Newport

is a parish and market town in the Newport division of the South Bradford Hundred, pleasantly situated in the line of the ancient Watling Street, and near the eastern confines of the county, eleven miles S. from Market Drayton, seventeen E.N.E. from Shrewsbury, and 139 miles N.W. by N. from London. The town principally consists of one spacious, handsome street, stretching for about a mile in length, containing many good inns, private residences, and respectable shops in all the different branches of the retail trade. About the centre of the town, and in the middle of the street, stands the venerable parish church, an ancient market house, and a few dwellings, which are some of the oldest houses in the town of Newport. The parish in 1801 contained 2,307 inhabitants; 1831, 2,745; and in 1841 there were 553 houses and 2,497 inhabitants. The number of acres the parish embraces is 567a. 0r. 25p., the chief owners of which are Sir Thomas H. F. Boughey, Bart.; Thomas Collier, Esq.; John Morris, Esq.; Mr. Wilde; Mr. Silvester; Miss Bennett; and the trustees of Newport Marsh. Rateable value, £6,847. 13s. The inhabitants are supplied with an abundance of excellent water, from large cisterns and wells in various parts of the town, which are filled from a spring, about a mile distant, by means of a water-course and pipes, the expenses of which are paid from the income arising from the common lands. Newport was granted municipal privileges as early as the reign of Henry I., which were confirmed by succeeding sovereigns. The government is vested is a high steward, deputy steward, two bailiffs, and twenty-five burgesses. John Cotes, Esq., is the high steward; Robert Fisher, jun., Esq., deputy steward; and William Washbourne, Esq., and G. H. Duncalfe. Esq., are the bailiffs. Petty sessions for the Newport division of the hundred are held in the town: the presiding magistrates are Sir Thomas Fletcher Fenton Boughey, Bart.; John Charles Burton Borough, Esq.; and John Justice, Esq. The principal features in the trade of Newport are the engineering establishment and brass foundry of Messrs. Massey; the manufacture of agricultural implements by Mr. Underhill; and those belonging to Mr. Thomas Boughey and Mr. Lewis Atkins—ingenious establishments for the manufacture of all descriptions of bendware, wood turnery, together with hair sieves and dairy requisites of the most approved descriptions.

The Church is a venerable structure of red sand-stone, situated nearly in the centre of High-street. It consists of nave, chancel, and side aisles, with a square tower and an illuminated clock; the tower is dated 1,662; but this probably is the date of certain reparations, for the upper and some other parts of the tower appear to have been re-faced. The chancel and side aisles are of red brick, and were rebuilt in the year 1728, previously to which the church exhibited a beautiful specimen of the architecture of the fifteenth century. The interior has a spacious and handsome appearance. The roof is of groined timber, and the nave is separated from the side aisles by five pointed arches on each side. It contains a small organ, and there are some neat mural tablets. The living is a perpetual curacy, valued at £297, in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor; incumbent, Rev. William Sandford, M.A. The Abbot and Convent of St. Peter and St. Paul, at Shrewsbury, were patrons of the church at Newport; from them it was purchased in the twentieth of Henry VI., by Thomas Draper, citizen of London, who made it collegiate, placing in it a warden, who was to be in priests’ orders, and four chaplains or fellows, who were to pray for the King and the Royal Family, and for the soul of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, (the King’s uncle,) and for the fraternity of St. Marie’s Guild in the church of Newport.

The Catholic Church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is situated at the outskirts of the town, on the site of an ancient residence called Salter’s Hall, which was long the inheritance of the Shrewsbury family, adjoining which was a domestic chapel. The present structure was built about twenty years ago by the Earl of Shrewsbury. The interior of the structure presents a chaste and elegant appearance; the seats or benches are all open and uniform in character, and the altar is richly carved and gilt; on each side of it are beautifully carved figures of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Joseph. The windows on each side of the altar are adorned with representations of St. Peter and St. Paul, the patron saints of the church. The Rev. Michael Trovell is the priest.

The Independent Chapel, situated on the Wellington road, is a neat stuccoed structure, erected in the year 1817, at a cost of £1,300. It is provided with galleries, and is calculated to hold four hundred hearers. There is a flourishing congregation connected with this place of worship, who enjoy the talented ministrations of the Rev. William Berkeley Leach. The Sunday school in connection with the chapel is numerously attended. The old Independent chapel, which stood in Beaumaris lane, has been converted into two cottages.

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel is a plain brick structure, of small dimensions, situated in the Upper Bar, and was formerly used as a theatre.

The Wesleyan New Connexion Chapel, a small brick fabric, is also situated at the Upper Bar.

The Primitive Methodists have a small chapel on the Stafford road, built in 1830.

The Free Grammar School.—William Adams, of the city of London, devised certain lands for the endowment of a grammar school and other charitable uses, in Newport, in 1656. By an act of parliament passed in the 12th year of the reign of King Charles II., after reciting the erection of the school-houses and alms-houses by William Adams, and his settlement of lands for the maintenance thereof, it was enacted that the master and four wardens of the Company of Haberdashers in London for the time being, and their successors, should be governors of the possessions of the Free Grammar School of Newport; and that they should have a common seal, for the sealing of their affairs, and hold all possessions granted by Mr. Adams for the maintenance of the school and other charitable uses. Among the objects of the trust Mr. Adams directed £20 yearly to be paid to the minister of Newport, for his encouragement in the works of the ministry, and upon the condition that the preacher for the time being should weekly catechise the scholars, children, and servants of the town of Newport, or such of them as for that purpose should repair to the parish church; and if the preacher should wilfully neglect to perform the weekly duty, the governors should apply the said £20 for the benefit of the poor, or in such charitable uses as they should think fit. A yearly sum of £60 was to be paid to the schoolmaster, and £20 to the usher; also £24 per annum to the inmates of the four alms-houses which he caused to be erected, and a like annual sum to be paid in apprentice fees, with various other gifts. The estate which Mr. Adams devised is situated at Knighton, in Staffordshire, and comprises 797a. 2r. 26p. of land. There is also a farm situated at Woodseves, in the parish of Market Drayton, containing 85a. 1r. 38p., which was purchased with the sum of £500, obtained from a sale of timber cut from the Knighton estate. In 1667 the testator demised the premises at Knighton for a term of twenty-one years to Luke Justice, at the annual rent of £175; and in 1714 the governors, on the surrender of the lease, which had become vested in William Justice, re-demised the premises to the said William Justice for another term of seventy years, at the same rent. The provisions of the will in behalf of Luke Justice were evidently intended as matter of favour to that individual; but it is difficult to conceive that two successive terms, embracing a period of 106 years, were in contemplation of the testator, when he authorized the granting of a lease for so long a time. Upon the expiration of the last lease the premises were let in several farms, on leases of twenty-one years and a half, at rents amounting to £476. 14s., which considerably exceeded the amount of the several payments prescribed by the founder; and it became necessary to obtain the directions of a Court of Chancery as to the disposal of the surplus. In the course of the proceedings which were instituted on that occasion, the heir-at-law of William Adams interposed his claim to the surplus rents beyond the sum of £175, the amount of the several charitable uses appointed by the founder; but it was determined by the court that there was no resulting trust in the charity estate for the said heir-at-law. By a decree made November, 1797, and a subsequent decree made December, 1808, on the occasion of a further advance of the rents to the sum of £768. 17s., a scheme for the disbursement of the income was established, which augmented the expenditure to £692 per annum. The leases having expired in 1814, new leases were granted under the direction of the court, and the advanced rents made the yearly income £957. 3s. 6d. From this fund the head master receives £200 per annum, the second master £100, and the third £100. The other principal items of expenditure are a sum of £60 per annum paid to the minister of Newport; to putting out three apprentices yearly, £54; exhibitions to four scholars at the university, £90; to the four alms-people, £78; to twenty-four persons free of the Haberdashers’ Company, £75; an allowance for books, £10; repairs of the school-house and alms-house, £10; to a boy for ringing the school bell, £3; to a boy for sweeping the school, £3; to the clerk of the Haberdashers’ Company, £6; to the two beadles, £3; Woodreave, £2; the receiver, £21; besides which there are several small items for incidental expenses.

