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CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 Shrewsbury Corporation - - 1 
 
 Sir Walter O. Corbet, Bart. - - 66 
 
 P. E. TlLLARD, Esq. - - - - - 78 
 
 J. R. Carr-Ellison, Esq. - - • 92 
 
 Coventry Corporation (Second Report) - - 101 
 
 The Earl of Radnor - - - - 161 
 
 Andrew Kingsmill, Esq. - - - 1 73 
 
 x 93620. 
 
MUNICIPAL RECORDS 
 
 OF 
 
 SHREWSBURY. 
 
 The Corporation records of the ancient town of Shrewsbury have 
 recently been the objects of unusual care and interest. For several 
 years a local committee of clergy and laymen devoted themselves to the 
 task of cleaning, sorting, and labelling an immense mass of papers 
 which were found in utmost confusion and in most dirty condition, but 
 which were then classified and placed in 75 tin boxes. Finally, a brief 
 outline account of the work was printed, and Her Majesty's Historical 
 Commissioners were invited to send an inspector to report upon the 
 collection. The papers thus arranged come down to the year 1837, and, 
 of course, include very many papers of ordinary character, quarter 
 sessions' proceedings, tax assessments, and the like, not requiring 
 examination, except for purely local purposes. But the exceptionally 
 valuable character of the earlier records is seen in a series of gild- 
 merchant rolls which begin in the time of King John, and in the bailiffs' 
 accounts, beginning in that of Henry III., as well as in the series of Eoyal 
 Charters and that of Subsidy Rolls. The registers of the proceedings 
 of the Corporation are unfortunately very imperfect, and for all that 
 relates to the Civil War and Commonwealth period, which it was hoped 
 would be found to be specially illustrated, there is a blank, the register 
 being lost. A portion of the records, particularly the bailiffs' accounts 
 to the commencement of the 17th century, were carefully searched and 
 largely used by Messrs. Owen and Blakeway in their excellent History 
 of Shrewsbury, published in two quarto volumes in 1825, and their 
 numerous extracts have, to avoid repetition, lessened the number of 
 those which otherwise might have been given below. In the 
 Archaeological Journal for September 1894 there is a paper giving a 
 general description of the records, by Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A. 
 
 The documents are classed in the following Report under these 
 heads : — 
 
 I. Royal Charters. 
 II. Subsidy Rolls. 
 
 III. Gild-merchant Rolls. 
 
 IV. Registers. 
 
 V. Bailiffs' Accounts. 
 VI. Trained Bands. 
 VII. Courts. 
 VIII. Grammar School. 
 IX. Miscellaneous. 
 
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 I. — Royal Charters. 
 
 1. Charter of Richard I., granting the town to the burgesses at an 
 annual rent of 40 marks, of which ten are in lieu of providing two 
 hunting-horses (" fugatoribus Dated at Westminster, 11 November 
 an. 1 [1189]. Seal lost. Witnesses, H[ugh Pudsey] bishop of 
 Durham, Geoffrey Fitz-Peter, Hugh Bard[olf], Hugh Pantulf. 
 
 A very accurate facsimile is given in Owen and Blakeway's History 
 of Shrewsbury, I. 82. 
 
 2. John; confirming a (lost) charter of Henry II. ; Farendon, 13 
 Apr. an. I. [1200]. Witn. William Marescall earl of Pembroke, 
 Geoffrey Fitz-Peter earl of Essex, Hugh Bard[olf], William Briwerre, 
 Hugh de Neoville, Symon de Pateshille. Seal lost. 
 
 Ibid. 83, but erroneously assigned, as well as the charter following, to 
 AD. 1199. 
 
 3. John ; granting to the town the right of electing their provosts ; 
 Westm., 20 Apr. an. 1. Witn. the same, with the omission of Pateshille 
 and addition of Robert de Turneham. Broken fragments of seal, in a 
 leather bag attached by silk strings. 
 
 4. John ; granting to the burgesses the hundred with the town, at a 
 rent of 45 marks ; together with many additional privileges, including a 
 fair, and providing that " terre et tenementa tractentur per legem 
 Bretoll[ias] et legem baronye et legem Anglescherye " ; Notyngeham, 
 24 Feb. an. 6 [1205]. Witn., J[ohn de Grey] bishop of Norwich, 
 Geoffrey Fitz-Peter earl of Essex, Rannfulf] earl of Chester, Wil- 
 liam earl of Salisbury, William earl de Ferrars, Roger Constable of 
 Chester, Roger de Thoeny, William Briwerre, Robert de Veteri Ponte 
 (Vipount), Hugh de Neville, Eustace de Vescy, Peter de Stokes, Symon 
 de Pateshille, William de Cantilupe, Thomas de Ardintone. Broken 
 fragments of seal in a bag. 
 
 Abstract, ibid. 86-9. 
 [John. Charters in an. 11 and 17 : see Miscell. Papers, infra, 1526.] 
 
 5. Henry III. ; establishing the merchant-gild, &c. ; Westm. 20 
 March, an, 11 (1227). Witn., Peter [de Rupibus] bishop of Winches- 
 ter, Joscelin bishop of Bath, Richard bishop of Sarum, Hubert de Burgh 
 earl of Kent, Hugh de Neville, Ralph de Trubleville (sic), Ralph Fitz- 
 Nicholas, Richard de Argenteom, Henry de Capella. Fragment of 
 green seal. Of this there is a duplicate original. 
 
 Ibid., 100-1. 
 
 6. Henry III. ; restricting the right of sale of fresh hides and un- 
 worked cloth to the burgesses ; slightly mutilated ; same date ; witnesses 
 the same ; small fragment of seal. 
 
 Ibid., 102. 
 
 7. Henry III. ; with respect to the execution of writs by sheriffs ; at 
 Feckenham, 10 Aug. an. 40 (1256) ; fragment of green seal. Witn., 
 W[alter de Cantilupe] bishop of Worcester, John de Plessetis earl of 
 Warwick, master Symon de Waltone, Robert Waleraund, Nicholas de 
 Turri, Walkelin de Arderne, Ralph de Bakep[uz], Bartholomew le 
 Bigot, William de St. Ermin, William Gernun. 
 
 ~ Ibid., 120-1. 
 
 8. Henry III. ; securing the goods of burgesses against seizure for 
 debts of others ; same date and witnesses ; fragment of seal. 
 
 Ibid., 121-2. 
 
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 9. Henry III. Writ to the bailiffs of Shrewsbury granting for seven 
 years the customs upon articles brought in for sale, for repair of the town 
 walls, in extension of a grant for three years made in the year preceding ; 
 Bruges, 22 Sept. an. 41 (1257). 
 
 10. [Henry III. Of a grant, in reward of the fidelity of the burgesses, 
 of exemption from murage throughout the kingdom, and restricting wool- 
 merchants from purchasing wool in the county except in the market towns, 
 there is an office copy (certified by Robert Lemon) from the record in 
 the Tower of London. Dated at Winchester, 22 Sept. an. 49 (1265)]. 
 
 Ibid., 129. 
 
 11. [Henry III. Similar copy of the grant of a fau', for three days 
 at the feast of St, Clement. Shrewsbury, 22 Sept. an. 51 (1267).] 
 
 12. Edward I. Grant, " in auxilium pontis ville vocati le Whalshe- 
 brugge qui dirutus est et confractus, ad grave dampnum et periculum 
 hominum tarn per pontem ilium quam subtus eundem per aquam 
 transeuntium," for three years of tolls to be levied on all articles brought 
 into the town for sale, of which a long and minute table follows : 
 Westm., 12 Feb. an. 12 (1284). 
 
 13. [Edward II. Office copy of a confirmation of the Charter of 
 Henry III. in 1267, as above, granting a fair; Westm. 5 June, an. 2 
 (1309).] 
 
 14. Edward II. Inspeximus of the four Charters of Henry III., 
 nos. 5-8 supra; Lughteburgh, 6 Feb. an. 13 (1320). Witn., W[alter 
 Stapleton] bishop of Exeter, A [dam de Orleton] bishop of Hereford, 
 Thomas earl of Norfolk, Adomar de Valence earl of Pembroke, Edmund 
 earl of Arundel, Hugh le Despenser the elder, Bartholomew de Badeles- 
 mere, steward of the household. Half of the seal. 
 
 15. Edward II. Inspeximus of a charter of Henry III. embodying 
 the privileges in the charter of John in 1205, no. 4 supra, dated at 
 Westm., 10 March, an. 11, and of the three charters 6, 8, 10 supra. 
 Date and witnesses same as in the preceding Charter. Greater part of 
 the green seal remaining. 
 
 16. Edw. III. Grant of a fair for four days at the feast of St. 
 Matthew in addition to the fair for three days granted by Hen. III., 
 20 Sept., an. 51, and that for three days at ttie feast of St. James, 
 granted by Edw. II., 4 June, an. 2 (1309). Westm., 3 March, an. 1 
 (1327) ; part of green seal. 
 
 [17. Edw. III. Office copy of licence for the erection of corn and 
 malt mills; Northampton, 12 May, an. 2 (1328).] 
 
 18. Edw. III. Inspeximus, in duplicate, of the charter of Hen. III. 
 in 1256 (no. 7 supra), of the confirmation-charter by Edw. II. in 1320 
 (no. 15), and of the three charters of Hen. III., nos. 6, 8, 10. New 
 Sarum, 5 Oct., an. 2 (1328). Both copies have the greater part of their 
 respective green seals. 
 
 19. Edw. III. Confirmation-charter reciting the preceding Inspeximus, 
 and providing that the burgesses shall not be hindered in the enjoy- 
 ment of any of the privileges therein contained by reason of non-user. 
 Westm., 10 March, an. 11 (1337). Fragment of green seal. 
 
 20. Edw. III. Charter, in duplicate, granted in parliament at the 
 request of Richard earl of Arundel and other magnates, giving in addition 
 
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 to the privileges conveyed in the charter of Hen. III. in 1256 (no. 7 
 supra) further rights with respect to trials of burgesses and the powers 
 of the bailiffs. Westm., 4 May, an. 15 (1341). Fragments of the seals, 
 green. 
 
 Owen and Biakeway, I. 162. 
 
 21. Edw. Ill, Inspeximus of the charter of Henry HI., no. 8 
 supra. Westm., 5 March, an. 51 (1377). Fragment of white seal. 
 
 22. Rich. II. Inspeximus of a confirmation-charter by Edw. III. of 
 the two charters of Hen. III., dated at Westm., 20 March, an. 11 (1327), 
 and of Edward's own charter in 1341 ut supra. Westm., 17 Jan., an. 1 
 (1378). Part of green seal. 
 
 23. Rich. II. Repetition of the preceding Inspeximus, with a saving 
 clause against loss by non-user; Westm., 22 Nov., an. 13 (1389). 
 Fragment of green seal. The initial letter is finely illuminated, on a 
 gold ground, and represents the king seated, with the queen kneeling 
 before him. This would seem to imply that the charter was granted at 
 her request. 
 
 24. Rich. II. Warrant, in French, to the Archbishop of York, as 
 Chancellor, to prepare letters under the great seal granting to the 
 burgesses the tolls on persons bringing merchandise, for the term of four 
 years, to repair the walls, gates, and bridges, the latter being greatly 
 injured and almost destroyed by floods of the Severn ; a previous grant 
 for three years being now determined. Rokyngham Castle, 4 June, an. 
 15 (1392). 
 
 25. Rich. II. Contemporary copy of the letters patent issued in 
 pursuance of the preceding warrant, with particulars of the tolls. 
 Notyngham, 20 June (1392). 
 
 26. Rich. II. Letters patent granting to the bailiffs and community 
 of Shrewsbury, that whereas some of them are sometimes, contrary to 
 their privileges, arrested in Wales for debts not due from them, they 
 shall have power, in case persons so arrested are not on demand liberated, 
 to arrest any persons coming to Shrewsbury from the same parts of 
 Wales and detain them until satisfaction is made. Notyngham, 7 Feb. 
 an. 19 (1396). Green seal, broken. 
 
 27. Hen. V. Inspeximus (for which 20/. were paid) of an inspeximus by 
 Hen. IV. (dated at Westm., 1 June, an. 1, 1400) of the confirmation by 
 Rich. II. in 1389 (no. 24 supra) of the grant in 1396 (supra, 27), and of 
 the inspeximus of Edw. III. in 1377 (supra, 22); Westm., 28 Sept., an. 
 I (1413). Fragment of green seal. 
 
 28. Hen. VI. [?]. Contemporary copy of a grant of the tolls for three 
 years, for the repair of the fortifications and walls, to be laid out under 
 the supervision of the abbot of the town or his deputy ; with the usual 
 table of tolls; Westm., 6 Nov., an. 7. (1428). The name of the official 
 copyist, " Sturgeon" is subscribed. 
 
 29. Hen. VI. Contemporary copy of a grant of the tolls for five 
 years for the repair of the fortifications and walls, to be laid out under 
 the supervision of* the abbot or his deputy, or of John Asshfeld, Esq. : 
 with a table of the tolls ; Oxford, 9 Oct., an. 17 [1438]. The name of 
 the official scribe, " Sturgeon " is written in the margin at the foot. 
 
 Also, another copy of a similar grant for twelve years, dated at Westm. 
 15 March, an. 20 (1442), the money to be laid out under the abbot or 
 John Asshfeld. Subscribed, " Stopyndone." 
 
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 30. Hen. VI. Charter granting many additional privileges ; goods 
 and chattels of felons, enquiry into escheats, hearing or civil causes, 
 the bailiffs to be justices of the peace, &c, Westm., 7 June, an. 23 
 (1444). The initial letter and border are illuminated. There is an 
 office copy of this, certified by Rob. Lemon. 
 
 31. [Edw. IV. Office copy of inspeximus of the confirmation- 
 charter of Rich. II., &c. ; containing also a confirmation of a charter of 
 Hen. VI., 12 Jan., an. 24, confirming his grant of the tolls for twelve 
 years on 15 March, an. 20 (supra, 29) ; Westm., 7 May, an. 2 (1462).] 
 
 32. Edw. IV. Exemplification, at the desire of the bailiffs and 
 burgesses of Shrewsbury, of two statutes passed in Parliament 2 Hen. IV. 
 and 2 Hen. V. for repression of incursions and robberies by the 
 Welsh in the counties adjoining the Marches; Westm., 1 June, 
 an. 10 (1470). Great seal nearly perfect. 
 
 33. [Hen. VI 1. Office copy of charter remitting for the teim of 
 fifty years the sum of ten marks from the annual rent of 30/. payable to 
 the Crown, in consideration of the poverty and decay of the town ; 
 exonerating the inhabitants also from payment of fifteenths and other 
 taxes; Westm., 12 Dec, an. 1 (1485).] 
 
 Owen and Blakeway, I. 255. 
 
 34. Hen. VII. — New and lengthy charter to the town, extending 
 the boundaries, exempting from taxes, &c. ; on four membranes ; , 
 Westm., 14 Dec, an. 11 (1495). Fragments of seal in a bag. 
 
 Ibid., 268-9. 
 
 35. Hen. VIII. Grant to the bailiffs and burgesses of all the 
 liberties and privileges enjoyed by the abbots of the dissolved monas- 
 tery ; Westm., 26 Apr., an. 34 (1542). On two membranes. The initial 
 letter bears a large portrait of the King (not, however, resembling him) 
 on the throne, and the top line is illuminated with coats of arms, lions 
 bearing flags, &c. Fragments of seal in a bag. 
 
 Ibid., 338. 
 
 36. Edw. VI. Inspeximus of the preceding grant of Hen. VIII. ; 
 Westm., 12 Dec, an, 1 (1547). Two membranes; the initial letter has 
 an outline pen and ink portrait of the King. Half of the seal. 
 
 37. Edw. VI. Inspeximus of the charter of Hen. VII. in 1495; 
 Westm., 26 Nov., an. 2 (1548). Four membranes; the initial letter has 
 the outline pen and ink portrait of the King. Fragments of the seal in 
 a bag. 
 
 38. Edw. VI. Foundation-charter of the Grammar School ; Westm., 
 10 Feb., an. 6 (1552). Outline pen and ink portrait in the initial letter. 
 Fragment of the seal. 
 
 39. Elizabeth. Charter of incorporation of the town and suburbs ; 
 Westm., 20 Apr., an. 28 (1586). Four membranes ; outline pen and ink 
 portrait in the initial letter. Seal perfect. 
 
 Owen and Blakeway, I. 381-3. 
 
 40. Charles I. Charter constituting a new corporation of a mayor, 
 twenty-four aldermen and forty-eight assistants, coroner, recorder, &c. ; 
 Westm., 16 June, an. 14 (1638) Six membranes ; in the initial letter ia 
 a good portrait of the King. Seal in a bag, broken. 
 
 Ibid., 407-9. 
 
 The opinion of counsel (Edw. Bearcroft) upon the interpretation of 
 some of the clauses, dated Lincoln's Inn, 6 Jan. 1787. 
 
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 41. Charles II. Copy made in the 18th cent., in a folio volume, of a 
 charter granted 16 June, an. 14 (1GG2), confirming and extending the 
 charter of Q. Eliz., &c. 
 
 42. Charles II. Charter nominating mayor, aldermen, common 
 councilmen, &c. 6 July, an. 16 (1664). Engraved portrait. Never 
 sealed. 
 
 Ibid., 487. 
 
 Copy of the surrender of the charter of 16G2 to the King, 11 Oct. 
 1684. 
 
 43. James II. Charter of re-incorporation ; Westm., 7 March, an. 1 
 [1685.] Two membranes ; engraved portrait, and elegantly ornamented 
 margins. Fragments of seal. 
 
 Ibid., 493-4. 
 
 44. William IV. Commission of the peace to the mayor and eight 
 others; 17 Feb., an. 6 (1836). Seal in tin box. 
 
 4o ; William IV. Letters patent for the continuance of the separate 
 court of quarter sessions; 23 Apr., an. G (1836). Seal in tin box. 
 
 II. — Subsidy Rolls. 
 
 Of these there is an unusually full series, from the end of the 13th century 
 to the time of Queen Anne, commencing at an earlier date than any now 
 in the Eecord Office. There are three undated rolls of Edw. I., being 
 taxations of a sixth, (Nov. 1294) of a ninth (1297), and of a twentieth 
 (1306). Two rolls are dated in Edward's 25th and 26th years, (1296-7, 
 1297-8), but these were not forthcoming at the time of my inspection, 
 and appear to have been temporarily mislaid. There is also one in 
 which the proportion is not specified, on two membranes, of which one 
 bears an endorsement of the total as being 220/. 9*. 4rZ., and the other 
 134/. I4d. ; but it is possible that this is rather a municipal assessment 
 than a regal. An assessment for a tenth (" R[egis] x am ") of the ward 
 of the Castle Foregate and of the liberties belongs to the beginning of 
 the 14th century, probably to the reign of Edward II. For that reign 
 there is an assessment of a twenty-fifth (granted in 1309), which is very 
 minute in its details of all personal property ; a taxation of the liberties 
 of the town at Easter in that year; a fifteenth for the town in 1313 
 (" Tallagium factum tempore r. E. fil. r. E. vi.") and of the liberties 
 in the same year (" Taxacio libert. ville Salop. XV e domino r. concesse, 
 de anno r. r. Edwardi fil. r. Edwardi vij mo incipiente"), on six numbered 
 membranes; and a fifteenth in the ninth year (1316), in which 154 
 persons are taxed. For the reign of Edw. III. there is only one roll, 
 that of a tenth in his tenth year (1336), and but one for Rich. II. 
 That one, however, is specially interesting as being the taxation in 1380 
 for every person above the age of 14 which caused the insurrection of 
 Wat Tyler, and as consequently giving the total of the population of the 
 town above that age. It is headed, " Compotus Ric. de Graffton, 
 
 Walteri de Brom , Hng. Donfowe, et Johannis le Tyelere, 
 
 collectorum subsidii domino Regi concessi in villa Salop et libertate 
 ejusdem (struck out), videlicet de qualibet persona laica, homine et 
 femina, etatis xiiij annorum iiij d ," and begins, " In primis, in eadem 
 villa Salop et suburbiis ejusdem computantur strata et venelle xv., 
 quorum nomina sunt subscripts, cum numero personarum commorantium 
 in^eisdem, mendicantibus absque fraude prout in commissione continetur 
 
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 exceptis." The total is thus stated at the end : *' Et sic in villa et 
 libertate Salop computantur in totali gumma tarn de viris quam de 
 feminis laicis etatis xiiij anuorum, M 1 M 1 iiij xx et iij persone, secundum 
 computacionem ad C v xx , de quibus quidem M 1 M 1 iiij xx et iii personis 
 dicti collectores r[eceperunt] de qualibet persona iiij d , unde summa 
 totalis recepta se extendit ad xxxiiij 11 xiiij 3 et iiij d ." The roll is endorsed 
 with the names of the collectors in the outlying liberties, but not with 
 their returns.* The reigns of Henry V. and VII. are blanks ; for that 
 of Henry VI. there are three or four rolls, and one for Edward IV., of a 
 fifteenth in 1474-5 ; but from the time of Hen. VIII. onwards the series 
 is very regular. The latter king's series begins with the account of a 
 benevolence in 1522 ; " the names and summes of those persones that 
 have made lone or prest of money to the King's grace the xi th day of 
 November in the xiiij th yere," &c. In the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., 
 and Charles I. there are returns of collections made for provision of the 
 royal household. The ship-money accounts form a large file in 1635-9, 
 and include an original letter of instructions signed by the Privy Council ; 
 and in 1644 there is a small tattered parcel of returns of the monthly 
 assessment at 4d. in the pound levied for the king in the months of 
 June to September. Some papers connected with this assessment will 
 be found below among the Miscellaneous Papers under the same year. 
 
 III. — Gild-Merchant Rolls. 
 
 This series is remarkable as exhibiting the record of admissions to 
 burgess-ship in the town from the year 1209 to 1510. The genealogical 
 information afforded by them is important, as they give the names of 
 parents and specify the children. For 1209, xi. Joh., there are two 
 rolls. The first is headed, " Sanctus Spiritus assit nobis. De illis qui 
 sunt in Gilda mercand. in burgo Salop., et quorum patres pridie non 
 fuerunt in libertatibus Gilde, anno xi regni regis J., et quorum finis est 
 v sol. iiij d ." Other headings of subdivisions are, " De illis qui intra- 
 verunt gildam. De forinsecis qui intraverunt gildam, et de fine eorum. 
 Isti intraverunt ad ultimam assisam primo." The second roll is headed, 
 "De Gilda mercand. burgi Salop, ad quartam assisam anno xi regni 
 regis J. in festo Sancti Bartholomew De illis quorum patres fuerunt in 
 gilda, unde assisa de xxxij d (not as given in Blaheway, xxij d ) 
 apponitur, et pacaverunt iiij d ." This is endorsed with (3) another 
 list headed, " De ultimis qui intraverunt assisam gilde primo anno 
 i iij regni regis H. fil. regis J. in crastino Sancti Jacobi apostoli," 
 (26 July, 1220). These earliest rolls are now in course of being 
 printed in the Transactions of the Shropshire Archceological Society 
 by Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, M.A. 
 
 4. 1232. " De forinsecis et aliis in gilda ultima intratis ad viij am 
 assisam in crastino Sanctae Trinitatis anno r. r. H. fil. J. xvj." 
 
 5. 1239. "Rotulus de ghylda mercatorum burgo Salop, ad novam 
 (sic, for " nonam "f) assisam. Primus dies sessionis f uit die Martis 
 prox. post festum Sancti Dionisii anno r. r. H. xxiij ." 
 
 6,7. 1252. "Rotulusde illis qui quatuor denarios sunt pacaturi. 
 Nomina Theynesmen " ; twelve names. Then, " Rotulus de ghylda 
 
 * It is printed, with notes by Rev. G. W. D. Fletcher, in Trans, of Shi-cpsh. 
 Archceol Soc, 2nd S., II. 17-28. 
 
 t Nonam and novam are written by a carele3S scribe in "isc v . : minately ; generally 
 novam. 
 
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 mercatorum in burgo Saiopp. ad nonam assisam. Primus dies session^ 
 fuit dies Mercurii prox. post festum Sancti Barnabe apostoli anno r. r. 
 H. fil. J. xxxvj°." (In the figures of Ihe regnal year the first x is nearly 
 obliterated, and the date has hence been sometimes taken as xxvi., but 
 Blake way read it correctly.) There is also another roll, " De forinsecis 
 de ghylda mercantorum (sic) ad assisam nonam " on the same day, in 
 which the regnal year is written in full, " tricesimo sexto." 
 
 8, 9. 1268. Two rolls " de forinsecis de gilda mercatoria ad assisam 
 nonam," on St. Barnabas' day 52 Hen. III., of which the second has the 
 sub- heading, " Isti subscripti sunt qui tunc primo finierunt." 
 
 10. Another short roll of foreigners, without date. 
 
 The preceding rolls are described in Owen and Blakeway's History, I. 
 102-5, with a few errors;. 
 
 11, 12. Two rolls of the time of Hen. III., distinguishing the persons 
 who paid 3d., 4d., and Id. respectively. These are evidently burgess-rolls,, 
 but had been placed amongst those of the subsidies. Printed, with 
 notes by Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, in Trans, of Shr. Archcsol. Soc, 2nd 
 S., I. 29-52. 
 
 13. A curious very small roll of the same reign contains a list o£ 
 names in sections divided by crosses, without any heading or explanation, 
 except that one section with seven names is headed " Masuns." The 
 names are these : " Willelmus de Drayton, Rogerus de Farnecete, 
 Rogerus le Hunte, Thomas de Helecete, Willelmus Alberburi, Water 
 de Abbeton, Thomas de Teculwardin." 
 
 14-18. Five rolls temp. Edw. I., of which three belong to an, 9, 
 1281, and two to an. 32, 1304. 
 
 19-22. Edw. II. Four rolls of his twelfth year, 1319, at ihe f. of 
 St. Jo. Bapt., of which two are " de forinsecis." The "Nomina 
 Theynesmen " occur again here. 
 
 23. One very long roll contains the lists in various years from 
 12 Edw. II. to 21 Rich. II., 1318-1397. 
 
 24. At the f. of St. Laurence (10 Aug.) 28 Edw. III., 1354. 
 
 25. " De forinsecis," of the same date. 
 
 26. " Eleccio burgensium facta in anno r.r. Edw. tercii xlvi," 1372. 
 The names of the new burgesses' sons are given. 
 
 27. " De gilda mercatoria, de forinsecis ad nonam assisam," beginning: 
 on Monday after Mich. Day, 46 Edw. III., and ending on Christmas- 
 Day > 47 Edw. Ill,, extending thus from Mich. 1372 to Christmas 1373. 
 A long roll, 
 
 28. At the f. of St. Margaret, 8 Rich. II., 1384. 
 
 29. " De speciali gilda," Thursday before Christmas Day, 21 Rich. IL, 
 1397. 
 
 30. " De generali gilda," Thursday before Christmas Day, 6 Hen. IV^ 
 1404. 
 
 31. " De generali gilda," Tuesday after Conv. of St. Paul, 9 Hen. IV., 
 1408*. The first entry here is interesting as showing in the case of an 
 honorary admission that the ill-will which at a later period existed 
 between the men of Shrewsbury and of Oswestry had not then arisen : 
 
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 u Johannes Wele, capitaneus d'Osewestre, pro ainore et bono auxilio 
 suo burgensibus ville et communitati ac libertati ejusdem ville habitis 
 et irnposterum habendis." 
 
 32. "De generali gilda," Monday after f. of All SS., 14 Hen. IV.? 
 1412. 
 
 33. "Burgenses facti tempore Kogeri Corbet et Johannis Perle " j 
 scil. 1417-8. A very short roll. 
 
 34. 35. Thursday before f. of St. Denis M., 29 Hen. VI., 1450. 
 Two rolls ; on the second is added the list made on Monday, the vigil 
 of St, Peter ad Vine., 31 July, 30 Hen. VI., 1452; entered "per 
 Johannem Phelypps." 
 
 36. A roll containing three admissions at a session on the Monday- 
 next after SS. Phil, and James, 16 Hen. VII., 1501, and six at 
 sessions on several days in Jan., 19 Hen. VII., 1504. 
 
 37. A roll with 13 admissions on 1 Oct. 2 Hen. VIII. , 1510, of 
 which the first is that of " Robertas Sutton, alias dictus Robertas 
 Dudley, armiger, filius Edmundi Dudley de Dudley in com. Stafford,, 
 militis." 
 
 From this date up to 1863 the admissions are found in the Assembly 
 Books, and in several separate volumes, one of which extends from 
 1463 to 1758. There is a modern alphabetical index of names. 
 
 In 1632 there is a draft on paper of an agreement by the bailiffs that 
 the free men and women of the craft of Turners shall be hereafter 
 (as hitherto understood to be) free of the crafts of Bowyers, Fletchers, 
 Cowpers, Stringers, Joiners, Feltmakers, and Haberdashers. 
 
 There is a parcel of petitions to the bailiffs, in number 14, with one 
 to the Council of the Marches, extending from the end of the fifteenth 
 century to the beginning of the seventeenth, which relate to the com- 
 panies of Weavers, Bakers, Tailors, Shoemakers, Saddlers, JoinerSj and 
 Butchers. Amongst these the following may be specially noted : — 
 
 From the Shermen, otherwise called Clothworkers, praying that 
 certain reformed ordinances, which they have had drawn by learned 
 counsel, may be enacted, to prevent the ruin of their trade; temp. 
 Jas. I. 
 
 From the Saddlers and G-lasiers, complaining that, whereas the 
 Curriers have always been freemen of their Company, certain young 
 men now refuse to take out their freedom. 
 
 From Gyllem Wisbeche and others, joiners, complaining that 
 Maderne Wisbecke " namynge hymself doctor of Physike " and Griffith 
 ap Madock, wardens of their craft, admit carpenters into it ; with the 
 reply of the said Wardens annexed. For an account of a subscription 
 made for the relief of Dr. Wisbeche in 1574, see under that date in the 
 notes from the Registers infra. 
 
 Several other petitions relating to various companies will be found 
 among the Miscellaneous Papers. 
 
 IV. — Municipal Registers. 
 
 I. The first record of Acta is contained in a paper, volume in folio, 
 called Liber A., bound in thick oak boards, and consisting originally of 
 about 112 leaves, but some of these are now wanting, and others are 
 much mutilated. Its period extends from the latter part of the reign of 
 Edward III. to that of Henry VII., and the contents are of a very mis- 
 cellaneous character, and are not in chronological order. The following 
 entries will give an idea of their nature. 
 
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 1. " Ordinacio procescionis artificum ville Salopie in festo Corporis 
 Christi." The companies were in the following order: Molendinarii, 
 Pistores, Piscatores, Coci, Carnifices, Barcarii ( Tanners), Cordewenarii, 
 Fabri, Cellarii, Carpentarii, Flechers Cowpers and Bowers, Textores, 
 [TJonsarii cum Barbitonsoribus, [Cijrotecarii, [Sci]ssores. The name 
 of one other company has been cut off.* f. 1. 
 
 On the same leaf is a list of the villages and hamlets included in the 
 liberties of the town. 
 
 2. Ordinance, in French, of the gild merchant relating to the cord- 
 wainers and tanners ; 1389. f. l b . 
 
 3. Elections of bailiffs, coroners, and other officers. 1389-1508. 
 ff. l b , 9 b -31 b , 104 b . 
 
 3. Enrolments of miscellaneous deeds and bonds ; 1350-1506. ff. 1 # — 
 10, 32-37, 48 b , 67, 69 b , 76 a , b , 78-83 b , 87-8, 92 b , 103 b , 105 b , 1Q8, 112. 
 
 4. Ordinances regulating trade ; 1502. f. l #b . 
 
 5. Composition in 1381 for the government of the town ; Fr. f. 2. 
 Transl. in Owen and Blakeway, I. 169. 
 
 6. Inventory of goods bequeathed by Cecilia late wife of Rich. Graf- 
 ton to Cecilia wife of John Botonere of Coventry ; 1404. f. 3. (Other 
 inventories are at f. 77 b .) 
 
 7. Letter to the King's Commissioners for the county pleading 
 exoneration from taxes ; 1491. f. 3 b . 
 
 Ibid., 259. 
 
 8. List of plate received by Will. Pontysbury, bailiff, from Roger 
 Mountgomery, 10 Oct. 1494, of the goods of four persons, being three 
 standing cups, a saltcellar and two " litle masers " ; pinned to f . 28 b . 
 
 9. Articles for the government of the craft of weavers ; 1450. f. 34. 
 
 10. Entries of recognizances under the statute merchant : 1372-1551. 
 ff. 38-48, 49 b -66 b . 
 
 11. Lists of aldermen and assistants, c. 1502-5. ff. 68 b -9. 
 
 12. Order that corn and malt shall only be sold publicly in the 
 market ; if sold privately, only in the form of bread and ale. f. 70. 
 
 13. Ordinance made by the Council of the Marches for the good 
 government of the town ; 10 Apr. 18 Edw. IV., 1478. ibid. 
 
 Owen and Blakeway, I., 231-2. 
 
 14. List of persons present at the sealing of a composition with the 
 abbey of St. Peter, on the morrow of the Conv. of St. Paul, 26 Jan. 
 1513. f. 71 b . 
 
 15. Ordinances made for the good rule and governance of the craft of 
 carpenters and tylers, the Friday after the Nativ. of our Lord, 28 Hen. 
 VI. (26 Dec. 1449). f. 72 b . 
 
 16. Ordinance for the settling of disputes between members of diffe- 
 rent crafts and for enforcing obedience to the bailiffs; not dated, 
 f. 74. 
 
 * Probably * Pannarii." Other companies in the town were the " Vintenari:," 
 " Alutarii," M Merceri," and " Petiliarii." 
 
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 17. Two orders " touchant I'office des seriantz de la ville *' ; the 
 second dated 25 Jan. 2 Hen. V. (1415). ff. 74 b , 109 b . 
 
 18. Privy seal warrant from Hen. IV. exempting Thomas Skynner 
 for life from serving on juries; 3 Aug. an. 9, 1408. Ibid.) 
 
 19. Exemplification by Rich. II. of a passage i( in libro de Domesday," 
 under the title of the land of Earl Roger, relating to the manor of Ford ; 
 20 Nov. an. 9, 1385. f. 77. 
 
 20. Will of Richard Kent; Monday after the f. of St, Barnabas 
 (16 June) 1399. Ibid. 
 
 21. Conveyance from Katherine Bonell, daughter of Richard Bonell, 
 widow, to King Edw. IV. and Degory Watur, draper, of tenements, 
 rent, &c. in the street called Mardevole, " ad sustentacionem Christi 
 pauperum commorancium in domibus eleemosinariis defundacione Regis 
 predicti in cimiterio ecclesie beate Marie ;" 8 Apr. 1464. f. 78 b . 
 
 Mention occurs here of one John Knight as Master of the Gild of 
 the Holy Trinity of the mystery of Pannars. 
 
 22. " Ordinaunce made touchyng the taske " i.e. tax, " of the toun 
 of Shrosbury," made at a common hall, 11 Dec. 1418, for better assess- 
 ment than has hitherto been made by the 64 quillours " for the King, 
 f, 84. 
 
 23. Ordinances for the good rule and governance of the crafts of 
 Flechers, Cowpers and Bowers, in which each man has hitherto used 
 4< to governe hym aftere his owne lust in gret hurt and hynderynge and 
 cppressynge of the f orseyde craftes " ; Tuesday after the f. of the Nativ. 
 of our Lady, 27 Hen. VI. (10 Sept. 1448). f. 84*. 
 
 24. Agreement between the preceding crafts on the one part and 
 that of the Carpenters on the other, as to the order in the procession on 
 Corpus Christi day of their banner, wax, and alderman respectively ; 
 Sunday before Corp. Chr., 1 Edw. IV. (4 June 1461). f. 86. 
 
 25. Ordinances for the governance of the craft of Vintners, hitherto 
 accustomed to rule themselves after their own free will and lust; 
 Thursday after the f. of St Michael, 14 Hen. IV. (6 Oct. 1412). f. 86 l >. 
 
 26. Ordinances for the craft of Tailors and Skinners ; not dated, 
 f. 88*. 
 
 27. Orders forbidding the buying or bringing in by any draper or 
 other person of any Welsh cloth ; 12 Apr. 10 Edw. IV. (1470). f. 89\ 
 
 28. Orders restraining for one year buying and selling in any towns 
 in Wales or in the county of Salop, except at common fairs, by the 
 inhabitants of Shrewsbury, in order to renew the decayed trade of the 
 town, with other regulations ; 17 Jan. 15 Hen. VII. (1500). f. 91. 
 
 Two of the orders are as follows :— • 
 
 " Item, it is assented that all londs, lesons and pastures within the 
 frauncheis of the seyd towne that be not sowen with corne yerly, shall 
 lye open and be corny ne pasture, to the relief of the pore people, from 
 Myghelmas tyll Candylmas, as it hath ben accustomed. 
 
 " Item, it is ordeigned that thenhabitants of the seyd towne shall 
 curtesly entrete all straungers that shall resort to the seycl towne and 
 riztuesly demeane theym in byyng and sellyng, and yf eny of thenhabi- 
 tants be complayned vppon for the contrary demeanure and by 
 examynacion so proved, to be grevously puneshed." 
 
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 29. Admissions of burgesses to the gild merchant ; Jan., 19 Hen. VII. 
 (1504)— Dec, 21 Hen. VII. (1505); 11,12, 1G Hen. VII. a 496, 1501) ^ 
 c. 29-30 Hen. VI. (1450-2) ; 5 Edw. IV. (1405) ; 28 Hen. VI. (1449);, 
 6, 8 Edw. IV. (1466-8) ; 13, 15 Edw. IV. (1473, 1476) ; 1, 7, 9 Hen. 
 VII. (1486, 1492-3) ; 13 Hen. VII. (1498) ; 21 Edw. IV. (1482) &c. ff. 
 98-1 07 b . 
 
 30. Oaths of the several officers of the town ; ff. 100 b -101, 104 b . 
 
 31. Admission of Robert Bromley as recorder in 1508. f. 108. 
 
 32. Will of Thomas de la Clyve, clerk and burgess, containing many 
 legacies ; 6 Nov. 1336. f. 109. 
 
 Lying loose in the volume is a torn paper containing a representation 
 made to the bailiffs and council in 1529 by the burgesses and com- 
 monalty " of the new fraunches," for the reformation of grievances. 
 
 II. This bound volume is followed by a series of four books, now 
 stitched in brown paper covers, containing the record of the assembly 
 of the Common Council (called " Assemblacio* Communis Consilii ") 
 from 7 Oct., 24 Hen. VII. (1507) to March, 31 Hen, VIII. (1540), but 
 the years 1512-1520 are wanting. y They often afford little more 
 than the lists of names of the persons present, lists of the gilds making 
 annual payments, admissions of burgesses, and elections. Some original 
 J petitions and memoranda are occasionally pinned in the books. 
 
 1510, 8 March, 1 Hen. Till. "Consilium precedens aggreati sunt 
 quod si forte aliqua magna et periculosa affria pacis aut insurreccio riotosa 
 facta [sit]," then all the inhabitants shall be bound to assist the bailiffs. 
 
 1525-6, 17 Hen. VIII. Statement of journeys made by Richard 
 Atkys to London and other places on the business of the town, in 
 some dispute with Worcester, "as yet unrewardyt for his labour.'* 
 Four pounds are ordered on 12 Oct. 1526 to be paid to him. He is 
 again employed afterwards. 
 
 1534, 16 Oct. Agreed that £20 be paid to the burgesses of parliament 
 out of the common treasury. 
 
 1535, 13 Oct., 27 Hen. VIII. (i They be aggreed that provision 
 shalbe provyded ; an oxe, a couple or ii of swannes, a dossen capones, a 
 couple off calves, a hoggeshed of wyne." This (as appears from Owen's 
 and Blakeway's Hist. I. 317) was for the entertainment of the dukes of 
 
 . Richmond, Norfolk, and Suffolk. 
 
 1537, 26 Apr., 29 Hen. VIII. The waits hired for the year follow- 
 ing, to have such livery as heretofore hath been used. 
 
 1537, 15 June, 29 Hen. VIII. A letter to be sent to Mr. Robert 
 Dudley, burgess in parliament, to stay his suit against the bailiffs 
 concerning the writs which he brought for his wages. 
 
 18 June. Order to prepare for reception of the Commissioners of 
 
 the Marches. (Owen and Blakeway, I. 321.) 
 
 — 31 July. Mr. Newton's house to be bought for the Lord President. 
 
 1540, 9 Jan., 31 Hen. VIII. " They be aggreed that there shalbe 
 suyte made unto the Kynge and his Counsell, by mediacion of my 
 Lord President and Mr. J ustice that the Abbey may stand and remayne, 
 to receyve the prince's grace or any other nobilite of the realme that 
 shall resorte to this towne, and also concernyng the franches called the 
 
 * This word is usually written in a wrongly contracted form as " Assiliaco, 55 but 
 when written at length is " Assemblaco," and even " Assumulaco." 
 
 f The elections in these years are, however, found in the book of admissions of 
 burgesses marked B» 
 
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 Abbey f ranches in maner and forme as the same is now used, to be had 
 and obteyned to this towne, to be used as the other suburbes be." 
 
 29 Jan. A reformation to be sought at London of the wrongful 
 
 and excessive toll taken at Oswestry. (Further orders about this 
 matter in March.) 
 
 III. — The stitched parcels are followed by a thick volume, bound in 
 parchment (of which the flyleaves are fragments of a MS. breviary, 
 doubtless from one of the destroyed monasteries) containing 397 leaves, 
 and extending from 28 March 1553 to 5 Feb. 1584. Some entries 
 relating to the reign of Philip and Mary, with many for the earlier years 
 of Elizabeth, follow the 21st year of the latter; apparently from the 
 business of the Court of Aldermen and assistants and that of the 
 Common Council being entered separately. 
 
 1553, The news of the King's death on 6 July must have reached the 
 town tardily, for the 12th of July is said to be in the 7th year of King 
 Edward (or else the uncertainty as to his successor ma}' have made the 
 Town Clerk judge it safest to retain his name), when order was made 
 that six householders from each ward should watch the towngates, with 
 one of the aldermen or common-councilmen each night in turn as 
 captain. Even the 23rd July is said to be in 7 Edw. VI., when it is 
 ordered that 24 men should be in readiness to serve the King's grace if 
 needful, according to the accustomed old use and ordinance; but here 
 " king " has been struck out and " quene " substituted. 
 
 , 29 Sept. Ordered that no burgess living outside the town, and 
 
 not contributing to its charges, shall have any voice in the election of 
 burgesses for Parliament ; and that Mr. Reignold Corbet, recorder, shall 
 be one of the burgesses for Parliament so long as he is recorder, if he 
 will take it upon him, " for that it ys supposed to be incident to his 
 office of recordarshipp," f. 5 h . 
 
 , 4 Oct. Suit to be made for the uniting of the East " Foriett " and 
 
 the site of the monastery to the liberties of the town. f. 6. 
 
 1 30 Oct. The recorder's opinion to be taken as to the lawfulness 
 
 of electing any person who may be abroad for a burgess of parliament, 
 and whether any person may lawfully " labour " any burgess, to gain his 
 good will. f. 11. 
 
 1554, 7 Nov. T. Mytton and George Lye elected burgesses for 
 parliament, f. 234 b . 
 
 1555, 6 Aug., 19 Sept. Orders respecting agreement with Mr. John 
 Iiichemund for setting forward the conduit and bringing water to the 
 town. ff. 14, 235. Further orders in 1557, ff. 23 b , 24 b ; 28 March, 20 
 May, 21 June, 27 Dec. 1567, ff. 99, 92, 264, 93. 
 
 — , 4 Oct. Nicholas Pursell and Reignold Corbett, esquires, 
 
 elected burgesses for parliament, f. 236. 
 
 1556, 16 May. The bailiffs to set forward the stage play this next 
 Whitsontide for the worship of the town, and not to disburse above £5 
 about the furniture of the play. f. 18 b . 
 
 , 31 Oct. The bailiffs or others " to heare and bringe furth a 
 
 honest able and discreate person which will and can serve the office and 
 service of a head scolemaister of the Frescole, and that shalbe allowed 
 and thought meate .... by the aldermen and counsaile " ; and 
 
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 the bailiffs are then to " avoyd John Eyton now scolem r gyvinge hym 
 one halfe yere's warnynge," and that he shall have for his stipend and 
 wages from Michaelmas last not above £14 by the year. 
 
 1557, 23 Jan. The day bell to be " rongen " throughout the whole 
 year at St. Julian's at 4 o'cl. f. 239. 
 
 — — , 18 June. " Sessours " appointed for levying of the fee of Mr. 
 Thomas Mytton, late burgess of parliament, being £8 13. f. 22 b . 
 
 1558, 14 Jan. Nich. Pursell and George Lye elected burgesses of 
 parliament. No person to labour, or cause or procure any labour to be 
 made, to be burgess before the writ be read to the commons then 
 assembled for election, [or else to be excluded from election.] 
 f. 241. 
 
 , 10 June. Order of the millers that no corn be ground for any 
 
 man except they have also the grinding of his malt. f. 27. 
 
 , 15 Oct. Koger Lewys, alderman, fined 6s. 8d. for making 
 
 request to the bailiffs on behalf of one Thomas Gierke now remaining 
 in ward for misdemeanour, f. 28. 
 
 , 9 Nov. On account of the terrible fires that have happened of 
 
 late within the town, by occasion of a great number of faggots of gorse 
 and broom being piled and kept within or near houses, it is ordered that 
 no baker keep in his house, or within 60 yards of any house, more than 
 twenty such faggots, and no other person more than six. f. 29. 
 
 1559, 7 Aug. Agreed that the goods, stock, money and jewels of the 
 four parish churches within the town shall be utterly employed, can- 
 verted, and put to the use of the poor only from henceforth, f. 33 b . 
 
 , 27 Dec. Mr. Justice John Frogmorton, alias Throgmorton, to 
 
 be chosen recorder in place of R. Corbet, f. 38 b . Formally elected 
 16 Aug. 1560, f. 42 b . Patent sealed 4 Aug. 1562, f. 54 b 
 
 1560, 26 March. Order for the furniture of 48 able men presently 
 appointed to the Queen's service northward, f. 40 b . 
 
 1560, 5 July. Order by the Council of the Marches in a suit heard 
 before them upon a claim for an annual payment of 40s. from two 
 pastures called Cow Leasow and New Land, part of the grange of 
 Attincham in the county of Salop, and late parcel of the possessions of 
 the abbey of Liileshall, bequeathed by Alice Hosye^ (the plaintiff's 
 mother, to whom he was executor) to the poor folk of the Almshouse of 
 St. Mary and St. Chad in Shrewsbury, f. 390. Followed by original 
 receipts for quarterly payments from 10 Oct. 1568 to 7 Apr. 1571. 
 ff. 392 b , 393 b . 
 
 1561, 21 June. Thomas Assheton with one other learned school- 
 master to enter [upon the School] at this Midsummer, and for stipend, 
 until certain leases be expired, to have 40/., and for an usher 8/. ; and 
 when the leases fall in, Mr. Assheton, then finding another schoolmaster 
 and usher, to have a patent of all the tithes belonging to the School, 
 paying 8s. annually to the Queen for the chief rent, and keeping the 
 schoolhouse in repair, f. 45 b . Further order about the tithes, 24 
 June. ff. 46, 243 b . 
 
 1562, 24 Nov. A collection to be made, partly "wherewith the 
 sergyantes may be recompensed yn the stydde of the offerings they had 
 yn churches." f. 57. 
 
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 1562, 22 Dec. Eobert Ireland, esq., and Richard Pursell, gent., 
 burgesses for parliament, f. 249. 
 
 1563, 26 March. The house wherein the Council of the Marches lie 
 when they come to Shrewsbury let to the Lord Stafford, but reserving 
 the use ior the Council and the justices of assize, f . 60. 
 
 — , not dated. Richard Hygons sent to London to endeavour the 
 discharge of the town from the pressing of 36 soldiers, f. 61 b . 
 
 , 6 April. Sessors appointed to levy 30/. 14s. for the fee of 
 
 George Leyghe, several times burgess for parliament, f. 249 b . 
 
 < , 24 July. Wine and horse-meat to be provided for the Lord 
 
 President of the Marches on his coming to the town. f. 62. Other 
 orders, 18 Oct. 1567, f. 97 ; 1 Aug. 1568, f. 103 ; &c. 
 
 , 16 Sept. Order about the refunding of 33/. collected for 21 
 
 soldiers who were impressed to go to Newhaven, but are returned, 
 f. 63. Further order, 5 Dec. 1564. f. 74. 
 
 Not dated. Agreed that a proclamation be fixed upon the gates of 
 the town, that if any inhabitant go to the city of London or any other 
 place where the plague doth remain that he shall not return, or come 
 within four miles of any part of the town or franchise, before two 
 months be fully ended after his being there, and that no one shall 
 receive any lodger, or take in any wares, apparel, or household stuff, 
 from any place where the plague remains, upon pain of disfranchise- 
 ment, f. 65 b . 
 
 1567, not dated. Levy for three soldiers to serve in Ireland, f. 91 b . 
 
 , 22 Aug. Roger Lewys, alias Pope, degraded from his " room 
 
 of aldermanship, for causes reasonable." f. 265. 
 
 1568, 8 Jan. Ordered that Mr. Asheton shall have the setting of the 
 living appertaining to the Free School, when the leases are expired, 
 according to his petition. 
 
 Of this petition a copy, attested by Adam Mitton, the town 
 clerk, is subjoined, in which Asheton desires to be allowed to 
 " set " the property as he thinks good, his devise being allowed 
 under the common seal when he has first been sworn not to 
 alienate one penny from the use of the School, but that all shall be 
 employed for the discharging the wages of the Schoolmaster and the 
 reparations of the School, " which in few years will be no little thing," 
 and for the sustentation of the children going from the School to Oxford 
 and Cambridge, an , account being yearly made to the bailiffs, aldermen, 
 and common council, f. 266. 8 Oct. Further order, allowing the same, 
 and specifying the tithes, ff. 110, 111. 
 
 1568, 26 Feb. On a bill of complaint from the Carpenters and the 
 answer of the Joiners, it is ordered that the Joiners be made of the 
 company of the Bowyers, Fletchers, and Cow[p]ars. f. 100. 
 
 , 12 Aug. Decree of arbitration by the Lord President and 
 
 Council of the Marches for the settlement of great disputes relative to 
 the elections in the Corporation. To this the autograph signatures of 
 aU the members are attached, ff. 106-8. 
 
 ^ , 1 Oct. Order (with eleven signatures) respecting the disputed 
 
 election of John Ap Owen as alderman, f. 109. 
 
 1569, 26 May. Ordered that every one who has been a bailiff shall 
 wear his scarlet gown on Whitsunday, the Sunday after election day, 
 Allhallows day, Christmas day, New Year's day, Twelfth day, Candle- 
 
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 mas day, and Easter day, upon pain of 6 s. Sd., and that all aldermen 
 and common councilmen shall be ready in the street to wait upon the 
 bailiffs on those days at one o'cl., upon pain for the former of 6 s. Sd. and 
 for the latter of 35. 4d. f . 1 19 b 
 
 , 9 July. Bequest to the town of 200/. by Robert Allen. 
 
 £ 122 b . 
 
 , 7 Sept. The bailiffs, or their deputies, to wear on every 
 
 Sunday, holyday, court day and fair day, and also at such time as they 
 welcome any man of honour and worship coming to the town, a velvet 
 tippet whereby they may be known, upon pain, on default, of 3s. 7d., 
 and also to have an able man to wait upon him with a bill, who shall be 
 called by the name of a bill-bearer, f. 123 b . 
 
 , 5 Oct. Every alderman within three months after his election 
 
 shall buy and wear a scarlet gown at such times as are limited, for the 
 worship of the town, and every bailiff shall buy and wear a scarlet 
 gown both for himself and his wife. f. 124. 
 
 , 5 Nov. A good and perfect survey to be made of all encroach- 
 ments without license, and of all stoppages of ways and lanes, f. 125. 
 
 1570, 18 March. A certain chapel called St. Nicholas Chapel, with a 
 parcel of ground adjoining, in a street called the High Pavement, to be 
 let to Richard Onslowe (Attorney of the Court of Wards) at the yearly 
 rent of 2s. 6d. f. 128. Confirmed 8 July. ff. 130, 272. 
 
 , 19 April. The six Sessors " now commonlyc called Sytters" 
 
 L 272 b . 
 
 , 18 June. Orders made by the Council of the Marches in a 
 
 case heard before them at Shrewsbury between some of the shearmen 
 and certain drapers, concerning the dressing of Welsh cloths called 
 Welsh cottons, &c. f. 385. See infra, 8 Nov. 1571. 
 
 , 8 July. The survey to be begun upon the 19th of this month. 
 
 i. 130. 
 
 , (8 July). Lease to be granted to three persons for ten years 
 
 of a certain pasture called "Behind the walles, exceptinge the Quarrell 
 where the plases [pieties *] have bine accustomyd to be nsyd," on condition 
 that they bring by a lead conduit the water or spring called " Brodwalle " 
 to the High Cross, there to remain in a cistern of freestone in such sort 
 as may have continuance, f. 272. Further order about the conduit, 
 21 June, 1571. f. 274 b . Other orders, 1573. ff. i65 b 166 b . 
 
 9 14 Sept. Lease to Rich. Onslowe of a piece of ground whereon 
 
 the smith's forge stands adjoining the Chape] of St. Nicholas, and also 
 a void piece of ground between the forge and a tenement called Knight's 
 Place, at a rent of 3s. 4d. instead of 2s. 6d., and " agreeinge with the 
 poore man." f. 273. 
 
 1571, 23 April. At the request of the Council of the Marches, 61. 
 13s. 4d. granted to Serjeant Bodyley, serjeant-at-arms before the Council, 
 in recompence of his good service in the Queen's wars. f. 138b. 
 
 A certificate to be made " unto the Parly anient house for the dyssol- 
 vinge of one braunshe of a statute [an. 8. concerning drapers] coneernyng 
 that all the burgesses of this towne and liberties myght be as fre as any 
 other person ot this realme to bye Walshe clothes in the towne of 
 Oswestrye or elswhere out of this towne and fraunches, and so to carrye 
 
 * See infra, in the Bailiffs' Accounts for 1515-16. 
 
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 the same to the cytie of London or to any other place at there pleasure, 
 as they have bene before thys tyme accustomed." f. 139. 1572, 24 April. 
 The commonalty moved to agree to the " certificate " for the repeal of 
 the statute, which is carried by a majority, if. 153b, 277, 277b. 
 
 1571, 31 Oct. The town to have a lease from Rich. Onslowe for 60 
 years of the house commonly called " the Counsaile house," with the 
 Chapel, paying yearly 53s. 4d. f. 146. 
 
 , 8 Nov. Proceedings at Hereford before the Council of the 
 
 Marches in a suit between the shearmen and drapers of Shrewsbury, 
 with articles of agreement thereupon, f. 388. 
 
 , 20 Dec. Payment of charges for obtaining the grant of the 
 
 Queen's Majesty concerning the Free School, f. 276. 
 
 1572, 29 Sept. Two aldermen displaced for not being continual 
 dwellers, f. 158 b . 
 
 1573, 10 Feb. The arch of the Welsh bridge, commonly called the 
 draw-bridge, to be made up either with free stone or timber, f. 166. 
 
 , 26 March. Christopher Hanckehurst, clerk, to have a yearly 
 
 stipend of £5. f. 282. 30 Oct. In consideration of his travail and 
 service in the preaching and administration of God's word hereafter to 
 be done as he heretofore hath done, to have an annual stipend or fee of 
 51. in augmentation of his living, until he be promoted to some better 
 living, f. 181 b . 
 
 , 3 April. Ordinance respecting election of aldermen, f. 168 b . 
 
 1574, 26 April. Agreement that Maderne Wysebecke shall, in 
 consideration of his painful travail and pains taken with the inhabitants, 
 have a yearly annuity according to promises of contributions made by 
 the aldermen, &c, severally. A petition lies loose in the volume from 
 Maderne Wysebecke, physician, setting forth that he and his wife have 
 lived in the town for 22 years, and to the best of their powers and 
 cunning have spent their time in such art and science as is well known, 
 and in giving their advice to such patients as have required it of them, 
 as well to the poor as to the rich, and in especial to the poor, they have 
 sought little or nothing at all. Now being somewhat in age, and not 
 so well able to travail for the getting of his and her living as before, but 
 willing here still to remain to their best endeavour as^before, and being 
 charged with rents, and also greatly charged in buying of books for 
 better knowledge and learning, which is a dead stock, they pray for some 
 annuity, for God's love. The petition is endorsed with a list of sub- 
 scriptions, amounting to 22s. from 28 persons. IF. 187-8. 
 
 , 14 July. "Agreed that the occupation of millners shalbe 
 
 maynteyned as an occupation, as they have bine accustomed, accordinge 
 to there composition, in all things lawful!." f. 189 b . 
 
 , 26 [and 29 interlined*'] July. Eleven persons appointed together 
 
 with the bailiffs to peruse the orders of the Free School, and to make 
 relation what they think thereof, and if they doubt of anything, then to- 
 take the advice of Mr. Prince, f. 190. 
 
 * Occasional alterations of date appear to have been caused by the town clerk's 
 writing out beforehand under the days on which the meetings were supposed to be 
 going to he held, the list of names of those entitled to be present, and then by 
 correcting the date when the days were altered. 
 
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 1577, 15 Aug. Ordered that whereas there is a place set up in the 
 High Street near the " Sexstrye " in the freehold of Mr. Thomas Mack- 
 worth, for the conduit (" conducte ") to run there, it shall not remain 
 but presently be pulled down, as being set up without the licence of the. 
 bailiffs and commons, f. 191. 
 
 , 13 Oct. 61. 13s. Ad. given to William Croft, gent., at the 
 
 request of the President of the Council of the Marches, in consideration 
 of his great losses ; two new burgesses to be admitted in order to provide 
 the money, and the surplus of their payments to be applied to the 
 boarding and finishing of " the newe house." f. 192 h . 
 
 , 6 Nov. Mr. Hawkhurst to have 5/. more of yearly stipend 
 
 until such time as better provision may be made for him. f. 193 b . 
 
 , 13 Dec. Order, signed by Robert Pigott, Arthur Maynwaring, 
 
 E. Leighton, and Robert Nedham that the town of Salop furnish six 
 armed men, viz., two harquebusiers, armed with burgonett, sword, 
 dagger, and other necessaries, one pikeman and two billmen, armed 
 with corslets, swords, and daggers, &c, and one bowman, with " skolle," 
 bow and arrows, sword, dagger. &c. An acknowledgment by George 
 Higgens, esq., one of the bailitfs, on 14 Dec. that he has received from 
 Sir Andrew Corbet, knt., the following parcels of armour towards the 
 furnishing of the six men, viz., three corslets complete, whereof one 
 with pike and two with halberds, two calivers complete, with their 
 furniture, with flasks, touchboxes, and two " murreyns," with one skull 
 for a bowman, pinned to f. 195 b . 
 
 1575, 12 Feb. The arch of the Welsh bridge to be repaired, f. 195 b . 
 
 , 3 June. Ordered that no business be entered upon at any 
 
 meeting until the minutes of the last meeting have been read. f. 200. 
 
 , 17 July. Five marks to be given to Mr. Churchyard for his 
 
 pains taken in setting forth the show against the Queen's coming, being 
 sent hither by the Lord President, f. 203 b . 
 
 1576, 14 March. The wails, bridges, towers, and council-house to be 
 repaired, f. 207. Again on 6 May, 1577. f. 213 b . 
 
 , 12 Oct. The bailiffs who shall henceforth have the disbursing 
 
 of the legacy of Robert Allen, alderman, deceased, shall provide sureties 
 for the same. f. 211. Further order 16 Aug. 1577, f. 215. 
 
 , Country bakers, not being free with the bakers, to be restrained 
 
 from selling bread within the town, provided that the town bakers serve 
 the inhabitants according to their promise made in their petition, and 
 according to the price of corn from time to time. f. 21 l b . 
 
 , 9 Nov. Mrs. Hawkhurst to have 10/. in discharge of the fee 
 
 due to her husband in his lifetime, f. 290 b . 
 
 , 13 Nov. (7 Dec. interlined). Order respecting the levying of a 
 
 cess towards the relief of the diseased, f. 212 b . 
 
 1577, 6 May. The book made for the benevolence towards the 
 maintenance of a preacher to be looked up, and they that were appointed 
 for that purpose shall take some pains for the finishing thereof, and 
 thereupon to have the same collected for the good purpose it is given for. 
 f. 214. 
 
 , 16 Aug. Whereas it is requisite to have a court kept weekly, 
 
 letters to be written to Mr. Thomas Owen for his advice herein, f. 215 b . 
 
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 1574, 17 Aug. Edward Clark, butcher, to be " disgrated " of his 
 burgesship for the disorder and misusage that he hath committed against 
 Mr. bailiff Dawes, f. 291 b . 
 
 1578, 9 May (22 June interlined). Warning to be given to the alder- 
 men and common councillors to assemble on 1 July for the displacing of 
 such of the aldermen and councillors as are to be displaced for their 
 
 non resyancie " (non-residence), as also for defaults that shall seem 
 reasonable cause, f. 221. (There is no entry of any business done on 
 1 July although a meeting appears to have been held.) 
 
 The bailiffs shall enter upon the castle-gates and prisoners, and 
 41 expulse " all the sheriff's prisoners, and take the keys into their 
 possession, within three days after the next assize ; and no sheriff shall 
 hereafter have or keep any prisoners within the said gates and prisons at 
 any time. Ibid. 
 
 The bailiffs shall take advice of Mr. Prince, or some one that is 
 learned, what is the best course for suppressing the " inmattes," idle 
 persons, drunkards, and others that, being men of occupations, give 
 themselves to idleness, drunkenness, and all disorders, f. 22 l b . 
 
 , 19 Aug. Robert Prebell, free-mason, lately in work with 
 
 Edmund Cornwall, esq., offers to take in hand a piece of work for the 
 covering of the fountain or cistern of the " conduct" at the end of the 
 Fish Street, and the little conduit at the Wyld Cope, with free stone 
 according to a plat or pattern by him now shewed. But forasmuch as 
 he is a mere stranger and unknown to the bailiffs, and cannot, being a 
 stranger, find the sureties they require, he offers to take the work in 
 hand, and finish it before 20 Oct. next at the furthest, for the sum of 
 20/. ; and for the payment of his workmen to take but twenty marks, 
 after xxxiij s iiij d a week, until the work be finished, and upon the 
 finishing to receive the residue, being twenty nobles : and enters into 
 covenants for performance, f. 223. 
 
 = , 25 Aug. A letter read from Mr. Robert Corbett for the 
 
 granting of the town's interest in the Council House ; he is to be informed 
 of the state thereof, f. 224 b 
 
 , 27 Sept. Survey of the conduit ordered, f. 227 b , 
 
 , 28 Sept. Settlement of a suit which had been depending in 
 
 the Court of Star Chamber for seven years respecting the election of 
 George Proud as alderman on the death of Edward Hosyer, esq. 
 f. 229. (Other suits about elections are noticed in several places.) 
 
 1579, 23 Jan. (1 Feb. interlined). Mr. Thomas Burnell com- 
 missioned to go to Dr. Bonckley to move him, by the desire of the 
 bailiffs and the schoolmaster, to accept the cure of St. Mary's, which is 
 now destitute of a curate, f. 232. [See under 21 March 1580.] 
 
 1 Feb. Forty pounds, bequeathed by Thomas Nicolls for the main- 
 tenance of a preacher in St. Chad's for ever, are paid to Thomas 
 Burnell, gent., and he enters into a bond of 100/. for the making 
 assurance of £4 6s. tid. for ever to the use of a preacher out of his 
 lands, f. 232 b . 8 Sept. The indentures of the assurance to be 
 sealed, f. 337 b . 
 
 Agreed that Mr. Burnell take some pains at Coventry for the obtain- 
 ing copies of orders and instructions for the laying out of the money 
 bequeathed by Mr. Rob. Allen to the use of poor occupiers of the town. 
 /. 2326. 
 
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 Agreed that the councillors shall buy for themselves before Pentecost 
 next a gown of " murrey in graine," and shall wear it on days appointed 
 to wear scarlet, upon pain of 20s. f. 233. 
 
 , 17 July. Order for sealing indentures with William Jones, 
 
 William Hearing, and Richard Gardner, for the making of the conduit 
 heads, f. 295. 
 
 , 23 July. Agreement with Arthur Mackworth (admitted a 
 
 burgess together with his father William) for the digging turf and stone 
 in any of his lands for finishing the conduit head. f. 295 b . See also 
 f. 336 b . 
 
 1580, 21 March. Agreed that a bond of 500/. be given to Dr. 
 Bulkley to secure payment to him of 52/. yearly, f. 297. (Again 
 entered at f. 340 and at f. 345 b .) 
 
 , 20 June. Sir George Bromley, knt , justice of Chester and 
 
 of the Marches, elected Recorder, with the yearly fee of 41. f. 347 b . 
 
 , 29 July. Four soldiers to be sent to Ireland at a cost of 61. 
 
 f. 358. 
 
 Whereas Thomas Blackwood, deceased, bequeathed 200/., or there- 
 abouts for the purchasing of some living for the maintenance of a 
 preacher within the parish of St. Chad, agreed that the said money shall 
 be employed in the purchasing of the tithes of the parsonage of St- 
 Chad's, in fee simple, for ever, viz., the Easter box of the said parish y 
 the tithes of wool and lamb of Franckvill and other small tithes, the 
 tithes of all the lands lying behind the walls, between the Welsh Freers- 
 and the other Freers commonly called Freer London, and the tithes of 
 the great Mouncke Yee. And whereas the said tithes are leased to 
 John Lewis, draper, for the term of ten years yet to come, it is agreed 
 that the bailiffs with six other gentlemen shall deal with the said Lewis 
 for the buying of his lease, f. 348 b . See under 4 Apr. 1581. 
 
 , 17 Oct. Whereas motion is made concerning the fines of tlfe 
 
 common councillors for not wearing their murrey gowns, and because 
 objection is made that the said colour of cloth is not to be worn by the 
 laws of this realm, therefore the most number are agreed that the 
 advice of the Recorder shall be taken at his next coming whether the 
 said colour of cloth may be worn by law or not, for want of ability 
 
 according to the statute* And then order to be taken for 
 
 establishing or disannulling of the former agreement, f. 349 b . 
 
 Agreed that William Wilks, servant to Adam Mitton, gent., town 
 clerk, shall, in respect of his pains taken in writing certain cases for 
 the town, be admitted a free burgess, paying 20s. in hand, and 20s. 
 yearly until the sum of 51. be paid. f. 350. 
 
 The mixen in Rowsell let to John Dawes for 30s. yearly, on condition 
 that the dung be not carried thence over auy of the bridges with any 
 iron-bound wain or cart. Ibid, 
 
 . j 28 Oct. Agreed that the bailiffs shall send for the wardens of 
 
 the butchers, and take order with them that their company sell tallow 
 after the rate of 10s. or 10s. 6d. a quarter. And if they refuse, then 
 the bailiffs shall take their composition from them, and presently make 
 proclamation that all foreign butchers shall come in and sell at their 
 pleasure. And all the tallow chandlers to sell candles for 3d. a pound. 
 
 * The latest statute regulating apparel, which repealed preceding statutes, was 
 24 Hen. VIII.. cap. 13, 
 
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 And if the butchers stand obstinately in the said cause, then the bailiffs 
 shall deal with them as extremely concerning their forfeitures by 
 •composition, f. 352. 
 
 , 16 (30 interlined) Dec. Agreed that the bailiff' shall take 
 
 with the assistance of six of the best parishioners of St. Chad's and 
 three from every other parish, a survey of all the poor pecple in the 
 •town and liberties, and shall assess what weekly charge will serve for 
 their weekly relief ; and then shall sess all the inhabitants what weekly 
 oharge each of them shall pay, and shall make a register book according 
 to the form of the statute in that case provided ; so that the bailiffs 
 deal no further herein than the said statute will warrant them to do. 
 f. 353. 
 
 And whereas there was gathered of certain occupations the sum ol 
 til. 5s. towards the furniture of Dr. Boulkley's house, the said money 
 shall be presently given to him, and the other occupations that have not 
 as yet given any money shall be sent for, and order taken for the 
 payment of the residue according to their promise, f. 353 b . 
 
 The Lord President at his coming with the Couucil shall have half a 
 tun of Gascoyne wine " to pleasure them withal." Ibid. 
 
 There shall be given to the wayte-men new coats of broad cloth, of the 
 colour of orange tawny, in respect of their pains-taking to play every 
 morning. Ibid. 
 
 1581, 10 March. A dinner shall be made to the President and 
 Council. r*. 354 b . 
 
 , 4 April. 114/., together with Black [wood] 's money, to be paid 
 
 to Thomas Owen, esq. [of Lincoln's Inn] for a grant to be made by 
 him of the tithe of certain pastures, parcel of the late college of 
 St. Chad, viz. a pasture called Behind the Walls, another pasture called 
 Great Mounckeye, another called Sturnes Close, and all other pastures 
 • ccmprised in a lease whereby one John Lewis now occupies the same, 
 together with the Easter book (sic) and all manner small tithes men^ 
 tioned in the same lease, f. 355. 
 
 , 4, 8 Apr. Tha pasture land Behind the walls to be ploughed, 
 
 and sown, and the profits for the next three years to be employed 
 towards the purchasing of all those tithes of the college of St. Chad 
 contained in a lease of John Lewis, to the use of a preacher within the 
 said parish of St. Chad. fF. 298 b , 355 b , 356. 
 
 , 13 Apr. Further agreement that eight persons named shall 
 
 iiave the said lands for two years rent-free, with the tithes for their own 
 use, on condition of paying down at once 114/. for the purchasing of the 
 tithes of St. Chad's, ff. 299, 356 b . 
 
 , 15 Apr. The charges of the bailiffs in a suit brought against 
 
 them '-'before Mr. Controller at London for matters touchinge two 
 lewd fellows that had aucthoritie together [to gather ?] for the Quene's 
 Bench and Marshallsie," to be borne by the town. f. 357. 
 
 Whereas the Lord President intends to keep St. George's feast in this 
 town, a fat ox shall be given him. Ibid. 
 
 , 25 July. A letter to be written to Mr. Thomas Owen 
 
 requesting the assurance of the tithes of St. Chad's, and that as John 
 Lewis will not yield to reasonable order or agreement the corporation 
 look to have the bargain made with Owen. f. 357 b . An order relating 
 to this assurance dated 15 Aug. 1587 is at f. 395 {loose). 
 
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 Whereas Richard Shurlow, mercer, was bound in 10/. for the good 
 order and rule of the house of John Bushop who was admitted to sell 
 ale, and has forfeited his recognizance by means of evil servants, it is 
 agreed on his submission that the bailiffs and the six [men] shall take 
 such fine as they think reasonable, and that he be discharged, f. 358. 
 [Several other tines are also partially remitted.'] 
 
 Richard Purcell, gentleman, ordered to pay 20/, for arrears of a sum 
 of 40*. due from him yearly to the poor people of the town. Ibid. 
 Bond to be given for payment of 5/. half-yearly, f. 360. 
 
 , 26 Aug. 51. to be given to Sir George Bromley, knt., and to 
 
 Edward Leighton, esq., in respect of a marriage now solemnized 
 between their children, in such things as they shall best like of. f. 359. 
 The bailiffs and the six men shall likewise bestow such sums as they 
 shall think meet upon Mr. Henry Bromley, being son and heir to the 
 Lord Chancellor, and other gentlemen of W[orship] coming to the 
 town. Ibid. 
 
 , 14 and 22 Sept. Dr. Bulkley to have 10/. given him in 
 
 respect of his pains taken in preaching, and to he admitted a free 
 burgess, paying the ordinary line. ff. 299 b , 360. 
 
 Five pounds to be given to the parishioners of St. Mary's towards 
 the repairing of the decayed windows, ff. 299 b , 360 b . 
 
 , 4 Oct. 15/. to be paid to Mr. Robert Ireland, esq., in full 
 
 discharge of 42/. 8s. due to him as burgess of parliament in the first, 
 fifth, and fourteenth years of her Majesty's reign, to be paid as follows : 
 10/. to Mr. Ireland, 50s. to Dr. Bonckley's eldest son, and the other 50s. 
 to employed upon the pavement in " Mardwall." f . 300. A writ dated 
 13 Jan. an. 10 [1568] summoning the bailiffs to pay 10/. for his expenses, 
 at 2s. per day, in attending the parliament in the fifth year, lies here 
 loose. 
 
 1582, 20 Apr. " Articles for the quieting and stay of some variant 
 and division like to have insued in the election of counsellors," agreed 
 upon " by the mediation of Mr. Dr. Bulkley and Mr. Richard Barker"; 
 with twenty-three original signatures. Lying loose in the vol. 
 
 , 3 Aug. A cessment to be made of all the inhabitants for 
 
 levying of 200/. for a stock to remain for the corporation for the main- 
 tenance of the public preacher, if Mr. Justice Bromley shall think well 
 thereof, f. 363. 
 
 , 9 Sept. John Tomkis, M.A., elected preacher in the room of 
 
 Edward Bulkley, D.D., who recommended him ; having held the place 
 since the f. of St. John Bapt., he hath showed himself to be a faithful 
 pastor and profitable teacher in the church of God. It is agreed that 
 he receive the stipend of 52/. partly depending upon voluntary contribu- 
 tions and partly upon the raising of 300/. out of the town funds, 
 together with the 20/. paid from the Free School as yearly stipend to 
 the minister of St. Mary's, now held by Mr. Tomkis and his curate. He 
 is not to be absent for more than a week at a time without licence of 
 the bailiffs, nor to give over the place without reasonable cause allowed 
 by them, f. 365 ; (or give half a y ear's warning, f. 366 h ). 
 
 , ? 12 Sept. Twenty-six persons to be admitted free burgesses, 
 
 each of them paying 51. besides all fees ; and none hereafter to be 
 admitted except on payment of 61. los. -id. besides all fees. The money 
 now received to be applied to no other use but the maintenance of the 
 
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 public preachers and further money to be raised in some way to make 
 up the amount to 300/. ; r. 300 b . Payment to be made to Mr. Tomkys, 
 the public preacher, of 52/. yearly, until further order be taken by Sir 
 George Bromley, recorder, and Thomas Owen, esq., for the raising the 
 payment by the disbursing of the above 300/. ; arid in the mean time 
 the particular contribution to be gathered, f. 301. 
 
 " The six men called the vi sitters shalbe cessors " for admittance of 
 the twenty-six burgesses. Ibid. 
 
 , 20 Sept. Fourteen more burgesses to be admitted, to make up 
 
 the above 300/. for the preacher. If. 301 b , 367. 
 
 , 29 Sept. Twenty more burgesses to be admitted, whose pay- 
 ments are to be added to the 300/. received "for the last sixty 
 burgesses " for the maintenance of the public preacher, ff. 302, 367 b . 
 
 -, 9 Oct. The nine attorneys now in the court of the town to 
 
 hold their places for life, and not to be displaced without reasonable 
 cause ; but in future the number is not to exceed eight, f. 368 b . 
 
 , 11 Oct. Any person who shall abuse or misuse any bailiff, 
 
 magistrate, alderman or councillor, shall be punished at the discretion 
 of the bailiff for the time being. f. 369. 
 
 Thomas Backhouse, a prisoner now remaining in ward for fines of 
 divers frays and bloods and other misdemeanors, shall be set at Jiberty 
 with a lock on his foot, and to work at his house or other places for 
 maintenance of himself, and to pay weekly twopence toward the discharge 
 of the said debt, if the debt may by this means be levied ; otherwise to 
 be pardoned, Ibid, 
 
 , 12 Oct. 400/. to be lent out by the bailiffs for one year at the 
 
 rate of 10 per cent. f. 369 b . 
 
 — — , 10 Nov. Richard Gardner to have 5/. yearly to keep the 
 conduit in repair, f. 370. 
 
 1583, 8 March. 10/. to be given to the Lady Sidney, to be employed 
 upon such necessaries at the discretion of the bailiffs, as shall be to the 
 worship of the town. f. 373 b . 
 
 , 18, 27 Apr. Ordered that 23/. borrowed for the charges of 
 
 a suit before the Privy Council concerning the stapling of cottons and 
 frizes at West Chester be repaid to the lender,?, and that twenty marks 
 be bestowed upon a piece of plate to be given to the Lord Chancellor in 
 recompence of his good will to the corporation in the said suit. f. 374 b . 
 
 , 11 July. No one to be hereafter admitted to the office of town 
 
 clerk but such a one as hath proceeded to the degree of an outer 
 barrister at Inns of Court ; he shall be continually resiant, and not to 
 serve the office by any deputy without special licence, f. 375. 
 
 1583, 19 Sept. Order that the 400/. raised for the public preacher 
 be yearly lent out by the bailiffs together with eight others, ff. 303 h , 
 376 b . 
 
 The great house called the Council House granted to Roland Barker, 
 esq., for such term and interest as the bailiffs and burgesses have in it, 
 he keeping it in repair and paying all such rents and duties as are 
 payable, and removing when the Council of the Marches shall come 
 here, and returning on their departure, f. 304. 
 
 ff. 305-327 are blank. 
 
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 1584, 5 Feb. 41 The most numbar of this assembly be agreed that 
 Mr. Bayliffes shale write there letters to the L. Presydent for the 
 ansureringe of his 1. letter conserninge the vyadge into the land of 
 America [the expedition of Raleigh to Virginie] in suche sorte as the 
 same is nowe written by the advice of Mr. Prince." f. 379 h . 
 
 1560-1614. List of burgesses specially made in compliment, from 
 19 Sept. 2 Eliz. to Oct. 12 Jac. I. f. 397 (loose). 
 
 1623, 21 Apr. Sir William Herbert, knt., Sir Percy Herbert, his 
 son and heir, bart., and Sir Basil Brooke, knt., to be admitted burgesses 
 without paying any fine or fee, on account of their love and goodwill 
 to this corporation, expressed in the cause lately depending before the 
 Privy Council between this town and the town of Oswestry concerning 
 the freedom of market for Welsh cottons, f. 396 (loo&e). 
 
 IV. Upon this volume there follows such a gap in the records of the 
 proceedings of the Corporation that it seems hardly possible that the 
 missing books can be altogether lost, but that some portion at least 
 may be lying perdu elsewhere, unless they were burned in a fire that 
 occurred in 1881 at the Shire Hall where the records are kept.* For 
 the next volume begins at the year 1736. There appears to be very 
 little in it, or in the subsequent volume, that is of more than purely 
 local interest. 
 
 1744, 31 Aug. A decree recites the ordinance of Edvv. VI", that 
 the scholars of the Grammar School should attend church every 
 Sunday, particularly any church where there should be a sermon, and 
 goes on to state that in course of time in consequence of the incon- 
 venience caused by the great increase of numbers, the Schoolmaster 
 applied to have a chapel at the School, and that two decrees in Chancery 
 in 11 and 21 James I. provided for the application of 20/. per an. from 
 the revenue of the School as a stipend for some sufficient person, who 
 was to be appointed by the bailiffs and chief schoolmaster to read 
 divine service in the Chapel and catechize the scholars on all Sabbath 
 days, holy-days, and half holy-days. But whereas it appeared that no 
 person had of late been appointed to this office, it was ordered on 
 7 March that the mryor apply to the Schoolmaster. Rev. Leonard 
 Hotchkis, to join in a nomination, which he had refused to do, alleging 
 that he himself was the catechizer, having been appointed some years 
 ago by Edward Twiss, esq., then mayor, and himself. Such appoint- 
 ment, however, not being conformable to the orders and decrees above 
 mentioned, and Mr. Hotchkis not pretending to have performed the 
 chief duty of the catechizer in reading divine service, it is ordered that 
 the stipend of 20/. be not henceforth paid to him or any other for his 
 use, but be retained until a proper person shall be appointed. (On 
 7 March Mr. Hotchkis had been called upon to resign the living of 
 Uffington, which lie had accepted contrary to the regulations of the 
 School.) 
 
 1775, 6 Oct. Address to the King on the rebellion in America. 
 
 V. The next volume begins on 3 Oct. 1788 and ends in 1820. 
 
 1803, 30 Sept. 500/. voted for the repair of " the venerable and 
 magnificent building called the Market House," and for building a new 
 staircase in the recess on the east side. f. 139. 
 
 * A " Book of Orders " is often referred to by Owen and TUakeway during the Civil 
 War period. It'must have been lost, therefore, since they wrote. 
 
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 1805, 10 Dee. Address to the King on the naval victories, and on 
 the death of Nelson, " which alone could add a ray of glory to his 
 transcendant merits." f. 146. 
 
 1814, 9 June. Presentation of the freedom of the town to General 
 Lord Hill, in a gold box. and to his five brothers, with his reply to the 
 address. £f. 156 b , 188 b .' 
 
 1814, 15 July. Petition against the clause in the treaty with France 
 sanctioning continuance of the slave trade for five years, with vote of 
 warmest thanks to Will. Wilberforce, and to others, f. 190. 
 
 1820. In this year gas was introduced into the town 6 Oct. A 
 petition to the Prime Minister on behalf of Lieut. James Atcherley, of 
 the Marines, a burgess of Shrewsbury, who served at Trafalgar, &c, 
 asking for his appointment as tide surveyor or coasting w r aiter, with 
 copies of certificate from Sir Israel Pellew and Adm. M. de Courcy. 
 ff. 230 b , 231. 
 
 VI. The next volume extends to the year 1835. 
 
 V. — Bailiffs' Accounts. 
 
 There is a very large series of these, for the most part in good con- 
 dition, beginning apparently at the fortieth year of Henry HI., 1256. 
 In many years, however, the rolls are fragmentary, often containing 
 only the receipts from the bridge tolls, and the dates are often only to 
 be ascertained from internal evidence. The early accounts are made up 
 weekly, on Sunday ; the first roll which has a date, that of 40 
 Henry III., begins, " Recepta die dominica proxima post festum beati 
 Petri ad Avincula (sic), et expense operatoribus in quarrera" (now the 
 town-park, still called the Quarry). The receipts are from the tolls at 
 the gate of St. George, the gate beyond the bridge, the gate towards 
 the abbey, and the castle gate, severally amounting to 9s., 6s., 5s. less 
 one halfpenny, and 12s. Id. "Alan us Shitle et Eng. le Colier erant 
 custodes muragii recepcionis et deliberacionis hujus rotuli, et Ricardus 
 filius Herberti scripsit recepta et deliberaciones tunc temporis." There 
 Is one roll of this king's time which is altogether undated, and may 
 very probably be the earliest. A roll which belongs to an. 44-5 
 (1260-1) is very long, and is chiefly occupied with work on the fortifi- 
 cations of the town, caused by the barons' war. A new tower is built 
 " sub castro" ; much stone is dug in the quarry and carried thence by 
 boat for building the Avail at " Garewald " and the wall at " Gatepol " ; 
 the gate of St. Rumold, or, as it is also called, at " Romoldsham " is 
 built ; and the following entries show the reason for the work and hence 
 determine the date of the record, which otherwise does not appear. 
 "Ad lignandum quarellas subscriptas et corrigendum alblastra ville, 
 xiiij A , scilicet Willelmo le Alblister. . . . Willelmo Alblastario ad 
 cssendum in servicio ville dum contencio durat inter dominum regem et 
 consilium suum et omnes magnates Anglie, xiiij d in ilia septimana, et ad 
 lignandum praedictas quarellas." The roll has a very early endorsement 
 that it. together with two others, is " de tempore Ricardi fil. Herberti," a 
 name not found in the printed list of bailiffs. In those others, together with 
 one more, are found the following entries : " Mem. quod Alarms fil. Gamel 
 accommodavit communitati ville xvii xx li lapides liberos de quarrera 
 in septimana prox. post f. S. Barnabe apost. anno r. r. H. xliiij. [1260], 
 In hac die convencio facta fuit cum magistro Alano et Johanne Gymel, 
 cementariis, de muro apud Gatepol, scilicet pro cpedibus iij 1., de quibus 
 
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 denariis primo pacatum est eis x sol." Alan Gamel lent also one mark to 
 the town.* Work was done at the house of the Friars Preachers at the 
 charge of the town, and money was also given them. In the beginning of 
 July 1265 (40 Hen. IIL) sixpence is given " cuidam garcioni eunti apud 
 Herford ad ascultandum rumores," which would he shortly after Prince 
 Edward's escape from Hereford. For the reign of Henry there appear 
 to be altogether the accounts for eleven years between 12.56, or earlier, 
 and 1271. 
 
 For the reign of Edw. I. there are only the accounts for the fifth, 
 seventh, and twenty-ninth to thirty-second years. But there is a very 
 interesting Coroners' 1 Roll, extending from the f. of St. Nicholas, 6 Dec. 
 1295 to Sept. 1306, and containing 58 inquests of felonies and accidents 
 before John Russel, William Rondulf, and Thomas Colle, the coroners, 
 including many cases of drowning in the Severn. In the following nine 
 cases criminals who had gained sanctuary abjure the realm, Dover being 
 assigned as the port for their departure. John son of Peter for killing 
 Arthur Russel was eight days in sanctuary at St. Chad's. Thomas 
 Ouayn of Ydeshale, escaping while being taken to prison for thefts, was 
 two days at St. Alkmund's. John le Forrier, for killing Adam de 
 Kyderminster, was ten days at St. Chad's. Walter son of John del Zoke 
 for killing John Seys of Chyrk, broke from prison and was ten days at 
 St. Mary's. William Godbert of Wolstaneston escaped while being led 
 to prison for killing Adam de Rokleye, and was ten days at St. Mary's. 
 Zareford Yaghen of Egardeleye for burglary at the house of Thomas de 
 Hyntone, was thirty days at St. Mary's. His chattels consisted of a 
 cart-horse worih half a mark, and a sword worth 12c?. with a knife 
 worth a halfpenny, but John de Colushull, the proctor of the dean of 
 St. Mary's, refused to give up to the coroners the sword and knife. 
 Nicholas Cogeweyn of Wemme was led to St. Alchmund's, where he 
 stayed for three clays, by John Dun, for killing Henry de Cardestone ; 
 Dun was committed to prison. William son of Roger de Stanwordin in 
 le Feld for burglary at the house of Joca of Little Boulewas, was at the 
 church of Moele Bracy. John son of Thomas Baldewiu, for killing 
 Roger Wythed, was at St. Mary's for four weeks and two days. Two 
 cases are recorded of the deaths of fugitive felons while being pursued. 
 John Dugyn, a thief, broke prison, " et exivit circa horam ignitegii, 
 et obviavit cuidam garcioni qui vocatur Ricardus de Clone, qui quidem 
 Ricardus statim levavit hutesium ... ad quod hutesium levatum 
 venit Johannes Lawe, custos prisone predicte, et vidit predictum 
 Johannem a prisona predicta evasum, et fugientem sequebatur post eum 
 cum hutesio, et in fugiendo amputavit capud ejus." In the other case a 
 priest was one of the felons concerned : " Johannes de Lastres, capel- 
 lanus, et Maur.icius de Glovernia indictati fuerunt coram Ricardo de 
 Harleye, tunc vicecomite Salop, et capti fuerunt pro pluribus latrociniis, 
 et ducti ad prisonam castri Salop, et diciam prisonam noctanter 
 freo-erunt et evaserunt extra predictum castrum. Et Nicholaus de 
 Wyhleye,'constabularius castri predicti, hoc percipiens, prosecutus est 
 eos usque ad libertatem ville, et in fugiendo occidit predictos Johannem 
 et Mauriciuin tanquam felones doniini Regis. Sepulti per Johannem 
 Russell coronatorem ." There are two executions by hanging. John son 
 of Henry Rylot meeting William Gothin Cokabytestret, fought with him 
 and killed him with sword-cuts in the head, and fled through the postern 
 called Seynte Chadde lode; but, he was taken and hung, and the inquest 
 as to his goods returns him as owner of several houses witli some land. 
 
 * Some of these entries are noticed iu Owen and Blakeway, I. 123-4. 
 
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 And ; Nicholas le Keu was hung for extensive robbery of horse, pigs, 
 barley, oats, &c. in the house of the Master cf the Knights of the 
 Temple in Shrewsbury. The street now called by the singular name of 
 Mardol appears here under the form Mardefole, and that now called 
 Shoplatch as Schoteplace, and in 1280 as Scheteplache. 
 
 For the reign of Edw. II. there are rolls for years 2-5, 10, 12, 14, 15, 
 18-20, with fragments of six others which probably belong to this 
 reign. The weekly receipt accounts begin now to be made up on 
 Monday instead of Sunday. In an. 2, 3, 1309, entertainments are given 
 to Sir Roger de Mortimer, to the Countess of Cornwall, to Sir Hugh de 
 Croft the sheriff, and to Sir Miles de Kodberewe and Sir Richard 
 de Harley coming as the justices, together with others. Courtesies 
 (" curialitates ") of this kind are of constant occurrence in all the rolls. 
 There was a law-suit with the abbey, continued in the following year, to 
 conduct which William le Serjaunt went to London. The roll for 1310- 
 11 is chiefly occupied with the expenses of building the Gild-Hall.* 
 The coroners are Peter Gerard and Roger Prido, who pay 20*. to the 
 Exchequer for a horse of Sir John Strange (" extranei ") which was 
 drowned. The names of the parliamentary burgesses, about which for 
 the year 1311 "there has been some doubt, are from the following 
 entries ascertained with certainty. *' In allocatione duorum equorum 
 allocatorum ad opus Ricardi Pryde et N. le Spicer apud London, ad 
 parliamentum tentum anno v t0 , vii s . Lib. Nicholao le Spicer et Ricardo 
 Pride ad parliamentum tentum apud Lond. anno v to ., lxviij s . vij d ." 
 
 For the long reign of Edw. III. but few accounts remain ; only 
 partially for the years 4-8, 10-13, and 33, with portions of several rolls 
 of uncertain date. In the first of these, for 1330-1, there are payments 
 to the burgesses in parliament; to Roger Pride 30s. and 4s. for a 
 horse, to Richard Russell, " pro parliamento/' 10s., and to Richard de 
 Walleford, "pro feoudo suo de anno preterito 1 marc." 
 
 Richard II. ; years 12, 17, 20. The last one, " de tempore Johannis 
 Geffrei et Jacobi Dyghere, anno xx" (these being the bailiffs in 1396) 
 is an interesting taxation roll, giving apparently the names of all the 
 householders with their assessment, some noted as dead, and some as 
 " insuffio." ; it is endorsed with a few entries of payments. 
 
 Henry IV. ; years 2, 4, 10 and 13. In the roll for 1400-1 there are 
 entertainments twice for the players (" histriones '*) of the Prince and 
 the earl of Stafford, and once for the " menstralles " of the earls of 
 Worcester and Stafford. One hundiel shillings were paid to Roger 
 Atton " pro suo regardo, et pro suo magno labore quern fecit pro cora- 
 munitate ville domino Principi et concilio suo ad exonerandum ccclxxii 
 homines de viagio cum dicto domino Principe in partibus Walliae." In 
 1408-9 the players of the countess and earl of Arundel, of lord Powis, 
 lord Talbot, and lord Furnivall are rewarded. Four pounds are paid 
 to John Scryven and Thomas Pryde " pro expensis ad parliamentum de 
 Gloucestre," and one shilling a day to each of them again for eleven 
 days at the same parliament ; and 53s. 4c?. to them for going " versus 
 Regem pro pardonaeione subsidii habenda," a journey which achieved 
 its object. At the marriage of a cousin of David Holbache players were 
 
 * 0\ven and Biakeway mistook this roll for one of the third year of Edw. I., and 
 consequently assign to 1276 entertainments which were given in 1310 ; Vol. I., pp. 
 138-9. The date is determined by the change of regnal year being made in the 
 month of July, as well as by the handwriting. And by the same mistake the 
 building accounts are printed with the date of 1275 in Vol. III. of the Trans, of 
 Shropsh. Archceol. Soc, 2nd S., 41-92. 
 
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 entertained " in honorem ville," at a cost of 40d. A very large 
 quantity of red and white wine was given in various presents. The roll 
 for 1411-12 contains payments of salary aud expenses to coroners. 
 
 Henry V. Only for his seventh year, 1419, and one that may be for 
 1421 or 1422. In the former there is an entry of 2s. 9d. paid for two 
 flagons and three quarts of red wine " die amoris inter discordiam 
 existentem inter Johannem Perle et Willelmum Forster." Other 
 examples of reconciliation, " dies amoris/' effected over liberal potations, 
 occur in other rolls. There is also an interesting private roll for 1413-4 
 of Roger Skyle, chaplain, of his receipts and payments as the receiver 
 for William Venables and Isabella his wife, who, it appears, lived in 
 Mardol at Shrewsbury, there being an entry of twelve pence paid "pro 
 reparacione domus magistri sui apud Mardefole." Many sums are 
 paid on account of dame Isabella, mostly described as being for old 
 debts ; and Skyle receives I2d., IDs., aud Gs. Sd. "pro stipendio suo, 
 divina celebranti." 
 
 Henry VI. Years 2, 5, 11, 12, 14-17, 21-26, 28-31, 33, 36-38. In 
 the roll for the loth year, 1436-7, parliamentary expenses are thus 
 entered : " Sol. Thome Thornes (the mayor in this year) uni burgensium 
 <elect. &c. cum Willelnio Boerley de Salop pro parliamento tento apud 
 Westm. xxi die Januarii anno xv regis H. vi 4i , in partem solutionis vad. 
 ejusdem Thome apud parliamentum eundo et redeundo, et ibidem exis- 
 tentis per lxxiii dies, vicesimo primo die Aprilis, iiijl. xii d .* Sol. Will. 
 Burley de Salop (steward, " seneschallus ") uni burgensium Salop, elect, 
 pro parliamento tent. &c. in partem solucionis vad. suorum, &c. lxvj s 
 viij d . Item Will. Boerley, uni burgensium ville Salop [&c] pro expensis 
 suis apud London ad parliamentum, xiij 3 iij d ." The minstrels of the 
 Earl of Stafford receive 6s. Sd. and wine. " Pro uno pouderboxe eneo 
 ad pulverizandum libros infra aulam communem ab [Will. Burley] 
 emptum, in scaccario remanente, vjd." In 1437-8 William Boerley and 
 John Falke are the coroners. Livery is given to two town minstrels 
 4 ' voc. tvaytes" who in 1442 are styled " histriones," a term probably 
 applied to minstrels as mingling some rough acting or dancing 
 with their music. To the roll of 1438-9 is attached a voucher for 10/. 
 given to Richard Boerley, one of the bailiffs, and William Forster, the 
 town-clerk, on their going to London in the matter of a law-suit with 
 the Abbot of Lilleshall. There are two rolls of fines in the court of 
 " Pi-poudre : ' ; a short one in 1435, and along one, much defaced, in 
 1436-7. In 1 142 William Bastnrdt and Robert Whytcombe were 
 burgesses in the Parliament held on 25 Jan. Ten shillings were given 
 *' histrionibus Regis" and payments to those of the Earl of Shrewsbury 
 and others occur frequently in subsequent years, including one " voc. 
 Trumpet." In 1443-4, " pro vino dato Whitchecote et aliis generosis 
 venientibis ad sepulturam fil. Christophori Talbot, militis, x d ." At the 
 Parliament in Feb. 1446 Richard Stury and William Boerley of Brom- 
 croft were burgesses. In that year the Duke of York visited Shrewsbury. 
 1447, William Bastard and Thomas Beget are the burgesses in the Parlia- 
 ment at Bury. 1448, "JMiberat. Johanni Water et Ricardo Tunerver (?) 
 pro edificacione gurgitis subtus Coton in plenam solucionem facture 
 ejusdem, xl. Johanni Smethecote, valetto Regis, qui habet aquam 
 Sabrine per literas patentes dicti Regis, vi s viij d ." In every year at 
 this period the payments for entertainments and gifts "pro honestate 
 ville " are very numerous. An annual payment occurs of two shillings 
 
 * Thome's name is not included in the list of burgesses in Owen and Blakeway. 
 Will. Burton in Owen and Blakeway. 
 
