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Munslow parish lies along the north-west side of Corve Dale. (fn. 1) Aston Munslow, one of its two surviving villages, is on the principal road down the dale, c. 16 km. south-west of Much Wenlock and c. 10 north-east of Craven Arms. Munslow, the other village, is just over 1 km. north-east of Aston Munslow, and other smaller or shrunken settlements are strung out further to the northeast.
The two southern townships in the main part of the parish, Aston and Munslow, represented the Domesday manor of Aston (fn. 4) and probably a parish as originally formed out of Diddlebury parish: Aston's name records its geographical relation to Diddlebury whose parish surrounds Aston and Munslow townships on three sides (fn. 5) and may have done so completely.
A cottage at Hungerford has a cruck truss. (fn. 59) Where other buildings in the parish (fn. 60) retain 17th-century and earlier elements much of the work is box framed, as at Thonglands Farm, the Crown inn and the Chains in Munslow village and the White House, Lower Farm, the Swan inn, Tudor Cottage, Arbour Cottages (dated 1632), and numbers 8–9 in Aston Munslow. Aston Hall, probably the parish's most important house in the 16th and 17th centuries, is stone. So, externally, is the Old School House in Munslow, a fine L shaped house with stone mullioned and transomed windows, built in 1658 apparently for John Baldwin (d. 1680) and his wife Abigail; Baldwin's will mentions the wainscot chamber over the buttery. (fn. 61) In the 18th and 19th centuries stone, readily got in the parish, became almost ubiquitous, both for superior houses, such as the new rectory (before 1793) and Miller House (probably c. 1799) in Munslow and Hungerford Farm (c. 1800), and for farm buildings and squatters' cottages.
Before the mid 19th century brick was rarely used, though it can be seen in a 17th-century range at Munslow Farm, in the mid 18th-century Crown inn, Munslow, and in Little Thonglands, a small, polite 18th-century building. Thereafter brick became commoner, being used to extend and raise cottages.
Stone, however, was consistently employed in the 1830s in a wholesale rebuilding programme in the Greek style on the Millichope Park estate. Most of the buildings have raised pilasters to their principal elevations, as on the north lodge to the park. The most ambitious scheme was Home Farm, remodelled c. 1836 (fn. 62) around the sides of a courtyard on whose fourth side is a free-standing kennels block surmounted by a cupola. Nearby at Beambridge a polite building of four bays and two storeys with a low hipped roof was constructed; at least part of it probably served as the Millichope Park laundry, the whole being called the Old Laundry in the 20th century. A row of cottages (1838), with a projecting and pedimented central bay, stands to the northeast. Also at Beambridge is a gothick smithy once surmounted by a crenellated parapet; (fn. 63) it is unlike the other buildings in style and may be of a slightly different date.
In the early 19th century (fn. 70) it was apparently still within recollection that banners, including the 'great banner' of the Crucifixion and of St. Michael (patron of the church), were borne in annual procession from Munslow village along the Apostles' Way (fn. 71) to the Aston boundary: there the banner of the Cross was fixed to the fence of Cross leasow, (fn. 72) a well beside the road (in Molly's piece) was dressed, and refreshments were enjoyed. Beyond Aston, on the western edge of the parish, was another holy well, a healing well called Red (or Red Wall) well from the local soil colour; still in the mid 18th century the cured hung up their crutches nearby.
From Sir Humphrey (d. 1493) (fn. 112) Aston descended successively to his grand-nephew John Grey, Viscount Lisle (d. 1504), (fn. 113) and to Lisle's daughter and heir Elizabeth, Lady Lisle and countess of Devon (fn. 114) (d. 1519). In 1529 it was held by Sir Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle, second husband of the countess of Devon's aunt and heir Elizabeth. In 1529 Lady Lisle's son (by her first husband) Sir John Dudley sold his reversionary interest in the manor to Sir John Alleyn, who sold it next year to John Smith, (fn. 115) a baron of the Exchequer from 1539. (fn. 116) Smith (kt. by 1541) (fn. 117) presumably came into possession on Viscount Lisle's death in 1542.
Smith's widow Agnes (d. 1562) (fn. 118) had Aston, (fn. 119) and from her it descended with Wootton Wawen (Warws.) until 1758, (fn. 120) except that Aston passed directly to Sir Francis Smith in 1605, (fn. 121) and that Charles Carington (or Smith), Viscount Carrington (d. 1706), was evidently succeeded by his cousin's son (fn. 122) Francis Smith (d. 1721), (fn. 123) who was succeeded by his son (fn. 124) Francis Smith (or Carington), (fn. 125) to whom Wootton passed in 1748.
Aston Hall (fn. 133) is a stone H plan building, but a two storeyed porch gives the front (south-eastern) elevation a symmetrical E shaped appearance. Timber framing in the north-east wing—large jowled posts and parts of the roof— and a break-back at the south-west corner indicate the incorporation of a timber-framed building to the west when the Hall was built, perhaps c. 1665; a skewed stack may be later. The plan, a widespread use of panelling and bolection moulding, and the quality of the principal staircase all suggest the intention to create a substantial and superior gentleman's house. So too do the three gardens, walled in brick (with some diaper work) and partly terraced, and the household's stables at one end of a threshing barn, both perhaps contemporary with the remodelling of the house.
After the sale of Aston Hall in 1911 E. C. Wright retained 661 a. at Aston and c. 1914 he sold that property too to P. G. Holder. (fn. 134) In 1942 Holder sold it to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, (fn. 135) and in 1963 the Church Commissioners sold Lower Aston Farm, 244 a. of a small estate that John Smith had owned in 1843. (fn. 136) The farmhouse is a late 16th-century L shaped timber framed building of two storeys; the south-east wing has an overhanging gabled end.
There were Stedmans at Aston by the 15th century. (fn. 137) In the 17th century one line lived in a house at the Bank, not now identifiable. Perhaps the main line lived, by the 16th century, at a house known by 1648 as the White House. (fn. 138) John Stedman (d. 1804) left the White House to his nephew Thomas Smith, who had c. 415 a. in 1808. (fn. 139) Smith's descendants lived there until 1945 when A. H. Davies bought it; (fn. 140) he sold it to Walter Purser in 1947.
The tenancy in chief of MUNSLOW may have been separated from that of Aston c. 1400, for William Beauchamp, Lord Bergavenny, is said to have sold what was probably the tenancy in chief to John Burley, Reynold, Lord Grey of Ruthin's brother-in-law. (fn. 147) Burley also acquired the terre tenancy of the manor, and the tenancy in chief presumably merged with it.
