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- 1632-1709, 1749-1774. (Creation)
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1 vol (9 ff. of text), 1 folder (17 items)
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Assorted legal papers mainly concerning the rights of the lord of the manor of Whittington and the freeholders with regard to common land, enclosures and the payment of tithes and heriots, 1632-1709, 1749-1774. They include records of actions against William Owen of Porkington and others 1656-1658, and an eighteenth century abstract from a survey of the Lordship of Whittington. The file also contains complaints submitted to the manorial court of Whittington, concerning debt, trespass, assault and battery [c. 1655]-1656; notification of the election of burgesses in Oswestry, [16]74; and confirmation of allowances paid for maintenance of the curate and parish expenses in Selatyn, 1691.
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Some of the papers are pasted into an account book dated 1760-1761.
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Preferred citation: EMM1/2.