The reality of life in 17th century England was one of living within a closely-meshed kinship system, under the umbrella of its dominant families, to which all others aimed to be closer through the strategy of intermarriage. At first, to those of the ‘lower rungs’ of association – those intermarried to those intermarried to those intermarried to the dominant families. It was a strategy of climbing the ladder of social and economic advantage – in Darwinian term, the ‘ladder of survival’. The same imperative is mirrored in the novels of Jane Austen, in which her heroines are engaged in battles to secure a ‘good marriage’ – one advantageous to her family, especially to a “beloved sister”. All ‘good marriages’ also benefited the family in general, with upwardly mobile families, themselves, becoming attractive marriage propositions.

A considerable advantage of researching 17th century Shropshire is the existence of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Shrop. Arch.), which produced copious notes on the county families in their 19th century works. One instance of which (Srop. Arch., vol. 3. pp. 358-364, 1880), gives account of a branch of the Herbert family, perched at the top of the social and economic system. It informs of their connection to such families of Adams, Corbet, Leighton, and Walker (and theirs to Baldwin and Foliot, the latter to the Ligons and Baughs). In essence, their account is also of the kinship network of a Harris family of Ludlow. Their association with Adams, Baldwin, Baugh, Ligon, and Walker continued in early Virginia; the settling of which was achieved by English kinship networks which drew from within their ranks the co-operation and support necessary to survive the harshest of tests, lessons learnt over English. centuries of turmoil.

When Virginia records record Major William Harris as a neighbour of William Baugh it was not happenchance. He was the second-cousin of Henry Baugh, of Aldon Court, bapt. Sept. 14, 1578, in Ludlow, who m. Alice Holland, in 1602. This takes us to the very heart of the Harris kinship network. Henry Baugh was also the second-cousin of Edward Baugh, who m. Constance Foliot, as follows, dau. of Thomas Foliot, Sheriff of Worcestershire, and Katherine Ligon, dau. of William Ligon, Esq., Sheriff of Worcestershire, and Eleanor Dennis, and sister of (1) Richard Ligon, (2) Thomas Ligon, who m. Frances Dennys (cousin), having issue: Thomas Ligon, who m. (Oct. 10, 1602), Elizabeth Pratt. Their son, Col. Thomas Ligon, m. a Mary Harris, born in 1625, by deposition. (3) Katherine Ligon, who m. Thomas Foliot, parents of Henry Foliot, bapt. at Pirton on Dec. 18, 1569, Baron Ballyshannon.

The said Richard Ligon m. (2) Margaret, dau. of Sir John Talbot, of Albrighton, Shropshire, and Elizabeth Wrottesley, by whom: John Ligon, of Arle, co. Gloucester, who, m. his cousin, Elizabeth Ligon, dau. of Arnold Lygon. Their dau., Katharine Ligon, m. Fleetwood Dormer, Esq., who m. (2) Mary Harris, niece of Rowland Harris, and first-cousin of John Harris, infra, who m. Margaret Holland, bapt. Sept. 29, 1603, dau. of Roger Holland and Eleanor Lewis, who m. Jan. 13, 1598, in Ludlow, and sister of a Richard Holland, bapt. Feb. 3, 1600. John Harris and Margaret Holland had issue: Mary Harris, born in 1625, and William Harris, born in 1627.

It is probable that Roger Holland was the son of Richard Holland, who m. Joan Ward on Oct. 19, 1565, in Ludlow, and that he was the Richard Holland who had a lease of a messuage for lives in Burwarton in 1600, whose son, John, held the same in 1640 (John Holland, m. Mary Baldwin, Oct. 14, 1601, in Ludlow), see Shrop. Arch. 4th series, pp. 84-86, 1877). As such, he would have been the uncle of Thomas Holland, the theologian, a native of Ludlow; and a nephew of Francis Holland (husband of Thomasine, dau. of Robert Russell), and, thus, a cousin of Thomas Holland, who m. (in 1573), Alice Cocke, second-cousin of Richard Cocke of Bremo, whose son was a “friend” of Major William Harris. He, on June 22, 1663, acquired 450 ac. in Henrico Co., on the N. side of the James River, to a 4 mile creek, called by name “the Slashes”, E. upon the Malverne Hills plantation of Richard Cocke, p. 304.