Munslow had been subinfeudated by 1255, when the terre tenants, evidently coparceners, were John de Chandurs, Nicholas Seymour, and Ermyntrude, a daughter of John Hertwell, son of John Hertwell, the late terre tenant of Aston. They held Munslow of a mesne lord, William de Venables, whose tenure was evidently resumed by the chief lord before 1285. Ermyntrude's daughter Agnes conveyed her share to Seymour and his wife Alice. Seymour predeceased Alice, who was in sole possession of their Munslow estate by 1285. She conveyed it to Robert de Beke and his wife Maud, Ermyntrude's sister; (fn. 148) Robert and Maud presumably possessed John de Chandurs's share, for by 1316 Robert was sole lord of Munslow. (fn. 149) Maud predeceased him c. 1324 (fn. 150) and by 1348 his son Nicholas de Beke (kt. 1348, d. 1369) was lord. (fn. 151) Sir Nicholas's heir was his daughter Elizabeth, who married and predeceased Sir Robert Swynnerton (d. 1386). (fn. 152) After Swynnerton's death Munslow seems to have passed to their daughter and heir Maud Peshall. (fn. 153) Maud's second husband (from c. 1388) was William Ipstones (d. 1399), (fn. 154) whose father Sir John (d. 1393) had Munslow manor, apparently as Maud's feoffee. (fn. 155) After William's death Maud may have had only a third of Munslow; in 1404 she and her third husband John Savage conveyed a third of the advowson to John Burley, (fn. 156) tenant in chief of the manor. The other two thirds of the manor may have passed in 1399 to William's daughters and coheirs Christine and Alice (fn. 157) and were apparently later acquired by Burley.
By 1428 John Burley's son William (d. 1458) was in sole possession. (fn. 158) Munslow passed to William's daughters, Sir Thomas Trussell's wife Elizabeth and Sir Thomas Lyttelton's wife Joan. The Trussells' share descended with Acton Trussell (Staffs.) until 1552 when John de Vere, earl of Oxford, (fn. 159) sold his moiety of Munslow manor to John Stringfellow. (fn. 160) In 1553 Stringfellow sold it to John Littleton, (fn. 161) rector.
About 1544 Sir John Dudley, Viscount Lisle, sold his Lower Millichope estate, although no mention was made of the manorial rights, to Richard Adams, who in turn sold it in 1544 to Robert More of Thonglands, (fn. 192) already a Lower Millichope landowner. (fn. 193) More (d. 1545) (fn. 194) was probably succeeded by Edward More (d. 1558), whose heir was his brother Thomas. (fn. 195) Thomas or a namesake was succeeded in 1620 by his son Charles (d. 1646). (fn. 196) The claimed manor of Nether Millichope was an estate which, in 1685, Charles's son Thomas (d. 1689) (fn. 197) settled on his son Henry (d. 1689) (fn. 198) and daughter-in-law Mary. (fn. 199) Henry's son Thomas was lord in 1752. On his death without surviving sons in 1767 (fn. 200) Lower Millichope passed to Thomas More's daughter Catherine (d. 1792), who left it to her cousin Robert Pemberton (d. 1794). Robert's son Thomas (fn. 201) (d. 1832) was succeeded by his nephew the Revd. R. N. Pemberton (d. 1848), who left most of his estates to his cousin C. O. Childe (from 1849 Childe-Pemberton). Childe-Pemberton died in 1883, and his son C. B. Childe-Pemberton (Childe from 1884), (fn. 202) who had been offering the Millichope Park estate for sale since 1886, (fn. 203) sold it in 1896 to Capt. H. J. Beckwith (d. 1927), heir of a Durham landowning family, whose father had been rector of Eaton Constantine 1832–88. (fn. 204) Beckwith's daughter Kathleen Frances Malebisse (d. 1932) married L. E. Bury, and their great-grandson L. C. N. Bury owned Lower Millichope in 1990.
Meanwhile a new house had been built 1835– 40 on a higher site just to the south-west. (fn. 207) House, stables, and terraces cost over £30,000, which a contemporary considered a high figure in view of the lack of accommodation and 'many faults' (fn. 208) which he detected in this splendidly original house, one of the finest of the Greek Revival. (fn. 209) The approach through a deep cutting and tunnel postponed the visitor's prospect of the grounds until the Hall itself had been entered. Designed by Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury, the house is of Grinshill ashlar, (fn. 210) with a large central Ionic hexastyle portico to the east. Ostensibly only two storeys high it sits on a terrace within which were the main and service entrances. The principal entrance was below the portico and between short Tuscan columns in antis. From the basement a wide flight of stairs rose into the central two storeyed hall which was galleried in Ionic style. The ceiling is raised above the first-floor gallery by a glazed 'attic storey' lighting the hall. The service rooms were originally in the basement, but a north service wing was added in the later 19th century.
The house was remodelled in the 1970s. (fn. 211) The basement entries were closed and a new entry formed in the north front of the principal floor. The stairs from the basement and one branch of the stairs to the gallery were removed, new gallery railings put in, and the central portion of the service wing demolished.
Between 1843 and 1884 (fn. 223) there were further changes. A large new pool, with boathouse, was created in front of the Hall, partly by quarrying which formed a picturesque cliff beneath the rotunda. Waterfalls were built across the stream that fed the pool. The walks around the rotunda were changed and a new stable block (demolished in the 1970s) (fn. 224) was made north of the new pool. A new south drive and lodge were built c. 1907. (fn. 225) Later changes were minor.
By 1330 Thonglands had apparently passed to John of Hadlow (d. 1346) (fn. 241) and thereafter, increasingly often called a manor, it descended with Acton Burnell until the death of Hugh, Lord Burnell, in 1420. (fn. 242) In 1425 one of Burnell's feoffees, William Burley, acquired it (fn. 243) and it then descended with Munslow until the mid 17th century, (fn. 244) probably being sold by the Littletons in 1654 to George Ludlow (fn. 245) of the Moorhouse (in Shipton). The Moorhouse and Thonglands then descended together, and Thonglands was part of the estate of Samuel Edwards (d. 1738) of West Coppice (in Buildwas). (fn. 246) In 1745 Edwards's trustees sold the manor and property there to Thomas More (d. 1767) of Millichope, from whom they passed to his son-in-law Dudley Ackland, owner in 1776. (fn. 247) The manorial estate has not been noticed thereafter.
Muxhill Farm probably adjoined Holloway. The house had been demolished by 1805, though its buildings still served a 68-a. farm. (fn. 277) The house site (fn. 278) is probably occupied by Hungerford Farm of c. 1800, an elegant stone house of three storeys. It has raised stone quoins, a slightly projecting central section, and a Venetian window to the second storey. Holloway Farm of c. 1600, which had 37 a. in 1805, (fn. 279) is a timber framed building of two storeys cased in stone, perhaps in the 18th century. West of it is a large improved farmyard of the early 19th century.
a Presumably including Lower Poston.
Sources: P.R.O., MAF 68/143, no. 20; /1340, no. 6; /3880, Salop. no. 113; /4945, no. 113.
The church of ST. MICHAEL, so dedicated by c. 1740, (fn. 399) consists of chancel with south chapel (now the vestry), nave with north aisle, west tower, and south porch. The medieval fabric is rubble stone including much soft siltstone with dressed openings; rebuilding in 1869–70 employed ashlar, including red sandstone, to give an irregular chequerboard effect.
The nave is 12th-century. The tower, entered by a broad arch, was added late in the same century. The chancel may be 13th-century; there is a piscina in the south wall. In the 14th century a north aisle was built, the arcade of three arches being built within the existing nave whose north wall was then removed. Also 14thcentury are three windows in the south nave wall, the east window and south door in the chancel, perhaps the south chapel, the top storey of the tower, and the cruck framed south porch with its elaborate wooden tracery.
