SHREWSBURY is a market town, and borough corporate and
parliamentary, situate 153 miles N.W. of London, 40 miles S. from
Chester, 40 miles W. from Lichfield, 44 miles W.N.W. from
Birmingham, 53 miles N. from Hereford, 58 miles S. from
Liverpool, 109 miles N. from Bristol, and 108 miles S.E. from
Holyhead. The town stands nearly in the centre of the
county of which it is the capital, and occupies two hills of
gentle ascent, which gradually rise from the bed of the river
Severn, whose stream gracefully bends its course around three
sides of the town; thus forming a peninsula, having a narrow
isthmus, not more than three hundred yards across, to the north
east. Shrewsbury covers nearly the whole peninsula,
excepting a narrow margin of meadow and garden grounds, which
runs between the walls and the river. It has gradually
extended beyond the boundaries of the river, forming the populous
suburbs of Abbey Foregate and Coleham on the east, Frankwell on
the west, and Castle Foregate, beyond the neck of the isthmus,
stretching towards the north. The bold situation of the
town, rising amidst a vast plain, backed with mountains—the
frowning castle—the elegant towers and tapering spires of
the churches—the noble bridges, and picturesque buildings,
produce, altogether, a scene of singular beauty and
grandeur. The delightful prospects from every side of the
town, over a rich and finely wooded country, adorned by the
meanderings of the Severn, are surpassed by none, and equalled
but by few other towns of our island.
The streets, in common with those of almost all our old towns,
are irregularly disposed, some of them steep and narrow, and
indifferently paved. In this respect, however, considerable
improvements have been made in some of the principal
thoroughfares. Many of the houses have the characteristics
of high antiquity impressed upon them; and the domestic
architecture of former days, with projecting gables, is often
intermixed with that of modern erection, and of elegant
appearance. The close wooden-built alley, called a
“shutt” in the provincial dialect of the place, is
everywhere seen connecting the principal streets with each
other. Although the gravelly banks on which the town stands
afford a fall in every direction, by which it might easily be
kept from filth and damp, yet the peculiarly pleasant situation
was for a long period but little regarded. Many important
alterations have, however, been made under the provisions of an
Act of Parliament obtained in 1821, for removing obstructions,
watching, lighting, and the general improvement of the town; the
powers of which are vested in trustees, who must be persons
occupying property rated at £50 per annum, or worth
£2,000. The streets are now lighted with gas, and the
town is supplied with an abundance of excellent water. Its
elevated situation, the natural dryness of the soil, and its pure
water, contribute, doubtless, to the salubrity for which it is so
remarkable. Speed quaintly observes:—“Wholsom
is the aire, delectable and goode, yeelding the springe, and the
autumne, seed time and harveste, in a temperate condition, and
affoordeth health to the inhabitants in all seasons of the
yeere.” The ancient Britons gave the place the
name of Pengwern, the Saxons, Scrobbes-byrig; both
of which imply a fenced eminence planted with shrubs. The
poet and antiquary, Leland, thus beautifully accounts for its
name:—
Built on a hill, fair Salop greets the eye,
While Severn forms a crescent gliding by;
Two bridges cross the navigable stream,
And British alders gave the town a name.
At the census in 1801, the borough of Shrewsbury contained a
population of 14,739 souls. In 1841 there were 18,285
souls; of whom 8,444 were males, and 9,841 females. Of the
former, 3,589, and of the latter, 3,803 were under the age of
twenty years. Of the entire population, 14,341 persons were
born in this county, and 3,944 elsewhere. At the same
period, there were 3,727 inhabited houses, 342 uninhabited, and
23 building.
Shrewsbury is supposed to have been built by the Britons,
between the years 520 and 594, as a refuge from the Saxons, who
levelled their ancient fortress of Wroxeter with the ground, and
forced them to retreat beyond the Severn; which river then became
the boundary of the kingdom of Mercia, the most considerable of
all the kingdoms of the Heptarchy. On this subject, the
celebrated historians of Shrewsbury, Messrs. Owen and Blakeway,
observe: We conceive that our town was built after the Saxon
invasion; but that it owed its foundation to the Britons.
We cannot claim any pretensions to the dignity of a Roman
station. No vestige of that imperial people has ever been
discovered within its circuit. But a few miles lower down
the river, at the present village of Wroxeter, was the
flourishing town of Uriconium; and here, doubtless, after
the Romans had finally withdrawn their forces from the island,
the Britons continued to occupy the seats deserted by their
ancient masters, until they were driven from them by superior
force, to the time of which we may approximate within no very
wide range of years. We are in possession of the valuable
poems of Llywarc Hên,—valuable, notwithstanding their
great obscurity, for the few rays of light which they scatter
over the darkest period of our history. He was a prince of
the Cambrian Britons; who, pressed by the Northumbrian Saxon,
retired towards the end of the sixth century to his countrymen in
Powis, among whom he is said to have protracted his life to the
unusual extent of 145 years, deriving thence the epithet of
hen or the old. His writings contain several
proofs of his acquaintance with the district now called
Shropshire. Its streams, Severn, and Morlas, and Tern; its
mountains, Digoll, Nescliff, and Digon; its towns, Baschurch,
Ercall, Hodnet, all appear in his poems. And when he speaks
also of Pengwern, and when it is known that this was the
Welsh name for Shrewsbury, we need not doubt that he designed by
that to mark our town, and consequently that it had then
arisen.
At the time the Britons abandoned Wroxeter, the situation of
Pengwern was one of eminent natural strength. We must not
estimate the degree of protection imparted to the place by the
Severn from our ideas by the condition of the river in the
present advanced state of cultivation. Whenever any country
is thinly inhabited, trees and shrubs spring up in the
uncultivated fields, and, spreading by degrees, form large
forests, which, confining the exhalations of the soil and
obstructing the course of streams, cause the rivers to overflow
and stagnate into lakes and marshes. The Severn, on the
eastern side of Shrewsbury, formerly ran in five channels, and
spread into a marshy lake from the foot of Wyle Cop as far as the
site of the Abbey. Thus the fugitives were protected by the
deep bed of the river, its sinuous windings, and the morasses of
its banks, where they might shroud themselves in the underwood
which hid the foot, and the thickets which crowned the summit of
the lofty and peninsular knoll now covered by the capital of
Shropshire. How long the fugitives remained in possession
of their new seat it is vain to enquire. But they were
followed hither by the Saxons, who reduced the place to ashes,
and the elegy of Llywarc calls upon the maidens of Pengwern
“To quit their dwellings, and behold the habitation of
Cynddylan, the royal palace of Pengwern, wrapped in
flames.”
The
importance of the peninsular situation of Pengwern could not long
remain without an occupant; and a few years after its destruction
under Cynddylan, we find it inhabited by a king of Powis, the
capital of his kingdom, and even ranking among the twenty-eight
cities of Britain. The kingdom of Powis at this time
comprised the south-western parts of the counties of Cheshire,
Flint, and Denbigh, the whole of Montgomeryshire, with portions
of the counties of Radnor, Brecon, and the adjoining parts of
Shropshire, as far as the river Severn. Of the state of the
town, under its native princes, we possess no information.
The arts of civil life, which the Britons had cultivated under
their Roman masters, had totally disappeared in the course of
three centuries of uninterrupted warfare. A ditch, or a
rude rampart of unhewn logs, inclosing a few hovels for the
residence of the prince and the offices of religion, some wattled
huts, with a fold or two for sheep and cattle, probably composed
the whole of Pengwern Powis. On the invasion of the Saxons,
the new possessors gave it the appellation of
Scrobbes-byrig—a fenced eminence, but overgrown with
shrubs.
King Ethelred, in the year 1006, kept his court at Shrewsbury;
and in 1016 the inhabitants revolted to the Danish chief,
Canute. They were afterwards compelled to return to their
allegiance, and were severely punished for their defection by
Prince Edmund, son of Ethelred. Alphelm, a prince of the
blood, having been invited by Edric, duke of Mercia, and
son-in-law to Ethelred, to a banquet at Shrewsbury, and
afterwards to a hunting party, was treacherously murdered during
the chase by one Godwin, a butcher of the town, whom Edric had
hired for the purpose. This circumstance probably gave rise
to a custom prevalent during the reign of Edward the Confessor,
of twelve of the principal persons keeping guard over the
king’s person when he came down to Shrewsbury, and the same
number attending him whenever he went out a hunting. In
this reign Shrewsbury had two hundred and fifty-two houses,
besides the mint, which was under the direction of three
officers, who were compelled to pay into the royal treasury
twenty shillings at the end of every fifteen days, while the
money was current. After the Norman conquest, Owen Gwynedd,
Prince of Wales, laid siege to Shrewsbury; but William the
Conqueror, who had just returned from a visit to his native
country, in order to quell the rising tumults which everywhere
began to threaten his British dominions, soon raised the siege,
and punished the English chiefs, while he took ample vengeance on
the Welsh. In this reign, Roger de Montgomery, the relation
and favourite of the Conqueror, was created Earl of Shrewsbury,
Arundle, and Chichester, and had a grant of nearly the whole of
the county of Shropshire, besides a hundred and fifty manors or
lordships in other parts of the kingdom. In one of the
deeds transferring these manorial grants, Roger styles himself
Rogerius, Dei gratia, Scrobesburiensis
Comes—Roger, by the grace of God, Earl of
Shrewsbury.
At the Doomsday survey, 1086, Shrewsbury is styled a city, and
the Abbey is said to have been founded where the parish church of
the city stood. This book also contains a summary of
several municipal laws, customs, and usages, for the internal
regulation of the place, and for increasing the king’s
revenues. The amount of taxes at this period was £20,
of which the king had two-thirds and the sheriff one, Hugh de
Montgomery, who had succeeded his father Roger in the earldom of
Shrewsbury, having been shot by an arrow from the skilful hand of
Magnus, King of Norway, was succeeded by his brother, Robert de
Belesme. Earl Robert united with the party who opposed the
pretensions of Prince Henry, son of William Rufus, and espoused
the claims of Robert, Duke of Normandy. He afterwards broke
out into open rebellion, strengthened his castles in Shropshire,
and at Shrewsbury built and fortified a flank wall, from each
side of the castle across the isthmus, down to the side of the
Severn. Upon this, the earl was publicly declared a
traitor, and King Henry marched against him with a considerable
force. The surrender of Bridgnorth to Henry induced the
earl to quit Shrewsbury, and to commit its defence to three
generals and eighty soldiers hired expressly for the
purpose. With the assistance of a few Welsh, with whom he had
made peace, he frequently disturbed the royal forces, till, being
much harassed, he was compelled to return to Shrewsbury.
Soon afterwards, the town was surrounded with an army of 60,000
men; and Robert de Belesme had scarcely seated himself in the
castle, when the king demanded the immediate surrender of the
place, threatening, in case of refusal, in three days to besiege
the town, and hang every one found in the castle. The earl,
perceiving that he had no forces to withstand the attack of the
king, confessed his treason, implored the royal clemency, and
sent the keys of the castle by the hands of Ralph, Abbot of Seez,
afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, which the king accepted, and
banished the restless earl to Normandy. The spirit of
revenge and ambition, however, rekindled in his breast, and he
contrived once more to appear in arms against Henry; but was at
length taken prisoner, and ignominously conveyed in chains to
England, where he ended a miserable life a close prisoner at
Wareham.
In 1139, William Fitz Allan, a powerful baron, was governor of
the town and sheriff of the county. During the wars between
Stephen and the Empress Maude, this baron espoused the cause of
the empress, and with several noblemen opposed the forces of the
king. He left the castle, which he had strongly fortified,
under the command of a deputy governor, whom he compelled to
swear never to deliver his trust to the king. This,
however, did not prevent the monarch from taking the castle:
after which the king hanged several of the garrison for their
contumacy. In 1260 the English army rendezvoused at
Shrewsbury, and shortly after the town and castle fell once more
into the hands of the rebels. They soon after reverted to
their former owners, and the government of the town and castle
was conferred by the king on his eldest son Edward. In 1277
the Courts of Exchequer and King’s Bench, during the reign
of Edward I., were removed to Shrewsbury, in which place they
appear to have been held at least for some months.
David, Prince of Wales, the last of the princes of the ancient
Britons, having at length become a prisoner in the hands of
Edward, in 1283, was sent in chains to Shrewsbury. A writ
having been issued for assembling the parliament on September
30th at this place, for the express purpose of taking into
consideration the measures necessary to be adopted with respect
to this rebellious prince. This is remarkable, as
“the first national convention in which the commons had
any share by legal authority.” Twenty cities and
towns, Shrewsbury being one, were directed to send two deputies,
and every high sheriff to send two knights. The parliament
met in the chapter house, or refectory of the abbey, where David
was condemned to be drawn about the town at the tail of a horse,
then hanged, afterwards quartered, his bowels burnt, his four
quarters sent to York, Bristol, Northampton, and Winchester, and
his head fixed near that of his brother Llewelyn, on the Tower of
London. Thus, with the death of the last of the ancient
British princes, commenced a mode of execution, usually exercised
on traitors, disgraceful to humanity, and barbarous in its
example.
In the 20th of Richard II. the parliament was adjourned from
Westminster to Shrewsbury. On the king’s arrival, he
gave a sumptuous feast to the peers and commons in the abbey of
St. Peter and St. Paul. The parliament was held in the
Chapter House, and so numerous were the members and their
retinues that Speed calls this “THE
GREAT PARLIAMENT.” It was certainly an
important one. Chester was on this occasion made a
principality, and among the articles of accusation afterwards
brought against the king by Henry Bolingbroke were the oppressive
laws which it enacted. The next account on record relative
to this place is the memorable Battle
of Shrewsbury; the skirmishing of
which began under the walls of the castle gates, but the
principal scene of action was at Battlefield. This
engagement between Henry IV. and the Earl of Northumberland,
fought on the plains and heaths of Battlefield and Albright
Hussey, was one of the most important recorded in English
history. The origin of the quarrel was a mandate from the
monarch to the earl not to ransom his Scottish prisoners taken at
Homedon, which that nobleman deemed an infringement of his
rights. The jealous policy of Henry in this proceeding, and
his ingratitude for the services which raised him to the throne,
roused the indignation of Northumberland, and inflamed the high
soul of his son, Lord Henry Percy, whose warlike disposition had
gained him the characteristic appellation of Hotspur.
Thomas, Earl of Worcester, younger brother to Northumberland,
participated in their discontents, entered into their views of
revenge, and offered his assistance to overthrow the usurper whom
they had united to establish. Hotspur, who was the life of
the conspiracy, released and made a friend of his valiant rival,
Douglas, entered into a correspondence with Glyndwr, and reared
the standard of rebellion, around which all his vassals and
adherents rallied. He was joined by a powerful army from
Scotland, under Earl Douglas and other chiefs, who, impelled by a
rooted animosity to the King of England, warmly espoused the
cause of the conspirators. Henry, who was apprised of their
movements, placed himself at the head of a body of troops, and
hurried into Shropshire, having previously ordered his sons, the
Prince of Wales and Lord John of Lancaster, and his steady
adherent, the Earl of Westmorland, to meet him with
reinforcements at Bridgnorth. Aware that every thing
depended on celerity of movement, he took possession of
Shrewsbury, just as the forces of Lord Percy were preparing to
assail it. Owen Glyndwr having mustered a numerous levy of
Welshmen at Oswestry, sent off a detachment of 4,000, but, on
being apprised of the king’s success, thought proper to
suspend the march of his main body. Had the valour of
Hotspur been tempered by discretion, he would have paused until
the junction of his ally had given him better assurance of
success. His army consisted of 14,000 chosen men; but the
king’s army is said to have been nearly double that
number. Had Glyndwr made good his engagements, the armies
would have been about equal. Percy, however, had confidence
in his own prowess, and his experience of that of his compeer,
Douglas, banished every doubt of victory from his mind. His
ardour received a momentary check from the following incident,
which strikingly exemplifies the universal superstition of the
times:—In preparing for the field, he called for his
favourite sword, when he was informed that he had left it at the
village of Berwick the preceding night. The name of the
place startled him, and heaving a sigh, he exclaimed,
“Alas! then, my death is near at hand; for a wizard once
told me that I should not live long after I had been at Berwick,
which I thought was a town in the north so called. Yet, I
will not be cheaply won.”
The abbot of Shrewsbury and one of the clerks of the privy
seal, were sent by the King to offer pardon to Hotspur if he
would lay down his arms, but to no purpose. Percy completed
all his military arrangements, and stationed his troops in a
field still called the Hateleys—the royal forces occupying
ground immediately opposite. A flourish of trumpets,
mingling with the contending shouts of “St. George and
victory,” and “Esperance Percy,” was the signal
of onset, which was answered by a tremendous discharge of arrows
from both sides. The Scots, who were too impatient to fight
at a distance, rushed with great fury upon the centre of the
royal army, and threw it into disorder; but the King hastening
with fresh succour rallied his broken troops and recovered their
ground. He frequently exposed himself in the thickest of
the battle, which indeed he might the more safely do, since he
had diminished the chances of personal danger, by investing
several of his knights in regal habiliments. Events soon
proved the prudence of the stratagem. Percy sought him in
every part of the field, and Douglas with equal impetuosity slew
three of these mock-monarchs with his own hand. The fight
extended from Berwick westward, to the vicinity of Haughmond
Abbey in the east, and continued for three hours with various
success. The bravery of the King was nobly seconded by the
valour of his son, Prince Henry, who that day performed his
noviciate in arms, and gave earnest of the future glory of
Agincourt. The Scottish champion, seconded by Hotspur, made
another furious attack on the royal station—slew the
standard bearer, and came within a sword’s point of the
king, who fled for his life. In one of these charges
Hotspur was shot through the brain by an arrow, and fell
gloriously in the midst of his foes. Shortly after his army
gave way on all sides, and a total rout ensued. Douglas
fled, and being hotly pursued, he was thrown down from his horse
while taking a desperate leap on Haughmond-hill, and seized by
the enemy. Phillips, the historian, says, “1,600
royalists were slain, and 3,000 wounded; on the side of Percy
6,000 were killed, among whom were Lord Percy and most of the
knights and gentlemen of Cheshire; there fell on that day 2,291
men of note.” Henry having put a period to the
slaughter, halted to return thanks on the field of battle, and
decreed the erection of a collegiate church at Battlefield.
The pious gratitude of the victorious monarch but ill accorded
with the punishment he subsequently inflicted on the
vanquished. The Earl of Worcester, Sir Theobald Trussel,
and Sir Richard Vernon, were executed at the high cross of
Shrewsbury, and their heads exposed to public view on London
bridge. Hotspur’s body, which was found among the
slain, was placed between two mill stones, in the market place,
after which it was quartered, and hung on the gates of
Shrewsbury, and other places in the kingdom. The King
released Douglas without ransom, because he feared the Scots
would avenge the death of a man so dear to them, and from similar
motives he afterwards accepted the submission of
Northumberland.
During the contest between the houses of York and Lancaster,
which deluged England with blood, almost to the total extinction
of her ancient nobility, the town of Shrewsbury espoused the
party of the White Rose. In the records of the corporation
is preserved a letter from Richard, Duke of York, requesting the
burgesses to assist him with men in the enterprise he meditated
of removing his rival, Somerset, from power. After his
defeat and death at Wakefield, his son Edward, Earl of March,
went to Shrewsbury, and obtained in its neighbourhood a powerful
levy, which enabled him to revenge his father’s cause, in
the great victory of Mortimer’s Cross. He was shortly
after proclaimed king. The attachment of the inhabitants,
and the great strength of the town, induced him to choose it as
the asylum for his queen during the subsequent vicissitudes of
the war. Whilst she resided here she had two sons, Richard
and George Plantagenet; the latter died young, and the former,
with his elder brother, Prince Edward, was, according to history,
murdered in the Tower, at the instigation of their uncle, the
Protector. On the usurpation of the crown by Richard III.
his agent, the Duke of Buckingham, deserted him and fled into
Wales, where he took up arms, and endeavoured to excite a general
insurrection against the tyrant whom he had formerly
served. Being abandoned by his followers, he fled in
disguise into Shropshire, and concealed himself in the house of
his steward, who, tempted by the price offered for his
apprehension, betrayed him to John Mytton, sheriff of the
county. He was immediately taken to Shrewsbury, where, by
the king’s peremptory order, and without trial, he was
executed on a scaffold erected before the High Cross.
The despotisms of Richard soon alienated the hearts of his
subjects, and disposed them to receive his rival, the Earl of
Richmond, with open arms. That prince, afterwards King
Henry VII., landed at Milford Haven in August, 1485, with a force
of about 2,000 men. The Welsh, who regarded him as their
countryman, flocked to his standard and gave him every assurance
of support. Having mustered his army he determined to march
for Shrewsbury. On arriving at the Welsh bridge, he found
the place in a posture of defence; and on summoning the town he
was unexpectedly refused admittance by the head bailiff; a
curious conference ensued, of which an account is given in a
manuscript belonging to the school library. “The
head-bailey Maister Myttoon, being a stout wyse gentilman, on
demand being made of entrance, answered, sayinge that he knew no
kynge but only kynge Richard, whose lyffetenants he and his
fellows were; and before he should entir there, he should go over
his belly, meaning thereby, that he should be slayne to the
ground, and that he protested vehemently on the othe he had
tacken; but on better advice Maister Myttoon permitted the kynge
to pass; but to save hys othe, the sayd Myttoon lay along the
ground, and his belly upwards, and soe the said erle stepped over
hym and saved his othe.” The earl was first proclaimed
king on his entrance into Shrewsbury; the inhabitants testifying
their joy at his coming, and their vows for his success. He
is said to have lodged in a house in the Wyle Cop, three doors
below the Lion Inn. In 1488, when quietly established on
the throne, he paid a visit to Shrewsbury, in testimony of his
gratitude for its services to his cause; and in 1490, he, with
his Queen and Prince Arthur, were present at a solemn festival,
and attended mass in the collegiate church of St. Chad.
Five years after, Henry again visited the town, and was nobly
entertained in the castle by the corporation. The spring of
the year 1551 was fatally distinguished by the commencement of a
dreadful epidemic in this town called the “sweating
sickness.”
In the year 1642, the ill-fated Charles I. came hither from
Nottingham, at the head of his army, which was here amply
reinforced and provisioned. The King was joined by Prince
Rupert, Prince Charles, and the Duke of York, and many other
noblemen and gentlemen of the neighbouring counties.
Charles set up a mint here, at which was coined money for his own
use, from the voluntary contributions of plate which were sent by
the inhabitants and others. The corporation about this time
filed a bill in Chancery against Richard Gibbons, late mayor, and
Thomas Challoner, schoolmaster, who kept the keys of the free
school chest, to recover the sum of £600, which they had
surreptitiously taken from the funds of the charity, and lent to
his Majesty. It appears the bill was dismissed without any
relief, but it took the right honourable the Commissioners of the
Great Seal eleven years before they could decide on its
rejection. What, however, of justice was wanting to the
plaintiffs in this cause was made up in assurances of
thankfulness, and gracious promises by the royal receiver, who
had given his note of hand, to refund the money whenever it
should be called for. Some time after the king’s
arrival he summoned the gentlemen and freeholders of the county,
and addressed them in the following terms, on a plot of land
called the Soldiers’ Piece, now converted into a race
course:—“It is some benefit to me, from the insolence
and misfortunes which have driven me about, that they have
brought me to so good a part of my kingdom, and so faithful a
part of my people. I hope neither you nor I shall repent my
coming hither; I will do my part that you may not; and of you I
was confident before I came. The residence of an army is
not usually pleasant to any place, and mine may carry more fear
with it, since it may be thought (being robbed and spoiled of all
my own, and such terror used to fright and keep all men from
supplying me), I must only live upon the aid and relief of my
people. But be not afraid, I would to God my poor subjects
suffered no more by the insolence and violence of that army
raised against me (though they have made themselves wanton even
with plenty), than you shall do by mine. And yet I fear I
cannot prevent all disorders; I will do my best; and this I
promise you, no man shall be a loser by me, if I can help
it. I have sent hither for a mint; I will melt down my own
plate, and expose all my land to sale or mortgage, that if it be
possible, I may not bring the least pressure upon you. In
the meantime, I have summoned you hither to do that for me and
yourselves, for the maintenance of your religion, and the law of
the land (by which you enjoy all that you have) which other men
do against me. Do not suffer so good a cause to be lost,
for want of supplying me with that, which will be taken from you
by those who pursue me with violence. And whilst these ill
men sacrifice their money, plate, and utmost industry to destroy,
be you no less liberal to preserve. Assure yourselves, if
it please God to bless me with success, I shall remember the
assistance that every particular man here gives me to his
advantage. However, it will hereafter (how furiously soever
the minds of men are now possessed) be honour and comfort to you,
that with some charge and trouble to yourselves, you did your
part to support your king and preserve the kingdom.”
During the king’s residence here he kept his court at the
Council House. The Princes Rupert and Morris were stationed
with the army, which exercised in the fields near the Hall.
The king caused the castle gates to be repaired, pulled down many
houses near the castle, and brought the water from the Severn up
to the gate, by means of a draw bridge. He also built a
strong fort at the upper end of Frankwell, in which he planted
cannon.
Sir
Michael Earnley was governor of the castle in 1644, and during
the storming of the town by the parliamentary forces had command
of the garrison. At this time, Colonel Mytton, a soldier of
great valour, was governor of a small garrison at Wem, and
general of Cromwell’s army in this county. Having
made two unsuccessful attempts, on the night of the 3rd of
February, he came with his forces consisting of two hundred and
fifty foot, and the same number of horse, and marched towards
Shrewsbury, where they arrived about three o’clock on
Saturday morning. Eight carpenters went up the river in a
little boat, and landed within the enemy’s breast work,
under the castle hill on the east side. The sentinels,
after some pause fired upon them, but they very soon sawed down
so many of the palasades as gave the men a free passage.
The first that stormed were forty-two troopers dismounted,
with their pistols, and about as many firelocks. They were
led on by Mr. Huson, a puritan preacher, Captain Willers, and
Lieutenant Benbow; then followed some other musqueteers along the
side of the Severn, under the Castle Hill, and entered the town
at the Water-lane Gate; after these marched three hundred and
fifty infantry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Rinking.
Having entered the streets of the town they marched to the market
place, surprised the guard, and put the captain to death; the
rest marched to the castle Foregate, which was also soon gained;
the guard having basely deserted it. The town being in
possession of the parliamentary forces, they let down the draw
bridge, near the castle, and the horse immediately entered under
the command of Colonel Mytton and Bowyer. It was now about
break of day, and the inhabitants were filled with consternation
and surprise at beholding the enemy in the very heart of the
town, which, on retiring to rest the preceding night, they
thought the most secure in the island. About twelve
o’clock the castle after a feeble resistance surrendered,
on condition that the English part of it should march to Ludlow,
but the Irish were delivered up to the conquerors. At the
time of the assault the governor, Sir Michael Earnley, was
confined by sickness to his bed; but waked by the noise of the
tumult, he sprang up at the moment the enemy were rushing into
his chamber, and with great courage refused to submit to the
conquerors, rejecting all quarter, he wantonly perished, covered
more with wounds than with glory. The loss in killed and
wounded was inconsiderable; but the prisoners and property seized
by the victors was of great importance, for here were taken eight
knights and baronets, forty colonels, majors, captains, and
others of quality, besides the common soldiers, also fifteen
pieces of ordnance, several hundred stand of arms and powder,
&c. For these important services the general received
the thanks of parliament, and was made governor of the
castle. The late lieutenant governor was tried by a court
martial at Gloucester, and afterwards hanged, for negligence and
cowardice, in suffering the place to be surprised without his
having made a suitable resistance. Prince Maurice made his
escape before the castle surrendered, but the whole of his
magazine fell into the hands of the victors.
In the contest between the king and the parliament, Colonel
John Benbow, uncle to the celebrated Admiral Benbow, united with
the parliament forces; but afterwards deserted his principles,
and espoused the cause of the monarch. He distinguished
himself by opposing his former associates at the taking of
Shrewsbury, for which vacillating conduct he was condemned by the
parliament, and shot on the green before the castle, October
15th, 1651. At the same time the parliament in order to
strike terror into those who favoured royalty, adjudged the Earl
of Derby to suffer at Bolton. Several other gentlemen of
the first families in England were also sentenced to death at the
same period. An attempt was made to reduce the town to
loyal obedience, after the death of the protector Cromwell, but
the governor of the castle secured the place in the interest of
parliament.
At the restoration, notwithstanding the joy which was diffused
through the kingdom, it is probable there were some in every
county who still sighed for the Commonwealth. The municipal
bodies of the realm, terrified by the example of London, made
haste to surrender the charters they had received from former
monarchs into the hands of the sovereign. The corporation,
however, of Shrewsbury stood out for a twelvemonth. At
length, on the 13th of June, 1684, it was agreed unanimously,
that the charter of the town should be surrendered and yielded up
to his majesty, when his pleasure should require it. On the
20th of August, it was “Ordered that the mayor and
committee attend the Lord Chief Justice Jones, to discourse him,
touching the renewing of the charter, and unanimously agreed,
that in the new charter there shall be only twelve aldermen and
twenty-four assistants.” The king’s death
prevented this instrument from passing the great seal in his
name. Within a week after that event, the corporation sent
up an address to their new sovereign, expressive of “their
joyfulness in his succession, and humbly thanking him for his
gracious declaration in preferring the Protestant
religion;” no obscure intimation of their wishes on that
momentous subject, which engaged all ranks with an intensity of
interest difficult to be conceived by the present
generation. On the 17th of March, 1684, the corporation
received their new charter, in which the king expresses his
gracious affection for the melioration of the town of Salop, and
hopes that, if the burgesses and inhabitants have more ample
liberties and privileges, they will be the better enabled and the
more bound to render him the more special service. He
grants that the town shall be “a free town of itself, and
the burgesses and inhabitants shall be a body corporate, and sue
and be sued; that there shall be one good and discreet man of the
aldermen of the town who shall be mayor; twelve good and discreet
men (the mayor being one) who shall be aldermen; and twenty-four
good and discreet men, assistants.” Then follow
various other officers, and a clause empowering the corporation
to supply vacancies occasioned by death, &c. When James
II. made a progress through this part of his dominions, the
corporation resolved to expend £200 in entertaining and
making a present to the king. They despatched two gentlemen
to Gloucester and Worcester for the purpose of ascertaining the
manner in which the royal traveller was entertained in those
cities. They resolved that the conduits should run with
wine on the day of his majesty’s entrance, and that the
corporated companies should appear with their drums, colours,
flags, and streamers. The king arrived on the 24th of
August, and took up his abode at the Council House, where the
corporation presented him with a purse of gold containing one
hundred guineas. On the following morning, he exercised the
gift of healing, by touching several persons for the king’s
evil. The king issued a proclamation on the 17th of October
for restoring corporations to their ancient charters and
franchises, and orders were the same day made in council for
removing all corporate officers, who had been put in by the crown
since 1679. Richard Mickleston was at this time mayor of
Shrewsbury; under the new charter of 1685 he was discharged from
his office, and John Hill, Esq., elected in his room, under the
charter of 1638.
The various “compositions” which the burgesses of
Shrewsbury appear to have entered into amongst themselves for the
government of this borough, clearly indicate that a large share
of power was exercised by “the commons” in its
municipal institutions. The liberties and customs of the
burgesses or commons were confirmed by the charter of Henry II.,
and by various others granted before and after the date of the
compositions alluded to. But the constitution of the
borough was materially altered by a charter of the 14th of
Charles I., transferring to a select body the functions
previously exercised by the commons. This charter continued
to be the governing one till the passing of the new municipal
act, in 1835. The corporation by it was appointed to
consist of a mayor, twenty-four aldermen, and forty-eight
assistants, with an indefinite number of burgesses or freemen,
under the style of the “mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of
the town of Shrewsbury, in the county of Salop,” instead of
the “bailiffs and burgesses,” as in the old
charter. The ministerial officers named in the charter
were, the recorder and his deputy, the steward, town clerk, two
coroners, four auditors, two chamberlains, a sword bearer, three
serjeants-at-mace, and three serjeants-yeomen. Exclusive
jurisdiction in the borough was granted, the magistrates being
the mayor and ex-mayor, the bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, the
chancellor of the diocese, the recorder, steward, and three
senior aldermen. Few of them, however, continued to act.
Petty sessions were authorised to be held weekly, quarter
sessions for all criminal actions not capital, a weekly court of
record for all personal suits to any amount, and for ejectments,
and a court leet, with view of frank-pledge. A court of
requests was established in the 23rd of George III. for the
recovery of debts under 40s., which was held every alternate
week. The number of suits in the court in 1839 was
1011. This court has been superseded by the new county
court act.
Under the new municipal act, the borough is included in
schedule A, amongst boroughs to have a commission of the peace,
which has accordingly been granted, and the court of quarter
sessions and recorder re-appointed; and in section I. of that
schedule among those the parliamentary boundaries of which were
to be taken till altered by parliament. The limits of the
borough extend considerably beyond the ancient boundaries, and
now include the whole town and its suburbs. It has been
divided into five wards, and appointed to be governed by ten
aldermen and thirty councillors under the usual corporate
style. The income of the corporation in 1840, was
£1903. 10s. 8d. The income for the year ending
September 1st, 1850, was £3184. 6s. 9d. of which
£515. 11s. 3d. arose from the rental of premises;
£1750. 1s. 11d. from the borough rate; and the remainder
from miscellaneous sources. The principal items of
expenditure for the same period are—police, £832. 1s.
4d.; salaries, £346. 14s.; rent and taxes, £42. 8s.;
reparations, £187. 6s. 5d.; turns in the quarry and other
annual payments, £267. 19s. 2d.; prosecutions, £217.
19s. 5d.; maintenance and removal of prisoners, £245. 17s.
11d.; expenses at sessions, including fees, &c., £395.
1s. 4d.; inquests and coroners expenses, £72. 4s. 6d.
There was also a balance of £265. 0s. 9d. in the
treasurer’s hands. Shrewsbury has regularly returned
two members to parliament since the reign of Edward I.
Previous to the passing of the reform act the franchise was in
the burgesses inhabiting within the ancient limits of the
borough, paying scot and lot, and not receiving alms or
charity. The county assizes, and quarter sessions, are held
here; petty sessions are held every Tuesday, and the borough
magistrates sit daily.
The following is a list of the members of parliament, the
corporate body, and the municipal officers of the borough of
Shrewsbury for the year 1851:—
MEMBERS OF
PARLIAMENT.
Robert Anglionby Slaney, Esq., and
Edward Holmes Baldock, Esq.
BOROUGH
MAGISTRATES.
Edward Hughes, Esq., mayor; Joseph Birch, Esq., ex-mayor;
Robert Burton, Esq.; Edward Haycock, Esq.; William Henry Perry,
Esq.; James Watkins, Esq.; T. G. Gwyn, Esq.; Edward Morris, Esq.,
John Hazledine, Esq.
Mayor—Edward Hughes, Esq.
Aldermen—John Thomas
Smitheman, Esq.; Edward Haycock, Esq.; William Wyburgh How, Esq.;
John Loxdale, Esq.; James Watkins, Esq.; John Bowen, Esq.; Robert
Burton, Esq.; Thomas Groves, Esq.; John Legh, Esq.; Charles
Lloyd, Esq.
COUNCILLORS.
Castle Ward Within—William James Clement, Joseph
Birch, William Henry Perry, Edwin Foulkes, Thomas Hall, Richard
Jeffreys Mulckleston.
Castle Ward Without—James Smith, Thomas Birch,
John Bishton Minor, Joseph Chune, Benjamin Birch, James
Moore.
Stone Ward Within—Thomas Campbell Eyton, William
Richard Stokes, David Evans, James Burrey, Edward Hughes, Lewis
Meredith.
Stone Ward Without—William Burr, Charles Bowen
Teece, John Hazledine, George Harper, Richard Taylor, William
Butler Lloyd.
Welsh Ward—Thomas William Trouncer, Robert
Mortimer Healing, Robert Baugh Blakemore, William Onions, Robert
Haycock, Henry Keate.
Recorder, Charles Harwood, Esq. Coroner
(borough), Henry Keate, Esq. Town Clerk, J.
J. Peel, Esq. Clerk of the Peace, G. Gordon,
Esq. Magistrates’ Clerk, W. H. Cooper,
Esq. Chief Constable, Captain Mayne.
Borough Treasurer, Mr. Henry Pidgeon.
Surveyor, Mr. Thomas Tisdale. Governor of the Gaol,
Mr. John Sheppard, Town Marshall and senior Serjeant, S.
Farlow. Chief Constable, William Harper.
Serjeant of Mace, John Thomas. Town Crier,
George Rowe.
The Borough Police Force consists
of a chief constable, two superintendents, two inspectors, and
thirteen constables.
The County Constabulary consists of
a chief constable, two first class superintendents, four second
class superintendents, ten first class constables, and forty
second class constables.
In the year 1756, thirty-seven
colliers were brought to gaol for rioting and committing outrages
in the county, it being a time of scarcity for all kinds of
provisions. The trial took place at the spring assizes of
the following year. Ten of the rioters were left for
execution; but the judge sent his report express to the
attorney-general, with an intimation fixed for the day of
execution, and the individuals two in number, who, as he deemed
it should suffer the sentence of the law. The report having
been transmitted to Mr. Pitt, then secretary of state, it lay
there untouched, and was never laid before the king. The
day of execution arrived, without any reprieve, and Mr. Leek, the
deputy sheriff, was advised by several of the principal gentlemen
in the town to leave the prisoners to their fate. But he
was so much shocked at the thought of executing so large a
number, which he was convinced could not be the intention of the
judge, that he ventured to postpone the execution, and sent off
an express to London, on the return of which he had the
satisfaction of finding that his conduct was highly approved of,
and still more, the consciousness that he had saved eight
lives. The following is part of a letter written to him on
the occasion by Lord Chief Justice Willes:—“Till I
saw your letter I was under the greatest uneasiness,—for I
took it for granted that all the ten rioters had been executed on
Saturday last; and, upon my return from the Home Circuit, on
Thursday last, I found that by a shameful neglect in one of the
secretary of state’s officers, no reprieve had been sent
down; and, as it was then too late to send one down, I saw no
reason to hope that their execution would be deferred to a longer
time. But though, to be sure, you have acted contrary to
your duty, you have acted a wise, prudent, and most humane part;
and you have not only my thanks, but the thanks of some of the
greatest men in the kingdom, for the part you have acted on this
occasion.” In a letter from Mr. Leek’s agent in
town it is stated, “My Lord Commissioner Willes was so
afflicted . . . that it really made him ill; and he did not for
two days go into the king’s closet, so much he feared the
effect it might have upon the king’s mind, if the affair
was communicated to his majesty while it was under that state of
uncertainty. Thank God, your prudent and well judged
respite has prevented all the uneasiness and mischiefs that might
have happened; and I have the pleasure to assure you that no step
was ever taken that has given more satisfaction, than this of
yours has done. My Lord Commissioner Willes waited this day
upon the king with your letter, and has directed me to acquaint
you, by his majesty’s orders, that his majesty entirely
approves of what you have done.”
St. Mary’s Church stands in a
commanding position in St. Mary’s street, and is one of the
most interesting ecclesiastical edifices in the country.
This fine structure is cruciform, and consists of nave, side
aisles, transept, chancel, two side chapels, and a tower, crowned
with a lofty and beautiful spire. In common with most of
our early churches there is no opportunity of ascertaining the
precise date of its erection; it is said to owe its foundation to
Edgar, who, at the suggestion of Archbishop Dunstan, placed in it
a dean, seven prebends, and a parish priest, with a stipend of
£6. 6s. 8d. per annum. There is, however, every
probability that the foundation was antecedent to his
reign. In the time of Edward the Confessor, this college
possessed a landed estate of about 1300 acres, which it continued
to hold at the Domesday survey, but of which it was soon after
deprived. From a very early period this church enjoyed the
privilege of a royal free chapel, and was therefore exempt from
the jurisdiction of the Bishops. These privileges formed a
frequent ground of contest between the sovereign pontiffs and the
kings of England. A particular instance relates to the
church now under consideration. About the year 1270, the
dean had a dispute with the Abbot of Salop, touching the right of
presentation to the Church of Fittes, or as it was then written,
Fitesho, to which one Robert de Acton had been instituted by the
Bishop of Lichfield, and forcibly ejected by the dean.
Acton, being a crusader, was under the especial protection of the
pope, whose officer called “the Executor of the
Cross,” sent an order to the Abbot of Shrewsbury to restore
the incumbent to his benefice. This being done the
king’s attorney-general filed an information against the
abbot, requiring him to answer ‘whereof he exercised
jurisdiction in the Chapel of Fitesho,’ appertaining to the
King’s Free Chapel of St. Mary, of Salop, which is exempt,
so that neither our lord “the pope, nor any other
ecclesiastical judge hath jurisdiction therein.”
Judgment passed against the abbot, and he was sentenced to pay
damages to the king and to suffer imprisonment.
The Dean of St. Mary’s, had, from time immemorial, the
power of collecting and paying into the king’s exchequer,
the tenths or other subsidies arising from the deanery and
prebends. Edward the first confirmed this privilege; and
his grandson, in the eighteenth year of his reign, recognized by
directing the sheriffs of Salop and Hereford not to enter the
jurisdiction of the royal chapel, or to levy a distress on the
possessions thereof, for any subsidies or tenths, unless the dean
should neglect to make a due return. At the dissolution of
collegiate churches 1. of Edward VI., the revenues which
consisted chiefly of tithe, amounted to £42, the greatest
portion of which was granted by that monarch towards the
endowment of the Free Schools. According to Leland it had a
dean and nine poor prebendaries, also vicars choral, two chauntry
priests, a parish priest, and a clerk or assistant. The
peculiar jurisdiction of the Royal Free Chapel remained till the
recent act of parliament restored it to the bishop of the
diocese, and was held in lease at an annual rent of £1. 6s.
8d., of the corporation to whom Queen Elizabeth granted it by
charter, dated 23rd May, 1571. The usual style of the
minister was “ordinary and official, principal of the
peculiar and exempt jurisdiction of the Free Royal Chapel of the
Blessed Virgin Mary.” In his courts wills were
proved, letters of administration were granted, and all
ecclesiastical matters, arising within the parish and its
subordinate chapelries, adjudicated. In 1632, King Charles
I., during his residence at the council house, attended divine
service here, received the sacraments, and made solemn
protestations of his fidelity to the principles of the reformed
religion.
This venerable edifice exhibits various styles of
architecture: the Anglo-Norman of the 12th century in the
basement of the nave and most of the doors; the lancet style of
the 13th century, in the chancel and transept, and the obtuse
arch of the 15th century in the side aisles and chapels.
The basement of the tower is of red sand stone, and the upper
portion of grey, and in the Anglo-Norman and early pointed styles
of architecture. The dimensions of the church
are—length from east to west 160 feet—breadth of nave
and side aisles 53 feet—transept 90 feet, and height of
tower and steeple 223 feet; the height of the steeple from the
bed of the river 300 feet. The beautifully proportioned
octagonal spire which rises from a tower of noble proportions, is
a conspicuous ornament to the town, and is seen from the adjacent
country to a considerable distance. The nave and side
aisles externally, in the pointed style of the 15th century, are
of the Grinshill free stone, and entered on the north and
south-west by beautiful semi-circular arches, adorned with
chevron, lozenged and foliated mouldings; the south-west porch is
in the Anglo-Norman style, having zigzag mouldings, issuing from
clustered columns, with foliated capitals. On each side is
a small pointed window, exhibiting specimens of the earliest
rudiments of the millioned Gothic architecture, in which has
lately been placed some highly interesting painted glass, of
German execution, on which are depicted various incidents,
chiefly from the Apocrypha. A stone porch, entered by a
pointed arch, had recently been erected before the corresponding
door on the north side.
The
interior of this venerable edifice is spacious, lofty, and
strikingly noble; the nave is separated from the side aisles by
four semicircular arches, resting on elegant clustered columns,
with foliated capitals of varied and beautiful designs.
Above is a clerestory, which is continued along the walls of the
chancel, lighted by a short double window, bluntly pointed and
bisected by single mullions. The ceiling of the nave is of
panelled oak, richly studded with elegant and exquisitely carved
pendants and foliated bosses, and merits attention not only on
account of its elaborate workmanship, but as being one of the
richest and most highly preserved specimens of its kind now in
existence. A lofty pointed arch, including in its span the
entire breadth of the nave, rises from richly clustered piers,
with foliated capitals, and divides the nave from the ancient
choir. Eastward is a similar arch of like dimensions,
springing from the same pier. From these, the wings of the
transept, corresponding in size, branch off to the north and
south. At each extremity of the transept is a fine triple
lancet window, highly enriched with slender shafts, foliated
capitals, and delicate mouldings, filled with beautiful stained
glass, illustrative of Scripture history; the most prominent
figures are those of Christ, the Virgin Mary, the Apostles and
Evangelists, and an escutcheon of the arms of George III.,
executed by Mr. David Evans, of Shrewsbury. The chancel is
elevated above the rest of the church. The ceiling, like
that of the transept, is excellently painted, and adorned with
some of the rich fret work removed from the wreck of the churches
of St. Chad and St. Alkmund. On the north side of the altar
is a beautiful triple lancet window, with arches remarkably
acute, resting on two insulated columns, with capitals adorned
with foliage. This window contains some fine stained glass,
representing the history of the life of St. Bernard. The
great east window occupies the whole extremity of the chancel,
and exhibits the debased style of English architecture of the
Elizabethan era. In this window is the curious and
beautiful ancient stained glass which filled the window of the
old St. Chad’s church, prior to its demolition, and which
was presented to this church in 1791. The subject is the
genealogy of Christ from the root of Jesse. Jesse is
represented reclining in sleep, from his loins spring a vine,
which overspreads the whole window, enclosed in his branches the
several kings, his descendants—the series of which is
finished by the husband of the Virgin Mary in a devotional
posture at the feet of his progenitor. Many of the figures
are depicted with their peculiar emblems, the ground of the whole
is exquisitely beautiful, and the clusters of grapes, and the
bright verdure of the vine leaves, are displayed with great
effect. Underneath is an inscription requesting our prayers
for “Mons. John de Charlton, and Dame Hawis, his
companion,” from which, and from the armorial bearings, we
learn that this beautiful piece of ancient art was set up by the
great Sir John de Charlton, lord of Powis, and must have been
executed about the middle of the fourteenth century. It has
been conjectured the glass was presented to the grey friars of
this town, to which religious house Sir John and his wife were
great benefactors, and that it was removed to St. Chad’s at
the dissolution. This is a singular circumstance of so
fragile a material surviving the destruction of two vast and
substantial edifices. Within the last few years the window
has been judiciously restored. The organ is a powerful and
fine toned instrument, erected by Harris and Byfield, in
1729. By the munificence of the present incumbent, the west
end has been enriched by an elegant organ screen of the most
elaborate workmanship, executed by Mr. John Carline. On the
south side of the chancel is the Trinity or “Leybourne
chapel,” which communicates with the south transept by a
fine Norman arch, and with the chancel with an arch in the
pointed style. It is said to have been founded about the
year 1300, by one of the Leybournes, of Berwick, as a place of
sepulture for the family, and was subsequently enlarged into its
present form by the Draper’s company. In the south
east wall are three stone sedilia, with canopied arches, and near
the north east wall is an altar tomb (probably of Simon de
Leybourne, lord of Berwick, who died between 1300 and 1315), the
sides of which are adorned with canopied niches formerly
containing figures; and on the tomb reclines a figure of a knight
cross-legged, and in chain armour. In this tomb the headless
corpse of Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, who was taken prisoner
at the battle of Shrewsbury, 1403, and beheaded, is believed to
have been interred. Underneath the south window is a neatly
executed gothic monument in memory of Heathcoate Wigram, of
Woodhouse, in the county of Essex; he was a pupil to the Royal
Free Grammar School, of this town, and was drowned whilst bathing
in the Severn, on September 1st, 1838, aged 14 years. The
monument was erected by the masters and pupils in memory of him
whom they loved and lamented. Against the east wall are
monuments to John Jendine, Esq., and Thomas Sutton, Esq., and
between them is the statue of Bishop Butler, erected by his
pupils at the cost of eight hundred guineas. The figure is
full length, sitting in an easy and graceful position, clothed in
the episcopal robes; the right hand hanging over the chair, and
the left hand supporting the head, which is leaning in
thought. The figure is of the purest statuary marble, and
the pedestal which supports the statue of dove coloured marble
from the Clee Hill; it was sculptured by F. H. Baily, Esq.,
R.A. On the north side of the chancel is the vestry,
recently erected in the Norman style, the windows of which are
ornamented with antique German and Flemish glass; immediately
adjoining is the chauntry chapel of St. Catherine; these windows
are also beautified with stained glass, illustrating various
portions of Scripture history. This chapel is now used as a
baptistry, and the ancient stone font, which is beautifully
carved, stands in the centre, on a rich pavement of encaustic
tile. An alabaster slab, against the north wall, engraved
with figures of a warrior and a lady, commemorates Nicholas
Stafford, Esq., and Catherine, his wife, who died in 1643.
