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SURVEY

STAFFORDSHIRE

CONTAINING THE

^intiqutties of t^nt County,
BY SAMPSON ERDESWICK, Esa,

COLLATED WITH MANUSCRIPT COPIES,
AND WITH
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS,
BY
WYRLEY, CHETWYND, DEGGE, SMYTH, LYTTELTON,
BUCKERIDGE, AND OTHERS ;
IlLUSTBATIVE OF
^tt ^i^im^ anD ^nttauitie^ of tijat County.
BY THE
Reverend THOMAS. HA RWOOD, B.D. F.S.A.

FUiT HjEC SAPIENTIA ttuONDAM. Horat. de Art. Poet,

9jOe0tmm0ter :
PRINTED BY AND FOR JOHN NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMBNT-
STREETj AND FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIE6, STRAND.
1820.

3.v3.4^6

TO THE VENERABLE
CHARLES BUCKERIDGE, D.D.
ARCHDEACON OF COVENTRY,
AND FIRST CANON RESIDENTIARY OF LICHFIELD;
BY WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT IT WAS UNDERTAKEN,
AND BY WHOSE LIBERALITY IT WAS PROMOTED,
THIS EDITION OF ERDESWICK,
" VENERANDJE ANTiaUITATIS CULTOR MAXIMUS,"
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY ADDRESSED
BY HIS OBLIGED
AND OBEDIENT SERVANT,
THOMAS HARWOOD.
Lichfield, 1820.

LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.

The Marquess of Anglesey, K. G. large paper.
The Lord Viscount Anson, 2 copies, l.p.
John Atkinson, esq. Maple Hays.
The Lord Bagot, l.p.
The Hon. William Bagot, I. p.
The Rev. Egerton Bagot, Pipe Hays, l.p.
The Rev. Mr. Canon Bailye, Lichfield.
Mr. Baker, Tamworth.
 Bamford, esq. Rugeley, I. p.
Mr. E. Barber, Enville.
William Bedford, esq. F. S. A. I. p.
The Rev. J. Bevan, Womborne, I, p.
John Blount, esq. Lea Hall, Worcestershire.
Sir John Fenton Boughey, bart. M. P. I. p.
The Rev. Thomas Bradburne, Lichfield.
The Hon. Lady Bromley.
The Rev. Chas. Buckeridge, D.D. Lichfield, 2 copies, l.p.
The Rev. Richard Buckeridge, Lichfield.
Lewis Buckeridge, esq. Lichfield, 2 copies.
Richard Burman, esq. Southam.
Charles Chadwick, esq. Mavesyn-Ridware, l.p.
Hugo Malveysin Chadwick, esq. I. p.
Henry Chinn, esq. Lichfield, I. p.
William Chrees, esq. Wolverhampton.
The Rev. J. A. Cotton, EUesmere.
Mr. Henry Cotton, Lichfield.
Henry Crocket, esq. Little-Onn, I. p.
The Lord Viscount Curzon.
The Earl of Dartmouth, l.p.
John Dent, esq. Stone.

VI LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.
 Dicas, esq. Chester.
George Dodson, esq. Lichfield.
The Rev. J. Dudley, Himley, l.p.
Dugdale S. Dugdale, esq. M. P. I. p.
George Durant, esq. Tong Castle.
Mrs. Dyott, Freeford.
Lieut.-General Dyott, I. p.
John Philip Dyott, esq. Lichfield.
Mr. Eborall, Lichfield.
Charles Evans, esq. Compton, I. p.
Edward Farmer, esq. Wolverhampton.
William Feary, esq. Lichfield, l.p.
Lieutenant Fernyhough,
William Fletcher, esq. Aston, I. p.
The Rev. T. O. Burnes Floyer, Lichfield, l.p.
John Forster, esq. Walsall.
James E. Fowler, esq.
Sir John Dickenson Fowler, knt. I. p.
Thomas GifFard, jun, esq. Chillington, /. p.
William Gill, esq. Lichfield.
Mr. Glover, Hammerwich.
Sir Roger Gresley, bart. l.p.
Edward Grove, esq. Shenstone Park, I. p.
The Rev. Thomas Grove, Mavesyn-Ridware.
Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall, esq. Holly Bush.
Miss Hallen, Lichfield, I. p.
James Walthall Hammond, esq. Wistaston, Cheshire, I. p.
William Hamper, esq. Birmingham, I. p.
Robert Hanbury, esq. NortoHj I. p.
Mr. B. Harding, Maer.
R. J. Harper, esq. New Lodge, I. p.
Robert Harvey, esq. I. p.
Thomas Harwood, esq. Derby, I. p.
Charles Harwood, esq. Stourbridge, I. p.
John Harwood, esq. Madras, E. I. I. p.
Mrs. Mary Hastings, Dover-street, London, /. p.
Miss C. Hastings, Lichfield, I. p.
Joseph Hateley, esq. West Bromwich.

LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. vli
E. Heaton, esq. Endon near Leek.
The Hon. William Hill, 3 copies, l.p.
Thomas Hinckley, esq. Lichfield, I. p.
Thomas Holmes, esq. Tamworth.
Mr. William Holmes, Lichfield.
Francis Holyoake, esq. Tettenhall, I. p.
 Hoper, esq. Great Marlborough-street, London, l.p.
Phineas Hussey, esq. Wyrley, l.p.
Henry Jesson, esq. TrysuU, I. p.
The Rev. Charles Inge, Rugeley, l.p.
Charles P. Johnstone, esq. Newbold Manor, /. p.
William Keen, esq. Stafford.
Thomas Sneyd Kynnersley, esq. Loxley.
M. K. London.
Walter Landor, esq. Rugeley.
John Lane, esq. King's Bromley, I. p.
S. M. Ledsam, esq. Birmingham, I. p.
Miss Levett, Lichfield, I. p.
The Rev. Thomas Levett, Lichfield.
Thomas Lister, esq. Armitage Park.
Edward John Littleton, esq. M. P. I. p.
Charles Lyons, esq. Taunton, 2 copies, I. p.
The Rev. Spencer Madan, D. D.
The Rev. Mr. Canon Madan, Lichfield, l.p.
R. B. Marsh, esq. Lloyd House, I, p.
Robert Mayne, esq. Lichfield.
Thomas Mills, esq. Barlaston, /. p.
J. E. Molineux, esq. Wolverhampton, l.p.
John Mott, esq. Lichfield, l.p.
F. Nairn, esq. Wednesbury.
The Rev. Archdeacon Nares, I. p.
Mr. William Naylor, Gornall.
The Rev. Mr. Canon Newling, Lichfield, I. p,
H. F. Okeover, esq. Okeover.
The Rev. C. G. Okeover, /. p.
George Ormerod, esq. LL. D. F. R. S. F. S. A- I- P-
James Palmer, esq. Lichfield, /. p.
T. G. Parr, esq. I. p.

Viii LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.
John Pearson, esq. Tettenhall, l.p.
The Rev. J. H. Petit, l.p.
Dr. Phillimore, M. P. l.p.
Colonel De Pirch, Lichfield.
Sinkler Porter, esq. Derby, l.p-
T. F. Proud, esq. Wolverhampton, I. p.
The Rev. E. S. Remington, Lichfield.
Charles B. Robinson, esq. Hill-Ridware.
Thomas Rowley, esq. Overton, Cheshire, l.p.
Charles Salt, esq.
The Rev. William Salt, Lichfield.
Mr. Sanders, Burntwood.
Sir Joseph Scott, bart.
The Rev.  Shell, Cannock, I. p.
Mr. Francis Sherrat, Lichfield.
Stephen Simpson, esq. Lichfield.
James Simpson, esq. Derby.
The Rev. Richard Slaney, Penkridge, /. p.
The Rev.  Sleath, D. D. Repton, I. p
H. L. Smith, esq. Southam. '
The Rev. T. Smith, Bovenger, Essex.
William Smith, esq. Southwell.
Henry Somerville, esq. Stafford, I. p.
The Earl of Stamford, I. p.
William Terinant, esq. Little Aston.
John Tomlinson, esq. Cliffe Ville, I. p.
Mrs. Trubshaw, Little Haywood.
Uttoxeter Book Society.
Moreton Walhouse, esq. Hatherton, l.p.
The Rev. Henry White, Lichfield, l.p. and s.p.
Edmund Wigan, esq. Lapley, I. p.
Mrs. Willington, Pipe Hill, 2 copies.
Francis Willington, esq. Tamworth, I. p.
Samuel Pipe Wolferstan, esq. Statfold, I. p.
The Very Rev. Dr. Woodhouse, Dean of Lichfield, tp.
Richard Wright, M. D. Lichfield.

PREFACE.

A HE County of Stafford is in length sixty-two miles,
in breadth thirty-eight, in circumference one hundred
and eighty. It contains sixteen market towns, and one
hundred and eighty-one parishes, twelve hundred and
twenty square miles, and seven hundred and eighty
thousand statute acres. It is within the diocese of
Lichfield and Coventry, and the province of Canter
bury ; and is within the Oxford Circuit. Its population,
according to the last act in 181 1, consisted of two hun
dred and thirty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty-
three persons ; of whom one hundred and eighteen thou
sand six hundred and ninety-eight were males, and one
hundred and twenty thousand four hundred and fifty-
five were females ; of whom also seventy-two thousand
four hundred and sixty-five were employed in trade and
manufacture, and forty-three thousand nine hundred
and thirty in agriculture.
It is divided into five Hundreds. The Hundreds of
Offlow and Totmanslow, had their names from sepulch
ral monuments of Saxon commanders. Pirehill, is a
b

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hill near Stone. Seisdon is a village near Wolverhamp
ton ; and Guddleston was a village near Penkridge ;
of which nothing but a bridge yet remains to mark its
situation. Its rivers are the Trent, the Dove, the Tame, the Sow,
the Penk, the Blythe, the Tene, besides smaller streams
and waters.
The Trent rises from Newpool, at Knipersley, and
from two springs near Molecap and Norton Hay, and
is increased in its course by the Sow, Eccleshall water,
and other rivulets. It derives its name from Trenta,
drie, three, on account of the three sources from whence
it springs. It flows south-east, near Newcastle, to
Trentham Park, where it is formed into a spacious lake,
It passes through Stone, Ingestrie, Tixall, and Shug-
borough. It washes the village of Colwich, the chase
of Cannock, and the ancient baronial hall of Wolseley.
From hence it waters the villages of Armitage, the Rid-
wares, King's Bromley, Yoxall, Alrewas, the park of
W^ichnor ; and, taking a northeirly course, it becomes
the boundary of the county, flowing along the banks of
Catton, and of Drakelow, the park of sir Roger Gresley,
bart. on the Derbyshire side, to the ancient bridge of
Burton, having received the streams of the Sow, the
Tame, and the Blythe.
The Dove rises in Alstonfield, immortalized by Dray
ton, Cotton, and Walton ; and forms the beautiful dell
of Dove Dale, winding along hills covered with woods,
and rocks. It receives the Manifold, from the subterra
neous caves near the gardens of 11am. It passes near
Ashbourn, Uttoxeter, Sudbury, beneath the castle of
Tutbury, falling into the Trent, just at its leaving the

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county, near Barton. In its course it is augmented
with the streams of Manifold, Hamp, and Churnet,
which receives also Dunsmore Brook, Endon water,
and the Tene, with other streams.
The Tame rises in Seisdon hundred, is increased by
the Smestal, the Stour, the Walsall-water, Hammer-
wich-water, and other streams. It leaves the eastern
part of the county at Oldbury, and crossing Offlow
hundred at the south end, passes into Warwickshire. It
re-enters the county of Drayton Basset, flowing by
Tamworth, which takes its name from it, Hopwas, Tam-
horn, and Elford, and falls into the Trent, near Wichnor.
The Sow rises near Newcastle, and falls into the
Trent below Stafford.
The Penk gives name to Penkridge, through which
it passes, rising in Cuddleston hundred.
The Tern rises at Maer, and taking a south-west
course, falls into the Severn, near Wroxeter.
The Blythe gives name to Blithbury, and falls into
the Trent.
Within the county are some remarkable pieces of
water, as Ladford-pool, Eccleshall Castle-pool, Ham
merwich reservoir, New, and Maer-pools, and Aqualate.
The navigable Canals are numerous in this county.
Dr. Congreve of Wolverhampton, proposed a junction
of the Trent and Severn".
The numerous and medicinal springs, the minerals,
the botanical herbs, and its other natural productions,
are enumerated at great length by Plot and by Shaw.
' His plan is annexed to one of the printed editions of
Erdeswick. b 2

XU PREFACE.
The Watling-street and Ikenild-street pass through
this county.
The Watling-street enters it at Fazeley, and in a
western direction, passes to the county of Salop. The
Ikenild-street enters it between Burton and Tutbury,
passes through Streethay, to the south of Lichfield,
towards Handsworth and Warwickshire.
The Tumuli are very numerous. The chief are on
Watling-street, at Cat's hill, which has been supposed
to be a contraction of Canuti tumulus. Calves' Heath,
Sardon, Offlow near Swinfen, Harlow Greave, Calwich,
near Okeover Church, on Wever Hills, near Leek and
Warslow, on Eaton Hill, Elford, Barrow Hill, Borrow-
cop Hill, Lichfield, Kinver and Compton, and Cauldon.
At Ashford Heath, King's Swinford, is a Roman
camp, called Wolverhampton church-yard. There is a
Roman work at Morton, south of Wrottesley. The
hills at Seisdon appear like bastions, and make it pro
bable that it was once a fortification, but whether of
Roman or British construction is uncertain. Relicks of
warlike instruments have been found in the lows on
Womborne Heath. In 911, at Wednesfield, Edward
the Elder defeated the Danes in a battle, in which two of
their kings, two earls, and nine other chiefs, were slain ;
memorials of it are to be seen in South- Low-field; in
North-Low-field the barrow has been levelled.
Cannock Heath, to which Sutton Colfield was united,
is supposed to have been the residence of the Druids.
Near Aldridge was a small common, lately inclosed, to
this day bearing the name of Druid's Heath. The emi
nence called Knave's Castle, on Cannock Heath, near

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Hammerwich, has been also marked as their habitation,
before it became a Roman or a British station.
This county was a part of the ancient Cornavii, and
one of the seventeen counties of the kingdom of the
Middle Saxons, or Mercia. On the partition of the
kingdom between Edmund Ironside and Canute, it fell
under the government of the latter. By their buildings
and religious foundations the Saxons have left numerous
traces. They had camps at Kinver, and Bury Bank
near Stone. They had castles at Tamworth, Dudley,
Wednesbury, Kingston Hill near Stafford, and in Beau-
desert Park. Ethelfleda, daughter of Alfred, who died
in 912, had large possessions here; as had Leofwina
earl of Chester and earl of Mercia, the husband of Go-
deva, who liberated Coventry, and Algar, their son, the
father of Edwin, who was slain by William the Con
queror, as recorded in Domesday book.
William the Conqueror divided the extensive posses
sions of the Mercian earls in this county, between his
partizans, Hugh de Montgomery earl of Arundel, Ro
bert de Stafford, Henry de Ferrers, William Fitz-Ans-
culf, and Nigel, ancestor of sir Roger Gresley, bart.
The bishop of Chester, to whose ecclesiastical jurisdic
tion this county was subject; the abbeys of Westminster
and Burton, the church of Rheims, the canons of Staf
ford, and of Wolverhampton ; earl Roger, and several
other thanes, besides the king, were the other land
holders. In the reign of Henry I. Robert de Belesme,
earl of Shrewsbury, ravaged this county, in favour of
Curthose; and great changes have gradually taken
place in property and families. Many great, families
have been ruined at different periods by revolutions in

PREFACE.

the government, and by their adherence to the losing
side. Some were active partizans in the wars between
Maud and king Stephen. Many were sufferers iu the
tedious and destructive contest between the houses of
York and Lancaster. But in the reign of Hen. VIII.
there was the greatest change of property, when the re
ligious houses were dissolved, and granted by him to
different persons. In the civil war between king Charles
and the parliament, this county associated on the side
of the latter ; and it was impossible for men of property
to preserve their neutrality '. Many estates were now
' In the act for an assessment for six months, from the 25th
of December 1649, for the maintenance of the forces raised by
authority of parliament for the service of England and Ireland,
at the rate of ninety thousand pounds per month for the first
three months, and at the rate of threescore thousand pounds
for the last three months (passed 7 Dec. 1649) ; the county of
Stafford, with the city of Lichfield, was assessed at the aum of
^1200. for the first three months, and at ^800. for the last
three months. The commissioners for the county were :
Sir William Brereton, bart.
John Harwood, of Stourton.
Thomas Crompton.
Matthew Morton.
Edward Manwaring.
Henry Stone.
John Chetwood.
Thomas Parks.
Alexander Wightwich.
Richard Flyer.
Edward Broughton.
Richard Pyott.
John Whitehalgh.
George Ballot, of Uttoxeter.

PREFACE. XV
wasted, and very few were acquired. The lands of the
bishop, and dean and chapter were surveyed and valued,
and sold at a few years' purchase'. At the restoration,
William Pinson, of Wolverhampton.
Timothy Edge, of Horton.
Thomas Moseley.
Thomas Gent, of Leek.
John Goring, of Croxston Abbey.
William Turton, of Alderwas.
Thomas Hadghead, of Wilwidgh.
Thomas Foley.
Edward Danvers.
Thomas Cornwallis, of Ettlngsals. Esquires.
For Lichfield.
The Bailiffs for the time being.
Mr. Saxon.
Mr. Minors.
Mr. Mot.
In a similar act in 16.90, were added,
William Bagot.
Thomas Andrews.
William Jolley.
Daniel Watson.
Edward Ashenhurst. Esquires.
• The following enumeration of Parks was made, about the
time of the restoration, by sir Simon Degge : Those marked
with an asterisk had deer in them, about the time of the civil
war. Tutbury, the king's. *Agardesley, the king's.
Castlehay, the king's. *New Park, the king's.
Stockley, the king's, after *Barton, the king's, after sir
Mr. Chute. Ch. Bromfield.
RoUeston, the king's, after *Rowley, the king's, after sir
Mr. Poell. Tho. Leigh.
*Hanbury, the king's. *Highlyns, the king's.

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PREFACE.

the cavaliers, who had suffered in the royal cause, were
very sparingly rewarded ; and since that time, the com
mon causes of the change of property have been, either
the failure of issue, or the prodigality of the possessor.

*Hamstall Ridware.
*Sherrold, the king's.
Bromley, Mr. Archbold.
*Bagot's, sir Edward Bagot.
*Seney ( Sinai ) the lord Paget.
*Wichnor, Mr. OflBey.
Horecross, Mr. Wells.
Calton, Mr. Will. Chetwynd.
Hawkes New Park, Skef-
fington.
*Fisherwick, Skeffington.
*Wolseley, sir Will. Wolseley.
*Haywood, lord Paget.
*Teddesley, sir Ed. Littleton.
*PiIIaton, sir Edw. Littleton.
Ashmore, Mr. Ed. Leveson.
*Hilton, Mr. Henry Vernon.
Beaudesert, lord Paget.
*Bentley, two parks, Mr.Lane.
Dudley, lord Dudley.
*Wrottesley, sir Walter Wrot-
teslfey.
Pepperhill, Talbot, earl of
Shrewsbury.
Compton, Mr. Harwood.
*Chillington, Mr. Giffard.
?firewood, the Bishop's.
*Rowley, sir Thomas Whit-
greave.
»Aqualate, Ger. Skrymshire.
*Norbury, Mr. P. Skrymshire.
*Stoke, Mr. H. Heveningham.

*Horseley, sir John Peshall.
Blore, the Bishop's.
Willowbridge, the earl of
Shrewsbury.
Stafford, lord Stafford.
*Tixall, lord Aston.
*Ingestrie, Mr. Chetwind.
*Ellenhall, Mr. Cope. '
*Broughton, Mr. Broughton.
Bromley, lord Gerard.
*Madeley, Mr. Offley.
*Chartley, sir S. Shirley.
*Stone, Mr. Crompton.
*Birchwood, Mr. Goring.
*Sandon, Mr. Goring.
*Blore, lord Newcastle.
* Okeover, Mr. Okeover.
*Throwley, lord Ardglass.
*Knipersley, sir John Bowyer.
*Bradwell, Mr. Sneyd.
Shenston, Mr. Lake.
Knightley, Mr. Coke.
*Alveton, earl of Shrewsbury.
Croxden, Mr. Pierpoint.
Bromshall, Mr. Greville.
*Wooton, sir Tho. Fleetwood.
Park Hall, Mr. Whitehall.
*Chedleton, Mr. Jolliffe.
Mr. Skrymshire's New Park.
*Loxley, Mr. Kinnersley.
Ipstones. Sedgeley, lord Ward.

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XVIl

Whilst feudal tenures subsisted, and the courts of
wards and liveries were in use, accurate information
might have been obtained, of the change and descent of
property. The solemn inquisitions were deposited in

Creighton. Enville, lord Stamford.
*Weston-Lizard.*CheadIe, duke of Newcastle.
*Paynesley, Mr. Draycote.

*Offley. Drayton Basset.
Bonninghall.
Patteshull, sir —

• Astley.

These families have been owners

of fetates ever since the

Conquest : —

Biddulph.

Brereton.

Corbyn.

.\ston.

Coyney.

Comberford.

Noel

Draycote.

Wirley.

Harcourt.

Bagot.

Okeover.

Mountford.

Cotes.

Rudyard.

Wolseley.

Wightwick.

Peshall.

Broughton.

Wrottesley.

Congreve.

These are ancient families, that now (1660) enjoy estates :

Manwaring.

Chetwind.

Macclesfield.

Erdeswick.

Chetwood.

Giffard,

Gray.

Wilbraham.

Astley.

Vernon.

Fitzherbert.

Heveningham.

Leigh.

^

These are good i

ancient families : —

Bowyer.
Littleton.
Degge.
Lane.
Rugeley.
Thicknesse.
Kinnersley.
Arblaster.
Minors.
Egerton.
Grosvenor.
Degge.
Of the ancient famihes thus enumerated, who were owners
of estates about the time of the Conqueror, how few remain !
Wolseley, Bagot, Wrottesley, Okeover, now (1S20) reside
upon the spot where the mansions of their paternal ancestors,
through all their successive generations, have stood. The cas-
XVUl PREFACE.
these' courts called Inquisitiones post mortem, which
were taken by the king's escheator after the death of
the possessors, who inquired, on the oaths of a jury, of
what lands they died seized, who were the heirs, of vhat
age, and by what tenure they held them. At the Res
toration these courts were abolished, and the historian
must now depend, for the most part, on his own per
sonal inquiries.
Besides the Sovereign and his family, England,
amongst the Anglo Saxons, had three distinct orders.
Thanes, Ceorles, and Bondsmen, or slaves.
The thanes were of different degrees of nobility, con-
sitting of bishops, priors, and abbots ; dukes, earls,
and viscounts. These titles were very seldom allowed
tellated walls, with their lofty turrets and massive bastions, ,to
repel the attack of the invading foe, or the treacherous neigh
bour ; the shining armour ; the richly-coloured glass, with all
the heraldic ensigns of baronial splendor, no longer remain.
The loud horn, which called the powerful knight, with his nu
merous retinue, to the sports of the chase, no longer blows ;
and the minstrels and the dance, which closed the toils of the
day ; — all are passed away ; leaving behind only a faint shadow
of former greatness, in the more meretricious and luxurious
refinements of modern decoration. Cotes resides at Weston,
but yet possesses the land of his paternal ancestor. Gresley,
of Drakelow, no longer holds his paternal inheritance in this
county, but resides upon the spot on which his illustrious
ancestor was placed, in Domesday Book. Wightwick, Wirley,
and Broughton, yet possess some portion of their inheritance,
but have migrated to other counties. Coyney, Dudley, Fer
rers, and Kynnersley, possess their lands by female descent.
Basset, Macclesfield, Heveningham, Hillary, Noel, Harcourt,
Welles, Draycote, Comberford, Peshall, Arblaster, Astley, and
Rugeley, are extinct in the county.

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to descend to the next heir. The viscounts were sheriffs,
chosen by the county : they had civil jurisdiction, and
collected the royal revenue. The inferior clergy, and
larger landholders, who held of the Crown, or of the
greatest thanes, formed the second class. The third
class were those proprietors of land, sufficient for their
support. Some of their lands were called Boclands,
because they were conveyed by written evidences. Those
were called demesne lands which were adjacent to their
mansions, and cultivated for domestic use. Folkland
was either held by an hereditary tenantry, who attended
their lord in peace or war ; or was held by an inferior
tenantry, who cultivated it, paying a rent in those articles
of provisions, which were required for the supply of
their lord's house. The greatest thanes possessed an
absolute jurisdiction on their estates. All civil and
criminal matters were determined at their hall-mote,
with the consent of their socmen. They owed their
services to the sovereign at home and in the field : they
contributed towards the building and defence of his
castles, and towards the repairing of bridges and roads.
The Ceorles were merchants, traders, or little free
holders. To elevate them to the third class of thanes,
they were either to obtain an office in the royal court;
to possess learning sufficient to qualify them for the
priesthood; to obtain from an earl or duke five hides of
land, a gilt sword, helmet, and breast-plate, as a reward
of their courage: to make three voyages to a foreign
shore, in a ship freighted by themselves; or, in any
manner, to possess five hides of land, upon which was
a church, a kitchen, a bell-house, and a great gate or
lodge. These had the same privileges as those who

XX PREFACE.

were of the third class by birth : their lives and property
were held in equal estimation; and their weregild, or
testimony, was of equal weight in courts of judicature.
Bondsmen, or slaves, constituted the third class, and
were menial servants, or mechanics in the lord's service.
The villains, men settled in villages, belonged personally
to the lord, who transferred them with the estates : their
lands are still called copyhold, held by inferior tenure.
By obtaining their liberty they became Ceorles, and
enjoyed the rights of freemen ; but, for the sake of dis
tinction, were called Freolaetans.
At the Conquest, the title of Duke, which had been
held by William in Normandy, was discontinued. The
Earls possessed nearly the same power as before. The
second order of thanes became barons, having about
ten manors ; which, under the former system, had con
stituted a tithing. A certain number of knights fees,
being a certain quantity of land, made a barony.
Though the Viscounts changed their name for Shire-
reeve, or Sheriff, the office was the same. The lesser
Thanes became Vavasors. From these the gentry of
England, not of foreign extraction^ are descended.
Their lands were called Vavasories. The services from
the -great landholders was now called grand serjeanty ;
and, from the smaller landholders, petty serjeanty.
Knights' service remains nearly in its former state. The
Ceorles took the name of freemen ; and from these, and
the junior branches of the Vavasors, the great mass of
the middle rank of the English are at this time com
posed. In the bondsmen there was little change, and
from them the great majority of the lowest ord«r of
Englishmen now descend.

PREFACE. Xxi
Reliefs, which were compounded for by William the
Second in money, acknowledged some hereditary right
to land. Baronial, and other lands, were made here
ditary by Henry the First, who permitted mothers, or
nearest relations, to become guardians to minors. The
nobles were now allowed to dispose of their daughters in
marriage, without the consent of the Sovereign ; who,
in return, gave the same privileges to their vassals.
The names of the French' and Norman settlers in
England, in the time of Henry the Second and Richard
the First, chiefly end in ville; those of Anjoy, in lere;
those of Guienne, especially near the Garonne, in ac;
and those of Picardy, in cour. The Norman names
generally begin with beau^ de, des, la, da, de la, saint, and
fitz, and often include in them champ, mart, mont.
From the Conquest to the time of king John, the
country was for the most part in the hands of strangers,
and the language of the courts was in French. In the
reign of Henry the Third, this distinction in the people
gradually ceased. The Anglo Saxons no longer viewed
the Normans and the House of Anjoy with suspicion
' In the Sheriff's Turn, so called from the French word tour,
(vicisj, sat the bishop, the earl or ealderman, which was held
twice in the year, long before the Norman Conquest, and in
which grants and contracts were made on particular occasions,
as appears by an original deed (penfes Walt. Wrottesley, ba-
ronettum, an. 1662), bearing date 4 Edw. I. in which Alice,
the daughter of WilUam de Wrottesle, of Wrottesle, in Staf
fordshire, in her pure widowhood, bestows all that land which
her father gave in frank marriage with her unto one Henry
Fitzhugh, and which thus concludes : — Data apud Wlvrene-
hamptone, &c. coram domino Bogone de Cnovyle, tunc tem-
poris viceeomite Staff, et Salop, et magnum Turnum suum, &c.

XXU PREFACE.
and hatred, and the English language was in general
use. They who had adopted the Christian names of
their Norman masters, as William, Henry, Richard, in
stead of Edgar, Alfred, Egbert, or Ethelred, now as
sumed surnames. They also borrowed their family
names from towns and manors in England, which gene
rally end in ford, field, den, ley, ham, ly, down, well, hurst,
hill, zdck, sted, bury, worth, ing, hw, ton, borough, ter,
land, try, thorp, &c.
In all the relics we have of the time of Edward I. taste
and elegance are remarkably conspicuous. The best
artists of Italy were employed in the erection of his cas
tles and crosses. The martial dress of the nobles be
came more costly. Their arms were depicted on a loose
coat, worn over their armour, and upon the caparison
of their horses. A badge, worn on the top of their hel
mets, was the origin of crests, which afterwards was
placed over their arms on a helmet. Wives had their
arms impaled with those of their husbands, and the
label distinguished the arms of the son from those of the
father. The titles of knight and of esquire, of Norman origin,
became more common. Alfred knighted his grandson
Athelstan, The larger proprietors of land were knighted
by Edward the First, who conferred the same distinction
on his eldest son, together with three hundred of his
attendants, sons of earls, barons, and knights. In the
next reign, at the battle of Bannockburn, seven hun
dred knights were present. About this time the order of
Knight Banneret was created, the honour being con
ferred upon the achievement of some great action upon
the field of battle. They are termed milites vexilliferi,

PREFACE. XXUl

and were distinguished by having a square shield, and
bearing their arms in a banner of the same form.
At the Conquest, earldoms had been the highest dig
nity which the younger sons of the sovereign had
enjoyed, Edward III. revived- the superior title of
Duke ; and that of M arquess was introduced by king
Henry VI. in the person of William de la Pole. Knight
hood had now become general ; every head of a family,
and often, as may be observed in this county, several
sons received it. By the influx and circulation of
wealth, and the increase of commerce, surnames now
became general, even amongst the lower orders, who
assumed them, not from places, as that would have
have been offensive to their superiors, but from trades,
offices, games, birds, quadrupeds, insects, fish, trees,
flowers, shrubs, herbs, rivers, colours, metals, minerals ;
from wall, hedge, house ; from their local residence, as
at-hall, at-well, at-wood, at-field ; from implements of
agriculture, war, furniture ; from the properties of body
and mind, as strong, short, wit, love; and from the
baptismal name of father and mother, often with the
addition of the word, son. Other names are derived
from countries, in remembrance of their origin ; others,
from dress, money, divisions of time, &c. Many ancient
names are extinct; and many are so transformed, as
scarcely to bear any resemblance to their original mean
ing. In this county, Hugh was a common Christian
name, from the earls of Chester of that name, who had
great estates in the adjacent county. In the middle age,
the name of Robert was so much in use, from the earls
of Stafford, and afterwards the name of Walter, from
Walter, viscount Hereford, and Walter, earl of Essex,

XXIV PREFACE,

men of the greatest power and estate in the county, that
there was scarcely an ancient family, which had not
adopted these names.
In the feign of Henry IV. the Order of the Bath was
established, which was superior to Knights Bachelors,
but not so high as Bannerets. The title of Esquire was
scarcely found in any deeds before the time of Richard
the Second, and then this distinction was obtained from
attending their lords with arms or shields, and were
called Armigeri and Scutiferi. None were stiled by the
title of Gentleman before the reign of Henry the Sixth,
and even then it was unusudl. The hereditary use of
arms was not generally established till Henry the Third,
when the son no longer varied from the coat of his
father. The custom of taking titles from surnames', and not
from places, began after the Restoration. An here
ditary order of Baronets was instituted by James I. Vis
count Cranbume, in this reign, was the first of that
title who was permitted to wear a coronet. Charles II.
gave it to barons.
It cannot be expected, that similitude and propriety
in the orthography of the names of places and persons
can always be observed. The variety of spelling in
manuscripts and histories, and in other records, public
and private, renders it impossible. The names of places,
which occur in this Volume, from Domesday Book and
' In later times, to the great abuse of heraldry, many, who
had been advanced to a degree of fortune, however mean their
extraction, have assumed names without any legal title. This
practice is only common in Britain ; on the Continent, it never
takes place.

PREFACE, -XXV

bther authorities, are often different from those in com
mon use, which they are i&upposed to describe. This
difference appears to have been owing, as well to the
mistakes of the Norman scribes> who derived their infor
mation from the Saxon inhabitantSj as by the great
change Worked by the lapse of ages in the very nataes
themselves! It requires some knowledge of the ancient
history of the several places, ofteri of the provincial
dialect, and not unfrequently the aid of conjecture, to
fix the names to the places which they are intended to
describe. Thfere is yet more variety in the names of
persons. Fathers and sons and brothers have often
altered the mode of spelling their nkme, to distinguish
the different branches of the same family, and others
have again resumed the more ancient spelling of their
names. The different ways in which the name of Lit
tleton has been spelt will illustrate this remark : De
Luttelton, De Litelton, De Littelton, Luttelton, Lu-
telton, Lutleton, Luttelyngto'n, Leteltbn, Littleton,
Litleton, Lyttleton, Littelton, Litelton, Lytelton, Lyt-
telton. And at this time, the descendants from the
same common ancestor, at Teddesley and at Hagley,
differ in the orthography of their names, Edward John
Littleton, and lord Lyttelton. The variations of the
spelling will generally be found to be numerous, accord
ing to the antiquity, distinction, or great possessions, of
the family denoted by it".
-' The variations of the name of Perceval, earls of Egmont,
as they occur in records, are twenty-nine in number ; and it is
remarkable,, that, through eight successive generations, only
one person wrote the name the same as his father. The names
of Bromwicham, Percy, and many others, have also, been
variously written.

XXVI PREFACE.

The genealogies of families have sometimes been held
in too mean estimation, when it is considered that men
whose ancestors have been famed for their public quali-
" ties, as orators, statesmen, and warriors, as eminent in
philosophy, learning, and the polite arts, may be sti
mulated to similar pursuits. Relationship of family,
extended by the preservation of pedigrees, promotes a
chain of association and benevolence, which often
affords assistance and support to every link of it. The
statutes of many public foundations enjoin a preference
in the election of their members to particular consangui
nities. Many endowments for the education of youth in
the Universities and in schools, and many offices of trust,
and honour, and emolument, are confined to kindred
by the founders and benefactors. Many estates are lost
to their legitimate owners from the inadequacy of their
pedigrees to trace and authenticate their titles to them.
And those only who have no pedigree to boast, make an
cient descent the subject of their ridicule and contempt.
According to the legend, several thousand men were
massacred in the place upon which the city of Lichfield
stands, as martyrs to the Christian faith, in the persecu
tion under Diocletian. Christian-field, near Stichbrook,
seems to mark the scene of this slaughter ; aud Borrow-
cop may have been the sepulchral monument of some
chiefs who fell in the conflict. Lichfield was made a
bishop's see by Oswy, after he had conquered and slain
Penda king of Mercia, in memory of these martyrs.
St. Bertelline, the son of a king of this part of the
country, and the scholar of St. Guthlac, with whom he
lived till his death, retired to an island then called
Bethiney, and led the life of a hermit. Ridiculed for

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PREFACE. XXvii
the severity and sanctity of his life, he abandoned this
solitude, and removed to the more mountainous part of
the country, where he died. Upon Bethiny was after
wards built the town of Stafford.
St, Wulfade and Rufinus having been converted to
Christianity by St, Chad, were slain by their father Wul-
fere king of Mercia, who, struck with remorse at his
barbarous cruelty, became himself a convert to the same
faith ; banished all idolatrous worship from his domi
nions, and promoted St. Chad to the see of Lichfield.
Many men of high station, and eminent for their
piety and patriotism, genius and learning, were natives
of this county.
William Dudley bishop of Durham. Edmund Staf
ford', brother of Ralph first earl of Stafford, and bishop
of Exeter, died in 1419. Edmund Audley, succes
sively bishop of Rochester, Hereford, and Salisbury,
Thomas Swinnerton, of Swinnerton, died in 1534.
Richard Turner, died at Basil, in exile, in queen Mary's
reign, Richard Caldwell, an eminent physician, and
president of the College of Physicians, died in 1585,
William Giffard, of the Chillington family, archbishop
of Rheims, died April 4, 1629. William Fenner, a theo
logical writer, rector of Rochford, Essex, died in l640.
Thomas Allen, at Buckenhall, whom Camden stiles
plurimis et optimis artibus ornatissimus, Isaac Walton,
at Stafford. Charles Cotton, the poet, at Beresford.
Elijah Fenton, the poet, at Shelton. Gilbert Sheldon,
archbishop of Canterburj', at Stanton. Elias Ash-
mole, the herald and antiquary; Richard Smalridge,
bishop of Bristol; Gregory King, herald and political
' The birth-place of this prelate has been disputed.
c 2

XXVIll PREFACE.
economist; Thomas Newton bishop of Bristol; and
Samuel Johnson,' the lexicographer, poet, moralist, and
critic ; were born at Lichfield. Richard Hurd, succes
sively bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and Worcester,
at Congreve near Penkridge, These are names of the
highest celebrity in the republic of letters, and the orna
ments and instructors of their country.
Nor must those illustrious natives, Anson and Jervis,
be omitted, who were ennobled for their gallant naval
services, whose names will be remembered with vene
ration, and whose achievements will be recorded with
admiration and applause in the imperishable annals of
their country.
Many natives of this county have been dignified with
the highest stations in the law, and others connected
with families who possess property in it. Martin de
Patshull, 2 Hen. III. and Egidius de Erdinton, 36 Hen.
III. were justices in the courts at Westminster or iti
nerant. Thomas Littleton, the celebrated judge, lived
temp. Hen. VI. Will, de ghareshuU, WilKam Basset,
John Inge, and Roger Hillary, were among the eight
judges of the Common Pleas, 12 Edw. III. In later
times, Parker, lord chief baron of the Exchequer, a
native of Park-hall ; and Parker, who was a native of
Leek, was raised to the dignity' of lord chancellor, and
created earl of Macclesfield.
The earliest historians of this county after Leland,
the father of English antiquaries, was William Cam
den; who, in his Britannia, has written an account of
Staffordshire; the English translarion of which by
bishop Gibson is in the hands of every reader. Sampson
Camden, his father, was a native of Lichfield, and

PREFACE. Xxix
settled as a painter in London,' residing in the Old
Bailey, where his son William, afterwards by way of
eminence surnamed the learned, was born May 21,
1551. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and at St.
Paul's school, and became g. servitor at Magdalen col
lege, Oxford; from which he removed to Broadgate
hall, and afterwards to Christ Church. From Oxford
he was elected second master of Westminster school,
and, in 1592, head master. He was Clarenceux king
at arras, and founder of the professorship of modem
¦ history at Oxford. His works are numerous, learned,
and valuable. He died at Chislehurst in Kent, Nov. 19,
1623, aged 73. Arms : Or, a fesse between six cross-
lets Sable. ,
Sampson Erdeswick was the son of Hugh Erdeswick,
esq. descended from an ancient family at Sandou in this
county, where he was born. He became a gentleman-
commoner of Brazenose college, Oxford, in 1553-4;
where he laid the foundation of his future eminence and
usefulness. He afterwards retired to the possession of
his patrimony, and devoted his time to the pursuit and
encouragement of elegant learning. He began his
" View" or '' Survey" of Staffordshire, about 1593, and
continued it to his death. The work was not published
during his life ; but he is supposed to have made a
second draught of it before bis death, free from some
mistakes into which he had fallen in the former. His
MSS. fell into the hands of Walter Chetwynd, of In
gestrie, esq. a gentleman not less devoted to antiqua
rian inquiries, and equally disposed to exert his abili
ties and his time for the public benefit. The printed
edition by Curl, was from the earlier MS. Loxdale

XXX PREFACE.

had seen several copies wbich contained the same blun
ders, which caused him to believe that they were all
transcribed from the same, which had been used by
some person who could not decipher the hand-writing
of Erdeswick, or was completely ignorant of the sub
ject ; and in which the plainest narrative has been fre
quently confounded. The copies, however, in many
instances, vary from each other, not only in the ortho
graphy but in the language, and even in the topogra
phical arrangement. In his examination of the MSS
at Ingestrie, Shaw could not find the original " Survey;"
and was satisfied that it was not amongst the Chetwynd
papers, and probably not extant. But he discovered
three other manuscript volumes, consisting of extracts
5rom ledger-books, old deeds, church notes, parochial
memorials, and pedigrees, in the hand-writing of Erdes
wick, Burton, sir Simon Degge, Ferrers of Baddesky,
and Chetwynd ; besides many papers transcribed by
that ingenious herald Gregory King.
Erdeswick is also said to have written " Collections
of Genealogies, Monuments, Arms, &c." mentioned
by Anthony a Wood ; the same probably which yet re-
at Ingestrie,
It is said that he wrote " The true use of Armoury,"
published under the name of W, Wyrley, an. 1592. But
Wood in his life of Wyrley contradicts this supposi
tion, and endeavours to prove that it was the production
of Wyriey. " This person," says he, " having from
his childhood had an excellent genius for arms and
armory, was entertained in the family of Sampson
Erdeswicke, of Sandon, esq. called then by some the
antiquary of Staffordshire; where, making a consi-

OF I:ngestir]e,,

n,t/yj?,.:l ^/,.rii iSz^-.fy j.mcJu<^ i: J.m

PREFACE. XXXI

derable progress in heraldical and antiquarian studies,
under his inspection, published a book under his own
name, entitled, ' The true use of Armory, shewed by
history, and plainly proved by example, &c. Lond.
1592. qto.' reported by some to have been originally
written by the said Erdeswicke; but he, being an an
cient man, thought it fitter to have it published under
Wyrley's name than his. However the reader is not to
think so, but rather to suspend his thoughts (being only
a bare report, that came originally from Erdeswicke's
mouth) and to know this, that Wyrley was an ingenious
man, and fit to compose such a book ; and that Erdes
wicke being so often times crazed, especially in his last
days, and fit then for no kind of serious business, would
say any thing that came into his mind ; as 'tis very well
known at this day among the chief of the College of
Arms." Sir William Dugdale seems to be of a different
opinion. In his little book, called " The antient usage
of bearing of arms ; Oxon :" he says, " Beginning with
what was published in print by Mr. Wyrley, a Stafford
shire gentleman, an, 1 592 (34 Eliz.) and intituled ' The
true use of Arms,' but written by Sampson Erdeswicke,
then of Sandon in that county, esq. whose deserved
fame, for his great knowledge in these commendable
studies, is still fresh and flourishing in all these parts."
In a note he also says, " I was assured by Mr. William
Burton, of Lindley in Leicestershire, that Mr. Erdes
wicke did to him acknowledge he was the author of that
discourse ; though he gave leave to Mr, Wyrley (who
had been bred up under him) to publish it in his own
name," Under such a master Wyrley was doubtless
well skilled in those studies ; but it can scarcely be sup-

XXXII PREFACE.

posed that he was the author of the book published
in his name, because it was printed in 1592, whilst he
was an inmate in the house of Erdeswick, and before he
entered at Baliol college, which was not till 1595,
though he was then twenty-one years of age ; and be
cause Erdeswick, who was a man of singular raodesty,
did not publish any of his works himself; and if he was
so impaired in his understanding) he might probably be
incapable of publishing it himself. Wyrley was his
amanuensis,, and Erdeswick mentions him wl^en speak
ing of the town of Dudley: "there is," says hp, "in
the other church-yard, a monument with Saxon cha
racters (as I take them) whereof I caused Wyrley to
take a note, and send the same to Mr. Camden to West^
minster," Our author is also said to have written a poem, pub
lished by Wyrley, on two celebrated captains, sir John
Chandos and sir John Grayllie',
Erdeswick was a man of learning and great accom-r
pUshments, of steady judgmeiit and remarkable in
dustry : Camden calls him, venerandae antiquitatis cult
tor maxinius. Fuller says, " he was descended of right
worshipful and ancient family ;" and acknowledges that
he was much assisted by him in his researches, not only
respecting this county but antiquities in general. Bur
ton, in a preface written by him in l604, speaks highly
of his work ; and adds that even then it was not known
into whose hands the MS. had fallen, though he had
been informed that it was in the possession of sir Tho
mas Gerrard, knt, the papers relating to whose family
• Ashmole's Order of the Garter, &c. Prince's Worthies, p. 248.

PREFACE. XXXUl
now belong to Hugo Meynell, esq. " Exemplo," says
Burton, " amici mei, singularis et unice colendi viri
literatissimi et ornatissimi Sampsonis Erdeswick, de
Sandon, Staffordiensis ; qui accuratissime, quantum
unquam aliquis comitatus Stafford, et Cestrise des-
cripsit ; opus grande, doctissimum, laboratissimeque
navatum: sed. heu dolendum ! immature prseruptus
morte, in lucem non edidit,. sicut in animo esset suo,
cujus consilii ego testis etiam esse possim ; quod opus
in cujus nunc latet manibus incertum est ; audivi nuper
quod pen^s esset Tho. Gerrard militem ; utinam in
lucem propediem prodiret in perpetuam reipublicse uti-
litatem." Erdeswick was twice married ; first, to Elizabeth
Dikeswell, and, secondly, to Maria Neale, widow of sir
Everard Digby, whose son was an unfortunate victim
of the Gunpower Plot. She was daughter of Francis
Neale, esq. of Prestwold in Keythorp in Leicestershire.
There is a portrait of her at Gothurst, co. Buckingham,
now the property of the descendants of the lord keeper
sir Nathan Wright, whose son purchased it. She is
represented in £i black dress pinked with red, has a high
foretop adorned with jewels, a thin upright ruff, kerchief,
a farthingale, with gloves in her hand.
Erdeswick died April 11, 1603, and was buried at
Sandon, Against the north wall of the chancel is a
handsome monument, erected to his memory by himself
in his life-time, representing a colossal figure of himself,
in a recumbent posture, and dressed in a jacket, with
short skirts, and spurs on his legs. In two niches above,
appear his two wives kneeling. It has the following
remarkable inscription;

Ricardus de Vernon, Baro de Sibroc, 20 Will'mi Conquestoris Pater harum ffamiliar' de Vernon.
Kicarausae vei , Holgreve, et Erdeswik, 1086. , „ .

Hoc sibi spe in Xpo resurgendi
posuit Sampson Erdeswik, armiger
qui gen. recta serie ducit a
Ric'o de Vernon, barone de
Sibroc tempore Gui' Co'qst,
Vernon. Malbanc. | Vernon, \ Vernon. |

Huius ffili' et heres Hugo de Verno'
duxit ffiha' et herede' Rainaldi
Ballioli d'ni de Erdeswik et
Holgreve deder't ffilio Mattheo
cuju' ffiir inde diet' fuit de
Holgreve,
Vernon. 1 BaUiole. \ Vernon. | Holgreve. f Holgreve.

Vernon. Mandevill.

Stafforde, Vernon,

Ricardus ffilius junior Matthaei de Holgreve tertu cum pater
iUi Erdeswik dedisset nomen de Erdeswik sibi assumpsit et pos-
teris reliquit, et ex altera herede Guil' d^ni de Leigh on Tho-
r^am de Erdeswik genuit cujus pronepos Thomas q^artus acce-
pi? in uxor' Margarita' unica' ffilia' et heredem Jacobi Stafford
le Sandon militis cujus proavia fuit AVda, una ffiliar et he-
redu' Warini ultimi baronis de Sibroc, proav'yero Guil Staf
ford, Sus secund' Hervsi Bagod ex Mehc'eta baromssa
StaffordiiE, quse fuit proneptis Roberti prirai baronis Staffordis
qui Anglia' Guil' Conquestore ingressus.

Holgreve, Bunbury.

Holgreve. Leighton.

so w P» o

Stafford. Walkelin, 1 Stafforde. I Stafforde. Stafforde,

Erdeswik, Stafforde,
Erdeswik 
Erdeswik 
Erdeswik, Basset.
Erdeswik. Harcourt,
Erdeswik. Grey.
Jirdeswik. Lee,

Erdeswik. MinshuU. I Erdeswik.
Erdeswik. J Clinton,

Sampson Erdeswik, Elizabetha Dikeswell,
Elizabetha uxor prima fuit filia secunda et una trium
heredum Humfridi Dikeswell de Church Waver in com.
Warwici, armigeri, ex qua quinque suscepit filias Mar-
garetam nondumnuptam, Helenamuxorem'ThomseCoyne,
de Weston Coyne, in comitatu Staffordiae, armigeri,
Elizabetham, Mariam, et Margeriam, omnes superstites
necdum enuptas.

Sampson Erdeswik. Maria Neale,
Maria uxor secunda fuit ffilia secunda genitae-
tuna heredu' Ffrancisci Neale de Kaythorpe in comi
tatu' Lecestrie, armigeri, quee illi peperit Richardum,
et Matthaeum, filios, et Jehena' fSliar' ut priori marito
Everardo Digby armigero 14 liberos enixa est, fe qui-
bus Everardus, Joannes, Georgius, Maria, ElizabeAa,
Ffranciscaj et Christiana, nunc sunt superstites.

>
o

Vernon semper viret. Anno Domini 1601.

Arms of Erdeswick : Argent, on a chevron Gules five Jbezants. Also: Or, a fesse Azure.

<

XXXVl PREFACE,

Of William Burton, the historian of Leicestershire,
a memoir is grveri in Granger's Biographical His
tory, vql, II. p. 32, and in Nichols's History of
Leicestershire. He died at Fald in the parish of
Hanbury, in this county, April 6, l645, aged 70, Jle
married in l6Q7, Jane, daughter of Humphrey Adderley,
of We(^dington, co. Warwick; ]by whom he had one
son, Cassibelan, born Nov. l609, who translated Martial
into English. He consumed the latter part of his es
tate, and died Feb. 28, 168}, having previously given
his father's collections to Walter Chetwynd, for his use
in the Antiquities of Staffordshire ; and which papers
were amply uspd by Shaw, in his History. This eminent
Antiquary was the occasion of sir William Dugdale's
writing his History of Warwickshire, which he under
took upon reading the " Description of Leicestershire."
The Catalogue of Religious Houses in England, with
their valuatiop in Speed's Chronicle, is attributed to
Burton. Bishop Kennet stiles him " the best topogra
pher since Cambden." He was brother of the learned
author of the " Anatomy of Melancholy."
William Wyrley, was the son of Augustine Wyrley,
of Nether Seile, in Leicestershire, and grandson of Wil
liam Wyrley, of Handsworth, in this county ; descended
from an ancient family. He was born in Staffordshire
in 1674, and early noticed by Erdeswick, to whoni he
was amanuensis ; under whose eyes, and perhaps from
whose writing, he published " The true use of Armory
shewed by History, and plainly proved by Example,
Lond. 1592, qto." The poem on the " Exploits of Sir
John Chandos, and Sir John Grayllie," printed by him
in 1592, a curious historic performance, is also said to
have been the production of Erdeswick. He entered

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at Baliol College, in 1595 ; and whilst at Oxford, he
employed himself in collecting the arms and inscrip
tions in churches ; and in extracting from the registers
of monasteries. He befcame, in 1604, Rbuge-Croix in
the College of Arms, and died in 1617-18, aged 43. His
MS Collections were numerous, several of which were
in the possession of Mr. Sheldon, of Beoley, co. War
wick, and many of them are in the library of the He
rald's College. He accompanied Burton in his survey
of the churches in Staffordshire, and other counties in
l603, and l608. In the same library is a beautiful copy
of the result of their labours in this way, with arms, mo
numents, and antiquities, neatly drawn.
Sir William Dugdale, knight, was the son of James
Dugdale, gent, and Elizabeth, daughter of Arthur Swin
fen, a younger son of William Swinfen, of Swinfen, in
this county. He was born at Shustock, in Warwick
shire, Sept. 12, l605, and educated by Thomas Sibley,
clerk, curate of Nether^Whitacre, and afterwards by Mr.
James Cranford, at the free-school, Coventry. He
studied the law under his father, who was an attorney,
and married March 17, 1622, at an early age, Margery,
second daughter of John Huntbach, of Seawall, in Bysh-
bury, in this county, gent, by whom he had one son and
three daughters, the youngest of whom married Elias
Ashmole. He resided for one year at Fillongley, co.'
Warwick; when, his father having bought of sir Walter
Aston, the seat and manor of Blythe, in the parish of
Shustock, he sold his house at Fillongley, and, in 1626,
went to Blythe, His literary life has often been written ;
and his works contain an invaluable treasure of antiqua
rian learnino^. He died in universal esteem and venera-

'O'

XXXVlll PREFACE.

tion, Feb. 10, 1685-6, and was buried at Shustock, under
a large altar monument. At Blythe, is an excellent
half-length portrait of this celebrated antiquary ; from
whose indefatigable labours, all his successors in similar
pursuits derive inexhaustible aid. He is dressed in
black, with a bundle of MSS. in his hand, painted at
the age of sixty, by Peter Bosselar, in 1665, Here is
also a portrait of his wife. Sir William Dugdale's di
rections for the search of records, and making use of
them in order to an historical discourse of the " Anti
quities of Staffordshire," have been published by Mr.
Ives, in his select papers.
Elias Ashmole was the only child of Simon Ashmole,
of Lichfield, saddler, eldest son of Thomas Ashmole, sad-
ler, twice senior bailiff of that city. Wood stiles him
" the greatest virtuoso and curioso ever known or read
of in England," He was an able botanist, of various
knowledge in the study of antiquity, a physician, a he
rald, a chemist, and astrologer. The incidents of his hfe
are minutely described in his " Diary." By his portrait,
drawn by Neve, in 1664, in his herald's coat, he appears
to have possessed a handsome person, with long hair ;
a view of Windsor is in the back ground. In his Mu
seum at Oxford, there is a painting of him. The en
graved portraits of him before his " Fasciculus Chemi-
cus," is inscribed " Elias Ashmole, Mercuriophilus An-
glicus." There is a quarto engraving of him by Fair-
thorne; a copy of which by Vandergucht is prefixed to
his " Antiquities of Berkshire." He was the first collec
tor of engraved portraits. His MS Collections relating
to the Antiquities of this county have been of important
assistance to every succeeding historian. He was buried

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in Lambeth church, where is the following inscription :
Hie jacet inclytus ille et eruditissimus Elias Ashmole,
Liechfeldiensis, armiger : inter alia in republica munera,
tributi in cervicias contra rotulator, fecialis autem
Windsoriensis titulo per annos plurimos dignatus ; qui
post duo connubia in uxorem duxit tertiam Elizabe
tham, Gulielmi Dugdale, militis, garteri, principalis re
gis armorum, filiara. Mortem obiit 18 Mali, 1692, anno
aetatis 76. Sed durante musaeo Ashmoleano, Oxon.
nunquam moriturus'. This inscription is on a black
marble slab, at the east end of the south aisle, on the
north side. Near it is an achievement set up for him,
bearing. Quarterly, Sable and Or, the first quarter on a
fleur de lis of the second, impaling Dugdale, viz. Argent,
a cross moline Gules, and a torteaux ; with this motto,
ex una omnia:
Walter Chetwynd was descended from a long line of
ancestors, seated at Ingestrie, from the time of the mar
riage of sir John Chetwynd with Isabel, daughter and
heiress of Philip de Mutton, who inherited that estate
in the reign of Edw. III. He was a gentleman, possessed
of many elegant accomplishments, alover of antiquities,
and a liberal patron and encourager of learned men.
He was venerandaj antiquitatis cultor maximus; a cha
racter, which bishop Nicholson applied to him, as Cam
den had before to Erdeswick. He had searched the
herald's, and other public offices, the Cotton, and many
public libraries ; and was possessed of numerous sur
veys, inquisitiones post mortem, pedigrees of families,
monumental inscriptions, neat drawings of monuments,
and whatever was useful for the Ibrmation of a county
history; and, if he had lived, the county of Stafford

Xl PREFACE.
would have been as much indebted to his laborious re
searches, as the county of Warwick is to sir William
Dugdale. To him the worid are obliged for Plot's Na
tural History of this county. He introduced him into the
county, and liberally contributed to the work by his patron
age atid advice. Concerning the Chetwynd MSS. which
now remain at Ingestrie, the reader is referred to Shaw's
History of Staffordshire, vol. II. p. 25 of the advertise
ment ; and to the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LXVIII,
p. 921. and vol. LXXI. p. 17. 126. 321. Of these papers
Shaw made very copious use. In this brief memoir, it
cannot be oniitted, to the honour of this benevolent and
accomplished gentleman, that he was at the sole expense
of re-building his parish church at Ingestrie, the founda
tion of which was laid 1673, in an elegant and uniform
manner. In the chancel are the arms of Chetwynd in
painted glass. Over the entrance is a small tablet of
white marble, with this inscription : Deo opt. Max.
Templum hoc h fundamentis extructum Walterus Ghet»
wynd (Walt. fil. Walt. equ. aur. Nepos) L. M. D. D. D.
anno aerse Christianae 1 676. It was consecrated with
great solemnity by bishop Wood, in August 1677 ; the
dean of Lichfield preaching the sermon. During the
time of this service the generous patron offered upon
the altar, the tithes of Hopton, as an addition to the
rectory for ever. He died without issue in 1693. His
portrait by sir Peter Lely is at Ingestrie ; and by the
favour of earl Talbot, has been permitted to be engraved
for the embellishment of this work.
Robert Plot was born in 1641, at Borden, in Kent;
educated at Wye in that county ; became a student at
Magdalen-Hall, Oxford ; and afterwards was a mem^ber

PREFACE. Xli
or University College, where he became LL.D. He was
Fellow, and in 1682, Secretary to the Royal Society.
In 1683, he was appointed by its founder the first keeper
of the Ashmolean Museum, and was nominated first Pro
fessor of Chemistry. He resigned these offices in 169O.
Ia 1687, he was secretary to the Earl Marshal: in I688,
he was Royal Historiographer: in 1695, he was ap
pointed Mowbray Herald Extraordinary, and Registrar
of the Court of Honour. He published several papers
in the Philosophical Transactions ; in 1677, his " Natu
ral History of Oxfordshire ;" in 1685, " Tentamen Phi-
losophicum de origine Fontium ;" and in 1686, his
" Natural History of Staffordshire." He died at his
seat at Sutton Barne, in Borden, April 30, 1696, of the
stone, at the age of fifty-three, and was buried in the
church of Borden ; where, on a handsome monument, is
a long inscription to his memory, and which has been
printed in the last edition of his " Oxfordshire :" there
he is described as " Historic. Naturali Oxonise et Staf
fordiae illustris ; Cantii natalis soli Antiquitatibus (si fata
siyissent) illustrior extiturus : felicissimus Vetustatis
scrutator; naturae indagator singularis; pietatis in Deum,
in regem, in ecclesiam, et academiam, cultor integerri-
mus : sibi solum imperiosus, aliis omnibus quam facil-
limus ; qui Vesicae doloribus diutinfe tortus, mortalita-
tem non famam exiit-

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PREFACE.

Alexander Plot, of Stockbury, Kent, where his family had
settled temp. Edw. IV.
Robert Plot, of Borden, bought the manor of Sutton Barne.
Wilham Plot, died April 20, 1669, ffit, 63,=p 
F, Co]ebrond,=Robert=^Rebecca, daughter of Ralph Sher-
of Borden, Plot, wood, of London, widow of Henry
supposed wife, the Burman, married at Canterbury,
married in histo- Aug. 21, 1690, died March 5, 1713,
1669. rian, aged 51.

r
1. Sarah:^Robert:==2, Anne Tong, of Borden, married Ralph
Pigeon. I Plot. Feb. 20, 1720-1, buried October Sher-
7, 1783. . wood.
I— ^  L

Robert,
baptized Oct, 20,
1715,
buried
May 14,
1716.

~\

Mary, died an
infant,
Rebecca, mar
ried John Pal
mer of South-
wark, died
1746, s. p.

Robert Plot,
born July
13, 1723,
buried Oc
tober 9,
1735.

Mary Sherwood, born
Feb, 1724, married
three husbands, and
died s, p.
Frances.

Frances, the youngest daughter of Robert Plot, son
of the historian, married Robert Nye, at Minster, and
had one daughter, Eleanor; she married, secondly,
Thomas Napleton, of Upchurch, by whom she had no
issue, Eleanor Nye married John Taylor, of Rainham,
by whom she had ten children, who are the only de
scendants of her celebrated ancestor. She possessed, in
1795, as the only relick of her family, a large portrait of
her grandfather.
Arms: Vert, three quatrefoils Argent, each charged
with a lion's head erased Sable,
Of Sir Simon Degge, knt. the civilian, little is known.
He was born at Uttoxeter, Jan. 5, l6l2, and educated
in the law, in which profession he was much distin
guished. He practised in Doctors Commons as a civi
lian, and became one of the justices of Assize for

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xliii

North Wales', He lived to the great age of ninety-two,
and was buried at Kingston, in this county. In a letter,
dated Aug. 27, 1702, he says that he had " seven bro
thers and sisters, all living together, not long since, and
the youngest was sixty years of age.'" He was an in
dustrious investigator of the antiquities of his native
county ; but has been charged with an erroneous repre
sentation of them, in his letter to George Digby, esq.
of Sandon, after the perusal of the original copy of
Erdeswick, which indeed contains reflections on several
families in the county, not warranted by the facts.

Thomas Degge, of Strams-:
hall, gent, descended from
Hugh Degge, of Strams-
hall, temp. Rich. II. died
5° Eliz,

:Elizabeth, daughter:
of Thomas Smyth,
of Cambridge, died
June 10, 1620, aged
94.

¦=p'i. William
Whitehall, gent, died
March 12,
1615,
aged S3,

Thos. Degge,^Ellen, daughter of

died Feb. 24,
1544.

More, of
Beanhurst.

Simon White-=
hall, died
May 17, 1630,
aged- 63,

Jane, dau.:
of Thomas
Orrell,
died July
5, 1652,
aged 42,

Thomas Degge,=i=Dorothy, daughter of 
died 30 Caroli, Wolscote,

:Felice ....
died Oct.
20, 1649,
aged 97-
Cricklow, of

: Simon :
Degge, knt.'
born Jan. 5,
1612, died
Feb. 10,
1702-3, bu
ried at
Kingston,

Alice Oldfield, dau,:
of Anthony Old-
field, of Spalding,
CO, Lincoln, esq.
born January 26,
1614, mar.Dec,7,
1652, died Mar,
30, 1696,

: James TroUope,
ofThurlby.Lin-coin, esq. bapt.
at Bourne, Mar.
31, 1605; bu
ried at Thurlby,
June 14, 1649.

' In 1661, he was elected Recorder of Derby; in which
town, at the ancient mansion called Babington Hall, he resided ;
and, in 1673, he was sheriff of that county.

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a
.J

Whitehall Degge, of
Colton, Stafford
shire, esq. married
Constance, daughter
of Sampson B oughey,
of Colton, esq, and
died 1664. =f

b c
Simon, died an William TroUope, of
infant. Thurlby, bapt. July 27,
Simon Degge, 1636, married Leven-
esq. marr  thorpe, dau. of Thomas
daugh. of  Pochin, born at Bark-
More, of Wor- by, Aug. 27, 1 642 ; bu-
cester, and died ried at Thurlby, Dec.
May 1, 1676, T= 22,1694. He was bu-

T

ried June 8, 1718. =^
, I — I — 1  r 
Simon John Degge, esq; mar. Mary Billinge, Alice Trol-
Boughey at Kingston, Staff, co. May 13, 1696. lope, eldest
Degge, Wm. Degge, esq, marr, Eliz, dau. of of nine chil-
esq, .... How, of London, and was dren, bapt.
marr. buried Aug. 1, 1695. Jan. 8,
Alice Simon Degge (posthumous), mar- 1662-3, mar.
TroUope, ried, first, Selina, daughter of Wil- to S. B.
s. p. liam Williams, of Denton, Lincoln. ; Degge, esq.
married, 2dly, Jane, daughter of at Thurlby,
Harvey Staunton, of Staunton, co. June 8,
Notts. ' and was buried December 1684.
20, 1702.

John Huntbach, nephew of sir William Dugdale, was
of Fetherstone and Seawall, near Wolverhampton, era-
ployed his talents in the inquiry into the antiquities of
that part of the county, and collected papers relating to
the families and property in the hundreds of Seisdon,
which were the foundation of Dr. Wilkes's collections.
His additions to Erdeswick, it is supposed, are in the
possession of sir John Wrottesley, bart.
Richard Wilkes was the son of Richard Wilkes, of
Willenhall, who lived upon his own estate, and whose
ancestors had been seated there from the time of Edward
the Fourth. He was born March l6, 1690-1, and was
' The rev. Staunton Degge, in 1774, succeeded to a portion
of the manor of Sissinghurst, in Cranbrooke, co. Kent, which
he sold to Galfridus Mann, esq.

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educated at a school at Trentham. He entered at St.
John's College, Cambridge, in 1710, where he took his
degrees in Arts, and was distinguished as a scholar and
mathematician. After having taken deacon's orders,
and occasionally officiated in the church, he turned
from the profession in disgust at the manner in which
preferment is usually bestowed, and commenced the
practice of physic at Wolverhampton. Here he pub
lished a Treatise on the dropsy. In 1725, he married
Rebecca Manlove, of Lees Hill, near Abbot's Bromley,
and went to reside with his father at Willenhall. Being
a widower in 1756, he soon afterwards married Mrs.
Frances Bendish, sister of sir Richard Wrottesley, bart.
who died at an advanced age, in 1798, Dr. Wilkes died
in 1760. He was an eminent and skilful physician, and
a diligent and inquisitive lover of antiquities. His pe
digree is in Shaw. His collections, consisting chiefly
of copious extracts from Domesday, and from Hurds-
man's and Loxdale's additions to Erdeswick, were sold
by his executor, the rev.  Unett, of Staf
ford, in 1768, to the rev. Thomas Fielde, master of
Brewood School, for 2001. ; which, together with other
useful papers of Wilkes, were used by Shaw in his
History. Thomas Loxdale was vicar of Leek till 1735, and
then preferred to the rectory of Tixall. His collections
relating to the Antiquities of the County, in the pos
session of Mr, Loxdale, of Lithwood, near Shrewsbury,
were used by Shaw, They consisted of additions to
Erdeswick, from old deeds, charters, and from the papers
of Walter Chetwynd, with the histories of several pa
rishes in Pyrehill and Cuddleston hundreds, with nu-

xlvi PREFACE,
merous pedigrees and copies of deeds in the hundreds
of Totmanslow,
George Toilet, of Betley, esq. the ingenious commen
tator of Shakespeare, was an ardent lover of antiquities.
He contributed to the collection of papers in the hands
of Mr. Fielde, and was possessed of the copy of Erdes^
wick, with Hurdsman's additions. Hurdsman was of
Spot Grange in 1689, and of Stone in I696.
Bishop Lyttleton's papers, in the library of the So
ciety of Antiquaries, containing his History of Over
Arley, Clent, and Brome,' have been printed in Shaw's
History. The MS . collections of that learned anti
quary, Roger Dodsworth, relating to this county, are in
the Bodleian library, and, as well as Dr. Vernon's addi
tions to Erdeswick, were examined by Shaw. Pennant,
in his journey from Chester to London, has given an
interesting account of the places which he visited in his
progress. Robert Smyth, a learned and industrious antiquary,
was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, became
rector of Woodston, in Huntingdonshire, and a member
of the Gentlemen's society at Spalding, He made
copious collections for a History of the Sheriffs through
out England, from the earliest records. lie greatly
assisted Carter, in his History of the Town and Uni
versity of Cambridge, in 1753, Many of his valuable
MSS. yet reraain. His additions to Erdeswick are pecu
liarly, valuable, and display a perfect knowledge of his
subject. He was accustomed to bathe every morning
in the river, near Peterborough Bridge, and in the pur
suit of this habit lost his life, Sept. 15, 176I. He was
buried in the church-yard of Woodston, with this in-

PREFACE. xlvii
scription : " In memory of the rev, Rob. Smyth, thirty-
three years rector of this parish, a sincere honest man,
and a good Christian. His utmost endeavours were to
benefit mankind, and relieve the poor. He was a la
borious and correct antiquary ; died the 15th of Sep
tember, 1761, aged 62 years,"
Stebbing Shaw was the son of the rev, Stebbing
Shaw, rector of Hartshorn, co. Derby; born in 1762;
educated at Repton in that neighbourhood; and in
1780 became a member of Queen's college, Cambridge,
of which he was elected Fellow. He was also Fellow of
the Society of Antiquaries ; and succeeded his father,
in 1799, in the rectory of Hartshorn, His earliest pro
duction, in 1 787, was the " Diary of a Tour to the
Highlands ;" in which tour he was accompanied by his
pupil, sir Francis Burdett, bart. In 1789 he published
a " Tour in the West of England." He was joint editor
of the ^' Topographer" with sir Egerton Bridges, which
was published in 1789-91- In 1798 the first volume of
his " History and Antiquities of the County of Stafford,"
was printed; and, in 1801, the first part of the second
volume. To an ardent fondness for antiquarian pur
suits, and great skill in topography, he possessed also
a sufficient knowledge of drawing, which he readily
used in the delineations of churches, monuments, man
sions, and antiquities. For this history he had accu
mulated a large mass of materials, the laborious inves
tigations of all the preceding antiquaries who had made
collections for a similar purpose. To the useful papers of
Dr. Wilkes, and the valuable collections of Walter Chet
wynd, he was much indebted ; and he had access to
the muniments of all the ancient families in the county,

xlviii PREFACE.
to the inexhaustible treasures contained in public li
braries and official records ; and he had the good for
tune to obtain possession of the Stafford MSS. which
had been supposed to have been lost. These thirteen
folio volumes consist of transcripts of ancient deeds,
court-rolls, letters, household book, &c. belonging to
the great barony of Stafford, chiefly in the hundreds of
Pirehill and Cuddleston, and were collected by Henry
lord Stafford, who was keeper of the records in the
Tower, according to Stow, in the time of queen Eliza
beth, and a nobleman of much learning. These
volumes are now in the possession of lord Bagot.
The two volumes which, with patient and unwea
ried industry, Shaw lived to publish, are highly va
luable, not merely from their excellent typography,
their variety of beautiful engravings, the laboured and
numerous genealogical tables, but for the interesting
notices of past times, drawn from the earliest records,
and from other stores which have escaped the wreck of
ages, and which, but for his indefatigable exertions,
might have been buried in oblivion. He died in the
prime of life, Oct. 28, 1802, much regretted for his
many amiable qualities, a few pages only of the second
part of the second volume of his History of the County
having passed through the press,
Theophilus Buckeridge, the son of Wild Buckeridge,
gent, and Theophila, daughter of Mr. George Hand
of Lichfield, was born at Lichfield, July 22, and bap
tized at the cathedral church Aug. 1, 1724, He was
educated at the grammar-school in that city, under the
rev, John Hunter, grandfather of Anna Seward, justly
celebrated fo/ her ingenious poetical productions.

B-Beadin^ Sculp>.

Theophilus Biiickeridge,M.A.

Ailh^7,fd^Jpitl ySs,., hXWMoltl- .I'ci.

PREFACE. xlij^
Under the same master, Thomas Newton bishop of
Bristol; lord chief justice Willes; lord chief baron
Parker ; Mr. justice Noel ; lord chief justice Wilmot ;
sir Richard Lloyd, baron of the Exchequer ; Dr. James,
the inventor of the Fever Powder; Hawkins Browne,
the ingenious poet^ David Garrick ; and Dr. Samuel
Johnson; received the rudiments of their education.
Such a constellation of eminent persons it is seldom the
lot of one man to educate. From this school he became
a member of St. Mary-hall, Oxford, where he tpok his
degrees in arts. Having entered into orders, he ob
tained, in 1748, the perpetual curacy of Edingale, and,
at an early period of life, married Margaret, daughter
of the rev. Josiah Durant, rector of Hagley in Worces
tershire, the husband of his father's sister. His' wife
died Feb, 4, 1793. At Hagley he had frequent invita
tions to the mansion of the accomplished lord Lyttelton,
where were occasionally assembled the most eminent
statesmen and wits of the age ; and to the hours passed
in this elegant and classical society he was accustomed
to recur with peculiar delight. During his residence at
Edingale, he devoted much of his time to the study of
the antiquities of his native county. He was one of the
earliest correspondents of the Gentleman's Magazine.
In 1746 he corrected and explained an inscription on
marble then recently discovered among the ruins of the
Friery in Lichfield, which was engraved in vol. xvi of
that publication, and which is now placed against the
wall of the remaining buildings of the house. In 1752
he sent to the same publication a short account of the
antiquity of the bridge at Burton upon Trent, and of
the church of Farewell. In a letter from dean Lyttelton,

1 PREFACE,
afterwards bishop of Exeter, to Dr, Wilkes, dated
Hagley, Oct, 3, 1753, he says, " I have wrote to Mr.
Buckeridge at Lichfield (to whom I have sent my folio
Staffordshire MS.) and desired him to send it to the
George, at Wolverhampton, directed to you; it con
tains several miscellaneous matters relating to the
county at large, and particularly the arms in church
windows before the year 1600." In another letter,
dated Hagley-hall, Aug. 9, 1755, he says, " Mr.
Buckeridge of Edinghall has made several collections
from the register^ at Lichfield, &c. which, I believe, he
would gladly put into ypur hands." He employed him
self about this time in correcting the innumerable errors
in Erdeswick's " Survey of Staffordshire," printed in
1723 : he compared it with many copies in public and
private libraries ; with some papers of Erdeswick in his
own hand-writing ; with the collections of Wyrley, who
was the amanuensis of Erdeswick ; an'd with many other
MSS. and printed authorities, from which he extracted
some charters to which Erdeswick refers, and he com
pared the names of places with the Conqueror's survey
in Domesday-book, He thus laid the foundation of this
edition of that celebrated antiquary. To Shaw's his-,
tory he contributed an engraving of St. John's hospital in
Lichfield ; who acknowledged also the value of his com
munications. For Churton's " Life of Bishop Smith,''
the founder of that hospital, he presented another view
of it, and communicated a list of its masters. From
his papers, extracted from the episcopal registers, and
communicated by his son, Lewis Buckeridge, esq, the
editor of this volume was enabled to give a more accu
rate account of that institution in his " History of

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Lichfield," In 176O Mr, Buckeridge was presented to
the consolidated rectories of Gresham and Barsingham
in Norfolk, In 1769 he was collated by bishop Eger
ton to the mastership of St. John's hospital in Lichfield ;
in 1779 he was presented to the perpetual curacy of
Tong, CO, Salop; and in 1771, by Thomas Anson, esq.
to the rectory of Mautby in Norfolk ; but he made the
house belonging to his mastership his constant residence
for the remainder of his life. In 1784 he was appointed
by Dr. Smalbroke, chancellor of the diocese, his prin
cipal surrogate, the duties of which he performed with
remarkable regularity and ability, and in which he was
succeeded by his eldest son, the present archdeacon of
Coventry. He died at Lichfield on the 23d, and was
buried at Edingale, near his wife, on the 29th of De
cember, 1803, leaving three sons, the survivors of a
numerous family ; Charles, archdeacon of Coventry and
first canon-residentiary of Lichfield ; Richard (in whose
favour, in 1791, he had resigned the curacy of Edingale),
rector of Beighton in Norfolk, and'vicar of Stone in
this county ; and Lewis. Arms : Or, two pallets between
five cross crosslets fitchee in saltire Sable.

It may assist the future historian of this county, to
enumerate some of the papers and records, which relate
to it, and are to be found in the public offices.
Heraldic Visitations of this county were made in
1528-9, by'Benolte, Clar. which is in the College of
Arms.

Iii PREFACE.
1563, by Flower, Norroy; also in the College of
Arms. 1583, by Flower. It is written by Glover, and signed
by those gentlemen who invited him. It is in the library
of King's College, Cambridge.
l6l4, by St. George, Norroy: it consists of ninety-
seven pedigrees, fifty of them north of Trent. It is in
the College of Arms.
1663, by Dugdale.
In the Library of King's College, is " The first Booke
of Escocheons taken fourth of that rare MS. in the cus
tody of Mr. John Digbie, de Sandon, in com. Stafford,
an, Dom, 1623;" being an alphabet of arms, in blazo%
containing 4334 coats,' Ashmole, who accompanied
Dugdale in his Visitation, made a collection of arms,
which is now in his Museum at Oxford. Mark Noble
had the funeral monuments of all the hundreds in this
county, except one, taken by himself. Gregory
King', who was clerk to sir William Dugdale, tran-

' Gregory King was a native of Lichfield. His father had
" a fair house, garden, and orchard, without the north gate of
that ancient borough," He was educated by Mr. Bevan, the
master of Lichfield school. At fourteen he was conversant
with the Greek and Latin languages, and with the Hebrew
grammar; and was now recommended by Dr. Hunter, of
Lichfield, to sir William Dugdale, who took him into his
service ; and bishop Hacket intended to have sent him to the
University if this employment had not offered to him. He
accompanied Dugdale in his Visitations, and tricked the arms
of Staffordshire, which yet remain in the College of Arms.
During his Visitations in 1662 and 1666 he took prospects of
towns, castles, and remarkable houses, in the counties through

PREFACE. liii
scribed and embellished his beautiful Visitation of Staf
fordshire, which is now in the College of Arms.
In 4630, Harleian MSS. is a curious account of
many Staffordshire families.

which he passed. In 1667 he was in the service of lord
Hatton, the patron of Dugdale, a nobleman of uncommon skill
and knowledge of antiquities, but, unfortunately for the world,
whose valuable papers have been ignorantly and wantonly
destroyed. In 1669 he returned tq Lichfield, and employed
himself in the humble occupations of a school, in painting
signs, coaches, and achievements ; and in instructing the regis
trar of the dean and chapter, and other persons, to read
ancient records. He was now invited by Walter Chetwynd of
Ingestrie to transcribe his family muniments, which he did in
a veUum book. In 1669 he became steward to dowager lady
Gerard, of Gerard's Bromley ; and afterwards resided with her
father, George Digby, of Sandon, esq. till August 1672.
From Staffordshire he now went to London, where he renewed
his friendship with Dugdale, which was of great service to him-
He engraved three or four of the plates in Ogilvy's Book of
Roads. He published a map of Westminster in 1675. He
planned some of the principal squares and streets in London ;
and all those which stand upon Soho Fields were formed by
him. He now removed from his house in the centre of James-
street, Covent Garden, to the corner house of the long piazza
next that street. In 1677 he became Rouge Dragon. In 1682
he resided in the College of Arms, and was appointed regis
trar, and in 1690 Lancaster Herald, He was a man of very
useful and various abiUties, a good herald, antiquary, and
political economist. He died Aug, 29, 1712, aged 63, and
was buried in the chancel of St. Benet's, Paul's Wharf; where
is an inscription to his memory. Natus Lichfeldiae, 13 Dec.
1648. Denatus Londini, 29 Aug. 1712. ^Et. 63 annorum,
Oct. mens, et 16 dierum.

liv PREFACE.

It may seem ungrateful to pass by, without acknow
ledgment, the favours and encouragement which the
Editor has received from his friends, as well as from
others, whose attachment to genealogical and topogra
phical history, or whose regard for the soil on which
their progenitors once flourished, has naturally im
planted in their intelligent minds that love ,of ancestry
which often incites to honourable and virtuous pur
suits. He is indebted to earl Talbot for permission to copy
the portrait of his relation, Walter Chetwynd, for the
use of this work ; to lieut,- general Dyott for his liberal
contribution of an excellent engraving of his ancestor,
sir Richard Dyott, knt. ; to the rev. Charles Bucke
ridge, D. D. archdeacon of Coventry and first canon
residentiary of Lichfield, as well for the voluntary use
of his father's papers, as for the contribution of a por
trait of his father ; to his friend, the rev. Henry White,
of Lichfield, who kindly obtained from the rev, J,
Bonney, of Sandon, the loan of an accurate drawing
of the monument of Erdeswick ; to William Hamper,
esq. for the use of three copies of Erdeswick, with notes
of sir Simon Degge, knt. and of the rev. Robert
Smyth; and to Samuel Pipe- Wolferstan, esq. for the
liberal use of his copy, with his own notes and observa
tions upon Erdeswick, valuable both to the genealogist
and to the antiquary.

PREFACE, Iv

Mr, Buckeridge consulted the following copies of
Erdeswick : c tJ
A copy in the possession of the rev. ....... Darwell, V; A
vicar of Haughton in this county ; a copy in the Bod
leian library, containing few parishes, and is to be
found in Dodsworth's Collections ; a copy in the pos
session of Mr. James Bowen, a herald-painter of Shrews
bury ; a copy among the Chetwynd papers, a transcript
of which was taken from it by Richard Bolton, of New-
castle-under-Lyne, an. 1702, and was in the possession
of Rowland Cotton, esq. of Etwall, co. Derby; a
copy said to have been taken from sir William Dug
dale's, with some additions, by John Huntbach of Fea
thers tone.
At the end of Huntbach's copy are the arms of the
lords Stafford and Audley, Devereux earl of Essex,
Sutton baron of Dudley, and lord Paget ; borough of
Stafford, and city of Lichfield : also an alphabet of
arms, blazoned, of the Staffordshire gentry; another
catalogue of arms, copied from Glover's Visitation of
this county, 1583, according to the hundreds ; and a
catalogue of arms belonging to the ancient nobility
and gentry of the county, taken from old seals and
church windows by Huntbach himself.
Other copies may be found in public and private
libraries. Hurdsman's copy was in the possession of
George Toilet, esq. of Betley, William Hamper, esq.
is possessed of three copies. Dr. Charles Lyttelton
dean of Carlisle, afterwards bishop of Exeter, had a

Ivi PREFACE.
copy interspersed with his own remarks, and his MSS.
are in the library of the Society of Antiquaries. The
copy in the possession of Samuel Pipe- Wolferstan, esq.
is probably a transcript from the last draught of
Erdeswick himself, and is enriched with numerous
elaborate notes by this eminent antiquary, who may
be called, in the language of Burton, applied to Erdes
wick himself, " singularis et unice colendus vir literatissi-
mus et ornatissimus."

THE

ANTIQUITIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE.

When William the Conqueror had wholly subjected
this kingdom, he cantoned out the several counties
amongst those noblemen that came over with him, and
were serviceable to him in the conquest thereof. And
this county of Stafford, he cantoned to these persons
following ; viz. to Robert de To'ni, who was afterwards
created the first baron of Stafford (and he, and all his ^
successors, called by the name of Stafford ever after)
he gave eighty-one lordships'. To Roger de Mont
gomery he gave thirty lordships " in this county and
Shrewsbury, and a great many in that county and
Wales, &c. ; and in the second year of his reign, anno
1067, created him the first earl of Shrewsbury. To
William Fitz Ansculfi he gave five and twenty lord
ships ' about Dudley, and created him the first baron
of Dudley ; and to Henry de Ferrariis he gave seven
' Some" copies of Erdeswick say 74.
' Some copies say 29.
' Some copies say 27- B

2 THE ANTIQUITIES
lordships, besides the castie and borough of Tutbury,
and created him the first earl of Derby, anno 1090'.
Most of the north part being given to Robert de Staf
ford, we will begin there first, at the head of the famous
river Trent",
' Others to whom he gave lands, or who previously pos
sessed them, are omitted in some copies ; viz.
The Bishop, 67, William Corbution, 1, con-
The Abbot of Westminster, 1, taining 10 hides.
The Abbot of Burton, 9, Trustine, 1, containingS hides.
Ecclesia S'ti Remigii, 3. Ricardus Forestarius, 9.
Ecclesia Stafford, 3 hides. Rainoldus de Balgiole, 4.
The Church of Wolverhamp- Radulphus fil. Huberti, 2.
ton, 12. NigeUus, 4.
Sampson, 6. Tayni Regis, 20.
3 « Staffordshire is bounded on the north by Cheshire, on
the east by Derbyshire, on the west by Shropshire, and on the-
south by Worcestershire and Warwickshire. It is about 44
miles in length, 27 in breadth, and 140 in circumference:
having in it one bishopric ; one city, viz. Lichfield ; four cor
porations, viz. Stafford, Newcastle, and Walsal, mayor-towns
and Tamworth a bailiff-town; and sends members to parlia
ment, two knights for the shire and two citizens for Lichfield,
two burgesses for Stafford, two for Newcastle, and one for
Tamworth. " It hath in it five hundreds, viz. PirehiU, Totmanslow,
Cuddleston, Seisdon, and Ofilow, 130 parish churches, and 15
market-towns. It hath in . it one forest called Needwood, the
chase called Cannock-wood, and about 32 parks ; and it is
watered with no less than 24 rivers or brooks of name, besides
several small rivulets.
" This county is divided by the famous river Trent into
north and south, or rather into north-east and south-west parts:
the north-east, subdivided again into moorlands and woodlands,
lying between Trent, Teyne and Dove, is, by some, called
the middle part of Staffordshire. The moorlands is the more
northerly mountainous part of the county, lying betwixt Doye
and Trent, from the three shire-heads, southerly, to Draycote
in the Moors, and yieldeth coal, lead, copper, ranee, marble,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 3
' Trent hath its first spring in the moorlands, between
Bidulph and Norton, and divideth the shire almost
into two equal parts, north and south; the north being
divided into moorland and woodland,
and mill-stones. The woodlands are the more southerly, level
part of the county, being from Draycote to Wichnpr, Burton,
&c. Between the aforesaid rivers, including Needwood-forest,
with all its parks, as also the parks of Wichnor, Chartley,
Horecross, Bagots, Loxley, Birchwood, and Paynesley (which
anciently were all but as one' wood, that gave it the name of
woodlands), producing salt, black marble, alabaster, with great
quantities of exceUent timber ; and both moorlands and wood
lands produce as goodly cattle, large and fair spread, as Lan
cashire itself, and, the graziers say, will feed better. It pro
duces also as good corn of all sorts, as any county ; and abun
dance of coal, ironstone, &c. besides other commodities, as
wool for the Clothing and felt-making trade ; and hemp and
flax for linens ; that, all things being considered, this county
seems to be Terra suis contenta bonis, a county that can as well
subsist of itself as any of the kingdom." — Degge.
' The copy of Erdeswick, in the possession of Samuel Pipe
Wolferstan, Esq. of Statfold, which is the most correct tran
script that I have seen, introduces the work in the epistolary
form, omitting the preceding paragraphs. It is supposed to
have been addressed to Camden, although in different parts
Camden is mentioned in the third person : " Sir, having dis
posed with myself to take a further view of the shires of Staf
ford and Chester (according to promise), I have set down
what I have lound or can yet learn ; and havethought it a very
commodious way to follow the rivers, as you have done. And,
therefore, to omit the seating of both the shires, and adjoining
them to their neighbouring countries (that matter being by
you very well disposed), I will begin first with Staffordshire;
and in that with the river Trent, which taketh its beginning in
the north-west part of the shire, and runneth from thence first
southward, then south-east, then plain east, and so bending
towards the north-east, entereth into Derbyshire, and leaveth
Staffordshire." Some have thought that the word "you," means Camden;
pointing to his account of Staffordshire in the Britannia. But

4 THE ANTIQUITIES
Bidulph being in the confine of the shire, joineth
upon Cheshire, within less than two miles of Cougleton,
and is a goodly manor; where Francis Bidulph, lately
deceased, a gentleman of an ancient house, and taking
his name of the place, hath lately there builded a very
state-like and fair new house of stone.
In the 20th of the Conqueror, Bidulph was in the
king's hand.s.
The Bidulphs do derive themselves from one Ormus
le Guidon, I think the son of Ricardus Forestarius;
who held of the king, as it appears by the record called
Domesday, these manors following; viz. Turroldesfield,
now Thursfield (and Nigellus, Gresley's ancestor, of
hira), Witemore (now called Whitmore), Normanescote
Heneford (now Hanford), Hancese (which I take to be
Hanchurch), Claiton, Dulmesdene (now Dimesdale),
Clotone (or, rather Cnotone), Redbaldestone and Esten-
done. I have seen evidence to prove that Ormus was
lord of the manors of Buckenhall, Dorlaweston (vulga-
riter Dorlaston) juxta Stone, Fenton-Culverde, Bid
dulph, Tunstall, Chaddersley, Chelle, and Normanscote.
This Ormus lived either in the Conqueror's time, or
in the next succeeding age. He had issue Robert, Ed
ward, Thomasin, and, I think, Alured. Robert ' mar-
such an idea seems clearly done away by several other pas
sages ; as in the art. Trentham, Audleigh, Pfenkrich, and
Dudley-castle ; all of which speak of Camden in the third per
son.— S. P-W.
' " Robert, his son, born of the daughter of (Nicholas)
Beauchamp, sheriff of Staffordshire." For this, we have the
following authority : — " Haec est conventio que facta est inter
Gaufrid. abbat™. Burton, et Ormum de Derlaveston. Facta
est autem in capitulo coram fratribus concedentibus ipsis mo-
nachis. Concessit ei abbas, id est, ipsi Ormo et filio ejus,
Roberto nomine, nato de filia Nicholai vicecomitis, et accepit
hominagia utriusque. Concessit, inquam, eis Derelavestonam
pro ix sol. quoque anno, ita firme, ut nunquam earn perdant,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 5
ried Mabilia de Perpant, and had issue Raufe, that
died without issue ; and Alina, married to Ingenulfus,
son of William de Greseley, both knights; who by him
had issue Robert de Greseley, that died without issue ;
neque pro presentibus, neque pro futuris monachis, vel aliis
hominibus. Ipse autem Ormus vel idem filius ejus debent hos-
pitari abbatem quando voluerit, et debent eum juvare de suo
sicut dominum suum cum opus habuerit, et debent ei invenire
vel seipsos, vel homines ejus, si necesse fuerit. Cum vero
mortui fuerint, deferentur eorum corpora sepelienda apud Bur-
tonam, et multum honorifice recipientur a monachis. Debet
autem cum eis afferri et tota pars eorum pecunie quantamcun-
que habuerint, et in omnibus rebus et in omnibus locis. Simi
liter et de uxore Ormi fiet quando morietur : corpus ejus reci-
pietur cum tota parte sua, et cum magno honore sepelietur
Burtonie. Hujus concessionis et conventionis testes sunt, pri-
mum ipsum capitulum, id est, Suegnus prior, &c."
A conventio follows, in like words, from the same abbot
Gaufrid to Robt. de Derelaveston, " et heredi ejus. Concessit,
inquam, ei Derlavestonam in fed-firmam per xxx sol. quoque
anno, et per servitia et bonitates quas faciebat pater ejus : vi
delicet, debet hospitari honorifice abbatem cum venerit in
partes illos conducere et reducere salvo conductu monachos
et clientes eorum, quando ibunt sive ad Cestriam sive ad Wich
pro aliquo mercato ; dare de suo competenter abbati quando
requisierit eum abbas. Debet etiam servire Ecclesie fideliter
et defendere terram monachorum h malefactoribus secundum
posse suum. Cum vero mortuus, &c. Debet autem afferri
cum illo aimidia pars totius substantie ejus, in omnibus rebus
quas habuerit in Derlavestona : similiter fiet et de uxore ejus,
si habuerit uxorem. Hujus, &c. ipsum capitulum, id est,
Suegnus prior, Edwinus (sub) prior, &c."
Another from the same Abbot G. to Rad. de Derlaveston.
" Concessit ei abbas, id est, ipsi Radulfo, et cetera per eadem
verba sicut in proxime precedenti carta. Hujus concessionis et
conventionis testes sunt, primum ipsum capitulum, id est, Ed-
winnus prior, Jordanus sub-prior, &c."
Another, from abbot Robert to the same Radulf, in the
very same words as that to Robert above, except that the wit
nesses are " Jordanus prior, Briennius sub-prior, &c."

6 THE ANTIQUITIES
Petronella, married first to Henry de Audeley, by whom
she had issue James; and after to sir Rob. Sugenhall,
knight, who had issue Dionisia ; and she had issue Fe-
Lastly, one to Robert de Gresleye. " Ego Bernardus, ab
bas Burton, et totus ejusdem loci conventus, concessimus huic
Roberto de Gresleya, ipsi, et heredibus suis, terram de Derla
veston, tenendam in feudum et hereditatem singulis annis pro
Iii sol. et servitium Rad. de Caldewalla pro v sol. annuatim
reddendis et pro libero servitio sui corporis : medietatem hujus
census reddet ad festum Sti. Johannis Baptiste, et alteram me
dietatem ad festum Sti. Martini, et pro suis predictis terris pre-
fatus Robertus et heredps sui debent hominagium et fidelitatem
abbatibus et ecclesie Burtonie." tiegistr. Burton, folios xx,
xxi, xxiii. b.
Erdeswick, who appears to have seen the Burton Abbey Re
gister, seems to have assigned to " Nicholas, the sheriff" of
Staffordshire (so he calls him, and he probably was the Nich.
vie. Staff, or N. de Stafford vicec. in two writs of Hen. I. after-
noticed) the name, Beauchamp, from finding it in a document
inserted on some pages between the original folios iiii, v, and
vii, of the Register, which is a narrative of as late date as the
time of Abbot Thomas, 1280-1305, of the gift of Chote's,
(Coton, parish of LuUington, Derbyshire), first by earl Mor-
car, and then (by the Conqueror) ; of the abbey's loss of it,
and of abbot Thomas's unsuccessful suit for it. This story
states, that Robert, abbot 1150-59, passed away Cotes " Nicho'
vicec. Stafford," and that in time of abbot Roger 1172-83,
" Deforciator ejusdem ' ville mortuus est, fiho suo, set. Ste-
phano de Bello Campo, relicto infra aetatem." But the whole
is incorrect and inconsistent here, and in other points with it
self, and with better authorities ; for it exhibits two writs of
Hen. I. issued in the suit with Nich. vicec. and witnessed,
one by Henry earl of Warwick, the other by Gifford bishop
of Winchester ; which two died 1123, and 1129, so long before
abbot Robert's time ; the latter writ too is in the original part
of the Register, fol. v. and on the same page one of Stephen,
which names the claim of Stephen de Beauchamp, The pro
bability is, that Stephen de Beauchamp was as the Monast.
Atigl. I. 805. makes him, brother to William, and they sons to
Walter de Beauchamp, of Elmley : as the two former joined

OF STAFFORDSHIRE.

licia, married first to Henry de Verdon, and after to
Thomas, brother of Adam, Dominus de Leighton, in
Cheshire. The lands were so divided, that Ingenulfus
de Greseley and Alina gave Tunstall, Chatterley, and
Chell to Henry de Aldeley, husband to Petronella ; and
Darleston, Fenton, and part of Biddulph ', which was
not given away before, was allotted to Dionisia, mo
ther of Avisia, wife " of Henry de Verdon. Henry Ver
don and Avisia had issue Henry, who had issue Henr}',
who, as I think, had issue Emme, his daughter and
heir, married to John, lord of the manor of Whitmore ;
who had issue Elizabeth, his only daughter and heir,
married James Boghey ; which James and Elizabeth
had issue John, who had issue James, who had issue
Robert, father of Humphry Boghey ; father of Robert,
whose sole daughter and heir (Alicia by name) was mar
ried to Edward Manwaring, a third brother of sir Ra
in giving to Bordesley-abbey the Worcestershire town, Os-
maresley, one of the possessions, by Domesday-book, of Urso
d'Abitot, Walter's father-in-law. Stephen possibly was related
by his mother to Nich's. vicecomes, or perhaps a son-in-law
(like Ormus), and so might have a claim under him. In one
Coton narrative (for the story is twice-told, with a few varia
tions, in the above pages) it is said, that " D'na Hermelina
que fuit uxor dicti Stephani de B. fuit dotata de 3'a parte,"
scil'. of Coton.— S. P-W.
' The manor is yet in possession of the family of Mainwaring.
The manor-house was garrisoned, in the civil war, on the side
of the pariiament. This viUage presents some curious remains
of antiquity. The bridestones consist of eight upright free
stones, two of which stand within a semicircle, formed by the
other six. The outside stones are six feet from each other.
Near them is the pavement of an artificial cave, composed of
fragments of stone, about two inches and a half thick. Two
large unhewn free-stones, about eighteen feet long and six high,
form the sides of this cave.
" There is much confusion in this account of the Biddulphs.
The copies of Erdeswick are aU at variance.