Fifteenth- and 16th-century work includes the middle window in the north aisle, the font, and painted glass, some of it given by John Lloyd, rector 1506–28 and depicted in one window. (fn. 400) In the 15th or early 16th century a large rood loft was inserted, approached by a staircase in the south wall of the nave. It was probably removed before the 17th century. (fn. 401) A number of bench ends carved with simple geometric patterns may also date from the later 15th or early 16th century. In the 16th century both nave and chancel roofs were renewed and a window inserted at the west end of the north wall of the aisle. Box pews were introduced in the 17th century, and a parapet added to the tower in the 18th.
There was a poor's stock when Charles More (d. 1646) (fn. 459) of Millichope left 40s. to increase it. (fn. 460) Nothing more is known of the legacy.
1. This article was written 1990–1.
2. Area given in Census (1891), plus Little Poston (below, Lesser Poston, intro.) and Topley (P.R.O., IR 30/29/229; O.S. Map 1/2,500, Salop. LXIV. 4 (1903 edn.)).
3. Figs. 14 and 29.
5. Fig 3; below, churches.
6. Below, manors; below, Eaton-under-Heywood, manors.
9. Below, churches; below, Lesser Poston, intro.
10. Above, Rushbury, manors; below, manors.
12. e.g. on Bache and Stanway brooks: cf. O.S. Maps 1/25,000, SO 48 (1957 edn.), 58–9 (1956 edn.); fig. 14.
13. V.C.H. Salop. ii. 225 n.
15. Salop (No. 2) Order 1966 (Stat. Instr. 1966, no. 1529); S.R.O., DA 19/701/6, maps 40–2.
17. Inst. Geol. Sciences Map 1", drift, sheet 166 (1967 edn.).
18. Glam. R.O., CL/Deeds II, no. 7590.
20. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 1.
21. S.P.L., Deeds 9718, s.a. 1665.
22. i.e. the element tang (forceps) or possibly tweonga (something pinched): inf. from Dr. M. Gelling.
23. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow pp. 7–8; Glam. R.O., CL/Deeds I/Salop., 1652/3, Jan. 15; CL/Deeds II, no. 7591.
24. Below, Stanton Long, intro.
25. O.S. Map 1", sheet LXI. SW. (1833 edn.); S.P.L., SC5/48; tollho. photo.
26. J. Rocque, Map of Salop. (1752); R. Baugh, Map of Salop. (1808); B.L. Maps, O.S.D. 206–7; S.R.O. 1705/26.
27. So called in 16th cent.: H.W.R.O.(H.), HD 2/14/50–1; cf. S.R.O. 1705/25–6, field 774.
30. Below, manors (Lr. Millichope).
33. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 90; S.P.L., Deeds 6373; S.R.O. 356, box 327, surv. of 1657; below, Stanton Long, intro.
35. S.R.O. 356, box 327, 16th-cent. surv.
36. SA 631, 2161, 2163, 2176, 3207, 3210.
37. P.N. Salop. (E.P.N.S.), i. 215–16.
38. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow pp. 10, 16; S.R.O. 3614/3/32. Neither location is identifiable.
39. V.C.H. Salop. i. 322.
40. T.S.A.S. 2nd ser. iv. 298, 331, 338.
41. S.P.L., Holy Cross par. rec., Shrews. abbey rental, dated from H. Owen and J. B. Blakeway, Hist. Shrews. (1825), ii. 532.
43. Glam. R.O., CL/Deeds I, Salop., 1652/3, Jan. 15.
44. Compton Census, ed. Whiteman, 259. The fig. presumably includes Little Poston; others in this para. do not.
45. S.R.O. 1705/43, s.a. 1663, 1676–7; Hearth Tax 1672 (Salop. Arch. Soc. 1949), 39, 173–5. For Hungerford, below, manors; Eaton-under-Heywood, manors; for Thonglands, below, this section.
47. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 69, 75, 77, 80, 82–3, 85, 87, 91–2, 94; Orders of Q. Sess. i. 6, 9, 72; S.R.O. 3614/3/16; S.P.L., Deeds 9712, ct. r. 28 Oct. 1702.
48. Glos. R.O., D2153/J/8; S.R.O. 4131/Rg/2, 24 June 1705.
50. V.C.H. Salop. ii. 225, 232.
51. R.C.H.M.E. draft field rep. (1986); S.P.L., MS. 2481, map XI; S.R.O. 1705/25–6; O.S. Map 1/2,500, Salop. LXV. 1 (1884 edn.).
52. S.R.O. 1705/25–6; O.S. Maps 6", Salop. LVII. SW.; LXV. NW. (1891 edn.).
53. V.C.H. Salop. ii. 225.
54. Local inf.; The Observer, 20 Mar. 1994, news p. 3.
55. Cf. O.S. Maps 1/2,500, SO 5086–5186, 5287–5387 (1973 edn.); S.R.O. 2893/1, pp. 431–4; elect. reg. S. Salop. Dist. (1991), AX3.
56. Above, Munslow Hundred (part); below, churches.
57. S.P.L., MS. 201, f. 55; inf. from Revd. I. E. Gibbs. There is no evidence of a castle.
58. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 6; S.R.O., incl. award C 6/54.
59. No. 21: inf. from Mrs. M. Moran.
60. For what follows cf. Dept. of Environment, List of Bldgs.: R. D. of Ludlow (1974), 209–16.
61. Date stone; T.S.A.S. 4th ser. ii. 175–7.
62. Country Life, 10 Feb. 1977, 313.
64. S.R.O., q. sess. rec., parcel 254, badgers', drovers', and alesellers' licensing bk.
65. Ibid. parcels 255–9, regs. of alesellers' recognizances 1753–1828; Co. of Salop, Return of Licensed Hos. 1896 (copy in S.R.O., q. sess. rec., box 148), pp. 80, 82, 86.
66. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 7.
67. S. Bagshaw, Dir. Salop. (1851), 541; S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), p. iv, probably implying too early a date for the name.
68. e.g. in 1825 (S.R.O., q. sess. rec. parcel 259, reg. of alesellers' recognizances 1822–8, s.a.) and perh. the mid 19th cent. (sources in previous note).
69. S. Bagshaw, Dir. Salop. (1851), 541–2; P.O. Dir. Salop. (1856–79); Kelly's Dir. Salop. (1885–1941); O.S. Map 6" LXV. NW. (1903 edn.) for locations.
70. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow pp. 7–8, confounds the ann. procession with an acct. of Red well, which topog. evidence shows to be distinct.
72. S.R.O. 1705/25–6, fields 7, 753–4; cf. fig. 14.
73. Salop. (R.E.E.D.), i. 116–17.
74. V.C.H. Salop. ii. 173.
75. S.R.O. 1705/25–6, 'wake' names in fields 51, 57.
76. Poor Law Abstract, H.C. 82, pp. 372–3 (1818), xix.
77. V.C.H. Salop. ii. 195; Kelly's Dir. Salop. (1885), 901; The Observer, 20 Mar. 1994, news p. 3.
78. S.R.O. 3043/1. Cf V.C.H. Salop. iv. 176–7.
79. Inf. from S.C.C. Chief Exec.'s Dept.
80. Inf. from Dr. S. M. Williams, Baucott; S.C.C. Ch. Exec.'s dept., chars. index.
81. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 86; W. J. Farrow, Gt. Civil War in Salop. (1642–9) (1926), 88.