Roger Holland bought lands in Dodmore, Shropshire, from Henry Vernon in 1586, nephew of John Vernon who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Richard Devereux (in 1564); grandson of Sir John Devereux, brother of Elizabeth, who m. (2) Sir Thomas Leighton, of Wattlesborough, who, by a first wife, was the father-in-law of John Harris, grandfather of the said Rowland Harris. It is also very feasible that Roger Holland was the brother of Alice Holland, who m. Henry Baugh, of Aldon Court, bapt. Sept. 14, 1578, in Ludlow, in 1602.

The very great depth of ‘connections’ between families of this account means that no one association was totally pivotal to genealogical outcomes, instead, a series of choices were made about marriages on the basis of a likely best outcome to the families concerned. The English kinship system, as that which colonised Virginia, was not one part of that process; it was by far the major part, and a failure to understand this is to not understand anything. The contention that the Mary Harris who was born in Ludlow in 1625 was synonomous with the wife of Thomas Ligon, who deposed that she was born in 1625, is made certain by the sheer weight of their family’s shared associations, the conduit through which their marriage was made possible. This concept is alien to ‘Holywood history’, which promotes the cult of the rugged individual (John Wayne) meeting his bride-to-be by chance. However, the aim of any genealogical enquiry is not to convert people away from their belief system, whether that belief is in a haphazard system of marriages (anathema in England), or a construct that places the said Mary Harris as a daughter of someone that the English legal system recorded as dying without heirs. What has been gratifying over the years has been the number of individuals, claiming descent from such as Graves Harris (as members of Harris Group 8), who have come to believe a realistic account of her ancestry, and that of her brother, William.

What follows are excerpts from ‘Shrop. Arch.’, interspersed with my notes, so as to make connection to English ancestors of Virginia settlers.

Shrop. Arch., vol. 3. pp. 358-364, 1880:

“The eldest son and heir of Sir Edward, Richard Herbert of Montgomery Castle, has been portrayed by his son in the following words “I remember (him) to have been black-haired and bearded as all my ancestors of his side are said to have been, of a manly or somewhat stern look but withal very handsome and well compact in his limbs and of a great courage. He was Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant, and Custos Rotulorum of the county as his father before him had been. He understood well the Latin Tongue and was well versed in history … He married Magdalen the youngest daughter of Sir Richard Newport of Ercal, by Margaret daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Bromley, a Privy Councillor and executor of Henry VIII., who brought with her a very great estate. Lord Herbert of Cherbury (Edward) observes “By these ancestors I am descended of Talbot, Devereux, Grey, Corbet and many other noble families”.

(1. John Newport, Esquire (d. Oct. 1512), of High Ercall, Salop, m. Alice, dau. of Sir Thomas Swynnerton (d. 1542).
1.1. Thomas Newport, Esq. of High Ercall, sheriff of Shropshire in 1542. His Will was proved June 11, 1551 (TNA PROB 11/34/176). He m. Ånn, dau. of Sir Robert Corbet, of Moreton Corbet, and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Henry Vernon (d. 1515), of Haddon, Derbys.
1.1.1. Sir Richard Newport, of High Ercall, sheriff of Shropshire, Will proved October 12, 1571; m. Margaret, dau. and heir of Sir Thomas Bromley (d. May 15, 1555), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Isabel, dau. of Richard Lyster, of Rowton. Margaret Bromley’s grandfather, Roger Bromley, was a brother of William Bromley, Esquire, of Mitley, father of George Bromley (d.1545), of Hodnet, father of Sir Thomas Bromley (ca.1530-1587), Lord Chancellor; whom Sir Richard Newport appointed overseer of his Will, which bequested: “Item, I give to my godsons, Francis Adams and John Leighton, to either of them forty shillings”. “Item, I give to my cousin, John Leighton of Leighton, my gelding called Young Leighton”.
1.1.1.1. Magdalen Newport, m. Richard Herbert d. 1596), Esquire, of Blackhall, and Montgomery.
1.1.1.1.1. George Herbert, poet.
1.1.2. Ursula Newport, m. Thomas Adams.
1.1.3. Katherine Newport, m. John Leighton, of Wattlesborough).

