Catalogue description Correspondence to Tho9mas Harwood, mostly from family and business associates, concerning family and financial matters.

Includes references to:

Thomas Harwood:

Apprenticeship of Edward Payne 201

Agreement for Harwood to buy all the timber in Edward Poyner's yard at Coleham 89

Purchase of cargo of tobacco 107

Purchase of national lottery tickets 119, 55b, 49

Indictments against erection of cottages at Atcham 34

The Tsar [of Russia's] contacts with Thomas Harwood 118, 125, 126

Thomas Hill:

His commercial training in Amsterdam

50-55a, 82c, 109, 115

Progress at learning French 54

Patronage of Thomas Harwood in support of:

Joseph Ludlow to be a commissioner for a forthcoming lottery 117

William Watkeis, an officer of the Excise in Whitchurch 79

Births:

Thomas Harwood to represent Richard Hill as godfather at the christening of Mr. Wareing's son 75

Birth of [Margaret] Hill 38

Marriages:

Harwood's niece Curtice to marry

Mr. Hamilton 82a, 112b

[Miss Ludlow] to marry Mr. Gape 112b

Illnesses/deaths:

Mrs. Wheeler 113

Evan Thomas, servant of Thomas Harwood 189

Thomas Hill's younger son [Rowland] 35

Funeral expenses of Thomas Harwood 148-155

Tern Hall:

Bill for glazing 180, 165

Fruit trees to be planted for Thomas Hill

[at Tern] 40

Arrangements and improvements at Tern 57-58, 61-62, 64

Tern Works:

Lease 65

Improvements and additions to the mill 67

Settling the lease of Tern works 69

Possible nuisance of the mill 66

Atcham:

Thomas Harwood's indictments against

Erection of cottages 34

Exchanges of lands:

Richard Hill's land at Rowley for Henry Davenport's lands at Hawkstone, Whirly Lane and Prees 48a

Sale of trees and coppices in Newton and Edgebold by William Wood & Co. to Jonathan Scott: 70

Legal cases:

Toll house, Stone Bridge [Shrewsbury] 90, 157

Settlement of estate used as security for loan from Henry Litchfield to Edward Lloyd, assigned by Litchfield's widow to

Thomas Harwood 198, 196, 178, 195, 197, 42, 194

Attempt by Sir William Scawes to gain the lands of Thomas Stafford, forfeited on conviction for High Treason: 96

Lord Bolingbroke's flight from England: 161

Earl of Strafford and the Earl of Kinnoull's protest to clear their reputations: 98

Ownership of seats in Baschurch church: 91

[Index cards available]

n.b. the reference numbers in this list are in chronological order within each sub-section.