BUILDINGS

 

 

 

A23 - A50

Papers relating to Gates, Goal and Town Clerk’s Office                                                               33 docs.

 

 

1782 - 1827

 

     See also A101, reverse ff. 4 - 9.

 

 

A23

Articles of agreement.

16 Sep. 1782

 

(1) Rt. Hon. George Edward Henry Arthur [Herbert], Earl of Powis, Lord of the Manor of Oswestry.

 

 

(2) Mayor, Aldermen, Common Council and Burgesses.

     Parties agree to the taking down of the Willow gate, the Beatrice gate and the New gate, the erection in their stead of pillars as shown on the ground plan and side elevations in the margin, like the Black gate taken down some years previously, and to the use of the remaining

 

A23

continued

 

stone in the building, a new gaol. 

Witnesses: J. Probert, his Lordship’s Agent, Edmd., Thomas, his Lordship’s House Steward.

     See Leighton, pp. 179 - 181.

 

 

A24

Draft notice of the sale of gaol by public auction.

 

20 Jul. 1811

A25

Promissory note and receipt.

1811

 

     John Williams promises payment, 20 Jul. 1811, and Lewis Jones Junior acknowledges receipt, 30 Aug. 1811, of £42 15s, being the deposit money agreed for the purchase of the gaol.

 

 

A26

Plan of proposed new goal.

2 Sep. 1811

 

A27

Specification and estimate of Thos. Jones for erecting a new goal.

     Estimated cost £297 10s.

 

 

2 Sep. 1811

 

A28

Tenders.                                                             4 docs.

Sep. 1811

 

A28/1

5 Sep. 1811    Chas. Milnes, £265.

 

A28/2

5 Sep. 1811    Thomas Jones Junior, £224 2s. 5d.

 

A28/3

12 Sep. 1811  Ellis Jones, £245.

 

A28/4

Undated         Thomas Jones, £297 10s. 

     Further estimate including plans, specification etc.

 

 

A29

Letter.

9 Sep. 1811

 

     From John Williams to Lewis Jones concerning the payment of the first instalment of purchase money and the clearing out of the room by the joiner.

 

 

A30

Receipt of Lewis Jones junior for £140 from Mr. Williams, part of the purchase money for the old gaol.

 

25 May 1812

 

 

 

A31

Statements of cash paid by John Williams on account of the purchase of the building on Bailey Head.       2 docs.

 

 

24 Feb. 1813

A32

Letter.

27 Feb. 1813

 

     From John Williams Wrexham co. Denbigh, to Lewis Jones, Town Clerk, saying that he is unable to attend a meeting at the Guild Hall on 5 Mar. due to an engagement in Manchester, and that nearly all the purchase money has been paid.

 

 

A33

Draft agreement.

1 Mar. 1813

 

(1) Ellis Jones of Oswestry, joiner.

 

 

(2) John Croxon, esq., Mayor, John Jones, esq., Rev. J. W. Bourke, Rev. C.A.A. Lloyd, Rev.G.N.K. Lloyd, Rev. Peter Roberts, clerks, members of the Charity Schools Management Committee.

     For the erection by (1) of a ‘Commodious building on the Bailey Head’.

 

 

A34A

Insurance policy.

     Issued by Salop Fire - Office in the sum of £800 on the Town Clerk’s office, the Gaoler’s house, schoolroom and the other offices on Bailey Head.

 

16 Sep. 1813

A34B

Cover for A34A.

     Gives particulars of the Salop Fire - Office and conditions of insurances.

 

 

A35A

Acknowledgement.

15 Oct. 1813

 

     The Mayor, Aldermen, Common Council and Burgesses acknowledge allowance of £100 by the County Justices towards the repair of the gaol, on condition that the County Justices shall have the use of the gaol for the confinement of  prisoners and of the Town Clerk’s Office for the transaction of business.

     See Leighton, p. 185.  The document is damaged, and despite repair, barely legible, but the Oswestry seal is intact.