“The Newports are a very old Shropshire family, and their ancestor William, who was of High Ercall temp. Ed. IV., married Elizabeth the eldest of the four daughters and coheirs of Sir John Burgh Knight of Mowddwy. Their son John Newport who died Oct. 31st 1512 (vide Bridgman’s Princes of S. Wales), married Alice daughter of Sir Thomas Swinnerton (arg. a cross flory sa.), and had issue Thomas Newport who died circa 1549, having married Agnes (or Anne) daughter of Sir Robert Corbet Kt. of Moreton Corbet’ (whose wife was Elizabeth daughter of Sir Henry Vernon of Tong Castle, Salop, and Haddon Hall Co. Derby, by Lady Anne Talbot daughter of the second Earl of Shrewsbury, Sir Robert Corbet’s father being Sir Richard, who married Elizabeth daughter of Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers of Chartley”.

“But to return to the issue of Sir Henry Herbert. His daughter Mary (the sister of Henry who was created Lord Herbert of Cherbury in 1694) married Richard Walker of Wooton in the Parish of Onibury, Co. Salop, and both were interred in the Parish Church there; Richard Walker on 18 Jan., 1666, and Mary his wife on the 13th June, 1673. This Richard Walker was son of Francis Walker of Wooton Hall, and Stanton Lacy, baptized at Onibury, 21 Dec., 1608, who died at Ferney Hall, in the parish of Clungunford, 9th Jan., 1663, and whose wife, Rebecca, was buried at Onibury, 14th Dec., 1688.

“Francis was the son of John Walker of Bringewood, in the parish of Berrington, Co. Hereford, in 1608, whose wife, Jane, was buried on the 1st day of that year. This family of Walker was much connected with South Shropshire; Gwillim says “He beareth gules a cross ragulé between four lions heads, erased argent crowned or by the name of Walker. This coat was granted by Sir Edward Walker, Garter the 20th Dec., 1660, in the 12th year of King Charles II., to Francis Walker of Bringwood, in the County of Hereford, gent., because from the beginning of the rebellion, with great courage, fidelity, and activity, he asserted the cause and interest of King Charles I. … In Blakeway’s Sheriffs of Shropshire the arms are given somewhat differently, viz, gules a cross fleury between four lions heads erased argent. This cast seems to be virtually the same as that confirmed to Sir Thomas Leigh or Lee, Lord Mayor of London in 1588, son of Roger Lee or Leigh, of Wellington, Co. Salop, which was gules on a cross between 4 unicorns heads erased or five roundels azure”.

“In Harleian MS., 1396, Joan, dau. of John Baldwyn, is said to have married John Walker, alias Leigh, of Stretton, and from another place we learn that this family of Walker, alias Leigh, were the descendants of the Lees or Leighs of Wellington, who themselves descended from the family of High Leigh, in Cheshire, Roger Leigh, of Wellington, being son of Richard, son of John, son of Peter, son of Robert Leigh”.

“Richard Walker had issue by his wife, Mary (née Herbert), Martha, bap. at Onibury, 18 July, 1652, Richard, bap. 30 Oct., 1653, Margaret, bap. 14 Septus 1654, Anne, interred 16 Jan., 1671, and Job, bap. 25 Dec., 1656. Job Walker was of Stildon, in the parish of Rock, near Bewdley, but afterwards was of Ferney Hall, and was interred at Onibury, 15 Nov, 1713, having married Rebecca, daughter and co-heir of Thomas, second Lord Folliott, 23 Aug., 1683, at Dowles, near Bowdley; she was also buried at Onibury, 3rd April, 1726. By this match many relics of the Folliotts came to the Walkers, and are still preserved among their descendants”.

“This family of Foliott was much connected with Worcestershire, and a rather elaborate pedigree of them is given in the Heralds’ Visitations of that county (abbreviated as follows).
Francis Folliott, married Avice, daughter and sole heir of Thomas Tracey, of North Piddle, Co. Worcester, by whom he was father of John Foliott, who married twice, firstly, Barbara Littleton, and secondly, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of John Moore, of Dunclent; by the second wife he had issue Thomas Folliott, of Pirton, Co. Worcester, who married Katherine, daughter of Sir William Lygon, of Madresfield, Co. Worcester. She died in 1660, and was buried at Upton on Severn”.