The school premises is a spacious building situated a little back from the High street, and is respectively appropriated to the use of the school, and to the residence of the master and usher, as directed by the founder. By the statutes of the school it was intended for the instruction of eighty scholars; but the town of Newport and its neighbourhood, to which a preference was given by the founder, not being able to supply the full number, the scholars are admitted indifferently from other parts; and to facilitate their admission, it has been left to the head master to appoint them on their application to him, without the intervention of visitors, on whom that duty was imposed by the statutes. The course of education was intended to embrace the Hebrew language; but it appears to have been hitherto confined in practice to Greek and Latin, with the addition of writing and arithmetic. In December, 1850, there were 59 scholars on the foundation. Charles Waring Saxon, D.D., is the head master; Rev. William Sandford, M.A., second master; Mr. Richard Crowther, third master. The particulars of the four exhibitions on Careswell’s foundation will be found noticed with Bridgnorth Grammar School. The alms-houses above mentioned are situated near the gates, at the entrance to the Grammar School.

The English School is a neat brick building, erected in 1843, and situated on the Wellington road. This school appears to have had its origin in a certain grammar school, which, by the certificate of the commissioners under the statute of the 1st of Edward VI., now remaining in the augmentation office, was certified to have been always kept by Richard Robins, one of the Fellows of the college of Newport, to whom was paid out of the revenues of that college the annual stipend of £5. In the twenty-third year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, her Majesty granted to Edmund Downing and Peter Ashton, “all that site of the late college of Newport, in the county of Salop, late the possession of the said college, with all rights, members, and appurtenances, rendering to her said Majesty £15 yearly, to be paid for a salary or stipendary curate of Newport, and school-master there—that is to say, to the curate £10, and to the schoolmaster £5.” William Robson, in 1633, deposited £5,000 in the hands of the Salters’ Company for charitable uses, among which he directed £5 per annum to be paid to the master of the free school at Newport, and £10 per annum to a lecturer, and a like sum annually for the benefit of the poor. William Adams gave to the bailiffs and burgesses of Newport, and their successors for ever, all those two closes, situate at Norbroom, upon trust, to apply the rents for the support of the English school. William Barnfield, in 1665, gave “six days’ work of ground in Norbroom, four tenements let for 16s. a year each, and a shop let for 30s. per annum, towards the support of the free school.” The total income, when, the charity commissioners published their report, amounted to £49. 1s., of which £24 arises from Adams’s gift, £15. 11s. from Barnfield’s, £5 from Robson’s benefaction, and £4. 10s. from the receiver-general. The school has long been confined to the instruction of children in reading English, and we find it described by the name of the English school as early as 1660. How long before that period it had ceased to teach grammar we have not been able to discover; but it may reasonably be conjectured to have been about the time when that branch of education became otherwise so largely provided for by the establishment of the Free Grammar School of William Adams. The school is free to the children of the humbler classes of society for instruction in English: fifty-four scholars now attend.

The Infant School, situate on the Wellington road, was built in 1841 at a cost of £250; the room is spacious and lofty, and has an average attendance of 95 scholars. The Sunday school in connection with the Independent Chapel is also situated on the Wellington road, and has an attendance of 150 children.

The Girls’ National School is a neat brick structure, situated in the Workhouse lane; it was built in 1842, and has an average attendance of seventy children.

The Town’s Almshouses. In 1446 the burgesses or commonalty of Newport granted to William Glover a plot of land between the church-yard and the king’s highway, towards the north, between two stiles in the said church-yard, that the said William Glover should build on the land a hospital for the use of the poor. The almshouses are appropriated to the use of four poor old women of the town of Newport, who are appointed from time to time by the trustees, and retain their respective places for life. The rents of lands and dividends of funded property, left by various benefactors, produced a yearly income of £69. 14s. when the charity commissioners published their report. Each inmate has a weekly payment of 4s. 6d. from Lady-day to Michaelmas, and 5s. from Michaelmas to Lady-day. They also receive 10s. each for coals, and a gratuity of 5s. each at Christmas. The present almshouse was built in 1836, and is situate in Workhouse lane.

The Savings’ Bank, held at Mr. Silvester’s, High street, was enlarged in 1818, on November 20th; the capital stock of the bank amounted to £36,221. 12s. 10d., at which period there were 1,450 separate accounts, of which twelve were charitable and seven friendly societies. Of the total number of depositors 963 had respective balances under £20; 268 were above £20 and less than £50; 135 did not exceed £100; 51 did not exceed £150; 31 were above the latter sum and less than £200; and two exceeded £200. Mr. Charles Silvester is the secretary.

The County Court Office, for the recovery of debts, and in all pleas of personal action where the damage does not exceed £50, is situated in High street. The several parishes and places within the jurisdiction of the court in Shropshire are Adney, Brockton, Caynton, Cherrington, Cheswell, Chetwynd. Chetwynd Aston, Chetwynd End, Church Aston, Donington, Donington Wood, Edgmond, Howle, Lilleshall, Longford, Littlehales, Lynn, Muxton, Newport, Pave Lane, Pickstock, Pilston, Sambrook, Stockton, Tibberton, Vauxhall, Woodcote. The places in Staffordshire are Adbaston, Alston, Apeton, Aqualate, Batchacre, Beffcote, Bishops Offley, Bromstead, Coton, Cowley, Flashbrook, Forton, Gnosall, Great Chatwell, High Offley, Knighton, Knightley, Loynton, Meertown, Moreton, Norbury, Oulton, Outwoods, Plardiwick, Shebdon, Sutton, Tunstall, Weston Jones, Wilbrighton, and Woodseaves. Judge: Uvedale Corbett, Esq., Aston Hall. Clerk: William Liddle, Esq., Newport. High Bailiff: George Hill Townsend, Wolverhampton. Appraiser and Auctioneer: Joseph Doody, High street, Newport. Bailiff: Thomas Roberts, Upper Bar, Newport.

