MARKETS AND FAIRS

 

 

 

A51

Tables of Tolls                                                   3 docs.

[1673] - [1818]

 

A51/ 1

[1673]

     Table of ‘the auncient towle custome usually payd at the gates of this Towne by buyers and sellers on faire market and weeke dayes’. Signed by Jo. Trevor senior; Richard Jones and John Glover, Bailiffs; Morg. Wynne, Recorder.

 

 

A51/2

14 Mar. 1720/1

     A later version of /1, signed by John Evans, Mayor, and Owen Hughes.  A third signature is illegible.

 

 

A51/3

Undated [1818?]

     A later version of /1 and 2, unsigned.

 

 

 

A52 - A60

Records relating to Tolls, Corn Markets and Fairs 

                                                                          9 items

 

 

1811 - 1819

A52

List of Committee appointed to solicit subscriptions towards the purchase of the market tolls.     1 gathering

 

 

5 Sep. 1811

A53

Minutes of the Committee.

 

27 Sep. 1811

 

A54

Resolution of Town Meeting

21 Sep. 1812

 

     Resolved that ‘in consequence of the Races always falling upon the Fair day, it is considered more Beneficial for the Interest of the Trade that such Fair should be altered to the Friday next before Michaelmas’.  Signed by Edwd. Edwards, Mayor, Thos. Hilditch, Coroner, John Croxon, Muringer, and sixteen others.

 

 

A55

Circular letter.

27 Feb. 1813


 

     From John Croxon, Mayor, and Edwd. Edwards, Coroner, to members of the Committee in A52, urging the speedy collection and payment of subscriptions.

 

 

A56

Draft letter.

19 May 1813

 

     From the Town Clerk to the Earl of Powis outlining the proposal to convert the Town Hall into a corn market, and seeking his approval and that of Sir Watkin [Wynne].

 

 

A57

Letter.

31 Oct. 1813

 

     From J. Dodson to John Croxton quoting a letter received from Lord Darlington declining to subscribe to the purchase of tolls.

 

 

 

 

A58

Brief.                                                                    1 vol.

[1818]

 

 

     For Plaintiff, in suit brought by Lord Clive against Edward Rogers for non-payment of tolls due. Inside back cover: copy of part of A51/1.

 

 

A59

List of documents to be produced by the Town Clerk in the same suit.

 

 

[1818]

 

A60

The British Press.

19 Aug. 1819

 

     Contains report of trial of the suit at Shropshire Assizes.