82. Sir Thos. Lyttelton (d. 1481), the jurist (D.N.B.), who held the man. jure uxoris; Ld. Keeper Littleton (d. 1645), a native; and his grandson Speaker Littleton (d. 1710), ld. of the man.: below, manors (Munslow).
83. T.S.A.S. 1. 95–104; cf. ibid. 4th ser. ii. 170–1. Ric.'s grandson, rather than Ric.'s son (the Revd. Edw., d. 1709), is taken to be the licenciate of 1702.
84. Shrews. Jnl. 7 Nov. 1883, p. 5 (obit.).
85. V.C.H. Salop. i. 322.
87. Eyton, v. 130, giving a different explanation from that offered above, Munslow Hundred (part).
88. Names used together and interchangeably in sources of 13th–15th cents.
89. Eyton, v. 130–3, 135, 137–40. For Hastings pedigree, etc., see Complete Peerage, vi. 345–51.
90. Bk. of Fees, ii. 964.
91. Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii. 71; cf. Complete Peerage, vi. 345; Eyton, iii. 108.
92. Feud. Aids, iv. 223.
93. Claimed advowson of Munslow: Reg. Orleton (C.S.), 322.
94. Cal. Inq. p.m. xiv, p. 154.
95. Cal. Close, 1374–7, 286–8; Complete Peerage, i. 24 notes b–c.
96. Reg. Trefnant (C.S.), 181.
97. Complete Peerage, vi. 155.
98. Cal. Inq. p.m. xviii, p. 192.
99. Below, this section (Munslow).
101. Feud. Aids, iv. 250, 268.
102. Complete Peerage, xi. 702.
103. P.R.O., C 139/179, no. 58 (25); Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, i, pp. 428–9; Index of P.C.C. Wills, 1383–1558, ii (Index Libr. xi), 517.
105. Rot. Hund. ii. 71; Eyton, v. 49, 141.
106. Feud. Aids, iv. 223.
108. Cal. Inq. p.m. xiv, p. 154.
109. S.P.L., MS. 2788, p. 406.
110. Cal. Inq. p.m. xviii, p. 192; Cal. Close, 1399–1402, 457.
111. Cal. Close, 1461–8, 177.
112. Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, i, p. 428.
113. For Lisle peerages see Complete Peerage, viii. 55–68.
114. P.R.O., SP 1/4, f. 15.
115. P.R.O., CP 40/1137, Carte rot. 8.
116. L. & P. Hen. VIII, xiv (2), p. 30.
117. W. A. Copinger, Hist. and Rec. of Smith-Carington Fam. (1907), 123.
118. V.C.H. Warws. iii. 198.
119. P.R.O., C 142/132, no. 16.
120. P.R.O., C 142/448, no. 110; CP 25/2/713/26 & 27 Chas. II Hil. [no. 13]. Cf. V.C.H. Warws. iii. 197–9.
121. P.R.O., C 142/293, no. 70; C 142/448, no. 110.
122. Complete Peerage, iii. 66–7; Burke, Land. Gent. (1925), 291, where Fra. is identifiable as Cath. Southcote's husb. (S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 176).
123. S.R.O., q sess. rec. parcel 281, reg. of papists' deeds 1717–88, p. 17; S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 177.
124. Burke, Land. Gent. (1925), 291.
125. P.R.O., C 103/164, pt. 2, rent r. of 1745–6.
126. V.C.H. Warws. iii. 199.
127. P.R.O., CP 43/817, rot. 50.
128. Cf. V.C.H. Warws. iii. 199. She is called Cath. there but Constantia in Burke, Land. Gent. (1894), ii. 2275; cf. ibid. 2275–6, Wright pedigree.
129. S.R.O. 515/4, p. 288.
131. S.R.O., electoral reg. S. Divn. (1874), p. 116. Cf. V.C.H. Essex, iv. 66.
132. Deeds in possession of Mr. and Mrs. Cressall.
133. Descr. based on rep. by Mrs. M. Moran; H. E. Forrest, Old Hos. of Wenlock (Shrews. 1914), 65, and pl. facing p. 1.
134. S.R.O. 4011/46, nos. 206, 331–2; S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), p. iv.
136. Inf. from Ch. Com.; S.R.O. 1705/25–6.
137. What follows is based on W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 24; T.S.A.S. lviii. 140–52; S.R.O. 3614/3/5–7, 10, 27, 36a–c, 38.
139. S.R.O. 515/7, pp. 25–7.
140. Inf. from the Landmark Trust.
141. Descr. based on T.S.A.S. lviii. 140–52.
142. P. Stamper, The Farmer Feeds Us All (Shrews. 1989), 18.
143. Corresp. 1963–9 betw. Miss J. C. Purser and A. T. Gaydon, in possession of editor V.C.H. Salop.; inf. from the Landmark Trust.
144. S.R.O. 356, box 327, surv. of 1562; V.C.H. Salop. ii. 138–9; Cal. Pat. 1550–3, 345–6.
146. Ludlow (Charity Estates) Act, 1846, 9 & 10 Vic. c. 18 (Private); inf. from Mr. D. J. Lloyd.
147. T.S.A.S. 4th ser. xi. 5; Owen and Blakeway, Hist. Shrews. ii. 139; S.P.L., MSS. 2788, p. 375; 2789, p. 214.
148. Rot. Hund. ii. 71, where Nic. de 'Stubbings' probably represents Nic. de Sancto Mauro; Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls, ed. G. Wrottesley (1905), 509–10; Feud. Aids, iv. 223.
149. Feud. Aids, iv. 229.
150. Wrottesley, Pedigrees from Plea Rolls, 509–10.
151. Feud. Aids, iv. 245; S.H.C. 1917–18, 105–6.
152. S.H.C. 1917–18, 106, 125.
153. Cal. Inq. p.m. xvi, p. 170.
154. S.H.C. 1917–18, 145; V.C.H. Staffs. iv. 65.
155. Cal. Inq. p.m. xvii, pp. 157; Cal. Fine R. 1391–9, 115. Cf. S.H.C. xiii. 114–15.
156. P.R.O., CP 25/1/195/20, no. 8.
157. Cf. S.H.C. xiii. 114–15.
158. Feud. Aids, iv. 250.
159. T.S.A.S. 4th ser. vi. 231–4; lvi. 263–4, 271–2; Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, iii, pp. 127–8, 148–9; cf. V.C.H. Staffs. v. 13; Complete Peerage, x. 247 sqq.
161. P.R.O., CP 40/1156, Carte rot. 5.
162. Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, ii, p. 577. For pedigree to 1590 see Burke, Peerage (1967), 553.
