1 6 LIFE OF MYTTON. 



inhabitants and burgesses upwards of five centuries 

 — in addition to their ample estates in its immediate 

 neighbourhood — s.illl goes for anything, who had a 

 better ritjht to the honour than he had ? Lookinsf 

 back into the history of Shrewsbury, we find the 

 borough to have been thus represented : — 



A.D. 1373 (reign of Edward III.) Reginold de 

 Mutton (Mutton was the original name) and 

 Richard de Pontesbury, members. 



1377. Reginold de Mutton and William de Longe- 

 nolne, members. 



1472. Thomas Mutton and John Hord, members. 



149 1. William Mutton and Lawrence Hoyser, mem- 

 bers. 



1520. Edmund Cole and Adam Mutton, members. 



1529. Adam Mutton and Robert Dudley, members. 



1554. Thomas Mytton (now first so called) and 

 Nicholas Purcell, members. 



1690. Richard Mytton and Hon. Andrew Newport, 

 members. 



1698. Richard Mytton and John Kynaston, members. 



1 70 1. Ditto ditto ditto. 



1702. Ditto ditto ditto. 

 1705. Ditto ditto ditto. 