8 THE ANTIQUITIES
nulf Mesvillwaring, of Pever, in Cheshire, knt. ; which
Edward and Alice had issue Edward Manwaring, now
lord of Whitmore, Nether-Biddulph, Ansedeley, vulga-
riter, Annesley', and a part of Buckenhall, Stephen de
Wiverston and Dionysia had issue Henry de Wiver-
stone, that died without issue, and Felicia married to
Robert de Wellsborne, and after to Thomas, brother to
Adam, lord of the manor of Leighton, in Nantwich, or
rather Acton parish in Cheshire. Roger de Wellsborne
and Felicia had issue Richard, who had issue a son,
called Philip de Brael, Alina, before spoken of, gave to
Roger, the son of Edward, her uncle, as I take it, Mid-
dle-Biddulph ; to Thomas, her other uncle ^, Biddulph-
' Anslow. Sir John Verdon, knt. lord of Ansley, Biddulph,
and Bucknall, had two daughters, Johanna and Ermitrude,
who married Ralph de Hooton, and was seized of the manors
of Darlaston, Biddulph, BuCknall, and Annesley. Darlaston
was given to Ermitrude upon the partition, and the rest to
Joan : as appears by a deed of partition in French in the cus-,
tody of Edward Mainwaring, esq. dated 28th Jan, 11 Ric, II.
to which are witnesses, Henry Delves, John Hinckley, Roger
Swinnerton, Thomas de Podmore, and Thomas de Thicknesse.
— Degge.
* " Alina, d'na de Derlavestun, filia ether. Rob'ti. fil. Horm.
Tho. fil. Horm. avunculo meo et heredibus superiorem Bidulph
et teneraentum, q'd. vocatur Culverds- Fenton. Test. Viviano
de Stock, Edw. de Bidulf presb.. Ad. de Aldithlegh, Rob. de
Swinerton, Nic. de Tidnesour, et Ric, et Rad. fil. ejus, Isa
bella Pantun, Alic. de Blortont, le Halimot de Bockenall, et
le Halimot de Culverdslaw, et multis aliis viris et mulieribus.
" Alina, d'na de Derlaveston Rog. filio Edw'di mediam Bi-,
dulf cum Fulwod, scil. de Slideford-siche ad Rutrind-bruc,
sicut rivulus discendit in Davenhichell et in Hambidijlf church- .
furlong, et medietat. de  qua' Simon prius tenuit, et 2
bovat. quas Will. fil. Matildae et Will, Buloc prius ten. Test,
Eutrop. Hastang, Ada de Aldithle, Anselm. de Bello Campo,
Tho. de Bidulf, Hen. fili ejus, Alured de Gnipsley." Erdes
wick's transcript of Bidulph deeds in Chetwynd's Extract, vol.
B, p. 293.— S. P-W.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. Q
superior, and Normanscote ; and to Alured (as I think,
her third uncle) Knipersley. For Biddulph is divided
into divers hamlets, viz. Nether-Biddulph, Middle-Bid-
dulph, Over-Biddulph, and Knipersley: so as the manor
was divided into four several men's hands. Roger, the
son of Edward, had issue Thonias Biddulph ; who had
issue Roger; who had issue William ; who had issue
John; who had issue Robert, who married Cicely, the
eldest daughter ' of Thomas, son of Thomas, son of
Thoraas, son of Henry Biddulph, knt. who sold Nor
manscote to Henry de Aldithelegh, who gave it in li-
beram eleemosinara to the abbey of Hilton.
Henry Bidulf was the son of Thomas Bidulf, knt.
son of the afore-named Ormus. Of him and Cicely
came Robert; who had issue William; who had issue
Richard; who had issue another Richard; who had
' Thus it appears that Robert of Mid. Biddulph married Ce
cily, heir or co-heir of Thomas of the Over-town of Biddulph ;
which description in a vellum roll, quoted by Dr. Thomas (in
his Dugdale's War.), and, after him, by Wotton's and Kim-
ber's prints, has been made into " daughter of Tho. Overton,
de Overton, who bore a cross Gu. which the Biddulphs quar
ter." It is a circumstance of no moment (these supposed arms
of Overton being totally unhke those used as the Biddulph i)a-
ternal coat) whether Robert and Cecilia were both Biddulphs,
or whether she was an Overton, or (according to a bad copy
of Erdeswick) a Verdon; as nothing was so common as dif
ferent lines of families varying their arms. The vellum gives
no date nor voucher, nor does it correct the common prints,
nor add any junior lines of the Elmhurst Biddulphs. Sh'aw
gives the dates in such a way, that, of two supposed brothers,
the elder, Richard, is made to leave a widow, 32 Hen. VI.
1454 ; whilst the other, Simon, is meant to have been shewn
to have been buried (as in fact he was) in 1579; but he has
left this latter date standing on the wife's side of the matrimo
nial parallel lines, and in the very place for her name are the
words « Degge's MSS,"— S. P-W,

10 THE ANTIQUITIES
issue a third Richard; who had issue ' a fourth Richard ;
who had issue Francis; who had issue Richard, now
living, anno 1598^-
Nether Biddulph is now possessed by Edward Man
waring, son of Edward Manwaring, third brother of sir
Randolph, of Pever. The father married Alice, the
sole daughter and heir of Robert Boghey, by whom
Edward, the son, inherits the same, by deriving himself
as heir to his mother, and, as 1 take it, from Henry
Verdon and Felicia his wife.
Knipesley was given, as I said before, to Alured,
and was possessed by a race of gentlemen, who take their
name of the place, about the beginning of king Henry
the Third's time. Robert, of Knipersley, had issue
William, the 29th of Hen. IIL ; who had issue Robert,
24th Edw. I. ; who had issue William, 2d Edw. II. ;
who had issue Robert; who had issue William ; who
had issue Robert; who had issue Katherine, Thomas
Bowyer having married her. She was the last heir of
the last Rpbert Knipersley, About 2 Rich. II. Robert
Bowyer at the first entered himself into Knipersley ar
mory, but now of late his heirs have invested themselves
into new armory. Thomas Bowyer and Katharine
had issue William, who had issue another William, who
had issue Thomas, who had issue John, who had is-
' In art. Leacroft, Erdeswick is contradictory to this, calling
" Thomas Biddulph, father of Francis, father of Richard, now
living."— S. P-W.
° I understand, the descendants of this eldest line of Bid
dulph to be those of Burton-park, Sussex ; whether still pos
sessed of any lands in Biddulph, I know not. — S. P-W.
Francis Biddulph, who married Isabella, dau. to sir Thomas
Giffard, of Chillington, kt. built, t. Eliz. a fine house of stone
at Biddulph. From them is descended John Biddulph, of Bur
ton, CO. Sussex, esq. who is still lord of Biddulph.
Arms of Biddulph : Vert, an eagle displayed. Argent ; also
Argent, 3 sodering-irons, Sable.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 11
sue William, father of John, now both living, anno
1598'. ' MS. Huntbach.
This John Bowyer, son of William, appears to have been
afterwards knighted. His grandson John was created a baro
net in 1660 ; and the baronet's male line ended in sir William, ,
his youngest surviving son,' the fourth baronet. Sir William
had four daughters, his co-heirs ; the eldest, Mary, married
Charles Adderley, of Hams, co. Warwick ; another, Dorothy,
was first wife of sir Thomas Gresley, bart. and mother to sir
Thomas and sir Nigel, baronets ; another daughter was Jane,
wife of Leftwich Oldfield, of Leftwich, co. Chester, who had
by her two daughters, one married to ... . Wynne, of Congle-
ton, clerk ; the other to .... Ravenscroft ; and sir William's
other daughter, Anne, married first sir John Bellot, of the co.
of Chester, baronet, and afterwards Rowland Port, of Ham;
but dying issueless, left her share of the Knipersley estate to
sir Nigel Gresley, her nephew, married also to her grand-niece
Elizabeth Wynne, Sir Nigel, who already enjoyed his mother's
share of Knipersley, now became owner of two-fourths ; and
his son, sir Nigel Bowyer Gresley, baronet, marrying to his
first wife his uncle sir Thomas's only child, heiress of the Gres
ley estate, if she too possessed from her father any thing in Kni
persley, that part also came, with the other shares, into one
hand. The present Charles Bowyer Adderley, of Hams, pro
bably in right of his grandmother, the above Mary, first wife of
Charies Adderiey, has very considerable estates lying near
to (though perhaps not within the township of) Knipersley.
S. P-W.
One of the family of Bowyer was governor of Leek, on the
side of the Parhament, in the civil war. Sir Thomas Gresley,
who married one of the coheirs of sir William Bowyer, died
July 31, 1736. A canal was made by sir Nigel Gresley, grand
father of the present sir Roger Gresley, baronet, for the pur
pose of conveying coals from this place to Newcastle. Sir Wil
liam Bowyer, knt. in 3 Ch. I. and sir John Bowyer, knt. and
bart. in 15 Ch. II. were sheriffs of the county. Arms of Bow
yer: a lion rampant between three cross crosslets, fitche.
Gules. Arms of Knipersley : a cross, with a sword in dexter
ATgent, a chevron between nine ermine spots.

12 THE ANTIQUITIES
Trent, following its course, leaveth Stanleghe, a lit
tle village a little eastward from it. Of this small village
do all the great houses of Stanley take their name;
which seemeth to me to be descended from the Audeleys,
by their paternal ancestor, Adam de Audeleghe. For I
have seen the copy of a deed importing so much, as
may appear by a copy thereof, which you may see here
following :^-" Adam de Audeleghe omnibus hominibus
suis et amicis, Franc, et Angl. 8cc. salutem. Sciatis
quod ego Adam, filius Ludulfi de Aldelegh, do, et con
cede, Will' de Stanlegh, filio Ade, avunculi mei, tot.
Stanlegh, cum omnibus pertinentiis, Sic. Praeterea, do
eidem Will'o dimid. Balterdalliam, &c. ; has autem
predictas terras do ei et heredibus suis in Excambium
propter villam de Thalk, &,c. His testibus, Hen. de
Preyers, Rob. de Audelegh, Adam capell", Rogero de
Bagenhall, Ric. fratre suo, Phil, capell" de Lee, Will'o
de Weloc, Adam f're Willm'i de Stanlegh, Tho. f're
ejus, &c," Whereby you may see, that Adam de Al
delegh, the son of Ludulfus, who was the son of ano
ther Adam de Audelegh, calls Adam' the first son of
Adam de Audelegh, being brother of Ludulf, and father
of William de Audelegh, his uncle ; and did give to
William, the son of Adam de Stanley, his uncle, all
Stanley, and half the town of Bagenhall, in exchange
for the town of Talk.
Sir Rowland Stanley", of Hooton in Cheshire, of whose
' Read (perhaps) "calls Adam, son of the /rs< Adam." And
it may be observed, in opposition to Erdeswick, that the grantor
does not name his uncle " Audelegh," or describe him " son of
Adam de Audelegh ;" but says, simply, " Ade avunculi mei :"
and « avunculus," perhaps, most frequently means maternal
uncle." S.P-W.
^ Some copies say, " Sir Edward."
Stanley is now the property of Parker, eari of Macclesfield.

OP STAFFORDSHIRE. 13
descent you may read, where I speak of Cheshire, ^nd
out of whose house the earls of Derby,- and the rest of"
the house of Stanley do descend, is yet unto this day
owner of Stanley. The place seems to take its name of
the nature of the soil, which, .though it be in the moor
lands, is yet a rough and stony place, and many craggy
rocks are about it.
Norton' is the next village that receives Trent through
it, Vlviet held Norton of Robert de Statford, 20 Conq.
and I find a record, that, immediately after, one Robert,
the son of Randolf% held Alfreton and Norton; which
Robert founded the house, de bello capite^, in Derbyshire,
and had issue William, lord of Alfreton ; who had issue
William, baron* of Alfreton ; who had issue Robert;
who had issue Thomas, that died without issue, and
Alice, married to William, the son of William de Cha-
ducey' vulg6 Chaworth ; Ameritia, the wife of Robert
.Lathom : and Letitia, that. died without issue, I take
it for most certain, that this is the Norton the record
speaketh of; for I find one only escutcheon in the church,
and that, so old, that I think it to be set up by some of
the old barons of Alfreton, whose mark it was, being
charged with Azure, two chevrons Argent ; though I
know, that both Chaworth and Lathom used it, after
they had married the heirs of Alfreton, as their particular
armory. There are in Norton churchyard divers rabnu-
' Niwetone, Domesday,
Domesday says, ' as printed in Shaw, " Godric' et Ulviet
tenner' " ; i. e. in the time of king Edward. S, P-W.
2 Randolf, the son of Robert. Mr. James Bowen's MS copy.
He was a herald at Shrewsbury.
3 Or, Beau Chief.
* Here our author does not agree with Dugdale ; who has
WiUiam the baron, father to Thomas, and no William the
second, and Robert. Smyth.
5 Caduciis. T. B.

14 THE ANTIQUITIES
ments of freestone, each of them having a cross engraven
upon the tombs ; and under the comer of the cross, the
figure of an arming-sword ; but writing there is none,
unless it be under the lower part of the stones, as I have
seen some to have been. 19 Edw. II. William de la
Mere, knight, was owner of Norton ; but since then, one
moiety came to the barons of Stafford, and the other to
the Audleys ; by what title I know not ; but now these
present barons have sold the same'.
Trent having passed Norton, leaveth Bagenhall, a
village temoved from it eastward more than a mile,
where is a chapel. 20 Conq. Robert de Stafford held
BagenhalP of the king. Of some part of this village it
would seem that about king Stephen's, or Henry Second's
time, one Ivo de Pantune was owner thereof; for I have
seen a deed importing this ranch, viz. Ivo de Pantune
oranibus hominibus suis. Sec, salutem. Sciatis me de-
disse Ade de Aldithele et heredibus suis terram illam in
Baggenhall, quae est de tenura mea, habend' et tenend'
de me et heredibus meis, in feodo et heredit', &c. Test'.
Alex' Pantune, Will'o Purcell, Rog' fil' Liulf, Sar' de
Chella, et curia mea tota ; salvo jure Petri filii Siwardi ;
et etiam teste Hugone de Clivenhall, et Matheo et Alano
de Bagenhall, et aliis. This village, though it hath not of
late been possessed of any man of note of that name, yet
I find Testes to a very antient piece of evidence, which
was made before king Henry Third's time, that one
' The manor was given by Robert Fitz-Randolph to the
monastery of Beauchief, co. Derby, which he had founded ;
which gift was afterwards augmented by Thomas de Chaworth,
with other lands in this manor. Arms of Alfreton : Azure, two
chevrons. Or.
^ Erdeswick must have read " Bagenhale," what has been
now printed « Bughale." Could this latter rather be Burgh
Hall, which is near to Halloughton, now Haughton? " perti-
net ad Halstone." Domesday. S. P-W.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 15
of the Bagenhall's hath been seated amongst and before
some of the chiefest men that lived in the shire ; as may
appear by a brief of the same deed, here presented ' :
" Will'us de Chetilton, omnibus hominibus suis et ami
cis, &c. salutem. Sciatis me dedisse, &c. Phil" de Dra-
cote, &c. Test. Hen' de Furneaux, Thomas de Erding-
ton turn vicecora'. Hen' de Lega% Rad' de Prestwood,
Ada de Aldelega, Hen' de Davestone, Rog' de Bagen
hall, Will" de Verdon, Hen' de Munkstone-, Galfrido
de Sortforlong*, et tota curia mea." But since then
all the name of them have been brought down, I know
not how, unto the plebeian estate, until this our present
age, that two brethren of that surname, sons of John
Bagenhall, born at Barleston', the one Ralfe, the other
Nicholas, were for their valour, Raufe at Musselborough,
and Nicholas in Ireland, both of them advanced with
the honour of knighthood ; the son of which sir Nicho
las, Henry by name, tracing his father's steps, is also
advanced to the same dignity*.
There' is also a house in Bagenhall, called Green-
way, that hath been possessed by a race of gentlemen
called by the same name.
From Norton, Trent passeth to Hilton, sometime an
abbey', founded, as I take it, by the lord Audelegh's
' This deed is cited to shew the antiquity of the family of
Bagnall. 2 Hen. de Lega was under-sheriff, 6 Ric. I. and several years
after sole sheriff, 15 John, &c. At the time of witnessing the
deed, he is styled Vic. Smyth.
3 Muckston. MS. Chetwynd,
« Shortfurlong, Ibid,
' Other copies say Newcastle,
s Arms of BagnaU : Barry of six Or and Ermine, over all a
lion rampant Azure.
' Hilton Abbey was founded in 1223 by Henry de Audley,
17 Hen. III. near his castle of Helegh, and endowed by him

16 THE ANTIQUITIES
ancestors about the beginning of king John's time ; of
which I can say nothing, except that verse,
" Quas sacrasaedes pletas construxit avorum,
Has nunc |feredes,devastant,^more luporum,"
might be well verified of the possessor, as he is descended
from so near an heir to the founder.
From Hilton, Trent passeth to Buckenhall ; Chetell,
held it before the Conquest, and 20 Conq. it was in the
king's hands. 9 Edw. II. Theobald, and Vivian de Ver
don, were lords of it; and 14 Edw. III. Elizabeth dom.
de Burwash, one of the daughters and heirs of Theo
bald de Verdon, son of Theobald, wife of Bartholomew
de Burwash, was lady of two parts of Buckenhall ; as
appears by a brief here under written : " Elizabetha do-
mina de Burwash, &c. Ade de Hull de Buckenham duas
partes terrse quae fuit Henrici de Abbiley in Bucken
hall : et mihi, ratione minoris aetatis Thomae filii, et he
redibus ejusdem Henrici detinebat habend' usque ad

with lands in pure and perpetual alms. Whilst this abbey was
in the patronage of the Audley family, the monks had from
them numerous donations, particularly from Elizabeth, relict
of Nicholas, the last lord Audley of his line. She obtained a
licence, 19 Ric. II, for the abbot and convent of Blanchland in
Normandy to transfer to her, purchased of them, the lordship
of Cameringham, and the priory, alien, standing there, and
belonging to their house ; which she settled upon the monks of
this abbey in pure alms for ever. By her will, dated Sept. 30,
1400, she bequeathed her body to be buried in the choir of this
abbey in her husband's tomb, and gave also to the monks 400
marks to buy lands for their own use. It was suppressed by
king Hen. VIII. who afterwards exchanged it and other abbey
lands with sir Edwai^d Aston, for certain estates which had
descended to him from William de Maer, who lived soon after
the Conquest, and had them by gift from Radulfus fihus Carae-
rarii. It is now the property of Walter Sneyd, esq. 1819.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 17
plenam aetatem Thomae 14 Edw. III." But in the mean
time, betw;eenthe conquest and Edward II.'s time, there
was lord of it one Alanus de Buckenhall, from whom the
Aliens of this country, as they say, trahunt originem ;
and from whom is descended Thomas Allen", a man of
Oxford, so well known for his virtue, knowledge, and
learning,, that he needs not any commendation of mine.
Trent approaching near Stoke, receiveth a brook,
coming first from the north-west. This brook hath its
beginning something above Tunstall, and passeth be
tween Tunstall and Chadisley. Ricardus Forestarius
held Turvoldfield', vulgariter Thursfield (now called
New-Chapel), (whereof I take Tunstall to be a member),
of the king ; and Nigellus, Gresley's ancestor, of him,
20 Conq. as I have said before. I take it that Ricardus
Forestarius had issue Ormus, who had issue Robert, the
father of Alina, his only daughter and heir, who was
married to Ingenulphus de Gresley, the younger son of
William, the son of the aforesaid Nigellus : which Wil
liam gave to the said Ingenulphus for his preferment,
Tunstall, whereby it came to pass that Henry de Alde
legh had given him before by Ing. de Gresley and Alina
his wife, Tunstall, Cheddersley, Chell, and Normans-
' Thomas Allen, a celebrated mathematician, was born in
1542, and died in 1632. Selden says he was a man of the
most extensive learning and consummate judgment, the bright
est ornament of the university of Oxford. Camden caUs him,
plurimis et optimis artibus ornatissimus. Burton, who wrote his
funeral sermon, stiles him " not only the Coryphaeus, but the
very soul and sun, of all the mathematicians of his time."
The manor of BuckenhaU is now the property of John Spar
row, of Bishton, esq. Arms of Burwash, or Burghurst : Gules,
a lion rampant, queue fourchfee Or.
2 Thursfield remained in the posterity of the Gresleys, till
it became one of the manors which Hen. III. confirmed to
Henry lord Audley. It now belongs to Walter Sneyd, esq.

18 THE ANTIQUITIES
cote ; the consideration I know not, except it were in
frank-marriage. The present lord Audeley sold two parts of Tunstall,
Chadesley, Little-chell, Bulwardlene, Sneads, Beam-
hurst]eys> Stode, Morelowe, and divers others, to Ralph
Sriede and others ; and the other three parts, the eari of
Bath, who hath them by descent, still retaineth. Chelle-
parva hath been used as a member of Tunstall.
This brook, hastening towards Trent, passeth between
Bulwardslene, which it leaveth on the north-east bank,
and Wlstantone on the south-west bank.
20th Conq. "Tanio held Bulwardslene' of Robert de
Stafford. In the time of Henry III, Henry de Audeleigh
was ¦ lord of Bulwardslene, in the possession of whose
heirs it continued until this present lord Audeleigh
sold it,
Wlstanton% the king held 20 Conq. It should seem
that about the establishing the County Palatine, or
' Burslem is now a populous market-town and distinct parish.
The church is ancient, with a square tower. This district,
which is distinguished by the name of the Potteries, reaches
from Lane-end, on the north-east of Newcastle, to Golden-
hill, four miles to the north-west of it, including an extent of
ten miles. This manufacture is perhaps superior to any of
its kind in Europe, and does not yield in elegance and useful
ness to the celebrated potteries of China.
Here has been some wide difference in the readings of
Domesday. Shaw prints " Ipse R. tenet in Barcardeslim," &c.
but has nothing of any then sub-tenant. Lower down, however,
in the same column, he has " R. tenet in Bradelie dim, hid, et
Tanio de eo." S. P-W. Perhaps « one of the Tayni."
^ Wolstanton descended from the earls of Lancaster to John
of Gaunt, earl of Richmond, and at length duke of Lancaster.
It is divided into north and south. The north side compre
hends the townships of Chell, Wedgwood, Bryeryhurst, Stad-
mcJnslow, Thursfield, Oldcote, Ravenscliffe or Ranscliffe, and
Tunstall : the south side, Wolstanton, Knutton, Chesterton, and

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, ig
Duchy of Lancaster, it was annexed to the liberties
thereof, and so continued ; but the reason or means I
cannot tell.
This brook, hasting towards Trent, leaveth on the
north-east bank, Shelton'. Scelfitone was in the Con
queror's hands, 20th of his reign.
Of Stoke^ I can report no more, but that the parson
of the parish is the best man in the town, being lord
thereof, and it being one of the best parsonages in the
country. It is a marvel (so many religious houses being
near it), how it escaped in all ages the covetousness of
them, it resting still, according to the first institution of
parsonages, not appropriated.
Trent keeping on his course, leaveth on the east bank,
Fenton'. Alwardus, one of the Tayni, held it of the
king, 20th Conq. ; and in Henry III.'s time, William de
Erdington held it in fee farm, and was lord of part of it,
in right of Philippa his wife, as I take it; but whose
daughter she was I know not,
Chatterley. The church is ancient, having a nave, side aisles,
and chancel, with a tower, on which is a spire, at the east end
of the north aisle. It contains several monuments to the family
of Sneyd.
' Shelton is remarkable as the birth-place of Elijah Fenton,
an ingenious poet of the last century, whom Pope honoured
with an epitaph, and whose life has been written by Dr. Samuel
Johnson, ' Stoke is now a market-town. The church is an ancient
edifice, of the Saxon stile of architecture. Its numerous ham
lets have been separated by an act of parliament from this their
parent parish ; and since the time of Erdeswick have grown
into considerable importance in commerce, manufactures, and
population, 3 Jeremiah Smith, esq, in 2 Geo. Ill, and John Smith, esq,
in 57 Geo, III, were sheriffs of the county. This estate now
belongs to the latter. Arms : Or, an eagle's wing Gules, on a
chief indented Azure a mullet betweet two cressets Argent.
c 2

20 THE ANTIQUITIES
Handford' stands half a mile eastward from Trent.
20 Conq. as I said before, Ricardus Forestarius held
Heneford of the king. Rauf de Cnoltone held a great
quantity of it in Hen, III.'s time. Thomas Corbett, a
gentleman, hath now seated himself in Hanford.
Trent under Hanford on the west-side receiveth New-
castie-water, which taketh its beginning near Talk% a
town before spoken of, where somewhat more easterly
stands Bradwell', the seat of Raufe, the son of sir Wil
liam Snead, knight, who is the fourth man from the
raiser of that family, William by name, a citizen of
Chester. This William, the Chester man, was the son
of Nicholas, the son of Richard ; to which Richard, or
Richard his father, the lord Audeley gave Bradwell, as I
have heard, in fee-farm. William had issue Richard
Snead, learned in the laws, who had issue sir William,
before spoken of, who had issue Raufe Snead, now of
Bradwell. This Raufe, by virtue of his affability, cour-
" Hanley is become a populous market-town ; and its church,
founded in 1788, is remarkable for the elegance of 'its struc
ture. Ridghouse was purchased by Josiah Wedgwood ; and
has furnished, under him and his descendants, a profusion of the
most elegant porcelain, and deserved the name of Etruria, given
to it by its ingenious proprietor.
* Talk was part of the ancient possessions of the Stanleys,
It was obtained of them by Adam, the son of Lydulphus de
Audleigh, who gave to Adam de Stanley all Stanley, and half the
manor of- BagnaU, in exchange for it. The chapel was built
in 1749,
' BradweU is said to have been purchased by Sneyd temp.
Hen. IV. where this family had a handsome seat, in which they
resided before they removed to Keel, WiUiam Sneyd, esq, 3
Edw. VI, and sir WiUiam Sneyd, kt. 6 Mary, were sheriffs of
the county. This estate is yet the property of their descend
ants. They are lords also of Keel, Chatterley, Tunstall, Hil
ton-abbey, Bermesley, Brerehurst, Stadmerslow, Great and
Little CheU, Wedgwood, and Thursfield,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 21
tesy, and in all good sort increasing his patrimony,
sheweth that the first advancer thereof obtained his
wealth, whereby this house is come to this estate, by
lawful, good, and praiseable means, for otherwise, you
know, God would punish the sins of the parents upon
the children, unto the third and fourth generation, and
the third heir should scarce enjoy the patrimony'.
A little lower stands Chesterton", where are to be seen
the ruins of a very ancient town or castle, there yet re
maining some rubbish of lime and stone ; whereby may
be perceived that the walls have been of a marvellous
thickness ; and the name doth also argue some town, or
rather castle, there to have been seated, as also by the
decay thereof, which may seem to be occasioned by
the building of Newcastle ; it did also give cause, where
upon as I take it, it took the name of Newcastle, though
the walls thereof begin to follow the others, shewing
themselves also very ruinous, and almost as little to the
view, as the others do, but that they stand in a great lake
or pool, as the others do not, whereby this may be better
seen.' Less than a mile south-west from Chesterton, stands
Apedale, the seat of the Delves. The first Delves I
' Our author here alludes to the following line :
" De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius haeres."
Between Bradwell and Newcastle is Dimsdale, once the seat
of the Bretts. Arms : Argent, on a chevron Azure three
bezants. Arms of Sneyd : Argent, a scythe and snead Sable,
with a fleur de lis of the second.
' Chesterton was anterior to the Conquest, and a town and
fortress of some strength. It belonged to Ranulf earl of Ches
ter, 17 John. Camden saw the ruins and shattered walls ; but
Plot, in 1680, could discover few traces of them. It began to
decay so early as the time of Hen. III. who granted it to his
younger son, Edmund earl of Lancaster, and he is supposed
to have built another castle, called Newcastle, at a short dis
tance from it, and thus neglected the more ancient edifice.

22 THE ANTIQUITIES
find any thing of, was one Richard Delves; he lived
about Edw. III.'s time, and had issue Henry, who had
issue John 19 Ric IL, who had issue Richard, who had
issue sir John Delves, knt. Rauf, a priest ; and Henry,
a third son. Sir John Delves, knt. had issue another sir
John, who had issue Helen, his only daughter and heir,
who was married to Robert Sheffield, knight, and re
corder of London, and from him is descended Robert
Sheffield, of^Butterwich, his son ; who had issue Edward,
first lord Sheffield, who was slain at Norwich ; who had
issue John lord Sheffield, father of Edmund lord Shef
field, which liveth now, and hath sold Apedale, and all
his other lands in com. Stafford'.
About two miles lower than Apedale, south-east, is
the Newcastle-town, of which I can find nothing in the
book of Domesday; whereby I conjecture it hath been
built, and hath the liberties it now hath, since that it
came to the earl and duke of Lancaster, and that, before,
it was reputed but as a member of Wlstaneton, and now
is governed by a mayor, and having the liberties usually
granted to ancient boroughs ; it also sendeth two bur
gesses to the Parliament house^.
' Lands in Apedale, and in Podmore, near it (and in Thick
nesse, a place not observed in maps of Staffordshire) came in
1565, by the same title with Stotfold, to Humphry Wulverston, or
Wolfreston. And a scrawled MS. " Account of Audley parish, by
Richard Parrot, 1773," (among Shaw's papers) says, " Wool-
versons sold Podmore, which had been a distinct lordship from
Apedale, to one Grosvenour; who sold it to Bowyer, of
Knypersley, who had before purchased the lordship of Ape
dale." This explains how sir Nigel Bowyer Gresley, among
his portions of the Bowyer estates, possessed both Apedale and
an " old house caUed Podmore haU." S. P-W.
Apedale is famous for its iron ore. The family of Delves
were originally from Delves-hall near Uttoxeter.
' Of the more ancient castle scarcely a vestige remains,
having fallen to decay upwards of three centuries. In the time of
Leland only one tower of the ancient edifice remained. The

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 23
Newcastle-water being past the town a mile, leaveth
half a mile westward Knotone, which I take to be Clo
tone, or rather Cnotone, mentioned in Domesday-book,
and said to be held by Ricardus Forestarius ; this should
be meant ; and I rather think it should be so ; for that
all' the towns holden by the said Richard lie about
Newcastle, as near as Knotone : and besides, there is
not any town of that name spoken of in the book, and
named to be in Staffordshire. In Henry TII.'s time,
Raufe Knotone held 36 yard lands in Knotone, Apes-
dale (now^, I think, Hanchurch), Haswich, Clayton,
Hanford, and Whitmore. And I find that one Richard
first charter of incorporation was granted by Henry I. and was
confirmed with additional privUeges by Q. Eliz. and Chas. II.
A mayor, two justices, two bailiffs, and 24 common councilmen,
hold courts for the recovery of debts under forty shillings. It
first sent two members to Parliament in 27 Edw. III. and the
right of election was determined March 21, 1792, by a com
mittee of the H'ouse of Commons,. to be in the freemen residing
within the borough. This town had formerly four churches,
of which, since the barons' wars, only one remains, having a
square embattled tower. It was a chapelry to Stoke, and is
now, by Act of Parliament, a parish in itself. At the south end
of the town was a monastery of black friers, but no trace of it
is visible. Leland, Itin. VII. p. 36. Plot saw here a solid
block of stone, raised from a quarry, which exhibited the petri
fied skull of a human being ; probably of some malefactor, who
had been executed there ; the spot where it was found being
still called Gallows-tree, in memory of its ancient appropriation.
This town, in 1756, gave the title of duke to Thomas Holies,
duke of Newcastle-on-Tyne, which at his death, in 1768, by
limitation of the patent, devolved to Henry earl of Lincoln, who
married his niece ; and he dying Feb. 22, 1794, was succeeded
by his son, Thomas third duke, who dying May 17, 1795, was
succeeded by Henry the present and fourth duke.
» Erdeswick should have excepted out of the Newcastle vici
nity, Redbaldestone (Rodbaston), in Culvestan (i. e. as written
elsewhere in the Staffordshire Domesday, Cudolvestan) hun
dred ; and perhaps Estendon, p, 4. S, P-W.

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Bromley married a daughter and heir of Cnotone
35 Edw. I. which Richard had issue by her Raufe,
who had issue another Richard, who gave to John
Delves the third part of Barlemore, lying in the fee
of Cnotone, II Edw, III. of whose descent you may see
more when I write of Ashley.
Newcastle- water being past Cnotone, entereth into
Trent, which leaveth Claytone almost half a mile west;
Ricardus Forestarius held Clayton, supposed to be called
Claytone-Griffin, 20 Conq. I can say no more of Clay
ton, except that Ralph Cnotone is said to have part
of his 36 yard lands in this Claytone.
More than a mile from Newcastle westward', stands
Keele'', where Ralph Snead hath built a very proper and
fine house of stone. In the same town also dwelleth a'
gentleman of the surname of Brett'.
Trept having received Newcastle-water, passeth on to
Trentham*, (whereof I know no more than Mr. Camden
hath said, except that it was in the king's hands 20
' MS Chetwynd.
* This house, the residence of Walter Sneyd, esq. is built in
the stile of architecture which prevailed in the time of Q. Eliza
beth ; the west front of which, by Michael Burghers, is engraved
in Plott. Keel House was ordered by the Parliament to be de
molished by Capt. Barbar's soldiers, Feb. 29, 1643. The manor
was parcel of Tutbury Castle, 1 Edw. III. Ralph Sneyd, esq,
18 Elizabeth, and 37 Elizabeth, and 19 James I. William
Sneyd, esq. 16 Ch. II. Ralph Sneyd, esq. 6 Geo. I. and Walter
Sneyd, esq. 54 Geo. III. were sheriffs of the county. Arms :
Argent, a scythe, the blade in chief, and the sued or handle in
bend sinister ; on the dexter side of the handle a fleur de lis
Sable,. 3 It was the antient seat of the Bretts of Dimsdale, who
were also lords of Knalton, T, B.
* Trentham was antiently called Tricengham, Of this
antient abbey St. Werburgh was appointed abbess by her bro
ther king Ethelred, and here she died in 683. In the time of
Henry I, it was rebuUt or refounded, by Ranulf the second earl

OF STAFFOEDSHIKE 25
Conq. and that I find a record, that the prior and con
vent of Trentham held the same in proper use, arid that
of Chester, for canons of St. Augustine. At the dissolution it
had seven religious, and was valued at ^121. 3s. 2d. per annum,
30 Hen, VIII. it was granted by the king to Charles duke of
Suffolk. It afterwards came to the family of Leveson. Lady
Catherine Leveson died here in 1673, who was a great bene
factress to this parish : she was the wife of sir Richard Leveson,
upon whose death without issue, his sister and co-heir carried
the lordship by marriage to sir Thomas Gower, bart. whose de
scendants were elevated to a peerage, and who yet continue to
reside here. Sir John Leveson Gower, the fifth baronet, was
created baron Gower of Sittenham, co. York, March 16, 1702;
his son became viscount Trentham, and earl Gower July 8,
1746 ; and his son marquess of Stafford, Feb. 28, l786. The
house is modern, built after the model of the Queen's Palace in
St. James's Park. A view of the antient house is given in Plot.
The first of this family upon record is Richard Leveson, who
was seated at WiUenhaU, co. Stafford, 27 Edw. I. From him
descended Richard Leveson of Prestwood, esq. who had three
sons ; John, who died without issue ; Nicholas, lord mayor of
London, died in 1.539 ; James. John, great grandson of Ni
cholas, died without issue male, but left two daughters.
Christian, who married sir Peter Temple, of Stow, bart. and
Frances, the wife of sir Thomas Gower, bart. who inherited
LiUeshuU and Trentham. From these two females spring a
numerous race of peers of Great Britain. James Leveson, the
younger brother of Nicholas, the lord Mayor, was a merchant
of the staple at Wolverhampton and LilleshuU. By his first
wife he had a daughter, Mary, wife of sir George Curzon, of
Croxall, who became his heir. From her descended the duke
of Dorset, and the earl of Thanet. By a second wife he had
two daughters ; Elizabeth, married to sir Walter Aston, and
Joyce, to sir John Giffard of Chillington, knight. John Leve
son, esq, 3 Eliz,, Thomas Leveson, esq. 33 Eliz., were sheriffs of
the county. Arms of Trentham : Sable, a saltire engrailed Or,
Arms of Leveson : Azure, a fesse nebule Argent and Sable, be
twixt three bay leaves slipt Or ; also three laurel leaves stript
Or, Arms of Gower : harry of three Argent and Gules, a cross
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26 THE ANTIQUITIES
they entered the same tempore regis Rufi per Hugo-
nem veterem com, Cestriae in puram et perpetuam elee
mosinara), and so leaveth Barleston eastward, and Tit-
nesour westward, both lately the inheritance of the
barons of Stafford, and not long since sold by this pre
sent baron. I find, 20 Conq. Helgotus held Bemulves-
ton of Robert de Stafford ; and that in Richard 1,'s
time one Gilbert held it, and in king John's time, PhiHp
Holgate held the same, and had issue Johannes filius
Philippi, who was lord of it in Hen. III.'s time ; and
9 Edw. II. Hugo de Hulpham' (I think it should be
Holgoth) was lord of it ; who, as I take it, descended
from Johannes, fil. Phil. Holgate, and they from Hol
gate that held it of Robert de Stafford, in the Con
queror's time. Now the countess of Shrewsbury hath it,
as a purchaser from the lord Stafford'.
Tittensoure was held 20 Conq. of Robert de Stafford,
by one Stenulphus, Ivo, or Eudo, de Tittenshover, held
the same, by one knight's fee, of the barons of Stafford,
in the beginning of Henry IIL's tirae, or before ; and
Roger de Tittensour was lord thereof 9 Edw, II. ; but
by what means Bariaston (which the eari of Stafford
was owner of 47 Edw. III.) or Tittensour came to the
lord Stafford from Holgate or Tittensor, I know not.
Trent, being past Bariaston and Tittensor, enters
between Cubleston and Darlaston, leaving the one on
the east and the other on the west.
Cubleston is a goodly large manor, containing these
' See article Bubbington, the same guess (a bad one) at the
orthography of the then owner of that place also. The title is
rightly deduced, as here, from Helgotus ; but instead of
" Hugo de Hulpham," Shaw's print (at least) of the Nomina
ViUarum 9° Edw, II, makes " Roger Corbet" the Berlaston
owner. S. P-W.
' Bariaston is now the property of the family of Mills, of
which Thomas Mills, esq. was sheriff of the county, 27 Geo, II,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 27
hamlets following : viz. Mayford, Oldinton (vulg. 01-
ton), Berryhill, Cotwaldeston, Mathershall, the Spot-
Grange, Snellhall, and Woodhouses.
I can find nothing of Cubleston in the book of Domes-
daj', unless I should think that Cobintone (which Rai-
nold de Balgiole, 20 Conq. held of earl Roger de Mont
gomery) and this Cublestone, should be all one : which
I am the rather induced to think, for that Hales, was also
holden of Roger Montgomery by the said Rainold
Balgiole. And immediately after', I find that one Pan-
tulf held both Hales and Cubleston ; but that Cubleston
(whether it were Cobinton or not) should at that time
contain so many hamlets (as I have said it now doth) I
cannot believe ',
For, first, though I find that the church of St* Ebrulfe
held, of the same Roger, Oton (which may be ,this
Oldinton,- or Olton^), and that Helgote held of him .
', It does not appear from what authority Erdeswick obtained
this information. We have no record from 1086, when Domes
day was finished, to a great roll of the Pipe for one year (about
the 5th of Stephen) ; the series of Pipe Rolls, complete from
the 1st of Hen. II. ; and the Liber Niger-Certificationes, 12
Hen. II. He might perhaps have derived his authority from
the register, or leiger-book, of some religious house. The line
taken by Domesday, in enumerating the lands of Comes
Rogerius, would point rather to Chillington ; which, unless it be
here meant, is not noticed, though so extensive a property —
" Claverley, Nordley, Alveley, (which are now in Shropshire,)
Cobintone, and Halas." S. P-W.
* Cubleston, caUed also Culmsdon, was a manor of Rob. de
Stafford, and in Domesday held under him by Holgate. It
belonged to the Pantulfs, and passed by marriage from them
to the Trussels, The Verdons bought it ; and from them, by
marriage, it passed to the Stanleys,
' It is more probably Onne, This interpretation agrees with
the Conqueror's Confirmation Charter, in the Monasticon, II.
966. " S^ Ebrulfo Rogerius, comes Scrobesburiae, dedit Oth-

28 THE ANTIQUITIES
Mayford ; yet, I find that Cotwaldeston was then in the
king's hand, and so was Woodton and Sneshala', which
I take to be Woodhouses and Snellhall, before re
membered, I find, the 8th of Rich, I. aud 2d of king John, Hugo
de Pantulf, or Pandolfe, was lord of Cubleston; and
after him, William Pantulf, or Pantune, was owner of
it 9 Edw. II. This William had issue two daughters,
his heirs ; Matilda, married to Raufe Boteler ; and
Rosia, married to William, the son of Richard Trussel,
who had issue by her William Trussel, that in his mo
ther's right was lord both of Cubleston and Mayford ;
which William, or some of his posterity, builded there
a stately and goodly house of stone, whereof several ruins
do yet remain. Since then the Vemons of Haddon, in
Derbyshire, were lords of it, I think, as our lawyers
say) by perquisition ; whereof the last, sir George,
left two daughters his heirs, Margaret and Dorothy ;
nam et Merestonam, in Estaforde-scira. Guarinus, vicecomes,
dedit Newtonam et ecclesiam de Halis, cum decima decimam-
que de Guestona, in Estaforde-scira; et haec dominus ejus
Rogerius comes concessit." Rainold Balgiole is the Domes
day tenant, in capite, of Westone and Niwetone. S, P-W,
' Some copies read Shuneshala, which should properly have
been Cuneshala, Woodton, instead of being Woodhouses, in
Cubleston, was perhaps Wootton-under-Weever, It seems to
be, that no such place as Cubleston is found in Domesday, or
that Cobitone must be the place. Besides the two members
of that manor, Meaford and Cotwaldston (in Domesday, Cote-
woldestune,) he has omitted Modredeshale, with something,
imperfectly expressed, " in CodeuHalle quce ibi p'tinet," held
under earl Roger, by Witts. Over this name, Witts, in Cress-
vale (CressweW) juxta Stafford (in Stadford una vasta masuraj
the first of four towns held by him, appears inniinute letter
the name "Pantul;" shewing Witts to be the ancestor of the
family, which, in an early age afterwards, held both Sheriff-
Hales and a manor named Cubleston or Cublesdon, S, P-W.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 29
Margaret, who had in the partition Cubleston, was
married to sir Thomas Stanley, knt. second son to Ed
ward, earl of Derby, and father to Edward Stanley,
now owner thereof'.
Then, on the west side, leaveth Darlaweston, now
called Dorlaston, where, on a goodly large steep hill,
be the ruins of a very large house, or rather, as may
seem, of some small town. The report of the country
is, that this place was some time the habitation of Wol-
ferus, king of Mercia ; and, to confirm the same, I have
seen an old deed, which intreateth of the foundation of
the priory of Stone, and affirmeth as much; which is.
not unlike ; for that Stone, wheje his son Wolfradus
was martyred, is but a mile off. There are two Dar-
lastons in Staffordshire ; of the other, I mean to speak
hereafter, where the place requires.
This Dorlaston was held, 20 Conq. by the abbot of
Burton, and given to one Ormus de Guldene and Ro
bert his son, born of the daughter of Nicholas Beau
champ, sheriff of Staffordshire, who had issue AHva, wife
of Ingenulfus de Gresley; who had issue Hawvisia
or Avicia, Dionisia de Darlaston, and Petronilla.
Avisia was married to Henry Verdon, who had issue
Henry Verdon', who, 9 Edw. II. was lord thereof; but
'The manor of Cubleston is now (1819) the property of
Thomas Swinnerton, of Butterton, esq,
^ In page 6, it says, that " Dionisia had Darlaston and Fen
ton." The fact probably was, that neither Avisia nor Dionisia
had it, as the original partition of their father Engenulf de
Gresley's inheritance, but their other sister, Petronella, wife
of Robert de Sugenhal, From original deeds, now lying before
me, the said Robert and PetroneUa his wife (stiling herself, in
the earliest of them, daughter of Engenulf de Gresley), grant
lands in Suartlincote, co, Derby, to Petronella, fil. Domini
Henr. de Verdun, a daughter, it may be, of the elder Petro-
nella's sister Avicia, Robert de Sugenhul being stated by Er
deswick to have had no issue by the said elder Petronella. By

30 THE ANTIQUITIES
who have been owners of it ever since, I cannot yet
learn ; more than that James Collier, in Hen.VIII.'s time,
purchased the same, almost all Stone (being a thorough
fare from London into Ireland, Cheshire, and Lanca
shire, and a pretty market-town,) and also a very good
farm, lying within a mile southwards, "and within two
miles of Stone.
It' was some time a grange^ (and was to them given
by Robert deBaskervile, and confirmed by Hugo de Lacy),
other succeeding originals, Petronella, daughter of Henry de
Vei-don, knt, grants the same Suartlincote lands to Henry de
Verdon, junior. And at Purific, 22° Edw, I, and Mich, 32°
Edw, I. Henry de Verdon grants in Swartlingcote, by the stile
" Dominus de Derlaxton ;" and, again, " de Derlaston," But,
whether he was lord of Derlaston by lineal descent from his
ancestress Avicia, or in consequence of some gift like that of
Suartlincote, from her sister Petronella, Erdeswick, in giving
it to Dionisia, seems incorrect,
' About ninety years after Erdeswick's writing, James CoUyer,
of Darlaston, gent, sold Darlaston manor (to be paid for March
25, 1686) to William Jervis, of Meaford, gent, owner of the estate
of Chatculme, or Chatkill, in Eccleshall parish, and repre
sentative of a family long seated there, which descended, in all
appearance, from Robert Gervays de Chatculme 18° Edw. III.
and he from Robert, fil. Gervasin de Standon, about sixty
years before ; both which Roberts, with Gervasius de Standon
himself, appear as testes in earl Talbot's volume (marked A.)
of Extracts, by Chetwynd (p. 210-212), and in Chetwynd's
Pyrehill. It was through his mother, WiUiam Jervis became
head of the family, she being of the elder line heiress of Chat-
kill. Her husband was a second son of the junior branch, then
of Ollerton, co. Salop, but now subsisting, in its direct chief
representative, at Cheswardine, in that county. WiUiam Jer
vis, being childless, devised his estate to John Jervis, eldest
son of his next but one brother, John, (sir Humphry Jervis, of
Dublin, the second brother, having only daughters). John
Jervis, of Darlaston, grandson to the eldest of six sons, whom

' The " good farm" was a grange, &c.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 31
belonging to the abbey of Cumbermere, being called
Earl's Hyde; which name, as I take it, was given it by
reason it was at the Conquest the lands of comes Ro-
gerus Montgomericus, and contained a hide of land ; as
if one might say, it was the earl's hide. James Collier,
before spoken of, had issue Robert Collier; who had
issue James Collier, deceased, who sold Stone and Bar
iaston' to his father-in-law Robert Needham, of Shain-
ton, in Shropshire; and Earl's Hide to his brother,
Christopher Collier, also deceased.
that devisee had by the grand-daughter and heir (but not heir
in estate) of John Swynfen, of Swynfen, esq. (Member of Par
liament for Tamworth, in king William's reign, ) dying issueless
March 4, 1802, gave his estates to the eldest son of his heir-
male, Swynfen Jervis ; which Swynfen is grandson to Thomas,
fourth of the six sons. John, earl of St. Vincent, is the younger
and survivor (1819) of two sons of Swynfen Jervis, barrister-
at-law, formerly of Meaford, the fifth of the same six sons.
S. P-W. John Jervis, esq. 7 Anne, was sheriff of the county.
At Bury Bank are the ruins of an ancient fortress : its area is
250 yards in diameter. It is a remarkable relic of Saxon anti
quity, and may have constituted a sort of praetorium. Wulfere,
king of Mercia, 656 — 675, is supposed to have resided here :
hence its old name Wlfercester. Plot conjectures it was the
sepulchre of the Mercian monarch, and that the adjoining town
was hence caUed Stone. Arms of Jervis : Sable, a chevron
Ermine between three martlets Or.
' Probably Burweston." Bariaston, p. 12, " now the coun
tess of Shrewsbury hath it." On the other hand, Darlaston
(if that be meant) must have returned, for some period, from
Needham to the Colliers. Arms of CoUier : Argent, upon a
chevron. Azure, three bunches of acorns Or, between demi
unicorns Gules.
Yariet was purchased by a younger son of CoHiers ; and now,
like other church-lands, is changing its master, being upon
sale. MS. Degge. The brass head of a Roman venabulum, or
hunting-spear, was found here ; whence, it is supposed, that it
was a Roman station.

32 THE ANTIQUITIES
I can find nothing of Stone in Domesday Book, un
less I should think it to be Sceon', which was then in
the king's hands; and so it may be well, if a man but
conceive that the C is mistaken, and should be a T.
In Stone was some time a nunnery, founded by &mi-
nilda, wife or daughter of the aforesaid Wulferus, king
of Mercia, which so continued till about the Conquest,
when one Enisan (by the advice of his kinsman*, Gef-
fry de Clinton, chamberlain to the king,) changed them
for canons, whose son Ernald ratified the same ; and
then it was given to the barons of Stafford, and was
much increased by the said barons and earls of Stafford-
afterwards, whose burial-place for a long time it was-;
for there lie buried most of them ; as, Robert, first
baron, after the Conquest, and Avicia, his wife; Ni
cholas, second baron, and Matilda his wife; Robert,
tWd baron, and Anastasia' his wife; Herveius Bagott,
' The Domesday " Sceon," from the whole of the places set
down immediately before and after it, under Terra Regis,
must be Shene, a chapelry in the north-east part of the parish
of Alstonefield. S. P-W.
^ This passage should run to the effect following : " Geffiry
de Clinton (paying him the purchase) gave it to the canons of
KenUworth (of Gefiry's foundation) whose son Ernald ratified
the same gift" or sale. The Stone-priory itself was hardly
after-given to the Staffords ; though they, being chief lords of
the granter Enisan, might become patrons, and so buried in it.
And Erdeswick states below, that it continued till the general
dissolution. Monastic. Angl, II, 127-8. S. P-W.
' " Avicia," not Anastasia. So, not only the moiikish verses
in Monastic. Angl. II. 126, but also a deed of Robert, the tiiird
baron himself. Copy in Rydeware Chartulary (Mr. Gresley's),
No. 74. S.P-W.
Wulfere, the first Christian king of Mercia, founded here a
college of secular canons about 670, as an atonement for the
murder of his sons, Wulfad and Rufin, whom he had slain
with his own hands, on suspicion of their conversion to Christ-

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 33
fourth baron, in right of his wife Milicent, daughter
and heir of 'the last before-named Robert; Hervey
Bagott, son of Hervey and Milicent, fifth baron, and
Petronella his wife; and also Robert, his son, sixth
baron, and both his wives ; which Robert obtained the
freedom of the house from Kenelworth, to which, be
fore, it was subject: also Nicholas, his son, seventh
baron; and also the heart of Hugh, second earl of Staf-
tianity. After he had renounced Paganism, and become a
convert to the Christian faith, he built several churches and
religious houses, and, among others, Peterborough abbey.
In the place, where he killed his sons, Ermenilda his wife,
daughter of Egbert king of Kent, founded here a nunnery;
and at Burston a chapel, which, Erdeswick says, was standing
in his time. The nunnery was of the order of St. Benedict,
and continued till after the Norman Conquest, when Enysan
de Walton, who came over with the Normans, took possession
of this demesne, re-established the religious house, and made
it a cell to the abbey of KenUworth. His son having forfeited "
it to the king, it was given by him to Robert de Stafford, About
1260, by this family it was separated from KenUworth, except
the right of patronage and a yearly pension. Many magnificent
tombs, which belonged to this great family, rested in the
church of this priory till the dissolution, at which time they
were removed to the Augustine friery at Stafford. A 'frag
ment of this priory is yet visible on the road side, at the
southern extremity of the town ; and at the formation of the
road, about half a century ago, several subterranean passages,
connecting the buildings, were discovered, and parts of this
building formed the foundation of the present parsonage-house.
At the-dissolution it was valued ^119. 14s. lid. The church
is modern, dedicated tp St. Wulfad. In the church-yard is a
spacious cemetery of the Jervis family. The site of the priory
was granted 30 Hen. VIII, to George Harpur ; from whom it
passed by purchase to the Cromptons ; and from them, by
purchase, to the noble family of Gower, who now possess it,
William Crompton, esq. .39 Elizabeth, and Thomas Crompton,
esq. 5 Anne, were sheriffs of the county. Arms : Or, upon a
chief vert, three broad arrow-heads of the first.
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34 THE ANTIQUITIES
ford, son of Raufe, the first eari of Stafford, who died
at Rhodes; and also the body of Philippa, his wife, was
buried at Stone. Now the said priory and demesnes
thereof are in the possession of William Crompton ;
which William was son of one William, a merchant in
London, ex humili loco natus, who purchased the said
priory presently after the dissolution thereof.
Trent, having taken its course by Stone, passeth
between it and Walton % and then between Aston ^ and
' By some monumental remains at Stone, compared with the
Staffordshire visitation, 1614, William Crompton seems to have
been succeeded, lineally, by a second William, and two Tho
mas Cromptons: the last of whom died Dec, 1, 1673, leaving
an only surviving son, Morton Crompton, by Eleanor, daugh
ter of sir George Morton, of Dorsetshire, knt. S. P-W,
" Crompton and Collier, at the dissolution, bought all the
priory at 1500 pounds each : the one had, as is commonly distin
guished, the church-lands, and the other the priory-lands.
Collier is vanished ; and two of the Cromptons successively
have sold five hundred pound a year of this; and this, no issue."
Degge. Near Stone is a large tract of ground called Stonefield,
upon which WiUiam duke of Cumberland drew up his army in
1745, in daily expectation of an engagement with the rebel
forces of the Pretender, Stuart. Through Stone passes the
canal navigation between the Trent and the Mersey, begun
in 1766.
' In the time of Hen. II. Walton was possessed by Eutropius
de Hastang, as heir to his mother Maud, who was daughter
and heir of Humfredus, who held it of Henry de Ferrers, 20
Conq. It seems to have been soon alienated; as, in the same
reign, AUcia de Walton held it, who married Peter Giffard, a
descendant of the Giffards, dukes of Buckingham, whose pos
terity had, and still have, their seat at Chillington,
' Near Aston, in Pyrehill, which gives name to the hundred.
There was a large mansion at Aston, of the Heveninghams, It
was carried, by a female of that family, to sir James Simeon,
who rebuilt it. In a retired covert, sir James Simeon built a

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 35
Stoke, and Aston and Burweston : all which, or the
most thereof, at this day, the lands of Walter Hen-
large mausoleum for the interment of himself and his family.
The manor passed from Walter Heveningham, who left two
daughters, by marriage with the younger, to sir James Simeon,
bart. It afterwards became, together with the Pipe estate,
the property of Edward Weld, of Lulworth Castle, in Dorset
shire, esq. the descendant of a daughter of the Simeon family.
It was sold, a few years ago, to John Jervis, earl of Saint
Vincent, the iUustrious admiral, who is (1819) the present
possessor, 1, Walter Heveningham, by the daughter of Corminall, of
Cornwall, anno 1020, had four sons and one daughter.
2. Sir Walter, his son, married the daughter of sir Gefiry
Carol, knt. had three sons and two daughters.
3. Sir Robert, his son, married the daughter of the earl of
Warren, had three sons and four daughters.
4. Sir Robert, his son, married the daughter of sir William
Daughtry, knt. had four sons and one daughter.
5. Sir Ralph, his son, married the daughter of Faulk Bo-
hun, who was the fourth son of the earl of Hereford.
6. Sir William, married Cicil, daughter of earl Daubeny, the
founder of St. Neot's, had four sons and two daughters.
7. Sir Reginald, his son, married Joan, daughter of 
Feoburne, knt. had three sons and one daughter.
8. Sir Richard, his son, married Maryel, daughter of sir
John Blount, knt, had four sons and two daughters,
9. Sir Peter, his son, married Phillis, daughter of sir John
Langley, knt. had four sons and two daughters.
10. Sir WiUiam, his son, married Cassandra, daughter of sir
Richard Verdyne, knt. had four sons and one daughter,
11, Sir Andrew, his son, married Joyce, daughter of Ri
chard Brame, had six sons and three daughters,
12. Sir Philip, his son, married Lore, daughter of sir 
Ufford, knt. had three sons and one daughter.
13. Sir Robert, his son, married  daughter of sir 
Morley, knt. had six sons and four daughters.
14. Sir Richard, his son, married Alice, daughter of 
West, had five sons and two daughters,
d2

36 THE ANTIQUITIES
ningham, descended from the Henninghams of Suffolk ;
foi- Walter was the son of Christopher, who was the
15.. Sir Philip, his son, married Ffoyne, daughter and coheir
of sir  Grevile, knt. had seven sons and three daughters.
16. Sir John, his son, married  daughter of sir 
Hastings, knt. had four sons and four daughters.
17. Richard, his son, married Mary, daughter of Philip
Barmingham, had four sons and two daughters.
18. Sir John, his son, married Joan, daughter and heir of
sir John Gissing, knt. had two sons and one daughter.
19. Sir John, his son, married Joan, daughter of sir 
Rossiter, knt. had five sons and three daughters. He was she
riff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 2 Hen. IV.
20. Sir John, his son, married  daughter and heir of sir
John Redisham, knt. had four sons and two daughters. He was
sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 2 Hen. V.
21. Sir ^ohn, his son, married Alice, daughter of sir John
Savile, knt. had two sons and three daughters. He was sheriff
of Norfolk and Suffolk, 16 Hen. VI.
22. Sir Thomas, his son, banneret, married  , daughter
and heir of  Yarde, had two sons and two daughters.
23. Sir John, his son, married  , daughter of sir Ralphe
Shelton, knt. had five sons and three daughters. He was she
riff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 10 Edw. IV.
24. Sir Anthony, his son, married Catharine Calthorpe;
and, after her death, Mary Shelton : had three, sons and six
daughters. 25. Henry Heveningham, married the daughter of sir Ed
mund Wyndham, knt. had no issue.
26. Sir Arthur Heveningham, knt. married the daughter of
 Hanchett, had seven sons and five daughters.
27. Sir John, his son, married Katherine, daughter of Lewis,
lord Mordaunt, and after her death Bridget, grandchUd of sir
William Paston, knt. had five sons and ten daughters. He
was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 2 and 15 Hen. VIII. This
elder branch remained in Suffolk.
28. Erasmus, younger son of sir John, the 23d in the pedi
gree, married Mary Moyle, daughter of Walter Moyle, esq. of
Kent, by Isabella, daughter and coheir of John Stanley, son
and heir of sir Humphry Stanley, of the house of Derby.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 37
son of Erasmus, a younger brother of the house of the
Henninghams, of Suffolk ; which Erasmus marriedMary,
29. Christopher, son of Erasmus, was born about April 1540,
married Dorothy Stanley, daughter of WUliam Stanley, of the
house of Derby, younger brother of Christopher's great grand
father, John Stanley. This seems to be not impossible, as to
dates. There is evidence that Christopher and Dorothy were,
at least, so near in blood, as to be married by dispensation
from Rome. This Christopher, 26 Eliz. died seized of the
manors of Clifton-CamvUe, Pipe, and Aston ; also of lands in
Sandon, Hordewick, Tamworth, Wiggington, Coton, Lich
field, Haunton, and Harlaston, with the advowsonof the church
of Clifton.
30, Sir Walter, born 25 July, 1 562, son and heir of Chris- '
topher, .married Anne, daughter of  Fitzherbert, of Nor-
bury. He was sheriff of this county, 7 James I.
31. Nicholas, son and heir of Sir Walter, married Elizabeth
Bowes, daughter of sir John Bowes, of Elford, by his second
wife, Susannah Cave, daughter of sir Thomas Cave, of Stam
ford ; had issue Walter, Simon, and Christopher.
32, Walter, son of Nicholas, was baptized in the Pipe Hall
by Mr. Christopher GiU, sexton, 29 October, 1608; had no
male issue, but two daughters. Christopher died unmarried.
One daughter married Walter Fowler, esq. the other married
sir James Simeon, and carried the Aston and Pipe estates with
them. Margaret, daughter of sir James Simeon, married 
Weld, esq.
33. Simon, second son of Nicholas, married, apd had issue
John and Henry (who both died without issue), Christopher,
and Dorothy.
34. Christopher married Mary, daughter of William
Brooke, of Haselour, esq. and had issue four sons, Henry,
Walter, Christopher, and Brooke ; and one daughter, Hen
rietta-Maria. Henry was baptized at Elford, 8 Feb. 1693;
Walter was baptized 22 Jan. 1695; Christopher was baptized
6 Dec, 1698 ; Brooke was baptized at St. Mary's, Litchfield,
11 Jan. 1700.
35. Henry, eldest son of Christopher, married Mary Led-
wood, at St. Mary's, Litchfield, 13 Feb. 1714-15.

38 THE ANTIQUITIES
the daughter of Walter Moyle, of Kent, and Isabella
his wife, daughter and co-heir of John Stanley, son and
heir of sir Huraphry Stanley, knight and banneret, and
Ellen his wife, daughter and heir of sir Jaraes Lee, knt.
son and heir of William Lee, of Knightley, and Maud
his wife, owners of Aston, Burweston, and Walton ;
ijut how they were all united, or how they came to be
the possession of William Lee and Maud his wife I
cannot yet learn, neither how they came to be divided ;
for, 20 Conq. they were all lands of Robert de Stadford'.
Of more ancient time, that is to say, about 34 Hen. III.
W^alton and half of Aston were the lands of sir Richard
Venables, knt, younger son of sir William Venables,
baron of Kinderton ; which sir Richard had issue Tho
mas Venables, who had issue William, who lived about
15 Edw. III. The other half of Aston, and half of Bur
weston, continued from Henry the Third's time till Ed
ward the Third's time, in the possession of a race of
gentlemen called Marshall, all the names of whom were
Robert ; a thing to be misliked (though many, I know,
affect their parents' names), considering that if any mat
ter should fall to be in controversj', whereby a man
should be forced to plead his descent, it would be very
difficult to make proof thereof, and to know which was
the donor or the donee, and to distinguish one from the
other; where, if they be of several names, the descent
will be easily found out ; so that a man may plead it,
and be in no danger by laying down his descent.

Arms of Heveningham : Quarterly, Or and Gules, a border
Sable, charged with escallop shells Argent ; also, quarterly. Or
and Gules, a border engrailed Sable, bezanty.
' Id est, taking Sandon-parva to be this Burweston. There
is no Burweston in Domesday, except one in the Terra Epis-
copi ; yet Erdeswick, inconsistently, distinguishes Burweston
from Little Sandon, S. P-W.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 39
Stoke was the inheritance of the Hinckleys, a race of
knights in this county ' ; but how they were allotted, or
how it came to the possession of William Leigh and
Maud his wife, I cannot yet learn, neither how they
came to be divided ; for, 20 Conq, they all were the
lands of Robert de Stafford.
Trent, having passed between Walton and Stoke, and
after between Aston and Sandon, leaving Aston south
wards and Sandon northwards, which taketh its begin
ning within little more than a mile of Stone, following
Trent for a space ; but being cut off by Burweston,
coraeth not to the banks again, till Trent be past both
Aston and this Burweston, which, I suppose was some
time a member of Sandon ; for that the Conqueror gave
to Robert de Stafford, virgatam terras in parv^ Sandon,
which I take to be this Burweston, being to this day
holden of the barony of Stafford ; and so are no other
lands in Sandon, but all holden of the queen, as of
her honour of Tutbury, a member of the duchy of Lan
caster. Sandon contains these hamlets ; viz. Great Sandon,
Little Sandon, Hardwick, Sraallrise, Dracote, the two
Leighs, Newton, and Cresswell ; and, I suppose, hath
of ancient time, before the Conquest, also contained this
Burweston'^, which standeth west from Little Sandon,
and Little Sandon also west from Great Sandon, where
ever was the seat of the manor, and where the parish
church now standeth. I take it, that it was called Dur-

' Arms of Hinckley: Argent, on a bend Sable, cotticed Argent,
three escallops Or, between three lions rampant Or.
" Burweston, now Burston, is the site of an ancient chapel,
erected in memory of Rufin, second son of Wulfere, who was
slain at this place by his father, in consequence of his conver
sion to the Christian faith. This chapel, which was standing
in the time of our Author, is now levelled with the ground.

40 THE ANTIQUITIES
weston, or rather Furweston, as being further west from
Great-Sandon than Little-Sandon.
In this Burweston was sometirae a chapel, a place in
old time, visited for devotion.
The report is, that Wolferus, the pagan king of Mer
cia, seeking to tyrannize over the Christians, and finding
Wolfadus and Rufinus his two sons, to exercise the
Christian religion, in his cruelty sought also to perse
cute them ; but they seeking to escape persecution by
flight, Wolfadus was soon taken, and martyred at Stone;
but Rufinus, the younger, escaped further, and sought to
hide himself, where lately, this chapel stood, being in
those days a place full of groves and woods (for all San
don, at the tirae of the Conquest, which was long after
this age, was forest lands) : and being there found, was
martyred in the same place.
Sandon, 20 Conq. was in the king's hands, but pre
sently after it was given, as I think, to Hugh earl of
Chester, who passed it over to William, baron of Wich
Malbanc, who had issue Hugh Malbanc, who founded
the abbey of Cumbermere ; and had issue William Mal
banc, who gave the churches of Acton, in Cheshire, As-
tonefield and Sandon in Staffordshire, with their cha
pels', of Wich Malbanc, Minshall, Wrenbury, and
Dereford, to the said abbey. William had issue four
daughters, Philippa, Adena, Alditha, or Adeleia, and
Ehsia. Philippa was married to Thomas Basset, baron
of Hedington, and had issue Philippa, wife of Henry
earl of Warwick", and Jone, the wife of Reginald Vale-
tortas, and after, wife of William de Courtenay ; Adena,
I think, died unmarried,but if she were, she had no issue,
but gave raost of her lands to Henry de Aldelego*, and
' Monastic. Ang. I. 765, = Henry de Newburgh, T, B.
' Roger de Velatoft, perhaps, T. B.
» Aide de Lego, or Audley. T. B.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 41
after to Waryne de Vernon; Alditha was married to
Hugh de Altaribus, and had issue Hugo ; which Hugo
the son, granted all his lands in Cheshire, Buckingham
shire, and Staffordshire, to Waryne Vernon, his father-
in-law, and Waryne Vernon,- his brother, and to his
heirs. Waryne Vernon, the father, had issue the said
Waryne,the son; Raufe, apriest; Matthew,andNicholas.
The fourth sister, Elicia, was married, and had issue John
de Wallena, who, I think, died without issue. Waryne
Vernon, the son, had issue Waryne, who died without
issue unmarried ; and Margery, married to sir Richard Wil-
burnhara, knight ; Alditha, married, fir^t to Hugh Beau-
charap, of Bedford, and after, to sir WiUiara Stafford,
second son of Hervey Bagott, and Millicent, baroness
of Stafford, and, lastly, to sir William Janway ; Roisia,
a third daughter, was married to John Littlebury. But
there did arise great suits between Raufe Vernon, the
priest, and these sisters, for all the inheritance ; the priest
claiming as heir-male; and in the end it was com
pounded, that the sisters should have but the manor of
Leftwiche, and other lands, amounting to the moiety of
the barony of Sybroc ; and the other moiety of the ba
rony and lands, should remain to the priest. Sir Rich
ard Wilburnham, and Margery his wife, had issue
Maud, married to Robert Winnington, who had issue
Richard, that was called Leftwich, after the name of his
bouse (of this Richard comes the Leftwiches of Che
shire), and Agnes, married to Richard, the son of Gra-
hara, of Lostock'. Sir William Stafford and Alditha
had issue sir William Stafford, knight, who had issue a
third William, who had issue sir James Stafford, knight,
and sir John Stafford, knight; sir James had issue Mar
garet, his only daughter and heir, married to Thomas
' Son of Graham de Leftwich. T. B.

42 THE ANTIQUITIES
Erdeswick, an. 12 Edw, III, Thomas Erdeswick, and
Margaret Stafford his wife, had issue another Thomas,
who had issue Hugh, Robert, Sampson, and Henry :
Hugh, Robert, and Sampson, died without issue;
Henry had issue Hugh, who had issue another Hugh,
who had issue a third Hugh, and Sampson. Hugh
Erdeswick the elder brother, died without issue ; Samp
son had issue Hugh, who had issue Sampson, the Col
lector OF THIS book', AND ALL THAT IS HEREIN
WRITTEN''. ' An. Dom. 1595. T. B. See a short biographical memoir
of our author in the preface.
2 Before the Conquest, Sandon was the property of Algar
earl of Mercia, but at the Conquest it fell into the king's hands,
who bestowed it upon Hugh Lupus earl of Chester. From him
is passed to WiUiam de Malbanc, or Nantwich, one of his ba
rons. Adena, the great-grand-daughter of William, gave it to
Warren de Vernon, whose daughter Alditha conveyed it to sir
William Stafford, knight, Margaret, the daughter of one of
the descendants of sir William, carried it, by marriage, to the
family of Erdeswick, who possessed it from 12 Edw. III. till the
time of James I. In his reign it was sold to George Digby,
one of the grooms of the stole, by George Erdeswick, his half
brother. The daughter of Digby carried it, in marriage, to
Charles lord Gerard, of Bromley ; whose grand-daughter by
marrying William duke of Hamilton, carried it to the family of
that duke ; and it was sold, about forty years ago, by lord
Archibald HamUton, afterwards duke of Hamilton, to Ryder
first lord Harrowhy, whose son, the second baron and first earl
is the present proprietor. Pennant says that a law-suit concern
ing this estate was the occasion of the fatal duel in November
1712, between James duke of Hamilton and lord Mohun,
which terminated in the death of both combatants. The pre
sent mansion was built by lord Archibald Hamilton, near the site
of an antient large half-timbered edifice, the residence of ouR
EMINENT AUTHOR, which was defended by strong walls and" a
deep moat, which moat is yet visible. On the summit of the
hill is the church, which contains, amongst others, a handsome
monument of freestone, against the north wall of the chancel,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 43
Trent being passed betwixt Sandon and Enstone', a
great seat of the Beresfords, washeth also the banks of
Salt,2 20 Conq, Gislebertus held Salt of Robert de Staf-
to the memory of Sampson Erdeswick, the celebrated Anti
quary, and Author of this Book, who died in April 1603, In
the park is a column of the Doric order, erected to the me
mory of WUliam Pitt, 1806,
Upon a plain marble altar tomb, in honour of George Digby,
is the following inscription : " Si quis hie jaceat, roges, viator,
Georgius Digby, armiger, Vir, si quis alius, celebrati nomi-
nis, nobili clarus prosapia, sed vita nobiliori ; quippe qui ipsum
nobiUtatis fontem caeno turbatum demum limpidum reddidit ;
hoc est, ut memet explicem, qui regis Jacobi purpuram male-
dicti Schopii dicterici foedatam obtrectatoris sanguine, reti-
nuit ; nee tamen homuncionem penitus sustulit, sed gravius
stigma fronti incussit quam Henricus magnus libello, quo scili
cet toto vitae curriculo (utpote omnium contemptui expositus)
sensit sc mori ; hujus egregii facinoris intuitu a Jacobo honori-
bus auctus est Digbasus, Meritis tandem annisque plenus vi-
vere desiit, semper victurus, ipsis idibus Decembris a ;^5»o-oyoviaf,
aetatis suae Lxxxvi. Tanti herois laudes licet non taceant his-
torici, haec saxa loqui curavit lectissima heroina Jana Baronissa
Gerrard de Bromley, clarissimi Digbaei filia superstes unica."
Pennant relates the incidents to which this inscription alludes.
Gaspar Scioppus was a German of great erudition, but of a
turbulent temper. He became a convert to popery in 1599,
and distinguished himself so furiously against his former reli
gion, as to recommend the extirpation of its professors. He
opposed Scaliger, Casaubon, and other protestant writers ; and
in his book intituled " Ecclesiasticus," 1611 , he attacked James
the First in an indecent manner. In resentment of this insult,
Digby, and other followers of the earl of Bristol, the English
ambassador to Spain, attacked Scioppus in the streets of Ma
drid, in 1614 ; where they supposed they had dispatched him.
As soon as he recovered he removed to Padua, dreading ano
ther attack ; and having shut himself up in his apartments dur
ing the last fourteen years of his life, he died in 1649.
' Enstone has a spring of weak brine.
•^ Salt is now the property of earl Talbot.

44 THE ANTIQUITIES
ford ; but because the same is now in contention, Chet
wind claiming Salt as a member of his manor of Ingestre,
and certain others of inferior estate, intituled them
selves as lords in common of the said' manor, every one
pro rata, I will speak no more thereof.
Trent being past Sandon, entereth between Salt and
Weston, which Weston, though it be a parish of itself,
is yet reputed to be a member of Chartley, and is called
Weston-upon-Trent. Trent receiveth, on the north-east side, a pretty brook,
which taketh its beginning at Hilwedeston, comraonly
called Hilderston, At the Conquest, one Vitalis held
Heldulveston of Robert de Stafford ; and in Henry the
Third's time, one ' Robert de Hugeford was lord thereof;-
who had issue William, who had issue John Hugeford,
who lived- 21 and 31 Edw, III.: since then it came to
sir John Delves, who had issue Hellen, his daughter and
heir; who married sir Robert Sheffield, knight, re
corder of London, who had issue Robert, who had issue
Edmund lord Sheffield, who had issue John lord Shef
field, who had issue Edmund, now lord Sheffield. John,
the last lord Sheffield, sold it to Robert Collier, whose
son, James Collier, sold it to his brother Christopher,
and he lately sold it to sir Gilbert Gerrard, late Master
of the Rolls'.

Arms of Erdswick. Argent, on a chevron Gules five bezants.
, Also, Otj j^Jesse Argent. There is. Carta Jacobi de Stafford
militis, dat. apud Sandon, anno 27 Edw. III.
3 Arms of Ryder, Azure, three crescents Or, a wyvern's
head Argent, thereon an ermine spot Sable.
' Vid. Shaw's App. to his General History, XXV. and XV.
where this passage is extracted from Test, de NevUl, and Lib.
Food lo Hen. m. S.P-W.
Vitalis was probably ancestor to Huggeford. Smyth.
' Sir Thomas Gerrard lived at HUderston in 1566.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 45
The said brook, passing from Hilderston, through
Millwich, is called Millwich Brook,
Millwich is a fair lordship, consisting of Millwich,
Gariugshall, or Guarmittshall, coraraonly Guarshall,
and Coton. Of Mulewiche, was lord in the time of the
Conqueror, one Hugo ; and in Henry the Third's time,
Millwich, Garshall, and Coton, were equally divided be
tween Robert de Millwich, and Geoffry de Nugent ; and
in 9 Edw. II. Hugo de Okeover, as I think, by inheri
tance, had Robert de Millwich's part. Geffry de Nugent
having had issue Philip Nugent, who died, leaving two
daughters ; I think his part was divided between them,
whereof one was married to Grendon, who had issue sir
Robert Grendon, knight, and the other, as I take it, was
married to Jordanus de Heckstall, who had issue Henry
de Heckstall ; in whose line it continued till Henry the
Sixth's tirae ; and then one Hugo de Heckstall had
issue William, which William married Margaret,
daughter and heir of William Bromley, by whom he had
issue Humfrey Heckstall, that died without issue; Jane,
married to John Bromley, of Baddington ; and Marga
ret, married to Richard Petit ; between whom it was di
vided. From the said John Bromley and Jone his wife,
his part descended to sir Thomas Gerrard, now living,
as you may perceive, by that I shall say hereafter ; who
sold it to Raufe Adderley; and he again sold it to John
Orchard, of Garingshall', now owner thereof, A. D.
159(5. Richard Petit had issue Johri. Petit, who had issue
Richard', and John, who sold their interest to John
' John Orchard sold it again to Richard Hurlburt; which
Richard had issue WiUiam and Richard, which WiUiam is now
owner thereof 1654. Degge.
' Which Richard had issue one daughter, married to Richard
Bowyer, which Richard Bowyer sold the same to Richard Ad-

46 THE ANTIQUITIES
Allen of Millwich, father of Richard Allen, now owner
thereof. A, D, 1596. And after, John Petit had issue
Thomas Petit, of Heckstall, father of Thomas, now both
living, 1596, Grendon's part came to the earl of Staf.-
ford, who, in Henry the Sixth's time, gave the same
to Raufe Macclesfield, with other lands, in exchange
of Macclesfield's lands in Macclesfield, and other places'
in Cheshire ; as I shall also remember hereafter, where
you may see more of Macclesfield's line". Okeover held
this moiety until Henry the Sixth's time, or there
abouts ; and then it came, I know not by what means,
to one William Bradshaw, in whose line it continued
until one William Bradshaw, in Henry the Eighth's
tirae, sold it to sir John Aston, great-grand-father of the
last sir Edward'.

shed, born at Torkinton, in Cheshire, and by trade an uphols
terer ; but leaving off his trade, was yeoman of the wardrobe
to Thomas earl of Suffolk, lord treasurer of England, in king
James's time, under whom he enriched himself; and was mar
ried to one Cassandra Green, a kinswoman to alderman Caudsr
well, who left her a good portion, with which he purchased the
same land. This Richard Adshed had issue Thomas Adshed,
unto whom he left the same estate ; which Thomas sold it to
John Crompton, second son, as I take it, to sir Thomas Cromp
ton, knight, who is now owner thereof, 1654. Degge.
' Here Erdeswick again expresses his design to survey the
county of Chester,
Arms of Petit : a chevron Gules, betwixt three bugle horns
^.stringed, Sable.
r ' In whose line it continued till Walter lord Aston, father of
the now lord Aston, 1654, sold the capital house, with the de
mesnes, to Edward Aston, now owner thereof; and the rest of
the tenements, with the mUl, except one in Coton, he sold to
Ralph Baby, a merchant, who married a sister of the said Ed
ward Aston (and having by her no issue, left the greatest part
of the said tenements to Walter Aston, son of the said Edward),
and the fee farm rent of the rest to the said Walter, now living.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 47
This brook, not worthy of any particular name,
being past Millwich, presently entereth into Gaiton, and
is called Gaiton-brook. Of Gaiton was lord, in the
Conqueror's time, one Ulricus', and in the beginning of
Henry the Third's time, one Gerebertus ; which Gere-
bertus, as I think, had issue five daughters, between
whom Gaiton was divided ; of which the eldest, Agnes,
was married to Thomas® Meverell; the second, Eleanor,
to Robert Marchenton ; the third, Isold, to Raufe ,
Montjoy ; the fourth, Jane, to John Grendon ; the fifth,
Amicia, to Richard Herbert, and had issue Isabella,
married to Henry Kniveton', and Agnes, married to
1654. About one mUe from Milwich is Frodshall, a manor for
a long time belonging to the Meverells of Throwley, which
came to the lord Cromwell, viscount Letale, and first earl of
Arglas, in right of his wife, the daughter and heir of Meverell ;
who built there a large house, which he and his son, the second
earl, made their seat ; but which, about 1660, was sold to sir
TheophUus Biddulph, a sUk merchant in Cheapside, London, a
younger son of sir Michael Biddulph, of Elmhurst. Degge.
Coton came to the Mastersons of Cheshire, by what manner
I know not, Thomas Masterson, in king Charles's time, sold
the same to the afore-named Thomas Adshed, who left the same
to Thomas his son ; who sold the tenants every one his own te
nement, and made them aU freeholders, 1652. Degge.
Colton, perhaps, derives its name from col, in the Celtic and
British language, holy. It was in the neighbourhood of Druidi-
cal worship, and the names Colfield, Coley, and Colwich,
strengthen the supposition.
At Colton was born William WoUaston, a distinguished phi
losophical writer, March 26, 1659. He was educated at Lich
field, and, in 1674, admitted a pensioner of Sidney-Sussex Col
lege, Cambridge. He died in October 1724, and was buried
at Great Finsborough, in Suffolk, one of his estates. His chief
work is " The Religion of Nature delineated."
' Goisbertus held GuitonofWilli'us, fil, Ansculfi, Domesday,
2 WiUiam Meverell. MS Chetwynd.
3 Sir Henry Knyveton, of Bradley, co. Derby. Smyth

48 THE ANTIQUITIES
Richard Draycote'. Meverell's part came to one Cot
ton, whasold it to Walter, late lord viscount Hereford,
Marchenton's part descended to Montgomery ; the last
of which name had issue two daughters; one, Anne, was
married to sir John Vernon, knight, who had issue
Henry Vernon, who had issue John Vernon, now living,
1596 : the other, Dorothy, was married to sir Thomas
Giffard, knight, who had issue by her a daughter, Eliza
beth, raarried to sir John Port®, who had issue three
daughters ; Elizabeth, the eldest, raarried to sir Thomas
Gerard, knight ; the second, Margaret, to sir Thomas
Stanhope, knight; and the third, Dorothy, to sir George
Hastings, now earl of Huntingdon, who had all three
parts of Gaiton to his purparty, and most of Montgo
mery's also, except one tenement, which John Vernon
hath lately sold to Walter Fowler'. Sir George Hast
ings hath sold his part to divers ; his best farm to John
Erdeswick, second son of Sampson Erdeswick, who had
issue Walter and John, now both living, 1596 : the rest
to Sherrard, Dawson, and Goodwin, his tenants, of their
three messuages. Montjoy's part came to Blount, lord
Montjoy, and from him, I think, it came to Montgo
mery's hands again. John Grendon, and Joan his wife,
had issue Thomas, who had issue Adara, who had issue

' Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, p. 26, has these five coheir-
ships (from a plea of 9° Edw, I.) as here ; only naming Roger
de Mercinton, instead of Robert, and Isabell Munjoy for Isold ;
and placing John and Johan Grendon between Kniveton and
Draycote ; as if the Grendons were the moiety-owners with one
or the other of those two latter, S. P-W.
' Sir John Port, of Etwall, co. Derby. The third daughter
of sir John Montgomery was Ellen, married to sir William
Booth, of Dunham Massey.
' Second son to Bryan Fowler, second son of Roger Fowler,
father of Walter, now living, 1596. Degge.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 49
John Grendon, who had issue Ellen', and Margaret
(Ellen had issue a daughter, Elizabeth, married to Wil
liam Trussel ; Margaret, married to sir John Harcourt) ;
Joan married to Thomas Littleton, by whom she had
issue, William,- Richard, and Thomas, and another
daughter, Alice, married to William Rugeley, who had
issue Frances Rugeley. Margaret, daughter of John
Grendon, first was married to John Perwick, after to
William Lagoe, and, lastly, to Wilham Digby, by whom
she had issue John Digby. But, in the end, all Gren
don's part came by perquisition to John Hunt, of Lin-
don, in Rutlandshire, a lawyer ; who gave it to John,
his youngest son, who sold it to the said Walter Fow
ler. Kniveton's part came to Walter Blount lord Mont
joy, and from him to Montgomery. Draycote's part
came, I know not by what means, to one of the lords
Ferrers of Chartley ; from whom it is descended to Ro
bert, now earl of Essex®.
' EUen Grendon, by John Brown of Lichfield, 12° Hen. IV.
had issue a daughter, Elizabeth, married to William Bracy, of
Pembruge, co. Hereford (whose grand-daughter Margaret,
married to John Harcourt), and a second daughter Alice, mar
ried to William Rugeley. The same Ellen, by William Burley,
of Bromscroft, co. Salop, had Joan, married to Thomas Little
ton, by whom she had issue, WiUiam, Richard, and Thomas,
and another daughter, named Elizabeth, like the eldest, mar
ried to sir Thomas Trussell, These alterations are from the
record, Mich, 28» Hen. VI. Com. Banc. rot. 451, as cited in
earl Talbot's vol. (marked B.) of Chetwynd's extracts, p. 274;
and from a folio pedigree of sir John Treford's coheirs (among
the rest the Browns), drawn by Chetwynd from his own Gren
don evidences, and given by earl Talbot to S, P-W.
Jone married sir Thomas Burley, of Bromscroft Castle in
Shropshire, who had issue Jone, the wife of sir Thomas Lyttel
ton, of Frankley, in Worcestershire, one of the judges of the
Common Pleas, temp. Edw. IV. Bishop Lyttelton.
' Who died without issue ; and his land in Chartley, Gaiton,
Hickson, Weston, Grinley, Drointon, and all the Chartley-
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50 THE ANTIQUITIES
Chartley', containing five hamlets, viz. Stow, Am-
brighton, Dreynton, Huntresdon, part of Heywood, and
Holme, came to sir Robert Shirley, baronet, now living, 1654,
Degge. And now lord Ferrers, baron, of Chartley, by descent from
his mother, who was sister and co-heir to Walter Devereux, the
last earl of Essex of that name. Bishop Lyttelton.
Gilbert had Hickson in Henry the Third's time, whose
daughter and heir, Amicia, had it ; whose daughter, Isabel, car
ried it in marriage to Henry Kingston ; from whom it passed.
to Walter Blount lord Mountjoy, and from him by the Dray-
cotes, to the lord Ferrers of Chartley, from whom it descended
to Robert Earl of Essex, from whom it came, with other lands,
to sir Robert Shirley,
' Chartley is remarkable, as having been for some time the
prison of the unfortunate Mary queen of Scots ; and here was
a bed, wrought by her, during her confinement. Queen Eliza
beth visited this house August 1575, on her way to Stafford.
The ancient edifice was built round a court. It was curiously
made of wood, the sides carved, and the top embattled, as re
presented in Plott's History. The arms of the Devereux, with
the devices of the Ferrers and Garnishes, were in the windows,
and in many parts within and without the house. It was de
stroyed accidentally by fire in 1781, and scarcely aiiy thing
but the moat which surrounded it remains to mark its site.
Near to it, on the summit of an artificial hill, stand the ruins of
the castle, built by Richard Blunderville, earl of Chester, in
1220, on his return from the Holy Land, to defray the charge
of which, an impost was levied upon all his vassals. In the
time of Leland, it had fallen to decay. " Chartley," says he,
" the olde castell is now yn ruine ; but olde Yerle Randol, as
sum say, lay in it when he build Dieuleucres abbay. This
castell standeth a good flite shot from the building, and goodly
manor-place, that now is ther as the principal house of the
jFerrers, and cam to them be similitude by marriage, Ther
is^a mighte large jiarke." Its present remains chiefly consist
of the fragments of two round towers, and a part of a wall,
which measures twelve feet in thickness. The loopholes are so
constructed as to allow arrows to be shot in the ditch in a ho
rizontal direction, or under the tower. The keep appears to
have been circular, and fifty feet in diameter; a wall of brick

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 51
Weston-upon-Trent, is a goodly manor, and was the
chief seat of the lord Ferrers of Chartiey ; but, as I take
it, 20 Conq. Chartley was not so great a thing, for divers
of the aforesaid hamlets were not then in the king's
hands, as Chartiey was, for you may find in the book of
i having been raised on its foundations, and a summer-house
erected upon them, which has been dilapidated by time. After
the death of Randulf, the founder, this castle, with the estates
which belonged to him, devolved on William Ferrers earl of
Derby ; whose son, Robert, having joined the barons in the
reign of king John, was defeated at Chesterfield in 1266, and
thus forfeited his estates to the crown. The king soon after
wards gave them to Hamon le Strange ; but Robert again pos
sessed himself of the castle by force, and the king commanded
his brother, Edmund earl of Lancaster, to besiege it, who took
it after an obstinate resistance. Ferrers was, however, par
doned ; and though deprived of his earldom of Derby, was per
mitted to retain this castle. It remained in this family till the
time of Hen. VI. when Agnes, heiress of William lord Ferrers,
carried it by marriage to Devereux. Robert Devereux, the
last earl of Essex, and the parliamentarian general, dying with
out issue, Charles II. declared sir Robert Shirley (who was son
of Dorothy, sister of the last earl), lord Ferrers of Chartley.
This nobleman was afterwards created viscount Tamworth, and
earl Ferrers. In 1754, the barony devolved on Charlotte, wife
of George viscount Townshend, whose son George succeeded
her in 1770; and in 1784 was created earl of Leicester, during
his father's life, who was created marquis Townshend in 1787.
Ranulf, eari of Chester, 5, 6, and 7 Hen. III. was sheriff of the
county. The family name of Shirley was Sewel, before they
exchanged with the prior of Tutbury for land at Shiriey, co.
Derby, which became their residence, and they assumed the
name of Shiriey. A copious history of the family of Shiriey,
written by sir Thomas Shirley, of Botolph Bridge, Huntingdon
shire, is in the Hari. MSS. 49^28. Arms of Devereux : Argent,
a fesse and three torteux in chief Gules. Of Shiriey : Quar-'
terly, 1st and 4th, paly of six Or and Azure, a canton Ermine ;
2d and 3d, France and England quarteriy, within a border
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52 THE ANTIQUITIES
Domesday, that the bishop held both all Heywood and
Hustedene; and Picot, Hustedehe of hira and Nigellus;
and that the bishop likewise held Dreynton, and Nigel
lus of him. Not long after the Conquest, as I take it,
Chartiey was given to Hugh, eari of Chester, together
with Sandon : which eari, passing Sandon to Wilham,
baron of Wich Malbanc, retained Chartley ; for that it de
scended to the sisters of the last Ranulfe, earl of Chester ;
and in the partition it was allotted to William Ferrers,
earl of Derby, whose son, Robert, though he lost Tut
bury, and almost all the rest of his lands, except Hol
brooke, yet retained Chartley, and left it to his son, sir
John Ferrers, knight, who had issue Robert, who had issue
sir John,who had issue sir Robert, who had issue Edmund,
who had issue William, who had issue Agnes, his only
daughter and heir, married to Walter Devereux, who had
issue by her John Devereux, lord Ferrers de Chartley, who
had issue Walter, viscount Hereford, who had issue sir
Richard Devereux, that died before his father, who had
issue Walter, earl of Essex, father to Robert, now earl of
Essex, A. D. 1597. The last Ranulfe, earl of Chester,
builded the castle of Chartley ', the ruins whereof begin
to decay. The park is very large, and hath therein red-
deer, fallow-deer, wild beasts, and swine.
' It is a question (Carta EUzabethae de Ferrariis, D'nae de
Chartley, dat, apud Chartley, anno 45 Edw, III, dat dUecto
servienti suo Rad'o Basset de Chedle, annualenrf reddit' — 100
solid, pro bono servicio suo), whether Chartley came to the
earls of Chester much before the time of the last earl Ranulf,
Lord Bagot has deeds, which I have seen (but have no notes),
positively testifying, I believe, that it was for some time in the
near descendants of that Herrhan whose younger grandson,
John, junior brother to Almaric, was called (as Erdeswick
rightly says, in Blythefield) " de Blythefield," and was ancestor
of the Blythefields, It is wrongly, however, that Erdeswick
puts Herman for the Domesday holder ; for in that survey, we
find earl Roger " tent Blidevelt" (not " BlithverweU") " et

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 53
Next Salt, adjoining upon Trent southwards, is Hop-
ton, which town yet itself is seated much further from
Trent than Salt is.
Rogerus de eo ;" nor does Herman appear in any other article
but " Ridware," as holding in that place three virgates under
Rob, de Stratford. S. P-W.
Robert D'Evreux, earl of Essex, beheaded a few years after
Erdeswick's mention of him, left a son, third earl, the parlia
ment general; who, dying 1646, without issue, his earldom
became extinct. The title of viscount Hereford went to sir
Walter D'Evreux, male heir of the first viscount; and the
Chartley barony was in abeyance between the last earl's two
sisters, till Charles II. decided in favour of sir Robert Shirley,
grandson to lady Dorothy, the younger of them (but possessed
of Chartley on partition). His eldest son, Robert, died young
(1699), but old enough to leave (by a second wife, Anne Fer
rers, heiress of Tamworth Castle and Walton on Trent, and
Bradburne in Derbyshire) a son and daughter. In 1710, the
grandfather, lord Ferrars, not thinking of a grandson, too, dying
before him, and issueless, obtained the higher titles of earl
Ferrers, viscount Tamworth. The result of which was, that
these latter, being limited, by the usual rule, to males, went
to his second and other sons, not descended from Tamworth,
nor having any thing to do with that estate. Neither could
they have title to Chartley, either estate or barony, both going
(by inheritance one, the other by settlement or devise, ) suc
cessively to their elder brother's son and daughter. This daugh
ter, however, lady Northampton, before her grandfather died,
voluntarily (as her grandson, the second marquis Townsend,
informed S, P-W,) gave up aU she could of Chartley, namely,
the estate, to one of her uncles, the then earl Ferrers, and
viscount Tamworth, S, P-W,
The church of Stow is about two miles from the Trent, It
was once remarkable for its numerous monuments in honour of
the family of Devereux, only one of which yet remains, which
is the tomb of Walter, first viscount Hereford, grandson of the
first lord Ferrers of Chartley, who was descended from the
great Norman family of De Ferrers, earis of Derby, His skill
and bravery in the naval attack upon Couquet, in 1512, pro
cured him from Henry VIII. the Order of the Garter, and his
successor raised him to the dignity of viscount Hereford. His

54 THE ANTIQUITIES
20 Conq. Robert de Stadford held Abbeton of the
king'. Rob'tus de Beke, filius et haires Alicis de  ,
dominae de Hopton, was owner thereof, and lived about
Henry the Second's tirae®. You may see the descent of
the Bekes, and by what means both Hopton and Tean
caine to Rowland Lacon, now lord of Hopton, where I
speak of Teane.
monument was erected during his life, and is a beautiful model
of sepulchral architecture. He died in 1558. On the chancel-
floor is a brass plate, in honour of Thomas Newport, steward
of the household to Walter, first earl of Essex, who died
June 30, 1587. It was erected by Richard Bagot, esq.
' This is certainly "Abetone" (Apeton), the second named
of the many, members of Robert de Stratford's great manor of
" Bradeleia." After three or four other towns, following Brade
ley, the survey has " Hotone" (by some means wrongly so
printed), and next " Selte," both held of the same Robert de
Gislebertus. S. P-W.
® Some copies omit the succeeding paragraph, and add,:
" from whence it descended by inheritance, after many de
scents, by a daughter, Maud by name, married to Richard
Beston, alias Peshall, who had issue Humphry Peshall, who
had issue sir Hugh Peshall, knt. who had issue Katherine, his
heir, who was married to sir John Blount, son and heir of sir
Thomas Blount, of Kinlet, in Shropshire, both knights, who
had issue by her sir George Blount, knt. Elizabeth, a daughter,
which was mother of Henry Fitzroy (illegitimate son of
Hen. VIII.), duke of Richmond; and Anne, another daughter,
married to Richard Lacon, of Welley. Sir George Blount had
one inly daughter, who is married to John Preston, of Sud
bury, in Shropshire ; but sir George gave both Hopton, and
all his other lands, from his daughter and his brother Henry's
son, to Rowland Lacon, now of Welley, his sister's ^on ; why
he did so, not being known,"
Beacon Hill, near Hopton Heath, is remarkable for a vast
collection of stones on its summit. Upon St. Amon's Heath,
under this hill, a sharp action was fought, in the civil war,
between a party of the King's forces, under the earl of North
ampton, and the parliamentary army, commanded by sir John
Gell and sir William Brereton, in 1643; in which, the Earl's

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 55
Next Hopton, on the sarae side Trent, and upon the
banks thereof, lieth Ingestree, the seat of the Chet-
winds of Staffordshire. 20 Conq. one Hugo held In
gestree ' of Rob. de Stadford. About Henry the Third's
horse being shot under him, he was surrounded and slain. In
this action, sir WiUiam Brereton related, that " capt. Middle-
ton, capt. Baker, capt. Leeming, capt. Cressit, capt. Bagott,
capt. Biddulph, a recusant in Staffordshire, were all slain."
' Hugo held three parts of a hide in < Ticheshale," and
three hides in " Gestreon ;" doubtless the second " in" being
overlooked. S. P-W.
In the Chetwynd MSS, is the following clear account of the
manner in which these estates passed from the Mittons to the
Chetwynds. " Neare to Hopton, on the same side of Trent,
lyeth Ingestrie, which Hugo held of Rob. de Stadford 20
Conq. ; but whether he were paternal ancestor to the Muttons,
who not long after possessed it,' is hard to be determined. In
the time of Henry II. Ivo (or Eudo) de Mutton was lord of
Ingestre and Mutton. He gave certain lands in Ingestre to
the priory of St. Thomas (then newly founded), and became a
lay brother there, leaving his possessions to his son, sir Ralph
de Mutton, knt, who was also lord of the manors of Gratwich,
Rewle, and Rugge, co. Staff, ; and of Drumheniskin, in the
county of Louth (or Uriel), in the province of Ulster, in Ire
land, which last was given him by Bertram de Verdon, a great
baron in those times. This sir Ralph had issue Adam and
Philip, both knights. To sir Adam, Henry de Audithlegh (or
Audeley) in the time of Henry III, gave all the lands at Bre-
redon, except Radmore ; he and his heirs paying yearly a paire
of gilt spurrs, att the feast of St. James, for aU services except
forreign. This sir Adam was likewise a benefactor to the con
vent of St. Thomas, where he had the presentation of a canon
granted to him and his heirs for ever, to celebrate Divine Ser
vice for the souls of sir Philip de Mutton, his brother, for the
health of his own soul, and for those of his ancestors and suc
cessors. He bore for his arms, as appears by his seals, Frettie,
with a canton ; in allusion, I suppose, to the Audleys ; a cus
tom frequently used, in that age, by such as had a dependence
on great persons. He died about the 40th Hen, III. leaving.

56 THE ANTIQUITIES
time it was the land of Eudo de Mutton, who had issue
Raufe Mutton, his son and heir. Not long after it
by Isabella his wife, Ralph his son, then under age (who died
not long after without issue) ; and IsabeUa, an only daughter,
married to sir Philip de Chetwynd, co. Salop, knt. who, 56
Hen. III. was seized of Ingestre, Gratwich, and Mutton, all
which were then certified to be held of the barony of Stafford
by two knights fees and an half; as also of Drumheniskin, in
Ireland : and after the death of sir Philip de Mutton without
issue (which happened about 16 Edw, I.) Philip de Chetwynd,
son of sir Philip and Isabella before mentioned, remained sole
heir to that family, being, in his mother's right, possest of
Ingestre, &o. co. Stafford ; whose son sir Philip, 2 Edw. II.
obtained a chart;er of free warren in all his said lands ; and by
marrying Alicia, daughter and coheir of sir Ralph de Grendon,
in Warwickshire, 35 Edw. I. became possest of a fair estate in
Grendon, Dordon, and Waverton, all which lands and lord
ships in the counties of Warwick and Stafford, except Rugge
(a part whereof is now enjoyed by a younger branch of this
family) are, by a continued succession, descended to Walter
Chetwynd, now of Ingestre, esq, 1679."
Walter Chetwynd, the antiquary, died without issue ; when
his estates devolved to captain Chetwynd, his near relation,
whose eldest son Walter was member of parliament for the
borough of Stafford from 1702 to 1722. In 17 17 he was created
viscount Chetwynd of Ireland ; but dying without issue, in
1736, his next brother, John, succeeded him in his title and
estates. He had a daughter, Catharine, who married, in
1748, the hon, John Talbot, and in 1767 inherited her father's
estates, and the title descended to a younger brother of her
father. John Talbot was third son of Charles, first lord Tal
bot, who who in 17. . became lord chancellor by the title of
lord Talbot, baron of Hensol, co. Glamorgan, and died in
1737. He was Uneally descended from sir Gilbert Talbdt, of
Grafton, co. Worcester, who was third son of John, second
and renowned earl of Shrewsbury. He was succeeded by his
son WiUiam, who was advanced to an earldom by the titles of
baron of Ingestrie and earl Talbot. He died in 1782, without
issue male, when the earldom became extinct ; but the barony

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 57
came to the possession of Philip Chetwynd by marriage,
as I have heard, of the daughter of the said Raufe
Mutton : which Philip had issue sir Philip Chetwynd,
knt. 19 Edw, I. and 9 Edw, II. he was lord of Ingestree ;
who, as I take it, had issue a third sir Philip Chetwynd,
knt. who died without issue, and sir William Chetwynd;
which sir William lived 41 Edw. III. and had issue
Roger Chetwynd, that died without issue, and Richard.
In the race of sir William it continues unto this day ',
devolved to his nephew, John Chetwynd Talbot, who, in 1784,
was created viscount Ingestrie and earl Talbot, His son, earl
Talbot, 1819, lord lieutenant of Ireland, as heir of John, viscount
Chetwynd, possesses this estate. The house is built in the
stile of architecture which prevailed in the time of queen Eli
zabeth, the body of brick and the bows of stone, and stands on
the declivity of a gentle eminence, in a handsome park. The
church was built in 1676, in the place of one more ancient,
which had fallen to decay, at the expense of Walter Chet
wynd, esq. a gentleman highly distinguished, not more for his
ancient family, his hospitality, and his piety, than for his skill
in antiquities, and for his encouragement of the researches
into the history of his native county. Over the portal, at the
west end, is inscribed Deo Opt, Max. Templum hoc a funda
mentis exiractom Walteeus Chetwind [Walt. fil. Walt. Equit.
aurat. neposj L. M. D. D. D, anno ara. Christiance 1676. To this
church he presented the tithes of Hopton. In the hall (says
Pennant, is a picture of Walter Chetwind, in a great wig,
and crossed by a rich sash. WiUiam Chetwind, J 1 Rich. II.
PhUip Chetwind, 7 and 15 Hen. VI. WiUiam Chetwind, 6
and 27 Hen. VIII, John Chetwind, 20 Eliz, William Chetwind,
42 EUz. Walter Chetwind, 5 James I. Walter Chetwind, 23
Ch, I, Thomas Chetwind, 9 Ch, II. Walter Chetwind, 1
James II, and John Chetwind, 8 WiU. III. were sheriffs of this
county. Arms: Azure, a chevron between three mullets Or; also.
Argent, upon a cross engraUed Sable, five mullets of the first,
' The eldest line of Chetwynd continued from Erdeswick's
time tiU 1692, when it expired with Walter Chetwynd, the
truly accurate genealogist. His wiU (besides founding, it is
believed, a second family at Grendon, Warwickshire, and per-

58 THE ANTIQUITIES
Next Ingestree, southward unto Trent, joineth Tickes-
hall. 20 Conq. Roger de Montegomeri held it of the
king, and Henry de Ferrers de eo,' After, Tickes-
hall became a habitation of the house of Wastneys, or,
as it is written, Jastenoise, Paganus de Gastenoise
was lord thereof abotit the time of Hen. II. He had
issue Roger, of whom descended Jeffry, who was lord
thereof 24 Edw. I. and 9 Edw. II. He had issue Mal-
colra, who had issue William, who had issue Roger,
who had issue Roisia, that was married to sir John
Marston, knt. but by him had no issue. Tickeshall,
after, came to the Littletons, but the means I know
not"; but sure I am, it came by descent from William
Littleton, of Frankley, and Elizabeth, his wife, the
haps a third at Brockton,) gave Ingestrie to, probably, his
nearest male relative, John Chetwynd, of Rudge. John's eldest
son, Walter, was created viscount Chetwynd, of Ireland, and
was succeeded by both his brothers, John and William-Richard,
in title. From William-Richard descends the present viscount;
but the Ingestrie estate went to Catharine, eldest daughter and
final heir of John, the second viscount, second wife of John
Talbot, third son of lord chancellor Talbot. Her eldest son,
John Chetwynd Talbot, succeeded his uncle William, earl
Talbot, in the title revived to him, and his son, Charles Chet
wynd, is the present earl, and lord of Ingestrie estate, S. P-W,
' It appears, from Domesday Book, that Edmund, Alric, and
Ormar, were the Saxon proprietors, who were dispossessed by
the Conqueror, to give place to his favoured Normans, The
two latter were stiled liberi (freemen) ; and Alric is also called
Teinus Regis Edwardi (a royal thane), the highest rank of no
bility amongst the Saxons. The Wasteneys, or Gasteneys,
were Normans of distinction, and came over with the Conque
ror. Tixall passed from the Wasteneys by marriage, to sir
John Merston, knight, who sold it to sir Thomas Littleton, the
judge. " The means were by purchase, by sir Thomas Lyttelton,
the judge and famous lawyer] In Dugdale's Orig. Jurid. is

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 59
daughter and heiress of Thomas Walsh, of Anhp, in
Leicestershire, to Joan, their daughter, and her heir,
who was married to sir John Aston, knight banneret ¦,
the curious certificate by sir John and Roisia, of their sale to
him. S. P-W,
Sir WiUiam Littleton, eldest son of sir Thomas, succeeded
to Tixall. He married Ellen, daughter and coheiress of Wil
liam Walsh, esq. of Wanlip, by Mary, daughter and coheiress
of Richard Byron, esq. of Clayton, co. Lancaster.
' Aston got it by marriage with Lyttelton, of Frankley.
Bishop Lyttelton. Joan, this daughter of sir WiUiam Lyt
telton, died in 1507. Sir Walter Aston, one of the descendants,
was the patron of the poet Drayton. He married Gertrude,
sister of Ralph Sadlier, of Standon, co. Hertford, and was
created a baron by the title of Baron Aston, of Forfar. His
second son Walter, second lord Aston, married Mary, daughter
of Richard Weston, earl of Portland, lord treasurer of England,
and was succeeded by his„son, and grandson, James, who died
in 1705, leaving a son, Walter, and two daughters, the younger
of whom married the Hon. Thomas Clifford, who became pro
prietor of the estate, and who was father of sir Thomas Hugh
Clifford, bart, the present owner. The mansion was built about
forty years ago ; near to which is the magnificent gateway, in
which the pointed and Grecian architecture are united, and
which is embellished with columns of the Doric, Ionic, and
Corinthian orders. It was built by sir Walter Aston, knt. who
died in 1589. Of the ancient house, which stood behind this
gateway, and was a venerable building (a representation of
which is given in Plot) some small remains are visible. It was
built by sir Edward Aston, in the early part of the reign of
Henry VIII. Drayton says :
" The Trent by Tixal graced, the Aston's ancient seat,
Which oft the Muse hath found her safe and sweet retreat."
Among the family pictures removed hither from Standon, on
the death of the late lord Aston, is the marriage of prince
Arthur, in tapestry, mentioned by Walpole.
Tixall gave birth to Edward Wetenhall, bishop of Cork, in
1678, and afterwards of Kilmore, who died in 1713, and was

60 THE ANTIQUITIES
from whom it descended to sir Edward Aston, their son,
grandfather of the last. Sir Edward, the grandfather,
builded at Tickeshall a fair house, the first height from
the ground very well wrought of stone, the rest of tim
ber and plaster ; but it is since beautified, or defaced,
(I know not which to say) with a very goodly gatehouse
of stone, builded by sir Walter Aston, son of sir Ed-
buried in Westminster Abbey, Lichfield is sometimes said to
have been the place of his nativity. He was an eminent pole
mical -writer.
Tixall Heath is distinguished by two remarkable tumuU ; one
named the King's and the other the Queen's Low. About a
century ago, two urns were found near them, supposed to have
been of Roman workmanship. This heath was the scene of the
most cruel assassination, marking the vindictive character of
the feudal times. A family contention, which had subsisted
for a long period, between the Stanleys of Pipe, and the Chet
wynds of Ingestrie, was the supposed occasion of it. Sir
Humphry Stanley was one of the knights of the body to
Hen. VII. ; and sir William Chetwynd was one of the gen
tlemen ushers. The former, jealous of the preferment of his
rival, resolved to dispatch him ; and with that view led him
from his house by a fictitious letter, containing an invitation to
the house of one of his neighbours. Sir WiUiam, without
suspicion and without attendance, set out to cross the heath,
and was there attacked by twenty armed men, and slain in the
presence of sir Humphry, who was at the same time passing
with his train, under the pretence of hunting. It does not
appear that any judicial inquiry was made into this barbarous
transaction. The famUy of Stanley had been the most powerful
instruments in establishing Henry upon his throne.
The Astons removed to Tixall in the time of Henry VIII,
from their more ancient seat at Heywood, Walter Aston, 12
and 22 queen Elizabeth, and Edward Aston, 32 queen Eliz.
were sheriffs of the county. Arms : Argent, a fesse and three
lozenges in chief. Sable ; also. Or, on a chief Azure, a Hon
passant guardant of the first. See " A Topographical and
Historical Description of the parish of Tixall, by sir Thomas
Clifford, bart. and Arthur Clifford, esq. 1817."

