite p'ssed by me) did p'tcst and professe that there was noe
trust or matter but that he might make of him his p'fitt that
sr jfr : and all they of the howse of Eng : had never deserved
it at his handes mary yet said he my lrenship and good will
hath beene is and shall be vnfaincd howsoever they deserve of
me1 1 will deale well wth them neither will I offerreany matter

1 The following sixteen pages are from the author's owir original
copy ; the former and latter pages by an amanuensis who has
here and there mistaken the author's meaning.

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that shall sounde discourteous : I see and p'ccave (sayd he)
that Mrs Englcficld & hir frinds enter into suspicion thereof &
feare it, But they neede not for I am resolved what to doe, By
god sayd I, yf it fortune you should dye, yor daughter married
or not married, yf I might or shall have any oare in this
matter, I will make hir paye for the marriage of the best
of yor daughters, or my conying shall fayle me ; what, will you
sayd he, I am glade you have told me soe, I will take order in
the matter errc long. And these or like words in effecte past
sundry tymes betwcene us, but I could nevr drawe him from
this resolution; And not to dissemble \vth you I laboured
it very often.

To ende this matter <§& what Mr Plowden hath given about
the pointe of younge Englelilds ayge of xxi ycres, Mrs Englefdd
Mr Ffra : fytton and yonge Englefild (as often tymes before)
were att Shiplake, after dynner Mr Plowden went into his newe
p'lor, called them unto him called alsoe Mr P'kyns (whoe then
before had married his eldest daughter) ould Mr AVollascott
yonge Edmund Plowden, my cosen humtfrey Sandford &
myselfe, and I knowe not whether any others, there beinge,
torned his talke to yonge Mr Englefild and sayd thus in effecte,
Mr Englefild you are my warde and now come to yor full adge,
what saye you & yor friends to me for it ; I did gett yor ward-
shippe ot my selfe wmout the helpe of any of yor frinds, my
old lo : of Pembroke did it att my request and in lieue & steede
of a good torne to me, and tould in substance that wch I have
before rehersed of the speaches & doings betweene the earle
and him : And addid fur there that he was not in any case so
beholdinge or bounde to sir ffr : or any of his frendes that
should move him to bestowe soe greate a benilitt uppo any
ot them ; for sayd he Mr Englerild yor expectation is greate,
and accordinge to that I may nowe have for yor wardshipe &
marriage, And my old lo : mountague1 (as yor selfe & yor frinds
maye knowe) hath offered me for you 2000H, and as for Sir
ffra : Englefild he is farre more bounde & beholding to me
then I to him and there is noe privye or sccrctt matter but I
may make my best of you. What saye you to me.

These words thus uttered wth a sterne countenance some-
whate amazid & appallid them all: for they knewe not Avhat
he would doe, and knew right well that they had much abused
him & that he was privie thereunto as 1 will tell you an'ono.
But they myldly ansercd that they trusted of his goodnes

1 Anthony Browne the 1st Vise. Montague : he died 1502. Mr.
Englcficld married his son's daughter.

I

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nowe as att all tymes before that they could not request any
thinge of Right but of gentleness, And thct they would doe as
his pleasure was, this in effecte was answered by the mothere
the sonne and the uncle ffra. h'tton the dirrecter both of the
mothere & sonne.

Well then sayd Mr Plowden my good will towards the house
of Englefilde hath alwayes been hrme, is & shall be on my p'te,
I doe freely and franckly give it you, And lest I should have
died and knewe not howe my executors would have dealt wlh
you to p'vent all inconveniency I have done the same by
wry ting \vcb lieth closely sealed uppe in a boxe delivered by
me to Mr Burdett1 yor uncle to be deliverid to you yf I should
die, he not knowing the contents thereof. And take it for a
guift of 2000H. And in recompence of it I crave noe bencfitt
for my sclfe or any my owne children, but here I have in my
house my coze' humfiVey Sandford my Sisters sonne and his
wife & sonne of theire children, he hath served yor uncle Sir
nr. in the p'tes beyond the seas many yeres att my charges for
I gave him every yere xxtie m'kes standing to serve sir ffr. '
besydes many otherc wants 1 supplied to him, his fathere
alsoe gave him somewhate all wch he spente in yor uncles
service, and did to him most acceptable service as sir fir. him-
selfe hath by his l'res to me often confessyd, and p'mysed to
doe for him and will if tymo would serve. In consyderacon
of this service done to yor uncle, and for this my hberallity
towards you, I only praye you, when such things as be in his
fat hrs hands shall come to yor dispositio' that you will make a
lease thereof to him his wife and sonne for theire 3 lives att
the old rent, And this is a matter of noe greate importance, I
doe not accompte it Avorth 2001' betwixte strangers past C1' and
yett this may ease them, theire fathere my brothere in lawe
having almost utterly consumed himselfe.

This gladed Mr lnglefild him selfe his mothere & uncle
fytton they thanked Mr Plowden most lovingly confessid his
infynite goodnesse to them, that they would p'forme this
request to the uttermost, yea and what else would they not doe

Then sayd M Plowden, nay Mr Englefild looke that you
p'forme this indeede, for it is liklye & I expecto that I shalbo
dead before it shall come to yol hands to p'forme, but my soule
will looke & mjuior that you p'forme it, and from this day
forward take him for one of yor owne, and here I remitt him
to you.

Humphrey Burdot, who married Susan Hnglcficld.

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Wth*that M' Englefild torncd to my coze' Rand ford, imbrasyd
him, and p'mised to doe for him yea what would he not.

Mr Plowden1 livid ahouts a ycre and some odd dayes after,
And all that while, what good words, layer flattering speaches
and goodly countenance had not his frinds & kyndred, & for a
little while after untill they had subtillye gotten out of theire
hands certeine wrytings & letters wch might p' indice them
but these once gotten, and after yonge Iiiglefild had gotten
dowglasse his grant of 2001' land & cert' woods of the late in-
heritance of Sr ftrauncis, and eausliff2 other things them had
gotten my vncle Sandfords tenem1 and had brought as they
thought all things into theire owne hands according to theire
owne will, Then first they begyne to quarrelle wth their p'mise
to Mr Humfrey Sandford and would mynse it, he should
not have all but p'te of the farme, then thet the promise
was not to take effectc till sir fr. his dcathe and tyll he
had tho land by discente, in the end it cam to this, it must be
a ioynture for Mr lacons daughter of Shropshire, whome he
intended to marrye, would build there a fayer house for his
intended wife because she was that country woman, and that
she would in any wise have that landes for his ioynture and
soc nowe wrethyd & torncd him sclfe one waye, now anothere,
soo that I might saye of him quo tenearn nodo mutantein
prothea vnltum.

Nowe both him selfe & his mothere & Vncle fytton because
they should shift them selves from this p'mise made to
Humfrey Sandford and having a furthere Reach to remove
yonge Mr Edmund Plowden out of Shiplake, for that was the
great moate that laye in theire eye, And that I smelled out
not wthstandinge all theire secresie and suttellty give out
yea & cause theire follow" to give out to tho reproche
of old Mr plowden, that he was of meano & base parrentage,
noe gentleman, his fathore & all his frinds when he cam to the
temple not able to mayntaine him there, that he was mayn-
tained only by sir ffrauncis Englefild and only advanced by
him, had his wholle contcnaimco from sir lira ycaven as the
moone hath his lighte f rom the sonnc. That he nere did good
to the house of Englefild but greato harme; That younge
Englefild & his mothere might curse him, for he lost to them
the leases of "Whitley & Sonninge, throughe his default &
negligence, that he had taken of the queenc a lease of Shiplake
and another lease of Kyttcnden and p'enans all of Sr fir. Engle-

1 Ob. G Feb,, 1584.

2 In ink, but seems to liavo boon inserted later.

130 HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

fihls inheritauncc whout thcirc consent or privity, had thereby
opened the way & given examble to otheres to doe the like, had
vndoen them vndone them, And would to god (say they we
never had knowen him, a nanghtye man he respected nothing
but his owne p'ritt. Thecse infamouse rumors are spred
abroad, first amongst thcirc coze's & frinds, then amongst
servants & followrs afterwards amongst neyboures & acquaint-
aunc yea in p'te pledid in w'ytting, yea & wryten by young
mr Englefild him sclfe (as I have becne informed) to the Right
honorable, the lo : treasorcr,1 in the end they cam to my cares,
and for the most p'te iustified by Ousley- Mr Englefilds chife
servant & verified for truth.

Before I goe any furthere, lett me touch some p'te of thecse
leaud and vntrue objections, & layc downe the truth as it is
indcede And first for his parrcntage I saye and affirm o &
off'errc to prove that be is plowdcn of plowdcn hall a gcntlema'
of as long contynaunc' as Englefild of Englefild, marry for
thecse viij last score ycres not soe good nor of soe great living,
his house and demeanes of plowdcn able to carryc a full teame
of viij oxen in full tillage xxiiij kyen in pasture vj geldings,
wood & haye sutlicient farre more mead owes thereto belonging
then did belonge to Englefild of old time takeing awaye the
new addic'ons, And plowdcn had the ij towneshipps of Eaton
& Choulton adioyning to his demeanes alwayes for many
hundred ycres thereunto belonging. I doe not estceme Engle-
fild by it sclfe much better or more greater in value.

I knowe both Englefild hath an advowson plowden hath
non', Englciild holden of Mr Stafford as of the manor of Brad-
field, plowden of the queenes manor of Busliops castell being a
lordshipe niarchcre of Wales, land better rented & woods of
greater value att Englciild then at plowden, for tylehurst
tydm'she illesley & div's othcre lands vnited & annexed to
Englefild, whoe knoweth not that they were purchased of late
in kyngc Edward the sixth time, 1 think nay will prove excepte
Englciild sythence of thcirc auncicnt inheritance that plowden
had then as much land as Englciild, for Mr plowdons graund-
fathere & great graundfathore sold more land then they lefto
to discend,a &, yet they lefto to discendc as aforcsayd, & many
otliere tenenits they have yett, Comparisons T know are odiousc,
bat yett I am inibrced in defence of him that is dead to wrytc

1 Cecill 2 Jaincs Onsley.

:t The Counscll howae and groat store of lando about Shrewsbury
sold.

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Noe gentleman. I wisse Mr Englefild this might liave beene
omytted. admitte it were soe as it is most false & vntrue, yett
I thinke it more honor & prayes for him to make him self'c &
his off springe gentleme' by his vertue & wisdome, then lor an
othero by folly to lose the gentillitye gotten by otheres, and
better for one to be the Rayser vppa of an howse then the
decayer & puller downe ; but sir 1 will not compare, but this I
saye plowden is & hath beene a gentlema' to be p'ved by xKtio
discents, and by all those diseents matched wUl gentlcme,)
And howe longe before cannot be proved, neythere I hope can
you for yo' selfe, or fewe else truely & certenlye.

That his fathere & frinds were not able to inayntaine him
att the lawe whout sir ffrauueis his helpe, I praye you good sir
whoe then did mayntaine him there the iiij first yeres for then
was sir Ifr. in his nonage & in warde. 1 hope you will not saye
he then mayntained him, and yf you doe you may chaunce to
be deceaved for his bookes of aceompte howe1 his fathere did
mayntaigue him & his booke of accompte when sir Ifr. gave
him the first anuitye & what it was is extant to this daye,
And this I tell you furthere that Mr plowdens fathere in kynge
Edds tyme yea von in the very beginning, And aftere in the
last ycare of queene Mary her tyme did receave sir ffr. & all
his retynue at plowden he died possessed of more mony &
more cattclle then the sonue the lawier. That sir Ifr. was his
only contenaunc' L m'veyle much of this. Mr Plowden cam to
the temple in: 30: H 8. Sir ffr. an infante till 34. or 35. H 8,
then after, went Sir Ifr. wth kinge Henrye to bullen in ffraunce2
all kynge l£dds tyme served queene Mary then ladye Marye.
And was in trouble and disgrasc, what contenaunce did or
could Sir ffr. shewe or give to him then, when queene marye
came to the crowen Mr plowden had beene att the lawe 14
yeres or there abouts as well clyentcd ihen as ever after, &
needed not contenaunce.

But he hath done the house of Englefild great harme ? he
hath taken shiplake of the queene in lease, hinc ilke lachrinne,
in fayth Mr Englefild he was therein greatly to be blamed ! he
after soe greate cost don in building & Rep'ac'ons, should have
suffered you to have taken it ov' his or his childrens hedds, &
then all had beene well. In fay lb he had beene a wise man
yf he had soo done, And yet in truth he was hardly & wh

1 f. irhowe.

2 Sir Kraneis was born in 1522, bciny 15 years old in 1537, when
his father died, consequently lie caniu of a^c in 1513, 35 Hen. VI 1 1.

Tliu skge of Boulogne was in 1544.

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greate difficultye brought vnto it for feare of offending you &
yor mothere, such a rcverente opinio' and good affectio' had he
to you, And in truth had lie not feared a greater man would
have taken it both from you & him he had hardly entred into
the aec'on1 & \vh much a doe and great p'swasio' was he brought
vnto it./

But sir, see I praye you whethere he did you or meant to do
you any wronge in thus doing. yor unckle was attainted of
treason his estate forfaited, the queeno had the dispositio'
thereof!' att hir pleasure, open to an)' to take over his head, he
had contynued there longe tena't, acquainted wUl the soyle and
contry What would you have him to have done ( would not
you in this case yf it had beene in yor owne hands have made
him a lease ? noe doubt as longe as he livid you durst not
have sayd him nay. but yf he had beene dead & his children
to have sought it att yor hands, you would have denied it, and
sayd Veteres migrate coloni J see yor nature nowe as yf 1 were
wWn you.

An othere greate obiectio' he tooke Kyttenden & p'mans in
Barkshire &c very true & what then ? was that any wronge or
iniurye to you had you any right or color of Right to Kytten-
den ( I hope you will not say you had. It stood thus. It
was kyng henry the scavenths lands, he gave it to one stans-
haunce and the heyrs males of his bodye saving the rem' to
the kynge abouts 24? Elizab : the taile ended for want of heirs
males, the land revrted to the crowne, one hatchema' being
privye to thestate had certified my lo : treasorer & sir waiter
Myldmay thereof, gotte a comissio' found the mattrs retorned
it into thescheq' had a graund to have a lease, mr plowden by
speciall laboure h great suite & for xlli given to hatchema' and
a fyne to the (pieene, gott a lease of it. ho Sir see yor malice
& Rancor yf hatchema' had had it; it would not have grooved
you, for he was an estranger, & not yor frind, and soe you give
out, but mr plowden to have it, was a great sorrowe & grife to
you, is this yol nature had you rathere have yor enimies to
thrive & doe well by you then yor frinds. Then will 1 rathere
be your enimye then friend, As for p'mans it is but a smale
tiling not worth the speaking of, one Lancaster had it, assigned
his interest to mr plowden; but ho must not have any thinge.

Yet before 1 enter into any othere matter, lett me shewe you
how hardly M' plowden was kept to hold this, And howe fayne
he would have yelded it to M1 Englerield, he had beene after

Sir lira, knowlcs.

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lie had taken kyttendcn there to view yt and had me wh him
thithere (for he had vsyd my name in the taking thereof
amongcst otheres) came home by Englefild and thene appointed
to lie that night by the waye, called me to him, told me howe
Mrs Englefild had made means to him for it, and that she
hoped for it att his hands, that he knewe she would be impor-
tunate w* him for it, And I meane (sayd he) to lett hir have
it, I will not breake frendshipe w1' hir for it; I told him whate
I thought & knewe, the discourse thereof is to longe here to
recyte but I reserve it for our next meeting, wh much a doe &
greate labour© and p'svasion, this 1 then did obtayne that he
would as then make hir no p'mise, but be advised of the matt*
till a furthere tyme for I told him he might give it hir att his
pleasure, but being once given to hir he could not recalle it,
but after it repented him not that he followed my counsel!
having better consyderacon to the matter,
obiectio'. By his negligence & default he lost the leases of

Sonning & Whitley ( Why Mr Englefild are you
not ashamed to speake this of a dead man whoe is not here to
answere for him selfe, I would very fayne yf I had leasure dis-
course att full att this tyme of this pointe, but because I have
spoken some whate to it before and J am almost already tyred
wh wryt.ing, 1 reserve it for an othere tyme.
obiectio'. A naughty e man. You may be ashamed to speake

soe, his honestye vertue credite & upright dealing
is well knowen not only in bark, but throughout all England,
& therefore yov disprayse shall retorne to yor selves & not hurt
hi:n.

obiectio'. That he did never good to the house of Englefild
but greate harme, how false & vntrue this is ;
appereth by that wch is already spoken, & by the accidente in
hand, had (thinke you yf mr plowden had livid) this adversity
happened to you, In fayth I cannot tell 1 thinke not, for you
durst not have offered thet to him in his life, wch you nowe he
is dead do to him & his frinds. And yf you had I thinke in
truth ho would not have crossed you in any thinge such was
his my Id nature, But I knowe, say what you wdl, you misse
him nowe, and would scrape him out of the ground to have
him agayne wh yor finge's yf thet would serve
had undone them vndon' them, nay you have by yor grosse
folly vndone yo'selves, noe man more then he I knowe laboured
to make & advaunce you, p'vided for p'ills & dangrs to come,
did all iu him laye to settle yor estate for ever, And because 1
am euhed into this pointe, And to the end you may answere
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detracted & backbityd, this I say, Sr fir. being in the p'tes
beyond the seas and not favouring the p'ccedings here in
England nor favoured of the state here mr plowden aforesceing
he might coniitt folly and be attainted and having a mure
then ordinary care over the contynuance ol the house foretold
sir fir. of that wch after hapened by l'crs, called uppon him to
settle his inheritance, labored the matter by l'ers not only to
him selfe but to all those wch were about him thet could doe
any thinge wb him wherof humf'rey Sandford was y€ chieffest
sir fir. bearing a hauty mynde & distruthfull and not Avillin^
to impayer his owno estate, differed the matt1 a longe tymc,
and could be brought to doe it by noe mcancs, In the end
yelded to an assueraune' by the earnest sutc & p'swations of
humfi'rey Sandford only sett downe the manor willed
mr plowden to putt it in order & forme of lawe, he did it,
never left Sir fir : until! he had gotten it done. They them
selves doe, must, & will confesse this. But yf this be aft (.re-
wards and after mr plowdens death made defeasible by lawes
then not in beinge, but afterwards made,& whereof Mr plowden
nor any mortall creture could take notice, will you blame
mr plowden therefore. And yf he be by aftere lawes over
retchide, and his devises learnedly well & substanciallye layed
downe and made, be by actes of p'lim1 made afterwards over-
throwne will you give him therefore the lesse thankes, or
exclayme against him yf you by yor meere folly & madnes
drawe on those thet were towards him to be yoi adv'saries and
such as may hurt you indeerie, is the blame therefore in him,
or can he nowe being dead staye those thet be living yf you
this doe or think, you doe him iniurye.

Nowe in truth theese detractions from m«- plowden And
sla ndering of him being dead moved me somewhat to choller
& anger as one that cannot here soo good a man soe greate a
benefactor to me, & soe neere me in bloud sklandered and
especially by those of whom he had soe well des'ued. But
yett I suppressed it wth much a doe, hoping still that they
would recall them selves, and would p'forme p'misos \vth mr
humfrey Sandford, whereof althoughe we were somwhat dis-
txustfull yet 1 for my p'te did not dispayer of it and especially
being ruled & directed by mr fir: ft t ton whom you knowe, and
therefore need not uso words neythere of his praysc or dis-
prayse, And althoughe 1 knewe & soe p'suaded myselfe thet
in respecte of p'mise & ould frendshipe we should gett nothinge,
yeit was I fully resolved, that for pollicye et ne nocerem' we
should be satisfied, And after many bitter stormes comforted
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resolved to displace old Mr Sandford of his tenem', then I
having a more then ordinary care over the fathere & the sonne,
the filth era having maried my owne aunte mr plowdcns sister
and she living \vUl him a very old & auncient woman then I
bestirred my selfe in theire behalfe, spake to mr fir. fittun 10
be a meane for them, to mr moore mr Englefilds counsellor
in lawe ; and to mr Vashell, yongc Ed plowden whoe
then after the death of his fathere was in respecto ot the
p'mise above specified to call uppo' the matte1", all they as they
informed me spake & dealt very effectually in the cause, And
for mr Vachell & mr plowde© 1 assuer my selfe they dealt
throughly noc dirrecte answere could be obteyned, but thet
we should be well dealt wth, and passyd over for full resolutio'
and to receave dirrecte ansare till mr Englefilds commin^ to
Shropshire.

In or abouts September 29 Eliz: Mr Englefild came to
Shropshire, my coze' humffrey Sandford & his old fathere
attendid him there, The old man p'vided to have receaved
him in Mr Englefilds owne lands A place althoughe the house
were base, yet such as contented Sr fir: and Mr John Englelild1
divrs & sundry tymes, But this yonge man eythere because he
disdavned soe meane a place or as I rathere thinke & beleeve
because he would not be tyed or bound to his tenants for any
gratuity to him by them offered, and had resolved to beare a
hard hand over them, would not, nor did lodg there, noe,
would not receave any dyner or supp' there wch greved the
tena'ts wonderfully but lodged him selfe in a house on thothere
syde the broke2 halfe a myle off; The tena'ts seeing this sent
to him a p'sent (as the maner of the country is) to the place
where he made his aboad, wcb he receaved wh theese words
(lest it should be lost)

he Calyth my Coze' Sandford then being there to him,
telly th him dirrectly that he was in waye of marriage in
Shropshire wh mr Lacons daughter she must of necessity have
his lath's house in p'te of hir ioynture, would give him xu
annitye duringe sir ffr : his life, And would give his bonnd that
after the death of sir ffr : yf he might attaine to the inherita'ce
by discente or any conveya'nee from sir ffr: thet then he
should have the tenem* agayne ; This in noc wise contented
humffrey Sandford, but othere ansare he could gett none, take
it or leave it, and soe he dep'ted.

1 Mr. John Englefield died April 1, 15G7. Ashmole ut Supr :
his son was then within 3 months of completing his 5lh year.

2 ' lliver " in a modern copy.

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The next morning he being in the He calleth old mr Sand-
ford the fathere to him told him that lie was fully disposyd
and Resolved to take those things wch were in his hands to his
owne vse, willed him to avoyd and remove, appointed him a
tyme, the poore old gentl' : haveinge beene longe sieke of a
palsye and standinge bare before mr Englefyld (wch he proudly
& p'sumptuouslye suffered as thoughe he had then alreadye
all sir ffr: his lands and had had all his estate & honor) icll
first to pray'o after putt him in reme'bra'co of the benifitts
done to him and his by mr plowdcii his brother in lawe, then
of his p'mise made to his sonne, and of his sons longe s'vice
don' to sir ffr: in the p'tes beyond the sea att mr plowdcns
charge & his wch he did in hope of p'ferrem* of this smale
living; of the release of the wardshipe saying yf he will not be
good to me, yet be good to this old woman mr plowdens sister,
All would not serve nor once remove mr Englefild from his
determinate resolutio'. Then the teres in Mr Englefilds p'senee
and all the companies trickled downe his cheekes as bigge as
pease as the stand's by reported, And there in the p'senee of
mr Englefild & all the company, the old gent' fell in a sowne
in maner dead before all the company, And to call him backo
to life both he himselfe & mr ffr fitton in Mr Englefilds name
did recalle the discharge and gave him comfortable speaches.
And soe by that meanes and Kubbinge his temples and power-
inge hott drinks into him, they wtb much a doe revived him,
And soe for that tym'e Mr Englefild dep'ted. But before his
dep'ture he had dealt soe hardlye wL all the rest of the tena'ts
of thyle that he left them all malecontents and they re-
solved to come vpp p'sently to the lord treasorer to com-
playno.

All this while was my coze' humffrey Sandford in Shropshire
& in his rotorno home towards barkshire (where ho then
dwelled sometyme wth me sometyme wh some othere of his
frinds in those contryes for house of his owne he had none
but lived in expectancye of this house of mr Englefilds lands
boing p'mised as aforesayd, & p'mised him alsoe by sir ffr :
him selfe) I mett wh him nere Oxford we aliglited both & after
Salutac'ons I sayd coze' you neede not tell me howo you have
spedd, I can tell you, what sayd he, is it possible ? howe I
prayo you have I spedd forsooth (sayd 1) there is full resolued
that you shall not have any landc, mary if you can shewo
howo you have deserved well you shall have xx nobles or x1'
exhibition and a smalo bound resolved alredye shalbe forfaited
to make yon an estate aftor sir ffr: his deatli of the thingo to
stopp yor moth in the ineano tyme, am I a true p'phutt, ho

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ansered I was and told me all the discourse of tbeire doings
in Shropshire as aforesayd.

No we see how god or fortune worketh & ho we Mr Englefild
must of necessity have an effectual fellowe to p'secute against
him and p'secute him; John Cole a Shropshir gent whoe had
maried my Aunte Sandfords daughter and soe by mariage my
coze' germ an held a pasture nere Shrewsbury of mr Englefilds
lands, wch pasture mr Tho : fytton eythere for mr Englefild or
for him selfe took ou' Ids hedd, the gent' loath to bo crossed &
more loath to loosse the thingo and yett 1 must tell you it
was not worth 4lljby yero above the rent, sued to them to
have it, could not gett it for any reasone, There vppo' he & the
rest of tho tenants there whoe had receaved hard measure at
Mr Englefilds band came vpp to London to seeko redresse,
sued to my Lo : treasorer, who calling Mr Englefild before him,
exhorted him to deale well wth the tena'ts as he p'mised.

Att this tymc being mich : terme an'o 20 et 30 Eliz. I
receaved l'ers from my Vnckle Sandford, Aunt Sand ford and
othere my frinds complayning of mr Engletilds hard dealing
towards thein requesting mo for kyndred & contryes sake &
for old frendshipe to deale for them, here vppo' eftsones I
complayned to Mr Englefilds sp'call and deere frinds of these
hard dealings & especially to mr Vachell of Coley whom I
knowe lovith the house of Englefild as his owne house, prayed
him to be a meane to mr Englefild in the behalfe of my frinds,
told him I would be loath to deale against mr Englefild, wch,
yf he did not conforme him selfe, I must needs doe. Mr Vachell
att my ofte desyero dealt soe farre wh Mr Englefild, that I am
suer Ingefild was angry wth him, but all would not p'vayle. my
Vnckle Sandford must dep'te Englefilds wife must have it in
ioynture for mr plowdens p'mise noc regard had thereto, he
was dead, could noe more pleasure nor displeasure the house
of Englefild and for thosse of his kyndred he sett nought by
them, f moved mr moore alsoe in theese points, told him the
like, lie dealt wh mr Englefild effectually, and all would not
p'vayle. You must not thinke thet Mr fir: fytton was forgotten
to bo spoke vnto : he retorned answero ho had dealt w1'
mr Englefild by waye of intreaty & advise and could not
p'vayle, to be briefe there was noe frind Mr Englefild hadd
whom wee thought could doe any good wu him but we made
our meane, butt all did not p'vayle

my coze' cole all this whiie in towne, he solliciteth me
anothere waye, informed (I p'test w''out my privity) tho carlo
of Kssex of sir ffr: Englefilds lands and woods & of the value,
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sent for to his lordshipe, I went not althoughe his servants
came to me divrs & sundry tymes but always found delayes.

Then I seeing coles drift eftsoones to Mr Vachell informed
him thereof willed him to bid Englefild be advised, that ho
would over throughe him selfe, wished that yet in tyme he
should loke backe and hold I is frinds in his hands before it
were to late, told him dirrectly that for the causes of vnkynde-
nesse aforesayd, I would sett my foote in the matter; he did
soe; Answere retprned Mr Englefild feared not thereof, he
would not be removed. Yet all this while I dealt not against
him dirrectly or indirrectly, those that cam to complayne
having receaved answere from my lo : treasorer that Englefild
should deale well wth them in the contry cam to me I wished
& willed them to dep'te home and hoped he would vse them
well in the contry ; they did soe.

Att Christmas after Mr Englefild came into the contry there
he vsed him selfe over his porre tena'ts wu proud & stern
countenaunce like a lion over sheepe, they porre soules could
gett not one good looke from him.

My old vncle Sandford cometh to him porre man, prayeth
his goodnesse that he might contynue tena'te absolute Answere
given that he could not have it, it was appointed for p'cell of
his wifes ioynture, well he might contynue tena't for a moneth
or ij, but could have noe certenty. May I sowe my barlie &
oates sayd the poore old gente noe sayd mr Englefild for then
maye I chaunce to reape Sent after to intreate all would not
serve, And herevppo' lie p'sentlv fell sicke called his wife &
family to him, and thus complayned, have I bestowed my
sonnes service to my intolerable charges soe many yeres vppo'
his Vnckle beyond the seas have I adventured my sonne &
heyre vppo' him soe longe alwayes in hazzard of the queenes
displeasure, and rediy alwayes to be attainted my bloud &
house to be corrupted for doing his vncle service, And is this
the rewarde I have, wife carry mo to plowden, he hath killed
me, he hath killed me, lett me not die on his grounde, I will
not die on his grounde, and soo wh all speede caused him selle
to be carried to plowden where w* theese contynuall words in
his mouth he killed me, he hath killed me, he languished
a bouts a moneth, And then of very sorrowe & conceyto died.1

p'sently after his death there cometh a Tor to me fro' my
aunto w'1 bitter words, telleth me of the death of hir husband,
howo by Mr Englefild discharging of him he tooke thought
and died, And soe by playne & exprosse words tolleth that

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Englefild althoughe not by violence had killed him howe that
hir brotheres request and all the frendshipe done to them of
Englefild p'vayled not, howe hir brother was nowe being dead
slayndered & leardly spoken of by lnglefild & his follow s,
And having a Conceyte that I might helpe theese things cried
out to me to be revenged of theese wronges thot god would
p'sp' it, yf I would not soo doe, would never take me for hir
coze' nor frinde, yf you doe not (quoth she) helpe me herein,
I will come vpp my selfe and will fall on my bare knees oefore
the queene, I hope I shall fynd some of my old broth s frinds
thet will pity my case, And yf all fayle yet 1 hope god will
take vengeaunce of such vnthankfull p'sons and vsyd hir
termes alt pleasure such as women doe when they are angered.
And like l'res as theese I had alsoe receaved att the sickening
of hir husband wch l'ers I kecpe devoutly.

Vppo' resceyte of these l'ers I was somewhat moved, and
then dealt somewhat more roundlier w1' im Engiefilds frinds,
told mr Vachell playenly thet I could & would hurt mt Engle-
fild more then he p'chaunce coniectured and gave towards him
threatening speaches thet except he would lett my Aunt
Sandford & my coze' have the farme I would deale as I might
against him, thet I would be his open & p'fessed enimy, And
althoughe m1' Englefild mad smale accompte thereof yet
p'chaunce it would otherwise fall out, 1 was thus playne
\vu some of his best frinds thet if he followed on as he begane
I did not doubt but I should ovrthrowe the house of Englefild.
To M.r fytton him selfe I vsyd speaches thet I would be a
p'fessed enimy to the house of Englefild excepte theese things
were amended and had longe discourse thereof. And Mr Moore
Mr Engiefilds councellor att lawe hath in privat conference
betwixt him & me hard theese & the like speaches oft & sundry
tymes, all wch I did to thententyf it might be possible to bring
englefild to conformitye by fayer meanes and to reconcyle him
& Sandford togethere, but the more meanes I made the
furthere off' was Englefild.

In thend we requested that Sandford might have itt att a
rakt rente till the death of Sr ffr : nay thet would not serve,
ground we should have non, but an annuity of xvh was p'mised,
in thend we would have had thanuity graunted, nay that you
shall not have, but during yor good behaviour, why Mr Engle-
fild he spent x yeres togethere xx1' by yere in yor Yncles
service, lett him have the anuity soe longe in certentye, noe
that is nothing to me, take it during yor good behavior other-
wise you shall not have it: In truth 1 did not nor would not
sulfur mv coze' to acccpte the anuityo vnder those condic'ons.

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I sawe he did but dodge wh us, And yett loath to become
enirny to Mr Englefild, I more than x times went of purpose
to Mr Vachell to intrea'e him to advise Englefild wnoe did
my request but all was in vayne — induratu' est cor pharoonis.

After the death of mr Sandford I sent his sonne againe to
submitt him selfe to Englefild whoe did soe but noe submissio'
would p'vayle.

My lo: of Essex in lent in an'o 30 Eliz: sent for me by a
footoman & l'er to come to the court then being att green-
wiche, whithere I came ; his lo : willed that I would be of his
counsell And talked wh me of Mr Engletilds case, 1 did not
yeeld as then to any thinge, pleded Ignoraunce & soe dep'ted
the court

that night I chanced to meet with Mr Moore. He & I fell
again to talk of Mr Englefilds matter, bad & advisod him to
see it stayed. I faith, said he, I wished & do wish well to
Mr Sandford, & have intreated for him. But for Mr Cole,
Mr Englefild careth not. Mr Englefild hath money, Cole is a
beggar. Well, said I, if he hath money, he may better bestow
it: and tell him this from me: let him look about him: &
that I do not hold him unwise, indiscreet, or foolish in this
action: (for wiser men than he may deserve sometimes these
terms) but tell him that he is stark mad. And now hence-
forth I began to advise my aunt, my cozen Cole, & others my
countrymen ; — did in truth draw instructions & other neces-
sary things for them, & then did indeed (to obtain favour for
my cozens) join with the earl, & the premisses considered I
ask you whether I had not cause. And in Easter Term 1
shewed myself open in the cause before Sir Walter Myldmay
& my Lord Chief Baron, whore order was taken against Engle-
fild : my aunt Sandford, cozen Sandford, Cole all the
Shropshire men, by directions from the Queen, stalled in pos-
session of their several livings, volens, nolens, Mr Englefild.

Now waileth he against me in sundry places, spareth not to
give out all untrue & slanderous speeches of me : saith that I
have been of his counsell, & falsely & untruly betrayed his
secrets, & am now of couneoll against him : that yet it makoth
no great matter; that 1 am but a knave, a l'ool, an ass, & un-
learned. These words somewhat troubled & moved me: and
whom would they not ? Men are men, and will not abide hard
& untrue speeches. The silly worm, being trodden upon,
turneth back & would bito.

But. perehanco he may say I am a shrewd fool, & havo too
much learning for him. You must give me leave, when my own
credit cometh in quostion,somowhat to speak in my own defense.

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141

That I am a knave. T wish that he should know that my
land in every respect is as good as his : that I am descended
of as honest parentage (though not as rich nor worshipfull) as
lie is, which 1 confess to be most worshipfull : yet honesty
may as well rest in a mean family as in a worshipfull and
when point of honesty cometh in question, men must not be
judged by themselves; but the country where he dwelleth
must & will judge it. I have been a dweller, a householder, a
dealer in Shropshire, where I was born, by the space of \4>
years. I do not doubt but I can bring there as good testimony
of my sound, good, & honest dealing (I thank God for it) as
Mr Englefild can of his ; & how I have carried & behaved my-
self in Barkshire you yourself know, & let the country judge.

That I was of his councell, falsely & untruly betrayed his
secrets. I must & do confess that I was of his councell for
his lease, & advising him to take the lease, & think it not un-
necessary to shew what I did therein.

First. I was in Shropshire when he meant to take this
lease, upon Easter day in the morning 29 Eliz. I recieved
his letter at Plowden requesting to survey such lands & woods
as were Sir Francis's in Shropshire. I had fully appointed &;
determined my business to set my days before : and was then
in the country about a weighty cause betwixt Mr Meysey &
his son to be had before the (Jounced then being at Beawdley :
and except I should lose 4» or 5 days in the beginning of Easter
term, I could not do it: but my love & good will towards him
& his mother was such that to have pleasured them I would
have lost the whole term. 1 resolved to turn back from
Beawdley to the Isle, & so did : spent 3 days in surveying,
put my uncle Sandford's tenants, whom he after, badly re-
quited, to great charges, & myself was at charges lyeing 2
nights by the way, the one going, the other coming ; & being
there, was at some charge, which I bestowed, of curtesy 1
confess, not ot necessity. So the journey, besides my travail,
cost me near sixty shillings out of my purse. I returned
Mr Englefild a perfect survey written with my own hand. At
my coming to London my advice was also required, whether
Mr Englefild might take tho lease, & how he should raise the
money to pay Dowglasse. I gave my advice & councell there-
in also, & wished he should go through : & showed my opinion
how money should be raised. Then, when the lease should
bo made, it was in the vacation, & I at Burtield, not of councell
with the drawing, nor setting forth the nartieulars. Tho lease
was drawed, ponnod, & perused by M1' Englofylds councell at
London, who woro tho drawers, & allowed by tho queens

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councell. The draught paper so penned & perused, sent down
to Englefild, & his mother, Mr Vachell, and some other of his
frinds shuld see it, it beinge at E'gl' : mr Vachell who had
some good opinion of me sent lor me to come to Engletild
from Burfild, I camo, the lease shewed, my opinion asked how
I thought of it yf this lease (quoth I) passe in this forme
Mr Engl : is vndone for he must rayse money of woods & here
is noe power or authority to fall any other then vsuall coppies
& his nessassary botes, and soe it was in deed & shewed the
reason, why then said they amende it yf you can And then
take inke and pap' and ev' make it as it ought to have beene,
and soe it shuld have passed backe to london, nay (said I) I
am a yonge man no reason, when it hath passed so great
lerned mens hands that I shuld correct it alone, I pray you
send it to Mr farmer who now Mr PI : is dead is and well may
be accompted father of the lawe, lett him alsoe see and p'use
it they assented, intreated Mr Walter hildesley & me to goe to
m' farm ; we did ; had of m' farm' great intertainment, lie
spent great time in consideringe of the points, fond them as
I said, and soe they were fully amended and the Bookc sent
backe to london, and in this iourney I spen' three dayes.

When the booke came whom to london and brought to
Mr Engl : counsel they agreed the lawe to be as I tooke it ;
and were inforced to amend theire p'ticulares accordingely &
soe the booke passed.

But here before 1 goe any further I must tell you that after
the booke Came fro' Mr ftarmer and me there was a c'tein
p'viso wlhout or privity put into the booke wlU in effect de-
stroyed all thet we had done and yt was thus we had passed
to MrEng: all such trees as grew vpon the p'miss &c. but
such as shold be marked by the queenes srveyor before martin-
mas then next after for tymber Now the Queenes Counsell or
my Lo : Thr' : added this p'viso But yf all were not m'ked then
all excepted Mr Eng: and his Counsell made heorvnto privy
suffered the booke so to passe and therin I blamed the' very
much yf I had scene yt before yt had passed I wold have eaten
my fyngers aforo yt shond hauc passed my handes And so an
ill hcarbe put in the pot full of pottage destroyed yt all.

The second matter I was counsell wh Mr Eng: was onely in
his question whether M1' Eng: shuold put in hisclayme in the
Cheq' or not before the last terme of the second yeares
appoynted by the stat and sonn poyntes vpon

that poynt wch were noe matt secresy old noe

and inn downo iiij reasons mr Engl.

Bui that M1' Engl, or any of his councoll did over make me

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privie to any matter of secresye (as is falsely given out that
they did) I seeke noe other iudge therein but him selfe and
soe before m' Sandford did he acknowledge.

And this one thinge I must tel you thet in all theese matters
& doings for mr Engl : I did nev' take fee nor (as 1 remember)
any offered but yff I had beene offered assuredly I wold not
have taken any such was my harty favour and good will to-
wardes him But this I must and doe Confesse I bought of him
ten thowsand by lied (wth as I remember) came to 5 or GH or
neere there abouts wherof I payed John Luce Mr Engl: man
o1' Gd 8<l the rest I did and yet deteigne for my expences of my
purse in my Journey to the lie wlh cost me neere ther abouts
as for my travaill 1 accompt not and yf he be content to allow
yt so yt is otherwise I must and will pay yt.

Now gent' and my Mrs towardes the law I reffer me to
yor iudgm* whether (the p'misss considered and this also added
thet mr Eng: gave me ou' and I was not of his counsell) I
might be of counsell wth my vnkle my aunt my cozen germanes
and my coun trey men whome he sought to oppresse and
agaynst him.

Nay litle further beinge of Counsell as aforesaied wth him in
pening of Ins lease whether when the earle of Essex is to
passe a reu'con of this lease in fee symple may not be of
Counsell wth the earle in passing this reu'con.

Nay yett further I now beinge of Counsell wth the earle of
Essex yf by any accidential meane I come to the knowledge
of any thinge wch may further my Lo : of Essex his tytle or the
(pieenes tytle and hurt Mr Engl: may I not reveale yt. Not
coming to the knowledge therof by him nor any of his frendes
(for yf he or any of his had vttered yt to me in secrett or by
way of Counsell I had beene a villayne or worse to haue
vttered yt ;

Nay a little further the Case being so am I not bond in
Conscience to doe yt and of duty to my sou'aigne lady the
Queenes Matie and to my Lo :

But before I did enter into this acc'on against Eng: I golt
me at BurglifMd into my studdy and ther for a day or twoo
bethoughte my self what 1 shold doe the freindship Mr Tlowdcn
owed the howse of Eng: and espccally to the widdow and
yong gent and the feare 1 shold loose the friendship of
Mr Vachcll whome I beleeved this acc'on would estrange from
me on thone side stayed me much the heard acc'on of the
gent and his mother towardes my self and my kyndrede and
seing him unreasonable, their lewdo speeches & hard words
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hirsilfe to Mr Plowden one thother side did quicken my wits,
and cried out for revenge, and it p'vailed, and I rested then
resolute as they then contemned me & my frinds to set litle
by them, come thereof what might come, and truely this is
my nature and fashion, before I resolve to take any great
acc'on in hand it is longe but once resolved I am not to be
recalled.

You may p'chaunce aske wheather did M'8 Engl, any other
ill p'tes (non before rehersed) to Mr Plowden as you seeme to
referre, yes verily & by cause I ame now entred into the
matter it shall surly and this it was

The old man intruth after the death of his wife whom as
you knowe was a careful and verteouse gentlewoman, and
Mra Engl : being a widowe began (as the costome of old men
is) to dote in love, and cast fancy vppon hir, wooed hir and
spoke to hir frinds, gott theire and hir consent, as both they
and she made him beleeve, but \vbout sir fir: his goodwill and
consent nothinge must be done, herevppon Mr Plowden him-
selfe nothinge doubtinge of theire plaine dealinge wrot to Sir
ffr : Caused my lady leveson M13 Engl, sister, and ffr. fytton to
wright hereof to sir ffr: and laid donne in theire l'ers reasons
to move sir ffr: to assent and throughly sentinent Sr ffr: of
theire sisters assent, mary she forsoothe for modesty sake
must not write to Sir ffr : thereof, mary made Mr Plowden
beleeve she loved, she liked him and would doe any thinge
els But what doth she I pray you att the same time as my
lady & MrH ffr: fytton wrot she writeth secretly and also privily
to sir ffr: taketh order that hir l'ers might come to sir ff
eyther before or att the selfe same time that the other l'ers
should come, & what writeth she, forsooth that mr Plowden
was an important sutor to hir, that he was her great frincle,
in matte's of lawe, but yet in way of marrage of all men could
not like nor love him and praied sir ffrauncis to breake the
marrage, and for feare lest Mr Plowden shuld drawe his counsell
& countenance from hir praid that it might please Sir ffr: to
take the blame vppon him selfe & matt' to the like effect wch
sir ffr : did in truth.

Nowe when answere was retorned from Sr ffra: contrary to
Mr Plowdens expectacon, and he thought and veryly beleeved
that all things shall have p'seeded accordinge to his expecta-
c'on in faith then he stormed and wrot backe such astorminge
Tor to sir ll'r: as 1 veryly beleeve lie nev' receavet the like, the
copy of wch letter 1 have seeno and redd and alasse he did sir
fir. wro'go for ho did nothinge but what ho was requested &
vrged vnto by his sister.

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145

Nowe in faith I aske you wold you thinko that soe great
dissimulac'on shuld lye hidden vndcr soe fine a countenance
& fair lookes naye yf this were the worst, it were not singular :
this is but a slighting of an old gent and noe loss or grief
would issue to him but lose of a wife wch the p'mises considered
was no lose but a great gain for him or his children and for
my owne p'to 1 am glad therof but would have wished they
shuld have dealte plainely.

But I will tel you a hard part and truely I see not how
answerable ad' a hard requitall of soe many good turnes done
by the old ma' to hir and hirs.

Mr Plovvden had a meeting to mary his eldest daughter (as
he did after) to mr fir : p'kines, the gentlewoman you knowe is
a sufficient wife for a right good man, & were she not my
cozen I would some what say more in her praise I wish
Mr Engl, him selfe noe worse, than god send him soe good a
wife And then I doubt not but he shall be well wived, so the
divill Mrs Engl, had a ful intent to breake this mariage, sent
for mr p'kins told him of divers imp'fections in the gent : all
vntrue & false as thanks be to god they prove now.

That amungst other things a noysome and infectious sore
legge not fitt to lie wb any gentl' of accompt, diswaded the
gentlema' from the marrage, and had he beleeved or barkened
vnto hir wbout all question the marrage had been broken for
ev' : which had been (as you knowe) great pytie.

I knowe you thinke soe well of Mrs Engl : that you will not
beleeve this, and yet I knowe you will beleeve Mr p'kins
examine him heere vppo thorughly, and I dout not but he
will confesse this, for in truth it is true.

Yf I shuld p'sent other unkindnes offered by the house ot
Engl : to mr plowde' and his kindred this wch I meant only for
a short l'er and to give you satisfaction in some things, that I
toke not this matter in hand against Mr Engl : altogether
wthout iust causo would growe to a volume, but here now I
end, and when leasure shall sorve I will lay doune ij or iij
further vnkindnes equall to any of the former.

finis.

The following paper is in the same handwriting with
the greater part of the preceding article, and consists
of a letter from young Mr. Englefild, containing his
statement of the transaction in question, with remarks
thereupon by Mr. Andrew Blunde.fi, the writer of the
former account.

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Good Mr Vachell, I commende me most hartely unto you.
Where as you moved me, at your last being at Englefyld in
the behalf of Mr h. Sandford, to stand so good unto him as 1
might, myno owne liability considered : synce when I mett
him at the yle of Rossall, where upon conference had with me
towelling his present relieffe, he seemeth greatly el'scontentyd
with my aunswere. And therfore dowbting less the matter
wylbe misreported unto you, wherby I may be condemned
before the trouthe be harde, I have here sent you (as fair as I
can remember) a true report of my offers unto him, which to
me thoughe they seemed reasonable, yet synce herein I may
be thought no indifferent judge, I wyll referre my self to your
indifterency whither he or I seme parciall in our opinions;
desyring you, yf the offers which I have made him do seme to
your judgement reasonable, then to satisfye him your opinion
herein ; and also for the satisfaction of Mr Blunden,1 whom
especially I desyre to leave thoroughly perswaded of my good
disposition towards his kynsman. I pray you, eyther shew or
send him this my letter (yf you thynke so good, else not). The
offers which I made him, proceeding from the meere good
wyll I beare him, as also upon the motion of your self & sorr
other good friends to us both, but in especiall in consideration
of the good & faythfull service done by him to my old uncle,
were thes.

Fyrst 1 proferyd to give him 10u a yeare so long as his father
lyveth, the payment wherof to begyne at our lady day next :
and my selfe to abyde the charge & hazarde of removing his
father: wherof I have caused to stand in no small dowbt o'
for I perceave he intendeth to stand to his old lcasse, and to
make a complaint to my L : Threasorer of me ; which yf he do,
yt is not unlykely in respecte of his age & impotency, that the
possession wylbe orderyd to him for his lyffe : the which
pension I promised to amende when so ever yt should please
god to better my present estate, which, as your self well
knoweth, my condition consyderyd, is lytle better than his. I
assured him farther that yf at any tyme I should obteyne the
possession of all my uncles lands by vertue of any conviiaunce
or otherwyse (the which he challengeth to be brought to pass
especially by his meanes) than would I be as good to him as
by my promise to Mr Tlowden I stande any waies bounde in
honesty to performe, which, as I take yt, was none other but

1 Andrew Bhmden of Burghfiold, CO. Berks, writer of the preceding
ucconnt : ho was huh of Richard Btiuideu, by Joan, daughter of
Humphrey IMowden, and airier oi' the great lawyer.

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that I would lett him have an estate for his owne lyffe. without i
fyne, of the howse & demeaynes of Rossall now in his father's
possession : and for his better assurance that myne intention
is not to starte one iote from my promise, thoughe yt were
made but in my infancye, I proferyd him to enter into what
bonde he would reasonably demand. I was lett to understand
by M Blunden that those things old Mr Sandford holdeth in
the yle were not worth above 3011 by the yeare, the which I
take to be hardely valued enoughe ; wherof the rent to the
Queue being 12K, & the annuity which I otVeryd him 10u there
remayneth elearcly to my purse of yearly rent not above cS11
the which, thougho yt be not much, yet wyll yt be som whit
towards my present charge, the which by the taking of this
my lease is many waves encreased (and not lykely to be
diminisshed when yt shall please God to send me a wyffe) out
of which lease I have not one penny of yearly revenew more
then the old rent which is payd to the quene, over & above
which the rent is encreased about 40H a yeare for the wodd
soile. All thes yearly charges yf I should not provide to be
countervayled with an yearly revenew, I may quickely be
brought upon my knees. But as I perceavyd by Mr Sandford
he expected that presently i should have put him in possession
of all those tilings his father hath, and thereof to have made
him a lease lor certen yeares or his lyffe upon a fyne : the
which in three respects I was loath to doe. Fyrst & especially
for the charge which I receavyd from my uncle for grauntyng
any leases. Secondly, yf 1 should go throughe with the
marriage wherof I am now in speache here in Shropshire with
Mr Lacon's daughter, as my uncle can lett you know more at
large, yt wylbe requyred to have the same made a Joynter
howse. And lastely, a fyne wyll not servie my torne for the
defraying of my yearly charge so well as an yearly rent.
Mr Sandford perhaps thynketh my wodds wyll yeald me a
great yearly commodity ; all which you know I must cutt
downe for the payment of my detts, for discharge wherof I
pray Ged they may suffice, and to leave sufficient upon the
land for necessary uses. This have I discovered unto you
syncerely the whole troth of Mr Sandford's so great discontent-
ment, the which perhaps happeneth by reason his expectation
of present comyng to the yle of Rossall is so much frustrated,
rather then upon any dislyke he can have of the anuity, the
which is so large as I thynke of all the servants my uncle
Sr if. Eng. had, there was not 3 in England unto whom at his
departure lie gave more: and what difference in liability there
was betweene Sl* (Via. than, & my self now, I leave to bo con-
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syderyd by you. Agaiue, M.r Ed. Plowden who last dyed his
nearo kynsman being of 4 tymes my lyving thought 20 nobles
a yeare a reasonable pension. Thus referring my self to your
judgement, whither I have o fiery d him reasonable or no, I
leave you unto the Almighty. Trentam this 3 of October
Your most assured as you know

My uncle Plowdens request Ffr. Englefyld.

was made to Mr Englefyld
in the behalf of L. Sanclford

for the yle of Rossall 20 Januarij 1583 by our own account
and in 26 R'naj Elizabeth &c.

Mr. Biunden's notes upon this letter : —

A proper offer ! I accompt yt not worth 20li for his fathers
lyerfe : And for his owne lyeff not worth above 40H : and for
40n I wyll buy him an annuity e of 10u by yeare of an estranger.
A great rewarde for his service to sir I rancis by the space of
10 yeares : every of which yeares he spent in Sir Francis' «
service 20 marks by yeare ot Mr Plowdens purse besyds &c.

I so he meaneth to amende the pension when god shall
better his estate, and so a full determination he shall never
have the farme, but father & son shalbe trust out, and Mr
Plowdens owne syster ; Mr Plowden is well recompensed for
his goodnes towards them: thynke you he is not ? I would
he were lyving to se theyr kyndnes.

Of all his uncles lyving &c] That wyll never be, for Kytten-
don is gone &c But the meanyng was when Shropshire lands
should com to his hands by his conveianc', discent, or other-
wise, then he to make- the leasse.

Challingeth to be brought to pas especially by his meanes
&cr ] I know he was a pryncipall actor, and the sine quo non
I beleave & partly know.

A leasse lor his own lyfTe of the howse & demeanes of
Rossall &c] Two untruthes in thes few words : for the request
& promyse was for all his fathers hold, and for 3 lyves &c,
great coning &c

Althoughe yt were in my Infancy &c] A great honesty for
him to pleade nonage.

Indeedc I valued in private talke Mr Sandfords lyving worth
30" by yeare and Mr Englefyld 's th I valued yt hardly,

the more he is to be blamed to stycke at a tryfrle with him
that hath so well deserved. I know of my owne knowledge,
& can make yt apparent, thot yf Mr Englefyld had given him
the fee synipio ho had skarse recompensed h. Sandl'ord. Sed

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tritum est periro quod faeis uigrato : — but how so over I valued
yt. Mr Englefyld cannot be ignorant what is the uttermost
peny that may be made of yt : for the tenement went up &
downe Shrewsbury seekyng who would give most for it &c

That he hath not one penny more then the old rent paid to
the queue &c] What then { Must ho raise alone of h. Sandford ?
he cannot have rent & fy nes &c his bargaino is good cnougho
otherwyse he hath made & may make of the wodds the dowble
valew he paid : the things leased are easely worth 1 5 yeares
fyne, which amountoth at lest to 30001'.

Marke this con'ing: dyd his uncle forbyd him alone h.
Sandford, & lycense hym to lease to others ? yf his uncle dyd
forbyd him generally all, how happeneth yt then he hath
made leases to them of Eaton ? how doth he obey his uncles
comandement ? Sed ut eanem cedas facile invenitur baculum.

And doth he meane in dede to make a joynter howse to his
wyffe of my uncle Sandford 's farme ( A just man ! Marke
how he dowbleth & fawtryth in his owne writyng. Before he t
writeth he wylle bande to pcrforme that he promised to him &c
And now he must make hereof a joynter. How standeth this
togeather I No dowbt he wyll prove his accuser a true and
just man and h. S. in his report to the old man false & untrue.
Yf he av h ) A joynter a consequence he must distroye

all the tenements in the yle & every habitation, and then you
know mr Plowdens judgement thereon : non derelinquet deus
mingentem ad parietem.

Well I conclude that it semeth by this his miserable dealyng
with h. Sand lord, that Mr Englefyld is eyther misadvised by
yll counsell, or hath smalle regarde to his credite & wor-
shippe.

Dyd Mr Plowden who last dyed give him but 20 nobles by
yeare ? yes, more, he founde him, his wyffe & children meate,
drynke & gave them intertaynement, which cometh to a
greater matter, & thet of no deserte, saving in respecte of
blodd. But 1 hold Mr Englefyld bounde to h. Sandford in
respecte of the release of his wardshippe, & Mr Plowdens
request, which now semoth altogether to be forgotten: in
respecte of service to Sir Francis, but I thynke he fareth the
Avorse for yt : in respecte of good done to young Mr Englefyld
him self : and yet for all this, his father & mother must be
throwen out of doorcs, he must have an anuity of 101' or
nothing. But yf he take under the whole farme without
abatement or deduction I have done with him ; for I dowbt
not, but yf he have not a peny of Mr Englefyld, god hath in
,store for him.

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The following four letters are all written in the same
hand, evidently by the secretary of Sir Francis Engle-
field in Spain or at Home1 — the first in his own person,
the rest in those of his master.

I.

To my assuryd good frynd Mr Humi'rey Sandford.

Good Mr Sandford, I have rccevyd your l're of the xiiith of
Decemh', & no smalle pleasure therwth since I found
therby the good health bothe of yrself & my good neighbor
Mrs 8. as also to opinion you have, and the ffryndly

accompt you make of yor old fallowe & assuryd good frynd
whome you shall fynde as redve to pleasure you in this your
sewte, or any other matters which lye in my smalle power as
eyther of you bothe can wyshe or desyre. And upon the
redyng of yours to our Patron (of his recept wherof I was
willed to advertyse you & very affection in yor behalf, I fynde
hym so well inclyned towards you, & so willing in whatsoever
he may convenyently, that I see you neede noe solvcitor at all
about hym : nevertheles 1 could have wysshed you had
pytched yor request more conformable to his desygnment
mencionyd in his last unto you of the 25 of July, whereupon
I p'ceyve lie sticketh : and deferreth to signyfye yt to yorself
untill ypr full resolution tlierin shall come, yor former L'res
of not beyng yet arryved, and yor resoluti6n in

that p'te referred to some other letters whiche you promesse
shall followe shortly. I thank you very hartely for th
you make for Pyllyn & me : that or any other pleasure you
shal doe us shalle be done upon yor assuryd frynds, whoe
wyll not fayle at this tymo & at all tymes to further any
affayre of yours or by you comendyd ; and to beare you that
cordyall affection that yor syncerytie, & our old famylyarytie
deserveth, as God knoweth unto whome (wth my most hartye
comendations to you & yor good bedfellow) I hartely comend
you. of ffebruary 81.

You wott where, & you see whan ; the more I drynke the
dryer2 I am.

II.

To my very Loving frynd Mr humfrey Richardson.
Good Richardson, these fewe dayes past I recevyd thre or
foure letters from you, & one from your good wyffe, altogether

1 Probably Kdmuud Dyer mentioned below.

2 Thin is peiluipa an allusion to his name of Dyer.

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& at ones : theyre daytes were the Gth the xth the xith the xiith
and the 24 of July, whose chief substance & effect beyng
largely answcryd by my former of the xiith of June (whicn I
nowe p'ceyve ys come to yor hands) & by some others wrytten
syns (of which my last were dated the 21st of August) I may
nowe be the more brief, & you I trust will accept ye will, for
the occasyon I have at this tyme to wryte at large to some
other frynds. Towelling the leasse I can saye nomore unto
you than I have done, till some meane be founde to remove
that object & impedyment which you knowe lyeth in the
waye agaynst yours & all other like requests: wherof when I
shall heare what ys performed of that 1 informed you in my
letter of the vijth of August, you shall then understand further
of my mynde. In the meane tyme I wisshe that yf you resolve
to abyde in that ayre, you could apply your mynde to settle
your habitation nearer unto yor patrons howse & famyly : your
presens & neighborhoode beyng that which would in hys
valuation counterpeyse the fyne of some suche porcion as I
suppose would content you, where as the thing you seeke so
farr of dothe for many respects litle corresponde to hys affec-
tion & designement. For the service also of your sister in lawe
I suppose Edmunds letters have gyven you satisfaction, which
were dated the 2.1st of August. The patent you requyre to
have of yor pention ys so extraordynary a thing as I wott not
in the world howe to come by yt : none of our nation having
had any such thing here as you have byn informed: and
namely 4 of your company be yet here, & can gett no party-
culer letter a part, but must stand to the common letter pro-
cured for the company in Marche last. For the saving of you
harmeless whiles you be absent I wrott both to Mr D. Allen,1 &
to Mr Denys when I sent the kyngs letters, as effectually as I
could haue done for my self: And agayne I will, bothe to them
& others by every good occasyon I shall have to wryte thither.
Touching your retorne to Fiaunders, or abode where you are,
I dare not take on me to advise you directly to the one nor
the other : your best counsell in that poynt must be expected
from those places, to which you are to goe, & from whens you
are to remove: for this third place beyng so far from bothe,
much lesse ys knowen & nnderstoode here of the qualytie of
bothe those", then ys knowen in those places: and many
changes also dayly growe in the one & the other, which never
come to knowledge here. You must therefore in that poynt

1 The famous Dr., afterwards Cardinal Allen.
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direct your self chiefly by the graue & mature advice of your
good host & best fry rule where you are, (whoe no doubte ys
very hable to counsel! you well, & for the best) and secondly
by thadvise of such frynds as you have in the Lowe Countreys;
whoe knowe the state of tilings there muche better then we
doe here, & from whorne you may have more spedye advice of
every alteration then can be gyven you from hens. The last
advice we had from those partes did signyfye that all whiche
were present had obteyned Liberalises for theyr arrerages,
syns the comyng of D. Juan : howe be yt so narrowly looked
to by the oflycers, that Mr Owen was defalked for so many
monethes as he was absent in Spayne, whiche maketh me
doubte that you may be strayghtly dealt with for the tyme of
your absens : One comfort I gather, which is, that certen of
your assuryd frynds have presently good credyte bothe with
the Prynce & his mother, to wytt, Denys, Mockett & Ingram:
by whose meanes I suppose you may fynde more favor than
ordynary foulks are lyke to obteyne. I hold yt for true (as
you eonceve) that the Cansealing of the Indenture mencioned
dothe not sufficiently frustrate the conveyance, & therefore I
tooke the other way, as you may p'ceyve by my other letters
of the 7th of August: he that kepeth that Indenture will needs
still beare me in hand that the same ys of valewe & affect to
prevent the Prynce of confiscation fa forfeyture in case of
atteynder of the patron &c where as I resolutely beleve that
by certen acts alredye made & past all such conveyances made
from long tyme beforo that deede be annihilate & made voyde,
agaynst the Prynce, and shall take none effect to prejudice
any interest or forfeyture comyng to the Prynce. In which
poynt you shall doe me pleasure to gyue me the resolution of
some that be learned, wherby I may be certen & assuryd
whether this conveyance be effectuall nowe at this daye, not-
withstanding any acts or Statuts passed hitherto. Commende
me I pray you to your good wyne with thanks for her cour-
teouse letter wherunto I pray her that she will take this for
answer. And so to God I com'onde you & my self hartely
unto you. This seconde of October 81.

Yor owne whome you knowe1

Com'ende me to your cosyn Th. har. with thanks for
his fryndship & good will : & tell hym that Mr Wotton at
Parys eyther hath or will direct hym in the ati'ayre com ytted

Thin in a different hand.

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unto hym by Mr Colley, & that I pray hym to performs that
which Mr Wotton1 requyreth as yf my self dyd demaunde yt.

For H. Taylor I have wrytten at large to the wyddowe, &
bothe the others, that yf his presens be not tollerable to them,
that then he be satisfyed with a recompense of juste valewe ;
to wytt wyth suche a porcion eyther of Annuytie or other
things as will suffice him for a compitent lyvings ; as reason
ys.syns those tenements nowe graunted hym, would be a good
lyving for hym ; yf he maye enjoye them and shall prove a
good husband.

M' Sandford.

III.

To my very loving frynd Mr Hurafrey Richardson.

The xiiiith of Marche I wrott unto you, in answer to yours
of December, & nowe lately I have your other of the 5th of
February, with some others inclosyd, by which you set downe
in so good order the partycularyties of the conference you had
with my nephew in the matter I formerly comendyd unto
you, as gyveth me muche contentment & satisfaction : & I
hartely thank you therfore : And I am eftsones bold to pray
you to delyver unto hym this other which cometh herin in-
closyd at suche tyme as you may fynd hym aparted from
company : & tell hym with all, that although I have wrytten
an other letter unto hym of this date, in answer of his last
come, yet because I presuppose some other frynds wyll expect
to see the same, from whome he neyther willingly would, nor
without unkyndnes might wythhold yt : And also for that he
should be free & not inforced to ym parte this matter to any
other than hymself lyke to chewse, I have therfore wrytten
this other aparte by yt self: wherby I suppose he may amply
understand the full & whole of my meanyng in that poynt &
behalf : wherin yet yf he fynd any thing obscure or doubtfull,
yf he shall lyke to lett you peruse yt with hym to consyder
every parte of y t at Leysure, and with conference betwene hym
& you, I beleve you shalbe hable to gyve him full satisfaction
of my whole sens & purpose in every parte therof : which also
I shalbe redye from tyme to tyme more amply to enlarge, yf
the same shalbe requysyte.

I have thankyd my Syster for Katherin & Julyan : & I
trust they shall fynd her the more fryndly "for my sake : yt
cornforteth me much to heare of their fortitude & constancye,

1 Thomas Wotton mentioned in the examination of Humfroy
Sandford.

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with theyr litle symple sister, whiles so many wyse, learned, &
valiant men shrink & slyde from professing God & theyr con-
sciences before man : Com'end me a thowsand tymes unto
them.

The safe arrivall of your two Cosyns hath easyd & endyd a
long feare & cue I had of them, dayly advises comyng from
all partes, of sondry Shipwracks all the tyme of the wynter
monethes: and I trust that by this time, or before, theyr
quartans have also left them : And in this packett I retorne
answer to those fewo lynes which came from one of them with
this Last of yours, & doe also comende my self hartely unto
the other. Theyr credyte ys satisfyed & theyr creditors fully
payd, as I vvrott you in my former.

in my nephewes owne letter to me no mention beyng made
of his inclynation to travell into forrayne partes, I have ther-
fore taken the best occasyon I could in my i'res of this date to
hym self; to his mother, & to your good unckle, to she we not
only myne owne opinion, but also the great desyre & affection
I have, that he should fynde some meane to obteyne Licens yf
yt be possible : and to every of them I frame my L're as I
think most convenient for every partye, & doe not forbeare to
presse my sister whoe only gyveth me a glaunce as yf she!
were nowe content that he should passe over) as well to urge
her best frynds for procuring his Licens, as also to open her
purse liberally, & to gyve hym good allowance for his mayn-
tenaunce abrode with one compagnion, & one servant: And
those to be chosen of suche as are abrode, having some language
& some knowledge of the customes & people they are to goe
unto. From your uiickle I had a letter but late, wherin he
urged me to advise my nephewe earnestly to the studye of our
lawe, which I dyd by myne answer forthwith performe : yet so
dyd yt please God to direct my pen, that to bothe I made
exeption of this that ys syns fallen out, which at that tyme
I smelled not, having then no last insynuation from any
creature of any suche disposition in my nephewe ; which I
nowe beleve your unckle dyd then perceve, thoughe he clossely
coveryd yt from me: Wherby I stand in doubt that your
unckle ys not nowe so willing therunto, ne will not be so
earnest to procure his licens as his mother nowe semeth to be,
in whome alone was all the staye before, as ye knowe : wherin
yf your good worde can any thing avayle with your unckle, I
doubt not but that you will bestowe the same to the best of
your power, aswell because your self I suppose holdeth the
samo tor most beneficial] to the yong man, as also for the con-
tentment the same shall gyve to me.

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Albeyt I am right glad to heare of yor resolution to retorne
into che Lowe Countreys, yet am I sorry to heare that you
should be constrayned therto by want of meane to maynteyne
your self where you are so well frynded, & so many wayes
allyed to persons of worship as well on your wyves parte as on
your owne : for that argueth shrewdly that besyds the decaye
of that fryndship which was wont to be com'on in that land,
natural affection & love of kynred semeth to growe old, & to
wasted with the religion. You may not for all that growe
deject in mynde, nor be discomforted with povertye, but pray
for a good coorage & a ioyfull hope in God, by the help wherof
your burden shalbe the lighter, of what kynde so ever yt be.
Comende me I pray you to your good wyffe, & so I comende
my self to you, & you bothe to God. This 25 of Aprill 1583.

M' Sandford Yor assueryd frynde

whome you knew and where1

IV.

To my very loving frynd Mr Humfrey Richard sonne.

By the last poste I wrott [unto you dated the 12 ot thys
tnoneth in answer to your letters of July, at which tyme I
lacked your letters of June which came to my handes the 21
of this moneth & brought me sundry contentments, & namely,
to heare howe faste your good wyrfe breedeth, & what a
sufficient howseholde you will shortly have of ycur owne
generation, where at I trust she joyeth as muche & thanketh
God as fast, as you do feare & care where with & howe to fynde
theym, which diffidence of Godds good providence seemeth a
ly tie immoderate by the terines }'ou utter as well in this, as in
your other letter, for which I woulde gyve you a good penance
yt I were your ghoostely father.

The good relation you gyve me of the greate hope you have
of my nephewe doth synk more depely with me & content me
better then the same report made unto me by many others,
chiefly for the exp can disguyse

them selves and m of your integrytie

not to abuse but that you will as

readely undeceive if need require, as you comforte & content
me by that you see for the present.

Here are no newes nor change of occurrents synce my last,
which did advise you howe the Frenche at Tercera were

1 This in the mime liaud with the subscription to the preceding
letter.

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returned to fraunce with their capes & swordes onely, as
parsons content to take that condicon, since they coulde get
no better. And what is since become of the Navy, we yet
heare not. The ffleetes from Mexico & Peru are sayde to be
allready come & richely laden, as also ys one of them from
the East Indes, & the rest expected without any great feare of
interception. And so for want of more to God I comende you
& yours : & my self hartely to you & your good wyffe. This
26 of September '83.

Your olde companyon John Ingram hath ben here synce
Aprill, dylligently sueyng for a pension as many others doe,
which nether he nor the rest can yet obteyne nor so muche as
any l'res to be provyded according to theire qualytie : whiche
if he coulde obteyne, he hopeth his owne credyte & frindes in
fflanders woulde suffice for the rest.

Yor owne assueryd you knowe who,
and where.

These letters prove the esteem and regard of Sir
Francis towards the person to whom they are addressed.
How much he was employed in confidential transactions
by Sir Francis appears further from his examination
before Chief Baron Manwood, 19 Feb., 1589, 32 Eliz.
(i.e., 1589-90), in which, styling himself Humf. Sand-
ford of Up Rossall, gent., he deposed that he knew Sir
Francis Englefield about eight or nine years beyond
seas ; that Sir Francis made an assurance of his land to
the use of his nephew Mr. Francis Englefield, which
assurance he thinks was made by Mr. Plowden, and
sent in a letter beyond seas. Who delivered it to Sir
Francis he does not certainly remember ; but it came
from one Mr. Thomas Wotton, then at Antwerp, and
was at Rome delivered to the hands of the said Sir
Francis Englefield as of this examinate himself. It was
drawn in paper by Mr. Plowden's clerk Harrington, and
at Home engrossed in parchment by Edmund Dyer,
Sir Francis Englefield's clerk. It was sealed and
delivered by Sir Francis to the use of his nephew, to
the hand of this examinate, as he thinketh, at Home,
in the English hospital about the end of February or in
March, in the L8th year of her Majesty's reign [1575-6]

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as he tbinketh ; in the presence, as he remembreth, of
Dr. Allen, Dr. Hewys, Dr. Bavand, Dr. Brombrow, Dr.
Morris, Dr. Henshaw, Edmund Dyer, John Ingram,
and divers others. And in the same conveyance was
contained a proviso, that if Sir Francis did deliver or
send a ring of gold to his said nephew Francis Engle-
field, to the intent to frustrate the said conveyance,
then it should be void.

The following paper will serve to throw some light
upon the character of young Mr. Englefield. It seems
to be a draft of a letter from Humphrey Sandford to
Sir Francis, in answer to his of the 25th of April, 1583.1

I shewed hym your letter dated the of
withoute making any privie therto but hym selfo

He seemyd very glad therof, because he understood not
yours to hym of the same date, & after shewed the same to
me, & cravyd myne opynion for the better understandinge
therof upon conferance with yours to me.

He semythe very desirous to knowe & to be acquainted
withe some of his fathers kinred, wherof he knowethe not any
other in Barks but only Mr Burdet, nor well acquiented nor
conversante withe any of theym in any other place by reason
be hathe hitherto beene conversant as a scoller chefely in
Mr Plowdens house and in Oxford, til lately for a smalle tyme
at London, nor withe any other of his mothers kinred but
only her selfe & her brother francys.

He plainly sheweth hym selfe desirous to be advised by you
whiche of your kinred you have beste lykinge unto for wisdom
& frindeship upon your owne knowleige & whiche of them you
would wisshe hym to seek to be acquiented with & to repose
affyans in, & there will he seek it & be moste gladd therof &
also further to followe & obaye your advice & dyrection in all
thinges to his utermoste poure

In my symple opynion for oughte I see I deeme hym natur-
ally disposed not to repose hym selfe hastely apon anye, nor
to utter his mynde to manye.

Notwithstanding the enmity which must have been
excited between Mr. Humfrey Sandford and Mr. Francis
Englefield by the refusal of the latter to perform his

It is not, howevor, the heading of it.

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promise made to Mr. Plowden, it appears from the
following letter that Mr. Sandford did not maintain an
irreconcilsable aversion to the nephew of his patron.
The letter is indorsed : —

"The coppy of my letter to Mr ffrancis More esquyer 22°
Septembris 1602."

Good Mr More havinge so convenient a massenger as this
bearer my eldest sonne who contineweth in the Inn' Temple,
I thought good to wryt to you these few lines, hereby partely
to renew our old acquayntance, & partely to lett you know
that a frend told me that you dyd som what suspecte & dowbt
I was privey & partaker with my brother in law Mr Cole in
the sute & acc'on he is now lately entered into agaynst Mr
Englefyld &c' In good fayth Mr More, I am as cleare &
innocent from that cause as your selfe, & so soone as I hard of
his proceedings therein (thoughe not by him selfe) I assure
you & protest as I am a Christian) that 1 did not only disswade
him by all the reason I could possible use to give over that
hard course, but also acquaynted a verve good frind of Mr
Englefylds with all I hard from time to time concerninge that
matter to the intent he should imparte the same to Mr
Englefyld (As I knowe he dyd), wishinge well to Mr
Englefyld I take leave with remembrance of my duty to him &
my very harty remembrance to your selfe, the 22 of September
1G02.

Your lovinge poore friend Humfrey Sandford.

To my loving cose' Mr Humftrey Sandeford yeve thes
Cosyn I have to my no great comfort Receaued yor Letter:
but from that Asse and Villen my son no one peny to kepe
the pursyvant from Sir gelly meyrick1 and Mr Crompton I was
inforcid to take up till the next term 50H to stoppe the mouthes
of the quenes offyc's & to kepe the ft'yn from forfeting.

At Lent was xii monethes upo' the Lik mischif I was inforcid
to pay out of my purse lxxxi11 other wise the fryn had then
ben lost but now the Rascall knewe him self that the Lord
th'rs men have layd trapps to ketch the fole and had kaught
hym soundly and his suertie to had not I strayned myself &
used my frynds

1 Sir (icily Meyrick and Mr. Crompton wore grantees of lands in
(Tp HoHHall and Islington, in the tenure of the Sandfords, 31 Eliss,

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Cosyn yf you had bene so carefull for me as I have ben for
you, Mr Drap' had long sythence bene payd all his dett of Cli
Long ere this : of all shiftes excuses are most odious before
god and man for they nevr or seldome be true but mere lopes
to bleare foles eyes and mak them foryne of that that is not

You write thet that dog bole fole payd in Rents nere ix
pounds for grounds, what shuld the fol do wth them that can
not use them huettr even in takyng grounds lyv by the' and
gayne but he the Asse hath no wayes to gayne or save a peny :
1 thought what wold come of yt : must he pay his rents wth
the queues money & so undo him self & his frynds

You write his grounds are fully furnished but who furnished
them I gave him first here at London and at their goyng into
Shropshire hence lxu to begyn the world : I gave the* also Cu
to store them : and the last somer another C!i this can not be
denyed. I payd as I sayd before lxxj1* for him to the Receaver
at Lent was xii monethes he tok up of my money for Edwards
of London had of the m'ver of bishopscastell xl1 & upwards. I
gave him my tythes for on year which cam to Su I gave them
the toll of knights for on' yer which cost me xx11 I am sure it
is better worth. I gave them heriotts worth vu and many
other things besyds: and for the land I delyvered them is not
loss worth then 100 m'ks by year above all chardg' : Mr Sand-
ford had less to begyn & stryvyd wth it see stulto intelligens
quid interest shewe me noe babling words shew me dedes.

You write he laboureth & toyleth & goeth meanely in
apparell what shuld an asse do but labor & toyle it is his
property but yt he had wytt it needith not nor to go meanelye

But I besech you of all loves take care that Mr Attely pay
old Mr Drap' or else my credytt is crack for euer.

Tyme will not suffer me to wryt any furthe at this tyme
being & having ben of long tyme in Anguish and grief of
mynd : Com'ed to my cosin and so I end this 28th of Nov. 1G00

Yor cosyn

Andrew Blunden.

To my very Loving father Mr Humfrey Sand ford at the Ho

in hast

Good Sr I thanke you for noo l're this last frydaye wherby I
perceive you are offended with me upon what occasion 1 knowe
not but 1 hope you wilbe quyckly roconsyled after my answero
to your nllegac'ons.

This daye we moved to have Mr Cole your greate frond to
bo comytted to the fflcote upon the (Jomyssion of Rebellion &

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notwithstandang Mr Justice Williams1 dyd sytt in Chauncery
yet was he comytted by the Cort which thinge I knowe will
please you well, but 1 must further certyfie you that after that
order & the cort ryssen One Cole a deputye register in the
Chauncery nor the name sake (as sythens he hath confessed
unto me) hath made staye of his ymprysonam1 for a tyme
hoping to compound wth us for his contempts, & will not suffer
thorder of Corny ttein* to be entred although both the Warden
of the ffleete his man my selfe & your Attorney in the
Chauncery have much urged the same.

Wherupon I have drawen two seu'all petic'ons to my lord
Chauncellor touching you & my brother Sand fords wrongs in
this matter contrary to due proceeding which upon further
consyderacon I have not preferred but rather chuse to have

yng a newe moc'on before ife for

his comyttem1 e of more affid9

which 1 praye god they maye come out, but I wishe in vayne
because those for whom I followe for will not doe as other men
will doe with such A Capitall adversary, I wryt not this because
I would haue you spend money in Lawe but because I feare
affid3 will over goe you & you yrnpute the fait upon me.
Wherfore I beseech you lett your Sonne whom theynherytaunce
doth concerne prouyde to come up the next Terme & followe
these busynesses wch (by reason of such a suttle adversary)
wilbe one mans only worke to prevent hys crafty dealings And
my selfe wilbe ever reddy to direct hym & helpe hym in all
that I am hable & hym selfe shall see that by his owne for-
borance he shall at the last lose his owne (I praye god I be
not a true prophite in that) but nimis familiaritas contemptum
parat that ys to saye to much forberans of wrongs will suffer
the actor to domynere be not lyke the blocke that Jupyter
sent the ffroges to be their kynge to suffer eu'y lyttle ffroge to
leape upon your backe but be lyke the Crane that will not
suffer them to put their heads out of the water I say not this
to you b well knowe you must maye

not styrro but he maye be a Crane & pecke out their braynes
yf he lyst, lett Consyderac'on be had of the morrall of the
fable & then doe as you shall seeme good. And so w1' remem-
brance of my humble duety to your selfe & my mother in hast
doe take leave very late this H'ryday night the xith of May 1010

Yor duetyfull sonne

Cliffords Inne Richard Gyubons.

1 David William app, C.B.K. 1003.

THE ISLE, ANCIENTLY UP ROSSALL.

161

You maye thynke me very idle to relate on Hysopes fables
in terme tyme quod rota. Spare further wry ting for I hope I
shall come out of London before the carryers cometh thyther.

To my very Loving father Mr Humfrey Sandford at the He

in hast

Good Sir my duty remembred eccr 1 have had much labor by
gent' not to use thextreamytie agaynst M> Cole but 1 have
somewhat shifted them of therby to gett tyme & prevent his
shyfts, what corse will as yet be taken 1 knowe not, but this I
assure you he ys terryblely afread & yf their had byne a starre
chamber sute comenced you myght have had any thing wch
nowe you must beare off as well as you maye I will not in
anymate you nor my brother Sandford to Lawe, but 1 praye
god that the oppertunytie for suts & neglected be not here-
after repented.

I dowbte not but that you have herd the report of the death
of the tfrench kynge,1 talles goe dyu'sly touching the manr
but all conclude he ys deade & ther ys three kyngs p'clamed
other newes I here not any The Parlyam1 doth
sse at yt but 1 cannot learne what ys done,
t. And so not having any more to wryte at this

tyme doe wth remembraunce of my duety to yorselfe & my
mother take leave. Ever resting yor sonne

most humble in all duety

Clyftbrds lnne xth of Richard Gybbons.2

May 1610.

So far did religious bigotry transport Sir Francis
Englefield in 1596 as to make him say that, " as the
realm of England was a fief of the Holy See, it princi-
pally regarded the Pope to settle its succession /" See
Berrington's Mem. of Panzani, p. 27. Thus low had
fallen a man who had been once Secretary of State.

[Eyton was, probably, wrong when he states that Rossall and
Eyton were contiguous manors, and were both included within the
peninsula of The Jsle, and ultimately named by a common name, that
of Rossall. There is no evidence whatever of this; on the contrary

1 Hen. IV. was killed 14 May, 1610.

2 [ Kiehard (iybbons, Mayor of Shrewsbury 1641, married Anne,
daughter of Humphrey Sandford, and was brother of Francis
Gybbons, D.D., Chaplain to Charles f., and Vicar of the Abbey
( Ihui'ch. —En. ).

162 HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

the fact of there being a mill at Aitone when Domefcday was compiled
(" Ibi molinum de x solidis ") would seem to show that this could
not have been the case. Mr. Humphrey Sanelfonl has kindly com-
municated the following remarks on this point : — " 1 am at a loss to
discover upon what evidence Eyton arrives at such a result. I never
heard of such a mill, which could scarcely have been found here even
at Domesday, on the Severn, without leaving some trace behind ; but
1 believe it to be impossible that on such a river, liable to rise not
unfrcquently a yard in ;i lew hours, any mill could have ever been
erected suitable for local habitation and worked on the level of the
stream. 1 have little doubt that for ' Aitone ' should be understood
1 Yeaton,' in the parish of Baschurch, on the opposite side of the
Severn, where there are now on the Perry two mills in excellent
working order, and one or two more mills in the adjoining parish of
Fit/,.

I am further confirmed in my opinion by the Survey of John
Lovett 1587, 'for as much as conccrneth the manors of Up Rossall
and Udlington, taken by him, Steward for Mr. Francis Englefield, of
all his lands in the county of Salop,' in which Survey occurs the
following entry : —

( Richard Sandford Gent, holdeth one Water Mill there
one p'cell of Meadow cont' di' acr'. and the moytie of
one Close in Veagdon cont' 10 acr' and payeth yearly
the Kent which he hath received for the Mill alone
of Mathew Baugh was (J1 Bushellsof Corn by the year
Item for one third part of an Improvem* out of the
Heath by Mr. Hough called the Heath Croft cont'
about 2 acr' and renteth p' aim'
Mr. Sandford has also communicated the following note, showing
the acreage of the tow nships of Up Rossall and Dow n Rossall pievious
to the Jnclosure of Rossall Heath in 1831 : —

BEFORE [NCLOSUKE 1831.

Up Rossall Tuwnslti}).

In

Yeaton

10 acres
di'

37s.

s. d.
3 4"

it. p.

The Isle Estate 589 2 37

Udlington 112 2 4

698

Down Rossall Township.

Rosa Hall Estate (Powys) 281 0 0

Ditto ditto (Jenkins) 90 0 0

Crove Estate (Jenkins) ... ... ... 34 0 0

Cottage (Tipton) 0 2 19

Ditto (Jno. Morris) 10 4

40G 2 23
Rossall Heath. 1 12 0 38

1221 3 221

ROSSALL, ANCIENTLY DOWN ROSS ALL.

163

ROSSALL, anciently DOWN ROSSALL.

In one of those disputes concerning their property, to
which near neighbours are so peculiarly liable (it related
to the manorial rights over Ilossali Heath), the advocate
for Mr. Sand ford, who stood in the place of the Engle-
fields, writes : — " Ilossali had two daughters, whereof
Inglefield married the elder, and Stury " — who was
now contending to he lord of the heath — " the yonger :
& farr unlicklie yt is that the yonger should have more
part or freedome in the heath then the elder : the elder
having a goodlie, greate, k auncient howse in Up
liossall, whore the ruinges are yet to be seene at this
daye. " The penner of this memorandum would not
have admitted the hereditary descent of his adversary
Stury from the family of Roshale, if he had not believed
it to be an indisputable fact ; yet no proof of it has
occurred to me, and all evidence is in direct opposition
to its truth. It is certain that neither of the daughters
of Ivoshale married a Stury ; nor are there any traces
that Lady Dagworth left issue by either of her husbands.
But supposing her to have done so, and supposing the
Sturies to be descended by females from such an
alliance, it seems to be quite certain that it could have
conveyed to them no property in Down Ilossali. Three
carucates1 and a half in Rosela were holden at the time
of Domesday, as we have seen, by the Church of St.
Chad, and occupied under it by two radmen and seven
bordars. It was rated to the Danegeld at an hide.

This hide in Little liossale (for so it was then styled)
was holden of the fee of St. Chad by one William
Terum, when the Iter of Henry III.- made its progress
through the county. In the Feodary of Pimhill
hundred 24 Edw. I.,3 Robert de BJechley is found to

1 [Not carucates, but ploughs. Domesday adds: — "It was worth
(in the Confessor's time) 8 shillings; it is now worth 15 shillings."
Cf\ Eyton x., 1GS-0. — Yak]

- [Tliu date of this Iter is 1255,. Cf. Hot. Hundred, ii., 75. — Ed. J
8 [Jiytou gives the dato of this L'imhill Tenure-Roll as 1279.— Ed j

i

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hold Little Hossall in free socage of the Church of St.
Chad, rendering by the year 5s., and in a rental of the
possessions of that church, taken in 1326, the Dean is
said to be entitled to one half of the tithes, and five
shillings rent, with the lordship. This was the rent, I
presume, paid by Terum and Blechley for the lordship.

This is the earliest notice I have found of the family
of Stury as connected with Rossall, and it conveys no
information as to the manner in which they became
possessed of it. The paper quoted at the head of this
account says: — "Downe Rossall was not a complete
thing heretofore, for one Witcherley of Bicton, Burche
of Bicton, and Onslowe of Onslowe had houses and
tenements in Downe Rossall, and other more, not pay-
ing any rent to Stury, for all which Stury gave land in
other townships, as Bicton, Onslowe &c : and some of
these men, and others had as much land in Downe
Ilossall as Stury, and in memory of man" (this account
was written about 1651), "some of these exchanges
were made." Probably one of them succeeded Blecheley
as farmer of the lordship under the Deanery of St.
Chad, and his posterity continued so to hold it, and at
length, after the dissolution, acquired the full property
of it. I find a John Stury of Rossall in 1 Richard III.
and 15 Hen. VII., and another, lor it could hardly be
the same person, denominated John Sturi of Nedur
Ilossale, Esq., in the 8 th of Hen. V LI I. From him the
descent is clear and uninterrupted. In the valuation
of the possessions of St. Chad 2 Edw. VI. (1547) part
of the income of the prebend of Rossall consisted of
rent of land in the tenure of Thomas Styrrie, 4s. 8d.,
and the ferm of all tithes there in the holding of the
same Thomas, valued by the year at 26s. 8d.!

The family at length terminated in females, who
first raised money upon, and finally alienated the

1 [This valuation was at the Dissolution of St Chad's College.
One »>f the prebends of St. Chad was called the* 1'ivbend of Kossale.
Of. Owen and Blakeway's History, ii., 2(W, 537.-r-Ml).j

ROSSALL, ANCIENTLY DOWN ROSSALL.

165

estate. Mary, Rachel, and Elizabeth Stury1 granted a
term of two hundred years of the manor of Down
Rossall (which is the first instance in which I have seen
it so called) to Thomas Breton, merchant.

In 1669 Sir Robert Cleaton, knight, is called owner
of Downe Rossall. On the 16th of Oct., 1672, Breton
assigns his term to John Morris, Esq. On the 5th of
May, 1673, Sir Robert Clayton, knt. and alderman of
London, and Martha his wife, in consideration of £1,000
paid to them by Edward Gosnall of Salop, gent., and of
£2,000 secured to Ferdinando Marsha m, Esq., of
London, by Clayton's appointment, sell to Mr. Gosnell
in fee, the Manor of Down Rossall and the appurtenances
and tithes in Down Rossall, the Velingtons and the
Heales.or elsewhere in the county of Salop where Clayton
has any estate, and all other the manors, lands, &c, in
Down Rossall, Bicton, Hodnett, Woodcott, Udlington,
and Adlingtons. Then follows an indemnity from all
former terms, except the remainder of the term above-
mentioned, now vested in Morris, and by him, now, by
Clayton's direction, assigned over to William Gosnell
of London, merchant, in trust for Edward Gosnell to
attend the inheritance of the manor.

Thus the Uossalls appear to have had nothing to do
with Down Rossall ; and much of it seems to have been
occupied, under the church, by a multitude of small
freeholders, the descendants, perhaps* of the radmen
and bordars of Domesday. A few notes of deeds by
some of these persons comprise all the information we
possess concerning the place at this time ; and a com-
parison of these may enable us to conjecture, for we can
do no more, how the Sturys, who enjoyed the spot for
several centuries, came originally into possession.

By deed without date, Adam the son of William
Terne of Rossale grants to Alan, son of Alan de Rossale

1 [The pedigree of Stury of Rossall and Shrewsbury was entered at
the Visitation of Salop, 1623. (Ilarl. Soc., vol. xxix., pp. 448-9). Their
Anns were, Argent a lion rampant queueo fourehee put-pure. — Ku.]

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HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

and Reginald of the same, all his arable land in Doun
Rossale. (Inter cartas Edw. Smythe bar11).

By another deed without date, Reginald son of
Reginald of little Roshale, with the consent of his wife
Amice, grants to Stephen, son of Alan de Roshale and
Isabella dau'r of ye same Reginald, and the heirs and
assigns of ye sd Stephen, 12a yearly rent of a messuage
and half virgate in the town of Bykedone, which Alan
the father, and Annie wife of the granter formerly
held, with all homages, &c, rents, wards, heriets, &c. ,
&c. que de dictis terris & tenementis in morte vel in
vita exeunt. Witnessed by Win. son of Roger de
Preston, Rich. Geri de Acton, John de Burchton,
Richard de Astleye, Tho. Purcel de Roshale, Warin de
Ondeslowe, Wm. son of John of the same, Win. son of
Roger de Horton and others. (Loxdale cart.).