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 "pro besaundes [bezants] in Scaccario ex consuetudine de antiquo."' 
 1449-50, Thomas Yonge is common, or town, clerk, and John Callerall y 
 in other rolls called Calverall, the crier. A pipe of red wine was given 
 to the Duke of York upon his coming to the town from Ireland on 
 12 Sept., and players and minstrels were employed on the occasion ; 
 and in 1451 the same present is made him on his coming for the sessions 
 in July. In the latter year he sends venison, and then 24.?. are spent " in 
 comedendo carnes ferinas supradictas in presencia ballivorum et aliorum 
 proborum virorum pro honestate ville " ; and 16s. 4Jg?. were in like 
 manner spent upon the eating three does given by the Earl of Shrewsbury T 
 who with his countess came to the town. In this year John Phelyps is 
 town-clerk, 1452, William Bastard and Richard Stury went to the King,, 
 the Chancellor, and other.-, to obtain letters patent and a charter " pro 
 illis qui indictati fuerunt proditores ad sectam domini Regis," receiving 
 a reward for their labour of 6/. 13s., and alike amount was given to Sir 
 John Talbot, Knt., for his good offices in the same cause. These traitors 
 were no doubt those w 7 ho had marched from Shrewsbury to Blackheath 
 with the Duke of York. 
 
 1458-9, Payments of Ss. each were made to the keepers of the 
 clocks striking the hours in the churches of St. Alkmund and St. Chad, 
 including in the latter case " le chyme." Much repairing was done to 
 the Welsh bridge. A pottle of ** Tyre" wine (a name met with also in 
 an earlier roll) was given with two flagons of red wine to lord Dudley y 
 and two flagons of red. <; voc. Ruynysche wyne," together with one 
 flagon of white, to lord Powys. There was a good deal of trouble in 
 this year about an illegal arrest of one Geoffrey Sotheworthe, for which 
 some persons were indicted at Stafford. The Duke of York sent a 
 letter to Roger Corbet, esq., of Morton, for the arrest of Hugh Cart- 
 wright and two others of the county of Lancaster, " qui jacuerunt in 
 incidiis ad interficiendum di versos homines ville," and the capture was 
 effected, and Hugh Cartwright and Henry Moleners were hung at 
 Wenlock. Wine was given to various knights, esquires, and gentle- 
 men of the Duke of York and his son the Earl of March. The follow- 
 ing entries, some of which have been printed by Owen and Blakeway,* 
 bear upon the civil war. " Sol. pro expensis Johannis Oliver equi- 
 tantis ad castrum de Kylyngworth propter certa negocia villam 
 tangencia, v 9 . Pro expensis Johannis Phelypps et Johannis Oliver 
 equitantium cum quatuor equis ad villam de Notyngham ad loquendum 
 cum Rege et diversis ibidem pro responc. litere piedicte [a letter to 
 the toicn from the .King], xi s . Duobus hominibus equitantibus ad 
 scrutand. de interfeccione diversorum hominum interfectorum per 
 comitem de Salusbury juxta Drayton, et ad scrutand um de itinere 
 ejusdem comitis, ij s. iiij d. Sex hominibus custodientibus le veyle 
 vocatum le weche, diatim per septem [dies], quilibet eorum cap. 
 iiij d. per diem, apud portam Wallie et castri, xiiij s. Tribus homi- 
 nibus apud portam lapideam quinque dies, modo supradicto, ij s. viij d. 
 Tribus hominibus operantibus circa portam vocatam le Bulgerlode per 
 duos dies, ex convencione ingrosso facta, ij s. xd." Many other repairs 
 and additions were made to the fortifications, "pro tuicione ville." 
 " Sol. Johanni Yryen equitanti per octo dies per duas vices propter 
 rumores inter dominum Regem et ducem Ebor. vj s. viij d. Pro 
 expensis Lod. Mychell equitantis modo consimili per sex dies, v s. 
 Pro expensis Thome Bromley et Willelmi ap Rees et aliorum equi- 
 
 * The entry quoted by them, I. 226, from the accounts of this year about night 
 patrols as evidencing the alarm felt at this time from the war, is an entry found 
 several times in earlier rolls in this reign, as well as in years afterwards. 
 
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 tancium ad dominum Ducem Ebor. cum litera et responcione eidem 
 duci, yj s. viij d. Pro una vexilla empta pro h daye weche in cam- 
 panile ecclesie beate Marie, ix d. Pro conductione unius equi conduct! 
 pro Johanne Cartwright equitante ad Drayton ad scrutandum de prelio 
 inter comitem de Salusbury et dominum de Awdeley, xvj d. Pro 
 expensis Johannis Vrien, Ricardi [Jpton, Lod. Michel, equitancium 
 [ad] diversa loca propter rumores de domino Rege, et aliorum domi- 
 norum existencium apud villain de Worseter tempore insurreccionis, 
 xiiij s. ij d, Pro expensis Robert! Dalton et Johannis Olivere exqui- 
 tantium (sic) modo consimili, yj s. Pro expensis Johannis Vryen et 
 Willeimi Carpenter modo consimili, iiij s. viij d." 1460. The extant 
 rolls are almost entirely those of receipts, but an endorsement with a 
 few other particulars has one entry relating to the war and one of 
 its decisive battles. " Sol. ballivis pro expensis lxi hominum con- 
 ductorum pro servicio domini Regis ad villam de Northampton, viij 1. 
 xiij s. iiij d." 
 
 Edward IV. For this reign the rolls with some portions of the 
 accounts, chiefly of receipts, are numerous ; years 2-3 to 21-2, includ- 
 ing a short Chamberlain's (Rich. Marchall's) roll for 5-6. Up to the 
 fifth year inclusive there are, however, only toll and other receipts. 
 1466-7, "Sol. pro vino dato domino le Ferrers tarn in hospicio suo 
 duabus vicibus quam in tabernaapud concordiam factam inter Ricardum 
 Stury, Johannem Trentham, et Johannem Hoord in presencia balli- 
 vorum et aliorum generosorum cum dicto domino existencium, pro 
 honestate ville, v s. vij d. Sol. diversis soldariis conductis ad equi- 
 tandum cum comite Wygorn. precepto domini Regis ad castrum de 
 Dynbygh, lxxix s. ij d." ; and for their livery vi s. vi d. John 
 Trentham and John Hoord received 31. 10s. as burgesses in parlia- 
 ment.* "Sol. xl soldariis conductis cum vadiis et gagis illis datis in 
 servicio domini Regis cum comite Wygorn., precepto domini Regis, ad 
 castrum de Harelagh, ut in litera dicti domini Regis plenius apparet, 
 xvirp. Pro expensis Jevan Lake equitantis propter rumores quando 
 Ricardus Tunstall et alii de castello de Holt apud VVryxham, v s. 
 Pro quodam regardo dato . . . Tylere pro diversis custis et ex- 
 pensis factb per Dan. Williams . . . supervidendum si Ricardus 
 Tonstall, miles, et alii quidam . . . de Harelagh proponebant 
 aliquod malum huic ville an non . . . (mutilated). 1469 ; " Sol. 
 cuidam nuncio destinato et misso ad civitatem Ebor. ad scrutandum 
 de rumoribus domini Regis, x si" 1479-80, " Sol. pro uno forseto 
 empto ad imponendum cartas et munimenta ville, xij d." 1480-1, Roll 
 of fines imposed in the Great Court, for trespasses, encroachments, 
 obstructing highways, unlicensed selling of beer, &c. In bailiffs' 
 account: "Pro una libra cumini solut. domino de Pymley pro comunia 
 habenda in bruera de Pymley, iiij d." 1482, Six does were sent by 
 the Duke of Buckingham, and to make pasties of these six bushels of 
 flour were bought for 10s., three pounds of pepper for 6s., and two 
 bushels of salt for Is. 6d. 
 
 Richard III. Three rolls for his first year, 1483-4 : " Sol. pro uno 
 pixide empto ad imponendum cartam ville pro conduct, ejusdem ad 
 parliamentum, vi d." 
 
 Henry VII. Years 9, 10, 13, 17-23, chiefly accounts of receipts 
 from tolls, &c. 1493-4, an. 9, " Pro vino expendito super vencrabiles de 
 concilio domini Principis ad suum reventum de Northwallia, x d." The 
 
 * Not in Owen and Blufcewaj's list. 
 
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 roll for the tenth year. 1494-5, contains many entries relative to enter- 
 tainments at the visit of Prince Arthur and the King in that year, 
 which are translated and largely annotated in Owen and Blakeway's 
 Hist. I. 261-7; they are of an ordinary kind, and therefore do not 
 require repetition here, unless it be this one : <£ Pro vino dato domino 
 Principi ad ludum in quarell, cx s. (not cvi) iiij d." The accounts for 
 the 18th year (and partly those for the 22nd) are on a paper sheet 
 (injured by damp) instead of a parchment roll, and extracts from these 
 relative to the intercourse between the town and the Council of the 
 Marches are printed in Owen and Blakeway, I. 274-5, of which the"most 
 interesting entry is the following : " Sol. Henrico Blakemere pro pictura 
 proporcionis ville ostendend. Oonsilio domini Regis, xij d." In that 
 volume are also printed at pp. 279-282 extracts from a curious diary, 
 in English, of expenses, kept by Richard Lyster on two journeys to 
 London on the business of the town's dispute with the Abbot in May 
 and June an. 22, 1507 (not 1506 as printed). It is written on five 
 small folio leaves of paper, and is greatly injured by damp. Since the 
 time when the heading was copied for the above book it has become 
 almost entirely illegible. The journeys occupied four days each, and 
 places stopped at for lodging or refreshment were Shiffnal, Hampton, 
 Birmingham ( il Byrmycham "), Coventry, Dunchurch, Daventry, Stony 
 Stratford, Brickhill, Dunstaple, St. Alban's, and Barnet. 
 
 Henry VIII. From the accession of this sovereign the parchment 
 rolls are confined to the accounts of receipts for tolls, stallage, &c, in a 
 very imperfect series, while summaries of these are entered with the 
 expense accounts in paper books, headed " Visus Compoti," which from 
 exposure to damp are in a very mutilated and injured condition, some 
 so tender as to crumble when touched. Of these there are the years 
 1509-13,1515-8,1519-20, 1522-7, 1530-1, J532-3, 1534-8, 1540-1, 
 1542-3, and 1546-7.* In 1509-10 the burgesses in Parliament^ were 
 the two bailiffs Roger Thornes and Thomas Knight, who had £10 for 
 the expenses of 50 days. " In salmone, lampredis et vino datis in ex- 
 hinnio dato reverendo in Christo patri episcopo Herfordensi, vj s. viij d. 
 Pro pixide ad imponendum supplicacionem deliberandam cancellario 
 domini Regis, 1 d. In diversis personis conductis ad portandum vinum 
 commissionariis domini Regis ad abbathiam, vij d." Two entries in 
 this year (with similar ones in following years) prove that still, as 
 noted before, the term " histriones " was used indiscriminately to 
 designate minstrels, for rewards of 10s. and 20s. are given " histrio- 
 nibus" of the earl of Shrewsbury and of the King respectively, and 
 then in both instances follow payments for wine given " ballivis et 
 aliis probis hominibus audientibus melodiam eorum." 1510-11. A list 
 of 64 cases of affrays for which fines were inflicted. 
 
 1515-6. " In regardo dato nuncio domini Regis portanti et nunci- 
 anti eis novos et jocundos rumores de nativitate principisse et filie dicti 
 domini Regis, vj s. viij d. Pro vino dato abbati de Hylton, doctori 
 theologie, predicanti apud Salop quarta dominica XL me hoc anno ante 
 nonam diei et post nonam ejusdem diei. xx d, (He preached again in 
 the following year.) Pro mundacione de le Tolshop ac ornamento ejus- 
 dem cum sirpis et ramis viridibus pro honestate ville ad nundinas, iiij d. 
 
 * Many short extracts from these are printed by Owen and Blakeway, but often 
 ■without distinctly specifying the year to which they belong. The majority of the 
 entries now given are not, however, to be found there. The accounts for 13 Hen. 
 "VIII., 1521-2, quoted by the historians at p. 295 do not appear to be now in exist- 
 ence. The interesting note about William More, the King's lute-player, quoted at 
 p. 327, probably was taken from that year's book, as it has not now been met with. 
 
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 (This entry occurs a second time in the same year, and afterwards in 
 the following years.) In vino, pomis, waffers, et aliis novellis datis et 
 expenditis super abbatem Salop et famulos suos ad ludum et demonstra- 
 cionem marti riorum Feliciane et Sabine martirum in quarera pone 
 muros, iij s. In regardo dato lusoris (sic) ejusdem martirii tunc tem- 
 poris hoc nnno, x s." All the corn-crops of Thomas Burgas of Newton 
 were reaped and carried away by order of the bailiffs " eo quod idem 
 Thomas Burges felonice interfecit quendam Iiishe apud foriettam mona- 
 chorum apud Salop, uc dicebatur." 
 
 1516- 7. " In regardo dato nuncio domini Regis portantis literas 
 domini Regis de insurreccione et correccione apprenticiorum civitatis 
 London., xl d. Pro spintris emptis ad figendum papiros circa capita 
 xj. perjuratorum, ex precepto domini Regis, puplici penitencia in fc-ro 
 Salop, correctorum, 1 d. In vino dato Inceptori fratrum heremitarum 
 ordinis S. Augustini predicanti in ecclesia S. Cedde, viij d. (In 
 1523 the Provincial preached.) In expensis factis per subballivos et 
 famulos suos euntes ad Acton Reignold ad pacificaeionem, cujusdam 
 magne affraie pacis et insurreetionis racione, ij s. iiij d. Pro redditu 
 resoluto cantarie S. Katerine in ecclesia S. Alkmundi pro opellis carni- 
 ficis, xxiiij s." 
 
 1517- 8. <k In vino expendito super tres reges Colonie equitantibus 
 in interludio, pro solacio ville Salop in festo Pentecost., iiij d. Et 
 in vino dato abbati Salop et famulis suis ad generalem processionem in 
 festo Corporis Christi, pro honestate ville Salop, xviij d. ob." # 
 
 1519-20. A reward is given to Ralph Hubard minstrel of lord de 
 " Mountegyle," and he receives it again in 1525-6 together with one 
 Lokkett. A hogshead of claret for the commissioners coming from 
 Ludlow cost 33 s. 4 d. " In regardo dato iiij or interlusoribus comitis 
 Arundele ostendentibus ballivis et comparibus suis diversa interludia r 
 vj s. viij d. Et in vino dato eis et aliis extraneis personis intuentibus in- 
 terludia, ultra denarios collectos, iiij s. iiij d. In denariis solutis et datis 
 sagittatoribus de la Stondart certis diebus dominicis, videlicet, quolibet 
 die meliori sagittario 11 d., et secundo meliori sagittario 1 d., ij s. Pro 
 virgati (sic) panni linei de canabo, necnon pro pictura sex duodenarum 
 capitum leopardorum pro signis utendis per pauperes colligentes ele- 
 mosinas, xviij d. In expensis fact is per ballivos circa correccionem 
 Roberti Wright, famuli Thome Legh, positi super pilloriam pro parvo 
 latrocinio per ipsum facto, eo quod felonice furatus fuit tres denarios 
 argenti de clamide imaginis beate Marie juxia fontem in ecclesia S. 
 Cedde, et fugando dictum Robertum extra viliam, xiiij d. In regardo 
 dato nuncio domini Regis portanti commissionem dicti domini Regis 
 pro duplicibus vigiliis observandis dummodo idem dominus Rex fuerit 
 in partibus transmarinis, ij s. In via caritativa et elemosinaria dat. 
 gardiano et conventui fratrum mmorum ville Salop, ad reparacionem 
 de novo garnarium (sic) granorum conventus in ruina, x marc." A list 
 of burgesses admitted in 1519 is in a paper book containing also notes of 
 proceedings in the courts in 1519-23. 
 
 1522-3. " De finibus quorundam tensariorum pardonatorum racione 
 tarn paupertatis quam de essendo suo in servicio domini Regis modo 
 guerrino, ij li. Pro copia litere domini cardinalis misso (sic) commis- 
 sariis domini Regis circa mutuum habendum, xxd. In vino expendito 
 per communem clericum ville super Lodowicum Hanmere et alios 
 deliberandi ei libros ex mutuo facto domino Regi, vj d. (other entries 
 respecting the loan). Pro una rota pro communi compana pulsanda, 
 
 * Several notices of dancing bears from this year onwards are quoted by Owen 
 and Elakeway. Gifts to bearwards are of frequent occurrence in earlier accounts. 
 
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 :xij d. In regard o clato joculatori dom. Regis, vj s. viij d. Et vino 
 dato doctori ordinis Fratrum Prredicatorum predicanti in ecclesia 
 collegiate S. Cedde, ixd." At the end of this year's account is a list of 
 various household goods taken in distraint for fines, which is given also 
 in 1519-20 and in other years. 
 
 1523- 4. " In regardo dato ij nunciis dom. Regis portantibus literas 
 de pace inter dom. Regem et Regem Francorum, iij s. iiij d. In vino 
 dato domino Pov/ysie ad magnani sagittacionem, inter dictum dominum 
 et ballivos et alias personas honestatis ville, xviij d." 
 
 1524- 5.* " Sol. pro pulsacione magne campane ecclesie S. Alkmundi 
 pro mane surgentibus, iiij s. Pro custodia Jevan ap Morgan felonis, 
 interfecti apud Horton quando fugam fecit post feloniam per ipsum 
 factam, ultra xij d. habitos pro apparatu suo, viij d. In expensis factis 
 -par ballivos ad triumphum post capcionem Regis Francorum, in ignibus, 
 ■vino, ct pulsacione campanarum, xix s. iij d. In regardo dato nuncio 
 dom. Regis portanti novos rumores, ij s. Pro expensis vigilancium 
 Thomam Jebbessone, fugientem ad domura fratrum August, pro felonia, 
 viij d. (His goods were seized, as being a fugitive.) In regardo dato 
 vigilatoribus capientibus et producentibus illicita recia vocata carthonnes, 
 iiij s." 
 
 1525- 6. "In regardo dato custodi cameli dom. Regis ostendenti 
 ballivis et comparibus suis joca illius cameli, iij s. iiij d. In galone vini 
 data doctori Duff hill gardiano Fratrum Minorum ville Salop, post 
 sermonem ejus factum, xd. Dat. clerico ecclesie S. AJkmundi pro 
 'labore suo in pulsando inagnam campanam ibidem ad horam quartam in 
 aurora tempore hiemali pro proficuo ville, iiij s. Dat. interlusoribus 
 domine principisse, x s." (also in the following year and in 1531), 
 There is in this year a diary kept by Adam Mitton and Richard Atkys 
 of their expenses in a four days' journey to London and their stay there,, 
 and of a second journey, about a law-suit with the city of Worcester. 
 The line of road followed was the same as in the journey made in 
 1507 supra. 
 
 1530-1. "In galone vini dato uxori Rogeri Thomas, unius balli- 
 vorum, in adventu suo de patria ad villam, pro honestate ville, xvi d. 
 Pro uno ferro signato cum littera A ad comburendum personas 
 tibjurantes regnum in palma manus, iiij d. In novo instrumento posito 
 in parva aula ad recipiendum urinam personarum ibidem mingentium, 
 xii d." : (see Owen and Blakeway, p. 297 n.) 
 
 1532-3. "In expensis factis in garniamentis, liberatis, et histrio- 
 n[ibus] pro dom. abbate de Marham tempore mensis Maii pro 
 lionestate ville hoc anno, vj s . vij d.f Sol. Thome Eton pro factura 
 
 * The accounts for this year are quoted by Owen and Blakeway, p. 296 n., as 
 being for 1522. 
 
 f Other notices of this jesting pageant, of a character like that of the Abbot of 
 Unreason, are given in Owen and Blakeway as follows. The accounts of 1521 from 
 which they take their earlier instance appear now to be lost. "1521. Sol. pro una 
 roba nova depicta, sotularibus, et aliis necessariis regardis et expensis factis super 
 Ricardnm Glasj'er, abbatem de Marham, pro honestate et jocunditate ville, vj s. 
 dx d. In regardo dato postitori communis campane circe villam pro proclamacione 
 facta pro attendencia facienda super Abbatem de Marham tempora Maii hoc anno, j d. 
 1542. Sol. pro reparaeione et pictura ornamentorum Abbatis de Mayvole, iiij s. 
 iiij d. Et sol. pro una toga de nova facta dicto Abbati de Mayvole, vj s. j d. Sol. 
 Ricardo Glasier pro labore suo in ludendo Abbatem de Mardall, vij s. iiij d. 1547, 
 1 Edw. VI., Regardo interlusoribus ludentibes cum domino Abbate de Marall, vij s. 
 iiij d. Sol. Johanni Mason, peynter, pro pictura toge pro dicto domino Abbate do 
 Marrall, xij d. 1551, 5 Edw. VI. Sol. domino de Abbott Marram et pro apparatu 
 eorum, videlicet pro calciamentis, tunicis et aliis vestibus, viij s. iiij d." in the 
 neigbbouring village of Meole a similar pageant in the mock election of a Mayor 
 *• survived into the present century." 
 
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 unius mansionis [in the Quarry'] cum duobus stagiis pro dom. Presi- 
 dente et ballivis tempore ludi septimana Pentacostes, ij s . In regardo 
 dato lusoribus ad dictum lusum pro reparacione ornamentorum suorum, 
 xx s. [Other notices of the players.] Sol. pursatori [I. pulsatori] 
 de daybell, et stipendio sacerdotis celebrantis missam S. Georgii 
 diatim circa horam quartam in aurora, xiij s. iiij d." 
 
 1534- 5, " Sol. pro custis et conduccionibus equorum ad con- 
 ducendum vibrillas et alias ordinaciones guerrinas dom. Regis versus 
 partes Hibernie, per mandatum dom. Regis, ij s. x d. Pro emenda- 
 cione de la tubbe in magna aula ubi omnes persone mingunt, iiij d. 
 In regardo m[agistro] Brandon, joculatori dom. Regis, vij s. x d. 
 In regardo dato histrionibus extraneis melodiam. et cantilenas eorum 
 coram ballivis et comparibus pronunciantibus, viij d." 
 
 1535- 6. The dukes of Richmond and Norfolk were entertained in 
 great state in this year. # "Pro uno instrument*) ad supponendum 
 libros in Scaccario, cum quodam inclusorio pro scriptis vulgariter 
 vocato a dexte cum diversis cophinis, ij s. ij d. Pro vino dato doctori 
 Wall predicanti et cleclaranti verba divina coram communitate ville, 
 v d. Sol. moneta data Ricardo equitanti versus commissionarios circa 
 novos rumores de domina Anna nuper regina, xi d. Pro tribus mattis 
 ad subponendum pedes ballivorum et sex sessorum in Scaccario 
 sedencium, iij d." 
 
 1536- 7. u Dat. in regardo Thome Matbeus et Johanni Palmer de 
 Bewdley pro labore et benivolencia suis trahentibus mercimonia de 
 Bristollia ad Salop per rivulum Sabrinae, v s. [Similar entries later.] 
 Dat. in regardo Provinciali Fratrum Predicatorum predicanti et pro- 
 nuncianti verbum Dei per totam ebdomadam Rogacionum, x s. 
 Pro tortis et wafurnes [and afterwards vino] datis doctori Legh 
 [visitori (sic) Regis], per ballivos, xviij d. [and xxd]. Sol. Priori 
 fratrum Heremitarum ordinio S. Augustini ville Salop ad reparacio- 
 nera domus sue ei concesse per communitatem ville, iiij li." 
 
 1537- 8. " In regardo Humfrido Hulston, nuncio domine regine, 
 portanti literas suas ballivis ville ad nativitatem domini Principis ? 
 vj s. viij d. In elemosina ac regardo dato Johanni Marshe de Colham 
 egrotanti de peste, et pro custodia egrotorum ibidem ne infective 
 perambularent villam, xvj d. Duabus mulieribus pro scrutacione egrote 
 puelle per mandatum ballivorum, ij d. Pro vij c. de oystres datis 
 domino Presidenti, ij s. iiij d. Uxori Johannis Jouks pauperis pro 
 scrutacione egrotorum per mandatum ballivorum, ij d. Pro vino 
 espendito ad nativitatem domini Principis, ij li. iij s. Cuidam juveni, 
 ad instanciam Johannis Packynton, unius commissariorum dom. 
 Regis, ad emendum camisiam, xxd. Rogero Philipps, goldsmyth ? 
 pro argento et emendacione colarium histrionum ville, xiij s. iiij d." 
 
 1540-1. " Pro vino dato suffraganeo domini Presidents predicants 
 in ecclesia S. Alkmundi et aliis predicatoribus hoc anno, ij s." 
 
 1542-3. Sol. pro responso exhibito commissionariis dom. Regis 
 querimonie Tliome Lee, Thome Sturye, et aliorum circa solucionem 
 stipendii burgensium parliamenti adultiinam sessionem, ij s. Et sol. pro 
 copia replicationis eorundem, iiij d. Sol. pro una supplicacione per 
 Eobertum Broke, jurisperitum, concepta ad exhibendum domino Regi 
 pro ereccione domus nuper monasterii Salop in collegium sive liberam 
 
 * The word omitted as illegible in Owen and Blakeway's quotation at p. 317 is 
 " panibus." 
 
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 scolam, vij s. vj d. Et sol. Humfredo Dickers clerico dicto R. B. # pro 
 scripcione ejusdem supplicationis bis, ij s. Eidem Humphredo pro 
 scripcione ejusdem supplicacionis in pergameno, xxd. In vino dato 
 capellano dom. Presidentis predicantis apud Cadogans Crosse uno 
 dierum Rogacionum, vj d." 
 
 The entries throughout the reign of Henry for amusements and 
 entertainments are very numerous. Minstrels, actors, jugglers, and 
 bear- wards with dancing bears (described as " agitatio ursorum ") never 
 failed in gaining rewards and in furnishing occasion for wine-drinkings 
 to the bailiffs and their associates. 
 
 Edward VI. The receipt rolls exist for years 1, 3, 4, 6, 7. The 
 expense accounts are in paper books, and in these the fourth and last 
 years are wanting. There is also a small parcel of bills and drafts of 
 accounts. 
 
 1546- 7 (38 Hen. 1 Edw.) M Sol. iiij or clericis parochialibus 
 ecclesiarum ville, necnon pro pictura armorum domini Henrici nuper 
 Regis Anglias, ac pro vasto et factura ciriorum, ac pro aliis sumptibus 
 ad exequias ejusdem nuper Regis, xi s. ij d. j Pro vino dato Ricardo 
 Shurlowe, clerico, post predicacionem suam in ebdomodo {sic) die 
 Rogacionum, vd. ob. Pro vino et tortis datis ballivis et associatis suis 
 in festo Corporis Christi euntibus in processione, xvd. Pro vino dato 
 ballivis et associatis suis post supervisionem virorum armatorum missorum 
 ad partes boreales, ix d. ob. Pro pictura et factura singna (sic) ad siniili- 
 tudinem facie[i] leopardis pro viris armatis assignatis pro villa, xij d. Pro 
 vino dato viris armatis missis versus Scotland per dom. Piesidentem, x d. 
 Pro serevisia data viris armatis assignatis et missis pro villa versus Scot- 
 land ad eorum exitum, vj d. Pro stipendio equi et in regardo dato Griffino 
 Lyngen conducenti dictos viros armatos assignatos pro villa Salop usque 
 ad le New Castle, xv s. Sol. Stephano Lowe., mason, de veteri debito 
 ville, pro factura pontis lapidei, xl s., and afterwards, pro edificacione 
 pontis lapidei vii li. (the amount struck out.) Sol. Humfredo Onneslow, 
 arm. in plenam solucionem pro edificacione communis aule ville, xxli." 
 
 1547- 8. " In regardo istrionibus ludeutibus ante viros armatos, xij d. — 
 cuidam istrioni ludenti ante viros equiles (sic) equitantes ad Scociam, 
 xij d." Various other entries relative to the despatch of soldiers sent 
 " ad Cociam," (as frequently written) under Richard Lawley as captain 
 and Richard ap Rice ; wine and beer given several times, with 17 d, 
 spent upon Richard Lawley at his return. Thirty shillings were paid to 
 Humphrey Onneslowe as rent for the Council House, and in other years. 
 " Sol. Stephano Mason de debito ville pro factura et reparacione pontis 
 lapidei, iij li. xvj d. Sol. pro literis dom. Regis Arthuro Makeworthe et 
 aliis directis circa pecunias per eos concessas ad reedificacionem pontis 
 lapidei, xiiij d." 
 
 1548- 9. " Sol. Willelmo Newall de veteri debito ville in plenam 
 solucionem pro meremio et lapidibus ab eo emptis ad reedificacionem 
 Gwyalde ville Salop, xl s. Pro duobus vasis positis in Gvvyalda [ad] 
 mingendum, xxij d." 
 
 * Sell. Kob. Broke, not domini Kegis, as in Owen and Blakeway, p. 322. 
 
 f In the small parcel above mentioned are the rough accounts of the bailiffs for 
 this year, in Avhich the particulars of the royal exequies are noted in detail. One 
 separate entry occurs here, which is included in the " aliis sumptibus " of the 
 formal account: " Sol. sacriste S. Cedde pro factura le herse ed exequias dom. 
 Eegis. iiij d." 
 
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 1549-50. — " Sol. pro factione ferrei ad comburendum felones vj d . 
 Reginaldo Corbett pro supplicacione exhibita dom. Cancellario pro Scola 
 libera obtinenda x 3 . Et servienti dom. Cancellarii pro favore suo in 
 eadem, xx d . Sol. pro empcione libere Scole infra villam Salop habenda, 
 xvV 
 
 1551- 2. — "Sol. Jobanni de Domo Elvmosorura (sic) pro ereccione 
 corpus [sic) Elisabetb Bikerstaffe interfectc et sepulte existeutis, xij d . 
 Pro cordis et circa sepulturam et suspencionem duorum felon am, xvj d . 
 Pro ferris ad su.spendendum Thomam Bikerstaffe felonem, vj s . Pro 
 cordis et expenditis circa suspensionem Willelmi Thatcher, xiiij d 
 (and for iro?is for him 4£c7.). Sol. Ricardo Ive pro equo et carta ad 
 flagellandum vacabundum circa forum, iiij d . Pro vino dato predicatori 
 xx° die Maii per ballivos, vj d . Sol. Thome Onneslowe, baker, pro expensis 
 suis equitando pro domino Morys, xij d . In regardo pedagogo libere 
 Scole, videlicet domino Morys, xij d . Pro diversis custibus expenditis 
 [per Ric. Whitacres] particulariter circa liberam Scolam, lviij H xviij 3 
 iiij d . Pro asportacione voluntatis Johannis Fyssher exemplificande, et 
 expendit. circa eandem, ut particulariter apparet, v ]i xx d . Nuncio 
 dom. Regis pro portante commissionem dom. Regis circa bona ecclesiastica, 
 iij s iiij d . Stephano Lowe, mason, pro stipendio suo de veteri debito, 
 xxxj s vij d . Jobanni Prowde, pro domo et aliis terris et tenementis 
 emptis et provisis pro libera Scola, xx 11 . In regardo cuidam predicatori, 
 iij s iiij d . In regardo, et super convencionem, Jobanni Eyton, conducto 
 ad custodiendum liberam Scolam grain maticalem, vj s viij d . Expendit. 
 super predicatorem, xvi d . Expendit. per ballivos super pedagogum 
 nunc conductum, ij s v d . Expendit. circa reparaciones domorum pro- 
 visorum pro libera Scola " (included in a large payment of 80/. 17 s. 6d. 
 for other repairs). The customary gifts of wine to preachers begin in 
 this year to be superseded, as noted above, by money payments of 
 greater value. 
 
 1552- 3. — " In regardo domino Cocks, predicatori, ad emendum duos 
 libros, xxd. Pro capcione uxorem (sic) Johannis Bennett ex terra post 
 sepulacionem (sic !), xij d . Expendit. per ballivos et assoc. suos die lune 
 in le Whitson wuck (sic) post visum lusum, iij s viij d . Pro stipendio 
 le watchemen circa domum Edward Hood, xl s vj d . Pro capistro et 
 ferreis ad suspendendnm Johannem Bennet et alios felones, v s iij d . 
 Expendit. per ballivos et compares suos ad proclamacionem domine 
 Reginse, xvj s v d . Pro tunicis et aliis vestimentis ac pistur' (sic) earun- 
 dem pro Robyn Hood, lix 9 iii d ob. In vino dato eisdem interlusoribus, 
 xiiij 8 . In regardo le tomlcrs, ij s . Sol. pedagogo libere Scole in parte 
 stipendii sui, xxij H . De redditu resolut. Jobanni Prowde pro tenemento 
 
 . . libere Scole, iij s iiij d .'' 
 
 Mary I. — For her reign there is only one roll of receipts for 1554-5 
 and two books of expense accounts for the first and fourth years. 
 
 1553- 4. — " Pro redditu libere Scole resolut. dom. Regine, debito ad 
 f. S. Mich. Archang. ult. preteritum pro uno anno integro, viij 8 . In 
 regardo Thome Staney le jugler, ij s . Expendit, per ballivos ad pro- 
 cessionem quando Rex Philippus intravit in regnum Anglie ad tres 
 (sic) separata loca ville Salop, xxxiiij 3 . Sol. pedagogo libere Scole in 
 parte stipendii sui. xxij H ." 
 
 1556-7. — "De redditu solut. J. heredi Johannis Prowde resolut. pro 
 domo libere Scole, iij s iiij d ." 
 
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 Elizabeth. — Of this reign there are only very tattered and crumbling 
 books for years 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 17, and 19. But parcels of 
 the files of bills'and vouchers from which the books were made up exist 
 for years 3, 7, 9, 14, 16, 19 -28, 32-36, 38, 41 and 42-5. The receipt- 
 accounts exist for years 3, 5-12, 17, 18, 20-22, and 28-9. The accounts) 
 become much shorter than before; fewer entertainments are given to 
 visitors, and there are fewer amusements, but players and bear-wards 
 appear occasionally. 
 
 1558-9. — " Pro igne combusta in tempore proclamacionis [reginae], 
 iij s ij d . Pro vino dato sacerdotibus et aliis clericls tempore obitus 
 domine Regine Marie nuper Auglie, v s viij d ." The Council-House 
 roof was tiled and the windows glazed. 
 
 1562-3. — "Pro salario et stipendio mngistri et deputati sui libere 
 Scole pro doct. puerorum hoc anno, xlviij H . Pro redditu soluto pro 
 pomerio libere Scole Johanni Mytton pro redditu pro uno anno integro, 
 in consideracione quod magister Scole sej)arabit orturn a terris alienis 
 polis, vj s . viij d . Expend, per Ricardum Hyggons in itinere suo ad 
 Londinum et pro regardo per ipsum dato clericis Concilii ad impetrandum 
 commissionem dom. Regine ballivis ville ad conducendum milites et 
 eos ornandum ad pervicium Regine in milicia, j H x s j d qu. Sol. 
 subballivis pro vict. prison, custod. in gaola per spaciuui diversarum 
 septimanarum, ut patet per billas, qui ibidem fuerunt adeo pauperes ut 
 nihil habebant quod comedant vel bibant, xlij s ." A collection was made 
 for the payment of George Leygh, for his salary as a burgess in five 
 Parliaments, for which five writs had been issued to the baiiififs ; but 
 the amount is not entered. 
 
 1564-5. — Ten shillings and a gown were given to an officer of the 
 town " pro effugacione mendicorum extra villam." 
 
 1566-7. — The sum of 9/. 7s. 10d. was gathered for the Free School' 
 by a parochial collection in the four parishes within the walls and in the 
 parish of St. Cross in the East " Foriett." 
 
 1571-2. — Richard Higgons asks payment for his labour, among other 
 things, in "the plucking downe of the towre towne walle." Wafers and 
 cakes were given to the Earl of Essex. 
 
 1573- 4. — An annual payment for ringing the* bells on the Queen's 
 coronation day appears to be commenced in this year. See under 1574 
 in Miscellaneous Papers, infra. 
 
 1574- 5. — " Sol. pro diversis equis ad ducendum \_Sir~\ Barnabe Fittz 
 Patrick Londino a villa, xx s ," " at the request of my lord President." 
 
 In the English draft of the accounts we find : — " Greven M r Church- 
 yerd in rewarde, being sente vnto us by my lord President with letters 
 concerninge the coming of the Quene's maiestie to this towne, by the 
 assent of the aldermen and counsellors, iij ]i vj s viij d . Payd for the 
 inclosinge of Kingsland this yere, as appereth by a bill of particulers 
 xxxvij s vj d ." 
 
 Through the rest of the reign the parcels of accounts seem to have 
 been carefully searched by the laborious historians of Shrewsbury, 
 who have extracted various interesting items, and it has therefore 
 been deemed unnecessary now to examine them in detail. In 1598-9 
 the name of a town preacher has been met with, which appears to have 
 escaped previous notice : " Pay'd to M r Bright, our publique precher, 
 for his stipend for this yere, xlvj H xiij s iiij d . 
 
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 There is also a roll of an assessment for repair of the bridges, walls 
 and towers in 1562-3, which is of interest as giving the names of all 
 the inhabitants of the Castle ward, with the rates at which they were 
 assessed. The ink had so faded that the writing had become illegible, 
 and the document had been supposed to be of a much earlier date, but 
 by the application of hydrosulphuret of ammonia I was able to bring the 
 whole to light. 
 
 James I. — The files of vouchers appear to want only years 3, 4, 19, 
 20, and 22, amongst them being the year of the Powder Plot. But the 
 distinct books of summary account cease, and the general " discharge " 
 statement henceforth appears only on a paper on the files, and is some- 
 times missing. It was impossible for me in my general survey to do 
 more than to examine the parcels for a few selected years, but these 
 were sufficient to show that the accounts are only of ordinary kind. 
 The historians of Shrewsbury do not appear to have touched these, 
 ceasing their examination with the reign of Elizabeth. 
 
 1607. — " To certen Frenchmen who had suffered shipwreck, x s . To 
 a Scottishe preacher, vj s vii.j d . Spent upon certen Frenche lords and 
 others cominge to this towne, xj s viij d . Given to Mr. John Pryce, a 
 precher, whoe made divers sermons in this towne xl s ." 
 
 1610. — A rental-book of the houses, &c. belonging to the town, in 
 number 301, with the names of the tenants. 
 
 1612, 12 Nov.—" Given to a Gretian 5 s ."* 
 
 1613, 23 June. — " Bestowed on M r Robarts, precher, his horse meat 
 and other charges, 6 s 8 d ." Other preachers in this year are Atkins, 
 Torapson and Goulborne. 10 Feb. "Bestowed uppon an Irishman, 2 s ." 
 
 1621. — Strawberries appear in a bill for a corporation banquet on tlie 
 second fair-day, 22 June. " Strawberies, vj d . Item, for more straw- 
 berrys, xij d ." 
 
 Chivies I, — The vouchers appear to be perfect except for years, 4, 11, 
 and 14, 1628, 1635, and 1639. In this reign all the parcels have been 
 examined from 1630. 
 
 1630, 13 May. — Letter from Peter Studley, the minister of Frankwell, 
 asking for repayment of 53s. 2d. which he had laid out in a suit for 
 recovering the small tithes, which he had by the grant of the Cor- 
 poration, " from the unjust clayme which in the name of the Schoole is 
 made unto them; " he will endeavour to prevent further charge by a 
 friendly agreement with the School, though to his loss and hindrance. 
 
 1B31. — Mr. Browne was now public preacher, at a salary of 46/. 13s. 4d. 
 and 5Z. were paid to u viccair Lloyd " for reading morning prayers at 
 St. Alkmund's. In subsequent years 6/. 13s. 4J. was also allowed to the 
 preacher for the rent of his house. 
 
 1(333. — A knitting school had been established, for in this year work 
 was done in tiling the " jersey schoole," 
 
 1638. — "The chardge for passinge the newe charter, 521/. 19s. 2c?." 
 There is a separate parcel of vouchers containing the particulars of this 
 charge, with the assessment made for defraying it. On 20 March the 
 sergeant was sent to Bridgenorth to the High Sheriff with a letter 
 from the Privy Council, " and a peticion thereinclosed concern inge 
 the cesmente for shipp money." 
 
 * At this period the use of the Roman numerals begins to be discontinued. 
 
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 [Mayor's Accounts.] 
 
 1(542. — (i Bestowed by way e of gratuitys to the King's the Prynce's 
 nnd Duke's servants at there beinge in Shrewsbury e, 19/. 10$. 4c?." 
 On 15 Sept. there were payments for nine bundles of proclamations. 
 Payments for guns and gunpowder and to an engineer, and (very 
 numerous) for repairs of the gates and the walls. 
 
 1643. — "Paid Sir Francis Ottley, Knight, towards payment of his 
 garrison souldyers, 170/. Capt. Raynesford fcr disciplyninge of the 
 garrison souldyers by the appoyntement of Sir Francis Ottley and 
 others, 30/. Sir Edward Fitton, Knight, for powder and matche, by the 
 direction of Mr. Maior and Sir Francis Ottley, 14/. 9s. 10c/." Four 
 assessments were made for the fortifications, amounting to 1927/. 14s. Id., 
 while an assessment " for advaunce money to his Majesties' service " 
 brought in 546/. Ids. 4c/. One hundred pounds were borrowed from 
 the School money. The vouchers in this year for the work done are of 
 course very numerous. 
 
 1644. — "Paid which was spent on Prynce Rupert his highnes, Lord 
 Byron, and other gentlemen of worshipp cominge to this towne 
 6/. 1*. 4c/. Presented to Prynce Rupert his highnes by way of guift 
 from the Corporation, 100/. A bill for gunpowder works, 177/. 7s. lid. 
 Sir Francis Ottley, Knight, the late governor, for him and his officers 
 at severall times this yeare, 129/. 9s. Od. Captaync Sandford, towards 
 his paynes for directinge the makinge of fortifications 10/. 0s. Od. 
 Mr. William Waringe for overseeinge the workemen at the Castle 
 worke, by consent of the howse 51. 0s. Od. Sir Thomas Sneeton, 
 Knight, in full of his demaund for 6 iron peeces of ordinance 33/. ] Ss. Od. 
 Borrowed of severall persons towards the payinge of workemen's 
 wages for the fortifications, 21. 0s. OcZ." Nothing was paid to the 
 public preacher this year. Of arrears of the four assessments made Jast 
 year there was received 21/. 10s. lid., and 51. of the assessment made 
 for money advanced to the King, while of an assessment made of 1000/. 
 for the fortifications there was received 721/. 19s. lid. Other receipts 
 were : Borrowed of several persons for payment of workmen at the 
 fortifications, 45/. 85. Od. ; i: Received of the severall inhabitants for 
 sixepenny money," towards paying the same workmen, 49/. 16s. 9d. ; 
 gunpowder sold, 40/. 4s. Od. 
 
 Account of the monthly contribution money levied from Sept. 1644 
 to Feb. 164|, with the weekly payments made to Major Polden 
 during that time. 
 
 Valuations of houses and lands in Shrewsbury and the neighbourhood 
 for the assessments and the monthly contribution, (luttered.) The 
 name of Richard Baxter's father, who was, as his son tells us, one of 
 the collectors, does not seem to occur in these lists. 
 
 1645. — There is nothing but a parcel of bills for ordinary charges 
 remaining of this year. 
 
 1646. 1 Oct. — James Bctton, the public preacher, gives a receipt for 
 60/. paid him for arrears. The other accounts are of an ordinary 
 kind. 
 
 1647. — The usual payments for the public preacher are in this year 
 made to one Mr. Samuel Fisher. Mr. Thomas Paget was minister of 
 St. Chad's, and Mr. Thomas Blake vicar of St. Alkmund's. Out of 
 
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 the money borrowed from the School in 1642-3, repayment was made 
 of 47/. " Given Mr. Micheali Betton, cannaneere, in regarde of his 
 good service done to this towne and countye, 51." A bookseller named 
 Thomas Owen paid 61. for his burgess fee. 
 
 Commonwealth. — For the period from 1650 to 1660 the accounts 
 seem to be complete. 
 
 1650-1. — Mr. Richard Heath appears as minister of St. Alkmund's,. 
 receiving 51. from the Corporation. The payment to the minister of 
 St. Julian's ceases. 
 
 1652-3. — Mr. Francis Tallents, the public preocner, receives 65/. 
 as his half-year's salary. The fee-farm rent from the town was 
 redeemed in the Exchequer. One year's rent which had been left due 
 was paid in 1659. But the rent was paid again at the Restoration. 
 
 1653_4. — Mr. Tho. Paget, the vicar of St, Chad's, had a gift of 25f. 
 from the Corporation in addition to the usual annual payments, which 
 was continued afterwards. " Paide by order of the Hovvse to buy twoe 
 peeces of plate whereupon the Townes amies shall be engravened, to 
 bestowe on Mr, Thomas Hayes as an expression of the Corporation's 
 love unto him in regarde of his greate care and paynes he tooke the 
 tyme the laste Plague was in his towne, after hee had ended his office 
 of maioralty, 15/, 
 
 1654- 5. — " Paid Bartholomew Bowley for an engine to quench fire,- 
 in full of xl* 38/." 
 
 1655- 6. — " Bestowed on the High Sheriffe in regard hee procured, 
 both assises, to buy a peece of plate, 13/. 6s. 8d." On Major General 
 Berry's coming to the town, 1/. 185. 4d. was spent on an entertainment 
 given him at the Red Lion on 28 Nov. 1655, consisting of four dozen 
 cakes, two pounds of sugar and spice, 3 pottles of sack and one of 
 claret, with music. 
 
 1656- 7. — A " new way " over the " old heath " was paved, at a cost 
 of 37/. l is. 3c/., towards which the Drapers' Company gave 10/. The 
 Protector was proclaimed on July 18, 1657, when 6/. 165. 9d. were 
 spent. 
 
 1657- 8. — On Sept. 10, 1658, the new Protector Richard was pro- 
 claimed, with a more economical expenditure of 51. 12s. 
 
 1658- 9. — In this year Mr. John Bryan becomes minister of St< 
 Chad's. 
 
 1659- 60. — The many movements of troops in the neighbourhood) 
 consequent upon the royalist attempts just before the Restoration are 
 illustrated by the bills "for entertainments given by the Corporation.. 
 The modest provision of a quart of canary and a bun was afforded on 
 9 Nov. 1659 " when Major Waring came to the Exchequer to demand 
 the Chamber of Concord for to be a maine guard for the souldiers.'" 
 Much the same was spent " on Capt. Inglesbie," 9 March, 1660, and 
 when*' several proclamations " were made on 24 March. A more liberal 
 allowance was made, with biscuits, wafers and " fowre bunns " for Col. 
 Redmonde on 27 Feb. One week before, on 20 Feb. Mr. Bromley and 
 Serjeant Pugh went by the Mayor's order " to meet the souldiers at 
 Middle " ; one quart of sack was then consumed by " Mr. Maior and 
 other gentlemen, considering about the admitting the souldiers " ; and,. 
 
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 finally, sack and ale were provided for the officers. But the greatness 
 of the joy evinced at the Restoration may be gauged by comparison of 
 the expense at proclaiming the King on 11 May with that at proclaim- 
 ing the two Protectors, being 211. 9s. Id. 
 
 Charles II. — The accounts for 1666-7-1669-70 are wanting. 
 
 1661- 2. — Francis Tallents ceases to be the public preacher. 10/. 
 were paid towards the repair of St. Mary's steeple. The original 
 warrants for displacing and appointing members of the Corporation' 
 and town officers, signed and sealed by the Commissioners for the pur- 
 pose, are preserved, dated on Aug. 9 and 18. Those displaced are the 
 mayor, nine aldermen, twelve assistants, the two chamberlains, one 
 coroner, the marshal, one sergeant, and thirty-four burgesses. With 
 regard to the town-clerk there is only a certificate signed by seven 
 commissioners and dated 12 Sept. that they " thought fitt to displace 
 and remove Thomas Jones of Shrewsbury, esq. from his late office of 
 town clerk of the said towne, for several! things affirmed by credible 
 testimony to have bin by him acted and done to the great disservice of 
 his late majestie and of his majestle that now is, as well as for that it 
 did appeare unto us hee was unduly elected into the said office." The 
 warrants for appointment of successors relate to the mayor, aldermen, 
 assistants, and officers, but not to the town clerk. 
 
 1662- 3. — Mr. Robert Fowler is now public preacher, and Mr. Roger 
 Heyward minister of St. Chad's. Twenty-five pounds are paid to- 
 Francis Tallents the late preacher, " according to the Visitor's order." 
 
 There does not seem to be much that calls for notice in the annual 
 accounts after this date as having more than local interest. In the 
 reign of James II. there are accounts for 1686-8, but they are only 
 of ordinary nature. In that of William III. the years 1698-9 are 
 wanting, and in that of Anne all but four ; while those of George I. 
 and II. are imperfect. From the accession of George III. the series is 
 complete. 
 
 VI. — Trailed Bands and Musters. 
 
 One box is tided with parcels of papers mostly from the time of 
 Q. Eliz. to that of Q. Anne, containing lists of men able to bear arms, 
 returns of weapons and armour, accounts for the billeting of soldiers 
 and for the relief of the maimed, and the like.* The following notices 
 may suffice to show the special features of the contents : — > 
 
 circa 1370-80. — Two paper leaves contain lists of the *' homines 
 armati" and the " sagittarii" (in numbers 13 and 124), in two divisions 
 of the town, " a Fratribus Fredicatoribus usque ad Fratres Minores," 
 and <£ a, Fratribus Minoribus usque ad portam Wallie," each under four 
 constables. 
 
 1545. — List of 24 able men, sufficiently horsed and harnessed, pre- 
 pared in obedience to an order from the Earl of Shrewsbury to go to 
 serve the King in the north parts. 21 Apr. 1545. 
 
 * Several papers in this collection have been printed by Mr. W. Phillips in 
 Vols. I. and III. of the second series of the Transactions of the Shropshire 
 Arch geological Society. 
 
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 1562, July-Aug. — Copies of orders from the Queen and Council for 
 the levying of 500 soldiers in the county and 300 in the town for an 
 expedition to Normandy to prevent seizure by the French of the town 
 of Newhaven. 
 
 1580. — Returns by the wardens of the various trade-companies of all 
 their members, and of the journeymen and servants employed by them 
 above the age of 16, with the weapons possessed by them. — Printed in 
 Trans, of Shropsh. Archceol. Soc. 9 2nd &, 257-281. 
 
 1583, 2 Sept. Beawdley. — Commission and instructions from the 
 Council of the Marches for a muster of lances and light horsemen. 
 
 1583, 13 Oct. — Letter from Sir H. Sydney, requiring further par- 
 ticulars in the return to the above commission. 
 
 1583, 21 Oct. Salop. — Letter of summons, signed by eight commis- 
 sioners, to Thomas Ponsbury, esq., to appear on 24 Oct. to receive 
 directions for the furniture of a light horseman. And other papers 
 connected with this muster. 
 
 1588, June. — Copies of letters from the Privy Council and the Lord 
 Lieutenant of Salop relative to the preparations to be made in conse- 
 quence of the setting sail of the Spanish fleet. 
 
 1589, March. — Lists of men prepared for service ; returns from the 
 several trade-companies of their able-bodied men, accounts of armour, 
 &Q, 
 
 1616. — Two letters from Sir Francis Newport and Richard (?) Cor- 
 bett to the bailiffs, the one dated at Eyton, 7 Sept., ordering six able 
 men to appear on the 13th, from whom two are to be chosen for service 
 in Ireland, and the other dated 21 Oct. ordering a general muster on 
 19 Nov. 
 
 1624, 8 Sept. Ludlow Castle — Letter to the bailiffs from W. [Earl 
 of] Northampton, commending their desire to have an artillery yard 
 erected in Shrewsbury, license for which he will endeavour to obtain 
 from the King. 
 
 c. 1643. — Lists of all the persons in the trained bands, divided into 
 " squadrants." 
 
 1544. — A parcel of receipts for provisions supplied to the garrison, 
 consisting chiefly of cheese. 
 
 VII. — Courts of the Bailiffs and Courts of Record. 
 
 The rolls of pleas in the Bailiffs' court in cases of debt and trespass 
 and other civil cases begin in Dec, 1 Edw. I., 1272. They include 
 afterwards cases of assault and theft. Amongst them is an assize roll 
 (''coram Rege") in 1379. The records of the Sessions before the 
 Recorder begin, in an imperfect condition, at the year 1508, or in frag- 
 mentary notes a little earlier. The Quarter-Sessions records begin at 
 the year 1564.— (Extracts from these have been printed by Sir Offley 
 Wakeman in the Transactions of the Shropshire Archceol. Soc.) 
 
 There are four rolls of the Court of Pie-powder in the years 1435-6, 
 1438, 1447 (" Pee Pouderez ") and 1153 ( " Peepoudres "). Rolls of 
 fines are noticed above, in the Bailiffs' accounts temp. Hen. VI. 
 
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 A thick folio volume of copies of recoveries, bonds, &c. in the court 
 of the Bailiffs and Mayer bears the following title : — " A booke conteining 
 the recordes of fynes, recoveries, and statutes within the towne of 
 Shrewesbury ; made in the tyme of Thomas Sherer and Thomas 
 Chorlton, gent., Bailiffs, Anno Domini 1578 ; wherin nevertheles are 
 conteined some recordes in former tyme." The contents extend to the 
 year 1732. 
 
 Papers relating to the relief of the poor fill two boxes in conjunction 
 with highway accounts. The first assessment for the poor is dated 
 30 Dec. 1580. 
 
 VIII. — Free Grammar School. 
 
 One box contains deeds and papers relating to the foundation and 
 endowment of the School. Amongst these is an extremely interesting 
 series of lists, on vellum, of benefactions to the library, giving not merely 
 titles of books and names of donors, but a description of the binding of 
 each volume. These lists extend from 1606 to 1634. The donors' 
 names have been printed in local publications. And, on paper, there is 
 a list of books chained in the library, dated 3 1 March, 1664 ; and also 
 a tattered catalogue made in 1619 "provided to be reade openly in the 
 Booth hall on the seaventeenth day of November yearely." One parcel 
 of papers relates to a loan of 600/. made from the stock of the School 
 kept in the exchequer of Shrewsbury to King Charles I. in 1642, by 
 Richard Gibbons, mayor, Thomas Challinor, the Head Master, Robert 
 Betton, senior alderman, and Richard Berrington, senior common-council- 
 man. In 1650 an action was begun by the then Mayor and Aldermen 
 against the lenders for recovery of the money. Betton and Berrington 
 had both died before the suit began ; of Gibbons it is said he " hath 
 exiled himself almost ever since the suit began, and is now reported to 
 be dead, but the plaintiffs know not " ; so the actual defendants were 
 said to be Challinor and Robert and Thomas Betton as executors to their 
 father. Gibbons, however, did appear and plead. The case was still 
 proceeding in 1671, but in 1673 was dismissed. There is a copy of the 
 King's letter in acknowledgment of the loan, dated at Shrewsbury 11 
 Oct. 1642, in which he promises " that wee shall cause the same to be 
 truely repayd to you whensoever you shall demand the same, and 
 shall allwayes remember the loane of it as a very acceptable service 
 unto us." 
 
 The following letters are of interest : — 
 
 1577, 15 May. Kerston. — Letter to the bailiffs (John Dawes and 
 Richard Owen) from Thomas Asheton, the first Master. When he was 
 trusted with the charge of their scholars, he, upon just consideration, 
 forced with sickness, committed the same again, to be perfected, to 
 worshipful, wise, learned, discreet personages, whose majesty and judg- 
 ment might win to that matter more credit than it could ever have had 
 by his own private doing ; and. perusing their travails therein, he finds 
 it so substantially gone through that he has just cause to like and allow 
 of the same : And he most earnestly wishes the bailiffs to consent to the 
 same, that the thing with all speed may have perfection ; and think that it 
 was God's providence that made them commit the matter to a weak person 
 at the first, whose purposed power should give strength to the same at 
 the last. Leaves them to be guided by God's Spirit, that, all faction set 
 apart, they may look with a single eye to their government, and, God's 
 wrath pacified, may enjoy the fruits of blessed concord. — Endorsed, " I 
 pray you good Baylifs, kepe this well and safe. It is of weight." 
 
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 157J, 9 Jan. "From my howse at Hallon." — Letter to the bailiffs 
 and aldermen from Sir George Bromley. Understands by his friend 
 Mr. Assheton that they make some question whether, as provided by 
 the ordinances of the School, they may apply part oF the revenues to the 
 purchasing of lands for scholarships and fellowships in the University. 
 When he penned the ordinances, he had the sight of the letters patent 
 both of Edw. YI. and of the Queen that now i?=, and it seemed that the 
 directions in the ordinances might be well done without any danger of 
 forfeiture or prejudice. 
 
 1579, 9 Apr. London. — Letter to the bailiffs and to Thomas Lawrence, 
 schoolmaster, from John [Aylmer, Bishop of] London, Sir Owen 
 Hoptoa and M. Lewis. Understanding by the bearer John Williams that 
 he was admitted vicar of St. Mary's in Salop, but that they have 
 displaced him, and are about to appoint another in his roorr«, they are 
 hereby required to have consideration of the poor man's cause and to 
 restore him to his former service ; and do not only a good and charitable 
 deed to the poor man, his wife and family, but also do God service. 
 
 1583, 28 July, Shrewsbury. — Draft of a letter to the Master and 
 Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge, from the Bailiffs, announcing 
 the resignation of Mr. Lawrence, the chief schoolmaster, who, having 
 continued in that charge fifteen years, now finds himself so weakened in 
 body that he is not able to continue. His care and diligence have been 
 such that the School has not only yielded a great number of good 
 scholars, but also is the special ornament of the town, and is left in such 
 good order that all gentlemen of these parts are very desirous to have 
 their children trained up in it, whereby the number of scholars daily 
 increases. They send the bearer, Thomas Salter, gent., to urge a good 
 and careful selection of a successor, according to the great trust com- 
 mitted to the College. And albeit Mr. Baker, the second master, a 
 master of arts, ought to be preferred before any other, he utterly refuses 
 to supply the room. Should friendship prevail to commend a young 
 or more insufficient man than Mr. Baker, they cannot allow of the 
 choice. 
 
 1591, 19 Oct. " From the Schoole." — Letter to the bailiffs from John 
 Meyghen, about his desire to purchase the school orchard. 
 
 1608-9. — Petition from Humphrey Gardner, glover, that his son 
 Thomas Gardner, master of arts of both Universities, who was brought 
 up in the School, may be recommended for appointment as second 
 master, in the room of John Baker, M.A., deceased. 
 
 1627, 1 Nov. St. John's [College, Cambridge]. — Letter to the 
 bailiffs from Owen Guyn, Master of the College. Has received their 
 letter by Mr. Benion, informing him that two of the school masters* 
 places are void by resignation. Although the University and College 
 abound with many fitting for such places, yet as some mature delibera- 
 tion will be required, he will propound the matter at the next meeting 
 of the seniors. ■ 
 
 1627, 19 Nov. St. John's in Cambr. — Letter to the bailiffs, signed 
 by the Master Owen Guyn, Rob. Lany, W. Mealeson, Rob. Allot, Tho. 
 Smith, Steph. Haxbye, John Pryse, and Hen. Downhale. They read 
 with much grief of the present weakness and decay of the School, which 
 would have been more grievous had it been by their default. But the 
 elections having formerly been made of such only as were commended 
 by the bailiffs themselves, the latter cannot in equity but clear them of 
 this mishap. But since the remedy is now wholly referred to them, 
 they have not insisted upon any of their own for favour, but hare 
 
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 enquired diligently in the University, and have made choice of the 
 most eminent and best deserving that could be persuaded to accept of 
 snch preferment. To the second place they have elected James Brooke, 
 MA., fellow of Gunvyle and Caius College, whose ability is well known 
 to them; and to the third place, David Evans, B.A., of Jesus College, 
 brought up in the School, approved both for ability of learning and 
 conversation of life. 
 
 1627, 27 Nov. Lichfield Palace. — Letter to the bailiffs, &c. from 
 Thomas [Morton, bishop of] Coven, and Lichf. approving of the nomi- 
 nations of Brookes and Evans by St John's College. " I have further- 
 more examined them in the poynt of literature, and in all these respects 
 have received soe good satisfaccon for proofe both of theire life and 
 learning that I doe greatlie reioyce I may commend such two worthie 
 instruments for institution of youth unto you ; by whose meanes I hope 
 the former bewtie of that Schoole, so much decayed, wilbe revyved, to 
 the profitt of the schollers, and to the contentment of them that affect 
 the good of the Schoole." 
 
 1629. — See under this year under the head of Miscellaneous Papers. 
 
 1674, 28 Aug. — Petition from John Okeley, baker, who " through his 
 loyalty to his prince" is maimed and unable to gain a being for his 
 children, for a scholarship and exhibition for his son, whom he has 
 brought up to learning in the School. — Referred to the Council for 
 consideration. 
 
 1688, Oct. — Draft of a letter from the Mayor, stating, in reply to 
 a notice from St. John's College that they had elected Mr. Johnson 
 to supply the vacancy, that he is a person neither approved by himself 
 nor by the preceding Mayor Mr. Salter. They have advised with counsel 
 concerning the present difference between the Corporation and the 
 College, and are informed that the right of nomination and approbation 
 of a schoolmaster is settled in the former, and that in refusing Mr. 
 Johnson they have acted legally, and according to the power granted 
 them ; and therefore they are resolved to vindicate their right. The 
 continuance of a good correspondence may easily be effected, if the 
 College will recall their seal granted to Mr. Johnson, and approve of one 
 of the two persons formerly nominated, viz. Mr. Mathews, who has 
 been a schoolmaster for some years, or Mr. Tisedale. 
 
 I74t. — See under the head of the Municipal Registers, supra* 
 
 IX. — Miscellaneous Papers. 
 
 Several boxes are filled with miscellaneous documents and papers, and 
 petitions to the bailiffs, sorted and labelled, extending from the 13th 
 century to the 19th. I subjoin a chronological list of those which seem 
 the most noteworthy among the older papers, and of a few selected from 
 the large bundles of petitions, most of which deserve for their local 
 interest the careful examination which is being gradually given to them. 
 Some of these papers have been printed in the Transactions of the 
 Shropshire Archa3ological Society. 
 
 1. A copy, apparently written in the fourteenth century, but in a hand 
 which, except in the initial line, has evidently attempted (very success- 
 fully) to imitate a twelfth-century original, of an account of the 
 foundation of the abbey by earl Roger de Montgomery. It is endorsed : 
 " Carta qualiter domus Sancti Petri fuerat primo fundata." 
 
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 An abstract of its contents is given in Owen's and Blakeway's 
 History, II. 19-23, where it is said that the " writing is of very remote 
 antiquity, scarcely later than the middle of the twelfth century." The 
 doubtful place-name there printed as Meiluil Hermer appears rather 
 to be Meiliul Hermer. 
 
 2. 1249—50. — Assays of the mint at Shrewsbury. " Rotulus de 
 assays, factus per custodes cuneorum Salopp., incipient, die Jovis prox. 
 ante festum Purificacionis Beate Marie a° r. r. H. xxxiij " ; ending 
 "Die Cinerum anno r. r. H. xxxiiij." The returns for forty weeks, the 
 assayers being Alan le Prude, William le Bor, and towards the end, in 
 the place of the former, Thomas Gherard. 
 
 Owen and Blakeway, I. 135, where for Pride read Prude. 
 
 1267. — Copy made in 1421, 9, Hen. V., from an exemplification in 
 the Records of 35 Edw. I., 1307, of the agreement between the Abbey 
 and town of Shrewsbury respecting the mills, entered on the Plea Roll 
 of 51 Hen. III. Owen and Blakeway, I. 130. 
 
 1270. — Receipt-roll of the tolls, and of their expenditure upon the 
 paving of the town, 54 Hen. III. This should be among the rolls of 
 bailiffs' accounts. It is noticed in Owen and Blakeway, I. 131-2. 
 
 1306-7. — Placita between the town and the abbey about the mills. 
 Printed in Trans, of Shropsh. Archceol. Soc. } 2nd Series, VI. 341-357, 
 with translation and notes by Rev. 0. H. Drink water. 
 
 1340. — Roll of felonies committed in the year 14 [Edward III, j, with 
 notes in the margin of the fines inflicted, and with two or three entries 
 carrying on cases to 22 [Edw. III.]. In French. "Les. Jurors de 
 Salopeburs dient par lur serements de felonyes fetes del an xiiij." 
 
 1351, 13 Jan. — Acknowledgment (in French) by Richard earl of 
 Arundel of the receipt of 20/. in part payment of 300/. due to him from 
 the bailiffs and commonalty of " Salopbirs " ; at Arundel Castle, f. of 
 St. Hilary, 24 Edw. ILL 
 
 1374, 26 June, "die lune prox. post f. Nat. S. Joh. Bapt." 48 
 Edw. III. — Indenture of grant by John Stury and Reginald Mutton, 
 bailiffs of Salop, with the consent of the whole community, to James le 
 Dyere, of leave to raise the pavement and turn the channel in length 
 and breadth between his tenement near the bailiffs' gate, so that the 
 supervening water may have its course to the Severn near the tenement 
 formerly John Colle's, with guarantee to him and his heirs of the said 
 pavement and channel. Witnesses, Richard de Pontusbury, John de 
 Schettone, William de Longenolre, Richard de Beortone, Richard 
 Russell, John Perle. Round red seal ; a figure kneeling before a figure 
 holding a key (the " Noli me tangere"?): " Sigillum . . bert' de 
 Northaatone " (?). 
 
 1397-8. — " Constabularii ville Salop, tempore Willelmi Willyley et 
 Nicholai Jerard, ballivorum ville Salop." A sheet of parchment is thus 
 headed, which gives the names of the burgesses of all the merchant 
 gilds, beginning with the " Corveysers," and marking the first two, three, 
 or four names in the lists of several of the companies as being the 
 Constables. The names of the journeymen ('« servientes eorum") are 
 also given, and the inhabitants of the liberties. 
 
 1447, 2 Apr. — Letter from the bailiffs and burgesses of the town of 
 Osewestre to Thomas Forstere and Adam Goldsmythe, the bailiffs, and 
 to the burgesses, &c. of Shrewsbury. They certify that their cousin 
 
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 and countryman Gruff of Kalcote and his son were never guilty of the 
 matter for which they are indicted, viz., for the "resset" of one Guttyn 
 ap Madwyn Lloit with his sons and other misdoers. " The said Gruff 
 hathe dwellet wit youe of a child, of whom we truste to God ye herd 
 never none untrouthe unto this tyme, nother of his sone." 
 
 1462, 31 Dec— Letter to William Oteley, bailiff, from David Lloyd 
 ap Ser e Gruffuth, asking for the release of a servant of his, arrested in 
 Shrewsbury, and he will do his law 6i as ye will awarde hym, for I wot 
 well that ye woll nott put hym under no stray te j ligament but as law 
 and right will." 
 
 [1476-90.] — Two letters, one from the bailiffs of Oswestry to the 
 bailiffs of Shrewsbury, 5 Feb., the other from Thomas ap Meredith ap 
 Ric. to " Master M. Thornes, bailiff of Shalop," 4 Feb., respecting the 
 case of one Edward Sayre, whom the vicar of Oswestry is sueing at 
 Shrewsbury at the same time that he is proceeding against him at 
 Oswestry. The latter writer mentions "my cosyn John Davys yor 
 sone ye law," and returns a book Thornes had lent him. 
 
 1491, 23 Jan.— Grant by Thomas, abbott of St. Peter's, Salop, and 
 the convent, of the next presentation to the vicarage of All Saints, 
 45 Welyngtone sub le Wrekyn," to Humphrey Kynaston, gent., Robert 
 Thornes, gent., Richard Egge, literate, and Robert Corbet, chaplain. 
 Seal entirely cut off. 
 
 n.y. 30 June, at Llansanfrait. — Letter from John ap Meredith, 
 parson of Llansantfrait, to the bailiffs of Shrewsbury, "in all hast 
 possibill," giving a list of successive purchasers of a horse, which he 
 himself had bought at Ludlow, and which is now attached at Shrews- 
 bury on suspicion of having been stolen. 
 
 'n.y. 30 Aug. "From thabbey of Wigmore." — Letter from John 
 Arundell to the bailiffs, desiring them to give to the bearer such money 
 and goods as Avere taken with Thomas Elmbough when the writer laid 
 his action for trespass against him. 
 
 1511-12. A parcel of orders from the Council of the Marches to the 
 bailiffs of Shrewsbury ; 3, 4 [Hen. VIII.]. There is also a report to 
 the Council, at a later date when it was the Prince's Council, from the 
 Shrewsbury justices appointed for surveying the Severn and its 
 tributaries, respecting defaults not amended; an order in May, 1567; 
 &c. 
 
 1511, 10 Sept, — Letter {indented) to the bailiffs of Shrewsbury from 
 John Wosewall, of St. Chad's Almshouse, claiming fulfilment of their 
 promise to make an end of a dispute between him and his father-in-law 
 Robert Colle, respecting his mother's property, of which he claims to 
 be wrongfully deprived, and hence has " lyffyd longe in catyvite and in 
 wrechednes." 
 
 1515, 27 Oct. — Draft of the return of a commission of enquiry as 
 to the districts comprised in the liberties of the town ; dated Sat. before 
 the f. of All SS., 7 Hen. VIII. 
 
 [c. 1 520], 3 March. London. — Letter from George Cowper to his 
 father, Thomas Cowper, town clerk of Shrewsbury. " If hit please 
 youe to here of my pore welfare, I was in good helthe at the makyng of 
 this bill, lawde to God. Also thankyng youe of your gret cost, wiche I 
 
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 *putt youe unto." Cannot as yet return his sword, for he can find no 
 •carrier to take it. Mentions his sister, his uncle Ottley, and his cousin 
 Mary, who marvelleth greatly that she heareth no word from [her 
 father] Ottley; and master Done and his wife, whose tokens he hath 
 delivered to her son and daughter. u Ser, as for newes ther ys none, 
 but of late ther was herytyks here, which dyd take Luters openyons." 
 
 c. 1523. — Application from Thomas Hosier for reimbursement of 
 5s. Ad. which he paid during his being bailiff [in 1521-2] with Roger 
 Thornes, for his appearance in Chancery to certify the number of 
 Frenchmen that were within the franchise of Salop. 
 
 1524, 29 Jan., 15 Hen. VIII., at London.— Letter from William Toft 
 to the bailiffs of Shrewsbury, desiring ihem to discharge one of his 
 farmers, Evan ap Tyther bach, who is troubled by the writer's cousin 
 Hugh Philipps, whereas he 1ms given his farmers day till Midsummer 
 next for all debt and duties. " My cosyn Hugh Philipps shall medell 
 no more with my benefice and with my termers from hensforth." 
 
 n.y. 8 June. London. — Letter from Hew Phelipis to the bailiffs, 
 about the return of some writs " by Thomas Abromley is counsell " 
 "Delyver Jevan Aptydyr a baghe for anye mater of myne, for I have 
 don therewith, I will medyll no more therein." 
 
 [1526], 31 Oct. " Alhalow Evyn." London.— Letter to the bailiffs 
 from Adam Mytton, employed in a suit with the city of Worcester. 
 Worcester has a charter of 11 Hen. III., the same year as the charter 
 of Shrewsbury, but the charter of John in his eleventh year to Shrews- 
 bury has been delivered by Mr. Couper, and mention has been found of 
 one granted in his seventeenth year, for which Couper is going to 
 search. 
 
 c. 1530. — Copy of a petition to the Commissioners of the Marches 
 from the inhabitants of the townships called the New Franchise of 
 Shrewsbury, claiming exemption from taxes, general and local, by the 
 -charter granted by Hen. VII. forty years past and above. 
 
 [1528.] — Petition from Dr. Duffylde, the Warden, and the Brethren 
 of the Grey Friars, to the bailiffs and burgesses for further contributions 
 towards the repair of their house ; with notes subjoined of money 
 granted. Owen and Blake way, II., 463. 
 
 Temp. Hen. VIII. — Petition to the bailiffs from the Bowyers and 
 Fletchers of Shrewsbury, complaining that the statutes for encourage- 
 ment of archery, which enjoin that children and servants above 12 years 
 of age shall have one bow and two shafts, are neglected, as also the 
 statute that forbids the unlawful games of bowls and tables, dice and 
 cards, the art of shooting in the long bows being a pastime very com- 
 modious for man's health, and in time of war the greatest defence 
 against the enemy, so that our nation has not only been had in great 
 terror by enemies but also in veneration by others as the country of 
 valiant victories gotten thereby. Consequently the most number of 
 people give themselves to unlawful games ; so, although it may be 
 tolerable for the eminent inhabitants for their recreations to use some- 
 time bowling or the like, yet it is not tolerable to suffer the common 
 sort of people to run into the fields with the bowls, and bowl all day 
 long in the open face of all the passers by. Apprentices and servants 
 not having bows and arrows found them by their parents and masters, 
 not so few as a hundred persons are betting, and playing by way of bets 
 
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 their masters' goods, contrary to all good order, by means whereof the 
 strength of the town, if necessary against rebellion (which God forbid), 
 is weakened, and the living of the petitioners utterly taken away. 
 (This paper is amongst those relating to the Trained Bands.) 
 
 Temp. Hen. VIII, — Minute description of two men and their dress, 
 largely of velvet, an old man of 60 with a white beard, and a young 
 man called Robert Jones, both shoemakers. " If that you do take 
 them, send worde to Mr. Maior of Oxffordo, or to Mr. Alexander 
 Miller, taylor to the Kings Maiestye in Breadstreite in London." 
 
 Temp. Hen. VIII, 13 March. Beaudley. — Letter to Thomas Couper, 
 " recorder of the towne of Shrewsbury " from Lewes Hanmer, about 
 some suit with the bailiffs, for which one Cook is appointed to appear on 
 26 March. Send some one with the words of the charter concerning 
 the matter, and the circumstauce of the matter, a and also the excla- 
 mation of the lewd body," considering Mr. Port, Mr. Salter, Mr. 
 Bromley, and other of the Council will be here. 
 
 154£, 19 Feb. London. — Letter to the bailiffs from Reignald 
 Corbett, the recorder, respecting some law proceedings. 
 
 1550. — Regulations by Thomas Leigh and Adam Otteley, Richard 
 Lawley and Richard Leighton, as to the quantities of corn to be brought 
 weekly on the market-days by the farmers, severally named, from the 
 places round Shrewsbury, from November to Christmas, in pursuance 
 of the King's proclamation on account of dearth ; with a letter to the 
 bailiffs from Sir Richard Brereton and Sir Robert Nedeham. 
 
 [1551] 29 July. — Letter to the bailiffs Purssell and Ireland from 
 William Heynes about his exchanging a horse with Thomas Harries,., 
 of Terbyn, Cheshire, gent. 
 
 [1567? after Nov. 1566.] — Petition from a journeyman tailor to the 
 Council of the Marches against his employer for non-payment of wages^ 
 with the reply of the latter alleging that the amount being under 40s. 
 the case cannot be tried by that court, and enclosing the list of garments 
 made by the plaintiff with the prices charged. 
 
 [1567] 11 March. Haughmond. — Letter from James " Berker " 
 [Barker] to bailiff Alen, desiring that a suit against one Rondell Lee 
 may be deferred on account of his being out of the realm on the Queen's 
 service in Ireland, having been pressed and get forward at the last 
 voyage of Sir Andrew Corbet and the writer. 
 
 1568, 24 Apr. "At my howse at Newetowne." — Letter from A. 
 Vavasor to the bailiffs, desiring them to enforce some bonds against 
 Mr. Price, or he will have to show their default to the Commissioners. 
 [See next article.'] 
 
 1568, 6 May. London. — Letter to the bailiffs from the Ecclesiastical 
 Commissioners, Edm. [Grindal bishop of] London, Thomas Yale, and 
 T[homas] Huycke. Whereas it is thought that they have permitted 
 Richard Price, clerk, vicar of Kerry, whom they were ordered to 
 appreheud, to escape, and such manifest contempt and negligence in 
 the execution of the Queen's orders should be looked into and not 
 silently passed over, they are to cause the said Price to appear in the 
 Consistory Court at London on the tenth day after receipt hereof, or else- 
 themselves to appear on the sixteenth day. 
 
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 1568, 9 Aug. — Letter from the Council of the Marches, ordering the 
 pressing of four brickinakers and two tilers to be set forward for 
 Ireland, whither the Lord Deputy of Ireland and the Lord President of 
 the Marches are going, who require them for the setting forward of 
 certain works. 
 
 1508, 25 Sept. Eccleshall Castle. — Letter to the bailiffs from Thomas 
 [Bentham] bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. Whereas there has 
 been a controversy between Mr. Powell and Mr. Payne about serving 
 the cure of Ness, which was settled by friends about Candlemas with 
 the condition that Mr. Payne should then depart thence, but who by 
 remaining a certain space after has come into great misliking with 
 many as having neither meant nor done, honestly or faithfully, the 
 writer desires it to be understood that that doing was wholly his and 
 his officers', and that Payne's longer abode was in no point through his 
 seeking or procurement, but wholly and only by the bishop's authority 
 and charge, who found himself prejudiced in that the discharge was 
 without his knowledge and consent. — Printed in Trans, of Shropsh. 
 Archceol. Soc, 2nd S., IV. G4. 
 
 1569, — Petition from Robert Ireland, the younger, to the Council of 
 the Marches, complaining of the non-payment to him by the bailiffs 
 of Shrewsbury of arrears due to him at the time of his ceasing to be 
 bailiff in the preceding year ; with an order thereupon dated 2 Dec. 
 12Eliz. 
 
 1570, 13 Aug. Ludlow Castle. — Letter from the Council of the 
 Marches ordering strict search for, and the arrest of, certain lewd and 
 seditious spreaders of false and slanderous bruits and rumours that it is 
 intended to call down money to a lesser value, a thing utterly untrue 
 and false. 
 
 1570, 26 Oct. Ludlow Castle. — Order from the Council of the 
 Marches for the arrest of John Blease as a rebel, and to send him to 
 appear before the Council on 8 Nov., and also to sequester all his lands 
 and goods. 
 
 [1570], 3 Nov. — Petition to the bailiffs from Richard Higgons, that 
 the town will bear his charges in a suit in which he has to appear before 
 the Council of the Marches this day, which he has brought against 
 Thomas Poope and others for defacing and pulling down a tower or 
 bulwark at Creple Loode and for other injuries done against the town. 
 
 157y, 15 Jan. Ludlow. — Letter from David Lloid to Humphrey 
 Onslow and Hugh Beynes, the bailiffs, about a suit brought against the 
 town by Thomas Pope, in which they have to appear on 6 March. 
 
 157 J, 3 March. — Letter to the same from Sir Andrew Corbett, appoint- 
 ing Monday next for the election of burgesses (for Parliament) in 
 pursuance of letters from the Queen. 
 
 157 J, 5 March. — Writ signed by Rowland Lacon, esq., sheriff, for the 
 election. 
 
 157?, 24 March. Watlesburghe. — Letter to the bailiffs from E. Leigh- 
 ton and Edward Onslow, two justices, to whom an action respecting the 
 seizure of a gelding had been referred by the Council of the Marches. 
 
 1571, 30 July, Hampton Court. — Copy of an order from the Queen 
 for strict search in every parish by constables appointed for the purpose 
 on 20 Aug. from 7 p.m. until 3 p.m. next day and on 12 Sept, and Oct., 
 
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 on account of disorders which have risen since the last winter, for all 
 rogues, vagabonds, sturdy beggars, masterless men and all persons other- 
 wise suspected, and to punish them by stocking and sharp and severe 
 whipping, and then to convey them from constable to constable until they 
 come to the place of their birth or last place of abode within three years; 
 and this search to be repeated afterwards every fifteen or twenty days ; 
 ** for ther is no greater disorder nor no greater roote of theftes, murders, 
 pickinge, stealinge, debate and sedicion then ys in those vagabonds and 
 that riseth of them." Endorsed with lists of names of persons appointed 
 to make search in the several wards. 
 
 1571, 7 Sept. — Letter from Sir Andrew Corbett to the bailiffs, re- 
 specting his being ordered by tha Privy Council to send up Lawrence 
 Bannester, esq., of Wem, to the Court, with certain packs and packets 
 of letters, which will hinder him from assisting them in the executing 
 the subsidy ; makes request also in behalf of Thomas Beech, late 
 common Serjeant of the town, who by that service is in danger, and who 
 they well know is no wasteful person, riotous, or such like. 
 
 1571, 13 Sept. — Letter to the same from Charles Bouthe, Jevan 
 Moris, and Richard Draper, three Commissioners appointed by the Court 
 of Star-Chamber to examine witnesses in a certain case, and who have 
 come to Shrewsbury for the purpose, complaining of the arrest of 
 William Stringer, clerk to Charles Bouthe, for small debts, he being a 
 privileged person in his attendance. 
 
 1571, 29 Sept., Walford. — Letter from Raphe Clive to the same, 
 respecting, a case of the passing of a counterfeit gold ten-shilling piece. 
 
 [1571], 18 Oct. From the Poole. — Letter to Humphrey Onslowe, esq., 
 bailiff, from John Hewer [?] condoling on " the great losse and discomfort 
 that happened unto you by the deathe of your bedfelow " ; thanking 
 him heartily " for my good cheere " ; and asking his favour for a friend, 
 the bearer, who is sued in the bailiffs' court by one David ap David 
 Bobythen, but who has pleaded a foreign parley, « by reson the wordes 
 were spoken at Poole out of the jurisdiccion of your court of Salop." 
 
 [1571 ?] — Letter to the bailiffs, from London, unsigned, about a grant 
 of the fee farm rent paid to the Crown, which is being prepared for the 
 Great Seal. "The suite I confesse doth not countervaile the chardges, 
 yet in so hard a world we must be content with that wyibe had." 
 
 [1571 ?] — Petition to the same, for release from prison, from Nicholas 
 Lont, glover, committed for misdemeanours in the church of St. Julian 
 during divine service ; after drink he cannot otherwise do, whereof he 
 was full at the time ; he has a great many of children, and a wife, who 
 live only upon his hands. 
 
 1574 (?) Jan. — Petition to the same from the clerks of the four 
 parishes praying " for God's love " that whereas at their worships' 
 commandment they " did rynge in their severall churches upon Friday 
 last past, being the daie of the monethe of the crowenacion " of Q. 
 Elizabeth, they will see to their orators' pains, and those of other poor 
 men ringers who not only left their work and business, but also spent 
 money out of their purses. [Jan. 15, the coronation day, fell on Friday 
 in 1574, and also in 1563 and 1580.] 
 
 1576, 21 Dec— Certificate by Sir Pirceap Richard, vicar of Northope, 
 Flint, of his having this day buried Harry ap Richard, alias Harry 
 Andrew, glover, who died in his parish. 
 
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 1576, 28 Dec. — Certified copy of a letter from the Privy Council,, 
 enjoining the observance of abstinence and fish days, the neglect of 
 which has led to most excessive and extreme prices of victuals, and 
 also to the great decay of mariners and fishermen, a matter very preju- 
 dicial to the strength of the navy. 
 
 The Plague : Papers of various dates. 
 
 1537-8. — See under Bailiffs' Accounts, supra. 
 1563, — See under Municipal Registers, supra. 
 
 1576.— Letters to the bailiffs from Richard Prince and Andrew 
 Corbett. These are printed in Owen and Blakeway I., 369-70. 
 
 Orders issued by the bailiffs : all swine and dogs to be avoided out 
 of the town, upon pain of the forfeiture of the swine and killing of 
 the dogs ; all cats to be killed : streets to be cleansed every Wednesday 
 and Saturday, and all other places and back-lanes once weekly ; all 
 mixens ( <s mixsones") and " waterloades " to be made and avoided, 
 on pain of imprisonment : fires to be made every other night m 
 divers places in every street, on pain of imprisonment. [See also 
 1576 supra .] 
 
 List of infected houses. 
 
 1593. Nov. — Letter from Edward Owen and Hum. Hughes, 
 the bailiffs, to Mr. Thomas Brabant, pastor of Astley, and Robert 
 Pawmer, urging that a collection be made for the lelief of the people 
 of Bishop's Castle, visited with the plague; with a similar letter 
 subjoined from Thomas Laughton ; and at the foot the reply of 
 Brabant, who is sending about six strikes of corn, collected only 
 from his people of Astley. 
 
 1631, Nov. — Petition from John Meighen, " corviser," to the 
 bailiffs, <fcc, praying that in return for his viewing the sick at 
 Kingsland and applying medicines and salves according to the 
 directions oftentimes received from Mr. Boraston, and distributing 
 such victuals as were sent, he may be forgiven such blood and affrays 
 as he and his wife are in. (At first the petition was for "some 
 reasonable satisfaction," but this was struck out, and the prayer 
 for escape from punishment substituted !) Noted as being agreed 
 to, 4 Nov. 
 
 1632. — See infra, under that year. 
 
 1578.-- -Representations to the bailiffs Thomas Sherar and Thomas 
 Chorlton, signed by 18 burgesses, following up a former petition, calling 
 for inquiry into the government of the town, and complaining specially 
 of the illegal election of Roger II ay ward and John of Gryffyth, alias. 
 Wynen, as common councillors, and of the misemployment of Robert 
 Allen's bequest. 
 
 1578, 20 July. Pitchford. — Letter to the bailiffs from Adam Ottley, 
 upon an alleged case of stealing a hedge-bill which had been brought 
 befoie him. 
 
 [1580], 11 Nov. 22 Eliz. — Inventory of papers and money which 
 Robert Ireland, esq., and John Perche, gent., delivered over in a chest 
 in the Exchequer to the new bailiffs. 
 
 [1580?] — Petition to the bailiffs from Richard Hamond, tailor, who 
 hps been amerced in 3s. Ad. for taking stones out of the town-wall under 
 the house where he dwells, which wa^ done without his knowledge, and 
 he has put others in their stead. Endorsed, " To be considered when 
 we talke of felons' goodes." 
 
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 ,[1581 ?] — Petition from Roger ap Loyde (?), a poor creature, now 
 impotent by reason of having served seven times in the wars, who is 
 mow derided and mocked, calling him Colepytt, and he, for avoiding 
 of their foolish derision, avoideth them, hut new he is presented for 
 affray ing. 
 
 [1581 ?] — Letter to Adam Mytton from Edward Pue, praying him 
 "to stand his friend, and not to let him be committed to prison for 
 revenging himself upon one who greatly abused him in his own house. 
 
 1581, 4 Dee. — Letter to the bailiffs from Edward Hussey. He has, 
 according to their precept, called together the parishioners of Battlefield, 
 who are, as is well known, very poor, and unable to yield any weekly 
 contribution for relief of others. There are two widows who have 
 relief at the writer's hands, and will be glad to have some further 
 allowance from the bailiffs. Richard Sandbrooke's wife came to ask 
 for fourpence more weekly ; this the writer refers to the bailiffs' con- 
 sideration, as the man has fourpence weekly from Mr. Poncebury, and 
 has of his own one cow and a heifer, and seven sheep, besides geese and 
 hens and good store of household stuff. There is also one John Richards 
 that requires relief, but he has only been in the parish since Christmas 
 last, and belongs to Upton Magna, whither he should be sent back 
 again. 
 
 1581, 22 Dec. — Letter to the same from Edward Bulkeley, asking 
 for relief for two persons. 
 
 158^ March. — Petition from John Smith, to whom the care of an 
 orphan Richard Davies had been committed, against Thomas Studley 
 for not paying a sum due ; with an order of the bailiffs dated 10 March, 
 "for that it dothe belonge to the dewtie of the majestrate to have care 
 of the fatheries, the widow and the oppressed," providing that the 
 payment shall be made, and for the boy's apprenticeship. 
 
 1583, 31 May. — Letter from the bailiffs to the wardens of the company 
 of bakers, commending to them, as to all the brotherhoods, the case 
 of John ap Rees, in behalf of whom Mr. Secretary Foxe, a burgess 
 and one of the Council of the Marches, has written, and to whom a 
 license has been granted to receive chaiitable gifts, he having by sudden 
 rage of fire had his dwelling-house and all that he had consumed. 
 ^Subjoined is a note that the bakers gave 3s. 8d. 
 
 1582, Aug. — Two bills for expenses connected with a journey to 
 Hereford to secure a house for the judges at the last assizes, ana for 
 keep for the judges' horses and servants. 
 
 1582, 18 Sept. Plaishe.— Letter to the bailiffs from William 
 iLeighton desiring that certain suits against his cook, John Hassald, 
 now in attendance upon him, may be stayed until the said cook's return 
 to Shrewsbury. 
 
 1582, 29 Dec. Langley.— Letter to the same from Richard Lee, 
 calling upon them to correct misdemeanours and great abuses per- 
 petrated in an alehouse in Great Barwick, a former monition from him 
 having had no effect. He is continually troubled with complaints that 
 prentices and servants and other unthrifts do not only wilfully consume 
 there in unlawful games all that they have themselves but aiso neglect 
 their masters' business. 
 
 [1582.] — Petition to the same from Frances Andre, now in ward at 
 the Cage, whose husband John Andre, to whom she was married in 
 "Dyvelyn" (Dublin) three years ago, appears to repudiate her as not 
 being his wife. 
 
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 [1582.] — Petition to the same from Roger Phillips, baker, desiring- 
 that he may be satisfied for a diaper napkin and a box, which were 
 sent with fine cakes to their worships, and which though often demanded 
 cannot be obtained. 
 
 [1582.] — Letter from Samuel Wisbecke, an apprentice, to his uncle 
 Robert Harding, praying him to get the bailiff's to cancel his indentures, 
 that he may serve the rest of his years with some honest man who is- 
 able to keep him and teach him his occupation, for he is evil used ; 
 " I am so simpull in aparell that my master will not suffer me to goe 
 
 any further then they nedes must When I goe out they 
 
 picke quarels on me, and report behind my bake in the stret that I spend 
 ther goods and that I stele ther tymber." Endorsed with a report of 
 the hearing of the case before the bailiffs ; the master, Thomas Mynors, 
 and his wife are enjoined to bear no malice towards the apprentice for 
 his complaint ; it appears that he is abused as well by his master for not 
 having apparel as by the rudeness of the wife of the master ; he is to 
 have all manner of things which an apprentice ought to have for the 
 wholesomeness of his body; any further complaint to be heard and 
 remedied. 
 
 [1582.] — Petition to the same from Ellis Beddo, committed to ward,. 
 " for that he, contrary to your worshipes proclamation, did goe to sing 
 at undue time of night.' 1 
 
 There are several petitions from other persons committed for walking 
 about at undue times at night. 
 
 [1582.] — Petition to the same from Thomas Jonson 17 years of age, 
 an apprentice, who has been fined 105. for fighting, for which he was 
 grievously corrected by his master, praying to have the fine remitted, 
 for that he is a very poor boy, in worse estate than any prentice in 
 town, not having anything wherewith to satisfy the fine more than the 
 clothes upon his back, which are not worth ten shillings. 
 
 [1582.] — Petition to the same from Thomas Baccus, " translator, alias- 
 cobler," praying that his misdemeanours may be forgiven, for which he 
 lieth in ward with a mighty pair of bolts, and he will never offend them 
 or any of their men. 
 
 [1582.] — Letter from John Parr to his father John Parr at Shrews- 
 bury, begging that he and the writer's brother will become security for 
 his appearance at the quarter sessions, to which he is committed by Sir 
 Arthur Mainvvaring, or else he will be sent to gaol (which will utterly 
 discredit him for ever) upon a pretended charge of attempting to steal 
 a horse. " This misfortune shall be a sufficient warninge for me 
 hereafter to beware of evill companie." 
 
 1583, 27 June. Salop. — Letter to the Council of the Marches from 
 William Tenche and Edward Owen, reporting their examination, as 
 ordered, into an affray between one Richard Dryhurst and the watchmen 
 on 22 June. The complaint of Dryhurst and a letter from the Council 
 are with the letter. 
 
 1583, 6 Aug. Apley. — Letter from Rowland " Berker " to the 
 bailiffs, William Tench and Eward Owen, thanking them for their 
 willingness to let him have the Council House ; whatever any other 
 man will do for the same, he will do the like, and has appointed his 
 brother Chambers and his brother James " Barker " to conclude with 
 them. (The signature alone is autograph.) 
 
 1584, 1587-90. — Lists of prisoners, and of prison-fetters, &c. in the 
 custody of the sergeants. There are also lists for 1610, 1618, 1630-95. 
 
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 1584, 26 March. " From my howse nere Charing Crosse." — Letter to 
 the bailiffs and schoolmaster from Sir T. Bromley, asking them to grant 
 a lease of the tithes of Whitchurch to his servant Thomas Mytton. 
 
 1584, 7 Sept. — Copy of a letter from the bailiffs to the Council of the 
 Marches, reporting that they have, as ordered, made diligent search for 
 Thomas Sturry, esq., but that he is not to be found, and that although 
 his dwelling is at Rosse hall in the liberty, where his wife and children 
 now are, and he has lands and tenements, &c, yet these cannot be 
 sequestered, as Richard Lea, esq., holds them as feoffee of trust. 
 Further particulars with regard to the property follow on another 
 paper. 
 
 1584, 27 Sept. Ludlow Castle. — Order from the Council of the 
 Marches to Richard Lea, esq., to sequester all the property of Thomas 
 Sturry, gent., which he holds in trust, the said Sturry having disobeyed 
 all the orders made by the Council at the suit of Thomas Sherer, gent. 
 
 1584, 3 Oct. — "An inventory of suche things which remayne in the 
 new little chest;" a short list of bonds and other documents. The last 
 item refers to charitable collections made in the town : " ij acquittances 
 for the colleccbn of Hastings and Geneva." 
 
 1584, 8 Oct. — Copy of a further letter from the bailiffs to the Council 
 of the Marches in the case of Thomas Sturry, reporting that ali the 
 lands, &c. were conveyed by Sturry' s father, Thomas, to Rich. Lea and 
 others for their own use, and not as feoffees of trust, and that Lea, as 
 survivor, now holds them as his own. 
 
 L584, 4 Nov. — " Articles to be inquired of for the profit of the 
 towne," respecting the making and selling of candles by various 
 persons. 
 
 1584, 8, 20 Nov. London.— Two letters to the bailiffs from W. 
 Weale and John Perche about their proceedings with reference to 
 proposals for a new charter and obtaining a grant of the office of 
 alnager. 
 