A white marble monument, recently erected by subscription, over
the door leading into the vestry, remembers the brave admiral
Benbow, a native of the parish. It represents an obtuse
pyramid of black marble, against which leans an oval medallion
bust of the admiral, surrounded with anchors, flags, and cannon,
and below a delicately sculptured representation in bas relief of
a naval fight. In the north transept is placed a most
beautiful free stone monument to the late Rev. J. B. Blakeway,
which for elegance of design, and beauty of execution, has rarely
been surpassed in modern times; it is upwards of 12 feet in
length and 16 feet in height, and is divided into three
compartments by clustered buttresses, which sustain richly
crocheted pinnacles. The centre compartment comprises a
large pointed arch canopied and crocheted, the back of which is
deeply recessed, and contains the following inscription in
ornamental Roman capitals:—
To the Memory of the
Reverend
John Brickdale Blakeway, M.A.,
F.A.S.,
Thirty-one years ordinary and official,
And thirty-two years Minister of this Parish.
This Monument is erected
By the voluntary subscription of his parishioners,
As a tribute of respect for his talents,
Esteem for his virtues,
And gratitude for his long and faithful services,
As their friend and pastor.
He died the tenth day of March, MDCCCXXVI,
Aged sixty years.
As a preacher, Mr. Blakeway was admired for his forcible
illustration of Holy writ, and the valuable admonitions which his
discourses generally contained. As an author he was known
to the world by the publication of several sermons, and
controversial tracts; and as an historian his name will be
immortalized in the elaborate History of Shrewsbury, which he
commenced in 1820, in conjunction with the venerable Archdeacon
Owen, and just lived to see the general history and
ecclesiastical portions published in two quarto volumes.
There are other memorials, exquisite specimens of monumental
skill, unrivalled in elegance of design and richness of
execution, in various parts of the same edifice, which our limits
will not allow us to notice. On the exterior wall of the
tower are the following quaint verses to the memory of Robert Cadman,
who, on February 2nd, 1793, lost his life in an attempt to
descend from the top of the spire of St. Mary’s along a
rope which he had fixed to its highest part, and extended to a
field on the opposite side of the river. In the midst of
his passage the rope broke, as he was passing over St.
Mary’s Friars, and he fell lifeless on the ice-bound
earth:—
Let this small monument record the name
Of Cadman, and to future times proclaim,
How from a bold attempt to fly from this high spire,
Across the Sabrine stream he did acquire
His fatal end! ’Twas not for want of skill,
Or courage, to perform the task, he fell;
No, no, a faulty cord, being drawn too tight
Hurried his soul on high to take his flight,
Which hid the body here beneath; good night.
The patronage of St. Mary’s church is vested in five
trustees, the living is returned at £312, and is enjoyed by
the Rev. W. G. Rowland; the Rev. V. B. Johnstone and T. G. Galway
are the curates.
St. Chad’s Church.—The
old collegiate church of St. Chad, of which only a small part,
called the Lady Chapel, is standing, occupies the eminence
between College Hill and Belmont. The collegiate
establishment consisted of a dean, ten secular canons, and two
vicars choral; and was founded soon after the subjugation of
Pengwern, in the 8th century, by Offa, King of Mercia, who, as
tradition states, converted the palace of the kings of Powis into
his first church. In the time of Edward the Confessor, this
church held twelve hides of land, which it retained at the
Domesday survey. Subsequently other considerable
possessions were acquired by the college, so that at the
dissolution the yearly revenues amounted to £49. 13s.
The college was dissolved in the 2nd Edward IV., and the crown
leased the collegiate property for a term of twenty-one years,
and a few years afterwards it was appropriated to the Free School
of Shrewsbury, in which it is now vested. Respecting the
various changes which this ancient edifice must have undergone
during a period of nearly 1,000 years, few notices have been
preserved. In the year 1393, a considerable part of it was
consumed by fire, occasioned by the carelessness of a plumber,
who, alarmed at the conflagration, endeavoured to escape over the
ford of the Severn, and was drowned. The damage was so
extensive, that the inhabitants of the town obtained from Richard
II. a remission of certain taxes to enable them to rebuild
it.
In this church, at a very early period, the doctrines of the
Reformation were promulgated. William Thorpe, a priest,
obtained leave in the year 1407 to deliver a sermon before the
principal inhabitants. On this occasion he boldly exposed
the corruptions of the Romish church, in consequence of which the
bailiffs of the town preferred charges of heresy and sedition
against him to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who brought him to
trial. In his examination, he candidly admitted the charges
laid against him, but adhered to his opinions with manly and
unshrinking steadiness, when he was remanded to prison; but of
his subsequent fate we possess no account. The progress of
the Reformation effected a wonderful change in the minds of
men. In the 1st of Edward VI. the bailiffs of Shrewsbury,
whose predecessors had denounced one of its boldest champions as
a heretic, ordered the pictures and superstitious ornaments of
St. Chad’s to be publicly burnt; and in the 26th of
Elizabeth, the service of the Church of England was solemnly
established there.
The old church was a majestic edifice, and from its situation,
on a commanding eminence, presented from a distance a
cathedral-like appearance. It was cruciform, with a central
tower, and chiefly in the Anglo-Norman and lancet styles of
architecture, with subsequent additions, having the
characteristics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The misfortune which befel this venerable edifice in 1788 is a
striking proof of the mischiefs occasioned by the interment
of the dead in the interior of places of worship. Early in
the year, one of the four pillars, which supported the tower in
the centre of the church, shrunk in so alarming a manner as to
endanger the safety of the fabric. An architect of the town
advised that the whole tower should be taken down, but the parish
vestry, rejecting this advice, employed a mason in the rash
attempt of underbuilding the pillar. The second morning
after the work had commenced, July 9th, when the clock had struck
four, the decayed pillar gave way, the tower was instantly rent
asunder, and falling with its heavy peal of bells on the roof of
the nave and transepts, sunk, with a great part of the building,
in one tremendous crash to the ground. The ruins, on the
following day, presented an awful spectacle; and pews, pulpit,
organ, monuments, and bells, were seen broken and dispersed in a
thousand forms. Among the rubbish were found pieces of
Saxon sculpture, which had probably belonged to the ancient
church, and had been used in the repairs after the calamitous
fire which happened in 1393. Any attempt at rebuilding the
edifice being now deemed inadvisable, the remaining fragments
were taken down, except the Lady Chancel, to prevent further
mischief. The fine stained glass of the west window having
fortunately escaped destruction, was carefully preserved, and
afterwards placed in the chancel of St. Mary’s
church. The figure of St. Chad, in his episcopal vestments,
which stood on the summit of the organ, was also preserved, and
is now placed in the vestry of the new church. Such funeral
monuments as could be rescued from the ruins, were placed at the
disposal of the families to whom they belonged, and others were
removed to the chapel before mentioned. This chapel,
originally dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was rebuilt in 1571, by
Humphrey Onslow, Esq., being the burial place of his family, and
is now solely used for reading the funeral service over those who
are buried in the ancient cemetery. One of the monuments
now removed to the Abbey Church remembered Richard Onslow, an
eminent lawyer, and speaker of the House of Commons in the 8th of
Queen Elizabeth. He was the ancestor of Sir Richard,
afterwards Lord Onslow, who filled the chair of the House of
Commons in the 8th of Queen Anne; and also of Arthur Onslow,
Esq., who so ably exercised the office of speaker during many
successive parliaments. There is a small tablet to the Rev.
Job Orton, who was interred in the same grave as Mr. Bryan, a
former minister of this church, who quitted his benefice on the
act of uniformity.
The New Church of St.
Chad.—From the site of the old edifice being deemed
ineligible, the new church was built on a commanding eminence
bordering on the Quarry. It is constructed of the beautiful
white free stone brought from Grinshill. The body of the
church forms a circle one hundred feet in diameter, and
externally consists of a rustic basement, with square windows, on
which reposes a superstructure, containing a series of large
arched windows, between each of which are coupled Ionic
pilasters, resting on the basement and supporting a bold cornice,
crowned with an open balustrade. Attached to the main
edifice is a small circular building with similar enrichments;
and beyond which is the steeple, consisting of three
stories. Upon a square rustic basement rises an octagonal
belfry, enriched with Ionic pilasters, and above, a small cupola
supported on a heavy cylinder, surrounded by eight slender
Corinthian pillars. A heavy cross and vane crowns the
summit. On each side of the tower is a plain square wing,
which are used as vestries. Before the front is a handsome
portico, elevated on a flight of steps, and supported by four
Doric columns. The exterior beauty of this church consists
more in the fineness of its materials, and the splendour of its
ornaments, than in the harmonious proportion and disposition of
its several parts. The interior is handsomely and
conveniently arranged; and though possessing much of the
theatrical air, yet, by the ingenuity of the circular
arrangement, all the congregation can distinctly hear and see the
officiating clergyman. A capacious gallery, ornamented in
front with a handsome balustrade, surrounds the whole church
except the chancel, and reposes on a double row of short pillars
with Ionic capitals. From these a corresponding tier of
slender fluted shafts rises to the ceiling, which is adorned with a
glory in the centre, and a rich cornice of angels and wings
interlaced. The chancel, contrary to general custom, is
towards the north, and is separated from the body of the church
by a handsome arch, springing from an entablature supported by
composite columns, with capitals richly gilt. Over the
chief entrance is a powerful and fine-toned organ, built by Gray,
of London, in 1794, and enlarged and improved in 1848. The
font formerly belonged to the parish of Malpas, and is that in
which the late Bishop Heber was baptized.
The principal monuments are, a handsome panelled marble
tablet, with a fine bust by Chantrey, commemorative of Mr. John
Simpson, an eminent architect, and builder of this church.
A similar tablet and bust, by Chantrey, to William Hazledine,
Esq., the builder of the Menai bridge; an oblong Grecian tablet,
with an elegant latin inscription, to the Rev. Francis Leighton,
his lady, and two grandchildren; and in the vestibule an elegant
marble mural monument to the officers and privates of the 53rd,
or Shropshire Regiment, who were killed on the 10th of February,
1846, in the battles of Subraon, Aliwal, and Loodhiana, on the
Sutluj. The window above the altar is ornamented with
painted glass, representing the descent from the cross, after
Rubens, the Salutation and Representation in the Temple, executed
by Mr. Evans, of this town, whose skill has also been exercised
in four other windows of this church, of which the subjects are,
the raising of Lazarus, Christ receiving little children, healing
of the sick, and the tribute money, the whole of which were
presented by the Rev. R. Scott. The church was commenced
building March 2nd, 1790, and consecrated August 20th, 1792;
there is accommodation for a congregation of 2200 persons.
The total cost, including site, organ, and bells,
£19,352. The living is a vicarage, returned at
£350, in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor; incumbent,
Rev. John Yardley, M.A.
The Church of the Holy Cross,
commonly called the Abbey Church, is situated in the Abbey
Foregate. It is built of red sand stone, and consists of
nave, side aisles, and a massive tower at the west end.
Though the beauty of the church has suffered both from
dilapidation and mutilation, yet it displays many interesting
features of ancient Norman architecture, combined with the
earlier pointed style. It originally formed part of the
richly endowed monastery founded by Roger de Montgomery, the
first Earl of Shrewsbury, and was built on the site of a small
wooden church dedicated to St. Peter, which it is said was
erected in the time of Edward the Confessor, by Siward, a Saxon
gentleman, then resident in Shropshire. The nave or great
western aisle, was in very early times appropriated to the use of
the neighbouring inhabitants, who were in general servants of the
Abbey. It was called the Parish Church of the Holy Cross,
within the monastery of St. Peter’s, of Salop. For
this reason it was spared in the general destruction of the
Abbey, and being now one of the parochial churches of the town,
retains the name of Holy Cross. When entire it was a
stately cruciform building, equal in size to some of our
cathedrals, but two-thirds of the structure was destroyed at the
dissolution of monasteries in the time of Henry VIII. The
principal entrance is at the west end under the tower, through a
pointed doorway, with mouldings skilfully inserted within a
deeply recessed semi-circular arch, the exterior rib of which
springs on each side from a Norman pillar, with indented
capital. Above this rises a magnificent and elegantly
proportioned window, divided horizontally by embattled transoms,
and perpendicularly by six upright mullions into seven
compartments; the arched head is gracefully pointed and filled
with a profusion of the most delicate tracery. On each side
of the window is a canopied niche, containing statues of St.
Peter and St. Paul, the tutelar saints of the Abbey. The
nave is separated from the side aisles by the semi-circular
arches, resting on short mosaic pillars in the Anglo-Norman
style. The western portion has two pointed arches in the
Gothic style, rising from clustered pillars, with capitals
composed of small horizontal mouldings; a lofty and graceful arch
opens from the nave of the tower, and affords a view of the fine
west window, the upper part of which is filled with armorial
bearings. The fine eastern window filled with stained glass was
executed by Evans, of Shrewsbury, with his usual taste.
Underneath this window is a beautifully executed stone altar
screen, composed of an arcade of five Norman arches, with varied
mouldings, surrounded by a pierced balustrade. The
communion table is fenced by stone railing uniform in style, the
whole of which was designed and executed by Messrs. Carline and
Dodson, of this town, through the liberality of the late Rev. R.
Scott. The north east window of the north aisle contains a
figure of St. Peter, the arms of the see of Lichfield, of Lord
Berwick, the donor, and of thirteen incumbents since the
reformation. In the south aisle is a beautiful mosaic
window of stained glass, containing the armorial bearings, of the
families connected with the Rev. John Roche. At the west
end of the church is a spacious gallery, and an excellent organ,
erected in 1806, at the cost of 365 guineas.
There are several ancient monuments which have been removed
hither on the demolition of other sacred edifices in the town and
county, which are preserved in the ample side aisles. The
oldest in the church is in the south aisle, a mutilated figure of
a warrior in the costume of the reign of King John, and supposed
to represent the founder of the Abbey, Earl Roger de Montgomery,
who died in the year 1094. In the north aisle is the
recumbent figure of a person in the robes and coif of a judge
brought from St. Chad’s. In the south aisle is a
monument brought from St. Giles’s church, with a figure in
priestly vestments. Opposite the last is the effigy of a
knight in linked armour, removed from the priory church of
Wombridge, conjectured to commemorate Sir Walter de Dunstanville,
who died in the 25th of Henry III., 1240. In the south
aisle an alabaster altar tomb, bearing the recumbent figures of a
man (in the habiliments of war) and his wife, remembers William
Charlton, who died in 1524. This monument was originally
erected in Wellington church. An altar tomb in the north
porch, in the style of the fifteenth century, has a figure of a
knight in plate armour, partly covered with a monastic dress, and
another figure in the dress of a hermit of the Romish
church. Near the east end of the north aisle, is a large
altar tomb with full length figures, to the memory of Richard
Onslow, Esq., speaker of the House of Commons, in the 8th of
Elizabeth, who died 1571, and his lady. This memorial was
formerly placed in the chancel of old St. Chad’s
church. Above this is a mural monument brought from St.
Chad’s, representing a gentleman in a ruff, and a lady with
long veil thrown back, kneeling under two arches; above, a lady
in a habit and coif, and a little girl kneeling, to the memory of
Thomas Edwardes, Esq., who died 1634, and of Mary, the wife of
his son, Thomas Edwardes, Esq., who died 1641. In the south
aisle is an alabaster altar tomb, in the Grecian style, bearing
the figure of an alderman in his civic robe, and a lady in the
scarlet gown formerly worn by the lady mayoresses of Shrewsbury,
commemorative of William Jones, Esq., who died 1612, and his
wife, who died in 1623. The monument was originally placed
in St. Alkmund’s church. There are numerous other
mural monuments, of more modern dates, which are elegantly
designed, in memory of deceased members of some of the principal
families of the parish. In the vestry is an old painting of
the Crucifixion, which in 1728 occasioned much strife between the
minister and his flock. In that year Mr. Latham, who had
been lately inducted to the vicarage, presented a petition to the
Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, praying that a picture
representing our Saviour upon the cross might be removed out of
the church. A counter petition was also presented by the
parishioners, but the wardens shortly after received an order
from the bishop for the removal of the picture. It was
afterwards long possessed by the family of Hilton, by whom it was
again restored to the parishioners of the Holy Cross. The
living is a vicarage with St. Giles annexed, valued in the
king’s book at £8. The small tithes are
commuted for £363, and the impropriator, Lord Berwick,
receives £110. The patronage is vested in the Right
Hon. Lord Berwick, who received it in exchange for three small
livings in Suffolk; incumbent, Rev. Robert L. Burton, M.A.
The vicarage of the Holy Cross is a small fabric of wood and
plaster situated in the Abbey Foregate, now converted
into two cottages. From time immemorial certain lands have
been vested in the churchwardens and their successors; they now
produce an income of £250 per annum. “The vicar
and churchwardens are a corporation with power of making leases
of the landed possessions, &c., and have a common seal which
is appended to such documents. The seal is kept in a chest
secured by three locks, and the keys are severally in the
possession of the vicar and two churchwardens. It is of
brass of the visica piscis form, and has in the centre a
baton or mace, and on each side a clothed arm projecting towards
the centre, that on the dexter side holding a pastoral crook,
that on the sinister side a naked sword; the ground work studded
with stars, and around the margin this
inscription:—S.COMMVNE DE FFORYATE MONACHOR.”
The space of ground on the east side of the church, containing
7300 yards, whereon formerly stood the choir and Lady Chapel of
the monastery, was in 1840 converted into a public cemetery.
The Church of St. Giles stands at
the eastern extremity of the suburb of the Abbey Foregate, the
living of which is annexed to that of Holy Cross. It is a
small plain building consisting of nave, chancel, and north,
aisle, with a small bell turret at the west end. Of its
foundation we possess no record, but the structure is doubtless
as old as the early part of the twelfth century, and some
confirmation is afforded to this conjecture by the arches of the
northern and southern doors, having the characteristics of that
era. The nave is divided from the side aisle by three
pointed arches, sustained on plain round pillars. It is
highly probable that the north aisle was made for the
accommodation of persons afflicted with leprosy—the
hospital of which formerly stood near the church, and from which
they had access by a pointed doorway, when they might hear the
offices of religion without endangering other worshippers with
their contagious malady. A lofty pointed arch separates the
nave from the chancel, which is terminated by a flat arched
eastern window, which is exquisitely beautified with stained
glass, executed by Mr. Evans. The four lower compartments
have full length figures of the Evangelists, standing upon
hexagonal pedestals. Over each figure is a beautiful canopy
of tabernacle work, and the intersections of the tracery contain
the symbols of the Evangelists. In the three principal
compartments of the upper division, are fine representations of
the salutation, the wise men’s offering, and the
presentation in the temple. The small lancet window on the
north side, contains a figure of the patron saint, St. Giles,
exquisitely executed. On the floor are several ancient
stones bearing crosses, probably denoting the interment of some
of the masters of the old hospital. From an entry in the
parish registrar of the date 1655, it appears this church
formerly possessed a steeple at the west end. In the
steeple was a great bell and two smaller ones, which were taken
down in 1672, and used in the following year, with four lesser
bells, and the great “Wenefrede bell,” in the
recasting of the present ring of bells in the Abbey church.
For a long period this venerable edifice exhibited a rude
appearance of damp and neglect, and divine service was celebrated
only on two Sunday evenings during the year. In 1827,
however, the Rev. W. G. Rowland, the liberal donor of the
beautiful east window, thoroughly repaired and happily rescued it
from the ruin and decay to which in its previous condition it was
fast hastening. Subsequently the massive oak benches were
removed, and replaced with new ones; a new pulpit and altar
screen of oak, beautifully carved in unison with the architecture
were added, and the whole building fitted up for divine service
by the munificence of the Rev. Richard Scott, who also gave
£500 towards augmenting the salary of the officiating
minister. Since June, 1836, divine service has regularly
been performed on the Sabbath. The Rev. Joseph Simpson,
M.A., is the officiating minister. In the parish book is
the following memorandum:—“1585, paid Barnett and his
sonne for pulling down the crosse of St. Gyles, xviij
d.” This cross formerly stood in the church yard, and
was curiously sculptured. A large stone which now lies in
the church yard, with a cavity on the upper side, was most
probably the base and socket of the cross. It is now termed
the pest basin, which tradition states to have been used during
the time of the plague for holding water, in which to avoid the
spread of the disease the people deposited their money in their
bargains for provisions with the country folk.
St. Alkmund’s Church,
situated in St. Alkmund’s Square, is a neat structure of
freestone, erected in 1795, with the exception of the tower and
spire, which fortunately escaped the fate of a former edifice,
inconsiderately destroyed under a mistaken apprehension of its
stability. The original church was founded by Ethelfleda,
daughter of Offa, King of Mercia, who governed that kingdom at
the beginning of the ninth century. King Edgar, by the
advice of St. Dunstan, gave other lands and possessions, and
placed here a dean and ten prebends. Its patron saint was a
prince of the Northumbrian family, who is said to have been
buried at Lilleshall. At the Doomsday survey, this church
had possession of nine manors, in all about 4,020 acres, out of
which 620 were in demesne, and a rent of £8. 8s. 8d.,
which, with other rents, produced a revenue of £500 per
annum. The manner in which it lost this appendage, as
recorded in Dugdale, is an example of the fluctuations to which,
in those days of turbulence, even the most sacred property was
liable. King Edward the Confessor wrested these lands from
one Spirtes, a canon of St. Alkmund’s, and gave them to
Godfrey Wiffesune. On his death, about two years after the
conquest, Nigel, an ecclesiastic, obtained them. After his
decease, one Gilbert de Cundore, a layman, had possession of
them, and retained them till he was excommunicated by the
bishop. In order to obtain absolution, he and his knights
submitted to do penance, and were flogged by the canons at the
altar of St. Alkmund’s church. The property finally
centred in Roger, Earl of Hereford, who held it by force of
arms.
“The superior and dean of this collegiate church had, in
common with those of other Saxon foundations, the right of
hereditary succession, and even claimed a privilege of alienating
the property to other than religious uses. In the year
1150, when monastic institutions were universally popular, and
the colleges of the secular clergy had fallen into disrepute,
Richard de Belesme, then dean of St. Alkmund’s, voluntarily
surrendered the estates of the deanery, which lay at Lilleshall,
towards the endowment of an abbey of canons regular of St.
Augustine, about to be erected on that spot made sacred by the
sepulchre of the patron saint of his church; and so great was his
zeal for this new institution, that he solicited and obtained the
consent of the Pope and King Stephen for dissolving the college
entirely, and for transferring all its estates to the new
abbey. Thus stripped of all its landed property, the
benefice sank from a collegiate establishment to a poor vicarage,
which continued in the patronage of the monks of Lilleshall till
the dissolution, when it became vested in the crown.”
The old church was a spacious structure, exhibiting various
styles of architecture, from the Anglo-Norman period to the
middle of the sixteenth century. Of its antiquity, however,
few features remain; for the panic caused by the sudden fall of
St. Chad’s church, induced the parishioners of St. Alkmund
to petition parliament to pull down the body of the old church,
and erect a new one on its site. The modern building is in
the ancient pointed style of architecture; an oblong square,
eighty-two feet by forty-four feet, with a recess for the
altar. The ancient tower, terminated with crochetted
pinnacles, remains, and is seventy feet high, surmounted with a
chaste and elegantly proportioned spire, one hundred and fourteen
feet—making a total of 184 feet from the ground. Over
the altar is a window of painted glass, executed about fifty
years ago by Eginton, representing Evangelical Faith, in a female
figure as large as life kneeling on a cross, with the eyes
elevated and the arms extended towards a celestial crown, which
appears amidst the opening clouds, This window was erected at a
cost of two hundred guineas. The church is handsomely
fitted up, and will accommodate a congregation of 800
persons. Upon the gallery, at the west end, is a good
organ, erected by subscription in 1823. The tower contains
a peal of eight bells, recast in 1813. The sound of church
bells was supposed to be very efficacious in chasing away the
spirit of darkness by our superstitious ancestors. The following
curious notice will shew that they were not at all times proof
against infernal agency:—
“This yere, (1533) upon twelfe daye, in Shrowsbury, the
dyvyll appearyd in St. Alkmund’s churche, there when the
preest was at high masse, with great tempeste and darknesse, so
that as he passyd through the churche he mountyd up the steeple
in the saide churche, tering the wyers of the saide clocke, and
put the print of his clawes upon the 4th bell, and took one of
the pinnacles away with him, and for the time stayed all the
bells in the churches within the saide towne, that they could
neyther toll nor ringe.”
Of the ancient tombs and mural monuments which abounded in the
old edifice, none were preserved in the present structure worthy
of notice, with the exception of a tablet to Chief Justice Jones,
who died in 1692. Several tablets of a modern date adorn
the walls. The living is a vicarage, valued in the
king’s book at £6, now returned at £219.
Patron, the Lord Chancellor; incumbent, the Rev. Charles Edward
Leopold Wightman, M.A.
St. Julian’s Church is
situated upon elevated ground, at the top of the Wyle-cop, near
to St. Alkmund’s church. Of its early foundation in
Saxon times we possess no particulars. It was distinguished
through several reigns as a rectory and a royal free chapel, with
a peculiar jurisdiction. According to Tanner, at a very
early period it was annexed to the free chapel of St. Michael,
within the castle, and so continued until the reign of Henry IV.,
when they were both resigned into the king’s hands.
Subsequently, the rectory was granted, among other things, to
augment the new foundation of Battlefield College, and
thenceforth the living became a mere stipendiary curacy. On
the dissolution of that college, the living was granted by the
crown to John Capper and Richard Trevor; and after many
subsequent transfers, passed into the family of Prince, from whom
it has descended to the present patron, the Earl of
Tankerville.
The present church, built in 1749 on the site of a former
edifice, which had become ruinous, is an oblong structure in the
Grecian style, consisting of nave, chancel, and side aisles, with
a tower at the west end. This tower is the only existing
portion of the old church which remains, and is crowned with
eight crochetted pinnacles. It has an excellent illuminated
clock; and a peal of six bells, which were recast in 1706.
The interior has a handsome appearance: four Doric pillars on
each side the nave support the ceiling, which is carved and
decorated with the fret-work of the old church. Over the
side aisles and west end are commodious galleries, in the latter
of which is a superior organ, erected by subscription in
1834. The east window contains a figure of St. James, in
ancient stained glass, which was purchased from a splendid
collection brought from Rouen in 1804. Several of the other
windows are ornamented with armorial bearings. There is
only one monument of any antiquity: a coarse marble slab,
inscribed in Longobaric capitals to a member of the Trumwin
family. Among the memorials of a modern date is one to the
memory of Mr. John Allatt, the benevolent founder of
Allatt’s Free School. The south aisle contains a neat
memorial, of the Grinshill freestone, to commemorate the
liberality of the late Rev. Richard Scott, B.D., who expended
upwards of £1,500 in the reparations of this church, and
other improvements connected with the fabric. It contains
the following inscription, dated 1847, in reference to the
improvements made by Mr. Scott: “Who, in Christian love,
and a desire to honour God with his substance, has caused an
effective architectural character to be given to the exterior of
the south side of this sacred edifice, which, from the limited
funds raised for its re-edification in 1750, necessarily induced
brick as a material, and a design possessing little claim to
taste; stone piers are now set at each end of the building and
between the lower windows, which have been lengthened.
Above, on a block cornice, are Roman Doric pilasters which
sustain an entablature, crowned by an open balustrade and
vase-shaped acroteria. Fretted console tables have been
added to the upper windows, the architecture entirely renewed,
and, like those below, re-glazed with metallic frame-work.
A new portal and door at the eastern end of the south aisle, and
the surface of this portion of the church and chancel, covered
with stucco; the apex of the gable being finished with an
appropriate ornament.”
In the
north aisle is a similar memorial, inscribed to the same
individual for his munificent beneficence “In erecting an
ornamental stone wall and parapet round the church-yard, flagging
the foot-path underneath and that on the eastern side, and
likewise along the basement of the church, renewing the steps at
the south-east thoroughfare, and lowering, repairing, and
enclosing those which form the main approach from the street to
the cemetery; also for a new pavement in the area leading to and
from before the south door, rebuilding the steps of the portico
with the addition thereto of a continuous pedestal, painting the
north side of the church, and cleaning the stone work, roofing
the chancel, and placing thereon a stone cornice and blocking
course, with a foliated cone at each angle, as well as for other
useful improvements connected with the fabric.” The
living of St. Julian’s is a perpetual curacy, returned at
£159, in the patronage of Earl Tankerville, and incumbency
of the Rev. James Jardine Rogerson, M.A. The chapel of Ford
was formerly an appendent of this church.
St. George’s Church, situated
at Frankwell, is a neat cruciform structure, in the Gothic style,
with a short tower at the west end, ornamented with four
pinnacles. It is built of the beautiful Grinshill
freestone, from a design by Mr. Haycock. The cost was
nearly £4,000, raised by voluntary subscription. It
was consecrated for divine service on January 30th, 1832.
The interior has a chaste and elegant appearance, and will
contain a congregation of 750 persons. Of the sittings, 460
are free and unappropriated. By the liberality of the late
Rev. Richard Scott, B.D., the chancel has been beautified with an
altar screen, the gallery with a small organ, and the triple
lancet windows filled with splendid stained glass. The
centre window contains a full-length figure of Isaiah, clothed in
a brilliant vest of purple, over which is thrown a green robe
lined with ermine, denoting his royal descent. The windows
on each side have spirited figures of St. Matthew and St.
Mark. The former exhibits deep and serious meditation, and
holds a manuscript in his left hand; and the latter, a venerable
figure, is pointing to an open gospel, which he holds in his left
hand. The windows in the north and south transepts are also
embellished with glass of a rich and elaborate mosaic pattern,
which contributes to the imposing effect of the splendid east
window. The living is a perpetual curacy, returned at
£118, in the patronage of the vicar of St. Chad; incumbent,
the Rev. John Harding, M.A.
St. Michael’s Church,
situated in the populous suburb of Castle Foregate, is a neat
brick structure, in the Grecian style of architecture, consisting
of nave, side aisles, and elliptical recess for the communion,
with an octagonal tower in three divisions, rising to the height
of seventy feet, over the side aisles are galleries which are
free; there is also a spacious gallery in the west end for the
use of the school children, in which stands a small organ the
gift of the Rev. W. G. Rowland, M.A. The pulpit and reading
desk are octagonal, and placed on opposite sides of the church;
the roof is panelled in large square compartments, and painted in
imitation of oak. Three windows of stained glass which
decorate the chancel are the exquisite productions of Mr. David
Evans. The centre one is illustrative of the Nativity, from
the celebrated “La Notte” of Correggio. The
windows on each side represent the Annunciation, and the
Presentation in the Temple; the former from a picture by Guido,
and the latter from a celebrated painting by Rubens. These
windows were the gift of the Rev. W. G. Rowland, M.A., to whose
liberality the parishioners are also indebted for the service of
communion plate, the peal of six bells, which hang in the tower,
and the erection of the adjacent school rooms, for the education
of the poor children of this populous portion of the parish of
St. Mary’s. The church was erected at an expense of
£2000, raised by subscription, and consecrated on the 24th
August, 1830, as a chapel of ease to St. Mary’s
church. The edifice contains 800 sittings, of which 600 are
free and unappropriated.
The Church of the Holy Trinity,
situated on the Meole-road, was erected in 1837, for the
accommodation of the inhabitants of the populous suburb of
Coleham. It was built at a cost of nearly £1900,
raised by subscription, aided by the grant of £600, from
the Lichfield Diocesan Society, and a further grant of
£150, from the Incorporated Church Building Society.
The structure is a neat fabric of brick with a short tower; the
body of the church has five windows on each side, and an
elliptical recess for the communion, separated, internally, from
the nave by a circular arch. The church contains 812
sittings, of which 504 are free. The window over the altar
contains beautifully executed figures in stained glass, of the
Evangelists, and St. Peter and St. Paul; several of the other
windows are beautified with scriptural medallions, in stained
glass, which together with a handsome service of communion plate,
were presented by the late Rev. Richard Scott, B.D. This
place of worship was formed into a district parish church in
1841. The living is a perpetual curacy enjoyed by the Rev.
James Colley, M.A.
Ancient Chapels.—Several
ancient chapels formerly stood in various parts of the town, the
most considerable of which seems to have been the collegiate
chapel of St. Michael, within the
castle. No vestige of its site now remains, though it
probably existed, at least in a ruinous state, in the reign of
James II., for, it appears at that time, an order was made by the
corporation, “that enquiry should he made after the stones
taken away from the ruins of St. Michael’s chapel within
the castle.” Part of the Chapel
of St. Nicholas, on the left hand entrance to the council
house, is still standing; it is of the early Norman era, and most
probably was built by the first Norman, Earl of Shrewsbury, for
the use of such of his retainers as resided in the outer works of
the castle. The only portions of this edifice at present
remaining are the nave, a massive arch formerly opening into the
chancel, and two similar side arches. The building is now
converted into a stable. St.
Catherine’s Chapel is stated to have occupied an
elevated site upon Coton-hill. The Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, a site near
Trinity Church. St. Blase’s
Chapel was situated in the Murivance. A tea garden
near the site of the Belle-vue, was formerly called the
Hermitage. These and other ecclesiastical edifices which
once adorned this eminent town, have now disappeared; yet their
faint traces still afford matter of interesting speculation for
the antiquary.
The Presbyterian Chapel, situated
in High-street, as the first dissenting place of worship
established in the town, claims our first attention. To the
act of uniformity, which, on St. Bartholomew’s day, 1662,
drove from their livings upwards of two thousand clergymen of the
church of England, Shrewsbury is indebted for its first
dissenting church. It was formed by the Rev. John Bryan,
M.A., and the Rev. Francis Tallants, M.A., ejected from the
livings of St. Chad’s and St. Mary’s. Their
meetings were first held in the house of Mrs. Hunt, and after
experiencing various alternations of suffering and indulgence
during the unsettled times that followed the act of uniformity,
in 1683 their meetings were suppressed, and these eminent
preachers of the gospel were forced into obscurity. On King
James II. allowing liberty to Dissenters to meet for worship,
they assembled as before in Mrs. Hunt’s house. In
1691, they built a chapel in High-street, and Mr. Tallants caused
the following (with the latter sentence the Hugonists, of France,
usually began their worship,) to be painted on the
walls:—“This place was not built for a faction or
a party, but to promote repentance and faith in communion
with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in
sincerity. ‘Our help is in the name of the
Lord who made heaven and earth.’” The year
1715 was particularly unfortunate for Protestant Dissenters; mobs
and riots arose in various places, particularly in Lancashire,
Shropshire, and Staffordshire—among the chapels pulled down
in Shropshire were those of Wem, Whitchurch, and
Shrewsbury. The chapel, in High-street, was soon after
rebuilt by the government, and the liberties of Dissenters
confirmed and fixed upon a solid foundation. In 1839 the
venerable chapel was almost entirely taken down, owing to the
building being considered unsafe, and because the commissioners
under the street act required a part of the premises. It
was rebuilt nearly on the old site, and re-opened for public worship in
July, 1840. The interior has a simple and primitive
appearance, the fittings are of old oak; there is accommodation
for about 300 worshippers. The Rev. Richard Astley has been
the respected pastor of the congregation since the year
1831. For a more extended and very pleasing account of this
place of worship, we beg to refer our readers to the
“History of the Presbyterian Meeting House of
Shrewsbury,” published by the present minister in 1847.
The Independent Chapel, situated on
Swan-hill, had, its origin in some unhappy disputes which arose
in the congregation worshipping in High-street chapel, relative
to the invitation of a minister being invited to settle among
them. The chapel is a substantial brick edifice, with a
neatly furnished interior, and contains six hundred
sittings. On a stone tablet in the front is the following
inscription:—“This building was erected in the year
1767, for the public worship of God, and in defence of the rights
of majorities in Protestant Dissenting congregations, to choose
their own ministers.” There is a cemetery adjoining
the chapel. The Rev. Thomas Weaver has been the pastor of
the congregation worshipping here for 52 years.
The Independent Chapel,
Castle-gates, a handsome building of free stone, is the most
imposing structure in connection with the nonconformists in the
town of Shrewsbury. It was erected in 1845, at a cost
(including the site) of £3000. The interior has a
very chaste, and beautiful appearance; it will hold six hundred
persons. The Rev. Edward Hill is the minister.
The Catholic Chapel is situated in
Beeche’s-lane, near the southern portion of the town
walls. It is a neat building erected in 1776, and enlarged
in 1825; the front is stuccoed, and surmounted by a plain
cross. The interior has a tasteful and elegant appearance;
the altar rests on a sarcophagus, on the front of which is a
painting of the last supper, above is a figure of Christ on the
cross. On the gallery is a small organ, and on each side
the entrance an elegant marble shell for the holy water.
The chapel will hold about three hundred worshippers. The
Rev. Eugene Egan is the priest. A plot of land, extending
from Belmont to the southern walls, has been purchased, with the
intention of erecting a new Catholic church, on a scale
commensurate with the wants of an increasing congregation.
The Catholics formerly met for worship in an upper room of an old
house in St. Alkmund’s-square.
The Baptist Chapel, situated in
Claremont-street, a plain brick building, was opened for divine
worship in 1780, and enlarged in 1810. A society of this
persuasion is stated to have existed in this town, in the time of
the Commonwealth. In the chapel is a small memorial, of Mr.
Palmer, who was pastor of the congregation for twenty-seven
years.
The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel is a
commodious building, on St. John’s-hill, erected in 1804,
and subsequently enlarged and decorated. It is neatly
fitted up, and surrounded with galleries, in which is a small
organ. It is calculated to hold 700. The Methodists
have also small places of worship in the Castle Foregate and
New-street, Frankwell.
The Wesleyan New Connexion Chapel,
(Ebenezer,) situated at Tower-place,
is a handsome building, having two entrances, with a Doric
portico to each. The cost of the structure was £1500,
and it was opened for divine worship, June 13th, 1834. The
interior has a light and pleasing appearance; it is without
galleries; in the centre of the chapel are two rows of pews, with
a row on each of the sides, which ascend gradually from the
floor; the blank walls display arches and pilasters, supporting a
frieze and cornice.
The Friends’ Meeting House, a
plain brick structure, in a retired situation, on St.
John’s-hill, is fitted up with much simplicity and
neatness. It was erected in 1746, and enlarged in 1807.
The Welsh Calvinistic Chapel, a
brick structure, erected on the site of a former edifice, is
situated in Hill’s-lane. It is calculated to
accommodate about 400, and was opened for divine worship in
December, 1826. The Dissenters of this persuasion have also
a small
chapel, situated in the Wagon and Horses passage,
Pride-hill. The service in both these chapels is in the
Welsh language.
The Primitive Methodists have a
place of worship to accommodate about four hundred, situated in
Castle-court. They have also a small chapel, at the Old
Heath.
The Royal Free Grammar School,
situated near the Castle gates, is a noble institution for the
education of youth, founded by King Edward VI., in 1552, and
endowed with the greater portion of the revenues of the two
dissolved colleges of St. Mary and St. Chad. Queen
Elizabeth greatly augmented the endowment, in 1571, by adding the
rectory of Chirbury, with additional tithes and estates in St.
Mary’s parish. The structure is large and lofty, and
occupies two sides of a quadrangle, with a square pinnacled tower
at the angle, partly rebuilt in 1831. The original school
was of timber, and the present tower, chapel, and library, were
added in 1595. The wooden building was taken down in 1630,
and its place supplied by the present stately edifice of
Grinshill free stone. In the centre is a gateway, adorned
on each side by a rude Corinthian column, supporting statues of a
scholar and a graduate bareheaded, in the costume of the
times. Over the arch is an inscription in Greek, importing
that a love of literature is essential to the formation of a
scholar. The whole structure exhibits an incongruous mode
of building, and that mixture of styles, “where the Grecian
and the pointed, however discordant and irreconcilable, are
jumbled together, and compose a fantastic species, hardly
assignable to any class or name.” The principal
school room, which occupies the upper story, was originally
divided by three partitions with folding doors, but these being
removed, it forms a very spacious and noble apartment. The
chapel, in which prayers are read by the head master every
morning, occupies the ground floor, and is divided from the
ante-chapel by a very handsome oak screen carved in the grotesque
manner prevalent in the days of Elizabeth. The ceiling is
adorned with fret work, preserved from the ruins of St.
Alkmund’s church. Above the chapel is the library,
which was rebuilt at considerable expense in 1815. It
contains a valuable collection of manuscripts and books—one
side being occupied by the library of the late Dr. Taylor.
Two large pointed windows, with mullioned tracery, afford light
to this apartment;—in the northern window are the arms of
Edward VI., Queen Elizabeth, St. John’s College, Cambridge;
the See of Lichfield and Coventry impaling Cornwallis, and those
of the town;—in the south windows are the arms of the four
principal benefactors, with appropriate inscriptions in
Latin. Around the walls are portraits of Henry VIII.,
Edward VI., an Admiral in the costume of the time of Charles II.,
and several of the former head masters.
Among the curiosities in the library are three sepulchral
stones, discovered in ploughing a field near Wroxeter. The
largest has on its summit, a pine-cone between two lions, and
beneath the pediment a rose. The first is taken from the
Picea, called by Pliny, Feralis Arbor, expressive
of its melancholy subject, and not unfrequent on memorials of
this kind; the inscription denotes the death of C. Mannivus
Secundus, of the town of Polentia, a beneficiarius, or
veteran of the twentieth legion, who had served his time, and was
called again into the service by the entreaties of the chief
legate. The second stone has, on the upper part, a human
face, two dolphins, and two serpents. The third is
inscribed to M. Petronius, sigifer, or standard bearer, to the
Legio quatuor-decima gemina, the fourteenth double legion,
or a legion formed from two. As this legion never was in
Britain, the learned Dr. Ward supposes that Petronius only came
for his health and died here. There are also various other
interesting antiquities, chiefly found at Wroxeter, and a small
collection of fossils and natural curiosities. In front and
at the back of the schools are play grounds, contiguous to which
are houses for the master and the assistant-masters, with ample
accommodation for boarders who come from all parts of the
kingdom. The grammar school has long maintained a
pre-eminent rank among the public seminaries of sound learning
and religious education in this country, and has sent forth
numerous individuals who have been distinguished for their eminent
classical attainments. Under the care of its first master,
Thomas Ashton, we learn there were two hundred and ninety
scholars, among whom were the sons of many of the first families
in England. Camden, when he wrote, says—“it was
the best filled in all England, being indebted for their
flourishinge state to provision made by the excellent and worthie
Thomas Ashton”—who was a munificent contributor to
the school himself, and was instrumental in procuring the grant
of augmentation from Queen Elizabeth. Mr. Ashton resigned
his office some years before his death, but he continued to
cherish the seminary over which he had presided with paternal
care. He drew up the code of laws by which it was governed
for more than two centuries; and one of his last acts was to
visit the school, when he preached a farewell sermon to the
inhabitants of the town, after which that “Godlie
father,” accompanied with the tears and blessings of the
people, returned to Cambridge, near which he died at the end of a
fortnight, 1578.
The school is open for the gratuitous instruction of burgesses
of Shrewsbury, who are not under six nor more than sixteen years
of age, provided they are qualified to begin the Latin
accidence. By act of parliament, 38th George III., the
whole management of the school and revenue was vested in the
Bishop of Lichfield, as visitor, and thirteen governors and
trustees. The appointment of head master rests with the
Fellows of St. John’s College, Cambridge. The under
master is appointed by the head master. Among the many
persons of eminence who have received their education in this
school, we may enumerate Sir Philip Sidney; Sir Fulke Greville;
Lord Brook; Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York; Judge Jeffries;
Lord Chief Justice Jones; Dr. Bowers; Bishop of Chichester; Dr.
Thomas Bishop, Salisbury; Dr. Taylor, editor of Lysias and
Demosthenes; James Harrington, the author of Oceana;
Wycherley, the dramatist; Ambrose Phillips, the poet; and the
Rev. J. B. Blakeway and the Venerable Archdeacon Owen, the
learned historians of Shrewsbury. Through the exertions and
learning of the late venerable head master, Dr. Butler (late
Bishop of Lichfield), the school attained to unrivalled
celebrity, and the learned prelate observed, on resigning his
arduous duties to his talented successor, “That he
considered Dr. Kennedy as the most brilliant scholar he had ever
sent forth, as the brightest star in that galaxy of distinguished
pupils whose names adorn the ‘boards’ of Shrewsbury
school. That from Dr. Kennedy’s experience of his
system, both as a pupil and assistant master at Shrewsbury
school, from his constant practice as a lecturer and private
tutor at College, and as an assistant master for six years or
more at Harrow, as well as from his own unrivalled talents and
high literary distinction, from his fine taste and sound
learning, there was not a shadow of doubt but that he would fully
maintain the reputation which Shrewsbury school had already
acquired, and would add at least as many distinguished names to
its ‘boards,’ during his superintendence of this
important foundation, as had been inscribed there by himself in
an equal period.” We are happy to observe that the
bright anticipations of the venerable bishop have been already
realised. By an act of parliament, passed 33rd George III.,
for the better government and regulation of the Free Grammar
School in Shrewsbury, it was ordered, that, after the payment of
all taxes, salaries, scholarships, exhibitions, and repairs of
the school, and all expenses about the necessary business of the
school, the surplus should be employed in founding and
maintaining exhibitions in the Universities of Cambridge and
Oxford, as the governors and the bishop of the diocese for the
time being should think fit; and that such surplus should, when
and as often as it should amount to £100 or upwards, be
laid out in the purchase of lands and tenements, or in the
purchase of stock, or in such other way as the governors and
bishop should deem advisable. At this period the annual
income of the school amounted to £900.