On the day of March, 1307, Adam de Bykedon

(perhaps the son of William Terne above-mentioned)
dwelling (manens) in Rossale, makes his last will. He
deisres to be buried at St. Chad's, but to have four
wax-lights in the chapel of Rossale, as many in the
chapel of St. George of Salop, and one in the chapel of
the hospital of St. John of Salop, lie devises his tene-
ment in Frank vile to Isabel his wife for life, and
mentions his children Hugh, Isabel, Sibil, and Lucy.
(Cart. E. Smythe, Bti). lie had also other sons John
and William. See Woodcote. Sibil married Richard
Tristram. See Smetiicote.

Tn 7 Edw. II. (13 13) I find mention of Hawise, the
daughter of Thomas Porcel of Roshale (Waring deeds).

Ed. If. (1325) Thomas, son of Hugh de Wodecote
grants to Adam de Bykedon of little Roshale, Isabel
his wife, and John their son, a plat of land in Wodecote
lying between Ednesmosse and the king's way leads
from Salop towards Cawes — and ye stl plat is called le

1 I U1IK3-

In 31 Edw. III. (1358) is an indenture between John
Sture of Salop, and Ivichard Tristrom and ( 'atharine
his wife, whereby Sture covenants that Richard his son

ROSS ALL, ANCIENTLY DOWN ROSS ALL. 1G7

shall marry Johanne, daughter of the said Catharine,
and that he will enfeoff the new married couple in all
his lands in Salop. (Cart. E. S my the, Bar11).

Ten years later, 41 Edw. III. (1368) is another deed
in the same repository, which recites that the said
Tristrem and his wife have given to Richard Stury and
Johan his wife all the lands which belonged to Reginald
de Bykedon and Amyse his wife (in right of the said
Amyse) in Bykedon, in exchange for the lands in Down
Rossale, which belonged to Adam de Bykedon and
Thomas his son.1

9 Hen. VI. (1430-31), Alice widow of Matthew de
Felton, daughter of Philip hondesone [f. bondesone] of
Felton, and cousin and heir of Win. Felton chaplain,
quit claims to Richd. Stury of Rossall, senr all ye lands
and tenemts in Salop, doun Rossall, Bykedon, Onnes-
lowe, Wodecote, Preston, Ambaston, and Wilaston wch
descended to me from ye sd Wm. Felton — wch lands ye
sd Will. Felton and Nich. Cilyan senr had of ye feoff-
ment of Roger Colle burgess of Salop. H. T. Ric'o
Laken chr' . . . Joh'e Bet ton de Monford &c.

5 May 1675 Ind're : Sr Rob1 Clayton knl & alderman of
London & Marthe his wife of 1 pl : Edw. Gosnall of Salop gent,
of 2d part. In cons'on of £1000 pd in hand by Gosnall to
Clayton & wife &; of £2000 secured to Ferdinand Marsham
Esqr of London by Clayton's appointment : Clayton & wifo sell
to Gosnall in fee yc Manor of Down Rossall & ye appurts &
tithes in Down Rossall the Velingtons & the Heales or else-
where in co' Salop where Clayton has any estate & all other ye
Manors &c. lands &c. in Down Rossall Bicton Hodnett Wood-
cott Udlington & Udingtons : Clause of indemnity from all
former terms : except the remainder of a term of 200 yoars
formerly granted of yc s(1 Manor by Mary Eliz,h & Rachel Stury
to Thos Breton merch1 & by him assigned 16 Oct. 24 Car. II.
to John Morris Esq1' & by him by deed of evendate wh these
presents by Clayton's direction assigned over to \Vm Gosnall
of London merch1 in trust for Edward Gosnall to attend ye
inhiarifcu.e of yu Manor.

1 In the rental of St. Chad, 132G will be seen the tenants of Little
liossnl nt (Hat time.

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HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

17 May, 1703, Edward Gosneil Esqr the"elder of Rossall als
Downe Rossall & Anne his wife demise to Thomas Edwards of
Shrewsbury Esqr Richd Blakeway of High Ercail clerk & Sam1
Elisha their said manor & the capital mansion there & all y°
demesne lands meadows kc courts baron & perquisites of
courts &c. &c. &c. to the sd manor or reputed manor belonging
to hold for one year, to the intent that they may receive a
release thereof.

Mr. Gosneil, it is said, was a merchant of London,
whose property being materially injured by the fire of
London, he collected together the remains of his fortune
after that disaster, and retired into Shropshire, which
was, perhaps, his native county (the name being very
prevalent in the neighbourhood of Counde) and pur-
chased this estate. His son or grandson sold it to
Hawtayne, who disposed of it to Edward Blake way of
Shrewsbury, mayor of that town in I7t)5, from whom
it passed to Colonel Cecil Forester, father of Cecil
Weld Forester, Esq., the present possessor.

[Cecil Weld Forester, Esq., was created Lord Forester on 17 July,
1821, and married Katlierine Mary, daughter of Charles Manners,
4th Duke of Rutland. Lord Forester changed the name of the estate
from Rossall to Ross Hall, and on one occasion entertained here
George, the Prince-Regent, and the Duke of Clarence. He sold
Down Rossall to Henry Went worth Powys, Esq., of Berwick ; and he
in 1852 to John Harlcy, Esq., of Shrewsbury.

The Harlcys claim to he descended from the ancient family of
Harley of Brampton Bryan.

i. William Harley of Bcckjay, in the parish of Clungunford, huried
there 20 July, 1G00, Will proved at Hereford 1000, is believed to
have been a younger son of John Harley of Brampton Bryan (died
1542), by Ann, dan. of Sir Edward Croftes. His eldest son,

ii. John Harley of Beckjay, bapt. at Clungunford, 27 Nov., 1569,
bur. there 20 April, 10GO, Will proved at Hereford 1GG0, by Anne
his wife, was father of

iii. Thomas Harley of Beckjay, bapt. at Clungunford, 8 July, 1G0G,
bur. there 18 Nov., 1680, Will proved at Hereford 1G80. By his
second wife Elizabeth he had a younger son,

iv. Richard Harley of Shrewsbury; bapt. at Clungunford, 26 Oct.;
1658, admitted burgess of Shrewsbury 2 Oct., 1691, Churchwarden
of Holy Cross 1695 and 1701, died 1729. He mar. at Holy Cross,
10 April, 1699, as his second wife Deborah Ferneyhough, and by her
was lather of

ROSS ALL, ANCIENTLY DOWN ROSS ALL.

169

v. William Harley of Shrewsbury ; bapt. at Holy Cross, 25 Oct.,
1702, admitted burgess 11 Dee., 1758 ; died 23 July, 17G4, buried at
Old St. Chad's. He married Hannah, sister of Samuel White of
Ashford, eo. Derby, and had issue a son,

vi. Samuel Harley of Shrewsbury ; admitted burgess 28 Aug.,
17G7, Alderman of Shrewsbury, Mayor 1781, died 28 July, 1807,
aged 67, buried at Old St. Chad's. He married Ann, dan. of William
Daker of Condover (See p. 55 ante), and had issue : (1) William, (2)
Samuel, Mayor in 1821, who left 2 dans, and coheirs, and (3) Edward,
ancestor of the Harleys of Clifton and Condover. His eldest son,

vn. William Harley of Shrewsbury, bapt. 9 Jan., 17GG, admitted
burgess 2 Oct., 1789, Alderman of Shrewsbury, and Mayor 1811,
died I Nov., 1813, and was buried at Old St. Chad's. He mar. at
St. Chad's, 13 Aug., 1789, Anne, dan. of Richard Lloyd of Shrews-
bury, and Sarah Topp, sister of Richard Lloyd Topp of Whitton
Hall, and had issue : (I) John, (2) William Lloyd of Sibberscott, who
died 17 Jan., 1841:, and (3) Edward Daker of Mardol, and afterwards
of London, who died 28 Sept., 188(5. The eldest son,

vm. John Harley of Shrewsbury, afterwards of Down Rossall,
which he purchased in 1852 from Henry Went worth Powys, Esq. ;
born 7 April, 1792, admitted a burgess 1 June, 1819 ; died 30 June,
1883, bur. at Bicton. He married in 183^, Anna Maria Piatt, dan.
of Robert Smith of Ponty pool, and by her (who is living his widow
at Ross Hall) he had issue : (1) John James Piatt, died 31 Dec , 18G7,
(2) Robert William Daker, and 3 dans., Annie Maria, Mary Teresa,
and Anne Frances Alicia. His younger son,

ix. Robert William Daker Harley of Brampton Bryan, which he
inherited under the Will of Lady Langdale j J. P. and D.L., High
SherifTojco. Hereford 1883; married in 1878 the Hon. Patience Annie,
dau. of John, Gth Lord Rodney, and has issue: (1) Robert George
Geollroy, (2) John Ralph Henry, and several daughters.

The Arms of Harley are : — Or a bend oottized sable, a crescent for
difference. Full pedigrees of this family are given in the Morris MSS.

In an Inquisition of the Liberties, taken October, 1515, it was
found that Roshall Subterior was within and of the parish church of
St. Chad, and that it had been wont to be taxed (together with
Bykedon and Caldecot) to a certain xvth and xth to 42s.1

In the lists of Trained Soldiers of Shropshire in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, in 1580, under Dowue Rossall occur the names of Mr.
Thomas Sturie, anil John Mason, William Baterby, and lloumU'rey
ap Lloyd his servants, Richard Dawson and Griilith Gronnoe his man,
John Nesse, and George Nightingale. In 1588 these names occur :
Thomas Sturry, Esq., Richard Dawson, Thomas Grimes, Richard
Growner servant to Richard Dawson, David Growner, and George
Nightengalle.2

1 C'/'. Trans., 2nd Si-lies, ii., ",;>, 71.
- rbiil, ii., 27!>; iii., III.

170 HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

There was a good deal of litigation in the 17th century between
the owners of Up Rossall and Down Rossall touching Rossall Heath.

In 1636, Carcw Sturye, lord of Down Rossall, filed his Bill in
Chancery against Humphrey Sandford of Up Rossall, John Cole, and
Eleanor Cole, widow. Sturye complained that Down Rossall heath
was one of the town fields of Down Rossall, and that defendants had
got possession of the title deeds which proved the heath to be parcel
of the manor of Down Rossall, and claimed right of common in the
heath. The Deposition of Witnesses were taken 20 July, 1636.

In 1650, Elizabeth Stury and Rachell Stury (then a minor), the
daughters and coheirs of Carew Stury, who had died about a year
before, filed their Bill in Chancery against Lettice Cole, widow, and
John Cole her son, Humphrey Sandford and Richard Sandford his
eldest son, (or interrupting and hindering plaintiffs when they and
their tenants had attempted to plough up and sow Down Rossall
Heath, alias the Small Heath. The defendants' Answers arc dated
26 April, 1650. They asserted that the heath belonged, half to
Lettice and John Cole, and half to Humphrey Sandford, and denied
that it ever belonged to Carew Stury or any of his ancestors as parcel
of their demesne of Down Rossall. Humphrey Sandford died in
1654, and Richard Sandford his sjn put in his Answer on 16 May,
1657. The Depositions of the witnesses show that the Sandfords
had constantly 3iit gorsc and depastured their cattle, sheep, and swine
on the heath without interruption from the Sturys. On one occasion,
however, it appears that Walter Stury cut down a " Swyncstie "
erected by John Cole, whereupon Cole retaliated and cut down a barn
built by Stury ; for this Stury commenced a Suit in the Court of the
Marches against some of Cole's tenants, but Cole would not let them
appear, and they were arrested and kept in custody at Ludlow 18
weeks, when Cole procured their release, and recovered damages for
their imprisonment. It is also noticed that near the Isle gate there
was a May pole reared, and shooting butts made by one David
(Jrannowe, who sold ale there. There was also a " Sonicr poole " set
up upon the heath, and a " harbour " about the same, where "the
yonge people of Uppe Rossall did usually disport themselves,"

In 1690 there was another Suii about Rossall Heath, between
Waring and Gosnell The Heath was finally enclost d in 1833. — Ed.]

SUTTON. 171

SUTT( >N.

" It is a distinct towneship and parish within its selfe within
the Diocess of Hereford, lying within the Libertyes of Shrews-
bury and the Stone ward of the same towne : the advowson
whereof belongs to the King, who hath usually presented
thereto, tho' in the writings the advowson is constantly
mentioned.

"There are five parcells of ground in Coleham within the
parish of St. Julian in Shrewsbury called the Pike, the three
stanke leases, and Cleobury field, which are noe part of the
towne of Sutton, yet were ever reputed as part and parcell of
the demeane thereof." — (Mackworth MS.).

" Sutton was antientty belonging to tho Priory of Wenlock,
and tho prior of Wenlock antiently exchanged it with the
Abbott of Shrewsbury for other lands within or neare Wenlocke,
and soe at the Dissolution it came to the Crowne : and King
Hen. 8 by letters patents dated 14 July o5t0 regni (1543)
granted the mannor and farme of Sutton to James Leveson
merchant of the staple of Calice and his heirs to bee held of
him in capite by the 20th part of a knights fee, and 19s 4d
which rent was granted afterwards to one Hadnall and soe by
meane conveyances is come to Sir John Weld of Willy kn*
who hath long recieved it of my father, and since from
Mr Gorton,

"James Leveson sells the same againe to John Mackworth
and his heirs by his deed dated 19 May 3G Hen. 8, under the
same rent and services to the king, and noe other rent or
service is due nor have ever beene paid or done by my father
or my selfe, save only appearances for ourselfe and tenants
rcsiant there at tho great court leete of Shrewsbury. All waifs,
estrayes &c. have beene usually taken to the use of the Cor-
poration of Shrewsbury." — (Mackworth MS.).

[Mr. Blakeway's account of Sutton is very meagre. The place is
so called as standing nearly south of Shrewsbury. At Domesday,
Sutton belonged to Wenlock Priory: — "The said Church held and
still holds Sudtone. Here is one hide. Between freemen and villains,
there arc eight men here, with four ox-teams. The old value of the
Manor was 12s.; now it is worth lGs." Between 1141 and 1155
Ivo Pantulf gave to Shrewsbury Abbey the site of a mill under
Sudton on either side of the water. This grant was confirmed by
Henry II. iu 1155, and renewed by Hugh Pantulf his son early in the
13th eentury. In 1234 the Abbot of Shrewsbury and the Prior of
Wenlock camo to an agreement about certain matters of dispute, but
chiefly about the mill under Sutton. In 1240 the Prior of Wenlock

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HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

conceded to Shrewsbury Abbey the mill of Sutton, at an annual rent
of 8 marks. In 1291, the Prior of Wenlock's temporalities in Sutton
were valued at £2 10s. 8d. per annum; in 1535-6, at £'11 7s. In
1541-2, the Manor of Sutton was valued at £7 13s. 4d. annually, and
the water-mill there at £2. (('/. Eyton vi., 363-5).

The Manor of Sutton, together with the lands and the advowson,
seem to have continued in the Mackworth family until about the year
1770, when they passed to Thomas Hill, Esq., of Tern Hall. His
eldest son, Noel Hill, Esq., was created in 1784 Lord Berwick, and
from him they have descended to the present Lord Berwick, who is
lord of the manor and owner of Sutton. A pedigree of the Mack-
worths, .showing the descent of the estate in that family, will be
found in the 2'ransactiuns, 2nd Series, i., 390, kc.

The parish contains 703 acres, and includes four farms and a corn
mill. The population in 1801 was 45, in 1881, 74, and in 1891, 52.

A shore distance from the Church is the once famous Sutton Spa,
formerly much resorted to in cases of scrofula, but which is now
comparatively seldom used. Its waters arc chalybeate.

In 1327, the following were assessed to the Lay Subsidy, under
Suttone : — John le Rene. Richard hi' Richard, John le Cartar, Thomas
le Foremo', Philip Godberd, Peter Gerard, Richard de Leton, Nicholas
de Parkes, Henry Mcth', Richard Begets, Alan de AVyrcestr, John
Reygner, and Reginald de Grafton. In the lists of Trained Soldiers
of Shropshire in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Sutton is classed with
Betton, Longnor, and Alkmero; and these townships together furnished
11 soldiers in 1580, and 18 in 1587. Amongst them occurs Thomas
Mackworth, gent., the owner of Sutton. (Of. Transactions) 2nd
Series, ii , 281 ; iii., 143).

In 1757, the names of Margaret Harper, William Boycot, Thomas
Edgcrley, Richard Breathen, Richard Scolbock, David Jones, and
James llartshorne, occur as inhabitants of Sutton contributing to a
voluntary assessment.

In 1753-4 there was a law-suit between the Mayor and Corporation
of Shrewsbury and the tenants of .Sutton, touching the right of the
Corporation to appoint a constable for Sutton at the Court Leet. It
appears that from 1508 to 1556 Sutton was said to be within the
Priory of Wenlock, and that from that year to 1754 a Constable for
Sutton had been appointed at the Shrewsbury Court Leet only eight
times, vi/., in 1586, 1588, 1643, 1649, and 1660 to 1664. In 1602
Sutton was assessed to the Liberties, when money was collected under
the Act for raising money for maimed soldiers. In January, 1753, at
the Court Leet, William Boycott of Sutton was appointed Constable,
but refused to appear and take the oath. The Jury presented this
fact in May, 1753, at the Quarter Sessions, and in the following
November Boycott was arrested and kept in custody, until Mr. Mack-
worth's steward entered into a recognizance for his appearance at the
next .Quarter Sessions. Mr. Mackworth got the Indictment removed
to the King's Bench, and I lie euuso was heard at the Lont Assizes in

SUTTON.

1 73

1754, when the Judge ordered the case to stand over till the next
Assizes. At the trial the Judge directed the Jury to find a verdict
for the defendant, on the ground that the notice to him to attend and
take the oath was defective; so that the question was nut tried on
its merits.

Mr. Mackworth held a Court for his manor of Sutton at the Hall
House of Sutton, in October, 1754, when Boycott was appointed
Constable. In 1755 the Shrewsbury Court Leet appointed Thomas
Edgcrley Constable for Sutton, but he refused to attend and take the
oath, Mr. Mackworth maintaining that Boycott was the proper
Constable. His contention was that Sutton, though named amongst,
the Liberties of Shrewsbury, and undoubtedly at Domesday in the
Hundred of Shrewsbury, was not really in the Liberties, and had
never been annexed to them by any royal charter; that the Hundred
and the Liberties were not co-extensive ; and that no submission had
been made or oftiees taken under the nomination of the Town Magis-
trates or Court Leet.1

The Corporation continued to nominate Constables for Sutton. In
1 7G3, they appointed William Boycott, and in 1764 William Harper,
but both refused to take the oath.2 In 1791, they framed an Indict-
ment against Jonathan Scoltock for refusing to execute the office.3
In 1826, John Bemand of Sutton was summoned to sit on the Grand
jury at Quarter Sessions, but declined ; and, though threatened with
proceedings, the case was not pressed out of regard for Lord Berwick,
the lord of the manor. So it would seem that the Corporation never
actually got a legal decision in their favour, bringing Sutton under
their jurisdiction. — Ed.].

[At Pope Nicholas's Taxation of 1291, the Chapel of Sutton was in
the Deanery of Pontesbury and Diocese of Hereford. In 1831 the
Prior of Wenlock had a pension from the Church of Sutton-juxta-
Salop. In 1534-5, £3 of the tithes of Sutton were annexed to the
Vicarage of Wenlock. The Chapel is not named in the Valor of
Henry VIII., ho was probably then disused, or served by some
Chaplain removable at the will of the Prior of Wenlock.

The Church, which is dedicated to St. John, is built of stone and
consists of a nave, in the Karly Knglish style, without chancel or
aisles. It is 30 ft. in length, and 19 ft. in breadth. On the north
and south walla are three lancet windows, and as many in the east
wall. The west end is of red brick, and is modern. On the reading-

1 See a full account of the proceedings in a MS. voluinu in the Shrewsbury
Free Library, formerly bolon<;in^- to T. If. Dukes, ami recently Sir The.
Phillipps' MS. No. 11,237.

'-' Shrcw.sliurv Horn ugh Records, N<>. I Gift).

y Ibid, No. i7M,

THE CHURCH.

174 HISTORV OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

desk is carved this inscription : — " Rfciiarde Atkis 3 Scholemaster
1582 " The pulpit and communion rails are of the same date. The
seats liave all been taken away. Service was formerly held here on
the second Sunday in each month, in the evening, but has for some
time past been discontinued. There was formerly a Hermitage near
the Church.

The Registers commence in 1812, and the last entry is in 1868.
Though termed a Rectory, Sutton was more properly a Donative.
A stipend of £10 used to be paid by the patron to the Rector. — Ed.].

INCUMBENTS OF SUTTON.

From MS. Blakeway, 15, fo. 87, and Eyton vi., 3GG-7.

1275, 11 (Jul. Mar. John de Hodenet, priest.

Bro. John Supprior of Wenlac &
bro. Rog. de parva Hereford: pro-
curators of bro. John prior of
Wenlac.

1311. Hugh de la liarewe. 4 id. Mar.

commended to Wm. de Penebrugg
priest, salvo jure presentati
William de liarewe 1315 has then
11 Jan. license to study 2 y1'3, and
again 1316 and 1319 ; and 1321
and 1322.

1349, June 8. John Alghinton. Edward III.

1349, July 8. Henry de Werleye, chaplain Edward III.

1349, Nov. 10. Roger do Lntteley, clerk. Rex.

rationo prioratus de Wenlock in

maim sua existentis.

lloger de Aston, probabl v the same,

resigned 1362.

1362, Nov. 29. William Martyn, clerk. Prior & conv.

1381, Dec. 5 Richard Astonn, chaplain. Con- of Wenl.

firmed herein by the King 17 Julv,

16 Rich. 2 (1392).
1394. Sir John Fekenham (Commission King, ratione

to enquire Sep. I ). etc.
1396, Dec. 21. Sir John Wy thyngton. Rex.
1431. Sir John Calouton. Commission Pr. &conv. of

July 3 to enquire if this be com- Wenl.

patible with his rectory of Cleobury

Nortli.

1520, Oct. 20. Sir Thomas Butler, sacerdos. The same.

SUTTON. 175

Edw. III. had permitted an exchange between Roger de
Pappelawe, parson of Sutton, in dioc. Heref, and Rich. Reydon,
vicar of the Prebendal Church of Burbach, in the Church of
Sarum, and had presented Reydon to the bishop, the tempora-
lities of Wenlock then being in his hands by reason of the war.
Afterwards on Nov, 6, 1375, forgetting this, he presented
Robert Godberd ; but as Reydon had obtained possession, on
the 20th of the preceding October, he now, 5 May 50 regni,
revokes the presentation to Godberd.

[ Richard At Ids, third master of tho .
Free Grammar School 1582-1587,
was probably Rector of Sutton, as
his name is carved on some oaken
panels that now form the Reading
Desk in the church. He died 7
July, 1587, and was buried in St.
Mary's Church. See History of
Shrewsbury School, p. 79].
Edmund Rennet, 1587, £3 0s. 6d.
1010-11. Nicholas Vesaye, M.A. of St. John's The King.
Coll., Camb., recommended to Lord
Chancellor Egerton by Sir Richard
Hussey, knt. (See Upton Magna,
here 1614).

1G(U, May 27. William James, M.A, [Qu, son of Thomas

Rev. Thomas James, rector of Makeworth,
Blymhill; b. in Salop 1615; M.A. Esq
of Magdalen Hall, Oxford].

1602, May 18. James Talbot, b. at Pitchford,1664;

son of J. Talbott; B.A. of Ch. Ch,

Oxford, Vicar of St. Julian's,

Shrewsbury, 1693 to 1703; bur. at Thomas

St. Julian's, 12 Aug., 1703. [Foster Mackworth.

makes the Rector of Sutton to be

another James Talbot, Fellow and

D.I), of Trim Coll., Camb., Regius

Professor of Hebrew, and Canon of

Ripon. See Alumni Oxon, E.S.,

iii., 1454].

1704, June 2. Jeremiah Kitching. On 4 Nov., Bulkeley

1703, he demised tho tithes of Mackworth.
Sutton to Bulkeley Mackworth, in
consideration of an annual payment
of £10.

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176 HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

1 724, Aug. 10. John Adenbroke. Born at Newport
1G83; son of John Addenbrooke,
gent,; B.A. of St. Mary Hall, Ox-
ford, and M.A. St. Catherine Hall,
Cambridge. Rector of Upper Sapey
1725.

1733,Sep.23. William Shaw.

1738, July 13. Thomas Fewtrell. [Qu. son of
Richard Fewtrell; b. at Apcot 1682;
B.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford,
Rector of West Zoyland, Somerset,
1710].

1762, Dec. 28. Joshua Piatt

1775, Sep. 6. Edward Harwood.
1782, Aug. 29. John Smythe.

1797, Oct. 25, Henry Burton. Second son of

Robert Burton, Esq., of Longner, by
Anne, dan. of Thomas Hill of Tern
Hall; b. 1755; d. 16 Jan., 1831 ;
Vicar of Atcham, of Madeley, and
of Holy Cross and St. Giles ; he m.
Mary, dau. of William Gittins of
Chilton, co. Salop.

1798, Jan. 28. Hon. Richard Hill. Third son of

Noel Hill, 1st Lord Berwick. Suc-
ceeded as 4th Lord Berwick in 1842.
Rector of Thornton, co. Chester,
and of Berrington. He m. in Jan.,
1800, Frances, dau. of William
Mostyn-Owen, Esq., M.P.; and d.
28 Sept., 1848.

1845, Dec. 21. Thomas Henry Noel-Hill. Son of
Richard, 4th Lord Berwick, and
father of the 7th Lord Berwick ;
b. 1 Feb., 1804 ; Rector of Berring-
ton; m, 18 Sept., 1845, Harriet
Rebecca, dau. ot John HumfYreys
of Llwyn; and d. 1 March, 1870.

1870, July 15. Francis Paddon Girdlestone, M.A.

Also Rector of Berrington 1870.

1887, Aug. 9. Henry Francis Bather. Youngest
son of John Bather, Esq., Recorder
of Shrewsbury ; b. 1832; M.A.St.

Bulkeley
Mack worth.
[Mr. Mack-
worth

patron 1727.
Willis].
Humphrey
Mack worth.
Herbert
Mack worth

Herbert

Mackworth.
Thomas Hill.
Noel Hill.

Lord Ber-
wick.

Lord Ber-
wick.

Lord Ber-
wick.

Lord Berwick

Lord Ber-
wick.

SUTTON. 177

John's Coll., Camb.; Vicar of Meole
Brace 1858-1897; Prebendary of
Hereford 1878-92; Rural Dean of
Pontesbury 1883-92; Prebendary
of Eau Withington ; Canon -resi-
dentiary of Hereford, and Arch-
deacon of Ludlow since 1891. He
mar. 1857, Elizabeth Mary, dau. of
Rev T. D. Atkinson, Vicar of
Rugeley. (Seeunder Meole Brace).

For the list of the Rectors of Sutton from 1661 to the present time,
I am indebted to the courtesy of the Ven. Archdeacon Bather. — Ed.

The following sign the Registers as

Curates of Sutton.

G. A. Maddock, 1812—16.
E. Evans, 1825—26.
T. M. Wakefield, 1827—29.
William John James, M.A., 1830—52.
Wilfrid Roxby, 1863—66.
B. C. Mortimer, 1868.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTERS OF SUTTON.

1813, Oct. 10. Charlotte, dau. of John and Sarah Bemand, bapt.
1825, Dec. 15. John Davies Corrie of Welshpool, and Mary
Anne Meire, mar.

1827, Ap. 8. Henry George, son of Mary Corbet, bapt.

1828, Oct. 28. George Whitfield Lovegrove and Margaret

Heath, mar.

1829, Sept. 9. Emily, dau. of G. W. and M. Lovegrove, bapt.

1830, May 6. William Richards of St. Chad's, and Ann

Korry, mar.

1830, Juno 1. Mary Francos, dau. of Samuol Jeffreys, gout.,

and Frances Henrietta Antonia, bapt. (b. May 31).

1831, Ap. 24. Harriet Eliza, dau. of ditto, bapt. (b. 21st).
j 832* July 19. Helen, dau. of ditto, bapt. (b. 16th).
1834, July 13. Fanny, dau. of ditto, bapt. (b. 6th).
1836, Jan. 25. Samuel, son of ditto, bant.

1833,' Sopt. 23. John Harris, and Charlotte Wilcox of Meole
Bruce, mar.

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1843, Aug 28. George King, s. of Richard and Elizabeth

Sutton Bemand, bapt.
1846 March 8. Sarah dau. of John and Elizabeth Hughes,

bapt.

1848, Oct. 8. Mary Emily. Rosa, dau. of Joseph and Mary

Antrobus Clay, bapt,
1850, Aug. 11. Alfred firocas, s. of ditto, bapt.

These names occur in the Registers : — Bemand, Biddle, Clay,
Davies, Downes, Evans, Griffiths, Heath, Hughes, Jeft'ryes,
Jones, Lewis, Meredith, Morris, Pureed, Rogers, Rowlands,
Scutt, Skett, Seabury, Taylor, Thompson, Towers, Trevor,
Wall, Whitefoot, &c.

[The following abstract of a deed in Phillipps MS.
1 1,237 shows that it is probable that the rectors usually
granted the tithes of Sutton to the patrons, in return
for a rent or stipend of £10 a year.

Indenture made the 24th day of November, 3 Anne, 1703, between
Jeremiah Kitchin, Rector of Sutton, in the Co. of Salop and Diocese
of Hereford on the one part, and Bulkley Mackworth of Buntings-
dale, in the Co. aforesaid, Esq. on the other part. Witnessed that
the said Jeremiah Kitchin did demise, grant, set and to farm let unto
the said Bulkley Mackworth his heirs and assigns All the Tyths of
Corne Graine and hay yearly comeing renewing and growing within
the Township of Sutton and Diocese of Hereford, and now held by the
tenants of the said Bulkley Mackworth. To have and to hold the
said tythes of Corne Graine and hay unto the said Bulkley Mack-
worth from and immediately after the date of these presents during
the natural life of the said Jeremiah Kitchin from thence next
ensuing fully to be completed and ended, and that in as large and
ample a maner as the said Tythes were lately held and enjoyed by
the said tenants. Yielding and paying therefore yearly unto the
said Jeremiah Kitchin the sum of Ten pounds, at the feasts of the
Annunciation and St. Michael

Executed by Jeremiah Kitchin in the presence of Oliver Preston
and Peter Haywood.

In a Return to the Bishop it is stated that there is
no glebe land or tithes ; there are no burials, or mar-
riages, nor Easter offerings ; and no house or glebe
whatever belonging to the Incumbent ; and that the
stipend of X10 had been paid to the Hector of Sutton
time immemorial by the patron for the time being. —
Ed.].

SANSAW. 170

SANSAW,

sometimes written Sansoll, and more anciently Son-
desath, whence we may conjecture that its name alludes
to the sandy heath which still forms its distinguishing
characteristic, is a township in the chapelry of Give ;
and what I have been able to find of its early history
may be read under the account of that place.1

In 11 Eliz. the Queen leased land in Sansoll, holden
by Richard Russell, and part of the late College of
St. Mary of Shrewsbury, to Thomas Kelton, gent., for
21 years. Two years later her majesty granted the
reversion to the Corporation of Shrewsbury for the
benefit of the Schools.

How long the family of Gardner has been resident at
Sansaw, I am unable to ascertain. They must have
held it in the 16th century, if, as Mr. Gough relates,
Daniel Wycherley, grandfather of the author, mortgaged

his land in Give to Gardner of Sansaw (MS.

History of Middle) ; but I have not found any of them
styled of this place before 1677.

[The Haughmond Chartulary notices an Assize Roll, between 1284
and 1304, under Sonsawehethe -. — Matthew son of Richard de Hnlle of
Clyve, sued Gilbert, Abbot of Haghmon, and others, for disseizing
him of a right of common in 20 acres at Clyve. The Abbot proved
these acres to be in Giinshill, not in Clyve. In 1347, Robert, son of
Richard fitz John of Acton, and Agnes, his wife, release to John, son
of John de Lee, all their right in a messuage, half virgate, and 10
acres of pasture at Sondshawe.2

The Sansaw estate was purchased by John Gardiner, Draper of
Shrewsbury, in 1622, He was aged 28 at the Vis. of Salop in 1623,
and was seventh in direct lineal descent from John Gardiner, lie
mar. Christabel, dau. of Edmund Berkeley of Salop, and died in July,
1628. His son ix., Thomas Gardiner, bapt. at St. Chad's, (> Jan.,
1010, bur. at St. Mary's, 1 Jan., 10(17, mar. Susannah, dau. ot Robert
Arneway, by whom he had issue, x., John Gardner of Sansaw, born
there 1000, bur. at St. Mary's, 5 Dec, 1G99. He mar. Jane, dau. of
Lawrence Thompson of Drayton, and had, with other issue, two sons :
(I) Thomas, and (2) Lawrence, ancestor of the Pautings. The estate
passed to the elder son, xi., Thomas, and alter his death in 17G3, to his

1 | Sue Transactions, 2nd Series, vol. ii., 333, Arc. ; lvyton x., 160-1.
Cf biyton a., 161.

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grandson, xin., John Gardner of Sansaw, who died s.p. 25 March, 1801.

Sanaa w then passed to John Gardner's cousin, the Rev. Lawrence
Panting, D.D , Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Vicar of the
Clive, and Rector of St. Philip's, Birmingham. He was son of the
Rev. Stephen Panting, Vicar of Wellington and of Wrockwardine, by
Josina his wife, third dan. and coheiress of the above-named Rev
Lawrence Gardner; and grandson of Samuel Panting, of Wotton
under Edge. Dr. Panting took by royal license the name and arms
of Gardner, 29 April, 1801, and died s.p. 27 July, 1844. The estate
then came to his nephew, Robert (Panting) Gardner, son of Thomas
Punting ; lie married Jane Eliza, dan. and heiress of Captain Anthony
Kynnersley, and died 14 April, 1880, leaving issue by her a son, —
Thomas Kynnersley Gardner, of Leighton Hall, who assumed by
royal license the name and arms of Kynnersley in lieu of Gardner, 19
Sept., 1887. Mr. Robert Gardner sold Sansaw in 1883 to James
Jenkinson Bibby of Hardwicke Grange, High Sheriff in 1882. Mr.
Bibby mar. Sarah, dau. of Thomas Cook, and died 8 Jan., 1897,
leaving issue a son and heir,— Frank Bibby of Sansaw, J. P., the
present owner of the Sansaw estate.

Edward VI. by Letters Patent, dated 10 Feb., 6 Edw. VI., founded
the Shrewsbury Free Grammar School, and endowed it (inter alia)
with the tithes of sheaves, grain, and hay arising in Sansaw and
Clive, lately belonging to the dissolved College of St. Mary. In
1828 the rental of these tithes was £347 13s., besides a chief rent of
8s. from Sansaw paid by the Rev. Dr. Gardner.

From a bundle of Leases preserved amongst the Corporation
Muniments, we find that these tithes of Clive and Sansaw were leased
by the Corporation on 30 Sept., 1588, to Robert Draper of Clive, and
John Marshe of Broughton, for 21 years, at the rent of £24 ; on 30
Sept., 1(51 1, to Samuel Ncwnes of Clive, for 21 years at the rent of
£25 ; on 15 April, 1633, to Adam Webb of Salop, draper, for 21 years
at the rent of £32 4s. ; on 20 March, 1653, to Rowland Tench of
Shrewsbury, gent, for 21 years at the rent of £30 ; on 29 Sept., 1682,
to Humphrey Newnes of Clive, for 3 years at the rent of £28 ; on 20
Sept., 1742, to Thomas Gardner of Sansaw, Esq., for 21 years at the
rent of £40 ; and on 29 Sept., 1784, to John Minor of Grinshill,
gent , for 21 years at the rent of X100.1

In 1690 the Mayor and Corporation commenced an action in the
Common Pleas against Daniel Wycherloy, for non-payment of tithes,
on the ground that the same should go towards paying the Minister
of Clive chapel. The matter was ultimately submitted to the arbi-
tration of the High Sheriff (John Tayleur, Esq.), whose Award is
dated 19 Oct., 1691. Mr. Wycherley dying, the arrears were paid
by his son William Wycherley, the dramatist, in 1700.2

The House at Sansaw is of the Queen Anne style, but was altered
in 1771, and again in 1886 by the late J. J. Bibby, Esq. — En.].

1 Shrewsbury Corporation M liniments, No. 'J, 000,
a Ibid.

SHELTON. 181

-

SHELTON.

A township in the parish of St. Chad, but part of the
village is in the parish of St. Julian.

I derive its name from the situation on a lofty bank
shelving down to the river : the shelf town ; so we have
Leaton shelf.

It is written in Domesday Saltone. At that time it
was holden by the Bishop of Chester, and under him by
the Collegiate Church of St. Chad. It was rated to
the Danegeld at an hide and a half. Half a carucate1
was in the demesne, and four villans occupied a carucate1
and half. There was room for two more carucates.

In the Feodary of the Liberties of Shrewsbury of an
early year, I believe the 7th of Edward I., the Dean of
St. Chad is stated to have land in Schelton.

In the Inquisition of the possessions of St. Chad in
1326, among the tithes belonging to the dean are
enumerated a messuage and carucate and the tithe of a
noke of land in Schelton. Tithe of other lands in Schelton
belonged to certain of the prebendaries of St. Chad, as
may be seen in the Inquisition of 1320 of the possessions
of that Collegiate Church, and continued so down to
the dissolution, when they were leased with the rest of
that property to Mr. Beston,2 and ultimately, as I
conceive, vested in Sir Christopher Hatton.

The Waring papers have preserved several notices of
early landholders here, One of the earliest is the
family of Goderich. By deed without date Thomas
Goderich of Schelton grants to his son Hugh Goderich
in free marriage with Alice, daughter of Thomas de
Forde, a moiety of all the messuages and curtilages, and
a virgate of land in Schelton, which fell to him, the
grantor, after the decease of his father : also half a

1 [Not carucate, but ox-tcani. Cf. Kyton vi., 3G0 — 3. — Ed.].

2 The lease to (Jeorge Kenton, Ksq., dated 22 June 2 Edw. VI., is
given ill Owen and Blakeway's II tutor//, ii., 205 G. One of the Canons
of St. Chad's was styled I'rehendary of Shelton, hut live of them
shared the tithes of .Shelton. Ibid, 203 1. — El).].

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HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

virgate of land, which he, the granter, formerly pur-
chased and held there. The grantee was to render
yearly to the altar of St. J uliana the virgin of Shrews-
bury, lO.i for all demand. Witnessed by Thomas
Chaumpeneys and Will. Vahhan then provosts of Salop;
Hugh Colle, Reginald ad portam, Richard le Bondesone,
and Robert Yvon of Schelton.

The granter was still living in 34 Edw. I. (1305),
having survived his son, who appears to have left a
daughter, for in that year Henry de Chapmon of
Knokin and Cicely his wife release to Thomas Goderich
of Shulton, Alice, relict of Hugh Goderich of Shulton,
and Cicely, daughter of Hugh Goderich, their right in
a messuage and 12 acres of land in Shulton. Witnessed
by Geoffrey Rondulf, John Gamel, Hugh le Dunfowe,
Alan de Roshale, and Roger son of Robert Jvoun of
Shulton.

He was still alive about the 13 Edw. II. (1319), if, as I
conceive, the following deed belongs to that period : —
"Thomas Goderich of Schoelton delivers to Adam the
son of Philip Toht of Fraunkevyle an acre of land in
the field of Schoelton in the name of a pledge for LOs.
sterling, half of which acre extends to le Haywardes
ptil, anor half lies betw. ye land of Rob* Yvon de
Schoelton and extends to the meadow de Rulake mare.
H. T. Will'o Vaghan k Johe Gamel ball'is Salop, c.
13 E. 2."

But he was dead in 7 Edw. III. (1333), when Matthew
de Rosshale released to Robert, son of Warin de Hon-
deslowe, Cicely his wife and their heirs, his claim in all
ye lands and tenements of ye sd Robt. and Cicely, which
formerly were of Tho. Goderich in Scheltone.

The Waring just mentioned, who stands at the head :
of the Waring pedigree, is there stiled lord of Onslow. |
He was living in 28 Edw. I., but it is a mistake to
consider him as lord of Onslow. That manor was then
the property of the family to whom it gave name, and
in whom it continued for many subsequent centuries, i
Warin was but a resident there. His descendants

SHELTON. 183

have supposed him to be sprung from the lineage of
Warin the hold, sheriff of this county under its Norman
earl ; but there is no evidence for this conjecture. He
seems to have been a person of decent opulence, but
with no pretensions to an origin so lofty. I conceive
him to be much more probably the Waring son of
Olthef, or, as he is styled in another deed, Warin Algef
(so variable was the orthography of that period, and so
fast were patronymics sliding into surnames), who from
the evidences of Alberbury Priory had land in the
market place of Shrewsbury at a very early but undated
period. However this be, Robert, son of Warin de
Ondeslowe, or .'is he is at other times called,
Robert Waryng, and Robert Warynges, was settled
here as early as the beginning of the fourteenth
century.

Robert's son, Richard Garines, as he is sometimes
written, had land here, a messuage and nine acres and
an half of land, which after his death descended, I
presume by virtue of some entail, to his four sisters :
Mabil, the wife of John de Hanewode of Ondeslowe,
Agnes, Cicely, and Elena. On Wednesday in the
assumption of the Blessed Virgin, 15 Edw. III., Hane-
wode and his wife, by deed witnessed by John Stury
and Thos. OolJe, then bailiffs of Salop, and Roger Yvon
of Shelton, convey their share of the premises to Richard
Russel of Salop, to hold in purparty with the other
sisters.

But if Hanewode parted with a property here which
descended from the Warings, his son Roger acquired
another from the same quarter; for in 11 Richard II.
(1387) Richard Alcoks and Margery his wife, John de
Malmeshull and Alice his wife, and Matilda, daughter
of Richard Wilkyns del Lithe grant to the said Roger
their purparty of a messuage in Shelton which descended
to them, the said Margery, Alice, and Matilda, after
the decease of Helen, widow of Richard Waring. 1
suspect that for widow wo should read sister, since
Richard Waring's widow was Agnes, that Helen was

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his sister, and the grantors representatives of the two
other sisters, Agnes and Cicely.

In the 15th century the Warings increased their
consequence in Shelton by becoming lessees of the tithes
due to St. Julian's Church in that village. In 10
Hen. VI. Roger Yvne " rector and first master of the
College of St. Mary Magdalen de campo belli and rector
of the free chapel of St. Julian " demises to Simon
Waryng of Shelton all tithes of sheaves, hay, pease,
faith' (sic), beans, flax, and hemp belonging to the said
free chapel and to the rector thereof in the town and
fields of Shelton, for twenty years at a rent of 20s.

The Warings, it appears, had been accustomed to pay
a rent of lOd. to the rector of St. Julian's, for in the
following year the same Yve makes a new grant to the
same Simon at a rent of 23s., in which the small tithes
are included, " tarn garbar' lacticii & omnimod' decimar'
munitar quam lane & agnar' ac aliar' divers' decim',"
together with the rent just mentioned. I suppose the
lOd. due from the Goderichs.

Simon's will is dated on St. Luke's Day 1449, in
which he devises all his lands and tenements in Shelton,
Wodecote, and Frankvyle to his wife Margaret for her
life, if she keep herself sole. But he was still living in
35 Hen. VI., 1456, and in prosperous circumstances, as
he was then in a capacity to recover possession of lands
here which his uncle had been obliged to alienate upon
mortgage. By deed of this date, John Phelyppes of
Salop, clerk (he was Town Clerk of that borough, and,
as I conceive, brother of Roger Phelyppes, warden of
Battlefield), son and heir of Philip Glover (here we see
how he acquired the surname of Phelyppes), grants and
pledges to Simon Warynge of Schelton the lands and
tenements in Schelton which his father Philip had in
pledge from John Warynge, son of Richard Warynge,
to hold the same in pledge for the sum of £3 13s. 4d.,
which he, Phelyppes, had received of Simon, with this
proviso, that if he shall repay the said sum to Warynge,
he or his heirs shall re-enter.

SHELTON. 185

The Warings still went on increasing their property
here, though they ceased to reside upon it. In 5
P^dw. IV. John Trentham, Esq., of Salop, grants to
Nicholas Waryng of Salop lands in the fields of Shelton,
which he had of the gift of Juliana, relict of William
Beaton of Salop.

Other properties of considerable antiquity appear in
the deeds of the same family. By deed dated on the
eve of the purification of our lady 23 Edw., Henry
Charite, burgess of Salop, granted to Simon Colle, also
burgess of the same, land in Shelton. Witnessed by
John de Loddelowe, jun., and Hich. Stury, then bailiffs.
This land was still in that line 9 Hen. IV , when John
Colle, senior, and John Colle, junior, his son and heir,
demise lands in Shelton to Richard Waryng of that
place; and in 12 Hen. VI., John Colle of Salop, senior,
demises to Simon Waryng of Shelton all his lands and
tenements in the town and fields of the said town of
Shelton, except Oxdon, Udlynton, and Blakemeres-
mednes for forty years at a rent of 10s. a year.

The family of Yvon was also very ancient here. I
conceive them to derive their name from an ancestor of
the baptismal appellation of Tvo. Robert Ivon of
Shulton occurs as early as 27 Edw. I. impleading the
Abbot of Buildwas for common in Monk Meole as
appurtenant to his free tenement in Shulton. This
process will be more distinctly noticed under the head
of Monk Meole1 but one part of the abbot's plea is
more properly referable to this place. He pleaded that
the name was Shelton, not Shulton. What the effect
was which this alleged misnomer had upon the suit
does not appear.

Roger, the son of this Robert Ivoun, occurs in 34
Edw. I., and again in 15 Edw. 111. He is otherwise
written Roger Yvons. His daughter and heir Agnes
married Richard Launce of Pulley (or Polyley, as it was
then called), and had issue only two daughters, Isabel

1 | Transactions, 2nd Scries, iii., 333. — Ed.].

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and Johanna, of whom John Launce of Polyley and
Roger Yve (of Murydon, as he is elsewhere called), son
of Reginald Yve of Leton, were coheirs in 18 Hen. VI.,
and these enfeoffed Roger Yve, clerk, the warden, as I
suppose, of Battlefield, and Richard Gery, in all their
lands in Shelton. Mr. Gery appears to have been the
sole person beneficially interested in this feoffment, and
to him, by the name of Richard Gery of Cliye, did
Ifuoh Gomun of Yokulton release all his right in the
premises. The title thus released was, it appears,
derived from the family of Yvon. Agnes, the relict
and joint executrix of John Yvon, married secondly
William Beton. They enfeoffed Master John Gomond
in messuages, &c, in Shelton, which he in 19 Hen. VI.
granted in tail to Hugh his brother and Agnes, wife of
the said Hugh, remainder in tail to Johan, widow of
his father John Gomond ; remainder to Thos. Lodelowe,
Abbot of Salop, and his successors for ten years, and,
if the abbot can get licence to hold them, in perpetuity.
The seal to this deed is a coat of arms, two bows, in
chief three lions heads erased, inscribed " sigiJlum iohan-
nis ap bowel."

In 14 Edw. IV., Richard Gery, son and heir of
Richard Gery, formerly of Salop, sold his lands in
Shelton to Nicholas Waring, merchant of the staple.

There appears to have been a great oak at Shelton
stauding on the same spot where the present oak now
grows, in 1543, when Adam Waring wrote a long
paper entitled " How the gret oke at Shelton standeth
on my grounde." He states that Thomas Davis his
tenant, declared that he hath hard his fader and other
auncyent men dwelling in Shelton long agoo, saye, thet
in tyme paste long agoo, the highe wayne way fro' my
house in Shelton (where ye sd Tho. now dwelleth) unto the
market & fylds &c. was throughe the grounde that is now
the folde or courte ageanste the gret mansion there, be-
longing now to Ric. Mytton esquiar. — (Waring papers).1

1 \Cf. Owen and Blakewuy i., 11KS-20U. — Ed.].

SHELTON. 187

[In 1327, the following persons were assessed to the Shropshire
Lay Subsidy: — Sheltok'. Rog' Ivon iij* ; Kob't Warynge ijB ; Alic'
Iuonn viijd.

A MS, in the British Museum contains notes of some early deeds
relating to land in Shelton. By a deed without date, perhaps circa
J2G0-70, Alan Pride of Salop grants to John de Lodlowe a messuage
and lands at Shelton. In 1325 Alan le Glover of Salop grants lands
to John Beket of Salop, chaplain ; in 1333 Robert Waryng of Shelton
grants lands to the same John Beket ; and in 1340 Cecilia, widow of
Robert Waryng, grants lands also to John Beket. In 1332, William,
son of Reginald Borrey of Salop conveys lands to Thomas Borrey his
brother. In 1341 Henry de Shelton grants lands to John de la Tour
of Salop; and in 1348 Richard de Mode, chaplain, grants lands to
John, son oi* Richard Beket of Salop and to Isabella his wife, daughter
of John de la Tour. (Additional MS. 30,321).

Edward VI. by his Charter dated 10 Feb. in the 6th year of his
reign, granted the tithes of Shelton, late belonging to St Chad's
College, to the Shrewsbury Free Grammar School.

Amongst the Shrewsbury Corporation Muniments are preserved
several early leases of the tithes of Shelton. The earliest is dated
27 Sept., 16 KHz. (1574) ; the baylifls and burgesses, with the consent
of Thomas Aston clerk, head Schoolmaster, demised the tithes issuing
within the Township and fields of Shelton, also the lands and tithes
lying in Shelton called provenders lands, and the tithes of Horton, to
Richard Purcell of Salop, Esq , for 15 years, at the rent of £4. On
30 Sept., 31 Eliz. (1589) they leased the tithes of Shelton to Edward
Owen of Shrewsbury, gent., for 21 years, at the rent of 50/-; on 30
Sept., 9 Jac. I (1G11) to Robert Owen of Woodhouse, Esq., for 21
years, at the rent of t'G ; on 15 April, 1G33, to John Tench of
Shrewsbury, for 21 years, at the rent of i'G 10s. Gd. ; and on 20
March, 1674, to John Bleaze of Preston Monford, for 21 years, at the
rent of £10 14s.

On 20 Sept., 1743, the Corporation leased the tithes of the Town-
ships of Shelton and Oxon to William Billingsley of Shrewsbury,
gent., for 21 years, at the rent of £11 ; on 23 Dec, 1767, to Jane
Cole of Bicton Heath, for 21 years, at the rent of £31 5s. ; and on
29 Sept., 1785, to William Spearman of Oxon, gent., for 21 years, at
the rent of t'39.1

In 1828 the Schools received £71 4s. rent from their property in
Shelton and Oxon.2

A rental of John Mytton in the }rears 1786 and 1787 gives the
following particulars of his estate and the names of his tenants in
Shelton : —

1 RkrewHbliry Borough RooordH, Noh. nod 2508.
- Uhnrit\ Uoniiu. lioport, Salop, p. WW.

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SH ELTON.

■

Tenants.

Holdings.

Half-year's
Rent.

^ s.

(i.

e 1 tt ■ 1
Samuel Urwick

Shelton barm ...

50 0

0

Thomas Ed wards

The Foxholes

7 10

0

Ann Pryce, widow

Wet Reans

10 0

0

Mrs. Cor field

Little do.

8 0

0

Suinuel Lee

Greater Shelton Field ...

8 0

0

John Bather

Lesser do.

G 0

U

Edward Littlehales

Part of a Garden

0 5

0

Tn 179G, it was agreed between the landowners of Shelton and
Oxon that the commons and waste lands in the Township of Shelton
and Oxon, in the Liberties of Shrewsbury, should be divided, allotted
and enclosed amongst the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of
Shrewsbury as lords of the manorj and William Owen, Esq., John
Mytton, Esq , Richard Hill Waring, Esq., and William Spearman,
Esq., as freeholders. The Inelosure Award is dated 10 Oct., 1801.
The Commissioner (Mr. Henry Bowman of Knoekin), set out three
new public carriage-roads and two private carriage-roads ; and he
allotted to the Corporation of Shrewsbury 4a. 2r. 39p., to William
Owen 7a 3r. Gp., to John Mytton 17a. Or. 1 Op , to John Scott Waring
(as devisee of Richard Hill Waring) 14a. lr. 16p., to John Spearman
(as son and heir and devisee of William Spearman) 9a. 2r. 25p., and
to William Smith 3r. SQp.1

At the Sale of the Mytton estates, c, 1824, Mr. Mytton's land in
Shelton was purchased by Robert Burton, Esq., of Longner. He
converted the farm-house into a private residence, which he named
Shelton Hall, and resided there. The house is now occupied by
George Butler Lloyd, Esq. The property belongs to John Lingen
Burton, Esq., of Longner. The other principal landowners are Charles
John Morris, Esq. (who resides at Oxon Hall), and the representatives
of the late Colonel Charles George Wingficld and Rev. John Yardley.

In 1841 there were 2iJ houses and 100 inhabitants in the township
of Shelton and Oxon.

THE CHURCH.

Shelton and Oxon were formed into a new ecclesiastical district 8
May, 1855, which also includes the townships of Crowmeole, Wood-
cotc and Horton, Bicton Heath, and Copthornc. A Church was then
erected, called Christ Church, in the Early English style, and consists
of nave, chancel, south porch, and a western bellcote. The area of
the district is 1,568 acres.

The Church is in the gift of the Vicar of St. Chad's, and the
present Vicar is the Rev. Nathaniel Cooper, M.A , Magd. Coll.,
Cambridge, and Rural Dean of Shrewsbury, who has been Incumbent
since 1 801. --En. ].

1 The [ucloHUi'Q Award i« preserved nmong»( the Shrewsbury Corporation
Mwminonts, No. 2519.

WOLASCOT. 189

WOLASCOT

Wolascot, a township of Abrighton chapelry, anciently
Wylanescote, Willascot, perhaps the cot of the villains.
It was formerly a hamlet of Rossall, but does not
appear in Domesday.

In the pedigree of the family which derived its name
from this place, Vivian, lord of Rossall, is called also
lord of Wolascot, and his daughter and heir Amicia is
stated to marry one Alan le Poer.1 But from deeds
which will be seen under the article of Coleham, the
wife of le Poer, who was, I suppose, so called from his
poverty,2 was daughter of William le Strange, Dean of
St. Mary's. His descendants, ashamed, as appears, to
this ecclesiastical origin, which imported no less than a
charge of adultery and illegitimacy, gave their mother
a more decorous progenitor, who 'might perhaps be
father -in-law to the young lady, under the fiction of
jurisprudence, so favourable a feme covert, by which,
as Butler says . —

She's fortified no less

Than all the islund with four seas.

(Iludibras 3, i., 597).

I find Alan le Poer living in 1235, when the follow-
ing transaction took place between him and the Abbey
of Shrewsbury : —

H. abbot, and the convent of Salop grant to Alan le Poer of
Wilanscot and his heirs permission to make a ditch from his

1 [Eyton supposes that the family of Le Poer were originally the
Abbot's tenants here, holding the estate by rent of Is., and by suit
at the Manor-Court of Albrighton. Poger Puher occurs as witness to
a Charter of William fitz Alan, c. 1155 — 8. Robert le Poer attests
several Charters about 1182 — 1200, and Henry his son also attests a
Hadnall deed. Cl. Eyton x., 1 10, 111. — Ed.].

2 An Earl of Bedford, Hugh le Poer, obtained the same appellation
from the same circumstance. Hugo cognoniine Pauper, qui comi-
tatum Bedcfordise, detruso Milonc de BclloeampOj ex regiu permissione
[sc. Strpliiini] possederat, ncgliyenter & remisse, ut vir laxus & efle-
minatus, ae oontinens, castellum Miloni, vellet, nollet, commisit,
juatoquO Dei judieio do Comite miles, do Milite in brevi pauperrimus
i'uit. Cesta it. Steph., p. 953.

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present ditch through the midst of their meadow, which new
ditch shall equally extend to the corner of the ditch by which
the water issues out of the said meadow running from his mill,
and that he may have all the meadow within that ditch
towards his land, and also may have that little spot of ground
(terrulam illam), lying near ye arable land of the abbey, which
is called Pirihulle greven from the corner of the plat, equally
reaching to the said Alan's grove cum augmento unius partis
bosci sui versus vivarium suum tunc temporis facto. They
also grant that he may hold the assarts which he had assarted
upon his own land towards the heath (brueram); saving to
the abbey and their men common of herbage when the corn
and hay are carried ; and lastly they give him leave to raise
the pool of his mill 14 feet high.

In return he grants them eleven selionsof his land reaching
to their meadow ; permission to cultivate in peace the assarts
which their men of Eadbrichtone had assarted near his grove,
with the encrease (augmento) of a part of their wood towards
Holemedewe sitch then made, and may enclose it with a Ditch,
also that they may make pools or stanks (faciant stagna) upon
Holemedew sitch at their own convenience; saving to Alan
and his heirs common of herbage in the same assarts when
the corn and hay are carried. Done on St. Barnabas day 1235
in the presence of Walter Husee and Wydo de Hadenhale.
(C. A. S. 401).

Mom. Scacc. Easter 47 H. 3 (1262). The sherif of Shropshire
ordered to summon \Vm Le Peer son and heir of Wm lo Poer
to pay Aungcr do Tatlingstono 5 marcs which ye s'1 \Vm
roceivod from him for respite of knighthood. (Dodsw. MSS.,
v. 29).

Besides a son John, a clerk, mentioned under Cole-
ham, Alan had also, according to the pedigree, a son of
his own name, father of William who appears in the
Iter of Edw. I., where it is mentioned that William de
Willascot holds Willascot, in Pimhill hundred, of
Thomas de Rossall. There was a dispute between him
and Salop Abbey concerning a pension or annual rent
of 12d and suit of Court twice a year at their Court of
Adbrichton, both which they laid claim to, and which
was at length settled in the following curious manner.
Tho abbey acquits William of the said suit of court and
yearly payment ; so as they receive the same annually

WO L ASCOT.

19J

by the hands of Sir Vivian de Roshale and his heirs,
who constitutes and assigns the said William and his
heirs to make two appearances in the year at the said
court ; and there is a clause empowering them to dis-
train on "the aforesaid tenement" which must mean
William's, in case of non-performance. This cyrograph,1
to which Roshale is a party, is thus witnessed : —
" Dominis Walt, de llopton d'ni Regis Just iciario, Joh'e
de la Lee, Joh'e Ilese, Regin. de Acton & al." ^0. A. S.
402). Sir Walter de Ifopton was a justice under
Men. II 1., though his name does not appear in Dugdale's
series of that reign (Pari Hist., vol. i.t p. 92), was
appointed a Baron of the Exchequer in 1275. (Dugdale).

This William left an only daughter, who carried this
property in marriage to one William de Stanwardine,
from whom descended the second family of Wolascot,
who continued here in good figure (for one of them
appears among the gentry of Shropshire in 1433, and
another is styled esquire in 1479) till the middle of the
sixteenth century, when William Wollascot, Esq., in
1544, had a grant of Wolhampton in Berkshire, and
removed to that county. This gentleman was uterine
brother to Edmund Plowden, the famous lawyer, who
being much employed by Sir Francis Englefield in his
professional capacity, had an opportunity of purchasing
estates in Berkshire, and persuaded his brother Wolas-
cot and his nephew Blundel to do the same. Mr.
Wolascot was perhaps the more easily induced to take
•this up. The Wolascots were again connected with
Sir Francis, who was the representative of the family of
Rossall, from under whom the Wolascots were mesne
tenants, and from whom they derived their arms. In
29 Eliz. this manor, then the property of William
Wollascot, was holden of the manor of Uprossall. The
Plowdens and the Blundels made a temporary settle-

1 [Eyton dates this transaction in 1272 ; and the Iter, or 1'hnhill
Tenure-Roll, above referred to, 1279. Thomas llossall was heir of
Vivian. William de Willaseot was living in 1293, In 1320 Roger
do Wollaxcote witnesses a lladr.all deed. — Eli,]'

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ment in Berkshire, but that of the Wolascots was per-
manent. They occupied no mean rank among the
gentry of their own county. Like their patrons, the
Englefields, they were staunch Papists. Archbishop
Laud records with triumph that he had brought the
son and heir of Mr. Wollascot to the Church of England;
but the family soon reverted to its ancient faith. They
retained also their estate at Wolascot, which Henrietta
Maria, daughter and heir of William Wollascot of
Woolhampton, Esq., carried in marriage, 1755, to
Arthur Jumes Plunket, Earl of Fingal, whose son, the
present earl, sold this property in 17 . . to Oare.

Laud mentions the sons and heirs of Mr. Wollascot
and Mr. Winchcomb among those who he brought from
Popery to the Church of England, and adds that he
sent them, with their friends' liking, to Wad ham
College, and received a certificate Anno 1638 of their
continuing in conformity, (Ileylyn's Life of Laud,
p. 580).

William Wollascot, Fsq., was a witness to a Battle-
field deed in 19 Edward IV. (1480). William Wollascot,
Esq., had a grant of Wolhampton, in Berkshire, in
1544. (Lyson's Magna Brit i., 444).

Thomas Wollascot of Wollascot was buried at St.
Mary's, Salop, 1G Feb., 1585. I lis son Richard was
bapt. at Preston Gobalds in 1583, and his son William
was bapt. at St. Mary's, 6 Nov., 1585.

Tn 1G31 Mr. Tlichard Wollascott is assessed to St.
Mary's parish for his house and lands in Wollascot ; also
Jane Wollascot.

Martin Wollascot, Esq., of co. Berks, occurs in 1695.

The Wollascots, who had considerable estates at
Brimpton, Woolhampton, &c, became extinct not many
years ago. The Earl of Fingal married the heiress of
that family. (Lyson's Berks, i., 180).

PEDIGREE OF WOLLASCOT.

[The following pedigree, from one of the Itawlinson MSS. in Bibl.
Bodl., and from Ashmole MS. 852, ia given in tabular form in th<?

WOLASCOT.

193

Blakeway MS., but for greater convenience I have reduced it to
narrative form. A few additions are added from a MS. of Joseph
Morris in the Shrewsbury Free Library. — Ed.].

1. Roger Puher witnesses a deed of William fitz-Alan, c.
1155-8.

2. Robert de Poer and Henry his son witness a deed of
Letitia Banastre, c. 1182—1200.

3. Alan le Poer, lord of Wolascot, occurs 1235. Remarried
Amicia, dan. of Wm. le Strange, Dean of St. Mary's, Shrews-
bury. They had 2 sons, William, and John a clerk. The
elder son,

4. William, Lord of Wolascot, occurs 1259 to 1293; he
had a dan. and heir,

5. Margery Wollascot or Poer, who married first William
Stanwarden, and secondly Roger Gesnoke, who hold Wolascote
during his wife's life. By her first husband, William Stanwarden,
lord of Stanwarden, she had a son,

6. William Stanwarden, of Stanwarden and Wolascot,
His son,

7. Richard, called Willascot or Woloscot, was father of

8. William of Woloscot. He seems to have married
Beatrice Huse, and had a son,

0. William, Lord of Woloscot. His son,

10. William, lord of Wolascot, married Margery, dan. and
heir of John Rowdier, lord of Ashford Bowdler, and had a son,

11. William, lord of Wolascot, married Elizabeth, dan. of
John Stury of Down Rossall, and by her (who mar. secondly
Humphrey Plowden) he had issue, William, Joyce, wife of
Leonard Meysie, and Katherine, wife of Robert Lloyd of
Willington, co. Flint. His son,

12. William Wolascot, lord of Wolascot, living 1535,
married Jane, dan. and coh. of William Dale de Dale of Tid-
marsb, co. Berks, and had issuo :

(1) William, of whom next.

(2) John AVolascot, of Wolascot, living 155G, had issue

(a) Richard, of Albrighton 1591, afterwards of Wollascot;

bur. at St, Mary's, 28 July, 1624, mar. there 4 July,
1591, Jane Wilkes, and had issue 2 dans : — Susanna,
bapt. at St. Mary's, 30 April, 1592, married there 4
May, 1613, to Robert Mather ; and Margaret, mar. at
St. Mary's, 17 Dec., 1617, to Philip Wilding of Shrews-
bury.

(b) Thomas, of Wolascot, bur. at St. Mary's, 16 Feb., 1585-G,

had issuo a son, William, bapt. at St. Mary's, 6 Nov.
1585, and bur. there 28 Sept., 1597.

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The elder son,

13. William Wolascot, lord of Wolascot, and of Tidmarsh,
co. Berks, mar. Susan, d. and coh. of William Wayte, of Hamp-
shire, and had issue :

(1) William, of whom next.

(2) Edward, of Tidmarsh, mar. Mary, dan. and coh. of John

liaise of Sutton Courtney, and had issue (with three younger
children, Edmund, d.s.p., Dorothy, and Susanna), an elder
son, —

Thomas, of Tidmarsh, died circa 1650, married Elizabeth,
dau. of Alexander Fettiplacc of Swincombe, in com.
Oxon, and had issue 4 sons and 8 daus, viz. :

(a) Thomas, of Sutton Courtney, let. 34 ami. at the Vis.

of Berks. 16 March, 1GG4, mar. Katherine, d. and h.of
William Wollascot of Shintield, Esq., and had issue, —
Martin, ict. 3, 16G4, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Mary.

(b) James, mar. Frances, dau. of Ralph Eldrington, Citizen

of London.

(c) Edward (d) Francis.

(e) Martha. (f) Jane. (g) Mary.

(3) Richard, of Wolascot 1580— 1G34 ; living at Richard's Castle

in 1G23.

(4) Thomas, s.p. (5) Roger, s.p.
The eldest son,

14. William Wolascot, of Wolascot, gent., and of Shinfield,
co. Berks., mar. Ann, dau. and heir of Edward Martin of Shin-
lield, and had issue :

(1) William, of whom next.

(2) Martin, of Shinfield, act. 70 aim. 25 March, 1665; matricu-

lated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford, IS June, 1610, pet. 17,
student of the Middle Temple 1613.

(3) Edward, subscribed at Oxford 4 Nov., 1614 ; mar. Ann, dau.

to William Palmer of South Stoke, in co. Oxon, and had a
son, William, who d.s.p.

(4) Mary, mar. Henry, son of Francis Winchcombe of Burgul-

bury, co. Berks.

15. William Wollascot, of Woolhampton, Esq., matricu-
lated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford, 18 June, 1010, ict. 20. He
mar. first Susanna, dau. to Henry Fryer, M.D., and secondly,
Susan, dau. of Sir Edward Clarke of Abingdon, co. Berks., knt.
By his first wife he had issue, with a dau. Mary, the wife of
John Hawkins of Nash, co. Kent, a son,

16. William Wollascot, who married Dorothy, dau. of
Katherine Paston of co. Norfolk, and had issue ;

(1) William, d. young.

WOLASCOT. 195

(2) Katherine, dau. and heiress, married to Thomas Wollascot
of Sutton Courtney. This

17. Thomas Wollascot, who was aged 34 years at the Vis.
of Berks. 16 March, 1GG4, of Sutton Courtney, by his said wife
Katherine, had issue, Martin, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Mary.
Their eldest son,

18. Martin Wollascot, was aged 3 years at the Vis. of
Berks. 13 March, 1664, and was living in 1G05. He is stated
to have married Mary, dau. of Sir Francis Throckmorton, Bart.
His son,

19. William Wollascot, of Wolascot, was residing at
Wollhampton in 1717, in which year as a Papist he registered
his estates. He had an only dau. and heiress,

20. Henrietta Maria Wollascot, who married in 1755
Arthur James Plunkett, 7th Earl of Fingall,and died 12 March,
1806, leaving, with other issue,

21. Arthur James Plunkett, 8th Earl of Fingall, K.P. ;
born 9 Sept., 1759; created 20 June, 1831, Baron Fingall of
Woolhampton Lodge, co. Berks. His lordship sold the Wolas-
cot estate.

The Arms of Wolascot are, Sable a bend between six mart-
lets argent ; quartering the arms of Bowdler, Dale, Martin, and
Wayte.

[Amongst the Shrewsbury Borough Records is a document (No.
2779) containing "The Names of the Papists who have Registred
any Estate or Estates within the Town and Liberties of Shrewsbury
and ye yearly or other values thereof." There arc only seven names,
one being William Wollascott.

" William Wollascott of Wollhampton in the County of Berks Esqr
did Register

The Manour of Wollascott with its Rights Members
and Appurtcn'ees a yearly Quitt Rent of flbrty shillings
Court Baron and profits of Court in the parishes of
Adbrighton and Leaton in the sd County of Salop now
in his own possession ... ... ... ...200

A Messuage or Tenem* and Farm and the Lands
Tenements and hereditam18 therewith used with their
appurtcn'ees situate in the parish of Adbrighton and
County afores(1 now let by me from year to year to John
Ore the p'sent possessor at ye yearly rent of fifty five
pounds ... ... ... ... ... 55 00 0

A small ffarm late Peplows and the lands tenements
and hereditam*8 therewith used with their Appurtcn'ees
situate in the parish of Adbrighton and County aforesd
now let by him from year to Richard Evans the present
possessor at the yearly rent of Seven pounds tenshillings 07 10 0

196 HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

A farm called Leaton farm and the Lands tcnemt8
and hereditamts thereunto belonging with their Appur-
ten'ces situate in the sd parish of Leaton and County
aforesd now let hy him from year to year to the sd
Richard Evans the p'sent possessor at the yearly rent of
Seventeen pounds ... ... ... ... 17 00 0

A Messuage or Tencm* and small farm and the lands
tenem'3 and hereditamts thereunto belonging with their
appurten'ecs situate in the parish of Adbrighton and
County afores11 now let by him from year [to year] to
Ralph Stanly the p'sent possessor at ye yearly rent of
Kleavcn pounds ... ... ... . .. 1 1 00 0

A Messuage or Tenem1 and farm and the lands tenem1'
and hercditam18 therewith used with their appurten'ecs
situate in the parish of Adbrighton and County aforesd
let by Lease for years determinable on two lives made
by Thomas Wollascott Esqr. his grandfather to Moses
Reynolds Gent, at the yearly rent of Eight pounds (fine
Twenty pounds) the s'1 Moses Reynolds the p'sent pos-
sessor ... ... ... ... ... 08 00 0

A Messuage or Tenem1 and farm and the lands and
hereditaments thereunto belonging with their appurten'-
ces situate in the parish of Leaton and County aforcsd
lett by lease for years determinable on Three Lives
made by Martin Wollascott Esqr. his ffather to Thomas
ap Thomas at and under the yearly rent of Seven pounds
(fine 31 li) Andrew Thomas the p'sent possessor ... 07 0 0."

"Thomas Ireland of Albrington in the said County
Esqr. did Register" (amongst other lands) " the tythes
of Wollascotc held by Mr. Robt Wood p' annu' ... 06 00 00."

The total value of William Wollascote's estates in the Liberties
was £107 10s. per annum. Another document containing a summary
of the above is headed, "An Account of the Reall and Personal!
Estates within the towne and libertyes of Shrewsbury to bee assest
towords raising 172u 4 8 2^d upon Papists by virtue of the Act 9
Geo:." [1723].

In the printed list of "The Names of the Roman Catholics, Non-
jurors," die, after the Rebellion of 1715, occurs the following entry :
— " William Woolascott, of Adbrighton ... 105 10 0."

The Oares appear to have been tenants of Wollascot before they
purchased it from Lord Kingall. They probably came from Hodnet,
where a John and Alice Ore occur in 1G2G-7. Ultimately Great
Wollascot camo to John Oare, who died in 1849 ; and Little Wollas-
cot to his brother George Oare, who yuon alienated it. Thomas Oare,
gent., gave a Communion cup to Albrighton Chapel in 1790. John
Oare, gent., occurs as a proprietor of laud in Leaton, at the Inclosurc
in 1809. lie sold Great Wollascot early in the present century to

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197

John Arthur LLoyd, Esq., of Leaton Kaolls, who died in 1864. It
then passed to his brother Charles Spencer LLoyd, and on his death
in 1876 to his nephew, the late Arthur Philip LLoyd, on whose
death in 1893 it came to Captain Arthur Henry Orlando LLoyd of
Leaton Knolls, the present owner of Great Wollascot. Little Wol-
lasc A seems to have passed from the Oares to the Tyrwhitts, and was
since purchased by the late James Watson, Esq., of Berwick Hall,
and is now the property of his daughter and heiress, Mrs. Phillips.

Wollascott was formerly stated to contain 800 or 900 acres. Great
Wollascott farm now contains 214 acres; the house is a brick and
timber building of the last century, one room being panelled with
old oak. Amongst the Field Names are these : — Allen's Field,
Broomy Croft, Bushy Meadow, Criften, Gorsty Leasow, Ladies
Meadow, Peplow's Ground, Reynolds, and Weir Field. Little Wol-
lascott farm contains 112 acres; the house was erected by the late
James Watson, Esq. In 1841 there were four houses and '23 inhabi-
tants in Wollascott.

In John Lovatt's Survey of the Manor of Up Rossall made in 1587,
it is stated that " William Wollascot, Esq., holdeth the Manor of
Wollascot of the Lord of this Manor by free Deed, but whether by
Knight's Service or no the Jury is ignorant, and payeth yearly at the
Feasts of the Annunc' and St. Michael 1 2d."

An Inquisition of the Liberties taken in October, 1515, states that
the hamlet of Wolascot is within the parish of the Blessed Mary of
Salop, and is a hamlet of Roshall in the said county. Also that it
is within the hundred of Pimhill, and has been wont to be taxed
separately by itself to a xvth and xth granted by the laity to 4s.1

Amongst the Trained Soldiers of Shropshire temp. Elizabeth, the
following occur in 1580 under Wollascott : — Richard Goughe, Richard
Wollascott, William Webster, William Bold, and RafTe Lister. In
1587 William Webster and Richard Wolliscot only are named.2 — Ed.].

EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS.

FITZ.

15G8, Dec. 15. Barbara Willascott bapt.

PKESTON (JOUHALLS.

1583, April 14. Richard, s. of Thomas Wollascot, gent., bapt.

ST. MARY'S, SHREWSBURY.

1585, Nov. 0. William, s. of Thomas Wylloscott, bapt.

1585, Feb. 1G. Thomas Wollascott of Wollascott, bur.
1591, May 18. Tho. Noneyley and Elener Woolascott mar.

1591, July 4. Richard Woolascott and Jane Wilkes mar.

1592, Ap. 30. Susan, d. of Richard Woolascott of Albrighton,

bapt.

1G24, July 28. Richard Woolascott bur.

1 Cf. Transactions, 2nd Series, ii., 73-4.
* Ibid, ii., 277 ; iii., 131).

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HISTORV OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

WELBACH,

with Whttley, makes one township in the parish of
St. Chad.

The name I derive from a well or fountain of water,
expanding with a bach or small brook. Welbach has,
therefore, the same signification as Welbeck ; and, in
fact, in Domesday it is written Huelbec.1

It was possessed in the Saxon times by one Hunninc,
a free man, and the same, I believe, who held Rossall
and some other estates in this neighbourhood ; and who
enjoyed the rare felicity of continuing to retain a part
of his property after the Conquest. This was not the
case, however, with Huelbec. That was included in
the grant to Earl Roger, who before the time of the
Domesday survey had bestowed it upon one of his chief
vassals, Roger, son of Corbet, under whom it was
immediately occupied by one Ranulf;2 perhaps Ralph
de Mortimer, to whom it would be very convenient on
account of its contiguity to his manor of Meole. It
was assessed to the Danegeld at one hide, and if we are
implicitly to follow the terms of Domesday, it had made
no progress in cultivation since the introduction of that
hateful impost ; for no other land is mentioned than one
carucate3 in the demesne. But as, besides two servants,
who, I suppose, tilled that carucate for the benefit of
Ranulf, there appear to have been also as many bordars,
T conceive there must have been some portion of arable
land for their use. Here was also a mill, but the supply

1 [Ilartshorne and Eyton state that in Shropshire hack or batch
signifies a vatic?/, and not a beck or little brook. — Cf. Eyton vi., 188-9
_Eb.].

2 [llnninc in Saxon times held the neighbouring manors of
Staplcton and Cothcrcot, and shared in that of Pulverbatch. Rannulf
was also Roger Corbet's tenant of a portion of the manor of Stapleton.
Cf. Kyton vi., 109. --Ed.].

3 [Not carucate, bitf, ox-team. Domesday adds, in King Edward's
time the manor was worth 20s. yearly, now it is worth 5s. Cf. Kyton
vi. 111) 121.— Kn.J. r

WKLBACFT AND WHltT/RV.

I Of)

of water was not sufficient to enable it to work during
the drought of summer.

I find nothing further of this place till the Iter of
Hen. III. (1255), in which it is found that Sir Odo de
Hodenet held Wulbech, in the hundred of Condover,
of Fulke fitz Warin for one hide. In what manner it
passed from Corbet to Fitz warin does not appear.1 The
former family was of longer standing in the county by
nearly a century than the latter, who do not appear in
any of the lists of our landholders before the reign of
Hen. IT. That monarch provided for Fitz Warin as
well as he could ; but the great estates of the county
were already occupied, and the new comer was obliged
to be content with such scraps and fragments as he
could collect, and to hold some of the principal of them
not by the most honourable tenure, in chief of the
Crown, but as tenant para vail under some mesne lord.
Thus he held his first great seat of Alberbury under
the baronial house of Corbet, and I suspect that Whel-
bach was also holden in the same manner, and of the
same baron. But the Fitz Warins were themselves
anxious to obtain the distinction of mesne lords, having
vassals holding from them, which, previously to the
statute of Quia Emptores, was practicable in an infinite
gradation, and therefore, as we see, they granted out
W he 1 bach to the family of Hod net, with whom, as
appears not only from their romantic history, but from
more authentic documents, their connection was early
and lasting. It is observable that the Hodnets held
Westbury of the fee of Caus. Their line ended in a
daughter Maud, wife of Sir William de Ludlow, and, as I
conceive, of William le Wyne, probably a native of Wales.

1 [Eyton states that about 1203-4, William fit/. Walter conveyed
to Robert de (Jatacrc certain nokes of land, held of the Fee of Alber-
bury. Tie thinks that these nokes were in Welbatch, and that
Welbatch was of the Fee of Alberbury, and was held by Fitz Warin
under Corbet of Cans, the Seigneural Lord of Welbatch. Cf. Kvton
vi, 119.— En.].

Yol. IX, 2nd S. nn

200 HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERT fES

In 14 Edw. II. (1320) a fine was levied of the manors of
Westbury, Whelbache, and Espeleye, to the use of
William le Wyne and Maud his wife for life, remainder
to Laurence de Ludlow (son of William de Ludlow) and
Hawise his wife, in tail, remainder to John, son of
William le Wyne, in tail, remainder to the right heirs
of Maud.

The place continued in the Ludlows to the extinction
of their line. Sir Ilichard Ludlowe, knight, at his
death, 23 Dec, 1498, is found seised of the manors or
lordships (inter alia) of Witley and W'elbatcb. His
grand-daughters Anne and Alice, wives of Thomas and
Humphrey Vernon, were his heirs. George Vernon of
Hodnet, son of Humphrey, died 1554 seised of a moiety
of the manors of Whittley and Whalbach, holden of
John Stovyll, as did his son Richard Vernon in 1590 of
the same moieties holden of the heirs of Fulke Fitz
warren. Of John Stovylle I can give no account.

By what mesne conveyances Welbach passed from
the Vernons I have not seen; but the next person whom
I find possessed of it is Ilichard Owen, gent., Chamber-
lain of Shrewsbury (of which Corporation he served the
office of Bailiff in 1562 and other years), second brother
of the Judge. He died 25 Oct., 1594, seised of "a
capital messuage in or near the town of Salop," so it is
styled in the Inquisition after his death, " called
Whitley hall, and 3 messuages, two hundred acres of
land, ten of meadow, an hundred of pasture, twenty of
wood, &c, in Shrewsbury, Francvyle, Whitley, and
Whelbach, holden of the heirs of Fulke Fitz warren by
fealty alone."

The Owens of Whitley continued to reside upon this
estate for more than a century, and are not, I believe,
yet extinct, though their pedigree is to me somewhat
indistinct. But on the 25th of January, 1715, William
Owen, gent., of Whitley, in consideration of the sum of
£3,730, sold " W7hitley hall or Whitley farm," as it is
termed in the conveyance, " and messuages and lands in
Whitley and Whelbach and in the townships or parishes

WELBACH AND WHITLEY. 201

of Condover, Brace Meole, and St. Chad, to William
Turner, draper, and Alderman of Shrewsbury. He was
father of Francis Turner Blithe, Esq., who devised the
premises to his third wife Jane Elizabeth Crowley,
which lady in 1771 re-married to William Yelverton
Davenport, Esq., of Davenport House, and in [1772]
sold the premises to Thomas Hill, Esq., of Tern, from
whom they descended to his grandson Thomas Noel,
Lord Berwick, the present possessor.

WHITLEY.

All that I have to relate concerning this place has
been already told under Welbach, except that in the
extent of the Castle and Manor of Whittington in 4
Edw. HI. (1330) among the " foreign rents" due to
the Fitzwarins, is an annual payment of 3s. issuing out
of the manor of Whytelegh, undoubtedly this place. In
the Inquisition of St. Chad's possessions 1326, among
the tithes belonging to the Dean is enumerated " from
the manor of Whyteleye of the field near the water; "
also from five tenants in the town of Whelebeche.

[In the Te&ta de Nevill, circa 1240, Odo de Hodenet, son of Baldwin,
is stated to hold half a knight's fee in Welbach, under the Barony of
Hugh do Kilpec, which Eyton thinks is incorrect. An Inquisition
taken 15 Feb., 1284, on the death of Sir Odo de Hodenet, states that
he held Whelbeclio under Fulk fit/ Warin by service of one-twentieth
part of a knight's fee, the estate being worth 51s. per annum. An
Inquisition taken 11 Nov., 1310, on the death of William de Ludlow,
states that he and his wife Matilda (heiress of the Hodnets) held the
villa of Wclbaehe and Moston by feoffment of William de Moston, by
service of one-tenth part of a knight's fee. The estate consisted of a
messuage, 80 acres of land, a water-mill, and 58s. Gd. rent. (Eyton
vi., 120-1).

In 2 Edw. VT., 1550, the Manors of Whitley and Welbatch wcro
settled on the marriage of George Vernon and Mary, widow of Robert
Acton, in tail male. In 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, 1554-5, an Inqui-
sition was taken on the death of George Vernon.

Richard Owen of Whitley, who died 25 Oct., 1594, and was buried
at St. ('bad's, built Owen's Mansion in Shrewsbury in 1502; he
married Sarah, dau. of Thomas Ireland of Shrewsbmy, and had iamio

202

HISTORY 6 J? SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

two sons — (1) Richard, described as of Whitley in 1610 and 1611,
and (2) Thomas. His second son

Thomas Owen of Whitley, was M.P. for Shrewsbury 1624 to 1640 ;
he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army of Charles I., and was taken
prisoner by the Parliamentary Army at the capture of Shrewsbury 21
Feb., 1644. He was buried at St. Chad's, 12 July, 1650 By Ann
his wife he had issue two sons— (1) Thomas, described as of Whitley
in 1678, father of Thomas Owen of Whitley 1 C7 1, from whom sprung
the Owens of Pontesbury and of Ireland ; and (2) William. His
second son,

William Owen of Whitley, a burgess of Shrewsbury in 1676, greatly
rebuilt Whitley, and introduced a stone gateway, with the Arms of
Owen carved thereon, and the initials and date "W, O. 1667.'' He
died at Worcester in 1697 ; his Will was proved P.C.C. 1 Jan., 169S.
By Mary his wife he had issue, — Edward, born in 1674, devisee of
his father's freehold estates ; Thomas; Robert, who died young; and
several daughters. On William's death Whitley passed to his nephew
Thomas Owen (son of his elder brother).

A full Pedigree of the Owens of Whitley, tta, is given in Miscellanea
Genealogica ct Heraldica, 2nd Series, vol. ii., pages 371-2. Their
Arms were, Argent a lion rampant sable, a canton of the second.

The Whitley and Welbach estate was conveyed by Thomas Owen
of Whitley, gent., and Mary his wife, and William Owen, his eldest
son and heir apparent, to William Turner of Shrewsbury, Draper, by
Indentures dated 2 and 3 April, 1716, the purchase money being
£3,690 5s.

William Turner married Hannah, sister and coheir or Francis Blithe
of Allesley, and died iti August, 17L3, having by his Will, dated
8 July, 1743, and proved P.C.C, devised Whitley and Welbach to his
eldest son Francis Turner in tail male. This Francis Turner took
the name of Blithe, and was Mayor of Shrewsbury in 1744, and
Sheriff of co. Salop in 1755, and by his Will dated 29 August, 1770,
devised his estates to his third wife Jane Elizabeth Crowley. She re-
married in Dec, 1771, William Yelverton Davenport, Esip

By Indentures dated 23 and 24 June, 1772, William Yelverton
Davenport and Jane Elizabeth his wife, and the trustees for sale
under their Marriage Settlement, conveyed the Whitley and Whelbach
estates, in consideration of £5,000, to Thomas Hill of Tern, Esq.,
subject; to the payment of 26s. per annum to the poor of Whitley out
of Picket Croft.

Thomas Hill died 12 June, 1782, having by his Will dated 17 May,
1779, and proved P.C.C, devised his estates in Shropshire to his son
Noel Hill for life, with remainder to his grandson Thomas Noel Hill
in tail. This Thomas Noel Hill succeeded as second Lord Berwick
in 1789, and by Indentures dated 27 and 28 April, 1818, conveyed
Whitley and Welbach to Richard Scott of Betton, Esq. On his death
in 1821, the property passed to his great-nephew, Oeorge Jonathan
Scott of Betton, Esq., on whose death in 1875 it came to his only

WELBACH ANl> WHtTLEY.

203

surviving daughter and heiress, the present Mrs. Seott of Betton, who
is lady of the Manor of Welbatch and Whitley.

Welbateh contains about 259 acres, and Whitley about 167 acres.
Whitley Farm-house was built by William Owen, and on a stone
lintel, as also on an oak staircase, is a shield bearing his arms, and
the initials " W. 0. 1667." Between Whitley Farm-house and the
Rea-brook is a square moat, 138 feet in area each way, with abundant
evidence of having been occupied by a building of some importance.
The draw-bridge stood at the east end of the south face. This moat
may have been the work of some Norman possessor.1 In the adjoin-
ing meadow on the east side, known as the Chapel Field, were dis-
covered in 1893 the foundations of an oblong building about 38 ft. by
81 ft , about two feet below the surface. It was constructed of red
sand-stone, and scattered about were a number of red clay tiles, with
some fragments of roofing Hags or shingles. It is probable that thsso
foundations are the remains of a Roman Villa. At a later period the
building may have been used as a chapel, although no record of any
chapel at Whitley exists. -

At an early date, before 1326, the Canons of St. Chad's became
possessed of lands in Whelibach and Whitley.3 In 1549 the vicars-
choral leased the tithes for 21 years to Humphrey Onneslow, Esq.
On the dissolution of St. Chad's College, Edward VI. by Letters
Patent dated 10 Feb., 1553, founded the Shrewsbury Free Grammar
School, and endowed it with (inter alia) the tithes of Whiteley and
Whelback, lately belonging to the dissolved College of St. Chad. In
1823 the rent of Whitley and Whelbatch amounted to £99.4

Amongst the Shrewsbury Corporation Muniments is a bundle of
leases relating to Whitley and Whelbach. The bailiffs and burgesses
granted the tithes of corn, graine, sheife, Arc, growing in the town-
ships of Whitley and Whelbache, 20 March, 1606, to Richard Owen
of Shrewsbury, draper, for 21 years at the rent of £4 18s. Id. ; on
20 March, 1627, to Thomas Owen of Dynthill, Esq., for 21 years at
the rent of £A 14s. -id. ; on 3 Oct., 1648, to James Peareson of
Shrewsbury, cutler, for 21 years at the rent of £7 8s. ; on 29 Sept.,
1709, to Thomas Griffiths the elder, of Whitley, for 18 years at the
rent of £9 ; and on 15 April, 1780, to Noel Hill of Tern, Esq , for 21
years at the rent of £28. 5

In an Inquisition of the Liberties taken in October, 1515, the Jury
found that the township of Whelbach was in the parish of St. Chad
and was a hamlet of Harley and Kenley in the said county ; and that
it was in the hundred of Condover, and was wont to be taxed to a
certain xvth and xth granted to the King by the laity to 2s.6

1 Shropshire Notes and Queries, 29 April, 1892.

2 Shropshire Notes and Queries, 14 and 28 April, 1893

3 Owen and Blakeway ii., 184.

4 Charity Comm. Report, Salop, 3G9, &c.

6 Shrewsbury Borough Records, No. 2.r)83.
0 Transaction >, 2nd Series, ii., 73, lb.

204 HTSTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

Amongst the Trained Soldiers of Shropshire temp. Elizabeth, the
following occur in 1580 under Whitley and Whelbach : — Roger
Phillips, Thomas Powell and Richard Owen, his servants; Thomas
Edwards, John Hynton, .John Haneoke, Richard Emery, and William
Warter. It is stated that " thies too townships have a sallet and a
byll."1 In 1587 the following occur : — William Warter, Roger Cowp',
John Hill ton, John Alkocke, Constable, William Sukcr, Edward
Water, and Thomas Whitley. It is stated that " their furniture is a
bowe, a sheHe of arrowes, a sword, a dagger."2— Ed.].

EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTERS OF HAN WOOD.

1563, Nov. 7. John ap David de Whatley, buried.