 [1584 ?] — Petition to the bailiffs, &c. from two constables of the 
 " Monks Forrett " (Abbey Foregate) for some allowance for their 
 pains, mentioning also that one of them spent twopence for candles 
 " that night when the childe was fownde in St. Chadds churche 
 portche." 
 
 158|, March. London. — Letter to Adam Mytton from W. Weale 
 and John Perche ; are about to return home, being wearied with the 
 little progress made in their " endles sute " ; all the great personages 
 with whom they have to deal are so busied in parliament matters, and, 
 partly, their minds are so altered by the cross travail so earnestly made 
 against the suit, that the writers are discouraged. 
 
 1585, 30 June. Harnege. — Letter to Adam Mytton from William 
 Fouler ; desires to know the state of the sickness in the town, that he 
 may signify the same to the judges. 
 
 [1585 ?] — Things which the bailiffs and burgesses desire the Queen 
 should be petitioned to grant to the town : i. the uniting to the town of 
 the parish of the Cross wherein the Moncke Forriat is situated ; ii. the 
 site of the old decayed castle for a town gaol ; iii. the confirmation of 
 existing charters, the erection of a weekly court instead of a fortnightly 
 one, and the providing endowment for a preacher. [These particulars 
 were granted in the charter of 1536.] 
 
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 1585, G March. Sarum. — Letter to the Sheriff of Salop, &c., from 
 Henry, earl of Pembroke, appointed President of the Council of the 
 Marches, ordering a muster of all men able to bear arms, and provision 
 to be made for weapons, &c. 
 
 Printed in Trans, of Shropsh. Archceol. Soc, 2nd S., 1. 432. 
 
 1588, 13 Aug. — Copy of a letter from the Privy Council to the Lord 
 President of the Marches. Whereas advertisement has been received 
 that the Spanish fleet, having taken their course northward, is come to 
 a place called Mor[a]y Frith, and has landed some men, and it is not 
 yet known whether their purpose is to join with the evil affected of 
 that realm, or only to stay and take in fresh water and other necessaries, 
 therefore the 600 footmen and 32 lances, directed to be ready for 
 northern service in the county of Salop, are to be prepared to be sent 
 to any place that may be appointed upon any warning. 
 
 1589, 7 Nov. ; 1590, 15 Apr.— Two letters to the bailiffs of Shrews- 
 bury from Richard Paule and Hugh Savage, the bailiffs of Bridgnorth, 
 complaining of the illegal taking of toll at Shrewsbury from burgesses 
 of that town. 
 
 1590, 2 June. — Letter to the bailiffs from William Gryffith and 
 Robert Brownesword, bailiffs of a town not named, complaining of like 
 illegal taking of toll from burgesses of " this poore towne." 
 
 1591, 7 Aug. At Sheffield Lodge.— Letter from Gilbert [earl of] 
 Shrewsbury to the justices of peace in the county, urging collections 
 in each township for the relief of Shiffnal. where both the town and 
 church have been almost entirely consumed by fire, and suggesting 
 the giving a license to the inhabitants to gather benevolence in two 
 shires. 
 
 1592, — There is a file of the bailiffs' papers for this year in a very 
 tattered condition, containing coroner's inquisitions, petitions, war- 
 rants, &c. Amongst them is n fragment of a copy of a letter from the 
 Council of the Marches to the bailiffs, respecting a suit brought by 
 Francis Englefield to recover some lands granted by the Queen to the 
 Earl of Essex as forfeited by the attainder of Sir Francis Englefield, 
 Knt., for high treason. With the coroner's inquisitions there are 
 inventories and valuations of the goods of two persons who drowned 
 themselves. 
 
 1592, July. Cause Castle. — Letter from John Thynne to the 
 bailiffs, offering himself for election as burgess in parliament, to which 
 he has been moved by his good friends in the incorporation, and which 
 he the rather desires " for that my aunsetors weare neare inhabitauntes 
 to Shrewsburye, and for that I conceave a speciall good likynge of your 
 towne and the good governmente thereof." [He was not elected.] 
 
 1592, Oct. — Order for return of names of all ale and beer sellers, 
 who are to be charged not to use any manner of game, as tables, cards, 
 dice, " slydethrist " otherwise called " shuffelbord," upon pain of being 
 put down ; until further order be taken for the suppressing the great 
 number of ale-houses, being one of the great sores of this common- 
 wealth. 
 
 1592, 28 Dec, at Hampton Court.— Letter from the Earl of Essex 
 to the bailiffs, &c, recommending his servant Robert Wright, who is 
 thoroughly known to them, for election as a burgess in parliament. 
 
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 [1592.] — Letter, written from the Court but not dated, to the bailiffs, 
 signed " W. Burghiey," desiring that out of the bequest of 100/. now 
 coming to the town by the bequest of Sir Thomas White, a portion may 
 be granted to Thomas Browne of Shrewsbury. «' What the man is, how 
 he hath and doth behave himself, what service he hath done to her 
 maiestie and the whole state .... is well knowne unto you." 
 
 The bequest referred to is the tenth share of money for charitable 
 loans, left to 24 corporate towns, to be taken in turn, and the first 
 occasion for Shrewsbury's receiving it was in 1593. This letter there- 
 fore belongs probably to 1592 or 1593. Browne's service in discovery 
 of a supposed plot was in 1571, and he was again busy in 1574. See 
 Vol. V. of Trans, of Shropsh. Archceol. Soc. 
 
 159|, 11 March. From the Court. — Letter to the bailiffs from the 
 Earl of Essex, thanking them for the election of his servant Wright as 
 burgess in Parliament. 
 
 Owen and Blake way, I., 550, where for Eynes read Eyres. 
 
 1593, 15 June. Beawdley. — Letter to the same from M. Sherer, 
 advising them as to steps to be taken to solicit the resort to Shrewsbury 
 of the Council of the Marches. 
 
 1593, 8 Oct. — Letter to the same from Richard Herbert and another, 
 certifying that John Mytton, gent., is assessed in Montgomeryshire for 
 the subsidy granted in the last parliament. 
 
 1593, 31 Oct. " From my house at Coton in Wemes parish. 5 ' — Letter 
 to the same from Richard Harrison, expressing his readiness to cease 
 sueing (being bidden by Christ to forgive those that trespass) Robert 
 Kempe upon a bond for money due from his deceased brother John 
 Kempe ; will send an attorney to pay w T hat is due from himself to some 
 in Shrewsbury for Mr. John Newport, of Wellington, deceased. 
 
 1593, 19 Nov. Grinshill.— Letter to Mr. Laughton, " chiefe precher 
 of the towne of Salop/' from John Lawrence, minister of Grinshill, 
 with a list of contributions of rye received for relief of the poor people 
 of Bishop's Castle. " To amplifie it myselfe I am not able, for my 
 stipend for servinge the cure beinge but iiij K is verie litle (you know) 
 for me to live upon, and not sufficient but that I take paynes in teacLinge 
 of children, and thereby gett something although not much." 
 
 1593, 21 Nov. Ludlow Castle.— Letter to the same from the Council 
 of the Marches, signed by W. Leyghton and H. Touneshead, desiring 
 that a collection may be made on behalf of the inhabitants of Church 
 Stretton who have had their dwelling-houses and goods consumed by 
 fire. On 20 March following, in reply to a letter from Fr. Phillipps, 
 46*. \0d. were paid over as the amount of the collection. 
 
 [159|.] At Mr. Norton's, at the Blue Boar in Bookbinder Lane, 
 London. — Letter from Thomas Holaud, apothecary, to Mr. Fouler at 
 Harnege Grange, asking his advice as to proceedings, for some alleged 
 wrong, against the bailiffs of Shrewsbury, whose disobedience he had 
 showed to Sir George Carey and Sir Thomas Hsneage, being at dinner 
 with one of the sheriffs of London. " I will set them out in print, as 
 you shall se very shortly, that all England may singe and laugh at ther 
 knavery." 
 
 159J, 19 Jan. Salop. — Letter from Adam Mitton to William 
 Fowler, esq., in answer to the preceding letter, which refers to a quarrel 
 in the streets on a Sunday night when Holland was " very farre 
 overseene with drinke/' 
 
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 159f, 17 Jan. " From Bu[shop's] Castle."— Letter to the bailiffs, 
 signed by eight persons (bailiff and aldermen) with hearty thanks for the 
 contribution of 201. Os. 2d., for the relief of their poor people, specially 
 acknowledging the help given by the preachers, Mr. Laugh ton and 
 Mr. Prise. 
 
 159J, 11 Feb. Park Hall.— Letter to the bailiffs from Ro. Pouel, 
 the High Sheriff, about his endeavours to procure the holding the assizes 
 at Shrewsbury. 
 
 Trans, of Shropsh. Archceol. Soc, 2nd S., V. 294. 
 
 1594, 9 Oct. — Letter from the bailiffs to William Fowler, one of the 
 Council of the Marches and steward of the town ; about the murder of 
 one Thomas Lacon in a, street-quarrel; with a letter from Jo. Croke 
 and Fowler, at Ludlow, 11 Oct., and another from Fowler alone, 
 13 Oct., relating to the enquiry. 
 
 1591, 2 Nov. Haughmond. — Letter to the bailiffs from Rowland 
 Barker, complaining of the assessment of a servant for the subsidy, who 
 is not liable. 
 
 1594, 19 Nov. Cond[over | . — Letter to the same from H. Touneshend, 
 desiring postponement of the hearing of a case on account of the absence 
 of witnesses. 
 
 1594, 28 Nov. Cudington. — Letter to the bailiffs from Rondulphe 
 Brereton, George Bostocke, and Roundale Dod, respecting the due care 
 of certain assignments of trust kept in the exchequer at Shrewsbury 
 for the benefit of the four daughters of John Heath, their kinsman, 
 deceased. 
 
 1594, 22 Dec. — Letter to the same from a poor minister, John Parker, 
 thanking them earnestly for the collection, at the motion of Mr. Thomas 
 Laughton, of 21. 5s. 2d. for his relief : " being left and forsaken of this 
 people, and not above x or xii persons of 500 families perform inge the 
 payment of my promised stipend, and all by reason I cannot accomplish 
 the servyce requyred at my hands." 
 
 1594. — Papers relating to the weekly assessment for relief of the 
 poor, with a list of defaulters in St. Chad's parish. 
 
 1594. — Pleadings before the Council of the Marches in a case of 
 Pigeon v. Owen and Hughes, 36 Eliz. 
 
 159f, March. — Copies of three orders from the Privy Council for the 
 providing horses for the conveyance from place to place of Captains 
 Jenkin Conway, John Goring, and William Mustion, or Mastion, who 
 are appointed to conduct companies of footmen for service in Ireland ; 
 with an order in the case of the last-named to the lord mayor of London 
 and others for the impressing of a chirurgion and a drum for his com- 
 pany. 1 Apr. — Copy of letter from Will. Chandos and Henry Poole 
 at Gloucester, requiring the providing of post-horses for Capt. Mastian 
 (sic), and lodging and diet for his company of 94 footmen, who are to 
 embark at West Chester for Ireland. 
 
 159f , 19 March. Dublin Castle. —Pass for William Mynors, gent., 
 to repair to the Court in England. 
 
 1595, 7 Apr. — Letter to the bailiffs from Thomas Leighton ; under- 
 stands that one has come to Shrewsbury with commission to press a 
 drum for service in Ireland, and is desirous to take Roger Moynes, who 
 
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 has been always employed by the writer as a drum for the training of 
 his soldiers ; and whereas he is charged to be ready with all his 
 soldiers at an hour's warning for the Queen's service, he desires that 
 the bailiffs will take care that the said Roger Moynes be not pressed. 
 
 1595, 11 Apr. — Letter to the bailiffs from Richard Prynce, asking- 
 that a collection may be made at the next sermon at St. Chad's for the 
 relief of a very poor man, Thomas Shaw, aged 91, who is not able to 
 work. 
 
 [1595.] — Letter to the same from Richard Anderton, a sherman, 
 desiring that a general watch may be kept this night for John Raban, a 
 carrier dwelling in "Bernyngam"; he and the whole crew went to 
 Tong on Wednesday, yesternight to Bruton in Cheshire ; this night 
 they are appointed to be at Chester, whither the writer will ride 
 presently, for so he has sent word to Mr. Waadde the secretary of 
 her Majesty's Council. [This was found among the papers of 1571, but 
 must relate to the business of the following letter.] 
 
 1595 [Apr.]. — Letter to the same (very roughly and indistinctly 
 written) from Richard Anderton, a prisoner in ward, demanding to 
 know the cause of his commitment, and that he may be released forth- 
 with [to go to London to attend upon his master lord Hunsdon upon 
 St. George's day. He came post with his commission concerning 
 certain traitors that John Raban conveyed from London. Two of the 
 said traitors he followed on foot to Hampton ; on Wednesday night last 
 they all lay at Tunge ; on Thursday they separated, but the writer 
 brought two, one being the chief traitor, Mr. Jonson, Master of Arts, 
 brought up at Oxford, well known to Mr. Jordan, preacher and 
 minister of Wyllynton parish, and the other unknown, to Shrews- 
 bury on Thursday at 11 o'cl. at night, but could at that time find no 
 bailiffs or sergeants, and the traitors '''went over thys brygge to what 
 place I know not " [and escaped]. 
 
 The description ;of Jonson, the Oxford M.A., follows on a separate 
 scrap of paper : about 30 years of age, a proper fine man with a yellow 
 beard, a " toppynge " hat, a doublet of black lye grogram laid on with 
 black lace, a pair of old (?) boots, and a gold ring on his fourth finger : 
 Mr. Jurdan of Welyngton knoweth the traitor : " nowe rydden 
 towards the Poole, as I understand ; therefore let the sheroife rid 
 after." 
 
 1595, 19 Apr. Whitehall. — Copy of an order for the supply of post- 
 horses to William Rowland, gent., employed in her Majesty's affairs to 
 the town of Carnarvon. 
 
 1595, 30 Apr. Greenwich. — Similar order with regard to "William 
 Wyne, esq, going to the county of Carnarvon. 
 
 1595, 18 May. Ludlow Castle.— Letter to the bailiffs from W. 
 Leyghton and Thomas Cornwaill, two members of the Council of the 
 Marches, desiring the stay of a suit respecting the title of the ground 
 called Kingsland and the right of common there, until the time 
 previously fixed, viz. 18 June, by the Council for the ordering of the 
 matter by Richard Corbet, esq. and Francis Newport, esq. 
 
 1595, 25 May. Okes. — Letter to the same from W. Sherer respecting 
 some letters sent by him to the Council of the Marches. 
 
 1595, 3 June. Harnege. — Letter to the same from William Fouler, on 
 behalf of his friend John Shelvocke, who having had his house and 
 barn, with all his goods to the value of 60/., besides his books, utterly 
 
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 consumed by fire, has obtained letters placards from the Council iu the 
 Marches to take the charitable ben3\olence of well-disposed people. 
 Desires that Mr. Lawton and the rest of the ministers may be asked to 
 cause his letters to be read in their several parishes, that he may receive 
 some relief, and that the magistrates will show him what favour they 
 can. 
 
 1595, 8 July. Mariton. — Letter to the same from Rychard Lloyd, 
 John Hockleton and George Harries. Forasmuch as it hath pleased 
 God to visit their vicar wiih sickness, so that he cannot do the requisite 
 duties, such as he usually did accomplish, they have thought it very 
 necessary to procure some other minister to supply his place, sufficient 
 for learning, honest for behaviour, and sound and zealous for religion, 
 and finding their neighbour, the bearer hereof, Mr. Jervis Thomas, a 
 graduate of the university of Oxford, and a qualified preacher, they 
 request that he may be approved to supply the necessity, not in any 
 sort to dispossess the Vicar, neither to diminish his living, being but 
 poor and having no other means ; but if it should please the Almighty 
 to call the poor man away, that then this bearer should succeed him, 
 according to the desire of the parish. [The name of Jervis Thomas is 
 not found in Foster's Alumni Oxonienses.~] 
 
 1595, 11 Nov. High Ereall. — Letter to the same from Sir Francis 
 Newport. — Hearing that they intend to build a new market-house he 
 commends to them a mason of approved skill and honesty, Walter 
 Hancocke. It is not unknown to them that the writer has had great 
 cause to make trial of workmen, and therefore can well write of his own 
 knowledge and experience that they cannot match the man in these 
 parts in science and judgment of workmanship, or in plainness and 
 honesty to deal withal ; prays that he may undertake the work more in 
 good will to the town than to him, although he loves the man well; 
 knows that if Mr. Justice Owen were in the country, he would say as 
 much on Hancock's behalf. 
 
 [1595.] — Petition to the same from Evan Davyes, curate of St. Mary's, 
 who had long served under Mr. John Tonipkys the late minister, and 
 was appointed by the preceding bailiffs to serve in the same place after 
 his decease, for one quarter, which expired at Michaelmas day last; but 
 the bailiff of the school, the usual payer of the minister's stipend, 
 refuses to pay him. 
 
 [1595.] — Petition to the same from Adam Bradshaw for the yearly 
 allowance of 26s. Sd. for keeping the clock in the Booth Hall. 
 
 [1595 ?] — Twelve minute "Interrogatories to be ministered to Marie 
 Modlicot alias Higgons," as to her attendance upon her brother Richard 
 Modlicott during an illness, tending to show that she had been bribed 
 to poison him, by some " herb, powder, root, confection, oil, ointment 
 or other thing." A letter from Richard Modlicott to Adam Mytton 
 about some law proceedings, dated 19 Apr., is written by him as '* a 
 languishing patient." 
 
 [1595 ?] — Petition to the bailiffs from five persons who, having a 
 special care and love towards the maintenance of artillery, as a game 
 not only allowed by the laws of the realm of England but also most 
 laudable to be exercised by all men, did of their own proper costs and 
 charges erect for the parish of St. Julian's in the common lane near to 
 the Hermitage, in the liberties, a pair of butts, complaining that one 
 Thomas Griffiths Cson of Griffith Lewis, the common apparitor or 
 
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 somner for the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, whose house called 
 the Hermitage is accompted a house to retain people of bad behaviour) 
 did pull down and subvert the said Imtts, to the only intent to suppress 
 that good exercise and to maintain bowling; they pray that he may 
 not only receive condign punishment, but may erect the butts again. 
 
 159£, 24 Feb. — Letter to the bailiffs from William Fouler, recom- 
 mending two persons to be licensed to sell ale ; will not write on the 
 behalf of any but such as he takes to be honest and of a good conversation 
 and behaviour in their house. 
 
 1596, 12 Sept. Greenwich. — Copy of an order for post-horses for 
 Capt. Henry Tolliet going to Chester to embark for Ireland. 
 
 1596, 26 Oct. Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street. — Copy of a letter to the 
 justices of peace in the county of Salop from William Peryam and 
 Matthew Ewens, respecting the Queen's instructions for the providing 
 for the due bringing of corn to market and mitigating the great price 
 thereof. 
 
 [1596-7 ?] — [Ten] "Articles injoyned by the Q. Majesty uppon 
 her subjects for thavoidinge of God's wrathe against this realme," in a 
 time of dearth and scarcity. Prayers on Wednesdays and Fridays ; 
 fast days to be observed, and that which is saved by sparing to be given 
 to the poor ; collections to be made ; persons not to break up house and 
 leave their habitations, nor discharge servants for [the sake of] sparing ; 
 &c. 
 
 1597, 14 Apr. Whitehall. — Copy of an order for post horses for 
 Capt. Crofts appointed to go into Ireland with 100 men levied in the 
 counties of Montgomery and Radnor. 
 
 1597, 30 July. — Similar order for John Welsore. 
 
 1597, 25 Apr. — Copy of a letter to the justices in the county from 
 Will. Peryam and Matth. Ewens, for a return of the number of ale- 
 houses, in pursuance of commandment from the Lord Keeper for utterly 
 suppressing their unnecessary number, and that none be henceforth 
 suffered to continue but such as shall be very needful and well ordered. 
 
 1597. — Two letters, from London, to Mr. Webb and Mr. Gibbons, 
 the bailiffs, the one signed by Edw. Bulkeley and Th. Laughton, dated 
 10 May, the other from Laughton alone (Bulkeley's son-in-law) "from 
 my house in Great St. Bartholomew's," dated 2 July. Having been 
 asked to find a preacher for the town, they have endeavoured to do so 
 but those whom they thought qualified decline the place on account of 
 the stipend being too slender for these hard times. They proposed the 
 uniting of St. Mary's to the preachership, but have had no reply to their 
 proposal. Laughton is now so infirm and ill that he desires to be eased 
 of the burden of finding a preacher and that the bailiffs will take it upon 
 themselves ; but he recommends Mr. Thomas Higgons who is near them 
 and well known to them. 
 
 159J, March. — Papers relating to the purchase of 600 quarters of 
 wheat, " manckcorn," rye (200 quarters) and barley by the Corporation 
 of Shrewsbury from one Thomas Oxwick of Walsingham, Norfolk, for 
 transportation by sea to Bristol, and thence by the Severn, for the relief 
 of the poor people of Shrewsbury, in a time of scarcity. Petition from 
 the Corporation to the Council of the Marches for warrants from the 
 Privy Council for free transportation. Letter from Thomas Browne, 
 an agent employed in procuring the corn; in consequence of 4,000 
 
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 quarters of rye being sent to Treland, the price of rye has risen from 
 30s. to v. :i quarter, to be had of the merchants at Bristol by Bristol 
 measure (which is better than London or Winchester) at 10?. Copies 
 of other letters and instructions. 
 
 1598, — Proceedings in a long suit concerning toils levied in Shrews- 
 bury, 10 Eli/. 
 
 1599, 16 Apr. — Letter from the bailiffs of Shrewsbury, John Perche 
 and Richard Dawes, to Thomas Brabant, the minister of Astley, 
 notifying the appointment of overseers with the churchwardens, for 
 relief of the poor in St. Mary's parish (of which Astley is a member) 
 according to the Act of Parliament, and desiring a return of the poor 
 persons to be relieved in Astley ; with his answer subjoined, giving a 
 list of seven people relieved by the churchwardens and overseers in the 
 preceding year. 
 
 1600, 2 June. Clifford's Inn. — Letter from Nicholas Gibbons to the 
 bailiffs, respecting a case as to the staying of some corn from crossing 
 the bridge until the pontage-toll was paid, whereas it was not due until 
 the bridge was crossed. 
 
 1601, 31 May. Greenwich. — Copy of a letter from the Privy 
 Council to the High Sheriff and Justices of Salop. A great part of the 
 Welsh cloths which are tsken to Loudon are bought by French 
 merchants, and of late years fault has been found with them after their 
 being transported into France, w r hereby the cloth of this realm that 
 heretofore had reputation to be the truest and best made, hath not only 
 been discredited, but the French King hath taken occasion to confiscate 
 all those English cloths that have been found, upon trial by water or 
 otherwise, to shrink, cockle, or be in any wise defective ; therefore if 
 the abuses in making of false cloth be not corrected, the trade will be 
 in peril to be overthrown. And the chief abuse being in colouring 
 defects by stretching defective cloths upon tenters, a thing forbidden by 
 Act of Parliament, therefore not only the use of tenters in stretching 
 cloths or cottons shall not be suffered, but all ropes, rings and wrenches 
 to stretch cloths, with the heads and lower bars of the tenters and all 
 other engines and means for straining of cloth either in length or 
 breadth, shall be abolished and quite taken away. 
 
 temp. Eliz. — A petition to the bailiffs signed by 17 persons prays 
 that they will without delay see that the arrears of the fee-farm rent to 
 the Crown and the proffers in the Exchequer are paid, as otherwise the 
 charter of the town may be forfeited. 
 
 temp. Eliz.- -Letter from H. Touneshend, the steward of Shrews- 
 bury, to the bailiffs, bidding them to come prepared Avith their charters 
 to justify before the Council of the Marches their imprisoning of a 
 person who has petitioned against them ; the Castle at Ludlow, 24 Feb. 
 
 temp. Eliz. — Copy of an order from the Council of the Marches to the 
 bailiffs of Gloucester, to appear at Ludlow Wednesday after Midlent 
 Sunday to answer to a complaint of the burgesses of Shrewsbury for 
 arresting merchandise passing by the Severn for toll, contrary to their 
 privileges. 
 
 temp. Eliz. — Petition from John Gyttyns the younger, for discharge 
 from imprisonment, having been committed " for playing at the loot balle 
 upon Shroftusdaie, and for throwinge the balle from, hime whene the 
 serigent Hardinge demaunded the same." 
 
 temp. Eliz. — Petition from Margaret Freman for release " oute of 
 this misserable prison " of the Burgess Gate, where she lies upon the 
 
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 bare boards, overpressed with irons, and ready to starve with hungers, 
 justly punished for speaking certain idle words of Mr. Tonks [Tomkys] 
 the public preacher. 
 
 temp. Eliz. — Petition in the name of the burgesses : 1. that the 
 pasture called Behind the Walls may be enclosed this winter season 
 from rooting with swine, and that the inhabitants may have their cattle 
 there : 2. that the pastures be not let to any private person, but kept 
 for the use of the poor burgesses, after the rate of 10s. a beast sum- 
 mering : 3. for that some think it more beneficial to set it to such as 
 will give most tor it, "for ansvvere therto I say .... so many of 
 you as be of that mynde have small regard to the due consederacion 
 of the comon welthe, for ys yt a comon welthe to opprese ourselffs with 
 our owne, and not to be comforted and cherished by the same?" 
 4. That the poor may have the benefit and partiality be avoided, let 
 the names of the most needful, who have kine to be relieved, be put in 
 a bag to the number of 100 more or less, and so many be taken out 
 for the first year as the pasture will well bear, and the rest remain for 
 the next year. 
 
 [1605 ?] — Petition to the bailiffs from William Cylson, milner ? 
 imprisoned for profaning the Sabbath-day, in carrying of meal and 
 travelling with his ware, contrary to their proclamation. 
 
 1608, 23 Nov. York House. — Letter to the bailiffs from Lord 
 Ellesmere, the Chancellor, recommending a petition from Thomas 
 Higgons, gent., lt whoes father I knew long, and loved for the good I 
 knew in him ; and I hear no lesse good report of this his sonne." 
 
 1614. — Petition to Richard Hunt and Thomas Gardner, the bailiffs, 
 from Thomas Stubbe, complaining of the noisome condition of the lane 
 leading from St. Alkmund's vicarage to the Hey Street, one end of 
 which was granted to the parishioners of St. Julian's, and by that 
 means stopped, and made a mixen place and worse, and offering to take 
 the place at a yearly rent, and he will pave it and drain it, " and withab 
 will plante that odious place with odoriferous herbes and flowers." An 
 order to view and report is subjoined, but apparently nothing was done, 
 for in 1622—3 there is a petition from George Hunt complaining of the 
 same lane as being most vilely and unseemly polluted, and that there is 
 a noisome mixen continually haunted with swine. 
 
 1615, 28 Aug. — Pardon under the great seal to John Davies, miller, 
 for knowingly receiving and harbouring one William Dennys who on 
 28 Nov. 1613, broke into the Exchequer of Salop, and stole 
 29/. 7s. 6d. 
 
 162§, Feb. — Returns, in pursuance of an order from the High 
 Commission, to the bailiffs of the quantities of overplus-corn remaining 
 in the liberties and in the parish of St. Julian which can be brought to 
 market. 
 
 1623, 1 Sept. Shitfhal manor. — Letter to the bailiffs from Edward 
 Bromley, complaining that they have not punished one Walter Grynsell, 
 tanner, for shameful speeches offered by him in open court to the 
 writer's cousin Thomas Owen, the town clerk, and desiring that they 
 will bind Grynsell over to appear at the next gaol delivery, and 
 meanwhile to be of good behaviour. 
 
 1628, 9 June. Chirbury. — Letter to the bailiffs from George Bray 
 and Hugh Whalley, churchwardens of Chirbury, informing them that 
 
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 on last Sabbath day, S June, an instrument was fixed on the church 
 door by the apparitor of the Bishop of Hereford, intimating to the 
 patrons that Mr. Davies, late vicar, had resigned the vicarage ; which 
 f hey therefore notify, as the advowson has been conferred under the 
 Great Seal on the bailiffs and burgesses. 
 
 1629. — Petition to the bailiffs, Rich. Gibbons and Will. Rowley, from 
 Peter Studley, curate of St. Chad's, desiring that in consideration of 
 his, for peace sake, giving up his claim to some small tithes in Frank- 
 well which the Free School has deprived him of, by his consent, 
 because he has not leisure nor liking to attend upon troublesome suits, 
 they will grant him 44.v. yearly to make up the rent of 71. 4s. which he 
 has to pay yearly to the Crown for his Easter book and for some 
 pastures belonging to the town, and towards which they have for the 
 last three years given him 5/. yearly. In this they will settle peace 
 between the Church and the School, and gratify the request of the 
 Bishop and the Chancellor. He also asks that they will pay 535. 2d. 
 which Mr. Typton hath caused to be spent in a needless suit, for which 
 he will forego the two last years' rents of tithes, for which he has not 
 recovered one penny. 
 
 1632, March. — Petition from Thomas Lloyd, vicar of St. Alkmond's, 
 to be admitted a burgess without fine, he being a widower, and not 
 likely to have any issue, in consideration of his having ever since the 
 plague began read morning prayer daily within his parish, where the 
 people of the town daily resort in a greater number than they formerlj 
 did, to his great danger. Agreed to, 30 March. 
 
 163|, March. — Petition from Richard Davyes, a " trow man " (or 
 boatman), praying that he may have his burgesship freely, in considera- 
 tion of his assisting to break the ice in the river when the last great 
 frost went away that it might have passage through the Stone Bridge, 
 bringing timber, &c, when part of the bridge fell, and his saving a 
 woman from drowning. Granted, 23 March. 
 
 1639, 3 July, Ludlow. — Letter from Tvrn. Tourneur (the Recorder) 
 to Thomas Jones, Esq., mayor. " The assises nowe drawe neare. You 
 know how you were blamed the last assises that you had not done 
 fitting observances to my lords the judges of our circuite in producing 
 to them our new charter, and presenting them with velvet coates, or to 
 make them coates ; the things to be done are neither chargeable nor 
 trowblesome. The displeasure that may encrease by the neglect may be 
 verie prejudiciall to our towne, and confirme our censure of pride. It 
 is uusaffe and indiscreete for us to contend with judges. I pray you 
 consult with the company about it, and resolve on a course to recover 
 that we have lost." 
 
 1641. — Petition from the fraternity or company of corvisours, repre- 
 senting that in other cities and corporations, market-places and certain 
 days are assigned for the open searching, sealing, and selling of leather, 
 in accordance with the law, but that for want of such in Shrewsbury 
 tanr.ers sell leather there in private, some half-tanned and some half- 
 dried, and the searchers and sealers visit and seal privately, by which 
 covert dealing much ill-tanned and bad-conditioned leather is vented, 
 and the petitioners and others defrauded and deceived. They pray 
 therefore that a fitting market-place and a certain weekly market-day 
 be appointed for the public searching, sealing and selling of all leather, 
 Endorsed with an order on 12 Nov. 1641 for consideration and report. 
 
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 1644, March-Oct. — Warrants and orders respecting the collection of 
 assessments for Prince Rupert's forces, with depositions of many persons 
 respecting their income, including one William Boraston, gentleman and 
 practitioner in physic. 
 
 1660. — A roll of eighty-six declarations, on parchment, chiefly by 
 tradesmen of Shrewsbury, of their laying hold of the King's pardon as 
 promised in the Breda Declaration. Among the signatures are those of 
 Capt. Edward Turner and of several soldiers in his company, Richard 
 Bagot, esq., Daniel Jenks, gent., Robert Lathropp, gent., Humphrey 
 Mackworth, esq., John Evanson, gent., Richard Smith of Great Ness, 
 gent.. Edward Baudewin of Diddlebury, esq., Gabriel Lloyd of Poole, 
 gent., Francis Tallents, clerk, Richard Heath, vicar of St. Alkmond's, 
 Moses Leigh, clerk, and Creswell Tayleur of Rodington, esq. 
 
 The list of names is printed, with notes by Rev. N. Auden, in Trans. 
 ■o/Shropsh. ArclueoL Soc, 2nd S. II. 144-158. 
 
 1661, 15 Nov. — Copy of a petition from the Corporation to the 
 House of Commons, praying that nothing may be done to hinder the 
 working of the coal mines at Madeley, Broseley, and Bentall, which have 
 been erroneously represented as being in danger of being wholly exhausted, 
 by the introduction of coal from other places, which is being endeavoured 
 by the making the brook Stower in Staffordshire and Worcestershire 
 navigable, for private interests upon pretence of public good. 
 
 1688, 8 Dec. — Copy of a letter [from the Mayor] to a peer, informing 
 him that the town is open and ungarrisoned, and that he can enter 
 without any opposition. 
 
 Owen and Blakeway, I., 499. 
 
 1798, 6 Nov. — Printed form of license for aliens, filled up with the 
 name of John Juison, licensed to reside in Shrewsbury for one month ; 
 in pursuance of the proclamation for registering of aliens. 
 
 A bundle of tattered and imperfect market accounts of sales of cattle 
 and horses, extending from 1525 to 1668 in occasional years, possesses 
 interest, not merely from their being probably unique in point of date, 
 T)iit from their giving descriptions of the animals, with prices, and names 
 <of buyers and sellers. 
 
 W. D. Macray. 
 
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 THE MANUSCRIPTS OF 
 SIR "WALTER 0. CORBET, 
 OF ACTON REYNALD, BART. 
 
 At Acton Reynald, Shropshire, the seat of Sir Walter Orlando 
 Corbet, Bart, (representative of a Norman family settled in the same 
 county from the time of the Conquest), there is a small collection of 
 early documents, out of which all that belong to the period ending with 
 the close of the reign of Henry III. are noticed in the following list,, 
 with a selection from those of later date. The total number preserved 
 amounts to 287 up to 1507, the year of the accession of Henry VIII., 
 while of subsequent reigns, especially of that of Elizabeth, the number of 
 title-deeds is large. But the results of examination are, on the whole, 
 somewhat disappointing, although much of local interest occurs. There 
 are no materials for general history. Of the Civil War period there is 
 nothing ; a period which from the part taken by different members of 
 the family on different sides might have been expected to have rewarded 
 search. But possibly there may have been destruction of documents 
 and papers when the chief house of the family at Moreton Corbett 
 (which still testifies in its ruins to its former importance and beauty) 
 was, after occupation by a parliamentary garrison in 1644, dismantled 
 and abandoned. 
 
 The charters relating to the abbeys of Haughmond and Lilieshall, 
 and the little known o:ie of Stratt March ell in Montgomeryshire, are of 
 special interest, and help to supplement the meagre accounts found 
 elsewhere. And the small and obscure hospital of St. Leonard at 
 Clattercote, near Cropredy, in Oxfordshire, said by Tanner to have been 
 for leprous brethren, is here found described as a hospital for sick 
 women. Examples of manumissions are found in 1350 and 1406. The 
 lease of parish property at Shawbury in 1533, and the license for the 
 churchyard at Broseley in 1595, are interesting. The deeds relating 
 to the town of Northampton would not have been looked for here. 
 
 W. D. Mackay. 
 
 August 1895. 
 
 The earliest deed is one of the reign of Henry I. ; a grant of Hortun 
 (near Wem) by Hugh Fitz-Riehard to William Macer, or Macrus : — 
 " Hugo filius Ricardi omnibus hominibus suis Francis et Anglicis 
 salutem. Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse Willelmo Macro et heredibus 
 suis adtenendum de me et de heredibus meis in feudo et hereditate 
 Hortunam pro servicio unius militis, et si plus valet quam x libras 
 in bene (sic) et in pace teneat, si minus de mea propria hereditate 
 ei perficiam. Hujus donationis et concessionis sunt testes: M. uxor 
 ejus, Willelmus filius suus, et Ricardus filius suus, et Adeliza hTia 
 sua, et Reinaldus frater domini, et Engenulfus, et Walchelinus, et 
 Osbertus de Luncecumba, et Henricus filius ejus, et Rogerus Pincerna^ 
 et Rogerus Cocus, et Willelmus de Herefordia, et Efrardus, et 
 Piritunus, et Herveus Guun, et Randulfus Macrus, et Ruellanus 
 Macrus, et Iwennus Macrus, et Lanbertus, et Rodbertus de Duneuic, 
 et Willelmus de Fretai, et Gaufredus de Clint.' " A small fragment 
 of a large white seal is attached. 
 
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 The next is probably of the time of Henry II., early in his reign ; a 
 grant from Simon de Beauchamp (who died 9 Joh. 1207) to Simon de 
 Pateshille of rent from the mill at Linslade, Buckinghamshire : — " Sciant 
 presentes et futuri quod ego Simon de Bello Campo dedi et hac 
 carta mea confirmavi Simoni de Pateshille pro homagio et servicio 
 suo duas marcatas redditus in molendino meo de Linchelade, tenendas, 
 de me et de heredibus meis sibi et heredil)us suis libcre et quiete 
 et solute ab omni servicio per una (sic) calcaria deaurata, vel per 
 quatuor denarios, annuatim reddendo ad Pascha, pro omni servicio. 
 Has autem duas marcatas redditus ego et heredes raei warentiza- 
 bimus prefato Simoni et heredibus suis, et si forte eis warentizare 
 illas non poterimus, eis escambium plenarie faciemus inde de aliis 
 terris nostris in Bedefordsire, et de hoc redditu ipsum Simonem 
 saisivi, et homagium suum inde cepi. Coram his testibus : Waltero 
 Ruffo, Roberto de Barentin, Henrico de Boheles, Galfredo RufFo, 
 Pagano filio Brien, Eustachio le Mordand', Jerino de la Lega, 
 Godefredo Ruffo, Rogero de Wichetone, Radulfo de Grimescote, 
 Willelmo Druelle, Nicholao filio Michaelis, Roberto de Langeforde, 
 Radulfo Druelle, David de Haclntone (sic), Henrico de Norbois, 
 Henrico de Haclintone, Roberto de Arundel, Hugone de Blosseville, 
 Roberto de Wahille, Michaele de Raustone, et multis aliis. Item 
 Johanne de Panpbenham, Simone Parcesvil, Waltero de Boheles, 
 Michaele Hachun, et multis aliis." 
 
 Confirmation by Henry II. to Haughmond Abbey of grants from 
 William Fitzalan, the founder: — "H. Rex Angl. et Dux Norm, et 
 Aquit. et Com. And. archiepiscopis, episcopis, abbatibns, coinitibus, 
 baronibus, justiciariis, vicecomitibus, ministris, et omnibus hominibus 
 et fidelibus suis Francis et Anglis, salutem. Sciatis me concessisse 
 et carta mea presenti confirmasse ecclesie Sancti Johannis Evangeliste 
 de Hageman et canonicis in ea Deo servientibus quicquid Willelmus 
 filius Alani rationabiliter eidem ecclesie dedit et carta sua confirmavit, 
 videlicet terram de Pipringues cum omnibus pertinentiis suis et omnibus 
 libertatibus ejus in cam pis et pascuis et aquis, liberam ab omnibus 
 terrenis consuetudinibus, auxiliis, operacionibus, scutagiis, exercitibus, 
 danegeldis, hidagiis, hidegeldis, et placitis, et communitatem propriis 
 animalibus suis in omnibus pasturis que pertinent ad villain de 
 Stoches, in bosco et piano, et alneto, sicut animalia Aveline matris 
 Willelmi filii Alani aliquo tempore eandem communitatem melius 
 habuerunt, et ecclesiam de Stoches cum terra que ad eandem ecclesiam 
 pertinet, et terram de Donstona quam tenuit Marescot, cum omnibus 
 pertinentiis suis, quam ipse Wiilelmus eis dedit assensu Isabel 
 uxoris sue,* et Naguinton cum pertinentiis suis, et Hopelege cum 
 pertinentiis suis. Quare volo et firmiter precipio quod predicti canonici 
 teneant bee predicta bene et integre et libere et quiete et honorifice, 
 sicut carte ejusdem Willelmi filii Alani testantur. T. Thoma Cane, 
 Roberto de Donstanvilla, Man. Biset, Joscelino de Baillol, Roberto filio 
 com. de Legr., Apereo (?) Leons." 
 
 Fitz Alan's grant of Hopley, confirmed in the preceding charter, is 
 found here, but not the otber grants. It is as follows : 44 W. fil. Al. 
 omnibus filiis matris ecclesie salutem. Notum sit vobis Osbertum de 
 Hoptun concessisse et dedisse quod sui juris erat in Hopeleia fratribus 
 Hamonensis ecclesie in perpetuam elemosinam, et Hugo Hose pro 
 
 * In Banks' Dormant and Extinct Baronage this Isabel ("de SaiJ is described 
 as -wife of the first William Fitz Alan, father of the donor to the abbey, and the 
 donor's mother Avelina, mentioned above, is omitted. Isabel is correctly described 
 in G. E. C's Complete Peerage, Vol. III., 1890. 
 
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 annua Ricardi do Merchemerle, et Heldestoc pro animabus patris et 
 matris sue calumpniam quam liabebat in predicta terra dimisisse in 
 sempiternum, nt libore et quiete ab omni seculars servieio, in bosco et 
 piano, in visa et in aquis, et in omnibus locis, quantum ad istos et ad 
 prediccam terram pertinet, prenominati fratres possideant. Et scitote 
 Osbertum de Hopt[un] etiam de terra sua de Hop[tun] dimidium 
 ferdellum dedisse in ehmiosinam tain liberam et quietam sicut ipse 
 liberius in elemosinam dare potuit, me hoc concedente et confirmante 
 quantum ad meum servitium pertinet, R. filio Aluri coucsdente et testifi- 
 cante, cum his aliis, Johanne Extranco, Hemming sacerdote, et Waltero 
 Hose, et R. filio Siwar, et Al. filio Oliver, et Hugone filio Albert, cum 
 aliis pluribus. Valete." And the grant of Hopley is made also to the 
 church and canons of " Hagamon " by John de Merchemelega, who 
 leaves his body M predicte ecclesie de Hagamon ubicunque obiero, nisi in 
 Essexia tanturn, sepeliendum." The witnesses to his charter are 
 William fitz Alan, Hugh Panton, Hugh de Sai, Peter de Mortun and 
 Bartholomew his son, Odo de Hodenent (sic), Robert de Sai, Jordan de 
 Hespele, Hugh de Lescofort, Roger de JTefkeston, Walter de 
 Hop tun. 
 
 Temp, Hen. II. — Grant to Haughmond from Walter de Clifford 
 (II., 1170-1220). " Sciant omnes tarn presentes quam futuri quod ego 
 Walterus de Clifford filius Walteri filii Ricardi, filii Puncii, concessi et 
 hac carta ltiea confirmavi Deo et ecclesie Sancti Johannis Evangeliste 
 de Hagemon et. canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus donacionem quam 
 dominus meus Hugo de Sai et soror mea Lucia uxor illius dederunt et 
 concesserunt in molendino de Bechesford et carta sua confirmaverunt. 
 His testibus : Hugone de Sai, Ricardo de Clifford, Gileberto Giffard, 
 Willelmo Carbonello, Achille de Beche et Rogero fratre ejus, Tery de 
 Haia et Ricardo de Haia, Ricardo capellano et alio Ricardo capellano, 
 Thoma capellano, Waltero clerico Hugonis de Sai, Hugone de Katt- 
 ford." A large green seal is attached, but broken ; a knight on 
 horseback, " Sigill'. Will'. Clifford." 
 
 1174-1179. Agreement between abbot Walter of Lilleshall [abbot 
 1174-1203] and Richard de Charlton. " Hec est conventio inter 
 abbatem Walterum de Lillesh.' ejusque conventum et Ricardum de 
 dherletun. Ipse Ric. cognoscit et testificatur se tenuisse tenementum 
 -quod Cberl.' dicitur per gratiam Willelmi abbatis quam diu ipse abbas 
 Willelmus viveret, et nichil juris in eodem tenemento habuisse aut 
 adhuc habere. Quapropter reddidit totum tenementum Waltero abbati 
 et conventui, et ipse abbas et conventus concesserunt ei tenere tres 
 virgatas predicti tenementi in vita sua, reddendo annuatim ecclesie de 
 Lillesh.' in die S. Michaelis unam petram cere. Quartam vero virgatam 
 retinuit abbas in dominicum suum. Predictus autem Ric. fide et Sacra- 
 mento coram conventu se obstrinxit quod nemiuem suorum predictam 
 possessionem inradere aut ab ecclesia de Lillesh.' alienare permittet. 
 Quod si ipse Ric. inemoratam terram in manu sua tenere noluerit aut 
 nequiverit, nulli tain tenendam aut colendam nisi abbati committere 
 poterit. Si vero vitam suam mutare voluerit. apud domum de Lillesh.' 
 religionis habitum induet, et moriens corpus suum cum terra sepedicta 
 libere et quiete committet. His testibus : Widone vicecomite [sheriff 
 until ll79],Marscote, magistro Alano, magistro Rodberto decano, Hugone 
 filio Noel, Simone de Perepont, Petro filio Thoreth et Philippo filio 
 ejus. Rodberto de Scageburie et Widone filio ejus, Ricardo Picot et 
 Wicolao filio Marscot, Rodberto de Sugenhul, Helia Coudrel, Radulfo 
 de Bromhale, Rodberto de Bruge, Rein, clerico vicecomitis, Herberto 
 filio Adam, magistro Ricardo de Curchun, Rodberto de Actun, et Adam 
 <ie Audreslawa, et Hundredo de Pebenhul, cum multis aliis." 
 
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 Circa 120O. —Grant from William L'Estrange to Lillesball Abbey. 
 " Universis sancte matris ecclesie [&c] Magistcr VVillelmus Extraneus 
 filius Johannis Extranei salutem in vero Salutari. Noverlt universitas 
 vestra me pro salute anime mee et omnium antecessorum et successorum 
 meorum conces?isse et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Deo et ecclesie 
 Beate Virginis Marie do Lilleshalle et canon icis ibidem Deo servien- 
 tibus venditionem quarn Rogerus Capellanus de Sancta Maria predictis 
 canonicis fecit de quodam mesuagio cum pertinentiis juxta ecelesiam 
 Sancte Juliane in Salopesburia, illo scilicet quod est inter terrain que 
 fuit Ernaldi de Coventre et terrain Herberti filii Walteri, salvo redditu 
 meo, videlicet sex denarios, quos |)redicti canonici mihi et successoribus 
 meis annuatim in die Sancti Michaelis pro omni servicio seculari et 
 exactione persolvenf. Et ut liec mea concessio rata, stabilis, et incon- 
 cussa in perpetuum permaneat, earn presentis scripti munimine et sigilli 
 mei appositione corroboravi. His testibus : Ricardo P'got, Willelmo filio 
 Fromundi, Petro clerico, Roberto Scor, Joseph clerico, Willelmo fratre 
 ejus, Ricardo le Vilain et Willelmo filio Willelmi tunc prepositis,* 
 Regiualdo de Hibernia, Herberto de Bruge, Pliilippo filio Jurdani, 
 Petro filio Ricardi, Roberto Plummario." A small fragment of a green 
 seal, bearing the word ' ; Sigillum," remains attached. 
 
 Temp. Rich. I. ? Grant from Roger de Egbaldesham, son of Roger, 
 to " Hacramon " Abbey of one virgate of his land at Egbaldesham in 
 the parish of Saubure, which is held by Osbern. Witn. Will, de 
 Hethlega, Reginald de Tyrnn, Baldwin Wischar, Stephen de Stantun, 
 Henry the clerk of Witheford, Wido de Saubure, Roger de Begessowre, 
 Robert son of Aer, Reiner de Haclon, Michael de Withintun. 
 
 Confirmation of this grant by Vivian de Roshele. Witn., Ralph Hose 
 and William his brother, Hamo son of Marescoth, Wido de Saubire, 
 Reginald de Time, Rob. le Poer, Henry the clerk, Henry Hose, Ovieth, 
 Rich, de Muclittin, Simon de Jagedune. Philip de Gulidone. Large 
 green seal, a knight on horseback. Insc. broken : " . . . . viani 
 fil . . ." See Eyton, Antiq. of Shropshire, IX., 323. 
 
 Temp. Hen. III., early in his reign. — " Sciant presentes et futuri 
 quod ego Thomas filius Roberti Corbet vendidi et quietum clamavi, et 
 hac presenti carta mea conlirmavi, de me et heredibus meis imperpetuum 
 Johauni seniori filio Johannis Extranei et loto comuni de burgo 
 Salopeibcrie tot<im terram cum omnibus edificiis et pertinenciis suis in 
 burgo de Salopesberie que fuit quondam Roberti Bangorensis episcopi, 
 pro xx 1 ' libris argenti quas mihi dederact, reddendo inde singulis annis 
 ecclesie Beate Marie Salopesberie in festo Pasche debitam firmam pro 
 omni servitio, videlicet xi. denarios et obolum." Witn. Robert Lenfant'j" 
 and Andrew soa of Hubert, provosts of Shrewsbury, Richard le Vilein, 
 Clement son of Peter, Herbert de Atingeham the official of Shrewsbury, 
 John Pooer, Richard Pride, Reiner Rufi'us, Thomas son of William the 
 Coroner, Peter le Vilei[n], John Cnotte. Green seal of arms, broken ; 
 shield bearing a raven ; Sigill' .... Corbet.'"' 
 
 Grant from Hugh son of Gollan the Knight of Stowe to God, SS. 
 Mary and Leonard, and the canons and brethren of the order of Semp- 
 [rjingham " custodientibus infirmas de Claterecote " (Oxon) of a rent 
 of ten shillings which Sir Symon de Cioppria (Cropredy) wss accus- 
 tomed to pay him annually. Witn., William, chaplain of Croppria, 
 Richard de Grimescote, Anselm his son, Fulk Basset, Rich, de 
 
 * Apparently the earliest provosts of Shrewsbury on record. See Owen and 
 Blakeway's Hist, of Shrewsbury, I. 523 ; Richard le Vilain is there called Richard 
 Rusticus. 
 
 f Robert Iufans, or le Child. Ibid., 523, 524. 
 
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 Prestecote, Eicb.de Willcote, Will.de Stokes, Bich, Thaillaid, Will, 
 Ulger, Thomas Smarth. 
 
 1239, Nov., 24 Hen. III. — Fine by which Richard Corbet agrees to 
 do service for one knight's fee to William de Skalebroc for the tenement 
 which Peier son of Oliver holds of the said Richard in Haseleye, and for 
 the tenement which John de Seyvile held of him in Skalebroc in 
 Yorkshire, and also the said Richard gave the said William sixty 
 shillings. 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. or Edw. I. — Grant by Henry de Erdintone to Rob. 
 de Stantoneand Emma his wife, for the sum of 24 marks, of his mills at 
 Schaweburi. Witn., Sir John de Ercalewe and Sir John fitz Aer, 
 knts., Rob. Corbet of Morton, Reyner lord of Acton, Philip lord of 
 Penynton, Roger of Preston below Brochurst, Will. Cresset of Little 
 Wythiford, John le Wrothe of Morton Toret, Albert son of John of 
 Estleye. 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. — Quit-claim by Emma Banestre, after divorce from 
 her husband Adam, to the canons of Haghemon of one virgate of land in 
 Egebaldeham which Rob. W r ercoc formerly held. Witn., Sir Rich. 
 Corbet, Richard son of Geoffrey of Egebaldeham, Wido de Hadenhale, 
 Thomas Crasset, Reginald de Wythiford. Oval green seal; a floriated 
 device ; " SigilP Emme uxoris WilPi Banast'." 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. — Grant by Robert lord of Espele to Haghemon 
 abbey of the agreement which he made with Thomas Bosse, son of 
 Thomas Bosse, respecting "ilia warda" of land in Hopton which 
 Alexander son of Helias had. Witn., Henry de Pechesey, John de 
 Soces, Roger son of Tho. de Hopton, Robert de Winekeshul, John 
 de Cliva. 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. — Grant by Reginald de Stanwardin in le Felde 
 to Sir Rich, de Lehtone of leave " ad faciendum probum suuni ct apru- 
 cat[um] " at his will in his wood of Wolvinewode. Witn., Will, de 
 Ondeslawe, Will, de Fennimara, Will, de Eytoce, Rich. Knit de 
 Walleford, John de Mere. 
 
 1241. — Grant from Jewaff Vachan, son of JewafF, son of Henry, to 
 the abbot and convent of Strattmarchell (in Montgomeryshire) of all 
 the lands which were sold to them by his father ; and also " de terra 
 " extirpacionis proxima acre que vocatur Grofftadam plenariam quanti- 
 " tatem ejusdem acre in longitudine et latitudine proufc discreti viri 
 " melius indicaverint mensurandam " ; and also all his right in the land 
 called Kenew Elhameston. Witn., Kadugan prior of Strattmarchell, 
 John, Kadugan, monks of the same house ; and of secular persons, 
 Eynnius son of Maredud, Jorwhert son of Madauc and Griffin his brother, 
 Eynnius son of Griftud and Heylin his brother. 
 
 1249, Oct., 33 Hen. III. — Grant from Richard the abbot and convent 
 of Lilleshull to Robert Corbet of Morton of " quandam placiam in 
 Cherletone ad pratum faciendum subtus castrum suum de Mortone " ; 
 with minute conditions, and description of boundaries. Witn., Peter 
 Corbet, Alan Corbet, Rich, de Pectone, Nich. de Fortone, clerk, 
 Geoffrey de ]\Iockleston, clerk, Rob. de Costentin, Will, de Doniton, 
 clerk. 
 
 1252, Nov., 37 Hen. III.— Release from the lady Mabel, widow of 
 Sir Walter de Harpecote, to Rich. Pride, burgess of Shrewsbury, of 
 her right in the mill of Harpecote for the term of eight years. Witn., 
 Sir Odo de Hodenet, Rob. Corbet of Morton, Roger de Preston, Rob. 
 de Acton, Rob. Pride, John son of Ivo, Henry Partriche, Will 
 Pochelac, Ivo son of John, Peter son of Clement, Roger son cf Reiner. 
 
 Temp. Hen. 111. — Grant from Roger de Langleberge to Hugh de 
 Croft in marriage dowry with Hysobella his eldest daughter of his land 
 
in Bradefeld which he held of Ralph de Sudintoue and John de Crede- 
 welle. Witn., Will, fitz Warin, Brian de Bratmtone, Gwarin de 
 Grenedene, Bob. de Ely, Walter fitz Peter, Koger fitz Adam. 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. — Grant from Robert de Harperchote to Bertram 
 Griffin of rent, &c. in Harpernchote (sic). Witn., Will, de Erkalewe, 
 Rich. Corbet, Peter Corbet, Thomas del Lee, Reiner de Actone, 
 Wido de Hadenhale, [and se^en others.] 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. — Acknowledgment by Osbern Barath of the receipt 
 from William the abbot and the canons of Haghem. of the mill of 
 Bechesford, paying to them annually sixteen shillings and to the 
 Hospitallers of Dunemore half a mark. Witn., John Carbunel, Pagan 
 Charb.', Simon chaplain of Bureford, Geoffrey de Bureford, and Geoffrey 
 his son. Green seal of arms ; . . . horse-shoes (?) ; " Sigillum 
 Osbert . . ." 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. — Grant from William the lord of Uplon (son of 
 Hugh) to Richard son of Roger Wercock of Egebaldeham and Margery 
 his wife of a virgate of land in that village. Witn., Sir Adam, priest and 
 vicar of Scaubure, Reginald de Withiford, Rich. Wercoke, Rich, de la 
 Hul and Rich, his son, [and three others of that name]. 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. — Sale by Roger Sprenghose, lord of Longenolre, to 
 William called le Budel of Longenolre, for 44/.. of land which Will. 
 Twychelone and Agnes wife of Adam de Botteleld held of him in 
 Longenolre. Witn., JohnHonane, Roger Smethecote., John Champeneys, 
 [and others]. 
 
 Grant from John son of Robert de Espiege, lord of Esplege, to the 
 infirmary of Haughmond abbey of four shillings of annual rent in 
 Hopton. [Eyton, IX. 285. The name of Odo de Hodnet is correctly 
 given in this original deed, and there are four more witnesses.] 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. — Exchange of land between John of Little 
 Wythifort and Will. Cresset of Wythifort. Witn,. Roger de Preston, 
 Will. Banastre, Ivo de Sulton, Rich, de la Hul of Mukliton, Thomas 
 of the same, Rich. Coc of E»ebaldunham, William the clerk of Acton. 
 Seal, a fleur de-lis ; " S' Joh'is d' Wycfort." 
 
 Grant from Thomas de Hopton, son of Walter, to his son Roger 
 of half a virgate of land in Hopton. Witn., Rob. de Esple [and 
 others]. 
 
 Grant from Robert son of Adam de Prestone to Richard the Cook of 
 Hopton of half a virgate in Hopton. Witn., Will. Tuder, Rob de 
 Bekeshulle, Rich, de Lakyn, Philip de Hopton, Henry de Pecchey. 
 
 Grant from Stephen de Stantone, son of Stephen de Stantone, to his 
 uncle Robert de Stantone, of land in the vill of Rodene. Witn., Phil, 
 de Penyntone, Rob. de Hlektlee, Will. Cresset of Halnton, Reg. de 
 Wythyford, Tho. fitz Alan of Rodene, Tho. de Wythynton. Seal of 
 arms : two hounds courant, S' Henrici de Helinfor'." (?) 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. — Grant from John Stopel de la Biflote and Eva 
 his wife to Robert son of Adam de Preston of a messuage and land in 
 Hopton. Witn., Odo de Hodenet, Roger de Putlesdon, Thomas Corbet 
 of Tassel, knts., Adam de Prestone, Rob. de Stauntone, Will, de 
 Prestone, clerk. Two seals : one armorial, a bend between two stars. 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. — Grant from Lucy widow of Elyas Botie to David 
 son of Brun of four acres of land between Portwey and land formerly 
 hers. Witn., Will, de la Punde, Will. Tope, [and others]. Seal: a 
 fleur-de-lis, " S' Luce relicte El' Bote." 
 
 Temp. Hen. HI.— Release from Will. Cnotte to Sir Giles de 
 Erdintone of all his right in the wood of Heminele within the park 
 of the said Sir Giles. Witn., Sir Rob. de Halectone, Sir Thomas de la 
 
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 Euge of Whitehurcb, Adam the Vicar, Bertram Griffin, Robert Corbet,, 
 Thomas de Pixstoke. 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. — Grant from Rob. de Esplege to Haughmond 
 abbey of two shillings of rent in Hopton. [Eyton, IX., 284, with 
 witnesses' names.] 
 
 Ton p. Hen. III. — Release from Richard Smethe son of Thomas 
 Wedirkok, to Haughmond abbey of all his right in half a virgate, &c. in 
 Hopton. [Ib. IX., 286, where for Smere read Smethe, and add to 
 the witnesses' names, Robert de Hefilchawe and Philip Fremon.] 
 
 The undated deeds recited above appear to belong to the reign of 
 Hen. III. Of that of Edw. I. there are about 42, and of Edw. II., 19. 
 From these I select the following for notice : — 
 
 Grant from Ralph lord of Sonford to Richard sou of Agnes de 
 Aldelym of half a virgate in Aldelege. Witn., Master Rich, de Pyvele y 
 Sir Hen. de Schauntone, [and others]. 
 
 Grant from Sir Henry lord of Erdynton of a messuage and 16 acres 
 of land for support of a chaplain in the church of Chawburi. [Eyton,, 
 VIII., 144, where to the witnesses add, Adam vicar of Chawburi, and 
 Sir Reyner de Acton, knt.] Seal of arms. 
 
 Sale by John lord of Espelege to William Tuder of his land in 
 Hopton, for 20/. " in mea necessitate." Witn., Sir Rob. Corbet of 
 Morton, Sir Thomas Corbet of Tassalee, Sir John fitz Aer, Sir Rich, de 
 Lefnton, Rich. Hord, Will, Hord, and others. The deed is mentioned 
 in Eyton, IX. 285 as not being preserved. 
 
 1274.— Lease from Robert Corbet of Morton to Will. Silion " de 
 Veteri Campo " of half a virgate in Aldele, for the term of 23 years- 
 beginning "adAssenc. Domini proximo coronacionis reg. reg. E. fib 
 Henr. reg." (nc). Witn., Rob. de Say of Mortun, Tho. de Stuche, 
 Hugh fitz James, Henry son of Will, de Mortun, Rich, de Aldele. 
 Oval white seal, a fleur-de-lis; " Sigill' Will'i Silion!" 
 
 1286 — Deed of sale by Roger Pride, burgess of Shrewsbury, to Sir 
 Rob. de Corbet and Matilda his wife, for the sum of 200/. of the vill of 
 Besseford. Witn., Sir Walter de Hopton, Sir John fitz Aer, Sir Will, 
 de Tituelege, Sir John de Lee, Sir Tho. Boterel, Sir Roger de Acton, 
 Sir Peter de Eyton, &c. Notice by Pride to his tenants of the sale, 
 with seal of a shield bearing the letter R between three fleurs-de-lis ; 
 "Sigill' Rogeri Prude." Grant by him to the same of land in 
 Schaweburi. 
 
 Grant from John L'Esirange (" Extraneus "), lord of E real we, and 
 Matilda his wife, to Sir Philip de Say, rector of Hodenet, of one virgate 
 in Harpecote, which he had from Sir Will, le Botiler of Wemme. 
 Witn.. Sir Fulk L' Estrange, Sir Will, le Botiler, Sir Rich, de Harleye, 
 Sir Rich, de Pouelesdun, knts., Tho. Corbet, Roger Corbet, Rich. Hord, 
 Ivo de Sulton, Will, de Preston. 
 
 1288, 2 June. — Agreement between the abbot and convent of 
 Haghemon as lectors of Sawebure and Sir Reyner, lord of Acton. 
 Reyner, by which the latter acknowledges the chapel of Acton to be 
 dependent upon the mother church of Saweburi, and that the tithes and 
 one virgate of land belong to that church ; and in return he is to have 
 the services of a chaplain celebrating in the chapel at Acton on the 
 Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday in each week ; to which during his life 
 a fourth day is to be added. Seal of arms ; three roundlets : " S- 
 lleineri de Actum" 
 
 1297, 15 July. — Release from Sibillade Scbauintone, formerly the wife 
 of master John de Espeleie, to the canons of Haghemon of \6d. of 
 yearly rent paid to her as dowry from half a virgate in Hopton bought 
 
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 by them from her husband. Witn., Will. Tinier, Rich. Smethen, Will.. 
 Hord, [and others]. 
 
 1298, 7 Feb. — Grant from Williamson of Raldewyn de Montegomere 
 to Richard Hord and Eva his wife of a messuage, bakehouse, and land in. 
 Montegomere. Witn., Nicholas Bruseboy, bailiff of Montegomere, [and 
 six others]. 
 
 1309, 14 Oct., 3 Edw. II. — Grant from John Lestraunge of Erkalewe 
 to Sir Thomas Corbet and Robeit his son of the manors of Morton 
 Toret, Hemme Hynton, &c. 
 
 1311, 25 Sept.. 5 Edw. II. — Grant from Sir Roger Corbet, knt., to- 
 Roger Pichard, clerk, of his capital messuage (excepting a part held by 
 Tho. Gregori) with 60 acres of the waste, and his part of the moor 
 called Rodmor, in Hatton super Hynehet. 
 
 1312 17 May, 5 Edw. II.— Grant from William Tudur to his son 
 Thomas, and Alice daughter of Sir John Giffard of Chelintone, of all 
 his land in Ropton, with the meadow of Elimorthyn called Quabbe 
 medue, and another near Stoke upon Tyrne called Othelas medue, &c. 
 
 Grant from Thomas Tudur of Hopton to the abbey of Haghmon- 
 of all his land in Hopton and Espeley, as contained in the charter of 
 master John, formerly lord of Espeley, to William Tuder his grand- 
 father. Witn., Sir William le Boteler, lord of Wemme, Sir Rob. 
 Corbet, Sir Laurence de Lodelowe, and Sir John his son, knights, 
 John de Leghtone, Philip de Peynton, Walter Cresset. This deed is 
 noticed in Eyton, IX. 287, from a copy in the Cartulary of Haugh- 
 mond, and is dated by him "about the year 1350, as I suppose"; but 
 the handwriting of this, the original, appears to be considerably earlier. 
 
 A small parcel of deeds in these reigns relates to the town of 
 Northampton. They are as foliows : — 
 
 i. 1293, 19 Apr., 21 Edw. I. — Grant from William, son of William 
 de St. Aiban, parchment-maker, of Northampton, to Philip le Rous, 
 burgess of Northampton, of sixpence of annual rent from his house in 
 St. Sepulchre's street. Witn., William Catour, Thomas fitz Ralph, 
 Will. Grill* 
 
 ii. Grant from Robert son of John de Byfeld of Northampton to 
 Philip le Rous, burgess of Northampton, of two shillings and four pence 
 of rent from a forge in Abynuonestrete. Witn., Robert fitz Henry, 
 mayor, Will. Mount and John Gervays, bailiffs (and others). 
 
 iii. Grant from Alice Sefoul, widow of Michael de London, and 
 Robert her son, to Philip le Roys and Lecia his wife, of one penny of 
 annual rent from the house of Stephen, the corner house in Butchers* 
 street. Witn., Robert fitz Henry, mayor, Hugh de Stanford and John 
 de Canipedene, bailiffs, (and others). Two seals : i. a bird standing, 
 " S' Alicie Sefoule " : ii. a star, << S' Rob'ti f Micaelis." 
 
 iv. 1301. 3 Oct., 29 Edw. I.— Lease from Philip le Rous and Lecia 
 his wife to Ralph de Dingle and Alice his wife, for their lives, of two 
 shops in Strauschepinge. Witn., Pentecost de Kersalton, mayor, John 
 de Staundford, and Adam de Waltham, bailiffs (and others). 
 
 v. 1302, 24 Aug., 30 Edw. I— Grant from Ralph Monce to Philip 
 le Rous and Lecia his wife of 27 pence of annual rent from a house 
 formerly Rob. de Keylmers beyond the south gate of Northampton. 
 Witn., Pentecost de Kershalton, mayor, John de Stanford and Adam de 
 Waltham, bailiff (and others). Small seal. 
 
 vi. Lease from Margaret daughter of Philip le Rous to William de 
 Ahscheby and Juliana his wife, for their lives, of two shops in the 
 Drapery. Witn., W. Pentecost de Kersalton, mayor, William le Sotele 
 and William Baron, bailiffs, &c. 
 
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 vii. 1316, J Apr., 9 Edw, II. — Grant from John Burnel and INlatilda 
 his wife, daughter of John le Mynsmyth, to William le Rous, son of 
 Sir Philip le Rous, knt., of a messuage in le Berewardstrete. Witn., 
 Henry le Garlecmongore, mayor, Henry de Westone and Barthol. de 
 Beyni, bailiffs, &c. 
 
 viii. 1316, 18 Apr., 9 Edw. II— Grant from Firmyn le Rous to 
 Roger Mahew of Hargrave and Margaret his wife, of Ids tenement in 
 the Drapery. Witn., Henry le Garlekmongere, mayor, Henry le 
 Deystere and Barthol. Reyner, bailiffs, &c. 
 
 ix. 1326, 28 Feb., 19 Edw. II.— Release from William son of Will, 
 le Rous to i irmyn le Rous of all his right in the lands, &c. which the 
 latter had by the gift of Sir Philip le Rous and Lecia his wife in 
 Northampton, Wodeford near Hinton, and Fardingston. Witn., Walter 
 de Tekne, mayor. Adam de Cotesbrok and John de Hocheeote, bailiffs, 
 &c. Seal, a fleur-de-lis; " Si' Will' le Rous." 
 
 A few other deeds relating to Northampton are found under later 
 dates. One in 1355 is witnessed by John de Sib ford, mayor, and John 
 Dalyngton and Thomas Horpol, bailiffs ; and in 1382 there is a good 
 impression of the town seal. There are also occasional documents 
 relating to lands at Linslade, Bucks. 
 
 An exemplification by the bailiffs of Shrewsbury of a confirmation of 
 three short charters gx'anted by Henry III. to the town is dated 5 July, 
 11 Edw., but the word " undime " is substituted for some words erased, 
 and there is some confusion in the dates. The charters are dated 
 respectively 20 March an. 11 (1227), 10 Aug. art. 40 (1256), and 
 22 Sept, an. 42 (1258 or rather an. 41, 1257), and the confirmation by 
 Edward, which describes them as being granted by his grandfather 
 (" avus "), must therefore belong to Edw. IT.; but its date is given 
 as being 2 Oct. an. 21, while the reign of Edw. II. ended on 20 Jan. 
 an, 20. There is therefore some mistake made by the scribe. The copy 
 is given by the bailiffs to " Nicol le fiz Richard Crouwe, burgeys de 
 Salop " in order that he may be " conn et tesmoine pur notre comburgois 
 de totes partz la ou il vendra," and has the town seal attached, but 
 partly broken (the lion passant, " Sigillum . . , orum Salopes- 
 berie "). 
 
 For the reign of Edw. III. there are 94 deeds. They are almost 
 entirely deeds of title relating to various estates, but amongst them is a 
 license to Haughmond Abbey (misspelled " Hamuon ") to have the 
 following grants in mortmain, viz., the moiety of Wynterton from 
 Rob, de Clifford, a virgate in Hopton from John le Walshe of Shrews- 
 bury, and four shillings of rent in Haston from Rob. de Preston; of a 
 total value of 39s. 2d., out of 10/. which they have leave to acquire ; 
 dated at Kenyngton, 20 Feb. an. 14, 1340. In 1334 and 1340 land is 
 exchanged by Henry the abbot and the convent of Lilleshull, but of 
 the abbey seal only a small fragment remains. In 1342 the singular 
 female name of Gilhana occurs. Agnes, daughter of William Payne 
 of Linslade, Bucks, is manumitted by Symon le Rous of Pelyng, " ab 
 omni jugo et onere servitutis" in 1350; and another instance of manu- 
 mission is found in 1406, when one Sibil Gregory is freed by Sir Robert 
 Corbet of Iladiey. Provisiou is made by Richard de la Clyve in 1356 
 for the saying of mass by his brother Nicholas before the altar of the 
 Holy Cross in the church of St. Mary Shrewsbury, for the souls of 
 their father, Thomas de la Clyve, their mother and brothers and sisters. 
 In 1364 there is a bond in 200/., dated at Buckingham, from Geoffrey 
 de Lucy, Robert Botevilleyn, and Thomas Parderne, to Sir John 
 Bardolph of Mapledurham, Sir John de Bracebrugge, and Sir Giles 
 Darderne, for payment of 220 marks by half-yearly payments of 22 
 
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 marks " a Oxenford en la meson cle seynt John," for the debts of Sir 
 William Botevilleyn, deceased, of which a schedule is attached. Amongst 
 them is one of 10/. " a frere Thomas Burele, prior del Hospital de 
 Irland." The seal of arms of John de Bracebrigge remains. 
 
 In the reigns of Rich. II. — Henry V. there are 39 documents. A 
 curious example of a forgery is found in one well-written deed, 
 ostensibly dated 12 Aug. 19 Rich. II., which professes to be a grant 
 by Robert de Kendale, son and heir of Robert Kendale, knt. (a name 
 not previously met with), to his daughter Alana, of the manor of 
 SoultOD, in the hundred of Bradford, and to which an armorial seal is 
 attached (of which the bearing is not clear), " S' Robertus (sic) de 
 Kendel." This has the following endorsement : — "Memorandum quod 
 ista carta confessa fuit fore fabricata per Thomam Burdon coram 
 justic. dom. regis de banco, prout patet termino Sancte Trinilatis anno 
 r.r. E. iiij H post conq. Angl. nono, ro. ccccxxxiiij." In 1421 Alice 
 Webbe ot Harlascote grants to Roger Yve, clerk, Master of the new 
 college of St. Mary Magd. near Shrewsbury [i.e., the collegiate church 
 of Battle], and to his successors as masters of the said college, four 
 butts of arable land called Madynnes buttes in Chromgrenes in the 
 Wodefeld of Harlascote. 
 
 Of later documents the following are all that appear to require 
 notice : — 
 
 1524, 12 June, 16 Hen. VII.— A lease from Sir John Tuchett, lord 
 Audelay, to Robert Richardson, gent., of the township of Keaston, for 
 99 years, at an annual rent of 41. 14*. 9d., has a good impression of 
 the grantor's armorial seal, with the inscription, " Sigillum Johannis 
 domini de Andeley" a mis-spelling of the title which is also distinctly 
 given in the document itself, and in the grantor's signature which is 
 subscribed. 
 
 1530, 1535. — Three leases of small holdings from Haughmond abbey 
 are all unfortunately without the abbey seal. 
 
 1533, 8 Nov., 25 Hen. VIII— Lease, in English, from Robert 
 Dichar and William Peplow, wardens of the parish church of Scabery 
 [Shawbury], and the whole parishioners of the same, to dame Elizabeth 
 Corbet, of Paynton, widow, of " oone mese place sett and lying within 
 Schabery callid the hall/' for (SI years, at an annual rent of ciiij s , 
 paying also a heriot [" an herald "] of vi s viij d " at anny suche tyme as 
 dethe schall fortune." 
 
 1534, 2 Jan., 26 Hen. VIII.— Lease from William Prowde, prior of 
 the monastery of St. Leonard at Wombridge, and the convent, to John 
 Aydney, of a messuage at Acton Hynehethe, for 61 years, at an 
 annual rent of ten shillings. The priory seal represents the B. Virgin 
 and Child under a canopy ; inscription partly broken, " S . . . d' 
 Wembrugge." 
 
 1546, 12 Feb., 37 Hen. VI1L— Grant by the Crown, under the 
 Great Seal, to Andrew Corbet, esq., of Morton, of the manor of 
 Redcastell, for the sum of 553/. 6s. Sd. 
 
 1557, 16 March, 3 and 4 Phil, and Mar. — Reversionary lease from 
 Richard Walker, prebendary of Preece, to Sir Andrew Corbett, of his 
 prebend and rectory of Preece, for 70 years at an annual rent of 20/. 
 
 1595, 20 May. — The original license granted by the archbishop of 
 Canterbury to the parish of Broseley (which is described as having been 
 always, within the memory of man, a parish of itself), at the petition of 
 James Clifford, esq., the patron, John Vyley, rector, and the parishioners, 
 to have the right of burial in the churchyard, bodies having been 
 hitherto carried for burial to Much Wenlock, about three miles off. 
 
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 This license is confirmed by letters patent from the Queen, doted 
 24 May, which are attached, and which have the Great Seal. 
 
 1590. — Certified extracts from the episcopal registers of Coventry 
 and Lichfield of the presentations to the vicaraga of Morton Corbett 
 from 1313 to 1372. There are also two lists on paper which begin at 
 1300, one of which gives also the presentations to Cardeston 1304-1412, 
 from the Hereford registers. 
 
 162J. — Letter " to my lovinge servant Samuel Woodd at Hopley " 
 from "your assured lovinge master," Sir Andrew Corbet, written from 
 London, where he was attending Parliament, at " St. Clement's Church- 
 yard in the East, iMarch 2." After directions about the letting of farms, 
 the writer mentions the hearing in Parliament the Prince's and the 
 duke of Buckingham's narrative respecting the treaty for the Spanish 
 match. But " upon Friday morninge we had a messwagc from the 
 Lordes, delivered by Sir Eandulfe Crewe, the effecte whereof was this, 
 that the Spanish ambasador the day before had binne with the Kinge 
 at Hampton Court, and their tould his Majestie that the duke of 
 Buckingham in his relation at Whithali conserninge the treaty had 
 doone his master the Kinge of Spaine that dishonour as noethinge could 
 expiate the same but his heed ; and withall he tould us the Lords had 
 allready cleared the duke, and desired to know what our oppinion was 4 
 and whether wee would joyne with them in the clearinge of him. After 
 halfe an howre spent, in which were many pritty passwages, and good 
 speeches to this pojnt, we returned this answer, that we did not only 
 cleere the duke from this imputation that was laid upon him, but allsoe. 
 did give him thankes, and thought him worthy of highe commendation 
 for his carriadge in this treaty.," 
 
 1623. — Inventory and valuation of the goods and chattels of Sir 
 Andrew Corbet, deceased, taken 14 May. On a parchment roll. (Printed 
 in Shropshire Notes and Queries, 1894, III., 60-67.) 
 
 1537. — Similar inventory of the goods of Sir Vincent Corbet, deceased, 
 taken 20 Aug. On a parchment roll. 
 
 1649-1664. — Folio account-book of the overseers of the poor for the 
 parish of Shawbury. 
 
 1646-1650. — Order of the committee for compounding with de- 
 linquents, 3 Dec. 1646, that a fine of 2,822/. be set upon Sir Vincent 
 Corbet, but that if he settle 80/. per an. for the maintenance of the 
 ministry in the church of Linslade, Bucks, that the fine be reduced to 
 2,022/. The full fine was paid, but then on 3 May 1650, 800/. are 
 returned by William lord Munson and George Fleetwood, and Sir V. 
 Corbet conveys to them the impropriate tithes of Linslade to pay out of 
 them 80/. annually to the minister appointed by lawful authority to 
 officiate there and his successors for ever, as of the free gift of 
 Parliament. 
 
 1696, 18 May. — Letter to Richard Corbet, esq., at Shawbury Park 
 from W[illiam Lloyd] bishop of Covtntry and Lichfield, " concerning 
 the pile of building which you propose to erect, and to join it to the 
 church," of Morton Corbet, " as a burying place for your family. You 
 are pleased to say, and therefore I doubt not, it will be an ornament to 
 the church. I hope you will order it so, that this addition may bring 
 no manner of prejudice or inconvenience to the church. And on that 
 condition I not only consent to your building but thank you for it." 
 He gave license to the vicar of Staunton to serve the chapelry of 
 Weston as well, worth 16/. a year, on account of his poverty, and 
 because there were but 14 families in his parish, provided he heard no 
 complaint of him ; but now thinks he ought to retract it, " since I 
 find his life and conversation does not answer his function. Onely 
 
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 I hope it may be better since the reprimand that I sent him. If he 
 has not mended upon that, I desire you would be pleesd to let me 
 know it, and I shall forbid him Weston : more I cannot do unless I 
 had articles against him." 
 
 1698. 1 Dec. — The same to the samp, "Capt. Rich. Corbet," claiming 
 payment of a pension and procuration due to the bishop of Lichfield 
 from the rectory of Stanton, payment of which has been refused, but 
 which was made by the abbot and convent of Heighmond before the 
 Dissolution. He is bound to preserve the rights of the see, and there- 
 fore is now, after so many years of forbearance, about to put a bill into 
 the Exchequer for compelling those to pav such dues who have hitherto 
 unjustly detained them. 
 
 172^, 3 March, Whaddon Hall. — Letter from Browne Willis to 
 Andrew Corbet, esq., M.P., at Westminster, giving, in reply to enquiry, 
 notes, from his collections, respecting the members of Parliament for 
 Shropshire. 
 
 In 1768-70 there is correspondence between Mr. Rowland Hill of 
 Hawkstone and Mr. Andrew Corbet, upon the attempt of the former 
 as a magistrate to put down races on Shrewsbury Heath, and the 
 observance of a village wake, which were alleged to cause scenes of 
 extreme disorder, profanity, and riot; an attempt resented by Mr. 
 Corbet in the strongest terms as unwarrantable interference with his 
 tenants. The latter retorts upon Mr. Hill (the well-known supporter 
 of Whitefield) that if he finds any of his own tenants deserting their 
 parish church and attending conventicles, they will be treated as 
 breakers of decency and good order. 
 
 A MS. of Samuel Garbett's History of Wem and the neighbouring 
 district exists in a quarto volume, which appears to be a copy later than 
 the date of the compilation between 1750-60. The book was printed in 
 1818. 
 
 Among a few court-rolls is a book of the courts of the Princess 
 Elizabeth and the duke of Somerset, for Banbury, Cropredy, and 
 Wardington, in Oxfordshire, in the time of Edward VI. On a fly-leaf 
 in the second of two books of court-rolls of Morton Corbett and Besford 
 in 1588-1615, are these lines, written probably by a steward of the 
 court : — 
 
 " To the memory of the ladye F rancis Corbett, late wief of Sir 
 Vincent Corbet. 
 " Thither she's gon whither she did addresse 
 Herself, unto the place of happy nes. 
 Eache action duly fitted in her lief, 
 Zeale of a Christian, kindness of a wief, 
 A mother's care, an heart compassionate 
 To them that languish'd in distressed state. 
 Eache vertue that might be requir'd to grace 
 Her sex, her mynde, her birth, her matche, her place, 
 Serv'd as a step to lifte her up on high 
 Out of this world to blest eternitie, 
 Where she, good sowle, no want of ioy can fynd, 
 Though we poore mortalls that are left behinde 
 Want her, and (if our losse we value well) 
 "Want, and are like to want, her parallel. 
 
 Andreas Woode, complorans, posuit." 
 
 A few of the earlier deeds bear endorsements by Mr. G[eorge] 
 M [orris], who examined them in 1824. 
 
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 THE MANUSCRIPTS OF 
 P. EDWARD TILLARD, ESQ., OP THE HOLME, 
 GODMANCHESTER. 
 
 The diary here reported on was kept by William Tillard (son of 
 Abraham Tillard, a London merchant, by Mary, sister of James 
 Bateman, Lord Mayor of London) who was born 1675, and went out to 
 Masulipatam in 1699 as a servant of the New East India Company. 
 Surviving all his fellow- officers, he became President there (see 13th 
 Eeport, Appendix III., p. 14). but returned to England in 1705. 
 
 The diary illustrates the tension between the old and new companies, 
 asd is useful for its accurate record of facts and dates. 
 
 The writer set sail from Deal Jan. 15, 1699 [N. S.] in the London, 
 George Mathews captain, "being y e first ship sent out in y e new East 
 India Co. service." Reaching Funchal February 4 th , the ship " took in 
 a few pipes of wine," and sailed for the Cape, which was sighted April 
 8 th . Mauritius was sighted May 15 th , and on the 17 th the ship anchored 
 in Carpenter's Baj, 
 
 " As for y e Isl d Mauritius, it is pleasant & verry woody & rocky. It 
 was first found out by the Portugeez A° 1600, who lived on it some 
 short time and deserted it. Afterwards y e Dutch took possession of it 
 1618, who gave it the name of Mauritius, from Maurice, Pr. of Orange. 
 They kept" it for 6 y rs , and y 11 left it, but y e Dutch East India Co., 
 thinking it might be of use to their ships in their way to India, they 
 sent out 2 ships to take possession of y e Island, which was 12 y rs after 
 their first desertion. 
 
 " It is lookt upon by most people as verry healthfull & wants no 
 refreshm ts for seamen after a long voyedg. It is still inhabited by y e 
 Dutch, who are in all, with slaves, ab* 400 in number. Any oue may 
 be made free of y e Island, but they must first serve y e Compy 3 y rs , & y u 
 y e Gov er gives y m a piece of ground to live upon, anywhere upon y e 
 Island, as y e new made freeman shall like best, when he builds himself a 
 house and makes a plantation of tobacco, & so lives upon what he can 
 gitt in y e woods, as Deer, Goats, &ca., till they can gitt a little money, 
 & then they buy cocks & hens, cows and slaves, &ca., when they live a 
 little better. The freemen are not suffered to go off of (sic) y e Island 
 w 11 they please, but y e unmarried are forct to stay 6 y rs upon y e Island 
 after they are made free, and if they marry they are obliged to stay 15 
 y rs , the freemens children are free without serving y e Compy 3 years. 
 They deal with all nations in y e same manner, not favouring their own 
 countrymen more y n other people, but at present they are all Dutchmen, 
 excepts one, who is an Englislimau, and lives by black river. 
 
 u The present Grov ers name is P. Diodati, who has 5 d per mo. salary. 
 The Dep. Gov ers name is Van Momberen, who has 4 d per mo. The 
 Gov er sent his Dep. to us for to suply us w th what we wanted. 'Tis 
 beleeved y* y e Govern 1 " designs to go of y e Isl d by y e first ship, w ch was 
 daily expected, w n the Dep. Van Momberen is to succeed him. 
 
 " The Isl d is well stored with deer, goats & cows, as also cocks and 
 hens. We gave 3 Doll, for a deer, J a Doll, a goat, and 8 Doll, for a 
 
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 cow, w eh is y e settled price, they being sold by y e Gov er , and not by y e 
 freemen, who cannot sell any of these 3 things. Cocks and hens are 
 sold by y e freemen, 4 for a Doll.; there is also wild hogs, but y t 
 alwaies belongs to y e huntsman, who is commonly one of their slaves, 
 he disposes of it as he pleases. They have potatoes enough, w c k 
 suply y e place of bread, for ,there is no corn can grow upon y e Isl d 
 by reason of y e multitude of rats, w ch eat it up before 'tis half grown to 
 perfection; but at y e Factory (w ch lyes on y e S.E. side of y e Isl d ) they 
 eat bread, made of eorn brought thereby y e ships from y e Cape. There 
 is also upon y e Isl d a great many oranges, limes, and lemons, w ch y e 
 freemen sold us 100 a Doll., but not so good as those y e Gov er sent y e 
 Cap u ; and y e Dep. told us that at y e Factory they have the best of 
 every thing upon y e Isl d , as also more plenty, and many things grow 
 there w ch they have not in any other part of y e Isl d , especially all 
 sorts of sallat & other green trade, for we could gitt nothing green from 
 y e freemen but pursely & another sweet cented herb, with w ch we made 
 a sallatt, adding thereto some shallat. There is abundance of fish about 
 y e Island, for one man, w th an angle, in an hour's time shall catch as 
 much fish as 6 men can eat. 
 
 " There is verry good fresh water about half-a-mile up y e river from 
 Carpenters bay w[h]ere we lay with our ship, so y* we made 3 turns 
 with fresh water every day, & y l with ease. There is a tomb built at 
 y e entrance of y e river, a little way from y e shore, where lyes one 
 Welden, who died on this Isl d ab fc 2 y rs since, returning home in y c 
 Benj a from Bombay. Here are also sharks and manatees about this 
 Isl d but we took no notice of either, to strike them. Here is also a great 
 many sea turtle, but we were too soon in y e year to find any of them. 
 Here is abundance of ebony wood, w eh we saw going up to y e freemens 
 houses, w ch lay 3 mile fr m Carpenters bay. As for birds, we did not see 
 many, y e most plentifull are hawks and turtle-doves w ch will suffer you 
 to come verry nigh them before they fly away, the grey hawk is verry 
 good food. Here is also a very large batt, at least a yard distance fr m 
 y e tip of one wing to y e tip of y e other, there (sic) body as large [as] a 
 midle sized monkey, & ihere (sic) head just like y m , the inhabitants eat 
 y m , & say they are very good food, 1 see one of them cut open on the 
 breast, & 'twas nothing butt fatt. . They hang upon y e trees, so long till 
 one may take hold of him, without offering to fly away. The cow hath 
 also a great bunch of fatt stick'd up between her two shoulders. 
 
 " Horses they have, but are all wild, & w 11 y e inhabitants bring y m in 
 to tame them, they soon dye, but they do not make many tryals, because 
 they have no place upon y e Isl d to ride about, it being nothing but woods 
 & rocks. There is no way to take y e deer alive, unless there is a 
 boat sent out to watch w n y e deer betakes him to y e water, for they will 
 alwaies gitt to y e water If they can, to save y m selves fr m y e dogs, w n 
 they often save their lives, unless a shark meets w th y m w n they are 
 devoured, but otherwise they escape, they have no sort of boat on this 
 Isl d to go after y e Deer, onely one w ch y e Gov er has for his use. The 
 inhabitants lake dollars, y e light ones are as good to y m as y e heavier. 
 An English crown goes but for a dollar, but an English shills they 
 esteem as a sbills, & agree w th y m as cheap as you can. There is abun- 
 dance of land turtle on Quine Island." 
 
 Weighing anchor on May 28 the ship sailed for the Coromandel coast. 
 "No such lsl d as St. Appolonio" could be seen after leaving Mauritius, 
 and it was concluded that " y e Isl d Maskareen is laid down twice in y e 
 maps." The shoals of Cardoin de Graies were sighted on June 1, and 
 the ship anchored before Porto Novo, July 6. Mess rs [Robert], 
 
so 
 
 Hedges,* Graham, Watts, and Lee went ashore with the writer and 
 visited the Dutch factory "but saw no body belongs to y e English 
 excepts an officer w ch was come there fr m Fort St. David. Having 
 visited the Governor and made him a present, they returned aboard, and 
 sailed the same night for Fort St. George, where they anchored on the 
 morning of the 8 th . The same party went ashore and were i; civilly 
 receiv'd by Gov er [Thomas] Pittsf (sic). The writer " went to see 
 Mr. HatsellJ, late Gov er of St. David, therefore am unacquainted with 
 the discourse [that] past betwixt our gentlemen and them of the Fort. 
 We were told to go aboard by y e Gov er after dinner, as I was inform'd, 
 w ch we complyed with after a little discourse. 
 
 " Sunday y e 9 th we sett sail from Fort St. George & came to an 
 anchor before Metchlepatan [M'asulipatam] on Wensday y e 12 th July 
 betw 11 11 & 12 in y e morns for w ch God be praised, have brought us 
 to our desir'd port in health. In y e afternoon, Mr. Hedges, Mr. 
 
 Graham & myself went on shore & hired a house We went 
 
 to visit y e More [Moor] & Gentue Gov ers . They promist us we should 
 land our goods, but we must pay custom. We went to y e Gentu 
 Gov er again (y e More Gov er answers us neither good nor bad as to 
 customs, for we promist to come & see him again & bring a present w th 
 us) y e Gentu Gov er was a little more compiyant y e next time, he prornis? 
 us we should lett y m be chopt (sic) & afterwards they would come to 
 our house & look upon one or two beailes [bales], & if they agreed w th 
 what we said, to suffer alt y e rest to be uncbopt (sic). We unloaded 
 all y e goods out of y e London, according to those conditions. 
 
 "Tuesday night ye 1 st of Aug*, came to an anchor ship De Grave, 
 Cap n W m Young, & next day Mr. Hedges, & Mr. Graham went aboard 
 her. 
 
 On the evening of the 3 rd " Consull Pitt & Mr. Knightly came on 
 shore, y e More Gov er sends y e Catwall to y e water side to welcome him 
 ashore. Y e Dutch chief sent his Dubash y e same evening to y e house 
 to welcome him ashore, as also did Mr. Lovell y e old Comp a serv 1 . 
 
 a ye 4th Hagee Mamud Seid sent his sei'v fc with a pres 1 , as also to 
 welcome y* Consull on shore. 
 
 ye 8th ye King & flag was hoisted & his cominis 11 to y e Consull 
 [John Pitt§] read in publick to all y e English on shore. Mr. Lovell & 
 y e rest belonging to y e old Factory was sent y e day before to come 
 & hear y e commiss n read, but they came not. 'Tis true they sent a 
 letter to y e consull by y e Dubash y e night before, but he refused to 
 receive it,* then they sent it by an English young man, but y e Consull 
 thought fitt not to receive it from him neither, & told him y 4 he would 
 hear no excuse, but did expect they should comply with his orders. In 
 y e afternoon y e Consull, Mr. Hedges, Mr. Graham, Mr. Knightly, 
 Mr. Lee a passenger, Padre Pitt, & y e two Cap ns went to dinner with 
 Hao-ee Mamud Seid. Sunday y e 6 th Aug. y e Moor Gov er came to make 
 us a visitt as did also y e Dutch Chief M r Weederlandt. 
 
 "Friday, y e 11 th Aug. Mr. Graham & Mr. Wats went aboard y e 
 London carrys ye ship's dispatches with them. Accordingly y e ship 
 sailed away about noon for Bengali. 
 
 Friday y e 18 th Aug. in y e evening Cap n Young had his say Is orders 
 when he went aboard, and accordingly set saile for Bengali, but it so 
 fell out y* he left his Yaul w th 5 of his men behind him. There was 
 
 * Nephew to Sir William Hedges. See " Diary of William Hedges " Ed. Yule, II. 
 pp. cxcvii-cxcix. 
 
 t See 13th Report, App. III., p, 2. 
 X Ibid.,?. 1. 
 
 § See letter from Robert Pitt, Ibid., p. 3. 
 
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 likewaise 2 of his men (w ch he s d were Dutch) run away & not to be 
 found. 
 
 " Y e 19 th agreed for & ye 22 ud went into ano r house. . . the Consull 
 y e Padre & ye secretary stays in y e former. This house is let us for 
 15pag per mo. to stay 6 mo s certain y e landl d to repair y e house. Y e 
 former house is 6 pag. per mo. & 2 mo s certain. 
 
 Y e 27 th we had news of Vincatadre his arrival! here- fr m Maderas. 
 Y e consull ordered him to stop 3 or 4 miles out ot town, w ch was done, 
 
 & Mr. Browne was sent to fetch him from thence to our 
 
 Factory. 
 
 Y e 28 th we had a consultation, where it was agreed he should be 
 entertained & made our chief Dubash and allowed 150 Pag. per An. to 
 be paid monthly, according to y e custom at Fort St. George ; he is also 
 to have a gratuity for his expences upon y e road. He had then presented 
 him 3 y ds crims n cloth, also some glass ware. 
 
 This day also we writt to S r Edw d Littleton & y e Councill at Bengali 
 per ship Benj a , Oap n Brown, who arrived here Saterday [26 th ] evening 
 before, & sett saile again this day. We writt also to afores d Gentle 11 by 
 y e London & by y e Degrave, w ch [I] forgott to mention in their proper 
 places — likewise y* y e 9 th Aug. at night there was a messenger sent away 
 to y e Nabab w th a letter from y e consull. Y e contents was to desire 
 liberty to trade in his country w th out molestation, & to land & load 
 goods without trouble fr m y e custom officers & y e 21 st Aug. y e Made- 
 pallam* mercb* return'd home, having been here 4 or 5 days. We told 
 (sic) home the same evens what goods we wanted & he told us how 
 many pieces of each sort he could help us too, to send away by y e first 
 ships, also y* he would send us samples & prices of y e goods. 
 
 " Y e 30 th Aug. 2 Peons was sent away to Visagatapam, one with the 
 King's commiss 11 to y* consull directed to y e chief of y e old Comp a in y e 
 place, y e other to go fr m thence direct to y e Nabab's court with a letter 
 writt by y e consull to our Vakeel there to order to send one to give an 
 ace* of his arrivall & reception in y* place. 
 
 Ye 5 th Sept we held, a consultation, w 11 it was concluded upon 
 to send 2 Peons to Armagan (2 days journey on this side Fort St. 
 George) w th a 1000 Pag, w ch was accordingly done y e next day, 
 & 2 Peons w th letters to y e Gov er of s d place & 2 merch ts of d to place, 
 to order y m to provide goods, & send us patterns & y e prices for our 
 governm*. They had withem [with them] 4 y ds crims 11 cloth for y e 
 King's rent gatherer there, as also a sword blade for d t0 , likewise 3 y ds 
 crims 11 & a sword blade for y e gov er Armagan, & to y e merch ts 2 y ds 
 crimson to each man, also 2 y ds green to Narso "Redwood rnerch. 
 
 7 th d t0 betw n 2 & 3 in y e morns Mr. Mich 1 Wats, one of our councill, 
 dyed, after hav£ layn sick of a flux ab* 3 weeks. He was carryed to 
 y e English buryg place betw n 2 & 3 in y e afternoon y e same day. 
 
