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Contents of Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society still available for sale

Volume 59 part 2

Domesday Society in Shropshire, by T.A. Gwynne The Poll-Tax Return of 1667, by M.A. Faraday The Burial Place of Abraham Darby I, by Winifred E. Hutton The Diary of a Country Gentleman: Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bt (1805-71), by Vincent J. Walsh Farmers’ Revolt: The North Shropshire By-Election of 1876, by Julian R. McQuiston

Obituary: Alexander Thomas Gaydon (1929-74)

Reviews: The Shropshire Landscape by Trevor Rowley Shropshire, A Shell Guide by Michael Moulder Framed Buildings of by R.T. Mason

Volume 59 part 3

A Collection of Flint Artifacts from the South-East Shropshire Region, by Alan Saville Archaeological Discoveries on the East Shropshire Border, by G.S.G. Toms The last mile of Watling Street east of Wroxeter, by A.W.J. Houghton Early Shrewsbury: an Archaeological Definition in 1975, by M.O.H. Carver The Mediaeval Parts of Plowden Hall, by Madge Moran The Parliamentary Election for Shrewsbury, 1604, by J.K.Gruenfelder Town Walls, by W. Day Temporary Roman Camp at Perry Farm, Whittington, by W. Day Miscellanea: Personal Observations at and near Wroxeter, by A.W.J. Houghton The Old River Bed at Shrewsbury, by D.J. Pannett The Site of Rutunium, by John Corbet and Geoffrey Toms Excavations on the site of the Dominican Friary, Shrewsbury in 1973, by Michael Douglas Pitman Borough of : early court documents, by W.F. Mumford

Reviews: The Cartulary of Shrewsbury Abbey, edited by Una Rees A Bibliography of English History to 1485, edited by E. B. Graves The Shropshire Lead Mines, by F. Brook and M. Allbutt Abstract of the [Shropshire] Quarter Sessions Rolls 1820-1830, edited by Mary C. Hill

Index to volume 59

Volume 60

An Enclosure at Colstey Bank, , by Ian Burrow Excavations at Viroconium in Insula 9, 1952-3, by Kathleen M. Kenyon; with specialist reports by D. B. Harden, B. R. Hartley, Dr Grace Simpson, C. H. V. Sutherland, Graham Webster, Cecil Western and R. P. Wright Excavations at Woolstaston Motte-and-Bailey Castle 1965, by Trevor Rowley Peace-keeping without Frankpledge: Shropshire’s claims in 1307, by D. C. Cox Monks of Wenlock Priory, by W. F. Mumford The Shropshire Portion of the Chester-Cardiff Road in 1675, by W. Day

Reviews: History on the Ground, by A. J. Bird Wenlock in the Middle Ages, W. F. Mumford Ludlow Houses and their Residents, by M. E. Speight and D. J. Lloyd The Corner Shop: The History of Bodenhams [Ludlow] from the Middle Ages, by David Lloyd and Madge Moran

Obituaries: Kathleen Mary Kenyon (1906-78) Lily Frances Chitty (1893-1979)

Volume 61 entitled Two Town Houses in Medieval Shrewsbury edited by M. O. H. Carver

Papers on Pride Hill Chambers by M.O.H. Carver, G.S.G. Toms, W.E. Jenks, P.J. Clarke, E.L. Morris, Ruth Taylor, R.E. James, A.M. Jenkinson, B. Noddle and D. Bramwell Papers on Rigg’s Hall by N.J. Baker, D. Tanner, D. Knight, M. Moran, A. Snell, C. Moffett, S. Colledge and A. Locker

Volume 63 Disputes in the Weald Moors in the late 16th and early 17th Centuries, by P. R. Edwards The Old House Farm, Loppington, by Carole Ryan and Madge Moran Whatmore Hamlet and the Family of Whatmore, by Geoffrey Whatmore The 91st (Shropshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot, by J. Robert Williams The Inclosure of Sowdley Wood, Clun, 1839, by D.G. Bayliss

Reviews: A Volume III ed. G.C. Baugh (Victoria History of the Counties of England) Country Grammar School: A History of Ludlow Grammar School through Eight Centuries against its Local Background, by David J. Lloyd A Shropshire Landowner: The Diary of Henry Oakeley, 1859-1871, edited by Gerald Rhodes

Volume 64

Bromfield Excavations – From Neolithic to Saxon Times, by S. C. Stanford Ebury Hill Camp – Excavations 1977, by S. C. Stanford Whitley Chapel and Weir Meadow – A Romano-British site near Shrewsbury, by G. Toms The Enigmatic Norman Chancel of the Church of St James, Stirchley, by B. Meeson Two 13th Century Steelyard Weights from Shropshire, by Y. J. E. Staelens, R. Brownsword and E. E. H. Pitt The Severn Navigation at Dowles, by B. Trinder The Shrewsbury Lay Subsidy of 1525, by W. A. Champion Archaeological Excavations and Standing Buildings Survey at 36/37 The Wharfage, Ironbridge, by J. C. Temple The Old Shop, Somerwood, by M. Moran The Shropshire Salt Industry, by J. M. B. Stamper Industrial and Domestic Violence in Shropshire in the 1820s, by P. E. H. Hair A Gazetteer of Passenger Railway Stations in Shropshire, by R. K. Morriss