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 6l
ward the elder, being one of the fairest pieces of work
made of late times, that I have seen in all these coun
tries. Sir Edward, son of the said sir Walter, builded
a very fair lodge in Tickeshall park, being five heights
of stone, and covered it with lead, but lived not to
finish it.
On the north-east side of Trent, over agaipst Tickes
hall, lieth Heywood, The bishop had Heywood, 20
Conq. of the King, It is a goodly manor, containing
Great Heywood, Littie Heywood, Hustedone, Elesley,
Swansmore, and Frodswell, and continued to the bishops
.of Coventry and Lichfield, till Edward the Sixth's time,
when the lord Pagett got it from them by exchange.
In this Heywood was the ancient" seat of the Astons.
Roger de Molend, the bishop, about Henry the Third's
time, gave the seat to Roger de Aston, valetto suoK The
' Valettus and Armiger were then synonimous terms, T. B,
Valettus is an upper servant, sometimes an esquire,
Ralph de Aston, temp. Hen. III.
Roger de Aston married Sybilla, daughter of James de la
Laund, Sir John Aston, of Haywood, knt, married 1st, Alice, daugh
ter of Hugo Meynell, of Hints ; 2d, Emma.
Sir Roger Aston, knt.
Sir Thomas Aston, knt. married Elizabeth, sister and cohei
ress of Reginald de Leigh.
Sir Roger Aston, knt. 1 Hen, VI. married Joice, daughter
of sir Baldwin de Frevile,
Sir Robert Aston, knt. married Isabella, daughter of sir Wil
liam Brereton.
John Aston, esq. married Elizabeth, daughter of John Delves,
of Doddington, co, Chester.
Sir John Aston, knt. temp. Hen. VII. married Joan, daugh
ter of sir WiUiam Littleton, knt.
Sir Edward Aston, knt. married 1st, Mary, daughter of sir
Henry Vernon, knt. ; 2d, Jane, daughter of sir Thomas BoUes,
knt, of Penho castle, co. Monmouth.

62 THE ANTIQUITIES
said Roger was son of Raufe Aston, and father of sir
John Aston, knt. which sir John had issue sir Roger,
Sir Walter Aston, knt. married Elizabeth, daughter of sir
James Leveson, knt.
Sir Edward Aston, knt. married, 1st, Mary, daughter of sir
John Spencer, knt. of Althorp, co. Northampton ; 2d, Anne,
daughter of sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, co, Warwick,
Sir Walter Aston, knt, and bart. in 1611; in 1627, baron
Aston, of Forfar, in Scotland, married Gertrude Sadler, daughter
of sir Thomas Sadler, of Standon, co, Herts,
Walter, lord Aston, married Mary, daughter of Richard
Weston, earl of Portland,
Walter, lord Aston, married, 1st, Eleanor, daughter of sir
Walter Blount, bart. of Saddington, co. Worcester ; 2d, Catha
rine, daughter of sir Thomas Gage, bart. of Firle.
Walter, lord Aston, married the daughter of lord Thomas
Howard, and sister to Thomas and Edward, eighth and ninth
dukes of Norfolk, lineally descended from king Edward I.
James, lord Aston, married lady Barbara Talbot, daughter of
George, fourteenth earl of Shrewsbury ; had two daughters,
co-heiresses : Mary, married sir Walter Blount, bart. of Sod-
dington, co. Worcester.
Barbara, married the hori. Thomas Clifford, fourth son of
Hugh lord Clifford, of Chudleigh, from whom is descended sir
Thomas Hugh Clifford, bart. the present possessor.
This estate passed from the Astons to the family of theTixalls,
the heiress of Tixall being married to a descendant of the
Astons, It was long afterwards in the possession of the Whitby
family, and has been since re-purchased by the present owner
of Tixall. The bridge over the Trent is remarkable for its
extraordinary dimensions. Pennant says he remembered it to
have consisted of forty-two arches. The tradition is, that it
was built by the county, in compliment to the last Devereux,
earl of Essex, the parliament general, who resided much at
Chartley. It was certainly a bridge long anterior ; but it might
probably have been rebuilt for his accommodation. The barn
belonging to the manor-house was of uncommon magnitude ;
but has been, as well as the bridge, greatly reduced. Hey
wood Park, which belongs to the marquis of Anglesey, is re-

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 63
who had issue another sir John, who had issue sir Tho
mas, who had issue another sir Roger, who had issue sir
Robert ; all knights. Sir Robert had issue John Aston,
father of sir John Aston, knight banneret, father of sir
Edward, father of sir Walter, father of sir Edward, all
knights ; which last sir Edward had issue Walter, now
her majesty's ward, A.D. 1598'.
raarkable for the beautiful woody dingles that wind into the
sides of the forest. Here was probably the park of red deer,
which, Leland says, the bishop had, in his manor of Shugbo-
rough. John de Aston, 18 Edw. Ill,; sir Thomas Aston, knt.
10 Hen. IV.; Roger Aston, 5 and 10 Hen. VI.; Robert Aston,
1 Hen. VI. ; John Aston, 15 and 20 Edw. IV. ; John Aston, 16
Hen. VII. ; Sir Edward Aston, knt. 24 Hen. VII, and 20, 26,
and 32 Hen. VIII. and 4 Mary, were sheriffs.
' Walter Aston, the ward of 1598, having been ambassador
in Spain, was created lord Aston, of Forfar, in Scotland. James,
his fifth lineal successor in estate and title, left only two daugh
ters ; the younger married to the hon. Thomas Clifford, the
elder of them to sir Walter Blount, bart. These shared the
estates, Clifford taking TixaU, and Blount an estate about Col
ton, on which lady Blount built a good house, close to the
ancient mansion, now the seat of her second son, Edward
Blount, esq. But the title, from the decease of James, lord
Aston, has been assumed by successive male relatives ; and the
present, and ninth lord, is an English clergyman. S. P-W.
In 1768, the estate of the Whitby family, containing about
800 acres, and consisting chiefly of the manor of Cpley, Swans-
moor, Oakedge, and other property, at Hickson and Haywood,
was purchased by the hon. Thomas Clifford.
Fonts, son of WiUiam, earl of Eu (son of Richard I. duke of
Normandy, grandson of RoUo) came over with the Conqueror.
Richard Fitzponts held Landovery Castle, and the hundred
of Bycham, in Wales, by grant of king Henry I.
Walter, governor of Landovery and Brynllis Castles, married
Margaret, daughter of Ralph de Poeni, lord of Clifford Castle,
CO. Hereford, and took the name of De Clifford.
Walter de Clifford, second lord Clifford, of Clifford Castle,
married Agnes, daughter and heiress of Roger de Cundy, of

64 THE ANTIQUITIES
Trent, upon its leaving of Tickeshall, receiveth, on
the south side, Sow, a pretty river, which washeth also
Covenby and Glentham, co. Lincoln, by Alice, daughter and
heiress of WiUiam de Cheney, lord of those manors.
W;alter, third lord, ob. 48 Hen. III. married, 1st, Isabella;
2d, Margaret, daughter of Llewellyn, prince of Wales,
Roger, fourth lord Clifford, nephew of Walter, third lord,
married the countess of Lorraine, 1 Edw. I,
Robert, fifth lord Clifford, grandson of Roger, was slain at
the battle of Bannockbourne, in 1314, 8 Edw. II. married
Matilda, daughter of Thomas de Clare, second son of Richard,
earl of Gloucester.
.Roger, sixth lord Clifford, was attainted in 1321, but was
restored 1 Edw. III.
Robert, seventh lord CUfford, succeeded his brother Roger,
ob, 18 Edw, III. married Isabella de Berkeley, daughter of
Maurice, lord Berkeley.
Robert, eighth lord Clifford, ob, 1362,
Roger, ninth lord Clifford, succeeded his brother ; married
Maud, daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick.
Thomas, tenth lord Clifford, married Ehzabeth, daughter of
Thomas, lord Ros, of Hamlake.
Sir Lewis CUfford, knt. brother of John, eleventh lord Clif
ford, ob. 6 Hen. IV.
WUliam Clifford, esq. married Elizabeth, daughter of sir
Arnold Savage, knt.
John, second son of William Clifford, married Florentia,
daughter of John St, Leger, esq.
Thomas Clifford, esq, married Thomasina, daughter of John
Thorpe, esq. of Teignton, Devon.
WiUiam Clifford, esq. of Borscombe, Wilts, and King's
Teignton, son of Thomas, married Elizabeth Vaux, of Odihara,
CO, Hants.
Henry Clifford, son of WiUiam, married Ehzabeth Tarrant,
of Tumber, co. Somerset.
Anthony Clifford, son of Henry, ob. 1580, married Anne,
daughter of sir Peter Courtenay, knt. of Ugbrooke, co, Devon,
Thomas Clifford, of Ugbrooke, third son of Anthony, ob.
1634, married Amy, daughter of Hugh SteplehiU, of Bramble,
CO. Wilts, esq.

OP STAFFORDSHIRE, 65
the south side of Tickeshall, making it almost an
isthmus. Sow taketh its beginning in Whitmore.

Hugh Clifford, son of Thomas, married Margaret, daughter
of sir George Chudleigh, of Ashton, co. Devon, bart.
Thomas CUfford, son of Hugh, in 1672 created baron Clif
ford, of Chudleigh, ob. 1675, married Elizabeth, daughter of
WiUiam Martin, of Lindridge, co, Devon, esq.
Hugh, second lord Clifford, of Chudleigh, ob, 1730, married
Anne, daughter of sir Thomas Preston, bart. of Furness, co,
Lancaster. Hugh, third lord Clifford, ob. 1732, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Edward Blount, of Blagdon, co. Devon, esq,
(youngest son of sir George; Blount, bart,) and sister of Mary,
duchess of Norfolk.
Thomas, fourth son of Hugh, third lord Clifford, ob. 1787,
married Barbara, daughter and coheiress of James, fifth lord
Aston, '
Sir Thomas Hugh Clifford, bart. created a baronet Dec, 27,
1814, married Mary Macdonald Chichester, daughter of John
Chichester, esq. of Arlington, co. Devon. He is the present
possessor of Tixall.
The following ancient testimonial is worthy of notice (claus.
8 Edw. IV. in dorso, m. 14.), in reference to Tixall:
" To all Cristen men, to whom this present wryting shal
come. Rose, that was the wyff of sir John Merston, knight,
sendeth greting in God everlasting : — Know ye me, the saide
Rose, to sey and affirme, that Thomas Littelton, son of the
King's Justices of the Common-place, bargayned, bought, and
purchased, for a certeine sum of money, which he hath truly
payd, the reversion of the maner of Tixhale, in Staffordshire,
and of certein tenements and rents in other townes in the same
shire, of the said John Marston, sumtyme my husband, and of
me, to have after the decease of my said husband and me ; by
force of which a fyne was rered at Westmynster ; by which fyne
a state was made of the said maner to my husband and to me,
terme of our lives ; the remainder thereof unto the said Thomas
Littilton and Jane his wife, and to the heires of the said Tho
mas Littilton for ever more, as in the sayd fine more pleinly

66 THE ANTIQUITIES
Ricardus Forestarius held Whitmore of the king, 20
Conq.; and I have seen records, that Whitmore con-
appeareth. Afore which fyne rered, I did aske of sir John
Prisot, the Chefe Justice of the Common-place, and divers
others to whom I had special confidence and trust, and ajso of
other divers apprentices lerned in the lawe, or my counseU,
wheder that my seid husband and I iaaight sille the reversion of
the said maner without perell of our soules ; and they desired
me to enfourme and shew them how the seid maner afore that
tyme was entayled ; and I shewed them the part of an hole
fyne." " Haec est finalis concordia facta in curi^ domini regis apud
Westmonasterium, k die S, Trinitatis in xv dies, anno regni
regis Edwardi filu regis Edwardi, decimo . nono, coram Wil-
lielmo de Bereford, Johanne de Mutford, Willielmo de Herle,
Johanne de Stonore, et Johanne de Busse, justiciariis, et aliis
domini regis fidelibus, tunc ibi praesentibus ; inter Galfridura
de Wasteneys de Tyxhale quaerentem, et Rogerum de Aston
personam ecclesiae de Weston, deforciantem de manerio de
Tyxhale, cum pertinentiis et advocatione ecclesiae ejusdem
manerii, undfe placitum conventionis summonitum fuit inter eos
in eadem curia; scil, quod praedictus Galfridus recbgnovit prae-
dicta maneria, cum pertinentiis, et advocationem praedictam
esse jus ipsius Rogeri ; ut ilia quae idem Rogerus habet de dono
prsedicti Galfridi : et pro hac recognitione, fine, et concordi&,
idem Rogerus concessit praedicto Galfrido praedictum mane-
rium cum pertinentiis, et advocationem praedictam, et ilia ei red
didit in eadem curia, habenda et tenenda eidem Galfrido
de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per servicia, quae ad proedic-
tum manerium et advocationem pertinent, totk vit^ ipsius Gal
fridi ; et post decessum ipsius Galfridi (&c,) remanere Macu-
lino filio ejusdem Galfridi, et Margaretae uxori ejus, et haeredi-
bus de corporibus ipsorum MacuUni et Margaretae exeuntibus ;
tenenda (&c,) remanere Johanni fratri ejusdem Maculini et
haeredibus de corpore suo procreatis; tenenda (&c,) remanere
Henrico fratri ejusdem Johannis, et haeredibus de corpore suo
procreatis (&c,) remanerere Willielmo fratri ejusdem Henrici,
et haeredibus de corpore (&c,) remanere rectis haeredibus ipsius
Galfridi ; tenenda (&c.) imperpetuum."

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 67
tinued forest-lands, and for a great time ; and after, one
Raufe, a race of gendemerl, which took their names of
" And they asked me of whom and how that I came of any
such persons named in the seyd fine ; and I seyd, that I came
of Makeljm Wastneys and Margaret his wiff, named in 'the
seyd fyne ; that is to say, that I am daughter to Roger, sonne
to WiUiam, son to the seyd Maculine and Margaret. They exa
mined me, wheder eny of the brethren of the said Maculine, that
is to sey, John, Herry, or WUUam, had any issue on lyve ; and I
seyd to them, Nay, but aU bended without issu, which is very
trouth. They asked me whider I was heire to Geffrey Wast
neys, named in the seyd fyne ; and I seyd I am heire to the
seyd Geffry, for he was my graunsire's graunsire. They asked
me whether there was eny more issue now on lyve that come
of the said MacuUne and Margaret ; and I said, Nay ; for I
seyd, if AUanoure Harecourt, which was myn aunte, that is to
say, my fadur's suster, had bin on lyve, and overleved me, she
shuld enherite the seid livelode by force of the seid taill made
to Makelyn and Margaret, after me ; but now she is ded with
out issue, there is no more issue now on lyve that come of the
seid Makelyn and Margaret, sauf only I, in as much as I was
the last of the entaill, and the fee simple thereof was in me ;
whereupon my husband and I rered a fyne in the fourme as I
have seyd. And whereas sir John Gresley, knight, seyth, as I
am enfourmed, that he should be my- next kyn to enherite
after me the seid livelode ; betwene God and me I sey, as I
shall answere afore the day of dome, I canne not, nor never
cowde wete or knowe, nor never herde by my fader, nor other
in noe maner wyse, how or in what wyse he shulde be kyn to
me, to enherite in eny wyse the seid livelode, save that it was
seid that he come of oon sir Thomas Wastenesse, which Was-
tenesse was longe tyme afore the seyd old fyne arered : but
how, or in what wyse I was kyn to that Wastnesse, I could
never here tell. And ferthermore I sey and affirme, that there
is none on lyve, that I know or can here of, that ys or may be
inheritable by eny maner of fee tayle specifyed or comprised
in the seyd old fyne reryd m the time of the seyd king Edward
the Second, In witnesse whereof to this present writinge, I
have put my seall." F 2

68 THE ANTIQUITIES
the place, were lords of it, of whose descent you may
see more where I have spoken' of Biddulph.
Westward from Sow (like two miles) Heth Madeley
under Line', a goodly manor, 20 Conq, Ulviet held
' Whitmore remains in the name of Mainwaring to this day,
Edward Mainwaring, 21 Charies I. Edward Mainwaring, 21
Charles IL and Edward Mainwaring, 8 Geo. III. were sheriffs.
Arms : Argent, 2 bars Gules, a mullet Sable.
» Madely was perhaps from Magdalea. It passed by mar
riage from the family of Offley to that of Crew; and the present
respectable nobleman of that name is (1819) the proprietor of
this estate. In the church are several monuments to the
memory of the ancestors of the Egertons, afterwards earls of
Wilton, and of the Offleys; who, together with the Crews,
have been great benefactors to this parish. Sir John Offley,
knt. 14 James I. ; John Offley, 2 Ch. II. ; and John Offley, 32
Ch, II, were sheriffs of the county. Arms : Argent, on a cross
formy floury Azure a lion passant guardant Or, between four
Cornish choughs Sable,
The lineal ancestor of the present lord Crewe was sir Ra-
nulph Crewe, lord chief justice of the King's Bench in the last
year of James I. and first of Ch, I. In 1614, he was Speaker
of the House of Commons. He had the honour of being dis
placed in 1626, for presuming to express his disapprobation of
the imprisonment of those men who had refused the arbitrary
loan proposed by the court. He was the son of John (frewe,
of Nantwich, and had been king's Serjeant before his elevation
to the bench, " He discovered," says Fuller, " no more dis
contentment at his discharge, than a weary traveller is offended
at being told that he is arrived at his journey's end." His por
trait, in a bonnet, ruff, gold chain, and robes, as lord chief
justice of the King's Bench, is at Wrest, in Bedfordshire,
the seat of the countess de Gray. He lived many years,
in great hospitality, in Westminster ; purchased the estate of
the Falshursts, of Crew, in Cheshire; built the magnificent
seat of Crew HaU; and was the first that introduced the
model of good building into that county. The following memo
rials, connected with the life of this great man, were written
by himself; and, as they have not been published, may not be
uninteresting.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 69
Madeley of Robert de Statford. But afterwards, I know
not by what means, it came to be of the baron of Stafford's
deraesnes, and so it continued until the attainder of the
In a more modern hand is superscribed, " Sir R. Crewe,
knighted 8th June, 1614. Speaker of the House of Com
mons in the same year. The first stone laid at Crewe
5th April 1615. Sir R. made chief justice 10th ffeb. 1625.
His writ of discharge was the 10th Nov. 1626, for not signing
a paper to make ship-money lawful ; ' which,' says my lord
Clarendon, ' was an illegal tax.' The chappel at Crewe con
secrated by bishop Bridgman, 9 Aug. 1735. Sir R, died at
Westminster 18th Jan. 1645 ; buried at Barthomley 5th June,
1646," From sir Edward Coke, kt, the famous lawyer, to sir Ran
dolph Crewe, kt, concerning sir Christopher Hatton, ( Copied
from the original,)
" To his verie loving cosin and assured friend sir Randall
Crewe, knyght, the king's Serjeant at lawe, these,
" 1, for the money imprest for the repayring of Eltham and
Home parke*:
" The answer is, that the money was employed accordingly,
whereof there were notes kept jn the evidence house, which, if
s'r Christopher never accounted for the same, my wife -f can
help you to these notes, which may yet be avoided by plea.
"2, ffor Whitley wood in Eltham the rent arreares for 19
yeares, " The answere is, that John Wiseman was lessee, and he
never assigned his interest to s'r Christopher, as by the booke
of conveiance which Pepys has (and kepes in secrete) may
appeare ; so as sir Christopher Hatton's lande cannot be charged
therewith ; for in that booke all his lande and leases are con-
teyned. and the auditor's certificat is not in force to charge
him his lande.
" 3. ffor the lande late of the lorde Paget :
" Answere, that the queene was but receyvre of the lord
Paget, and the leasse determined before the arrerages are

* Home Park, in Eltham, Kent, was inclosed 21 king Edw. UI.
t Sir Edward Coke married for his second wife the relict of sir William
Hatton.

70 THE ANTIQUITIES
last duke of Buckingham, when it came to the king,
and was given by him unto the lord Bray. Madeley was
afterwards sold to sir Thomas Offley, a merchant, and
supposed to growe due, Mr. Pepys hath notes to discharge
this, for a charge that hangeth on me in the courte of wardes,
and Mr. Toorke * was acquainted with it. Besides, the leasse
was utterly void, as I can prove,
" 4. The charge upon s'r WiUiam Hatton, executor of. sir
Christopher, is not of force to charge s'r Christopher Hatton's
lande, and s'r. Christopher Hatton died intestate ; so as s'r
William was not his executor,
" S'r, that you may knowe that I am not unmyndfuU of you
(that are so ready to further my business with your good
councell and advice) I have written this, but in good faith I
write this out of my memorie, for I have no books here. But
I will take ordre to be perfectly informed,
" When you shall fynd these things that I have above spe
cified, and made it probable to the kynge's learned councell,
and to my lord treasurer f , then I would advise you never
to plead in the exchequer, but seeing your land cannot be
extended these 50 yeres and above, I would have your land
extended to take effect after the present extent, .and granted
over by the kyng to some of your friends, which, by the helpe
of the good attorney J, vvill easilie be obteyned for you, in
.effect df your place — let it be extended at as lowe a value as
you can, least there should be any sleeping det behynd.
" And thus thanking you for your affectionate letter, and for
all your kindness, I leave you and all yours to the blessed pro
tection of the Almighty, and will ever remaine your loving
cosin and faithful friend,
" Stoke, 2 Junii, 1623. Edward Coke,"
Sir Ranulph Crew's letter to the duke of Buckingham, two
months before the duke was stabbed by Felton :
" My duty most humbly done to your Grace,
" Vouchsafe, I beseech your grace, to read the misfortunes

* Mr. Toorke or Tooke was auditor of the court of Wards.
f Lee earl of Marlborough.
J Sir Thoraas Coventry.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 71
sometime mayor of London, father of Henry Offley,
now owner thereof.
of a poor man herein, and take them into your noble thoughts,
whose case is considerable. I have lived almost two years un
der the burthen of his majestie's heavy displeasure, deprived of
the place I held, and laid aside as a person not thoughte of,
and unserviceable : whereof I have been so sensible, that ever
since, Uving at my house at Westminster, I have not set my
foot into any other house there, or in London (saving the house
of God), hut have lived private and retired, as it became me.
I did decline to be of this late Parliament, distrusting I might
have been called upon to have discovered in the publick, the
passages concerning the removal from my place, which I was
willing should lie, lapped up in my owne bosome.
" I likewise took especial care, if my name were toucht upon
in the Commons' house, that some of my friends there should
doe there best to divert any further speech of me ; for I alwajjs
resolved wholly to relie upon the king's goodness, who, I did
not doubt, would take me into his princely thoughts, if your
Grace vouchsafed to intercede for me,
" The end of the Parliament * was the time I prefixed my-
selfe to be a suitor to your Grace, and I have now encourage
ment so to be : the petition of right, whereunto your Grace was
a party, speaks for me, and for the right of my place ; but I
humbly desire favour, God doth know, it was a great affliction
to me to deny to do any thing the king commanded me, the
king that my heart so loved, and to whom I had been so bound,
prince and king : but had I done it, I had done contrary to
that all the judges resolved to do (and I only suffer) ; and if I
had done it, and they had deserted me therein, I had become a
scorn to men, and had been fit to have lived, like a scritch-
owle in the dark ; so likewise if I had done it, and have been
known to have been the leader therein, and the rest of the
judges had been pressed to have done the like, the blame and
the reproofe would have been laid on me, and by me they'
might in some measure have excused themselves. But yet
there was a greater obligation to restrain me than these (for
these be but moral reasons), and that was the obligation of an
* The Parliament was prorogued 26 June, 1628.

72 THE ANTIQUITIES
In Madeley parish is Wrindford, the inheritance and
house of the Egertons ; who possess the same as heirs
oath, and of a conscience, against both which (then holding the
place of a judge) I, in my owne understanding, had done, had
I subscribed my name to the writing, which the king was then
advised to require me to do ; for thereby I had approved the
commission, and consequently the proceedings thereupon;
wherein how had I been condemned, and with how loud and
shrill a voice, I leave to your Grace to judge.
" Wherefore, most noble Lord, vouchsafe to weigh these my
reasons in the ballance of your wisdom and judgment; and be
so noble and just as to excuse me to the king therein ; and in a
true contemplation of that nobleness and justice, be so good as
to be the means that I may be restored to the king's grace and
favour. Your Grace hath in your hands Achilles' speare, which
hurts and heals ; I am grievously hurt, your Grace hath the
rtieans to heal me, to whom I make my address : the time is
now fit for it, now you are upon a fforaigne expedition. You may
.take my prayers, my wife's, and my children with you ; I hope
your journey will be the more prosperous.
" I am now in the 70th year of my age : it is the general
period of man's life, and my glasse runs on apace. Well was it
with me, when I was king's Serjeant, I found profitte by it. I
have lost the title and place of chiefe justice, I am now neither
the one or other. The latter makes me incapable of the for
mer ; and since I lost the chief's place, my loss hath been little
less than ^3000. thereby already.
" I was, by your favour, in the way to have raised, and re
newed in some measure, my poor name and ffamily ; which I
will be bold to say, hath heretofore been in the best ranke of
the ffamUies of my country ; till by a general heire the patri
mony was carried from the male line into another sirname ; and
since which time it hath been in a weak condition. Your Grace
may be the means to repair the breach made in my poor fortune,
if God so please to move you, and you will lose no honour by it,
" Howsoever, I have made my suit to your nobleness, and
your conscience, for I appeal to both. And whatsoever my
success be, I shall still appear to be a silent and a patient man,
and humbly submit myselfe to the will of God, and the king.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 73
to Hellen, one of the daughters and heirs of sir John
Haukestone', knight, son of Geffry, the son of Hugh,
God be with your Grace, and guide you and direct you, and to
his holy protection commit you, resting ever
" A most humble servant to your Grace,
" Ranulphe Crewe."
" Note. A little before the duke's going to the Isle of Ree,
he told sir Ranulphe (in the presence of the lord treasurer
Weston, and sir Robert Pye), that he would, at his return,
right him in the king's favours ; for it was he that had injured
him, and therefore was in honour bound to do it."
The following, petition of sir Ranulph Crew was subsequent
to the duke's death :
" To the Kynge's most excellent majestye,
" The most humble petition of Syr Ranulphe Crewe, knight,
" This petitioner served yo'r majestyes royaU ffather many
yeares his seriant at lawe, in w'ch tyme he did him faithfuU
service ; and therein humbly appeales to yo'r ma'tie who hath
heretofore vouchsafed to take knowledge thereof.
His majestye afterwards, out of his gracious favo'r made me
chiefe justice, a place nev'r sued for by mee (but sought to be
declined), as the lord keeper that now is, well knoweth ; for I
rather desired to continewe his seriant than to have a judicial
place. For the love required by yo'r majestye, I, and the rest
of the judges, sent our moneyes, in the passage whereof I did
yo'r majestie service.
" That w'ch I in all humblenes denyed to doe concerning itt,
all the judges of England likewise denyed ; yett I alone suffred
in the losse of my place ; wh'ch hath been more than twenty
thousand markes out of my way ; and w'th all the losse of my
profession, beside the losse of yo'r ma'ties favo'r, which was
much more heavy to mee than all the rest I lost.
" The duke of Buckingham takeing afterwards notice, w'th
w't patience and humblenes of submission to the will of God
and yo'r majestie, I tooke that great losse ; out of the noblenes
of his nature, w'thout intercession by me made, fixed his
thoughts upon mee, and resolved to use his best means and in-
' Sir John Hawkestone was one of James lord Audley's es
quires. Walter Chetwynd.

74 THE ANTIQUITIES
of Betteley ; which Hugh of Betteley was the son of
Allen de Haukeston'. Hellen was the wife of Wilham

deavours to yo'r ma'tie to regayne yo'r fav'r to mee, and to
procure mee ample compensac'on for my losse : and herein I
appeale to my lord of Holland, and s'r Robert Pye, and others
also can testifie itt,
" A little before the thread of the duke's life was lamentably
cutt asunder, the late lord treasurer brought me to the duke,
being directed soe to doe by him, and in the feilds between
Westminster and Chelsey meeting with the duke, hee and the
lord treasurer came out of their coaches, I alone wayting on
them, when the duke expressed to the lord treasurer his great
care of mee, and his resoluc'on by all his endeavo'rs to reduce
me to yo'r majesties favo'r, and to gayne a retribuc'on for mee :
and for that his jorney was then instant, he desired my lord
treasurer to take mee into his speciall care, and charge, in his
absence ; and tould him he would earnestly move yo'r ma'tie in
my behalfe, before he undertooke the expedition intended, and
att his return would accomplish that for mee, w'ch hee resolved
to doe, if itt were not done by the lord treasurer in the mean
tyme. " The earle of Holland, and the lord treasurer, being then
lord Weston, vouchsafed to come to me severally to my house
from the duke, and assured me of the duke's favo'r, and his
noble and reall intenc'ons towards mee.
" The lord treasurer, after the death of the duke, brought
mee to the p'sence of yo'r ma'tye att Windsor, when yo'r
ma'tye gave me most gracious words, and tould me the duke
had moved yo'r majestye in my behalfe, and assured mee I then
stood in the same state of yo'r majestyes favo'r, as I had att
any time before, w'ch was all at that tyme yo'r ma'tie would
say unto mee,
" The lord treasurer assured mee of yo'r majestyes reall in
tone' on to doe mee good ; as my lord of Dorset and others can
testifie ; but haveing many other great occasions for yo'r ma-

I find irreconcUeable discrepancy in the accounts of this
Wrinehill and Betley branch. Ormerod, in his History of
Cheshire, p. 281-2, article Haselwall; and 379-80, article

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 75
the son of Raufe, son of Raufe, son of David, son of
Urian, of Calcote, in Cheshire ; second son of Philip

jesties service, and his intimate friends, and concerninge him-
selfe (howbeit from tyme to tyme hee gave mee great hopes),
yett as it seems delayed the puttinge yo'r majestye in mynde
thereof; who, I am most confident, if my suit and the duke's
desire had been heartyly rep'sented to yo'r ma'tie, would have
regarded my service, and remunerated the same, wh'ch I have
longe attended to have obtajmed.
" I procured from the kinge, yo'r royal ffather, a graunt of the
wardshipp of my sonne, who is now living, about thirty-five
yeares ould, and have since had, by the gracious fav'r of jo'r
maj'tie a graunt of the wardshipp of my grandchild, my selfe
beeing yett living, and my sonne being but of such age as afore
said, whereof no usewill I hope be made.
" If yo'r ma'tie will out of yo'r gracious goodnes send mee
into my countrey, w'th some m'ke of y'r majestyes favo'r, that
may remayne to my poore house and posterity, in the givinge
of mee some land in ffee farme, in that proporc'on your ma'tie
shall thinke fitt to doe and direct, I shall w'th comfort goe to
my grave ; and in the meane tyme pra^ that the joyes of hea
ven and earth may bee multiplied upon yo'r ma'tie."
July 6, 1641, the House of Commons, by Mr. HoUis, in a
speech to the lords, recommended sir Ranulfe Crewe to his
majesty's favour, " who, by chusing rather to loose his office of
chief-justice of England, than subscribe to the loan Imo. Caroli,
had distinguished himself as much an assertor of the laws, as
the others in the case of ship-money had appeared the open
violators of them."
John Crew, a tanner at Nantwich.:^Alicia Mainwaring.
John Crew, a tanner at Nantwich.sp a

Caldecote, gives extracts from inquisitions and other docu
ments, which would shew that Helen de Haukeston must have
been wife to some other Egerton than this William ; for that
he, in Ormerod, made son of Urian, married.Eustatia, co-heir

76 THE ANTIQUITIES
Egerton of Egerton (of whose line see more when I speak
of Cheshire). William Egerton and Ellen his wife,,before

Randolph Crewe, Thomas=pTemperahce, dau. of Lucretia,

kt, died 1645-6, Crewe,
== kt,

r

Reginald Bray, esq, of Prudence.
Stene, co. Northamp.

Clipsby Crewe, John, created lord Crewe, died 1679, aged
kt. died 1648, 82 ; married Jemima, daughter of Edward
== Walgrave, of Lawford, Essex, esq. =p
 I  TTT  '¦  '
John Thomas lordCrewe, 2nd son. NathanaelCrew,bishop
Crewe, Was father of Je- 3d son. of Durham, succeeded
esq. mima, duchess of 4th son. his brother in the title,
=fi Kent.' died 1721, aged 88.

Anne.=^John Offley, esq, of Madeley.
 J

John, took the name of Crewe, M. P, for Cheshire 1707, 1708,
and 1^22, died 1749. =p '
I  '
John Crewe, esq, M, P. for Cheshire in 1734, 1741, and 1747;
died in 1752, =|=
I  :  '
John Crewe, lord Crewe, M. P, for the co, of Stafford in 1765,
and for Cheshire from 1768 to 1806, in which year he was
created lord Crewe. =p: I  John.
Arms : quarterly, 1st and 4th, Azure, a lion rampant Gules.;
2nd and 3d, Argent, on a cross fleury Sable a lion passant
guardant of the first.
Amongst some lumber in Nantwich church, co. Chester,
Pennant found the fragments of a white smooth monument,
with the foUowing inscription : Johannes Crew, ex antiqua
familia de Crew oriendus, vir plus, susceptum ex Alicia Man
waring, uxore reliquit sobolem, Ranulphum, Thomam, Lu-
cretiam, Prudentiam. Vixit annos 74. Obiit an' D'i 1598.
Randulf became chief justice of the king's bench, and was

of Haselwall ; that her son and heir was indeed a Ralph as
early as 1361 ; but that it was a Roger de Egerton, who, above
ninety years later, left a son and heir Hugh : that this Hugh
(agreeably to the general accounts, and, among the rest, to

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 77
spoken of, had issue Raufe Egerton, father of Hugh,
father of Raufe, father of John (who had issue three
founder of the present family of Crew, Thomas was speaker
of the house of commons temp, James I. and Charles I. His
portrait is at Wrest, as king's Serjeant. He was an active
supporter of the rights of the commons. Under pretence of
redressing certain grievances in Ireland, the king sent him,
and other obnoxious members, into that kingdom. He died in
1633, aged 68.
John Crew, esq, the great-grandson of sir Randolph Crew,
died in 1749 ; his son, John Crew, esq, was member of par
liament for the county of Chester from 1734 to 1753, in which
year he died ; his son was John Crew, esq. who was created
lord Crew in 1806.

the remains of his and his wife Margeria's epitaph on a Made-
ley alabaster) died 1505, John being his son and heir. But
here, for a period of sixty years, we have John upon John :
1st, John, obiit 1518 or 1519, leaving two daughters, and a
grandson, aet, 6, his coheirs : then Randolph, the very next
year (but this should seem the same Randolph whose monu
ment, yet at Madeley, for him and his wife Isabel, says he
died May 7, 1522), leaves a son and heir, John, aged 13 :
again, John, in 1529, leaves Ralph, son and heir, aged 12
(and, to mend the perplexity, the first John, son of Hugh, if
another set of inquisition extracts for Staffordshire has his age
right, was but three years old at Hugh's death, 1505), All
these are severally found seized of the same lands, nearly, as
Hugh is : and, lastly, in Madeley church is part of an inscription
for a fourth John Egerton, ob, 1562, and Elyn ux. So that all
is uncertainty, till Betley register affords us " Radulphi filius
Will'mi Egerton, arm," bapt. 1539, and " Margaretta filia
Rad'i Egerton," (probably he of Wrinehill, afterwards knight)
bapt. 1552,
Edward Egerton conveyed Wrinehill and several others (ap
parently the whole) of his estates to sir John Egerton, of
Egerton and Oulton, the eldest branch of the family ; which
sir John died in 1614. Edward afterwards litigated his own
conveyances (having also a title, by devise, back again from

78 THE ANTIQUITIES
daughters), and of Raufe, his yjounger son, father of
John and William. John was father of sir Raufe Eger
ton, knight, father of Edward Egerton of Betteley, now
living A.D, 1597; William Egerton was father of
Raufe Egerton, of Betteley, now also living '.
Ulvinus, one of the Tayni, held Batteleigh* of the
sir John, to all the latter's estates, unaffected by settlement or
knight-service tenure) till 1620, or later, most obstinately ;
but could not succeed, for Wrinehill at least, which was settled
on sir John's son and heir, sir Rowland (created a baronet
1617), on the latter's marrying the heir female of Grey, And
the late earl of Wilton, direct heir of that marriage, is thought
to have been the seller of Wrinehill. S. P-W.
' Ralph Egerton, of Betley, had issue sir Ralph Egerton,
kt. his son and heir, 1609 and 1622, His son (in all proba
bility), major-general Randolph Egerton, was buried in West
minster abbey, 1681: and this Une ended, in the males, with
the general's son James, buried in the same church 1687, at
ten years old. It was probably no long time afterwards that
the representatives, through females, sold Betley, S. P-W.
" Henry de Audley, temp. Hen. Ill, procured from the. king
a charter for a market at Betley. James lord Audley, his son,
obtained a charter of free-warren, 37 Hen, III; for this and
other, manors in this county. It continued in this family for
many generations ; till James lord Audley, 9 Rich. II, left it to
his son Nicholas, who, having no issue, left it to his sister
Joan's son, John Touchet, who, in her right, became lord
Audley. It is now the property of George ToUett, esq. cele
brated for his spirited and useful improvements in agriculture.
Betley Court is the property of the widow of sir Thoraas
Fletcher, bart. The chancel of the church was built in 1610
by Ralph Egerton. Ralph Egerton, 11 Hen, VI, Hugh Eger
ton, 37 Hen. VI. and 17 Edw. IV. ; John Egerton, 3 Hen. VIII. ;
Ralph Egerton, 10 Hen. VIII. ; were sheriffs of the county.
Charies Toilet, of Betley, was sheriff 23 Geo. III. Arms of
Egerton : Gules, a fesse Ermine, a cresset, for a difference.
Sable, between three pheons Argent, Also, Gules, a fesse
Ermine between three pheons Argent. Arms of Toilet : cheeky

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 79
king, 20 Conq, It lies north of Wrineford, and joins
thereto. About Henry the Third's time, William de
Betteley passed the same over to Henry de Audithe-
leigh ; and, after, his heirs sold also to the same Henry,
Heley, where the Audeleys after builded a castle', and
of latter times suffered it to decay ; but now this present
lord Audley, to finish all, sold his two parts, both of it and
also the manor of Audeley, to the late master of the
rolls, sir Gilbert Gerrard, and others, and likewise all his
other lands in Staffordshire, every man a parcel.
Two miles from Betteley, north-east, lieth Audeley,
Gamell, one of the Tayni, held Audeley of the king, 20
Coriq, It was after the seat and place whence the ba
rons of Audley took their names of honour. Concern
ing the advancement of which house, see a copy of con
firmation of king Henry Third, " in haec verba^: Hen.
dei gratis,, rex Angliae, dominus Hibernise, dux Nor-
mandiae, et Aquitaniae, et comes Andegav, Archiepis,
epis, abbatibus, prioribus, comitibus, baronibus, &c. sa-
lu?ra, Sciatis nos concessisse, et hac carta mea confir-
raa'sse, dilecto et fideli nostro Hen, de Alditheleighe,
omnia, terras et tenta subscripta, viz. ex dono Ranulf.
com. Cest, et Lincoln, tot. terram de nova Aula, quae
fuit Hugon. de Lascy ; et totam terram de Alstonfeild
cum ptinent' et ex dono ejusdem comitis totum reddit,
Argent and Azure, on a chevron engraUed Or three anchors
Azure ; on a chief Gules a lion passant Argent. '
' Heley is situated on a lofty rock. Camden says these lands
were given by Harvey lord Stafford to Henry de Aldithlege,
or Awdlege, in the reign of king John, It is now the property
of sir John Fenton Boughey, bart. whose seat is "at Betley,
Betley was once a parliamentary borough, Oldfield, vol,
VL p, 312.
^ Most of the heads of this confirmation charter are quoted,
substantially, in Dugdale's title, Audley, in his Baronage,
vol. I. p. 746. S. P-W.

80 THE ANTIQUITIES
de Tunstall, Chaddersley, et Chell, et Thursfeild, et
Bradwell, et Normancote, ex dono ejusdem comiti
" Ex dono Nic. de Verdon', Aldithlegh cum omnibus
pertinent, et libertatibus suis, et ex dono Hugon. de
Lacye, Cettleton, villam vocat. Dunley, cum omnibus
pertinent, suis.
" Ex concessione et confirmatione ipsius Hugon. de
Lacye', tot. terras quas Adam de Alditheleg tenuit de
eodem Hugone, et similiter constabulatum tot. terr.
ipsius Hugon. de Ulton et de tot. conquestu suo, et si
militer de Cashel : et quatuor carucat. terrae in circuitu
et 7 Ann. cum feodo unius militis. , Ex dono Eutropii
Hastang tot. servitium Rob. Coyney de la Halvo-hida,
et de quatuor maris in villa de Cold-Norton. Ex dono
Willihelmi de Bettelegh tot. villam de Betteleigh, et
heredibus suis tot. terram de Helia cum ptinent. suis.
Ex dono Hervei de Stafford tot. terram quas jacet suo
castro de Heleghe, ex concessione et quieta clamacone
Hen. de Betteleghe tot. villam de Betteleighe, cum
ptinent. suis. Ex dono Willi de Bettelegh sedem mo-
lendini, et stagnum et vivarium de Northbrook. Et re-
laxacone et quieta clamacone Jotiis filii Willi fil. Alani,
servicium unius militis quod de manerio de Chumley
fieri consuevit, usque ad 4tam partem servicii unius mi
litis. Ex dono Egidii de Erdington totum manerium de
Schagebury, cum oranibus ptinent, suis'. Ex dono Hu
berti de Russeburi tot. terram de duobus Staneweys
desup. Egge cum ptinen. Ex dono Engenulfi de Gres-
lia et Alivae, ux, ejus, Tunstall, Chaddersley, Chelle, et
Normancote, &c. Ex dono Margaretae de extraneo,
' Camden says it was Theobaldus de Vernon, but he is evi
dently mistaken. Weever's mon, inscript, p, 323.
* " De Laci, earl of Ulster, whose constable he was of all
his lands in Ulster, and whatsoever else he had conquered
there," Dugdale, Baron, vol. I. p. 746.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 81
filia Guidonis extranei, manerium de Mixne et Brad-
napp, &c. Ex dono Aliciae de Harcourt, filia Thoma
Noel, tot. terram suam in Weston cum omnibus ptinent.
suis. Ex dono Johanna filia Thoma Noel tot. terram
suam de Weston cum omnibus ptinent, suis. Ex dono
Petri Norton' subtus Caversmound, et de Heakley, et
de Baddeleigb, et de Mulneton, et medietat. Molendini,
cum omnibus ptinent. suis, et tot. servicium liberi te-
nent, ex dono Matilde.
The first Audeley that I can read of, was called
Adam, the father of Lynulphus or Lydalphus (for both
ways he is written), which Lydalphus had issue Adam,
who had issue this Henry before spoken of (who was
vicecora. of Stafford^ 7 Hen. III.) Adam Audeley de
Gretton, and Wilham Audeley de Blore. Henry had
issue James, which James had issue James, justic, Hi-
bernia, killed' at Thuraond, without issue; William
' " Ex dono Petri" — " ex dono Matildae." This paragraph
has something deficient in the description of donor or donors,
no surname appearing. But I think the local names are as
signed with much certainty. Manerium Norton super moras
subtus Kervermund, is named 1303, in the Stafford MSS.
(lately Shaw's, now Mr, W. Hamper's) tom. XIII, p. 67 ; and
at one and half mile south-east from Norton, in Yates's map,
is Car-Mount, with Heakley-Hall, Baddeley Edge, Milton, all
in a circle between the two, and Abbey-Hilton close to Car-
Mount. Weston-Coyney, upwards of three miles onward to
the south-east, is frequently stiled Weston subtus Caversmound.
S, P-W.
^ This is not right, as in a pedigree of Audley ; WiUiaih of
Blore being a son to Henry, and Ranulph another son, and not
Adam of Gretton, who might be brother to Henry. Smyth.
3 This passage, according to Dugdale Baronage, confirmed
in part by the Stafford MSS. tom. XIII. would be read (and
with greater probability) thus : " Henry had issue James, Just.
Hibern, which James had issue 1, James, who died 1 Edw. I.
s. p. ; 2, Henry, died 4 Edw. I- s. p. ; 3, WiUiam, occisus in
G

82 THE ANTIQUITIES
Audeley occisus in Walliil, without issue, and Henry;
which Henry had issue Nicholas, who had issue James,
who had issue Nicholas, who died without issue, and
Joan, married to sir John Touchet, knight, and Marga-
WaUia, s. p. ; 4. Nicholas, which Nicholas had issue Nicholas,
who had issue James, &c." S. P-W.
Chadley is a village given to the barons of Audley by
Hen. III.
Audley comprises seven townships, Audley, Bignall-end,
Eardley-end, Halmer-end, Knowl-end, Palk-end, and Talk,
The parish abounds in coal. In the south wall of the church
are three stone seats and a piscina, in niches with trefoil heads.
Within a niche on the north wall of the chancel is a plain altar-
tomb, vrith a recumbent figure, in cap and surplice, to Edward
Vernon, r622. In the nave is a mural monument to the me
mory of Elizabeth and Alice, daughters and co-heirs of Edward
Eardley of Eardley. Elizabeth married to Robert, son and
heir of sir Nicholas Wilmot, of Osmaston, co. Derby. Alice
died unmarried in 1713. Arms : Azure, on a fesse Or three
escalops Argent, between three griffin's heads erased of the
same. On a brass plate, fixed on an altar tomb in the nave, is in
scribed, Ici gist Mons. 'Thom's d' Audeley, chivaler, fra' mons.
James d' Audele seigno' de helegh de rouge chastell q'i meruit
le XXIV de Januar, Fan de gre' mccclxxxv qui vit : de q'i alme
dieu p' sa pite eit merci. Amen, The figure of the knight in
armour is on another brass plate,
A farm at Apedale, south of Audley, now occupies the site
of Audley, which was one of the residences of the heroes of
this name ; but in later times they inhabited Heleigh castle,.
about three miles distant. The lords enjoyed the privilege of
a'court-leet, tumbrel, and gallows : no one could arrest another
here except an officer of the manor, George Touchet, lord
Audley, sold it in 1577 to sir Gilbert Gerard, from whose
family it descended to the Fleetwoods, and was alienated by
them in the succeeding century,
Gerard's Bromley was the ancient seat of the Bromleys ; but
coming by marriage,, or purchase, to the Gerards, it obtained
their name. Sir Gilbert Gerard, master of the rolls in queen

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 83
ret, married to sir Roger Hillary, knight, by one ventre ;
and Margaret, married to Fulk le Fitzwarren, by another
ventre, Margaret, the wife of sir Roger Hillary, knight,
either died without issue, or otherwise passed her lands
to John Touchet, son of the said sir John ; so that the
said John Touchet, having two parts of the Audeley
Elizabeth's time, bought it of sir Thomas Gerard, of EtwaU,
CO, Derby, kt. and buUt a stately quadrangular fabric of stone,
which is represented in Plot ; and which  Meynell, of
Bradley, took down. Sir Gilbert died in 1 592, and was buried
in Ashley church-yard, under a handsome monument to his
memory. His son Thomas, who succeeded to it, was, 1 Jas, I.
created a baron, by the title of lord Gerard of Gerard's Brom
ley. His son and heir, Gilbert, married Eleanor, daughter
and heir of Thomas Dutton, of Dutton co. Chester, and had
two sons, Dutton and Thomas. He died in 1622, and was
buried at Ashley. Dutton succeeded his father ; and, dying in
1640, left Charles, his son and heir ; who, dying in 1667, left
his son and heir, Digby lord Gerard, a minor ; who^died with
out heirs ; and the title became extinct. Gerard, of Brandon,
was descended from Ratcliff, younger son of sir Gilbert.
Charles, his grandson, was first created lord Gerard, of Bran
don in Suffolk, by king Charles I. and earl of Macclesfield by
king Charles II. ; but his family are also extinct. This great
estate of the Gerards was claimed by the duchess of Hamilton
in 1720 ; who appealed to the House of Lords against Thomas
Fleetwood, esq. but it was determined in favour of the latter.
The property of the Gerard family is now, for the most part,
in the possession of Hugo Meynell, esq,
21 Hen. VIII  Frost, esq. died seized of Tunstall ;
and John Frost, his brother and heir, succeeded him.
There is a peculiarity in the situation of the house of Har-
dingwood near Audley, which Pennant mentions. Whenever
the family go to church (which is that of Lawton), they go
out of the province- of Canterbury into that of York : pass
through two counties, Staffordshire and Cheshire; three constable-
wicks, Tunstall, Chell, and Lawton ; three parishes, Woolstan-
ton, Audley, and Lawton ; two hundreds, Pirehill and Nant
wich ; and two dioceses, Lichfield and Coventry and Chester.
G 2

84 THE ANTIQUITIES
barony thereby, was accepted as baron of Audeley, and
had issue John, who had issue Jaraes lord Audeley, who
had issue John, who had issue Jaraes, who had issue
Henry; which Henry lord Audeley had issue George
lord Audeley. Fulk Fitzwarren and Margaret his wife
held their part of the barony of Audeley, and left
it to sir Fulk, their son, who had issue Fulk lord
Fitzwarren, who had issue Elizabeth, married to sir
Richard Hawkford', knight (son of Richard Hawk-
ford, son of sir William Hawkford), who had issue
Thomasine, married to sir William Bourchier, second
son of William ° lord Bourchier, lord Fitzwarren, jure
uxons; who had issue Fulk, lord Fitzwarren ; who had
issue John, earl of Bath ; who had issue John, lord
Fitzwarren, deceased, patre vivente ; who had issue Wil
liam, now earl of Bath, a courteous and very honour
able gentleman, and a lover of antiquities, as I have
heard. I stand in doubt whence Adam, father of Lid-
dulph', and the rest of the Audeleys, should derive
themselves first ; and methinks that they should descend
from the Verdons ; and to that opinion doth induce me
both their armory, and that Nicholas de Verdon did
give, or rather, I think, confirm, to Henry de Audeley,
the manor of Audeley, which is still held of the heirs of
Verdon. At the first*, the Audeleys bare frette, with a

' Son of sir WUliam Hawkeford, of Annery in Devonshire,
Elizabeth was sister and heir to Fulk, the last lord Fitzwaryne.
Smyth, ^ Earl of Eu. Dugdale's Baron,
' This could only be a confirmation of Audley ; as Lydulphus,
above, was possessed of it before, and thence took his name,
as having his seat in the said manor, Smyth.
* See Glover's Visitation of Cheshire, for Audeley's arms. T.B.
They took their arms, perhaps, as was often done at first,
from the chief lord under whom they held.

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canton charged ; for I have seen two seals of the Au
deleys, and -of the first Henry de Audeley; the one,
frett6 and a canton, charged with a lion saliant ; and
the other the same, save the canton was charged with a
cross forme. But James lord Audeley, that lived in
Henry the Third's time, left the Canton, and as I think
counterchanged the colours, bearing Gules fretted gold:
so that both the tenure of Audeley manor, whereof, no
doubt, the Audeleys took their narae, and the imitating
of Verdon's armory, may seem to make a probable con
jecture, that the first of the Aldeleghs was a younger
brother of the Verdons ; unless a man will say that he
bears his armoury but ratione tenuree, and that having
before other lands ' : (as indeed I find that one Lydul
phus was, about the same time that Lydulphus de Aud
ley lived, sheriff of the county of Chester, and this
Lydulphus de Audeley and he were both one person, as
it might well be;) and after Verdon- had given them
Audeley, they seated themselves there, and were called
de Alditheleghe. To fortify which opinion, the com
mon report is, that the lord Audeley did bear the But
terfly, of old time; and indeed, I myself have the copy
of a roll of armory", intituled, " Arma nobilium in
com. Staff." where it is said, that le comit. de Stafford.
port de Or, a un cheveron de Gules ; and Audeley,
port de Gules frette de Or ; and not far after the roll
hath, " antiquiora insignia de Audele, Azure, three
butterflies, Argent; and Monsieur John de Chandose
port de Argent, a une pile de Gules : whereby it appear-
eth, that the said roll was made in the rime of Ed-
¦ In Audley. T.B.
' A copy of it is in Wyrley's MS. but it stands thus : " The
Lord Audeley, Gules, frettie of six Or ; and a little lower is,
antiquiora insignia de Audeleghe, B, three butterflies Argent,
.and sir John Chandos, Argent, a pyleg," T, B.

86 THE ANTIQUITIES
ward III'. And besides, in Stafi'ord church, stands to
gether, Azure, three butterflies Argent, and Argent, a
' Wyrley says, " aut finem reg. Ed. tertii aut incipiente Re.
Ri, secundi,, ut opinor, T. B,
Henry de Audley, whose posterity, by female descent, yet
enjoy the title of lord Audley, was a person of great wealth and
power. Ranulph, eari of Chester and Lincoln, the greatest
subject of England in his time, granted him the manor and
castle of New Hall, co, Chester, He adhered to king John in
aU his contests with the barons, and died 31 Hen. Ill, He was
succeeded by his son James, who inherited, together with his
honours and estates, the esteem and favour of his prince. He
was in great favour with Richard, earl of CornwaU, and was
with him at Aquisgrane, when he was crowned king of Almaine.
As a baron of the marches of Wales he did great service in
repressing the incursions of the Welsh. He visited St. James
of Compostella, 51 Hen. III. and went into the Holy La^d,
54 Hen. III. Having accidentally dislocated his neck, he died
56 Hen, III. leaving James, his son and heir, who died with
out issue, 1 Edw. I, leaving his inheritance to Henry, his bro
ther. His widow Maud obtained of him this manor as her
dowry, with the castle and other estates, Henry had issue
James, who had issue James, whose son Nicholas dying without
issue, was succeeded by his sisters ; and this manor passed by
marriage to John Touchet, who became lord Audley in right
of his wife, and whose posterity yet enjoy the same honour.
WUliam, brother tp Henry, succeeded him, and attended Ed
ward I. in his expedition against Wales. He was succeeded by
Nicholas, who attended Edw, I, in his expedition into Gas-
coigne ; and also went into Scotland with the earls of Warwick
and Warren, where they obtained a victory at Dunbar, 27
Edw, I, He died 27 Edw. I. leaving by his wife Catharine,
daughter qf Maud Longspe, Thomas, his heir ; but he, dying
before he was of age, was succeeded by Nicholas, his brother,
7 Edw. II. He lived three years, and was succeeded by James,
his heir, then an infant. James was highly in favour with
Edw. III. who made him governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and
whom he attended in his expeditions into France. Validus fuit
iste Jacobus de Audeley, qui bello Pictaviae, quo captus fuit

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 87
pile Gules ; it being well known, that sir James de
Audeley and sir John Chandose were great companions

rex Franciae, anno 30 Edw, III, per Edwardum, principem
WaUiae magnum, cui predictus princeps dedit 500 marcas de
terris et tenementis in Anglia pro fideli et strenuo servicio suo
eodem die, quos idem Jacobus immediate dedit quatuor armi-
geris suis qui sibi impensabant servicio eodem praelio, Quibus
h. principe auditis, armigeris confirmavit, et remuneravit ulte-
rius eorum dominum, (MSS. George Owen, the Pembroke
shire antiquary.) He died 9 Rich. II, leaving one son and
three daughters. His son and heir, Nicholas, was with his
father in France, and 5 Rich, II, was appointed justice of South
Wales ; but, dying without issue, John Touchet, the son of his
eldest sister Joan, and Margaret, wife of sir Roger Hillary,
knt. were his heirs. The barony descended to the above John
Touchet, who was summoned to parliament ; and 5 Hen, IV.
was associated with Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, to
defend for one year the town and castle of Brecknock. He
died 10 Hen. IV, and was succeeded by his son, James, lord
Audeley, who was with Hen. V, in his expeditions into France,
and afterwards was slain at the battle of Blore Heath, in 1459,
and buried in the abbey of Darley, co. Derby. He married
Margaret, daughter of William, lord Roos, of Hamleke, and
was succeeded by John, his son and heir. Adhering to the
Yorkists, he was rewarded by Edw. IV. with the stewardship
of all his lands and forests in Dorsetshire ; and having sworn
fealty to prince Edward, in Parliament, was constituted trea
surer of the King's Exchequer. He died 6 Hen, VII, 1491,
and was succeeded by James, his son and heir, who attended
the King to the siege of Bologne, and was summoned to Par
liament ; but, discontented at a subsidy granted by Parliament,
he joined with the men of Cornwall in an insurrection, and
being taken prisoner at the battle of Blackheath, in 1497, he
was beheaded on Tower-hUl, June 22, and buried in Black
Friars. John, his son and heir, was with Hen, VIII, at the
taking of Teronene, He was buried in Saviour's Church, in
Southwark, leaving George his son and heir; who by Eliza
beth, daughter of sir Brian Tuke, had Henry, his son and heir,
who accompanied Robert, earl of Leicester, into the Nether-

88 THE ANTIQUITIES
in arms about that time. So that by this means it may
be inferred, that the Audeleys were an ancient house
standing of themselves, though not at the first carrying
that name, nor descended of the Verdons paternally;
but after coming to Audeley, either by perquisition, or
having Audeley given them in frank marriage, either
ratione tenura vel consanguinitatis, or both, as I have
lands, with the English auxiliaries, 28 Eliz. His son and heir,
George, was governor of Utrecht, and was severely wounded
at the battle of Kinsale, in Ireland. He was created, in 1616,
earl of Castlehaven, in Ireland, and married Lucy, daughter
of sir James Mervin, by whom he had issue Mervin, his son
and heir, who was beheaded on Tower Hill, 7 Ch. I, for high
crimes and misdemeanours, leaving issue James, who by let
ters patent 10 Ch. I. was restored to the titles and dignities of
Baron Audley and earl of Castlehaven. Dying without issue,
and his next brother George being a Benedictine monk at
Douay, he was succeeded by Mervin, his youngest brother,
who married Mary, only daughter of John, earl of Shrews
bury, and by her left issue James, his son and successor, who
by Elizabeth, grand-daughter of Charles ViUiers, earl of An-
glesea, left one son, James, who married Elizabeth, only
daughter of Henry lord Arundel, of Wardour ; and by her had
John, his son and heir ; who, having no issue, was succeeded
by his sister Mary, who married PhiUp Thicknesse, esq. ; and
she dying in 1762, was succeeded by George, the present and
sixteenth lord Audley. The earldom of Castlehaven had
become extinct by the death of John, the fifth earl, without
issue. The present lord married, in 1781, Elizabeth Delaval,
co-heiress of John, late lord Delaval, and has George-John,
his son and heir. Of this family was Edmund, bishop of Ro
chester, Hereford, and Salisbury, who died in 1624. Plot
says, that traces of a very old castle could be discovered here
in his time, all vestiges of which are now lost. The manor is
now the property of sir John Fenton Boughey, bart. Ranulph,
eari of Chester, from the 1st to the 5th Hen. Ill, and Hugh
de Audley, in the 5th, 6th, and 7th of Edw. II, were sheriffs of
this county. Arms of Audley: Argent, a chevron Gules
between three cinquefoils Sable.

OF feTAFFORDSHIRE. 89
known others have done, they changed the armory from
the butterflies to the frette, and got them a surname.
But this matter I will leave as doubtful as I find, to be
discussed either by Mr. Camden, or any else that are
better acquainted with the antiquities of this house than
I am. Howbeit, this is to be noted, that the roll brings
in sir John Chandos amongst the nobility of Stafford
shire, as indeed I take it, he was a Staffordshire man,
although I cannot yet learn where the seat of his house
should be; and yet I find testes to a deed, sir Hugh
Meynell, knt. and William Chandoise and others,
whereby Robert Owen passed certain lands in Mer-
chanton, by the forest of Needwood, which were given
him by Wilham', earl Ferrers; and also, that Wilham
Chandoise and Roger were both witnesses to a deed
passed of lands in Dracote under Needwood, about the
same time ; whereby it would seem, that the seat of their
house should be about Needwood, whereunto their
armory doth correspond \

' Robert. Chetwynd.
^ Upon the borders of Cheshire stands Balterley, called
Bawterley, a manor of John lord Audley, 10 Hen, IV, and of
which sir Thomas Blount died seized 16 Hen, VIII. and sir
John Blount, his son and heir, died seized of it 23 EUz, having
only one daughter, married to John Purslow, 5 James I,
WUUam Lawton died seized of it : and John, his son and heir,
succeeded to it,
Hugo Lawton, of Lawton, co, Chester,=plsabel Maddock.
John Lawton, =p

Richa^rd Lawton =p.
iCa
i

 ¦
JaJi^ L^T^=?Catharine, daughter of Thomas Bellot, of
¦ Moreton, Cheshire,

90 THE ANTIQUITIES
Sow being past Whitmore, leaveth on the west side
Chaveldon, which sir Thomas Pipe, in the right of
Isabella his .wife, and after, Edmund', baron of Staf
ford, 26 Edw. I. held of the bishop by a third part of a
knight's fee, and entereth between Swinnerton on the
east, and Charlton" on the west.
Swinnerton is a goodly large manor, possessed by a
race of gentlemen of the same name, of which divers

f
J
r

John Lawton,=pMargery, daughter of Fulk Dutton,

WiUiam Lawton,=pMary, daughter of George Wood, esq. of
I Balterley, died 12 Nov. 15 James I.
John Lawton,
The above Mary was niece of Thomas Wood, esq, from
whom these lands descended, Mary Lawton, 7 April, 1704,
died seized of Balterley Hall, and other lands in Betley and in
Cheshire, It descended to coheirs ; viz, William, son of Ed
ward Whitterings ; Ralph, son of Thomas Smith ; Thomas, son
of Robert Lawton ; Robert, son of Ralph Alfeger ; and Wil
liam, son of Robert Browne, Lawton is still in the same
name ; so that Lawton, who married a coheir, may have trans
mitted it to his descendants, Degge,
' Read, " in right of Margaret his wife, relict of Edmund,
baron Stafford (which Edmund died 2 Edw, II.) held of the
bishop." Dugdale Bar, I. 159, Margaret's Autograph grant
of Pipe manor, in possession of S, P-W. Also, see Edmund,
in vivis, 1 Edw. II. in Dugd. Summon. 57. S, P-W.
^ The two Charltons. Chetwynd. Chareldon. Huntbach.
It passed with the manor of Swinnerton, and was held by the
same tenure.
Charlton is a town of Cheorles, or husbandmen.
Thomas Roos, of Luxley in Nottinghamshire, 20 Eliz. died
seized of the granges of EUerton, Batisacre, Fowk-Clanford,
and Eld-Knighton, and other lands ; and a moiety of the manor
of Meere, Swineshead, and Charlton ; and left them to Peter
his son. Degge.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 9I
were knights, and, as I verily think, have been owners
thereof from the time of the Conquest: that Aslen",
whom I take to be ancestor of the Swinnertons, held the
sarae of Rob. de Statford, unril this our present age ;
that the last Huraphrey left his lands to his two daugh
ters, of which Margaret, the elder, was married to Henry
Vernon of Sudbury, to whom she brought the manors
of Hilton, Ashley, and Sugenhall ; and Elizabeth, the
younger, was first married to WiUiam Fitzherbert, by
whora she had issue Thomas ; and since the death of
her husband Fitzherbert, she is married to Francis Gat-
cacre, and hath for her purparty", as our lawyers say,
Swinnerton. 20 Conq. Aslen had 'Swinnerton of Rob.
de Statford. In Hen. the Third's timp, sir Robert Swin
nerton was lord of it, who had issue sir Roger, who had
issue sir Thomas, who had issue sir Robert*, all knights,
' Allen. Huntbach,
" Vide Lyttleton's Tenures.
' Roger de Swinnerton, 24 Edw. I.
* In the account of Tene, sir Robert Swinnerton is made not
son of sir Thomas, but of a former sir Robert. Wyrley calls
him Reginald,
Roger de Swinnerton, 34 Edw, I, obtained a charter of
free warren in his demesne lands in this manor, and for keep
ing a market, which has long been disused. He was governor
of Stafford 1 1 Edw. II. and afterwards of the castle of Harlech
in Wales. 15 Edw, II. he was governor of Eccleshall castle,
during the vacancy of the see of Coventry and Lichfield ; and,
being appointed constable of the tower of London, was sum
moned to parliament 11 Edw, III. and created a knight ban
neret, Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey Swinnerton, married
sir William Fitzherbert, of Norbury, kt. and had this manor
for her part in the division, in whose descendants it yet conti
nues. Of this family was sir Anthony Fitzherbert, kt. the
celebrated judge, author of " Natura Brevium Novel," in
French, 1534; also of the " Book of Husbandry," 1534, now
very scarce, of which there is a copy in the library at Swin-

92 THE ANTIQUITIES
Sir Robert had issue Maud, his only daughter and heir,
married first, to sir Humphrey, as I take it, the third son
of sir Thomas Peshall, knight, and after to sir John Sa
vage, who divided part of Swinnerton's lands between
their two sons, Richard Peshall and John Savage, But
Swinnerton and divers other lands remained to their
heir male ; which, after divers descents was divided be
tween two daughters of Humphrey, as said before.
Charlton and Swineshead adjoining, together with

nerton. He died in 1538. AUce, sister of sir Anthony Fitz
herbert, was the last abbess of Polesworth, which she surren
dered to the king in 1539, The eighth in descent from sir
Anthony was Thomas, who, in 1778, married the widow of
Edward Weld, esq, of Lulworth castle, and daughter of Walter
Smythe, esq, of Brambridge, co, Hants. By his death these
estates passed to his brother, Basil Fitzherbert, whose son,
Thomas, is the present possessor.
There is, sealed with the arms of Swinnerton, carta Matildis
de Swinnerton, relictae d'ni Rogeri de Swinnerton, in qua
fatetur se recepisse de d'no Jacobo de Stafford, 10 Marc. &c.
Dat. apud Swynerton, anno primo Edw. III.
Rogerus de Swinnerton, baro parliamenti, 2 Edw. III.
Iste Rogerus tenuit die quo obiit manerium de Swinnerton
in com. Stafford, per servicium unius feodi miUtis, cum diversis
aliis terris et tenementis de Rad'o Basone de Staff.
In 25 Edw. III. Thomas de Swinnerton mentions quadraginta
soUdos de redditu meo de Vselwall.
In the church is a plain altar tomb, representing the recum
bent figure of a knight templar ; underneath is inscribed, do
minus de Swinnerton, et Ellen uxor ejus. John de Swinnerton
15 and 16 Edw. II. Thomas de Swinnerton 16 and 17 Edw. III.
John de Swinnerton 36 Edw. III. John Swinnerton 15 Ric. II.
Humphrey Swinnerton 28 Hen. VI. Thomas Fitzherbert 35
Hen. VIII. sir Thomas Fitzherbert, kt. 2 Mary, were sheriffs
of this county. Arms of Swinnerton : Argent, a cross formfe
fleury Sable, debruised with a bend Gules. Arms of Fitz
herbert ; Argent, a chief vairy Or and Gules, over all a bend
Sable.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 93
Broughton, a mile or more removed west. 12 and 13
Edw. I. Roger de Napton, son of Henry de Niapton, was
owner of them, and held Chereleton and Swinshead of
the bishop, and had issue Elias de Broughton, who had
issue John, who had issue William, who had issue Rich
ard, who had issue John, who had issue Thomas, who had
issue Richard, who had issue Thomas, father of Francis
Broughton, both living. In Edw. First's time, I have seen
a record, that Roger de Napton, lord of Broughton, held
octo virgat, terra in Cherleton and Swineshead, by the
service of half a knight's fee, and to find 14 men at the
chase of Podmore and Chartculime, three tiraes a year,
every time three days, and every man his diet by the
day, being worth one halfpenny ; and also to find two
ploughs in the winter two . days, and two in Lent, to
plough the lord's deraesnes, where the lord will, within
the raanor, and the diet for every plough is worth four-
pence'. He is also to find fourteen men to the lord to
reap in harvest, or else to pay 5s. 9d, and the lord to
have a heriot ; and also to keep ward at the castle of
Eccleshall, by the space of two days at his own proper
charges. Adjoining to Charlton westward, is Mear and Aston,
a fair manor, sometime divided between William de
Mear and Robert Stafford. 20 Conq. Ulviet held Meare,
Madeley, and Norton^ of Robert de Stafford. But af
ter these manors were so divided, that the heirs of Ro
bert de Stafford, as I suppose, had Madeley, and the
one moiety of Meare', but how it came to be so divided
' Per day, T. B. Arms of Broughton : Gules, a chevron be
tween three bears (or badgers) passant Argent.
• Not Norton. See the account of Norton, and the note.
' Maer is now a manor belonging to Josiah Wedgwood, esq,
second son of the late eminent Josiah Wedgwood, esq, of
Etruria. In the church, built about 1600, are monuments to

94 THE ANTIQUITIES
I cannot yet learn ; yet I find that Eudo de Meare, about
king John's time, had quartam partem villa de Meare '
the families of Macclesfield and Bowyer. Here are hills caUed
the Byrth, or Bruff, Camp-HUl, the little Byrth, and Coplovv.
The descendants of John Macclesfield sold Maer to John lord
Chetwynd, from whom it descended to earl Talbot. The Saxon
fortress of Bruff, or Burgh, is composed of a double trench and
rampire, constructed chiefly of stone. Two of the angles of this
irregular fortification form a natural projection, resembling
bastions. It is supposed that it was raised by Kenrid king of
Mercia, as a protection against Osrid king of Northumberland,
whom Pennant calls a despiser of monks, and a corrupter of
nuns. That monarch, says Henry of Huntingdon, was slain in
a battle fought in this neighbourhood. Plot Staff, p, 409. Op
posite to this fortress are the Camp-Hills, so named probably
from the scenes of these events. No vestige of any camp is
now visible, . The tumuli, or barrows, of various forms are to
be seen on the adjacent hills and heaths, marking the spot of
some great conflict. Coplow is of great height and extent, and
of a conical form. Blore-Heath is celebrated in English his
tory as the scene of a sanguinary combat between the houses
of Lancaster and York, in which lord Audley, the commander
of Henry's forces, was slain, together with most of the Cheshire
gentlemen, who gallantly fought in that cause. Drayton, in his
Polyolbion, commemorates the slaughter of this day :
" The earl (Nevil, earl of Salisbury),
So hungry in revenge, there made a rav'nous spoil,
There Dutton, Dutton kills : a Done doth kill a Done :
A Booth, a Booth : and Leigh by Leigh is overthrown ;
A Venables against a Venables doth stand ;
A Troutbeck fighteth with a Troutbeck hand to hand ;
There Molineux doth make a Molineux to die ;
And Egerton the strength of Egerton doth try."
A wooden cross was erected on the field of battle soon after
the action, to mark the spot where lord Audley fell ; which
having been thrown down, the lord of the manor ordered a stone
pedestal to be placed there, with the cross upon it. The height
of both is about three yards. On the pedestal is inscribed,
" On this spot was fought the battle of Blore-heath, in J4S9;
lord Audley, who commanded for the side of Lancaster, was

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 95
ex dono Gulielmi Besford; and immediately after I find
that sir Robert, the son of Eudo de Mere, Alexander the
son of sir William de Mere, and Waryne de Ferrers,
were partners of a part of Meare, and that sir William
de Mere, knt. had another part of Meare, I think a
moiety, against the other co-partners. After all these
divisions, viz. in Henry Third's rime, and 9 Edw. II.
the record says, that Thomas de Halghton was lord of
Meare; but I think he had not the whole manor, but
some good part thereof, and so accounted lord of the
whole, though he was but of part; as I have found
others in like manner to be recorded. But in the end,
as I have said, Stafford had a moiety, which he parted
with (and divers other lands, now the inheritance of the
Macclesfields), in exchange to Raufe, the son of John
Macclesfield, the son of John Leghe, the third son of
Robert Leghe of Adiington ; for his house in Maccles
field, and for his other lands there, and for his manors of
Bestlinton and Boseley. The lands that Macclesfield
had in exchange (as I take it), were the moiety of Mere
and Aston ; and also the fourth part of Milwich, certain
lands in Audley, Chesterton, Nutborow, and Betherton,
This Raufe Macclesfield had issue Richard, who had
issue Francis, who had issue Raufe, who had issue Wil-
defeated and slain. To perpetuate the memory of the action
and the place, this ancient monument was repaired in 1765, at
the charge of the lord of the manor Charles Boothby Skrymsher.
At Willowbridge is a medicinal spring, which was originally
discovered by lady Bromley. It was formerly celebrated for
the great virtue of its waters in curing distempers. Samuel
Gilbert, a physician of the seventeenth century, wrote a
pamphlet to recommend them. Plot counted sixty springs ris
ing within the space often yards square (p. 102.) The water,
according to him, carries v/ith it the most rectified sulphur of
any mineral spring in the county. Arms of Macclesfield : Gules,
a cross engrailed Ermine.

96 THE ANTIQUITIES
liam, now owner of the greater part of Maere and
Aston. This Meare takes its name of a great mear, lake, or
standing pool, which is the head of Tern, which passeth
westward thence into Shropshire, and so into Severn.
There is in Meare an indifferent large steep hill, which
hath been fortified with a large double trench, and a
very thick wall, whereof some ruins yet remain, in which
also there is a spring of water. This hill is, to this day,
called the Borough ; which also argueth that some an
cient town hath been there builded ; it is twelve miles
north-west from Penkridge, and fifteen plain west from
Utcester, and about as rauch north-east from Wroxeter,
and from Congleton about twelve miles plain south'.
Tern taketh its course from the Mear westward, wash
ing the south banks thereof, and leaving upon the south
Ashley, a divided manor ; whereof Thomas Aston, of
Aston in Cheshire, hath two parts, and sir Thomas Ger
rard, knight marshal, son of sir Gilbert, late master of
the rolls, a third part.
Ashley was soraetime the land of Warrinus de Bur-
wardesley, of Shropshire, who had issue Philip his son,
and three daughters. Philip died without issue. The
eldest daughter was married to sir Walter Bromley, knt.
who had issue Geffry, who had issue sir Robert Bromley,
knt. The second daughter was married to Besigne, or
Bewshine (for he bare three crescents), who had issue
Warine Besyne, who had issue sir Walter Besyne", The
third daughter was married to Eyton, who had issue
John del Eyton ; being a town that standeth near the
' To prove it has been an antient burrough, he thus gives
the distance of other Roman stations from it, T. B.
^ Arms of Besyne : Azure, three rests Or, Arms of HecstaU :
Quarterly, Gules and Sable, a bend between three fleurs de
lis Argent, in the ?nd and 3d quarters.

ot? STAFEORDSHIBE. ^7
river Penk, and, as one raight say, a town standing in an
isle, or in the raeadows : for I have seen a meadow very
anciently written by the name of Eye ; and indeed this
Eyton is commonly called Water-Eyton. John del
Eyton had issue Thomas, who passed this part of Ash
ley to sir Thomas Besyne, knt, son of the aforesaid sir
Walter Besyne, Sir Robert Bromley, before spoken of,
had issue John, who had issue John and Robert (as I
take it) ; John had issue Alice, married to sir John Frod-
shara ;'¦ Robert Broraley had issue Thoraas, who ,h^d
issue William, who had issue John, who died without
issue, and Margaret, married to William HecstaU, who
had issue Huraphry HecstaU, that died without issue,
and Joan his daughter, married to sir John Bromley,
knt. This sir John was the son of William, the son of
sir John, captain of Dampfort, and steward and great
constable of Bosvile le Ross, in the Marches, 5 Hen. V.

' Erdeswick has great and irreconcUeable confusion among
his Bromleys. In his account of Chettleton, this AUce, wife of
Frodsham, is made daughter to Walter Bromley, elder brother
of WiUiam ; and that WiUiam has by his wife AmabU de Chetle-
ton, not a son, Richard, as here, but a daughter and heir Ama
bU. S.P-W,
Ashley is now the property of Thomas Kinnersley, esq. The
very learned Dr, John Lightfoot was rector of this parish. The
church was re-built by David Kenric, a native of the place,
and a soldier under Edward the Black Prince. His statue to
the shoulders was fixed in the church ; and against the wall,
within a border, was inscribed, Manubias Deo David Ken-
ricus (pietas ejus memoriae) hoc virtutis praemiolum dicavit:
Mira cano, pietas seevis reperitur in armis,
iEdificat beUum sternere quod soleat.
Hanc sacram struxit miles memorabUis edem,
Principe sub nigro, quem meruisse ferunt,
David Kenricus Davide beatior illo,
Templum cui superis aedificare nefas.

98 THE ANTIQUITIES
This sir John was the son of Richard, the son of Wil
liam, and AraabUla the daughter and heir of Matthew
of Chettleton. This WiUiam was the son of John, who
was the son of Ranulfe, the son of Richard, the son of
the aforesaid Geffry, son of the said sir Walter Bromley,
and Waryne de Burwa:rdesley's daughter. Sir John
Bromley, knt. and Joan, the daughter of WUliam Hec-
stall> had issue Margery, married to sir WUliam Stanley,
of Hooton, knt. Margaret, married to sir John Harpur,
knt. and Elizabeth, married to William Needham, of
whom is descended Robert Needham, now of Shaven-
ton, alias Shenton, alias Shaddington, in Shropshire.
Sir William Stanley, and Margery his wife, had issue
Margaret, married to sir Thoraas Gerrard, knt; who had
issue sir Thomas, who had issue sir Thomas Gerard, knt.
who had issue sir Thomas Gerard, of Etwell, knt, now
living, wrho sold both his third part of Ashley, and all
Broraley, a hamlet of Eccleshall (being the ancient
lands of the Bromleys of these countries, whence they
took their surnames) to sir Gilbert Gerrard, knt, late
master of the rolls, father of sir Thomas Gerard, of
Bromley, knt. now knight marshal. Sir Gilbert, in his
old age, built a very fair new house of stone at Bromley,
and lieth buried in Ashley church yard, where sir Tho
mas, his son, hath built a chapel, and bestowed great
cost on a raonument for him. Sir Thoraas Besyne, be
fore spoken of, had issue another sir Walter Besyne,
knt. who had issue Joan Be-syne, raarried, as I take
it, to sir Robert Charlton, knt. who had issue a daughter
and heir, married to John Harewell, of Wooton, in War
wickshire, who had issue John Harewell, who had issue
Bridget, one of his daughters and heirs, married to sir
Thomas Aston, of Aston in Cheshire, knt. father of John
Aston, father of Thomas, now living, lord of two parts
of Ashley.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 99
A mile further westward stands Muckleston, sometime
the land of Morgan, of the west country, and lately sold
Xo sir Thomas Offley, knt, late mayor of London. 20
Conq. Leving, one of the Tayni, held Muckleston'.
But to return to the river Sow, which being past
Chariton, leaveth Standon on the same side. Of Stan
don was lord at the Conquest, one Briend^ ; and in Henry
the Third's tirae, one Vivianus de Standon. This Vivian
had issue Thomas and Vivian ; after whom sir Thomas
Dutton, knt. son of sir Robert Dutton, knt. (which sir
Robert was brother of sir Hugh Dutton, of Dutton in
Cheshire, knt.) married Philippa, daughter of the elder
Vivian, and sister to Thomas and Vivian, who, as I take
it, had issue sir Robert Dutton, knt. who bare Dutton's
coat', with a blue label, and, I think, had issue Thomas,
who had issue Vivianus, dominus de Standon, that lived
23 Edw. Ill, and bare quarterly. Ermine and Gules,
' Upon the lofty tower of this church, the spirited and un
fortunate Margaret of Anjou beheld the battle so fatal to the
Lancastrian cause.
Not far from hence is Oakley, the seat of sir John Chet-
wode, bart. Sir Simon Degge derives the name from Cith-
wood, meaning Springwood ; and supposes that, by corruption,
it was called Chitwood ; the Saxons leaving out, or putting in,
the letter h at pleasure. He takes his name from the vUlage of
Chetwood, co. Bucks, where they long resided.
The manor and castle of Tirley, on the borders of Shrop
shire, near Drayton, were the inheritance of Reginald Corbet,
one of the justices of the queen's bench ; and died 9 EUz. whose
son, Richard, succeeded to it. Sir WiUiam Gascoigne, of
Gawthorpe in Yorkshire, was lord of it ; and another sir Wil
liam died seized of it, 2 Hen. VII. who perhaps was his father.
Degge. ' Briend held it of Robert de Stafford. Domesday.
' Arms of Dutton : Ermine and Gules quarterly, with a blue
label.
H 2

100 TH^ ANTIQUITIES
frett6, as Dutton of Dutton, in Cheshire doth : since
then Standon came to Essex of Berkshire, of whom the
last sir Thomas sold it, in fee farm, to Vise, and others,
reserving the old rents, heriots, and services'.
Sow, being past Standon, leaveth on the north-east
Cotes, the ancient seat of Cotes, of Woodcote in Shrop
shire. In the time of Henry III. Robert de Cotes, or
Kothes (for both ways I have found it written in the
same time) was lord of Cotes, It would seem the
Cotes should derive themselves from the Knightleys, or

' Standon remained in the family of Vyse for several genera
tions ; and at length was sold by William Vyse, clerk, archdea
con of Salop and canon of Lichfield, Arms : a buck's head ca-
bossed in a chief Sable, John Vise.:^:
^' 
Rogerus,:^
WUliam de Stanour,^
.r  ¦"
William.:^
Jonn,=j=Margery, daughter of  Broughton.
Humphrey.=j=

John Vyse, bought WilUam=pCatfierine, daughter of Thos,
Standon, and died Vyse. ~ '

without issue.

r

Barker, of Coulhurst, co.
Salop.

Andrew Vyse, died 1634,^

Humphrey, died 1660 ; suffered for the king ; marr. Elizabeth,
daughter of Edward Ashton, of Charlton.=p
,  1
Andrew.^EUzabeth, daughter of Edward ViUiers, of Hanbury.
John.:=Jone, daughter of Thomas Wooton, of MUnmeese, Degge.
There is a deed, Johannis Vyse, de Stawne, alias Stawndon,

OF. STAFFORDSHIRE. 101
else they do the Knightleys wrong by usurping their
armory'. On the south-west side, Sow leaveth Mulnemeese, the
inheritance of the Harcourts of Ronton.
Charnes was the land of Roger de Charnes, 24 Edw. I.
who held it then of the prior of St. Thomas", by the
fourth part of a knight's fee ; and the prior, of Henry de
Charnes, who held it over of Nigellus de Longford, and
he of the bishop, who held it of the king by the same
service ; and now, John Young is owner thereof, where
is the seat of the Youngs of Staffordshire.
I read, that about king John's time, there was one sir
Robert Sugenhall, knt. who, I suppose, was lord of one or
both of the Sugenhalls ; but 24 Edw. I. Great Sugenhall
was a divided manor between Roger, the son of Stephen
de Offley, and John, son of the same Stephen, and John
Muriell', who held quartam partem thereof, by the fourth
part of a knight's fee, of the bishop. After, I read, that
there was one Henry de Sugenhall, who lived 33
Edw, IIP,
Little Suggenhall, and Dorslow', hard by, was holden.
by John de parva Sugenhall, of the bishop, per octavam
partem feodi, 24 Edw, I.
Slindon lies also very near on the same side Sow, 24
Edw. I, Robert de Slindon held the same of Robert Has
tings, per quartam partem feodi, and he the same over
of the bishop'-
' This manor is now the property of John Cotes, of Wood
cote, esq. John Cotes was sheriff of this county 5 Charles I.
" St. Thomas juxta Stafford. Bishop Lyttelton.
' Martele. Bishop Lyttelton.
4 23 Edw. III. Bishop Lyttelton.
s Horsley. Ibid.
« Ego Joh'es Hastang, miles, et Eva, uxor mea, dedimus
Joh'i Hastang fiUo n'ro, jus quod habuimus in M. de Slindon.
Dat. anno 5 Edw. fil. Edw.

102 THE ANTIQUITIES
Sow,, being past Miln-ineese', entereth into Norton,
Shawford, and Halfhide, aU in Chebsey parish.
Norton takes its name, as lying north of Chebsey, as
if a man might say, the north town of Chebsey. It was
soraetime Delves his lands. I think Richard Delves was
lord thereof in JEdward the Third's time, who had issue
Henry, who had issue John, who had issue Richard,
who had issue sir John Delves, knt. who had issue ano
ther sir John Delves, knt. who had issue Helen, a
daughter, married to sir Robert Sheffield, of Butterwick,
in which line of Sheffield it continued, until this present
lord Sheffield sold the same to sir Stepheii Slaney, knt.
late lord mayor of Lorldon".
Halfhide was, in the time of Edward the First, the in
heritance of Robert Coynie, of Weston-Coynie, and
31 Edw. in. John, his pronepos, gave it to John his
younger son.
Sow being past -Halfhide, receiveth, in Chebsey pa
rish, Eccleshall water. Chebsey', as it appears in Domes-

-' Mulnmeese belonged to William de Noel temp. Hen, I,
who had issue Robert, whose grandson Thomas left two daugh
ters, Alice and Joan, This manor came to Alice ; who, by
marriage with sir William Harcourt, kt. carried it into his
family, in which it continued for many generations,
* He was taken prisoner by the Turks, and Norton was sold
to ransom him, Degge,
' In Domesday, Chebsey is among the lands of Henry de
Ferrers : Cebesis et Humfridus de eo ; hoc manerium pertinet
ad terram de Stadford in qua rex p'cipit fieri castellum, q' est
destructum. In the church yard is a lofty stone of pyramidal
shape, resembling those at Leek and Draycot ; supposed to
have been of Danish construction. The manor is now the pro
perty of viscount Anson, Sir Humphrey Stanley, 19 Hen.VlI.
died seized of a moiety of this manor ; whose son and heir,
John, died seized of it 7 Hen. VIII. and it descended to his
daughters and heirs, Elizabeth and Isabel ; and tlren to sir

OF STAFfpRDSHIRE, 10^
day book, was t}ie land of one Humfridus, who held the
same of Henry de Ferrers ; and not long after, about
Henry the Second's time, Eutropius de Hastang was lord
pf Chebsey (as heir to his mother Maud), Halfhide,
Shawford, Norton, and Walton juxta EUenhall, from
whom it descended.to Robert de Hastang, who had issue
Robert, who had issue Robert, William, and Richard,
all knights ; Robert had issue John, which John had
issue Catherine', one of his daughters and heirs, mar
ried to Raufe, first earl of Stafford, but had no issue by
him, and Maud, his other daughter and heir, married to
Raufe Stafi'ord, of Grafton, second son of sir John Staf
ford, a second brother of sir James Stafford, of Sandon,
knt, Raufe Stafford, of Grafton, had issue sir Humphry
Stafford, who had issue sir Humphry Stafford, lieute
nant of Calais, who had issue Humphry, who had issue sir
Humphry, who had issue sir William Stafford, late bus-
Walter Heveningham, kt. and was sold by him to Woolaston,
or Harcourt, who sold all to Woolaston, Henry Woolaston
died, seized of the whole, 14 James I. which descended in 1660
to WiUiam, his son and heir ; who, dying in 1666, it descended
to William, his second son and heir, the eldest having died
without issue. Near Chebsey is Oncote Grange, which once
belonged to Ronton abbey. Henry de Woolaston died seized
of Chebsey and Shawford, the manor of Sirescoate, and five
messuages, four cottages, and ninety-five acres there, the pre
bend of Sirescoate and Oncote Grange. Degge,
Ego Rad's comes de Stafford concessi Joh'i de Hastang
totum jus meum in manerio de Chebbesey, &c, Dat, anno
39 Edw, III.
' This Katharine Hastang, daughter and coheir of sir John,
is not found in Dugdale's and other accounts ; and it seems
probable that the Katharine, wife to the earl, might be daugh
ter to sir Humphrey de Hastang, as the said earl gave lands
for the soul of his wife Katharine (as weU as that of Margaret
his better known one) and the soul of sir Humphrey Hastang.
Dugdale's Baron. 1. 161 . S, P-W.

104 THE ANTIQUITIES
band to the lady Dorothy Stafford, of the Court, sister
of Edward lord Stafford, and mother of sir Edward Staf
ford, knt. both now living, who sold the same to sir Ro
bert Harcourt, uncle to sir Walter Harcourt, knt, now
also living.
Walton, in king Henry the Second's time, was the in
heritance of one Avicia de Walton, who was married
t;o Peter Gifford, from whom it descended to Peter,
their son, who had issue sir John Gifford', of whose de
scent see where I speak of Chillington.
Eccleshall-water taketh its beginning westwardiy, but
not far from Adbaston. 20 Conq, the bishop held El-
baldestori, now Adbaston*, of the king, being now the
seat of the Bradokes, which I take to be, ab origine,
Cheshire men, and descended from the Lostocks ; for so
I have seen a piece of evidence importing ; for Ricardus,
filius Ricardi Lostock, dedit Ricardo filio Letitia de
Tablegh totam terram suam apud Bradock ; of which
lands, no doubt, the Bradokes took their surname :
moreover, it would also seem, by Bradoke's armory
being Argent, a greyhound in a bordure engrailed Sable,
and Lostock's is. Argent, une lourier Sable, without the
bordure ; and, about Edward the Fourth's time, one of
his ancestors married the only daughter and heir of sir
John Griffin, of Cheshire, knight, another argument of
their being of Cheshire,
Eccleshall-water also leaveth Alkmonton, commonly
called Amington, being the lands of WiUiara Butler,

' Who had issue another sir John Gifford. T. B.
» Adbaston is near High Offley, It was for many years in the
family of Whitworth ; of which family is the present earl
Whitworth, who was created, in 1812, viscount Whitworth of
Adbaston, Arms : Argent, a bend Sable, in the sinister chief
point a garb Gules.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 105
9 Edw. II. and sometime the lands of Raufe Premonitor,
or Warnour.
And so doth it Flotesbrook, vulg. Flashbrook, west
wardiy from it. 20 Conq. Flotesbroc was in the king's
hands, and 24 Edw. I. was the seat of Ricardus de Pu-
, lesdone, who had issue Jordanus de Puleston, who had
issue Thoraas Jordane, in whose race, by the surname of
Jordane", it continued till about Henry the Sixth or
Edward the Fourth's tirae, when one Brown, who was
barber to Henry duke of Buckingham, and thereof took
the surname of Barber^ married, as I take it, to Jor-
dane's daughter and heir.
' This seems strange, as Puleston was a? ancient family, and
is still at Emral, in Flintshire. Smyth.
" John Barbour had issue John, of Flashenbrook, who had
issue Edward and John ; Edward had issue Thomas, 12 Hen.
VI. who married Dorothy, daughter of Gerard Whorwood, de
Stourton-Castle. John had issue John, by Ann, daughter of
John Ethell, who had issue by Dorothy, daughter of William
Scott, Edward, aged nine in 1664. Arms: Sable, three mul
lets pierced and bordure engraUed Argent.
There is a grange, called in the Lichfield Tax Book, Athe-
laston, now EUeston, between Flashbrook and Knighton. It
lies on the confines of, or within the county of Salop. The lat
ter place, in the Lichfield Tax Book is Knicton. Gatingacre
is there Badmake ; at the dissolution it was Beacher, and since
Batchacre. Near Batchacre-Park, now belonging to earl
Whitworth, have been found several Roman spears of brass, and
Roman swords, made of a mixture of copper and brass. Sir
Simon Degge says, Captain Fowler bought it, and enjoyed it
many years ; but at length, in extreme poverty, was forced to
sell it to John Allen, of Gray's Inn, one of the greatest lawyers
of that time. i
Aqualate-Hall was erected by sir Thomas SkrjTnsher,
knight, who died in 1633. It was afterwards possessed by the
family of Baldvryn ; and is now the seat of sir John Fenton
Boughey, bart, who has re-built here a splendid mansion. John
Skrym^ire, 7 Eliz, James Skrymsher, 6 James I, Thomas

106 THE ANTIQUITIES
EccleshalUwater having gathered itself into a pretty
brook, runneth by Bishop's Offley, Levenot held Offelia
of the bishop, 20 Conq. and after it was, about the time
of Edward the First, the inheritance of Thomas de Ca-
verswaU, who had it in frank marriage, given him by
William de Chetilton, with Joan his daughter, which
Thomas Caverswall had issue by the said Joan, John
Caverswall, who inherited the same lands, as heir to his
mother, who had issue three daughters, as I talie it,
Agnes married to Adam Peshall, Emma', to WiUiam
Trumwine', and a third to one Knighton.
T think, in the division of John CaverswaU's lands,
Bishop's Offley was allotted to Adam Peshall, and his
wife ; but it would seem that Caverswall had not the
seigniory of Bishop's Offley. For that, I find that sir
John Leybourne, knt. gave all his lands, tenements,
rents, and services in Bishop's Offley to the said Adam
Peshall, 19 Edw. III. whereby it is apparent, that the
said sir John was, till then, chief lord thereof'.
Eccleshall-water being past Bishop's Offley, entereth
Peshall, leaving Horsley, like a mile southward, being
now the chief seat of the Peshalls, whom I take to
i derive theraselves, ab origine, paternally, from the Swin
nertons : for they bare their armory, as moving from
them ; Swinnerton bearing Argent, a cross forme, floury
Sable ; and now Peshall beareth the sarae, with a can-
Skrymshire, 16 James I. sir John Skrymshire, knight, 14 Ch.
I. Edwin Skrimshire, 21 Ch, II. Charles Skrimshire, 34 Ch. II.
were sheriffs. Arms : Gules, a lion rampant Or, within a bor
dure perflew vairy Or and Azure, a cross Argent.
' Wyrley.
' Of Cannock. Smyth.
' High-Offley belonged temp. Hen. Ill, to Robert Hallough
ton, whose son Thomas succeeded to it. It afterwards passed
to the Bourchiers. Ralph lord Bourchier left it to sir Ralph
Bourchier, his natural son, who sold it to Ralph Sneyd.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 107
ton Gules, charged with Richard, earl of Chester's,
Wolfs head. But the first sir Richard that I read
of (whom I take to be the son of sir John Swin-
tierton), and his heirs, bare it without the canton,
arid only charged Swinnerton's Coat with an escutcheon
of Ranulph, second earl of Chester, viz. Giiles, a lion
saliant Argents To fortify which opinion, I have seen
a deed, made (as I take it) in the time of Hen. III.
whereby Robertus, filius Stephani de Peshall, dedit d'no
Johanni de Swinnerton totam terram suam in Peshall,
cum domibus, et redditibus, servitiis, homagiis, wardis,
releviis et escheatis, ac totam terram quam emit de
ThomS, filio Thoma de Peshall ; and there be testes to
the deed, sir Robert de Knightley, sir Robert de Brora
ley, sir Philip de Mutton, Roger de Charnes, Thoraas
de Tittensour, Ivo de eadem, Robert de Joneston'. The
same sir Richard dwelt, as I take it, at PeshaU, and
had issue a younger son called Adam, which was the
man that took the canton and wolf's head for his dif
ference ; for I have seen a seal of his son, sir Richard
Peshall, with the same cross, canton, and wolf's head,
for his armory. This Adam married one of the daugh
ters and heirs of the aforenamed John CaverswaU, and
had Bishop's Offley by reason thereof ; for whose better
advancement, his father (as I take it) gave him Horseley,
to make him a fit marriage for an heiress", who by her
had issue sir Richard Peshall, knt, who married Joan,
daughter and heir of Reginald, son and heir of sir John
Chetwind, of Chetwind, knt. who had issue sir Tho-
' This deed must be wrong in the names. Sir John Swin
nerton gave the manor of PeshaU to sir Richard his son (a
younger son, no doubt), who thence took the name of PeshaU,
about 55 Hen, III. It should therefore be, dedit Ricardo fil,
Joh. de Swynerton et Rob. fil. Steph. de PeshaU, &c. Smyth.
' A match fit for an heir, who had, &c, Huntbach.

108 THE ANTIQUITIES
mas Peshall, knt, who had issue Richard, Nicholas, and
Humphry : Richard had issue Joyce, married to Pigott;
and Isabel, married to Grosvenor : Nicholas had issue
' Hugh, who had issue Humphry, who had issue John,
who had issue Richard, who had issue Thomas Peshall,
now of Horseley ; which Thoraas Peshall hath issue
John, and they are both living : Humphry PeshaU ',
the third brother, had issue Richard Peshall, who had
issue Humphry, who had issue sir Hugh Peshall, knt.
who had issue Katherine, his only daughter and heir,
married to sir John Blount, knt, father of sir George
Blount, knt. and of Agnes, the wife of Richard Lacon,
mother of Rowland Lacon, to whom sir George Blount
left all his lands'.

