| Disgrifiad | by Samuel Kenrick of West Bromwich that, to his knowledge, "...this cabinet (in two parts)..." was formerly the property of the Rev. John Kenrick, Minister at Wrexham (ob. 1744); that his grand-daughter Mrs Martha Parry of Chester recollects its being in the house of J K's widow at Wrexham; that after the widow's death in 1775 it passed into the hands of her son William Kenrick of Wrexham; that on his death in 1793 it was purchased by the late James Kenrick of the same; that it came into the said Samuel Kenrick's possiession in 1824. An undated footnote in a different hand explains that the cabinet was presented to William Kenrick of Wynn Hall by the said Samuel Kenrick.
Note : this account is written on the dorse of a fragment of an indenture of apprenticeship, whereby William Lawley son of John Lawley is bound to [Samuel] Kenrick of the parish of West Bromwich, Ironfounders, as iron pot caster. |