POOR AND CHARITIES

 

 

 

A61

Indemnity Bonds                                               3 docs.

1641 - 1673

 

A61/1

Bond in £40.

13 Feb. 1640/1

 

(1) Rees ap John, John ap Evan, and Humphrey ap Richard, all of Oswestry, labourers.

 

 

(2) William Jones, mercer, and William Muckleston, sherman, Churchwardens of Oswestry.

 

 

     Rees ap John, a stranger, promises to maintain the child his wife Katherine now carries, and any other children they might have, or to leave the town.

Witnesses: Edward Davies, Moris Evans, Thomas Moris.

 

 

A61/2

Bond in £40.

7 May 1647

 

(1) Edward ap Hugh of Oswestry, corviser.

 

 

(2) Morris Evans and Thomas Edwards, esq., Bailiffs of Oswestry.

     (1), who has been elected and sworn a Burgess, promises to maintain and keep in school for two years John Morris, son of John Morris and grandson of Thomas Morris late of Oswestry, sherman, deceased..

Witnesses; John Payne, Samual Roberts, scrivener.

 

 

A61/3

Bond in £20.

24 Apr. 1673

 

(1) William Thomas late of Braniarth, co. Montgomery, scrivener, and John Tomley of Oswestry, gunsmith.

 

 

(2) Richard Jones and John Glover, esq., Bailiffs of Oswestry.

     William Thomas indemnifies (2) against any charges for the maintenance of any children he and his wife Anna might have , they now being inhabitants of Oswestry.

Witnesses: Richd. Kemp, Philip Philips.

 

 

 

A62

Apprenticeship Papers                                      5 docs.

1653 - 1693

 

A62/1

Indenture.

1 Jun. 1653

 

(1) Ellis ap Ellis, one of the sons of Ellis Morris late of Oswestry, sherman, deceased.

 

 

(2) George Harrington of Oswestry, tailor.

     (1) apprentices himself to (2) for seven years and covenants to serve and obey (2), keep his secrets, do him no harm nor suffer any harm to be done to him, not to waste his goods nor give any away without permission. (2) covenants to teach (1) the trade of a tailor, to ‘chastise & correct’ him, and maintain him.

Witnesses: Thomas Roberts, John Muckleston, sherman, Samuell Roberts, scrivener.

 

 

A62/2

Bond in £20.

1 Jun. 1653

 

(1) George Harrington as in /1.

 

 

(2) Roger Williams and John Muckleston, esq., Bailiffs of Oswestry.

     For performance by (1) of covenants in /1.

Witnesses: Edward Thornes, gent., John Muckleston, sherman, John Edwards, sherman, Samuell Roberts, scrivener.

 

 

A62/3

Bond in £10.

3 Sep. 1653

 

(1) Richard Greene of Oswestry, smith.

 

 

(2) Roger Williams and John Muckleston as in /2.

     For performance by (1) of covenants in the apprenticeship indenture of William Jones, son of William Jones of Oswestry.

Witnesses: Philip Tompkies, corviser, Humffrey Jones, Theo. Richards, scrivener.

 

 

A62/4

Bond in £10.

3 Sep. 1653

 

(1) Philip Tompkies of Oswestry, corviser.

 

 

(2) Roger Williams and John Muckleston as in /2.

     For performance by (1) of covenants in the apprenticeship indenture of Morris Jones, son of Thomas Jones late of Oswestry, weaver, deceased.

Witnesses: Humffrey Jones, William Jones, corviser, Thomas Richards, scrivener.

 

 

A62/5

Bond in £10.

30 Oct. 1693

 

(1) Thomas Jones and John Hall, both of Oswestry, tailors.

 

 

(2) John Thomas and Robert Skye, Churchwardens of Oswestry .

     Thomas Jones indemnifies the Mayor, Vicar and Churchwardens of Oswestry against any charges for the maintenance of Joseph Hall, son of Joseph Hall of Oswestry, tailor, who has apprenticed himself to Thomas Jones for seven years.

Witnesses: John Muckleston, John Owen, Jo. Edwards.

 

 

 

A63

Papers relating to Phillips’ Charity                  3 docs.

 

[c.1676] - 1832

 

     By his will made 24 Apr. 1661 James Phillips of London, esq., gave, after the decease of his wife, premises in Southwark, co. Surrey, to the Mayor and Aldermen of Shrewsbury to finance a lecture and sermon in the parish churches of Whitchurch, Ellesmere, Oswestry and Shrewsbury, the remainder of the rents and profits to be used to provide gowns or clothes for poor people in the same parishes.

 

 

A63/1

Legal opinions on the validity and interpretation of the devise.

 

 

 [c.1676]

A63/2

Copy of indemnity bond in £200.

21 Dec. 1831

 

(1) The Mayor, Aldermen, Common Council and Burgesses of Oswestry.