' Humphrey was son by his second wife Alice, daughter ahd
heir to Roger of Gnosall, or rather Knightley-Park.
^ Peshall was the ancient seat of Robert, son of Gilbert,
younger son of R. de Corbeuil, a Norman, who followed the
fortunes of William the Conqueror, and held it of Robert de
Stafford, by the service of a knight's fee. His descendants as
sumed the name of de Peshall, One of them, John Peshall, of
Horsley, was created, a baronet by James I, In the last cen
tury, the manor passed to the earl of Breadalbane, by the mar
riage of that nobleman with the grand-daughter and heiress of
sir Thomas Peshall, Richard Peshall, 7 and 8 Edw, III. Rich
ard de PeshaU, 11, 12, 13, 14 Edw. III. Adam de Peshall, 15
Edw, III, Nicholas PeshaU, 14 Hen. VI, Humphrey PeshaU,
4 Edw, IV. Hugh PeshaU, 4LHen. VII, and sir John Peshall,
bart, 13 James I, were sheriffs. Arms : Argent, a cross formy
fleury Sable, in a canton Gules, a wolf's head erased Argent.
Sir Edward Bysh, king at arms, 1654, says, " FamiUa Pes-
halorum Staffordiensis, vulgo Pershall, &c. dictae sedis, quam
elegerunt, assumpto nomine, Peshall se dixere." Bodl. Lib.
MSS, p, 90. In Womborne church yard isinscribed, " De-
positum EUz. nuper ux. Edward Cartwright, hujus Par, (vi-
duae T. Peshall, de Halne, Salop, bar'ti)" &c. This Thomas
was heir to the title, but did not assume it.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 109
EccleshaU Water, being past PeshaU, approachetfa
Eccleshall, where is an ancient and fair castie of the
bishops, and a pretty market-town. EccleshaU is a
great manor or lordship, containing a great number of
villages and hamlets; as Flashbrook, Charnes, Chatkill,
Darslow, Chaveldon, Charleton, Cotes, Meese, Ba-
denhall, Slindon, Brocton, Seighford, Aston, Docke-
sey, Bridgeford, Haspeley, Crocheston, Offley' and it
seems now that Sugenhall, with the appurtenances
thereof, is reputed as a member of EccleshaU. But in
Domesday Book it appears, that the bishop held it as a
distinct raanor, having also divers members, as belong
ing thereto ; to wit*, Bromley and Podmore, Tunstall,
Swineshead, EUenhaU, Walton, Adbastone, Woodtone,
Chintestone, Nas or Mas.
In Eccleshall is the seat of the Swinnertons, of the
one house of which hath been a very good living ; but
Edmund Swinnerton, lately deceased (a man well known
by the name of wild Swinnerton), hath almost sold all.

' Two Charltons, Coldmeer, Hockley, Croxton, Bromley,
Tunstall, Shawford, Gratwood, Cold-Norton, Podmore, Per
shall, Swineshead, Walton, Adbaston, Weltwood, Coton, Clau-
ford. Bishop Lyttleton.
" Here is one demonstration, that Erdeswick, or some pre
ceding inquirer, whose copy he used, read Domesday more ac
curately and happily in this instance than the editors of the Go
vernment printed copy have done. For these latter make the
bishop hold " Sotehelle," and immediately subjoin the identic
eight members (and precisely in the same order) which Erdes
wick gives to " Sugenhall," only with the further mis-reading
of " Linehalle" for " EUenhaU." The Domesday characters,
I have no doubt, will be found something like the following,
viz. " soGEHELLE," i. 6. Sogcnhelle. S. P-W.
Nas or Mas, is merely the mis-reading of the word with which
Domesday goes on — Has viij'to, &c. Meese, or Mess, is enu
merated before among the members of Ecleshelle, S. P-W.

110 THP A,NTIQUITIES
and reserved little more than Isewall, bis house in Ec
cleshall, and some few tenements in the said town'.
The first of these Swinnertons of EccleshaU was
Humphry Swinnerton, and had his advancement from
his brother, sir Robert Swinnerton, of Swinnerton, knt. ;
for I have seen a deed iraporting as much, the copy
whereof I have here presented to your view : — Robertus,
d'nus de Swinnerton ; Umfrido de Swinnerton, fratri
meo, et heredibus de corpore suo, maneria mea de De-
sere et Badenhall, in Eccleshall et Hulcote, do, et per
defect, heredem, mihi et heredibus meis, revert. Test.
Thomas de Halghton, Jac. de Pype, Jo. de Hasting,
milit. ; Joh'e de Wittmore, Rob. de Dutton, Rich, de
Broraley, WiU. de Offley, 23 Edw. III. This Humphry,
I take it, had issue Robert, who had issue Thomas, who

' The market was estabUshed by bishop Durdent, about
1161. The manor was annexed at the Conquest tb the see of
Lichfield, then called also the see of Chester, It is of great ex
tent, and yet belongs to the bishop. Its castle was founded at
a very early period. About 1200, bishop Muschamp was , U-
censed by king John to make a park here, and embattle the
castle. In 1310 it was rebuilt by bishop Langton, and from
his time has been the residence of the bishops. In 1695, the
south front was renewed by bishop Lloyd. During the civil
war it was garrisoned for the king. When queen Margaret
fled hither from Muccleston, after the fatal battle of Blore-
Heath, bishop Halse secreted her in the church. Bishop Ben-
tham was buried in the church in 1578, North-east from the
castle is Byana, an ancient building, once the residence pf the
family of Bosvile. Charles Bosvile was sheriff 1 9 Geo. H, Two
miles westward are the Bishop's woods, said to contain thirteen '
hundred acres. North of this wood is Broughton Hall, an
ancient piansion of the Broughton family, Thomas Broughton
7 Ch, I, sir Brian Broughton, bart, 13 Ch. II. ^nd sir Thomas
Broughton, bart. 13 Geo. III. were sheriffs. At Woodton is a
high paved way, which Plot supposed to be a Roman via viei-,
nalis, or by-way from one town to another.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. Ill
had issue Humphry, who had issue John, who lived in
king Henry the Seventh's time, Johnhad issue Hum
phry, that died without issue, and Robert, who had
issue Edward, who had issue Hugh, father of John, now
both living, A. D. 16OO.
Rob'tus de Bromeley, cl'icus, Joh'i de Swinnerton,
messuag. et camp, vocat. ChurchfeUd, in Eccleshall.
Test, d'nus Rob. de Stanton, WiU. de Mere, Rob. de
Bromley, Rob, de Dutton, miHt, ; Rob, de Horsley,
Reginald de Charnes, Rog. de Broughton.
D'nus Rob'tus de Hastang, d'nus de la Desere, Joh'i
fil. Willi' qu'dam d'ni de Bagenhall, messuag, in Ba
genhall, q'd Felicia de Bagenhall quondam tenuit, h'end'
de me et Emm^, ux. mea, &c. Test. Rob. de Cotes,
Roger, de Child, d'no de Emkerton ; Joh. d'no de parva
SugenhaU; Ric. le Barker, de EcclpshaU; Rog. le Mar-
shaU, de ead. Hum. Swinnerton, 17 Edw. II.
2 Rich. II. John Swinnerton covenants, that he will
take to wife Frances, daughter and heir of Phil. Pres
ton, gent, and for default of heirs of Frances to John
Preston, brother of Frances, and for default of heirs to
 , late wife of Raufe Thickness, sister to Philip ;
and for default, to Agnes, late wife of Thomas Derby,
sister of Philip ; and for default, to the heirs of WiUiam
Preston, father of Philip.
Ricardus Sugenhall et Jo. Hurne, capell. ; Joan.
quondam ux, Rob. de Swinnerton, de Usewale, terr.
que ha'mus ex dono Thoma Wotton, in EccleshaU,
Hakedon, pro vita Joanna, filia d'ni Rob'ti ; et, per
defectum. Hen. fil. Rob'ti ; et, per defectum, Thoma,
fil. Rob'ti ; et, per defectum. Hen. fil. Rob'ti ; et, per
defectum, rectis heredibus Rob. 3 Hen. V.
Philippus Noel, d'nus de Cesteford, Rob'to Has
tang, et IsabeUa, ux. ejus, 45 acr' in Newbold. Test,
d'no Johanne Giffarde, de Walton ; Rob. de Bromeley,
mil.; Rog. d'no de Swinnerton; Rob. de Cotes, Hen.

112 THE ANTIQUITIES
de Emkerdon, Will'o de Badenhall, Hugo' de Wi-
verstone. This EccleshaU water passeth by Hilcote, the seat of
the NoeUs, who descend from Noel of EUenhaU', who,
by common report, is reputed to have been a baron ; So
that the Harcourts of this age are of many caUed barons
of EUenhaU. Whereupon such a report should grow, I
cannot conjecture ; neither can I yet think that EUen
haU was a barony, nor any of Noel's lands : for all that
I know to have been his, and the most part and chiefest
of them, are at this day (and it appears by the book of
Doraesday were at the Conquest) holden of the bishop
of Coventry and Lichfield, as members or parcels of his
manor ; or, as I rather take it, of his honour of Eccles
hall : and that Noel, now of Hilcote, is descended
of Noel of EUenhaU, is both true and apparent; for
PhUip, now living, was the son of Robert, who was
the son of James, the son of Robert, the son of Ri
chard, the son of William, the son of Thomas, the
son of Philip, the son of Robert, the son of PhUip,
younger brother of Thoraas, and son of Robert; the
son of WiUiam, who lived, as I take it, about Henry
_ the First's or king Stephen's tirae, and was then lord of
EUenhaU and Rontons, both of thera, (for, I take it,
' From the Noels of EUenhaU descended' the Noels of Hil
cote, as also those of Leicestershire and RuUandshire. Edward,
one of the descendants of this family, was raised to the peerage
by king James I. by the title of lord Noel, of RidUngton ; he
was created viscount Campden, by king Charles I. in conse
quence of. the faUure of male issue, in the person of Baptist
Hicks, lord Hicks and Campden, whose eldest daughter and
co-heir, Julian, he had married. The grandson of this noble
man was created eari of Gainsborough, by Charies II. and this
title became extinct in the last earl. EUenhaU is now part of
the extensive possessions of viscount Anson. Arn^s of Noel :
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OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 113
that either he or his son Robert founded the abbey of
Ronton,) Seighford, Cookeslane, Bridgeford, Wiver-
stone {vulg. Wartstone), Podmore, Milnmeese, and the
half of Chatculme. EUenhall, the ancient seat of the
Noels (and since of the Harcourts in Staffordshire),
standeth somewhat lower than Chebsey, and removed,
like a mile or more from Sow, westward.
Of EUenhall was lord, as I have said before, about
Henry the First's time, William de Noel, and he had
issue Robert, who had issue Thomas and Philip. To
Philip he gaveHUcote, and certain lands lying in Seigh
ford, of whose descent I have spoken before. Thomas
Noel had issue Alicia, married to sir WiUiam Har
court', knt.; and Joan, married to William Dunston.
Sir WiUiam Harcourt, and Alicia his wife, had for their
part of Noel's lands, EUenhaU, Podraore, Seighford,
Milnmeese, and a moiety of Chatculme ; and WiUiam
Dunston, and Joan his wife, had Ronton (which God-
ric, 20 Conq. held of Robert de Stafford), Bridgeford
and Wiverstone, Sir William Harcourt, and Alicia his
wife, had issue sir Richard, who had issue sir William,
who had issue sir Richard Harcourt, all knights : sir
' Of Stanton-Harcourt, co, Oxford. After the Harcourts,
it became the property of Jonathan Cope, esq. a younger son
of sir William Cope, of Oxfordshire, who purchased the same,
and gave it to his younger son. Sir Anthony Cope, of Han-
well, had issue sir WUliam Cope, who had issue Jonathan
Cope, who married Ann, daughter of sir Hatton Fermor, and
had issue Hatton, aged 8, in 1663. Arms: Argent, on a che
vron Azure, between three roses slipt proper, three fleur de
lis Or, Feb, 9, 20 Eliz, Francis Rouse died seized of these
granges ; ¦ he left the same, and other lands jn Weston and
Charlton, and a moiety of the manor of Mear, Swineshead
Farm, and the manor of Loxton, and other lands in Notting
hamshire, to descend to Peter, his son and heir, of the age
of 40. Degge.

114 THE ANTIQUITIES
Richard had issue John, who had issue sir WiUiam,
who had issue sir Thoraas, who had issue sir Tho
mas, who had issue sir Robert, knight of the gar
ter; sir William, and sir Richard Harcourt, both
knights; and John, his fourth son. Sir Robert Har
court, knight of the garter, had issue John, Thomas,
and George ; John had issue sir Robert, Richard, and
WiUiam, who died all without issue male; and so did
Thoraas and George, their uncles, and sir William,
their great uncle : so that all their lands descended to
sir Siraon Harcourt, knt. their cousin ; which sir Simon
Harcourt was the son of Christopher, the son of the last-
recited sir Richard Harcourt. Sir Simon had issue
John, who had issue Simon, who had issue sir Walter '
Harcourt, now living, and is father of Robert arid Mi
chael Harcourt. These Harcourts, as it appears by
two seals of ancient pieces of evidence, which I have
seen, presently after their marriage with the Noels' heir,
intruded themselves into Noel's' armory. William
Dunston had issue by Joan Noel, his wife, William
Dunston, who had issue one daughter and heir, Roisia,
married to sir John D'Oyley, who had issue by her
John D'Oyley, who had issue Joan, his daughter
and heir, married to sir Thoraas Lewknor, knt. who
had issue by her Roger Lewknor, who had issue sir
Thomas Lewknor, who had issue sir Roger Lewknor,
both knights ; who had issue Eleanor, married to sir
Thoraas Harcourt, as his second or last wife ; who had
issue by her his fourth son, John Harcourt; who, as
heir to his mother, inherited Ronton^, Bridgford, and
Wiverston, and had Milnmeese and other lands given
him, which his father belike covenanted to give, at his
marriage, to the heirs of him and his wife, in conside-
' By the arma nobilium, Staff. Noel bears. Gules, a fret
Or, a canton sinister. Argent, T. B.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 115
ration of the preferments they were to have by their
mother, his wife. This John Harcourt had issue Tho
mas, who had issue John, who had issue Robert, who
had John', a bastard, to whom his father gave aU his
lands, whereby he is now lord of Ronton, Milnmeese,
and some other of his father's lands, and hath issue
Huraphry Harcourt*.
Sow, being past Chebsey, and having received Ec
cleshall-water, and leaving EUenhaU a raUe westward,
and Ronton" (the abbey), almost two miles the same
' Robert, T.B.
^ In the visitation of Staffordshire, in 1583, there is Wal
terus Harcourt de EUenhaU, arm. T. B.
' Ronton, alias de Sards, or Essars Abbey, was founded by
Robert Fitz-Noel, temp. Hen. I. Noel, and Celestria his wife,
came in with the Conqueror. Robert, their descendant, founded
this priory during the life of Celestria, Alice, the daughter of
Thomas Noel, and grand-daughter of the founder, was mar
ried to sir William Harcourt, in the beginning of king John,
The episcopal confirmation of the endowment was made by
Hugh de Nonant, between 1188 and 1199: it was for canons
of St. Augustine, Soon after its establishment, it was made,
by the founder himself, subordinate to the abbey of Hagh-
mon, in Shropshire, At the dissolution, it was granted to
John Wiseman. Wiseman transferred the property to sir John
Harcourt. Sir Walter Harcourt died in 1608, who was grand
son of sir John ; and his son, sir Robert, engaged his person
and five thousand pounds in the unfortunate voyage to Guyana,
in which he lost his life, and the EUenhaU estate, after it had
continued in the famUy eighteen or nineteen generations. His
son, sir Simon, also lost his life before Carryck-Mayn, in Ire
land, Some remains of this priory are yet standing, consisting
chiefly of a lofty tower, the outer waUs of the church, and part
of the cloisters. The south front of the house is very ancient.
It is now the property of viscount Anson, John Harcourt, 2,
3, 7, Edw. IV. ; sir Richard Harcourt, knt. 10 Hen. VII. ;
sir John Harcourt, knt. 37 Hen. VIII. and 5 Mary; and
Simon Harcourt, 8 EUz.; were sheriffs. Arms: Gules, two
bars Or, a bendlet sinister Azure. i2

IJG THE ANTIQUITIES
way, passeth under the bridge of Bridgeford', and so
leaveth Seighford on the south-west bank.
In Seighford'' is a haralet called HeckstaU; whereof
was lord, about Richard the First's time, one WiUiam
de Heckstall, who had issue Jordanus, who had issue
Henry, who lived 52 Edw. III. and had issue Henry;
and, about Henry the Sixth's tirae, Hugh HeckstaU was
owner thereof, who had issue WiUiam, who had issue
Margaret, manied to Richard Fetit.
Sow, being past Bridgeford and Seighford, passeth
by CresswaU. 20 Conq. WiUiam Pantul held CreswaU
' Robert Whitgrave, esq. 3 Dec, 5 Edw.'VI. died, and his
son Humphry, then 24 years of age, was seized of the manor
of Great Bridgeford, and other estates in Bradley, Ronton, and
Gnosall ; which family, in the seventeenth century, sold them,
and now reside at Moseley Hall. Arms : Azure, four points
Or, each charged with a chevron Gules, a cresset Argent.
Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Herveius Bagot, et Mil-
lisent uxor mea, concessimus Willielmo de Dustori unam hidam
terrae in Ronton cum vivario de Solford, et cum molendino
ventritico et praeterea solidatos redditus in Billington, &c. ;
sicuti charta Thomae Noel, quam de nobis testatur ; quae om
nia p'dictus Will'us habet de dono Thomae Noel, sicut charta
ejusdem Thomae testatur; quare volumus, &c, Testibus, Thoma
Noel, Will'mo Bagot, Endone de Mere, Thoma de Leasemall,
et aliis,
* The seat of the family of Eld. Francis Eld, esq. owned it
in sir Simon Degge's time, together with Heckstall, and other
good estates in the neighbourhood, which were purchased by
Richard Eld, his grandfather, who died seized of them 22 Feb.
18 James I. by which they descended to Richard, by Mar
garet, daughter of .... Wrottesley, of Wrottesley ; Richard,
married Margaret, daughter of sir John Crompton, knt. and
had issue Francis, who married Margaret,' daughter of colonel
Thomas Crompton, of Stone, and by her had Francis, who
was aged twelve years, 7 April, 1663. Francis Eld, 9 Geo. III.
was sheriff. Arms : Argent, a chevron between three partridges
Gules. Crest, a reclaimed hawke betant Or.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 117
of earl Roger de Montgomery. There dwelled some
time at Creswell a race of gentlemen of the same name,
whereof the last sir Henry was a knight. From the
Creswells it came to sir John de Withers, who called
himself Ipstones, and (I think) by descent. From Ip
stones it came to Ranulph Brereton (I am sure) by
descent ; for John de Withers, aUas Ipstones, had issue
William Ipstones, who had issue Alic'e, wife of sir
Ranulfe, a second son of sir William Brereton, knt.
Sir Ranulfe and Alice had issue sir William Brereton,
knt. who had issue Ranulphe, who had issue sir Ra
nulphe, chamberlain of Chester, who had issue sir
Ranulfe, who had issu« Ranulfe, who had issue sir
Ranulfe Brereton, knt. now living'.
From Creswell, Sow passeth to Tillington*' which, at
the Conquest, was the land of Robert de Stafford, and
whereof was owner one John de Pealton ', 1 Hen. Ill,; and
from Tillington, washing the walls and ruins of the walls
of Stafford, passeth between Stafford and Stafford castle.
Of Stafford town* I can say no more than in Domes-
' Crassa vallis ; so called from the luxuriance and fertility of
its pastures. From the Breretons it passed to the Cromptons,
who sold it to .... Perry. It is now the property of the
Whitbys, Thomas de CresweU, 2 Rich, I, ; Thomas WTiitby,
4 Geo. I.; and Thomas WTiitby, 14 Geo. II. were sheriffs.
Arms of Cresw>eU : Argent, three plates, each charged with a
squirrel. Gules, cracking a nut Or.
» Here is a fortification, within a circular area of several
acres. It may have been a British post, afterwards occupied
by the Saxons,
3 « Pulton" — " Peulton," in Shaw's App, to General Hist,
XV, XXV.
* The county town, originally called, according to Camden,
Betheney, the retreat of Berthelin, a hermit, the son of
a king of this country, and the disciple of St. Guthlac.
Merlin, the British prophet, who flourished about 480, writes,
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118 THE ANTIQUITIES
day book (where it is termed a city) is to be seen ; ex
cept that it now remains the shire town, and hath the
Leenam in vado baculi ; which has been interpreted at Staf
ford. The first notice of this town, worthy of observation, is
in 913, when the Saxon Chronicles say that Ethelfleda, countess
of Mercia, and the sister of Edward the Elder, bmlt a castle
here. Sax, Chron, 104. Of this castle no vestige remains to
mark the spot on which it stood. Plot conjectures that it was
on the north of the Sow, The castle, built upon a hill above
the town, at the distance of a mile, is supposed to have been
constructed long after by Ralph, the first earl of Stafford ;
though our author says he had a deed dated apud castrum juxta
Stafford long before the time of Ralph, The first -castle men
tioned in that deed, Plot thinks, might have stood within the
entrenchments at Tillington. Edward the Elder is said by
Camden (vol, II, p, 496, by Gough) to have built a tower
here on the north bank of the river, about a year -after the
building of that which his sister founded. This tower stood
perhaps on the mount called Castle-hill by Speed, but is now
known by the name of BuUy-hUl, A church near it is called
Castle church, built probably near the site of one more ancient,
and attached to the castle. Sir Simon Degge (in his notes on
Plot's History, in the Library of Trinity college, Cambridge,)
says, there was a castle within the town, near the Broad-Eye,
and, in his time, a bank called the castie bank. This, says
Gough, may be the same noticed in Speed's map (p. 410).
In Domesday book, the king held in this town " eighteen bur
gesses in demesne, and twenty mansions of the honour of the
earls. It paid for all customs 9 libras denariorum in money."
This must aUude to the earls of Mercia, as no earls of the Nor
man dynasty were created till the reign of Edw. Ill, From the
same authority, the king built a castle here, the custody of
which was given to Robert de Tonei, younger son of Roger,
standard-bearer of Normandy, one of the chiefs who foUowed
the fortunes of William, Robert de Tonei took the name of
Stafford, which continued through his descendants for many
centuries. The castie, built by the Conqueror, does not seem
to have been of long duration ;¦ and our author says it was
restored by Ralph first earl of Stafford. During the civU war, it
was garrisoned for the king, but was shortly taken by the forces

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 119
liberties belonging to ancient boroughs ; as having bai
liffs chosen yearly for government ; findeth two burgesses
of the pariiament in 1643, under sir William Brereton ; and soon
afterwards totally demolished. In Domesday, there were in this
town 179 dwelling houses, whereof 12S were waste. The first
charter was granted to the town by king John ; from which it
appears that it had been a corporate place long before that
period. It merely confirms privileges enjoyed from remote
antiquity. This charter was confirmed by Edw. VI, and many
additional privileges were granted. 1 EUz, the assizes and
sessions were held here by act of parliament. This town is now
governed by a mayor, recorder, ten aldermen, twenty four
common councilmen, and a town-clerk. It has sent two mem
bers to parliament from 23 Edw. I. andthe right of election is
in the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, resident within the
borough. In early times this town was defended, except on
the side towards the Sow, by a wall and ditch, and supplied
with water from that river. Sir WiUiam Brereton, in May
1643, took it by surprise, with the loss only of one man. The
waUs are now demolished and the ditch filled up, and no traces
of either are visible. It had formerly three. Pennant says four,
gates. That at the south entrance of the town was near the
bridge over the Sow, and caUed Green-gate, was taken down
in 1780. The arch of the East-gate has not long been removed,
and one side of a groove for a portcuUis may yet be traced.
The Gaol-gate, on the north side, was in ruins in Plot's time.
It was afterwards rebuilt, and used as a house of correction for
the borough. The county hall was built in 1794 ; the county
infirmary in 1777 ; the county gaol in 1793 ; the lunatic asylum
in I8I7. The school was founded by Edward VI. in 1550,
and is endowed with all the " tithes of the Foregate, and Fore-
gate fields, and Lammascotes, and of the High-street in Stafford,
part of the prebend of Marston, together' with the lands belong-
ing to the free chapels of St. John Baptist in Foregate, and St.
Leonard in Forebridge, with certain rents and obits in Stafford,"
Leland says, « ther is a fre-schol for grammar m Stafford,
made by Thomas Countre, parson of Ingestre by Heywodde,^
and syr Randol, a chauntre preste of Stafford," About U80
a priory of Black Canons was built to the honour of St, Thomas
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120 THE ANTIQUITIES
for the parliament ; and by the ancient custom thereof,
being Borough- EngUsh", The town hath been walled
the dissolution, was granted to Rowland Lee, bishop of Co
ventry and Litchfield. From the charter of Gerard Stafford,
fil, Brieni (Dugdale's Mon, II, 317) it is probable that he was
the founder of it ; and brought these canons hither from Darley,
and fixed them upon land which he held of the bishop of
Lichfield as chief lord, The Lichfield Annals only say (Dugd,
Mon. III. p, i. 208, Angl. Sacr, I, 435) that bishop Peche
founded this church de episcopio. When he resigned, his
bishopric he became a canon here, and died and was buried in
this monastery. It was close to the_Sow, at some distance
eastward of the town, and surrounded by a wall called St.
Thomas's park. From the Fowlers, who inherited this pro-
"perty from Rowland Lee, their share passed to the Spencers,
and from them, in 1765, to the ancestor of earl Talbot. 'The
other portion of it remains in the descendants of the Fitzge-
^raida. Its chief remains consist of a building with two circular
doorways, and oblong square-headed windows, a few pilasters
of half columns in the boundary wall, an arch-way and two
fossils in the garden, two foliated pendents which adorned the
roof, and a fragment of sculpture exhibiting four heads, three
of them looking up towardls the highest. The area of this
monastery extended over several acres, inclosed by a stone
wall of great strength. It is now the residence of a farmer.
A flower-garden occupies the site of the great hall. No trace
i^s to be found of the church or cloisters. At the south end of
the town was a religious foundation for Austin-friers, about
1344, on land given by Ralph lord Stafford, The tombs of
this noble family were removed at the dissolution from Stone
to this church, but soon went to decay. This house was
granted, 1 Mary, to Thomas Neve and Giles Isam. 24 May,
40 Eliz. Edward Stanford died seized of the site of the " Friers
Augustines" in Stafford, and left them to his son, WiUiam
Stanford, 29 years old. At the north end of the walls was a
house of Franciscans, or Grey-friers, which was founded by
sir James Stafford, of Sandon, -It was granted at the dissolu
tion to James Leveson. St. Mary's church is chiefly of the
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OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 121
about, whereof some part reraains ; and the rest sheweth,
by the ruins, where they have been : and there hath been

which is a fragment of the Saxon billet mouldings with fret
under it ; perhaps a part of the earliest building. Here are
some ancient monuments to the Astons of Tixall, and one tp_
lady Barbara Compton, This church was collegiate, and given
by king Stephen to the bishop and chapter of Lichfield pre
vious to 1136. In 1445 the patronage, having reverted to the
crown, was granted by Hen. VI, to Humphrey duke of Buck-"
ingham. It consisted of a dean and thirteen prebendaries.
4 PhU. and Mary, John Maynard, esq. died seized of the
deanery of Stafford, and left three daughters, Frances, Eliza
beth, and Susannah, to inherit it. Elizabeth married 
Sparry, and died, seized of all, 24 EUz. who had issue Wil
liam Sparry, aged 20, who sold it to William Crompton of
Stone, whose son, Thomas, sold part of it to George Cradock.
His son, Thomas Crompton, sold the hundred acres of Whit
grave, the last parcel of it, to Richard Wilrich of Whitgrave,
with the manor of Whitgrave. This John Maynard purchased
the deanery of lord Stafford, to whom Edw. VI. had just before
given it. The prebends were, Forbridge, Burton, Ricarscote,
Hopton, Whitgrave, Tillington, CresweU, Ingestre, Tixall,
(which were aU purchased by Thomas Crompton of Stone)
Worsen, Salt, Arberton and Coton, and Marson. They were
small prebends, and had only the tithes of these places. Mar-
son was a manor of the Giffards of ChUUngton ; where, in 1660,
was the seat of Thomas Palmer, who derived his descent from
the Palmers of Yorkshire, and was of the same family with sir
WilUam Palmer, of Clerkenwell, knt. and Archibald Palmer,
of WanUp in Leicestershire. It formerly belonged to the
priory of Sheene. St. Chad's church is a very ancient building,
in imitation of the most ancient Saxon, which assigned one
half of the buUding to the nave, one quarter to the tower, and
the remainder to the chancel. It is now cased with brick.
Castie church is ancient, and is formed of various kinds of
architecture. The tower is adorned with the arms of Stafford
and Nevil, the same as on the mantie of Anne countess of Staf
ford, formerly painted in Lichfield cathedral. The remains of
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122 THE ANTIQUITIES
also a castle within the town, but now it is quite de
cayed. The castle, which now standeth on the south
consisting of a keep, placed on an artificial mount of an oblong
form, measuring one hundred and five feet by fifty. The walls
are twelve feet high and eight in thickness. At the angles are
small octangular towers. Sir George Jerningham, bart, a
lineal descendant of this ancient family, has it in contemplation
to adorn the remains of this ancient edifice, and has already
completed one front, flanked by two round towers, in a castel
lated stile. The manor-house, the usual residence of the Staf
fords, stood on the south of the castle. It was fortified by
Ralph Stafford, temp, Edw, III, who had permission to make
castles of all his manor-houses, both here and at Madeley.
The moat which surrounded it is still open. William the Con
queror conferred the title of baron of Stafford on Robert de
Stafford, the founder of this powerful family, who had done
him much service, both in his progress to the throne, and after
he had obtained complete possession of the kingdom. His
original name was Robert de Toeni, and was son of Richard de
Toeni, standard-bearer of Normandy, who was descended from
Malahulcius, uncle to the famous RoUo duke of Normandy,
and progenitor of William the Conqueror, At the time of
Domesday he was possessed of one hundred and thirty lord
ships : 2 in Suffolk, 1 in Worcestershire, 1 in Northampton
shire, 20 in Lincolnshire, 26 in Warwickshire, and 81 in Staf
fordshire, His brother, named Nigel, possessed Drakelow, \
and eleven lordships in Derbyshire. Sir Roger Gresley, bart,
his' descendant, is in possession of Drakelow at this day,
Robert de Stafford, the Norman; came to England with Wil
liam the Conqueror.
Nicholas baron de Stafford.
Robert baron de Stafford, was sheriff of the county 12 Hen.
II. when the aid was levied for marrying the king's daughter
to Henry the Emperor. His knight's fees de veteri feoffamento
were sixty.
Robert, baron de Stafford, died without issue. His' sister
and heir, MiUisent, married Hervey Bagot, who, 5 Ric. I. had
livery of the barony of Stafford as his wife's inheritance, in
consideration of a fine of three hundred marks paid to the
king ; upon which he bore the title of baron de Stafford.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 123
side, and is half a nnle or more from the town, hath and
doth belong to the earis and barons of Stafford. The

Hervey, baron de Stafford, son of Hervey and MiUisent,
reUnquished his paternal name and assumed his mother's,
writing himself Hervey de Stafford. He was one of the barons
of the Marches of Wales, and supported Henry against Richard
Marshall earl of Pembroke, who had armed himself against the
government. He married PetronU, sister of William de Fer
rers earl of Derby.
Hervey, third baron de Stafford of that name, died with
out issue 25 Hen. III. and was succeeded by his brother
Robert, who married Alice, daughter of Thomas Corbet, of
Caus. Nicholas, baron de Stafford, was kiUed in the expedition
into Wales, 15 Edw. I. against Rhese ap Griffith, by the faU
of the walls of the castle of Droselan,
Edmund, baron de Stafford, attended king Edward the First
in the Scot's wars, and was summoned to parliament among
the barons of England in 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34, and 35 king
Edw. I, and in 1 Edw, II. He married Margaret, daughter of
Ralph lord Basset of Drayton, whose descendants became,
after her death, heirs to that estate. He died 2 Edw. I. and
was buried in the church of the Friers Minors at Stafford.
Ralph de Stafford, K. G. earl and baron de Stafford, was
summoned to parliament as baron de Stafford 1 and 10 Edw. II.
and in all the succeeding parliaments to the 24th of that reign.
He attended king Edward the Third in his wars against Scot
land and France, and was one of the founders of the Order of
the Garter, 23 Edw. III. He was created in parliament earl
of the town and county of Stafford, by patent to him and his
heirs, 25 Edw. III. He married Margaret, daughter of Hugh
de Audeley earl of Gloucester, and paid fifty marks for the third
part of that earldom. (Paschae fines, 24 Edw. III.) He gave
a piece of land, near the bridge at Stafford, to found a church
and convent of Austin Friers, which continued tiU the dissolu
tion of monasteries, at which time the splendid monuments of
this illustrious family were broken and destroyed. He died 46
Edw. III. 1372, and was buried at Tunbridge in Kent,
Hugh de Stafford, second son, K. G. earl and baron de

124 THE ANTIQUITIES
said castie that now is, was builded by Raufe, first earl
of Stafford, as the report is, and not unUke to be true :
Stafford (his elder brother, Ralph lord de Stafford, having died
in his father's life time, leaving no issue by his wife, Maud
Plantagenet, daughter of Henry eari of Lancaster, grandson
of king Henry III.) married PhUippade Beauchamp, daughter
of the fourth eari of Warwick, He attended king Edward the
Third in his expeditions into France, Flanders, and Scotiand.
He died at Rhodes, on his return from Palestine, 10 Ric. II.
1386, and was buried in the priory of Stone in Staffordshire.
Edmund de Stafford, earl and baron, K. G. married Anne
Plantagenet, only daughter and heir of Thomas Planta
genet of Woodstock, duke of Glocester and earl of Buck
ingham. He was slain, fighting for king Henry the Fourth,
at the battie of Shrewsbury, in 1403, and was buried in the
church of the Austin Friers at Stafford.
Humphry de Stafford, K. G. earl and baron, and first Staf
ford duke of Buckingham, He was made count of the province
of Perche in France, 8 Hen. V. In an indenture, 22 Hen. VI.
he is stUed, " The right mighty prince Humphry, earl of Buck
ingham, Hereford, Stafford, Northampton, and Perche, lord of
Brecknock and Holderness," He was created duke of Buck
ingham 23 Hen, VI. and 25 Hen, VI. had precedence above all
dukes, excepting of the blood royal. He married Anne, daugh
ter of Ralph, first Nevill earl of Westmoreland ; and was slain,
fighting for king Henry VI. at the battle of Northampton, in
July 19, 1460, and was buried in the monastery of Grey Friers
of that town.
Humphry earl of Stafford, K. G. was slain at the battle of St.
Albans, 22 May 1455, fighting for king Henry VI. in the life
time of his father. He married Margaret Beaufort, sister and
coheiress of Edmund, last Beaufort, duke of Somerset, and
daughter of Edmund duke of Somerset.
Henry de Stafford, K. G, duke of Buckingham, earl of Here
ford, Essex, Northampton, Stafford, and Buckingham, baron
de Stafiord, and hereditary high constable of England. He
married the lady Catherine Woodvill, daughter of Richard earl
of Rivers, whose sister was queen to 'king Edward IV. and mo
ther to Elizabeth, queen to Henry VII. He was the principal
agent in raising king Richard III, to the throne, but was shortly

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 125
and yet I have a certain deed, dated apud Castrum juxta
Stafford, long before the said Raufe lived ; so that it

afterwards beheaded at Shrewsbury, 1 Ric. III. and attainted
by act of parliament.
Edward Stafford, K, G. duke of Buckingham, was restored
to all his father's honours and estates, 1 Hen. VII. ; married the
lady Eleanor Percy, daughter of Henry, fourth Percy, earl of
Northumberland. He was beheaded for a supposed treason
against Henry VIII. in 1521, and attainted by act of par
liament. Henry baron de Stafford was restored to a small portion of
his father's lands, 20 Dec. 14 Henry VIII. He granted to him
and Ursula his wife, Norton in the Moors, Tillington, Eyton,
Church Eaton, Woodeaton, Darlaston, Dodington, Packington,
Blymhill, the manor and baronial castle of Stafford, and all the
land in Forebridge, Dorlaston, Holdich, Newcastle, Bradwell,
Ebutall, Bariaston, Tattenshall, Bradley, Dunston, Copenhall,
Cooksland, Burston, Ricarscote, quse nuper fuerunt ducis
Bucks, and to the heirs of their two bodies, all knight's fees
excepted ; but Edward their son made them less by all but
Stafford and Forebridge. He was summoned to parliament as
baron de Stafford from 2 Edw. VI. to 1 Eliz. and obtained pre
cedence from their first writ of summons, 27 Edw. I. He mar
ried the lady Ursula Pole, only daughter of sir Richard Pole,
K, G, by Margaret Plantagenet, countess of Salisbury, daugh
ter and sole heir of George duke of Clarence, brother of king
Edward IV. He died 5 Eliz. 1562. He was a man of learning
and great accomplishments, and was the compiler of the Staf
ford MSS.
Henry, baron Stafford, died without issue.
Edward, baron Stafford, was summoiied to parliament from
23 to 43 EUz. married the lady Mary Stanley, daughter of
Edward, third Stanley, eari of Derby. He died in 1603.
Edward, baron Stafford, married Isabel, daughter of Thomas
Forester, of Tong Castle, co. Salop, esq.
Edward Stafford, married Ann, daughter of sir James Wils-
ford, of Newnham Hall, co, Essex, knight. He died in his fa
ther's lifetime, in 1621, leaving one son, Henry, who became
lord Stafford, and died unmarried in 1637, and one daughter,

126 THE ANTIQUITIES
would seem, that Raufe eari of Stafford, did but re-edify
the said castle, and not new-build it.
Mary. Upon this event, the barony was claimed by Roger,
son of Richard, third son of Henry, first baron Stafford, and
son of Edward, duke of Buckingham. His father Richard had
died poor, and Roger, the undoubted representative of the
powerful houses of Gloucester, Hereford, and Buckingham, and
descended from the blood royal of England, deserted by his
great alliances, but having been befriended by one of the Cor-
bets of Shropshire, at the age of sixty-two, claimed the barony
of Stafford, which was annexed to the heirs male. But his po
verty overcame every effort to recover his right, and he was
compeUed, Dec. 7, 1639, " because," said the king, "he had
no lands or means," to surrender his barony to the crown. A
circumstance so arbitrary and unjust, naturally excited some
alarm in the minds of the peers ; who obtained an act to pre
vent the recurrence of a similar measure in the persons of their
own descendants. Roger Stafford died unmarried; but he had
the mortification of beholding his sister Jane, the great grand
daughter of Edward, the powerful and wealthy duke of Bir
mingham, the wife of a man in humble station at Newport, co.
Salop, where she became a widow, and her son was in circum
stances equally mean. Thus terminated the chief line of the
Clares earls of Gloucester, of the.Bohuns earls of Hereford, and
of the Staffords dukes of Buckingham, and barons of Stafford,
who had enjoyed, through the long period of six hundred
years, the utmost elevation of rank, power, and fortune. In all
the histories of family revolutions, a more remarkable instance
of the instability of human greatness can scarcely be found.
Mary Stafford, baroness de Stafford, was summoned as ba
roness de Stafford, by descent, to attend the coronation of
James II. 1685. On her marriage with sir William Howard
(afterwards viscount Stafford, second son of Thomas Howard,
earl of Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk, and was beheaded and
attainted in 1680), she was created baroness Stafford, 16 Ch. I.
and by king James II. created a countess. She died in 1693, and
was buried in Westminster abbey, next to the tomb of her an
cestor, Eleanor de Bohun, the wife of Thomas Plantagenet of
Woodstock, duke of Gloucester.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 127
At the Conquest, as appears by Domesday-book, one
Robert was baron of Stafford, whom I suppose to have
been a Norman, and to come in with the Conqueror;
which Robert had issue Nicholas, baron of Stafford, Ni
cholas had issue Robert, who had issue Robert and Mil-
Usent ; Robert died without issue, MiUisent was married
to Hervy Bagott, who had Hervy baron of Stafford, their
son and heir, sir William Stafford, knight, and Robert.
Hervey, baron of Stafford, had issue Robert, who had
issue Nicholas, who had issue Edmund, who had issue
Raufe the first earl of Stafford, who had issue Hugh earl
of Stafford, who had issue Thomas earl of Stafford, that
died without issue, William earl of Stafford, that also
died without issue, and Edmund earl of Stafford, who
had issue Huraphry duke of Buckinghara, slain at North
ampton, who had issue Humphry earl of Stafford, slain
at St. Alban's, in his father's life-time. Humphry earl
of Stafford, had issue Henry duke of Buckingham, be
headed at Salisbury, who had issue Edward duke of
Buckingham, beheaded at the tower of London, who
had issue Henry baron Stafford, who died without issue,
and Edward baron Stafford, now living 1596.
. . Henry Stafford Howard their son, was created earl of Staf
ford, 4 James II. He died in 1719.
William Stafford Howard, succeeded his uncle Henry, as
earl and baron of Stafford, and died in 1734.
William Matthias, earl and baron of Stafford, died in 1750.
Anastasia Stafford Howard, baroness de Stafford, as sole sur
viving heir of her brother and uncle, died in 1807. Sir George
Jerningham, bart. of the castle of Stafford, and of Costessey in
Norfolk, is the present claimant of the barony of Stafford, as
the sole heir of Mary Stafford, the wife of sir WiUiam Howard.
Arms : Or, a chevron Gules.
The title of Marquess of the county of Stafford was conferred
on earl Gower, 28 Feb. 1786, which is enjoyed by his son and
successor, the present marquess of Stafiord.

128 THE ANTIQUITIES
At the first, as I verily take it, even Robert himself,
that carae in with the Conqueror, bare the red chevron
in a field Gold, as it is borne to this day ; and so conti
nued the use thereof until Harvy Bagot married MiUi
sent, the heir of the house ; which Harvy Bagot bare,
Argent, two gemels Or, a pair of gemels chevronwise
Azure. But, notwithstanding, his son Harvy, being in
vested with the barony of Stafford, and therefore called
himself Harvy de Stafford, left the gemels, and yet
would not absolutely intrude hiraself into the arras of
the barony, but charged the red chevron with five rundles
or plates Silver ; and sir William, his brother, changed
the colour of the Gold field into a Silver one, and made
the rundles Gold, as besants are. Robert, son of
Harvy de Stafford, bare but ^the three plates upon his
chevron ; and so likewise did sir WiUiara Stafford, son
of the first sir William, bear but three besants ; and sir
William his son, used five ; but sir James his son, but
three, witha'label of five points (his father living almost
as loiig as he). But Nicholas baron of Stafford, son of
Robert, who was son of Harvy, baron of Stafford, left the
plates quite out, and used the chevron plain, as it was
used by the first barons, and so have all the barons and
earls of Stafford, and dukes of Bucks, being of that
house ever since'.

' John Stafford, a Franciscan frier, towards the "end of the
fourteenth century, who wrote a History of England in Latin ;
Edmund Stafford, chancellor of England, and archbishop of
York, son of Edmund baron Stafford, and brother of Ralph,
first earl of Stafford ; Thomas Asheburn, an active and zealous
opponent of Wickliffe ; and Thomas Fitzherbert, a learned
writer of the sixteenth century, and an advocate of Mary
queen of Scots, were natives of, this town. Nor is it less cele
brated, as having given birth to the amiable and ingenious bio
grapher, Isaac Walton, who was born here in August 1593.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 129
There was in Stafford, at either end of the town, a
frier house, founded by the Staffords ; that on the south
side, no doubt, by the barons of Stafford, and that on
the north, by some of the Staffords of Sandon (as I take
it), and, I think, by the last sir James, or, at least, he
buUded the Gate-house ; for that, upon the same, to this
day, there stands the chevron, with the besants, and a
label, which the said sir James sealed with aU his life
time : which house of Sandon was also great and fortu
nate a long time ; for out of it came the lord Staffords
of Southwick ; the Staffords earis of Devon, the Staffords
of Grafton, Hooke, Froome, and Bletherwick; and aU
the Staffords of Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, and
Berkshire. The barony of Stafford at the Conquest, was a large
and goodly barony (I believe there were few the like in
England), and so continued till it came to the king's
hands, by the attainder of Edward the last duke of
Bucks. I find in an old record ', that there were sixty knight's
fees, de veteri feoffamento, belonging to it; whereof
nine were in demesne, and fifty-one in services : of
which Wiltus, filius GUberti, held 3
Rofttus, filius Radulfi - 7
Rofetus, filius Odonis - 4

' Meaning the Certificationes 12 Hen. II. recorded in the
Liber Niger Scaccarii, of which Hearne has published a copy.
S. P-W.
The Testa de Nevill is also an ancient , record, kept by the
king's remembrancer in the exchequer ; and contains the
knight's fees throughout the greatest part of England, with in
quisitions of lands escheated. It took the name from its com
piler, Johan. de Nevill, one of the itinerant justices in thp reign
of king Hen. III.

130 THE ANTIQUITIES
Henrus de Oyley
Wiltus Charaai
Galfridus Martell
Harvye Bagott

3 (of which under him
Renaldus de Dulverne held 1)

and Hervy of Stretton

I know not how many, nor who, held the rest'.
The towns that were holden of the barony be these
following :

Saredon, one fee.
Hatherton dim' fee.
Coppenhall, one fee.
Weston-Jones, one.
Chedle-Basset, one.
Bromsholf, one.
Bromley-Bagott, one.
Athelerton, one.
Estonand Burweston, two.
Meare and Bobbinton,
two.
Barleston, one.
Ingestrie, one.
Raunton, one.
Coven and Ledehall, two.
Blimhill and Brimeton,
two.
Mutton and Berton, two.
Ash and Dilhorne, two.
Grancenwyche ,and H — ,
two.
Another Raunton, dim'.
Walton and Offley, two.

Swinnerton and Salt, two.
Tillington, dim'.
Blore and Grendon, two.
Caldon, one.
Hopton and Tean, two.
Madeley Ulfac, two.
Coltone, one.
Tickeshall, one.
Millwich, one.
Standon and Weston, one
dim'.
Tiddensore, one.
Hilderstone, one.
Madeleghe, one.
Burwardeston, one.
Shareshall, one.
Dreyton, Streeton, and
Dunston, one dim',
Water-Eyton, fourth part,
Acton, two parts,
Wilbrighton, one,
Eyton and Orselue, one.
Radbaston, one dim'.

They are in Hearne's pubUcation of Liber Niger Scaccarii.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 131
Burton, one dim'. Ridge.
Longnore, two parts, Horton,
PattenshuU, one, , Hilton.
Whichnore and Serescote, Estone.
one and a third part. Cochestone (Cuchesland,
Harle, a third part, Domesday.)
Middle-Ridware, 4th part, CaverswaU.
Bradley, Bucklngtone.
Belinton. Rushcote.
Siltmore (Selchemore. Wrottesley.
, Domesday.) Levintone (Loynton).
WoUaston. Richardscote.
Stoke. Monet-ville.
Sow being past Stafford, receiveth, within a mile of
Stafford, upon the south, a pretty little river called Penk.
Penk taketh its beginning a little above Penkford'.
Alraarus, 20 Conq. held Penkford, of Willus, filius Ans
culfi. It is now the seat of Walter Fowler, son of James
Fowler, youngest son of Roger Fowler*.
' It is now called Penford, and is yet in the family of Fowler.
Francis Leveson Fowler, IS Ch. II. Richard Fowler, 11 Geo.
II. and Thomas Leversage Fowler, 30 Geo. III. were sheriffs of
the county. Arms : Ermine in a cant Gules, an owl Argent :
also. Azure, upon a chevron Argent three crosses molin Sable,
betwixt three lions passant guardant Or.
The name of Fowler is of great antiquity, and belonged to a
family of some distinction, before the reign of Rich. I. Richard
Fowler, of Foxley, co. Buckingham, accompanied that prince
into Palestine in 1190, and at his own expence maintained a
certain number of English bowmen, his own tenants, to serve
in the holy wars. In reward for his eminent services at the
sieo-e of Acre, he was knighted in the field, and the king caused
his crest, which was the hand and lure, to be changed to the
vigilant Owl, From him Roger Fowler was descended, who
was the ancestor of the Fowlers of Penford.
' Roger Fowler married Isabella, sister of Rowland Lee,
K 2

132 THE ANTIQUITIES
From hence Penk passeth to Somerford*, and to
Engleton% leaving, on the west side, Gunston, the seat
of one of the Fowkes ; and then ChiUington, the seat of
the Giffards. ^
I take it that at the time of the Conquest, Chillington
was the inheritance of Will'us filius Corbution'; who
held the sarae of the bishop : for, after, about the time
of king Stephen, Peter Corbeson gave the same (as I
take it) in frank marriage with Margaret, his sister, to
Peter Giffard : which Peter I take to be a younger son
of some of the Giffards earls* of Buckingham. Peter
Giffard had issue Peter, who had issue WilKam, and
sir John Giffard, knt. ; WiUiam died without issue ; sir
John had issue John, who had issue Edmund, who had
issue John, who had issue Thomas, who had issue
Robert, who had issue sir John Giffard, knt. who had

bishop of Lichfield, by virtue of whose settlement of his pro
perty, made in 31 Hen. VIII. the lands of St. Thomas's priory
near Stafford, were divided after his death among his five sons.
' 17 Edw. III. Somerford was held by John Somerford,
whose descendants held it in the seventeenth century. Sir
Walter Wrottesley, bart. bought it of the Somerfords, and re
sided there in 1703. It is now, 1819, the property of the hon.
Edward Monckton, uncle of viscount Galway of Ireland ; who
also holds Brewood, Coven, Aspley, Water Eaton, Engleton,
Grassington, Stretton, and Leafields.
' Engleton, the ancient seat of the Mortons, one of which
family became baron Ducie. It is now the property of the hon.
'Edw. Monckton.
' In the note on Cubleston is a slight conjecture that " Co
binton" should be Chillington. Willielmus filius Corbucion,
in Domesday, holds of Fitz-Ansculf, seemingly not of the
bishop, no less than ten hides in " Sibeford." But I find
nothing like Sibeford, either near Chillington or elsewhere.
S. P-W.
* Dukes.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 133
issue sir Thomas Giffard, knt. who had issue John Gif
fard, now living, 1596'.
Then Hide", the seat of the Lanes. Richard Lane
lived in Henry the Fifth's time, and had issue John, who
had issue Richard, who had issue Raufe, who had issue
Richard, who had issue John, who had issue Thomas,
who had issue John Lane, now living.
Penk, eastward, leaveth first Coven ; Avhich, 20 Conq.
Buerel held of Robert de Stafford ; and, somewhat fur
ther off, Hilton',
' ChUUngton is yet in the family of Giffard, and Thomas
Giffard, esq. is possessed of large estates in this county, and
resides at this ancient seat. The house seems to be of the date
of Henry VIII, and is remarkable for the various forms of Jhe
windows and chimneys. Thomas Giffard, of ChiUington and
CaresweU castle, 12 Hen. IV. John Giffard 9 Hen. VIH- sir
John Giffard, knt. 13 and 17 Hen. VIII. Thomas Giffard 21 Hen.
VIII. sir John Giffard, knt. 22 and 23 Hen. VIII. sir Thomas
Giffard, knt, 1 Mary; and John Giffard 15 Eliz. were sheriffs
of the county. Arms : Azure, three stirrups with leathers Or,
2, 1. Also, Azure, three stirrups Or, leathered Sable.
^ There is an old deed without date, in evidence between
Lane and Giffard, concerning estovers in Chillington wood ;
where John de Sempringham (perhaps a feoffee of Giffai-d)
granted ten acres of land in Hide to Thomas de la Hide, with
estovers, which John Giffard, sometime lord of Chillington,
granted to him in the king's court, about 34 Edw. I. Arms of
Lane of Hide: Or, a chevron Gules betwixt three mullets
Azure. John Lane, esq. of King's Bromley, is of this family.
» Hilton, in the middle of the sixteenth century, came by a
coheir of the junior and long surviving line of Swinnerton, to
Henry Vornon, son and heir to sir John, the first Vernon of
Sudbury. It stiU remains in a junior branch pX-Vernon, the
name at present being changed to Graham. (S. P-W..,>
William Everdon and Thomas Everdon, 25 Hen.'^I. by fine,
gave the manors of Hilton and Essington to Thomas Swinner
ton and EUzabeth his wife, and the heirs of their bodies. The
lord of the manor of Essington was formerly bound to bring to

134 THE ANTIQUITIES
' Elgotus held HUton, 20 Conq. of Robert de Staf
ford, It was some time the inheritance and seat of the
Swinnertons, And then ShareshaU and Sardon. Her-
veus held Sardon and ShareshaU" of Robert de Stafford,
20 Conq. Since then they were the inheritance of sir
William de Shareshall, knt. who had issue Joan, his
daughter and heir, married to sir Richard Harcourt,
knt. from whom it is come to sir Walter Harcourt, now
lord thereof.

the hall at Hilton a goose on the first day of every year, and
drive it at least three times round the fire, while Jack, of Hilton
was blowing the fire. This part of the ceremony being finished,
the lord of Essington, or his bailiff, carried it to the table,
and received a dish from the lord of Hilton for his own mess.
This Jack of Hilton was a small hollow image of brass, which
leans upon its left knee, and has its right hand placed on its
breast. This service was performed for upwards of one hun
dred and forty years, but has long been discontinued, probably
because the two manors have been united in the same lord.
Henry Vernon, 24 Geo. II. and Henry Vernon, 37 Geo. III.
were sheriffs.
' A mis-reading of Domesday, .ffilgotus held of Robert de
Statford 1 hide in Enstone (not HUtone or Iltone) et appen-
dic, Helgot, probably the same person, held of the same
Robert, the next place, Bernulvastone ; also Bubintone in the
same page, S. P-W.
2 In ShareshUl are two encampments, supposed to have been
of Roman construction. Some curious monuments in the
church were preserved at the demolition of the ancient edifice.
It has been long in the Littietons, and, with Sardon, is' now
the property of Edward John Littleton, esq.
Aspley, near ShareshUl, was the property of Thomas EUing-
bridge, who, 22 Hen, VIII. died seized of it, and left Anne,
his daughter and heir, aged three years. It now belongs to the
hon. Edward Monckton.
' Sir Richard Harcourt had only Elizabeth, who, 45 Edw, III.
became heir to her father, and was wife to sir Thomas Astley,
ancestor to those at Patteshull ; so that, if this manor was after-

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 135
Penk.then, having left ShareshaU somewhat eastward,
passeth through Somerford, of which is owner a gentie-
man of the same name, whose ancestors have been long
lords thereof,- for, 17 Edw. L John Somerford was owner
thereof. From Somerford, Penk runneth to Engleton', the
seat now of one of the Moretons, who for some time
have possessed the same ; one of whose ancestors mar
ried an heir of one of the Engletons, soraetime lords
thereof; and by that reason have invested themselves
^nto Engleton's armory.
At Engleton Penk receiveth, westward, Brewood-
water, which taketh its beginning not far from Sheriff-
Hales. 20 Conq. Rainalde de Balgiole held Hales of Roger
de Montgomery ; of which were lords, since then, the
Pantulfs, or Pandulphs : there lies one buried under an
old cross-legged monument, whichsome suppose to be
of the Pandulphs ; but I am of the contrary opinion",
wards in sir Walter Harcourt, it must have been by purchase,
or by some exchange. Smyth,
All this matter of the alliance between ShareshuU and Har
court remains in extreme obscurity, as is set forth very parti
cularly in my note I. p, *520 of the last vol. of Nichols' Lei
cestershire. It there appears, also, that the descent of Pattes
hull from ShareshuU, through Harcourt to Astley, is equally
inexplicable. The fact that ShareshuU's estates came to those
two other families is certain : but the particular rights in which
they severally so came, even Walter Chetwynd, with all his
command of many of their records, has been forced to leave
quite in the dark. S. P-W.
' From the Moretons, Engleton has passed by purchase to
the hon. Edward Monckton, who now, 1819, owns it. Matthew
Ducie Moreton, 3 Anne, was sheriff. Arms : Argent, a chevron
Gules betwixt three buckles Sable, a crosslet for difference,
" Sir Walter Leveson died, seized of Sheriff Hales, 29 Oct.
44 Eliz, which was perhaps part of the possession of LilleshuU

136 THE -ANTIQUITIES
And not far from thence, southward, lieth Weston-
under- Lizard ; of which was lord, 20 Conq. Rainald de
Balgiole aforenamed ; and from him it descended to, or
was received by, one Hugo de Weston, who had issue
Hugo, who had issue John, who had issue Thomas,
who had issue sir John Weston, knt. 19 Edw. II. who
had issue a daughter and heir, married to Adam Peshall,
who had issue Adam, who had issue Robert, who had
issue sir Robert PeshaU, knt/ who had issue Margaret,
married to sir Richard Mitton, knt.' who had issue Wil
liam, who had issue William, who had issue Williain,
who had issue John, who had issue John Mitton, who
had issue Joan, raarried to John Harpesfield, who had
issue Edward, who called himself Mitton, after his
mother's father, who had issue John Mitton, now living
A.D. 1596,
Brewood-water leaveth not far off, northward, Bli-
menhull, whereof, as also of Brineton,. was lord one
Warinus, who held them, 20 Conq. of Robert de Stad
ford. In Henry the Second's time William Bagott was
lord of BhmenhuU, it being then his seat ; and, 9 Edw.
II. John de Ipstones, as I suppose, was lord, both of
BliraenhuU and Brineton, a lordship adjoining to Bli-
menhuU. abbey. From Richard Leveson, his son and heir, it descended
to sir Richard Leveson, knight of the Bath, who owned it in
1660; and which has descended to Gower marquess of
Stafford. ' And Joan, married to  Bermingham. Smyth.
, Weston passed into the family of Bridgman, and is now the
property of Orlando Bridgman, baron Bradford, viscount New
port, and earl of Bradford. Sir WiUiam Newport, knt. 2, 6,
8 Hen. IV. WiUiam Mitton 21, 36 Hen. VI. John Mitton 11,
23 Hen. VII. and 4 Hen. VIII. were sheriffs of the county.
Arms : party per pale Azure and Gules, a spread eagle with
two heads Or.

The following Pedioreb refers to pages 136 and 167. It is thus introduced; ^ . ^ , . „ Uojacep. a^,.
.... , . J. u . w t >,. T -.. ,<rrn staffordieHsi denominaf) antiquissimffi et equestWs Familiae, Genealogiae, et Prosapia, 6 qui (regnante
westonorum (ab antiquo loco, qui dicebatur Weston subtus Luzers, in agro Btanoraieiisi uciiuiu.iiai.y O1H.HJV..0 ,
Henrico lido Anglorum rege) floruit vir periUustris ^^^^ ^^ WESTON. Miles ,
A quo honorati^imus Dominus Ricardus. comes Por.landia,, Baro' Weston de StoUe Ngnd, ^-^iatOrdinis equ^^^^^^^ Anglic '^^^^^^^^ J^^^, P^t^us
s^°crru'„urrh*::;nis&nrrAs s E^^
Omnia e publicis regni archivis et privatis ejusdem Familim archetypis, ecclesiis monumentis, histonis, monastenorum reg.stris, et rotuhs a™"'""" v«''''t"^''"'= al^^^^^^^^^
antiquitat. l indubitaL veritaUs rebL maxim^o labore ac fide oculatrde'promuntur, et ad perpetuam rei memonam ser.aUm hoc - - ^^ -'' ^^^^^^^^^^^^
MDCxxxii. Gulielmus Segar, Garterus Pnncipahs Rex Armorum Anghcorum. .n^unvwa ci .» , &
WESTON, OF WESTON UNDER LIZARD.
Abms. Or, an eagle displayed, regardant. ... c. i ¦ . a j n- moo
Rainaldus de BaUiole, vel Balgiole (in Normandii), dominus de Weston Berton, Broton, et Newton, in com.=?=Aimena, uxor e,(is, nept. Rogeri, comitis salopiaeet Arundelliffi, 1083.
Staffordice, 1086.

Martha de Balgiole, nupta Hugoni de Vernon de Shipbrooke.
Hamo de Weston, temp. Hen. II. dominus de Weston et de BlymenhuU, anno 11 Joh. R, 1209.nr- • ¦•

Hugo de Balgiole, dominus de Weston et de Newton, temp. Hen. I.-i-

Osbertus de Weston, dominus de Weston, temp. Joh. R.-j-, . . .

Robertus de Berterton, in Weston.-j-. . . .
I 

Margeria.

Hugo de Weston, dominus de Weston subtus Luzers,
4lHen. HI. 1256.

Johannes de Weston, dominus de Weston subtus LuzerSj-j-
56 Hen. III. 1271. I

Jacobus de Berterton.
Rogerus de Berterton.

Margeria.

Gulielmus de Weston, clericus,
56 Hen. Ill,

Hugo de Weston, miles, dominus de Weston subtus Luzers, Blumenbull, et de Newton, fil. et haen-p
Jobannis, 1 Edw. I. I
Hugo de Weston, miles, dominus de Weston, 33 Edw. I-=t=. . ¦ • filia Audley.

Henricus de Weston, 56=f=,
Hen. HI. j

Nicholaus, 26 Edw. I.

Cecilia de Weston, Isabella, ux. pr. suror Stephani de Bromley,=pJohannes de Weston, miles, dominus de Weston, Blumenhull,=f=Isolda, ux. 2» fil Gulielmi de New-
et de Newton. 5 Edw. III. ¦ ton, 5 Edw. HI.

5 Edw. II.

12 Edw. H. 1318.

Elena, nupta
Willielmo de
Tromwyn de
Cannock, Inq.
36 Edw. HI.

Johanna,
nupta Gii-
lielmu de
Brough,23 Edw. HI.

Anna, sor. et
coh. ThomiB
Weston, post
mortem Ro
berti fil. sui.

Isolda de
Weston.

Thomas de Wes-=i=

ton, dominus de
Weston, 23 Edw.
HI. max. nat. fil.

filTho- msB
Fouls-
hurst.

Johannes=pElizabetha, sor. et coh.=^Ada de

de Whis-
ton, ma-
ritus pri
mus.

Robertus de Weston, do
minus de Weston sub
tus Luzers, ob. s. p.

I 
Nicholaus de Whiston, et Marga-
reta uxor ejus, anno 47 Edw. III.
ob. s. p.

 1 
Agnes de Whiston, ux. Edmundi Gif
fard de Cbillinglon, com. Staff. 37
Edw. HI.

Thomae Weston, post
mortem Roberti, nup
ta  Mortimer,
pro marito secundo,
Hugo le
Mortimer.

f+Ada de

Isolda, ux.

Peshall,

Thomas

imaritus

le Cham

itertius.

pion, 33

Ed. III.

1

Robertus de Weston
de Beterton, in Wes
ton, ancestor of the
Westons of Ruge
ley.

Joeosa, relicta Baldwini Fre — r"Ada de Pershall, miles, domi-
ville, mil. filia Johannis Bo- nus de Weston, in re raatris,
tetort, mil. | anno II Rich. II. 1387.

Margareta de Pershall, fil. et coh. Adae de=pRicardus Mitton, miles, fil. Reginald de Mitton, de com.
Pershall, 7 Hen. V, Salopise. mil. 7 Hen. IV,

Johanna de Pershal), fil. et coh. Adse de Pershall,=f=Gulielmus Birming-
7 Hen.V, '

Gulielmus Mitton, arm. dominus de Weston, 18 Hen. VI

I ham, miles.
J

J-

filia Corbet, de Lea, co. Salop. Gulielmus Birmingham.

Thomas Birmingham.

Johannes Mitton, dominus de Weston, &c. ob. 1472.=T=Agnes. fil. et hser. Thomse Swynnerton de Hilton, co, Staflf. ar.

Ricardus Mitton de Weston/
2 Rich. III.

Constantia, fil. Henrici Beaumont de=T=Johannes Mitton, arm. dominus
Waddesbury, CO. Stafiford, mil. | de Weston, &e. ob. 1532.

Johannes Mitton, arm. dominus de Weston, vice comes Staffordiae, 11 and 23=f:Jolianna, fil. Ricardi Middlemore,. arm. de Edgebaston, com.
'^^"•VII. I Warw. 11 Hen. VII.
 ,  1

Gulielmus Mitton de Weston, ob. s. p.=Maria, fil. Gulielmi Chetwynd, arm
r

Griffith Mitton.

Elizabetha Mitton. — Johannes Beaumont de Waddesbury, armiger, frater Constantiae,
uxoris Johannis Mitton.

Joeosa Mitton, fil. et hser. Johannis Mitton, post mokem WiU'i fratris.=pJohannes Harpesfield de London.

^dwardus Mitton. alias Harpesfield, arm, d'nus de Weston, 4 Edw. VI.=:pAnna, filia Thom» Skrynisher, arm. 22 Hen. VIII,
Elena, fil. Edwardi Bret de Hylne. co.:^obannes Mitton, dominus de Weston, &c.=pMaria, ux. secunda, fil. Johannis Cotes, deiwoodT
btaiT. arm, I 10 riliz. 15o7. ' ~ -

cote, CO. Salop, arm.

Maria, nupta Jacobo Noel, de Pelsall,
CO. Staff, arm.

Elizabetha Weston, ux. pr. filia Jac. Weston deLich-=Edwardus Mitton, arm. do-=r:eri1isi nv qAo. m i„v,o  :- ci • . TT! 3" . .». .71, ...
field,fil.Job'isWeston,fil.Joh'isWesto„deRugeley. minus de Weston, &c. ,632. t'Kwtk co'S' ^'3"" '^ r," "^"'^ ""l^'l^lVlT* '""'^''^ '^'^:^r

. . . Somerford

Blackmore.

[-2

VV^ESTON, OF RUGELEY.

Isabella, ux. pr. soror Stephani de Broraley,=j=Johannes de Weston, miles, dominus de Weston. BlumenhiU, et de Newton, anno=Fl8olda, ux. secunda. filia Gulielmi de Newton,
I3Edw.n.l319. 5 Edw. IH. 1330. > y " . 5 Edw. IH. 1330.
I — -7.  :  ~  ' I  '  1  >  ^-1  1  1  ,
Robertus de Weston de Beterton,=j=. ,. . Johannes de Weston de Bourgh, in Gulielmus de Weston, Alicia de- Weston. Agnes de Weston,
in Weston, 32 Edw. III. I com. Staff. 14 Edw. Ill.i 14 Edw. HI. 5 Edw, HI. 14 Edw. HI,
I  '
Johannes de Weston de Beterton et de Newton, 49 Edw. III. et 20 Ric. 11.^=, , , .
,  ^  1
Ricardus Weston de Rugeley, 7 Hen. VI. 1428.=i=Agnes ,, ,, 17 Hen. VI.
I  _ — I

The Mittons of Weston, descended
from this marriage.

Ricardus Weston de Rugeley, mortuus ante 6 Hen. VII. 1490.=f=Agnes .
,  f

vidua, 7 Hen.VH.

Johannes Weston de Rugeley. 34 Hen. VIIL=f=Alicia  6 Hen.VH.

r

Ricardus de Weston de=^Catharine 25
Rugeley, fil. et haer. | Hen.VHI,
31 Hen. VIII,

r

le=^Catharii r. Hen. \
I 1533.

 1 
Edmundus Weston.
clericus, 24 Hen
ricus VIII.

r

Gulielmus Weston,
sub-decanus Exo-
niensis.

Johannes Weston de Rugeley, fil. et haer. ob. 1566.=pCecilia. fil. et haer. Johannis Ford et Margaretae ux. ejus. ob. Mar. 1576.

Johannes Weston de Lichfield, 4 fil. 18 Hen. VIII.=Cecilia, sorot Radulphi, comitis
ancestor ot the Westons of Roxwell, Weeford. Westmorlandiae. fil. Radulphi,
and Lichfield. domini Freville.
Alicia Weston, nupta ,. ., Barber, 25 Hen. VIII.

Ricardus Weston de Rugeley, fil. et haer. ob.

I Mar. 1613.-i-Barbara, fil. Johannis Kniveton, de Mercaston, co. Derb. arm. ob. 1592.
 1  , 

Johannes Weston, 5 and 6 Phil, et Mar.

Radulphus Weston de Rugeley, ob. in vita patris, 10 iul. 1605,=FAnna, fil. et haer. Geo. Smyth de Apleton, co. Lane. ob. 1624. Jane Weston.=T=Thomas Broughton, alias Smyth.

Katherine-t-Sir Richard Weston, knt. baron of the Exchequer, ob.
I 18 Mar. 1658.

Thomas. Simon. Jane Weston.=T=John Brandreth, of
I Weeford.
I 

Mabell Smyth.=WiUiam Launder, of
Rugeley.

I  ^ 
Richard Weston, a colonel in the army of king Charles I.^Catharine.
and slain in the Isle of Man. |
I  '
Philip Weston, ob. 21 Mar, 1713.=i=Mary.

Ralph Weston. ob.^Catharine. ob,

Jul, 1665

. OD.-pl.

Mar. 1684.

Elizabeth. — Richard Floyer, esq.
of Hints.

Jane=John Noble, esq.
of Chorley.

Letitia Smith, first wife.=Ralph\V'eston.=f=Frances Shropshire, second wife,

Charles Weston,

E

.1 
Ralph Weston, ob. coel.
1757, of Rugeley.

Simon Weston, of Rugeley,=f=Elizabeth.
born 1690, ob. 1762. I Leacroft.

Thomas Weston of Mid-
dlewioh, ob, 1735, =t=

Elizabeth, ob. 1695,
s.p.

Catherine, ob.
1735, s. p.

George Weston, ofBer- Webb Weston,^,
keley, a colonel in the of Berkeley, I
army. ob. 1775.

J

J —  1  .  1  ¦  r-\
Ralph Weston, of Stone House,=Anne, daughter of Lucy Wes-=T=John PoweU. Elizabeth.
Rugeley, born 16 July, 1721  Taylor, clerk, ton. Mary, ob.
ob. 22 Feb. 1794, s. p. of Eccleshall. unm.

John Heathfield=pJane Weston,
Hickes. esq. of j living in
the CO. of Glou- 1820.
cester. |
I' 

Ann Wes-=^=Thomas

ton.

Mas-
greave. ob.

Thomas Weston
Powell, ob. 5
May, 1779 eoel.

T

"~r~r-i 
I I i
Thomas, a. p.
Richard, s. p.
John. s. p.

Shropshire, ob
1701, s. p.

Frances, wife
of George
Watson. s.p.

Lucy.=T=Johii Hickin,
of Rugeley.

Elizabeth. ob. 1784,
s.p.

Mary, wife of John
Armishaw. who
died 1 805. =T= s

Frances.=i=John I Jones,
I esq.
 1 H
Sarah. Elizabeth
Jones, ob,
unmar.

Weston Hickes, esq.
CO. Glocester.

Jane Weston
Hickes.

Catharine Parry. Heatbfield.

John Masgreave, ob,
1803, s.p.

Lydia.=:James Cooke. Walter Landor,=^^arah Hickin.

Mary.

John.

WESTON, OF ROXWELL AND WEEFORD,
Johannes Weston de Lichfield, fil. 4 Johannis Weston de Rugeley, 18 Hen.VHI. 1 526.=pCecilia, soror Radulphi, comitis Westmorlandis. filia Radulphi. domini Freville,

Let

Edmundus Weston.
primogenitus filius
Johan.. pater Hen
rici. patrisNicholai
Weston, patris Af
fray filiae.

Warburga, ux.=
pr. filia 'Tbo-
mae Catesby
de Seaton, co.
Northamp. arm.

r

Hieronymus=j=Maria. fil. et haer.

:Ricardus Weston de Rox-=Y=Elizabetha, ux. tertia,
well. CO. Essex; unus j relicta Antonii Cave
justiciariorum de Com- i de Chichely, co. Buck.
muni Banco, ob. 14 Eliz. | arm. fil. Thomse Lovet
1571,. Margareta, ux.2da | de Astwell, co. North-
fil. Eustachii Burneby. | am. arm.
r-J  -,

Alicia, ux. pr.=T=Robertus Weston de Jacobus Weston — Margeria,

fil. magistri
Jenyns de
Barre, juxta
Lichfield.

Weston de
Skreens.^
in Roxwell, miles.

Antonii Cave de
Chicheley, co.
Buck, et de Cran-
field. co.Bedf. arm.

Amphilis, nupta
Beiijamino Ticb-
burne, de Tich-
burne. in co.Win-
toniae, baronetto.

Nicho- Margareta, ux. Johan-
las. nis Loveday, arm.
deinde And. Glasscock.
de Eltham Park.
Cant. arm.

r

Weeford. dominus
caiicellarius Hiber-
niae, ob. 1573, fil. ter
tius Johannis Weston
de Lichfield.

de Lichfield, ob.
31 Eliz. ances
tor of the Wes
tons of Lich
field.

fil. Hum.
Lowe de
Lichfield, ob. 1587.

Christopher de
Tamworth.

T

Johannes Wes-=^ Anna

ton, juris civi-
lis doctor, et
aedis Cbristi, in
Oxon. preb.

Anna, nupta Joh. Williams.
de Barton, arm.
Elizabetha. nup. Nicholas
Coton de Hornechurch. co.
Essex, arm.
Maria, nup. Guliel. Clarke,
de Wrotham, co. Cant, ar.

Elizabetha,-pRicardus, baro'Wes-

fil. Guil,
Pincbeon
de Writtle.
CO. Essex.

ton. comes Portlan-
disB. suramus the
saurus Anglise, or
dinis garteri. miles,
&c.

 P-P-,
Trancisca, Margareta, nup. Edw. Le-
fil. Nicho- venthorpe, arm.
lai Wald- Dorothea, ux. Ed. Pincbeon
grave, de de Writtle, mil.
Borley, Winifreda, ux. Ricardus
Essex, Gardiner, de Lethered.
arm. co. Surr. arm.

Freeman.

Hugo Brady.= Alicia =pGalfrcdus

episcopus
Medecesc. pri. mar.

Weston.

Johannes Anna, nupta Willielmo
Weston. Piers, episcopo Petro-
nupta . . . burgensis.
Piers de Elizabetba,| nupta Tbo-
Fulham. mae Isles.doctoriTheo-
Midd. logiae.

Fenton, princip.
secretar.
Hiberniae.

I
William Fen
ton, de Mi
chael Town.
in com.
Cork, miles.

Cathe- rina.

Etheldreda, nup.Gideoni Aunsbam
de Heston.
CO. Midd.
- Ricardus
Boyle, bar'
Youghall, and first
earl of
Cork.

Domina Elizabetha Weston.
nupta Johanni Netterville.
mil. fil. et haer. Nich. vice-
com. Netterville de Louth,
in Hib.

Domina Maria
Weston, ux.
Walteri Aston,
baronis Forfar,
in Scotia.

Domina Catherina,
nupta Ricardo
White, de Hutton,
Essex, arm.

~

DominaFrancisca.-j-Hieronymus.

Stewart Esme, do
mini d'Aubigny.
ducis de Lenox.
fil. nat. junior.

Domina Henrietta Weston.

dominus
Weston, se
cond earl of
Portland.

Thomas Weston.

Nicholas Benjamin Domina Francisca. Domina Anna,
Weston. Weston. nupta Philippo nupta Basil.
Draycote, de Paynes- Domino Field-
ley, CO, Staff, arm. ing.

Domina Maria.

Domina Francisca.

Domina Alicia Boyle, eldest child, mar
ried the earl of Barrymore.
2. Domina Sarah Boyle, married sir Tho
mas Moor, son and heir of the earl of
Drogheda ; and. 2dly. to lord Digby.
3. Domina Letitia Boyle, married George,
son and heir of lord Goring.

4. Richard Boyle. 5. Louis. 6. Roger, baron 7.Francis. 8. Robert Boyle. 9. Joanna, wife of George, earl of Kildare. ances-
earl of Cork earl ot Broghill, and viscount celebrated for tor of the duke of Leinster.
and Burlington. Kenal- first earl of Shannon, his philosophi- 10. Catherine, wife of Arthur Jones, son and heir
meatry. Orrery; ances- ob. s. p, cal writings, ob. of Roger, viscount Ranelagh,
tor of the earls 1691, 1 1. Dorothy, wife of Arthur, viscount Loftus.
of Cork and 12. Mary.
Orrery. 13. Margaret,

4]

WESTON, OF LICHFIELD.

Johannes Weston de Lichfield, filius 4 Johannis Weston=pCeoilia. soror Radulphi. comitis Westmorlandiae,
de Rugeley, 18 Hen. Vm. j filia Radulphi, domini Freville.

Jacobus Weston, de Lichfield, 4 filius-
Johannis et Ceciliae. ob. 31 Eliz,

I r
Ricardus Weston.
primog. fil. ob.
in vita patris, et
sepultus apud
Ostend, in FJan-
dria.
Michael, who died
young.

_1_

^Margeria, fil. Humfridi Lowe, de
Lichfield, ob. Aug, 1587.

Christopher Weston, de Tamworth.
fil. 5 Johannis et Ceciliae. <

Alicia Weston, nupta Johanni
Ball, de Lichfield,

Catherine=pJohannes Dyott, de
Weston, I Lichfield,

T I
Catherina, nupt.
Roberto Welles,
de Whorecross.
arm.
Elizabetha, uxo.
Edw. Mitton, de
Weston subtus
Luzers.

Robertus, comes de Lon-=
dontlerry, baro' Ridgway,
de Gallene.

^Elizabetha Weston,
fil. et haer.

Simon Weston,=pMaria, fil. Johan- Jacobus Wes-=pMaria,
miles, de Lich- nis Lloyd, de Caer- ton, miles, fil.
field, recorder narvon, et Eliz. unus baro- Wil-
of Lichfield, fil. Thomae Pigot, num Scacca- lielmus
and M. P. for de Dodershall, rii, ob. 5 Dec. Wes-
the county of comit. Buck. 1633. ton.co.
Stafford. arm. Cant.

Anna Weston, fil. et haer. ux. Nicho. Bacon,
juniori filio Nich. Bacon, de Redgrave, co.
Suff, mil. et bar. =p I  , 

J

r

— 1 
Alicia,
ux, Mar
tin Hea-
I ton,
jepisc.
ISliens. II
_UJ 

Anna, ux. Hen.
Whitehead, de
Norman's Court,
CO. Wint. miles. .
Margeria, ux.
Rad. Floyer, de
Hyntes, co. Staf
ford, arm.

Catherina,=pAntoniHS
fil. Johan- Pyott,
nis Har- arm,
court de
Ranton,
CO. Staff.
arm.

Anna Heaton, pi. et coh. ux. Rub.
Filmer de Ea^t Sutton, in com.
Cant. mil.

-|

Jana Dyott,
ux, Johanni
Cresswell,
de Barnes-
hurst, CO.
Staff.

Eliz. Heaton, fil. et coh, ux.
Edw. Fish, de Southill, co.
Bedford, baronetti.

Ricardus Dyott,
miles, ob.
8 Mar. 1659,

Weston, dominus Ridgway, in 1632. Leiscester,

T

Ridgway.

Chailons.

Robert.

Letitia.

Anna Bacon.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 137
Brewood-water being past these manors, entereth into
Brewood, 20 Conq. the bishop held Brewood of the
king' ; and the bishops of Lichfield continue lords thereof
unto this day. It hath been a market-town, and conti
nues yet a pretty country town. In Brewood is the chief
house of the Fowkes of Staffordshire.
From thence Brewood-water passeth through Engle
ton, where it entereth into Penk, which, being past
Engleton, washeth the banks of Stretton^, so called,
because it stands upon the way called Watling-street,
as if one said the Street-town. It was, 17 Edw. III. the
seat of one Campion, one of whose daughters and heirs
was married to one William Congreve, the posterity of
whom have both invested themselves into Campion's
armory, and seated themselves in his chief house,
Congreve, a pretty little village, standeth a little
lower on the same side of the bank of Penk, It joins

' Brewood is said to have been an old city, and, in ploughing
the fields, Roman coins and other antiquities have been found.
Before the Conquest the bishop had a seat here. Here king
John once kept his court. The market was granted by Hen.
III. 1259. Here was a small Benedictine nunnery, founded
earlier than the time of Richard I. which,'at the dissolution, 30
Hen. VIII. was granted to Thomas Giffard ; and was called the
Black Ladies, to distinguish it from the White Ladies, another
religious house. During the last century, as at Wolverhamp
ton and Lichfield, it was the custom of the inhabitants to adorn
their wells with boughs and flowers. It was called Well-wor
ship, and is not altogether discontinued in the above places.
Arms of Fowke of Brewood : Vert, a fleur de lis Argent.
^ The seat of the Congreves now belongs to the hon. Edward
Monckton. Of this family was Congreve the celebrated dra
matic writer. Arms : Sable, a chevron between three battle-
axes Argent. Here was born Richard Hurd, successively
bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and Worcester, a distin
guished prelate.

138 THE ANTIQUITIES
unto Stretton, and was the ancient land and seat of
the Congreves, whose inheritance it continues until this
day. On the other side of the bank standeth Water-Eyton,
from which not far is Longnore; both, at this day, the
lands of Thomas Aston, of Aston in Cheshire, 20 Conq,
Herveus held both Stretton and Eyton of Rob. de Staf
ford, In Henry the Third's time, Eyton' and Long
nore' were the inheritance of one John de Eyton;
who had issue another John, who had issue Thomas
Eyton, who had issue John. Thomas Eyton, as I
take it, sold them both, about 10 Edw. I. to sir Tho
mas Besine, knight, from whom they are come by
descent to the said sir Thomas Aston, as you may
see before, where I speak of Ashley. Eyton is holden
of the barony of Stafford by the fifth part of a knight's
fee, and Longnore by the fourth part ; of which see a
copy of a deed here following : Henricus AUeyne, balivus
feodorum Hugonis comit. Staffordiae recepi de domino
Rogero de Charlton IQs. argenti pro quintS. parte unius
feodi militis in Eyton, et quarta parte unius feodi milit.
in Longnore, quas idem Rogerus tenet de d'no meo.
Datum apud castrum juxta Stafford, 43 Edw. III.
Penk, being past Congreve and Water-Eyton, leaveth,
westwardiy from it more than a mile, Lapley^, now the

' Edward James, 19 Aug. 11 James I. died seized of lands
in Overley, Water-Eaton, Somerford, Penkridge, and six
parts in twenty-five of Gillihay ; which he left to Edward his
son. Degge.
^ Longnore is on the same side of Penk with Congreve and
Stretton ; lying two miles from the latter place, north-west (in
the contrary direction from Water-Eyton), with Lapley mid
way between it and Stretton. S. P-W.
' At Lapley was an alien priory of Black monks, belonging
to the abbey of St. Remigius at Rheims ; to which it was given

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 139
seat of Richard Brooke, second son of sir Robert
Brooke, knt. now lord chief justice of the Common
Pleas. Lapley was sometime a priory. And then Penk
receiveth in on the same side a brook, or little river,
called Rowley, which taketh its beginning not far from
High Offley; leaving, southwardly, not far from it,
Norbury, a goodly manor, sometime the land of one
Hugh Kilpeck, who held some other lands by the tenure
to be the king's champion at his coronation : from whom
Norbury' came to Philip Marmion by Joan his wife,
secundi geniti, and one of Hugh Kilpeck's heirs, and
from them to Maud their daughter, mother of Raufe
Butler, whose seat it was. This Norbury, Forton", Mear,
Aquilate, and Sutton", were all purchased, with many
by Algar earl of Mercia, in the time of Edward the Confessor.
Having shared the fate of alien priories, it became, 3 Hen. V.
the property of Tong, in Shropshire, by a grant from the
crown, to which it belonged, till it was again surrendered to
the king ; and was granted, 1 Edw. VI. to sir Richard Man
ners. From Brooke it passed to the family of Peters, and
from them to the Biddulphs of Elmhurst, who sold it to Swin
fen, in which family it continues, The lands here are held
by Borough-English, Arms of Brooke of Lapley: Checque
Argent and Sable,
' Norbury passed through the same hands as Mere, till
John Skrymsher settled it on his second son James, from whom
it descended to sir Charles Skrymsher, knt, whose eldest
daughter married to Thomas Boothby, of Tooley in Leicester
shire, esq, whose son, Thomas Boothby Skrymsher, esq. was
lord of Norbury and High Offley, The former has passed by
purchase to the noble family of Anson ; and the latter to Josiah
Hinckes, clerk. In Plot is a curious plate of the ancient
moated mansion, with the pool. See note on Flashbrook,
^ Forton, once included in the manor of Mere, is near New
port, but in this county. The church contains memorials of
the Skrymsher family. Its name, with that of Warton near it,
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140 THE ANTIQUITIES
Other lands, by one Thomas Schirmuster ', alias Schrim-
shire, a prothonotary of the Common Pleas, which
here was built by sir Thomas Skrymsher, knt. Monk's Farm
formerly belonged to the Benedictine monastery at Shrews
bury. Ricardus Dapifer, Cestriae, dedit abbate Benedictino-
rum de Salop, habitationem hermeticam in sylv^ de Suttonft.
Sutton, or Southtown, is in the parish of Norbury. Here was
an estate which Robert de Broughton granted to William de
Scavington, in frank marriage, with Ellen his daughter. Hugh
de Scavington, in 1314, gave it with Ellen his daughter to
Ralph de Layton, In 1406 it was in the family of Symonds.
In the succeeding century it passed to John Bettenson. For
ton, Meere, and Aqualate, now, 1819, belong to sir John
Fenton Boughey, bart. The hills called Anc-hills, from Ancus,
denote a Roman station. The Meer here, as the name imports,
is of great extent.
' Schirmuster came (according to Thoroton, 349) from
Hugh de Skirmessour, temp. John. The name seems to mean
"The Skirmisher," The Italian for skirmish is scaramuceia :
whence our " Scaramouch," the comrade of Harlequin at skip
ping and wooden sword. Among various discordant pedigrees,
in visitations and elsewhere, Erdeswick's, as far as it goes,
seems the true genealogy. His last-named Thomas, elder bro
ther to John and Brian, was knighted ; and his grandson Ed-
wyn, owner of Aqualate in Plot's time, 1682-6, was the last
male of the head house, Aqualate went through one of his sis
ters and coheirs, wife to Acton, of Bockleton, Worcestershire,
to her daughter and heir, wife to Charles Baldwyn, chancellor
of Hereford, And after the last of the Baldwyn's, Charles, had
brought himself to the necessity of parting with it, the late
sir Thomas Fletcher, bart, bought it for his son, the present
owner, now, 1819, sir John Fenton Boughey, bart. John
Skrymsher, of Orslow, next brother to sir Thomas, was suc
ceeded by his elder son Walter, who died 1693, leaving only
daughters ; but his younger son Richard, buried at Forton,
1704, is stated, in a MS. pedigree, to have two sons; John, of
Orslow, and Richard, rector of Forton. A third, of five
branches, all seated (by Plot's map) in the county, when he
wrote, was that at Norbury manor. Its then owner, sir Charles
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OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 141
Thomas had issue John and Thomas. To Thomas he
gave his towns' in Staffordshire, and lands in Hereford-
at the Visitation 1614, left it to Thomas Boothby, son of his
eldest daughter and coheir, (though her husband, Thomas
Boothby, of Tooley, by the pedigree in Nichols', art. Foston,
also took the name of Skrymsher). Another of sir Charles's
three daughters was wife to Acton Baldwyn, of Aqualate, a
son of the above marriage of chancellor Baldwyn with the
Aqualate heiress. But Norbury and the Skrymsher name re
mained with the Boothbys till the late Charles finally took
that of Clopton only. Norbury estate is now, it is believed,
come, by purchase, to viscount Anson, A fourth Skrymsher
seat. Plot's map seems to fix, by its figures, to Hill
House, close to Adbaston, in High Offley, where Gerard
Skrymsher, M.D. an offset of the Norbury house, being youngest
son of the above James, was living till 1700. His son Charles
was of the same, Woodseaves, 1728. Plot's fifth Skrymsher
house was that at Johnston Hall, in Eccleshall, one of the
places given by Thomas, the prothonotary, to Thomas his
younger son, who had issue a third Thomas, recorded, in the
visitation of 1583, as then married to Wyrley of Hamstead,
but by some means not mentioned in the visitation 1614. How
long the males might continue at Johnston Hall I have not
seen, nor have I met with the name of Skrymsher, except as
conjoined with Boothby, later than 1728. In Nichols's Lei
cestershire, I. 317, is the epitaph of Anne, wife of Rogers
Ruding, and mother to (inter alios) Rogers Ruding now vicar
of Maldon, Surrey ; which records her, in agreement with a
Ruding pedigree, in vol. IV. 569, as daughter and heir of
James Skrymsher, of Hill Hall, in High Offley, and as born
1721, and dying 1791. This James might be son to James
(monument in High-Offley Church) born 1659, and deceased
1724, who seems to be the brother of sir Charles Skrymsher,
mentioned in sir Charles's mother's epitaph, at Ladbrooke,
Warwickshire. Sir Thomas Skrymsher too is said, in the
visitations 1583 and*l614 (but I find no other trace), to have
a younger brother, James. The non-mention by Erdeswick,
who is particular as to the other juniors, John and Bryan, is
much against this, S, P-W.
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142 THE ANTIQUITIES
shire, Worcestershire, and Shropshire, to the value of
a convenient gentleman's living, all by him purchased.
John had issue Thomas, James, and Richard. To
James he gave Norbury, with the park and High Offley.
Thomas had issue Thomas, John, and Brian. To John
he gave Orslow and lands in Orsley", and to Bryan he
gave lands in Whitmore, a,ll purchased by the first-
named Thomas Schrimshire.
Rowley water passeth on, and entereth Knightley
park. Comes Rogerus held Chenetesley^ 20 Conq. of
the king. About Henry the First's time, or king Ste
phen, one William was lord of Knightley, which
William had issue Nicholas, who had issue Robert,
who had issue Jordanus and Sabrina : Jordanus had
issue Robert, who had issue sir Robert Knightley,
knt, who had issue a third sir Robert, who had issue
a fourth sir Robert, who had issue John, Ralph
(that died without issue), and William : John had issue
Joan, his daughter and heir, married to Roger Peshall,
who had issue Joan, married to William Lee, who died
without issue. William Knightley, before spoken of,
had issue Roger, who had issue Alicia, married to sir
Richard PeshaU', of Chetwinde, which he had in right
of Joan his former wife, who had issue sir Thomas
Peshall, knt. who had issue Humphry, who had issue
Richard, who had issue Humphry, who had issue sir
Hugh Peshall, knt. who bad issue Katherine, his only
daughter and heir, married to sir John Blount, knt. who
' Probably Onneley; where both Thomas the father, and
John the grandfather, are found, by inquisition, to die seized
of lands ; and the grandfather, of the manor of Onneley and
Charlton, S. P-W.
" Chenistelei. Domesday, Knightly and Cowley passed to
the Foleys by the marriage of an heiress.
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OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 143
had issue sir George Blount, knt, and Agnes, wife of
Richard Lacon, and Henry Blount, which Henry had
issue George Blount : but sir George Blount, his uncle
and godfather, gave all his lands to Rowland Lacon,
son of Richard Lacon, and Agnes, sister to the said sir
George. Rowley water, being past Knightley, enters into
Gnoweshall'. 20 Conq. Sansone held of the king
Gnoweshall : now it belongs to the church of Gnowes-
liall (being a collegiate church), and having four canons,
that had ecclesiastical jurisdiction, the said canons
being ordinary there. But since the dissolution of
religious houses, the prebends' lands came first leased
to sir George Blount, knt. (who gave the same to Dra
per, and two others of his servants), the reversion was
given by the king to the bishop of Coventry and Lich
field. In Gnoweshall is a manor-house, or capital messuage,
called the Burgh hall, some time the seat of one Adam
Burgh, from whom it descended to the Knightlej's, of
Knightley ; and, after William Knightley, descended to
the heirs-general. This house was reserved to the heirs
male, and continueth j'et in the name, as being the
inheritance of Thomas Knightley, second son of sir
Valentine Knightley^, who hath devised the same to
one Robert Harcourt, younger brother to sir John Har
court, of Raunton',
' The word nearest the trace of the letters amongst the lands
of Sansome, in Domesday Book, is Gene'hale, T, B.
The Domesday (as printed in Shaw), after stating the pos
sessions of Sanson, proceeds : " In Pancriz, ten. ix de rege
clerici hid. ;" and, -going on to the next article, begins it :
" Ipsi clerici ten. ii hid. et iii virg. t'rae in Geneshale." S. P-W.
' Of Fawsley, in Northamptonshire, Knightley is the pro
perty of viscount Anson.
> The church of Gnosall has peculiar privileges, of a very

144 THE ANTIQUITIES
This river, being past Gnoweshall, leaveth Wil
brighton' and Moreton^ more than a mile from it south
ward, both the inheritance of one Moreton, who hath
in Wilbrighton builded a proper gentleman's house of
brick. 20 Conq. Robert de Stafford held Wilbrighton
of the king. In Henry the Third's time, one Hervey de
Wilbrighton was lord of Wilbrighton ; and, 9 Edw. II,
John de Moreton was lord of Moreton,
Then, this brook entereth Rowley', divided between
Chetwind and Whitgreave, and leaveth Haloughton a
mile northward, being the ancient seat of the house of
Haloughton. Robert de Stafford held Halughton, or
Haloughton, of the King, 20 Conq, In Henry the
ancient date. The Minister and churchwardens annually elect
a jury, consisting of twelve men, who are empannelled, and
deliver a verdict on all ecclesiastical matters, concerning, which
any dispute may arise during the ensuing year. The bishop
was accounted titular dean, and had the patronage of Mord-
hall, Suckerhall, and Baverleyhall, 1 Edw. VI, The church is
in the Saxon stile ; in which is an altar-tomb, supporting a
recumbent figure in a chain-mail,
' Wilbrighton was sold to Edwin Skrimshire, of Aqualate,
esq, and was afterwards possessed by the heir of his sister.
Arms of Moreton: Argent, a chevron Gules, betwixt three
buckles Sable. It passed from the Moreton family, and is now
the property of Henry Green, esq.
° 12 James I., Adam Moreton died seized of this manor and
of 1200 acres in Wilbrighton.
' Rowley is within the Forebridge of Stafford, which belonged
to a religious house in Stafford, of which William Stanford, esq.
died seized 12 Eliz. and which descended to his grandson Wil
liam, and from him to sir Robert Stanford, whose son Edward sold
it to Richard Berrington, who married his daughter, and had
issue John, who enjoyed it in 1660. Degge. Arms of Stan
ford: Argent, three bars Azure in a canton Gules, a dexter
hand armed Or, holding a broken faulchion. Gules, bladed
Or. Arms of Hallughton : a lion rampant. \

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 145
Third's time Robert de Hallughton was lord of Hal
lughton, High Offley, Weston, and Mere; and, 9
Edw. II. Thomas de Halloughton was lord of them.
Since, I know not by what means, it came to be the
.possession of the lord Berners, the last Bourchier of
which race left it to sir Ralph Bourchier, his bastard
son, who sold it lately to Ralph Snead.
And so passeth to Church Eaton', a manor late the
lord Stafford's, and by him sold to his sister Dorothy,
who gave it in marriage with her daughter to one Drake
which Drake sold it very lately to Walter Chetwind,
second brother to William Chetwind, and son of John
Chetwind, deceased.
And so leaveth Bradeley*', northward, a manor also
belonging to the lord Stafford's barony, ever since the
Conquest. And Mitton, a manor divided between Chet
wind and . . . . , entereth into Penk somewhat above
Penchrich. Pancrize, so called in Domesday book (or the town
de Peno Crucio, as Mr. Camden would have it, or
Penchrich', as it is vulgarly called, and as the river
' The church is in the Saxon stile. The manor is yet the
property of earl Talbot. Little-On, in this parish, had a stone,
now removed, mentioned by Plot, with impreSsions upon it
resembling the feet of oxen. It was anciently called Ochne,
and given by the Conqueror to Roger de Montgomery, who
settled it upon the abbey of Utica, in Normandy. It is now
the property of Henry Crocket, esq,
' Bradley belonged to Edmund lord Stafford, who was slain
4 Hen, IV, in the battle of Shrewsbury, fighting for the King.
It remained in this family till it passed by the heir-general to
sir William Howard, knt. a younger son of Thomas Howard,
earl of Arundel and Surrey, who was created by Charles I,
viscount Stafford, It now belongs to viscount Anson,
Shredicote was long in possession of the Somervilles,
' Penkridge is of 'great antiquity; supposed by Camden to

146 THE ANTIQUITIES
Penk would seem to give it the name) was, by one San
some, held of the king, 20 Conq. and by Edwin and
Alric, priests, of him '. And in the time of Hen. III.
Andrew Blount was lord of it ; and 9 Edw, II. Hugh
Blount was lord thereof; from whom it came, I know
not by what means, to Robert Willoughby lord Brooke,
in Henry the Seventh's time ; and from him it came to
be the Penocrucium of the Romans ; but Plot, Stukeley, and
Horseley, transfer that Roman station to Stretton, because it
is nearer the Roman road, from which this place is two miles
- distant, Baxter shews, tjiat both names signify " the head of
the Grug river, or heath ;" and finds Cank, or Cannock Heath,
the heath of the Cangi, the Ceancs. The church is mentioned
in the charter of Stephen, and in the bull of pope Lucius, as
belonging to the churches of Coventry and Lichfield. Hugh
Huese granted the advowson and manor to the archbishop of
Dublin, and the gift was confirmed 17 John. That Archbishop
afterwards became dean of this church, and collated to the
thirteen prebends, which were granted, 2 Edw. VI. to John,
earl of Warwick, and 4 and 5 Philip and Mary, to William
Riggs and William Buckbird. The manor is now the property
of Edward John Littleton, esq.
WiUiam Hussey, gent, had a hall in Penkridge called Hus
sey Hall, of which he died seized 23 Hen. VIH. and left it to
his three daughters ; Alice, married to Robert Buther ; Amey,
and Dorothy.
Kinvaston belonged to Edward James in the seventeenth
century. Near Kinvaston and Rodbaston are some entrench
ments, which belonged to the castellated mansion of John de
Sandersted. Adam Blount, temp. Edw. I, and Hugo, his son, 9 Edw, II.
were lords of Penkridge.
' The place in which the Presbyters, Edwin and Alrid, held
three hides under Sanson, and which is the first article in the
list of his possessions, (save one hide, which had been before
named, at the head of the Terra Clericorum de Hardone, as held
by them under him, not noticing the King) was " Hargedone,"
for Hatherge-done, probably. S. P-W.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 147
sir Foulke Grevill, who sold it; but now young Foulke,
his son, hath bought it again.
Like a ipile, eastward from Penchrich, stands Pille-
ton-hall' (the seat of the Littletons of Staffordshire) and
Baddington ^ 20 Conq. the abbot of Burton was lord
of Beddington and Pillatenhall: for, in Henry the First's
time, Galfridus, abbas de Burton, gave Beddington and
Pillatenhall, to Edwin de Pillatenhall, as his father held
the same, in fee-farm, paying 20s, per annum : which
Edwin, I think, had issue William ; which William, as
I suppose, also had issue Alfred ; for all these were suc
cessively owners of Pillatenhall, And, after them also,
it came to Henry Brock, by descent as I suppose, for I
have seen a deed, whereby Richard abbot of Burton
gave him Pillatenhall, to hold as freely as the predeces
sors of the said Henry, or Alured de Huntington (which
I think to be Alfred, before spoken of), or Brune, Al-
' Abbot Galfridus grants to Edwin de Pilatehale Bedington
and Pilatehale, which his father had held in farm, to hold in
farm for his life, at 20s, yearly. The same abbot grants to
William Pilatehale, in fee-farm, at 10s. Abbot Robert re-
grants to the said William, in the same wards. Abbot Bernard
grants to Alfred Pilatehale, in fee and inheritance, at 16s,
Witnesses, Wilham Dean, of Tatenhill, &c. Abbot Richard
grants to Henr, de Brock, Pilatehala, in fee and inheritance, as
his predecessors ; namely, Alured de Huntedo', or his brother
Brun had held it, viz, at 16s. Register Burt, fo, xix, xx, xxi,
xxiii, b. xxvi. In 51 Hen. III. i, e.' 1267, Walter de Elmedon
and Gilbert (le Harpour) de Cestreton, cousins and heirs of
Robert de Broc, (which Robert, by descents set down in Dug
dale's art, Chesterton, was grandson to the said Henry de
Broc, by Constantia, daughter and heir of the said Brun),
made partition of Broc's lands ; on which partition, Walt, de
Elmedon had Huntedon. W. Hamper, from an autograph or
transcript of sir Simon Archer. S. P-W.
" Beddenhall. Bishop Lyttelton. — It now belongs to viscount
,\nson. 1,2

148 THE ANTIQUITIES
fred's brother, who had the same teri years, paying,
annuatim, l6s. But long after this, it came to one
Winnesbury ; the last of which, William Winnesbury
by name, had issue Alicia, his daughter and heir, mar
ried to Richard Littleton", who had issue sir Edward
¦ Lyttelton, Bishop Lyttelton,— Second son to sir Thomas
the judge. Smyth,
Plot observes, that his family have all been sir Edwards,
from the time of Hen, VI.; and this esjtate is now (1819)
possessed by Edward John Littleton, esq. who resides at Ted
desley, John de Littleton had possessions in the vale of Eves
ham, in the reign of king Hen. II, His son bore the device of
three scallop-shells, which are borne by this family to this day.
From him descended Thomas de Littleton, who, 24 Hen, III.
married, 1st, Emma, daughter of sir Simon de Frankley, knt.
and heiress of the manor of Frankley, co, Worcester, which
is, to this time, in the possession of the elder branch of this
family, 2d, Asselina, daughter and heiress of William Fitz-
warin, of Upton, co, Worcester, who was one of the justices
itinerant, and judge of the Common Pleas 12 Hen. Ill, By
her he had a son, from whom was descended Thomas de Lit
tleton, esquire to the body of king Henry IV, and V, and in
the latter reign was sheriff of Worcestershire, He married
Maud, daughter and heiress of Richard Quatremains, a family
of great name, by whom he had an only daughter, who mar
ried Thomas Westcote, of Westcote, co. Devon, who stipu
lated, before her marriage, that her issue should bear the name
of De Littleton, Their eldest son was the famous lawyer and
judge, Thomas Littleton, born about the beginning of the
fifteenth century at Frankley, He died Aug, 23, 1481, and was
buried in Worcester Cathedral. He married Joan, daughter
and co-heiress of William Burley, of Bromscroft castle, co,
Salop, and widow of sir Philip Chetwynd, of Ingestrie, They
had two daughters and three sons, William, Richard, and
Thomas, William Littelton was knighted by king Henry VII.
at the battle of Stoke, for bringing him aid against the earl of
Lincoln. He married, 1st, Ellen, daughter of William Walsh,
of Wanlip, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Byron, of
Clayton, by whom he had one daughter, Joan, married to sir

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 149
Littleton; father of another sir Edward, who was the
father of sir Edward now living, all three knights.
A little more eastward is Huntingdon' and Hatherton.
John Aston, of Haywood ; 2d, a daughter of William Whit-
tington, of Pantley, co. Gloucester,' by whom he had one son,
from whom the present lord Lyttelton is lineally descended.
Richard Littleton, the second son, who also became eminentin
the law, and for whose use his father's learned work " on
Tenures" was drawn up, was lineal ancestor to the late sir
Edward Littleton, bart, of Teddesley, ' Thomas Littleton, his
third son, was knighted by king Henry VII, for taking Lam
bert Simnel ; and from him was descended the lord keeper
Littleton, in the reign of king Charles I, Arms of Burley :
Argent, a lion rampant Sable, armed and langued Gules, de-
bruised with a fess counter componfe Or and Azure.
In Teddesley Park is a small square Roman camp ; in which
was found, in 1780, a short dagger. The metal is iron, and
.the shape is perfect, though much corroded, Edward Little
ton, 15 Hen, VIII, and 31 of the same king; sir Edward Lit
tleton, knt, 4 Edw, VI, 5 Eliz, and 23 and 35 of the same
reign; sir Thomas Littleton, knt, 11 James I, ; sir Edward Lit
tleton, bart, 12 Charles I, ; Edward Littleton, 33 Charles II. ;
Edward Littleton, 11 Anne; and sir Edward Littleton, bart.
3 Geo. III. ; 'were sheriffs of the county. Arms : Argent, a
chevron between three escallop shells Sable.
' Huntingdon does not appear in Domesday. Clodean holds
" Orreton," and Glodoen (no doubt the same man) Wrotolei
both under Rob. de Statford. Orreton seems Otherton, rather
than Hatherton, which we see was written " Hargedone :"
Overtone, now Orton, appears amongst Fitz-Ansculf's lands,
in the same page of Domesday. Erdeswick's fancy of Che-
nene, for Clodoen, has no shadow of ground. Richard de
Chenene seems the same with Ricardus Forestarius ; and Dug
dale, in Chesterton, says, R. F. was sometimes called Richard
Venator and Richard Chenen (or Chineu). S, P-W. Cheney.
Smyth. The perambulation of Cannock Forest, in 1300, finds Wau-
tier de Elmedon to hold Pilatenhale of Burton abbey ; and Este-
vene de Elmedon, (forester also with Will. Trumwyn jointly, )
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150 THE ANTIQUITIES
20 Conq. Clodean, (or rather, I think, it should be
Chenew written,) held them both of Robert de Stafford,
and he of the king ; which Chenew had issue Richard
de Chenew, I think, who had issue Margery, married
substance of a deed transcribed by the rev. J. Homfray, now
of Yarmouth, from (I think) the Ashnjolean museum ; whereby
Will. fil. Steph'i de Elmedone, d'ni de Pylatinhale, gives to
William, filio WiU'i d'ni de Wrotesleye, totum manerium
meum de Pylatunhall, s. d. This grantee seems a junior son
from Wrottesley, and must have been the V^'^illiam of Pilaten-
hall, who, says the diligent Wotton (in Baronetage, tit. Wrot
tesley), was dead in 23 Edw. Ill,; and sir Hugh de Wrottesley,
son and heir of sir William, had then custody of his lands. A
later William, stiled Elmedon, and also called William of Pil-
linton Hall, it appears, by a loose unvouched fragment of Shaw,
died 37 Edw. Ill, ; and his sister Joan's son, William de En
gleton, (another sister's son, called John de Pillatenhall, dying
s, p, 1382,) became final sole heir; which William de Engle
ton's daughter and heir, Joan, marrying John Wynnesbury,
sheriff of Salop, 7 Hen, VI, their great grandchild, Alice
Wynnesbury brought Pilatenhale, Teddesley, Huntington, and
all her father's estates, to Richard Littleton, The Littletons
deeming to consider Alice as mainly a Wrottesley by blood,
have, on the tombs of the four first sir Edwards, at Penkridge,
quartered the Wrottesley coat in the place of her paternal one
of Wynnesbury. Her estates remaiii still with them, and con
stitute, the chief seat of the very large property left by the late
baronet (the eighth sir Edward and ninth successive Edward)
to his grand nephew, Edward-John Walhouse, now Littleton,
S, P-W.
There was a grant of William, bishop of Coventry and Lich
field, to Roger Rassone, William Reynalds, William At Wode,
jun. Richard Perdone, Nicholas Wotton, John Smyth, Agnes
Bloxwych, Thonias Salt, Richard Cressewall, John Crawley,
Nicholas At Wode, John At Wode, Richard At Wode, Henry
Siche, John Robynson, and Richard Crawley, their heirs and
assigns, of certain premises at Huntyngdon, in the chase of
Cannock. Dated at Beaudesert, on St. Michael's Day, 8
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OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 151
to William Croke, (or Croc, as anciently,) who had
issue William, that was hanged, and Margery, married
to Robert Broche, who had issue Margery, married to
Hugh de Leges, who had issue Hugh de Leges, that
lived in Henry the Third's time '.
Penk, being past Penchrich, leaveth westwardiy
Drayton, some time belonging to the barony of Staf
ford, and by Hervy Bagott and Milicent his wife sold
to the priory of St, Thomas, whereof Walter Fowler is
now owner ; and also Dunston, a divided manor, some
time between the baron de Stafford and Richard de
Stretton, who passed his interest to one Thomas Pick-
stocke ; and, long after, one William Pickstocke passed
his interest to one Robert Dorrington, of Gaytpn, in
15 Hen. VI. who had issue John, who had issue Robert,
who had issue Hamlet, who had issue John, who had
issue Sampson, who had issue Anthony, who had issue
Katherine, his only daughter and heir, married to ....
son and heir of Richard Masterson, of Nantwich, in
Cheshire ^
Penk passing further, leaveth eastwardly, Acton'. 20
Conq, Robert held of the bishop ; ,since it was the Trus-
" Who had issue sir Richard de Leges, who had issue Hugh,
that died without issue, and Richard de Leges, who had issue
Elizabeth, who was married to Nicholas de Warwick 6 Edw, II.
Smyth, Arms of Leges : Argent, three piles Gules in a can
ton Azure, a buck trippt Or,
Hatherton is the seat of Moreton Walhouse, esq. whose
ancestor William Walhouse, 4th July, 13 James I. died seized
of lands in Great Sardon, Water Eaton, Kinvaston, Hatherton,
Stretton, Whistone, and Galley-Hay, which he left to Walter,
his son. Moreton Walhouse, 32 Geo, III. was sheriff of the
county. ^ Arms of Dorington : Sable, three bugle horns Argent,
stringed Gules.
' Acton is now (1819) the property of viscount Anson.

