A91 - A97

Miscellanea relating to Oswestry                       7 items

 

1637 - 1821

A91

Illuminated Pedigree of Robert Lloyd, esq., Doctor of Physic.                                                                   1 roll

     Drawn by John Cain of Oswestry.

 

 

1637

A92

Bailiff’s Book.                                               1 gathering

1653 - 1661

 

     Contains official and personal memoranda of the Bailiff of the Lord of the Manor of Oswestry, as follows:

 

 

 

Inside front cover: memoranda on payments due.

 

 

 

f. 1:                 Memoranda of accounts, Jun. 1658 -

                        May 1660.

 

 

 

ff. 2v. - 8r.:      Rental, 1658. 

                        Printed in Bye-gones 1938-9 pp. 17 - 21.

 

 

 

f. 8v.:               Memoranda on the Lords of Oswestry

                        and the Bailiffs 1653 - 1660. 

                        Printed in Bye-gones 1938-9, pp. 16, 17.

 

 

 

f. 9:                  Memoranda on heriots and other

                        customs. 

                        Printed in Bye-gones 1938-9, p. 17.

 

 

 

f. 11:               Instructions in proceedings of William [?]

                       Harris against Annah Brereton for       

                       recovery of goods.

 

 

 

f. 18r.:             Rents of ‘Gwely Allan ap Kynrige’.

 

 

 

ff.18v.:            Inside back cover: memoranda of

                       accounts, Jun. 1658 - May 1661.

 

 

A93

Abstract of title to the Manor of Oswestry.

1710

 

     Recites 14 deeds as follows:

 

 

 

No. 1: Conveyance, Thomas [Craven], Earl of Suffolk, his wife lady Catherine, Theophilus, Lord Howard of Walden, co. Essex, Sir Arnold Herbert and William Heyward to Dame Elizabeth Craven, widow of Sir William Craven, Sir William Whitmore and George Whitmore, 7 Apr. 1624.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 2: Final concord, same parties, 1642.

 

 

 

No. 3: Release, James [Craven], Earl of Suffolk, to Sir William Whitmore and Sir George Whitmore, 20 Nov. 1647.

 

 

 

 

No. 4: Release, William Whitmore of Balmes, co. Middlesex, esq., to William, Lord Craven, 12 Nov. 1661.

 

 


 

A93

continued

 

No. 5: Conveyance (lease and release), William, Earl of Craven, to Sir Edward Brett, kt., Sir John Barber, kt., Humphrey Weld, esq., and Thomas Whitmore, esq., 16, 17 Oct. 1674.

 

 

 

 

 

No. 6: Mortgage, William, Earl of Craven, to Sir Edmund Andres and Francis Howley. 13 Jun. 1685.

 

 

 

 

No. 7: Conveyance (lease and release), William Herbert, Lord of Montgomery, and his wife Mary to trustees, 27, 28 May 1697.

 

 

 

 

No. 8: Declaration of trusts in no. 7, 28 May 1697.

 

 

 

No. 9: Final concord, 1697.

 

 

 

No. 10: Recovery,1697.

 

 

 

No. 11: Mortgage, William Herbert, Viscount Montgomery, and William, Earl Craven, to Emanuell How and his wife Ruperta, and trustees, 2 Dec. 1700.

 

 

 

 

 

No. 12: Mortgage, Rt. Hon. William Herbert to Lord Windsor, 8 Aug. 1710.

 

 

 

No. 13: Covenant, same parties, 8 Aug. 1710.

 

 

 

No. 14: Bond for performance, 8 Aug. 1710.

 

 

 

A94

Solicitor’s bill.

1747

 

     Of Milward Rogers for £6 19s. 4d. for professional services in a suit Reece v. Piggot & Jones in the King’s Bench.

     Endorsed: receipt for promissory note for £6 12s. 4d. from John Hughes and Jno. Williams, 4 Feb. 1747/8, witness Geo. Dorsett.

 

 

A95

‘A Survey of the several Townships & Tythings within the Parish of Oswestry and County of Salop Of which the Earl of Powis is Lay Impropriator.  Made for the purpose of facilitating the letting of the Tithes thereof.  By Arthur Davies’.                                                 1 vol.

