74 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vm. JAN. 22, 1021. VOUCHER = RAILWAY TICKET (12 S. Trii. 510 ; viii. 36). Two unused first and second class " vouchers " with their counter- foils intact are in iny possession. They measure 8| in. by 3f in., the first class ticket being on a poor quality yellow paper .and the second class on green paper. Each bears the initials of the official issuing the The tickets bear the following particulars : tickets and the numbers are also written These particular vouchers were issued FIRST CLASS. BRISTOL TO GLOUCESTER.
- 39 August 5, 1844.
Paid 6s. Qd. at special rates for an excursion on the occasion of a Wesleyan Conference held at Birmingham during the week beginning Aug. 5, 1844. The local paper states that over a thousand persons travelled by the trains. FIRST CLASS. BRISTOL TO GLOUCESTER. Monday, August 5, 1844. 39- Tke Bearer must return by the Special Train from Gloucester, at nine o'clock on Tuesday Evening, Aug. 6, or exchange this Ticket and . Wellings, Northgate-Street, Gloucester, and return pay Is. at Mr. B. by any of the regular Trains, on Wednesday, August Paid 6s. Qd. A. T. M. SECOND CLASS. ^GLOUCESTER, CHELTENHAM. OR TEWKESBURY, TO BIRMINGHAM. .562 August 5, 1844. Paid 5s. Qd. This Ticket must be carefully preserved and produced when required. SECOND CLASS. GLOUCESTER, CHELTENHAM, OR TEWKESBURY, TO BIRMINGHAM. 562 Monday, August 5, 1844. Gloucester. The Bearer may return by either of the Trains which leave the Camp-Hill Station, Birmingham, Monday Evening, at Eight o'clock, or Tuesday Afternoon, at Six o' Clock. Paid 5s. Qd. . A. T. M. This Ticket must be carefully preserved and produced when required. ROLAND AUSTIN. WILLIAM AND RALPH SHELDON (12 S. -vii. 466, 516). While information has been given in regard to the tapestry industry founded at Barcheston by William Sheldon of Beoley, and his identity has been estab- lished, his relationship to the Catherine Sheldon who married Edmund Plowden is
- Still unanswered. In the hope that more
information may be forthcoming, let me state the difficulty. The question is whether Catherine was the daughter of this William (Sheldon pedigree) or his cousin (Plowden pedigree according to Archdeacon -Cameron in the extract quoted by MB. WAINEWRIGHT). The Sheldon pedigree will be found in full detail in Nash's ' Worcester- shire, 1781-99,' having been contributed to that work by J. C. Brooke, Somerset Herald, as an act of gratitude to the memory of the "great" Ralph Sheldon (1623-84) who gave over 300 MSS. and numerous pedigrees to the College of Arms. Some useful addi- tions are contained in Glazebrook's ' The Heraldry of Worcestershire.' 1873, and in the Sheldon pedigree in vol. v., p. 849, of JToley's ' Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus.' According to these authorities, Ralph Sheldon who married the heiress of the Rudings and acquired with her land in Beoley, Feckenham, Hanbury and Martin Hussingtree, had six sons. Of these William, the eldest, of Barford Hall, purchased the Manor of Beoley from Richard Neville, Lord Latimer, in the reign of Edward IV. He was an ardent supporter of the House of York, followed Richard III. to Bosworth and had his estates confiscated by the victorious Henry VII. He died with- out issue September, 1517, the estates having been restored to him in that year [This is the William that the Plowden pedigree makes father of Catherine.] William's younger brother Ralph eventually succeeded to the Beoley property. He married Philippa, daughter and co -heiress of Baldwin Heath and died September, 1546. Of their issue William the eldest son is the one who established the tapestry works at Barcheston having married as his first wife Mary, daughter and co -heiress cf William Willington of Barcheston. He purchased the Manor of Weston "uxla Chiriton, co
