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Writ to the sheriff in regard to the holding of assizes in towns in England and in Wales in Michaelmas Term 1714. It was returnable on 13 Nov. 1714 under a penalty of 40s., with a penalty of £4 unless returned by 2oth Nov.

Letters Patent of Queen Elizabeth to William Scott, gent., son and heir of William Scott, esq., dec., of all the m's and land, churches, &c. which his dec. father held in chief by knight's service in England, Wales, or in the Marches. Latin.

Account by Christopher Harris, acting executor of the will of Major Leonard Lloyd of Ipswich, [Suffolk], dec., who dec. 12 June 1725. It shows payments amounting to £4,014.4s. and receipts, £3,767.4.5.

Case, on behalf of Mr Lloyd, for Counsel's opinion in regard to the will of Leonard Lloyd of Ipswich, with Mr Charles Pilsworth's opinion. See D. D. 1,527.

Case submitted to Counsel on behalf of Mr Harris, the surviving executor of the will of Leonard Lloyd of Ipswich. It recites the will of the said Leonard Lloyd [see D. D. 1,525] and states that John Lloyd (testator's brother) was still alive; that all the nephews of the testator are now 22 years of age; Hugh Lloyd is married and has one son, an infant, now living; his brother, John Lloyd, is married but has no children; Leonard Lloyd is unmarried; Sibill, Elizabeth, and Mary Lloyd (testator's nieces) are married but Diana, Anne, and Priscilla are under age. Counsel's opinion appended.

See D. D. 1,525.

Copy Of The Will of Leonard Lloyd of Ipswich, Suffolk, esq. Testator bequeathed as follows:- To my brother, John Lloyd, £100 and my 2 guns; to my nephews and nieces, Sybill, Hugh, Elizabeth, Mary, John, Diana, Ann, and Priscilla (children of my said brother, John Lloyd), £100 each, when they are 21 years old; to my nephew, Leonard Lloyd, 2 guns and a pair of pistols mounted with silver, 'which pistols I desire my said nephew will always keep and preserve in my name and family what I have got by my great labour and industry'; the residue of my personalty to be laid out in realty and settled on my said nephew, Leonard Lloyd (when he is 21 years old), for his life, with remainders to his sons, with similar remainders in succession to my nephews, John Lloyd and Hugh Lloyd; Christopher Harris of the Strand, Westminster, confectioner, and William Gurney of Cosgrove, Northamptonshire, gent., to be executors. Witnesses: John Smyth; James Bacon; Thomas Fisted; all of Ipswich. Memorandum, dated 1 June 1725, whereby testator desires to be buried in the churchyard of p. St Mary at ye Tower in Ipswich.

Letter from John Bemand of Sutton, [Shropshire] to his nephew, Thomas Hardwick, Lower Town, Bridgnorth, stating that the writer feared that he would have to pay the money [see D. D. 1,523] as he was certain that his father trusted entirely to Mr Lewis Jones.

Copy Of A Letter, dated at Bridgnorth, from Thomas Hardwick to his uncle, J. Bemand, of Sutton, Shropshire, informing the latter that he had received a letter from Mr J. Vaughan Horne of Denbigh stating that instructions had been received to commence a chancery suit against the representatives of the late Mr Lewis Jones of Oswestry and those of the late Mr J. Bemand of Ellesmere to recover moneys advanced by Jones & Bemand (as trustees) to the late Kynaston Powell of Hardwick, who is stated to have dec. insolvent. See D. D. 1,522.

Letter from J. Vaughan Horne of Denbigh to William Hardwick of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, esq., stating that he had been instructed by Edward Davies of Penbryn near Ruabon to commence a chancery suit against the representatives of the late Mr Lewis Jones of Oswestry and those of the late John Bemand of Ellesmere, who, as trustees under a deed dated 24 Nov. 1798, received £300 paid up by a mortgagor and lent the same on a bond to the late Kynaston Powell of Hardwick, whose affairs terminated in insolvency. The interest was settled to secure an annuity to an elderly lady called Davies, who dec. about 2 years ago, and the principal is now payable to the said Edward Davies.

Bond, in the penalty of £600, from William Hardwick of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, gent., and William John Hardwick of Bridgnorth, gent., to John Clarke of Ockleton in p. Worfield, Shropshire, gent., for the payment to the obligee of £300 and interest. Witness: J. Bell Hardwick, junior.

Letter from Edw. Williams on behalf of Messrs Longueville & Son, Oswestry, to William Hardwick, esq., solicitor, Bridgnorth, enclosing bond of the late Lewis Jones, with receipt endorsed for the payment of principal and interest, to be signed by Mr Hardwick and his co-executor.

Bond, in the penalty of £200, from John Davies of Maesbury in p. Oswestry, Shropshire, farmer, to William Hardwick of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, gent., and John Bemand of Sutton, Shropshire, farmer, for the payment of £100 and interest to the said obligees. Witness: Edward Williams, clerk to Messrs Longueville & Son, solicitors, Oswestry.

Letter, posted on 9 Nov. 1827, from Th. L. Longueville [of Oswestry] to William Hardwick, esq., solicitor, Bridgnorth, stating that Edward Davies, by his will dated 4 Sept. 1794, bequeathed to his wife, Mary Davies, an annuity of £26 and a sum of £100 (payable after her death) to her appointees, and appointed his nephew, Ed. Davies, to be executor and residuary legatee; that the late Lewis Jones gave a bond to the late Mr Bemand for £100, being part of the personalty of the said testator, Edward Davies. By an agreement made in Nov. then following, the said Edward Davies (residuary legatee), the said Mary Davies, John Bemand, and Lewis Jones agreed that the said bond and other securities representing the personalty of the said testator should be deposited with the said Lewis Jones and John Bemand, and the interest applied to the payment of the said annuity of £26. The said Mary Davies now resides with her brother, John Davies, of Maesbury near this place [Oswestry]. The surviving trustee and executor of the late Lewis Jones is prepared to pay the principal and interest due on the bond, but a receipt therefor must be given by the executors of the late Mr Bemand, of whom (Mr Longueville believes) Mr William Hardwick is one.

Copy Of Receipt by Robert Bemand for a legacy of £50 under the will, proved in the prerogative court of Canterbury on 1 Oct. 1811, of John Southern of Sutton, Shropshire, gent., who dec. 3 Mar. 1811.

Particulars of the freehold estate of John Oakeley, esq., in p's Lydham and More, Shropshire and co. Mont., intended to be settled on his son's marriage. It gives the names of the tenants, description of their holdings and acreages, and the rents for 1804.

Memorandum of a petition by John Bemand, officer of excise, Bridgnorth, second division in the Wolverhampton Collection, to the Commissioners of excise for the first vacant division occurring in Shrewsbury in the Shropshire Collection.