From the Charity Commissioners’ Report, published in
1830, we learn that the total income of the school property for
the year ending December 31st, 1828, amounted to £2,740.
2s. 9d. The following will show the particulars of the
property held by the governors:—The tithes of Albrighton,
in the parish of St. Mary, £101. 15s. 6d.; the tithes of
Chirbury, £1,045. 13s. 4d.; tithes of Clive, in the parish
of St. Mary, £347. 13s.; tithes of Astley, £221.
15s.; tithes of Oxon and Shelton, £71. 4s.; tithes of
Frankwell, £56. 14s.; tithes of Betton, £129. 1s.;
tithes of Whitley and Welbatch, £99.; tithes of Leaton,
£150; tithes of Wollascot, £13.; tithes of Woodcote,
Horton, Bicton, and Calcot, £397.; tithes of Almond Park,
Berwick, and Newton, £52. 10s.; tithes from Castle
Foregate, £18. 18s.; schoolhouse at Grinshill, built in
pursuance of one of the orders of Thomas Ashton, for the scholars
to retire to in case of infectious disorders, let for £4.
4s.; spiritual jurisdiction of St. Mary’s, demised by the
corporation to the Rev. W. G. Rowland, the office of the said
ecclesiastical, spiritual, peculiar, and exempt jurisdiction,
with all the profits thereto belonging, and the seal of office
for twenty-one years, at the yearly rent of £1. 6s. 8d.,
payable to the governors and trustees of the Free Grammar School,
dated 29th January, 1828; Chief rents at Astley and Sansaw, 18s.
3d.; for encroachments on school garden, 3s.; and £30 per
annum arising from the sum of £1,000 invested in the three
per cent. consols, purchased in 1828. In January, 1829, the
amount of stock was £14,570. 10s. 4d. three per cent
consols. This was subsequently reduced by sales, made under
the directions of the Court of Chancery, for the purpose of
defraying the expenses of repairs on the estates, to
£13,311. 19s. 6d.
The income arising from the school property now (1851) amounts
to upwards of £3,000 per annum, which is appropriated in
the payment of the salaries of the masters, the maintenance of
scholarships and exhibitions in the universities, the stipend of
the Vicar of Chirbury, and the curates of St. Mary’s,
Clive, and Astley, and the necessary repairs of the school
buildings. The surplus is employed in founding additional
exhibitions in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
The following list will show the great advantage presented to
meritorious scholars of Shrewsbury School:—Four
exhibitions, of £63 each, founded by James Millington,
D.D., in 1724, at Magdalen College, Cambridge, tenable during
residence till M.A.; two exhibitions of £40 each, founded
by the same donor, for sons of burgesses born in Frankwell, and
who have been educated at the school, in Millington’s
Hospital, founded by the testator; also one fellowship of
£126 per annum at Magdalen College, tenable during
residence till M.A.; one exhibition, of £23 per annum,
founded by the Rev. John Taylor, D.D., in 1766, open to any
college. The scholars chosen are allowed to enjoy the
exhibition for the term of six years, provided they reside in the
college the greater part of each term. One exhibition of
£10 per annum, the gift of Mr. Noneley; one of £30
per annum, founded by Mr. Podmore. There are also four
foundation exhibitions of £70 per annum each; one Butler
foundation of £100 per annum; and one of £66 per
annum;—all limited to the sons of burgesses of
Shrewsbury. Two exhibitions, founded by Oswald Smith, of
£25 per annum; four exhibitions to Christ Church, Oxford,
founded by Mr. Careswell, in 1689, for natives of Shropshire, of
£60 per annum.
Head Master: Rev. Benjamin Hall Kennedy,
D.D.—Second Master: Rev. William Burbury,
M.A.—Assistant Master: Rev. John Mort Wakefield,
M.A.—Mathematical Teacher: Rev. Alfred Tolver Paget,
M.A.—Assistant Master: Rev. Vanden Bempde Johnstone,
M.A.—Modern Languages: Mr. Thomas Amand
Bentley.—Writing Master: Mr. Thomas Northage
Henshaw. The head master has a salary of £300 per
annum, and the second master £150.
Bowdler’s, or the Blue School, situated in Beeches-lane, a
plain brick building with a cupola, was founded in 1724, pursuant
to the will of Mr. Thomas Bowdler, alderman and draper, for the
instruction, clothing, and apprenticeing poor children of St.
Julian’s parish. Twenty-five boys and an equal number
of girls are now educated and clothed; the dress of the children
is blue, whence the school is called “The Blue
School.” The master has a salary of £40 per
annum, and the privilege of taking twenty day scholars, and the
mistress £20 per annum. Robert Rogerson and Mary Ann
Sharrat are the teachers. The foundation of the several
charity schools will be more particularly noticed with the
general charities of the borough.
Allatt’s Charity School, situate in
St. John’s-row, is a neat structure of free stone,
comprising commodious houses for the master and mistress,
connected by arcades, with spacious school rooms. The
school was built in 1800, pursuant to the will of Mr. John
Allatt, who bequeathed his property for the educating and
clothing of the children of the more respectable class of poor
persons resident in the town. There are forty boys and
forty girls educated, clothed once a year, and a certain number
at a proper age apprenticed. The funds of the school
consist of a capital stock of £14,200, of which
£10,800 are invested in three per cents, as the educational
fund, and £3,400 as a clothing fund. Thomas Bagley
and Frances Buttery are the teachers.
Millington’s School stands in
the rear of the hospital, and was founded by the munificence of
Mr. Millington, for the instruction of twenty-five boys, and as
many girls, natives of Frankwell. The children are
completely clothed twice in every year, and at the age of
fourteen apprenticed with a small premium; on producing a
certificate of good conduct during their apprenticeship they are
rewarded with a gratuity. Two exhibitions of £40 a
year each, in Magdalen College, Cambridge, are founded, to which
scholars originally on the hospital foundation have the
preference, or in default of such, two born in Frankwell,
educated at the free schools. Sarah Bishop and Francis
Cullis are the teachers.
Shrewsbury National School,
situated in the Abbey Fore gate, is also called the “Brown
School,” from the brown dress of the children. The
schools are commodious, and there is a convenient residence for
the teachers. It is supported by subscriptions, and sermons
annually preached in aid of its funds. There are now 190
boys and 96 girls educated in this school. Joseph Barker
Molynaux and Mary Ann Williamson are the teachers. The
annual income amounts to £250 per annum.
St. Chad’s Parochial School
is a plain substantial edifice, situated in Barker-street.
It is supported by subscriptions and donations, and a small
weekly sum contributed by the children. The average number
of children that attend the school may be calculated at a hundred
boys and an equal number of girls. Edward Evans and Jane E.
Turner are teachers.
Holy Trinity School is a spacious
building of brick, situated in the rear of the Holy Trinity
Church, at Coleham; a residence for the teachers adjoins the
school. There are about 100 boys and girls, and 120
infants, receiving instructions in these schools. James
Owen and Martha Clarke are the teachers.
St. Mary’s and St. Michael’s
Schools, situated in St. Michael-street, owe their origin
in a great measure to the Rev. W. G. Rowland, the incumbent of
St. Mary’s, who was a munificent contributor towards their
erection. The schools were built in 1832, in the old
English style of architecture. They are supported by
voluntary subscriptions, and the scholars are provided with
books, and gratuitously educated, with the exception of a number
of the children from the extensive factory of Messrs. Marshall
and Co., whose instruction is paid for by the proprietors of the
mill. Richard Jones and Sophia Evans are the
teachers. About 120 boys and 100 girls attend.
Adjoining the school premises are ten neat cottages, built by the
Rev. W. G. Rowland, the income arising from which is expended in
bread, and distributed amongst the necessitous poor, in St.
Mary’s and St. Michael’s churches.
The Diocesan Schools, Swan hill, in
connection with the Lichfield Board of Education, was established
in 1842. This is an institution for the general education
of youth, ably conducted by Mr. Henry Newsham. Particular
attention is paid to the mathematical education of the youth of
this establishment. A limited number of boarders are
taken.
The British or Lancasterian Schools were first established
in Shrewsbury in 1812, when a commodious school was built
opposite the county gaol, for conducting education on the plan
suggested by Mr. Joseph Lancaster. Subsequently the
premises were taken down, and the site is now occupied as a railway
station. A building was afterwards taken in Watery-lane,
where the school was conducted till the present year (1851), when
a neat school-house, measuring forty-eight feet by twenty-eight,
was erected at the rear of the county gaol, at an estimated cost
of £700. About 150 boys and 100 girls attend the
school. Mr. Thomas Harris is the teacher.
St. Alkmund’s Parochial
School, situated between St. Mary’s-street and St.
Alkmund’s-place, is numerously attended both by boys and
girls. The teachers are William Donellan and Martha
Badger.
Infant Schools.—St.
Chad’s Infant School is situated in Barker-street, not
far from the National School. One hundred and twenty attend
the school, which is conducted by Segismunda Roberts. The
Infant School, Castle Foregate, has an attendance of
eighty. Ann Townsend is the teacher. There is also an
infant school in Frankwell, which was built by the late Dr.
Darwin, and is now chiefly supported by Miss Darwin. These
are interesting institutions for giving an early moral bias to
the mind, and calculated to effect much good.
Sunday Schools.—The Sunday
schools of Shrewsbury have existed nearly from the earliest
formation of such institutions. Schools are connected with
the established churches, and the different congregations of
dissenters, which are very numerously attended.
The Salop Infirmary.—This
excellent institution, situated near St. Mary’s churchyard,
was established in 1747, and has the honour of being one of the
earliest of these Samaritan institutions in the kingdom.
The building, which preceded the present stately fabric, was a
plain brick structure, designed for a private residence; although
repeatedly enlarged, it was found too small for the additional
number of patients consequent upon an increasing population, and
at a meeting held on November 16th, 1826, it was resolved that a
new infirmary should be built on the site of the old one.
The present building was erected in 1830, from a design by Mr.
Haycock, at the cost of £18,735. 18s. 10., of which
£12,994. 1s. 3d. was raised by subscriptions, and the
remainder disbursed from the funded property of the
charity. The structure has a noble appearance, and stands
in a commanding position on the verge of an eminence overlooking
the Severn; it is 170 feet in length, by 80 feet in height,
having a handsome Doric portico in the centre. There is
ample accommodation for 150 patients, and the internal
arrangements are admirably adapted for the purpose they are
designed to fulfil. The principal floor is appropriated to
the board room, dispensary, waiting room for patients, with
private apartments for the house surgeon and matron; the first
floor has seven wards for male patients, with day room, scullery,
and baths; the upper room contains a spacious operation room,
with wards for females; in the attics above are four other wards
with nurses’ room, &c. A staircase at each end
communicates with spacious galleries extending the length of each
story. The whole is thoroughly ventilated, and an uniform
temperature preserved by a patent hot water apparatus. A
spacious terrace has been constructed on the eastern side, that
such of the patients as are able may possess every benefit
resulting from pure air and exercise. From this the eye
commands an uninterrupted view of an extensive and finely wooded
country, bounded by the long ridge of Haughmond Hill, the Wrekin,
and the Stretton Hills. The pecuniary concerns of the
institution are superintended by a board of directors; a
treasurer is also appointed annually, who, on the anniversary day
in the hunt week, is accompanied to church by the subscribers and
patrons of this charity, where, after a sermon, a collection is
made in aid of the funds. From its establishment to
midsummer, 1849, the sum of £219,934. 16s. 7¼d. has
been received for its support; 60,077 in-patients admitted, and
117,747 out-patients recommended as fit objects for its
benefits. The weekly average number of patients in the
house during the year ending midsummer, 1849, was 103;
out-patients on the books, 603. The total receipts for the
year ending at the same period was £3,237. 7s. 5d., of
which £1,669. 11s. was received from yearly subscriptions;
£355. 2s. 6d. from benefactions and legacies; £627.
6s. 11d., the interest and dividends of funded stock, and
£585. 7s. 6d. from miscellaneous sources, which includes
£183 8s. 6d. collected at the anniversary sermon in St.
Chad’s church. Of this stock £16,400 is secured
in the three per cent consols, £3,449. 10s. new 3¼
per cents; £100 on the Watling-street road, and £150
on the Bridgnorth-road. Subscriptions have been made
amounting to £1,227. 6s. 8d., as a “Chaplain’s
Endowment Fund.” “The house surgeon is allowed
to take three pupils at a premium of twenty guineas to himself,
and 200 guineas to the infirmary, which entitles the pupil to
board and residence for five years.” Attendance at
this hospital is recognized by the Royal College of Surgeons, and
the apothecaries’ company, London.—Physicians:
Henry Johnson, M.D., Thomas James Drury, M.D., Henry Parker,
M.D.—Surgeons: H. E. Burd, J. Dickin, and J. Y.
Arrowsmith.—House Surgeon: John Robert
Humphreys. Secretary: Henry Bevan.
The Dispensary, like most other
institutions of this kind, is supported by annual subscriptions
and benefactions. It was established in 1843, and although
the funds do not allow the full extent of usefulness which the
charity is capable of, yet it is pleasing to observe from the
annual reports that it is making steady progress in the
estimation of the public. It appears from the report ending
September, 1849, that the total number of patients have been
3,391. The receipts for the year ending at the same period
were £160. During the year 560 cases received
attention, of which 403 were cured, 123 relieved, 30 died, and 4
were dismissed.—Patron: His Grace the Duke of
Sutherland.—Surgeon: Mr. G. P. Gill,—Hon.
Secretary: Folliott Sandford, Esq.—Dispenser:
Mr. G. S. Whitney.
The Eye and Ear Establishment,
Castle-street, was established in 1818, under the management of a
committee of gentlemen, for the special object of affording
relief to the humbler members of society, who may be suffering
from any calamity incident to those delicate organs of the human
frame, the eye and ear. The number of patients admitted
from the opening of this institution has been
6,224.—President: Viscount
Hill.—Surgeon: Edwin Foulkes. The institution
is open every Wednesday and Saturday mornings.
The County Hall, situated in the
Market-square, is a handsome and commodious building, completed
in 1837, at the cost of about £13,000. It is built
from a design of Sir Robert Smirke, of beautiful white free
stone, the principal front measuring 112 feet in length, and
exhibits the Italian style of architecture. In the interior
of the structure the different apartments are convenient, lofty,
and well adapted to the various purposes for which they are
intended. On the ground floor is a commodious vestibule,
which communicates with rooms on each side, for the mayor, and
counsel at assizes and witnesses. Opposite the entrance
door is a noble staircase; on the first landing, the centre one
leading to the judge’s room, and those on each side to the
respective courts, which are of equal dimensions, forty-two feet
by thirty-six feet. The bench is elevated three feet above
the floor, on each side is accommodation for the magistrates;
immediately before the judge is a large table, with seats
provided for the councillors. In each court is a gallery
for the public, and the ceiling is panelled and ornamented.
From this division the staircase leads to another large room,
adapted for a third court, or other public purpose; above it are
offices for the clerk of the peace, and for the town clerk.
The ancient Guild or Shire Hall was a low timbered fabric,
with a high clock turret, erected in the reign of Henry VIII.,
and stood across the market square. The lower part was
appropriated to retail shops, and the upper story contained the
rooms in which the business of the town was transacted, and the
assizes held. The municipal records were preserved in a
strong square tower near the south east side, erected in
1490. At the summer assizes, in 1783, in consequence of the
pressing remonstrance of the judge, enforced by the threat of a
fine upon the county, an act of parliament was obtained the following
year for this purpose. To render the new building more
handsome and commodious, and to remove the inconvenience
occasioned by the old one standing across the street of the
greatest resort, several houses, together with the ancient tower
of the Exchequer, were taken down, and various other improvements
made, in the adjacent parts. The new hall was completed in
1785, at an expense of £11,000, raised by a county
rate. In consequence of sinkings having in 1832 been
observed in different parts of the structure, the building was
surveyed by different architects and pronounced unsafe and
dangerous. The proper authorities immediately determined to
take down the whole edifice, and erect a more commodious one on
its site. For this purpose some adjoining premises were
purchased, and the present substantial structure, admirably
adapted for the purposes intended, was completed, as already
noticed, by Messrs. Birch, builders, in 1837.
The Town and County Gaol stands on
a salubrious cliff of gravel, a short distance from the castle,
and contiguous to the railway station. The building was
erected in 1793, on the principles of the benevolent Howard, at
an expense of £30,000. The front of the prison
displays a bold and massive appearance, having two rusticated
stone lodges and a gateway in the centre, over which is a fine
bust of Howard, by Bacon. The building is of brick, and is
spacious, airy, and well supplied with water, by means of a pump
worked by the prisoners. Immediately in front of the
gateway is the governor’s house, which, with certain
offices, forms the southern front of the building. The
chapel is an octagonal structure in the centre of the prison, and
is contrived so as to separate every class of prisoners, yet, so
that the minister may be seen by all the congregation. The
remainder of the structure is divided into four principal courts,
with several smaller ones, around which are cloisters, with
sleeping rooms above for the prisoners, and cells for the
refractory. A regard to the gradation of vice is strictly
observed in the classification of the prisoners, many of whom are
employed in some useful trade, such as shoemakers, tailors,
blacksmiths, &c., others are employed in picking oakum and
wool. The galling and disgraceful restraints of irons are
altogether dispensed with, except in cases of capital and very
refractory offenders. Great attention is paid to the moral
culture of the inmates by the assiduous chaplain, in order to
reclaim the wanderer. Divine service is performed twice
every day, except Saturday; and the prisoners are all separately
catechised several times during the week. The water to
supply the gaol is pumped from the Severn into a large reservoir,
which will hold 2,000 gallons. The gaol is calculated to
accommodate 300 prisoners, and there are 135 separate
cells. During the year ending September, 1849, there was a
total of 1,291 prisoners; greatest number of prisoners at any one
time in the year, 203; daily average of criminals, 147; daily
average of debtors, 9. Gross expenditure for the same
period, £3,337. 17s. 8d. Mr. John Shepherd is the
governor; and the Rev. David Winstone, chaplain. The
corporate magistrates are entitled, under the act for erecting
this gaol, to send to it prisoners, both criminal and civil, for
whose maintenance, of course, the borough pays.
The Market House, situated in the
Market Square, an antique and interesting fabric, is one of the
handsomest structures of its kind in the kingdom. In Dr.
Taylor’s MSS. is the following account of the first Market
House in this town of which any record remains:—“This
yere, 1567, Maister John Dawes, of Shrosbery, an alderman of the
sayde towne, began and buylded two fayre houses in the Corne
Market there, for the saffe placinge of corne from wether, so
that the owners thereof may stand saffe and drye, the which
buildings was at his own coste and charge, which place servyth
for the inhabitantes as also strangers to walke in, and the loft
above for soondry profitable purposes.” To these
timber buildings others were added in 1571, for the like
purpose. In 1595 the whole was removed, and the present
structure built on the site. The principal front is towards
the west, and has in the centre a spacious portal, over which are
sculptured the arms of Elizabeth. On each side of the portal is
an open arcade of three round arches, supported by massive
pillars, over which a range of square mullioned windows lights
the upper story. Large open arches occupy the north and
south ends, which are terminated with pointed gables. Above
the northern arch is a tabernacled niche, containing a statue of
Richard, Duke of York, in complete armour, with his armorial
bearings, removed from the tower of the old Welsh Bridge, on its
demolition in 1791. At the south end is the figure of an
angel, in a canopied niche, bearing a shield of the arms of
France and England. This fragment of antiquity formerly
stood in the southern tower of the Castle, or North Gate, and was
removed here in 1825, when that building was taken down to widen
the street. The basement of the Market House is 105 feet
long, and 24 feet wide. The upper story is devoted to the
purposes of a Mechanics’ Institution. The market is
held on Saturday, is numerously attended by farmers from the
surrounding district, and considerable quantities of corn are
sold, chiefly by sample.
The Music Hall and Public Rooms
occupy the southern side of the Market Square, and form a
handsome pile of building, erected in 1840 from a design by Mr.
Haycock. On the ground floor is the Post Office; and
immediately above, the Public News Room, which is supported by
annual subscription. The Music Hall, a noble apartment,
occupies the remaining portion of the second floor. It
measures 90 feet in length, 42 feet wide, and 38 feet high.
The orchestra, which is situated at the south end, contains a
fine-toned and powerful organ, the munificent gift of the late
Rev. Richard Scott, B.D., to the Choral Society of the
town. On the third story are Billiard Rooms, &c.
The Theatre, situated in the
Shoplatch, has a lofty stuccoed front, with three niches,
containing statues of the immortal Shakspere, and of the comic
and tragic muses, which give it a bold and imposing effect.
The lower part consists of a rusticated base, one hundred feet in
length, comprising a range of good shops, and a dwelling for the
manager. The interior is conveniently arranged, and
handsomely decorated with appropriate devices. It will
accommodate a numerous audience; and was opened September 8th,
1834. It stands on the site of a former Theatre, which, if
we may credit the affirmation of Phillips, was part of the
ancient palace of the Princes of Powisland, who, in their
frequent transactions with the sovereigns of England, often
resided in Shrewsbury. The ancient boundary wall of this
mansion inclosed all the space contained between Cross Hill, St.
John’s Hill, Murivance, Swan Hill, and Shoplatch. It
is probable that the old edifice was part of the great chamber,
appropriated, according to the usage of the times, for receiving
company, and occasionally for exhibiting shows and dramatic
interludes.
The Shropshire and North Wales Natural
History and Antiquarian Society was established on the
26th of June, 1835. The Museum, situated in Dogpole, is
principally designed to illustrate the natural history of the
district in its various branches of geology, mineralogy, zoology,
and botany, by the gradual formation of complete and systematic
arrangements of its productions in each of these
departments. It is also open to other objects of scientific
interest, and in particular is a suitable repository for such
remains of antiquity as are found within the district, or
illustrate its general history. The library contains many
valuable books, illustrative of natural history and
antiquities. It is deeply to be regretted, that hitherto
the council have been able to do little more than maintain the
museum in existence. Had they been entrusted with a larger
amount of funds, they might have very considerably enlarged its
collection, and extended its interests. Many donations are
still in store for exhibition, whenever a more commodious
building can be procured. It is, therefore, hoped that a
district of so much scientific and antiquarian resource may,
before long, be furnished with a building, in which specimens of
its own productions may be placed for inspection, and which may
also be a repository for objects of general interest and national
importance. President: The Right Hon. the Earl of
Powis.—Treasurer: Thomas Eyton,
Esq.—Honorary Secretary: Henry Johnson, M.D.
The Mechanics’ Institution was
originally established in 1825, and in the year 1833 a building
was erected for their meetings, in Howard Street. The
committee of management subsequently took the Corn Market
chambers, which are found admirably adapted for the objects of
the institution, which affords to mechanics, artisans, and
others, opportunities of acquiring, at their leisure hours, the
principles of science and the arts; and for the cultivation of
literature. The library comprises upwards of 2,000 volumes,
and the reading-room is supplied with the leading London and
provincial newspapers and magazines. There are classes for
the English and French languages, arithmetic, mathematics,
writing, drawing, music, and modelling. The present number
of members is two hundred. The income for the year ending
September, 1849, was £110. 15s. 10d.
President: Mr. Edward Elsmere.—Honorary
Secretaries: Mr. W. P. Scoltock and Mr. Robert France,
jun.
The Church of England Literary and
Scientific Institution was established in 1850, under the
patronage of the Lord Bishop of Lichfield. Its general
object is to afford the young men of the town of Shrewsbury the
means of spending their leisure hours in a rational and
profitable manner, and of acquiring useful knowledge on literary
and scientific subjects, in subservience to the doctrines and
precepts of revealed religion. A library and reading room
have been established, and competent persons employed to deliver
lectures on various interesting and scientific subjects.
All persons subscribing twelve shillings and sixpence annually,
or five guineas in one donation, to the funds of the institution,
are members; and all persons elected by the committee, on the
payment of six shillings per annum, have the advantages of the
institution. Treasurer, W. B. Lloyd, Esq.
Honorary Secretary, Mr. Henry Newham.
The Subscription Library, on St.
John’s hill, contains a valuable collection of books in the
various department of literature and science, numbering upwards
of nine thousand volumes. It was established in 1785.
Proprietary members pay one guinea admission, and an annual
subscription of a guinea and a half. Elinor Urwick is the
librarian.
The News Room.—The public
News Room in the Corn-market, immediately above the Post Office,
is supported by annual subscriptions; the members have the
advantage of perusing the principal London and provincial
newspapers, magazines, and journals, &c. The walls are
adorned with some fine pictures, presented at various periods to
the corporation of the town, among which are Charles I., Charles
II., William III., George I., George II., George III., Admiral
Benbow, Lord Hill, and others.
The Circus, a spacious building
situated near the Welsh bridge, was formerly used for equestrian
performances. It is now used as a depot for the immense
quantities of butter and cheese which are brought to the town for
sale at the monthly fairs; considerable quantities of these
commodities are brought from Wales.
The Butter and Poultry Market,
situated at the top of Pride-hill, was erected in 1819 by
voluntary contributions amounting to £2000. It is not
at all commensurate with the wants of the town, and of the ample
produce brought to its weekly markets large quantities are
exposed for sale in the streets.
The New Butter and Cheese Market,
situated in Howard-street, is a spacious building containing an
area of 5400 feet. The exterior consists of a centre and
two wings, and has a handsome appearance; the roof is supported
by four rows of cast iron pillars—and there is ample room
to dispose of the large quantities of butter and cheese which are
brought for sale on the Wednesdays following the first fair in
each month.
The House of Industry was
originally built as an asylum for the reception of orphans from
the Foundling Hospital in London. This spacious structure
is situated at Kingsland, and crowns the steep eminence above the
river, whence a most delightful and picturesque view of the town
and country is obtained. The governor of the Foundling
Hospital began the building in 1760, and finished it in five
years, at an expense of £12,000. Children were sent
down from London in great numbers, and put out to nurse with the
neighbouring cottagers, under the inspection of the gentlemen in
the vicinity. At a proper age they were taken into the
house, where they were employed in the manufacture of wool, and
afterwards placed out as apprentices. At one time there
were more than four hundred orphans in the hospital; but the
funds of the institution not proving adequate to the plan of
sending children to provincial hospitals, it was discontinued in
1774. After being shut up several years, it was converted
into a place of confinement for the Dutch prisoners taken in the
American war. It was afterwards used as an infirmary,
whilst the present noble structure was building. The rapid
increase of the parochial rates, of Shrewsbury, induced the
inhabitants to petition parliament for an act to incorporate the
five parishes of the Town and Meole Brace, so far as concerned
the poor, and to establish a general House of Industry. In
1784, they purchased the orphan hospital from the governors of
the foundling charity, for the admission of the poor, who, in
their declining years, here find an appropriate shelter, and are
supplied with decent and comfortable necessaries of life.
The situation is highly salubrious, and the terrace in front of
the house commands a fine view of the quarry, the town, its
suburbs, and the whole range of mountains in Salop, Montgomery,
and Denbigh. The internal arrangements have a clean and
orderly appearance, and the kind attention of the governor and
guardians to the wants of the inmates, who are chiefly the aged,
infirm, and helpless poor children, is highly creditable.
[When we visited the house there were six old women of the age of
75 and upwards, one had reached the age of 95 years.] There
is accommodation for 350 inmates, exclusive of that portion of
the building which has been let off as a private asylum; the
inmates are now 75. The infirmary and vagrant ward are in
the rear, as are the schools, which are held in a building
formerly used for hand-loom weaving; adjoining which are four
acres of land, cultivated by the scholars; it is chiefly used in
raising green crops, and is highly productive. The union
embraces the parishes of St. Chad, St. Mary, St. Alkmund, St.
Julian, Holy Cross, and Meole Brace, for which ten guardians are
appointed. Chairman, Mr. Charles Lloyd.
Surgeon, Henry Keate. Chaplain, Rev. W. J.
James. Governor, Mr. William N. Kindellon.
The Savings’ Bank, situated
on College-hill, was erected in 1838, at a cost of £2000,
which includes a sum of £600 given for the site. The
capital stock of the bank, on November 20th, 1849, amounted to
£179,990. 6s., at which time 4461 depositors, 56 Charitable
societies, and 42 Friendly societies had accounts with the
bank. Of the depositors there were 2329 whose respective
balances did not exceed £20; 1138 were above £20 and
not exceeding £50; 587 were above £50 and not
exceeding £100; 253, not exceeding £150; 134 not
exceeding £200; and 20 exceeding the latter amount.
The bank is open on Monday and Saturday, from 11.30, a.m. to
1.30, p.m. Mr. Charles Blount, Actuary. The
gross amount of the capital invested by the Charitable Societies,
amounts to £307. 14s. 5d.; and of the Friendly Societies,
to £18,362. 5s. 4d.
The Royal Baths, situated at
Benbow-place, were established in 1831, by Mr. William
Onions. The front of the building exhibits a chaste design,
being ornamented by a portico, supported by two Ionic pillars,
and two pilasters. The conveniences, are varied and ample,
and such as are only to be met with in the first rate
establishments in the kingdom. The moderate charges and
strict attention to cleanliness and comfort will, no doubt,
insure to them an extensive patronage. The swimming bath is
of sufficient dimensions to enable persons to learn or practice
the art of swimming; there are also hot, air, vapour, shower,
warm, medicated, salt, and fresh water baths in constant
readiness. A charge of 21s. per annum is made for the use
of the swimming bath, and sixpence for a single bath.
The Shrewsbury Waterworks were
established, by a company of shareholders, under an act of
parliament, obtained in 1830, for the purpose of affording the
inhabitants a constant supply of water from the Severn. The
works are situated in Chester-street, and the water is raised by
means of a steam engine, capable of throwing up 20,000 gallons
per hour,
into a large reservoir near the top of Pride-hill, and thence
distributed in pipes to all parts of the town. The town is
also gratuitously supplied with excellent water from a fine
spring called Broadwell, near Crow Meole, distant about two
miles, being conducted thence to conduits placed in different
parts of the town for the convenience of the inhabitants.
Few towns have such an excellent and abundant supply of this fine
beverage of nature.
The Gas Works are situated in the
Castle Foregate, near the goods depôt of the Shrewsbury and
Ellesmere canal. They were established in 1820 by a company
of shareholders with a capital stock of £10,000 raised in
£10 shares. The luminous vapour is supplied from
three gasometers which will hold together 80,000 cubic feet of
gas.
The Railway Station.—The
united station of the Shrewsbury and Chester, the Shrewsbury and
Birmingham, and the Shrewsbury and Stafford branch of the
Shropshire Union Railway, is a magnificent structure in the
perpendicular style of architecture, situated near the
Castle-gates. It exhibits a frontage of 150 feet in length,
and two stories in height, with a square tower in the centre,
ornamented with a richly carved battlement, with octagonal
turrets of considerable elevation, at the corners. On each
side of the tower extends a large wing, divided into four equal
spaces by projecting turrets. The ridge of the roof is
finished with an ornamental cast iron crest, and the windows are
divided by stone transoms and mullions. The total cost of
the station-house, offices, and engineering works, was
£51,000; the goods, engine-station, and other necessary
works £20,000. The gross cost of the above works,
including the viaduct of the Severn, contiguous to the station,
and the bridge over Castle Foregate, exceeded £100,000.
The ground floor is appropriated to booking offices, waiting
rooms, and a large refreshment room; above are the offices for
the clerks, and other offices. The platforms respectively
measure 600 feet, and 450 in length, and 16 feet wide. A
wrought iron roof, beautifully designed, of 70 feet span, covers
the platforms and lines of rails for a space of 450 feet.
The goods and coal depots are situated between the station and
Coton-hill, with convenient access from Castle Foregate-street:
here an abundance of coal, lime, and slates is always on
hand. Near the station is the Viaduct over the
Severn, consisting of seven elliptical arches, 45 feet
span. The rails are 36 feet above the ordinary level of the
river. A cast iron bridge of sixty-four feet span, from the
Brymbo iron works, carries the Shrewsbury and Chester railway
over the Castle Foregate. The whole of the works were
executed by Mr. Brassey, the contractor, under the direction of
Mr. James Baylis, the resident engineer, at the joint expense of
the several companies whose lines unite in Shrewsbury.
Lord Hill’s Column, erected
to commemorate the brilliant victories and achievements of that
distinguished warrior, stands on rising ground near the entrance
of Abbey Foregate, from the London road, and forms a conspicuous
and interesting object to the surrounding country. This
fine Doric pillar, considered to be the largest in the world, was
completed on the 18th of June, 1816, at a cost of £5,973.
13s. 2d. The pedestal, which is square, has a buttress at
each angle, on which is a lion couchant, worked out of Grinshill
free stone, of which material is the column. The chastely
fluted shaft is surmounted by a cylindrical pedestal, supporting
a statue of his lordship, of colossal proportions, executed in
artificial stone, by Messrs. Coade and Sealey, London. The
statue is 17 feet high, and the height of the pillar 116 feet,
making a total height of 133 feet from the ground to the top of
the statue. A beautiful spiral staircase, the munificent
donation of the builder, Mr. Straphen, winds round the interior
of the shaft, and opens on the summit, at the base of the
pedestal of the statue, whence the visitor will enjoy a beautiful
panoramic view of Shrewsbury and the fertile plains of
Shropshire, unrivalled in extent and splendour. On the
sides of the pedestal are inscriptions, recording the victories
of the gallant general, to whose honour this voluntary tribute of
Salopian esteem was erected.
The Armoury, situated near to St.
Giles’ church, is a spacious brick edifice, built by
government in 1806, at an expense of £10,000, and intended
as a depôt for containing the arms of the volunteer corps of
this and the adjoining counties. The principal building is
135 feet long by 39 feet wide, divided into an upper and lower
story, capable of containing 25,000 stand of arms; at each angle
is a small residence, and within the enclosure are two magazines
for ammunition. The arms having been removed to Chester,
the premises have remained unoccupied ever since. The
structure now presents a dilapidated appearance; it has become by
purchase the property of Lord Berwick.
The County Court Offices for the
recovery of debts not exceeding £20 are situate in Wyle
Cop. The court contains within its jurisdiction the
following parishes and places, viz.:—Acton Burnell,
Alberbury, Albrighton, Astley, Atcham, Baschurch, Battlefield,
Berrington, Cardington, Cardiston, Church Preen, Church
Pulverbatch, Church Stretton, Condover, Cound, Cressage,
Easthope, Eaton-under-Haywood, Eaton Constantine, Fitz, Ford,
Frodesley, Great Harwood, Great Ness, Habberley, Hadnal, Harley,
Haughmond Demesne, Hope Bowdler, Hughley, Kenley, Leebotwood,
Leighton, Little Ness, Longnor, Melverley, Meole Brace, Middle,
Minsterley, Montford, Petton, Pitchford, Pontesbury, Preston
Gubballs, Ruckley and Langley, Rushbury, Shineton, Shipton,
Shrawardine, Shrewsbury—viz.: St. Chad, St. Julian, St.
Mary except Clive, and Holy Cross and St. Giles, and Smethcott,
Stapleton, Sutton, Uffington, Uppington, Upton Magna, Westbury,
Withington, Wolstaston, Wollaston and
Wroxeter.—Judge: Uvedale Corbett, Esq., Aston
Hall.—Clerk: Joshua John Peele, Esq.,
Murivance.—High Bailiff: Mr. Henry Bloxham, St.
Mary’s square.—Bailiffs: Edward Bury and
Richard Prinn.
The Cattle Market or New Smithfield, situated near the banks of
the Severn, on a plot of land called Raven Meadow, is approached
from the lower part of Mardol, and the Castle gates nearly
opposite the railway station. This market covers four acres
of land, and is not surpassed by any provincial market in England
for the conveniences it affords, and its adaptation to the
purposes intended. It was opened on November 19th,
1850. The total cost has been £15,000, of which
£2500 was expended in raising the ground. A lofty
brick wall surrounds the market, which is capable of affording
accommodation for 700 horses, 1400 cattle, 5000 sheep, and 1000
pigs, with suitable trial ground for the horses, appropriate pens
for the sheep and pigs, and a long range of sheds under the north
wall for the cattle. If the tolls are not sufficient to pay
the interest of the money borrowed for the formation of the
market, the act of parliament authorizes a rate upon the town to
meet the deficiency. The market or fair is held every
alternate Tuesday, when stock of all kinds is brought in very
considerable quantities for sale.
Fairs for cattle, horses, sheep,
pigs, and fat stock are held every alternate Tuesday. The
following will be the dates for the year 1851,
viz.:—January 14, 28; February 11, 25; March 11, 25; April
8, 22; May 6, 20; June 3, 17; July 1, 15, 29; August 12, 26;
September 9, 23; October 7, 21; November 4, 18; December 2, 16,
30.
Butter and Cheese Fair is held on
the Wednesday following the first fair in each month.
The Wool Fair takes place on July 1
and August 26.
The English Bridge is a substantial
and elegant structure, 400 feet in length, and composed of seven
arches, crowned by a bold balustrade. It was erected in
1774, at an expense of £15,710, of which £11,494 was
raised by voluntary subscriptions. The central arch is
sixty feet in width, and forty in height, which is double the
height of the end arches, and consequently disagreeably steep;
the breadth of the thoroughfare is also inconveniently narrow
(only twenty-five feet) for the innumerable carriages and
passengers which are continually passing over it. The
object in its construction was to contrive as much space as
possible for the water during floods. With the exception of
this defect, its architectural beauty is surpassed by few bridges
in the kingdom; it is highly ornamental to the town, and an
equally noble monument of the public spirit of the gentry of the
county. The keystone of the central arch is adorned with a
fine head of Sabrina, “goddess of the river,”
and that on the opposite side with a head of Neptune, the
“father of fountains.” The keystones of the
other arches are worked into a shell; on the central piers of the
arches are finely carved dolphins.
The old English bridge, built probably by the abbots and
burgesses conjointly, was taken down on the completion of the
present structure. It was constructed on seventeen arches,
and extended over the main stream, also an arm of the river now
filled up which flowed into the Meole Brook; its length was 864
feet, and the breadth only 12 feet, being greatly encumbered with
houses. Near the eastern extremity was a gate and a strong
embattled tower, with chamber and portcullis, and beyond a
draw-bridge.
The Welsh Bridge, so called on
account of the road from Shrewsbury to a considerable part of
North Wales lying over it, is situated at the foot of Mardol, and
crosses the river into the populous suburb of Frankwell. It
is a bold and substantial structure, consisting of five arches,
the length being 266 feet and the breadth 30 feet, completed in
1795, at an expense of £8000, raised by
subscriptions. The old Welsh bridge taken down on the
erection of the above structure, was situated a few yards higher
up the stream than the present fabric. It was a most
interesting monument of antiquity, and consisted of seven arches,
with massive gate towers at each extremity, in the finest style
of castellated building. Leland, who visited Shrewsbury in
1539, in describing this bridge says:—“It is the
greatest, faynest, and highest upon the stream, having six great
arches of stone; it standeth on the west syde of the towne, and
hath at the one end of it a great gate to enter by into the
towne; and at the other end towardes Wales a mighty stronge towre
to prohibit enemies to enter on the bridge.” Above
one of the gates stood an armed statue of a knight, which was
removed in 1791, and placed in a niche in front of the
Market-house. This effigy was an important object of
attraction to the Welshmen, from a tradition, that it represented
Llewelyn, Prince of Wales. Antiquaries, from its attendant
embellishments, state it represented Richard Duke of York.
The tolls arising from marketable goods over this bridge were
abolished by the payment of £6000 to the corporation, which
sum was raised by public subscriptions.
The Railway Viaduct over the
Severn, situated a little east from the station, consists of
seven elliptical arches, forty-five span, and thirty-six feet
above the ordinary level of the river. The whole has a
bold, massive, and elegant appearance.—A BRIDGE of cast iron of sixty-four feet
span, crosses the Castle Foregate, and carries the four lines of
rails of the Chester and Shrewsbury railway.—A WOODEN BRIDGE, consisting of two timber
arches, eighty-five feet span each, on the bow and spring
principle, leads from the public walk called the Dana, over the
railway station, to the front of the county gaol.
Trade and Manufactures.—The
trade of this town was once esteemed of great importance to the
kingdom, and though its consequence has been eclipsed by the
subsequent increase of other places, yet it has never been
destitute of a considerable share of internal commerce. In
early times it was distinguished for its glove cloth, and shoe
manufactories, but its ancient traffic in Welsh woollens was in a
great measure the cause of the former opulence of
Shrewsbury. Camden, in his account of the town in 1586,
observes:—“It is a fine city, and of good commerce;
and by the industry of the citizens and their cloth manufacture,
and their trade with the Welsh, is very rich, for hither the
Welsh commodities are brought as to the common mart.”
Pennant, who wrote more than half a century ago,
says:—“From very early days this place possessed
almost exclusively the trade with Wales, in a coarse kind of
woollen cloth called Welsh webs, which were brought from Merinoth
and Montgomeryshire to a market held here weekly on
Thursday. They were afterwards dressed, that is, the wool
raised on one side, by a set of people called shearmen. At
the time of Queen Elizabeth the trade was so great, that not
fewer than 600 persons maintained themselves by this
occupation. The cloth was sent chiefly to America to clothe
the negroes, or to Flanders, where it is used by the
peasants. At present the greatest part of this traffic is
diverted into other channels, and not more than four or five hundred
thousand yards are brought to the ancient mart.” The
stout Welshmen were accustomed to come to the market, with troops
of hardy ponies, each with a halter of twisted straw, and laden
with bales of cloth.
It was a practice of the drapers and shearmen to assemble at
the Market-house at two o’clock, and according to ancient
usage proceed up stairs in seniority. The traffic was a
ready money business, and as the Welshmen left much of their cash
behind them, in exchange for groceries, malt, and other
commodities, the loss of such a trade may easily be conceived,
when it is said that more than six hundred pieces of web have
been sold in one day. The Welsh flannels were formerly made
by the rural population, and the small farmers employed their
female domestics at leisure hours in this business. These
seldom made more than four or five pieces during the year, and
those from the wool of their own flocks. The principal
manufacturers were farmers, who maintained servants solely for
that purpose, and hired weavers by the year. They produced
forty or fifty pieces annually at market, each measuring from 100
to 150 yards; and, as it was a ready money trade, many of them
made considerable sums. At present, chiefly from the
introduction of spinning mills and the power loom, this ancient
domestic manufacture is almost swept away. The market,
formerly held here every Thursday, is now removed to Welshpool,
Newton, and Llanidloes, which has nearly caused the total
extinction of this branch of local commerce. There are now
only two flannel merchants in the town, and they visit the
different localities in which the flannels are manufactured to
purchase their goods.
The general trade and prosperity of Shrewsbury are said to
have been very much injured by the exactions of its guilds or
incorporated companies, the most considerable of which are the
drapers and the mercers. The former were incorporated by
Edward IV., and united with an ancient guild or fraternity of the
Holy Trinity, founded in the church of St. Mary. Their
company is recognised by several subsequent acts of
parliament. They have now a considerable estate, originally
purchased by the voluntary contributions of the members, which is
expended in the support of the inmates of St. Mary’s
almshouses, in liberal subscriptions to the charitable
institutions of the town, and in relief to widows and families of
deceased members. On the south-west side of St.
Mary’s church is the Drapers’ Hall, a curious
half-timbered building, erected, probably, about the time of
Elizabeth. The large room, finely wainscotted with old oak,
contains two massive oak tables, and a fine old chest, with
richly carved ornaments. Portraits of the royal founder of
the company, and of Degory Watur and his spouse, decorate the
wainscot. Among the records of the Drapers’ Company
are the following:—“25 Elizabeth, 1583, ordered that
no draper set out for Oswestry on Monday before six
o’clock, on forfeiture of 6s. 8d., and that they should
wear their weapons all the way, and go in company. Not to
go over the Welsh Bridge before the bell tolls
six.”—“27 of Elizabeth, 1585, a market was held
at Knocking, and a halfpenny paid by the drapers for every piece
of cloth bought.”—“1621, agreed to buy no more
cloth in Oswestry.”
The Mercers were incorporated by Edward IV., on condition that
they should maintain a priest to sing at the altar of St. Michael
in the collegiate church of St. Chad; that they should give a
penny a week to thirteen poor men, to pray for the good estate of
the king, his family, and themselves; and also find a wax taper
to be carried before the holy sacrament on the procession of
Corpus Christi, on the celebration of which day it was customary
for all the companies to unite as their grand anniversary, and
preceded by their masters and wardens, ornamented with colours
and curious devices they attended the bailiffs and members of the
corporation, who, with the friars of the convents and the
parochial clergy, followed the holy sacrament, which was borne by
priests under a rich canopy of velvet, to a stone cross without
the town (probably that now called the Weeping Cross). Here
all joined in bewailing their sins, and in chanting forth
petitions for a plentiful harvest; they then returned in the same
order to the church of St. Chad, when a grand mass was celebrated.