The Newport Union House, situated in Workhouse lane, a plain brick structure, will accommodate about sixty inmates; the aged, infirm, and the older children are sent to the union house of Gnosall, in Staffordshire, which is connected with the Newport union, and this house is for the reception of the able-bodied poor and very young children. The several places comprised in the union in the county are Newport, Chetwynd, Chetwynd Aston, Church Aston, Cherrington, and Edgmond. The townships and places in Staffordshire are Adbaston, Forton, Gnosall, High Offley, Norbury, and Weston Jones. Chairman to the Guardians: John Cotes, Esq. Clerk: Henry Heane, Esq. Chaplain: Rev. William Sandford. Surgeons: Mr. William Lindop, Mr. Godley, and Mr. John Green. Relieving Officer: Mr. Benjamin Rees. Master: Samuel Winnell. Matron: Emma Wellings.

The Market Hall is an ancient structure, standing upon pillars, and situate nearly in the centre of High street. The area between the pillars is appropriated to a corn market; and here the farmers assemble on a market day for the sale of corn and other grain, which is sold by sample. The market is held on Saturday, when the town has a busy and animated appearance. Above the corn market is a spacious room, which is used for magisterial purposes. Here the petty sessions are held every alternate Tuesday, and the official business of the county court is also transacted here. An adjoining room is used as a Sunday school. The Market Hall was chiefly erected at the expense of William Adams, the munificent founder of the Grammar School, who “gave £550 towards building a town house.” Near to the Market Hall is a butter market, a covered area, which is of more modern construction. Under this covering is the market cross, a structure of considerable antiquity, consisting of four steps, and a fluted pillar broken at the top, the whole much dilapidated by time.

Fairs.—The chartered fairs at Newport have merged into the fortnightly cattle market, held every alternate Tuesday, except the fair held on May 28th, which is still continued. These markets are well attended by the farmers in the surrounding district, and considerable quantities of fat and other stock are sold. Whether the growing importance of the Shrewsbury cattle market, which is held on the same day, will not tend to diminish the number of buyers at Newport remains to be seen.

The Gas Works, situate in Marsh lane, were established in 1835 by a company of shareholders with a capital stock of £1,800, since which £400 has been added to the capital. There are two gasometers, each of which will hold about 8,000 cubic feet of gas. A charge of 7s. 6d. per 1000 cubic foot is now made to the consumer. The expense of lighting the streets is paid from the income arising from the town lands, and the cost of pitching the streets is also paid from the same source.

The Lock-up, situate on the Stafford road, has been built within the last few years. It is a small structure with two cells, and residence for the constable.

The Railway Station is situated about half a mile S.E. from the church, within the bounds of the township of Field Aston. There are six trains each way daily; an omnibus meets the different trains, and calls at the principal inns in the town. Newport is distant 17½ miles from Shrewsbury and 11½ miles from Stafford by railway.

Newport sustained great damage by a fire which broke out on the 16th May, 1655; it consumed 162 houses, the loss of which with what they contained was estimated at £30,000. It is stated that a festival was formerly kept on the 30th August, in memory of Mr. Adams, the founder of the Grammar School and almshouses. Tradition says that Charles II., being informed what large sums Mr. Adams had expended in charitable uses, expressed a desire to see him when he was on a visit to the city; and Mr. Adams being introduced to his Majesty, the King asked him whether he had not straitened his fortune by his great benefactions. Mr. Adams replied that he had not, and if his Majesty pleased he would present him with £1,000, provided he would procure an act of parliament to exempt his land from taxes, to which the king consented. How far the above may be true we are unable to affirm; it is certain, however, that the estate at Knighton, with which the Grammar School is endowed, is exempt from parliamentary and parochial taxation.

The Marsh Trust.—By an Act of Parliament passed in the 4th of George III., intituled “An act for dividing and inclosing a waste ground called the Marsh, in the township of Newport, in the county of Salop, and for applying the produce thereof to the several purposes therein mentioned;” after reciting that there was within the said township a common waste ground called the Marsh, containing 117 acres, or thereabouts, wherein each householder in the said town had from time immemorial a right of turning a milch cow, which privilege had proved of very little advantage to the town, but rather an inconvenience, by increasing the poor thereof; and that it was apprehended that the enclosing and improving the said Marsh, and applying the profits thereof from time to time, after making satisfaction to the lords of the manor for their respective rights therein, in paving and keeping in repair the streets of the town of Newport, and in keeping in repair the Market Hall and Cross there; and also in establishing and encouraging some manufacture, and in apprenticing the children of the poor parishioners of Newport, would be of great advantage to the town in general, and might be a means of extending a manufactory throughout the neighbourhood; it was enacted, that certain persons therein named, and their heirs and successors respectively should be trustees, for enclosing, improving, and dividing the said Marsh, and for putting the said act into execution: and it was further enacted, that from and immediately after passing that act, all right of common or pasturage in or upon the said Marsh should cease and be extinguished; and the trustees were authorized to set out to the Earl of Shrewsbury such portion of the Marsh as two indifferent persons should appoint, as a recompense and satisfaction for the said earl’s four beast-gates upon the Marsh: and it was further enacted, that the residue of the said Marsh, after the allotment so made, should be vested in the said trustees and their successors, and be freed from all right, title, and interest whatsoever, of the householders of the township.

A survey being made in pursuance of the directions of the act, the Marsh was found to contain 111a. 3r. 31p., of which four acres being allotted to the Earl of Shrewsbury for beast-gates, there remained 107a. 3r. 31p. to be employed for the beneficial objects of the trust. This remainder, the trustees then proceeded to inclose and subdivide; and as an effective mode of providing for the fencing-in and improvement of the different parcels, they granted leases for 99 years, determinable on three lives, binding the lessees by covenants to plant and set the fences, within a limited time, with good hawthorn sets; to make ditches of certain dimensions; and otherwise to improve and properly manage the respective parcels demised to them. The leases originally granted produced a yearly income of £91. 7s.; but a considerable income may reasonably be looked for on the falling of leases, determinable on three lives, the lands being valued at upwards of £3 per acre, which would produce an annual rental of about £350. The income is subject to a charge for land-tax of £6. 2s.; chief rent, £1; and £5. 5s. to the collector of rents. In the application of their annual rents, the trustees were in the first instance called upon to defray the expenses attending the Act of Parliament and the preliminary arrangements in execution of their trust, which amounted to £663. 0s. 8d. These expenses being discharged, the income was next applied, for several years, to the purpose of repairing the streets and public buildings specified in the act; and having appropriated to those uses, from time to time, the sum of £808. 3s. 5½d., the trustees had in hand, on the balancing of their accounts in April, 1785, the sum of £93. 8s. 7½d. In the year 1787 the benefits of the trust were extended to the establishment of a Sunday school, and in 1790 to that of a stocking manufactory. This undertaking being found not to prosper, was superseded in 1796 by the erection of a wind-mill for grinding corn. This measure appears to have been loudly called for by the inhabitants of Newport, as a means of protecting themselves against what were deemed the extortionate demands of the millers of the neighbourhood. The speculation, however, proved exceedingly ruinous, and was finally abandoned in the year 1801; since which time the rents of the premises have been applied, as before, to the repairs of the streets and public buildings, as far as there has remained a surplus, after keeping down the annual interest of the debts which these abortive schemes have entailed upon the trust. It appears that £460 was expended in the attempt to establish the manufacture of stockings, and the corn-mill cost £2,000. The latter, however, was subsequently sold for £900. Previously to the year 1799 debts had been contracted to carry on these schemes, amounting to £2,300. This sum had been reduced to £1,100, when the Charity Commissioners published their report, which had been secured by mortgage of the Marsh, at five per cent. interest; so that there remained an annual charge of £55 in respect of the debts which remained unpaid. In addition to the debts contracted for the purposes above mentioned, £192. 4s. 3d. was borrowed from the treasurer in 1811, for the benefit of the public repairs, for which it was agreed to allow him five per cent. interest until he should reimburse himself from the rents.