1508, Jan. 16. William Shuker of Wbclbech and Catherine

Phillips of AVoodhouse, mar.
1599, March. Ann, wife of Wm. Warter of Whelbech, mar.
LOGO, April. Joan, wife of Wm. Warter of Whitley, bur.
1 001, Ap. 16. Roger Cowper of Whelbech, bur.
1605, Jan. 17. Mary, dau. of John Allcock of Welbecb, bapt.
1610, Dec. Thomas, son of Richard Owen of Whitley, bapt.
1614, July 28. Richard, son of ditto ditto bapt,

1636, May. Priscilla, d. of Tho. Owenn and Ann, of Whitley,

bapt.

1637, June. Thomas, s. of Tho. Alcox of Whitley, and Mary,

bapt.

163S, Oct. Mary, d. of Tho. Owen and Ann, bapt.

1630, Dec. Martha, d. of Tho. Owen of Whitley and Ann, bapt.

1640, May. Martha Owen of Whitley, bur.

1641, Dec. Martha, d. of Tho. Owene and Ann, bapt.
16*66, Sept. 27, Roger Warter of Whelbech, bur.
1670, Marcli 22. Win, Sheerer of Whitley, bur.

1672, Ap. 29. Robert, s. of Wm. Owen of Whitley, bur.
1674, Feb. 12. Edward, s. of Wm. Owen of Whitlo, and
Mary, bapt.

1677, March 27. Mary, d. of Wm. Owen of Whitley, and
Mary, bapt.

1679, Jan. 20. Tho. Alcocks, of Whelbach, bur.

1(186, Oct. 25. Ann Owren, widow, of Whitley, bur.

1689, Oct. 16. Tho. Owen and Mary Waltholl mar.

1600, Feb. 26. Margaret Warter of Whelbeatch, bur.

1694, Jan. 2. Edward Warter of Whelbeatch, bur.

1702, May 4. Tho, s. of Tho. Owen of Whittley, Esq., buried.

1720, July 12. Margaret Warter, of Whelbach, bur. Let. 77.

1 Transaction*, 2ml Scries, ii., '280.
- Ibid, ii)., 142.

WOODCOTE AND HORTON. 205

WOODCOTE and HORTON

form one of* the townships in St. Chad's parish.1

At an early period one Philip, who, I suppose, was
called de Wodecote, was chief lord of the fee (1 pre-
sume lord of the manor), and was succeeded herein by
his son William de Horton ; for by deed without date,
Lucy relict of A lexander Campians of Woodcote grants
to her son and heir William, half a virgate ill Woodcote
which her father Philip de Wodecote gave with her in
free marriage to Alexander de Wodecote (1 presume
the above-mentioned Campians) her husband ; but the
grantee William was to render to William de Horton,
son of Philip, chief lord of the fee, 2s. yearly for all
service, save the service of the king. This deed, which
is among the Waring papers, is attested by Vivian de
Koshale and Richard Corbet of Watleburough. It
should seem as if this William de Horton thus mentioned
as lord of the fee, was brother of the grantor Lucy.

I conceive him to be the same, who by the name of
William Heorton grants to his daughter Margery a
messuage in Woodcote, in a place called Vorlung dyches,
between the king's wall and Hog wall and the bruere
(heath) of Hanwode. Witnessed by Roger lord of
Ondeslawe. This land descended to Alice, wife of
Nicholas de Gatacre, and from her to her son John de
Gatacre of Wodecote, who in the 20th of Edward III.
granted it to John, son of William de liaghrnon of
Salop.

Of the same family was, probably, Roger de Horton,2
who in the 12th of King Edward (1283-4) grants to
Waryn de Andeslowe, who stands at the head of the
Waring pedigree, and Alice his wife, a messuage and

1 [At Domesday, Woodcote was a distinct manor, whilst Horton
was a member of the Manor of Pontesbury. C/. Eytoii vii., 137,

144.— «i>:].

- William Trentham, Ksq., mar. a dan. of Horton of Woodeot.
If, 21.

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HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES,

half a virgate of land in Wodecote, and a meadow
called Le Lutel Ednemos, and a rent of os., with the
whole lordship, without any reservation in the same
vill (cum toto dominio sine aliquo retenemento in eadem
villa) 2s. of which rent is to be received from Robert le
Sarmoner. Witnessed by Reginald, lord of Hanewode.1

This deed appears not to have been executed, but
four years afterwards the substance of it is repeated
between the parties, with the exception of the lordship,
of which no mention is made. In this last deed, the
meadow is written endemos, and the rent is said to
issue from the tenement of Robert le Saymoner.

That this last deed was executed is certain, because
in the 28th of the same King Edward (1300) the said
Warin de Ondeslowe and his said wife Alice grant the
said messuage, lands, Little Edenemos, and 5s. in
Wodecote to their son Robert ; to whom also, in the
following year, his brother Roger, styling himself son
of Warin de Ondeslowe, releases his right in the
premises.

In the 19th Edward II. (1325-6) Thomas, son of
Hugh de Wodecote, grants a plot of land called le hurne
in Wodecote, lying between Ednesmosse and the king's
wTay leading from Salop towards Cawes, to Adam de
Bykedon of little Roshale, Isabel his wife, and John
their son. Erom another deed of the following year, it
appears that this former instrument w7as intended to
operate as a mortgage; for in 20 Edward II. the said
Thomas pledges a. letter of acquittance of lands and
meadows which the said Adam has of him in the name
of pledge in the town of Wodecote to him, his wife and
son above-mentioned, for the sum of 20s : on this con-
dition, that if he, Thomas, repay the money within a
time prefixed, the said letter shall be delivered to him ;

1 [By a Fine of 12 Nov., 1240, William lo Sermon, tenant of half
a virgate in Woodeote, acknowledged William de Horton's claim
thereto ; and the latter conceded the land to William le Sermon in
fee ut a rent of %. Cf. Kyton vii., 155. — Ki>."|.

WOODCOTE AND HORTON. 207

otherwise it shall remain in force. The money never
was repaid, and the land remained with Bykedon, who
being dead in 23 Edward III. (1349-50) his relict Isabel
granted her lands in Wodecote, near Horton, to Hugh
her son in tail (John we must suppose dead), remainder
to his brother William in tail, remainder to her daughters
Isabel and Lucy.

Land in the town of Wodecote and in Egebaldeham
and in the fields of Heywode [qu. Henwode] with a
parcel (particula) of wood called Wythere mar', was in
40 Edward III. (1366-7) in the possession of Thomas,
son of Thomas de Bykedon of Wodecote. Whether any
of it was the property conveyed as above to Adam
de Bj'kedon does not appear ; but this Thomas de
Bykedon having enfeoffed Richard de Canes of Salop
chaplain in all the above premises, they were by him in
the same year conveyed to John de Upton of Salop and
Benedicta his wife.

Adam de Bykedon was not the only person to whom
Thomas, son of Hugh de Wodecote, alienated land
there. In 17 and 19 Edward II. (1323-4 and 1325-6)
he released to Robert son of Waryn (or, as in another
deed lie calls him Robert Waryng) of Schelton, all his
right to land in Wodecote. This last deed is witnessed
by Philip Gouchmond of Horton. The land thus
released was a messuage and 13 acres, which by deed
13 Edward III. (1339-40) the said Robert grants to
his son Richard in tail, remainder to Adam, another
of his sons. He describes himself to have had them
of the feoffment of Thomas, son of Hugh, as afore-
said.

Richard and Adam were two of the younger children
of Robert Waryng, who, it appears, must have been,
according to the measure of those times, a person of
opulence. They were both without issue, and in 40
Edward III. (1366-7) Adam W7aryng, calling himself
of Wodecote, grants all his lands there to Richard
Waryng (his brother mentioned in the former deed)
and Richard son of Roger Waryng of Schelton (his

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nephew). This was, of course, land of his own acqui-
sition, as must also have been the

(sex landas terre) in Wodecote, which by deed of 1
Richard II. (1377-8) he granted to Sir William de
Bottefeld, chaplain. But by the 4th of the same king
he had succeeded by the death of his brother Richard
to the land in Wodecote entailed on him by his father,
for he then granted it to his nephew "Richard (son of
Roger Waryng of Shelton) and Catharine his wife ; to
whom also by the name of Richard Waryng, junior, of
Schelton, in 14 Rich. II., Agnes, the widow of his
uncle Richard Waryng, senior, of Schelton, released her
dower in Wodecote. From this time the Waring estates
in Woodcote descend in uninterrupted succession.

In 1326 all the tithes of the town of Wodekote
belonged to Master Rese as prebendary of St. Chad ;
likewise all the tithe of the town of Horton, and half
the mortuary, except the house of Nicholas le Milde
and except a moiety of all manner of tithes in the fields,
which moiety of the sheaves with the hay of the Bin-
medua belongs to the common stock of the church.
Somewhat more of Woodcote and Horton may be seen
in the same Inquisition, which it is unnecessary here to
transcribe.

In 21 Richard II. (1397-8) William Ellesmere and
William Preston, chaplains, grant to Richard, son of
Roger Waryng of Shelton and Catherine his wife for
life, all their lands and tenements in Wodecote, which
they had of ye said Richard's feoffment, remainder to
Simon, son of said Richard in tail, remainder to Roger,
brother of Simon, remainder propinquioribus heredibus
sanguinis dicti Ric'i hlii Rog'i.

In 1507 the property of Woodcote was divided
between Nicholas Waringe, Thomas Horton, and John
Bayly. They then came to the following agreement
respecting their several boundaries.

The partition or deyysion of messuages lands and tenements
of Woodcote between Thomas Horton, John Bayly, & Nicholas

WOODCOTE AND HOFvTON.

209

Waringes. these persons of their " whole assent & consent

have allotted try party ted & dcvyded the mesiiages & three
fyelds of the town of Wodcote in this maner & fourme follow-
ing.— Horton his heirs & assigns to enjoy & occupy for ever
the mese place he now hath & dwelleth in in Wodcote, & the
mese place late of Penne's holding, with one of the 3 fyelds of
the towne of Wodcote extending & adjoining from y° sd town
of W. unto the townes of Horton & Onneslowe, — wch field he
now holds, & hath holden by old partycion made 2G years now
last past, — Bayly his heirs &cr in like manner to have two
inese places of ye sd Bayly, & one mese place of John Edwards
& the heirs of Johan or Jcnct Elkoks in yc sd towne of W.
wh one of yc fields of yc sd town, & a several meadow adjoining
to ye sd field, wch field & meadow extend from wards Wodcote
to Wodcots heath & Onneslowes heath, wch field & meadow
Baily now holds, & they whose estate he hath have holden by
old particyon 2G years past.

Waringe to have his two mese places in W. & also one
mese place of John Stury Esqr & the 3d field of W. with
all ingresse into ye same field, extending & adjoining from wards
ye same town of W. unto the towns of Monk mele Edgebald &
Hanwood which fields he now holds & hath holden by ye old
partition afsd : — also the two others grant to him the moss &
waste called Ednemosse adjoining to ye third field, leaving a
drift way from the town of Woodcot to ye heath.

Waring agrees to pay 78 yearly to Horton : who discharges
the two others from all rents, services & demands for the lands
now of him ye sd Horton, Tho. Goldsmyth or Tho. Gittins ; as
the other two do him & each other respectively, H. T. Tho.
Trentham Edw. Knight btfs &cr. [i.e. 1507].

John Hosier, who died 1591, is called of Woodcote,
and in Taylor's MS. it is related that in Nov., 1575, his
house there was burned down.

Part of the Bayly property was a farm called tho
Oak, and this, it should seem, had before 1639 passed
from that family to Dorothy Barker of Salop, spinster,
to whom, on the 12th of July in that year, Edward
Poole yeoman, entitling himself of the Oak in the
township of Woodcot, grants all his estate and interest
in the said farm. 1 suppose he had some term of years
in it. Dorothy Barker was one of tha daughters of
Richard Barker, Esq., Recorder of Shrewsbury ; another

210 HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

was Mary, successively the wife of Nicholas Waring and
Richard Hunt, Esquires, of Shrewsbury. She appears
in her second widowhood to have resided at Woodcote,
and on the 24th December, 1648, by the name of Mary
Hunt of Woodcot, widow, surrendered to her son
Richard Waringe, gent., her jointure land in Woodcot.
The Oak was not, I presume, included in this jointure
land ; but it was then passed from Dorothy Barker to
her other sister Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Higgins,
D. and M.D., rector of the second portion of Pontesbury,
who only one week after the last date, viz., 3 Jan. 24
Car. (to within so near a period of his fatal execution
were the years of his reign employed in legal instru-
ments) by the name of Elizabeth Higgons of Salop,
widow, in consideration of 5s. bargains and sells to the
same Richard Waringe, then called of Woodcot, land in
Frankwell, alias Frankvyle, in the occupation of himself
or his tenant, near the lane leading towards Copthorne,
and also the Oak farm in Woodcot, for the term of a
year. This was, I presume, a lease preparatory to a
release, which vested the fee in Mr "Waring ; for on the
28th of January, 1654, being then styled of Shrews-
bury, he bargains and sells the messuage, farm, or tene-
ment called the Oak, heretofore the inheritance of
Andrew Bailey, clerk, and John Bailey his son, to
Thomas Blakeway, gent., of Cronekhill, in fee for "a
valuable consideration, "so it is expressed, warranting the
same against his own heirs and assigns, and those of
Bailey, Dorothy Barker, Elizabeth Higgins, and his
mother Mary Hunt. Livery of seisin was made of the
premises to Blakeway in the presence of John Stamir
and John Calcott, his brothers-in-law. The purchaser
was great-great-grandfather to the compiler of these
papers. He then resided at Cronkhill, in the parish of
Atcham, where his ancestors are said to have lived as
tenants for three centuries. In consequence of a fatal
fire which consumed all his property, he wras obliged,
not many years after the date of this purchase, to retire
from Cronkhill, and, 1 suppose, to sell Oak farm.

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211

On the 8th of May, 1661, Mary Hunt of Woodcot,
widow, and liichard Waringe of Salop, gent., mortgaged
their messuage, tenement, or farm in Woodcot, now in
their own possession, to Susannah Onslow of Cruckton,
spinster, by appointment of Edward Onslow of the
same, clerk, in consideration of £300 advanced by the
said Edward.

The following letter may be of any date from 1638,
when Shrewsbury first had a mayor, to 1683, when
Mr. Waring died. But as it speaks of the deed of
partition of 1507 as 200 years old, of which at the
latest of those dates it would fall short by more than
20 years, it was most likely written towards the close
of his life, and shows that the Baylies retained a
property here after their sale of the Oak.

Mr Maior

Upon ye request of Mr Andrew Baylie I have but this counter-
part of the partition or decysion of all the mess'es &cr of
Woodcott, wc" as I take it is of at least 200 years standing, &
I believe my ancestors as well (did believe) as I do that YVm
the son of the sd John was baylitfe an0 1527 & 1534 & William
grandfather & Andrew father unto this present Andrew were
descendants heirs & possessors of this said estate.

Yor kindsman & servant

RiCHd Waringe.

In the Visitation of Shropshire belonging to the
Marquis of Buckingham is a pedigree1 of the family for
four descents, as follows. From their arms, an argent
chevron and three unicorns' heads on a green field I
suspect them to be originally of Scotland.

1 [See pedigree of Bay Hie, or Bay ley, of Shrewsbury, in the Harlcian
Society's Vis. of Shropshire, vol. i., page 37. The Arms of Bayllie
' are there given as, Vert a chevron or. between three unicorns' heads
erased argent, armed of the second j quartering I'ontesbury. — Ed.].

212 HISTORY OF SHREWSBURY LIBERTIES.

John Bayllie of Salop=j=Catharine.

!

William Bayllie of Salop=p Dorothy, d. of Wm. Pontesbury, and
[Bailiff in 1527 and 1534, sister of Richd. Pontesbury, Canon
when ho died]. of Haghmon, and Leonard Pontes-

bury, Vicar.

Richard
Bayllie.

John Bayllie of Salop, 1584=j= Anne, d. of Will. Watson of Newport.

!

! Ill

Andrew Bayllie. I suppose, the A. B.^ VVillianv=f= Alice. France

clark mentioned in the deed of 1654.

BayllH

I

John Bayllie, son of Andrew Bayllie, clark. Andrew Bayllie. =p

I

I

Andrew Bayllie, in behalf of whom Mr. Waring
writes to the Mayor.

The Waring papers preserve other notices of property
here. On the 11th of Feb. in 16 Richard II. (1392-3),
John Wodecote of Wodecote grants a plot of land there
called Symondeslonde, to Reginald Scryveyn of Salop,
who in the same year demises the same to William de
Wodecote for 20 years from the Feast of Annunciation.
In 18 Richard 11.(1394-5) John Wodecote of Monks
foriete, whither we may suppose he retired on the
alienation of his property, grants all his real property
in Shropshire to John, son of Reginald Sckri veyn afore-
said.

The lands of William Wodecote in this town came
afterwards to Thomas Pen of Wodcote, who enfeoffed
therein John Pen, junior, otherwise called Janyn Pen
of Highway, one of his sons by Johan his wife, which
John, by deed dated on the Nativity of the Virgin
1483, 1 Richard III., and witnessed by John Stury of
Roshall, Robert Onnyslowe of Onnyslowe, Nicholas
Waryng of Salop, and William Skyrmeston of Wodhall,
released his right in the same to Thomas llorton of
Wodcote.

[Blakevvay does not refer to Domesday. Horton was included in
Pontesbury at the Survey. Woodoote was a distinct manor, held by
Hubert litz Corbot of iilarl Roger. Domesday nays, — " The same

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213

Robert holds Udccote. Uluric held it (in Saxon times), and was a
free man. Here are a hide and a half geldable. In the demesne is
one ox-team ; and one villain and one boor with one team, and there
might be another team ; and there is one burgess paying 8s. rent.
In King Edward's time the manor was worth 8s. per annum ; it is
now worth 15s."

Robert fitz Corbet had two daughters and coheirs, Sibil and Alice.
Sibil was first mistress of Henry I., and afterwards wife of Herbert
fitz Herbert, in whose descendants VVoodcote continued. The family
of Horton held one hide in the manor, under the fitz Herberts. The
remaining half hide was held by a family named De Woodcote.

Helyas de Horton occurs in 1221. In 1240 William de Horton
held half a knight's fee in Horton, under Thomas Corbet of Caus, and
also had an interest in Woodcote. In 1255 William de Horton held
one geldable hide in Horton, of the Barony of Caus, and half a hide
in Wodecote under Sir Reginald fitz Peter. Nicholas, William's son,
also held half a hide in Woodcote. William de Horton and Roger
de Horton occur as Jurors at the Assizes in 1272. In 1274, Roger
de Hoi tou held a quarter of a knight's fee in Horton, under Thomas
Corbet deceased.

Alexander de Woodcote occurs in 1221. At an early date Meyler
de Woodcote gave two virgates in Woodcote to Buildwas Abbey.
William de Woodcote occurs as a Juror at the Assizes of 1272, and
Nicholas de Woodcote in 1292.

Roger Guthmund and Agnes his wife had a small freehold estate
in Horton, of which they were disseized by Thomas Corbet in 1276.

In 1327, the following inhabitants of Wodecote were assessed to
the Lay Subsidy : — Thomas son of John, William de Wodecote, Adam
son of Thomas, Nicholas son of Philip, Reginald de Shelton, Nicholas
Wilde, Philip de Walyngborne, and William de Ondeslowe.

On 20 August, 6 Henry VII. (1491) John Edwards, burgess de
pola, son and heir of Richard Kd w ards, deceased, settled lands in
Horton and Woodcote on his marriage with Mary, daughter of Richard
Port', to said Mary for her life, with remainder to the heirs of the
bodies of John and Mary.

The Pedigree of Hosier of Woodcote was entered at the Visitation
of Salop in 1623, and is given in the Harleian Society, vol. xxviii.,
pp. 261-2.

Woodcote, where there is an old farm-house, now belongs to the
W ngfields ; and Horton belongs to the families of Wingfield, and
Yardley, and a small portion to the Jenkins.

When Edward VI. founded the Shrewsbury Fiee Grammar School,
he endowed it on 10 Eeb., 1552-3, with (inter alia) the tithes arising
in Woodcot and Horton, and lately belonging to the dissolved College
of St. Chad in Shrewsbury. In 1828, the rent of the tithes of Wood-
cote and Horton, Bicton and Calcot, amounted to JC397.

Amongst tho Coiporation Muniments are preserved several Leases
of the Tithes of Woodcott. On 30 Sept., 31 Eliz. (1589) the Bailifls

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and Burgesses leased to John Bailly and Richard Waring of Shrews-
bury, gentlemen, the tithes arising from lands of Richard Waring and
John Bailey within the township fields of Woodcott, for 21 years, at
the rent of £3 Gs. 8d. ; on 30 Sept., 7 James T. (1609) to Nicholas ,
Waringe of Shrewsbury, gent, for 21 years, at the rent of £8 ; on
20 May, 1631, to Francis Beanes of Pulley, gent, for 21 years, at the
rent of £9 lis. ; on 5 March, 1652, to Richard Waringe of Woodcot,
gent., for 21 years, at the rent of £7 10s. ; and on 20 March, 1674,
to Richard Waringe of Woodcot, gent., for 21 years, at the rent of
£6 10s. They also leased on 14 Dec, 1663, to Robert Betton of
Shrewsbury, gent , the tithes of certain other lands in Woodcott,
which John Hosier and Thomas Hosier his son formerly held, for 21
years, at the rent of £5 6s. per annum.1

They also leased on 20 Jan., 1586, the tithes of a farm called the
Barn place, late belonging to Richard Onslow, Esq., and Katherine
his wife, situate in the townships of Horton and Onslow, to Richard
Warter of Great Han wood and Thomas Littleall of Longdon, for 21
years, at the rent of 16s 8d. ; on 20 March, 1606, to Edward Owen
of Shrewsbury, gent, for 21 years, at the rent of 21s. ; and on 20
March, 1627, to Robert Owen of Woodhouses, Esq., for 21 years, at
the rent ot 22s. They also leased on 30 Sept., 1589, to Thomas
Hosier, son and heir apparent of John Hosier of Woodcott, gent , the
tithes of certain other lands which the said John and Thomas Hosier
have in Woodcott and Horton, for 21 years, at the rent of £4 2s. 8d.;
on 30 Sept., 1611, to Abraham Baker of Shrewsbury, draper, for 21
years, at the rent of £7; on 15 April, 1633, to Daniel Lewys of
Shrewsbury, gent , for 21 years, at the rent of £7 2s. 6d. ; and on 2
Oct., 1676, to Sir Thomas Jones, Knt , for 21 years, at the rent of
£5 6s. They also leased on 30 Sept., 1589, to George Benyon of
Shrewsbury, the tithes of certain other lands, late of Richard Purcell,
Esq., in the township and fields of Horton, for 21 years, at the rent
of 42s. ; on 30 Sept., 1609, to Richard Maunsell of Horton, for 21
years, at the rent of 51s. ; on 20 May, 1631, to Richard Maunsell for
21 years, at the rent of 52s. 6d. ; on 5 March, 1653, to Thomas Jones
of Woodcott, Esq., for 21 years, at the rent of £3 2s. ; and on 2 Oct.,
1676, to Sir Thomas Jones, Knt., Justice KB, for 19 years, at the
rent of i'3 2s. 2

Humfrey Onslowe, of Horton, was buried at Han wood on 25
January, 1 603-4. —Ed.].

1 Shrewsbury Borough Records, No. 2588.
* Ibid, No. 2595.

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OLD SHROPSHIRE WILLS.
PART III.

The following completes the list of Shropshire Wills
up to 1500, which appear in the Registers of Somerset
House.1

1391. Fowk Fitz Waryn Kt. of Whytyngton. 2 Rous.

Will dated Tuesday after the feast of St. Lawrence, 14 Rich. II.
Mentions his Uncle Philip Fitz Waryn.

1407. John Lauton Esq. of Ludlow. 5 Marche.
Will dated Friday before feast of St. George, 1407.

1408. Fook Fitz Waryn of Whytyngton. 14 Marche.

Will dated 15 day before feast of St. George, 1407. Meutions
Ann his wife and Elizabeth Lady Botreaux.

1410. John Welle ck. Archdeacou of Salop. 15 Marche.

Will dated 29 March, 1410. He was also Vicar of Wootteu
under Edge, Dio. Wygorn.

1418. John Chelmyswyk of Quotford Esqr. 34 Marche.

Will dated 4 Ap., 1418. Mentions Wife Jane. " My Church of
St. Mary Magne of Quotford in Salop." A long interesting will.

1421. William Fitz Aeyr of Hodnet. 41 March.

Will dated Saturday p. p. fes. St. Lucas vie. 142C. To be bud in
Ch. of St. Peter and Paul of Hodnet. Mentions his wife
Pevemallna, His daus. Alicia and Margery. His brother P'sival
and his son Thomas.

1436. Maud Fitz Alan Countess of Arundel. 21 LufTnam.

Will dated 11 May, 1486. "Late wife of John Earl of Amu-
dell." Mentions her son Humphrey and her dau. Amy.

1 For Part I. seo Transactions, 1st Series, vol. v., pages 257 to 264 ;
and for Part II., see vol. vi., pages 319 to 325.

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1443. Constance Lestrange Lady of Knockvn. 25 Luffnam.

Will dated 20 March, 1443. Mentions Rich, le Strange of
Knokyn. A long will.

1447. William Fremon of Worfield. 33 Luffnam.

Will dated 9 July, 1449. Leaves money to Church of Worfield.

144(J. William Wythy ford of Shrewsbury. 15 Rous.

Will dated Saturday in Vig. Ap. Pet. et Paull 1419. He m his
wife Alice. His mother Johanna His sister Jane Stewyns
" My property in the town of Shrewsbury." " William
Wy thy ford of Bristow son and heir of Hugh Wythy ford lately
Burgess and merchant of said town "

1454. Roger Skille Sir. Clerk. 13 Stockton.
He was Rector of Worthen, Salop.

1467. Robert Sturmy of Ludlow.

Will dated 27 June, 1467. " Burgess and Merchant of Bristow.''
"To the poor freres of ye Woodehouse by ye Clee in Shroppi-
shire xxms to p'y for my soul." "John Draper hosier of
Ludlow " my wife Ellyn "my brother John Sturmy"" my
nephew Robert Sturmy son of my brother John," " To the
College of St. Mary's Guild in Ludlow."

1468. William Vernon Sir Kt. of Tong. 23 Godyn.

Will dated Sunday before Feast of St. Peter and Paul. To be
buried in Church of St. Bartholomew in Tong. Mentions his
wife Joan and his sons and daughters Henry, Richard, William,
Ranf, Elizabeth, Margaret, Benett, and Alice.

1476. Robert Gryme of Shrewsbury. 25 Wattis.

Will dated 15 August, 1473. Ho describes himself as a citizen
and grocer of London, and wishes to be buried in the " Friers
Mynours" in Shrewsbury, on the right side of his father, the
late John Gryme. He mentions his mother Margery and
his wife Katherino, his father-in-law John Trenthem, Esq., his
cousin Thomas Gryme. Also Philip Gryme.

1487. John Emory of Wonlok. 3 Mills.

Will dated Sunday before Feast of St. George, 1186. To be
buried in the Monastic Church of St. Milburge of Wenlock.
He mentions his wife Alice, his son Richard, and his daughters
Agnes and Isabel.

1487. Richard Laurence of Shrewsbury. 4 Mills.

Will dated 13 Oct., 1487. Mentions Will " of London," mentions
his won Rohert, also his brother Hugh Laurence.

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217

1487. Thomas Luyt' the elder Gent, of Salop. 4 Mills.

He mentions his wife Johan, his son Robert, and his children
Thomas and Margaret Luyter ; also his sister Margaret, wife
of Richard Slade, and their son Thomas ; also his sister Hose,
wife of Fareford, and their son William.

1488. Richard Sparchefourde of Ludlow. 13 Mills.

Will dated 28 Oct., 1488. Mercer of Ludlow. My wife Ann,
Edward my brother, John my son, Jone my daughter.

1489. Richard Morton of Oswestry. 8 Mills.
Will dated 31 July. " Of Co. Wilts."

1489. Thomas Down of Wellington. 32 Mills.

1493. Richard Water of St. Chad's, Salop. 28 Dogett.

Will dated 7 Oct., 1493, Buried in St. Chad's. Elyn my wife.
Wit' Win. Bromall, John Clou.

1493. Humphrey Salway of Shropshire. 10 Vox.

Will dated 15 March, 1493. Leaves money to Church of St.
Thomas, Hereford, and Lichfield Cathedral. Mentions his sons
Edmund, Thomas and Walter, Aun his daughter.

1493. Margaret Sempeyr of St. Chad's, Salop. 2 Vox.

To be buried in St. Chad's. Mentions her son Thomas, her
brothers Robert and Richard Laurence, her sister Margery.

1494. Nicholas Hagur of Shrewsbury. 16 Vox.

Will dated 20 March, 1486. " Citizen and Merchant of London."
Gives money to Church of St. Julian's in Salop, where he was
born. Mentions St. {Catherine's Chapel in the Church of St.
Julian's. Mentions "my brother's son John Agur;" also
Thomas Goldsmith of Salop, and my sister Katherino.

1495. Hugh Hosyer of St. Alkman's, Salop. 27 Vox.

Will dated 13 May, 1472. Mentions on William, "my wife
Margery."

1495. John Wylkes of Salop. 32 Vox.

Of Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West of London. Lea7es 6/8
to the Brotherhood of the Guild in Ludlow. My brother
Edmond and his wife. Alice my wife.

1490. George NevHl Kt. Salop. S Home.

Will dated 1 July, 1491. Lord Bergavenny. My Manor of
Worlield, co. Salop, to my Hon John, Dame Klizabcth my wifo.

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OLD SHROPSHIRE WILLS.

Leaves 200 marcs to Monastry of Lewes, George ray son and
heir, my sons John, William, Edward, Thomas, and Richard
Nevill.

1496. Thomas Corbett of Salop. 32 Vox.

Will dated 8 Nov., 1494. " Of City of London." Leaves money
to Priory of Wombryg in Co. Salop. Mentions his daughter

1498. Joan Lute Dame of Shrewsbury.
V. her husband's Will 1487.

1499. William Moyne of Shrewsbury. 4 Morne.

Will dated 26 Sept., 1499. Burgess and Mercer of Salop. To
be buried at St. Alkman's, in the new Chapel. Mentions his
wife.

1499. John Lane of Ludlow. 7 Morne.

Will dated 9 Feb., 1499. To be buried in Chapel of St. John
the Evangelist in Church of St. Laurence. My wife Johan,
my son Richard and Alice his wife, my son Edward, my dau.
Alionore, my son William Lane of Bristow, merchant, William
Adams of Cleeton, in parish of Bitterley, William Morton.

219

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]\y the Hon. Mus. liULKELEY-OWKN.

Concluded from page 72.

THE CURATES.

1577. John Trevor, Executor to Robert ap Howell,
Rector, was probably a Curate.

1580. William Edwards " Curate of Silatton."1
1586 — 1637.

Gierke, Curat, and writer of the Parish Register. The
first mention we have of Maurice Williams is " January
158G, under the said Sir2 Richard Price parson there,
by me Maurice Williams, Clerk, Curat there."

This is his signature to the Parish Register, which
was evidently transcribed by him upon vellum from the
original, which was probably written upon paper.
During the whole of Maurice Williams's lifetime the
Register is written in the same beautiful, clear Eliza-
bethan handwriting. Four other entries testify to
Maurice Williams being its scribe.

1 Montioncd in Will of Thomas Lewis of Oswestry, 1580.

2 It will bo remembered that it was usr.al for clergy, both Rectors
and Curates, to be styled "Sir" in the days of Qn,eou Klixaboth (vide
Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor," etc.), the prefix Reverend
being of later date.

Tho Parish Priest was alone the " Parson" or " Persona," that title
as applied to nnbenelieed clergy in these days being ineorreet.
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220 SELATTVN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

" February 1588. Under me Thomas Torporley, Clerk,
Maister Arte p'son there and the said Maurice Williams clerke
and writer there."

July, 1600. (Signed) " Maurice Williams, Curat.

John ap John ap Josij," etc.

March, 1609. "Maurice Williams, Curat."

John ap J ohn | Wardens
George Eavens j L

June 16th, 1610, we find " James Wilding Clerk"
taking possession as parson, and below, " The said
Maurice Williams, Clerk, Curat thereof."

His wife was named Anne Elis, but her place of
marriage is not given in the Register. It records the
births and deaths of : —

June, 1589. Joane, the daughter of Maurice ' Williams, clerke,

was christened the ixth daye of the saide monthe.
April, 1591. John the son of Maurice Williams clerk was

christened the xxviijth daye.
March, 1592. John the son of William Maurice (sic) clerk

was buried the xvth daye.
December, 1592. Elizabeth the daughter of Maurice Williams

clerke was christened the last daye being Sunday.
February, 1613. Anne, the daughter of Elis, wife of Maurice

Williams curat, buried the xxviiith daye.
May, 1675. Anne the daughter of Mr. Maurice Williams

sometime curat of this parish was buried the viijth da}r.

The entry of Maurice Williams' death is peculiarly
touching : — " Morrice Williams Clerk, who had served
the cure under six parsons the space of 51 yeare and
above was buried this xiiith daye of Marche 1637."

He had seen his first Rector, Sir Richard Price,
taken to prison, and thrust out at the point of death ;
" he died at Southwerke in London at his coming from
prison." He had witnessed the deprivation of the
next Rector, Thomas Torporley, " by the queen " fur
what offence we know not, when William Horton, Vicar
of Oswestry, took charge of Silatton parish. In these
stormy times the work of the parish must have fallen
entirely upon Maurice Williams, and we of the nine-
teenth century honour his memory and owe him a debt

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 221

of gratitude for the faithful manner in which he kept
the records of our ancestors, helping to verify and in
some cases supply names in our pedigrees. Dying
in 1637 he was taken from the evil to come — the
persecutions of the Church of England under the Pro-
tectorate, and his own Hector, James Wilding, false to
her ordinances and her teaching.

We have no record of any curate between 1637 and
1G80. Thomas Wilding may have acted in that capacity
to his father.

1680—1686.

son of J. Trevor of Llawell,1 Salop, pleb. Pembroke
College, Oxford, matric. 26 March, 1669, aged 19.
B.A. 4 Feb., 1672-3.2 Curate Llandrinio, 1674-1680. 3
Rector of Llanwyddelan, co. Montgomery, 1687-1734. 4
P.C. Llanllugan, 1688.

Three of John Trevor's children were baptized at
Selattyn.

October, 1681. Thomas, son of John Trevor by Anne his wife

was baptized the iii.d. day.
May, 1682. Edward, son of John Trevor, cler : was interred the

xixth day.

May, 16(S2. Thomas the son of John Trevor, cler : was interred
the XXVth day.

September, 1683. Anno daughter of John Trovor, cler: by

Anno liis wife was baptized ye vith day.
December, 1685. Mary daughter of John Trevor by Anne his

wife was christened the xUl day.

He signs Selattyn Register twice : August 21, 1684,
and June 24, 1686, as " John Trevor. Curat."

1 I cannot identify thin place. Qy. Daywell

2 Foster'H Alum. Oxon.

a Mint. Llaiidrini.), p. 202,

* U'm. S. AHa|>h, p. 338.

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He was preferred to Llanwyddelan in 1G87, where
he is stated to have " built the Old Rectory."1

The Llanwyddelan Register gives the following
entries : —

Prudentia lilia Joha'nis Trevor Clerici sepulta fuit 19 Die
Marchij 1691.

Bridget filia Joha'nis Trevor Clerici et Anne uxoris eius bapti-

zata septirao Die Marchij 1G92.
Anne Trevor buried 21st May 1097.

John Trevor the late Rector of Llanwyddelan was buried the

9th day of May 173L
Mrs. Gaynor Trevor of Newtown, but late of this Parish, was

buried January 31, 1739.

I do not find any other Curate's signature until
1692-95.

signs the Register in April, 1692, and in April, 1693.

April, 1G93. Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard Jones, Clerk
by Mary his wife was baptized the 1st day.

July, 1695. Edward ye son of Richard Jones Clerke by Mary
his wife was born xxixth of June and baptized the vith
of July.

1710. Edward Thomas. C. Hp's Visitation Book, e.g. Henricum
Sachevcrell S.T.P. R'rem ibm oxcusat'

Edwardum Thomas, Cur. ibm
Thomas Edwards ) q
Carolus Edwards J
1713. Thomas Hanmer, Cler. Curat' ibm et exhib' L'ras pres-
byteratus ut in anno 1710.

Culiclmu' Dacre Cler. Roctorem ibm.
Moseum Edwards "j q ^m
Richardum Smallman j

lie was Curate of S. Martins in 1810 ; Rector of
Sdattyn L7 19-49.

1 Hist. St. Asaph, p. 338.

2 It iw impossible to identify him.

SKLATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. '223

1713. Lewis Lewis. He signs the Register on 13
January of that year. In Bisliop's Visitation Book his
name is scratched through in 17 1G, Rector Bodfari,
Co Flint, 1726-1728; Rector Bettws-Gwervyl-Goch,
Co. Merioneth, 1728-55.

1731. Charles Williams, son of William Williams of
Newtown, Co. Montgomery, pleb. , Jesus College,
Oxon., matric. 17 March, 1726, aged 20.1 " Carolus
Williams, Cwrat. ibm. (Syllatin) " 1731." (Visitation
Book). Rector Llanarmon-DyfFryn-Ceiriog, Co. Den-
bigh, 1739-41.

The baptisms of his two sons are in Selattyn Register.

Thomas, the son of Mr. Cha. Williams, Cur1, by Sarah his wife

was baptized 21. Nov. 1735.
Charles, the son of Mr. Cha, Williams Cur1 by Sarah his wife

baptized 7 June, 1737.

He was buried 19 January, 1741, at Llanarmon.
William Williams, his father, was also buried there 30
January, 1741. 2

1 740. David Davies of Jesus College, Oxford, licensed
to Curacy of Selattyn, 30 August.3 1742, " Appointed
and exhibited as Usher of Oswestry School." — Visitation
Book.

1745 (?).

^ru^ dut&n-

Born at Llanfair Mathavarn Eithav, Co. Anglesey,
1 January, 1722.1 Admitted servitor Jesus Col-
lege, Oxon., 3 June, 1742, aged 19.2 Deacon, 1745.
Priest, 9 August, 1747. Curate of Oswestry, 8 August,
1747. 3 Curate, Uppington, September 174b1. ('urate,
Walton, Co. Lancaster, 17531. Curate, Northolt, Co.

1 Foster's Alumni.

2 BctUvp Oacdpwcn Register.

3 S. Avnph Kee.

Mr

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224 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

Middlesex, 1755. 1 Rector St. Andrews, Brunswick,
County Virginia, 1764-67.1

We are not able to state positively that the above
eminent Bard, Goronwy Ddu o Fon was a Curate of
Selattyn. His ordination as Deacon does not occur in
the Registers of Bangor, St. Asaph, or Oxford, nor his
license to any Curacy before that of Oswestry in 1747.

The Rev. Robt. Jones, Vicar of All Saints, Bother-
hithe, wrote his life in 1876, and says that he was
Curate of Selattyn. This statement was probably
founded upon a letter from Goronwy which tells us
that " Yn y flwyddyn 1745 e'm hurddwydd Ddiacon "
and that "Yno y cefais banes Curadiaeth yn ymyl
Croes Oswallt yn Sir y Mwythig ac yno y cyfeiriais."

There is no doubt that Goronwy and his first wife
were married at Selattyn, a fortnight after he became
Curate of Oswestry, so Selattyn has a better right
to claim the Bard than any other parish " yn ymyl
Croes Oswallt." "

He was the son of an Anglesea peasant, and his
" Early training was due to the fostering care of his
mother," Sian Parry, " she it was who taught, him the
pure use of his native tongue and sowed in the genial
soil of his young mind the seeds which in after years
produced such a rich harvest." He first attended the
village school of Llan Allgo, some two miles north
of Llanfair. His father Owain used to beat him for
going to school, but his mother managed to send him to
the Free Grammar School at Bangor, where he remained
from 1737-41. During his school life his mother died;
in after years he pays a loving tribute to her memory.

Goronwy received his first instruction in the art of
poetry from the three gifted brothers, Lewis, Richard,

1 Poetical Works and Life of Goronwy Owen by Rev. Robt. Jones,
Vicar of All Saints, Rotherhithe, 1876. The quotations below are
taken from this book.

2 Fosters' Alumni

3 S. Asaph Records.

4 Ibid.

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225

and William Morris of Pentref Eiriannell, his visits to
them daring his hoyhood on Saturday afternoons were
very frequent, and he speaks of Lewis Morris as u my
dear poetry tutor."

Goronwy has been called "the premier poet of Wales. ;'
Perhaps we are not justified in rendering him that title,
when we remember that it was Aneurin whom a grate-
ful country called Mychderyn Beirdd.1 It is, however,
impossible to judge between the poets of the sixth and
eighteenth centuries, or of all. the sons of song that
have lived between. Any way, Goronwy was the most
gifted bard of his time, and " Dr. Porteous, Bishop of
London, spoke of him as the most finished writer of
Latin since the days of the Roman Emperors."

At the age of 15 he became assistant teacher at
Pwllheli Grammar School, and from thence was helped
to go to Oxford by Mr. Edward Wynne of Bodewryd,
Co. Anglesey. He left the University without taking
his degree.

On his ordination as deacon he was appointed Curate
to his native parish, but was displaced at the end of
three weeks to make way " for a young man of great
fortune." From thence, we may suppose, he came to
Selattyn, adding to his clerical duties some work at the
Oswestry Grammar School.

His first marriage took place at Selattyn : — 11 The
Bevd Gronow Owen and Mrs. Elen Hughes both of
Oswaldestree were married 21 Au<* 1747." She was
the daughter of Owen Hughes, Ironmonger and Alder-
man of Oswestry. He was very poor, and her family
were rich, but he tells us in a letter written to Lewis
Morris about 1750, " T have never been the better for
them." He left Oswestry for Donnington in J748,
where he became master of a small Endowed School,
and where his eldest son llobert was born 1 Jan., 1749,
and his second son Goronwy in 1750.

Monarch pfitho Kurds.

226 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

He was also Curate of Uppington, the Rector of
which, the Rev. John Douglas, "treated him with a
hardness almost amounting to cruelty." This curacy,
together with Donnington School, only produced j£2G a
year. " What is that," says he in the same letter, "to
keep a wife and two boys, especially in England, where
everything is so dear." He beseeches Lewis Morris,
" Pray look out for a situation for me in Wales." The
Church in North Wales was at that time ruled by
Bishops who were Englishmen or Scotchmen, to whom
the merits of a native poet would not appeal, and pre-
ferment was therefore denied him there.

At Donnington, he became proficient in Hebrew and
Chaldee, and was anxious to procure Arabic and Syriac
Grammars that he might learn those languages also.
Here he wrote " Cywydd y Farn Fawr," one of the
grandest poems in the Welsh language, " Cywydd
Coffadwriaeth/' an ode in memory of Marged the
mother of Lewis Morris, who died in 1752, and
" Cywydd y Gem."

On S. David's Day, 1753, a Welsh ode translated
by him from the Latin of Christopher Smart, was pre-
sented to the Prince of Wales, afterwards George III.

In a letter from Donnington, 15 January, 1753, he
records that the smallpox was then a scourge there and
at Holyhead, and in another dated 12 February, he
states that there had been one of the heaviest falls of
snow ever known in Wales.

On 29 April, 1753 (Low Sunday), he became Curate
at Walton (formerly the Parish Church of Liverpool),
to Mr Brooke, at a salary of £35.

In 1754, Goronwy became a Freemason, because "he
deemed the order an offspring of Druidism," and that
year his eldest son Robert was sent to Anglesey to
learn Welsh.

Goronwy was deeply attached to his children, and the
loss of his little girl Elin, nearly broke his heart. She
died of ague at Walton, aged 17 months, in April,
1755, and then he wrote the touching " Marwnad Elin

SKTiATTYN" : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 227

unig Ferch y Bardd." Several poems were written at
Walton, too long to notice here, and many letters to
Richard and William Morris.

The Cymmrodorion Society, probably, through their
president and founder Richard Morris, made Goronwy
tempting offers. They hoped to rent a Church or some
public building in London, where they might hold
Welsh services, and would appoint Goronwy as their
chaplain. So he journeyed there in May, 1755 ; he tells
us he was (i located in a garret in Bread Street Hill,"
and found Lewis Morris (Llywelyn Ddu) and Richard
Morris of the Navy OHice, in London. Alas, the
establishment of the Welsh Church seemed then im-
practicable, it came to nothing ; but Dr. Nicolls,
Master of the Temple, appointed Goronwy Curate of
the Parish of Northolt, near Harrow, with a salary of
£50 a year.

At Northolt our Poet wrote his Latin Ode with a
Welsh translation upon the birth of Lord Ludlow,
eldest son of the Earl of Powis. This poem was pre-
sented to the Earl by Lewis Morris, who " besought
anew his patronage for the author."

In May, 1755, Goronwy was appointed Secretary to
the Cymmrodorion, the meetings of which were held
at that time at the Half Moon Tavern, in Cheapside.
He held that post for two years. In June and August
of 1757, a correspondence took place between Goronwy
and Richard Morris, concerning the publication of the
works of the former, and on 2 November, he presented
an address to the Society, asking for money to take,
him and his family to Ameiica. Some of the members
contributed privately, and the Government granted
£20 towards his passage money, dated " 4 November,
1757, by virtue of his Majesty's Letters Patent."

Goronwy set sail in "The Trial," and writes from
Spithead to Richard Morris, December, 1757, saying he
was acting as doctor to the sick on board. His first
wife El in and her youngest babe died during the voyage.

He was appointed Master of the William and Mary

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SELATTYN I A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

College1 at Williamsburg in Virginia, of which the
Bishop of London was Chancellor, at a salary of £200 a
year. Whilst there he married secondly, Mrs. Clayton,
a sister of the Rev. Thomas Dawson, President of the
College in 1759. She was a widow with five or six
children, whom he had to support. She died within a
year.

In 1760 Goronwy was dismissed from the College on
account of his intemperate habits (a very common fail-
ing in his day) ; he succeeded, however, in getting the
Incumbency of St. Andrews, in the County of Bruns-
wick. His second son Goronwy died soon after this
appointment.

In a letter of 23 July, 1767, to Richard Morris, he
mentions that he is married to a third wife, by whom
he has three children ; he also speaks of the news of
the death of his brother Owen at Oswestry. With this
letter he sends M Marwnad Lewis Morys," an ode upon
the death of that eminent antiquary, which occurred
11 April, 1765. Sir Lewis Morris, his great-grandson,
wrote a beautiful elegy2 in memory of Goronwy Owen,
who died in America in 1769. A tablet was erected to
his memory in Bangor Cathedral in 1831. It bears a 1
Latin inscription, below which are englynion written by
the Rev. Daniel Evans, B.D., Fellow of Jesus College,
Oxon (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion).

The following description of Goronwy's personal ap-
pearance is thoroughly Celtic : — 14 His frame was short
and slender, but firm and wiry, supple too and lithesome
as an ashplant. He could leap an extraordinary distance,
or walk 50 miles at a stretch. He was of dark com-
plexion, his hair and beard were quite black, the latter
even when close shaven, peering out from his lips and
chin. The eye, however, was his most remarkable
feature, its dark hue burst into light and fire under the
influence of emotion."

1 This Collcgo was founded 1692.

2 Pub. in Cymmrodorion Society's Tra?is. vol. i.,, 1877.

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 229

He wrote a beautiful clear hand. Unfortunately
there is no trace of it in the Registers of Selattyn or
of Oswestry.

1747. Humphrey Humphreys of S. John's College,
Oxon. Deacon, 8 July, 1745. Priest, 21 December,
174G.1 " He served here [Selattyn] about two years,
but is not licensed. His salary is 20 guineas."1 His
death is in the Register : " Mr. Humphrey Humphreys
Curate, died of ye Smal Pox buried 30th April 1749."
1749.

son of John Morris of Os-
westry, co. Salop, pleb.,
matric, Christ . Church,
Oxon., 28 March, 1745 ;
aged 18 ; B.A., 174 8. 2 He was licensed to the Curacy
of Selattyn 14 Aug. 1749 (license exhibited as school-
master 1749. (Visitation Book). Master of Oswestry
Grammar School, 1763-66. He was previously second
master there.
1751—1763.

son of • Morris of Llansilin, co. Denbigh, pleb.,

Jesus College, Oxon., matric. 1 June, 1731, aged 20;
B.A., 1736 ;3 P. Curate Holt, co. Denbigh, 1763-1779.

His father, the owner of Pontymeibion in Llansilin,
was nephew of lluw Morris (Eos Ceiriog) the Loyalist
Poet, of whom we have spoken in Chapter II. He was
born two years after the Poet's death. He signs the
Register as Curate of Selattyn in December, 1751.
The Records at St. Asaph tell us that in 1753 he had
already served as Cumte in the Diocese for seventeen
years, and that he lived in Selattyn Parsonage House,

1 Records St. Asaph.

2 Foster's Alumni

3 Ibid.

230 iSELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

and had an allowance of £30 a year. The Rector,
William Roberts " had a dispensation " to live at
^Yhittington, which living he also held.

1766.

son of Samuel Reynolds of Llanwnog, co. Mont-
gomery ; pleb. ; Jesus College, Oxon. ; matric. 26
October, 1753 ; aged, 10; B.A., 1757. 1 Master of
Oswestry Grammar School 1766-1772, He was buried
in Llanrhaiadr Church, 177 2. 2

He had a son of the same name who matric. Jesus
College, Oxon., 1 June, 1786 ; aged 17 ; B.A., 1791 ;
M.A. from Jesus College, Cambridge, and of Aber, co.
Carnarvon, 1819-29; Rector of Clocaenog, co. Denbigh,
1807-29.

1772. John Jeffreys, Curate of Melverley 1788.

1773. Thomas Edwards. His history has been
written in Chap. V. (Mount Sion).

He was Rector of Llanwrin 1774. u Tho. Edwards
Clerk Rector appd and exhibd L'res D. and P. Orders,
Collation &c. to Llanwryn."3 Rector Llanfechain 1776-
1800.

1777.

1785—1816.

bap. at Dolgellau 1749 ;
matric. Jesus Coll., Oxon, 3
April, 1770, aged 20 ; B.A.
1774; M.A.; Rector of Llan-

gyniew 1794—1826.

1 Foster's Alumni.

2 // tst. til. Asaph, [). 660.

3 ViUt. Rook, St. Atapli.

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 231

He was the fourth and youngest son of Robert Owen
of Tygwyn1 (who was bap. at Dolgellau 1701, and
buried there 1767), by Ellen, daughter of Ellis Wynn.
He was fifth in descent from Simon Owen of HafodowyH,
sixth son of Lewis Owen of Phis yn dre in Dolgellau,
Vice-Chamberlain and Baron of the Excheouer of North
Wales, who was murdered by banditti near Dinas
Mawddwy, October, 1555.

Selattyn "Register tells us that " the Rev. Owen
Owen, M.A., entered upon the Curacy of this parish
January 9th, 1785," and the St. Asaph Records say
that in " 1809 "he "resides in Oswestry in his own
house." He died at Bodowen, aged 76, in 1826, and
was buried at Dolgellau.

(Arms: Az. a chevron arg. t inter 3 cocks of the same).

1840. William Rice Stuart Williams, Jesus Coll.,-
Oxon; B. A. 1844; M.A. 1851 ; Deacon 1846; Priest
1847 ; Curate in charge of Esher 1863-70 ; Curate
Thames Ditton 1 871-80; Vicar Crawley Down, Sussex;
author of u The world overcome by faith," " Readiness
to die," "The Communion of Saints." He was nephew
of the late Canon Robert Williams, Vicar of Llan-
gadwaladr and Rhydycroesau, author of Eminent Welsh-
men., Lexicon Co niu- B r'ttetnnicum, &c.

1847. Albany Rossendale Lloyd, son of Charles A.
A. Lloyd. See Rector, 1846.

1840-51. Lewis Thomas Lewis, B.D. Lampeter; Deacon
184G; Priest 1847; Curate Aberystwyth 1846-9; Curate
LlansantftVaid-Glyn-Ceiriog 1851-60 ; Curate Llanbedr
D. C. 1860-71 ; Rector Nantglyn 1871.

1852-58. Thomas Zephaniah Davies, M.A. Jesus
Coll., Oxon ; scholar 4th Class Litt. Hum. 1843; Curate
successively of LlandderFel, Llansantffraid-Glyn-C^iriog,
Chirk ; Rector Llandduias 1858-65 ; Vicar Whitford
1865.1896 ; R. D. Holywell 1868. Chairman of Board

1 Tygwyn is now called Abergwynunt. It was sold by the Rev,
William Wynn Owen, Iveclor of Uiuiyinuwddwy, the lust of the
family, in 1833, to Sir Henry Bunbury.

232 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

of Guardians and Manager of Intermediate Schools,
Holywell; d. 8 Dec, 1896.

1858. John Edward Colvile Husband, son of John
Husband, Rector, 1853.

1859-64. David Richard Thomas, F.S.A.; ed. Ruthin;
M.A, Jesus Coll., Oxon ; Scholar 1852-9; 2nd Class
Mod. 1855; first Goldsmith Exhib., 3rd Class and B.A.
1856; Deacon 1857; Priest 1858 ; Curate Rhuddlan
and St. Asaph 1857-9 ; Rector St. Marys Cefn, 1864 ;
Vicar Meifod 1877; Rector Llandrinio 1892; Proctor
for the Clergy in Convocation 1880-86 ; Canon Galf. of
Ruthin, in St. Asaph Cath. 1881 ; and Canon Residen-
tiary 1886; Archdeacon of Montgomery. Author of Hist.
Dio. St. Asaph; Ffyrdd yn Nghrist; lien Eylwys ein
Tadau, &c. ; editor of the Arcliceo. Cambrensis. He
married in 1865, Louisa Maria, daughter of William
Goodenough Bayly, D.C.L., and Master of Midhurst
School, P.C. Midhurst and Rural Dean, and has two
sons and two daughters, the eldest of whom, Herbert
Ivor Thomas, is British Vice-Consul at C. Porflrio Diaz,
Coahuila, Mexico.

lb 64-69. Thomas Evans Jones, Trin. Coll., Dublin ;
B.A., 1860; M.A., 1866; Deacon, 1861; Priest, 1862;
Curate Brymbo, 1861-64; Curate Northop, 1869-73 ;
Vicar Trofarth, County Denbigh, 1873-1885 ; he died
1885.

1869-75. William Joseph Williams, S.D.C.,
Lampeter ; Curate Llandnllo-in-Rhos, 1876-1880 ;
Rector of Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, 1880.

1875-6. George Howell Davies, Vicar of Llanllugan,
1876-85 ; Rector, Newmarket, Flintshire, 1885.

1876. David Evans, B.A., Jesus Coll., Oxford.

1877-80. Hugh Jones, ed. S. Aidan's, Birkenhead;
Rector Melverley, Co. Salop, 1881. He changed his
name to Holland Howard.

1880-84. Thomas Perfect Bell, ed. St. Bees ; Vicar of
Wnsdale Head, Dioc. Carlisle, 1887.

1884-85. Walter Henry Alfred Walters, R.A.,
S.D.C., son of Thomas Walters, D.D., Vicar of Lla-n-

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samlet, and Prebendary of St. David's Cathedral;
Curate St. Paul's Beckenham, 1885- 9; Rector Rud-
baxton, S. D., 1889-93; Rector Trefgarn and Vicar
Spittal, Dio. St. David's, 1893. He married a
daughter of James Rogers, Rector, 1869.

1886-88. William Jones, ed. St. Aidans, Birkenhead ;
Rector of Pontfadog, County Denbigh, 1888 ; Rector
of Brynford, County Flint, 1897.

1889-90. Phillip Edwards, ed. Queens Coll., Bir-
mingham ; Deacon, Curate St. Paul's, South vvark.

THE PARISH CLERKS.

1()G8. Francis Davies, Gierke of this Parish, buried 23 August.1
1704. Poor Robin, the Clerk of Selattyn, gave up the ghost

on Sunday, and was buried on Tuesday, November 14,

in the year of God, 1704.
1728. Sarah Jones, the Clark's wife, buried 3 April.
1737. Thomas Jones, who had been Clerk to this Parish 33

years, was buried 1 September.
1737. April 6, being the day that I. John Ellis was chosen

Clerk.

1747. John Ellis, late Clerk, well qualified for his office in
every respect. Keeping his register during his long
indisposition, and at last, great weakness must have
omitted here some names.

1747. John Ellis, Clerk, buried 20 December.

17G9. Thomas Conway, Clerk of ye Parish, being well re-
spected for his honesty, and his death being much
lamented by most who know him. Died April 4,
buried 7, aged 56.

1771. Thomas Ellis, Clerk, nominated Sunday, 23 June, 1771,
in the time of divine service.

1777. Charles Conway, Parish Clerk, buried 28 June, 1785.

1792. Job, son of Edd. and Anne Lewis, Selattyn, Clerk, bap.
July.

1838. Thomas Nicholas, Schoolmaster and Parish Clerk.

The payment of the Clerk in 1737 was £6 6s Od a
year.

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CHAPTER VII.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTER1 AND PARISH
BOOKS, Etc.

A true & perfect the ffirst Register of all and several 1
christenings, weddings, and burials [ ] in the

ph of Sillatin in the month of March in Anno D;m 1557 first
under Rob1 ap Howell clerk pson there

April! 1557.

1557. The first entry is the burial of David ap Howell the last
daye of Aprilf.

1557. The first Christening is Alis verch Gryftyth 24 rnaye.

1559. And the first marriage is Jen'y ap David Wen' and Jane
verch Jen'y 30 April!.

1560. Thomas ap Jen'y ap David We'n chris. 29 August
gossipps Thomas ap Rhys, Thomas ap Eignion and
Gwenbwyfar v. David.

1559. Ales Wenne widow bur 25 May 1559.

1561. Thomas ap David We'n and Elen v. John ap Meredith,
botli of the Parish of Oswestrie were mar Feb 17.

1559. Gwenhwyvar v. David ap Willi'm, bur. 15 Dec.
1561. Willi'm ap David ap Willi'm of Sl Martyns chris 17
Feb.2

1559. Robert ap Owen Gyttyn bur. 16 June.

1 560. Margett v. do. chris. 22 Oct. gossipps, Thomas ap Rhys,
Margett v. Thomas Hanmer and Agnes v. John ap
Robert.

1559. Edward ap John Vychan, bur. 30 Sep.

1559. David ap Edward ap John Vychan3 bur. 27 Sep.
1563. Roger ap Richard ap John Vychan chris 16 Decr.

gossipps Roger ap Howell, John Lewis, and Elinor
Hanmer.

1560. Anne v. David ap Rhys was chris 21 Sep. gossipps.

Robert ap Grufnth ap Eignion, Anne v. and

Gwenllian v. David.

1560. John ap Thomas ap David ap Rinald was chris 20
Octr. gossipps. John ap Roger Trevor, David ap John
ap Richard, and Margett v. John Wynne.

1 Names given in pedigrees are not repeated here.

2 See Chap. IV., " David ap Willi'm."

3 " John Vaughan's name • occurs amongst the Burgesses of
Oswestry, 138 lien. VIII.

SELATTYN 3 A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 235

1560. Moris ap Thomas ap Hughe was chris. I Octr. gossipps.
Moris ap Ieuan, Meredith ap Etld. and Margett v. John
Wynne ap Meredith.

1560. Thomas ap Griffith ap Rys of St. Martyns was chris 21
Dec. gossips. Thomas ap Llew", Rhydderch ap Eignion
He was bur. the same daye.

1561. Margett v. John was chris. 27 Nov. gossipps Thomas
ap Uys, Margett v. Thomas Hanmer and Ales v. Richard.

15G4. Hughe ap Thomas ap Hughe of Llangollen p'she chris
1 Sep. gossipps. Hughe Wynne, Rhydderch ap Eignion
and Ales v- Meredyth.

1562. David ap Eignion bur. 12 Jany.

1582. Blanche v. Rhydderch ap Eignion was chris 3 March.
1580. Arthur son of Rhydderch ap Eignion was chris 21

Maye. bur. 9 July 1602.
1597. Elen v. Ieuan, wife of Rhydderch ap Eignion bur.6 Feb.
1591. Rhydderch ap Eignion bur. 1. May.
1585. William ap Morris ap Eignion. bur 2. June..
1597. Maurice ap Eignion bur at Oswestrie 4 Jany.
1568. Grulhth ap [ servaut to Gwenhwyvar v. David

was bur. 30 Jany.

We do not find any record of the death of Gwenhwyvar
v. David in the llegister. She was probably related to
the Lakens of Porkington and to John Wyn ap
Meredith. Her name appears as godmother to a child
of the latter in 15 60. 2

The following deed3 of her father's dated 1522 is
very interesting. It tells us that the Township of
Porkington was at that time styled Brogyntyn, and
that David Lloyd ap John Edwards of Chirk was
Seneschal of Whittington Castle.

Sciant Presentes et Futuri quod ego David ap John ap
Ieuan Vilhe de Brogyntyn infra dominium do Whyttynton
libero tenens Dedi concessi et hac presenti carta mea
eonh'rmavi Gwenhover verch David h'lire raeffi omnia et singula
ilia mea inesuagia terras et tenementa horrea gardina tofta
edificia prata pascua pasturas bosca subosca vasta et communia

1 No name given.

2 See Chap. IV. Ped. Edward* of Plus Newydd

3 Brogyntyn MSS.

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236 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

redditus reversiones servicia ac cetera hereditamenta mea
qmecunque cum eorum juribus et pertinentibus universis
scituata jacentia et existentia infra Villam seu dominium
praedrctum Habendum et Tenendum omnia et singula ilia
supradieta mesuagia terras et tenementa horrea gardina tofta
edificia prata pascua pasturas bosca subosca vasta et
communia redditus reversiones et servicia ac cetera alia i
praemissa superius expressa et declarata per quelibet inde
parcella cum eorum juribus comoditatibus libertatibus
aisamentis et pertinentibus universis quibuscunque praefatae
Gwenhover et heredibus suis imperpetuum de capitali domino
feodi illius per redditum et servicium inde prius debitum et
do jure consuetudinis et ego vero praefatus Davidus et heredes
mei omnia et singula ilia supradieta mesuagia terras tenementa
borrea gardina tofta edificia prata pascua pasturas bosca
subosca vasta et communia redditus reversiones et servicia
ac cetera hereditamenta mea ac alia praemissa superius *
expressa et declarata et quelibet inde parcella cum eorum
juribus commoditatibus libertatibus aisamentis et pertinentibus
universis quibuscunque praefatae Gwenhover et heredibus
suis contra omnes gentes Warrantizabimus ac modo et forma
supradieta inperpetuum deffendemus In cuius rei [testim]-
onium buic p[raesen]ti cartae meae sigillum meum apposui.
Datum primo die octobris anno regis henrici octavi decimo
quarto hiis testibus David lloyd ap John Edward tunc
senescallo, ibidem, Thomas Lacke, GrufTudd ap E[ — ] Holl ap
Yollen, Tyrstan Lack et aliis multis.

1568. John Trevor1 gent, and Ales v. Richard were mar. Nov.
10.

1572. Elizabeth v. John Trevor was chris, 2 April. Gossipps,

David ap Rhys, F lizth v. Roger Kinaston and Mary . . .
1574. David ap John Trevor chris. at Oswestrie the 8th day

Feb. and born the 2nd day.
1591. Robert the son of John ap Richard Trevor of the Par.

of Whittentoune chris. 18 April.
1602. Elin. d. of Edward Trevor of Whittentoune Par. by

Jane his wife chris. 17 Feb.
1605. Blanche Trevor widow bur. the 28 Feb.

FtHN lit fbtVilk'YUilt I
— ;

1 John Trevor was Bailiff of Oswestry 17 Dec, 8 Elizabeth (1565),
10 January, 21 Eliz. (1578), 24 Oct., 1593. " John Trevore Gent, of J
Wliittington, bur. 1 January, 160G." (Whittington Register).

SELA.TTVN : A lllSTORY OF THE PARISH, 237

1Her will states she was Blanche Trevor of Porking-
ton, and she had a son David ap Hugh, daughters
Gwenhwyfar and Ales, a son-in-law Robert ap Reinallt
of Porkington, who had two daughters, Anne and
Katherine. She also mentions Maurice Williams, Clercke,
Curate of Silatyn.

1615. Thomas ap Edward Trevor of Whittentonne by
Katherine his wife chris. 21 April.

1616. Edward, son of do. chris. 23 Feb.
1624 Anne d. of do. chris. 80 April!.
1626. Elizabeth d. of do. chris. 21 Oct.

1629. Sarah d. of do. chris. 25 July, bur. 28 June, 1655.
1619. Thomas son of Edward ap Robert of 8. Marty ns by

Katherine Trevor his wife chris. 17 Nov.
1657. Elizabeth Trevor widow was bur. 19 Feb.

1662. John son of Kichard Trevor of the par. of Whittington
by Katherine his wife chris. 29 May, bur. 11th June.

1663. John son of do. chris. 26 June.

1663. Richard Trevor of Whittington bur. 20 January.

1681. Catherine wife of John Trevor bur. 4 March.

1682. Catherine d. of Edward Trevor by Rose his wife bap.
9 Sep.

1684. John, son of do., bap. 15 February, buried 16.

1715. Rose, the wife of Edward Trevor, buried 10 January.

1726. Elizabeth Trevor, buried 26 January.

This family of Trevor were descended from Roger
brother of " Edward ap John Trevor Constabularis de
Whyttynton," 15 July, II. Hen. VIII. (1519), who
died 1 537. 2 Richard,3 the son of Roger Trevor of ty
Newydd,4 Whittington, had two sons, John of Ty
Newydd and Edward.

1 S. Asapli Registry. Blanche Trevor would be her maiden name.
Sho was, probably, the daughter of John Trevor of Tynewydd, Whit-
tington, and sister to Edward Trevor.

2 Edward Trevor, Constable of Whit., is the ancestor of the
Trevors of Brynkinalt.

* Richard Trevor of Newe Marton [Whittington], was "sworn
burgesses for himself and his children " at Oswestry, 8 and 9 June,
1582.

1 Powis t'adog, Vol. iv.. Harl. MS, 4181.

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1. John had a son also called Edward, who mar.
Catherine d. of Edward ap Reignallt of Waun Isaf,
their children were baptized 1 G 1 5-29, at Selattyn.

2. Edward the second son mar. Jane d. of John
Judgeson of Wem, and had a daughter Elin, chris.
1602.

1561. Gwenhwyvar v. Hughe ap Meredith chris. 26 Oct.

Gossipps Hugh ap Robert and Gwenhwyvar lloid.
1503. David ap John ap Meredith ap Edward of St. Martyns

chris. 8 November. Gossipps, David ap Edward and

Elnor Haniner.
1584. David ap Meredith was buried August 28.

His will1 mentions . —

" Wieft" Margaret v. Nicholas. Eldest son, John ap David
to whom he leaves land in Tir Hewkyn — Nieces, Alice v.
David and Elizabeth v. David — Godsons, Edward ap Richard,
David ap Res, Richard ap David and John ap Robert.
Executrix, his wife. — Overseers, Hugh Lloyd, Gent., Thomas
ap Thomas and Thomas ap David. Debts due £94 17s."

" A true inventorie of all the goodes and chattels of David
ap Meredith of Rorkinton."

13 Kyne and 2 Heifers ... ... ... 13 0 0

94 Sheep and Lambs ... ... ... 9 10 0

One Nagg ... ... ... ... 0 15 0

35 Thraves of Rye and 19 Thraves of Oats ... 4 12 0

1565. William ap Nicholas of Oswestrie and Elizabeth v.

Richard mar. 31 December.
1572. Elizabeth v. William ap Robert was chris. 19 August.

Gossipps, William ap Roger, Elizabeth Jvynaston and

Margaret v. Roger.
1583. Elizabeth d. of Thomas Laken chris. 21 Sep.
1587. Thomas Laken bur. 8 Feb. 1587.2

Admon. of will mentions " Margaret Laken, alias
verch Roger, ejus Relicta," sons William, Robert, Hugh,
Richard, Thomas, and dau. Elizabeth. Administration
granted to Roger ap Meredith de Sillattin, yeoman,
and Edward ap Thomas de Oswestry.

1 St. Aaaph Registry.

3 See Chap. 11., Laken Pedigree.

SELATTYN : A H fSTORY OF THE PAKISH.

239

1593. Richard son of Robert Johns1 gent, by Sina his wife

chris. 18 Nov.
1595. Thomas son of do. chris. 30 March.
1597. Jane dau. of do. chris. 18 March.
1599. Elnor dau. of do. chris. 26 July.
1601. Job son of do. chris. 26 Nov.
1607. Judith dau. of do. chris. 25 Feb.

1595. George son of John Launcelott of Llangollen Parish
chris. 30 June.

1601. Joseph son of Bartholomew Palgrave by Margery his
wife chris. 11 Feb.

1602. Katherine, dau. of Tudor ap David by Margaret his
wife chris. 10 Sep.

1603. Thomas Staney of Oswestrie and Katherine d. of Edward
widow of Llangollen mar. 2 May at Silatton.2

1610. Thomas, son of Edward Williams gent, by Isabell his

wife chris. 30 Oct.
1613. Edward son of do. chris. 8 July.

1615. Roger son of do. chris. 21 Dec.
1618. Dorothie dau. of do. chris. 23 Sep.

1616. Robert Salisbury a young man and a stranger bur. 7 July.

1616. William Griffiths of Oswestrie and Anne Maurice of
Silatton were married at Elsmere 7 August.

1617. Edward son of William Griffith [ . . ] of Oswestry late
deceased, by Anne Morice his wife was chris. 23 Feb.

1618. Richard Bathurst gent of the Parish of and

Jane Lenton ot Whittentonne Par. were mar. 15 Octr.

1620. Elizabeth Kynaston, widow, late wife of David Hanmer
gent bur 22 Jany.3

In her will she is styled " Elizabeth Kynaston, of
Porgynton, widow. It mentions her sons Richard and
Thomas, daughters Margaret, Elnor, Jane and her
children, and says : —

" My request is that my sonne M' Doctor Hanmer4 will do
soo much for my blossinge that my said daughter Jane may
havo her three years rent free of this my tenement after my
decease, in those years that he promised me at his last beinge
here."

1 See John Jones, Rector 1678.

2 Sec Robert Staney, Rector 1537. She was bur. Oswestry, 16
January, 1G22.

* See Chap. ITT. Will St. Aeaph Registry.

' Hishoj) Flanmer. .

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SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

The mark of the said Testator. Morris Williams
Clearke1 made this will. Apud Oswestria xvii. die
m'cii 16^0. Admoii- granted to Jane Hanmer2 natural
and lawfull daughter.

1626. John Kyffin gent3 was bur. ]6 April.
1637. Roger Kyffin gent was bur. 28 Jany.

The will of Roger Kyffin of Porkinton, gent., is dated
Jan. 8, 1637. It mentions wife Jane; son and heir
Moris Kyffin ; son John ; eldest daughter Jane; youngest
daughter Dowce. Supervisors : William Owen, Esq.,
and John Blodwell, gent.4 Proved 2 March, 1637. 5

1637. Jane dau. of Humphrey, widow of Roger Kyffin late

deceased, bur 22 Feb.
1637. Margaret, dau of Humphrey, widow, sister to the said

Jane was buried on the same daye and tyme.
1643. Jane Kyffin was bur. 7 Jany.

1626. Mary d. of Mr John Williams. Clerk, and of Sara his
wife chris. 1626.

1627. Owen Thomas Owen Gent, buried 12 May.

1636. Robert the son of Evan ap Hughe ap Sir David of the

par. Llangollen and of Margarett his wife chris. 12 Sep.
1642. Elizabeth Fazackerly, the wife of David ap Robert,

Sexton, bur. 25 Feb.
1652. Mr Edward Hunt of Fernill in the par. of Whittington

and Mrs Margaret Trevor of Morton in the par. St.

Martyn's were married at Fernhill the 8th Fob.6
1663. John the son of do. chris. 11th January.7

Edward Hunt of Fernhill was the son of Anthony
Hunt, second son of Richard Hunt of Longnor, Co.
Salop,8 by Mary d. of Arthur Kynaston and widow of

1 Curate of Selattyn.

2 Wife of William Gethin.

3 Probably they are related to the Kyffins of Sweeney, near
Oswestry.

4 He was buried at Oswestry, 15 May, 1662.

5 St, Asaph Registry.

6 lie mar. secondly Margaret d. of Edward Kynaston of Oteley (J.
Morris Colls.).

7 Whit. Kegist. says he was " baptizod 9 Fob."
» Her. Visit. Shrop., p. 264.

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 241

Francis Albany of Fernhill. She mar. secondly
Anthony Hunt, and was bur. at Whittington, 9 July,
1681. The Whittington Register tells us of the
" Marriage betweene Mr Edward Hunt sonne and
hey re to Anthony Hunt Esq of Fernhill, and Margaret
Trevour. eldest daughter of Mr John Trevour of Pentre
Cynrick," and that the said f< John Trevore Gent of
Pentre Kenrick, was buried 1 Jany. 1606,"

1653. Samuel Burton gent and Margery Harris were mar. 20
Jan.

1654. Mrs Prudence Blodwell1 was buried 10th August.
She was daughter of Roger Kynaston of Hordley
(Sheriff 1602) by Margaret d. of John Vaughan of
Llwydiarth, sister to Elizth wife of Rich. Hanmer of
Pentrepant, and widow of Richard Blodwell.2

1669. Mr James Blodwel, bur. 16th April.3
165i. Mrs Anne Corbet bur. 30 December.
1686. Margaret t Corbett, widow, bur. 20 Peer.

The following sis entries of the Smallman family are
taken from Whittington Register : —

1620, Jan. 10. Johan, wife of Thomas Smallman of Porkington,
bur.

1632, May 3. Thomas Smallman, widower of Porkington, bur.
1630, Feb. 5. Margaret, d. of John Smallman of Porkington, bapt.
1632, Nov. 18. Elizabeth d. of do., bapt.
1636, Nov. 1. John Smallman of Sillaton, bur.
1672, Mar. 7. Katherine, wife of Richard Smallman of par.
Selattyn, bur.

Selattyn Register continues : —

1653. Edward Pritchard gent, of Borgedin in the Parish of
Guilsfeild in the County e of Montgomery and Joico
Smalman of the Orscddwonn in the par. of Llangollen
were mar 11th July.

1654. John, son of Francis Smalman by Anne his wife, chris.
17 March.

1657. William son of do. chris. 25 March.

1 Llyfyr Silin, Arch. Camb.

2 Richard Blodwell, Esq., bur. Oswestry, 27 August, 1630.

8 James sou of Mr |{iehiud Blodwell, bu\>. at Oswestry, Novomber
1(1, 1612,

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SELATTYN : A HTBTORY OF THE PARISH.

1659. Margaret, daughter of do. chris. 21. March.
1698. June 20. Francis Smallman of Porkington, bur. (Whit-
tington Register.)

1675. Philip, son of Philip Smalman by Elizabeth his wife
chris 25 Feb. and buried 26 Feb.

1676. Thomas son of do. chris. 24 March buried 13th April.
1678. Francis son of do. chris. 20 March.

1680. Thomas son of do. chris. 2 July buried 24 Deer. 1681.

1681. Richard son of do bap. 11th March.

1684. John Evans & Mary Smalman, both of Oswestrie were
married 2 April.

1684, Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Smalman by Elizabeth
his wife bap. 21 August.

1685. Elizabeth, daughter of William Smalman by Joan his
wife, born 4th chris. 9th Feb. buried 21. August.

1687 Anne, daughter of Philip Smalman by Elizabeth his

wife born 5th chris. 12th May.
1687. Richard, son of William Smalman by Joan his wife,

was born 14th chris. 17th September.
1687. Joan, wife of William Smalman buried 7. Octr.

1689. John son of John Smalman, by Anne his wife bap.
11 May.

1690. Dorothy, daughter of Philip Smalman by Elizabeth his
wife bap. 26 March.

1691. Anne, daughter of John Smalman by Anne his wife
bap. 9 August.

1692. Anne, daughter of Richard Smalman by Martha his
wife bap. 1 April.

1693. . . . son of Philip Smalman bap 3 September.

1693. Philip Smalman buriod 17 Decoinber.

1694. Thomas, son of John Smalman by Anne his wife bap.
21 April.

1694. Philip, son of Richard Smalman by Martha his wife
5 Feb.

1696. Richard, son of John Smalman by Anno his wife bap.
26 July.

1700. Morris", son of do. chris. 20 August.

1701. Martha, wife of Richard Smalman buried 17 Feb.

1704. Richard, son of Richard Smalman by Mary his wife
chris. 22 August.

1705. Anne Smalman, widow buried 7 September.

1706. William, son of William Smalman bap 22 January,
buried 28 January.

1707. Francis, son of Richard Smalman by Mary his wife
bap. 24 May, bur. 1 June.

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 243

1708. Margrett, daughter of do. bap. 31 July.
1718. Elizabeth Smalman buried 14 Novr.

The three following marriages are from Whittington
Reg.

1720. Sept. 4. Thomas Smallman of Salyton and Margaret
Pearce of Whittington, mar.

1723. Oct. 14. John Smallman of Selattyn and Gertrude
Tunah of Whittington, mar.

1734. Dec. 19. Richard Smallman of Selattyn and Anne
Griffiths of Whittington, mar.
Selattyn Register continues : —

1724. Mary, daughter of Philip Smalman by Erllin his wife
bap. 30 January.

1726. Thomas Smalman buried 22 Septr.

1727. Jane, daughter of John Smalman, junior bap. 9 April.

1727. Hugh Stokes of Oswestry and Margaret Smalman of
Selattyn Par., mar. 2 Nov.

1728. Jane, daughter of Thomas Smalman, bap. 12 Novr.

1729. John, son of do. bap. 23 July, bur 6 August,
"i 7 29. John, son of William Smalman bur. 2 Octr.

1731. Edward, son of Thomas Smalman by Elizabeth his wife
bap. 25 June.

1732. Anne Smalman buried 14 Deer.

1734. Catherine, daughter of William Smalman bap. 23
March.

1735. Richard, son of Richard Smalman by Ann his wife
bap. 22 Feb.

173G. Ditto, buried 24 June.
1737. John, son of do. bap 12 June.
173S. Richard Smalman, buried 15 June.
1739. Mary, daughter of Richard Smalman by his wife bap. 7
April.

1739. Old John Smalman buried 18 January.

1741. liichard, son of William Smalman by Judith his wife
bap. 17 May.

1742. Sarah, daughter of Richard Smalman by Ann his wife
bap. 14 June.

1742. Judith, wife of William Smalman, buried 24 September,

1743. Thomas, son of Richard Smalman by Ann his wife bap.
27 October.

1756. Edd. son of Edd. Smalman by Jane his wife bap. 8
August.

1759. Jano, daughter of Ed. Smalman, bap. 10 June.
1759. Old John Smalman buried 15 July.

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1761. John, son of Edcl. Srnalman by Jane his wife bap. 5

July at Oswestry.
1764. Thomas, son of do. bap, 22 July.

1770. Isaac and Jacob, twins, sons of do. born 21, bap. 24
Feb.

1772. Edward son of do. bap. 18 October.
1780. William Srnalman buried 2 May.

1782. Edward Srnalman, professor of Astrology, buried 31
October.

These Smallmans were, doubtless, of the Wilderhope
family,1 and probably descend from "ffrauncis Small-
man, " who was sworn burgess of Oswestry 12 July,
15G5,2 the birth of whose son " Fras ap Fras Srnalman, "
is recorded in the Oswestry Register 2 Oct., 1587. The
Churchwardens' Accounts there, state in an undated
page before 1583 that there was " received of Frauncis
Srnalman xvid for the burial of his wife." On the 4th
June, 38 Eliz. (1596), 11 Rsd of ffraunces Smallman
liy11 ix8 vjd" appears in the Burgesses accounts.3

1655. Mra Jane Lloyd was bur. 12 August.
1655. A little child (a Chrisome4) ye dau. of David ap Hugh
of Cefn y Maes was bur. 16th day.

This farm now belongs to the Edwards' of Ness
Strange, Co. Salop. It is supposed to have come to
them by the marriage of Robert Edwards of Rhydy-
croesau, with Anne, d. and heir of Robert Kyffin, gent.,
of Cynllaeth, about the middle of the 17th century.

1655. A sonne of Thomas ap John Williams (a Chrysome)
was bur. 14 March.

1655. Jacob, son of Richard ap John Griffith of St. Martyn's
par. by Rose his wife chris. 4 March.

1656. Thomas ye son of Thomas Jones of Day well Gent, by
Isabell his wife chris. 3 Sep.

1656. A dau. of Richard Jones by Anne his wife (a Chrysome)
was bur. 17th Feb.

1 Ihr. Visit. Shrop., p. 438 ; see also Henry Johns, lleetor 1600.

2 J>ye Gojies Sep. 11, 1878.

3 Ibid, August 28, 1878.

4 Many " Chrisoinc " children are inserted about this date.

SELA.TTVN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 245

1G57. Barbara, d. of Mr John Ward by Mary his wife chris
24 May at Oswestrie.

1657. Robert, son of Thomas Lloyd, Lord of ye Mannor of
Whittington by Sarah his wife chris. 9 Feb.1

1658. Mrs Mary Meredyth widow bur. 28 May.

1663. Samuel, son of Mr Alien Swanwick by Dorothy his wife
(of the par. of Oswestreo) chris. 2L April.

1655. Mary the d. of Edward Wickstead by Katheriue his
wife chris. 9 May.

1663. Elizabeth d. of William Wixsted of the par. of Whit-
tington by Margaret his wife chris. 12 Deer.

1666. Hugh ap Richard and Anne Wicksted both of this par.
mar. 29 June.

1672. Catherine, wife of Edward Wicksted bur. 14 Feb.

1677, David Wixsted of Oswestrie par. and Catherine Thomas
of this par. mar. 3 June.

1678. Edward son ot David Wicksted chris. 19 Jany.
1682. Thomas Jones and Mary Wixted mar. 28 Jany.
1728. David Wicksteed bur. 9 April.

1728. Mary Wicksteed bur. 26 Dec.

1669. Mr John Jeffreys of the Par. of Wrexham2 and Mr9.

D. Phillips of this par. were mar. 11th July.
1721. John Phillips bur. 29 April.

1724. Edward Philips of Whittington Par. and Mra Mary

Kyffin of Ellesmere par. were mar. 29 Jany.
1669. Mary Lloyd of Evonall bur. at Whittington 22 Oetr.

That Register says she was daughter of Thos. Lloyd,
Esq., of Evenhall,

167 L MrB Frances Vaughan bur. 26 Jany.

1672. Mary Swan bur. 11 Jany.

1675. MrB Abigail Gardner bur. 21 July.3

1677. John Griffith of Pentrepant bur. 28 August.

1678. Ann Staney wife of Jo. Staney bur. 3 Jany.4
1682. Elizabeth, dau. of Sr John Thomas bur. 5 Octr.
1687. M18. Joyce Maurice bur. 22 Sept.

1691. John son of Thomas Puleston by Mary his wife bap. 12
March.

1697. Elizabeth dau. of do. born l8t bap. 8th March.
1703. Roger son of do. bap. 9 April.

1 Chap. I., Lloyd of Aston.

2 Of Acton.

a Probably a relation of Thomas Wilding, Rector's wife, 1659

4 See Staney, Rector 1537.

246 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

The next five entries are from Whittington Eegister :

1709. Martha d. of Thomas Puleston of Salatin par. bur.
30th Aug.

1711, Edward son of do. bur. 2 April.

1711. Jane d. of do. bur. 12 May,

1713. Thos. Puleston of Sy latin bur. 8 Dec.

1 732. Mary Puleston of Sylatin bur. 6 May.

1697. John the son of John Puleston by Elizabeth his wife

born 4 Deer, chris. 5 Feb.
1609. Edward a child of Edward Puleston by Elizth. his wife

chris. 19 Octr.
1702. Thomas a child of do. chris. 2 Octr.1
1696. William Nevill was bur. June 30th.

1701. John Ellis and ffrances Owen were mar. 21 Octr.

1702. John a child of do. bap. 20 Sep.

1706. Thomas a child of do. bap. 21 April.

1707. Jane a dau. of do. bap. 27 Octr.

1732. Frances dau. of John Ellis by Catherine his wife bap. 7
Oct.

1704. John a son of Mr John Lloyd by Katherine his wife
chris. 6 Nov.

1705. Edward a son of do. chris. 10 Feb.

1707. Mary a dau. of Mr John Jones, High Constable, by
Mary his wife bap. 15 July.

1715. Bohemia, the son of Abraham, as supposed King of ye
Gypsyes of ffroom in the County of Somerset was bap.
25 day October.

[The above entry is unique].

1716. Henry Ellett of the County of Kent and Elizabeth
Jones of this par. mar. 29 June.

1719. Nathaniel Kynaston Gent, and Mra Elizabeth Davies
both of the Parish of Oswestry were married the 25
August.

1721. Charles Morris2 the son of Thos. Morris by Grace his
wifo died in London and was buried August.

1722. Thomas Moses, postmaster of the Town of Oswestry and
Margaret Davies married ye 2nd January.

1 I cannot trace any relationship to the Pulestons of Emrall,
Co. Flint.

2 Tliis Charles Morris left £500 in trust to purchase lands, for a
sermon on Candlemas Day, and for the maintenance of poor children.

SFiLATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

247

1723. Thomas Felton de Oswestry and Margaret de Llanvair
married the 11th day.

(Here ends the first Register).

A Register of all and singular Baptisms, Marriages and Burialls
in the Par. of Selattyn since the 11th of June in the
year of our Lord 1724.

Tho, Hanmer Rr
Tho. Jones \ Church
Tho. Robinson j Wardens.
1725. Thomas, son of Mr. Joseph Pilgrim Schoolmaster by
Mary his wife bap. 20 Feb.

1725. Barton Davies of the City of Chester and Mrs. Sarah
Humphreys of Bangor Par. Co. Flint, mar. 21 Feb.

1726. Ann, dau. of a grate Carrier bap. 25 Sep.

1727. June. His late Majesty King George died of an Apoplec-

tic fit at Osnaburg or Osnabrug the 10th day at night
and is succeeded by his son.
1727. John Hughes of Hailstone bur. 25 August.

1727. Lucy d. of Thomas Jones tenant at Pentrepant bap. 2 Feb.
1729. Elizth. d. of do. bap. 14 Feb.

1728. Ed. Edwards (Carw1) bur. 11th April.

1745. John son of Paine Edwards (alias Carw) by Margt. his

wife bap. 21 June.
1728. Mr. Vaughan Barret2 and Mrs. Mary Kynaston were mar.

6 August by Mr. Io. Skye cler.

1728. Ed. son of Edw. Morris of Pentre David and Martha his
wife bap. 10 Sept.

1729. Ellis Hugh known best by name of Ellis Stout bur. 14
April.

1729. Mr. John Jeffreys of Woolston and Mrs. Margaret

Thomas of Pentre Clawdd mar. 12 Sep.
1729. John Hughes of Hen Plase bur. 21 Sep. A sensible

useful man in the Parish.
1729. Elizabeth wife of John Hughes of Hen Plase bur. 25 Sep.
1729. Old John Hughes Dissenter bur. 22 Dec.

The answers to the Bishop's enquiries 25 May, 1749,
and in 1753, state that there are " no Dissenters" and
" no Meeting house."

1 i.e., a stag. Several nicknames are given about this period.

2 He died1 17 Oct., 1772. Mary his wifo was d. of Thus. Kynaston of
Maesbury, Kwq. She d. 28 May, 1779. Mon. Tablet in Oswestry
Church.

248 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

By the Enclosure Act of 1777, we find that 20 acres,
12 perches was allotted to the Presbyterians.

There are now (1896) two Meeting houses in the
parish, one upon the Racecourse, and one built by the
Wesleyans in 1876.

1731. Ed. Rogers (called Dwndwr) bur. 21 Janry.

173S. Thomas Thomas died at Woolston, bur. here 16 June.

1739. Ann, dau. of Mr. Venables bur. 29 Oct.

1765. Mr. Venables, bur. at Oswestry 2 June.

1742. Mr. Parry a Steward of Esqr Owen's Porkinton, bur. 29
August.

1743. Thomas Baxter paper maker bur. 29 May.

1747. Thomas son of Thos. Peach of Paper Mill in Weston
bur. 8 May.

1782. Margaret mother to Thomas Williams, Weston Mill
bur. 27 May.

1745. Mr. Eyton Johnson and Mrs. Mary Lloyd both of
Oswestry mar. 19 June by license. John Skye.

1745. Thomas Maurice Bricklayer of the Co. Montgomery
and Elizabeth Maurice a servant from Porkinton mar.
1st Sept. by a license.1

1746. The Rev. Mr. Edward Hughes and Mary Trustran mar.
2 May by a license.

1746. Ed. Evans and Mary Baseley both of the par. of Chirk,
mar. by license 23 July.

1 746. John Richards and Jane Richards of — Rhuabon mar. do.

1747. Mr. Palmer from Porkington bur. 27 March.

1748. Ed. Williams and Mary Wynn mar. 5 Oct. by license.

1748. Mr. Edward Williams of Wrexham and Miss Mary
Lloyd of Rhuabon par. mar. by licence Novr.

1749. Mr. Mil ward Rogers and Miss Elizabeth Rogers of
Oswestry were here mar. 30 Mar. and both buried the
July following.

1749. John a child of Ed. Richardson and wife died of Smal-
pox. May

1781. Ed. Richardson of the Vicarage Selattyn bur. 21 Octr.
1751. Elizabeth, the dau. of Mr. John Arthur by Mary his

wife bap. 18 Aug.
1754. Elizabeth, dau. of Thos. Conde2 by Sarah his wife bap.

