Heaton refers to Andrew Williams (1693-1776), one of the Williams decoymen dynasty from Borough Fen in Cambridgeshire from 1670 onwards. Williams came to work in Shropshire at the Aston Hall decoy by the Perry for sixty years until his death. His epitaph, also quoted by Payne-Gallwey (1886), is reproduced on p.29.

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