JONES’S MANSION, situate near St. Mary’s Church, was built by Thomas Jones, Esq., who was appointed by Charles I. in 1638 the first mayor of Shrewsbury. Subsequently the mansion became the residence of Chief Justice Jones. The Duke of York was lodged here in 1624, during the stay of Charles I. in Shrewsbury, and Prince Rupert made it his residence after the battle of Worcester. THE JUDGES’ LODGINGS, situated at Belmont, is a spacious residence purchased by the county in 1821, for providing suitable accommodation for the Judges during their attendance at the assizes. In various parts of the town are seen many curious old timbered houses, interesting as specimens of the domestic architecture of the honest burghers of former days. Nearly opposite the Butter Cross stood the mansion of the Prides, who gave their name to the street. This house has been greatly modernized, and partly rebuilt. In the Butchers’-row, is one of the largest, and supposed to be one of the oldest timber houses in the town. History is silent as to the time or by whom it was erected. It may have been the town mansion of the Abbot of Lilleshall, who had a residence in this part of the parish, and to which monastery the patronage of this church belonged. ANNALS OF THE TOWN OF SHREWSBURY. The following is a brief chronological sketch of the most remarkable events which have at different periods taken place in the town of Shrewsbury:— A.D. 961—Land about Shrewsbury sold for one shilling per acre. The price of an ox was 2s. 6d., a cow 2s., a sheep 1s., a pig 8d. 1110.—A great earthquake, and great mortality among men and cattle. 1225.—Three gallons of ale sold for one penny in the town, and four out of town. 1315.—The price of provisions settled by the bailiffs.—A corn fed ox 24s., a grass fed ox 16s., a cow 12s., a fat sheep 1s. 8d., a fat hog 3s. 4d., a goose 2d., a hen 1d., a capon 2d., four pigeons 1d., twenty-four eggs 1d. 1347.—A fine horse 6s. 8d., an ox 4s., a sheep 4d., a lamb 2d. 1349.—The sweating sickness desolated the town. 1421.—Rees-ap-Doe, a Welsh Esquire, was hanged, drawn, and quartered here for treason. 1454.—Wheat sold for 14d. a quarter (eight strikes). 1490.—Wheat sold for one shilling and eightpence a bushel. 1509.—Provision made for building upon waste land and repairing decayed houses, by an Act of Parliament. 1519.—A general Chapter of the Grey Friars held here. 1520.—Griffith Wickham drawn through the town and afterwards hanged. 1532.—George Goldsmith drawn through the town and afterwards hanged, for coining money. 1537.—The plague raged frightfully during this year. 1542.—Rowland Lee, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, burned before the high altar of St. Chad’s church. 1563.—The bailiffs agree that no foreigner should be a freeman of the town without paying £10 and the usual fees. 1570.—Two men killed by the falling of the clapper out of St. Wenefrede’s bell, in the Abbey Church.