 [Saterday ye iv th 7ber, there was 2 Peuns sent to Suratt w th letters ]f 
 Monday 12 th d to betw 11 2 & 3 in y e afternoon, Mr. Val. Knightly 
 dyed, he lying sick of a feavor about a week. He was buryed y e next 
 morning in y e English burying place & layn by Mr. Wats aforesaid, 
 
 " 20 d t0 arriv'd here Comadore Warren in ye Harwich w tb 3 other 
 men of war, with his Excellency S r W m Norris, Ambas 1 ' from y e King 
 of Engl d to y e great Mogul. In y e evening y e consull Mr. Graham 
 went aboard to wait upon his Excell ? w D they were invited to dinner 
 
 * Madapallani the weaving town, where the goods were made, 
 f Entered on a later fo. 
 
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 F 
 
y° Friday after, & y e time being come they went accordingly. Next 
 day being Saterday I went aboard to wait upon his Excellency, 
 
 [Y e 21 !h 7ber one Pen a was sent wi Ul letters to Fort St. George, 
 among w ,h were my letters for England enclos'd to W m . Hatsell, Esq* 
 
 Y e 25 th My Lord came ashore ab t0 10 in y e morn", his retinue being 
 ashore before to receive him. He made a publick entry, he was met 
 by y e Consull & y° rest of y e Factory upon y e bridge, also by M r Lovell 
 & y e other gentlemen of y° old Comp a Factory, y e Moor Go> er mett 
 his Excel ? in y° Banksel w th his retinae, & from thence his Lordship 
 went to his lodgings, y e Nawab's house, w th his retinue, as follows: 
 first, went betw" 40 & 50 Peons, then followed y e horeboys & a comp a 
 [of] soldiers, y n y e trumpets, after y* my Lords pages, y n Mr. Browne 
 in place of my Lords steward, his own being sick, & y e rest of my 
 Lords assistants, as y e under-secretary, y e treasurer, ye 3 commis rs for 
 Prizes ; y n went Comodore Warren & 2 other com dl ' 3 of each side, 
 [that is] to say, Cap 11 Littleton on his right & Cap n White on his left 
 side, y e other Cap 11 being not well & so not ashore, then came his 
 Excelfcy my Lord Ambas r W m Norris, after him y e Consull Jno. Pitt, 
 Esq., [the] secretary of y e Embassy, Mr. Norris, my Lords bro r & then 
 our Sec d Mr Jno. Graham & Mr. Thos. Lovell, chief of y e old Comp a 
 Serv ts in this place after y n myself with—— Pitt y e parson of our 
 Factory, after us Mr. Jno. H olden our Secretary & Mr. Nodham y e 
 old Comp a Sec d , also ye 3 rd of s d Factory, y n went Mr. Hale & y 
 writers every-ono in iheir sev 11 stations, & after y n some others from 
 
 aboard y e ships Harwich, Cap 11 Warren Comad re , Angelsea, Cap 11 
 
 Littleton, Hastings, Cap u Bich d White, & Lizard, Cap" Romsey. 
 
 a ye 23 rd 7ber y e consull Jno. Pitt, Esq. & Mr. Jno. Graham went 
 fr m hence to Madapol™ to treat with the merchants of that place. 
 
 u ye 3Qtb y e 4 men j- f] warr BB i\U\ out f this road & gott out of 
 sight, & that morns att 2 o'clock Mr. Blacket, my Lord's steward, 
 dyed of a flux & was buryed in y e afternoon. 
 
 1 st 8ber at 12 o'clock at night dyed Mr. Cok, Phician to y c Embassy. 
 He was buryed Monday in y e afternoon. 
 
 Y e 3 8ber arriv'd at Govdre one servant fi m y e Mogull to raise a tax 
 upon y e Gentues, brings w th him a piece of beef (y 1 whoso'er eat of 
 y e beef should be freed fr m y e tax; but y e Governor y e other officer of 
 this place would not suffer him to raise it till he had an order fr m y e 
 Nawab, y e Vice Koy of Grolconda. 
 
 Y e 7 th a messenger arriv'd here fr m y e Nawab, who brought news of 
 y e Mogull's sends a coat to y e s d Nawab, upon w ch there was great 
 rejoycing in this place, it being a mark of favour shown to y e Navab 
 by y° great Mogull. We sent \ maund of powder tow ds their rejoycing, 
 but y e Dutch sent 2 maund. 
 
 Y e 13 lh y e consull & Mr. Graham return'd from Madanollam. Next 
 day I see y e Gov er of Madap m ' s cowl to us, also an agreement w 1 
 they made w th y e merch ts there for goods. 
 
 Y e 24 th I see a letter from y e Gov ev of Armagen. It gave us in- 
 coureagement to trade in y e country. At y c same time I read a trans- 
 lation of y e Yacca Novis's letter to Court concerns my Lord Ambas dr . 
 It was approved on by us. 
 
 [Y e 23 rd 3 Peons were sent to Suratt w th my L d Ambas 3 letters, 
 ye 29 tdl 2 Peons was sent to Bengali w th y e L d Ambass drs letters, as 
 also letters from usf.] 
 
 Y e 1 st Nov. > e contract was made betw 11 us Jn° Pitt, Esq., Jn° Graham, 
 & W m Tillard, & y e merch ts of Metchlep m to bring in goods of 20458J 
 Pag. by y e last of December next. 
 
 * Entered in a later fo. 
 
 f Entered on the following fo. 
 
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 « ye 28 th 9ber Mr. Luke Bright, surgeon's mate, dyed of a feavor, at 
 8 in y e morn». 
 
 " Ye 3 rd Dec. betw* 12 & 1 at night dyed Mr. Philip Pitt y e parson 
 of our factory of a feavor, both supposed to have proceeded first from a 
 great cold they had gotten. 
 
 Y e ditto, y e new Navab made his publick entry through this 
 
 citty, Metehlepatam. My Lord Ambass 1 " stood in y e gallery to see him 
 come by, & my Lord ordered 21 great guns to be fired as soon as y e 
 Navab was seared in y e Banksoll ; y e Navab took no notice of my 
 Lord coming by, neither did my Lord take any notice of him, onely 
 ordered his musick to be sounded all y e while they were passing by. 
 
 1700. 
 
 'ye 1 st of Jan. we rec a a letter fro m Mr. Ben. Newse and Mr. Brook 
 at Suratt, mention in that S r [Nic] Wait came out in y e Mountague a 
 m° before them, but was not yet arrived. 
 
 * ye 4 h Jan. at 2 in y° mornys dyed Mr. Butter, a writer, of y 9 dropsy, 
 having layn sick a great while. 
 
 ye 15 th ditto y e President rec d letters fr m Fort St. George being y e 
 news of Co mad ore Warren's death upon y e coast of Malabar ' (and 
 further letters on the 17 th mentioning the death of Mr. Guy and others 
 in Bengal and the serious illness of Sir E. Littleton). On the 17 th 
 " Vincatadre our chief Dubash was sent to y e Navab for to treat about 
 gitting a Pherwanne [Firman] for y° freedom of trade etc., but when 
 come thither he was detayned by y e justice of this place, upon y e account 
 of y e Lascars, they complains j fc y e Comp a owed y m inonny. So they 
 forced Vincatadre to stay, or find somebody else to appear as an attorney 
 in y e Comp a behalf. But this was such a disgrace to y e English nation, 
 y* my Lord Ambass 1 ' &) e President was verry angry at it, & ordered 
 y e gentlemen & all y c serv ts to gitt themselves ready to go up to y e 
 Navab & demand Vincatadre. Upon w ch order all y e armes were gott 
 ready this night before they went to sleep. 
 
 " Y e 18th every one gott himself ready in order to go, viz : y 8 Presid fc 
 & Mr. Graham & all y e rest of y e factory and Mr. Harlwyn & Mr. 
 Mills w th all his Lordship's servants, make? together ab fc 40 men, all 
 clothed in red, & well armed, (myself & 2 of y e writers were left at 
 home to keep y e factory). But, as Providence ordered it, y e President 
 & Mr. Graham went first to y e Ambass r for further orders and then 
 'twas concluded upon y fc they would first send an Englishman to y e 
 Navab's, to lett him know y* his L d ship resented it verry highly and 
 withall to tell him y* was contrary to his former promises, & to lett 
 him know y* if he did not reliese Vmcratradre immediately he would 
 write up to court & lett Lhem know what an affront they had putt 
 upon y e King of England's Ambass 1 '. For order thereto there was a 
 black man sent to lett y e Navab know y* Ms L d ship designed to send a 
 message to him to enquire when he would be at leisure, and he returned 
 answer y* his L d ship might send when he pleased, but no sooner 
 was Mr. Mills, y e person agreed upon to send, gone out of y e house but 
 Vincatadre came in, they having reliest him.'" 
 
 Mr. Mills however brought back an apology from the Nawab who 
 withall ordered y e principall Lascar to be severely drubed with a chaa- 
 buck, or a splitt bamboe, for making this disturbance. It seems they 
 heard what preparations y e English were making w eh I believe was y e 
 reason why they lett Vincatadre depart so soon, for we had news after- 
 wards that y e Navab had ordered spyes to observe what we were adoing 
 & ordered several! partyes of horse out, to give him notice when we were 
 
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 acoming. The letters yf Presid* rec d £r m Fort Sr. George yesterday brought 
 news likewise £ro m Achin, that y e people there had chosen an Arabian 
 King & married him to their Queen, & had ordered that y c English 
 there should pay custom, or else depart from thence in eight days ; & 
 likewise that there was a Pyrate who had blundered (sic) a Danish ship 
 before Achin, & was gone afterwards (as is supposed) to cruise before 
 y e straits of Malacca. 
 
 " Y e 23 rd in y e morns arrived here y c Beng a , Cap n Brownie from Bengali 
 bound for Madras & thence to England. 
 
 " Y e 5 {h Feb. arrived y e Be Grave Cap 11 Young from Bengali (she left 
 March 15). 
 
 " Y e 3 rd Aprill M 1 ' Hale, one of y e Comp a factors was cleared from y e 
 Comp a service, his Excels desiring him to go up with him to court to 
 look after y e Pres ts in y e room of Mr. Thorgood, who was sent to 
 England on ship De Grave, he being non compus (sic) mentis. 
 
 " Y e 28 th March we contracted with Metchl n merchants for severall 
 goods to y e amount of 55736J Pag., half to be brought in y e last of Aug. 
 next, & v e rem dr before y e 3ast of December," (further similar contract on 
 April 2, for 47,301i Pag.). 
 
 " Ye 9 th April there was a consultat 11 , present his Excell n -y my Lord 
 Ambass d , y e Consull J 110 Pitt, Mr. J 110 Norris, Mr. J u0 Graham, myself,. 
 & Mr. Tho s Harlewyn, where it was agreed upon & found proper for y e 
 Comp 1 interest y* my Lord Ambass ,r should begin his journey to court 
 1 st May next following, and that he should not stay for any his equipage, 
 but if not ready to be sent after, & y t y e Consull & his counciil should 
 consider how much y e charges of y e Embassy will come to & provide 
 monny for s d charges, as also how many Peons etc. for State attendency 
 will be necessary to go w th my Lord likewise how much monny (or 
 as nigh as can be guessed) has been laid out by y e consull or counciil for 
 acc 1 of y e Embassy, also y l y e s d consull and counciil should bring in an 
 ace* of what priviledges y e English ever enjoyed on this coast, & wdiafc 
 more priviledges they shall think fitt to be enjoy'd in order for a free 
 liberty of trads, also y l they should consider of an interpreter, being, 
 disappointed of those gentlemen who were writt to at Fort St. George. 
 An ansvvere to s d pertic ers was requir'd by his Excels to be brought on 
 
 Saterday next (Note of contract same day for 5,000 
 
 additional coarse ' sallampores.') 
 
 " Y e 20 th betw u 12 & 1 at night, Mr. Syl s Phillips dyed in a convuls a 
 fitt after haves layu some time sick & very weak. Next day his Ex- 
 cell c y & y e consull rec cl letters from Surratt w ch brought news of S r Nie, 
 Wait's safe arrivall there & of his kind reception fr m y e Gov er of y e 
 place. 
 
 " Y e 23 rd the Presid* & his counciil rec d fr m his ExcelK v in counciil 
 (by hands of M r Harlewyn) a paper whereon he desired to know y e 
 reason why everything was not ready for his dispatch to court in order 
 to procure Phirmannds [firmans]. 
 
 " The next day I careyed an answer to y e above paper, to his ExcelF^ 
 his brother Mr. Sec? Norris being present. r J'his answer was signed by 
 y e President & myself. Mr. Graham was at MadapeK 
 
 «« ye 3*a May 'we had a consultat 11 , present his Excell^, ye consul! 
 J™ Pitt Esq., T|io. Norris Esq., and Mr. J 110 Graham, Mr. "W* 
 Tillard [the writer], Mr. Tho. Harlewyn, when there was a letter 
 read fr m Emaum Koulee, w ch brought us news of his being upon y* 
 road upon w eb it was agreed y* there was no reas 11 to send an English- 
 man 'to Golconda, but only 2 or 3 black peons (of w<* Emaum Koulee'* 
 serv* w ch brought y e letter to be one), & so soon as they came to 
 Golconda (if Emaum Koulee was not there) they were ordered to gett 
 
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 '300 Koolyes & 1 00 palenk n boys & to bring y m immediately for this 
 place, but if Emaum Koolee was there, they were to apply themselves to 
 him. 
 
 " Y e 12 r y e London sailed out of this road ou her voyage to Malacca 
 & fr m thence to Bengali. S d ship arrived here from Bengali y e 3 rd inst . 
 
 a ye 27 th May Emaum Koulee's son came to town with y e originall 
 Hassal Hukum etc. for convoys his Excell ^ to court. Y e 30 th , his 
 Excell°y called a councill to resolve upon y e sum of mony, necessary to be 
 carryed w th him [to] y e camp. The Consull said it would be impossible 
 to procure more than 34,000 Rup. & y t he would give his Excell^ a bill 
 of credit to Grolconda to take up there what other sums his Excell ? 
 shall have occas 11 for 
 
 " Y e 29 th J uly died Mr. Arn ld Browne stew* of a feavor, ab* a week 
 sick. Primo Aug* M r George Peek was rec d into y e Comp a service as 
 writer. 15 th ditto bis Excels .... went aboard y e ship Somers, 
 Cap n John Douglas Com dr , for Surratt. He went thro' y° town in great 
 splendour, viz. : first, from y e great house, called King of Golconda's to 
 
 y e consulPs He went under y e canopy of l a dozen 
 
 Rundells, on black man to each, y e consull following him w th 2 over his 
 head, then his Excelrr' s brother J no Norris Esq., w th 2 over his head, 
 after him y e councill w cb were onely Mr. J uo Graham & myself, y e rest 
 being dead. After y m follow'd y e factors & writers, & all y e English 
 Nation then in town, excepts y e old Comp a servt s , w ch never would take 
 any notice of y e Ambass 1 '. Before his Excell f 7 went his gentlemen, 
 Mr. Mills & Mr. Hales> w th Mi*. Harlewyn, Paymaster to y e Embassy, 
 who carried y e sword of Justice before his Excell^, and before y m 
 went all my Lords Livery serv ts , there going onely 4 by his side; 
 and before y m went a comp a of soldiers w eh they took out of y e 
 ship, the barge crue (sic) going first of r. 1 1 with velvett caps & 
 coull cl wastcoats, well armed. My Lor d had y e Union and King's flagg 
 likewise before him, w ch he ordered to be burnt so soon as he came into 
 y e Consull's house — I suppose because they were old and torn. 
 
 The same day, Mi r Graham, y e Sec d was marryed to M 1S Charlton, 
 sister to y e Consull's lady. My Lord Ambass d gave her, & so soon as 
 y e ceremony was over, & that we had dined, the Ambass 1 " went down to 
 y e water side (in order to embark) with the same State as before, y e 
 flags excepted, w ch were burnt as before mentioned, y e guns firing after 
 he was in y e barge, till he gott to y e island within side y e barr. 
 
 a ye 26 th Aug., y e ship Somers departed this road with my Lord 
 Ambass 1 ' on board in order to go for Surratt; the reason why his 
 Excelly took this method to go for y e camp was occasioned by y e 
 impudence of y e govern rs in & about this town of Metchlep 11 , who 
 refused givs Dustick & necessary assistance for carry&his pres ts & retinue 
 overland; and, y e rains coming on, thought he might be sooner toy 8 
 Mogull by way of Surratt. 
 
 Y e 10 th Sept., Mr. Sam 1 Woolston was rec d into y e Co. service, in y e 
 quality of Merchant. He signed at y e same time an indenture & bond 
 to be true & faithfull to y e English East India Co. trading to y e East 
 Indies. 
 
 Y e 19 th Sept. Capt, Praver arrived in y e road, & sailed for Fort St. 
 George y e 25 th . 
 
 Y re 28 th June 1700 y e Tankerville Capt. Newman arriv'd in this 
 road & y e Somers Capt. J no Douglas y e 5 th July following, both from 
 England, w oh was omitted 
 
 ye Qth Oct. Mr. J 110 Holden, Secr^ departed this life, have lain sick 
 a great while w th a humour in his side. 
 
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 1701. 
 
 Jan. 2 nd arrived in this road y e King William Capt. Braddeel from 
 Bengali & Visagapatam & sailed y° lo th for Fort St. George & from 
 thence to England 
 
 Feb. y e 28 th , arrived here y e TanJterville .... from Bengali, 
 who went afterwards for Madap m Koaci, from w (h place she was 
 despatcht for England y c 16 th March follows. 
 
 May y e 15 th . Mr. J uo Graham, our Sec d dyed of a fever in his head 
 att Madap m , occassioned first per y e gout. 
 
 June y e 19 th , y e Stretham, Cap m Rog 1 ' Meyers arrived here from 
 England, & y e 14 th d t0 , Capt. Douglas Com dr of y e Homers was 
 despatched to Bengali. He [had] arrived in this road from Surratt 
 v e 22 n ^ May before. 
 
 June 27 th y e De Grave Capt u VV Tm Young arrived in Madap™ Road. 
 She had but 3 mo 20 da ) rs passage from England. 
 
 July y e 6 th we had news by a letter fr m y e Capt 11 & Mr. Niccols of y e 
 sad misfortune of y e ships pinnis w ch was oversett corns over y e barr of 
 s d place. In her was Mr. Da Paz & his younger son, & his serv*, also 
 Mr. Bernadiston, formerly y e President's prentice, but this voyage 
 designed for Bengali, Mr. Dan el Studd, factor for this place, Mr. Math* 
 Pevi son, writer, belonging to this place, who went off y e day before, who 
 were all drowned, also all y e boats crew, except y e two who saved their 
 lives by swims on board again. 
 
 July 9 th , s d ship De Grave arrived in this road, & was dispatcht to 
 Bengali y e 31 st . 
 
 July 18 th . Mr. Sam 11 Du Paz used some scurrelous words to y e 
 Consull, & held his hand upon his sword as if he were going to draw itt, 
 as I was afterw ds told by y e Consull himself, for I was not present w 11 y e 
 words was spoken. 
 
 Y e 22 nd . Mr. Sam 11 Du Paz & Isaac Abendana signed a £2000 bond 
 to oblidge themselves to all such regulat ns as y e Comp a has or shall send 
 out conscernins private merch ts w ch bond was afterw ds cancelled by Mr. 
 Isaac Abendana aboves d by y e s d Jn° Pitt & Isaac Abendana, but 'twas 
 without my consent as per y e sevr 11 papers w ch past betw 11 y e s d Jn° 
 Pitt & myself 'twill appear. 
 
 Octob. 1 st y e Dutchess Cap n Raymond Com dr arrived here fro m 
 Visagap n . Ye 22 nd s d ship was dispatch d for Fort St. George & upon her 
 went Mr. Sam 11 Du Paz, who had sev 11 days before this thrown himself 
 under y e protection of y e old Comp a going into y e factory. 
 
 Octob. y e 27 th we had news fro m Mr. Orl do Niccols of y e Katherin 
 Cap n W m Holman's arrivall in Masap m Road ; y e same night we sent 
 orders for y e Cap n to come into this Road, but y e wind blowing fresh he 
 gott not hether till y e 3 rd Nov br following in y e afternoon. He came 
 fr m England y e 16 tb May before. 
 
 Mr. Orl do Niccols was rec d into y e Comp a service as factor for one 
 year y e 1 st Oct. last, & Mr. Thos. Prichward was rec d as a writer y e 
 same day for 5 y ls , but did not sign y e indentures till Nov br .... 
 
 1702. 
 
 The Stretham frigate, Captain Roger Meyers, reached Masulipatam 
 from Bengal the 5 (h Jan. and loft for England the 24 th Feb. The 
 Rising Sim, Capt. Arthur Hoi ford arri ved there from Canton the 14 th 
 Jan., and left April 29^. 
 
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 a ye 2 nd March in y e evening we ree d letter from his Excels S r W m 
 Norris Ambass r dated y e 8 th Feb., that he had rec d his dispatch from y e 
 great Mogull, w th a letter & present to y e King of England, & a present 
 to himself; that he was now going to Surratt; and that Gousde Cawn 
 y e MogulPs Generall had promised to send y e Phirmaunds [firmans] 
 after him; and upon y e delivery of s d Phirmaunds to y° Ambass r , he is 
 to pay s d Generall 250,000 Rnp 8 . We had news of his Excellent going 
 for Surratt. 
 
 "Ye 31 st March, Mr. Sam 1 Woolston was discared y e Comp a service 
 for speaking scandalous & shamefull words of y e Presid (s Lady & her 
 sister Graham, for w ch words — and y* there might be a good under- 
 stands & union betw" y e Presid 1 and myself — I consented to his being 
 putt out of y e s d service. Gtherwaise y e Comp a business would be 
 impeedcd by our differences." 
 
 News received on April 7 of arrival of the Chamber frigate, Capt. 
 South, bound for China. Robert Glassel was received as a factor the 
 same day. 
 
 On June 1, the Charlton. Capt. Goslin, sailed for China with Mr. 
 Beavoir supercargo. 
 
 "23 rd June rec d lett rs from y e Presid* & y e Councill of Surratt .... 
 giving an ace* of y e Amb:iss drs sailing from Surratt to Bombay in y e 
 Scipio, and of y e death of Mr. Jos. Hale on board y e Beng 11 Merch*. 
 
 " July 27 th y e Mary Gaily, Capt Chamberlain fr m Ban jar arrived in 
 this road, upon her Mr. Landen consull and President at s d place, bound 
 for Bengali." (She left Aug. 4 th ). 
 
 "Y e 2 ud Aug. about 6 p.m. came into the river y e ship Norris's 
 pinnace w th 37 persons, bringing y e most dismall news of y e Norris's 
 being blown up a little to y e southward of Deue [Divi] point about 4 
 o'clock y e same afternoon, occasioned by y e carelessness of a pernon 
 draw" of brandy in y e Lazaretto about 7 in y e morning. The ship 
 burned fr m that time till 4 in y e afternoon when she was seen to blow 
 
 up by those which saved themselves in y e pinnace 
 
 Mr. W m AndersoD, Minister for the Bay, Thos. Talmash, Juo. Story, 
 writers for d to , .Edw d Belytha, Purser, etc., etc. There was immedi- 
 ately ordered 2 country boats to search after y e wreck " 
 
 The Dolphin, belonging to the old company, sailed for Bengal on the 
 
 7 th , having arrived from Fort St. George 26 th July preceding 
 
 " Y e 10 th Aug. y e Hugliana ketch sailed for Bengali, J ne Fountain 
 
 master "We writt y e Presid 1 & Councill at Hugely [Hooghly] 
 
 per the Ketch. 
 
 "Y e 4 th Aug. we entertained Miles Crafts, Trump r in y e Comp a 
 service at 5 P? per M°. 
 
 "Ye 18 th , Mr. Thos.Nevile was turned out of his imploym* as steward 
 & paymaster for sliteing [slighting] y e President's orders, he being- 
 ordered y e day before not to go within y e house of M rs Goslin, 
 
 wife to Cap n Goslin, where he went within an hour afterwards openly, 
 in defiance to y e s d order. The reason of y e Presid ts forbid? him y e s d 
 house was his going thether 2 or 3 times before & once in perticular 
 stayed within the house till between 9 or 10 at night, the permittance of 
 w ch would create reflections on y e Presid* etc., she being noted for a 
 woman who allowed too much freedom to y e men 
 
 « Y e 2 nd Sept br an order was delivered to Kobert Glassell and Mat w 
 
 Waller how to act in quest of y e wreck & to sail immediately 
 
 Y e 4 th they sett saile, in order to y e attaining Dewe point being not able 
 to sett saile before by reason of contrary winds 
 
 <; Y° 6 th y e Presid fc rec d a Lett 1 ' fr m y e Directors concerning some 
 orders y t is to be given by him to Com drs of ships homeward bound w " !l 
 
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 letter no one was to see or know y e contents thereof beside y e President 
 himself; and y e President & Council! were enjoined per y e Directors in 
 their generall to them to order every Commander homeward bound to 
 follow y e orders given them by the President." 
 
 On the 8 th letters were received from Robert Glasseli as to his pro- 
 gress, and replied on the 9 th "y e country people had seen severall dead 
 bodies come on shore.'' .... 
 
 " Y e 14 th Sept. in y e evens betw" 4 & 5 our Peons were stop d by those 
 of y e old Compy going by their factory, it being y e Peons feast, att w ch 
 time they pretended it was customary to stop all other Peons from 
 coming by their factory. But Mr. Frewen, y e chief of their factory, 
 his pretence for so doing wns y* one of our Peons had struck one of 
 theirs, & made him bleed, which Peon he would have y e Presid* punish 
 before he would suffer our Peons to pass. This was y e message sent 
 from Mr. Frewen to y e consull, who sent for answer that he wondred 
 Mr. Frewen would trouble him with such things w n it was the peon's 
 feast, & y t he might happen to receive his bloody nose in y e scuffle 
 betw u themselves, and sent to him not to hinder our Peons fr m passing. 
 But he, not regarding y e consull's answer, but still kept our Peons from 
 passing, and, to hinder them, placed his souldiers cross y e street for 
 which reason y e consull sent to y e Doerga, who, after he had sent 2 or 
 3 messages to Mr. Frewen, came himself & laid a Deray upon his Peons 
 not to stir out of their places ; afterwards went to our Peons, who 
 waited for his coming out some distance from y e old factory, whom he 
 brought by said factory to y e consull's house. The fusdar then sent 
 a message to Mr. Frewen, to lett him know that if he did not lett our 
 Peons pass by immediately, he would send and cut off his Peons' heads 
 and Englishmens too, for s d fustar did not yet know y fc they were past 
 by already. Afterwards, about 9 o'clock, y e consull rec d a message fr m 
 y e fusdar to acquaint that he had sent him 10 horsemen & 100 Peons 
 w ch were ready att his command, if he had occasion for them 
 
 " The Peon y* Mr. Frewen would have had satisifaetion from struck 
 y e other Peon in y e scuffle that hapened when their Peons offered to 
 thrust holes thro' our Compy flag, as they went thro' y e Bazaar." 
 
 On Tuesday night, 15 th , news was received from Madapollam of the 
 death of Orlando Nichols " after having been sick some time of a flux 
 and feavor." 
 
 " Thursday y e 17 th Sept. at 3 in y e afternoon [1] arrived at Mada- 
 pollam." Arrival there of small ships, from Masulipatam, on 20 th and 
 21 st , "after having sought for y e Norris wreck in vain." 
 
 « ye 3Qth we solemnised y e death of King W m , firing 14 guns. 
 Afterwards w r e rejoiced at y e proclamat 11 of Queen Ann, firing 15 guns. 
 
 a ye 7th Oct. in y e afternoon arrived y e consull at Madap m . Y e 8 th in 
 y e morns arrived here a Suratt Pattamar w th a letter dated y e 3 rd Sept. 
 from y e Pesid* Councill there giving an acc 1 of King Wm's death, w eh 
 news they received per a French ship, also an acc 1 of upwards of 
 150,000 persons drowned in y e Mogul l's camp per y e great rains & 
 overflow of a river ...... 
 
 u y e 27th N" ov> a t 2 in y e afternoon I arrived here [Masulipatam] 
 
 from Madap m y e 29 th I deliv d iiob. Glessell, Mat. 
 
 Waller, & Mat. Wood their dispatches & orders here to behave them- 
 selves in respect to y e w T reck, signed pery e Presid* & myself .... 
 
 a ye 15th D ec> arrived in this road the ship Kathern, Cap a Sam 
 Croft fr m Malacca ["Cap 11 W m Holm an y e former Com dr dyed at Johoa 
 [Johore].) 
 
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 1703. 
 
 " Sunday y e 4 th Jan. arrived here the Phcenice, Cap n Caswell from 
 Bengali bound for Madras and so to England. The 2 nd March in y° 
 morning y e Katherine, Cap 11 Sam. Croft sailed out of this road for 
 London, on board her as passeng 3 Thos. Nevile and Geo. Peek. 
 
 a ye 7th April we sett out fr m Metchl m on our journey to Dauiampavr 
 [Dharapuram] in quest of y e Norris's wreck, viz., y e Presid* & myself 
 w th ^nto s U phy our Surg 11 & Mr. Baworth w th 3 other Englishmen, 
 8 Portug se , & y e rest Peons etc., black serv ts about 200 in all, besid© 
 Koolys & Kowrys. 
 
 «Y e 9 th in y e morns we came to Pettepollee 6 Is 3 Gentui from 
 Metch lm . We stayed at this place but 4 hours. Here we had like to 
 have fallen foul of y e Haveldare. The occasion was as follows :— - 
 
 The Armenian who had before writt us of his having seen y e wreck 
 was come in with his vessell to this place & when y e Presid t arrived here 
 came to see him. We had not been together above \ an hour but v° 
 Haveldar came w th all y e Peons he could muster to see y e Presid* when 
 he was treated w th all y e respect due to him. We layed a carpet down 
 upon y e grass for him & a Pallankin cushion to lean upon. The Pre- 
 sident and myself sitting in each our Pallankins ; and Iaskt y e Armerr'an 
 to sett down by me in y e Pallankin, w ch , it seems, y e Haveldar so n uch 
 resented — because he himself salt upon y e ground — that he tipt a wink 
 to his head officer, who gave this Armen n a punch w th his sword, bes 
 in y e scabbard, on his breast. The Armenian knew y e reason of it & 
 immediately satt upon y e ground. But y e Presid* would not putt it up 
 so, but enquired after y e reason of his so doing, which when he came to 
 understand he, in a great heat, said y e Armenian was his guess (sic) & 
 y t he should sitt were (sic) he pleased. And after a great many hott 
 words, y e Haveldar was forced to order his officer y* struck y e Armenian 
 to rise and begon — who before satt on y e left hand of y° Preside And 
 by his so doing all was at peace again. 
 
 " Saturday noon we arrived at Yantapollam, y e next day being y° 
 11 th , in y e morns we gott to Daurampar, w ch is 5 leag s G-entue toy 9 
 south of Pettepolee. The same day, we went to Alloer where we arrived 
 ab* 3 in y e afternoon, w cb place is under y e goverment of Doud Cawn, 
 Metch m government reaching no further then Dauramparr & Vellega- 
 pundee w ch latter lyes 1 Gent, Is beyond y e Alber. About 9 at night 
 we returned to Dauramparr, where we arrived y e next morning early, 
 when we made us harbours to keep us from y e sun and wind. The 
 reason of our coming back was for the conveniency of water & rice — 
 otherwise we designed for Carreera w ch lyes 3 Is Gentue to y e southw d 
 of Daurampar, & is on y e sea shore. This place of Dauramparr being 
 
 2 miles English up in y e country & lyes by a freshwater river, w ch is 
 deep enough for vessels of 200 tons, but y e entrance over y e ban* is butt 
 
 3 cov s at low and 4.\ covs. at high water. 
 
 "Y e 16 th Aprill one of y e head Raj arrs by y e hills came to see y e 
 Presid*, brings a shawl in his hand. The 21 st we rec d lett 13 from 
 Metchl m brings an ace* of Rustindill Cawn's publick entry at that place. 
 
 " Y e 8 th May Presid 1 Pitt was taken w th an apopleclick fitt betw n 3 
 & 4 in y e afternoon, of which he dyed about 5 hours & a half after. 
 [Next day] 3 o'clock we buryed him & after we had done so, began our 
 journey back to Metchl m where we arrived y e 12 th May in y 9 mcrns 
 early." 
 
 The Halifax, Capt. Hudson arrived from Canton June 23 rd and 
 sailed for Bengal July 27 th . The Silvan, Capt. Chamberlain, arrived 
 from Batavia, in 5 weeks, July 28 th . 
 
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 Y° J 7 th Aug. all y e English in y c place except? these in y t old factory 
 went to Pollerain, 1 Is Gent, from this "place, to meet y e Presid ts Corps, 
 brought thither from Dauramparr. We returned in y e evens to Goodre, 
 from whence we walkt to y c English garden, where we interred y e 
 corps air 4 8 that night. 
 
 Y e 25 lh y e Dolphin sailed for Fort St. George— on her Mrs. Pitt & 
 her family." 
 
 3}st D e6 bt (y 6 .) r ec d a Packett fro ,n Fort St. George brings an ace 1 of 
 y c arrival of y e Tavestock there y e 14 d t0 from England, y e first ship 
 arrived belonging to y c united Comp a . 
 
 Ye 6 tL Sept. Mr. Dan 1 Cole, factor, dyed affter some weeks sick- 
 ness • «* i 
 
 Ye 25 th d (0 , in y c evening, sett out fr m Metchl™ in order to go to 
 Fort St. George overland, being necessitated thereto by y e impetuous 
 clamouis of y e Merch ts for y e money owing them by y e Comp a .* 
 
 " Y e 26 th Sept. we arrived at Trimaneer fort ab 1 10 in y e morns 8c 
 ab* h an hour after at Nerracoedre & the next day we began to pass the 
 river w" h we were 3 days in doing having but 3 sangarees, & y e river 
 very broad & y e freshes coming down. When we were over I sent to 
 Tiipatee for a boat to pass over y c other river about an hour's journey 
 from us, but he put us off from time [to] time, so that we found he 
 designed us a trick. But his enemy lying on y e other side of s d river, 
 whom he was afraid of, he lent us a country boat to repass y e river we 
 came over, which we did October 1, and having endeavoured all ways 
 to gitt forw d on our journey & all in vain because of y e party s of robbers 
 that lay on y e road, I writt y e 4 d t0 to Metchl m for y e Comp a Country 
 Rt w ch we mett att Baherlanca y e 7 th d t0 , andy e same day went down y e 
 river in her as far as Chippaleer, designs for Pettepolle, but hears from 
 ye country people of that place that Pettepolle was also in trouble thro 
 fear of y c robbers, we resolved to go over y e Ban* of y e river, & so to go 
 to Dauramparr by sea. Accordingly we sailed f rm Chippaleer y e 8 th .. . 
 & gott over y e Barr to y° southward of Pettepolle point .... & next 
 morns .... came before Dauramparr, but having a fair wind & line 
 weather we resolved to go as far as Kisnapatam river where we arrived 
 safe y e 10 . . . . We ran a great hazard 'tis true, in going in an open 
 boat at this time of y e year, & so many people in her, viz : 3 English 
 beside myself, & between 100 & 110 blacks, and with us we had a great 
 deal of lumber amongst w ch were 3 Pallankins beside Doolys. But we 
 were forced to do as we did, else must have returned back to Metchlep m 
 
 "Ye nth Q c t 5 j n ye morn g W e went fr m y e s d river over land to 
 Duhraspatam, where we arrived in y e evens. The 12 th in y e morns 
 
 we left Duhras and arrived at Pollicat y e next day, 
 
 & came to Ulw ra . 
 
 «ye 14th we arrived at Trigature [Tiru- 
 
 chendur], about an hour and a halfs journey to y e northw d of Fort St. 
 George. Abt. 2 in y e afternoon we went fro thence to Narraiads gar- 
 den, where we arrived an hour afterwards, where we mett w th Mr. 
 Wright & Mr. Raworth, 2 of y e Council of Fort St. George. We 
 slept ab* 2 hours at s d garden & arrived at y e Gov's garden abt 5 in y e 
 evens, the Gov r made us very welcome. 
 
 1705. 
 
 " Y e 25 Feb. 170|. I went on board y e Duchess, Capt. Hugh Ray- 
 mond, Com dr , bound for London, belonging to y e united Comp a . The 
 
 * See 13 th Report, App. III., p. 14. 
 
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 next day raorng very early we sett saile out of y e road of Fort St. George, 
 in company with the Chambers frigate, Capt. South com dr belonging to 
 y e old Comp% & y e Marlborough Capt. Minter com dr , belong to y e 
 seperate stock, both bound for London 
 
 Storms were the only incidents in the voyage home till May 27, when 
 the ship anchored in the road of St. Helena. 
 
 " Y e 15 th July in y e evening y e Comadore fired a gun as a signal for 
 all y e ships to weigh anchor, w th was done, & we sailed fr m St. Helena 
 ab* 10 y e night, in comp a with y c Tavestock Cap 11 Martin, Chambers 
 
 frigate Cap 11 South, Samuel Ann Cap"- y e Scipio Cap n Burrish 
 
 from Bengali y e Kent Cap n Harrison from China y e Anna Cap 11 Kelly 
 fr m Bencoole ,• y e Rochester Cap u Stanes from Surratt, y e Sidney from 
 Fort St. George, y e Marlborough Cap n Minter from China, but last 
 from Fort St. George, also 5 men of warr, viz. : y e Kingfisher y e 
 Comadore Ship, y e Dartmouth Cap n Cock, y e Burlington Cap n Hosier, 
 
 y e Scarborough Cap 11 y c Severn Cap n also a French ship 
 
 taken per y e Dartmouth in her outw d bound voyage. Our whole fleet 
 from St. Helena consisted of 16 ships. 
 
 a Y e 23 rd July in y e morns we came to an anchor at y e Island 
 Ascencion & sett saile again y e next day evens 
 
 "Y e 31 sfc we came up w th a small ship belongs to y e Portug 2 from 
 Brasile bound to y e Guinea coast to buy slaves 
 
 " Friday y e 28 th Sept. 1705 verry early in y e morning we came to an 
 anchor before Kingsale." 
 
 J. H. Boukd. 
 
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 THE MANUSCRIPTS OF 
 J. B. CABR-ELLISON, ESQUIRE, AT DUNSTON 
 HILL, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. 
 
 The papers of J. R, Carr-Ellison, Esq., of Hedgeley, Northumberland, 
 and Dunston Hill, in the county of Durham, and preserved at the latter 
 place, are of interest for the history of the trade of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 
 throughout the last century. One of his ancestors, Ralph Carr, esta- 
 blished a large connection with Scotland, Holland, Norway, and North 
 America as a merchant and general shipping agent, to which he 
 subsequently added the business of a banker. All the copy-books of 
 his own business letters (but not the letters of his correspondents) have 
 been preserved, amounting to some sixty or seventy volumes, and from 
 these, which extend from 1737 to about 1783, much may be learned with 
 reference to the commercial and banking transactions of the time. He 
 mentions in one letter the fact that the shipping trade of Newcastle 
 exceeded that of any other provincial port in England. The chief 
 exports to America were coals, crown glass, bottles, lead, iron, and 
 woollen goods ; and the chief import appears to have been tar. The 
 American correspondence of 1748-1775 is contained in two separate 
 volumes ; earlier letters are scattered through the preceding general 
 volumes, but from the former year the colonial trade began to assume 
 special importance. The letters cease at the beginning of the War of 
 Independence. In one of the earlier letters Carr says to a correspondent, 
 with reference to a young man whom at the lattcr's request he had sent 
 out to him as a clerk, " There are few in England who have tolerable 
 bread who would hire themselves to go to America." Many of the 
 names of the persons with whom he corresponded may doubtless have 
 interest for families in America at the present day. Some few of these 
 it may be therefore be worth Avhile to mention. At Boston, in J 748 
 and onwards, Messrs. Wendell, Ralph Inman (who continued a friend 
 and correspondent up to his death), Edmund, Henry, and Josiah Quincy, 
 Thomas Hutchinson (afterwards governor of Massachusetts), William 
 Bowdoin (who arrived at Boston in 1748), Samuel Wentworth, Samuel 
 Douglas, with many others; in 17(>4 some of the additional names are 
 John Gould, Nath. and George Bethune, Samuel Scollay, hon. Andrew 
 Oliver, James Grimn. At New York, 1749, Robert Commelin, John 
 Bard, Joris B tinker hoff, Aduniah Schuyler and Henry Cuyler, John 
 Watts, Henry Lane, Philip Livingston ; in 1764, Walter and Samuel 
 Franklin, Lodowick Bomper, Thomas Vardill, Jacob Sarly. Mr. Carr 
 naturally in the course of so long and large intercourse met with some 
 dishonest traders ; of one house at New York he says, " I have had too 
 many bad chaps [i.e., buyers, chapmen; a term very frequently used by 
 him in this sense] in America, but they are the very worst " ; in another, 
 " In truth most of the Americans are too cunning for me." One Mr. 
 William Fletcher, who left Boston for the safer Danish island of St. 
 Eustathia, leaving his debts unpaid, excited special indignation ; but in 
 1763 his character was re-established, a composition was paid, and 
 correspondence resumed. 
 
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 In Holland there was constant correspondence with the house of 
 Thomas and Adrian Hope, and in Edinburgh with John Coutts, with 
 whom and with the house of Coutts in London Carr was employed in 
 the transmission of money to the army in Scotland in 1745 and in the 
 supply of provisions. 
 
 The documents of earlier date than these letter-books are chiefly 
 concerned with the estates and legal affairs of the family of Ellison. 
 Many relate to Jarrow and to the Manor of Hebburne in that parish. 
 But the following- are all that need here be noted : — 
 
 1617, 5 Oct. — 15 Jas. I., Conveyance from William lord Eure to 
 William Mallard, of Studley, esq., Roger Tocketts, John Cholmley, and 
 Robert Gere, and their heirs, of the site of the dissolved cell of Jarrow, 
 with the rectory. 
 
 1652. — Rental of the impropriators of Jarrow. 
 
 1653, 2 June. — Conveyance from the two daughters and heiresses of 
 Sir Henry Gibb, bart., deceased (viz., Elizabeth, wife of Richard Everard 
 of Waltham, and Frances Gibb) and Edward Gibb to Thomas Bonner, 
 and Robert Ellison of the lordship of Jarrow. 
 
 1653, 31 Aug. — Rental of the grounds, salt-pans, and impropriations 
 of Jarrow. 
 
 1658, 15 Dec. — To an exemplification in the name of the Protector 
 Richard, of a fine for the Manor of Hebburne, between Robert Ellison 
 and Benjamin Ellison, merchants, plaintiffs, and William Hodshon, esq., 
 and others, deforceants, is attached a very fine and perfect impression of 
 a seal for the county palatine, which is probably, in this state at least, 
 very rare. Obverse : Shield with the arms of the see of Durham, 
 within a fancy border, viz., a cross between 4 lions rampant, " 1656. 
 Ad brevia in eodem com. sigilland. deputatum." Rev. ■ The Protector, 
 on horseback ; on the dexter, the same arms. 
 
 William D. Macray. 
 
 .Notes from Letter-Books referring to the Rebellion of 
 
 1745. 
 
 1745, Sept. 15. — To Mr. John Coutts. " You may be quite easy 
 about your gold, for shoud the Highlanders come this length 'tis easy 
 put out of the way, but I apprehend they will not be allow'd to cross the 
 Firth, nor have they any encouragement for so doing, as so few are 
 ready to join them.'" 
 
 Sept. 24. — " Ere this you've heard of Sir John Cope's defeat, owing 
 to the scandalous behaviour of the dragoons, who deserted without firing 
 a shot, and got to Berwick." The victory, however, did not cause 
 much alarm at Newcastle, for in a subsequent letter it was remarked 
 that should England be invaded and the town attacked, it could not be 
 taken without a train of artillery, which the enemy did not possess. 
 
 1745, Oct 1. — A captain is warned not to go to Dunbar, as advice 
 came last night that 200 of the rebels were there. 
 
 Oct. 18. — An order is come from the Treasury to allow no ships to 
 clear for Scotland. 
 
 Oct. 31. — "Butter will be considerably dearer in a few months, not 
 only on account of a brisk foreign demand, but also for the supply of a 
 large army in Scotland, which must be furnished from us." 
 
 Dec. 10.— All letters to and from Scotland are shamefully stop'd 
 upon the road ; some people are of opinion they are first sent to 
 London." 
 
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 Dec. 14. — "M[ajor-geo.] Wade will bo here bv Thursday next in his 
 way to Scotland .... with 1,600 men." 
 
 Dec. 22. — " Wade's army are now here, and buying a good deal of 
 wheat to be ground into flour." 
 
 In November a ship belonging to Messrs. Hope under one Capt. 
 Sinclair put into the Orkneys for repair being damaged ; in April the 
 news came that he had joined the rebels, taking the ship's guns, &c. ; 
 finally, the ship was taken by Capt. O'Brien in the Sheerness, one of 
 the King's ships, and treated as a prize. 
 
 Notes from the American Letter-Books. 
 
 1762. — Some ale shipped in this year gave great dissatisfaction to 
 several buyers, upon which Mr. Carr writes, " In truth the whole malt 
 liquor of England is quite ruined by the last heavy excise, which was 
 laid on to extricate your whole continent from being swallowed by the 
 French ; they neither use the quantity of malt nor hops they formerly 
 did, and, what is worse, several unwholesome ingredients are, as it is too 
 much to be fear'd, made use of, so that many parcels which we have 
 ship'd of late have perished in the voyage, and we are resolved to ship 
 no more. 
 
 3 762, Dec. 17. — "The preliminaries [of peace] were taken into con- 
 sideration a few days ago by the House of Commons. Mr. Pitt spoke 
 for three hours and a half against many of the articles, and with good 
 reason in our opinion as to some of them, for poor England is always 
 weighed down with her raskally allies. On a division Mr. Pitt headed 
 a poor minority of 65 against 319. In the House of Lords it never 
 came to a division." 
 
 17(33, Aug. 26. — " Just now eighteen great houses in Amsterdam are 
 fail'd for many millions, also several chief ones at Hamburgh and 
 Stockholm, which it is afraid will affect many more in London, Paris, 
 &c." 
 
 Sept. 16. — " We have had prodigious success in our Greenland trade 
 this summer ; at first we sold our oil at £15 10 per too, since which 
 we have got £L6 5, and this week for small parcels of five tons £18." 
 
 1764, March 6. — " Smith coals are advanced to 13/ per chalder, owing 
 to the great scarcity occasioned by the prodigious 'storms of rain we 
 have had for some months past, which prevented their getting any 
 stocks from the mines." This was followed by a plentiful harvest in 
 Aug. when there is " the finest weather imaginable like yours in 
 America." 
 
 1764, Oct. 26. — In a letter to Sam. Wentworth, esq., at Boston (who 
 died in Sept. 1766), mention is made of the return of one son, H. Went- 
 worth, who had been with Messrs. Carr, and given them great satis- 
 faction, and of another son at Eton, who appears to have returned 
 home in May, 1765. 
 
 1765, Feb. 2.—" Coals were never known so scarce as at present in 
 the memory of any person living, owing to the prodigious demand for 
 London, and the scarcity of miners here since the last war. Many ships 
 have been waiting here from two to three months for loadings of coals 
 which they have not yet been able to get." In October of this year 500 
 vessels had been waiting in the harbour for six weeks unable to get 
 any coals on account of a dispute between the coal-owners and pitmen. 
 
 A large consignment of American oak could not find a purchaser, not 
 a single bid being made at a public sale. " The fault they find is not 
 only with its quality, having a brown streak running thro' it, which they 
 
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 term the red horse, but also on account of its great breadth and such 
 variety ; it is also much curved or bent, so that it will cut to immense 
 waste, and runs much narrower at one end than the other. All the 
 English and Dantzig plank is first squared in the tree in the exactest 
 manner to about 12 inches, which is the proper breadth, and requires 
 neither hewing nor waste of wood. We imagine if yours had been cut 
 so, there would have been less objection to it." It was sold at last in 
 Nov. 1766. 
 
 1765, July 23.— Mr. William Dunbar, of Thurso in Caithness, " the 
 son of a very reputable clergyman," is strongly recommended for 
 employment on going out to New i r ork. 
 
 1768, Apr. 29. — Mr. Ralph Inman is requested to make quest for " a 
 very unfortunate poor lady at Roxbury," Lady Hesilrige, wife of the son 
 [Robert J of Sir Arthur Hesilrige, who is enquired for by Mr. Jonathan 
 OrmstoD, Sir Arthur's trustee, and who must make proof of her 
 marriage. Also to interest himself on behalf of a poor woman of 
 Newcastle, Hannah Nicholson, who has never received a legacy of 
 £200 left her in 1763 by her son Edward Nicholson in Virginia and 
 retained by one James Hunter there ; " we are determined to be at any 
 expense or trouble in order to procure her justice." 
 
 May 12. — Shipping delayed for four or live weeks by riots among the 
 sailors and keelmen for increase of wages, which they obtained to the 
 amount of an increase of one-fourth. 
 
 1768, Nov. 18. — Letter to Lady Hesilrige at Boston: 120/. to be 
 paid to her as the interest due on the 500/. legacy from the death of 
 her father[in-law], Sir Arthur Hesilrige, and 20/. annually. " I most 
 bincerely lament that your unhappy situation and worth were not known 
 before the death of Sir Arthur ; sure I am you and yours would have 
 been provided for, but it is the hand of Providence, which is still able 
 to conduct and assist you. No doubt you heard that Sir Arthur left 
 his estate to the youngest of five sons, and even thought him very un- 
 worthy of it, and [I] doubt he has not been mistaken by the accounts I 
 have of him. He is not yet of age ; when he is I pray God he may 
 have an inclination equal to his ability to assist you. For your son, as 
 he will have the title, ought to have the estate likewise. I had much 
 talk with Mr. Ormston as to paying you in the 500/. ; but this he 
 apprehends cannot be done till your children are of age, but when they 
 get an estate in this neighbourhood sold for the payment of legacies and 
 the other sons' fortunes, he will consult the nobleman [lord Maynard] 
 who was left joint trustee with him." 
 
 1768, Nov. 18. — "It is a most lamentable consideration to this 
 kingdom that there should be almost open war between one part and 
 another. The colonists object to every mode of taxation, without ever 
 proposing how much they will raise in their own way toward the 
 millions of debt England is loaded with, and taxed to the very teeth to 
 pay the interest of, and which was actually expended in the sole defence 
 and support of the colonies." 
 
 1770, July 2. — Letter to James Hunter, Fredericksburgh, Virginia, 
 demanding in the strongest terms payment of the legacy (mentioned 
 under 1768) of which he has defrauded Hannah Nicholson. [Other 
 letters follow on the subject ; Hunter remitted money by instalments]. 
 
 Same date. — Letter to Lady Hesilrige, urging her to send her eldest 
 son over to % England ; he hopes the sight of him would warm lord 
 Maynard (who is 80 years old) into compassion for the unmerited loss 
 of his birthright. 
 
 1771, Apr. 4. — Letter to Lady Hesilrige, congratulating her on the 
 reception her son has met with from lord Maynard, who in letters to 
 
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 Mr. Ormston " expresses more of a parental fondness for him than my 
 most sanguine wishes could even hope for." Enclosing a copy of a letter 
 of thanks to lord Maynard, dated 30 March. [It is subsequently men- 
 tioned that the latter sent his young relation to school at Chiswick, and 
 in April 1773 sent him to Calcutta. He died in the East Indies in 
 1805. Several original letters from Lady Hesilrige are preserved.] 
 
 1772, Feb. 12. — The river at Xe.vcastle is closed with ice, putting 
 a stop to all trade ; " this, added to the misfortune of our bridge being 
 carried away, which has stood for many hundred years, causes the 
 greatest distress to this country, besides many hundred thousand pounds' 
 loss by that unparallelled flood." 
 
 The last letter to Boston (about the despatch of coals, to be landed at 
 Salem, in consequence of the closing of the port of Boston), is dated 
 16 September 1775. Four letters follow written to Robert Harvey, esq., 
 at Grenada in 1775-8. 
 
 Original Miscellaneous Letters. 
 
 In the years 1708-10 there are letters to Robert Ellison respecting 
 the sale of some laud to him from Thomas Forster and Jane Fenwick, 
 wife of lieut. Michael Fenwick of Hebborne. The former may no 
 doubt be identified with the commander of the Chevalier's army in the 
 insurrection of 1715. A letter from A[nne] Widdrington to Mrs. Carr 
 at Bath, without date of year, is from the wife of the eldest son of the 
 lord Widdrington who was attainted for his share in the same rising. 
 The letter shows that in spite of forfeiture the son used his father's 
 title; the writer (who dates from Bond Street, Saturday, 7 Jan., possibly 
 1749) sends an invitation to a concert which " my lord " has fixed for 
 Monday, " 23rd of thiss inst. " ; he " hass invited all the company, and 
 engagd the musical people ; it will begin at twelve a clock .... It 
 is to be at Turnham Green, having no conviuence for any sutch thing 
 in Bond Street." 
 
 1758, Feb. 6. — A letter from Mr. Matthew Bell without address, to 
 someone then in London, relates to one of the first issue of bank notes 
 by the bank established by Mr. Carr and his partners. " I was desir'd 
 to send you the enclosed to have a plate cut, for twenty shillings notes ; 
 one pound in the body of the note, and the twenty shillings at bottom, 
 are both intended to be in the like hand that the sum is wrote in in the 
 notes of the Bank of England, and a scrawel [scroll ?] on the left hand, 
 You will hear of the man who cut the plate for the other notes at Vere's ; 
 he lives in Wine Licence Court in Fleet Street .... You must 
 also provide a large quantity of a strong tough paper for these notes." 
 
 1759. A copy of an express sent from the Admiralty on 30 Nov. to 
 
 Lord Ravensworth, giving an account of Lord Hawke's victory at 
 Belleisle on 20 Nov., is communicated to Mr. Carr by one Nicholas 
 Walton. 
 
 1700, Apr. 22, London. — A letter from Thomas Coutts, the banker, 
 informs Mr. Carr that the business at Edinburgh will now go on, in 
 consequence of the death of a partner, in the name of his brother James 
 Coutts alone, who " is connected with some of the best families in 
 England." In another letter in Feb. 1787 he says that he is the last 
 of his family, so that the very name is likely to be no more, four sons 
 having died in infancy, while three daughters survive. " Coutts brothers 
 & C° " write from Edinburgh in 1762 to introduce Francis Garden [lord 
 Gardenstone], the King's Solicitor for Scotland. 
 
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 1761. — Lord "Ravenswortk on 28 March writes to communicate to 
 Mr. Carr that he has great reason to believe that there is prospect of 
 peace ; he feels how tender the point is, and therefore only mentions it 
 as a hint, supposing that in the course of Carr's great traffic abroad the 
 conclusion of the war ma}' make great alterations. He begs that not a 
 word may be intimated as coming from him. 
 
 [1761, Oct.] — Edward Mosley [town-clerk of Newcastle] to Ralph 
 Carr ; not dated. " London is in a ferment about the resignation of 
 Mr. Pitt and Lord Anson, but its thought those gentlemen will be soon 
 reinstated. It is said the difference has arisen from some haughty 
 memorial presented by the Spanish ambassador, recommending our 
 Court to accept the proposals of France towards a peace, which being 
 couch'd rather too insolently for Mr. Pitt's approbation, he was for having 
 war declared against Spain forthwith : in consequence of which great 
 debates arose, and the duke of Bedford handled Pitt a little unbecoming 
 a gentleman of his station." 
 
 1763. — A letter from a lady at Bath named A. Hollier to Mrs. Carr, 
 dated 31 Jan. 1763, gives an account of a scene in an assembly room 
 there which, although little creditable to those concerned, would seem 
 of a kind which at that time was not infrequent. " They say Bath hath 
 been very full this winter, but we have kept snug to our private parties, 
 and gone very little to the rooms. Indeed, my sister went to the Queen's 
 birthday ball at Wiltshire's rooms, which was in general esteemed a very 
 good one ; but at the close of it they cooked up a little sort of a riot : 
 for the candles went out before twelve o'clock, the music went off in the 
 middle of a dance, and left the company in the dark, who could by no 
 means get the music again or a replenish of candles, or even a little 
 negus to drink, tho' they could prove the rooms cleared five and forty 
 guineas by the subscription. Upon which one of the gentlemen said, 
 he remembered upon such affronts as these it used to be custom to break 
 the lustres and glasses ; upon which hint there was negus produced in 
 plenty, and the gentlemen threw it all over the room, broke eight bowls, 
 and went off in a rage, swearing there should never be another ball at 
 those rooms ; but Wiltshire having made proper submissions they have 
 passed it by, and the balls go on there as usual. Collet had carried 
 himself off before upon some affront he had received, of which he has 
 had plenty this winter, and since that night hath resigned his office to 
 one Derrick, a little Irishman, to whom they say the rooms are to allow 
 fifty pounds a year. If that is the case, it is no hard matter to prog- 
 nosticate what authority he will gain, and how far it will be attended 
 to." 
 
 1769-1771. — Three letters on matters of business from Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth Montague, the well-known foundress of the Blue Stocking Club. 
 In one of them she remarks, " The town is in great impatience for the 
 meeting of the Parliament. My great comfort is that we live in God's 
 
 world, and not in one governed by ministers or their opposers 
 
 Most busy and zealous people in politicks mean either to keep a place 
 or to get one." 
 
 1772, March 9, London. — L. Dutens to Mr. Carr. " One should not 
 allow one's friends to be led astray by a dirty set of news writers, for 
 which reason I set down to assure you that it is not true that the 
 Queen of Denmark has undergone a tryall. Nothing in all this is 
 certain but the cruelties exerced (sic) against the physician and his 
 brother. The King of Denmark himself is looked upon as a prisonner, 
 and he is under a strong guard by way of doing him honor; he is really 
 supposed to be weak in his mind, and as the Queen Dowager and 
 Prince Frederick are at the head of affairs it is thought he will be 
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 aside soon I was at a rout last Friday at Northum- 
 berland House; Miss Surtees was the prettiest figure there. I said we 
 had two dozen such at Newcastle, to justify my stay there." 
 
 1773, Aug. 10, London. — David Brown, Governor General of the 
 Danish Settlements in India, to Ralph Carr, requesting the loan of 
 2,000/. or 3,000/. for three or four years at 6 per cent. [There is a 
 letter from John Brown, dated 21 Apr. 1772, proposing to Carr to 
 invest in "our" Danish East India Company, for which a new charter 
 had just been signed by the King of Denmark.] 
 
 1774, July 2, Parliament Street, London. — Letter from Governor 
 Hutchinson to Ralph Carr, esq. " Sir, Soon after the recipt of your 
 last letter I received the King's leave to come to England, but the 
 state of my government obliged me to defer my voyage from time to 
 time. I intended immediately to desire you to give your order upon 
 me for the sum you proposed, and whenever you think fit to draw for 
 thirty-five pounds, your draught shall be answered. 
 
 " After the most cruel calumnies and slanders I am happy in receiving 
 from the King as full and explicit an approbation of every part of my 
 conduct as perhaps has ever been given to any servant of the Crown. 
 I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, Tho. Hutchinson." 
 
 Hutchinson had been a frequent business- correspondent with Mr. Carr 
 up to 1763, but then their correspondence ceased in consequence of a 
 dispute respecting some bullion-glass sent out by the latter ; it was 
 slightly renewed in 1768, and in 1773 Carr proposed a compromise 
 which in this letter is accepted. In his reply, dated 8 July (of which 
 the draft remains), Carr congratulates him on his safe arrival from a 
 place where even his life was in eminent hazard ; " the highest appro- 
 bation of his Majesty must be thought by every man in old England no 
 more than what your uniform conduct highly merited, and am glad to 
 see so great a number of the most respectable and dispassionate in New 
 England are of the same sentiments, which is a great consolation, tho' 
 I hope the gratitude of the nation will not stop there." 
 
 1786, Aug. 13, Mountclare. — Sir John Dick, bart., Comptroller of 
 the army accounts, to Mr. Carr. " The horrid attempt on the King's 
 life gave every one the sensation of infinite surprise and alarm : that 
 there should be in this kingdom one found to be so insane even to 
 compass and imagine the death of the present K ing, and much more to 
 make an attempt on his life, is matter of the highest astonishment. 
 For altho' there may be much difference of opinion touching many of 
 the political measures of his ministers, yet if ever there was a prince 
 sans reproche in all his conduct and actions towards his people, he is 
 the man ; for he certainly never injoured (sic) one of them in his 
 family, his property, or his persuasion in religion. Now as madness 
 always acts from some impression of the mind and the impulse of some 
 dominating idea, it seems unaccountable what idea could have instigated 
 Margaret Nicholson. If the refusal to grant the prayers of petitions 
 and memorials of grievances and distress be conceiv'd to be a just cause 
 of assassination, not only kings but their ministers, their boards, and 
 even their commissioners, will be of all men the most misarable (sic) ; 
 but I hope there is not an other person like this diabolical woman 
 suffer' d to go loose. His Majesty's presence of mind and composure 
 were noble and striking ; he enter'd the levee room a few minutes after, 
 and no one present had the least suspision (sic) from his appearance 
 
 that any thing extraordinary had happen'd I hope 
 
 you will have as plentifull a harvest in the north as we have here. The 
 prices of the stocks will show you that money is also plenty here, 
 except in the pocketts of the fashionable people, they take care never to 
 
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 have plenty of anything but debts. If we can but preserve the peace 
 for fifteen or twenty years, our successors will have the satisfaction of 
 seeing this country in a happy situation ; but to do this we must 
 keep pace with the French, who are very busy in augmenting their 
 navy." 
 
 1788. — A letter from Capt. W. Skerrett of the 19 th Foot to Mr. 
 Ralph Carr, dated at Lucea, Jamaica, 24 June, 1788, is worth quoting 
 for the remarks made on the condition of the slaves in Jamaica. " Our 
 situation here has been critical. We are not without our fears of an 
 insurrection among the negroes. The extreme absurdity of your people 
 at home has occasioned all this. The pious bishop of London [Porteous] 
 and Mr. Wilberforce, with others, have laid the seeds of discontent, and 
 nattered these unfortunate people with a prospect of emancipation. If 
 ever this takes place, adieu to your West India islands. It is a pity 
 that the original rights of mankind cannot be made the standard of 
 government. It is a sad misfortune we can only justify by policy what 
 morality condemns. The Legislature may soften the situation of this 
 unfortunate race of human beings. The planters should be compelled 
 to treat with attention the young, the aged, and the infirm ; the woman 
 who has brought the planter six children should have her freedom. 
 Slaves who have been remarkable for their fidelity in giving informa- 
 tion or suppressing of rebellion, the same indulgence should be extended 
 to. The French treat their slaves much better than we do. They 
 endeavour to soften their situation, are much kinder to them, and speak 
 to them with mildness, and the negroes are found to be less stupid 
 among the French. John Bull does not endeavour to conciliate their 
 affections. He sees that they are well fed, but then he sometimes 
 exercises those cruelties at which human nature no less recoils. I do 
 believe it is tyranny that plunges them in that profound stupidity which 
 we always see in a Jamaica negro." Capt. Skerrett encloses a copy 
 of a memorial which he addressed to Sir George Yonge, Secretary at 
 War, on 24 Aug. 1787, setting forth his claims, by service, to a majority 
 by purchase, but complains of injury done him by Gen. Grreme. He 
 had been 29 years in the army, serving at Belleisle and Gibraltar, and 
 in America and the West Indies. He quotes a letter recommending 
 him for promotion which was written by Gen. Gould, the Commander- 
 in-Chief in Carolina, to Sir Henry Clinton, after an action at Shew- 
 brick's Plantation on 17 July, 1781, in which the General says that 
 Capt. Skerrett received six balls, that his humanity to the wounded after 
 the action was as conspicuous as his conduct, and " that he is this day 
 one of the strongest instances of neglected merit that I ever was 
 acquainted with in the service." Skerrett's memorial was presented to 
 the King, whose gracious and flattering answer was, that he should be 
 provided for. 
 
 In the same year Sir John Dick writes from the Horse Guards to 
 Mr. Carr, strongly urging his assisting Capt. Skerrett to purchase his 
 majority on the ground that " in times of peace, when past services are 
 forgotten, and ministers are under the necessity of attending to political 
 applications," there was little chance of his otherwise obtaining it. He 
 would have to pay an advanced price over and above the King's regula- 
 tion ; " indeed, at present there are few purchases made at the regulation 
 price." 
 
 1796. — A petition from the debtors confined in Durham Gaol on 
 11 Jan. illustrates the description of that prison and the condition of its 
 inmates given by Howard, who says he found some there whose sole 
 food was bread boiled in water ; they beg Mr. Carr to assist them " at 
 
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 this extreme time of need, being shutfc up in this gloomy prision, and 
 confined with the refuse and most abandond of mankind." 
 
 1798. — To Will. Seward's Biographiana, published with the date of 
 1799, is prefixed an allegorical frontispiece by Miss Harriet Carr, to 
 whom the book is dedicated. The following letter to Mr. Carr, dated at 
 Richmond 9 Nov. 1798, shows that the issue of the book had then already 
 taken place. " Dear Sir, By the favour of your son I have the honour 
 of your letter. I'm very glad that my compilations have amused you. 
 No one knows better than myself their defects. Biography is however 
 always read with ardour, and I fear your candour has in the subject 
 overlooked the execution, the manner in the matter. Miss Harriet's 
 frontispiece will very much promote the diffusion of the Biographiana. 
 She has appended an exquisite Corinthian portico to a heap of ruins. 
 1 hear that she is about to change her situation to the entire satisfaction 
 of those who know her and who love her best. I sincerely wish her in 
 her new distinction as happy as they can wish her, and as happy as her 
 talents and virtues entitle her to be. I am much obliged to you for 
 your kind wishes to me, and have only to wish that I deserved the 
 benedictions of worth and of virtue like yours. My kind wishes in 
 return can only be directed to your cheerfullness and freedom from 
 pain in the present state of your existence. The unmarred tenor o£ 
 your valuable and excellent life has secured you every beatitude of 
 eternity." (!) 
 
 1801. — The cruelty of the old press-gang system is exhibited in a 
 piteous letter from one Edward Dodd, dated at Ponteland 20 June, 
 appealing for help on behalf of a son, who had been taken when sent 
 to sea for a trial- voyage to London ; " in the Nore he was impress'd, 
 and dragged away by oppression's savage grasp, and sent to Egypt or 
 elsewhere to be butcher'd .... Oh, Sir, could you in mercy 
 to the afflicted hit upon a plan to procure his liberation, I may say 
 redemption, and restore a dearly beloved son to the arms of a fond 
 father, you would do one of the most merciful and kindest actions a man 
 ever did." 
 
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 THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE CORPORATION 
 OF COVENTRY (Second Report). 
 
 At the outset of their labours in 1869, Her Majesty's Commissioners 
 on Historical Manuscripts directed the late Mr. Henry Thomas Riley 
 to repair to Coventry, and inspect and report upon the ancient writings 
 of the Corporation of that City, — an order that resulted in the brief 
 account of the Coventry Records, which was offered to students in the 
 Appendix to the Commissioners' First Report in February 1870. As 
 this sketch of an exceptionally numerous collection of historical muni- 
 ments occupies no more than three columns of the Appendix, it is not 
 surprising that, after a lapse of more than a quarter of a century, it has 
 seemed right to Her Majesty's present Commissioners on Historical 
 MSS. to issue a second and more adequate account of the several 
 thousands of writings which Mr. Riley dealt with in so cursory a 
 manner. 
 
 It must not, however, be assumed that Mr. Riley, who did so much 
 good work in the service of the Historical MSS. Commissioners, is 
 in any degree blameworthy for the inadequacy of his account of the 
 Coventry muniments. At a time when the operations of the Commis- 
 sioners were necessarily experimental and tentative, and when it was 
 thought desirable that no long time should elapse between the creation 
 of the Commissioners' powers and the publication of their First Report, 
 Mr. Riley was instructed to examine the muniments belonging to the 
 Corporations of Abingdon, Bridgwater, Cambridge; Coventry, Glaston- 
 bury, Norwich, Nottingham, Wells, York, and Christ's Hospital at 
 Abingdon, and to send in reports on ail these ten collections of muni- 
 ments in time for their publication in the Appendix to the Commis- 
 sioners' B'irst Report. He was at the same time required to inspect the 
 muniments of Christ's College, King's, Pembroke, Queen's, St. John's, 
 St. Peter's, and Trinity in the University of Cambridge, the Bishop's 
 Registry at Norwich, the Bishop's Registry at Wells, the muniment- 
 room of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, the muniment-room of the 
 Dean and Chapter of Wells, and the muniment-room of the Dean and 
 Chapter of York, and to furnish a written account of each of these 
 twelve bodies of muniments so that it should appear in the same 
 Appendix. It may be observed that the Letters under Her Majesty's 
 sign-manual, which created the first Historical MSS. Commission 
 were dated on 2nd April 1869, and that the Commissioners' First 
 Report was dated on the 26th February 1870. It was, therefore, of 
 course, understood, alike by the Inspector and by the Commissioners 
 who required him to examine and report upon twenty-two different 
 collections of muniments in the course of a few months, that his 
 examination of each collection should be superficial and that his report 
 upon it should be brief. In fact, in this opening stage of the operations 
 of the Commission, it was intended that, instead of being lengthy and 
 particular summaries for the satisfaction of historical inquirers, the 
 reports by the inspectors should be such mere memoirs as would afford 
 
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 a general view of the muniments lying in different parts of the country, 
 and enable the Commissioners to see which of the many collections of 
 ancient writings were most deserving of their consideration. 
 
 At the time of Mr. Riley's visit to Coventry, in 1809, something had 
 been done for modifying the extreme confusion and disorder in which 
 the multifarious archives of the Corporation were lying at the opening 
 of the present century. Some thirty- six years had passed since Mr. 
 Thomas Sharp and Mr. George Eld, two local antiquaries of more than 
 ordinary intelligence and culture, had selected a considerable number of 
 letters and other writings from an enormous and disorderly accumulation 
 of archives (beginning with Queen Isabel's epistle to the Mayor and 
 Bailiffs of Coventry temp. Edward III.), and had arranged them chrono- 
 logically in two large folio volumes, which afforded to the Inspector the 
 most important information in his report. Later antiquaries had 
 gathered and bound into similar volumes a considerable proportion of 
 the old Bills, Sacrament-Certificates, and miscellaneous papers, out of 
 the piles of the less interesting writing*. But though something had 
 been done, and much was being done under the supervision of Mr. 
 William Browett the elder, the then Town Clerk of Coventry, to lessen 
 the confusion of the records, the main body of them was still in such 
 disorder that Mr. Riley was quick to see that to give even a general 
 view of so vast a collection it would be needful to spend twice as many 
 weeks as circumstances would permit to spend days in the muuiment- 
 rooms of St. Mary's Hall. After giving a few particulars of the 
 principal volumes he added at the conclusion of his report, " The Cor- 
 poration is also in possession of charters and deeds, probably many 
 hundreds in number, from the 12th century downwards." The "many- 
 hundreds " have, however, been found on recent and more deliberate 
 examination to amount to no less than six thousand three hundred and 
 forty-nine. 
 
 Like the muniments of Chester, Southampton, Ipssvich, and King's 
 Lynn, the Coventry muniments comprise writings that distinguish them 
 from other collections of Corporation MSS. which the present reporter 
 has examined in the service of Her Majesty's Commissioner s. From the 
 time of Edward III. to the period of the Reformation Coventry was 
 remarkable for the wealth and importance of its Guilds and the number 
 of its Chantries. By two grants made in the reigns of Heury VIII. 
 and Edward VI., negotiated for the advantage of the municipality by 
 Sir Thomas White, the greater part of the lands, rents, and other 
 property of these Guilds and Chantries passed into the hands of the 
 Corporation of the City, and together with the lands and rents there 
 passed also a large proportion of the records that related to them. 
 Moreover, on the suppression of the ancient Priory and the demolition 
 of the superb Cathedral Church of St. Mary of Coventry, many of the 
 writings belonging to them, of like character as evidences of more 
 property, were transferred to the Mayor and Citizens of Coventry, 
 instead of being carried away with the main body of the archives to the 
 Court of Augmentations. Hence in these accumulated writings, the 
 Corporation possesses much that distinguishes these civic muniments 
 from most, if not all, other municipal archives. 
 
 For giving a view of their character it will be convenient to deal 
 with them in the following groups : — 
 
 (a.) Books, to the number of - - - 188 volumes. 
 
 {?/.) Charters, Letters Patent under the Privy Seal 
 or Signet, with or without the Sign Manual, 
 and Indentures granted by Sovereigns, to 
 the number of - - - 89 writings. 
 
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 (<?.) Deeds, to wit. Grants in frankalmoigne } Quit- 
 claims, Leases, Agreements, Awards of 
 Arbitrators, Testaments, Bonds, Powers of 
 Attorney, #c, fyc, to the number of - 6,265 writings. 
 
 (d.) Exemplifications of Ctirial Records, JVrits of 
 special interest, and Letters of Commission, 
 not being Letters Patent, to the number of - 10 writings. 
 
 (e.) Polls and Files, to the number of - 18 sets. 
 
 (f.) Miscellaneous papers, put away in - - - 30 packets. 
 
 To afford an adequate notion of the total number comprised in these 
 groups, it may be stated that a single file put together in the present 
 century holds no less than 118 Statute Merchant Rolls, and that several 
 of the packets of Miscellaneous Papers contain in each packet from 50 
 to 100 separate instruments. Account being taken of those that have 
 been thus gathered together and bound into volumes, or made into rolls 
 or files, or put away in packets, the separate documents may be 
 computed as numbering altogether about eleven thousand . 
 
 I.— Boohs. 
 
 Of these volumes the most noteworthy are the following : — 
 
 1. Escheats. 
 
 27 Edward I.-16 Elizabeth. — Collection of Escheatoro' Inquests 
 post mortem, bound together, lettered "Inq. Post Mortem." 
 
 2. Chartulary. 
 
 Henry IV.-Henry VIII. — Chartulary and Deeds Register : a vellum 
 quarto in clog-cover, containing in the opening entries a few matters of 
 earlier times. 
 
 3. Leet Books. 
 
 (a) 8 Henry V.-l and 2 Philip and Mary.— Leet Book of the City : 
 a book of the highest moment to students of municipal institutions and 
 usages, 
 
 (6) 30 Elizabeth-1834. — A second volume, less interesting than 
 the preceding one; but noteworthy in its earlier part for matters 
 illustrating the government, condition, industries, and manners of the 
 city in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 
 
 4. Craft of the Carfenters. 
 
 (a) Henry VI -Edward IV. — Book of the Receipts and Payments 
 of successive Masters of the Company of the Craft of Carpenters. 
 
 (b) 1478-1652. — Another Book of the Receipts and Payments of 
 successive Masters. 
 
 5. Guild of Corpus Christi and St. Nicholas. 
 
 3 Henry VIII.-l Mary. — Book of the yearly accounts of successive 
 Masters of the Guild of Corpus Christi and St. Nicholas, closing with 
 the account of Thomas Leche, bailiff of the possessions of the late 
 
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 Guild of Corpus Cbristi for one year, made 24th November, 1 Mary. 
 Defective in the later part. This bulky folio has been bound in a 
 modern leather cover, correctly and fully lettered on the back. 
 
 6. Chamberlains' Books. 
 
 (a) 14 Henry VII. — 16 Elizabeth.— Book of the yearly accounts of 
 successive Chamberlains. 
 
 (b) 17 Elizabeth-11 Charles I. — A second Book of the accounts. 
 
 (c) 12 Charles I.-9 Anne. — A third Book of the accounts of succes- 
 sive Wardens and Chamberlains. 
 
 7. Manor of Cfieillesmore. 
 
 1542-1 561. — Account Book of the Manor of Cheillesmore, having 
 this statement of its contents on its opening leaf : ' This booke contey- 
 neth aswell the receites of al sommes of money brought in and payd to 
 the Chambre or treasorie of the Citie of Coventrie, as well by the 
 Chamberleyns wardens and all other accomptantes of the seid citie, as 
 otherwise, yerlie commyng and growing to the use of the commoinaltie 
 or cornea box of the same citie, as also dyvers charities paymentes and 
 deduccions out of the same, and also what revenewes and profittes and 
 yerlie impositions and charges be to the ciiie for everie Meires tyme as 
 hereafter in the same more plenlie may appear.' 
 
 8. Loans and Allowances. 
 
 (a) 1551-1704. — Folio Register of payments made, by way of 
 loan or allowance, out of various estates held by the Mayor and 
 community of Coventry in trust for charitable uses, to wit, the Charity 
 Estates of Lady Spencer, Mr. Symon Parker, Mr. White of Bristowe, 
 Mr. Willyngton, Mr. John Talente, Mr. Nethermyll, Mr. Hopkins, 
 Mr. Tompson, Mr. Over, Mr. Niccolls, Mr. Elkinton, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Sharratt, Mrs. Jane Picken, Mr. Wheatleye, Mr. Haddon, Mr. Sale, 
 Mr. Davenport, and others. 
 
 (b) 19 Elizabeth-1625. — Similar folio Begister of Loans and 
 Allowances. 
 
 (c) 1736-1779. — Book of Loans: being ' An Account of the Loan 
 money of Sir Thomas White, which has been retained by the Corpora- 
 tion of Coventry since the pronouncing of the Decree dated on the 
 twentieth day of December in 1723.' 
 
 9. Overseers of Bablake Hospital. 
 
 1561-1573. — Separate Accounts of successive Overseers of the 
 Bablake Hospital, bound together in a modern leather cover, correctly 
 lettered on the back. 
 
 10. Municipal Treasury Books. 
 
 (a) 1561-1653. — Book of Payments made out of the Municipal 
 Treasury. The first leaf is headed with this description : " In this booke 
 be mencioned and wrytten all and singuler summes of money whiche 
 have been taken of the Treasurie of this citie and payed." 
 
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 (b) 20 Charles II.-169S.— Folio of yearly Accounts of successive 
 Bailiffs and Receivers of the rents and revenues from the lands and 
 tenements, &c, formerly belonging to the Guilds and Chantries. 
 
 (c) 1692-1701. — Large Folio of similar yearly Accounts. 
 
 (d) 1700-1701. — Book of Accounts of the Bailiff and Receiver of 
 " the rents and revenues of the lands and tenements called the Guilds 
 and Chantrys " : containing a comprehensive Rental of the various lands, 
 tenements and stocks in the hands of the Corporation for municipal and 
 charitable uses. 
 
 (e) 1728-1734. — Book of Payments out of the same estates. 
 
 11. Charities. 
 
 17 Elizabeth-2 James II. — Large Folio of the yearly Accounts of 
 successive Bailiffs and receivers of the rents and revenues from lands and 
 tenements, &c, held by the Corporation for charitable uses. 
 
 12. Tithe Accounts. 
 
 (a) 1577-1697. — A defective collection of Tithe Accounts, bound 
 together in a modern leather cover, lettered at the back, " City of 
 Coventry. Tithe Accounts, 1597." 
 
 (6) 1608-1705. — Twenty-eight separate Tithe Account Books of 
 the following years, to wit, 1608, 1609, 1611, 1614, 1615, 1616, 1617, 
 1619, 1622, 1675, 1679, 1684, 1685, 1688, 1689, 1690, 1691, 1692, 
 1693, 1694, 1695, 1697, 1698, 1702, 1703, 1704, 1705. 
 
 (c) 1612. — Tithe-Book anno 1612 : bound in a modern leathercover, 
 lettered at the back, " Tythe Book— 1612." 
 
 (d) 1822-1830. — Ledger of the City's Tithe -Accounts, lettered on 
 one of the sides and on the back, " Corporation Tithe Accounts." 
 
 13. Lands and Tenements of the City. 
 
 23 Elizabeth. — Survey of all the lands and tenements of the 
 Corporation of the City of Coven tre " Surveid by John Emerson, the 
 Bailiffe of the lands late Yeldes and Chauntries in the said Cittie, and 
 Thomas Banester the Clarke to the Counsell of the same Cittie." 
 
 14. Lands of the Lordship of Stoke. 
 
 1617. — Survey of lands in the Lordship of Stoke, headed on its 
 first page, " The Survey of those severall landes in the Lordship of 
 Stoke, which the freehoulders and tenants intend to lay in several flattes, 
 begonn the 26 daie of January 1617 and ended the .... of .... " 
 
 15. Flattes in Stoke Common Fields. 
 
 1617-1619.-—" Booke of the laying forth of the Flattes in Stoke 
 Common feildes and meadowes begonn March 12, 1617, and ended in 
 September, 1619 : Which was done by the opinions and consent of the 
 names of theise which follow, viz., Mr. Thomas Ligons for Lord Berkeley 
 and Mr. Ralph English his tenant, Mr. Christofer Waryn freehoulder, 
 Mr. Samuell Myles for the City of Coventrey and for the Drapers being 
 their tenant, Mr. John Hammond, Doctor in Physick freehoulder, Mr. 
 Reginald Home freehoulder, Mr. Christofer Roudell freeholder, and 
 John Sharman tenant to the City of Coventre." 
 
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 1G. Lordship of Gadsby, co. Leicester. 
 
 1625.— A Terrier of all "the arable lands leyes and meadows" 
 in the lordship ol Gadsby co. Leicester, belonging to the Mayor, bailiffs 
 and community of Co ventre. 
 
 17. Burton's Book of Records and Evidences. 
 
 10 Charles I. — Burton's Book : a large folio described on its opening 
 leaf as " A collection of divers Eecords, deeds, evidences, and pro- 
 ceedings concerning the great Suit in Chancerie brought against this 
 Citie of Coventrie and others by Prince Charles for £98 6s. 8d. rent per 
 annum as parcell of the Dutchie of Cornewall, taken out of the Tower, 
 Augmentation Office, Bolls and other places, and of certain charters 
 belonging to this citie &c." 
 
 18. Ship-Money. 
 
 1635-1637. — Book of matters touching ship money : containing on 
 its fly-leaf this note by the maker of the book : " This Booke touching 
 ship money raised in Warwickshire sheweth the manner and proceedings 
 thereabouts, and how that the Citie of Coventrey and the Countie thereof 
 is to be rated but at a fifteenth part of Warwickshire, in all levies 
 assessments and taxacions wherein the said Citie joineth with the 
 countie of Warwick, and that it is so ordered by the right honourable the 
 Lords and others of his Majesties most honourable Privie Councill, for 
 the future quietness of that City in all such services and assessments 
 whatsoever." 
 
 19. Hospital in Grey Friars Lane. 
 
 1648. — History of the Hospital or Almshouse in Grey Friars^Lane 
 in the city of Coventre, from the time of its foundation in the reign 
 of Henry VIII. 
 
 20. Murage Book. 
 
 1650. — " The Murage Booke of all tenements within the walls of the 
 City of Coventre." 
 
 21. Bate for better Maintenance of Ministers. 
 
 1652. — Book of "The Bate and Assessment of all houses, shop?, 
 warehouses, cellars, stables and all other landes, tenementes and here- 
 ditaments in the said citie of Coventrie at eighteen pence in the pound 
 per annum, and for everie ten shillings nyne-pence per annum, for 
 raising of maintenance for the Ministers of the said Citie by vertue of 
 an Act of Parliament, dated the 21st of March 1650, intituled ' An Act 
 for the more frequent preaching of the Gospell, and better maintenaunce 
 of the Ministers in the Citie of Coventrie.' " 
 
 22. Corvisors' Company. . 
 
 1653-1760. — An imperfect series of the Accounts of the Corvisors' 
 or Curriers' Company, bound in a modern leather cover, lettered at the 
 back u Cordwainers' Company, Accounts, 1653-1760." 
 
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 23. Tailors and Cloth workers. 
 
 1659-1660. — Book of the Taylors' and Olothworkers' Company, in 
 the time of Henry Ashburne, Master. 
 
 24. Indexes of Deeds. 
 
 (a) 17th century. — Index of Deeds, in handwriting of the later part 
 of the seventeenth century, lettered on the back of its modern leather 
 cover, " Citie of Coventre, Index of Deeds, &c." 
 
 (b) 17th century. — An Alphabetical Index to the Deeds and Evidences 
 in the Treasury of the City, made towards the close of the seventeenth 
 century, and perfected from an Index made in September 1621, which 
 in May 1832 was in the possession of Mr. Thomas Sharp. 
 
 25. Sword and Mace Riots. 
 
 1718. — Papers touching a cause between the Attorney General, 
 plaintiff, and the Mayor, bailiffs, and community of the City of 
 Coventry, defendants : in a volume lettered on the back " Sword and 
 Mace Riots 1713." 
 
 26. Tailors' and Sheremen's Company. 
 
 1728-1724. — Papers of the Tailors' Company, put together in 
 chronological disorder, bound in a leather cover, and lettered on the 
 back, " Order Book — Tailors' and Sheremen's Company 1728." 
 
 27. Drapers' Company. 
 
 1729. — Abstract of the Deeds and Writings of Lands, &c, belong- 
 ing to the Drapers' Company in the City of Coventry : and lettered 
 thus on the back. 
 
 28. Sacrament Certificates. 
 
 1720-1730. — Collection of Sacrament Certificates, bound together in 
 a leather cover and lettered on the back. 
 
 29. Streets' Commissioners. 
 
 1790-1807. — Streets' Commissioners' Book, to wit, "Proceedings 
 and Orders made at meetings of the Commissioner appointed to execute 
 the Act of Parliament * for the better paving cleansing lighting and 
 watching the City of Coventry and the suburbs thereof, and removing 
 and preventing nuisances and annoyances therein.'" 
 
 30. Register of Charity Estates. 
 
 1813. — Register of the Charity Estates of the City, lettered on the 
 back of its leather cover " Charity Memorial Register," opening with " a 
 Memorial or Statement in pursuance of an Act of Parliament for the 
 Registering and Securing of Charitable Donations," giving particulars of 
 " the Charity Estate called Sir Thomas White's Charity." 
 
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 31. Leases of Charity Estates. 
 
 1819-1845. — Book of Charity Estates: setting forth the Estates 
 under the management of the Trustees of the General Charities of the 
 City, together with the names of the several lessees, the amount of rent 
 paid yearly by each, the term of years for which each estate is let, and 
 the date at which each term will expire. 
 
 32. Original Letters. 
 
 A collection completed in 1834 by Mr. Thomas Sharp and Mr. 
 George Eld of Original Letters and Papers, beginning with a letter 
 written in behalf of the Friars Minors of Coventre by Queen Isabella to 
 the Mayor, bailiffs and commonalty of Coventre, and closing with the 
 Indenture, dated on 24th October 1704, of the acknowledgment made 
 by Samuel Billing, Maior elect of the City of Coventry, of his receipt of 
 the silver plate and other things of the Corporation, aud of his promise 
 to restore the same to the Treasury on the determination of his 
 mayoralty. This collection was made, arranged, and bound by Messrs. 
 Sharp and Eld in two large folios, lettered on back " Original Letters 
 and Papers." 
 
 33. Territorial Extent of Coventry. 
 
 1839. — Reports made by Mr. Stacey Grimaldi to Messrs. Troughton 
 and Lea, solicitors of the Corporation of Coventry on the territorial 
 extent of the town or city of Coventre, &c, after searching public and 
 other records " in order to ascertain whether the Hamlets of Ansty, 
 Exhall, Foleshill, Keresley, So we, Stivichall, Stoke, and Wyken are 
 or were antiently within the town of Coventry or the jurisdiction of 
 the same." Large Folio, let tered on the back, " City of Coventry. 
 Reports as to the territorial extent of the City of Coventry and 
 jurisdiction of the Corporation of Coventry over adjoining hamlets." 
 
 34. Coventry Boundary Case. 
 
 1839-1842. — Book of the Case for the City of Coventry, with brief 
 delivered to counsel, in the cause in the Court of Exchequer between 
 the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the City [of Coventry, plaintiffs, 
 against Edmund Lythall, William Wilson and seven others, defendants. 
 Lettered on the back of its leather cover, " City of Coventry. Boundary 
 Case. Brief, &c." 
 
 Those of the one hundred and eighty-eight volumes that are net 
 mentioned in the foregoing list of the more important, comprise Rentals 
 of 1552 and subsequent years, an imperfect series of Council Books 
 beginning in 1557 (twenty-four volumes), fifteen volumes of Court 
 Books beginning in 1585, a collection of Constables' Presentments 
 (1629-1742), translations into English of divers of the Latin charters 
 and Letters Patent of the City, ten volumes of Sessions of Peace or 
 Petty Sessions Books (1689-1835), collections of Tavern Bills and 
 other old bills, several compilations touching the history of Coventre, 
 reports of municipal boards and committees, and divers other matters 
 lying outside the scope of H.M. Commission on Historical MSS. 
 
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 //. — Charters, Letters Patent; Letters under the Privy Seal or the 
 Signet, ivith or without the Sign Manual; and Indentures of 
 Leases granted by Sovereigns. 
 
 Earl Ranulph's Charter. 
 
 [1153.] — Charter dated at Covintre (sic) by Ranulph, Earl of 
 Chester : Granting, with other concessions, to his burgesses of Covintre 
 and their heirs, that they may hold in free burgage of him and his 
 heirs as firmly and freely as they held in the time of the Earl's 
 father and other ancestors ; with grant to them of all the liberties and 
 good laws enjoyed by the burgesses of Lincoln, and that they shall 
 not be drawn in any matter to the Earl's Castle to plead, but shall have 
 their own Portmote, in which all pleas touching the Earl and them may 
 be dealt with. 
 
 Confirmation of the Earl's Charter. 
 
 [c. 1177?]. — Charter by Henry II. dated " apud Merlebergam," of 
 confirmation to the burgesses of Covintre (sic) of the charter granted 
 to them by Ranulph, Earl of Chester ; With further concessions, for 
 the greater security of the liberties granted by the Earl's charter. 
 
 Licence to give Land to the Prior and Convent of 
 coventre. 
 
 31 Edward I., November 6th [1303]. — Letters Patent of Licence to 
 Peter de Blockesley to give and assign for ever to the Prior and 
 Convent of Coventre a messuage and two virgates of land with their 
 appurtenances in Sowe, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 Inspeximus of Henry the Third's Charter. 
 
 17 Edward II., July 10th [1323]. — Charter of Inspeximus and 
 Confirmation of Charter of Inspeximus by Henry III. confirming the 
 Charter given by Henry II. in confirmation of the Charter granted by 
 Ranulph Earl of Chester. 
 
 Foundation of a Chantry in the Churches of the Holy 
 Trinity and of St. Michael. 
 
 13 Edward III., January 17th [1340].— Letters Patent (in French), 
 dated at Risyngs Castle by the Queen- Mother Isabella, of Licence to 
 John de Holland, chaplain, John Lemman, John le Porter, Richard de 
 Stoke, William de Welneburghe and others to acquire and hold lands, 
 tenements and rents, &c, to the yearly value of twenty pounds in the 
 Queen's lordship of Coventre, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding, 
 for the maintenance of a Chantry of six chaplains, to chant masses and 
 other sacred services at the parochial churches of the Holy Trinity and 
 St. Michael of Coventre, for the good estate in this life of the said 
 Queen, and of her son the King, and of the Duke of Cornewaille, and 
 for their souls when they shall have died, and also for the souls of the 
 Queen Isabella's Lord Edward the late King of England, and the same 
 Queen's dear son John late Earl of Cornewaille. 
 
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 Licence for a Merchants' Guild. 
 
 14 Edward III., May 20th [1340].-— Letters Patent of Licence to the 
 men of Co ventre and their successors to have a Merchants' Guild and a 
 fraternity of brethren and sisters of the same Guild in the said town, 
 and a Master or Keeper of the same Guild, &c. 
 
 Inspeximus of divers Charters. 
 
 15 Edward III., May 10th [1341]. — Charter of Inspeximus and 
 Confirmation of the Charter of Inspeximus by Edward II. of the 
 Charter by Henry III. of Inspeximus of the Charter whereby Henry II. 
 confirmed the Charter granted to the burgesses of Coventre by Ranuif 
 Earl of Chester ; With Inspeximus of a previous Charter by the 
 present King Edward III., granting to the Merchants of Coventre, and 
 to their heirs and successors being merchants of the same town, that 
 they should be exempt for ever from toll, pannage, pontage, murage &c, 
 in respect to their goods and merchandize throughout the said King's 
 realm and dominion ; "With further concession to the burgesses and 
 honest men of Coventre, that all Inquisitions made in the said town, 
 before the King, his heirs, justices or ministers, or the justices or 
 ministers of his heirs, respecting contracts, agreements, or trespasses made 
 or to be made in the said town, or respecting lands and tenements 
 within the same town, should and ought to be made by burgesses and 
 men of the said town, and not by foreigners, so long as the matters to 
 be enquired into touch neither the King nor the community of the said 
 town. 
 
 Another Confirmation of the Earl of Chester's Charter. 
 
 15 Edward III., May 10th [1341]. — The Inspeximus contained in 
 the preceding charter, by itself, without the additional grant of privileges 
 from Edvv. III. 
 
 Foundation of the Guild of St. JonN the Baptist in the 
 Churches of the H. Trinity and St. Michael. 
 
 16 Edward III., October 6th [1342]. — Letters Patent of Licence to 
 John Holand chaplain, John Lemman and four other persons to found 
 and establish a fraternity and Guild in honour of St. John the Baptist 
 in Coventre, and to hold lands tenements and rents, the Statute of 
 Mortmain notwithstanding, for creating and maintaining chantries of 
 six chaplains, to celebrate daily in the parish churches of the Holy 
 Trinity and St. Michael divine rites and services for the souls of the 
 said King's ancestors, and for the health of the said King, his mother 
 Queen Isabella, his consort Queen Philippa and his children, and 
 Walter de Chesthunt and William de Belgrave whilst they shall be 
 living, and for their souls when they shall be taken from this life, and 
 for the welfare of the brethren and benefactors of the said Guild whilst 
 they shall be living, and for their souls when they shall have died, and 
 for the soul of the King's brother John de Eltham late Earl of 
 Cornewall, and for the souls of all who have died in the Faith. 
 
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 Foundation of St. Kathekine's Guild. 
 
 17 Edward III., November 12th [1343]. — Letters Patent of Licence 
 to Thomas de Ichynton, Nicholas Pake, William de Tuttebury, William 
 de Overton clerk, Peter Percy, Richard le Darkere, Simon Wareyn, 
 John Vincent and John de Pakynton, to found a fraternity and Guild 
 of themselves and others, brethren and sisters, in honour of St. Katherine 
 at Coventre, and to iind three chaplains who shall daily celebrate divine 
 rites for the souls of the said King's progenitors, and for the welfare of 
 the same King, his mother Queen Isabella, and his consort Queen 
 Philippa and the children of the same King and Queen Consort, and of 
 Robert de Sadyngton, Master John de Thoresby, John de St. Paul, 
 William de Thorp, Richard de Smetheton and William de Burgh during 
 their lives, and for the souls of the same when they shall have died, 
 and for the aforesaid grantees and the brethren and sisters of the said 
 Guild and their benefactors during their lives, and for their souls when 
 they shall have died, and for the souls of all who have died in the Faith, 
 in the chapel of St. Katherine in the church of the hospital of St. John 
 the Baptist in Coventre ; with licence to the brethren and sisters of 
 the Guild to assemble yearly, to elect a Master or Keeper of the same 
 Guild and the aforesaid chaplains. 
 