152 THE ANTIQUITIES
sell's land, and therefore commonly called Acton-Trus-
sel, and lately sold by the earl of Oxford, one of whose
ancestors married Trussel's heir.
Somewhat more removed westwardiy, lieth Burton,
the seat of the Whitgreaves. In Henry the Third's time,
Robert Whitgreave was owner of it; and since, another
Robert, who had issue Humphrey, who had issue ano
ther Robert, both now living'.
Penk keeping on its course, leaveth Ricardscote
(which, 20 Conq. Robert held of Robert de Stafford)
on the west ; and Beddenhall, Brockton, Walton, Stock-
ion', and Berkeswich, commonly called Baswich, on the
east; all, 20 Conq. the lands of the bishop of Lichfield,
and so entereth Sow, which, being joined, washeth the
walls of the priory of St. Thomas the Martyr, juxta Staf
ford, founded by one Gerardus de Stafford, filius Brieni de
Stafford, sometimes so calling himself, and more often
Briennus, filius Gerrardi de Stafford ; doubtful I ara,
whether he were of the bouse of the barons of Stafford,
or else some wealthy burgo-master of Stafford, and called
himself de Stafford, as dwelling in the city (or bo
rough) of Stafford, as it is called in the records of
Domesday. At this day it is the seat of Walter, the son
of Brien Fowler, to whom Rowland Lee, bishop of Lich
field, gave it, and also the other lands, for the most part
of the said priory, as being the son of Sibilla his sister,
by her husband Roger Fowler. Roger was the son of
Edward, the son of Thomas, second- son of William
Fowler, of Ricote in Oxfordshire, the son of Henry, the
son of John Fowler' of Foxley, in Buckinghamshire,
' In 1654, Thomas Whitgreave was owner of it. See
Moseley. ° There is no mention of Stockton in Domesday. S. P-W.
' Arms of Fowler : Ermine,, in a canton Gules an owl
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Sow' being past St, Thomas's priory, divideth Tickes
hall (whereof I have spoken before) from jhe forest of
Canke, cmnmpnly^cdledjCauke-wood^^ it should
be Canutus wood), and so entereth into Trent, between
Heywood (spoken of also before) and Sowborough,
called Shutborough^, where remain the ruins of a
' The little parish of Beskswick, or Baswick, which takes its
name probably from Bertie or Bertelin, the hermit of Stafford,
is the place whither, perhaps, he retired, to end his days in
solitude. In the old chartularies of St. Thomas's priory it is
written Bercleswick.
' Shugborough has been described by Pennant. Leland
says : " Some call it Shokesborow Haywood, because it stand
eth by it,'' Opposite to the back front of the house, on
the banks of the Sow, are the remains of the ancient man
sion, which originally belonged to " Suckborrow, with a long
beard ; who, according to Leland, is supposed to have given
it to the Bishop, The house was long an episcopal resi
dence, having been built by bishop Langton, The remains
now give the appearance of reality and ruin to some beautiful
Grecian columns, and other fragments of ancient architecture.
Here was born that distinguished naval commander and cir
cumnavigator, the first lord Anson, the narrative of whose
voyages makes a conspicuous figure in the annals of English
history. This family have been seated in the county for several
centuries ; first at Dunston, in the parish of Penkridge, and
afterwards at Shugborough, the manor of which was purchased,
in the time of James I. by William Anson, an eminent lawyer,
temp, Elizabeth, Dugdale states (p. 834) that he bought two
manors in Warwickshire of sir Walter Aston, which he after
wards sold to William Comberford, of Tamworth. William
Anson, his ^on and heir, was born in 1628 ; married Elizabeth,
daughter of Thomas Stafford, of Botham, co. Derby, and by
her had three daughters, and William, his son and heir, born
in 1656. This Wilham, who died in 1720, was the father of
Thomas, his son and heir, and George the Admiral, and four
daughters. George, afterwards lord Anson, younger son of
William, by Elizabeth, daughter and. coheir of Robert Carrier,
of Worksworth, co. Derby, esq. was born here April 23, 1697,

154 THE ANTIQUITIES
goodly house, some time the bishop's, and since then
the lord Pagett's, who had the same, the Cannock
was educated in the naval service, and became an admiral in
1745, As a reward for his numerous important services, both
at sea and as the First Lord of the Admiralty at home, in 1747
he was advanced to the peerage by the title of lord Anson,
baron of Soberton, in Hampshire, Dying without issue, in
1762, his title became extinct. His estates devolved to his
nephew, George Adams, esq, who also succeeded to this estate
at the death of his elder uncle, Thomas Anson, esq. He took
the name of Anson, and was father of Thomas Anson, esq. who,
in 1806, was created baron of Soberton, co. Southampton, and
viscount Anson of Shugborough and Orgreave, co. Stafford,
Arms : Argent, 3 bends engrailed Gules, a crescent for dif
ference, John de Colwich, seated here, was witness to a deed 25
Edw. L and whose ancestors resided at Colwich, temp. Rich, I,
George Colwich married a sister of John Aston, esq. Edward,
his son, left Elizabeth, an only daughter and heiress, who
married, 1 Philip and Mary, Peter Leicester, of Nether Ta-
bley, CO. Chester, esq, whose three daughters and coheirs sold
their estate at Colwich to sir Robert Wolseley, bart, about
1634, Arms of Colwich : Argent, a fess between three rere-
mice displayed Sable,
The following poetical and, elegant Address to the first lord
Anson, on this beautiful and enchanting spot, was written by
Dr, Sneyd Davies : TO LORD ANSON.
Thy course in various travel has been run,
O'er paths illumin'd by the setting sun.
Here, Anson rest ; thy labour is no more ;
Waves and the tempest recommend the shore.
See from this port the length of Ocean past.
Look from this Eden to its dreary waste !
Serene, enjoy the contrast of thy pains.
The burning sand, the aromatic plains.
Here to reflection thirsty deserts brought,
Here groves of citron through the gales be caught !
The boast of Europe and of Asia thine.
Their bloom and their decay for thee combine ;

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 155
town" and forest, together with Longdon, Rugeley,
Beaudesert, (another house, some time also the bishop's.
The radiant splendour in Versailles display'd.
And the mild beauty in Frescati's shade ;
Where fretted gold Elcairo's roof adorns,
And Balbec her majestic ruin mourns ;
On the maim'd architrave, in shrubs o'ergrown.
The living eagle soars in sculptur'd stone,
Jove in the wreck, still awful and sublime :
Barbarian ravage, and the worm of time.
To charm thy view, restrain their havock's power,
Spare the rent pillars, and the falhng tow'r ;
Palmyra's columns to thy mansion guide.
And bid Minerva's fane resume its pride.
Can thy fond wish beyond possession roam.
And sigh for Art's or Nature's charms at home ?
Can fam'd Pactolus grace a richer mead,
Or Tempe's lawns a softer carpet spread ?
May not that broken pile's disorder'd state
Express in emblem all-consuming fate ;
Recall in lov'd remains departed skill,
Grace the memorial, and the wonder still ?
Upon that storied marble cast thine eye.
The scene commands a moralizing sigh ;
Ev'n in Arcadia's bless'd Elysian plains,
Amidst the laughing nymphs and sportive swains,
See festal joy subside, with melting grace,
And pity visit the half-smiling face ;
Where now the dance, the lute, the nuptial feast,
The passion throbbing in the lover's breast?
Life's emblem here, in youth and vernal bloom.
But Reason's finger pointing at the tomb !
Yet, while thou may'st enjoy and love the bow'r,
With soul sedate above the passing hour.
Behold thy oriental structures rise,
Though turban'd pride and sultans they despise ;
From servile climes their Grecian arts demand,
And rear Athenian domes in Freedom's land.
' The etymology of Cannock has been derived from the Cangi;
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156 THE ANTIQUITIES
and new re-edified by the late lord Pagett',) together
with the parks of Heywood and Beaudesert, and a great
king of England ; but it probably takes its name from two
Saxon words, caw», . powerful, and aic, oak. A power of any
thing is sometimes used to mean a great quantity, and this
extensive waste is often called Cank wood at this day. It
abounds in coal, and has some beds of limestone. The free
holders have an unlimited right, of common. 'riiere_agpears to
have been a castle_in early times upon this forest, where the
first kings of the Norman race occasionally resided. This castle
existed_ in the reign of queen Elizabeth. The forest was
annexed to the see of Lichfield in the time of bishop Weseham.
After the restoration, sir William Paget obtained a grant of
Cannock-wood, . Beaudesert, and other lands of the bishop.
Here was doubtless a forest during the time of the Mercians,
and it was the favourite chase of their monarchs. The waste
is said to contain thirty-six thousand acres. There was a decree
and orders in the Court of Chancery, respecting Cannock,
Rugeley, Haywood, and Longdon, dated 29 Nov. 1606, 4
James I. and an act of parliament for the confirmation of the
same. The curacy of this church was the first preferment of
the famous Dr. Henry Sacheverell. Near the church is a stone
of great weight and magnitude, which has been sunk under the
surface of the ground, and the plough passes over it. Several
large single stones here are objects of curiosity, and are pro
bably the remains of Druidical habitations. At_Radmore,.
(within^ the forest, was an abbey for the Cistertian order of
monks. They were formed into a society in the reign of Ste^
phen, about 1140, when they first procured a grant of, the
hermitage, upon which the empress Matilda and king Stephen
afterwards conferred some adjacent lands towards the founda-
tioiTbTa monastery. The monks were soon removed, in 1154,
to Stoneley, and formed the commencement of that abbey, in
Warwickshire. ' William lord Paget was bom at Wednesbury, sprung from
obscure parents, his father being serjeant at mace in London,
He so recommended himself to Hen, VIII. that he appointed
him one of his executors, and of the council to his son
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OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 157
liumber of harrilets and villages more, in and adjoining
to the said forest; all which were lands of the-lord bishop
of Coventry and Lichfield; and by him given in ex
change ' of certain parsonages impropriate, and other

of the household, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, and
lord Paget of Beaudesert. He was involved- in the duke of
Somerset's disgrace ; but restored, with accumulated honours,
by Mary, and died in 1564 ; as did his sons and successors in
1568 and 1569, the latter under attainder for corresponding
with Mary queen of Scots. His son, William, was restored
1 James I. and died in 1628. His son, WiUiam, died in 1678 ;
and his son, William, the sixth lord, was ambassadour to the
Porte, for concluding the peace of Carlowitz, in 1698 ; and
dying in 1712, was succeeded by his son, Henry, the seventh
lord; and was created baron of Burton in 1711, and earl of
Uxbridge in 1714; both which titles terminating in his grand
son in 1769, the title of Paget of Beaudesert went to sir Henry
Bayley, bart. great grandson to William, fifth lord Paget, who
took the name of Paget, and was, in 1784, advanced to the
title of earl of Uxbridge. He died March 13, 1812, and was
succeeded by his eldest son, Henry William, lieutenant-general
in the army, and colonel of the 7th regiment of dragoons ;
who, June 24, 1815, was created marquess of Anglesey. The
house at Beaudesert was rebuilt by Thomas lord Paget in
the reign of Elizabeth, Here is a fine portrait of the first
lord Paget by Holbein. His monument in Lichfield cathedral
was destroyed in the civil war. Arms of Paget, marquess of
Anglesey : quarterly, 1 st and 4th, Sable, on a cross engrailed
between four eagles displayed Argent, five lions passant of the
first; 2nd and 3d, Azure, nine estoiles, 3, 3, 2, and 1, Argent.
' Ric'us Sampson, ep'us Cov. et Lich. ad requisic'o'em Hen.
VIII. regis, per manus regis, assueravit Will'o Paget, militi, et
heredibus maneria de Longdon, Cannock, Rudgeley,Jlhut-
borough, Whyttington,_Jbresta' et chaseam de Cannock et
parcoFde Beaudesert et Heywood, in p'petuam exheredacVem
cath'lis eccl'iaE deJLichf. in malum exemplum co'essorum, et
maximum detrimentum multorum inhabitantium infra comi-
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158 THE ANTIQUITIES
benefices, which the said lord Pagett had obtained of
king Edw, VI. whereby he procured himself to be created
lord Pagett of Beaudesert.
In Cannock, long since, was the seat of the Trum-.
wyns, of the original of which house see the copy of
two deeds here following : Will'us rex Angl, N, vice-
com, de Estadford, sal't'm fac, ut iste Lewinus, ejus
hospes, ita tractatus sit, et ita juste habeat consuetu-
dines suas, sicut habuit tempore patris mei et meo.
Test, Rob, fil. Ham. The other deed, expressing more
at large, says thus : Wil. rex Angliae Nicol. vicecom,
et Ric'o Caramag. sal't'm, sciatis me reddidisse huic le
Filedo et filio ejus Trumwino, terram Lewini, patris sui,
qui mortuus est, et ministerium quod ipse tenuit, sicut
ipse tenuit, et nuUus ei injuriam faciat. Test, Rob, fil.
Ham. apud Can'oc,
I have not the descent of this Trumwin that was
between his time and the time of Hen. III. but in Henry
the Third's time lived one sir William Trumwin, knt.
who had issue sir William, who had issue sir William
Trumwin, written in one deed le Rider', (which I take
to be as much as chevalier or knight) who had issue sir
ex benevolentia et concessione regia ad pristinum statum eccl'ias
redigantur. Amen, Wyrley,
' I should think it meant something more particular. Le
Rider, I apprehend, was the designation of an officer of Can-
nock-chase. S. P-W. ~
Ego Henricus de Harecourt, dedi Aliciae Trumwyne, omnes
terras in villis de Alrewych, Shenston, et Barre, &c. Dat.
apud Alrewych, anno x Edw, fil, Edwardi.
Carta Emmoe quae fuit uxor d'ni Will'mi Trumwyne, &c.
Dat, apud Herdewike, anno xii Edw, regis.
Ego Johanna de la Poole, quondam uxor Rogeri Tromwyne,
militis, in viduate mea, dedi Roberto Tromwyne filio meo,
clerico, omnes terras in le Herdewike, infra manerium de Sar
don, &c. Dat. apud Clannem, anno 7 Edw. Ill,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 159
William and sir Roger, both knights ; sir William had
issue sir William and John Trumwin, who, as I take it,
both died without issue, for that all the lands of sir Wil
liam came to the issue of sir Roger; who had issue
Roger, sir John Trumwin, knt. Robert, and David;
but all died without issue : so that all the lands, both of
sir William Trumwin and sir Roger his brother, de
scended to Katherine, daughter of the said sir Roger,
wife of sir John Musard, who by her had issue Joan,
their only daughter and heir, married to sir John Wash-
bourne, who had issue Isold, married to John Salway
of Leacroft.
'Leacroft is a hamlet in Cannock parish, of which
town was lord one William Salway about Henry the
Third's time, who had issue William, who had issue
William, who had issue Adam, who had issue
John, who had issue John, who had issue the said
John Salway, husband of the said Isold. John Salway,
and Isold his wife, had issue Humphry, who had issue
John and Thomas. John married the daughter^ of
Hugh Erdeswick of Sandon, by whom he had issue
Cecilia, married to Thomas Conisby', father of Hum
phry, father of sir Thomas, now living ; Margaret, mar
ried to Thomas Biddulph, father of Francis, father of
Richard, now living ; and Joyce, married to one Ashby,
and, after, to Raufe Wolseley. Thomas Salway, bro
ther of John that had the three daughters, had issue
Thomas, who had issue Arthur Salway, of Stanford in
Worcestershire, and now of the exchequer, and yet
living. ' Leacroft was, in the eighteenth century, the seat of Edward
Byrche, esq. serjeant at law. It yet remains in the same
family. See their pedigrees in Wilmot's Life of Bishop
Hough. ^ Margery. T. B.
' Sir Thomas Coningsby, of Hampton Court, Herefordshire.
Smyth.

l60 THE ANTIQUITIES
Trent, being past Shutborough and Heywood, run
neth by Colwych', where hath been a race of gentle
men, bearing the name of the same place, whose only
daughter and heir, in our age, was married to Leicester
of Tabley in Cheshire. The first of the Colwyches, that "
I can find, was one John Colwych, who lived in or
before Henry the Third's time : he had issue Adam,
who had issue John, who had issue Roger, who had
issue Thomas, who had issue John, who had issue Tho
mas, who had issue George, who had issue Edward and
George; Edward had issue Elizabeth, his only daughter
and heir, married to Peter Leicester, of Tabley in Che
shire. Peter and Elizabeth had issue three daughters ;
Alice, married to sir George Leicester, of Toft^ knt. ;
Elizabeth, married to George Legh, of High Legh, both
Cheshire men ; and Katherine, niarried to John Ireland,
of the Hutt in Lancashire. Sir George Leicester and
Alice have issue Ralph; George Legh and Elizabeth
have issue Thomas Legh ; but John Ireland and Kathe
rine having no issue, sold their part of Colwych's lands
to sir George Leicester, who now hath the two parts.
Trent, being past Colwych, entereth between Bishton,
or Bishopston, and Wolseley, (famous for the bridge that
passeth over Trent there) of which Wolseley is owner ; a

' The ancient church of Colwich contains monuments to the
memory of the families of Anson and Wolseley. The manor,
according to sir Simon Degge, was bought by sir Robert
Wolseley, bart. in whose descendants it yet remains. At Oak-
edge lived Mrs. Whitby, known by the name of the " widow
of the wood," who was married at midnight, in the church of
Colwich, to sir William Wolseley, bart. which marriage was
set aside, she having previously married  Robins, esq.
of Stafford : she was afterwards the wife of Mr. Hargreave,
father of the late eminent lawyer of that name, and died in
June 1782. This is the property of viscount Anson.

OP STAFFORDSHIRE. l6l
gentleman* bearing his name of the place. It is a member
of Heywood, and, 20 Conq. Nigellus, Gresley's paternal

', This family have resided at the same place under the same
name for more than six centuries.
Edric de Wholeseley,
1, Reimerus de Wolseley: shortly after the Conquest, and
lived at Wolseley,
2, Syward d'n's de Wolseleia,
3, W'mus de Wolseleia.
4, Ric'us de Wolseley,
5. Stephen de Wolseley.
6. Rob'tus Wolesley, lived in 1281.
7. Rob'tus Wolseley,
8. W'mus Wolseley.
9, Ric'us Wolseley, 25 Edw, I, obtained Bishton in marriage
with Sybilla, daughter of Roger de Ashton, which lands yet
remain in possession of sir Charles Wolseley,
10. John Wolseley, 11 Edw. III.
11, Rad'us Wolseley, married Matilda, 20 Ric, II,
12, Tho, Wolseley, 12 — 39 Henry VI, married Margaret,
daughter of Thomas Brocton de Longdon,
13. Rad'us Wolseley, bar. scacc. temp. Edw. IV. died 20
Hen, VII. married Margaret, widow of Robert Kinnersley of
Loxley, and fil, Rob, Aston* de Heywood.
14. Joh'es Wolseley, died 5 Eliz. married Anna, fil. Georgii
Stanley de Bromwich.
15. Rad'us Wolseley, married Joyce, daughter and coheiress
of John Salway de Stanford,
16, John Wolseley, married Isabel, daughter of John
Porter. 17, Sir Robert Wolseley, bart. 4 Chas, I. married a daughter
of sir George Wroughton, of Wiltshire, p. rege violent, p. rege
p. proteptore.

* This Ralph died seized of the manor of Wolseley, and John was
found to be his son and heir. aet. 30. Ralph. 8 Edw. IV. made a feoff
ment of his lands before-mentioned, by which it appears he lived thirty-
four years after he was baron of the exchequer.
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l62 THE ANTIQUITIES
ancestor held it of the bishop, as also Moreton, standing
a mile northwardly.
18, Sir Charles Wolseley *, married Anne, daughter of* vis
count Say and Scale ; was in great favour with the protector,
and a member of his House of Lords.
19. Sir William Wolseley, bart;
20. Sir Henry Wolseley, bart. succeeded his brother . sir
William, 21. Sir William Wolseley, bart. eldest surviving son of cap
tain Richard Wolseley, sixth son of sir Charles Wolseley, bart.
He died in 1779.
22. Sir William Wolseley, bart. died in 1817.
23. Sir Charles Wolseley, bart. married 1st, Mary, daughter
of the hon. Thomas Clifford, of Tixall, by whom he has one son.
Spencer- William, born 1799 ; 2d, Anne, daughter of Anthony
Wright, esq.
William Wolseley, a colonel in Ireland, who was fifth son
of the first sir Robert Wolseley, bart. married Eleanor,
daughter and heir of sir Marmaduke Whitchurch, knt.
Anthony Wolseley, bart. second son of sir John Wolseley,
who died 5 Eliz. married the daughter of William Bhth, of Nor
ton, CO, Derby,
This curious old baronial hall, is yet, 1819, the residence of
sir Charles Wolseley, bart.

* In this family were remarkable instances of longevity. Lord Say
and Scale married a daughter of lady Temple, who lived to see several
hundred descended from herself, and died, in 1656. at Stow in Bucking
hamshire. Sir Charles Wolseley, had seven sons and ten daughters, and
died in 1714, aged 85 : sir William, who lived to be 73 ; sir Henry was
drowned in 1730, aged 73; captain Richard lived to be 68; Mrs. Ed
wards survived to the age of 91 ; and Mrs. Somerville of 98. Mrs. Berry
had twenty children, and lived to be 72 ; Mrs. Marsh 70 j Mrs. Bridget
Wolseley 63; Mrs. Wedgwood 76; Mrs. Frances Wolseley 66; Mrs,
Bentley 55 ; Mrs. Penelope Wolseley 75 ; Robert. Fiennes. Charles, and
James, died young. This account was taKen in 1746, and many of them
survived that date. Mrs Somerville was the mother of Somerville the
poet, who was born at Wolseley, Sept. 2, 1675. Richard, the sixth son.
who was heir to sir Charles, married an heiress in Ireland, and settled
one of his younger sons in that country, who was afterwards created a
baronet.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. IgS
About Henry the Second's time, Wolseley was a di
vided manor, between Richard Hintes and Richard de
Wolseley, as appeareth by a deed, the copy whereof
here followeth : Hsec est conventio facta inter Ricum de
Hintes et Ricum de Wolseley, nepotem suum, quod ex
mutuo consilio amicorum eorum ex utraque parte sunt
inter se affidati fideliter ; simul terras et jura eorum
apud Wolseley fideliter poterunt servare et simul guber-
nare, et in unum tutare; et ubi jura eorum retro sunt,
acquirere poterunt fideliter, et poterunt purchasiare, et
dimidiare; ita quod neuter eorum de altero certabit;
nee exordium faciet, de placito, sine altero, nee placi
tum exmovebit : hanc autem conventionem fideliter ob-
servand. ex utraque parte et confirmend : Hi sunt testes,
Rad. de Mitton, Ad, fil, ejus Ad. de Colwitz, Ad, de
Shradecot, Steph. fil. ejus, Walter de Bishopeston, et
multi alii.
' Moreton descended from Nigellus to William his
son, lord of Gresley Castle, and divers other manors, as
appeareth by Domesday book ; which William founded
the monastery of Gresley in Derbyshire ; and had issue
sir Robert de Gresley', who had issue sir William, who

Sir Thomas Wolseley, 2 Ric. Ill, was sheriff of the county.
Arms : Argent, a wolf-dog passant Gules, Crest : out of a du
cal crown Or, a wolf dog's head erased proper,
" Moreton was sold to sir Edward Aston by sir George Gres
ley, the first baronet of the family, whose son sold it to sir Ro
bert Wolseley, the first baronet of the family, who left it to
descend to sir Charles Wolseley, his son, one of Oliver Crom
well's lords of the upper house of parhament. Moreton is no
longer the property of the Wolseleys.
^ Robert Greseley, however, had " Mortun" only by ex
change with a younger brother Engenolf, to whom he gave in
lieu Swart ( Swarthincote, a small lordship, in Greseley parish,
Derbyshire), with two bovates in " Kingesleya," and two iu
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l64 , THE ANTIQUITIES
had issue sir Geffry, who had issue sir Peter Gresley, all
knights ; sir Peter had issue sir Geffry Gresley, who had
issue sir John, who had issue sir Nicholas, who had issue
sir Thomas, who had issue sir John, who had issue sir
John, who had issue sir Thomas, who had issue sir Wil
liam Gresley, knt. sir John, a priest, sir George, a knt..
Robert and James. Sir William, and sir John, died both
without issue. Sir George Gresley had issue sir William
Gresley, knt. father of sir Thomas Gresley, of Drakelow
and Colton, now living, 1596'.

" Bredleia," both in Staffordshire. " Test, Domina Basilia
uxor,Rob. de Gresel ; and, among others, four more Greseleys,
Nigel, Henry, William, Ralph, all younger brothers of Robert,
Robert's autograph among Swarthincote evidences, in posses
sion of S, P-W, See others of them quoted in note on Darlaston,
¦ ' 1. Nigellus intravit Angliam Conquestore.
2. W'mus fil. Nigel, fundator Monast. de Gresley.
3. Robertus de Gresley, miles, fil. Wil'm.
4. W'mus de Gresley, miles, fil. et haer, Rob,
5. Galfridus de Gresley, mil. fil. et haer. W'mi,
6, W'mus de Gresley, mil. fil, et hser, Galfridi.
7, Galfridus de Gresley, mil. fil, et haer, W'mi,
8, Petrus de Gresley, mil, fil. et haer. Galfridi,
9, Galfridus de Gresley, mil, fil, et haer, Petri,
10, Johannes de Gresley, mil, fil, et haer, Galfridi,
11. Nicolaus de Gresley, roil, fil. et haer, Joh'is,
12, Thomas de Gresley, mil, fil. et haer, Nic'h,
13, Johannes de Gresley, mil. fil. et haer. Thomae.
14, Thomas de Gresley, mil. fil. et haer. Joh'is.
15. W'mus de Gresley, mil. fil. et haer. Thomae. Obiit sine
prole. 16. Georgius de Gresley, mil, frater et haer. W'mi. Habuit
exitum, W'mum, Edw'dum, et Thomam.
17. W'mus de Gresley, mil, fil, et haer. W'mi ; genuit Henri-
cum, Georgium, Joh'em, et W'mum ; Walsinghamiam, Cathe-
rinam Canciae, Catherinam Eboracenciae, et Dorotheam, Et
pater et nati nataeque viventes 1592, mense Mali 2".

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. l65
Trent, being past Moreton, runneth between Colton
and Rugeley, sometime a manor belonging to the bishop,
as I have said.
Inter arma nobilium com. Staff, Ric, II, Sir Geofirey de
Gresley, vaire. Ermine and Gules,
18. Sir George Gresley, the first baronet,
19, Sir Thomas Gresley, bart. succeeded his grandfather sir
George. 20. Sir William Gresley, bart. succeeded his father sir
Thomas. 21, Sir Thomas Gresley, bart, succeeded his father sir
William. 22. Sir Thomas Gresley, bart. succeeded his father sir Thomas.
23. Sir Nigel Gresley, bart, succeeded his brother sir
Thomas, 24. Sir Nigel-Bowyer Gresley, bart, succeeded his father sir
Nigel. 25, Sir Roger Gresley, bart, succeeded his father sir Nigel
Bowyer, and is, 1819, the present baronet.
Arms : Vaire Ermine and Gules. Crest : on a wreath, a lion
passant Ermine, armed, langued, and collared Gules.
In the second year of king John, William de Ferrers, sixth
earl of Derby and Nottingham, had a grant from that king of
William de Gresley and his heirs, for his lands at Drakelow, to
hold by the payment of a bow, with a quiver and twelve ar
rows yearly, for all services. In consequence of which service
to these earls of Derby, the family of Gresley of Drakelow,
from whom is lineally descended that most ancient family, still
subsisting in the person of sir Roger Gresley, of Drakelow,
baronet, assumed arms nearly similar to those of the family of
Ferrers ; viz. vaire, Ermine and Gules, which are still the arms
of that family.
In an old deed — Galfredus de Greseley, maritus Marioriae
fihae Matildis de Somerville, habuit duas sorores, scil. Aga-
tham, nuptam Galfrido de Bee, et Aliciam nuptam cuidam
Ricardo filio Gilberti,
There is indentura inter Matildem de Vernon, d'num Ric'm
de Stafford, et Isabellam uxorem ejus, ex una, et d'num Joh'ein
de Greseley, et Aliciam uxorem ejus, ex altera.' Dat. anno
32 R. Ed. III.

166 THE ANTIQUITIES
Of Colton, was lord, in the Conqueror's time, one
Goisfridus", and immediately after him, one Hardulphus
de Wastenoys, miles, was lord of all, or half of it, I
know not which ; for in 9 Edw. II. sir William Waste
noys, and Anselmus le Marshall, were joint lords
thereof; which Hardulphus had issue sir Robert^ who
had issue sir Philip, who had issue sir William, who had
issue sir William, who had issue sir William, who had
issue sir John, who had issue sir William, who had issue
sir Thomas, all knights ; sir Thomas had issue Thoma
sine, his only daughter and heir, married to sir Nicholas
Gresley, before-named'.
Carta Margaretae, quae fuit uxor Galfridi de Greseley, data
anno 8 Ed. III. Ego, Joh'es de Clynton, dedi Galfrido de
Greseley, et Margaretae uxori suae, &c. in Kingeston, &c. anno
7 Edw. fil. Edw.
Ego, Galfridus de Gireseley, miles, concessi Isoldae relictae
Rob'ti de Greseley, filii mei, dotem suam de uno messuagio in
Lullinton, usa ad plenam aetatem Joh'is filii, et haeredi dicto
Rob'ti pro eo nutriendo, &c, Dat, anno 26 regis Edwardi,
' Coltone et Goiffridus de eo (viz. Rob, de Stafford).
Domesday, ^ " Wlio had issue a daughter, Diva, wife to Robert, fil,
Walteri de Morley, whose daughter and coheir, Amphelisia,
married sir Philip de Gastenoys, who had issue sir William,"
&c. From a chartulary of Sacheverell, quoted in Thoroton's
Nottinghamshire, p. 60 ; and the Gresleya Volume in Chee-
tham's Library at Manchester, copied by the late lieut,-colonel
Chadwick, of Mavesyn-Ridware, S, P-W,
Sir Hardolph Wastneys, knt, a descendant of sir Philip de
Gasteneys, resided at Headon, co, Nottingham, and was made
a baronet, 20 king James I. His great grandson, sir Hardolph,
fourth baronet, died about 1760, and was the last of that name.
Arms of Wastenoys : Sable, a lion rampant Argent, collared
Gules. ^ Sir Nicholas Greislei, about 1379, by his marriage with
Thomasine, sole heiress and daughter of sir Thomas Wastenoys,
transferred this manor of Colton to the house of Drakelow.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. l67
Trent, being past Colton and Rugeley', passeth on
between Mavesine-Ridware and Armitage.
The old hall at Colton, which was large enough to contain
fourscore lodging rooms, was burnt down in the time of Charles
I, by the carelessness of a servant.
Sir George Gresley, bart. temp, James I. sold Colton to sir
Walter Aston, knight of the Bath, and baronet, afterwards
baron of Forfar, who left it to his son, Walter lord Aston, It
is now, 1819, the property of . .. Burt, esq, John Heyligar
Burt, esq, 45 Geo, III. was sheriff of the county.
There was a grange at Colton, which belonged to the
priory of St, Thomas, and was given by Rowland Lee to Ro
bert Fowler, his godson, from whom it descended to George
Fowler, his son, who sold it to Sampson Boughey, who had
issue George, who had issue Sampson, who had issue George
(who had no issue), and five daughters ; Constance, the young
est, married to Whitehall Degge, esq. eldest son of Simon
Degge, esq. who had the same in marriage with his wife, paying
^750, for portions to some other of the sisters.
There is at Colton a manor called Little Hay, and a hall
which was long enjoyed by the younger brothers of the Bagots.
Bellamour-hall was built by Herbert Aston, esq. a younger
brother of lord Aston ; a new house has been erected by lady
Blount near the old hall, which had been called Bell'amour in
token of the benevolence of the gentlemen his neighbours in
the completion of it. Arms of Blount : the second barry wavy
of six Or and Sable.
This ancient family is said to have taken its origin from the
Bloridi in Italy, and they from the Roman Flavii, so called
from their fair hair. Le Blond, lord of Guines in France,
came over with the Conqueror ; two of whose sons, sir Robert
and sir William, were the progenitors of all the Blounts in
England. Sir Robert had thirteen lordships in Suffolk, and
was created by the Conqueror baron of Icksworth. Sir Wil
liam had six lordships in Lincolnshire. From these two bro
thers descend the Blounts of Mapledurham, co. Oxford ; and
sir Edward Blount, of Mawley and Soddington, co. Worcester.
' At Rugeley was the seat of William Chetwynd, son of Wil
liam, son of Thomas, a younger brother of the last sir Walter

l68 THE ANTIQUITIES
Of Mavesine-Ridware' was lord one William Mave-
sine about Edward the First's time : for, 33 Edw, I. and
The present baronet is the grandson of sir Walter Blount, who
married Mary, eldest daughter and coheiress of James, fifth
lord Aston, Edward Blount, esq, is the_present proprietor of
this estate.

Chetwynd of Ingestrie, whose grandfather and uncle made
great improvements of their estates, which have descended to
earl Talbot. The family of Weston had a seat here, at Hagley,
now the property of viscount Curzon, Sir Richard Weston
was a bencher of the Inner Temple, and a baron of the exche
quer, whose eldest son, Richard, was a barrister of the Inner
Temple, and killed in the isle of Man in the service of the
king. Sir James Weston, also baron of the exchequer, bore,
Or, an eagle displayed Sable, membered Gules, a mullet of
the third charged, a crescent of the first. Sir Richard Weston
bore. Ermine, upon a chief Azure five besants, martlet the
difference. Sir Simon Weston bore the same coat. He was
sheriff of the county 8 James I. and recorder of Lichfield.
Simon de Ruggeley, 10th and four following years of Edw III.
and Simon Rugeley, 19 and 20 Charles I, were sheriffs,
Robert de Curzon came over with the Conqueror, His
grandson, Richard, was seated at Croxall, co, Derby ; and had
two sons, Robert and Thomas, the ancestor of lord Scarsdale
and of viscount Curzon of Hagley, From Robert descended
Thomas Curzon, who married Anne, daughter of sir John
Aston, temp. Hen, VII. Sir George Curzon, kt. grandson of
Thomas, married Mary, sister and heiress of sir William Leve
son of LilleshuU. Their only child, Mary, married Edward
Sackville earl of Dorset, whose remarkable duel with lord
Bruce, in 1613, is recorded in the Guardian. From them the
present duke of Dorset is lineally descended.
' Mavesyn-Ridware is treated of very much at large, quite
to minuteness, in Shaw, vol. I, from a series of original deeds,
such as very few families indeed have preserved, and com
mencing at a very early period. It there appears that William,
with whom Erdeswick begins, was the son of Hugo, the founder

OI STAFFORDSHIRE. l69
9 Edw, II. his son, sir Henry, was lord thereof; and he
had issue Robert ; and he, or his son, had issue Hugo
of Blythburgh priory ; and- lived much earlier than Erdeswick
puts him, dying probably in king John's time, Erdeswick's
Henry was not William's son, but great-grandson ; and he (sir
Henry) had issue sir Robertj who had issue Thomas: so that
the one or two Mavesyns Erdeswick reckons between the two
last, are to be stricken out. Joyce, third of the four daughters
and coheirs of .Thomas Cawarden, married John Chadwick, son
of Humphrey, of Wade-lane house in Mavesyn Ridware ; and
their son Louis Chadwick's daughter and heir, Katherine, car
ried five-eighths of the manor (two possessed by descent from
Joyce, and the other three by purchase from two of the other
coheirs) to another John Chadwick, her distant relation, of
Heley-hall, Lancashire, Their great-great-grandson is the
present (1819) Charles Chadwick, esq, and Hugo Malveysyn
Chadwick, is his only child and heir apparent, S, P-W,
Mavesine-Ridware was so called from the family of Malvoisin,
Mauvesin, or Mavesin, a very ancient family of Norman extrac
tion, and a branch of the house_ofRoswy in the_i^e_of France,
The old manor-house is entirely demolished except the gate
house, in which is an old chamber said to have been an oratory.
The ancient part of the church contains several monuments.
Some of the tombs, in honour of the Mavesines, were opened at
different periods during the last century. The stone coffin, in
which was deposited the body of Hugo, the founder of the
priory of Blithbury, was raised in 1785, after it had remained
undisturbed for upwards of six hundred years. In this coffin
were all the bones in a tolerably intire state, but moist, and a
quantity of mould, supposed to have been the remains of a
decayed wooden coffin, in which the body was first inclosed.
The altar-tomb of sir Robert Malveysin, who slew, sir William
Handsacre, lord of the neighbouring manor of Handsacre, is
very handsome : his figure is armed and helmed, with a great
sword on one side and a dagger on the other. The following
inscription is engraven on the incumbent alabaster slab : Hie
jacet d'nus Robertus de Mauvesine, miles, d's de Mauvesine-
Ridware, qui occubuit juxta Salopiam, 1403, stans cum rege,
dimicans ex parte sua usque ad mortem, cujus animae propitietur

170 THE ANTlQUiTIES
de Mavesine, who had issue Thomas, who had issue sir
Robert Mavesine, knight, slain at the battle of Shrews
bury, ex parte regis, as his monument in Mavesine-
Ridware saith, and well might be called Malvoisine :
for (as the report of the country is) going towards the
said battle, he met with his neighbour, sir William
Hansacre, knt. going also towards the said battle, either
of them being well accompanied with his servants and
tenants, and upon some former malice as it might seem,
or else knowing other to be backed by the contrary .
party (for, as it is said, Hansacre went on Percy's, and
Mavesine on the king's side), they encountered each
other, and fought as it were a little skirmish, or little
battle, where Mavesine had the victory ; and, having
slain his adversary, went on to the battle and was there
slain himself. The said sir Robert left behind him two
daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, who were his heirs :
Elizabeth was married to sir John Cawardine, knt. and
Margaret was niarried to sir William Hansacre, knt.
son of the aforenamed sir William, to whom she brought
her property in recompence of the death of his father
Deus. Roger de Mavesin, 9 Rich. II. Robert de Maveysin,
19 Ric. II. and 2 Hen. IV. were sheriffs of the county.. Arms
of Mavesin : Gules, two bendlets Argent, Arms of Chadwick :
Gules, a bordure Gules, charged with eight martlets of the
first, Robert Pargiter, of Gretworth, co, Northampton, had issue
Edward, who had issue Robert, of King's Sutton, who had
Robert, aged 80 in 1663, who had William, of Ridware, who
married Anne, daughter of Gerard Stanley, who had Philip
Pargiter, of the Inner Temple, aged 26 in 1663. Arms : barr^
of eight Or and Sable, three mascles counterchanged, a dexter
canton Gules. Crest: a dexter arm clothed Or and Sable, a
hand proper holding a cup-cover by the stowke, Degge,
PhiMp Pargiter, in 1773, bequeathed his property here to
Thonias Cobb of Lichfield, in whose family it remains.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 171
slain by hers. Sir John Cawardine had issue John, who
had issue John, who had issue. Robert, who had issue
Thomas and Geffry, valettus regis, et postea serviens
ad arma Hen. VIII. Thomas had issue David, who
had issue Thomas, who had issue Elizabeth, Maud,
Joyce, and Mary : Geffry had issue Walter Cawardine.
Trent leaveth Armitage ¦ a little southward of Hawkes-
harde''; whereof was owner, in Edward the Third's
time, Huraphry Rugeley (it being his seat) : Humphry
had issue Thomas, who had issue Nicholas, who lived
7 Hen. VT. and from Nicholas it descended to Thomas
Rugeley, lately deceased, leaving his two daughters his
' Armitage was so called from a tradition that a hermit re
sided in a solitary place between the river and the church. At
Handsacre, a hamlet in this village, there remains a fragment
of the ancient house of Handsacre, surrounded by a moat.
Armitage-park is the property of Thomas Lister, esq. of the
ancient family of Lister of Gisborne-park in Yorkshire, and of
which Lister lord Ribblesdal» is the head. The manors of
Armitage and Handsacre are the property of John Lane, esq.
Arms of Cawarden: Sable, a barrulet coped between three
pheons Argent. Arms of Lister : Ermine, on a fess Sable
three mullets Or, Crest : a buck's head party per fess proper
and Or, with a crescent upon it.
^ Hawksyard, in the partition between the coheirs, fell to
Richard Rugeley of Shenston, whose son, Simon, first mort
gaged and afterwards sold the same to sir Richard Skeffington,
second son of sir William Skeffington of Fisherwick ; whose
son, sir John, sold the same to Michael Biddulph. The Ruge-
leys were owners of the manors of Hawkyard, Collingwood ; of
twenty inessuages, and thirteen hundred and forty acres of land
in Fradley, King's Bromley, Handsacre, Armitage, Rugeley;
and of lands in Bruerton, Hoxton, Armington, Newton, Ricars
cote, Norton, Haselour, Kingston, Callowhill, Streethay,
Shenston, Stubbey Lane, Marchington, Uttoxeter, Woodland,
Draycot, Alrewas, Longdon, co. Stafford, and in Knight-
Thorp, CO. Leicester ; and are now left in the name or kindred.
Degge. Arms : Argeht, a chevron betwixt three roses Gules.

172 THE ANTIQUITIES
heirs ; one, married to Francis Aspinall ¦ ; the other, to
Richard Rugeley of Shenston,
A little more south-west is Brereton, whereof Chet
wind is lord.
Trent, being past Armitage, leaveth Handsacre like
a mile reinoved from it ; a place possessed for a long
time by a race of very brave knights of the same name.
In Henry the Second's time one Robert de Hansacre
was lord thereof; and in Henry the Third's time sir
William Hansacre was lord thereof, who had to wife
Ada, Adeliza, Aldetha, or, rather, Aldithea (for all these
ways I have seen it written very anciently) the widow of
Henry lord Hastings, and dgxighter and heir of David
earl of Huntington (brother of William king of Scot
land), by Maud his wife, eldest sister, and one of the
heirs of Ranulf, earl of Chester. This said sir William
Hansacre had issue by her sir William, who had issue
sir William, and either he", or another sir William, his
son, had issue' sir Symon jflansacre, who had issue sir
William, slain, riding towards Shrewsbury fight, by sir
Robert Mavesine (as I said before), who had issue sir
William Hansacre*, who married Margaret, second
daughter and coheir of the said sir Robert Mavesine,
and had issue by her Margaret, Jone, Anne, and Agnes',

' Chetwynd (from sir Simon Degge) extract, vol. A. p, 53,
(et Ingestrie). S.P-W,
» W'mus d'nus de Handesacre, 3 Edw. Ill, et 22 Edw, III.
Wyrley. 3 Simon Handesacre, miles, 46 Edw. III. Wyrley.
* W'mus Handesacre, S Hen. IV. Wyrley.
' By Shaw's article it appears (to pass over some differences
in the order of the Hansacres, viz, the several Williams and
Symon) that the coheirs of the last WiUiam were but two: I,
Johan, wife (before she became such to Peter Melburne) of
Edmund Vernon ; II. Margaret, wife to Davenport and to

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 173
whereof the eldest, as I take it, was married to West
cote ¦ (for Henry Westcote at this day hath Hansacre's
seat), and another sister was married to Peter Melburne ;
but what became of the other sisters I know not».
Trent being past Hansacre, maketh haste to King's
Bromley, where a bridge hath been over it, but is now
decayed. King's Bromley, at the Conquest, was in the
king's hands ; and, I suppose, was then ancient demesne,
and, I think, so continued till Henry the Third's time '.
43 Hen. III. Roger Corbit died, holding Bromley in
capite; and Thomas was then his heir, aetat, ii ann*.
About the beginning of Edward the First's time, sir Tho
mas Corbitt was lord thereof in the right of Joan his
wife, who had issue sir Robert Corbitt, who lived 33
Edw, I, and 1 Edw. II, and it continued in the posterity
of him till about Henry the Sixth's time ; for, in 30

Woodford, but s, p, it seems ; and that Erdeswick's Anne and
Agnes were daughters and coheirs of Edmund Vernon and
Johan, the latter, Agnes, carrying Hansacre to Nicholas West
cote, brother of judge Littleton, S, P-W.
' Bishop Lyttelton.
" Lately purchased, I think, by William Chetwind, of Ruge
ley, esq. T. B.
Arms of Handsacre : Ermine, three chess-rooks Gules.
' Till April 14 in the sixth year of John; who then granted
it to Cecilia de Hedley. Smyth.
* Here must be a mistake. If sir Robert died seized of this
Bromley, 43 Hen. III. as here said, leaving Thomas, aged 2,
this Thomas (who was afterwards also a knight, and of More-
ton Corbet in Salop) could not have Bromley by bis wiffe, as
his father was lord of it before him. Smyth.
This right of Joan, the wife, seems an error ; if Roger Cor
bet the father died seized so shortly before as 43 Hen. III.
Indeed the Offlow hundred-roll ( Shaw's Appendix to General
Hist. xvii. ) seems to say that the Corbets had Bromley from
Henry the Second's time. S. P-W.

174 THE ANTIQtJITlES
Hen. VI. sir Richard Corbitt was lord thereof, from
whom it came by descent' to Prayers, of Baddilegh (as I
take it), in Cheshire, and from him to one Partridge,
who in this age sold it to Francis Agard, of Ireland,
who left it to his eldest daughter, married to William
Agard, of Foston, in Derbyshire, who is now owner of
it in his wife's right'.

' By purchase. Shaw quotes a conveyance by fine from sir
Robert, not Richard, Corbet. S. P-W.
° Bromley derives its additional name from its having been
the property of the crown for two centuries after' the Nor
man conquest. It had, in earlier times, been distinguished as
the residence of the earls of Mercia. Leofric, the fifth earl of
Mercia, the husband of the famous Godiva, died here in 1057,
at an advanced age, and was buried in the monastery at Co
ventry, to which he had bequeathed his body, with a great
quantity of gold and silver. The abbot of Burton gave two
palfreys to have a market and fair here till the king (Hen, III,)
came to full age. In 1630 Hugh May, esq, obtained a patent,
under the duchy seal, of clerk of the markets within the duchy,
upon which sir Henry Agard, of Foston, co, Derby, exhibited
an information against Hugh May ; shewing that he was feo-
dary, escheator, clerk of the coroner, within the honour of
Tutbury ; which was allowed. From the Agards this manor
passed, by purchase, to John Newton, of the island of Barba-
does, esq, son of Samuel Newton, of South Wingfield, co,
Derby ; which John Newton married Mary, fourth daughter of
sir Thomas Vernon of London (of the family of that name at
Audley), by whom he had two sons and six daughters. He
died April 11, 1706, aged 39; and was succeeded in this estate
by his son, Samuel Newton, who married Elizabeth Fowler,
daughter of Charles Fowler, of Penford, esq, by whom he had
two sous and three daughters. John, the eldest, succeeded to
this estate ; Samuel, died an infant ; Mary, married to Edward
Harpur, son of sir John Harpur, bart, of Calke, co, Derby,
and died without issue; EUzabeth, died unmarried; and Sarah,
married to sir Lister Holte, of Aston, co. Warwick, by whom
she left no issue. John Newton was married, first, to Eliza-

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 175
Trent, being but a little past King's Bromley, re
ceiveth on the south side a brook, coming out of Can
nock-wood', where it taketh its beginning, and passeth
between Pipe and Beaudesert (the lord Pagett's seat),
and Longdon, of which Beaudesert is a member.
Of Pype^ was lord, 26 Edw. I. sir Thomas Pype;

beth, daughter and coheiress of  AUeyne, of Barbadoes,
esq. and secondly, to Catherine, daughter of lord Francis Sey
mour, fourth son of the eighth duke of Somerset, He died in
1783, and devised his estates, by will, tb his sisters EUzabeth
and Mary. The last surviving sister, Elizabeth, died Dec, 24,
1794, and left his estate to her cousins, John Lane, and Tho
mas Lane, . esquires, whose ancestors were settled at Bentley
during many centuries ; among whom was col, John Lane,
whose sister was so conspicuous for her remarkable zeal in the
preservation of Charles II. after the battle of Worcester. Plot
states a curious instance of longevity in the person of Mary
Cooper, residing in this parish, who had seen her descendants
to the sixth generation, and all of them were alive at the same
time; that she could say to her daughter, "Rise, daughter,
go to thy daughter, for thy daughter's daughter hath got a
daughter," Robert Corbet, 17 Edw, I, John Newton, 3 Will.
and Mary; Samuel Newton, 2 Geo. II. and John Lane, 48
Geo. Ill, were sheriffs of the county. Arms ofCorbet : Argent,
three ravens Sable, 2 and 1, Arms of Lane : Or, a chevron
between three mullets Aziife,
" Erdeswick is wrong here in his topography, Trent, a little
before it reaches King's Bromley, receives the BIyth from the
north ; but runs, measuring along the windings, perhaps three
miles further, before the brook here mentioned falls in on the
other side. S. P-W.
' Henricus de Pipa witnesses the grant of Bromhale by Wal
ter Durdent, bishop, 1149 to 1161, to Ralph, his dapifer,
stated in Shaw, II. 124. And the next bishop, in 1166, cer
tifies the king (see Lib. Nig.), that Henricus held of him 8"»
partem miUtis, de tempore avi veStri" (sc' Hen. I.""'). About
1240, and later, " Ricardus, dominus de Vipk, et Robertus, filius,"
appear in various charters ; and by some of them, if rightly

176 THE ANTIQUITIES
who, I think, married Isabell, widow of Nicholas or
Robert, baron of Stafford '. But not long after, as I
quoted, there must have been a sgpond Robertus de Pipe,
miles. This second sir Robert (if two there were) was father,
byMatild, de Thamenhorne, don^e of Parva (afterwards Pipe)
Ridware, in frank marriage, to Erdeswick's sir Thomas, This
sir Thomas, by Johan, daughter, and heir to sir Andrew de
Tarpenvile, of Draycote subt, Needwood had issue Robert,
who succeeded him at Pipe-Ridware, a place, it does not seem,
that Erdeswick knew to exist. On its passing, however, with
Draycote and other manors, by Robert's descendant, Margaret
Swjmfen, alias Pipe, (heir to another Robert Pype, knt, the
last male of the main line, as the miserable Latin, on a hand
some tomb for her and her husband, at Tonge, Salop, means
to express her, ) to sir WilUam Vernon, the night-constable of
England. He, and his Vernon successors, to judge from the
insignia conspicuous aU over their famous old Haddon mansion
and its chapel, considered Pipe-Ridware and its adjuncts as an
acquisition by no means to be forgotten. But sir Thomas Pype
marrying, secondly, not " Isabel, widow of Nidholas," but Marga
ret (Basset), widow of Edmund, baron Stafford, his son by her,
sir James Pype, was somehow favoured with the original patri
mony of Pipe itself. Erdeswick's notion of an heir-female
carrying Pipe to Camvile, appears a mere gratis supposition.
Sir James, having succeeded to Pipe, passed it to his mother,
the baroness, in 8 Edw. III. (Breviate among Huntsbach's
MSS.), and she, by deed 11 ejusd. (Autograph, in possession
of the now owner, 1819,) stating that gift by her son, James
de Pype (though not its date), gave Pipe and other lands
to her son, Richard de Stafford, knt. His (sir Richard's)
first wife, and the mother of his children, was indeed descended
from Campvile, though, we see, she had no concern in Pipe :

' Sir Thomas Pipe married Isabel, relict of Edmund, baron
Stafford, daughter of Ralph, lord Basset, of Drayton Basset.
Smyth. Thomas de Pype, 8 Edw. IL had command to repair to
Newcastle-upon-Tyne well fitted with horse and arms, to march
with the king against the Scots, who were then in arms.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 177
take it, Pype had a daughter married to William Camp-
vile, lord of Clifton, of whom descended Maud', first
married to sir Richard Vernon, and after to sir Richard
Stafford, knt. second son of Edmund, baron Stafford",
but' her name was Isabel ; Maud was that of an after-wife,
daughter of sir John Stafford, by the younger daughter and
coheir of sir PhiUp de Somerville ; and, by the way, sir Phi
lip's lady, being (as appears by their seals) a Margaret de Pype,
this second wife, Maud, of sir Richard Stafford, was probably
descended from sir Thotaas de Pype. Pipe passed from Staf
fords, nearly as Erdeswick states, to Heveninghams ; and from
these, by heirs female, in Uke manner, to Simeon and to Weld ;
and shortly before . Lady-Day, 1800, Thomas-Bartholomew
Weld, of Lulworth castle, co. Dorset, conveyed it to Samuel
Pipe Wolferstan, of Statfold, who considers himself to be,
paternally, a branch of the original Pipe stock, as he is, ma
ternally, a descendant of sir Richard Stafford, and distant
cousin of his vendor, Weld, S.P-W,
' Burton, in his account of Newton-Burdet, Leicestershire,
gives WilUam Campville two daughters ; Maud, married to sir
Richard Stafford ; and Margery, married to sir Richard Ver
non, of Haddon, co, Derby ; with which agrees the sepulchral
inscription of William Brooke, at Elford, where Maud is styled
una haeredum Gulielm, de Campville, S, P-W,
Margaret, daughter and coheir to sir Robert Pype, married
sir (William Vernon, of Nether Haddon, Derbyshire, and Har
laston, Staffordshire, She married Stafford first, I take it, as
Pipe was his, and sir William Vernon did not die till 7 EdW, IV.
Smyth. ' Sir Richard Stafford, son of this sir Richard, and father to
Edmund (son and heir, and aet, 36,) Thomas, and Katharine,
died 13 Aug. 4 Rich. II. seized, besides Clifton and Pype, of
Bruggeford, in this county; Childecote, co. Derby; Norton..
in-hales, co, Salop ; Sibbertofte, co, Northampton ; and Aston-
under-Egge, Charingworth, and Winton, and a moiety of
Campeden, co, Gloucester, Dugdale Bar. I, 159. This is an
error of Dugdale. It was the first, and only sir Richard, who
died 4 Rich, II. Katherine's great grandson (or one descent
more, according to Brooke's monument,) John Stanley, was
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178 THE ANTIQUITIES
who had issue by her sir Thomas Stafford, knt. ; t.a-^
mund, bishop of Exeter ; and Katherine. Sir Thomas
had issue Thomas, that died without issue, and so did
the bishop of Exeter : Katherine, being heir of Clifton
arid Pype, was married to sir John Arden, knt, who had
issue Maud, married to Thomas Stanley, who had issue
by her sir John Stanley, knt. and banneret, who had
issue sir Humphry Stanley, knt. and banneret, from
whom both these manors, Aston g.nd the rest of his
lord of Sibbertoft and Camden, and also of Echel or Echels,
Aldeford, and Alderley or Aldesley, co. Chester. Monum,
Inscript, in Topographer, III, 108. There are two Aldersey
Halls, &c, in Cary's Camden map, both near Aldford, on the
Dee, but quite remote from Alderley, the seat of the Stanleys,
baronets, S, P-W,
Here is a mistake. Sir Richard Stafford, of Pipe, and
Clifton Camvile, (son and heir to sir Richard, second son of
Edmund the baron, ) died 4 Rich. II, ; so that Vernon and
this last sir Richard could not be the same person ; and she,
therefore, that was wife to Vernon, must be a daughter and
coheir to sir Robert Pype, This match, at least with Vernon
and Stafford, was higher up, sir Richard Vernon being in the
same place as sir William, who was his lineal heir, Vernon was
living 8 Edw, II, as was Maud 22 Edw. III. being daughter
and coheir to sir WiUiam Camvile. Sir Richard Stafford was se-
neschall in Gascoyne. Smyth. •
It appears, by a deed of Jan,.24, 39 Hen, VI. (in possession of
S. P-W.) by which John Stanley, knt. declares the trust of an
estate he had made to feoffees of the manor " of Pipe, his lands,
&c, in Pipe, Woodhouses, Abenhale, Elmehurste, Hom'wiche,
and Longdon, a messe and pasture in Elmehurste (called Cou-
pers) and Pone'smylle, and Pole," for the lives of Elizabeth his
" wiff," and Humfrey. their " soon," &c, S. P-W.
This manor, with lands, about 570 acres, had not been sold
since the time of Hen. I, They had descended to Thomas
Weld, esq, by a long course, from the gift to baroness Mar
garet, in 1334, to the present possessor, Samuel Pipe Wolfer
stan, esq, of Stratford. Arms of Pipe : Azure, crusule, two
pipes chevron ways, Or,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 179
lands, are come to Heveningham, as you may see,
where I spoke of Aston before.
This brook leaveth Farewell' but a little off, some
time a nunnery, and now the seat of Nicholas Bagshaw,
and so entereth Longdon, through which it passeth ;
where be the seats of divers gentlemen, though of no
' At Farewell was a priory founded by Roger, bishop of
Lichfield, about 1 140, for regular canons or hermits, which he
afterwards changed into a house for Benedictine nuns. It was
called an abbey, afterwards a small priory, and suppressed by
Wolsey ; when it was given to Lichfield, in recompence of a
pension that should have been given out of his college, in
Oxford, to Lichfield church. It is said that bishop Blythe,
and the dean and chapter bought it ; and in 19 Hen, VIII. it
was annexed to that church, towards augmenting the number
and maintenance of the choristers. From Bagshaw it passed
to Robert Mellor, of Derby, whose descendants sold it to
Wightwick, who built here a house of brick for his seat. It
afterwards passed, by marriages, to Floyer, and to Peter Cal-
mel, of London, who sold it, about 30 years ago, to Thomas
Ashmole, father of the present owner. The manor is the pro
perty of the marquis of Anglesey, The family of Noble had a
seat here, John Noble had issue Edward Noble, of Lichfield
Close, who had issue Michael Noble, who was town-clerk of
Lichfield, and died 1648 ; who had issue John Noble, who
married Jane, daughter of Richard Brandreth, who had issue
Michael, aged 13, in ] 663. Arms of Noble : Or, on a fesse
Gules three besants between three lions passant Sable. Crest :
a greyhound issuant Gules, collared Argent.
In taking down the church of Farewell, in 1747, which was
the Nunnery chapel, to rebuild it, were found in the south
wall, six feet from the ground, and some feet from each other,
three ranges of coarse earthen vessels of different sizes, and
several feet between each range, laid on their sides, the mouths
towards the inside of the church, covered with a thin coat of
plaister : the smaUer upwards of six inches in heighth, three
inches over at the mouth, sixteen and a half round ; the larger
were eleven inches and a half in height, four and a half at the
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180 THE ANTIQUITIES
great living, yet of long continuance there. First, sir
Edward Littleton, before spoken of, hath a house at
Cheshall, but by what title he came to it I know not;
then one of the Rugeleys had a house there ; but
the last, Francis, sold it to Richard Hussey, of Al-
brighton Hussey, near Shrewsbury', and he sold it to
one Barlow, of Derbyshire, who passed it aver to Law
rence Wright, who I take to be now owner of it. In
7 Edw. III. one Simon Rugeley was owner of it; from
whom it descended to James, who lived in 44 Edw. HI.
and had issue Richard, who had issue Thomas, who
lived SO Hen. VI, : from him it came, by descent, to
the aforenamed Francis, who sold it. Of these Ruge
leys", it may seem, one of them married the heir of sir
Thomas Sprott, of=pMary, daughter of WilUam Agarde, of
Ashmore Brook | Foston, co. Derby, esq.
1  '
Edward Sprott, captain of foot=^Dorothy, daughter of Tho-
„.. t:„i,£.ij .._j__ .!._ __„i jj^g^g Crompton, of Stone
park, CO. Stafford.

at Lichfield, under the earl
of Chesterfield.

I  1  1  1
Henry=:Anne, daughter of Thomas Thomas. John.
Sprott Coker, of March. Edward. William.
' 20 Febr. 1561-2, Margaret Rugeley, widow of Typton (in
1558), and Francis Rugeley, esq. her son andiheir, and son
and heir of Humphrey Rugeley, esq. grant to Richard Hussey,
of Albrighton Hussey, esq. the manor or capital messuage of
Bylson, co, Stafford, and lands in Segeley, Tybyngton, and
other places, particularly in Rugeley, Pipe Hull, Brendwood,
Cancke, Hansaker, and Armytage. Nov, 6, 1563, the Hus-
seys of Albrighton Hussey, grant to Hussey, of Longdon, all
their lands, &c, in the towns, fields, &c, of Segeley, Mouncels,
and Ellavales, In 1573, Richard Hussey, of Asteley, co,
Warwick, seUs Segeley Hall, &c, S, P-W.
' Chetwynd, in a paper of Rugeley descents (said there to
be collected by Erdeswick), makes the person here supposed
to marry a Freford heir to be WiUiam Rugeley, son to Erdes
wick's Richard here, and father to his Thomas; and WiUiam

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 181
John Freford, knt, who lived 35 Edw, III,' and had, I
suppose, either this house, which is something near the
Rugeley's wife to be Alice, daughter and coheir to John
Browne, of Lichfield, who was son to Henry Browne, by Alice,
daughter and coheir of John de Bradeley, by Margaret, one
of the three or four daughters and coheirs of sir John Freford,
Erdeswick very inconsistently supposes the house in Longdon
might come by Freford ; when, but five lines before, he makes
a Rugeley owner of it in 7 Edw, III, S, P-W,
About thirty other manors, lordships, and villages, owe suit
and service to the court-leet, which is held at Longdon four
times in the year. It was anciently a part of the forest of Can
nock. The house of Paget, marquis of Anglesey, at Beaude
sert, constitutes the chief ornament. It is of brick, of the date
of queen Elizabeth, and its exterior appearance is very mag
nificent. This mansion was visited by the Prince Regent, who
passed a week here in November 1815, Near the house, on
the summit of the hill, are vestiges of an extensive encamp
ment, called Castle hill, which Pennant supposes to have been
of British origin, and which Plot considers as the work of king
Canute. Chestall is now the property of the marquis of An
glesey. Longdon hall belonged to a family of the name of
Weedon, who sold it to John Floyer, esq. son of sir John
Floyer, knt, physician to Charles II, who bequeathed it to
Richard Burnes, of Aldershaw, esq. whose son, John Jiurnes
Floyer, esq. succeeded to it ; and whose nephew and heir,
Trevor Owen Burnes Floyer, clerk, is, 1819, the present pro
prietor. Stonywell was so called from a Stone in the Well. It
was, temp, Edw. I, the residence of Robert del Stoniwelle, in
which family it continued tUl the last century, John Stonywell,
a Benedictine monk, and a man of learning, was born here, and
became abbot of the monastery of Pershore, in which he had
been educated; and at length a suffragan bishop, by the
title of Episcopus Poletensis. He died in 1553, and was buried
in a chapel adjoining to the church of Longdon, which he had
built. "The well is on the road-side leading to FareweU, and

I

WilUam de Freford, vixit 29 Edw, I, vid. Carta de fon-
tibus, Aldershaw, T. B, Harwood's History of Lichfield.

182 THE ANTIQUITIES
town or prebend of Freford, or some other advancement
by the said marriage; for, into Freford's armory- they
have intruded themselves, and have used it long, even
to this day.
There is also one other good proper house, usually
employed to the use of the younger brothers of the
Astons of Heywood ; for it hath in that name continued

the large stone in the middle of it remains to this day. The
estate of this family was sold to the Arblasters, of Llswis ; the
last of whom, in 1772, sold it to Francis Cobb ; who left it,
together with Liswis, to his two nieces, of the name of Tyson ;
the survivor of which now (1819) enjoys it, Liswis belonged
to a family of the same name, at an early period, from the
time of Hen, I. to that of Rich, II. when it was sold to John
Legydd, whose daughter and heir, Margaret, carried it in mar
riage to James Arblaster, of Cropston, co, Leicester, after which
it was called Arblaster hall. This ancient family derive their
name from being Arcubalistae, archers or bow-bearers, Adam,
father of James Arblaster, bought the manor of Hawkeswelsich,
and certain lands adjacent to Cannock wood, now called Ar
blaster Hay, of Ralph, earl of Stafford ; and it is believed
that some small part of this property is all that continues in
the name of the descendants of this ancient family, Adam
Arblaster lies buried in the north wall of the church, Edmund
Arblaster was sheriff of the county 8 Anne, Arms : Ermine, a
cross-bow bent in pale Gules ; also. Ermine, a cross-bow
strung Gules, string Or,
Brocton, or Broughton, long possessed by the family of
Broughton, and was sold by them to Simon Walton, whose
great grandson, Thomas Walton, a member of the Corporation
of Lichfield, is (1819) the present owner of it. Haunch hall
was formerly in the Aston family, afterwards passed to that of
Orme, temp, Elizabeth, and from them to the Parkhursts,
from whom it went by marriage to George Bird; then, by
purchase, to Rider, to Francis Cobb, to James Susannah Patton,
esq. and to the present (1819) proprietor, John Breynton, esq.
Arms of Broughton : Gules, a chevron between three brocks
or badgers Argent, a bordure of the same.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 183
ever since Edw. I. or Iong:er, and divers of the younger
brothers have lived there.
Next ', near the same brook, is the house of the Broctons,
called Broughton', which hath continued in that name
from before Henry the Third's time ; for, in king John's
time, one Reigner de Brocton was possessed of Brough
ton hall, in Longdon, as it is called, and also of his

WilUam Orme, of Haunch==:Grace, daughter of Nicholas Hurt,
hall, died 1623. j of Casterne, co. Staff,
I  ¦  '
William Orme, 8et,=^Anne, daughter of Thomas Bradnell, of
49, anno 1663, j Staunton Wivell, co, Leicester.
I  n  ri
Thomas Orme, aet, 25, William, Dorothy,
anno 1663. Robert. Anne,
On the south side of the church is bishop Stoniwell's chapel,
separated by two pointed arches from the body of the church ;
on the outside of which, upon the buttresses, are sculptured
alternately I. S, as one letter, and the emblematic dove and
holy lamb. The arch, leading into the chancel, is of Saxon
zig-zag work, and the north door is of similar workmanship.
Here are monuments of the Arblasters and Ormes, On the
floor is an ancient stone to bishop Stoniwell, with arms and
mitre, dated 1553 ; and in this chapel is also an alabaster stone
for another John Stoniwell, S, T, P. also born at Stoniwell, and
died in 1518, Arms : Sable, on a chevron Argent three leaves
proper between three biUets ; and. Argent, on a chief Gules a
crown between two cocks Or, For the use of this chapel the
bishop bequeathed aU his books, his two chalices, his crewets,
holy-water stock, vestments, albes, altar-cloths, with other
things belonging to his private chapel in Longdon, On the
south side of the church without, near the porch, is an ancient
arch, with a modern slate-stone underneath it, to the memory
of Edward Arblaster.
' Not, however, that brook which comes from Pipe and Fair-
weU ; but another smaU one, which a mile lower falls into it.
S. P-W.
" Wyrley's pedigree calls the name throughout Brocton, of
the parish of Longdon, T.B.

184 THE ANTIQUITIES
capital messuage in Brocton. This Reigner, as I take
it, was brother to Robert, lord of Brocton: which
Robert had issue Peter, who had issue Thomas, lord of
Brocton, who sold the lordship of Brocton to Roger
Aton, 24 Edw, I. Reignerus de Brocton had issue
William, who had issue John, who had issue Wilham,
who had issue Richard, who had issue John, who had
issue William, who had issue John, who had issue Wil
liam, who had issue Thomas, who had issue Thomas,
married to Isabella, daughter, and one of the heirs of
Walter Acton, of Acton", in Ombersley parish, in Wor-,
cestershire, and had issue by her Richard Brocton, who
had issue Edward Brocton, father of Edward, now living,
and being yet under age.
Next Brocton hall stands Arblaster hall, lower upon
the same brook. 25 Edw. III. Adam Arblaster was
owner thereof; from whom it descended to James Ar
blaster; and so to Thomas; from him, I think, to
another Thomas ; and from him to Richard, who lived
14 Hen. VII. and from him to Thomas, who lived 17
Hen. VII,"; and, in this queen's time, Humphry Ar
blaster had the same lands, and died without issue ; so
that it came to Rowland, his brother, who had issue
Thomas Arblaster, now owner thereof,
Trent, having received this brook, maketh haste to
receive Blyth : betwixt which rivers' run, even at the
joining of them, on a good rough steep hill, is Blyth-
' Bishop Lyttelton,
* By the pedigree in Shaw (which is rather strongly sup
ported by vouchers), this should rather be read, " Hen, VIII,;"
and the Thomas then Uving is made son of Humphry, not
mentioned by Erdeswick. On the other hand, Shaw has not
Erdeswick's Humphrey, elder brother of Rowland, temp. EUz.
but George, Rowland's younger brother : which George, and
not Rowland, appears to have been the father of Erdeswick's
contemporary, Thomas. S. P-W.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 185
bury', where hath been the seat of a gentleman's house
which in my judgment did stand very pleasantly and
commodiously. I think it was the seat of the Mave
sines, which since then hath been renloved lower, to
Trent side, to the town of Mavesine-Ridware ; and yet,
in Henry the Third's time, John, the son of Thomas
Bocland, passed one tenement there, cum homag. red
dit: Warrenis, serviciis, sutis Curiae, releviis, wardis,
et esceatis, to Roger, the son of Raufe Aston, of Hey
wood, But, 6 Edw. III. sir Robert Maveson and dame
Margaret, sa feme, sir Henry Freford's daughter, granted
three places of land, lying environed in Kilby Hall, in
Blythbury, cum Sewall Hall, and all meadows and pas
tures which lately were Nicholas Hill's, to William, the
son of Robert HulP ; so that, it should seem, Mavesine
was still lord of it, notwithstanding the former deed
made by Bocland,
Blyth taketh its beginning at Wetley Moor, betwixt
Dulverne and 'Weston subtus Caversmounte : which
' At Blythbury was a priory founded by Hugh Mavesine,
about the close of Hen, I, or the beginning of king Stephen,
for monks and nuns of the Benedictine order, afterwards for
nuns only, Roger Clinton, bishop ; Odo, priest ; and William,
chaplain ; Hugh and WiUiam, with many others, were witnesses
to the charter of foundation. It was afterwards united with the
priory of Black-ladies, at Brewood, and was suppressed by car
dinal Wolsey, towards the endowment of his colleges at Oxford
and Ipswich. Since the dissolution, it has passed through the
hands of Watson, Leicester, and Warners, to John Chadwick,
by purchase, in 1789, father of the owner, 1819, Charles Chad
wick, esq, a descendant from the founder, Hugh Mavesine,
Scarcely a vestige of the ancient edifice remains,
' Hence, perhaps, the origin of the name. Hill Ridware,
' In Weston is Park Hall, which was bought by George
Parker, second son of WilUam Parker, of Parwich, co, Derby,
who laid the foundation of a stately house ; being clerk of the
assizes for Suffolk and Norfolk ; but the war breaking out be-

186 THE ANTIQUITIES
Weston, taketh its name of the Weston, as standing
west from Caverswall, in which parish it is, though it
be a distinct manor; and was parcel of the fee of
Will'us, fil. Alani, fil. Fladaldi, baron of Clun and
Oswaldstree in Salop ; and so is not Caverswall. Both
Caverswall and Weston, 20 Conq. were held, by Ernulfus
de Hesding of Robert de Stafford,
Weston subtus Caversmont, commonly called Wes
ton Coyney ; for that a house of the Coyneys have been
owners thereof "ever since the Conquest, as I verily think:
for, in Henry the Second's time, one Robert Coyney
was lord thereof; which Robert had issue Walter, who
had issue John, who had issue John, who married Mar
garet, the daughter of William de Erdington, who had
issue William, who had issue Robert, who had issue
John, who had issue Robert, who married Hugolina,
daughter and one of the heirs of Edward Burnell, of
Lee and Langley, in Shropshire, who had issue Robert,
who married Margaret, the daughter of Humphrey de
Haloughton ; which Robert had issue Robert, who had
issue, another Robert, who married Alice, the daughter
of Hugh Erdeswick, who had issue Robert, who mar
ried Dorothy Maverill's daughter, who had issue John,
who had issue John, now living, father of Thomas,
father of Thomas, all three now living, 1596',
fore it was finished, and having lost his office by adhering to
king Charles, he desisted from finishing the house so large as
he had intended ; yet, of little more than a third part of what
he intended, has made a very proper house, where he resides.
He, and his eldest son, William, were living in 1660. Degge.
Thomas Parker, of Park Hall, esq, now possesses the ma
nors of Caverswell and Dilhorn, Thomas Parker, 27 Geo, III.
and Thomas Parker, 43 Geo, III, were sheriffs,
' Weston Coyney is the property of Walter Hill Coyney, esq,
who married the descendant, and took the name of this ancient
family.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 187
Of Caverswall was lord, in Richard the First's time,
as I take it, one Thomas de Carswall; from whom it
descended to sir William de Carswall, knt, who had
issue sir Richard Carswall, knt, who had issue Williair^
de Carswall', who builded there a goodly castle, and
pools, the 'darns being of masonry, and all his houses of
office likewise. He had issue Richard de Carswall,
who lived 19 Edw. III. From the Carswalls it came by
descent to the Montgomery's, and from them to the
Giffords, and from them to the Ports, and from Port to
my lord Huntington, now owner thereof in right of the
countess his wife. The castle was lately in reasonable
good repair, but is now quite let to decay by one ^rown,
' Sir William de Carswall, temp, Edw, II, built a large and
strong stone castle, surrounded by a deep moat. There were
square turrets at the heads of extensive pieces of water round
the castle, as an additional defence. It became, by marriage,
the property and residence of the noble family of Vane, Le
land calls it " the castel or prati pile of CaverweU," After the
inscription here given, on William de Carswall's monument, the
following were written :
" William of Carswall, here lye I,
That built this castle, and pooles hereby ;
William of Carswall, here thou mayst lye,
But thy castle is down, and thy pooles are dry,"
WiUiam de CaversWigU, 45 Hen, III. Peter de CaresweU, 51
Edw. III. Sir Nicholas Montgomery, knt. 9 Hen. VI. Nicholas
Montgomery, 19 Edw, IV. and 1 Ric. Ill, and WiUiam JoUiffe,
3 Ch. II. were sheriffs of the county.
From lord Huntingdon, it came by purchase to Matthew
Cradock, in whose family it remained in 1655 ; from Craddock
it passed to sir WUliam JolUffe, knt. and from him, by marriage
with his daughter, to WilUam, viscount Vane, of Ireland,
Arms of Caverswall : Azure, frette and a fesse Argent ; also,
Azure, frette of ten pieces Argent, a fesse Gules. Arms of
Montgomery: Ermine, a bordure Gules charged with ten
horses shoes Or,

188 THE ANTIQUITIES
farmer of the demesnes, : which he procured (as a man
might guess at the cause) lest his lord should take a
conceit to live there, and thereby take the demesnes
from him. In Caverswall church is a moiiument of sir
William Caverswall, with this inscription about it:
" Will'us de Caverswall miles," at the head, and then
about it :
Castri structor eram, domibus, fossisque cemento,
Vivis dans operam ; nunc claudor in hoc monumento.
Whereby it appears that sir William Caverswall that
lieth there entombed, was the builder of the castle and
the rest. The monument is of marble, and the picture,
arms, and epitaph, have been engraven, and laid with
copper, but the copper is taken out (such is the iniquity
of this age), and yet I might perceive what the letters
were, but not the arms. Somerset herald', and Scarlet
his painter, would need persuade me that the coat was
Argent, three pair of gemels Sable ; and in the window
is. such a coat seen, but it hath a red label: the coat
without the labels belongs to Ercall of Shropshire, and
is indeed Carswalls, but it would rather seem that some
of the Carswalls had married with a daughter of some
of the Ercalls, Carswall's'' coat I have seen divers
seals of, and all that I have seen agree that it is frette'
with a fesse ; and in Cubley church window in Derby
shire (sometime Montgomery's seat, who was also lord
of Carswall, and now sir Thomas Stanhope' hath it, as
' Robert Glover. Richard Scarlet was much employed by
the heralds, and is in the list of persons who petitioned for
places in the college of arms, but never obtained them.
* Sir Peeres de CaresweU : Argent, two bars cotised Sable.
Arma nobilium de Staff, aut finiente Edw. III. aut incipiente
Ric. II. ut opinor. Wyrley.
' i. e. hath Cubley, It yet belongs to the earl of Chesterfield,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 189
coheir to Montgomery) I have seen, Argent, frette
Azure with a Red fesse, which, no doubt, was set there
for Carswall's arms ; (and there is one Knighton doth
bear the satae, with three mullets Gold on the fesse, but
he intruded himself thereinto) for that (as I take it) one
John Carswall ', a younger son of the aforesaid Thomas
Carswall bare it, who had two daughters, one married
to Adam Peshall, and the other to sif William Trum
win of Cannock ; and I believe there was a third, mar
ried to Knighton, whereupon Knighton bare Carswall's
armory. Blyth, being past Weston Coyney, leaveth the Meare
(sometime the lands belonging to the knights of St.
John's order, but within the lordship of Weston) upon
the west from it, and enters between Stallington Granges
(sometime belonging to the priory of Stone) and Fos-
brooke; and so, leaving Fulford (a lordship whereof
Richard Lee was lord 9 Edw, II, and now Gifford is
lord thereof) more than a mile south-west from it, enters
into Dracote (a member of Sandon) the seat of the
Dracotes', ' Of Bishop's Offley. Smyth.
" This seat was Painsley Hall, on Blyth, near a mile and a half
to the south from Draycote village. Philip Draycote died, seized
9 Aug. 1 Eliz. of the manors of Draycote, Painsley, Newton,
and Cuneshall ; and of lands in .Alstonfield, Warslow, Butterton,
Kingsley, Broddock, Whistons, and Leigh. Lord Stourton
has now a large portion of the lands in this manor. Frances,
only daughter and heiress to Richard Draycote, married Mar
maduke lord Langdale, who died in 1718. His son, the last
lord Langdale, died about 1777, without issue male, when his
three daughters became his heirs, one of which, Mary, married
to Charles lord Stourton, by whom she had WilUam, the pre
sent lord Stourton, In the church-yard at Draycote is a pyra
midal stone, which is said to be of Danish origin, and a sepul
chral memorial. Roger Draycote, 7 Hen, VII, sir John Dray
cote, knt. 12 and 19 Hen, VII. sir Philip Draycot^, knt, 25 Hen.

190 THE ANTIQUITIES
Immediately after the Conquest, Hugh, the son o.f
Nicholas Dracote, was lord thereof, which Nicholas,
as I verily take it, was the son of Philip, brother of
William, the first baron of Wich Malbanc' : for Wil
liam, son of Hugh, son of the said first baron of Wich
Malbanc, confirms Dracote, Lees, Newton, and Cres
waU, to Hugh, the son of Nicholas de Dracote, to hold
of him by two parts of a knight's fee ; and if he have
contention for certain lands lying in Newton, then he is
to hold it by half a knight's fee : this Hugh Dracote
had issue sir Philip % who lived 5 Ric, I, and had issue
VIII. sir Philip Draycote, knt. 3 Mary, and Philip Draycote^ 4
James I. were sheriffs. Arms : Or, three pUes Gules, and a
bend Ermine,
' WUl'mus Malebanke, baro de Nantwich, Wyrley,
^ As there are plainly too few descents from Hugh to sir
Philip, it should be, as in a pedigree, in the Visitation book of
Derbyshire, that Hugh had issue a second Hugh ; and he sir
Richard, who was father of sir PhiUp. Smyth.
Nicholas de Draycott, temp, William the Conqueror.=
I  .  1
Hugh de Draycott, temp, WiUiam II.=p
Hugh de Draycott, 2 Hen. I.=p
,  1
Ricardus Draycott, miles, temp. Hen, II,=pIsabella Tuchet,
,  1
PhiUppus Draycott, miles, 5 Ric, I, 1193.=p
,  1
Ricardus Draycott, mUes, 12 Hen. III. 1227.=^
I  J
Phihppus Draycott, 53 Hen. III. 1260,=p Johanna,
I  1
Ricardus Draycott, miles, 12 Edw. I.=p  f. Herberti de
1302. I Gayton.
PhiUppus Draycott, miles, 15 Edw, II.=pJohanna, f, Edmundi
"1322. I Ayncourt,
Johannes Draycott, arm, 22 Edw, III, 1369.=p

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 191
sir Richard, justice of Chester 23 Hen. III. Sir Richard
had issue sir Philip, who had issue sir John, who had
issue John, who had issue sir Roger, who had issue
Roger, who had issue sir Roger, who had issue sir John,
who had issue sir Philip, who had issue sir Richard,
who had issue sir John, father of Philip, now both
living ; which Philip is father of John, now also living.
Sir Philip Dracote, the son of Hugh, having married
Alicia de Colevile, bare a compone coat of Verdon and
Colevile ; that is. Gold, fretted Red, and on a Blue
canton a cross patt^e Silver : for Colevile of Cambridge-

a
-J

John Draycott, arm, 6 Ric. II.=fpJohanna, f. Johannis Stafford

1383.

de Sandon.

John Draycott, arm. 12 Ric. II.==:Agnes, f, Gascon de com,
1389. Ebor,
I 
Roger Draycott, miles, 4 Hen. V. 1416. In::^Agnes, f. Rogeri
Dugdale's Vis. p. 79. 4 Edw, IV, j Aston, miUtis,
I  "  '
Roger Draycott, arm.=pCatharina, f. Johannis Savage, militis,
18 Edw. IV, 1464. of Maxfield, co. Chester,
I  '
John Draycott, knight, 22 Edw, IV,=pElizabeth, daughter of
died temp. Hen, VIII, | Roger Eyre of Pad-
I  ¦¦  1 ley, CO, Derby, esq,
Philip Draycott, knight,=pElizabeth, daughter of John Fiizher-
ob, 32 Hen. VIII. 1540. j bert of Norbury, co, Derby, esq.
Richard Draycott, died in=j=AUcia, daughter of Henry Wil-
his father's Ufe time, 1 I loughbye of WoUaton, co, Not-
Eliz, 1558, . tingham.

John Draycott,=p:Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Howsyer, of
esq, 1604, Preston Gobald, co, Salop,
I  ,
1, Catherine, daughter=pPhilip Draycot, esq.=2, Ann, daugh-
of Edw, Basset of Fled- died in his father's ter of Thomas
borough, CO, Not, pJ lifetime. . Butler, •
John Draycot, esq,
Totmanslow is a small village, onc.e very considerable, now
famous only for a barrow of some Saxon commander, and as

192 THE ANTIQUITIES
shire bare. Silver, a Red cross patt^e : but sir Richard
his son, as I take it, being justice of Chester at the
same time that John Scott was earl thereof, forsook the
coat of his father, and, imitating his lord, bare. Gold,
three pales, or piles (which you will, for all is one ; for
if they be made in a coat-armour, or banner, they must
be made square at both ends, but if they be made in a
shield, they are usually made sharp at the lower end, as
the shield is) and over all a bend Ermine for his dif
ference, to shew he was a lawyer; and so it is made ivi
Cheadle church, and his name written over it, which I
doubt riot was set up in Edward the First's time ; but
after his death his son Philip re-assumed the frett6 can
ton, and cross ; he married Joan, the daughter of
Edmund lord Eyncourt, and his son, sir John, left the
cross, and charged the canton with Eyncourt's dancette
and billets Gold ; but after his death John, his son,
re-assumed the cross again, leaving Eyncourt's device,
and so have all the Dracotes since.
Blyth, being past Dracote, enters into Leghe, which
Ormus held to farm of the abbot of Burton' in the
Conqueror's time ; and, in Henry the First's time,
' In the first year of abbot Galfrid, 1114, Ormus held this
manor at 100s, rent for 16 years. Afterwards Galf, granted to
Andrew his liege man, and his heir, in fee farm, that part of
Leigh, which Ebrard, cleric, and afterwards Aisulf, presby
ter, had held, in exchange for Feld (which the same abbot had,
in 1116, granted to Andrew, who now surrendered it), ren
dering divers services, and 60s, rent. Afterwards, seemingly,
abbot Galf, granted the manor of Leia, with all its appendages,
save Feld, to his leigeman, Rob, f. Unlet, in fee farm, Rob, f.
Unlet, was probably grandson to Ormus above. One Ormus,
who, in the time of abbot Nigel, before 1114, held eight bov'.
of Warland, and four of Inland, in Brantistori, was succeeded
by three sons, Unietus, Raven, and Leysingus. Burton abbey
Regist. fo. X, of 2d series, XIX, of first series, and that follow
ing XVI. S. P-W,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE.. 193
Rob'tus fil. Veneti held it in fee-farm, paying £4,. per
annum to Geoffry abbot of Burton ; which Robert had
issue Henry, who had issue Robert de Leghe; which
Robert had issue Philip, aftel d'nus de Leghe; Alicia,
married to sir Richard Dracote, knt. ; Eljen, married to
Hugh de Leghe, of High-Legh in Salop ; and Cecilia,
married to sir Roger Sandbach", of Sandbach in Cheshire,
knt. Philip d'nus de Leghe had issue Robert Leghe,
that died without issue, so that the heirs of the three
daughters divided Leghe amongst them. Sir Richard
Dracote' had issue, by his wife Alicia, Philip, who had
issue Philip, who had issue Richard, that died without
issue ; and Edmund Dracote, heir to his brother
Richard. Edmund lived l6 Edw. III. from whom Dra-
cote's part descended to Montgomery, and from Mont
gomery to sir John Vernon, who had issue Henry, who
had issue John, who hath lately sold it. Hugo de Leghe
had issue Reginald that died without issue, and Philip,
who had issue Reginald, who had issue Richard, who
had issue Reginald, that died without issue; Elizabeth,
married to sir Thomas Aston, of Heywood, knt. ; and
Joan, married to sir Thomas Gatacre, of Shropshire;
who so divided the lands that Aston had the third part.
of Leghe, and Gattacre had Hugh-Legbe" in Salop : sir
' The justice of Chester, as above. Smyth.
® This part nowise answers to the pedigree of Legh, of
Hughlegh, though the account of Sandbach does. It seems
that this Legh was not of Cheshire, but of some other county,
and of Salop, I should take it. He appears to be of the same
family with Lee of Langley, in Salop. Hughlegh, in Salop,
was so caUed, probably from Hugo, to distinguish it from the
other Lees there. Smyth. Robert de Leia was sheriff 12 Hen.
III. Leigh is now, 1819, the property of lord Bagot. At Up
per Leigh was a seat of the family of Lathrop, who bought
Morgan's part of Leigh. Thomas Lathrop, of the priory near
Lincoln, had issue Thomas, who had Nicholas of Bromshall,
o

194 THE ANTIQUITIES
Roger Sandbach, knt. and Cecilia had issue sir Richard
Sandbach, knt. who sold his part of the advowson, and
one tenement in Leghe, to sir William Stafford of
Bromshulfe, who gave it to sir John Stafford his
younger son. The rest of Leghe which was allotted to
sir Roger Sandbach and Cecilia, long after the time of
sir Richard Sandbach, the son of sir Rogers 'v^iz. 36
Hen. VI. came to the hands of one William Morgan,
of the West Country, I think, by descent, and hath
remained in the Morgan's possession, until this present
time, the heir being now under age. Unto whose uncle
(being heir of the house, and elder brother of the father
of the present heir) a heavy misfortune befell, whereby
Humphrey of Crakemarsh, and Ralph of Yoxall, Nicholas
had issue Samuel, who had issue Elizabeth, Jane, and Mary,
Elizabeth died without issue ; Jane^imarried Richard Adderley,
who had the estate ; and Mary married .... Strangeways, of
Liverpool, Humphrey had issue William, who was aged 30 in
1664, Ralph had issue Robert, of Leigh, Arms of Mont
gomery : Or, a spread eagle Azure, Arms of Lathrop : Or, a
tiger trippant Gules, a dexter canton Gules, Crest : a tiger's
head erased Gules, crescent Or,
At Park Hall, a little northward from Upper Leigh, was the
seat of John Whithall, some time rector of Checkley, who mar
ried Frances, daughter and heir of William Aston, esq. who was
son and heir of Robert Aston, a younger brother of the last sir
Edward Aston, a lawyer, but he only left his son William an
estate for life in this house and demesne, and he afterwards
bought the reversion of his cousin, sir Walter Aston, first baron
of Forfar. The old mansion does not now exist.
Birch-wood park, somewhat southward of Leigh, was, by the
same sir Walter Aston sold to sir Robert King, of Ireland, and
he, or his son, sold the same again to Henry Goring, of Kings-
ston, and William Cotton, of Crakemarsh, whose son, Rowland
Cotton, sold his part to John Goring, son of the same Henry,
whose heir enjoyed it, Degge.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 195
he was, by summumjus as they say, executed, and (as I
have heard it reported) bis hap was thus : Being on his
way to London upon some affairs he . had there to do,
and riding with a couple of serving men to a gentle
man's house called Stourton (that had married his
mother) to see his mother, and to know if it were her
pleasure to command him any service to London, where
finding his father-in-law, his mother, and one Turber-
vile, that had married his sister (who was then newly
delivered of a child, and so kept her chamber in the
same house, her husband and she then sojourning there)
at dinner, and after some ordinary speeches of duty to
his mother, and congratulation to his father-in-law,
offered to take his leave and to depart ; but his father-in-
law and his mother intreating him to sit down to take
part of their dinner, his answer was, that " his com
pany might be offensive to some there, and therefore
desired licence to depart ;" whereupon Turbervile, rising
from the table, told him that " he meant that by him;"
Morgan affirming that " he did so indeed," Turbervile
having the knife wherewith he dined in his hand,
offered to stab Morgan therewith ; but Morgan, being
advised thereof, stayed Turbervile's hand, and having a
pocket-dagger at his girdle, drew the same, and stabbed
Turbervile therewith in such sort that he presently died
thereof. Whereupon Morgan's own sister, being Tur
bervile's wife, so prosecuted the matter, by the help of
George Turbervile, brother of the party slain, that they
procured a verdict against Morgan of murder; wherein
he had very hard measure, and whereupon he was
executed. Blyth, being past through Leghe, entereth Feelde,
which, in Henry the First's time, was given by one
Geffrey, abbot of Burton, to one Andrew, in fee-farm,
for 20s. per annum ; but, after, one Nicholas Verdon,
o 2

.196 "THE ANTIQUITIES
abbot of Burton', gave the same, with the homage,
rents, and services of Geffrey St. Maure (then farmer
thereof) unto his brother Bertram Verdon, in exchange
.f9r his lands in StapenhuU, whereof was heir one Roisia,
but whose daughter she was I find npt ; she lived in the
time of Edward I. and I suppose she was a daughter
and heir to one of the Staffords: the reason that in-
duceth me to think so, is, that she had to her husband
one sir Robert de Pipe, knt. who bare. Azure, two pipes
in pale, and the field, crusul^ sem^ Gold, and sealed
with the same, notwithstanding his son by her, sir James
by name ^, who lived 28 Edw. III. sealed with a chevron
in a bordure plain'. This Roisia had by her husband
' Abbot Galfr. granted Feld to Andrew in 1116, which An
drew subsequently surrendered it to the same abbot. Nicholas
de Verdun, it appears not exactly at what time, gave to Ber
tram de Verdun, his brother, the yearly 20s. which he, Nicho
las, had received from the abbot and convent of Burton in Feld,
in exchange for certain land in the village of Munsterton, given
by Nicholas to a certain hospital ; and requires the abbot to
pay the 20s. to Bertram accordingly. And Nicholas abbot of
Burton (from 1188 to 1197), with the convent, granted to
Berteran de Verdun, and his heirs, their land of Felde, and all
appurtenances, with the service and homage of Gaufr. de St.
Maure, viz. of 20s. yearly (saving the estate of Gaufr. and his
heirs) in exchange for Berteran's land and rights in StapehuU ;
giving Berteran also thirty-two marks for the exchange. Registr.
Burton, fo. xxx. b. xxvi. a. b. S. P-W.
^ Taking it that sir James is rightly assigned as the supposed
son of Robert and Roysia, contemplated by Erdeswick ; and
finding that he, sir James, was in reality son of the baroness of
Stafford by sir Thomas, his sealing with the chevron will per
haps be better accounted for by supposing he used the arms of
her first husband, baron Edmund. S, P-W,
' The chevron, being the coat of Stafford, induced the author
to imagine that Rose was of that family ; but it appears more
Ukely that she was the heir of St, Maur, or Seymour, who con-

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 197
sir Robert Pipe, John and Thomas (who called them-.
selves by the name of St. Maure), and Alice, married to
William de Jarpenvile, who lived 12 Edw. II. Thomas
had issue William de St. Maure, who hved 38 Edw. III.'
and passed all his lands in Feeld to sir James Pipe, knt.
his uncle^ ; and about king Richard the Second's time
it came to the possession of sir John Bagot, knt. but
by what means I know not', whose heirs are owners of
Feeld unto this day.
Blyth, being past Feelde, leaveth Grotwich* (a manor
tinued here as holding under Verdon ; and what makes it so
likely is, that the two younger sons took the name of Seymour,
that sir James, the eldest son, appears to have taken the arms
of his mother, Smyth. Arms of St, Maure : Argent, two
chevrons Gules,
' This confirms Wyrley's observation, that the arma nob,
com. Staff, were taken in the reign of Edw. Ill, for there is
mentioned sir James de Pipe, but his arms are omitted. T. B.
^ Sir Robert Pipe was the " first" husband of Roisia. Joha's
de S'to Mauro, in a grant to Thomas his brother (among lord
Bagot's evidences concerning Feelde) expressly names " Henr.
de S'to Mauro" his father. And the words " his uncle'" are, at
any rate, to be crossed out. S. P-W.
Chetwynd has an extract from an award 7 Hen. VI. whereby
sir John Bagot was to hold Feild from Burton abbey, in fee,
by 20s. rent, in exchange for lands in Abbot's Bromley ; but
no mention of representatives of Pipe or St. Maur. S. P-W.
' Through Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Richard Blyth-
field. It is yet the property of lord Bagot. Sir Harvey Bagot
built a house at Field, and made it his seat.
« Gratwich was in possession of the Gorings, but, by the un
timely end of the last male heir, by marriage of the heiress,
has fallen to Walter Littleton, son of Walter Littleton, esq. late
chancellor of the diocese. T. B.
Carta Phillippi filii Phillippi de Chetewynd, d'ni de Grote-
wich. Dat. apud Grotwich, anno 16 Edw. fil. Edw.
Lees-hill was the inheritance of the Tixalls and Normans ;
but the whole became the Tixalls from the marriage of William

198 THE ANTIQUITIES
of the Chetwinds) on the south, side thereof, and so,
passing along by the side of Chartley, leaveth Kinston
Tixall with a daughter of Norman. His son, WiUiam, dying
without issue, it came to the sisters ; and of which John Goring,
a younger son of Henry Goring of Kingston, by the death of
Henry, his elder brother, came to be heir, and married FeUce,
the youngest sister, who had a third part of the ancient inhe
ritance, and purchased all Perry's part, that married the eldest
sister, Sarah : John Ensor married the second sister, Rebecca,
and enjoyed his part: Alexandei" Manlove, son of Rowland
Manlove, of the Wanfields, had Knight's lands for Rachel his
wife's part, which William Tixall, the father, purchased of
Walter, first lord Aston. A little further is the seat of Row
land Manlove, who was born at Wem in Shropshire ; and, in
the naval service under sir Walter Leveson, obtained sufficient
wealth to enable him to buy the Wanfields of sir Walter Chet
wind, and built here a house, which, with other lands that he
bought, he left to his son, Alexander, who enjoyed them in
1660. Arms of Manlove : Azure, a chevron Ermine between
three anchors Or. In 1583 the family of Ensor, or Edensor,
of Paget's Bromley, bore for their arms : .'irgent, a chevron
Gules between three horse-shoes Sable, nailed Or, a cress
Azure. Another family of this name, at Comberford, bore :
Argent, a fess Gules between three horse-shoes Sable, nailed
Or. The Tixalls and Normans thus derive their pedigree :
Robert TixaU, 9, 10, 23 Edw. III.=p
r'  ^
Robert, 33 Edw. III. 37 Edw. III.=pMargaret.

