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The History of Oswestry

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Agricultural Statistics 205

Album Monasterium 3

Aldermen and Common-Councilmen 166

Alfred the Great 17

Ancient Customs 191

Ancient Houses 185

Ancient Relics 186

Angling 209

Aston Hall 242

Attack on the town 65

Baptist Chapel 155

Banks 100

Battle of Oswestry 6

Belmont 285

Benevolent Institutions 119

Bethesda Chapel 157

Blanc-Minster 3

Bleddyn ab Cynvyn 14

Biography 223

Botany of the Parish 213

Bray, Dr. Thomas 224

British Period 4

British Schools 114

Broom Hall 289

Brunswick Dynasty 88

Brynkinalt 243

Cadwaladr’s reign 8

Cae Nef 6

Carreg Hofa Castle 257

Castle of Oswestry 15–172

Overton 15

Ceiriog, the 212

Civil Wars 61

Charitable Donations 121

Church or Chapel-Field 6

Church Grant 30

Charles I., Character of 62

Charter, First Royal 33

Charter of Charles II. 78

Charter the Third 47

Chirk 291

Chirk Castle 244

Clawdd Coch 259

Coed Euloe, Battle of 21

Cranage’s Daring 66

Crogen, Battle of 23

Croes-Oswallt (Oswald’s Cross) 3

Croes Wylan 54

Death of Oswald 7

Derivation of Name, &c. 2

Derwen 285

Dispensary and Baths 117

Dissenting Places of Worship 152

Dovaston, John Freeman Milward 224

Drenewydd 289

Ecclesiastical History 132

English Period 21

Extension Line (Oswestry and Newtown) Railway 198

Famine 57

Felton West 274

Fernhill 258

Fitz-Alan, William 15

Fletcher, Philip Lloyd 16

Fitz-Gwarine 17

Free Grammar School 107

Friendly Societies 131

Gas-works 104

Gates 93

Genealogical Table 178

Geology, &c. 221

Glorious Age 89

Glyndwr Insurrection 36

Reverses 49

Death of 50

Great Western Railway Company 195

Greenfield Lodge 274

Griddle Gate 137

Grufydd ab Cynan 15

Guto (y Glyn) 226

Halston 249

Hen Dinas 5

Hengoed 272

Hotels 107

House of Industry 119

Humphreys, Humphrey, D.D. 227

Huntington, Execution of 35

Hywel Dda (the Welsh Justinian) 13

Independent Methodist Chapel 157

Ingratitude of (Common Wealth) Parliament 73

Invasion of Wales 21

Jones, Thomas 227

King Oswald 5

Knockin 253

Kynaston, Humphrey 228

Le Strange, Roger 17

Lighting 96

Lodge, the 273

Llanforda 260

Llangollen Vale 292

Llanymynech 254

Llanyblodwel 262

Llansilin 261

Lloyd, Colonel 63

Lloyd, Bishop 83

Llynclys (or Llynclis) Pool 211

Lupus, Hugh 16

Llwyd, Edward 230

Llywarch Hen 8

Llywelyn ab Jorwerth 27

Madog 15

Maelor 15

Marrow’s Assault 69

Marches Lordships 17

Margery Bruce 180

Markets and Fairs 97

Markets 102–3

Maserfield 7

Mathrafal 9

Maud Verdon 15

Maurice, William 231

Mayors, List of 164

Mayor’s Blunders 85

Mediolanum 259

Montgomery, Roger de 16

Morda, the 212

Morlas, the 212

Morus, Hugh 231

Monuments within the Church 139

in the Church-yard 14

in the New Church-yard 147

Morva Rhuddlan 113

Mortimers, the 31

Mount Pleasant 290

Municipal and Civil Government 158

Officers 163

Murage, the 29

Myddelton, Sir Thomas 77

Mytton, Major-General 75

Mytton, the late John, Esq. 251

National Schools 112

Natural History 205

Newport, Mr. 68

Norfolk, Duke of 15

Norman Period 14

Notabilia 235

Oakhurst 290

Offa’s Dyke 10

Old Chapel 152

Oswald’s Well 189

Oswestry Race-course 10

Castle, Burning of 72

Government of 72

As it was 92

recent History of 181

Castle Hill 177

Owain Brogyntyn 15

Oswald and Penda 2

Parliament, the Great 32

Parish Church 132

Sunday School 114

Park Hall 263

Penda, the Mercian King 8

Pengwern 9

Pentre Pant 290

Pentre Poeth 53

Penylan 290

Perry, the 212

Plague, records of 55

Plot to remove the markets 59

Poor Rate Return—Oswestry town and parish (1855) 240

Population 204

Porkington 266

Post Office 99

Powys Vadog 14

Preesgwene House 273

Primitive Methodist Chapel 157

Public Establishments and Institutions 98

Quinta, the 274

Railway Communication 194

Restoration, the 76

Review of Ancient History 7

Revolution, the 86

Reynolds, John 232

Richard II., death of 34

Rivers 209

Rhyd-y-croesau 290

Rhyd-y-croesau Church 150

Roberts, the Rev. Peter 232

Rug 15

Sacheverell, Dr. 86

Salter, Mr. Robert 234

Savings’ Bank 101

Saxon Period 9

Selattyn 269

Shrewsbury, the Battle of 37

Siarter Cwtta, the Short Charter 24

Site of the town 91

Sketches of the Environs of Oswestry 241

Social Improvement 88

Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor 129

Spot, Dick 233

St. Martin’s 272

Stamp Office 101

Statistics 201

Streets 95

Sweeney Hall 291

Tenants’ Service 48

Theatre 104

Topographical History 90

Town Walls 184

Tre’r Cadeiriau 3

Tre’r Fesen 6

Trefaldwyn 13

Trefonen Church 149

Tre Meredydd 14

Trevor, Sir John 159

Trinity Church 144

Tyn-y-Rhos 278

Visit of Baldwin and Giraldus 25

Vicars, List of 151

Walter the Stewart 179

Watt’s Dyke 11–12–13

Welsh Cloth Market 51

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel 156

Whittington 275

William the Conqueror 10

Wood Hill Hall 291

Wynnstay 286

Young Men’s Institute 115

Zion Chapel 152

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