Three days of unbounded jollity and recreation followed this
magnificent festival. These were held on a piece of ground
called “Kingsland,” where
each company had its “arbour,” and the several
incorporated communities, accompanied by bands of music, flags,
and devices emblematical of their craft, preceded by a
“King” or some other principal personage, assembled
at their respective arbours and spent the time with much
festivity. After the reformation the religions ceremony was
abolished, but one day of entertainment is still observed under
the denomination of the Shrewsbury
Show, now held on the second Monday after Trinity
Sunday. Each company has still its arbour or pavilion,
adorned with the arms of the company, in which refreshments are
provided. These are visited by the mayor and corporation,
who used formerly to wear their robes of office upon this
occasion. The following is an entry from the books kept by
the bailiffs, dated 1521:—“Wine to the Bishop of
Coventry and Lichfield, president of our lord the king’s
council in the marches of Wales at the general procession of
Corpus Christi, 3s. 8d.” The show was revived and
kept up with much pageantry in 1850. The ancient
Tailors’ Hall formerly stood on College Hill; the
Weavers’ Hall on Wyle Cop; the Cloth
Workers’ Hall in High-street, and the Mercers’
Hall in the King’s Head Shutt. The chief
manufactories at the present time in Shrewsbury are the extensive
establishment of Messrs. Marshall and Co., for flax spinning and
the manufacture of linen thread, where upwards of 800 operatives
are employed. The factory is a spacious and lofty building,
situated in St. Michael-street; the aggregate amount of steam
power employed is equal to 116 horses. Linen was formerly
extensively manufactured here; a linen and flax mill was taken
down about fifteen years ago; there are now only about half a
dozen hands employed in weaving linen. The cotton
manufacture was introduced into Shrewsbury in 1790, when several
factories were built at Coleham, and the trade was carried on in
a spirited manner. In 1817 the proprietor, in consequence
of a great depression in trade, declined business, since which
the mills have been closed, and some portion of them converted
into cottage tenements. Malting is very extensively
carried on, as will be seen in reference to the trades’
list, which will show thirty different firms. Glass
Staining has been brought to the highest state of perfection
by Mr. David Evans, whose ingenious talents and consummate skill
have raised the art to a degree of perfection unequalled in
modern times. The beautiful specimens visible in the
restorations of Winchester and Lichfield cathedrals, in most of
the churches of Shrewsbury, and in churches almost in all parts
of the kingdom, will compare with some of the finest works of the
ancient masters, and speak his merits more forcibly to the
refined taste than whole volumes of feeble encomiums. There
are several Iron-founderies, and the manufacture of
Agricultural Implements is carried onto a considerable
extent, with Tanning and other branches of trade as will
be seen on reference to the trades’ directory. Among
the delicacies for which the town is noted is the Shrewsbury
Cake, a delicious sweet cake, which the poet Shenstone speaks
of as “Rend’ring through Britain’s isle
Salopian’s praises known.” The Simnel
Cake is also much admired, and great quantities are made
about the season of Christmas. It consists of an exterior
crust or shell deeply tinged with saffron, enclosing a compound
of rich fruit. The Shrewsbury Brawn is highly
celebrated among the connoisseurs of this ancient Christmas
dish.
The Quarry.—This fine public
promenade occupies a rich sloping meadow of about twenty acres,
on the west side of the town, and derives its name from a disused
stone quarry nearly in the centre, which supplied a considerable
part of the red sand stone visible in the older portions of the
walls and churches of Shrewsbury. An avenue of lofty lime
trees, more than five hundred yards in length, follows the
windings of the Severn; to the middle and at each end of which,
three other shaded walks lead from various parts of the
town. “The still retirement and pleasing gloom of
this delightful grove, from which the noise of the busy town, and
even a prospect of its buildings, are almost entirely
excluded—the refreshing coolness of its shade—the
rich verdure which ever clothes its meadow—the fine sweep of its
umbrageous arch—and the majestic flow of the river, which
here combine to render it the favourite and constant resort of
the inhabitants, and a principal attraction to the
stranger.” The opposite bank of the Severn rises
abruptly, and is crowned with the House of Industry, an extensive
and handsome building, and some modern plantations, contribute
greatly to embellish the scene, and render it one of the finest
public walks in the kingdom. The ground was planted and
laid out during the mayoralty of Henry Jenks, Esq., in the year,
1719, previous to which it was a waste plot of land, where the
inhabitants were used to indulge in feats of wrestling, tilting
and other sports. In a place called the Dingle, planted
with a clump of magnificent trees, are the remains of a rude
amphitheatre, with ascending seats cut in the bank, where the
friars of the adjacent convent entertained the Salopians with
those ancient, sacred dramas, called mysteries or Whitsun plays,
so famous in the days of our ancestors. Here, also, during
the reign of Elizabeth, many plays were exhibited, in which the
scholars of the free school sustained the principal characters;
among which, in 1565, was a play called Julian the Apostate, and
two years afterwards was exhibited the passion of Christ.
It is said that the Queen herself intended to have honoured the
last with her presence, and had even arrived as far as Coventry
on her way, but hearing that it was over she returned to
London. The corporation in the year 1569 leased the quarry
to three persons for ten years, for the consideration of a red
rose yearly, on condition that they should bring the water from
Broadwell, near Crow Meole, in leaden pipes as high as it would
run into the town of Shrewsbury. By this means the water
was first brought into the town; the work was completed in the
year 1574, and then the conduits were first opened.
The Horse Races are held annually
in the second week in May, and continue for two days; they
attract a considerable influx of visitors to the town, but are
not so celebrated as they were in former times. The race
course is situated a quarter of a mile N.N.E. from the Abbey
Church, on the road leading to Monk Moor. It also bears the
name of “the soldiers’ piece,” and is pointed
out by tradition as the spot on which the unfortunate Charles I.,
when at Shrewsbury in 1642, drew up his army and addressed the
assembled gentry of the county on the subject of his
distresses.
The Assembly Room was erected in
1777, at the back of the Lion Hotel; the room is commodious and
suitably decorated, and the balls are usually attended by the
rank and fashion of the county.
The Billiard Rooms are situated in
the Market-square; the third story of the Music Hall has been
divided into convenient apartments, which are now occupied as
billiard rooms, of which Mr. Edward Vaughan is the
proprietor.
Aquatic Excursions.—Much
pleasure and healthy exercise is afforded on the Severn during
the summer months, and an emulation of skill is frequently
excited among the rowers. Boats may be hired at a moderate
charge, and pleasure parties frequently take an excursion up the
river to the picturesque and shady banks of Berwick and the Isle,
or to the rural village of Uffington. The Severn also
affords much pleasure to the votaries of the “gentle
craft,” the river being celebrated for the excellency of
its salmon, besides which trout, pike, grayling, perch, and many
other sorts of fish are caught.
Kingsland is a plot of ground
covering twenty-seven acres on the south west side of the town,
the common property of the burgesses, thirty of whom in rotation
receive annually 4s. 6d. from its produce, in lieu for a
“turn for their kine.” It is studded with small
enclosures and “arbours,” to which the several
incorporated trading companies of the town annually resort in
procession on the Monday after Trinity Sunday, accompanied by
bands of music and devices emblematical of their craft; a more
particular account of which has been noticed with the various
guilds.
Monastic Foundations.—The
Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, which stood on the eastern
banks of the Severn, in the suburb which still bears its name,
owes its foundation to Roger de Montgomery, the first Norman Earl of
Shrewsbury. In the time of the Saxons it is said a church
stood on or near this spot, and a community of monks was in all
probability united to it. The Danes, during their ravages
in the ninth century, plundered and depopulated monastic
institutions, and this it is conjectured fell with the
rest. The kingdom becoming more settled under the reign of
Edgar, many of the abbey churches which had till then laid
desolate were taken possession of by secular priests, who,
swerving from the strictness of monastic life, engaged in the
active concerns of society. Such, apparently, was the state
of the monastery of Shrewsbury at the time of the Norman
invasion. The church, then a rude edifice of wood, was
governed by Odelirius, a priest, who as archpresbyter, presided
over a college of married secular clergy. Its district was
called the parish of the city. From the fact that the
portion of each prebend, at the death of the incumbent, should
revert to the monks of a new abbey, there can be no doubt that at
this period it was collegiate. This was the cause of much
litigation, it being customary for ecclesiastical livings to
descend as by inheritance to the next of blood. These
claims were, however, abolished during the reign of Henry
I. In the seminary belonging to this ancient church, a
priest named Seward is mentioned as an eminent teacher, and to
him the historian Ordericus Vitalis owed his education.
When Roger de Montgomery took possession of his territories in
Shropshire, he determined to refound the monastery, and to
introduce into it the monks of his favourite order, St. Benedict,
whom he invited over from a religious house founded on the
estates of Mabel, his first Countess, at Sees, in Normandy.
He obtained the land on which the monastery of Shrewsbury stood
from Siward, a Saxon nobleman, and in 1083 laid the foundation of
a magnificent abbey, which, when finished, was re-dedicated to
St. Peter and St. Paul, the patrons of the ancient
monastery. With the consent of his Countess, Adelaisa, he
retired to the holy solitude of his monastery and received the
tonsure and habit of a monk, on which occasion he presented the
fraternity with the tunic of Hugh, the sainted abbot of Clugin,
in Burgundy, which vestment he occasionally wore, doubtless in
anxious hope of its communicating some portion of the sanctity of
its former possessor. In the immediate prospect of his
dissolution he invested himself with this precious relic, thus
exemplifying the pitiable superstition of those who “put on
the weeds of Dominic or Franciscan and think to pass
disguised.” He was buried in the Lady Chapel, between
the two altars.
His second son, Hugh, succeeded to the Earldom of Shrewsbury,
soon after which he paid a solemn visit to the abbey, to do
homage to the tomb of his father, on which occasion, though of a
profligate and cruel character, he added greatly to the
endowments of the institution; and, among other things, conferred
on the monks the tithe of all the venison of his forests in
Shropshire, that of Wenlock excepted. The barons who
attended Earl Hugh, imitated his munificence and conferred large
estates on the abbey. By these and other acquisitions the
revenues of the house were greatly enriched, and the abbot
obtained the honour of ranking among those spiritual barons who
sat and voted in parliament, had the authority of bishops within
their houses, wore the mitre, sandals, and gloves, carried silver
crosiers in their hands, gave their episcopal benediction,
conferred the lesser orders, and in some instances were exempt
from all authority of the diocesan. It is uncertain when
these high functions were first exercised, but the abbot of
Shrewsbury is mentioned among the spiritual lords who voted in
parliament in the 49th of Henry III.
In the days of King Stephen, when the popular passion for
relics had attained an unbounded extravagance, the monks of
Shrewsbury determined not to be behindhand with their brethren in
availing themselves of so fruitful a source of opulence;
therefore, during the abbacy of Herbert, the third abbot, they
commenced business on their own account. After ransacking
the legends of Wales for a subject, they at length had the good
fortune to pitch upon one sufficiently absurd for their purpose,
in the bones of the martyred Virgin St. Wenefrede, which lay
interred in the churchyard at Gwytherin, in Denbighshire.
After much fruitless negotiation with the priest and the people
of Gwytherin, the abbot of Shrewsbury procured an order from
Henry I. for the translation of the sacred dust to his
monastery. The Welshmen honoured their saint more than
their king, and turned a deaf ear alike to entreaties and
menace. The Salopian monks persevering in their purpose,
held a chapter, in which Robert Pennant, their prior, a
Denbighshire man, who is supposed to have fabricated the legend,
was commissioned to make a pilgrimage to Gwytherin, and to leave
no expedients untried for obtaining possession of the
relics. Assisted by a priest in Wales, two clever monks of
his abbey, and the prior of Chester, he practised on the
credulity of the Welsh by pretended visions and divine
warnings. The prize was given up, and the delegates
returned with it in triumph to Shrewsbury, where it was enshrined
with great pomp and solemnity, near the high altar of St. Peter
and St. Paul. The speculation of the monks was completely
successful; multitudes of pilgrims flocked with gifts to the
shrine, and even nobles contended who should offer the richest
donations. In addition to these treasured bones the monks
in after times appear to have possessed a most extensive and
varied assortment of other relics, doubtless of equal value and
efficacy. In 1486 the abbot Thomas Mynde incorporated the
devotees of St. Wenefrede into a religions guild or fraternity,
founded by him in her honour. A great bell was also
dedicated to her memory. One of the most remarkable persons
this house produced was Robert of Shrewsbury, a monk, who was
promoted to the see of Bangor, in the reign of Henry II.
His influence in Wales excited the jealously of King John, who
imprisoned him in his own cathedral, and for his ransom obliged
him to pay three hundred hawks. This eminent prelate, it is
said by his will, ordered his body to be buried, not in his
cathedral church, but in the middle of the market place of
Shrewsbury. At the various visits with which the English
sovereigns honoured Shrewsbury, it is highly probable that they
took up their residence in the abbey, and there can be little
doubt that the parliament of Edward I., 1283, and that of Richard
II., 1398, called the Great Parliament, were held within the
monastery. At the dissolution of 1513, when the property
and possessions of this monastery fell to the crown, the
burgesses of Shrewsbury presented a petition that the abbey might
be converted into a college or free school, to which request
Henry refused to accede, alleging as a reason his intention of
erecting Shrewsbury into a bishopric, the diocese of which was to
include the counties of Salop and Staffordshire, and the
endowments to consist of the monastic revenues. Dr.
Bouchier, the last abbot of Leicester, was actually nominated
Bishop of Shrewsbury, and hence it is said arose the appellation
“Proud Salopians,” founded on the tradition that the
inhabitants rejected the offer of having their borough converted
into a city. The bailiffs and principal inhabitants of the
city in vain petitioned their monarch to spare the buildings of
the monastery. On the 22nd of July, 1546, Henry VIII.
granted the site of the dissolved abbey to Edward Watson and
Henry Henderson, who the next day conveyed the same to William
Langley, a tailor, in whose family it continued for five
generations, until 1701, when Jonathan Langley, Esq., devised it
to Edward Baldwyn, Esq., and he in like manner in 1726 passed it
to his sister Bridget, wife of Thomas Powys, Esq. In 1810
the premises were sold by the trustees of the wife of Thomas Jelf
Powys, Esq., to Mr. Simon Hiles, in whose devisees they are now
vested. The property with which the abbey had been endowed
at various periods, comprised seventy manors, twenty-four
churches, and the tithes of thirty-seven parishes, besides very
extensive and valuable privileges and immunities of various
kinds. In 26 Henry VIII., their possessions were found of
the yearly value of £572. 15s. 5¾d., equal to
£4700 in the present day. Pensions were assigned to
the late abbot, Thomas Boteler, and the seventeen monks.
The abbey presents few features of its ancient grandeur, the
chapter house, cloister, and refectory are entirely
destroyed. In the stately chapter house occurred the early
authorised assembly of that popular representation in the
constitution of this kingdom, to which, under Providence,
Englishmen have been indebted for much of their subsequent
prosperity. From the important state affairs which were
transacted here in 1307–8 it was denominated the Great
Parliament. The cross of Canterbury was brought here, upon
which the lords spiritual and temporal were sworn to observe and
keep all the statutes which were then made. Here too,
Richard II., attended by a numerous guard of Cheshire men,
entertained the members of his parliament with a sumptuous
feast. The site of the abbey embraced upwards of ten acres,
but it is no longer possible to trace the wide circuit of the
ancient embattled walls. In 1836, on excavating near the
site of the chapter house, a leaden seal was found, which had
once been appended to a bull from the pope, whose name is thus
inscribed on it:—INNOCENTUS. P.P. IIII.
The most interesting portions of the ruins is a little octagonal
structure, six feet in diameter, which is generally called the
Stone Pulpit, the admiration of every antiquary and person of
taste. Some broken steps lead to the interior through a
narrow flat arched door on each side. The south part stands
upon a portion of a ruined wall, and originally looked into one
of the outer courts. The corresponding moiety projected
considerably within the hall, and rests upon a single corbel,
terminating in a head. From this point it gradually
spreads, with a variety of delicately ribbed mouldings, until it
forms the basement under the floor. The whole is crowned
with a dome of stone work, at about eight feet from the base,
supported on six narrow pointed arches, rising from pillars
similar to the mullions of the windows. One of the
remaining sides of the octagon is a solid blank wall, and the
other contains the door. The roof within is vaulted on
eight delicate ribs springing out of the wall, and adorned at
their intersection in the centre, by a boss representing an open
flower, on which is displayed a delicate sculpture of the
crucifixion. The spaces between the divisions of the three
northern arches, are filled up four feet above the base, with
stone panels, over which they are entirely open, and the light
thus introduced is productive of a beautiful effect. On the
centre panel is a rich piece of sculpture designed to represent
the annunciation. The right hand panel bears the images of
St. Peter and St. Paul; that on the left St. Wenefrede and the
abbot Beuno. The architecture of this interesting structure
is referred to the time of Henry VIII. Much conjecture has
arisen among antiquaries respecting its probable use, but there
can be little doubt that it originally projected from the wall of
the refectory, and was used as a pulpit, from which one of the
junior brethren of the monastery, in compliance with the rule of
the Benedictine order, daily read or recited aloud, during meal
times, a subject of divinity to the monks during dinner.
Southward from the pulpit is a range of red sand stone building,
now incorporated with the abbey house. To the south east is
the abbot lodge, of which the only remnant is a portion of the
cloister, consisting of three pointed arches. The dormitory
was cut through on the formation of a new line of road in
1836.
Shrewsbury Castle.—The events
which belong to the Castle are intimately connected with the
history of the town, where they are more fully noticed. Its
founder, Roger de Montgomery, made it his residence soon after
the Conquest, and it became the chief seat of his baronial
power. As his new possessions had been acquired by the
sword, Earl Roger considered the inhabitants as his property;
therefore, to afford an eligible site for his new buildings, he
is stated to have destroyed fifty houses; a fifth part of the
town at that period. After the fall of the great house of
Montgomery, in the reign of Henry I., on the forfeiture of Earl
Robert de Belesme, the Castle became a royal fortress. Its
defence was entrusted to a constable, usually the sheriff, who
maintained the prison of the county within its walls; and the
vast possessions annexed to it were parcelled out among various
knights, on the condition of their keeping castle-ward for a
certain number of days during war. During the turbulent
reign of Henry III. the castle fell into great dilapidation; but
his son, Edward I., immediately on his accession, almost entirely
rebuilt the structure. The stronger portion of the castle
now remaining was probably erected by direction of that monarch,
being in the style generally adopted during his reign.
It was at this time considered rather as a place of great
consequence in protecting the country from the invasions of the
Welsh, than as a royal or baronial residence. By the union
with Wales all apprehensions on this ground vanished, and the
importance of the castle as a fortress ceased. In the time of Henry
VIII. it seems to have been rapidly hastening to decay.
Leland, who then saw it, observes that it had been a
“stronge thynge, but now much in mine.” In the
reign of Elizabeth, a grant was made of its site and buildings to
Richard Onslow, Esq., who subsequently transferred his interest
in it to the corporation.
During the civil war, in the reign of Charles I., the Castle
resumed some share of its former importance, and was garrisoned
for the royal party. The dilapidated walls were repaired,
and its gates strongly fortified. After its surrender to
the parliamentary forces, in 1645, it escaped the destruction
that fell upon many other castles, owing to the circumstance of
its being entrusted by the House of Commons to the government of
Colonel Mitton, a native of the county, who, displeased with the
virulent persecution of the king, soon after resigned his
commission. Colonel Mackworth was then appointed governor,
and he was succeeded by Colonel Hunt. On the restoration of
Charles II., the property of the Castle returned to the
burgesses, who in 1663 surrendered it to the king. That
monarch shortly afterwards presented it to Viscount Newport,
afterwards Earl of Bradford. The garrison at this time
consisted of two companies with their officers; the daily
expenses of which, as given in an old record, are stated at
£8. 17s., or £3,230. 5s. per annum. The Castle
continued in a fortified state, and had a large magazine of arms,
which was not removed till the reign of James II. It is
probable that the out-works were in a great measure destroyed,
and its ancient chapel demolished, about this period. The
part still remaining was leased by the Earl of Bradford to Mr.
Gosnell. About the year 1730, this gentleman converted it
into a gloomy habitation, in which state it remained until Sir
William Pulteney repaired and greatly improved it. The
outer walls of the Castle are now undergoing a complete
reparation by the present proprietor, the Duke of Cleveland.
The Castle stands boldly elevated on a considerable eminence
on the narrow isthmus formed by the windings of the Severn, which
in every other part, by surrounding Shrewsbury, formed a portion
of its defence. It has undergone so many changes, and has
suffered so much from the dilapidations of time, that it is not
easy to form any correct notion of its original state. Its
appearance does not convey an adequate idea of the size,
stateliness, or the strength of a great baronial fortress, placed
in so important a position as Shrewsbury was once esteemed.
The present buildings are of red free stone, and consist of the
keep, the walls of the inner court, and the great arch of the
interior gate. How far the original fortifications extended
cannot now be absolutely determined. It is probable that
the usual appendages of feudal castles, the outer court or
ballium, with its strong gate, portcullis, and towers, once made
part of the fortress, and extended, perhaps, beyond the Council
House. The keep is a square building of great strength,
connected with two round towers, embattled and pierced, and
originally consisted of one great apartment on each of the upper
floors. The interior as well as the exterior has been
greatly altered. In the vestibule is a statue of the
founder, Roger de Montgomery. A handsome stone staircase,
of modern construction, leads from the vestibule to the principal
apartments. The drawing room, a spacious and handsome
apartment, was used as a guard chamber in the time of Charles
I. A narrow stone staircase within the wall, lighted by
chinks, leads to an apartment in the western tower, in which was
a recess, with a strong groined ceiling, and small sharp pointed
windows. This building does not appear older than the time
of Henry III.; the beams are of an immense size, and the walls
are ten feet in thickness. The battlements of the walls are
pierced with narrow cruciform openings, called loops or oilets,
which were intended for the convenience of the
cross-bowmen. The noble arch of the gateway is the only
existing part of the original Norman fortress of Roger de
Montgomery. It is eighteen feet high, semi-circular, and
with plain round facings; and its walls appear to have sustained
a tower, from which hung the portcullis. On the east side
of the court is a postern, built probably in the time of Charles
I., when the fortress was restored; and near it are the massive
foundations of an ancient tower. The Castle still retains
one mark of its ancient dignity, for in the area of the inner
court the knights of the shire are nominated, and from time
immemorial have been girt with their swords by the sheriff.
On the south side of the court is a lofty mount, which rises
abruptly from the Severn, the summit of which is crowned with
ruinous walls, and an ancient watch tower for the purpose of
descrying an enemy at a distance. This was rebuilt about
thirty years ago, and converted into a beautiful summer room,
commanding a fine panoramic view, and now called Laura’s
Tower. From the above mount there is also a view of
uncommon grandeur and beauty—the sides of the mount are
richly clothed with foliage, the Severn winds majestically
below—the eye of the spectator beholds in succession, the
town, with its spires and turrets, its beautiful suburbs, and a
wide sweep of finely wooded and diversified country, with the
most extensive amphitheatre of mountains of which perhaps the
island can boast. The majestic Wrekin is connected by the
hills of Acton Burnell and Frodesley with the towering heights of
the Lawley and Caradoc, from whence the Long Mynd, Stiperstones,
and Long Mountain, form an uninterrupted chain, with the bold and
precipitous cliffs of Kefn-y-Castyr and Breddyn;—thence the
horizon is bounded by the stupendous Berwin range, losing its
blue summit in the clouds,—while the northern prospect is
terminated by the humbler eminences of Grinshill, Pymhill,
Hawkstone, and Haughmond.
When the frontier situation of Shrewsbury is considered, and
that for four centuries it was, perhaps, the most important
station on the marches of Wales, it is extraordinary that, though
it has several times fallen into the enemies’ power by
treachery and surprise, yet it never sustained more than two
sieges, and those in rather early periods of its history.
This circumstance may partly be attributed to the slender hopes
an adverse army must have entertained of reducing by regular
approaches a place so strongly fortified both by nature and art;
for it was not only defended by its castle, but by the river, and
a wall which completely surrounded it.
The Town Walls.—The following
account of the ancient walls of Shrewsbury is chiefly taken from
Phillip’s history of the town:—The walls were built
across the isthmus, from the castle down to the river on each
side, by Robert de Belesme, son of Roger de Montgomery. The
other part of the walls surrounding the town was built in the
reign of Henry III., who earnestly pressed the inhabitants to
fortify and strengthen their borough, lest the enemy should
surprise them unawares. This part of the wall was
thirty-two years in building; it was finished in 1252, to defray
the charge of which the king, at sundry times, granted the
burgesses leases of the tolls of the town, and other favours;
among which, every barge laded with merchandise upon the river
had to pay the charge of fourpence. That part from the
north end of the above-mentioned wall to the Welsh bridge, called
Roushill, was built by Oliver Cromwell in the year 1645, the
stone of which was brought from Shrawardine Castle. The
more accessible parts of the town walls, particularly on the
south and south-western sides, were formerly strengthened by
towers, which are now demolished, excepting one, situated near
the Murivance; it is square, embattled, and of two stories high,
lighted by narrow loop holes, the entrance of the upper story
being from the top wall. The only portions of the ancient
walls now left standing are those on the north side of the town,
extending from the Castle gates towards the Welsh bridge, and on
the south-west side, where they stretch to a considerable
distance. Although reduced in height, and stripped of the
battlements, they form an agreeable walk to the inhabitants of
the town.
Gates and Posterns.—In an
exchequer manuscript, without date, several gates or posterns are
mentioned, to the keepers of which the coroners of the town
delivered bolts and locks for their security. Those at
Shepelache and at Kaymeplace no traces of the names remain.
That called Bulgerlode was under the place formerly called the
Gulph, at the bottom of the Wyle Cop, and Cleremont, on the top of
Claremont Hill. There were also gates in Milk Street,
Barker Street, and Water Lane. The latter only remains, and
is memorable as the avenue through which the parliamentary forces
were treacherously admitted into the town, at the siege of
Shrewsbury, on February 22nd, 1644.
Streets, &c. The
following are some of the ancient names of the principal streets
given in Phillips’ History of Shrewsbury, many of which
have become obsolete.
Mardol, anciently written Marlesford, Mardefoie, and
Mardvoll. It had the name of Marlesford from the ford
through the Severn at the bottom of the street, near the welsh
bridge.
Chepynges-street.—An ancient name probably of the
street leading from the Corn Market to Murivance.
Stalles.—The street leading from Mardol head to
High-street.
High-street, formerly called Baxter’s-row, also
Barker’s-row.
Ickeslode.—A lane that went from Dogpole to the
Walls.
The Sextry was the Shutt from the passage from
Kiln-lane to High-street.
Frankwell, anciently Frankvill; the Frank’s Vill,
probably inhabited by the Franks, for in Doomsday book it is
recorded that a part of the town containing 45 Burgase were
inhabited by those people, who are there called
Francigence.—This place seems to have been regarded
as unconnected with the other part of the town; they had a strong
work erected there for their defence, which at the time
Shrewsbury was taken by the parliamentary forces surrendered upon
bare quarter; and in the year 1640, when the plague began there,
the inhabitants made an attempt to come into the town, but were
beaten back by the bailiffs and townsmen.
Cheddelode.—A lane that went to the Severn, by
Stury’s Close.
Bulgerlode.—A place at the bottom of the Wyle
Cop, taken down in 1766.
Murivance.—A name of French extraction signifying
before the walls, or within the walls.
Murivance-lane, led from the town wall down to the
river.
Sheteplace, in old records written Sotteplace, and
Soetteplace, is now called Shoplatch. Behind the
Walls, from its situation behind the walls, now the
Quarry.
Priest’s-lane, led from the walls near the tower,
to Murivance, now inclosed.
Romboldesham, now called Barber-street.
The Bailey.—That part of the town which lies
before the castle.
Hound-street.—A street leading from the playhouse
to Barber-street.
Grope-lane.—A narrow “shutt” leading
from High-street to Fish street.
Corvisor’s-row.—The same as that which is
now called Pride-hill.
Shoemakers’-row.—In Speed’s map the
lower part of Pride-hill.
Hawmon-strete.—Probably that now called
Castle-street, or Raven-street.
Merival.—At the east end of the New bridge.
Early in the 16th century, Merival was separated from the
jurisdiction of the corporation, and considered a hamlet within
the liberty of the town.
Altus Vicus.—The high pavement, near the Cross
made in 1570.
Ancient Mansions.—The Council House, was so called from having
been the residence of the Council of the Marches of Wales, during
their occasional visits to Shrewsbury. It is situated in
the precincts of the Castle, on a bold acclivity which rises
abruptly from the Severn, and commands a most delightful prospect
of the surrounding country. The house has been modernized,
and divided into several tenements; that portion which comprises
the hall and the great chamber over it, includes nearly the whole
of the building which retains any resemblance of its original
features. It was built about the year 1501. The
unhappy Charles I. resided here for six weeks, upon the
commencement of his troubles in 1642. James II. on his
visit to the town 24th August, 1687, held his court here.
These once magnificent apartments have been subdivided and
despoiled of their rich furniture and beautiful stained
glass. A fine old porch, and the entrance hall with
other relics have been carefully preserved. The present
proprietor, William James Clement, Esq., has furnished several of
the apartments with antique oak furniture, elaborately
carved. The gateway of the council house is an interesting
specimen of the style of architecture which prevailed in the
early part of the 15th century.
The White Hall, situated near the
Abbey Foregate, is a stately mansion, and exhibits a fine
specimen of the Elizabethan style of architecture. It is a
lofty structure with numerous pointed gables; the roof is adorned
with ornamental chimnies, and crowned with a central octagonal
turret. At the back of the mansion is a magnificent walnut
tree, probably coeval with the house. It was formerly the
manorial seat of Richard Prince, Esq., by whom it was built in
1758.
Rowley’s, on Hill’s Mansion, said to have been the
first brick building erected in Shrewsbury, was built in 1618, by
William Rowley, Esq. He amassed great wealth by fortunate
speculations in Barbadoes. His son, Roger Rowley, Esq., was
the first person in this town who kept his carriage. The
daughter and heiress of the latter married John Hill, Esq., who
lived in this mansion, from whom the street received the
appellation of Hill’s-lane, instead of
Knuckin-street. The house has been unoccupied some time, it
now presents a dilapidated appearance.
Ireland’s Mansion, situated
in High-street, a noble timbered residence four stories high,
terminating in pointed gables, was formerly the town residence of
the ancient family of Ireland, long seated at Albrighton.
When entire it must have presented an imposing appearance; it is
now divided into three excellent tenements.
Jones’s Mansion, situate near
St. Mary’s Church, was built by Thomas Jones, Esq., who was
appointed by Charles I. in 1638 the first mayor of
Shrewsbury. Subsequently the mansion became the residence
of Chief Justice Jones. The Duke of York was lodged here in
1624, during the stay of Charles I. in Shrewsbury, and Prince
Rupert made it his residence after the battle of Worcester.
The Judges’ Lodgings,
situated at Belmont, is a spacious residence purchased by the
county in 1821, for providing suitable accommodation for the
Judges during their attendance at the assizes.
In various parts of the town are seen many curious old
timbered houses, interesting as specimens of the domestic
architecture of the honest burghers of former days. Nearly
opposite the Butter Cross stood the mansion of the Prides, who
gave their name to the street. This house has been greatly
modernized, and partly rebuilt. In the Butchers’-row,
is one of the largest, and supposed to be one of the oldest
timber houses in the town. History is silent as to the time
or by whom it was erected. It may have been the town
mansion of the Abbot of Lilleshall, who had a residence in this
part of the parish, and to which monastery the patronage of this
church belonged.
The following is a brief chronological sketch of the most
remarkable events which have at different periods taken place in
the town of Shrewsbury:—
A.D. 961—Land about
Shrewsbury sold for one shilling per acre. The price of an
ox was 2s. 6d., a cow 2s., a sheep 1s., a pig 8d.
1110.—A great earthquake, and great mortality among men
and cattle.
1225.—Three gallons of ale sold for one penny in the
town, and four out of town.
1315.—The price of provisions settled by the
bailiffs.—A corn fed ox 24s., a grass fed ox 16s., a cow
12s., a fat sheep 1s. 8d., a fat hog 3s. 4d., a goose 2d., a hen
1d., a capon 2d., four pigeons 1d., twenty-four eggs 1d.
1347.—A fine horse 6s. 8d., an ox 4s., a sheep 4d., a
lamb 2d.
1349.—The sweating sickness desolated the town.
1421.—Rees-ap-Doe, a Welsh Esquire, was hanged, drawn,
and quartered here for treason.
1454.—Wheat sold for 14d. a quarter (eight strikes).
1490.—Wheat sold for one shilling and eightpence a
bushel.
1509.—Provision made for building upon waste land
and repairing decayed houses, by an Act of Parliament.
1519.—A general Chapter of the Grey Friars held
here.
1520.—Griffith Wickham drawn through the town and
afterwards hanged.
1532.—George Goldsmith drawn through the town and
afterwards hanged, for coining money.
1537.—The plague raged frightfully during this year.
1542.—Rowland Lee, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry,
burned before the high altar of St. Chad’s church.
1563.—The bailiffs agree that no foreigner should be a
freeman of the town without paying £10 and the usual
fees.
1570.—Two men killed by the falling of the clapper out
of St. Wenefrede’s bell, in the Abbey Church.
1571.—Humphrey Onslow built the chapel of our Lady in
St. Chad’s church, and paved the causeway from the
Lord’s place, (the Council House) to the cross, at his own
cost.
1575.—That fearful malady, the plague, again visited
Shrewsbury.
1581.—John Capper, clerk of the Abbey Church, was hanged
at Kingsland for treason.
1582.—John Prestige was hanged upon a gibbet near the
abbey mill, for the murder of his wife.
1588.—Richard Reynolds was put into the pillory and had
both his ears cut off, for setting fire to a sheep-cote.
1591.—After the assizes in September, eight men were
hanged at the Old Heath, one of whom was hung in chains
there.
1596.—Wheat sold for 20s. a bushel, rye for 16s. a
bushel.
1630.—Great numbers died of the plague. In 1632
and 1634—many fell victims to the same malady.
1647.—December 23rd. A woman was burnt in the
dingle of the quarry for poisoning her husband.
1683.—An earthquake felt here, February 7; a dreadful
fire in the Abbey Foregate.
1708.—Wheat sold for 9s. a bushel, muncorn 8s., rye
7.
1715.—It being the time of the rebellion new gates were
made to the walls and the trained band called together.
1726.—Lamps were put up in several parts of the town, at
the expense of the several parishes.
1727.—An earthquake felt here. A great meeting of
quakers from all parts of England.
The judges of the assize were refused the
usual compliments by the mayor, on which account the next assize
was held at Bridgnorth.
1756.—Thirty-seven colliers brought to gaol for rioting
and committing outrages in the county; four died in gaol, and two
were executed.
1758.—The country butchers were again admitted to sell
meat in the town, and shambles were erected for them near St.
Alkmund’s church.
1762.—A great fire happened in New-street, Frankwell, on
the 23rd February.
1766.—February 12th, 13th, and 14th, there fell a great
snow in Shrewsbury, which lay on the ground several days,
eighteen inches deep.
1772.—A smart shock of an earthquake was felt, which
occasioned much terror and consternation.
1774.—On Good Friday, April 1st, a fire broke out in the
Abbey Foregate, by which forty-seven houses were burnt down, and
several others much damaged.
1775.—September 8th, the inhabitants were much alarmed
with the shock of an earthquake; in the midst of a calm a
rumbling noise much like that of a strong wind was heard; this
was soon followed by two tremulous motions of the earth,
succeeding each other instantaneously.
1778.—The Shropshire militia marched from
Shrewsbury on May 7 to Bridgnorth, where they were reviewed; from
thence they marched into Kent.
1780.—A stage coach began to run between Shrewsbury and
Holyhead.
1782.—Baron Hotham laid a fine of £2000 upon the
county, till they should build a new Shire Hall; the new hall was
built 1786.
1789.—July 23rd, T. Phipps, a lawer, and his son, just
twenty years of age, were executed at the old heath for forgery;
Mr. Phipps had an income of about £300 a year from landed
property.
1793.—May 13th, the first stone of the new Welsh bridge
was laid.
1794.—April 28th, John Pritchard died in Frankwell in
the 101st year of his age; he had ten children by the first wife,
and twenty-two by the second.
1795.—February 7th to 11th, one of the greatest floods
ever remembered in the Severn; Mr. Johnson and his man were both
drowned in endeavouring to recover a large barrel.
1802.—A sturgeon eight feet six inches long, three feet
four inches in girth, and weighing 192lbs. was caught near the
wear below the castle.
1809.—February 7. The suburbs of the town deeply
inundated by the Severn.
1811.—May 27th. An extraordinary flood in the
Meole Brook, which inundated all the houses in Coleham, situated
near the confluence of the brook with the river Severn, and
caused the latter river to rise four feet in less than ten
minutes; although the Meole Brook is an inconsiderable stream,
the rush of water actually turned the current of the Severn at
its confluence with that river.
1811.—August 24th. Four persons executed on the
new drop for a burglary at Betton, near Market Drayton.
1814.—June 30th. Lord Hill paid a visit to
Shrewsbury after the peace of Paris. The day was one of
general festivity among the inhabitants; thousands went out to
meet him, and in the evening partook of tea in the quarry.
On the 17th of December the first stone was laid of the column in
honour of Lord Hill.
1827.—July 19th. First stone of the new infirmary
laid by General Lord Hill; opened for the reception of patients
September, 1830.
1828.—August 4th. Three persons executed on the
new drop of the county gaol for murder. On the 24th of the
same month Ann Harris was executed for the same offence.
1831.—February 10th. In consequence of the sudden
melting of the snow, the suburbs of the town were deeply
inundated.
Though the flood in 1831 was considered a very high one,
according to evidence of brass plates affixed to the inside of
the window jambs of a house in Frankwell, the Severn at that end
of the town was 3½ inches lower than the great flood in
1795. The lowest plate bears the following
inscription:—
“This is to let you know
The Severn up to me did flow.
December 21, anno 1672.”
A second plate two inches above the preceding,
records—
“To this line flowed Severn.
November 8, 1770.”
On the third plate six inches higher than the second is
inscribed—
“This plate is fixed to let you know
That Severn to this line did flow.
February 11, 1795.”
1832.—The cholera morbus in its destructive career
through the kingdom visited Shrewsbury, when about a hundred
persons fell victims to that direful malady.
1849.—The cholera again made its appearance in
Shrewsbury; the fatal cases were fewer than in 1832.
Sir Thomas White, in 1566, bequeathed certain monies
for charitable uses, in respect of which £100 is annually
paid to twenty-four corporate towns in rotation (Salop being
one), to be lent out, without interest, for a period of ten
years, to poor young men of the said towns.
Robert Allen, by will 24th August, 1568, bequeathed
£200 to be lent out to the poor inhabitants of the town of
Salop, in sums of £10, to be held for three years; each
recipient to find a bondsman for the repayment of the same at the
expiration of the term, and to pay 4d. per annum, to be divided
among the inmates of the almshouses of St. Mary and St. Chad.
Paul Clarke, April 15th, 1606, bequeathed £20 to
be lent out, in sums of £10, to persons of his name and
kindred only for the space of two years, and then to be returned
to the bailiffs of the town, to be again put forth by the said
bailiffs, from time to time, on sufficient security being given
for the repayment of the same.
Sir Samuel Jones, by will, dated 10th March, 1670, gave
to the town of Shrewsbury £500, to be employed for the
setting poor people on work there, which sum he directed should
he paid to the mayor and corporation of the said town, and should
be by them, from time to time, lent on good security, without
interest, to young tradesmen who should set up there.
Rev. John Hilton, in 1697, bequeathed £50 in
trust to the mayor and corporation, to be lent out to five young
tradesmen of the town, £10 to each, for the term of five
years, interest free.
The foregoing abstracts are taken from the recitals in a
decree of the Court of Chancery, made in the year 1772, in a
cause between the attorney-general and the mayor, aldermen, and
burgesses, of the town of Shrewsbury. By this decree it was
ordered that the sum of £2,404. 14s. 6d., found to be in
the hands of the corporation, should be apportioned to the
preceding charities, in a ratio proportionate to their several
bequests. It appears that shortly after these proceedings
in Chancery, the whole of the funds of these charities were lost;
that a sum exceeding £3,000 was raised by subscription to
replace the money so lost, which was subsequently repaid to the
subscribers by the corporation. In addition to the above
sum found to be in the hands of the corporation, two sums of
£100 each have been since received from Sir Thomas
White’s charity, leaving £2,596. 5s. 3d. in the hands
of the corporation to be accounted for. In lending out the
different sums of money, particular attention is paid to the
directions of the several donors. No applications for loans
are refused, provided the parties are properly qualified, and
sufficient securities are proposed.
David Lloyd ap Rogers, by will, bearing date May 1st,
1623, devised certain premises at Frankwell, in trust to the
bailiffs and burgesses of the town of Shrewsbury, and directed
out of the yearly income thereof, 10s. to be paid to the minister
of St. Chad, 10s. to be employed in repairing the bridges in
Shrewsbury, 10s. to be expended in repairing Buttington bridge,
in the county of Montgomery, and the residue thereof to be
distributed to the poor of the parish of St. Chad. The
premises now consist of two tenements, the estimated value of
which is upwards of £30 per annum.
Henry Smith’s Charity.—The corporation are
in possession of an estate in Chelmick, purchased with part of
the personal property given by Henry Smith for charitable
uses. It consists of a farm house, outbuildings, and
129a. 2r.
15p. of land. In 1805, upon the
enclosure of the waste lands, an allotment was set out to the
corporation; but the situation was remote from the remainder of
the farm, and it was accordingly sold for £201. 10s.;
£100 of which was subsequently laid out in improving the
farm, and the residue put out at interest. The income
arising from the above sources amounts to £85. 1s. 6d.,
which is carried to the Burlton estate account.
In an old book of accounts, belonging to the corporation of
Shrewsbury, there is an entry stating that gifts and legacies had
been given to the poor of the town of Shrewsbury previously to
the year 1663, amounting in the whole to £1,301. 11s.
11d. The principal legacy is one of £300, left by
William Spurstow. Six other donors left legacies of
£100 each, and the remainder is made up of smaller
items. In the whole there are names given of twenty-four
several donors. The sum of £1,200 was laid out in the
purchase of an estate at Burlton. In 1796 a sum of
£925, which arose from the sale of timber on the estate,
was laid out in the purchase of the tithes of corn, grain, and
hay, in the said parish. In 1829, the sum of £264.
12s. was received for timber cut on the estate; and in the same
year £266. 9s. was expended in rebuilding and improving the
farm premises, £50 of which had been advanced by the
tenant. The income derived from the Burlton estate and the
farm at Chelmick, belonging to the charity of Henry Smith,
amounts to £297. 7s. 6d. per annum. The principal
part of this income is applied in putting out apprentices, with a
premium of £10 each, and in distributing coals among the
necessitous poor.
James Phillips, Esq., of London, in 1661,
devised certain tenements in the borough of Southwark, in trust
to the corporation of Shrewsbury, out of the rents and profits
thereof, to maintain a lecture on the Thursday in every week in
the year, in the parish churches of Ellesmere, Oswestry,
Whitchurch, and Shrewsbury; such lectures to be delivered by able
and orthodox divines. The residue of the said rents to be
expended in gowns or clothes for the poor people of the said
parishes. In 1825, the corporation sold two tenements,
situated in the parish of St. Saviour, left by the same donor,
for the sum of £1,685, which was laid out in the purchase
of £2,146. 10s. three per cent. consols. Out of the
income, amounting to £232. 7s. 10d. per annum, there has
been appropriated for many years £10 per annum to the
officiating ministers of Ellesmere, Oswestry, Whitchurch, and
Shrewsbury; and the residue is expended in flannel, and
distributed among the poor of the above-mentioned parishes.
Edward Donne, in 1668, bequeathed £200, and
directed his executors to dispose of the same in the purchase of
lands, and lay out the yearly proceeds in apprentice fees, upon
poor children born in the parishes of St. Chad, St. Mary, St.
Alkmund, and St. Julian. It appears the amount was invested
in a rent charge of £10 per annum, arising from certain
lands situated at Bulchey, Bryn-y-Koppall, and Wollaston.
Dr. Gardiner took possession of this property under the will of
his father, in 1801, and considerable arrears were allowed to
accumulate in his hands. He, however, in March, 1801,
offered to discharge the arrears by paying £60 a-year till
the whole were liquidated, and to pay the amount of the rent
charge in future to the corporation.
William Jones.—From an entry in one of the books
of the Company of Drapers, in the town of Shrewsbury, under the
date of March, 1653, we learn that William Jones conveyed the
manor of Wigmore, in the parish of Westbury, upon trust, that
there should yearly be paid out of the said premises £11.
6s. 8d. to the master warden and assistants; £10 thereof to
be yearly distributed among the most necessitous poor of the town
of Salop, more especially those dwelling in the parishes of St.
Mary and St. Alkmund. The residue, £1. 6s. 8d., to be
paid to the Vicar of St. Alkmund, for reading morning
prayers.
Widow Baugh bequeathed twenty marks per annum;
one-third thereof for the better maintenance of the minister of
St. Chad, and the other two parts to the relief of the poor of
Shrewsbury. Certain lands in Preston Montford are charged
with the payment of the twenty marks, or £13. 6s. 8d.,
one-third of which has been paid to the minister of St. Chad, and
two-thirds thereof to the directors of the House of Industry for
the united parishes of the town of Shrewsbury. [We conceive
that the two-thirds of the annuity which has usually been paid to
the directors of the House of Industry, in aid of the parish
rates, ought to be discontinued; and the amount distributed among
proper objects of charity in the town of Shrewsbury, according to
the intentions of the donor.]
John Allatt, by will, bearing date 7th April, 1792,
after bequeathing certain legacies directed all his personal
estate, not specifically disposed of, to be held in trust, to
apply such
sums as the trustees should think proper in the erection of a
school house and residences for the teachers; and the residue to
be invested in government stock, to be applied in support of the
school. By a codicil to his will, dated October 31st, 1796,
he directed £1,600 to be invested in the three per cent.
consols, the dividends thereof to be expended in the purchase of
gowns for poor widows, poor single women not less than the age of
40 years, and coats for poor men of the age of 50 years and
upwards. The testator died in 1796, and the school
buildings were erected in 1800, at an expense of upwards of
£1,500. In addition to the sum laid out in erecting
the school premises, £4,497. 4s. was laid out in the
purchase of three per cent. consols, and also the sum of
£1,600 left for the purpose of providing clothing for the
poor. With the former, £8,743 stock was purchased;
and with the latter, £3,257. Subsequent purchases
have been made with the surplus of the income; and a legacy of
£45 left for the same use, by the will of Sarah
Mason, in 1809. There is, therefore, now a capital of
£14,000, of which the dividends of £10,800 are
appropriated as the educational fund, and £3,400 as the
clothing fund.
Sarah Darley, by will, 29th January, 1821, bequeathed
£100 upon trust, and directed the yearly produce should be
applied in the purchase of four tons of coals, for the use and
benefit of all the prisoners who might be confined in the county
gaol of Shrewsbury; and that the residue should be applied in aid
of the prison charity. And she further bequeathed
£500, to be placed out at interest by her executors, and
the interest applied in releasing one or more debtor or debtors
who should be confined in the gaol of Shrewsbury, but who,
through misfortune, is forced into confinement; and that
particular regard should he paid to those whose families should
be suffering from their confinement.
Esther Jones, by will, dated 2nd July, 1823, bequeathed
to the treasurer for the time being of the county of Salop,
£300 three per cent. consols, upon trust, to apply the
dividends towards the relief of the industrious poor prisoners,
who should, from time to time, be confined in Salop gaol.
Upon a table, containing the benefactions to poor prisoners,
it is stated that Isaac Hawkins, Esq., bequeathed
£100, in 1803; Rowland Hunt, Esq., in 1810,
gave £25; and that Mrs. Knight gave £25.
In respect of Hawkins’ gift, there is a sum of £189.
