WELSH POOL TO OSWESTIJ.Y. I03 



/ions. It was agreed that If, after a certain day 

 then fixed, any perfon of one lordfhip committed a 

 felony in the other, he (hould be taken, and fent 

 into the lordlliip where the offence was coiiiinitted, 

 -to receive his punidiment ; and that if any goods or 

 cattle were flolen from one lordfliip and conveyed 

 into the other, the tenants, or inhabitants of that 

 lordfhip, fiiould either pay for the fame within fif- 

 teen days, or otherwife four principal men flioiild 

 remain in bail or mainprife till they were either 

 paid for or recovered. — Among the records of the 

 draper's company at Shrewfbury, there is the fol- 

 iowing order: " 25 Elizabeth, 15S3. Ordered thai; 

 no draper fet out for Of\»e(lry on Mondays before 

 6 o'clock, on forfeiture of 6s. 8J. ; and that they 

 wear their weapons all the way, and go In company. 

 Not to go over the Welili bridge before the bell 

 toll fix." William Jones, efquire, left to the com- 

 pany one pound fix {hillings and eight-pence, to be 

 paid annually to the vicar of St. Alkmunds's church 

 for reading prayers on Monday mornings before the 

 drapers let out for Ofwellry market. 



The town of Ofweftry was rendered by its walls a 

 place of confiderable (Irength ; and during the civil 

 wars of the reign of Charles I., it wiis in poffeflion 

 of the rovalifts till June 1644. It was then befieged 

 by general Mytton and the earl of Denbigh' with a 

 force confilfing of two troops of horfe, and two 

 hundred foot ibldier^\ Thefe were fo furious in 

 their attack, thai in the fliort fpaee of an hour, and 



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