WilUam, 37 Edw. III. 5 Richard. Hugh, 31 Edw. III.
Rich.H. =j=
Hugh Tixall, 40 Edw. III. 4 Ric. II. = '
WiUiam, 5 Hen. IV. =p
 I

I  '¦ 
Richard, 6 Hen, VI, 20 Hen, VI, 20 Edw, IV, Richard Tixall.
of Uttoxeter, butcher, =
Richard Tixall.rpJone, daughter of  Master, gent. 5
I Edw. VI.

• OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 199
(a manor of long time the Gresleys, but of late sold by
sir Thomas Gresley, now living, to sir Edward Aston)

I  '
WiUiam Tixall.=EUzabeth, dau, and heiress of  Norman,
WiUiam, Sarah.rpJohn Perry, Re- =pJohn FeUce,=p John
o. s, p, I of Sardon, becca. | Ensor. | Goring.
I  ' I  -I I  -J
Tixall Perry. John Ensor. Thomas. ==

Il^y.
Robert Tixall, about Edward the Third's time, purchased
Loxley Leyes, sometimes called Kingston Leyes ; and about
Edw. VI, called Lees-hill. But Tixall's pedigree between
Hen. VI, and Edw, VI, cannot be perfected by the deeds.
Burton. Degge. Will'us Norman, of Lees-hill, ^
,  :  I

Nic'us, prior St. Thomas, did manumit Richard Norman,
Ralph Norman, and John Norman, sons of William Norman,
natives suos, 18 Ric. II, =p
!  '
Richard Norman,=:Beatrice, 1475.
William Norman, 9 Hen, IV,
Richard Norman, and Nicholas, 6 Hen, V,
Ralph Norman, of Drointon, 22 Hen, V.
Richard Norman, of Rugeley, grants to John his brother, I
Hen, VI.
Nicholas Norman, of Booth, 20 Hen. VI. married Elizabeth.
Ricardus, grants to Richard, son of John, 9 Edw. IV.
Ralph. '
Richard, to whom WilUam Norman releases, &c.
William Norman of Newton, yeoman, 22 Edw. IV.
John Norman, of Lees HiU, 32 — 44 EUz.
John Norman, of CareswaU, 4 Eliz. was feoffee in a settle
ment between Robert MUward, gent, and Edward Mynors,
esq. and
William Norman, married the daughter of Robert Milward,
of Eaton, Derbyshire. Burton. Degge.

200 THE ANTIQUITIES
on the north side ; and so passeth to Bagot's Bromley,
which Bromley the Bagots have been owners of ever
since the Conquest ; for I find in- the book of Domesday
that one Bagod (which is the Christian name of the
same man) held Bromley ' of Robert de Stafford, and in
Henry the Second's time one Symon Bagod was owner
thereof, which Symon had issue sir Hugh Bagod, knt.
who bad issue sir Richard Bagod, knt. who had issue
John, who had issue sir John, who had issue sir Raufe
Bagod, who married Ehzabeth, daughter and sole heir
of Richard Blythfield, and by her had issue sir John
Bagod, knt. lieutenant of Calais, which sir John,
together with William Scroope earl of Wiltshire, lord
high treasurer of England, sir John Bushye, and sir
Henry Green, was by parliament attainted in Richard
the Second's time, through the procurement, as I re
member, of the duke of Gloucester; but Bagod,' flying
into Irelandj saved his life, and was restored in blood
and to his lands in Henry the Fourth's time, as I take
it. He had issue Richard Bagod, who bad issue John,
who had issue sir Lewis Bagod, knt. of the body' of

' BranseUe"is the word (as printed in Shaw). And this, both
by sound, and by the towns next to it, should be rather Broms-
hulf, or Bramshall, as now written. S. P-W.
Branselle tenet unam virgatam, cujus virgatae medietas est
regis, sicut via earn dividit, sed rex eandem partem invasit et
se defensorem facit. Bagot tenet de eo, Domesday,
Kingston has a sort of blue earth, found here by sir Simon
Degge, A note in the late Mr, Buckeridge's copy (but not of his
hand-writing), says Kinston came from Aston to Goring, and
thence by an heiress t" a son of Walter Littleton, esq. chan
cellor. But earl Talbot, 1814, could find no Littleton in his
Kinston evidences, S. P-W. It is now the property of earl
Talbot.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 201
Hen. VII. Sir Lewis had issue Thomas', that died in
his father's life-time, and had issue Richard, who had
issue Walter, father of Lewis ^ Bagod, now both livine
A.D. 1596. ^'
' Hermannus, father of
WiU'us fil. Hermanni, who had two sons, Amalricus and Jo
hannes, to whom Hermannus gave Blythfield, and he
was caUed Johannes de Blythfield.
Henry, knt. father of
James, knt. father of
Richard, father, of
Henry, brother to
John, father of
Richard, who had Elizabeth, married to sir Ralph Bagot, knt.
father of John.
Blythfield's ancient coat : Party per pale Azure and Sable.

Wyrley.

Erdeswick.

Simon Bagot,

Simon.

Hugh Bagot, knt.

Hugh.

Richard Bagot, knt.

WiUiam Bagot, knt.

John Bagot, arm.

John Bagot, knt.

John.

Ralph Bagot, knt.

Ralph.

John Bagot, knt.

John.

Richard Bagot, arm.

Richard.

John Bagot, knt.

John.

Sir Lewis Bagot, p' corpore

Lewis.

Hen. VII. miles.

Thomas Bagot, arm.
Thomas.
Richard Bagot, arm.
Walter.
Lewis.
'' Lewis Bagot died before his father, and the land came to
sir Harvey Bagot, bart. who is now living, 1656, and a very ho
nest worthy gentleman ; and hath issue Edward Bagot, now
owner of Blythfield, who hath many fine children. Degge.
Bromley Bagot and BUthfield, continue in the possession of
this ancient family, which was raised to a baronetcy in 1627,
202 THE ANTIQUITIES
Blyth, being past Bould-hall, a seat lately of the
Meverels (whose daughter and heir was wife of John
Chetwynd, of Ingestrie, deceased, mother of William
Chetwynd now living', whereby the said William is
and dignified with the peerage in 1780, by the title of baron
Bagot of BUthfield, William Bagot, 42, 43, 44 Hen, III. John
Bagpt, 4 Hen. VI. Richard Bagot, 32 Hen. VI. and 18 Ed, IV.
sir Lewis Bagot, knt, 22 Hen. VII. Lewis Bagot, 12 Hen, VIII.
Richard Bagot, 11 and 19 Eliz, Walter Bagot, 41 and 45 EUz.
and 1 James I. sir Harvey Bagot, bart, 2 Ch. I. were sheriffs of
the county. Arms of Bagot of BUthfield : Ermine, two chev
rons Azure. Arms of Bagot of Hide : Argent, a chevron Gules
between three martlets Sable. The seat at BUthfield is very
ancient, in the form of a court, fitted up in the most elegant
and costly stile ; and containing a splendid collection of paint
ings, executed by, the ablest masters. In the church are many
fine monuments of the fifteenth century, in honour of the Bagot
family. There is also a monument to one of the Astons of
Broughton, in Longdon.
' Also mother of sir Walter Chetwynd, who had .issue Walter,
who had issue another Walter, who lately married ."Vun Bagot,
daughter of sir Edward Bagot, 1658. Degge.
Bold was a manor belonging to a family of the same name,
of which James Bold was owner, temp. Edw. I. In 1286, it
was possessed by the Meverells, and from them passed by mar
riage, three centuries afterwards, to the Chetwynds, Here,
also, William Goring, youngest son of Henry Goring, had his
seat, who married Ann, the eldest daughter pf Thomas Lovat,
of Callow Hill, with whom he had an estate there, which had
continued in that name and family from the time of Ric. II, At
Blyth bridge was the house of sir Simon Degge, in which he
resided at the end of a long life, and in which he died. Oppo
site to which is Greveley, a member of Chartley, and somewhat
eastward from Blyth bridge is Kingston, the ancient inheritance
of the Greseleys ; but sold by sir George Gresley to sir Edward
Aston, of Tixall, whose son, sir Walter, sold many of the tene
ments to the tenants ; and the seigniory, woods, and some chief
farms to Henry Goring, who had his seat here, and left it to
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now become owner thereof) passeth on between Abbot's-
Bromley, now called Paget's-Bromley, which it leaveth
like a mile eastwardly, and which Bromley hath been
the inheritance of the abbots of Burton from the first
ibundation of the house until the dissolution thereof,
temp. Hen. VIII, when William lord Paget had it, as
I conceive, of the king, Bromley is a pretty town, and
hath a fair at Bartholomew-tide, In Bromley was a
seat of the Endesoures, of Endesoure in Derbyshire,
but now the Edensoures of Bromley are clearly gone,
and the house almost down'.
And not far from Bromley, being in, the same parish
is Horecross*', where is a fair gentleman's seat, and a
parliament, who left it to his son, an infant, in 1660. This fa
mily was descended from the Gorings of Sussex, Arms of
Meverell: Argent, a griffin segreant Sable, armed Gules,
' Bromley is still the property of Paget, marquis of Anglesey,
There was here an ancient custom, now discontinued, similar
also to one long observed at Stafford, and at Seighford ; but it
was continued here till the civil war, and sir Simon Degge
often saw it, A person carried between his legs the figure of
a horse, made of thin wood, and in his hand a bow and arrow,
which passing through a hole in the bow, and stopping on a
shoulder in it, makes a snapping noise, as he drew it to and fro,
keeping time with the music. With this man, ten or twelve
others danced, carrying on their shoulders as many rein deers
heads, some of them painted white and some red ; with the
arms of the families of Paget, Bagot, and Welles, to whom the
chief property of the town belonged, painted on the palms of
them, with which they danced. To this hobby-horse dance
there also belonged a pot, which was kept by turns by four or
five of the chief of the town, whom they called Reeves, who
provided cakes and ale to put into this pot, and collected pence
for that purpose ; with which money they paid them, repaired
their church, and kept their poor. The horns yet hang up in
the church.
' Horecross is in the parish of Yoxall. It was granted by
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204 THE ANTIQUITIES
park, some time the house of Humphry Wells, and now a
nephew of his, of the same surname, is owner thereof.
And on the west side is a village called Newton',
which, 20 Conq, was the inheritance of Rainalde de
Balgiole, and since came to th« Westons of Weston
Robert, gave it, 5 Edw, II. to WiUiam Davyes, of Tutbury,
clerk. 1 Hen. IV. Ermitrude, heir to Davyes, was married to
sir Roger Aston, knt, of Haywood, 5 Hen, VI, Alice Aston,
heir to this estate, married John Welly^s, esq, whose name
was anciently YoxaU ; and by living near ithe well, in Bacon-
street, Lichfield, took the name of Athwell, or At th' Well^
"and afterwards of Wells, or WeUes, or Weld, the present name
I of the family, now seated at Lulworth castle, co, Dorset. John
Wells, 20 Hen, VIII, died, leaving his son and heir, at the
age of 26, seized of Horecross and other estates : and, 7 Eliz.
Humphry WeUs died, leaving Robert, his son and heir, aged
40, seized of Horecross, and of lands in Clifton Camvile, Long
don, Burntwood, Elmhurst, Charley, Handsacre, Haywood,
Bishton, Newborough, Mear, Pipe Ridware, Tutbury, and
Wheaten Aston, Horecross passed from Wells to Winifred
Cassey, married to Robert Howard, son of sir Robert How
ard, knt, of the Bath, younger son of Thomas Howard, earl
of Suffolk, His daughter and heir, Winifred, married Peter
Giffard, of Chillington, esq. ; and, having no issue, it passed
to her heirs, the earl of Bristol, and lord Griffin, of Braybrook,
who sold it, about 1734, to Webb ; who, in 1748, sold it to
the hon. Charles Talbot, whose son and heir, Charles, earl of
Shrewsbury, took down the ancient house, and sold the estate
to Hugo Meynel, esq. whose son is, 1819, the present pro
prietor of it. Humphry Wells, 1 Eliz, was sheriff. Arms of
Wells : Sable, a stag's head cabossed Or, Arms of Howard :
Gules, a bend between six cross crosslets fitched Argent,
with the duke of Norfolk's augmentation on the bend, in an
escutcheon of pretence ; Azure, a chevron Or, between three
birds heads erased Argent, Sir Ralph de RoUeston and Tho
mas de Rolaston were witnesses to a deed at Horecross, dated
6 Edw, II,
' Sir Philip Draycot, knt. 9 Aug, 1 Elizabeth, died seized of
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OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 205
subtus Lizard, from whom it came by descent to the
Peshalls, and is now a divided manor between Mitton of
Weston under Lizard and on6 Hawks of Rushall, and
Walter Bagot, whose father, Richard Bagot, bought
one purparty thereof ; and that of Weston's is now the
land of one Wilbraham, the son of sir Thomas Wilbra
ham of Woodhay, in Cheshire, who married the daugh
ter and heir of Mitton of Weston, who was late owner
thereof. , Blyth, having severed Bromley and Newton, enters
Blythfield, Of BlithverweU (as it is said in Domesday)
was owner at the Conquest one Hermannus, and he
had issue Will'us, fil. Hermanni, which William had
issue Almaricus and Johannes, a younger son ; to Jo
hannes his father gave Blythfeild, whereupon he was
called Joh'es de Blythfeild, Almaricus had issue Will'us,
filius Almarici, and he had issue Ricardus de Hul-
crorabe. Johannes de Blythfeild had issue sir Henry
de Blythfeild, knt. who had issue sir James, who bad
issue Richard, who had issue Richard, who had issue
Henry and John ; Henry died without issue, John had
issue Richard, who married Katherine de Ballidon, and
by her had issue Elizabeth, the wife of sir Raufe Bagott
de Bromley, knt. whose posterity of the Bagotts have
been owners thereof ever since to this very day, and
there have seated themselves.
^lyth, having left Blythfeild, passeth on till it comes
to Hamstall Ridware, where it .receiveth, on the north
side, a brook, that hath its beginning in Needwood
forest, somewhere above Newborough, through which
town it passeth.
In Newborough' is the seat of one Agard% and also o'^
, ' Newborough was the manor of Robert de Ferrers, earl of

Agard's seat was sold by his daughter and. heir, who mar-

206 THE ANTIQUITIES
one Whittington, two gentlemen ; but neither of them,
as I take it, of long continuahce there. Froln 'thence
this brook passeth by Geffry Cawarden's (of whom I
have spoken before) to Horecross (also before remem
bered), and from whence to Hamstall Ridware.
Hamstall Ridware, in the time of the Conqueror, was
holden de comite Rogero, by one Walterus, who had
issue Wilham and Robert ; of Wiiliarn, see a copy of a
deed here following :
Sciant tam presentes quaih futuri, quod ego, Will'us
de Ridware, dedi, concessi, et hac mea carta confir-
Derby, in 1141 ; who, 6 Stephen, gave all the tithes of it to
the monks of Tutbury. Elizabeth, widow of sir William Hol-
lys, 35 Hen. VIII. died seized of this manor, and William
HoUys was her son and heir. Sir William was lord-mayor of
London 32 Hen, VIII. His arms were: on a bend, three
annulets between a talbot rampant and a dolphin. He was
son of another William HoUys,. or HoUis, citizen and baker, of
London,

ried Smith, of Derby, to WilUam Wood, a citizen and Salter,
of London, whose son, James Wood, of Uttoxeter, enjoyed it.
Whittington sold his seat to Charles Egerton, whose son, sir
Charles Egerton, possessed if. Arms of Egerton : Gules, a
fess between three pheons Argent.
At Holt hall, in this manor, was the seat of WUloughby
Manley, esq. which his father, Edward Manley, purchased of
WilUam Patrick. It appears, that 12 Hen, VII, James Manley
had issue William and James ; and that William died without
issue, by which James became his heir. Degge.
Here is another topographical mistake, Pirebrook, which
joins Blyth in Hamstall mill-pool, risfes in Bagot's Park, and
does indeed run very near to Newborough ; but the one here
meant, which comes from Needwood, and passes through the
last-named village, is the Swerburn, which never comes into
Blyth at aU ; but after running, in a clear and rapid stream,
the whole length of Yoxall, reaches Trent only when the latter
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mavi Waltero de Ridware, filio meo, 44s.'; de reditu
meo in Seile, viz. de Will'o, fil, Warini, 5s, ; de Rad'o,
fil. Guismere, 4s.; de Wolfrico, 3s.; de Henrico Fabro,
6s,; de Will'o fil, Nigelli, 7s.; de Hugone de Seile,
10s. ; de Rob. Messore, 7s. ; de Will'o de Hastang, 2s.;
in auxilio ejus Hernesgiardi, in expectatione quod ei
melius faciam. Hiis testibus, Rogero de Ridware ;
Rob'to fratre WiU'i de Ridware ; Hen. de Hakenhull ;
Waltero, coco ; Hamone, clerico ; Rob'to de Wudbuil ;
et multis aliis.
Whereby it appears, that the said William had issue
Walter, and a brother Robert*, Of one Walter I have
seen a seal, with an eagle displayed, having two heads,
and a chief varry ; but long after, about 3 Edw. II.
Thomas Ridware sealed with an eagle diplayed, having
two heads ; and yet, ever since then, the Ridwares have
borne. Azure, an eagle displayed, with one head silver,
beak and feet red.
About the latter end of Edward the Third's time, Wil
liam Cotton married Agnes, heir of Hamstall Ridware,
and by her had issue Richard Cotton, who had issue
John, who had issue Richard, who had issue Maud^
married to sir Anthony Fitzherbert, judge'; Eleanor,
married to sir William Venables^; Katherine, married
to Richard GrosvenorS; Isabel, to John Bradburne".
and Thomas ; that although he had issue, yet the same
died without issue, and before him ; so that his sisters
were his heirs, whereby Hamstall Ridware', in the
' All the sums make forty-four shillings. T. B.
^ If frater be taken for a son, this is right, T, B.
3 Of Norbury. Smyth.
* Baron of Kinderton, Cheshire. Smyth.
5 Of Eton, Cheshire. Smyth,
* Of Hoghe, Derbyshire, esq. Smyth,
' The manor-house was once fitted up in a stile of great

208 THE ANTIQUITIES
division, came to be allotted to sir Anthony Fitzherbert,
who had issue sir Thomas, John, William, and Richard.
Sir Thomas died without issue; sir John had issue
Thomas (now living), Nicholas, Francis, and Anthogy,
all also living.
Blyth, having passed through Hamstall Ridware, and
left the town on the south side, and Rowley park, a
member thereof, on the north, enters presently into
Trent, which leaveth also, a little more northward,
Yoxall ', whereof sir Robert Holland, 9 Edw. II, was
splendour ; near which is a watch-tower, ascended by a stair
case, and open at the top, which formerly communicated with
the other -buildings, Walter, who at the Conquest held the
manor of Roger de Montgomery, is supposed to be the an
cestor of the Ridwares. In 1 Edw. Ill, it belonged to sir Philip
de Somervile, held under Henry, duke of Lancaster, Ab.out
the end of the same reign, William Cotton married Agnes, the
heir of this lordship ; in which family it continued till Maud,
the heir of Richard Cotton, married sir Anthony Fitzherbert,
of Norbury, and carried it into his family. The family of
Leigh succeeded to that of Fitzherbert early in the reign of
James I. and in that family it yet continues, Thomas Cotton,
33 Hen. VI. was sheriff of the county. Arms of Ridware :
Azure, a spread eagle Argent. Arms of Cotton : Azure, a
chevron between three ropes tied up Argent.
The adjoining parish of Pipe Ridware is not mentioned by
Erdeswick. It has a small ancient church, which contains an
antique font, sculptured with circles interlaced. The manor
was called Media Ridware ; and at the time of Domesday was
held of the king by the bishop, and under him by Alric, It
afterwards belonged to the Staffords ; and having passed
through the families of Tamenhorn, Pipe, Stanley, Chadwicke,
Agard, and Whitehall, is now the property of Edward-John
Littleton, esq, and Thomas Parker, of Park hall, esq, John
Whitehall, 20 Charles II, was sheriff,
' Yoxall is not mentioned in Domesday, but has belonged to
the honour of Tutbury from the Conquest, In 1254, Margaret,
countess of Derby, held it. It was afterwards given by

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 209
lord, and lately sir William Holies ; and now his son's
«on, sir John Holies, I think, is lord,
Trent, then passing on eastward, receiveth, on the
south side, a little brook, which taketh its beginning
above Lichfield, where, it being stayed, divideth the
Hen, III, to his younger son Edmund, earl of Lancaster,
Edward II, seized it in the rebelUon of Thomas, earl of Lan
caster, and gave it to Robert HoUand, his secretary. In this
noble family it remained tUl 1 Hen, VII. ; when, after the
attainder of viscount Lovell, it passed to the family of Holies.
From this family, who were afterwards dukes of Newcastle,
the manor passed, by purchase, to one Salt, who was their
bailiff; from whom, and the Fitzwilliams, it became the pro
perty of the Pagets ; and, in 1760, of the late lord Leigh, in
whose family it yet continues.
In 46 Hen, III, Robert, lord Beauchamp, of Holt, by his
letters patent, dated at Yoxall, gave liberty to sir Walter de
Raley and his heirs, inhabiting then at Uttoxeter, to hunt
and course the fox and hare, within the precincts of the forest
of Needwood, with eight braches and four greyhounds.
Longcroft was granted by William Ferrers, earl of Derby, to
Roger de Yoxall, clerk, temp. Hen. III. and was purchased by
Simon Arden, second son of Thomas Arden, of Park hall, co.
Warwick, in the time of queen Elizabeth, whose pedigree is at
length in Dugdale. The first of that name was Siward de
Arden, temp. Hen. I. grandson of Alwin the sheriff, in the
time of Edward the Confessor. Osbert de Arden, half brother
of Alwin, granted to Walter de Somervile, and his heirs,
Sirescote, near Tamworth. John Arden, 3 Geo. II. was she
riff. Arms : Ermine, a cross-bow strung Gules, string Or. ;
also, cheque Or and Azure, a chevron Gules.
The hamlets in this parish are numerous; Morrey, Bond
End, Hadley End, and Sale. Yoxall lodge is the seat of Tho
mas Gisborne, clerk, well known as a poet, moralist, and divine.
A new church, called Christ church, has been built under the
act for the inclosure of Needwood forest. About forty years
ago, in levelling some ground in this parish, were found forty
vessels of coarse brown soft earth, almost filled with ashes and
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210 THE ANTIQUITIES
city and close asunder, in such sort, that there is no
access from the one to the other, but only over two
causeways or bridges, made for that purpOse.
And first, to speak of the close, so called, as I take
it, for that it is inclosed about with a wall, and a
good deep dry trench on all sides, except towards the
city, where it is defended by a great marsh, or pool,
which the said brook maketh, either of its own matter,
or by reason it is stayed, to raise a pond, where the
mills stand.
In the close there is a goodly cathedral church, if I
should say one of the fairest and best repaired in Eng
land (being thoroughly builded and finished, which few
are), I think I should speak no otherwise than the truth,
and wherein also be a great number of very fair monu
ments of the bishops and other clergymen, besides divers
others of the noblemen ; as, one very fair of the lord
Basset, one other of the late lord Paget, another of one
of the Stanleys, &c.
There are also, outwardly, builded, three pyramids or
steeples, of a good, convenient, and seemly height, all very
well wrought with free stone, especially the two gemels
that stand westward, very well cut and curiously
wrought. The which west part is, at the end also, ex
ceeding finely cut, and cunningly set forth with a great
number of tabernacles ; and in the same, the images or
pictures of the prophets, apostles, kings of Judah, and
divers other kings of this land, so well embossed, and
so lively cut, that it is a great pleasure for any man,
that takes dehght to see rarities, to behold them '.
' Anno 1744, at the instigation of the rev. Mr. Archdeacon
Smalbroke, canon-residentiary of this church, the dean was
prevailed upon to remove several of these ancient images, to
the great deformity of this very beautiful west end of the
catbedral. Bishop Lyttelton.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 211
Moreover, in the same close, are yery many very fair
houses, belonging to the canons and prebends of the
church ; but, above all, the bishop's palace is the fairest
by much, having in it a goodly large hall, wherein hath
been excellently well painted, but now much decayed,
the coronation, marriage, wars, and funeral of Edw. I. ;
and some writing, which there is also yet remaining,
which expresseth the meaning of the history : where is
especially mentioned the behaviour of sir Roger Pew-
lisdon, of Emerault, in Flintshire, and others, against
the Welshmen ; as also of Almaric de Balgiole, Bur
nell, Valence earl of Pembroke, of the lord Badlesmere,
and other barons, against the Scots, where the said
earls and lords are very lively portrayed, with their
banners of arms bravely before them : but it is a great
pity the same is not restored by the lord bishop before
it be quite decayed.
' Anno Christi,
656, Dwina, Duina, or Dwyna, a Scot.
658. Cellach, monk of Hye, in Scotland, resigned, and re
turned to Hye.
660, Trumher, abbot of Gilling, Yorkshire, died in 662.
663, Jarumanas, or German, The four first bishops had no
episcopal church, but lived in some convent, Jaruman
consecrated the church in the close, in 1666,
669, St. Chad, or Cedda, led an eremitical life in a cell, at
the place on which St. Chad's church, in Lichfield, now
stands ; built for himself a Small house near the church,
and devoted himself to prayer and preaching. He died
2 March, 672, and was buried at Lichfield, where he fixed
the see. He was canonized for his remarkable sanctity,
672, Winfridus, Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, divided
this bishoprick, Winfrid, disapproving of this separation,
was deprived. At that time the diocese comprehended the
whole kingdom of Mercia, Winfrid had been a monk of
Adberwe, to which monastery he retired after his depri
vation, in 675,
p2

2il2 THE ANTIQUITIES
The bishops pf Lichfeild', that have been, be these
which here follow, who successively governed the
churches of the diocess, as they be here named :
1, Dwina J both Scots. 3. Trumherus.
2. CeoUachus > 4. Jarumanus,
676, Saxulfus, abbot of Burgh, founder of Thorney abbey,
and re-founder of Burgh, died in 691.
691, Hedda is said to have consecrated, if he did not build,
the cathedral church, into which he removed the body of
St, Chad.
721. Aldwinus, died 737-
737. Witta, or Wicta, died 752.
752. Hemel, died 765.
765. Cuthfridus, died 768.
768. Berthunus, died 785.
785. Higbertus, or Sigbertus, was ordained by the council of
Calcluith, which took away great part of the archbishop of
Canterbury's jurisdiction. He died 786.
786. Aldulphus, Aldwlf, was made archbishop by Offa, king
of Mercia, 789, and so continued till the king's death, 29
July, 794 ; and here he had his metropolitical seat. In
803 he subscribes himself bishop of Lichfield. He died
about 812,
812. Herewinus, died 817-
817. Athelward, died 857.
857. Humbertus, was slain by the Danes, Nov, 30, 870.
870. Kyneburtus, died 890.
890. Tunbrithus, died 920.
920. Ella, or Elwinus, died 944.
944. Alfgar, or Elgar, died 960.
960. Kynsius. There is some doubt whether .he is not the
same with Winsius, the next bishop.
974, Winsius, died 992,
992, ' Elfegus, signed the charter of Burton abbey in 1004, by
the name of Elfheah, He died 1007.
1007. Godwinus, died 1020.
1021. Leofgarus, died 1027-
1027- Brithmarus, died 1038.
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5. Cedda, the first that 6, Winifridus.
placed the bishop's see 7. Saculfus."
at Lichfield. 8, Headda,
1954, Leofwin, abbot of Coventry, died 1066.
1067. Petrus, was chanceUor to the Conqueror, and removed
the see to Chester. The annals of Burton have the see
vacant seven years, on the death of Leoffwin, and Peter
must then have been elected in 1073. Some have it that
Leofwin then died.
1086. Robert de Limsey, removed the see to Coventry in
1095, and was king's chaplain. He died Aug, 30, 1117,
and was buried at Coventry, The see was vacant above
three years,
1120. Robert Peche, or Peccham, was chaplain to king
Henry I, died 20 Aug. 1127, and was buried at Coventry
The see was vacant two years.
1129. Roger de Clinton, archdeacon of Bucks, and nephew to
Geffry, lord Clinton, He removed the see to Lichfield,
almost rebmlt the cathedral, surrounded the city with a
ditch, and founded St, John's priory in that city. To this
church he was a bountiful benefactor ; and died at An-
tioch, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem,
1149, Walter Durdent, prior of Christ-church, Canterbury,
died 7 Dec, 1161, and was buried at Coventry,
1162. Richard Peche, archdeacon of Coventry, died 6 Oct.
1182 ; resigned his bishoprick, and became a monk in the
convent of St. Thomas, at Stafford, which he founded, and
where he was buried.
1182, Gerardus la Pucella, died 13 Jan. 1184, and was buried
at Coventry,
1185. Hugo Nonant, or Novant, archdeacon of Oxford, and
died at Beche, in Normandy, 27 March, 1198,
1198. Galfridus de Muschamp, archdeacon of Cleveland, died
2 Oct. 1208, and was buried in his cathedral.
1210. Walter Grey, the king's chancellor, translated to Wor
cester,
1214. William de CornhuU, archdeacon of Huntingdon, die,d
20 Aug, 1223, and was buried in the cathedral,
1224, Alexander de Savenby, founded the friery in Lichfield,
died 26 Dec, 1238, and was buried in the cathedral.

214 THE ANTIQUITIES
9. Aldwinus, 12, Cathfridus,
10, Wiltfa, 13. Berthanus,
11, Hemelus, 14, Higbertus,
1239. Hugh de PateshuU, canon of St. Paul's, son of Dr. Simon
PateshuU, lord chief justice of England, died 8 Dec. 1244,
and was buried in the cathedral.
1245, Roger de Weseham, dean of Lincoln ; was seized with a
paralytic disorder, and resigned 4 Dec, 1256, and died
May 20, afterwards. He was buried in the cathedral,
1256, Roger de Longespe, or de Molend, was the king's nephew,
and a canon of this cathedral, died 16 Dec, 1295, and was
buried in the cathedral.
1295. Walter de Langton, S. T. P, dean of Bridgnorth, and
canon of this church, was a munificent benefactor both to
the church and the city; he died 16 Nov. 1321, and was
buried in the cathedral.
1322. Roger de Northburgh, master of the wardrobe, chancel
lor of Cambridge, archdeacon of Richmond, and a canon
of this church ; died 22 Nov. 1359, and was buried in the
cathedral.
1360. Robert Stretton, LL. D. a canon of this church. He
was auditor of the Rota at Rome ; died 28 May, 1385,
and was buried in the cathedral,
1385, Walter Skirlaw, prebendary of York, and dean of St,
Martin's, In the following year he was translated to
Wells,
1385. Richard Scrope, LL,D, dean of Chichester, was trans
lated to York,
1398, John BurghiU, translated from Landaff; died 24 May,
1414, and was buried in the cathedral.
1415, John Keterich, translated from St, David's, and again
from hence to Exeter, in 1419,
1420, WiUiam Hayworth, abbot of St, Alban's ; died 13 March
1446, and was buried in his abbey-church of St, Alban's.
1447- WilUam Bothe, canon of St, Paul's, and chancellor to the
queen ; in 1452 he was translated to York.
1452. Reginald Butler, translated from Hereford; made his
will 23 March 1453, which was proved 19 April afterwards,
in which he directed to be buried in the cathedral.

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15. Adulphus. 18, Hunbertus. .
16. Harewinus, 19. Cineferthus.
17. Ethewaldus, 20, Tunbrithus.
1459, John Halse, D,D, dean of Exeter, and archdeacon of
Norfolk; died 3 Dec. 1490, and was buried in the ca
thedral.
1491. WilUam Smith, D. D, dean of St, Stephen's, and arch-
deacon of Surrey. He endowed St, John's Hospital in
this city, and was translated to Lincoln, He was' co-
founder of Brazenose CoUege, Oxford,
1496. John Arundel, dean of Exeter, and canon of Windsor ;
he was translated to Exeter,
1503. Geffry Blythe, D.D, provost of King's CoUege, Cam
bridge, dean of York, and lord president of Wales. He
died in 1533, and was buried in the cathedral.
1533. Rowland. Lee, archdeacon of Cornwall, and canon of
this church. He was lord president of Wales ; and died
24 Jan. 1542, and was buried at Shrewsbury.
1542. Richard Sampson, trsinslated from Chichester. He was
lord president of Wales; died 25 Sept. 1554, and was bu
ried at Eccleshall,
1554. Ralph Bayne, D, D, the professor of Hebrew in Paris,
was deprived for popery, 21 June 1559 ; died in January
following, and was buried at St. Dunstan's in the West,
London,
1559, Thomas Bentham, D, D. FeUow. of Magdalen College,
Oxford ; died Feb, 1578, and was buried at Eccleshall,
1579, William Overton, D. D, treasurer of Chichester ; died
9 April 1609 ; and was buried at Eccleshall,
1609. George Abbot, D. D. dean of Winton, and master of
University College, Oxford ; was translated to London,
and afterwards to Canterbury.
1610. Richard Neile, D, D. translated from Rochester, and
from hence to Lincoln in 1613, to Durham in 1617, to
Winchester in 1628, and to York in 1631.
1613. John Overall, D. D. professor of divinity, and master of
Catherine Hall, Cambridge. In 1632, he was translated to
Durham,
1632. Robert Wright, D. D. canon and treasurer of WeUs, was

216 THE ANTIQUITIES
21. Ella, sive Elfwinus. 24, Winsius.
22, Algarus. 25. Elfegus.
23. Ciulus, 26, Godwinus,
translated from Bristol, He died in 1643, and was buried
at Eccleshall,
1643, Accepted Frewen, D. D. president of Magdalen College,
Oxford, and dean of Gloucester. In 1660, he was trans
lated to York.
1661. John Hacket, D. D. archdeacon of Bedford, and rector
of St. Andrew's, Holbourn. He died 20 Oct. 1 670, and
was buried in the cathedral,
1671. Thomas Wood, D, D, prebendary of Durham, and dean
of this church. He died 18 April 1692.
1692. William Lloyd, D.D. translated from St. Asaph, and from
hence to Worcester.
1699, John Hough, D, D. president of Magdalen College, Ox
ford, translated from Oxford, and from hence to Wor
cester,
1717- Edward Chandler, D, D, canon of this church ; in 1730
was translated to Durham,
1730. Richard Smalbroke, D. D, translated from St, David's.
He died 22 Dec. 1749,
1750, Frederick Cornwallis, D, D. dean of St. Paul's. In Au
gust 1768 he was translated to Canterbury.
1768. John Egerton, L.L, D, dean of Hereford ; translated
from Bangor. In 1771 he was translated to Durham,
1771. Brownlow North, LL. D. dean of Canterbury; in 1774
translated to Worcester, and in 1781 to Winchester.
1775, Richard Hurd, D.D, archdeacon of Gloucester ; was, in
1781, translated to Worcester,
1781. James Cornwallis, LL, D, dean of Canterbury ; in 1791
dean of Windsor, and in 1794 dean of Durham,
Arms of the bishops : party per pale Gules and Argent, a
cross potent and quadrant in the centre, between four crosslets
patee of the second and Or,
Lichfield is supposed to have owed its origin to the Saxons,
and to have raised itself upon the ruins of the Roman Etocetum,
or Wall. Recurring to the legend of the martyred Christians
under Diocletian, or of the three kings slaughtered at this

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 217
27, Leofgarus, 29. Walsius,
28, Brightmanus. 30. Leofwinus.
place, the name has been understood to mean the field of
blood. The words lich, lee, or lace, in Saxon, signifying also a
marsh, or morass, in which situation, in early times, Lichfield
appears to have been placed. Oswy, the conqueror of Mercia,
about 665, established a bishopric here ; and St. Chad, one of
its earUest prelates, laid the foundation of a church. Hedda,
one of his successors, enlarged or refounded the church, where
it now stands, and removed hither the bones of St. Chad. In
789, king Offa procured this see to be made archiepiscopal ;
which continued for a few years, when the act of pope Adrian
was revoked by pope Leo. Ill, his successor, at the instance of
king Kenulph. Whilst Adulph was archbishop of Lichfield, he
had for his suffragans, the bishops of Worcester, Hereford, Lei
cester, Sidnacester, Elmham^ and Dunwich. He was at the
council of Clovesho, in 803, which restored the rights of the
see of Canterbury, and died in 812. The see was translated to
Chester on account of the meanness of the town, in 1005 ; and
thence to Coventry in 1102 ; but the bishops in a short time
returned to Lichfield. Bishop Clinton restored it to its lost
dignity. He raised great part of the present church, about
1140, and augmented the chapter. He surrounded the town
with a ditch, and fortified the castle. Bishop Muschamp, in
consideration of the great kindness of king John to this church,
appointed by deed three chaplains to celebrate mass for his
soul, and the souls of his father, brother, and relations, with a
sufficient stipend. The charter, and its confirmation by the
dean and chapter, is in Liber Niger Scaccarii, p, 375, Langton
was a most munificent prelate. He built two bridges over the
pool, which intersected the town ; he built the palace at the
east end of the close ; the great gate at the west end, which
was in 1800 taken down (a view of whicb is in Harwood's His
tory of Lichfield) ; and the postern at the south. He bestowed
upon the vicar's choral his ovra palace, now called the vicarage,
at the west end of the close. He built the cloisters, and raised
at great expence a magnificent shrine to the honour of St,
Chad. He laid the foundation of St. Mary's chapel, at the east
end of the cathedral, an elegant edifice, and bequeathed a sum
of money, sufficient for the completion of it after his death ;

218 THE ANTIQUITIES
Petrus, anno 1067, 1 Will, Conq.
Robertus de Limesia, anno 1088, 1 Will. Ruf.
Robertus Peche, anno 1117, 17 Hen. I.
and in which he was buried. The revenues of the see were
valued, 26 Hen. VIII. at ^798. 17s, 6d, ; and of the chapter,
at j^436, 10s, In this church is a bishop, dean, six canons-re
sidentiary, fifteen prebendaries, and twelve vicars-choral.
The cathedral remained unimpaired in splendour and beauty,
until, by the ravages of the civil war between king Charles and
the parliament, it fell a prey to desecration and rapacity ; the
middle spire was beaten down, and the records of the church
were burnt, the roof was battered in, and the monuments de
stroyed. The close was besieged, in 1643, by lord Brook, who
lost his life in the attempt ; but it was immediately taken by
sir John Gell. It was re-taken in the same year by prince
Rupert ; who appointed colonel Harvey Bagot, to be governor;
He retained possession of it tUl 1646 ; when, upon the total
. ruin of the king's affairs, it was finally surrendered to the par
liament. Bishop Hacket restored the church to its former dig
nity and beauty. The windows of the Lady chapel have been
richly ornamented with ancient painted glass from the convent
of Herkenrode, near Liege, one of the monasteries which was
destroyed during the late revolutionary war on the continent.
The north transept window has been adorned at the charge of the
present dean, Woodhouse, with a costly window of handsome
painted glass, representing nine of the most remarkable bene
factors of this church. The south transept window has also
been richly adorned with painted glass at the expense of
the chapter. The choir has been lately ornamented with stalls
in imitation of the richest stile of pointed architecture, and
corresponding improvements have been made in the chapter
house, in the cloisters, and in the windows of the nave.
The cathedral is 411 feet long from east to west; 66 broad
from north to south ; the middle spire is 258 feet and a half
high; the west steeples 188 feet high. The west window, in
the form of a Catherine-wheel, was given by king James II.
when he was duke of York ; and over it, on the outside, is a
statue of king Charles II, The screen behind the high altar
was of most exquisite fretwork, in the niches of which were
statues, Langton was buried in his own chapel in 1321, but

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 219
Rog. de Clinton, anno 1128, 28 Hen. I.
Walterus Durdent, anno 1149, 14 Steph,
Ricardus Peche, anno ll62, 8 Hen. II.
his monument has been removed to the south aisle. In this
cathedral are also monuments in honour of bishops Patteshull,
1245; Blythe, 1530; Hacket, 1670; Smalbroke, 1749; of
deans Heywood, 1492 ; Addison, I703 ; Proby, 1807- Bishops
St. Chad, Geffrey de Muschamp, William de CornhuU, Sta
venby, Weseham, Meyland, Northburgh, Stretton, BurghiU,
Bolers, Halse, were buried here. There are also monuments
to lady Mary Wortley Montague, to Gilbert Walmsley, John
son, Garrick, and Anna Seward. In addition to which may
be noticed, in the south choral aisle, under the beautiful east
ern window, that admired monument, by Chantry, to the me
mory of two daughters of the late rev. William Robinson, pre
bendary of this cathedral. The palace, which had been built
by Langton, who caused the history of the wars of Edw. I, to
be painted in the great hall, and which remained to the time of
Erdeswick, though much decayed, was destroyed in the Civil
War; and the present palace was built by bishop Wood
in 1687.
The city was governed by a gild and gild-master from the
time of Richard II, It was incorporated 1 Edw. VI, by the
stile of bailiffs, burgesses, citizens, and the commonalty of the
same. The senior bailiff is appointed by the bishop, the other
by the corporation. They have power of life and death within
their jurisdiction, a court of record, and pie-poudre. By the
charter of Charles II, the corporation consists of a recorder,
steward, two bailiffs, and twenty-one brethren, one of which
is the tovni-clerk. The city and its suburbs form a complete
county. The castle, in which Ric, II, kept his Christmas in
1397, and in which, two years afterwards, he was confined ;
the city walls ; bishop Clinton's costly fortifications ; with the
beautiful western gate, are all levelled. The castle stood on an
eminence on the south side of Tamworth-street, the site of
which is now occupied by small houses and gardens. The
Friery was built by bishop Stavenby in 1229, several parts of
which yet remain. The priory of St. John, founded by Clin
ton, was afterwards refounded by bishop Smith, as an hospital.

220 THE ANTIQUITIES
Gerardus de Pucelle, anno 1186, 32 Hen. II.
Hugo de Novant, anno 1198, 9 Rid.
Geffry de Muschamp, anno 1245, 29 Hen. Ill,
for a master, two priests, and thirteen poor men. The hos
pital for a master and fifteen old women, was founded by
bishop Heyworth in 1424, and refounded by Dr, MUler in
1504. Lichfield has three parish churches. St. Chad's was founded
at a period prior to the date of the cathedral ; near to which is
a well, now called St. Chad's weU, where that pious prelate
first held his oratory, and which was, in early times, frequented
by numerous votaries in honour of him. St, Mary's church is
in the market-place, and St, Michael's at the east end of the
city, Whittington the grammarian; Richard Weston, judge
of the common pleas, and grandfather of the earl of Portland ;
Elias Ashmole, the antiquary, and founder of the Ashmolean
museum at Oxford ; Gregory King, the herald and poUtical
economist ; Smalridg& bishop of Bristol ; Newton bishop of
Bristol ; and Dr, Samuel Johnson ; were natives of this city.
Samuel Johnson was the elder son of Michael Johnson, a
bookseller of good repute, and a member of the corporation.
His mother was Sarah Ford, descended from the ancient family
of Jervis in Warwickshire. They were married at Packwood,
in that county, according to the parish register : " MicheU
Johnsones of Lichfeld, and Sara Ford, married June ye 19th.
17O6," Samuel Johnson was born on the 7th of September,
1709 ; in the register of St, Mary he is entered, " Samuel, the
son of Michael Johnson, gentleman," The house in which he
was born, and where his father resided, is at the north-west
corner of the market-place, fronting both Market-street and
the market-place, Dr, Swinfen, a learned man and eminent
physician of Lichfield, and Mr. Richard Wakefield, the worthy
and charitable town-clerk, were his godfathers. Mr. Wake
field's will, dated Aug. 15, 1733, and administration of which
was granted Sept. 28, 1733, says, " to my godsons, Mr.
Richard Bayley, and Mr. Samuel Johnson, five pounds apiece."
He was nursed in George-lane, by a woman named Marklew,
alias Bellison ; and taught to read English by dame Oliver,
a widow, in Dam-street, at the north corner of Quonian's-

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 221
William de Cornhill, anno 1256, 40 Hen, II.
Alex, de Stavenby, anno 1295, 23 Edw. I.
Hugo de Patteshull, anno 1322, 15 Edw. II.
lane. His early education he received under the rev, John
Hunter at the grammar-school. Being early afflicted by the
scrophula, or king's evU, he was taken to London by his mother,
and was touched, as the custom then was, by queen Anne.
At the age of fifteen, after having resided for some time at the
house of his uncle, CorneUus Ford, the son of Dr. Joseph
Ford, a physician, and brother to Johnson's mother, he was
removed to the school of Stourbridge in Worcestershire, of
which Dr, Wentworth was then master. Here he is said to
have acted also in the office of assistant. Before he went to
Stourbridge his father applied, without success, that he might
be admitted as a scholar and assistant at Newport school under
the rev. Samuel Lea. Having remained one year at Stour
bridge, he returned home, and loitered away his time for two
years in a state of indolence unworthy of his great abiUties,
In his nineteenth year, on the 31st of October, 1728, he was
entered a commoner of Pembroke college, Oxford, under the
tuition of one of the fellows, Mr. Jordan. Here he obtained
great applause by translating, which he did with great rapidity,
the Messiah of Pope into Latin verse. His apartment in the
coUege was upon the second floor over the gateway. His
father, through an imprudent speculation in a manufactory of
parchment, having fallen into a state of insolvency, he was
compelled, in the autumn of 1731, to leave Oxford without a
degree ; and in the following December his father died. His
father's circumstances are thus noticed in one of his diaries '•
" 1732, JuUi 15. Undecim aureos deposui, quo die, quicquid
ante matris funus (quod serum sit, precor) de paternis bonis
sperari Ucet, viginti sciUcet libras accepi. Usque adeo mihi
fortuna fingenda est. Interea, ne paupertate vires animi lan-
guescant, nee in flagitia egestas abigat, cavendum." Under
the influence of these virtuous resolutions, he became assistant
in the school of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire ; to which
place, it appears from his diary, he went on foot, " JuUi 16,
Bosvortiam pedes petii," But this employment beicg irksome
to him, he relinquished it in a few months. Having been in-

222 THE ANTIQUITIES
Roger de Weseham, anno 1360, 34 Edw, HI.
Roger de Moland, anno 1385.
Walter de Langton,
vited by his schoolfellow, Mr, Hector, then a surgeon at Bir
mingham, to pass some time with him as his guest, at the
house of Mr. Warren, a bookseller, with whom he lodged ; he
remained with him about six months, and afterwards hired
lodgings for himself in another part of the town. It was here
that he translated a voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, a Portuguese
Jesuit, which was printed in 1735, His brother Nathanael had
succeeded to his father^ trade, and Johnson, having returned
to Lichfield, published proposals for printing, by subscription,
the Latin poems of Politian, and the subscriptions were to be
" taken in by the editor, or N, Johnson, bookseller, of Lich
field." The work, however, was never published. In Nov.
1734, he commenced his correspondence with Mr. Edward
Cave, the editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, with whom he
was afterwards closely concerned in the course of his literary
pursuits. On the 9th of July, 1735, he married Mrs, Porter,
a widow, with whose husband, a mercer at Birmingham, John
son had been acquainted, and who, after the death of her hus
band, had retired to the Close of Lichfield, The ceremony
was performed at St, Werberg's church in Derby, according
to the register: " 1735, July 9th, marr'd, Sam'U Johnson, of
ye parish of St, Mary's in Litchfield, and Eliz'h Porter, of ye
parish of St, Phillip in Birmingham," Mrs. Johnson's maiden
name was Jervis, and she was, at the time of her marriage, in
her forty-eighth year, as thus appears from the register of
Great Pealling in Leicestershire : " Anno Domini 1688-9, Eli
zabeth, the daughter of William Jervis, esq, and Mrs. Anne,
his wife, born the fourth day of February, and manfe, baptized
16th day of the same month by Mr, Smith, curate of Little
Pealling, John Allen, vicar." After his marriage, Johnson
rented a house near Lichfield, called Edjall-hall ; which, 'in Feb.
1809, was taken down, and the materials sold. A view of it
is preserved in Harwood's History of Lichfield. In the last
page of the Gentleman's Magazine for June and July 1736, is
the following advertisement. " At Ediall, near Lichfield in
Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded, and taught the

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 223
Roger de Northburgh, Richard Scroope.
Robert Stretton. Johannes BurghiU.
Walter Skirlaw. Johannes Allen,
Latin and Greek languages, by Samuel Johnson," The only
pupils placed under his tuition, were the celebrated David
Garrick and his brother George, and Mr, Offley, a young gen
tleman of Wichnor. This scheme of life having proved unsuc
cessful, he relinquished his house at Edjall, and determined to
try his fortune in London. In March, 1737. he arrived in the
metropolis, accompanied by his pupil David Garrick. Here
he maintained himself by his literary labours; and published a
series of works, the mere enumeration of which would extend
beyond the Umits which can here be assigned to this brief me
moir of this illustrious writer. His first lodgings in London
were at the house of Mr, Norris, a stay-maker, in Exeter-street,
adjoining Catherine-street, in the Strand ; and he was accus
tomed to frequent the Pine Apple in New-street, in that neigh
bourhood. In July he retired to lodgings at Greenwich, next
,door to the Golden Heart, Church-street, for the purpose of
completing his tragedy of " Irene," having only written three
acts of it before he left Lichfield : but in the autumn he was
again at Lichfield, where he had left his wife, and where he
finished his " Irene." Having remained three months in his
native city, he now removed, accompanied by Mrs, Johnson,
to London ; and first lodged in Woodstock-street near Hanover-
square, and afterwards at No, 6, Castle-street, near Cavendish-
square. In March, 1738, he published an ode, " ad Urba-
num," in the Gentleman's Magazine ; and from this time, too
often stimulated by his necessities, he continued to adorn the
pages of that iilteresting work with a great variety of elegant
papers. In March, 1738, he published " London," a poem in
imitation of the third satire of Juvenal. Such was its success
that it arrived at a second edition in the course of a week, and
so superior its merit, that it was distinguished by the admira
tion of Oglethorpe and the applause of Pope. Though justly
elevated into fame, and conscious of his commanding abilities,
he was yet disappointed of his hopes of a competent subsistence
from his literary labours. He therefore turned his thoughts
again towards his former employment, and appUed for the mas-

224 THE ANTIQUITIES
William Hayworth, Johannes Halse.
William Booth, William Smith.
Reginald Boler, Johannes Arundel,
tership of Appleby school in Leicestershire, which was then
vacant. But his wishes were again frustrated by the statutes
requiring the degree of master of arts as a qualification for the
appointment. In 1744 he published the " Life of Savage;"
and, in 1745, proposals for a new edition of Shakespeare. In
1747 he announced to the world his " Plan of a Dictionary of
the English Language," in a letter to the earl of Chesterfield-
In 1749 his tragedy of " Irene" was acted at Drury Lane
Theatre, and in the same year he published " the Vanity of
Human Wishes," in imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal,
which had been chiefly written at Hampstead, where he occa
sionally had lodgings. WhUst he was employed in his great
work, he lived for some time in Holborn, and from thence re
moved into Gough-square, Fleet-street. In 1750 commenced
the publication of the Rambler. His wife, whom he always
treated with affection and tenderness, died on the 17th of
March, 1752. In 1755 he obtained the degree of master of
arts of Oxford by diploma, and in the same year appeared
his " Dictionary of the EngUsh Language," In 1758 and 1759
he published the " Idler ;" and, in the latter year, his " Ras-
selas," In January, 1759, he lost his mother at the great age
of ninety. In May, 1761, a pension of ^300, per annum was
granted to him by the king, as the reward of his eminent learn
ing and distinguished merit. In 1765 he published his " Edi
tion of Shakespeare ;" in 1775 his " Tour to the Hebrides ;"
and in 1778, and the succeeding years, his " Lives of the
Poets," In 1765 the degree of doctor of laws was most ho
nourably conferred upon him by Trinity coUege, Dublin, He
contributed largely to other publications ; he wrote several ex
cellent papers in the " Adventurer ;" and published some
political pamphlets. In 1775 the university of Oxford conferred
upon him the degree of doctor of laws by diploma, " virum
illustrem, in omni humaniorum literarum genere eruditum,
omniumque scientiarum comprehensione felicissimum, scriptis
suis ad popularium mores formandos summ^ verborum ele-
gantia, ac sententiarum gravitate compositis," During the latter

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 225
Gefiirey Blythe, Ralph Bane,
Rowland Leghe, Thomas Bentham,
Richard Sampson, William Overton,
years of his life he frequently visited his native city, and viewed
with partial deUght the scenes which, in his youth, had been
famiUar to him. He wrote an inscription for a stone to be
placed over the remains of his parents in the middle aisle of
St. Michael's church. He had removed his residence in Gough-
square to chambers in No. 1, Inner Temple-lane, and, after
wards, to Johnson's-court, and, finally, to Bolt-court, Fleet-
street; in which latter house he died Dec. 13, 1784. He was
buried in the Poet's corner, in Westminster abbey, and the
foUowing inscription is over his grave : Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
obiit XIII die Decembris, anno Domini m.dcc.lxxxiv astatis
suae Lxxv, Monuments have been erected in honour of
him, in the cathedrals of Lichfield, and St. Paul's; and
colonel Myddleton, of Gwaynynog, near Denbigh, erected
an urn to his memory on the banks of a rivulet in his
park, with the following inscription : " This spot was
often dignified by the presence of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
whose moral writings, exactly conformable to the precepts of
Christianity, gave ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth."
Boswell has enumerated the several busts, pictures, and en
gravings, which were made to perpetuate his resemblance ; to
which may be added, a miniature-painting by an unknown
artist, taken about the time of his marriage, and is a striking
likeness of him, now in possession of the editor of this volume,
and once the property of Francis Barber, his black servant,
and residuary legatee. The literary and domestic life of this
great man, who was not less the glory of his own age and of
his country, than he will be of all succeeding times, has been
written with remarkable minuteness by sir John Hawkins, by
James Boswell, and by Arthur Murphy, by Anderson and by
Chalmers, illustrative of his domestic, moral, and literary cha
racter. His poetical pieces are uncommonly harmonious, bold,
and nervous ; his prose classically correct and elegant : in both,
his genius and his erudition are highly conspicuous. And it
would be great injustice to his acknowledged exceUencies and
supereminent talents not to affirm, that every line which he
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226 THE ANTIQUITIES
I can say little of the antiquities thereof, more than
I have done : it is now a county, but I suppose hath
been so but a short time.
It is governed by two bailiffs, hath a sheriff, with
other officers, which serve for the city ; but forasmuch
as the liberties are or have been in question lately, I
will speak no more of them, except that iX sends two
burgesses to the parliament.
These towns following were members, or append-
ances, belonging to the bishop's barony of Lichfield, 20
Conq, as appeareth by Domesday Book ; viz. Paden-
don, the two Hamerwiches', Tichebroc% Norton, Wir-
wrote tends to the accomplishment of all his views, the pro
motion of learning, of virtue, and of religion. His life and his
writings had the same great objects. Benevolence, charity,
and piety, were the distinguishing features of his character.
He was an ingenious poet, an acute critic, and an exalted
moralist, and his writings will be studied, admired, and ap
plauded, so long as virtue shall be esteemed, and genius and
learning shall be reverenced ; so long as the English language,
in its strength, purity, and elegance, shall be read and un
derstood. Lichfield has given the title of Bernard Steuart, fifth son of
Esme Steuart, duke of Richmond and Lenox, temp. Charles I, ;
to Charles lord d'Aubigny, and baron of Newbury in 1646 ; and,
in 1674, to sir Edward Henry Leigh, of Dichley, co. Oxford ;
at the death of whose grandson, without issue, in 1772, the
title came to his uncle Robert, thirteenth son of the first earl,
who, dying without isshe, in 1776, it became extinct.
' Hammerwich is, in Domesday, called Hamerwich duae.
Anciently the village was divided into Nether and Over ; and

' Stichbrook was, for many generations, in the family of
Dyott, and now belongs to Gower, marquis of Stafford. Near
the house is a field called " Christian Field," supposed to have
been the scene of the slaughter of several thousand Christians,
under Diocletian, in 286

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, S27
ley, Roveley, Horton, Packington ', Tamehorn, Hans
acre, Hints, Locheshall, Ridware, Weeford, and Buro-
its division seems to have been at the hiU, upon which was bmlt
a chapel for the use of the inhabitants. Salve, sacra domus !
It is within the manor of Longdon, and parish of St. Michael,
Lichfield, The Webbs have been settled here from the time
of Hen. IV, The Hammerwich hall estate, from Heath and
KendaU, became the property of Ridding, William Heath,
about 1680, married Sarah, daughter of Richard Brandreth,
esq, of Shenstone-hall, by whom he had John Heath, who had
serjeant Heath, of Wolverhampton, whose only xhild, Mary,
married John Stubbs, of Walsall, second son of Francis Stubbs,
of Huntington, near Cannock, In this parish is part of the
extensive reservoir of water for the supply of the Wyrley and
Essington canal. Arms of Kendall : Argent, a bend indented
Vert, between three cotises Gules,
' Erdeswick here, in his too concise way, takes no notice of
a remarkable repetition in Domesday, and thus makes repeti
tion himself: Padendon and Packington. Domesday begins
the article : " Ipse episcopus tenet Lecefelle, cum appendiciis
suis." Then, after the usual description, and a valuation, it
proceeds: "Ad hoc M, (manerium) pertinent haec membra,
Padintone,'' &c. to " Rouueleia," inclusively; and subjoins,
" Terrae omnes sunt wastae." Then follow articles, Scoteslei,
Mortone, Dregetone, Sotehelle or Soge'helle, Cesteforde.
Lastly, comes again, concluding the head of '' Terra Ep'i,"
" Ipse episcopus tenet Licefelle, et jam retro descript. est."
And, after a line and a half on the measurements of the Sylva,
it repeats, "Ad ipsum M. — pertinent haec membra, Hortone,
terra ii car. Aluuin's tenet Pagintone, terra, &c, proceeding,
with the remainder of the places here named by Erdeswick ;
with two, lines of general description of these two secondly-
enumerated " terras vel Bereuuica ;" and, as a final remark,
" Valentia in M, — est computata,"
It may be mentioned that Locheshale, here mentioned,
should be Tocheshale ; and, possibly, Littlebech may prove
to be Littleheth ; i. e. the same hamlet, just beyond Thick-
brome, in Weeford, now spoken Littlehay, No trace of the
name Buroueston has been found in or near Weeford, S, P-W,
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228 THE ANTIQUITIES
veston, and Littlebech ; Freford, Tinemore, Horebome,
Smedwich, and Tibington',
' Some copies add : " Chesterfield, Swinfen, Wall, Pipe hill,
Ashenbrook, FareweU, Great Pipe, Little Pipe, Charley,
Burntwood, Ediall, Mavestone-Ridware, Pipe-Ridware, HiU-
Ridware, Hamstall-Ridware, Armitage, Beaudesert, Thick-
broom, Whittington, Fisherwick, Horton, Woodhouses, Cur-
borough, Elmhurst, Fulfen, Stotfold, .Haselour, Bardon lane,
Fradley, Thatchmore ; with Longdon, Bruerton, Cannock
and Cannock forest, Rugeley, Wolseley, Haywood, Colwich,
Shutborough, Walton, Brockton, Stockton, Baswick, and many
more, which formerly belonged to the bishop, and now to
Paget, who is chief lord of them all." (
Wall was so called by the Saxons, from the Roman name
Vallum, and was the Etocetum of the Romans. Some frag
ments of walls and foundations of buildings are yet visible. No
antiquary, except Salmon, has disputed the claim of Wall to
Etocetum ; and he places it at Barr Beacon, in Aldridge. But
Watling-street is four miles from Barr Beacon, and Ikenild-
street is one mile from it. At Wall, a gold Otho was dug up
in 1690, Plot saw coins of Nero and Domitian, found here;
part of a wall, from whence the present name is derived, and
which yet remains ; and two Roman pavements of lime and
rubble, and of pebble and gravel, both laid on Roman bricks.
On the other side of the " Street"-road, in a field belonging to
Chesterfield, on the bank of the Tame, have been found the
pedestal of apillar, and other antiquities, Antoninus makes Wall
the next station to Manvessedum, or Manceter. The remains of
antiquities were found here in a field, yet called Castle croft.
On Ogley hay is Cat's hill (quasi Canute's hill), where are
two barrows of Roman or British constructioiij perhaps the
sepulchral monuments of some eminent chieftains.
Two miles from Etocetum, on the west, is Knave's castle,
on the south side of the Watling-street, a small tumulus, in
closed within three ditches : an entrance is on the south side.
It has been hollowed on the top. At Pipe hill, in the grounds
of Samuel Bradburne, esq. was a fortification of British con
struction. Ashenbrook was the land of Adam Aston, who married Bro-
nyhend, daughter and heir of Henry Davise, and aunt and heir

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 229
Lichfield brook, being past the city, leaveth. east
wardly, like half a mile, Streethay, so called, as I
of John Davies, whose great-grandchild, Robert Sprot, mar
ried Agnes Wellys, daughter of John Wellys and AUce his
wife, daughter of Richard Aston, son of Adam Aston. Degge.
Little Pipe is a prebend in Lichfield cathedral, and was for
merly held by the family of HiU, who afterwards possessed the
friery, in Lichfield. Here was the mansion^of .HiU or HuU,
*'?-^9?l it belonged 10 Edw. III. It is now, 1818, the pro
perty of Samuel Pipe Wolferstan, esq. Arms of HiU : Azure,
a chevron between three fleurs de lis Or, and a canton Or.
Aldershaw was the residence of the family of Burnes from
the time of queen EUzabeth, and by marriage has descended
to Trevor Owen Burnes Floyer, clerk, the present possessor.
EdiaU was once possessed by the families of Wolferstan, Ridding,
and Burnes, From them it passed to Thomas Hammond, who
built the hall in which Dr, Samuel Johnson resided in 1736,
It passed to Fettiplace Nott, esq, to Thomas Ashmole, and to
John Fern, whose younger son, Robert, sold it, and^the house
was taken down in 1809, ^v i-^?*** /V r&s fw:t>->'-^ ^ — >* '<¦
At Burntwood was erected a chapel, 1819, under the bene
volent auspices of dean Woodhouse, for the use of a numerous
population, which had been to this time precluded from any
place of worship, this hamlet being at the inconvenient distance
of four miles from the parish-church,
Curborough was the seat of Zachary Babington, esq, from
whom it passed by marriage to TheophUus Levett, in whose
family it yet remains,
Elmhurst was owned by the Biddulphs ; and here sir Theo
philus Biddulph, bart, built the house, a view of which is given
by Plot, and which was levelled with the ground in 1804. It
passed from the Biddulphs to Swinfen and Eliot, and is now
the property of John Smith, of Fenton, esq. who has erected a
handsome house near to the site of the former. Arms of Bid
dulph : Vert, an eagle displayed Argent.
Fulfen belonged to the family of Chatterton, temp. Hen. VI.
who passed it, in 1637, to Humphry Chetham ; and which.
14 Ch. I. was sold by him to sir Richard Dyott, knt. in whose
family it yet continues.

230 THE ANTIQUITIES
think, because it stands on a great fosse way that
passeth from Lichfield to Burton, and so to Derby and
Freeford was held, 24 EdW. I. by Hugh de Timmore, Sir
WilUam Freford, knt, who held Freford, had for his arms, a
bend fusilMe Argent, a martlet in the sinister point Or,
jf^here v^as a Jease of WilUam Andrews, gent, to WUUam
Zouche, gent, of the lordship of Freeford, for 40s. for the term
of twenty years, dated 34 Hen, VIII. It had once belonged to
a family who assumed the same name. This estate came into
the hands of the family of Dyott, temp. EUz. one sixth share
from Swinfen, one sixth from Andrews, one sixth from Jer-
main, and three sixths from Harcourt, by inter-marriage with
that family. An award was made by Richard Broughton and
James Weston, between John Dyott and Richard Harcourt, of
lands in Freeford, 2 Eliz. Humphry Andrews' lease to John,
George, and Anthony Dyott, of lands in Freeford, for their
three lives, is dated 22 May, 2 Eliz, John Harcourt's deed
of covenant, to Anthony Dyott, of lands at Freeford, Morg-
hall, Streethay, and Lichfield, is dated 19 Jan, 26 Eliz,
There is a deed of Edward Johns, of Broughton, co, Salop, to
John Dyott, of Lichfield, yeoman, for ^100, dated 19 June,
37 Hen. VIII, and Arthur Dyott, a merchant of the staple, re
sided in Sandford-street, Lichfield, temp. Eliz, The pedigree
of the family is in Shaw, John Dyott was of Stichbrook and
Lichfield. In the patent granted by sir Gilbert Dethick, garter
principal king at Arms, 20 Feb. 1562, to John Dyott, of Stich
brook, gentleman, is confirmed their ancient coat of arms, with 1
a crest. Arms : Or, a tiger passant Sable, armed and langued '
Gules : Crest, upon a helm, on a force Or and Sable, a tiger \
passant Argent, with collar and chain, armed and langued
Gules, mantled Gules and Argent. His son John was a bar
rister and proctor in the Ecclesiastical Court at Lichfield, He
was bailiff of the city in 1558, 1561, and 1572, and-died in
1580, aged 61. His son, Anthony Dyott, was also a barrister,
and 24 July, 40 Eliz." appointed recorder of Tamworth, with
an anriual salary of 40s, He represented Lichfield in several
parliaments. The house in Sadler, alias Robe-street, Lichfield,
\ras_ bought by him of John Swynfen for ^,33, and afterwards
became the family residence. It was probably John Dyott,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 231
Nottingham. In Streethay is the seat of a gentleman
bearing the same name '.
the son of Anthony, that was the Dyott whom Shakespeare men
tions in the second part of king Henry IV. act iii, scene 3, Sir
Richard Dyott, knt, second son of Anthony, one of the privy-
councU to king Charles I, in his court at York, arid steward of
Lichfield, in the charter of king James I, in 1621, was an
active and faithful adherent to the royal cause in the civil war.
He represented the town of Stafford, and afterwards the city of
Lichfield, during the whole reign of Charles I, and was a great
sufferer in his service*. He died 8 March, 1659, aged 69,
Anthony, the eldest son of sir Richard, was a barrister of the
Inner Temple, and a major in the army of the king, and repre
sented Lichfield in two parliaments after the Restoration,
He died without issue, 28 June, 1662, He was succeeded by
his brother Richard, who was a captain of horse in the volun
teers of Lichfield, in the king's service, at the battle of Edge-
hill, went over to Holland with the royal family, and returned
shortly before the Restoration, His two brothers, Matthew
and Michael, were also employed in the royal cause. Their
uncle, Robert Dyott, clerk, was rector of Darlaston. An
thony Dyott, by his will, dated 21 June, 1662, left all his
personal estate to his brother, captain Richard Dyott, to whom
and his heirs he also left all his lands lying in the counties of
Stafford and Lichfield, with remainder to Simon Dyott and his
heirs, to Anthony Dyott and his heirs, son and heir of Robert
Dyott, late of Darlaston, co, Stafford, his uncle. He recom
mended his faithful clerk, Anthony Shirley, to his brother's
care, and leaves him an annuity of fifty shUlings. He desired

' Streethay stands upon the Ikenild road. The last of the
Streethays sold the seat (which has been taken down about
thirty years) to Richard Pyott, alderman of London, whose
eldest son, Richard Pyott, enjoyed it in 1660, Richard Pyott,
11 Charles I. was sheriff. Arms of Streethay : Argent, a lym-
mer hound Gules,

• By the liberality of lieut.-general William Dyott, the Editor has been
enabled to publish an engraving of his ancestor, sir Richard Dyott, knt.

232 THE ANTIQUITIES
This brook, passing on, runneth by Curborough and
Frodley to Alderwas ', where it enters into Trent ; Trent
his brother Richard " to plant an orchard at Freeford, in the
little close on the east side of Walton's house. Captain Richard
Dyott represented Lichfield in ten parliaments. His son Richard
was born May 9, 1667, and baptized in St, Mary's church,
Lichfield, by bishop Hacket ; his godfathers were sir Thomas
Gresley, bart,.,and John Lisle, of MoxhuU, esq, his godmother
the lady Dorothy Dyott, the widow of sir Richard Dyott.
This Richard had issue Richard, who had issue Richard, who
was recorder of Lichfield, and died in 1813, He was succeeded
by his brother WilUam, lieut,-general in the army, who mar
ried, Jan, 11, 1806, Eleanor Thompson, by whom he had
Eleanor, Richard, and WUUam, Richard Dyott, 39 Geo, III.
was sheriff of the county.

John Dyott, of Lichfield and=pCatherine, daughter of John
Stichbrook, 1560, I Weston, of Lichfield,

John Dyott,=pMargaret, daugh-
thrice bai- ~ ~
liff of this
city, died
1580,

ter of Robert
Hill, of Lich
field.

Jone,= died
1590.

=Richard CresweU,
of Barnshurst,
merchant of the
staple.

Anthony Dyott,=pCatharine, daughter

recorder of Tam
worth, and M. P,
for this city 1601,
1603, 1614,

of John Harcourt,
of Ronton abbey,
esq, died 1602.

Arthur Dyott, a
merchant of the
staple in Sand
ford-street, Lichfield.

Richard Dyott, knight, steward:
of Lichfield, and chancellor of
the county palatine of Dur
ham, M, P. for Stafford, 1623,
1624; and for Lichfield in
1625, 1626, 1628, 1640, died
1659, aged 69,

I ] I I
:Dorothy, Mary, died 1602,
dau, of Robert Dyott,
Richard rector of Dar-
Dorring- laston.
ton, of "A, John^Dyott.
Stafford, tlenry, boirn?
esq. died 1598.
1672.

' The church of Alrewas was one of the prebends, instituted
in 822, Before the Conquest, the manor belonged to Algar,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE,

233

then passing on between Alderwas and Wichnore, the
seat of the Griffiths of Staffordshire, These two manors

AnthonyDyott, M,P,
for Lichfield 1660,
and 1661, and died
1662. ; mar.Barbara,
dau. of James In
gram, esq.

Richard Dyott,
married Brid
get, dau, of sir
Thomas Gres
ley, bart.

MattheW; married
 dau,
of Zach,
Babington,=p

John,

Symon,
Michael,

Richard DyottJ M. P, f6r=pFrances, daugh-

Lichfieldl 690, 1698, 1 70 1 ,
1702, 1705, 1707, 1710,
1714, died 1719.

ter of William
Inge, esq.

John Dyott,
1662, of
Stichbrook,

Richard Dyott,=pMary Lane, died 1740,

Richard Dyott,=pCatharine, daugh- Mary,=Christopher Ast-
died 1787, j ter of Thomas ley, of Tam-
Herrick, esq. horn, esq.
 1  i__P_P_P_,
Phihp Dyott.
Catharine, married
Robt. Dale, esq.
Mary.
Hannah.

Richard Dyott, sheriff of
the CO. 1798, and re
corder of Lichfield,
1808, died 1813, mar
ried Mary, daughter of
Christopher Astley,esq.
of Tamhorn.

WUliam Dyott,
lieutenant-ge
neral in the
army, 1819 ;
married Elea
nor Thomp
son. ==

Lucy, marr. Tho
mas Burnaby,clk.

I  T— ^  1
Eleanor. Richard. WUUam,
It is related by Anthony W^ood, in his Oxoniensis Athenae,
that lord Brook was shot from the battlements of the cathedral
of Lichfield, by a person caUed " Dumb Dyot." This was
John Dyott, brother of sir Richard Dyott. In the will of An
thony, eldest son of sir Richard, dated June 21, 1662, he is
particularly mentioned. " My wUl is, that my brother Richard
shall maintaine and keepe my deafe and dumbe uncle and aunt,
John and Katherine Dyot, in the same plight and equipage,
with all things necessary, as my father and I have done,"
Harborne belonged to lord Dudley, and was forfeited to the
crown by the attainder of John Dudley, duke of Northumher-

earl of Mercia. It continued afterwards the ancient demesne
of the crown, tiU 5 John, when it was granted to sir Roger de

234 THE ANTIQUITIES
were anciently the lands and seat of Somervile, and
since of the Griffiths. About Henry the Third's time
land, but was restored to Edward lord Dudley. This manor,
and Smethwick, passed from thern to the family of CornwalUs,
whose residence was at Blackley HaU, and from them to PhiUp
Foley, esq. who sold Harborne to George Birch, esq. and
Smethwick to Harry Hinckley.
Somervile ; and having passed, by marriage, through the Grif-
fifths and Boyntons, together with Wichnor, it was sold in 1660,
by sir Francis Boynton, bart. to William Turton, who married
the daughter and heir of Thomas Holmes of Orgrave, who built
a second house here for his son John, who married Ann, the
daughter of Samuel More, of Lynley, co. Salop. WilUam,
son of V^illiam, married Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Fownes,
gent, and had issue two sons, John and Philip, both seated
here. John was knighted, and became one of the barons of the
Exchequer, and temp. WilUam and Mary, one of the justices of
the King's Bench, "who," says Hurdsman (in his additions to
our author), "had his seat here in 1696; and besides the manor
of Alrewas, hath an ample dominion here, Alrewas Hays,
where there is plenty of deer and game, and a noble piscary on
the rivers Trent and Tame. He died in 1707, having sur
vived his eldest son William, and was succeeded by his grand
son and heir, John, who was sheriff of the county 3 and 8
Geo. I. His first wife, Catherine, was daughter of John Ben
son, of London, esq. by whom he had issue William and Catha
rine ; by Jane, his second wife, daughter of George Becford,
of Ealing, co, Middlesex, esq, he had issue Elizabeth, who
died 1740, and Jane, wife of sir PhiUp Musgrave, bart, . His
third wife was Mabella, daughter of Samuel Swinfen, M, D, by
whom he had issue John ; EUzabeth, wife of George Parker,
esq, second son of sir Thomas Parker, knt, of Park HaU, lord
chief baron of the exchequer, by Ann, youngest daughter and
coheir of James Whitehall, of Pipe-Ridware, esq, ; and MabeUa,
wife of Thomas Whitby, clerk, of Cresswell. He died 18 Aug,
177 1, aged 84. In 1752, he sold this manor and estate of Alrewas
and Orgrave, to George, first lord Anson, whose great-great-
nephew and heir, Thomas viscount Anson (1819) now pos
sesses them John Turton, son of the last John, was lord of the

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 235
Edmund Somervile was lord of them, and he had issue
Robert, which lived 23 Edw. I. and had issue sir Roger,
manor of Sugriall ; and 18 Geo. Ill, sheriff of the county. Arms
of Turton and Fowns : Argent, ten trefoils slipt, 4, 3, 2, 1,
Vert, a canton Gules, impaling two spread eagles in chief, and
a mullet of five points in base Or,
Case of John Turton, esq, (copied from the original,)
It may be remembred, that S'r John Turton, one of his ma-
j'ties justices of the king's bench, in the reign of king William
y'e 3d (whose grandson and heir Mr, Turton is) fell the first sa
crifice to the rage and malice of the enemies of that glorious
prince, at the very beginning of the succeeding reign ; and that
his disgrace was occasioned by his honest and firm adherence
to the revolution interest, and to the succession as now most
happily fixed in his present maj'tie. It cannot be doubted,
but that removall was matter of great concern to s'r John Tur-
ton's family, and particularly to Mr, Turton, who conceives the
difference would have been some thousand pounds in his favour,
had s'r John continued in that post to his death. At the arri
val of his present maj'tie Mr, Turton's hopes, that this remark
able and severe usage of his grandfather, would have been ho
nourably remembered to his advantage, were only satisfied with
seeing three of the then judges fall under that unhappy prece
dent. Though this was a just retaliation with regard to the
government, yet Mr. Turton's sufferings were not in the least
alleviated by it, which, however, did not abate Mr, Turton's
zeal for his maj'tie, or his interest, which was so notorious, and
so well approved, that in the most difficult times, at the be
ginning of this reign, application was made to him from some
very great persons in the administration, to undertake the
chargeable and troublesome office of sheriff for the county of
Stafford ; who readily expressed his inclination for the publick
service (provided regard might be had to his grandfather's
usage, and a consideration for the trouble, charge, and expense
of the year), though he stood exempted (according to common
acceptation), by being a practiser of the law. The persons
then applied to not engaging for any recompence, Mr. Turton
was urged no further for that year : which being expired, and
a greater want than before of a sheriff heartily affected to the

236 THE ANTIQUITIES
who had issue sir Philip Somervile, knt. and he had
issue Joan', his only daughter and heir, married to
government, Mr. Turton was again pressed to undertake that
charge, which he did, but not without the strongest engage
ments to be effectually recommended to his majesties favour,
that he should be amply reimbursed and rewarded, and a con
sideration should be had to his grandfather's removall and
sufferings. " Mr. Turton, not in the least doubting the strict performance
of what was thus solemnly promised, chearfuUy, zealously, and
at the expence of near ^500. executed that office, as can be
manifestly testified by his maj'ties friends of note in y't county.
" As Mr. Turton's private affairs then stood, the parting with
so much money, which he borrowed, and yet pays interest for,
the loss of his time, and the dangers necessarily attending that
office, were inconveniences he could not have submitted to, but
under the expectation of a certain recompense. Therefore, it
is with the utmost concern, as well for the honour of the great
person that stands engaged for the performance, as for his
own credit, reputation, and interest, that Mr. Turton can say.
He is yet without the least recompence or satisfaction.
" Mr. Turton could add some other particulars, but imagines
the truth of this case, which is notorious, to be reason sufficient
why he should not be deserted by the government, why his
grandfather's services and sufferings should be honourably re
membered, and his own just expectations be considered and
satisfied. « October lOth, 1721."
The ancient Hall of Fradley, in this parish, formerly belonged
to the Gilberts of Woodford, co. Essex, and passed in marriage,
in 1672, to William Goring, of Kingston, esq. descended from
the Gorings of Sussex, whose arms they bore, as in Plot's map.
Arms of Goring and Gilbert :»a chevron between three annu-'
lets, impaUng an armed couped at the thigh between two
broken spears.
' Joan's descendants, the Griffiths, seem to have been finally
sir Philip's sole heirs, as here intimated ; for they appear to
have had the whole estate while their name existed (or nearly
the whole), and their heirs after them. But sir Philip's inqui-

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 237
Rhese ap Griffith, knt. which Rhese, as I take it, was
the son of sir Geffry Griffith, knt. who held the hundred
of Pirehill, in capite, by serjeanty, to keep the same
hundred, paying therefore yearly six marks and a half;
which Geffry (as I also take it) was the son of William
Griffith, who held the same hundred, paying the same
rent in the farm of the county. The afore-named
Rhese Griffith had issue sir Rhese Griffith, knt. of
Wichnor, who had issue sir Thomas, who had issue sir
John, who had issue sir Walter, who had issue sir
Walter, who had issue sir George, all knights ; sir
George had issue Walter, who had issue Henry, now
living anno 1597'.
sitio post mortem, stated in Dugdale's Bar, title Somervile,
shews Joan had at his death a co-heir, Matilda, daughter and
heir of Joan's sister, Elizabeth, by sir John Stafford, and then
wife to Edmund son of John Vernon. This Matilda vras after
wards the second wife of sir Richard Stafford, and in 1391-3,
it appears by Mr, Turton's registrum cartarum, 2di Walteri
Griffith, militis, and by his Extract, fe rotul, curiae magnae
Whichnor, she was lady of TatenhiU, and of Shelford, in Not
tinghamshire, possessions of her grandfather, sir Philip, but she
seems to have died s, p, S. P-W,
Sir Henry Griffith, bart, son and heir of Erdeswick's Henry,
was succeeded by his sister's son, sir Francis Boynton, bart.
who (Shaw states) sold Whichnor lordship in 1661, to Mary,
jelict of John Offley, of Madeley, And a descendant, John
Offley, sold it 1765, to John Levett, esq. of Lichfield, whose
nephew, Theophilus, is now the owner 1818, S, P-W,
' Wiehnor derives its name from its situation, wich, a village,
and onna, a bank. The Conqueror gave it to Rob, de Stafford,
1 1 Hen, II, it became the property of sir Walter de Somervile,
in whose family it remained, and where they generally resided
in great splendor for several centuries. As a member of the
honour of Tutbury, it was held by sir PhiUp de Somervile,
temp, Edw. Ill, The charter granted by John of Gaunt, en
joined sir Philip de Somervile to keep a flitch of bacon hanging
in his hall at Wichnor, at all. times in the year, except in Lent,

238 THE ANTIQUITIES
Trent having passed Wychnor and Alderwas, receiv
eth on the east part a fair river called Tame, which
that it might be delivered to any person who should demand it,
and would swear that he or she had been married a year and
a day without repenting ; and that if they were again single,
the claimant would take in marriage the same party again, in
preference to all others. Few have, however, ventured to
claim the prize, and three couple only have obtained it ; one
of which having quarrelled about the mode of preserving it, was
adjudged to return it. The other two couple were, a sea-
officer and his wife, who had not seen each other from the day
of their marriage till they met in Wichnor Hall ; and a simple
couple in the neighbourhood, the husband, a good-tempered
man, and the wife dumb. (Spectator 608.) In 1661 the ma
nor was sold to Mary, widow of John Offley, of Madeley, esq.
whose grandson. Crew Offley, esq. built the present Hall, where
his only son, John Offley, esq. resided ; and who sold this ma
nor in 1765 to John Levett, esq. whose elder nephew, Theophi
lus, now owns it. The hall is built on part of the site of the
ancient mansion, which was in ruins, in the time of Leland,
Temp, Hen, III, there was at this place a wooden bridge over
the Trent, at which time " in the Hay of Alrewas, there were
six oaks fallen, of which the king gave four to the bridge of
Wychenour," There is another memorial relating to this
bridge: anno D'ni 1463, 15 Junii, item dictis die et loco, dictus
reverendus pater concessit cunctis suis subditis, qui ad repa-
rationem pontis de Wichnore aliqua subsidia caritatis contu-
lerint, quadraginta dies indulgen. p' literas inde confectas, ad
beneplacitum d'ni duratur. Dat, nostro sub sigillo in manerio
nostro de Beaudesert 15mo, die mensis Junii 1463, et nostrae
consecrationis anno quarto. The bridge was destroyed by a
flood in February 1795, and in its place, the present bridge was
soon afterwards erected, Thomas Griffith, 8 Hen. VI, sir John
Griffith, knt. 24 Hen. VI. sir Walter Griffith, knt. 12 Edw. IV,
Henry Griffith, 36 EUz. sir Henry Griffith, bart. 9 Ch, I, and
Theophilus Levett, '50 Geo, III, were sheriffs. Arms of So
mervile : Azure, crusule fitche three eagles displayed Or,
Arms of Griffith : Gules, on a fesse indented Argent, three
martlets Sable, betwixt six lions rampant Or : also, Gules, on

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 239
taketh its rising near Dudley castle, the ancient seat of
the barons of Dudley ; whose barony, although a great
part thereof lie in Staffordshire, as you may perceive by
that I shall set down hereafter, yet lie a dozen towns of
the said barony in Worcestershire, as appears by Domes
day-book ; for there it is said that Will'us filius Ansculfi
de Pinchengi, tenet Escelie, Nordfelde, Franchelie,
Welingwyche, Wertwelie, Cercehalle, Bellein, Hage-
leia, Dudelei, et ibi est castellum ejus, Swineforde,
Pevemore, Cradeleie, et idem' W, tenet Belintones, in
castellaria sua. He had also of the king much other
lands in divers shires in England ; that is to say, in Sur
rey, Wiltforde, Michleham, Wendelesforde, Middle-
tone, Abindebume, and Padendone ; in Barkeshire,
Goteselle, Bradfeild," Hurtebrigge, Englefelle, Offetone,
Hadicote, Histelew, Etingdene, Staneworde, Hinge-
penne, Contone, and Chingeshone ; in Wiltshire,
Tornevele, and duas hidas, i. in Bradenestock et alteram
in Clive ; in Middlesexshire, Cranforde ; in Bucking
hamshire, Esenbrige, Newport, and in Bradwall four
virgat : in Oxfbrdshire, Hanesword ; in Cambridgeshire,
Stantone ; in Huntedunshire, Wedresley; in Bedford
shire, Tolthorpe, Bernar, Bromewick, and Waure; in
Warwickshire, Estone, Witone, Hardintone, Corwel-
destone, Bermingham, and Edebaston^. So that, in all

a fesse dauncette Argent three martlets proper. Arms of Of
fley : Argent, on a cross formy floury Azure a lion passant
guardant Or, betwixt four Cornish doughs Sable.
' Ibi. Huntbach.
= Erdeswick intirely passes over the whole race, and name of
the Paganels, Fulk (in the Monastic. Fulcodius), Ralph, Ger-
vase, successively owners of Fitz Ansculf's estates, and pro
bably sprung from him ; as they had both Dudley, and, among
others, his above manor of Newport, in Buckinghamshire, to
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240 THE ANTIQUITIES
places, he should seem to be lord of eighty manors or
hamlets, or more.
This Will'us, filius Ansculfi de Pinctengi', was either
father or paternal grandfather to Roger de Somerye^
who, I think, had issue John de Somefye, and he had
issue Raufe', who had issue Roger, who had issue
from Fitz-Ansculf to a supposed grandson, Roger de Somery ;
whereas the first Somery of Dudley appears to have been the
John, here-named (as the son of Roger) ; which John married
Hawise, sister, and finally heir, of the said Gervase Paganal.
And there are some variations between his descendants of the
Suttons, and those given by Dugdale and others. S. P-W.
' No " de Pictengi," or " Pictengis" in Dr. Nash's copy (an
engraved fac-simUe) ; but it seems he has that addition to his
name in the Buckinghamshire of Domesday. S. P.W.
' Dugdale could not discover whether William Fitz-Ansculf
had any issue, though it seems very Ukely ; Paganel, or Pagnel,
being, soon after him, in possession of Dudley Castle, and by
whose heir it went afterwards to Somery. Smyth.
Fulk Paganel. who lived thirty years after him, had issue
Gervase, baron of Dudley. He attended Richard the First at
his coronation, and married Isabel, daughter of Robert earl of
Leicester, and left only one daughter, viz. Hawise, first wedded
to John de Somery. By this match the barony of Dudley, with
many other manors, came to Somery. On a shield of Paganel
(preserved in Dugdale's JMonasticon) who founded the priory of
Dudley, are two lions passant, the arms that were afterwards
borne by the Somerys. This John de Somery was Uving 5 Steph.
and afterwards married the heiress of Paganel. Bishop Lyttelton.
' Who had issue Nicholas, who died without issue, when the
barony arid lands came to his uncle Roger, brother of Raufe.
In 13 Hen. III. all his estates were seized by the sheriffs for the
king's use, on his neglecting to receive knighthood, when sum
moned, but were restored. This Roger married Nichola, sister
and co-heir of Hugo D'Aubigny, earl of Arundel. By his se
cond wife, Amabel, daughter of Robert Chacombe, he had
Roger, his heir. Bishop Lyttelton, This pedigree of Dudley
does not agree at the beginning with Wyrley, The pedigree
of the Suttons does agree with W^yrley. Bishop Lyttelton.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. S41
another Roger, who had issue a third Roger, who had
issue Roger and John, that both died without issue,
Margaret, mairied to sir John Sutton, knt. and Joan,
married to Thomas Botetourt, sisters and heirs to their
brother John.
Sir John Sutton, and Margaret his wife, the elder
sister (who had Dudley in the partition, and Botetourt,
Weley', or rather Wereweley) had issue another John,
who had issue a third John, who had issue a fourth John,
who had issue a fifth John, all kriights ; this fifth John
had issue a sixth John, who was knight of the garter,
et cinctus in baroniam de Dudley, apud Reding, IS
Hen, VI. which last John had issue sir Edward' Dudley,
knt. who died iii vita patris, and William bishop of
Durham, Sir Edward had issue Edward lord Dudley, knight
of the garter, Arthbr, Geffry, Thomas, George, another
Thomas, and Richard, besides his five daughters.
Edward lord Dudley had issue John lord Dudley,
who had issue Edward lord Dudley, who had issue Ed
ward now lord Dudley, and his brother John.
It is well known that sir John Sutton, who man-ied
Somery's daughter and heir, was the son of sir Richard
Sutton, knt. and Isabel his wife, daughter and sole heir
of William Patrick and Beatrice his wife, elder and one
of the two daughters and heirs of David, the bastard
son of sir William Malpas, knt. and baron of Malpas,
which sir William was the heir of David the clerk; baron
of Malpas, who was son and heir of William Belward,
son of Richard and Letitia his wife, the only daughter
and heir of Rob'tus filius Hugonis, first baron of Malpas
sinee the Conquest, to whom Hugh Lupus earl of
' Weley castle.
^ Edmund. Wyrley.