163. P.R.O., C 142/21, no. 78; C 142/78, no. 140.
164. P.R.O., C 142/54, no. 137.
165. P.R.O., CP 25/2/77/655/3 & 4 Ph. & M. Mich. no. 37.
166. T.S.A.S. 4th ser. iii. 303, 316.
167. G.E.C. Baronetage, ii. 204.
168. S.P.R. Heref. iv (2), 78.
169. D.N.B.; Burke, Peerage (1967), 1512.
170. S.R.O. 3651, parcel 17c, sched. of deeds, pp. 40–1; V.C.H. Salop. iv. 205–6; S.P.L., MS. 4645, p. 35.
171. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), p. iii; W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow pp. 6–7; S.R.O. 3651, box 17D, bur. certif. (copy); P.O. Dir. Salop. (1856–79); Kelly's Dir. Salop. (1885–1941); below, this section.
172. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 6; S.R.O. 1011, parcel 248, Millichope est. rentals Lady Day 1836 to Mich. 1840; P.R.O., IR 29/29/229; IR 30/29/229, field 723.
173. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 6. Mrs. Moran is thanked for her remarks on the ho.
174. S.P.L., MS. 6865, p. 148.
175. Ibid. pp. 148–9; W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 6.
176. S.R.O. 515/4, p. 288.
177. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow pp. 6–7; above, this section.
178. Visit. Salop. 1623, ii (Harl. Soc. xxix), 343–5; T.S.A.S. 4th ser. vi. 242–3; W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow pp. 1–3. See also S.P.L., MS. 2794, p. 91 n. 1.
180. T.S.A.S. 3rd ser. ii. 328; 4th ser. iii. 313, 325, 332.
181. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow pp. 1–2; P.R.O., IR 29/29/229; IR 30/29/229, field 286.
182. Feud. Aids, iv. 250; T.S.A.S. 4th ser. ii. 141, 168–85.
183. Burke, Peerage (1967), 154.
184. P.R.O., CP 40/1156, Carte rot. ld.; C 2/Jas. I/B 3/46; IR 29/29/229; IR 30/29/229, field 272; T.S.A.S. 4th ser. ii. 170, 173–5; S.R.O. 1011, parcel 248, Millichope est. rentals Lady Day 1838 to Lady Day 1843; above, this article, intro.; this section.
185. Staffs. R.O., D.(W.) 1788, parcel 38, bdle. 12, deed of 1607; W.S.L. 350/5/4, Munslow p. 7; P.R.O., IR 29/29/229; IR 30/29/229, field 720; above, this article, intro.
187. Rot. Hund. ii. 85; Cal. Inq. p.m. iii, pp. 122, 443; viii, p. 496; x, pp. 499–500; xiv, p. 258; xviii, p. 201; P.R.O., C 138/54, no. 116.
188. Rot. Hund. ii. 85.
189. P.R.O., C 133/68, no. 10; CP 25/1/193/6, no. 71.
190. Cal. Inq. p.m. iii, p. 443.
191. V.C.H. Salop. viii. 7; W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 10; Cal. Close, 1346–9, 111; 1419–22, 154–5; Cal. Pat. 1485–94, 64; L. & P. Hen. VIII, i, pp. 1170–1; xvi, p. 240; P.R.O., C 138/54, no. 116; C 148/45; cf. above, Rushbury, manors.
195. S.R.O. 3320/24/5; P.R.O., C 142/115, no. 59.
196. S.R.O. 3320/24/12; P.R.O., C 142/388, no. 53; S.P.L., Deeds 15687.
197. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 49, 132.
200. S.R.O., q. sess. rec. box 260, reg. of gamekeepers 1742–79, 17 Jan. 1752; S.P.L., MS. 4645, p. 439; S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 224. Rest of para. based on T.S.A.S. 4th ser. ix. 99–105; Loton Hall MSS., Sir B. Leighton's diary 18 Dec. 1848, 27 Jan. 1862; W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 10; Lond. Gaz. 13 July 1849, p. 2225; Shrews. Chron. 10 Jan. 1930; Burke, Land. Gent. (1952), 142–3; inf. from Mrs. L. C. N. Bury.
201. For him see V.C.H. Salop. iii. 117, 360.
202. Burke, Land. Gent. (1952), 430.
203. Copy of sale cat. at Millichope Pk.; cf. V.C.H. Salop. iv. 212 n. 89.
204. Alum. Cantab. 1752–1900, i. 211.
205. Pl. 20. For illus. of the old ho. see Northants. R.O., Hartshorne colln., vol. xxv, pp. 61–2; Bodl. MS. Top. Salop. c. 2, ff. 374–5, 377; S.P.L., MS. 201, ff. 48, 53.
206. T.S.A.S. 3rd ser. vii. 135; Loton Hall MSS., Sir B. Leighton's diary 18 Dec. 1848.
207. Pl. 20; W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 10; Country Life, 10 and 17 Feb. (pp. 310–13, 370–3), 17 Mar. (pp. 654, 656), 21 Apr. (p. 1014) 1977. For illus. see also Bodl. MS. Top. Salop. c. 2, ff. 376–8; N.B.R., photos.
208. Loton Hall MSS., Sir B. Leighton's diary 2 Oct. 1857. The 'stables' were perh. Home Fm.: below.
209. Pevsner, Salop. 41, 200.
210. Its carriage cost £1,500: Leighton's diary 2 Oct. 1857.
211. Country Life, 10 Feb. 1977, 310–13; 17 Feb. 1977, 370–3.
212. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 224; J. B. Blakeway, Sheriffs of Salop. (Shrews. 1831), 208. Blakeway's story that John (d. 1762) left money for work is not substantiated by his will: P.R.O., PROB 11/889, ff. 30–1.
214. Rotunda and putto each has its own inscr. and distinct stone. Blakeway, op. cit. 208, notes, 'little memorials . . . scattered up and down' Millichope grounds.
215. B.L. Maps, O.S.D. 206.
216. Park not on J. Rocque, Map of Salop. (1752), but on Baugh, Map of Salop. (1808). See also W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 15.
217. S.R.O. 1705/25–6; O.S. Map 1/2,500, Salop. LXIV. 8 (1884 edn.); Millichope Pk., 1886 sale cat.
218. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 15; cf. B.L. Maps, O.S.D. 206; S.R.O. 1705/26.
219. Above, this article, intro.
220. S.P.L., MS. 226, f. 37v.; O.S. Map 1", sheet LXI. SW. (1833 edn.); S.R.O. 1705/25–6.
221. Above, Ch. Stretton, church.
222. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 15; W.B.R., Q1/12/93. Cf. B.L. Maps, O.S.D. 206; S.R.O. 1705/26.
223. Cf. S.R.O. 1705/26; O.S. Map 1/2,500, Salop. LXIV. 8 (1884 edn.).
224. Inf. from Mrs. Bury.
225. Date stone on lodge.
226. S.P.L., MS. 6865, p. 150.
227. S.R.O. 1705/25–6; fig. 14. For what follows cf. Eatonunder-Heywood, manors (rectory).
228. L. & P. Hen. VIII, xix, p. 633.
229. Cal. Pat. 1563–6, p. 128.
231. S.R.O. 1705/25–6. For the Powells see below, churches.
232. V.C.H. Salop. i. 319; Eyton, iv. 80, 85.
233. Eyton, iv. 85–6; Cal. Inq. p.m. i, p. 280; viii, p. 496; xv, p. 289; Cal. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Com.), iv. 199; Feud. Aids, iv. 223, 244, 267.
