The History of Oswestry: Comprising the British, Saxon, Norman, and English eras; the topography of the borough; and its ecclesiastical and civic history; with notices of botany, geology, statistics, angling, and biography: to which are added sketches of the environsCathrall, William
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The History of Oswestry: Comprising the British, Saxon, Norman, and English eras; the topography of the borough; and its ecclesiastical and civic history; with notices of botany, geology, statistics, angling, and biography: to which are added sketches of the environs
Cathrall, William
Natural history -- England -- Shropshire; Oswestry (England) -- History
Estimated extent. Gross rental. Rateable value.
Townships of A. R. P. £ S. D. £ S. D.
Llwyntidman, County of 1052 3 29 2227 4 10 2227 4 10
Salop.
Treprenal, County of 227 2 16 309 16 0 309 16 0
Salop.
Carreghofa, County of 1221 3 8 2224 15 6 1968 6 6
Denbigh, now annexed to
Montgomery.
Total 2502 1 23 4761 16 4 4505 7 4
LLANFORDA,
The residence of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Watkin Williams Wynn, K.C.B.
and G.C.H., is situated one mile and a half west of Oswestry. The
original estate was part of the possession of Einion Evell, Lord of
Cynllaeth and Mochnant, from whom it descended, together with
Llwyn-y-Maen, to Ievan Vychan, constable of Knockin, whose heiress,
Agnes, carried it into the family of the Lloyds, by her marriage with
Maurice Lloyd, of whom the Welsh records give the following account:—
“The said Maurice Lloyd ab Bleddyn Lloyd, finding himself much
oppressed by the English Laws, did kill one of the judges and hanged
divers other officers on oak trees in Uch-dûlas, upon whose
conviction his lands and inheritance in Denbigh-land were escheated
to the Crown, and so still remains for most part to this day, and
known by the name of the said Maurice Lloyd; and he for his safeguard
withdrew himself to the sanctuary of Halston, in the county of Salop,
and there betook himself to the protection of John Fitz-Alan, Lord of
Oswestry and Clunne, and after Earl of Arundel. By the said Earl’s
commission he levied a great number of soldiers out of the said
Earl’s Lordships and Hundreds in the marches of Wales, and made the
said Maurice Lloyd Captain over them, and the said Earl of Arundel
being then General of the English forces, the King of England sent
them to assist the Emperor in the Holy Warre against the Turke, in
which service, at the scaling of, and entering, the breach at the
siege of Acon, the Emperor’s colours were taken by the enemies, and
recovered back by the said Maurice Lloyd, and brought again by him to
the Emperor, in reward of whose valour and faithful service therein
the Emperor gave him the coat of the house of Austria, only changing
the field for his first coat in his achievements before the parental
coat of Hedd Moelwynog.”
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