Description:The document above shows the ‘Rules of the Lilleshall Bank for Savings’. This printed volume details the ‘Rules, Orders, and Regulations, of the Lilleshall Savings Bank’ which was established under the patronage of George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), the second Marquis of Stafford in January 1818.
Like the Trentham Savings Bank, the Lilleshall institution was established for ‘the safe custody and increase of small savings belonging to the industrious classes’.
The bank was intended to serve the inhabitants of Lilleshall and the surrounding areas, including Sheriffhales and Kinnersley. Tenants of the Marquis of Stafford from other localities were also able to use the bank.
The volume lists the ‘Trustees and Managers’ of the bank in Shropshire and outlines the rules which governed the depositing of money in the bank. Rules relating to the receipt and withdrawal of money tell us about savings bank regulations in the early nineteenth century.