Notes: A Copper Alloy Casting Jet from Wroxeter in the Collections of Rowley’s House Museum, Shrewsbury, by D. Benison and J. P. Northover A Fragment of Pre-Norman Sculpture from the River Morda, near Oswestry, by M. D. Watson Burials from Barrow Street, Much Wenlock, by Y. J. E. Staelens Human Remains from the Site of the St Austin’s Friary, Shrewsbury, by B. Bennison Harnage Slates and other Roofing Materials in Shrewsbury and Neighbourhood in the Late Medieval and Early modern Period, by J. B. Lawson John Sandford of Shrewsbury and Pitchford, Carpenter, Builder of Pitchford Hall, 1549, by J. B. Lawson “Tunnel Mad” Reynolds and the Wrockwardine Wood “Navigable Level”, by P. A. Stamper

Volume 66

Archaeological Investigations at the Anglo-Saxon Church of St Andrew, Wroxeter, 1985-6, by C. Moffett The Chancel of St Andrew’s Church, Quatt, by M. D. Watson The Romanesque West Front at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Much Wenlock, by D. B. Gallagher and H. Woods Burwarton Old Church, by R. Shoesmith The at Wroxeter, by D. Pannett Two Unpublished Charters of King Stephen for Wenlock Priory, by D. C. Cox The Customs of Much Wenlock, 1247, by D. C. Cox The Talbot Chambers Site, Market Street, Shrewsbury, by N. J. Baker et al. A Late-13th Century Rental of Tenements in Shrewsbury, by U. Rees The Civil War Roushill Wall, Shrewsbury, by T. Brown and M. D. Watson Plaish Hall and Early Brickwork in Shropshire, by E. Mercer and P. A. Stamper Tern Hall and the Hill Family: 1700-75, by B. Coulton Early Victorian Church Restoration in Shropshire: Cound 1841-3, by D. George “Excavating Ancient Camps by General Pitt-Rivers”, by M. D. Watson

Notes: A Stone Battle-Axe from Over’s Farm, near , by M. D. Watson The Polychrome Glass Beads from Rowley’s House Museum, Shrewsbury, by G. Webster Reviews: The Cartulary of Haughmond Abbey, ed. U. Rees Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses: Shropshire and Staffordshire, by J.V. Cox A History of Shropshire, Volume XI: , ed. G.C. Baugh

Volume 67 entitled Prehistory in Lowland Shropshire, edited by M. O. H. Carver

A Strategy for Lowland Shropshire, by M. O. H. Carver Ring-Ditches of the Upper Severn Valley, by M. D. Watson Excavations on Sharpstones Hill near Shrewsbury, 1965-71, by P. A. Barker, R. Haldon and W. E. Jenks A Note on the Berth, by E. L. Morris and the late P. S. Gelling Excavations at Castle Farm, , 1980, by A. Roe Excavations at Rock Green, Ludlow, 1975, by M. O. H. Carver and M. R. Hummler An Excavation at Wall Camp, Kynnersley, by D. Bond Report on the Prehistoric Cermaics found at Wall Camp, Kynnersley, by E. L. Morris

Volume 68

Further Work on Pride Hill, by N. J. Baker, J. B. Lawson, R. Maxwell and J. T. Smith Fieldwork and Finds at Egerton, Wheathill, by P. Everson and R. Roberts Two Early Timber-framed Hall-houses in Shropshire, by M. Moran Clubmen in South West Shropshire 1644-45, by C. D. Gilbert The Bridgnorth Food Riots of 1693-94, by M. D. G. Wanklyn

Notes: Two Prehistoric Bronze Weapons from Shropshire, by J. A. Bell and M. D. Watson A Possible Roman Villa at Hatton, in Eaton-under-Heywood, by P. Stamper A Previously unnoticed Leper Hospital at Aston, near Oswestry, by P. Stamper Excavation of an Undated Earthwork at Owlbury, by C. J. Arnold Trial Excavations in a Cellar of St Mary’s Cottage, St Mary’s Place, Shrewsbury, by H. R. Hannaford Bryan Fausett the Antiquary, by P. Stamper The Eliza: a Nineteenth century Trow at Shrewsbury, by R. A. Preston

Reviews: Timber Castles by R. Higham and P. Barker The Victoria History of Shropshire Volume IV, Agriculture, edited by G. C. Baugh

Volume 69

Excavations in the Wroxeter hinterland 1988-1990: The archaeology of the Shrewsbury by pass, by Peter Ellis, Jane Evans, Hugh Hannaford, Gwilym Hughes and Alex Jones et al. Richard Barnfield 1574-?1625, by Andrew Worrall

Notes: Two Roman javelin heads from the Wrekin hillfort, Shropshire, by Roger H. White and Graham Webster A massive (Donside) terret found near Wroxeter, Shropshire, by Roger H. White Some thoughts on the “cattle plague” 1865-7 and its effect in northeast Shropshire, by Peter B. Hewitt

Volume 70

Excavations at Meole Brace 1990 and at Bromfield 1981-1991:- Part 1. A ring ditch and Neolithic pit complex at Meole Brace, Shrewsbury, by Gwilym Hughes and Anne Woodward et al. - Part 2 Excavations at Bromfield, Shropshire 1981-1991 by Gwilym Hughes, Peter Leach and S. C. Stanford et al. - Part 3 A Cornovian farm and Saxon cemetery at Bromfield, Shropshire, by S. C. Stanford et al. - Part 4 The historical context of the inhumation cemetery at Bromfield, Shropshire, by Dawn M. Hadley - Part 5 Conclusions. Reclaiming the wilderness: the pre-history of lowland Shropshire, by Simon Buteux and Gwilym Hughes Payn FitzJohn and Ludlow castle by Bruce Coplestone-Crow Moreton Corbet castle: a house and its family, by Barbara Coulton The end of Preen priory, by G. C. Baugh High Grosvenor, Claverley, Shropshire, by Madge Moran

