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

Correspondence from Thomas Bell, land agent, principally concerning estate matters.

Includes references to:

Illnesses/deaths:

Sir Edward Leighton of Loton 118

Samuel Hill of Shenstone 132, 137, 139

Lady Astey [Dame Mary Astley] 176

Susanna Hill [wife of Thomas Hill] 176

Samuel Harwood 181

Miss Susanna Hill 192-194

[Abraham] Darby 220

Sir Bryan Broughton 233

Samuel Hill 235-236

Lady Harborough 240

Marriages:

Roger Kynaston 44

Margaret Hill with the Earl of Harborough 187

Bankruptcy of [Richard] Ford of Coalbrookdale: 157

Tern Hall:

Bowling green 36, 95, 98, 106, 112, 114, 125

Laying turves 110, 114

Improvements to gardens by Buckinger 95, 98

Building garden walls 170, 172

Erecting paddock fence for deer 216

Slating the roof of Tern Hall 171, 174

Decorating 141-142, 178-182, 203, 225, 245

Rebuilding chimneys 39, [41], 44, 126

Plans of Tern Hall (concerning dispute over windows) 175

Tern estate:

Pulling down Tern iron works 125-126

Pulling down workmen's houses 142

Letting of parts of the estate 130

Encroachments onto the estate 131, 138

Dispute with Lord Bath over rights to the river Tern 118-123, 125-127, 138, 142, 151, 153

Purchase of fishery and bylets 153, 158

Floodgates at Tern 169-170

Erection and letting of flour mill 124, 127, 129, 131

Mill at Tern 155, 164, 174, 180, 187, 224

Altering the course of the river near Atcham 240, 266

Altering the course of the road at Tern 148-149, [212]

Atcham:

The malthouse 165

Octagonal window at the Talbot Inn 186

Sales/purchases of estates:

Mr Atherton's estate 1, 8, 48, 50

Mrs. Gamage's estate at Weston Lullingfields 13, 15-16, 47-48

Captain Burton's estate 54, 57-58, 60, 63

Captain Johnson's estate near Ludlow 79-80, 83-84

Mr Calcott's estate 130, 149-156, 158, 160-162, 164, 166

Estate at Forton 136

Lord Malpas's estate at Meole Brace 158, 163

Estate at Acton Reynald 165

Estate at Leigh, Worthen 197

Estate at Roden 217-218, 230-231

The manors of Whixall, Hardwick and Hadnall 230-231

Shifnal estate 248

Stafford [family?] estate and property at Corfton, Culmington and Maidley[?] Park 249-9250

Estate at Eyton 64-65

Mr Powys's estate at Hardwick and Hayson 90

Foulgate farm, Ludlow 192

House on Coton Hill purchased by Simon Harwood 96

Hay Farm [Madeley] 17, 19

Sale of Bromhall's farm by Mr Morgan 32, 34, 36

Estate at Weston Jones 133, 139, 150

Exchanges of lands:

Between Mr Corbett and Mr Forester, of lands

At Norton and Upton to allow the inclosure of Haughmond Hill 59

Exchange of lands at Cronkhill and Berwick 148

Gatten estate: 28, 37, 45, 58-59

Purchase of 2, 4-6, 8, 11, 17-20, 22, 24

Mine at Gatten 55, 58, 66, 74

Shenstone estate: 132, 134, 136, 139-140, 145, 161, 186

Division of fields at Shenstone 172

Malthouse in bad condition 189

House at Shenstone damaged by high winds 186

Sutton Maddock estate: 133, 139

Sheat estate:

Problems concerning tolls: 183-184

Mines: 163

Wrockwardine Wood 133, 139, [147], [170], 171, 173-174, 178, 184-185, 195, 201, 203-204, 212, 219-220, 224

Dealings with the Coalbrookdale Company over Wrockwardine Wood mine 146, 195, 198, 201, 203-205

Donnington Wood 201, 203, 212, 220

Lythwood 103, 106

Gatten 55, 58, 66, 74

Dispute over the right of common in Hadnall Wood: 40, 73

Leather mill being built by Charles Burley and the Houlstone brothers: 1, 3, 18, 21, 43

General election of 1754: 56, 66-68, 72, 74, 76, 79-84

John Corbett's intention to stand 1 threatened resignation of Sir John Astley and Mr Lyster, MPs for Salop County 73

General election of 1761

Expectation that Thomas Hill and Lord Pulteney will stand for Salop and Mr Clive for Montgomery 170

Payment of bills for treating 187 general election of 1768:

[Noel] Hill declining to stand 241-242 by election for Salop county, 1766: 237 recruitment and pressing of men for

Col. Whitmore's regiment: 115-117 riot at Wellington: 123

Unrest amongst colliers, who threaten to pull down mills: 241

Mr Besford's request for a loan to begin in tanning trade: 138

Blacksmith's shop at Brompton: 159

Rebuilding of Wroxeter church: 218

Fire in tan house in Barker Street [Shrewsbury]: 13 assaults and robberies:

Mr Corbet of the Raven Inn, dragged from his bed and beaten 29, 33

Andrew Gittins attacked in Abbey Foregate 32

Mr Weeks of Borton robbed at pistol point 32

Captain Winde beaten by Rowden and Heath 38

Robert Kilvert's cow stolen by a butcher called Gittins 14

Fight between Evans the baker and the riding master, whose ear was bitten off 62

Counterfeiting of silver shillings and half crowns 225

Stagecoach robbed in Abbey Foregate 227

Salop Assizes:

Prisoners condemned to be executed 248, 261

Mr Gee and Mr Harvey 43

Sir Orlando Bridgman and Miss Price 43 infections and diseases:

Distemper 1-2, 5, 12-14, 16, 20, 30, 37-41, 43, 55, 225, 244

Distemper at Acton Reynald Hall 1

Distemper at Lee Hall 20

Smallpox at Atcham 40, 43-47, 49-53, 69, 213-214

Smallpox in Shrewsbury and Whitchurch 31

'fever' in Wolverhampton and Stafford 12 horse racing:

Race at Wenlock organised by Mr Forester 12

Race at Shrewsbury 51, 69

Cockfighting at Shrewsbury: 51

Turnpike road [in Atcham parish] to Cross Houses: 223

Inventory of books, papers and items found in the late Mr Harwood's desk, 1739: 265

The inhabitants of Shrewsbury's reaction to the rejection of the Naturalisation Bill: 20 affair involving George Forester and his father and the Dothill family: 172

Lord Clive's entertainment to the burgesses [of Shrewsbury] and the subsequent disturbances: 245

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