_The Sextry_ was the Shutt from the passage from Kiln-lane to
High-street.
_Frankwell_, anciently Frankvill; the Frank’s Vill, probably inhabited by
the Franks, for in Doomsday book it is recorded that a part of the town
containing 45 Burgase were inhabited by those people, who are there
called _Francigence_.—This place seems to have been regarded as
unconnected with the other part of the town; they had a strong work
erected there for their defence, which at the time Shrewsbury was taken
by the parliamentary forces surrendered upon bare quarter; and in the
year 1640, when the plague began there, the inhabitants made an attempt
to come into the town, but were beaten back by the bailiffs and townsmen.
_Cheddelode_.—A lane that went to the Severn, by Stury’s Close.
_Bulgerlode_.—A place at the bottom of the Wyle Cop, taken down in 1766.
_Murivance_.—A name of French extraction signifying before the walls, or
within the walls.
_Murivance-lane_, led from the town wall down to the river.
_Sheteplace_, in old records written Sotteplace, and Soetteplace, is now
called Shoplatch. _Behind the Walls_, from its situation behind the
walls, now the Quarry.
_Priest’s-lane_, led from the walls near the tower, to Murivance, now
inclosed.
_Romboldesham_, now called Barber-street.
_The Bailey_.—That part of the town which lies before the castle.
_Hound-street_.—A street leading from the playhouse to Barber-street.
_Grope-lane_.—A narrow “shutt” leading from High-street to Fish street.
_Corvisor’s-row_.—The same as that which is now called Pride-hill.
_Shoemakers’-row_.—In Speed’s map the lower part of Pride-hill.
_Hawmon-strete_.—Probably that now called Castle-street, or Raven-street.
_Merival_.—At the east end of the New bridge. Early in the 16th century,
Merival was separated from the jurisdiction of the corporation, and
considered a hamlet within the liberty of the town.
_Altus Vicus_.—The high pavement, near the Cross made in 1570.
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