The Bridge Trust.—By an indenture, dated 5th May, 1749, purporting to be made between the Earl of Shrewsbury and Earl Gower, lords of the manor of Newport, and Robert Pigot, Esq., steward of the borough of Newport, and the burgesses of the said borough, of the first part, and Robert Barber, Esq., and others, of the second part, it was witnessed that the said earls, steward, and burgesses, granted to the said Robert Barber, and others, all those parcels of lands lying waste, but formerly covered with water, called the Strine, or Newport Pool, and the Flags, with the appurtenances, in trust, that, with the rent, issues, and profits thereof, the Pool Dam, at the lower end of the town, should be repaired and kept in good order; and if any surplus should remain, the same should be appropriated to keeping in good order the pavement of the streets, or in the reparation of the Market House or Town Hall. A subsequent indenture was made, dated 17th October, 1750, granting the waste lands called the Flags, and also a small parcel of land lying near the entrance to the same, rendering the annual rent of 5s. The premises conveyed in these indentures were found by a survey, made in 1804, to contain 2a. 2r. 21p. of land, which produced an annual rental of £18. The rent, after deducting the 5s. reserved to the burgesses, and certain incidental expenses, appears to have hitherto been confined to the repair of the Bridge and Bridge-street; which not having exhausted the whole, the surplus has been deposited, from time to time, in the Newport Bank.

Charities.—The Rev. Thomas Perkes, by will, dated 26th March, 1734, gave (after the death of his wife, Hannah) to the minister and churchwardens of the parish of Newport, and their successors, the sum of £200, to be laid out in lands, and the profits thereof (except the sum of 20s. to be paid to the minister, as a recompense for disposing of the charity) to be expended in purchasing Holy Bibles, Books of Common Prayer, and books intitled The Whole Duty of Man, to be yearly distributed among the poorer sort of inhabitants of Newport; and when such poor people should, in the judgment of the minister, be sufficiently supplied with such books, then the yearly rent should be laid out in clothing old people residing in and being parishioners of the town of Newport. A preference to be given to those that should be of the most religious and orderly life.

Hannah Perkes, wife of the above Mr. Perkes, who appears to have died in 1766, bequeathed £600, to be put upon land or other good security, to the intent that the interest should be duly applied towards the setting out three poor boys, of the parish of Newport, apprentices in some place of manufacture, to be elected annually by the minister, church-wardens, head-schoolmaster, together with five men nominated by the parish yearly,—especial regard being had that the boys so chosen should be able to read the English tongue well. She likewise left £100, to be laid out in land, or some other good security, the interest to be distributed amongst the poorest inhabitants of the parish, upon St. Thomas’s day. These several legacies, amounting together to the sum of £900, were laid out in the purchase of £996. 1s. 9d. three per cent. reduced annuities, producing annual dividends amounting to £29. 17s.; two-ninths of which are annually paid to the minister on account of Mr. Perkes’s charity, and on account of Mrs. Perkes’s charity six-ninths are annually applied on apprentice fees, and one-ninth is expended in bread for the poor.

Mrs. Mary Scott bequeathed £100, and desired the minister and two masters of the free-school, whom she constituted trustees, to dispose of the yearly produce in the relief of poor housekeepers of this parish, except that every fourth year they should lay out the income in Bibles, Common Prayer Books, and The Whole Duty of Man, which should be distributed among poor children whose parents should not be able to provide them. This gift, and a further legacy of £20, the gift of Mrs. Felicia Vyse, was laid out on the 8th of March, 1786, in the purchase of a plot of land, situated at Chetwynd End, called the Four-day Math, and containing 3a. 0r. 36p., which land was conveyed to the then minister and two masters of the grammar school, on trust, to apply five-sixths of the rents to the charitable uses appointed by Mrs. Scott, and to pay the remaining sixth among the poor of the parish. The land produces an annual rental of £13. 17s. The rent is received by the minister, as one of the trustees; but in the application of it the trusts do not appear to have been duly kept in view, the rent having been paid to the churchwardens for general distribution among the poor, without reserving any portion for the purchase of books, as directed by the will of Mrs. Scott.

Dole Charities.—By an indenture, dated the 23rd of March, 1675, certain lands, situated at Little Aston, called the Foxhall lands, were conveyed for the sum of £220 to William Harding, one of the churchwardens of the parish, for charitable uses, subject to a yearly rent of 3s. 6d. to Thomas Talbot, the lord of the manor. It does not appear from what source the consideration money of this purchase was derived, but it is probable that it arose from a stock of £161, recorded in an inquisition as having been given by several donors, and the additional sum might be the subsequent accumulations of interest upon it. The premises consist of a cottage and garden, and three closes; containing in the whole about 13 acres of land. They were let under a lease of 14 years at Lady-day, 1814, at the annual rent of £82. It appears Mr. Leek was induced by particular circumstances to offer the above mentioned rent, though far exceeding the fair value of the premises.

Robert Hawkins, on the 15th December, 1660, charged a certain house in Newport, with the payment of 13s. 4d. per annum, and directed the same to be distributed to the poor.

William Adams; who died in 1690, gave a rent charge of 26s. per annum, payable out of his lands and tenements in Newport, and directed the same to be expended in bread, and given to the aged poor in sixpenny loaves for ever, according to the discretion of the minister, churchwardens, and overseers of the town. This charity is understood to be comprised in a weekly supply of twelve penny loaves which has been for many years made for the use of the poor, by the late Richard Marsh, Esq., as owner of certain lands, at Norbroom. There does not, however, appear any mention of such a charge in the title deeds, nor was Mr. Marsh able to give any information as to the origin of the weekly supply, which, having been made before his time, he had felt it proper to continue. There is no charity to which the residue of this weekly supply might with any likelihood be ascribed, except that of Thomas Sprig, who is recorded on the benefaction table to have left six penny loaves, to be given to the poor every Lord’s-day, and twelve every Sacrament-day.