Notes: A new flint axe from Shropshire, by Philip Watson Burials from Barrow Street, Much Wenlock, Shropshire : further evidence, by Yvette Staelens The origins of the name of Willow Street, Oswestry , by John Pryce-Jones

Report: Archaeology in Shrewsbury Museum Service 1994 by Mike Stokes

Reviews: The Military Institutions on the Welsh Marches: Shropshire, AD1066-1300, by F. Suppe The Wealth of Shrewsbury in the early fourteenth century: six local Subsidy Rolls 1297- 1322: text and commentary, by D. and R. Cromarty The Great Reform Bill in the boroughs: English electoral behaviour1818-41, by J. A. Phillips Shrewsbury – a Pictorial History, by A. M. Carr Shrewsbury in Old Photographs, by D. Trumper

Volume 71

Three Bog Bodies from Whixall Moss, Shropshire, by R. C. Turner and S. Penney Excavations on Wat’s Dyke at Pentre Wern, Shropshire 1984, by J. Cane The Perambulation of Shropshire, 1298, by Don C. Skemer Excavations at Bridgnorth Franciscan Friary, 1989, by I. M. Ferris et al. The Golden Age of Church Architecture in Shropshire [late 18th and early 19th centuries], by T. Friedman Glebe Terriers and Local History: Shifnal 1612-1853, by S. Watts

Notes: A Stone Axe-hammer from Bearstone, Shropshire, by M. D. Watson A Salvage Recording at the Bull Inn, Butcher Row, Shrewsbury, by M. D. Watson

Reports: Archaeological Investigations in Shropshire in 1944/5: a survey of archaeological work undertaken in the county reported to the Archaeological Service, Shropshire County Council, compiled by H. R. Hannaford Archaeology in the Museums Service, by M. Stokes

Reviews: Shrewsbury Museums Service Occasional Paper No. 1: The Coinage of Wroxeter in the Rowley’s House Museum, Shrewsbury, by T. Wilson and S. Ireland Coin Sylloge of the British Isles 44: The Norweb Collection. Tokens of the British Isles 1575- 1750, Part IV Norfolk to Somerset, by R. H. Thompson and M. J. Dickinson Britain in Old Photographs: Shrewsbury: a second selection, by D. Trumper Telford: A Pictorial History, by G. Evans and R. Bubloe The Corfields, a history of the Corfields from 1180 to the present day, by J. J. Corfield

Volume 72

Summary of fieldwork carried out by the Wroxeter Hinterland Project 1994-7, by Roger White Great Oxenbold, Monkhopton, Shropshire, by Madge Moran The Palmers’ gild window, St Lawrence’s church, Ludlow: a study of the construction of gild identity in medieval stained glass, by Christian Liddy Lloyds Engine House, Ironbridge, by Richard Hayman “Simplicity without meanness, commodiousness without extravagance”: the nonconformist chapels and meeting houses of Shrewsbury in the nineteenth century, by Janice V. Cox

Notes: John Bishton and Archdeacon Joseph Plymley in the writings of William Marshall, by Peter Hewitt A further report on the 1867 “bog body” from Whixall Moss, by Robert Cromarty

Reports: Archaeology in the Shrewsbury Museums Service, by Mike Stokes Archaeological investigation in Shropshire 1995-6: a summary of the archaeological work undertaken in the county reported by the Archaeological Service, Shropshire County Council, compiled by Hugh R. Hannaford

Reviews: Historic parks and gardens of Shropshire, by Paul Stamper The Industrial Archaeology of Shropshire, by Barrie Trinder Shropshire from the Air: An English County at Work, by M. D. Watson and Chris Musson Ludlow (The Archive Photo Series), by David Lloyd

Volume 74

Romano-British kilns at Meole Brace (Pulley), Shropshire, by C. J. Evans, W. E. Jenks and R.H. White et al. Bridgnorth Town Clerks from 1525-6, by John F. Mason Thomas Hunt of Shrewsbury and Boreatton, by Barbara Coulton Shootrough Farm, Cardington, Shropshire, by Madge Moran Voluntary Education 1660-1833: the Shropshire Evidence, by Robert Hume

Notes: Two Flint Arrowheads from Grinshill, Shropshire, by Hugh Hannaford A Bronze Age Burnt Mound at Rodway, Telford, by Hugh Hannaford Human and Faunal Remains from the Ogof [Roman Mine] Llanymynech, by Alan Tyler, Andrea Burgess and Jane Richardson The Poppyhead at Ludlow: Boy Bishop and Lord of Misrule?, by Peter Klein The Churchman Monument: Further Evidence of Religious Hermeticicims at Munslow, by Peter Klein

Reports: Shrewsbury Museums Service Report 1998-9, by Mike Stokes Archaeological Investigations in Shropshire 1997-8, by Hugh Hannaford Shropshire Records and Research Report 1999, by Mary McKenzie

