Catalogue description Correspondence from various sources, arranged alphabetically from D-H.

Correspondence from various sources, arranged alphabetically from D-H, which include the Shropshire gentry, and relate to local, estate and personal matters.

Includes references to illnesses/deaths: Davies Davenport 4 eldest daughter of Davies Davenport 4

Mary, Lady Bridgman 4

Thomas Gardner (agent to Lord Montford's estates near Shrewsbury) 11

Lady Bath 24

Illness of Henry Drake 26

Mr Jenks 59

Mrs Jenks 80, 100

Mr Pelham 97

Mr Mainwaring 108

Lord Temple 118

Mrs Hill 145, 217-218, 228

Aunt Harwood 152

Mr Gavelle 162-163

John Wood 167

Mr Yates 196

Captain Noel 215

Marriages: Molly Wingfield to Mr Rock 57

[Margaret Hill to Bennet, Earl of Harborough] 70

Miss Strahorn to Parson Oakley 73

John Edwards to Miss Comberbach 85

Miss Edwards to a minister 85

Births: Susanna Hill [child of Thomas Hill and his second wife Susannah] 196

Daughter of Mrs Mytton 196

Samuel Hill 197

Patronage of Thomas Hill in support of: charity for Elizabeth Dike, widow 22

Mr Oliver to succeed Mr Bolas as agent [for Mr Newport] 24

Mr Prosser's succession to the Post Office 42-43

Pension for Mr Crawford from Chelsea Hospital 94-95, 97

Jacob Pugh as a sheriffsman 101

The son of Thomas Fisher to be a clerk to a solicitor 126-129, 138-139, 142, 147

Appointment of Mr Fownes as 1st lieutenant of Marines 158

Appointment [in the East India Company] for the son of William Gorsuch 185

Mr Betton [a bankrupt] 186

Richard Calcott as 2nd mate on a ship [with the East India Company] 49, 51

Commission for Ben. Edwards 56-58, 63, 66, 69, 86

Mr Probert, curate 62B the appointment of William Gorsuch to the surrogacy resigned by Mr Pearson 187

Commission for Mr Grant in Sir Charles Howard's Dragoons 209-210

Marmaduke Gwynne as Receiver General for the counties of Montgomery, Radnor and Brecon 220-221, 229

Choosing a Sheriff for Breconshire 224

A commission for Thomas Fownes' son 255

Applications to Thomas Hill concerning positions in the Excise: transfer of Humphrey Davies from a footwalk in Bilston, Staffordshire to Shropshire 5

Appointment of Mr Fewtrell to a footwalk 154

Positions for Charles Gosnell in the Customs at Lancaster and Preston 191-193, 235-236

Richard Handy as a preferable weigher in the Customs 211

Appointment of Mr Bell as Thomas Hill's agent: 152

Refusal of Thomas Hill to be Treasurer of the Infirmary: 65

Settlement of the will of [Samuel Hill]: 133

Executorship of Mrs Barnston's estate: 104-112 funeral of Mrs Barnston 102-103

Payment of mortgages on Condover estate 38

Repairs and improvements to Condover estate 110-112

George Fitzgerald's request for accommodation in Thomas Hill's London house: 116-117

Ruination of Peter Egerton: 89

Mrs Evatt's request for Thomas Hill to lend her £50 for a year: 92

Presentment of Thomas Gough to two livings in Suffolk: 198-204

Rumour that Lord Chesterfield is to be made Secretary of State: 214

Plays in Salop: 60-61, 65

Sales/purchases of estates: request for Thomas Hill to lend £3,000 for a lordship in Middleton Scriven 6

Mr Loggins estates 12-13

Estate of Richard Morgan, deceased 93

Sheet estate and 2 houses in Ludlow 167

Manors of Bourne and Aldsworth, and land in Stanstead, Surrey 177

Sutton estate 251-252

Small estate at Shenstone 263

Mr Rocke's estate 269

Dun Cow house and buildings [Shrewsbury] 269

Estate management: lease of farm to Joseph Eld 27-29, 131, 135-138, 141-144

Dispute about measuring out a garden 114

Valuation of estate at Shenstone 130

Leasing of Shenstone estate 130, 132-138, 140-141, 143-144

Severn fishery 171

Joshua Gee's ironworks at Tern 172-173, 175-176

Exchange of Lord Craven's estate at Ryton for Willenhall [Coventry] 264, 266

Valuation of Sutton Maddock 265-266

Lease of part of the Sheat estate 266-268

Rents of estates 267

Lease of Wrockwardine Wood colliery 268

Construction of Tern Bridge: 45-46

Building work to Thomas Hill's house: 238

Bill for inclosing Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire: 258-260

Fire at a tanhouse in Barker street: 47

Fire in New Street, Frankwell: 44 turnpikes: dispute over land near Willenhall turnpike, [Coventry] 1

Watling Street turnpike 148

[New] Turnpike Bill: 48, 50, 52

Turnpike road 80-81

Flood on the river Severn: 59

Boat overturned in Frankwell, drowning one person 59

Mr Powis's house flooded 59

By-election at Shrewsbury [1749]: funeral of William Kinaston, MP 34

General election of 1754: 97-98, 165, 185, 227

Thomas Hill to represent Shrewsbury 87

Moves to oppose Hill 96

[Robert] More's decision to resign as MP for Shrewsbury Borough, 1759: 189

General election of 1761: [41]

General election of 1768: 232

Assaults and robberies: Mr Young's house [the Fryers] broken into 81

Burglary of Thomas Hill's London house 178-179

Mr Bateman defrauded 254

Miss Pope's cause to be tried at the Assizes: 73

Riots by colliers at Bridgnorth, Shifnal, Wenlock and Wellington: 187

Suppression of riots 187

Subscription for the relief of the poor: 72

Sale of a pew in the Abbey church: 183-184

Medical remedy for sick horses: 77

War with France, 1761: 233

Naval engagement between the "Flora" and a French frigate: 212

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