Richard Haynes, in 1713, left to the poor of this parish six penny loaves to be given every Lord’s-day. This benefaction appears to have been charged upon a parcel of land which became the property of Mrs. Humpherson some time ago, by whom a weekly supply of six penny loaves was duly made. In 1713 Stephen Denston left £100 to the poor; and we also learn from the churchwarden’s book of donations that Richard Fletcher, in 1721, left £30 to the poor, and that Mrs. Moreton by her will bequeathed £20, the interest to be distributed in bread. These several sums, amounting together to £150, were invested on the 2nd April, 1770, on a mortgage of the tolls of the Forton and Lilleshall turnpike, producing at five per cent. interest the annual sum of £7. 10s. It is also stated in the churchwarden’s book that Felicia Vyse, who died in 1747, gave by her will £20, the interest to be given yearly to the poor of the parish. We have already shown that this legacy, in conjunction with Mrs. Mary Scott’s, was applied in the purchase of the Four Math Meadow. The whole rents having been paid over to the churchwardens for the same common purpose, no severance has taken place in the application.

Abraham Hadderton, by will, dated 9th September, 1770, gave to the minister, churchwardens, and overseers of the poor, and their successors, £1,000 in trust, to keep the same at interest, and apply the proceeds thereof for the benefit of the poor. This legacy was invested in the purchase of £1,141. 8s. 6d. three per cent. reduced annuities, producing the annual dividends of £34. 5s. 6d.

William Brown gave a rent charge of 10s. yearly, payable out of a certain house in Newport, which became the property of William Crump in 1820. The Dole charities above specified produce an annual sum of £156. 6s. 2d., and are administered by the churchwardens. £15. 7s. 8d. is expended in bread, and distributed at different periods, and the residue, £140. 12s. 5d., is given in money.

Elizabeth Symonds gave a certain croft, the yearly rent thereof to be applied to the benefit of the poor of Newport for ever. The croft thus given contains about an acre and a quarter, which produces a yearly rental of £7. 10s. The amount is distributed in small sums among the poor not receiving parish relief.

William Hawkins, by will, 1724, gave to the poor of this parish £5 per annum, charged on certain premises, the property of Mr. Collier. The amount is expended in warm clothing, and given to the poor about Christmas.

John Hayley charged a certain house with the payment of 4s. yearly, to be distributed in bread. It appears that Eleanor Richards, in 1758, paid the sum of £4 into the hands of the then minister and certain other persons, trustees for repairing the bridge, in order to exempt the house from the annual payment of the said 4s. It seems reasonable to presume that the sum thus paid to the trustees of the bridge was applied by them to the purposes of their trust, which would create, we apprehend, a liability on their part to pay the annuity of 4s. We do not, however, find any instance of such a payment.

A rent charge of £5 per annum, left by John Staunton, payable out of a tenement in Newport, has not been paid for many years; the premises having passed to several successive owners without any mention of the rent charge in the title deeds. A yearly sum of 6s. 8d., left by Roger Simonds, has long been lost. The gift of £20 by Francis Wells, in 1680; £20 by Mr. Edwards, and £30 by Mrs. Brayne, in 1713, recorded on the table of benefactions, have also been lost.

Post Office.—High street. Miss Maria Justice Sillitoe, postmistress. Letters to London, Birmingham, Stafford, &c., are dispatched at 6 40 A.M., and 10 40 P.M. Letters to Shrewsbury, Wellington, South Wales, &c., are dispatched at 1 50 A.M., and 2 20 P.M.

See also the Directories of Chetwynd, Chetwynd Aston, and Church Aston.

Adams Joseph Harrison, gentleman, High st

Adderley Thomas William, hair dresser, High street

Allen Harry, wine & spirit merchant, High street; residence, Chetwynd End

Allkins Lewis, turnery, bendware, and hair sieve manufacturer, Mill Works

Appleby Cowton, solicitor’s clerk, Beaumaris lane

Aston George, grocer, tea dealer, ironmonger, and chemist and druggist, Lower Bar

Atkinson Frances, boarding school, High st

Baddeley Thomas Bernard, solicitor, St. Mary’s street; residence, High street

Baddeley William Edward, surgeon, High st

Ballard John, cattle dealer, Beaumaris lane

Barber Charles, maltster & butcher, High st

Barber The Misses, High street

Barlow George, maltster and vict., Feathers Inn, High street

Barlow Mary Ann, vict., Bull’s Head, St. Mary’s street

Barlow Mary Ann, infant school teacher, Wellington road

Barlow Samuel, contractor and vict., White Horse Inn, High street

Beeston John, boot & shoemaker, Lower Bar

Bennett William, gentleman, High street

Blest Richard, shoemaker, Workhouse lane

Bolas Wm., boot & shoemaker, St. Mary’s st

Booth Richard, vict., White Lion, High st

Boughey Thomas, turnery, bendware, and hair sieve manufacturer, Mill Works

Bowring Thomas, fishmonger and game dealer, St. Mary’s street

Bradbury Charles, soda water manufacturer, cigar & wine & spirit agent, High street

Bradbury Charles, tailor and draper, High st

Bradbury Helen, school teacher, Upper Bar

Bradbury Samuel, ale, porter, and wine and spirit agent, High street

Breese John, tailor, High street

Breese Thomas, tailor, High street

Brittain Miss, milliner, High street

Brittain William, grocer, tea dealer, and agent to Salop Fire Office, High street

Brookes Ambrose, solicitor, Upper Bar

Brown William, plumber, glazier, & painter, High street

Bryan Robt., inland revenue officer, Upper Bar

Chalmers Henry, chemist & druggist, High st

Chettar John, rope maker, Upper Bar

Clift Roger, hosier, Lower Bar

Cobb Samuel, cabinet maker & upholsterer, High street

Collier Mary Ann, milliner, High street

Cooke Joseph, blacksmith, Salthouse lane

Cooper Mrs. Mary Ann, Old Hall

Crowther Richard, third master, Grammar School, High street

Darley Matthew, vict., Old Star, High street

Davies Mr. David, Brown’s Cottage, Beaumaris lane

Davies Mr. David, St. Mary’s street

Davies Samuel, plumber & glazier, High st

Davies Thomas, brazier & tin plate worker, High street

Davieson Thomas, cabinet maker, High st

Dawes James, blacksmith, Stafford street

Dawson John, basket maker and vict., Plough Inn, High street

Dodd George, saddler and harness maker, Lower Bar

Doody John, solicitor’s clerk, High street

Doody Joseph, auctioneer, maltster, and ale and porter agent, High street

Duncalfe George, surgeon, St. Mary’s street

Duncalfe Thomas, chemist and druggist and veterinary surgeon, St. Mary’s street

Eardley Thomas, saddler & harness maker, High street

Eccleshall John, cooper, Upper Bar

Edwards David, linen and woollen draper, High street

Edwards Joseph, beerhouse keeper, High st

Eldershaw Mrs. Jane, Upper Bar

Evanson Ann, bonnet maker, St. Mary’s st

Felton John, seedsman, St. Mary’s street

Fieldhouse Ann, milliner, High street

Fieldhouse Thomas, auctioneer & maltster, High street

Fieldhouse William, grocer, tea dealer, and tallow chandler, High street

Fisher Robert, jun., Esq., solicitor, and auditor of the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire audit district, High street