Reviews: Shrewsbury Abbey, a Medieval Monastery, by Nigel Baker The Medieval Military Effigies remaining in Shropshire, by Mark Downing The Concise History of Ludlow, by David Lloyd

Obituary: John Shipley Clarke 1933-2000

Volume 75

Excavations at Atcham, by Hugh Hannaford The water supply in Shrewsbury 1550-1835, by Robert Cromarty John Davies of Middleton, an early Shropshire historian, by John Pryce-Jones John Ashby and the history and environs of the Lion Inn, Shrewsbury, by W. A. Champion

Notes: Welsh “ffordd” in English Place-Names, particularly as an indicator of a local Roman road, by Kenneth Edward Jermy and Andrew Breeze Countermarked vintners’ tokens in Ludlow during the 18th century, by Peter Klein

Reports: Archaeology in Shrewsbury Museums Service 2000, by Michael A. Stokes Shropshire Records and Research Report 2000/1, by Mary McKenzie Archaeological Investigations in Shropshire 1999, by Hugh Hannaford Reviews: Shrewsbury: the twentieth century, by D. Trumper The Gale of Life: Two Thousand Years in SW Shropshire: Essays in the History and Archaeology of SW Shropshire, eds J. Leonard, D. Preshous, M. Roberts, J Smyth and C. Train The Industrial Revolution in Shropshire, 3rd edn, by B. Trinder Vernacular buildings of Whitchurch and their occupants, by M. Moran

Volume 76

Roman Roads and Ford Names in Shropshire, by Susan Laflin Rebel or Fugitive? A Different Perspective on Hotspur’s Conflict with Henry IV in 1403, by Elizabeth Schevtchuk Armstrong Oswestry Corporation Records: the bailiffs from medieval times to 1673, by John Pryce-Jones Upper Lake, Westbury, Shropshire, by Madge Moran The Buck’s Head, , by Madge Moran Sir Walter and Sir Richard Leveson of Lilleshall, by Robert Cromarty

Notes: The Name of Cound, near Wroxeter, by Andrew Breeze The Dedication of St Edith’s, Pulverbatch, by James Lawson Later Medieval Piety in the Prish of Bishop’s Castle, by James Lawson “New Chapell” in the Lordship of Clun. The late medieval chapel of St Salvador at “Hobendred”, by James Lawson The Bridgeman Tomb, St Lawrence’s, Ludlow: the importance of the Heraldic Visitations as Genealogical Source Material, by Janet Verasanso

Reports: Archaeology in Shrewsbury Museums Service 2000, by Mike Stokes Shropshire Records and Research Report 2002, by Mary McKenzie Archaeological Investigations in Shropshire 2000, by Hugh Hannaford

Reviews: Shrewsbury Abbey: studies in the archaeology and history of an urban abbey, ed. N. Baker The Welsh Border: Archaeology, history, and Landscape, by Trevor Rowley The Lay Subsidy for Shropshire, 1524-7, by Michael A. Faraday West Shropshire Mining Fields, by Ivor J. Brown

Obituary: Eric Mercer

Volume 77

Excavations at Redhill, Lilleshall, Shropshire: An Interim Report, by David Browne and George Boon A Trench dug through Wat's Dyke at Pen y Bryn, Demonstrating its Presence along the Eastern Side of the Ceiriog Valley, by Jane Kenney Archaeological Surveys at Shrawardine Castle, by Nigel Jones Fouke Ie Fitz Waryn and Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's Claim to Whittington, by David Stephenson Welsh Lords in Shropshire: Gruffydd ap lorwerth Goch and his Descendants in the 13th Century, by David Stephenson Excavations at the Moat House, Eardington, Shropshire, by Ian Halfpenney and Richard Scott Jones New Hall, Eaton-under-Heywood, Shropshire, by Madge Moran John Tomkys and the Catechising of Shrewsbury School, 1580-1640, by James Lawson National alld International Politics and Small Town Gossip in the 1790s, by Sylvia Watts Two Shropshire Women in : The Travel Diaries of Katherine Plymley and Louisa Charlotte Kenyon, by Elizabeth Pitman The Ludlow Guardians 1836-1900, by Derek Williams

Notes: Catherton in Shropshire and Tregare, Monmouthshire, by Andrew Breeze Castell Coch/Castell Hychoet: A Possible Identification, by David Stephenson Shropshire and Swedenborg: The Significance of Hawkstone Park in the Early Years of the Swedenborgian New Church in England, by Cameron Moffett

Reports: Shropshire Archives Report for 2003, by Mary McKenzie Archaeological Investigations in Shropshire in 2001, by Hugh Hannaford Archaeological Investigations in Shropshire in 2002, by Hugh Hannaford and Jim Coppin

Reviews: Vernacular Buildings of Shropshire, by Madge Moran The Glebe Terriers of Shropshire, parts 1 and 2, edited by Sylvia Watts Shropshire: an Archaeological Guide, by Mike Watson Bridgnorth Grammar and Endowed Schools: Five Hundred Years of Change 1503-2003, edited by Maureen Jones Shropshire Historical Documents, A Miscellany, State, Church and Chapel: Boundaries Challenged, Borders Changed, by Charles Styles

