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1 J[?] Windsor. 2 Nicholas Plymley. Letter from 1 to 2 referring to conveyance of land, from 1 and his sister, for which purpose an original release and copies of the wills (of his mother and father) had been sent to Mr Butler.

1 John Amler, esq., High Sheriff of Shropshire. 2 John Brown of Breams Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, gent. Letters Of Attorney appointing 2 to demand and receive at the Royal Exchequer, Westminster, the sum of £98 3s. due to 1 for the expenses of his Letters patent for his office and to pass his accounts and obtain his Quietus. 1 Armorial seal.

1 Edward Botterell, esq., High Sheriff of Shropshire. 2 John Langley of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, gent., Deputy Sheriff of Shropshire, and Francis Chambre of the Middle Temple, London, gent. Letters Of Attorney appointing 2 to demand and receive at the Royal Exchequer, Westminster, the sum of £98 3s. due to 1 for the expenses of his Letters Patent for his office and to pass his accounts and obtain his Quietus. 1 Armorial seal.

1 Robert Pigott, esq., High Sheriff of Shropshire. 2 William Oakeley of Shrewsbury, gent., Deputy Sheriff of Shropshire, and William Trollop of the Middle Temple, London, gent. Letters Of Attorney appointing 2 to demand and receive at the Royal Exchequer, Westminster, the sum of £98 3s. for the expenses of his letters patent for his office and to pass his accounts and to obtain his Quietus. 1 Seal.

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.

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.

Not in the main hand.

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".

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.

Includes notes on the country of Elis, from [Peter] Heylin's Cosmography [1652], and variations on the name Elis or Elisha.

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.