234. P.R.O., C 142/54, no. 137; Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, ii, pp. 577–8; iii, pp. 331–2.
235. Eyton, iv. 85; Cartulary of Shrews. Abbey, ed. U. Rees (1975), ii, pp. 2, 4, 37.
237. Bk. of Fees, ii. 963.
238. Eyton, iv. 86, 88; Feud. Aids, iv. 223; Reg. Orleton (C.S.), 5.
239. Cal. Pat. 1321–4, 52.
240. P.R.O., CP 25/1/194/11 [no. 10]; Reg. Orleton, 389.
241. Cal. Inq. p.m. viii, p. 496.
242. Cal. Close, 1346–9, 111; 1419–22, 154–5; Cal. Inq. p.m. xv, p. 289; Cal. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Com.), iv. 56; Cat. Anct. D. ii, C 2398; Feud. Aids, iv. 249; cf. V.C.H. Salop. viii. 7.
243. Cal. Close, 1422–9, 207; cf. T.S.A.S. lvi. 265–6, 269.
244. Feud. Aids, iv. 267; S.R.O. 20/23/13; P.R.O., C 142/54, no. 137; CP 25/1/195/22, no. 9; CP 40/1156, Carte rot. 5; Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, ii, pp. 577–8; iii, pp. 127–8, 331–2; above, this section.
245. P.R.O., CP 25/2/591/1654 East. no. 18.
246. S.R.O. 4572/6/2/56; P.R.O., CP 25/2/867/3 Wm. & Mary Mich. no. 19; below, Shipton, manors.
247. S.R.O. 1224, box 101, abstr. of title of Dudley Ackland, 1790; above, this section (Lr. Millichope).
248. P.R.O., CP 25/1/194/13, no. 33; Cal. Inq. p.m. xviii, pp. 199–202; Cal. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Com.), iv. 35, 41; Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, iii, pp. 141–2; Cal. Fine R. 1413–22, 263–5; Dugdale, Warws. (1730), ii. 810; T. F. Dukes, Antiquities of Salop. (1844), 264; above, this section (Aston); below, Broseley, manor.
249. Cal. Pat. 1558–60, 10.
250. S.P.L., MS. 2792, p. 411.
251. T.S.A.S. 4th ser. iii. 113; S.P.R. Heref. i (7), 5.
252. For pedigrees see S.P.L., MS. 4360, pp. 275–6; 4645, p. 413.
253. S.P.L., Deeds 276; MS. 4645, p. 413.
255. S. Bagshaw, Dir. Salop. (1851), 542; W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 10.
256. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), p. v.
257. S.R.O. 4044/46, no. 119; local inf. Cf. above, this section.
258. Below, churches; A. O. Cooke, Bk. of Dovecotes (1920), 77.
259. S.R.O. 356, box 327, surv. of 1562; 356/MT/87, 1094, 1190–3, 1362; Cal. Pat. 1550–3, 345–6; V.C.H. Salop. ii. 138–9.
260. S.R.O. 1705/25–6. Cf. S.R.O. 356, box 416 (3).
261. 9 & 10 Vic. c. 18 (Private); inf. from Mr. Lloyd.
262. N.L.W., Chirk Castle, F 13350.
263. P.R.O., C 142/273, no. 83; S.P.L., Deeds 6395. For another estate in Hungerford see below, Eaton-under-Heywood, manors.
264. S.P.L., Deeds 12937; N.L.W., Dobell 1; Glos. R.O., D2153/D/13; S.R.O. 3365/165.
265. S.R.O. 4055/6/1; Glos. R.O., D2153/A/24–5.
269. Ibid. A/28; D/17, 19; E/7; F/2–3, 6, 8; P.R.O., C 142/273, no. 83; S.R.O. 837/49; 1037/21/189.
270. S.R.O. 837/49; Mont. Coll. xxii. 86.
273. Mont. Coll. xxii. 90; Glos. R.O., D2153/H/20; J/6; cf. below, Stanton Long, manors.
275. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Muslow p. 10; above, this section (Aston).
277. S.R.O. 4835/28, p. 4.
278. Cf. (for field names) S.R.O. 837/49; 1705/25–6.
279. S.R.O. 4835/28, p. 4.
280. Eyton, iv. 89–90; V.C.H. Salop. i. 319; ii. 30; iii. 9; above, Rushbury, manors; Cart. Shrews. i, pp. 15–16, 43, 258, 262.
281. S.P.L., Holy Cross par. rec., Shrews. abbey rental [c. 1490]; V.C.H. Salop. ii. 36.
282. Below, Tugford, manors; S.R.O. 1705/25–6; 4260/1/6; S.P.L., Deeds 8403.
283. S.R.O. 4011/46, nos. 68, 117; local inf.
284. V.C.H. Salop. i. 322.
285. Inq. Non. (Rec. Com.), 186.
286. S.R.O., 356, box 327, surv. of c. 1575, pp. 115–17. Fields located from 1705/25–6.
289. Ibid. /29; H.W.R.O.(H.), HD2/14/50–1.
291. S.R.O. 1037/21/187; Bodl., Craven dep. 3; S.P.L., Deeds 7467.
295. S.R.O. 356, box 327, surv. of c. 1575, pp. 168–70.
296. Inq. Non. 186; Eyton, iv. 88.
300. Below, Eaton-under-Heywood, econ. hist.
301. S.R.O. 3195/1, p. 66.
303. Sources cited below, this section; S.R.O. 1705/25–6, field names. See fig. 14.
304. V.C.H. Salop. i. 313, 322, 337.
305. Cart. Shrews. ii, p. 250. Cf. V.C.H. Salop. iv. 45.
307. S.R.O. 3614/3/45 (1–2), hints at divn. by 1702.
308. S.P.L., MS. 6865, p. 149.
309. B.L. Maps, O.S.D. 206.
310. Under Bp.'s Cas. and Munslow Incl. Act, 1838, 1 & 2 Vic. c. 13 (Private): S.R.O., incl. award C 6/54.
312. Glam. R.O., CL/Deeds I, Salop., 1652/3, Jan. 15; CL/Deeds II, no. 7590; S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 80, 82–3; S.R.O. 356, box 327, surv. of 1562; 3614/3/67.
314. Rocque, Map of Salop.
317. Above, this article, intro.; manors.
318. Birm. Univ. Libr., Mytton Papers, i. 198.
320. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 90.
321. S.P.L., Deeds 9718 s.a.
323. S.R.O. 1705/25–6, fields 632–3. O.S. Map 1", sheet LXI. SW. (1833 edn.), marks Thonglands bog along Trow brook, W. of Thonglands Fm.
324. S.R.O. 4055/6/1; cf. field boundaries on S.R.O. 1705/26.
325. S.R.O. 356, box 327, surv. of 1562; 3614/3/43; 4835/28, p. 4.
326. No later mention noted.
327. 'Ridges' last noted at Aston in 1717 (Glam. R.O., CL/Deeds II, no. 4987) and at Munslow in 1589 (S.R.O. 1705/29).
