[111] Mayor.
[114] The former courts were 44 ft. 9 in. by 31 ft.
[116] This structure was 111 feet by 51; its exterior feature was a bold pediment, supported by four three-quarter columns of the Ionic order.
[149] Vide Hazlitt’s Literary Remains.
[151] An office instituted when preaching was not frequent, and granted to the Minister of St. Mary’s in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
[162] On the visit of Charles the First to this venerable mansion, Thomas Lyster (among other distinguished Shropshire loyalists) presented that Prince with a purse of £500. His grandson, Richard Lyster, Esq. represented this town and county in parliament for a period of forty-five years, and was known among his countrymen by the familiar appellation of ‘The Senator.’ The somewhat feudal cast of his establishment, and most ample scale of ancient English hospitality, are pleasingly recorded in the “Sheriffs of Shropshire.”
[176] The sloping bank above this friary was given to and occupied by the Monks of Shrewsbury Abbey, as a Vineyard, as early as the reign of Henry the Third. Its situation on the northern side of the river, inclining southward and open to the east, renders it well adapted to the purpose.
[179] This ferry leads to a walk which commands a bold view of the town, and communicates with the Abbey-foregate. It conducts also to the Underdale Tea Gardens—a quiet rural retreat.
[186] The town is supplied with most excellent water for drinking from a spring called Broadwell, which rises near Kingsland, and is conveyed by pipes under the river to a reservoir in one of the lodges at the principal entrance to the Quarry Walk, being conducted from thence to conduits placed in different parts of the town for the convenience of the inhabitants.
[187] A detail of the Admiral’s splendid services will be found in the “Biographia Britannica,” and other similar works.