     Contains maps and related references giving names of owners and tenants and names and acreages of fields.  The maps, except that of Llynclys, are on parchment folded to page size.  Inside front cover: bookplate inscribed ‘ex libris E.D. Nicholson’, and typescript label ‘Presented by Mrs. I. Drew, Dungevan, Morda Road, Oswestry.  8th. March 1965’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[c.1780]

A95

continued

 

Oswestry Town and Liberties

 

 

p. 1            Map of Upper Part, 20” x 12”, 8 chains = 1”

                 (10” = 1 mile)

 

 

p. 3            Map of Lower Part, 12” x 11”, 8 chains = 1”

 

 

pp. 4 - 29   Reference

 

 

 

Maesbury Township

 

 

p. 33            Map of part, 18” x 12”, 8 chains = 1”

 

 

p. 35            Map of part, 15” x 13”, 8 chains = 1”

 

 

pp. 36 - 53    Reference

 

 

 

Aston Township

 

 

p. 57             Map, 22” x 13”, 8 chains = 1”

 

 

pp. 58 - 63     Reference

 

 

 

Middleton Township

 

 

p. 67               Map, 14” x 13”, 8 chains = 1”

 

 

pp. 68 - 75      Reference

 

 

 

Wootton Township

 

 

p. 77              Map, 16” x 13”, 8 chains = 1”

 

 

pp. 78 - 88      Reference

 

 

 

Hisland Township

 

 

p. 91              Map, 16”x 13”, 8 chains = 1”

 

 

pp. 92 - 97      Reference

 

 

 

Weston Cotton Township

 

 

p. 101             Map, 14” x 10”, 8 chains = 1”

 

 

pp. 102 - 107   Reference

 

 

 

Llanvorda Township

 

 

p. 111              Map, 14” x 12”, 12 chains = 1” (6.66” =

                        1 mile)

 

 

pp. 112 - 121   Reference

 

 

 

Treflach Township

 

 

p. 125              Map, 18” x 12”, 8 chains = 1”

 

 

pp. 126 - 135   Reference

 

 

 

Pentregaer and part of SouchtinTownships

 

 

p. 139               Map of part, 13” x 12”, 5 chains = 1”

                         (16”= 1 mile)

 

 

p. 141               Map of part, 12” x 12”, 5 chains = 1”

 

 

pp. 142 - 154     Reference

 

 

A95

continued

 

Kynynnion Township

 

 

p. 159              Map of part, 14” x 12”, 6 chains =

                        1” (13.33” = 1 mile)

 

 

p. 161              Map of part, 12” x 9”, 6 chains =

                         

 

 

pp. 162 - 171    Reference

 

 

 

Trefyrclawdd Township

 

 

p. 175              Map, 17” x 14”, 8 chains = 1”

 

 

pp. 176 - 185    Reference  

 

 

 

Sweeney Township

 

 

p. 189              Map, 21” x 16”, 8 chains = 1”

 

 

pp. 190 - 202    Reference

 

 

 

Morton Township

 

 

p. 207                Map, 12” x 14”, [8 chains = 1”]

 

 

pp. 208 - 215      Reference

 

 

 

Crickheath Township

 

 

pp. 216 - 218      List of owners, occupiers, properties,

                          acreages.

 

 

 

Llynclys Township

 

 

pp. 219 - 22,

4pp. unnumbered Reference

 

 

p. unnumbered     Map (on paper), 16” x 12”, 8 chains =

                            

 

 

 

pp. 225 - 266      Abstract of particulars on pp.1 - 215,

                          giving page and plot numbers, names of

                          owners and occupiers, description and

                          acreages of properties.

 

 

 

p. 269                Further abstract giving page number

                          and total acreage for each township.

 

 

 

A96

Accounts.                                                      1 gathering

1794

 

     Unidentified.  Relate to purchases of malt, meat and other commodities.

 

 

 

A97

Printed advertisement for Oswestry gas lights.

4 Oct. 1821

 

     Gives particulars of charges for use of various types of burners, and rules relating to same, laid down by Robert Roberts, the proprietor.

     Endorsed: draft agreement between Robert Roberts and John Bridgewater of Oswestry, surgeon, for the installation and use of gas in the latter’s shop, 1822.