328. Extant in 1770 (S.P.L., MS. 2481, map XI), incl. by 1843 (S.R.O. 1705/25–6). Cf. V.C.H. Salop. iv. 136, 144–5.
330. Ibid. /148; O.S. Map 6", Salop. LXV. NW. (1903 edn.); cf. H. D. G. Foxall, Salop. Field-Names (Salop. Arch. Soc. 1980), 8.
331. H.W.R.O.(H.), Heref. dioc. rec., inv. 4 Feb. 1667/8.
332. e.g. N. of Aston, of Munslow, and of Broadstone; cf. Table IX.
333. V.C.H. Salop. i. 322.
334. Glam. R.O., CL/Deeds I, Salop., 1341, July 26.
336. Kelly's Dir. Salop. (1917), 152; (1922), 159.
337. Forrest, Old Hos. of Wenlock, 64; Kelly's Dir. Salop. (1891), 371; (1900), 154.
338. Trans. Newcomen Soc. xxxvi. 159–63.
340. Ibid.; S.R.O. 356, box 327, surv. of 1657; 566/51; 1037/21/189; 3651, parcel 17C, sched. of deeds, pp. 22–3; P.R.O., C 104/22, pt. 2, deed 29 Sept. 1731.
341. O.S. Maps 1", sheet LXI. SW. (1833 edn.); 6", Salop. LXIV. SE. (1891 edn.); S.R.O. 1705/25–6, field 111.
342. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 72, 146, 150.
343. Ibid. 212, 223; Forrest, Old Hos. of Wenlock, 64; S.R.O. 837/102; 3320/17; S.P.L., Deeds 8605, 10856, 12976.
344. S.P.L., Deeds 9718, ct. r. of 1671; S.R.O., incl. award C 6/54; O.S. Maps 1/2,500, Salop. LXIV. 4, 7–8, 11; LXV. 1 (1884 edn.); Inst. Geol. Sciences Map 1", drift, sheet 166 (1967 edn.); D. C. Greig and others, Geol. of Country around Ch. Stretton, Craven Arms, Wenlock Edge and Brown Clee (Mem. Geol. Surv. 1968), 194–6.
345. Birm. Univ. Libr., Mytton Papers, i. 198.
347. S.P.L., Deeds 7146, 9721; S.R.O. 1011, box 167, Tugford ct. r.; cf. below, Tugford, local govt.
348. S.R.O., MS. 6865, p. 149.
349. S.R.O. 1705/43, s.a. (e.g.) 1692–3, 1701, 1708; S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 153.
350. Poor Law Abstract, H.C. 98, pp. 418–19 (1803–4), xiii; H.C. 82, pp. 372–3 (1818), xix; Poor Rate Returns, H.C. 556, suppl. app. p. 142 (1822), v; H.C. 444, p. 160 (1835), xlvii.
351. V. J. Walsh, 'Admin. of Poor Laws in Salop. 1820–55' (Pennsylvania Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1970), 148–50; Kelly's Dir. Salop. (1929), 164.
352. S.R.O., q. sess. order bk. 1861–9, p. 127; S.C.C. Local Govt., etc., Cttee. min. bk. 1894–1903, p. 29.
353. V.C.H. Salop. ii. 215; iii. 178, and sources cited 169 n. 29.
354. Ibid. i. 322; Eyton, v. 129; above, Munslow Hundred (part).
355. Eyton, v. 130–1, 144.
357. Eyton, v. 144; Cal. Pat. 1247–58, 125; Cal. Close, 1251–3, 206; Cal. Inq. p.m. xiv, p. 154; P.R.O., CP 25/1/195/20, no. 8; CP 25/2/77/654/3 & 4 Phil. & Mary Mich. no. 37; CP 25/2/959/5 Anne East. [no. 11]; CP 40/1156, m. 5; H.W.R.O.(H.), HD 2/14/51; T.S.A.S. 3rd ser. v. 362, 375; viii. 52; 4th ser. ii. 66, 81, 104–5; vi. 306; Reg. Courtenay (C.S.), 11; Reg. Mascall (C.S.), 175, 182; Reg. Lacy (C.S.), 119; Reg. Spofford (C.S.), 247, 350–1, 359; Reg. Myllyng (C.S.), 187; Reg. Mayew (C.S.), 274; Reg. Bothe (C.S.), 342. Cf. above, manors.
358. Wrottesley, Pedigrees from Plea Rolls, 509–10; Eyton, v. 144; Reg. Orleton (C.S.), 299–301, 304, 322.
359. Reg. Trefnant (C.S.), 181. Cf. above, manors.
360. Reg. Mascall, 38–9, 47, 50.
361. S.P.L., MS. 6865, p. 151; below, this section.
362. T.S.A.S. 4th ser. vi. 313; vii. 170; Dioc. of Heref. Institutions (1539–1900), ed. A. T. Bannister (Heref. 1923), 162, 205; Heref. Dioc. Regy., reg. 1969– (in use), pp. 131, 382, 458, 568; Heref. Dioc. Yr. Bk. (1967–8), 34; (1989), 44; inf. from Ch. Com.
363. Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 167.
364. Cal. Chanc. Wts. i. 88; S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), p. vi.
366. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii. 209.
367. S.P.L., MS. 6865, p. 151.
368. H.W.R.O.(H.), HD 9, 'Notitia', f. 47.
369. Rep. Com. Eccl. Rev. , pp. 446–7, H.C. (1835), xxii.
370. S.R.O. 1705/25; above, manors (Lr. Millichope, tithes); below, Lesser Poston, intro.
371. P.R.O., HO 129/352, no. 58.
372. Kelly's Dir. Salop. (1885), 900.
373. S.P.L., MS. 6865, p. 151.
377. Kelly's Dir. Salop. (1941), 166.
378. Inf. from Ch. Com. and Mrs. E. Hughes.
379. H.W.R.O.(H.), HD 2/14/50; S.R.O. 1705/29.
380. Bannister, Heref. Institutions, 107, 133.
381. S.P.L., MS. 6865, p. 151.
382. Inf. from Ch. Com. and the Revd. I. E. Gibbs.
383. B.L. Egerton MS. 2819, ff. 39, 94v.; Royal MS. 15 B. iv, f. 111v.
384. Cal. Chanc. Wts. i. 88; Eyton, v. 144.
385. Eyton, v. 144; Reg. Orleton, 388; Reg. T. Charlton (C.S.), 24, 30.
386. Reg. Spofford, 9, 350; Reg. Lacy, 119.
387. Reg. Bothe, 342; S.P.L., MS. 5589.
388. Heref. D. & C. mun., chapter act bk. 1512–66 (folio), ff. 129, 130v.
389. Cal. Pat. 1548–9, 395; T.S.A.S. 3rd ser. x. 373.
390. Cal. Pat. 1572–5, p. 324; Reg. Mayew, 274; Reg. Bothe, 342; S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), p. vi.
391. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), p. vi, citing no source.