Fisher and Washbourne, solicitors, High st

Fishwick Mary Ann and Alice, dressmakers, High street

Fishwick William, saddler and harness maker, High street

Fletcher Mrs. Helen, High street

Ford and Co., woolstaplers, Stafford street

Fowler Alexander, bank manager, High st

Fox William, beerhouse keeper, Upper Bar

Gater Charles, tailor, High street

Glover Alfred, beerhouse keeper, St. Mary’s street

Godby Augustus Hardy, surgeon, High st

Goodall John, vict., Fox & Grapes, St. Mary’s street

Gosnell John, butcher and shopkeeper, Lower Bar

Griffiths John, confectioner, & glass, china, and earthenware dealer, High street

Guy Ann, schoolmistress, High street

Hall George, bookkeeper to Shropshire Union Canal Company, Canal Wharf

Harker Francis, shopkeeper, High street

Harrison Jas., vict., New Inn, Stafford road

Harvey Robert, hair dresser, High street

Haycock Thomas, vict., Bridge Tavern, Lower Bar

Heane Henry, Esq., solicitor, clerk to commissioners of property and assessed taxes, clerk to poor law guardians, and superintendent registrar, High street

Higgins Mr. Robert George, High street

Hickin Miss Catherine, St. Mary’s street

Holland John, auctioneer, St. Mary’s street

Hollins John, shopkeeper, High street

Horton Miss Mary Ann, High street

Hughes Robert, Esq., High street

Humphreys Miss Elizabeth, Stafford street

Hutchinson James, currier and leather cutter, High street

Hutchinson Mary Ann, milliner, High street

Huxley John, grocer, tea dealer, and general provision warehouse, Lower Bar

Icke James Joseph, corn & guano merchant, Vauxhall

Icke and Yates, grocer, tea dealers, and chemists and druggists, High street

James John, cooper, St. Mary’s street

James Lewis and Josiah, linen and woollen drapers, High street

Jenkins William, cabinet maker, St. Mary’s st

Jervis William, tailor, High street

Johnstone Moses, tailor, Lower Bar

Jones Edward, grocer, tea dealer, ironmonger, chemists and druggists, Lower Bar

Jones John, inland revenue officer, High st

Jones and Aston, grocers, tea dealers, ironmongers, chemists and druggists, and iron-hurdle makers, Lower Bar

Keeling John, tailor and draper, High street

Keeling Mrs. Sarah, High street

Keeling William, solicitor, High street

Kyffin Mrs. Margaret, High street

Lamonby George, vict., Swan Inn, High st

Leach George, boot & shoemaker, Upper Bar

Leach Samuel, farrier, Upper Bar

Leach Rev. William Berckeley (Independent), Upper Bar, Aston

Leech Ann and Elizabeth, dressmakers, Upper Bar

Leech and Humphreys, wood turners, Upper Bar

Lees John, schoolmaster, High street

Leigh Mary, vict., Pheasant Inn, High street

Liddle William, Esq., solicitor, and clerk to magistrates and county court, High street

Lindop William, surgeon, St. Mary’s street

Littleton William, winnowing machine maker, Beaumaris lane

Lockley James, grocer, tea dealer, cheese factor, maltster, corn miller, and vict., King’s Arms Inn, High street

Lockley George, vict., Old Bell Inn, High st

Lowe Edwin, painter, High street

Lowe Emma, bonnet maker, High street

Lowe Richard, clothes dealer and agent to Birmingham Fire Office, High street

Macefield John, banker’s clerk, High street

Macklin Frederick, hair dresser, High street

Mansell Thomas, timber merchant and wheelwright, Stafford road

Massey William and George, engineers, millwrights, and iron and brass founders, Lower Bar

May Edward, county police officer, Stafford road

Morgan Miss Elizabeth, High street

Morris John, Esq., High street

Morris Samuel, butcher, Stafford street

National Provincial Bank of England, High street; Alexander Fowler, manager

Northwood James, watch and clock maker, High street

Oastler William, chemist and druggist, and agent to clerical and medical assurance office, High street

Owen Ann, beerhouse keeper, Summer House

Owen William, shoemaker, Watery lane

Parsons Joseph, vict., George and Dragon, High street

Pearse John, supervisor of inland revenue, High street

Pember John, boot and shoemaker, High st

Pickin Peter, vict., Pig Fould Inn, High st

Plant Caroline, dressmaker, St. Mary’s street

Plant Stephen, boot and shoemaker, and leather cutter, St. Mary’s street

Plant Thomas, saddler and harness maker and beerhouse keeper, Lower Bar

Pooler Thos., boot & shoemaker, Upper Bar

Pritchard Edward, law stationer and agent to district fire and industrial and general life offices, High street

Rees Benjamin, relieving officer and registrar of births and deaths for Newport district, High street

Rees John, saddler & harness maker, High st

Rees Philip, butcher, High street

Rees Philip, butcher, Upper Bar

Roberts Thomas, bailiff to county court, Upper Bar

Rogers Elizabeth, tanner, Watery lane

Rogers Stephen, baker, St. Mary’s street

Rowley James, blacksmith, Upper Bar

Rutter Jane, vict., Crown Inn and Posting House, High street

Sandford Rev. William, M.A., Incumbent of Newport, the Grammar School, High st

Saxton Rev. Charles Waring, D.D., head master of Grammar School, High street

Scott Robert, gentleman, High street

Serjeant Elizabeth, shopkeeper, High street

Serjeant John, solicitor’s clerk, Lower Bar

Serjeant Peter, cabinet-maker & upholsterer, High street

Serjeant William, currier and leather-cutter, High street

Shaw Abraham Pierpont, bookseller, printer, stationer, bookbinder, patent medicine vendor, and agent to Times Life and Assurance and Guarantee Co., High street

Shaw John, wheelwright, Workhouse lane

Sherry Richard, omnibus proprietor, and victualler, Anchor Inn, St. Mary’s street

Sherry Thomas, maltster, High street

Shropshire Banking Company, High street, Mr. William Silvester, manager

Sillitoe Maria Justice, postmistress, High st

Sillitoe William, gentleman, Lower Bar

Silvester Henry Price and Charles, booksellers, printers, stationers, bookbinders, musical instrument dealers, patent medicine vendors, stamp-office, and patent machine rulers, High street

Silvester Mr. William, bank-manager, High street

Simpson Charles, town crier, High street

Skitt Mrs. Emma, St. Mary’s street

Slaney Henry, cabinet-maker & upholsterer, St. Mary’s street

Slaney William, grocer & tea dealer, High st

Smallwood Brooke Hector, Esq., solicitor, St. Mary’s st.; residence, Chetwynd End

