. The garrisons of Shropshire during the civil war, 1642-1648 . > rC. Oldt BmIiv/a5BTLc(a>^ HJuilbbas, No notice of Buildwas as a Gairison has been met witli, except that its nameappears in the Perfect Occurrences of ParUament, of August, 1645, asa place that had been lost to the King at that time. Like other points onthe Severn it was an object to either party, as commanding the river, and atBuildwas was a Bridge, on which on the tirst outbreak of the War, JamesLacon, of West Coppice, had received orders to employ men to erect a turn-stile armed with spikes, to prevent the passage of ho
. The garrisons of Shropshire during the civil war, 1642-1648 . > rC. Oldt BmIiv/a5BTLc(a>^ HJuilbbas, No notice of Buildwas as a Gairison has been met witli, except that its nameappears in the Perfect Occurrences of ParUament, of August, 1645, asa place that had been lost to the King at that time. Like other points onthe Severn it was an object to either party, as commanding the river, and atBuildwas was a Bridge, on which on the tirst outbreak of the War, JamesLacon, of West Coppice, had received orders to employ men to erect a turn-stile armed with spikes, to prevent the passage of horse. The site of theAbbey was granted at the dissolution of the Monasteries, to Edward Grey,Lord Powis who made the Priors House his residence. His son sold it in1()17, to Lord Ellesmere, the Father of the Duke of Bridgewater, who wasits owner at tlu; time it was a Garrison, and in 1(548, it was purchased fromhim by Sir AVilliam Acton, a younger brother of Sir Edward Acton, ofAldenham. The Old Bridsfe was taken down in 1690. Btoncvoft C!^astlc. Little is known of the
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