Record

Document Reference	Os C 13
Title	Letter from Rev. C. Drury, Raven Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, to J.E. Denison; 1 May 1824
Date	1 May 1824
Extent	5 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Describes in detail town of Pontesbury including his house and living; comments on extent of population and parish including lead miners among his parishoners; comments on glebe and tithe income and its division between rectors; refers to harvest; describes in detail duties and personalities of rectors Rev. Harrison and Rev. Wilde; discusses patronage of Speaker [Charles Manners-Sutton]; refers to attenttion of local gentry.
Term	agriculture, harvest
	patronage, personal
	mining and extraction, lead
	financial affairs, ecclesiastical
	occupations and professions, clerical
	parishes
	tithes
	religious affairs, disputes
	clerical livings, Pontesbury

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA9439	Harrison; Hamlett (1764-1843); Rev.; rector of Pontesbury Shropshire	1764-1843
NA9440	Wilde; John (1770-1829); Rev.; rector of Pontesbury Shropshire	1770-1829
NA9013	Sutton; Charles Manners- (1780-1845); 1st Viscount Canterbury; Speaker of the House of Commons 1817-35 brother-in-law of J.E. Denison	1780-1845
NA9017	Drury; Charles (-1869); Rev.; tutor of J.E. Denison; Rector of Pontesbury 1824	-1869
NA199	Denison; J. Evelyn (1800-1873); 1st Viscount Ossington; M.P. Speaker of House of Commons 1857-72 created Viscount Ossington 1872	1800-1873