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1 Thomas Owen of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, gent. 2 Abraham Giles of Shrewsbury, merchant. Bond in £70 for observance of covenants in indentures of equal date between 1 and 2. Memorandum on dorse that 1 to make another bond for £70 within 3 months. 1 Seal.

1 Peter Wooley of Chowley, Cheshire, gent. 2 John Deane of Hunlington, Cheshire, yeoman. Bond in £80 for the observance of covenants in an indenture tripartite of even date between 1 of the first part, Peter Bell of Chester, gent., of the second, and 2 of the third. 1 Seal.

1 Richard Brickdale of Bristol, gent. 2 Peter Saunders and Nathaniel Wade, of Bristol, esq's. Bond in £80 for the observance of covenants in articles of agreement tripartite of even date between 1 of the first part, Joanna Loine, of Bristol, spinster, of the second, and 2 of the third.

1 Richard Rocke senior and Nathaniel Blodwell of Criggion, co. Mont., gent's, and Arthur Vaughan of Tretherwen, co. Mont., gent. 2 Mary Blodwell of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, widow. Bond in £80 to ensure that Richard Rocke the younger and Prudence Rocke, nephew and niece of the late John Blodwell, late husband of 2, on attaining their full age, will make an acknowledgement that they have received £40 from the personal estate of the late John Blodwell. 3 Seals.

1 John Deakin of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, gent. 2 John Deakin (son of above) of Worrenshall, Shropshire, yeoman. Bond in £800 for 1, at reasonable warning given by 2, within 7 years, to suffer one fine to 2 of the m. and tmt in Worrenshall and Woodlands, according to a deed of bargain and sale made by 1 to 2, of date 12th May 1643. 1 Seal. Damaged.

1 William Pratchett of Worleston, Cheshire, yeoman, and Phillip Pratchett of Worleston, cheesemaker. 2 John Wishaw of Clifford's Inn, London, gent. Bond in £89 to secure £44 15s. and interest. 2 Seals.

1 Richard Bowors, feltmaker; Luke Jones, cowper, and John Griffiths, Clogworker, all of Shrewsbury, Shropshire. 2 Mayor aldermen and burgesses of Shrewsbury. Bond is £7 for the observance of covenants in the apprenticeship indenture binding John Richard, son of the late Gabriel Richard, trowman [a master of a trow, a flat-bottomed barge on the river Severn] to Richard Bowors for 7 years in consideration of £3.

1 Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, bart, and Corbett Kynaston, esq. 2 James Apperley, bachelor in physics. Copy Of Pleas of land before the Court of Common Bench at Westminster, relating to man's Roden, Preston Gubballs, Lee and Lea Hall, and 40 m's, etc., in Preston Gubballs, Roden Leaton, Merrington, Grinsele, Lee, Lea Hall, Middle Smechcott, Shawbury and in p's St Mary and St Chad, Shrewsbury, all tithes in Preston Gubballs, Merrington, Grinsele, Lee, Lea Hall, Cheswardine and Sambrooke, and the advowson of the churches of Grinsels, Cheswardine and Preston Gubballs, all in Shropshire, formerly belonging to Richard Clayton and Mary, his wife, parents of Althea, late wife of 2, and Jane, wife of Sir Watkin Williams Wynne.

Deeds and documents, 1280-1797, relating to Shropshire, Cheshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Staffordshire, together with genealogical, heraldic and antiquarian notes, compiled c. 1745-c.1766 and [mid 19th cent.].

Most of these notes appear to have been compiled between 1745 and 1766, and relate to the Shrewsbury area and north Wales. All are in the same hand unless otherwise indicated.

1 William Bayley. 2 John Moore and James Strange of Bishopgate Street, London, cheesemongers. Inquisition held at the house of Joseph Lawrence, known by the sign of the Raven, in Raven Street, Shrewsbury, in which 1 has sustained damages by reason of 2 not performing certain promises to the value of £490 8s. 1d. and costs. 1 Seal.

Inventory of 70 deeds from c.1280 to 1634 concerning lands in Larden More and More House, Brocton, Shipton, Laverdine (Laverden), Nether and Over Larden, Over and Nether Stanwey, and Cote under Lyth, all in Shropshire. Earlier undated deeds have the names of witnesses added later, in the margin. Deeds up to c.1587 are written in the main hand. Later deeds are written in a second hand. The numbering of the deeds in two sequences has also been added in this hand, 3-23 and 163-190, 200-216. The main parties named in the deeds are the families of More, de la Lake, Le Hechewe, Cosyn (Coseyn), Smaleman and Blakewey (Blackwey).