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towns* fhould take any cattle or goods 

 to any foreign fair or market before they 

 had been firft expofed to fale in the 

 town of Ofweftry under the penalty of 

 fix {hillings and eight pence-f. 



In the civil wars Ofweftry, which was 

 well defended by it's walls, was pofieffed 

 by the King, till June, 164,4, when it 

 was befieged by General Mytton, and 

 Earl of Denbigh, with a force confift- 

 ing of about two hundred foot, and two 

 troops of horfe. In the attack the fol- 

 diers were fo furious, that within an hour, 

 and with the lofs of only one, or two 

 men, a breach was made in the wall, by 

 which they entered the town. The in- 

 habitants in confternation, then fled into 

 the caftle for defence, but an attack was 

 immediately made upon it, by Cannon 



* Thefe are called the Elevtn Towns; they form a Manor 

 in Ofwefiry hundred, their names are Old Rayton, Cotton, 

 Shelvoke, Shottaton, Wykey, Eardefton, Tedfmere, RednalJ, 

 Haughton, Sutton, and Jelton. 



t pennant's Tour; I, 268, 269. 



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