17 Nov. (papish Ch.).

1 At this time marriages amongst all classes seem to have been
' by license."

J Probably a Frenchman. Their descendants still live at the Hen
goed (189ft).

oYl

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 249

182G. Thomas Cond and Eleanor Williams were mar. 20

March, witness William Cond.
1760. Revd. Mr. Lewis Jones M.A. Vicar of Rhuabon and Mrs.

Susanna Williams mar. 27 May. In the presence of E.

Worthington. E. Owen. Margaret Owen. Edw. Maurice.
1766. Phillip Edwards of the Eagles and Mary his wife had

lived together 30 years and died the same day and

were inter'd in the same grave. Bur. 25 Feb. Plurimi

decorabunt Funera fietu.
1768. John Ellis, bur. 11 Aug. aged 32.

1777. Mrs. Stan at t of Oswestry, bur. 11 May.

1778. Elizth wife of Rich. Jones Sexton, bur. 17 May.

1781. Old John Charles near Orseddwen, bur. 15 Nov.
1783. John son of Thomas Williams Pentre David, bur. 1

June.

1782. John Phillips (saltman1) bur. Dec.
1786. Hannah Phillips, Octr.

1782. Mr. Robert Tudor bur. at Whittington 15 April.

1798. Richard son of Rich, and Elizlh "Tudor Pentre Wern
gent., bap. 20 Jany.

1799. Robert son of do. bap. 12 July.
1801. John son of do. bap. 18 Feb.

1803. Edward son of do. bap. 6 March.

1804. Mary dr. of do. bap. 19 Sep.

1830. Will of Robert Tudor of Pentre Clawdd2 p. Sylattyn,
gentleman : —

To trustees— John Jones the younger of Brook Street,
Oswestry, Esq., and Francis Campbell of the same place
gentleman.

" All that my Capitall Messuage, farms lands and heridtB
situato in Pentreclawdd — all mv piece of ground near Pentre
David."

To raise £1500 — an annuity of £26 to sister Mary Gilpin ;

„ £10 to niece Mary Gilpin;

„ £20 to niece after her

mother's death.
All the yearly rents etc. — to my sister Sarah Tudor during
her life, after to my other sisters Jane Owen ; Elizth Broughall ;

1 None of the trades mentioned below now exist in the parish.

2 Pentre Clawdd was possessed by the Tudors in 1800. On Deer.
10 *' Mr. Tudor of Pentre Clawdd distributed a fat cow value 15
guineas amongst the poor of Sylattin," — Bye-Gone$, Aug. 1679. His
burial is not in Selattyn Register.

250

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

Mary Gilpin ; Ann Owen ; and Susannah Peate and the sur-
vivor of them.

£450 to be paid to my sister Jane Owen.

£520 to sister Ann Owen.

£550 to sister Susannah Peate.

£20 to my nephew Edward Tudor son of my late brother
Rich. Tudor dec.

My messuage in Hindford, par Whit, to the use of Elizth
Broughall for life.

Another messuage in Hindford, par Whit, to my sisters
Sarah Tudor, and Elizth Broughall, after to sister Ann Owen ;
after to daughters of Ann Owen.

My messuage called Barkhouse in Whittington, and parcel
of land in Weston Rhyn par. S. Martins to be sold.

To my nephew Rich. Arthur Tudor £4000.

To sister Sarah Tudor my watch, silver plate, china and
glass. Signed 11th Oct. 1828.

Codicil, signed 1830.

Leaves Pentre Clawdd after the sisters to Jane Owen's sons
1, John Owen ; 2, Richard ; 3, Edward ; and then to Richard
Arthur Tudor.

The next is inserted in the New Register, there
being an additional Duty imposed on all Christenings,
Marriages and Burials of Threepence over and above
the former Charge, the same is paid to Government,
noticed by the Minister of every Parish, which began
1st October, 1783.

1788. Martha d. Edd. and Mary Charles. Nant, Paper maker,
bap. Feb.

1822. John son Thos. and Mary Jones of Papormills bap.1

1800. Edward son of John and Jane Williams (Weaver) 19
Dec.

1801. William Williams of the Par. of Llanddgwo gent, and
Anno Jones mar. Octr 21. In the presence of Thomas
Parker, Harriot Wilmington, Fanny Brotherton, and
E. Brotherton.

1802. Elizth d. of John and Elizth Roberts (nailer.) bap. 4 Jany.
1807. John Arthur gent. Pentre Wern. d. aged iVS. 20 July.

bur. 23.

1800. Humphrey son of Evan and Anne Evans (Tanner) bap.
1) June.

1 Tho Paper Milla do not now exittt.

SELATTYN : A UISTORY OF THE PARISH.

251

1811. Hugh Jones gent, died at Oswestry aged 21, bur. 30
March.

1786. Sarah, d. John and Elizth. Povey, Derwen y pandu1

gent, born and bap. 18 Aug.
1840. Povoy son of Ed. and Sarah Harriet Oswoll, Derwen.

solicitor bap. Aug.
1849. Edward son of do. bap. Feb.

1851. Eliza Augusta dau. of do. bap. May.

1852. Fred, son of George and Martha Harper. Solicitor, of
the Derwen. late of Whitchurch, bap. 4 April.

1893. Oswell youngest d. of Mr. John Povey and widow of Mr
Edward Oswell son of the late Rev. Thos. Oswell rector
of Wcstbury. Co. Salop, bur. 27 May at the Hengoed.

1824. Mary Grace d. of Richard and Mary Yates of Ml Sion
Gent. bap. 8th August.

1829. Charles Longueville son of William Henry Bt.2 and
Mary Eliz. Gierke Bap. 27 April.

1832. Mary Dora d. of do. bap. 1. Janry.

J 831. Richard Hanbury son of Rich. Hill Miers* of M* Sion
Esq. and of Elizath Jane his wife bap. 13 April.

1833. Jane Mary d. of do. bap. 29 March.

1839. Elizth Frances Lacon aged 2 years and 8 months, d
Pentrepant bur. 6 March.

1840. Fred. Henry Lacon aged 4. d. Pentrepant bur. 8. April.

1840. Rowland Francis son of Fredk and Mary Ann Lacon4 of
Pentrepant Esq. bap. 10 Feb.

1841. Thomas Frederick son of do. bap. 2 April.

ACCIDENTS RECORDED IN THE REGISTER.

September, 1588. William ap Griffith of the Parish of Llan-
armon in Yale by misfortune was killed by a wheat
milnestone in the Parish of Silatton on Thursday being
the 2Gth daye of tho said monthe and was buried the

1 In Whittington Parish. It was bought in 1896 by F. Boughey,
Esq. (son of Sir Thos. Boughey) and his sisters.

2 Sir Win. If. Clarke, Bt., born 1793, served in Peninsula and
Waterloo, d. ICth February, 18G1, mar. Mary Elizabeth, d. of George
Watkin Kenriek of Mertyn, Co. Flint, Esq., Charles L. was 4th
Son. Mary Dora, only dau., mar. 2Gth May, 1 8GB, Rev. Theodore
Bealo, Hector of Hopton Castle, Salop.

3 Of YnyspenUwch, High Sheriff, Glanmorgan, 1816, mar. Jane, d.
of John Bonnor of Brynygwatia (*eo Chap IV., Mount Sion). lie d.
20 May, 185s). Slio d. 18G9. Burke's land. Gent.

' Tenant h of Pentrepant,

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252 SELATTYN : A HISToBY OF THE PARISH

2nd daye of October after he was recovered by our
Higons the Coroner, in the saide parish Churche of
Silatton,

November, 1592. Thomas ap Thomas ap Meredith ap Howell
being wounded in his left eye with a dagger as it was
reported, died the 22nd daye of this month and after he
was viewed by a Coroner and jury he was buried the
2Gth day of this said month.

June, 1G2-1. Margett daughter cf Hugh a labourer and 5 years
old, by misfortune fell into a pitt of water on the 28th
daye of June and she was drowned and was buried the
30th day of the said month.

November, 1G54. Margaret verch John being killed by the
fall of a tree in Pentrepant Wood and having been
viewed by the Coroner Mr. John Gittinsby him ordered
to be interred was accordingly buried the 16th day.

July, 1723. A son of Thomas Cunway drowned Porkington
mill pool buried ye 16th day.

April, 1724. John Jones of lien plase in a quarrel with
Porkington husbandman was stabbed in the belly, of
which wound he soon died and was buried the 29th day.

February, 1728. Richard Hughes was found dead in the snow.
Was buried the 7th day.

1747. Thomas Hughes of Pentre David bur. 24 Aug. died at
bont faen coming from the coals.

1781. Morris Swinnerton,whose body underwent an Inquisition
at the Eagles bur. Sep. 19.1

1782. Ed. Roberts was thought to be poisoned pr Doctors,
bur. 5 July.

MUSIC AND THE MUSICIANS.

The Welsh have from time immemorial been re-
nowned for their love of music, it is not therefore

1 Tho Swinnertons wore of Oswestry, Sir John Swinnerton (grand-
son of Rich. Swinnerton of Oswestry) was Lord Mayor, 161 2. A
banquet given when ho was Master of the Merchant Taylors Co. to
King James I. cost £1,061.— See Mem. of Merchant Taylors by
(Mode, pp. 151-177. Sir John left by Will, '1010, a Charity of
£t 4s. for bread, to Oswestry.

.John Swinnerton of Pentreclawdd was appointed Deputy Surveyor
of tin; road leading from Oswestry to Chirk, 28 Se|> , 1709. (Bye-
Oones, Dee. 2, lb 0(5).

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 253

surprising to find the following entries in the Parish
Register :—

Elinor ver. Thomas peiper was christened the xiith chiye
January, 1558.

John ap Richard fidler was Christened the viiith daye March
1571.

John the sonne of Richard ap William fidler of Sl Martyns by
Anne his wife was christened the xxvij daye of April!,
1621.

Ann a daughter of John ye Fidler baptized, 1723.

Richard Thomas (alias Fidler) and Sarah Lloyd of Porkington

were married xth day of May, 1741.
Buried ould Thomas Edwards fidler of Sl Martyn's Parish the

xxxist March, 1750.
Buried Morris Williams of Weston Mill, a blind Harper, April,

1785.

The first mention we have of a church choir is
in 175 L, during the Rectorship of William Roberts,
and appears to have been the work of the new Curate
who was appointed in December, 1751. The Legacy
Book records it thus : —

December 22, 1751. Ac a Vestry held it was agreed to
order eight children to be instructed in Psalm singing by
Thomas James at the expense of the parish till orders to the
contrary, present :

Edd. Maurice,
J. Venables,
Edd. Richardson,
John Arthur.

1751. Paid the singing master 18 shillings and elevenpence.
Paid the singing master 7 shillings.
Paid Thomas Boliver for the singers room at the Eagle,
7 shillings.

1802, June 27. During the Rectorship of Whitehall
W. Da vies.

"The Vestry agreed to pay John Jones of Oswestry one
guinea and a half for teaching the Psalmsingers for one quarter,
and he promises to attend here every Sunday morning and as
often as he conveniently can at other times. It was at the
same time agreed to allow the Psalmsingers two guineas yearly."

254 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

1847. Until this time the singers must have been
accompanied by the fiddlers and pipers, but the new
Hector, Charles Albany Lloyd, who had been used to
an organ at Whittington since 1810, set about getting
up a subscription for one a few months after his arrival
at Selattyn, heading the list with j£L0 10s. himself.
The list of donors is too long to enter here.

The new barrel organ was built by Bryceson of
London. It stood in the west gallery, and was opened
on August 8th, 1847, when three sermons were preached
by the Rev. William Clerke,1 B.D., of Chester, and the
collection amounted to £8 8s.

£ s. d.

Cost of Organ .. ... ... 70 0 0

Carriage and Expense of Erecting ... 5 14> 11
Carpenters' Bill, preparing Gallery for

Organ, Organ Tew, etc. ... ... 11 15 10

Lock, Iron Pillar and Candleholders ... ] 12 6
Painting ... ... ... ... 14 9

Singers ... ... . ... 1 13 6

Printing ... ... ... ... 1 14 0

Total ... £93 15 6

This organ was followed by a harmonium. In 1867

an organ by Bevington was placed in the chancel, but
being worn out, was replaced by a new one in 1895.

THE CHARITIES.

(1) "I, John Haniner D.D. Bishop of St. Asaph, do make
ray last will and Testament the last day of 30 Novr 1628."
" I do give and bequeath to tho poor of Selattyn £5 . . . .
the inheritance and feo simple oi my land in Silattyn . . .
after the docease of my wife . . . to James Wilding Rector
of the said Church for tho time being, and to the successor and
successors of the said Rector and Churchwardens for to have
and to hold ... to the only use and behoofe of the poor
of the said Parish of Silattyn for ever."

1 Sir William Clerke was then the tenant of Peutrepant.

SELATTYN : A HTSTOIIY OF THE PAIUSH. 255

These lands were : —

Cae Scybor and Homestead 4 1 17 i.e. Barn field.

Erw Garneth ... ... 0 1 17 Stone mound acre

Maes Ucha ... ... 5 3 0 Upper field.

Erw Melyn in two parts ... 1 0 80 lleilyn's acre

Erw Birdir Ucha ... ... 0 3 22 Upper do.

Erw Birdir ... .. 0 1 22 Short field acre.

Erw Gwyrch ... ... 0 3 25 Hedge acre

Erw Llydiast Issa ... ... 1 0 16 Lower gate acre.

On 4 April, 1665, there is an opinion given by Sir
Thomas Jones, Justice of the King's Bench, as to
whether this bequest was " a mortmain " or not. He
decides that " by the Statute 4 Elizabeth, c. 4, touch-
ing charitable uses, it will be a sufficient limitation and
appointment to continue for ever."

(2) "I, Penelope Owen1 of Abertanat, Co. Salop, spinster, 16
Nov. 1670. . . . give unto the poor of the Par. of Sillatin £4, to
he yearly distributed and divided In the Par. Church by the
Minister and Churchwardens on the Feast of the Annunciation
B. V, M. and St. Michael the Arch .... my lands shall
stand charged for the payment thereof and that my said
Executors shall continue the yearly payment thereof for so long
as they or any of them shall live and no longer."

Executors. " My nieces, Mary Tanat, Penelope Tanat,
Susannah Tanat and Gerindine Burke."

(3) Col. William Owen's Will dat. 1670, bequeaths to his
Trustees £6 annually <: of the yearly Rents of two parcells of
Lands situate and lying in Porkington, call'd Cae dy and Cae'r
Plase, to and amongst the poor of the said parish for ever, on
the Fl of S. Thomas Apost. and Ascension Day, to bo distri-
buted amongst them in such manner and sort as my said
nephew or his heirs, and the said Rector and Churchwardens
shall for the time being in their discretion think fit."

(4) Mr. Charles Maurice of the par. of S. Anno. Blackfriars
who d. August 1721. bequeathed ''unto Thomas Ilanmer and
to the Rector and Ch. Wardens of the Par. of Selattyn for the
time being'' £500 on trust, "nevertheless for the use and
bonefitt of the said par. ... in such manner . . .
that they lay out the same in purchasing lands of inheritance
of the Yearly Value of £20 or upwards . . . for the uses

1 Bap, Whittiugton 23 Oct., 1003 ; bur. Selattyn 1G71.

256 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

after mentioned, viz. 20s per ann. to bo paid and for ever em-
ployed for a sermon to be preached in the said Par. Ch. every
Oandlemass. Day. and the residue and overpluss thereof to be
for ever employed in the maintenance of the poor Charity
Children of the same parish whom my Trustees shall think fit;
and I doe and will order that there be a small marble monu-
ment and subscription set up in the said Church, notifying the
foundation and uses of the said Charity."

The Lands purchased were : —

Coed Pale 4 0 0 Erw Newith 2 2 03

Erw. Nant 1 3 25 Erw Joyce 0 3 00

Erw Gwanith ... 1 1 00 Cae tan-y-Groos ... 3 0 18

Erw Bant 0 3 29 Sarn Offeiriad ... 2 0 87

Cae yn-y -Maes ... 4 1 32 Sarn Oftciriad Issa ... 5 0 00

The following resolutions were passed on 31st March,
1766, concerning these lands by the Vestry : —

(1) Tenxnt not to be allowed to plow any one field
successively for more than 3 years. The 3rd year Field to be
laid down in Clover or Ryegrass or a mixture of each. (2) To
keep hedges and ditches in repair. Not fall any timber with-
out consent of the Trustees. (3) Shall pay ye Rent on Fl
S Michael and Lady Day, (4) We constitute the Minister
and Ch. Wardens to be Trustees.

Nov. 15. 1755. was received of the Rev. Ed. Maurice, the
sum of £1 Is. for Cae tan y Groos and Erw. Lloi being half a
years rent.

We have no record of the first schoolmaster, nor do
we know whether any instruction was given before
Charles Maurice's bequest. The earliest mentioned is: —

" May 5th being the time that I. John Ellis began to keep
ye school for ye Church 1740." He died Dec. 1747.

In 1745 is a gift : —

" PJ Widow Philips £1. being the Sermon money by Mr
Hanmer's order."

1749, 3rd. April. St. Asaph Records tell us : —

" The school is kept by the Curate1 who teaches 1G poor
children for £8 a year more or less, according to the disposition
of the Rector and Wardens, who are trustees of the Charity
for it."

1 Humphrey Humphreys, buried 80th April, 1710.

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257

1753. The same Records say : " Charles Thomas, School-
master."

1755. The Legacy Book says : Charles Thomas received

£1 5s. Od. being a quarter's payment for teaching the

poor children of this parish.
1758. To the Clerk's son for Teaching 16 poor children 1

quarter as per Bill 10/-.
1758. Pli to Elizth Richards School Dame as per Bill, 1G/-.
1775. Ordered Joseph Hitchin be appointed Master of the

Charity School in the room of John Rogers.
1781. To Ann Da vies, schoolmistress half years and some

quarter's schooling of 13 children £1 3s. Od,

These salaries seems to us a mere pittance, and con-
sidering that the parish contained in 1753 120 families,
and in 1809 157 houses, most of the children received
no teaching at all. It was not till 1811 that Rector
George Lloyd built the present school which received
for its endowment, under a scheme of the Charity
Commissioners, Charles Morris's bequest and two-thirds
of that bequeathed by Bishop Hanmer.

In the " Report of the Society for bettering the
condition uf the Poor in the Hundred of Oswestry,"1 in
1815 when the first list of school prizes are given,
Selattyn scholars head the list.

John Rogers (under 16), For best knowledge of the Bible,

Books value £1 Is.
John Rogers, For arithmetic, Books value £1 Is.
John Cond (under 16), For best writing, Books value 10/6.

1816. Samuel Williams, 1st prize arithmetic. Robert Jones,
do. for writing.

1817. Robert Jones of Pentre Clawdd, Best knowledge of
Bible, also best specimen of drawing plans.

In 1815 the Selattyn scholars numbered 95. The
boys greatly out-numbered the girls — in 1816 there
were 76 boys and 22 girls.

The marble Tablet mentioned in the Will of Charles
Morris was moved at the restoration of the Church

1 1811—1823.

258 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

from the chancel to the west wall of the south transept.
The inscription is as follows : —

' This monument was erected by the direction of Charles
Morris, who was the son of Thomas Morris late of Selattyn in
the County of Salop Yeoman deced. Who by his last will and
testament left to the poor of this said Parish of Selattyn rive
hundred pounds to purchase lands of inheritance of the yearly
value of twenty pounds or upwards, to be yearly distributed to
and amongst the poor and charity children and others, Poor
persons — of this Said parish by the Reverend the Rector and
the Churchwardens, as then being appointed Trustees, shall
think fit. And furthermore the said Decedent Charles Morris
By the same Will left unto Thomas Ilanmer and his successors
Twenty Shillings yearly for ever for preaching a sermon on
Candlemas Day, in memory of the bequest of the said Charles
Morris for the benefit of the poor and Charity children.
N B. That the said benefactor dyed in the Parish of Saint
Anne Black Fryers London. And in the 53rd year of his age,
and in the year of our Lord Christ, 1721. This monument
was erected in ye year 1736 by one of the decedent's nearest
relations."

(5) David Hughes of the Par. of Llangollen whose last will
and testament was made by me, John Ellis Clerk of Selattyn,
left to the poor of this par. the sum of £10, .... to be
distributed yearly upon Sl Thomas's Day according to the
direction or disposal of ye Rector and Ch. Wardens for ever.
Bur. here 31. August 1743.

A note dated 1781, says the said Benefaction is
lost being laid out on a Bond to one Ed. Hughes of
Selattyn, who died incapable of paying it up.

(0) One parcel of land being about an acre, near Rhys
Gwen in the Par. Sfc Martins bequeathed between the par. of
Selattyn, St. Martins, Llansantftraid and Llangollen, now in
the holding of Mr Phillips of Rhys- Gwen.

The Terrier of 1772, says :— It is now rented at
16s. per annum, 4s of which is the proportion to the
use of the poor of Selattyn.

The Legacy book gives a detailed account of the way
in which these monies were spent from the year J 737.

I cannot say if the writer of the following couplet,
which is written inside the cover, benefited by the
"faithful friends" whose bequests are therein recorded: —

SELA.TTYN '. A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 259

" Roger Meredith his hand and pen no more Amen,
Remember man and bear in mind a faithful friend is hard
to find."

There are numbers of entries, such as the following: —
" For the poor, the sick 5/-. For a Coffin 5/-. For laying
out and for drink at the house 3/-. for ye Clerk for ye ^rave
1/6. For drink at Selattyn 2/-. For tending old Carw being
sick 5/-. For relief of a family going away 9/6."

A good deal seems to have been spent upon persons
from a distance : —

For ye diet of ye Bedford Woman for 15 days
For 8 weeks and 2 days more ...
For fetching Nicholas Hughes from the

Llandysilio p8b to Oswestry to go with the

woman to Bedford ...
For sending ye said woman's clothes to

Wobourn ...
Pd. for 2 letters from Wobourn ...

Also

Paid Richard Lloyd of Worcester
For his diet at Rich. Jones
For his room at Ed. Rogers

£

s.

d.

o

15

o

1

4

0'

0

7

0

0

1

G

0

1

G

2

9

6

0

18

0

0

2

0

0

4

6

1 4 6

Tie was bur. 20 Feb., 174G, and old Margaret Lloyd,
Worcester, bur. 22 June, 1747.

In 1739, Mom. Tliore was distributed Feb. 2, £3 3 0 given
by ye honour'd John Lloyd Esq. of Aston for ye poor of this
parish on occasion of a hard frost and snow.

There were also sums paid for Boarding out, such as :
Paid for maintenance of Mary Owen to Edward Rogers of
Pantglase in part £1 6 G.

and for apprenticing boys : —

Nov. 174 k Paid John Richards with Simon Jones's boy being
bound apprentice with him £7.

1775. John Phillips apprentice to Rd Tudor, Blacksmith, that
the parish givo 3 guineas with him, and 20/- towards
clothes and that ho bo bound for 7 years.
Vol. IX. 2nd S. KK

260 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

1777. Paid with apprentice ... ... £2 2 0

Towards clothing him ... ... 0 8 2

Amongst the entries of payments for clothing given
we learn that in 1746 an ass for Mary Steven cost 12/-
and in 1760 one for Mary Pool cost 13/-. In 1761
" linen cloth M and flannel were both 8d. a yard, and a
pair of boots cost 2/8, but in 1764 shoes had risen to 5/-.

The Vestry Book tells us that on 28 Nov., 1790,
a Vestry was held to consider a message from the
Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of Oswestry in
Vestry assembled, 14 Nov., relative to the general and
united Workhouse for the poor of the said Town and
Parish of Oswestry, the Parishes of Sylattyn, Whitting-
ton, Knockyn, Llanyblodwell, and Ruyton. It is agreed
by the Inhabitants of this Parish to accede to the
proposal, and the Mayor of Oswestry is requested to lay
the same before the next Vestry. Moreover, the
following persons or any five of them be appointed
a Committee for the space of two years for carrying
out the said plan : — The Hector, Rob. G. Owen, Esq.,
Rob. Lloyd, junr., Esq., Rev. Joseph Venables, Rev.
Thos. Edwards, Mr. Edward Edwards, Mr. John
Arthur, Mr. Thos. Jones, and Mr. Ed. Richardson.

The Workhouse was built in 1790, and will hold 300
inmates.1 In 1823 the average cost of Selattyn paupers
was £243 Is. 0d., the outlay was £77 16s. 6d., and the
inmates of the House numbered 14.2

30 Jany., 1791, a Vestry was held to petition Par-
liament for an Act to incorporate Selattyn Parish with
Oswestry and other parishes for the better relief and
employment of the poor.

The Register contains two Terriers of the Glebe made
by Rev. William Roberts, Rector, one on 21 June,
1772, the other 8 June, 1774. They are both alike,
and are, as the Rector tells us, "An abstract of a
Terrier made and published the 28th April, 1684, by
John Jones, Rector."

1 S/tiop. Dirtctory.

2 Report Society for bettering Condition of the Poor.

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 261

Imp. The Rector's House.
Consisting of a Kitchen, Pantry and Cellar, floor'd with Clay,
and Hall with Stone, and a Parlour Boarded, above stairs five
rooms boarded, three only ceiled, a small Study, and five
ordinary Garretts, The Walls are of stone, except the upper
part of the front, being of Brick ; the cover of slate. In the
front a small Court vvaird,onone side agarden with a lledgefence.

Outhouses.

In the fold, A Barn with four Bays, and a Threshing Floor,
Two Stables, two Cowhouses, and a Calf hut, a Brewhouse,
Turfhouse and pigstye. In the yard a Tythe Barn with a Clay
floor, two Bays, and a Carthouse, all these covered with Straw,

A.

Glebe

Lands.

Homestead, Garden,

K.

i\

Orchard

1

1

3

13

Uarclui

1

8

13

i.e. 1 he Gardens

Aber oer Ucha

u

o

3

0

" Upper cold stream

Abcr oer lssa

0

2

G

Upper lesser stream

Aber oer Vawr

n

7

3

20

Upper greater stream

Erw Kyi ...

1

3

35

The narrow acre

lyr-y-Bystach

n
O

1

23

T) 11 ,1 C _ 1 ,1

,, Bullock held

Erw Offeiriad

o

2

27

,, The Priest's acre

Patch by the Lane to

the Hill

U

0

13

Maes y Gyrn

3

0

20

Open held1 of the peak of the

hill

Erw Maes y Gyrn ...

0

3

4

„ Acre of the open field of the

Gyrn

Maes y Llwyn Gyrn

4

0

27

„ Open field of the wood of the

Gyrn

Erw fawr

2

0

17

Great acre

Erw Macs Ucha

1

0

15

,, Acre of the upper open field

Erw Bryn Dyfrgu ...

1

2

1G

,, The Otter's Bank

Erw Groes Newydd

2

2

21

Acre of the new Cross

Erw Dderwen

%

2

8

,, Acre of the Oak

Erw Cao Bychan ...

1

8

3

,, Acre of the little field

Cae Bye h an

1

2

23

„ Little field

Wern f rood (or Ffrwd )

7

2

6

,, The wet meadow of the torrent

Cae Bychan Issa ...

1

2

29

,, The little lower field

Wirgledd (or Gwoir-

„ The red meadow

glodd) Goch

8

1

30

Belan

3

2

■4

„ The Mound

Right of Common unlimited.

No Timber.

1 These scattered strips date from the open field system.

262 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

Another Terrier was made 31 March, 1791, which is
interesting as it gives us the measurements of the Old
Rectory and garden.

The House measures in the Front and North sides 66 feet,
West side 40 ft., East side 331 ft. A Dairy and Hogstye
on the North side 34 ft. x 18 ft., the Walls of stone and
covered with Straw. A Barn on the East side consisting of a
Barn floor and 3 Bays, a Cowhouse and 2 small Stables 104 ft.
x 18; one bay on the East side 26 ft. x 15. Also a Shin for
tying up Cattle on the East side 49 ft. x 8; all these are
under the same roof, the Wall part of timber and brick and
part of stone, the covering of straw.

Another Barn on the West side of the House, consisting of
Barn Floor, two Bays and a Cowhouse being 44 ft. x 18. The
Walls part of timber and boards, and part of stone, covd with
straw. Another stable near the Court in front of the House
21 ft. x 3 5. The Walls of stone covered with slate.

A garden on the West side of the House, south and north
213 ft., East 87 ft., West 60 ft. On the north side of this
garden is a hemp yard,1 south and north 153 ft., west 90 ft.,
east 102 ft., the fences of both of these are a hedge.

In the front of the house is a Court 51 ft. x 42 ft. fenced
with a Stone Wall. ,

There are 71 Trees growing upon the Churchyard and
Glebe Lands, Value £31 17s. Od.

To the Glebe Lands has been added [in 1777] an
allotment of Common, 35a. 3r. 27p. All the Terriers
give the same Tythe.

Modi Decimandi.

Corn, Hay, Hemp, Flax, Honey and Wool are paid in kind
to the Rector, thro'out the Parish, no modus nor exemption
pretended to. Tythe agistment at 2" per Pound.

The custom of tything Lambs is as follows : —

1 Hemp and flax were very profitable at this time. In 7 and 8,
Ueorge III., duties on foreign linen were raised, out of which bounties
were to be provided for encouraging the growth of Hemp and Flax.
In 1782 an Act was passed assigning £15,000 from these duties to
promote the raising and dressing of them, at the rate of 3d. a stone for
dressed hemp and 4d. a stone for dressed flax. This bounty was to
be received by the grower or other person who properly broke
and prepared the hemp or flax for tho market. (Three Centuries of
Dabyzkirt AnnaU, Vol, II., by Rev. % C. Cox, LLD., F.S.A.).

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH, 263

For Every Lamb for four the owner is to pay to the Rector
twopence. For five the half value of a Lamb. For six three-
pence above the half value. For seven the Rector is to have
a Lamb, paying thej owner a penny halfpenny. For eight a
Lamb paying a penny. For nine a Lamb paying a halfpenny.
Out of ten a Lamb.

Sheep grazing 30 days in the Parish or upwards entitles the
Rector to a proportion of Ty the, Wool, and Lamb. For every
Milch Cow a penny. For every mare and colt a penny.
A tythe Pig out of every Farrow, a month old, out of every
Flock. One goose only in stubble time, no Tythe feathers
being demanded. B And if there be but two, one is due. An
egg for every Hen and two for the Cock.

Easter Duties.

From every married Couple sevenpence whereof the Rector
has fivepence and the Clark twopence. From every Widower
or Widow three pence to the Rector. From every servant
Male or Female .capable of receiving the Sacrament twopence
to the Rector etc. And from every Tradesman fourpence for
his Trade over and above his other dues.

The Church and Churchyard fences are repaired by the
Parishioners. The Chancel by the Rector. The Bread and
Wine for the Communion are provided at the expence of the
Parishioners by the Discretion of the Minister.

Fees to the Minister.

£ s. d.

For Churching ... ... ... 006

For Publishing Banns ... ... 0 1 0

For Marrying by Banns ... ... 0 5 0

For Marrying by Licence ... ... 0 5 0

The Rector's loavo for burying in the Chancel or in the
Church necessary. The fee at his discretion. For burying in
the Churchyard 0 0 6d.

A Chief Rent of one shilling yearly payable to the Lord of
the Manor of Whittington, and also a Heriot of the best Beast
or Goods, on the death of each Rector to the said Lord of the
Manor.

Fees to the Clerk £ s. d.
For Churching ... ... ... 0 0 6

„ Wedding ... ... ...026

,. Burying and Grave ... ... 0 3 0

„ Tolling per hour ... ... 0 0 4

„ Cleaning tho Church per year ... 2 0 0

264 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

In 1791 the Clerks wages are £6 lis., paid yearly
by the Churchwardens, and the Clerk is appointed by
the Hector, as is likewise the Sexton.

The Church Furniture consists at present [1774] of
Two Surplices, one English Bible, two Welsh Bibles, two
English Common Prayer books, two Welsh Common Prayer
books, one Register, a silver Chalice and stand mark'd, James
Wilding in the year 1621, A silver Plate given by John Jones,
B.D., Rector in the year 1708, A silver flagon given by Thomas
Lloyd, Esq., of Aston, in the year 1711.

Inscription round the Chalice.

In the Steeple a Clock and two Bells.

The Church furniture is provided by the Parishioners, a
Crimson broad cloth pulpit cloth and Communion Table Cloth
of yo same, a linnen cloth, napkins, a Crimson Velvet Cushion
for the pulpit.

In the Terrier of 1791 were added 2 Palls and 2
Biers. Also there were 3 Bells in the steeple, and
3 English Prayer Books. The diminution of the Welsh
services is marked by there being only one Welsh Bible
and one Welsh Prayer Book instead of two.

SELATTYN ; A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 265

From the Book of the Inspection of Ecclcs. Buildings
oj the Deanery of Oswestry we learn that in 1809 there
was " a service and sermon in Welsh on the first
Sunday in the month, the rest in English." This ser-
vice in the old tongue including a Celebration of the
Holy Communion was held until a few years ago.

The second Vellum covered Register (1724) cost the
very moderate sum 4< For Binding, One Shilling." It
contains the following information concerning the
weather and the crops. They were very important to
the Rectors before the Commutation of Tithes in 1836.

1728. A very sickly season. Wheat between 9s. and 10s.
Best Barley about 7s. Oats, per bushel 6s. and 6d.

1729. Corn very dear, a very sickly time.

1735. This year remarkable for being very wet and cold
through, without any summer almost, winter wet
without much frost.

1735. Feb. A great snow fell ye eight day and continued to
ye end and mid. of March.

1738. Wheat at 3s. per measure and under.

1740. Corn at 8 shilling and 6 pence per strike; cattle cheap,
a large 2 year old for 30 shillings, generally not the
fifth part of t'other as upon all other years.

1740. 5 May. A great fall of snow with sharp frost at ye same
time.

1740. Sopt. Wheat att ten shillings and 6d. per strike ; corn
att ten shillings. This year being remarkable for frost,
dryness and dearth and troublesome times.

1741. Corn extreme dear; Blend corn some goto att nine
shillings and 6d. for strike, and wheat eleven shillings.

1741. May. Barley 7s. 6d.

1751. This year being remarkable for the distemper amongst
the Horn'd Cattel. And no Dying or seling for the
most part of that year.

1757. This year being remarkable for dearth and troublesome
times. Hay sold this year in this neighbourhood at
eight pounds per Ton.

1779. This summer and last owing to the violent heat of both
of them were attended with infectious sore throats,
which were also accompanied in the same person with
a Scarlet Fever, In the beginning was very fatal till
Kinetics after somo Practice was found to be a successful
Itomcdy.

266 SELATTVN I A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

1783. Corn remarkably dear, best Wheat 10/6, Barley 7/6,
and strike of Oats 10/6 a Bushel.

We have also a record of the Militia : —

We being Balloted to serve in the Militia for the Parish of
Selattyn do renounce our interest in the County money
ordered for us by Parliament in favour of the Substitutes.

As witness our hands

this 9th Octr 1762.

Robert Roberts
John Uryon

Witness E. Maurice. W. M. Lockley

The following account of beating the Bounds is very
interesting : —

A survey of the Boundaries of Selattyn Parish in the County
of Salop, compar'd with an ancient Survey and confirmed by
the Testimony of some ancient Persons living out of the
parish, well acquainted with the boundaries, and who had
oft-times heretofore taken a survey of the same in like manner,
taken in perambulating the boundaries of the said Parish on
Thursday the — day of May in the year of our Lord 1752
being Ascension Day ; by the Rector and others whose names
are hereunto subscribed.

Beginning at the Llwyn gate by the road leading from Chirk
Castle to Oswestry, from thence cross the same road and down
with the opposite hedge to the Folly, commonly called Gnoll
Goch, the House and buildings thereof included in the Parish
of Selattyn, then down Mr. Owen of Porkington's hedge, other-
wise called Gwerd y Terwyn, cross the lane at two stones fixed
for mear stones, between the liberties of Oswestry and Selattyn
from thcnco to Mr. Carter's Cae Fletcher, otherwise called
Erw Glyn y Worn, from a tree on the lane hedge, on a lino
cross that and the well field to the little house situate in Mr.
Carter's garden, from thence cross the garden to a door leading
out of the garden to the fold, leaving the whole house now
called Swan Hill in the Parish of Selattyn.

N.B. Tho old house stood partly in the parish of Selattyn
and partly in the Parish of Oswestry1 but the present house
being erected some yards more northwardly is wholly in
the Par. of Selattyn.

From thence through the fold gate into the Highway leading
from the Hills to Oswestry up the south side of tho wall of

1 Chap. V., Swanhill. Thoro must luivo been an curlier house than
the one built by Hobt. Lloyd.

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 267

Mr. Carter's outbuildings to a great stone in the way by the
said buildings, turn^to the left and so by a stone on the road-
side leading j from Oswestry to the Hayes, the seat of Mr.
Waring, up the north side of the said road and so along a sort
of hollow ditch betw. 2 great stones, and so to the other great
stones till you come opposite to Horley1 Hall gate formerly
called Park Gate, leaving the Brick-kilns in the Par. of Selattyn.

So by a stone in a cart track to some old holly and hawthorn
stumps along the same, leaving the pavement about 20 yards
south till you come to an old coalpit to the North and so on
to Pont y Avon^ Goch2 and along the highway to a close
now belonging to Sir W. W. Wynne and across the said close
to a wickey tree3 growing in the hedge of the said close west-
ward, then crossing the lane to a close belonging to John
Lawrence, along a ditch or mear marsh (the same appearing in
the close of Sir W. W. Wynne) crossing westward to an old
alder tree growing in the hedge of the same, from thence up a
purl of water westward running down a dingle formerly called
Nant Kelvn Duon up the said dingle and with the remains of
an old ditch which leads up to the Race Course upon Kern y
Bwlch, crossing the said course in the place called the slough
to a mear stone below, then turning south westerly to the
inclosure of Lucy Bennion to a well on the same place called
Fynnon Bennion,4 from thence crossing Offa's ditch towards
the upper end of Nant y Lladron5 and down the said dingle to
the river Morda, adjoinining the Lordship of Duparts or
Oswestry, from thence following up the right course of the said
river Morda or Nant Adon coming to the Lordship of Chirk
land, from thence up a purl of water north west called Aber
Koker adjoining the said Lordship from thence cross the Road
up to the ditch of inclosure in the said Lordship of Chirk land
called Ty-y-Skerry, some ruins of the house still remaining and
along the same till it meets with a mear ditch which crosses
from thence eastwardly to Rossedwen belonging to the Lord-
ship of Chirk down with the stream of a purl of water which

1 Oerley.

2 Bridge of the red river. Tradition says it ran with blood during
a battle.

3 A mountain ash. See Shrcp. Word Book.

4 Edward Bennion of Cyrn y Bwch was a surgeon, died 27 Feb.,
1788, aged 09. ITis son Edward, also a surgeon, died 31 July, 1844,
aged 87. Moil, in Oswestry Churehyard.

0 Ravine of the Thieves.

Vol. IX., 2nd S, LL

268

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

runs along the ditch of the inclosure of Rossedwen and parts
the same from Gvvern issa, from thence near the end of the
inclosure of Rossedwen turning up part of the inclosure to
a mear stone in the same and leaving the House to the left
crossing over at a breach in Offa's Dyko being the way leading
to Rossedwen House and turning along the said ditch north- I
wards till you come to the river Morlass down the course of the
said river till you come by Edmund Hales's House, then
turning along the lane which divides the parishes of Selattyn
and Whittington till you come to a gate short of David Price's
turn in at the same and over down the meadow hedges to an
ash tree by Thomas Jones of the Mardy's Barn thro the fold
gate to the Hengoed common, down the road to a mear stone
turning down by a Ditch Bank and so down a sort of hollow
to another large stone, proceeding with a purl of water and
over the middle of Mary Jones's house, crossing the garden at
the plumb trees and over the larger part of the enclosure again
into the Common following a purl of water to a stone from
thence southward to another stone by a road leading down to
a Tump of Trees on the common proceeding from two large
stones to another stone and over a Woodden Piatt or foot
bridge to a large mear stone sunk in the pavement by the
hedge of Thomas Marden's enclosure, so to an oak tree in the
inclosure. Cross the enclosure in a line to a forked tree to
some distance easterly by a lane leading from the Common to
Daywell, from the forked Tree straight down Cae Freeze to a
stile, leaving about two strikes sowing in the Parish of Whit-
tington, crossing Cae Cunning the footway from the stile to an
oak tree and over at the corner south easterly with the next
hedge to the corner and so down to the north hedge of Cae
Berd and Coed issa over at the corner and down the north
hedge of Wirglodd Goch with a purl of water to Maes tan
y Wern with the north hedge to a crab tree in the piece
adjoining the lane leading from Gobowen to Chirk : from the
Crab Tree turn to the right to the point of the Hedge, down
the same hedge eastward till you come to the stile leading to
the highway going from Chirk to the Gobowen, pursue the
way and cross over through the Holly Hedge into the Bower
in a patch belonging to the corner house of the lane leading to
Whittington, from thence over into Ralph Knipe's field down
the purl of water into the lane leading to Whittington ; cross the
lane with the water to the north hedge in Rossedd field pursue
the hedge and go on easterly as far as the extreme point of Cae
Ithin in the holding of Thomas Foulkes of Fernhill turning
with the east hedge cross from the corner over the next field

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 269

to a point of the meadow hedge below leaving about a strike
and s half sowing in the Parish of Whittington, pursue the
hedge till you come by the Oak Mill, get over into the mill fold
by an ash tree and so up the Lane to the Cross ways, thence
thro' the garden down by the Smith's house, down the garden
and over the south east corner into the Lane leading to the
fields, pursue the footway leading to Park House till you come
to an oak tree abl 40 yards nearer Park than the stile leading
into Cae pwll y Bran from the said Tree cross over Cae pwll y
Bran and Cae Paris and to the bottom hedge of Cae Paris to a
large mear stone in the south west corner ; go by the hedge at
the west end of the meadow and over the hedge to the left of „
the stile to the root of an old ash tree abl 20 yards to the left
of a Pool of water situate above the stile cross from the said
root to two Crab trees in the south hedge of the said field,
pursue the said hedge to the Highway leading from Gobowen
to Oswestry, follow the road to the north west corner of Mr
Turner's Cae Llyde on the east side of the said road, get over
in the corner and on to a large mear stone in the field south
easterly, proceed to an old Crab tree, in the south hedge betw.
an Oak and an Ash Tree, go over to a Mear or Tump in the
next held easterly and so on to another Tump or Mear Stone
pointing to a largo straight Oak Tree in the Hedge of the
Highway leading from Whittington to Oswestry, pursue the
road towards Oswestry till you come to the Hedge of the field
belonging to Pentrepant and now in the holding of Mr. Nathaniel
Jones Butcher in Oswestry, turn up the said Hedge between it
and Mr. Turner's piece and proceed Westward to the purl of
Water in the Highway leading from Old port to Oswestry,
Cross the road with the stream and up the hedge when it runs
from Mr. Mytton's Llwyn ground, follow Mr. Turner's hedge as
far as his ditch goes up to the said fir tree Bank, then turn
over into the Llwyn Bank and going down to the left, follow
an old ditch by an old Well to the place where formerly stood
the Llwyn house through the old house place to the gate going
into the road leading from Chirk Castle to Oswestry where we
began with tho boundaries.1

1 The present boundaries are different, owing to the formation of
the parish of Rhydycroesau, 17 Aug., 1814, which comprises the
portion of Selattyn between the Racecourse and Llansilin ; and of tho
Hengoed par., 21 January, 1851.

Rhydycroesau Church was built mainly through the exertions of
Rev. (1. \. Lloyd, Rector of Selattyn.

270 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

Signed. Willm Roberts Rector
Will. Owen Esq.

James Turner gent thro' his own Demesne
JJavid Morris
John Venables gent.
John Arthur gent.
John Thomas gent.
Rossendale Lloyd Esq. Aston
Thomas Vernon do,
Etc.

The following is taken from a paper at Brogyntyn: —

ont v ) Proposals made by the Freeholders of the Manor
'of Whittino-ton relating to the Enclosing the

Commons in that Manor.

In the Township of ) To give the Lord a fourteenth share
Porkington they propose J and all their right to the Cottages
and Encroachments that have been erected or Inclosed Thirty
years, Otherwise to give him an eighteenth share and all their
right to the Cottages and Encroachments that have been
erected Twenty years. — The Commissioners to allott the Lord
as much Waste in value of each particular Freeholders Share
as shall be equal to the present Incroachments of such Free-
holders, the said Waste to be fix'd as Contiguous as may be to
some part of the Lord's Land. — The present occupiers of each
Cottage to be granted a Lease by the Lord of their respective
Cottages for the Life of themselves and their Wives and the
survivor of them paying the same rents they now do, Those
Cottagers who refuse to accept of Leases on the above Terms,
are to have no Advantage of the Rill intended to be pass'd
according to these proposals. — All the Lime Rocks now opened
and the Lands thereunto Adjoining to be allotted by the Com-
missioners to the Lord in part of his Share of the Waste.

Robert G. Owen.

[Here follows, In the par. of Whittington, etc.].

N.R. 'Tis explained that the preceding proposals are not
meant to Include any Inclosures made out of Memory, and for
which no Acknowledgment is paid to the Lord of the Manor.

Re it also explained that the parts Exempted from the pay-
ment of Great Tyths for Nine Years are only such parts of the
Hill, particularly called Selattin Hill, lyinge between the
Orsedd Dingle and St. Martin's Mountain, and also such parts

SELATTYN : A IJISTORY OF THE PARISH. 271

above Offa's Dyke which have never been cultivated or Inclosed,
But that all parts of the same that have been heretofore Culti-
vated or are now Inclosed are to be subject to the payment of
Tyths immediately.

The following Enclosure Act is from the County
Records.

Act of Parliament for Enclosing Commons or Waste Lands,
within the Manor of Whittington, Co. Salop.

Whereas there are within the several Townships of Whit-
tington, Berghill Frankton, Hindford, Henlley, Ebnall, Day-
well, Old Morton, and Pqrkington in the Parishes of Whitting-
ton and Sylattyn within the Manor of Whittington, Co. Salop,
several large tracts of Commons or Waste Lands, called or
know n by the several names of Babbyns Wood .... Hengoed,
the Rhewl, Sylattyn Mountains, Gwern issa, Gwern y rouw,
Bryn y gole, Cefn Coch, Maes y gwraig, Cefn y fedw, Cyrn y
Bwch; Wern oer, Twympath ytnin, Gwern Elsbeth. . . .

Whereas John Robert Lloyd Esq. a minor is Lord of the
Manor of Whittington .... and whereas Watkin Williams
Esq. is impropriator of a moiety of the Great Tithes of the
Township of Whittington, and the Revd William Roberts, Clerk
is the Parish Rector of the said Parishes of Whittington and
Sylattyn .... and whereas John Mytton, Robert Godolphin
Owen Esquires, the said Watkin Williams, George Warington,
Clerk, John Charlton Kinchant, Robert Lloyd the elder, Robert
Lloyd the younger Esquires, Joseph Venables and Thomas
Edwards Clerks, and several other persons are owners

Be it enacted that all the Commons and Waste Lands within
the said Parishes of Whittington and Sylattyn on or before the
29th of September, 1777, be set out divided and allotted by
John Evans, Llwyn y groes, Co. Salop, Esq., Thomas Boydell of
Trevallin, Co. Denbigh, Richard Hill of Farley, Co. Stafford-
shire, Commissioners appointed for that purpose.

Be it further enacted that the said John Robert Lloyd by
himself, his Guardians, agent or Bailiff and any other persons
entitled to right of Common on the said Common or Waste
Lands . . . shall openly, publicly, and in the day time, ride or
perambulate the limits or outboundaries of the Common or

Waste Lands to be divided and enclosed notice of the

ride or perambulation to be givon at least 14 days previously
in tilt) Shrewsbury and Chester Newspapers, and allixod to Uio
principal doors (if the Parish Churches of Whittington and

272 SELATTYN I A HISTORY OF TUE PARISH.

Sylattyn, in case any persons shall have or make any claims
affecting the limits or outboundaries of the said Manor of
Whittington ....

For the more just and regular division .... be it further
enacted a Survey shall be made by tho Commissioners of all
the said Commons and Waste Lands.

In order to defray the expenses of obtaining and passing this
Act .... part of the lands to be sold ....

And be it further enacted .... the Commissioners shall
set out and allott and appoint one full and equal 13th part of
the Commons and Waste Lands to the said John Robert Lloyd,
in consideration of his giving up his right to the Limestone
quarries for the benefit of the Freeholders.

And be it further enacted .... the Commissioners shall
allott to and for the said William Roberts and his successors,
Rector of the said Parishes of Whittington and Solattyn so
much and such parts of the said Commons and Waste Lands,
as shall be an equivalent or compensation for his right of
Common thereon in respect of his Glebe Lands within the
said Parishes. . . .

And be it further enacted .... the said Commissioners
.... shall allott all the residue of the said Commons and
Waste Lands unto, for and amongst the said John Robert
Lloyd, John Mytton, Robert Godolpnin Owen, Watkin Williams,
George Warrington, John Charlton Kinchant, Robert Lloyd
the elder, Robert Lloyd, Joseph Venables and Thomas Edwards
and the several other owners and proprietors of the said
Messuages, Lands and Tenements having right of Common
upon the said Commons or Waste Lands (other than and
excepting the said William Roberts and his successors as
Rectors aforesaid) rateably and in proportion to the real extent
and value of such of their respective estates, in respect of which
they are entitled to such right of Common aforesaid.

And provided always and be it further enacted .... that
nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend
or give any power or Authority to the Commissioners to take
in, assign or allott, divide or enclose any part of the said Waste
Land within the line of the ancient Course called Cyrn y Bwch,
otherwise Cefn y Bwch Race Course; within the Manor of
Whittington aforesaid, or any part of the Waste ground within
the space or distance of one hundred yards of the outside of
the Lino of the said Race Course or any part thereof ... but
the same shall be and remain free, open and uninclosed.

All Cottages, Incroachnionts and Jnclosures which have
beon erected upon the said Common Lands for the space of

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

273

Twenty years before the passing of this Act, shall be deemed
the sole property of John Robert Lloyd, except such Cottages
Incroachments and Inclosures made upon or taken from the
said Commons or Waste Lands by any Freeholders of the
Manor, their or any of their tenants . . . which said last shall
be deemed the sole and exclusive property of the said Free-
holders.

Any Lime Works that are erected or standing, together with
forty Acres of the said Commons or Waste Lands, adjoining to
such Lime Works, shall be allotted to the Lord of the Manor.

Nothing shall prejudice, lessen or defeat the Right of the
Lord of the Manor to any Mines or Minerals lying within or
under any of these allottments, other than Marie, Clay, Sand,
Rockstones and Lime Stone Quarries.

A. It. P.

Total of Hengoed allotment ... ... 190 2 37

Do. Cyrn y bwch etc. ... ... 2 168 0 36

Do. Amongst the Proprietors of Lands .. . 1777 0 0
Do. To Poor of Sylattyn ... ... 18 0 6

Do. To Presbyterians, lands situated on
the right hand side of the road
from Sylattyn to LLmsilin ... 10 2 15
Do, On tho right of the road from Oswes-
try to Weston ... .. 3 1 37

The Vestry Book has an entry respecting the Race-
course, half of which lies in Selattyn parish and half in
Oswestry, the boundary being marked by the road to
Llansilin : —

Nov. 1785. The Overseers of the Poor are hereby au-
thorized to fence that part of the Horse Course which lies up
to the Road, to pay the expense out of the Poors Lewn, to let
the said Course to a Tenant and apply the profits thereof for
tho use of the Poor under the direction of the following Com-
mittee : The Rector, Robt. Lloyd, Esq., senr., Robt. Lloyd, Esq.,
junr., Rev. Turner Edwards, Rev. Thos. Edwards, M* Sion.

We do not know the date at which the Races began,
the earliest record of them is in the first Racing
Calendar, which is as follows : —

9th July, 1728. Mr W. Wynn's b. m. Molly in tho Moor won
a plate ot 30 G9 for any horse carrying 10at. Won in 2 heats.

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It will be remembered that in Robert Godolphin
Owen's letter to his mother in 1760 he mentions that
il 7 Racers are arrived."

In 1777 Sir Watkin VVynn gave a cup to be run for,
which was won by " Young Mai ton," a horse belonging
to Noel Hill, Esq., M.P. for Shropshire; created Lord
Berwick 1784; which was presented by him to the
Oswestry Corporation.

In 1785 the Races were discontinued and the ground
let.

They began again in 18021 and were held every year
with the exception of 1814 (when Sir Watkin; who
gave the cup, was away with his Volunteers on the
Continent) down to 1648 when they were done away
with, and the ground is now unenclosed, and it is to be
hoped may remain free to the poor for ever.

There are two Racing Cups at Brogyntyn, both won
by Mr. Ormsby-Gore in 1821. A silver gilt Cup won
by the Duke, beating Thyrsis, Anti-Radical, and Man-
deville ; and a silver Cup won by Mad Moll.

There is an old tradition that once upon a time three
giants lived at Selattyn, and disputed as to which was
the strongest, and to decide the matter they picked up
three stones on Cyrn y Bwch and threw them with all
their force to see which could throw the farthest. One
alighted in the Swan Hollow (removed when the land
adjoining the Rope Walk in Oswestry was built over) ;
the second at a moderate distance from the town, on the
left of the Shrewsbury road, which measured 7 ft. high
and 12 ft. in circumference ; and the third a quarter of
a mile further on.2

The principal roads in the parish are : —

1. The high road from Oswestry over the Race
Course through Rhydycroesau to Llanarmon. This is
intersected above the Mount by a bye-road leading

1 A UhL of theStQwarda 1802-48 ia givon Hye-Gonrs, July 11, 1883,
and of tho winning iVdraoa. Ibid. Sept. 5.
* Ibid. Aug. 1875.

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

275

through Pantglas to Selattyn, where it emerges below
the Rectory.

A bye-road below the Race Coarse leads to Cefn
Ooch.

2. The road from Oswestry to Selattyn Church,
leaving Brogyntyn on the left, and Oakhurst (formerly
Mount Sion) and Pentrepant on the right. This road
leads by the Glyn and Orseddwen to Chirk, in
Denbighshire.

A bye-road above Pentrepant leads to the Hengoed

On 5 November, 1794. The vestry agreed that a
bridge be built over the brook at the bottom of the
Eagles Hill, leading to Pantglas, in order to enable
the surveyor of the highways to use the said hill,
which otherwise cannot be effected without a consider-
able cost, and that a loan of 6d in the pound be
collected for that purpose.

This road was altered in —

1816, 14 July. A vestry was held to consider the
propriety of stopping up the road leading from Pentre-
pant Lodge to the gate, near the Eagles1, in a field
belonging to G. H. W. Carew, Esq., and using the
road leading by Ty Coch in lieu thereof.

It was this day fully and mutually agreed that the
said road should be stopped up, and Major Ormsby
Gore undertakes to pay the sum of 75 guineas for the
making of the said road by Ty Coch, and Ed. Williams of
lilawrypant, contracts with the parishioners to make
the said new road at, and for the sum of 75 guineas, he
undertaking to pay Mr Carew for the land which may
be required to widen the said road, which is to be the
full statute width of 2 1 feet. And this parish agree to
sell the old road reaching from Pentrepant Lodge to
the gate, near the Eagles, aforesaid, to Major Ormsby
Gore, for the sum of 75 guineas.

1805, January 27. At a vestry, it was agreed that
the hill immediately adjoining the village of SyDattyn,

1 The public house bearing this name was happily done away with.
Vol. IX. 2nd S. MM

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on the road leading to the Craignant and Glyn, should
be repaired, and ye hill rendered less steep according
to an estimate .... of <£34 7s. Gd., at the joint
expense of the whole parish.

In speaking of the geography of the parish, we may
notice here, that the River Perry rises in Brogyntyn
Park, and passes Whittington Castle on its way south.

The Oswestry Municipal Records1 in an Agreement, 16
Sept., 1781, of the Earl of Powis, Lord of the Manor of
Oswestry, etc., for the repair of the gates and gateways —

declare by ancient Custom the Inhabitants of the several
Townships of . . . and Sylattin used to carry and of Right
ought to carry Materials for the repair of the said Gates and
gateways and pavements under the same, and such Great
Burgesses have in respect thereof been constantly exempt
from payment of Toll thorough, but nevertheless have always
from time whereof the memory of man is not to the contrary
paid and of right ought to pay Toll for their Corn, Cattle,
goods, and other things from time to time brought into the
Markett of the saide Towne and Borough of Oswestry on
Markett and Fair Days.

In 1G73 the freeholders but not the undertenants of Sylattin
etc. . . . are free of the Toll gates on the payment of a ld
only.

Amongst the Burgesses of Oswestry not before men-
tioned are : —

1674. John Phillips of Porkington, £3, Oliver Thomas of
Sallaten, Miller, £3, Phillip ap David of Porkington,
yeom, Thomas Hughes of Porkington and his brothels,
Thomas Davies of Porkinton, yeom.

1700, 13 Nov. Mr Rosindale Lloyd, Mercer, and paid for ye
same £3.

1735, 10 J any. William Lewis of the Township of Porkington

. . . and paid for the same £4.
1793, 25 Oct. At an Assembly by a full house held this day

Owen Ormsby of Porkington, Esq., was unanimously

1 We arc indebted to J. Parry-Jones, Fsq., Town Clerk, for the
following records

JSELATTYN I A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 277

elected a Burghess of the said Town Gratis and at the
same time the High Steward on the behalf of the Lord
of the Manor consented thereto.

Amidst the miscellaneous information in the
Register, we note two regarding Oswestry.

First, that " the new Schoolhouse [the Grammar
School, founded 1407.] was finished in the year 1776.
Mr Tisdale Schoolmaster," and that a severe storm
took place : —

On Saturday night, the 6th of June, 1778, about half an
hour after nine, happened at Oswestry one most dreadful
Hash of lightening, attended by rain. At the house of John
Fox, the Salop and Oswestry carrier, who lived a little below
the black gate, the lightening rushed down the kitchen
chimney, and took its course into a ground chamber just
opposite to the fireplace in the kitehen, almost in the entrance
of which stood a maiden servant of Mr Fox's, rocking a young
child of his in a cradle, whom it killed on the spot. It after-
wards was attracted by a wire rod on which was filed receipts,
&c (which were not even singed), and which was exactly over
the young woman's head, from thence it forced itself into a
Room above, making a small chink in both the ceiling and
flooring, just in which place stood a four-post Oak Bedstead,
which it greatly shattered, and burnt some part of the
hangings and cloaths on the Bed. At last it darted itself out
at the window being much heatened, to which it probably may
be attracted by some Iron Bars in the window. It was seen
to roll up the street in one vast sheet of Fire as far as the
Queen's Head, where an Iron Bull-Ring attracted it, and it
instantly disappeared, as was observed, by losing itself in the
Earth. What Avas remarkably providential attending the
melancholy accident was, that the Bedstead which was so
much damaged, was that which two or three young children
usually lay on, but were that night very happily put into
another bed, owing to a very frivolous Reason, because there
was no clean Linen laid upon their own. The young child in
the Cradle was not hurt and there were seven of the family,
sitting each side of the Kitchen fire at the time, which did not
receive any injury, only Mrs Fox's right cheek was a little
scorched. The lightening and explosion were instantaneous,
and not, so violently shocking as that which happened at

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Mr. Edwards, of Mount Sion, which is recorded by him in this
Registry.

Earlier the same evening much mischief was done at
Shrewsbury by Lightening, which in different parts of the
kingdom at different times this year was very frequent, most
dreadfully alarming nnd prejudicial, and was attributed to
the great Heats, which were uncommonly violent for this
Climate.

Monday, the 13th July, 1778, was the hottest day
ever remembered. The thermometer in a cool place
was as high as 80 degrees, and the heat was remarked
to be equal to that which is the common heat of the
summer in Jamaica.

The register contains the usual collections under
Letters Patent from 1G61 to 16G8, the sums collected
varying from 2s. 2d. to 5s. 8d., which was collected 7
Feb., 1668, "for the poo re in London that suffered loss
by that dreadful fire." The only previous collection
mentioned, was March 24, 1660, for " the repair of Con-
do ver Church 3s. 4d." There are two subsequent ones
for " the relief of ye ffrench Protestants ye sum of 24s.
6|d., June 17, 1688, and "for ye relief of ye sufferers
by fire in Warwick 16s. 2d., July 28, 1695."

This concludes our extracts from the register. We
may add here that the cost of the restoration of the
Church in 1890-92, was £3,321 Is. 6d., it was re-
opened 4 August, 1892.

Of the Fauna and Flora of the parish, I can give no
detailed description.

In 1888, a pit was opened upon the Gloppa Farm,
which lies on the eastern slope of the ridge of Carboni-
ferous Rocks, above Brogyntyn. It is from 1,070 to
1,130 feet above the level of the sea, and was found to
contain Marine Shells, some of Arctic and Scandinavian
species, not living in British seas. The bulk of the
stones are Silurian grits and Argillite. A list of the
fossils will be found in the Journal of the Geological
Society, vol. xlviii, pp., 86 — 95. An elephant's tusk,

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 279

15 inches long, was also dug up, which was, however,
unfortunately broken.

The plants and ferns are those usually found in lime-
stone districts.

We must not omit to mention Guy Fitz Candelan.1

The 39th vol. of Dugdale's MSS.2 states that
one " Sir Pers de Brumwyl conceived he should
gain some honour to himself by personating the
lord of Whittington, and he therefore called himself by
the name of Fulke Fitzwarin ... lie took a journey
to Salesbyri, accompanied by the forty-two sons of Guy
Fitz Candelon of Porkyngton . . . Fulke and his
brethren lay wait for them in the woods of Ness
Strange," and if we may believe the MS. of Dugdale
" all the sons of Porky n ton paid, with their lives, the
forfeit of their disloyalty to their former lord."

Blakeway further informs us that during the war at
the beginning of Henry II. 's reign with the Princes of
North Wales that " Gwarine [i.e., Fitz Warin] appointed
one Gwrin or Guy the son of Candelon of Porkington,
Castellan of Whittington and Warden of his lands of
Blancheville. This officer discharged his trust with
courage and ability." Blakeway infers from this that
Guy de Candelon did not side with the enemy of Fulk
Fitz Warin.

It may strike the readers of this history that very
little information has been given from the County
Records of Salop, but we must remind them that the
Lordship of Whittington, of which Selattyn is a part,
lay " within the Country or Dominion of Wales " until
27 Henry VIII. , when by Act of Parliament it was
u united annexed and joined to and with the County of
Salop." Selattyn Parish (also Oswestry and Llany-
mynech) enjoy special privileges at the Welsh School at
Ash ford as if they were still in Wales.

1 Candclo tilius Gorgene, is mentioned in the Petition of Llywelyn
ap ttrultydd, 9 Kd. I. (%<•« Waliivw JjjH-m'h; ». 525, No. (it,).

2 Wake way* & Shop. Parochial UnL MSS, Bodleian Lib.

280 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

In conclusion I must express my thanks to my many
helpers, especially to W. J. Hardy, Esq., F.S.A., for
help in deciphering documents at the P.R.O., to the
Kev. llossendale Lloyd for permission to make extracts
from the Parish Books, to Lord Harlech, Stanley
Leighton, Esq., and Mrs. Thruston for the use of their
valuable private documents, and to Archdeacon Thomas
for copies of St. Asaph wills and other valuable in-
formation.

SKLATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 281

NOTE TO CHAPTER VI.

CERTIFICATE OF CHANTRIES, ETC., WITHIN THE CO. OF
SALOP TEMP. ED. VI.

Public Record 0(Jice Chantry Certificate No. 41.

The Parish
of Cella-
ttyno.

The Servyce of
our Ladye within
the said Parish,
founded of one
priest toeelebrate
at the Altar of
Our Lady w ithin
the Parish ( Ihurch
thero to continue
for ever.

David ap Richard
Stipendiary, a^ed
41, and no other
living but upon
donation.

The value
of the
1 a n d s
14/4.

The re-
prisals
nil.

The re-
mainder
14/4.

Value, kc. of

To Preachers

nil.
To Schools

nil.

To the Poor

nil.
Remainder
14/4.

( Plate 8^ ounces
((ioods 3/4.

[It is submitted that the above document suggests
that Selattjn Church was not originally dedicated to
S. Mary ; had it possessed that dedication, the 11 Altar
of our Lady " would have been called the High Altar.
The original construction of the Church did not admit
of a Chantry Chapel ; but the Altar here mentioned,
supposing it was not the High Altar, was probably
under the Rood Screen].

RETURN OF THE ISSUES OF DISSOLVED CHANTRIES IN
THE CO. OF SALOP (PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE).

Ministers Accounts 2 and 3 Ed. VI., JSro. 44, Mem. 53.

The late Fraternity
of the Blessed Mary
within the Parish
Church of Cellatyne

The accountant answers for 14/4 of the
rent and farm of all the lands and tene-
ments pertaining to the said late Frater-
nity, in the several tenures

that is to say —
3/4 of Thomas Hangmer1 for a certain

free rent from his lands in Porkington.
2/ of the same for 3 lbs. of wax.
2/8 of David ap Howell1 ap John for his

lands in Porkington late of JevanapDd.

1 These names have occurred before in this History.
Vol. IV, 2nd S.

NN

1>82 SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH.

20d of Hoell ap Yollyn1 for a tenement

and certain lands in Porkington.
12d of Jevan ap Ll'n for a close there in

his tenure.
I0d of Try stan Laky1 for meadow and

arrable land.
4d of Kiel), ap Jenkin 1 acre of land in

Packington. (sic.)
2d of David ap William1 for J acre of

land there.
12d of David ap Gruff, for 3 acres of land

there.

lGd of Thomas Hanmer, for a certain
annual rent issuing from his lands in
Porkington.
Kent reserved [none mentioned].

Public Record Office. Exchequer, Q. R. Miscell. Books,
vol. oexxi., fol. 49.

List ot Ecclesiastical Pensions paid under the Act 2
and 3 Phil, and Mary, in accordance with the Terms of
an Indenture between the King and Queen, and
Cardinal Pole, the Papal Legate.

To David ap Rice, late of the Fraternity of the
Blessed Mary in Selaton, by the year, xiiij8.

The following document, which is printed at the end
of the Chantry Certificate, Co. Salop, No. 41, probably
refers to a donation to the parish priest.

Stocks of Cattle and money given and used to the finding
of any priest, obit, light or lamp within the said County.
The Parish of A stock of Cattell geven heretofore
Cellattyne. to the mayntenaunco of a preste
to celebrate within the said parish.

The stock of Cattle
priced at 121 28.

1 These names have occurred before in this History. Thirstan
Lake n vvuh buried 21 Nov., 15(53.

SELATTYN : A HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 283

THE RECTORS OF SELATTYN.

24 May, 1378. Presentation by Rich II. of William Spark
to the Church of Sulatton in the diocese of St. Asaph ; in the
King's gift by reason of the custody of the lands of Fulk
Fitz VVaryn.

Patent Roll 1 Rich. II. , part 6, m. 28.

This Fulk Fitz Warin did not come of age until 1383.
Vide Chapter I.

The following is interesting : —

Clerical Subsidies 1
34c.

Contribution gathered in 19 Nov. 35 Hen. VII J. [1543] "of
the devotion of the people" for "defence against the Turk."
Deanery of the Marches.
Church of Sulatten 2/.

Churchwardens -f P> aP ^yjb^

( Roger ap lio11 temr. (sic.)

15/- was collected at Oswestry and 8d at Llan Martyn [St.

Martin's] for the same purpose.

284

THE LOEDSHIP OF SHRAWARDINE.

An article in these Transactions, entitled " Notes on
the Church, Castle, and Parish of Shrawardine,"
by the Rev. John Ernest Auden, M.A., then Curate of
that parish (2nd Series, vol. vii., pp. 120 — 202), con-
tains an account of the Lords of the Manor, and Patrons
o(' the Living, of Shrawardine, in which some few in-
accuracies have been observed, and call for correction.
The article taken as a whole is a valuable contribution
to these pages, and shews a considerable amount of
honest work, rendering it the more necessary that these
flaws should be rectified. We have Mr. Auden's full
concurrence in doing this. Other minor corrections he
has himself supplied to us.

Page 135, line 9, for £600, read £6,000.

„ 19, for 1644, read 1644-5.
Page 154, commencing with line 8, read —

(1) . Edward James, 3rd Earl, born Nov. 5, 1818, died May 7,

1891.

(2) . Lady Lucy Caroline, born Dec. 10, 1819, married Fredrick

Calvert, Esq., Q.O , died May 3, 1884.

(3) . Lady Charlotte Elizabeth, born Feb. G, 1821, married Hugh

Montgomery, Esq., of Crey Abbey, co. Dow n.

(4) . Rt, Hon. Lieut-General Sir Percy Egerton, K.C.B., born April

15, 1822, married Lady Mary Petty Fitz Maurice, died Oct.
7, 1876.

(5) . Hon. and Very Rev, Georgo, Dean of Hereford, born Nov. 25,

1825, murried Elizabeth Beatrice, daughter of Sir Tatton
Sykes, Bt., died March 15, 1694.

(6) . Hon. Robert Charles, born June 24, 1827, married Anna Maria,

only daughter of late Edward Clndde, Esq., of Orleton, co.
Salop.

(7) . Lady Harriet Jane, born Dec. 21, 1831, died June 21, 1880.

(8) . Major General Hon. William Henry, born Feb. 8, 1834, married

Sybella, daughter of Mark William Vane Milbank, Esq., of
Thorp Perrow.
Resume at line 9.

Page 189, lino 3 from bottom, for Ritchingham, read Ditchiupham.
Page 194, Hue 8 from bottom, for Bucksted, read Buxtcd. For
aerouni, of William Clarke, see the Dictionary of Natumat Biography.

EDITORS.

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THE EARLY MANUSCRIPTS BELONGING TO
SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

By STANLEY LEIGHTON, M.P., F.S.A.

Shrewsbury School is rich in ancient manuscripts
and in early printed books, some of great rarity, some
unique. Many of the volumes retain their original
bindings, several their clasps, and some the iron hasps
by which they were chained to their shelves. The
Library of the old School was built in 1595. The
manuscripts, the catalogue of which is now published,
were presented in the early years of the 17th century.

Through the kindness of Sir Edward Maunde
Thompson, K.C.B , the Princpal Librarian of the British
Museum, the present catalogue has been made by
Mr. J. A. Herbert, assistant in the department of MSS.,
and a report has been furnished by Mr. F. G. Kenyon,
also of the British Museum.

For the sake of comparison, Dr. Butler's list, written
in the early part of this century, has also been printed.
There are in all 36 volumes, but in some volumes
several treatises are bound up together, so that if
counted separately, there appear to be 88 distinct works.
The languages in which the greater number of them are
written are medieval Latin and archaic English ; but
there is one in Welsh (MS. XI.), and another (MS. V.I I.)
contains a French Christmas hymn, beginning : —

Lo tens ioyus est venu
Kg noncl est nomu.

The volumes are now numbered continuously in tho
order in whioh they are set in this catalogue. The
Vol. I X., 2nd S. UU

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EAULY MANUSCRIPTS BELONGING

somewhat confusing press marks of the older arrange-
ment are, however, preserved, and they are as follows; — ■
1st. Museum, 27.

2nd. Museum, III., 38 to 52, with the omission of 4G.
3rd. Museum, X., 24 to 29.
4th. I. to XII., MS. Theol. Shrewsbury School.
5th. A to E , MS. Theol. Shrewsbury School.
6th. 6 and 11., MS. Theol. Shrewsbury School.
7th. 27, MS. Shrewsbury School.

The pedigrees of books as well as of pictures and
persons deserve notice. Whence came these manu-
scripts, and who have been their successive owners ?
Happily in some cases their names are recorded.

Nos. I. and XXXV. belonged to the Preaching Friars of Chester.
No. Vf. contains a sequence "In translacione Sancti Cedde,"
suggesting, as Mr. Herbert observes, a possible con-
nection with St. Chad's, in Shrewsbury.

„ XII. belonged to Buildwas Abbey.

„ XV. belonged to the Franciscans of Hereford.

„ XXIV. belonged to the Dominicans of Chester.

„ XXVII h was bought at his own cost by Friar John Sonkey.

„ XXIX. contains copies of two letters from the Monks of
Lenton, a Cluniac Priory in Nottinghamshire.

„ XXXII. belonged to the community of Minorite Friars of
Shrewsbury, by gift of Friar Thomas de Maddel.

„ XXXI1L belonged Wombridge Priory.

There are other names in the Books which indicate
former possession, and amongst these perhaps the
most notable is that of Alexander de Stavensby, alias
de Wenlock, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (MSS.
I. and XXXV). He held the See from 1224 to 1238. In
his time the dispute as to the election of the Bishops
of Lichfield, between the canons of Lichfield and the
monks of Coventry, was settled, it being arranged that
they should take it by turns ; but that in all elections
the Prior of Coventry was to give the first vote. King
Henry III. was jealous of the Bishop, suspecting him j
to be mixed up with a conspiracy against himself. The
Bbhop thereupon put on his episcopal robes, and having
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SHREWSBURY SCHOOL. 287

of so base a design as was involved in the conspiracy,
the King's suspicions against him were allayed. The
Bishop built a monastery in the city, still called the
Friary, and extra parochial, for the Franciscans. He is
said to have died at Andover, and to have been buried
in the Cathedral (ex ret. Canon Lonsdale).

Of the benefactors who made these gifts to the School,
so far as their identity can be traced, something in
grateful acknowledgment must be written.

Mr. Richard Bostock of Tattenhall in the County Palatine
of Chester, gent., gave to the Librarie att the flfree schoole in
Shrewsbury twelve manuscript bookes, in soe many several
volumes; seaven of them beinge in folio, fouro in 4° and one
in 8°.

They are thus numbered in the present catalogue: —
I., IX., XIII., XVIII.. XXIII., XXIV., XXV.,
XXVII., XXVIII., XXXV. The twelve several
volumes are reduced to ten ; either two have been lost,
or on the occasion when a number of volumes were
re-bound by Eddowes of Shrewsbury in the early part
of this century, some originally separate from each
other must have been bound up together.

Richard Bostock was admitted to the School in 1584.
He was descended from Henry, younger brother of Sir
Ralph Bostock of Bostock (6 Hen. V.). The Elizabethan
house of this branch of the Bostocks is mentioned by
Ormerod as standing at the S.W. end of the village of
Tattenhall. It is still called Tattenhall Hall, and is
used as a farm house. In 1G28 this branch of the
family of Bostock had been settled there for five
generations. In 1G22 another of the name of Bostock
(Thomas) was admitted to the School.

Thomas Price (MS. II.), Preacher and Minister of
Saynt Cedde. He was appointed curate of St. Chad's
in 1583 by patent from the Corporation. He was
admitted a member of the Shearman's Company in
1582, under the name of Thomas ap Presse " preacher
of Cod's word." lie styled himself " neither parson,
vicar, farmer nor proprietary but only curate of St.

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Chad's." He is said not to have had any degree. He
was father of the Rev. Sampson Price (of whom here-
after), who succeeded him at St. Chad's. He was
curate for 34 years, and died 1619.

Sampson Price, parson of Carfax (MS. XXXII). 1G02,
matriculated Exeter Coll., Oxford, aged 16 ; 1605, RA.
from Hart Hall ; J 61 5, B.D from Exeter Coll. ; 1617,
D.I), from Exeter Hall. He was lecturer at St. Martin's,
Carfax, and St. Olave's, London ; was chaplain to
James J. and Charles I. ; 1620-28, Vicar of St. Chad's ;
1626, Canon of Hereford. He was also Hector of All
Hallows ad Eenn, and Vicar of Christ Church, Newgate
Street, in London, and was buried in 1630 in the
chancel of the last named church. (Foster's Alumni
Cron tenses).

He was called " Malleus fTtereticorum." He preached
at the consecration of the Free School Chapel on 10
Sep., 1617, and his sermon on the " Beauty of Holiness"
was printed. His brother was Daniel Price, .Rector of
Worthen, and Dean of Hereford. (Owen and Blake-
way's Hist Shrewsbury).

Rev. John Dy char, Vicar of Shawbury (MSS. XIX. and
XXXIII. ). He was presented to Shawbury by John
Leveson, Esq., and was instituted 8 April, 1555, in suc-
cession to Thomas' Ash ton, who was deprived for not
taking priest's orders He was vicar for 65 years, and
was buried in the chancel of the Church in 1620. He
was not married. From the probate of his will, which is
in the Registry at Lichfield, it appears that his personal
property was appraised at £68 lis. He left a number
of legacies and a pedigree to show the degrees of
relationship of his kinsfolk. His great-grandfather,
Richard of Shawbury and Muckleston, married a
daughter of Geoffrey Young of Caynton. One of his
nieces married Roland Hill of Hawkestone, and another
John Leighton of Leighton and Rodington. (Ex. ret.
Jiev. F. Vernon of Shawbury).

The following notice in regard to this manuscript
prevented by the Hen, Joint. l)yehart is to bo found in

TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

28D

vol. i., p. 375 of Owen and Blakeway's Hist, of
Shrewsbury : —

A remarkable entry in the margin of an ancient Latin Bible
in the library of our schools (MSS. in Museo. x. 9) affects to
record the name of a second son royally descended and
mysteriously born " Henry Koido Dudley Tuther (Tudor)
plantagcnett filiq. 2 E. reg. et Rob1 Comites leicetr." It is a
very fair and beautiful manuscript on vellum, given by Mr.
John Dychar of Shawbury in 1G06, and may have belonged to
that parish Church before the Reformation. Sir John Dychar,
as he was generally called (son of Robert Dychar of Moculton,
the elder, who was buried at Shawbury, 11 Jan., 1571), was
instituted into that vicarage the 2nd year of Queen Mary."

There are two other MSS. in the library with similar
entries.

(MSS. V. and XXXVI). These books are not stated to
have been presented by, but to have belonged to,
" Ralph Sneyde juris utri usque doctoris." He was
probably of Keele, co. Stafford, and the son of Sir
William Sneyde, who married for his second wife Jane,
d. and h. of John Salter of Salter's Hall, Salop. Ralph
Sneyde himself was also connected by marriage with
Shropshire, for his second wife was Mary, d. of Sir
Richard Newport of High Ercall. He died in 1615.

(MSS. XXVI. and XXXI.). Thomas Higgons
" Preacher and physitian." 1571. admitted to the
School ; 1581, matriculated Brasenose Coll., Ox., aged
18 ; 1585, B.A. from Balliol Coll. ; 1588, M.A. ; 1591,
licensed to practise medicine ; 1608. B.D, and D.D.
He was Rector of Westbury in lo88; Rector of the
first portion of Pontesbury 1603, and of the second
portion 1614. (Foster's Alumni Oxonienses ; Shrop-
shire Archaeological Transactions, vol. v., p. 241).

On the right hand of the high altar in St. Chad's,
circumscribed on a marble gravestone : —

Here lyeth the body of Thomas
Higgons doctor in divinitie and Chaplain to the late King
James of famous memorie
who deceased the 19th day of March, 1G35.

(Owen and Ulakeway).

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The family of Higgons came from Stretton. Dr.
Thomas Higgons, the donor of the two MSS., married
first Jane, d. of Richard Mytton of Mitton, co. Salop;
and secondly Elizabeth, d. of Richard Barker of Haugh-
mond Abbey, and coh. of Andrew Barker. The original
owners of the MSS. might possibly have been the
monks of Haughmond,

His son was Sir Thomas Higgons, who married first
Elizabeth, relict of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, the
Parliamentary general ; and secondly, Lady Bridgett,
d. of Sir Bevell Granville of Stowe, Cornwall, lie was
of Grewel, near Odiharo, Hants; was M.P, for Mal-
mesbury 1G59; for New Windsor JG61-78; for St.
Germains 1685-7. He was knighted in 1663, and was
envoy to Saxony and Venice. Bevil, his son, is described
as a "historian and poet." (Le Neves Knights). There
were no less than 25 scholars of this surname entered
in the School between 15G2 and 1G31.

(MS. XX.). John Woodhouse, schoolmaster of Market
Drayton. This school was a foundation of the Hill
family.

(MS. XXXIV). Richard Collins of Shrewsbury,
mercer.

(MS. X.). Lewes Taylor, Vicar of Moreton Corbett/

(MS. XV.). Robert Gittins, Rector of Mai pas. 1 504,
admitted to the School ; 1G03, instituted as Rector of
the Upper Moiety of Mai pas. Twelve scholars of this
surname were admitted between 15G2 and 1G31.

(MS. XVII.). Thomas Chaloner u Archipedagogus."
He was chief schoolmaster during the troublesome times
of the Civil War, and put the School money chest at
the disposal of the King, lie was removed by the
Commonwealth party and restored by the Cavaliers in
JGGl. Besides this gift he has left to the School a
number of his own manuscripts, handsomely bound.

Of one of the authors of the manuscripts a few words
shall be written, Richard Rolle ofifampole. (MSS. III.
and XXV.). The fads am (aken from Perry's " English
Prose Tieatiscs of Piehaid Polle of llampolo," 18GG.

fa:: - ,

TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL. 291

He was one of the early 14th century writers, and
immediately preceded our Shropshire poet William
Lanefland. He was born at Thornton in R ich mondski re.
of humble parentage, and was sent to Oxford by Thomas
Neville, Archdeacon of Durham, but withdrew himself
at the age of 19, to avoid the temptations of the world,
"Deo in spiral) te,:' and returned to his fathers house.
Out of two cloaks belono-iuo- to his sister, one white and
the other grey, and a rain hood of his father, he made
for himself an appropriate garment. Though not
ordained, he was invited by the Priest on the Feast of
the Assumption to ascend the pulpit, and he preached
a wonderful sermon. He was often in ecstasies, and a
doubt arose as to his sanity. Sir John de Dal ton, on
satisfying himself that he was of sound mind, provided
him with a hermit's cell, clothing, and maintenance.
He became an " Eremite/' and his sanctity was such
that he drove away the devils which surrounded the
death-bed of Lady de Dalton, though, as they fled, they
left visible marks of their presence in the chamber.
He worked miracles : —

Mcrsos in aquis vitcc restituit

M utis, contractis, medelas tribuit.

He went from place to place preaching and instruct-
ing the people, and insisting that an active life prac-
tised in the duties of benevolence was more Christ-like
than a life of mere contemplation. He healed the
Prioress of Hampole of fits, to which she was subject,
and assured her that as long as he lived she would not
be troubled anymore; when she was a^ain alllicted,
she knew that he was dead, and she had his body
buried at Hampole ; pilgrimages were made to his
shrine, and his works were preserved (here in " cheyn
bondes." lie died in UM9. Ho never took any degree
in I loly Orders. These incidents of his life are recorded
in the manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral, entitled
Officium et Legenda do vita Kicardi llolle.

l ie wrote both in Latin and English, but his prose

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is said to be superior to his verse. Indeed, Warton
in his History of English Poets says, " His poetry had
no tincture of sentiment, imagination, or eloquence."
The " Prick of Conscience " is his best known poetical
work, and was printed not very long ago by the Philo-
logical Society. It consists of seven parts — I. Of Man's
nature; II. Of the World; III. Of Death; IV. Of
Purgatory ; V. Of the Day of Judgment ; VI. Of the
torments of Hell ; VII. Of the joys of Heaven.

Little more need be said by way of introduction. To
students in various paths of inquiry these manuscripts
will be extremely interesting. To the student of
Celtic a Welsh MS. of the 14th century must
be worth inspection. In Dr. Butler's catalogue lie
notes that " Mr. Edward Lloyd of the Museum declared
that this was the oldest book of divinity he ever saw in
the antient British Language." It contains : — The
Hours of the Virgin Mary ; The Story of the Ghost of
Guy, who died in 1324 at " Alesey," 4 miles from
" Vien St. John's Gospel ; The History of the Cross;
The Story of the Passion ; The Story of the Invention
of the Holy Cross ; The Vision of St. Paul.

In the " Sequeiitiale " and " Graduale " which were
used in the Churches and Abbeys in medieval times
will be found the models of the sequence and gradual
in use to-day.

The mystery plays, which once formed so large a
part of the religious education of the people, are illus-
trated by a unique example of the method in which the
parts of the actors were learned.

The North country dialect and the early forms of the
English language are well represented in the " Prick
of Conscience."

In MS. II. may be seen some finely executed initials
exhibiting the skilful penmanship and artistic designs
of the early transcribers.

The value set upon these literary treasures in olden
times is indicated in various ways. Most of tiietn were
chained. The names of many of the owners are ex-

TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL. 293

pressly noted. One (MS. XXVIIL) ''is bought at his
own expense by Friar John Sonkey."

Another (MS. XXIV.) is " granted to Friar Adam de
K notes ford for the term of his life " in the L 4 th century.
These books have outlived the houses in which they
were transcribed and preserved. Buildwas Abbey,
which owned one of them, is to-day a stately ruin ;
Wombridge Priory, which owned another, is gone
altogether. The site of the Religious house of the
Minorite Friars of Shrewsbury is known only to the
antiquary.

The books remain, some in perfect preservation, and
no more fitting home can they have than the Library
of Shrewsbury's famous school.

CATALOGUE OF THE EARLY MANUSCRIPTS OF
SURE W SBURY SCHOO L.

By Mr. HERBERT, Assistant in the Department op MSS. in
the British Museum.

I. [Mas. 27].

Liber Sapiential : with extracts from the Commentary of
Rabanus Maurus, and other marginal and interlinear
commentaries. Latin, vellum, early 13th cent., If. 136,
9| in. x Gt in.

On f. 2: " Magistri Alexamlri do Staneby " [? Alexander de
Stavcnsby Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 1224, d.
1238].

On f. lb: " Tste liber est fratrum prccdicatorum Oestrire."

Inside the cover is a note, dated 1007, of the presentation
of this boolc, with eleven other MSS. to Shrewsbury School by
Mr. Richard Bostock of Tattenhall, Cheshire.

II. [Mus. III. 38].

The Bible in Latin, Vulgate version, preceded by the " Epistola
Sancti Jeronimi presbiteri ad Paulinum," and followed by
" fntcrpretationes hebraicorum nominum," arranged alpha-
betically, with finely executed miniature initials, many of
which, however, havo been defaced. Vellum, it". 440. Many
pages have been mutilated ami sevoral removed altogether,
Vol. IX., 2ml H. VV

204 EARLV MANUSCRJPTS BELONGING

doubtless for the sake of the miniatures. 13th cent.,

probably written in France, 9 in. x 6 in.
Presented to Shrewsbury School in 1G07, by "Mr. Thomas
Price, precher and minister of the parish of Saynt Cedde in
Shrewsbury."

III. [Mm III. 39].

" Prick of Conscience" by Richard Rolle of Hampole. Im-
perfect at both beginning and end, containing only 11.
419G — 7542 (see the edition by Richard Morris, Berlin,
18G3). Followed by Sermons in English on the Epistles
for Advent, by " A. fruitfull and compendious treytys
specyally schewyng wat meryte of pardon it is to here a
messe," by sermons on the Sunday Gospels, and by various
theological tracts and notes, all in English. 15th cent.,
paper, ff, 107, 8£ in. x G in. Much frayed and torn.
P>ound in a fragment of a Latin service book.
This portion of the book has been more fully described, with

extracts, in the Shropshire Arclneological Transactions, 2nd

Series, vol. vi., pages 99-10G.

IV. [Mus. III. 40].

1. iEsopic Fables in elegiacs ; the collection known as that of

the Anonymus Neveleti (see II. L. D. Ward, Catal. of
Romances, vol. ii., 1839, p. 309), but published as " Gualteri
Anglici Fabuke" by its latest editor (L. Hervieux, Fabu-
listcs Latins, vol. ii,, 2nd ed. 1894, p. 31G). A very
imperfect copy, beginning with Fable 21, 1. G, and ending
with Fable 58, 1. 9, and with some omissions between.

2. Elegiac verses on the Greek alphabet, beginning " Ecticus

(? Atticus) eolicus doricus ionicusquo bnetus."

3. Verses on tho variations in the meanings of words, beginning

" Verbum quatriplici sensu credo variari,"

4. Liber Synonymorutn, beginning " Ad mare ne vidiar (sic).

Usually ascribed to John do Garland, but sometimes to
Matthi'eu de Vondome (see Hist. Litt. de la France, vol.
xxiii., pp. 98, 948).

5. List of Latin deponent verbs arranged in hexamoters, with

English equivalents.
7. Extracts from tho Eclogues of Virgil; also various gram-
matical treatises and notes, including the Liber Equivo-
eorum (beg. " Augustus ti to") by John de Garland or
Matthieu de Vendome. (See art. 4 abovo). Paper, 15th
cent., IV. 78, 8! in. X G in.

TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

295

V. [Mus. III. 41].

Extracts from classical and medieval writers on virtues and
vices, Latin, with index of subjects at beginning. First
chapter, "De practica sciencia ct ejus intencione." The
last complete chanter is numbered 283, and headed
" Tullius lifbro] de senectute de desiderio vite perpetue."
Imperfect at the end. Paper and vellum in alternate
pairs of leaves. 15th cent., ft'. 150, 8J in. x G in.
Relongcd (lGth cent.) to Ralph Sneyde "Juris utriusque
doctoris."

VI. [Mus. III. 42].

1. Sequentiale, with musical notes. Imperfect at the beginning.

At f. 23G is a sequence with the rubric, " In trans lacione
Sancti Cedde," suggesting a possible connection with St.
Chad's in Shrewsbury, or, at any rate, with the Diocese of
Lichfield.

2. Four fragments of an unknown Mystery Play. 1st. On the

subject of the Angels and the Shepherds; 2nd. The adora-
tion of the Shepherds ; 3rd. The three Maries at the
Sepulchre; 4th. The Two Disciples at Emmaus. The
part of one actor (the 3rd Shepherd, the 3rd Mary and
Cleophas) only, with the cues given in the margins,
ft". 38-42b.

