Correspondence primarily from Thomas Bell, estate agent for Thomas Hill.

Correspondence primarily form Thomas Bell, estate agent, principally concerning estate matters and local affairs.

Includes references to:

Thomas Hill:

Chosen to act as Supervisor of the Highways 39, 44

Acting as Thomas Harwood's executor 43, 48, 50, 55

Marriage to Susanna Maria Noel 56-57

Birth of a child [Susann] 65, 189

Dispute over tenant's house in Poynton 60

Birth of a child [Maria] 73

Birth of a child [Samuel] 82-84

Birth of a child [Noel] 102

Chosen to represent Shrewsbury if Kynaston dies 144

Patronage of sheriff's man 160-161, 177

Samuel Hill [son of Thomas]:

Birth 82-84

Teething 99

Samuel Hill living at Admaston: 185

Sir Rowland Hill's purchase of goods from Wollerton: 2

Mrs [Ann] Hill's visit to Tunbridge Wells waters: 41

Simon Harwood visiting Tern: 5

Thomas Bell:

Salary 9

Supervisor of highways in lieu of Hill 44

Visit from brother 120

Illnesses/deaths:

Margaret Hill 139, 140

Thomas Harwood 20, 22, 24, 34-35, 39, 43-46, 49, 181

Mr Baldwin of the Abbey 12

Mr Burton of Longnor 12-13

John Shiphard 18

William Calcott 41

William Cheese 48, 50

Mrs Calcott of the Lower House 54

Andrew Corbett 54

Lady Charlton 58

Mr Barns, Attorney 71

Mrs Hill of Underdale 94

Mrs Wright 138

Manuel Kynastan 143

Jonathan Scott junior 184

Mrs Edwards in childbirth 188

Marriages:

Thomas Hill and Susanna Maria Noel 56-57

Richard Muckleston 50

Mr Corbett and Miss Fanny Piggott 67-68, 58

Robert Wood's daughter and Mr Jeffries 58

Mr Boulding of Aqualate and Mrs Annesley 71

Samuel Holmes and Nancy Farnells 71

Mr Boycott and Miss Walters 77

Councillor Edwards and Miss Cumberback 91a

'Lunatic' Mr Newport and a Bridgeman daughter 111

Richard Lloyd and Miss Topp 145

Miss [?] Hill 175

Elopement of Miss Clayton of Lee Hall: 188

Births:

[Susanna] Hill 56-57

[Maria] Hill 73

[Samuel] Hill 82-84

[Noel] Hill 102

Son of Mrs Windsor 127

Mr Calcott's family visiting Tern Hall: 21, 37

'Scurrilous' story involving Mrs Barnston: 81, 82, 84

Sir William Fowler caught cheating at bragg: 85, 88

Lord Herbert inherits Powys Castle: 122

Lord and Lady Forester's stay at Willey: 143

Mr Littlehales accused of fathering a child: 152

Election of Mr Mucklestone as Master of the House of Correction: 154

Mr Hunt transported to London madhouse: 177

Purchases/sales of estates:

Cronkhill farm 1

Hardwick property 41, 45

Mr Ireland's Lithwood estate 9, 10, 12, 13, 17

Thomas Wild's property 16

Sir William Fowler's Grange estate 22-26, 38

Mr Littlehale's estate [Astley and Hadnall] 18, 19, 21, 27-31, 34-38

Anslow 42

Preston Boates estate 47

John Ayer's house and property [Weston Common] 66

Mr Ireland's Harlescott estate 59

Betton Coppice 60

Brompton lordship [Wolryche property] 72-74, 78, 70, 80

Wikey's Weston Lullingfield estate 78, 70, 79, 96

Hughley and Presthope estate 81-82

Lord Manford's Shrawardine estate 97

Church Preen estate 141

Weston Lullingfield property 160, 170, 156

Mr Atherton's Abbey houses and tithes 160, 164, 166, 167, 190

Coton Hill estate 160

Norton and Uckington estates 162-163

Little Withyford [Apley Castle Charlton's property] 168, 173

Weston Lullingfield estates 174

Exchange of lands between Mr Kynaston of Oatley and Hill: 91a

Tern Hall: 1-3

Work by Scoltock 6, 17, 19, 38, 101

Gardens 17, 30, 38, 51, 57, 59, 75, 69, 80, 179, 106

Conversion of vaults into storerooms 38

Roofing the house 55, 64

Work on the ha-ha 57

Position of bowling green 61

Dovehouse yard 3, 9, 17, 61, 75, 76, 116, 179

Fireplace fittings 61

Fish ponds 54, 61, 110, 111-112, 123, 126, 115

Painting the exterior 63, 66

Trees 77, 176, 185, 179

Decorating the interior 101, 102

Stopping up windows to avoid tax 111, 124

Levelling Hall yard 115

Tern Works:

Forge hammer nuisance 28, 39, 179, 186

Use of a tilting hammer 96

Floods delaying work 150a

Dispute over Tern Green Road 180-182, 184

Terms of Tern works lease 185

Kynaston lawsuit about water pounding damage 18, 38, 187-188

Atcham estate:

Shortfall in rents 3, 4

Properties needing repair 3

Receipt of Lady Day rents 8

Pigs claimed by Hill as lord of the manor 115

Tern estate:

Mending Tern lane 32, 39

Tern Green Road 33, 180-182, 184

Flooding 94

Hedge improvements 123

Repairing Tern Bridge 130

Estate management: 157

Betton tenants plead not guilty about wood damage 2

Wollerton meadow 2

Sowing of Coppy land 3

Parton and Higginbottom property 5, 6

Damage to Barton halls and game 6

Poynton waste ground encroachments 18, 24, 37-38, 173

Betton pool 18, 37, 38, 101, 145, 174

Hadnall meadows 19

Weston cottagers' chief rents 53

Agricultural distress 64, 99

Hadnall pools 101, 114, 116

Dispute wiht tenant Colefax 68, 75, 77, 69, 82, 85-86, 91-93, 100, 98, 110, 112, 123, 118-122, 133-134, 137-140, 190

Planting Brompton and Paradise Meadow 112

Draining the Paddock 116

Licence dispute [Hill's tenant at the Hadnall Saracen's Head] 124-125

Hill's responsibility to provide Betton bridge building materials 130

Welshampton tithes dispute 117

Hill amerced for altering Wroxeter footway 120

Cattle distemper 97, 118-122, 133-134, 137, 139, 158, 163

Damage by tenant Charles Mitchell 132, 137, 139, 150a, 157, 160, 172, 174

Survey of Wiltshire and Oxfordshire estate 141

Dispute with tenant Mr Hall 145, 170

Dispute over Hill's right to the manor of Atcham: 24, 27

Repairs to Thornton parsonage: 5-7, 11, 17, 19

General election of 1741:

Sir Watkin Williams returned at Denbigh 65, 66, 60

Shrewsbury by-election of 1748: 150, 151, 152, 154

Thomas Hill to stand if Kynaston dies 144

Hill supported by the Corporation and the Presbyterians 147

Bell's payment of election bills 153, 155, 169

Hill introduced into Parliament 155

Infectious diseases:

Smallpox 21, 37, 139, 140, 144, 174, 189

Assaults and robberies:

Theft of Wroxeter cow 33

Dismissal of dishonest Chirk Castle stewards 33

Highwaymen attack 37

Mr Lee's attack on Mr Cresswell 143

Accidents:

Trow wrecked between Bristol and Gloucester 38

Floods and drownings at Coton Hill 67

Coalcart accident 48

Salop Assizes: 124, 99, 98, 155

Trial of the Newport Gang [1740] 51

Trial of fishing rights 78

Action against Mr Gee over Duncott Mill 99

Dispute between Berrington parish and Mr Oatley over the 'Beaches': 88-91

Mr Tiffen fined for defrauding the government: 58

Celebrations for the German peace: 15, 109

Death of St. Mary's steeple climber Cadman [1740]: 47

Difficulties faced by the Abbey Company: 54

Jacobite rebellion: 15, 106-109, 175

Opening of the Royal Salop Infirmary [1747]: 125

Shrewsbury inhabitants' complaints about parish assessments: 144

Shrewsbury Corporation in debt: 151

universal condemnation of the Iron Bill [1749-50]: 164

London and Shrewsbury fireworks displays: 169, 170

Unruly Parliamentary behaviour: 178

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