“The ancient family of Lygon of Madresfield much increased their estate by the marriage of Thomas Lygon with Anne daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Beauchamp of Powyc or Powick, who bore gules a feiss between 6 martlets or to distinguish his line from that of the Earls of Warwick his kinsmen … Sir Richard Lygon, son of Thomas and Ann, (née Beauchamp) married Margaret, daughter and heir of William Grevill, and their son William, who died 8 Sep. 1567 and was buried at Malvern, married Eleanor, daughter of Sir William Denys of Dynham Co. Gloucester, whose wife Anne was the daughter of Maurice (Harl. MS. 1543), son of James Lord Berkeley by Isabel, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk and representative of a branch of the family of Plantagenet. The son of William Lygon and Eleanor his wife, Richard Lygon of Madresfield married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Russell of Strensham, (she died 1576) and was by her father of Sir William who gained the unenviable notoriety of having sold many manors, and who by Elizabeth daughter of Edmund Knightley of Grandborough Co. Warwick (who was bur. at Malvern 28 March 1631) was father of Katherine the wife of Thomas Foliott”.

(1. Robert Russell of Strensham. His Will was proved on Dec. 1, 1502, mentioning: “my 3 younger sons and the child now being in my wife’s belly, whereof I beseech Jesus send her good deliverance”. Robert Russell’s eldest son and heir, John Russell, was born in 1493/4, with his younger sons being born betw. 1495-1498. The said John Russell m. Edith, dau of Sir Thomas Unpton, having issue: Thomas Russell, father of Mary (d. 1576), who m. Richard Ligon, of Madresfield (d. 1584). Strensham is ca. 40 miles from Burwarton/Ludlow, and part of the Malvern Hills district, after which Richard Cocke named his Virginia plantation.
1.1. John Russell.
1.1.1. Thomas Russell.
1.1.1.1. Mary Russell, m. Richard Ligon, of Madresfield (d. 1584). Richard Ligon, m. (2) Margaret, dau. of Sir John Talbot, of Albrighton in Shropshire, and his wife, Elizabeth Wrottesley, by whom:
1.1.1.1.1. John Ligon, of Arle, co. Gloucester, b. 1581, d. Sept. 21, 1644, m. his cousin, Elizabeth Ligon, dau. of Arnold Lygon.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Katharine Ligon, m. Fleetwood Dormer, Esq. He m. (2) Mary Harris, niece of Rowland Harris, and first-cousin of Thomas Harris and John Harris, infra, the father of a Mary and William Harris, supra. Richard Ligon was the brother of (1) Thomas Ligon, who, as given, m. Frances Dennys (cousin), having issue: Thomas Ligon, who m. (Oct. 10, 1602), Elizabeth Pratt. Their son, Col. Thomas Ligon, m. a Mary Harris, born in 1625, by deposition. (2) Katherine Ligon, who m. Thomas Foliot, parents of Henry Foliot, bapt. at Pirton on Dec. 18, 1569, Baron Ballyshannon.
1.2. Robert Russell.
1.2.1. Thomasine Russell, m. Francis Holland, of Burwarton. His sister, Anne, m. (at Burwarton in 1634) William Lewis of Sutton (Diddlebury), the half-brother of Thomas Harris, b. 1603, and John Harris, b. 1604, his father, Edward Lewis of Sutton Magna having m. Jane Langford, the relict of Rowland Harris, see recent posts).

“Henry first Lord Foliott had by his wife Anne a son and successor Henry on the death of his father second Lord Foliott, born 1613, who married. Rebecca French. There are several portraits of himself and his lady in existence and also of his son; some are now in the possession of his descendant Humphrey Sandford esq of the Isle of Up Rossall near Shrewsbury. The second Lord Folliott left issue by his wife Rebecca, Henry third Lord Foliott, who died without issue, when his three aunts became his coheirs … Of these the eldest Rebecca married Job Walker of Ferney Hall of whose issue presently; the second coheir Mary married Rowland Baugh and had issue Thomas Folliott-Baugh and a daughter Mary, wife of Francis Herbert, son of George Herbert of Oakley Park, who married Martha, daughter of John Newton of Heightley in 1693, and grandson of Richard Herbert of Oakley Park, by Florentia, granddaughter and heiress of the celebrated Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury”.

“Francis Herbert and Mary Baugh had issue George, Henry, Foliott bap 12 Jan. 1728 at Ludlow, and Mary, wife of Captain Frederick Cornewall of Delbury Co. Hereford, by whom she was mother of Herbert Walker Cornewall, late Bishop of Worcester. The third coheir Elizabeth married twice, firstly Samuel Powell of Stanedge Co. Radnor who died 1700, and secondly Rev. Thomas Jones of Combe Co. Flint. By the first husband she had issue Foliott, Samuel, and Elizabeth, wife of Richard Knight of Ludlow, eldest son of Richard Knight of Downton Castle Co. Hereford; their only child Elizabeth married Thomas Johnes of Llanvairclydog, M.P. for Radnorshire, and had issue, Thomas, Rev. Samuel, Elizabeth married Hanbury Williams, 1770, and Anne who died unmarried”.