11s. 6d. three per cent. consols, the dividends of which amount
to £5. 13s. 8d.; and in respect of the two latter
benefactions, the sum of £75. 3s. 9d., three per cent.
consols, producing £2. 5s. yearly. The amount of
these subscriptions is paid over to the treasurer of the prison
charities, and is added to subscriptions raised for the purpose
of enabling debtors to gain a livelihood while in confinement, to
reward them for good behaviour, and to furnish them with
implements on quitting prison to support themselves and their
families; and also to encourage industry and good behaviour in
criminal prisoners, and to furnish them with the means of
returning home. The subscriptions usually amount to upwards
of £70 per annum, and the whole is applied under the
direction of the visiting magistrates.
Samuel Shuker, by will, 18th June, 1821, gave to John
Edwards, Esq., £1,200, upon trust, to purchase therewith a
government annuity, determinable on the death of Mary Watkins;
and if she should marry, or dispose of the said annuity, the
proceeds should thenceforth be applied for the benefit of the
Infirmary of Shrewsbury. The testator also devised to
another person a copyhold messuage and premises in Twickenham for
her life. And upon her marrying, or disposing of her life
interest, he directed his trustees to sell the same, and stand
possessed of the monies arising from the sale thereof, for the
benefit of the said Infirmary.
Charities.—Robert
Owen, by will, bearing date 14th March, 1603, gave £40,
and directed the interest to be distributed to the poor;
William Williams, and Sarah Street, each gave
£5 for the same purpose; George Lyndon, in 1706,
bequeathed £50 for the benefit of the poor;
Esther Hill gave £5; Honour Dryden, in 1715,
gave £20; Edward Donne directed the interest of
£20 to be given among poor housekeepers receiving no alms;
Elizabeth Hanmer gave £20, the yearly proceeds to be
expended in bread for the poor; Lucy Minors, in 1692, gave
£10, the interest to be distributed in bread among the poor
of the parish, on St. Luke’s day, yearly; Thomas
Jones, Esq., gave to the parish of St. Alkmund
£50, out of the yearly proceeds the clerk of the parish to
have 10s. yearly for his care in looking after the
testator’s tomb in the church, and the residue to be
distributed among the poor parishioners; Thomas Lloyd, in
1721, bequeathed £20 to the minister and churchwardens of
St. Alkmund, on trust, to place the same out at interest, and to
pay 10s. yearly to the minister for preaching a sermon in the
parish church on the 1st of November, yearly; 9d. to the sexton
and clerk for officiating on that day, and the remainder to be
distributed in twopenny loaves immediately after the sermon on
the 1st of November. Of the several legacies
above-mentioned amounting to £245, it appears that certain
lands were purchased in Meole Brace and Coton, with part of the
money, and the residue invested in the purchase of £175
three per cent. consols. The stock was subsequently sold,
and there is now a sum of £200 secured on bond, the
interest of which £10 per annum, and the yearly sum of
£5. 5s., to which is added £2 10s., arising from the
charity of Jane Brooks; with these sums bread is purchased, and
sixty-three penny loaves are given away on the Sunday after St.
Thomas’s day, and on every succeeding Sunday till the whole
is exhausted. The rents of the land above-mentioned,
amounting to £35 per annum, are given away every St.
Thomas’s day, among the most necessitous poor of the
parish, in sums varying from 3s. to 12s., a preference being
given to those not receiving parish relief.
Sarah Brook, in 1760, left a rent charge of £5
per annum, issuing out of certain lands in Uffington, the amount
to be paid to the churchwardens and overseers of the parish of
St. Alkmund, and St. Julian, in Shrewsbury, to each parish 50s.,
to be by them respectively laid out in twopenny loaves, and given
among poor, old, and decayed people of honest life.
Ann Parry gave to the churchwardens and overseers of
the parish of St. Alkmund £20 to be placed out at interest,
and the proceeds to be paid to four widows of the said parish
yearly at Christmas. Francis Wingfield, in 1813
bequeathed £20, the interest to be distributed to poor
persons of the parish on St. Thomas’s day yearly.
These two legacies are held by the churchwardens, for which
£2 yearly is paid as interest; the churchwardens and
overseers distribute the interest according to the donors’
intentions.
Josina Pemberton, by a codicil to her will, bearing
date 17th September, 1817, desired that her sister would pay
yearly, during her life, the sum of two guineas, to the
churchwardens for the time being of each of the parishes of St.
Mary, St. Julian, and St. Alkmund, to be by them respectively
laid out in coals, and distributed among the poor of the
respective parishes, and she requested that her nephew, Robert N.
Pemberton, would continue the annual payment during his
life. The amount is laid out in coal, and distributed among
thirty poor housekeepers on new year’s day.
Charities.—Millington’s Hospital.—James
Millington, by his will, bearing date 8th February, 1734,
devised the greater part of his ample fortune for the erection
and endowment of an hospital and free school. The hospital
is pleasantly situated upon elevated ground in Frankwell, and
consists of a handsome pedimented front with a stone portico; the
central portion comprises the chapel and school room, and the
houses of the master and mistress, and in the wings on each side
are the apartments of the hospitallers. The property
purchased by the trustees in 1753 and 1794 is wholly situated in
the parish of Llanvair Waterdine, in the county of Salop, and in
the parish of Beguildy, in the county of Radnor, except an estate
of 15a. 0r.
9p., situate in the parish of
Kinnerley. The entire property comprises 2,429a. 2r. 9p. of land, and produces a yearly income of
£1227. The hospital consists of twelve
in-hospitallers and ten out-hospitallers. These persons are
appointed by the trustees as vacancies occur. They are
required to be parishioners of St. Chad, and inhabitants of that
part of the parish called Frankwell. No persons are
selected except poor decayed housekeepers, and the preference has
usually been given to females. Each of the in-hospitallers
has a dwelling house in the hospital, consisting of a room above
and another below, with a small garden, and other
conveniences. The four senior of the out-hospitallers are
allowed to occupy four sets of apartments over the schools, and
they generally succeed as vacancies occur to the situation of
in-hospitallers. Each of the inmates receives £10
10s. a year by quarterly payments, and three tons of coals, and a
sixpenny loaf every Wednesday and Saturday. They are also
supplied with a certain quantity of clothing. The
out-hospitallers receive £4 per annum, and each has a like
allowance of bread and clothing. A clergyman of the church
of England is paid a salary of £50 a year as
chaplain. He attends at the hospital every school day and
reads prayers to the scholars and in-hospitallers, and the first
Thursday in every month catechises the children. The
minister in addition to his yearly stipend receives one guinea
for preaching a sermon on the 12th of August. In the
schools twenty-five boys and twenty-five girls are
instructed. The schoolmaster receives £50 a year, and
the mistress of the girls’ school £42 per annum, and
each of them has an allowance of coal. The scholars are the
children of parishioners of St. Chad’s, living in
Frankwell, and are appointed by the trustees. They are
admitted between six and nine years of age, and are allowed to
remain till they are fourteen. During their stay in the
school they are completely clothed and supplied with books and
stationery; and when they are of sufficient age, the boys are
bound out to trades, and the girls placed out in service. A
premium of £10 is allowed with each apprentice, and
£5 is paid to them when they have completed their
time. The girls are allowed £3 when going out to
service, and a like sum as a reward for good behaviour
afterwards. There is a good garden for the schoolmaster and
mistress, and a plot of garden ground for each of the twelve
hospitallers, which they generally let for their own benefit,
being worth about £2 per annum.
St. Chad’s Almshouses, situated on the east side
of old St. Chad’s church yard, consist of eleven miserable
tenements, containing one room each. They are extremely
dilapidated, there being no fund for keeping them in
repair. It is stated that they were founded in 1409, by one
Bennet Tupton, a common brewer, and that there were formerly
thirteen tenements, but that two fell down. They were
endowed in 1640, by David Ireland, with a rent charge of £4
per annum, issuing out of land in Lythwood, and a further rent
charge of £3. 18s., the gift of the widow of Mr. Ireland,
which is also payable out of land in the same place. There
is also a yearly sum of £1 6s., payable out of a piece of
land in Sutton Lane, left by Robert Owen, and a small payment of
2s. 2d. yearly, made by the Mercers’ company. These
several sums amounting in the whole to £9. 6s. 2d. are
distributed in equal proportions among the inmates. The
Rev. Richard Scott, B.D., bequeathed £150 in 1848, and
directed the interest to be expended in coals for the poor of St.
Chad’s almshouses.
Richard Lleweylln, who was bailiff of Shrewsbury in
1637, devised certain lands in the township of Shelton, and
directed the yearly income to be employed in binding out poor
children apprentices born in the parish of St. Chad; the children
of his kindred to be preferred. The property left by the
testator produces an income of about £12. 12s. per
annum.
Thomas Owen, one of the justices of the court of common
pleas in 1598, devised to the bailiffs and commonalty of the town
of Salop the yearly rent of his farm at Calcott, and directed
that they should employ the profits thereof in giving assistance
to poor decayed householders of the parish of St. Chad.
This gift in after times merged into a rent charge of £20
per annum. The amount is now received by the chamberlain of
the corporation, and distributed with the produce of the
following charity.
Edward Owen, by will, dated 25th November, 1612,
gave to the bailiff and burgesses of the town of Salop a rent
charge of £10 per annum, issuing out of his lands in
Kilgurgan, in the county of Montgomery, the same to be
distributed among 200 of the poorest holders in the parish of St.
Chad, wherein he was born. This sum of £10 is carried
to one account with that of £20 derived from Thomas
Owen’s charity, and £1 10s. from the gift of David
Lloyd ap Rogers, and distributed on the first Thursday in the
year to poor persons in the parish of St. Chad.
Thomas Edwards, in 1641, charged certain lands in the
parish of Middle, with the payment of £12 per annum, 20s.
thereof annually to be given to poor maidens at their marriage,
£10 to be distributed among the poor of the town, and
£2 to be paid to the curate of St. Chad.
Richard Winne, in 1679, gave £100 to the
Haberdashery Company, London, on their giving a covenant to pay
£5 yearly to the minister and churchwarden of the parish of
St. Chad, for the benefit of the poor. This gift is
distributed by the churchwardens among twenty poor widows.
Hester Farmer, by will, 1691, devised a parcel of land
in Castle Foregate, and directed the rents to be paid
successively to the several parishes of St. Chad, Guilsfield,
Kinnerley, and Great Ness. The land produces £23 per
annum, and once in four years the amount is distributed in small
sums among the poor of St. Chad’s parish.
Elizabeth Williams, in 1712, charged certain lands at
Llansianfraid, in the county of Montgomery, with the payment of
40s, yearly, to the minister of St. Chad, upon trust, to dispose
of 20s. thereof yearly, for clothing two of the poorest boys in
the parish of St. Chad, and the remaining 20s. in buying coats or
gowns for three poor women.
Francis Swift, in 1717, bequeathed £100 to the
churchwardens and overseers of the parish. This gift was
laid out in the purchase of three tenements, in Shrewsbury, for a
workhouse; together with £100 arising from the charity of
Gabriel Rogers; £10 the charity of John Lloyd; £10
given for a distribution of bread, and £100 given to the
parish officers for the general benefit of the inhabitants.
This workhouse was sold about the year 1799, and out of the sale
£220, the amount of the several sums given for charitable
uses, with the further sum of £40, the gift of John Lloyd,
was lent on the security of the Shrewsbury House of Industry,
bearing interest at five per cent. In respect of
Swift’s gift, £5 is given among poor persons in sums
varying from 2s. 6d. to 5s. each.
Martha and Mary Harwood’s Charities.—There
is an annual sum of upwards of £80 arising from an estate,
at Faxley, and a dwelling house situated in Belmont, Shrewsbury,
which is distributed among poor decayed housekeepers and aged
widows, chiefly parishioners of St. Chad, excepting £5 per
annum which is used as a clothing fund for poor widows.
There were two houses in Belmont, devised by Mary Harwood in
1734; but they were subsequently converted into one.
Josena Pemberton, by a codicil to her will, dated 10th
December, 1817, desired that her sister would pay yearly during
her life the sum of five guineas, to be laid out in coals for the
poor; and she further desired that her nephew, Rev. Robert N.
Pemberton, would, within one month of her sister’s decease,
lay out the sum of £100 in the names of the trustees, or
some other safe security, and apply the annual income in
purchasing coals for poor needy persons of the parish of St.
Chad. When the Charity Commissioners published their
report, Miss Pemberton and her nephew were both living, and the
annual sum of £5. 5s. was paid to the churchwardens.
Easter Jones, in 1823, bequeathed to the minister and
churchwardens of the parish of St. Chad £400 three per cent
consols, in trust, to distribute the yearly dividends every
Easter Monday, in proportions of 10s. each, to twenty-four poor
women of the said parish.
Mary Jukes, by will, in 1700, devised certain premises
on Claremont Hill, and directed the yearly income to be
appropriated to charitable uses. The property consists of
four houses, producing a yearly rental of £46; out of
which 10s. is paid to the vicar for an annual sermon, one moiety
paid in apprentice fees, and the residue distributed among the
poor.
Edward Tomkis, by will bearing date 24th January, 1771,
bequeathed £400 upon trust, that the interest should be
annually spent in buying twelve blue coats for men, and twelve
gowns and petticoats of the same colour for an equal number of
women. In respect of this Charity, there is a sum of
£717. 10s. three per cent. consols, the dividends of which
amount to £21. 10s. 6d. The amount is expended in
coats and gowns, except a yearly sum of £5 which has been
given to the Vicar of Meole Brace for clothing poor boys,
belonging to St. Chad’s, but resident in Meole Brace.
Hopton Estate Charity.—The following legacies
were noticed on a table of benefactions put up in the Church in
1640, viz.:—Sarah Giles, £50; John Hill, £50;
Henry Swinnerton, £50; Stephen Rogers, £50; Thomas
Phillips, £10; John Cotton, £50; Hester Lloyd,
£100; Thomas Cotton, £10; John Hall, £20;
Richard Lloyd, £10. These several sums may have
formed the purchase money of the Hopton estate, as it is stated
it was purchased with the proper money of the poor of the parish
of St. Chad; but it does not state the source from whence the
money was obtained. The estate consists of 83a. 1r. 37p. of land, with farm house and
out-buildings, the whole of which was let on lease in 1748, for
99 years, at a yearly rental of £15. The farm is
valued at upwards of £100 a-year. Of the rent one
moiety has been paid in aid of the National Schools, and the
other to the general fund of the poor.
Astley Estate Charities.—The estate at Astley
consists of a farm house with outbuildings and lands, containing
together 120a. 3r. 27p., let at a
yearly rental of £100. The following legacies are
mentioned in a book containing an account of the Charities of the
parish, as having been laid out on the estate. Benjamin
Muckleston gave £40, the interest to be expended in coats
for poor boys; Susanah Loxon £200, for a weekly
distribution of bread; Elias Evans, £20; William Peers,
£20; and Elizabeth Hamer, £20, also for a
distribution of bread. Thomas Bright, in 1730, gave
£20 per annum, payable to the minister of Astley, for
preaching every Lord’s day throughout the year. There
is a sum of £260, the produce of the sale of timber cut on
the Astley estate in 1804, which is secured on the Shrewsbury
House of Industry, and for which interest is paid at the rate of
five per cent. Out of the rents and interest above
mentioned, being £113 per annum, there is paid £20 to
the chapelwardens of Astley; £3 for the repairs of the
chapel; £3. 9s. 5d. for land tax and chief rent; £2
for purchasing four coats for poor boys, and the remainder is
carried to the general charity account for a distribution of
bread.
William Spurtson bequeathed £100 which was
expended in the purchase of a rent charge of £6 per annum,
issuing out of certain messuages in Burleton. The amount is
carried to the general charity account hereafter mentioned.
Rowland Newett bequeathed £10; John Lloyd, £10;
Richard Mather, £20; John Dodd, £20, for a
distribution of bread—and a further sum of £10, given
by an unknown donor, with the above is carried to the general
charity account. There is also a sum of £200 secured
on the Church of St. Chad, which was lent from an accumulation of
charity money. The surplus of the produce of the several
charities before mentioned, not specifically applied, is carried
to one general account, and disposed of chiefly in bread.
There is also, occasionally, a sum of money distributed by the
churchwardens.
Nathaniel Tench, in 1674, conveyed the lands and tithes
of the farm and grange of Crow Meole, in trust, to pay the yearly
proceeds to the minister of St. Chad’s, on condition that
he preached an anniversary sermon on the 6th of June, yearly,
being the birth-day of the said N. Tench; and in case the
minister should refuse or neglect to preach the said sermon, or
should not reside, or not personally officiate in the said
parish, then the rents and profits thereof should be distributed
among the poor of St. Chad’s parish. The value is
about £160 per annum.
Lost
Charities.—Eleanor Griffith gave £40; John
Atkins, £20; Thomas Clemson, £10; Elizabeth Forster,
£30; Mary Bowdewin, £20; and Mrs. Pigott,
£20. Up to the year 1747, the interest of the several
benefactions above mentioned was paid out of the
churchwardens’ account. Subsequent to the year 1747,
a considerable sum was for many years disposed of annually in
bread, but it does not appear from what benefactions such bread
was provided; and from this period there is no distinct trace of
the several gifts above mentioned. Mary Pelton left
£2. 10s., yearly, and Hester Lloyd bequeathed £100;
it appears that formerly apprentice fees were paid from the
interest of this money, the last was in the year 1755.
There is now no evidence to shew how the capital has been
appropriated.
John Evans, in 1844, bequeathed £150, in trust,
to the minister and churchwardens of St. Chad’s, and
directed the interest to be distributed among poor persons, not
receiving parochial relief.
The Rev. Richard Scott, B.D., in 1848,
bequeathed £300, in trust, to the minister of St.
Chad’s, to apply the interest yearly, in purchasing coals
for the necessitous poor of the parish.
Charities.—St. Giles’ Hospital, situated near St.
Giles’ Church, was originally established for the reception
of persons afflicted with leprosy. Henry II., for the
support of the hospitallers, granted 30s. yearly out of the rent
of the county of Salop, and a handful of two hands of every sack
of corn, and a handful of one hand of every sack of flour exposed
for sale in Shrewsbury market. Henry III., in 1232, gave a
horse load of wood, daily, from his wood of Lythwood. The
right of nominating the inmates of the hospital is exercised by
the Earl of Tankerville, and the following payments are made to
them by one of his lordship’s agents:—To each of the
four inmates, 1s. 6d. per week; 3s. at midsummer for coals; and
12s. 6d. at Christmas for a garment
Peter Langley, in 1650, gave £200 for charitable
uses, and John and Jonathan Langley bequeathed
£100 for the same purpose. These gifts were laid out
in the purchase of lands and premises in Castle Foregate, which
produced an income of £82 per annum at the time the Charity
Commissioners published their report. The amount is
distributed in sums, varying from 2s. to 10s., among the most
aged and needy parishioners.
Mathusalem Jones charged an estate at Underdale with
the payment of so much money, as should furnish five coats for
men and five garments for women, to be given to ten paupers every
5th of November.
Elizabeth Prynce, in 1711, bequeathed £100, and
directed the same to be laid out in lands or hereditaments, the
yearly produce thereof to be distributed among the poorest
inhabitants of the parish. There are no deeds in the parish
relating to the laying out of this bequest; but the property
supposed to have been purchased therewith consists of four
cottages in the Abbey Foregate, producing a yearly rental of
£4. 10s. each.
Thomas Doughty bequeathed £50, the interest
thereof to be laid out in bread. This bequest, and five
others, amounting in the whole to £85, were probably
carried to the church account, as the interest, £3. 18s.,
has been considered as a charge upon the estate held by the
parish. The amount is expended in bread, which is given
away every Sunday.
Thomas Jenkins, Esq., in 1730, directed that six
poor people, parishioners of Holy Cross, should be clothed once
in every year. Three poor men and three poor women are
supplied with coats and gowns at the expense of R. Jenkins, Esq.,
of Bicton.
Thomas Talbot Gorsuch, by a codicil to his will,
bearing date 4th June, 1819, gave to the vicar and churchwardens
of the parish of Holy Cross and St. Giles, £300 three per
cent. reduced annuities, upon trust, to distribute the interest
to such poor persons of the said parish as should be most regular
in attendance at divine service in the parish there, and be the
most deserving objects of charity. Not less than ten
shillings to be given to each poor person.
There
is an entry in the old churchwardens’ book, under the date
of 1634, reciting that divers lands and messuages had been
formerly given to the repair of the churches of Holy Cross and
St. Giles, and so decreed by commission of charitable uses, James
II. The amount of these rents, £127. 4s. 10d., with
such payments as are received for opening graves and for pew
rents, the two latter amounting to about £20 per annum,
supply the place of a church rate, and are sufficient for the
repairs and ornaments of the two churches in this parish.
Charities.—St. Mary’s Almshouses were founded by
the Company of Drapers, at a very early period, and are usually
called the Drapers’ Almshouses. They appear to have
been remodelled in 1461, during the wardenship of Degory Watur, a
draper of Shrewsbury, who devoted a portion of his substance
towards their endowment. This beneficent man is said to
have “dwellyd in the almeshouse hall amongst the
poor,” and when deprived of sight, and bowed with the
weight of ninety-six years, he daily accompanied the
participators of his bounty to the “church of our
lady,” where he “wold kneele amongst them in a fayre
longe pewe made for them and hym selfe.” In his will,
dated 28th July, 1477, he devised certain lands to the wardens of
the Drapers’ Company, to “sufficientlie susteyne
poore people in St. Mary Allmeshouse.” Other
charitable individuals have made subsequent additions to the
endowment, which are under the management of the Drapers’
Company. The old almshouses stood on the west side of St.
Mary’s church-yard, and having become much dilapidated,
were taken down in 1825, when the stun of £476. 16s. was
awarded to the Company of Drapers, as a compensation for the site
and materials for the purpose of improving the town. The
company then purchased a piece of ground on the opposite side of
the street, for £750, and they have since built sixteen
tenements, at an expense of about £2,000. The inmates
receive about £6 per annum, and are appointed by the
Drapers’ Company from amongst the poor parishioners of St.
Mary’s.
Elizabeth Lord, in 1696, bequeathed £100, and
directed the profits to be employed in clothing ten poor
persons. This sum is in the hands of the corporation, and
£5 annually is paid as the interest thereof, which is laid
out in warm clothing for poor women.
Sarah Bolles, in 1747, bequeathed £100, the
yearly income to be given to eight poor housekeepers. On
account of this charity there is £132. 0s. 2d. new four per
cents. standing in the names of certain trustees, who receive the
dividends, amounting to £5. 5s. 6d.
Ann Parry, in 1755, gave £60, being a benefaction
intended by her sister, Mary Tench, deceased, the interest to be
given to eight poor housekeepers, not burthensome to the parish;
and in 1776 bequeathed £20, the interest to be given
annually to four poor widows. These two sums were laid out
in the year 1790 in pewing the church, and since that period
£4 has been annually paid out of the church rate.
Elizabeth Price, in 1780, bequeathed £50, the
interest to be given in bread to the poor of the parish.
This money is lent to the guardians of the house of industry.
Edward Lloyd, in 1789, left £190, the interest to
be given to ten poor housekeepers. This sum is secured by a
bond given in pursuance of an act of parliament passed for the
rebuilding of the church of St. Chads, and £4 10s. is paid
annually as the interest thereof.
Richard Lister, in 1793, bequeathed £100, and
directed the interest to be laid out in bread and given to the
poor after divine service every Sunday morning. In respect
of this gift there is the sum of £154 14s. 10d. three per
cent consols, producing annually dividends to the amount of
£4. 12s. 8d.
Pemberton’s Charity. The particulars of
this charity will be found amongst those for the parish of St.
Alkmund. The sum of £2. 2s. is expended annually in
coal, and distributed amongst poor housekeepers.
Lost Charities. In the parliamentary returns of
1786 there is mentioned a legacy left by Madam Honor Dryden, and
several others, amounting in the whole to £180. This
sum was in
the hands of a person who became insolvent, and only £19
9s. was received from his estate. Nothing is now known even
of this sum.
Charities.—Thomas
Bowdler, in 1733, bequeathed £100, to be placed out at
interest, the profit to be given away in twopenny loaves every
Lord’s day. He also gave his executors the sum of
£1000 upon trust, to lay out such part thereof as they
should think fit, in purchasing or building a school-house and
residence for the teachers, and the residue to be invested in
land, the yearly profits thereof to be applied in maintaining a
master and mistress to teach poor children born in the parish of
St. Julian, and in clothing them and putting some of them out
apprentices, or such useful occupation as the trustees should
think proper. The property now vested in the trustees
consists of an estate at Treffnant and Llanercrockwell, in the
parish of Guilsfield, consisting of 168a. 3r. 22p. of land, with suitable house and
outbuildings, producing a rental of £150 per annum.
On the enclosure of commons in 1788 an allotment was made to the
trustees, which was conveyed to Thomas Loxdale, Esq., for a term
of 500 years, in consideration of which Mr. Loxdale paid the sum
of £200 to the trustees; this amount was subsequently
employed in the reparations of farm buildings, and other
improvements on the school estate. The school is situated
in Beeche’s lane, and twenty-five boys and an equal number
of girls are clothed and educated from the funds of the
charity.
Catherine Smith, in 1621, left a rent charge of
£4 per annum, to be distributed among four poor widows of
this parish. The amount is paid from the property of the
corporation, and they appoint the poor widows.
Thomas Davies, in 1668, directed his trustees to raise
the sum of £300, and dispose of the same in the purchase of
a rent charge, to be disposed of as follows:—40s. to the
minister of the parish for preaching four sermons, one on the 3rd
September and the other three sermons quarterly; 20s. yearly
among poor housekeepers; £4 to eight poor widows; £4
for maintaining two scholars at the university, and £4 to
be paid in apprentice fees. In 1689 a rent charge of
£12. 5s. was purchased with £250, but it does not
appear how the remaining £50 was disposed of. The
estate is situate at Sutton, from which the rent charge issues,
and was the property of the late John Hiles.
Richard Williams, in 1576, left £50, and directed
the interest to be distributed among poor householders of this
parish on Christmas day. He also bequeathed the residue of
his personal estate, after payment of his debts and legacies to
the executors, to be held in trust, and to dispose of the yearly
income in clothing poor men or women or in putting out
apprentices. It appears that the produce of the
testator’s residuary estate amounted to £266. 18s.,
and that £6. 18s. was distributed to the poor, and
£260 was placed out at interest secured on bond given by
the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses.
General Charities.—The sum of
£308 17s. was expended in the purchase of an estate at
Ellesmere, in 1726, which consists of 19a. 3r. 22p., producing a yearly rental of
£45. Of the said purchase money £200 was the
gift of Thomas Baker, in 1685; £30 the gift of Thomas
Cotton, in 1683; £50 the bequest of Stephen Rogers; and
£20 the gift of Richard Presland. The rent is
received by the churchwardens, and carried to one account with
the produce of several other charities, and disposed of in bread,
and small sums of money, to deserving objects of charity.
The sum of £1. 6s. is received every alternate year from
a farm in Willstone, which was bought subject to this payment,
about forty years ago. This is known by the name of
Diana Robert’s Charity, the like payment being made
every alternate year to the parish of Cardington.
Brook’s Charity. The particulars of this
charity will he found noticed with those of St. Alkmund.
The yearly sum of £2. 10s. is received on account of this
parish, and carried to the general charity account noticed
above.
The
Rev. Samuel Presland, by will, in 1750, as appears from an
entry in the book of charities, gave £10 to be placed out
by the overseers, and the interest to be distributed to the
poor. In the same book it is stated that Thomas
Presland gave £20, and directed the interest to be
given among poor housekeepers. These two sums, with
£50, the legacy of Richard Williams, are placed out on the
security of the house of industry, and the interest carried to
the general charity account.
Mary Griffith, in 1781, left £50 to the
churchwardens and overseers, the interest to be distributed every
Sunday in twopenny loaves. This sum is placed out on the
security of the tolls of the Leighton turnpike road, and
£2. 10s. annually received as the interest thereof.
The Rev. Philemon Hayes left to the minister of the
parish 10s. for a lecture on Candlemas day, and the same sum to
be distributed to poor people by the churchwardens. John
Bryan by his will made an addition to Mr. Hayes’s gift of
10s. for the said sermon and 10s. to the poor. In respect
of these charities the sum of £2 is charged upon land
called the Tenter Field, near the Quarry, Shrewsbury.
Elizabeth Hanmer, in 1755, left £20, the interest
to be distributed in bread; she also left a house on the stone
bridge, the rent to be paid to the clerk of the parish. The
stone bridge above-mentioned with the house thereon has since
been taken down, and a sum of money was awarded to the clerk as
compensation for it, with which sum, and the £20 left to be
distributed in bread, another house was bought for him. The
house is now let by the clerk, and he receives the rent and pays
thereout 20s. yearly, as the interest of the legacy of
£20.
Richard Breathen gave to the churchwardens and
overseers the sum of £20, the interest to be given to the
poor. This money was placed in the hands of a person who
died insolvent, and after a lapse of some years his son repaid
the principal, and in 1820 it was carried to the general charity
account.
Josina Pemberton. The particulars of this charity
will be found noticed with the charities of St. Alkmund
parish. The yearly sum of £2. 2s. is divided among
thirty poor housekeepers.
The average annual income of the Charities of Shrewsbury
amounts to about £2,000, exclusive of the Loan Charities,
which produce no income, being gifts of sums of money to be lent
out for limited periods to young tradesmen and others, free of
interest. The Loan Charities amount to £840. 8s.
4d. In 1837 the High Court of Chancery appointed certain
trustees to administer the charities of which the Corporations of
Shrewsbury were previously the trustees. The following is a
list of the trustees:—The Right Hon. Lord Berwick, Sir F.
Brian Hill, John Bather, Esq., Mr. R. Beacall, Peter Beck, Esq.,
Robert Burton, Esq., W. J. Clement, Esq., T. G. Gwyn, Esq., J.
Hazledine, Esq., Rev. C. Leicester, Rev. W. G. Rowland, A.
Spearman, Esq., W. R. Ward, Esq., R.N., John Wingfield, Esq., Mr.
John Woodward, William Butler Lloyd, Esq., John Whitehurst, Esq.,
Mr. Thomas Woodward, Mr. Richard Jeffreys Muckleston, and Mr. J.
G. Brayne. Treasurer and Solicitor, William Cooper,
Esq. Clerk and Secretary, Mr. William Poole,
Scoltock-offices, Guild-hall and Corn-market Chambers.
The liberties of Shrewsbury were abolished by the municipal
boundary act, and now form part of the county of Salop. The
several parishes which they comprised are now returned in the
Albrighton Division, in the Wem Division of North Bradford
Hundred in the Condover Division, Condover Hundred, and in the
Ford and Pontesbury Divisions, of Ford Hundred. The
following are places included within the liberties of the
borough, the residents of which are included in the Shrewsbury
Directory:—
Alkmund St.—A parish partly
returned in the Albrighton Division, and partly in Ford Division
of the Ford Hundred. The parish, in 1841, contained 303
houses and 1641 inhabitants, of whom 1396 were included within
the parliamentary borough. The rateable value of the parish
is £9,041. 11s.
Chad St.—The parish of St. Chads is
partly returned in the Albrighton Division, partly in Condover
Hundred, and partly in the Ford Division, of the Ford
Hundred. The entire parish, in 1841, contained 7625
inhabitants, of whom 4524 persons resided within the boundaries
of the borough, exclusive of those residing in Frankwell.
There were also 912 inhabited houses, 80 uninhabited, and 4
houses building.
Frankwell is a populous township in
St. Chad’s parish, forming a suburb on the north-west side
of Shrewsbury, from which it is approached by the Welsh
bridge. In 1841 it was returned as containing 413 inhabited
houses, 37 uninhabited and 2 building, with a population of 1895
souls, of whom 902 were males and 993 females.
Holy Cross and St. Giles forms the
eastern suburb to the town of Shrewsbury, and contains the
township of Abbey Foregate and part of Coleham. Abbey
Foregate stretches from the English bridge to Lord Hill’s
column, upwards of a mile in length; the street is wide and for
some distance planted on each side with trees; it contains many
genteel residences, and is by far the handsomest approach to the
town. In 1841 the township was returned as containing 358
inhabited houses, 22 uninhabited, and 14 building, and 1638
inhabitants—of whom 701 were males and 937 females.
That part of Coleham, returned as in the parish of Holy Cross and
St. Giles, contained 30 houses and 104 souls.
St. Julian’s parish is partly
in the Condover Hundred and partly in the Ford Division of the
Ford Hundred. The entire parish, in 1841, contained 3252
inhabitants, of whom 2902 were in the limits of the borough of
Shrewsbury, of the latter number 986 persons were resident in
Coleham. In 1841 there were 387 inhabited houses and 22
uninhabited. Rateable value of the parish
£12,890.
Coleham is a township, partly in
St. Julian’s parish and partly in that of Holy Cross and
St. Giles; in 1840 there were 332 houses and 1090 souls—of
whom 986 were in the parish of St. Julian and 104 in the parish
of Holy Cross and St. Giles. Coleham lies on the south bank
of the river Severn and forms the southern suburb to the town of
Shrewsbury. Here the manufacture of cotton goods was
formerly carried on to some extent; the factories are now
unoccupied. The houses are for the most part small, and
occupied as cottage residences. A neat church has been
built here which is noticed at a preceding page.
St. Mary’s parish is partly
in the Albrighton Division, and, in 1841, contained a population
of 6684 souls—of whom 6684 were returned as in the borough
of Shrewsbury. The return includes the Castle,
extra-parochial, containing 7 persons; 168 in the County Gaol,
186 in the County Infirmary, 94 in the Shrewsbury Free Grammar
School, and 35 persons in boats. At the same period there
were 1048 inhabited houses, 112 uninhabited, and 2 building.
Meol Brace parish is chiefly in the
Condover Hundred, the entire parish contained, in 1841, 1195
inhabitants—of whom 361 persons were returned as in the
liberty of the borough of Shrewsbury.
Abbey foregate, English bdge
Abbey terrace, Abbey foregate
Ann’s hill, St. Michael’s st
Backlane, Belmont
Barker street, Shoplatch
Barrack passage, Wyle cop
Baschurch road, Coton hill
Beckbury terrace, London rd
Beeches lane, Wyle cop
Belmont, Milk-street
Belmont bank, Belmont
Bellevue, Meol road
Benbow terrace, Chester st
Benbow place, Benbow ter
Bridge court, Wyle cop
Bridge street, Barker street
Butter market, Pride hill
Butcher’s row, Pride hill
Cadogan row, The mount
Canal buildings, Spring fields
Canal wharf, Castle foregate
Cardan place, Castle fields
Castle fields, Castle foregate
Castle gates, Castle street
Castle gates lane, Castle gates
Castle street, Pride hill
Chester street, Castle gates
Church st., St. Alkmund sq
Circus yard, Bridge street
Claremont bank, The priory
Claremont blds, Claremont bk
Claremont ct., St. Austin’s
Claremont-hill, Barker-st
Claremont street, Mardol
Coffee house pas., Corn mar
Coleham, English bridge
Column ter., Abbey foregate
College hill ct., College hill
College hill, Swan hill
Copthorne crescent, Copthorne road
Corn market, Market square
Council house ct., Castle st
Coton hill, Chester street
Coton terrace, Coton hill
Crescent, Belmont
Crescent fields, Water lane
Cross hill, St. John’s hill
Cross street, Castle foregate
Dana, Castle gates
Derfold court, St. Michael st
Ditherington, Old heath
Dog pole st., St. Mary street
Double btchrs’ rw., Pride hill
English bridge, Foot of Wyle Cop
Fish street, High street
Frankwell, Welsh bridge
Gashouse ln., Castle foregate
Golden cross pas., High st
Gullett passage, Corn market
Hazledine’s blds., Coleham
High-street, Market square
Hill’s lane, Mardol
Holywell terrace, Abbey fore
Howard St., Castle foregate
Islington, Abbey foregate
John’s row, St. Michael’s st
Judith’s Butts, nr race course
London rd., Abbey foregate
Mardol head, High street
Mardol, Shoplatch
Marine terrace, Wyle cop
Market street, Corn market
Market square, High street
Meadow pl., Castle gates ln
Meol road, Coleham
Milk street, High street
Monk’s well ter., Abbey fore
Mount fields, Frankwell
Mount pleasant, Old heath
Nackin street, Bridge street
Old heath, St. Michael’s st
Pound close, Coleham
Pride hill, High street
Priory street, Austin’s friars
Princess street, Corn market
Quarry place, St. John’s hill
Quarry terrace, St. John’s hill
Quarry view buildings, New St. Frankwell
Railway station, Castle foregte
Raven road, Mardol
Reabrook place, Coleham
Reabrook view, Abbey foregte
Roushill bank, Pride hill
School court, Castle street
School lane, Coleham
Severn place, Mardol
Shoplatch, Mardol head
Smithfield market, Mardol
Spring gardens, Castle foregte
Spring terrace, Meol road
Stamp office, Market square
St. Alkmund’s sq., Dog pole
St. Alkmund’s place, St Alkmund’s
square
St. Austin’s ct., St. Austin’s
priory
St. Austin’s priory, St. Austin’s
street
St. Austin’s st., Barker st
St. George’s place, Frankwell
St. John’s blds., Shoplatch
St. John’s court, Tower pl
St. John’s hill, Shoplatch
St. John’s row, St. John’s
hill
St. Julian’s friars, Wyle cop
St. Mary’s court, Dogpole
St. Mary’s pl., St. Mary’s st
St. Michael’s gardens, St.
Michael’s street
St. Michael’s st., Castle foregt
Sutton road, Coleham
Swan hill, Market street
Swan hill court, Swan hill
Theatre blds., Shoplatch
The mount, Frankwell
Tower place, Belmont
Trinity terrace, Meol road
Water lane, Windsor place
Welsh bridge, Mardol
Whitehall place, Abbey foregt
Whitehall st., Abbey foregate
Whitehall ter., Abbey foregte
Windsor place, Castle street
Wyle cop, High street
Letters from London, Birmingham, and the midland counties,
Wolverhampton, Shiffnal, Wellington, West Bromwich, Wednesbury,
Bilston, Bristol, the south and west of England, Liverpool,
Manchester, and the north of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the
Isle of Man, arrive at 3 a.m. and 4 p.m., and are despatched 6
a.m. and 9.51 p.m.
Letters from Aberystwith, Newtown, Welshpool, Llanidloes,
Westbury Ford, Alberbury, Chirbury, and Montgomery, arrive at 9.1
p.m., and are despatched at 4.1 a.m.
Letters from Bishop’s Castle, Pontesbury, Minsterley,
Whitchurch, Ellesmere, Wem, &c., arrive at 8 30 p.m. and are
despatched at 4 45 a.m.
Letters from Church Stretton, Dorrington, Ludlow, Munslow, and
Wistanston, arrive at 8 30 a.m. and are despatched at 4 30
p.m.
Letters from Oswestry, Nesscliff, West Felton, and Montford
bridge, arrive at 8 40 p.m. and are despatched at 4 35 a.m.
Letters from Acton Burnell, Ruyton, Baschurch, Shawbury,
Middle, Wroxeter, and the adjacent district, arrive by foot posts
at 7 30 a.m., and are despatched at 5 30 p.m.
Receiving Houses at Frankwell,
Castle Foregate, Abbey Foregate, and Coleham, for the reception
of stamped letters only.
Money Orders granted and paid from
10 a.m. until 4 30 p.m.
Town Delivery, by letter carriers,
at 7 a.m. and 4 30 p.m.
Adams William Henry, professor of music,
College hill
Alcock John, beerhouse keeper, Frankwell
Allcock Thos. & Sons, tailors, Claremont
st.
Allart George, tailor, Frankwell
Allen and Benson, druggists, Wyle Cop
Allen Mary, vict. Bird in Hand, Coton hill
Allen Sarah, shopkeeper, Coton hill
Allnatt Charles Blake, Esq., barrister-at-law,
the Crescent
Alltree Ann & Amelia, milliners, Windsor
place
Alltree Jemima and Henry, ironmongers, bell
hangers, gas fitters, stovegrate manufacturers, and zinc and tin
plate workers, Corn market
Ambler Misses Emma and Mary Castle st
Amphlett James, newspaper editor, Mardol
Andrew Jas, travelling tea dealer, Wyle
cop
Andrew John, travelling tea dealer, Wyle
cop
Andrew Robt., travelling tea dealer,
Coleham
Andrew Wm., travelling tea dealer, Wyle
cop
Antlett Jas., beerhouse keeper, Spring
gardens
Arblaster Charles Jas., chemist and druggist,
Castle street
Armstrong John, tailor, Coleham
Armstrong Wm., tailor & woln. draper, High
st
Arrowsmith John Y., surgeon, Swan hill
court
Arrowsmith Louisa Ann, boarding school,
Belmont
Arrowsmith Mary Elizabeth, boarding school,
College hill Court
Arrowsmith & Stephens, surgs., College
hill
Arthur Richard, shopkeeper, Princess st.
Arthur Wm., travelling tea dealer, Wyle
cop
Ash Mr. Richard, Whitehall place
Ashley Geo. beerhouse keeper, Barrck.
passage
Asterly Samuel, grocer, tallow chandler, and
seed and hop merchant, Frankwell
Astley Rev. Richard (Presbyn.) Claremont
hill
Atcherly John, gentleman, Summer house, the
Mount.
Atcherly the Misses, College hill
Atkin Henry, agent to Allsop & Co.,
(Burton ales,) Golden cross passage
Atkin Joseph, accountant, Column villa
Atkinson William, supervisor of inland
revenue, Sutton lane
Attfield George, clerk inland revenue office,
Barker street
Badger John, shoemaker, Marine terrace
Badger Joseph, beerhouse keeper, Kingsland
Badger Samuel, beerhouse and shopkeeper,
Coleham
Badger Thos. vestry clerk & assistant
overseer of St. Alkmund’s, St. Alkmund’s place
Bagley John, herbalist, Theatre buildings
Bagley Thomas, school master, St. John’s
rd.
Bagnell John, grocer and tea dealer, Pride
hill
Barker Mr. John, Monk’s well terrace
Baker Wm., silversmith, jeweller and cutler,
Corn market
Ball Mrs. Mary Ann, Chester street
Ballham James, baker, Coleham
Ball William, brush manufacturer, Wyle Cop
Barcley Wm. Jas., grocer, tea dealer, hop
merchant, and agent for Guiness’s Dublin porter, 1, High
street
Barnaby Isabel, milliner and bonnet maker,
Market square
Barnaby Wm. W., law stationer, Market sq.
Barnett Emma, dress maker, Frankwell
Barnett George Shuttleworth, silversmith and
jeweller, Market street
Barron Mrs. Ann, Swan hill court
Barron Anthony, linen draper and silk mercer,
Pride hill
Barton Thos., tailor and beerhouse keeper,
Bellevue
Bates Ann, shopkeeper, Castle Foregate
Bates Richard, butcher, Chester street
Bates Richard, jun., butcher, Shoplatch
Bather, Mrs. Elizabeth, The Abbey
Bather Wm., boot and shoemaker, Coton hill
Batho John, vict., Robin Hood, St. Michael
st
Batho Thos., vict., Old Anchor, Frankwell
Baxter Mary, green grocer, Gullett passage
Bayley, Misses Ann and Mary, Quarry
terrace
Bayley Edward, baker, Castle Foregate
Bayley Wm., gentleman, Claremont buildings
Baylis James, civil engineer, Claremont
bank
Baylis James, nail maker, New street
Bazeley John, linen draper, silk mercer, and
milliner, High street and Pride hill
Beacall Ann and Eliza, booksellers and
stationers, Mardol head
Beacall Henry, currier and leather cutter,
Castle street
Beacall Misses Mary and Eliz., Castle
street
Beacall Rd., ironmonger & nail manr.,
Mardol
Beacall Sarah, currier and leather cutter,
Castle street
Beck, Mrs. Margaret Susannah, Benbow ter.
Beck, Peter and William, wine and spirit mer.,
Claremont st., residence St. John’s h.
Beddoes Jn., skinner & wool stap.,
Frankwell
Beddow Richard, hair dresser, Barker
street
Beetlestone Geo., boarding school, Hills
lane
Bell Misses, mill, & dress makers, Wyle
Cop
Bentley Thos. Amand, professor of languages,
Castle street
Betton Nathaniel, Esq., Abbey Foregate
Betton William, shoe maker, Frankwell
Bevan Henry, accountant and law stationer,
Abbey Foregate
Bickerton Richard, corn merch., Severn
place
Bickley Thomas, hair dresser, Castle
Forgate
Birch Benj., architect, surveyor, and builder,
Castle gate, residence Upper Green Fields
Birch James, blacksmith and victualler,
Buck’s Head, Frankwell
Birch John, stone mason, Coleham
Birch Jh., arch., surveyor & builder,
Castleg.
Birch Thomas, painter and glazier, Belmont
Bishop John, cabinet maker, Wyle Cop
Blake Lieut. Edward and John, Bellevue
Blair Wm. H., wheelwright, Welsh Bridge
Blair Chas., boot & shoe m., Abbey
Foregate
Blakemore Robert Baugh, confectioner and
baker, Mardol
Blakeway Richard and William, corn millers and
dealers, Castle Foregate
Blanchard Joseph, cabinet maker, Frankwell
Blent Charles, chair maker, St. John’s
build.
Blockley William, timber merchant, Longden
Coleham
Blount Chas., actuary, Savings Bk., College
h.
Blount Chas., shoe maker, Claremont hill
Blount Mary, dress maker, Princess street
Blount Walter, tailor, Princess street
Blower John, cabinet maker, upholsterer, and
general furnishing warehouse, Pride hill
Blower Tim., corn and cheese fac., Wyle
Cop
Blower, Thos. Jh., prov. & corn deal.,
Coleham
Bloxham Henry, Esq., solicitor and high
bailiff to County Court, St. Mary’s place
Blunt Henry, chemist and druggist, Wyle Cop,
residence Meol road
Blunt Thomas, chemist and druggist, Wyle Cop,
residence Abbey Foregate
Blythe Mr., draper & silk mercer, Market
sq.
Bodenham Thos., Esq., Column terrace
Bond John, bricklayer and beerhouse keeper,
Claremont hill
Boodle John, brickmaker, Coleham
Boodle Mary, dress maker, Coleham
Botevyle Mr. Thomas, Hills lane
Bottwood, George, hair dresser, Castle
street
Boucher Geo., musical repository, Castle
st.
Boulton Samuel, shoe maker, Chester street
Bourlay Wm. V., dancing master, Castle st.
Bowen John, painter & glazier, St.
Mary’s pl.