The MS. has been fully described, and the portions of the
Mystery Play printed, by the Rev. Prof. Skeat in the Academy
for Jan. 4 and Jan. 11, 1800 (see also Shropshire Archaeological
Transactions, 2nd Series, vol. ii., p. 295). Vellum, early 15th
cent., ft. 43, SJ in. x G in.

VII. [Mus. III. 43].

Theological tracts, notes, and verses, including

1. The " Liber Reguhe Pastoralis " of Gregory the Great.

2. " Summa magistri Ricardi," beginning " Qui bene presunt."

Usually ascribed to Richard Wethershed, Archbishop of
Canterbury 1229-1231, but in this MS. the colophon
quoted is continued by a later (14th cent.) hand, "do
Laycestre rectoris ecclesic de Wet.rhigsete."

3. "Summa de virtutibus noviter parisiis composita." In 157

chapters, of which the first -17A- are wanting. Chapter 19
begins, "Sequitur ordinauit in me caritatem."

4. List of romances in French.

5. On usury, Litin, beginning "Si vendis pro vingintfr, quod

modi) iioii valet x."

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G/French Christmas hymn, beginning " Le tens ioyus est venu

ke nouel est nome."
Vellum, 13th cent., 11". 20G, 8J in."x 5J in.

VIIL [Mus. III. 44].

Liber constitutionum provincialium in provincia Cantuariensi.
In five books, arranged according to subjects, with index.
Written in 1453 or 1454 (both dates occur) by a scribe
who signs himself R. Walle. Vellum, ff. 105. A leaf is
wanting at the beginning (a complete copy in Brit. Mus.,
MS. Barley 224), 7j in. x 43 in.

IX. [Mus. III. 45].

M Sermones Fratris Gilberti de Tornaio." 190 sermons on
Church Festivals by Gilbert (usually known as Guibert)
of Tournai (ob. 1270), preceded by a Prologue, and by two
letters to the author from Pope Alexander (IV.), dated
respectively vii. Id'. Aug. and Kal\ Oct. anno 1° [7 Aug.,
1 Oct., 1255]; and by a letter from the author to Pope
Alexander. Vellum, ft". 294, 14th cent., 6£ in. x 4| in.
Binding of stamped leather (lGth cent.). Inside the cover:
" Schola Salopiie anno Domini 1G07. Mr. Richard Bostock
of Tattenhall, in the' county Palatine of Chester, gent.,
gave to the Librarie att the ffree schoole in Shrewsbury
twelve manuscript bookes in soe many severall volumes ;
seaven of them beinge in folio, foure in 4° and one in 8°."

X. [Mus. III. 47].

Extracts from the Fathers, etc., on Virtues and Vices, in
alphabetical order; in Latin; some perfect at beginning.
First heading, Absolutio ; last heading, Zelus. At the end
are recipes for the falling evil (15th — 16th cent.). Vellum,
15th cent. Presented in 1G19 by Lewes Taylor, Vicar of
Moreton Corbett, co. Salop, ff. 194, G£ in. x 4 J in.

XI. [Mus. III. 48].

Vellum, 5 in. x 4£ in.; ff. 75. About A.D. 1400. Old binding
of boards covered with leather. Contents, all in Welsh: —

1. Hours of the Virgin Mary, followed by prayers, etc., f. 2.

2. Story of the Ghost of Guy, who died in 1334 at <; Alesey, 4

miles from Vien," 11*. 34b.
3 St. John's Gospel, ch. i., vv. 1 — 14, f. 43.
4. History of the True Cross, f, 44

TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL. 2D7

5. Story of the Passion, taken chiefly from St. Matthew chapp.

xxvi. — xxviii., f. 51b.
G. Story of the Invention of the Holy Cross, f. COh.
7. Vision of St, Paul, f. GSb.

XII. [Mus. III. 50].

The Apocalypse, Isaiah lviii., 1, lix., 5, and the Catholic
Epistles, with marginal notes and interlinear commentary
in a hand contemporary with that of the text. Latin,
vellum ; late 12th cent., ft*. P2S, 8 in. x 5} in.
Belonged to Buildwas Abbey, in Shropshire.

XIII. [Mus. III. 51],

Sermons for Sundays and Festivals throughout the year.
Latin. Headed "Omelie b'i Gregory " in a different
hand, but erroneously, Gregory being quoted in the first
sermon. Paper, If. 138, with a few vellum fly-leaves,
lGth cent.

One of the MSS. given in 1607 by Richard Bostock of
Tattenhall, co. Chester.

XIV. [Mus. III. 52].

Liber Equivocorum, beginning " Augustus ti to." Colophon,
"Deo gracias quod Kyrke." Paper, 15th cent., 8i in. x
6 in., IV. 125. The binding in a vellum leaf from a 14th
cent. Latin Psalter.

XV. [Mus. X. 24].

B. Gregorii Papas Dialogorum, Libri IV. Vellum, 13th cent.,
ff. 7G, 10J in. x 7 in.
Belonged to Franciscans of Hereford. Presented to Shrews-
bury School 1 Aug., 1611, by Robert Gittins, Rector of Malpas,
Cheshire.

XVI. [X. 29].

1. "Medulla Gramatice." A Latin English Dictionary, with a

short prologue beginning " llec est regula generalis."
Ascribed to Galfridus Grammaticus, circ. 1400. See Albert
Way, Promptorium Parvuloruin (Camden Soc. 1843-G5),
vol. hi., App., pp. 1-1 iv. This copy is mentioned at p. liv.

2. Prayers, addresses to the Virgin, etc., beginning " Pater

creator omnium."

3. Treatise on the Parts of Speech, beginning "|P]artos ora-

wonis quot sunt." Vellum, 15th cent.. !) in. x G in.,
IV, I I k

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XVII. [I.]

Volume lettered "MS. Theol: Shrewsbury School."

Genesis to Joshua, in Latin, Vulgate version. Imperfect;
wanting 2 leaves at the beginning (f. 1 begins Gen.
ch. iii., verse 6) and 2 leaves immediately before the
last leaf, and breaking off at Jos. xii. 23. Vellum; late
12th cent. At f. 84b: "Tho: Chaloner Archiprcdagogns
Scholse Salopiensis, Anno Domini 1G40." ff. 10G, 1 ft. 4£
in. x ] 1 1 in.

XVIII. [II.]

Volume lettered "MS. Theol: Shrewsbury School."

Tho Gospels of St. Matthew and St. John in Latin,
Vulgate version, each preceded by an introduction,
beginning respectively " Matheus ex iudea qui et leui"
and " Hie est iohannes euangelista." with marginal and
interlinear glosses from Jerome, Augustine, etc. Vellum,
13th cent. Presented in 1G07 by Richard Bostock of
Tattenhall, Cheshire, ff. 112, 1 ft. 2^ in. x 10 in.

XIX. [III.]

Volume lettered " MS. Theol : Shrewsbury School."

The Bible in Latin, Vulgate text, with the prologues of St.
Jerome. A leaf has been cut out alter f. 2 ; ami several
leaves are missing after f. 99 (end of III. Reg. and beg. of
IV. Reg.). Isaiah follows Paralipomena, and from Isaiah
xxxvii. 19 to the end of the Old Testament is wanting
(after f. 129).

In the New Testament Acts are followed by Apocalypse>
Catholic Epistles, and Pauline Epistles. A lacuna occurs
after f. 187 (Ephes. iv. 13, Coloss. iv. 9). Vellum, 13th
cent., IK 193, 1 ft. 1 in. x 9 J in.

On f . 1 : " Johannes Dychar est verus huius libri possessor "
and "per me Dychar," in a 16th cent. hand. A slip at
the beginning, dated 1G0G, states that the volume was
given by John Dychar, vicar of Shaw bury, co. Salop.

XX. [IV.]

Volume lettered "MS. Theol: Shrewsbury School."

Petrus Lombardus, Bishop of Paris: Sententiarum libri quatuor.
The prologue begins " [C]upiente[s] aliquid do [pen]uria
ac tenuitate nostra" (the initial having been cut out).
Af'tur the list of chapters is a preliminary chapter, begin-
ning" Mulli unam substantial!! patris," not found in other
copies. After this it begins as usual, with an illuminated

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initial, " "Ceteris et noue legis fcontineritiam." (See Migne,
Patrol. Lat., vol. cxcii., col. 521). Vellum, 13th cent.
Presented in 1G09 by John Woodhouse, Schoolmaster of
Market Drayton, co. Salop, ff. 160, 1 ft. 1 in. x 9 in.

XXI. [V.]

Volume lettered "MS. Theol: Shrewsbury School."

Gregory the Great, Regula Pastoralis, with finely executed
initials at the beginning of chapp. I., II., and XX III., the
first and third in red, green, and white, the second in pen
and ink.

A note on f. 34 shows that this book was used for reading

during collation.
On a vellum slip, pasted on a fly leaf at the beginning, is a

note of the institution of Henry Siddall to the benefice of

Barrow, Cheshire, in 154G. Vellum, 12th cent., 11". 110,

11J in. x 7i in.

XXII. [VI.]

Volume lettered " MS. Theol : Shrewsbury School."
Commentary on the Psalms in Latin, beginning "Christus

integer caput cum membris est materia huius libri."

Vellum, early 13th cent,, ff. 85, 1H in. x 71 in.

XXIII. [VII.]

Volume lettered " MS. Theol : Shrewsbury School."
Rosarium Theologian : a theological common place book in

alphabetical order according to subjects. Begins " Abso-

lucio, Dominus noster Jhesus Christus dicit beato Petro."

Paper and vellum, 15th cent., if. 174, 1 1 A in. x 8J in.

Presented in 1G07 by Richard Boston of Tattenhall,

Cheshire.

XXIV. [VIII.]

Volume lettered " MS. Tliool : Shrewsbury School."

Petri Comcstoris Ilistoria Seholastica. At the beginning is a
list of chapters, followed by a chronological digest?, down
to the martyrdom of SS". Peter and Paul. Vellum, 13th
cent., 11. 148, 1 ft. 1| in. X 8£ in. Belonged to the
Dominicans of Chester, granted to Fr. Adam do Knotesford
for the term of his life (in the 14th cent., see f. I). Given
to Shrewsbury School by Richard Bostock of Tattenhall,
Cheshire, in 1 (507.

300

EABLY MANUSCBIPTS BELONGING

XXV. [IX]

Volume lettered "MS. Theol. Shrewsbury School."
Theological Tracts in Latin, viz. : —

1. Compendium Theological Veritatis, in 7 Books, beginning

" Veritatis theologian sublimitas." Colophon : " Explicit
Veritas theologian secundum fratrem Thomam de Alquino."
Often ascribed in MSS. to Thomas Aquinas ; and printed
among the works of Albertus Magnus, besides being
attributed to St. Bonaventura and various other authors.
The best supported attribution seems that to Hugh of
Strasburg. (See Iliduire Litteraire de la France, vol. xxi.,
p. 157).

2. Commentary on the Psalms, and on the Songs of Isaiah,

Ezekiel, Hannah, Moses, Habakkuk, and the Lord's
Prayer, beginning " Magna spiritualis iocunditatis."

3. [Richard Rolle of Hampole's] " Libellus de emendacione

vite sive de Regula vivendi," beginning " Ne tardes con-
uerti." Vellum, 14th cent,, ff. 173, 10} in. x 7 in.
Presented in 1697 by Richard Bostock of Tattenhall,
Cheshire.

XXVI. [X.]

Volume lettered " MS. Theol : Shrewsbury School."

1. " Sententia Cassiodori senatoris de Sancto Cypriano epis-

copo " (cap. 19 of" De Instiiutione Divinarum Litterarum."
(See Migne, Patrol. Lat., vol. Ixx., col. 1135), f. 1.

2. Cyprian, Epistola ad Donatum (Migne op. cit,, vol. iv., cols.

192-223), f. 1.

3. „ De Disciplina et habitu Virginum Imperfect at !

end (Migne iv., 440-462), f. 6 b.

4. „ De lapsis. Imperfect at beginning (Migne iv.,

466-494), f. 14.

5. De Catholics Ecclesia3 Unitate. Imperfect at

end (Migne iv., 495-51G), f. 26.

6. „ De Oratione Dominica. Imperfect at beginning

and end (Migne iv., 520-544), f. 35.

7. „ De Mortaiitate. Imperfect at beginning and end

(Migne iv.. 582-599), f. 47.

8. „ De Opcre ct Eleemosynis. Imperfect at beginning

and end (Migne iv., 602 620), i 53.

9. „ Ad Demetrianum. Imperfect at beginning.

(Migne iv., 545-564), f. 62.

10. „ De Borio Patientiaj (Migne iv., 622 638), f. 70b.

11. „ De xelo et Livoro. Fin perfect at, end (M-igne iv.,

631 -0 1 •">), ( ho scribe having left, oil in tho

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middle of a sentence and continued (without
any break in the MS.) with next article, f. 79.

12. „ Ad Fortunatum. Imperfect at beginning and

end (Migne iv., G71-G75, and see preceding
art., f. 82 b.

13. „ De laude martyrum. Imperfect at beginning and

end (Migne iv., 789-802), f. 85.

14. „ Ad Quirinum Testimonia adversus Judeos. Im-

perfect at beginning, middle, and end (Migne
iv., 677-716, 733-778), f. 94.

15. Theological treatise in Latin. Imperfect at beginning and
end. Begins, " . . . . disi deliciis id est de ecclesie liber-
tato." f. 132.

Vellum, late 12th cent., ff. 144, 10 in. x 6f in.

Given to Shrewsbury School in 1G07 by Thomas Higgons.
See f. 1 of this MS., and also MS. XXXI. (Julianus Pomerius,
etc.).

XXVII. [XL]

Volume lettered " MS. Theoi : Shrewsbury School."

Hugo de Vienna super Apocalypsim, "with prologue beginning
" Vidit Jacob scalam stantem super terrain." Colophon,
<l Explicit Hugo de Vienna super Apocalipsim," with index
rerum at the end. Vellum, 15th cent., ff. 238, 11 in. x
7i in. On f. 238b, " John Downes."
Presented in 1G07 by Richard Bostock of Tattenhall,

Cheshire.

XVIII. [XII.].

Volume lettered " MS. Theol : Shrewsbury School."
Harmony of the Four Gospels in Latin as compiled by Tatian
and translated by Vietor, Bishop of Capua, with marginal
glosses. Wanting a leaf at the beginning. Vellum, early
13th cent. On a vellum slip at the beginning, " lste liber
fuit adquisitus per fratrem Johannem Sonkey de suis
propriis sumptibus " (14th — 15th cent.).
Given to Shrewsbury School by Richard Bostock of Tatten-
hall, Cheshire, in 1G07. if. Ill, 11 J in. x 8 in.

XXIX. [A.]

Volume lettered " MS. Theol. Shrewsbury School."

Homilire Venerabilis Bed;e. Very imperfect, leaves being lost
after ff. 4, 7, 9, 11, 17, 33, etc. The homilies vary consider-
ably in order, and occasionally in text, from the edition in
Migne s Patrologia, vol. xciv.
Vol. IX., kJiul S,

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Vellum, 12th cent. On a leaf at the end are two contemporary
copies of a letter from the monks of Lenton (a Cluniac
Priory in Nottinghamshire) to H[enry Burwash] Bishop
of Lincoln, recommending Lancelot de Corobert for pre-
sentation to the Church of Courteenhall [in Northants]
dated Lenton, St. Mark's Day [April 25], 1328. ff. 151,
11£ in. x 7 i in.

XXX. [B.]

Volume lettered "MS. Theol : Shrewsbury School."

Graduale and musical notes, for use in an Abbey. The Pro-
prium Sanctorum includes either in text or in early
marginal additions SS. Milburga, Ethclbert, Oswald,
Cuthbert, and Winifred. At the end are some Kyries,
Glorias, etc., of later date. Vellum, 13th cent., ff. 176,
10 in. x 7 in.

XXXI. [G]

Volume lettered "MS. Theol: Shrewsbury School."

1. Juliani Pomerii, Toletani episcopi, Prognosticorum libri 3.

2. Narracio de purgatorio quod dicitur esse aput Ueglis in

Hibernia" [the adventures of Sir Owen in St. Patrick's
Purgatory, by Henry of Saltrey, without Prologue or
Epilogue].

3. '' Interrogationes Orosii et responsiones Beati Augustini."

4. " Aurelii Augustini doctoris disputatio .... contra Eelici-

anum hereticum."

5. Extracts from Augustine, Jerome, and Ambrose, and notes

" de nequitia millions " "de muliere bona" " de predesti-
natione," etc.

6. " Visitatio infirmi edita a Baldrico Dolensi Archiepiscopo."

ascribed by a later hand to Augustine, and printed among
his supposititious works in Migne Patrol, Lat., vol. xl.,
col. 1147 ; but the attribution to Baudri is supported by a
Lambeth MS., and seems more probable. See Miyne,
vol. clxvi., col. 1211.

7. "De lib[e]ro Arbitrio," "Do prelationo Luciferi," "Do habi-

tatione malignorum S[)irituum," etc.
Vellum, late 12th cent., It. 141, cSj in. X Gi in. Given to
Shrewsbury School in 1G07 by " Mr. Thomas Iliggons of
Shrewsbury preacher and phisitian."

XXXII. [D.]

Volume lettered "MS. Theol. Shrewsbury School."
S. Uaymundide Poniafort, sunnnade Pamilontia ot Matrimonio,
lib. i.-iii., followed by a treatise beginning " J)o sacra-

vro SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

303

mentis ecclesiasticis ut tractarcm." In several hands of
the 13th cent. Vellum, ff. 132, 9i in. x Gi] in. On f. lb,
" De eornmunitate fratrum rninorum Salopsb.urie de dono
fratris Tliome de Maddel."
Given to Shrewsbury School in 1007 by " Mr. Samj)son

Trice precher and parson of Carfax " (i.e. St." Martin's Church,

Oxford].

XXXIII. [E.J

Volume lettered " MS. Theol. Shrewsbury School."

[Petri Cantoris] Notui Psalterii, beginning " Flebat iohannes quia
non erat." Imperfect, wanting Pss. xcv. — cxxxv. Vellum,
13th cunt. On the last page, " Jste liber constat Domini
do Wombrygg" [YVornbridge, co. Salop].
Presented in 1G0G by John Dychar, vicar of Shawbury, co.

Salop, ff. 119, 10 in. x 7 in.

XXXIV. [6].

Volume lettered " MS. Theol. Shrewsbury School."

Bartholomseus de Sancto Conconlio, Dominican, of Pisa;
Summa de casibus Conscience. Begins " Quoniara, ut ait,
Gregorius super Ezeckielem." Colophon," Explicit summa
fratris Bartholomei de sancto oncordio ordinis fratrum
predicatorum de Pisis. A Burs tall, Ve. Co[)."

Vellum, 15th cent. At the beginning are two leaves from a
liturgical MS. of the loth cent. Presented in 1(510 by
Riqhard Collins of Shrewsbury, mercer, ft". 200, 1 ft. x
8J in.

XXXV. [11].

Volume lettered "MS. Theol. Shrewsbury School."

Gospel of St. Luke with marginal commentary, consisting

mainly of extracts from the glosses of Bede and Ambrose.

Latin. Vellum, early 13th cent., ff. 85, 10 in. x 7 J in.

On f. 1 " S. Lucas Magistri Alexandri" [? do Staneby,

cf. MS. I. and " lste liber est fratrum predicatorum

Cestrie."

Presented by Richard Bostock of Tattenhall, Chester, in 1G07.

XXXVI. [27].

Volume lettered "MS. Shrewsbury School."
1. Ex tracts from Macrohius, Cicero, Orosius, and other Latin
writers.

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2. Leonardi [Bruni] Aretini De Bello Punico libri iii. Book
III. is entitled " Bellum Gallicum post primura belluia
punicum cum Romanis." Taper, 15tl) cent., ft*. 115,
11 j| in. x 71 in. On f, 1, "Robertas Spenser [scored
through and '" Radulphus Sncde " written above] est
possessor huins libri."

REPORT ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF
SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

By Frederic G. Ken yon.

Tiie manuscripts belonging to Shrewsbury School are
thirty- six in number, of which all but two are in Latin,
while one is in English, and one in Welsh. Eleven
contain the Bible, either whole or in parts, in some
cases accompanied by a commentary. Sixteen may be
classed as theological, including Homilies, Sermons, the
"Pastoral Rule" of Pope Gregory, and other moral
and theological treatises. Three are service books,
including a Graduate, a Sequentiale, and a Welsh Book
of Hours. Six are evidently intended solely for school
use (though, no doubt, the Biblical and theological
works may also have been used for purposes of instruc-
tion) ; these include Dictionaries and Grammatical
Treatises, and extracts from classical and patristic
authors. In date, six manuscripts may be assigned to
the 12th century, 14 to the 13th, two to the 1 4th, and
14 to the 15th. Among them are several good and
characteristic examples of the handwritings of these
periods.

Probably the most interesting and valuable manu-
scripts in the collection, on account of their comparative
rarity, are the three following; — (1) Some portions of a
set of miracle plays, in English, at the end of a Latin
service book of the fifteenth century, These are wholly
unknown otherwise, but are believed by Prof Skeat to
belong to tlio cycle of mystery plays in use at l>overley.
Thoy consist of the parts to be taken by a. single actor,

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305

and give the cues preceding each speech. (2) A copy of
the "Prick of Conscience/' by Richard Kolle of Ham pole,
imperfect, but still of some value. (3) A Welsh Book
of Hours, including various legends in addition to the
purely devotional parts. The other manuscripts give a
typical selection of works of mediaeval theology and
scholarship; and it adds to their interest to mid that
they were, for the most part, presented to the school
at about the same time, and that a time not very long
after its foundation. More than half are definitely
stated to have been given between the years 1607 and
1611, and probably others, to which no date of donation
is attached, came into the library at the same period.
It would thus appear that a special effort was made to
establish a School Library in the early years of the
seventeenth century.

The indications of previous owners and of the bene-
factors who presented the books to the School are
unusually numerous. Richard Bostock of Tattenhall,
in the county of Chester, presented twelve volumes in
1607, three of which had previously belonged to the
Preaching (or Dominican) Friars of Chester, and two to
Alexander de Stavensby, Bishop of Lichfield and
Coventry. Other benefactors of the School Library are
Thomas Price, " preacher and minister of Saint Chad,"
1607; Lewes Taylor, vicar of Moreton Corbet, 1619 ;
Robert Gittins, rector of Malpas, 16 LI ; Richard Collins
of Shrewsbury, mercer, 1610 ; Thomas Higgons of
Shrewsbury, "preacher and phisitian," 1607 ; Sampson
Price, 11 precher and parson of Carfax." the city Church
at Oxford, perhaps a relation of Thomas Price named
above, 1607; John Dychar, vicar of Shawbury, 1606;
John Woodhouse, schoolmaster of Market Drayton
school, 1609; and Thomas Chaloner, Head Master of
Shrewsbury School, 1640. Among earlier owners there
is mention of Build was Abbey and the Franciscan Friars
of Hereford ; and the service book containing the miracle
play extracts may have belonged to St. Chad's. There
is no direct evidence of any of the books having come

SO G EARLY MANUSCRIPTS BELONGING

to the School from the Abbey ; but there are two at
least which show signs of having done so. These are
a service book (a Graduale) of the 13th century, which
was evidently written for use in an Abbey ; and a copy
cf Pope Gregory's " Pastoral Pule," which was used for
reading aloud at meal-times, according to a custom
prevalent in monasteries.

Fuller information concerning each of the manuscripts
in detail will be found in the accompanying catalogue,
which has been drawn up by Mr. J. A. Herbert,
Assistant in the Department of Manuscripts in the
British Museum. In general, it may be said without
hesitation that the collection is well worthy of careful
preservation on the grounds of its own intrinsic interest,
as well as for its connection with the early history of
the School. If the early printed books belonging to
the School contain as full evidence of the date and
manner of their acquisition, it will be possible to show,
with some degree of completeness, with what manner
of equipment in the way of a library the School started
on its career of education.

Pit. BUTLER'S CATALOGUE OF THE MSS.

Registrum Scholarium Schol : Reg: Salop: 4'°, Mus. I. 10.

Liblia Latina, on vellum, 4t0, Mus. II L 38.

An English MS., on paper, Divinity, Mus. III. .S9.

Collection of Poems in Latin, on paper, Mus. lib 40.

l.)e l'ractica Scientia, etc. A collection of passages from the

Classics, on paper, Mus. III. 41.
Psalterium, with the notes on vellum, Mus. III. 42.
Pastorale Beati Grcgorii, on parchment, Mus. 111. 43.
Do Constitutionibus, on parchment, Mus. III. 44.
Sermones fcstivales Gilberti Tornacensis, on parchment, Mus.

III. 45.

Liber Calixti Sexti, on vellum, Mus. III. 46.

A Latin Common-place book, on vellum, Mus. III. 47.

A Welsh MS., with this note—" Mr. Edw. Lloyd of the
Museum declared that this was the oldest hook of
divinity ho ever saw in the antient British language."
Mus. III. 48.

TO SHREWSBURY SCHOOL. 3 07

Psalterium, on vellum, the illuminated letters cut out, Mus

in.; 40.

Notre in Apocalypsem, Mus. III. 50.
Homilise Gregorii, Mus. III. 51.
A Latin MS. Lexicon, Mus. II I. 52.
Pentateuchum Mosis, vellum, Mus. X. 6.
Evangel : Matth : et Johann, on vellum, Mus. X. 7.
Sentential Magistri Petri Parisiensis, on vellum. Mus. X. S.
Latin Bible, on vellum, Mus. X. 9.
Scholastica Historia ex Bibliis, on vellum, Mus. X. 10.
Thesaurus Theologian, vellum, Mus. X. 11.
Extracts from Classics, paper, Mus. X. 12.
Summa fratris Partholomiei, parchment, Mus. X. 13.
Pastorales B. Gregorii, parchment, Mus. X. 14.
Psalterium Glossatum, parchment, Mus, X. 15.
Historia Evangelica, vellum, Mus. X. 16.
Concordia Evangelica, vellum, Mus. X. 17.
Compendium Theologian per Sanctum Thomam, vellum, Mus.
X. 18.

Hugo de Vienna super Apocalypsem, vellum, Mus. X. 19.

Psalterium with the notes, vellum, Mus. X. 20.

Liber Psalmorum, vellum, Mus. X. 21.

Evangelium Lucoe cum glossis, vellum, Mus. X. 22.

Copy of Q. Eliz. Statutes granted to the Free School, etc., on

paper, Mus. X. 23.
Dialogi Gregorii Papse, vellum, Mus. X. 24.
Cypriani varii Tractatus, vellum, Mus. X. 25.
Raymundus de Pamitentia, vellum, Mus. X. 26.
Liber Sapientiie, Mag. Alex, de Stanebi, vellum, Mus. X. 27.
Pomerii Prognosticorum Liber, vellum, Mus. X. 28.
Medulla Grammatical vellum, X. 29.
Heralds' Visitation, 162G, Mus. X. 30.

A book, usually called Dr. Taylor's book, being a Chronicle of
events which have happened in Shrewsbury, written in
the reign of Q. Eliz., Mus. X. 31.

4 Horti sicci, very old and useless, Mus. X. 1-4.

Common Place book, Mus. X. 5.

I have now only to express my obligations to those
who have contributed material for this preface to the
Catalogue. The Catalogue itself, it must be remem-
bered, is the work of Mr. J. A. Herbert of the British
Museum,, and is in itself a valuable addition to the
School Library. My own acknowledgments are duo

308 MANUSCRIPTS OF SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

first to Mr. T. E. Pickering, the able Hon. Librarian of
the School and one of the Assistant Masters. The help
which Mr. Frederic Kenyon of the British Museum,
has given is witnessed by his own Report. To others
my thanks are due, and particularly to the Yen.
Archdeacon Maude, the lie v. Canon Lonsdale, and the
Ptev. F. Vernon, Vicar of Shawbury.

Stanley Lf.ighton,

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WEST FELT ON CHURCH

By R. LLOYD KENYON.

Domesday Book tells us that in the reign of Edward
the Confessor Seward was owner of the Manor of
Felton, which contained half a hide of land, and was
fit to employ a plough with one team of oxen, but was,
as a matter of fact, waste ; and that it continued in the
same state throughout William the Conquerors reign,
being then held by an unnamed knight under Rainald,
the Sheriff of Shropshire, who himself held under Earl
Roger dtj Montgomery. It belonged to the Hundred
of Mersete, i.e., of Oswestry. With the rest of the
Sheriff's manors it passed on the forfeiture of Earl
Robert de Belesmeto Alan fitz Flaald, and from him to
his son William fitz Alan, to whom also came in the
same way the Lordship of the Hundred of Oswestry,
to which the Manor of Felton owed service.1 The
neighbouring manors of Ruyton and Wikey were also
given to the Fitz Alans, though they had not been
included in the Sheriff's " Honour" under Earl Roger,
and the Fitz Alans gave them both, as well as Felton,
to John le Strange, to hold under themselves. This
may have been in King Stephen's time, but the Fitz
Alans and Stranges took part with the Empress, and
were apparently not able to be in Shropshire during
the greater part of Stephen's reign.2 However, their
possessions were confirmed to them in 1155, and it
appears to have been about this time that the three
manors were consolidated into one, and the service of

Kit

310

WEST FELTON CHURCH.

the whole given to Fitz Alan's Hundred of Oswestry.
Wikey and Felton had always belonged to this, but
Iluyton had hitherto been subject to the Hundred of
Baschurch, or, as it had now become, Pimhill,1 and
was ecclesiastically part of Baschurch parish.

By this time Iluyton Church had already been built,
but was still a Chapel subject to Baschurch, not an
independent parish. There is no record so early as this
of Felton Church, but the architecture of the northern
arcade of the church is of latish Norman style about
a.d. 1 140,2 so that it appears to have been built just
about the same time as Ruyton Church, and, unlike
Iluyton, must have been originally built with a north
aisle. Both churches may have been built by the first
William fitz Alan, or by the first John le Strange.
At that time not only Baschurch and Ruyton, but
also the whole Hundred of Oswestry, and there-
fore Felton and Wykey, were ecclesiastically in the
diocese of Chester and Lichfield.3 Oswestry Pariah
appears to have been transferred to St. Asaph some-
where about 1160, and it is probably on account
of the manor of Felton having already by that time
been merged in that of Ruyton, which itself was in-
cluded in Baschurch parish, that Felton Church was
not transferred with Oswestry to St. Asaph, and is the
only Church in the old Hundred of Oswestry which is
still in Lichfield Diocese. It was not itself subject to
Baschurch,4 and was probably made an independent
Rectory immediately on being built. If not, it would
have been a Chapelry of Oswestry, and would in that
case, one would think, have followed Oswestry to
St. Asaph Diocese. Felton is therefore, probably, 100

1 Kyton x. -12.

2 On the authority of D. II. S. Cranage, Esq., 16 April, 189G.
:i My ton x., 335.

4 If it had been, it would have been named with Iluyton and
Vol ton in Bi'afiop bnrdent'a Charter, mentioned in my account of
Iluyton Church and in Kyton x„, 69.

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311

years older as a parish than Ruyton, and older also
than Knockin.

The Church is dedicated to St. Michael ; and it is a
curious fact that the two other parishes named Felton,
in Herefordshire and Northumberland, both have the
same dedication for their church.

The south arcade was re-built in the present century,
but of the old stones, which were marked and replaced
in their old places ; and the bases and capitals of this
seem to date from about 1 190-1200, so that the
church was probably enlarged by the addition of
a south aisle at that time by Hugh le Strange,
who held Berrin£ton and Felton under his relation
John le Strange of Ness.1 We know of Hugh only
that he was of age in 1174, and was living in 1221
(unless there were two Hughs, father and son, who
succeeded each other), and that he was dead by 1240,
and had been succeeded by coheiresses.

In 1291 the value of the Church of Felton, according
to Pope Nicholas' Taxation, was £10 per annum, of
which £i had to be paid to the Pope, or sometimes, as
in this year, by the Pope's directions to the King.
Felton was, undoubtedly, an independent parish then,
but as the episcopal registers of Lichfield before the
time of Walter de Langton, Bishop from 1296 to
1321, 2 are not now in existence, we do not know the
names of any Rectors of Felton before his time, and the
first who is recorded in the Registers is

John de Biriton, Acolyte, instituted 27 Feb., 1305.
Patrons, Thomas de Lee, Hugh fitz Philip, and Stephen,
son of Thomas de Felton. These persons appear to
have been the representatives of the coheiresses of
Hugh le Strange at Berrington, and it is from
the fact of their presenting to Felton Rectory
that his ownership of West Felton is inferred. This
connection of Felton with Berrington is strongly con-

1 Kyton vi., .'55, xi., 1. Tin: dato of the architecture iw iixed by
M r. ( Vana^e.

2 Oioc, /list. of 'Lkkfuld) p. 120.

312

WEST FELTON CHURCH.

firmed by the name of the new Rector of Felton, as
Biriton is synonymous with Berrington.1 A number of
de Biritons are mentioned in documents of this period
as persons of some importance. John de Biriton occurs
1283 to 1307, appointed the jury for Condover Hundred
at the Assizes of 1292, and held houses and land and a
mill at Berrington and Eaton Mascott under Haugh-
mond Abbey. The Hector of Felton may have been
his son.

The Hector2 was neither priest nor deacon, but an
Acolyte only. In 1307 he had become a sub-deacon, and
had a license of non- residence granted to him on October
18th, 1307, " studendi gratia," for the purpose of study,
which was renewed March 5th, 1309. In other words,
he was a schoolboy, and continued to be a schoolboy
during the whole period for which he held the Rectory,
for he died on May 4th, 1310. In 1089 Urban II.
had ordered3 that no one should be ordained sub-deacon
till he was 14 or 15, so probably the Rector attained
that age between 1305 and 1307. In 1279 the Council
of Reading,4 under Archbishop Peckham, had decreed
that all benefices bestowed on persons less than 22
years old, or on persons who within a year after receiv-
ing such benefice should not have been ordained priests,
should be ipso jure vacant. But it appears that by the
law of the land a layman could be presented and insti-
tuted to a living until the statute of 13 and 14 Charles
II., c. 4, forbade it, and that, though he could be
deprived, yet acts done by him as parson, such as
marriages, and leases made by him, were good in law.5
There was therefore nothing but ecclesiastical law to
prevent a boy of any age being instituted to and holding
a living, and ecclesiastical law could be, and was freely

1 Kyton vi., 13.

2 Ulakevvay MSS., Shropshire Parochial Clergy, in liodleian Library,
and Kyton xi , 5.

:i I lardouin's Concilia vi., |>. 2, 1 G85
1 IliU'donirr'a Ovncifia vii., 7H'.l.

1 <'n>. Car. ('».»; Ci\>. Kliz., i i ■■> ; linm'tf Keel, Law, Tit. Ileneliee.

WEST F ELTON CHURCH.

313

dispensed with by the Pope and the Bishops. More than
100 years before, in 1179, Pope Alexander III. had writ-
ten to complain that the Bishop of Lichfield had given
several livings to boys under ten years old j1 but in the
14th century the appointment of boys to livings by lay
patrons was very common, and it was sometimes done
at the instance of the Pope himself. More than 100
years after this, in 1418, the Council of Constance
ordered that all holders of benefices must, notwith-
standing any Papal dispensation, proceed within a year
after their appointment to obtain the proper orders.
Probably when the incumbent was not a priest, or was
non-resident, a curate in priest's orders, who would be
called a " Chaplain," was generally provided to perform
the services of the Church.

Thomas de Cheynneye, Acolyte, was instituted 25
July, 1310, on the presentation of Hugh fitz Philip of
Felton. It does not appear how Hugh fitz Philip had
become the sole patron. Stephen de Felton was
certainly living long after this.2 Thomas de Cheynneye
was, no doubt, of the family of Cheney, who were at
this time Lords of Cheney Longville in Shropshire,
under the Earls of Arundel, and held land in Hamp-
shire under the le Stranges.3 Like his predecessor, he
was only an Acolyte, and probably a boy, as he had a
license of non-residence to study on Jan. 17th and Dec.
7th, 1314. In 1322 the Earl of Arundel asserted that
the living was vacant, and that the patronage was
vested in himself, and presented to it one

Ivichard de Dounton, Clerk, who may have come from
Downton in Upton Magna, which belonged to the Earl.
The Bishop desired the Archdeacon of Salop to enquire
about the alleged vacancy and the Earl's right, and on
April 5th, 1323, the Bishop announced that the Arch-

1 J laiilouin'a Concilia vi., pt. 2, 179'J, and viii., 881 ; Dioc. Mat.
of hivhjkLd, p. 129.
'l Kyi.on xi., 5.
;t I1'.} tun xl, .')7.*5.

314

WEST FELTON CHURCH.

deacon and his official had judged Thomas de Cheyne
to he wrongfully incumbent, had removed him, and
decided that Richard de Dounton should he admitted,
and accordingly on April 7 th the Bishop admitted him
on the presentation of the Ear] of Arundel. There
is nothing to show what were the grounds of this
decision. The advowson was afterwards appurtenant
to the Manor of Ruyton, which the Earl had bought
about 1301, but he does not seem to have claimed to
present at either of the vacancies in 1305 or 1310.
A civil war had broken out in 1321, in which the
Earl of Arundel had taken part with the King, while
many of the other Shropshire lords had taken part
against him ; and by the middle of 1322 the King's
side had become completely victorious, the Earl's rivals
were killed or imprisoned, and the Earl himself was at
the height of his power. It is natural to suppose that
these changes had something to do with his assertion
of a claim to the patronage of Eelton, which had hitherto
been undisputedly in other hands. It may be that
Hugh litz Philip, who was dead by 1325, and may have
been killed in the civil war, had taken sides against the
Earl his suzerain, and so incurred a forfeiture of his
right of patronage, though we find his son John holding
property in Aston in 1325 and 1326, and in Haughton
in 1334, and dealing with it with the consent of the
Earl. The living may have been alleged to have been
vacant either because the Rector had committed treason,
or because he had not taken priest's orders in accord-
ance with ecclesiastical law. The decision was in favour
of the Earl and against the Hector, but in 1320 the
other side got the ascendancy, and the Earl was
captured and beheaded. Thomas de Cheney, no doubt,
returned then, if he ever gave up the living, and though
in 1331 the Earl's estates were restored to his son
Richard, we find that in 1335 and in 1340 Thomas de
Cheney was still in possession of Eelton Rectory.

On Dec". 1st, 133;;, by ;i deed dated at Aston, "John
son of Hugh, sou of Philip, constitutes his beloved in

WEST F ELTON CHURCH.

315

Christ Nicholas de Blakeway, Clerk, and Ralph de
Broe, his attorneys to deliver seizin of a plat of more in
Halghton near Radenhale, to Nicholas Abbot and the
Convent of Haghinon ;" and the Abbot executed a lease
of apparently the same piece of moorland to Richard,
son of Hugh Philip.1 A part of the low-lying ground
in the township of Haughton, near Rednal, in this
parish, is still called the "Abbot's Moor/' and pieces
of glazed pottery have been found there, which appear
to have been made on the spot, and may be supposed
to have been made under the authority of the Abbey,
to which property in Aston and Ilisland was also given
by the same donor. In the list2 of the property of the
Abbey at its dissolution is entered Haughton, Pasture,
of the value of 8d. per an., which probably refers to this
Abbot's Moor.

In September, J 340, Richard de Dounton died, and
Stephen de Pulton, Chaplain, was presented by Richard
Earl of Arundel and instituted by the Bishop on the
13th Dec, 1340, "because T. de Cheyne, who is in
fact incumbent in possession, has intruded himself, and
Sir R. de Dounton who was instituted is dead."3 The
Bishop appointed the Archdeacon's Official and Master
Richard de Longenorle, Rector of Nesse, to be Com-
missioners to deal with Cheyne. They were first to
cite him and admonish him of his injustice, and then to
induct Pulton into corporal possession, using all the
Episcopal powers of coercion thereby delegated to them.
We hear nothing more of Cheyne, and do not know
whether he submitted or not, and of Pulton we only
know that he died 23 July, 1349, at the time of the
"Black Death/' As he is called Chaplain, it is not
unlikely that he was, in fact, Cheyne's curate before he
was presented to the living, doing the work while
Cheyne received the tithes. The patronage of the

1 Blakeway MSS., Shropshire Parochial Notices, West Felton.

2 J\fon<tstico)i vi., 114.

3 Blakeway MSS, Shropshire Parochial Clergy.

316

WEST F ELTON CHURCH.

living remained from this time in undisputed possession'
of the Earl.

Jolin de Lynch, or Lynchis, Chaplain, was presented
by the same patron, and instituted 17 Oct., 1349. He
may have been descended from Thomas de Linches of
Fennymere, and Emma his wife, who were defendants
in a suit about common land there in 1226. 1 Fenny-
mere was part of the possessions of the Earl of Arundel.
John de Lynchis died 29 Sept., 1352, and

William de Ford, or Fordes, Chaplain, was presented
by the same patron, and instituted 29 Nov., 1352. A.
good many persons of this name are mentioned in
Shropshire deeds of this and the previous century, but
they do not seem to have had any special connection
with the Fitz Alans. There is a Fords farm now in
the parish. He resigned after about a year's incum-
bency, and

William de Walinton, Chaplain, was instituted 11
Feb., 1353, on the presentation of the same patron.
In a deed of 1356 he is called Wolreton, and under
that name he was admitted Vicar of Ness Strange on
the 24th March, 13G2, thereby vacating Felton, though
the value of Felton was greater than that of Ness.
Transfers of clergy from one living to another had been
forbidden by several of the old Councils, but were
exceptionally common at this time, owing perhaps to
the unsettled state of the country after the Black
Death.2

Roger de Sondford, Acolyte, was instituted 30 April,
1362, being the sixth Rector presented by the same
patron, Richard Earl of Arundel. Sandford, in Felton
parish, is usually called Sonforde in the Deeds of this
period, and was held under the Earls of Arundel, so
that this Rector, like so many of his predecessors, was
probably taken from the family of one of the Earls
tenants. He was not in priest's orders when appointed.

1 My ton x., 290.

- Dim, Hist, of Lich/icht, p. 155.

WEST F ELTON CHURCH.

317

In 1383-4 a bond for 40 marks was executed to him
by the name of Hoger de Sonforde.1 He died in 1388.
Ripliard Earl of Arundel died during this incumbency,
24 Jan., 1375-6 ; and as his wife was sister and heiress
of the last Earl of Surrey, their son Richard assumed
the title of Earl of Arundel and Surrey.

John Gamul, Priest, was appointed by the new Earl,
and instituted 19 Nov., 1388. The family of Gamul of
Knighton, in Staffordshire, had a member about this
time named John, of whom nothing is recorded in the
pedigree,2 and who may have been a priest. The
Rector died3 not very long after his appointment, and

Sir John Boshele was appointed, of whom the only
record is that he resigned the living in 1393. Boshele
may be a mistake for Roshele, the old name of Rossall
near Shrewsbury. In that case he was probably the
:< John Gamul alias Russell " who was appointed Vicar
of Ruyton in 1395.

Robert Eggerley, Priest, was presented by Richard
Earl of Arundel, and instituted 2nd June, 1393. He
may have taken his name from Edgerley, in Kinnerley
parish, which belonged to the Earl The Earl, who had
been Admiral of England, and a leading member of the
Commission of Government, was attainted and be-
headed for treason in 1397, but on the revolution of
1399, when Richard II. was deposed, the attainder was
reversed, and Thomas, the son of the late Earl suc-
ceeded to his honours and property. At the inquisition
post mortem4 of Earl Richard in 1397, his right to the
advowson of Felton Church was valued at 20 merks,
i.e., £13 6s. 8d. per annum, which must have been the
whole value of the living.

Thomas Wilmarr was instituted 4 Nov., 1405,
Thomas Earl of Arundel and Surrey is entered in the

1 2nd vol. of Extracts from Sir T. Phillips' sale in Shrewsbury
Free Library, p. 244 b.

2 In Ormcrod's Hist, of Cheshire iii., 250.
a Blakeway MSS. in Bodleian.

4 Printed in Lloyd's I'owys Fadoij, vol. i., p. .'579,

Vol. IX., 2nd S. SS

318

WERT F ELTON CHURCH.

Register as the patron, but the presentation was made
by " William Boarley, Esquire, for this turn by grant
of Beatrice, Countess of Arundel, out of her dower."
She was not the Dowager Countess, however, but the
wife of Earl Thomas, and a natural daughter of John
King of Portugal. The Lordship of Ruyton was part
of her dower, and she appears by this e»itry to have
been put in possession of it in her husband's lifetime.
The Earl died in 1415 without issue. The Countess
married three successive husbands after the Earl's
death, but, died without heirs, 23 Oct., 1439.1 This
Hector was not in priest's orders, and was probably
under age, for on the 21st June, 1408, letters dismissory
were issued to him to receive all orders which he had
not yet obtained, and licence was given to him to
" study at Oxford or elsewhere where a general course
of study prevails." There is no record of his matri-
culation at Oxford. He died in 1427.

William Burton was instituted 18 March, 1428, and
that is the only record which we have of him. Beatrice,
Dowager Countess of Arundel, who some time after
1419 married John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, held
the lordship of Iluyton, of which manor Felton was a
member, and, doubtless, presented this Hector. On
her death the lordship and the advowson passed to
William Fitz Alan, 13th Earl of Arundel.

Sir Ivo Buret was Hector of West Felton, but the
date of his institution is not given in the Register. He
died in 1477.

Thomas Kyffin was instituted in 1477, on the pre-
sentation of William Earl of Arundel, who had just
been elected a Knight of the Garter, and was in this
year sent on an embassy to France.2

Master John Oswesteer, Priest, was instituted 14
Dec, 148G, "on the death of Sir Thomas Gryflin," no
doubt the same person as Kyfrin. William Earl or

1 [nqiiisitio post mortem, translated in Lloyd s 'Hist, of Poioys
Fadoy i., 385 ; Collins's l*e&,aye iii., 1 1.

2 Collius's Pen-aye i., Gl.

WEST FELTON CHURCH.

319

Arundel presented him, but died the next year. The roof
of the nave of the church appears to belong to about this
time, the latter part of the 15th century. It is so like
that of Ruyton that it may have been made by the same
workmen. The Rector died in 1500, and

Thomas Edwards, Clerk, was instituted 30 Jan.,
1500, on the presentation of Thomas Earl of Arundel.

Thomas Kyfrin, Rector of Felton, is mentioned in the
Will of Humphrey Kynaston, Esq., dated 1 May, 1534.

Thomas Grenoo was Rector in 1535, when the new
valuation of all livings for the purpose of taxation was
made. The Rectory of Felton was valued by the
Commissioners at £21, less annual payments for pro-
curations1 6/8, and for synodals 1/-, making the net
income £20 12s. 4d. The valuation of 1291, called
Pope Nicholas' Taxation, in which Felton Rectory was
valued at £10 per annum, had hitherto been the basis
of all ecclesiastical taxation. This new valuation there-
fore raised the tenths which the Rector of Felton had
to pay from £i to £2 Is. 3d., and he now had to pay
them to the King instead of as hitherto to the Pope ;
but in other respects he was not greatly affected by the
Reformation. The steps by which it was carried out
in country churches, beginning with the erasure of the
Pope's name out of the service books in 1534, have
been detailed in the account of Ruyton Church. But
as the tithes and patronage of Felton had never been
transferred to a monastery, they were not affected by
the dissolution of the monasteries ; and during Grenoo's
time very little alteration was made in the Church
Services. He died in 1547, shortly after the death of
Henry VIII. The Rector of Felton still pays M2Q 12s.
4d. as first fruits, and U2 Is. 3d. annually as M tenths " in
accordance with this valuation of 1535. Unfortunately for
him his other taxes are not calculated upon the same basis.

1 Procurations were a sum paid to the Bishop and Archdeacon at
their visitations instead of providing entertainment for thorn Syno-
dals were a sum customarily paid by every parish priest to tho Bishop
at liis syuo 1. Kennel's Parwhiul Antiquities.

320

WEST FELTON CHURCH.

Lodowic Williams was instituted1 16 Jan., 1547-8,
having been presented by Edward Williams, assign of
William Earl of Arundel. This Earl had died in 1543,
but appears to have sold the next presentation. The
new Rector compounded2 for the first-fruits of the
Rectory on 20th January, his sureties for the payment
being Edward Williams of Felton, generosus, and
William Lloyd of Shrewsbury, Draper. The composi-
tion was always based on the valuation of 1535,
£20 12s. 4d., from which was deducted the tenth which
had to be paid annually to the Crown (or later to
Queen Anne's Bounty) £2 Is. 3d., and the balance,
£18 lis. Id., was paid generally in three or four
instalments by the Rector within the two years after
his obtaining the living ; and he had to give sureties
for this payment. At the Easter following Williams'
institution the Act took effect which vested in the
King the endowments of all Chantries, and all endow-
ments for maintaining lights or lamps in any church.
There was a Chantry of our Lady at Felton for the
endowment of which one William Stephens had given
lands which produced 6s. 2d. a year, and of which
Richard Harrys was at this time the stipendiary priest ;
and there was a rent-charge of 6d. a year for maintain-
ing a lamp in the church.3

There is nothing to show when these endowments
were mven, but the following" document shows that
they were both charged on the same property, a house
and 10 acres in Tedsmore. The Chantry Altar, dedi-
cated to our Lady, was probably, like that at Ruyton,
at the east end of the north aisle, and the primary duty
of the Chantry priest would have been to say mass at
that altar daily for the souls of the founder, William
Stephens, and of his family ; but he would also act as a

1 lilakcway MSS., Shropshire Parochial Clergy,

2 Composition Hooks in Record Office,

a (JorLilicat.cH of Oollogen and Chantries in Kocord Office, Cort. 41,
Nos. 0, (rJ.

WEST FELTON CHURCH.

321

curate or assistant priest in the parish. The lamp was
probably intended to be kept burning at the tomb of
the founder, which would, no doubt, be in his Chantry
chapel. These endowments were included in the sale
now to be described, and the parish presumably lost the
services of Richard Harris, the Chantry priest, whom
we find in 1555 receiving a pension of 11/2 in considera-
tion of its suppression.1 The Chantry must therefore
have had some endowment beyond the 6/8 mentioned
in the sale.

Daniel and Alexander Pert2 of Tewkesbury, Gentle-
men, by a document dated 8 April, 7 Edward VI., re-
quested to purchase a very large number of properties
lately belonging to the Church, but now to the King
The properties were mostly perhaps in Gloucestershire,
but many also in other counties, and are all fully
described and valued on parchment strips attached to
their request, and making one of the rolls of" Parti-
culars for Grants " at the Record Office. The properties
in Shropshire were as follows3 : —

1. Possessions late of the Service of St. Mary in the

Parish of Ryfcon. s. d.

Roger ap Richard holds at the will of the Lord a close

containing by estimation 2 acres in Ryton,and two

Selvedges containing by estimation 2 roods of land.

Rent therefrom per annum ... ... ... ... 0 6

John Shelfox holds in the same place at the will of the

Lord 8 acres of arable land by estimation, rent ... 3 6
John Beddowe holds there 2 acres of arable land, rent 0 6
The same holds one other .... of arable land in the

same place, rent .. 0 1

Richard Meryden holds in the same place one acre of

arable land in Shelfox in the parish of Ryton, rent 0 6
Richard Payne holds one butt containing by estimation

I an acre in Atton in the said parish, rent ... 0 2

1 Blakeway MSS. in Bodleian, Shropshire Parochial Clergy, Ituyton
and Pel ton.

2 Tin; name is wrongly spelt Peatc in my account of Ruyton
Church.

:i The originals l\m ill Latin. 1 have given a translation.

322 WEST FELTON CHTJllCH.

Richard Browne holds \ an acre of land in Ruyton, s. d.

per an. ... ... ... ... ... ... 0 2

Thomas Phillips holds 1 acre, per an ... 0 4

Total 5 9

2. Possessions late of the service of St. Mary in the

parish of Felton.
Yearly rent issuing and coming from one messuage and
10 acres of arable land in Taddismere in the parish
of Felton to be paid on the feast of the Annuncia-
tion and the feast of Sc. Michael the Archangel ... 6 8

3. Possessions late of the service of the Holy Cross in

Oswestry.

Yearly rent coming from one tenement or hereditament
in the town of Oswestry in the Street called Bayli-
streete in the holding of Robert Bobyth, per an. ... 0 9

Yearly rent coining from one messuage or tenement in
the same place in the tenure of Richard ap
Meredith., per an ... 0 9

Total 0 18

4. Parish of Baschurch.

Edmund Smyth holds at the will of the Lord one
Selvedge of land containing one acre of land, rent

per an. ... 0 4

Note. — This was used for finding a stipendiary priest.
Mem. — Rents per an. 8/2 at 20
Lands per an. 6/1 at 23.1

Appended to the above list is the following memo-
randum, in English : —

The clear yearly value of the premises in Riton, Felton
Oswestry and Baschurch is 14/3, which rated at the said
several rates amounts to £15 3s. 3d. To be paid within 20
days next. The King's Majesty to discharge the purchaser of
all encumbrances except leases and the covenants thereof.
The tenure in socage. The purchaser to have the issues from
Michaelmas last past. The purchaser to be bounden for the
woods.

i.e

, the rent-charges in Felton and Oswestry enumerated above
amounting t«> 8/2, arc to by valued at 20 years purchase, the hinds in
Ruyton and Kischuroh whoso rental is (>/ 1 per an., at, 23 years,

WEST FBI/TON CHURCH.

323

And in the margin of this is,

3rd Feb. 7 Edw. 6 John Davies servant of Richard Goodrick
Esq.

The same name is endorsed on the back, and also in
another part,

Edward Willms do West Felton in Com. Salop.
Perhaps one of these was the real purchaser, and had
got the valuation made, and the Perts were merely
agents for dealing with the Treasury. The great
number of properties applied for by them seems to point
to this. Edward Williams was the person who had
acquired the presentation to the living and had ap-
pointed the then Rector.

The following is on the next parchment slip: —

County of Salop. Parcels of possessions late of the Monastery
of Haughmond in the said County.

1. Sandford in the Parish of West Felton in the
aforesaid County.

Free rents (lib. redd.) of John ap Thomas coming from
land and tenements in Sandford aforesaid in the
Parish of West Felton, is at 2/- ... . per an. ... 4/-
(valued at 20 years purchase).

Firm of one messuage and 30 acres of land in the vili
and fields of Sanford aforesaid demised to Richard
ap Jenkins by lease under the seal of the Convent
of the said late Monastery given 20 January in the
30th year of the late King ... at a fine of ... .
paying thence per annum at the feasts there usual1 4/-
(valued at 30 years purchase).

2. Wotton in parish of Oswestry and said County.
Rents of assize . . . free rents of John ap Thomas 2/6

and of Alice Gitton £d. out of land in

Wootton in the parish of Oswestry, per an. ... 2/6 £
Rent of one messuage and parcel of land in the samo
place in the tenure of LI ap Maddock at the will of

tho Lord, per an. .. 3/8

1 There are several lines at the end of this difficult to road, but I
think Lliuy arc remarks as to the value of this lease, for which the
Abbey, in peril of dissolution, took a line. This explains the high
valuation of 30 years' purchase.

324

WEST FELTON CHURCB.

Rent of another messuage in the same place in the
tenure of John ap LI ap Even at the will of the

Lord, per an.... 4/2

(valued at 25 years purchase).

There is a memorandum as to price and conditions at
the bottom of this slip, similar to that on the other, and
the name in the margin is the same. These complete
the particulars of the Shropshire estates sold to the
Perts.

It will be seen that the rent of arable land was about
4d. per acre, and its saleable value about 23 years'
purchase of the rent. Pasture land was let very much
cheaper, at about ^d. per acre.

On the 21st April in the same year the Perts sold to
John ap David ap Thomas of London, yeoman, lands
in Pyton and in Shelfoxe and Acton (i.e. Shelvock
and Shotatton) in the same parish, late belonging
to the Chantry or Service of St Mary in the said
parish; a rent of G/8, parcel of the possessions of
the Chantry or service of St. Mary in the parish
church of West Feltonne, issuing out of a messuage in
Teddismeare ; a rent of 9d., parcel of the possessions of
the Chantry or service of Holy Cross in the Church of
Oswestry ; and other rents belonging to other Chan tries,
granted to the Perts by the King on the 17th of the
said April.1

In 1553 Visitors came round all the churches to
make an inventory of the Church plate. Every church
was to have one or two chalices of silver, or more, at
the discretion of the Visitors, and comely furniture for
the communion table and for surplices ; the rest of the
linen was to be sold and given to the poor; the copes
and altar cloths were to be sold, and the rest of the
plate and jewels delivered to the King's treasurer, Sir
Edmund Peekham." There is nothing to show whether

1 Ulukeway MSS. hi Bodleian, Shropshire Parochial Notiees,
Kuyloii.

~ Unmet ii., 311.

;ci i till/mini

WEST F ELTON CHURCH.

325

Felton had anything superfluous. The following bond
was executed upon this occasion between the Royal
Visitors and the representatives of the parish.1

This Bill indented made the 9 day of May in the seventh
year of our most dread sovereign Lord King Edward the VIth
betwixt Andrew Corbett Richard Manwaryng Knt and Richard
Newport Esq™ of the one part and Lewys Wyllyams Pson,
Greff ap Edwards and George . . . Churchwardens of the other
part Witnesseth that the said Lewys Greff. and George are
bounden do confess oursolves by these presents to be charged
and bounden to have unstolen unsold unembezzled 3 bells one
clialyc of silver and the paten thereto belonging and now in
the parish and we will answer therefor In witness whereof we
have put to our hands the day and year abovesaid.

This is signed Lodowick Wylliams, and two crosses
below may indicate the two Churchwardens, and may
raise a presumption that they could not write. There
are no witnesses.

The Rector died in 15 GO, having retained the living
through the reigns of Edward VI. and Mary, and the
first two years of Elizabeth, and having presumably
complied with all the various changes in the services
made during that time. Most of these are enumerated
in my account of Ruyton Church.

llobert Owen was instituted 11 July, 1560, on the
presentation of John Lord Lumley, having compounded2
for the first- fruits on the 7th. His sureties were
Thomas Kynaston of Ryton, generosus, and Richard
Kynaston of the same parish, generosus, who are further
described as " alias de hospitio Dni Henrici Comitis
Arundel," i.e., otherwise of the household of Henry
Earl of Arundel. They appear, by an inscription on the
south wall of the chancel of Ruyton Church, to have
been father and son. Lord Lumley had married Jane,
eldest (laughter of Henry, the last Earl of Arundel of
the Fitz Alan family, who hold the title 1543 to 1579,

1 The original is in the Record Office, Q. It, Church Goods 8

2 Composition Books in Record Ollico. 21.
Vol. IX., 2nd & TT

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but who must have given the advowson of Felton as
part of his daughter's portion. The Earl1 was one of
the Council appointed by Henry VIIL's will, but was
threatened with trial for disaffection under Edward VI.,
and was one of the principal supporters of Queen Mary,
and in the 12th year of Queen Elizabeth was arrested
for plotting in favour of Mary Queen of Scots. Lord
Lumley was arrested with him, but seems to have been
of a more accommodating disposition in respect of
religion. He was made a Knight of the Bath at Queen
Mary's coronation, and was employed about her Court.
He was employed in several matters by Queen Elizabeth;
and having been arrested, as we have said, with his
father-in-law in the 12th year of Elizabeth, for plotting
in favour of Mary Queen of Scots, he was made a
Commissioner for her trial in the 29th year of Elizabeth,
and the next year was a Commissioner to try Secretary
Davison for sending the warrant for the Queen of Scots'
execution ; he was one of the Peers who tried the Earl
of Essex in the 44th year of Elizabeth, and he was
employed at the coronation of James I. Probably
the Rector of Felton appointed in 1560 by such a
patron would have been a favourer of the old forms
of religion, but would not have contended against
alterations at the expense of any danger to himself.
Among the alterations likely to have been made in his
time would have been the substitution of a wooden
movable Communion Table for the stone altar, if that
had not been already effected under Edward VI., and
of a "decent communion cuppe" for the M prophane
cuppes, bowles, dishes, or chalices heretofore used at
masse."2 These were insisted on by Archbishop Parker
in his visitation of the Diocese of Canterbury in 1569,
and Bentham, Bishop of Lichfield, was less likely than
Parker to be tolerant of anything savouring of Popery.

1 Collins's Peerage ii., 198, 317; v., 182 ; viii, 253.

2 Archbishop Parker's Visitation Articles, 15G9, in Card well's
Documentary Annals of the Church of England i., 321.

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These Visitation Articles may partly account for the
extreme rarity of the pre-Reformation Church plate.

In the 9th year of Elizabeth, and before the plot in
favour of the Queen of Scots had come to light, the
long connection of the Fitz Alan family with Ruyton
and Felton was put an end to ; for in that year the
Queen gave license to Henry Earl of Arundel, John Lord
Lumley, and the Lady Jane his wife, to alienate the
tithes and manors of Righton, Kinerley, and Melverley,
and the advowson of the Church of Felton, to Thomas
Younge, Archbishop of York, and George Lee, to the
use of his grace the Archbishop and his heirs for ever.1
For more than 200 years the patronage of Felton
had been in the hands of one of the greatest families
in the kingdom ; this connection now ceased, and a
few years afterwards, on the death of Henry Earl of
Arundel in 1579, the Earldom passed from the Fitz
Alan family to that of Howard, in which it still
remains ; but with Felton and Ruyton the Howards
have never had any connection.

Archbishop Younge was a native of Pembrokeshire,
and a Doctor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford.2
He was one of the reformers who had made the
Reformation profitable to themselves. When Farrar
was appointed Bishop of St. David's in 1548, " he
found many things amiss, even in the Chapter, for there
was great spoil made of the plate and ornaments of the
Church, which was converted into the private posses-
sions of those that belonged unto the church ; and of
these and other misdemeanours were the chanter
[Precentor] Young, and one of the canons residentiary
named Merick, chiefly guilty, and Constantine, his own
register, was not clear. These men were also guilty of
simony, bribery, and bearing with ill lives for money."8
When Bishop Farrar attempted to reform these things

1 Duke's Antiquities of Shropshire, p. 315.

2 Wood's Alhenm Oxonunxen ii., K00.

a St,ry|)t:'s ticrl. MmorUiU HI., i., I -I, 4 30.

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they harassed him with law suits to the end of Edward
VI. 's reign. When he was condemned to be burnt
under Queen Mary, however, for his Protestant opinions,
Young" and Constantino came to him and begged his
forgiven es3 ; and in the first Convocation of Queen
Mary's reign Young was one of the very few who openly
supported King Edward's reformation.1 He fled to
Germany, and in 1559-60 was appointed Bishop of St.
David's, and in 1500-1 translated to York, having at that
time obtained the repute of " a virtuous, godly man."2
Archbishop Parker in recommending him said : " If
they were minded to have a lawyer at York, in his
opinion the Bishop of St. David's, Dr. Yong, was both
witty, prudent, and temperate, and manlike."3 At
York " he pulled down the great hall in the palace
there for lucre of the lead ;"4 but he was employed on
several commissions; and in 1563 was made Lord
President of the Council of the North. He married
Jane, daughter of Thos. Kynaston of Estwick, in
Shropshire, and was thus distantly connected with the
Kynastons of Oteley and of Buy ton. 5 He died 26
June, 1568, leaving by his will all his lands in Shrop-
shire or elsewhere to his wife for 21 years, if she lived
so long ; but Lee, a Shrewsbury man whom the Arch-
bishop had joined with himself in the purchase of this
property as a trustee, proved unfaithful, and retained
it for some time for his own use.0 In the 22nd and
23rd years of Elizabeth, however, " Jane Yonge, alias
Kynaston, widow," had obtained possession of Buy ton
Manor, and the Archbishop's son, Sir George Young,
was in possession of it in the 4th and 5th years of

1 Strypo'a Life of Cranmer, 1G 1 .

2 Strypo's Annals of the Reformation L, i., 370.

3 Strype's Life of Archbishop rarher i., 173.

4 Strype's Life of Archbishop Cranmer, 2G2.

b Wood's Athena ii., 800 ; Visitation of Shropshire, pedigree of
Kynaston of Pontcsbury.

('» Slrype's A nn Us of the Reformation ]., ii., 300.

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James I.,1 and in the 11th year of that King sold it,
together with Kinnerley and Melverley, to William
Willaston, Esq.,2 and with the Manor of Tluyton was
included the patronage of the Church of Felton.

Robert Owen, presumably, died in 1572, for John
Constantine compounded3 for the first-fruits on the
15th Nov., 1572, and at the same time compounded for
those of Calburne in Hampshire, his sureties in respect
of both being himself and Richard Constantine, of the
Parish of All Souls, in Bread Street, and Milo Eyre, of
the same parish, Merchant Tailors. He was, no doubt,
presented by Archbishop Young's representatives, and
appears4 to have been a brother of George Constantine,
Young's associate at St. David's, and of William
Constantine, who was made Chancellor of the Diocese
of York. All three brothers died without issue, and
were, presumably, unmarried. Richard Constantine,
their father, was of " Brodeley," perhaps a mistake for
Broseley, and Richard Constantine of London, the
surety, was his first cousin. They belonged to a
younger branch of the Constantines of Dodington, near
Whitchurch. The Constantines had been lords of the
Manor of Woolston and Sandford, which is part of
West Felton Parish, in the 12th and 13th centuries,
but the property had passed away from them with an
heiress in the latter part of the 13th century.5 As to
the two livings which Constantine held together, the
Lateran Council of 1215 forbade any such plurality,
but the Popes had very freely dispensed with the
prohibition. The Statute of 21 Hen. VIII., c. 13, for-
bade the granting of such dispensations in any case in
which the first living was more than £8 in value, except
to certain persons, such as Chaplains to the Royal

1 Ruyton Court Rolls in Record Office.

2 Duke's Anticpiities of Shropshire, 315.

3 Composition Book in Record Office.

4 ITciuKIh' Visitation of Shropshire, Constantine.
6 Kyton's Shropshire x.,

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Family, or to Bishops or Peers, sons or brothers of
Peers or Knights, Doctors of Divinity or of Law,
Bachelors of Divinity or of Canon Law ; and by 25
Hen. VI1L, c. 21, this Act was confirmed, and the
power of granting these dispensations was transferred
from the Pope to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The
two livings which Constantino held were both consider-
ably above the value of £8, as valued in the King's
books of 1535, which, as long as these Acts were in
force, remained the standard by which their application
was regulated, Felton being valued at £20 12s. 4d.,
and Calburne at X'19 12s. 8Jd. ; and as the Acts, re-
pealed under Queen Mary, were revived by the first
Act of Queen Elizabeth, and remained in force till the
reign of Queen Victoria, Constantine must have had
one of the qualifications enumerated to enable him to
hold the two livings. As his sister Elizabeth had
married an uncle of Thomas Lord Burgh, a Peer and
Knight of the Garter,1 he may have got this qualifica-
tion by being her nephew's Chaplain. He only enjoyed
the livings till 1580.

Thomas Somerfield compounded for the first-fruits 5
Nov., 1580. His sureties were himself, Thomas Jones
of Aston in the County of Salop, and Roger Kripie of
the Parish of St. Benet (?) of London, generosi, " fide
Walteri Leigh de interiore Templo gener." Walter
Leigh probably acted professionally for them as a
barrister, and the Treasury accepted their names on his
assurance. There is a gap in the Lichfield Episcopal
Registers from 1578 to 1018, so they contain no record of
Somerfield's institution, but his patron must have been
Archbishop Younge's widow, who was now in possession
of Buy ton Manor. In a Clergy List of 1G02, printed in
►Shropshire Archaeological Society's Transact io) is, 2nd
Series, vol. v., p. 258, his name is erroneously printed
Thomas Sandfield. The list informs us that the Rector
had taken no University degree, but held a general

1 N icIioIiin'h I'cr.i <vj<\

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license to preach from the Bishop of the Diocese. In
1560 Archbishop Parker had forbidden any to preach
who were under the degree of M. A.1 The list enumer-
ates 87 incumbents in this Archdeaconry of Salop-in-
Lich field, only 22 of whom had University degrees, and
only 21 were licensed to preach, and two out of this
number, the incumbents of Buy ton and Fitz, were
restricted to preaching in their own parishes. The
general license to preach, therefore, being held by only
19 out of 87 incumbents, must have conferred on the
holder of it a considerable position among the clergy of
the diocese.

In 1604, and not earlier, the marriage of priests was
finally made lawful by Act of Parliament. The Acts of
Edward VI., which allowed it, had been repealed by
one of the first year of Queen Mary, and had not been
revived during the reign of Elizabeth, who had a strong
personal prejudice against such marriages, though they
were sanctioned (subject to the approval of two justices
of the peace, and of the parents, or relations, or master
or mistress of the woman) by the 29th of the Queen's
Injunctions2 of 1559, and by the 32nd Article, confirmed
by her in 1562 and 1571. But as long as the Act of
Mary was unrepealed these marriages were of doubtful
legal validity, and could only be upheld by virtue of
the Queen's prerogative and her dispensing power.
The Act was repealed and the marriages made indis-
putable by 1 James I., c. 25. But there is nothing to
show that Somerfield ever took advantage of this, and
perhaps his successor was the first married Rector of
Felton.

In 1613 William Willaston bought the Manor of
Ruyton, and with it the advowson of Felton, from Sir-
George Younge, son of the Archbishop. There is a
tablet in the chancel of Ruyton Church put up by this

1 Strype's Life i., 176.

2 Printed in Card well's Documentary Annals of the Reformed Church
of En<jl(uu1.

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William Willaston to his wife Sarah, who died 6 Feb.,
1622, aged 31. The arms over the tablet, 3 mullets,
are those of the Willastons of Willaston, near Prees,
and of the Wollastons of Shenton, in Leicestershire.1

The earliest bequest, that we know of, to the poor of
the parish, was made by George Iveson of Sandford,
Gentleman,2 who by his will dated September, 1616,
gave to the Parson and Churchwardens of the parish
and their successors an annuity of 40s., issuing out of
all his messuages, lands, and tenements, which were
situated at Osbaston, to be paid to the poor in even
portions on the festivals of Christmas and Easter. It
is still paid, generally about Christmas, with other
charities.

The oldest of the three bells now in Felton Church
was made in the time of Somerfield, and is inscribed :
"Gloria in Excelsis Deo, 1619, W. G." The last
two letters are, probably, the initials of the donor.

A liability to military service was at this time in-
cumbent on Felton Rectory, for a list8 of Shropshire
persons bound to rind a " Curasere," the date of which
must be between 1622 and 1631, includes the entry,
" The Kect. of Myddle and the Rectory of Westfelton
a Curasere." The two Rectories shared the expense
between them, but for how long the soldier in armour
had to be maintained is not stated. The liability
would have ceased with the abolition of feudal tenures
at the beginning of Charles ll.'s reign.

The earliest existing Register begins in Somerfield's
time, the first entry of a burial being 4 April, and
of a christening 6 April, 1628, but they were evidently

1 Heralds' Visitation of Shropshire, Burke's Landed Gentry.

2 Further Report of the Commissioners tor inquiring coneerning
Charities, 1819-1837. List of Benefactions in Church Tower.

:f In a book of extracts in Shrewsbury Free Library, from Sir T.
Phillips' sale. It is undated, but it mentions among those liable to
find a "Curasere," Sir T. Harris, Hart, (of Horcatton), who was
ordiiUtol a R'ironct in 1G22, and I'M ward Kinaston of llordlcy, J0w<| ,
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made by Hildersam, not by Somerfield. The register
of marriages does not begin till 1G94. The Rector was
buried on the 20th May, 1628, at Felton.

Samuel Hildersam's appointment is thus recorded at
the head of the Register Book of Burials and Christen-
inofS which lie began : — " Samuel Hildersam Batchelor
of Divinity Fellow of Emanuel Col. in Cambridge was
presented to the Parsonage of West Felton by Mr.
William Cocky n of London Merchant, Executor to
Mr. Wolaston, and inducted thereinto July 12, 1628,
by Thomas Davies, then Vicar of Ruyton." Mr. William
Wi lias ton had sold the Manor of Ruyton in the 19th
year of James I., 1621, to Elizabeth Craven,1 widow of
Sir William Craven, who had been Lord Mayor of
London in 1611, and mother of the first Lord Craven,
but he must, have reserved the next presentation to
Felton Rectory, the advowson of which passed with the
manor to the Craven family. His executor, William
Cockyn, or Cockayne, was a merchant in Austin Friars.2
Hildersam was instituted 13 June, 1628, and com-
pounded for his fruits on the 4th July.

Samuel Hildersam3 was a person of some considera-
tion and position. His father's mother was daughter
of Sir Geoffrey Pole, brother to Cardinal Pole. The
father, Arthur Hildersam, however, imbibed Protestant
principles at school, and was disinherited for them. He
became an unauthorised preacher, but was afterwards
ordained and made Vicar of Ashby, in Huntingdonshire,
and on being presented at Court, was saluted by Queen
Elizabeth as "Cousin Hildersam." He was several
times prosecuted and suspended as a schismatic, but
was reputed to be a learned and pious man, a reformer
but not a separatist. His son Samuel was born in 1594
in Leicestershire, was sent to Emmanuel Coll., Cam-

1 Duke's Ant. of Shropshire, 315; Collins's Peerage, tit. Craven.

2 Diet, of National Biography, Hildersam.

3 Diet, of Nat. Biography ; Neat's History of the Puritans;
Dugdale'tf Warwickshire, 803, Book of Institutions in Record OtHee.

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bridge, and became B.A. 1612, M.A. 1G16, Fellow of
his College about 1G20. He was ordained by an Irish
Bishop without subscribing, as required by the 36th
Canon, the three Articles acknowledging the King's
supremacy, promising to use the Book of Common
Prayer, and accepting the 39 Articles ; but he sub-
scribed in 1624 when he was made B.D. and one of the
University preachers. In his institution to Felton he
is entered as S.T.P., but this is a mistake. He was
reputed a good preacher and sound expositor, of quiet
habits, kindly to the younger clergy, and " very much of
a gentleman," " a father to the sons of the prophets in
and about Shropshire. >n He married Mary, daughter
of Sir Henry Goodere of Polesworth, in Warwickshire,
who survived him. She was, perhaps, the first woman
who ever married a Rector of West Felton. Her sister
Lucy was the wife of Sir Francis Nethersole, Secretary
to the Queen of Bohemia, an active royalist. Hildersam,
however, took the other side in the civil war, and when
by an Ordinance of 12 June, 1643, the two Houses
called an Assembly of Divines " to consult and advise
of such matters and things touching the premises as
shall be proposed unto them by both or either of the
Houses of Parliament, and to give their advise and
counsel therein to both or either of the said Houses
when and as often as they shall be thereunto required,"
they named Hildersam one of the original members.
Among the lay members were Humphrey Sal way of
Ludlow, and William Pierpoint, M.P. for Wenlock.
Hildersam seems to have been the only divine from
Shropshire and was, probably, nominated by Sir John
Corbet of Stoke and Adderley, the only member for the
county who took the side of the Parliament. He took
his seat, but did not attend many of the meetings of
the Assembly. The Assembly were " to confer and
treat amongst themselves of such matters and things

1 Life, of Philip Henry by Matthew Henry, 459; Culuiny'a Non-
conformists Memorial.

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touching and concerning the Liturgy, Discipline, and
Government of the Church of England, or the vindi-
cating and clearing of the Doctrine of the same from all
false aspersions and misconstructions as shall he pro-
posed unto them by both or either of the said Houses
of Parliament, and no other, and to deliver their
opinions and advises " as shall be required ; and the
" premises" as to which they were to consult and advise
were the statement in the preamble of the Ordinance
that the present Church Government by Archbishops,
Bishops, &c , " is evil and justly offensive and burthen-
some to the Kingdom, a great impediment to Reforma-
tion and growth of Religion, and very prejudicial to the
State and Government of this Kingdom, and that there-
fore they are resolved that the same shall be taken
away, and that such a Government shall be settled in
the Church as may be most agreeable to God's Holy
Word, and most apt to procure and preserve the peace
of the Church at home, and nearer agreement with the
Church of Scotland and other Reformed Churches
abroad." Hildersam, though not an active member of
the Assembly, must have been in general sympathy
with their objects, and probably carried out at Felton
the ordinances made by the Parliament, at all events,
as soon as this district was placed in their power by the
capture of Oswestry on the 22nd June, 1G44, and of
Shrewsbury on the 22nd Feb., 1644-5. An Ordinance
of 28 Aug., 1643, for " Monuments of Superstition and
Idolatry to be abolished," enacted that all altars of
stone were to be demolished, and Communion Tables
to be removed from the east end, and put, without any
rails, in some other convenient part of the Church or
chancel, and all tapers, candlesticks, and basons were
to be removed from them ; and all crucifixes, crosses,
images, or pictures of any of the Persons of the Trinity,
or of the Virgin Mary, or of any Saint, and superstitious
inscriptions, in any Church or Churchyard, were to be
taken away and defaced. And an Ordinance with a
similar title, of i) May, 1644, abolished the use of copes,

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surplices, superstitious vestments, roods, rood lofts,
holy water fonts, and organs ; and ordered that no
cross, crucifix, representation of any Person of the
Trinity, or of any angel or saint, should continue on
any plate or other thing used in the worship of God.
Any pre -Reformation communion plate which had
survived Edward VI. and Elizabeth would be en-
dangered by this Ordinance, as it would be very likely
to have had a cross or figure of some sort on it.

On the 3rd January, 1644-5, after reciting that the
Lords and Commons "have consulted with the Reverend
Pious and Learned Divines called together to that
purpose," it was ordered that the Book of Common
Prayer be removed from all churches, and the " Di rec-
tory for the Publique Worship of God," which is fully
set forth in the Ordinance, substituted ; and it was at
the same time ordered that every parish should provide
" a fair Register Book of Velim to be kept by the
Minister and other officers of the Church; and that the
names of all children baptized, and of their parents, and
of the time of their birth and baptizing, shall be written
and set down by the Minister therein; and also the
names of all persons married there, and the time of
their marriage ; and also the names of all persons
buried in that parish, and the time of their death and
burial;" and all persons were to be at liberty to take
copies and obtain certificates of such entries. And this
was supplemented on the 23rd Aug., 1645, by another
Ordinance, that printed copies of the Directory " fairly
bound up in leather," should be sent by the represen-
tatives in Parliament to the Parliamentary Committees
in each county, and by them distributed to every
minister of a parish through the parish constables; and
if thereafter anyone should use the Book of Common
Prayer either in church or in private, he was for the
first ollence to be fined JC5, for the second ,010; and for
the third to be imprisoned for a year. Further, every
time a minister did not observe the Directory in public
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writing, or printing anything against it was to forfeit
not less than £5 and not more than i,'50. The whole
of Hildersam's Register corresponds to the description,
"a fair Ilegister Book of Velim," and the entries look
as if they may have all heen made at the some time.
He may therefore, very likely, have procured it in con-
sequence of the Ordinance, and copied into it from an
older book the previous entries from April, 1G28. After
10*53 there are no entries till 1678.

An Ordinance of 26 April, 1645, forbade any persons
to preach except ordained ministers and persons pre-
paring for the ministry, who should be licensed by
authority of the two Houses ; and one of 8 Nov., 1645,1
declared that a Bishop had no more authority to ordain
than other Presbyters, and that in future ministers
were to be ordained by the Presbytery of their district
This law was only to be in force for a year, but was
prolonged for three years in 1646, and in the same year
the office of Bishop was altogether abolished. Presby-
teral Government, and ordination by the Presbytery,
were finally established by an Ordinance of 29 Aug.,
1648.

Church order and Church services were revolution-
ised by these Ordinances; but the Presbyterian party
passed other laws with respect to religion and morals,
which were perhaps more keenly felt by the populace
at large; for in 1644 all games, sports, and pastimes
whatever on the Lord's day were made penal, and all
May-poles ordered to be removed. In 1647 all observ-
ance of Christmas Day, Easter, Whit-Sunday, or any
other Holy Day, was forbidden, and the second Tuesday
in every month was to be a holiday instead ; and it was
made penal to be either an actor or spectator of a stage
play ; and in 1648 it was made a felony punishable
with death to deny the doctrine of the Trinity, the
authority of the Bible, and other Christian doctrines.

1 Tliis is nut mentioned by Seobell, but is printed in full in Rush
worth's J 1 'i. tric.nl Collection*, |»art iv.j j>. 'J12.

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Hildersam gave personal expression to his agreement
with the Assembly of Divines, and to his objection to
religious toleration, by signing the "Testimony of the
Ministers of the Province of Salop to the Solemn League
and Covenant" in 1G48, the terms of which have been
quoted in the history of It uy ton Church.

The Acts with respect to religious or ecclesiastical
matters passed after the King had been put to death
were not nearly so numerous or important; but one of
9 Aug., 1G50, forbade the expression of a number of
M atheistical, blasphemous, and execrable opinions"
which it enumerates, under the penalty of six months
imprisonment for the first offence, and banishment for
the second ; and by an Act of 28 Aug., 1654, Commis-
sioners were appointed for every county to enquire as
to any holders of benefices or schoolmasters, who should
be " ignorant, scandalous, insufficient, or negligent,"
and to eject them from their cures or schools. The
judgment was to be pronounced by five or more of the
Commissioners, together with five or more ministers
named for every county to assist the Commissioners.
For Shropshire there were 21 Commissioners named,
among whom were Thomas Hunt and his son Rowland,
who soon afterwards became owners of Boreatton, and
20 ministers, of whom Hildersam was one. The Act
declared that such ministers (among others) were to be
accounted scandalous in their lives and conversations,
" who have publicly and frequently read or used the
Common Prayer Book since the 1st of January last, or
shall at any time hereafter do the same;" and "such
as do encourage and countenance by word or practice
any Whitsun ales, wakes, morris dances, May-poles,
stage plays, or such like licentious practices."

In less than six years after the passing of this Act
the King was restored, and with him the ecclesiastical
laws which the Parliament had abolished ; but he issued
a proclamation on the liStli October, 1GG0, in which he
stated that a liturgy was very necessary, and that of
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that as exceptions were made against several things
therein, it should be reviewed, and that until this was
done no one should be punished for not usino- it.1
Hildersam, therefore, and those who agreed with him
in condemning the Prayer Book, were able to retain
their livings until, after the Savoy Conference had been
held in accordance with this declaration, the Prayer
Book was revised and altered by Convocation, and the
Act of Uniformity was passed requiring that before the
Feast of St. Bartholomew, 1662, every incumbent
should declare his assent to it as revised, and promise
to conform to it, on penalty of deprivation. The
alterations made in the Prayer Book, however, were
far from satisfactory to the Presbyterian ministers,
and about 2,000 of them throughout England are said
to have resigned their livings. Hildersam, after en-
forcing an Act which declared those who used the
Prayer Book to be ''scandalous in their lives and con-
versations, " had no option but to resign with the
others. He did not attempt, as some of them did, to
continue his ministry elsewhere, but retired to the
house of a relative at Erdington, a hamlet in the parish
of Aston, near Birmingham, and was buried in Aston
Churchyard in April, 1674. The number of ministers
in Shropshire who resigned at this time is said to have
been 58, of whom 18 afterwards conformed to the
Church of England. Some of them are mentioned in
the following lines, written by Mr. Tallents on the
death, in 1675, of Rowland Nevet, the ejected minister
of Oswestry2 : —

rout Hildersam and zealous Nevet go,
Kind Richardson and reverend Porter too;
Smith, Paston, Thomas, Adams, Humphreys, Bote,
With famous Wright, and Troysel,3 men of note ;
Sadler, and learned, holy, humble Heath.

1 Collier viii., -11 1.

2 Life of I'hitip Henry by Matthew Henry, p. 459.

3 Probably a misprint for Kruyael, who is mentioned in tho Aet of
1051.

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Tallents, who wrote these lines, was a public preacher
of the town of Salop, and on the 9th June, 1653, had
married Mrs. Ann Lomax, niece to Mr. Hildersam.1
He was himself one of the Shropshire ministers named
in the Act of 1654, and so were Nevet, Porter, Smith,
Wright, Fraysel, Sadler, and Heath ; but Hildersam's
position among them is indicated by the precedence
given to his name and by the epithet of great. All
those named in the lines were dead in 1675. Lawrence
of Baschurch, an intimate friend of Philip Henry's, was
another of the ministers ejected at this time.2 Another
was Titus Thomas of Aston Chapel, who was buried at
Felton, Dec. 10, 1686.3 Fildersam directed4 that he
should be buried without any funeral sermon, and that
the following inscription should be placed on his grave-
stone : — " Samuel Hildersam, B.D., Rector of West
Felton, in the County of Shropshire, 34 years till
August 24th, 1662."

John Whitmore, S.T.P., was instituted 23 Oct., 1662,
on the presentation of William Lord Craven, Baron of
Hangsted Marshall, in the County of Berks, eldest son
of the Elizabeth Craven who bought the Manor of
Iluyton in 1621. Lord Craven5 was created a peer in
1626-7 for military services in the Netherlands under
the Prince of Orange, served with the Kino: of Sweden
and Elector Palatine in Germany, but was taken
prisoner, together with Prince Rupert, in 1637. On
obtaining his liberty he went into the service of the
States of Holland, and resided there till the restoration
of Charles II., and sent from there considerable supplies
both to Charles I. and Charles II. His large property
in England was confiscated by the Parliament in 1651,
but he returned home at the restoration, and was

1 Blakeway MSS., Shropshire Parochial Notices, Felton

2 Philip Henry's Diaries, by Lee, pp. 209, 238.

3 Calami's Nonconformists' Memorial.

i Ufa of rhifip Hairy, by Williams, p. 270.

:< CollinHH Peerage,

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341

created Earl Craven in 1663, and became Colonel of
the Coldstream Guards, and High Steward of Cambridge
University. He died without issue in 1607. lie was
said to have been privately married to the Queen of
Bohemia, sister of Charles I.

John Whitmore matriculated1 at Wadham College,
Oxford, 30 Oct, 1G29, aged 16, and was entered as
"son of John Whitmore of Ludstone, Salop, plebeius,"
the same, perhaps, who is entered in the pedigree2 as
of Ludlow, and who was a first cousin of the Sir
William Whitmore who bought Apley about 1620.
The son became M.A. 26 Jan., 1635-6, and D.D.
17 Oct., 1661. He was Hector of Onibury, Salop,
1639, Vicar of Staverton, in Gloucestershire, 1649,
Rector of Stockton, Salop, and of West Felton, 1662.
The two last dates seem to show that he was neither
a staunch enemy nor a staunch friend to the Prayer
Book and to Episcopal Government, but was willing to
conform to whatever the Powers that be might pre-
scribe. Stockton was valued in the King's books at
£13 Us. 3d., but his degree of D.D. would enable him
to get a dispensation for holding it with Felton. Its
patron was Sir William Whitmore of Apley, Bart. The
41st Canon of 1603 had added to the impediments
which the Act of Henry VIII. imposed on pluralities by
requiring that dispensations should be given only to a
person who has taken the degree of M.A. at least, and
who is a public and sufficient preacher licensed ; and
moreover, that he should give a bond to reside a reason-
able time in each benefice, that the benefices should
not be more than 30 miles apart, and " that he have
under him in the benefice where he does not reside a
preacher lawfully allowed, that is able sufficiently to
teach and instruct the people." The distance between
Stockton and Felton in a straight line is just under the
30 miles.

in Bodleian,

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The beginning of Whitmore's incumbency, and the
restoration of Church and Kino*, were celebrated by-
putting up a new bell, bearing the inscription,1 " 1GG2
►f* God save His Church, our King, and Realm." This
bell, however, in the present century had become
cracked, and was replaced by a new one, bearing a
similar inscription, in 1857. Mr. Whitmore died in
1GG6.

William Bradley was instituted2 18 Oct., 16GG, on
the presentation of the same patron, William, now Earl
of Craven. He is entered as having matriculated as a
"plebeius" at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1 April, 1636,
but there must be a mistake in the date, for he became
B.A. 29 March, 1G5G, and M.A. 9 July, 1658. What
qualification he had enabling him to hold two livings
does not appear, but a Peer's Chaplain was allowed to
do so ; and as he was Rector of Stockton 16GG to 1690
together with Felton, it is probable that he had been
appointed a Chaplain to Lord Craven. On 4 May,
1G69, he had license to marry Elizabeth Holland,
widow, of Bridgnorth.

He resumed the keeping of the Register of Christen-
ings and Burials, in which there had been no entry
since 1G53. His first entry of a burial is 1G Oct., 1678,
of a christening 16 July, 1G82. His register of burials
is headed as follows : i( A true and perfect Register of
the names of all persons buried in the Parish of West
Felton in the County of Salop since the late Act for
burying in Woollen 1678." This Act, 30 Charles II.,
c. 3, was passed for the purpose of encouraging the
woollen manufactures of the kingdom, and enacted that
no body should be buried in anything not made of
sheep's wool, and that no coffin should be lined with
anything else, under a penalty of <£5 ; that every in-
cumbent should keep a register of burials ; that within

1 I Recorded by "Rev. U. Muster, in MS.

2 Foster's Alumni Oxuuicnses ; JMakeway'a MSS., Shropshire
Parochial Clergy ; Liber Institutionum in Record Oflice.

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8 days after a burial someone should bring an affidavit
that this requirement had been observed, and that he
should enter in the register that this affidavit had been
brought, or, if not brought, should give notice to the
churchwardens or overseers, who were thereupon to
obtain a warrant for levying the forfeiture. A similar
requirement, as to burying in woollen, had been made
by a previous Act, 18 Charles II., c. 4, but as there
were no penalties for enforcing that Act, it had been a
dead letter. The Pelton Ilegister, in accordance with
the Act, contains after each entry of a burial the date
when the affidavit was brought. The Act wras repealed
54 George III., c. 108.