(1. William Holland, b. ca. 1460.
1.1. Thomas Holland, b. ca. 1490.
1.1.1. William Holland, of Burwarton, b. ca. 1520, bur. 1590, in Burwarton; m. Alice Detton.
1.1.1.1. John Holland, of Lamberhurst, m. Joyce Lutley.
1.1.1.2. Francis Holland, of Burwarton, b. ca. 1550, m. (Feb. 20, 1582), (1) Dorothy Barker, bapt. at Hopton Castle, July 27, 1555.
1.1.1.2.1. Mary Holland, bapt. Nov. 18, 1582, m. (1) Robert Lutley, son of Adam Lutley and Elizabeth Cresset. (2) Charles Baldwin.
1.1.1.2.1.1. Ann Lutley, m. William Lewis, son of Edward Lewis and Jane Langford, relict of Rowland Harris.*
1.1.1.2.2. Alice Holland, bapt. Oct. 13, 1583, m. Henry Baugh,* of Aldon Court, in 1602.
1.1.1.2.3. Elizabeth Holland, bapt. Nov. 2, 1584.
1.1.1.2.4. Francis Holland, bapt. Jan. 15, 1586.
1.1.1.2. Francis Holland m. (2) Thomasine Cresset, b. ca. 1555, relict of Richard Draper, d. 1587. Thomasine Cresset was the sister of Elizabeth Cresset, who m. Adam Lutley, br. of Joyce Lutley, sister of Adam Lutley.
1.1.1.3. Thomas Holland, of Pickthorne, m. (Dec. 27, 1573, in Wheathill), Alice Cocke (second-cousin of Richard Cocke of Pickthorne (in Stottesdon), Shropshire, and Bremo, Virginia.
1.1.2. Richard Holland,* see as follows).

BAUGH

(1. Edward Baugh, m. Margarett Stratford
1.1. Rowland Baugh, of Twining, Gloustershire. The Baugh arms and crest were confirmed by Cooke, Clarenceux, in 1579, to Rowland Baugh of Twining, co. Gloucestershire, and Bredon’s Norton, Worcestershire. They were confirmed to the Aldon Court Baughs of Shropshire, in 1588.
1.1.1. Edward Baugh, m. Constance Foliot (of the family into which the Shropshire Baughs married), dau. of Thomas Foliot, Sheriff of Worcestershire, and Katherine Ligon, dau. of William Ligon, Esq., Sheriff of Worcestershire and Eleanor Dennis.
1.1.2. William Baugh, m. Mary Wakeman, dau. of William Wakeman, of Glouc.
1.1.2.1. William Baugh, of Virginia, received a grant of 577 ac. for the transportation of 12 persons, including his son, William Baugh, Jr., on the N. side of the Appomattox River. William Baugh, Sr., was justice of Henrico 1656, 1669, &c. He was born not later than 1612, and died in 1687. William Baugh held land next to Major William Harris, on ‘Ware Run’. The specific location of ‘Ware Run’ is give in Richard Womack’s grant: ‘Now know yee that I ye sd Sir Will Berkeley knt. give and graunt unto Richard Womack foure hundred and fivety acres, three rood eight po: of land on ye North side of Appomatock River in Henrico Co. extending as followeth beginning at a small branch of ye Ashen Swampe … No: by We: 34 po: No: We: 60 po: to Mr. Baugh his line neigh ye Round Slash No: No: We: 15 po: to Major Harris his cornor We: by So: 380 po: to ye place aforementioned the sd land being due unto ye sd Richard Womack by and for ye transportacon of nine persons into this Collony’. Dated March 15, 1672.
1.1.2.1.1. William Baugh Jr., m. Jane Hatcher, dau. of William Hatcher Jr., br. of Henry Hatcher, father of Mary Hatcher, who m. Edward Tanner; the br. of Mary Tanner, who m. (1) William Ligon (son of Mary Harris (born in 1625), and Thomas Ligon.
1.2. John Baugh, of Aldon Court, bur. Aug 1577, in Bromfield.
1.2.1. Thomas Baugh, of Aldon Court, Shropshire, m. Dorothy, dau. of George Parkes, of Bromfield, Nov. 26, 1576.
1.2.1.1. *Henry Baugh, of Aldon Court, bapt. Sept. 14, 1578, in Ludlow, m. Alice Holland, in 1602.
1.2.1.1.1. Thomas Baugh, b. ca. 1605-1610.
1.2.1.1.1.1. Rowland Baugh, m. Mary, dau of Thomas Foliott, 2nd Lord of Ballyshannon. Baugh v Abergavenny. Plaintiffs: Rowland Baugh, esq of Stonehouse, Shropshire, and Mary Baugh his wife (one of the sisters and co heirs of Henry [Foliott] Lord Foliott, Baron of Bellyshannon, Ireland, deceased) and Arthur Lugg, gent of Worcester, Worcestershire and Rebecca Lugg his wife (only daughter and heir of John Solely and Ann Solely his wife, deceased, another sister of said Henry [Folliott] Lord Folliott). Defendants: George [Neville] Lord Abergevenny. 1717. (C 11/2628/71).

