[75] “The original and natural confluence of the Worf with the Severn was much higher than at Pendleston Mill.”
[76] “The Roman Road before alluded to.”
[77] “Now Abbot’s Castle Hill.”
[78] “Salop Chartulary. No. 279.”
[79] The writer evidently means the party favourable to the Reformation, in the sense in which the word is generally used.
[80] The letter is given in pp. 162-5 of Tytler’s “Trials of Charles I.”
[81] This letter forms a part of a tract, entitled “A true and exact Relation of the Proceedings of His Majesties Army in Cheshire, Shropshire and Worstershire. Together with what hath happened to the late Lord Strange, now Earl of Derby, before Manchester. With the Resolution of the Town to oppose him; and the number of Men which were slain.” It is bound up in a Volume of very valuable tracts, referring to the events of this period, and was kindly lent to me by the Rev. T. L. Claughton, of Kidderminster.