 Grant to the Guild of St. John the Baptist of Land 
 for a Chapel. 
 
 18 Edward 1IL, May 7th (1344).— Letters Patent (in French) dated 
 by the Queen Mother Isabella at Risyngs, granting to the good people 
 of the Guild of St. John the Baptist in the town of Coventre a piece of 
 land called Babbelak in the said town, in order that they may there 
 build a chapel in honour of God and St. John the Baptist, and have 
 there two chaplains daily chanting masses and other divine services for 
 the good estate of the said Queen's dear son the King, and of the said 
 Queen Isabella, and of her dear daughter the Queen Philippa and of the 
 Prince of Wales during their lives, and for their souls when they shall 
 have died, and for the soul of the said Queen Isabella's dear Lord the 
 late King of England, and for the soul of her dear son John the late 
 Earl of Cornewaille, and for the lives and souls of the brethren of the 
 same Guild. 
 
 Queen Isabella and the Manor of Cheylesmore. 
 
 18 Edward III., August 23rd (1344).— Letters Patent of Precept to 
 archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, sheriffs, and others: declaring the 
 said King's will that his mother the Queen Isabella may have and enjoy 
 for the whole of her life all the liberties and privileges in the Manor of 
 Cheylesmore heretofore granted to the said Queen for life, and set forth 
 in these Letters Patent. 
 
 Privilege of Electing a Bailiff, granted by Queen 
 Isabella to her People of Coventre. 
 
 18 Edward III., October 18th (1344).— Letters Patent dated at 
 Kenynghale by the Queen Mother Isabella, Queen of England, &c. ; 
 granting to her good people of the town of Coventre, during her 
 
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 pleasure and their good conduct, that they may elect from amongst 
 themselves a Bailiff, who may yearly render loyal account of the issues 
 and profits arising to her from the same town. 
 
 Charter of Privileges. 
 
 18 Edward III., January 20th (1345).— Charter of King Edward at 
 the instance of his mother Isabella, to whom the Manor of Cheylesmore 
 had been granted for life, and also in consideration of the King's first- 
 born son the Prince of Wales, to whose hands the said manor would 
 pass after the said Queen's death, granting that the men of Coventre, 
 tenants of the said manor, may elect annually from amongst themselves 
 a Mayor and fit Bailiffs, and have cognizance of all pleas as well of 
 trespasses, contracts and agreements as of other things arising within 
 the town, and may have a seal for taking reeognizance of debts, according 
 to the form of the Statute for Merchants ; and also that the said town 
 may have a prison for the correction of malefactors, and that the Mayor 
 and Bailiffs for the time being shall have the custody of the same prison 
 and of the prisoners committed to it. 
 
 Confirmation to Queen Isabella and the Prince of Wales of 
 Liberties and Privileges, &c. in the Manor of Cheilesmore. 
 
 19 Edward III., June loth (1315).— Charter of Edw. III. dated at 
 the Tower of London ; confirming to his mother the Queen Isabella and 
 to the King's first-born son the Prince of Wales the King's previous 
 concessions touching the Manor of Cheilesmore, to wit, that she during 
 her life and the Prince of Wales after her death may, either by their 
 own stewards or by the Mayor and bailiffs for the time being of 
 Coventre, have cognizance of all pleas arising within the liberty of the 
 said town, as well as those respecting lands, tenements, and rents as 
 those respecting trespasses, agreements, contracts, &c, together with all 
 other privileges and powers heretofore granted to the same Queen and 
 Prince within the liberty of the said manor, in which Coventre is 
 situated. 
 
 Confirmation of Privileges. 
 
 19 Edward III., December 3rd (1345). — Letters Patent in confirma- 
 tion of the grant heretofore made by the King, at the instance and 
 request of the Queen Mother Isabella, granting to the men of Coventre, 
 being tenants of the Manor of Cheillesmore, that they may have and 
 yearly elect from amongst themselves a fit Mayor and bailiffs for the said 
 town, and in confirmation of divers other powers and privileges 
 heretofore granted by the same King to the men of Coventre and their 
 successors. 
 
 Confirmation of three Charters of Edward the Third. 
 
 19 Edward III., December 3rd (1345).— Letters Patent issued by 
 the King, at the instance of the Queen Mother Isabella, to whom 
 the Manor of Cheillesmore pertains for her life, in confirmation of 
 previous charters granted by him to the said Queen and the men of 
 Coventre, tenants of the said Manor, to wit, (1) a charter granting, with 
 other things, that the men of Coventre may have a Mayor and bailiffs 
 
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 (as under date of 20 Jan. 1345, supra), (2) a charter granting to the 
 said Queen View of Frankpledge of the said Manor and town, with 
 forfeitures of felons and fugitives withiu the said Manor, &c., and (3) 
 a charter granting to the said Queen and all the men of her said Manor 
 freedom from pannage, passage, stallage, tollage, <fcc, throughout the said 
 King's whole realm, together with other concessions to the same Queen 
 and the men of her said manor of Cheillesmore. 
 
 Acquittance of Coventre in respect to the Charges 
 of Fifteen Armed Men. 
 
 20 Edward III., August 16th (1346). — Letters Patent of Acquittance 
 in consideration of a sum of £5 paid by the town of Coventre into the 
 Exchequer, for the charges of fifteen armed men about to cross to parts 
 beyond sea in the King's service. 
 
 Grant by Queen Isabella of Land in Her Park 
 of Cheylesmore, 
 
 21 Edward III., June 14th (1347).— Grant by the Queen Isabella, 
 dated at Risyngs Castle, for the term of her life, of a rood of land with 
 appurtenances in Coventre in her park of Cheylesmore, to Peter de 
 Stoke, merchant of Coventre, at a yearly rent of five silver pence. 
 
 Foundation of the Corpus Christi Guild. 
 
 22 Edward III., May 26th (1348).— Letters Patent of the King 
 granting licence to Robert Chandos, John de Wynwyck, clerk, and 
 seventeen other grantees, to found a guild to the honour of the precious 
 Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, with a chaplain to celebrate 
 daily divine rites and services for the good estate of the said King and 
 of the grantees, and of the brethren and sisters of the same Guild, 
 during their lives, and for their souls when they shall have died. With 
 License to the brethren and sisters to assemble yearly, in order to elect 
 a Master and Chaplain for their said Guild. 
 
 Confirmation of Privileges granted by the Queen-Mother, 
 
 22 Edward III., July 17th (1348).— Inspeximus by the King, 
 confirming the Letters Patent dated by the Prince of Wales on 
 12th March in the said year, of Inspeximus and Confirmation of the 
 Letters Patent dated by the Queen Mother Isabella at the Castle of 
 Rysyng on 12th February in the same year, whereby the said Queen 
 approved the Charter of liberties and privileges, by which her son 
 Edward III. granted at her instance, to the men of Coventre, being 
 tenants of the Manor of Cheilesmore, together, with other powers, that 
 they might elect yearly a Mayor and bailiffs from amongst themselves 
 and whereby the said Queen granted for her life to the same men all 
 the liberties, &c, which the same King conceded they should enjoy 
 after her death ; and also whereby the same Queen granted to the 
 same that they might have during her life a market, a fair, and view 
 of frankpledge in the said town : it being stipulated in the last-men- 
 tioned Letters Patent that, in consideration of the concessions made to 
 them in the same Letters by the said Queen, the men of Coventre should 
 pay to her yearly during her life, the sum of £50, in two equal portions 
 at the feasts of Easter and St. Michael in each year. 
 
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 Precept Touching the King's Pardon of Coventre. 
 
 86 Edward III., October 18th (1362).— Letters Patent (in French) of 
 Precept addressed to all justices, sheriffs, bailiffs, &c, enjoining that 
 the commons of the town of Coventre be in no way molested contrary 
 to the Pardon granted to them by the King. 
 
 Foundation of the Guild of the Holy Trinity. 
 
 38 Edward III., March 23rd (1361). — Letters Patent of Licence 
 to Henry Kele and Thomas Orme, to found a fraternity and Guild to 
 the honour of the Holy Trinity, and to acquire and hold lands, tene- 
 ments, and rents to the yearly value of ten marks within the liberty 
 and lordship of Coventre, and to hold the same to themselves and the 
 brethren and sisters of the said fraternity and Guild and their suc- 
 cessors for ever, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding, for the 
 maintenance of two chaplains to celebrate divine rites daily in the 
 church of the Holy Trinity of Coventre, for the good estate of the said 
 King and his consort Philippa Queen of England and their children 
 so long as they shall live, and for their souls when they shall have 
 died, and for the souls of all the brethren and sisters of the said Guild 
 and their benefactors and of all who have died in the Faith. 
 
 Confirmation by Richard II. of divers Charters. 
 
 1 Richard II., March 4 (1378). — Charter of Inspeximus and Con- 
 firmation of the Charter whereby Edward III. granted to the 
 Merchants of Coventre and their successors to be free of toll, pannage, 
 pontage, and murage, &c. With Inspeximus and Confirmation of the 
 Charter granted by Edward III. (10 May 1341, supra) in confirmation 
 of the Charter of Edward II., in confirmation of the Charter whereby 
 Henry III. confirmed the Charter granted by Henry II., confirming 
 the Charter given by Ranulph Earl of Chester to his burgesses of 
 Coventre : With Inspeximus and Confirmation of other Charters of 
 Edward III., conceding liberties, privileges, and powers to the burgesses 
 of Coventre. 
 
 Confirmation of the Licence to Found the Guild of 
 Corpus Christi. 
 
 4 Richard II., April 4th (1381). — Letters Patent of Inspeximus and 
 Confirmation of the Letters Patent whereby Edward III., 26 May an. 
 22, granted Licence to Robert Chaundos, John de Wyuwyk, clerk, 
 and seventeen other persons to found a fraternity and Guild of them- 
 selves and other brethren and sisters, in honour of the precious Body 
 and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ at Coventre, &c. (nt supra). 
 
 Ratification of a Grant of Land in Coventry. 
 
 8 Richard II., October 20th (1384).— Letters Patent in ratification 
 of an indenture, whereby the Mayor, bailiffs, and chamberlains of 
 Coventre on 26th December, 2 Rich. II. (1378) granted in fee-farm 
 a piece of land in Coventre to Geoffrey Skartheburgh {sic) of Coventry 
 and his wife Agnes, at a yearly rent of ( — ) shillirgs. 
 
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 Licence to (STvr Messuages, Land, and Rents to the 
 Corpus Chpjsti Guild. 
 
 16 Richard II., June 28th (1392) .—Letters Patent, giving licence, 
 in consideration of £50 paid to the King by the Guild of the precious 
 Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ in Coventre, to John Scarde- 
 burgh (sic), John de Wedon, Richard Marshall, Adam Deyster, and 
 Nicholas Dudley, of Coventre, to give to the Master, brethren, and 
 sisters of the aforesaid Guild twenty-nine messuages, eight acres of 
 land, eighteen denariates of rent and one half of a messuage in 
 Coventre, to hold to the said Master brethren and sisters of the said 
 Guild, and to their successors for ever, the Statute of Mortmain not- 
 withstanding, in order to find a chaplain to celebrate divine rites daily, 
 and for doing certain other works of piety, at the ordinance of the said 
 Master brethren and sisters. 
 
 Incorporation of Two Several Guilds into One Guild. 
 
 16 Richard II., June 30lh (1392).— Letters Patent reciting the 
 particulars of the foundation, &c. of the Guild of St. John the Baptist 
 founded temp. Edward III., and of the Guild of the Holy Trinity 
 founded in the same reign, and granting that the said two Guilds may 
 be united in one Guild, under the name of " The Fraternity and Guild 
 of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. John the 
 Baptist of Coventre," and further granting that the same Guild may 
 have power to hold within Coventre and elsewhere lands, tenements, 
 and rents, &c. to the yearly value of £86 13*. Ad., the Statute of 
 Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 Licence to give Six Messuages to the Mayor, Bailiffs, 
 and Community. 
 
 16 Richard II., August 4th (1392). — Letters Patent granting, in 
 consideration of £20 paid to the King by the Mayor bailiffs and com- 
 munity of Coventre, licence to William de Okham, John de Marton- 
 deyster, William Palmer and Thomas de Sutton, to give, the Statute of 
 Mortmain notwithstanding, six messuages with their appurtenances in 
 Coventre to the aforesaid Mayor bailiffs and community for ever, and 
 licence to the Mayor, bailiffs and community to hold the same for 
 ever, in order to do and support certain works of piety at the ordinance 
 of the said grantors. 
 
 Licence in Mortmain to the United Guilds. 
 
 16 Richard II , August 5th (1392).— Letters Patent of licence to 
 Peter Percy, William Wolfe, Rolland Damet, Richard Verdon, Henry 
 Kele, Adam Keresley, John Wedon and others and their heirs, or the 
 Master brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary 
 the Virgin and St. John the Baptist and their successors, to hold 
 certain lands, tenements and rents, &c. for ever, the Statute of Mort- 
 main notwithstanding; the said licence being granted to give effect 
 to the King's previous licence to the Guild to acquire and hold lands 
 and tenements &c, to the yearly value of £86 13s. Ad. 
 
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 Commission for an Inquisition touching certain Gates, 
 Bridges, and Profits. 
 
 22 Richard II., November 13th (1398).— Commission ''ad quod 
 damnum " to William Bage, steward of the King's manor of Cheyles- 
 more, and to Guy Spyne the escheator of Warwick, to enquire whether 
 it would be prejudicial to the King's interest or the interests of other 
 persons, should he grant to the Mayor bailiffs and community of the 
 town of Coventre and their successors all gates, bridges, and profits 
 thereof, within the following bounds ; to wit, from Jabotsasshe to the 
 mill called Nassyngton Mill to the corner of the stone wall of the park 
 of Cheilesmore, and thence by the same wall and the palings of the 
 same park to Baronneswell, and thence to the house of John Yats of 
 Dudemanneswell, and thence to the church and cemetery of St. Nicholas 
 of Coventre, and thence to Bottecrosse, and thence to Harnehale 
 Qwarele, and thence to Gosford Green. 
 
 Licence in Mortmain to the Guild of the Holy Trinity, &c, 
 
 6 Henry IV., November 12th (1404) — Letters Patent granted by 
 Henry Prince of Wales in consideration of £10 paid to him by the 
 Master brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist in Coventre, of licence 
 to John Preston and William Whitchurch, both of Coventre, merchants, 
 to grant four messuages, one toft, one garden and eleven acres of land 
 in Coventre, and also the remainder of a messuage in Coventre which 
 Agnes, formerly the w T ife of Thomas Brone late of Coventre, holds 
 for the term of her life, to the Master brethren and sisters of the 
 aforesaid Guild, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding, in aid of 
 their livelihood and for the performance of certain works of piety 
 according to the ordinance of the aforesaid John and William ; with 
 licence to the Guild to hold the aforesaid messuages. 
 
 Petition touching the Underground Aqueduct of the Prior 
 and Convent of Coventre. 
 
 G Henry IV., November 24th (1404). — Inspeximus and Exempli- 
 fication of a Petition (in French), exhibited to the King in his parliament 
 held at Coventre by the Prior and Convent of the Cathedral Church of 
 Coventre, setting forth the pains and charges with which the petitioners 
 and their predecessors have brought water by an underground aqueduct 
 to their priory, complaining of injuries done to their said aqueduct by 
 malicious persons, who also hinder the petitioners when they would 
 survey and repair the same conduit, and corrupt the water of the Shir- 
 burn that runs to the petitioners' mills ; and praying that henceforth no 
 one shall be suffered to injure the said conduit, or to hinder the peti- 
 tioners from surveying and repairing it, or to corrupt the water of the 
 Shirburn by throwing entrails of beasts, garbage or other filth into it, 
 under a penalty of £10 to the King and treble damages for injury done 
 in those respects to the petitioners. 
 
 No more Guilds to be created in Coventre. 
 
 8 Henry IV., November 18th (1406). — Letters Patent of the King 
 to the mayor bailiffs and community of Coventre, granting that no 
 more or other Guilds than those at present existing in Coventre shall 
 ever exist within the said city. 
 
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 Licence in Mortmain to the Guild of the Holy Trinity. 
 
 10 Henry IV., February 16th (1409). — Letters Patent, in considera- 
 tion of lifty shillings paid to the King by the Guild of the Holy Trinity 
 the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist in Coventre, of 
 licence to William Broke parson of the church of Ladbroke and his 
 brother John Broke, and John Barbour of Bishopychynton, to give a 
 messuage with appurtenances in Coventre to the Master brethren and 
 sisters of the said Guild ; with licence to the same Master, &c, to hold 
 the said messuage, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 Grant to Thomas Porter, Valet of the Prince of Wales's 
 Bedchamber. 
 
 13 Henry IV., December 1st (1111).— Letters Patent (in French) by 
 Henry Prince of Wales, granting for life to Thomas Porter, valet of the 
 said Prince's bedchamber, in consideration of his good service, a messu- 
 age of a hundred acres of arable land, twenty acres of meadow and an 
 ;acre of wood, with the appurtenances, in Wodende called Ernesplace, 
 which are held of the Prince, and have been seized into his hands 
 because the Prior of Coventre purchased them and appropriated them 
 without the said Prince's licence. 
 
 Confirmation of the Inhibition of more Guilds. 
 
 1 Henry V., March 8th (1411). — Inspeximus and confirmation of the 
 Letters Patent whereby Henry IV. in his 8th year ordained that hence- 
 forth there should be no more or other Guilds within Coventre than those 
 already existing. 
 
 Licence in Mortmain for the Mayor and Community of 
 
 Coventre. 
 
 6 Henry V., June 10th (1418). — Letters Patent (in consideration of 
 40/. paid to the King by the Mayor and community of Coventre) of 
 licence to John Leder, John Esterton, John Preston, Ricrard Southam, 
 Lawrence Cook and VVilliam Dilcok, to give and grant for ever divers 
 lands, tenements, and rents to the said mayor and community, the Statute 
 of Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 Order for suppressing the unlicensed Guild of St. Anne. 
 
 8 Henry V. (?), November 22nd (1420).— Mandate addressed to the 
 Mayor and bailiffs of Coventre, upon information that a number of 
 young men, being " journemen " servants of divers tailors and other 
 artificers of the said city, have assembled and held and continue to 
 assemble and hold meetings within the Priory of the said citv and the 
 houses of the brothers there under the name of St. Anne, which action 
 on their part may work to injury of the Fraternities of the Holv 
 Trinity and Corpus Christi within the same city ; Kequiring the said 
 Mayor and bailiffs to make proclamations against the aforesaid unlawful 
 assemblies, and to arrest all persons who shall disregard such procla- 
 mations, and to hold the same offenders in safe custody, until the King 
 
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 shall make further orders in the matter, and to make return of the 
 principal persons who have brought about the said unlawful assemblies. 
 
 N.B.— It deserves attention that the " Guild of the Holy Trinity, 
 the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John Baptist " is spoken of in this 
 writ as simply the " fraternity of the Holy Trinity," the shortened form 
 of description beginning now to come into general use. 
 
 Further Mandate touching the same Unlicensed Guild. 
 
 1 Henry VI. (?), March 8th (1423).— Mandate, addressed to the 
 Mayor and bailiffs of Coventre, upon information that a number of young 
 men, being journeymen tailors and other artificers of the said city have 
 held and continue to hold assemblies within the Priory of Coventre, and 
 in the houses of the brothers there, in order to maintain a guild under 
 the name of St. Anne, to the prejudice of the Fraternities of the Holy 
 Trinity and Corpus Christi, and to the injury of the whole community : 
 Requiring thereupon the aforesaid Mayor and Bailiffs to make proclama- 
 tions prohibiting the said unlawful assemblies, and to arrest all persons 
 disregarding the same, and to hold them in custody till the King shall 
 have ordered their enlargement. 
 
 Licence in Mortmain for the Mayor and Community in Relief 
 
 of Taxes. 
 
 2 Henry VI. November 16th (1423).— Letters Patent of licence to 
 William Babyngton and William Botener to give and assign for ever, 
 the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanting, to the Mayor and community 
 of Coventre a messuage with appurtenances in Coventre, yielding 
 thirteen shillings and four pence, to be held by the said Mayor and 
 community in part satisfaction of a grant, made by the present King's 
 father to the same Mayor and community, of licence to acquire lands 
 and tenements, &c. to the yearly value of 40/., within the said city and 
 the precinct thereof, towards the support of the burdens of the same 
 city : The aforementioned grant by Henry V. having been made in 
 consideration of the heavy burdens sustained by the Mayor and com- 
 munity in respect to the murage of their city, and of the fact that they 
 neither possess nor ever have possessed any means for sustaining the 
 murage and other burdens, apart from collections imposed upon the poor 
 folk of the same city to their manifest injury. 
 
 Order for suppressing the Unlicensed Guild of St. George of 
 
 Coventre. 
 
 3 Henry VI., February 14th (1425\ — Mandate, addressed to the 
 Mayor, Keepers of the Peace and bailiffs of the city of Coventre, upon 
 information that a number of youths and men, being servants of divers 
 tailors and other artificers, working by the day and called " journeymen," 
 of the said city, have combined and held meetings in the Chapel of St. 
 George and elsewhere within the said city, and have presumed without 
 the King's licence to make themselves into a Guild or fraternity named 
 the Fraternity of St. George of Coventre, and intend to maintain the 
 same fraternity with collections amongst themselves, and have elected 
 and do maintain Masters, clerks and other officers, to the injury of the 
 Guilds of the Holy Trinity and Corpus Christi, and of the whole 
 community of the same city: Requiring thereupon the aforesaid 
 
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 Mayor, Keepers of the Peace, and bailiffs to make proclamations 
 ordering the offenders to desist from holding such meetings, and from 
 maintaining the same unauthorized Guild of St. George or any like 
 fraternities, and to arrest all persons who disregard the said proclama- 
 tions, and to return the names of the principal offenders into the King's 
 Chancery, in order that they may be punished according to their 
 demerits. 
 
 Pardon to the Guild of the Holy Trinity, &c. 
 
 3 Henry VI., September 12th (1424).— Pardon to William Dilcok 
 the Master and the brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy 
 Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist of Coventre, 
 of all offences committed by them before the 8th day of December last 
 past. 
 
 Further Licence in Mortmain for the Mayor and 
 Community. 
 
 5 Henry VI., May 11th (142?).— Licence to the Mayor and Com- 
 munity of Coventry in consideration of the heavy burdens sustained 
 by them in maintaining of the murage of their city, to hold lands, 
 tenements and rents &c. to the yearly value of £40, in aid of the 
 support of the said city, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 Licence in Mortmain for the Guild of Corpus Christi. 
 
 18 Henry VI. (1439-40). — Licence to William Donyngton, John 
 Michell and John Whiting chaplain, to grant to the Master and 
 brethren of the Guild of our Lord Jesus Christ the reversion of four 
 messuages, a mill and a piece of land whereon stands a chapel built in 
 honour of St. George, of the yearly value of forty shillings, which 
 Lawrence Cook and his Avife Alice hold for their lives in survivor- 
 ship ; with licence to the Master and brethren of the said Guild to 
 enter upon and hold the said messuages to themselves and their suc- 
 cessors, on the death of the aforesaid Lawrence and Alice, the Statute 
 of Mortmain notwithstanding ; the said licence being granted to the 
 said Guild in part satisfaction of the grant, whereby K. Richard II. 
 gave licence to the Master and brethren of the Guild to acquire lands 
 to the yearly value of eight marks, for finding a chaplain to celebrate 
 divine rites daily. 
 
 Confirmation of Letters Patent forbidding the Creation 
 of more Guilds. 
 
 19 Henry VI., January 25th (1441), — Inspexiinus and Confirmation 
 of the Letters Patent, dated by Henry V. in the first year of his reign, 
 in confirmation of the Letters Patent, whereby Henry IV. in his 8th 
 year granted to the Mayor, bailiffs and community of Coventre and 
 their successors for ever, that no more or other Guilds than those at 
 present existing in Coventre should ever be established or ordained 
 within the said city. 
 
 Grant of an Eight Days' Market to Coventre. 
 
 20 Henry VI., July 7th (1442). — Inspexiinus and Confirmation of 
 Henry the Second's charter to the Burgesses of Coventre : with further 
 
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 grant by Henry VI. to the Mayor bailiffs aud community of licence to 
 hold yearly a fair for eight days, beginning on the Friday next fol- 
 lowing the Feast of Corpus Christi, as freely as they have hitherto from 
 ancient time held a yearly fair for one day, on the morrow of the Feast 
 of Corpus Christi. 
 
 Pardon to the Guild of the Holy Trinity. 
 
 25 Henry VI., October 21st (1446).— General Pardon to the Master 
 brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed 
 Virgin Mary and St. Katherine the Virgin of Coventre, of all offences 
 committed by them before the 9th day of April last past. 
 
 Pardon to the Mayor and Community of Coventre. 
 
 12 Edward IV., June 20th (1472).— Pardon to the Mayor, bailiffs 
 and community of the City of Coventre of all offences committed by 
 them before the last day of September last past. 
 
 Injunction forbidding Citizens to be retained by any Man 
 unless in Necessary Service. 
 
 1 Henry VII., January 31st (I486).— Privy Seal Letters to the 
 Mayor and Justices of the Peace of Coventre enjoining them to 
 permit no citizen nor inhabitant of their city to be retained by any man 
 except as " dwellyng servant or [in] his necessary office accordyng to 
 our lawes and statutes therfore made and ordered." 
 
 Licence for Endowment of a Hospital in Bablake. 
 
 23 Henry VII., March 3rd [1508].— Letter Patent of licence to the 
 Master brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist and St. Katherine the Virgin 
 of Coventre, to acquire and hold lands, tenements and rents, &c. in 
 mortmain to the yearly value of £50, for the support of a chaplain to 
 perform sacred services and obsequies, and the maintenance of twelve 
 poor men and one woman, to offer prayers for the King's health while 
 living, and for his soul when he shall have died, and for the good estate 
 of the brethren and sisters of the aforesaid Guild while living and for 
 their souls when they shall have died, and especially for the soul of 
 Thomas Bonde, late of the city of Coventry, and for the souls of all w r ho 
 have died in the Faith, in a certain chapel and house in a place called 
 Bablake in the aforesaid city, now newly built to the honour of the 
 Holy Trinity. 
 
 Groats and Double Placks. 
 
 23 Henry VIL, May 27th [1508].— Letters Patent addressed to 
 the Sheriffs of the City of Coventre, embodying a Proclamation to be 
 published at divers places of the said city and county thereof, to inform 
 the people of the differences between English 44 grotes and double 
 plackes" which are so dipt, worn, and diminished as not to be rated as 
 good coin, and those " grotes and double plackes " which, although they 
 be in some degree worn, defaced and diminished, are to be rated and 
 accepted by the King's subjects as good and lawful English money. 
 
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 Pardon to the Mayor and Community. 
 
 1 Henry VIII. [1509]. — Letter Patent of a General Pardon granted 
 to the Mayor, bailiffs and community of the city of Co ventre, of all 
 offences committed by them before the 23rd day of April last past. 
 
 Pardon to the Guild of the Holy Trinity, &c. 
 
 1 Henry VIII., May 21st [1509].— Similar Pardon to the Master 
 brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed 
 Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist and St. Katherine the Virgin of 
 Coven tre, of all offences committed before the 23rd of April last 
 past. 
 
 Grant to Ralph Swillyngton, Esquire. 
 
 14 Henry VIII., July 11th [1522].— Letters Patent of a grant 
 for life to the King's well-beloved and faithful Ralph Swillyngton, 
 Esquire, of the office of Steward of the King's lordship and manor of 
 Cheilesmore in the county of the city of Coventre, and of all the 
 King's manors, lands and tenements, &c, within the same county of 
 the same city, and also of the office or offices of Master of the King's 
 Park of Cheilesmore and of the venery of the same park, and Keeper 
 of the King's woods within the same lordships, &c. 
 
 Promise of Repayment of Loans for the King's Wars 
 against France and Scotland. 
 
 14 Henry VIII. October 3rd [1522].— Letters under the Privy 
 Seal in which the King promises to repay to the lenders all the sums of 
 money advanced by way of loan, for the maintenance of his wars against 
 France and Scotland, by persons of the city of Coventre whose names 
 are set forth in an indented schedule, and whose contributions of money 
 amount in the whole to u oone thousand and nyne poundes thrytten 
 shillinges four penys." 
 
 Another Promise to Repay Loans. 
 
 14 Henry VIII., November 17th (1522).— Privy Seal Letters pro- 
 mising to repay divers sums, amounting in the whole to £36 6s. Sd. y 
 advanced by divers persons of Coventre (whose names are recorded in 
 an annexed schedule) for the maintenance of the same wars. 
 
 A Third u Privy Seal" to the same Effect. 
 
 15 Henry VIII., May 19th (1523).— Privy Seal letters promising 
 to repay numerous sums amounting in all to £150 lis. Od. advanced 
 by 194 persons of the city of Coventre and its precincts, to wit, 
 persons " haveyng landes and tenementes from the value of xx/. 
 to the yearly value of xx*., and also that have moveable goodes frome 
 the value of xx/. to the value of fyve poundes," whose names and sums 
 are set forth in an annexed schedule. 
 
 This writ indicates that the poorer folk of Coventre were pressed for 
 loans at this crisis towards the relief of the Kiug's necessities. 
 
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 Letters under the Great Seal to Levy Money. 
 
 16 Henry VIIL, April 25th (1524).— Blank Letters of Commission 
 under the Great Seal, appointing some person or persons to levy and 
 gather the moneys granted by the King's loving subjects in Coventre 
 " towards the recovery of" the King's " crown and realme of Fraunce 
 and dyvers other domynyons and possessions .... rygtefully 
 apperteigning within the same " to the said King. 
 
 For Punishment of Riotous Persons and Prevention 
 of Riotous Assemblies. 
 
 17 Henry VIIL, November 6th (1525). — Letters Patent of mandate 
 addressed to the Mayor and Sheriffs and all right-minded persons of 
 every degree and condition in Coventre, to take measures for arresting 
 and bringing to punishment perverse and ill-disposed persons, who 
 are set on renewing the riotous assemblies and disorderly routs in 
 Coventre against the Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the said city, 
 that were recently suppressed by the punishment of divers persons, 
 guilty of taking part in the disturbances. 
 
 Licence to the Guild of the Nativity of Jesus Christ to 
 hold Land in Mortmain. 
 
 28 Henry VIIL, May 10th (1536). — Inspeximus and confirmation of 
 a Charter [stated in the present Letters Patent to have been dated by 
 Henry V. in his seventeenth regnal year, by a curious mistake for 
 Hen. VL], granting licence to the Cutters and Fullers of the Guild 
 founded to the honour of the Nativity of Jesus Christ in Coventre, to 
 acquire lands, tenements and rents to the yearly value of ten marks, 
 to find a chaplain to celebrate divine rites daily for the souls of the 
 founders of the said Guild and for the souls of all who have died in the 
 Faith ; it being stated in the said Charter that the King Henry, who 
 granted the Letters of licence, did so on the understanding that his 
 progenitor Richard II. had in his time granted licence to the same Guild, 
 to acquire and hold lands, &c. to the yearly value of eight marks. 
 
 N.B. — The curious error as to the date of the original Grant of 
 Licence reappears in the Inspeximus of June 1st, 8 Elizabeth (as 
 noticed in a later page of this catalogue) and seems also from that 
 Inspeximus to have been found in Letters Patent of Edward VI. 
 confirming the faulty charter. 
 
 Grant of the Reversion of certain Offices to John Hygford, 
 
 Dapifer. 
 
 29 Henry VIIL, March 1 1th [1538]. — Letters Patent granting to 
 John Hygford, one of the dapifers of the King's chamber, the office 
 of Bailiff of the manor of Chellysmore in the county of the city of 
 Coventre, and the Keepership of the same manor, and the place of 
 Keeper of the park of Chellysmore, for the term of his life, from the 
 time when the same offices shall become vacant by the death, retirement, 
 or forfeiture of John Dyngley, one of the dapifers of the aforesaid 
 chamber, to whom the same offices were granted for life by Letters 
 Patent, dated 6th of February in the loth year of the King's reign. 
 
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 Lease of Orchards and Pools, late belonging to the Priory 
 or Cathedral Church of Coventre. 
 
 3 J. Henry VIII., February 20th [1540]. — Lease of twenty-one years 
 at a yearly rent of £4 14s. 4d., granted by the King to Henry Over, of 
 an orchard called " le greate Orchard " containing eight acres, lying 
 without the precinct of the late Priory or Cathedral Church in 
 Coventre recently dissolved, and of another orchard called "la lytle 
 orchard " containing two acres and a rood, late in the hands of the same 
 Priory or Cathedral Church, and a piece of standing water called " the 
 Swannss poole," containing an acre, and another piece of still water 
 called " Newe Poole " containing an acre, which orchards and pools 
 formerly belonged to the said late Priory or Cathedral Church. 
 
 Lease of Tenements and Lands to Hugh Wyatt of London, 
 " Mynsterell." 
 
 33 Henry VIII., June 26th [1541]. — Lease for twenty-one years, 
 at a yearly rent of forty-one shillings and eight pence, granted by the 
 King to Hugh Wyatt of London " mynsterell/' of two tenements, two 
 gardens, two orchards, two crofts of arable land and six acres of pasture 
 in Stone, Wyken and Biggen in the county of the city of Coventre, 
 called Biggencroft, &c. late belonging to the now dissolved Priory or 
 Cathedral Church of Coventre. 
 
 Order for Payment of a Crown Eent. 
 
 34 Henry VIII., August 20th [1542].— Privy Seal, addressed to the 
 " Chamberers " (i.e., the Chamberlains) of the City of Coventre : com- 
 manding them in peremptory terms to pay forthwith to the Receiver 
 of the " Revenues of thaugmentacions of our Crowne in our Countie of 
 Warwick" under a penalty of £100 in case of further remissness, the 
 sum of twelve shillings of arrears of the rent issuing from a tenement 
 in Wellestret in Coventre. 
 
 Pardon to the City. 
 
 36 Henry VIII., February 12th [1545].— General Pardon to the 
 Mayor, sheriffs, bailiffs and community of the City of Coventre. 
 
 Contribution in Aid of the King. 
 
 38 Henry VI1L, May 16th [1546].— Letters Patent of Commission 
 to John Hertford mayor of the City of Coventre, Sir George Throg- 
 marton (sic) knt., and Sir Fulke .... knt. ; appointing them to be 
 commissioners to take steps for raising in the city of Coventre a 
 contribution towards the aid of the King, in his need to resist his 
 enemy, the King of the French. 
 
 Requisition for Payment of the Fee-Farm of Coventry and 
 for Arrears of the same. 
 
 — Henry VIII.— Privy Seal letters to the Sheriffs of the City of 
 Coventre : Requiring them, under a penalty of £500 in case of remiss- 
 ness on their part, to appear forthwith personally before Sir Robert 
 Southwell, knt., and Bartholomew Westby, one of the Barons of the 
 Exchequer to pay £200, due to the King for the fee-farm of the town 
 of Coventre, and also to account-for arrears. 
 
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 Complaint by William Coke against Kichard Marlowe. 
 
 — Henry VIII., July 9th. — Blank letters under the Privy Seal : 
 Requiring certain persons (whose names are not filled in) to make 
 enquiry touching the justice of the complaint of William Coke against 
 one Richard Marlowe, set forth in accompanying Bill and Answer, and 
 to certify the King and his Council of the truth of the matter. 
 
 Lease of the Little Park of Cheilsmore. 
 
 1 Edward VI., May 8th [1547]. — Lease for twenty-one years, at a 
 yearly rental of forty-four shillings, granted by the King to William 
 Wightman, gentleman, of ' totum illud clausum terre nostrum vocatum 
 the little Park . . . parcellam manerii de Chelismore .... 
 quod quidem manerium est parcella terrarum et possessionum ducatus 
 nostri Cornubie." 
 
 Grant of Bablacke Church to the Mayor and Community 
 of Coventry. 
 
 2 Edward VI., December 13th (1548). — Letters Patent of the Grant 
 made to the Mayor, bailiffs, and community of the City of Coventre, of 
 the church of Bablacke in the said city, and of the campanile and ceme- 
 tery of the said church, to have and to hold the same of the said King 
 his heirs and successors for ever, by the service of one penny yearly, in 
 free burgage : With further grant to the same of the issues, rents, 
 revenues and profits of the same church, and of the bells, lead, iron, 
 glass, jewels and ornaments belonging to it. 
 
 Lease to William Enderby. 
 
 6 Edward VI., March 10, [1552]. — Lease for twenty-one years, from 
 the King to William Enderby, at a yearly rent of fifty-three shillings 
 and four pence, of a messuage and tenement in Earl Strete in the City 
 of Coventre, late in the occupation of Alice Enderby and now in the 
 tenure of William Enderby, and also of another messuage or tenement 
 now in the tenure of William Herdy. 
 
 Grant in Fee Farm to the Mayor and Community of Messu- 
 ages and Lands, &c, formerly belonging to Guilds and 
 Chantries. 
 
 G Edward VI., September 18th, [1552]. — Letters Patent of a grant, 
 made by the King in consideration of a payment of £1,315 1*. 8d., in 
 fee-farm for ever to the Mayor, bailiffs and community of the City of 
 Coventre and their successors, of a large number of messuages, lands, 
 tenements, and rents, &c, formerly belonging to the late Guilds of 
 Corpus Christi and Holy Trinity of Coventre, and of messuages, tene- 
 ments and rents, &c, formerly pertaining to divers Chantries in the 
 same City, and of divers rents and moneys heretofore held in trust for 
 the celebration of yearly Obits in Coventre or elsewhere, for the souls 
 of deceased persons : to be held by the aforesaid Mayor, bailiffs, and 
 their successors of the said King his heirs and successors as of the manor 
 of Greenwich, co. Kent, at a yearly rent of £90. 
 
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 Tnspeximus of the Letters of Licence granted to the Guild 
 of the Nativity of Jesus Christ. 
 
 I Elizabeth, June 1st (1559). — Letters Patent of Inspeximus and 
 Confirmation of Edward the Sixth's Inspeximus of the Letters Patent, 
 whereby Henry VIII. in his 28th regnal year confirmed a Charter, 
 giving licence to the Cutters and Fullers of the Guild of the Nativity 
 of Jesus Christ in Coventre, to hold lands and tenements and rents to 
 the yearly value of ten marks, in order to find a chaplain to celebrate 
 divine rites daily for the souls of the founders of the said Guild, and for 
 the souls of all who have died in the Faith. 
 
 N.B. — In these Letters Patent reappears the error found in the 
 Letters of 10th March, 28 Henry VIII. , describing the original Charter 
 of Licence as a Charter of 17 Hen. V., instead of Hen. VI. 
 
 Manufacture and Monopoly of " Ulterfynes " and 
 " Cromple Lysts." 
 
 10 Elizabeth, March 22nd (1568). — Letters Patent for the regulation 
 and encouragement in Coventre of the manufacture of two sorts of 
 woollen cloths commonly called Ulterfynes and Cromple Lysts, now 
 usually made at Armentiers in Flaunders : It being granted by the 
 Letters Patent, during pleasure, that no other person or persons than 
 the Mayor bailiffs and community of Coventre, and such other persons 
 in Coventre as are appointed by virtue of the same Letters Patent shall 
 be allowed in England, or in any other of the Queen's dominions, to 
 make or cause to be made " any of the said sort of clothes called 
 Ulterfynes or Cromple lystes or any other Wollen Clothes lyke thereunto." 
 
 In connection with these Letters Patent there is an Indenture, 
 made on the same day between the Queen of the one part and the 
 Mayor bailiffs and community of Coventre of the other part, for the 
 more precise regulation of the manufacture of and trade in the Ulterfyne 
 or Utterfyne cloths and Cromple Lysts : containing orders for the 
 breadth, length, weight and quality of the several pieces of the same 
 cloth, and settling the penalties and punishments to be inflicted on 
 manufacturers and dealers who disobey the orders. 
 
 Commission of Enquiry respecting Offences against the Laws 
 for maintaining Horses, &c, and for taking Muster of 
 able Men. 
 
 II Elizabeth, July 18th (1569). — Commission, addressed to Ambrose, 
 Earl of Warwick, Robert, Earl of Leycester, Sir Robert Throck- 
 morton knt., Sir William Wigston knt., Sir Thomas Lucie knt., Sir 
 William Devereux knt., and Clement Throckmorton and John Fisher 
 of Pakington esquires, directing them to associate the Mayor of the 
 City of Coventre for the time being with themselves, for the execution 
 of a commission to enquire respecting all offences, committed since the 
 5th day of April last past against the laws for maintaining of horses and 
 the provision of armour and weapons, and to take muster of the able 
 men of Warwickshire. 
 
 Grant for the Reparation and Maintenance of Bablake 
 
 Hospital. 
 
 14 Elizabeth, July 12th (1572). — Letters Patent granted at the 
 request of Robert, Earl of Leicestre, for the reparation and maintenance 
 of the Hospital of Bablake within the City of Coventrie, licensing the 
 
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 Mayor bailiffs and community of the same city to acquire and hold for 
 ever manors, messuages, lands and tenements to the yearly value of 
 £100, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 Commission of Array for Mustering the Men of Arms of 
 
 Coventry. 
 
 15 Elizabeth, April 24th (1573). — Commission of Array, appointing 
 Robert Earl of Leicester, the Mayor of the city of Coventre for the 
 time being, Sir Fulke Grevill knt., Sir William Wigston knt., Edward 
 Eglionby esq., Thomas Rylay, Edward Dampard, Thomas Dudley, 
 Richard Smythe and Henry Kirden, aldermen of the said city, to be 
 Commissioners of Array, to muster and drill all the men-at-arms 
 above sixteen years and under sixty years of age in the city of Coventre, 
 as well horse as foot, archers and " sclopetarii " [i.e., soldiers armed 
 with arquebuses or carbines], and to instruct in military duty all the 
 youths and men hitherto ignorant of military affairs in the said city. 
 
 Attached to this Latin commission appears in English, " a direccion for 
 the Commissioners for the musters in the citie of Coventrie, how they 
 shall proceed in the execution of the said Commission." 
 
 Inquisition " Post-mortem " of John Nethermyll. 
 
 17 Elizabeth, June 22nd (1575). — Inspeximus of certain Letters 
 Patent, dated on 11th November ] 5th Elizabeth, of a commission to 
 Edward Holte esq., Humfrey Ferrers esq., Edward Eglionby esq., and 
 Arthur Gregory gentleman, the Queen's feodary in the county of 
 Warwick, appointing them to enquire what lands and tenements John 
 Nethermyll, late an alderman of the city of Coventre, held on the day 
 of his death, and to return their inquisition into Chancery. With 
 Inspeximus of the Inquisition, dated on 9th May, 17 Elizabeth, whereby 
 the said commissioners certified that on the day of his death the said 
 John IsTethermyJl was seized in his own demesne of the Manor of 
 Eccleshale with its appurtenances in Eccleshale and FolleshiH, co. Coven- 
 tre, and also of four messuages, three hundred acres of arable land, one 
 hundred acres of meadow, two hundred acres of pasture, four hundred of 
 wood, and one hundred acres of scrub and briery, and of rents of £10 6s. in 
 Eccleshale and Folleshull, now held, and which at the time of the said 
 John Nethermylle's death were held of the Mayor bailiffs and community 
 of the city of Coventre, as of the manor of Chellesmore, otherwise called 
 their manor of Coventre, &c. 
 
 Commission of Array, &c. 
 
 19 Elizabeth, May 31st (1577).— Commission of Array addressed to 
 Robert, Earl of Leicestre, the Mayor of Coventre for the time being, Sir 
 Fulke Grreville knt., Sir William Wigston baronet, Edward Egliambye 
 (sic) esq., Thomas Ryley, Edward Damperd and Thomas Dudley, alder- 
 men of the said city, to be Commissioners for mustering, arraying, 
 inspecting and drilling, all the men at arms, horse and foot, archers and 
 " sclopetarii" and all other able men within the city of Coventre. 
 
 Licence to Richard Butler to alienate a Messuage, &c. 
 40 Elizabeth, October 30th (1598). — Letters Patent of licence to 
 Richard Butler, in consideration of thirty-three shillings and four pence 
 paid by him, to sell to John Stapleton esq., a messuage with a dovecote, 
 a garden, an orchard, . . . , acres of pasture, an acre of wood 
 and two acres of arable land, &c. in the city and county of the city of 
 Coventre. 
 
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 Grant of the Almshouse in Bablacke to Trustees. 
 
 7 James I., July 15th (1609). — Letters Patent of a grant for ever 
 by James the First (made in consideration of payment of £100) to 
 Edward Stapleton esq., Henry Sewall of Coventrie, draper, and Humfrey 
 Wighlwick of the same city, grocer, and their heirs and assigns, of the 
 Almshouse in Bablacke built by Thomas Bonde and the chapel and 
 chamber adjoining the same Almshouse, and of a close of pasture called 
 Hickfield in Coundon co. Warwick, and of lands, tenements and rents 
 &c. in Old Fillonghley, New Fillonghley. Alspade and Merelbrookes co. 
 Warwick, and of a messuage called the Moat House in Spoonestreete 
 (sic) in Coventrie, and of divers other lands and tenements &c. in 
 Coventrie and elsewhere. 
 
 Commission for raising a Loan. 
 
 2 Charles I., October 11th (1626). — Commission for raising a loan 
 for the King in the city and county of Coventre : appointing William 
 Earl of Northampton, Robert Earl of Monmouth, Foulke Lord Brooke, 
 and the Mayor and aldermen of the said city to be Commissioners for 
 the said purpose. 
 
 Commission for levying a Proportion of the Money voted by 
 
 Parliament." 
 
 18 Charles L, April 4th (1642). — Commission appointing the Mayor 
 of Coventre for the time being, and Henry Million, John Clarke, 
 Thomas Ward, William Jeffyn and John Baker, aldermen of the said 
 city, and John Hales and Richard Greene esquires, and Thomas Basnettt, 
 to be commissioners for levying a proportion of the money voted by the 
 present Parliament by an annexed Statute, entitled " An Act for the 
 raiseing and levyinge of moneyes for the necessary defence and great 
 affaires of the kingdomes of England and Ireland and for the pavment 
 of debt undertaken by the Parliament" ; and further requiring the 
 Sheriffs of the said city and county to aid the said Commissioners in 
 executing their commission. 
 
 Letters Patent for the Re-constitution of the Corporation, 
 and for the Confirmation of the Ancient Charters. 
 
 15 Charles II., July 6th (1663).— Letters Patent to the Mayor 
 bailiffs and community of the city and county of Coventre, for 
 the re-constitution of the Corporation; With Inspeximus and Con- 
 firmation of charters granted by previous sovereigns, to wit, James I., 
 Elizabeth, Mary, Edward VI., Henry VIII., Henry VII., Edward IV., 
 Henry VL, Henry IV., Richard II., Edward III., Edward II., Henry 
 III., and Henry II. 
 
 Ordinances for the City's better Government. 
 
 35 Charles II., October 31st (1683). — Letters Patent of concessions 
 and ordinances made by King Charles the Second, for the better 
 government of the Borough and City of Coventre. 
 
 III. — Miscellaneous Documents, to wit, Grants, Leases, Agreements, 
 Awards of Arbitrators, Wills, Bonds, SfC to the number of 
 6,265. 
 
 On taking my first view of the Coventry Muniments in February 
 1895, I found the multifarious writings of this most numerous group 
 
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 lying with the Charters and Letters Patent in such confusion that, for 
 the performance of the laborious task of reducing the manuscripts to 
 order at the charges of the Corporation, it was necessary for me to open 
 and examine cursorily each document. And whilst I did this part of 
 the work for which the Corporation had invited me to Coventry, I 
 withdrew 232 writings, to each of which I attached a descriptive label, 
 for the convenience of persons visiting the New Muniment Room of St. 
 Mary's Hall, in which 1 had undertaken to place in due arrangement the 
 entire collection. Some of these labelled writings were selected out of 
 regard to the excellencies or peculiarities of their penmanship ; but 
 excepting these few, the 232 selected deeds consist of writings that 
 illustrate the social conditions of their periods, or are remarkable for the 
 names of persons or places, or afford particulars likely to interest 
 antiquaries or historical enquirers. 
 
 At the same time I withdraw from the mass fifty-five Indentures of 
 Apprenticeship,, the earliest of them being a remarkable and curious 
 Latin indenture of Richard the Second's time, and put them away in a 
 single packet in a drawer of Miscellaneous Matters. 
 
 The other 5,953 deeds, being for the most part conveyances or leases, 
 I put away in labelled packets, each containiug ten deeds. How many 
 of these are dateless deeds of the time of Henry III. and Edward I., and 
 how many were dated and sealed in each reign from that of Edward the 
 First to that of her present Majesty, may be learned from the following 
 table : — 
 
 No. of Deeds. 
 
 (1) Dateless Deeds, temp. Henry III. and Edward I. - 490 
 
 (2) Deeds with Dates, temp. Edward I. - - 176 
 temp. Edward II. - - 405 
 temp. Edward III. - - - 1,518 
 temp. Richard II. - - 341 
 temp. Henry IV. - - - 163 
 temp. Henry V. - - - 102 
 temp. Henry VI. ... 309 
 temp Edward IV. - - 159 
 temp. Richard III. 20 
 temp. Henry VII. - - 130 
 temp. Henry VIII. - - - 175 
 temp. Edward VI. - 32 
 temp. Mary, and Philip and Mary 41 
 temp. Elizabeth - 278 
 temp. James I. - - 241 
 temp. Charles I. - - 479 
 temp. Commonwealth - 184 
 temp. Charles II. ... 268 
 temp. James II. - - - 33 
 temp. William and Mary 48 
 temp. William III. - - 56 
 temp. Anne .... 63 
 temp. George I. - - - 5 
 temp. George II. ... 22 
 temp. George III. - - 166 
 temp. George IV. ... 6 
 temp. William IV. - - 20 
 temp. Victoria 23 
 
 5,953 
 
 (3) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (4) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (5) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (6) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (7) 
 
 5) 
 
 55 
 
 (8) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (9) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (10) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (11) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (12; 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (13) 
 
 55 
 
 95 
 
 (14) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (15) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (16; 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (17) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (18) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (19) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (20) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (21) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (22) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (23) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (24) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (25) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (26) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (27) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (28) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 (29) 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
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 As this Report deals only with manuscripts now lying in the N ew 
 Muniment Room, it says nothing of the Deeds of the seventeenth and 
 two later centuries that are preserved in the Town Clerk's office. 
 
 Of the quality and historical value of the older Deeds, from the 
 middle of the thirteenth century to the close of Charles the Second's 
 time, readers may form a fairly correct estimate from the ensuing 
 entries. 
 
 Land held by " The Knave." 
 
 Deed of sale and quitclaim by Vincent the son of Reginald Kempe 
 to Robert the son of Roger de Cornlegh of a rent of twelve pence, 
 which William Le Knave used to pay yearly to the said Vincent, from 
 land which he held of the same Vincent. No date. 
 
 Grant of a Meadow in Spanne Field. 
 
 Grant for ever, by Adam Haldeyn to John le Lodelawe, of a 
 yearly rent of four pence issuing from a shop in Coventre, and of a 
 meadow in Spanne Field, at a yearly rent to the grantor and his heirs 
 of a clove. No date. 
 
 N.B. — The place-name " Spanne " is variously spelt in the deeds 
 temp. Henry III. and Edward I., e.g. Spon, Sponnd, Spound, Sponn, 
 Spoon. 
 
 Grant of Land to John, Son of William the Paikter, on 
 his Marriage. 
 
 Gift for ever, at a yearly rent of a pair of gloves " de precio unius 
 oboli," by Walter the son of Atherard the Painter of Coventre to 
 John the son of William the Painter " in liberum maritagium cum 
 Wymarkia filia Galfridi zonarii," of a piece of land in the street of 
 Cheylismor in Coventre. No date. 
 
 " Upper Park Street " or " Upper Street of the Park." 
 
 Gift for ever of a messuage in Upper Park Street (" in 
 superiori vico parci de Coventre ") by Christiana de Milnehale in her 
 virginity and lawful power to Geoffrey Le Luffe of Coventre. No 
 date. 
 
 Gift to the Priory of Coventry. 
 
 Gift in almoigne for ever by Walter the son of Symon the clerk 
 of Sowe to. William the Prior of Coventre and the monks serving 
 God there of a meadow within and without the fosse in the town of 
 Sowe. No date. 
 
 The Meadow called " Enedemedwe." 
 
 Gift for ever of a meadow called " Enedemedewe " In Coventre 
 by Robert Le Bussenville to John de Hwttele. No date. 
 
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 A Marriage Portion iN Sponne Street. 
 
 Gift, by way of a marriage portion, of a piece of land in Sponne 
 Street in Coventre, to Matilda the daughter of Elias Le Waffrer and 
 her affianced husband, Thomas the son of Thomas the mason of 
 Coventre, and their issue, by William the Chaplain (son of Roger Le 
 Waffrei of Coventre), uncle of the aforesaid Matilda. No date. 
 
 Quitclaim to Land in Coventre. 
 
 Deed of quitclaim, in respect to a piece of land in Coventre, by 
 Matilda, formerly the wife of Henry Beket, in her pure widowhood, to 
 John de Wytele, cook. No date. 
 
 Obligation of Symon Chatel to the Prior and Convent 
 for View of Frankpledge. 
 
 Undertaking by Symon Chatel of Cundelin, that, in consideration 
 of a grant of certain land in the town of Cundeline made to him and 
 his heirs or assigns by Prior and Conventt of Coventre, at a yearly 
 rent of forty silver pence, he and his heirs or assigns shall make two 
 journeys in each year to the church of the Prior and Convent, for 
 view of frankpledge. No date. 
 
 Grant in Frank-Almoigne to the Prior and Convent. 
 
 Grant in pure and perpetual almoigne by William Le Scot to the 
 Lord William the Prior of Coventre and to the Convent of the same 
 place and their successors, for the health of the grantor's soul and of 
 the souls of his grandfather Robert Scot and his father Ralph Scot, 
 of land in Aylwardesick near Whytemor and of lands and rents in 
 Coventre, No date. 
 
 Quitclaim to a Messuage in Little Park Street. 
 
 Deed of quitclaim, in consideration of a payment of twenty shillings, 
 by Roger de Burtigbury to Alexander the Vintner of Coventre, in 
 respect to a messuage between " Littleparkstreth " on the one part 
 and the land of Richard Le Coup on the other part. No date. 
 
 Grant of a Croft to the Vicar of St. Michael's. 
 
 Acknowledgment by Richard de Willowe, vicar of the church of 
 St. Michael of Coventre, that lie and his successors have received 
 of the Prior and Convent of Coventre a grant in fee-farm in Kundeline 
 for ever, at a yearly rent of two shillings. No date. 
 
 Gift of 7 Sellions of Land "in le Hokemilfeld." 
 
 Gift of seven sellions of land in Stoke " in le Hokemilfeld", and of 
 a yearly rent of eleven pence issuing from a tenement and messuage 
 in Coventre, by William Blaunchinal to Robert de Stokes and his heirs 
 for ever. No date. 
 
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 Proyiso against giving certain Land to a Keligious House. 
 
 Gift of a toft and an acre of arable land in the territory of Sponn, 
 by Alice the daughter of William de Sponn to Symon de Lymeseye 
 and his heirs, and to any to whom he may assign the same " pre- 
 terquam domui religiose." No date. 
 
 Quitclaim of a Messuage and Land in Whitley. 
 
 Quitclaim, in consideration of a payment of half a mark, in respect 
 tb a messuage in Whitele and ten acres of arable land in the fields 
 of Whitele, by Roger the son of Ormus to his brother Adam and the 
 heirs of the same Adam. No date. 
 
 Park Street in Covintre. 
 
 Sale and quitclaim of certain land in Park Street in Covintre (sic) 
 by William Blod to Richard de Bluke and his heirs and assigns for 
 ever. No date. 
 
 While noticeable in Earl Ranulph's Charter, and in Henry the 
 Second's Charter of Confirmation, to the burgesses of Covintre, this 
 use of " i " in the spelling of the name of the borough appears also 
 occasionally in the deeds temp. Henry III. and Edward I. 
 
 Yearly Rent of a Clove. 
 
 Gift in perpetual fee-farm by Robert de Lodelowe to Alexander 
 the Vintner of Coventre and his heirs, at a yearly rent of a clove, 
 of a meadow in Coventre near the mills called " the Altegeder Milnys." 
 No date. 
 
 Deeds in the time of Henry III. and Edward I. often contain a 
 stipulation for this nominal rent, the equivalent of the familiar 
 " pepper-corn " rent in other parts of the country. 
 
 Sir Thomas Arderne, Knt., and Master Guy de Tyllebrok. 
 
 Gift by Sir Thomas Arderne, knt., " dominus de Rottel," of all bis 
 rents in Stoke, Radeford, Cundoline, and Coventre, with all the 
 homages and p ervices thereto appertaining, to Master Guy de Tyllebrok 
 and his heirs for ever. No date. 
 
 Coventre Cloth-Market. 
 
 Gift by Robert de Eton to his daughter Felicia, of a piece of land 
 with a building upon it in the Market of Coventre, where cloth is 
 sold. No date. 
 
 Gift in Frankalmoigne to the Priory. 
 
 Gift in perpetual almoigne of two shillings of yearly rent, issuing 
 from lands in Cundeline and Crowenhull, by Richard the Burser of 
 Coventre to the monks there serving God, and especially to their 
 Refectorarius. No date. • 
 
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 Lady Agnes Hauberch of Schaldeforde. 
 
 Gift of lands and tenements, rents and reversions, &c. in the town 
 and fields of Coventre, by Thomas de Leghtoun of Coventre to the 
 Lady Agnes Hauberch of Schaldeforde. No date. 
 
 G os ford Street in " Oovtntre," 
 
 Gift of a piece of land in Gosford Street in Covintre, by Reginald 
 de Catisby, burgess of Covintre, to his son Symon and his heirs. No 
 date. 
 
 Thomas the Weaver of Coventre. 
 
 Gift of a piece of land with a building upon it in Sponne Street in 
 Coventre, by Henry the son of Thomas the Weaver of Coventre to 
 Beatrice the daughter of Adam de Kiderminster, the grantor's sister. 
 No date. 
 
 Quitclaim to Land and Houses in Earl's Street. 
 
 Quitclaim in respect to certain land with houses upon it in Earl's 
 Street in Coventre, by Margery the widow of Ralph le Turner of 
 Gloucester to Henry the Baker and Adam Russel and their respective 
 wives Agnes and Alice. No date. 
 
 A Stall in Coventre Market. 
 
 Gift of a stall with its appurtenances in the Market of Coventre, 
 by Simon le Botmonger to Richard de Fonte, at yearly rents of a 
 clove to the grantor and of nine silver pence to the High Altar of 
 the Blessed Mary of Coventre. No date. 
 
 Margery Pake, Niece of Master Richard the Vintner. 
 
 Gift by the widow Margery Pake, formerly the wife of Pagan Pake 
 of Coventre to her son William, his heirs and assigns, of certain tene- 
 ments in Coventre, which descended to the said Margery by inheritance, 
 on the death of her uncle Master Richard the Vintner. No date. 
 
 Peter de Blocksley's Gift to the Prior and Convent of 
 
 Coventre. 
 
 Gift in perpetual almoigne, for the health of the grantor's soul and 
 the welfare of the souls of his ancestors and heirs, of a messuage and 
 divers lands and tenements in Sowe with all things appertaining unto 
 them, by Peter de Blocksley, clerk, to God and the Church of the 
 Blessed Mary of Coventre and to Henry the Prior of the said place, 
 and the Monks serving God there. No date. Also, a duplicate of the 
 same deed. 
 
 Another Gift by the same Grantor to the Prior and 
 
 Conven,t. 
 
 Gift in pure almoigne, for the welfare of the grantor's soul and of 
 the souls of his ancestors, of a messuage and piece of land outside the 
 town of Coventre, and aj)iecc of land in the moor of Wytemor, by Peter 
 
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 the son of Gilbert de Blockeley to God and the Blessed Mary of 
 Coventre, and to Henry the Prior, and the Monks there serving God. 
 No date. 
 
 Gift to Symon Pymme in Marriage Dowry. 
 
 Gift by William son of Hugh " Cocarius " of Coventre, of two shops 
 in the Earl's Street towards Goseford to Symon Pymme upon his 
 marriage with the grantor's sister Alice, a yearly rent of twelve silver 
 pence being reserved to the grantor and his heiress. No date. 
 
 Alice Gardiner's Quitclaim to Dower in Land. 
 
 Quitclaim, made in her pure widowhood by Alice formerly the wife 
 of Roger Gardiner of Coventre, to God and the Church of the Blessed 
 Mary of Coventre, and to the Prior and Monks there serving God, in 
 respect to her dower in lands in the territory of Harnhal formerly 
 pertaining to her said husband, and also in respect to rents in Coventre 
 which he sold to the said Prior and Monks. No date. 
 
 Marriage Portion in Land and Houses in Earl's Street. 
 
 Gift made by Richard le Brochere of Coventre of a piece of land with 
 houses upon it in the Earl's Street, extending from the King's highway 
 to the Castle Ditch (" extendit se a Via Regia usque ad fossatum qucd 
 vocatur le Casteldich "), and of a curtilage, to John de Rydewale on 
 his marriage with the grantor's daughter Margery, to have and to hold 
 to the same John and Margery, and their lawfully begotten heirs. No 
 date. 
 
 Grant by Philip de Winchecumb to the Prior and Convent. 
 
 Grant in pure almoigne, for the welfare of the grantor's soul and 
 of the souls of his wife and ancestors and successors, of a messuage 
 at Spann (" ad Spannam ") in Coventre, with its buildings, garden, dove- 
 house and curtilage, and of a croft above the garden called " Stathers- 
 croft," and of another croft called " Christescroft," extending from the 
 aforementioned croft to U Dedebone," and of eight " seyliones " of arable 
 land in the field of Spanne and of five other " seyliones" in the same 
 field, and of an enclosed meadow in the same field, and of the meadow 
 which the grantor bought of William Payn, with an annexed place 
 ■which the grantor had of the Prior of Coventre, and of the oven 
 which the grantor bought of Richard de Wygorn' in " Cheilesmor 
 Lona," with its buildings, rents, and appurtenances, by Philip de 
 Winchecumb to God and the church of the Blessed Mary of Coventre, 
 and to William the Prior and the convent of the same place. No date. 
 
 Bailiffs of the Earl and the Prior. 
 
 41 Henry III. [1256-7].— Gift by William the son of Robert le 
 Redeknave of Coventre to Richard the son of William the Weaver, of 
 a piece of land with a house upon it in the Bishop's Street in Coventre, 
 which land Hawisia, formerly the wife of Adam Le Redeknave, held of 
 the grantor in the name of dower : the witnesses of the deed being 
 Richard de Bokvill then bailiff " ex parte Comitis," William Lewin 
 
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 the bailiff "ex parte Prions," John Lysner, Richard de Fonte, Roger 
 the Miller, [' Molendarius,'] Alexander de Glovernia, John le Blund, 
 John Yngeram, Hugh le Bretun clerk, and others. 
 
 Other deeds of the same period point to the fact that there were two 
 bailiffs in Coventre temp. Henry III., one of whom acted for the 
 Earl and was styled the Earl's bailiff, whilst the other acted in the 
 Prior's interest and was designated the Prior's bailiff. 
 
 John Holoway, Miller. 
 
 25 Edward I. [1297].— Gift of a piece of land with its appurte- 
 nances in the Lesser Park Street in Coventre, by John Holoway the 
 Milieu to John le Wedon the Brewer : with seal. 
 
 Release of Eighty Sellions of Land. 
 
 25 Edward I. [1297]. — Release and quitclaim, in respect to eighty 
 "selliones" of land in Stokes in "le Hokenylefelt," by Isabel the 
 widow of William Blanchynal of Stokes to Robert de Stokes and his 
 wife Joan. 
 
 Joan Corvyn, Heiress of Philip of Barbedaveryl. 
 
 27 Edward I. [1299]. — Grant for lives in survivorship by Joan 
 formerly the wife of John Corvyn of Stokes to Robert de Stokes and 
 his wife Joan, of divers rents and services issuing from tenements in 
 Coventre, and also of liberties, commodities and easements which the 
 grantor has, had, or was able to have, in Coventre, after the death of her 
 ancestor, Philip of Barbedaveryl. 
 
 Land Adjoining " Gardiner's Croft." 
 
 28 Edward I. [1300].— Quitclaim by Margery the daughter of Robert 
 Herbert of Coventre in her pure widowhood to John de Hales of 
 Coventre, dyer, and his wife Margaret, in respect to a piece of land lying 
 near the highway, leading from Coventre towards Harnhale "inter 
 terrain hospitalis Sancti Johannis de Coventre et terram Johannis 
 le Gannter ex una parte et terram domini Prioris et Conventus de 
 Coventre que vocatur Gardinerescroft." 
 
 William the Glass- Worker. 
 
 30 Edward I. [1302]. — Gift of a piece of land in the Greater Park 
 Street of Coventre, by William " le Glawrihte " to Hugh de Meryton. 
 
 Fields of Podycroft and Schocherefeld. 
 
 32 Edward I. [1304]. — Gift of certain lands in the fields called 
 Podycroft and Schocherefeld in Coventre, and three yearly rents 
 issuing from as many tenements in Coventre, by Alice formerly the 
 wife of Henry de Alecote, in her pure widowhood, to John de Langbene 
 and Henry de Raynyrs of Coventre, merchants. 
 
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 Quitclaim to the Prior and Convent. 
 
 1306. — Quitclaim by Alice, the widow of the late John de Chylton 
 of Coventre, to Henry the Prior and the Convent of Coventre, in 
 respect to any right or claim she may have by way of dower in a 
 tenement called "Benfirlond." 
 
 Grant by Peter de Blockley to the Convent and Sacristan 
 
 of Coventre. 
 
 35 Edward I. [1306-7]. — Grant in perpetual almoigne of the 
 grantor's third part of Wodenmilnebeye, with his meadow in Wykene, 
 and his twelve denariates of yearly rent issuing from a virgate of land 
 in the territory of Coventre towards Cunduline, by Peter de Blockels 
 to Henry the Prior and the Convent of the Church of St. Mary of 
 Coventre, and especially to the Sacristan of the said Church. 
 
 Benedict the Cdtler of Coventre, 
 
 2 Edward II. [1308-9]. — Quitclaim in respect to a yearly rent of 
 twelve pence, issuing from a tenement in the Greater Park Street in 
 Coventre, by Alice the daughter of Benedict " le Cotiler" of Coventre, 
 formerly the wife of John de Todenham, to John de Eicon, &c. 
 
 Poultry Street towards the Gate of the Priory. 
 
 3 Edward II. [1309-10]. — Quitclaim by John the son of John le 
 Bolyngere to Peter Barun of Coventre, in respect to a messuage in 
 Coventre, lying " in vico ubi pulteria venditur versus portam Prioratus." 
 
 Yearly Kent of a Rose. 
 
 7 Edward II. [1313-14]. — Lease for lives in survivorship, by John 
 de Wyteley of Radeford to Richard le Couper of Coventre, butcher, and 
 his wife Alice, of a pasture called Enedmere in the territory of Rade- 
 ford, at a yearly rent of a rose for sixteen years, and afterwards at a 
 yearly rent of forty shillings. 
 
 Rose-rents are mentioned less often in Coventry Leases and grants 
 than one would expect them to be in the deeds of a place so near 
 Leicester, where they are so numerous. 
 
 Another Deed by William the Glass- Worker. 
 
 9 Edward II. [1315-16]. — Gift of a messuage in the Greater Park 
 Street of Coventre, by William " Le Glasrugthe " and Emma his wife to 
 Roger de Bray and his wife Emma. [See below, 17 Edw II.]. 
 
 Agreement touching a Rent and a Tenement. 
 
 10 Edward II. [1316-7]. — Agreement between Robert de Lcnclon 
 of Coventre, chaplain, Roger Dayseye and his wife Matilda of the one 
 part, and Walter de Norton of Coventre, cook, and his wife Amice, and 
 Richard the first-born son of the same Walter, of the other part : 
 whereby the said Robert, Roger and Matilda granted and conveyed 
 
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 for life in survivorship to the said Waller, Amice and Richard an 
 annual rent of ten shillings and sixpence from a tenement in Cheiles- 
 morlane in Co ventre, and also a lease of the same tenement, from and 
 after the death of Richard de Wygorn' chaplain, who holds the said 
 tenement for his life. 
 
 Lease with no Rent for Eight Years. 
 
 10 Edward II. [1316-7].— Lease for life of a croft in "Bobynhul, 
 lying between the highway and the garden of the rector of the church 
 of Bobynhul, by Richard Quocus (sic) of Bobynhul to John de Lyndeseye 
 of Bobynhul, to hold free of rent for eight years, and afterwards at a 
 yearly rental of forty shillings. 
 
 Lease for Life or for Ten Years. 
 
 10 Edward II. [1316-7J. — Lease for life or for ten years, of a 
 messuage in the Greater Park Street of Coventre, by Henry de 
 Mariton to Dionisia, formerly the wife of Philip de Barsham of 
 Coventre : with a proviso that, should the said Dionisia die within ten 
 years, her heirs and assigns may hold the said messuage till the end of 
 the said term of ten years. 
 
 Four "Seliones" and One "Forera" of Arable Land. 
 
 14 Edward II. [1320-1].— Gift of four '< seliones " of arable land 
 with one " forera " and a meadow, by Henry the son of the late Richard 
 Anneys of Coundelin to John de Edynghal of Coventre, cook. 
 
 Roger de Bray of Coventre. 
 
 17 Edward II. [1323-4]. — Gift of a messuage in the Greater Park 
 Street of Coventre by Roger de Bray to William de Leycestre, both 
 of Coventre. 
 
 Friars Lane and Cheilesmore Lane. 
 
 17 Edward II. [1323-4]. — Gift of lands and tenements, rents and 
 reversions in "le Frerelone in Coventre," lying between the King's 
 highway leading to " Cheylesmor grene " on the one part, and the land 
 that formerly belonged to Master Richard of the Hall on the other part, 
 by Richard de St. James of Coventre to Adam le Sadelere of Coventre 
 and his wife Alice. 
 
 Lease of Priory Waste Land, long afterwards called 
 "Bagot's Waste." 
 
 1 Edward III. [1327]. — Lease for lives in survivorship of an acre 
 of waste land in the fields of Sowe, at a yearly rent of twelve pence, by 
 Henry the Prior and convent of the cathedral church of Coventre to 
 Thomas Bagot, his wife Petronilla and their daughters Katherine and 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 Long known by the surname of the grantees under this lease, this 
 piece of land figures amongst the Church lands of Coventre even in 
 post-reformation time under the designation of "Bagot's Waste." 
 
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 Agreement for sustaining a Party-wall and making and 
 repairing a gutter. 
 
 3 Edward III. [1329 J. — Agreement between Tsolda formerly the 
 wife of William de Grantham, in her widowhood, of the one part, and 
 Margery Tynal of Coventre, in hei virginity, of the other part, they 
 being owners and occupiers of adjoining tenements in the Lesser Park 
 Street in Coventre (" tenementa .... annexa in Minori Vico 
 parci Coventre ") : by which the said Margery undertook for herself, 
 her heirs and assigns, to sustain the party-wall dividing the two 
 tenements for ever, and the said Isolda undertook for herself, her heirs 
 and assigns, to put a sufficient gutter above the same wall and to cleanse 
 and repair the same as occasion should require. 
 
 grrant by the prior and convent to two chaplains in 
 St. Mary's Church. 
 
 4 Edward III. [1330], — Grant of a piece of land in Sponne Street 
 in Coventre, at a yearly rent of two shillings, by Henry de Leycestre, 
 Prior of the cathedral church of the Blessed Mary of Coventre and 
 the Convent of the same, to Peter de Ruyton and Rowland de Bredon, 
 chaplains, about to celebrate divine services in the nave of the said 
 church. 
 
 Lease for Sixteen Years or for Life. 
 
 5 Edward III. [1331]. — Lease for sixteen years or for life at a 
 yearly rent of forty shillings, of a tenement lying beyond the bridges 
 of Gosford in Coventre by Alice, daughter of the late Margaret who 
 was wife of Richard Le Northern e of Coventre, in her widowhood, to 
 Ralph Byllyng of Coventre. 
 
 Grant of a Corrody to Richard le Spicer by his Son. 
 
 6 Edward III. [1332]. — Agreement whereby Henry Le Spicer and 
 his wife Mary grant to Richard Le Spicer, father of the said Henry, 
 a yearly rent of fifty shillings issuing from a tenement in Smytheford 
 Street in Coventre, and further grant to the same Richard for his 
 life a sufficiency of meat and drink at his own table like that provided 
 for the grantors, and a fit place for his bed in the same grantors' own 
 tenement, and fit clothes for the same bed, and a robe of fit cloth to be 
 received by him yearly at St. Andrew's Feast with fit fur for an 
 over-tunic, and in every second year a winter coat with a cap 
 and suitable fur at the Feast of St. Michael, and a summer over-tunic 
 at the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, and also a \ early livery 
 of two pairs of linen clothes and four pairs of list shoes, and six pairs 
 of shoes. 
 
 Grant of a Corrody for Life in the Priory of Coventre to 
 Alice the Wife of Thomas de Radewey. 
 
 1335. — Agreement between Henry the Prior and the Convent of the 
 cathedral church of Coventre of the one part, and Thomas de Radewey 
 of Keresleye and his wife Alice, formerly the wife of Roger Locard, of 
 the other part : whereby the said Thomas and Alice give to the said 
 Prior and Convent certain lands &c, in the towns of Coventre, 
 
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 Coundeline and Radeford, and the said Prior and Convent grant in 
 return to the said Alice for her life a corrody in their priory, viz., to 
 receive daily " unum panem album qui vocatur Michs et unam lageuam 
 cerevisie conventualis," &c, and also grant to her a place of abode in a 
 cottage with a curtilage in St. Nicholas Street. 
 
 Lease by Robert de Stoke to his Mother. 
 
 9 Edward III. [1335]. — Lease by Robert de Stoke to his mother tor 
 the term of her life of his manor of Stoke, and of his meadows, pastures, 
 rents &c. in Stoke, Coventre, Sowe, Harenhal, Styvechal, Pinnele and 
 Radeford. 
 
 Richard de Somerby, Rector of Berkeswell. 
 
 14 Edward III. [1340]. — Gift of a messuage in Spanne-strete in 
 Coventre, by William de Kendale of Coventre, sadelere, to dotninus 
 Richard de Somerby, rector of the church of Berkeswell. 
 
 Rent of a Rose. 
 
 14 Edward III. [1340]. — Lease for life, at the yearly rent of a rose- 
 flower, of a tenement near Lodeloweslane in Coventre, by Jordan de 
 Shepei and Henry de Dodenhale to Thomas de Merston of Coventre, 
 baker. 
 
 Hugh the Son qf Nicholas the Mason. 
 
 17 Edward III. [1343]. — Quit claim, by Jordan de Shepye and 
 Henry de Bodenhale of Coventre to Hugh the son of Nicholas le 
 Masoun of Lemynton, in respect to twenty shillings of rent issuing 
 from a messuage in the Frerelane in Coventre. 
 
 Conveyance to Thomas de Appach and William de Lalleford, 
 Chaplains, and Another. 
 
 17 Edward III. [1343].— Gift, by Alice formerly the wife of Thomas 
 in "le Hurne" in Coventre and by Thomas her son and by Emma the 
 wife of the said Thomas, to Thomas de Appach and William de Lalle- 
 ford, chaplains, and Philip del Pakes of Coventre, of a messuage with 
 bakehouse in Spannestret in Coventre, and a wood in Whalburley near 
 Coventre, with eight acres of arable land, and a place called Folewell in 
 the territory of the same town, a croft near the highway leading to 
 Alleysleye, three selions of arable land in Condulin, and an acre of 
 meadow one half of which lies at Dodemanswell. 
 
 Agreement between Holders of adjacent Houses for making 
 Gutters and repairing Walls. 
 
 19 Edward III. [1345]. — Covenant between William Gatsys of the 
 one part and Robert de Boresworth of Co ventre, merchant, of the other 
 part, whereby, in consideration of the said William's intention to re- 
 build his tenement and extend the same up to the tenement of the afore- 
 said Robert, the said Robert agrees that the said William may construct 
 sufficient gutters for carrying off the water from the roofs of the adjoin- 
 
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 ing tenements, and the aforesaid William agrees that so often as the 
 walls and gutters between the tenements shall be broken or out of 
 repair, to the injury of the said Robert's tenement, it shall be lawful for 
 Robert and his heirs and assigns to enter the tenement of the said 
 William Gatsys, into whosoever hands it may have come, and to 
 distrain thereupon for the repair of the said walls and gutters. 
 
 Lease of a Messuage with Cellars in Earl's Street. 
 
 23 Edward III. [1349]. — Lease for life, at a yearly rent of eight 
 marks, of a messuage with cellars and a shop and other buildings with 
 their curtilages and appurtenances in Earl's Street in Coventre, by John 
 de Langleye and Alice, formerly the wife of Thomas de Colleshull, to 
 John de Deneforde. 
 
 Grant of Land in Friars' Lane. 
 
 25 Edward III. [1351]. — Grift in fee-farm of a piece of land in the 
 lane of the Friars Minors of Coventre, at a yearly rent of two silver 
 pence, by Nicholas Percy the Mayor and the bailiffs of Coventre 
 to Sewall de Bulkynton of Coventre, William Luffe the elder, of 
 Coventre, and Nicholas de Baddesley, chaplain, their heirs and 
 assigns. 
 
 Lease by the Guild of the B. Mary in Coventre. 
 
 27 Edward III. [1353]. — Lease for lives in survivorship, at a yearly 
 rent of twenty-two shillings, of a messuage in the Greater Park Street 
 in Coventre, by Walter le Whitwebbe of Coventre, Master of the 
 Guild of the Blessed Mary of Coventre, with the assent of the said 
 Guild, to Thomas Russel of Gretford, " packare " in Coventre, and his 
 wife Matilda, and their first-born son John. 
 
 Gift by Sir John de Brocheford to Richard Shesewynd. 
 
 27 Edward III. [1353]. — Gift of a bridge with a water-course, which 
 Robert the Miller formerly held, and of a piece of land at " le Boleford," 
 and a curtilage at Woodende, by Sir John de Brocheford, knt, lord of 
 Arleye, to Richard Sherewynd. 
 
 Another Lease by the Guild of the B. Mary. 
 
 30 Edward III. [1356]. — Lease for lives in survivorship, at a yearly 
 rent of twenty-six shillings and eight pence, of a messuage in the 
 Greater Park Street of Coventre, by William Holme, Master of the 
 Guild of the Blessed Mary of Coventre, with the consent of the said 
 Guild, to William Alleyleye and his wife Amice. 
 
 Gift of a Grange and the Reversion of a Messuage, &c. 
 
 30 Edward III. [1356]. — Gift of a grange in Gosford Street beyond 
 the bridge towards Gosford Asshe and the reversion (on the death of 
 Richard Belers of Coventre, merchant) of a messuage and four fields in 
 Coventre, by Nicholas de Baddesleye, chaplain, and Richard de Shepye 
 of Coventre, hosier, to Richard the son of Ralph Billy ng and his wife 
 Alice. 
 
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 Grant uy the Prior and Convent of the Cathedral Church 
 to the Altar of the B. Virgin Mary. 
 
 1360. — Grant, made at the instance of John de Newby, clerk, and 
 in consideration of his payment of thirty shillings, by the Prior and 
 Convent of the cathedral church of Coventre, of a yearly rent of 
 eight shillings and fourpence issuing from eight selions and four 
 virgates of arable land, and of an adjoining meadow near the Frechbroke 
 in the field of Coventre, to the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the 
 said church, where mass is sung daily for all the benefactors living and 
 dead of the aforesaid grantors. 
 
 The Guild of the B. V. Mary and Sr. John the Baptist. 
 
 1362. — Lease to Geoffrey de Northefolke of Coventre, mercer, and 
 his wife Joan, for their two lives in survivorship of a messuage in 
 Coventre, at a yearly rent of four pounds of silver, by Henry Dilcok. 
 Master of the Guild of the B. V. Mary and St. John Bapt. with the 
 assent of the said Guild. 
 
 Grant of Rents of One Hundred Marks. 
 
 45 Edward III. [1371]. — Gift of rents amounting to one hundred 
 marks sterling, to be had yearly out of all the lands and tenements in 
 the town of Coventre which the grantor had of the gift and feoffment of 
 John de Thornton and Henry de Bisschopistone and William Walsshe- 
 man, by Hugh de Brendesleye to William Walssman and his wife 
 Beatrice. 
 
 Grant of a Messuage in Earl's Street. 
 
 46 Edward III. [1372]. — Grant in perpetual fee-farm, at a yearly 
 rent of four pounds in silver, of a messuage in Earl's Street in Coventre, 
 by John de Papenham, John de Toftes, Ralph Palivere, John de 
 Pounfret, Thomas de Bassyngton and William de Corby, of Coventre, 
 merchants, to Robert de Canleye of Coventre. 
 
 Lease by the Guild of the B. V. Mary, St. John Bapt. and 
 
 St. Catherine. 
 
 46 Edward III. [1372]. — Lease for forty years, at a yearly rent of 
 twenty shillings, of a messuage at Croschepyng of Coventre, by John 
 de Toftes, Master of the Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. John 
 the Baptist and St. Catherine of Coventre, with the assent of the whole 
 fraternity of the said Guild, to Edward Dedon of Coventre. 
 
 From this deed it appears that the three several Guilds of the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist and St. Catherine had been 
 united and reconstituted into a single " Fraternity or Guild," and that 
 the above was the first and proper designation of the Guild, which was 
 united with the Guild of the Holy Trinity in the 17th regnal year of 
 Richard the Second, as noticed below under that date, for which a 
 license was granted on June 30th in the year preceding. 
 
 Bond for a Lessee's Repair of Premises. 
 
 48 Edward III. [1374]. — Repairing Lease for forty years of two 
 granges with a house and ten cottages and a curtilage in Coventre, by 
 
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 John Botener and three others, merchants, to Eobert de Berkindale of 
 Coventre : with a separate bond from the said Eobert de Berkindale in 
 201. sterling, for the execution from time to time of all needful repairs, 
 within twelve months of their becoming needful. 
 
 Grant by Richard de Torke of Coventre, Clerk. 
 
 50 Edward III [1376]. — Gift of a messuage, with a house built 
 upon it and a broad gate, in Palmerslane in Coventre, by Richard de 
 Torke of Coventre, clerk, to John de Mart on of Coventre, dyer. 
 
 Lease for Forty Years and for Life. 
 
 1 Richard II. [1377-8]. — Lease for forty years and for life of a field 
 in Coventre, near the church of St. Nicholas of Coventre, at a yearly 
 rent of a rose-flower for forty years, and after the same term of years, 
 at a yearly rent of three shillings and four pence, by Thomas Sty ward 
 of Coventre to John Ingge of the same. 
 
 Conveyance of Lands formerly Henry Dodenhale's. 
 
 I Richard II. [1377-8].— Grant by Nicholas Michel and Waiter 
 Whytewebbe, of Coventre, merchants, to Adam Botener and John 
 Percy and eleven others, of all the lands and tenements, rents and 
 reversions, meadows and pastures, &c , which the present grantors, in 
 conjunction with Henry Clerk, Richard de Stoke and William de 
 Bocheford, had by the gift and feoffment of Henry Dodenhale. 
 
 Noteworthy Indenture of Apprenticeship. 
 
 8 Richard II., September 15th [1384]. — Indenture whereby Robert 
 Wallis of Coventre bound himself to serve as an apprentice to John 
 Thwening and Thomas Cawod of Coventre for six years, and in so 
 binding himself promised, under the penalty of cancellation and 
 forfeiture of the same indenture, that during the said six years he 
 would commit neither " fornicacionem nec adulterium cum uxore, fillia 
 (sic) nec nutrice nec ancilla dictorum magistrorum infra domum nec 
 extra." 
 
 While this indenture is somewhat remarkable for being in Latin, it 
 is more noteworthy for its limitations of the class of offences, which 
 apprentices of later time could not commit with any persons or under 
 any circumstances without rendering themselves liable to punishment 
 by the forfeiture of their articles of apprenticeship. There is no 
 reason to suppose that this indenture differs in this respect from agree- 
 ments then usual at Coventre. 
 
 Licence to assign Messuages and Land to the Corpus 
 Christi Guild. 
 
 16 Richard II. [1392]. — Licence to John Skardeburgh, John 
 Wedon, Richard Marshall, Adam Deyster and Nicholas Dudley to give 
 nine messuages and six acres of land to the Master brethren and 
 sisters of the Guild of the Precious Body and Blood of the Lord Jeeus 
 Christ, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding : the said Licence 
 being granted by the Prior and Convent of the cathedral church of 
 St. Mary of Coventre, of whom the said nine messuages and six acres of 
 land are immediately held. 
 
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 Grant in pursuance of the preceding License. 
 
 16 Richard II. [1392]. — Conveyance, made by authority of Letters 
 Patent dated by the King on 28th June of the said year, of twenty- 
 nine messuages, eight acres of arable land, eighteen denariates of rent 
 and one half of a messuage in Coventre, by John Scardeburgh and the 
 four others named above to the Master brethren and sisters of the 
 Guild of the precious Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, to 
 hold the same for ever, for the finding a chaplain to celebrate divine 
 services daily for the benefit of the said Master brethren and sisters, 
 and for doing other works of piety. 
 
 Licence granted by the Dean of Lincoln for the Same. 
 
 16 Richard II. [1392]. — Licence from Master John de Shepaye, Dean 
 of Lincoln cathedral, to John de Skardburgh and the four others named 
 above, to give for ever to the Master, brethren and sisters of the Guild 
 of Corpus Christi of Coventre, a certain messuage in Coventre, which 
 is held immediately of the said Dean, to aid the said Guild in finding a 
 chaplain to celebrate divine services. 
 
 Enfeoffment of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, &c. 
 
 17 Richard II. [1393-4]. — Enfeoffment of the lands, tenements, 
 rents, services and reversions pertaining to the Master, brethren and 
 sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary, 
 St. John the Baptist and St. Catherine of Coventre. 
 
 This deed setting forth all the particulars of the property of the 
 newly constituted Guild, covers several large skins of vellum. Un- 
 fortunately it has suffered so much from dirt and friction as to be in 
 places illegible. 
 
 Discord between Sir William La Zouche, Lord of Haring- 
 worth, and John Stones, of the one Part, and Rowland 
 Damet of the other Part. 
 
 6 Henry IV. [1404-5]. — Award (in French) of Arbitrators — 
 to wit, William Keresley and Thomas-atte-Chirche of Stoke — for 
 the determination of discord and controversy between William La 
 Zouche Lord of Haryngworth and John Stones of Eton, of the one 
 part, and Rowland Damet, of Coventre, of the other part, respecting 
 right and title in certain lands and tenements in Folkeshull, to wit, in 
 three enclosed fields called Grendonfeld, Goldyfeld and Walkferlong, 
 which the said John de Stones claims to have for life, the reversion 
 being to the said Sir William and his heirs for ever, and of which the 
 said Rowland and Margaret his wife claim one. The arbitrators 
 direct that one part of the tripartite indenture which sets forth their 
 award shall remain in the Treasury of the Guild of the Trinity in 
 Coventre for ever. 
 
 In this instrument the Guild entrusted with the custody of one part 
 of the indenture is briefly styled " the Guild of the Trinity/' instead of 
 being styled with its full title. 
 
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 Long Lease of a Shop, &c, in Cross Street. 
 
 8 Henry IV. [1406-7 J. — Lease for a hundred years, at a yearly rent 
 of twenty shillings of a shop with a chamber above it and with 
 adjoining curtilages and garden, in the street of the Cross in Coventre, 
 by the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the B. V. M. and St. John Bapt. 
 to Robert Shepley of: Coventre, merchant. 
 
 Quitclaim in which mention is made of a Pageant-House. 
 
 8 Henry IV. [1406-7]. — Quitclaim (sealed) by John, the son and 
 heir of Richard Gierke of Coventre, merchant, to William Attilburgh, 
 Richard Southam the elder, John Wymoudeswold, John Onley, John 
 Preston and John Happesford, of all the right which he has, or after 
 his father's death may have, in all the messuages, tenements, rents, 
 reversions, &c, which formerly pertained to John Graupe in the 
 Greater Park Street in Coventre, and in a grange with an adjoining 
 garden, a cottage, two other cottages, one pageant-house (" uno 
 Pagenthous ") in Hull Street occupied by the Masters of " Whittaweres- 
 craft," two other cottages in the same street, a curtilage in the same 
 street adjoining the land of Richard Bykenhull, a great field called 
 Merryholt, another field called Chillenfeld, and another field called 
 Wyndemilnfeld, in Coventre. 
 
 The pageant-house mentioned in this quitclaim was one of the 
 houses in which certain of the companies of Coventre preserved the 
 stages on wheels and the other theatrical properties which they used 
 in the performances of the Coventry Mysteries. Many particulars 
 of these plays and theatrical appliances and the Coventry pageant- 
 houses, collected by the late James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 
 may be found in the Illustrative Notes to his Outlines of the Life 
 of Shakespeare. 
 
 Grant of the Messuage called " Byttereslane " to the Guild 
 of the Holy Trinity. 
 
 10 Henry IV. [1409]. — Gift and Livery of a messuage called 
 Byttereslane, lying in Smythforde Street in Coventre, by William 
 Broke, parson of the church of Lodbrok, his son John Broke, and John 
 Barbour of Bysshoppesychynton, to John Scardeburgh, Master of the 
 Guild of the Holy Trinity of Coventre, and John de Preston and Robert 
 Shippeley, brothers of the same Guild, and Margery Cookseye and Agnes 
 the widow of Richard Clerk, sisters of the same Guild, for the aid and 
 sustentacion of the guild ; the grant and livery being made in 
 accordance with Letters Patent of Licence of Henry IV. of February 
 16 an. 10, granted to the said William Broke, John Broke and John 
 Barbour, for that purpose. 
 
 Lease of the "Bannepece" ry the Prior and Convent of 
 
 Coventre. 
 
 1 Henry V. [1413-4]. — Lease for life, at a yearly rent often pence 
 of a field called Bannepece, lying near the church of St. Nicholas of 
 Coventre, by Richard Crosseby, Prior of the cathedral church and the 
 Convent of the same, to John Whiteley, chaplain, of Coventre. 
 
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 Lease of Shops in Bailey Lane. 
 
 1417. — Lease for twenty years, at a yearly rent of thirty-six 
 shillings, of two shops in Bailey Lane with chambers over them and 
 two chambers under them, by the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the 
 B. V. M. and St. John Bapt. to John Hornby, girdler. 
 
 Cottages to be rebuilt with Timber and Tiles. 
 
 4 Henry V. [1416-7]. — Lease for twenty-four years of divers 
 cottages in Bishop's Street, at a yearly rent of six shillings, granted by 
 John Gothe the Master and the brethren and sisters of the Guild of 
 the Holy Trinity, &c, to David Oswestre, carpenter, on condition 
 that within two years the said David will rebuild the said cottages with 
 fit timber and tiles. 
 
 Lease of the Tenter-Ground in Hill Street. 
 
 8 Henry V. [1420-1]. — Lease for ten years, at a yearly rent of 
 forty-six shillings and eight pence, of a croft and all the " tentoria " 
 placed therein, and three small houses in Hulle Street, by John Prentys, 
 chaplain, to William Owtred and John Owtred and their assigns; one 
 condition of the lease being that the said tenants " sustenta- 
 bunt omnia dicta tentoria videlicet in peciis meremii vocatis lates 
 et clavis ferreis," and " omnia meremia dictis tentoriis incumbencia 
 exhibebunt et invenient." 
 
 The largeness of the rent paid for this tenter-ground and its small 
 houses and " tentoria " by tenants who were bound to do all the needful 
 repairs at their own charges, may indicate both that the ground was 
 extensive and that the local manufacture of cloth was a flourishing 
 industry. 
 
 Lease granted by the Prior and Convent. 
 
 1 Henry VI. [1422-3]. — Lease for lives in survivorship, at a yearly 
 rent of fifty-three shillings and four pence, of a tenement in Attorhale 
 in Sowe with meadows and pastures in Buydynge Haylyll and other 
 appurtenances in Sowe and Wykyn, &c, by the Prior and convent of 
 the church of the B. Mary of Coventre to Thomas Colyns and . 
 
 his wife. 
 
 Provision for Celebration of an Anniversary in St. Michael's 
 
 Church. 
 
 2 Henry VI. [1423-4]. — Enfeoffment and lease for ever to the 
 Mayor and Community of the City of Coventre of a messuage in 
 Erlstrete, by William Babyngton, Chief Justice of the King's Common 
 Bench, and William Botener of Withibroke, feoffee of Agnes Whitte- 
 chirche widow of William Whittechirche late a citizen of Coventre, 
 on condition that the said Mayor and Community celebrate yearly the 
 anniversary of the said William Whittechirche and of William Palmer 
 and of the aforesaide Agnes Whittechirche, in the church of St. Michael, 
 at a cost and in a manner set forth in the deed. 
 
NOTE.— Error in Pagination. 
 
 The folios of the following 16 pages should read 
 145-160, not 143-158 as printed. 
 
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 The House Called "the Drapery." 
 
 1425. — Lease for thirty years, at a yearly rent of eight shillings, 
 of one half of a house called the Drapery, by the Master and 
 brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, &c., to 
 William Cortenale, draper. 
 
 The Great Drapery op Coventre, 
 
 4 Henry VJ. [1425-6]. — Lease for thirty years, at a yearly rental 
 of six shillings and eight pence, of one half -bay in the Great Drapery 
 (" unam dimidiam bayam in Magna Draperia Coventre ") by John 
 Leder the Master and the brethren and sisters of the Guild of the 
 Holy Trinity, &c. to John Willughby, draper. 
 
 John Alen, " Passonger." 
 
 10 Henry VI. [1431-2].— Lease for twenty years, at a yearly rent 
 of five marks, of a messuage in Bayllylane in Coventre, by Laurence 
 Cook the Master and the brethren and sisters of the G uild of the Holy 
 Trinity, &c. to John Alen of Coventre, i( passonger," 
 
 Lease for Ninety-nine Years to the Prior and Convent. 
 
 1437. — -Lease for ninety-nine years, at a yearly rent of sixpence, 
 of f our " seliones " of land lying together in the field near Coventre 
 called "le Hylmylfeld," by Robert Schyp<-ley, Richard Beton and 
 William Radeclyff, feoffees of the lands and tenements of John 
 Schypeley, son of the aforesaid Robert Schypeley, to the Prior and 
 Convent of the Cathedral Church of St. Mary. 
 
 A Tenement of the Abbot and Convent of Combe in Much 
 
 Park Street. 
 
 32 Henry VI. [1453-4]. — Lease for twelve years, at a yearly rent 
 of fifty -three shillings and four pence, of a messuage situated "in 
 quodam vico vocato Mustheparkstrete inter tenementum Abbatis et 
 Conventus ecclesie beate Marie de Comba ex una parte, et terram 
 Willelmi Betley ex alia parte," by Richard Boyes the Master and the 
 brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity to Richard Nores, 
 hosier. 
 