 

 

A35B

Another copy of A35A, with papered seal.

 

 

15 Oct. 1813

 

A36

Certificate of completion and order for payment.

15 Oct. 1813

 

     Thos. W. Parker, Jas. Donne and Sam. Harwood, County Justices, certify completion of the Town Clerk’s office and cells according to proposals submitted to the County Quarter Sessions, 27 Apr. 1813, and order payment by the County Treasurer of £100 towards the same, on conditions stated in A35A.

     Endorsed: copy of A35A and instructions of John Croxon, Mayor, on mode of payment.

 

 

A37

Receipt of Wm. Bayley for Eyton, Rorke & Co., bankers, for the £100.

 

 

 

23 Oct. 1813

 

A38

Statement of accounts of Oswestry Corporation in account with Oswestry Bank Mar. 1813 - Jun. 1815.

     Relates mainly to work done at the Town Clerk’s office and gaol.  See also A4.

 

 

1815

 

A39

Draft statement of accounts of John Croxon, Mayor, May 1812 - Jun. 1815.

     Relates mainly to work done at the Town Clerk’s office and gaol.  See also A4.

 

1815

A40

Certificate of completion.

9 Dec. 1826

 

     Thos. Stanton on behalf of Thos. Telford, County Surveyor, certifies completion of the new prison.

 

 

A41

Draft Letter.

11 Jan. 1827

 

     From Joseph Loxdale, Clerk of the Peace for the County of Salop, to Hon. T. Kenyon.  High Steward of Oswestry, reporting receipt of A40.

 

 

A42

Copies of proceedings 1813 - 1826 in connection with the building of the new gaol and the County contribution to the same.

 

 

Jan. 1827

 

     Copies of A36, A40; extracts from Shropshire Quarter Sessions records, viz. order for payment of £100 to Messrs. Eyton & Co. for the use of Oswestry, Michaelmas 1813; submission from Oswestry Justices concerning a new gaol, Jan. 1824; order to bring up the subject at the next Sessions, 12 Jul. 1824; order for contribution of £150, 18 Oct. 1824.

 

 

A43

Letter.

21 Jan. 1827

 

     From W. Hughes for L. Jones, Town Clerk, to Joseph Loxdale, seeking payment of the £150.

 

 

A44

Letter.

11 May 1827

 

     From W. Hughes to Joseph Loxdale, again seeking payment of the money, and asking for a copy of an order made at the County Quarter Sessions respecting allowances to Magistrates’ Clerks and Prosecutors in felony cases.

 

 

A45

Letter.

16 May 1827

 

     From Lewis Jones to same, concerning the necessary acknowledgement for the £150.  Asks also if the Justices at Quarter Sessions would allow the Justices for the Hundred of Oswestry to commit vagrants to the goal and allow them maintenance while in custody, with some small allowance to the gaoler.

 

 

A46

 

 

Draft orders and acknowledgements for the £150.

                                                                          2 docs.

 

21 May 1827

 

A47

Copy letter.

4 Jun. 1827

 

     From Joseph Loxdale to Lewis Jones, asking for the names and descriptions of the parties to be entered on the order for payment, and of the parties to the contract for erecting the gaol.

 

 

 

A48

Letter.

8 Jun. 1827

 

     From Lewis Jones to Joseph Loxdale supplying the particulars required.

 

 

A49

Copy letter.

15 Jun. 1827

 

     From Joseph Loxdale to Lewis Jones, saying that he is forwarding the proposed acknowledgement and the certificate of the Justices for the Hundred of Oswestry.

 

 

A50A

Acknowledgement.

16 Jun. 1827

 

     The Mayor, Alderman, Common Council and Burgesses acknowledge the allowance of £150 by the County Justices towards the new gaol on condition that the County Justices shall have the use of the gaol for the confinement of prisoners until discharged or committed to the County gaol.  See Leighton, p. 185.

     With seal.

 

 

A50B

Another copy of A50A.

 

 

16 Jun. 1827