1 Adam Oattley, esq., sheriff of Shropshire for the year ending Michaelmas 1738. 2 Thomas Juckes of Sheer Lane, London, gent. Letters Of Attorney appointing 2 to demand and receive from the Royal Treasury or Exchequer, the sum of £63 17s. 6d., and to give receipt of the same for 1. 1 Seal.
1 John Hampton Jones, sheriff of Anglesey, William Archer, sheriff of Carnarvon, Evan Gryffyth, sheriff of Merioneth, Richard Price Thelwale, sheriff of Denbigh, John Baxter, sheriff of Montgomery, George Philipps, sheriff of Carmarthen, Thomas Colby, sheriff of Pembroke, Roderick Richards, sheriff of Cardigan, David Lloyd, sheriff of Brecon, Marmaduke Gwynne, sheriff of Radnor, Richard Gorton, sheriff of Glamorgan. 2 John Fenwick of Cannon Row, Westminster, gent. Letters Of Attorney appointing 2 to receive all sums of money due to each of 1 for the year 1770 from the Royal Exchequer, Westminster, and to give sufficient discharges for the same. 12 Armorial seals.
List of Latin and English mottoes for achievements.
Also bears the name of John Bawdewyn twice and the format of the direction of a letter to Sir Josia Child, bart [?1630-1699], of the East India House, London.
With notes on the origins of coat-of-arms.
Memorandum describing the intended route of a canal between the river Severn and river Wever, to communicate with the river Mersey. And also between Shutborough, Staffordshire, and Bewdley, Worcestershire. Dated 1766.
Memorandum for the payment of disbanding money to "L[ord] Denby's men, Col. Jackson's men, Capt. Bannister" and "Capt. Stours troops", and "for neglect of disbanding money to Cowper corporall under Capt. Stour".
Notes relating to the fifteen tribes of north Wales,
Taken from various sources including Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt's Notes on British History (1663), Caradoc of Lancarvan's History of Wales (1584), and a book in Shrewsbury Free School Library.
Pedigree of Elisha, great-grandson of Noah, and father of the Aeolians,
Includes notes on the country of Elis, from [Peter] Heylin's Cosmography [1652], and variations on the name Elis or Elisha.
Pedigree of Iorweth Foel, lord of Mechain, and David Llwch of Deuddwr, descending from Rhodri Mawr,
With notes and diagrams of heraldic devices. Reference to Sir John Price's Description of Wales [1584].
Pedigree of Owen of Woodhouse and Shrewsbury, descended from Howell Owen of Machynlleth, co. Mont., down to c.1765. With a memorandum referring to two second cousins.
Pedigree of Richard Betton of Berwick, Shropshire, together with notes taken from the parish registers of St Chadd's, St Julian's and St Mary's, Shrewsbury, and from other records. No. 110 is written on the dorse of a page of medical recipes. No. 109 is not in the main hand.
Includes reference to a dispute over inheritance.
Also of the daughters of Mawde and William David Lloyd of Glandiwely, descended from Roderick the great. With notes on the arms of their earlier ancestors. Not in the main hand.
Pedigree of William Baxter of Eaton Constantine, Shropshire, [1737-?], with notes relating to his antecedents, partly taken from an account of the Barters written by Thomas Wethersby, one of the family.