 The street, here called " Mustheparkstrete," is still called indifferently 
 " Much Park Street " and " Greater Park Street," the former of these 
 names being the one that appears on the walls of the street. 
 
 Selot's Chantry in Smythford Street. 
 
 33 Henry VI. [1454-5]. — Gift of a messuage in Smythforde Street, 
 lying between Seloteschauntery on the one part and the tenement of 
 William Melody on the other part, by William Saunders, deyster, and 
 his wife Agnes, to John Colchester, Robert Lawe, clerk, Simon Byrches 
 and John Broun, lynendraper, and their heirs and assigns. 
 
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 Provision for Celebration of an Obit in the Church of 
 Chesterfield. 
 
 1471, January 2nd. — Indenture of an agreement between Richard 
 Wood, Master of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the B. V. M. 
 St. J. Bapt. and St. Katherine, and Richard Braytoft and John 
 Pynchebek brethren, and Agnes Boys and Agnes Fyssher sisters, of the 
 same Guild, of the one part, and Rafe Calcrofte, Master, John Thomson 
 and John Swerde brethren, and Alice Coke and Margery Carr sisters, 
 of the Guild of St. Mary of Chesterfelde of the other part, for the yearly 
 celebration of an obit in the church of Chesterfeld " for the soules of 
 Master Thomas Chesterfeld, his fadir, his modyr and John Braunston," 
 and for the souls of other deceased persons. 
 
 Inn Sign of "The Cardinal's Hat." 
 
 11 Edward IV. [ 1471-2].— Gift by Dame Isabella, late the wife of 
 Walter Langley esq., of her inn in Coventre called " Cardinalis Hatt," 
 near the inn called et Le Crown in placea vocata Brodeyatys," to her son 
 John Langley. 
 
 Agreement to abide by an Award of Arbitrators. 
 
 12 Edward IV., May 21st [1472]. — Indenture, sealed with the 
 seal of the Mayor and community of Coventre, of an agreement 
 whereby William Briscowe alias Bristowe of the one part, and the 
 Mayor and community of the said city of the other part, agreed to 
 "abyde the rule ordinaunce and jugement of John Cateby sergeaunt of 
 the lawe and William Cumberford arbitratours indifferently chosen 
 betwixt the said parties of and upon the title and possession of alle 
 maner landes and corny n of pasture beyng in variaunce between them," 
 and also agreed " that the said William Briscowe and one assigned for 
 the seid Meir and cominalte shall ride to London at VIIl vas of Trinite 
 next comyng to labur and desire the seid John Cateby and William 
 Cumberford to take the labur of the premises upon them." 
 
 Unfortunately the parties to this indenture did not hold steadily to 
 their purpose of determining by arbitration the controversy respecting 
 their right and title in lands and common of pasture on Whitley Common. 
 The arrangement having fallen through, the Corporation and the Squire 
 of Whitley contended fiercely and bitterly with angry words and blows, 
 public riot and costly litigation. 
 
 The official clerks, who in the 1 5th century copied records touching 
 the owner of the estate usually styled Whitley Manor (albeit its alleged 
 manorial quality was questioned and even denied by many persons), 
 used to spell his surname in different ways, e.g., Briscowe, Briscoe, 
 Bristowe, Bristoe. 
 
 Award of Arbitrators for ending the aforesaid 
 Controversy. 
 
 13 Edward IV., July 3rd [1473].— Award of Arbitrators for de- 
 termining the variance and controversy between the Mayor and 
 community of Coventre of the one part and William Briscoe of 
 Whitley of the other part, respecting right and title in certain lands 
 in Whitley, running in these words : " This indenture made the thridde 
 day of July the xiiith yer of King Edward the Fourth witnesseth 
 
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 that wher variaunce contravercie and debate was had moved and steryd 
 betwene the Meir and cominalte of the Citee of Coventre on that 
 on partie, and William Briscoe on that othir partie, for the right 
 title and possession of certen land lying in Whittley bitwene the water 
 of Sbirborne and the Skynners buttes in lenght on that on partie and 
 on the othir partie from the same Skynners buttes unto a rneadowe 
 eallid Medowmore on the othir partie, and in brede bitwene the Kyngis 
 park on the on partie and the highweye leying from Coventre toward 
 London on that othir partie, and also for a parcelle of land bitwene 
 Alderfordpece and Whittleycros parcelle of the same lond, and also for 
 comyn of pasture which the said William Briscowe claimeth to have for 
 his bestis in alle the feldis on both sides of the said wey from the seid 
 lond called Buggyngfeld upon Wridesden or Stokefeld upon Wridesden 
 and Skinners buttes unto the towne of Coventre, wherein the seid Meir 
 and cominalte have used to have their comyn of pasture from the fest of 
 Seynt Peter the Advincle (sic) called Lammas unto the fest of the 
 Purificacion of our Lady : Wherupon John Fissher of Coventre, 
 sherman, and John Emmottes of the same, capper, be bounden in an 
 obligacion of an hundreth mark to the said William Briscowe for the 
 said Meir and cominalte, upon condicion that the said Meir and 
 cominalte shuld abide the arbitrement ordinaunce and dome of George 
 Burneby esquier, John Hathewike, Thomas Cotes and Kobert Otter 
 arbitrours chosen indifferently bitwene the seid parties, and the seid 
 William Briscowe was bounden in an nothir obligacion of an hundred 
 mark to the seid John Fissher and John Emmottis upon the same 
 condicion. Wherupon the said arbitrours the dey and yer aboveseid 
 awarded ordeigned and demyd that aswell the seid William Briscowe 
 as the seid Meir and cominalte shalbe nounsued in all such accions as 
 either partie have ayenst othir in any cf the Kyngis Courtis, and also 
 the seid William Briscowe shall relees and suertie of the peas ayed (?) 
 ayenst John Wildenrise of Coventre, and also the seid arbitrours awarded 
 ordeigned and demyd that the seid William Briscoe shall have and enjoy 
 to hym his heirez and his assignez for evermore without any interupcion 
 of the seid Meir and cominalte and their successours alle such lond 
 lieing in Whittley from the water of Shirborne unto Buggyngfeld upon 
 Wridesden in Whittley aboveseid, which hath byn enclosed bifor this 
 tyme, and also the said William shall have to hym his heirez and assignez 
 for evermore without any interupcion of the seid Meir and cominalte 
 and their successours alle such lond in Whittley callid Buggyngfeld or 
 Stokefeld upon Wrisdeden as is aboveseid, lieng betwene the seid lond 
 enclosed and the seid Skynners buttes in lenght and in brede bitwene 
 the said Kyngis park and the said highwey ledyng from Coventre toward 
 London, with the forseid parcell of the same Buggyngfeld lyend from 
 Whittlecros to Alderfordpece, savyng the right of alle othir parsones 
 pretendyng eny title in eny parcelle of the same lond if eny right they 
 have. And farthermore the seid arbitrours awarded ordeigned and 
 demyd that the seid Meir and cominalte shall have only every yer 
 comyn of pasture with their bestis from Lammas unto Candlemas in 
 all the said lond if it' be falowe or ellis unsovven, and if it be sowen as 
 soone as the corne is caried away. And also the same arbitrours 
 awarded ordeyned and demyd that the seid William Briscowe his heirs 
 and his assignez shalbe comyn and entre comyn with the said Meir and 
 cominalte and their successours for evirmore withoute eny interuption 
 of the same Meir and cominalte and their successours as is aforeseid, in 
 like wise and fourme in alle such lond and feldis as the seid Meir 
 aud cominaltie have comyn in bitwene the said Skynners buttes and 
 Buggungfeld upon Wridesden aforeseid and the towne cf Coventre on 
 
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 both sydes the seid highwey, aftir the rate of the seid lond lyeng 
 bitwene the water of Shirborne aboveseid and the seid Skynners buttes 
 and feld aforseid, and also aftir the rate of a felde callid Alderfordpece 
 and after the rate of a parcel of loud lyeug from Alderfordpece to 
 Whittleycros aboveseid. Also the said arbitrours awarded ordeigned 
 and deinyd that the said Meir and cominalte and everych of them 
 shalbe quyte and discharged ayenst the said William Briscowe his 
 heirez and his executours for alle maner of trespacez and offences doon 
 by theym or eny of theym to the said William Briscowe for eny interesse 
 or occupacion of eny of the said lond afor the date of this present 
 writyng. In wittnes whereof to this partieof this Indenture remayning 
 with the said William Briscowe the seid arbitrours have sette their sealis 
 the day and yer aboveseid." 
 
 Attached to this writing on vellum is the above-mentioned Recog- 
 nizance of John Fyssher and John Emottes, dated on 27th June, 
 18 Edward IV., whereby they acknowledge themselves to be bound 
 to the said William Briscowe in the sum of one hundred marks sterling 
 to be paid to him or his attorney in the quindene of St. John the 
 Baptist next. 
 
 Together with this Indenture, there is also preserved in the 
 Muniment Boom, the counterpart " remaynyng with the said Meir." 
 
 An exemplification of this award, dated 18 Nov. 14Ed\v. IV., is noted 
 among the MSS. in Class IV., infra; and of a verdict of a jury on the 
 dispute. Other records are also in Class VI., infra. 
 
 Lease granted by the G-uild of the Holy Trinity, &c. to 
 William Paynell, " Whittewer." 
 
 16 Edward IV. [1476-7]. — Lease for twelve years, at a yearly rent 
 of forty -six shillings and eight pence, of a messuage with a garden in 
 Sponne Street, by Bichard Braytoft the Master and the brethren and 
 sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, &c, to William Paynell, 
 " whittewer." 
 
 Hall of St. Nicholas and Hospital of St. John the Baptist. 
 
 20 Edward IV. [1480-1]. — Quitclaim and Confirmation, by Henry 
 Grey, esquire, son of Edward Grey, late Lord de Ferrars de Groby, 
 and by Henry Boteler, feoffee of William Burgeys, cousin and heir of 
 Balph Hunt, to Bichard Colyns, in respect to a toft or piece of land in 
 Coventre, lying as to length in Smythfordstreete, and as to its breadth 
 between the tenement of the Guild of Corpus Christi and St. Nicholas 
 and the tenement of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, and 
 extending from the same street to the Hall of the aforesaid Guild 
 called St. Nicholas Hall. 
 
 The Guild-yard within Bayly Lane. 
 
 5 Henry VII., June 20th [1490]. — Lease for twenty years, at a 
 yearly rent of fifty-five shillings, of two tenements in Coventre, the one 
 being in Baylylane, and the other in the " Gylyard " within Baylylane, 
 by Henry Kebull, Master of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, &c, with 
 the assent of the brethren and sisters of the said Guild, to William 
 Haddon, mercer. 
 
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 Lease of a Tenement in Erlesmyll Lane. 
 
 11 Henry VII. [1495-6]. — Lease for twenty-one years, at a yearly 
 rent of thirteen shillings and fourpence, of a tenement with appurte- 
 nances in Erlesmyll Lane, by Richard Colman, Master of the Guild of 
 the Holy Trinity, &c, with the assent of the brethren and sisters of 
 the said Guild, to Thomas Mooselle and Richard Booth, " sherman." 
 
 Award of Arbitrators between the Prior and Convent and 
 the City of Coventre, in respect to Contributions to the 
 Murage of the City. 
 
 14 Henry VII. [1498-9].— Award of Arbitrators— to wit, of William 
 Bishop of Lincoln, and John Bishop of Coventre and Lichfield, " and 
 other of the Counsell lerned of Arthur the first begoten sonne of King 
 Henry VII th , Prince of Wales . . . indifferently chosen and 
 named between Richard, Priour of the Monastery of Saint Mary in the 
 Citie of Coventre, and the Convent of the same place on the one partie, 
 and Thomas Bonde, Maire, and Commoinaltie of the same Citie on the 
 other partie" — for determining discord and variance respecting a yearly 
 sum of 10Z., which the said Mayor and community claimed of the said 
 Prior and Convent for the murage of the city. The Arbitrators ordain 
 that from the date of their award " the said Priour and Convent and 
 their successors shall bere and pay ratably with the citesyns of the 
 Citie to the forseid murage and making of the saide walles about the 
 said citie unto such tyme as the same walles be fully made up and 
 accomplished, that is to say yearly xft at the fest of All Sayntes, when 
 the said citesens and all other having londes and tenementes within the 
 same citie shall be proportionably charged after the rate of the quantite 
 of their said londes and tenements to the same murage, provided always 
 that, if any of the citizens or other personnes that have londes and 
 tenementes within the same be hereafter rated and assessed to a lesse 
 somme of money, then the Priour and Convent and their successours 
 shalbe in like forme lesse rated." 
 
 Provision for such an Obit as was " Comenly usid for Men 
 of Worshipe " in Coventre. 
 
 12 Henry VIII., October 6th [1520]. — Indenture of an agreement 
 between Thomas White, Master of the Guild of Corpus Christi and 
 St. Nicholas and the brethren and sisters of the same Guild of the first 
 part, and Letyse the widow and executrix of the testament of John 
 Saunders late of Coventre, capper and alderman, and John Clerk, 
 grocer, and Nicholas Heynes, capper, overseers of the same testament, 
 of the second part, and John Bonde, mayor, and the community of the 
 City of Coventre of the third part, and Thomas Waren the Master and 
 the brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, &c, of the 
 fourth part : Whereby the said Master brethren and sisters of the 
 aforesaid Guild of Corpus Christi covenant that they will " yerely for 
 ever on the second day of the moueth of August cause an Obite to be 
 kept in the parishe churche of St. Mighell in the said Cite for the 
 soules of the said John Saunders and Letyse, Agnes and Alice his 
 wiffes, as is comenly usid for men of worshipe in the seid Cite, with 
 dirige over nyghte and masse of the morowe with x preistes iii clerks 
 and ii children, every prieste to have iiirf., every clerke iid. and every 
 child a peny." 
 
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 Assignment ok the Manor Place by Chellesmore Dame 
 Eli z a is et i i Swill yngt< >n . 
 
 21 Henry VIII., March 6th [1530]. — Assignment to Roger Wigston 
 and Thomas Try, esquires, by Elizabeth Swillyngton, widow and 
 executrix of the late Rauf Swillyngton esq., of all her interest in the 
 Manor or Lordship of Chillesmore in the county of the city of 
 Coventre, under Letters Patent dated on 7th Juno, 16 Henry VIII., 
 whereby the said King granted for twenty-one years, at a yearly 
 rental of 15/., the- said Manor and Lordship (with exceptions and 
 reservations) to Geffrey Whalley, prior of the monastery of Ulvescroft 
 and to the convent of the same place, to the use of Ilr.uf Swillyngton 
 for twenty-one years beginning at Michaelmas next after the date of 
 the said Letters Patent ; it being stipulated in the said assignment 
 that the said Elizabeth shall have and enjoy to herself and her 
 assigns during all the said term " the Manor Place of Chellesmore 
 with all mottes and waters on every side the said manor-place, and 
 all buyldings and gardynes and litle groundes within the same mottes, 
 and the grounde without the mote on the southe side of the said 
 manor-place within the said park, that is to sey along the freers 
 gardyns or orchard walle after the mote unto the Pynlok gate, as it 
 hath of olde tyme bene dyched and severed, with hegebet from tyme 
 to tyme to be taken within the said parke for the defence of the same 
 grounde, and to enclose and kepe severall or othervvyse to use the 
 same at the pleasure of the said Elizabeth during the said term, and 
 also a litell close with all the grounde without the mote and est syde 
 of the said manor place towards the citie, except only the course and 
 recourse with cataill to the pynloke." 
 
 William Marler, Gentleman, Son and Heir of Richard Marler, 
 
 Grocer. 
 
 28 Henry VIII., June 16th [1536].— Gift by William Marler of the 
 city of Coven trie, gentleman, son and heir of Richard Marler of the 
 same city, grocer, of all his messuages, lands and tenements &c. in Olde 
 Fylonghley, co. Warwick, to William Holbache the elder of Fylonghley, 
 yeoman, and Thomas Holbache the elder of Olde Filonghley, yeoman. 
 
 Mortgage of William Marler's Land and Tenements in Old 
 
 Filonghley. 
 
 28 Henry VIII., November 26th [1536].— Sale by William Marler, 
 of Coventre, gentleman, to William Holbach the elder and Thomas 
 Holbach the elder, both of Filonghley co, Warwick, yeomen, of his 
 messuage, lands and tenements &c. in Old Filonghley under condition 
 that, if he should pay, or cause to be paid, to the said William and 
 Thomas Holbache, or either of them, the sum of forty-six pounds at 
 any time before the Feast of St. Michael in A.D. 1540, the said sale 
 shall be void. 
 
 The Mote House in Coundon co. Warwick. 
 
 30 Henry VIII., May 31st [1538]. — Lease for fourscore years, at a 
 yearly rent of 17/. 13s. 4c?. by Thomas Camswell the Prior of the 
 monastery of our Lady of Coventre and the Convent of the same to 
 
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 Myghell Bolde, of the said city, yeoman, of a messuage with appur- 
 tenances in Coundon co. Warwick 44 called the Motbouse," with an 
 orchard, a garden, a croft, a field, and divers closes and pieces of land, 
 and also all the " rythes of woole and lambs with all rightes, dutyes, 
 proffittes . . . . to them in the tythe and rights of the monasterie 
 and of the churches of Herdwyke and Priores Marston in the countye 
 of W arwick yerely growyng and renewyng and beyng with the parysshes 
 of Herdwyke and Prioures Marston." 
 
 Agreement for regulating the Manufacture of Cromple Lyste 
 and ulterfyne cloths. 
 
 10 Elizabeth, March 22nd [1568]. — Indenture of an agreement, 
 between Queen Elizabeth of the one part and the Mayor bailiffs and 
 commoinaltie of Coventre of the other part : for placing under good 
 government and conditions the manufacture of Cromple Lyste and 
 Ulterfyne or Utterfyne cloths, recently introduced into Coventre from 
 Armentiers in Flanders, and for regulating the trade in the same cloths 
 with rules and penalties', in furtherance of the concessions made by Her 
 Majesty to the people of Coventre by Letters Patent of the same date 
 (as noticed above under the head of the Charters). 
 
 Lease of a Tower in the South Wall of the City of 
 Coventre. 
 
 11 Elizabeth, October 10th [1569]. — Deed of sale and assignment, 
 whereby Sir Edward Saunders, of Westou-under-Wetherley, co. Warwick 
 knt., one of the King's (sic) Serjeants-at-Law and Recorder of Coventre, 
 assigned to Thomas Dudley of Coventre, gentleman, Edward Damport 
 of the same city, pewterer, and four other persons of the same city, the 
 remainder of a lease for eighty years of a Tower, standing in the south 
 part of the wall of the said city, and also the remainder of a lease for 
 ninety-six years of a close called Little Pudingcrofte adjoining the same 
 south wall, which leases were both granted to the said Sir Edward 
 Saunders by the Mayor bailiffs and community of Coventre. 
 
 Grant of the Manor of Stoke &c. to the Mayor and Com- 
 munity, for the Relief of the Poor and the Maintenance 
 of Bablake Hospital. 
 
 30 Elizabeth, March 10th [1588]. — Agreement made between John 
 Home of Stoke in the county of the city of Coventrey, gentleman, and 
 his son and heir-apparent Reginald Home, of the one part, and the 
 Mavor bailiffs and community of the city of Coventrey, of the other 
 part, whereby, in consideration of a sum of 80/. paid to them, and for 
 the relief of the poor of the said city, and for the repair and maintenance 
 of a hospital called Bablake within the same city, the said John Home 
 and Reginald Home granted and sold for ever all the lordship and 
 manor of Stoke aforesaid, with all the messuages, rights, privileges and 
 appurtenances of the same manor, to the aforesaid Mayor bailiffs and 
 community : with an indented Schedule of " the Chiefe Rentes, parcel 
 of the said Manor of Stoke " attached to the Indenture. 
 
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 Establishment op a House of Correction in Coventre. 
 
 37 Elizabeth, August 13th [1595]. — Deed of sale and conveyance, 
 made in consideration of a payment of forty marks, by Barnabie Hol- 
 bache of Younge Fillonghlie co. Warwick, yeoman, and William Holbache 
 son of the said Barnabie, of the manor of Olde Fillonghlie co. Warwick, 
 and the common and waste grounds called the Chapell Greene, and the 
 stange or water-pond thereunto adjoining, and Newhaie Greene, and 
 thirty acres upon Corely Moore &c, and divers chief rents, to the 
 Mayor bailiffs and community of Coventre, to hold the same to them 
 and their successors forever " to and for the provision sustentacion and 
 maintenaunce of the House of Correction in the said citie of Coventre 
 and for stocks and stoores to the uses and according to the Statutes of 
 the Eighteenth and Five-and-Thirtieth yeres " of the Queen. 
 
 A Tenement lately a Pageant-House in Gosford Street. 
 
 44 Elizabeth, June 1st [1602]. — Lease for sixty-one years, by 
 Richard Butler, John Herringe, Michell Smithe and Ralfe Dunnington, 
 Masters and wardens of the Company of Mercers of Coventre, of a 
 messuage or tenement " lately being a pagent house " in Gosford 
 " Street," to Richard Bankes, "yoman," his executors and assigns, at a 
 yearly rent of twenty-seven shillings. 
 
 Tithes of "Bradokes Waste" of the Rectory of St. Michael. 
 
 3 James I., March 9th [1606]. — Lease for twenty-one years, at a 
 yearly rent of thirty-three shillings and four pence, by the Mayor 
 bailiffs and commonalty of Coventre to Samuel ... of Stoke, 
 gentleman, of all " ther tithes of corn, hey and herbage, wood, wool, 
 lambe and all other titheable thinges growynge renewynge and cominge 
 in all those groundes as they be now severed called and knowne by the 
 name of Bradokes Waste lying and beyng within the titheable places 
 of the Rectorie of St. Michaell and Trinitie within the city of 
 Coventre." 
 
 Agreement touching the Conduits. 
 
 9 Charles I., August 20th [1633]. — Indenture of an agreement, 
 between Bartholomew Bewley " of Coventrey plummer," of the one 
 part, and the Mayor bailiffs and commonaltie of the said city, of the 
 other part, opening thus, " Whereas long and of ancient times there 
 hath beene amongst others two conduits in the said citie, whereof one is 
 commonly called the Bull Conduit and the other is called Croscheaping 
 Conduit, which conduits are or have beene usuallie served and fedd with 
 water by a maine pipe of leade laid and placed from the spring or 
 fountaine called Conduit Head lying and being in the countie of the 
 said Citie unto the conduits aforesaid, from and betweene which two 
 conduits there is and hath bene anciently a pipe of lead laid and placed 
 in the ground for conveying and bringing of the said spring water from 
 the one conduit to the other, and whereas by agreement made betweene 
 the said parties the said Bartholomew Bewley did in August last under- 
 take and promise at his owne charges to take up the said pipe of lead 
 betweene the said conduit called the Bull Conduit and the other conduit 
 in the same citie called the Croscheaping Conduit, and to cast and make 
 such a sufficient and substantial new cast pipe of lead of as great large 
 
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 and full a proportion as well for boare and thickness and weight as 
 should in every respect be answerable to one pece of cast pipe of leade 
 then brought to remaine for a patterne in the Counsell House of the 
 said city " &c. By the indenture, which sets forth in these terms the 
 source from which the two principal conduits of the citie drew their 
 chief supply of water, Bartholomew Bewley, besides undertaking to 
 renew the pipe running between the same conduits, also undertook 
 amongst other things, for a consideration and under conditions set forth 
 in the indenture, to keep the conduits and public water-pipes of the said 
 city in repair for thirty-one years. 
 
 The Lady Tower, formerly Part of the Town Wall lately 
 demolished by order of charles the second. 
 
 22 Charles II., February 8th [1670]. — Indenture of an agreement, 
 between the Mayor bailiffs and community of the city of Coventry of 
 the one part and Sir J ohn Hales of the same city, baronet, of the other 
 part, whereby the said Mayor bailiffs and community granted to the 
 said Sir John Hales all the stone of the Lady Tower, formerly part of 
 the Town Wall of the said city without Newgate, " which wall by the 
 King's commaund was lately demolished," and also granted to the same 
 Sir John Hales, his heirs and assigns, for a term of ninety nine years, a 
 parcel of ground lying and adjoining the same Town Wall without 
 Newgate, and also the ground where such part of the Town Wall stood ; 
 the said grant of stone and lease of ground being made by the said 
 Corporation in consideration of Jv5 paid to them by the said Sir John 
 Hales by way of fine, and also in consideration of a yearly rent of five 
 shillings to be paid by the same grantee his heirs and assigns to the 
 said Mayor bailiffs and community, throughout the said term of ninety- 
 nine years. Attached to this Indenture is "A scheme of the demised 
 premises." 
 
 IV. Exemplifications of Curial Records, Writs and Letters of 
 Commission, to the number of thirteen writings. 
 
 Together with other writings that need not be noticed in the present 
 report, the MSS. of this group comprise the following : — 
 
 Controversy between William Briscoe and the Mayor and 
 Community of Coventre. 
 
 14 Edward IV., November 18th [1474].— Exemplification of the 
 enrolment of an Indenture made on 3rd July of 13 Edward IV. between 
 the Mayor and Community of Coventre of the one part and William 
 Briscoe alias Bristoe of the same city of the other part, as entered 
 Under the latter date, supra. 
 
 Verdict of Jurors on the same Dispute. 
 
 15 Edward IV., November. 28th [1475].— Exemplification of the 
 Kecord (amongst the Pleas at Westminster in Trinity Term, 15 
 Edward IV.) of the proceedings in the cause of the Mayor and Com- 
 munity of Coventre versus William Briscowe, of Coventre, gentleman, 
 closing with the verdict of jurors that the Mayor and Commuuity of the 
 said city unjustly disseised the said William of twenty-eight acres of 
 arable land and three acres of heath lying under the park of Cheldes- 
 more from the buttes called the Skynners' Buttes to the water at 
 
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 Shirborn, and that the said William did not enter with violence and 
 aims on the said land called "the comengrowiid," and did not disseise 
 the said Mayor and community of the said land. 
 
 Other documents relating to this dispute will be found under the next 
 headings, in Classes V. and VI. 
 
 Former Possessions of the Prior and Convent of Coventre in 
 
 THE WoDENDE. 
 
 36 Elizabeth, October 30th [1594].— Exemplification under the seal 
 of the Exchequer of entries in a book formerly belonging to the Priory 
 of Coventre, and remaining in the custody of the Remembrancer of the 
 Exchequer : Certifying that the Prior and Convent of Coventre had in 
 the Wodende a tenement or messuage, and also had as appurtenances to 
 the same messuage two fields called the Knydinges, extending in one 
 direction to the waste of the lordship of Stoke, and also a waste 
 called Bagot Waste lying between the waste of Robert de Stoke and 
 the way toward Leicestre, and also a toft near the Wenchfeldes, and a 
 croft lying in Wyken and called Wykyncroft. 
 
 Writs to Sheriffs and Others Co. Warwick, for providing 
 Ships, &c. for the King's Service. 
 
 11 Charles I., August 4th [1635].— Writ addressed to the Sheriff of 
 the county of Warwick, the Maj or bailiffs and community of the city 
 of Coventre, and the Sheriffs of the county of the same city, and the 
 Bailiffs of the town of Brymingham, and the Warden and society of the 
 royal town of Sutton Coldfield co. Warwick, and the Bailiff aldermen 
 and chief burgesses of Stratford-upon-Avon co. Warwick, and all the 
 worthy men of the said city, boroughs, and members thereof, and in the 
 county of the said city, and in the towns of Warwick, Alcester and 
 Coleshill, and all the other towns, villages, hamlets and places in the 
 said county : Requiring them to provide at their own charges a ship of 
 war of four hundred tons, manned with one hundred and sixty able and 
 expert seamen, and duly equipped with victuals, arms and munitions 
 of war, and to cause the same ship to be brought, this side the first day 
 of next March, to the port of Portsmouth, thence to proceed in the 
 company of the said King's ships and the ships of others his faithful 
 subjects in an expedition to tight and destroy the robbers and pirates of 
 the sea, Mahometan enemies of the Christian name, and others, who 
 are harassing and despoiling and plundering the ships, goods and 
 merchandise of the king's subjects and friends, and have carried the 
 men of the same ships into most wretched captivity. 
 
 Also, three other writs for shipping of war for the same purpose, 
 dated respectively August 12th 12 Charles I., 19th September 13 
 Charles I., and 5th November 14 Charles 1. 
 
 Appointment of Deputy Lieutenants of Coventre. 
 
 35 Charles II., September 22nd [1683]. — Commission, signed and 
 sealed by Robert Earl of Sunderland, Lord Lieutenant of the county of 
 Warwick, appointing the Mayor of Coventre for the time being, Sir 
 Thomas Norton bart., Sir Arthur Caley and Sir Robert Townesend 
 knts., John Dugdale, Basil Fielding and Henry Greene esqrs., Nathanael 
 Harriman, Thomas King, Henry Smith and Richard Haywood, 
 
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 gentlemen, to be Deputy Lieutenants for and in the city of Coventry and 
 the county of the same city. AJso, new Letters of Commission to the 
 same effect, dated on 20th June, 1 James II. [1685] by the same Lord 
 Lieutenant. 
 
 V. Rolls and Files, to the number of eighteen. 
 
 These writings comprise the following matters : — 
 
 Suit of Robert de Morley versus the Prior of Coventre. 
 
 Edward III. Detached membranes of a Roll (French and Latin), 
 comprising a copy of the Record of proceedings in Robert de 
 Morley's suit at York in 11 Edward III. [1337] against the Prior of 
 Coventre, for the recovery of a thousand acres of arable land, ten acres 
 of meadow, twenty acres of pasture and twelve acres of wood in Sowe. 
 
 Statute Merchant Rolls for Recognizance of Debts. 
 
 (a) 15 Richard II. — 3 Henry V. — Remains of a Roll; the Clerk of 
 the Statute throughout the term of years covered by these remaining >. 
 membranes was John Ofchirch. 
 
 (b) Temp. Henry VI. — Four membranes of another roll, to wit, for 
 the 8th, 12th, 13th and 34th years of Henry the Sixth. 
 
 (c) 15 Henry VIII. — 3 James II. — A collection of detached mem- 
 branes of similar rolls, the membranes being for the years 15 and 26 
 Henry VIIL, 29, 31, 33 and 45 Elizabeth, 1 James I., 33, 34, 35 and 
 36 Charles II., and 1, 2 and 3 James II. 
 
 (d) 26 Henry VIIL— 29 Charles II. — A great and heavy File of 
 one hundred and eighteen Rolls, upon the same number of membranes, 
 for four years of Henry VIIL, two years of Edward VI., five years of 
 Mary, thirty-six years of Elizabeth, twenty-two years of James I., 
 twenty-three years of Charles I., the eleven years of the Commonwealth 
 Period and fifteen years of the reign of Charles the Second. 
 
 The membranes of this imperfect series of Statute Merchant Rolls 
 appear to have been flattened out and put together on a single file by 
 a comparatively modern worker upon the Coventry records. 
 
 The Warwickshire antiquary who would edit this large body of 
 Statute Merchant Rolls would discover curious pieces of information, 
 touching the personal history of notable individuals, and could hardly 
 fail to throw light on the social condition and financial vicissitudes of 
 one of the most interesting cities of England. 
 
 Furniture and Ornaments of the Guild of the Holy Trinity. 
 
 20 Henry VI. [1441-2]. — Roll (a single indented membrane) of the 
 Inventory of the tapestry, needlework, seats of estate, registers, silver 
 and silver-gilt plate, napery (diapered and plain) and other chattels, 
 belonging to the Guild of the Holy Trinity of Coventre, in the custody 
 of William Barynton, (i officiarium dicte Guilde, custodientem jocalia 
 dicte Gilde subscripta/' 
 
 Incident in the Dispute between William Briscowe and the 
 Citizens of Coventre. 
 
 11 Edward IV. [1471-2]. — Copy of the Record of the Proceedings 
 in the cause of William Pere v. Briscowe (otherwise spelt Bristowe) 
 
154 
 
 of Coventre, gentleman, and William White of Whitley co. Coventre, 
 husbandman, charged by the said William Pere with assaulting him and 
 breaking into bis close, &c. on 4th July, 10 Edward IV. 
 
 Warrant for levying Distresses on Tenants of the Manor 
 
 of Cheilsmore. 
 
 14 James I. [1616-7]. — Roll- Schedule of arrears of rent due to the 
 King from tenants of the manor of Cheilsmore ; with a warrant at its 
 foot, signed by Fulke Grevyll, for levying distresses for the payment, 
 and for arresting those tenants who refuse to pay. 
 
 VI. Miscellaneous Matters, 
 
 The writings, described under this heading in the Catalogue of the 
 Charters and Manuscripts, comprise the following records : — 
 
 Large Packet of " Final Concords." 
 
 Edward III. — Charles II. — Packet of eighty Final Concords from 
 the time of Edward III. to that of Charles II. 
 
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 The Great Riot on Whitley Common. 
 
 10 Edward IV. [1470]. — Large membrance, displaying on one of its 
 its sides copies of live several writings, to wit, 
 
 («) The Bill of Complaint made to the King by William Briscowe 
 (otherwise spelt Bristowe), who describes himself as having been 
 " seisyd of the maners of Whittley with the appurtenances," against 
 William Saunders mayor of the said city, and William Pere and Robert 
 Orly citizens of the said cite, for having in the said King's 9th year 
 " caused, stered, provokyd, and commaundyd many and dyvers rotys 
 [riotous ?] personys of the seid cite, that is for to sey Henre Dabby, 
 carpenter, Nicolaus Kent, sadeler, William Drew, wolman, and John 
 Bordale, smyth, with many other rotys personeys of the said cite onto 
 them accompeneyed, to the number of vc. personys and more, to your seid 
 besechere oonknown, in manere of warre arrayed, that is to sey [with] 
 byllys, launcegayes, jakkys, salettys, bowes, arrowes, and with mattokys, 
 spadeys, sholles and axes, which by ther commaundment provocation and 
 steryng in souche riotis wyse came to the seid iiii closseys of your seid 
 besecher and the other landeys parcel of his seid maner, and the same 
 tyme caste downe his gatys and his dyches, cutte down his hegeys and 
 his trees, the whiche dyches and hegeys have be ther continued and 
 useyd tyme [out] of mynde, and money grete okeys beyng growyng in 
 the hegeys and dyches &c." Praying the said King to grant his Letters 
 of Privy Seale to be directed to the said William Saunders late mayor 
 of Coventre and William Pere, commanding them to appear before the 
 Privy Council, to answer for the matters charged against them by the 
 complainant. 
 
 (b) ''The Answere of William Saunders, William Pere and John 
 Gauge, citizennys of the Citie of Coventre to the Bill sued ageyns them 
 by William Briscowe." 
 
 (c) " The Replicacion of William Briscowe to the answere of William 
 Saunders, William Pere and John Gange 
 
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 (d) " The Rejoindre of William Saunders, William Pere and John 
 Gauge to the Replication of William Briscowe." 
 
 (e.) The King's Writ, dated at Westminster on 18th July of his 10th 
 year, and directed to the Prior of Mastoke, Sir Richard Byngam knt. 
 and Thomas Lyttelton : requiring them to make enquiry, and by the 
 examination of trustworthy witnesses to ascertain the truth and justices 
 of the matters in dispute, as set forth in the said Bill, Answer, Replica- 
 tion and Rejoinder, and to make a return respecting the same, together 
 with the examinations of the witnesses, to the King and his Council, 
 
 Affidavit respecting- the Discord between William Briscowe 
 and the City op Coventre. 
 
 12 Edward IV. May 24th [1472].— The Sworn Declaration of thirty 
 men of various ages between 40 and 80 years inclusive, protesting 
 against the trouble William Briscowe of Whitley has caused and is 
 causing to the Mayor and community of Coventre by " claymyng the 
 common grounde that lieth betweixt Baronfelde without the newe yate 
 under the Kynges Park stretchyng to Whitby broke called Shirburne 
 afFerming hit to be his own lande," and certifying that the said claim 
 is "open wrong." In conclusion, they say that, in consideration of 
 their seals being little known, they desired u the reverend fadirs John 
 Abbot of Kenelworth, Alexander Abbot of Combe, Riehard Abbot of 
 Myryvale, John Abbot of Stonley, Symond Mountfort knyght, Robert 
 Stretley knyght and William Hugford, in whose presence" they have 
 sworn upon a book to the truth of their evidence, " to set their seals to 
 these presents." 
 
 As this affidavit is sealed by all the thirty makers of the declaration, 
 as well as by the four Abbots, two knights and one other person, who 
 bore testimony to the credibility of the declarants, the instrument is 
 fringed at the bottom with a remarkable show of seals. 
 
 The late Religious House of the Whitefriars in Coventre. 
 
 4 and 5 Philip and Mary [1557-8]. --Copy (certified by William 
 Berners and Thomas Mildmay) of the original Warrant, addressed by 
 the King and Queen to their Commissioners William Barnes, Thomas 
 Mildemay and John Wyseman, for the acquittance and discharge of the 
 Mayor Aldermen and inhabitants of Coventrie, in respect to their action 
 in taking and detaining the two bells and lead of " the late religious 
 hous of White Friers in the said citie of Coventrie," which house " at 
 the tyme of late dissolucion of Abbies, Priories, Monasteries, Chauntries 
 and other religious houses within this realme of Englande . . . . 
 was suppressed and pulled downe to the great defacing of the said 
 citie," when " the tymber, tilles and other ornaments apperteyning to 
 the said church .... was (sic) sold to the said persones." 
 
 The City of Coventry and St. John's College, Oxford. 
 
 7 Eliz. 1565 — 1681. — File of yearly Receipts from 7 Eliz. to 1681 
 in acknowledgment of a sum of £40, paid yearly by the Mayor and 
 Community of Coventre to the President and Fellows of the College 
 of St. John the Baptist in Oxford. 
 
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 Address to Queen Elizabeth from Loyal Citizens. 
 
 26 Elizabeth, November 14th [1584]. — Duplicate of the Address 
 offered to Queen Elizabeth by 20) of Her Majesty's loyal and faithful 
 citizens of Coventre, who declare their abhorrence of the wicked designs 
 and practices whereby certain of her enemies seek to deprive her of her 
 crown and life, and who inform Her Highness that ihey have formed 
 themselves into an association, each member of which is bound by his 
 oath to do his utmost to frustrate the detestable efforts of her said 
 enemies, to discover their plots, and " pursue as well by force of arms 
 as by all other means of revenge, warranted by the laws of this realme, 
 alle manner of persones of what estate soever they shalbe, and their 
 abetters, that shall attempt by any act, counsaile or consent, anything 
 that shall tend to the harme of her Majestie's royal person." In 
 the last line of their address, the two hundred and one members of 
 the Society declare themselves " most reddie to accept and admitt any 
 other hereafter to this our Societie and Association," for the maintenance 
 of the Queen's throne, the preservation of her life, the welfare of her 
 kingdom, and the confusion of her enemies. The address is followed on 
 the same parchment by the wafer- seals and signatures of the " ten 
 scoore and one " members of the Society. Each of the seals is placed 
 between the signatory's christian and surname, and besides being 
 impressed upon the parchment is attached to it by a thread. 
 
 Papers &c. of the Company of Carpenters, Tilers, and 
 
 Pinners. 
 
 16th to 19th century. — Collection of miscellaneous writings, — to 
 wit, Petitions to the Mayor of Coventre, Bonds, Docquet Books, 
 Freemen's Certificates &c, including a noteworthy Order of General 
 Sessions of the Peace respecting a colourable and fraudulent apprentice- 
 ship — formerly belonging to the Company of u the Craftes of Carpynters, 
 Tilers and Pinners." 
 
 The City of Coventry and the Duchy of Cornwall. 
 
 1620-1642. — Packet of receipts, in acknowledgment of half-yearly 
 payments of 33s., made by the Mayor, bailiffs, and comynaltie of 
 the City of Coventre to successive Receivers-General of the Duchy 
 of Cornwall, by way of rent due from the said Corporation for 
 the mansion house, park, mill, &c. of the manor of Cheilesmore. 
 
 Hawkesbury Coal Mines. 
 
 1621-1664. — Large packet of leases, granted by the Mayor and 
 Corporation in the years 1621, 1631, 1633, 1664 of lands in and about 
 Hawkesbury in the parish of Sowe to divers tenants, who were em- 
 powered by their respective leases to dig raise and sell coals commonly 
 called " ston-coale, sea-coale or pit- coale" from the " coale mynes, 
 delphes and veynes of coale " in the said land. 
 
 These indentures should be examined by any writer who would 
 produce a perfect account of the mines and mineral industries of the 
 Midland counties. 
 
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 Thomas Denne's Draft Plea on a quo Warranto. 
 
 13 Charles!., 1637, February 12th. — Draft plea upon a Quo Warranto 
 prepared for the city of Coventry on 255 sheets of paper by Thomas 
 Denne, and " perused and approved " on the aforesaid day u as good in 
 lawe and a sufficient answer " by the same Counsel : With copy of the 
 Quo Warranto. Also, in the same packet, an Exemplification of " The 
 Discharge in the Exchequer of the Quo Warranto, 1637." 
 
 Lord Chancellor Macclesfield's Decree respecting Sir Thomas 
 White's Charity Estate. 
 
 11 George I. [1724-5]. — Writ (on eleven large membranes) for the 
 execution of a Decree, made by Lord Chancellor Macclesfield, ordering 
 a reconveyance of Sir Tbomas White's Charity Estate to the Mayor 
 bailiffs and commonalty of the city of Coventry, together with all the 
 said Corporation's rights in the said estate. Opening wiih a statement 
 of the particulars of the grant of lands, tenements and rents, &c, 
 formerly belonging to Guilds and Chantries in the city of Coventry, 
 made to the said Corporation 19th July, 34 Henry VIII. 
 
 As the Letters Patent of Henry the Eighth's grant have passed from 
 the hands of the Corporation, the student of the Coventry muniments 
 should make a careful examination of the earlier portion of this lengthy 
 document. 
 
 Bill and Papers of the Eighteenth Century, touching 
 Cheylesmore Park and Coventry Charities. 
 
 1747-1780. — A collection of bills and documents touching Cheyles- 
 more Park, and papers touching divers of the Coventry Charities. 
 
 Papers touching the Frankland Foundation at Catherine 
 Hall, Cambridge. 
 
 1831. — Briefs, Affidavits, and other papers, in the matter of the 
 Frankland Fellowship at Catherine Hall in the University of Cambridge. 
 Founded by Mr. Frankland, for a person educated at Coventry school.' 
 
 Ten Volumes of Dr. Troughton's Drawings. 
 
 19th Century. — These volumes of sketches of the picturesque anti- 
 quities of Coventry by one of the most notable of the city's recent 
 worthies must not be left unnoticed. Dr. Troughton, an eminent 
 physician in his native city of Coventry, was also an amateur artist and 
 a zealous antiquary, who spent all his leisure gained by habitual early 
 rising in delineating the antiquities of the place. 
 
 The new Muniment Room of St. Mary's Hall is not only a beautiful 
 work of architecture, but in respect to space, light, ventilation and 
 
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 furniture is so fine an example of what muniment rooms should be 
 that it might well be regarded as a model for imitation in like cases. 
 
 In conclusion, the present reporter may observe that, whilst he was 
 reducing the Coventry MSS. to order at the charges of the Town 
 Council, he made a catalogue of them for' the convenience of the cus- 
 dians and the searchers of the multifarious evidences. Printed copies of 
 this classified catalogue, which contains many matters that are unnoticed 
 here, may be obtaiued from the Assistant- Curator of the muniments. 
 
 John Cordy Jeaffreson. 
 
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 THE MANUSCRIPTS OP 
 THE EARL OP RADNOR, AT 
 LONGPORH CASTLE, SALISBURY. 
 
 I. A fine folio volume, entitled " Registrum Hungerfordianum," con- 
 taining copies of deeds, etc. relating to the Hungerfords and their 
 possessions from the reign of John to that of Edward IV. The docu- 
 ments transcribed are arranged according to the places to which they 
 refer, in the following order : — 
 
 Marston, Highworth, and Over and Nether Stratton, co. Wilts. 
 Cricklade, Bramshaw, &c. co. Wilts. 
 Britford, co. Wilts. 
 Trevego, co. Cornwall. 
 Winterbourne Stoke, co. Wilts. 
 
 St. Martin's in the Fields, and Charing Cross, co. Middlesex. 
 
 Mildenhall, co. Wilts. 
 
 Rushall, co. Wilts. 
 
 Chippenham, co. Wilts. 
 
 Heytesbury and Chippenham charities. 
 
 Luxfield prebend. 
 
 Upton Scudamore, Warminster and Rowleigh, alias Wittenh am, coa. 
 
 Wilts and Somerset. 
 Hungerford, Sandon and Charlton, cos. Berks and Wilts. 
 Britford, co. Wilts. 
 Heytesbury, co. Wilts. 
 Teffont Evias and Dalewood. 
 Wellow manor and hundred, co. Somerset. 
 Farleigh Mountford, co. Somerset. 
 Wellow. 
 
 Penheal, co. Cornwall. 
 
 Kilmersdon, co. Somerset. 
 
 Little Cheverell, co. Wilts. 
 
 Selwood forest, co. Somerset. 
 
 Farleigh Sloo and Buttesford, co, Somerset. 
 
 Farleigh Castle chantry, co. Somerset. (Translations of the 
 documents relating to this chantry are given in Jackson's 
 " Guide to Farley Hungerford.") 
 
 II. Fragment of a smaller Hungerford Chartulary of the fifteenth 
 century. 
 
 TIL A collection of original deeds and other documents of the 
 fifteenth and sixteenth centuries relating to the Hungerford family, 
 many of which have very fine seals appended. Among them are the 
 following : — 
 
 1416, August 28.— The ' Holigost 1 on the Seine. Licence granted 
 by John, Duke of Bedford, Earl of Richmond and Kendal, and Constable 
 of England, of his own motion and against their desire, to Walter 
 Hungerford, knight, and John Skillyng, esquire, to depart from his 
 company and go home for the recovery of their healths. 
 
 French. Fragment of seal. 
 
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 1433, April 1. — Farley Hungerford. Letters of Walter, Lord 
 Hungerford of Heytesbury and of Hornet, appointing his son Sir 
 Robert Hungerford, knight, Sir John Stourton, knight, and four 
 others " to entrete, appoynte, and finally conclude with John of Ven- 
 dosme, knygbt, vidasme of Charters, oure prisonere, aud with his 
 frenddes and servaunts for the finance, rauncon, and deliverance of oure 
 said prisonere." 
 
 Signature and fragment of seal. 
 
 1449, July 24. — Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum 
 pervenerit, Walterus Hungerford, miles, dominus de Hungerford de 
 Heytesbury et de Hornet, Robertus Hungerford, miles, filius et heres 
 apparens ejusdem Walteri, ac Robertus Hungerford, dominus de Molyns, 
 filius et heres apparens predicti Roberti filii predicti Walteri, salutem in 
 Domino. Noveritis nos manumisisse, remisisse, relaxasse et per presentes 
 liberasse Willelmum Smelyn, nativum nostrum pertinentem ad manerium 
 nostrum de Heytesbury in comitatu Wilts, cum tota sequela sua impos- 
 terum sive in futuro procreanda cum totis bonis facultatibus et catallis 
 suis, et ipsum Willelmum per presentes liberum fecisse, et ab omni jugo 
 et servitute naevitatis, villenagii sive bondagii plenius liberasse per pre- 
 sentes, ita quod nec nos nec heredes nostri nec aliquis alius per nos sive 
 nomine nostro in predictum Willelmum aliquid juris, clamei, tituli, 
 actionis sive demandi racione premissorum habere, exigere, clamare, vel 
 vendicare poterimus, set per presentes de ipso Willelmo imperpetuum 
 sumus exclusi. In cujus rei testimonium sigilla nostra apposuimus. 
 Datum in castro de Farley Hungerford, vicesimo quarto die mensis Julii 
 anno regni regis Henrici sexti post conquestum Anglie vicesimo septimo." 
 
 Signed u Hungerford " and " R. H. le Molyns." — Fragments of three 
 seals. 
 
 1527, March 22. — Agreement between Sir William Sandys, knight, 
 Lord Sandys, Lord Chamberlain, and Walter Hungerford esquire, sou 
 and heir of Edward Hungerford knight, late deceased, for a marriage 
 between the latter and Alice, one of the daughters of the former, before 
 the feast of the Ascension. Walter Hungerford undertakes to settle 
 manors and lands to the yearly value of 100/. Lord Sandys undertakes 
 to pay 600 marks, viz. 400 at the day of marriage, and 200 at Michaelmas 
 following. He also undertakes to find meat and drink for such as shall 
 happen to be at the marriage. He further undertakes to "gyve to the 
 saide Water for the daye of the saide maryage one gowne of crymson 
 velwet and one other gowne of blacke velwet, one jacket of blacke 
 velwet and one other jacket of blacke satten, one dublet of crymson 
 satten and one other dublet of blacke satten," and to give to his 
 daughter for the day of the said marriage " one gowne of crymson 
 velwet and one other gowne of blacke velwet, one kirtyll of crymson 
 sattyn and one other of blacke satten, and all other ornaments as to 
 the bed of the said Alice for the said daye of mariage shall appertayne." 
 
 IV. Rentals, bailiffs' accounts, and ancient deeds, relating to places 
 mostly near Folkestone, co. Kent : — 
 
 Ackhanger, Ackridge, Alkham, Broadmead, Bourne, Buckland, 
 Cheriton, Clynton, Comb, Cliff, Capel [le Feme], Dommert, Elham, 
 Folkestone, Flaggs, Halton, Hawkinge, Hough am, Houghton, Hythe, 
 Hopton, Ingles, Luddenham, Moorhall, Norton, Newington, Romney 
 marsh, Sandgate, Swingfield, Terlingham, Walton, Wolverton. 
 
 V. Court Rolls :— 
 
 Folkestone hundred, Terlingham, Walton, Wolverton, Halton, Ack- 
 hanger, Newington, Belhouse, Dommert. 
 
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 VI. — A volume containing original letters : — 
 
 [1536 ?] Nov. 4. — Thomas Crumwell to Lord Hungerford of Haytes- 
 bery. " Thiese shalbe to advertise the same that I ha[ve] resceyved 
 your lettres with the deposicions and confessions of certayne persones 
 andaboke wherin was writen amonges other thy nges certayne prophecies, 
 accordyng to your lettres. And for your good procedynges in that 
 behalfe ye have assuredly deserved of the Kynges Highnes right harty 
 and condigne thankes. And'wher ye have commetted Richard Sole and 
 Richard Spicer to prison ye have done very well therin, requyryng you 
 they may remayne ther in saff and sure custodie and kepyng untill suche 
 tyme as ye shalbe further advertised of the Kynges pleasure in that 
 behalfe." Wyndesore, 4 Nov. Sig?ied. 
 
 [1537 ?] — Thomas Crumwell to Lord Hungerford of Haytes- 
 bury.— " Wher as before this tyme upon your advertisement of the 
 mysdemeanour of Sir Thomas Beese, clerke, vicar of Southstoke in the 
 county of Somerset, I required you to commyt him to warde to the next 
 gaole. And forasmoche as the said vicar hathe sufficient sureties 
 bounde for hym that he shalbe furthecommyng to answer to soche 
 thynges as shalbe layd agaynst hym on the Kynges behalfe, I require 
 you, calling unto you somme other discrete persone, beyng one of the 
 Kynges Justices of the Peax to exammyne the truthe of the matier 
 whiche is layde agaynst the sayd vicar with the circumstaunces therof 
 by all the ways and meanes ye convenyently may ; and to advertise 
 me therof when ye shall have oportunyte therto. Requiryng you 
 farther upon the receipt herof to cause the sayd vicar to be put at his 
 libertie and to be delivered out of prison." — Stebenhithe, 6 July. 
 
 Signed. 
 
 [1537,] October 12, Hampton Court. — The Queen (Jane Seymour) 
 to Lord Hungerford. — " By the Queene. Right trustie and welbiloved 
 we grete youe well. And forasmuche as by the inestimable goodnes 
 and grace of Almighty God we be delivred and brought in child bed of 
 a prince conceyved in moost laufull matrimoney betwene my lord the 
 Kynges Majesty and us, doubting not but that, for the love and affection 
 which ye beare unto us and to the commyn wealth of this hole realme, 
 the knoweledge thereof shuld be joyous and glad tydiuges unto youe, 
 we have thought good to certifie youe of the same, to thintent ye might 
 not only rendre unto God condigne thankes and praise for soo gret a 
 benifite but also continually pray for the long contynuaunce and pre- 
 servacion of the same here in this lief, to the honour of God, joye and 
 pleasyr of my lord Ihe King and us and the universall weale, quiet and 
 tranquillitye of this hole realme. Yevyn undir our Signet, at my Lordes 
 manour of Hamptoncourte the xij day of Octobre." 
 
 [1536-40, probably 1538,] April 7, St. James.— Thomas Crumwell 
 to Lord Hungerford. — " Thies shalbe to advertise you that havyng 
 receved your lettres of the 27th of Marche, I declared the same unto 
 the Kinges Highnes who takes the same very thankefully and in good 
 parte. Willing and desiring you further to examyne aswell the same 
 William Yrishe as all others that were present att the speking of the 
 wordes by you in your sayd lettres mencioned. Upon what grounde or 
 occasion, to what intent, and effect, what moved hym therunto, what 
 tyme and place and under what manerand affect he spake those wordes, 
 with as moche diligence and maturitie as ye maye. And that doon to 
 certifie me of your said examinacion with spede, wherupon ye shalbe 
 further adcertayned of the Kinges Highnes pleasure howe the said 
 person shalbe further ordered in that behalf, praying you in the meane 
 tyme to see the same kept in sure warde accordingly. — Signed. 
 
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 [1538,] September 21, Perish urst. — Thomas Crumwell to Lord 
 Hungerford. — " By your lettres of the 16th of this present delivered 
 unto me by this berer your servaunt, I perceyve the cancred malice of 
 Bichard Henly agenst. the Kinges supreme auctorite for the usurped 
 power of the grete ydole of Kome I commende moche your good 
 diligence and vigilancy in your proceding used in that behalf, Requiring 
 you that at the next commyng in that countrey of the Justices of 
 Assise ye cause him to be indicted and further processe to be made 
 agenst hym, so that he may be, to the terrible exemple of like pre- 
 sumptuouse and trayterouse persons, punished according to his demerites 
 as the lawe right and justice do require. As touching [the] proctor of 
 the Charthuse whereof ye be stuarde, my mynde was never by my 
 lettres nor otherwise expressed that he shuld contynewe there onles 
 he be of such fidilite to the house in the good administracon of his 
 office and of such honest conversacon both towardes them and other as 
 apperteyneth. And in cas he be so or if he hath ben otherwise and 
 woll ernestly emende, I wold be glad he myght contynewe there 
 according to myn intercession bifore made for hym. If he be not so 
 honestly disposed, I woll in nowise support hym but rather wold be sory 
 that he shuld hynder the house or contynewe therein to the slaunder of 
 the countrey. Concerning your mater betwene my lord of Huntingdon 
 and you, I shalbe content at all tymes to employe meself ernestly to 
 bring you togeder, and to be a meane that both your titles may be 
 shewed and loked upon, and so to assaye to my power that the right 
 title maye prevaile and you to remayne good freendes at the last. At 
 his next cummyng hither, I woll be in hande with hym for the same in 
 such wise that I trust ye shal have your right conserved as to right and 
 conscience shal apparteyne and as ye shal have cause to be contented." 
 Signed. 
 
 [1538?] November 11. London. — Thomas Crumwell to Lord 
 Hungerford. " Whereas by your lettres of the yjth of this present 
 sent unto me by this berer, your servaunt, I do perceave that nowe 
 lately you have committed to prison a prest called Sir Richard Henry 
 for certain traiterouse and sediciouse wordes spoken by him, as more at 
 large appeareth by a bill of articles sent unto me with your saied 
 lettres ; Thiese shalbe to signifie unto you the Kinges Highnes 
 pleasour is that the sayd prest do still remayn in warde untill the 
 commyng downe of the Judges in Eyre who shall at the next Assise 
 there to be holden by speciall commission here and examyne the saied 
 articles and so determyne the same as justice shall require in that 
 bihaif. And as concerninge the matier in variaunce betwixt you and 
 my lorde of Huntington, you shall undrestand that oone of the arbi- 
 trators elected and chosen to here and examyne the same is departed 
 this worlde, yet nevertheles I doubte not but that I with the rest of 
 the saied arbitratours shall at laysour and tyme convenient take such 
 ordre and directions therin as shall be to your good satisfaction." 
 
 [1539,] July. Oatlands. — Thomas Crumwell to Lord Hungerford of 
 Haytesbery. " Havyng receyved your letters wherin ye write of the 
 mysdemeanor of one Sir Nicholas Balam prest, late monk of Henton, 
 wherin myne advise shalbe that ye shall commyt him to the gaole till 
 the commyng of the Justices of Assise into those parties and to declare 
 the matier unto theym with the circurnstaunces therof to thentent the[y] 
 may order that [m]at[ter] according to their discrecions and as n 
 with the Kin[ges] law[e]s equite and justice I ha[ve per] used your 
 bo deposicions taken agaynst [Hen]ry Champ[ernon ? t]o 
 
 be delivered to Mr. Chauncelflor] of the Aug[ment]acions, bicause the 
 
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 mater apper[tei]neth to tha[tcour]t, to thentent he may procedet[herin] 
 as the ca[se sh]all require. Furthermore I h[ave] writen u[nto M]aister 
 Arundell if any injury hathe byn done unto you, to see you satisfied for 
 the same as [a]mite and conscience shall require, [and] I doub t [not he] 
 will do therm accordyngly. [And to]uching your [req]uest for 
 purchas of the manor of He[nton] and other [land]es of the same I 
 shalbe glad to fu[rther] you therin when the tyme shall serve." 
 Signed. 
 
 [1540.] Feb. 9. London. — Thomas Crumwell to Lord Hungerford 
 of Haytesburye. " Thies be tor asmoche as the Kinges Majestie hathe ben 
 enformed that certaine lycences, foundacions and other wrytynges be- 
 longyng unto the late priory of Charterhous Henton and grauuted by 
 Thomas Horton, clothier, and other hathe ben ymbeysled and conveyd 
 away by certaine persons. The Kinges Majesties pleasure is that ye, 
 calling Dame Mary Horton wydow, Thomas Horton, William Byrde 
 clerke, Eichard Davis, and Sir William Furber clerke, before you shall 
 examyne theim and every of theym by vertue of an othe to be 
 admynestred to theym by you of and uppon the premysses with the cir- 
 cumstaunces therof by all the wayes and meanes ye can or may 
 excogitate and devise. And to advertise me of that ye shall fynd and 
 knowe therin with all convenyent spede, to thentent I may cause suche 
 order and direction to be had and taken in that behalf as the case shall 
 requyre. Faile ye not thus to do as the Kinges trust and expectacion 
 ys in you." — Signed. 
 
 April 9. — The Earl of Hertford to Lord Hungerford. 
 
 I am informed that you pretend a title to a chantry in Chippenham 
 of which you are trying to procure a surrender by the incumbent. The 
 patronage of it belongs to me and you have no interest therein as I 
 will prove save by an advowson the circumstances of which I leave till 
 our meeting. If you persist and wade further in the matter, I doubt 
 not you shall take the fall. 
 
 From my house near London. 
 
 1615. October 31. Whitehall. — The Lords of the Council to the 
 Mayors of Ports, Rear Admirals, Searchers, &c. 
 
 Pass to permit Edward Hungerford Esq. to travel with two men 
 beyond the seas for three years for his better experience and knowledge 
 in the languages provided he repair not to Rome without his Majesty's 
 leave. 
 
 1638, Nov. 9.— The Lords of the Council to the high sheriff of 
 Wilts. His majesty having sent his writ to the high sheriffs of Wilts 
 and Gloucestershire and to the mayors and head officers of the corporate 
 towns within the same counties, to provide one ship of 350 tons besides 
 tonnage, to be furnished with 140 men, tackle, munition, victual and 
 other necessaries to be set forth for the safeguard of the seas at 
 the charge of the said counties and corporate towns ; and having 
 commanded them to assess the contributions to the same within fifty days 
 of date of receipt, the sheriff is required to order the business according 
 to the following instructions which are to be communicated to the 
 mayors and head officers of the corporate towns of Wilts. 
 
 1. The sheriff to be only of the quorum, but in case of unequal or 
 unfair rating carried by a plurality of votes the sheriff to have power 
 to balance that inequality, so as not to be overruled by the major votes 
 to the prejudice of the county which is the greater body. The sheriff 
 withal not using this power to the favour of the county against the 
 towns or of one town against another. 
 
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 2. That you meet with the sheriff and head officers of Gloucestershire 
 to assess the two counties respectively. And for your information we 
 rind that one ship manned and furnished as above will be 4,?00/. 
 whereof we think Wilts should bear 2,200/. and Gloucestershire 2,000/. 
 And in the county of Wilts we consider New Sarum should bear 90/. 
 the borough and town of Marlborough 25/. the borough of Devizes 
 £18 the borough of Chippenham 12/. and the borough of Welton 21. 
 and the rest of the county the residue of the 2,200/. 
 
 These rates we wish observed rather than have any difference of 
 opinion among you which would retard the service. But if for greater 
 equality and from more local knowledge, the major part of you agree to 
 a different rating and the sheriff assent, we are content your rating shall 
 stand. 
 
 3. Having agreed on the assessment, you should subdivide the same 
 and make the particular assessments in such sort as other common 
 payments upon the county or corporate towns are most usually 
 subdivided and assessed, viz. the sheriff to divide the whole charge on 
 the county into hundreds, lathes or other divisions, and those into 
 parishes and towns, and the towns and parishes must be rated by the 
 houses and lands lying Avithin each parish or towns, as is accustomed in 
 other common payments payable by them respectively. 
 
 And whereas his majesty takes notice that in former assessments, 
 notwithstanding the express order from our letters to ease the poor, 
 there have been assessed towards this service poor cottagers and others 
 who have nothing to live on but their daily work, which can only have 
 been done to raise clamour and of prejudice against this service, his 
 Majesty's command is that no persons be assessed unless they be known 
 to have estates and money or goods or other means of livelihood than 
 daily labour. When you find such poor men taxed you are to take it 
 off. Further, rich men occupying little or no land and who as an 
 ordinary land scot, would pay little or nothing, are to be rated according 
 to their worth and ability. Such rating to be used for the easing of the 
 poor or of such as are overcharged with children or debts. The like 
 course to be in the corporate towns. And herein you are to have more 
 than ordinary care and regard whereby to prevent complaints of 
 inequality in the assessments, wherewith we were much troubled last 
 year. 
 
 4. For more easy and better proceeding herein, the sheriff, after 
 having rated the several hundreds lathes and divisions of the county, 
 is to send forth warrants to the constables, requiring them to call unto 
 them some of the most discreet and sufficient men of every parish town 
 or tithing, so as to assess the hundred most equally, certifying the same 
 to you with all speed, which assessment you, the sheriff, are to sign if you 
 approve thereof. If for inequality you alter the assessment, you are to 
 sign it, keeping a true copy, and order the speedy levying of the same 
 by the constables of hundreds, petty constables, and others usually so 
 employed. 
 
 If any one returned to you are refusing or neglecting payment, you 
 are to execute the writ upon them, causing distress to be taken of them 
 and to be sold for payment of their assessments, rendering back the 
 overplus. The mayors and head officers to do the like for the 
 corporate towns, observing the usual distributions by wards parishes 
 and otherwise. 
 
 In the said assessment both sheriff and mayors are to express particu- 
 larly how much every clergyman is rated for his mere ecclesiastical 
 possessions and what for his temporal and personal estate. 
 
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 The whole assessment is to be certified to the council within one 
 month of its being made. 
 
 5. Concerning the assessment of the clergy, his Majesty is resolved to 
 maintain their privileges as under his progenitors, but as it has not been 
 sufficiently shown to us what privileges have been aforetime allowed 
 them in payments of this nature, for the present you are to assess them, like 
 the rest of his majesty's subjects but with due respect to their persons 
 and calling, not suffering any inequalities or pressure to be put upon 
 them. If any clergyman find himself justly grieved, upon complaint to 
 his diocesan or Chancellor you with some of them shall hear the 
 complaint, and relieve him if there be cause. If the complaint 
 is altogether frivolous and causeless, the diocesan to punish the 
 complainant. 
 
 6. Any constables bailiffs or other officers refusing or neglecting 
 their duties to be bound over to answer their neglect at the board, and 
 in case they decline to give such good bond you are to commit them until 
 they give bond or perform their duties; you taking special care in 
 the meantime of the due leyying as required of you, and by such 
 instruments as in the default of the constables and ordinary officers you 
 like best. 
 
 7. You are to frequently call for an accompt from the constables, officers 
 and others, and in case of refractory or dilatory persons you are 
 presently without delay or respect to proceed roundly with them 
 according to his majesty's writ, and not defer meddling with them to 
 the last or until others have paid, as was done by some sheriffs in 
 former years, whereby all the burden and trouble was cast upon the 
 end of the year and those that were refractory gained time above the 
 well affected. 
 
 Lastly you are to accomplish this service with speed, that the money 
 may be timely paid in and the fleet furnished by the date expressed 
 in the writ. For assure yourself that whatsoever you shall leave 
 unlevied during your shrievalty will not be cast on your successor, as in 
 former years some sheriffs expected and therefore retarded the service. 
 Such arrears to be levied by yourself after the end of your year by 
 warrant from your successor, or such other covenant as shall be found 
 most behoveful. 
 
 All moneys collected to be paid by you from time to time at London 
 to the Treasurer of the Navy for the time being. 
 
 You shall also from time to time call on the mayors and chief 
 magistrates of the corporations to pay similarly to the treasurer or to 
 you to be included in your payments. — Seventeen signatures. 
 
 1 638, November 30. Whitehall. — The Lords of the Council to the 
 present High Sheriff of Wilts and the High Sheriff for 1637. 
 
 Upon a review of the accounts for ship money levied on the writs for 
 1637, in spite of our exhortations, we find an arrear of 205/. 8s. By his 
 Majesty's special command, we require from the sheriff of last year upon 
 pain of severe proceeding to be had against you to pay to Sir William 
 Kussell K*, Treasurer of the Navy, what you have collected and not paid 
 in and to assess and levy the residue by distress or otherwise as by the 
 said writ of 1637. For which purpose we require and authorise you 
 the present High Sheriff to give warrant to your predecessor for that 
 purpose, or to such meet persons as he shall present to you to be 
 employed by him in that service from whom only his Majesty doth 
 expect an accompt for his own year. Said arrears to be collected and 
 paid in by the beginning of Candlemas term. In case of default, you 
 
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 are to attend this board on the second Friday of Candlemas term, to 
 give an account why the same is not levied and paid in. 
 
 1639, April 30. Whitehall— The Lords of the Council to the High 
 Sheriff of Wilts. On consideration of the slow coming in of ship 
 money this year and of the proceedings of sheriffs in former years, we 
 find it a great error that they laid the work upon the constables, and 
 further delayed to levy distress on the refractory till late in the year, 
 when it was most troublesome to levy. 
 
 To prevent this in you, we refer you to the instructions formerly 
 received from this board. If any constable prove negligent, you shall 
 perform the service in your own person or by competent deputy, and be 
 careful not to defer executing his Majesty's writ on the refractory. 
 Negligent constables shall be punished upon complaint from you. 
 Lastly you are to pay what money you levy to the Treasurer of the 
 Navy once every fortnight. 
 
 1639, December 1. Whitehall. — The Lords of the Council to the 
 High Sheriff of Wilts. By his Majesty's writ, you are to provide one 
 ship of 560 tons besides tonnage to be furnished with men tackle 
 munition victual and necessaries, assessing the county and corporate 
 towns for the same by the advice of the mayors and officers. 
 
 The charge of a ship of that burden so manned and furnished will be 
 7000/. We conceive that New Sarummay well bear 192/. the borough 
 and town of Marlborough 60/. the borough of Devizes 50/. the borough 
 of Chippenham 30/. the borough of Wilton 57. The residue to be assessed 
 upon the rest of the county. 
 
 As you shall herein perform your duty with diligence you shall not 
 only receive favour and thanks from his Majesty but an allowance of 
 6d. in the pound at the end of your performance of this service. 
 
 [A long paper of instructions to the sheriff and verbatim with that of 
 9 Nov. 1638, with the above noted variations.] 
 
 1639-40, January 12.— The Lords of the Council to the High Sheriff 
 of Wilts. Sheriffs are to use all possible diligence in the speedy levying of 
 ship money, in accordance with the writs issued in November last, more 
 than ordinary diligence to hasten his fleet to sea being desirable this 
 year. All money received to be paid to the Treasurer of the Navy by 
 the 20 [? Februjary next. An account of the sheriff's proceedings in 
 the matter to be given to the Council at the same time. 
 
 1639, February 21. Whitehall.— The Lords of the Council to the 
 High Sheriff of Wilts for 1638. There is an arrear of shipmoney 
 charged upon the county during the year of your shrievalty, for the 
 levying and bringing in of which you have been several times called 
 on by letters of this board, yet we find your negligence therein is still 
 the same. If all arrears of your shrievalty are not levied and paid 
 in by the end of the first week of next term, it is already resolved and 
 declared by the board, and directions are accordingly given to the 
 attorney, to proceed against you by information in the Star Chamber. 
 
 1639-40, March 5. Whitehall — The Lords of the Council to the 
 High Sheriff of Wilts. Complaining of neglect of the previous com- 
 mands of January 12. Kequire sheriff either to provide a vessel as 
 prescribed by the writ by the first of April next or otherw ise by the 
 same time to levy and pay in to the Treasurer of the Navy the whole 
 sum required in that behalf. Failing this, it is resolved and ordered by 
 the board, his Majesty being present in Council, that a round and 
 
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 exemplary proceeding shall be had against you according to your 
 demerits. 
 
 1640, May 11. Whitehall.— The Lords of the Council to the High 
 Sheriff of Wilts. You have been frequently importuned to levy and 
 pay in ship money. His Majesty's occasions for defence of the kingdom 
 are more rather than less pressing. These frequent admonitions add 
 weight to your default and contempt. If you pay not in at least one 
 half of the money due from the county by the last of this month, and 
 the other half by the 24th of June next, you must expect to feel a 
 smart punishment. 
 
 1640. June 6. Whitehall. — The Lords of the Council to the 
 High Sheriff of Wilts. We have desired the Lord Chamberlain of 
 the Household and the Lord Lieutenant of the County of" Wilts to 
 impart some particulars to you concerning his Majesty's service. By 
 his Majesty's express command, you are not to fail to meet his Lordship 
 at Marlborough on Tuesday night next June 9th, where you shall 
 understand more particularly the cause hereof. 
 
 Postscript. — You are also to take especial care that the High 
 Constables of the several Hundreds attend the Lord Lieutenant at 
 Marlborough with all speed for his further directions. 
 
 Endorsed. — " Hast, hast, post hast. Post at peril. For his Majesty's 
 especial service. 
 
 [With notes of postage thus] — Charing Cross 1 o'clock p.m. Basing- 
 stoke 2 in the afternoon. Andover past 6 in the afternoon. 
 
 1640, May 27. Whitehall .—The King to the High Sheriff of Wilts. 
 
 By the writ of 1639, you had to provide from Wiltshire a ship of 
 560 tons, or the equivalent charge thereof 7000/. by the first of April 
 last which you have hitherto neglected. You are at once to levy the 
 said 7000/. or so much of it as is unpaid and deliver it to the Treasurer 
 of the Navy in accordance with instructions of 11 May and this upon 
 peril of incurring the uttermost of such forfeitures and punishments as 
 by the laws may be inflicted upon you for so high contempt and 
 misdemeanour. 
 
 1640, October 21.— The Lords of the Council to the High Sheriff of 
 Wilts. On a review of the ship money accounts for Wilts, we find much 
 more money has been levied than you have paid in to the Treasurer of 
 the Navy on the writ of 1639, You are forthwith to pay in the same 
 and further to recover from the collectors all sums in hand returning 
 to us the names of such collectors as refuse to pay to you or otherwise 
 attending this board yourself to answer your neglect at your peril. 
 
 1640, June 6. Whitehall. — The Earl of Pembroke to John Duke 
 of Lake, Esq. High Sheriff of Wilts. You are to attend me at Marl- 
 borough on Tuesday next the 9th instaut at the latest as I myself 
 intend to be at Runsbney on Monday. You are there to receive and 
 put in execution such directions as I shall give you for the composing 
 of the present disorders which have arisen in Wilts on the levying of 
 the soldiers and the raising of coal and conduct moneys for this 
 northern expedition. 
 
 1644, October 17. The King to the Mayor and Aldermen of Salis- 
 bury. — " Whereas wee are thus farre advanced with our Army, having 
 by God's great providence and assistance freed the Westerne parts of 
 this our kingdome from the tyranny and oppression of the Rebells and 
 left our good people therein in a peaceable condition, whereby wee have 
 
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 received evident testimonyes of their good affection and inclination to 
 the advancement of our service by their free and voluntary contribu- 
 tions and loanes of money, which in proportion wee doe expect from 
 you. And therefore wee doe hereby will and require you forthwith to 
 assemble togeather and by assesse or any other wayes to rayse and 
 provide within this Citty upon the inhabitants thereof the full somme 
 of five hundred pounds, and to pay the same without delay tomorrow 
 morning by sixe of the clocke unto our trusty and welbeloved servant 
 John Ashburnham esq. our Treasurer at warr for the necessary use and 
 supply of our Army. Herein wee are well assured you will bee so 
 active as that wee may not fayle of the somme required, it being very 
 little in proportion to what wee have received from other places of equal 
 ability with this. So Wee bid you farewell, this 17th October 1644." 
 Signed by Edward Walker, and by Charles I. 
 
 1673-4, February 19, Lakham. J. Montagu to Edward Hungerford 
 at Hungerford house in the Strand. I desired of my cousin Johnson an 
 account of Sir Samuel Morland's pump and described to him mine, 
 which is thus : a pipe or barrel as in other pumps in which a spindle is 
 placed having a screw about it at the bottom. The quick turning of 
 this screw brings up the water with ease. I drew the invention simply 
 for use on my own estate. As to the public concern in the matter and 
 in the grant of privilege which it appears parliament is like to grant 
 Sir Samuel, you can judge better than I. 
 
 1673-4, February 21, Lakham. J. Montagu to Giles Hungerford. 
 
 I answered your last the same morning. As to Sir Samuel 
 Morland's engine, I am not his rival. I desire onlv to have undis- 
 turbed use of my own lands for the benefit of my estate of that way of 
 raising water which I have thought of and have a model of by me. I 
 wrote to this effect to my cousin J ohnson fearing Sir Samuel's method 
 and mine might be alike, though I have not the least hint of what kind 
 his invention is. As to the public concern you say there is an intention 
 of excluding all other devices of the sort of Sir Samuel's. There will 
 need a short act of parliament for this as no engine can be made which 
 has not in it something of another. If you speak only of the principal 
 fact of the invention the claim is reasonable. That device I have 
 chanced upon may be as advantageous as his. It has its whole power 
 in the force of a whirling or vertigenous motion, a principle which could 
 be applied to many machines even for flying. I chanced upon it by con- 
 sidering of the nature of a screw and as to raising water by it had a 
 hint from an ordinary experiment of turning water swiftly round in a 
 glass, and by the observation of waterspouts. I neither know nor envy 
 Sir Samuel Morland and write only to show you that parliament should 
 be wary in things of this nature. It is a question whether it were 
 better to pay projectors a sum down for inventions, as I am told they 
 do in Holland rather than grant them sole use. 
 
 My wife and my mother send their services to you. 
 
 VII. — A History of Longford written by Mr. "Pellalt, domestic 
 chaplain to Lord Coleraine about 1670. Most of the materials are 
 derived from printed sources, but the following extract seems to deserve 
 quotation : — 
 
 Mem. — Lord Gorges sold Longford to Lord Coleraine. — However 
 the said Lord Coleraine was content to sit down a great loser both by 
 the dealing before mentioned, and by the unhappy times which 
 immediately succeeded the era of his Longford purchase, for, after the 
 
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 disbursement of 18000/. besides continual expenses for the trimming 
 up of his lordship's new bargain, according to the kind opinion he had 
 of it, his Lordship enjoyed it little above four years, by reason his 
 Majesty thought fit to make a horse garrison thereof, and according to 
 his Majesty's order it was given up by his Lordship in April 1644. 
 
 His Lordship having too great a family of young children (to abide 
 with them amongst soldiers) and too much of his other estate under 
 sequestration, because he remained in the King's quarters, was now 
 thrust upon such a dilemma as to find it equally difficult to him both to 
 stay at his beloved seat or to go from it, though there were nothing but 
 trenches, rude soldiers, ruins and dangers left about it. However 
 he affected the place so much and had already ventured so far concern- 
 ing it, as that his Lordship was resolved not to go farther from his 
 darling then like the damsel in the wilderness from hers, but keep 
 within sight of it as long as was possible to view it not quite ruined, or 
 to hope that it might be preserved though by a miracle of providence. 
 Hereupon my Lord of Coleraine, with his great little family, got into an 
 unspeakable small house at Burtford (then rented by his steward) and 
 there they attended the fate of Longford, not without daily fears and 
 dangers in respect of their own persons and people as of that place, for 
 there were such continual quartering of soldiers, sometimes of one side 
 and sometimes of the other, such frequent alarms and violences from 
 both parties, that the hazards and troubles of those times were as 
 monstrous as they are now unexpressible, and, thanks be to God, are 
 not known amongst us. After the Lord of Coleraine had stayed as 
 much to his prejudice as inconvenience (in so strait a place out of his 
 own house yet to near it) (and out of zeal to his Majesty's service) 
 endured the barbarous usage of the Governor, who kept most of his 
 household stuff and the stock on the ground from his Lordship, which 
 was all that my Lord had then left in the country wherewith to provide 
 for his family. There was no tempting patience further then the next 
 degree which his Lordship arrived at, and that was first to see his 
 brew house and all that great and handsome range of out offices set on 
 fire purposely, though happily saved from the flames and not quite 
 ruined by them, next the curious pigeon house, and fair stables quite 
 pulled down or unnecessarily burnt, upon a mere spiteful intent to 
 dismantle the comeliness as well as strengths of the place, and then the 
 leaden pipes and cisterns that conveyed the water from the pump house 
 taken all away together with the building, the stone bridges to the 
 house broken and the timber felled and everything so altered, as to 
 make it another Samnium to be inquired after in the midst of itself. 
 In the mean time, as the place was new modelling so it continued, 
 expensive and costly now not more to his Lordship's peculiar revenue, 
 then to all the neighbourhood while the garrison found the country 
 work, that the country might be made to pay it contribution, the house 
 was turned into a den of thieves, and his Lordship had no heart to look 
 after it any longer, but getting leave of the King to go out of the west 
 then the chief seat of the war his Lordship arrived with great difficulty 
 at Totteridge in Hertfordshire, and with small hope that Longford 
 should escape an utter ruin. 
 
 But it pleased God after the fatal battle at Naseby, that Oliver 
 Cromwell in his triumphal passage, having taken in Basinghouse and 
 Winchester Castle (marching towards the Devizes), thought fit to 
 summon in Longford* by the way, and Longford not only escaped his 
 
 * If surrendered to him as soon as he had finished his battery in Pick Mead, 
 against the garden front, Oct. 18, 1645. 
 
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 fury, but was likely to have given a deserved bloody death to that too 
 prosperous and sanguine tyrant. For while he with some few officers 
 were viewing where they might best storm or batter the house, a shot 
 from thence killed the very next man to Cromwell (being a captain 
 lieutenant), and had done worthier execution had it took him off too, but 
 Nemesis followed this Attila this flagellum Dei), with more leaden heels 
 and reserved him for greater mischiefs. As perhaps his escaping so 
 strangely before this place made the place likewise escape so strangely 
 from destruction, since he left no marks of his flaming appearance 
 behind him, only smoked out the nests of hornets which were hived 
 within the walls, and had rather gulled their own party, then helped it 
 by their company. For all this it fared with poor Longford no otherwise 
 then with that Dsemoniack, who after it had been exorcised was quickly 
 repossessed by viler devils then formerly haunted it, for instead of 
 soldiers of fortune, and some honest cavaliers, there were put in by 
 order of Parliament a knavish committee of clowns of neither fortune 
 nor understanding, who lirst pillaged the house of whatsoever the former 
 guests had left, or could be torn from doors, or walls, or windows, and 
 then moved the Parliament that the house should be slighted for being 
 a dangerous place. 
 
 It is true it never deserved ruin, more then for not tumbling down 
 upon such villains, but since its lares were unwillingly deflowered by 
 these ravishers, it was no more guilty then a virgin that is abused 
 after her lodging is broken into, and so escaped according to her merits 
 for (by a special proviso put in by a good neighbour and friend) it was 
 excepted out of the number of those houses that were to be dismantled 
 and pulled down for fear of future wars and garrisons. 
 
 After this (its greatest escape), it was cleared from the pretensions of 
 some of the Lord Gorges' kinsmen, by the just payment of 2,000/. 
 sterling to them from the present Right Honourable Richard, Loid 
 Gorges, who worthily deserves an eulogy for doing that honour to his 
 name and parent, as to pay moneys out of his own means rather then 
 his Lord father should appear unjust. 
 
 As the storms of civil dissension broke away, and our days cleared up 
 by degrees, my Lord Coleraine, having weathered so many difficult points 
 both as to law and conscience as had greatly impoverished his estate 
 (not only by the loss of great sums of money and chargeable law suits, 
 but by his absence from his chief rents, his actual delinquency and 
 sequestration, his being plundered both at Longford and Tot teridge, and 
 afterwards highly taxed and decimated for not taking covenants and 
 engagements. After this, I say, his Lordship's desire and delight 
 returned again for Longford, which for some years before he looked not 
 to see again, but in rubbish, and then, like Nehemiah, he was impatient 
 till he had begun a repair. 
 
 Revisiting this house (circa anno 1650) to see what his egregious 
 tenants on both sides (agreed to prejudice him) had left behind, his 
 Lordship was saluted with nothing but filthiness and desolation, except 
 it were an infinite swarm of fleas, that pitched upon his white boot-hose, 
 there was no other living creature left for him, who was forced to leave 
 behind him (when he went out of the house) a gallant dairy of Dutch 
 cows, a great flock of wethers, yards full of poultry, and barns stored 
 with provisions, yet was he nobly satisfied, that (being his master and 
 all true subjects had suffered so deeply) his condition was no worse, 
 though I have often heard him say that he had lost 40,000/. sterling by 
 the troublesome times, and had all his delights impared not less then 
 his estate. 
 
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 THE MANUSCRIPTS OF 
 ANDREW KINGSMILL, ESQ. 
 
 The manuscripts at Sydmonton Court consist almost exclusively of 
 ancient deeds relating to places in Hampshire and Berkshire. 
 
 Litchfield, co. Hants. — Among the persons named are William de 
 Echingham, knight, and Eva his wife, and Sir Edward de Sancto 
 Johanne, 8 Edw. II. ; Edward de Sancto Johanne, 10 Edw. II. ; William 
 de Sancto Johanne, 1 1 Edw. II. ; Sir John Milns, rector of the church 
 of Lydeschulv, 17 Edw. II. ; John de Sent Johan and Edward de Sent 
 Johan and Joan his wife, 39 Edw. III. ; John de Sancto Johanne and 
 Edward de Sancto Johanne, his kinsman, 43 Edw. III. ; Sir Edward 
 de Sancto Johanne, lord of Stopham, and Joan his wife, 48 Edw. III. ; 
 Edward, son of John de Sancto Johanne, 49 Edw. III. ; William Knyth, 
 rector of Ludshulve, 2 Hen. V. ; William de Sancto Johanne, lord 
 of Ludeshelf, 2 Hen. V. ; John Hende, rector of Ludshulfe, 5 Hen. V. ; 
 John Pury, esquire, and Isabel his wife, 31 Hen. VI. ; Richard 
 Kyngesmyll and John his son, 21 Hen. VII. 
 
 Whitchurch, co. Hants. — Among the persons named are Sir John 
 Persones, vicar of the church of Godeworth, 29 Edw. III. ; John 
 Kyngesmyll, serjeant-at-law, and Joan his wife, 13 Hen. VII. 
 
 Sonning and Early, co. Berks. — Among the persons named is John 
 de Erie, late eon and heir of Sir Bartholomew de Erie, knight, 
 11 Edw. II. 
 
 Hurst, co. Berks. — Among the persons named are Adam le Yonge of 
 Berkham and Alice his wife, 21 Edw. I. ; Adam, son of John do 
 Kingesmille, 20 Edw. III. ; Adam Kyngesmulle of Bercham and Eliza- 
 beth his wife and William their son, 23 Edw. III. ; John Kyngesmell 
 and William his son and Joan his wife, daughter of John Dyk, 15 
 Hie. II. ; William Kyngesmyll, son and heir of John Kyngesmyll of 
 Berkham, deceased, 7 Hen. V. ; Richard Kyngesmyll, gentleman, 21 
 Hen. VII. 
 
 Barkham, co. Berks. — Among the persons named are William de 
 Nevile, lord of Bercham, John Kyngesmull of Bercham ; Adam his son 
 and Elizabeth his wife, 11 Edw. III.: Richard Bernard of Erburgh- 
 feld, Christina his wife and Joan his daughter, A.D. 1384 ; Thomas 
 Kyngesmyll, gentleman, son and heir of William Kyngesmyll of 
 Bercham,* deceased, and Richard Kyngesmyll, gentleman, his brother, 
 
 10 Edw. IV. 
 
 Settlement in prospect of a marriage between John Kyngesmyll, son 
 and heir of Richard Kyngesmyll of Basingstoke, gentleman, and Joan 
 daughter of John GyfFard of Ichyll co. Hants, 5 Hen. VII. 
 
 Licence from Richard, bishop of Winchester, to John Kyngesmyll 
 and Joan his wife, of Frefolk, to have mass and other divine offices 
 celebrated in a suitable place in their house or elsewhere in the diocese. 
 
 11 December 1501. 
 
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 Contract for the roof of the church of Hartley Wintney, co. Hants, 
 as follows : — 
 
 " Hec convencio facta inter dominam Johannam Bannebury, Prioris- 
 sam domus de Wyntenay, et ejusdem loci conventus ex una parte, 
 et Johannem Willam, carpenter, de Basyngstoke, et Willelmum 
 Austyn, carpenter, de eadem, ex altera parte, testatur quod predicti 
 Johannes et Willelinus fabricabunt, facient et de novo edificabunt 
 unum tectum supra ecclesiam de Wynteney predicta, quod quidem 
 tectum erit Flatterove et in eodem erunt ix trabes cum platis propor- 
 cionatis secundum longitudinem et latitudinem eeclesie Playn werke, et 
 eciam de novo facient et edificabunt ibidem supra tectum unum 
 campanile de quatuor posti3 cum Flatterove^ infra certum tempus ita 
 quod plene perficietur citra festum Sancte Marie Magdalene proxime 
 sequentem post datam presencium, et eadem Priori ssa serabit omnes 
 tabilos ad idem pertinentes sumptibus suis propriis, et eadem Priorissa 
 inveniet meremium sufficientem et succidet et cariabit ad certum locum 
 ubi fabricabunt, ita quod non impediantur idem Johannes et Willelmus 
 nec illorum servientes, et predicti Johannes et Willelmus percipient pro 
 labore suo xxij libras Anglicane monete et unum porcum et unum 
 multonem et unam gounam precii x s vel x s in denariis, et cum 
 levaverint predictum tectum predicta Priorissa inveniet idem (sic) 
 Johannem carpenter et sex homines in victualibus per septimanam, 
 et predicta Priorissa inveniet cordas et machinas et propriis expensis 
 vacuabit antiquum tectum, et parietes ad eandem (sic) pertinentes patere 
 faciet, et idem Johannes et Willelmus percipient cum ceperint operare 
 x libras et postmodum cum ceperint framare vj libras, deinde cum 
 levaverint predictum tectum vj libras, et idem Johannes et Willelmus 
 habebunt aysiamenta domus pro eis et servientibus suis, una cum diversis 
 utensiliis ad parandum victum sibi et servientibus suis, et ad istas conven- 
 cionesbene et fideliter observandas et componendas Willelmus Shyrefelde 
 et Rogerus Richerd obligant se et quemlibet eorum heredes et executores 
 suos eisdem Priorisse et conveDtui in xxij libris solvendis eisdem, et 
 ex altera parte predicta Johanna Priorissa et ejusdem loci conventus 
 obligant se et successores eisdem Willelmo Shyrefelde et Rogero Richard 
 heredibus et assignatis suis in xxij libris solvendis. In cujus rei testi- 
 monium presentibus indenturis partes predicte sigilla sua apposuerunt. 
 Datum apud Wynteney in festo exaltacionis Sancte Crucis anno regni 
 regis Henrici Quinti post conquestum Anglie tercio." Small fragment 
 of seal. 
 
175 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 A. 
 
 Abbeton, Water de, 8. 
 Abbots, mock, 33. 
 Abendana, Isaac, S6(3). 
 Abingdon : 
 
 Christ's Hospital ut, 101. 
 
 corporal ion of, 10 J . 
 Abromlcy. Thos., 48. 
 Achin, 84(2) : 
 
 Arabian King of, 84. 
 
 English there, 84. 
 
 Queen of, 84. 
 Ackhanger, 162(2). 
 Ackridge, 162. 
 Acton (Actone) : 
 
 Reiner de, 7 1 . 
 
 Reyner, lord of, 70, 72. 
 
 Rob. de, 70. 
 
 Sir Roger de, 72. 
 
 Will., the clerk of, 7 1 , 
 Acton : 
 
 chapel of, 72(2). 
 
 Hynehethe, 75. 
 
 Reynald (Reignold), Shropshire, 32, 
 66(2). 
 
 Reyner, Sir Reyner, lord of, 72(2). 
 Actun, Robt. de, 68. 
 Admirals, Rear, letter to, 165. 
 Admiralty, the, express sent from, 96. 
 Aer, Robert, son of, 69. 
 Ahscheby : 
 
 Will, de, 73. 
 
 , Juliana, wife of, 73. 
 
 Alan, " master," 68. 
 Alber, the, 89. 
 Alberburi, Willelmus, 8. 
 Alblastarius, Willelmus, 25. 
 Alblister, Willelmus le, 25. 
 Alcester (co. Warwick), 154. 
 Aldele, 72. 
 
 Rich, de, 72. 
 Aldelege, 72. 
 Aldelym : 
 
 Agnes de, 72. 
 
 , Rich, son of, 72. 
 
 Ale, licence to sell, 22, 61(2). 
 Alecote : 
 
 Hen. de, 134. 
 
 , Alice, wife of, 134. 
 
 Alen : 
 
 — , bailiff of Shrewsbury, letter to, 
 49. 
 
 John, of Coventry, " passonger," 145. 
 
 Aliens : 
 
 licence for, 65. 
 
 registering of, 65. 
 Alkham, 162. 
 
 Allen, Robt., 16, 18, 1!), 52. 
 Alleyleye : 
 
 Will., 139. 
 
 , Amice, wife of, 139. 
 
 Alley sieve, 138. 
 Alloer, 89. 
 Allot, Robt., 44. 
 Alspade, 127. 
 
 Alumni Oxonienses, Foster's, 60. 
 America, 24, 92(3), 94, 99. 
 
 exports to, 92. 
 
 North, 92. 
 
 rebellion in, 24. 
 American : 
 
 letter-books, 94-96. 
 
 oak, 94. 
 Americans, the, 92. 
 Ammonia, hydrosuiphuret of, 38. 
 Amsterdam, 94. 
 Anderson, Mr. Will., 87. 
 Anderton, Rich., sherman, letters from, 
 ■ 59(2). 
 And over, 169. 
 Andre : 
 
 John, 53. 
 
 , Frances, wife of, petition of, 
 
 -53. 
 
 Andreslawa, Adam de, 68. 
 Andrew, Harry, glover. SeeAp Richard, 
 Harry. 
 
 Anne, Queen of England, 41(2), 104, 
 128. 
 
 proclamation of, 88. 
 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, 34. 
 Anneys : 
 
 Rich., of Coundelin, 136. 
 
 , Hen., son of, 136. 
 
 Anson, lord, resignation of, 97. 
 Ansty, 108. 
 
 Apley, letter dated at, 54. 
 
 Ap Loyde, Roger, petition from, 53. 
 
 Ap Madock, Griffith, 9. 
 
 Ap Meredith : 
 
 John, parson, letter from, 47. 
 
 ap Ric, Thos., letter from, 47. 
 Ap Morgan, Jevan, 33. 
 Ap Oweii, John, 15. 
 Appach, Thos. de, 138. 
 Apparel, statute regulating, 20. 
 Apprentices, 32, 54(4), 141. 
 Apprenticeship, indentures of, 127, 141. 
 
176 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Ap Rees : 
 
 John, 53. 
 
 Will., 29. 
 Ap Richard : 
 
 Sir Pirce, vicar of Northope, 51. 
 
 Harry, glover, 5i. 
 Ap Ser e Gruffuth, David Lloyd, letter 
 
 from, 47. 
 Ap Tyther bach, Evan, 48(2). 
 Archaeological Journal, the, 1. 
 Archery match, 33. 
 
 statute for encouragement of, 48. 
 Arderne : 
 
 Sir Thos., knt., 131. 
 
 Walkelin de, 2. 
 Ardintone, Thomas de, 2. 
 Argenteom, Richard de, 2. 
 Arleye, lord of. See Brochef ord, Sir J ohn 
 
 de, 139. 
 Armagan, 81. 
 
 governor of, 81(2), 82. 
 
 King's rent gatherer, 81 . 
 
 merchants, 81. 
 Armenian, an, 89(6). 
 Armen tiers (Flanders), 125, 151. 
 Army accounts, Controller of. See Dick, 
 
 Sir John. 
 Artillery, maintenance of, 60. 
 Arundel (Arundell) : 
 
 Countess of (temp. Hen. IV.), 27. 
 
 Earl of (temp. Hen. IV.), 27. 
 
 (temp. Hen. VIII.), 32. 
 
 Edmund, Earl of (temp. Edw. II.), 3. 
 
 John, letter from, 47. 
 
 "Master," 165. 
 
 Richard, Earl of (temp. Edw. III.), 3. 
 46. 
 
 Robert de, 67. 
 Arundel Castle, document dated at, 46. 
 Ascension Island, 91. 
 Ashburne, Henry, 107. 
 Ashburnham, John, 170. 
 Asheton (Assheton) : 
 
 Mr., 15(2). 
 
 Thos., first master of Shrewsbury 
 School, 14(2), 43, 44. 
 
 , , letter from, 43. 
 
 Asshfeld, John, esq., 4(2). 
 
 A.SS1ZC * 
 
 justices of, 15, 27, 53, 64, 164(2). 
 
 roll ("coram Rege"), 42. 
 Assizes, 58, 64, 164. 
 Astley, 52, 62. 
 
 pastor of, 52, 62. 
 Atcherley, Lieut. James, of the Marines, 
 25. 
 