By a deed dated 14 December, 1G8G, John Edwards,
Esq., of Great Ness,1 after reciting that he was in
possession of two messuages and lands in Osbaston,
which had formerly belonged to George Iveson, and
been charged by him with an annuity of 40s. for the
poor of the parish in 161G, granted to William Jones and
five other trustees in performance of a promise made
to Samuel Hildersam, the late rector, an additional
annuity of 20s., charged on the two messuages in
Osbaston, one of which was called Tythyn George
Iveson, and the other was described as late in the
occupation of Judith Edwards, widow ; to be distributed
among the poor at Christmas and Easter. The property
in question now (1897) belongs to Mr. Williams-
Vaughan, who pays the two annuities to the Jiector.
This deed was executed twelve years after Hildersam,
who had porsuaded Mr. Edwards to give the money,
had died, and 24 years after he had been obliged to
resign the living. Erom the fact of the promise being
now fulfilled we may perhaps conclude that Hildersam
retained till his death an interest in the poor of the
parish, though he could no longer reside among them.
Mr. John Edwards, who gave the annuity, purchased

1 Kurthcr Report of the Commissioners to inquire into Charities.
Table of JJunefautions in Church Tower.

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Ness Strange,1 and died in Feb., 1709-10. He was the
ancestor of the present owners.

Bradley, the Rector, seems to have died in 1690, but
his burial is not recorded in the Felton register.

Daniel Griffiths inserted the following notice of his
appointment to the living both in the register of
christenings and in the register of burials under the
year 1G91 :— " Daniel Griffiths, A.M. of Trinity Coll.,
Cambridge, was presented to the "Rectory of West
Felton by the Right Hon. William Earl of Craven, and
inducted thereinto August the 4th, 1G90, by Mr.
Richard Hall, then my curate here, and Rector of Hope
Back gard2 in the County of Salop. Anno Regni
Wilhelmi et Marioe Regime tertio." lie became M.A.
in 1681, 3 and appears by the inscription on his tomb-
stone to have been afterwards a D. D. The register of
marriages begins in his time, the earliest entry being
29 April, 1694. It is contained in the same book with
the christenings and burials, which begin in 1628. In
his time, too, was made one of the three bells now in
the tower. It is inscribed canteMvs Domino Canti-
Cvm novvm, the larger letters in the inscription indi-
cating the date, 1700.

In 1703 was passed the Act, 2 and 3 Anne, c. 1 1, by
which first-fruits and tenths were transferred from the
Crown to the Corporation called Queen Anne's Bounty,
which was to use them for augmenting small livings ;
and in 1706 all benefices whose improved yearly value
did not exceed £50 were (with a few exceptions) dis-
charged from the payment of first-fruits and tenths,
the improved yearly value to be ascertained and certi-
fied by the Bishop of the Diocese. Felton was not
discharged under this Act, and therefore continues to

1 Landed Gentry.

2 Now called Hope Bdggot, near Ludlow, but it derives its name
from owners in the 13th century culled Bagard. The living is a very
small one, worth now only i/80 per an.

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345

pay the first-fruits and tenths, though as they are still
calculated upon the value of the living in Henry VIII. 's
time, they have become a comparatively insignificant
burthen ; and such as they are they go to the augmen-
tation of smaller livings. Ruyton was discharged, and
so were Baschurch, Fitz, Hordley, Ness, and many
others in the neighbourhood, and at the time it must
have been felt as an immense boon. The value of
Ruyton, which in Henry VIII. 's books is JC5 18s., was
now certified to be £3 I.1 And by an Act of 1714,
1 George I., st. 2, c. 10, in order to inform the Governors
of Queen Anne's Bounty, the Bishops were required to
ascertain from time to time the value of all benefices in
their diocese, and certify it to the Governors. It was,
probably, in consequence of the inquiries which were
set on foot by this Act that the following terrier, dated
1718, now hanging in the Church tower, was drawn up.
It is painted on two wooden boards, which are framed.
The 87 th Canon had long before directed the Bishops
to procure terriers of the lands, &c, belonging to
parsonages.

A true Terrier of all the Buildings Glebe Lands and other
things belonging to the Parsonage of West Felton delivered in
July 23, 1718.

Felton Township. Imprimis, one House of 6 Bays Building
with a Garden and Backside a foldyard containing about an
acre of land thereunto belonging. It™ one barn of rive bays of
building with a Cowhouse adjoining to the end of it. Itm one
other Bay or Hayhouse. It. one Close called ye Marl Leasow
containing about 6 strikes seedness of Oswestry old measure
and by yfc measure all the land in this Terrier is computed.
One end of it adjoining to the Common called Felton moore.
Itm One other leasow or close called the Stonny Leasow of four
strikes seedness adjoining to the above said Common. Itm in
the Whitemoss field a land of 2 ridges of a strike and a half
seedness the Lords lauds in the occupation of Mr. Nathaniell
Thomas on yc one side and the lands in ye occupation of John
Withers on the other side. Itm in yc Mill field 3 Bidges of

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two strikes seedness the Lords lands in ye occupation of Thos.
Bentley on yc one side and yc common on yc other. Itm in ye
said field 2 Ridges of a strikes seedness several neighbours
lands ending on ye one side and the Common on ye other side.
Itm one Butt or Ridge of 3 hoops seedness a Leasow belonging
to yc Lord in the occupation of Joseph Withers on the one side
and the lands of John Withers on the other. Item in Broad-
meadow lield a furlong at the Green-way of 4 strikes seedness
being now inclosed ye Lords lands in y° occupation of Mr.
Nath : Thomas on the one side between it and the lane and
the lands of several neighbours ending on the other side. Itm
in yc said lield in Broad Meadow Dale one other furlong of 3
strikes seedness the Lands of Mr. Robert Lathrop on ye one
side and yc Lords lands in the occupation of Tho8 Bentley on
the other. It™ one other furlong 2 strikes seedness and a half
at the Causey the lands of Jo11 Dovaston inclosed on ye one
side and the Lords lands in the occupation of Joseph Withers
on the other.

Twyford Township. One land of a strikes seedness in ye
Cross-field the lands of Mr. Edward Lloyd on the one side and
the lands of Mr. William Owens in the occupation of Thos.
Acherley on the other. Itm in ye said field one land or ridge
somewhat above half a strikes seedness bounded as above.

Sandford Township. lim in the Heath field one land of a
strikes seedness ye lands of Mr. Jones on both sides. In the
said field one ridge or butt of half a strikes seedness now
inclosed in John Davis's land the lands of Mr. Jones between
it and the moor. It111 one land in one Inclosure or Leasow
called the Sitch of a strike seedness. It™ in Hungerhill field
in y° said Township one land of 3 hoops seedness the lands of
Mr. Jones on both sides. ltm one Close or yard called Lowries
yard of a strikes seedness. It111 in Hungerhill field one land or
headland of 6 hoops seedness y° lands of Mr. Jones on both
sides and the lands of Jon Davis at the end. Itm one leasow or
close of 4 strikes seedness in the mill field ye lands of Mr.
Jones on both sides.

Tedsmere Township. One Close of above an acre and a half
adjoining to the Grimpo-Moor the lands of John Phillips and
Rich : Jones on each side. It'11 one close more of about eleven
acres and a half ye lands of Will. Rogers on tho one side and
the lands occupiod to Yardeston Township on yc other side
the cud of it adjoining to the lane called Tedsmere Lane.

All tithes are due in kind excepting in the cases following
(viz.) a peny every barren Cow and pony half pony every Cow
and Caff, every Colt 4 penco. Smoak and garden a peny.

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347

Offerings at Easter from every Communicant Viz. Mr9 Mistresses
and Servants 2 pence each, and ye children of a family above
1G years of age one puny each. Every Mill 3 shillings and
4 pence. Mortuaries have been paid some dispute them. A
lamb is taken out of seven, 3 to be accounted for against ye
year following. Wool one pound of seven 3 to be accounted
for against the year following. lJiggs one out of litter. Gees
one out of a flock. Surplice fees Marrying with licence live
shillings. Marrying with asking Uannes 2 shillings and 8
pence. Churching 6 pence. Burial fees 6 ponce. Uegistring
4 pence. The repairs of the Chancel the seats and fees for
burial therein belongs to the Rector. The stone wall parting
the Glebe from the Churchyard belongs to the Rector. And
so does the fence between the Garden and ye Churchyard.
The Clarks fees are customary.

The glebe is still, as this terrier represents it, very
scattered, and includes several uninclosed pieces of land
forming parts of other fields. It contains 40 acres
altogether.

Two stone slabs, formerly adjoining the Communion
rails,1 bore the following inscriptions : —

The Rev. M. Griffiths, Nephew to Doct. Griffith, died Nov. 4,
1742, aged 60.

In memory of Mrs. Jane Griffiths, wife of the Rev. Mr.
Griffith, who died April the 3rd, 1750, aged . . .

Hero lyeth also the body of Mary ye wife of Dan Griffiths,
Rector, deceased Jan. 9, 1710-11. Also here lyeth ye body of
Dan Griffiths, D.D., Rector, deceased Mar. ye 18, 1727.

Joseph Dixon was instituted both to West Felton
and to Wistanstow, 22 July, 1728. 2 He may be the
person who is thus described in the Register of St.
John's College, Cambridge: — " Joseph Dixon, born at
Dudley, Worcestershire, son of Oliver Dixon, gent.,
bred at Rugby under Mr. Ilolyoke, was admitted
pensioner 30 June, 1715, set. 17," and who became
B.A. 1718, and M A. 1722.3 William, third Lord

1 They wore therd when tho Itev. Edw. Williams wrote his account
of Fcllou Church, Jan. 19, 17D6. Brit. Mas. Add. MS, 2 !,2;iG.

2 Institution Book iu Record OUico.
a (JniUuati Cantabrigicnses.

WEST FELTON CHURCH.

Craven, was patron of both livings. Wistanstow is
valued in the King's books at <£18, and is less than 30
miles from Felton in a straight line. Tiie Rectors
degree of M.A. would be sufficient to enable him to
obtain a dispensation for holding the two livings
according to the Canon, but not according to the Act.
The latter would have been satisfied, however, if he was
chaplain to Lord Craven, his patron. He compounded
for the first-fruits of both livings 23 Sept., 1728, when
his sureties were John Rhodes, of the Parish of St.
Bartholomew, in West Smithfield, Mercer, and Thomas
Tyndale of the same parish, Haberdasher.1

Joseph Withers of West Felton, Yeoman, by will
dated 19 April, 1731, 2 left an annuity of £2, charged
on a tenement at Moreton, to be distributed among the
poor of the parish of Felton every 14th of April,
according to the discretion of Robert Lathrop of
Shrewsbury, and his heirs, and the parson of the
parish. This property now belongs to Lord Newport,
who pays the annuity to the Rector, and it is distri-
buted with the other charity moneys about Christmas.
Joseph Withers was an ancestor of the present Mr. G.
Withers Edwards of Woolston. The Lathrops are
mentioned in the Terrier as owning land in Felton
Township in 1718, and lived at Felton Flail, now pulled
down, between what are now the " Court " and the
" Grange." The Hall was sold in 1853, and pulled
down soon afterwards, but a bricked up entrance gate-
way and some old buildings still remain. There was in
1 706 a nearly obliterated stone under a pew on the
south side of the chancel to the memory of a Robert
Lathrop, who died May 14, 1730, and of his father,
whose name and date had disappeared.3

1 Composition Book in Record Oflice.

- Further Report of Commissioners. List of Benefactions in Church
Tower. In this last the benefaction is dated 1731, which may be the
(liiU; when the Will took efl'eet.

3 Ucv. Edw, Williams's MSS. in Brit. Mus., Add. MS., 24,236.

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Joseph Dixon evidently resigned West Felton in
favour of John Craven, his patron's first cousin, and
was, very likely, appointed on condition that he should
do so.

John Craven matriculated1 at Christ Church, Oxford,
24 Sept., 172G, aged 18, and was entered as son of
John Craven of Worcester City, gent. He became
B.C.L. 1734, and was instituted to West Felton 23
April, 1735, and next year also to Staunton Lacy. His
father was a brother of the second Lord Craven, and
he was, therefore, a first cousin of William, third Lord
Craven, who succeeded to the title in 1711, and died in
1739, and was the patron of both livings. Staunton
Lacy was valued in the King's books at £16, and Felton
at £20 12s. 6d., but the Rector's degree of B.C.L.
would enable him to get a dispensation to hold the two
together. The parishes appear to be just within the
distance of 30 miles from each other in a straight line.
He married2 Mary, daughter of the Rev, Baptist Hickes
of Stretton on the Foss. He compounded for the first-
fruits of Felton 22 May, 1735, and for those of Staunton
Lacy 20 July, 1730. His sureties with respect to
Felton were Michael Spateman of St. Clement Danes,
gent., and Thomas Spateman, Hector of St. Bartholomew
the Great. His name does not occur on the Felton
Registers, and he probably generally resided at
Staunton Lacy, where his eldest son William, afterwards
sixth Lord Craven, was baptised 17th Sept., 1738. He
died 21 Aug., 1752.

Joseph Dixon, the previous Rector, returned on
Mr, Craven's death, and was instituted 23 Nov., 1752,
and the same year obtained a dispensation to hold this
living together with that of Wistanstow.3 The follow-
ing note is inserted in the register of christenings for

1 Foster's Alumni Gxonienses ; Book of Institution in Record Office.

2 Complete Peerage, by (J. E. Cl

3 Institution Book in Record Office; Gentleman's MagAov 1754,
p. 581, Where the name is given as Winstanton.

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1754 :— " December the 1st, 1752. The Reverend
Joseph Dixon, A,M., was inducted into this "Rectory
by me Ralph Wrag, Curate. Who also was inducted
into this same Rectory in the year 1728 by the lie v.
Mr. David Griffiths, then Curate." Ralph W rag appears
in the registers as Curate from 1748. Mr. Dixon's
sureties on his second composition for West Felton
first-fruits, on the 16th Nov., 1752, were William
Sclater, Clerk, Lecturer of Christ Church, London, and
Joseph Sclater of the parish of Christ Church aforesaid,
Druggist.1

Mrs. Mary Jones, widow, by Will dated 28 Oct., 1758,
gave an annuity of Jl5 to be distributed by the minister
and Churchwardens in the Church on the 12th of
September, among such of the poor housekeepers of the
parish as should not be in the poor's book, no one to
receive more than 10s. or less than 5s. ; and also gave
10s. 6d. per annum to the minister for preaching a
sermon on that day. These bequests were void under
the mortmain Act, but were carried out by John
Atcherley, the devisee of the property, who by a deed
of 1 April, 1760, charged the annuities on a messuage
in Tedsmere which now belongs to Rev. T. M. Bulkeley-
Owen, by whom the annuities are paid to the Rector.
The money is distributed with the other charities, not
in the church, nor on the day named. There was also a
sum of JC125 contributed by various benefactors, whose
names are not recorded,2 secured on the tolls of the
Holyhead road by a deed dated 18 Jan., 1762. It is
now represented by £10 debenture and £120 preference
stock of the Great Eastern Railway, and the proceeds
are distributed with the other charities. Formerly
they were given in one year to the poor residing in the
parish, and in the next year to those belonging to the
parish, but residing out of it.

1 Composition Hook in Record Oftico.

* Kurthor Report o( ( JoimuiHsionri-H for inquiring concerning
CI in ri lien.

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351

Sarah Owen, by Will dated 14 Aug., 17G4, bequeathed
£200 to the minister and Churchwardens of Felton,
who were to invest it and distribute the income at
Christmas among such poor persons as the owner of
Woodhouse should name. This money is now in
the hands of the Charity Commissioners, who pay
the income, £6 Is. 4d., to the Rector, by whom it is
distributed in accordance with the trusts. Sarah Owen
was the owner of Woodhouse, and by deed of 1764
settled it on William Mostyn of Bryiigwyn. There is
a tablet to the memory of these two on the north wall
of the aisle.

The only endowed parish charity beyond those already
mentioned is the sum of 5s. > paid annually by Mr. Jones,
the owner of Crifton House, near the Queen's Head,
and distributed with the other charities. It is, probably,
the same which is called in the Further Raport of the
Commissioners " a sum of 5s. yearly, paid by a farmer
at Llan Rhaiadyr, for an encroachment supposed to
have been made by one John Jones before 1786."

Joseph Dixon, the first Rector of the name, appears
to have died in 1764, in which year Lord Craven made
a new appointment to both his livings.1 There is no
record of his burial at Felton, and the registsr at this
time is signed by one Thomas Atcherley, who was, no
doubt, his curate here.

Joseph Dixon, a second of the name, was appointed
to Felton in 1764, and at the end of that year com-
pounded for the first-fruits.2 He is described by
Blake way as LL.B., and may be the person thus de-
scribed in Foster's Alumni Oxonienscs: — "Joseph Dixon
son of Charles of Dudley, Co. Worcester, gent., matri-
culated at Trinity Hall, Oxford, 15 March, 1758, aged
18, became B.A. 1761, and B.C. I.. 1769." In this case
his tombstone would not be quite accurate in describing
him as 77 at his death in November, 1815, but he may

1 Bjicoii'h Liber Regis.

2 Composition llook.s in Ueooi'd 0 Hi Co.

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very well have been in his 77th year. He signed the
Felton llegisters in 1772, and thenceforward constantly
till the end of his life, and was evidently, therefore,
resident in the parish, which several of his predecessors
had not been.

The oldest and most interesting document belonging
to the parish (with the exception of the registers) is a
book labelled on the one side " Church Accounts/' and
on the other " Poor's Accounts." At the one end of it
it contains a list of the Churchwardens from 1745 to
1897, and the Churchwardens' Accounts from 1776 to
1889, when the book became full. At the other end is
a list of the overseers from 1760 to 1897, and the
Overseers' Accounts 1.776 to 1855. The book is in
the possession of the Parish Council. The first Church-
wardens' account, 1776-7y shows the following pay-
ments : —

£ s. d.

Court fees at two visitations ... ... ... 086

Expenses going there ... ... ... 090

Bread ... ... ... ... ... 0 1 9

Wine, viz. 4 bottles red port wine ... ... 0 6 0

2 bottles Mountain... ... ...0 3 0

6 bottles ... ... ... ... 0 1 3

wine and bottles ... ... ... 1 5 10 J

Briefs ... ... ... ... ... 0 U 4

Salary of John Davies, Parish Clerk ... ... (j 10 0

To the Clerk for ringing on Nov. 5th ... ... 0 2 6

Mending the Clock ... ... ... ... 0 5 6

Mending the surplice ... ... ... 0 o 0

For a Church Book and Vestry book1 ... ... 1 9 7

Rich. Jones, taylor, for making the pulpit cloth

and bier cloths ... ... ... ... 0 13 6

Edward Evans, Mercer, for hanging the pulpit and

communion and burial cloths ... ... 13 14 7

A form of prayer .. ... ... ...020

Tho late Warden for drawing his attorney ... 0 1 3
Edward Almond'2 for killing a fox ,.. ... 0 2 6

£20 14 1J

No doubt the oil U which contains those accounts.

Simon Almond of Todsuierc had boon Churchwarden in 1772.

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This is a fair sample of the accounts for some time
afterwards, except when substantial repairs had to be
done to the church. The item for killing a fox is
curious,1 and is repeated once, in 1781. The Church-
wardens' receipts were from rates, which they called
" Church Loans," and the details of which are given in
the book. For 177G-7 they levied "three whole loans,"
the total proceeds being .£26 10s. 4d. The next two
years only a loan and a half was levied, producing, of
course, half the amount. One Churchwarden received
and accounted for the money from Felton, Twyford,
Sand ford, and Woolston townships, the other that from
Rednal, Sutton, Haughton, and Tedsmere.

In 1782 the tower of the church fell down, and for
taking it down and securing the materials, &c, the
Churchwardens had to pay £33 15s. As to the mode
of rebuilding it the Vestry on 28 Dec, 1783, resolved
'•'That the intended steeple be 13 ft. square on the
inside, the height thereof to be 17 yards and a foot,
including 4 foot for a foundation, the wall thereof to be
of stone chizzJed, the wall to be 3 ft. thick to the first
floor, being about 5 yards; to the next floor 2 ft. 6 in.,
to the next floor 2 ft., and the battlements thereof to
be 1 ft. thick, architraves to be around the portholes
and windows; to be slated on top with lead gutters."
But the whole church was in a very bad state of repair,
and they accordingly obtained a plan and estimate for
completely rebuilding, and resolved to obtain a " brief"
for this purpose.

"Briefs" were Royal Letters Patent2 authorising
collections for charitable purposes in churches, and
were usually applied for whenever a church was to be

1 It was a payment commonly made by Churchwardens. See
Notes on the Parish of Chetton, Shrop. Arch. J rant, for 1897, pp.
87, DO.

- (ox's How to Write the History of a Parish, p. 78 A completo
list ol* all Briefs issued from the time of the Commonwealth has just
been published in Church tirkf's, by VV. A. Bewes, published by
lilack.

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repaired or rebuilt, from the time of Elizabeth till 1828,
when they were abolished. About the middle of the
1 8th century, on account of their growing frequency, it
was ordered that they should only be granted on the
formal application of Quarter Sessions. A long list of
those on behalf of other places received at Felton is
entered in the old Register, and covers a good many
pages. The amounts collected on them here were not
large, often only 8d. or 9d. The process was that a
petition from the inhabitants of the place desiring a
collection was presented to the County Quarter Sessions,
where its statements were proved on oath. A Certifi-
cate of the facts was sent up by Quarter Sessions, and
upon this Certificate a Patent on Parchment, with the
great seal attached, was issued, authorising the collec-
tion. This patent was sent to a person called the
" Undertaker of Briefs," who did all the work connected
with it, and was paid out of the proceeds From
Returns to the House of Commons of 19 May, 1819,
and 20 June, 1827, of Briefs issued since Michaelmas,
1805, and since 15 May, 1819, respectively, showing
the sums collected and the expenses of collection, it
appears that the Undertaker then was one J. S. Salt,
and that he received 8d. for every printed copy sent
out, and Is. 9d. for London, lie generally printed
11,500 copies of each brief, and though, no doubt, he
did not send out the whole of these, his salary was
enormous, amounting generally to about £250 for each
brief. Besides this, he charged £24 for paper and
printing, and the patent, stamp, &c, cost £35 4s. ; and
there were other expenses. The sums collected were
large, but about half was generally swallowed up in
cost of collection. For instance, in 18 14 there were
Briefs for tires at Hinstock and at Market Drayton.
The estimated loss by the fires was £732 3s., and
£614 9s. respectively; the gross amounts collected
were £'080 9s. 3Jd > and £G40 13s. 9,1(1., but the net
proceeds after paying expenses were only £'255 1 4s. 1 |d,
and 1*2 I 8 Is. 9,[>d. In consequence of these returns

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355

Briefs were abolished in 1828, and Mr. Salt's collection
of them is now in the British Museum. Among them
is that for Felton Church restoration.1

In the Quarter Sessions Records in the office of the
Clerk of the Peace there is a blank where the petition
for tins brief should have been entered; but to jud^e
from others which are entered, it would have contained
no more information than is recited in the brief itself.
There is, however, a ground plan and elevation of the
church which was proposed to be built, which was to
have been of the pseudo- classic style of the Georgian
period, in which the present tower is actually built.
This elevation makes one most thankful that the money
asked for was not forthcoming. The original brief
issued authorising the collection is on parchment, with
an elaborately ornamented margin, but hus lost the
great seal originally attached to it. It runs as follows: —

George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France
and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth To all and
singular Archbishops Bishops Archdeacons Deans and their
officials parsons vicars curates and all other spiritual persons
and to all Teachers and preachers of every separate Congrega-
tion and also to all Justices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs
Bailiffs Constables Churchwardens Chapel Wardens Head-
boroughs Collectors for the Boor and their Overseers and also
to all officers of Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate and to
all other our officers ministers and subjects whomsoever they
be as well within liberties as without to whom these presents
shall come Greeting.

Whereas it hath been represented to us as well upon the
humble Petition of the Minister Churchwardens and principal
Inhabitants of the Parish of West Felton in our County of
Salop as by Certificate under the hands of our Trusty and well
beloved Justices of the Peace for our said County of Salop
assembled at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held
at the Guildhall in Shrewsbury in and for our said County on
Tuesday the 14th day of January in the twenty third year of
our Heign That the Parish Church of West Felton aforesaid is
a very antient Structure and by longth of time Notwithstanding
the constant care and great expense of the Inhabitants to

1 Brit. Mus., Church fcricfs, B xxiii.

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support the same is become so ruinous that the parishioners
cannot assemble for divine service without Manifest Danger of
their lives And cannot any longer be supported but must be
wholly taken down and rebuilt That the truth of the premises
hath been made appear to our Justices assembled at the
General Quarter Sessions of the Peace aforesaid not only by
the Inhabitants of the said Parish but also upon the oaths of
divers experienced workmen who have carefully viewed the
said Church and made an Estimate of the charge of taking
down and rebuilding the same which upon a Moderate Com-
putation amounts to the sum of One Thousand and seventy-
nine Pounds two shillings and eight pence (exclusive of the
Old Materials) which sum the said parishioners are unable to
raise amongst themselves being mostly Tenants at Rack Rents
and greatly burthened with large levies and assessments for
the support of a Numerous poor And having expended great
sums in repairing the said Church are not able to undertake
so great a work without the charitable assistance of well
disposed Christians They have therefore humbly besought us
to grant unto them our most gracious Letters patent License
and protection under our Great Seal of Great Britain to im-
power them to ask collect and receive the Alms benevolence
and Charitable Contributions of all our loving Subjects
throughout England our Town of Berwick upon Tweed and
our Counties of Flint Denbigh and Radnor in Wales and from
House to House throughout our Counties of Salop Worcester
Warwick Stafford Chester Gloucester Hereford and Leicester
to enable them to rebuild their said Church unto which their

but that when these presents shall be known by our loving
Subjects they will readily and cheerfully contribute their
endeavours for accomplishing the same. Know ye Therefore
that of our Special Grace and favour we have given and granted
and by these our Letters Patent under our Great Seal of Great
Britain Wo do give and grant unto the said parishioners and
inhabitants and to their deputy and deputies the bearer and
bearers hereof authorised as is hereinafter directed full power
License and authority to ask collect and receive the Alms
Benevolence and Charitable Contributions of all our Loving
Subjects within all and every our Counties Cities Boroughs
Towns privileged places hamlets Cinque Ports Districts Parishes
and all other "places whatsoever throughout England our Town
of Berwick upon Tweed and our Counties of Flint Don high
and Radnor in Wales and from house to house throughout our
Counties of Salop Worcester Warwick Stafford Chester Glou-

humbl

ly condescended not doubting

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357

cester Hereford and Leicester for the purposes aforesaid And
therefore in pursuance of the Tenor of an Act of Parliament
made in the fourth year of the reign of the late Queen Anne
intitled an Act for the better Collecting Charity Money on
Briefs by Letters patent and preventing abuses in relation to
such Charities our Will and Pleasure is and we do hereby for
the better advancement of these our pious intentions require
and command all Ministers Teachers and Preachers Church
Wardens Chapel Wardens and the Collectors of this Brief and
all others concerned that they and every of them observe the
directions in the said Act contained and do in all things con-
form themselves thereunto And that when the printed copies
of these presents shall be tendered unto you the respective
Ministers and Curates Church Wardens and Chapel wardens
and to the respective teachers and preachers of every separate
congregation and to any person who teaches or preaches in any
meeting of the people called Quakers that you and every of
you under the penalties to be inflicted by the said Act do
receive the same And you the respective Ministers and Curates
Teachers and Preachers and persons called Quakers are by all
persuasive Motive and Argument earnestly to exhort your
respective Congregations and Assemblies to a liberal contribu-
tion of their Charity for the good intent and purpose aforesaid
And you the Church Wardens and Chapel Wardens together
with the Ministers or some of the Substantial Inhabitants of the
several parishes and Chapelries and all other places within our
Counties of Salop Worcester Warwick Stafford Chester Glou-
cester Hereford and Leicester are hereby required to go from
house to house in the weekdays next following the publication
of these presents to ask and receive of and from the parish-
ioners and inhabitants and all other persons their Christian
and Charitable contributions and to take the names in writing
of such as shall contribute thereunto and the sum and sums
by them respectively given and Indorse the whole sums upon
the said printed Briefs in words at length and subscribe the
same with your own proper hands together with the name of
the Parish and Placo where and the time when Collected and
to enter the same in the Public Books of Account kept for each
parish and chapelry respectively and the sum and sums
collected together with the printed briefs so Indorsed you are
to deliver to the deputies and agents authorised to reccivo
them And Wo Do by these presents Nominate Constitute and
appoint William Mostyn Owen Esq10 Edward Pranks Francis
Pill Kdward Davies Joseph Hickerton John Hopkins Thomas
Stevenson William Hilditch Gentlemen and tho Ministers and
Vol. I K., 2nd S. *X

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Churchwardens of the said Parish for the time being Trustees
and Receivers of the Charity to be collected by virtue of these
presents with power to them or any three or more of them to
give deputations to such Collectors as shall be chosen by the
petitioners of (sic ) the major part of them and the said Trustees
or any three or more of them are to make and sign all necessary
orders for the due and regular collection of this Brief and
Advancement of the said Charity and to see that the Money
when collected be applied according to the true intent and
meaning of these presents And Lastly our Will and Pleasure
is that no person or persons shall receive the said printed
Briefs or Monies collected thereon but such only as shall bo
so deputed and made the Bearer and Bearers of these Presents
and duplicates thereof In Witness whereof we have caused
these our Letters to be made patent and to continue in force
for one whole year from Lady Day next and no longer
Witness ourself at Westminster the twentieth day of March in
the twenty third year of our lieign.

Phillipps.

" The constant care and great expense of the inhabi-
tants to support the Church" had limited itself to
spending less than <£13 on repairs, including glazing,
during the six years before the tower fell down for want
of repair; and it is certainly fortunate that the "brief"
produced only £73 13s. G£d. instead of the £1,079 2s. 8d.
which it asked for, otherwise the whole church would
have been taken down and rebuilt in the same hideous
style as the tower, as is shown by the elevation among
the Quarter Sessions Ilecords mentioned above, for
the Vestry had resolved " That the isles on each side
be taken down, and the arches be taken down, and
the wall plates supported and under-built, roof to
be new slated, church wall to be chizzled, with bow
or circular window tops."1 Plappily, as the money
did not come in. this could not be done, and only

1 The Vestry Minute Book has disappeared, but this and the
following extracts from it were made about the year 1850, by the
Kev. (J Master, who had married the eldest daughter of Mr. Hunt,
the then Hector.

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359

the tower was taken down and rebuilt, which was
done in a substantial manner, though in an ugly style.
The Churchwardens' Accounts show that they paid
nothing for repairs until 1784, when they would know
what the Brief would produce; and that their total
expenses from 1784 to 1787 were .£378 4s. O^d., of
which about £348 was for repairs. Towards this,
besides the proceeds of the Brief, they got £20 17s. by
selling the old lead. In 1798, " some of the ratepayers
having found fault with the above resolution" (i.e., as
to taking down the ' isles,' &c.) " a vestry was held on
the 26th day of July, 1798, when it was agreed that
the isles shall be taken down, and that a stone wall
shall be built between the said pillars, with decent
windows therein, whereby the pillars and walls of the
said Church will be greatly strengthened, the roof of
the Church newly restored, and the Church very much
enlightened; that the Church be new pewed in a con-
venient and decent manner, and the pews allotted.''
A Faculty seems to have been obtained, the work was
put up for competition, and the 12th century pillars
and arches were built up in accordance with the resolu-
tion. The contractor took the materials of the aisles,
and the old seats, pulpit, &c., and was also paid the
sum of £812 13s. Luckily the 15th century roof was
not newly restored, though it may have been then
concealed by a ceiling. In the course of building the
new walls it was found that the ground under them
was full of graves ; and it was accordingly ordered by a
Vestry on 11 July, 1799, " That a foundation on pillars
should be sunk, and laid between the present pillars
which support the arches of the roof, and elliptic arches
thrown over from such sunk pillar to the other pillar
all around the Church, the sunk pillar to be 3 ft. square
and the stones for the arches 14 in. broad by '2 ft. 3 in.
long, the top of the said arches to be level with the
bottom of the foundation of the present pillars, and the
foundation of the new walls of the Church to bo laid upon
the top of the said arches." The work done was thus

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| Churchwardens."

recorded on a tablet formerly over the north entrance: —
"The Steeple was rebuilt in the year 1784.

. Frank j Churchwardens.
J. Mantford J
This Church was underbuilt and new pewed in the
year 1800.

T. Edwards
S. Lloyd

The new pews were high narrow partitions of un-
painted deal. Of the £812 13s. which the whole work
cost, only .£431 appears in the Churchwardens' Accounts,
and this was raised by rate spread over four years.

Our first picture shows the Church as it was shortly
before the Tower fell down, and is from a copy in the
British Museum1 of a drawing- in the possession of
Mr. J. Dovaston of the Nursery. It certainly does not
lead one to suppose that much had been spent on
repairs at that time. It shows that the south aisle had
perpendicular windows, and perhaps a decorated one,
so that the Norman aisle built about 1190 must have
been replaced by one of later style, possibly about the
time when the present roof was put on. Parkes, who
visited the Church in 1828, says the old Church <# was
a plain building, and consisted of a nave and side aisle
to the south, and chancel;" but as the vestry resolu-
tions speak of " isles on each side," there must have been
also a north aisle standing then. There is nothing to
show whether this was the original Norman one or not.

In 1801 the Churchwardens paid for "treating the
psalm-singers" JGL Is. They did not do this again for
some time, but " at a Yestry held the 9th day of June,
1809, they agreed with Thomas Richards, psalm-singer,
for one year from this date for c£3 3s.," which continued
to be paid till 1815, when he is called the " psalm-
singers' master ;" and from 1812 to 1820 they also paid
£3 a year for "psalm-singers' supper." In 1822, for some
reason, the overseers undertook this payment, and paid
iL43 regularly out of the poor rate for psalm -singers'

1 Church Notofs collect^ by l>. Parkea, Add. MS. 21,012.

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361

supper till 1842, after which the sapper appears to have
been discontinued, but the same money was paid to
them as a salary.

During the years 1807-9 no Church loans were col-
lected, but each Churchwarden enters that he "received
from half the purchase money from the sale of four
pughes £82 10s," There is nothing to show to whom
the " pnghes " or pews were sold, nor how the money
was spent ; but over £ 144 was spent in those two years,
and as the usual current expenses came to about £25 a
year, there must have been some exceptional expendi-
ture. Possibly it was for the Grimpo School, which
was built in 1810 for a parish school, on land given by
Mr. Mostyn Owen, and continued to be the only day
school for the parish until the present school at Twyford
was built. Over the door is a stone inscribed, " 1810.
For Learning is better than House and Land."

In 1813 the following entry appears in the Overseers'
Accounts: — "At a Vestry held this 18th day of June,
1813, Agreed that Mr. Edward Jones of Woolston, is
to settell the parish accounts and w right Bookes for
the overseers to collect lewns by and Churchwardens
Bookes for the sume of <£3 3 0 a year." He continued
to receive this till 1816, but from 1817 it was paid to
the Vestry Clerk, whose name in 1814 was Lawrence.

Mr. Dixon died in 1815, and in the churchyard, at
the east end of the church, on a plain tombstone enclosed
with high iron rails, is the inscription : — •

In this Vault lie the remains of Sarah, daughter of the Rev.
Joseph and Mary Dixon, who died the 13 of October, 1790,
aged 18 years.

Also of Belinda, Daughter of the Rev. J. and M. Dixon, who
died May 12th, 179C, aged 28 years.

Also of Mary, Wife of the Rev. J. Dixon, who died May 12th,
1791), aged 68 years.

Also of the Rev. Joseph Dixon, Rector of West Felton, who
died Nov. 3rd, 1815, aged 77 years.

Also of Mary, Daughter of the Rev. J. and M. Dixon. She
died September 6th, 1824, aged 55 years.

Also Arthur Dixon, Surgeon, Kidderminster, his nephew,
died Oct. 2nd, 1834, aged 39.

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The funeral service for Mr. Dixon was performed by
Mr. T, Hunt, who had been his curate here since June,
1813. W. Wynne Owen was another curate here in
the latter part of Mr. Dixon's time.

Charles Thomas Johnson was instituted1 10 April,
18 1G. He was son of Thomas Augustus Johnson of
Kenilworth, Co. Warwick, Clerk, and matriculated at
Brasenose College, Oxford, 15 March, 1804, aged 17,
became B.A. 1807, and M.A. 1810. He. however,
vacated this living almost immediately, being appointed
Rector of Enborne and of Hampstead Marshall, in
Berkshire. The patron of these livings as well as of
Felton, was William, 7th Lord Craven, who had been
created Earl of Craven in 1801. Mr. Johnson held
them till his death 29 June, 1848. 2 He was probably
a connection of Lord Craven's, whose aunt had married
a Rev. R. A. Johnson of Winstanstow.3 The registers
show that during his incumbency of Felton the services
were performed by his predecessor's curates, Mr. Wynne
Owen, who officiated last on the 24th May, and Mr. T.
Hunt, who afterwards became Rector.

Thomas Shepherd was instituted 24 June, 181G.4
Like his predecessor, he seems never to have resided
here, for his name does not appear in the registers, and
Mr. T. Hunt continued to perform the services. There
is no record of his burial here, so he probably resigned
the living.

Thomas Hunt was instituted5 in March, 1817, having
been the previous month6 presented by Christ Church,
Oxford, to the Rectory of Wentnor, in Shropshire,

1 Book of Institutions in Record Office.

2 Foster's Alunuii Oxonienses.

3 Gentleman's Magazine for April 1816.

4 Book of Institutions in Record Office. Canon Newling's List of
Institutions in Shrewsbury Free Library, which gives the date 24
July, says he was "instituted by C. Buckeridge," and calls him M.A.
but Ilia name is not to be found in the Oxford or Cambridge Lists.

6 Canon Newling's List of Institutions in Shrewsbury Free Library.
,k Gentleman's Magazine for 1817, p 27.'5.

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which he continued to hold with Felton till his death.
He was the last Hector to whom this was possible, for
in 1838 an Act of Parliament enacted that for the
future no person should accept two livings more than
ten miles apart, and in 1850 the distance was reduced
to three miles, and one of the benefices must be worth
less than £100 a year. Wentnor is worth about £270,
but is valued in the King's books at only £7 2s. lid.,
and is only about 20 miles from Felton, so that neither
the Statute of Henry VIII. nor the Canon of James I.
interfered with the two livings being held together.
The presentation to Felton was, it is believed, purchased
for him from Lord Craven. Mr. Hunt was fourth child
and third son of Rowland Hunt of Boreatton, an active
county magistrate, who distinguished himself especially
by his exertions to improve the condition of the County
Gaol. His mother was Susannah Ann, daughter of
Mark Cornish of London. He was born Dec. 12, 1786,
educated at Westminster and Church Church, B.A.
1809, M.A. 1812, Student of Ch. Ch. till 1817. He
married on 23 Oct., 1822, Jane, daughter of William
Harding of Warwickshire. There is a tablet to the
memory of two of his sisters on the south wall of the
chancel of Ruyton Church. Of his two elder brothers,
Rowland became the owner of Boreatton, was High
Sheriff 1830, and died 1835. He was grandfather of
the present owner of Boreatton. George, who was
Chaplain to Lord Hill's division in the Peninsular War,
and was present at the battle of Toulouse, is com-
memorated on a tablet on the north wall of Ruyton
chanoel. He inherited the property of Wadenhoe in
Northamptonshire, under the will of Mr. Thomas Welch
Hunt, and was father of the Right Hon. George Ward
Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer and first Lord of
the Admiralty.1

The Churchwardens' accounts show payments for

1 Most of tho preceding information about Mr. Hunt was given mo
hy his son-in-law, the llbv. («. Master.

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painting and gilding the dial in 1817-18, and
for colouring the Church in 1821-2. Mr. Simons
was Vestry Clerk in 1818, Charles Joy in 1820,
Jeremiah Medlicott in 1822, Thomas Simon in 1833
and till his death in 1838, in which year John
Morgan, who was only 16 years old, succeeded him.
The two offices of Vestry Clerk and Parish Clerk were
distinct, the Vestry Clerk had to make up the Over-
seers' accounts, the Parish Clerk to make up those of
the Churchwardens, and to attend to the Church
services, the salary being £6 for the former office, and
£7 12s. 6d. for the latter. John Morgan held both
offices till they were abolished, the former in 1860 and
the latter in 1871. lie continued, however, to sign
the accounts as "Vestry Clerk" down to as late as
1890. He still retains the office of Assistant Overseer,
upon which he first entered on the 25th March, 1852.
The final cause of his resigning the office of Parish
Clerk was a request by the Hector that he would wear
a surplice. The father of the present Mr. Bulkeley-
Owen never would come to Felton Church after he had
seen a surplice worn in the pulpit there, and used to
walk to Oswestry Church instead.

In 1825 a new clock was purchased for j£6 6s., and
the same year £l was paid to William Evans for
"psalm-singing." Next year he was paid £l Is. "for
giving out the psalms," and the same sum was paid
regularly out of the poor rate, together with the .£3 for
the psalm-singers, till 1845, when for the first time the
Overseers' accounts were submitted for audit to a district
auditor, and he disallowed the payments as being
chargeable to Church rate, not to poor rate. Thenceforth
the £4 Is., or latterly £4 2s., was paid regularly by
the Churchwardens as "Psalm-singers' salary" till 1869,
when, Church rates having been abolished, this payment
disappeared. The instrumental music used to consist
of three accordions, of which Morgan the Clerk played
one. Mr. Hunt, however, presented an organ, which
his daughter played.

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The Sunday School at the bottom of the Rectory
Garden was built about 1827 by Mr. Hunt, on land
which had formerly been waste, but was acquired by
him for the purpose from a Mr. John Duckett, to whom
it had been allotted when the common land in the
neighbourhood was enclosed.1

The appearance of the Church at this time is shewn
in our second illustration, taken from a picture by Mr.
D. Parkes, dated July 1, 1828.2

In 1840 the Font was restored and enriched at the
expense of the Hon. T. Kenyon, and the Grirapo School
was restored by the Rector, and John Morgan, the
Parish Clerk, was appointed schoolmaster.

In 1841-2 the new norch aisle was built, and the old
Norman pillars which had been built into the wall in
1799, and which are the oldest part of the church, were
again opened out. Traces were found of the foundations
of the former aisle.

The population of the parish, which in 1801 was 926,
had increased in 1831 to 1,093, at about which figure
it has remained stationary ever since, the population in
1891 beinsr 1,080. It was calculated that before the
enlargement the church contained 278 sittings, and
that the new aisle added 202, of these 58 in the old
part and 112 in the new, were free and unappropriated.
The measurements allowed only 18 by 30 inches to each
sitting, and included a gallery at the west end of the
nave, which has since been removed. At present,
though a south aisle has been added since, the church
is returned as containing only 383 sittings, all of which
are free. The east window of the new aisle was pre-
sented by the Hon. Mrs. T. Kenyon, at an expense for
the stone work of £40 9s. Id., and for the glass, which
was by Evans of Shrewsbury, and was much admired
at the time, of £70 Is. It contains ten medallions,
being copies of celebrated pictures of scenes in the life

1 Private letters from Mr. Hunt and his son.

2 Clmreh Notes by D. Parkes, British Museum Add, MS. 21,012.

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of Our Lord. The total cost of the new aisle, indepen-
dently of the window, was .£650, of which ^£523 was
raised by voluntary subscriptions and £127 by the sale
of pews.

In 1844-5 appears the first entry of a payment " for
ringing curfew," but the payment may have been
previously included under some other head. It was
rung from Nov. 5th to January 1st, and for ringing it
William Tomkins, the sexton, received 7s. 6d., or 8s.,
till the end of 1849. Richard Evans succeeded Tomkins
as sexton, and was succeeded in 1856 by William Fox.
The payment for ringing the curfew was continued to
Fox till the end of 1862, and then finally disappears,
and the curfew ringing was discontinued. It was
supposed to be rung at 5 a.m., and 7 p.m., but was,
latterly at least, very irregular.

In 1846 the church roof was repaired, for which the
parish paid £50 to Mr. Hunt, and the troughing round
the church was renewed. About the same time the
ceiling was removed and the fine fifteenth century roof,
the existence of which had been forgotten, was brought
to light. The chancel was almost entirely rebuilt about
1848 by the Hector, the architect being Mr., afterwards
Sir, Gilbert Scott. The square pews which occupied it
were replaced by oak choir seats, and the whole was
paved with Minton's tiles. A few ancient encaustic
tiles were found buried beneath the floor, one bearing
a dragon, possibly in allusion to Ps. xci., 13, " The
young lion and the dragon thou shalt tread under thy
feet ;" and another a horse-shoe, possibly meant for ,
a type of God. The glass in the east window, like that
in the aisle, is by Evans of Shrewsbury, and was given
by the Hon. Mrs. Kenyon, at a cost of <£l00. It
represents six scenes in the life of our Saviour.

A smaller window in the north wall of the chancel
represents in one of its lights women weeping at the
tomb, with the inscription " In Adam all die and in
the other the women at the feet of the angel, with the
inscription " In Christ shall all be made alive." Above

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is an angel with a scroll bearing the words " Blessed
are the dead which 'die in the Lord," and below is In
memory of the Honorable Thomas Kenyon." He died
4 Nov., 1851. The tombstone to his memory, just
outside the north wall of the chancel, was designed by
Sir Gilbert Scott. On the twelve compartments on its
sides are the names of his twelve children, with the
dates of their births and deaths.

The old chancel pulled down by Mr. Hunt is shewn
in our second illustration, and was, perhaps, the same as
that which was standing before 1782, shewn in onr
hist illustration. The Bev. G. Master says its east
window was of nondescript kind, having wooden mul-
lions.

The Churchwardens' accounts for 185G-7 contain the
following entry: — "Paid Mr. John Morris's Bill for
New Ceiling and finding Timber for Gallering in parish
Church £15 Is. 6d." The "Gallering" was at the
west end, against the tower, and the Clerk and the
school children sat in it. The ceiling may have been
under it.

On Oct. 7th, 1856, Mr. Hunt was presented with a
silver epergne, bearing the following inscription : — "To
the Bev. Thomas Hunt, M.A., Forty Years Bector cf
West Felton, Shropshire. A mark of esteem, gratitude,
and affection, from his Parishioners and Neighbours,
1856." In making the presentation Mr. J. B. Kenyon
said: — " Near as we are to your parish Church, we
cannot but notice how you have procured that to be
enlarged and warmed, and made more available to the
service of God; how the number of services in it has
been increased, and the manner of performing them
greatly improved ; that the two Sacraments are regu-
larly administered in it, and the opportunities of coming
to that of the Holy Communion considerably increased,
This schoolroom, too, you have added for furthering the
education of the children of your parishioners ; and you
have very recently given another proof of your care for
those who are entrusted to you, by the opportunity

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which you have offered to the young men of your parish
to continue their education, and improve themselves in
useful and sound learning."

The most modern of the three hells now in the tower
is the tenor bell, and bears the following inscription : —
" C. and G. Hears, Founders, London. God save our
Church our Queen and Realm. J. D. W. H. C. W.
1 857." The initials are those of the two Churchwardens,
John Dovaston of The Nursery, and William Howell of
Sutton. This was to replace the bell of 1602, which
had become cracked, and which was given in exchange
for it, together with j£21 16s. 2d. paid out of Church
rates. The inscription on the new bell was copied from
that on the old one. The expenses of putting up the*
new bell amounted to JQ 1 3 2s. 6d. In the same year,
1857, on Sept. 17th, was held the first Harvest Home
Festival in this parish. Horgan ceased to be school-
master in 1 858. In Feb., 1860, the Churchwardens
paid £3 4s. 2d. for a " new window, &c, in Vestry
room," and in April £8 4s. 6d. for " colouring Church."

Hr. Hunt died 15 Sept., 1860. To his memory a
window was placed in the south wall of the chancel,
which, when the organ chamber was built, was removed
to its present position in the north wall. The glass
was presented by his widow, the stone work, which
cost £30, by the Hon. Hrs. Kenyon. The window has
two lights, one representing our Lord's charge to
St. Peter, "Feed my sheep," the other the martyrdom
of St. Stephen. It is inscribed, " In memory of Thomas
Hunt xlv. years Hector, died Sep. xv. mdccclx, aged
lxxiii. Also of his son Lieut, Charles John Hunt, killed
by mutineers in India June xii., mdccclvii, aged xxviii."
There are tombstones to the memory of Hr. Hunt, of
his widow, who died at West Dean Iiectory, near
Salisbury, June 15th, 1872, in her 7 1st year, and of
four infant children, in the churchyard just opposite the
Kecjbory. Hr. Hunt had been in charge of the parish
nearly 45 years, sinco Mr. Dixon's death, but he did
not become Hector till March, 1817. The brass plate

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on the pulpit, which says that he was 43 years Rector,
is, therefore, more correct than the window and the
tombstone, which say 45.

William Burbury1 took his degree of B.A. ut Cam-
bridge in 1843, and of M.A. 1846, and for a few years
was Fellow of St. John's College. He married a
daughter of Dr. Kennedy's, and was second master of
Shrewsbury School from before 1850 to 1861, when he
resigned after becoming Rector of Felton. The second
Earl of Craven had in Mr. Hunt's lifetime sold the
advowson to Mr. Humphreys of Hanley, in order, so
rumour said, to pay a gambling debt, and immediately
afterwards Mr. Humphreys resold it to Mr. Burbury.

On leaving the Rectory house, Mrs. Hunt went to
live at the Weirbrook Cottage, in this parish, with her
two youngest children, the Rev. William C. Hunt, who
had been his father's curate for about six months, and
continued in the same capacity with Mr. Burbury, and
Miss Caroline Hunt, now Mrs. Eyre. On 3rd Sept.,
1861, Miss Emma Kenyon, in the name of 255 sub-
scribers, presented Miss C. Hunt with a gold watch,
chain, bracelet, and locket, with an address, which
stated that they were " tokens of regard, gratitude,
and affection from the parish of West Felton and its
neighbourhood. We all feel we owe you much for what
you have so kindly and so well done in forming the
choir, and in accompanying them on that organ which
was your father's gift to the Church."

Mrs. Hunt presented to the Church a silver flagon
inscribed "Glory be to God on High," a chalice, on
which are the letters I.H.C., and two patens, one large,
the other small; the whole in a case inscribed " In
Grateful Remembrance this Parting Gift is presented
to the Parish of West Felton by the widow of the
Rev. Thomas Hunt, 45 years Rector, 1861." These,
and another chalice and paten of similar design, are the
only Communion plate the parish now possesses. In

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Mr. Hunt's time there was only a paten and chalice,
the latter of which was of unusually large and incon-
venient size.1 There is a fine old pewter flagon in use at
the font. Mrs. Hunt remained at the Weirbrook Cottage
until the end of J 862, when she finally left the parish.

In 18G1 the easternmost window in the north wall of
the aisle was filled with glass, similar in character to
that in the east window of the aisle, and made, like
that, by Messrs. Evans. It contains four medallions
from the four greater prophets, in two lights, with the
following inscriptions under them : — " In memory of
Lloyd, Captain Royal Horse Guards Blue, eldest son of
the Honble Thomas Kenyon, bom 15 June, 1804, died
1 January, 1836." " In memory of Thomas, Major 8th
(the King's) Regiment, second son of the Honble Thomas
Kenyon, born 3 August, 1805, died 19 Sept., 1859."
This window cost .£32 10s.

In 1862 the Churchwardens bought a new Hearse for
the parish, with harness, for ,£32, and the same year
they enlarged the Churchyard by buying some land for
it from Mr. Thomas Frank of the Manor House, and
building a wall round it, for which purpose they
borrowed JC200, of which they repaid the last instalment
in 1870.

Mr. Burbury died in 1866.

Benjamin Hall Kennedy2 accepted the living on the
death of his son-in-law, who had been the patron of it.
Kennedy's connection with Felton was short, and he
never resided here ; but he was by far the most distin-
guished of all the Hectors. He was eldest son of Rann
Kennedy,1 a master in King Edward's School, Birming-
ham, and incumbent of St. Paul's, Birmingham. He
was born in 1804, and educated at King Edward's
School 1814-1818, and at Shrewsbury School, under
Dr. Samuel Butler, 1819 to 1823. While there he
took the Rorson prize for Greek iambics at Cambridge,

1 Key. (1. Master** MS.

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being the only schoolboy who ever did so; and it is
remarkable that all his three brothers successively
obtained the same prize, and that the two elder, as well
as himself, were Senior Classics. He went to St. John's
College, Cambridge, in 1823, took an unexampled
number of classical prizes, and became B.A. in 1827.
In that year he went to Shrewsbury as assistant master,
but returned to Cambridge in 1828 as a tutor there on
being elected Fellow of St. John's, lie was ordained
deacon and priest in 1829 and 1830, and was assistant
master at Harrow 1830 to 1836. In March, 1831, he
married Janet, daughter of Thomas Caird, Esq., of
Paignton, Devonshire. She died in 18/4. In 1836
Dr. Butler was made Bishop of Lichfield, and Kennedy
succeeded him as Headmaster of Shrewsbury, and was
made D.D. the same year.

Butler had already made Shrewsbury one of the
leading schools- of the country as far as scholarship is
ooncerned, and during his thirty years' mastership
Kennedy thoroughly maintained this reputation, and
established his claim to be " the greatest classical
teacher of this century." When the Royal Commission
of 1862 on the condition of the nine chief public schools,
of which Shrewsbury was one, had recommended that
the same Latin and Greek grammars should be used in
all of them, the nine headmasters unanimously agreed
that Kennedy's Latin Grammar, originally published in
1813, should bo the basis of the new Latin Grammar,
and in pursuance of this resolution a committee consist-
ing of Drs. Kennedy, Hessey of Merchant Taylors, and
Scott of Westminster, constructed the " Public School
Latin Primer," which was published in 1866, the year
in which he became Hector of Felton, and in which also,
shortly after accepting this living, he resigned the
Mastership of Shrewsbury. He revised the primer in
1888, the year before his death. In 1867 he was
appointed Regius Piofessor of Greek at Cambridge, and
(/anon of ICly, which olhces ho held till his death.
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Committee for the revision of the New Testament. He
died at Torquay, 6 April, 1889.

Dr. Kennedy, however, did nothing for this parish,
and the only thing of interest with respect to the
Church which occurred during his incumbency was that
the Churchwardens sold an old font for 3s. to the Parish
Clerk, John Morgan, in whose garden it now is. He
retained the living just long enough to enable the ad-
vowson to be sold by his son-in-law's trustees.

Richard Kay Haslehurst was instituted on his own
presentation in 18G8. He was educated at Trinity
Coll., Cambridge, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1847 ; Curate of
Colwich 1844-46, and of Shustoke 1846-51; Vicar of
Alrewas 1851 to 1868. At the very beginning of his
incumbency, on the 31st July, 1868, compulsory Church
rates were abolished by Act of Parliament. For two
or three years afterwards an attempt was made to
collect a voluntary ^d. rate, which should have brought
in j£20 12s. lOd. or thereabouts, but the amount not
collected increased each year, and an offertory to meet
Church expenses had to be substituted. During the
last 30 years the compulsory Church rate had varied
between Id. and 2|d. in the £, 1 Jd. being about the
usual amount. Since the offertory was established, it
has shown a steady increase, from <£10 Is. 4|.cL in
1874-5, the first year in which no rate was collected, to
£72 18s. 10Jd. in 1895-6. This is exclusive of special
collections.

The Parish Magazine was set on foot in January,
1870, and has been continued, with one or two altera-
tions in form, ever since. It becomes from this time
the principal authority for the history of the parish.

Another ^reat responsibility was almost immediately
cast upon the Hector by the Elementary Education Act
of 1870, which recpiired that in every school district a i
sufficient amount of accommodation in public elementary
schools should be provided for all children in the district
whoso elementary oducation was not otherwise provided
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which was calculated1 to be large enough for 85 children,
the average attendance being 55 ; and as the population
of the parish was 1,0G7, it was considered that schools
must be provided for 180 children. It was accordingly
determined to build new schools for 100 nearer the
village, carrying on the Grimpo School for those to
whom it would be convenient. Mr. Bulkeley-Owen
gave the site,2 and eventually the present schools were
built. It was afterwards found, however, to be too
expensiv3 to carry on two schools, and in 1883 the
Grimpo School, the attendance at which had dwindled
to 20, was closed, and considerable additions were made
to the schools at Twyford. The Grimpo School has
since been used only on Sundays, and occasionally as a
clubroom. The new school buildings were opened 1G
Oct., 1883.

The Schools having been completed for a time,
Mr. Haslehurst in 1878 began a restoration of the
Church. The arches on the south side, which had been
built into a wall, were all taken down, the stones were
marked, and they were rebuilt in their original position.
One of the arches on the north side also, which is
supposed to have been destroyed by the fall of the
tower in 1782, was rebuilt. A new south aisle was
added, the foundations of the former one being found.
The gallery at the west end was taken away, the tower
was opened out to the church to form a choir vestry,
and the whole church was reseated,, the seats being
made at the Condover estate works, and all the sittings
were made free. A. new heating apparatus was provided.
The chancel was restored and an organ loft and vestry
added on its south side, the window on that side in
memory of Mr. Hunt being transferred to the north
side. A Dew organ was presented by the Rector.
Mr. Hunt's children presented a new pulpit, on which
is a brass plate inscribed, " To the glory of God and the

1 Copy of return to Education Department.

2 The conveyance, dated 20 Dec, 1871, ia in the Church safe.
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beloved memory of Thomas Hunt, M.A., 43 years
Rector of this parish, and of Jane his wife, this pulpit
is given by their children A.D. 1879." The former
pulpit had stood on the south side, this was placed on
the north. Mrs. John Humphreys of Hanley, presented
the tower window ; the Rev. F. P. Wilkinson, Vicar of
Ruyton, gave the altar candlesticks ; Mrs. Haslehurst
and Mrs. Jacson gave new books for the whole church.
On the 18th September, 1879, the church was reopened,
the Bishop of Lichfield preaching in the morning, and
the Rev. A . Ainger, now Master of the Temple, in the
evening. A tent was pitched on the Rectory lawn, in
which about 200 people sat down to luncheon, and
about 50 to tea. The total expenses, exclusive of
special gifts, amounted to <£2,504 8s. 7d., of which
about half was given by the Rector.1

At the Easter Vestry, 1880, William Fox, who had
been sexton since 1856, resigned, and William Grindley
was appointed in his place.

In 1881 the West Felton Choral Union was started,
in connection with others which Mr. Henry Leslie was
originating in the neighbourhood, It was greatly pro-
moted by the Rector's family, who were all very musical,
and next year the Union acknowledged this by pre-
senting a carriage clock to his son, who was then about
to leave the parish to take the living of Criftins.

In 1884 a Lending Library was started at the school.
There had long been one at Pradoe Lodge, but it was
too small for the wants of the parish.

In 1885 the Dissenting Chapel at the Grimpo was
rebuilt. Over the door is inscribed, 1 4 Congregational
Church, 1885, and two memorial stones, one on each
side of the door, are inscribed respectively : " Laid by
Thomas Barnes, Esq., Qiiinta," and "Laid by Mr. John
Jones, Queen's Head."

On the 14 January, 188G, a new Mission Chapel at
Haughton, to which was given the name of S. Chad's,

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was dedicated by the Bishop of Lichfield. It was built
by Mr. and Mrs. Bulkeley-Owen, and the services there
have been hitherto conducted at their expense, partly
by Mr. Owen himself, and partly by a lay evangelist,
whom he has maintained for that part of the parish.
The chapel has always been very well attended, and the
number of communicants in that part of the parish has
greatly increased. It is neither consecrated nor en-
dowed, but has quite lately been conveyed to trustees,
to secure it in perpetuity to the Church.

In 1890, Miss Ethel W. Haslehurst was presented
with a gold watch and chain, a writing table, and
travelling bag, in acknowledgment of her services as
organist. Next year her father, the Hector, resigned
the living, and being patron, appointed his son to
succeed him. He retired to Enfield, where he is still
living.

Walter Greenall Haslehurst was instituted Nov.,
1891. He had been Curate of Longbridge Deverell,
Wiltshire, under his brother-in-law, 1875-80, and of
West Felton under his father 1880-82 ; Vicar of Criftins
1882-1889 ; Curate at Leicester 1890-91.

In 1892 a hot water heating apparatus was substi-
tuted for the former method of warming the church
with hot air, at a cost of £107 lis. 9d.

Tn 1 893 the Schools had to bo again enlarged to
meet the requirements of the Education Department,
and some of the drains had to bo relaid. The cost of
this was about .£110.

The following MS. list is hanging in a frame on the
wall of the tower : —

A List of Benefactions belonging to the Parish of
West Felton.

A.D.

1G1G. George Iveson of Sandford, Gent, bequeathed an
annuity of forty shillings charged upon lands at
Osbaston, to the poor of this parish, to be distributed
in even portions on tbo festivals of Christmas and
Easter.

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1636. John Edwards of Great Ness, Esqr added to this a
further annuity of twenty shillings, charged upon the
same lands.

1734. Joseph Withers of West Felton, Yeoman, bequeathed
an annuity of two pounds, clear of all deductions, to
the poor of this parish, to be distributed on every
14th day of April.

1758. Mrs Mary Jones bequeathed an annuity of five pounds,
charged upon lands at Tedsmerc, to be distributed on
every twelfth day of September to such poor house-
holders of this parish as are not in the poors book, in
such proportion that no one person shall receive
more than ten shillings or less than five. She be-
queathed also an annual payment of half a guinea to
the clergyman of the parish for a sermon to be
preached on the aforesaid day.

1764. Mrs Sarah Owen of Woodhouse bequeathed the sum of
two hundred pounds, the interest of which shall be
distributed yearly at Christinas to such poor and
indigent persons as the owner of Woodhouse for the
time being shall name as proper objects for such
assistance.

In addition to the above there is invested in the guarantee
shares of the Eastern Counties Railway, in the joint names of
the Rev. T. Hunt and V. It. Corbet, Esq., the sum of one
hundred and twenty pounds, the interest to be given annually
to the poor of this parish.

The Crifton House in this parish is charged with the annual
payment ot live shillings for the like purpose.

The following are the inscriptions on the tablets now
on the walls of the Church.

On the north wall of the chancel, beginning at the
east end : —

P. M.S. Ed ward i Jones Armig. et Maria) Uxoris ejus necnon
Gulieimi Jones nuper do Sanford, lilii eorum primogeniti,
quorum reliquiae juxta hoc rcponuntur. Supra dicta Maria
(femina non magis placida quam pia) marito et filio suo longe
superstes, obiit anno retails sine nonagosimo Anoq. Dni
MbChKXUt.

Above this is a shield bearing the Arms of Jones of
Sandlbrd, Arg. a lion rampant vert, vulned in the breast

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gules, impaled with Powell, party per fesse or. and arg.
a lion rampant gules.1

Sacred to the memory of Mary, the beloved daughter of the
Honorable Thomas and Louisa Charlotte Kenyon, born July
2], 1809, died January Gth, 1825, aged 15 years. Also to the
memory of Henry, the darling child of the same afllicted
parents, born January 4th, 1822, died January 25th, 1827,
aged 5 years. Suffer little children to como unto mo and
forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Luke xviil, 1G.

Under the last : —

In the Vault beneath lie the remains of Louisa Charlotte
Kenyon, daughter of Arthur and Augusta Kenyon, born 2nd
December, 1859, died Sth March, 18G3. The Lord gave and
the Lord hath taken awav, blessed be the name of the Lord.
Job i., 21.

On the south wall of the chancel, east of the organ
chamber : —

In memory of the Reverend Edward Henry Owen Rector of
Cound in this County, second son of William Mostyn Owen of
Woodhouse in the Parish Esqrd, who died on the 28th day of
November 1838 aged 54< years, and was interred in the
Catacombs under the Parish Church of Leamington in the
County of Warwick.

On the north wall of the north aisle, beginning at
the east end : —

In affectionate memory of Harriet Elizabeth, widow of
William Mostyn Owen Esqre of Woodhouse in this Parish.
She died December 1st, 18G5, aged 83 years. Her children
arise up and call her blessed. Prov. xxxi., 28.

1 This slab was on the east wall when Parkes wrote his description
of the Church about 1828. Edward Jones was the first of that family
Who owned and lived at Sandford Hall, in this parish, and was an
ancestor of the present owner, Sir Raymond Tyrwhitt Wilson. His
wife Mary was daughter of Robert Powell of Park Hall, near Oswestry.
Their son William, who succeeded his father at Sandford* was a
barrister, and a bencher of Lincoln's inn. He married Mary, daughter
of Sir Richard Cirevis of Moseley, Worcestershire, but the only one of
their sous who grew up, William, died without issue in 1G7(J. Sarah,
sister of Ivlward Jones, married Sir Thomas Harries of Rorcattou.
Add. MS. 21,012 j Rurke's Baronetage.

378 West felton church.

West of the window to Lloyd and Thomas Kenyon: —

A shield bearing the arms of Owen (arg. a Hon rampant and
a canton sable) quartering Mostyn and impaling what are
presumably the arms of Gumming ; under it : — Sacred to the
memory of William Mostyn Owen of Woodhouse, in this Parish,
Esqre, born July 18th, 1770, died November 17th, 1849. Behold
the upright, for the end of that man is peace. Psalm 37th
verse 37th.

This tablet was erected in affectionate remembrance by his
widow and children.

East of north door : —

Sacred to the memory of the Honourable Georgiana Louisa
Mary, beloved wife of Francis Mostyn Owen, Esqre, and youngest
daughter of Richard Lord Berwick, who died at Whiston
Priory in this County, March 23rd, 1854. aged 36 years.

West of north door : —

In memory of Henry Mostyn Owen, Lieut, in Her Majesty's
Regt. and sixth son of William and Harriet Mostyn Owen of
Woodhouse, in this Parish. He died at Kurrachee in the
East Indies, Jan. ]st, 1843. aged 28 years. Sincerely lamented
by his family and brother officers.

Under the last : —

Near this place1 lies interred the remains of William Mostyn
and Sarah Owen of Woodhouse. This monument was erected

1 This slab was formerly on the east wall of the ehanccl (Add. MS.
21,012). Sarah Owen has been mentioned above as the founder of
one of the Parish Charities. Woodhouse descended to her from
Robert Owen, High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1G18; and she by deed
of 14 Aug., 1704, settled it on John Lloyd of Trawscoed, and on his
death without issue, on William Mostyn, whose great-grandmother
had been sister of John Owen of WoDdhouse, Sarah Owen's father.
William Mostyn represented Montgomeryshire in three Parliaments,
and assumed the name of Owen in addition to his own. He died 11
March, 1795. His tombstone, enclosed in iron railings, is in the
Churchyard, at the north east corner of the Church. The Rev.
Edward Henry Owen, whose monument is in the chancel, was his
second Kim. The eldest son William, who succeeded him at Wood- .
house, the latter's widow, Harriet Kli/aheth, daughter of Major T.
dimming of Hath, their son Henry, aud their daughter-in-lmv
Georghia Louisa Mary (who was also their niece, as her mother, Lady
Berwick, was daughter of the first William Mostyn Owen) are all
commemorated on the tablets above mentioned.

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by William Owen in gratefull memory of his Father and

Benefactress.

On the south pier, adjoining the chancel arch : —

In hoc Caemeterio sita) sunt, veteri in loco sepulchrali stirpis
Dovastoniana), Reliquke Susanna} Milvardi, Joliannis Milvardi
S. T. P. Sancti Thomse Middle Island Rectoris, In Sancti
Christopheri Insula, Filito, et Gulielmi Freeman de Fawley
Aula comitatu Buckingamiensi Armigeri Consobrina) : Qua)
post vitam 70 annorum pie sancteque actam lmo Septembris
1747 neci succubuit Etiam ejus riliie Margarita) Johannis
Dovaston conjugis, quae 7mo Septembris 1758 a3tatis vero 43
vita hac caduca excessit, ut justorum compos fieret remunera-
tionis; septem parvulis qai Parentem plorarent probam et
amantissimam relictis. Item Gulielmi Dovaston, quarti antea
dicti Johannis et Margarita) Dovaston filii, juvenis qui omni
venustate et virtutibus ornatus erat, 10mo Maii 17G5 a3tatis
autora 22d0 animam placide Creatori resignavit.

Necnon Johannis Dovaston supra dicta) Margaritas mariti :
qui per vitam 61 annorum fama summre fidei probitatisque
fruens ; dilectus et omnibus carus 16t0 Martii 1773 obdormivit.
Johannes Dovaston praedictis Johanni et Margaritas natus,quo
eorum virtutes memoria) proderet, summo desiderio, Parentibus
et Fratri hoc monumentum posuit 1793.

Hon\ Martii ultima 1808 accessit Johannes ipse,1 anno
C8V0 suo.

On south wall, at extreme west end : —

John Freeman Mil ward Dovaston, A.M., Died August 8th,
185 i, aged 71 years.2

Sarah the beloved wife of John Dovaston, died January
23rd, 1880, aged 58.

1 Thcro is an interesting biography of this Mr. John Dovaston in
Hulbert's History of the County of Salop, p. 222.

2 Son of the John Dovaston who died in 1808. J. F. M. Dovaston
was called to the Bar, and went by the name of " the Counsellor" in
tho neighbourhood ; but, at all events in tho latter part of his life,
he did not practise. He succeeded his father at Tho Nursery, and
was the author of " Fit/.gwarine " and other poems, chielly on local
subjects. There are several curiosities, and an interesting library of
books, at Tho Nursery, collected by him and his father.

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WEST FELTON CHURCH.

CHURCHWARDENS OF WEST FELTON.

The following is inserted at the beginning of the
Churchwardens' Account Book : —

An Account of the several [nhabitants of the Parish of West
Felton who have served the office of Church Warden for their
respective tenements.

[The date is of the year of nomination].

1745 John Bassnett of Sand ford and William Paddock ot

Sutton.

1746 Peter Bentley of Felton and John Berry of Haughton.

1747 Edward Davies of Woolston and Samuel Abram of

Haughton.

1748 John Bassnett of Sandford and John Bassnett of Rednal.

1749 John Dovaston of Felton and Paul Briscoe of Haughton.

1750 ) Samuel Laurence of Sandford and William Windsor of

175 1 f Haughton.

1752 Richard Vaughan of Felton and Edward Davies of

Rednall.

1753 Thomas Bill of Felton and Isaac Paddock of Sutton.

1754 John Withers of Felton and Thomas Baker of Sutton.

1755 Thomas Gittins of Woolston and Thomas Reynolds of

Sutton.

1756 Peter Bentley of Felton and John Davies of Haughton.

1757 John Morgan of Sandford and Edward Paddock of

Sutton.

1758 Thomas Vaughan of Felton and Richard Davies of

Haughton.

1759 Edward Davies of Sandford and Charles Edwards of

Tedsmere.

1760)

1761 > Samuel Lloyd of Fords and Richard Davies of Rednal.

1762 j

1763 Luke Williams of Twyford and Robert Lloyd of Sutton.

1764 Richard Lee of Twyford and William Humphreys of

Tedsmere.

1765 Robert Edwards of Twyford and William Paddock of

Sutton.

1766 Thomas Lloyd of Felton and Edward Edge of Tedsmere.

1767 Francis Bill of Sutton and John Jones of Woolston.

1768 Peter Jones of Sandford and Richard Evans of Haugh-

ton.

1769 John Bontloy of Felton and Paul Briscoe of Haughton,

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381

1770 Samuel Laurence of Sandford and William Windsor of

Haughton.

1771 Phillip Edwards of Felton and Richard Davies of

Rednal.

1772 Samuel Gittins of Woolston and Simon Almond of

Tedsmere.

1773 William Owen, Esq., of Rednal, and Edward Gittins of

Woolston.

177-4 Edward Edwards of Felton and William Humphreys for
Sutton

1775 Thomas Roberts of Felton and William Rogers ot
Rednal.

177G John Bentley of West Felton and Andrew Bickley of
Haughton.

1777 Joseph Bickerton of Sandford and William Sides of

Haughton.

1778 John Morgan of Sandford and Edward Paddock of

Sutton.

1779 John Duckett of W. Felton and Thos. Suckley of

Tedsmere.

1780 Roger Clarke of Sandford and Jeffrey Chester of Rednal.

1 78 1 Saml. Lloyd of the Fords and Joseph Sadler of Tedsmere.

1782 Robt. Edwards of Twyford and John Hughes of Teds-

mere.

1783 Edward Franks of Felton and Jno. Mamford of Sutton.

1784 Edward Franks of Felton and John Montford of Sutton.

1785 Edward Frank of Felton and John Mamford of Sutton.
178(5 Edward Frank of Felton and Thos. Hurleston of Sutton.

1787 Samuel Laurance of Sandford and Thos. Bill of Haughton.

1788 Richard Allen, Woolston, and William Batterbory

Tedsmere.

1789 William Sides, Woolston. Thomas Brookfield, Rednal.

1790 Thomas Clarkson, Sutton, John Hopkins, Woolston.
179 L William Downes, William Crouder.

1792 Thomas Jones, West Felton, William Jones, Rednal.

1793 John Duckett, West Felton, Joseph Humphreys,

Haughton.

1794 E. Frank, Felton, and Jo. Humphries of Haughton.

1795 Jo. Bickerton, Sandford, and Ed. Edwards of Sutton.
1790 John Morgan, Sandford, and John Peacock of Haughton.

1797 John Vaughan, Folton, and Win. Humphries of Sutton.

1798 Roger Cleark, Sandford, and Thos. Edmunds.

1799 Richard Lloyd, Fords, and W. Owen, Esq., Rednal.
1S00 Sam. Lloyd, Fords, and W. Owen, Usq., Woodhouso.
ISO I Sam!. Lloyd and Thos. Edmunds.

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WEST FELTON CHURCH.

1802 Thos. Edmunds and Saml. Lloyd.

1803 Edward Edwards, West Felton, Edward Morgan.
1S04 John Langford of Sandford and . , . . Minshaw.

1805 Richd. Jones, Woolston, and John Boodle, Tedsmere.

1806 Saml. Laurence, Sandford, and Henry Smith.

1807 Thos. Edmunds, Red nail, and John Duckett.

1808 John Duckett, Felton, and Thos. Edmunds.

1809 John Sides, Woolston, and Thos. Hurleston.

1810 Samuel Evans, Felton, Mr. Meeson.

1811 Thos. Rattenburey, Felton, Wm. Ball.

1812 David Moiiss, Tw'iford, Thos. Peacock.

1813 John Edwards, Twiford, William Edwards.

1814 J no. Hopkins, Lower House, Woolston, Thos. Windsor.

1815 Jno. Hopkins, Higher House, Woolston, Jno. Gittins.
1810 Saml. Bickerton, Sandford, Jno. Morris.

1817 Thos. Morgan, Sandford, John Hughes, Lea Wood.

1818 Richd. Downes, Tvvyford, Thos. Vaughan.

1819 Daniel Ratcliffe, Sandford, Edwd. Morgan, Haughton.

1820 John Edwards, Fords, John Edmunds, Building.

1821 Edwd. Frank, West Felton, John Manford, Sutton.

1822 Edwd. Frank, do. Saml. Edmunds, Rednall.

1823 Mr. Edwards, Felton, Mr. Haycocks, Rednall.

1824 Mr. Edwards, do. Mr. Haycocks, do.

1825 John Shingler, Sandford, Edwd. Morgan, Rednall.
182G Mr. Peter Bentley, Felton, Thos. Brookfield, Harp.

1827 Mr. Robert Edwards, Felton, and Mr. John Minshall,

Haughton.

1828 Mr. John Frank, Felton, and William Owen, Esq.,

Wood house.

1829 Mr. John Hopkins, Woolston, and T. B. Owen, Esq.,

Tedsmore.

1830 Mr. John Duckett, Felton, and Mr. T. Hurleston, Sutton.

1831 Mr, Samuol Evans, Felton, and Mr. James Rodcnhurst,

Haughton.

1832 Mr. Timy Sides, Felton, and Mr. David Jones, Henbarns.

1833 Mr. Wm. Manford, Twyford, and John Thomas,

Haughton.

1834 Mr. Richard Williams, Woolston,and Mr. J.Steen,Rednal

1835 Mr. G. W. Edwards, Woolston, and Mr. Robt. Williams,

Rednal.

183G Mr. Kent, Sandford, and Mr. Andrew Bickley, Lees.

1837 Mr. Richard Davies, Twyford, and Mr. Humphreys,

Haughton.

1838 Mr. Thos. Pugh, Fords, and Mr. Thos. Vaughan,

Haughton.

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383

1839 .Mr. Thos. Pugh, Fords, and Mr. Edmunds, Buildings.

1840 Mr. Thos. Bemand, Sandford, and Mr. W. Manford for

Foxley (?).

1841 Mr. Edwd. Frank, Felton, and Mr. J. Humphrey,

Rednall.

1842 Mr. Edwd. Frank, Felton, and Mr. John Minshall,

Haughton.

1843 Mr. Edwd. Frank, Felton, and Win. Owen, Esq.,

Woodhouse.

1844 Mr. William Shingler, Sandford, and Mr. John Edmunds,

Sutton

1845 William Edwards, Felton, Robert Large, Henbarns.
1S4G V. R. Corbet, Esqre., Orange Grove, Robert Rogers,

Ha ugh ton.

1847 John Sides, Woolston, Charles Peacock, Haugh ton.

1848 John Sides, Woolston, Thomas Cartwright for Harp

farm.

1849 Thomas Frank, Felton, Joseph Vaughan, Henparks.

1850 John Davies, Twyford, Edward Meredith, Rednall.

1851 Richard Williams, Woolston, Robert Williams, Lower

Lees.

1852 Geo. W. Edwards, Woolston, John Thomas, Lees Farm.

1853 Geo. W. Edwards, Woolston, John Thomas, Lees Farm.

1854 Edward Hollis, Felton, John Cureton, Tedsmore Cottage.

1855 Edward Hollis Felton, William Meredith, Rednall.
185G Edward Hollis, Felton, William M. Owen, Esqre.,

Woodhouse.

1857 John Dovaston, Nursery, William Howell, Sutton.

1858 Edwd. Hollis, Felton, William Howell, Sutton.

1859 Thomas Evans, Felton, Geo. Dawes Brittain, Sutton.
18G0 John Edward Bickerton, Sandford, John Gittins, Hen-
parks.

1861 William Savin, Fords, Robert Williams, Haughton.
18G2 John Dovaston, Nursery, William Downes, Rednall Mill.
18G3 John Dovaston, Nursery, Charles Peacock, Haughton.
18G4 William Edwards, Felton, Edward Furmston, Grimpo.
18G5 William Edwards, Felton, Edward Meredith, Rednall.
18GG John Hancox, Sandford, Edward Kent, Berrywood.
18G7 Thomas Frank, Felton, Andrew Thomas, Lower Lees.
18G8 Rev. P. G. Bentley, Felton, Edward Davies, Lady Hill.
1809 G. W. Edwards, Woolston, Edward Meredith, Rednall.

1870 Edward Hollis, Felton, Mr. Thos. Lloyd, Sutton.

1871 Edwd. Hollis, Felton, A. M. Owen, Woodhouse

1872 Edwd. Hollis, Felton, Edwd. Parkes, Sutton.

1873 Edwd. Hollis, Folton, Saml. Pritchard, Tedsmoro.

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1874 Edwd. Hollis, Felton, Jno. Rogers, Haughton.

1875 Edwd. Hollis, Felton, G. W. Edwards, Woolston.

1876 Edwd. Hollis, Felton, G. W. Edwards, Woolston.

1877 Edwd. Hollis, Felton, Rd. Rogers, Woolston.

1878 Edwd. Hollis, Felton, Jno. Hancocks, Sandford.

1879 Edwd. Hollis, Felton, the Rev. T. M. Owen, Tedsmore.
1880—1887 Edwd. Hollis, the Rev. T. M. Owen.

1888 John Hollis, G. W. Edwards, Jr.

1889 G. W. Edwards, Jr., William Edwards, Lady Hill.

1890 G. W. Edwards, Woolston, William Edwards, Lady Hill.

1891 G. W. Edwards, Woolston, William Edwards, Lady HilL

1892 G. W. Edwards, Woolston, H. Vane Russell, Twyford.

1893 G. W. Edwards, Woolston, H. Vane Russell, Twyford.

1894 Charles Frank, West Felton, John Hancocks, Sandford,
189o John Hollis, Felton Mill, John Durnal, Wearbrook.

1896 John Hollis, Felton Mill, John Durnal, Wearbrook.

1897 John Hollis, Felton Mill, G. W. Edwards, Woolston.

385

ON SOME SHROPSHIRE PLACE-NAMES.

By W. H. DUIGNAN.

This article is a continuation of ore which appeared in
Transactions, 2nd Series, vol. vi. (1894), pp. 1 — 18.

Principal Abbreviations. — A. S., Anglo-Saxon or
Saxons; c, century; D., Domesday; Cod. Dip.,
" Kemble's Codex Diplomaticus ;" Ch. Sax., "Birch's
Chartularium Saxonicum Eyton, " Eyton's Antiqui-
ties of Shropshire; G., Gaelic; I., Irish; W., Welsh;
M. E., Middle English ; p. n., personal name ; r., repre-
sents; pr. pronounced.

The important part played by personal names in the
formation of place names has only been recently recog-
nised. It has always, and everywhere been so. David
tells us ; — " Their inward thought is that their houses
shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all
generations ; they call their lands after their own
names." Nothing would render greater service to the
study of local nomenclature than the compilation of an
alphabetical list of A. S. personal names, of which our
present collections are confusing and fragmentary. The
errors of historians and antiquaries, through lack of
etymological knowledge, are numerous and important.
For instance, historians agree, without a particle of
evidence, that a great battle, in which Ceawlin was
defeated by the Britons in 592, was fought at Wan-
borough, in Wilts ; and that Ina and Ceolred fought, in
715, at the same place. The A. S. Chronicle, and other
early records which form the basis of English history,
variousl y say these battles were fought at Woddesbeorg
Wodensbeorge, Wedne.sburie, Wodnesbyrg, Wodnes-
beorhz i.e. Woden's Mount, Woddesbeorge, Wod-
nesbeorg, Wothnesbeorge, and Wodnesbeorh. Early

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commentators jump to the conclusion that this is
Wanborough ; Camden, Lingard, Kemble, Elton, all
agree, and so learned a man as the late Dr. Guest
(Origines Celticce ii., 243) argues that he " would expect
Wodensburgh, by the 11th or 1 2th c. (when the A. S.
Chronicle was written), to soften into Woden-burgh, of
which Wanborough would be the modern corruption."
Alas for the Doctor s facts and the value of etymological
guesses ! Wanborough is Wenbeorg (a pure A. S. name,
meaning beautiful hill) in three charters of the 9th c,
and in D. it is Wemberge, m being a mistake for n. Any-
one accustomed to deal with A. S. roots would say
it is impossible that the forms quoted could represent
Wenbeorg (pr., as now, Wanborough) ; and further, that
they clearly represent a Wednesbury,and as there is only
one place of that name, it must be that, viz., Wednes-
bury, in Staffordshire. The A. S. nom. form would be
Wodenesbeorg, dat. Wodnesbeorge. It is of historic
importance to know whether these battles, especially
the first, were fought in Wilts, or in Staffordshire,
because they mark the locality invaded or occupied by
the Saxons at those periods.

Then we meet with absurd dissertations when a p. n.
is recognised. Nobody will be accepted unless he
was a God, a King, Duke, or Earl. Wodnesbeorge
and Wodnesfeld certainly mean Woden's hill, and
Woden's field ; and the God Woden is at once dragged
in, and an imaginary temple to him erected. Why,
Woden was a p.n., and the men whose name Wednes-
bury and Wednesfield bear, were, probably local mag-
nates, or honest Christian^farmers abhoring all heathen
Gods.

Amaston, 8 m. W. of Shrewsbury. D. Enbaldestune ; 13th
c. Emboldeston ; Anbaldeston, Amboldeston — A. S. p. n. Ean~
bald, and tun, house, village, or town — Ean bald's town. The
A. S. gen. was es, which we have shortened to s. Hereafter I
translate tun as town for brevity.

IIaixhoii, (> m. S. of Shillnal. D. Beghesovre ; 12 c. Begesour,
Beggesowr, BecJitsorc; 13 c. Bacjsore, Baggesore, Beggesovere,

ON SOME SHROPSHIRE PLACE-NAMES. 387

Becesovre. All the terminals point to A. S. dfer, dat. ofre,
later dra, a border, margin, bank; a common terminal, as in
Windsor, Wlndles-ofre — Winders border; Pershore, Persc-ora
— Perse's border ; Edensor, Ednesovere — Heden's border ;
Heanor, Ileanofre — High bank. In A. S. charters the word is
frequently used as denning the limit or boundary of a manor
or estate. The prefixes doubtless represent the gen. form of
a p. ii., which I believe to be Beage, fern. The literal meaning
of Badger, therefore, is " the bounds of Beage's property." The
word Ofer sometimes means a river bank, margin of the sea, or
natural ridge, but in connection with a p. n. it may be assumed
to mean a limit or boundary of property. There was no v in
A. S., / and u performing its functions. The Normans intro-
duced v, and used it commonly in D.

Bagley (in Baschurch), 5 m. S. of Ellesmere, appears to
have a kindred root to Badger. In the 13 c. it was Baggeley,
which I should construe " Beage's lea" (untilled land). Bagge
was not an A. S. p. n. ; Beage, fern., was the nearest approach
to it. In this case it may represent a mas., Beaga.

Basciiurcii, 7 m. N.W. of Shrewsbury. I). Bascherche; 12 c.
Bassechirche, Bassecherch, Bascerce. Bass was an A. S. p. n.,
and the meaning is plainly Bass' church. There was a church
here at the time of L>.

Beckbury, 5 m. S.E. of Shiffnal. D. Becheberie ; 13 c.
Bechebury ; 14 c. Bekkebury. If Beckbury was the original
form, its translation would be easy — A, S. bee, a brook — the
burgh (enclosure) on the brook. The ch in the 13. and 13 c.
forms, doubtless, represent k ; there was no ch in A. S., its
equivalents being ce or ci ; Jc was a late importation. We
might read Beche as representing A. S. becc (pr. beech) a beech
tree — the burgh in the beeches ; but having regard to the ck
in Beckbury, this is very unlikely. Besides, in 129-1 forty-
eight belted knights of the counties of Stafford, Salop, Warwick,
and Worcester assembled on Budge Heath, to settle the
boundary between the King's manor of Clavorley, and the
manor of Trysull ; and they say " on their oatli that the bounds
between the counties of Stafford and Salop, i.o., between tho
land of John de Tresel, in his manor of Tresel (Trysull), in the
county of Stafford, and the land of the Lord tho King in his
manor of Olaverleye, in county Salop, begdn at Bckwynebury-
nesse, passing by the summit of lludge as far as Wytemereswey
(the way to Whitmore),as far as Puttes (Pits), and from Puttes
to tho road which runs from Aston as far as Seysdonwey (tho
way to Seisdon), always upon La Rugge ; and from Seysdonwey
lo Condes (sic) as far as the foot of Aguardescastel (now corrupt-

388 ON SOME SHROPSHIRE PLACE-NAMES.

ly Abbots Castle hill) as far as, &c." Beckbury village lies a mile
west of the point where this perambulation commences, and
the county boundary is also the boundary of Beckbury parish,
so that Bekwynebury clearly refers to Beckbury. (I will deal
with the terminal nesse presently). This document, being
local and of great importance, may be safely trusted as a
record of the ancient name ; though it is clear from the D.,
and later forms, that the name had, even then, been shortened.
I do not recognise Bekwine as an A. S. p. n., but Berchtwine
(ch hard) was, and we may be satisfied that Beck ford means
Berchtwine's (or Becwine's) burgh, burgh meaning any en-
closure, from a single homestead to a fortress or town. The
terminal nesse (A. S. ncess), as used here, is extremely in-
teresting. It is usually applied to physical features, such as
a tongue or nose of land running out to sea, a cape or promon-
tory; but I am not aware of anything of that kind in the
locality. I think the word is used in a geographical sense to
describe a local intrusion of Staffordshire into Salop, like a
huge upturned nose, as will be readily seen on reference to a
county map.

Buildwas, 4 m. N. of Wenlock. D. Beldewes; 12 c. Bulde-
tvas, Billewas, Buildiuas, Bildewas, Bildewes. Eyton (vi.,317)
suggests that Build represents " Beeld, Bield, or Belde, a word
bignifying a place of shelter;" but this is impossible, such
words being confined to Scotland. He also says that was
represents A. S. wees, water ; but that word has a wider mean-
ing, and signifies a fen, swamp, or land liable to flood = a wash.
Hence we have Moccas, Sugwas, Rotherwas, on Wye, Alrewas
and Hop was, on Tame, Ere was, on Trent, and many other
examples. The terminal being plain A. S, we may expect the
prefix to be in the samo language. I think we find it in A. S.
bold, M. E. buld, bilde (dat. form), a house, or building = the
house in the fen. This etymology is consistent with the early
roots Belde, Bulde, Bilde, and with the locality. Layamon,
who lived on Severn about the year 1200, uses in his poems
the words ibidd, bulde, bidden, in the sense wo now use the
words " built" and " building." Buildwas stands in a meadow
on Severn side; the locality, in its natural state, would bo
marshy.

Cantlop, fivo miles from Shrewsbury, is in Domesday Can-
telop\ in the 12th century Gantelhope; in the 13th Gantolop,
Cantilupe, Gantelhope. The Norman "de Cantilupes" never
had any connection with the place, and could not have in-
fluenced its name. Tho 12th century root is probably accurate,
giving us Ganlel-hope. Tho terminal hope is common in Salop

ON SOME SHROPSHIRE PLACE-NAMES.