Bowen Mr. William, Judith’s Butts
Bowman Mrs. Catherine, Belmont Bank
Bowdler, Mrs. Ann, Dogpole
Bowdler and Barnett, silversmiths, jewellers
and cutlers, market street
Bowdler Mrs. Jane, silversmith, Market st
Bowdler Thomas, hair dresser and perfumer,
High street
Bowdler William, carpenter and victualler,
Shrewsbury Arms, Church street
Boyce Thos., register for St. Chad’s
district, Claremont street
Boycott Richard, baker, Spring gardens
Branscomb Fred. A., news agent, Church st.
Bratton James, surgeon, Claremont hill
Bratton Richard, cabinet maker, Wyle Cop
Bratton Richard, victualler, Dog and
Partridge, St. Mary’s place
Brayne John Gregory, tanner and maltster,
Abbey Foregate
Brayne William (executors of), braziers and
tin plate workers, Mardol head
Brazier John, agent to Cowley and Co., general
carriers, Castle Fields
Breeze Charles, veter. surgeon, Coton Hill
Breeze Edward, tailor, Frankwell
Breeze Henry, painter and glazier, Castle
st.
Breeze James, blacksmith, Abbey Foregate
Breeze Richard, victualler, Anchor, Hills
lane
Breeze Richard, tailor and clothes dealer,
High street
Breeze Sarah, baker, Coton Hill
Brereton James, cabinet maker, Castle
street
Brightwell William, boarding school, Belmont
bank
Brighty Margt., vict., Nag’s Head, Wyle
Cop
Broadbent Miss Jane, The Abbey
Bromfield Jacob, Spring Cottage, Meol road
Bromley Elizabeth, shopkeeper, Frankwell
Bromley John, grocer and tallow chandler, Wyle
Cop
Bromley Joseph, butcher, Castle Foregate
Bromley Marg., butcher, Double Butchers’
row
Bromley Sml., butcher, Double Butchers’
row
Bromley, Wm., butcher, Double Butchers’
row
Broughall Jno., Esq., solicitor, St.
John’s hill
Brown Ann, beerhouse keeper, Coleham
Brown Mrs. Catherine, Benbow place
Brown Mr. David, Claremont bank
Brown Edwin, carver and gilder, Wyle Cop
Brown Edward, cabinet maker, Mardol
Brown Jacob, butcher, Pride hill
Brown John, shopkeeper, Castle Foregate
Brown Philip, artist, Castle street
Brown Sarah, butcher, Pride hill
Brown Captain Valentine, White Hall
terrace
Brown William, confectioner, Castle street
Brown Wm., painter & glaz., Abbey
Foregate
Broxton Rd., chemist and druggist, Mardol
Bryan Henry, haberdasher, Princess street
Bryan William, dyer, Coton hill
Bryant Wm., boot and shoe maker, Mardol
Budgett Wm., grocer & tea dealer, Pride
hill
Burbury, Rev. Wm., M.A., second master of
Grammar School
Bull John, butcher, Pride hill
Bullock Saml., carpentr. & builder,
Frankwell
Burd Edward, physician, Corn market
Burd, Timotheus and Son, land and estate
agents, Abbey Foregate
Burnett Ann and Harriet, Swan hill court
Burr Brothers, lead merchants and
manufacturers of white, red, and sheet lead, Wyle Cop
Burr Geo., lead mer, Wyle Cop r. Kingsland
Burr Thos. Wm., lead mer., &c., Wyle Cop,
residence Kingsland
Burrey James, cabinet maker, upholsterer,
auctioneer and appraiser, College hill
Burrey and White, cabinet maters and upholsterers,
College hill and Pride hill
Burrows John, nail maker, Roushill bank
Burton Adam, victualler, Bear, Fish street
Burton Miss Anna, Abbey Foregate
Burton Miss Helen, Claremont buildings
Burton Rev. Rob. L., vicar of Holy Cross,
Abbey Foregate
Butler Jane, hosier, Castle Foregate
Butler James, hairdresser & hosier,
Coleham
Butler Thos., hosier & gen. dealer, Castle
st.
Butler William, shoe maker, Castle
Foregate
Buttriss Robt., maltster and victualler,
Elephant and Castle, Mardol
Buttriss Richard, maltster, Frankwell
Bythell Thos., chemist & druggist, Pride
hill
Cadwallader Ann, vict., Wagon and Horses,
Pride Hill
Cadwallader John, bookseller, printer, and
stationer, 3, High street
Cadwallader Wm., spirit vaults, Castle
gates
Calcott John, boot and shoemak., 4, High
st.
Canadine J., shopkeeper, Longden Coleham
Carden Robt., linen & woollen drap.,
Mardol
Carline John, architect and stone and marble
mason, Abbey Foregate
Cartwright Ann, wine and spirit vaults,
Theatre buildings
Cartwright Francis, market gardener, New
street, Frankwell
Cartwright John, engineer and agricultural
implt. maker, Castle Foreg., res. Castle st.
Caswell James, cheese factor, Mardol
Cavell Henry, shoe maker, School lane
Cawthron Wm., painter, plumber, glazier, and
glass dealer, Frankwell
Charlton Charles W., solicitors’ clerk,
Islington cottage
Chester George, tailor, Shoplatch
Chester Geo., boot & shoe mak.,
Shoplatch
Chidlow Wm., boot & shoemak., Castle
Fds.
Chipp Mr. Samuel, Trinity terrace
Cholton Samuel, butcher, Coleham
Chune Geo. & Jph., timber mer., Chester
st.
Clarke Chas. Thos. Hughes, surg., Chester
st.
Clarke Gavin, sheriff’s officer,
Crescent Fields
Clarke John, gentleman, Town Walls House
Clark Rd., registrar of marriages and agent to
the Sun fire office, Swan hill
Clarke William, maltster, Frankwell
Clay Joseph, veterinary surgeon, Wyle Cop
Clayton Geo., wool. drap. & tailor,
Clement hill
Clayton John, farmer, Old Heath
Clayton Mr. Jas., St. Alkmund place
Claxton William Dickson, chemist &
druggist, High street
Cleaver John, coffee house keeper, Castle
gates
Clement Wm., gentleman, St. John’s
row
Clement Wm. Jas., surgeon, Council house
Climie Daniel, civil engineer, Spring
terrace
Clinton Henry, baker, Abbey Foregate
Clorley S., blacksmith, St. Austin’s
street
Cock John, baker, Longden Coleham
Cock John, shoe maker, Abbey Foregate
Coggin Jabez, shoe maker, Chester street
Cohen Louis, clothes dealer, Mardol
Cole Thomas, painter and glazier, Wyle Cop
Colley Rev. James, M.A., incumbent Holy
Trinity, Belmont
Collier, brazier & tin plate worker, Wyle
Cop
Cooke Henry, painter, Cross hill
Cooke Jn., dyer & scourer, St.
Alkmund’s pl.
Cooke Joseph, corn merchant, maltster, and
corn miller, Abbey Foregate
Cooke Mary, schoolmistress, Swan hill
Cooke Wm. Hy., hatter & hosier, Pride
hill
Cooper George, shopkeeper, Abbey Foregate
Cooper Richard, coach proprietor, Meol
road
Cooper Wm., Esq., Claremont buildings
Cooper Wm. Henry, Esq., solicitor, St.
John’s hill, residence Claremont buildings
Cooper William, rope maker, Castle street
Cooper & Broughall, solicitors, St.
John’s hill
Corbet Miss Josepha, St. Mary’s
place
Corbet Philip, artist, Belmont
Corbet Walton, shopkeeper, Frankwell
Corfield, Mrs. Jane, White Hall place
Corfield Rd., engineer (water wks.), Chester
st.
Corser George Sandforth, Esq., solicitor,
Market street, residence Abbey Foregate
Cottrell Mrs. Elizabeth, Belmont
Cotton Ann & Sarah, milliners, Princess
st
County Constabulary office, Corn market
Cox John, shoemaker, Longden, Coleham
Craig Alex. Samuel, Esq., sol., The
crescent
Craig Charles Dixon, Esq., solicitor, The
crescent, residence Claremont bank
Crane Mrs. Mary, White hall place
Craston Edward and Co., hat manufacturers,
Pride hill
Crawford David, surgeon, St. John’s
hill
Cripps Gordon H., wine & spirit merchant,
Claremont street
Cripps Lewis G., wine & spirit mer., High
st
Cross James, stone mason, Raven road
Cross Sarah and Ann, milliners, Mardol
head
Cross W. Gowen, chemist & druggist,
Mardol
Crowe Henry, veterinary surgeon, Castle st
Crowley Hicklin and Co., general carriers,
Welsh bridge
Crump Vincent, confectioner, by special
appointment to her Majesty, Wyle cop
Crumpton James, baker, Frankwell
Crumpton Jonathan, brazier and tin plate
worker, Wyle cop
Crumpton Joseph, bookseller, printer,
stationer, and bookbinder, and agent for the sale of poor law
books, Mardol
Crwys William, dyer and scourer, Swan hill
Curtis, the Misses, Skelton road
Dakin John, cooper, Chester street
Dale Samuel, vict., Bell Inn, Princess
street
Dales Rd., saddler & harness maker, Wyle
cop
Dance Sarah, Raven hotel (posting house),
Castle street
Daniel John, vict., Spread Eagle, Wyle cop
Darwin the Misses, The mount
Davenhall John, hair dresser, Shoplatch
Davis Mrs. Ann, St. Julian’s friars
Davis Edward, mathematical and optical
instrument manufacturer, 43, High street
Davies Brothers, cabinet makers, Wyle cop
Davies Charles, shoemaker, and grindery
dealer, Barker street
Davies Mr. Daniel, White hall place
Davies Daniel, confectioner, baker, and
British wine dealer, Castle gates
Davies Daniel, clock maker, Mardol
Davis David, news agent, Mardol
Davies Edward, shopkeeper and wheelwright,
Coleham
Davies Edward, shopkeeper, Meol road
Davies Ellen, straw bonnet maker,
Frankwell
Davies Emma, milliner, Pride hill
Davies Evan, carver and gilder, Pride hill
Davies Mrs. Harriett, Tower place
Davies Harriett, dress maker, Marine
terrace
Davies Helen, dress maker, Dogpole
Davies Henry, boot and shoemaker, St.
John’s hill
Davies James, millwright, Chester street
Davies James and Son, ironmongers, nail
manufacturers, and saddlers’ ironmongers, Wyle cop
Davies John, bookseller, printer, stationer,
and bookbinder, 15, High street
Davies John, ale and porter brewer, Chester
street; residence, Castle gates
Davies John, supervisor of inland revenue,
Frankwell
Davies, John, shopkeeper, Wyle cop
Davies John, agent to Black Park coal works,
Castle foregate
Davies John, butcher, Fish street
Davies John, cooper, Mardol
Davies John, vict., White Hart, Mardol
Davies John and Charles, drapers and silk
mercers, 26, High street
Davies Joseph, street inspector and collector
of rates, Claremont hill
Davies Joseph, coal agent, Wyle cop
Davies Joseph, boot & shoemaker,
Mardol
Davies Joseph, vict., Three Tuns, Longden
Coleham
Davies and Hortins, eating house, Pride
hill
Davies Margaret, vict., Swan, Frankwell
Davies Mrs. Mary, Abbey foregate
Davies Miss Mary Eleanor, Bellevue
Davies Mary, dressmaker, Barker street
Davies and Oldroyd, milliners, Pride hill
Davies Misses Sarah and Eliza, London rd
Davies Richard, bookseller, printer, and
stationer, &c., 7, High-street
Davies Richard, tailor, St. John’s
hill
Davies Richard, cow keeper, Frankwell
Davies Robert, bankers’ clerk, Princess
street
Davies Robert, rope maker, Frankwell
Davies and Son, confectioners, Corn market
Davies Walton, baker, St. Mary’s
place
Davies William, currier, Pride hill
Davies William, currier, Bridge street
Davies Wm., boot and shoe maker, Wyle cop
Davies William, book binder, Meol road
Davies Winefrede, dressmaker, Barker
street
Day Wm., grocer and tea dealer, Pride hill
Deakin Edward, baker and beerhouse keeper,
Frankwell
Deakin Thomas, confectioner and baker, Market
street
Deaves James, clothes dealer, Princess
street
Deaves George, bookseller (old), Shoplatch
Deaves Hannah, milliner, Shoplatch
Denston, Mrs. Elizabeth, Belmont
Deshormes Francis U. G., professor of
languages, Crescent fields
Dibbin James, butcher, Double butcher’s
row
Dickin John, surgeon, St. John’s
hill
Dixon Miss Betsy, Abbey foregate
Dixon John, malster and vict., Dun Cow, Abbey
foregate
Dodson Richard, builder and statuary, Abbey
foregate
Done Robert and Co., wholesale tea and coffee
merchants, Mardol head and Castle foregate
Donnellan James, hatter, Barker street
Donnellan William, schoolmaster, Barker st
Downing Enoch and Elijah, glass, china, and
earthenware dealer, Pride hill
Downward Rev. George Richard, The castle
Drakewood William, shoemaker, Abbey fore
Drayton Edward, wheelwright, Welsh bdge
Drayton Geo., bookseller, printer, and
stationer, Shoplatch
Drayton John, timber merchant, New street,
Frankwell
Drinkwater Rd., woolstapler, St. Austin
friars
Drury, Miss Eliza Ann, Claremont street
Drury John (executor of), grocer and tea
dealer, Pride hill
Drury Thomas James, M.D., Quarry place
Dugard Mrs. Mary Ann, Column terrace
Dukes Mrs. Elizabeth, Windsor place
Durnford, Mrs. Ann, College hill court
Dyas Edward, shopkeeper, Castle street
Dyas Edward, butcher, Wyle cop
Dyas Jane, shopkeeper, Frankwell
Dyas William, shoemaker, Abbey foregate
Easthope William, cooking apparatus
manufacturer, High street
Eaton, Misses Emily and Susannah, Claremont
buildings
Ebrall Samuel, gun maker, Wyle cop
Eccleston John, grocer & tea dealer,
Frankwell
Eccleston Thomas, stone mason, Frankwell
Eddowes George, linen and woollen draper,
Mardol
Eddowes, Mrs. Martha, newspaper proprietor,
Bellevue
Edgerley Henry, cheese factor and paper
warehouse, Pride hill
Edisbury Thos., beerhouse keeper, Castle
frgt
Edson John, saddler and harness maker, &
brush & portmanteau manufac., Wyle cop
Edwards Ann, plumber, Claremont street
Edwards Ann, cow keeper, Coleham
Edwards Ann, vict., Hen & Chickens,
Dogpole
Edwards Edward, bookseller, printer, and
bookbinder, Dogpole, and vict., Bull Inn, Abbey foregate
Edwards Edward, hosier, Mardol
Edwards Edward, beerhouse keeper, Castle
foregate
Edwards Emma, vict., Britannia Inn, Mardol
Edwards John, bookbinder, Coton hill
Edwards John, plumber, Mardol; residence,
Hill’s lane
Edwards John, boot & shoemaker, Market
sq
Edwards John Hawley, Esq., solicitor, Pride
hill; residence, Belvedere
Edwards, Miss Mary, Abbey foregate
Edwards John Thomas S., Esq., Quarry place
Edwards, Mr. Robert, Holywell terrace
Edwards Rd., vict., Falcon & Castle,
Mardol
Edward Richard, baker, St. Michael’s
street
Edward Samuel, vict., Grapes, Castle
foregate
Edward Thomas, auctioneer, appraiser, and
accountant, Mardol head; residence, Coton hill
Edward Thos. & Son, bricklyrs, St.
John’s ct
Edward William, beerhouse, Chester street
Egan, Rev. Eugene, catholic priest, Beeches
ln
Ehn Henry and Co., furriers and straw bonnet
manufacturers, 38, High street
Ehn Jane, milliner, 38, High street
Elias Hannah, bonnet maker, Barker street
Elkes Edward, confec. and baker, Pride
hill
Elledge James, agent to Pickford and Co.,
general carriers, Castle foregate
Elliott, Mrs. Charlotte, The Priory
Ellis Mary, stay maker, Coleham
Elsmere Edward, managing director to
Shropshire & North Wales Fire Office, High st
Elsmere Peter, grocer & tea dealer, Wyle
cop
Elton James, register office, Dogpole
Embrey John, beerseller, Frankwell
Evans, Mrs. Ann, Whitehall terrace
Evans Ann, shopkeeper, Abbey foregate
Evans Arthur, clothes dealer, Princess
street
Evans Benjamin, confec. and baker, High st
Evans David, stained glass manufacturer, Wyle
cop
Evans Edward, cooper, Abbey foregate
Evans Edward, inspector of weights and
measures for South Salop
Evans Edward, cow keeper, Coleham
Evans Edward, accountant, Claremont hill
Evans Edward, schoolmaster, Barker street
Evans Fred., butcher, Double butchers’
row
Evans George, shoemaker and beerhouse keeper,
Barker street
Evans George, shoemaker, Abbey foregate
Evans James, tailor and tobacconist, Market street
Evans Jane, vict., Bell Inn, Mardol
Evans John, carpenter and joiner,
Kingsland
Evans John, jun., carpenter, builder, brick
& tile merchant, & boat builder, Frankwell
Evans John, grocer & tea dealer, Abbey
fore
Evans John, tailor, Gullett passage
Evans John, baker and shopkeeper, Double
butchers’ row
Evans John, hair dresser and perfumer, and toy
dealer, Market street
Evans Joseph, shopkeeper, Frankwell
Evans Margaret, vict., King’s Head,
Mardol
Evans Margt., paint. & glaz., St.
Julian’s friars
Evans Mary, watch & clock maker, Wyle
cop
Evans and Marston, paint. & glaz., High
st
Evans Oliver, vict., Bull and Pump, Meol
rd
Evans Richard, bricklayer and builder, St.
Austin’s priory
Evans Sophia, schoolmistress, St.
Michael’s st
Evans, Mr. Thomas, Beckbury terrace
Evans Thomas, shopkeeper, Coleham
Evans Thomas, superintendent registrar, clerk
to Atcham union and to lunatic asylum, St. John’s hill
Evans William, vict., Butchers’ Arms,
Double butchers’ row
Evans William, cow keeper, Abbey foregate
Fagg Ann, dress maker, Claremont hill
Fallows Richard, shopkeeper, Frankwell
Farlow Samuel, fruiterer & market
gardener, Theatre buildings
Farlow Samuel, town marshal and superintendent
police officer, Shoplatch
Farmer Edward, plumber, painter, and glazier,
Old heath
Farmer, Mrs. Mary, The mount
Farnell Joseph Kirby, draper & silk
mercer, Pride hill
Farr Henry, coach builder, High street
Fenna John, shopkeeper, Castle gates
Fenton Elizabeth, stay maker, Benbow pl
Fenton Henry, surgeon, High street
Ferrett Elizabeth, shopkeeper, Frankwell
Fesser Andrew, clock maker, Mardol
Field Francis and Mary, school teachers, St
Alkmund’s place
Field Mr., Swan hill
Fletcher Francis, prov. dealer, Claremont
st
Fletcher, Rev. Henry, curate of St.
Chad’s Claremont bank
Fletcher John, vict., Moulders’ Arms,
Castle gates lane
Fletcher, Mrs. Martha, Dogpole
Fletcher William, beerhouse keeper, Double
butchers’ row
Flexton Priscilla, victualler, Bridge House,
Frankwell
Forcham Thomas, shoemaker, Frankwell
Forcham Richard, Abbey foregate
Ford John, painter and glazier, Barker
street
Ford Geo., malster & shopkeeper, Barker
st
Forester Eliz., bonnet maker, Claremont st
Forester, Miss Matilda, St. John’s
hill
Foulkes Edwin, surgeon, Castle street
Foulkes, Mr. Thomas, Abbey foregate
Forman, Captain George, Bellevue
Fox George, vict., George Hotel, Market st
Frail Mr. John, Claremont hill
France Henry, beerhouse keeper, Castle
foregate
France James, whitesmith, Castle gates
lane
France John, letter-press printer and general
dealer, Mardol
Francis, Mr. James, Bellevue gardens
Franklin George Benjamin, agent to Mottram and
Co., hop mer. and brewers, Mardol
Franklin William, hair dresser, bird
preserver, and dealer in fishing tackle, Mardol
Fulcher George, schoolmaster (Shrewsbury
union), Kingsland
Gabriel James, cabinet maker, Mardol
Gatacre, Mrs. Harriet, Severn bank house
Gates William, butcher, Butchers’
row
Geary, Mrs. Elizabeth, Holywell terrace
Geary Henry, tailor, Swan hill
George William, china warehouse, Wyle cop,
agent to Rose and Co., manufacturers
Giles Jane, shopkeeper, St. Alkmund’s
place
Giles Rd., watch & clock maker,
Shoplatch
Gill George Phillip, surgeon, Milk street
Gill John, market gardener, Beckbury
cottage
Girling George, inland rev. officer, Abbey
pl
Gittins Ann, grocer & tea dealer, Theatre
blds
Gittins Francis, dressmaker, Wyle cop
Gittins Henry, butcher, Mardol
Gittins John, chemist and drug., Wyle cop
Gittins Margt., vict., Swan Inn, Frankwell
Gittins Sarah, schoolmistress, Abbey fore
Gittins Thomas, butcher, Abbey foregate
Gittins William, ironmonger, whitesmith, and
brazier, and tin plate worker, Mardol
Gittings William, butcher, Frankwell
Glover Robt., sad. & harness maker, Castle st
Glover Samuel, surgeon, Coton hill
Goodby Hy., vict., Eagle, St. Michael’s
st
Gordon George, Esq., solicitor; office,
Dogpole; residence, College hill
Goucher George, boot and shoe maker and
hosier, Shoplatch
Goucher William, carpenter, Mardol
Gough John, butcher, Pride hill
Gough, Miss Mary Ann, Islington
Gough William, currier and leather cutter,
Theatre buildings
Grafton Samuel, cooper, Wyle cop
Grafton Thomas, butcher, Pride hill
Gray Harriet & Caroline, milliners, Cross
hill
Gray Richard, hatter, Pride hill
Green Robert, tailor, St. John’s
hill
Green Thomas, paviour and clerk to water works
company, Old heath
Green Thomas, jun., printer, Old heath
Griffin William, corn merchant, Mardol
quay
Griffith Elizabeth, eating house, Castle
gates
Griffith Joseph, cabinet maker, Abbey
foregt
Griffith William, surgeon, Claremont hill
Griffiths Benjamin, wheelwright, Frankwell
Griffiths Hugh, provision dealer, St. Austin
st
Griffiths Jane, schoolmistress, Abbey
foregt
Griffiths Mary, beerhouse keeper, Canal
blds
Griffiths Samuel, blacksmith, Coton hill
Griffiths Thomas, shopkeeper, Castle gates
Griffiths Thomas, shoemaker, Frankwell
Grindley John, vict., Crown Inn, St.
Mary’s st
Grindley Martha, cow keeper, Abbey foregt
Groves John, builder, The Priory; residence,
Crescent cottage
Groves Joseph, shopkeeper, Castle gates
Groves Thomas, builder, The priory
Gwynn John, clerk, Chester street
Gwynn Richard, basket maker, Pride hill
Gwyn Thomas Girdler, Esq., The Elms
Hackney Jas., glass & china dealer, Pride
hl
Halbrook Thomas, shoemaker, Hill’s
lane
Hales Richard, skinner, Chester street
Halford Sarah, dyer, Barker street
Hall John, timber merchant, Abbey foregate
Hall Thomas, silk mercer & draper, High
st
Hall William, auctioneer, appraiser, and house
agent, Milk street
Hammond Fred., fishmonger, Castle foregate
Hammond Richard, beerhouse, Castle gates
Hammonds Henry, butcher, Frankwell
Hammonds Thomas, butcher, Abbey foregt
Hammonds William, butcher, Frankwell
Hams, Mr. William, Abbey foregate
Hand Anne, vict., Peacock, Islington
Hand Paul, cattle dealer, Quarry place
Hand Sarah, butcher, Butchers’ row
Hanley James, butcher, Castle foregate
Hanmer Chs. Js., boot & shoe mkr., Wyle
cop
Hanny James, watch maker, Wyle cop
Hanny Thomas, tea dealer (travelling) St.
Alkmund’s place
Harding, Rev. John, incumbent of St.
George’s, Mount cottage
Harley, Miss Sarah, The Priory
Harley Mr., Tower place
Harper Wm., chief constable, Claremont st
Harries George, tobacco and snuff
manufacturer, and paper dealer, Mardol
Harries George, horse breaker, Coleham
Harris James, boot and shoe maker, New st
Harris John, butcher, Coleham
Harris John Kent, shopkeeper, Hill’s
lane
Harris Joseph, pork butcher, Wyle cop
Harris Samuel, agricultural implement maker,
Barker street
Harris Thomas, hosier, and agent to Scotland
Life Association, Pride hill
Harris Thomas, confec. and baker, Castle
st
Harris Wm., draper & silk mercer, Pride
hill
Harris Mr. William, Kingsland
Harrison John, saddler and harness maker,
Shoplatch
Harrison Samuel, baker, Castle Foregate
Harrison and Kempster, saddler and harness
makers, Shoplatch
Harrison, Mrs. Elizabeth, Monk’s well
ter
Harker George, pump maker, Belvedere
cottage
Hartshorn James, accountant, Dogpole
Harvey Thomas, patten and last maker, Barker
street
Harvey Susanh., vict., Talbot Top, Swan
hill
Harvey William, boot, shoe, and last manu.,
Pride hill
Harwood, Miss Ann, Frankwell
Harwood Thomas, vestry clerk, accountant, and
house agent, Abbey foregate
Harwood, Mr. Thomas, St. George’s
place
Hassall John, shopkeeper, St. Michael’s
st
Hasswell James, furniture broker and copper
plate printer, Hill’s lane
Hatton Charles, market gardener, Abbey
fore
Hay George E., professor of music,
Hill’s ln
Hay Thomas William, watch & clock maker, High
street
Haycock Edward, Esq., architect and county
surveyor, The Priory
Haycock Jas., vict., Golden Lion,
Frankwell
Haycock Robert, coal, slate, & lime
merchant Castle foregate; residence, Dogpole
Haynes Francis Mason, baker and confec., Wyle
cop
Haynes John Edward, tailor, Wyle cop
Hayward Samuel, vict., Raven and Bell, and
posting house, Wyle cop
Harwood Thomas, shoemaker, Gullet passage
Hazledine John, Esq., coal merchant, Wyle cop;
residence, Moreton villa, Coleham
Hazleton Mr. John, St. Julian’s
friars
Healing Robert M., grocer and tea dealer,
Frankwell
Healing William, provision dealer,
Frankwell
Heath John, tailor and Woollen draper, Pride
hill
Heath Mrs. Margaret, Castle street
Heathcoate John Nigel, surgeon, Council house
court
Heighway Mrs. Ann, Spring terrace
Heighway Martha and Son, grocers, tea dealers,
and hop and seed merchants, Castle street
Hemmings Henry, grazier, Dorsett’s
barn
Henshall and Co., salt merchants, John Brown,
agent, Castle Foregate
Henshaw Thomas Northage, writing master,
Grammar school, Pride hill
Herbert Daniel, coachman, Abbey Foregate
Herbert Mr. Mark, Abbey foregate
Hewett James, accountant, St. Julian’s
friars
Hewlett George, tailor & shopkeeper, St.
Michael’s street
Hewlett Martha and Elizabeth, coffee and
dining rooms, High street
Hewlett William and Son, cabinet makers, Milk
street
Hicks Christopher, Esq., solicitor Wyle
cop
Hicks Henry, Esq., solicitor, Trinity
terrace
Hickman Mary, milliner, Wyle cop
Higgins Corbett, shoemaker, Chester street
Higgins Wm., Esq., solicitor, Claremont
hill
Higley Samuel, boot & shoemaker,
Coleham
Hilditch Miss, Bellevue
Hilditch Thomas, grocer and cheese factor,
Pride hill
Hiles John, professor of music, Swan hill
Hill Rev. Edward, (Independent), Benbow
terrace
Hill Mrs. Hannah, Monks’ well
terrace
Hill John baker, Longden Coleham
Hill Hon. William Noel, Reabrook lodge
Hilton Rev. John, Wesley an new connexion,
Claremont street
Hinmers Elizabeth, schoolmistress, Cross
hill
Hinton Richard, patten maker, Mardol
Hitchcock Richard, shopkeeper, Mardol
Hitchins Joseph, corkcutter, High street
Hodges Thomas, tailor, Cross hill
Holbrook James, basket maker, Coleham
Holland Richard, locksmith and bellhanger,
Shoplatch
Holmes Joshua, shopkeeper, Chester street
Holmes Wm., beerhouse keeper, Frankwell
Home Mr. Samuel, Cross hill
Homer Mr. William, Kingsland
Horton Ed., boot & shoemaker, Claremont
st
Horton Rebecca, milliner, High street
Hotchkiss William, farmer, Meol road
How Misses Mary and Christiana, Monk’s
well terrace
How William Wybergh, Esq., solicitor, Near
well house, Abbey Foregate
How Rev. William, Near well house
Howell Henry, boot & shoemaker, Mardol
Howell Henry, tailor and draper, High street,
residence Abbey Foregate
Howell Thomas, gentleman, High fields
Howell Thos., vict., Dolphin, Dolphin road
Howell Thos., beerhouse keeper, St. Mchl.
st
Howells Thos., blacksmith, Castle Foregate
Howells Thos., whitesmith, Castle Foregate
Hudson Wm., brush manufacturer, Mardol
Hughes Edward, Esq., solicitor, Dogpole
Hughes Edward, wine and spirit merchant, Corn
market, residence Belmont
Hughes Edward C., butcher, Fish street,
residence Princess street
Hughes Henry, shoemaker and shopkeeper,
Coleham
Hughes John, Esq., Dogpole house
Hughes John, maltster, corn miller, and seed
& corn mercht., The Glen, Frankwell
Hughes John, hair dresser, Frankwell
Hughes John, shoemaker, Bridge street
Hughes John, shoemaker, St. John’s
row
Hughes Maria, bonnet maker, Peacock pas.
Hughes Richard, shoemaker, St. John’s
hill
Hughes Robert, clothes dealer, Princess st
Hughes Robert, blacksmith, Abbey Foregate
Hughes & Son, boot & shoemakers,
Shoplatch
Hughes Thomas, painter & glazier,
Dogpole
Hughes Thomas, bricklayer, Frankwell
Hughes Thomas, boot and shoemaker, and
beerhouse keeper, Frankwell
Hughes Thomas, shoemaker, Frankwell
Hughes Wm., grocer & tea dealer, Pride
hill
Hughes Wm., maltster, St. Julian’s
Friars
Hulett, victualler, Unicorn Inn and posting
house, Wyle cop
Hulme Edward, hairdresser, Castle gates
Hulme Henry, painter, Castle foregate
Hulme Samuel, hair dresser and perfumer, High
street
Hulme Mr. William Lang, Abbey Foregate
Humphreys Elizabeth, circulating library, St.
Alkmund’s place
Humphreys John, wine and spirit merchant, St.
Mary’s street
Humphreys John, tailor & draper,
Shoplatch
Humphreys John R., house surgeon, Infirmy.
Humphreys Joseph, bookseller & stationer,
&c., Pride hill
Humphreys Mary, grocer, tea dealer, chemist
and druggist, hop and seed merchant, and cheese factor,
Mardol
Humphreys Wm., shopkeeper, Claremont st
Humphreys T., shopkeeper, St. Michael’s
st
Hunt Miss, Council house court
Hunt Mary, coach builder, Wyle cop
Hunt William Morgan Clerk, St. Michael st
Icke James, grocer and tea dealer, Market
st
Instone and Son, nurserymen, Sutton lane
Jackson John, carpenter, Abbey Foregate
Jackson Rebecca, dressmaker, Abbey Foregt
Jackson Wm. Simes, Esq., sol., College
hill
James Benjamin, tailor, Hill’s lane
James David, cow keeper, Coleham
James Humphrey, farmer, Meol road
James John, baker & shopkeeper, Abbey
Frgt.
James Joseph, shoemaker, Frankwell
James Richard, plasterer, Windsor place
Jeffreys Edward Alex., engineer, Coton
hill
Jeffreys Dr. Thomas, Castle house
Jeffreys William Egerton, Esq., solicitor,
clerk to magistrates and to commissioners for the hundred of
Ford, office Castle st., residence Coton hill
Jeffreys Mr. William, Dog pole
Jenks George, ironmonger, Wyle cop
Jenks Sarah, dressmaker, Abbey Foregate
Jennings Mrs. Sarah, Castle street
Jennings Thomas, Esq., Column terrace
Jervis Charles, carpenter, Frankwell
Jervis Elizabeth, dressmaker, Bridge
street
Jervis John, vict., White Horse, Frankwell
Jobson Joseph, corn mercht., St. John’s
hill
Johnson Rev. Frederick P., Abbey Foregate
Johnson Henry, M.D., Dog pole
Johnson Henry, corn dealer, Wyle cop
Johnson Mrs. Mary, Tower place
Johnstone Rev. Vanden Bempde, M.A., assistant
master Free Grammar school
Jones Andrew, farmer, Meol road
Jones Benjamin, shoemaker, Castle Foregt.
Jones Catherine, hosier, Shoplatch
Jones Charles, linen and woollen draper,
Mardol
Jones Chas. Griffiths, conf. & baker,
Mardol
Jones David, vict., Bull’s head, Castle
gates
Jones David, tailor & drap., St.
Mary’s st
Jones David, cheese factor and victualler
Woodman inn, Coton hill
Jones David and Son, cheesefactrs, New market
hall
Jones Edward, hatter, Pride hill
Jones Edward, veterinary surg., Claremont
st
Jones Edward, cooper, Mardol
Jones Edward, blacksmith, Beeches lane
Jones Edw., shoemaker, Hazledine’s
buildgs.
Jones Eliza, ironmonger and nail manufacturer,
Mardol head
Jones Evan, provision dealer, Coleham
Jones Evan, shoemaker, Princess street
Jones Evan, shopkeeper, St. Michael’s
st
Jones Frances, dressmaker, Frankwell
Jones Fredk. A., letter press printer, Wyle
cop
Jones Griffith, boot & shoemaker, Hills
lane
Jones Henry, boot & shoemaker, Coleham
Jones Henry Micholls, surgeon dentist, Mardol
head
Jones Mrs. Hannah, Swan hill
Jones Horatio, surgeon dentist, St.
John’s hill
Jones James, butcher, Pride hill
Jones James, grocer & tea dlr., Castle
gates
Jones James, cooper, Wyle cop
Jones James, brick & tile maker,
Kingsland
Jones John, schoolmaster, St. Julian’s
Friars
Jones John, cheese factor, New market hall,
residence Chester street
Jones John, shopkeeper, Castle Foregate
Jones John, blacksmith, Raven road
Jones John, carpenter, Swan hill
Jones John, coach builder, Circus yard, residence,
Peacock passage
Jones John, victualler, Gullett inn,
Hill’s lane
Jones Jos., vict., Barley Mow, Abbey
Forgt.
Jones Joseph, vic., Red Lion, Castle
Foregate
Jones Joseph, tailor, Frankwell
Jones Joseph, brickmaker, Coleham
Jones Lewis, farmer, Castle Foregate
Jones Louisa, victualler, Leopard, Pride
hill
Jones Maurice, grocer, tea dealer, cheese
factor, and seedsman, Mardol
Jones Margaret, clothes cleaner, Claremt.
st
Jones Margaret, shopkeeper, Castle gates
Jones Margaret, dressmaker, Dog pole
Jones Mrs. Mary, Reabrook view
Jones Misses, bonnet makers, Pride hill
Jones Mrs. B., Abbey Foregate
Jones Mrs. Price, Bellevue
Jones Robert, grocer & cheese monger,
Mardol
Jones Richard, schoolmaster (St.
Michael’s), St. Michael’s street
Jones Richard, baker, Frankwell
Jones Richard, butcher, Pride hill
Jones Richard, boot & shoemaker, Pride
hill
Jones Richard, blacksmith, Frankwell
Jones Richard, confectioner & baker, Milk
st
Jones Richard, beerhouse keeper, Meadow pl
Jones Richard, shopkeeper, Chester street
Jones Richard, blacksmith, Bridge street
Jones Samuel, wire worker, Shoplatch
Jones Sarah, cow keeper, Abbey Foregate
Jones Thos., commercial, dining, and coffee
rooms, Shoplatch
Jones Thomas, linen & woollen draper,
tailor and clothier, Mardol head
Jones Thos., victualler, Nelson’s Arms,
St. Austin’s street
Jones Thomas, carpenter & joiner, Pride
hill
Jones Thomas, cooper, Mardol
Jones Thos., brazier & tin plate worker,
Mardol
Jones Thomas, tailor, Frankwell
Jones Thomas, butcher, Fish street road,
Frankwell
Jones Thomas, shoemaker, Claremont st
Jones Thos. Wm., shoemaker, Castle fields
Jones Wm., saddler and harness maker, and
trunk and portmanteau manufacturer, 5, High street
Jones William, victller., Sun tavern, Milk
st
Jones William, provision dealer, Mardol
Jones William, carpenter, Castle Foregate
Joseph Ths., provn. dealr., Longden,
Coleham
Juckes Samuel, ironmonger & nail
manufacturer, Mardol
Juson Richard, gentleman, Spring terrace
Keate Henry, surgeon, Claremont hill
Keeling Henry, tailor and victualler, Odd
Fellows’ Arms, Barker street
Keeling Joshua, beerhouse k., Castle gates
Kelvey Rebecca, watchmaker, Mardol
Kempster E., saddler & harness maker,
Shoplatch
Kennedy Rev. Benjamin Hall, D.D., head master,
Grammar school
Kent John, pawnbroker, Shoplatch
Kent Rev. Manoah (Baptist), Abbey Foregt.
Kerry Christina, hosier High st
Ketler John, rag & bone dealer, St.
Austin’s st
Kindellon William N., governor of house of
industry, Kingsland
Kirkham John, baker & shopk., Castle
fore
Knight Mr. James, Holywell cottage
Kough Thomas Harley, Esq., solicitor, Swan
hill
Lacy John, gas fitter and brass founder, Fire
office court, High street
Lacy John William, printing and writing ink
manufacturer, Castle fields
Lambert Henry, corn miller, Kingsland
Langford William Henry, vict., Golden Harp,
Claremont st
Lawrence, Mrs. Mary, St. John’s row
Lawson Elizabeth, infant school teacher, New
street
Lawson, Mrs. Mary, Wyle cop
Lawson Stewart, travelling draper, Abbey
Foregate
Lawson William, wire worker, Frankwell
Leach Thomas, shopkeeper, Castle Foregate
Leake Charles W. and George E., painters and
glaziers, Wyle cop
Leake John Hasleham, bookseller, printer, and
stationer, &c., Corn market
Leake Thomas, beerhouse keeper, Castle st
Lee Edward, corn dealer, Mardol
Lee George, cabinet maker, Castle street
Lee George, shoemaker, Abbey Foregate
Legh Edward, agent to Shrewsbury and
Shropshire coal company, Canal wharf; residence, Abbey
Foregate
Legh John, butcher, Pride hill
Leighton, Rev. William Alport, Luciefelde,
Coleham
Le Mercier Nicholas Robert, teacher of dancing, St.
Julian’s Friars
Lewin Samuel Lucas, registrar of marriages,
Swan hill
Lewis David, printer and beerhouse keeper,
Gullet passage
Lewis Edward, vict., Lion Hotel, and posting
house, Wyle cop
Lewis Elizabeth, dressmaker, Frankwell
Lewis Francis B., beerhouse, Abbey
Foregate
Lewis John, blacksmith, Frankwell
Lewis Rd., grocer & tea dealer,
Shoplatch
Lewis Rd., grocer and tea dealer, High st
Lewis Richard, carpenter, Castle Foregate
Lewis William, professor of music, High st
Lewis and Ward, grocers & hop merchants,
High street
Linell John, ironmonger, Wyle cop., residence
Abbey Foregate
Linell and Jenks, ironmongers and cooking
apparatus manufacturers, Wyle cop
Linley Jas., green grocer, Castle Foregate
Lloyd Charles, malster and vict., Plough Inn,
Market square
Lloyd Chas., beerhouse keeper, St.
Michael’s street
Lloyd George, painter and glazier,
Roushill
Lloyd Henry, plumber, Chester street
Lloyd John, silk mercer and draper, Market
square; residence, Swan hill court
Lloyd John, vict., Hill’s Arms,
Hill’s lane
Lloyd John, vict., Old Trumpet, Mardol
Lloyd John, tailor, Abbey Foregate
Lloyd John, newspaper reporter, Monk’s
well terrace
Lloyd John, shoemaker, Hill’s lane
Lloyd Lydia, hair dresser, Castle Foregate
Lloyd Richard, butcher, Fish street;
residence, St. Alkmund’s place
Lloyd Thos., carpenter, New st., Frankwell
Lloyd Thomas, tailor, Frankwell
Lloyd Thomas, tailor, Frankwell
Lloyd Thomas, cow keeper, Meol road
Lloyd Wm. Butler, Esq., banker, White hall
Lloyd Wm., painter and glazier, Coleham
Locke Mr. Edward, Milk street
Lockley Mrs. Mary, St. Julian’s
Friars
Lomax Mrs., Bellevue
Longmore Rebecca, fancy repository, High
st
Lott John, vict., Crow Inn, Abbey Foregate
Louch Chas., soda water manu., Claremont
st
Lowe Edward Henry, wharfinger, Severn pl
Loxdale John, Esq., clerk of the peace for the
county of Salop, and clerk to lieutenancy of county. Office
Shire hall, residence College hill
Loxdale Richard, Esq., solicitor, clerk to
magistrates, and clerk to commissioners of assessed property and
income taxes. Office Corn market, residence Claremont
Lister Thomas, boot & shoemaker, Castle
st
Littlehales, George, engraver &
copperplate printer, Dogpole
Lucas Mrs. Martha, Roushill bank
Maddox Edward, vict., Swan Inn, Coleham
Maddox R., linen dra. & silk mercer,
Castle st
Maddox Mrs. Theodosia, Quarry view cottage
Maddox Mrs., Green fields
Mallard Edward, paper hanger, Mardol
Manning John, boot & shoemaker, Wyle
cop
Manning Josiah, tailor, Castle street
Mansell Mrs. Elizabeth, College hill
Mansell George, beerhouse, Castle Foregate
Mansell John, beerhouse keeper, and boot and
shoemaker, Castle Foregate
Mansell Sophia, painter, Mardol
Mansell Wm., vict., Angel inn, Abbey
Foregt.
Marsh Chas., agricultural implement maker,
Castle fields
Marshall Ann, victualler, Woolpack, Longden,
Coleham
Marshall Thomas, accountant, Judith’s
Butts
Marston Richard, painter, glazier, and agent
to Temperance Provident Institution, Market street
Marston Samuel, gunsmith, Claremont hill
Marston Thos., chemist & druggist, Wyle
cop
Martin James, butcher, Fish street
Martin Martha, butcher, Fish street
Martin Mary, farmer, Robertsford
Martin Samuel, butcher, Fish street, residence
Belmont
Matthews Chas., beerhouse, Butchers’
row
Matthews John, beerhouse, Chester street
Matthews Joseph, beerhouse, Spring gardens
Mayfield John, inland revenue officer,
Bellevue cottage
Mayne Captain D., Woodfield
Meara John Augustine, woollen draper, High
street
Mc.Cann Charles, inland revenue officer, Abbey
Foregate
Mc.Credie John, cabinet maker, St.
Julian’s Friars
Medlicott Wm., vict., Royal Oak, Coton hill
Menlove, Mrs. Harriet, Coton hill
Meredith, Lewis, & Co., grocers, tallow
chandlers, & hop & seed merchants, Wyle Cop
Merick John, shoe maker, Grope lane
Merifield John, fly proprietor, Beeche’s
lane
Middleton, Miss Anna Maria, Crescent
Miller John, butcher, Butchers’ row
Millward Edward, blacksmith, Meol road
Millward John, blacksmith, and parish clerk of
Holy Cross, Coleham
Milnes Edward, assistant surveyor of taxes,
White Hall place
Minn Rob., linen manufacturer, Castle
Fields
Minshall Geo., vict., Old Wherry, Wyle Cop
Minshall Wm., fishmonger, Pride hill
Minton Thomas, maltster, Beeches lane
Mitton Geo., boot & shoe maker, Castle
gates
Mitton John, cooper, Castle gates
Molinaux Jph. B., schoolmaster, Abbey
Fore.
Molineux Jane, shopkeeper, Wyle Cop
Molineux Thos., painter & glazier, Wyle
Cop
Moody Thomas B., inspector & collector
tolls, New Smithfield
Moore James, Esq., solicitor, Dogpole
Moore Marius Salvator, professor of languages,
Cross hill
Moore Wm., working jeweller, Mardol
Moreton Wm. inspector of Shrewsbury and
Chester railway, Benbow terrace
Morgan Mrs. Elizabeth, St. John’s
hill
Morgan Evan, shopkeeper, St. Michael st
Morgan Mr. Joseph, Barker street
Morgan Mrs., Claremont hill
Morgan Martha Ann, milliner, Barker street
Morgan Morgan, shopkeeper, Frankwell
Morgan Thomas, saddler and harness maker, and
licensed to let post horses, Mardol
Morgan Thomas, butcher and vict., Comet, Old
Heath
Morgan Wm. Esq., solicitor, Pride hill
Morgan Wm. & Sons, tailors and clothes
dealers, Princess street
Morley Hy., wine & spirit mer., Castle
street
Morris Ann, vict., Dun Cow, Abbey Foregate
Morris Ann, shopkeeper, Bridge street
Morris Charles, beerhouse, Butchers’
row
Morris Mrs. Emily, St. John’s hill
Morris George, cashier, Old Bank, St.
John’s hill
Morris Henry, bankers’ clerk, Corn
market
Morris John, carpenter, St. Austin street
Morris Joseph, accountant, St. John’s
hill
Morris Richard, hair dresser, Princess
street
Morris Richard, shoe maker, School lane
Morris Richard, tailor, The Mount
Morris Stephen, plumber, Castle street
Mottram Geo. & Co., ale and porter
brewers, Hills lane, residence St. George’s place
Mottram Jn., hop & seed merchant, Mardol,
residence Mount
Mottram Sarah, rope & brush manuf.,
Mardol
Mountford Thos., coach builder, Dogpole
Muckleston Captain Edward, Quarry place
Muckleston Jn., groc. & tea dealer, Wyle
Cop
Muckleston Mrs. Margt., St. Alkmund’s
sq.
Muckleston Rd. J., boot & shoe mk., Pride
h.
Muckleston Wm., linen and woollen draper,
Pride hill
Muir Robert, bank manager, Barker street
Mullinex William, leather cutter &
grindery dealer, Milk street
Millinix William, gunsmith, Princess
street
Mullins John, dyer, Frankwell
Munday Joseph, painter, Shoplatch
Munford Ed., vict., White Lion, St.
John’s h.