 Atingeham, Herbert de, the official of 
 
 Shrewsbury, 69. 
 Atkins, — , preacher, 38. 
 Atkys, Rich., 12, 33. 
 Atte-Chirche, Thos., of Stoke, 142. 
 Attila, 172. 
 Attilburgh, Will., 143. 
 Attincham grange (co. Salop), 14. 
 Atton, Roger, 27. 
 
 Audelay, lord. See Tuchett, Sir John. 
 Auden, Rev. N., 65. 
 
 Augmentations : 
 
 Chancellor of, 164. 
 
 Court of, 102. 
 Austyn, William, carpenter, of Basing- 
 stoke, 174(6). 
 Awdeley, dominus de, 30. 
 Aydney, John, 75. 
 Aylmer, John, bishop of London, 44. 
 Aylwardesick, 130. 
 
 B. 
 
 Bablake (Bablacke, Babbelak), 111. 
 
 almshouse or hospital of Holv Trinity, 
 104(2), 120, 125-127, 151. 
 
 church, 124. 
 Babyngton, Will., 118, 144. 
 Baccus, Thos., " translator, alias cobler," 
 
 petition from, 54. 
 Backhouse, Thos., 23. 
 Baddesley, Nich. de, chaplain, 139(2). 
 Badelesmere, Bartholomew de, 3. 
 Bage, Will., 116. 
 Bagot : 
 
 Rich., esq., 65. 
 
 Thos., 136. 
 
 , Elizabeth, dau. of, 136. 
 
 , Katherine, dau. of, 136. 
 
 , Petronilla, wife of, 136. 
 
 Baherlanca, 90. 
 Baillol, Joscelin de, 67. 
 Bakepuz, Ralph de, 2. 
 Baker : 
 
 Hen. the, 132. 
 
 , Agnes, wife of, 132. 
 
 John, alderman of Coventry, 127. 
 
 , M.A., of Shrewsbury School, 
 
 44(3). 
 
 Balam, Sir Nicholas, a priest, 164. 
 Baldewin : 
 
 Thos., 26. 
 
 , John, son of, 26, 
 
 Banastre : 
 
 Will., 70, 71. 
 
 , Emma, wife of, 70. 
 
 Banbury, 77. 
 Banester, Thos., 105. 
 Banestre : 
 
 Adam, 70. 
 
 , Emma, wife of, 70. 
 
 Bangor, Robt., Bishop of (circa Hen. III.), 
 
 69. 
 Ban jar, 87. 
 
 Bankes, Rich., yeoman, 152. 
 Banks' Dormant and Extinct Baronage, 
 67. 
 
 Bannebury, Johanna, prioress of Wynte- 
 
 nay, 174(6). 
 Bannester, Lawrence, of Wem, 51. 
 Barath, Osbern, 71(2). 
 Barbedaveryl, Philip of, 134. 
 Barbour, John, of Bishops Itchington, 117, 
 
 143. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 177 
 
 Brad, John, 92. 
 Bardolf : 
 
 Hugh, 2(2). 
 
 Sir John, of Mapledurham, 74. 
 Barentiu, Rohertus de, 67. 
 Barker : 
 
 James, 54. 
 
 , letter from, 49. 
 
 Richard, 22. 
 Roland, 23, 58. 
 Barkbam (Bercham, &c.), co. Berks, 173 
 (6). 
 
 Lord of. See Nevile, Will. de. 
 Barnes, Will. See Berners, Will. 
 Barnet, 31. 
 Baron, Will., 73. 
 Barotmeswell, 116. 
 Barons' war, 25. 
 Barsham : 
 
 Philip de, 136. 
 
 , Dionisia, wife of, 136(2). 
 
 Barun, Peter, of Coventry, 135. 
 Barynton, Will., 155. 
 Basinghouse, 171. 
 Basingstoke, 169, 173, 174. 
 Basnett, Thos., 127. 
 Basset, Fulk, 69. 
 Bassyngton, Thos. de, 140. 
 Bastard, Will., 28(2), 29. 
 Batavia, 89. 
 Bateman : 
 
 Jas., Lord Mayor of London, 78. 
 
 Maxy, 78. 
 Bath, 96, 97. 
 
 letters dated at, 97. 
 
 Joscelin, bishop of (1227), 2. 
 
 Wiltshire's rooms at, 97. 
 Battle : 
 
 collegiate church of, 75. 
 
 , master of, 75. 
 
 Battlefield, parishioners of, 53. 
 Baudawin, Edw., of Diddlebury, 65. 
 Baxter : 
 
 Richard, 39. 
 
 , his son, 39. 
 
 Bearcroft, Fdward, 5. 
 
 Bears, dancing, 32, 35. 
 
 Bear wards, 32, 35, 37. 
 
 Beauchamp, Simon de, 67(2). 
 
 Beaudley, Beawdley, documents dated at, 
 
 42, 49, 57. 
 Beavoir, Mr., 87. 
 Beche : 
 
 Achilles de, 68. 
 
 Roger de, 68. 
 Bechesf rd, 68, 71. 
 Beddo, Ellis, petition from, 54. 
 Bedford : 
 
 Duke of, 97. 
 
 John, Duke of, Earl of Bichmond and 
 Kendal, Constable of England, 
 licence granted by, 161. 
 
 Bedfordshire, 67. 
 
 Beech, Thos., 51. 
 
 Beese, Sir Thomas, clerk, 163. 
 
 Begessowre, Roger de, 69. 
 
 Beget, Thos., 28. 
 
 Bekeshulle, Rob. de, 71. 
 
 Beket : 
 
 Henry, 130. 
 
 , Matilda, wife of, 130. 
 
 Belers, Rich., 139. 
 Belgrave, Will, de, 110. 
 Belhouse, 162. 
 Bell, Matt., letter from, 96. 
 Belle isle, 99. 
 
 victory of Lord Hawke at, 96. 
 Belytha, Edw., 87. 
 Bencoole, 91. 
 
 Bengal, 80(2), 82, 83, 84(2), 86(6), 
 87(3), 89(2), 91. 
 
 Council, 81. 
 
 merchant ship, 87. 
 Benion, Mr., 44. 
 Bennet (Bennett), John, 36(2). 
 Bentsi.ll, coal mines at, 65. 
 Bentham, Thos., Bishop of Coventry and 
 
 Lichfield, letter from, 50. 
 Beortone, Rich, de, 46. 
 Bercham (Berkham). See Barkham. 
 Berkeley, Lord, 105. 
 " Berker " : 
 
 Rowland, letter from, 54. 
 
 , Chambers, brother of, 54. 
 
 And see Barker. 
 Berkindale, Robt. de, 141(2). 
 Berkshire, 161, 173. 
 Bernardiston, Mr., 86. 
 Bern rs (Barnes), Will., 157(2). 
 Bernard : 
 
 Richard, of Erburghfeld, 173. 
 
 , Christina, wife of, 173. 
 
 , Joan, daughter of, 173. 
 
 Bernyngham, 59. 
 Berrington, Rich., 43(2). 
 Berry, Major-General, 40. 
 Berwick, 93. 
 
 Besford (Besseford), 72, 77. 
 Bethune : 
 
 Geo., 92. 
 
 Nath., 92. 
 Betley, Will., 145. 
 Beton, Rich., 145. 
 Betton : 
 
 James, preacher, 39. 
 
 Micheall, " cannaneere," 40. 
 
 Robt., 43(2). 
 
 , Robt., son of, 43. 
 
 Thos., 43. 
 Bewdley, 34. 
 
 Bewley, Bartb., " of Coventrey plummer," 
 
 152(2), 153. 
 Beynes, Hugh, lerter to, 50. 
 Bifiote. See Stopel, John. 
 Biggen, 123. 
 Biggencroft, 123. 
 Bigot, Bartholomew le, 2. 
 i ikerstaffe, Elizabeth, 36. 
 Billing, Samuel, 108. 
 Billyng : 
 
 Ralph, 137, 139. 
 
 , Alice, wife of, 139. 
 
 , Rich., son of, 139 
 
 Biographiana, Will. Seward, 100(2). 
 Birmingham (" Byrmycham "), 31. 
 
 bailiffs of, writ addressed to, 154, 
 
 o 93620. 
 
 M 
 
178 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Biset, Man., 67. 
 Bishop's Castle : 
 
 letter dated at, 58. 
 
 the plague at, 52. 
 
 relief of the poor at, 57, 58. 
 Bishops Itchington, 117, 143. 
 Bishopychynton. See Bishops Itchington. 
 Bisschopistone, Hen. de, 110. 
 Blacket, Mr., 82. 
 Blackhcath, 29. 
 Blackwood, Thos., 20. 
 " Blackwood's money," 21. 
 Blake, Thos., vicar of St. Alkmund's, 
 
 Shrewsbury, 39. 
 Blakemere, Hen ,31. 
 
 Blakeway and Owen, History of Shrews- 
 bury by, 1, 8, 10, 12, 24, 26. 27, 28(2), 
 29, 31(3), 33(3), 34, 46(4), 48,52, 57, 
 G5, 69. 
 
 Blaunchinal (Blanchynal) : 
 
 Will., 130, 134. 
 
 , Isabel, widow of, 134. 
 
 Blease, John, 50. 
 
 Blektlee, Rob. de, 71. 
 
 Blockeslev (Blocksley, Blockelev, &c.) : 
 
 Gilbert de, 133, 
 
 Peter de, 109, 132, 133, 135. 
 Blod, Will, 131. 
 Blosseville, Hugh de, 67. 
 Blue Stocking Club, 97. 
 Bluke, Rich, de, 131. 
 Blund, John, 134. 
 Bobyuhull, 136(3). 
 
 rector of, 136. 
 Bobythen, David ap David, 51. 
 Bocheford, Will, de, 141. 
 Bodenhale, Hen. de, of Coventry, 138. 
 Bodyley, Serjeant, 16. 
 Boerley (Barley) : 
 
 Rich., 28. 
 
 Will., of Bromcroft, 28. 
 
 de Salop, steward, 28(5). 
 
 Boheles : 
 
 Henry de, 67. 
 
 Walter de, 67. 
 Bokvill, Rich, de, 133. 
 Bolde, Myghell, yeoman, 151. 
 " le Boleford," near Coventry, 139. 
 Bolynger : 
 
 John le, 135. 
 
 , John, son of, 135. 
 
 Bombay, 79, 87. 
 Bomper, Lodowick, 92. 
 Bonckley [Bulkley ?] , Dr., 19. 
 
 h's eldest son, 22. 
 Bonde, Thos., 120, 127, 149. 
 Bonell : 
 
 Richard, 11. 
 
 , Katherine, dau. of, 11. 
 
 Bonner, Thos., 93. 
 Booth, Rich., "sherman," 149. 
 Bor, William le, 46. 
 Boraston : 
 
 Mr., 52. 
 
 Will., gent., 65. 
 Bordale, John, smith, 156. 
 Boresworth, Robt. d?, merchant, 138 
 139(2). 
 
 Bosse : 
 
 Thos., 70. 
 
 , Thos. son of, 70. 
 
 Bostocke, Geo., letter from, 58. 
 Boston (Mass.), 92(3), 94, 95, 96. 
 
 closing of the port of. 96. 
 1 Boteler, Hen., 148. 
 Botener : 
 
 Adam, 141. 
 
 John, merchant, 141. 
 
 Will., 118, 144. 
 Boterel, Sir Tho., 72. 
 Botevilleyn : 
 
 Robt., 74. 
 
 Sir Will., 75. 
 Botiler (Boteler) : 
 
 Sir Will, le, 72. 
 
 , of Wemme, 72, 73. 
 
 Botmonger, Simon le, 132. 
 Botonere : 
 
 Cecilia, 10. 
 
 John, of Coventry, 10. 
 Botte : 
 
 Elyas, 71. 
 
 , Lucy widow of, 71(2). 
 
 Bottefeld : 
 
 Adam de, 71. 
 
 , Agnes, wife of, 71. 
 
 Bourne, 162. 
 Bouthe : 
 
 Charles, 51, 
 
 , letter from, 51 . 
 
 Bowdoin, Will., 92. 
 Bowley, Bartholomew, 40. 
 Boyes, Rich., 145. 
 Boys, Agnes, 146. 
 Brabant : 
 
 Thos., pastor of Astley, 52. 
 
 , letters to, 52, 62. 
 
 Bracebrigge (Bracebrugge), Sir John de, 
 
 74, 75. 
 Braddeel, Capt., 86. 
 Bradefeld, 71. 
 Bradford, hundred of, 75. 
 Bradokes Waste, 152. 
 Bradshaw, Adam, petition from, 60. 
 Bramshaw (co. Wilts), 161. 
 Branding iron, 33, 36. 
 Brandon, Master, 34. 
 Brasile. See Brazil. 
 Braunston, John, 146. 
 Brauntone, Brian de, 71. 
 Bray : 
 
 Geo., letter from, 63. 
 
 Roger de, 135, 136. 
 
 , Emma wife of, 135. 
 
 Braytoft, Rich., 146, 148. 
 -Brazil (Brasile), 91. 
 Breda Declaration, 65. 
 Bredon, Rowland de, chaplain, 137. 
 Brendesleye, Hugh de, 140. 
 Breretou : 
 
 Sir Richard, letter from, 49. 
 
 Rondulphe, letter from, 58. 
 Bret oil ia, law of, 2. 
 i Bretun, Hugh le, cik., 134. 
 J Brickhill, 31. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 179 
 
 Bridgenorth, 38. 
 
 bailiffs of, letters from, 56. 
 
 burgesses of, 56. 
 Bridgwater, corporation of, 101. 
 Bright : 
 
 Mr., preacher, 37. 
 
 Luke, death of, 83. 
 Brinkerhoff, Joris, 92. 
 Briscoe (Briscowe, Bristowe), Will., suit 
 against the city of Coventry, 146-148, 
 153-157. 
 Bristol, 34, 61, 62(2), 104. 
 Bristowe. See Briscoe, Bristol. 
 Britford (co. Wilts), 161(2). 
 Briwerre, William, 2(2). <- 
 Broadmead, 162. 
 
 Brocheford, Sir John de, knt., 139. 
 Brochere, Rich, le, of Coventry, 133, 
 Brochursi - , 70. 
 Broke : 
 
 John, 117. 
 
 Kobt, 34, 35. 
 
 Will., paison of Ladbroke, 117, 
 143(2). 
 
 , John son of, 143(2). 
 
 Brom . . ., Walter de, 6. 
 Bromcroft, 28. 
 Bromhale, Ralph de, 68. 
 Bromley : 
 
 Edw., letter from, 63. 
 
 Sir Geo., knt., recorder of Shrews- 
 bury, 20, 22, 23 ; 44. 
 
 Henry, 22. 
 
 Mr. Justice, 22. 
 
 Mr., 40, 49. 
 
 Robt., recorder of Shrewsbury, 12, 
 Sir T,, letter from, 55. 
 Thos., 29. 
 Brone : 
 
 Thos., 116. 
 
 , Agnes, wife of, 116. 
 
 Brook, Mr., 83. 
 Brooke : 
 
 Sir Basil, knt., 24. 
 
 James, M.A., 45(2). 
 
 Lord, Foulke, 127. 
 Broseley : 
 
 coal mines at, 65. 
 
 licence for the churchyard at, 66, 75. 
 Broun, John, linendraper, 145. 
 Browett, Will., 102. 
 Brown : 
 
 Capt., 81, 84. 
 
 David, Governor - General of the 
 Danish settlements in India, letter 
 from, 98. 
 
 John, letter from, 98. 
 Browne : 
 
 Arnold, death of, 85. 
 
 Mr., 81, 82. 
 
 Mr., preacher, 38. 
 
 Thos., 57(2). 
 
 , letter from, 6 1 . 
 
 Biowneswcrd, Rout., letter from, 56. 
 Bruge : 
 
 Herbert de, 69. 
 
 Robt. de, 68. 
 Bruges, v rit dated at, 3. 
 
 j Brun, David, son of, 71. 
 I Bruseboy, Nicholas, bailiff of Montgomery, 
 73. 
 
 Bruton, Cheshire, 59. 
 
 Bryan, John, minister of St. Chad's, 
 
 Shrewsbury, 40. 
 Brymingham. .See Birmingham. 
 Buckingham : 
 
 document dated at, 74. 
 Buckingham : 
 
 Duke of {temp. Edward IV.), 30. 
 
 (1623), 76(2). 
 
 Buckinghamshire, 67. 
 Buckland, 162. 
 Budel, Will, le, 71. 
 Bulkley (Boulkley) : 
 
 Dr. Edw., 20, 21, 22(2), 61. 
 
 , letters from, 53, 61. 
 
 Bulkynton, Sewall de, 139. 
 Bullion-glass sent to Massachusetts, 98. 
 Burdon, Thos., 75. 
 Bureford : 
 
 Geoffrey de, 71. 
 
 , son of, 71. 
 
 Simon, chaplain of, 71. 
 Burele, Thos., "prior del Hospital de 
 
 Irland," 75. 
 Burges, Thos., of .Newton, 32(2). 
 Burgeys, Will., 148. 
 Burgh: 
 
 Hubert de, Earl of Kent, 2. 
 
 Will, de, 111. 
 Burghley, W., Lord. See Cecil. 
 Burley. See Boerley. 
 Burneby, Geo., esq, /l 47. 
 Burnel : 
 
 John, 74. 
 
 Matilda, 74. 
 Burnell, Mr. Thos., 19(3). 
 Burrish, Capt., 91. 
 
 Burser, Richard the, of Coventry, 131. 
 Burtford, 171. 
 Burtigbury, Roger de, 130. 
 Burton, Will., 28. 
 
 "Burton's Book" (Coventry), 106. 
 Bury, Parliament held at, 28. 
 Bushop, John, 22. 
 Bussenville, Robt. le, 129. 
 Butler, Rich., 126, 152. 
 Buttesford (co. Somerset), 161. 
 Byfeld : 
 
 John de, of Northampton, 73. 
 
 , Robt, son of, 73. 
 
 Bjkenhull, Rich., 143. 
 Byllyng. See Billyng. 
 Byngham, Sir Rich., knt., writ directed to, 
 157. 
 
 By rches, Simon, 145. 
 Byrde, Will., clerk, 165. 
 Byrmycham. See Birmingham. 
 Byron, Lord (1644), 39. 
 Bysshoppesychynton. See Bishops Well- 
 ington . 
 
 M 2 
 
180 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 C. 
 
 Caithness, 95. 
 
 Calcrofte, Kafe, 146. 
 
 Calcutta, 9G. 
 
 Caley, Sir Arthur, 154. 
 
 Callerall (Calverall), John, crier, 29. 
 
 Cambridge : 
 
 colleges at : 
 Caius, 45. 
 
 Catherine Hall, Frankland Fellow- 
 ship, 159. 
 Christ'?, 101. 
 Gunvyle, 45. 
 Jesus, 45. 
 King's, 101. 
 Pembroke, 101. 
 Queen's, 108. 
 
 St. John's, 44(5), 45(4), 101. 
 St. Peter's, 101. 
 Trinity, 101. 
 corporation of, 101. 
 Camel, the King's, 33. 
 Campedene, John de, 73. 
 Camswell, Thos., prior of Coventry, 1 50. 
 Canleye, Root, de, of Coventry, 140. 
 Canterbury, Archbishop of (1595), 75. 
 Cantilupe : 
 
 Walter de, Bishop of Worcester 
 
 (temp. Hen. III.), 2. 
 William de, 2. 
 Canton, 89. 
 
 Cape of Good Hope, 78, 79. 
 Capel [le Feme], 162. 
 Capella, Henry de, 2. 
 Carbonello, Will., 68. 
 Carbunel, John, 71. 
 Cardeston, 76. 
 Cardeitone, Hen. de, 26. 
 Cardoin de Graios, 79. 
 Careera, 89. 
 Carey, Sir Geo., 57. 
 Carnarvon : 
 
 co., 59. 
 
 town, 59. 
 
 Carolina, Commander-in-chief in. See 
 
 Gould, Gen. 
 Carpenter, Will., 30. 
 Carpenter's Bay, 78, 79(2). 
 Carr : 
 
 Miss Harriet, 100(2). 
 
 Margery, 146. 
 
 Messrs., 94. 
 
 Mr., 96(2), 97(2). 
 
 , letters to, 96, 97, 100. 
 
 Mrs., letters to, 96, 97. 
 
 Ralph, 92(3), 93, 94, 98(5), 99. 
 
 letters to, 97, 98(3), 99(2). 
 
 Carr-Ellison : 
 
 J. R., esq., 92(2). 
 
 . :, MSS. of, at Dunston Hill, Neiv- 
 
 castle-upon-Tyne, 92-100. 
 Carthonnes, 33. 
 Cartwright : 
 
 Hugh, P.9. 
 
 Johannes, 30. 
 Caswell, Cap!., 89. 
 
 Cateby, John, sergeant-at-law, 146(2). 
 
 Catisby : 
 
 Reginald de, 132. 
 
 , Symon, son of, 132. 
 
 Catour, Will., 73. 
 Catwall, the, 80. 
 
 Cause Castle, letter dated at, 56. 
 Cawod, Thos., of Coventry, 141. 
 Cecil, Will., Lord Burghley, letter from, 
 57. 
 
 Challinor, Thos., head master of Shrews- 
 bury School, 43(2). 
 Chamberlain, Cant., 87, 89. 
 Champeneys, John, 71. 
 Champernon, Henry, 164. 
 Chancellor : 
 
 the Lord, 23, 29, 36, 63. 
 
 Thos., Lord (temp. Hen. II.), 67. 
 Chancery, 48. 
 
 decrees in, concerning Shrewsbury 
 School, 24. 
 Chandos (Chaundos) : 
 
 Robt., 113, 114. 
 
 Will., letter from, 58. 
 Chapell Greene, 152. 
 Chaplain, William the, 130. 
 Charb'., Pagan, 71. 
 
 Charles I., King of England, 39, 41, 42, 
 104(2), 106, 127, 128, 152, 154(5), 
 155, 159, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 
 171(5). 
 
 letters from, 43, 169(2). 
 
 army of, 169, 170. 
 
 charters, grants, &c., 5. 
 
 commissions, 127(2). 
 
 loans to, 39(2), 43(2), 127, 170. 
 
 portrait of, 5. 
 
 present in Council, 168. 
 
 servants of, 39. 
 
 subsidies, 7. 
 
 writs, 154, 165, 168(2). 
 Charles II., 41(2), 65, 105, 127(2), 128, 
 129, 153, 155(3), 156(2). 
 
 charters, grants, &c, 6(3), 127(2). 
 
 commission, 154. 
 
 orders, 153. 
 
 proclaimed at Shrewsbury, 41. 
 Charles. Prince (temp. Chas. I.), 106. 
 Charlton, 161. 
 
 Mrs., marriage of, 85. 
 
 Rich, de, 68(5). 
 Charters, Vidasme of. See Vendosme, 
 John of 
 
 Chatel, Symon, of Cundelin, 130. 
 Cnawburi, 72. 
 
 Adam, vicar of, 72. 
 Cheilesmor Lona, 133. 
 Cheilesmore (Cheillesmore, Cheylesmore, 
 &c.) : 
 
 bailiff of, 122. 
 
 manor of, 104(2). Ill, 112(G), 113(4), 
 116, 121, 122, 126, 150(2), 156, 
 158. 
 
 , place of, 150. 
 
 park of, 113, 116, 121, 122, 124, 153, 
 159. 
 
 Pynlok gate, 150(2). 
 steward of, 121. 
 street of, 129. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 181 
 
 Chelintone, 73. ! 
 Cheriton, 162. 
 
 Cherletone (Cherletun), 68, 70. And see 
 
 Charlton. 
 Chester, 59, 61, 102. 
 
 Justice of. See Bromley, Sir Geo. 
 
 Rannulf, Earl of (temp. John), 2. 
 
 , , bailiff of, in Coventry, 134. 
 
 Ranulph, Earl of (1 153), castle of, 109. 
 
 , , charter of, 109(3), 110(2), 
 
 114, 131. 
 
 Roger, Constable of, 2. 
 Chesterfeld, Master Thomas, 146. 
 Chesterfield : 
 
 church of, 146. 
 
 guild of St. Mary, 146. 
 Chesthunt, Walter de, 110. 
 Chevalier, army of the, 96. 
 Cheverell, Little (co. Wilts.), 161. 
 China, 87(2), 91(2). 
 Chippaleer, 90(2). 
 
 Chippenham, (co. Wilts.), 161(2) , 166, 168. 
 
 chantry in, 165. 
 Chirbury : 
 
 letter dated at, 63. 
 
 churchwardens of, 63. 
 
 vicar of, 64. 
 
 vicarage, 64. 
 
 , advowson of, 64. 
 
 Chiswick, 96. 
 Cholmley, John, 93 
 
 Chorlton, Thos., gent., bailiff of Shrews- 
 bury, 43, 52. 
 Church Stretton, fire at, 57. 
 Churchyard, Mr., 18. 
 Churchy erd, Mr., 37. 
 Chylton : 
 
 John de, of Coventry, 135. 
 
 , Alice, widow of, 135. 
 
 Chyrk, 26. 
 
 Civil War, the, 1, 24, 29, 30, 66. 
 Clark, Edw., butcher, 19. 
 Clarke, John, 127. 
 
 Clattercote, Oxfordshire, hospital of St. 
 
 Leonard at, 66, 69. 
 Clement, Peter son of, 70. 
 Clergy, assessment of, 166, 167. 
 Clerk : 
 
 Hen., 141. 
 
 John, grocer, 149. 
 
 Rich., 143. 
 
 , Agnes, widow of, 143. 
 
 Clerke : ■ 
 
 Rich., of Coventry, 143. 
 
 Thos., 14. 
 Cliff, 162. 
 Clifford : 
 
 James, esq., 75. 
 
 Puncius de, 68. 
 
 Rich, de, 68(2). 
 
 Rob. de, 74. 
 
 Walter de, sen., 68. 
 
 , jun., 68(2). 
 
 Will., 68. 
 Clint, Gaufredus de, 66. 
 Clinton, Sir Hen., 99. 
 Cliva, John de, 70. 
 Clive, Raphe, letter from, 51. 
 
 Clone, Ricardus de, 26(2). 
 Clyve : 
 
 Thos. de la, clerk and burgess of 
 Shrewsbury, 12, 74. 
 
 , Nicholas, son of, 74. 
 
 , Rich., son of, 74. 
 
 Clynton, 162. 
 Cnotte : 
 
 John, 69. 
 
 Will., 71. 
 
 Coals and coal mines, 65,94,96, 158, 169. 
 Coc, Rich., of Egebalduuhani, 71. 
 Cocarius : 
 
 Hugh, of Coventry, 133. 
 
 , Alice, dau. of, 133. 
 
 , Will., sou of, 133. 
 
 Cock, Capt., 91. 
 
 Cocks, " dominus," preacher, 36. 
 Cocus, Rogerus, 66. 
 Cogeweyn, Nich., of Wemme, 26. 
 Coin : 
 
 counterfeit, 51. 
 
 defaced, 120. 
 Cok, Mr., 82. 
 
 Cokabytestret, Will. Gothin, 26. 
 Coke : 
 
 Alice, 146. 
 
 Will., 124. 
 Colchester, John, 145. 
 Cole, Daniel, death of, 90. 
 Coleraine, Lord, 170-172. 
 Coleshill (co. Warwick), 154. 
 Colham, 34. 
 Colier, Eug. le, 25. 
 Colle : 
 
 John, 46. 
 
 Robt., 47. 
 
 Thos., coroner, 26. 
 Colleshull : 
 
 Thos. de, 139. 
 
 , Alice, wife of. 139. 
 
 Collet, —,97. 
 
 Colman, Rich., 149. 
 
 Cologne, kings of, 32. 
 
 Colushall, John de, proctor of the dean of 
 
 St. Mary's, 26. 
 Colyns : 
 
 Rich., 148. 
 
 Thos., 144. 
 Comb, 162. 
 Combe : 
 
 Abbey of St. Mary of, 145. 
 
 Abbot of, 145. 
 
 (Alexander), 157. 
 
 Commelin, Robt., 92. 
 Commission of the peace, 6. 
 
 High, 63. 
 
 King's, 81, 116. 
 Commissioners : 
 
 ecclesiastical, 49(2). 
 
 the King's, 10, 32, 34(2). 
 Committee for compounding, order of, 76r 
 Commons, House of, 94. 
 
 petition to, 65. 
 Commonwealth, the, 40, 128, 155. 
 Complete Peerage (G.E.C.), 67. 
 Condover, letter dated at, 58. 
 Conduliu, 138. 
 
1S2 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Conway, Opt. Jenkin, 58. 
 Cook : 
 
 — , 49. 
 
 Lawrence, 117, 119(2), 145. 
 
 , Alice, wife of, 119(2). 
 
 Richard the, of Hopton, 71. 
 Cookseye, Margery, 143. 
 Cope, Sir John, 93. 
 Corhet (Corbett) : 
 
 Alan, 70. 
 
 Andrew, 77 (2). 
 
 , letter from, 52. 
 
 , of Morton, 75. 
 
 , M.P., letter to, 77. 
 
 Sir Andrew, kct., 18, 49, 75, 76(2). 
 
 , letters from, 50, 51. 
 
 Darne Elizabeth, of Paynton, 75. 
 
 Lady Francis, 77. 
 
 Peter, 70, 71. 
 
 Reginald, recorder of Shrewsbury, 
 13(2), 14, 36. 
 
 , letter from, 49. 
 
 Richard, 42, 59, 70(3), 71, 76. 
 
 , letter tj, 76, 77, 
 
 Sir Rich., 70. 
 Robt., 19, 72. 
 
 , Thos., son of, 69(2). 
 
 , chaplain, 47. 
 
 - — , of Morton, 70(3), 72. 
 Sir Robert, 73. 
 
 - , of Hadley, 74. 
 
 , of Morton, 72. 
 
 Sir Robt. de,72. 
 
 , Matilda, wife of, 72. 
 
 Roger, 9, 72. 
 
 , esq., of Morton, 29. 
 
 Sir Roger, knt., 73. 
 Thos., 72. 
 
 , of Tassel, knt., 71, 72. 
 
 Sir Thos., 73. 
 
 , Robt., son of, 73. 
 
 Sir Vincent, 76(3), 77. 
 
 Sir Walter Orlando, Bart., 66(2). 
 Corbet, Sir Walter 0. : of Acton Reynald, 
 
 Bart., Manuscripts of, 66-77. 
 Corby, Will, de, 140. 
 Corely Moore, 152. 
 Cornlegh : 
 
 Robt.de, 129. 
 
 Roger de, 129. 
 Cornwaill, Thos., letter from, 59. 
 Cornwall : 
 
 Countess of, 27. 
 
 Duke of (Jtemp. Edw. III.), 109. 
 
 Edmund, esq., 19. 
 
 Earl of. See Eltham, John de. 
 Cornwall : 
 
 county of, 161. 
 
 duchy of, 106, 124, 158. 
 Coromandel coast, 79. 
 Coroner, Thos., son of Will, the, 69. 
 Cortenale, Will., draper, 145. 
 Corvyn : 
 
 John, 1 34. 
 
 , Joan, wife of, 134(2). 
 
 Costentin, Rob. de, 70. 
 Cotes, Thos., 147. 
 Cotesbrok, Adam de, 74. 
 
 " Cotiler," le, 135. 
 Coton, 28, 57. 
 Cottons, stapling of, 23. 
 Coudrel, Elias, 68. 
 Council : 
 
 clerks of the, 37. 
 
 Lords of the, letters from, 165, 167, 
 168(5), 169(3). 
 Coundelin (Coundeline), 136, 138. 
 Coundon, co. Warwick, 150-151. 
 
 Hickfield in, 127. 
 
 the " Mothouse," 151. 
 Coup, Rich, le, 130. 
 Couper : 
 
 Mr., 48(2). 
 
 Thos., recorder of Shrewsbury, letter 
 to, 49. 
 
 Courcy, Admiral M. de, 25. 
 Coutts : 
 
 Bros. & Co., 96. 
 
 house of, in London, 93. 
 
 James, 96. 
 
 John, 93. 
 
 , letter to, 93. 
 
 Thos., letter from, 96. 
 Coventre, Ernaldus de, 69. 
 Coventry, 19, 31, 101-160. 
 
 documents dated at, 109. 
 
 address to Queen Elizabeth, 158. 
 
 aldermen of, 108, 122, 126(3), 127, 
 157. 
 
 bailiffs of, 106, 107, 108, 111-117, 
 
 119(2), 124(3), 125(2), 126(2), 
 
 134. And see mayor, 
 boundaries, 108, 116. 
 bridges, 116, 137, 139. 
 burgesses, 108, 109(2), 110(2), 
 
 114(2), 119, 122, 132. 
 cause in the Court of Exchequer, 108. 
 chamberlains, 114, 123. 
 
 books, 104. 
 
 chantries, 102(2), 109, 124, 159. 
 charities, 108, 159. 
 churches : 
 
 Holy Trinity, 109, 110(2), 114, 
 152. 
 
 St. George's (chapel of), 118, 119. 
 St. John the Baptist, 111. 
 
 , chapel of St. Katherine in, 
 
 111. 
 
 St. Mary's (priory or cathedral 
 church), 102, 116, 117, 118, 
 123(4), 131, 132, 133(3), 135, 
 154. 
 
 , High altar of, 132, 140. 
 
 Hall, 102, 128, 159. 
 
 , Prior and convent of, 109, 
 
 117, 130(4), 132, 133, 134, 
 135(2), 137(2), 138, 141, 149(4), 
 150. 
 
 , , grants by, 140, 144. 
 
 , < , grants to, 145. 
 
 , , aqueduct of, 116. 
 
 , , bailiff of, 134. 
 
 , , suit versus Robt. de 
 
 Morley, 155. 
 , Henry, prior of, 132, 133, 
 
 135(2), 136, 137(2). 
 
INDEX. 
 
 183 
 
 Coventry — co?it. 
 
 Churches — cont. 
 
 St. Mary's, Eich., prior of, 143, 149. 
 — — , Thos., prior of, 150. 
 
 , William, prior of, 129, 130, 
 
 132. 
 
 , possessions of, 154. 
 
 • , sacristan of, 135. 
 
 St. Michael's, 109, 110(2), 144, 
 
 149, 152. 
 
 , vicar of, 130. 
 
 St. Nicholas', 116, 141, 143. 
 clerk to the council, 105. 
 Corporation of : 
 MSS. of, 101-160. 
 - — , Books, 102, 103-108. 
 
 j Charters, &c, 102, 109-127. 
 
 , Deeds, &c, 103, 127-153. 
 
 , Exemplifications, &c, 103, 
 
 153-155. 
 
 , Miscell. Papers, 103, 156- 
 
 1 59. 
 
 , Rolls and Files, 103, 155-156. 
 
 reconstitution of, 127. 
 council books, 108. 
 county of, 121, 126(2), 127, 156. 
 , sheriffs of, writ addressed to, 
 
 154. 
 crafts of : 
 
 bakers, 138. 
 
 brewers, 134. 
 
 butchers, 135. 
 
 cappers, 147, 149(2). 
 
 carpenters, 103, 144, 156, 158. 
 
 clothworkers, 107. 
 
 cooks, 130, 135, 136. 
 
 cordwainers, 106. 
 
 corvisors or curriers, 106. 
 
 cutters, 122, 125. 
 
 drapers, 105, 107(2), 127, 145. 
 
 dvers,134, 141. 
 
 fullers, 122, 125. 
 
 girdlers, 144. 
 
 grocers, 127, 149, 150. 
 
 hosiers, 139, 145. 
 
 mercers, 140, 148, 152. 
 
 millers, 134. 
 
 pewterers, 151. 
 
 pinners, 158. 
 
 plumbers, 152. 
 
 saddlers, 138, 156. 
 
 smiths, 156. 
 
 tailors (sheremen), 107(2), 117, 
 118(2), 147. 
 
 tilers, 158. 
 
 woolnien, 156. 
 
 " whittaweres," 143, 148. 
 Deputy Lieutenants, 155. 
 extent of, 108. 
 fee-farm of, 123, 124. 
 Friars Minors of, 108, 139. 
 gates, 116. 
 
 guilds, 102(2), 105, 159. 
 
 Blessed Virgin Mary, 115(2), 
 116(3), 117, 118, 119, 120(2), 
 121, 139(2), 140(4), 142, 143, 
 144, 146. 
 
 Coventry — cont. 
 
 Corpus Christi, 103-104, 113(3), 
 114, 115(3), 117, 118(2\ 119(4), 
 124, 141, 142, 148, 149(2). 
 
 Holy Trinity, 114(2), 115(3), 
 116(3), 117(2), 118(4), 119, 
 120(2), 121, 124, 140, 142(3), 
 143(4), 144(2), 145(3), 146, 
 148(2), 149(2), 155. 
 
 Merchants', 110. 
 
 Nativity of Jesus Christ, 119(4), 
 
 122(3). 
 St. Anne, 117, 118. 
 St. George, 118, 119. 
 St. John the Baptist, 110, 111(4), 
 
 115(3), 116(3^), 117, 118, 119, 
 
 120, 121, 140(3), 142, 143, 144, 
 
 146. 
 
 St. Katherine the Virgin, 111(5), 
 120(2), 121, 140(2), 142, 146. 
 
 St. Nicholas, 103-104, 148, 149. 
 
 Hall, 148. 
 
 House of Correction, 152. 
 
 Justices of the peace, letters to, 114, 
 
 120. 
 manor of, 126. 
 
 markets and fairs in, 113, 120, 131, 
 132. 
 
 mayors, bailiffs, &c, of, 102, 104(2), 
 106, 107, 108, 112(5), 113, 114, 
 115(3), 116, 117(2), 119(2), 122, 
 124(3), 125(3), 126(2), 127(2), 
 144, 146(3), 151(2), 152(3), 153, 
 154, 157(2), 158, 159. 
 
 , documents addressed to, 102, 
 
 108, 116, 117, 118(3), 119, 120(3), 
 121, 122, 123, 127, 144, 154. 
 
 , grants by, 139, 151, 153. 
 
 , controversy with Will. Briscoe, 
 
 146-148, 153-155. 
 
 , pardon of, 121. 
 
 , petitions to, 158. And see 
 
 Billing, Samuel ; Bonde, John ; 
 Bonde, Thos. ; Hertfoid, John ; 
 Percy, Nich. ; Saunders, Will. 
 
 merchants, 110, 113, 114, 116, 134, 
 138, 139, 140, 141, 143. 
 
 ministers, 106. 
 
 municipal treasury, 104(3), 106, 108. 
 musters in, 126. 
 Mysteries, 143. 
 orchards in, 123. 
 Parliament held at, 116. 
 Portmote, 109. 
 
 recorder of. See Saunders, Sir 
 Edw. 
 
 rent paid to Duchy of Cornwall, 158. 
 riots in, 122. 
 School, 159. 
 
 sheriffs, &c, documents addressed to 
 
 114, 120, 122, 123, 127. 
 streets' commissioners, 107. 
 suit in Chancery, 106. 
 taxes, tolls, murage, &c, 110, 114, 
 
 118, 119, 149. 
 town clerk. See Browetr, Will. 
 , office of, 129. 
 
184 
 
 . INDEX. 
 
 Coventry — cont. 
 
 town council, 160. 
 
 walls of, 151, 153. 
 
 Whitefriars of, 157. 
 
 woollen cloths of, 125. 
 
 the " Altegeder Milnys," 131. 
 
 Bailey Lane, 144, 145, 148(2). 
 
 , guild -yard in, 148. 
 
 "Bannepece," 143. 
 " Benfirlond," 135. 
 Bishops' Street, 133, 144. 
 " Bottecrosse," 116. 
 Brodeyatys, 146. 
 Bull Conduit, 152(2). 
 " Byttereslane," 143. 
 Castle Ditch, 133. 
 " Cheilesmorlane," 136. 
 " Cheylesmor grene," 136. 
 " Chillenfeld," 143. 
 " Christescroft," 133. 
 Conduit, 162(2). 
 
 Head, 152. 
 
 Council House, 153. 
 
 " Croschepyng," 140. 
 
 Cross Street, 143. 
 
 " Dedebone," 133. 
 
 " the Drapery," 145. 
 
 Earl's Street, 124, 132, 133(2), 139, 
 
 140, 144. 
 " Enedemedwe," 129. 
 Erlesmyll Lane, 149. 
 the Frechbroke, 140. 
 Friars' Lane, 136, 138. 
 Gardiner's croft, 134. 
 Gosford, 133, 137. 
 
 Asshe, 139. 
 
 Green, 116. 
 
 Street, 132, 139, 152. 
 
 the Great Drapery, 145. 
 Grey Friar's Lane, 106, 
 Hospital of St. John, 134, 148, 
 Hull Street, 143, 144. 
 le " Hylmylfeld," 145. 
 Inns : 
 
 the Cardinal's Mat, 146. 
 
 le Crown, 146. 
 " Jabotsasshe," 116. 
 the King's highway, 133. 
 Lady Tower, 153. 
 " Lodeloweslane," 138. 
 Little Pudingcrofte, 151. 
 " Merryholt," 143. 
 the "Newe Poole," 123. 
 Newgate, 153(2). 
 j^lmprs-lane, 141. 
 Park Street, 181. 
 
 , , Greater (or Much), 134, 
 
 135(2), 136(2), 139(2), 143, 145. 
 
 , , Lesser or Little, 130, 134, 
 
 137. 
 
 , , Upper, 129. 
 
 Podycroft, 134. 
 Poultry Street, 135. 
 St, Nicholas Street, 138. 
 " Schoeherefeld," 131. 
 Selot's chantry, 145. 
 Smytheford Street, 137, 143, 115, 
 148. 
 
 Coventry — cont. 
 
 Spann (Spon, Spoone, Spound, &c.) > 
 
 133(2). 
 Field, 129. 
 
 Street, 130, 137, 138(2), 148. 
 
 , Moat House in, 127. 
 
 Statherscroft, 133. 
 the " Swannss poole," 123. 
 the tenter-ground, 144. 
 Tower in the south wall, 151. 
 " Wellestret," 123. 
 " the Wenchfeldes," 154. 
 Wyndemilnfeld, 143. 
 Coventry and Lichfield : 
 
 Bishop of, 45, 50, 64, 76, T7. 
 Chancellor of, 64. 
 
 diocese of, apparitor or somnor of, 61 . 
 
 episcopal registers, 76. 
 
 John, bishop of (1498), 149. 
 Cowper : 
 
 George, letter from, 47. 
 
 , sister of, 48. 
 
 , Mary, cousin of, 48. 
 
 , Ottley, uncle of, 48. 
 
 Thos., town clerk of Shrewsbury, 
 letter to, 47. 
 Crafts, Miles, trumpeter, 87. 
 Crasset, Thos., 70. 
 Credewelle, John de, 71. 
 Cresset : 
 
 Walter, 73. 
 
 Will., of Halnton, 71. 
 
 , of Little Wythiford, 70. 
 
 • , of Wythiforr, 71. 
 
 Crewe, Sir Randulfe, 76. 
 Cricklade (co. Wilts), 161. 
 Croft : 
 
 Hugh de, 70. 
 
 Sir Hugh de, sheriff, 27. 
 
 Will., gent., 18. 
 
 (Crofts), Capt. Sam!., 61, 88, 89. 
 Croke, Jo., letter from, 58. 
 "Cromple Lysts," 125(3), 151. 
 Cromwell : 
 
 Oliver, Lord Protector, 171, 172. 
 
 , ■ , proclaimed in Shrews- 
 bury, 40, 41. 
 
 Richard, Lord Protector, 93(2). 
 
 , , proclaimed in Shrews- 
 bury, 40, 41. 
 Cropredy, Oxfordshire, 66, 69, 77. 
 Croppria, Sir Symon de, 69. 
 
 , Will., chaplain of, 69. 
 
 Crosseby, Rich., prior of Coventry. 
 Crouwe : 
 
 Rich., 74. 
 
 , " Nicholas le fiz," 74. 
 
 Crowenhull, 131. 
 
 Crumwell, Thomas, letters from, 163(3), 
 
 364(3), 165. 
 Cudington, letter dated at, 58. 
 Cumberford, Will., 146(2). 
 Cundelin\Cundoline, Kundeline), 130(2), 
 
 131(2), 135. 
 Curchun, Rich, de, 68. 
 Curialitates, 27. 
 Cutler, Benedict the, 135. 
 Cuyler, Hen., 92. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 185 
 
 Dabby, Hen., carpenter, 156. 
 Dalewood, 161. 
 Dalton, Robt., 30. 
 Dalvngton, John, 74. 
 Damet : 
 
 Roland, 115, 142(2). 
 
 , Margaret, wife of, 142. 
 
 Dampard (Damperd), Edw., 126(2). 
 Damport, Edw., pewterer, 151. 
 Danish East India Co., 98. 
 
 island (St. Enstathia), 92. 
 
 settlements in India, 98. 
 
 ship, 84. 
 Dantzig plank, 95. 
 Darderne : 
 
 Sir Giles, 74. 
 
 Thos., 74. 
 Darkere, Rich, le, 111. 
 Dauramparr, Daurampaw, &c. See 
 
 Dharapuram. 
 Davenport, Mr., 104. 
 Daventry, 31. 
 Davies : 
 
 John, miller, 63. 
 
 Mr., vicar of Chirbury, 64. 
 
 Richard, 53. 
 Davis, Richard, 165. 
 Davys, John, 47. 
 Davyes : 
 
 Evan, curate of St Mary's, Shrews- 
 bury, petition from, 60. 
 
 Rich., "trowman," petition from, 64. 
 Dawes : 
 
 John, 19. 20, 43. 
 
 , letter to, 43. 
 
 Rich., letter from, 62. 
 Dayseye : 
 
 Roger, 135(2). 
 
 , Matilda, wife of, 135(2). 
 
 Deal, 78. 
 
 Dearth, articles published in time of, 61 . 
 Dedon, Edward, of Coventry, 140. 
 Denbigh castle, 30. 
 Deneforde, John de, 139. 
 Denmark : 
 
 King of, 97, 98. 
 
 Prince Frederick of, 97. 
 
 Queen of, 97. 
 
 Dowager of, 97. 
 
 Denne, Thos., 159. 
 
 Dennys, Will., 63. 
 
 Derrick, — , an Irishman, 97. 
 
 Despeu?er, Hugh le, the elder, 3. 
 
 Deue. See Divi. 
 
 Devereux, Sir Will., knt, 125. 
 
 Devizes, 166, 168, 171. 
 
 Dewe. See Divi. 
 
 Deyster, Adam, 115, 141. 
 
 Deystere, Hen. le, 74. 
 
 Dharapuram, 89(6), 90(3). 
 
 Dicher, Robt., 75. 
 
 Dick, Sir John, bart., Controller of the 
 
 army accounts, letters from, 98. 99. 
 Dickers, Humfrey, 35(2). 
 Diddlebury, 65. 
 Dilcok : 
 
 Hen., 140. 
 
 Will., 117, 119. 
 Dingle : 
 
 Ralph de, 73. 
 
 , Alice, wife of, 73. 
 
 Diodati, P., 78. 
 Distraint for fines, 33. 
 Divi point, 87(2). 
 Dod, Roundale, letter from, 58. 
 Dodd, Edw., letter from, 100. 
 Dodemanswell, 138. 
 Dodenhale, Hen. (de), 138, 141. 
 Domesday Book, 11. 
 Dommert, 162(2). 
 
 Domo Elymosorum, Jahannes de, 36. 
 Done : 
 
 Master, 48. 
 
 , wife of, 48. 
 
 Donfowe, Hug., 6. 
 Doniton, Will, de, elk., 70. 
 Donstau villa, Robertus de, 67. 
 Donstone, 67. 
 Donyngton, Will., 119. 
 Dormant and Extinct Baronage (Banks'), 
 67. 
 
 Doud Cawn, 89. 
 Douglas : 
 
 Capt. John, 85(2), 86. 
 
 Samuel, 92. 
 Dover, 26. 
 Downhale, Hen., 44. 
 Draper, Rich., letter from, 51. 
 Drayton, 29, 30. 
 Drayton, Willelmus de, 8, 
 Drew, Will., ' ( wolman," 156. 
 Drinkwater, Rev. C. H., M.A., 7, 8, 46. 
 Druelle : 
 
 Ralph, 67. 
 
 Will., 67. 
 Dryhurst, Rich., 54(2). 
 Dubash, the, 80(2), 81, 83. 
 Dublin, 53. 
 
 Castle, document dated at, 58. 
 Dudemanneswell, 116. 
 Dudley (co. Staff.), 9. 
 Dudley : 
 
 Edmund Dudley de, 9. 
 
 Lord {temp. Hen. VI.), 29. 
 
 Nicholas, 115, 141. 
 
 Robt., 12. 
 
 Thos., 126(2), 151. ■ 
 
 alias Sutton, Robertus, 9. 
 Duff hill (Duffylde), Dr., warden of Friars 
 
 Minors of Shrewsbury, 33, 48. 
 Dugdale, John, esq., 154. 
 Dugyn, John, a thief, 20. 
 Duhraspatam, 90(2). 
 
 Duke, John, of Lake, high sheriff of 
 
 Wilts, letter to, 169. 
 Dun, John, 26(2). 
 Dunbar, 93. 
 Dunbar, Will., 95. 
 D unchurch, 31. 
 
18G 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Drinemore, hospitallers of, 71. 
 Duneuic, Rodbercus de, 66. 
 Dunuington, Ralfe, 152. 
 Dunstaple, 31. 
 
 Dunston Hill (Durham), 92(2). 
 Da Paz : 
 
 Mr., 86. 
 
 , younger son of, 86. 
 
 Samuel, 86(3). 
 
 Durham : 
 
 CO. of, 92. 
 
 gaol, petition of debtors confined in, 
 99. 
 
 see of, 93. 
 Dutch, the, 78(3), 81, 82. 
 
 East. India Company, 78(2). 
 Dutens, L., letter from, 97. 
 Dye re, James le, 46. 
 Dyghere, Jacobus, 27. 
 Djk : 
 
 John, 173. 
 
 , Joan, dau. of, 173. 
 
 Dyngley. John, dapifer, 122. 
 " Dyvelyn." See Dublin. 
 
 E. 
 
 Early (co. Berks), 173. 
 East India Company : 
 
 Danish, 98. 
 
 Dutch, 78. 
 
 New, 78, 83-88. 
 
 , Directors of, 88. 
 
 , , letter from, 87. 
 
 , President of, 78, 83(4), 84(3), 
 
 86, 87(4), 88(4), 89(6). 
 
 , , letter to, 87. 
 
 , , wife of, 87. 
 
 Old, 81-82, 85, 86, 87, 88, 91. 
 
 United, 90(2). 
 East Indies, 85, 96. 
 
 soldiers in, 85. 
 Ebor. See York. 
 Eccleshall (Eccleshale), 126(2). 
 
 Castle, letter dated at, 50. 
 
 manor, 126. 
 Echingham : 
 
 Will, de, knt., 173. 
 
 , Eva, wife of, 173. 
 
 Edinburgh, 93, 96. 
 
 letter dated at, 96. 
 Edward I., King of England, 8, 26, 27, 42, 
 46, 70, 72(2), 73(3), 103, 109, 
 128(3), 129, 131(2), 134(6), 135. 
 
 charters, grants, &c, 3, 109. 
 
 subsidies, 6. 
 Edward II., 8(2), 27, 72, 73(3), 74(7), 
 109(2), 111, 128, 135(6), 136(5), 
 173(5). 
 
 charters, grants, &c, 3(4), 109, 110, 
 
 114, 127. 
 subsidies, 6. 
 Edward III., 8(4), 9, 27, 46(4), 74, 
 
 102(2), 109(2), 110(7), 111(9), 
 
 Edward III. — cont. 
 
 112(10). 113(9), 114(4), 115, 12S, 
 136, 137(4), 138(6), 139(6), 
 140(4), 141, 155(2), 173(8). 
 
 charters, grants, &c, 3(5), 4(3), 109, 
 110(5), HI 00, H2(6), 113(2), 
 114(6), 127. 
 
 subsidies, 6. 
 Edward IV., 11(3), 12(4), 30(6), 75, 103, 
 120, 128, 146(4), 148(4), 153(4), 
 155, 156(4), 157, 161, 173. 
 
 charters, grants, &c, 5(2), 127. 
 
 Privy Seal letters, 156. 
 
 subsidy, 7. 
 
 writ, 157. 
 
 Edward VI., 13(2), 33(2), 35(3), 36(2), 
 77, 102, 124(5), 128, 155. 
 birth of, 163. 
 
 charters, grants, &c, 5(3), 122, 
 
 124(4), 125, 127. 
 concerning Shrewsbury School, 
 
 24. 
 
 death of, 13. 
 
 port! ait of, 5(3). 
 
 proclamation of, 49. 
 Edward, Prince (afterwards Edw. I.), 26. 
 Edynghal, John de, cook, 136. 
 Efrardus, 66. 
 Egardeleye, 26. 
 
 Egbaldesham (Egebaldeham), 69, 70, 71. 
 Egbaldesham : 
 Roger, 69. 
 
 , Roger, son of, 69. 
 
 Egebaldeham : 
 
 Geoffrey of, 70. 
 
 , Rich., son of, 70. 
 
 Egebaldunham, 71. 
 Egge, Rich., 47. 
 
 Eglionby (Egliambye), Edward 126(3). 
 Egypt, 100. 
 
 Eld, Geo., 102, 108(2). 
 Elham, 162. 
 Elimorthyn, 73. 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen of England, 13, 14, 22, 
 24, 37(4), 38, 41, 42,49(2), 50, 55, 
 58, 59(2), 62(6), 63, 66, 103( 2), 
 104(3), 105(2), 124(6), 126(5), 
 128, 151(3), 152(3), 154, 155(2), 
 157(2), 158(4). 
 letters from, 50. 
 
 address to, from Coventry, 158. 
 commissions of, 37, 125,126(3). 
 coronation of, 36, 37, 51. 
 Council of, 59. 
 Court of, 58. 
 
 , letters dated at, 57(2). 
 
 charters, grants, &c, 5, 6, 75-76, 122, 
 
 125(3), 126, 127. 
 concerning free grammar school 
 
 in Shrewsbury, 17, 
 , concerning cloths of Coventry, 
 
 151. 
 
 , to Earl of Essex, 56. 
 
 orders of, 50, 61(2). 
 portrait of, 5. 
 statutes of, 153. 
 subsidies, 7. 
 visit to Shrewsbury, 18. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 187 
 
 Elizabeth, Princess (afterwards Queen), 
 77. 
 
 Elkinton, Mr., 104. 
 
 Ellesmere, Lord, the Chancellor, letter 
 
 from, 63. 
 Ellison : 
 
 Benj., 93. 
 
 family of, 93. 
 
 Kobt., 93(2). 
 
 , letters to, 96. 
 
 Elmbough, Thos., 47. 
 
 Eltham, John de, Earl of Cornwall, 109, 
 
 110, 111. 
 EJv, Eob. de, 71. 
 Emaum Konlee, 84 (3), 85. 
 
 son of, 85. 
 Emerson, John, 105. 
 
 Emmottes (Emmottis, Emottes), John, of 
 
 Coventry, capper, 147(2), 148. 
 Enderby : 
 
 Alice, 124. 
 
 Will., 124. 
 
 . grant to, 124. 
 
 Engenulfus, 66. 
 
 England, 57, 58. 78, 82, 84(2), 85, 86(6), 
 89,92, 94, : 95(2), 96, 98(2), 127, 155, 
 157. 
 
 arrival of Philip of Spain in, 36. 
 Bank of, 96. 
 
 Constable of. .See Bedford, John, 
 
 Duke of. 
 malt liquor of, 94. 
 ports in, 92, 
 New, 98. 
 Englefiold : 
 
 Erancis, 56. 
 
 Sir Francis, knt., attainder of, 56. 
 English, Ralph, 105. 
 English, the, 80(2), 83, 84, 90. 
 
 cloths, 62. 
 
 crown, 79. 
 
 men, 78, 80, 83, 84, 88, 89. 
 
 nation, 83, 85. 
 
 shilling, 79. 
 
 plank, 95. 
 Englishry, law of, 2. 
 Erburghfeld. See Bernard, Richard. 
 Ercalewe (Erkalewe) : 
 
 Sir John de, knt,, 70. 
 
 Will, de, 71. 
 Ercalwe (Erkalewe), John L'Estrange, 
 
 lord of, 72, 73. 
 Erdintone : 
 
 Sir Giles de, 71(2). 
 
 Hen. de, 70. 
 Erdynton, Sir Hen. lord of, 72. 
 Erie: 
 
 Sir Bartholomew de, knt., 173. 
 
 , John, son of, 173, 
 
 Ernesplace (Coventry), 117. 
 Espele, Rob, lord of, 70. 
 Espelege (Espeley), 73. 
 
 John lord of, 72, 73. 
 Espeleie : 
 
 John de, 72. 
 
 , Sibilla, wife of, 72. 
 
 Esple, Rob. de, 71. 
 
 Esplege : 
 
 Rob. de, lord of Esplege, 71, 72. 
 
 , John, son of, 71. 
 
 Essex : 
 
 Earl of (1572), 37. 
 
 , (1592), 56. 
 
 , letters from, 56, 57- And 
 
 see FitzPeter. 
 Essex, county of, 68. 
 Esterton, John, 117. 
 Estleye : 
 
 John of, 70. 
 
 Albert, son of, 70. 
 
 Eton, 94. 
 Eton : 
 
 Robt. de, 131. 
 
 , Felicia, dan. of, 131. 
 
 Thos , 33. 
 Eure, Will., Lord, 93. 
 Evans, David, B.A., 45(2). 
 Evanson, John, gent., 65. 
 Everard, Rich., of Waltham, 93. 
 Ewens, Matthew, letters from, 61(2). 
 Exchequer, the, 62, 113, 154^59. 
 
 Barons of, 123. 
 
 Remembrancer of, 154. 
 Excise, 94. 
 
 Exeterj Walter Stapleton, bishop of, 3. 
 Exhall, 108. 
 
 Extraneus. See L'Estrange. 
 Eynes. Sec Eyres. 
 Eyre, Judges in, 164. 
 Eyres alias Eynes, 57. 
 Eyton : 
 
 letter dated at, 42. 
 
 John, schoolmaster, 14, 36. 
 
 Sir Peter de, 72. 
 Eytone, Will, de, 70. 
 
 Ey ton's Antiq. of Shropshire, 69, 71, 
 72(4), 73. 
 
 F. 
 
 Falke, John, coroner, 28. 
 Fardingston, 74. 
 Farendon, document dated at, 2. 
 Farleigh Castle : 
 
 chantry, 161. 
 
 Mountford, 161. 
 
 Sloo (co. Somerset), 161. 
 Farley Hungerford, Guide to (Jackson), 
 161. 
 
 Farnecete, Rogerus de, 8. 
 Fasting, injunctions concerning, 52, 61. 
 Feckenham, document dated at, 2. 
 Feliciana, 32. 
 
 Felons, 26(3), 33(2), 36(4), 52. 
 Fennimara, Will, de, 70. 
 Fenwick : 
 
 Lieut. Michael, of Hebborne, 96. 
 
 , Jane, wife of, 95. 
 
188 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Ferrars : 
 
 Lord de. See Grey, Edw. 
 
 William, Earl de, 2. 
 Ferrers : 
 
 dominus le, 30. 
 
 Humfrey, 126. 
 Fielding, Basil, 154. 
 fil' Herberti, Ric, 25(2). 
 filia Galfridi zonarii, Wymarkia, 129. 
 filius : 
 
 Adoe, Herbertus, 68. 
 
 Alberti, Hugo, 68. 
 
 Aluri, R t , 68. 
 
 Brien, Paganus, 67. 
 
 Eromundi, Willelmus, 69. 
 
 Jurdani, Philippus, 69. 
 
 Marscot, Nich.,"68. 
 
 Michaelis, Nicholaus, 67. 
 
 Noel, Hugo, 68. 
 
 Oliver, Al., 68. 
 
 Ricardi. See EitzRichard. 
 
 Siwar, R., 68. 
 
 Thoreth, Petrus, 68. 
 
 , , Philippus filius eius, 68. 
 
 Walteri, Herbertus, 69. 
 
 Willelmi, Will., provost of Shrews- 
 bury, 69. 
 Fillongley (Fillonghley ), 150(2). 
 
 New (or Young), 127, 152. 
 
 Old, 127, 150(3). 
 
 , manor of, 152. 
 
 Eire engine, 40. 
 
 Eirmans, for the freedom of trade, 83, 84, 
 
 87(2). 
 Eisher : 
 
 John, 125. 
 
 Samuel, preacher, 39. 
 Fishermen, 52. 
 
 Eissher (Fyssher), John, of Coventry, 
 
 sherman, 147(2), 148. 
 Fitton, Sir Edw., knt., 39. 
 Eittz Patrick, [Sir] Barnabe, 37. 
 Eitz Adam, Roger, 71. 
 Eitz Aer, Sir John, knt., 70, 72(2). 
 Eitz Alan : 
 
 Avelina, 67(2). 
 
 Isabel, 67(3). 
 
 Thos., of Rodene, 71. 
 
 Will., sen., 67. 
 
 jun., 67(7), 68. 
 
 EitzHenry, Robt., mayor of Northampton, 
 
 73(2). 
 Fitz James, Hugh, 72. 
 Eitz Nicholas, Ralph, 2. 
 Eitz Peter : 
 
 Geoffrey, Earl of Essex, 2(3). 
 
 Walter, 71. 
 Fitz Ralph, Thos., 73. 
 Fitz Richard : 
 
 Hugh, 66 (2). 
 
 , Adeliza, his daughter, 66. 
 
 s M., his wife, 66. 
 
 , Rich., his son, 66. 
 
 , Will., his son, 66. 
 
 Peter, 69. 
 Fitz Warin, Will., 71. 
 Flaggs, 162. 
 Flanders, 125, 151. 
 
 Fleetwood, Geo., 76. 
 Fletcher : 
 
 Rev. G. W. D., 7. 
 
 W. G. D., M.A., 1. 
 
 William, 92. 
 Foleshill (Folleshull, &c), 108, 126(2). 
 Folewell, 138. 
 Folkeshull, 142. 
 
 " Grendonfeld," 142. 
 
 " Goldyfeld," 142. 
 
 " Walkferlong," 142. 
 Folkestone (co. Kent), 162(3). 
 Fonte, Rich, de, 132, 134. 
 Ford, manor of, 11. 
 Forrier, John le, 26. 
 Forster : 
 
 Thos., 96. 
 
 Will., 28(2). 
 Forstere, Thos., 46. 
 Fort : 
 
 St. David, 80. 
 
 , governor of, 80. 
 
 St. George, 80(2), 81(2), 82, 83, 
 84(2,) 85, 86(2), 87, 90(4), 91(3). 
 
 , council of, 90. 
 
 , governor of, 80(2). 
 
 Fortone, Nich. de, clerk, 70. 
 Foster, Alumni Oxonienses* 60, 
 Fouler : 
 
 Mr., letter to, 57. 
 
 Will., letters from, 55, 59, 61. 
 Fountain, Jne., 87. 
 Fowler : 
 
 Robert, preacher, 41. 
 
 William, letters from, 58(2). 
 
 , letters to, 57, 58. 
 
 Eoxe, Mr., secretary, 53. 
 France, 62, 97, 122. 
 
 King of (Francis I.), 33(2). 
 
 treaty with, 25. 
 
 war with, 121. 
 Franckviil, tithes of, 20. 
 Frankland, Mr., fellowship founded by, 
 
 159. 
 Franklin : 
 
 Samuel, 92. 
 
 Walter, 92. 
 Frankwell : 
 
 minister of, 38. 
 
 tithes in, 64. 
 Fredericksburgh, Virginia, 95. 
 Freer London, 20. 
 
 Freman, Margaret, petition from, 62. 
 Fremon, Philip, 72. 
 French : 
 
 lords, 38. 
 
 merchants, 62. 
 
 navy, 99. 
 
 ships, 88, 91. 
 French, the, 94. 
 
 treatment of slaves by, 99. 
 Frenchmen : 
 
 shipwrecked, 38. 
 
 within the franchise of Salop, 48. 
 Fretai, Will, de, 66. 
 Erewen, Mr., 88(6). 
 Frizes, stapling of, 23. 
 Frogmorton. See Throgmorton. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 189 
 
 Funchal, 78. 
 
 Furber, Sir Will., clerk, 165. 
 Furnivall, Lord, 27. 
 Fyssher : 
 
 Agnes, 146, 
 
 John, 36. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gadsby, (co. Leicester), lordship of, 
 106(2). 
 
 Gamel, Alan (Alanus Alius), 25, 26. And 
 
 see Gymel. 
 Games, unlawful, 48, 53, 56, 62. 
 Gange, John, 156-157. 
 Gannter, John le, 134. 
 Garbett, Samuel, History of Wem, 77. 
 Garden, Francis, Lord Gardenstone, 96. 
 Gardiner : 
 
 Roger, 133. 
 
 , Aiice, wife of, 133. 
 
 Humphrey, glover, 44. 
 
 , Thomas, his son, 44. 
 
 Gardner : 
 
 Rich., 20, 23. 
 
 Thos., petition to, 63. 
 Garlecmongere, Hen. le, mayor of North- 
 ampton, 74(2). 
 Gas introduced into Shrewsbury, 25. 
 Gascoyne wine, 21. 
 Gatsys, Will., 138(3), 139(2). 
 Geffrei, Johannes, 27. 
 Geneva, charitable collection of, 55. 
 Gentues, the, 82. 
 
 George I., King of England, 41, 128. 
 
 writ of, 159. 
 George II., 41, 128. 
 George III., 41, 98(4), 99(2), 128. _ 
 
 address to, on the rebellion in 
 America, 24. 
 
 , on the naval victories, 25. 
 
 attempt on the life of, 98(2). 
 
 ministers of, 98. 
 George IV., 128. 
 Gerard, Peter, coroner, 27. 
 Gere, Rpbt., 93. 
 Gernun, William, 2. 
 Gervays, John, 73. 
 Gherard, Thos., 46. 
 Gibb : 
 
 Edw., 93. 
 
 Sir Hen., bart., 93. 
 
 , Elizabeth, dau. of, 93. 
 
 , Frances, dau. of, 93. 
 
 Gibbons : 
 
 Mr., letter to, 61. 
 
 Nicholas, letter from, 62. 
 
 Rich., petition to, 64. 
 
 , mayor of Shrewsbury, 43(3). 
 
 Gibraltar, 99. 
 
 Giff ard : 
 
 Gilbert, 68. 
 
 Sir John, of Chelintone, 73. 
 
 , Alice, dau. of, 73. 
 
 " Gilhana " (a female name), 74. 
 
 Glasier (Glasyer), Rich., " abbot of 
 
 Marham," 33(2). 
 Glassel (Glassell) : 
 
 Robt., 87(2), 88. 
 
 , letters from, 88. 
 
 Glastonbury, corporation of, 101. 
 Glasrugthe. See Glass-worker, Will. le. 
 Glass-worker : 
 
 Will, le, 134, 135. 
 
 , Emma, wife of, 135. 
 
 " Glawrihte." Sse Glass- worker, Will. le. 
 Glessell. See Glassel. 
 Gloucester, 132. 
 
 letter dated at, 58. 
 
 bailiffs of, order to, 62. 
 
 Parliament held at, 27. 
 
 tolls, 62. 
 Gloucestershire, 166. 
 
 assessments in, 166. 
 
 sheriffs of, 165, 166, 167. 
 Glovernia : 
 
 Alexander de, 134. 
 
 Mauricius de, 26(2). 
 Godbert, Will., of Wolstaneston, 26. 
 Godewortb, vicar of. See Persones, Sir 
 John. 
 
 Godmanchester, the Holme, 78. 
 Golconda, 84(2), 85. 
 
 Viceroy of, 82. 
 Goldsnrythe, Adam, 46. 
 Gollan, Hugh, son of, the Knight of Stowe, 
 69. 
 
 Goodre, 90. 
 
 English garden at, 90. 
 Gorges : 
 
 Lord, 170. 
 
 , kinsmen of, 172. 
 
 Richard, 172. 
 
 Goring, Capt. John, 58. 
 Goslin : 
 
 Capt., 87(2). 
 
 Mrs., 87. 
 Gothe, John, 144. 
 Goulborne, — , preacher, 38. 
 Gould : 
 
 Gen., Commander-in-chief in Carolina, 
 
 99(2). 
 John, 92. 
 
 Gousde Cawn, general of the Great 
 
 Mogul, 87(2). 
 Govdre, 82, 
 Graeme, Gen., 99. 
 Graff ton, Ric. de, 6. 
 Grafton : 
 
 Rich., 10. 
 
 Cecilia, 10. 
 Graham : 
 
 Mr., 80(5), 81, 82, 83(2), 84, 87(2). 
 
 , marriage of. 85. 
 
 , John, 82(3), 84(2), 85. 
 
 , , death of, 86. 
 
 Mrs., 87. 
 
190 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Grantham : 
 
 Will, de, 137. 
 
 , Isolda, wife of, 137(2). 
 
 Graupe, John, 143. 
 Great Barwick, 53. 
 Great Mogul, 82(3), 85, 88. 
 
 Ambassador to. See Xorris, Sir 
 Will. 
 Great Ness, 65. 
 Greene : 
 
 Henry, 154. 
 
 Rich., 127. 
 Greenland trade, 94. 
 Greenwich : 
 
 documents dated at, 59, 61, 62. 
 
 rnan^r of, 124. 
 Gregory (Gregori) : 
 "Arthur, gent., 126. 
 
 Sibil, 74. 
 
 Thos., 73. 
 Grenada, 96. 
 
 Grenedene, Gwariu de, 71. 
 Gretford, 139. 
 " Grethn," a, 38. 
 
 , Sir Fulke, knt., 123. 
 
 Grevill (Greville, &c), Sir Fulke, knt., 
 
 126f2), 156. 
 Grey : 
 
 Edw., lord de Ferrars de Groby, 148. 
 
 , Henry, son of, 148. 
 
 John de, Bishop of Norwich, 2. 
 Griffin : 
 
 Bertram, 71, 72. 
 
 James, 92. 
 Griffiths, Thos., 60. 
 Grlffud : 
 
 Eynnius, son of, 70. 
 
 Heylin, son of, 70. 
 Grilli, Will., 73. 
 Grimaldi, Stacey, 108. 
 Grimescote : 
 
 Ralph de, 67. 
 
 Rich, de, 69. 
 
 , Anselm, son of, 69. 
 
 Grindal, Edm v Bishop of London, letter 
 
 from, 49. 
 Grinshill : 
 
 letter dated at, 57. 
 
 minister of, 57. 
 Groby, Lord de Ferrars de. See Grey, 
 
 Edw. 
 Grofftadam, 70. 
 Gryffith, Will., letter from, 56. 
 Gryffyth, alias Wynen, John of, 52. 
 Grynsell : 
 
 W r alter, 63. 
 
 , letter from, 63. 
 
 Guinea, coast of, 91. 
 Gulidone, Fhilip de, 69. 
 Gunpowder : 
 
 Plot, 38. 
 
 sold, 39. 
 
 works, 39. 
 Guun, Herveus, 66. 
 Guy, Mr., death of, 83. 
 Guyn, Owen, master of St. John's Col- 
 lege, Cambridge, letters from, 44(2). 
 
 Gyffard : 
 
 John, of Ichyll, J 73. 
 
 , Joan, dau. of, 173. 
 
 Gylson, Will., milner, petition from, 63. 
 Gymel : 
 
 Alanus, 25. 
 
 Johannes, 25. 
 Gyttyns, John, jun., petition from, 62. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hachun, Michael, 67. 
 Ilaclintone : 
 
 David de, 67. 
 
 Henry de, 67. 
 Haclntone. See Haclintone. 
 Hacton, Reiner de, 69. 
 H addon : 
 
 Mr., 104. 
 
 Will., mercer, 148. 
 ! Hadenhale, Wido de, 70, 71. 
 Hadley, 74. 
 
 Hagamon, Hageman. See Haughmond. 
 Hagee Mamud Seid, 80(2). 
 Haia : 
 
 Ric. de, 68. 
 
 Tery de, 68. 
 Haldeyn, Adam, 129. 
 Hale (Hales) : 
 
 John de, dyer, 134. 
 
 , Margaret, wife of, 134. 
 
 , esq., 127. 
 
 Sir John, bart , 153 (4). 
 
 Mr., 82, 84, 85. 
 
 Jos., death of, 87. 
 
 Halectone, Sir Rob. de, 71. 
 Hall, Master Hich. of the, (Coventry), 136. 
 Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, Out- 
 lines of the Life of Shakespeare, 143. 
 Hallon, house of Sir George Bromley at, 
 
 letter dated at, 44. 
 Halton, 162(2). 
 Hamburgh, 94. 
 Hammond, John, 105. 
 H-imond, Rich., tailor, petition from, 52. 
 Hampshire, 173. 
 Hampton, 31, 59. 
 
 Court, 76. 
 
 , documents dated at, 50, 56, 163. 
 
 Hamuon. See Haughmond. 
 Hanckehurst, Christopher, elk., 17. 
 Hancocke, Walter, mason, 60(2). 
 Hanmer (Hanmere) : 
 
 Lewis, 32. 
 
 , letter from, 49. 
 
 Happesford, John, 143. 
 Harding, Robt., letter to, 54. 
 Hardinge, Sergeant, 62. 
 Hardwick (co. Warwick), 151(2). 
 Harelagh, 30. 
 
 castle, 30. 
 Harenhal, 138. 
 Hargrave, 74. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 191 
 
 Haringworth, Lord of. See , Zouche, Sir 
 
 Will. la. 
 Harlascote, 75. 
 
 Chromgrenes, 75. 
 
 Mady nnes buttes, 75. 
 
 Wodefeld, 75. 
 Harlewyn, Thomas, 84 (3). 
 liar ley e : 
 
 Rich. de. sheriff, 26. 1 
 
 Sir Rich, de, 27, 72, 
 Harlwyn, Mr., 83, 85. 
 Harnege : 
 
 letters dated at, 55, 59. 
 
 fire at, 59, GO. 
 
 Grange, 57. 
 Harnhale, 134. 
 
 Qwareie, 116. 
 
 territory of, 133. 
 Harpecote : 
 
 Lady Mabel, 70. 
 
 Sir Walter de, 70. 
 Harpecote, 70, 72. 
 Harperchote, Robt. de, 71 
 Harpernchote, 71. 
 Harries : 
 
 Geo., letter from, 60. 
 
 Thos., of Terbyn, gent., 49. 
 Harriman, Nathaniel, gent., 154. 
 Harrison : 
 
 Capt., 91. 
 
 Rich., letter from, 57. 
 Hartley Wintney (Wyntenay, &c), co. 
 Hants. : 
 
 church of, 174. 
 
 convent of, 174. 
 
 document dated at, 174. 
 
 prioress of, 174. 
 Harvey, Robert, letters to, 96. 
 Haseleye, 70. 
 Hassal Hukum, 85. 
 Hassald, John, 53. 
 
 Hastings, charitable collection of, 55. 
 Haston, 74. 
 
 Hathewike, John, 147. 
 Hatsell: 
 
 Mr., governor of Fort St. David, 80. 
 
 Will., esq., 82. 
 Hatton super Hynehet, 73. 
 Hauberch, Lady Agnes, 132. 
 Haughinond (Haghemou, &c ) : 
 
 letters dated at, 49, 58. 
 
 Abbey of St. John the Evangelist at, 
 66, 67 (2), 68 (2), 72, 73, 75. 
 
 , abbot of, 77. 
 
 , canons of, 70, 72. 
 
 , founder of, 67. 
 
 , grants to, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 
 
 72 (2), 73, 74. 
 
 , Will., abbot of, 71. 
 
 Hawke, Lord, victory of, at Belleisle, 96. 
 Hawkesbury, coal mines in, 158. 
 Hawkhurst : 
 
 Mr., 18. 
 
 Mrs., 18. 
 Hawkinge, 162. 
 Haxbye, Steph., 44. 
 
 Hayes, Thomas, Mayor of Shrewsbury, 40. 
 Hayward, Roger, 52. 
 
 Haywood, Rich., gent., 154. 
 Hearing, Will., 20. 
 Heath : 
 
 John, 58. 
 
 Richard, vicar of St. Alkmund's, 
 
 40, 65. 
 Hebborne, 96. 
 Hebburne, manor of, 93(2). 
 Hedge-bill, theft of a, 52. 
 Hedgeley (Northumberland), 92. 
 Hedges : 
 
 Robt., 79, 80(4). 
 Sir Will., 80. 
 Hedges, Will., Diary of, Ed. Yule, 80. 
 Hefilchawe, Robt. de, 72. 
 Hefkeston, Roger do, 68. 
 Heldestoc, 68. 
 Helecete, Thomas de, 8. 
 Helias, Alex., son of, 70. 
 Helinfor', S. Hen. de, (seal), 71. 
 Hemme Hynton, 73. 
 Hemmele, 71. 
 Hemming the priest, 68. 
 Hende, John, rector of Litchfield, 173. 
 Heneage, Sir Thos., 57. 
 Henly, Richard, 164. 
 Henry I., King of England, 66. 
 Henry II., 2, 67(2). 
 
 charters, grants, &c, 67, 109(2), 
 
 110, 114, 127, 131. 
 Henry III., 7(3), 8(3), 25(3), 26(2), 
 
 46(4), 48, 66, 68, 69, 70-72, 12S(2), 
 
 129, 131(2), 133, 134. 
 charters, grants, &c, 2(4), 3(8), 
 
 4(3), 48(2\ 74, 109, 110, 114, 
 
 127. 
 
 Henry IV., 8(2), 9, 11(2), 27(2), 103, 
 116(4), 117(3), 128, 142, 143(3). 
 charters, grants, &c, 4, 116(2), 
 
 117(2), 119, .127, 143. 
 statutes of, 5. 
 Henry V., 7, 11, 28, 46, 75, 103, 117(5), 
 118, 128, 143, 144(2), 155, 173(4), 
 174. 
 
 charters of; 4, 117(2), 118(2), 119, 
 
 122, 125, 
 mandate of, 117. 
 statutes of, 5. 
 Henry VI., 9(2), 11, 12(2), 28(2), 29(4), 
 
 30(2), 103, 118(3), 119(6), 120(2), 
 
 128, 144(2), 145(4), 155(3), 162, 
 
 173. 
 
 charters, grants, &c, 4(2), 5(2), 118, 
 119(5), 122, 125, 127. 
 
 mandates of, 118(2). 
 
 subsidies of, 7. 
 Henry VIL, 7, 9(3), 11, 12(6), 30, 31(2), 
 48, 75, 104, 120(5), 128, 148, 
 149(3), 173(4). 
 
 charters, grants, &c, 5(3), 48, 
 120(3), 127. 
 Henry VIII., 9, 12(7), 31(7), 32(9), 
 33(4^, 34(6), 35(3), 41, 47, 48(2), 
 49(3), 66, 75(3), 102, 103(2), 
 106, 121(1 i), 122(8), 123(8), 
 124(2), 128, 149, 150(5), 155(4), 
 . 163(6), 161(3), 165(2). 
 
192 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Henry VI 1 1.— cont. 
 
 charters, grants, &c., 5(2), 122, 
 
 123(3), 125(2), 127. 150, i59(2). 
 commissions of, 32. 122, 123. 
 dapifer of, 122. 
 exequies of, 35. 
 loan to, 32(2). 
 lute-player of, 31. 
 mandates of, 122. 
 portrait of, 5. 
 
 Privy Seal letters, 121(3), 123(2), 
 124. 
 
 statute of, 20. 
 
 subsidies of, 7. 
 Henry IV., King of France, 62. 
 Henry : 
 
 the clerk, 69(2). 
 
 Sir Richard, a priest, 164. 
 Henton, 165. 
 
 monk of. See Balam, Sir Nicholas. 
 
 priory of (the " Charthuse," Charter- 
 house^, 165. 
 
 proctor of, 164. 
 
 Herbert : 
 
 Rich., letter from, 57. 
 
 Robt., of Coventry, 134. 
 
 , Margery, dau. of, 134. 
 
 Sir Will., km., 24. 
 
 , Sir Percy, son of, 24. 
 
 Herdwyke. See Hardwick. 
 Herdy, Will,, 124. 
 Hereford, 17, 26(2), 53. 
 
 Adam do Orleton, Bishop of, 3. 
 
 Bishop of (1509-10), 31. 
 
 (1628), apparitor of, 64. 
 
 episcopal registers, 76. 
 Herefordia, Willelmus de, 66. 
 Herringe, John, 152. 
 Hertford : 
 
 Earl of (1540), letter from, 165. 
 
 John, mayor of Coventry, 123. 
 Hesilrige : 
 
 Sir Arthur, 95(5). 
 
 Lady, 95, 96. 
 
 , letters to, 95(3). 
 
 Robt., 95. 
 Hespele, Jordan de, 68. 
 Hethlega, Will, de, 69. 
 Hewer, John, letter from, 51. 
 Heynes : 
 
 Nich., capper, 149. 
 
 Will., letter from, 49. 
 Heytesbury, 161(2), 162(2). 
 Hey ward, Roger, minister of St. Chad's, 
 
 Shrewsbury, 41. 
 Hibernia, Reginald de, 69. 
 Higgens, Geo., 18. 
 Higgons : 
 
 Rich., 37, 50. 
 
 Thos, 61, 63. And see Modi? cot, 
 Marie. 
 
 High Ercall, letter dated at, 60. 
 Highlanders, 93. 
 Highworth (co Wilts.), 161. 
 Hill: 
 
 General Lord, 25. 
 
 , his five brothers, 25. 
 
 Rowland, of Hawkstone, 77(2). 
 
 Historical Manuscripts Commissioners, the, 
 
 1, 101-102. 
 Hochecote, John de, 74. 
 Hockleton, John, letter from, 60. 
 Hodenet, rector of, 72. 
 Hodenet, Sir Odo de, 70, 71. 
 Hodnet (Hodenent), Odo de, 68, 71. 
 Hodshon, William, 93. 
 Holand (Holland) : 
 
 Thos., apothecary, 57. 
 
 , letter from, 57. 
 
 Holbache : 
 
 Barnabie, yeoman, 152(2). 
 
 , Will., son of, 152. 
 
 David, 27. 
 
 Thos., 150(3). 
 
 Will., 150(3). 
 Holden : 
 
 John, 82. 
 
 , death of, 85. 
 
 Holford, Capt. Arthur, 86. 
 Holland, 92, 93, 170. 
 
 Holland (Holand), Johnde, chaplain, 109, 
 110. 
 
 Hollier, A., letter from, 97. 
 Holnian : 
 
 Capt. Will., 86(2). 
 
 , death of, 88. 
 
 Holme, Will., 139. 
 
 Holoway, John, miller, 134. 
 
 Holt castle (near Wrexham), 30. 
 
 Holte, Edward, 126. 
 
 Hornet, 162. 
 
 Honane, John, 71. 
 
 Hood, Robin, 36. 
 
 Hooghly, President and Council at, 87. 
 Hoord, John, 30(2). 
 Hope : 
 
 Adrian, 93. 
 
 Messrs., 94. 
 
 Thos., 93. 
 Hopelege. See Hopley. 
 Hopkins, Mr., 104. 
 Hople), 67(3), 68, 76. 
 Hopton, 162. 
 
 (Hoptun), 68, 70, 71(5), 72(4), 
 73(3), 74. 
 Hopton : 
 
 Sir Owen, 44. 
 
 Philip de, 71. 
 
 Thos. de, 70, 71. 
 
 , Roger, son of, 70, 71. 
 
 Walter de, 72. 
 
 Sir Walter de, 72. 
 Hoptun : 
 
 Osbert de, 67, 68. 
 
 Walter de, 68. 
 Hord : 
 
 Rich., 72(2), 73. 
 
 , wife of, 73. 
 
 Will., 72, 73. 
 Hornby, John, girdler, 144. 
 Horne : 
 
 John, of Stoke, 151(2). 
 
 Reginald, 105, 151(2). 
 Korpol, Thos., 74. 
 Korton, 33. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 193 
 
 Horton : 
 
 Dame Mary, 165. 
 
 Thos., 165. 
 
 , clothier, 165. 
 
 Hortun, 66(2). 
 Hose : 
 
 Henry, 69. 
 
 Hugh, 67. 
 
 Ralph, 69. 
 
 Walter, 68. 
 
 Will., 69. 
 Hosier : 
 
 Capt., 91. 
 
 Thos., 48. 
 Hosyer : 
 
 Alice, 14. 
 
 Edward, 19. 
 Hotchkis, Kev. Leonard, Master of 
 
 Shrewsbury Grammar School, 24(3). 
 Hougham, 162. 
 Houghton, 162. 
 
 Household, Lord Chamberlain of the, 169. 
 
 Howard, —,99. 
 
 Hubard, Ralph, minstrel, 32. 
 
 Hubert, Andrew son of, provost ol ! 
 
 Shrewsbury, 69. 
 Hudson, Capt., 89. 
 
 Huge, Sir Thos. de la, of Whitchurch, 72. 
 
 Hugely. See Hooghly. 
 
 Hugford, Will., 157. 
 
 Hughes, Hum , letter from, 52. 
 
 Hul: 
 
 Rich, de la, 71. 
 
 , Rich., son of, 71. 
 
 , of Mukliton, 71. 
 
 Hulston, Humfrey, 34. 
 HuDgerford : 
 
 Edward, letter to, 170. 
 
 , esq., 165. 
 
 , knt., 162. 
 
 , , Walter, son of, 162(3). 
 
 Giles, letter to, 170. 
 
 Lord, of Haytesbery, letters to, 
 163(4), 164(3), 165(2). 
 
 Robert, lord of Molyns, 162. 
 
 , letters, &c, of, 162. 
 
 Walter, knt., 161. 
 
 , Lord, letters, &c. of, 162(2). 
 
 , Sir Robert, son of, 162. 
 
 , , letters, &c, of, 162. 
 
 Hungerford, 161. 
 
 chartulary, 161. 
 
 family of, 161. 
 
 House. See London. 
 Hungerford Farley, documents dated at, 
 162(2). 
 
 " Hungerfordianum," (" Registrum,") 161. 
 Hunsdon, Lord, 59. 
 Hunt : 
 
 Geo., petition from, 63. 
 
 Ralph, 148. 
 
 Richard, petition to, 63. 
 Hunte, Rogerus le, 8. 
 Hunter, James, 95(2). 
 
 letter to, 95. 
 Hunting horses, rent in lieu of, 2. 
 Huntingdon, lord of, 164(2). 
 93620. 
 
 " le Hume " : 
 
 Thos. in, (Coventry), 138. 
 
 , Alice, wife of, 138. 
 
 , Thos., son of, 138. 
 
 } ... — f Emma, wife of, 138. 
 
 Hurst (co. Berks), 173. 
 Hussey, Edw., letter from, 53. 
 Hutchinson; Thos., governor of Massachu- 
 setts, 92, 98(2). 
 
 letter from, 98. 
 Huycke, Thos., letter from, 49. 
 Hwttele, John de, 129. 
 Hygford, John, dapifer, 122. 
 Hygons, Rich., 15, 37. 
 Hylton, abbot of, 31. 
 Hyntone, Thos. de, 26. 
 Hythe, 162. 
 
 I. 
 
 Ichyll (co. Hants.), 173. 
 Ichynton, Thos. de, 111. 
 Independence, War of, 92. 
 India, Danish settlements in, 98. 
 Infans, Kobt. See Lenfant, Robt. 
 Ingge, John, of Coventry, 141. 
 Ingles, 162. 
 Inglesbie, Capt., 40. 
 Inmau, Ralph, 92, 95. 
 Inns of Court, 23. 
 
 Inquests of felonies and accidents, 26(2). 
 
 post mortem, 103, 126. 
 Ipswich, 102. 
 
 Ireland, 29, 49, 50, 58, 61(2), 62, 127. 
 
 Lord Deputy of, 50. 
 
 soldiers to serve in, 15, 20, 42, 58(2). 
 Ireland : 
 
 — , bailiff of Shrewsbury, letter to, 
 49. 
 
 Robt., esq., 15, 22(2), 52. 
 
 jun., petition from, 50. 
 
 Irishman, an, 38, 97. 
 
 murder of, 32. 
 Irland, Hospital de, 75. 
 Isabel (Isabella), Queen, wife of Edward 
 II., 109(6), 110, 111(7), 112(7), 
 113(7). 
 
 letters from, 102, 108. 
 
 charters of, 109, 111(2), 113(2). 
 Ive, Rich., 36. 
 Ivo, John son of, 70. 
 
 J. 
 
 Jackson's Guide to Farley Hungerford, 
 161. 
 
 Jagedune, Simon de, 69. 
 Jamaica, 99. 
 
 slaves in, 99. 
 
194- 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 James L, King of England, 9, 24(2), 38, 
 76, 93, 127, 128, 152, 155(2), 
 156(2), 165. 
 charters, grants, &c, 127(2). 
 
 subsid.es of, 7, 
 James II , 41, 105, 125, 155(2). 
 
 charter of, 6. 
 
 commission of, 155. 
 
 portrait of, 6. 
 Jane Seymour, Queen of England, letter 
 
 from, 163. 
 Jarrow, 93(3). 
 
 lordship of, 93. 
 
 rectory of, 93. 
 Jeaffreson, JohnCordy, 160. 
 Jebbessone, Thos , a felon, 33. 
 Jeffyn, Will., 127. 
 Jenks, Daniel, gent., 65. 
 Jerard, Nich., 46. 
 Jester, the King's, 33, 34. 
 Joca of Little Boulewas, 26. 
 John Bull, 99. 
 John, Ivo son of, 70. 
 John, King of England, 7 f4), 67, 161. 
 
 charters of, 2(3), 3, 48. 
 Johnson : 
 
 — , 170(2;. 
 
 Mr, 45(3). 
 Johore (Johoa,, 88. 
 Jones : 
 
 Robt., shoemaker, 49. 
 
 Thomas, mayor of Shrewsbury, letter 
 to, 64. 
 
 , town clerk of Shrewsbury, 41. 
 
 Will., 20. 
 Jonson : 
 
 Mr., M.A., 59(2). 
 
 Thos., petition from, 54. 
 Jordan (Jurdan), Mr., minister, 59. 
 Joseph the clerk, 69. 
 
 Will., brother of, 69. 
 Jouks, John, pauper, wife of, 34. 
 Juison, John, 65. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kalcote : 
 
 Gruff of, 47(2). 
 
 ., his son, 47(2). 
 
 Kattford, Hugh de, 68. 
 Keaston, 75. 
 Kebull, Hen., 148. 
 Keerer, the Lord, 61. 
 Kele, Henry, 114, 115. 
 Kelly, Capt , 91. 
 Kempe . 
 
 John 57. 
 
 Reginald, 1'29. 
 
 Robert, 57. 
 
 Vincen , 129(3). 
 Kendal, Earl of. See Bedford, John Duke 
 of. 
 
 Kendale : 
 
 Alana, 75. 
 
 Robt. de, 75(2). 
 
 , knt., 75. 
 
 Will, de, of Coventry, 138. 
 Kenew Elhameston, 70. 
 Kenilworth, John abbot of, 157. 
 Kent : 
 
 Earl of. See Burgh, Hubert de. 
 
 Nich., sadler, 156. 
 
 Rich., II. 
 Kent, county of. 124. 
 Kenyoghale, document dated at, 111. 
 Kenyngton, documents dated at, 74. 
 Keresley, 108. 
 Keresley : 
 
 Adam, 115. 
 
 Will., 142. 
 Kerry, vicar of, 49. 
 
 Kersalton (Kershalton), Pentecost de, 
 
 mayor of Northampton, 73(3). 
 Kerston, letter dated at, 43. 
 Keu, Nich. le, 27. 
 Key liners, Rob. de, 73. 
 Kiderminster : 
 
 Adam de, 132. 
 
 , Beatrice, dau. of, 132. 
 
 Kilmersdon (co. Somerset), 161. 
 King, Thos., gent, 154. 
 Kingsale, 91. 
 
 King's Bench, Justices of the, 75, 144. 
 King's Lynn, 102. 
 
 Kingsmill (Kingesmille,Kyn<resmyll, &c.): 
 Adam, of Bercham, 173. 
 - — , Elizabeth wife of, 173. 
 
 , Will., son of, 173. 
 
 , son of John de, 1 73. 
 
 Andrew, esq., MSS. of, 173-174. 
 John, 173. 
 
 , Joan, wife of, 173. 
 
 , Will., son of, 173. 
 
 , of Bercham (Edw. III.), 173. 
 
 , , Adam, son of, 173. 
 
 , , , Elizabeth, wife of, 
 
 173. 
 
 , (Hen. V.), 173. 
 
 , , William, soncf. 173. 
 
 , of Erefolk, 173. 
 
 , , Joan, wife of, 173. 
 
 , sergesnt-at-law (Hen. VII.), 
 
 173. 
 
 , , Joan, wife of, 173. 
 
 Richard, 173. 
 
 , John, son of, 173. 
 
 , gent., 173. 
 
 , of Basingstoke, gent., 173. 
 
 — — , , John, son of, 173. 
 
 William, of Bercham, 173. 
 
 , , Richard, son of, 173. 
 
 , , Thomas, son of, 173. 
 
 Kirden, Hen., 126. 
 Kisnapatara river, 90. 
 Knave, Will, le, 129. 
 Knight : 
 
 John, master of the Guild of the Holy 
 Trinity of the Mystery of Fannars, 
 II. 
 
 Thos., bailiff, 31. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 105 
 
 Knightly, Val., 80(2), 81. 
 Knyth, Will., rector of Litchfield, Hants, 
 173. 
 
 Kundelme. See Cundelin. 
 Kyderminster, Adam de, 26. 
 Kylyngworth Castle, 29. 
 Kynaston, Humphrey, gent., 47. 
 Kyngesmyll (Kyngesmell, Kyngesmulle). 
 See Kingsmill. 
 
 L. 
 
 Lacon : 
 
 Rowland, sheriff, 50. 
 
 Thos., murder of, 58. 
 Ladbroke, church of, 117, 143. 
 Lake, Jevan, 30. 
 Lakham, letter dated at, 170. 
 Lakyn, Rich, de, 71. 
 Lalleford, Will, de, chaplain, 138. 
 Lanbertus, 66. 
 Lances, muster of, 42, 56. 
 Landeu, Mr., consul and president of 
 
 Banjar, 87. 
 Lane, Hen., 92. 
 Langbene, John de, 134. 
 Langeforde, Robert de, 67. 
 Langleberge : 
 
 Roger de, 70. 
 
 , Hysobella, daughter of, 70. 
 
 Langley, letter dated at, 53. 
 Langley : 
 
 John, 146. 
 
 Walter, 146. 
 
 , Dame Isabella, wife of, 146. 
 
 Langleye, John de, 139. 
 Lany, Robt., 44. 
 Lascars, the, 83 (2). 
 
 Lastres, Johannes de, capellanus, 26(2). 
 Lathropp, Robt., gent., 65. 
 Laugh ton (La^ton) : 
 
 Mr., preacher, 58, 60. 
 
 , letters to, 57(2). 
 
 Thos., 58, 61. 
 
 , letters from, 52, 61(2). 
 
 Lawe : 
 
 Johannes, 26(2). 
 
