A14

MURINGER

 

     See also A2, A12.

 

Muringer’s Accounts                                           1 vol.

 

     Detailed accounts to 1753, summary accounts 1753 - 1758.  Includes typescript introductory note on the office and responsibilities of a Muringer (see Leighton, p. 31).  Extracts are printed in Bye-gones 1907-08, pp. 64, 65.

 

 

 

 

1731 - 1758

A15

Muringer’s Vouchers of John Mort                21 docs.

1742 - 1743

 

A15/1

25 Jan. 1741/2

     Charles Thomas, for 4s. for timber.

 

 

A15/2

18 Feb. 1741/2

     Mr. Wicksteed, for £1 5s. for looking after the clock.

 

 

A15/3

23 Feb. 1741/2

     Robert Jones, for 5s. for making the Bellman’s clothes.

 

 

A15/4

24 Feb. 1741/2

     John Jones, for 5s. for his quarterly payment as Beadle [Bellman].

 

 

A15/5

10 Apr. 1742

     Richard Griffiths, bricklayer, for work done.

 

 

A15/6

14 Apr. 1742

     Joseph Davies, for 10s. for drink for the ringers.

 

 

A15/7

4 May 1742

     Thomas Jones [Sergeant], for 15s. 1 1/2d. for payments to Gilbert Griffiths and Mary Hughes.

 

 

A15/8

19 May 1742

     John Jones, for 5s. for his quarterly payment as Beadle.

 

 

A15/9

10 Jul. 1742

     Watkin Kyffin, for 9s. 2 1/2d. for candles for the Town Hall.

 

 

A15/10

2 Aug. 1742

     Wm. Phipps, for £1 12s. 2d. for cloth and haberdashery.

 

 

A15/11

23 Aug. 1742

     C. Wicksteed, for £1 for engraving coats of arms and letters on a punch ladle and bowl and a silver plate.

 

 

A15/12

13 Oct. 1742

     Chattn. [Catherine] Price, for 10s. 6d. for 3 pairs of shoes.

 

 

 

 

A15/13

13 Oct. 1742

     John Burgess, for 2s. 8d. for 8 yards of spars for work at the cross.

 

 

A15/14

16 Oct. 1742

     Edward Evans, for 13s. for straw and gravel.

 

 

A15/15

20 Oct. 1742

     Lucy Powel, for £2 7s. 6 1/2d. for cloth and haberdashery.

 

 

A15/16

21 Oct. 1742

     Robt. Barkley, for 2s. 6d. for ‘A hat for the Crier’.

 

 

A15/17

22 Oct. 1742

     Thos. Francis, glazier, for 5s. 8d. for repairs at the Cross and materials.

 

 

A15/18

11 Nov. 1742

     John Dawson for 2s. 6d.’ for a hatt for Edwd. Jones Marshall’.

 

 

A15/19

16 Dec. 1742

     John Piggot, for 4s. ‘for Clening ye Hall foure Quarter Shessons & foure fars’.

 

 

A15/20

17 Feb. 1742/3

     Geo. Wright for 6s. 1d. for locks, nails, and work done.

 

 

A15/21

Undated

     Thomas Jones, Sergeant, for 1s. 4 1/2d, he having ‘Dieted Hugh Hughes when in the Gate’.

 

 

 

A16

Tensery Accounts                                                1 vol.

 

1716 - 1781

 

     Assessments of the ‘Fines Forfeitures and other Sums of Money payable to the Corporation of Oswestry from Inhabitants within the Town of Oswestry being not Burgesses as also from Foreigners not residing within the said Town and an Account of the Rents of the said Town’ for the years 1716, 1748, 1749, 1751, 1752, 1781.

     7 gatherings bound together.