Volume 78 – entitled Wroxeter Archaeology

Wroxeter Archaeology: Excavation and Research on the Defences and in the Town, 1968–1992, by Philip Barker and Jeff Perry, Heather Bird, Peter Ellis, Simon Esmonde Cleary, Gill Hey and Peter Brown, John Houghton, Stephen Johnson, Christianne Meckseper, and Roger White. Edited by Peter Ellis and Roger White

Volume 79

The Marches Uplands Survey, by James Dinn and Rachel Edwards Three Long Mynd earthworks: excavation and assessment of environmental potential, by James Dinn, James Greig, Susan Limbrey, Jeremy Milln and Clare de Rouffignac The Roman road from Pennocrucium (Water Eaton) to Mediolanum (Whitchurch): Its role in the early Conquest, by Adrian and Edmund Waddelove Whittington Castle: The Marcher fortress of the Fitz Warin family, by Pete Brown, Peter King and Paul Remfry A ‘mushroom’ family: the Flemings of Westhope, Sibdon, and Shadwell, 1650-1775, by Janet Verasanso Emigration from Highley, 1841-1881: A flight from the land?, by Gwyneth Nair and David Poyner

Notes: Hush!, Hush!, No Longer, by David Pannett

Papers given at the Industrial Archaeology Day School, 26 June 2004 A recent Archaeological survey at Charlecotte and Titterstone Clee, Shropshire, by Roger White The Abdon Clee Stone Company, by David Poyner The Shropshire barytes industry, by Michael Shaw A brief introduction to the Shropshire clay tobacco pipe industry, by David Higgins

Reports: Shropshire Archives Report for 2004, by Mary McKenzie Archaeological Investigations in Shropshire in 2003, by Sally Thompson Archaeological Investigations in Shropshire in 2004, by Sally Thompson

Reviews: Roman Sculpture from the North , by Martin Henig English Architecture to 1900: the Shropshire Experience, by Eric Mercer Victorian Ludlow, edited by David Lloyd, Roy Payne, Christopher Train and Derek Williams ‘The Most Extraordinary District in the World’: Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale, edited by Barrie Trinder Barges and Bargemen: A Social History of the Upper Severn Navigation, 1660-1900, by Barrie Trinder Accounts of the Stewards of the Talbot Household at Blakemere, 1392-1425, edited by Barbara Ross Churches of Shropshire and their Treasures, by John Leonard Church and Chapel in Early Victorian Shropshire: Returns from the 1851 Census of Religious Worship, edited by Clive D. Field Oswestry: Parish, Church and People, by John Pryce-Jones

Volume 80

A geological review of some early Borderland churches, by John Potter Long-term patterns of land use, evolution of the fieldscape, and hedge composition in the parish of Highley, by David Poyner and Edward Mountford Llewelyn the Great, the Shropshire March and the building of Montgomery Castle, by David Stephenson Excavations at 3 New Street, Oswestry, 2002, by Chris Smith Stewards of the Lordship of Oswestry from the thirteenth century to the Acts of Union of 1536 and 1543, by John Pryce-Jones West March and Welsh March: a tale of two frontiers in the era of the Reformation, by Margaret Clark Social and economic factors at work in Tudor and Stuart Oswestry: the records of the Corvisers’ Company of Oswestry, by John Pryce-Jones The early paper mills of Shropshire: an update, by Ralph Collingwood From moss and moorish ground to fertile farmland: the early seventeenth century reclamation of Tetchill Moor, by Silvia Watts Cherrington Manor, Newport, Shropshire, by Madge Moran The armorial plaques in the Royal Salop Infirmary, by Janet Verasanso The ice house at Attingham Park, by Simon Roper Methodism in Shropshire in 1851: an overview from the religious census, by Clive Field

Notes: Oswestry Corporation Records: the bailiffs from the thirteenth century to 1673 (addenda), by John Pryce-Jones The brass chandelier of Prees Parish Church, by Robert Sherlock

Reports: Shropshire Archives Reports for 2005 and 2006, by Mary McKenzie

Reviews: Ludlow: An Historical Anthology, edited by David Lloyd and Peter Klein Ditton Priors: A Settlement of the Brown Clee, by Di Bryan Sheinton, Shropshire: Geology, Landscape, History and Archaeology, by the Sheinton Heritage Group The Buildings of England: Shropshire, by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner Diddlebury: the History of a Corvedale Parish, by Martin Speight Beyond the Bridges: the Suburbs of Shrewsbury 1760-1960, by Barrie Trinder ‘Unexampled Labours’: Letters of the Revd. John Fletcher to Leaders in the Evangelical Revival, edited by Peter S Forsaith The Temptation and Downfall of the Vicar of Stanton Lacey, by Peter Klein The Old Rectory, Whitchurch, Shropshire: the Story of a House, its Occupants, and its Secret Wartime Eavesdroppers, by Jean North, Madge Moran and Joan Barton The Hills of Hawkstone and Attingham: the Rise, Shine and Decline of a Shropshire Family, by Joanna Hill Growing Up on a Shropshire Farm, by Diane Jacks An Oswestry Miscellany, by John Pryce-Jones

Obituaries: Michael Andrew Stokes 1952-2005 John Allan Pagett 1932-2005

Volume 81 – entitled Madley Court

Madeley Court, Shropshire: from Monastic Grange to Country House Hotel. Excavations 1978-9 and 1987, by Cameron Moffett with Bob Meeson and with contributions from Ivor Brown, Charlotte Cane, Shelagh Lewis, Peter O’Donoghue, Christopher Phillpotts, Andrew Somerville and Paul Stamper