 Robt., clerk, 145. 
 Lawley : 
 
 Capt. Richard, 35(2). 
 
 Rich., 49. 
 Lawrence : 
 
 John, minister of Grinshill, letter 
 from, 57. 
 
 Thos., schoolmaster, 44(2). 
 Lea : 
 
 Mr., 108. i 
 Richard, 55(3). 
 
 , order to, from the Council of 
 
 the Marches, 55. 
 Leamington, 138. 
 Leche, Thos., 103. 
 
 Leder, John, 117, 145. 
 
 Lee : 
 
 Sir John de, 72. 
 
 Mr., 80(2). • 
 
 Richard, letter from, 53. 
 
 Rondell, 49. 
 
 Thomas, 34. 
 
 del, 71. 
 
 Lefhton, Sir Rich, de, 72. 
 Lega, Jerinus de la, 67. 
 Legh : 
 
 Dr., preacher, 3-J. 
 
 Thos., 32. 
 Leghtone, John de, 73. 
 Leghtoun, Thos. de, of Coventry, 132. 
 " Legr," Robt. son of Earl of, 67. 
 Lehtone, Sir Rich, de, 70. 
 Leicester, 135, 154. 
 
 co. of, 106. 
 
 Robt., Earl of (1569), 125(2), 126(2). 
 Leigh : 
 
 Moses, clerk, 65. 
 
 Thos.,' 49. 
 Leighton : 
 
 E., 18. 
 
 , letter from, 50. 
 
 Edward, 22. 
 Rich., 49. 
 
 Thos., letter from, 58. 
 
 Will., letter from, 53. 
 Lemman, John, 109, 110. 
 Lemon, Robert, 3, 5. 
 Lemynton. See Leamington. 
 Lenfant (Infans or the Child), Robt., 
 
 provost of Shrewsbury, 69. 
 Leons, Apereus ?), 67. 
 Lescofort, Hugh de, 68. 
 L'Estrange (" Extraneus ") : 
 
 Sir Fulk, knt., 72. 
 
 John, 68, 69. 
 
 , John, son of, 69. 
 
 , Will, son of, 69(2). 
 
 John, lord of Ercalwe, 72, 73. 
 
 , Matilda, wife of, 72. 
 
 Lewin, Will., 133. 
 Lewis : 
 
 Griffith, apparitor or somner for the 
 diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, 
 60. 
 
 John, draper, 20(2), 21(3). 
 M., 44. 
 
 Lewys, Roger, alderman, 14. 
 Lewys alias Pope, Roger, 15. 
 Leycestre : 
 
 Hen. de, Prior of Coventry, 137. 
 
 Will, de, 136. 
 Leygh (Leyghe), Geo., 15, 37. 
 Leyghton : 
 
 W., 57. 
 
 , letter from, 39. 
 
 Lichfield : 
 
 Bishop of. See Coventry. 
 
 Palace, letter dated at, 45. 
 Light horsemen : 
 
 furniture of, 42. 
 
 muster of, 42. 
 Ligons, Thos., 105. 
 
 N 2 
 
196 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Lilleshall (Lilleshull) : 
 
 Abbey of, 14, 66, 68, 69. 
 
 abbot of, 28, 68. 
 
 , grants to, 69. 
 
 cburch of, 68(2). 
 
 Henry, abbot of, 74. 
 
 Ricbard, abbot of, 70. 
 
 Walter, abbot of, 68(3). 
 
 William, abbot of, 68(2). 
 Lincbelade. See Linslade. 
 Lincoln : 
 
 burgesses of, 109. 
 
 dean of, 142(2). 
 
 Will., bishop of (1498), 149. 
 Lincoln's Inn, documents dated at, 5. 
 Linslade, (Buckinghamshire), 67(2), 74(2). 
 
 church, 76. 
 
 tithes, 76. 
 Litchfield (co. Hants), 173. 
 
 rectors of, 173. 
 Littleton, Capt., 82(2). 
 
 Sir Eiw., 81, 83. 
 Little Wythiford, 70. 
 Little Wythifort, John of, 71. 
 Livingston, Philip, 92. 
 Llansanfrait : 
 
 letter dated at, 47. 
 
 parson of, 47. 
 Llcid, David, letter from, 50. 
 Lloit, Guttyn ap Madwyn, 47. 
 Lloyd : 
 
 — , " viccair, 38. 
 
 Gabriel, of Poole, gent., 65. 
 
 Rich., letter from, 60. 
 
 Thos., vicar of St. Alkmund' Shrews- 
 bury, petition from, 64. 
 
 Will., Bishop of Coventry and Lich- 
 field, 76. 
 
 , letters from, 76, 77. 
 
 Locard : 
 
 Roger, 137. 
 
 , Alice, wife of. See Radewey, 
 
 Thos., de. 
 Lodbrok. See Ladbroke. 
 Lodelawe, John le, 129. 
 Lodelowe : 
 
 Sir Laurence de, knt., 73. 
 
 , Sir John, son of, 73. 
 
 Robt., de, 131. 
 Lokkett, — , a minstrel, 32. 
 London : 
 
 Michael de, 73. 
 
 , Alice, widow of, 73(2). 
 
 , Robt., son of, 73(2). 
 
 Robt. de, chaplain, 135(2). 
 London, 12, 13, 15, 17, 27, 28, 31, 33, 
 37(2), 59(2), 62(2), 89, 90, 91,93(2), 
 94(2), 96, 97, 100, 146, 147(2), 167. 
 
 Bishop of. See Aylmer, Grindal, 
 Porteous. 
 
 Bond Street, 96. 
 
 letter dated at, 96. 
 
 Bookbinder Lane, the " Blue Boar," 
 letter dated at, 57. 
 
 Bread Street, 49. 
 
 Charing Cross, 169. 
 
 , letter dated at, 55. 
 
 Clifford's Inn, letter dated at, 62. 
 
 London — cont. 
 
 Consistory Court, 49. 
 
 Horse Guards, letter dated at, 99. 
 
 Fleet Street, 61, 96. 
 
 Great St. Bartholomew's, 61. 
 
 insurrection of apprentices of, 32. 
 
 letters dated at, 47, 48(3), 49(2), 51, 
 
 55(2), 61(2), 76, 96, 97, 98, 164, 
 
 165(2). 
 Lord Mayor, 58, 78. 
 " Mr. Controller at," 21. 
 merchant, 78. 
 
 Parliament Street, letter dated at, 98, 
 Parliaments held at, 27, 28. 
 the plague in, 15. 
 Record Office, 6. 
 
 St. Clement's Churchyard in the East, 
 76. 
 
 St. James's, letter dated at, 163. 
 Serjeant's Inn, letter dated at, 61. 
 sheriffs of, 57. 
 
 Strand, the, Hungerford House in, 
 
 170. 
 tailor of, 49. 
 Tower of, 8. 
 
 document dated at, 112. 
 
 Whitehall, 76. 
 
 , documents dated at, 59, 61, 165., 
 
 167, 168(4), 169(4). 
 Wine Licence Court, 96. 
 York House, letter dated at, 63. 
 Longenolre : 
 
 Roger Sprenghose, lord of, 71. 
 Will, de, 46. 
 
 , called le Budel, of, 71. 
 
 Longenolre, 71. 
 
 Longford (Salisbury), 170-172. 
 
 Castle, MSS. at, 161-172. 
 
 Pick Mead, 171. 
 Longford, History of by Mr. Pellatt, 170- 
 
 172. 
 Lont : 
 
 Nicholas, glover, 51. 
 
 , petition from, 51. 
 
 Lords, House of, 94. 
 Lovell : 
 
 Mr., 80(2), 82. 
 
 Mr. Thos , 82. 
 Lowe, Stephen, mason, 35, 36. 
 Lucea, Jamaica, letter dated at, 99. 
 Lucie, Sir Thos., knt., 125. 
 Lucy, Geoff, de, 74. 
 Luddenham, 162. 
 
 Ludeshelf, (Ludshulfe, Ludshulve). See 
 
 Litchfield. 
 Ludlow, 32, 47, 62. 
 
 letters dated at, 50, 58, 64. 
 Castle, documents dated at, 42, 50(2), 
 55, 57, 59, 62. 
 
 Luffe : 
 
 Geoff, le, 129. 
 
 Will, sen., 139. 
 Lughteburgh, document dated at, 3. 
 Lun^ecumba : 
 
 Osbertus de, 66. 
 
 , Henry, son of, 66. 
 
 Luther, Martin, opinions of, 48. 
 Luxfield, 161. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 107 
 
 LydesctiilJv. See Litchfield. 
 
 Lye, George, 13, 14. 
 
 Lymeseye, Symon de, 131. 
 
 Lyndeseye, John de, 136. 
 
 Lyngen, Griffith, 35. 
 
 Lysner, John, 134. 
 
 Lyster, Rich., diary of, 31. 
 
 Lythall, Edmund, 108. 
 
 Lyttelton, Thos., writ directed to, 157. 
 
 It 
 
 Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor, decree made 
 
 by, 159. 
 Maeer (Macrus) : 
 
 Will., 66. 
 
 Iwennus, 66. 
 
 Randolf, 66. 
 
 Ruell, 66. 
 Mackworth : 
 
 Humphrey, 65. 
 
 Thomas, 18. 
 
 Will., 20. 
 
 , Arthur, son of, 20. 
 
 Macray, the Rev. W. D., 65, 66, 93. 
 Madapollam, 81, 82, 84, 86, 88(3). 
 
 consul of, 88. 
 
 governor of, 82. 
 
 merchants of, 81, 82. 
 
 Road, 86(3). 
 Madauc : 
 
 Griffin son of, 70. 
 
 Jorwhert son of, 70. 
 Madeley, coal mines at, 65. 
 Maderas, 81. 
 Madras, 84, 89. 
 Mahew : 
 
 Roger, ef Hargrave, 74. 
 
 , Margaret, wife of, 74. 
 
 Mainwaring, Sir Arthur, 54. 
 Makeworthe, Arthur, 35. 
 Malabar, 83. 
 Malacca, 88. 
 
 straits of, 84. 
 Mallard, Will., of Studley, 93. 
 Mapledurham, 74. 
 
 Marall (Mardall, Marrall),_abbot of, 33(3). 
 March, Earl of (temp. Hen. VI.), 29. 
 Marchall, Rich , chamberlain, 30. 
 Marches of England and Wales, the : 
 Commissioners of, 12. 
 
 , petition to, 48. 
 
 Council of, 9, 10, 14, 15(2), 16(2), 
 17, 21(2), 23, 31(2), 42, 47, 50(3), 
 53, 57, 58, 59(2), 60, 62. 
 
 , letters from, 50(2), 54, 56, 57, 
 
 59. 
 
 — — , letters to, 54, 55(2). 
 
 , commission from, 42(2). 
 
 , orders from, 47, 50, 55(2), 62. 
 
 , petitions to, 49, 50, 61. 
 
 , pleadings before, 58. 
 
 , President of, letter from, 56. 
 
 counties adjoining, 5. 
 
 Marches of England and Wales, the— cent. 
 Justice of. See Bromley, Sir Geo. 
 Lord Presidentof, 12(2),15(2),18(2), 
 21(3), 24, 34(3), 35(2), 37(2), 
 50. 
 
 , letter to, 56. 
 
 Maredud, Eynnius son of, 70. 
 Marescall, William, Earl of Pembroke, 2. 
 Marescot, — ,67. 
 Marescoth, Hamo son of, 69. 
 Marham : 
 
 abbot of, 33. 
 
 jesting pageant at, 33(2). 
 Mariners, 52. 
 Marines, the, 25. 
 Mariton : 
 
 letter dated at, 60. 
 
 vicar of, 60. 
 Mariton, Hen. de, 136. 
 Marlborough (co. Wilts.), 166, 168, 
 
 169(2). 
 Marler : 
 
 Rich., grocer, 150. 
 
 , Will., son of, 150(2). 
 
 Marlowe, Rich., 124. 
 Marscote, 68. 
 Marshall, Rich., 115, 141. 
 Marshalsea, the, 2 1 . 
 Marshe, John, of Colham, 34. 
 Marston (co. Wilts.), 161. 
 Martin, Capt., 91. 
 Marton, John de, dyer, 141. 
 Martondeyster, John de, 115. 
 Mary I., Queen of England, 13, 36(2), 
 103, 104, 128, 155. 
 
 death of, 37. 
 Mary II., 128. 
 
 Mary, Princess, dau. of Hen. VIII. : 
 
 news of birth of, 31. 
 
 mummers (interlusores) of, 33. 
 Maskareen. See Mauritius. 
 Mason : 
 
 John, " peynter," 33. 
 
 Stephen, 35. 
 
 Thomas the, of Coventry. 130. 
 
 , Thos., son of, 130.' 
 
 Masoun : 
 
 Nich. le, 138. 
 
 , Hugh, son of, 138. 
 
 j Massachusetts, governor of, 92. 
 | Mastian, Mastion. See Mustibn. 
 | Mastoke, Prior of, writ directed to, 157. 
 J Masulipatam, 78, 80, 83, 85, 86, 88(2), 
 89(5), 90(3). 
 
 Consul of. See Pitt, John. 
 
 Dutch chief of, 80. 
 
 Gentu governor of, 80(3), 82. 
 
 merchants of, 82, 84. 
 
 Moor governor of, 80(4), 82(2). 
 
 Road, 86. 
 
 the Banksel (Banksoll), 82, 83. 
 
 the Consul's house, 85(2). 
 
 the King of Golconda's house, 85. 
 
 the .Nawab's house, 82. 
 Matheus, Thomas, 34. 
 Mathews : 
 
 Capt. Geo., 78, 79. 
 
 Mr., 45. 
 
108 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Mauritius, 78-79. 
 
 Deputy Governor of, 78(3), 79. 
 
 Factory, 79(2). 
 
 Governor of, 78(4), 79(3). 
 Maynard : 
 
 Lord, 9.5(3). 
 
 , letter to, 96. 
 
 Maynwaring, Arthur, 18. 
 Mayor, mock election of a, 33. 
 May vole, abbot of, 33(2). 
 Mealeson, W., 44. 
 Meighen, Jobu, petition from, 52. 
 Meiluil (Meiliul) Hermer, 40. 
 Melody, Will., 145. 
 Mcole, 33. 
 Mercbeinerle : 
 
 John de, G8. 
 
 Ric. de, 68. 
 Mere, John de, 70. 
 Merelbrookes, (co. Warwick), 127. 
 " Merleberga," document dated at, 109. 
 Merston, Thos. de, baker of Coventry, 138. 
 Mevyton, Hugh de, 134. 
 Metchlepatan. See Masulipatam. 
 Meyers, Capt. Roger, 86(2). 
 Meygheu, Johu, letter from, 44. 
 Michel (Mychell) : 
 
 Lod., 29, 30. 
 
 Nich., of Coventry, 141. 
 Michell, John, 119. 
 Middlesex : 
 
 co. of, 161. 
 
 Charing Cross, 161. 
 
 St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, 161. 
 Mildenhall (co. Wilts.), 161. 
 Mildmay (Mildemay), Thos., 157(2). 
 Miller : 
 
 Alexander, 49. 
 
 Robert the, 139. 
 
 Roger the, 134. 
 Million, Hen., 127. 
 Mills, Mr., 83(3), 85. 
 Mills, plea respecting, between abbey and 
 
 town of Shrewsbury, 46(2). 
 Milnehale, Christiana de, 129. 
 Milns, Sir John, rector of Litchfield, 
 
 Hants, 173. 
 Minstrels, 27, 28(3), 29, 31, 32, 35, 123. 
 Minter, Capt., 91(2). 
 Miscellaneous Papers. 1, 37, 45-65. 
 Mitton (Mytton) : 
 
 Adam, 15(2), 33,48. 
 
 , letters (rom, 57. 
 
 , letters to, 53, 55(2), 60. 
 
 John, 37. 
 
 , gent., 57. 
 
 T., 13. 
 
 Thos., 55. 
 Mocklcston, Geoffrey de, clerk, 70. 
 Modlicot (Modlicott) : 
 
 Marie, 60. 
 
 Rich., brother of, 60. 
 
 , letter from, 60. 
 
 Moele Bracy, church of, 26. 
 Moleners, Henry, 29. 
 Monasteries, dissolution of, 157. 
 Monce, Ralph, 73. 
 
 Monmouth, Robert, Earl of (1626), 127. 
 
 I Montagu, J., letters from, 170(2). 
 Montague, Mrs. Elizabeth, letters from, 
 97. 
 
 Montegomere : 
 
 Baldewyn de, 73. 
 
 , Will., sou of, 73. 
 
 Montgomery, Earl Roger de, 45. 
 Montgomery (Montegomere), 73. 
 
 bailiff of, 73. 
 Montgomeryshire, 66, 70. 
 
 levies in, 61. 
 
 subsidy, 57. 
 Moorhall, 162. 
 Mooselle, Thos., 149. 
 Moray Frith, 56. 
 Mordand, Eustace le, 67. 
 More, Will., lute-player, 31. 
 Moreton Corbett, 65. 
 Moris, Jevan, letter from, 51. 
 Morland, Sir Samuel, 170(6). 
 Morley, Robt. de, suit against the prior 
 
 of Coventry, 155. 
 Morris, Geo., 77. 
 Mortimer, Sir Roger de, 27. 
 Morton (Mortun), 29, 70(4), 72(3), 75. 
 
 Corbett, 77. 
 
 vicarage, 76(2). 
 
 Toret, 70, 73. 
 Morton, Thos., Bishop of Coventry and 
 
 Lichfield, 45. 
 Mortun : 
 
 Bartholomew de, 68. 
 
 Peter de, 68. 
 
 Will, de, 72. 
 
 — — , Hen., son of, 72. 
 Morys, dominus, 36(2). 
 Mosley, Edw., town clerk of Newcastle, 
 
 letter from, 97. 
 Mouncke Yee, 20. 
 Mount, Will., 73. 
 Mountclare, letter dated at, 98. 
 " Mountegyle," lord de, 32. 
 Mountfort, Symond, knt., 157. 
 Mountgomery, Roger, 10. 
 I Moynes, Roger, 58, 59. 
 Much Wenlock, 75. 
 Mucliton, Rich, de, 69. 
 Muiditon, Thos. of, 71. 
 Mukliton, 71. 
 
 Municipal Registers, 1, 9-25, 45. 
 
 Munson, Will., lord, 76. 
 
 Musters, 41-42, 56, 125, 126. 
 
 Mustion, (Mastian, Mastion), Capt. Will., 
 
 58(2). 
 Mutton, Reginald, 46. 
 Myles, Samuel, 105. 
 Mynors, Will,, gent., 58. 
 Mynsmyth, John le, 74. 
 My ry vale, Rich., abbot of, 157. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 199 
 
 N. 
 
 Nabab (Navab, Nawab), the, 81(2), 82(4), 
 
 83(9). 
 Naguinton, 67. 
 Naseby, battle of, 171. 
 Nassyngton mill, 116. 
 Navy : 
 
 the, 52. 
 
 treasurer of, 167(2), 168(4), 169(2). 
 Nedeham (Nedham) : 
 Robt., 18. 
 
 Sir Robt., letter from, 49. 
 Nelson, the death of, 25. 
 Nemesis, 172. 
 Nerracoedre, 90. 
 Ness, 50. 
 Nethermyll : 
 
 John, 126(3). 
 
 Mr., 104. 
 Nets, illicit, 33. 
 Nevile : 
 
 Thomas, 87, 89. 
 
 Will, de, lord of Bercham, 173. 
 Neville, (^Neoville), Hugh de, 2(3). 
 New York, 92(2), 95. 
 Newall, William, 35. 
 Newby, John de, elk., 140. 
 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 35, 92, 93, 95, 98. 
 
 river at, closed with ice, 96. 
 
 town clerk of, 97. 
 
 trade of, 92(2). 
 Newetowne, house of A. Vavasor at, 49. 
 Newhaie Greene, 152. 
 Newhaven, 15, 42. 
 Newingtoo, 162(». 
 Newman, Capt., 85. 
 Newport : 
 
 Francis, 59. 
 
 Sir Francis, letters from, 42, 60. 
 
 John, of Wellington, 57. 
 Newse, Ben., 83. 
 Newton, 32. 
 Nevston, Mr., 12. 
 Niccolls, Mr., 104. 
 Niccols (Nichols) : 
 
 Mr., 86. 
 
 Orlando, 86(2). 
 
 , death of, 88. 
 
 Nicholson : 
 
 Edw., 95. 
 
 Hannah, 95(2). 
 
 Margaret, 98. 
 Nicolls, Thos., 19. 
 Night patrols, 29. 
 Nodham, Mr., 82. 
 Norbois, Henry de, 67. 
 Nore, the, 100. 
 Nores, Rich., hosier, 145. 
 Norfolk : 
 
 co., 61. 
 
 Duke of {temp. Henry VIII. ), 12, 31. 
 Thos., Earl of {temp. Edw. II.), 3. 
 Normandy, expedition to, 42. 
 
 Norris : 
 
 John, 84, 85. 
 
 Mr. Secretary, 82, 84. 
 
 Thomas, 84. 
 
 Sir Will., Ambassador to the Great 
 Mogul, 81, 82(11), 83(10), 84(9), 
 85(13), 87(4). 
 Northaatone, . . bert de, 46. 
 Northampton, 30, 66, 73(3), 74(2). 
 
 documents dated at, 3. 
 
 bailiffs of, 73(4), 74(4). 
 
 burgesses of, 73(2). 
 
 mayor of, 73(2), 74(4). 
 
 W., Earl of (1624), 127. 
 
 , letter from, 42. 
 
 " Abyndonestrete," 73. 
 
 " le Berewardstrete," 74. 
 
 " Butcher's Street," 73. 
 
 " the Drapery," 73, 74. 
 
 "the house of Stephen," 73. 
 
 "St. Sepulchre's Street," 73. 
 
 " Strauschepinge," 73. 
 Northefolke : 
 
 Geoff, de, 140. 
 
 . Joan, wife of, 140. 
 
 Northerne : 
 
 Rich, le, 137. 
 
 , Alice, dau. of, 137. 
 
 , Margaret, wife of, 137- 
 
 Northope, (Flint), vicar of, 51. 
 Northumberland (co.), 92. 
 
 House, 98. 
 Norton, 162. 
 Norton : 
 
 Mr., 57. 
 
 Sir Thos., Bart., 154. 
 
 Waller de, cook, 135(2), 136. 
 
 , Amice, wife of, 135, 136. 
 
 . Rich., son of, 135, 136. 
 
 Norway, 92. 
 Norwich : 
 
 Bishop's Registry at, 101. 
 
 corporation of, 101. 
 
 dean and chapter of, 101. 
 Nottingham, 29. 
 
 Corporation of, 101. 
 
 documents dated at, 2, 4(2). 
 Novi*, Vacca, letter from, 82. 
 
 0. 
 
 Oatlands, letter dated at, 164. 
 O'Brien, Capt., 94. 
 
 Ofchirch, John, clerk of the statute, 155. 
 Okeley, John, baker, 45. 
 Okes, letter dated at, 59. 
 Okbam, Will, de, 15. 
 Oliver : 
 
 Hon. Andrew, 92. 
 
 Johannes, 29(2), 30. 
 
 Peter son of, 70. 
 Ondeslawe, Will, de, 70. 
 Onley, John, 143. 
 
200 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Onslow (Onslowc, Oaneslow, Onncslowe) : 
 
 Edw., letter from, 50. 
 
 Hunjfrey, esq , 35(2). 
 
 , letters to, 50(2), 51. 
 
 Rich., attorney of the Court of Wards, 
 16(2), 17. 
 
 Thos., baker, 36. 
 Orange, Maurice Prince of, 78. 
 Original .Miscellaneous Letters, 96-100. 
 Orkneys* the, 94. 
 
 Orleton, Adam de, Bishop of Hereford, 3. 
 
 Orly, Robt., 156. 
 
 Orme, Thos., 114. 
 
 Ormston, Jonathan. 95(2), 96. 
 
 Ormus : 
 
 Adam son of, 131(2). 
 
 Roger son of, 131. 
 Osbern, 69. 
 
 Oswestre, David, carpenter, 144(2). 
 Oswestrv, 6, 9, 47. 
 bailiffs, 46. 
 
 , letters from, 47. 
 
 burgesses, 46. 
 
 and Shrewsbury, ill-will between, 8, 
 
 24, 47. 
 tolls, 13. 
 vicar of, 47. 
 Oteley (Otteley, Ottley) : 
 — , 48. 
 
 — , Mary, dau. of, 48. 
 Adam, 49. 
 
 , letter from, 52. 
 
 Sir Francis, krit., governor of Shrews- 
 bury, 39(4). 
 
 Will., letter to, 47. 
 Otter, Robt., 147. 
 Ouayn, Thos., of Ydeshale, 26. 
 Over : 
 
 Henry, grant to, 123. 
 
 Mr., 104. 
 Overton, Will, de, clerk, 111. 
 Ovieth, 69. 
 Owen : 
 
 Edw., letters from, 52, 54. 
 
 Eward, letter to, 54. 
 
 Mr. Justice, 60. 
 
 Rich,, 43, 
 
 — -, letter to, 43. 
 
 Thomas, 18, 23. 
 
 Thomas, of Lincoln's Inn, 21(3). 
 
 , bookseller, 40. 
 
 , town clerk of Shrewsbury, 63. 
 
 Owen and Blakeway, History of Shrews- 
 bury by, 1-8, 10, 12(2), 24, 26, 27, 
 28(2), 29, 31(3), 33(3), 34, 46(4), 48, 
 52, 57, 65, 69. 
 Owen and Hughes v. Pigeon, 58. 
 Owtred : 
 
 John, 144. 
 Will., U4. 
 Oxford, 15, 59(2), 60, 75. 
 documents dated at, 4. 
 mayor of, 49. 
 
 St. John's college, 75, 157. ' 
 Oxfordshire, 66, 77. 
 Oxwick, Thos., of Walsingham, 61. 
 
 P, 
 
 Packynton, John, 34. 
 
 Paget, Thomas., vicar of St. Chad's, 
 
 Shrewsbury, 39, 40. 
 Painter : 
 
 Atherard the, 129. 
 
 , Walter, son of, 129. 
 
 William the, 129. 
 
 , John, son of, 129. 
 
 Pake : 
 
 Nicholas, 111. 
 
 Pagan, 132. 
 
 , Margery, wife of, 132. 
 
 William, 132. 
 Pakes, Philip del, 138, 
 Pakington, 125. 
 Pakynton, John de, 111. 
 Palivere, Ralph, 140. 
 Palmer : 
 
 John, 34. 
 
 Will., 115, 144. 
 Panpbenham, John de, 67. 
 Panton, Hugh, 68. 
 Pantulf, Hugh, 2. 
 Papenham, John de, 140. 
 Parcesvil, Simon, 67. 
 Paris, 94. 
 
 Park Hall, letter dated at, 58. 
 Parker : 
 
 John, minister, letter from, 58. 
 
 Symon, 104. 
 Parliament, 12, 13, 14, 15, 22, 27, 28, 30, 
 31, 34, 37, 50, 56(2), 57, 97, 127, 
 170, 172. 
 
 order of, 1 72. 
 
 subsidy granted by, 57. 
 Parr : 
 
 John, sen., letter to, 54. 
 
 , jun., letter from, 54. 
 
 ; Partriche, Hen., 70. 
 Pateshille, Simon de, 2(3), 67(4). 
 Paule, Rich., bailiff of Bridgnorth, letter 
 
 from, 55. 
 Pawmer, Robt., letter to, 52. 
 Payn, Will., 133. 
 Payne : 
 
 Mr., 50(3). 
 
 Will., of Linslade, 74. 
 
 , Agnes, daughter of, 74. 
 
 Paynell, Will., " whittewer," 148. 
 Paj nton, 75. 
 
 Peace, Justices of the, 163. 
 Pebenhul, Hundred de, 68. 
 Pecchey, Hen. de., 71. 
 Pechesey, Hen. de, 70. 
 Pectone, Rich, de, 70. 
 Peek, Geo., 85, 8;). 
 
 Pellatt, Mr., chaplain, author of a History 
 
 of Longford, 170. 
 Pellew, Sir Israel, 25. 
 Pelyng, 74. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 201 
 
 Pembroke : 
 
 Adomar de Valence, Earl of, 3. 
 
 Earl of (1640), letter from, 169. 
 
 Henry, Earl of (1587), letter from, 56. 
 
 And see Marescall. 
 Penheal (co. Cornwall), 161. 
 Penn, —,82. 
 
 Penshurst, letter dated at, 164. 
 Penynton, Philip, Lord of, 70, 71. 
 Peplow, Will., 75. 
 Perche : 
 
 John, gent., 52. 
 
 , letters from, 55(2), 02. 
 
 Percy : 
 
 John, 141. 
 
 Nich., mayor of Coventry, 139. 
 
 Peter, 111, 115. 
 Pere, Will., 155-157. 
 Perepont, Simon de, 68. 
 Perjurers, punishment of, 32. 
 Perle, John, 9, 28, 46. 
 Persones, Sir John, vicar of Godeworth, 
 173. 
 
 Peryam, Will., letters from, 61(2). 
 Peter, the clerk, 69. 
 
 Clement son of, 69. 
 
 John son of, 26. 
 Pettepollee, 89(2), 90(3). 
 Pevison, Matthew, 86. 
 Peynton, Philip de, 73. 
 Phelipis. See Philipps. 
 Phelyps, John, town clerk, 29. 
 Phelypps, Johannes, 9, 29. 
 Pherwanne. See Firman. 
 Philip and Mary, King and Queen of 
 England, 13, 36, 75, 103, 128, 157. 
 
 commission of, 157. 
 Philippa, Queen, wife of Ed. III., 110, 
 
 111(3), 114. 
 Philipps : 
 
 Hugh, 48(2). 
 
 , letter from, 48. 
 
 Eoger, 34 
 Phillipps, Fr., letter from, 57. 
 Phillips : 
 
 Roger, baker, petition from, 54. 
 
 Mr. Syl s , death of, 84. 
 
 Mr. W., 41. 
 Phirmannds. See Firmans. 
 Pichard, Roger, clerk, 73. 
 Picken, Mrs. Jane, 104. 
 Picot, Rich., 68„ 
 
 Pie-powder, Court of, 28, 42(3). 
 Pigeon v. Owen and Hughes, 58. 
 Pigot, Rich., 69. 
 Pigott, Robt., 18. 
 Pincerna, Rogerus, 66. 
 Pinnele, 138. 
 Pipringues, 67. 
 Pirates, 84. 
 Piritunus, 66. 
 
 Pitchford, letter dated at, 52. 
 Pitt : 
 
 John, Consul of Masulipatam 80(6), 
 81(2), 82(4), 84(4), 85(3), 86(4), 
 88(5). 
 
 , house of, 85(2), 88. 
 
 " Padre" (Mr. Philip), 80,81, 82, 83. 
 
 Yiit-cont. 
 
 President, 90. 
 
 , death of, 89. 
 
 , wife and family of, 90. 
 
 Kobt., 80. 
 
 Thos., governor of Fort St. George, 
 80. 
 
 Will., 94(2), 97(2). 
 
 , resignation of, 97. 
 
 Pixstoke, Thos. de, 72. 
 Plague, the, 40. 
 
 regulations concerning, 15, 52. 
 Plaishe, letter dated at, 53. 
 Players, 27(3), 29, 34(3), 35(2), 36, 37. 
 Plessetis, John de, Earl of Warwick, 2. 
 Plummario, Robt., 69. 
 Pochelac, Will., 70. 
 Poer, Robt. le, 69. 
 Polden, Major, 39. 
 Polleram, 90. 
 PolHcat, 90. 
 Poncebury, Mr., 53. 
 
 Ponsbury, Thomas, letter of summons 
 to, 42. 
 
 Ponteland, letter dated at, 100. 
 Pontusbury, Rich, de, 46. 
 Pontysbury, Will., bailiff of Shrewsbury, 
 10. 
 
 Pooer, John, 69. 
 Poole, 51, 59, 65. 
 
 letter dated at, 51. 
 Poole, Hen., letter from, 58. 
 Poope, Thos., 50. 
 Pope, Thos., 50. And see Lewys. 
 Port, Mr. 49. 
 
 Porteous, Bishop of London, 99. 
 Porter : 
 
 John le, 109. 
 
 Thos., 117. 
 Porto Novo, 79. 
 
 Dutch factory at, 80. 
 
 governor of, 80(2). 
 Ports, mayors of, letter to, 165. 
 Portsmouth, 154. 
 Portuguese, the, 78, 89, 91. 
 Portwey, 71. 
 
 Post-horses, 58, 59, 61(2). 
 
 Pouel, Ro., high sheriff of Shrewsbury, 
 
 letter from, 58. 
 Pouelesdun, Sir Rich, de, knt., 72. 
 Pounfret, John de, 140. 
 Powell, Mr., 50. 
 
 Powis (Powys), Lord, 27, 29, 33(2)„ 
 Praver, Capt., 85. 
 Prebell, Robt., freemason, 19. 
 Preece : 
 
 prebend and prebeudary, 75. 
 
 rectory, 75. 
 Prentys, John, chaplain, 144. 
 Pressgang system, the, 100. 
 Prestecote, Rich, de, 70, 
 Preston (Prestone) : 
 
 Adam de, 71(3). 
 
 , Robt. son of, 71(2). 
 
 John de, 116(2), 117, 143(2). 
 
 Robt. de, 74. 
 
 Roger de, 70, 71. 
 
 Will, de, clerk, 71, 72. 
 
202 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Preston below Brochurst, Roger of, 70. 
 Price, Rich., vicar of Kerry, 49(3). 
 Prichward, Thomas, 86. 
 Pride (Pryde) : 
 
 Rich., 27(2), 69, 70. 
 
 Robt., 70. 
 
 Roger, 27,72(3). 
 
 Thos., 27. 
 
 And see Prude. 
 Prido, Roger, coroner, 27. 
 Prime Minister, petition to the, 25. 
 Prince of Wales : 
 
 son of Hen. IV., 27(3). 
 
 Hen. VII., 30. 
 
 Hen. VIII., 34(2). 
 
 Jas. I., 76. 
 
 Chas. I., 39. 
 
 Prince (Prynce) : 
 
 Mr., 19, 24. 
 
 Rich., letters from, 52, 59. 
 Priors Marston, 151(2). 
 Prise, preacher, 58. 
 Privy Council, 42, 51, 156. 
 
 letters from, 38, 42, 52, 56, 62. 
 
 Court of, 51. 
 
 instructions from, 7. 
 
 orders from, 58, 106. 
 
 suits before, 23, 24. 
 
 warrants from, 61. 
 Proud, Geo., 19. 
 Prowde : 
 
 John, 36(2). 
 
 J., heir of, 36. 
 
 Will., prior of Wombridge, 75. 
 Prude, Alan le, 46. And see Pride. 
 Pryce, John, preacher, 38. 
 Pryse, John, 44. 
 
 Pudsey, Hugh, Bishop of Durham, 2. 
 Pue, Edw., letter from, 53. 
 Pugh, Serjeant, 40. 
 Punde, Will, de la, 71. 
 Purcell (Pursell, Purssell) : 
 
 — , bailiff of Shrewsbury, letter to, 49. 
 
 Nicholas, 13, 14. 
 
 Rich., gent., 15, 22. 
 Pury : 
 
 John, 173. 
 
 Isabel, wife of, 173. 
 
 Putlesdon, Roger de, knt., 71. 
 Pymley : 
 
 common of, 30. 
 
 dominus de, 30. 
 Pynime, Simon, 133. 
 Pynchebek, John, 146. 
 Pyvele, Rich, de, 72. 
 
 Quabbe medue (Elimorthyu), 73. 
 Queen's Bench, the, 21. 
 " Quillours," 11. 
 
 Quincy : 
 
 Edmund, 92. 
 
 Henry, 92. 
 
 Josiah, 92. 
 Quine Island, 79. 
 Quocus, Rich., 136. 
 
 R. 
 
 Raban, John, carrier, 59(2). 
 Radeclyff, Will., 145. 
 Radeford, 131, 135(2), 138(2). 
 
 Enedmere, 135. 
 Radewey : 
 
 Thos. de, 137(2). 
 
 , Alice, wife of, 137(2), 138. 
 
 Radnor, uarl of, MSS. of, 161-172. 
 Radnor co., levies in, 61. 
 Rajahs (Rajarrs), 89. 
 Raustone, Michael de, 67. 
 Ravenswoi th : 
 
 Lord, letter from, 97. 
 
 , letter to, 96. 
 
 Raworth, Mr., 89. 
 Raymond, Capt. Hugh, 86, 90. 
 Raynesford, Capt., 39. 
 Raynyrs, Hen. de, 134. 
 Rebellions, insurrections, &c. : 
 
 (1715), 96. 
 
 (1745), 93-94. 
 Recoveries, &c, copies of, 43. 
 Redcastell, 75. 
 Redeknave : 
 
 Adam le, 133. 
 
 ■ , Hawisia, wife of, 133. 
 
 Robt. le, of Coventry, 133. 
 Redmonde, Col., 40. 
 Redwood, Narso, 81. 
 Reformation, the, 102. 
 "Rein," clerk of the sheriff [of Lilies- 
 hall], 68. 
 " Reinaldus f rater domini," 66. 
 Reiner, Roger son of, 70. 
 Restoration, the, 40, 41. 
 
 Royalist attempts just before, 40. 
 Reyner (Reyni), Barthol. de, 74(2). 
 " Ricardus capellanus," 68(2). 
 Richard I., King of England, 69. 
 
 charter of, 2. 
 Richard IL, 8(3), 11, 27, (75(2), 114(3), 
 115(6), 116(3), 122, 128(2), 140, 
 141(4), 142(3), 155, 173. 
 
 charters, grants, &c, 4(6), 5, 114(4), 
 115(5), 119, 127, 142. 
 
 subsidy of, 6. 
 Richard III., 30, 128. 
 " Richard," a news-bearer, 34. 
 Richard, Rogerus, 174(2). 
 Richards, John, 53. 
 Richardson, Robt., gent., 75. 
 Richemund, John, 13. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 203 
 
 Richmond : 
 
 Duke of {temp. Henry VIII.), 12, 34. 
 
 Karl of. See Bedford, Duke of. 
 
 Richmond, letter dated at, 100. 
 liicon, John de, 135. 
 Riley, Henry Thomas, 101-102. 
 Risyngs Castle, documents dated at, 109, 
 
 111, 113(2). 
 Robarts, Mr., preacher, 38. 
 Rockingham Castle, documents dated at, 4. 
 Rodberewe, Sir Miles de, 27. 
 Rodbertus decanus, 68. 
 Rodene, 71(2). 
 Rodington, 65. 
 Rodmor, 73. 
 Roger : 
 
 Earl (temp. Ric If.), 11. 
 
 Will., son of, de Stanwordin-in-le- 
 Feld, 26. 
 
 "Rogerus Capellanus" (of Lilleshall), 69. 
 Rokleye, Adam de, 26. 
 Roman numerals discontinued, 38. 
 Rome, 164, 165. 
 Roianey marsh, 162. 
 " Romoldsham," 25. 
 Romsey, Capt., 82. 
 Rondulf, William, coroner, 26. 
 Roshele, Vivian de, 69. 
 Rottel, dominus de. See Arderne, Sir 
 Thos. 
 
 Roudell, Mr. Christofer, 105. 
 Rous (Roys) : 
 
 Firmyn le, 74(2). 
 
 Philip le, 73(6). 
 
 , Lecia, wife of, 73(3), 74. 
 
 , Margaret, dau. of, 73. 
 
 Sir Philip le, knt, 74(2). 
 
 Symon le, 74. 
 
 Will, le, 74(2). 
 
 , Will., son of, 74(2). 
 
 Rowland, Will., gent., 59. 
 Rowleigh alias Wittenham, 151. 
 Rowley, Will., petition to, 64, 
 Rowsell, the mixen in, 20. 
 Roxbury, 95. 
 Ruffo: 
 
 Galfredus, 67. 
 
 Godefredus, 67. 
 
 Walter us, 67. 
 Ruff us, Reiner, 69. 
 Runsbney, 169. 
 Rupert, Prince, 39(2), 65. 
 Rupibus, Peter de, Bishop of Winchester, 
 2. 
 
 Rushall (co. Wilts), 161. 
 Russel (Russell) : 
 Adam, 132. 
 
 , Alice, wife of, 132. 
 
 Arthur, 26. 
 
 John, coroner of Shrewsbury, 26(2). 
 
 Eich., 27, 46. 
 
 Thos., of Gretford, 139. 
 
 , Matilda, wife of, 139. 
 
 f John, son of, 139. 
 
 Russell, Sir Will., knt., treasurer of the 
 
 Navy, 167. 
 Rusticus, Ric. See Vilain, Ric. le. 
 Rustindill Cawn, 89. 
 
 Rutter, Mr., death of, 88. 
 " Ruynysche" wine, 29. 
 Ruyton, Peter de, chaplain, 137. 
 Rydewale : 
 
 John de, 133(2). 
 
 , Margery, wife of, 133(2). 
 
 Rylay (Ryley), Thos., 126(2). 
 Rylot : 
 
 Henry, 26. 
 
 , John, son of, 26. 
 
 s. 
 
 Sabbath, profanation of the, 63. 
 Sabina, 32. 
 Sabrina. See Severn. 
 Sadelere : 
 
 Adam le, of Coventry, 136. 
 
 , Alice, wife of, 136. 
 
 Sadyngton, Robt. de, 111. 
 Sai : 
 
 Isabel de, 67(3). 
 
 Hugh de, 68(3). 
 
 , Lucy, wife of, 68. 
 
 , Walter, clerk of, 68. 
 
 Robt. de, 68. 
 Sailors, riots among, 95. 
 St. Alban : 
 
 Will, de, 73. 
 
 , Will., son of, 73. 
 
 St. Alban's, 31. 
 
 St. Appolonio, island of, 79. 
 
 St. Ermin, William de, 2. 
 
 St. Eustathia, island of, 92. 
 
 St. Helena, island of, 91(3). 
 
 St. James, Rich, de, 136. 
 
 St. Mary Magdalen, college of, near 
 
 Shrews bury, 75. 
 St. Paul, John de, 111. 
 Sale, Mr., 104. 
 Salem, 96. 
 Salisbury : 
 
 Earl of (temp. Hen. VI.), 29, 30. 
 
 Richard, Bishop of (1227), 2. 
 
 William, Earl of (1205), 2. 
 Salisbury, 161. 
 
 mayor and aldermen of, letter to, 
 169. 
 
 Salop : 
 
 (county). See Shropshire. 
 
 (town). See Shrewsbury. 
 Salopbirs, Salopeburs. See Shrewsbury. 
 Salter : 
 
 Thos., gent, 44. 
 
 Mr., 49. 
 
 Mr., mayor of Shrewsbury, 45. 
 Samnium, 171. 
 Sancto Johanne : 
 
 Edward de, 173. 
 
 , son of John de, 173. 
 
 Sir Edward de, 173. 
 
 , Lord of Stopham, 1 73. 
 
 , — — , Joan, wife of, 173. 
 
204 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Sancto Johanne — cont. 
 John de, 173. 
 
 , Edward, kinsman of, 173. 
 
 William de, 173. 
 
 , Lord of Ludshulfe, 173. 
 
 Sandbrooke, Rich., 53. 
 Sandford, Capt., 39. 
 Sandgate, 162. 
 Sandon, 161. 
 Sandys : 
 
 Sir Will., knt., Lord Sandys, Lord 
 Chamberlain, 162(2). 
 
 , Alice, dau. of, 162(2). 
 
 Sarly, Jacob, 92. 
 Sarum : 
 
 letter dated at, 56. 
 
 Xew, 166, 168. 
 
 , documents dated at, 3. 
 
 Saubire (Saubure), Wido de, 69(2). 
 Saubure, 69. 
 Saunders : 
 
 Sir Ed w., recorder of Coventry, 151 
 (2). 
 
 JohD, capper, 149. 
 
 , Agnes, wife of, 149. 
 
 , Alice, wife of, 149. 
 
 , Letyse, wife of, 149(2). 
 
 Will, deyster, 145. 
 
 , Agnes, wife of, 145. 
 
 , mayor of Coventry, 156-157. 
 
 Savage, Hugh', bailiff of Bridgnorth, lette 
 
 from, 56. 
 Sawebure (Saweburi)., 72(2). 
 Say: 
 
 Sir Philip de, 72. 
 
 Robt. de, of Mortun, 72. 
 Say re, Edw., 47. 
 Scabery. See Shawbury. 
 Seageburie : 
 
 "Robert de, 68. 
 
 , Widon, son of, 68. 
 
 Scardeburgh, John, 115, 141, 143, Ana 
 
 see Skardburgh. 
 Scaubure, Sir Adam, priest and vicar of, 
 71. 
 
 Schabery. See Shawbury. 
 Schaldeforde, 132. 
 Schauintone, Sibilla de, 72. 
 Schauntone, Sir Hen. de, 72. 
 Schaweburi, 70, 72. 
 Schettone, John de, 46. 
 Schuyler, Adoniah, 92. 
 Schypeley : 
 
 Robt., 145(2). 
 
 . , John, son of, 145. 
 
 Scollay, Samuel, 92. 
 Scot : 
 
 Ralph, 130. 
 
 Robt, 6G, 130. 
 
 Will., le, 130. 
 Scotland, 92, 93(2). 
 
 army in, 93(2). 
 
 King's solicitor for, 96. 
 
 soldiers sent to, 35(4). 
 
 war with, Vzl. 
 Scottish preacher, a, 38. 
 Scryven, John, 27. 
 Seal, the Great, 51, 64, 75, 76. 
 
 Sefoul, Alice, 73(2). 
 
 Seine, the river, 161. 
 
 Selwood forest (co. Somerset), 161. 
 
 Sempringham, SS. Mary and Leonard, 69. 
 
 Sent Johan : 
 
 Edward, 173. 
 
 , Joan, wife of, 173. 
 
 John de, 173. 
 Serjaunt, Will, le, 27. 
 Severn, River, 26, 28, 34, 46, 47, 61, 62. 
 
 floods of, 4. 
 
 ice in, 64. 
 
 Sewall, Hen., of Coventry, grant to, 127. 
 Seward, Will., Biographiana, 100(2). 
 Seymour, Jane, Queen, 34. 
 Seys, John, of Chyrk, 26. 
 Seyvile, John ue, 70. 
 
 Shakespeare, Outlines of the Life of. See 
 
 Halliwell-Phillipps. 
 Sharman, John, 105. 
 Sharp, Thomas, 102, 107, 108(2). 
 Sharratt, Mrs, Elizabeth, 104. 
 Shaw, Thos., 59. 
 Shawbury, 66, 76. 
 hall, 75. 
 
 parish church of, 75. 
 
 Park, 76. ■ 
 Sheffield Lodge, letter dated at, 56. 
 Shelvocke, John, 59. 
 
 Shepaye, Master John de, dean of Lin- 
 coln, 142. 
 Shepei (Shepye) : 
 
 Jordan de, 138(2). 
 
 Rich, de, hosier, 139. 
 Shepley, Robt., of Coventry, 143. 
 Sherar (Sherer) : 
 
 M., letter from, 57. 
 
 Thos., gent., bailiff of Shrewsbury, 
 43, 52, 55. 
 
 W., letter from, 59. 
 Sherewynd, Rich., 139. 
 Shewbrick's Plantation, 99. 
 Staff nal, 31. 
 
 fire at, 56. 
 
 manor, letter dated at, 63. 
 Shipmoney, 7, 38, 106, 157, 168, 169. 
 Shippeley, Robt., 143. 
 Shipping of war, 154, 155. 
 Ships, 165. 
 
 the Anglesea, 82. 
 „ Anna, 91. 
 
 „ Benja (Bengq), 79, 81, 84. 
 „ Burlington, 91. 
 
 „ Chamber {Chambers'), 87, 91(2). 
 
 „ Charlton, 87. 
 
 „ Dartmouth, 91(2). 
 
 „ De Grave, 80, 81, 84(2), 86(-2). 
 
 „ Dolphin, 87, 90. 
 
 „ Duchess, 86, 90. 
 
 „ Halifax, 88. 
 
 „ Harwich, 81, 82. 
 
 „ Hastings, 82. 
 
 „ Holigost, 87. 
 
 „ Hugliana, 87. 
 
 „ Katherine, 86, 88, 89. 
 
 „ Kent, 91. 
 
 „ King William, 86. 
 
 „ Kingfisher, 91. 
 
INDEX, 
 
 205 
 
 Ships — cont. 
 
 the Lizard, 82. 
 
 „ London, 78, 80(2), 81, 85. 
 
 „ Marlborough, 91(2). 
 
 „ Mary, 87. 
 
 „ Mountayue, 83. 
 
 „ Norris, 87(2), 88, 89. 
 
 „ Phoenix, 89. 
 
 „ Risiny Sun, 86. 
 
 „ Rochester, 91. 
 
 „ Samuel and Ann, 91. 
 
 „ Scarborough, 91. 
 
 „ Sc^'o, 87, 91. 
 
 ., Severn, 91. 
 
 „ Sheerness, 94. 
 
 „ Sidney, 91. 
 
 „ Silvan, 89. 
 
 „ Somers, 85(3), 86. 
 
 „ Stretham, 86(2). 
 
 „ Tanherville, 85, 86. 
 
 „ Tavestock, 90, 91. 
 Shirborne (Shirburn), water of (co. War- 
 wick), 116(2), 147(2), 148, 153-154, 
 157. 
 
 Shitle, Alanus, 25. 
 Shrewsbury : 
 
 Earl of (temp. Hen. VI.), 28, 29. 
 
 , Countess of, 29. 
 
 (temp. Hen. VIII.), 31, 41. 
 
 Gilbert, Earl of (1591), letter from, 
 56. 
 
 Shrewsbury (Salop), 15, 16, 18, 28, 29, 31, 
 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 47(3), 49, 50, 
 
 51, 53, 54, 56, 57(4), 58, 59, 64, 
 65(2), 69, 74, 75. 
 
 abbey of St. Peter, 10, 12, 13, 27, 
 31, 45(2). 
 
 , suit of, concerning mills, 46(2). 
 
 abbot of, 4(3), 5, 31, 32(2). 
 , Thos., 47. 
 
 aldermen, 10, 11, 13(2), 14, 15(3), 
 16(2), 17(3), 19(2), 23, 37, 41(2), 
 43. 
 
 , letters to, 44. 
 
 almshouse, 14. 
 
 alnager; grant of the office of, 55. 
 archers, 41. 
 
 arms of the town, 40, 74. 
 
 artillery yard, 42. 
 
 assembly books, 9. 
 
 assizes, 40, 58. 
 
 attorneys, 23. 
 
 Augustine friars, 32, 34. 
 
 bailiffs, 3, 4(2), 5(3), 9, 10(3), 12, 
 13(2), 14(2), 15, 16 v 3), 17, 18(3), 
 19(5), 21(4), 22(4), 23(6), 24(2), 
 25, 27, 28, 29, 31(2), 32(3), 34(6 ), 
 35(4), 36(4), 37(4), 40(2), 43(4), 
 44, 45, 46(5), 47(4), 48, 49, 50(2), 
 
 52, 53(2), 54(2), 55, 56, 57, 59(2), 
 60, 61, 64, 74(2). 
 
 , letters from, 44, 46, 52, 53, 
 
 55(2) 58, 62. 
 
 , letters to, 42(2), 43, 44(5), 45, 
 
 46, 47(5), 48(3), 49(6), 50(4), 
 51(5), 52(2), 53(4), 54, 55(3), 
 56(6), 57(5), 58(7), 59(6), 60(2), 
 61(3), 62(2), 63(3). 
 
 Shrewsbury — cont. 
 
 bailiffs accouuts, 1(2), 25-38, 46. 
 
 courts, 42-43, 51. 
 
 , orders issued by, 52, 53. 
 
 , petitions to, 45, 48(2), 50,51(2), 
 
 52(3), 53(2), 54(4), 55, 56, 60(3), 
 
 62, 63(2), 64. 
 bell- ringers, 51. 
 bill-bearer, 16. 
 Book of orders, 24. 
 boundaries, 5. 
 bridges, 35, 59, 62. 
 
 burgesses, 2(4), 3(2), 4(2), 5(2), 9, 
 12(7), 13(7), 14(2), 15(2), 16, 18, 
 20(3), 22(2), 23(5), 24(2), 25, 
 27(2), 28(7), 30, 31, 32, 34, 37, 40, 
 41 , 46, 50, 53, 55, 62. 63, 64(2), 70, 
 72, 74. 
 
 , letters to, 46. 
 
 , of, 52, 63. 
 
 , petitions to, 48. 
 
 , , in parliament, 12, 13, 
 
 14, 15, 22, 27, 28, 30, 31, 34, 37, 50, 
 56(2), 57. 
 
 — — , rolls of, 8. 
 
 chamber of concord, 40. 
 
 chamberlains, 30, 41. 
 
 charter, 62. 
 
 , proposals for a new, 55. 
 
 charters, royal, 1-6, 29, 30, 38, 48, 55, 
 
 62, 74. 
 common bell, 32. 
 
 common council, 12(2), 13, 15, 16, 19, 
 
 20(2), 22, 23, 49. 
 common councillors, 52. 
 common Serjeant, 51. 
 common treasury, 12. 
 conduit, L3, 16, 18, 19(2), 20(2), 23. 
 constables, 41, 46(2), 50, 55. 
 Corporation, 21, 22, 23, 24(2), 38, 
 
 40(4), 45, 61. 
 
 , charter constituting, 5. 
 
 , courts, 1. 
 
 , elections, 15. 
 
 — «, gift to Prince Rupert, 39. 
 
 , members to be appointed, 41. 
 
 , Miscellaneous Papers, 1, 7, 9. 
 
 , officers, 41. 
 
 , petitions from, 61, 65. 
 
 , Records, 1-65. 
 
 — — , Registers of proceedings, 1, 9-25, 
 
 45. 
 
 , , lost, 1. 
 
 Coroners, 5, 10, 26 (2), 27, 28, 41. 
 
 , inquisitions of, 56'^2). 
 
 Roll, 26. 
 
 Court, 51, 55. 
 
 crafts of, 9, 10, 11(4). 
 
 bakers, 9, .10, 14, 18, 36, 45, 53, 
 54. 
 
 , wardens of, letter to, 53. 
 
 barber-surgeons, 10. 
 bowyers, 9, 10, 11, 15, 48. 
 butchers, 9, 10, 20, 21. 
 carpenters, 10, 11, 15. 
 clothworkers (or shermen), 9, 
 
 16, 17, 59. 
 cooks, 10, 
 
206 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Shrewsbury — cont. 
 crafts of — cont. 
 
 cordwainers, 10(2). 
 coopers, 9, 10, 11, 15. 
 corvisours (corveysers, corvisers), 
 46, 52. 
 
 ■ , petition from, 64. 
 
 curriers, 9. 
 
 drapers, 11(2), 16(2), 17, 20, 40. 
 
 dyers, 10. 
 
 f'eltmakers, 9. 
 
 fishmongers, 10. 
 
 fietchers, 9, 10, 11, 15, 48. 
 
 Freemasons, 19. 
 
 glaziers, 9. 
 
 glovers, 10, 44, 51(2). 
 goldsmiths, 34. 
 haberdashers, 9. 
 joiners, 9(3), 15(2). 
 masons, 60. 
 mercers, 22. 
 millers, 10, 14, 17, 63. 
 pannars, 1 1 . 
 saddlers, 9(2). 
 
 shermen. See clothworkers. 
 
 sboemakers, 9. 
 
 skinners, 11. 
 
 smiths, 10. 
 
 stringers, 9. 
 
 tailors, 9, 10, 11, 52. 
 
 tallow chandlers, 20. 
 
 tanners, 10(2), 63, 64. 
 
 tilers, 10, 50. 
 
 turners, 9, 10. 
 
 vintners, 11. 
 
 weavers, 9, 10. 
 crier, 33. 
 day bell, 14, 34. 
 encroachments in, 16, 30. 
 exchequer of, 27, 28, 29, 34, 40(2), 
 
 43, 52, 58, 63. 
 fair at, 2, 3(3), 31, 38. 
 fires in, 14. 
 
 Free Grammar School, 1, 13, 14, 15, 
 
 22, 24, 34, 35, 36(7), 38(2), 43, 
 
 45, 64. 
 
 , bailiff, 60. 
 
 , chapel, 24(2). 
 
 , charters concerning, 5, 17, 24, 
 
 43, 44. 
 
 , collection for, 37. 
 
 , council, 45. 
 
 ■ , library of, 43. 
 
 , masters of, 14, 15, 19, 24(3), 
 
 36(4), 37(2), 43(2), 44(4), 45. 
 
 , , letters to, 55. 
 
 , money borrowed from, 40, 43. 
 
 , orders of, 17. 
 
 , ordinances, 44(2). 
 
 , rent of, 36. 
 
 , revenues of, 24, 39, 44. 
 
 , scholarships, 44, 45. 
 
 , scholars of, 15, 24, 37, 44, 45. 
 
 freedom of the town, 25. 
 Frenchmen in, 48. 
 Friars Minors, 32, 33, 41(2), 48. 
 Friars Preachers, 26, 33, 41. 
 , provincial of, 34. 
 
 Shrewsbury — cont. 
 gaol delivery, 63. 
 garrison, 39(2), 42. 
 gas introduced, 25. 
 gates, 25, 29, 41. 
 Gild of the Holy Trinity, 11. 
 Gild-Merchant, 2, 12, 46. 
 
 rolls, 1(2), 7-9. 
 
 government of, 52, 56. 
 governor of, 38. 
 grant dated at, 3. 
 Great Court, 30. 
 
 Grey Friars. See Friars Minors. 
 High Sheriff, 38, 40, 58, 62. 
 
 , letter to, 62. 
 
 highway accounts, 43. 
 History of, 1-8, 12<2), 24, 26, 27, 
 28(2), 29, 31(3), 33(3), 34, 46(4), 
 
 48, 52, 57, 65, 69. 
 householders, names of, 27. 
 hundred of, 2. 
 
 infected houses in, 52. 
 inhabitants of, 11, 12, 18, 22, 39, 63. 
 innholders, 10. 
 jurors, 4, 6. 
 
 Justices of, 12, 47, 50, 62. 
 
 , letter to, 62. 
 
 knitting school, 38. 
 letters dated at, 42, 43, 44, 54, 57. 
 levy of soldiers in, 18, 34, 41, 42. 
 liberties of, 10, 13, 16, 21, 26, 46, 60, 
 63. 
 
 , commission concerning, 47. 
 
 magistrates, 33, 60. 
 markets, 10. 
 marshall, 41. 
 
 mayor, 5, 6, 24(2), 39, 40(3), 41(2), 
 43(2), 45, 
 
 , letters from, 45, 65. 
 
 , accounts of, 39-41. 
 
 mint, 46. 
 
 monasteries, 13, 34. 
 musters, 41-42, 
 New Franchise, 48. 
 official of, 69. 
 
 and Oswestry, ill-will between, 8, 24. 
 
 parish clerks, 35, 51. 
 
 paving of the town, 46. 
 
 persons from Wales coming to, 4. 
 
 pillory, 32. 
 
 plague in, 34, 40, 52, 55, 64. 
 
 population of, 6, 7. 
 
 prison, prisoners, 19, 26(3), 37, 51, 
 
 53, 54, 55, 59, 62. 
 proclamations, 40. 
 Provincial of, 32. 
 provosts of, 2, 69(2). 
 public preacher, 18, 19, 20, 22(2), 
 
 23(4), 36(5), 37(2), 38(4), 39(3), 
 
 40, 41(3), 55, 57, 61(2). 
 Quarter Sessions, 54. 
 
 , proceedings, 1, 29. 
 
 , records of, 42. 
 
 , separate court, 6. 
 
 Record Courts of, 42-3. 
 
 recorder of, 5, 12, 13(3^, 14, 20(2), 
 
 49, 64. 
 
 , sessions before, 42. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 207 
 
 Shrewsbury — cont. 
 
 relief of the poor, 18, 43, 58, 59, 61, 
 62. 
 
 rents due from, 2(2), 5, 40(3), 51, 
 62. 
 
 repair of bridges, fortifications, walls, 
 &c., 3, 4(3), 18(2), 25, 29, 35, 38, 
 39, 
 
 sergeants of, 38, 41, 54, 59, 62, 
 sessors (cessors or sitters), 16, 23. 
 "Sextrye," the, 18. 
 Sheriff's, 26, 59. 
 
 , execution of writs by, 2, 
 
 , prisoners of, 19. 
 
 shipmoney accounts, 7. 
 stallage, 31. 
 statutes, 43. 
 steward, 53, 62. 
 
 stoppage of ways and lane?, 16, 30. 
 subsidy, 51, 58. 
 
 , pardoned, 27. 
 
 rolls, 1(2), 6, 7. 
 
 suburbs, 13. 
 survey of, 16(2). 
 
 taxation (assessment, cess, &c.), 5(2), 
 6, 7, 10, 11, 18, 22, 27, 38(2), 39(6), 
 43, 48, 58(2), 65. 
 
 " Theynesinen," 7, 8. 
 
 tolls, 3, 25, 31, 46, 56, 62(2). 
 
 taken from burgesses of Bridg- 
 north, 56. 
 
 , suit concerning, 62. 
 
 town clerk, 13, 17, 23, 28, 29(2), 32, 
 41(3), 63. 
 
 funds, 22. 
 
 trade, 11. 
 
 companies, 42(2), 53. 
 
 trained bands of, 1, 41-42, 48. 
 
 trespasses in, 30. 
 
 valuation of property in, 39, 56. 
 
 waits, 12, 21, 28. 
 
 walls, 25, 32, 52. 
 
 and Worcester, suit between, 33. 
 
 Abbey Foregate, 55(2). 
 
 "Behind the Walls," 16, 21(2), 63. 
 
 Booth Hall, 43, 60. 
 
 the "Brodwalle," 16. 
 
 " le Bulgerlode," 29. 
 
 Burgess Gate, prison of, 62. 
 
 Cadogans Cross, 35. 
 
 Castle, 25, 26, 29, 39, 55. 
 
 , ward, 38. 
 
 Foregate, Avard of, 6. 
 
 Common Hall, 11, 28, 35. 
 common pasture, 11. 
 Council House, 17, 18, 19, 23, 35, 37, 
 54. 
 
 , chapel adjoining, 17. 
 
 " Cow Leasow," 14. 
 " Creple Loode," 50. 
 the "East Foriett" (Foregate), 13, 
 37. 
 
 Fish Street, 19. 
 " Garewald," 25. 
 " Gatepol," 25(2). 
 Gild Hall, 27(2). 
 "Great Mounckeje,'' 21. 
 " Gwyalda," 35(2). 
 
 irewsbury — cont. 
 the Heath, 77. 
 the Hermitage, 60, 61. 
 the Hey Street, 63. 
 the "Hi2h Cross," 16. 
 the " High Pavement," 16. 
 the " High Street, 18. 
 house of the Master of the Knights of 
 
 the Temple, 27 . 
 Kingsland, 37, 52. 
 
 , suit concerning, 59. 
 
 " Knight's Place," 16. 
 
 Mardwall (Mardevole, &c), 11, 22, 
 
 27, 28(2). 
 market house, 24, 60. 
 market p'ace, 32, 36. 
 " Moncke Forriat," " Monks Forrett." 
 
 See Abbey Foregate. 
 "New Land," 14. 
 the " newe house," 18. 
 the " old heath, 40. 
 pastures in, 16, 63. 
 postern called " Seynte Chadde lode," 
 
 26. 
 
 the Quarry (Quarrell, &c), 16, 25(3), 
 
 32, 34. 
 
 the " Red Lion," 40. 
 Rosse Hall, 55. 
 
 St. Alkmund's, 26(2), 29, 34, 38. 
 
 , chantry of St. Katherine in, 
 
 32. 
 
 , clerk of, 33. 
 
 , great bell of, 33(2). 
 
 , vicar of, 39, 44, 64, 65. 
 
 vicarage, 63. 
 
 St. Chad's, 14, 19, 20 (2), 26, 29, 32, 
 
 33, 59, 64. 
 
 almshouse, 47. 
 
 college, 21(2). 
 
 , curate of, 64. 
 
 font 32. 
 
 , minister of, 39. 
 
 , parishioners of, 21, 58. 
 
 porch, child found in, 55. 
 
 , preacher at, 21. 
 
 , sacristan of, 35. 
 
 , sanctuary at, 26. 
 
 , tithes of, 21(2). 
 
 , vicars of, 40(2), 41. 
 
 St. Cross, 37, 55. 
 
 St. George's, 25, 34. 
 
 St. Julian's, 40, 57, 60, 63, 69. 
 
 , parishioners of, 63. 
 
 St. Mary's, 11, 14, 19, 26(4), 30, 61, 
 62, 69. 
 
 , altar of Holy Cross in, 74. 
 
 , curate of, 60. 
 
 • . minister of, 22. 
 
 , parishioners of, 22. 
 
 , proctor of the dean of, 26. 
 
 , repair of steeple, 4 1 . 
 
 St. Nicholas Chapel, 16(2). 
 St. Rumold, 25. 
 Shire Hall, 24. 
 
 Shoplatch (Schoteplace, &c), 26. 
 Stone bridge, 35, 64. 
 
 Sturnes close," 21. 
 " le Tolshop," 31. 
 
208 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Shrewsbury — cont. 
 
 the Welsh bridge, 3, 17, J 8. 
 
 the Welsh gate, 29, 41. 
 
 the " Wyld Cope," 19. 
 Shropshire (Salop), 11, 14, 6G. 
 
 fairs in, 11. 
 
 Justices of the peace, 56. 
 
 , letters to, 61(2). 
 
 levy of soldiers, 42, 56. 
 
 Lord Lieutenant of, letters from, 42. 
 
 members of Parliament, 77. 
 
 Sheriff of, 26, 68. 
 
 , letter to, 56. 
 
 , cierk of, 68. 
 
 Shropshire, Antiq. q/"(Eyton), 69. 
 Shropshire Archaeological Society, Trans- 
 actions of, 7(2), 8, 27, 41, 4*2(2), 45, 
 46, 50, 56, 57, 58, 65. 
 Shropshire Notes and Queries, 76. 
 Shurlow, Rich., mercer, 22. 
 Shurlowe, Rich., clerk, 35. 
 Shyrefelde, Wilielmus, 174(2). 
 Sibford, John de, mayor of Northampton, 
 74. 
 
 Sidney, Lady, 23. 
 
 Silion, Will., "de Veteri Campo," 72(2). 
 
 Sinclair, Capt., 94. 
 
 Sixpenny money, 39. 
 
 Skalebroc, Will.de, 70(2). 
 
 Skalebroc (Yorkshire), 70. 
 
 Skardburgh (Skasdeburgh), John (de), 
 
 141, 142. 
 Skartheburgh : 
 
 Geoffrey, 114. 
 
 , Agnes, wife of, 114. 
 
 Skerrett : 
 
 Capt. W.,99(2). 
 
 , letter from, 99. 
 
 , memorial of, 99(2). 
 
 Skillyng, John, 161. 
 Skyle, Roger, chaplain, 28(2). 
 Slave trade, the, 25, 98. 
 Smarth, Thos., 70. 
 Smelyn, Will., 162(4). 
 Smere. See Smethe, Rich. 
 Smethe, Rich., 72. 
 Smethecote : 
 
 John, valet tus Regis, 28. 
 
 , letters patent to, 28. 
 
 Roger, 71. 
 Smethen, Rich., 73. 
 Smetheton, Rich, de, 111. 
 " Smith coals," 94. 
 Smith (Smythe, &c.) : 
 
 John, petition from, 53. 
 
 Hen., gent., 154. 
 
 Michell, 152. 
 
 Rich., alderman of Coventry, 126. 
 
 , of Great Ness, gent., 65 
 
 Thos., 44. 
 Sneetcn, Sir Thos., knt., 39. 
 Soces, John de, 70. 
 Soldiers, 65. 
 
 billeting of, 41, 171. 
 
 discharge of Shrewsbury from the 
 pressing of, 15. 
 
 impressed to go to Newhaven, 15. 
 
 to serve in Ireland, !5, 20,61. 
 
 Soldiers — cont. 
 
 to serve in Normandy, 42. 
 provided for service of King Ed- 
 ward IV., 30. 
 provided for service of Queen Eliza- 
 beth, 56. 
 in the East Indies, 85. 
 Sole, Richard, 163. 
 
 Somerby, Rich, de, rector of Berkeswell, 
 
 138. 
 Somerset : 
 
 co. of, 161, 163. 
 
 Duke of (temp. Edw. VI.), 77. 
 Sonford, Ralph, Lord of, 72. 
 Sonning (co. Berks), 173. 
 Sotele, Will, le, 73. 
 Sotheworthe, Geoffrey, 29. 
 Soulton, manor of, 75. 
 South, Capt., 87, 91(2). 
 Southam, Rich., 117, 143. 
 Southampton, 102. 
 Southstoke (co. Somerset), 163. 
 
 vicar of. See Beese, Sir Thos. 
 Southwell, Sir Robt., knt., 123. 
 Sowe, 108, 109, 129, 132, 136, 138, 155, 
 158. 
 
 Attorhale in, 144. 
 
 Bagot's Waste in, 136, 154. 
 
 Buydynge Haylyll, 144. 
 
 Symon the clerk of, 129. 
 
 , Walter, son of, 129. 
 
 Spain, 97. 
 
 King of (1624), 76. 
 Spanish : 
 
 Ambassador (1624), 76. 
 
 -, (1763), 97. 
 
 Armada, the, 56. 
 
 , preparations for receiving, 42. 
 
 Spencer, Lady, 104. 
 Spicer : 
 
 Hen. le, 137. 
 
 , Mary, wife of, 137. 
 
 Nich. le, 27(2). 
 
 Rich, le, 137(2). 
 
 Rich., 163. 
 Sponn : 
 
 Will, de, 131. 
 
 , Alice, dau. of, 131. 
 
 Sponn, territory of, 131. 
 
 Sprenghose, Roger, Lord of Longenolre, 7 1 . 
 
 Spyne, Guy, 116. 
 
 Stafford : 
 
 Earl of (temp Her. IV ), 27(2). 
 
 (temp. Hen. VI.), 28. 
 
 Lord (1563), 15. 
 
 persons indicted at, 29. 
 Staffordshire, 65. 
 Stanes, Capt., 91. 
 Staney, Thos., "le jugler," 36. 
 Stanford : 
 
 Hugh de, 73. 
 
 John de, 73. 
 Stanton rectory, 77. 
 Stantone : 
 
 Robt. de, 70, 71. 
 
 , Emma, wife of, 70. 
 
 Stephen de, 7-. 
 
 , Stephen, son of, 71. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 209 
 
 Stantun, Steph. de, 69. 
 Stanwardin-in-le-Felde, Reginald, 70. 
 Stanwordin-in-le-Feld, 26. 
 Stapleton : 
 
 Edw., grant to, 127. 
 
 John, 126. 
 
 Walter, Bishop of Exeter, 3. 
 Star-Chamber : 
 
 Court of, 19, 168. 
 
 , commissioners of, 51. 
 
 Statute : 
 
 Clerk of the.. See Ofchirch, John. 
 
 Merchant, 10, 112. 
 
 , rolls, 3 03, 155. 
 
 of mortmain, 109(2), 110, 114, 115(4), 
 116, 117(2), 118, 119(2;, 126, 141. 
 Staundford, John de, 73. 
 Staunton, vicar of, 76. 
 Stauntone, Rob. de, 71. 
 Stebenhithe (Stepney), document dated 
 
 at, 163. 
 Stivichall, 108. 
 Stoches, 67. 
 Stockholm, 94. 
 
 Stoke (Stokes), 105(4), 108, 131, 134(2), 
 138, 142, 152. 
 
 e Hokem ilfeld (Hokenylefelt), 130, 
 134. 
 
 manor and lordship of, 105(3), 1 38, 
 151(2), 154. 
 
 Stoke : 
 
 Peter de, 113. 
 
 Rich, de, 109, 141. 
 
 Robt. de, 138, 154. 
 Stoke-upon-Tyrne, " Othelas medue," 73. 
 Stokes : 
 
 Peter de, 2. 
 
 Robt. de, 130, 134(2). 
 
 , Joan, wife of, 134(2). 
 
 Will, de, 70. 
 " Stondart, sagittatores dc la," 32. 
 Stone, 123. 
 
 Stones, John (de), of Eton, 142(2). 
 Stanley, John abbot of, 157. 
 Stony Stratford, 31. 
 Stopel : 
 
 John, de la Biflote, 71. 
 
 , Eva, wife of, 71. 
 
 Stopham. See Sancto Johanne, Sir Edw, 
 de. 
 
 " Stopyndone," 4. 
 Story, John, 87. 
 Stourton, Sir John, knt., 162. 
 Stowe, Hugh son of Gollan the knight of, 
 69. 
 
 Stower, the brook, 65. 
 Strange, Sir John, 27. 
 Stratford-upon-Avon, bailiff and alderman 
 
 of, writ addressed to, 154. 
 Strattmarchell, (Montgomeryshire) : 
 
 abbey of, 66. 
 
 , grant to, 73. 
 
 , John, monk of, 70. 
 
 , Kadugan, monk of, 73. 
 
 , , prior of, 70. 
 
 Stratton (co. Wilts.) : 
 
 Nether, 16L 
 
 Over, 161. 
 
 Stretley, Robt., knt., 157. 
 
 Stringer, Will., 51. 
 
 Stubbe, Thos., petition from, 63. 
 
 Stuche, Tho. de, 72. 
 
 Studd, Daniel, 86, 
 
 Studley, 93. 
 
 Studley : 
 
 Peter, curate of St. Chad's, Shrews- 
 bury, petition from, 64. 
 
 , minister of Frankwell, 38. 
 
 Thos., 53. 
 Sturgeon, official copyist, 4(2). 
 Sturry (Stury, Sturye) : 
 
 John, 46. 
 
 Rich., 28, 29, 30. 
 
 Thomas, 34, 55. 
 
 , esq., 55(5). 
 
 Styvechal, 138. 
 
 Sty ward, Thos., of Coventry, 141. 
 Sudintone, Ralph de, 71. 
 Suffolk, Duke of (temp. Hen. VIII.), 12. 
 Sugenhnl, Robt. de, 68. 
 Sulton, Ivo de, 71, 72. 
 Sunderland, Robt., Earl of (1683), 154. 
 Suphy, Ant., surgeon, 89. 
 Suratt, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85(3), 86, 87(3), 
 91. 
 
 council of, 87, 88. 
 
 governor of, 84. 
 
 Pattamar, 88. 
 
 president of, 87. 
 Surtees, Miss, 98, 
 Sutton, Thos. de, 115. 
 Sutton alias Dudley, Robertus, 9. 
 Sutton Coldfield (co. Warwick), Warden 
 
 and Society of, writ addressed to, 154. 
 Swerde, John, 146. 
 S willy ngton : 
 
 Ralph, 150. 
 
 , grants to, 121, 150. 
 
 , Elizabeth, widow of, 150(3). 
 
 Swingfield, 162. 
 
 Sydmonton Couit, MSS. at, 173-174. 
 Sydney, Sir H., letter from, 42. 
 
 Talbot : 
 
 Christopher, knt., 28. 
 
 , his son, 29. 
 
 John, knt., 29. 
 
 Lord, 27. 
 Talente, John, 104. 
 
 Tallents, Francis, preacher, 40, 41(2), 65. 
 
 Talmash, Thos., 87. 
 
 Tanner's Notitia, 66. 
 
 Tassalee. See Tassel. 
 
 Tassel, 71, 72. 
 
 Taxation of colonists, 95. 
 
 Tayleur, Creswell, of Rodington, 65 
 
 Teculwardin, Thomas de, 8. 
 
 Teffont Evias, 161. 
 
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 Tekne, Walter tie, mayor of Northamp- 
 ton, 74. 
 
 Temple, Knights of the, House of the 
 
 Master in Shrewsbury, 27. 
 Tench (Tenehe) : 
 
 Will., letter from, 54. 
 
 , letter to, 54. 
 
 Tenters (for stretching cloth), 62, 144. 
 
 Terbyn, Cheshire, 49. 
 
 Terlingham, 162(2). 
 
 Thaillard, Rich., 70. 
 
 Thatcher, Will., 36. 
 
 Thoeny, Roger de, 2. 
 
 " Thomas capellanus," 68. 
 
 Thomas : 
 
 Jervis, 60(2). 
 
 Roger, 33. 
 
 , wife of, 33. 
 
 Thomson, John, 146. 
 Thoresby, Master John de, 111. 
 Thorgood, Mr., 84. 
 Thornes : 
 
 Master M., 47. 
 
 , letter to, 47. 
 
 Robt., ge :.t., 47. 
 
 Roger, 31, 48. 
 
 Thos., mayor of Shrewsbury, 28(3). 
 Thornton, John de, 140. 
 Thorp, Will, de, 111. 
 Throckmorton : 
 
 Clement, 125. 
 
 Sir Robt., knt., 125. 
 Throgmarton, Sir Geo., knt., 123. 
 Throgmorton alias Frogmorton, Mr. Jus- 
 tice John, 14. 
 Thurso (Caithness), 95. 
 Thwening, John, 141. 
 Thynne, John, letter from, 56. 
 Tillard : 
 
 Abraham, 78. 
 
 William, 78, 82, 84. 
 
 , diary of, 78-91. 
 
 Tillard, P. Edw., esq., of the Holme, 
 
 Godmanchester, MSS. of, 78-91. 
 Tiruchendur, 90. 
 
 governor of, 90(2). 
 Tisedale, Mr., 45. 
 
 Tithes, 14(2), 20, 21, 38, 55, 64(2), 76, 
 
 105, 152. 
 Tituelege, Sir Will, ue, 72. 
 Tocketts, Roger, 93. 
 Todenham, John de, 135. 
 Toft, Will., letter from, 48. 
 Toftes, John de, 140(2). 
 Tolliet, Capt. Hen., 61. 
 Tomkis (Tomkys, Tompkys) : 
 
 John, M.A., preacher, 22, 23, 60, 63. 
 
 , his curate, 22, 60. 
 
 " le Tomlers," 36. 
 Tompson : 
 
 — •, preacher, 38 
 
 Mr., 104. 
 Tong, 59. 
 
 Tonks. See Tomkis. 
 
 Tonstall (Tunstall), Rich., knt., 30. 
 
 Tope, Will., 71. 
 
 Torkc, Rich, de, clerk, 141. 
 
 Totteridge (Hertfordshire), 171 
 
 Touneshead, H., 57. 
 
 Touneshend, H., letters from, 58, 62. 
 
 Tourneur, Tym., Recorder of Shrewsbury, 
 
 letter from, 64. 
 Townesend, Sir Robt., 154. 
 Trafalgar, 25. 
 Treasury, the, 93. 
 Trentham, John, 30(2). 
 Trevego (co. Cornwall), 161. 
 Trigature. See Tiruchendur. 
 Trimaneer fort, 90. 
 Tripatee, 90. 
 Troughton : 
 
 Dr., 159. 
 
 Mr., 108. 
 Trubleville, Ralph de, 2. 
 " Trumpet," a minstrel, 28. 
 Try, Thomas, 150. 
 
 Tuchett, Sir John, Lord Audelay, 75m 
 Tuder (Tudur) : J K '' 
 
 Thos., of Hopton, 73. 
 
 Will., 71, 72, 73(3). 
 
 , Thos., . his son, 73. 
 
 Tunerver, ±tich., 28. 
 Tunge, 59. 
 Tuo stall, Ric, 30. 
 Turneham, Robert de, 2. 
 Turner : 
 
 Capt. Edw., 65. 
 
 Ralph le, 132. 
 
 , Margery, widow of, 132. 
 
 Turnham Green, 96. 
 
 Turri, Nicholas de, 2. 
 
 Tuttebury, Will, de, 111. 
 
 Twiss, Edward, mayor of Shrewsbury, 24 
 
 Twychelone, Will., 71. 
 
 Tyelere, John le, 6. 
 
 Tyler, Wat, insurrection of, 6. 
 
 Tylere, — , 30. 
 
 Tyllebrok, Master Guy de, 131. 
 Tynal, Margery, 137(2). 
 Typton, Mr., 64. 
 " Tyre " wine, 29. 
 
 Tyrna (Time), Reginald de, 69(2). 
 
 u. 
 
 Uffington, 24. 
 
 Ulger, Will., 70. 
 
 " Ulterfynes," 125(3), 151. 
 
 Ulvescroft : 
 
 monastery of, 150. 
 
 prior of. See Whalley, Geolf. 
 Ulwra,, 90. 
 
 Unreason, Abbot of, 33. 
 Upton : 
 
 Hugh, 71. 
 
 Hie, 30. 
 
 William the lord of, 71. 
 Upton Magna, 53. 
 Upton Sciidamorc, 161, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 211 
 
 V. 
 
 Vachan : 
 
 Hen., 70. 
 
 Jewaff, son of Jewaff, 70. 
 Vagabonds, orders concerning, 50, 51. 
 Vaghen, Zareford, of Egardeleye, 26. 
 Vakeel, the, 81. 
 
 Valence, Adomar de, Earl of Pembroke, 3. 
 Van Momberen, 78(2). 
 Vardill, Thos., 92. 
 Vavasor, A., letter from, 49. 
 Vellegapundee, 89. 
 Venables : 
 
 Will., 28. 
 
 , Isabella, wife of, 28(2). 
 
 Vendosme, John of, knt., 162. 
 Verdon, Rich,, 115. 
 
 Vere, , 96. 
 
 Vesey, Eustace de, 2. 
 
 Veteri, Campo, de. See Siliou, Will. 
 
 Veteri Ponte, de. See Vipont. 
 
 Vicar, Adam the, 72. 
 
 Victoria, Queen of England, 128(2). 
 
 Vilain (Vilein): 
 
 Peter le, 69. 
 
 Ric. le, provost of Shrewsbury, 69(3). 
 Vincatadre, 81, 83(6). 
 Vincent, John, 111. 
 Vintner: 
 
 Alexander the, of Coventry, 130, 131. 
 
 Master Richard the, 132. 
 Vipont, Robert de, 2. 
 Virginia, 95(2). 
 Visagatapam, 81, 86(2). 
 Vryen, Johannes, 29, 30(2). 
 Vyley, Johk, rector of Broseley, petition 
 of, 75. 
 
 w. 
 
 Waade, Mr., " secretary of Her Majesty's 
 
 Council," 59. 
 Wade, Major-Gen., 94(2). 
 Waffrer : 
 
 Elias le, 130. 
 
 , Matilda, dau. of, 130(2). 
 
 Roger, 130. 
 
 , Will., sou cf, 130. 
 
 Wahille, Robert de, 67. 
 Wait, Sir !Nic, 83, 84. 
 Wakeman, Sir Offley, 42. 
 Walchelinus, 66. 
 Waleraund, Robert, 2. 
 Wales: 
 
 Henry Prince of (temp. Hen. IV.), 
 
 117(3). 
 , grants by, 116, 117. 
 
 Wales — coni. 
 
 journeys of Prince of Wales to, 
 
 27, 30. 
 North, 30. 
 
 persons arrested in, 4. 
 
 Prince of, 27(3), 30, 31 (2), 34, 76, 111, 
 112(4), 113, 149. 
 
 , Council of, 47. 
 
 towns in, 11. 
 Walford, letter dated at, 51. 
 Walker : 
 
 Edward, 170. 
 
 Rich., prebendary of Preece, 75. 
 Wall, Dr., preacher, 34. 
 Walleford: 
 
 Rich, de, 27. 
 
 Knit de, 70. 
 
 Waller, Matt, 87, 88. 
 Wallis, Robt., of Coventry, 141. 
 Walshe, John le, 74. 
 Walsingham, (Norfolk), 61. 
 Walssheman, Will., 140. 
 Walssman: 
 
 Will., 140. 
 
 , Beatrice, wife of, 140. 
 
 Waltham, 93. 
 
 Waltham, Adam de, 73(2). 
 Walton (co. Kent), 162(2). 
 Walton, Nich., 96. 
 Waltone, Master Simon de, 2. 
 War: 
 
 Secretary at, 99. 
 
 Treasurer at, 170. 
 Ward, Thos., 127. 
 Wardington, Oxfordshire, 77. 
 Waren, Thos., 149. 
 Wareyn, Simon, 111. 
 Waring, Major, 40. 
 Waringe, William, 39. 
 Warminster, 161. 
 Warren : 
 
 Commodore, 81, 82(2). 
 
 , death of, 83. 
 
 Warwick : 
 
 Ambrose, Earl of (1569), 125. 
 
 co. of, 106(3), 123, 127, 150(2), 
 151(3), 154(2), 155. 
 
 , f eodary in. See Gregory, Arthur 
 
 , Lord Lieutenant of, 154, 155. 
 
 " , muster in, 125. 
 
 escheator of, 116. 
 
 sheriff of, writ addressed to, 154. 
 
 town of, 154. 
 Waryn, Christopher, 105. 
 Watchmen, 36, 54. 
 Water, Johannes, 28. 
 Water, model for raising, 170. 
 Watlesburghe, letters dated at, 50. 
 Watts : 
 
 Johu, 92. 
 
 Michael, 80(2), 81(2). 
 Watur, Degory, draper, 11. 
 Weale, W., letters from, 55(2). 
 Weaver : 
 
 Thomas the, of Coventry, 132. 
 
 , Henry, son of, 132. 
 
 William the, 133. 
 
 , Rich., son of, 133. 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 Webb, Mr., letter to, 61. 
 Webbe, Alice, of Harlascote, 75. 
 Wedirkok, Thos., 72. 
 Wedon : 
 
 John, 141. 
 
 de, 115(2). 
 
 ■ le, brewer, 134. 
 
 Weederlandt, Mr., 80. 
 Welden, — , 79. 
 
 Wele, Johannes, " capitaneus d'Ose- 
 
 westre," 9. 
 Wellington, 57. 
 
 minister of, 59(2). 
 Wellow (co. Somerset), 161(2). 
 Wells : 
 
 Bishops' Kegistry at, 101. 
 
 corporation of, 101. 
 
 dean and chapter of, 101. 
 Welneburghe, Will, de, 109. 
 Welsh, repression of incursions of the, 5. 
 (Velsh cloths, 11, 16(2), 62. 
 
 cottons, 16, 24. 
 
 Freers, 20. 
 
 Welsore, John, 61. 
 
 " Welyngtone sub le Wrekyn," vicarage 
 
 of All Saints, 47. 
 Wem, 51, 66. 
 
 Went, History of, Samuel Garbett, 77. 
 
 Wembrugge. See Wombridge. 
 
 Wemes, 57. 
 
 Wemme, 26, 72, 73. 
 
 Wendell, Mr. (of Boston, Mass.), 92. 
 
 Wenlock, 29. 
 
 Went worth : 
 
 Samuel, 92. 
 
 , letter to, 94. 
 
 H., son of, 94. 
 
 Wercock : 
 
 Robert,, 70. 
 
 Roger,*71. 
 
 , Rich., son of, 71. 
 
 , , Margery, wife of, 73. 
 
 Wercokc, Rich., 71. 
 Westby, Bartholomew, 123. 
 West Chester, 23, 58. 
 West Indies, 99(2). 
 Westminster, 77. 
 
 documents dated at, 2(3), 3(5), 
 4(8), 5(11), 157. 
 
 Fleas at, 153. 
 Weston, 77. 
 
 chapelry of, 76. 
 Weston under Wetherley, 151. 
 Westone, Hen. de, 74. 
 Whaddon Hall, letter dated at, 77. 
 Whalburley, near Coventry, 138. 
 Whalley : 
 
 Geoff*., prior of the monastery of 
 Ulvescroft, grant to, 150. 
 
 Hugh, letter from, 63. 
 Wheatleye, Mr., 104. 
 Whitacres, Rich., 36. 
 Whitby (Whitley?) broke, 157. 
 Whi tehee ote, —,28. 
 Whitchurch (Shropshire), 72. 
 
 tithes of, 55. 
 
 (Hants), 173. 
 
 Whitchurch, Will., 116(2;. 
 White : 
 
 Capt., 82. 
 
 Rich., 82. 
 
 Mr., of Bristowe, 104. 
 
 Sir Thos., 102, 104, 107, 159. 
 
 , bequest by, 57. 
 
 Thos., 149. 
 
 Will., husbandman, 156. 
 Whiteley, John, chaplain, 143. 
 Whitinj?, John, 1 19. 
 
 Whitley (Whitele), 131(2), 146-148, 156. 
 Alderfordpece, 147(2), 148(2). 
 Baronfelde, 157. 
 
 Buggynfeld upon Wridesden, 147(5). 
 common, 146. 
 
 , riot on, 156. 
 
 corporation of, 140. 
 
 Kyngis park, 147(2), 157. 
 
 manor, 146, 156-]57. 
 
 medowmore, 147. 
 
 Skinner's butts, 147(5), 148, 153. 
 
 squire of, 146. 
 
 Stokefeld upon Wridesden, 147(2). 
 Whittleycros, 147(2), 148. 
 Whittechirche : 
 
 Will., 144(2). 
 
 , Agnes, widow of, 144(2). 
 
 Whitwebbe, Walter le, 139. And see 
 
 Wbytewebbe. 
 Whytcombe, Robt., 28. 
 Whytemor (Wytemor), 130, 132. 
 Wbytewebbe, Walter, merchant, 141. 
 Wichetone, Roger de, 67. 
 Widdrington : 
 
 Anne, letter from, 96. 
 
 Lord, 96. 
 Wido the sheriff, 68. 
 Wightman, Will., grant to, 124. 
 Wightwick, Humfrey, of Coventry, 127. 
 Wigmore, abbey of, letter dated at, 47. 
 Wigston : 
 
 Roger, 150. 
 
 Sir Will., knt., 125, 126(2). 
 Wilberforce, Will., 25, 98. 
 Wildenrise, John, 147. 
 Wilks, Will., 20. 
 Willcote, Rich, de, 70. 
 William III., King of England, 41, 80, 87, 
 128(2). 
 
 death of, 88(2). 
 William IV., 128. 
 
 charters of, 6(2). 
 William, John, carpenter, of Basyngstoke, 
 
 174(7). 
 Williams : 
 
 Dan., 30. 
 
 John, 44. 
 Willis, Browne, letter from, 77. 
 Willowe, Rich, de, 130. 
 Willughby, John, draper, 145. 
 Willyley, Will., 46. 
 I Willynngton, Mr., 104. 
 
 Wilson, Will., 108. 
 | Wilton (Welton) (co. Wilts.), 166, 168. 
 Wiltshire, — , (of Bath), 97. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 213 
 
 Wiltshire, 161, 165, 166(3), 169. 
 assessments in, ]66, 168. 
 disorders in, 169. 
 
 high sheriff of, letters to, 165, 167, 
 168(5), 169(5). 
 
 Lord Lieutenant of, 169(2). 
 
 sheriffs of, 166, 3 67, 168(4). 
 Winchecumb, Philip de, 133. 
 Winchester, 62. 
 
 document dated at, 3. 
 
 Castle, 171. 
 
 diocese of, 173. 
 
 Richard, Bishop of, licence of, 173. 
 Winekeshul, Robt. de, 70. 
 Winterbourne Stoke (co, Wilts.), 161. 
 Wisbeche : 
 
 Dr., 9. 
 
 Gyllem, 9. 
 Wishecke (Wysebecke) : 
 
 Maderne, 9, 17(2). 
 
 , his wife, 17. 
 
 Samuel, letter from, 54. 
 Wischar, Baldwin, 69. 
 Witheford, Henry the clerk of, 69. 
 Withybrook (Withibroke), 144. 
 Withiford, Reginald de, 71. 
 Withintun, Michael de, 69. 
 Wittenham. See Rowleigh. 
 Wodeford near Hinton, 74. 
 Wodende, Woodende (Coventry), 117, 
 139, 154. 
 
 " the Knydinges," 154. 
 Wodenmilnebeye, 135. 
 Wolfe, Will., 115. 
 WolstanestoD, 26. 
 Wolverton, 162(2). 
 Wolvinewode, 70. 
 
 Wombridge, monastery of St. Leonard, 
 
 75(2). 
 Wood, Matt., 88. 
 Woodd, Samuel, 76. 
 Woode, Andrew, 77, 
 Woolston, Samuel, 85, 87. 
 Worcester, 12, 30. 
 
 Bishop of. See Cantilupe. 
 
 Charles of, 48. 
 
 Earl of (temp. Hen. IV.), 27(2). 
 
 (temp. Hen. VI.), 30(2). 
 
 and Shrewsbury, lawsuit between, 33, 
 48. 
 
 Worcestershire, 65. 
 Wosewall, John, letter from, 47. 
 Wrexham (Wryxham), 30. 
 Wright : 
 
 Robt., servant of Thos. Legh, 32(2). 
 , the Earl of Essex, 56, 57. 
 
 Wrothe, John le, of Morton Toret, 70. 
 
 Wyatt, Hugh, minstrel, grant to, 123. 
 
 Wyefort, S' Joh'is d' (seal), 71. 
 
 Wygorn', Rich . de, 133, 136. 
 
 Wyhleye, Nich. de, constable of Shrews- 
 bury Castle, 26. 
 
 Wyken (Wykene), 108, 123, 135, 144, 
 154. 
 
 Wykyn. See Wyken, 
 Wykyncroft, 154. 
 Wyllynton. See Wellington. 
 Wymondeswold, John, 143. 
 Wyndesore, letter dated at, 163. 
 Wyne, Will., esq., 59. 
 Wynen, John. See Gryffyth, John of. 
 Wyntenay, Wynteney. See Hartley 
 
 Wintney. 
 Wynterton, 74. 
 
 Wynwyck (Wynwyk), John de, elk., 113, 
 114. 
 
 Wyseman, John, 157. 
 Wytele, John de, cook, 130. 
 Wyteley, John de, of Radeford, 135. 
 Wythed, Roger, 26. 
 Wythiford, Reginald de, 70, 71. 
 Wythifort, 71. 
 Wythynton, Thos. de, 71. 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yale, Thos., letter from, 49. 
 Yantapollam, 89. 
 
 Yats, John, of Dudemanneswell, 116. 
 Ydeshale, 26. 
 Yngeram, John, 134. 
 Yonge : 
 
 Adam le, of Berkham, 173. 
 
 , Alice, wife of, 173. 
 
 Sir Geo., Secretary at War, 99. 
 
 Thos., common or town clerk of 
 Shrewsbury, 29, 
 York, 155. 
 
 Archbishop of (temp. Ric. II.), 4, 
 
 Bishop's Registry at, 101. 
 
 corporation of, 101. 
 
 dean and chapter of, 101. 
 
 Duke of (temp. Hen. VI.), 28, 29(5), 
 30(2). 
 
 (temp. Chas. I.), 39 
 
 messenger sent to, 30. 
 Yorkshire, 70. 
 
 Young, Capt. Will., 80(3), 84, 66. 
 Yrishe, William, 163. 
 Yule, Ed., Diary of Will. Hedges, 80. 
 Yve, Roger, clerk, 75. 
 
 z. 
 
 Zoke : 
 
 John del, 26. 
 
 , Walter, son of, 26. 
 
 Zouche : 
 
 Sir Will, la, Lord of Haringworth, 
 142. 
 
 , discord with Rowland Damet, 
 
 142. 
 
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 1899 
 
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 The Earl of Eglinton, Sir J. S. Max- 
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