389

and means a valley. It forms the terminal of many place-
names, though it is not to be found in the Anglo-Saxon
dictionaries, except in composition and in its adjectival form
hopig (g = y), in hills and hollows. It is accepted as a Middle-
English word ; but the Anglo-Saxons in and around Shropshire
used it freely ; in the south and east of England it is, I think,
unknown. It may be a dialectic word borrowed by the Saxons
from some Gaulish tribe ; it is not Welsh. Cantel is not so
easy to interpret. I do not think the word is to be found in
Anglo-Saxon until after the Conquest, and then only in con-
nection with "cantelcap," a priest's cope. We have cantel, in
Middle-English (said to be from Old French), a fragment,
corner, piece cut off', portion : —

See how this river comes me cranking in,
And cuts me, from the best of all my land,
A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out.

(Shak. 1 Hen. IV,, hi., 1).

" A nooke or corner being in our ancient language called a
kant or cantell. Verstegan (1605). " It runnith far into the
sea with a long cantle or promontory. (1610). But a Middle-
English word would not suffice. The manor was Cantelhope
at the time of Domesday, and probably centuries before. It
can only be used as presumptive evidence that the word was
Anglo-Saxon, though not recognised as such by lexicographers.
Every student meets in ancient charters with words which are
not to be found in any dictionary. Further, a plain Anglo-
Saxon terminal is more likely to have an Anglo-Saxon suffix
than a Welsh one ; but, if driven to it, we may have recourse
to Welsh cantel, which is given as a rim, brim, edge, or border.
Probably a Welsh scholar would be able to give a more
extended meaning to the word. A visit to Cantlop might
settle the question ; for it is most likely that the name is
wholly derived from physical features.

Chelmausu, 5 m. S. E of Bridgnorth. D. Celmeres; 12 c.
Cheilmavsh ; 13 c. Gheijlmevs, Cheylmerse. Gkeylmarsh. The
ce of D. is, no doubt, intended to represent ch which the
Normans introduced. D. scribes sometimes use the A. S. ce,
and sometimes their own ch (v. Basehurch). The original A, S.
form of this name would be Ceolesmerse (pr. Chelsmarsh).
The gen. es would gradually be dropped, and before the
Conquest it would bo Ceoimerse, pr. exactly as now. Geol was
a common A. S. p. n., and means a ship, barge. Chelsea on
Thames was Ccules-iy — (g-y) ships' island. It is possible that
it should be construed Ceol's island ; and grammatically, wo

390 ON SOME SHROPSHIRE PLACE-NAMES.

may interpret Ceolmerse as " ships' marsh but ships do not
frequent marshes.

Cheswardine, 4,£ m. S. E. of Market Drayton. D. Cisewortk;
12 c. Cheseiuurda, Cheswordyn, Cheseiuardyn, Chescivrthin ;
14 c. Chesworthin, Cheseworthyn. The D. ci must be read ch
(v. Chelmarsh). The termiual ivardine is the well-known
Shropshire form of A. S. iveorthyn, gradually passing, even in
A. S. times to weorthig (g = y) weoythin, and worth, meaning a
farm or estate. The A S. th is much like our cZ, and D. scribes
always blundered over it. D. Che\ and later chese, represent
A. S. cese, pronounced, and meaning " cheese," in M. E chese.
We have thus " the cheese farm." 1 have not before met with
an A. S. " cheese farm."

Chetton, 4 m. S.W. of Bridgnorth. D. Gatinton; 13 c.
Chetynton. Eyton i,, 164, says: — " Cete, a hut (pi. ceten), and
tun, an enclosure, are the two Saxon words presumed to have
contributed to the name variously written Ceatinton, Catinton,
or Chetton ;" and in note : — " The letters ch are found fre-
quently substituted for the Saxon c, e.g. cild (child), ceorl
(churl), cef (chaff). I think Eyton is wrong in his premise ;
cote, cytc iy = e), and cete are only different forms of the same
word, meaning a cot or hut ; the c is hard, and could never
pass into ch. I suggest that the prefix represents the A. S.
p. n. Ceadda, Cedda (c = ch), which would give us, originally,
Ceaddantun — Chad's tun (or enclosure) ; and this 1 believe to
be the meaning of Chetton. Chiddington, in Bucks, was
formerly Chedington, from A. S. Ceaddantun ; d and t are
frequently interchanged in place-names. Saint Chad, the
patron Saint of Lichfield, was Saint Ceadda or Cedda.

Chetwynd, 1} N.W. of Newport. D. Catewinde; 13 c.
Cheteivind, Chatewinde. The prefix, I have no doubt, repre-
sents the p. n. Ceadda or Cedda (c = ch) v. Chetton. The
terminal, a very rare one, I think unique in Salop, is A. S. ge-
wind, a winding road or ascent. The ge was a common prefix
in early A. S., but long before the Conquest was largely dis-
pensed with. Bedwin, in Wilts, was in A. S. Bcdwinde, from
the p. n. Beie. The word wynd is used in Scotland to denote
the narrow lanes and alleys of the towns. " Edinburgh and
Scirling, in Scotland, are situated on hills with one wide street
and many narrow lanes leading from thence down the sides of
the hills, which lanes, from their being generally winding, are
called winds." Sir J no. Sinclair's Obxcvv., p. 165. Henry of
tho Wynd is one of the principal characters in" The Fair Maid
of Perth." The anciont family of Chetwynd of Staffordshire,
&c, wore ancient Lords of Chetwynd, but, of course, they take
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Chirbtjry, 3 m. N.E. of Montgomery. An. 913 Cyricbyrig;
D. Cireberrie ; 13 c. Cherebyr, Chirbiri, Chirburi. This
means "Church bury;" there was a church here before D.
The A. S. forms for " church " were cyrice, civic, ceree. Byrig
is the date form of burh, the original meaning of which was a
town, village, or homestead, enclosed by a wall or rampart of
earth. The A. S. C. tells us that in 913 iEthelflaed, Lady of
the Mercians, built a " burgh" here.

Condover, Cound. — 4J m. S. of Shrewsbury. Cound is
situate on Severn, near its junction with a small river now
called " Cound brook." Condover lies 4 m. W. of Cound, on
Cound brook, which at Condover is not apparently joined by
any other stream. The earliest known form of Condover is in
Di, where it appears as Conondovre, Condndoure, and Ocpo-
dovre (hundred). In 1]21 it is Conedover ; in 1255 Cunedovre.
Cound in D. is Guneet, and in the 13th century it appears as
Conet, Conedc, Cunede, and Conede; in 1534 as Counde. D.
is often wrong in Anglo-Saxon place-names, and quite untrust-
worthy when dealing with Celtic roots ; but it has done very
well with Condover. The later forms of Cound were perhaps
influenced by the D. form. Nothing can be made in A. S. of
any of the forms of Condover, or Cound, and their meaning
must be sought in an earlier language. Eyton vi., 8, under
Condover, says: — "Among the Shropshire tributaries of the
Severn, the stream which traverses the Manor of Condover is
not the least. The stream and river unite indeed more than
four miles to the east of this village ; but though their con-
fluence is thus distant, it furnishes us with the etymological
origin of the name Condover. The village of Cound, which
stands much nearer to the point of junction, is probably a
very ancient settlement, for it is nothing else than the Celtic
word Cond, signifying an embouchuro. (llartshorne's Salopia
Antigua, 92, 3). The meaning of these primitive names was
unknown to the Saxons, who consequently designated some
later foundations by titles altogether inept. . . The Saxons,
on their arrival, found a place called Cound, or Conedo.
They established another placo higher up tho same stream, and
called it Concdovrc, that is, Ovcr-Conede, or Upper Cound,.
This thoy did, not knowing, or forgetting, that the word
Conede, or Cound, was proper only to a place situated at the
disemboguement of some stream." Eyton, whose opinions are
always entitled to respect, appears to havo relied upon liarts-
hornc, a very bold etymologist, who says {Salopia Antiqua,
92, 93):— "Conium " (in Uri-conium) " is a Latinized form of
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source, probably, are the names of Condover, Cound, from
being placed on a large brook which empties itself into Severn
at no great distance from the latter village."

Since writing this I have read a very able article by the
Rev. Edward McLure, which appeared in the Shrewsbury
Chronicle. Mr McLure says that a few years ago he had
made out an origin for Condover, similar to the one suggested
by me; but further consideration had brought him to the
conclusion that the terminal " over," in Condover, represents
an A.S. ofer, a bank or shore (see my note upon it under
"Badger"), and the prefix "Cond" represents an ancient
Celtic word (frequently found in place-names in Gaul, as well
as in Britain), meaning a confluence of streams. He cites
numerous authorities, and concludes : — " Conedovre could not,
as Eyton tried to make out, mean Upper Cound. ' Over ' and
' nether ' are well-known Saxon prepositions, meaning upper
and lower ; but they always precede the words they qualify."
Mr. McLure's arguments have convinced me that his opinion
is the correct one. Not finding the word " conde " or
" condate" (probably the Latinized form of it) in any of our
Celtic languages (i.e. Welsh, Irish, Gaelic, Manx, or Cornish),
I rejected it altogether ; but it is certainly a Gaulish word
(probably brought here by Gauls in Roman service), meaning
a confluence. Kinderton, near Middlewich in Cheshire, is
upon a Roman way, and is generally accepted as representing,
in name and situation, the Roman Station "Condate" (v.
Smith's Diet, of Gr. and Ro. Geography i, 654) ; it stands near
the junction of the rivers Wheelock and Dane, and two
smaller streams. Smith (ut supra) says: — "Condate is the
the name of several Gallic towns situate at the angle formed
by the junction of two rivers, from which it may be concluded
that the Gallic term had a meaning which expeessed this
fact. The F rench names Condat, Conde', or Cone, appear to
be various forms of Condate ;" and he gives several illustrations
which, for brevity, 1 omit. Conde-sur-Noireau, Department
of Calvados, Normandy, is situate at the junction of the rivers
Noireau and Drouancc. Conde-sur-l'Escaut, Department du
Nord, France, is situate at the junction of the Hayne and
Scheldo. Accepting Mr. McLure's conclusion that " Cound ',
represents the Gaulish word "Cond," then Cound is an in-
teresting and rare example of the early importation of a foreign
place-name. The transference of a portion of its name to
Condover, 4 miles up the stream, is not without precedent, and
is interesting also as an example of a place-name composed of
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is that Condover does not mean over (i.e. Upper) Cound, the
A.S. words ofer, over, upper, and ofer, a border, bank, &c.t
being liable to confusion ; but I think he is right when ho
says that ofer, always precedes the word it qualifies, and ofer
always follows it. There is no other Condover in England ;
there is a Conderton, near ©verbury in Worcestershire, but its
A.S. form was Cantuaretun, M.E. Canterton, probably meaning
" Singer's town." There are three Candovers in Hampshire,
viz., Preston Candover, Chilton Candover, and Brown Can-
do ver ; but their A.S. form was Cende/er, and they lie on the
river Cendefer (A.S. form), a tributary of the Itchen. I think
they take their name from the river Cendefer, and that the
meaning of the name is " clear water," I am not aware that
any of these Candovers stand upon or near a confluence ;
the Cendefer runs into Itchen about 3 miles below the lowest
of them.

Dodington, near Whitchurch. D. Dodetune ; 13 c. Dodin-
ton, Dudinton, Dodington. This is another instance of the
growth of ing from a gen. n. Doda and Dode were both p.
names, and are recorded in D. as Saxon possessors. This is
clearly Doda or Dode's town.

Donington, 4| m. S.E. of Shiffnal. D. Donitone; 12 c.
Dunnincton; 13 c. Donyton; 14 c. Donynton. Eyton ii., 173,
says : — " Dunning was a Saxon name ; and a person so called,
and having sometime possessed this place, may possibly be
entitled to the simple but enduring monument thus indicated
in a word." There is not much to dissent from in this, but
here we have the advantage of an A. S. root in " The Will of
Wulfgeat of Dunninton" (11th c.) (Transactions, 2nd S., iii.,
3G). The i should be rightly a, yielding Dannantun, perfect
A. S. for " the town of Dunn." Dunne was a fern. p. n., and
may be represented here, but masc. names greatly preponderate.
Donnington, a m. E. of Wroxeter, was Doniton in the 13 c.
Donnington, 3 m. N.E. of Wellington, was Daninton. These
roots, though scanty, point to a similar origin.

Dltton Triors, m. S.W. of Bridgnorth. D. Dodcntone;
14 c. Dudinton, Deritone, Dodyton; 16 c. Dutton. Eyton
(iii., 329), "suggests" that the ancient form was " Dud-
dingtun, i.e., the town of Dudding, or of the sons of
Dudda;" but this is "guess." It is much more likely that
the original form was Doddantan, Doddan being the gen.
form of the A. S. p. n. Dodda. The gen. an has common-
ly passed into ing, and been treated (as Eyton here
treats it) as a patronymic. Detton, in Neon Savago parish,
is in D. Dodintonc. Earl's Ditton, 3 m. W. of Clcobury,
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is Dodentone in D. (later "Earls" because the Mortimers,
Earls of March, owned it). Ditton Priors acquired its suffix
in medieval times because it belonged to the Abbey of
Wenlock. Both these Dittons, and Detton are, I believe,
"the town of Dodda." The D. scribes drop one d, and
record Doda and Bode as persons holding lands in Saxon
times.

Drayton (Market). D. Draitune ; 13 c. Draiton, Drayton,
Great Drayton, Dray ton-in-II ales. Market is a medieval
addition given to distinguish it from other Draytons, and
because it was a market town; in Hales means "in the
meadows." Drayton and Draycote are very common names.
D. records no less than ten Draicote and thirty-seven
Draitone manors. The meaning of the name, is, there-
fore, specially interesting, and, I believe, has never been
dealt with by anyone of authority. The name, being so
common, can be traced to the earliest A. S. forms, and
there we invariably find it Drcegtun (g-y). In A. S.
drcege means a drag, a drag net. Every A. S. Dictionary
and Vocabulary agrees to this, and no" other construction
is possible. Drceg was not a p. n„ and therefore Drcegtun
must mean " the town of the dragnet." All Draycotes
and Draytons known to me are near streams, and where,
in remote times, fishing would probably be a frequent
occupation.

Edgebold, 3 m. S. of Shrewsbury. D. Edbaldinesham ;
13 c. Egbaldenham. The ham has dropped off; but it assists
in construction. An early A. S. root would be here most
desirable ; it would probably give us Eadbaldinges-ham — the
home of the descendants of Eadbald, and be a clear instance of
a patronymic in a local name. The in in the D. form cannot
be read as forming any part of or addition to Eadbald, as. A.S.
p. names are formed of two stems only, never of three. The
D. form clearly points to the name Eadbald, the later form to
Ecgbald ; and then the g still survives. The evidence is finely
balanced.

Edgbolton, GJ m. S.E. of Worn. 12 c. Egebaldesham ; 13 c.
Egebaldenham, Egboldenham, Eggeboldenham. This is curious,
first as a plain change from ham to ton ; then as to the en in
the later forms which points to the patronymic ing. The p. n.
here is clearly Ecgbald ; but whether the construction is
" Ecgbald's home," or " the home of the descendants (ing) of
Ecgbald" is doubtful.

Edgmonb, 2 in. W. of Newport. D. Edmendune; 13 c.
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stance of a dropped terminal. The original form would be
Ecgmund-es-dwn — Ecgmund's hill.

Edgton, 4£ m. S.E. of Bishop's Castle. D. Egedune; 13 c.
Eggesdon, Edgedon, Egedon, Eggdon. A. S. ecg, M. E. egge,
an edge, and A. S. dun, a hill or down. The village is, pro-
bably, situate on or near to a hilly ridge. In A. S. u (accented)
is pronounced oiv ; hence dun is down, tan, town, has, house,
mutlt, mouth, and so on. The terminal dun frequently (as
here) passes into ton.

Ellerdine, Gi m. N.W. of Wellington. D. Elleurdine ; 13
c. Elleiuardyn, Ekuorthyn, Elleworthyn, Ehvardyn, Ellardine.
The original A. S. form would be Ellanweorthyn — the farm,
estate, or property, of Ella. Eor iveorthyn, wardine, v. Ches-
wardine.

Ellesmere. D. Ellesmeles ; 12 c. Ellesmerd, Ellesmare;
13 c. Ellesmere. The D. scribe is evidently at fault. The
terminal is certainly A. S. mere, a pool or lake ; the prefix,
I do not doubt, represents the A. S. p. n. Ella giving
us Ella's mere. Tn early A. S. the form would be Elian-
mere, but in later times the gen. s frequently displaced
the n. There is a great natural lake close to the
town.

Elson, 2 m. N.W., and in the parish, of Ellesmere. 13 c.
Ellesdon, Ellesdene. This, I think, may be safely con-
strued " Ella's hill," v. Ellesmere. The terminal in the
last form would read " Ella's valley ;" but as the hamlet
is on rather hilly ground, it may be treated as a mistake
for don.

Hadley, 2 m. E. of Wellington. D. Hatlege ; 12 c. Hetley,
Iledleg; 13 c. Hadelege, Hadley. Hadleigli, lladley, Hat-
field, Hatton, are common names, and, when traced to A.S.
roots, the prefix nearly always turns out to be A.S. hccth —
heath, indifferently passing into Had or Hat. The meaning
of this Hadley may be safely set down as " the heathy lea."
The A.S. form would be hcvthleah.

Hadnall, 4 m. N.E. of Shrewsbury. D. Hadehelle ; 12 c.
Iladenfade, frequently. Nothing can be made of the D. form,
and it may be ignored. The 12 c. forms, being numerous and
apparently correct, may be trusted. The terminal hale is
difficult to construe. A.S. heall means a hall, residence ; and
kcalh, though the dictionaries call it " a word of doubtful
meaning," is clearly used in the charters in the sense of
enclosed pasture, probably meadow land, and this is being
gradually recognized by students; v. Jlaughton. Hale awl
llales, are forms both of heall and healh, according to tho

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case in which those words are used. In the absence
of early A.S. roots it is difficult, sometimes impossible, to say
whether hale should be construed " hall " or " pasture." The
prefix Iladen is clearly the gen. form of the p. n. Hoed da,
Hedde. Hedda (all from the same stem). Haden is still a
common family name.

Haughmond, in Upton Magna, 4| m. E. of Shrewsbury.
12 c. Haghmon, frequently Hageman, Haghemdn. I do not
think there is any record of Haughmond before the foundation
of the abbey in the 12 c. The prefix points to A. S. haga, an
enclosure, a place fenced in, a hedge (whence haga-thorn,
hawthorn), and the terminal to mann, mon, a man. In M. E.
(and this is probably a M. E. name) haga became hage, hahe,
haive. The roots seem free from doubt, but the compound
is unsatisfactory. The Hayward was a person appointed
to tend cattle in the open pastures and prevent trespass
on the cultivated ground ; but I have never found him
called "Iiaymom;" yet I can see no other meaning to this
name.

Haugiiton, in Upton Magna, 4 m. N.E. of Shrewsbury.
12 c. Halghton, Halchton; 13 c. Halekton, Halihton, Halgh-
ton, Halughton. The root here is clearly the A. S. healh, v.
Hadnall. According to its case, healh becomes heale, hale,
halchy hales, &C. The form of the word has been moulded by
dialect; in Lancashire it is represented by halgh; in North-
umberland by hxugh, heugh; in Notts and Warwickshire it
has become Halloughton. The A. S h had a strong guttural
pronunciation; our "hollow" was holh. Jamieson (Scottish
Dictionary) says: — " Haugh, Hawch, Hauch, Jlalche — low-
lying flat ground, properly on the border of a river, and such
as is sometimes overflowed. There are so many Haughtons,
Halloughtons, &c, in England, that it is very desirable to
ascertain their meaning; I have no doubt it is "the town in
the meadows."

Haughton, 1 m. N. of ShifTnal. 12 c. Haletune. Halech-
tune ; 13 c. Halghton, I/a/ightou, Haleton, Halaton,
Halenton, I/alhton, Haughton Haleston, HalegJtton; 14
c. Halghton, I/alhton. This is a good example of the
latitude our fore-fathors took in spelling the names of
their native places when the change of languago had
obliterated the meaning and they spoke, not by sense,
but by sound. For the meaning v. Haughton in Upton
Magna.

IIodnett, 5 J m. S.W. of Market Drayton. D. Odenet;
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accepted, it could only be construed as a diminutive, which
would not accord with the prefix; but the roots show that it
represents A. S. hceth, M. E. heth, a heath. Node, Hoda was
an A. S. p. n., sometimes appearing as Ode, Oda and Odo, in
which forms D. records the names of A. S. tenants. This
accounts for the D. omission of H. The original A. S. form
I should expect to find Hodenhccth, Hode's heath. It is worth
noting that Odo was a name borne by three generations
of the Lords of Hodnet in the 12th and 13th centuries, as if
it were a family name. Many of the place-names round
Hodnet show that the locality was, in historic times, a vast
heath.

HorESAY, 5£ m. S.E. of Bishop's Castle. D. Hope; 13 c.
Hopc-de-Say. Hope plays a very prominent part in Shropshire
place-names ; it is A. S. hop, M. E. hop, hope, a valley or hollow
v. Cantlop. Picot, alias Robert de Say, held Hope at the
time of Domesday. He was one of the chief vassals of
Earl Roger de Montgomery, holding twenty-seven manors
under him.

Kemberton, 2| m. S.W. of Shiffnal. D. Chenbritone;
13 c. Kebrinton, Kembricton. The roots are scanty, but
I think sufficient to show that the original form was
Cynebrihtestun, the town of Cynebriht ; n before b naturally

becomes m.

Knockin, 5 J m. S.E. of Oswestry. 12 c. KnoJcin, Knokyn,
KnuJcin. W., cnivc, cnoc, a hill. In I. the form is cnoc, which,
as " Knock " now forms the prefix to many hundred place-
names in Ireland. The word is rare in England. Cannock, in
Staffordshire, was cnoc. The terminal in, yn, is a diminutive,
so that Knockin means " the little hill."

Leebotwood, 4 m. N.E. of Church Stretton. D.Boteivde;
12 c. Bottewode ; 13 c. Lega de Botteivnd, Lee in Bottewoode,
Lcybotwood ; 14 c. Lebolwode. The terminal is clearly A. S.
tvude, M. E. wode, wood. Bote was a common A. S. p. n.,
probably now represented by the family name Bott, and it is
only as a p. n. that any satisfactory sense can be made of Bote
in connection with a wood. The construction is, I think,
Bote's wood. In the 12th c. the locality was known as "the
forest of Botwde and Bechcote." The southern Watling Street
(Wroxeter to Kenchester) passes half a mile W., and is, or was,
locally called Botto Street ; it bore that name in 1255. A
mile and a half S. is a hamlet called JSotvyle, which in the 12 c.
was Botesfeld. In 1170 Henry II. granted to the Abbey of
Haughmond " two lands " in Hottowode, and land in the same
forest called Becchecote, with the pasturage to them belonging.

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In the records of Haughmond this grant is termed " Legam in
foresta de Bottewde et Bechecote," and " Lega apud Bottewde."
Lega is a Norman-Frencli law term meaning a pk ce, manor,
district, equivalent to A. S. stow ; it was, probably, applied to
a locality which had acquired no definite name. 1). records
five manors as Lega. Kelham's D. Book says: — "Lega, a
place." This is, no douht, the root of the prefix Lee to
Botwood.

A possible construction of Botlewode would be k.S. bote, hot,
advantage, privilege, as we say now, something " to boot,"
something extra. Housebote and Haybote were well-known
privileges to take wood for building and fuel, and underwood
for repairing hedges from other persons' woods, or the royal
forests. Bottewudo may have been subject to these rights, and
so acquired the name; but I think it unlikely. Botvyle is
generally found as Botesfeld (a gen. form), which clearly means
the field of Bote.

Lee Gomery, 1 m. N.W. of Wellington. D. Lega; 12 c.
Lee Cumbrais ; 13 c. Lee Cumbray ; 14 c. Legh Combrey.
For the meaning of Lega v. Lebotwood. The de Cambrays
were Norman lords of this place, and Gomery is a plain
corruption of their name. The de Cambrays came from
Cam bray, in Normandy, and were D. tenants in capite of
81 manors.

Leintwardine, 9 m. W. of Ludlow. D. Lentcurde ; 12 c.
Lyntwardyn ; 13 c. T^anteiuwrth, Leiniivwrthe ; 14 c.
Leyntwardyn. For ivavdine v. Gheswardine. D. always abbre-
viates this terminal, writing it urdine, urde, wrde, wrdine,
rdine, &c. Leinthall Starkes, 4 m. SF. of Leintwardine, but
in Herefordshire, was in D. Lintehale and Ljenthate, later
Ljeyntlcale. Leinthall Farls is 2 m. further S. I suggest
Leint represents W. llidint, liant, a stream, river. Leintwar-
dine lies at the junction of the Tome and Clun. "Temo" is
ancient, but " Clun " is derived from the upstream town of
(Jhm — C. cluain (pr. cloon), meadow land — and is not likely
to havo boen the old name.

LiLLESHALLy 3 in. S.W. of Newport. D. Lhdeshelle ; 12 c.
Lilleshull, LylleshuUf LillishvM, Lylleshull. Lilla was an A. S.
p. n. The right form would be Lillanhyll (M. &hull) — Lilla's
hill. The name is sometimes found in its shortened form Lil.
Before the Conquest the genitive form es frequently displaced
the grammatical an. The Saxon who gave his name to Lillos«
hall appears to havo been known, or remembered, by his
neighbours as Lil. In a charter of 963 relating to lands at
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JErest on diuthuccs pcethe on lil setna ge metre, &c. — first from
Diuthuc's path to the boundary of tho Lil folk.

Lyth Hill, Lythwood, Great Lyth, Little Lyth, 3 m.
S.W. of Shrewsbury. 13 c. Lya, Lythe (many times), Lye
Lithe. A. S. hlith, a slope or hill side. Some of these places
may lie on a plain, and take their name from the bill.

Madeley, 4 m. S.W. of Shiffnal. D. Madelie; 12 c. Priors
Made/eg (g = y) ; it belonged to Wenlock Abbey ; 14 c. Aladele.
Madeley is situate on a stream called the AIad(e), from A. S.
mcvd, mead, meadow. Sometimes rivers derive their names
from places upon them, and sometimes places derive their
names from the river. It would be difficult to say which is
the case here. It is, however, clear that the meaning of the
name is " the meadow pastures," or " the pastures on the Majd."
There is a Madeley in Staffordshire, G m. S.W. of Crewe,
•which was Madelie in D. It is written Madanlieg in a A.S.
charter of 975 ; an is the gen. form of Made (probably
originally maide).

Mohville, 3 m. W. of Bridgnorth. D. Membrefeld ; 12 c.
Momerfeuld, Momerfeld ; 13 c. Momerefeld, Moreffeld; 1G c.
Morfeld. The terminal is clearly " field," but I can make
nothing of the prefix in W. or A. S. I do not think it repre-
sents a p. n., or that it can havo any relation to Morfe forest,
which lay entirely on the E. side of Severn. It may be an old
river name. The village is situate on a stream now called
Mor brook ; but that is probably a modern name derived from
Morville, and Mor will not suit the earlier roots which I hope
someone may be able to interpret.

Great Ness, Little Ness, 8 m. N.W. of Shrewsbury. D.
Nessham ; 12 c. Nessa, Ncssc. The D. terminal ham has
apparently been dropped. A. S. mess means a headland or
promontory running into water. The word is frequently met
with on the coast, e.g., Sheemess, Dangeness, Alston, and is
there generally attributed to the Norsemen who used nes in
the same sense. The word is allied to nose and nostril, and in
A. S. meant also a projection (of space) into tho ground — a
subterraneous passage, a cave. As the Norsemen had no
influence whatever in Salop, the root may be considered A. S.
Camden says there io a craggy rock here, with a famous cavern
called Kynaston's cave. Having no local knowledge, I cannot
say if the rock is bold enough to be called a headland or nose
of land. I incline to the cave, if there is one, as I do not know
any inland rock which bears tho name of i less.

Onihuiiy, 5 m. N.W. of Ludlow, 1). Aneberie; 13 c. Oni~
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must have been sorely tried by W. ones ; they have done
pretty well here. Onibury is situate on the river Onny, which
in the 13 c. was spelt Onie, Oney, Onetje. On, onen in W.
means an ash tree, pi onn, with varying terminals, according
to the case. The river name, being W., I incline to think here
lends its name to the burh, and that Onibury means" the burh
on the Onny," Onny deriving its name from ash trees abound-
ing or flourishing on some part of its course. There is another
river Onny in N. Herefordshire, falling into the Lugg at
Leominster; High Onn — high ashes — in N. Staffs.; Onllwyn —
ash grove — 10 m. M.E. of Neath. A Welsh friend suggests
that the original name of the river was probably Onwy — the
ash tree river.

Osbaston, 1 m. N.W. of Knockin. D. Sbernstune; 12 c.
Osbertune ; 13 c. Osberston, Osberneston. A.S. p. n. Osbeorn —
Osbeorn's town. Osbeorn was a common p. n. ; hence our
numerous families of Osborne and Osbourn. Exs. Osbaston in
Leicestershire, 1£ m. N.E. of Market Bosworth ; Osberton in
Notts, 3 m. E. of Worksop ; Osbournby, Lincolnshire, G m. S.
of Sleaford,

Oswestry. D. Meresberie ; 12 c. Oswaldestre, Osivaldestrie,
Blancminster, Blancmunster, or Album Monaster ium. We
need not notice the D. form, as it is obsolete ; it probably re-
presents the scribes' idea of Maesbury. Blancminster, &c,
mean only the white church ; there was ho monastery here.
The other forms are good Early English, and clearly mean
Oswald's tree. Eyton takes that view, and says the town was
known to the Welsh as Croes-Osivallt — Oswald's Cross. The
church is dedicated to St. Oswald, and all evidence tends to
show that the Oswald who gave his name to the town was
King (afterwards Saint) Oswald, who was slain in battle at
" Maserfield," by Penda in 642. It does not concern etymolo-
gists whether the battle was fought near Oswestry, or at
Winwick, in Lancashire; it suffices for our purpose, that
multitudes of people, ages ago, believed Oswald fell at Oswestry.
Those who wish to pursue the controversy will rind the subject
fully discussed in Transactions ii., 97. I will only add that in
the "Life of St. Oswald," by Reginald (of Durham), a 12th c.
work, it is said " Maserfield " is seven miles from Shrewsbury,
near Offa'a Dyke, and that " White Church" was founded on
the field of battle ; and there was a miraculous ash tree, called
by all the people " Oswald's ash tree." This, of course, was
written five hundred years after the event, but it is ovidenco
that the name "Maserfield9* existed near Oswestry in tho
12th century.

INDEX

OF

ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS

PUBLISHED

IN

1895

[being the fifth issue of the series and completing tub
index for the period 1891-95]

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE CONGRESS OF
A RC1LEO LOGICAL SOCIETIES IN UNION WITH THE
SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.

1890

II ARRISON AND SONS.
PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY,
BT. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON.

CONTENTS.

[Those Transactions marked loith an asterisk * in the following list are now for the
first time included in the index, the others are continuations from the indexes
of 1891-91. Transactions included for the first time are indexed from 1891
onwards.']

Anthropological Institute, Journal, vol. xxiv, pts. 3 end 4, vol. xxv, pt. 1.
Antiquaries, London, Proceedings of the Society, 2nd ser., vol. xv, pt. 4.
Antiquaries, Ireland, Proceedings of Royal Society of, 5th ser., vol. v.
Antiquaries, Scotland, Proceedings of the Society, vol. xxix.
Archaeologia, vol. liv, pt. 2.
Archaeologia ./Eliana, vol. xvi, pt. 3, vol. xvii.
Arclucologia Cambrensis, 5th ser., vol. xii.
Archaeological Journal, vol. lii.

Berkshire Architectural and Archaeological Society, vol. iii, pt. 4.
Berwickshire Naturalist Field Club, vol. xiv, pts. 1 and 2.
Pritish Archaeological Association, Journal, New Series, vol. i.
British Architects, Royal Institute of, Journal, 3rd ser., vol. ii.
Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Transactions, vol. ix, pt. 1.

Chester and North Wales Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Society,

Transactions, vol. v, pt. 4.
Clifton Antiquarian Club, vol. iii, pts. 1 and 2.

Cumberland and Westmorland Archa-ological Society, vol. xiii, pts. 2, 3 and 4

Cynnnrodorion Society, Transactions, 1893-4 and 1891-5.

Derbyshire Archtcolngicnl Society, Transact ions, vol. xvii.

Devonshire Association, Transactions, vol. xxvii.

lOast Riding Antiquarian Society, vol. ii and iii.

Essex Arcluvological Society, Transactions, New Series, vol. v, pt. 3.

Folklore, Proceedings of the Folklore Society, vol. vi.

Glasgow Archa'ological Society, New Series, vol. ii, pts. 3 and 4.

Hampshire Field Club, Proceedings, vol. iii, pts. 1 and 2.

Hellenic Society, Journal, vol. xv.

Huguenot Society, Transactions, vol. v, pts. 1 and 2.

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CONTENTS.

Kildare Archaeological Society, Journal, vol. i, pt. 6.
Lancashire and Cheshire Historic Society, Transactions, vol. x.
Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society, Transactions, vol. viii,
])t. 2.

•Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, vol. xlvi, xlvii, xlviii and xlix.

London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, vol. i (appendix).
•Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 4th ser., vol. iv, v, vi, vii, viii
and ix

Montgomeryshire Collections, vol. xxix.

Norfolk ami Norwich Archaeological Society, Transactions, vol. xii.

Numismatic Chronicle, 3rd ser., vol. xv.
•Jloyal Historical Society, Transactions, vol. v, vi, vii, viii and ix.

ltoyal Irish Academy, Transactions, 3rd ser., vol. iii, pt. 4.
•Royal Society of Literat ure, Transactions, vol. xr, xvi and xvii.

St. Albans Architectural and Archaeological Society, 1893-4.

Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Transactions, 2nd ser.,
vol. vii.

Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Transactions, vol. xli.

Suffolk Archaeological Institute, vol. ix, pt. I.

Surrey Archaeological Society, Collections, vol. xii, pts. 3 and 4.

Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. xxxix.

Thorcsby Society, Miscellany, vol. v.

Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, vol. xxviii, pts. 3 and 4.
Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, vol. xiv, pts. 1 and 2.

N 0 T E .

The value of this Index to archaeologists is now recognised. Every effort is
made to keep its contents up to date and continuous, but it is obvious tbut the
difficulties are great unless the assistance of the societies is obtained. If for any
reason the papers of a society arc not indexed in the year to which they properly
belong the plan is to include them in the following year; and whenever the paper*
of societies ure brought into the Index for the first time they are then indexed
from the year 1891.

]{y this means it will be seen that the year 1891 is treated as the commencing
year for the Index and that all transactions published in and since that year will
find their place in the series.

To make this work complete an index of the transactions from the beginning of
archaeological societies down to the year 1890 needs to be published. This Index is
already completed in MS. form and it will be printed as soon as arrangements can
be made.

Societies will greatly oblige by communicating any omissions or suggestions to

Tiib Editor of the Archaeological Index,

Society of Antiquaries,

Burlington House, London, W.

Single copies of the yearly Index may be obtained. Many of the societies in union
witli tho Society of Antiquaries take a sufficient number of copies to issue with
their transactions to each of their members. The more this plan is extended the
less will bo the cost of the Index to cmh society. For particulars of this and
other works now being carried on by the societies in union application should
be made to the Honorary Secretary,

Ralph Nevill, E.S.A.,

13, Addison Crescent,

Kensington, W.

INDEX OF ARCMOLOGICAL PAPERS PUBLISHED

IN 1895.

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ABERCROMBY (Hon. John). Recent excavations in the Caucasus.
Trans. Glasgow Arch. Soc. N.S. ii. 302-311.

Traditions, customs, and superstitions of the Lewis. Folk-
lore, vi. 162-170,

Ac land (C. L.). Norse remains in North Britain. Trans. Gamb.
Antiq. Soc. ix. 106-120.

Allen (T. W.). The text of the Homeric Hymns. Jour. Hell. Stud.
xv. 136-183, 251-313.

Amery (P. F. S.). Thirteenth report of the Committee on Devon-
shire Folklore. Trans. Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 61-74.

Anderson (Joseph, LL.D.). Notice of a cave recently discovered at
Oban containing human remains and a refuse heap of shells and
bones of animals, and stone and bone implements. Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot. xxix. 211-230.

Notes on the contents of a refuse heap at the base of the

fortified rock known as Dun Fheurain at Gallanach, near Oban.
Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 278-285.

Andre (J. Lewis). Antiquarian notes on the Rose. Arch. Jour. lii.
207-221.

The chancel screens of parish churches, illustrated chiefly

by Sussex examples. Sussex Arch. Coll. xxxix. 31-54.
Andrew (Samuel). British footprints: the Oldham master-key.

Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 11-20.
Andrews (Emily J.). Two Christmas ere customs. Folklore, vi. 93.
Applktqn (.Henry, M.D.). A muster roll of cavalry. Yorks. Arch.

Jour. xiv. 239-241.
Arkwuigut (W.). The frontier of Lyoia and Caria. Jour. Hell.

Stud. xv. 93-99.

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INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL TAPERS.

Armstrong (Rev. B. J.). Notes on the church and family of Shelton.

Norf. Arch. xii. 234-242.
Arnold (Rev. F. H., LL.D.). The corn-supply of the south-coast

in British and Roman times. Sussex Arch. Coll. xxxix. 154-160.
Ashcombe (Rt. Hon. Lord). A charge given by Hugh Hare, Esq.,

J. P., at the general quarter sessions for the county of Surrey

holden at Dorking 5th April, 1692. Surrey Arch. Coll. xii.

109-144.

Ashton (Charles) and J. E. Llotd. Defodau Powys, the customs

of Powys. Montgomery sh. Coll. xxix. 1-27.
Atkinson (Rev. J. C, Canon). The progressive or expansional

significance of place-names. Arch. Juur. Hi. 253-265.
Atkinson (T. I).). On a bridge over the King's ditch. Trans.

Camb. Antiq. Soc. ix. 33-35.
On a chalice and paten from Westley Waterless. Proc.

Camb. Antiq. Soc. ix. 21-24.
Attree (Major F. W. T.). List of Sussex gentry at various dates with

descriptions of the arms of a few families not previously noted.

Sussex Arch. Coll. xxxix. 99-133.
Auden (Rev. John Ernest). Notes on the church, castle and parish of

Shrawardine. Tra)is. Shropshire Arch. Soc. 2nd S. vii. 120-202.
Axon (W. E. A.). Visitations of the plague in Lancashire and

Cheshire. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 265-270.
Baqnall-Oakeley (M. E.). A week in the Aran Islands. Clifton

Antiq. Club, iii. 99-107.
Early Christian settlements in Ireland. Clifton Antiq.

Club, iii. 22-24.

On a great hoard of Roman coins found at Bishops Wood

near Ross. Clifton Antiq. Club, iii. 162-166.
Baillie-Hamilton (Hon. Mrs.). Note on two rare paintings at

Lang ton House. Proc. Berwick. Field Club, xiv. 338.
Baker (Arthur). Ph>s Mawr. Arch. Cambrensis, 5th S. xii.

40-49.

Balfour (C. B.). Notes on Newton Don and its former owners.

Proc. Berwick. Field Club, xiv. 291-313.
Bardan (Patrick). The Shamrock. Jour. Boy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland^

5th S. v. 178-179.
Barker (W. R.) An ancient bronze collar from Wraxall, Somerset.

Clifton Avtiq. Chib, iii. 89-94.
Local silver and bronze tokens in the Bristol museum.

Clifton Antiq. Club, iii. 132-133.

INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL TAPERS.

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Barnes (Henry, M.D.). On touching for the King's evil. Trans.

Gumb. and Westmor. Arch. Soc. xiii. 343-363.
Barrett (C. R. B.) Hiding Skimmington and Riding the Stang.

Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 58-68.
Barron (Rev. Douglas Gordon). Notice of a small cemetery of

cremated burials with cinerary urns of clay recently discovered at

Culla Voe, Papa Stour, Shetland. Troc. Sue. Antiq. Scot. xxix.

46-48.

Barry (Rev. E.). On ogham stones seen in Kilkenny county. Jour.

Hoy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 348-368.
Bates (C. J.). A forgotten reference to Roman mile-castles. Arch.

J£ liana, xvi. 447-451.
Bates (Rev. E. H.). On the discovery of an ancient representation

of the Agnus Dei at Shawell. Trans. Leicest. Archit. and Arch.

Soc. iii. 68-60.

Batten (John). Notes on North Perrott. Proc. Somerset Arch, and

Nat. Hist. Soc. xli. 73-91.
Notes on the documentary history of seals. Wilts Arch, and

Nat. Hist. Mag. xxviii. 203-210.
Bax (Alfred Ridley). On the state of certain parish churches in

Surrey in 1705. Surrey Arch. Gull. xii. 163-171.
Beazley (C. Raymond). Exploration under Elizabeth 1558-1603.

Trans. Boy. Hid. Sue. N.S. ix. 119-165.
Beddoe (John, M.D.). On the northern settlements of the West

Saxons. Jour. Anthrop. Inst. xxv. 16-20.
Beloe (Edward M.). Castle Rising: its castle and borough. Norf.

Arch. xii. 164-189.
Freebridge Marshland hundred and the making of Lynn.

Norf. Arch. xii. 311-335.
The padder's way and its attendant roads. Trans. Camb.

Antiq. Soc. ix. 77-95.
Bensly (W. T., LL.D.). St. Leonard's priory, Norwich. Norf. Arch.

xii. 190-227.

Benson (E. F.). Aegosthena. Jour. Hell. Stud. xv. 314-324.
Fourth century head in central museum, Athens. Jour.

Hell. Stud. xv. 194-201.
Berkshire Wills from the P.C.C. ante 1558. Berks. Arch, and

Archit. Soc. iii. 100-104, 127-130, 148-152, 168-172, 201-

203.

Beth am (Rev. C. J.). Brettenham and the Wcnveve family. Stiff.
Inst. Arch. ix. 131-143.

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INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

Betham (Rev. C. J.). Church plate in Suffolk. Suff. Inst, of Arch.
ix. 26-34.

BlENKOWSKl (P.). A flying Eros from the school of Praxiteles.

Jour. Hell. Stud. xv. 211-210.
BlLLSON (Chakles J.). Folksongs comprised in the Finnish Kalevala.

Folklore, vi. 317-352.
Bilson (Joijn). On the discovery of some remains of the chapter

house of Beverley Minster. Arcliceologia, liv. 425-432.
Birch (Rev. C. G. R.). On certain brasses at Necton and Great

Cressingham. Norf. Arch. xii. 298-303.
BlRCH (YV. de Gray). Historical notes of Whalley Abbey. Jour.

Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 161-166.
Notes on tlie importance of preserving the records

and literary antiquities of Wales, as illustrated by some

recent publications. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 25-

48.

BlRCHALL (James). The church and state in Mediaeval Europe.
Proc. Lit. and Phil. Soc. Lioeryool, xlvi. 235-262.

Black (Geo. F.). Notes on a silver mounted charm-stone of rock-
crystal from Inverleny with notices of other Scottish balls of
rock-crystal and of superstitions connected therewith. Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot. xxix. 439-418.

Blair (Robert). A Roman inscribed altar discovered at South
Shields. Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd S. xv. 403-404.

Blashill (T.). Hull and Dripole in the thirteenth century. Trans.
Past Lid in ij Antiq. Soc. ii. 7-11.

Bogle (Lockhart). Archaeological notes on Dunvegan Castle. Proc.
Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 255-271.

Notes on some prehistoric structures in Glenelg and Kintail.

Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 180-190.

Boot (Rev. Alfred), Northern monasticism. Arch. AUiana, xvii.
91-100.

Boscawen (\V. St. Chad). The mummies of the priests of Ammon
discovered at Thebes. Trans, lioy. Soc. Lit. 2nd Ser. xvi. 253-
275.

Bower (Herbert M.). The fourteen of Meaux, an account of the
earliest reformed church within France proper. Proc. Hug. Soc.
v. 1-124.

Bowes (It.). On a copy of Linacre's Galen d« Temper anient is,
Cambridge, 1521, in the library of Trinity College, Dublin.
I 'roc. Camb. Antiq. Soc. ix. 1-3.

INDEX OF ARCIL-TCOLOGICAL PAPERS.

11

Boyle (J. R.). The Hull cap of maintenance. Trans. East' Riding

Antiq. Soc. iii. 92-99.
Bradley (Miss Edith). Glastonbury Abbey. Jour. Brit. Arch.

Astoc. N.S. i. 205-2 3.
BuAKsi'UAK (Hakold). Notes on Upper Uphain Manor House.

Wills. Arch, aud Nat. Hist. Mag. xxviii. 84-86.
Beamble (Col. J. II.). Coins of the Bristol mint. Clifton Antiq.

Cuib, iii. 128-131.
BttOCK (E. P. Loftus). The discovery of a Norman crypt at

Canterbury. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 8G-88.
The excavation of a Roman villa in the Wad field near

Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S.

i. 212-250.

Brown (Prof. G. Baldwin). Some characteristics of pre-Conquest

architecture. Jour. B.I.B.A. 3rd S. II. 435-502.
Bkowke (Charles R., M.D.). The ethnography of the Mullet,

Inishkea Islands, and Portacloy, county Mayo. Proc. lioy. Irish

Acad. 3rd S. iii. 58,7—649.
Browmni; (Oscar). The evolution of the family. Trans. Boy. Hist.

Soc. N.S. vi. 87-107.
Brusheield (Dr. T. N.). Devonshire briefs. Trans. Devon. Asm>c.

-\xvii. 311-357.

Brydall (BOBER'f). The monumental efii^ies of Scotland from the
thirteenth to the fifteenth century. Froc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix.
329-110.

Bi'dgl (Dr. E. A. Wallis). Three Assyrian marbles in the Bristol fine

arts academy. Clifton Antiq. Club, iii. 134—141.
Buick (Rev. G. Raphael). Irish Hint arrow-heads. Jour. Boy. Soc.

Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 41-63.
Bulki.lky-Owi:n (Hon. Mrs.). Sclattyn; a history of the parish.

Trans. Shropshire Arch. Soc. 2nd S. vii. 207-231.
Bolow (Dr. Cot'JTRIED Von). Diary of the journey of Philip Julius,

Duke of Sti'ttin-Pomerania, through England in the year 1602.

Trans. Boy. Hist. Soc. N.S. vi. 1-67.
Journey through England and Scotland, m;ido by Lupoid

von Wedcl in the 3 ears 1584 and 1585. Trans. Boy. Hist. Soc.

N.S. ix. 223 -270.

HiiLWKii (Huio.-Gi;n.). The lioburts of Hales_IIull. Norf. Arch. xii.
158 1(53.

Bi'knk (CiiAiaoiTN S.). Chained images. Folklore, vi. 196-
198.

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INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

Bury (J. B.). The history of the name Hellas, Hellenes. Jour. Hell.

Stud. xv. 217-238.
Calverley (Rev. W. S.). The Roman fort on Kardknott known

as Hardknott Castle. Trans. Gumb. and Westmor. Arch. Sue. xiii.

449-452.

Campbell (Geoiuje W.). John Snell of Ufton and the Ufton exhibi-
tions. Trans. Glasgoio Arch. Soc. N.S. ii. 271-28G.

Carmichael (C. H. E.). The study of folklore. Trans. Boy. Soc. Lit.
2nd S. xv. 84-130.

Carrington (\V. A.). Papers relating to Derbyshire musters, temp.
Q. Elizabeth, comprising the muster roll for the whole county
made in 1.587 in expectation of the Spanish invasion. Derbyshire
Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. 1-48.

Cart (Rev. II.). Recent visit to Carthage. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc.
N.S. i. 225-231.

CartwbicUT (J. J.). List of persons in Yorkshire who paid the tax
on male servants in 1780. York. Arch. Jour. xiv. G5-80.

Cave-Browne (Rwv.J.)., Otham church and parish. Jour. Brit. Arch.
Assoc. N.S. i. 167-186.

Charlton (W. L.). Runic inscription on Hazel-Gill Crags, near
Bewcastle. Arch. JEliana, xvii. 53-56.

Ciiristison (D., M.D.). The forts of Selkirk, the Gala water, the
southern slopes of the Lammer moors and the north of Roxburgh.
Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 108-179.

Church (Rev. C. M.). Notes on the ebartularies of Bath Priory.
Proc. Somerset Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. xli. 53-64.

Clark (J. W.). On ancient libraries: Lincoln Cathedral, West-
minster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral. Trans. Gamb: Antiq. Soc.
ix. 37-60.

Clarke (Somkkh). Philae : the Nubian valley and the modified Nile

reservoir. Arch. Jour. lii. 240- 249.
Report on the proposed works at Philae. Proc. Soc. Antiq.

2nd S. xv. 457-461.
. Notes on the present state of the Parthenon. Proc. Soc.

Antiq. 2nd S. xv. 461-466.
Clodd (Kdwaru). Presidential address to the Folklore Society.

Folklore, vi. 54-81.
— Reply to Mr. Lang's protest of a psycho-folklorist. Folklore,

vi. 248-258.

Cluttlriujck (Rev. R.) Notes on the fair at Weyhill. Proc. Hamp.
Field Club, iii. 127-142.

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Cobb (J. R.). Caldecot Castle, Monmouthshire. Clifton Antiq. Club,
iii. 35-40.

Codrington (0.). The coinages of Cutch and Kathiawar. Num.

Chron. 3rd S. xv. 59-83.
Coffey (George). The origins of prehistoric ornament in Ireland.

Jour. Boy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 16-29 ; 195-211.
Cole (Rev. E. Maule). Huggate dikes. Trans. East Hiding Antiq.

Soc. ii. 12-17.

Notices of Wetwang. Trans. East Riding Antiq. Soc. ii.

68-76.

The Driffield moot hill. Trans. Ea4 Riding Antiq. Soc. iii.

13-16.

Coleman (A.). Lists of non-parochial registers and records. Wilts

Arch, and Nat. Hist. Mag. xxviii. 149-155.
Coles (Fred R.). A record of the cup- and ring-mnrkings in the

Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 67-91.
• The stone circles of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.

Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 301-316.
Colgan (Nathaniel). Witchcraft in the Aran Islands. Jour. Roy.

Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 84-85.
COLLIER (W. F.). Dartmoor and the County Council of Devonshire.

Trans. Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 213-221.
Colling wood (W. G ) and Etkikr Magnusson. Some Manx names

in Cumbria. Trans. Climb, and West/nor. Arch. Soc. xiii. 403-

414.

Com erford (Most Rev. Dr.). Castledermot : its history and

antiquities. Jour. Kildare Arch. Soc. i. 3G1-U78.
CONDKR (Fdward). Account of the exploration of Lynoham barrow,

Oxon. Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd S. xv. 404-410.
Cook (Arthur Rlrnard). The bee in Greek Mythology. Jour.

Hell. Stud. xv. 1-24.
Cooke (John). Aran Islands. Jour. Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th

S. v. 275-277.

(Jul Way. Jour. Ivoy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 290-

296.

Cooper (A. N.). Alfred, King of Northumbria. Trans. East Riding

Antiq. Soc. iii. 17-20.
COOPER (nEvr'. T. S.). The church plate of Surrey. Surrey Arch.

Coll xii. 172-193.
Oovlton (John James). Names on tho Wissey. Norf. Arch. xii.

13 21.

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INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

Cowper (H. S.). A Grasmere farmer's sale schedule in 1710. Trans.

Cumb. and Westmor. Arch. Soc. xiii. 253-2G8.
The homes of the Kirkbys of Kirkby Ireleth. Trans,

Cumb. and Westmor. Arch. Soc. xiii. 269-290.
Cox (Edward W.). Birkenhead Priory. Trans. Hist. Soc. Lane, and

Chesh. N.S. x. 123-156.
Recent antiquarian finds in Cheshire. Trans. Hist. Soc.

Lanes, and Chesh. N.S. x. 175-180.
The restoration of St. Wilfrid's church, Farnworth.

Trans. Hist. Soc. Lane, arid Chesh. N.S. x. 193-199.
Traces of submerged lands on the coasts of Lancashire,

Cheshire and North Wales. Trans. Hist. Soc. Lane, and Chesh.

N.S. x. 19-56, 199-200.
— Diserth Castle. Jour. Archil. Arch, and Hist. Soc. of

Chester and North [Vales, v. 361-379.
Cox (Rev. J. Charles, LL.D.). On an Anglo-Saxon cemetery

recently uncovered near Saxby. Trans. Leicest. Archit. and Arch.

Soc. iii. 74-77.

■ On four Spanish Moresco tiles found at Meaux Abbey.

Trans. East Biding Antiq. Soc. ii. 1-6.
Parliamentary survey of the benefices of the East Riding.

Trans. East Hiding Antiq. Soc. ii. 24-67.
— The mining operations and metallurgy of the Romans in

England and Wales. Arch. Jour. Iii. 25-42.
CrAIGIE (W. A.). Donald Ban and the Bocan [a Lochaber story].

Folklore, vi. 353-358.
Skotlands rimur ; Icelandic ballads on the Gowrie con-
spiracy. Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 286-2'.'2.
Crake (W. V.). Visit of the Congres Archrcologique de France to

Sussex in 1893. Sussex Arch. Coll. xxxix. 175-178.
Cramond (VV., LL.D.). Notice of a bronze censer (?) or chafing dish

found near Balveny Castle, and of a find of coins in the parish of

Mortlach. Viae. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 59-62.
Crawkuki) (Rev. G. P.). Vachell of Coley, Reading, llerlcs Arch.

and Archit. Soc. iii. 87-92.
Crawley (A. E.). Taboos of commensality. Folklore, vi. 130-

144.

Crisp (Frederick Arthur). Surrey wills. Surrey Arch. Coll. xii.
194-210.

Crombie (James E.). Shoe throwing at weddings. Folklore, vi.
258-2S1.

INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

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Cullen (John B.). The ancient churches of the town of Wexford.

Jour. Iioy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 369-377.
Cuming (H. Syer). On skull goblets. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S.

i. 235-241.

Shoe lore. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 148-153.

Cunningham (Rev. Prof. W.). The gild merchant of Shrewsbury.

Trans. Boy. Hist. Soc. N.S. ix. 99-117.

Walter of Henley. Trans. Boy. Hist. Soc. N.S. ix. 215-221.

CuRLE (James). Notes upon three early iron age brooches from the

island of Golland, Sweden. Broc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 292-

301.

Dartmoor Exploration Committee, second report. Trans. Devon. Assoc.
xxvii. 81-92.

Darwin (W. E.). A hoard of bronze implements found at Bitterne.

Broc. Mump; Field Club, iii. 53-66,
Daves (P. Trevor). South Minims, Middlesex. Trans. St. Albans

Archit. and Arch. Soc. 1893-94, 25-29.
Davis (Rkv. R. G.). Historical notes on the manors of Merstone and

Great East Standen in the Isle of Wight. Broc. Hamp. Field

Club, iii. 89-98.

Dawkins (Prof. W. Boyd). Opening Address of the Antiquarian
section at the Scarborough meeting. Arch. Jour. Iii. 336-347.

Dawson (Charles). Ancient boat found at Bexhill. Sussex Arch.
Coll, xxxix. 161-163.

■ Neolithic flint weapon in a wooden haft, found in the East-
bourne district. Sussex Arch. Coll. xxxix. 97-9S.

Day (Robert). Danish spear-head from Scarriff, co. Clare. Jour.
Boy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 176.

Deans (Walter). The Rule water ca' Trail. Broc. Berwick. Field
Club, xiv. 138-142.

The Chapel of St. Cuthbert's on the Slitterick, and Chapel

Cross, Roxburghshire. Brae. Berwick. Field Club. xiv. 143-145.

Dewick (Rev. h). S.). On a MS. psalter formerly belonging to the
Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds. Archa'ologia, liv. 399-410.

On a MS. pontifical of a bishop of Mutz of the fourteenth

century. Archa'oloyia, liv. 411-424.

Dillon (Viscount). An Elizabethan armourer's album. Arch. Jour.
Iii. 113-128.

Doe (G. M.). Samuel Stoddon, Trans. Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 222-224.
Domesday Holders and Holdings. B>rks. Arch, and Archit. Soc. iii.
138 143, 195 200.

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INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PA.PKIIS.

Donald (Colin Dunlop). Presidential address. Trans. Glasgow

Arch. Soc. 2nd 8. ii. 419-427.
Do wd ex (Right Rev. John, D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh). Note on

two late notices, 1560 and 1563, relating to the cult"s

of St. Ninian in England. Froc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 198—

201.

Due RETT (Sir George, Bart.). Hastings v. Senlac. Sussex Arch.

Coll. xxxix. 28-80.
Dugan (C. Winston). Notice of an ancient Irish cotb found at

Maghery, county Armagh. Jour. May, /Soc. Antiq. Ireland,

5th S. v. 224-226.
Dun kin (E. H. W.). A calendar of the deeds and other documents

in the possession of the Sussex Archaeological Society. Sussex

Arch. Coll. xxxix. 179-196.
E. (J.). Wardrobe counter of I'M ward I IT. Num. Citron. 3rd S.

xv. 168.

E An wake r (J. P.). The early deeds relating to the manor of Man-
chester, now in the possession of the corporation of that city.
Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 49-57.

■ The progress of the Duke of Monmouth in Cheshire in

September, 1682. Trans. Hist. Soc. Lane, anil Chesh. N.S. x.
71-96.

Ebblewhite (Ernest Arthur). Flintshire genealogical notes. Arch.

Cambrensis, 5th S. xii. 191-204, 250-263.
Gdleston (Miss). The Winston, co. Durham, churchwardens'

accounts, 1632-1695. Arch. sEliana, xvii. 101—14 4.
Egan (P. M.). The Kcteller monument, Kilkenny. Jour. Hoy. Soc.

Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 72-78.
Ellis (Frederick). Coins found near Bristol. Clifton Antiq. Club,

iii, 122-123.

Roman remains near Bristol. Clifton Antiq. Club, iii.

16-21.

Ellis (PI. Leslie). British copper tokens of the Straits Settlements
and Malayan Archipelago. Num. Chron. 3rd S. xv. 135-153.

Elworthy (b\ T.). fourteenth report of the Committee on Devon-
shire verbal provincialisms. Trans. Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 40-60.

Ely (Talkoued). An old watch and its maker. Arch. Jour. Hi.
129-138.

Emrlkton (Dennis). The Quigs Baring Pins in Sidgatt, Newcastle,

the Swirle, and the Lort Burn. Arch. Attiana, xvii. 84-90.
Essex County Families. Tram. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S. v. 131-138.

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E'rnERiDGE (R., Jun.). A highly ornate sword from the Coburg
peninsula, North Australia. Jour. Anthrop. lust. xxiv. 427-
430.

Evans (Arthur J.). The rollright stones and their folklore. Folk-
lore, vi. 6-51.

Evans (Sir John). The mint of Gothabyrig. Num. Chron. 3rd S.
xv. 45-50.

Eyre (Most Rev. Archbishop). The ancient seal of the Burgh of

Rutherglen. Trans. Glasgow Arch. Soc. N.S. ii. 247-252.
■ Notes on the old western towers of Glasgow Cathedral.

Trans. Glasgow Arch. Soc. N.S. ii. 253-270.
P. (W. G. D.). Shropshire topographical and genealogical MSS.

preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Trans. Shropshire

Arch. Soc. 2nd S. vii. 79-93.
■ Shropshire topographical and genealogical MSS. in the

William Salt Library at Stafford. Trans. Shropshire Arch. Soc.

2nd S. vii. 94-96.

Fahey (Rev. J., D.D.). The church of St. John Baptist at
Kilmacduagh. Jour. Hoy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 85-86.

Fane (W. Dashwood). The date of the parish church of Melbourne,
Derbyshire. Derbyshire Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii.
82-94.

PElLBERG (IT. F ). Ghostly lights. Folklore, vi. 288-300.

The game of hopscotch as played in Denmark. Folkhtre,

vi. 359-372.

Tommy on the Tub's grave. Folklore, vi. 194-195.

Ferguson (Chancellor R. S.). A grave cover of tiles at Carlisle.

Trans. Cumb. and Westmor. Arch. Soc. xiii. 251-252.
On a tumulus at Old Park?, Kirkoswald, with some

remarks on one at Aspatria, and also on cup, ring and other

markings in Cumberland and Westmorland. Trans. Cumb. and

Westmor. Arch. Soc. xiii. 389-399.

Picture Board dummies. Arch. Jour. lii. 1-24.

On a dumb bell at Knolc. Arch. Jour. lii. 43-46.

Notes on two curious padlocks in the Carlisle Museum.

Arch. Jour. lii. 250-252.
On the Chap-books in the Bibliotheca Jacksoniana in Tullie

House, Carlisle. Arch. Jour. lii. 292-335.
and F. IIaveri iei.d. On a milestone of Oarauoius and

other recent Roman linds. Trans. Cumb. and Westmor. Arch.

Soc. xiii. 437-439.

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INDEX OF ARCMOLOGICAL PAPERS.

Ferguson (Prof. John, LL.D.). Bibliographical notes on historiesof
inventions and books of secrets. Trans. Glasgow Arch. Soc. 2nd
S. ii. 364-404.

Presidential address. Trans. Glasgoiv Arch. Soc. 2nd S. ii.

409-418.

Pprench (Hey. J. F. M.). Notes on a goad-spur found in co. Wicklow.

Jour. Boy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 212-217.
Field (John Edward). The antiquities of Wallingford. Berks Arch.

and Archit. Soc. iii. 90-99, 117-122.
Field (Osgood). John Field of East Ardsley, the proto-copernican

of England. Yorhs. Arch. Jour. xiv. 81-84.
Finch (H. B.). Whitchurch in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Trans.

Shropshire Arch. Soc. 2nd S. vii. 55-78
Fisher (Rev. John). The Welsh Calendar. Trans. Soc. of Cymmrod.

1894-5, 99-145.

FlSHWlOK (Lieut. -Col. H.). Pre-Nornian churches in Lancashire.

Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 154-1G0.
Fitzgerald (Lord Walter). Mullaghmast : its history and traditions.

Jour. Kildare Arch. Soc. i. 379-390.
Fitzgkrald (W.). Killeen Cormac inscribed stone. Jour. Boy. Soc.

Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 380-382.
Fitzgurald-Uniacke (R. G.). The Fitzgeralds of Rostellane, co.

Cork. Jour. Boy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 103-170.
Fletchlr (Rey. W. G. D.). Lady Margaret Bromley. Trans.

Leicest. Archit. and Arch. Soc. iii. 70-73.
Fowler (Rey. H.). Tyttenh anger. Trans. St. Albans Archit. and

Arch. Soc. 1893-94, 30-44.
Fox (G. E.). Excavations on the site of the Roman city at Silchester,

Hants, in 1894. Archaiologla, liv. 439-472.
Foxcroet (E. D.). Notes on Ilinton Charterhouse. Proc. Somerset

Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. xli. 92-98.
Franks (Sir Wollaston). On a late-Celtic bronze collar from

Wraxall, Somerset. Archceologia, liv. 495-490.
Fkaslr (William). A bronze medallion portrait of Oliver Cromwell,

similar to tho bust represented on the Dunbar medal struck by

Thomas Simon by order of the Parliament. Proc. Soc. Antiq.

Scot. xxix. 100-104.
Frazlic (William). Early pavement tiles in Ireland. Jour. Roy. Soc.

Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 171-175.
Loughcrew hills. Jour. Boy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v.

305-310.

INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

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B'razer (William). On cup markings on megalithic monuments due

to echinus livid us. Jour. Boy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 64-71.
On the Irish "St. Patrick" or " fioreat rex" coinage,

subsequently circulated in New Jersey by Mark Newbie ; with

reasons for connecting it with Lord Glamorgan's attempts to levy

troops in Ireland for Charles I. Jour. Hoy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland,

5th S. v. 338-347.
Fkesiieield (Edwin, LL.D.). Some notarial marks in the " Common

Paper " [the register of the members of the company 1390-1628]

of the Scriveners' Company. Archaologia, liv. 239-254.
Fryer (Alfred C). An inscribed stone from Shechem. Clifton

Antiq. Club, iii. 149-150.
Recent discoveries [ecclesiastical pavement] at Bristol.

Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 90-91.
The Igel monument [Roman, Igel on the Moselle]. Jour.

Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 296-298.
G. (E. A ). Arclueology in Greece, 1894-95. Jour. Hell. Stud. xv.

202-210.

Gann (Dr. T.). Notes on the exploration of two mounds in British

Honduras. Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd S. xv. 430-434.
Gardner (Percy). A marble head, perhaps from Sunium. Jour.

Hell Stud. xv. 188-191.

Two sepulchral Lekythi. Jour. Hell. Stud. xv. 325-329.

Gerish (W. B.). A churchyard charm. Folklore, vi. 200.

Norfolk nursery rhyme. Folklore, vi. 202.

Giuseppi (Montague S.). Alien merchants in England in the fifteenth

century. Trans. Boy. Hist. Soc. N.S. ix. 75-98.
Glynne (Sir Stephen, Bart.). Notes on Yorkshire churches. Yorks.

Arch. Jour. xiv. 158-184.
Goddard (Rev. E. H.). Notes on a Roman cross-bow, etc., found at

Southgrove farm, Burbage. Wilts Arch, and Nat. Hist. Mag.

xxviii. 87-90.

Notes on objects from a Saxon interment at Basset Down.

Wilts Arch, and Nat. Hist. Mag. xxviii. 104-108.
Godden (Gertrude M.). The sacred marriage. Folklore, vi. 225-234.
GK) W LAND (VV.). Notes on the dolmens and other antiquities of

Korea. Jour. Anthrop. Inst. xxiv. 310-330.
Gratton (L<\ M.). Notes upon the architecture of China. Jour.

B.l.B.A. 3rd S. ii. 37-59.
Grave (J. W. de). A refugee pasteur at the revocation : Jacob de

Roullignac and his descendants. Proc. Hug. Soc. v. 251-288.

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INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

Grave (J. W. de). Notes on the register of the Walloon church of

Southampton and of the churches of the Channel Islands. Froc.

Hug. Soc. v. 125-178.
Graves (Right Rev. Charles, Bishop of Limerick). On an ogam

inscription lately discovered near Gortatlea, county Kerry.

Jour. lioy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 1-4.
Gray (Arthur)- On the watercourse called Cambridge in relation to

the river Cam and Cambridge Castle. Trans. Camb. Antiq. Soc.

ix. 01-77.

Gray (Rev. Andrew E. P.). The roll of Battle Abbey so far as it

relates to Lancashire and Cheshire. Trans. Hist. Soc. Lane, and

Ches. N.S. x. 1-18.
Green (Robt. F.). The basis and claims of magic. Froc. Lit. and

Fhil. Soc. Liverpool, xlvi. 313-346.
Greenfield (13. W.). Old Stoke Charity, the monumental brasses and

heraldry of the allied families of Hampton and Waller in the

parish church with illustrative pedigrees and descent of the

manor. Froc. Hainp. Field Club, iii. 1-27.
Notes respecting Grove Place, Nursling, and the

manor of Southwells. Froc. llamp. Field Club, iii. 115-

12G.

Gregor (Rev. W., LL.D.). Notes on Beltane cakes. Folklore, vi.
2-5.

Some Scottish folklore of the child and the human body.

Folklore, vi. 394-397!
Griffith (J. Lloyd). Ancient stone-lined graves found at Llanfnethlu

in Anglesey. Arch. Cambrensis, 5th S. xii. 229-232.
Groome (W. Wollaston, M.D.). Suffolk leechcraft. Folklore, vi.

118-127.

Grueber (H. A.). On a hoard of Roman coins found at Silchester.

Archaiulogia, liv. 473-488.
Haggart (D.). Notice of the discovery of enp- and ring-sculpturings

at Duncrosk near the falls of Lockay in Gleulockay. Froc. Soc.

Antiq. Scot. xxix. 92-03.
Haines (H.). Prance and Cromwell. Trans. Foy. Hist. Soc. N.S. v.

147-156.

Hall (Rev. Francis J.). The arrangement of monastic buildings.

Trans. Fast Hiding Antiq. Soc. iii. 09-84.
Hall (Rev. G. Rome). Note on a fragment of a Roman Lorica or

cuirass of bronze scalo armour from the wall turret on Wall town

Crag. Arch. Mtiana, xvi. 411-447.

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Hamp (Arthur). Church Plate in Suffolk. Suff. Inst, of Arch. ix.
1-10.

Harding (John). The belfry formerly standing in the close of Salisbury

and its bells. Wilts Arch, and Nat. Hist. Mag. xxviii. 108-120.
Hardy (Dr. James). On three British cists, one of them containing

an ura, found near Callaly Castle, Northumberland. Proc. Berwick.

Field Club, xiv. 390-391.
On some prehistoric antiquities from the eastern borders.

Proc. Berwick. Field Club, xiv. 391-398.
Harper (Joseph). The Barnstaple parish registers. Trans. Devon.

Assoc. xxvii. 3G2-373.
Harrold (Thomas). Notes on some stained glass formerly in a

window at Sketchley Hall. Trans. Lcicest. Archit. and Arch. Soc.

iii. 78.

Hartopp (Hicnry). Calendar of early Leicestershire wills and
administrations, 1-195 to 1558. Trans. Leicest. Archit. and Arch.
Soc. iii. 79-120.

Haslewood (Rev. Francis). Rectors of Great Waldinglield. Suff.

Inst, of Arch. ix. 9-1-101.
Monumental inscriptions at Great Waldingfield. Suff.

List, of Arch. ix. 102-110.
Little WaMingfield church. Suff. Inst, of Arch. ix.

111-130.

Haverfield (F.). Note on hoards of Roman coins found in Britain
with special reference to the Silch ester hoard. Archaiologia,
liv. 489-494.

Report of the Cumberland excavation Committee, 1894.

Trans. Gumb. and Westmor. Arch. Soc. xiii. 453-409.
The characteristics of Roman Chester. Jour. Archit. Arch.

and Hist. Soc. of Chester and North Wales, v. 353-300.
1 1 awk ICS BURY (Right Hon. Lord). The family of Ottley of Pitch ford.

Trans. Shropshire Arch. Soc. 2nd S. vii. 30 1-380.
IIickson (Miss). Ardfert Friary and the Fitzmauricos, Lords of

Kerry. Jour. Boy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 30-40;

329-337.

Hill (G. F.). Greek Inscriptions from Lycia and Pisidia copied by
Uaniell and Fellows. Jour. Hell. Stud. xv. 100-131.

The coinago of Lycia to the time of Alexander tho Great.

Num. Chron. 3rd S. xv. 1-41.

Hindi: (Capt. W. 11). The Huguenot settlement at the Cape of Good
Hope. Proc. Hug. Soc. v. 205 250.

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INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

Hirst (Joseph H.) The castle of Kingston-upon-Hull. Trans. East
Riding Antiq. Soc. iii. 24-39.

Hobiiouse (Rt. Rev. Bishop). On a map of Mendip. Proc. Somerset
Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. xli. 65-72.

Hodges (Miss E.). Horton Court, Gloucestershire, and its associations.
Clifton Antiq. Club, iii. 50-70.

Hodgson (J. Crawford). A survey of the churches of the Arch-
deaconry of Northumberland, temp. Charles II. Arch. JFliana,
xvii. 244-262.

Chirburn and the Knights Hospitallers in Northumberland.

Arch. JEliana^ xvii. 263-280.
Temple Thornton farm accounts, 1308. Arch. vEliana,

xvii. 40-52.

Amble and Hauxley. Proc. Berwick. Field Club, xiv. 87-

121, 255-290.

Hodgson (Rev. J. F.). The churches of Darlington and Hartlepool,
viewed briefly and in architectural comparison. Arch. jFliana,
xvii. 145-243.

Witton-le-Wear church. Arch. 2Eliana, xvii. 57-83.

Hodgson (T. H.). Bone spear or harpoon head from Terra del Fuego,

found on peat near Crosby-on-Eden. Trans. Cumb. and Westmor.

Arch. Soc. xiii. 402.
Extracts from the records of the Privy Council relating to

Cumberland and Westmorland in the reign of Queen Mary.

Trans. Cumb. and Westmor. Arch. Soc. xiii. 227-250.
Holmes (Richard). The foundation of St. Clements in the castle of

Pontefract. Works. Arch Jour. xiv. 147-157.
Home-Drummond (G.). Pictures at Duns Castle. Proc. Berwick.

Field Club, xiv. 149-155.
Hone (Nathaniel). Berkshire Court rolls. Berks Arch, and Archit.

Soc. iii. 153-157, 173-178.
Early charters and documents relating to the church and

manor of Bisham, Berks. Berks Arch, and Archit. Soc. iii. 104-

108, 122-127.

Letters of the first English Prince of VTales to Berkshire

ecclesiastics. Berks Arch, and Archit. Soc. iii. 203-204.

Hooppell (Rev. R. E., LL.D.). Roman Manchester and the roads
to and from it. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 214-224.

Hopk C). Notes on the minstrels' pillar, St. Mary's

Church, Beverley. Trans. Fast Hiding Antiq. Soc. iii. 67-

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Hope (R. C). Notes on the musical instruments on the labels of the

arches in the nave of Beverley Minster. Trans. Hast Riding
Antiq. Soc. iii. 63-66.
Hope (W. H. St. John). Castleacre priory. Norf. Arch. xii. 105-
157.

■ English municipal heraldry. Arch. Jour. Hi. 173-197.

— On the municipal seals of England and Wales. Proc. Soc.

Antiq. 2nd S. xv. 434-455.
The civic insignia and corporation plate of Kingston-on-

Hull. Trans. East Biding Antiq. Sue. ii. 77-99.
Hopper (Edmund C). Church plate in Suffolk. Suff. Inst, of Arch.

ix. 11-25, 35-56.

Hore (Herbert) and David Macritchie. Origin of the Irish
superstitions regarding Banshees and Fairies. Jour. Roy. Soc.
Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 115-129.

Housman (H.). Exploration of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the
parish of Castleacre, Norfolk. Norf. Arch. xii. 100-104.

Howard (Joseph Jackson) and Mill Stephenson. The visitation of
Surrey made a0 1623 by Samuel Thompson, Windsor Herauld,
and Augustyne Vincent, Ilougcroix. Surrey Arch. Coll. xii.
[211-242].

Hudd (Alfred E.). Bristol coins and tokens. Clifton Antiq. Club,
iii. 108-116.

On some prehistoric remains near Bristol. Clifton Antiq.

Club, iii. 142-148.
Hudson (Rev. W.). Notes about Norwich before the close of the

thirteenth century. Norf. Arch. xii. 25-84.
The assessment of the townships of the county of Norfolk

for the King's tenths and fifteenths as settled in 1334. Norf.

Arch. xii. 243-297.
Huggup (Ralph G.). On a dagger and buckle found with a skeleton

on the Inner Earne island. Prop. Berwick. Field Club, xiv. 398-399.
Hughes (Harold). The architectural history of St. Mary's Church,

Conway. Arch. Cambroisis, 5th S. xii. 161-179.

Vallo Crucis Abbey. Arch. Uambrensis, 5th S. xii. 5-17.

HUGHES (T. M'Kenny). On the camp at Ar.loch in Perthshire.

Arcluvologiu, liv. 267-272.
Hui'TON (0. A.). On two terra cotta figurines. Jour. Hell. Stud. xv.

13-2-135.

Imiioof-Blumer (E.). Griechiscbe miinzen. Num. Chron. 3rd S. xv.
269 289.

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INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

Inuerwick (F. A., Q.C.). Rye under the Commonwealth. Sussex
Arch. Coll. xxxix. 1-15.

■ The Rye engagement. Sussex Arch. Coll. xxxix. 1G-27.

Tkvine (J. T.). Notes relative to some Northamptonshire churches
of Norman age ; all evidently the work of the same master-
mason, one seemingly from France. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S.
i. 309-313.

Irvine (W. Fergusson). The Bishop of Chester's Visitation book,

1592. Jour. Archil. Arch, and Hist. Soc. of Chester and North

Wales, v. 383-42G.
Visitation of Warrington deanery by the Bishop of Chester

in 1592. Trans. Hist. Hoc. Lane, and Chcsh. N.S. x. 183-

192.

J/LCKSON (Canon J. E.). Index to the Wiltshire Institutions as
printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps. Wilts Arch, and Nat. Hist. Mag.
xxviii. 210-235.

Jacob (W. H.). The Roman structures at Westwood Sparsholt. Proc.

Hamp. Field Club, iii. 201-205.
JAMES (Dr. M. R.). On some fragments of fifteenth century painted

glass from the windows of King's College chapel, with notes upon

the painted glass in the side chapels. Proc. Cavil. Antiq. Soc.

ix. 3-12.

On the wall paintings in Willingham church. Trans.

Camb. Antiq. Soc. ix. 9G-101.
Jkvons (E. B.). Work and wages in Athens. Jour. Hell. Stud. xv.

239-247.

J NX Blake (Very 111* v. T. W., D.D.). Tlie battle of Lansdown,
July 5, 1643. Proc. Somerset. Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. xli.
38 !•(>.

Jones (Charles William). Church plate in Suffolk. SujJ'. Inst, of
Arch. ix. 67— 7G.

KaukebK (Paul Q.). A short chapter from the story of Torbay, 1G67.

Trans. Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 226 233.
Ivmi.lv ((jKoiu;i: A. I'.). Objects found on a crannog at ClooneralT,

co. Iloscommon. Jour, lioij. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 180.
Kllly (KiciiAKD J.). Some old Gal way laws. dour. Roy. Soc. Antiq.

Ireitindy Sth S'. v. 382 -381.
and T. J. Wkstropi*. Clare Gal way Priory. Jour. Hoy.

Sue. Antiq. Ireland, 5lh S. v. 287 289.
Keis (Ki:v. WILLIAM Lke). T'ho papingo. Trans. Glasgow Arch. Soc.

2nd S. ii. 32i 339.

INDEX OF ARCILftOLOGICAL PAl'EUS.

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Kekmode (P. M. C). Early inscribed stone found at Santon, Isle

of Man. Arch. Cambrensis, 5th S. xii. 205-206.
Kerry (Rev. Ciias.). A calendar of the fines for the county of

Derby from their commencement in the reign of Richard I.

Derbyshire Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. 95-113.
St. Mod wen and the Devil of Drakelowe. Derbyshire

Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. 49-59.
King (Austin J.). The municipal records of Bath, Froc. Somerset.

Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. xii. -17-52.
King HORN (GEORGE). Notes on the discovery of a deposit of polished

stone axes and oval knives of porphyry, etc., at Modesty,

near Bridge of Walls, Shetland. Froc. Sue. Anliq. Scot. xxix.

48 54.

Knighton (W., LL.D.). The sporting literature of ancient Greece
and Rome. Trans. Hoy. Soc. Lit. 2nd S. xvi. 1-20.

Knowles (W. J.). Third report on the prehistoric remains from the
sandhills of the coast of Ireland. Froc. Hoy. Irish Acad. 3rd S.
iii. 650-663.

Laidlaw (Walter). On the remains of the Roman station at

Cappuck, Roxburgh. Proc. Berwick. Field Club, xiv. 3b2-389.
LanciaNi (Prof, the Commendatore R.). Maps, plans, and views of

the city of Rome, with especial reference to a drawing of the

sixteenth century in the Burlington-Devonshire collection. Jour.

R.LB.A. 3rd S. ii. 645-650.
Lang (A.). The protest of a psycho -f ol kl oris t . Folklore, vi. 236-248.
Lang (James). Notes on a supposed Mithraic cavern at Wouldham

in Kent. Froc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 202-206.
Lang DON (Arthur G.) and Romilly Allen. Catalogue of the early

Christian inscribed monuments in Cornwall. Arch. Oambrensis,

5th S. xii. 50-60.

Lang don (Percy G.). On a palimpsest brass of Bishop White at
Winchester College, and brasses of the White family at South-
wick. Froc. Hamv. Field Club, iii. 79-87.

Lahham (Frank). Camps, earthworks, tumuli, etc., in West Surrey.
Surrey Arch. Coll. xii. 145-150.

Latimer (Rev. W. T.). The old session-book of Templepatrick
Presbyterian Church. Jour. Hoy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v.
130 134.

Law (Alum:). The English Nouveaux-riches in the fourteenth

century. Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc. N.S. ix. 49-73.
Lawlou (Rev. If. J.). Notes on some non-biblical matter in the MS.

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of the four gospels known as the book of Mulling. Proc. Soc.

Antiq. Scot. xxix. 11-45.
Lawrence (L. A.). On a rare penny of King Stephen and its con-
nection with the so-called Henry of Northumberland sterlings.

Num. Citron. 3rd S. xv. 110-116.
Laws (Edward). Discovery of the tombstone of Vortipore, Prince

of Demetia, at Llanfallteg, Carmarthenshire. Arch. Cambrensis,

5th 8. xii. 303-307.
Leach (Arthur). The inmates of Beverley Minster. Trans. East

Riding Antiq. Soc. ii. 100-123.
Leadman (Alex D. H.). Pocklington Church and school. Yorks.

Arch. Jour. xiv. 85-146.
Leighton (Stanley). An inventory taken at Park Hall in 1761 with

a notice of the families of Powell, Charlton and Kinchant. Trans.

Shropshire Arch. Soc. 2nd S. vii. 97-119, 239-240.
Leonard (G. H.). The expulsion of the Jews by Edward I, an

essay in explanation of the Exodus a.d. 1290 Trans. Boy. Hist.

Soc. N.S. v. 103-146.
Le Strange (Hamon). Early mayors of Lynn. Nurf. Arch. xii. 229-

233.

Lewis (A. L.). Prehistoric remains in Cornwall. Jonr. Anthrop.
Tnst. xxv. 2-16.

Lewis (Bunnell). The antiquities of Vienne. Arch. Jour. lii. 139-
157.

Lewis (J. P.). Folklore from North Ceylon. Folklore, vi. 176-
185.

Liebermann (F.). On the tnstituta Cnuti aliorumque regum Anglorum

Turns. Roy. Hist. Soc. N.S. vii. 77-107.
■ The text of Henry I's Coronation Charter. Trans. Roy.

Hist. Soc. N.S. viii. 21-48.
LlTHGOW (R. A. Douglas, M.D.). Anglo-Saxon alliterative poetry a.d.

449 to 1150. Trans. Roy. Soc, Lit. 2nd S. xv. 178-220.
Early-English alliterative poetry. Trans. Roy. Soc, Lit.

2nd S. xvi. 99-134.
The Paradise of Dainty Devices, 1576. Trans. Roy . Soc, Lit.

xvii. 37-78.

Little (A. G.). Educational organisation of the mendicant friars in
England (Dominicans and Franciscans). Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc,
N.S. viii. 49-70.

Llewellyn (R. W.). Oaer-Hen-Eglwys or Cae-ye-Hen-Eglwys.
Arch. Cambrensis, 5th S. xii. 323-325.

INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

27

Lloyd (W. Watkiss). On the central groups of the eastern frieze of the
Parthenon. Trans. Hoy. Soc. Lit. 2nd S. xvi. 73-08.

London", Inquisitiones post mortem for London. Trans. Land, and
Mid. Arch. Soc, 2nd S. i. Appendix 33-208.

LoRING (W.). Four fragmentary inscriptions. Jour. Hell. Stud.
xv. 90-92.

Some ancient routes of the Peloponnese. Jour. Hell. Stud.

xv. 25-89.

Lowe (John, M.D.). Note on a stone cross at Loen, Nord Fjord,

Norway. I'roc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd S. xv. 457.
Lows LEY (B.). Coins and tokens of Ceylon. Num. Chron. 3rd S.

xv. 211-208.

Lumb (G. Denison). The registers of the parish church of Adel in
the county of York from 1606 to 1812. Thoresby Soc. v.
1-231.

Macauster (R. A. S.). Crosses at Kilbrecan, Aran. Jour. Boy. Soc.

Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 379-380.
On some antiquities discovered near Bandyleg Walk,

Cambridge. Trans. Camb. Antiq. Soc. ix. 26-33.
On Killeen Cormac, Kildare. Trans. Camb. Antiq. Soc. ix.

138-147.

Mac Donald (James, LL.D.). Note on the Roman bridge near
Bothwell. Trans. Glasgow Arch. Soc. N.S. ii. 312-323.

Notes on the Roman roads of the one-inch ordnance map of

Scotland. Proc, Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 317-328.

McDonald (R. H.). The hill of Tara. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S.
i. 271-279.

Mackenzie (Rev. J. B.). Notice of the discovery of incised cup- and

ring-sculpturings at Braes of Bulloch near Taymouth Castle.

Froc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 94-95.
Mackinlay (James M.). Notes on shells from the shrine of Santa

Lucia near Figueras in Spain. Trans. Glasgow Arch. Soc. 2nd

S. ii. 428-432.

Traces of the cultus of St. Fillan at Killallan, Renfrew-
shire. Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 251-255.

AT ac lagan (R. C, M.D.). Notes on folklore objects collected in
Aigylesliire. Folklore, vi. 141-161.

Maclean (Siu John). Merchants' marks. Clifton Antiq, Qluby iii. 1-4.

The Clevedon family. JL'roc. Somerset Arch, and Nat, Jfist.

Sue. xli. 1- 37.

MacNeill (John). Three poems in middle-Irish relating to tho

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battle of Mucrama ; with English translation and notes. Proc.

Roy. Irish Acad. 3rd S. iii. 529-5(33.
Macritchie (David). French influence in Scottish speech. Trans.

Glasgow Arch. Soc. 2nd S. ii. 433-440.
Madeley (Charles). On two ancient boats found near Warrington.

Trans. Hist. Soc. Lane, and Chesh. N.S. x. 97-106.
Makinson (C). On some ancient court records of the Borough of

Salford. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 314-326.
Malden (Henry E.). Notes on Anstiobury, Holmbury, and other

early camps in Surrey. Surrey Arch. Coll. xii. 157-162.
Notes on the family of Betoun in connection with some

Royal letters of James VI. Trans. Boy. Hist. Soc. N.S. vii. 21-36.
Malmesburi Abbey from a MS. of 1G34. Wilts Arch, and Nat. Hist.

Mag. xxviii. 167-169.
Manning (Rev. C. R.). Church plate in Suffolk. Svjf. Inst, of Arch.

ix. 57-06.

Medieval patens in Norfolk. Norf. Arch. xii. 85-99.

Marsh (Henry Colley). Somo points of controversy on the Roman

road near Blackstone Edge. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 259-

264.

Martin (A. T.). Caerwent, Monmouthshire. Clifton Antiq. Club,
iii. 41-55.

Some coins from Bristol Harbour. Clifton Antiq. Club, iii.

124r-127.

Martin (W. F.). Notes on the rebuilding of Ringmer Church tower.

Sussex Arch. Coll. xxxix. 197-200.
Martindale (J. II.). Toast dogs, frying pans and peats. Trans.

Curnb. and Westmor. Arch. Soc. xiii. 41 5—1-19.
Menzies (D. P.). Note on the Bannockburn bagpipes of Menzies.

Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 231-234.
Michell- Whitley (H.). Recent finds of pottery in the Eastbourne

district. Sussex Arch. Coll. xxxix. 94-96.
Mickletuwaite (J. T.). On the present state of the royal tombs in

W( stminster Abbey church. Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd S. xv. 412-419.
Miller (Peter). Additional notes respecting the identification of the

site of Bede's Guidi. Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. ^xix. 55-58.
Minns (Rev. G. W.). On a portrait of Lady Betty Delme, by Sir

Joshua Reynolds at Cams Hall, Pareham, with notes on the

family of Delme. Proc. Hamjp. Field Club, iii. 99-113.
Money (Walter). A walk to Shirburn Castle. Jour. Brit. Arch.

Assoc. N.S. i. 285-295.

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Money (Walter). Note on a Roman inscription at Shirburn Castle,

Oxon. Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd S. xv. 456.
Montagu (H.). Further notes concerning Bishop de Bury and the

Durham coinage. Num. Chron. 3rd S. xv. 290-300.
The coinage of Edward V. Num. Chron. 3rd S. xv.

117-134.

Unpublished gold coins of Elizabeth. Num. Chron. 3rd S.

xv. 165-166.

Montague (Leopold A. D.). The meaning of the monogram on
denarii struck by Ca;sius and Manius Fonteius. Num. Chron.
3rd S. xv. 102-163.

MONTGOMERYSHIRE RECORDS : Enrolment of Exchequer Pleas. Mont-
gomeryshire Coll. xxix. 28-56.

Moore (Joseph II.). Notes on the history of Navan. Jour. Roy.
Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 155-162.

Moore (Temple). St. German's, Winestead. Trans. East Riding
Antiq. Soc. iii. 85-91.

Morrison (Ri<:v. James). Note on the discovery of an incised symbol-
bearing slab at Easterton of Roseisle, Elginshire. Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot. xxix. 449-453.

Mortimer (J. R.). The opening of a barrow near Sledmere. Trans.
East Riding Antiq. Soc. ii. 18-23.

• The opening of six mounds at Scorborough near Beverley.

Trans. East Riding Antiq. Soc. iii. 21-23.

The grouping of barrows and its bearing on the religious

belief of the ancient Britons. Trans. East Riding Antiq. Soc. iii.
53-62.

• The origin of some lines of small pits on Allerston and

Ebberston moors, near Scamridge dykes in the neighbourhood

of Scarborough. Arch. Jour. Iii. 266-270.
Mo wat (Major R.). The names of the Emperor Carausius as

revealed by the Carlisle Roman milestone. Arch. JEliana, xvii.

281.

Murphy (Rev. Denis, LL.D.). The De Verdons of Louth. Jour.

Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 317-328.
Murray (A. S., LL.D.). An Athenian Lekythos. Jour. Hell. StmL

xv. 192-193.

. Tho mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Trans. Glasgow Arch.

Soc. N.S. ii. 287-301.
Myddelton Deeps, at Chirk Castle. Montgomeryshire Coll. xxix.

