Documents about several parishes in south-east Shropshire

This page has links to transcripts of documents such as patent rolls and rentals refering to several parishes in south-east Shropshire

In this section you will find links to documents that are of general interest, covering more than one parish. These include Highley, Billingsley, Stottesdon and Kinlet, but also neighbouring parishes such as Chelmarsh, Glazeley and Middleton Scriven.

Patent Rolls

These are medieval instructions from the King or his officials. They frequently relate to breaches of law and order and they also give information about manors which were being run by the crown.

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• Patent Rolls (theme:20060926111849)

Inquisition Post Mortems

These documents deal with descent of manors in medieval times. They contain information both about the manors in question and the families to which they belonged.

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• Inquisition Post Mortems for Stottesdon, Kinlet, Highley and Billingsley (theme:20061204131238)

Bruyn family rental

This is a mid-15th Century rental covering estates at the Hay (Eardington), Oldbury, Aldenham (Morville), Gerdon, Pickthorn and Overton (both Stottesdon) and Coreley. It is a transcript of a document in the Ottley papers in the National Library of Wales

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• The rental of the Bruyn Family c1450 (theme:20070122215103)

Quarter Sessions and Coroners Inquests, 1761-1820

These are mostly inquests into industrial fatalities (mining and non-mining) in the parishes of the Wyre Forest, Clee Hill and Brown Clee coalfields. There are a few other inquests plus some extracts from the Quarter Sessions, mainly relating to upkeep of roads

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• Four Parishes Coroners Inquests, 1761-1820 (theme:20070223205030)

1473 Tax assessment for Stottesdon Hundred

This is a list of individuals in Stottesdon and other parishes in south-east Shropshire who were required to contribute to a tax raised in 1472/3

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• Tax assessment for Stottesdon Hundred, 1473 (theme:20070531133201)

Manorial Accounts for Cleobury Mortimer

These accounts date from the 14th and 15th Centuries. They include not just the town of Cleobury Mortimer but substantial areas surrounding it (Cleobury Bernes, Cleobury Park and Cleobury Liberty), stretching from the Wyre Forest and the border with Worcestershire to the Clee Hill.

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• Manorial accounts for Cleobury Mortimer and adjacent manors (theme:20070330162344)

Calender of State Papers; Domestic Letters, Henry VIII

The printed calenders of the State Papers, Domestic and Foreign starting from the reign of Henry VIII contain correspondance to and from royal officials. The selection here deal with leases or sales of estates in the hands of the crown, including the property of the dissolved religious houses, a case of idolatory from Highley and also correspondance relating to the Blount family of Kinlet.

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• State Papers; letters foreign and domestic, Henry VIII (theme:20080224204845)

Medieval debt proceedings from the Stottesdon Hundred

The C241 and C131 series in the National Archives contains details of medieval court actions brought for recovery of debts. These shed light on the business dealings of merchants and landowners from c1300 to c1500. Abstracts will be found here, taken from the online catalogue.

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• Medieval debt proceedings in the Stottesdon Hundred (theme:20070831221210)

Calender of Ancient Deeds

These are abstracts of deeds from the 13th to the 16th Centuries, preserved in the National Archives and relating to Kinlet, Cleobury Mortimer and Neen Savage

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• Ancient Deeds (theme:20080311193926)

1571 Lay Subsidy Roll

This is a list of taxpayers from the Stottesdon Hundred in 1571

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• 1571 Lay Subsidy for Stottesdon Hundred (theme:20090219205403)

Feudal Aids for Stottesdon Hundred

The Feudal Aids are lists of landowners at various times from 1284 to 1431. They can be used to establish who owned a particular village or hamlet and the conditions of tenure

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• Feudal Aids (theme:20090220201552)