VIII. Extract from a Proclamation made in the 20th Year of the Reign of King Henry VIII, for dividing certain Lordships and Towns to be annexed and knit into divers Shires near the Marches of Wales. Communicated by the Rev. Mr. Wrighte, Secretary

Extract

By virtue of this proclamation the lordships, towns, parishes, commots, hundreds, and cantreds of Oswestry, Whitington, Masbrook, Knoking, Ellesmere, Downe, and Churbury hundreds, in the marches of Wales aforesaid, and every of them, and all and singular honours, lordships, castells, mannors, towns, hamlets, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, lying and being within the compass or precinct of the said lordships, towns, parishes, &c. were united, annexed, and joined to the country of Salop, and the lordships of Oswestry, Whitington, Masbrooke, and Knoking, were thus united, to be called and known by the name of the hundred of Oswestry and county of Salop, &c. and the lordships of Ellesmere were united to the hundred of Purihill, and those of Downe to the hundred of Churbury.