Smallwood George, shopkeeper, Stafford st

Smart Elizabeth, bonnet-maker, St. Mary’s st

Smart George, patten and clog maker, Upper Bar

Smart Richard, tailor, High street

Smith Mrs. Ann, High street

Smith Mr. Edward, High street

Steed Charles Christopher, boot and shoemaker, leather-cutter, and toy-warehouse, High street

Steed George, boot and shoemaker and leather-cutter, High street

Steeple Thomas, accountant, Upper Bar

Steventon Charles and John, butchers, High street

Steventon Martha, shopkeeper, High street

Stokes Charles, shopkeeper, Upper Bar

Stokes John, surveyor of highways, collector of assessed taxes, and manager of the gas works, Marsh lane

Stokes Thomas, maltster and victualler, Shakspere Inn, Upper Bar

Stokes William, maltster, Wellington road

Sturgess George, painter and shopkeeper, High street

Sturgess Sarah, bonnet-maker, High-street

Taylor Mrs. Frances, High street

Thomas Alexander, hosier, High-street

Thompson John, fishmonger, fruiterer, and game dealer, High street

Thurstan Thomas, Esq., St. Mary’s street

Tipping Richard, gun and pistol maker, Upper Bar

Tomlin Sarah, schoolmistress, Workhouse lane

Tomkinson James, cooper, High street

Tomkinson John, baker and shopkeeper, Stafford street

Tomkinson Job, shopkeeper, High street

Treasure John, land agent, surveyor, and builder, Chetwynd Aston

Trovell Rev. Michael, Catholic priest, Salter’s Hall

Underhill William Scott, grocer, tea dealer, ironmonger, brazier, and tin-plate worker, nail, hurdle, and agricultural implement maker, High street

Ventriss Rev. E. F., curate, High street

Waldron Joseph, victualler, Horse & Jockey, High street

Walker Emma and Elizabeth, milliners, High street

Walker William, victualler, Unicorn Inn, High street

Ward Elizabeth, victualler, Wharf Tavern, Canal wharf

Ward George, maltster and victualler, Barley Mow Inn, High street

Ward George Joseph, timber and tile merchant, Canal wharf; residence, Church Aston

Ward John, maltster and victualler, Raven and Bell Inn, High street

Ward Martha and Elizabeth, milliners, High street

Warner John, linen and woollen draper and silk mercer, High street

Warner & Co., woollen drapers, clothiers, and hatters, High street

Washbourne William, Esq., solicitor, High-street; residence, Chetwynd House

Watkin John, linen and woollen draper, clothier and hatter, High street

Watkin John, ironmonger, brazier, and tin-plate worker, High street

Westbrook Samuel, shoemaker, Wellington road

Whiston Joseph, watch and clock maker, High street

Whiston Thomas, watch and clock maker, Upper Bar

Whittingham Joseph, stone mason, Upper Bar

Wilde Martha, grocer and tallow-chandler, St. Mary’s street

Williams John, bricklayer, High street

Williams John, shopkeeper, Upper Bar

Williams William, joiner, Upper Bar

Woods William Barnett, accountant & paper-hanger, St. Mary’s street

Worrall Joseph, tailor and draper, High st

Wright Joseph, hatter, High street

Yale Elizabeth, dressmaker, High street

Yates John, grocer, tea-dealer, and chemist and druggist, High street

Academies.

Atkinson and Cooke, High st

Bradbury Helen, Wellington road

Catholic School, Mrs. Baldwin

Grammar School, High st., Rev. Chas. Waring Saxton, D.D., head master; Rev. Wm. Sandford, M.A., second master; Mr. Rd. Crowther, third master

Guy Ann, High street

Infants’ School, Mary Ann Barlow, Wellington road

National School, (Girls), Sarah Tomlin, Workhouse lane

Royal Free School, John Lees, Wellington road

Agricultural Implement Maker.

Underhill Wm. Scott, High street

Ale, Porter, & Spirit Agents.

Bradbury Charles, High st

Bradbury Samuel, High st

Doody Joseph, ale & porter, High street

Attorneys.

Baddeley Thomas Bernard, St. Mary’s street

Brookes Ambrose, Upper Bar

Fisher & Washbourne, High street

Heane Henry, High street

Keeling William, High street

Liddle William, and clerk to magistrates, High street

Smallwood Brooke Hector, St. Mary’s street

Auctioneers.

Doody Joseph, High street

Fieldhouse Thomas, High st

Holland John, St. Mary’s st

Bakers.

Griffiths John, High street

Huxley John, Lower Bar

Rogers Stephen, St. Mary’s st

Tomkinson John, Stafford st

Banks.

National Provincial Bank of England, High st., (draws on London Joint Stock Bank); Mr. Alex. Fowler, manager

Savings’ Bank, High, street, open every alternate Saturday from 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.; Mr. Charles Silvester, secretary

Shropshire Banking Co., High street, (draw on Hanbury & Co., London); Mr. William Silvester, manager

Blacksmiths.

Dawes James, Stafford street

Cooke Joseph, Salt house ln

Rowley James, Upper Bar

Booksellers, Printers, Stationers, Bookbinders, and Patent Medicine Vendors.

Shaw Abraham Pierpoint, High street

Silvester Henry Price and Charles, High street

Boot and Shoemakers.

Beeston John, Lower Bar

Blest Richard, Workhouse ln

Bolas William, St. Mary’s st

Leech George, Upper Bar

Owen William, Watery lane

Pember John, High street

Plant Stephen, St. Mary’s st

Pooler Thomas, Upper Bar

Steed Charles Christopher, and toy warehouse, High street

Steed George, High street

Westbrook Samuel, Wellington road

Braziers & Tin-Plate Workers.

Davies Thomas, High street

Underhill Wm. Scott, High street

Watkin John, High street

Bricklayer.

Williams John, High street

Butchers.

Barber Charles, High street

Gosnell John, Lower Bar

Morris Samuel, Stafford st

Rees Philip, High street

Rees Philip, Upper Bar

Steventon Charles and John, High street

Cabinet Makers and Upholsterers.

Cobb Samuel, High street

Davieson Thomas, High st

Jenkins William, St. Mary’s street

Serjeant Peter, High street

Slaney Henry, St. Mary’s st

Chemists & Druggists.

Chalmers Henry, High st

Duncalfe Thos., St. Mary’s st

Icke and Yates, High street

Jones and Aston, Lower Bar

Oastier William, High street

Clothiers.

Lowe Richard, High street

Warner and Co., and general outfitters, High street

Watkin John, High street

Confectioners.

Griffiths John, High street

Serjeant Elizabeth, High st

Sillitoe Fanny, High street

Coopers.

Eccleshall John, Upper Bar

James John, St. Mary’s st

Tomkinson James, High st

Corn Miller.