An early seventeenth-century maltings at Madeley Court Barn, Telford. Excavations 1991-2, by Fred Aldsworth and Michael Worthington with contributions from Kate Clark, Martin Harrison-Putnam and Pamela Spriggs

Preface

Part I: Madeley Court excavations 1978–9 and 1987 Summary and Note on the Surveys Introduction Medieval Madeley Court The Post-Reformation Country House Madeley Court in the Modern Period Appendices The Documentary Evidence The Walled Garden The Sundial The Colliery The Madeley Court Plaque The Madeley Court Stone Heads A 17th-Century Coin Hoard from the Madeley Court Area Abbreviations Bibliography (Part I)

Part II: An Early Seventeenth-Century Maltings at Madeley Court Barn, Telford Summary and Background Historical Introduction The Standing Building The Excavation The Structural Sequence Appendices Dendrochronological Dating Palynological and Petrographic Analysis of Coal from the Hearth of the Boiler Base The Malting Process The Plateway Weighbridge Bibliography (Part II)

Consolidated Index for Parts I and II

Volume 82 – entitled Refuges of Last Resort – Shropshire Workhouses

Refuges of Last Resort: Shropshire Workhouses and the People who Built and Ran them, by Lance Smith

1. Guardians and Builders The Poor and the Reform of Workhouses Shropshire Workhouses under the Old Poor Law Shropshire Workhouses under the New Poor Law Chairmen of Unions The Architects and Builders of Improved Workhouses Accommodation in an early 19th-century Shropshire Workhouse

2. The Shrewsbury House of Industry Decay of the Institution The House of Industry under the New Poor Law

3. Workhouses of Late 18th-century Shropshire in Imitation of the Shrewsbury House of Industry Atcham Ellesmere Oswestry Whitchurch

4. Workhouses of the Early 19th-century Reformed Poor Law in Industrial East Shropshire Madeley Newport Shifnal Wellington

5. Workhouses of the Early 19th-century Reformed Poor Law in Rural Shropshire Bridgnorth Church Stretton Clun Drayton Ludlow

6. Postscript

Index

Volume 83

A Tale of Two Bridges: Cwatbrycge and Bridgnorth revisited, by David Horovitz The Old Grammar School, Oswestry: An Architectural Appraisal, by Gerwyn Lewis and Madge Moran The Wills of John Talbot, First Earl of Shrewsbury, and of His Sons,Lord Lisle and Sir Louis Talbot, by John Ashdown-Hill Domestic Fuel around the Wyre Forest in the Early Modern Period, by David Poyner and Gwyneth Nair ‘We are not Men Pleasers’: Quakers and the Law in Later Seventeenth-Century Shropshire, by Janice Cox The History of the Tern Company, by Peter King

Note: A Bronze Age Palstave Hoard from Rednal, Shropshire, by M. D.Watson

Report: Shropshire Archives Reports for 2007 and 2008, by Mary McKenzie

Reviews: Exploring Whitchurch History: Growth of a Shropshire Town, by Paul Anderton, It Happened in Shropshire, by Bob Burrows The Fitzalans: Earls of Arundel and Surrey, Lords of the Welsh Marches (1267–1415), by Michael Burtscher The People of God: Shrewsbury Dissenters 1660–1699, parts 1 and 2, by Janice V. Cox, Artisan Art: Vernacular Wall Paintings in the Welsh Marches, 1550–1650, by Kathryn Davies Son and Servant of Shropshire: The Life of Archdeacon Joseph (Plymley) Corbett 1759−1838, by Douglas Grounds 20th Century Defences in Britain: The West Midlands Area, by Colin Jones, Bernard Lowry and Mick Wilks A Jacobean ‘Market Hall’, Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire, by Madge Moran and Henry Hand The Lead, Copper and Barytes Mines of Shropshire, by Michael Shaw

Obituaries: Marion Trenchard Roberts (1933–2008) Kenneth Charles Lock (1929–2008) David James Lloyd (1935–2009)

Volume 84

The Possible Significance of the –wardine and –wic place-names in Shropshire, by T. G. Hill The Hermitage Caves, Bridgnorth – a Myth Explained?, by David Horowitz Concerning the Langland Family of Kinlet, by Gwyneth Nair and David Poyner Elizabeth Blount of Kinlet: An Image of Henry VIII’s Mistress Identified, by Elizabeth Norton Richard Baxter (1615–1691) and the Godly Town of Shrewsbury, by Barbara Coulton Shropshire Ice Houses Gazetteer, by Bob Jarrett John Probert of Copthorne: A Georgian Land Agent, by R. J. Silvester Shropshire in the First Cholera Epidemic, by Lance Smith Joseph Bowles, Vicar of Stanton Lacy 1847–1879, by Derek Williams

Reports: Shropshire Archives Reports for 2009 and 2010, by Mary McKenzie Archaeological Investigations in Shropshire in 2007 and 2008, by Charlotte Baxter

Reviews: An Archaeological Assessment of an English Border Town, by Nigel Baker

Obituaries: John Frederick Arthur Mason (1920–2009) Mary Cornelia Paget, née Hill (1912–2010)

