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MARKETS AND FAIRS |
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A51 |
Tables of Tolls
3 docs. |
[1673] -
[1818] |
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A51/
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[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. |
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A51/2 |
A later version of /1, signed by John
Evans, Mayor, and Owen Hughes. A third
signature is illegible. |
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A51/3 |
Undated
[1818?] A later version of /1 and 2, unsigned. |
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A52 - A60 |
Records relating to Tolls,
Corn Markets and Fairs
9 items |
1811 - 1819 |
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A52 |
List
of Committee appointed to solicit subscriptions towards the purchase of the
market tolls. 1 gathering |
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A53 |
Minutes
of the Committee. |
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A54 |
Resolution
of Town Meeting |
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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. |
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A55 |
Circular
letter. |
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From John Croxon, Mayor, and Edwd.
Edwards, Coroner, to members of the Committee in A52, urging the speedy
collection and payment of subscriptions. |
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A56 |
Draft
letter. |
19 May 1813 |
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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]. |
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A57 |
Letter. |
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From J. Dodson to John Croxton quoting a
letter received from Lord Darlington declining to subscribe to the purchase
of tolls. |
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A58 |
Brief.
1 vol. |
[1818] |
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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. |
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A59 |
List
of documents to be produced by the Town Clerk in the same suit. |
[1818] |
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A60 |
The
British Press. |
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Contains report of trial of the suit at
Shropshire Assizes. |
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