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fiege, was made governor, and he received the 

 thanks of the Houfe of Commons for his good fer- 

 vices. 



In a chronological lift of remarkable events at 

 Shrewfbury, are recorded the following fmgular oc- 

 currences : 



1282, This year the fherifFs of Salop and Stafford were compelled 



to provide two hundred wood cutters, to cut down timber and 



other obllriiftions, in order to make way for t!ie king's army 



to enter into Wales. 

 1427. A bye law was made againll fwine wandering about the 



town : the penalty was cutting off an ear for each of the two 



firft offences, and forfeiture for the third. 

 15 1 9. The brewers were ordered by the corporation not to ufe 



that ivlcked and pernicious iveecl, hops, in their brewings, under 



the penally of 6s. 8d. 

 1547. This year Adam Mytton and Roger Pope, the bailiffs, 



ordered the pi(!lure of our lady to be taken out of St. Mary'o 



church; and the piftures of St. Mary Magdalen, and St. Chad, 



eut of St. Chad's church, and burned. 

 1552. The magiftrates of Shrewfbury- were reflrained by adl of 



parliament from licenfing any more than three perfons to fell 



wine within the town. 

 1585. On the 15th of May, loTd Robert Devereux, earl of 



Kffex, came through the town^ before whom the free-fchool 



fcholars made feveral orations, as he paffed through the caftle 



gates ; they (landing in battle array, with bows and arrows ia 



their hands. 

 1618. It was in this year ordered by the corporation, that two 



perfons fhould be conftantly ftationed in each ftreet to fearch 



for- vagrants. 



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