Volume 85 – entitled Sharpstone Hill and the Wall, Kynnersley

Editor’s Introduction

Sharpstone Hill and Meole Brace in the Iron Age and Roman Periods: Introduction, by Roger White and Andy Wrigley An Engineered Iron Age Road, Associated Roman Use (Margary Route 64), and Bronze Age Activity Recorded at Sharpstone Hill, 2009, by Tim Malim and Laurence Hayes The Walls of Troy: A Classical Labyrinth at The Wall, Kynnersley, by Caroline Malim and Tim Malim

Volume 86

Papers Read at the David Lloyd Study Day (31 July 2010) in Ludlow Introduction: A Ludlow Lad, by Margaret Clark David Lloyd in the Ludlow Historical Tradition, by Margaret Clark The Ludlow Historical Research Group – an Overview, by Jean Brown David Lloyd and the Ludlow Interactive Map, by Phil Scoggins and Michael Page David Lloyd: Geographer, by Michael Rosenbaum David Lloyd’s Ph.D. Thesis, by Michael Rosenbaum The Scribe of Harley 2253: A Ludlow Lad and his Dangerous Poem, by Carter Revard The Importance of MS Harley 2253 and its Scribe from Ludlow, by Susanna Fein The Romance of Foulke le Fitz Waryn: The Ludlow Connection, by Catherine A. Rock Ludlow’s Roman Road, by Jonathan Wood Surveying the People: The National Census as a Resource for the Study of Victorian Ludlow, by Jean Brown David Lloyd, St. Laurence’s Church, and David’s Last Book, by Chris Potter David James Lloyd, 1935–2009: A Geography Teacher in Rochester, David James Lloyd, 1935–2009: A Geography Teacher in Rochester, by Andrew Spearman David Lloyd: a Bibliography, by Michael Rosenbaum

Eight Houses in and around Whitchurch and Wem, by Madge Moran 28 Watergate Street, Whitchurch 15–15A Watergate Street, Whitchurch Broad Oak Farm, Old Woodhouses, Whitchurch Broughall Old Hall, Whitchurch Bridge Farm, Aston, Wem Aston House, Wem The Blue Bell Inn, Tushingham (Cheshire)

A Late Iron Age and Early Romano-British Enclosure at Meole Brace, Shrewsbury, by Kate Bain and C. Jane Evans Shrewsbury Abbey, an Archaeological Investigation, by Emma Hancox ‘The Shropshire Gazetteer’

Report: Shropshire Archives Report for 2011, by Mary McKenzie

Reviews: Religion, Gender, and Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting, edited by Geordan Hammond and Peter Forsaith The Travels of Francis Tallents in France and Switzerland 1671–1673, edited by Janice V. Cox.

Obituary: Kenneth Bevis Jones, MBE (1921–2012)

Volume 87

The Whetstone Blanks from the Forum Gutter at Roman Wroxeter: the Case for Provenance, by J. R. L. Allen and A. C. Scott Aspects of Welsh Settlement in the Upper Teme and Clun Valleys: The Manor of Tempseter in the Lordship of Clun, by P. G. Barton A Medieval Tombstone at St. Martins, near Oswestry, by Lawrence Butler The Depiction of Children on the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Tombs in Kinlet Church, by Elizabeth Norton ‘Noyfull Fowles and Vermin’: The Statutory Control of Wildlife in Shropshire, 1532–1861, by Ralph W. Collingwood Illuminating the Silent Enclosure Process – Evidence from North West Shropshire, by S. M. Varey ‘The Strongest Works in England’?: The Defences of Shrewsbury during the Civil Wars, 1642–1651, by Jonathan Worton Evangelising Georgian Shrewsbury, by Barbara Coulton The First Shropshire Mycologist and Lichenologist: Thomas Salwey, Vicar of Oswestry, by Thomas Preece Signing the Pledge: Oswestry’s Temperance Movement, by Carol James

Reports: Shropshire Archives Reports for 2012 and 2013, by Mary McKenzie

Reviews: Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Volume X: The Western Midlands, by Richard Bryant with Michael Hare. : the People and how they Lived, 1538–1725, by R. Collingwood. Deeds of the Palmers’ Gild of Ludlow, edited by M. A. Faraday The Guildhall, Ludlow, by M. Moran, Landscape History Discoveries in the North West, edited by S. M. Varey and G. J. White

Obituary: Christopher John Phillpotts, M.A., Ph.D., F.S.A. (1954–2013)

Volume 88 – entitled Pentrehyling and Brompton Excavations

Pentrehyling Fort and Brompton Camps, Shropshire: Excavations 1977-98, by John Allen, with Jon Cane and Alex Jones.

Pentreheyling fort and Brompton camps, Shropshire, Introduction and Background Location and topography Discovery Excavation background Excavation and recording methods Geophysical survey Phasing

The Roman marching camps at Brompton Camp 1 Camp 2 Camp 3

Pentreheyling Fort Period 1: Neolithic evidence Period 2: The Roman fort and vicus The defensive ditches The annexe ditches The rampart Gates and corner tower The south gate The south-east corner tower Possible interval towers Via Sagularis (inter-vallum road) and other internal roads The west gate entrance road The south gate entrance road The external east road Buildings Building 1 Building 2 Building 3 Building 4 Building 5 Building 6 Other possible buildings Phase 2A and 2B: The vicus and industrial activity Phase 2B: Industrial activity within the fort Industrial activity in the south-western part of the fort Industrial activity in the southern area of the fort Industrial activity in the south-eastern area of the fort Industrial activity in the northern part of the fort Water supply systems Ditches and gullies to the north and north-west of the fort Gullies to the south-east of the fort Period 3: Late Roman activity Period 4: Post-Roman activity