392. T.S.A.S. 3rd ser. v. 362, 375; viii. 52; 4th ser. vi. 250–2.
393. S.R.O. 1705/43, s.a. e.g. 1669.
394. Bannister, Heref. Institutions, 95.
395. Ibid. 107; S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), p. vii; above, this section.
396. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), pp. vi–vii; Bannister, op. cit. 107, 133, 162, 205; Guide to St. Mic.'s Ch., Munslow (priv. print. c. 1985).
397. S.P.L., MS. 6865, pp. 151–3.
398. P.R.O., HO 129/352, no. 58.
399. B.L. Add. MS. 30316, f. 31.
400. For glass see S.P.L., MS. 6820, f. 72; S.R.O. 1865/1, pp. 147–50; Birm. Univ. Libr., Mytton Papers, iv. 920–3.
401. A wooden chancel screen survived to c. 1870: below.
402. S.P.L., MS. 6865, pp. 152–3. See also W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 26; St. Deiniol's Libr., Glynne's ch. notes, xcvi, f. 7.
403. Mentioned in W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow pp. 25–6, and distinct from the 'rectory chancel' (ibid. p. 31); it is otherwise difficult to suggest a location.
404. S.R.O. 1705/54; S.P.L., MS. 6865, p. 153.
405. S.R.O. 2788/41, mtg. 17 July 1839.
406. S.R.O. 1705/58, 60–1, 65–7; Heref. Dioc. Regy., reg. 1822–42, pp. 592–3; H.W.R.O.(H.), HD 8, box 45, pew plans, etc.
407. S.R.O. 2580/67, s.v. Munslow.
408. H.W.R.O.(H.), HD 8, box 45, pew plans, etc.
409. S.R.O. 1705/70–81, 92; Shrews. Jnl. 7 Nov. 1883, p. 5.
410. S.R.O. 1705/75; Ch. Cal. Dioc. Heref. (1871), 157; (1872), 119.
411. S.R.O. 1865/1, p. 147.
412. S.R.O. 1705/75; Cranage, ii. 143.
413. Heref. Dioc. Regy., reg. 1953–68, pp. 87, 301; 1969– (in use), pp. 373, 552.
414. D. L. Arkwright and B. W. Bourne, Ch. Plate Archd. Ludlow (Shrews. 1961), 47.
415. H. B. Walters, Ch. Bells of Salop. (Oswestry, 1915), 96–7.
416. Cranage, ii. 143; S.P.L., MS. 6767, no. 59.
417. T.S.A.S. 1. 95–104; Birm. Univ. Libr., Mytton Papers, iv. 908–18; S.R.O. 1865/1, pp. 151–7; Pevsner, Salop. 214.
418. S.R.O. 1705/1–12; 2788/1–4; regs. at ch.; cf. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2).
419. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow pp. 26–7.
420. Perh. that repaired in 1688: S.R.O. 1705/43, s.a.
421. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), p. vii; W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow pp. 26–7; S.P.L., MS. 372, vol. ii, f. 59; S. Bagshaw, Dir. Salop. (1851), 541; S.P.L., photos.; N.B.R., photos.; Cranage, ii. 146.
422. Heref. Dioc. Regy., reg. 1869–83, p. 202; 1919–26, p. 330; 1926–38, p. 243.
423. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), pp. v, 7; S.R.O. 1037/3/83, 92; S.P.L., Deeds 12873.
424. T.S.A.S. 4th ser. ii, p. xxi; S.P.L., MS. 1119/6, drawing of coffin lid.
425. Below, Lesser Poston, intro.
426. Reg. Cantilupe (C.S.), 203; Reg. Orleton, 5, 389; Cal. Inq. p.m. xv, p. 289; Cal. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Com.), iv. 56; Cal. Close, 1419–22, 154–5; above, manors (Thonglands).
427. Cal. Close, 1422–9, 207; Reg. Spofford, 247–8; above, manors (Thonglands).
429. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 10; O.S. Map 6", Salop. LXV. NW. (1891 edn.).
432. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 9.
433. S.P.L., MS. 6865, pp. 53, 151.
434. W.S.L. 350/5/40, Munslow p. 9; S. Bagshaw, Dir. Salop. (1851), 542.
435. Cranage, ii. 69; below, this section.
436. P.R.O., HO 129/352, no. 57.
437. Inf. from Mr. Gibbs.
438. S.P.L., MS. 6865, p. 52.
440. S.P.L., MS. 6865, p. 52.
441. D. L. Arkwright and B. W. Bourne, Ch. Plate Archd. Ludlow (Shrews. 1961), 12.
442. B.L. Add. MS. 30211; H.L.R.O., Main Papers, 3 Dec. 1680 (papist returns); S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), pp. iv–vi, 154, 161, 170, 195, 210; Worcs. Recusant, liii. 28, 34–5; liv. 31; S.P.L., MS. 6865, p. 152; Compton Census, ed. Whiteman, 259.
443. E. M. Abbott, Hist. Dioc. Shrews. 1850–1986 , 78; below, educ.
444. Heref. Dioc. Regy., reg. 1791–1821, f. 40v.
445. Ibid. reg. 1822–42, p. 82.
446. O.N.S. (Birkdale), Worship Reg. no. 15497; date stone; inf. from Mr. Gibbs.
447. O.N.S. (Birkdale), Worship Reg. no. 12821.
448. Ibid. no. 25186; date stone.
450. H.W.R.O.(H.), HD 5/14/1/19; S.P.L., MS. 6865, p. 150.
451. Digest Educ. Poor, H.C. 224, p. 756 (1819), ix (2); Educ. Enq. Abstract, ii, H.C. 62, p. 779 (1835), xlii.
452. S.R.O. 1011, parcel 248, Millichope estate rentals 1842–3.
453. S. Bagshaw, Dir. Salop. (1851), 541; S.C.C. Salop. Char. for Elem. Educ. (1906), 61–2; P.R.O., ED 7/102, ff. 446–7; S.R.O. 1705/25–6, field 271; above, this article, intro.
454. Shropshire Mag. Jan. 1975, 16.
455. Rest of para. based on S.R.O. 4322/1/1.
456. R. J. Phillips, Ch. and State: Heref. Dioc. Schs. (Heref. Dioc. Council of Educ. ), table 2 (copy in S.R.O. 5101); S.C.C. Educ. Cttee. Educ. Dir. (1981), p. 6.
457. Abbott, Hist. Dioc. Shrews. 78.
458. S.C.C. Mins. (Educ.) 1946–7, 208, 213, 229–30; 1947– 8, 127, 171; 1948–9, 10, 22, 91–2; 1961–2, 133; S.R.O. 2782/16; Shropshire Mag. Dec. 1950, 23–5.
459. S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 87.
462. Reg. Stanbury (C.S.), 187.
463. C. & J. Greenwood, Map of Salop. (1827); O.S. Map 6", Salop. LXIV. NE. (1890 edn.).
464. Char. Don. 1786–8, ii, H.C. 511–II, pp. 1024–5 (1816), xvi (2); S.P.R. Heref. xv (2), 212.
465. 9th Rep. Com. Char. H.C. 258, pp. 409–10 (1823) ix; Review of Local Chars. (S.C.C. 1975), 58.
466. Salop. Char. for Elem. Educ. 61–2; Rev. Local Chars. 58; above, manors (Lr. Millichope).

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