242 THE ANTIQUITIES
Chester, gave the manor of Malpas, and above thirty
other manors, as appears in Domesday book, and cre
ated him baron of the parliament at Chester.
David, the bastard, before spoken of, intruded him
self into the lands and barony of Malpas, and left the
same to his two daughters, whereby a moiety of the
same came to the possession of sir Richard Sutton, as I
have before remembered '.
Sir Richard Sutton, was the son of one Hugh Sutton,
but from whom, or of what house, the said Hugh Sutton
should descend, or what arms he should bear, bath been.
a great question amongst the antiquaries and heralds of
this age,
Allayne Sutton, Harvye-Clarencieux, and after them,
Cook-Clarencieux (a follower of Leicester), would first
have him to be descended from Sutton, of Sutton in Che
shire (being near unto Macclesfield) and, after, from
one Saherus de Sutton, a great and ancient family in
Holderness in Yorkshire.
Robert Glover (late Somerset) thought he came from-
Wirkensope, vulg. Worsope, in Nottinghamshire, and
so would have it seem that Sutton of Averham in the
same shire, and this Hugh, should be both of one
family. That Sutton of Averham descended from Worsope, I
have seen a matter that might induce a man so to think,
but I never saw likely matter for proof, or but for con
jecture, to cause a man once to think that this Hugh
should come from thence.
And now, lately, Mr. Henry Ferrers, of Baddesley in
Warwickshire, thinketh that he took his name of a
manor called Sutton super Trent, for which he sheweth
some proof that sir John Sutton, son of sir John, writeth
* This is cleared up in Kennet's Parochial Antiquities. T, B,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 243
himself de Sutton super Trent; for which purpose
Harvey, Cooke, and Sutton, following their humours
that Sutton of Holderness should bear a lion (which
indeed he did not); but Robert Percy, who married Sut
ton's heir, bare Gold, a lion Blue, charged with a
bend gobon^ White and Red ' ; and that lion he bare as
being a younger house of the Percys, which descended
from Jocelinus de Lovaine : but their finding a Sutton
(which I take it descended from some younger house of
Worsope) to bear a shield Gold, with a green queue
fourch^ lion, would needs invest my lord Dudley there
with. But Glover (Somerset) supposing him to descend
(as I have said) from Worsope, and that Sutton of Wor-'
sope bore the lion with one tail, did also cut off one of
Dudley's lion's tails. But, indeed, before the time of
Henry the Eighth, never did any of the Suttons of Dud
ley castle bear it either way, but either Somery's two ¦
lions, or else, Argent, a cross patt^e Blue, which I take
to be Sutton's coat proper to his name.
If, therefore, it may be lawful for me to speak my
opinion against these so many great antiquaries, and
especially against Somerset^ (the only sufficient man in
his time for armory and descent in this land) and Mr.
Ferrers, being a man so skilful as he is in these matters;
yet since they went all of them, for the most part, by
likelihoods, guesses, and conjectures, and, if it please
you, you shall hear more probable conjectures and
likely guesses (if I be not too far in love with my own
conceit) than any that hath been yet made. First, then,
I conceive that this Hugh was rather descended of the
Suttons, of Sutton Madpck in Shropshire, than from

' Percy bore this coat by act of parliament. The bearing of
Percy is Azure, five fusUes in fess. Bishop Lyttelton.
* Robert Glover, Somerset Herald.
R 2

244 THE ANTIQUITIES
than from any of the aforenampd places : considering
that in the age before Hugh Sutton's time, being about
the beginning of Henry the Third, there was one domi
nus Madocus de Sutton, who, no doubt, did not only
take his surname (of Sutton) of the place, but also gave
to (he town the addition of Madoc, being his Christian
name, which also argues the man to be a Welshman,
fpr that Madoc is a familiar name in Wales, and seldom
or never used amongst the English." What need then was
it to search out a Sutton in far countries to. marry a
daughter and heir of the barons of Malpas, since in
Shropshire was, near to Mf^lpas, a knight's house, of the
Suttons, whose heir, being near in the country, was
like enough to be affected to marry her. Thus much
for the name, place, and country. To fortify which opi
nion, do but also consider, that Sutton bore a cross
pat^e, and then do but mark' what a number of Welsh
gentlemen (as this Madoc was) bare crosses, and very
many pattees also.
But now it will be objected that the cross was Mal
pas' coat, and so not Sutton's (before he matched with
the Patrick's heir) (which I take to be utterly untrue),
for that the said cross should belong to the barons of
Malpas at all, I see no cause to believe. For, first, it
is well known that Patrick's coat (proper to his name)
was, Gules, three mullets of six points Gold, and that
his ancestors used the same. Howbeit, I have seen a
piece of evidence by him, sealed with a shield, and three
darts heads thereon, which deed imported as followeth :
' After all here said by the ingenious author, the Visitation
of Cheshire is against him ; in which Sutton, of Sutton there,
bore the lion rampant Vert and double quivfe, in a field Or ;
David the Clerk, not a cross patde, but paton^e Azure, field
Argent ; another of the barons of Malpas, Gules, three pheons
Argent, some as darts' heads. Smyth.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 245
Ego, Will'us Patrick, dedi, &c. Nicholao, fratri meo,
burgagium Hugonis Pigott, &c. in Malepasse, &c.
Testibus, d'no Hugone de Cholmundeley, Will'o Tay-
lart, Hugone Lambart, Petro Janitore, &c. The seal
thus circumscribed, sigillum WiU'i Patric ; which darts'
heads he had from the barons of Malpas. For I have
also seen a deed whereby Will'us de Malopassu (great
grandfather to sir Richard Sutton's wife, Isabel, and
father to David the bastard) granted to Richard, the
son of the first William, baron of Malpas, and brother to
David his father, the eighth part of the town of Hamton
in exchange for the eighth part of the town of Dudkenton,
and witness to the same was d'n's Hugo de Cholmondeley,
&.C. which deed was sealed with three darts' heads, as
Patric's was, and had, written in the circumference, si
gillum Willielmi de Malopassu : so that it is apparent
that he had the cross neither from Patric, nor Malpas,
and therefore it must most assuredly be his own coat,
as descended from his father Hugh Sutton. But to make
the matter more plain, myself have seen the copy of an
old roll, which I wrote out with my own hands, which
old roll I can justly testify was not written since the
time of Edw. Ill, and it saith thus : Monsr. Rich, de
Sutton port de Argent un croize patee de Azure, Will
any man then think that sir Richard Sutton, being a
knight, and living in so glorious an age as Edward the
First's time, had never a coat for himself ; and, besides,
that he would invest himself into a coat that neither
Patric bare, nor David the bastard, Patric's father in
law, nor William his father, nor David the clerk, his
father, nor Wilham Bellward his father, first baron of
Malpas of this house, ever bare ?
But some, peradventure, may object, that Rob'tus
filius Hugonis might haply bear the cross, whereof I
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246 THE ANTIQUITIES
did in the Conqueror's time, and himself failing of issue
male, and leaving but one only daughter behind him) ;
but if he had borne the same cross, it is more likely that
his daughter's son, or some of his posterity that presently
ensued, should rather have intruded into it themselves,
than that sir Richard Sutton should seek to usurp it,
living seven ages after him, and never any of his wife's
ancestors remembering the same*.
So that, it is apparent to me, that either the three
darts' heads was the coat of Rob. fil. Hugonis, or else
that by length of time the same is lost; and that the
cross was sir Richard Sutton's own coat, as descending
to him from his father Hugh Sutton, and not from his
wife's parents. And, therefore, I could wish my lord
Dudley to cast off these new toys of his green lion (since
these latter times have been too much addicted to follow
every fantastical surmise) and to betake himself to his
own blue cross, which he may see hath been borne both
by his ancestor sir John Sutton, that married Somery
lord Dudley's daughter and heir, and also by his old
ancestor sir Richard Sutton, father of sir John last
before spoken of, which also married Isabella, Patric's
daughter, and heir to Wilham Patric and Beatrice his
wife, daughter of Malpas, And I believe my lord (if he
would suffer his evidence to be seen a*nd thoroughly
sought) may both find seals that his ancestor Hugh Sut
ton, father of Richard, sealed therewith, and also who
was the said Hugh Sutton's father, and clear all these
doubts. Another thing to fortify my opinion that Hugh Sut
ton should be born in no far country, but either in Che
shire or Shropshire, or that part of England, is, that if
' By what is noted above, sir Richard must have taken his
coat from Malpas, his own being dropped at the Uon, Smyth.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 247
you do but consider (that by reason of the two Hughs,
both ekrls of Chester, and of Hugh com. de Salop)
what a number of gentlemen bare the Christian name of
Hugh in those countries, both at that time and ever
since ; and I believe there is not, nor hath been, the like
number in any part of England by much, which may
seem also one probable conjecture that Hugh Sutton,
father of sir Richard, that married Patric's daughter and
heir, was of some place in those countries, and, as they
say, no far-born child'.
Dudley castle stands mounted loftily on a very high
mountain, and hath a very large prospect into Derby
shire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire,
and Shropshire, and also a great part of Wales ; and
is itself in Staffordshire, over all which it looketh.
It is a goodly-built house of an antient building, and
large, with great trenches about it hewn out of a hard
rock, and a fair chief tower within it on the south side.
It was built at the first I suppose by WiU'us fihus
Ansculfi^, or some of his next succeeding heirs of the
Somerys; but hath been, as I take it, since then re-edi
fied by some of the Suttons. And of late John Dudley,
late duke of Northumberland (fashioning himself be
cause of the name and from the honourableness of the
' The preceding pages are totally set aside by an autograph,
quoted from Bibl. Cotton in Dugdale's Baronage, II, 214,
whereby " Johannes, fil's Johannis de Sutton super Trent,
dominus de Dudleye," grants to the constables of his castle of
Dudley. S. P-W.
" Bishop Lyttelton omits the rest of the paragraph, and
inserts " and fortified by Gervase Paganel, 3d of Stephen, for
Maud the empress. Anno 1175, 21 Hen. II. it was demoUshed
as a punishment for Paganel being in rebeUion with prince
Henry, In 48 Hen. III. it was rebuilt, by licence from the
king, by Roger de Somery ; as was Welegh-castle, in Norfield,
CO. Worcester. T. B. '

248 THE AiyTIQUITIES
house i.o be descended froni it) in his greatness affected
it : and meeting with a simple gentleman (gy^n^f^'J^bei'
of this man) who was then lord Dudley, gpt it from him,
and made himself lord thereof, and then ma,de great
repairs, and built thereto more within the ancient walls
of the castle, which is now called the New Work.
This John duke of Northumberland (which was at
tainted in queen Mary's time), father of Ambrose earj
of Warwick, and Robert learl of Leicester, was the son
of one Edmund Dudley (sometime of Lincoln's Inn) ;
which Edmund creeping iato favour witlj king Henry
the Seventh, by reason he fqund him a wise, prince, an4
something given to enrich hipself, thereby bqth to be
able to wield his subjects and pncounter his enemies
without too much drawing from his subjects by loans,
subsidies, and taxes, and such payments, which he
found both in Henry thp Sixth's, Edward the Foqrth's,
Richard the Third's, and his own time, to be a means
to lose the hearts of his people, and to stir them up to
desperate enterprizes upon every light occasioq, thought
it therefore a more just and plausible means to consti
tute just laws, and to lay great penalties on the infringers
and breakers of them ; which was not unlike but many
would do, notwithstanding the greatness of the penal
ties, which men would hope would be passed over (as
we daily see they are) without any great looking into.
But the king being of a contrary mind, and meaning
thereby both to enrich himself, as alsoi to produce a
good and peaceable government, and to gain the repu
tation of a just, wise, and circumspect prince, caused
them indeed to be strictly looked into : and either find
ing this Edmund Dudley a fit man for his purpose, or
else Dudley (by some means learning the king's hn-
mour) intruded himself, and in such sort exerted the
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OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 249
favour, th,at be obtained of him the ward and marriage
of Elizabeth, the only sister and heir of John Grey
viscount Lisle, whom himself married, and by that
means possessed himself of a goodly inheritance, which
he left to his son (by the same woman) John Dudley,
who was first knighted, and after created viscount
Lisle, then earl of Warwick, and lastly duke of North
umberland ; and greater would have been if he might
have had his will.
This Edmund was the son of one John Dudley,
which the duke would needs have (for so 1 have heard
Somerset' say that he saw a descent wherein the duke
with his own band had put it down) that he was the
second son of John Sutton, fifth baron of Dudley, of
the Sutton's race, and brother of the first Edward ; but
whether he was so or not, I will not take upon me to
dispute, being of myself ignorant except by hearsay
and report ; for I have heard it by one who took upon
him to be of good credit (while he lived) that the said
John, father of Edmund, was a carpenter^, and indeed
born in the town of Dudley, but not of the name, other
than travelling for his living, and happening to be en
tertained at work in the abbey of Lewes', in Sussex,
where (growing into favour with the abbot) he was ap
pointed carpenter to the house, and there married;
and (after the manner as the monks used) was called.
John of Dudley, npt because his name was so,
but because he was born in Dudley town*: and
' Robert Glover, Somerset Herald.
" Dugdale rejects this story, and supposes him to have been
a private gentleman of the name. T. B.
» Battle. Wyrley. Lewes. Dugdale's Warw. p, 336,
* Wyrley says there was a carpenter that worked in the
abbey of Battle who had a son, called John Dudley, because
his father came from Dudley ; and this John, being a boy of
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250 THE ANTIQUITIES
having by his wife this Edmund, who was taken into
the house, and there brought up at school, and proving
a towardly child > and apt to learn, the abbot having
scholars' rooms in the university, this Edmund was placed
into one of them. And, after the abbot, having suits at
law, and finding this young scholar ingenious and wise,
took him from the university, and placed him at the inns
of court, where he maintained him, and used him as a
solicitor to follow the suits of the house ; which he not
only did sufficiently and well, but also so studied the
laws of this land, that he became very well learned in
them, and so was brought into the favour of king Henry
the Seventh, whereby he was advanced in manner as I
have before spoken of.
Dudley castle stands' within the manor of Sedgeley,.
on the very confines of Staffordshire, and so near Wor
cestershire, that the town of Dudley (whereof the castle
is called, standing within a stone's cast of the castle), is
in Worcestershire, and so as I take it is the priory also',
became at length solicitor to the house, and afterwards growing
rich, married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of sir John Brom-
shot, knt. by whom he had Edmund Dudley, who married
Honor, daughter and heir of Edward Grey, viscount Lisle;
by whom he had John duke of Northumberland. T. B.
' March 2, 1646, the House of Commons resolved, that
Eccleshall castle be made untenable ; and that Tutbury castle,
Dudley castle, and the close of Lichfield, be forthwith made
untenable, and that it be referred to a committe in the county
to see them made untenable, July 19, 1647, the House re
solved to adtiere to their former votes of making Eccleshall,
Tutbury, and Dudley castles untenable ; and that the walls
about Lichfield close be dismantled. When ^colonel Brereton
had taken and demoUshed Tutbury castle in 1646, he besieged,
took, and demoUshed Dudley castle and Lichfield close by order
of parliament.
^ The priory of Dudley, is in Staffordshire.. Bishop Lyt
telton,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 251
which priory was at the first founded as I think by
Will'us filius Ansculfi, or his son.
In the church of the said priory were divers goodly
monuments of the Somerys and Suttons, and especially
one, being cross-legged and a very old one, which
seems as it was a very goodly one for the workmanship,
so was it much more strange for the stature of the per
son buried : for the picture, which was laid over him, I
took measure of, and found it to be full eight foot long,
neither was the person lesser of stature, for the coffin'
wherein the charnel was laid being of freestone, and
hewn hqllow, answerable to the proportion of a man ;
the hollow was also eight foot; so that the body could be
no less, for if it had it could not with conveniency have
been laid in it. Writing I could see none, nor any other
matter whereby I might discover whose it was, until,
seeking something narrowly, I found under the arm of
the monument the gold fresh, wherewith no doubt it
had been wholly gilt over, and in the gold a hinder leg
and a piece of the tail of a blue lion, which also a man
might discover to be passant, and that by the space of
the place it was contained in, there must necessarily be
two lions, otherwise the leg and tail must proportionably
have been much bigger and larger than they were, , and
otherwise placed ; so that thereby you may perceive it
was a Somery, and, as I take it, the first founder of the
said priory".
' This coffin now lies near the ruins of the priory ; July,
1755, T, B.
" Gervase Paganel, last baron of Dudley of that family,
founded the priory about the time of Richard I. Bp Lyttelton.
Inspeximus chartam. In the name of the Father, &g, whereas
the right noble earl, the lord Gervase Pagnal, hath given to
the lord prior of Wenlock, his successor for ever in jure perpet,
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252 THE ANTIQUITIES
Divers other monuHients there were, one other also
cross-legged, but much slenderer than tbis Pther was,
and also shorter; another newer, which I take to be
some of the Suttons, since they were lords of Dudley
But great pity it was inethought to see both the church
and the monuments defaced as they were, and so I then
told my lord, and that I marvelled that either he, or any
of his ancestors would suffer it. He answered me, " it
was done while the duke was owner of it ;" so that the
fault was neither in his ancestors nor him.
The town of Dudley is a good and handsome town,
and I think hath been a market-town ; wherein are two
churches, into one of the which is removed out of the
priory a goodly monument of one of the Suttons lord
Dudley, which I take to be for him that was first cre-
that when the house of St, James would have a convent, that
the lord prior of Wenlock, with consent of his convent, and,
with the lord Gervase's heirs, should make and ordain a con
vent there. We, John- prior of Wenlock, and the convent of
the same, do ordain a convent ; and so that the lord Osbert,
now prior of St. James, and Robert and Hugh his brothers, do
make wholly and fully a perfect convent, &c. Testibus, dom.
Rob, Pagnal, son of Gervase ; Rog, de Haggel, et aUis, With
out date, exemplified 2 and 3 Phil, and Mary. Dodsworth's
MSS. vol. IX, p, 152, T, B, ,
Dugdale has discovered the true founder, viz, Gervase
Paganel baron of Dudley ; who founded it in pursuance of his
father's design, Ralph Paganel; which Gervase left the heir
married to Somery, Smyth,
Johannes d'n's Dudley constituitur arbiter inter Sampsdnem
Meverell, mUitem, et Radulphum Basset, mUitem, anno 22
Hen, VI,
In 16 Edw, II, Dudley seals with the cross fleury, and stiles
himself d'n's de Shokesbach et de Malopassis ; and married
Margaret, daughter of Ro, Somerie baron of Dudley, and sister
and coheir of Jo. Somerie. He bore two Uons passant in honour
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OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 253
ated lord Dudley of that house, in Henry the Sixth's
time, for that the picture lieth in the order of the Garter,
and so was the first Sutton that was created lord
Dudley. There is in the other churchyard a monument with
Saxon characters, as I take them, and whereof I caused
Wyrley' to take a note, and send the same to Mr.
Camden at Westminster.
The lord Dudley hath in demesne the town', castle,
' Wyrley, who published his Book of Arms, was the ama
nuensis of our author.
"Ann, great granddaughter of sir Edward Sutton, son and heir
of lord Dudley, who sold Dudley to the duke of Northumber
land, carried it by marriage to Humble Ward, who was created
baron Ward of Birmingham in 1643. During the civil war the
castle was twice besieged ; in 1644, when, after a resistance of
three weeks, it was relieved by some of the king's forces from
Worcester ; and in 1646, when it was surrendered to sir William
Brereton, commander of the parliamentarian forces, by col.
Leveson, governor for the king. This noble family are said
to have resided here for some years after the Restoration, but
at length abandoned it, and left it to the ruinous condition to
which it had been reduced by the siege. The title of viscount
Dudley was renewed, in 1763, in the person of lord Ward, by
the title of viscount Dudley and Ward of Dudley, The ruins
of this fine baronial mansion consist of numerous buildings.
surrounding a court, and encompassed by a walk flanked
with towers. The keep, the great gateway, and the chapel,
in which there are two pointed windows, are very ancient.
The entrance is extremely strong. The other buildings are of
a more modern date.
The priory, near the castle, was founded about 1161 by
Gervase Paganel, and established with Cluniac monks from
Wenlock, to which it was accounted a cell. It was granted at
the dissolution as parcel of Wenlock, 32 Hen, VIII. to sir John
Dudley, and afterwards by queen Mary to sir Edward Sutton
lord Dudley,
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254 THE ANTIQUITIES
and parks of Dudley and Sedgeley, together with Swin
ford, Clent, and Mere ; and in services Enfield, Bush-
bury, Amilcote, Morfe, the two Penns (Over and
Nether), Hageley, Molesley, Overton, Womborne,
Oxeley, TreshuU, Seisdon, Himmeley, Houndsworth,
Penesine, Sandshall, Einsinton, Parva Barr, Cippe-
more', Etingshall, Cocerton', Penkeford, Alderwich,
Magna Barr, and Rushall,
Having said what I know concerning Dudley, I will
arms in Gray's Inn window different from Dudley's, There
his paternal coat was. Or, two lioncels passant in pat^e, 2nd,
Argent, a cross fleur Azure ; 3d, Argent, a fesse, and on a
canton Gules a crescent Argent ; 4th, Or, on a chief Gules
three lions rampant Or ; 5th as 2nd ; 6th as 1st ; 7th as 4th ;
Sth as 3d; 9th as 3d; 10th as 4th; 11th, Or, a cross Gules;
12th, Azure, two fesses and lion in chief Argent ; 13th as 4th;
14th as 3d; 15th as 12th; 16th as 11th. And the same coat is
there impaled with Grey viscount Lisle's coat, whose heir he
married. It should seem he had been a serjeant at law, for in
Dugdale's Chronology, 77, there is mention of his being dis
charged of the degree, but no mention of his being made ser
jeant, nor of any preferment he had when he was degraded.
Fuller in his English Worthies, in com. Staff, will have him to
have been a puisne judge. Degge,
' Cippemore and Cocretone, or Cocortone, were lands of
Fitz-Ansculf; of the former it is said in Domesday, " Rex
habet in foresta" (de Chenevare sc't), and of the latter repeat
edly that it was waste, and that one half-hide pertained to
" Suinesford," It seems as if such places were known temp.
Erdeswick, but I have tried in vain for a trace of either. We
also want a better reading for " Panesine" and " Einsinton,"
S, P-W.
Bishop Lyttelton strikes out Clent. Some copies omit
Morfe, Hertwell was granted by king Richard III, to John Sutton
lord Dudley, and his heirs male. He died in the time of
Hen, VII, and was buried in the priory of St, James at Dudley,
having appointed a tomb to be set on his grave. Degge.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 255"
leave Tame at its first fountain for a time, and discover
Stoure, another river, whose first spring, though it be
within less than two miles of the head of Tame, yet
takes a quite contrary course; for bending first west
ward for three or four miles, turneth towards plain
south, taking its course through Worcestershire into
Severn ; for, by following this river and some other little
ones that fall into it, I shall discover all the south part of
the shire, and so, following Tame till it come into
Trent, shall only leave a piece of the Morelands to finish
withal. ' Stowe, then, taketh its beginning about Rowley.
Rowley*, at the Conquest, was, and remained, of
the king's demesne', and so continued till after the 20th
' Stour rises in Frankley parish in a wood called Twin-
nings), in Worcestershire, runs through Hales Owen parish
(adjoining to Rowley), to Stourbridge. Bishop Lyttelton.
' Rowley is a lofty peninsulated tract. Hen. II. gave the
manor to . Richard de Rushall, and king John confirmed it to
Richard his son. John Somery became lord of it in the time of
Edward II. and it has ever since been in the Dudley family.
Here is a singular species of quartzose stone, called Rowley
rag-stone. The family of Sheldon had formerly an estate here,
which bore for their arms. Sable, a fess between sheldrakes,
Argent. ' Not in.the Staffordshire Terra Regis of Domesday ; nor do
I see any name which could lead Erdeswick to it, unless he
read " Rugelie," or (more possibly) " Rugehala," as Rowley.
But, under Terra Ep'i de Cestre, in the first defective enu
meration of the members of a " Lecefelle," a " Rouuleia"
closes the list. " Rugehala," being placed with " Enedun,
Rudierd, Risetone," in the enumeration of the inferior tracts
(the " Wasta"), at the end of the Terra Regis, I believe to be
(more exactly written) " Ruge'hala," or, rather perhaps,
" Rughe'ala," now " Rownall," a pretty large manor, I ap
prehend, not mentioned by Erdeswick, but which seems very
long to have gone with the adjoining one of Chedleton, So,

256 THE ANTIQUITIES
of his reign. But, in the 9th of Edward H, John So-
merey was lord of it, and so continueth still the inhe
ritance of his posterity, the lord Dudley being now
owner thereof,
Bieing past Rowley, Stowe receiveth a little brook,
which comes from Hales Owen, in Worcestershire ' ,
and from that town it continues its course by the Meere
between Worcestershire and Staffordshire, until it come
to Stourbridge. But, before it cometh there/ by a
milfe and half, hath Atnelcote standing on the north
bank thereof.
20 Conq. Pagen held Amelcote^ of Will'mus, filius
Ansculfi ; but, in the 9th of Edw. II. ifr came to the
hands of sir William Stafford, of Sandon, knt. from
whom it descended to sir William, his son, and from
him to sir James, after whose death there arose great
controversies and suits about it, and other lands, be
tween sir John Stafford, brother of sir James, and Tho
mas Erdeswick, that had married sir James's only
daughter and heir (sir John claiming as heir-male, and
the other as heir-general); but the Staffords carried
away the title : since which time it is come to the
Greys, of Enfield ; the last of whom, John by name, as
I take it, sold the same '.
Stoure, being past Stourbridge (which standeth on
the south bank in Worcestetshire), receiveth Smestall-
water, which taketh its beginning between Tettenhall
and Bushbury,
Rowley Park, in Hamstal Ridware, is written in a deed of
1253 (Mr. Gresley's Rydeware Chartulary, N° 52), " Parous
de Rugehel', Rughel', Rughl." S. P-W,
' Halesowen is an insulated district of Shropshire,
- Elme le cote, et Pagen de eo, Domesday,
' Lord Dudley possessed Amelcote, temp, Edw, VI,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 257
One Robert held Bushbury', 20 Conq, of Will'us, fil.
Ansculfi, which continued in a race of knights of the

' Its ancient name, Bishopsbury, seemed to distinguish it as
the residence of some of the Mercian bishops. The Bushburys
were owners of this manor from the Conquest till the time of
Hen. VIII. From them it passed, by marriage, to Clayton,
and then to Grosvenor, of Tettenhall, a descendant of sir
Robert Grosvenor, of Hulme, co. Chester, who sold it, in
1721, to Chandler, bishop of Lichfield, whose son Richard
married EUzabeth, only daughter of lord James Cavendish,
and took the name of Cavendish. He died in 1774, and left it
to his widow, who afterwards sold it to William Huskisson, of
Oxley, who, dying in 1781, left it to WilUam, his eldest son,
who died in 1 790 ; and the whole was sold, under his will, to
Peter Tichborne Hinckes, of Tettenhall, esq, the present
proprietor. AUeston, or Elston, a member of Byshbury, was granted to
the P'urcells, in whom it continued till Edw. II. when it passed,
by marriage, to sir Henry Bishbury. It then passed to Ralph,
earl of Stafford, which family conveyed it to the Stanleys, who
alienated it, temp. Hen, VII, to Smith, bishop of Coventry
and Lichfield, who gave it to Lincoln College, Oxford, the
present proprietors,
Northcot has long been in the family of Underbill,
Moseley was possessed, before the Conquest, by lady Go-
diva, wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia, The Moseleys held it
for many ages ; from whom it passed, by marriage, to the
Hortons, the present owners. The seat of the Whitgreaves is
at no great distance, who were, more anciently, settled at
Bridgford. On the Sunday after the battle of Worcester,
which took place on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 1651, king Charles
the Second was concealed at Moseley hall, then possessed by
Thomas Whitgreave, esq, and remained till the following Tues
day night, when he went away with colonel Lane, who lodged
him at his house at Bentley, A view of Moseley hall is given
in Plot. Arms of Moseley: Sable, on a chevron Argent
three mullets Gules, between three mill-pecks Argent. Arms of
Whitgreave : A-zure, four points Or, each charged with a che
vron Gules.

258 THE ANTIQUITIES
Bushburys (who, I think, ^ descended from the said
Robert), until after Edward the Third's time ; for, 9

Brinsford, together with Coven, is the property of the hon,
Edw. Monckton, In the civil war John Huntbach had a house
here, in which lord WUmot took refuge in 1651, after the
battle of Worcester.
Wybaston gives name to a prebend in the collegiate church
of Wolverhampton. Ford houses was once the property of
Erasmus Darwin, M, D, the poet and philosopher.
Oxley was held, before the Conquest, by Godwyn and Alrie ;
and afterwards by William de Overton, Richard de Marnham,
and Edmund Atte Lowe, descended from the Lowes of Kinver,
( of which family were the Lowes of Timhorn, near Whitting
ton,) and passed, by marriage, to Robert Grey, son of Regi
nald lord Grey, of Ruthen, and to sir William Fielding, knt.
by whom it was sold, 21 Edw, IV, to sir John Dudley, knt,
lord Dudley, It continued with them till sir John Sutton, knt.
lord Dudley, sold it to James Leveson, merchant of the staple,
of Prestwood,' near Wednesfield, From this family it passed
to John Langley, and from them to the grandfather of William
Huskisson, esq. who sold it, in 1793, to James Hordern, the
present proprietor,
Gosbrooke belonged to the Byshburys tUl 20 Edw. III. when
it was granted to Richard de Everdon,
SeawaU was held by the family of Seawallfield, who derived
their name from the place. From them it passed to the Ever-
dons, 11 Edw, III. in whom it remained, together with Gos
brooke, till, temp. Hen, VIII, it passed to James Leveson ;
which family, in ] 700, sold it to John Huntbach, of Fether
stone, The old house has long been dUapidatied, It passed,
by marriage, to the father of sir Samuel Hellier ; and by the
will of sir Samuel to Thomas Shaw Hellier, clerk, father of the
present proprietor,
Fetherston was the residence of John Huntbach, the nephew
and pupil of sir William Dugdale, and whose knowledge of the
antiquities and families of this county was very extensive, as
particularly appears in his additions and corrections of our
Author. The family derived their name from a small place
near Eccleshall, of which Henry and WUliam de Huntbach

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 2.59
Edward II. sir Henry de Bushbury was lord thereof,
and 1 Edw, III. Robert de Bushbury was lord thereof.
Since, it is come into the house of the Grosvenors,
were owners, 8 and 25 Edw. Ill, Thomas Huntbach had issue
Thomas de Seawall, who had issue John, married to Mary,
daughter of Walter Astley, of Wheaton Aston, who had issue
John, married to Mary Gough, of Bushbury, who had issue
Thomas and John Huntbach, Arms : Gules, a fess Or, fretty
Gules, between three talbots' heads erased Argent. Crest, a
talbot's head erased, coUared Or, fretty Gules.
Low Hill was so called from a low, or tumulus, which, says
Huntbach, " is yet visible,'" but of which the vestiges are now
very imperfect. It is now the property of George Pount-
ney, esq.
Old Fallings was owned by Henry Fitz Geffry, temp. John,
who granted it to Adam, the son of John, who took their name
from the place. From them it passed to the Challeners, who
sold it to WiUiam Normansell, who sold it to Henry Gough,
draper, of Wolverhampton, in whose family it yet remains.
The house was built by Walter Gough : over the door are the
arms of Gough : Gules, on a fess Argent, between three boars'
heads couped Or, a lion passant Azure, impaUng the arms of
Harwood : Argent, a chevron between three stags' heads ca
bossed Sable, The Harwoods, anciently of Compton, Stour
ton Castle, and Sandwell, were of Hagborne and Streatley, co,
Berks, and Goring, co, Oxford; and this branch of them,
which intermarried with Gough, were afterwards of Tern and
Shrewsbury. The church of Bushbury belonged to the priory of St, Tho
mas, near Stafford. The monument of Hugh Byshbury, who
is said to have built the chancel, is in the church ; it was
opened in the last century, and found to contain a stone coffin,
with a skeleton, nearly intire, and a chalice, now used for the
Communion Service, Here is also the tomb of Thomas Whit
greave, esq, remarkable for the faithful protection of Charles II,
Henry de Bishbury, 17, 18, 19 Edw,H. and 1, 2, 5, 6 Edw, III.
was sheriff. Arms : Argent, upon a fess cotized Sable three
escallops of the first. Arms of Grosvenor : Azure, a garb Or,
between three bezants. s 2

260 THE ANTIQUITIES
whose seat it now is, but by what title I know
not, Tettenhall is of the ancient demesnes of the crown,
and so continues, except one part thereof, which belonged
to the church of Wolverhampton ', as I think ; so that
Tettenhall is known by the name of Tettenhall Regis,
and the church-lands are named Tenementa Clericor',
In Henry the Third's time, one Hen, Camoys held
Tettenhall ° of the king (as I think, at will) ; and, 43
« Domesday, under " Terra Clericor. de Handone," runs
thus : " In Totenhale habent 1 hidam. Terra est ii car," &c,
(describing the property). And then follows, as if a correc
tion, " Haec terra non pertinet ad Hantone, sed est elemosina
regis ad ecclesiam ejusd, villae," (sc' Totenhale). De eadem
elemosina habent presbyteri de Totenhale 1 hidam in BUre-
broch, Ibi, &c,". (describing Bilbrook, which Erdeswick does
not mention,) S. P-W.
* It was so called from Theotenhall, the haU of Pagans. In
910 a battle was fought here between the Danes and Edward
the Elder, in which the EngUsh were victorious, Henry of Hun
tingdon relates it as so terrible and sanguinary, as no language
can sufficiently describe (lib, 2, cap, 5), A collegiate church,
and one of the king's free chapels, was found here as early as
the reign of Edgar, It had a dean and four prebendaries. Its
lands were granted, 3 Edw, VI, to Walter Wrottesley. The
present church was probably part of the original foundation,
the college standing at the east end of it. The manor remained
in the crown till king John gave it to Hubert, archbishop of
Canterbury, to bestow upon his abbey of Wolverhampton ;
which foundation, however, never took place. Temp, Edw, I,
WiUiam Coyney held it, U Edw, IIL Henry, lord Ferrers,
of Groby, held it, in whose family it remained till the time of
Charles II, wheh one moiety was sold to Francis Wightwick,
esq. of Dunstall, and the other to Humphry Fleming and
Robert Haywood.
Wightwick is a smaU hamlet, which, since the time of
Edw, I, has been the property of a family, who took their name
from the place.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 26l
Edw. III. one of the Ferrers held the same ; but the
king was ever lord of the manor ; for so it appears he
was, 9 Edw. II.
Wolverhampton, so caUed because one Wulfrena was
lady thereof about the time that Edgar' was king of
England; which Wulfrena dedicated the church, and
erected a dean and secular canons there'. King Edgar
about 970, anno regni xi', at the request of his dying
Barnshurst anciently belonged to the CressweUs, but now to
the family of Hellier.
' Edward the Confessor. Chetwynd.
* Plot speaks of this account of Wolverhampton, as having
been written by Erdeswick (p. 407) ; but in the printed, and
many of the MS copies, it is detached from its proper place,
and said to have been written by Dugdale. Many parts of the
account bear the marks of a writer, subsequent to the time of
Erdeswick. ' In 996, says Plot, in thfe reign of Ethelred, Wulfrena,
relict of Aldhelm, duke of Northampton, built and endowed
this monastery. It was intended by her for a dean and secu
lar canons, which institution, from the vicious lives of the ca
nons, was surrendered by their dean, Petrus Blesensis, into the
hands of Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, beseeching him to
substitute Cistertian monks in their stead. This alteration did
not take place, and the deanery, with the collation to the pre
bends, was united by Edw. IV. to that of Windsor. After the
dissolution, it was refounded by queen Mary, whose acts were
confirmed by James I. The deaneries are united, but the pre
bends are distinct. In 1394, a hospital was founded here by
Clement Luson, chaplain, and William Waterfall, for one priest
and six poor women. The collegiate church is of great anti
quity. The pulpit, composed of stone, is very antient,
and of workmanship peculiarly beautiful. In the chancel is a
statue of brass, in honour of Richard Leveson, an admiral, who
served under sir Francis Drake against the Spanish armada.
Here are monuments to the memory of John Leveson, in ar
mour, who died in 1575, and to colonel John Lane, of Bentley,
who displayed his fidelity in the concealment of king Charles

262 THE ANTIQUITIES
sister Wulfrena, (as it is said) (from whom it is called
Wulfrene Hampton) founded a chapel of eight portion-
aries, whom, by incorporation, she made rector of that
parish, to receive the tithes in common, but devisable
by a yearly lot.
The head or chief of these she made patron to them
all, and sole ordinary of that whole parish, cum omni-
modSi jurisdictione : and thereby made that church, cum
membris, exempt, not only from Coventry and Lich
field by express composition, but also by the papal bull,
from all his legates and delegates for ever. In which
condition it hath since continued to these times, sub
ject to no terrene power, but the supreme majesty of
England, and under it to the perpetual visitation of the
keepers of the Great Seal, pro tempore.
Within this jurisdiction are nine several leets, whereof
eight belong to the church. The custos, lately called
dean, is lord of the borough of Wolverhampton, Codsal,

II. after the battle of Worcester. In the church yard is a
round column, twenty feet in height, of rude sculpture ; but
it is doubtful, whether it be of Danish or Saxon construction.
The church of St, John was erected by subscription, under
an act of Parliament, and completed in 1776, In this town the
Levesons had a seat. Upon the dean's land, near the church,
says sir Simon Degge, Richard Best, a stationer in Gray's-inn
gateway, and afterwards a farmer of the excise to the parlia
ment, bmlt a large brick house, and a wall round an orchard
and garden. Henry Lovell was found to die, seized of a mo
iety of this manor, 5 Hen. VII. and Alice, wife of William
Parker, was his daughter and heir. Henry Gough of Wolver
hampton, says Degge, was a great usurer: he had issue John
Gough, who married Bridget, daughter of John Astley, of
Wood Eaton, who died 1666, who had issue John, and sir
j^enry Gough, knt. who married Mary, daughter of sir Edward
Littleton, of Pillaton Hall, bart. John Gough had issue Richard
who had issue Thomas, See the pedigree in Shaw.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 263
Hatherton, and Pelshall, in com. Stafford; and of Lut-
ley, in com. Wigorn. hath all manner of privileges be
longing to the view of frank-pledge', felon's goods,
deodands, escheats, marriage of wards, and clerks of the
weekly market, rated at of 150, per ann. and in the total
is valued worth c£'300. per annum.
Each of the other portionaries have a several leet ;
whereof Kinvaston is reputed to be worth <£lOO
Wobaston - - - 100
Wilnall . . _ 100
Fetherston _ _ - 80
Hilton - - - 70
Monmore . . _ 70
Hatherton . _ _ 40
; And the sacrist to attend them in capitulo, c£40.
In this state the church stood six hundred years, con
firmed by the several charters of the Conqueror, in these
few words : — Dedi Sampsoni^ capellano meo, omnem
' In Edward the Confessor's laws, confirmed by WilUam the
Conqueror, frank-pledges were accounted the great security
of the kingdom, and comprehended the administration of cri
minal justice in inferior matters ; the proper judge of which
was the sheriff of justice in the hundred court. But when
lords of manors, for the ease of their tenants, and for the bet
ter regulation of their manor courts, purchased the liberties
of the hundred courts, within the precincts of their manors,
they advanced the reputation of one, but impaired the authority
of the other. At length, when manors, through alienations, or
iorfeitures, became dismembered or extinguished, their power
and jurisdiction, by degrees, were transferred to the superior
court, which have been since created, and to the determination
of the king's justices at the assizes, or at the sessions. The
leets, therefore, now bear little more than the shadow of their
original institution, Spelman's Alfred,
' There was one Samson, who was made bishop of Worces
ter, by WiUiam II. in 1099. Under these lands of the canons,

264 THE ANTIQUITIES
terram pertinentem ad ecclesiam de Wolver-Hampton,
cum omnibus libertatibus, franchesiis et immunitatibus,
&c.: and of Hen. L Hen. II. Hen. IH. Edw. H.
Edw. III. and Rich. II, all which the charter of king
Edward the Fourth alledges by a several inspeximus ;
and lastly ratifies for himself his heirs and successors
for ever. The said king Edw, IV. anno regni 19, Feb.
21, united the custody or deanery of this church to the
custos or dean of Windsor, and his successors for ever :
the two colleges still remaining distinct as before, hav
ing two several books of statutes, and two several seals,
and revenues proper to their several bodies.
We find divers famous men upon record who had the
custody of this church, as the fore-named Sampson,
Petrus Blesensis, Egidius de Erdington (capellanus
domesticus Hen. III.); Tedisius de Canville, 2 Edw. I,;
Richard Beauchamp, bishop of Sarum, chancellor of the
Garter, and councellor to king Edw, IV.

una hida de Samson, is recorded, but the place is not named ;
perhaps it was at Wolverhampton, It does not appear in what
way Ralph Somery obtained that part of Wolverhampton, which
he exchanged, with king John, for Mere, Swinford, and
Clent, Dunstall anciently a member of the king's manor, called
Stow Heath, was a seat of the Wightwicks, The crest over
_tlie-_gate;:house, a demi-tiger rampant Argent, mained and
flashed Sable, holding between his paws a pheon's head Or,
was granted to Wightwich by Camden, clarencieux, Dec. 22,
1612, when the arms. Azure, on a chevron Argent, between
three pheons heads Or, as many crosses form^e Gules,, were
assigned to him. Of this ancient family was Thomas Wight
wick, son of Richard Wightwick, of Wightwick, who was York '
Herald in 1717. His father was third son of Francis Wight
wick, esq. of Wightwick, and living in 1663. He died in the'
Herald's College, 20 June, 1722. Dunstall is now the property
of James Hordern, esq.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 265
Like a mile from Tettenhall, northward, lieth Coddes-
hall', which Chenvin held, 20 Conq.
And the like space, but plain west from it, lieth
Wrottesley, in the utmost confines towards Shropshire ;
being the seat of a race of gentlemen which took their
name from the place, and I suppose have been owners
thereof ever since the Conquest, when ''20 Conq. one
Glodoen held it of Robert de Stadford. In Henry the
Third's time Hugo de Wrottesley held it, and 9 Edw. II.
William de Wrottesley was lord thereof. In Edward
the Third's time Hugo de Wrottesley, one of the first
founders of the knighthood of the Garter (as they are
' Codsall is now", and has long been, the property of the
Wrottesleys. In the beautiful church is a noble monument, in
honour of Walter Wrottesley, whose figure is recumbent, his
head resting on his helmet, and a gauntlet at his feet.
"^ Wrottelei et Glodoen de eo, Domesday. Wrottesley con
tinues to be the property and residence of the ancient famUy
of Wrottesley, It is distinguished by some extensive remains
of antiquity, which indicate the ruins of an ancient city, rather
than of a fortified station. Plot considers them " the true re
mains of the old Theotenhall of the Danes," It was supposed
by Salmon to have been the Uriconium of the Romans ; and
the opinion was sanctioned by Gough, Plot mentions some vast
stones dug up here, one of which made one hundred loads, and
another, after suffering a diminution of ten loads, still required
thirty-six oxen to draw it. The present spacious mansion was
built about 1696, by sir Walter Wrottesley, bart, Walter
Wrottesley, 1 Edw, IV. Richard Wrottesley, 8 and 17 Hen.
VII, and 8 Hen. VIII. WiUiam Wrottesley, 23 Hen. VIII. Wal
ter Wrottesley, 38 Hen. VIII. John Wrottesley, 9 EUz. Walter
Wrottesley, 40 Eliz, Hugh Wrottesley, 15 James I, sir Walter
Wrottesley, bart, 19 Chas, II. and sir Walter Wrottesley, bart.
3 James II. were sheriffs of the county. Arms : Azure, a bend
engrailed Gules : also, Or, three piles Sable, and a canton Er
mine, and a garter about it. Crest : a boar's head Ermine.
This coat was used by the Bassets of Warwickshire.

266 THE ANTIQUITIES
vulgarly called), was owner of this manor and seat of
Wrottesley; which. sir Hugh Wrottesley, knight of the
Garter, had issue John, who had issue another Hugh'
who had issue sir Walter Wrottesley, knight, who had
issue' Richard Wrottesley, who married Dorothy, the
daughter of Edward lord Dudley; Thomazin, married
to William lord Stourton ; Alice, to Thomas lord Scroop
of Upsall ; and Anne, to Richard lord St. Amand.
Richard had issue Walter, who had issUe John, who had
issue Walter, father of Hugh Wrottesley, now both
living anno 1597- ,
I must now move a question, what coat the Wrottes
leys ought of right to bear,
I know well they use to set up for th..emselves. Gold,
three piles Sable with a canton Ermine, and so it is set
up in the hall at Wrottesley, with a garter about it, and
somewhat old ; and for their crest a boar's head Ermine,
which this present man hath changed for a Blue boar's
head, with bristles and tusks, issuing forth of a crown,
all Gold, The coat I know of right to belong to Roger
Bassett of Warwickshire, and not the title or reason
' Erdeswick, Wyrley,
Hugh. Hugo de Wrotyslegh.
John, ¦>
Hugh, /
Walter. Walter.
Richard, Richard.
Walter. Walter.
John. John.
Walter. Walter.
Hugh.
There are two more in Erdeswick than in Wyrley ; but the
latter may rather be preferred, as he was acquainted in the fa-
inily, viz. with Edward Wrottesley, brother of the last-men
tioned Walter, of whom he says, immatura morte sublatus, et
dum spirabat, mihi valde dilectus. T. B.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 267
why Wrottesley should bear it. Somerset told me' that
at Windsor was set down for sir Hugh Wrottesley that
was knight of the garter. Gold, a bend engrailed Gules ;
and yet, as I have said, in Wrottesley hall Roger
Basset's coat is set down for Wrottesley, with the garter
about it.
Smestall- water, passing its course southward, leaveth
Perton' like half a mile on the west side, which, 20
Conq. was the land of the abbot of Westminster : but
afterwards, about 40 Hen. Ill, Raufe Perton held the
same, and Trescote' (a town standing on the same side
of the river, a mile lower) by serjeanty, of the king, by
keeping of his castle for eight days, and afterwards to
have eight pence for the day at the king's pleasure ;
and he ought also to go at his own charges eight days
to serve the king in his wars in Wales, and also beyond
the seas at the king's stipend. From which Ranulf it
descended to William Perton his brother, 9 Edw. II.
John Perton was lord thereof. The Pertons bear, Ar-
' Robert Glover, Somerset Herald. He is frequently men
tioned by Erdeswick. He surveyed several counties with great
exactness. He was buried in the chancel of St, Giles's, Cripple-
gate, near the monument of Fox the martyrologist.
' Perton was probably so called from a peculiar species of
pear, which grows in this district in great abundance. From
the family of the same name, who were the ancient possessors
for many generations, it passed to the Levesons, and from them
to the Wrottesleys, who now enjoy it, John de Perton, 44 and
45 Edw. III. was sheriff. Arms : Argent, on a chevron Gules
three pears Or.
' Trescote is in the parish of Tettenhall, of which William
WoUaston was possessor, 1 James I. who left it to his son
Hugh,' who was then fifty years of age ; and he, six years after
wards, died seized of it, and left it to Edward his son, then twelve
years of age. From them it passed to Richard Chapman, and
is now the property of sir John Wrottesley, bart.

268 THE ANTIQUITIES
gent, a pear-tree charged with frtiit proper. Since then,
about the time of Henry VIII. James Leveson, a mer
chant of London, bought it; which James had issue sir
Richard Leveson, knt. who had issue sir Wajter Leve
son, father of sir Richard Leveson, both knights and
both living, the seat of which sir Richard it now is.
Like a mile and more further westward from Perton
stands Pattingham', which, 20 Conq, was the king's
demesne, but after it came to be of the fee of the earl of
Chester, - 9 Edw, II. it was the land of Raufe Basset,
by whose ancestors it had long been holden of the earl
of Chester.
And like a mile yet more westward, towards Shrop
shire, stands Patteshull, now the seat of the Astleys of
Staffordshire, 20 Conq, one Hugo held Patteshull of
Robert de Stafford; and in Henry the Second's time
Robert de Pedeshall^ held the same of Rob, fil, Odonis,
who held the same of Robert de Stafford, In Henry
the Third's time one Raufe de la Mare held it of Rob,
de Stafford; and 9 Edw, III. William Bagod was owner
thereof; and 1 Edw. III. was Robert ManselJ. After,
it came, as I take it, but I know not by what title,
' From the Bassets Pattingham passed to Edmund earl of
Stafford; from him to Thomas Beauchamp earl of Warwick;"
then by marriage to the Nevills, and after a long interval to
the Astleys, when it passed from them by purchase to lord
Pigot, from whom it has descended to sir George Pigot, bart.
the present possessor. In 170O was found here a gold torques
four feet long, twisted towards the centre, and elastic, which
weighed three pounds and two ounces ; and in 1780, in an ad
joining field, a piece of gold, round on the top and flat beneath,
in the shape of a pig of lead.
^ Patteshull, rather, descended from Hugo, and stiled from
his seat of residence. Smyth.
Patteshull probably gave birth to Hugh de Patteshull,
bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1240 to 1243.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 269
whether by marriage or by purchase, to the possession
of sir William Astley, knt, who had issue sir Thomas,
who had issue sir Thomas', all knights; sir Thomas had
issue Thomas, who had issue Richard, who had issue
Thomas, who had issue Gilbert, who had issue Thomas,
father of Walter, now both living, anno 1597. The
first sir William, I think, was brother of Thomas, son
of Giles, both lord Astleys, which Giles was son of
Andrew lord Astley^.
The Astlej's of Patteshull bear the Astley's armoury,
with a label, viz. Blue, a cinquefoil Ermine, with label
Gold, every point charged with two bars of the first.
Over against Perton, more than a mile from the river
eastward, and not a mile from Wolverhampton south-
' See the- note in art, Sardon, There is no appearance that
sir WiUiam Astley ever had any thing in Patteshul, S. P-W.
' These Astleys descend from sir Thomas, second son of
Thomas lord Astley ; sir Thomas being brother to sir WiUiam
(and sons to sir GUes), who left a daughter and heir; so that
sir Thomas must be the first at PatteshuU, though, as the baro
netages say, Thomas, son of sir Thomas, was the first, and
possibly they had it by purchase of sir WUliam or his heir.
Smyth, = From sir WiUiam Bagot, temp. Edw. Ill, it passed to WU
Uam Shareshall, and after several generations, by marriage, to
the family of Lee, and to the Astleys, and from them to the
Pigots, the present possessors. The mansion is handsome, and
is the residence of sir George Pigot, bart. The church was
rebuilt of stone by sir Richard Astley, and contains a monu
ment, supporting the recumbent figures of sir John Astley and
his lady, thus inscribed, " Sir John Astley, knight of the most
noble order of the garter," Sir Richard Astley is represented
on another tomb in basso reUevo, at the head of a squadron of
horse. Thomas Astley, 30 Hen. VI. was sheriff of the county.
Arms: Azure, a cinquefoU Ermine; also. Azure, a cinquefoil
Ermine, a pile of three points Or, each charged with two bars
Azure.

270 THE ANTIQUITIES
ward, stands the Lea, where hath dwelt, for seven or
eight descents, a gentleman of the name of Waring".
Over against Trescote stands Nether-Penn", and a
mile further off Over, Penn'.
20 Conq. Gislebert held Nether Penn, and Robert
held the other, of Will'Us, filius Atisculfi*. 9 Edw. II.
Henry of Bushbury was lord of Over Penn, and Rob'tus
Buffarius of Nether Penn. 1 Edw. III. Robert Bush
bury, as I think, held Over Penn, and Wilham Buffery
Nether Penn.
Smestall water passeth then southward, and leaveth
Seisdon' (whereof the hundred taketh its name), on the
west side, like half a mile. Of Seisdon was lord, 20
Conq. one Walbertus, who held the same of Will'us, fil.
Ansculfi ; and 9 Edw. II. as I take it, Johannes de Tres-
hell held Tressell and Seisdon. 1 Edw. III. Thomas
Stokeley held them both.
Tressell standeth on the same bank, about a mile

' Nicholas Waring, 12 Hen. VI. bore. Sable, three pewyts'
heads erased Argent. Thomas Waring was a justice of the peace
here in 1583.
' Before the conquest Nether Penn was the property of lady
Godiva. From the Buffiarys it came to Thomas of the Lea,
3 Hen. VI. from him to John Wilmyus of Swindon,
' Over Penn passed from the Byshburys to the Grosvenors ;
who passed it to the Levesons, by whom -it was held till the
death of sir Richard Leveson, knight of the Bath, in 1661,
after which it descended to the Gowers, and is now, 1819, the
property of Gower marquis of Stafford,
* 20 Conq. Gislebert held iii hides in Penne, and Rob'tus
held V hides in Penne, of WiU'us fil. Ansculfi,
The Luyd in this parish belongs to the family of Marsh. John
Marsh was sheriff of the county 1 1 Geo. III.
' At Seisdon is an ancient fortification called Abbot's, or
Apewood castle, which Plot supposes to have been a British
i^ork.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 271
lower, 20 Conq, it was holden of WiU'us fil. Ansculfi,
by one Baldwynus ' ; and 9 Edw. II. John Tressel held
the same ; and 1 Edw. III. as I have said, Thomas
Stokeley held both it and Seisdon,
A mile from Tressell, on the east side of the river,
stands Womborne, which Raufe held of Will'us, filius
Ansculfi, 20 Conq, 9 Edw, II, Thomas Overton was
lord thereof ; and 1 Edw, III. Walter Overton held the
same of Roger Somery \
Smestall-water receiveth, two miles lower, a brook
which cometh eastward from Sedgeley', where it taketh
' Treslei et Baldinge de eo. Domesday. The manor of
Trysul passed with Perton to the Levesons, and from them to
the Wrottesleys, who now possess it.
Here was a family of the name of Barnesley. William
Barnesley had issue Thomas, father of William, father of Tho
mas, father of WilUam, father of Thomas, aged three in 1663.
Arms : Sable, a cross cut four roses Argent, a mullet le cross
Or, chief Gules. Crest: a seaman issuant. Here also was
the famUy of Pudsey. Robert Pudsey had George, of Langley,
CO. Warwick, and Thomas, of Seisdon : Thomas had Nicholas,
who had Thomas, a committee-man in the civil war, who was
father of William. Arms : Azure, a chevron between three
mullets Or, a dexter canton Argent. Crest : a cat proper pas
sant and regardant. Degge.
" Womborne takes its name from Won and Bourne. Dr.
Wilks thinks it was so called from the victory over the Danes
obtained here, from the barrows which yet remain. From the
Overtons the manor passed to the Woodhouses, who took their
name from their estate, and from them to the Helliers, who
now, 1820, possess it,
' Sedgeley is the property of viscount Dudley and Ward.
In 1600 WiUingsworth belonged to Thomas Parkes, whose
father purchased it of lord Dudley, and whose granddaughter
carried it in marriage to William, younger son of Humble lord
Ward. Arms of Parkes : Sable, a fesse Ermine, Or and Sable,
three stags' heads couped Or. Crest: an oak Vert, acorns
Or, and squirrel proper. Degge.

272 THE ANTIQUITIES
its beginning, Will'us, fihus Ansculfi, held the same in
demesne 20 Conq. and so it continueth in the lord Dud
ley's demesnes until this day. In Sedgeley is a large
goodly park of my lord Dudleys ; and in the same lord
ship is the antient seat of a gentleman that beareth the
same surname of Dudley, who, as I take it, descends
paternally from the Somerys, lords of Dudley, for he
beareth. Blue, a chevron between three lions' heads
erased Gold'.
This brook, passing south-westward, cometh between
Hinneley and Pensenett-chase. Hinneley was holden*
20 Conq. of Will'us filius Ansculfi, by Minus and Arni.
The family of Jevon were long resident here, whose pedi
gree is in Shaw. Arms : Or, a torteaux between four saltires
Gules, At Pershouse is a family of the same name, John Pershouse
had issue Thomas and John, Thomas was father of John, who
was father of Thomas, who was father of Richard, who was
father of Thomas, of Sedgeley, who was father of William :
John had issue John, who had issue Edward, aged fifty-three
in 1664, who had issue John, aged 9, 1664. Arms : Or, upon
a pale Azure a stag's head cabossed Or, canton Gules,
Degge, ' I should suspect this coat to be rather the paternal coat of
Dudley, afterwards duke of Northjimberland, whose grand
father is said to have taken his name from Dudley, where he
was born, I take him to have been of a good family there,
though called a carpenter, as the said John Dudley appears
to be the same person who was sheriff of Sussex 2 Rich, III,
Smyth. At Gournal grindstones are dug ; and here are the founda
tions of an ancient edifice of very spacious dimensions.
' The passage runs, " Isdem W, tenet in Himelei ii, hid,
dimid, virg, terre, Minus et Arni de eo," The next begins,
" In eadem villa tenet Gislebertus de Will'o i. hidam." S. P-W.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 273
9 Edw, II. William Beresford was lord thereof; but
1 Edw. III. it was divided again between Petrus de Sell,
and Will'us de Englefeild, or rather Enfeild'.
This brook having discharged itself into Smestal! river,
which runneth south-east to meet with Stoure, leaveth
Swinford Regis two miles eastward, and Bubbington
as many miles west from it.
Swinford, although it hath the addition of Regis, yet,
I suppose % it hath been of the demesne lands of the
Somerys, ever since the Conquest ; for the earl of Salis
bury held the same by reason of the minority of Raufe
Somery, which was granted to the said earl of Salisbury,
' 33 Edw. III. John de Sutton lord Dudley, died possessed
of this manor, and it has descended to the present noble owner
together with Dudley castle. The church of Himley was built in
1764 by John viscount Dudley and Ward. The hall is a noble
mansion, the residence of the present most respectable viscount.
On Pensneth chase, which once abounded with game, are
numerous coal-pits.
At Himley and Swindon were blade-mills for the grinding of
blades of various implements.
The Lydeats of Himley thus have their pedigree :
Thomas Lideat, of Himley .=p
I
Hugh Lideat.=
I  — ~i
John.=p: George.=p

J

Hugh.=p Edward, aged 66 in 1664.
John, of WoUaston.:^
r  -^
John, of EnviUe, aged 34, 1664.
Arms : Gules, a fesse vaire Or and Sable, between three
wolves' heads erased. Crest : a wolf's head erased vaire Or
and Sable, Ungued Gules, Degge,
' It is the first article in the Domesday, Terra Regis,
Swinford, probably derived its name from the Danish king,
Sweyne, It is the property of viscount Dudley.
T

274 THE ANTIQUITIES
in Rich, I. or king John's time', and so continued de
mesne lands to the lord Dudleys until Edward the
Third's time, and I think, does so still,
Prestwood" stands upon the north side of the same
water (about a mile beneath Swinford, where sir John
Littleton did lately build a fair house. He bought it of
' The record of the grant of Swinford by king John to Ralph
Sbndery, inter memoranda term, Mich, 15"Edw, II. Bishop
Lyttelton, At Holbeach is an old house, once the property of the Lyttel-
tons, in which Stephen Lyttelton, and others, concerned in the
gunpowder plot, 3 James I. were taken. It afterwards went to
the family of Bendy, from them to that of Hodgets, Foley, and
Peshall. Corbin Hall was the seat of a family of the same name ; of
which Robert Corbin was owner, temp. Hen. II. Thomas
Corbyn, of Hall end, co, Warwick, was the last male heir of
this family, and sold this ancient mansion and estate to John
Hodgett, esq. who possessed it in the time of Huntbach : from
them it was sold to the family of Gibbons. Arms of Corbin :
Argent, on a chief Or three ravens proper.
From the Lytteltons, Prestwood passed by purchase to sir
Edward Sebright, bart. who sold it about 20 Charles II, to Phi
lip Foley, esq, whose descendants are the present possessors.
It is a handsome house, on the site of that which was built by
sir John Lyttelton, the gateway of which stiU remains. Richard
Foley, says sir Simon Degge, was first a seller of nails, after
wards a forge-master, and a very honest man of Stourbridge.
I  1
Richard Foley, of Longdon, co. Stafford, Thomas,=:
I  1  1  — —  .  .  T
Thomas, Paul, Philip, of Prestwood, married Pene
lope, daughter of WUUam lord
Paget,
In this vicinity are extensive mines of coal lying upon a stra
tum of.clay, esteemed very exceUent for making glass-house
pots. On Ashwood Heath, part of the ancient forest of Kinver,
are some remains of an extensive Roman encampment.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 275
the last lord Dudley, and there hath been great conten
tion between this lord Dudley and Gilbert Littleton (son
of the last sir John) for the same. It should seem to be
a member of Swinford Regis ; and that both Morve,
Pensenett Chase, Ashwood, and a great part of that
country was within the forest of Kinfare.
Hillary was lord of the manor of Prestwood, 24
Edw. III.
Bubbington was held 20 Conq, of Robert de Stadford,
by one Helgothus. In king John's time, one Philippus
held it, and had issue John, who held it in Henry the
Third's time (called Johannes fil, Philippi), and 9 Edw,
II, Hugo de Hulpham' held it.
In Bubbington dwells one of the Brookes, that takes
himself to be a gentleman*.
Smestall water being past Prestwood, maketh haste
to meet with Stoure, wbich taketh its name from it, and
being a proud brook, gives its name first to Stourbridge,
a pretty market town (but standing on the east bank
thereof is in Worcestershire, for that this river divides
the same from Staffordshire), and presently after, finding
a village, wherein is a castle, giveth also its name to
them both, the one being called Stourton, and the other
' Or Holgate rather. Smyth, - From Elgotus.
* The Holgates appear to have taken the name of Bobbing-
ton. In 28 Edw, II, it was possessed by John lord Botetourt,
whose grandson John, by his eldest son Thomas, had it, who
had married Joan, one of the co-heirs of John de Somery, lord
Dudley, and by whom a great inheritance came to his son.
She surviving her husband, had this manor in dower, and
dying, left it to her son, John de Bottelourt, whom she had by
him. From them it passed to the family of Mitton, and in
them continued for several generations, till it passed by mar
riage to the earl of Bradford, who, in 1756, sold it to the
Darners. T 2

276 THE ANTIQUITIES
Stourton Castle', but both within the parish, and I
think, the manor of Kinfare, which stands two miles
' In 1500, Reginald Pole, archbishop of Canterbury, was
born at Stourton Castle. At an early period it was the property
of the Hamptons, John Hampton died in 1471, and his monu
ment is in Kinver church. Temp. Edw. VI. it was the property
of the family of Horwood ; who also held the chief manor of
Kinver, Compton, &c. Edward Horwood, or Whorwood, died
12 Sept. 1 Edw, VI, and Thomas Whorwood, his son and heir,
was then of the age of seven years; and 1 and 2 Phil. & Mary,
this Thomas held, inter alia, Stourton, of Margaret Horwood,
widow, as of the manor of Kinver, by fealty only ; sir Thomas
Whorwood, who resided at Compton, where he had a park,
married Magdalen, daughter of Rowland Edwards of London,
and was living in 1601, as was his son, Gerard Whorwood, who
was then aged 38, and married the daughter and heir of Ed
ward Barbour of Flashbrooke, and had issue John, of Stourton
Castle, &c. living in 1641 ; who, or his son sir WilUam, sold
Compton to Thomas Foley, esq. about 1650 ; which sir William
married Catherine Coney, by whom he had' issue Wortley
Whorwood, esq, who sold this castle, and the manor of Kinver
to Philip Foley of Prestwood, esq, Wortley Whorwood
was a member of Gray's Inn, and married Anne, daugh
ter of sir Edward Dering, bart, of Surreijden, co. Kent,
and bought in 1679 the manor and mansion of Denton,
near- Canterbury, where he died in 1703, A branch of this
famUy settled at an early period at Hagbourn, co, Berks, Sir
Thomas Whorwood died 5 May 14 James I, and left Gerard his
son and heir, 40 years of age, seized of the manors of Kinver,
and the castle of Stourton, and Kingsley, &c, Broome, Whor
wood, alias Compton-Hallows, Avely, co, Salop ; and Kings-
ford, CO, Worcester ; and of lands in Hafcote, TettenhaU, Dens-
ley, Compton, Sedgeley, Wombourne, Oxley, and Le Hoo ;
with the advowsons of EnvUle in this county, and of Netherton,
CO, Worcester, Sir William Whorwood, of the other line, died
seized of the manors of Sandwell, in this county, and of Bent-
ley-Pauncefoot, co, Worcester ; and of lands in King's Norton,
Alchurch, and Worcester ; and of Frier's Park, containing four
hundred acres in West-Bromwich ; and of lands in Packington,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. ^77
lower upon the same river, which, 20 Conq. was of the
king's demesne.
About Henry the Second's time, Philip Holgate held
both the manor and forest of Kinfare ' of the king, by
the rent of £9. with the customs of the manor ; which
Philip had issue John, which called himself Johannes
filius Philippi, who held them both, paying yearly c£l5.
and by the service to keep the same forest ; and 9 Ed. II.
John de Vaux, of Stourton, was lord of Kinfare : 24
Edw. III. one Tyrrel was lord both of Kinfare and
Stourton; and in Edward the Fourth's time, one John
Hampton was lord of Stourton and the Castle, Of the
same John, or some of his ancestors, there is a monu
ment in Kinfare church.
There is also in Kinfare parish, a manor called Whit
tington"; which about Henry the Fifth's time was the
CO, Warwick ; which estate was much increased by the mar
riage of sir Thomas Whorwood, with the daughter and heir of
Brome, of ^Warwickshire. In the civil war, the Castle of
Stourton was a garrison, and surrendered to the king in 1644.
The manor yet belongs to the Foleys. Arms of Whorwood,
or Horwood : Argent, a chevron between three stag's heads ca
bossed Sable.
In the great perambulation roU of 29 Edw, I. (in the Tower)
of aU the forests in England, that of Kinver takes in several
parishes in Worcestershire, as part of Pedmore, Hagley, Old
Swinford, Cheddersley, Kidderminster, Wolverley, and
ChurchiU; and in the same roll, under Warwickshire, part of
Feckenham and Tardebig are included.
' Kinver was once a market town. Here are the remains of
a camp, supposed to have been the work of the Danes. Kinver,
in Domesday, is Chenevere; in ancient British, Kenn, and
Vaur, a great ridge of ground. Before the Conquest, Algar,
earl of Mercia, had it. It is now in the Foley family,
' 2 Hen, VI, Edmund Lowe grants to WiUiam Everdon and
Thomas Bodynton, all his manors, lands, &c, in the counties of
Stafford, Salop, and Worcester, except the manors of Oxley,

278 THE ANTIQUITIES
seat of Robert Grey, in the right, as I take it, of bis
wife Eleanor, the only daughter and heir of Humphry
Lowe, and Alice his wife, daughter and heir of WiUiam
Botener, of Withybrook in Warwickshire; which
Humphry was the son of John Lowe, lord of the manor
of Whittington, and also of Enfield, a goodly manor,
and a park, standing north-west from Whittington and
Kinfare, something more than two miles, where Thomas
Grey, late of Enfield, built a very proper brick house.
These Greys do derive themselves from Robert, third
son of Reginald lord Grey of Ruthen, and second son
of Joan his wife, the only daughter and heir of William
lord Astley ; which Reginald was the son of Reginald
lord Grey of Ruthen, and Eleanor, daughter of John
lord Strange of Blackmore ; which Reginald was the
son of Roger' lord Grey of Ruthen, and Isabel, the
and Morfe, Witnesses, John Hampton, Nic, Waring, William
Leveson, John Horewood, Ric. Frebody. The church of Kin
ver is very antient. Here is a monument to sir Edward Grey,
temp. Hen. VIII. In the chancel is a mutilated alabaster mo
nument, which our Author conjectures to have been designed
for John Hampton (or for one of his ancestors), who was lord
of Stourton, temp. Edw. IV. The chapel, near the chancel,
was erected by .the Hamptons, temp, Edw, III, In the win
dows were shields of the Greys ; one of them with the words
" pray for the soul of sir Edward Grey, kt, and Joyce his wife,
daughter of John Horde, esq," This Horde, or Horwood, was
of Compton, and settled there temp, Edw. IV. The famUy
arms were depicted in Kinver church, and in their house at
Compton Park. Thomas Whorwood, was sheriff of London,
4 Edw. III. Thomas Horewood, 16 and 38 EUz. Sir WUliam
Whorwood, kt. 2 James I. Sir Thomas Whorwood, kt. 8 Cha.
I. and Brome Whorwood, 7 Cha, II, were sheriffs of the county,
Humphry Lowe, 19 Hen, VI, was sheriff. Arms of Hampton:
Argent, on a chevron Gules three besants between three
cinquefoils Azure.
' Roger married Elizabeth, daughter of John lord Hastings,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 279
daughter and heir of John Hastings earl of Pembroke ;
which Roger was second son of John lord Grey of Wil
ton, and eldest son of Maud, his second wife, daughter
of Raufe lord Basset of Drayton; John lord Grey of
Wilton was son and heir of Roger lord Grey of Wilton
and Ruthen, son and heir of sir John Grey of Eaton',
knt. second son of Henry Grey, of Turoke**, and younger
brother to sir Richard Grey, of Hemlingford', knt.
father of Richard lord Grey of Codnor : which Henry
Grey was the son of sir John Grey, knt. The said Ro
bert Grey (third son of Reginald) had issue Robert,
that married Eleanor, only daughter and heir of
Humphry Lowe (as I said before) ; this Robert and
Eleanor his wife had issue Humphry Grey,.who had issue
sir Edward Grey, knt.; Elizabeth married to Sampson
Erdeswick ; and Ann, another daughter, married to
Sanbach*, grandmother or mother of sir Francis Wal-
singham, knt. Sir Edward Grey had issue Thomas
Grey, who had issue John Grey, that sold his lands to
sir Henry Grey of Piergo and Groby, knt. and died
without issue. This sir Henry was the son and heir of
sir John Grey, of Piergo in Essex, second son of Tho
mas marquess of Dorset, which Thomas was son and
heir of Thomas Grey marquess of Dorset, son and heir
of sir John Grey, knt. and Elizabeth his wife, daughter
of Richard Woodville earl Rivers, who was after mar
ried to king Edward IV, Sir John Grey was son and
heir of Edward Grey lord Groby, in right of Elizabeth
baron of Bergavenny, and Isabel his wife, daughter and coheir
of William de Valence earl of Pembroke, and after, coheir of
John Hastings, the last earl of Pembroke of that family, Smyth,
' Water Eaton, in Bucks,
* Thorock Greys, in Essex,
' Hemlingford Grey, in Huntingdonshire,
4 St. Barbe, I rather think, Smyth.

280 THE ANTIQUITIES
his wife, niece and heir of William lord Ferrers of
Groby, and elder brother of Edward viscount Lisle,
grandfather of John duke of Northumberland. Edward
Grey, in his wife's right, lord Groby, was second son of
Reginald lord Grey of Ruthen ; and second brother to
John Grey' earl of Kent, and elder brother of Robert
Grey, that married Lowe's daughter,
John Hastings earl of Pembroke, before spoken of,
was the son of John lord Hastings, and Isabella, sister
and heir of Almeric de Valence earl of Pembroke, in
right of his wife Joan, daughter and heir of Waryne de
Mount Chensey, and Joan his wife, sister and heir of
Walter Marshall earl of Pembroke, younger brother of
Gilbert, younger brother of Richard, younger brother
of William, sons of William Marshall the old ; all earls
of Pembroke.
John lord Hastings was the son of Henry lord Hast
ings of Abergavenny, in right of Joan his wife, daughter
of William Cantalupe, and Eve his wife, daughter of
William Braose. This Henry lord Hastings was -the
son of Henry, and Adeliza his wife, sister and co-heir of
John the Scot, earl of Chester, son of David earl of
Huntingdon, and Maud' bis wife, eldest sister and heir
of Ranulf earl of Chester. David earl of Huntingdon,
was the son of Henry earl of Huntingdon, the son' of
Malcolm king of Scotland, and Margaret, daughter of
Edward the Outlaw, and Agatha his wife, daugh
ter of Henry the Third, emperor, son of Conrade,
emperor. Edward the Outlaw, was the son of Edmund
Ironside, king of England. Henry lord Hastings was
' Second brother to John Grey, the father of Edmund first
earl of Kent, and elder brother of Robert Grey, father to the
Robert Grey that married Lowe's daughter. Burton,
' Margaret. See the account of Wednesbury,
' Grandson.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 281
I he son of William lord Hastings, and Margery, daugh
ter of Roger Bigod' earl of Norfolk. William lord
Hastings was the son and heir of William lord Hastings,
and Maud, daughter of Thurstane Banister, and elder
brother of Robert Hastings, of whom the earls of Hun
tingdon are descended. This William was the son of
Hugh Hastings, and Erneburga his wife, daughter of
Hugh Flamville®. This Hugh was the son of Hugh, son
of William Hastings',
In Enfield church are divers fair monuments, whereof
one is of alabaster, made for Thomas Grey father of the
last John ; and in glass are arms, which I will set down
for the rarity of them ; one being Gules, a border go-
bane Or and Gules, a canton Or, or rather quarter (for
that it takes away the border so far as it goeth) which is
the fourth part of the shield, and the canton is also Gold,
I know not whose it should be, unless it be some that
descended from the Mortimers of Chebmercb (a lordship
not far off), which Mortimer of Chebmercb bears
Mortimer's coat, but all Gold and Gules, except the
escutcheon, which is Argent, and something resembling
this. Another is quarterly. Argent and Gules, a bend
Blue, charged with three lions saliant Or, Another is
' Roger Bigot earl of Norfolk, 1225, Heylin.
" Of Aston Flamvile in Leicestershire, neice and heir of Ro
bert Flamvile,
» Hugh and Erneburga had two sons, WilUam, ancestor to
the earls of Pembroke, and Hugh, to those of Huntingdon.
Smyth. These pedigrees of Grey and Hastings are right. There is
a pedigree of Hastings m Wyrley, but not agreeing with this,
Wyrley has the names of thirty-two famiUes, which the Greys
of EnvUe quartered : Grey of WUton had fifty-eight ; and Grey
of Lisle, or de Insula, had sixty-five. T, B.
There is a pedigree of Grey in Hasted's History of Kent.

282 THE ANTIQUITIES
like the same, being Argent, the bend Blue, charged
with the lions Or, between two lions saliant Red',
Enfeild was the land of one Gislebert, who held it of
Will'us fil. Ansculfi. In Henry the Third's time, the
heirs of one Enfeild held the same; and 9 Edw. II.
Andrew of Envile was lord thereof-
' One of the coats is probably that of Envyle. Smyth.
" Enville is distinguished by the noble mansion of Grey, earl
of Stamford and Warrington. The whole of this delightful
scenery was designed by the poet Shenstone, At Enville, Plot
says, the spits in the kitchen were turned by water of a little
overshot mill. Sir Simon Degge had the same at his house at
Blythe-Bridge. In the north side of the chancel of the church
is the alabaster monument which Erdeswick mentions, in
honour of Thomas Grey : it has the recumbent figures of Tho
mas Grey, and Ann his wife, daughter of Sir Ralph Harvey,
of Gendley, co, Bucks, He died the last day of December,
1559, It has also figures of Edward Grey, and his wife ; of
George Grey, and his wife ; of WilUam Cave, esq. and Eleanor
Grey, his wife ; and of WUliam Blount, and Katherine Grey,
his wife. Another monument is under an arch of handsome
zig-zag, very antient, without arms or inscription. The lid of
a stone-coffin, with a cross, and Rogerus de Morf inscribed on
it, was dug up. below the foundation of the west end of the
church, in 1762, Morfe is a small hamlet near this place,
A stone with a fleur-de-lis and a cross lies at the entrance.
Judge Lyttelton, in his will, bequeathed a book called " Fasci
culus morum" to this church. Here was a chantry, founded
by the Lutteleys, 6 Edw. III. which family owned an estate of
the same name for some centuries, which afterwards passed
from John Stafford, bishop of Bath and Wells, to Isabel, coun--
tess of Dorset, who was beheaded 9 Ed. IV, and whose heir
was Lady Eleanor StrangeWays ; whose son Henry, 33 Hen,
VIII, sold it to Walter Wrottesley, esq,; who sold it, 2 Eliz.
to R. Whorwood ; and he, 32 Eliz, sold it to Michael Moseley ;
in whose family it remained in the time of Huntbach, and in
whom it yet continues. Sir Edward Grey, kt. 11 and 16

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 283
¦ Southward from Enfeild stands Compton, I think also
within the township of Kinfare, It is one of the seats of
the Horewoods, and hath a fair park.
About Edward the Fourth's time, John Horewood, as
I take it, was owner thereof, which John had issue John,
and Thomas Horewood'; John had issue John, and
William, attorney-general to king Henry VIII, John
had issue Edward, Robert, William, Anthony, and Je
rome ; Edward had issue Thomas, father of Gerard, both
living anno 1597,
Like two miles south-west from Compton, upon
Hen, VIII,; and John Grey, 24 EUz, were sheriffs of the
county. Arms : Barry of six Argent and Azure, in chief
three' torteaux depressed with a label of three points Ermine,
' This genealogy of Whorwood agrees with one in Wyrley ;
except that there is no mention of William, Anthony, and
Jerome. It is there said that John had issue only Edward and
Robert. William,- the attorney-general to Hen. VIII, married,
1st, Cassandra, daughter of Edward Grey, by whom he had
Anne, married to Ambrose, earl of Warwick, eldest son of
Edmund, duke of Northumberland ; and 2dly, Mary, daughter
of Richard Brooke, and reUct of  Sheldon, by whom he
had Margaret, married, to Thomas Throgmorton, esq. Sir
WilUam resided and was buried at Putney, co, Surrey,
Among the archives of the dean and chapter of Worcester,
is a letter from king Charles I, dated Feb, 26, 1643, ordering
them to turn out Thomas Burrough, because he was a rebel,
from the church of Oldbury, and to admit in his room Anthony
Harwood, Arms: Argent, a chevron between three stags'
heads caboshed Sable. Crest: on a wreath, a stag's head
caboshed Sable, bearing in its mouth an oak bough Vert,
acorned Or. The arms explain the name, Heort is the Saxon
word for hart, a he-deer.
John Horwood (spelt, in simUar acts, Harwood) was a com
missioner of the acts of Parliament, passed April 7, 1649, for
raising money within this county for the maintenance of the
forces.

284 THE ANTIQUITIES
Severn-bank, stands Arley, or Arneley *, which lordship
or parish stretcheth over Severn more than a mils so
that only in this nook Staffordshire extends itself on
both sides Severn. In Domesday book I find there were
two Erneleys (which I take to be this Arley, for it is a
very large thing), and that the canons of Hampton were
owners thereof, 20 Conq. ; but Osbert, the son of
Richard, took off them with force one of them ; and 9
Edw. II. Hugo de Audeley was owner thereof; and in
30 and 34 Edw. III. the earl of Northampton was owner
of them ^

' Erneleye, et in alia, Ernleye. Domesday. There are now
two Arleys,
* Temp. Hen. VI, it was purchased by Sir Thomas Lyttel
ton, Judge of the Common Pleas, in whose posterity it re
mains to this day, 1746, Bp. Lyttelton.
Leland calls Arley " a good uplandish town." A Roman
vicinal road, which probably led from Brennogenium (Worces
ter) to Uriconium (Uttoxeter), passes on to the eastern part
of it. In Arley-wood are the remains of a Roman camp. Temp,
Hen, I, Adam de Port possessed this manor, who bestowed the
advowson on the church of Lichfield, 1 1 Hen, III, the king
granted this manor to Hugh de Burgh, earl of Kent, His son,
John de Burgh, sold it to Robert Burnell, bishop of Bath and
Wells, and he conveyed it to Edward I, who bestowed it on
his servant, Letard de He'yn; who, two years afterwards,
alienated it to Roger de Mortimer, who was great grandson of
Ralph de Mortuomari, who came into England with the Con
queror, and settled at Wigmore-castle, co, Hereford, His son
and heir, Edmund, settled this manor upon his daughter, Isol
da, for life ; when Hugh de Audley (father of Hugh, earl of
Gloucester), whom she married after the death of her first
husband, Walter Bohun, became possessed of it in her own
right, .On the death of Isolda it reverted to her nephew, Roger
de Mortimer, created earl of March in 1328, It remained in
this family till 1449, when it passed to WilUam Burley, of

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 285
And so I have finished the south part of Staffordshire,
except one part environed round about with Worcester
shire (but a very little which borders on Shropshire) ;
which part (being about three miles in length and two
in breadth, lies about three miles eastward from Kinfare
and Whittington) contains only St, Kenelme's, Clent,
and Brome, which were, as I take it, in the king's
hands 20 Conq,
Clent was, in Henry the Third's time, in Roger So-
merfs hands; but after, in the division of Somery's
lands between Sutton and Bottetourt, Clent, Mere, and
Handsworth were allotted to Botetourt,
It should seem that St, Kenelme was martyred in this
Clent, for that in one parcel of it is a church or chapel,
called St, Kenelme's, and the vulgar rhythm confirms
the same' :
Bromscroft-castle, Shropshire, whose daughter, Joan, married
Thomas Lyttelton, in which family it remained till Thomas,
the second lord Lyttelton, gave it by his will to his nephew,
George, now earl of Mountnorris, in Ireland, who (1820) is
the present owner, 8 Nov. 23 Hen, VII, sir William Lyttelton
died seized of this manor, and John Lyttelton was found his
heir, aged eight years, 10 Aug, 24 Hen, VIII, John Lyttelton,
esq, was found his heir, aged twelve years, 13 Feb, 32 Eliz.
John Lyttelton died seized of Over- Arley and Clent, and Gil
bert was found to be his heir, aged five years, 14 James I.
Thomas Lyttelton, esq, was seized, as appears by sir Thomas
Whorwood, In the antient church is a monumental effigy of a
knight in complete armour, cross-legged, and having a lion
couchant at his feet, PhiUp de Lutteley, from the 39th to the
42d of Edward III., was sheriff of this county. He was of
Lutteley, near Arley. Arms of Lutteley : quarterly. Or and
Argent, four lions rampant countercharged.
' In an old MS. penes Dec. et cap. Lichf. called Registr,
Album, there is this account of the affair: Filius regis
Kenelmus, a sorore Quondreda innocufe caesus, nomen, et decu,
martirij adeptus, ibidem est sepultus, de quo dicitur.

286 THE ANTIQUITIES
In Clent sub spini, jacet in convalle bovin^,
Vertice privatus, Kenelmus, rege creatus.
In Clent, in Cowbach under a thorn,
Lieth king Kenelme, with his head off shorn.
In Clen sub spir4, jacet in convalle bovina,
Rege puer natus Kenelmus decapitatus. T.B.
Clent was the place near which Kenelhi, king of Mercia, was
murdered by the order of his elder sister Queridrida, about 820.
It is supposed that Kenelm was murdered in a field now caUed
Cowbach, but that the body was buried about the site of the
present chapel, which is very antient, surmounted with a small
handsome tower of the pointed order, richly ornamented with
pinnacles and niches. On the outward wall is sculptured the
rude figure of a chUd, Two of its fingers are raised in the form
of a benediction, and over its head is a crown. Above the
door, within the porch, is also the figure of a man, much muti
lated, in the act of conferring benediction. The arch displays
a neat specimen of Saxon architecture. Temp. Edward IV.
Thomas Heywood, dean of Lichfield, gave to the abbot and
convent of Halesowen, two basins of silver, with gilt eagles at
the bottom, weighing sixty ounces, and valued at ten pounds,
to be placed on the altar of St. Kenelm the martyr, in St.
Kenelm's chapel, on solemn festival days, ad Dei laudem et
dicti martyris honorem. In 1503, in an inventory of all the-
plate belonging to the convent of Halesowen, the following
occurs relating to the chapel of St, Kenelm : " A lytell sheyne
with odur reliques therein — a hede of Seynte Kenelme, sylver
and gylt — a crowne of sylver and gylde, with a cepter of
sylver — a pyx of sylver — a chalys gyld with pase-brede sylver
and gyld— a schypp of sylver for incense," In 1016, Clent
appears to have been part of the possession of the church of
Worcester, At the conquest it was held by the crown, and so
remained till king John exchariged it, together with King-
Swinford and Mere, with Ralph Somery, baron of Dudley, for
the manor of Stow-Heath, in Wolverhampton. The Somerys
enjoyed it till 16 Edward IL, when it passed by m&rriage to
the family of Bottetourt, till it was purchased, in 1421, by

, OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 287
Tame taketh its first beginning about Oldbury, being
a mile or something more eastward from Dudley Castle.
Whether a man might conjecture that place to be some
principal seat of that barony, and the place where the
first barons, in the Saxon's times before the Conquest,
were seated or not, I stand in doubt ; only the name of
Oldbury, or Burrough (an old Saxon word, signifying
an old place, or town, of some account) would give
some little light that so it should be.
Tame, passing from Oldbury north-west two miles or
more, receiveth a little brook at Tibbington, vulg, Tip
ton, which comes from Sedgeley,
At the Conquest, one WiU'us held Tibbington of the
bishop. Not long, after, one Will'us, son of Will, fil,
Warini, was lord thereof, in right of his wife Lucia
Savage, who had issue by her sir Geffry Fitzwarine,
Joan Beauchamp, Lady Bergavenny, whose grandson, James
Butler, son and heir of James earl of Ormond (afterwards earl
of Wiltshire), forfeited it to the crown, during the dissen-
tions between the houses of York and Lancaster, and
who, in 1461, was beheaded at Newcastle. It was passed, by
letters patent to Fulk Stafford, esq.]; after whom, in faUure of
issue, it was granted to Sir William Wrottesley, kt. On his
death, in 1473, it came into possession of Humphry Stafford,
esq.; soon after which it reverted to Thomas Butler, younger
brother of the late Earl of WUts, whose great-grandson by
marriage. Sir John St, Leger, kt, of Annary, co, Devon, sold
it to sir John Lyttelton, of Frankley, kt, whose lineal descend
ant, the present lord Lyttelton, now (1820) enjoys it. At
Brome is a very small church. At the conquest the manor was
in the king's hands, Harborough belongs to sir Joseph Scott,
bart, of Great Barr; which Thomas Dolman, clerk, had by
marriage with Mary, daughter of WiUiam Penn, of Harborough,
gent, whose eldest sister, Anne, married Thomas Shenstone,
of the Leasowes, whose eldest son was the amiable poet, who
passed here many of his early years, and which place he has
celebrated in his poems.

288 THE ANTIQUITIES
knt,', who had issue John Fitzwarine; but after, about
Edward the Second's time, Robert Wirley, alias Wyrely,
was lord thereof, in whose posterity it continueth at this
day^. Tame being past Tipton, leaveth Bilson', two miles
' There was WilUam, brother of Geffry, who confirmed the
land in Tibbington to Geffry, which Lucia had given him in
her life-time. T. B.
' It yet continues in the same family, and is the property of
John Wyrley Birch, esq.
' Antiently written Bilsington, and now called Bilston. In
Domesday is Bilresbroch, the lands of the canons of Hampton;
but it may mean another place, called at this day Bilbrook. T.B.
Bilston is within the parish of Wolverhampton, though a
separate district, and very populous. It is remarkable for the
imposture of William Perry, a boy of thirteen years of age,
who practised grimaces and contortions, vomited rags and pins,
and made inky water, either from a habit of idleness, or to
serve the purposes of the popish exorcists, till bishop Morton
made him confess the cheat. At Nichils is a hill, called Stow-
man's Hill, which was raised over some Danish or Saxon chief.
In 910, Edward the elder sent a powerful army to attack
the Danes, The Northumbrians were surprised into a fixed
battle at Wodensfield, Wednesfield, and were defeated with the
slaughter of many thousand men. Two of their kings fell,
HaUden and EowUs, the brother of the celebrated Ingwar,
and many earls and officers. The Anglo-Saxons sung hymns on
their great victory, Flor, 340. Ethelw, 848, Sax, Chron. 1103,
Hunt, 353.
Hugh Lee, 18 Aug, 28 Eliz, died seized of the rectories of
Womborne and Orton, and TresuU, Bilston-chapel, and Priests
field, and other lands, and left them to Hugh Wrottesley, son
of his daughter and sole heir, Mary, Degge,
Here the Pipes had an estate.
Richard Pipe, of Wolverhampton.

Sir Richard Pipe, sheriff of London 15 Eliz,
and lord mayor 21 Eliz.:^

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 289
westward ; 20 Conq, the canons of Hampton held the
same. There dweMeth in the same town a gentleman of
the name of Moseley.
And like two miles from Tame eastward, is West
Bromwych', whereof, as I take it, was lord, 21 Edw. I,

_i_

Huraphry Pipe, esq, of Wallingwells, Samuel Pipe.
CO, Nott,:^ :=
r  ' I  '
Richard Pipe, ob, s, p, Walter Pipe,
I — ~. — '
Samuel Pipe, of Bilston.
Arms : Az. crossetty and two organ-pipes erected chevron-
ways. Or. According to Dugdale: Vert, two pipes meeting
pUe-ways between nine crosslets, 3, 3, 2 and 1, Degge,
' Sir Edward Stanley, kt, sold this manor to his cousin sir"
Richard Sheldon, kt, of the Inner Temple, solicitor-general to
king Charles II, ; but, being unfit for that office, was displaced,
and made of the king's counsel extraordinary, whose son
enjoyed it in 1660, and who sold it to the family, of Jer-
voise, DeggBi
This place gave birth to WilUam Parsons, the gigantic porter
of king James I, whose picture was at WhitehaU ; and a bas-
relief of him, with Jeffry Hudson, the dwarf, was fixed in the
front of a house, near the end of a Bagnio-court, Newgate-
street, probably as a sign.
At Sandwell, or the Holy Well, was a priory of Benedictine
monks, founded near the Well, temp. Hen, II, by William, son
of Guy de Opheni, or Offney ; which, 17 Henry VIII, was
granted to Cardinal Wolsey, Lucy Clifford died seized of it
1 EUz. It afterwards became the property of the family of Hore
wood, of Compton and Stourton-castle. Robert Whorwood, died
13 Oct, 32 Eliz, (William, his son and heir, being aged 27)
seized of the manor of Sandwell, a mill and lands in West Brom
wich, Barr, Handsworth, and Tipton, held in capite by knight's
service and the hundredth part of a knight's fee ; which sir
William Whorwood, kt, died 1 July, 1614, seized of the same,
and Thomas was his son and heir, aged twenty-six, Brome
Wliorwood, son of Thomas, had his seat here in sir simon

290 THE ANTIQUITIES
one Richard Basset, and now one of the Stanleys hath
the seat of his house there, '
Tame being past Bilston, somewhat further north-east
ward, takes its course to Wednesbury', which attheCon-
Degge's time. It is now the property of Legge, earl of Dart
mouth, The mansion is built on the site of the priory, some
of the foundations of which being yet visible. On the lawn,
near the house, is the Well, protected with iron-rails.
' There is in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. 859, p, 77, Ex-
emplificatio cujusdam recordi in Itin, 21 Ed, I, tangent, eccle
siam de Waleshall et capellam de Wednesbury.
Henry Shelton, of Birmingham.==
I  '
John Shelton.rp _J

Robert.=p Sir Richard, obiit s. p.
I  John, aged 47 in 1663.=
John, aged 3 in 1663.
Arms : Sable, three escallop shells Argent. Degge.
John Stanley, of West Bromwich.=p
r  '
Leonard Stanley.:^
r  -¦
Roger Stanley .=j=
I  '
Charles Stanley.=p
r  '
WiUiam Stanley, aged 29, 1663.
Arms : Argent, a bend Azure, three stags' heads cabossed
Or, between three mallards Azure ; 2 and 3. Degge.
William Turton, of West Bromwich.=p:

William.=p John.=

I  I 
WiUiam.== William, ofAlrewas.=p  , dau. and heir of
,1 Holmes, of Orgreave.

William. John.r^Ann, daughter of Samuel Moore,
Joseph.=i= I of Lindley, co. Salop.

-J

Joseph. WiUiam, of West Bromwich Oak, aged 6, in 1663,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 291
quest was the antient demesne of the Crown ; but by the
king was afterwards given, about Henry the Second's
time, to the ancestors ofWilliam Heronville, in exchange
for the town of Stuntsfield, which is in Oxfordshire, and is
now parcel of the honour of Woodstock ; which William
had issue sir John Heronvile', knt. who had issue Henry
Heronvile, who had issue John, who had issue another
Arms : 10 cinquefoUs Vert, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Crest: A dexter
hand and arm clothed Vert, cuffed Argent, hand proper seignount
a coronet mural, and the colors parte per fesse Arg. and Vert.
'In 31 Edward III. one John HeronvUe was living. Wyrley.
There are many evidences of this family in Wyrley, but no
pedigree. T. B.
WilUam Heronvile, Hen. II.
Henry Heronvile.
John Heronvile.
John Heronvile,
Henry=Joan, daughter of WiUiam Leventhorpe,
Joan=Sir Henry Beaumont.
Henry Beaumont=Elenor, daughter and heir of John, Lord
Dudley, John Beaumont, ob, 21 Sept, 18 Henry VIII. Degge,
Saer de Quincey.
Saer de Quincey. ^
Roger, Earl of WinchesteK=HeUen, daughter and heiress of
Alan, Earl of GaUoway
Alexander earl of Buchan.=pElizabeth Quincey.
 _,   t
Alexander earl AUce.=pHenry lord Beaumont, and earl of
of Buchan. | Buchan, 14 Edw. III.
John lord Beaumont, 16 Edw, III,
Henry lord Beaumont 43 Edw. Ill,
John lord Beaumont.
Henry viscount Beaumont, Hen. V.
John viscount Beaumount, 38 Hen, VI,
William viscount Beaumont, ob. s. p. 3 Edw, IV.
Burton. Degge,
u 2

292 THE ANTIQUITIES
John, who had issue Henry, who had issue Joan, his
only daughter and heir, married to William Leven
thorpe, who had issue Joan, their only daughter and
heir, married to sir Henry Beaumont, knt. uncle, and
heir male to William viscount Beaumont, and younger
brother of John viscount Beaumont, son x)f Henry lord
Beaumont, son of John lord Beaumont, son of Henry'
lord Beaumont, son of John lord Beaumont (and Elea
nor, the daughter of Henry Plantagenet earl of Lancas
ter, which Henry was the son of Edmund, second son of
king Henry III.) son of Henry lord Beaumont baron of
Folkingham in Leicestershire, and Alice, the daughter
and co-heir of Alexander Comine earl of Buchan in
Scotland, who was the son of Alexander earl of Buchan,
and Elizabeth, the daughter- and co-heir of Roger
Quincey earl of Winchester, and Hellen, the daughter
and one of the heirs of Alan earl of Galloway, and Mar
garet, daughter of David earl of Huntingdon, and
Maud, daughter of Hugh Kevelioc earl of Chester,
eldest sister and co-heir of Radulf de Blondevile, her
brother, last earl of Chester. David earl of Huntingdon
was the son of Henry earl of Huntingdon, who was the
son of David king of Scots, the son of Malcolm, and
Margaret, daughter of Edward the Outlaw. Henry
lord Beaumont was the son of Lewis lord Beaumont,
second son of Charles king of Naples, Sicily, and Jeru
salem, and Maud his wife, daughter of Otho, earl of
.... and niece of Humphry fourth duke of Burgundy,
which Charles was the son of Lewis the Eighth, and
brother of St. Lewis the Ninth, kings of France '. Sir
' Lord Beaumont's genealogy ' stands, as ariiended, thus;
Henry— John— Henry— John— Henry— John— (says Wyrley)
WiUiam— Henry. T.B.
= The supposed descent of the Beaumonts from Lewis of

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 293
Henry Beaumont, who married Joan Leventhorpe, had
issue Henry Beaumont, who married Ellenor, the daugh
ter of John lord Dudley, who had issue sir Henry Beau
mont, knt. who had issue John Beaumont, who had
issue Dorothy, one of his daughters and heirs, married
to Humphrey Comberford, who had issue Thomas, who
had issue William, who had issue Humphry, who had
issue William Comberford, all four living, anno 1596'.
The Comberfords are now lords of Wednesbury".
Sicily, is examined very accurately by C. Hornby, in his tract
upon Dugdale's Baronage ; where he gives what traces he could
find of Beaumonts in the earliest English records, and seems to
make it probable they originated from Viscount Beaumont of
Normandy, who sprung from a natural daughter of Hen. I,
S, P-W.
' Henry Beaumont left three daughters and co-heirs : Joan,
wife of William Babington. a younger son of "Thomas Babing
ton, of Dethick, \co. Derby, who had Timhorn, from whom
came Babington of Timhorn ; Dorothy, wife of Humphry Com
berford, of Comberford, who had Wednesbury ; Eleanor, mar
ried to Humphry Babington, brother of WUliam, from whom
are the Babingtons of Rothley, co, Leicester,
It appears by an evidence in Wyrley, 36 Hen, VIII,, that
Joan was the eldest daughter, T, B,
Dorothy Beaumont,=pHumphry Comberford.
Thomas Comberford, 1596, died 40 Eliz,=j=

WiUiam Comberford, 1596.=p
,  :  1
Humphrey Comberford, died 5 April 8 James I,:^
 I
Wilham Comberford, aged 17, 5 April 8 James I,
Thomas Comberford, 40 Eliz, died seized of the manors of
Wednesbury, Comberford, Wigginton ; and of lands in Hop-
was, Coton, Tamworth, and Tymhorn, Degge,
' It is called by Camden, Weadesburg, or, more properly,
Wodensburgh ; and, like Wodensfield, or Wednesfield, derives
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Tame holding on the same course, makes haste to re
ceive the Walsal water. Walsal water then taketh its
first spring not far from the two Wirleys, Great and
Little, and the third Wirley, called Norton, for that it
stands north of the other two, Norton', Alwinus held
has its name from the same idol. In the time of the Mercians it
had a castle, fortified by Adelfleda, governess of the Mercian
kingdom. Its vestiges are visible near the churchyard. In the
church are monuments to the Dudley and Harcourt families.
The Comberfords sold this manor to one Gilpin, who re-sold it
to John Shelton, of Birmingham, who enjoyed it in 1663, and
whose son, John Hoo, sold it about 1710to John Hoo, of Bradley,
serjeant-at-law; to whom succeeded his brother, Thomas Hoo;
whose son, John, marrying Frances Vaughton, widow, daugh
ter and heir of Thomas Lacy, esq. by Eleanor his wife, daugh
ter and heir of Edward Scott, esq, lord of the inanor of Great
Barr, became possessed of that estate, and died there 1740,
leaving two sons, John and Thomas ; which John Hoo, esq.
dying in 1746' without issue, was succeeded by his brother,
Thomas Hoo, of Barr, esq. who died without issue in Sept,
1794, and from whom it descended to sir Joseph Scott, bart.
the present possessor (1820),
Richard Parkes, of Wednesbury, had issue Thomas, who
had issue John, aged 16, in 1663. Arms: Sable, a fesse Er
mine, Or and Sable, three stags' heads cooped. Or, Crest:
Oak Vert, acorns Ot, and squirrel proper.
John Shelton was sheriff of the county 12 Charles II, Arms :
Sable, three escallop shells Argent,
Here also William Hopkins had a seat, Sampson Hopkins,
alderman of Coventry, had issue sir Richard Hopkins, kt, and
a barrister ; sir William Hopkins, who had John, of Coventry ;
and Sampson, who had William, of Wednesbury; who had
Mary, aged 22, in 1663, Arms : Sable, on a chevron Or three
Gules, between three guns mounted, to the dexter point pro
per on a tower, Degge,
Arms of Beaumont : Azure, a lion rampant, with an orle of
fleurs de lis Or, Arms of Comberford : Gules, a talbot pas
sant Argent.
' Here Erdeswick seems puzzled. After mentioning two

OF STAFFOEDSHJRE. 295
of the bishop ; and the other two the bishop of Chester
held, as being members of Lichfield, 20 Conq. About
Hen. the Second's time, as I take it, it was William
Dunston's land, for Adam, the son of Robert, de parv^ '
Wirley, bought virgat. terra; of him there, which he
held by serjeanty, to keep the forest of Cannock ; and
9 Edw. II. Robert de Knightley was lord of Wirley'.
Wirleys and one Norton, he here, so expresses himself, that,
on referring to Domesday, in terra Episcopi ( as he appears to
have read it), it would appear there were two Nortons and one
Wirley. But the truth is, what Aluuinus held wiU be found to
be not Norton, but " Hortone" juxta Fisherwick ; and " Nor
ton" and "Wereleia'' are enumerated antecedently, in the first
list among the members of the bishop's manor of Lecefelle.
S, P-W,
' Temp, Hen, III, Norton was held by Robert de Aston,
whose widow granted it to Thomas Bentelee ; when it passed
by marriage to Thomas Atte-Hall, or De Norton ; whose son
WiUiam granted it to sir Robert Mavesin, kt. in trust ; who, 2
Henry IV, granted it to William, son of Henry Stockley, of
Yoxall, This manor was afterwards separated. Temp. Eliza
beth, John Vernon, esq. Thomas Rugeley, esq. and Thomas
Crichley, were lords. Two-thirds afterwards belonged to the
family of Hanbury, whose arms are in Plot's map ; one of
whom sold them, about 1730, to Christopher Wood, In 1760,
Richard Glldart, of Liverpool, esq, purchased them ; and they
are now, 1820, in that famUy, The third part is the property of
Phineas Hussey, esq. of Little Wirley. Richard GUdart, 24
Geo. III. was sheriff. The family of D'Oiley were long the
lords of the manor of Little Wirley : after them, the Knightleys;
from whom it passed by marriage to the Peshalls and to the
Blunts ; when, 3 Edward VI. it was sold by sir George Blunt
to John Leveson, of Wolverhampton ; who sold it to his kins
man, John Leveson, who married Elizabeth, daughter of - — -
Fowke, of Brewood ; and their son, Leveson, sold it to Roger
Fowke, of Brewood, esq. from whom by marriage it passed to
the famUy of Hussey ; and of which Phineas Hussey, esq, is
(1820) the possessor. Arms of Fowke: Vert, a fleur de Us
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Walsall water being past the two Wirleys, runneth
between Pelshall and Bloxwych.
The canons of Hampton held Pelshall', and comes
Rogerus de Montgomerici, Blechesworth, 20 Conq,
which I suppose to be this Bloxwych'.
3 Henry VII. John Peyton died seized of the manor of
Great Wirley, and left it to his son Edward ; who 34 Henry
VIII. died also seized of it ; and who left it to John Peyton,
his son. It afterwards passed to the Levesons ; from whom it
descended to Gower, marquess of Stafford, the present (1820)
proprietor. Arms of Hanbury : Azure, a chevron, a lion pas
sant guardant in chief Or,
' Pelsall was held by the canons of Wolverhampton.
George Cradock died seized of Pelsall Hall, and of lands in
Pelsall, Wolverhampton, Wirley, Essington, Bloxwich, Ham
merwich, Goscote, HoundhiU, Handbury, Marchington, Ac-
ton-Trussel, Bedenhall, Brocton-Hall, and the Castle of Ca
verswall, Matthew Cradock, his son, bought Ipstones, and
built a new house at Caverswall, which he made his seat.
Degge. The earl of DarUngton now possesses it (I820).
' " Blocheswic est membr. ej, maner," (i, e, of the king's
manor of " Wadnesberie," ) Blechesworth is a mis-reading of
" Bechesword :'' and this being an appurtenant to earl Roger's
manor of " Celteton'' (Chedleton), was, in all appearance, the
neighbouring Basford, " Blocheswic," Erdeswick entirely
overlooked, S, P-W,
Sir Gilbert Wakering held this manor temp, James I, He
had lands also in Essington, Norton, Wirley, Pelsall, Wednes
field, Saredon, Huntington, Willenhall, Hammerwich, and
Longdon ; and the manors of Essington, Womborne, co. Staf
ford, and of Stoke juxta Clare, co. Suffolk. These estates he
left to John Wakering, son of James, son of Edward, father
of Gilbert Wakering It is now in the family of Vane, earl of
Darlington. - Sir Gilbert Wakering, kt. 3 James I. was sheriff
of the county. Arms : Ermine, upon a chief Azure three lions
rampant Or.
John Bowes, esq, 5 Ed. VI. died seized of the chapels of
Hopton, Salt, and Bloxwich ; and of Priest- HaU, in Lichfield ;
and of lands in Tipton, Stafford, Elford, Tamworth, Gnosall,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 297
Walsall water being past Pelsall, leaveth Alrewich,
like one mile-^ eastward, Rob'tus held Alrewich of
Will'us fil. Ansculfi, 20 Conq. About Henry the Third's
time, it was the seat of Robert Stapleton, where, in the
church, is a fair cross-legged monument of the said
Robert Stapleton, and also one of Nicholas de Alre-
wize. And afterwards, Henry Harcourt had Stapleton's
lands there ; and since then the Hillarys, and lastly the
lords Ferrers were owners of Alrewich'. Walter, father
of this present Robert earl of Essex, sold it, as I take it,
to Robert Stanford, now living. There were in Alre
wich two houses of gentlemen of good account, which
called themselves Alrewich ; and it would seem that Al
and Okeley ; and left John, his son and heir, 22 years of age,
who was afterwards Sir John Bowes, of Elford, Priest-Hall,
in Lichfield, was a mansion in which the chantry-priests be
longing to the chapel of St, Mary's in that city, lived in com
mon, and is opposite the West door of that chapel. It is now,
1820, the property of William Harris.
' Aldrich, now Aldridge, was so called from aid, old, and
rice, principality. From the family of Alrewich, the manor
passed to Roger Merton ; and then to sir Robert Stapleton ;
and afterwards to the family of Mountford, In 1761 it passed
from the family of Jordan, by marriage, to Edward Croxall,
of Shustock, esq, whose son Edward is, 1820, the present pro
prietor. On the south side of the church is an arch, designed
perhaps for the monument of the founder. The tomb of Robert
Stapleton, whose effigy bears a shield, is ornamented with the
figure of a dog. John Jordan, 1 Sept. 1588, died seized of
this manor, and Thomas Jordan was his son and heir, who
was found to hold lands there of WilUam Mountford, as of his
manor of Alrevrich,
Ego, Ricardus de Hastang, miles, fiUus Rob'ti Hastange,
quondam D'ni de Chebesey, dedi Henrico de Harecourt, om
nes terras et tenementa, quas habui in territorio de Alres-
wych, ex dono et concessione D'ni Rob'ti fratris mei, &c.
Dat. apud Alrewych, anno viij Ed. filii Ed.

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rewich is within the manor of Barr, for so I have seen it
named in some evidence".
Walsall water passing on runneth through Rushall.
20 Conq. "Rob'tus held it of Will'us fil. Ansculfi. About
Henry the First's time Nigellus was lord thereof. Ni
gellus had issue Osbert, who had issue Richard, who
' Barr is rather within the manor of Aldridge. Smyth.
This seignory paramount (its stile "manor of Great Barr,
and Aldrewich" ) causes great intricacy in the older part of the
title ; and although numbers of antient and good evidences re
main with the present lord of Aldrewich, and many also with
the lord of Barr ; it is not perhaps possible at this time clearly
to trace the early descents and transmissions of either manor.
Erdeswick, indeed, appears quite unequal to it at his period.
And Shaw has been very unsuccessful in his attempts to state
the effects of the just-named early deeds. He was quite unfur
nished with a right apprehension of the technical expressions,
as he has shewn (among a thousand unfortunate instances) by
his renderings under the heads, Aldridge and Barr ; but still
more near the commencement of Walsall article, in the evi
dences he there states (in his way) from 33° Hen, III, to 7°
Ed, I. inclusively. The seizin of Stapleton ( Stepulton in the
old deeds), and also that of the lords Ferrers, appears to have
been in the manor paramount, and in the Barr lands, Hilarys
had an interest in the inferior manor, Alrewich : but its parti
culars are untraceable in any evidences yet seen. But the
family denominated " De Alrewych" were clearly lords of this
latter, for a number of descents : and two other main matters are
plain, among Shaw's statements, namely, that Alrewich came,
not late, in Henry the Sixth's time, to Sir WiUiam Montfort
(possib'lyby that second wife "Jana, filia WiU'i de Alrewich,
given him in Dugdale's Montfort pedigree, art, Coleshill) ; and
that Sir Edmund Montfort, and Simon his son, 1629, sold the
manor and estate' to Jordan and Brandreth ; which latter re
leased the next year to Jordan solely, whose descendant John,
in 1761, devised them to his nephew-in-law, the late Mr.
Croxall. S. P-W;
' " Rob'tus," read " TurchU." S. P^W,'

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 299
had issue Richard ', who had issue Alice, married to sir
Hugh Bowles, knt. who had issue William', who had
issue William, who had issue a third William, who had
issue Katherine, first married to John Hewet, by whom
she had issue Elizabeth, married to Thomas Heckstall,
and Margaret, married to William Stockley. Katherine
was afterwards married to Robert Groberd, who had
issue by her William Groberd, that called himself
Rushall, and had issue Eleanor, married to 'sir John
Harpur, knt. who had issue William Harpur, who bad
issue another sir John Harpur, knt. who had issue Ro
bert Harpur, Dorothy, and Elizabeth ; Robert had issue
Dorothy, married to sir Anthony Kingston*, knt, and
after to sir Richard Egerton^ knt. but had no issue; so
that the lands came to her two aunts : Dorothy was
married to sir Thomas Hoord^, of Bridgnorth, who had
issue by her Frances, married to Thomas Farmer';
Francis also died without issue : Elizabeth was married
to William Leghe, son of sir Roger Leghe' of Welling
ton, which sir Roger was son of Richard, a second
son of sir John Legbe of the Ridge, in Cheshire. Wil
liam Leghe had issue Henry, who had issue Edward,
' Richard was of the family of king Henry II. and had, by
gift from him, Rowley, near Dudley. Bp. Lyttelton.
' Which WiUiam married AUce, daughter of sir Laurence
de Armford, near Halesowen. Bp. Lyttelton.
' Vid. Dugdale's Warwickshire, p. 381,
«'Sir Anthony Kingston, of Misterden, Gloucestershire.
Smyth. 5 Sir Richard Egerton,. of Redley, in Cheshire. Smyth.
« Thomas Horde, of Horde Park, Salop. Smyth.
' Thomas Fermor, of Somerton, Oxon ; and had Horde Park
by her. Smyth,
• Of .Wellington, Salop, esq, brother of sir. Thomas Leigh,
lord mayor of London,' and ancestor to the lord Leigh, Smyth.

