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Brogyntyn Estate and Family Records Charities -- England -- Oswestry.
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Oswestry charities and school,

Volume containing: papers concerning a charity in the will of Sir Nathaniel Lloyd of Aston to benefit the poor of Oswestry and Whittington, of which William Owen was a trustee, 1740-1753; a certificate granting a blind woman admission to the almshouses at Oswestry, 1690; observations on the history of Oswestry by the town recorder, 1635; documents relating to the administration of Oswestry Free Grammar School, especially malpractices by the trustees, [c. 1707]-1772; abstract from a deed of Thomas, Lord Arundell, 1424, and an agreement on behalf of Dame Margaret Owen, 1700, showing rents issuing from properties in and around Oswestry; abridged copies of the borough charter granted by Charles II in 1673; and names of Shropshire tenants in an ejection suit, [mid-17 cent]. Separate from the volume is a copy of a letter from the Bishop of St Asaph concerning Nathaniel Lloyd 's charity, 1757.

Charities in North Wales and Shropshire,

Papers relating to various charities in North Wales and Shropshire, dated between 1644 and 1855, including those in Caernarfonshire which benefited from the wills of Henry Roberts of Caernarfon, 1644, and Jane Owen of Wrexham, 1736-1748; printed accounts of a charity for the relief of widows and orphans of clergymen in the diocese of St Asaph, 1764, 1797; a printed report and regulations of Shropshire Infirmary, 1798, 1835-1855; extracts copied from church benefaction tables and the wills of Penelope and William Owen (both made 1670), concerning Oswestry almshouses; information on Margaret Godolphin 's charity to set up apprenticeships; and 'legacies and benefactions' for the poor of Selatyn, 1802-(Watermark 1824).