Mytton Mrs. Mary, Bellevue gardens
National Provincial Bank of England, Barker
street, Robert Muir, manager
Needham Mrs. Francis, Bellevue
Nevett Francis, boot & shoe wareh., High
st.
Nevett John, butcher, Butchers’ row
Newcome Miss Elizabeth, Benbow place
Newham Henry, boarding school (diocesan), Swan
hill
Newling Mrs. Elizabeth, Abbey Foregate
News Chas., vict., Three Fishes, Fish
street
Newton Catherine, schoolmistress, Barker
st.
Newton Hy., ale & porter brewer, Circus
yard
Niccolls Wm. Owen, wine & spirit merchant,
Mardol
Nicholls Charles, Esq., Heath Lodge
Nicholls Charles Barron, flannel merchant,
Chester street, residence Quarry Terrace
Nicholls Thomas, wood turner, Castle
street
Nickson Miss Elizabeth, boarding school,
Cadogan House, The Mount
Nightingale John Thomas, hair dresser &
perfumer, High street
Nightingale Richard, linen draper and parish
clerk of St. Julian’s, Wyle Cop
North Thos., vict., Mermaid, Shoplatch
Norton Francis Collings, Esq., St.
Mary’s ct
Norton Thomas, Esq., solicitor, Dogpole
Oakley Robert, maltster & hop dealer, Castle
Foregate
Oare John, butcher, Mount pleasant
O’Hanlan Mrs. Ann, Claremont bank
O’Hara Henry Lewis, surgeon, Dogpole
Oldroyd Henry John, nuseryman & seedsman
High street
Oldroyd Margaret, milliner, Pride hill
Oliver George, shoemaker, Abbey Foregate
Oliver John, shopkeeper, Longden Coleham
Onions Thomas, accountant and collector of
taxes, Cross hill
Onions William, surgeon, Broom villa
Ousley Thos. John, editor and prop. of the
Shropshire Conservative, Head of Pride hill.
Owen Ebenezer, dyer, Swan hill
Owen Edward, carpenter, Abbey Foregate
Owen James, school master (Holy Trinity),
Coleham
Owen James, shoe maker, Castle Foregate
Owen John Ingram, woollen draper, tailor, and
hatter, Mardol Head
Owen John, shoemaker, Claremont hill
Owen Mr. Joseph, Bellevue
Owen Mary, din. & coffee rooms, High
street
Owen Owen, baker, Castle Foregate
Owen Samuel, accountant, Claremont place,
residence Mount Pleasant
Owen Sarah, vict., London Coffee House, Dog
pole
Owen Thos., shoemaker, Longden Coleham
Owen Thos., baker and confec., Castle
street
Owen Wm., vict., Bugle Horn, Nackin street
Owen Wm., vict., Compass Inn, Frankwell
Owen William, tin plate worker and brazier,
Castle street
Paget Rev. Alfred T., Grammar school
Palin Richard, Esq., solicitor, Dogpole
Palmer Edward, baker, Frankwell
Palmer Edward and Son, butchers, Mardol
Palmer Joseph, gentleman, Abbey Foregate
Palmer Thomas Fras., gentleman, Abbey
Foregate
Pardey Capt. John, Reabrook cottage
Pardon James, artist, College hill
Parker Edward, vict., Seven Stars, Coleham
Parker James, farmer, Weir hill
Parker John, shoemaker, Claremont street
Parker Thomas, butcher, Fish street, residence
St. Alkmund’s place
Parker Wm., vict., Park Inn, Abbey
Foregate
Parkes Z., mill maker, Frankwell
Parry David, shopkeeper, Abbey Foregate
Parry David, shopkeeper, Frankland
Parry Ed. (manager of Marshall’s
factory), St. Michael’s street
Parry Hugh, vict., Bell Inn, Frankwell
Parry Robt., plasterer & modeller, Cross
hill
Parry Scarlet LLoyd, Esq., solicitor, Swan
hl
Parsons John, manager of goods department of
Chester and Shrewsbury rail., Coton hill
Parsons Mary, grocer and tea dealer, Market
street
Patchett Wm., station master, Enon cottage
Peach John, grocer and tea dealer, High st
Pearce Ann, butcher, Butchers’ row
Pearson Benjamin, upholsterer and paper
hanger, Princess street
Peele Joshua John, Esq., solicitor, treasurer,
and deputy clerk of the peace of the county; under sheriff of
Shropshire; town clerk of Shrewsbury; sub-division clerk and
bailiff of the Royal Free Grammar School, office Guildhall,
residence Murivance
Perkins John, shoemaker, St. Austin street
Perrott John, shopkeeper, Claremont street
Perry Wm. Henry, Esq., Pride hill
Peplow Mary Ann & Co., hop, seed, corn and
cheese mer., Claremont st, r. Claremont h
Peplow Wm., tailor, Wyle Cop
Phayre John, provision dealer, Mardol
Phillips Chas., Esq., New hall, Abbey
Foreg.
Phillips Edward, tailor, St. Alkmund
square
Phillips Ed. Benj., wire worker, Shoplatch
Phillips Edwin, confec. and baker,
Shoplatch
Phillips James, tailor & wool. drap., High
st
Phillips & Jones, wire workers and fancy
bird cage manufacturers, Shoplatch
Phillips Mr. John, St. Julian’s
Friars
Phillips Thomas, chemist, druggist, and ink
manufacturer, Mardol
Phillips Thomas, bricklayer and beerhouse
keeper, Frankwell
Phillips Wm., beerhouse keeper, Frankwell
Pickering Jas. Richard, vict., Old Thrashers,
Castle Foregate
Pidduck Thomas, surgeon, Pride hill
Pidgeon Henry, chemist and druggist, 45, High
street
Pierce John, painter & glaz., Castle
Foregate
Pierce Richard, cowkeeper, Holywell Farm
Pigott Mrs. Frances, Castle street
Poole Benjamin, shoemaker, Castle gates
Poole James, boarding school, Rose Mount
Poole John & Son, grocers, tea dealers,
and seedsmen, Castle street
Poole Thomas and Samuel, drapers and silk
mercers, 9, High street
Poole Thos. Francis, grocer and tea dealer,
Castle street
Pool Robert, currier, Mardol
Polehampton Rev. Henry Steadman, curate of St.
Chads, Belmont
Powell Benjamin, malt and coffee mill maker,
Frankwell
Powell, Mrs. Elizabeth, Benbow place
Powell, Mr. John, Coton hill
Powell Timothy, baker and confec., Mardol
Powell William, linen draper, Mardol
Price David, carpenter, Castle gates
Price Edward, butcher, Abbey Foregate
Price Emily, milliner, Castle street
Price George, pump maker, Frankwell
Price John, solicitor, Wyle cop, residence
Coton terrace
Price, Mrs. Margaret, Coton terrace
Price Richard, registrar of births and deaths,
& vestry clerk of St. Mary’s, Castle street
Price Sarah, shopkeeper, Coton hill
Price Sylvanus, tobacco pipe manufacturer,
Longden, Coleham
Price Thos., vict., The Glove, St.
John’s blds
Price Thomas, provision dealer, Abbey Fore
Price Theodore, basket maker, Coleham
Price Watkin, baker, Abbey Foregate
Price William, blacksmith and beerhouse
keeper, Abbey Foregate
Price William, wheelwright, Abbey Foregate
Price Mr. William, Mount Field
Prim John, hair dresser, Abbey Foregate
Prinn Richard, shoemaker, Cross hill
Pritchard Ann, baker, Meol road
Pritchard Ann, milliner, Princess street
Pritchard Ann, butcher, Butchers’
row
Pritchard Dan., grocer & tea dealer,
Dogpole
Prosser Rev. William, curate of St.
Alkmund’s, Belmont
Probert Henry, cabinet maker and upholsterer,
Shoplatch
Prune John, tailor, Frankwell
Pugh Edward, carver and gilder, Frankwell
Pughe, Mrs. Elizabeth, Dogpole
Pugh Elizabeth, schoolmistress, Castle
Fore
Pugh James, malster and vict., Plough and
Harrow, Coleham
Pugh John, baker, Abbey Foregate
Pugh John, tailor, Frankwell
Pugh Robt., painter & glazier, Castle
Foregt
Pugh Robert, beerhouse, Castle Foregate
Pugh Sarah, vict., Market Tavern, Pride
hill
Pugh Thomas, vict., Fighting Cocks, Castle
Foregate
Pugh Wm., painter & glazier, Abbey
Foregate
Pursell, Mrs. Ann, Old heath
Purslow Edward, hair dresser and umbrella
maker, St. Julian’s friars
Purslow Henry, clothier and furniture broker,
Corn market
Purslow William, painter, Barker street
Pyefinch John, chemist & drug.,
Shoplatch
Randles John, maltster and vict., Cock Inn,
Butchers’ row
Randles Robert, beerhouse keeper, Swan
hill
Rawlins Gabriel, adjutant South Salopian
yeomanry, School court
Rees David, fly proprietor, Coffee house
pas
Rees Evan, shoemaker and green grocer, Gullett
passage
Rees John, provision dealer, Coleham
Rees, Mrs. Mary, College hill
Rees William, grocer and maltster, Wyle
cop
Renolds Thomas, cow keeper, Old heath
Revel Champ, clothes dealer, Princess st
Richard Evans, vet. surgeon, Abbey Fore
Richards Hy., hosier & stay dealer, Wyle
cop
Richards, Rev. John, Crescent place
Richards Richard, butcher, Castle gates
Richards Thomas, shopkeeper, Abbey Foregt
Rigby Richard, butcher, Butchers’
row
Roberts Charles, boot & shoe maker, Pride
hill
Roberts David & Co., clothes dealers,
Pride hl
Roberts Edward, tailor and woollen draper,
Butchers’ row
Roberts Edward, shoemaker, Castle Foregate
Roberts Edward, tailor, Abbey Foregate
Roberts Edwards, shopkeeper, Chester st
Roberts Frederick, superintendent of asylum,
Kingsland
Roberts Henry, shopkeeper, Abbey Foregate
Roberts John shoemaker, Abbey Foregate
Roberts Joseph, furniture broker, Bridge
st
Roberts Mary, baker, Castle Foregate
Roberts Sigismunda, school teacher, Barker
st
Roberts Thos., victualler, Plough Inn, Castle
Foregate
Roberts William, fishmonger, Shoplatch
Robinson Ann, pawnbroker, Roushill bank
Roden Samuel, brick and tile maker, John
Wilson, agent, Raven road
Rogers Missses Ann & Eliz., Abbey
Foregate
Rogers Mrs. Eleanor, Abbey Foregate
Rogers Eliz., provision dealer, St.
Mary’s st
Rogers George, vict., Sun Inn, Milk street
Rogers George, gentleman, St. Julian’s
friars
Rogers Joseph, grocer and temperance coffee
house, Mardol
Rogers William, painter and glazier, St.
Alkmund’s place
Rogers William, wharfinger, salt dealer and
vict., Seven Stars Inn, Frankwell
Rogerson, Rev. James Jardine, M.A., incumbent
of St. Julian’s, Glansevern lodge
Rogerson Robert, schoolmaster (Bowdler’s
free school), Beeches lane
Rooke, Mr. Charles, Swan hill court
Rose and Co., china warehouse, William George,
agent, Wyle cop
Rowe George, town crier, Roushill bank
Rowland James, whitesmith and beerhouse
keeper, The mount
Rowland John L., solicitor, Monk’s well
ter
Rowland Misses, milliners, St. Mary’s
st
Rowland, Rev. William Gorsuch, incumbent of
St. Mary’s, Abbey Foregate
Rowland William, tailor, Roushill
Rushton and Bowdler, joiners & carpenters,
Pride hill
Rushton Julia, bonnet maker, Dogpole
Rushton Wm., carpenter, Pride hill, r
Dogpole
Ryder Ed., malster and butcher, Old heath
Ryder Elizabeth, hair dresser, Wyle cop
Ryder George H., beerhouse keep., Old
heath
Ryder Henry, victualler, Yorkshire House, St.
Mary’s Place
Ryder Captain Wm., R. N., Benbow house
Salop Bank (Messrs. Burton, Lloyd, Salt, and
How), Princess street
Salt George Moultrice, Esq., solicitor,
Belmont; residence, Coton hill
Salt Thomas, Esq., solicitor, Belmont;
residence, Quarry place
Salter and Rogers, provision dealers, St.
Mary’s street
Salter Hannah, provision dealer, St.
Mary’s street
Sandford Folliott, Esq., solicitor,
Dogpole
Sandford Humphrey, Esq., councillor at law,
Wyle cop
Sandford James Oakes, bookseller, printer,
bookbinder, and stationer, 25, High street
Sandys Captain Thomas, Claremont blds
Saunders Joseph Green, hatter, Market st
Savage Mrs., Reabrook view
Saxelby George, woollen draper and tailor,
& agent for the Syrian paletot, Castle st
Scammell Uphemia, bordng. school, Wyle cop
Scarth Jonathan, Esq., solicitor, College
hill
Scarth Jonathan, gentleman, The Flash
Scoltock Mary, grocer and italian warehouse,
Princess street
Scoltock William Poole, secretary and clerk to
charity trustees, Offices Guild hall, and Corn market
chambers
Selley Matthew, malster, Frankwell
Shakeshaft Mr. John, White Hall place
Sharp Alexander, working jeweller, Milk st
Shaw Elijah, umbrella maker, Castle
Foregate
Shaw Mrs. Elizabeth, Dogpole
Shaw Henry, fishing tackle manufacturer and
ornithologist, Shoplatch
Shaw John, fishing tackle manufacturer and
ornithologist, Wyle cop
Shaw Joseph, glass, china, and earthenware
dealer, Wyle cop
Shepherd John, governor of county gaol, The
gaol
Sheppard Joseph, tanner, St. Austin street
Sherry Thomas, shoemaker, Abbey Foregate
Shorland John, shopk., Longden Coleham
Shrewsbury & Ludlow Bank, Messrs. Roche,
Eytons, Campbell, and Bayleys, Market sq
Shrewsbury and Welsh Pool Bank, Messrs. Beck,
Downward, Scarth, and Bowen, High street
Shropshire and North Wales Fire Office, High
street, Edward Elsmere, managing director
Shuker Mr. Joseph, Monks’ well
terrace
Simmonds John, vict., Old Wheat Sheaf, High
street
Simons John, builder and china dealer, Pride
hill
Simpson Deborah, wine and spirit merchant,
Mardol
Simpson Hortensius Coates, wool merchant,
Hill’s lane and St. John’s hill; residence, College
hill
Simpson Rev. Joseph, Abbey Foregate
Simpson Thomas, coach proprietor, Abbey
Foregate
Skitt James, veterinary surgeon, Old heath
Small John, bricklayer and builder,
Butchers’ row
Smart Mary, fruiterer and fish and game
dealer, High street
Smith Andrew, rag and bone merchant, Howard
street
Smith Edward, farmer, Fox bank
Smith Edward, registrar office, Barker
street
Smith George, carpenter & joiner, Swan
hill
Smith James, gentleman, Benbow terrace
Smith John P., manager of goods department for
Shropshire union railway, Portland house, Abbey Foregate
Smith Mr. Joseph, Coleham
Smith Rd., painter & glazier, St.
John’s hill
Smith Richard, vict., Lion and Pheasant Inn,
Wyle cop
Smith Samuel, Esq., Column terrace
Smith Samuel Pountney, architect and surveyor,
Severn cottage
Smith Sarah, vict., Golden Cross, Golden cross
passage
Smith Miss Sarah, Sutton lane
Smith and Preece, auctioneers, Corn market
Smith Thos., glass & china dealer, Wyle
cop
Smith Thomas, stay manufacturer, Castle st
Smith Thos., blacksmith, New st.,
Frankwell
Smith William, auctioneer, Church street;
residence, Trinity terrace, Coleham
Smith Wm., draper (travelling), Cross hill
Smitheman Miss Caroline, Beauchamp
Smout Edward, seedsman and market gardener,
Gullett passage
Snook Richard Seymour, road surveyor,
Copthorne road
Southam Mr. Thomas, Spring terrace
Southam Thomas, jun., ale, porter, and spirit
merchant, and agent to Bass and Co., (Burton ales), Wyle cop
Speake John, shopkeeper, Coleham
Spence James George, ironmonger, &c.,
Canal wharf house
Stamp Office, Corn market, Edward B. Tipton,
distributor
Stanley Mr. Samuel, White hall street
Stant Joseph, builder, timber merchant, stone
and marble mason, and brick and tile maker, St. Julian’s
friars
Stanton James, hair dresser, Shoplatch
Stanway Mary, malster and vict., Old Bell,
Abbey Foregate
St. Albans, Mr. Edwd. Francis, St.
John’s hill
Stedman George, painter, Castle gates
Stedman, Mrs. Jane, White hall place
Stedman, Mrs. Jane, Belmont
Stedman Mary, bonnet maker, Castle gates
Stephens John, surgeon, College hill
Stephens Richard, boot and shoe manufacturer,
Mardol head
Stevens George, wood turner, Barker st
Stevens William, wood turner, Mardol
Stewart Penelope, tobacconist, Wyle cop
Stinton Henry, baker, Frankwell
Stockdale William, blacksmith, Roushill
Stokes William, Esq., St. John’s row
Stone Richard, shoemaker, St. Austin’s
st
Story Wm., solicitor’s clerk, Holy well
terrace
Strange Alice, vict., Fox Inn, Princess
street
Stuttle William, iron and brass founder,
Longden Coleham
Sutton Mrs., Ellen, St. Mary’s court
Swain John, malster, Mardol, and farmer, Coton
grange
Swain Richard, malster & shopkeeper,
Mardol
Swain Wm., maltster & ironmonger,
Mardol
Swallow Chas., beerhouse keeper, Castle
Fields
Swinburne, Miss Charlotte Marie, Belmont
Swinnerton Elizabeth, baker, Castle
Foregate
Symcock John, vict., Crown and Anchor, Castle
Foregate
Taggart Walter, tea dealer (travelling), Wyle
cop
Tanner John, saddler and harness maker, and
trunk and portmanteau manufacturer, High street
Tanswell James, painter and glazier, St.
John’s hill
Tanswell John, carpenter, joiner, and flour
dealer, Shoplatch
Tanswell Thos., painter & glazier, Castle
st
Taylor George, shoemaker, Frankwell
Taylor George, sieve maker and rag and bone
dealer, Chester street
Taylor Isaac, farmer, Monk moor
Taylor John, vict., Nag’s Head, Castle
gates
Taylor Robert, shopkeeper, Spring gardens
Taylor Richard, malster and corn merchant,
Abbey Foregate
Taylor Richard, jun., hop and seed merchant,
Princess street, residence Abbey Foregate
Taylor Richard, painter & glazier, Hills
lane
Taylor Rich., maltster & butcher, Old
Heath
Taylor Samuel, woolstapler, Hills lane
Taylor Wm., boot and shoe maker, Castle st.
Taylor Wm., tobacco pipe maker, Longden
Coleham
Teckoe Ed., vict., Queen’s Head,
Mardol
Teece Charles Bowen, Esq., solicitor, and
superintendent registrar, Swan Hill, residence St. Austin’s
Priory
Teece Miss Jane, St. John’s hill
Tennant Henry, butcher, Fish street
Thacker Mary, vict., London Apprentice, Coton
hill
Thacker Abraham, tailor, Frankwell
Thomas Ann, shopkeeper, Longden Coleham
Thomas Charles, linen and woollen draper,
Mardol
Thomas David, beerhouse, New st.,
Frankwell
Thomas Rev. David (Independent Welsh chapel),
Mardol
Thomas Edward, shopkeeper, The Mount
Thomas Edward, baker, Abbey Foregate
Thomas Elizabeth, vict., Ship Inn, Bridge
st.
Thomas Henry, builder, St. Austin Friars
Thomas James, millwright, Cross street
Thomas John, shoemaker, Coton hill
Thomas John, shoemaker, Abbey Foregate
Thomas John, grocer and tea dealer, Mardol and
Pride hill
Thomas John, carpenter, Barker street
Thomas John, superin. of police, Barker
st.
Thomas Robert, shoemaker, Frankwell
Thomas Richard, beerhouse, Spring gardens
Thomas Samuel, beerhouse, Raven street
Thomas Wm., shoemaker, St. Michael’s
st.
Thomas Mr. William, Islington
Thomas Wm., boot & shoe maker, Castle
st.
Thomas William, shoemaker, New street
Thompson James, vict., Cross Guns, New street,
Frankwell
Thornes Mrs. Charlotte, Holywell terrace
Thornton Mr. George, Abbey Foregate
Tibnam Wm., bookseller, printer, stationer,
bookbinder, and religious tract depository, Wyle cop
Tilston and Co., salt and slate merchants,
Canal wharf
Tindall Rev. John (Wesleyan), Swan hill
Timbs Richard, victualler, Eagle and Tun,
Castle Foregate
Tipton Miss Anna Catherine, Claremont hill
Tipton Edward Blakeway, stamp distributor and
secretary to Salop Fire Office, Corn market
Tisdale Eliz., shopkeeper, New street,
Frankwell
Tisdale John, baker, Bridge street
Tisdale Thomas, auctioneer and land and estate
agent, Quarry terrace
Tisdale Thomas, civil engineer and architect,
and surveyor, office Mardol head, residence Mount Field
Tisdale Wm., hardware dealer and market
gardener, Castle Foregate
Tisdale William, cooper, Frankwell
Tittensor John and Richard, cabinet makers and
upholsterers, St. Mary’s street
Tombs, Susannah, hosier, Corn market
Tomkins Henry, farrier, Coleham
Tomlins John, basket maker, Castle
Foregate
Towers Mr. John, gentleman, Swan hill
Towers Mr. John, postmaster, Sutton
cottage
Townsend Mary Ann, schoolmistress, Castle
Foregate
Tract Depository, at Mr. William
Tibnam’s, Wyle Cop
Trail Dewar, farmer, Coton hill farm
Tregortha Thos., circulating library, Meol
road
Troughton Mr. Thomas, Abbey Foregate
Trouncer and Son, ale and porter brewers, Old
Brewery, Coleham
Trouncer Thomas William, brewer, Coleham,
residence St. John’s hill
Trouncer Wm. Henry, maltster, Frankwell
Tudor Dinah, cooper, Shoplatch
Tudor Miss Elizabeth, Islington
Turner Anna Maria, maltster, Frankwell
Taylor James, shoemaker, Castle Fields
Urwick Miss Ann, The Mount
Urwick Elenor, librarian, St. John’s
hill
Upton Mr. Edward, Abbey Foregate
Vane Mrs. Sarah, Benbow terrace
Vaughan Edward, vict., King’s Arms Inn,
Claremont street, and proprietor of billiard rooms, Corn
market
Vaughan Hannah, shopkeeper, Shoplatch
Vaughan John, carpenter and builder, Claremont
street
Vaughan John, vict., Cross Keys, High
street
Vaughan Richard, beerhouse keeper, Castle
Foregate
Vickers George, coach builder, College hill,
residence Coton hill
Wace George George, Esq., solicitor, College
hill, residence Bellevue
Wace Hy. Thos., Esq., solicitor, College hill
Wace Richard, Esq., College hill
Wade George, cabinet maker, Wyle Cop
Wade Mrs. Anna Maria, Kingsland villa
Wade Geo., beerhouse keeper, Chester
street
Wade James, accountant, Market square,
residence Castle gates
Wakefield Rev. John Mort, M.A., assistant
master, Grammar School
Walker Geo., hair dresser, St. Mary’s
street
Walker George, butcher, Butcher’s
row
Walker Wm., hair dresser & toy dealer,
Mardol
Walker William, watch and clock maker, Market
square
Wall Benjamin, news agent, Mardol
Walmsley John, surgeon, Abbey terrace
Walmsley John, vict., Red Lion, Hadnal
road
Walton John, gentleman, Claremont hill
Ward Rev. Anth., (Wesleyan), Benbow place
Ward Rob., confectioner and baker, Wyle
Cop
Ward Thos. Cooke, gentleman, Quarry
terrace
Ward Thos., grocer & tea dealer, High
street
Ward Wm., vict., Wheat Sheaf, Wyle Cop
Ward William Robert, R.N., manager of gas
works, Castle place
Wardle William, bookseller, printer, and
stationer, Mardol
Warren John, vict., Boar’s Head, Meol
road
Wastall Thomas, wood turner, Fire Office
court, High street
Watkins, James, Esq., Mardol
Watkins John, baker, Barker street
Watkins John H., baker and shopkeeper, Coton
hill
Watkins Matthew, tailor and hosier, Claremont
street
Watkis Mrs. Elizabeth, St. John’s
hill
Watkis James Buckley, Esq., solicitor,
Belmont, residence Abbey Foregate
Watkis Richard, cabinet maker, Hills lane
Watson Joseph, vict., Buckley’s Arms,
Abbey Foregate
Watton John, printer, bookseller, bookbinder,
stationer, patent medicine vender, and newspaper publisher, St.
John’s hill
Weaver Mary Ann, boarding school, Belmont
Weaver Rev. Thos. (Independent), Swan hill
Weaver Wm., vict., Sun Inn, Roushill
Webster James, vestry clerk of St. Chads,
Belmont
Westwood Henry, vict., Barge Inn, Wyle Cop
Werter Mr. Thomas, Abbey Foregate
White John, auctioneer, Corn market
White Joshua Pugh, cabinet maker and
upholsterer, College hill and Pride hill
White Sarah, tea dealer, Wyle Cop
White Timothy, inspector of weights and
measures for borough, and assistant overseer of St.
Julian’s, Wyle Cop
Whitehurst John, gentleman, Mount house
Whitfield Christopher, market gardener, Castle
Foregate
Whitmore John, refreshment rooms, railway
station, residence Castle street
Whitney George & Son, chemist and
druggist, High street
Whitney James, bookseller, printer, and
stationer, Pride hill
Whitaker Francis, inspector of weights and
measures for North Bradford Hundred
Whitwell Francis, surgeon, St. Mary’s
street
Whitwell Francis, furrier, St. John’s
hill
Whitwell Jas., commer. traveller, New park
Wicks Mary Ann, livery stables, Cross hill,
residence St. John’s hill
Wigginton James, paviour, Coton hill
Wightman Rev. Charles Edward Leopold, vicar of
St. Alkmund’s, St. Alkmund’s sq.
Wigley Charles, accountant, St. John’s
row
Wigley Joseph, banker’s clerk, Princess
street
Wigley The Misses, Quarry place
Wilde Peter, bookseller, printer, stationer,
and bookbinder, and agent to Anchor Assurance Office, Pride
hill
Wilde Thomas, glass & china dealer, Market
street
Wildig Henry and Mary, glass, china, and
earthenware dealer, Pride hill
Wilding Elizabeth, grocer and tea dealer, Corn
market
Wilding James, butcher, Mardol
Wilding Richard, butcher, Pride hill
Wilding William, wool merchant, College
hill
Wilkes Clement, grocer and tea dealer, and
hosiery manufacturer, Princess street
Wilkes James, shopkeeper, Castle Fields
Wilkes Rd., tailor & woollen draper, Wyle
Cop
Wilkes Richard, butcher, Fish street
Wilkins Mary, fly proprietor, Milk street
Wilkinson Robert, flannel merchant, Claremont
hill, residence The Mount
Wilkinson Thomas, ironmonger, High street
Williams Edward, surgeon, Mardol
Williams Fred. Ed., shopkeeper, Barker
street
Williams John, grocer and tea dealer, and cheese
factor, Mardol
Williams Johns, tailor, Castle Foregate
Williams John, tailor, Marine Terrace
Williams John, vict., Coopers’ Arms, New
street, Frankwell
Williams John, tailor and woollen draper,
Dogpole
Williams John, beerhouse, Barker street
Williams John, shoemaker, Frankwell
Williams Joseph, tripe dealer, Wyle cop
Williams, Mrs. Mary, Abbey Foregate
Williams Mary, clothes dealer, Princess st
Williams Richard, vict., Waterloo house, Abbey
Foregate
Williams Richard, beerhouse, Hill’s
lane
Williams Richard, beerhouse, Frankwell
Williams Thomas, corn dealer, The mount
Williams Thomas, pump maker, Coleham
Williams William, grocer, tea dealer, cheese
and bacon factor, Mardol
Williams William, vict., Crow Inn,
Frankwell
Williams William, carrier to Ironbridge and
Broseley, Monday and Friday, Wyle cop
Wills George, accountant, White hall place
Wilson Mrs. Harriet, Quarry place
Wilson John, timber merchant, Raven road
Wilson John, tailor, Abbey Foregate
Wilson The Misses, St. Julian’s
friars
Wilson Samuel, beerhouse, Roushill
Winstone, Rev. David, chaplain to county gaol,
Castle street
Withers Thomas, surveyor of taxes, office,
Wyle cop; residence, Oakley cottage
Witts, Miss Aphia, Claremont bank
Wollaston, Mrs. Beatrice, St. John’s
hill
Wollaston Chas., gentleman, Claremont hill
Wood Miss Elizabeth, Tower place
Wood Mrs. Elizabeth, Abbey Foregate
Wood Francis, butcher, Frankwell
Wood Samuel, surgeon, The abbey
Wood William, physician, Castle street
Wood Wm. Henry, assistant clerk, County court
office, Holywell terrace
Wood William Seward, Esq., Severn cottage
Woodall John, woollen draper and clothier,
Mardol head
Woodruff Richard, shoemaker, St.
Alkmund’s place
Woodward Chas., brazier & tin plate
worker, Pride hill
Woodward Charles, butcher, Butchers’
row
Woodward Mr. Henry, St. Austin’s
priory
Woodward John, hop and porter merchant, Bridge
street
Woodward Robert, malster and beerhouse keeper,
Frankwell
Woodward, Mr. Thomas, Green hill cottage,
Frankwell
Worth Fred, Hy., coach builder, Bridge st
Worrall Mary, shopkeeper, Frankwell
Woosnam Elizabeth, milliner, Pride hill
Wycherley George, carpenter, St.
Alkmund’s place
Wylie David, engineer, Coton hill
Wynne John, Esq., College hill court
Yardley Rev. Edward, Claremont bank
Yardley Rev. John M.A., incumbent of St.
Chad’s Claremont house
Yates Mrs. Sophia, Column villa
Yeomans Thos. Roger, artist, Abbey
Foregate
Yerbury Charles, coach builder, College
hill
Yerbury and Vickers, coach builders, College
hill
Young George, ironmonger and coal merchant,
Canal wharf; residence, Abbey Foregate
Young and Spence, ironmongers, brass founders,
iron merchants, and agricultural implement makers, Canal
wharf
Marked * Boarding Schools.
Allatt’s Free School, St.
John’s row, Thos. Bagley, master; Frances Buttery,
mistress
* Arrowsmith Louisa Ann, Belmont
* Arrowsmith Mary Elisabeth, College hill
court
* Beetlestone George, Hill’s lane
Blue Coat (Bowdler’s)
Beeche’s lane, Robert Rogerson, master; & Mary Ann
Sharratt, mistress
* Brightwell William, Belmont bank
British, Castle Fields, Thos.
Harris
Cooke Mary, Swan hill
* Diocesan School, Swan hill, Henry
Newham
Field Francis and Mary, St. Alkmund’s
place
Green Ann, Old Heath
Gittins Sarah, Abbey Foregt
Griffiths Jane, Abbey Foregt
Hinmers Elizabeth, Cross hill
Holy Trinity Schools, Coleham, Jas.
Owen, master; Martha Clarke, mistress
Hunt Mary Ann, Church st
Infants (St. Chads), Barker street,
Sigismunda Roberts
Infants (Castle Foregate), Mary A.
Townsend
Infants (Frankwell), Elizth. Lawson
* Jones Jn., St. Julian’s Friars
Knight Clement, Cross hill
National Shrewsbury, Abbey Foregate,
Joseph B. Molynaux, master; Mary Ann Williamson, mistress
Newton Catherine, Barker st
Millington School (Frankwell) Francis
Cullis, master; Sarah Bishop, mistress
Morris Mary, Swan hill
* Nickson Elizabeth, Cadogan House, The
Mount
* Poole James, Rose Mount
Pugh Elizabeth, Castle Foregate
Roberts Ann, Castle Fields
Royal Free Grammar School, Castle
gates, Rev. Ben. Hall Kennedy, D.D., head master; Rev. William
Burbury, M.A., second master; Rev. John Mort Wakefield, M.A.,
assistant master; Rev. Alfred Tolver Paget, M.A., teacher of
mathematics; Rev. Vanden Bempde Johnstone, M.A. assistant master;
Mr. Thos. Amand Bentley, teacher of modern languages; Mr. Thos.
Northage Henshaw, writing master
* Scammell, Euphemia, Wyle Cop
St. Alkmund’s, William Donnellan
and Martha Badger, St. Alkmund’s pl
St. Chad’s School, Barker street,
Edward Evans, master; Jane E. Tanner, mistress
St. Michael’s School, St.
Michael’s street, Richard Jones, master; Sophia Evans,
mistress
* Weaver Mary Ann Belmont
Bevan Henry, Abbey Foregt
Edwards Thomas, Mardol head
Evans Edward, Claremont hl
Harwood Thomas, Abbey Foregate
Hartshorn James, Dogpole
Hewett James, St. Julian’s Friars
Marshall Thomas, Judith’s Butts
Morris Joseph, St. John’s hill
Onions Thomas, Cross hill
Owen Samuel, Claremont hill
Wade James, Market square
Wigley Charles, St. John’s road
Wills George, White Hall pl
See also Fire and Life Office Agents.
Atkin Henry (to Allsop and Co’s. Burton
ale), Golden cross passage
Barcley Wm. Jas. (Guiness’ Dublin
porter), High st
Burd and Son (land & estate), Abbey
Foregate
Davies John (coal), Castle Foregate
Franklin George Benjamin (Mottram & Co.,
brewers), Frankwell
Haycock Robert (Brymbo Company), Castle
Foregate
Legh Edward (Shrewsbury and Shropshire coal
company), Canal wharf
Southam Thomas, jun. (Bass and Co.’s
Burton ale), Wyle Cop
Cartwright John, Castle Foregate
Harris Samuel, Barker street
Marsh Charles, Castle Fields
Young and Spence, Canal wharf
Birch Benjamin, Castle gates
Carline John, Abbey Foregate
Haycock Edward (county), The Priory
Smith Samuel Pountney, Severn cottage
Stant Joseph, St. Julian’s Friars
Tisdale Thos., Mardol head
Brown Philip, Castle street
Corbel Philip, Belmont
Pardon James, College hill
Yeoman’s Thomas Roger, Abbey
Foregate
Badger Thomas Jeffreys, Swan hill
Bloxham Henry, St. Mary’s place
Cooper and Broughall, St John’s hill
Corser George Sandford, Market street
Craig C. & S., The Crescent
Edwards John Hawley, Pride hill
Gordon George, Dog pole
Hicks and Son, Wyle Cop
Higgins William, Claremont hill
How and Son, Swan hill
Hughes Edward, Dog pole
Jeffreys William Egerton, Castle street
Kough Thomas Harley, Swan hill
Loxdale John, Guild hall
Loxdale Richard, Corn markt
Moore James, Dog pole
Morgan William, Pride hill
Norton Thomas, Dog pole
Palin Richard, Dog pole
Parry Scarlet Lloyd, Swan hill
Peele Joshua John, Guild hall
Price John, Wyle cop
Rowland John Leeche, Monks’ well
terrace
Salt and Son, Belmont
Sandford Folliott, Dogpole
Scarth and Jackson, College hill
Teece Charles Bowen, Swan hill
Wace Henry Thomas & George, College
hill
Watkis James Buckley, Belmont
Burrey James, College hill
Edwards Thomas, Mardol head
Hall William, Milk street
Smith and Preece, corn market
Tisdale Thos., Quarry terrace, &
Shoplatch
White John, Corn market
Ballham James, Coleham
Bayley Edward, Castle Foregate
Blakemore Robert B., Mardol
Boycott Rd., St. Michael’s st
Breeze Sarah, Coton hill
Clinton Henry, Abbey Foregt
Cock John, Coleham
Coggin Jabez, Chester street
Crumpton James, Frankwell
Deakin Edward, Frankwell
Deakin Thomas, Market st
Dean Thomas, Frankwell
Davies Daniel, Castle gates
Davies Walton, St. Mary’s place
Edwards Thomas, Abbey Foregate
Elkes Edward, Pride hill
Evans Benjamin, High st
Evans John, Butchers’ row
Harris Thomas, Castle street
Harrison Samuel, Castle Foregate
Haynes Francis M., Wyle cop
Hill John, Longden, Coleham
James John, Abbey Foregate
Jones Charles Griffiths, Mardol
Jones Richard, Frankwell
Jones Richard, Milk street
Kirkham John, Castle Foregate
Owen Owen, Castle Foregate
Owen Thomas, Castle street
Palmer Edward, Frankwell
Phillips Edwin, Shoplatch
Powell Timothy, Mardol
Price Watkins, Abbey Foregt
Pritchard Ann, Meol road
Pugh John, Abbey Foregate
Roberts Mary, Castle Foregt
Stinton Henry, Frankwell
Swinnerton Elizabeth, Castle Foregate
Tisdale John, Bridge street
Ward Robert, Wyle cop
Watkins John, Barker street
Watkins John H. Coton hill
National Provincial Bank of England,
Barker street, Robert Muir, manager
Salop Bank, Princess St., (Messrs.
Burton, Lloyd, Salt, and How), draw on Glyn, Halifax, and Co.,
London
Savings’ Bank, College hill, open on
Monday and Saturday, from 11 30 a.m., to 1 30 p.m., Chas. Blount,
actuary
Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Market sq.,
(Messrs. Roche, Eytons, Campbell, and Bayleys), draw on Roberts,
Curtis, and Co., London
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, High
st., (Messrs. Beck, Downward, Scarth, & Bowen), draw on
Masterman, and Co., London
Allnatt Charles Blake, The crescent
Sandford Humphrey, Dogpole
Gwynn Richard, Pride hill
Halbrook James, Coleham
Price Theodore, Coleham
Tomlins John, Castle Foregt
Williams Richard, Abbey Foregate
Birch James, Frankwell
Breeze James, Abbey Foregt
Clorley S., St. Austin’s street
Crome Henry, Castle st
Griffiths Samuel, Coton hill
Harris Samuel, Barker street
Howells Thomas, Castle Foregate
Hughes Robert, Abbey Foregate
Jones Edward, Beeche’s lane
Jones John, Raven road
Jones Richard, Circus place
Lewis John, Frankwell
Millward John and Edward, Coleham
Price William, Abbey Foregt
Smith and Jones, Frankwell
Stockdale William, Roushill
Beacall Ann & Eliza, Mardol head
Cadwallader John, 3, High st
Crumpton Joseph, (agent for the sale of poor
law books), Mardol
Davies John, 15, High st
Davies Richard, 7, High st
Deaves George (old bookseller only),
Shoplatch
Drayton George, Shoplatch
Eddowes and Leake, Corn market
Edwards Edward, Dogpole
Humphreys Joseph, Pride hill
Sandford James Oakes, 25, High street
Tibnam William, Wyle cop
Wardle William, Mardol
Walton John, St. John’s hill
Whitney James D., Pride hill
Wilde Peter, (wholesale), Pride hill
Badger John, Marine terrace
Bather William, Coton hill
Betton William, Frankwell
Blair Charles, Abbey Foregt
Blount Charles, Claremont hill
Boulton Samuel, Chester st
Bryant William, Mardol
Butler William, Castle Foregate
Calcott, John, 4, High street
Cavell Henry, School lane
Chester George, Shoplatch
Chidlow William, Castle fields
Cock John, Abbey Foregate
Cox John, School lane
Davies Charles, Barker st
Davies Henry, St. John’s hill
Davies Joseph, Mardol
Davies William, Wyle cop
Drakewood William, Abbey Foregate
Dyas William, Abbey Foregt
Evans George, Abbey Foregt
Evans George, Barker street
Evans John, Market square
Forcham Richard, Abbey Foregate
Forcham Thomas, Frankwell
Goucher George, Market st
Griffiths Thomas, Frankwell
Halbrook Thomas, Hill’s ln
Hanmer Charles James, Wyle cop
Harris James, New street
Harvey William, and last maker, Pride hill
Hayward Thomas, Gullet passage
Higgins Corbet, Chester st
Higley Samuel, Coleham
Higley Thomas, Ann’s hill
Horton Edward, Claremont street
Howell Henry, Mardol
Hughes Henry, Coleham
Hughes John, St. John’s hill
Hughes John, Bridge street
Hughes Richard, Claremont road
Hughes Richard, St. John’s hill
Hughes and Son, Shoplatch
Hughes Thomas, Mardol
Hughes Thomas, New street
James Joseph, Frankwell
Jones Benjamin, Castle Foregate
Jones Edward, Hazledine’s buildings
Jones Evan, Princess street
Jones Griffith, Hill’s lane
Jones Henry, Coleham
Jones Richard, Princess st
Jones Thomas, Castle fields
Jones Thomas, Claremont st
Lee George, Abbey Foregate
Lister Thomas, Castle street
Lloyd John, Hill’s lane
Manning John, Wyle cop
Mansell John, Castle Foregt
Medlicott William, Coton hill
Meric John, Grope lane
Mitton George, Castle gates
Morris Richard, School lane
Muckleston Rd. J., Pride hill
Nevett Francis, High street
Oliver Geo., Abbey Foregt
Owen James, Castle Foregt
Owen John, Claremont hill
Owen Thomas, Longden, Coleham
Parker John, Claremont st
Perkins John, St. Austin’s st
Poole Benjamin, Castle gates
Prinn Richard, Cross hill
Rees Evan, Gullet passage
Roberts Charles, Pride hill
Roberts Edward, Castle Foregate
Roberts John, Abbey Foregt
Sherry Henry, Abbey Foregt
Speake John, Coleham
Stephens Richard, (manufacturer), Mardol
head
Stone Richard, St. Austin’s street
Taylor George, Frankwell
Taylor William, Castle street
Thomas John, Abbey Foregt
Thomas Robert, Frankwell
Thomas William, Castle st
Thomas Wm., St. Michael street
Thomas William, New street
Tyler James, Castle fields
Williams John, Frankwell
Woodruff Richard, St. Alkmund’s
place
Brayne William, (Executors of), Mardol
head
Collier William, Wyle cop
Crumpton Jonathan, Wyle cop
Gittins William, Mardol
Jones Thomas, Mardol
Owen William, Castle st
Linell and Jenks, Wyle cop
Woodward Charles, Pride hl
Davies John, Chester street
Mottram George and Co., Hill’s lane
Newton Henry, Circus yard
Trouncer and Son, Coleham
See also Builders.
Bond John, Claremont hill
Edwards Thomas and Son, St. John’s
court
Evans Richard, St. Austin’s priory
Hughes Thomas, Frankwell
Phillips Thomas, Frankwell
Small John, Butchers’ row
Stant Joseph, St. Julian’s friars
Williams John, St. Austin’s street
Boodle and Jones, Belvedere lane
Birch Joseph, Castle gates
Evans John, jun., (dealer), Frankwell
Groves Thomas, White hall place
Jones James, Kingsland
Roden Samuel (John Wilson, agent), Raven
road
Stanley Thomas, White hall place
Stant Joseph, St. Julian’s friars
Williams John, St. Austin’s street
Ball William, Wyle cop
Hudson William, Mardol
Mottram Sarah, Mardol
See also Joiners &
Carpenters, & Stone & Marble Masons.
Birch Benjamin and Joseph, Castle gates
Carline John, Abbey Terrace
Dodson Richard, Abbey Foregate
Evans John, jun., Frankwell
Groves Thomas and John, The priory
Stant Joseph, St. Julian’s friars
Those with † affixed are country butchers who
attend on market days.
Bates Richard, Shoplatch
Bates Richard, Chester street
Bromley Joseph, Castle Foregate
Bromley Margaret, Butchers’ row
Bromley Samuel, Butchers’ row
Bromley Samuel, Fish street
Bromley William, Butchers’ row
† Bromley William, Fish st
Brown Jacob, Pride hill
Brown Sarah, Pride hill
Bull John, Pride hill
† Burgess Thomas, Fish st
Cholton Samuel, Coleham
† Davies Charles, Fish street
† Davies George, Fish street
Davies John, Fish street
† Davies Richard, Fish street
† Davies Thomas, Fish street
† Davies William, Fish street
† Deakin James, Fish street
Dibbin James, Butchers’ row
† Dolphin Edward, Fish st
Dyas Edward, Wyle Cop
Evans Frederick, Butchers’ row
Gates William, Butchers’ row
Gittins Henry, Mardol
Gittins Thomas, Abbey Foregate
Gittins William, Frankwell
Gough John, Pride hill
Grafton Thomas, Pride hill
† Gregory Richard, Fish st
† Griffiths Thomas, Fish st
Hammonds Hy., Frankwell
Hammonds Thomas, Abbey Foregate
Hammonds Wm., Frankwell
Hand Sarah, Butchers’ row
Hanley James, Castle Foregt
Harris John, Coleham
Harris Joseph, (pork), Wyle cop
† Horton Robert, Fish street
Hughes Edward C., Fish st
† Jessop Francis, Fish street
Jones James, Fish street
† Jones John, Fish street
† Jones Joseph, Fish street
Jones Richard, Pride hill
Jones Richard, jun., Wyle cop
Jones Thomas, Fish street
† Lee Joseph, Fish street
Legh John, Pride hill
Lloyd Richard, Fish street
† Marsh John, Fish street
Martin James, Fish street
Martin Martha, Fish street
Martin Samuel, Fish street
Matthews Sarah, Fish street
Miller John, Butchers’ row
† Morgan Thomas, Fish st
† Moreton Ann, Fish street
† Moreton Thomas, Fish st
† Moreton Richard, Fish st
† Morris Thomas, Fish street
Nevitt John, Butchers’ row
† Nicholas Henry, Fish street
† Oare John, Fish street
† Owen Martha, Fish street
Palmer Edward and Son, Mardol
† Parks Edward, Fish street
Parker Thomas, Fish street
Pearce Ann, Butchers’ row
† Pigg John, Fish street
Powell John, Fish street
Price Edward, Abbey Foregt
† Price Thomas, Fish street
† Price William, Fish street
Pritchard Ann, Butchers’ row
Rigby Richard, Butchers’ row
Richards Richard, Castle gates
† Roberts Hannah, Fish st
† Ryder Edward, Fish street
† Ryder George, Fish street
† Taylor Richard, Fish street
Tennant Henry, Fish street
† Tudor John, Fish street
† Vaughan Edward, Fish st
† Vaughan John, Fish street
Walker George, Butcher’s row
Wilding James, Mardol
Wilding Richard, Pride hill
Wilkes Richard, Fish street
Wood Francis, Fish street
Woodward Charles, Butchers’ row
Bishop John, Wyle cop
Blanchard Joseph, Frankwell
Blower John, Pride hill
Bratton Richard, Wyle cop
Brereton James, Castle street
Brown Edward, Mardol
Burrey and White, College hill, and Pride
hill
Davies Brothers, Wyle cop
Evans John, Frankwell
Gabriel James, Mardol
Griffiths Joseph, Abbey Foregate
Hewlett James, Abbey Foregate
Hewlett William and Son, Milk street
Lee George, Castle street
Mallard Edward, (paper hanger,) Mardol
M‘Crede John, St. Julian’s
friars
Pearson Benjamin, Princess street
Probert Henry, Shoplatch
Tittensor John and Richard, St. Mary’s
place
Wade George, Wyle cop
Watkis Richard, Hill’s lane
See Joiners and
Builders.