1. *Richard Holland, m. Joan Ward on Oct. 19, 1565, in Ludlow.
1.1. John Holland, m. Mary Baldwin, Oct. 14, 1601, in Ludlow.
1.2. Roger Holland, m. Eleanor Lewis, Jan. 13, 1598, in Ludlow.
1.2.1. Margaret Holland, bapt. Sept. 29, 1603, m. John Harris.
1.2.1.1. Mary Harris, born 1625. If the Mary Harris who deposed to be born in 1625 in Virginia, she m. Thomas Ligon.
1.2.1.2. William Harris, b. 1627.
1.2.2. Richard Holland, bapt. Feb. 3, 1600.
1.3. Alice Holland, m. Henry Baugh, 1602, in Ludlow,  to repeat: second-cousin of (1) William Baugh (neighbour of Major William Harris in Virginia), (2) Edward Baugh, who m. Constance Foliot, dau. of Thomas Foliot, Sheriff of Worcestershire, and Katherine Ligon, dau. of William Ligon, Esq., Sheriff of Worcestershire and Eleanor Dennis, and sister of Thomas Ligon, who m. (Oct. 10, 1602), Elizabeth Pratt. Their son, Col. Thomas Ligon, m. a Mary Harris, born in 1625.

Herbert v Salwey. Plaintiffs: Richard Herbert, Francis Herbert, Robert Herbert and Dorothy Herbert (the younger sons and daughter of Francis Herbert, esq of Oakley Park, Shropshire and Dorothy Herbert his late wife) infants (by Rowland Baugh, esq of Stonehouse, Shropshire). Defendants: Richard Salwey, esq, Francis Herbert, esq, Alexander Pitfield, esq, Mary Crump, widow, Henry Arthur Herbert and Cornelius Hinton, farrier. 1718. (C 11/1171/27).

The ‘continuation of association’ between families aforementioned was recorded in this instance, as an example of many:

Copy release. 1. Jn Smallman of Feversham, Kent, gent., son and heir apparent of Edw. Smallman of Ludlow, gent. 2. Edw. Cressett of Cound, esq. Row. Baughe of Aldon, esq. 3. sd Edw. Smalman and Catherine his wife, sister of Edw. Cressett. Whereas Edw. and Cath. Smalman (1) have released the same day to Jn Smalman (2) all right (1) have in a house called the Fryth in Little Hereford, Herefs, and lands belonging, and several houses and lands in Dolley and Presteigne, Radnor. in the occ. of Stephen Willott and – Sandford, and all title Edw. Smalman has after the death of Rd Hyde, gent. and Dorothy Kennett, widow, for the term of his life in all the houses late of Jn Kennett, gent., decd, in Cainham, and in all other the late messuages and lands of Jn Kennett and Dorothy his wife in the Cos of Salop and Montgomery, and has delivered to him or Jn Baldwyn, gent., to his use, all such deeds belonging to the property, in performance of covenants in a deed dated 17 May last between Edw. Smalman and Jn Smalman to be performed by 1. 1. grants and releases to 2. (in their possn) all his right in the messuages, burgages and lands of Edw. Smalman in Ludlow and in the p. of Ludford or in the tithes of Edw. S. arising in Stanton Lacy. To hold to 2. to the uses in the indentures on the marriage between Edw. Smalman and Catherine, made between Edw. Smalman (1) Edw. Cressett and Row. Baugh (2) Catherine, then Catherine Cressett July 9, 1708. (Shrop. Arch. 5460/3/27).

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