 

 

(2) The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of London.

     (1) indemnify (2) against any claim in respect of a messuage, being no. 3 on the east side of Carter Lane in the Parish of St. Olave, Southwark, which (1) has conveyed to (2) by conveyance of even date.  Recites that (1) agreed to convey the premises under an Act of 10 Geo. IV ‘ for improving the Approaches to London Bridge’ for £110, and that the title deeds are lost.

Witnesses: R. Jones Croxon, solicitor, Oswestry, H. Hughes, clerk to Lewis Jones, Town Clerk of Oswestry.

 

 

A63/3

Solicitor’s accounts of R. Jones Croxon in connection with the sale of property in Southwark, and receipt for the £18 15s. 5d. due.

 

 

Feb. 1832

 

 

A64

Substance of the Act of Parliament, &c               1 file

 

[1791]

 

     Summarises the provisions of the Oswestry Poor Act 1791 (31 Geo. III c.24).

 

 

 

A65

Mortgages and related Papers                        25 docs.

 

1791 - 1842

 

     Under Section 26 of the Oswestry Poor Act 1791 the Corporation (i.e. the incorporated Guardians of the Poor of the Town and Liberties of Oswestry ....and ..... the several Parishes united therewith) was empowered to borrow money by assigning premises and poor rates for security for repayment.  The assignments were to be signed by five or more of the fifteen Directors appointed by the Guardians, and sealed with the common seal of the Corporation.

 

A65/1

Mortgage.

14 Nov. 1791

 

(1) Directors Robert Lloyd, esq., John Probert, esq., William Owen, esq., Thomas Davies, esq., Turner Edwards, clerk.

 

 

(2) Rev. Thomas Edwards of Mount Sion in the parish of Selattyn, co. Salop.

Consideration: £400.

Witness: Lewis Jones.

Endorsed: memorandum, 28 May 1836, of loan by Messrs. Croxon Jones & Co. of £400 to pay R.M. Bonnor, clerk, until another mortgagee can be found; receipt of R.M. Bonnor, 28 May 1836; receipts of Croxon Jones for £300 from John Edwards of Stone Cottage, 28 Aug. 1837, and for a further £100, 6 Nov. 1837.

 

 

A65/2

Mortgage.

2 Jan. 1792

 

(1) Directors Joseph Dixon, clerk, John Robert Lloyd, clerk, Turner Edwards, clerk, William Owen, esq., John Gibbons, esq.

 

 

(2) Magdalen Hennings of Oswestry, widow.

 

 

Consideration: £400.

 

 

Witness: Thos. Hughes.

 

 

Endorsed: memorandum of payment of £400, 24 Feb. 1823, to Messrs. Croxon Jones & Co., bankers Oswestry, following the execution of two bonds for £200, 17 Feb. 1823, one to Hon. Thomas Kenyon, the other to Mrs. Elizabeth Jones.

 

 

A65/3

Mortgage.

19 Mar. 1792

 

(1) Directors Joseph Dixon, clerk, William Owen, esq., John Robert Lloyd, clerk, Thomas Davies, esq., Samuel Harwood, Doctor of Physic.

 

 

(2) Thomas Williams of Oswestry, gent.

Consideration: £300.

Witness: Lewis Jones.

With receipt of (2) for £100, 2 May 1796, witness Lewis Jones.

 

 

A65/4

Mortgage.

4 Jun. 1792

 

(1) Directors Thomas Williams, gent., John Lloyd, esq., Deputy Mayor, Thomas Davies, esq., Rev. Joseph Venables, clerk, John Gibbons, esq.

 

 

(2) Maria Jones of Cefn Rug, co. Merioneth, spinster.

Consideration: £250.

Witnesses: John H. Haycock, Thos. Jones.

With receipt of F. Campbell for £250, 2 Nov. 1829, witness E.B. Marriott.

 

 

A65/5

Mortgage.

14 Oct. 1793

 

(1) Directors John Gibbons, esq., Samuel Harwood, Doctor of Physic, Richard Phillips, gent., Owen Owen, clerk, Thomas Davies, esq.

 

 

(2) Annabella Williams of Drenewydd in Whittington parish, co. Salop, widow.

Consideration: £200.

Witness: Lewis Jones.

 

 

A65/6

Mortgage.

21 Oct. 1793

 

(1) Directors Thomas Williams, gent., John Robert Lloyd, clerk, Thomas Davies, esq., Joseph Venables, clerk, Edward Peploe, gent.

 

 

(2) Luke Parry of Aston in Oswestry parish, yeoman.

Consideration: £200.

Witnesses: Lewis Jones, Thos. Jones.

With receipt of Thos. Rattenbury and Margaret Parry for £203 5s., 12 Mar. 1827, witness E.B. Marriott.

