CHARTERS

 

 

 

A20

‘Oswestry Charters and Documents’                  1 vol.

 

1324 - 1671

 

     The following charters and documents are mounted or guarded and bound together.

 

 

A20/1

Gift of two shops in Leg Street, Edmund [Fitzalan].  Earl of Arundel to the Burgesses of Oswestry.

     For transcript and translation see Leighton, pp. 6 - 8.

 

 

29 Sep. 1324

A20/2

Charter of Richard II.

For transcript and abstract see Leighton, pp. 8 - 16.

 

14 Aug. 1398

A20/3

Charter of Thomas [Fitzalan], Earl of Arundel and Surrey and Lord of Oswestry.

     For transcript and abstract see Leighton, pp. 16 - 25.

 

 

25 Jan 1406/7

A20/4

Quitclaim of £100 left by Richard [Fitzalan], Earl of Arundel and Surrey, to the Burgesses of Oswestry, and pardon to those who had dealings with Welsh rebels in the late disturbances, made by Thomas [Fitzalan], Earl of Arundel and Surrey, to the Burgesses of Oswestry. For transcript and abstract see Leighton, pp. 25, 26.

 

 

 

 

 

25 Jan. 1406/7

A20/5

Lease of Heath Mill at Ruyton, co. Salop, Abbot and Convent of Haughmond, co. Salop, to Roger Adecot.

     For transcript and abstract see Leighton, pp. 28, 29.

 

 

13 Sep. 1432

A20/5A

Charter of John Fitzalan, Lord of Arundel (15th cent. copy).

     Endorsed on /5.  For transcript and translation see Leighton, pp. 3 - 6.

 

12 Jan. 1262/3.

A20/5B

Defaced document.

     Endorsed on /5.  For transcript of legible portions see Leighton, pp. 29, 30.

 

 

A20/6

Constitutions, decrees, and articles.

     For transcript and abstract see Leighton, pp. 43-49.

 

22 May 1582

A20/7

Order by the Council of Wales concerning the Book of Constitutions.

     For transcript see Leighton, pp. 52, 53.

 

 

12 Jun. 1588

A20/8

Lease of a chamber in the Market House for 21 years, Richard Drihurste and Thomas Cooper, Bailiffs of Oswestry, to Edward Williams, glover.

     For abstract see Leighton, p. 54; for transcript see A98 pp. 43 - 45.

 

 

 

6 Jun. 1597

A20/9

Exemplification of ‘Quo Warranto’ proceedings concerning the rights and privileges of Oswestry.

     For transcript see Leighton, pp. 55 - 61.

 

24 Oct. 1600

A20/10

Declaration of the Burgesses upholding the rights and privileges of Oswestry.

     For transcript see Leighton, pp. 63 - 67.

 

 

28 Nov. 1603

A20/11-14

Conveyance (lease, with copy and counterpart, and release) of premises in Oswestry devised by Hugh Yale, deceased, for the use of the poor, John Edwards senior of Chirk, co. Denbigh, surviving trustee, to the Bailiffs and Overseers of the Poor.

     For abstracts see Leighton, p. 100.

 

 

 

 

 

22, 23 Oct. 1638

A20/15

Lease of two chambers adjoining the Cross, and the Town weights, for 21 years, Bailiffs of Oswestry to Robert Griffiths, tailor.

 

 

 

20 Nov. 1646

A20/16

Lease of Burchin Close and appurtenances in the manor of Tryan and Lordship of Oswestry for 99 years or three lives, William [Craven], Earl of Craven, Viscount Uffington and Baron of Hampstead Marshall, to Thomas Edwards senior of Kelehendrey, co. Salop, esq.

     For abstract see Leighton, pp. 111, 112.

 

 

 

 

 

22 Nov. 1666

A20/17

Release of a messuage in Pentreclawdd in Porkington, co. Salop, Thomas Kynaston of London, gent., at the request of the Bailiffs, Vicar and Churchwardens of Oswestry, to John Jones of Porkington, yeoman.

     For abstract see Leighton, pp. 112, 113.

 

 

 

 

 

4 Sep. 1671

A21

Charter of James I                                   5 membranes

 

15 Mar. 1616/7

 

     For transcript and abstract see Leighton, pp. 68 - 93.  The membrances have been separated and mounted.  The seal is missing.

 

 

 

A22

Charter of Charles II                               9 membranes

 

13 Jan. 1673/4

 

     For transcript and abstract see Leighton, pp. 123 - 157.  For translation see A99 pp. 1 - 60.  The membranes have been separated and mounted.  The seal is missing.