SPECIALIST REPORTS The Roman Coins Simon Esmonde Cleary and Roger White Small Finds of Metal and Shale Lynne Bevan Jewellery, Dress and Personal Adornment Lynne Bevan and Martin Henig The Brooches Donald Mackreth Other Personal Items The Worked Stone Fiona Roe with Peter Toghill Patera Handle Lynne Bevan Roman Silver Spoon Catherine Johns Military Fittings and Projectiles The Roman Leather Strap P.W. Rogers Knives, Tools and Weights Iron Nails Colin Rowe Pentrehyling: Small Finds Archive Catalogue Lynne Bevan Metalworking Debris from Pentrehyling Fort Justine Bayley and Kerstein Eckstein Introduction Silver Extraction Litharge Cakes The Roman Pottery C. Jane Evans with Brenda Dickinson, Kay Hartley, David Williams, Roger Tomlin and Lynne Bevan Introduction Methodology Sources of Pottery Local/Regional Wares The Traded Wares The Imported Wares The Samian Brenda Dickinson The Amphora David Williams Two Amphora Sherds with Graffiti Roger Tomlin Discussion C. Jane Evans Report on the Roman Glass Jennifer Price and Sally Worrell Vessels associated with drinking Vessels associated with serving liquids and foods Objects Counters Catalogue of Roman Glass from Pentrehyling Discussion Roger White Strategic considerations The fort and its vicus The fort, its community and its hinterland Bibliography

Volume 89

From Minster to Priory: St. Milburga’s, Wenlock, by Rose Lagram-Taylor A Study of ‘Radman Villages’ Recorded in Domesday Book in Western Shropshire, by Mary Atkin Alveley Revisited: A Note on Patronage, by John Hunt ‘Hopton Quarter’: A Time Team Evaluation at Hopton Castle, by Naomi Brennan Plas Beddowe(n): The Mansion of Owain’s Grave, by Christopher Jobson ‘Talbot’s Tomb’ Revisited, by Barry Langston ‘Not a Silver but a Golden Talent’: The Life of the Reverend Francis Tallents, by Janice Cox The Life and Times of William Lawley, Former Secretary of the Wenlock Olympian Society: The Revaluation of a Victorian Criminal Lunatic, by Timothy Peters, Joanne Smith and Gwen Adshead

Note: Hearth Tax 1672: Part of Pimhill Hundred, by Janice Cox

Report: Shropshire Archives Report for 2014 by Mary McKenzie

Reviews: Beneath Safer Skies: a Child Evacuee in Shropshire, by Anthea Toft Victoria County History of Shropshire: Volume VI, Part 1, Shrewsbury: General History and Topography, edited by W. A. Champion and A. T. Thacker

Obituaries: Margaret Joy Gelling (1924–2009) and Hugh Denis George Foxall (1911–1989) Sylvia Watts (1934–2014)

Volume 90 – entitled The Old Welsh Bridge, Shrewsbury

The Old Welsh Bridge, Shrewsbury. Excavations at the Severn Theatre Venue, Frankwell, Shrewsbury, 2006-7, by Bruce Watson and Christopher Phillpotts with contributions by Phillip Allen, Ian M. Betts, Paul Blinkhorn, Victoria Bryant, Brian Connell, Craig Halsey, Nigel Jefferies, Lynne Keys, Jacqui Pearce, Alan Pipe, Beth Richardson and Terrence P Smith

Volume 91

‘The old people will never be happier elsewhere’: The Society of Friends World War II evacuation hostel, Coalbrookdale, Telford, Shropshire, by T. J. Peters and Tamsin Bapty Dr Samuel Butler and the christening of Ernest Pontifex. New light on The Way of All Flesh, by James Lawson Writ in Stone. The monumental inscriptions on the floor of St Mary’s, Shrewsbury, 1790, by Janice Cox St Winifred’s Well, Woolston, Shropshire, and the Stanley family, by Rick Turner Investigating an elite landscape: archaeological survey at Bromfield Priory, Shropshire, by Duncan W. Wright, Steve Trick and Oliver Creighton Iron Age and Romano-British occupation at Enclosure B, Shropshire: investigations in 2013, by Tim Malim and Thomas Wellicome A short note on the Epona Stone, Oswestry, Shropshire, by George Nash, Maggie Rowlands and Rodney Farmer The archaeological and palaeoenvironmental potential of the Weald Moors, Shropshire, by Shelagh Norton James Pickering and the search for cropmarks in Shropshire: a personal memoir, by Robert F. Hartley

Reports: Shropshire Archives Report for 2015, by Mary McKenzie Archaeological Investigations in Shropshire 2009–11, by Charlotte Orchard and Giles Carey

Reviews: Haughmond Abbey: Excavation of a 12th century cloister in its historical and landscape context, by Jeffrey J. West and Nicholas Palmer Shropshire Taxes in the Reign of Henry VIII, edited by M. A. Faraday The 1662 Diary of Philip Henry (1631-1696), edited by Raymond Brown Wigmore Castle, North Herefordshire: Excavations 1996 and 1998, by Stephanie Rátkai Ditherington Mill and the Industrial Revolution, edited by Colum Giles and Mike Williams