Lockley James, High street

Curriers & Leather Cutters.

Marked * leather cutter.

Hutchinson James, High st

Serjeant Wm., St. Mary’s st

* Steed George, High street

Engineers, Millwrights, and Brass Founders.

Massey William and George, Lower Bar

Fire & Life Office Agents.

Birmingham, Richard Lowe, High street

District, Edward Pritchard, High street

Industrial and General, Ed. Pritchard, High street

Law, William Washbourne, High street

Medical and Clerical, Wm. Oastler, High street

Norwich Union, Jas. Joseph Icke, High street

Palladium, Alexander Fowler, High street

Phœnix, Alexander Fowler, High street

Salop, Henry Chalmers, High street

Shropshire & North Wales, Thomas Fieldhouse, High street

Times Life and Assurance and Guarantee, Abraham P. Shaw, High street

Glass & China Dealers.

Griffiths John, High street

Underhill William Scott, (glass), High street

Fish and Game Dealers and Fruiterers.

Bowring Thos., St. Mary’s st

Thompson John, High street

Grocers & Tea Dealers.

Brittain William, High st

Fieldhouse William, High st

Huxley John, Lower Bar

Icke and Yates, High street

Jones and Aston, Lower Bar

Lockley James, High street

Slaney William, High street

Underhill Wm. Scott, High street

Wild Martha, St. Mary’s st

Gun & Pistol Maker.

Tipping Richard, Upper Bar

Hair Dressers.

Adderley Thomas William, High street

Harvey Robert, High street

Macklin Frederick, High st

Hatters.

Keeling John, High street

Warner & Co., High street

Watkin John, High street

Worrall Joseph, High street

Wright Joseph, High street

Hosiers and Haberdashers.

Clift Roger, Lower Bar

Lowe Richard Goolden, High street

Thomas Alexander, High st

Hotels, Inns, & Taverns.

Anchor, Richard Sherry, St. Mary’s street

Barley Mow, George Ward, High street

Bridge Tavern, Thomas Haycock, Lower Bar

Bull’s Head, Mary Ann Barlow, St. Mary’s street

Crown Inn (posting house), Jane Rutter, High street

Feathers, George Barlow, High street

Fox & Grapes, John Goodall, St. Mary’s street

George and Dragon, Joseph Parsons, St. Mary’s st

Horse and Jockey, Joseph Waldron, St. Mary’s st

King’s Arms, James Lockley, High street

New Inn, James Harrison, Stafford road

Old Bell, James Lockley, High street

Old Crow, Benjamin Parton, High street

Old Star, Matthew Darley, High street

Pheasant, Mary Leigh, High street

Pig Fold, Peter Pickin, High street

Plough, John Dawson, High street

Raven and Bell, John Ward, High street

Royal Victoria Hotel (posting house), St. Mary’s street

Shakspere, Thomas Stokes, Upper Bar

Swan, George Lamonby, High street

Unicorn, William Walker, High street

Wharf Tavern, Elizabeth Ward, Canal wharf

White Horse, Samuel Barlow, High street

White Lion, Richard Booth, High street

Beerhouses.

Edwards Joseph, High street

Fox William, Upper Bar

Glover Alfred, St. Mary’s st.

Owen Ann, Summer House

Plant Thomas, Lower Bar

Ironmongers.

Jones and Aston, Lower Bar

Underhill William Scott

Joiners and Builders.

Treasure John Chetwynd, Aston

Williams William, Upper Bar

Linen and Woollen Drapers and Silk Mercers.

Edwards David, High street

James Lewis and Isaiah, High street

Warner John, High street

Watkin John, High street

Maltsters.

Barber Charles, High street

Barlow George, High street

Doody George, High street

Fieldhouse Thos., High st.

Lockley James, High street

Parton Benjamin, High st.

Stokes William, Wellington road

Ward George, High street

Ward John, High street

Milliners and Dress Makers.

Brittain Miss, High street

Collier Mary Ann, High st.

Fieldhouse Ann, High street

Fishwick Mary Ann and Alice, High street

Hutchinson Mary Ann, High street

Leach Ann and Elizabeth, Upper Bar

Plant Caroline, Upper Bar

Walker Emma and Eliza, High street

Ward Martha and Elizabeth, High street

Yale Elizabeth, High street

Patten and Clog Maker.

Smart George, Upper Bar

Plumbers, Glaziers, and Painters.

Marked * Painter and Glazier only.

Brown William, High street

Davies Samuel, High street

* Lowe Edwin, High street

Sturgess George, High street

Sturgess George, High street

Rope and Twine Maker.

Chettar John, Upper Bar

Saddlers & Harness Makers.

Dodd George, Lower Bar

Eardley Thos., High street

Fishwick William, High st.

Plant Thomas, Lower Bar

Rees John, High street

Shopkeepers, Dealers in Sundries, and Groceries.

Gosnell John, Lower Bar

Harker Francis, High street

Hollins John, High street

Steventon Martha, High st.

Stokes Charles, Upper Bar

Sturgess George, High street

Swallow George, Stafford st.

Tomkinson John, Stafford street

Tomkinson Job, High street

Williams John, Upper Bar

Soda Water Manufacturer.

Bradbury Charles, High st.

Stone Mason.

Whittingham Joseph, Upper Bar

Straw Bonnet Makers.

Evanson Ann, St. Mary’s st.

Lowe Emma, High street

Smart Eliza, St. Mary’s st.

Sturgess Sarah, High street

Surgeons.

Baddeley William Edward, High street

Duncalfe George, St. Mary’s street

Godby Augustus H., High st.

Lindop William, St. Mary’s street

Surveyor and Builder.

Treasure John Chetwynd, Aston

Tailors.

Those with * affixed are Woollen Drapers.

* Bradbury Charles, High st.

Breese John, High street

Breese Thomas, St. Mary’s street

Gater Charles, High street

Jervis William, High street

Johnstone Moses, Lower Bar

* Keeling John, High street

Smart Richard, High street

* Watkin John, High street

* Worrall Joseph, High street

Tallow Chandlers.

Brittain William, High street

Fieldhouse William, High st.

Wilde Martha, St. Mary’s st.

Tanner.

Rogers Elizabeth, Watery lane

Timber Merchants.

Ward George Joseph, Canal wharf

Mansell Thomas, Stafford road

Turnery, Bendware, and Hair Sieve Manufacturers, & General Wood Turners.

Atkins Lewis, Mill Works

Baughey Thos., Mill Works

Veterinary Surgeon.

Duncalfe Thomas, St. Mary’s street

Watch & Clock Makers.

Northwood James, High st

Whiston Joseph, High street

Whiston Thomas, Upper Bar

Wheelwrights.

Mansell Thomas, Stafford st

Shaw John, Workhouse Lane

Wine & Spirit Merchants.

Allan Harry, High street

Liddle William, High street

Wood Turners.

Leech and Humphreys, Upper Bar

Wool Staplers.

Ford and Co., Stafford street

General Carriers.

The Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, George Hall, clerk