 

 

A65/7

Mortgage.

5 May 1794

 

(1) Directors John Gibbons, esq., Joseph Venables, clerk, Richard Philips, gent., Owen Owen, clerk, Edward Peploe, gent.

 

 

(2) Edward Davies of Whittington, co. Salop, gent.

Consideration: £150.

Witness: Lewis Jones.

 

 

A65/8

Mortgage.

7 Jul. 1794

 

(1) Directors Samuel Harwood, Doctor of Physic, Owen Owen, clerk, Edward Peploe, gent., Thomas Davies, esq., Thomas Williams, gent.

 

 

(2) Annabella Williams as (2) in /5.

Consideration: £200.

Witness: Lewis Jones.

 

 

A65/9

Mortgage.

24 Aug. 1795

 

(1) Directors Joseph Venables, clerk, John Gibbons, esq., Samuel Harwood, Doctor of Physic, Thomas Williams, gent., John Jones, tanner.

 

 

(2) Thomas Davies of Oswestry, esq.

Consideration: £200.

Witness: Thos. Hughes.

With transfer of mortgage, 31 Dec. 1829, by John Bonnor of Bryny Gwalie, co. Denbigh, esq., sole executor of Elizabeth Davies, widow and executrix of (2), to Elizabeth Jane Bonner of Bryn Gwalie, spinster, residuary legatee of Elizabeth Davies, witness Edw. Williams, clerk to Messrs. Longueville; receipt of Longueville & Williams for £201 3s. 8d., 22 Dec. 1841.

 

 

A65/10

Transfer of mortgage.

1 Nov. 1795

 

(1) Edward Davies as (2) in /7.

 

 

(2) Rev. Thomas Edwards as (2) in /1.

     (1)transfers mortgage in /7 to (2).

Witness: Willm. Williams.

 

 

A65/11

Transfer of mortgage.

1 May 1796

 

(1) Thomas Gabriel of Hisland in Oswestry parish, yeoman.

 

 

(2) Dorothy Hollis of Wootton in Oswestry parish, widow.

(1) transfers to (2) a mortgage in the sum of £100 made 14 Oct. 1793.

Witness: Thos. Hughes.

 

 

A65/12

Mortgage.

1 May 1797

 

(1) Directors John Gibbons, esq., John Jones, tanner, John Roberts, hatter, Samuel Harwood, Doctor of Physic, William Leigh, esq.

 

 

(2) Thomas Davies as (2) in /9.

Consideration: £100.

Witness: Lewis Jones.

With transfer of mortgage and receipt for £100 11s. 10d. as in /9.

 

 

A65/13

Mortgage.

18 Dec. 1797

 

(1) Directors William Leigh, esq., Samuel Harwood, Doctor of Physic, John Jones, gent., Thomas Howell, gent., George Withers, esq.

 

 

(2) Rev. Thomas Edwards as (2) in /1.

Consideration: £100.

Witness: Lewis Jones.

 

 

A65/14

Mortgage.

1 May 1798

 

(1) Directors Samuel Harwood, esq., Thomas Howell, Edward Williams, Walter Vaughan Morris, Evan Jones.

 

 

(2) Rev. Thomas Edwards as (2) in /1.

Consideration: £100.

Witness: Thomas Cooper.

 

 

A65/15

Mortgage.

6 Feb. 1804

 

(1) Directors John Whitridge, clerk, Joseph Dixon, clerk, William Issard, plumber, Richard Bill, ironmonger, John Frank, farmer.

 

 

(2) Ellin Humffreys of Oswestry, spinster.

Consideration: £200.

Witness: Tho. Hughes.

 

 

A65/16

Mortgage.

1 May 1805

 

(1) Directors Samuel Harwood, Doctor of Physic, Whitehall Whitehall Davies, clerk, George Withers, esq., Robert Crisp, gent., John Whitridge, clerk.

 

 

(2) Robert Barkley of Ellesmere, co. Salop.

Consideration: £100.

Witness: Thomas Cooper.

With receipt of (2) for £101 19s. 10d., 9 Apr. 1827.

Endorsed: memorandum of a payment of principal to Messrs. Croxon Jones & Co., 5 Nov. 1827, for John Jones, esq., who advanced the money, ‘until it was paid up and it is now retained for the sinking fund’.

 

 

A65/17

Mortgage.

1 Dec. 1806

 

(1) Directors George Withers, esq., Samuel Harwood, Doctor of Physic, John Thomas, John Maurice, Richard Birch.

 

 

(2) Lewis Jones of Oswestry, esq., Thomas Hughes of same, wine merchant.

Consideration: £100.

Witness: The Williams.

 

 

A65/18

Mortgage.

1 May 1809

 

(1) Directors John Frank, William Broughall, Thomas Jackson, all gent., Rev. John Whitridge, Edward Williams, wine seller.

