Papers from Oswestry, including a promissory note by the bailiffs, aldermen and burgesses to repay £100 to William Owen for helping to procure an act of Parliament to establish a cloth market in the town, 1640; bills of expenses incurred by William Owen as mayor of Oswestry, 1730-1731; indentures and bonds for the appointment of two sergeants at mace, 1730; and a copy writ to the mayor and town council of Oswestry for the restoration of Richard Maurice, esq., a deposed alderman, 1735.