57^7.

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Nappeu (H. F.). Towncreep; is it Mercredsburn. Sussex Arch. Cull.
xxxix. 168-174.

Neilson (George). Caudatus Anglicus ; a mediaeval slander. Trans.

Glasgow Arch. Soc. 2nd S. ii. 441-477.
Repentance tower [Trailbrow Hill, Annandale] and its

tradition. Trans. Glasgow Arch. Soc. 2nd S. ii. 340-363.
Nevins (J. B., M.D.). Picture of mediaeval Europe during the

thirteenth century. Pruc. Lit. and Phil. Sue. Liverpool, xlix.

1-53.

Picture of Wales during the Tudor period. Froc. Lit.

and Phil. Soc. Liverpool, xlvii. 83-165.
Newton (John). Morals and manners, 1740-1840; a century of

English life. Proc. Int. and Phil. Sue. Liverpool , xlvi. 263-311.
■ Recent discoveries as to the origin and early history of the

human race contrasted with the old ideas. Pruc. Lit. and Phil.

Soc. Liverpool, xlviii. 135-150.
Nicholson (John). The stocks in East Yorkshire. Trans. East

Riding Antiq. Soc. iii. 40-52.
Nicholson (J. Holme). Note on the inscribed door-head at Crake-
place Hall in the county of Cumberland. Trans. Gumb. and

Westmor. Arch. Soc. xiii. 431-432.
Nielsen (M.). Tommy on the Tub's grave. Folklore, vi. 195-196.
Nisbett (Norman C. H.). Notes on the roof of the Pilgrims' Hall,

Winchester. Proc. JIamp. Field Club, iii. 71-77.
• Wolvesey Castle in the twelfth century. Proc. Hamp.

Field Club, iii. 207-224.
Norcliffe (Rev. C. B.). Paver's marriage licenses. Yorhs. Arch.

Jour. xiv. 220-238.
Northumberland Excavation Committee, Report of the. Arch.

sKliaua, xvii. pp. xxii-xx.'iii.
OfFOltD (J., Jun.). Recent discoveries in classical literature. Trans.

Poy. Soc. Lit. 2nd S. xvi. 21-72.
Recent discoveries in patristic literature. Trans. Roy. Soc.

Lit. 2nd S. xvi. 192-252.
The fictions and fables of ancient Egyptian literature and

their survivals in other primitive folklore. Trans. Roy. Soc.

Lit. 2nd S. xv. 1-47.
Olden (Rev. Tuomas). The oratory of Gall'erus [at Kilmalkedar,

Kerry], Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. 3rd S. iii. 564-569.
■ — — Irish Kingdom of Dublin. Jour. Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland,

5th S. v. 179-180.

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Oldfikld (Edmund). The mausoleum, at Halicarnassus ; a new

restoration. Archceulogia, liv. 273-362.
Oman (C. W. C.) Some notes on the 1"Io\<tc/« tu>i/ WOtjvaiuju. Trans.

Roy. Hist. Soc. N.S. vi. 125-143.
Tlie Tlidors and the currency 1526-1560. Trans. Roy.

Hist. Soc. N.S. ix. 167-188.
O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.). On a Pandean pipe from Tanna island,

New Hebrides. Proc. Hoy. Irish Acad. 3rd S. iii. 511-515.
On the orientation of certain dolmens recently discovered in

Catalonia. Proc. Hoy. Irish Acad. 3rd S. iii. 573-579.
Owen (Rev! Elias). Montgomeryshire folklore. Montgomeryshire

Coll. xxix. 68-74.

Oli'a's dyke. Monty ornery sltire Coll. xxix. 93-111.

Owen (Henry). The Flemings in Pembrokeshire. Arch. Cambrensis,

5th S. xii. 96-106.
Owen (Rohert). Place-names of Newtown and ^neighbourhood.

Montgomeryshire Coll. xxix. 75-92.
Owen (Rev. T. H.). Valle Crueis Abbey. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc.

N.S. i. 299-302.

Packe (A. E.). The coinage as affected by the administration of

Henry II. Num. Chrun. 3rd S. xv. 51-58.
The performance of an agreement to pay money in 1464.

Num. Chron. 3rd S. xv. 164-165.
Page (W.). Notes on theremaius of Verulamium. Trans. St. Albans

Arch it. and Arch. Soc. 1893-91, 49-66.
The Marian Survey of St. Albans. Trans. St. Albans

Archit. and Arch. Soc. 1893-94, 8-24.
Palmer (F. Danijy). Eccles by the sea. Norf. Arch. xii. 304-310.
Palmer (J. Foster). Development of the tine arts under the

Puritans. Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc, N.S. v. 205-228.
Paton (W. R.). St. John's eve in the Greek islands. Folklore, vi.

94, 199.

Superstitions in the canons. Folklore, vi. 91-92.

Peauson (Rev. J. B.). On the Cambridgeshire subsidies. Trans.

Camb. Antiq. Soc. ix. 120-137.
Penrose (F. C). On some traces connected with the original entrance

of the Acropolis of Athens. Jour. Hell. Stud. xv. 248-250.
Pkuceval (J. J.) and Rev. J. F. H. Ffrench. Cinerary urn found

near Wexford. Jour. Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 384-385.
Pekcy (The Earl). The ancient farms of Northumberland. Arch.

J'jliana, xvii. 1 -39.

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INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

Pflugk-Harttung (Prof. Julius Von). The Druids of Ireland.

Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc. N.S. vii. 55-75.
The Old-Irish on the Continent. Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc.

N.S. v. 75-102.

Piiear (Sir J. B.). Recent repairs to the castle at Exeter. Trans.

Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 137-143.
Phkne" (J. S., LL.D). King Arthur and St. George: the Scottish

archives, the Welsh archives, the Armorican archives, the Saxon

archives, the Hindu archives. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lit. xvii. 147-196.
The early occupants in the vicinity of the Mersey,

Morecambe Bay and Manchester. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S.

i. 1-10.

Researches and excavations in Argolis, Phocis, Bceotia,

and other parts of Greece. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i.
327-346.

Phillips (Rev. J.). The plague at Haverfordwest, 1651-2. Arch.

Cambrensis, 5th S. xii. 81-95.
Phillips (Maberley). Pedigree and genealogical memoranda relating

to the family of Pellatt of Steyning, Bignor, Bolney, Ardingly,

Lewes, and Staplefield, co. Sussex ; Bletehingly and Croydon, co.

Surrey; and Staines, co. Middlesex. Sussex Arch. Coll. xxxix.

55-93.

The old bank (Bell, Cookson, Carr and Airey), Newcastle-

on-Tyne. Arch. JEliana, xvi. 452-470.

Phillips (William). The Ottley papers relating to the Civil War.
Trans. Shropshire Arch. Soc. 2nd S. vii. 239-360.

PONTING (C. E.). Notes on churches in the neighbourhood of Marl-
borough. ]VUh Arch, and Nut. Hist. Mag. xxviii. 120-146.

Powell (E.), An account of the proceedings in Sutfblk during the
peasants' rising in 1 381. Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc. N.S. viii. 203-
249.

Powell (Rev. Edward). Alabaster carved panels at Lydiate : the
legend of St. Katherine. Trans. Hist. Soc. Lane, and Ghesh. N.S.
x. 157-174.

Powell (John U.). A sketch of the history of Hill Deverill. Wilts

Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. xxviii. 235-252.
Price (F. G. Hilton). Notes upon two Egyptian portrait mummy

coverings or shrouds belonging to the first century A.D. Arcluv.o-

logia, liv. 363-368.
The signs of old Fleet Street to the end of the eighteenth

century. Arch. Jour. Hi. 34S-391.

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Prince (G. Leeson). A rent roll of his Grace the Duke of Dorset of
.several Sussex manors for the years 1718-20. Sussex Arch. Coll.
xxx ix. 134—153.

Pritchard (Jonx E.). Notes on a find of Roman coins near Cadbury

camp, Tickenham, Somerset. Clifton Antiq. Club, iii. 117-121.

• Tilly's Court House, Bristol. Clifton Antiq. Club, iii. 71-78.

PrOWSE (AurifUR B.). Index to personal names in Westcote's View

of Devonshire in 1G30, and his Devonshire pedigrees, edition of

1845. Trans. Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 443-485.
Quick (Richard). Notes on a bedwarmer. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc.

N.S. i. 93-94.

Radford (Mrs. G. H.). Sydenham [House in the parish of

Maristow*]. Trans. Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 358-361.
Raven (Rev. John James, D.D.). Remarks on the history of

education in East Anglia. Suff. List, of Arch. ix. 77-84.
ReaD (C. H.). On excavations in a cemetery of South Saxons on

High Down, Sussex. Archcvologia, liv. 3G9-382.
On an ancient Mexican headpiece coated with mosaic.

Archcvologia, liv. 383-398.
On a late-Celtic dagger sheath found in Oxfordshire.

Archceologia, liv. 497-498.
Reichel (Rev. Oswald J.). The Devonshire Domesday and the

Geld roll. Trans. Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 165-198.
Hulham manor, a sketch historical and economic. Trans.

Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 404-436.
Reid (Herbert J.). Notes upon passages in the life of Mary Stuart

during her captivity in England 1569-1571. Trans. Hoy. Soc.

Lit xvii. 197-218.
Rendall (Principal). Prehistoric Greece; the age of Mycenss.

Proc. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of Liverpool, xlix. 299-316.
Rhys (Prof. J.). The Goidels in Wales. Arch. Cambrensis, 5th S.

xii. 18-39.

Epigraphic notes. Arch. Cambrensis, 5th S. xii. ISO- 190.

Goidelic words in Brythonic. Arch. Cambrensis, 5th S. xii.

264-302.

Notes on the inscriptions on the tombstone of Voteporis,

Prince of Demetia. Arch. Cambrensis, 5th S. xii. 307-313.

— Notes on the hunting of Twrch Trwyth. Trans. Soc. of

Cymmrod. 1894-5, 1-34, 146-148.

Notes of an ogam hunt in the north of Ireland. .tour.

Hoy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 101-105.

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INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

Rice (R. Gakraway). Notes on Huntington Shaw, blacksmith, his
reputed work, his tomb formerly at Hampton, Middlesex, and
ironwork from the railing of the same. Arch. Jour. Hi.
158-172.

Ridgevvay (William). How far eould the Greeks determine the
fineness of gold and silver coins. Nam. Chron. 3rd S. xv.
101-109.

Roueetson (R.), G. P. Black and John Struthees, M.D. Notice of
the discovery of a stone cist and urns at the Cuninghar,
Tillicoultry; with notes on the contents and the sculptured
covering stone of the cist ; and on the microscopical examination
of the fibrous of hairy substance found in the cist. Froc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot. xxix. 190-197.

Robinson (Arthur Muschaml-). A pair of gold mate stands. Trans.
Hist. Soc. Lane, and Ghesh. N.S. x. 180-182.

Roper (William Oliver). On the value of archaeology in legal
matters. Trans. Hist. Soc. Lane, and Chesh. N.S. x. 57-70.

Cartmel Church. Trans. Cumb. and Westmor. Arch. Soc.

xiii. 293-298.

Rotheiuiam (E. Crofton). On the excavation of a cairn on Slieve-
na-Caillighe. Jour. Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 311-
310.

Round (J. Horace). Colchester Grammar School admissions. Trans.

Essex Arch. Soc. N.S. v. 39*-58*.
■ The abbeys of Coggeshall and Stratford Langthorne.

Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S. v. 139-143.
. The case of Lucas and Lisle. Trans. Hoy. Hist. Soc. N.S.

viii. 157-180.

House (W. H. 1).)- Clothed images. Folklore, vi. 92.

Notes from Syria. Folklore, vi. 172-175.

Rumuold (Sir HORACE). Notes on the history of the family of

Rumbold in the seventeenth century. Trans. Hoy. Hist. Soc.

N.S. vi. 145-105.

Russell (W, 11.). The laws of the Mercers' Company of Lichfield.

Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc. N.S. vii. 109-125.
Russell-Forbes (S., Ph.D.). The doors of the church of Santa

Sabina in Rome. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 251-258.
RUHSiSLL (Miss). The Gaelic element in the spoken language of

South of Scotland. Froc. Berwick. Field Club, xiv. 1(51-171.
Former lines of roads about Ashiesteel. Froc. Berwick. Field

Club, xiv. 328-333.

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Russkli, (Miss). Some traditions about Traquair. Pruc. Berwick.

Fidd Club, xiv. 333-335.
Russell (Lady). Swallowfield and its owners. Berks Arch, and

Arckit. Hoc iii. 92-95, 112-117, 144-148, 162-167, 186-194.
Savage (.Rev. H. B.). Easington church. Arch. jEliana, xvii. 287-

306.

Schunck (Edward). Notes on some ancient dyes. Pruc. Manchester

Lit. an, I Phil. Soc. 4th S. v. 158-161.
Schuster (A rthur). On somo rom'arkable passages in the writings

of Benjamin Franklin. Proc. Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc.

4th S. ix. 152-164.
Seccombe (J. T., M.D.). The church of Terrington St. Clement.

Norf. Arch. xii. 1-12.
Sephton (Rev. J.). The religion of the Eddas and. Sagas. Proc. Lit.

and Phil. Soc. Liverpool, xlvi. 107-126.
A translation of the saga of Frithiof the Fearless. Proc.

Lit. and Phil. Soc. Liverpool, xlviii. 69-97.
Shaw (W. A.). The monetary movements of 1600-1621 in Holland

and Germany. Trans. Hoy. Hist. Soc. N.S. ix. 189-213.
SHERATON (Harry); Reminiscences of visits to Segontium. Jour.

Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. vol. i. 21-24.
Shoijm (T. W.). Prehistoric races and their remains in the old Clere

country of Hampshire. I'roc. Ildmp. Field Club, iii. 171-182.
Kingsclere and its ancient ty things. Proc. Ilamp. Field

(Hub, iii. 183-199.
Simpson (H. F. Mo r land). Notes on a Swedish staff calendar

presented to the museum by the Hon. John Abercrombie, dated

1710. Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 234-240.
Simpson (W.). Notes upon the smaller "Treasuries" at Myceum.

Jour. JLI.B.A. 3rd S. ii. 611-620.
Simpson (Rev. W. Sparrow, D.D.). On the head of Simon of

Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, a relic preserved in the

church of St. Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk. Jour. Brit, Arch. Assoc.

N.S. i. 126-147.

Sinclair (Lord). List of paintings at Nisbct House, Berwickshire.

Proc. Berwick. Field Club, xiv. 147-149.
Six (J. P.). Monuaies Greeques, inedites efc incertaines. Num.

Chrou. 3rd S. xv. 169-210.
SKA IMC (llOlHJRt H.). Domesday book, for Yorkshire. Yorks. Arch.

Jour. xiv. 1-64.

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Skelton (A. H.) and Rev. G. W. Minns. The priory of St. Denys.

Proc. Ramp. Field Club, iii. 155-169.
Smith (Cecil). A vase in form of a bust of Athena?. Jour. Hell.

Stud. xv. 184-187.
Smith (W. M'Comhie). Recent antiquarian research in Glenshee.

Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 96-99.
South esk (Earl of). An ogam inscription at Abernethy, 1895.

Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 244-251.
Si'URRELL (F. C. J.). Notes on Egyptian colours. Arch. Jour. Hi.

222-239.

Standing (Rev. J. H.). Some bypaths of the great civil war in

Lancashire. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 25-34.
Stavert (W. J.). Notes on the pedigree of the Cravens of Apple-

treewick. Yorks. Arch. Jour. xiv. 244-245.
Stephenson (Mill). Monumental brasses in Shropshire. Arch.

Jour. Iii. 47-103 ; Trans. Shropshire Arch. Soc. 2nd S. vii. 381-442.
Stephenson (W.). Beverley in the olden times. Arch. Jour. Hi.

271-279.

Stokes (Rev. Charles Albert). Great Waldingfield Church. Suff.

Inst, of Arch. ix. 90-93.
Stokes (Rev. G. T., D.D.). The antiquities from Kingstown to Dublin.

Jour. Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 5-15.
Street (A. E.). Some observations on the notes of foreign travel

left by Mr. Wolfe, Sir Charles Barry, and others. Jour. Jl.I.B.A.

3rd S. ii. 73-76.

Sweny (Lieut. Mark, R.N.). Historical sketch of the sea approaches to

thei Mersey. Proc. Lit. and Phil. Soc. Liverpool, xlix. 87-103.
Sykes (John, M.D.). Extracts from the registers of the Church of

Holy Trinity, Hull. York*. Arch. Jour. xiv. 185-219.
Taliujt (C. H.). The gravestone of Albert de Chaz. Wilts Arch.

and Nat. Hist. Mag. xxviii. 146-149.
Tatiiam (Rev. Edward H. R.). Traces of an old road near Towncreep.

Sussex Arch. Coll. xxxix. 164-167.
Tayler (Constance). A Ross-shire betrothal custom. Folklore, vi. 94.
Taylor (Rev. C. S.). A leaso of the master or warden of St.

Lawrence Leper Hospital without Lawford's Gate, Bristol.

Clifton Antiq. Club, iii. 25-34.
On the date of the earliest charter of Bristol. Clifton Antiq.

Club, iii. 151-161.
Taylor (Rev. C. H.). An enquiry as to the genuineness of the parish

accounts of Milton Abbott for thb year 1588, as given in the

INDEX OF AUG If yEO LOGICAL PAPERS.

37

Monthly Magazine or British Register for the year 1810. Trans.

Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 199-212.
Taylor (Henry). The history of Diserth Castle. Jour. Archit. Arch.

and Hist. Soc. of Chester and North Wales, v. 380-383.
■ A transcript of old Chester deeds. Jour. Archit. Arch, and

Hist. Soc. of Chester and North Wales, v. 427-432.
Lydiate Hall near Ormskirk, Laneashire. Trans. Hist. Soc.

Lane, and Chesh. N.S. x. 107-122.
Taylor (Isaac, Rev. Canon). Notes on the Domesday book for York-

shire. Yorlcs. Arch. Jour. xiv. 242-243.
Taylor (Susette M.). Indian folktales. Folklore, vi. 399-406.
Thomas (Archdeacon). Rodney's pillar. Montgomeryshire Coll. xxix.

112-132.

Thomas (T. H.). Archaic oyster shell lamps in Gower. Arch.

Cambrensis, 5th S. xii. 322-323.
Thompson (Edward Maunde, C.B.). On a Latin deed of sale of a slave,

24 May, a.d. 166. Archceologia, liv. 433-438.
Thompson (G. H.). Notes on urn and flint spear-head found at

Amble. Proc. Berwick. Field Club, xiv. 121-122.
Thursuy-Pelham (Rev. A.). The Berrington love feast. Trans.

Shropshire Arch. Soc. 2nd S. vii. 203-206.
Todt (Prof. T. P.). The Earldoms under Edward 1st. Trans. Boy.

Hist. Soc. N.S. viii. 129-155.
Turner (Prof. Sir William). On human and animal remains found

in caves at Oban, Argyllshire. Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. xxix. 410-

438.

Tylor (Edward 13.). On the occurrence of ground stone implements
of Australian typo in Tasmania. Jour. Authrop. Inst. xxiv. 335-
340.

Vane (Hon. and Rev. Gilbert H. P.). Parish of High Ercall,
Church wardens' accounts. Trans. Shrojishire Arch. Soc. 2nd S.
vii. 235-238.

Vaughan-Williams (Sir R. L.). The ancient church in Wales.

Traill Soc. of Cymmrod. 1893-4, 1-20.
Vigors (Col. P. I).). Keteller stone, Kilkenny. Jour. Boy. Soc.

Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 79-81.
On an ancient ecclesiastical brass seal of the diocese of

Leighlin. Jour. Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 82-84.
'- Outline sketch of crannogs with some notes on a crannog

recently discovered in co. Kildare. Jour. Kildare Arch. Soc. i.

391 402.

38

INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

W. (T. J.). The cow legend of Corofin, co. Clare. Jour. Roy. Soc.

Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 227-229.
Wagner (Henry). A pedigree of the descendants of John Waugb,

D.D., Bishop of Carlisle, showing their connection with the

family of Tullie of Carlisle. Trims. Cumh. and Westmor. Arch.

Hoc. xiii. 440-448.
Wakeman (W. F.). On a recently discovered pagan sepulchral

mound in the grounds of old Connaught, co. Dublin. Jour.

Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 106-114.
Roscam round tower near Gal way. Jour. Roy. Soc. Antiq.

Ireland, 5th S. v. 284-280.
Waller (J. G.). On the roof of the church of St. Andrew,

Mildenhall, Suffolk. Archa'ologia, liv. 255-2GG.
Waller (William Chapman), Essex field names. Trans. Essex

Arch. Soc. N.S. v. 144-181.
Ward (John). Deepdale cave, near Buxton. Derbyshire Arch, and

Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. 60-81.
Account of some barrows recently opened in the vicinity

of Buxton, Derbyshire. Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd S. xv. 419-

429.

Ware (Mrs. Henry). On some additional seals of the Bishops of
Carlisle. Trans. Cumh. and Westmor. Arch. Soc. xiii. 400-401.

Warren (Robert Hall). The ecclesiastical seals of Bristol. Clifton
Antiq. Club, iii. 5-15.

On some eucaustic tiles recently found in Bristol. Clifton

Antiq. Club, iii. 05-98.

Watkixs (Rev. John). On the history of Willingham Church. Proc.
Camh. Antiq. Soc. ix. 12-20.

Watson (Ceori;e). The Hutton clligies now in Great Salkeld church-
yard, formerly in Penrith church. Trans. Cumh. and Westmor.
Arch. Soc. xiii. 420-430.

Waiters (T.). Some Corean customs and notions. Folklore, vi. 82-
84.

Wedk (E. T)oran). Notes on Aldbourne Church. Wilts Arch, and

Nat. Hist. Mag. xxviii. 150 -1 (JO.
Weber (Ji\ Park us). Additional remarks on a portrait medal of

Paracelsus dated 1541. Num. Chron. 3rd S. xv. 154-160.

Medals of Centenarians. Num. Chron. 3rd S. xv. 301-315.

Wells (Lionel). A sketch of the history of the canal and river

navigations of England and Wales, and of their present

condition. Proc. Manrh. Lit. and Phil. Soc. 4th S. viii. 187-204,

INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

39

Westroit (T. J.). Aran Islands. Jour. Roy. Sue. Antiq. Ireland, 5th
S. v. 250 274.

Barony of Barren, co. Clare. Jour. Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland,

5th S. v. 278-284.
Athenry. Jour. Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, 5th S. v. 297-

302.

Enilis Abbey and the O'Brien tombs. Jour. Roy. Soc. Antiq.

Ireland, 5th S. v. 135-154, 231.
Wkyman ( J 1 ks uy T.). The Members of Parliament for Ludlow.

Trans. Shropshire Arch. Soc. 2nd S. vii. 1-54.
Whale (Rev. T. W.). Manors in Bratton Clovelly. Trans. Devon.

Assoc. xxvii. 144-164.
WmTiilftiAD (Rev. II.). Church bells in Leath ward. Trans. Gumb.

and Westmor. Arch, Soc. xiii. 310-342.
Williams (Rev. A. A.). Colton Church. Trans. Gumb. and Westmor.

Arch. Soc. xiii. 433-436.
Williams (F. H.). Orypte Court, Watergate Street, Chester. Jour.

Brit. Arch, Assoc. N.S. i. 303-308.
Deva : on some traces of a building discovered west of the

forum, Chester, 1894. Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 69-80.
Williams (Rev. Prof. Hugh). Some aspects of the Christian Church

in Wales during the fifth and sixth centuries. Trans. Soc. of

Cymmrod. 1893-4, 55-132.
Williams (Stephen W.). Notes upon some bronze and stone-
weapons discovered in Wales. Arch. Gamlrensis, 5th S. xii.

241-249.

The Cistercian abbey of Cwmhir, Radnorshire. Trans. Soc.

of Cymmrod. 1894-5, 61-98.
- Tiles found during the restoration of Bangor Cathedral.

Arch. Gamlrensis, 5th S. xii. 107-111.
Notes upon some sepulchral slabs and monumental effigies

in Wales. Arch. Cambrensis, xii. 112-133.
Willis-Bund (J. W.). Welsh saints. Trans. Soc. of Cymmrod.

1893-4,21-54.

Wilson (Rev. James). The victims of the Tudor disestablishment in

Cumberland and Westmorland during the reigns of Edward VI.

and Mary. Trans. Gumb. and Westmor. Arch. Soc. xiii. 364-388.
Wilton (Rev. Canon). Historic Londesborougli. Trans. East

Hiding Antiq. Soc. iii. 1-12.
WlNNINU (John G.). Notice of a cist containing an urn found near

Eckford. Proc. Berwick. Field Club, xiv. 123-124.

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INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAPERS.

Witch burning at Clonmel. Folklore, vi. 373-384.
Wood (James). Verter wells.- Proc. Berwick. Field Club, xiv. 325-
326.

Woodman (W.). Documents : Berwick-on-Tweed and Morpeth.

Proc, Berwick. Field Club, xiv. 177-188.
Reminiscences and desultory notes of Morpeth social

customs now obsolete. Proc. Berwick. Field Club, xiv.

125-138.

Woods (Cecil C). The goldsmiths of Cork. Jour. Roy. Soc. Antiq.

Ireland, 5th S. v. 218-223.
Worth (R. N.). Domesday identifications : the Hundreds. Trans.

Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 374-403.
Okehampton beginnings. Trans. Devon. Assoc. xxvii.

93-112.

Okehampton Castle. Trans. Devon. Assoc. xxvii. 124- 136.

The stone rows of Dartmoor. Trans. Devon. Assoc. xxvii.

437-442.

Wroth (Warwick). Greek coins acquired by the British Museum in

1894. Num. Chron, 3rd S. xv. 89-103.
Wyon (Allan). Seals of the Bishops of Winchester. Jour. Brit.

Arch. Assoc. N.S. i. 101-125.
York (Archbishop of). Inaugural address to the annual meeting

held at Scarborough. Arch. Jour. Hi. 283-291.

41

INDEX.

Aberncthy : Southcsk.

Accounts : Edleston, Taylor, Fane.

Aldbourne : Webb.

Alfred (King of North unibria) :

Cooper.

Amble: Hodgson, Thompson.

Anglesey : Griffith.

Annandalc : Neilson.

Aran islands: Bagnall-OaTceley, Cooke,

Macalister, Westropp.
Architectural antiquities : Street.
China's O rat ton.

Domestic : Brakspear, Nisbett, Rad-
ford.
Norman : Brock.
Pre-conquest : Brown.
A rdoch : Hughes.

Arms and Armour: Dillon. Etheridge,

Hall, Hnggvp, Read, Thompson.
Art : Palmer.

Carving : Powell.

Paintings : Baillie-Hamilton, Ilome-
Drummond, James, Sinclair.

Pavements : Frazer.

Portraits ■ Frazer.

Stained Glass : Harrold, James.
Assyrian antiquities : Budge.
Atbenry : Westropp.

Pangor : Williams.

Barnstaple : Harper.

Barren (Co. Clare) : Westropp.

Harrows: Conder, Mortimer, Wakeman,

Ward, Winning.
Basset Down: Goddard.
Pat b : Church, Kim/.
Patties : Jex- Blake, MacNeill.
Pells (Church) : Harding, Whitehead.
Perkshire: Berkshire, Hone. See

" Bisham," " Swallowfield," "Wal-

lingford."
Perrington : Thursby-Pelham.
Berwick : Woodman.
Beverley : Bihon, Hope, Leach,

Stephenson .

Bewcastle : Charlton.
Bexhill : Dawson.

Bibliograpby (Pooksand MSS.) : Bowes,

Ferguson, Lawlor, Lithgow.
Birkenhead : Cox.
Bisham : Hone.
Bitterne : Darwin.

Plackstone Edge : Marsh.
Poats : Dawson, Madeleu.
Botbwell : MacDonald. '
Brat ton Clovelly : Whale.
Brettenbam : Betham.
Bridges: Atkinson.

Brist6l : Barker, Bramble, Ellis, Fryer,
Undid, Martin, Pr it chard, Taylor,
Warren.

Bronze period : Barker, Darwin, Day,

Franks, Williams.
Burbage: (Joddard.
Buxton : Ward.

Caer-Hen-Eglwys : Llewellyn.
Caerwcnt : Martin.
Caldecot castle : Cobb.
Calendar : Fisher.

Cambridge : Gray, James, Macal ister.
Cambridgesbire : Atkinson, Pearson.

See " Cambridge," " Westley

"Waterless," " Willingham."
Canterbury : Brock.
Canute {temp.) : Liebermann.
Cape of Good Hope : Hinde.
Cappuck : Laid! aw.
Curlisle : Ferguson.
Carnmrthonshire : Laws.
Cartbago: Carl.
Cartmel : Roper.
Castlcacre : Hope, Housman.
Castledermot : Comerford.
Castle Kising : Beloe.
Castles : Beloe. Bogle, Cobb, Cox, Gray,

Hirst, Money, Nisbett, Phear,

'Taylor, Worth.
Caucasus : Abercrombi/.
Caves : Anderson, Turner, Ward.

42

INDEX.

Celtic or British period : Andrew,
Arnold.

Chailes I. (temp.) : Frazer, Phillips,
Round, Stunning.

Cheshire, Axon, Cox, Gray, Irvine.
See "Birkenhead," "Chester."

Chester : Haverfield, Taylor, Williams.

China : (} ration.

Chirbum : Hodgson.

Christian (early) : Bagnall-Oakeley,
Lang don.

Church and State : Birchall.

Churches: Andre, Armstrong, Anden,
Bates, liax, Bensley, Bilson, Birch,
Bradley, Cave-Browne, Cox, Cul-
ten, Deans, Eyre, Fahey, Fane, Fish-
wick, Glynne, Hodgson, Holmes,
Hone, Hope, Hughes, Irvine,
James, Kelly, Leadman, Malmes-
bury, Martin, Micklethwaite,
Pouting, Roper, Round, Pussell-
Forbes, Savage, Seccombe, Stokes,
Waller, Watkins, Webb, Wil-
liams.

Church bells : See " bells."

Church plate : Atkinson, Betham,
Cooper, Hamp, Hopper, Jones,
Manning.

Colchester: Pound.

Colton : Williams.

Cohnaught (Old) : Wakeman.

Conway : Hughes.

Cork : 'Woods.

Corn supply : Arnold.

Cornwall : Langdon, Lewis.

Crakeplace Hall: Nicholson.

Crunnogs : Felly, lrigors.

Cromwell (Oliver) : Eraser, Haines.

Crosses : Lowe, Macal inter.

Cumberland: Colling wood, Ferguson,
Haverjield, Hodgson, Whitehead,
M'ilson. See. " Bewcastle," "Car-
lisle," " Crakeplace."

Cup and ring markings : Coles, Fer-
guson, Frazer, Haggarl, Macken-
► 'Sjj"»-i«'/e.

Cwnihir: Williams.

Darlington: Hodgson.

Dartmoor: Collier, Dartmoor, Worth.

Derbyshire: Carrington, Kerry. See
" Buxton," " Melbourne."

Devonshire: Amery, Brvshjield, El-
worthy, I'rowse, Peichel, Worth.
See " Barnstaple/' " Bratton Clo-
vclly," " Dartmoor," " Exeter,"
"llnlham," " Maristow," " Milton

A b b o t," " Okehampto n,'"

" Torbay."
Dialect : Fl worthy, Macritchie, Rhys,

Pus.sell.
Diserth : Cox, Taylor.
Dolmens: Gowland, O'Reilly.
Domesday : Domesday, Peichel, Skaifey

Taylor, Worth. '
Domestic: antiquities: Dttgan, E, Fly,

Ferguson, Ffrench, Mart indale,

Quick, Robinson.
Driffield : Cole.
Dripole : Bl ash ill.
Dublin: Olden.
Dunvegan : Bogle.

Durham : See " Darlington," "Easing-
ton," " Hartlepool, " " South
Shields," " Winston," " Witton-le-
Wear."

Dyes : S chunk.

Earthworks and mounds : Cole, Gann,

Hughes, Maiden, Mortimer, Owen.
Easington : Savage.
Eastbourne : Dawson, Mich ell- Whitley .
Eccles : Palmer.

Ecclesiastical antiquities: Andre, Bates,
Betham, Bower. See " Churches."
•' Church plate," " Church bells."

Economics: Arnold, Cartwright,
Cowper, Cunningham, Giuseppi,
Hodgson, Hudson, Jerons, Percy,
Peichel.

Education : Leadman, Little, Raven,
Round.

Edward T. (temp.) : Leonard, Tout.
Edward III. (temp.) : &
Edward VI. (temp.) : Wilson.
Egyptian antiquities : Hoscawen, Clarke,

Price, Spurrell.
Elizabeth (Queen) temp. : Beazley,

Biitow, Carrington, Finch.
Ennis : Westropp.

Essex : Essex, Waller. See *' Col-
chester."

Ethnography : Browne, Phene, Rhys.
Exeter : Phear.

Earne Island : Huggup.

Earn worth : Cox.

Eield names : Waller.

Elintshire : Fbblewhite.

Eolklokk : Abercromby, Amery,
Andrews, Ashton, Barnes, Barred,
Bi/lson, Black, Browne, Burne,
Carmichael, Clodd, Cidgan, Cook,
Craigie, Crawley, Crombie, Cuming,

INDEX.

43

Doicden, Evans, Feilberg, Ferguson,
Gerish, Hodden, Green, Greg or,
Groome, Hore, Kelly, Kerry, Lang,
Lewis, Mackinlay, Maclagan,
Neilson, Newton, Nielsen, Ojf'ord,
Given, Paton, Phene, Rhys, Rouse,
Sephton, Tot/lor, Tkursby-Pelhatn,
W ., Walters, Wiichburnivg, Wood,
II oodman.
French antiquities : Bower.

Galway : Cooke, Kelly.

Genealogies and family history : Arm-
strong, Attree, Balfour, Berkshire,
Bel ham, Bulwer, Campbell, Cowper,
Crawfurd, Doe, JEbble white, Essex,

F. , Field, Fitzgerald- UrJacke,
Fletcher, Grave, Gray, Greenfield,
Haslewood, Hawkesbury, Hickson,
Langdon, Leighlon, Maclean,
Maiden, Minns, Murphy, Myddle-
ton, Phillips, Prowse, Rum-bold,
Stavert, Wagner.

Glasgow : Eyre.
Glastonbury : Bradley.
Glenshee : Smith.

Gloueestershire : See " Bristol," " Glas-
tonbury," " Horton," " Sudeley
Castle."

Gower : Thomas.

Great Cressingham : Birch.

Greek antiquities: Arkwright, Benson,
Bienkowski, Bury, Clarke, Cook,

G. , Gardner, Hill, Hutton, Jerons,
Lloyd, Loring, Murray, Oldfield,
Penrose, Phene, Kendall, Simpson,
Smith. See '•Homer," "Inscrip-
tions," " Literary antiquities. "
" Numismatics."

Hampshire: Shore. See "Bitterne,"
" KingHolere," "Nursling," "St.
Denys," " Silchcster," "South-
ampton," " Weyhill," " Stoke
Charity." " Westwood Sparaholt."

Hampton : Rice.

Hardknott : Calverley.

Hartlepool : llodgsun.

Hastings : Ducket t .

Haux ley : // odgso u .

1 1 averfordw est : /'// Mips.

Henry I. (lamp.) : Licbermann.

Heraldry : Hope, Howard.

Hertfordshire. See "St. Alhans,"
" Tyilcuhanger," " Veruhuu."

High ICreall : I'ane.

Hill Deverill : Powell.

Hinton Charterhouse : Foxcroft.
Homer : A lien.
Honduras (British) : Gann.
Horton : Hodges.
Huggate dikes : Cole.
Hulham : Reichel.
I Hull: Blashill, liot/le, Hirst, Hope,
Hull.

Inscriptions

Christian: Langdon.
Eastern : Fryer.
Greek : Loring.

Ireland: Fitzgerald, Macalister.
j Manx : Kermode.

Ogam : Barry, Graves, Rhys,
Southesk.

j Roman: Blair, Ferguson, Money,
Mowat.
Runic : Charlton.
I Welsh: Rhys.
| Institutions : Browning, Cole.
Ireland : Bagnall-Oakeley, Browne,
Buick, Coffey, Knowles, MacNeill,
Pjlugk Harltung, Rhys, Stokes.
£ee"Aran," "Athenry," "Barren,"
" Castledermot," " Conn a ugh t
(Old) ""Cork," "Dublin," ''Ennis,"
"Galway," "Kilkenny," " Kil-
macduagh," " Ki linalkedar,"
"Loughcrew," " Maghery," " Mul-
laghmast," " Navan," " Roseam,"
" Slieve-na-Caillighe," " Tara,"
" Templepatriek," " Wexford."
Iron age (early) : Cttrle.
Iron w ork : Rice.

James I. (temp.) : Craigie.
James II. (temp): Karwaker.
Jews : Leonard.

Kent: See "Canterbury," "Olham,"

" Wouldhain."
Kildare : Macalister, Vigors.
Kilkenny: Barry, Egan, Vigors.
Kilmacduagh : Fahey.
Kilmalkedar : Olden.
King's evil (the) : Barnes.
Kingselere : Shore.
Kingston on 1 1 till : See " Hull."
Kirkby Ireleth : Cowper.
Kirkcudbright : Coles.
Korea : Guwland.

Lancashire : Axon, Cox, Fishivick,
Gray, Phene, Slanning, Sweny.
See " Cartmel," " Colton," " Karn-

44

INDEX.

worth," " Kirkby Ireleth," " Liver-
pool," Ljdiate," " Manchester,"
'' Oldham," " Salford," "Warring-
ton," " Whalley."

Law, antiquities of : Roper.

Leicestershire : Hartopp. See " Sax-
by," " Shawell."

Lewis (Isle of) : Abercromby.

Lichfield : Russell.

Literary antiquities : Offord.

Greek : Allot, Birch, Clark, Bewick,

Knighton, Oman, Schuster.
Roman : Knighton.
Saxon : Lithgow.
See " Bibliography."

Liverpool : Sweny.

Londesborough : Wilton.

London : London, Micklethwaite, Price.

Loughcrevv Hills : Frazer.

Ludlow : Weyman.

Lydiate : Powell, Taylor.

Lyneham : Conder.

Lynn : Beloe, Le. Strange.

Maghcry : Dugan.

Malmesbury : Malmesbury, Whale.

Man (Lie of) : Collingwood, Kermode.
See " Inscriptions."

Manchester : Earwaker, Hoop fell.

Manorial history: Davis, Earwaker,
Hone, Prince, Reichel.

Maristow : Radford.

Marlborough : Pouting. *

Mary (Q.) temp. : Hodgson, Wilson.

Mary (Q. of Scots) : Reid.

Meaux : Cox.

Melbourne : Fane.

Mendip: Hobhouse.

Merchants' marks : Maclean.

Mexican antiquities: Read.

Middlesex

" Hampton."

" Sou* h Mimms."

Mildcnhall : Waller.

Military antiquities : Appleton, Car-
ring ton.

Mining : Cox.

Monastieism : Boot, Hall.

Montgomeryshire : Montgomeryshire,
Owen, Thomas.

Monuments, eiligies and tombs: Birch,
Prydalf, Egan, Greenfield, Lang-
don, Mid, It thwaitc, A/or risen,
Stephenson, Talbot, Thomas,
Watson, Wesiropp, Williams.

Morpeth : Woodman.

Mullaghmnst, : t''it :ger<tld.

Municipal antiquities : Boyle, Cunning-
ham, Eyre, Hope, King, Le Strange,
Russell, Taylor.

Musical antiquities : Hope, Menzies.

Navan : Moore.

Navigation : Wells.

Necton : Birch.

New Hebrides: O'Reilly.

Newcastle: Embletou, Phillips.

Newtown : Owen.

Norfolk : Beloe, Hudson, Manning.
See " Castleacre," " Castle Rising,"
" Coulton," " Eccles," " Great
Cressingham," " Lynn," " Necton,"
"Norwich," "Shelton," " Terring-
ton."

Norse remains : Acland.

Northamptonshire : Irvine.

North Perrot : Batten.

Northumberland: Hardy, Hodgson,
Northumberland, Percy. See
" Amble," " Berwick," "Chirburn,"
" Hduxley," " Morpeth," " New
castle," " Temple Thornton,"
" VValltown."

Norway : Lowe.

Norwich : Bensley, Hudson.

Notarial marks : Fresh field.

Numismatics: Barker, Bramble,
Cramond, Ellis, Jludd, Martin,
Shaw, Weber.
Asiatic : Codrington, Lowsley.
English : .Lawrence, Montagu, Oman,
Packe.

Greek: Hill, Imhoqf - Blumer,

Ridge way, Six, Wroth.
Irish : Frazer.
Mints: Bramble, Evans.
Roman: Bagnall-Oakeley, Grueber,

Haverjield, Montague, Prit chard.
Nursling : Greenfield.

Oban : Anderson, Turner.

Okehampton : Worth.

Oldham : Andrew.

Othani : Cave-Browne.

Oxfordshire : Evans, Read. See

" Lyneham," " Shirburn."
Oyster-shell lamps : Thomas.

Pa pin go : Ker.

Pembrokeshire : Owen.

Place-names : Atkinson, Collingwood,

Coulton, Owen.
PlttgUc (the) : Axon.
I'ocklington : l.cadman.

INDEX.

45

Pontefract : Holmes.

Pottery: Michell-Whitleg.

Prehistoric antiquities: Anderson,
Barron, Bogle, Buick, Co(feg,
Coles, Dawson, Ferguson, Frazer,
Oowland, Haggart, Ilardy, Hudd,
Kinghorn, Knowles, Lasham,
Lewis, Newton, Rendall, Robertson,
Jtotherliam, Shore, Williams,

Registers : Coleman, Orare, Harper,

Lumti, Sgkes.
Renfrewshire : Mackinlag.
Ringmer : Martin.

Roads : Beloe, Deans, Hooppell, Mac-
Donald, Marsh, Russell, Tat ham.

Roman antiquities : Arnold, Bagnall-
Oakelcg, Hates, Blair, Brock, Cal-
verl&y, Cox, Ellis, Ferguson, Fox,
Frger, Ooddard, Hall, Harerjield,
Hooppell, Jacob, Laidlaw, Mac-
Donald, Marsh, Page, Sheraton,
Williams. See " Inscriptions,"
"Literary antiquities." "Numis-
matics."

Rome: Lanciani, Russell- Forbes.
Roscain : Wakemau.
Rose (the) : Andre.
Roseisle : Morrison.
Ross : Baguafl-Oakeleg.
Roxburghshire ■ Deans.
Rutlierglcn : Fi/re.

Rye : Inderwick.

St. Albans : Page.
St. Denys: Sheltou.
St. Fillan : Mackinlag.
St. Lucia : Mackinlag,
St. Ninian : Dowden.
Sall'onl : Mackiuson.
Salisbury : Harding.
Saxby : Cox.

Saxon period: Beddoe, Cox, Ooddard,
Holism an , Read. See " Literary
antiquities."

Seorborough : Mortimer.

Scotland : A eland, f logic, Brgdall,
Christ ison, Craig ie, Cramond,
MacDonald. See " Abernethy,"
" Annandale," " Ardoch," "Both-
well," " Cappuck," " Dunvegan,"
"Glasgow," " Glenshee," "Kirk-
cudbright," "Lewis," "Oban,"
" Renfrewshire," "Roseisle,"
" Roxburghshire," " Rulherglo rt,"
"Slu llnud," " Taymouth," "Tilli"-
eoult rv," " Traqiiair."

Seals: Batten, Eg re, Hope, Viyors,
Ware, Warren, Wgou.

Segontium : Sheraton.

Selattyn : Bulkeleg-Owen.

Shamrock (the) : Bar dan,

Shawell : Bates.

Shelton : Armstrong.

Shetland : Barron, Kinghorn.

Shirbtirn : Money.

Shrawardine : Auden.

Shrewsbury : Cunningham.

Shropshire: F., Stephenson. £>Ve"Ber-
ringtou," "High Lrcall," "Lud-
low," "Selattyn," "Shrawardine,"
" Shrowsbury," " Whitchurch."

Silchester : Fox, Qrueber, Hacerjield.

Slavery : Thompson .

Sledmere : Mortimer.

Sliece-na-Cailligl/e : Rotherham.

Somersetshire. See " Oath," " llintou
Charterhouse," " Mendip," "North
Perrot," " Tickenham," " Wraxall."

South Minims : Dan's.

South Shields : Blair.

Southampton: Orare.

Sports : Knighton.

Staffordshire. See " Lichfield."

Stocks : Nicholson.

Stoke Charity : Greenfield.

Stone circle?: Coles, Frans.

Sudbury: Simpson.

Sudeley Castle : Brock.

Suffolk : Belkam, Hamp, Hopper, Jones,
Manning, Powell. See " Bretten-
ham," " Mildenhall," " Sudbury,"
" WaldingfiekL"

Surrey : Ashcombe, Bax, Cooper, Crisp,
Howard, Lasham, Maiden.

Sussex : Andre, At tree, Crake, Dunkin,
Prince, Read. See " Pexhill,"
" Kasfbourne," " Hastings," " Ring-
mer," "Rye," " Towncreep."

Swallowficld : Russell.

Swedish antiquities : Curie, Simpson.

Tara : McDonald.
Tasmania : Tglor.
Tayinouth : Mackenzie.
Temple Thornton : Hodgson.
Templepat riek : Latimer.
Terra del Fuogo : Hodgson.
Terrington : Seccombe.
Tickenham : Pritchard.
Tillicoultry : Robertson.
Torbay : Karkcek.
Towers (round) : Wakeman.
Towncreep : Sapper, Tat ft am.

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INDEX.

Traquair : Russell.
Travels in Britain : Billow.
Tyttenhanger : Fowler.

Upper Uphnm : Brakspear.

Valle Crucis : Hughes, Owen.
Vorulam : Page.
Vienne : Lewis.

Vortipore, tombstone of : Laws, Rhys.

Waldingfield : Haslewood, Stokes.

Wales : Baker, Birch, Fisher, Nevins,
Rhys, Vaughan- Williams, Williams,
Willis-Bund. See "Anglesey,"
"Bangor," " Caer-Hen-Eglwys,"
" Caervvent," " Carmarthenshire,"
" Conway," " Cwmhir," " Flint-
shire," " Gower," " Haverfordwest,"
"Montgomeryshire," " Newtown,"
" Pembrokeshire," " Valle Crueis."

Wallingford : Field.

Wall town : Hall.

Warrington : Irvine, Ufadelei/.

Westley Waterless : Atkinson.

Westmorland: Ferguson, Hodgson,
Wilson.

West wood Sparsholt: Jacob.

Wetwang : Cole.

Wexford : Cullen, Perceval.

Weyhill : Clutterhuck.

Whalley: Birch.

Whitchurch : Finch.

Wight (Isle of) : Davis.

Willingham : James, Watkins.

Wills: Berkshire, Crisp, Hartopp.

Wiltshire : Coleman, Jackson. See
" Aldbourne," " Burbage," "Basset
Down," " Hill Deverill," " Malmes-
bui'y," "Marlborough," " Salis-
bury," " Upper Upham."

Winestead : Moure.

Winston : Edleston.

Wissey river: Coulton.

Witton-le- Wear : Hodgson.

Wouldliam : Jang.

Wraxall : Barker, Franks.

Yorkshire : Cartwright, Cox, Qlynne,
Norcliffe, Skaife, Taulor. See
" Beverley," " Driffield," " Dripole,"
" Huggafe," "Hull," " Londes-
horough," " Meaux," "Nicholson,"
" Poeklington," " Pontcfract,"
" 8eorborough," " Sledniere,"

" Wetwang," " Winestead."

LONDON :

II VKHIS0N AND SONS, PlilNTKUS II7 OltDINAUV TO IlISK MAJKSTV,
BT. martin's LANIC.

SECOND REPORT

OF THE COMMITTEE

FOR PROMOTING THE

TRANSCRIPTION AND PUBLICATION

PARISH REGISTERS

WITH CALENDAR OF REGISTERS

Printed and transcribed since the first Report of 1892.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE CONGRESS OS
AUCH/EOEOGICAL SOCIETIKS IN UNION WITH THE
SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.

189G

CONGRESS OF ARCHJIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES.

Report of the Parish Register
Committee, 1896.

The Committee in issuing the present supplement to their Report
and Lists of 1892 have great pleasure in calling- attention to the largo
increase in the number of Transcripts made ; many of these, there is
reason to believe, owe their existence to the help and stimulus given
by the former report.

It is to be noted that a large number of the Transcripts have been
made for the use of the various Parishes, and will therefore be
accessible to the public.

It appears to the Committee that the evidence supplied by this
supplemental List shows that the supposed impossibility of ever
transcribing the whole of the Parish Registers of the Kingdom is
imaginary, and that by enlisting and encouraging local effort, the very
desirable object may be obtained at no great distance of time.

The list of Transcribers' names shows how much may be done by
individual workers, and much more might easily be done by some
organised effort by Diocesan authorities.

The Committee hail with satisfaction the successful formation of a
Society for printing Parish Registers, under the patronage of the Arch-
bishops and many of the Bishops. The Hon. Sec. is E. A. Fry, Esq., of
172, Edmund Street, Birmingham, who will be happy to give any
information on the subject. The Society has already issued live
Registers in return for the annual guinea subscription, and in the event
of an increase in the number of subscribers will be able to print more
Registers annually. In cases where some local help can be guaranteed,
special arrangements can be made for printing Registers.

Mr. VV. P. VV. Phillimoro (121, Chancery Lane) is also printing a
series of complete Marriage Registers of Counties. Tin >so of G loucester-
shire are now being printed, and others for Hants, Kent, Northants,
Notts, and Somerset are in active preparation. It is intended to
arrange for other Counties.

Mr. Wm. Brigg, B.A. (Ilarpenden, Herts.), is printing in the
" Herts. Genealogist " a usefcal series of Bishops' Transcripts for the
periods for which the Parish Registers are lost.

It is gratifying to find that, at the instance of the Diocesan Confer-
ences of St. A 1 ban's and Worcester, Committees have been formed to
obtain from all Incumbents in the Dioceses returns of the Registers
existing in their Parishes, their exact dates and condition.

An effort will then be made to get the books put into proper repair,.

a 2

2

The Rev. 0. W. Tancock, of Little Waltbam Rectory, Chelmsford,
is lion. Sec. of the St. Albans Committee, and E. A. Fry, Esq., of the
Worcester, and either of these gentlemen will be glad to answer
enquiries as to their method of work, so that a uniform plan may be
adopted in other Dioceses.

The St. Al ban's " Diocesan Quarterly " for the past quarter (No. 15,
price ad. post free, AY. Root, Ilalstead, Essex) contains an account of
what has been done in the St. A 1 ban's Diocese.*

It is to be hoped that an effort will afterwards be made to get all
the Registers transcribed and indexed, and copies kept in the Parish
for reference. A small fee should be agreed upon as to be charged for
consultation of the Transcript for purposes of Genealogical research,
the charge for certified extracts from the original Registers remaining,
of course, as at present.

The Committee are again indebted to Geo. W. Marshall, LL.D.
(Rouge Croix) for his revision of the list of Printed Registers. The
somewhat arduous labour of compiling and editing the Calendar has
been undertaken by Ralph Nevill, F.S.A. the Hon. Sec. of the Com-
mittee, and E. A. Fry, the Hon. Sec. of the Parish Register Society.

All who may publish or transcribe Registers in future are invited
to send particulars to either of the above named gentlemen, who have
undertaken to compile the next List.

RALPH NEVILL, Bon. Sec.

13, Addison C?-esceut,

Kensington.

The particulars obtained of the Registers of Herts, mill be printed in
Middlesex and Herts. Notes and Queries, commencing January, 1897
(Messrs. Hardy ij- Page, 44, Chancery Lane, W.C.).

* The Worcester Diocesan Mag. for December, 18(JG (Midland Education
Co., Corporation Street, Birmingham, price 2\d. post free), contains a
similar .Report for the Worcester Diocese.

The First Report of the Committee, issued in 1892, contains advice as
to the transcription and publication of Registers, and a specimen
alphabet of the characters chiefly used.

There are also Calendars of all Registers known to have been
transcribed or printed up to the date of issue. The Calendars
here given are supplementary to those in the First Report.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

List No. 1. — Parish Registers printed as separate works.
„ No. 2. — Parish Registers printed in other works.

No. 3. — Parish Registers transcribed in MS.

No. 4. — Registers of other Churches in all classes.
,, No. 5. — Sundry Records of allied character.

No. 1.— List of Parish Registers that have been
printed as separate works.

BERKS. Reading, St. Giles, 1518-1546, Walter L. Nash.

CHESHIRE. Bidstone, 1581-1700, W, F. Irvine.

Stockport, St. Mary, 1584-1620, E. W. Bulkely 1889

CORNWALL. Redruth, 1560-1716, J. C. Peter, Redruth 1894, 4 to

CUMBERLAND. Dalston, vol. i. 1570-1(578, vol. ii. 1679-1812, Rev.

J. Wilson, M.A., 1893 and 1896. Indexed, with
corrections from Bishops' transcripts.
Kirk Oswald, 1577-1 009, Canon Thornley 1895, 8vo
Penrith, 1556-1601, G. Watson 1893, 8vo

DORSETS. Bere Hackett, 1519-1745, E. A. Fry, Par. Reg-. Soc.

1896, 8vo

Caundle Bishop, 1570-1814, Rev. Canon C. II. Mayo
(Dorset Records) 1895, 8vo

] I o en est, 1589-1812, E. A. Fry (Dorset Records)

1894, 8vo

Long Burton, 1580-1812, E. A. Fry (Dorset Records)

1894, 8vo

DURHAM. Durham Cathedral, 1009-1896, Harl. Soc. (in press).

ESSK\r. Fykiei.d, 1538-1700, P. A. Crisp, P.S.A., pi\ 1896, fol.

GLO'STERS. Marsheield, 1558-1793, F. A. Crisp, F.S.A., pr.

KENT. Beakesrourne, 1558-1812, Rev. C. II. Wilkie, pr.

dmy. 8vo

Orpington, 1560-1754, II. C. Kirby Lond. 1895, 8vo

LANCS. Hawkshead, 1568-1794, II. Swainson Cooper, F.S.A.

dniy. 8vo

LINCOLNS. Hokuuno, 1653-1837, If, Peet Liverpool, 1895, 8vo

4

LONDON. Charterhouse Chapel, Bap. 1696-1836, Mar. 1671-1754
and 1837-1890, Bur. 1 695-1854, Frauds Collins, M.D.,
llarl. Soc, vol. xviii.

Christctiurch, Newgate Street, 1538-1754, W. A. Little-
dale, M.A., llarl. Soc, vol. xxi.

St. George's Chapel, May fair, Bap. 1740- and Mar.
1735-1754 (wrongly entered in last list), George J.
Armytage, F.S.A., llarl. Soc, vol. xv.

St. George's, Hanover Square, Mar. 1810-1836 (in press),
Hail. Soc

St. James', Clerkenwell, Bur. 1551-1754, Robt. llovenden,
F.S.A., llarl. Soc, vol. xvii., xix., and xx.

NORFOLK. Norwich, St. George's Tombland, 1538-1707.

NORT HANTS. Maxey, 1538-1712, Rev. W. D. Sweeting, M.A.

(Mitchell & Hughes) 1892, 8vo

NOTTS. Wellow, 1703-1812, Geo. W. Marshall, LL.D.

Exeter, 1896, 8vo
Worksop, 1558-1771, Geo. W. Marshall, LL.D.

Guildford, 1894, 8vo

RUTLAND. North Luffenham, 1572-1812, Rev. P. J. Dennis, Par.

Reg. Soc. 1896, 8vo

SOMERSET. Bruton, 1826-1890, Rev. T. A. Strong.

SUFFOLK. Bardwell, 1538-1650, Rev. F. E. Warren, F.S.A.
(Mitchell & Hughes).
Bramfield, 1539-1889, Rev. T. S. Hill (Mitchell &
Hughes).

SURREY. Banstead, 1547-1789, F. H. Lambert, F.S.A., Par. Reg.

Soc 1896, 8vo

WARWICKS. Fillongley, 1538-1653, Rev. A. B. Stevenson.
AVESTMOR ELAND. Ashy, 1657-1798, T. R. Rivington 1894, 8vo
Ravenstonedale, 1570-1812, Rev. R. W. Metcalfe

1893, 8vo

WORCESTERS. Knightwick with Doddenham, 1538-1812, Rev.

J. Bowstead-Wilson, F.S.A. 1891, small fol.

Worcester, St. Alban's, 1630-1812, Rev. J. Bowytead-
AVilson, Par. Reg. Soc 1896, 8vo

YORKS. Batley, 1559-1800, M. Sheard.

Bolton Abbey, 1089-1812, Rev. A. P. Howes, M.A.

Skipton, 1895, 8vo

Burnsall, vol. i. 1559-1700, vol. ii. 1701-1739 and
1783-1812, Rev. W. J. Stavert, M.A.

Skipton, 1893, 8vo
Conistone, 1567-1812, Rev. W. J. Stavert, M.A.

Skipton, 1894, 8vo

Pelkirk, 1701-1812, A.N.J. Royds, Rochdale, 1894, 8vo
Monk Fryston, 1538-1678, Par. Reg. Soc 1896, 8vo

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YORKS. Rylstone, vol. i. 1559-1723, vol. ii. 1724-1812, Rev.
{continued) C. H. Lowe, M.A. Leeds, 1895-6, 8vo

Saddlewortii, 1G13-1751, J. Radcliffe 1887, 8vo

Skipton-in-Craven, vol. i. 1592-1680, vol. ii. 1680-1745,
vol. iii. 1745-1812, Rev. W.J. Stavert, M.A.

Skipton, 1891-6, 8vo
York, Holy Trinity, 1586-1760, Rev. E. Buhner (in
progress).

York, St. Martin-cum-Gregory, 1538-1745, Rev. E.
Bulmer (in progress).

No. 2.— List of Parish Registers printed in books
and periodicals.

BERKS. Didcot, Bap. 1562-1647, Berks Notes and Queries, Oct.
1890, to April 1891.

CAMBRIDGES. Cambridge, St. Michael, 1538-1837, J. Venn,
Camb. Antiqu. Soc, vol. xxv. (complete part)

1891, 8vo

CHESHIRE. Stock fort, Cheshire Notes and Queries.

DURHAM. Esn, 1566- Pro. Soc. Antiqu., Newcastle-on-Tyne.

*GLO'STERS. Forth ampton, Mar. 1678-1812, Rev. E. R. Dowdeswell.

Glouc. Mar. Reg.
Froc ester, Mar. 1559-1799, Rev. W. Symonds, Glouc.

Notes and Queries.
King Stanley, Mar. 1573-1812, Rev. T. W. Cattell and

Rev. R. H. Clutterbuck, G. M. R.
Maisemore, Bap. 1600-1663, Mar. 1557-1590, Bur.

1538-1599, G. N. & Q.
Nympspield, Mar. 1679-1812, Rev. J. Silvester, G. M. R.
Owlpen, Mar. 1677-1895, XV. P. YV. Phillimore and Rev.

VY. B. Benison, G. M. R.
Pebworth, Mar. 1595-1700, Rev. T. P. VVradley,

G. N. & Q.

Queinjeey, Mar. 1559-1836, Rev. E. L. Bryan and Rev.

\\r. Symonds, G. M. R.
Rendcombe, Mar. 1566-1812, Rev. G. E. A. Kempson,

G. M. R.

Seimuridge, Mar. 1635-1812, Rev. YV. Symonds, G. M. R
Swindon, Mar. 1638-1838, Sidney Madge, F.R.H.S.,
G. M. R.

Wiiaodon, Mar. 1674-1711, G. N. & Q.

* The Ulo'ster Murriugo Kegisters urc being printed in Ulo'sl er Notes and Queries,
and will he issued in volumes, the first of which is now complete. *SVe Prefuee.

HANTS.

HERTS.

Ashe,

Clowes & Sons

Rev. J. Thoyts, Par. Hist, of Ashe,

1888

Chipping Barnet, Bishops' Transcripts for sundry years,
missing- from Par. Reg-., 1560-1682, Win. Brigg,
B.A., Herts. Genealogist, vol. ii.
Northaw, Bps. Trans., sundry years, 1564-1748, Herts.

Geneal., vols. i. and ii.
St. A lean's Abbey, 1558-1689, Wm. Brigg, B.A., Herts.

Geneal. Supplement.
St. Alean's, St. Michael's in, Bps. Trans., sundry years,

1572-1630, Herts. Geneal., vol. i.
St. Alean's, St. Stephen's in, Bps. Trans., sundry years,

1561-1600, Herts. Geneal., vol. i.
Wigginton, Bps. Trans., sundry years, 1609-1670, Herts.
Geneal., vol. ii.

LINCOLNS. Kingerby, 1562-1760 (in progress in Northern Genea-
logist), Bishop's Transcript.

MIDDLESEX. Chiswick, Mar. 1678-1800 (in " Chiswick "), W. P. W.
Phillimore.

NORTIIANTS. Clay Coton, 1541- (in progress, Northern

Genealogist).

Maxey, 1538-1712, Rev. W. D. Sweeting, M.A.,
Mis. Gen. et Herald. (See also List 1.)
NORTHUMBERLAND. Elsdon, 1672- , Proc. Soc. Antiqu., New-
castle-on-Tyne (in progress).
Warkworth, Bap. and Mar. 1688, Bur. 1674, J. C.
Hodgson, Proc. Soc. Antiqu., Newcastle-on-Tyne (in
progress).

Newark, Mar. 1650-1662, Northern Genealogist.
Olleuton, 1592-1812, G. \V\ Marshall, LL.D., The
Genealogist.

Wellow, 1703-1812, G. W. Marshall, LL.D., The
Genealogist.

Street, 1599- (in progress in The Genealogist).
Preston, 1538-1894, Rev. C. R. Durrant, " Life in a
Suffolk village," 1887-91.

WARWICKS. Soutiiam, 1539— Bap. 1633, Mar. 1657, Bur. 1647,
W. Gardner, Hist. Notices of Soutiiam 1895, 4to

WORCESTERS. Inkeerroav, 1675-1778, Rev. T. N. Leeke, Par. Mag.

North field, 1560-1576, \V. F. Carter, Par. Mag.

Rous Lencti, 1538- , Rev. Dr. Chafy Chafy, Bar. Mag.
YORKS. Leeds, St. Peter's, 1572-1612, Rev. E. Cookson, Thoresby
Society.

Startkorth, 1661-1691 (in progress in Northern
Genealogist).

Whitkikiv, 1603-1700, J. \\r. Morkill, M.A., Records
of Whitkirk Leeds, 1892

NOTTS.

SOMERSET
SUFFOLK.

No. 3.— List of MS. Transcripts.

Those marked " Par." are in the custody of the Clergy for Parish use.

BEDFORDS. Biggleswade, 15G2-1598, John Powell.

BERKS. Bisiiam, 15G0-1845, Edgar Powell.

Didcot, Bap. 1562-1678, Mar. 1571-1674, Bur. 1568-

1G81, (I. Tudor Sherwood.
Upton-near-Blewbury, &c, 1588-1741, J. F. Fry.
CAMBRIDGES. Babraham, 1561- . Rev. T. D. Gray (in
progress).

Cambridge, All Saints', 1538-1702, C. L. Acland (in
progress).

CHESHIRE. Bakkow-by-Tarvin, Bap. 1572-1623, Mar. 1590-1619,

Bur. 1572-1G22, mixed 1629-1679, T. Cann

Hughes, M.A.
Chester Cathedral, 1G87-1871, T. Hughes, F.S.A.
Chester, St. John's, Bap. and Mar. 1599-1626, Bur.
1661-1723, T. Cann Hughes, M.A.

„ St. Oswald's, 1580-1650, T. Cann Hughes, M.A.

„ St. Peter's, T. Cann Hughes, M.A.
Northenden, T. Cann Hughes, M.A.

OvERCiiuRCii, i.e., Upton, 1 660-1812, W. F. Irvine.
Swetteniiam, 1570-1820, Cyril Lockett.
Warburton, 1611-1752. Rev. G. Egerton-AVarburton,

M.A.

CUMBERLAND. Brampton, 1663-1702, Rev. H. Whitehead.

Newton Reigny, 1571-1812, Rev. II. Whitehead.
Penrith, 1602-1812, Geo. Watson.

DEN BIG IIS. Gresford, T. Cann Hughes, M.A.

DERBYS. Reptqn, 1580-1670, Rev. F. C. Hipkins.

Somersiiall-IIerbert, 1537-1812, Rev. II. C. Fitz-

herbert (Indexed, &c).
Stavicley, llap. 1558-1665, Mar. 1587-1GG6, Bur. 1588-
1693, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.

DEVON. *Alwington, Mar., Bap. and Bur. 1550-1812, Rev. J.
Ingle Dredge.

Anstey, East, Mar. 1674, Bap. and Bur. 1596-1812,
Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
„ West, 1653-181 2, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.

* Transcripts of those Parishes thus marked wore entered in the lirst Report
as among the Chester MSS. These were copied from the Transcripts hero entered.

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DEVON". Atiikrington, Mar. 1548, Bap. 1538, Bur. 1570-1812,
(continued) Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.

Berry Narbor, Bap. 1550, Mar. aud Bur. 1540-1812,

Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Bideford, 1501-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
^Bradford, Mar. 1558-1754, Bap. 1558 and Bur.
1559-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Bhawnton, 1538-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
CiiiTTLEiiAMPTON, a fragment, Mar. and Bur. 157G-78,
Bap. 1575-79, Mar., Bap. Bur. 1637-1812, Rev. J.
Ingle Dredge.
Clyst St. George, 1507-1748, Rev. J. L. Gibbs.
Dolton, Mar. 1610, Bap. and Bur. 1608-1812, Rev. J.
Ingle Dredge.

Fremington, Mar. 1602-1837, Bap. and Bur. 1602 -

1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
*Hartland, 1558— Mar. 1837, Bap. 1812, Bur. 1866,

Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Heanton Punch ardon, Mar. 1559, Bap. 1656, Bur.

1559-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
High Bickington, Mar. 1754-1837, Bap. and Bur.

1707-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
*HollaCombe, 1638-1739, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Huish, Mar. 1600-1789, Bap. and Bur. 1595-1812, Rev.

J. Ingle Dredge.
Huntshaw, Mar. 1755, Bap. and Bur. 1746-1812, Rev.

J. Ingle Dredge.
*LiTTLEHAM (Bideford), 1538-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Little Torrington, 1672-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Marwood, 1602— Mai-. 1812, Bap. 1784, Bur. 1800, Rev.

J. Ingle Dredge.
Meetii, Mar. 1656, Bap. and Bur. 1653-1812, Rev. J.

Ingle Dredge.

Merton, Mar. 1688, Bap. and Bur. 1687-1812, Rev. J.
Ingle Dredge.

*Newton St. Petrock, Mar. and Bap. 157 Bur. 1723-

1812. Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
♦Parkiiam, 1537-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Plymtree, 1538-1800, Mrs. J. Rose Troup.
Pulford, West, Mar. 1670— Bap. and Bur. 1668-1812,

Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Roborougii, 1549-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Rockbeare, 1645 — Bap. and Bur. 1676, Mar. 1672, Mrs.

J. Rose Troup.
Roseasii, 1591-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Sr. GiLES-iN-rifE-WooD, Mar. and Bap. 1555-1743, Bur.

1556-1746, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
*Siiebbear, 1576-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Stoke Rivers, 1553 — Bap. and Mar, 1744, Bur. 1707,

Rev. J, Ingle Dredge.

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DEVON. Wear Gifford, 1583-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
(continued) West Down, -1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.

Westleigii, Mar. 1561-1757, Bap. 1560-1776, Bur.

1 559-1 77G, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Winkleigh, Mar. 1509-1791, Bap. 1585, Bur. 1569-1812,

Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Woolfardisworthy, 1723-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.
Yarnscombe, 1653-1812, Rev. J. Ingle Dredge.

DORSET. Chideock, 1654-1812, Rev. C. V. Goddard.

Lydlinch, 1559-1812, Rev. C. H. Mayo.
Sturminster Marshall, 1 562-1694, Rev. J. Cross.
Tarrant Hinton, 1545-1812, Rev. A. S. Newman.
Tiiornford, 1677-1812, E. A. Fry.
Wihteciiurcii Canonicorum, Bap. 1558-1680, index
form, Rev. R. G. Bartlett.

DURHAM. Denton, 1714-1812 (continuation), Rev. J. Edleston.

Dimsdale, Bap. 1556-1806, Mar. 1564-1754, Bur. 1562-

1812, Robt. Blair, F.S.A.
Ebciiester, Bap. and Bur. 1619-1731, Mar. 1621-1731,

Robt. Blair, F.S.A.
Whitburn, Mar. 1579- , Robt. Blair, F.S.A. (in

progress).

Wilton, Bap. 1571- , Robt. Blair, F.S.A. (in progress).
Wilton-le-YVeak, 1558-1745, Robt. Blair, F.S.A.

ESSEX. Aythorpe Roding, 1559-1636, Par.

Boreham, 1559-1800, R. II. Browne, Par.
Bhaintree, 1660-1812, R, H. Browne, Vicar.
Broomfield, 1546-1812, Rev. O. W. Tancock.
Chelmsford, 1538-1812, R. II. Browne.
. Chignall, S. James', 1724-1812 (earlier lost), Rev. O. W.
Tancock.

Chigwell, 1653-1812, R. H. Browne.

Eakl's Colne, 1560-1812, R. II. Browne, Par.

East Ham, Bap. and Bur. 1700-1803, Mar. 1695-1804,

A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Lam borne, 1582-1812, R. II. Hrowno (see also 1st Report)
Leigiis, Great, 1556-1812, The Rector.

Little, 1679-1812, Rev. O. W. Tancock.
Maluon, All Saints', 1558-1812, R. II. Browne, Plume
Library, Maldon.
St. Mary, ' 1558-1812, R. H. Browne, Plume
Library.

St. Peter's, 1556-1812, R. H. Browne, Plume
Library.

Mashbury, 1539-1812, Rev. O. W. Tancock.
Navestock, 1538-1812, Par.
Pleshey, 1656-1812, Rev. 0. W. Tancock.
Rainiiam, 1570-1812, R. IL Browne, Par.
Roxwell, 1558-1812, R. II. Browne, Par.

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ESSEX. Springfield, 1570-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom, M.A.
(continued) Staiplefokd Abbots, 1653-1812, R. H. Browne, Par.
Thaxted, 1538-1812, K. 11. Browne (in progress).
Tiiurrock, West, 1 6G8-1712 (made 1805), Tar.
TotternhoB, 1558-1670, Rev. S. A. Woolward (Indexed).
Waltham Pakva, 1538-1812, R. 11. Browne, Par. and

Guildhall Library.
West Ham, Mar. 1G53-1801, A. S. Seott-Gatty, F.S.A.
White Colne, 1538-1812, R. 11. Browne, Par. and

( i uildhall Library.
WiDFpui), LCI 9-1812, R. IL Browne, Par.
Woodiiam Walter, 1558-1800, R. 11. Browne, Par.
Whittle, 1C31-1812, R. 11. Browne, Par.

GLO'STERS. Aston-sub-Edge, 1538-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.

„ Mar. only 1539-1719, S. G. Hamilton.

To be printed in Gloucester Marriage Registers.
Bishops CLEEVE,Mar. 1563-1 812, Sidney Madge, E.R.H.S.
Cam, Mar. 15G9-1812, W. P. \\r. Phiilimore, for

G. M. It. (in progress).
Camtden, Mar. 1616-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Cjiaueton Kings, Mar. 1538-1812, Sidney Madge,

F. R.H.S.

Ciiedwortii, Mar. 1653-1817, Rev. S. Hope, for G. M. R,
Cheltenham, 1558-1812, Sidney Madge, lor G. M. R.
GliFEOKD Chambers, 1537-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom,
M.A.

Coaley, Mar. 1625-1812, W. P. W. Phiilimore and Rev.

W. Symons, for G. M. R.
PonsiNGTON, 1593-1812, Pev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Dukslev, Mar. 1G39-1G7G, W. P. W. Phiilimore, for

(J. M. R.

Ebrington, 1567-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
IIawkesbury, Mar. 1G03-1728, W. P. \\r. Phiilimore,

and Kev. E. R. Mosley, for G. M. P.
Kemerton, Mar. 1575-1 71 G, and in progress, Rev. J. J.

Mercier, for G. M. R.
Lemington, 1G85-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Leonard Stanley, Mar. 1 570-1 80G, T. \\r. Cattell and

R. Denison Jones, for G. M. R.
Li dm i no ton, 1 GDI —1 812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Mauston Sicca, Mar. only 1G80-1812, Rev. J. Harvey

Bloom.

Matson, Bap. 1553-1812, Mar. 15G3-1879, Bur. 1555-

1812, Rev. Wr Bazeley.
Mick I.Eton, 1594-1812, Kev. J. Harvey Bloom.

Mar. 1504-1 81 2, S.G. Hamilton, for G. M. R.
Mokkton-in-the-Maksii, Mar. , Pev. «). Harvey

Bloom.

Netiieu Swell, Mar. 1G8G-1812, Rev. 1). Royce, for

G. M. R.

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GLO'STERS. Painswick, Mar. 1562-1627, 1653-1705, 1710-1812,
(continued) Cecil T. Davis, for G. M. R.

Pebwoeth, 1597-1784, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Preston-on-Stour, 1540-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Quinton, 1537-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Sainsbdry, Bap. 1563-1569, Mar. 1585-1590, Bur. 1786-

1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Stinchcombe, Mar. 1583-1812, W. P. W. Phillimore

and Rev. P. Lynch Blosse, for G. M. R.
Stone, Mar. 1594-1812, Rev. C. Cripps, for G. M. R.
Stone-house, Mar. 1558-1812, R. Deuison Jones, for

G. M. R.

Swindon, Bap. 1606— Mar. 1638-1838, Bur. 1638-1700,

Sidney Madge, F.R.H.S.
Todenii am, 1721-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Uley, Mar. only 1668-1812, W. P. W. Phillimore, for

G. M. R.

Upper Slaughter, 1538-1812, J. E. K. Cutts.
Welford-on-Avon, Bap. and Bur. 1561-1768, Rev. J.

Harvey Bloom.
Weston-on-Avon, 1685-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Weston-sub-Edge, 1626-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Willersey, 1721-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.

HANTS. Faccombe, Mar. 1546-1754, W. P. W. Phillimore and
Rev. F. H. Harding, for Hants. Mar ling.

Head ley, 1537-1895, Rev. W. II. Laverty.

Hurstbouene Tarrant, Mar. 1546-1754, AV. P. AV.
Phillimore, for 11. M. R.

Knight's Eniiam, Mar. 1683-1812, Rev. R. H. Clutter-
buck, for H. M. R.

Linkenholt, Mar. 1585-1738, W. P. W. Phillimore, for
II. M. R.

Monkston, Mar. 1716-1812, Rev. R. II. Clutterbuck, for
II. M. R.

Penton Mewsey, Mar. 1642-1812, Rev. R. H.

Clutterbuck, for H. M. R.
Verniiam, Mar. 1607-1754, W. P. W. Phillimore, for

H. M. R.

IIEREFORDS. Stoke Bliss, 1571-1717, Mrs. Baldvvyn Childe.

Thornbury, 1538-1735, Mrs. Baldw3'n Childe.

nERTS. Aldenham, 1559-1659, Rev. K. F. Gibbs (in progress).

Flamstead, 1548— Bap. 1726, Mar. 1736, Bur. 1724,.

A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Hertford, St. Andrew, 1566-1653, Par.
Hertingfordbery, 1679-1813, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Peuiam Bkfnt, 1539-1773, Par.
Rf.disouun, 1617-1701, « I. bl. K. Cutts.

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KENT. Milton— next— Sitting bourn k, Bap. 1538-1697, Mar.

1622-1698, Bur. 1538-1657, A. S. Scott-Gatty,
F.S.A.

Newendon, 1559-1850, Rev. E. -Termyn (Indexed).
Reston, Bap. 1541-1684, Mar. 1540-1683, Bur. 1542-

1685, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Wickiiambreux, Bap. 1563-1612, Mar. 1558-1652, Bur.

1558-1661, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Wing ham, Bap. 1568— Bur. 1569-1778, Mar. 1569-1770,

A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.

LANCS. Burnley, 1562-1722, W. Ecroyd.

IIawksiiead, 1568-1704, II. Swainson Cowper, F.S.A.

LINCOLNS. Doddington, 1690-1812, Rev. R. E. G. Cole.

Epworth, Bap. 1538-1602, Mar. 1564— Bur. 1538-1593,

A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Scrivelsby, 1565-1812, Rev. Canou Lodge, Par.

LONDON. Bermondsey, St. Mary Magdalen, 1609-1643, A. S.

Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Holy Trinity, Minories, Bap. 1563-1813, Mar. 1579-

1664, Bur. 1566-1813, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
MIDDLESEX. Willesden, 1568-1865, Fred. A. Wood (Indexed).

NORFOLK. Bawsey, 1537-1773, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.

Blo' Norton, 1562— Bap. 1713, Mar. 1712, Bur. 1714,

Rev. Aug. G. Legge, Par.
Guist, Bap. 1557-1707, Mar. 1560-1706, Bur. 1558-

1723, Rev. Aug. G. Legge, Par.
Newton-bv-Castle Acre, 1558-1812, Rev. J. Harvey

Bloom.

West Acre, 1665-1748, Rev. J. Ilarvey Bloom.

NORTIIANTS. Aldwinkle, All Saints', 1653-1726, A. S. Scott-
Gatty, F.S.A.

Aldwinkle, St. Peter's, Bap. 1563-1689 and 1701-1711,
Mar. 1654-1711, Bur. 1653-1679, A. S. Scott-
Gatty, F.S.A.

LiLEORi), Bap. 1559-1779, Mar. 1564-1770, Bur. 1568-

1778, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Moulton, 1565-1895, Sidney Madge, F.R.1I.S.
Waoeniioe, 1559-1681, A. S. Scott-Gatty, P.S.A.
Warkton, 1559-1742, A. S. Seott-Gatty, F.S.A.

NOTTS. Gotham, 1587-1811, J. E. K. Cutts.

Flawborough, Mar. 1681-1812, W. P. W. Phillimore,

for Notts. Mar. Reg".
Okston, Mar 1590-1812, W. P. W. Phillimore, lor

N. M. %

Scarrington, Mar. 1571-1812, Rev. J. Standish, for
N. M. R.

Screveton, Mar. 1640-1780, Rev. J. Standish, for
N. M. R.

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NOTTS. Tiioroton, Mar. 1583-1 GOG, W. P. W. Phi Hi more, for
(continued) N. M. R.

OXFORDS. Wigginton, 1558-1813, Rev. A. D. Mozley.

RUTLAND. Caldecot, 1605-1783, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.

Liddington, Bap. 15G2 — Mar. 1G0-1, Bur. 15G1-1725,
A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.

SHROPSHIRE. Alveley, 1561-1721, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.

Battlefield, 1662-1812, Shrewsbury Free Library.
Cleobury Mortimer, 1574-1847, Mrs. Baldwyu Childe.
Hanwood, 1559-1763, Shrewsbury Free Library

(Original since burnt).
K inlet, 1G57— Bap. 1868, . Mar. 1841, Bur. 1860, Mrs.

Baldwyn Childe.
Neen Savage, 1575-1700, Mrs. Baldwyn Childe.
Shawbury, 1561-1595 aud 1618-1646 (1595-1618 lost),

Rev. F. Vernon, Par.
Shrawadine. 1645-1812, Shrewsbury Free Library.
YVestbury, 1637-1743, Shrewsbury Free Library.

SOMERSET. Bath, Abbey Church, 1569— Bap. and Mar. 1754, Bur.
1800, Harl. Soe.
Christow, 1553-1812, E. F. Wade.
Compton Bisnor, 1641-1807, E. F. Wade.
Cucklington, 1558-1837, Rev. E. II. Bates (Indexed).
Goathurst, St. David Kemeys Tynte.

St. Michael Church, 1697-1812, Rev. R. G. Bartlett.
Stoke Trister, 1751-1837, Rev. E. II. Bates, Par.
(Indexed).

Thurloxton, 1558-1812, Rev. R. G. Bartlett (Indexed).

Another copy by St. David Kemeys Tynte.
Tickenham, 1538-1812, Rev. J. Byrchmore.

STAFFORDS. Oheckley, 1625-1825, W. Morton Philips, J.P., D.L.

Leigh, nr. Stoke-on-Trent, 1541-1700, Archdeacon Lane.

SUFFOLK. Burstall, 1540- , Rev. E. Cookson, M.A., and Par.
(Indexed).

Combs, Bap. 1558— Mar. 1508, Bur. 1569-1732, A. S.

Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
E aston, Mixed 1561-1742, Bap. 1742 — Mar. and Bur.

1745-1777, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Ickworth, 1566-1890, Rev. S. II. A. Ilervey.
li'swicn, St. Clement's, Bap. and Bur. 1 563—1 666, Mar.
15G4-1 GGG, Rev. E. Cookson.
,, St. Lawrence, 1539 — Bap. 1812, Mar. 1754,

Bur. 1811, Rev. E. Cookson.
,, St. Mary-atte-Key, 1559- , Rev. E. Cook-
son, and Par. (Indexed}.
,, St. Mary Elms, Bap. and Bur. 1557-1812, Mar.
1551-1753, Rev. E. Cookson, M.A.

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SUFFOLK. Ipswich, St. Matthew's, 1559— Bap. 1G95, Mar. 1702,
(continued) Bur. 1701, Rev. E. Cookson (Indexed). Index

with parish.
St. Nicholas, Bap. and Mar. 1539-1728, Bur.

1552-1731, Rev. E. Cookson, Par. (Indexed).
St. Peter's, Bap. 1657-1790, Mar. 1662-1786,
Bur. 1G58-1789 (older books lost), Rev. E.
Cookson, M.A., Par. (Indexed).
St. Stephen's, Bap. 1585-1690, Mar. 1586-1678,
Bur. 1586-1679, Rev. E. Cookson, M.A.,
Par. (Indexed).
Kir k ley, 1700-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Pakkfield, 1682-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Rattlesden, 1558-1662, Rev. J. R. Olorenshaw.
Southwold, 1602-1802, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
WobLPiTj 1558-1895, P. II. Page.

SURREY. Battersea, St. Mary's, 1559-1700.

Cranleigh, 1566-1790, VV. Welch.

Haslemere, Bap. 1594— Mar. and Bur. 1573-1812, J. W.
Penfold.

Weyijridge, 1625— Bap. 1797, Mar. 1812, Bur. 1820
(names only from 1797), Miss E. Lloyd.

Woodmansterne, 1568- 1710 (to 1750 in progress), P. H.
Lambert, F.S.A.

SUSSEX. Grinstead, East, 1558-1760, R. Payne Crawford.

Lav ant, East, 1653— Bap. and Bur. 1810, Mar. 1753,
W. H. Uylands, F.S.A.
Mid., 1567-1748, AV. II. Rylands, F.S.A.
Southwick, 1670-1837, II. Hall,

Storham, 1543-1694, Mrs. Vernon L. Guise (to be
continued).

Treyford, 1728-1811, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
AVestbourne, 1550-1769, E. A. Fry.

WARWICK S. Alveston, 1539-1769, R. Savage.

Atiierstone-on-Stour, 1654-1812, Rev. J. ITarveyBloom.
Barctieston, 1589-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Barford, Mar. 1539-1721, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Bisiiopton, 1591-1752, R. Savago.
Bukminoton, 1582-1812, Bov. .1. Ilarvoy Bloom.
Ciiaiilecot, 1543-1812, Bev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Chesterton, Mar. 1538-1731, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Clifton-ufon-Dunsmore, 1594-1787, A. S. Scott-Gatty,
F.S.A.

Cofton Hacket, 1550-1627, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Batinoton, 1671-1783, Bev. J. Ilarvoy Bloom.
1 1 ALFORl>, 1541-1812, Bov. .1. Harvey Bloom.
lloNNiNdioN, 1571-1812, Bev. .). Ilai'voy Bloom.
K in eton, 1538-1639, B. Savage.

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WARWICKS. Lighthorne, Mar. 1539-1734, Rev. J. Harvey
{continued) Bloom (in progress).

Loxley, 1510-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.

Luddington, 1G17-1G38, R. Savage.

Pillerton Hersey, 1539-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.

„ Priors, 1604-1629, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Preston-on-Stour, 1540-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
South am, Bap. 1633— Mar. 1657, Bur. 1647-1812, W.

Gardner. (See also List 2.)
Stratford-on-Avon, 1558-1733, R. Savage.
Wellesbourne, 1560-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Wiiatcott, Bap. and Mar. 1572—1 (117, and Bap. and Bur.

1746-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Whitchurch, 1561-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.

WESTMORELAND. Bampton, 1637-1812 (in progress), Miss Noble.

WILTS. Amesbury, Rev. C. Ruddle.

Baverstocke, Bap. 1557 — Mar. and Bur. 1561-1715,

Ohas. Penruddocke.
Chitteune, All Saints', Bishops' Transcripts to 1672 by

Rev. R. G. Bartlett, Par. (originals lost).
Oompton Chamberlayne, 1747-1812, Chas. Penruddocke.
Dinton, 1558-1812, Chas. Penruddocke.
Great Bedwyn, Bap. 1553 — Mar. 1539, Bur. 1538-

1717, Rev. J. Ward, Par.
Maddington, 1611-1812, Canon Bennett and Rev. G.

Bartlett, Par.

Milston - cum - Brigmerston, 1540-1700, Rev. R. G.

Bartlett, Index copy and Par.
Orciieston St. Mary, Bishops' Transcripts to 1700, Rev.

R. G. Bartlett (original registers lost).
Presiiute, 1607-1707, E. LI. Gvvillim.
Rollestone, 1652-1812, Rev. R. G. Bartlett, Index copy.
Surewton, 15 18-1812, Canon Bennett.

1548-1700, Rev. R. G. Bartlett, Index form,

Par.

WORCESTERS. Alderminster, 1628-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.

Cleeve-Prior,1557-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Clent, 1562-1812, J. Amphlett (wrongly inserted in first

Report under Staffordshire).
Evesham, All Saints', Bap. and Mar. 1539-1784, Bur.

1538-1546 (in progress), Rev. J. Harvey
Bloom.

„ St. Laurence, Bur. 1556 (in progress), Rev.
J. Harvey Bloom.
IIartlebury, 1510-1579, Rev. R. A. Wilson (to be
continued).

Hon e y bourn e , 1673-1812, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Kyre Wyard, 1094-1812, Mrs. Baldwyn Childe.

ow

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WORCESTERS Little Cumberton, Mar. 1540-1627, Rev. J. Harvey
(continued) Bloom.

Littleton, North and Middle, 1661-1787, Rev. J.
Harvey Bloom.
„ South, 1587-1812, Rov. J. Harvey Bloom.

Okfenham, 1538-1706, R. Savage. •
Siiipston-on-Stour, 1572-1 HI 2, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Stretton-qn-'iuie-Foss, 1538 — Bap. and Bur. 1733, Mar.

1754, Rov. J. Harvey Bloom
Tredinoton, Mar. 1560-1615, Rov. J. Harvey Bloom
(in progress).

Worcester, St. Helen's, 1538-1812, Rev. J. Bowstead
Wilson, KS.A.
„ St. John-iu-Bedwardine, Mrs. W. R. Carr.

YORKS. Almondbury, 1557-1652, R. C. Oldfield.

Bradfield, 1559-1670, A. S. Scott-Gatty, P.S.A.
Burg iiwallis, 1596-1693 (with gaps), A. S. Scott-Gattyr
F.S.A.

Ganton, Bap. 1556— Bur. 1552-1794, Mar. 1653-1737,

A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Hartiiill, 1586-1697, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Hatfield, Bap. 1566— Bur. 1565-1679, Mar. 1566-

1681, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Hemswortii, 1553-1688, Rev. J. Harvey Bloom.
Hooton Roberts, Bap. and Mar. 1702-1803, Bur. 1703-

1813, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
HoviNtiiiAM, 1642-1742, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Kirk Ella, 1588-1812, A. B. Wilson Barkworth.
Linton-in-C haven, 1562-1896, Rev. F. A. C. Share, M.A.,

Par.

Old Malton, Bap. and Mar. 1606— Bur. 1609-1765,

A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Saddlewoktii, St. Chad's, 1571-1800, John Radcliffe.

(From 1613-1751 are printed.)
Slinosuy, 1687-1737, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Tank k rsle y, Bap. 1593-1742, Mar. 1599-1754, Bur.

1598-1755, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
Tiiokne, 1565-1698, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.
WniTKiRK, 1603-1700, J. W. Morkill, M.A., Par. (See

also List 2.)

WiNTuiNoiiAM, 1558-1700, A. S. Scott-Gatty, F.S.A.

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No. 4.— Registers of Other Churches.

Printed Registers.

LONDON. French Church, Tkreadneedle Street, 1600-1639,
Huguenot Soc. Lymington, 1896, 4to

WESTMORELAND. Ravenstonedale, Presbyterian, 1775-1809,

Congregational, 1811-1837,
Soc. of Friends, 1655-1834,
Rev. R. W. Metcalf 1894, fol.

MS. Transcript.

KENT. Rochester, (Presbyterian) 1706-1806 (some entries

from 1700), Humphrey Wood, F.S.A. (original
deposited with Uegistrar-General).

No. 5.— Sundry Records (printed).

CAMBRIDGE. Ely, Mar. Licences, allegations for, 1582-1591,
A. Gibbons, F.S.A.

HANTS. Mar. Licences by Dp. of Winchester, allegations for,
W. T. C. Moens, F.S.A. Hail. Soc, vols. xxxv. and
xxxvi.

HERTS. Huntingdon Archdeaconry, Mar. Licences, Abstracts,
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