Brown Edwin, Wyle cop
Davies Evan, Wyle cop
Pugh Edward, Milk street
Blower Timothy, Wyle cop
Caswell James, Mardol
Edgerley Henry, Pride hill
Eccleston John, Frankwell
Hilditch John, Frankwell
Humphreys Mary, Mardol
Jones David and Son, New market house, Howard
st
Jones Maurice, Mardol
Jones Robert D., Mardol
Peplow & Co., Claremont st
Rogers William, Castle st
Williams John, Mardol
Williams William, Mardol
Allen and Benson, Wyle Cop
Arblaster Charles James, Castle street
Blunt Thomas and Henry, Wyle Cop
Broxton Richard, Mardol
Bythell Thomas, Pride hill
Claxton William Dixon, 13, High street
Cross Wm. Gowen, Mardol
Gittins John, Wyle Cop
Humphreys Mary, Mardol
Marston Thomas, Wyle Cop
Phillips Thomas, Mardol
Pidgeon Henry, High street
Pyefinch John, Shoplatch
Whitney George and Son, High street
Butler Wm., Castle Foregate
Griffiths Thomas, Frankwell
Harvey William, Pride hill
Hinton Jane, Mardol
Hudson William, Mardol
Breeze Richard, High street
Cohen Louis, Mardol
Deaves James, Princess street
Evans Arthur, Princess street
Evans John, Gullett passage
Hayward Thomas, Gullett passage
Hughes Robert, Princess st.
Jones Thomas, Mardol head
Morgan & Son, Princess st.
Purslow Henry, Corn market
Revell Champ, Princess st.
Roberts David & Co., Pride hill
Williams Mary, Princess st.
Woodall John, Mardol head
Farr Henry, High street
Hunt Mary, Beeches lane
Jones John, Circus yard
Mountford Thos., Dog pole
Worth Frederick Henry, Bridge street
Yerbury and Vickers, College hill
Merifield John, Beeches lane
Morgan Thomas, Mardol
Mountford Thos., Dog pole
Rees David, Coffee house passage
Salmon Edward, Princess street
Taylor & Son (Stage Coach), Lion yard
Williams Mary, Milk street
Davies John (Black park coal), Castle
Foregate
Haycock Robert (Brymbo company,) Castle
Foregate
Legh Edward (Shrewsbury and Shropshire coal
company), Canal wharf
Hazledine & Co., Wyle Cop
Young George, Canal wharf
Evans Margaret, Mardol
Griffiths Elizabeth, Castle gates
Hewlett Martha and Eliza, High street
Jones Thomas (Commercial), Shoplatch
Owen Mary, High street
Rogers Joseph (Temperance), Mardol
White John, Corn market
Blakemore Robert B., Mardol
Brown William, Castle street
Clinton Henry, Abbey Foregate
Crump Vincent, Wyle Cop
Davies Daniel, Castle gates
Davies & Son, Corn market
Deakin Thomas, Market st.
Elkes Edward, Pride hill
Evans Benjamin, High street
Fallowes Richard, Frankwell
Harris Thomas, Castle street
Haynes Francis M., Wyle Cop
Jones Charles Griffiths, Mardol
Jones Richard, Milk street
Owen Thomas, Castle street
Palmer Edward, Frankwell
Phillips Edwin, Shoplatch
Powell Timothy, Mardol
Ward Robert, Wyle Cop
Watkins John, Barker street
Easthope William, High st.
Linell and Jenks, Wyle Cop
Davies John, Mardol
Deakin John, Chester street
Evans Edward, Abbey Foreg
Grafton Samuel, Wyle Cop
Jones Edward, Mardol
Jones James, Wyle Cop
Jones Thomas, Mardol
Mansell George, Mardol
Mitton John, Castle gates
Tisdale William, Frankwell
Tudor Dinah, Shoplatch
Haswell James, Hill’s lane
Littlehales George, Dogpole
Hitchins Joseph, High street
Bickerston Richard, Severn place
Blakeway Richard & William, Castle
Foregate
Blower Timothy, Wyle Cop
Cooke Joseph, Abbey Foregt
Griffin William, Mardol quay
Hughes John, The Glen, Frankwell
Jobson Joseph, St. John’s hill
Johnson Henry, Wyle Cop
Lee Edward, Mardol
Peplow Mary Ann and Co., Claremont street
Taylor Richd., Abbey Foregt
Williams Thomas, Frankwell
Blakeway Richard & William, Castle
Foregate
Cooke Joseph, Abbey Foregat
Hughes John, Abbey Foregt
Lambert Henry, Kingsland
Davies Richard, Frankwell
Edwards Ann, Coleham
Evans Edward, Coleham
Evans William, Abbey Foregt
Grindley Martha, Abbey Foregate
James David, Coleham
Jones Sarah, Abbey Foregate
Lloyd Thomas, Meol road
Pierce Richd., Holywell farm
Reynolds Thos., Old Heath
Beacall Henry and Sarah, Castle street
Davies William, Bridge st.
Davies William, Pride hill
Gough William, Theatre buildings
Mullinex William, Milk street
Pool Robert, Mardol
Bryan William, Coton hill
Cooke John, St. Alkmund’s place
Crwys William, Swan hill
Halford Sarah, Barker street
Jones Margaret, Claremont st.
Mullins John, Frankwell
Owen Ebenezer, Swan hill
Climie Daniel, Coleham
Jeffreys Edward Alexander, Coton hill
Tisdale Thos., Mardol head
Wylie David, Coton hill
Littlehales George, Dogpole
Clayton John, Old Heath
Hemming’s Henry (grazier),
Dorsett’s barn
Hotchkiss William, Meol road
James Humphrey, Meol road
Jones Lewis, Castle Foregt
Martin Mary, Robertsford
Parker James, Wair hill
Smith Edward, Fox bank
Swain John, Coton grange
Taylor Isaac, Monk’s moor
Trail Dewar, Coton hill farm
See Skinners.
Longmore Rebecca, High st.
Nightingale John Thomas, High street
Alliance, Joseph Stant, St. Julian’s
Friars
Anchor, Peter Wilde, Pride hill
Argus, George Whitney and Son, High street
Atlas, John Walton, St. John’s hill
Clerical, Medical, and General, John Poole and
Son, Castle street
Corporation of London, Thos. Tisdale, Quarry
ter.
Crown, Richard Palin, Dogpole
Eagle, Thos. Tisdale, Quarry terrace
Globe, Richard Price, Castle street
Guardian, Henry Pidgeon, High street
Indisputable, James Oakes Sandford, High
street
Law, John L. Rowland, Monk’s Well
terrace
Legal and General, How and Son, Swan hill
Medical Invalid, Thos. Henry Wace, College
hill
North of England, H. C. Simpson, College
hill
Norwich Union, Thos. Birch, Belmont
Pelican, Charles B. Teece, Swan hill
Phœnix, John William Bythell,
Guildhall
Railway, James Oakes Sandford, 25, High
street
Rock, George S. Corser, Market street
Royal Exchange, William Henry Cooper, St.
John’s hill
Salop Fire, head office, Corn market, Thos. B.
Tipton, secretary
Scotland Life Association, Thomas Harris,
Pride hill
Shropshire and North Wales, head office, High
street, Edward Elsemere, managing director
Sun, Richard Clarke, Swan hill
Temperance Providence Institution, Richd.
Marston, Market street
Yorkshire, Henry Bevan, Abbey Foregate
Hammond Frederick, Castle Foregate
Minshall William, Pride hill
Roberts William, Shoplatch
Smart Mary, High street
Franklin William, Mardol
Shaw Henry, Shoplatch
Shaw John, Wyle Cop
Nicholls Charles Barron, Chester street
Wilkinson Robt., Claremont hill
Marshall & Company—The Factory
Baxter Mary, Gullett passage
Brown William, Castle street
Cartwright James, Frankwell
Farlow Samuel, Theatre buildings
Gill John, Beckbury cottage
Hatton Chas., Abbey Foregt
Instone Henry and Son, Sutton lane
Linley James, Castle Foregt
Munshall William, Pride hill
Rees Evan, Gullett passage
Roberts William, Shoplatch
Smart Mary, High street
Smout Edward, (and seedsman) Gullett
passage
Tisdale Wm., Castle Foregat
Whitfield Christopher, Castle Foregate
See also Cabinet Makers.
Blower John, Pride hill
Bratton Richard, Wyle Cop
Hasswell James, Hill’s lane
Hotchkiss Robert, Wyle Cop
Purslow Henry, Corn market
Roberts Joseph, Bridge st.
Downing Enoch and Elijah, Pride hill
Hackney James, Pride hill
Harley Margaret, St. Mary’s street
Littlehales Wm., St. Mary’s street
Rose and Co., Wyle Cop, William George,
agent
Shaw Joseph, Mardol
Simons John, Pride hill
Smith Thomas, Wyle Cop
Wild Thomas, Market street
Wildig Henry and Mary, Pride hill
Williams William, Wyle Cop
Asterley Samuel, Frankwell
Barcley William James (and British wine
dealer, &c.) High street
Bagnell John, Pride hill
Bromley John, Wyle Cop
Budgett William, Pride hill
Day William, Pride hill
Done Robert & Co. (wholesale tea and
coffee merchants), Mardol head and Castle Foregate
Drury John (executors of), Pride hill
Eccleston John, Frankwell
Elesmere and Co., Wyle Cop
Evans John, Abbey Foregate
Gittins Ann, Theatre buildings
Healing Robert M., Frankwell
Heighway & Son, Castle st.
Hilditch Thomas, Pride hill
Hughes William, Pride hill
Humphreys Mary, Mardol
Icke James, Market street
Jones James, Castle gates
Jones Maurice, Mardol
Jones Robert D., Mardol
Lewis Richard, Shoplatch
Lewis & Ward, 17, High st.
Meredith, Lewis and Co., Wyle Cop and Howard
st.
Muckleston John, Wyle Cop
Parsons Mary, Market street
Peach John, 14, High street
Poole John and Son, Castle street
Rees William, Wyle Cop
Rogers Joseph, Mardol
Rushton Daniel, Dogpole
Scoltock Mary (and Italian warehouse),
Princess st.
Thomas John, Mardol and Pride hill
White Sarah Ann (tea), Wyle Cop
Wilding Elizabeth, Corn market
Wilkes Clement, Princess st.
Williams John, Mardol
Williams William, Mardol
Ebrall Samuel (maker), Wyle Cop
Marston Samuel, Claremont hill
Mullinix William, Princess street
Those with †
affixed are perfumers.
Beddow Richard, Barker st.
Bickley Thos., Castle Foregt
Bottwood George, Castle st.
† Bowdler Thomas, High st.
Butler James, Coleham
Davenhall John, Shoplatch
† Evans John, Market street
Franklin William, Mardol
Hughes John, Frankwell
Hulme Edward, Castle gates
† Hulme Samuel, High street
Lloyd Lydia, Castle Foregate
Morris Richard, Princess st.
† Nightingale John Thomas, 41, High
street
Prinn John, Abbey Foregate
Purslow Edward, St. Julian’s Friars
Ryder Elizabeth, Wyle Cop
Stanton James, Shoplatch
Walker Geo., St. Mary’s st.
Walker William, Mardol
France John, Mardol
Tisdale Wm., Castle Foregt
Cooke Wm. Henry, Pride hill
Craston Ed. & Co., Pride hill
Donellan James, Barker st.
Gray Richard, Pride hill
Jones Edward, Pride hill
Saunders Joseph Green, Market street
Asterley Samuel, Frankwell
Barcley and Co., High street
Heighway and Son, Castle st.
Hughes John, Frankwell
Humphreys Mary, Mardol
Jones Maurice, Mardol
Lewis and Ward, High street
Meredith and Co., Wyle Cop
Mottram John, Mardol
Oakley Robert, Castle Foregt
Peplow and Co., Claremont street
Poole & Son, Castle street
Richards David, Roushill
Scoltock Mary, Princess st.
Taylor Richard, jun., Princess street
Woodward John, Bridge st.
Butler James, Coleham
Butler Jane, Castle Foregate
Butler Thomas, Castle street
Cooke Wm. Henry, Pride hill
Edwards Edward, Mardol
Goucher George, Market st.
Harris Thomas, Pride hill
Jones Catherine, Shoplatch
Kerry Christiana, High street
Richards Henry, Wyle Cop
Tombs Susannah, Corn mar.
Watkins Matthew, Claremont street
Wilkes Clement, Princess st.
Anchor, Richard Breeze, Hills lane
Angel, William Mansell, Abbey Foregate
Barge, Henry Westwood, Wyle Cop
Barley Mow, Joseph Jones, Abbey Foregate
Bear, Adam Burton, Fish st.
Bell, Hugh Parry, Frankwell
Bell, Jane Evans, Mardol
Bell, Samuel Dale, Princess street
Bird-in-Hand, Mary Allen, Coton hill
Boar’s Head, John Warren, Meol road
Bricklayer’s Arms, Joseph Watson, Abbey
Foregate
Bridge House, Priscilla Flexton, Frankwell
Britannia, Emma Edwards, Mardol
Buck’s Head, James Birch, Frankwell
Bugle Horn, William Owen, Nackin street
Bull, Edward Edwards, Abbey Foregate
Bull’s Head, David Jones, Castle
gates
Bull & Pump, Oliver Evans, Meol road
Butcher’s Arms, William Evan’s,
Butcher’s row
Castle and Falcon, Richard Edwards, Mardol
Cock, John Randles, Butcher’s row
Comet, Thomas, Morgan, Old Heath
Compasses, Owen Williams, Frankwell
Coopers’ Arms, Jn. Williams,
Frankwell
Cross Guns, James Thompson, New street,
Frankwell
Cross Keys, John Vaughan, High street
Crow, John Lott, Abbey Foregate
Crow, William Edwards, Frankwell
Crown, John Grindley, St. Mary’s
street
Crown and Anchor, John Symcock, Castle
Foregate
Dog and Partridge, Richard Bratton, St.
Mary’s place
Dolphin, Thomas Howell, Dolphin’s
row
Dun Cow, Ann Morris, Abbey Foregate
Eagle, Henry Goodby, St. Michael’s
street
Eagle and Tun, Richard Timbs, Castle
Foregate
Elephant and Castle, Robert Buttriss,
Mardol
Fighting Cocks, Thomas Pugh, Castle
Foregate
Fox Inn, Alice Strange, Princess street
George Hotel, George Fox, Market street
Glove Thomas Price, St. John’s
buildings
Golden Cross, Sarah Smith, Golden Cross
passage
Golden Hart, William Henry Langford, Claremont
st.
Golden Lion, Jas. Haycock, Frankwell
Grapes, Samuel Edwards, Castle Foregate
Gullett Inn, John Jones, Hills lane
Hen and Chickens, Ann Edwards, Dogpole
Hill’s Arms, John Lloyd, Hill’s
lane
King’s Arms, Ed. Vaughan, Claremont
street
King’s Head, Margt. Evans, Mardol
Leopard, Louisa Jones, Pride hill
Lion and Pheasant Inn, Richard Smith, Wyle
Cop
London Apprentice, Mary Thacker, Coton
hill
London Coffee House, Sarah Owen, Dogpole
Market Tavern, Sarah Pugh, Pride hill
Mason’s Arms, Geo. Wade, Chester
street
Mermaid, Thomas North, Shoplatch
Moulders’ Arms, John Fletcher, Castle
gates lane
Nag’s Head, John Taylor, Castle
Gates
Nag’s Head, Margt. Brightey, Wyle
Cop
Nelson Arms, Thomas Jones, St. Austin
street
New Inn, Margaret Gittins, Frankwell
Oddfellows’ Arms, Henry Keeling, Barker
street
Old Anchor, Thomas Batho, Frankwell
Old Bell, Mary Stanway, Abbey foregate
Old Bush, John Dixon, Abbey foregate
Old Post Office, Geo. Rogers, Milk street
Old Thrasher, Jas. Richard Pickering, Abbey
foregt
Old Trumpet, John Lloyd Mardol
Old Wheat Sheaf, John Simmonds, High
street
Old Wherry, Geo. Minshull Wyle cop
Park Inn, William Parker Abbey foregate
Peacock, Anne Hand, Islington
Plough, Chas. Lloyd, Market square
Plough, Thomas Roberts, Castle foregate
Plough and Harrow, John Pugh, Coleham
Queen’s Head, Edw. Teckoe, Mardol
Raven and Bell Hotel (and posting house),
Samuel Hayward, Wyle cop
Raven Hotel (and posting house), Sarah Dance,
Castle street
Red Lion, Joseph Jones, Castle foregate
Red Lion, John Walmsley Hadnal road
Refreshment Rooms, Railway Station, John
Whitmore, Castle foregate
Robin Hood, John Batho, St. Michael’s
street
Royal Oak, Wm. Medlicott, Coton hill
Seven Stars, William Rogers, Frankwell
Seven Stars, Edward Parker, Coleham
Shrewsbury Arms, William Bowdler, Church
street
Ship, Elizabeth Thomas, Bridge street
Spread Eagle, John Daniel, Wyle cop
Sun, William Jones, Milk st
Sun, William Weaver, Roushill
Swan, Edward Maddox, Coleham
Swan, Margaret Davies, Frankwell
Talbot Tap, Susannah Harvey, Swan hill
Theatre Tavern, Ann Cartwright, Theatre
buildings
Three Fishes, Charles News, Fish street
Three Tuns, Joseph Davis, Coleham
Unicorn, John Hulett, Wyle cop
Wagon and Horses, Ann Cadwallader, Pride
hill
Waterloo House, Richard Williams, Abbey
foregate
Wheat Sheaf, William Ward, Wyle cop
White Hart, John Davies, Mardol
White Horse, John Jervise, Frankwell
White Lion, Edward Munford, St. John’s
hill
Woodman, David Jones, Coton hill
Wool Pack, Martha Marshall, Coleham
Yorkshire House, Henry Ryder, St. Mary’s
place
Alcock John, Frankwell
Artlett James, Spring gardns
Ashley Geo., Barrack passage
Badger Joseph, Kingsland
Badger Samuel, Coleham
Barton Thomas, Bellevue
Bond John, Claremont hill
Brown Ann, Coleham
Deakin Edward, Frankwell
Edisbury Thomas, Castle foregate
Edwards Edward, Castle foregate
Edwards William, Chester st
Embrey John, Frankwell
Fletcher William, Butchers’ row
France Henry, Cattle foregt
Griffiths Mary, Canal buildings
Hammond Richard, Castle gates
Holmes William, Frankwell
Howell Thomas, St. Michl’s street
Hughes Thomas, Mardol
Jones Richard, Meadow place
Keeling Joshua, Castle gates
Leake Thomas, Castle street
Lloyd Charles, St. Michael’s street
Lewis David, Gullett passage
Lewis Francis B., Abbey foregate
Mansell George, Castle foregt
Mansell John, Castle foregt
Matthews Charles, Butchers’ row
Matthews John, Chester st
Matthews Joseph, Spring gardens
Morris Charles, Butchers’ row
Phillips Thomas, Frankwell
Phillips William, Frankwell
Price William, Abbey foregt
Pugh John, Castle foregate
Pugh Joseph, Wyle cop
Randles Robert, Swan hill
Rowlands James, The Mount
Ryder George H., Old heath
Swallow Charles, Castle fields
Thomas David, Frankwell
Thomas Richard, Spring gardens
Thomas Samuel, Raven road
Vaughan Richard, Castle foregate
Williams John, St. Austin’s street
Williams Richard, Hill’s lane
Williams Richard, Frankwell
Wilson Samuel, Roushill
Woodward Robert, Frankwell
Lacy John William (printing and writing),
Castle fields
Phillips Thomas, Mardol
Lacy John (brass), Fire office court, High
street
Stuttle William, Longden, Coleham
Young and Spence, Canal wharf
Young and Spence, Canal wharf
Alltree Jemima and Henry, Corn market
Beacall Richard, Mardol
Bullock Samuel, Frankwell
Davies James and Son, Wyle cop
Gittins William, Mardol
Jones Eliza, Mardol head
Juckes Samuel, Mardol
Linell and Jenks, Wyle cop
Swain William, Mardol
Wilkinson Thomas, High st
Young and Spence, Canal wharf
Birch Benjamin and Joseph, Castle gates
Evans John, Kingsland
Evans John, jun., Frankwell
Goucher, William, Mardol
Groves Thomas and John, St. Austin friars
Jackson John, Abbey foregt
Jarvis Charles, Frankwell
Jones John, Swan hill
Jones Thomas, Pride hill
Jones William, Castle foregt
Lewis Richard, Castle foregt
Lloyd Thomas, New street, Frankwell
Morris John, St. Austin st
Owen Edward, Abbey foregt
Price David, Castle gates lane
Rushton & Bowdler, Pride hill
Simons John, Pride hill
Smith John, Swan hill
Stant Joseph, St. Julian’s friars
Tanswell John, Shoplatch
Thomas Henry, St. Austin street
Thomas John, Barker street
Vaughan John, Claremont st
Wycherley George, St. Alkmund’s
place
Burr Brothers, and manufacturers of red,
sheet, and pig lead, Wyle cop
Davies John, High street
Humphreys, Elizabeth, St. Alkmund’s
place
Leake, J. H. Market square
Subscription, St. John’s hill; Elinor
Urwick, librarian
Minn Robert, Castle fields
Barron Anthony, Pride hill
Bazeley John, High street and Pride hill
Carden Robert, Mardol
Davies John and Charles, 26, High street
Eddowes George, Mardol
Farnell and Company, Pride hill
Hall Thomas, High street
Harris William, Pride hill
Jones Charles, Mardol
Jones Thomas, Mardol head
Lloyd & Blythe, Market sqre
Maddox Richard, Castle st
Meara John Augustin (woollen), High street
Muckleston William, Pride hill
Nightingale Richard, Wyle cop
Poole Thomas and Samuel, Wyle cop
Powell William, Mardol
Thomas Charles, Mardol
Wicks Mary Ann, Cross hill
Asterley Samuel, Frankwell
Brayne John Gregory, Abbey foregate
Buttriss Richard, Frankwell
Clarke William, Frankwell
Cooke Joseph, Abbey foregt
Davies John, Chester street
Dixon John, Abbey foregt
Ford George, Barker street
Hughes John, Frankwell
Hughes William, St. Julian’s friars
Lloyd Charles, Market square
Minton Thos., Beeches lane
Oakley Robert, Castle foregt
Pugh John, Coleham
Randles John, Butchers’ row
Rees John, Coleham
Rees William, Wyle cop
Ryder Edward, Old heath
Selley Matthew, Frankwell
Stanway Mary, Abbey foregt
Swain John, Mardol
Swain Richard, Mardol
Swain William, Mardol
Taylor Richard, Abbey foregt
Taylor Richard, Old heath
Trouncer and Son, Coleham
Trouncer William, Frankwell
Turner Anne Maria, Frankwell
Woodword Robert, Frankwell
Parkes Z., Frankwell
Powell Benjamin, Frankwell
Alltree Ann and Amelia, Windsor place
Barnaby Isabel, Market sqre
Barnett Emma, Frankwell
Bazeley John (silk mercer), High street
Bell The Misses, Wyle cop
Blount Mary, Princess street
Boodle Mary, Reabrook place, Coleham
Burnett Ann and Harriet, Swan hill court
Cotton Ann and Sarah, Princess street
Cross Sarah & Ann, Mardol head
Davies Harriet, Marine terrce
Davies Helen, Dogpole
Davies Mary, Barker street
Davies and Oldroyd, Pride hill
Davies Winifred, Barker st
Deaves Hannah, Shoplatch
Ehn Jane, 38, High street
Gittins Frances, Wyle cop
Gray Harriet and Caroline, Cross hill
Hickman Mary, Wyle cop
Horton Rebecca, High street
Jackson Rebecca, Abbey foregate
Jenks Sarah, Abbey foregate
Jervis Elizabeth, Bridge st
Jones Frances, Frankwell
Jones Margaret, Dogpole
Lewis Elizabeth, Frankwell
Morgan Martha Ann, Barker street
Price Emily, Castle street
Pritchard Ann, Princess st
Rowlands Jane, St. Alkmund’s place
Rowland Misses, St. Mary’s street
Tagg Ann, Claremont hill
Woosnam Elizabeth, Pride hl
Davies James, Chester street
Thomas James, Cross street
Boucher George, Castle st
Bayliss James, Frankwell
Beacall Richard, Mardol
Burrows John, Roushill bank
Davies James and Son, Wyle cop
Jones Eliza, Mardol head
Juckes Samuel, Mardol
Young & Spence, Canal wharf
See also Booksellers and
Stationers.
Davies David, Mardol
Wall Benjamin, Mardol
Eddowes’ Journal (Wednesday),
Martha Eddowes, Corn market
Shrewsbury Chronicle (Friday), John
Watton, St. John’s hill
Shropshire Conservative (Saturday),
Thomas John Ousley, head of Pride hill
Instone Henry and Son, Wyle cop
Oldroyd Henry John, High st
Davies Edward, High street
Birch Thomas, Belmont
Bower John, St. Mary’s place
Breeze Henry, Castle street
Brown William, Abbey foregt
Cawthorn Wm., Frankwell
Cole Thomas, Wyle cop
Cooke Henry, Cross hill
Evans and Marston, High st
Farmer Edward, Old heath
Ford, John, Barker street
Hughes Thomas, Dogpole
Hulme Henry, Castle foregt
Leake Charles W. and Geo. E., Wyle cop
Lloyd George, Roushill
Lloyd William, Coleham
Mansell Emma, Mardol
Molineux Thos., Bridge court
Munday Joseph, Shoplatch
Pierce John, Hill’s lane
Pugh Robert, Castle foregate
Pugh William, Abbey foregt
Purslow William, Barker st
Rogers Wm., St. Alkmund’s place
Smith Richard, St. John’s hill
Steadman George, Castle gts
Tanswell James, St. John’s hill
Tanswell Thos., Castle street
Taylor Richard, Hill’s lane
Edgerley Henry, Pride hill
Harries George, Mardol
Kent John, Shoplatch
Robinson Ann, Roushill bank
Harvey Thomas, Barker st
Hinton Richard, Mardol
Bowdler Thomas, High st
Evans John, Market street
Hulme Samuel, High street
Nightingale John Thomas, High street
Burd Edward, Belmont
Drury Thomas James, Quarry place
Jeffreys Thos., Castle house
Johnson Henry, Dogpole
Wood William, Castle street
Hughes Thomas, Frankwell
James Richard, Windsor pl
Parry Robert, Cross hill
Small John, Butchers’ row
Cawthron Wm., Frankwell
Edwards Ann, Claremont st
Edwards John, Mardol
Edwards Richard, Hill’s ln
Farmer Edwards, Old heath
Hartshorn Henry, St. John’s hill
Jones David, Castle Foregt
Lloyd Henry, Chester street
Morris Stephen, Castle st
See also Booksellers and
Newspaper Publishers
France John, Mardol
Jones Fred. A., Wyle cop
Lewis David, Gullett passage
Those with * affixed teach music, thus
† languages, and thus ‡
dancing.
* Adams William Hay, College hill
† Bentley Thomas Amand, Castle
street
† Bourley William V., Castle street
* Brown Philip, Castle st
† Deshormes Francis, U.G., Crescent
fields
* Hay George E., Hill’s lane
* Hiles John, Swan hill
‡ Le Mercier Nicholas Robt., St.
Julian’s friars
* Lewis William, High street
‡ Mercerot Emma, Abbey Foregate
† Moore Marius Salvator, Cross hill
Harper George, Abbey Foregt
Price George, Frankwell
Williams Thomas & Robert, Coleham
France John, Hill’s lane
Ketler John, St. Austin’s st
Smith Andrew, Canal wharf
Taylor George, and sieve maker, Chester
street
Cooper William, Castle st
Davies Robert, Frankwell
Mottram Sarah, Mardol
Dales Richard, Wyle cop
Edson John, & trunk & portmanteau
maker, Wyle cop
Glover Robert, Castle street
Harrison and Kempster, Shoplatch
Jones William, & trunk and portmanteau
maker, 5, High street
Morgan Thomas, Mardol
Tanner John, & trunk and portmanteau maker, High
street
Henshall and Co., Castle Foregate
Rogers William, Frankwell
Tilston and Co., Canal wharf
Dealers in Provisions,
Sundries, and Groceries.
Allen Sarah, Coton hill
Arthur Richard, Princess st
Badger Samuel, Coleham
Bates Ann, Castle Foregate
Blower Thomas Joseph, Coleham
Bromley Elizth., Frankwell
Brown John, Castle Foregt
Cooper George, Abbey Foregate
Corbet Walton, Frankwell
Davies Edward, Bellevue
Davies Edward, Coleham
Davies John, Wyle cop
Dyas Edward, Castle street
Dyas Jane, Frankwell
Evans Ann, Abbey Foregate
Evans Joseph, Frankwell
Evans Thomas, Longden, Coleham
Fallowes Richard, Frankwell
Fenna John, Castle gates
Ferrett Elizabeth, Frankwell
Fletcher Francis, Claremont street
Ford Joseph, Barker street
Giles Jane, St. Alkmund’s pl
Griffiths Hugh, St. Austin st
Griffiths Thomas, Castle st
Groves Joseph, Castle gates
Harris John Kent, Hill’s lane
Hassall John, St. Michael’s street
Healing William, Frankwell
Hewlett George, St. Michael’s street
Hitchcock Richard, Mardol
Holmes Joshua, Chester st
Hughes Henry, Coleham
Humphries William, Claremont street
Humphreson Thomas, St Michael’s
street
James John, Abbey Foregate
Jones Evan, St. Michael’s st
Jones Evan, Coleham
Jones John, Castle Foregate
Jones Margaret, Castle gates
Jones Richard, Chester street
Jones William, Mardol
Joseph Thomas, Longden, Coleham
Kirkham John, Castle Foregt
Leach Thomas, Castle Foregt
Molineux Jane, Wyle cop
Morgan Evan, St. Michael’s street
Morgan Morgan, Frankwell
Morris Ann, Bridge street
Oliver John, Longden, Coleham
Parry David, Abbey Foregt
Parry David, Frankwell
Perrott John, Claremont st
Phayre John, Mardol
Price George, Frankwell
Price Sarah, Coton hill
Price Thomas, Abbey Foregate
Rees John, Coleham
Richards Thomas, Abbey Foregate
Roberts Edward, Chester st
Roberts Henry, Abbey Foregt
Rogers William, Castle st
Salter & Rogers, St. Mary’s st
Shorland John, Longden, Coleham
Speake John, Coleham
Swain Richard, Mardol
Tanswell John, (flour), Shoplatch
Taylor Robert, Spring Gardens
Taylor Richard, Old heath
Thomas Ann, Longden, Coleham
Thomas Edward, The mount
Tisdale Elizabeth, Frankwell
Vaughan Hannah, Shoplatch
Watkins John H., Coton hill
Wilkes James, Castle fields
Williams Frederick Edward, Barker street
Worrall Mary, Frankwell
Beddoes John, Frankwell
Hales Richard, Chester st
Blunt Thomas and Henry, Wyle cop
Edwards Richard, Mardol
Louch Charles, Claremont st
Chune George and Joseph, Chester street
Stant Joseph, St. Julian’s friars
Tilstone and Co., Canal wharf
Baker William, Corn market
Bowdler & Barnett, Market st
Moore William, (working), Mardol
Sharp Alexander (working), Milk street
Evans David, Wyle cop
Driver Ann, St. Alkmund’s place
Ellis Mary, Coleham
Fenn James, Castle street
Fenton Elizabeth, Benbow place
Gordon Elizabeth, Coleham
Smith Thomas, Castle street
Birch John, Coleham
Carline John, Abbey Foregt
Cross James, Raven road
Dodson Rd., Abbey Foregate
Eccleston Thos., Frankwell
Groves Thomas and John, St. Austin’s
priory
Jones Arthur, Abbey Foregt
Stant Joseph, St. Julian’s friars
Barnaby Isabel, Market sq
Blount Mary, Princess st
Davies Ellen, Frankwell
Ehn and Co., 38, High st
Elias Hannah, Barker st
Forrester Elizabeth, Claremont street
Gwynn Mary Ann, Pride hill
Hickman Mary, Wyle cop
Hughes Maria, Peacock pas
Jones Misses, Pride hill
Muckleston Maria, Bellevue
Rushton Julia, Dogpole
Steadman Mary, Castle gates
Weatherby Harriet, Frankwell
Arrowsmith and Stephens, College hill
Bratton James, Claremont st
Burd and Fenton, Belmont
Clarke Charles Thomas Hughes, Castle
street
Clement William Jones, Council house
Crawford David, St. John’s hill
Dickin John, St. John’s hill
Fenton Henry, High street
Foulkes Edwin, Castle st
Gill George Philip, Milk st
Glover Samuel, Coton hill
Griffiths William, Claremont hill
Heathcote John Nigel, Council house court
Humphreys John Robert, Infirmary
Keate Henry, Claremont hill
O’Hara Henry Lewis, Dogpole
Onions William, Broom villa
Pidduck Thomas, Pride hill
Walmsley John, Abbey ter
Whitwell Francis, St. Mary’s street
Williams Edward, Mardol
Wood Samuel, The abbey
Jones Henry Nicholls, Mardol head
Jones Horatio, St. John’s hill
Burd & Son, Hatton house, Abbey
Foregate
Chune George and Joseph (timber), Chester
street
Groves Thomas and John, St. Austin’s
priory
Haycock Edward, (county), St. Austin’s
priory
Preece William Goodwin, Corn market
Tisdale Thos., Mardol head
See also Tailors and Woollen
Drapers.
Allart George, Frankwell
Armstrong John, Coleham
Barton Thomas, Bellevue
Blair Wm. H., Welsh bridge
Blount Walter, Princess st
Breeze Edward, Frankwell
Chester George, Shoplatch
Davies Rd., St. John’s hill
Evans James, Market street
Evans John, Gullett passage
Geary Henry, Swan hill
Green Robert, St. John’s hill
Haynes John, Wyle cop
Hewlett George, St. Michael’s street
Hodges Thomas Cross hill
James Benjamin, Hill’s lane
Jones Andrew, Meol road
Jones David, St. Mary’s st
Jones Joseph, Frankwell
Jones Thomas, Frankwell
Keeling Henry, Barker st
Lloyd John, Abbey Foregate
Lloyd Thomas, New street
Manning John, St. Mary’s pl
Manning Josiah, Castle street
Morgan William and Son, Princess street
Morris Richard, The mount
Peplow William, Wyle cop
Phillips Edward, St. Alkmund’s place
Prune John, Frankwell
Pugh John, Frankwell
Roberts Edward, Abbey Foregate
Rowland William, Roushill
Thatcher Abraham, Frankwell
Watkins Mathew, Claremont street
Williams John, Marine ter
Williams John, Castle Foregt
Wilson John, Abbey Foregt
Alcock Thomas and Sons, Claremont street
Armstrong William, High st
Breeze Richard, High street
Clayton George, Claremont hill
Heath John, Pride hill
Howell Henry, 42, High st
Humphreys John, Shoplatch
Jones David, St. Mary’s st
Jones Thomas, Mardol head
Owen John Ingram, Mardol head
Phillips James, High street
Roberts Edward, Butcher’s row
Saxelby Charles, and agent to Syrian paletot,
Castle st
Wilkes Richard, Wyle cop
Williams John, Dogpole
Woodall John, Mardol head
Asterley Samuel, Frankwell
Bromley John, Wyle cop
Jones Maurice, Mardol
Meredith Lewis & Co., Wyle cop
Brayne John Gregory, The priory
Sheppard Joseph, St. Austin street
Done Robert & Co., Mardol head
White Sarah Ann, Wyle Cop
Andrew James, Wyle Cop
Andrew John, Wyle Cop
Andrew Robert, Coleham
Andrew William, Wyle Cop
Fraser John, Coleham
Gordon Thomas, Coleham
Hanney Thomas, St. Alkmund’s place
Lawson Stewart, Abbey Foregate
Ross Peter, Coleham
Smith William, Cross hill
Taggart Walter, Wyle cop
Blockley William, Longden, Coleham
Chune George and Joseph, Chester street
Drayton John, New street, Frankwell
Hall John, Abbey Foregate
Stant Joseph, St. Julian’s friars
Wilson John, Raven road
Harries George, Mardol
Evans James, Market street
Harries George, Mardol
Parsons Mary, Market street
Shaw John, Wyle cop
Stewart Penelope, Wyle cop
Taylor William, Longden Coleham
Evans John, Market street
France John, and general dealer, Mardol
Morris Richard, Princess st
Nightingale John Thomas, and fancy repository,
High street
Richards Henry, Wyle cop
Walker William, Mardol
Edson John, Wyle cop
Jones William, High street
Tanner John, High street
Nichols Thomas, Castle st
Stevens George, Barker st
Stevens William, Mardol
Westall Thomas, Fire office court, High
street
Breeze Charles, Coton hill
Clay Joseph, Wyle cop
Crowe Henry, Castle street
Jones Edward, Claremont st
Langley & Son, Dogpole
Richards Evan, Castle gates
Skitt James, Old heath
Tomkins Henry, Coleham
Davies Daniel, Mardol
Evans Mary, Wyle cop
Fesser Andrew, Mardol
Giles Richard, Shoplatch
Hay Thomas William, High street
Hanny James, Wyle cop
Kelvey Rebecca, Mardol
Walker William, Market sq
Crowley and Co., Canal wharf
Henshall & Co., Canal wharf
Lowe Edward Henry, Mardol quay
Rogers William, Frankwell
Shropshire Union Canal Company, Canal
wharf
Davies Edward, Coleham
Drayton Edward, Welsh bridge
Griffiths Benjamin, Frankwell
Jones Thomas, Frankwell
Jones William, Castle Foregt
Owen Thomas, Coton hill
Price William, Abbey Foregt
Alltree Jemima and Henry, Corn market
Easthope William, High st
France James, Castle gates lane
Gittins William, Mardol
Holland Richard, Shoplatch
Howells Thomas, Castle Foregate
Linell and Jenks, Wyle cop
Rowland James, The mount
Beck Peter and William, Claremont street
Cadwallader William, Castle gates
Cartwright Ann, Theatre buildings
Cripps Gordon H., Claremont street
Cripps Lewis G., High st
Drinkwater Richard, High st
Hughes Edward, Corn markt
Humphreys John, St. Mary’s street
Morley Henry, Castle street
Niccolls William Owen, Mardol
Simpson Deborah, Mardol
Southam Thomas, jun., (spirit), Wyle cop
Vaughan John, High street
Lawson William, Frankwell
Phillips & Jones, Shoplatch
See also Linen and Woollen
Drapers, & Tailors & Drapers.
Meara John Augustin, High street
Bains Thomas, David Smith, agent, Hill’s
lane
Drinkwater Rchd., Frankwell
Simpson Hortensius Coates, Hill’s lane
& St. John’s hill.
Taylor Samuel, Hill’s lane
Wilding William, Circus yd
To Aberystwith—The Royal
Mail, from the Lion Hotel, every morning, at four
o’clock.
To Aberystwith—The
Greyhound, from the Lion Hotel, every morning, at ten
o’clock (Sundays excepted); goes through Welshpool,
Newtown, &c.
To Aberystwith—The Prince
of Wales, from the George Hotel, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, at ten o’clock in the morning; goes through
Welshpool, Newtown, &c.
To Hereford—The
Engineer, from the Lion Hotel, at a quarter to two in the
afternoon daily (Sundays excepted); goes through Church Stretton,
Leominster, &c.
To Ludlow—The Royal
Mail, from the Lion Hotel, daily, at a quarter to five
o’clock in the morning.
To Whitmore—The
Victoria, to the Railway Station, daily (Sundays excepted),
from the George Hotel.
Omnibuses from the Lion, the Raven, the George, and the
Raven and Bell Hotels, await the arrival and departure of the
trains.
On the Shrewsbury & Chester, the Shrewsbury &
Birmingham, and on the Shrewsbury and Stafford Branch of the
Shropshire Union Railways. Station: Castle Gates;
William Patchett, station master.
To Ironbridge, from the Unicorn
Inn, Benjamin Wright, on Saturday.
To Llandisio, from the Mermaid,
John Williams, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.
To Much Wenlock, from the Unicorn
Inn, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To London, Birmingham, and all parts of the kingdom,
Pickford & Co., Canal Wharf; James Elledge, agent.
To London, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton, &c., Crowley, Hicklin,
& Co., from their Warehouse, Welsh Bridge; John Brazier,
agent.
Shropshire Union Railway &
Canal Co., General Carriers to all
parts of the kingdom. Goods Depôt, Castle Foregate;
James Smith, agent.
To London, Dover, Liverpool,
Hull, &c., Pickford and Co., from
the Canal Wharf; James Elledge, agent.
To London, Birmingham, &c., Crowley, Hicklin, &
Co., Welsh Bridge; John Brazier, agent.
To Bristol, and all the
intermediate places, Henry Lowe, Mardol Quay.
To Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, and all intermediate places, the
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, from Commercial
Wharf; James Smith, agent.
To London, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton, and all intermediate places;
Wm. Rogers, wharfinger, Frankwell.
To Aberystwith—Richard
Morgan, from Rogers’ Warehouse, Frankwell, Tuesdays and
Fridays.
To Acton Burnell—Richard
Onions, from the Barge Inn, on Saturday; and Richard Pascall,
from the Spread Eagle, on Wednesdays and Saturday.
To Baschurch—John Taylor,
from the Mermaid, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.
To Berriew—David Davies, from
the Old Trumpet, on Wednesdays; and John Pugh, from Rogers’
Wharf, Frankwell.
To Berrington—William
Mallett, from the Lion and Pheasant, on Wednesdays and
Saturdays.
To Bilston—William Davey,
from the Old Trumpet, on Wednesdays.
To Bishops Castle—John
Nightingale, from the White Horse, on Fridays; Richard Preese,
from the Old Trumpet, Wednesdays and Saturdays; William Hindley,
from the Bell, Saturdays; John Bright, from the Red Lion,
Wednesdays and Fridays; and Thos. Black, from the Red Lion, on
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
To Broseley and
Ironbridge—Richard Thomas, Abbey Foregate, Tuesdays
and Fridays; and William Williams, Wyle Cop, on Mondays and
Fridays.
To Buddington—John Jones,
from the Mermaid, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Cardington—John Perks and
Ellen Corfield, from the Swan, on Saturdays.
To
Church Stretton—Benjamin Jones,
from the Old Trumpet, Saturdays; William Harley, from the Barge
Inn, Saturdays; and John Lea, from his house, Coleham, on
Tuesdays and Fridays.
To Condover—Huffer, from the
Spread Eagle, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Cound—Geo. Taylor, from
the Spread Eagle, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Dawley Green—Thomas
Mansell, from the Old Trumpet, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Dorrington—John Blaney,
from the Barge Inn, Saturdays.
To Ellesmere—Richard
Williams, from the Prince of Wales, Tuesdays and Fridays.
To Grinshill and
Yorton—Thomas Gregory, from the Bell Inn, Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
To Habberley—Thomas Bromley,
from the Mermaid, Saturdays; and Edw. Houghton, from the
Queen’s Head, Saturdays.
To Hadnal and Preston
Brockhurst—William Eccleston, from the Bell,
Saturdays.
To Hawkestone—Edward Tudor,
from the Bull’s Head, Saturdays.
To Hereford—By the carriers
to Ludlow.
To High Ercall—John Bates,
from the Bull’s Head, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Kerry and Newtown—David
Jones, from the Queen’s Head, Wednesdays.
To Lebotwood—John Williams,
from the Lion and Pheasant, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Llanfair—Evan Reese, from
Rogers’ Wharf, Frankwell, Wednesdays.
To Llanidloes—Richard Morgan,
from Rogers’ Wharf, Frankwell, Tuesdays and Fridays.
To Llanymynech—William
Morris, from the Elephant and Castle, Saturdays.
To Ludlow—David Jones, from
the Barge Inn, Wednesdays and Saturdays; and John Lea, from his
house, Coleham, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Loppington—Charles Brown,
from the London Apprentice, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Minsterley—S. Madox, from
the White Hart, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays; and Samuel
Swan and Joseph Hill, from the Castle and Falcon, Wednesdays and
Saturdays.
To Montgomery—Ann Jones, from
the Britannia, Wednesdays; John Oliver, from the Queen’s
Head, Wednesdays and Saturdays; and R. Evans, on Wednesdays, from
Lowe’s Warehouse, Mardol.
To Much Wenlock—Richard
Thomas, from his house, Abbey Foregate, Mondays; Richard Nicklin,
from the Spread Eagle, on Wednesdays and Saturdays; Jeremiah
Aston, from the Sun Tavern, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Newtown, Llanidloes, & Aberystwith—Evan Reece, on Wednesdays,
and Richard Morgan, on Thursday, from Rogers’ Warehouse,
Frankwell.
To Picklescott—James Wild,
from the Barge Inn, Wednesdays and Saturdays; Wm. Griffith, from
the Seven Stars, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Poole—R. Jones, Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays, from Circus Yard.
To Pontesbury & Minsterley—Thos. Everall, from
Rogers’ Warehouse, Frankwell; Thomas Davies, from the
Queen’s Head, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.
To Preston Brochhurst—Trevor,
from the Bull’s Head, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Pulverbatch—Richard
Dovaston and Philip Morris, from the Spread Eagle, on Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
To Shawbury—Thomas Richards,
from the Mermaid, Saturdays; Thos. Humphreys, from the Bell, on
Saturdays.
To Stretford Bridge—Thos.
Humphreys, from the Bell, on Saturday.
To Trewerne and
Welshpool—Thos. Williams, from the Queen’s
Head, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Uffington—Elizabeth
Davies, from the White Hart, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Wellington—Edward Thomas,
from the Barge Inn, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays; and
Jackson, from the Lion and Pheasant, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Saturdays.
To Welshpool, and Newtown—Robert Sackett, from
Rogers’ and Crowley’s Warehouses, on Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays; and Edward Harris, from the
Queen’s Head, on Wednesdays.
To
Westbury—John Handley, from the
Mermaid, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Weston & Hawkstone—John Phillips, from the
Queen’s Head, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Withington—Thomas Leary,
from the Yorkshire House, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
To Wolverhampton—Frederick
Worthington, from the White Hart, Saturdays.
To Worthen—William Downes,
from the Elephant and Castle, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