 

 

(2) Elizabeth Davies, wife of Thomas Davies of Oswestry, esq.

 

 

(3) John Bonnor as in /9, John Jones of Oswestry, tanner.

     (1) assign premises and poor rates to (3) in trust for (2).

Consideration: £200 paid by (2) to (1).

Witness: Edw. Williams, assistant to Mr. L. Jones.

With transfer of mortgage and receipt as in /9.

 

 

A65/19

Mortgage as /18.

 

1 May 1809

A65/20

Mortgage.

1 May 1810

 

(1) Directors Samuel Harwood, esq., Thomas Netherton Parker, esq., Thomas Jennings, Edward Edmunds, Edward Williams, all gent.

 

 

(2) Elizabeth Mytton of Shrewsbury, co. Salop, spinster,

Consideration: £100.

Witness: Lewis Jones Junr.

With memorandum of cancellation 16 Nov. 1835.

 

 

A65/21

Mortgage.

1 May 1810

 

(1) Directors Samuel Harwood, esq., John Franks, Thomas Edmunds, Rev. John Whitridge, Edward Edwards, all gent.

 

 

(2) Elizabeth Mytton as (2) in /20.

Consideration: £400.

Witness: Lewis Jones Junr.

With memorandum of cancellation 16 Nov. 1835.

 

 

A65/22

Mortgage.

9 Dec. 1811

 

(1) Directors Charles Arthur Albany Lloyd, William Roberts, clerks, Thomas Jennings, William Issard, William Farr, all gent.

 

 

(2) Jane Roberts of Upper Brook Street in Oswestry, spinster.

Consideration: £300.

Witness: Thomas Armson.

 

 

With transfer of mortgage, 19 Jun. 1828, by Thomas Jennings of Oswestry, gent., trustee and executor of Margaret Roberts, late of same, spinster, sister and administratrix of Sidney Roberts, late of same, spinster, who was sister and administratrix of (2), to Mary Jennings of Oswestry, spinster, witnesses Henry Hughes and his son Henry Arthur Hughes.

 

 

 

Endorsed: memorandum of interest from 1 Nov. 1835 to Jan. 1842 when the principal was paid to Mary Jennings.

 

 

A65/23

Mortgage.

31 May 1813

 

(1) Directors John Hunt, esq., Samuel Leach, esq., Rev. Griffith Howell, clerk, Edward Edwards, gent., William Issard, gent.

 

 

(2) John Griffiths of Oswestry, hosier.

Consideration: £100.

Witness: Lewis Jones.

 

 

A65/24

Mortgage.

1 Oct. 1815

 

(1) Directors John Richards, Thomas Richardson, Thomas Evans, William Penson, Edward Jennings, all gent.

 

 

(2) Ann Bentley of West Felton, co. Salop.

Consideration: £50.

Witness: Henry Hughes, clerk to Mr. L. Jones, attorney.

 

A65/25

Transfer of mortgage.

23 Apr. 1821

 

(1) Charlotte Lewis, late of Newtown, co. Montgomery, now of Aberystwyth, co. Cardigan, widow, executrix of Magdalen Hennings as (2) in /2.

 

 

(2) William Owen of Lincoln’s Inn, co. Middlesex, esq.

     (1) transfers mortgage in /2 and another, 27 Aug. 1792, in £300 to (2).

Witnesses: Chas. Jones, solicitor, Aberystwyth, Richard Pugh, his clerk.

 

 

A66 - 69

Miscellanea                                                        6 items

[post 1791] - 1831

 

A66

Examples of the seal of Oswestry House of Industry.

     Three impressions made on wax on paper, two of them over ribbon.  Only fragments of one survive, and another is cracked.  The mount bears the typed inscription ‘Presented by Mr. Edward Roberts, the last holder of the Office of Clerk to the Guardians before the disbanding of Boards of Guardians’ [in 1929].

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

[post 1791]

A67

Copy letter.

13 Sep. 1816

 

[From Thomas Netherton Parker?], Sweeney, near Oswestry, to the London Association for Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor.

     Draws attention to the plight of the unemployed in the neighbourhood of Oswestry, outlines his own efforts to provide suitable employment, and puts forward his ideas for improving the local situation.

 

 

A68

Notice and conditions of letting of four pieces of land at Weston Cotton, adjoining the Road leading from the Drill to Weston near Oswestry.

     With agreement of John Goolden of Maesbury, co. Salop, and Richard Thomas of Morton, co. Salop, two of the Directors of Oswestry House of Industry, to take the land at a rent of £50, and of John Warren to let it, witness Edward Rogers.

 

 

 

21 Feb. 1831

A69

Memorandum that the land in A68 is not to be let under £54.

 

 

 

[1831]