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The county seats of Shropshire : a series of descriptive sketches, with historical and antiquarian notes, of the principal family mansions (1891)

Leach, Francis · Shrewsbury : Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal Office · leaf 195

An illustration from The county seats of Shropshire : a series of descriptive sketches, with historical and antiquarian notes, of the principal family mansions, 1891, leaf 195 — the Fosters, the owners of the said land, every yearput the said chaplet about the work of the statue of the man lying upon themonument. There ere six bells in the tower, in addition to the great bell of Tong, which wasbroken by the Parliamentary forces, and was re-cast in 1720. On it was inscribed… … FROM THE BOOK OF MERLIN IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Tradition relates that Mrs. Fitz-Herbert was born at Tong ; whether this be true ornot there seems to be no accurate information, but it is singular that one house should bethe reputed birthplace of three women so conspicuous in the secondary annals of…

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