300 THE ANTIQUITIES
who possesseth Rushall,. and hath issue Henry Leghe,
both living anno 1597, In Rushall is a fair seat of a
house being built about with a wall, and a gatehouse
of stone, all embattled castle-wise, where is also a
park. Sec'
' This manor is yet, 1820, in the family of Leigh ; one of
whom was the author of Critica Sacra, and was buried in the
chancel of this church in 1671. The antient house is now dila
pidated. During the contention of the houses of York and
Lancaster, and during the civil war between king Charles and
the Parliament, it was strongly fortified, and defended by a
garrison. The area of this fortified residence extends over an
acre of land, and was once surrounded with a moat, WiUiam
Harpur, 14 and 18 Hen. VIL, Edward Leigh, 26 and 44 EU
zabeth, and 1 James I,, and Henry Leigh, 17 James I,, were
sheriffs of the county. Arms of Leigh : Gules, on a cross
engrailed Argent a mullet Sable, Arms of Grober : Sable, a
fesse, and three lozenges in chief Argent, Arms of Rushall,
or Harpur : Argent, a lion rampant, in a border engrailed Sa
ble, Arms of Heckstall : quarterly, Gules and Sable, a bend
between three fleurs de lis Argent, in the 2d and 3d quarters.
In Rushall church was a monument, now destroyed, with
the following inscription : •
" Here lieth the body of Samuel Leigh, esq, gfandson of sir
Henry Leigh, kt, and son of Henry Leigh, of Rushall, in the .
county of Stafford, esq, by Dame Ruth Scudamour, widdow
and relict of sir Philip Scudamour, kt. and daughter of sir
Edward Hampden, of Buckinghamshire. He departed anno
1651." Reynolds Hall was the seat of John Pershouse, to whom it
came, by marriage, from Walker, whose ancestor had married
the daughter and heir of Reynolds, in whose famUy it had long
remained. It is now, 1820, the property of Edward Walhouse,
esq. Arms of Walker : Argent, a chevron Sable, charged with
three plates, and a crescent of the first between three crescents
of the second. Arms of Pershouse: quarterly. Or, a pat^e
Azure, 1, stag's head cabossed Or; 2, Argent, a lion rampant
proper; 3 as 2; 4 as 1, Crest: a greyhound scant collared
Sable, seignont in triangle in the dexter paw Argent.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 301
Walsall water being past Rushall, entereth into Wal
sall', As I take it, Rob'tus held the same of Will'us
fil. Ansculfi, 20 Conq. ; but about Henry the Third's
time, Will'us Ruffus' held it in fee-farm of the king.

' Shaw properly notices that Walsall is not named in Domes
day. Robertus holds under Fitz-Ansculf, in Alrewic and in
Barra, three hides in each; and Erdeswick adds Walsall on
supposition. By Shaw, (seemingly from a Cartular, de Walsall
in Mus, Brit,) Roger de Morteyn and Thomas le Rous, knights,
remained lords in 3° Ed, III. and in 12° Ed. Ill, Tho. le Rous
conveyed his moiety to Ralph Bassett, of Drayton, Bassett
settled the whole manor, it should seem, on the Beauchamps ;
and Anne, their descendant, relict of the famous Richard
Nevil, conveyed it, possibly not willingly, to Hen, VII, S. P-W.
' William Ruffus, or Rouse. Smyth.
William Ruffus de Washale, in 1220, gave to the Abbey of
Halesowen, the church of Walsall cum capellis. There is con-
cessio advocationis ecclesie de Waleshale, Abbati et Conventui,
beate Marie de Hales, per Hen, III, (Ex Autographo penes
Dominum Lyttelton apud Hagley. ) Hen, III. gave a moiety
of the manor to his servant Robert Ruffus, the other moiety
being in the possession of Geffry de Bakepus .• who also had a
park beneath the forest, laid waste from the time of king John.
It was the property of Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick,
whose daughter married the son of Ralph Basset. 15 Hen. VIII.
it became the property of Robert Acton, for his life, as a grant
from the crown ; and 20 Henry VIII. it was granted to Walter
Devereux, lord Ferrers, of Chartley. John, viscount Lisle,
afterwards duke of Northumberland, possessed it 38 Hen.VHI.
After his attainder, it was granted to Richard Wilbraham, of
Woodhay, in Cheshire, From them it passed, by marriage, to
Richard Newport, earl of Bradford ; one of whose daughters,
Diana, married, in 1721, Algernon Coote, sixth earl of
Mountrath ; from which family it has descended to the present,
1820, earl of Bradford, At the South-west angle of the church
is a strong tower, surmounted by a spire. Under the East
part is an archway of massive pointed workmanship, forming a
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302 THE ANTIQUITIES .
paying ^"26. 19s, 9d. 9 Edw. II. John Somery and
Thomas le Rouse, were joint lords thereof; and 17
Edw. III. Basset was lord thereof; since it came into
the king's hands, but by what occasion I cannot learn.
Queen Mary gave the same to Richard Wilbraham,
father of Thomas, now lord thereof. In Walsall hath
also been a park, and there is also a very fair church,
where are divers monuments, but especially one fair one
of the Hillarys.
Walsal water, a little beneath the town, receiveth on
the west side a brook, that runs from Willenhall',

mentioned by Erdeswick is either concealed by the pews' or
destroyed ; it was an alabaster figure of one of the Hillarys,
leaning his head on one hand, half rising, his shield on his left
arm, and upon his body wrought flower de lis and cross cross-
lets. The first lord Somers, and bishop Hough, were edu
cated in this town. Here was a mansion of Henry Stone, a
zealous parliamentarian. Another seat belonged to the family
of Woolaston ; arid another, at Caldmore, to that of Haw ;
whose arms were, Sable, a chevron between three leopards'
heads erased Or, Bescot was the baronial residence of the
Hillarys and Mountforts ; from whom it ' passed, by marriage,
to the family of Harris, and afterwards of Slaney ; from whom
Richard Wilkes purchased it, and who sold it, in 1794, to
Richard Aston. WiUiam de Walsall, 5, 6, 8, 13, 20, 21, 22,
Rich, II, arid 9 Hen. IV. was sheriff of the county. Walsal
was antiently a parliamentary borough. Oldfield, vol. VI. p, 312,
' Willenhall, in Domesday, Winehale, signifying, in Saxon
victory ; so called, perhaps, from the battle fought in or near it
911. Here was born Richard WUkes, M.D, an ingenious and
industrious researcher into the antiquities of his native county ;
and here he died, 6 March, 1760, Over water of a sulphure
ous quality, Dr, Wilkes raised a stone, thus inscribed, Pons
oculis, morbisque cutaneis diu Celebris, anno Domini 1728,
Arms of Wilkes : Paly of eight Or and Gules, on a chief Ar
gent three lozenges of the second, impaling 1,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 303
which, 20 Conq, belonged to the canons of Hampton
and Derlaston ', whereof William of Derlaston was lord
about Henry the Third's time ; and Thomas of Darlas
ton was lord 24 Edw, I. and 9 Edw. II.
Walsall water having increased itself with this brook,
shortly after enters itself into Tame, which leaveth,
like a mile eastward, Bary. 20 Conq. Drogo held it of
Will'us fil. Ansculfi, as also he did Pirey and Hands-
worth. In king John's time Barr was divided into two
manors, Magna Barr, and Parva Barr. One Guido held
Magna Barr, and Robert held Parva Barr. In Henry
the Third's time Henry held Magna Barr, and Robert
held Parva Barr, In 9 Edw. II. Joh'es Somery held
Magna Barr, and John de parvi Barr held Parva Barr,
Bentley s a manor belonging to Wolverhampton. From the
family of Bentley it descended to the Griffiths ; and passed
from.theni, 8 Hen. VI., to Richard Lane; in which family it
remained tiU John Lane, father of John Lane, esq. of King's-
Bromley, sold it, in 1748, to Joseph Turton, of Wolverhamp
ton ; from him it passed to the first lord Anson, and is now,
1820, the property of Thomas, viscount Anson. During the
parliamentarian war it was the residence of colonel John Lane,
who here gave refuge to king Charles II, after the battle of
Worcester, in 1651 ; and it was from hence that Jane Lane,
the memorable daughter of Thomas Lane, esq, of Bentley, con
ducted the king on horseback beyond Bristol ; in which dan
gerous service she carried herself with great address and for
titude. At the Restoration, the Pariiament granted her the
scanty reward of one thousand pounds for this confidential ser
vice, and the King, an honourable addition to the arms of the
family. She afterwards married sir Clement Fisher, bart, of
Packington, co, Warwick, and died in 1689. Arms of Lane:
Or, a chevron Gules between three mullets Azure,
' After the Darlastons, the earls of Stafford held it, Henry,
lord. Stafford, 2 WiU. and Mary, conveyed it to sir Thomas
Offley, kt. from whom it has descended to lord Crewe,

304 THE ANTIQUITIES
15 Edw. II. one Robert was lord of Magna Barr^ and, I
think, the same John was lord of Parva Barr'.
Pirie^ stands like two miles lower, upon the same side
' 20 Conq, Drogo held 3 hides in Barr of William Fitz-
Ansculf, 3 in Perry, and 1 in Handsworth.
This Barre article is very uninforming. The Robert, lord in
15"' Ed, II. was sir Robert de Stdpleton : he very possibly (as
in Shaw's Aldridge, from an indorsement on a court roll) took
from Morteyn both by marriage and gift ; and by Stepleton,
Barr seems settled on his wife Isabel's relations, the Birming-
hams. Their descendant, through de la Roche, Walter, earl
of Essex, May 8, in 15° Eliz. (Barr autograph) conveyed the
manor of Barre and Aldriche, and his whole estate therein, to
WUliam BarroU. This Barroll might sell to Sir Robert Stam
ford (but all this matter of the transmission from Devereux is
misapplied by Erdeswick to Alrewych) ; for, by Shaw, in Ald
ridge, (p, 99,) sir Robert's son, Edward, appears joint-lord
of Bar, 1618, with sir Heary Longevill, who descended from a
coheir of De la Roche (so that the Earl of Essex's conveyance
was in fact but of a moiety). And, before the end of 1618,
William Scott is stated to enjoy Great-Barr, S. P-W.
From WUliam Fitz-Ansculf Barr passed, on failure of issue,
to Gervase Paganel ; then to John de Somery ; and then to John
de Sutton. 2 Ed, II. Roger de Morteine held it : 47 Ed. III.
John Birmingham held it : from them it passed, by marriage,
to Edmund, lord Ferrers, of Chartley. From them, in 1618,
the Scotts possessed it, and their descendant, sir Joseph Scott,
bart. is, 1820, the present proprietor. Here is an eminence,
called Barr-Beacon. It is supposed to have derived its name
from Barrah, to eat sacrifice, or to purify, and to have been
the spot whence the Druidical priests gave notice of their sacri
fices. Near it is a common, lately inclosed, called Druid
Heath. Joseph Scott (in 1606 created a baronet) 40 Geo. III.
was sheriff of the county. Arms : Argent, on a fess Gules,
cottized Azure, three lambs passant of the first, between three
Catherine-wheels Sable. Crest : a beacon fired.
' Now called Perry-Barr, Drogo , tenet ( de WiU, fib An
sculfi) terr, in Pirio, Barre, et Honesworde, Domesday,
Feb, 12, 1543-4, Andrew Noell had a grant of the precep-

OF STATFORDSHIRE. 305
of Tame that Barr doth. About king John's time one
Henry de Pirie was lord thereof, who, I think, had issue
Richard, and 9 Edw. II. another Richard was lord
thereof; and yet, in Edward the First's time', or Henry
the Third's, one William Wirley gave to Philip his son
and heir all his lands, tenements, rents, and services, in
Pirie, Parva Barra, and Oscote, that is to say, the ho
mage, service, and fortunes of Guy his son, of Roger
the son of Richard, of Henry de Pirie, of John the son
of Robert his brother, of John of Wilnhall, of Nicholas
his brother, of Raufe the son of Henry Fulmer of Parva
Barr, and Hugh of Kinfar ; and yet testis to the same
deed was Richard lord of Pirie^ It is now the seat of
Robert Stamford, son of sir William Stamford, knt. late
justice'.

tory of Dalby-on- Wolds, in Leicestershire, and of the manor
of Pury-Barre, co. Stafford. ColUns, IV. 22, S, P-W,
' Guido de Wyrley, 20 Ed, I,, was sometimes called Guido
de Hamsted. T. B,
' WiU'us de Wyrley, PhiUppo, filio meo, et heredibus, totum
reditum meum omnium tenentium meorum in Pirie, Parva
Barre et Oscote, cum homagiis et servicus et fortunis predic-
torum tenentium, viz, reditus, servicium et homagium Gui
don! filii mei, Rogeri filii Ricardi, Henrici f Pirie, Johanni
filii Roberti, fratris mei, Johanni de Wilnhale, Nicholai fratris
mei, Ranulfi filii Henrici Fulmere de Par'va Barre et Hugoni
Kinfar. Testibus, Will'o Hillary, Rogero fratre suo, Ricardo
d'no de Pirrie, Will'mo Freman, Will'mo Walleshale, clerico.
Roberto Burgilen, Johanni Eliz. de Pirrie. Wyrley.
' Whose great-grandchild, colonel Edward Stamford, sold
it to Richard Best, a citizen and bookseller, at Gray's-inn Gate,
who also bought the Deanery at Hampton, Degge.
Eustathius Fitzherbert, 9 Hen. VIII, died seized of this
manor, leaving EUzabeth and Joan his daughters and heirs.
Sir Henry Gough, kt, possessed it in 1669 ; it was his seat in
the time of Hurdsman, and is yet in the same family. Sir
Henry married Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Littleton, of

306 THE ANTIQUITIES
Over against Pirie, on the south side of Tame, is
Hamsted, the seat of the Wyrleys. Now Humphry
Wyrley is lord thereof; he was the son of John, the son
of Thomas, the son ofWilliam, the son of Cornelius,
the son of ' John, the son of Cornelius, the son
of Roger, the son of Cornelius, the son of Roger,
the son of John, the son of another John, the son
of Robert, the son of another Robert, the son, I
think, of Adam, who was the son of Robert de Parva
Wirley, who, I think, hved in Henry the Second's time,
or before'.
A mile further from Tame also westward, is Sandall',
sometime a house of religion, and now the seat of Tho
mas Whorwood, the son ofWilliam, the son of Robert,
second son of John Whorwood, and brother of Edward
Whorwood of Compton". '

Pillaton HaU, bart, by whom he had three sons and four daugh
ters. His eldest son, Walter, was also possessed of Oldfallings,
near Wolverhampton, and left a son, Walter, who left two
sons, of whom John, the younger, by the death of his elder
brother, is now the owner of Perry-hall. Sir Richard, younger
brother of sir Henry, enriched himself by the East India and
China trade, was knighted by George I., and, in 1717, pur
chased Edgbaston, in Warwickshire, now one of the seats of
his great-grandson, the second lord Calthorpe. Henry, the
second son of sir Henry, and nephew of sir Richard, was the
father of Richard Gough, the industrious and ingenious anti
quary and topographer.
Oscote, or Auscote, was temp. Ed. I, the estate of WilUam
Wirle, who gave it to Philip, his son and heir,
' The pedigree in Wyrley goes no higher than the last-men
tioned Robert ; all the rest agrees with this. This pedigree of
his family in Wyrley is penes Bp, Lyttelton. T, B,
' Alias Sandywell, or Sandyhill, Degge. See the articles,
West-Bromwich, Compton, Stourton-Castle, and Shenston,
' "Their pedigree in Wyrley differs from this. The gene-

OF STAFFORDSHlftE. 307
Like a mile lower, southward, upon the west side of
the Tame, is Handesworth ', where Tame enters into
alogy stands thu^': John Whorwood, de Comptmi, in com.
Stafford ; John— John— Robert— William— Edward, T, B,
' Hamstead remained in the Wyrley family tiU within a few
years, when it was purchased by the late earl of Dartmouth
from John Wyrley Birch, esq. The antient family of Wyrley
ended in an heiress, married into the family of Birch, of Birch,
CO, Lancaster, who assumed the name and arms of Wyrley,
WiUiam Wyrley, the amanuensis of Erdeswick, of whom fre
quent mention is made in this volume, was of this family.
Humphry Wyrley, 10 Charles I. sir John Wyrley, kt. 17 Ch. II.
John Wyrley-Birch, 22 Geo. IL, and John Wyrley-Birch, 44
Geo, IIL, were sheriffs of the county. Arms of Wyrley: Azure,
a chevron engrailed between three bugle-horns stringed Sable.
The Somerys, barons of Dudley, were chief lords of Hands-
worth, by inheritance, from William Fitz-Ansculf. 16 Rich. II.
Sir Hugh Burnell, kt. held it. James Boteler, earl of Wilts,
forfeited it by attainder in 1460. In 1466 it was granted by
Edward IV. to Sir Walter Wrottesley, kt. 24 Henry VIII,, the
Lady Ann St. Leger, one of the daughters and co-heirs of
Thomas, earl of Ormond, died seized of it. Sir' John St. Le
ger, kt. sold it to Sir William Stamford, kt. From them it
passed, together with their seat of Perry-Hall, to Richard Best,
who owned it in 1659. From them it passed, by purchase, to
the Wyrleys of Hamstead ; and from them to Legge, earl of
Dartmouth ; whose son, the present earl, 1820, now possesses it,
Soho, an extensive manufactory of steel and iron articles, is
the property of Matthew Robinson Boulton, esq, Matthew
Bottlton, the founder of this celebrated establishment, was, 35
Geo, III, sheriff of the county.
Carta Rogeri de Wirley. Dat, anno 23 Ed, III,
Carta Rogeri de Wirley, Dat, anno 5 R. II. apud Honnes-
worth. Carta Cornelii de Wirley. Dat. apud Honnesworth. 2 H, V,
, Carta Rogeri de Wyrley de Hondesworth, in com, Stafford,
armigeri, Dat, apude Tibynton, anno 1 Hen, VI. in which he
mentions his father, Cornelius. All sealed with the arms of
Wyrley.
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308 THE- ANTIQUITIES
Warwickshire. • As I have said before, Drogo held
the same, 20 Conq, of WiU'us, filius Ansculfi, and
about Henry the Second's time, one Paganus de Paries
held the same, in right of Ahcia his wife ; and about
Henry the Third's time, sir William Paries', knt, lived
there, 15 Edw. I. and after 13 Edw. III. Walter Paries
lived there', and had issue Raufe Paries', who lived un
til 17 Rich, II.; and in 32 Hen. VI. the wardship of
Joan, daughter and heir of John Paries, was granted to
William Comberford, who married her to John his son.
Tame having entered into Warwickshire, between
Pirie and Handsworth, so continues for the space of a
dozen miles, or thereabout, and comes not near Stafford
shire until it come to Drayton Bassett, where it is the
mere betwixt Warwickshire and Staffordshire, and so
continues for two or three miles, till it comes to Tam
worth, where again it enters into the shire, and makes
itself a Staffordshire river.
Drayton, 20 Conq. was the land of Turstin de Basset,
and contained five hides of land ; which Turstin had
issue Raufe Bassett, who, under Hen. I. was justiciarius
Angliae, and constituted many good laws, as the law of
frank- pledge*, and such others ; he also persuaded the
king, whereby the court of Exchequer was ordered to
remain in one certain place. He was buried at Abing
don, all his sons honourably accompanying him to his
sepulchre. He had four sons, Turstin, Thomas (of
whom descended the barons of Hedington and Wy-
' Joanna, reUcta WiU'i de Paries, ann. 15 Ed. III. Wyrley,
' 18 Ed, III. there is a deed of Walter Paries. Wyrley.
' Radulphus Paries, 1 Rich. II. Wyrley.
Their chief seat was in the county of Northampton, Smyth,
* Frank-pledge was instituted much earUer, Vid. Spelman's
Lifeof Alfred, p, 116.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 309
combe), Richard (of whom descended the barons of
Wittering, Weldon, and Drayton), and Nicholas, who
was overthrown by standing with king Stephen against
Hen. II. Richard Basset married Maud, the only
daughter and heir of Geffry Riddell, lord of Wittering,
by Geva his wife, the daughter and heir of Robert
Bussie, lord of Weldone', and by her had issue Geffry,
who surnamed himself Riddell, and was a great baron,
and lord of Wittering ; Richard Basset baron of Wel
don ; Ralph Basset baron of Drayton ; and William
Basset sheriff of Warwickshire, and justice in itinere of
the shires of Lincoln, Nottingham, Derby, Stafford,
Warwick, Northampton, and Leicester, 22 Hen. II. and
to whom Osbert Baswine gave the manor of Cheadle.
Raufe Basset, baron of Drayton, had issue another
, Raufe, who had issue a third Raufe, who had issue a
fourth Raufe, who had issue a fifth Raufe.; Margaret,
married to Edmund baron of Stafford ; and Maud, to
sir William Herize^ The fifth Raufe had issue a sixth
Raufe, who died before his father, leaving one son only
(and no other children), called Raufe, who was also,
after the death of his grandfather, baron of Drayton,
and died without issue, and lies buried at the
Minster at Lichfield, under a goodly monument ;
so that his barony and lands were divided betwixt
his two great aunts ^ and their children. Mar
garet who had Drayton for her purparty, was married
to Edmund baron of Stafford, who bad issue Raufe the
¦ Geva, by her own foundation-deeds of Canwell, in the
Monasticon, was a daughter, illegitimate or not, of Hugh Lu
pus, the first earl of Chester, S, P-W.
' Of Weverton, Nottinghamshire.
' Not great-aunts, but simply aunts, by this statement : but
the statement itself appears mis-worded. S. P-W,

310 THE ANTQUITIES
first earl of Stafford ' to wl^oin, desjcended Drayton,, and
in whose posterity it remained till the attaipder of Ed
ward last dnke of Buckingham ; by reason whereof it
escheated to the king, who made a lease thereof for
many years to one Robinson, whose son mortgaged or
sold the same to Richard Paramore, who having much
suit and trouble about it, passed over his interest to my
lord of Leicester, who left the same to the countess his
wife, Whereby sir Christopher Blount, who hath married
her, and she, are owners now of the said manor dnd ho
nour, and (as "I hear) sir Christopher hath either pur
chased the inheritance thereof, or at least taken it in
fee-farm'.

' Their pedigree is in Wyrley's church notes under the parish
of Drayton. T. B.
* This was, it appears, a premature report. So late as in
1629, a certificate and valuation was given, in order to a grant
(of the fee) from the crown to Henry, earl of Holland. Being,
however, finally obtained by the Devereux family, the inhe
ritance was transmitted nearly as Shaw states till the death of
the first viscount Weymouth. But the statement of Shaw
abounds with errors ; the greatest of which is the position that
Drayton, with adjoining estates, "Uneally .descended" from
the first viscount to the third. The third viscount was indeed
himself lineally so descended (though, if Shaw saw it, he has
not shewn it,) his mother, Lady Louisa Carteret, being a
great-grand-daughter to the first viscount; for her mother.
Lady Granville, was a daughter of Lady Worsley, daughter
to that viscount. But Thomas, the second viscount, grand-
nephew to the first (so not "lineally" descended), had the
estate in his own right, by settlement of his grand-uncle, April
30, 1711, and not in right of his lady, the great-grand-daugh
ter, S. P-W.
' Edward, viscount Lisle, 8 Hen. VII. died seized of this
manor, and his son and heir, both to him and EUzabeth his
lady, was John Grey. ¦ ,
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OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 311
Tame having -washed the banks of Drayion, for the
space almost of a mile, receiveth on the west side a
brook, called Black Brook, which taketh its beginning
about Hammerwich, whereof I have spoken, as much as
I know before", and from thence passeth by Chester
field" ; whereof I read nought, except that about Rich-
it; and, it descending to his sister, the lady marchioness of
Hertford, and to sir Robert Shirley, his nephew, by his other
sister, the lady Dorothy, it came solely by partition to the
marchioness, whose lord, in her right, enjoyed it in 1660.
Degge. The marchioness devised it to her grand-daughter, lady
Mary Finch, ( daughter of Heneage, earl of Winchelsea, ) the
wife of sir Thomas Thynne, of Longleat, co, WUts, bart. From
this family, afterwards ennobled by the titles of viscount and
earl of Weymouth, and marquess of Bath, it was purchased, in
1790, by sir Robert Peel, bart. who is, 1820, the present pro
prietor. The curious old house, in which the powerful and
accomplished earls of Leicester and Essex often resided, has
given way to a modern structure, but a view of it is preserved
in Plot.
Arms of Basset : Or, three piles in point Gules, a quarter
ermine. At Fazeley, or Falkesley, is a bridge over the Tame,
through which the Watling-street passes, at its entrance into
the county,
' And that is, merely the naming of the "two Hamer
wiches." S.P-W.
^ Chesterfield is in the parish of Shenston, and takes its
name from the Saxon word ceaster, camp, and the old British
word caer, field. Its contiguity to Wall, a Roman station,
confirms its derivation. From the family of Comberfords, this
manor passed to sir WiUiam Bagot, of Hyde ; from whom it
went to sir Robert de Grendon, The old house here was the
residence of the Aliens from Hen. VIII. tb James II. It then
passed to the Jannocks ; and after to them to Hammond, one
of whom, Vincent Hammond, married, in 1702, to Ann Scla-
ter ; another was Thomas Hammond, of EdjaU-HaU, in 1705.
It afterwards passed to Palmer, and then to Smyth, of Not-

312 THE ANTIQUITIES^
ard the First's time, Alane of Comberford, was lord
thereof. And then leaving Shenston, a goodly manor
and a: park, like half a mile southward, so passeth to
Thickbroome. 'Sceotestan (which I take to be this Shenston) was
tingham, who now, 1820, possesses it. Several fragments of
Roman antiquities have been found here; among which was
the pedestal of an antique broken pUlar, finely wrought, and
of which a figure is given in Plot, p. 404.
' Sceotestan seems, with little doubt, Shushton, (in " Cu
dolvestan" H. D. being written exactly opposite), a large farm
of the Pilatenhale Littletons, which came by a Swynerton,
first wife to the first sir Edward, kt. Erdeswick was not aware
of " Isdem ^°^^^ tenet Seneste, et ^^{'^ de eo." " In Of-
felan Hund." S. P-W.
Queen Elizabeth granted this manor to Ambrose Dudley,
surnamed the good earl of Warwick, eldest surviving son of
John, duke of Northumberland, and brother of Robert, earl
of Leicester. After his death, 21 Feb. 1589, his widow pos
sessed it, and then sir Robert Dudley, his nephew; after,
whose attainder King Charles I. granted it to Balmerino, a
Scotsman, who sold the Park, and Thornes, in Stonhall, to
Rowland Fryth, esq. and Edward Morton, jesq. of Engleton,
jointly. The whole was afterwards purchased by Fryth ; from
whom, after several generations, it passed, in the time of
George I. by purchase, to John Smyth, who devised it to
William Tennant, esq. Rowland Fryth, the son of Thomas
Frith, who disclaimed all right to arms at Glover's visitation in
1583 (but Gwillim's Heraldry gives them a coat), was of this,
family, Blome mentions them as geptry, calling " Edward
Frith, of Thornes, gent, son of Rowland Frith, of Thornes,
gent." a man of great integrity and fidelity to the royal cause.
Frith, the buUder, who gave name to Frith-street, Soho, was
of this family. He was appointed Lancaster Herald in 1712,
and dying in the same year was buried at Shenston  Shenston
HaU stood on the site of the stables of the present house, and
was buUt by the Rugeleys. It afterwards became the residence
of the Brandreths; who, temp. Queen Anne, sold it to Samuel

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 313
holden of the king, 20 Conq, by one Levild ; and about
king John's time, it was holden of Henry D'Oyley, his

Hill, esq, from whom it passed to Thomas Harwood, esq, of
Terne, co. Salop, who afterwards took the name of Hill, and
was grandfather of the present, 1 820, lord Berwick ; who sold
it, in 1797, to Thomas Cook, father of the present proprietor.
John Brandreth, of Weeford, had Lssue Richard, of Shenston,
who had John, who was living in 1663; whose arms were,
Sable, f\ve lozenges in cross Or, Crest : a lamb couchant Or,
Shenston Park was first inclosed, 20 Hen, III, by one of the
Grendons ; it was three miles in circumference, and temp.
Hen. VIII. stocked with deer and game, but was disparked
temp, Charles II, The Nevils succeeded to the Grendons,
Thomas Nevil, 2 Hen, VIII. left John, living in 1584, who
had then two sons, Fulk and Francis. It had three lodges of
entrance, towards Little-Hay, Sutton, and at Wood-End.
From William Lake and Alexander Ward, who possessed it in
the time of Charles I. it passed, temp Will. III. to Joshua
Head, esq, who sold it to John Strickson, esq. who built the
present bouse; and whose son sold it, about 1724, to the hon.
Richard HUl, clerk, a statesman of great abilities, eminent
integrity, and elegant accomplishments. He obtained for his
family, 13 George I. the dignity of a baronet, in the person of
his nephew, Rowland Hill, of Hawkestone, co. Salop, and his
heirs male, in default of such issue to his nephew Samuel, son
of his sister (who married  Barbour, esq.) and who
assumed the name of Hill, and his heirs male, in default to his
nephew Thomas Harwood, esq. of Terne-Hall, co. Salop (who
also took the name of Hill), son of his sister Margaret, by her
husband Thomas Harwood, esq. and his heirs male ; remainder
to Rowland Hill, clerk, of Forncett, co, Norfolk, and his heirs
male. For want of issue the Park, Shenston-HaU, the manor
of Suttori-Madoc, co, Salop, a third part of Wrockardine, in
the same county, an estate near Coventry, the advowson and
tithes of Shenston, with other lands, went to Thoraas Harwood,
afterwards Hill, of Terne, esq, John Harwood was descended
from the family of Horwood, or Whorwood, of Compton and
Sandwell, and settled temp, EUz, at Hagbourne, co, Berks, He
had issue,Edward, kt, George and Richard (who died at South-

314 THE ANTIQUITIES
barony ; and after, in Henry the Third's time, when
Henry fifth earl of Warwick had married Margaret,

Stoke, 1614). George had issue John, Joseph, George, and WU
Uam, and a daughter, married to  Mallory. John Uved
at Hagbourne, and married Anne, daughter of Thomas AUen,
of London, Queen's merchant, and had issue John, Thomas,
George, and Richard. John was a tobacco and sugar mer
chant in London, and a great sufferer by the fire in 1666, and
yet had an ample property left in such effects as were at
Shrewsbury, and in other places. He had issue John, Thomas,
Edward, and four daughters, John was LL, D. of the Com
mons, F, R, S. and F, S, A. and, dying in 1729, left issue
Samuel and James : Samuel was of Hagbourne, Shrewsbury,
and Crickheath. Thomas Harwood married Margaret, daugh
ter of Rowland Hill, esq, and widow of Richard Atcherley,
esq, by whom he had issue Thomas Harwodd, grandfather of
the present, 1820, and second lord Berwick, Sir Edward Har
wood, son of the first John Harwood, of Hagbourne, was born
at Hagbourne, (Fuller says, nigh Bourn, and places him in
Lincolnshire, but the mistake is evident, ) and, pursuing a mi
litary life, was knighted, became colonel of an English regi
ment, and one of the four commanders in the Low Countries un
der sir Francis Vere, and was eminently serviceable to the queen
of Bohemia, He was kiUed at the siege of Mastricht in 1 632,
He was greatly lamented by the whole army. His friends were
of the highest station and character, the duke of Buckingham,
the earls of Southampton, Bedford, Essex, Leicester, and
Warwick, lords Vere and Carlton ; and Lord Craven declared,
when he heard of his death, that "he had lost his father,"
Fuller says, he "was a valiant soldier and a pious man. His
having killed a man in a private quarrel put a period to all his
carnal mirth. No possible provocations could afterwards tempt
him to a duel. He refused all challenges with more honour
than others accepted them ; it being well known that he would
set his foot as far in the face of his enemy as any man alive.
He was one of the four standing colonels in the Low Countries,
and was shot at the siege of Mastricht, 1632," Vide " Me-
moires de Frederic Henri de Nassau, Prince d'Orange, Depuis
1621 jusqu'en 1646," Also, " Histoire de Frederic Henry de

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 315
sister and heir of Henry D'Oyley, it was holden
of the earl of Warwick, their son, by one Robert
Nassau, 1656," p, 166, fol. There was a tract published in
1642, now very scarce, intituled, " The Advice of that worthy
Commander, Sir Edward Harwood, Colonel : written by King
Charles his command, upon occasion of the French King's pre
paration ; and presented in his lifetime, by his own hand, to
his Majestie : hitherto being a private manuscript. Also, a
Relation of his Life and Death, &c," He desires, in his will,
"to be buried at Nieumeghen or Gorcum, with some Super
scription of the service and charges he had borne," He leaves
" his adventure in the voyage for Persia, and other parts of the
East Indies, to the four sons of his brother, George," &c. He
desires, that " his company be not overcharged," He desires
" sir Henry Herbert and sir Nicholas Byron to take notice of
his goods abroad." He gives sir Henry Herbert his long
ebon standish — to sir Nicholas Byron his best rapier, and unto
his wife his best green ring — to the queen of Bohemia a thirty
shilling piece of queen Elizabeth — to prince Charles a thirty
shUUng piece of king James — to the princess the lady Eliza
beth a twenty shilling piece of queen Elizabeth — to the queen
of Bohemia lord Harrington's picture (if her majesty wiU be
pleased to accept of it — it is the greatest jewel that I have).
I commend unto the said sir Henry Herbert, for the love he bore
me, to love those gentlemen and officers he knew I esteemed
of, and have most and longest followed me," &c., From John
Harwood, of Hagbourne, besides John, who settled at Shrews
bury, descended also Thomas, of Hagbourne and Streatley, co.
Berks, sheriff of that county in 1694, George, who was D.D.
and Richard, who died in 1679. Thomas married Ann, daugh
ter of Richard Swanley, admiral of the Irish Seas during the
Civil War, (of whom is a long account in Fenton's "History
of Pembrokeshire,") and had issue Thomas Harwood, of
Streatley, S.T.P. and rector of Littleton, co, Middlesex: he
married Agnes, daughter of Abraham Houlditch, captain of
the Bendish in 1665, and afterwards governor of Cape Coast
Castle, and sister of Richard Houlditch, esq. a director of the
South Sea Company ; she was the widow of John Strong, esq.
an admiral in the navy, who discovered some of the Falkland's

316 THE ANTIQUITIES
de Grendon, by the sixth part of a great fee, scilicet de
veteri feoffmento ; which Robert, as I take it, had issue
Islands, and whose MS. concerning them is in the British Mu
seum: by her he had issue Thomas Harwood, of Streatley,
and who was rector of Sheperton, co. Middlesex, the advow
son of which his father had purchased : he married Ann Scuda- ,
more, one of the daughters and co-heirs of Richard Scuda-
more, esq. of the family of the same name at Holm-Lacy, co,
Herefbrd: by her he had issue Thomas Harwood, also of
Streatley, and rector of Sheperton : . he married Ann, the
daughter of John Brown, esq, of Chertsey, co. Surrey ; and
had issue by her, Thomas Harwood, editor of this volume:
Salve, sancte parens, iterum salvete recepti
Nequicquara cineres, aniraaeque, umbraeque paternae.
Shenston-Park was sold by lord Berwick, in 1797, to Edward
Grove, esq. the present, 1820, proprietor. Edward Grove is
the son ofWilliam Grove, sheriff of the county of Warwick in
1773, who was the son of William Grove, member, of parlia
ment for the city of Coventry in 1741, 1747, and 1754. Arms:
Argent, a chevron engrailed Or, between three stumps of trees
couped and eradicated, Henry D'Oyley, high constable of
England, gave Shenston Moss to the abbey of Osney, co, Ox
ford, whose monks erected a grange here for their residence.
At the dissolution it was granted to the Stanleys, from whom,
by marriage, it passed to the Dolphins, and from them, by pur
chase, to William Turner, who sold it to lord Spencer Chiches
ter, younger son of the first marquess of Donegal, who con
veyed it to Henry Case, esq, the present, lS20,-proprietor.-^
Footherley, temp. EHz._belonged to J;he Floyers, when Francis
Floyer" was settled here. From them . it passed to Samuel
Whalley, and from them, by purchase, to Lewis Buckeridge,
esq. the present, 1820, proprietor. — Little Aston, so called,
perhaps, as being east from Birmingham, was the manor of a
family, named from that place, who held it temp. Hen. III.
In 1583, the family of Fowke possessed it, who also had Bre
wood, Gunston, Batchacre, Little Wyrley, and other lands in
this county. From them it passed, temp, Ch, I. to the Ducies;
from whom it was bought by Richard Scott of Birmingham,
who built the house, as it was when Sanders wrote his history.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 317
Roger, who had issue Raufe ; for 9 Edw. II. Raufe
Grendon was lord thereof, in whose posterity it conti-
From him it passed by marriage, to Andrew Hacket of Mox
huU, esq. who sold it to William Tennant, esq. the present, 1820,
possessor. Here was once a small chapel.— Stonall was so
caUed, either from the Stoney-well which was here, or from the
stbney hill on which it stands, or from Stone-hall, or Stonehale,
thus named in a deed, dated 1140. Over Stonall belonged to
the D'Oyleys, of which noble faniily Robert Fitz-Nigel D'Oy
ley, in 1129, gave it to the abbey of Osney, by the name of the
two Stonhelas, with their chapels. Here was an antient forti
fication called Castle-old-fort, near which many military frag
ments have been found. It stands near the old high road be
tween Chester and London. The Shire Oak Tree, once cele
brated by Swift, is in this hamlet. — The manor of Thornes, be
longing to a family of the same narae, temp. Hen. VI. Tho
mas Thornes had issue Thomas, who, in 1470, leased this
house to Richard of the Ruddings, or Riddings, who afterwards
took the name of Ridding, and have been settled from that
tiriie either here, at Woodhouses, or at Pipe-HiU. It passed
from the Thornes to the family of Jolliffe ; and from them by
marriage, to the Fryths ; and is now the property of William
Tennant, esq. — Lynn, or Lyndon, was once possessed by a family
of the same name, temp. Hen. VIII. The Stanleys held Lynn
Hall, which passed, by purchase, in the seventeenth century,
to the family of Erpe, from Thomas Stanley, esq. of Alderley
Hall, CO. Chester, It was afterwards sold, in different divisions,
temp, Ch, II. The Riddings at an early period, had consider
able possessions in this hamlet. Rowland Ridding, temp,
James I, was descended from Jaraes Ridding, who died here in
1581, and was succeeded by William his son. During the civil
wars, after having flourished for many generations, they had
great losses for their adherence to the royal cause, John
Grendon, 34 to 40 Hen. III. Robert de Grendon, 12, 13, 14
Edw, II. ; John de Aston, 18 Edw, III, ; Robert de Grendon,
37 Edw. III. ; Thomas NevU, 2 and 7 Hen, VIIL ; Robert Du
cie, 5 and 6 Ch, II,; John Dolphin, 14 Geo, II,; and John
Dolphin, 1 Geo, III. were sheriffs of the county. Arms of
Grendon : Argent, two chevrons. Gules. Arms of Rugeley :

318 THE ANTIQUITIES
nued, as I have heard, until one of them committed a
forfeiture of his hand, by striking in the king's court,
for the redemption whereof he yielded the said manor to
the king.
In Shenston is the habitation of a gentleman of the
surname of Rugeley'.
The Black-brook being past Thickbroom' (a mem-

Argent, a chevron between three roses Gules. Arms of Ducie:
Or, two lions passant guardant in pale Gules, Arms of Har
wood : ^rgent, a chevron between three stags heads cabossed
Sable. Arms of Frith : Sable, on a chevron, the top embattled
Or, between three battle axes Argent as many pellets. Arms
of Ruding, or Ridding : Argent, on a bend between two lions
rampant a dragon or wivern of the field. Arms of Hill : Er
mine, on a fesse- Sable, a castle triple-towered Argent : Crest,
a tower Argent, surmounted with a garland of laurel proper.
' Nicholas Ruggeley, of Hawkesheard,=p:Editha, daughter of
CO. Stafford, 10 Hen, V, j of  Waldeif,
.r-— - — :  --— -T- — ¦"  —I

Nicholas Ruggeley, William, 20 Thomas;=t=. . . .
33 Hen, VI,=p Edw. IV.
William.=j=Jona, dau. of James of Editha.=Rich. Thick-
. . , Massey, Warwick, ness of Sut-
14 Hen. VII, ton Cheney,
1. John,:^ocosa, dau. of Ralph=:2, Thomas Baskerville
I Sheldon, of Beoley, of Curdworth,
I esq.
r  -¦
Ralph of Dunton.=pRebecca, daughter of Rowland Ruggeley,
I of Shenstone.

Rowland, of Dunton, knight,::^EUzabeth, daughter of Thomas
died 1629. | KnoUes, knt.
r  -¦
William Ruggeley, 1644.
' Thickbroom was long the possession of a family of the same
name. Richard de Thickbroom was a person of some note
here 40 Hen. Ill, Temp, Ch, II, it passed to the Bryans, and

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 319
ber' of the bishop's barony of Litchfield) remains the
mere ' between the shires of Stafford and Warwick, for
the space of two miles, and leaveth Weyford' a little
/
from them to Walter Rawlins, who, in 1974, sold it to Tho
mas Alsop. It is now, 1818, the property of John Manley,
esq. vice-admiral.
' Not so, by name, in Domesday ; unless we suppose Erdes
wick to have taken " Tichebroc" for it. S. P-W.
* Rather say, " keeps from thence all its course to Tame, at
the distance of two miles from Warwickshire.
' Here is a barrow or tumulus, called Offlow, from whence
the hundred takes its name ; concerning the origin of which,
different opinions have prevailed. Some regard it as the
sepulchre of Offa. Plot says, it is most probably Saxon ; and,
though not the burial-place of the Mercian monarch (who, ,
according to Matthew Paris, was buried at Bedford), may
contain the bones of some chieftain slain near this place. This
vUlage has been the scene of civil strife. A Purefoy was here
slain by sir Henry Willoughby, during the struggle between
the houses of York and Lancaster ; and sir Henry himself was
shortly afterwards desperately wounded, almost on the same
spot, in a rencounter with lord Lisle. 17 Edw. I. William de
Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, granted a licence to Robert de
Linsey, bishop, to make a park here of his wood, called Ash
Hay, which was then part of Suttori-Coldfield Chase. 21
Edw. I. William de Odingsell had leave from the earl of War
wick to hunt in the woods of Weefold, Thickbroom, and
Hints. The Marmions succeeded the Odingsells in this manor.
Temp. Eliz, it belonged to the family of Wingfield ; and, in
1682, it was the inheritance of sir John Digby, of Mansfield
Woodhouses, co, Nottingham, Thickbroom was bought by
himself, and Weeford by his father. From him it went by
purchase to John Brandreth, esq. second son of John, who had
Shenston Hall, and who afterwards lived at Weeford Hall, It
is now the property of sir Robert Lawley, bart. Arms of
Brandreth : Sable, three lozenges in cross. Crest : a lamb
couchant Or. — Swinfen was anciently the property of Robert
de Grendon; afterwards of a family of the sarae name, in which
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320 THE ANTIQUITIES
northward ; so called, I think, because London way
passeth there, over a ford of the said brook, it being
well and deep, for the most part, in other places, 20
Conq, Raufe held the same of the bishop, as a member
of his barony of Lichfield ; and 24 Edw, I, William de
Odingsell ' held Weyford and Thickbroom, of the bishop,
by a knight's fee. From Weyford it passeth to Hints,
Hints^ 20 Conq. Oswaldus held of the bishop, as a
eminent physician at Lichfield, temp. Geo. II. sold it to a per
son of the sarae name, but in no way related ; from whom it
passed to Samuel Grundy, son of his sister ; and from him to
his nephew John, who took the narae and arms of Swinfen, and
is, 1820, the present proprietor. John Swinfen, 19 Geo. III.
was sheriff. Arms : per chevron Sable and Argent, in
chief three leopards faces of the last.
' Odingsellos e FlandriS, oriundos. Camden, in Warw.
Burton, Leic. 254.
" Hints derives its name from Hynt, in British, a common
road : it is on the Watling-street. Temp. Hen, III, here was
a family of the same name. In Edw, I, Gefii-y de Savage beld
it of the bishop. From the Meynells, who were of Bradeley,
CO. Derby, it passed, after several descents, to the Bassetts,
of Drayton. Temp. Hen. VIII, Ralph Sacheverell, of Mel
bourne, CQ. Derby, had a portion of it. In 1601, 43 Eliz.
Edward and Walter Bassett sold it to Ralph Floyer, of the
Middle Temple, in whose descendants it yet, 1820, remains.
Near the Watling-street is a tumulus, which Plot supposes to
have been of Roman construction. On the common here, in
1771, was found a pig of lead, having inscribed upon it, in bass
relief, IMP, VESP.TlT, T,T: COSS, referring to the year
76, Matthew Floyer, 35 Ch, II, and Ralph Floyer, 21 Geo. HI.
were sheriffs. Arms : Argent, a chevron Sable, between three
arrows Or,
At Canwell was a priory of Benedictine monks, founded in
1142, by Geva Ridel, daughter of Hugh Lupus, earl of Ches
ter, It was granted, 17 Hen, VIII. to Wolsey, Plot says, it
was a curious fabric, in the pointed stile. The site of it is
now occupied by stables. At the Dissolution, it was purchased
by John Harman, alias Vesey, bishop of Exeter, who died

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OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 321
member of his barony of Lichfield ; and 24 Edw, I.
Hugo de Meynell held it of the bishop by half a knight's
fee ; and from him it descended to his son Giles, who
had issue Richard, who had issue Hugh, who had issue
Thomasine, first married to Hugh Erdeswick (but he
died without i^sue), and after to Reginald Dethick ;
Margaret, married to Roger Dethick', elder brother to
Reginald ; Joan, married to Clinton ; and Alice, mar
ried to Aston ; but she died without issue.
In the partition of Meynell's lands, both Hints and
Langley, in Derbyshire, fell to Thomasine, who had
issue by her husband Reginald, Margaret, their only
daughter and heir, married to Raufe Bassett, of
Blore, by whom she had issue William Bassett ;
Cicely, married, to Hugh Erdeswick^; and, as I think,
another son, to whom Hints was given in appanage';
seized of this manor 1 queen Mary, lie was succeeded by his
nephew. John Harman, from whom it descended to Thomas
JHarman, his cousin and heir ; and he died 22 April, 6 Eliz,
and left it to Sybil, his daughter and heir. It afterwards passed,
by purchase, to sir John Peshall, whose son, sir William, sold
it to sir Francis Lawley, bart. in whose descendant, sir Robert
Lawley, bart, 1820, it now remains. The weU, called Mods-
well's weU, near the old priory, Plot says, was aluminous, and
famous for the cure of weakness and diseases. Hence, the
name Canwell, from can, signifying efficacy, power. Sir Ro
bert Lawley, bart. 16 Geo. H- and sir Robert Lawley, bart.
38. Geo. III. were sheriffs of the county. Arms: Argent, 'a
cross form6, extended to the extremes of the shield, chequy
Or and Sable.
' John Dethick, of New HaU, in Derbyshire, esq, next
brother pf Reginald, and both younger sons of Geffry Dethick,
of Dethick, co, Derby. Smyth.
«! Another daughter, Thomasine, was married to sir Philip
Okeover, of Okeover, who was father, by her, of Ralph Oke
over, esq. Smyth.
' Appanage was a law, by which the succession was limited
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322 THE ANTIQUITIES
for, at this day, one of the Bassetts hath his Seat at
Hints '.
The Black Brook, being past Hints, entereth iilto
Tame above Fazeley bridge «> which holdeth on its
course to Tamworth ', a divided town ; for the caStley
to heirs male, begun in Fraiice anno 1285. Voltaire's Life Pf
Philip the Fair. T. B.
¦ The Bassetts, afterwards, obtained a portion of Hints, by
purchase, so late as 1 and 2 PhU. and Mary, from Sacheverell,
of Ratcliffe, and Normanton on Soar.
The first at Hints Was Edward Bassett, who was son td Tho
mas, second son tb William Bassett, of Blore^ ahd brPthel' td
sir William Bassett, knt. Smyth.
Edward Bassett, of Hints, was living in 1583. T.B.
In a grant by Geffry and Henry Rugeley to Robert Wolseley,
without date, Richard de Hints is a witness ; and in another,
Without date, by Richard, son of WiUiam Wolseley, Radulfus
de Hints is a witness.
The father of Ralph Floyer, of the Middle Temple, pur
chased Uttoxeter MPor, upon the sale of that manor by the
king, then in a lease for a long terni. Richard Floyer, esq.
Ais son, married Elizabeth, daughter of sir Richard Weston,
one of the barons of the Exchequer, who had issue by her, and
afterwards married Elizabeth, the daughter of William, son of
Zachary Babington, of Curborough, esq. Degge.
* At Fazeley was formeriy a chapel, which had long gone to
decay. Another has been built and endowed by sir Robert
Peel, bart, who is possessed of the manor.
' Tamworth is at the confluence of the Tame and Anker, an
ancient borough and market-town, "The name, in Saxon, was
Tamanweorthe, which means the island of the Tame. In the
time of the Mercians it was a royal village, and the favourite
residence of some of their monarchs. Offa dated a charter to
the monks of Worcester, from his palace here, in 781. Many
of his successors, in the succeeding century, dated other char
ters from this place. At this period, a ditch of forty-five feet in
breadth, protected the town and royal demesne, on the north,
east, and west, and the rivers were its defence on the south.
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OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 323
and some part of the town, stands in Warwickshire, and
the church and the rest in Staffordshire.

But Ethelfleda, the daughter of Alfred, in 913, rebuilt it.
She here erected a tower, on a round artificial mount, called
the Dungeon, which we now behold, and which forms the site
of the present castle. Here she resided, and died in 920,
In 924, in the reign of Athelstan, the king married Sigtryg,
the son of Ivar, to his sister, and the ceremony was celebrated
with great magnificence at Tamworth. The Saxon MS. chro
nicle, in the Cottonian collection, in the British Museum,
(Hoveden, 422 ; Flor. 328.) Tib, b, 4, says, that the two kings
met, and concluded the nuptials at Tamworth on the 30th of
January, 925, "¦ haer, .ffitiielstan cyning 7 Sihtric Northymbra
cyning heo gesamnodon aet Tameweorthige, 3 kal. Februarii,
7 .ffithelstan, his sweostor him forgeaf."
In 941, Anlaf, the Northumbrian prince, assaulted Tam
worth. MS. Saxon Chron, Tiberius, b, 4. " Her Anlaf
abraec Tamewurthe 7 micel wael gefeol on aegthra hand 7 tha
denan sige ahton 7 micele here hu the mid him aweg laeddon.
Thaer was Wulfrun genuraen on thaere hergunge." Hoveden
hints, that he advanced to Tamwurde, and plundered it (p.
423), but mentions neither the Danish victory, nor the cap
ture of Wulfrun,
Editha, the daughter of Edgar, who was the abbess of Poles-
worth nunnery, is said to have founded here a religious house.
In Domesday, it is said the king had four burgesses in Tam-
worde. Queen Elizabeth granted a charter of incorporation ;
and, in the fifth of her reign, it sent two members to parlia
ment. The castle was granted by the Conqueror to Robert
Marmion, lord of Fontenoy, in Normandy, hereditary cham
pion to the dukes of Normandy. Dugdale says, -he expelled
the monks he found here to Oldbury. For the injury which
he thus caused he is said to have entreated pardon, restored
the nuns to their possessions of Polesworth, and requested that
he might have burial for himself and his heirs in their chapter
house. The words of his charter, which he gave to Osanna,
the prioress, were : ad reUgionem instaurandam sanctimonia-
liura ibi, ecclesiam Sanctas Edithae de Polesworth, cum perti-
nenciis, ita quod conventus de .\ldeberia ibi sit manens. His
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324 THE ANTIQUITIES
Tamworth is a very proper market-town, and sends
two burgesses to the parliament ; one for Staffordshire
descendants enjoyed this castle tUl 1291 ; when it passed, by
marriage, to William Mortein, and from him to the FrevUes,
About a century afterwards it passed to the Ferrers ; and from
them, at a later period, to the Comptons. Lord Charles
Townsend, second son of the second marquis Townsend, in
herited it from the lady Charlotte Compton, baroness • de Fer
rars, only daughter of James earl of Northampton, In the
dining-room are painted numerous coats of arms of the family
of Ferrers. In the hall was formerly an old rude delineation
upon the wall, of the last battle between sir John Launcelot of
the Lake, a knight of king Arthur's round table, and another
"jknight, named sir Turquin, The figures were of gigantic size,
"Sifd appeared tilting together, according to the descriptions in
the romance. The first champion of England was Hugh Kilfee,
of Norbury; the second, Marmion, of Tamworth castle; the
third, Alexander Frevile ; and the fourth, Dimock, of Lincoln
shire, The situation of this castle is peculiarly striking, sur
rounded by ' rich and luxuriant meadows, through which the
Tame and Anker flow. Michael Drayton, who was born at
Atherstone, describes the scenery around with great feeling
and elegance. " Clear Ankor, on whos^ silver-sanded shore
My soul-shrined saint, my fair Idea lies :
A blessed brook, whose milk-white swans adore
Thy crystal stream 
Fair Arden, thou my Tempo art alone ;
And thou, sweet Ankor, art my HeUcon."
" Of the two bridges that be at Tamworth (says Leland),
the fairer is Bowe-bridge, though it stands on Ankor, a less
river than Tame. The other bridge is called St. Mary's-bridge,
having twelve great arches, and leadeth to Coventry. It
standeth on Tame, hard beneath the confluence, and a little
beneath the castle ; and as it should seem, by a great stone
upon the bridge, bearing the arms of Bassett, to be buUt by
the lord Bassett, of Drayton." The church, once coUegiate,
is supposed to occupy the site of the nunnery. Leland ascribes

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 325
part, and the other for Warwickshire part. There be
divers gentlemen that have houses in the same town ; as,
the foundation of it to one of the Marmions, soon after the
Conquest, It is surmounted by a massive tower, a view of the
double stair-case of which is given in Plot, the floor of one
being the roof of the other ; each staircase having an entrance,
and being distinct from, the other. Queen Elizabeth granted
the revenues of the college to Edward Downing and Peter
Ashton; and they are now the property of Charles Edward
Repington, esq. 15 Edw. I. PhUip Marmion founded a hospital
for monks of the Premonstratensian order, on the site of which
another has been founded and endowed by Thomas Guy, the
rich bookseller, a native of this town, and to whom the borough
of Southwark is indebted for that noble institution which bears
his name. Spittal-chapel, on the north side of the town, has
been converted into a barn ; and that at Amington has been
long in ruins. Sirescote, in Domesday, belonged to Rob. de
Stafford. Temp. Edw. III. according to Dugdale, WiUiam de
Mascy, of Swanley, co. Chester, bought it of PhUip de Bude-
ford. The Bretons, of Tamworth, afterwards possessed it;
after them, it passed to the Harcourts and WoUastons ; and,
temp. Ch. II. to Skeffington, of Fisherwick ; from them, to
Grundy, of Swinfen, to which family it now belongs.
Robert Marmion, lord of Fontenoy in Normandy, and he
reditary champion to the dukes of Normandy, came over with
the Conqueror, who granted him the castle of Tamworth and
the adjacent lands. To his son and heir, Robert, king Henry I.
by his charter, dated at Cannock, co. Stafford, granted free
warren in all his lands, at Tamworth and elsewhere, in the
county of Warwick. He died 8th Stephen. Robert, his son
and heir, died 2 Hen, III, leaving three sons, two of the names
of Robert and William. From the younger, Robert, descended
a race which flourished in Lincolnshire for many genera
tions, after the elder branch was extinct. From the elder,
Robert, descended sir Philip Marmion, who was sheriff of the
county of Warwick and Leicester, 33 Hen. III. and held
other high offices of trust under that king ; and, for his fidelity,
he obtained, 50 Hen. III. a grant of all the royal demesnes in
Tamworth and Wigginton. He died 20 Edw, I, and left four

326 THE ANTIQUITIES
sir Humphry Ferrers, lord of the castle; but, because
it is in Warwickshire (though I could say something to
daughters, Mazera, the second, married Ralph, lord Crom
well, and had an only daughter, Joan, who inherited great
estates, which she brought in marriage to Alexander, baron de
Frevile, amongst which was Tamworth castle. His grandson,
Baldwin de Frevile, was in great esteem with the Black Prince.
His son, sir Baldwin de FrevUe, claimed to be the king's diam-
pion on the day of the coronation, 1 Rich, II, 1377, as possessor
of Tamworth castle, which service the Marmions, his ancestors,
had performed. But sir John Djmiock, his competitor, succeeded
to it in right of the raanor of Scrivelby, in Lincolnshire, which
appeared to be held by that service, and that the Marmions en-
Joyed that office as owners of that manor, and not of Tamwordi
castle. The Dymock family still possess Scrivelby, and exercise
the office of champion. The last male of the Freviles was another
Baldwin, his grandson, who died unmarried. His great estates
devolved to his three sisters.. EUzabeth, the eldest,, na^ried
Thomas, second son of WiUiam, fifth lord Ferrers, of Groby,
and brought him in marriage the castle smA manor .of Taaaa-
worth. Arms of FrevUe : Or, on a cross flory Gules five
lozenges vairy; also. Gules, three crescents Ermiive. Arms
of Townsend : Azure, a chevron Ermiuie between three eecal-
l0ps Argent.
WiggingtoB belonged, at an early period, to the Hastings',
earls of Pembroke ; frora them it passed to the Nevite ; and,
temp. Phil, and Mary, to die Comberfords. It came, long
afterwardis, to the famUy of Skeffington, then to that of Hill,
from whom Chichesiter, first marquess of Donegal, purchased
it, and ¦who left it to bis younger soo, lord Spencer Chichester,
who has sold it.
Comberford, an ancient family of the same name, possessed
it for several centuries : they had also the Moai-hjoiuse, at Tam
worth, and the hall at Wednesbury. The old bouse has beera
long destroyed ; and the manor, after passing through several
families, was purchased by the first marquess of Donegal, and was
sold by his son Spencer. It is now the property of Richard
Howard, esq.
Coton, near Hopwas-bridge, belonged to the Barbours,

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327

the purpose, who have, ever since the Conquest, been
owners thereof, and how it came to the Ferrers,) yet
will I leave it to Mr. Henry Ferrers, of Baddesley ; both
because I would have him tp do for Warwickshire as I
have done for Staffordshire ; £\s also, coming out of the
same house, be cannot (being so great an antiquary)
but know all that is tQ be said of his own house. In
Staffordshire side there is a hpuse of the Bretons, who
have long had there their seat ; for, 9 Edw. II. John
Breton was of Tamworth ', and had issue William, who

whose ancestor was said to have been a younger son of that
name at Flashenbrooke, George Barbour had issue Nicholas,
who was living 19 Eliz, who had issue Richard, who had issue
Richard, who had issue George, who married Maria, daughter
of Thomas Adshead, of Milwich, who had issue Richard, who
was living in 1663, Arras : Gules, three mullets Argent, bor
der Ermine, a dexter canton Or. Thomas Ferrars, of Tam
worth castle, 26, 27, Hen. VI,; sir John Ferrary, knt. 15
Hen. VII. ; WiUiam Comberford, 20 James I, ; William Cpm-
berford, 18 Ch, I, were sheriffs. Vide Dugdale's Warvvick :
p. 816, 817. Arras of Marraion: Vaire, a fess Gules.
Thomas Endesore, of=pAnne, daughter of WilUam Hopwas
Comberford. j of Comberford.

r

John En-=Helen,

desore, of
Comber
ford.

daugh
ter of . .
Savage.

Edward En-i^s. . Cowper,
desore, of of the same
Paget's place.
Bromley.

Humphrey.

Thomas En-=pDorothy, dsiugh-

desore, of
Comber ford.

ter of Humphrey
Comberfprd, of
Cqmberford.

Rich. Ende-==:Eleflnor, dau.
sor, of Pa.- of Ralph
get's Okeover, of
Bromley, Okeover.

Christopher.

Waiter,John,Willia,iji,

— i—n ,
Elizabeth.Susan.
Isabel.

Ego d'nus de Ednysour dedi Ricardo filio Ricardi Ednysour
tres bovatas ter'ae in territorio de Tissinton, &c. No date,
» Omnibus ad quos Adam de Breton de Tamworth, mercator.

328 THE ANTIQUITIES
had issue John, who had issue John and William :
since which time, the race of them have continued until
this day. There is also a house of the Harcourts. Ed
ward Harcourt, now living, was the son of Walter, who
was the son of Richard, second son of Thomas Har
court of Raunton, fourth son of sir Robert Harcourt of
EUenhaU, and Stanton Harcourt, knt.
Tame, having taken leave of Tamworth, enters be
tween Hopwas and Comberford, leaving one on the
west and the other on the east. Hopwas ', 20 Conq,
was in the king's hands ; and, in Henry the Third's
time, Alanus de Hopwas dwelt there.
Packington^, which stands two miles farther west
from Tame, was holden of the bishop, 20 Conq. by Ul-
chetel. In Henry the Second's time, Robert de Pack
ington, and 24 Edw, I. David de Packington, held it
of the bishop, by the fourth part of a knight's fee ; and,
1 Edw. II, Thomas Bassett was owner of Packington,
Now, William Stamford is owner of Packington, and
William Comberford of Hopwas. William Stamford
was the son of Edward, the son of William, the son of
Thomas, the son of William Stamford, who had both
Packington and Rowley', by Stafford, and other lands,
Ann. Edw. III. 41. Sciant et futuri, quod ego Adam de Tam
worth, mercator. Ann, Ew, III, 43. Wyrley.
' Opewas, Domesday,
* The family of Stamford were succeeded by that of Babing
ton ; from whom it passed, by marriage, to Theophilus Levett ;
whose son, Thomas Levett, esq, is, 1819, the present possessor.
The ancient chapel has been long dilapidated. Arms of Ba
bington. Argent, ten torteux, 4, 3, 2, 1, a label of three
points Azure. Crest, a wivern rampant.
Edward, son of sir Robert Stamford, sold Rowley to sir
Richard Berrington, who married Edward's sister, and was
father of John Berrington, who owned it in 1660. Henry VIII.
added to his arms and crest, Barry, Argent and Azure, on a

OF STAFFORDSHIRE.
given him (as the report is) for taking the duke of
Longueville prisoner, l6th August, 5 Hen. VIII. beside
Terrouenne (then in the battle or siege there.)
Com berford ', standing on the east side of Tame, is a
member or Wigginton, which stands further off by the
space of a mile; and yet in Comberford (it being a
manor of itself, although a member of another) is. the
seat of a very ancient race of gentlemen, taking the
name of the place.
Of Wigginton was lord, about Henry the First or
Second's time (I know not well whether) one Thomas,
fil. Roberti, as appears by the copy of a deed following :
Thomas, filius Rob'ti hominibus suis et amicis salutem.
Sciant omnes, tam qUi sunt, quam qui futuri sunt, me
concessisse Alano de Comerfort et heredibus suis, vir
gatam terrae et dimid', quae fuit Rogeri de Wiggintonia,
tenend' a me et heredibus meis, servicio unius librae
Piperis. Test. Rob. fil. Galf. ; Rob. Pinguant, Rogero
Capellano, Will'o de Hales, Rogero de Hadeford, God-
frido Briano, sacerdote ; Nicholao de Licefelde, et mul
tis aliis.
Whether a man may say that this Thomas, fil,
Rob'ti, were the nephew of Hugh Flamvile, and that
Erneburga, that was married to Hugo de Hastings,
were his aunt or not, I stand in doubt; but, sure I am,
that John Hastings, lord of Abergavenny, was lord of
Wigginton 9 Edw, II,; and Nevil, lord of Abergavenny,
sold it to Thomas Comberford, yet living ; so that Com
berford is now lord both of Comberford and Wigginton,
Alanus de Comberford^ was lord of Comberford (as you
canton Or a fess, three mascles in chief Sable, Crest : a hand
armed in gauntlet and sword, Degge,
' See page 326^ Arms of Comberford : Gules, a talbot pas
sant Argent,
^ Wyrley's genealogy does not agree with this, but his evi
dences are nearly the same. T. B.

330 THE ANTIQUITIES
may partly abQve perceive) in Henry the First or Se-,
cond's time : he had issue another Alan, who had issue
Roger, who had issue Richard, who had issue William,
who had issue Richard, who had issue John, who had
issue William, who had issue John, who had issue Tho
mas, who had issue Humphry, who had issue Thomas,
who had issue William, who had issue Humphry, who
had issue William ; all four living anno 1 596,
A little lower, on the bank of Tame, stands both
Tamehorn and Tinmore,
Tamehorn was holden, 20 Conq, by Nigellus, Gres
ley's ancestors, of the bishop. In Henry the Second's
time, Robert de Tamenhome held it by half a knight's
fee ; and 24 Edw. I. William de Tamenhome ' held the
same of Geffrey Gresley, per quartam partem feodi,;
and the same Geffrey, of the bishop, by the same ser-
viqeg. This William, I think, was the son of Thomas,
who was the son of John ; and William was the father,
or grandfather, of Thomas; which Thomas was also
the father or grandfather of another Thomas, who died
4 Hen. V. and left William Vinton in ward for it*.
Ranulf held Tinmore of the bishop, 20 Conq. ; and,
about Henry the First's' time, Clericus de Lichfield was
' He was one of the witnesses of the charter of donation of
the Fountains, near Alreschawe, to the Friers Minors of Lich
field, 29 Edw. I. T. B.
' It is hard to say what may be the right word or words
here. Possibly, it rap merely, f left WiUiam, his son," in ward
for it, The place seems to have gone, in fact, possibly to
Weston, of Weston-under-Liz ; certainly afterwards, by heirs
female, to Peshale, Mitton of Weston, Wilbraham, and New
port. And one of the last Newports, earls of Bradford, is be
lieved to have left it to the Da.mer family. S. P. W.
' Much later, certainly; for PetronUle (who calls her fa
ther " Symon le Sage") was a grantor to sir William Vernon a
century after Henry the First's death. (Lord Vernon's ori
ginal deeds, quoted by Shaw, in Tymmor.) S. P-W.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 33)
lord thereof, who had issue Petronella, his daughter
and heir, married to one Godard, who called himself
Godard de Tinmore, who had issue William, who was
lord thereof, who had issue Hugh, 5 K. John, who
had issue William, who kad issue Hugh, which held '
Tinffliore, Freford, and Frodwell, of the bishop, by a
knight's fee, 24 Edw. I. He had issue John, whose
beir Alice was married to John Heronvile, who by her
had issue John Heronvile : in which line of the Heron-
viles, and of the Beaumonts of Wednesbury (one of
which married the daughter and heir of Heronvile), it
continued) until the three daughters and heirs of the
last John Beaumont of Wednesbury were married ;
Joan, the eldest, to Wilham Babington ; Dorothy, the
second, to Humphry Comberford; and the youngest,
Eleanor, to Humphry Babington : whereupon Tinmor«,
in the division", was jallotted to William Babington and
Joan his wife, who had issue Anthony, who had issue
William, who had issue Anthony Babington, that sold
it, not long since to Peter Rosse, as I take it ; and he
to Samuel Stanley, who sold it over, I think, to Mi
chael Lowe', an attorney in the King's Bench.
The moated site of the ancient bouse at Tynjmojre, is all
that remains. From the Skeffingtons it passed, by purchase, to
the first marquess of Donegal, whose younger sop., Spencer,
sold it to sir Robert Peel, bart. the present (1820) proprietor.
' The former William, succeeded by Hugh, 5o Johannis,
must be a reduplication, or two generations too much, S. P-W,
' The deed of partition is in Wyrley. T, B,
' Micihael Lowe, leaving only daughters (three, if not
more ; Margaret, married to Geo, Abney ; Katiiarine, to An
thony Bagot ; a;nd  ) Tinmore was probably sold. It
certainly, ere long, came to Skeffington, of Fisherwick, and
still goes with it, unheard-of, except in vague enumerations of
manors, like its neighbour Horton. The names Tameborne
and Tinmore are, by the vulgar, made up (quasi uno flatu)

332 THE ANTIQUITIES
Like two miles farther east from Tame lieth Statfold,
which one Richard Salvein, in Henry the Second's time;
and after, one Robert Salvein held, together with Ha-
sleover, by a knight's fee ; of which was lord, 24 Edw. I,
one Geffry Campvile, who held it and Hasleover of the
bishop by a knight's fee : from whom it descended to
Stafford ; and, from the Staffords to Arden, and from
him to the Stanleys, and from them to Hercy, who was
owner thereof in right of his wife', who, together, gave
into a third, Timhorn, 'which is applied to the former estate ;
and the very place of the latter is so near to being absolutely
forgotten, that, what was almost to certainty the " mill of
Tymmor," granted by PetronUla le Sage to Vernon, is now
known by no other name than Elford-mill, S, P-W.
' It is shewn, in Shaw's article Statfold, much at large, that
dame Elizabeth Hercy was owner of it, just as she was of her
father, John Stanley of Pipe's other estates, i. e, of a moiety in
all. It has since appeared, from a case (and pedigree) for
legal opinion, found among sir Simon Archer's collections, that
sir John Hercy and wife did, 1 Eliz, partly in consideration of
monies paid and secured, and of the release of a statute, ac
knowledged by sir Humphry Stanley's relict, and partly in consi
deration of a past marriage between Humfry Wolfreston and Ka-
ther3m, daughter of John Stanley (him of Thoresby), convey
to Humphry and Katheryn, with limitations over all their moie
ties in Podmore, Blacklowe, Stoke, Sandon, and Fulford, and
their moiety of certain lands in Astonson, Stoke, and Hilderson,
called Wolescrofts, &c.; and, 3° Eliz. for the education of Hersey
(Hercy), son and heir of Humphry and Katheryn, conveyed
to them, with the same limitations, all their moieties in Aston,
Burfreston, and Hardwick. And that, in 70 Eliz, Humphry
and Katheryn assured " all these lands in Aston," and some
what-further in Aston, " parcel of the enheritance of Mawde
Wolfreston, Humphry's mother," to Christopher Heningam
and Dorothee his wife, and his heirs; and all their title in
" Wolscrofts and Stoke, and other lands (in an after part of the
statement explained to be Burston), to John Stanley, and Jane
his wife" (his second wife, formerly Lasells), " and the heirs of

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. S33
the same, from their next hefr of it^ to Humphry Wol-
verston, who had issue Hercy Wolverston, now owner
thereof,John." And that, in consideration of these latter assurances,
Christopher and Dorythe Heningam, assured their moiety of
« the manor of Stotfold and Podmore," and John and Jane
Stanley " the other moiety of the manor of Stotfold, had and
obteyned from sir John Hersey and dame EUzabeth," by the
very fine, Trinity Term, in same ^o Eliz, stated at full in
Shaw, I, 412, " So that (concludes the legal statement)
Humphry and Katheryn, had all Stotfold; John Stanley,
Stoke ; and Heningam all Aston." The question for counsel,
" what Katheryn may doe to put Stotfold away from Hersey,
and not prejudice her owne estate," is foreign to the present
purpose. It sufficiently appears, Stotfold was not, in the
event, so put away, S. P-W.
The above-named Catherine, daughter of sir John Stanley,
died Sept. 16, 1625, aged 108, as interlined in " A true copy
of the Register-Booke here (Stotfold), taken this 16th June
1647, from the same 16th June 1601, by Thomas 
(iUegible), a neighbr minr," S. P-W,
Statfold is represented to be within the parish of St, Michael,
Lichfield, and a member of the manor of Longdon. It is now
( 1820) the property and residence of Samuel Pipe Wolferstan,
esq. In the chapel, which has long been disused, are several
memorials to the family of Wolferstan. Arm's : Sable, a fess
wave between three wolves' heads erased Or.
Thorpe-Constantine, not mentioned by Erdeswick, is near
the confines of Leicestershire and Derbyshire, and was the
inheritance of the FitzwilUams. In Domesday, it is written
Tore, and was then held by Nigellus. It signifies a pretty
viUage. In 1255, Geffry Costentin held it of the king, as of
the honour of" Lancaster, from whom the place derived its
additional name. It afterwards belonged to Gilbert, earl of
Lincoln. In 1 Edw. III. John Hotham, bishop of Ely, held it,
from whom it passed to the Scroops of Marsham. 5 Hen. VIII.
Thomas Fitzwilliam died seized of it ; and 7 Hen, VIII. Wil
liam, his son, who lived at Aldworth, co. Warwick, died seized
of it. From them it passed by marriage to the family of Fol-
jambe, who sold it 16 Eliz. to John Aylmer, afterwards bishop
of London, whose son Samuel sold it, 40 Eliz. to Robert Bur-

334 THE ANTIQUITIES
And like as far west stands Whittington, whereof
Roger Fowke and Richard Puer were some time lords,
and' which Richard le^ Child held of the bishop 24
Edw, I. by the fifth part of a knight's fee, and now one
of the Everards hath a house there, which descended to
him from his mother, Clerkson's daughter and heir, first
married to Humphry Everard, and now captain Wiver-
SOn's wife.
Like a mile lower than Comberford, upon the same
side, of Tame, stands Elford ', a goodly seat of a house,
dett, of Bramcote, co. Warwick, esq. 7 Ch. I. 1631, sir
Thomas Burdett, of Foremark, co. Derby, bart. sold it to
WiUiam Ives, of Leicester, whose only daughter married Ri
chard Inge, of Leicester, who built the house here in 1651.
It is now the property of WiUiam Phillips Inge, esq, WilUam
Inge, 36 Ch, II. and WiUiam Philips Inge, 47 Geo. III. were
sheriffs. Arms : Or, on a chevron Vert three leopards' faces
Or. Crest : two halberts in saltire within a ducal coronet.
' Elford is supposed to have taken its name from the number
of eels with which the Tame here formerly abounded. Wulfric
Spot, the founder 6f Burton abbey, in l004, gave Elleforde,
and Aclea, or Okeley, to his daughter, with all their appur
tenances, for her life, and after her death to the monastery of
Byrtune. From the family of Bowes it passed, by marriage, to
the Hon. Craven Howard, ancestor td the late earl of Suffolk,
whose sister Frances carried it, by marriage, to Richard Bagot,
esq. son of sir Walter Bagot, bart. who assumed the name
of Howard, and whose only daughter and heir married Fulke
Greville, second son of Upton, viscount Templetown, who has
taken the name of Howard, and is the present (1820) possessor.
In the church are some splendid monuments in memory of the
Ardernee, Stantons, and Stanleys.
Okeley, a small manor, which sir Maurice Berkeley held
13 Ken, VIII, It was then held of Edward, lord Grey, as of
his manor of Ardern, in soccage. Another, sir Maurice Ber
keley, was seized of it 6 Edw, VI, Near it is a tumulus, called
Elford Low; and another, near the village, of a smaller extent.
Both of them appear to have been sepulchral, and perhaps of
the date of the Saxon beotarchy. At the seat of the Stanleys

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 335
now possessed by sir John Bowes. Before the Con
quest, Algar was lord of it ; and, 20 Co^nq. the king
himself was owher bf it. About Henry the Thii'd's time
one Walkelintis de Atdern Was owner bf it; and, 9
Edw.. II. sir John ArderUe had itj who had issu6 Maud,
married to Thom&s Stanley, second son of sir John
Stanley, knight 6f the gartef, lieutetiaiit of Ireland, and
Isabella his wife, daughter and heit bf sir Thomas La
tham. Thotnas Stanley and Maud Arderne his wife,
had issue sir John Stanley, his son and heir, and sir
Humphry Stanley', knight banneret, his second SoHi
Sir John Stanley' had issue a son, slain in his infancy'
with a ball (whose monument, being in Elford church,
is a child, holdiilg a ball to his ear, and written upon
" ubi dolor, ibi digitus) ; Margaret, married to William
Stanton ; a second daughter, married to sir John Fer
rers ; and a third, married to sir .... Savage, of Wor-
Edward the Fourth was a frequent visitor, for the amusement
of hunting ; ahd here the earl of Richmond slept, on his way
5om~Lichfield to Bosworth-field. Sir Johri Stanley, knt, 29
and "38 Hen. VT. and 5, 9, and 15 Edw. IV. ; sir Humphry
Stanley, knt. 22 EdW, IV,-; and l_andJiJHen. VII, ;' Williain
Smith, 20, 21 Hen, Vll, ; sir wSUam Smith," kt, 14 Hen, VlIL;
sir John IBowes, kt, 30 EUz, ; and John Bowes, 4 Ch. I. ; were
sheriffs of the county. Arms of Ardern : Gules, three cross
crosslets fitche, and a chief Or, Arms of Bowes : Ermine,
three lohg bows bent in pale Gules,
' Of Pipe, Degge, Sir Humphry was second son to sir
John, not to Thoraas. S. P-W.
' It should be, " sir John Stanley's eldest son was John
Stanley, esq. who had issue a son slain," &c. S. P-W,
' Wyrley, in his Church Notes, says he was the heir of the
house of Arderne ; but I rather think not, by reason of the
excellence of the sculpture, which would not have been so
WeU wrought at that early period, T, B,
This ChUd must be son to John Stanley, esq, who died
1 Hen, VIII, son to sir John ; as the said John Stanley, esq.
left the three daughters and coheirs, Maud, sister to sir John,

.336 THE ANTIQUITIES
cestershire". William Stanton, and Margaret his wife,
had issue Anne, married to sir William Smyth, knt. who
had issue Margery, married to Richard Hudleston, who
had issue Anne, married to sir John Bowes, yet living,
and Lucia, married to sir John Brooke. Sir John
Bowes hath issue Richard Bowes, who hath married
Keble of Leicestershire's daughter and heir. Sir John
Bowes, in the partition of his wife's lands, had Elford
allotted to him, and Brooke had Hasleover, a town
standing on the same side of the Tame, but a mile far-'
ther off.
Hasleover, 24 Edw. I. was the land of Geffry Cam
vile", who, as I take it, had issue William Camvile,
who had issue Maud', married to Richard Stafford,

who left the coheirs, married sir John Ferrers, of Tamworth
castle. Smyth.
' Anne, married to Christopher Savage, of Worcester, esq.
the son of sir John Savage, of Clifton, in Cheshire. She died
before her father ; and, 1 Hen. VIII. Christopher Savage, her
son, was one of the heirs of Anne, who was the eldest daugh
ter ; Margery, the second ; and Elizabeth, the third, who mar
ried first to William Ferrers, and, secondly, to sir John Hercy, of
Grove, in Nottinghamshire (who had no issue), who had Stat
fold, as above. Smyth.
' See in Shaw I. 411, remarks on an almost certain mistake
here (and in art. Statfold too), with a supposition that Erdes
wick perhaps wrote " Geffry Salvein." S, P-W,
' Sir Richard Stafford's wives, and their christian names,
have been explained at some length, in a note on Pype : and it
is there shortly observed, that Isabel, his first, was descended
from Campvile, But S. P-W. in his helps to Shaw, has gone
further, and spoken of her (Shaw, I. 411, among, perhaps,
other passages, ) as "daughter" of the last Campvile, of Clif
ton, and has said, in so many words (Ibid. 394), that "it is
rendered most certain" she was coheir to him, vMth a sister,
Matilda, wife of Richard Vernon. He (S. P-W.) now desires
to say, he was too hasty in affirming such certainty. He soon

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 337
second brother to Raufe, first earl of Stafford, which
Richard and Maud had issue sit Thomas Stafford, knt.;
Edmund, bishop of Exeter ; and Catharine. Sir Tho
mas had issue Thomas, that died without issue ; Ca
tharine ^as married to sir John Arderne, knt. who had
issue^Maud, married to Thomas Stanley, before spoken
ofj who had issue sir John Stanley, in the line of whose
posterity it continued, until it was allotted to John
Brooke, who had it in the right of his wife Lucia, by
whom he had issue Robert Brooke, who had issue
James, William, Susan, and Eleanor'.
sufe^e'cted the soiihdness of his own conclusion; on finding,
from various items bf evidence, that William Vernon, son and
heir of Matilda, was born 1314, nearly, and bishop Edmund
Stafford, son and heir of Isabel, not till 1344. And he is now
possessed of a series of very numerous heads and dates — (he is
sorry to say, heads of. the shortest sort, and most vilely copied,
but most clearly extracted from Vernon archives, in or before
1573*)^among ¦which he finds: " Ric. Stafford Spouse Issa-
biell Icig', fil. de Maud Vernoti, 11 Edw. III." Isabel, how
ever, though she loses the name of Camvile, co-heir, was
greatly advanced in Clifton, to the loSs of her brother, Wil
liam Vernon, at Harlaston, in the same parish ; and her son,
bishop Edmund, contrived to make himself sole lord, S, P-W,
' Of the last-named Brookes, nothing has been elsewhere
seen ; but a monument is extant at Elford for William Brooke,
son and heir of Robert. S. P-W.
John Brooke was son of sir Robert Brooke, knt. who, 1
Edw. VI. had the manor of Lapley. John Brooke died 1 June,
13 Eliz, and was succeeded by WiUiam Brooke, esq, his son,
who died in 1641 ; and his son and heir, WiUiam Brooke, esq.
succeeded him, and died in 1668 ; and his son, WiUiam, suc
ceeded him, and died in 1672. From this family Haselour
passed, by purchase, to Samuel Dilkes, esq. who sold it to

* Mr. Abraham WoUey, of Matlock, has heard of a coffer, found in
Haddon Old Hall, which had held numerous deeds, wholly devoured by
the mice to the bare wax. S. PW.

l338 THE ANTIQUITIES
Tame, being past Elford, receives, on the west side,
a brook, which takes its beginning at Swinfen, where is
a house of a gentleman, taking his name from the
place, Willielmus Swinfen ", armig, married Joeosa, I
think, one of the two daughters and heirs of William
Spemor, 13 Hen, VI. ^
This brook, keeping on its course, enters into Tame,
leaving Fisherwick on the west bank thereof, and not
far from Tame. Roger Durdent held Fisherwick of the
bishop 24 Edw. I. and 4 Edw. II. Nicholas Durdent
was lord of it : which, I suppose, was procured to some
of his ancestors of the same name, by their kinsman,
Walter Durdent, bishop of Lichfield, in the beginning
of Henry the Second's time. About Edward the Third's
time, as I think, it came to the possession of sir Roger
Hillary; and, in the division of his lands, was allotted
tb Elizabeth, his eldest daughter, who was married to
Joseph Girdler, serjeant-at-law, whose great grandson, John
Stanford Girdler, esq, now (1820) enjoys it. The chapel here
has long been disused. Leigh Brooke, 10 Anne, was sheriff
of the county. Arms : Argent, a cross engrailed and party
per pale Gules and Sable, an amulet in the dexter quarter.
Sable. ' On William Swynfen, his wife Spernore (or Durvassal de
Spernore) ; their daughter Margaret, who was caUed Pipe;
and her husband, the knight-constable of England — (Shaw's
~art. Draycote, in vol, I, 81, 82, 83, 84,)— and on branches of
the Swynfens, a long note. No, 61, is printed on the back of
Nichols' Rydware pedigree, in his art. Scale, S. P-W.
' WUliara Durvassal, alias Spernore, who left three daugh
ters, and died 13 Hen, VI, 1435, Arms : Sable, a fess counter
compon^ Or and Azure, between six escallops Argent, three
and three. See article Weeford,
31 Hen. II. Robert, d'nus de Marmion, baro de Tamworth,
was sheriff of the county of Worcester, and Henry Swynfen of
Swynfen was sub-vice comes. Arms of Swynfen: a chevron
Sable and Argebt, in chief three leopards' faces.

bF STAFFbRDSHlRE. 339
sir William de la Plaunche, from whom it descended to
their daughter Elizabeth, lady Clinton, who enfeoffed
the same, together with other lands, to Thomas Wode-
vile, John Longuevile, John Barton, and others ; and,
after, she died without issue: but, what became of it
after, I cannot yet learn', or by what title or means Skef-
' In 130 Hen, IV. Joan, wife of Robert Roos, Margaret,
late wife of Frederic de TUney, and John GUthorp, severally
descended frora John Rochforte, son and heir to one of the
two sisters of sir Roger HiUarie (son of Erdeswick's sir
Roger) made partition of sir Roger, jun.'s estates with lady
CUnton, daughter and heir to the other sister. The same three
persons (or their issue, on lady C, dying, s, p,) became her
heirs also; and, after much perplexity, from the misleading
circumstance, (before the Skeffington pedigree itself was cleared
up) of a Thomas Skeffington marrying Margaret Stanhope,
whose paternal grandmother was daughter, and seemingly heir
to a Henry Rochford (Rochforte) the means, by which Skef
fington came to Fisherwick, appear evidently traceable as
follows : By Mr, Turtoft's Wichnor Evidences it appears, that
in 20 Hen, VIII, the " heirs of Elizabeth, late wife of the
earl of Surrey," held four acres of meadow there, caUed Har-
visholme (hut this name is omitted in the statement, Shaw, I,
124.) : and in the time of dame Margaret Griffith, widow (later
than 1646), sir John Skeffington, bart, held Harviesholme of
the same. Wichnor raanor, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of
sir Frederick Tilney, was wife, first to Humphry Bourchier,
K,B, and, by him, mother, to John Bourchier, lord Berners, -
and, secondly, to Thomas, earl of Surrey, who, in 1513 (but
some years, seemingly, after her death) was restored to the
title of Norfolk, as the second Howard duke. And among a
variety of Fisherwick deeds and fragments preserved, in pos
session of Thoraas Selleck Brorae, esq. (descended, not in
deed frora the Fisherwick Skeffingtons, but frora the elder house,
his great-grandfather being a son of Katherine, sister and co
heir of the last male Skeffington, of Skeffington, who was killed
in a fray 1613) is a statute-staple, Nov. 20, 1520, from lord
Berners to John Skevyngton, merchant of the staple of the
town of Calis, and also a receipt by the duke of Norfolk, Oc-
z2

340 THE ANTIQUITIES
fington, now owner thereof, came thereto : but there
he hath seated himself, 'and built a very proper brick
house. From thence this little brook passing, presently enters
into Tame, which takes its course, without touching any
notorious place, until it enters into Trent, But a little
before the entering into it, it receiveth, eastward, a
pretty river, called Meese, which, coming forth of Lei
cestershire, first passeth by Chilcote', leaving it some-
tober 14, 1523, for an annuity, granted to him by sir John Ske-
vington, knt, citizen and alderman of London,
From the above particulars, laid together, there seems no
doubt, but that sir John Skeffington, alderman and sheriff of
London, was the purchaser, and John lord Berners, or his
mother the countess, the vendor of Fisherwick, An instance
of the vanity of human things, more striking than the words,
" a very proper brick house," call to mind, is not perhaps to
be found. This " proper brick house" is well remembered, by
the writer of this note, standing about 1760, with the immense
semicircular bay-windows, exactly as in Plot's plate. In 1774,
the superb and elegant stone portico was finished, at an ex-
pence, it has been said, for the house and grounds, of two
hundred thousand pounds; and, by the end of 1816, not a
stone was left upon another, S. P-W.
The estate continued in the Skeffington family till 1756,
when viscount Massereene sold it to Samuel Swinfen, of Swin
fen, esq, who sold it to Samuel HiU, of Shenston park, esq, at
whose death it passed to his nephew, Samuel Egerton, esq, of
Tatton, CO, Chester, who resold it, in 1758, to Samuel Swin
fen, the former purchaser, who soon after conveyed it to Ar
thur Chichester, earl, afterwards marquess of Donegal, whose
second son, Spencer, sold it, in 1810, to Richard Howard, of
Elford, esq. The park has been divided into farms ; and the
estate has been divided, and sold to different purchasers,
William Skeffington, 43 Eliz, WiUiam Skeffington, 21 James I,
and John Skeffington, 13 Ch, I, were sheriffs. Arms : three
bulls' heads erased Sable, armed Or,
' The same family, perhaps, as held Whittington, Chilcote

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 341
thing removed from the south bank ; so called, as I
think, because it was one Child's land, 41 Edw, III.
one Richard Childcote was, as I take it, owner thereof,
and so continued till 11 Rich. II. ; but whose it was,
before or since, I know not,
Meese, being past Chilcote, leaveth, on the same
side, Clifton and Haunton, but nearer his bank,
Haunton is a member of Clifton', and both, the inhe
ritance of Walter Henningham, who inherits the same,
Ues in Derbyshire ; 4 Rich, II, Robert de Berkeley possessed
it. It afterwards belonged to the famUy of Milward, and was
afterwards the property of Godfrey Bagnall Clarke, esq. of
Sutton, in Scarsdale, from whom it passed, by marriage, to
Joseph Hart Price, esq. who assumed the name of Clarke, and
whose son, Godfrey Clarke, succeeded to it ; who, dying with
out issue, was succeeded by his sister Anne, who married, in
1805, Walter Butler, the seventeenth eairl, and first marquess
of Ormond.
HogshiU is the property of sir Francis Burdett, bart. Arms:
Azure, on two bars Or six martlets Gules,
' Clifton was in possession of llie Camviles, from 1200 to
1315, 4 Charles I, sir Walter Heveningham, knt. sold this
manor, and Haunton, to the lord keeper Coventry ; it was sold
by them, about 1700, to sir Charies Pye, bart. from whose
descendants, in 1774, it passed to general John Severne, of
Shrewsbury, and from him to Richard Watkins, clerk, both
descended from sisters of the above sir Charies Pye. He was
succeeded by his son, Richard Watkins, esq. who, dying with
out issue, in 1813, devised it to his widow for her life (now,
1820, the wife of Henry Stokes, esq.) and afterwards to revert
to the family of Pye. In the church is a splendid monument
in honour of sir John Vernon and his wife, both of whom died
in 1543. In an arch of the south waU is a large marble stone,
which lies two feet from the ground. Within the arch has been
some painting, inscribed, " Here lyeth the founder of this
church :" underneath. Argent, a frettd Sable, a canton Gules.
On the north is another arch, within which was : " Here lyeth
the founder's wife." Arms of Vernon : Argent, frett6 Sable, a

342 THE ANTIQUITIES
as being the son of Christopher, the son of Erasmus
Henningham and Mary his wife, daughter and heir of
Walter Moyle and Isabel his wife, daughter and only
heir, that had children, of John Stanley, son of sir ,
Humphry Stanley, knight banneret, son of sir John,
knight banneret, son of Thomas Stanley and Maud his
wife, daughter and heir of sir John Arderne and Ka
therine his wife, daughter and heir of Richard Stafford
and Maud his wife, daughter and heir of sir William
Camvile', lord thereof 9 Edw. II. and son of Geffrey
Camvile of CHfton, the son of William, who lived (or
his father William) 2do regis Johannis, whose seat it
was for many descents ; and, 20 Conq. the king held
Clifton, and Algarus Comes, before the Conquest, Be
fore, or in the beginning of Henry the Third's time,
Gilbertus Franceys was lord of Harlaston"; and after, in
Henry the Third's time, sir Richard Vernon, knt, held
it of William Ferrers, earl of Derby, and had it from
canton Gules, Arms of Camvile : Azure, three lions passant
Argent. Arms of Severne : Argent, a chevron Azure, charged
with nine bezants. Crest, a cinquefoil Or.
' Maud was coheir to Camvile, and married, first, sir Ri
chard Vernon, of Nether Haddon, Derbyshire, son of sir Wil
liam Vernon, justice of Chester, She was afterwards the wife
of sir Richard Stafford, of Pipe-Ridware, Smyth,
^ There is considerable anachronism and mistatement in the
lines here ensuing, Walter Vernon had Harlaston as early as
1157, at least ; and it appears, another Walter, his grandfather,
had also held it. This is stated in Shaw,. I. 399-404, though the
intervening pages, 400-1-2, have been admitted by that com-
pUer, being not master of the subject himself, from a different
quarter, to tell quite an irreconcUeable story. It has since
appeared, that, in Henry the Third's time, and perhaps pretty
early, Richard de Vernon preferred his brother Robert Ver
non's daughter, and his own heir presumptive, Hawyse^ in
marriage with Gilbert le Franceys, In virtue of that marriage,
Gilbert was lord of Harlaston, and died in 6° Edw, I, Erdes-

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 343
his father sir William Vernon, justice of Chester, 15
Hen. III. Sir Richard had issue Richard Vernon, of
Harlaston, who lived 30 Edw. I,' who had issue a third
Richard, who had issue William, who had issue Ri
chard, who had issue another Richard, who had issue a
third Richard, that was captain of Roan, who had issue
sir William Vernon, knight-constable of England, 38
or 39 Hen. VI, Sir William had issue sir Henry, who
had issue Richard, who had issue sir George^ who had
issue Margaret (married to sir Thomas Stanley) and
Dorothy (married to John Manners), his two heirs. Sir
Thomas Stanley and Margaret had issue Edward Stan
ley, now lord of Harlaston'.
wick's Richard, who lived 30o Edw. I. was the son of Gilbert,
and resumed the Vernon name. From him, downward, Erdes
wick's series is nearly correct. Heads of Vernon's Evidences,
ut supra. S. P-W.
' He died 16 Edw. H. Smyth.
' The monuments of the four last Vemons are in the church
of Tong, CO, Salop, T. B,
' Sir Edward Stanley, knt, died in 1632, after having, in
1603, sold Harlaston to sir Edward Brabazon, knt, of Nether
Whitacre, co. Warwick; who, in 1614, settled it on his son
William. In 1682, it was the property of W^ilUam Brabazon,
earl of Meath. In 1684, it was sold to Francis Wolferstan, of
Statfold, esq. from whom it passed, in marriage with his only
chUd Anne, to sir John Egerton, bart, of Wrine-hiU, Edward,
third son of sir John Egerton, bart, by a former wife, succeeded
to this manor by the will of his mother-in-law. He died in
1727; and it came to his brother, Ralph Egerton, who died
in 1732, It was successively in the possession of the two
youngest sons of sir John Egerton, Thomas and WiUiam. In
1770, Thomas, son of WiUiam, possessed it, from whom it
passed to sir John Egerton, bart, aftewards lord Grey de Wil
ton, who, in 1772, sold it to John Barker, who admitted Tho
mas Prinsep to a share of the purchase ; and a partition was
made,-by which John Barker retained the manor, and Thomas
Prinsep had the land. In 1815, it was soldby the executors

344 THE ANTIQUITIES
Something lower, upon the other side of the river,
stands Edinghall". 20 Conq. Rob'tus held it of Will'us,
fil. Ansculfi.
Tame, being past Edinghall, joins hands with Trent,
but loses the credit of his name.
Trent, being now the mear between Staffordshire and
Derbyshire, receiveth no beautification on Staffordshire
side, as following the wild forest of Needwood; and
therefore, npt to omit Barton-under-Needwood% in the
of his son, Thomas Prinsep, of Croxall, esq. to Thomas Levett,
of Packington, esq. whose son, Thomas Levett, clerk, 1820,
possesses it. The manor-house was moated, and the arms of
Vernon yet remain in one of the rooms, Richard Vernon,
4 Hen. V, and 6 Hen, VI, John Vernon, 19, 34, and 30
Hen, VIII, were sheriffs.
' The place mentioned in Domesday, E^;inghale, is Etings
hall, near Dudley, in which quarter lay Fitz Ansculf's lands
in general, S. P-W,
Here is a raised way, pointing towards LuUington, which
Plot supposes to have been a Roman via vicinalis. Temp,
Stephen, the manor belonged to William de Rydware, as it had
to his ancestors. Temp, John, WiUiara de Gamages held it,
and afterwards the Somerviles, Whilst in their hands, an
exemption was granted to the tenants of Edingale, from at
tendance at the manerial court at Alrewas, 18 Edw. II, signed
at Edingall 10 March, 1325. From the Somerviles it passed' to
the Pipes, and from them to the Vernons. It is now, 1820,
the property of viscount Anson. In the small parsonage here
resided Theophilus Buckeridge, clerk, until he removed to the
mastership of St. John's hospital, in Lichfield'; from whose re
searches into the early history of his native county, this edition
of Erdeswick is greatly enriched.
There is an indenture made, inter d'num de Ridware, mi
litem, ex una, et Will'mum de Freford et Joh'em fiUum ejus, ex
altera, &c. Dat, apud Edenyngale, anno xviii Ed, fil; Ed.
' Barton, in Saxon, a fold-yard. Before the Conquest, it
was the property of Algar, After the Ferrers, the Somerviles
held it, under the Crown, and Ch, I. sold it to the city of
London. It passed to sir Edward Bromfield, knt. alderman of

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 345
king's hands 20 Conq, and was, after, given to Henry
Ferrers, as a member of his barony, in demesne ; and so
he held it ; and, in Henry the Third's time, lost it with
the rest.
Like a mile before Trent comes to Burton, there
enters into it a little brook, coming out of Needwood ;
but there is nothing upon it worth noting, except a man
should account Tattenhalp for a beauty, whereof I
never heard any man make any great account, except
(Thomas Jesson) a poor priest, that was parson of Pack
ington, in Leicestershire, and was born here : who com
mending, in a sort, his birth-place, left these verses upon
his monument, in Packington church :
Me Tatenhall genuit, ast Ashby Davia nutrix ;
Packington tumulus, sic mea fata ferunt.
London, whose son John held it in 1660. In 1694 it passed,
by marriage, to WiUiam Busby, aud from them to Eusebius
Horton, esq. tlie present ( 1820) owner. The church was buUt by
John Taylor, a native, 20 Hen. VIII. BlakenhaU passed from
the Minors, its ancient possessors, through the famiUes of Chip
pendale, Bromfield, Webb, and Whitaker, to Thomas Levett,
of Packington, esq. whose son, Theophilus Levett, esq. 1820,
possesses it. Thomas Webb, 17 Geo. II, was sheriff. Newbold
was the manor of Robert de Ferrers, earl of Derby, who gave the
tithesto the abbey of Nostel, in Yorkshire. It afterwards passed
to the Somerviles ; and is now, 1820, in the family of Webb,
' The Ferrers were the ancient lords of the manor. Temp,
Edw, III, John of Gaunt granted it to sir Philip de Somervile, for
certain services: it then passed with the estates at Wichnor ;
till sir Francis Boynton, bart, sold it, together with Alrewas,
to John Turton, esq. in 1660 ; and from him the manor de
scended to John Turton, of Sugnall; esq. Bridesdale passed
in the sarae way. Callingwood, called in ancient deeds Ca-
lumpniatura, a wood claimed, passed from Ferrers to the
family of Collingwood, one of whora was dean of Lichfield in
1510. It afterwards passed through the families of Fitzherbert,
of Norbury, and that of Rugely, to the Biddulphs, who, in

346 THE ANTIQUITIES
or Bfaunston', fambus for grindijig stones, which, 20
Conq. was holden of the king, by the abbot of Burton,
who held it until the dissolution of the house.
In Burton are divers things worthy the noting. As,
first, a goodly abbey was there founded by one Wol-
fricus Spott", and Elswitha, his wife, Saxons, long
1796, sold it to John Hayne, of Burton. Dunstal was given,
with Newbold, by WUUam de Ferrers to Walter de SomervUe,
in exchange for Barton, temp. Hen. II. and passed, with Taten
hiU, to the Turtons.
' Before the Conquest, it was the property of Godiva, wife
of Leofric, earl of Mercia, who left it to Algar, her son, whose
heir, Edwin, forfeited it by his opposition to the Conqueror.
The grind-stones mentioned by our Author were brought hither
from Derbyshire to be sold. The nature of the soil would not
have produced them,
' Ulfricus Spot, comes de Mercia, fundator abbathiae de
Burton. Thomas, nuper dominus, Paget (de crimine laesae
majestatis attinctus) desolator ejusdem abb. Wyrley. It was
founded about 1002, with lands of great value and extent.
Numerous charters were granted to this abbey by different
monarchs, and confirmed by papal and episcopal authority. It
was endowed by the founder with lands in Burton, Branteston,
Sobenhall, Tatenhille, Horninglowe, Straton, Withmere, An-
sedelega, WineshuU, Bersicote, Tickenhale, StapenhuUe, Ap-
pelby, Aldulfestre, CaldeweU, Wulfricheston, PUatehaU, Wi-
lestone, Derlaveston, Bromley, Felde, Leigh, Ylura, Acovre,
Cathesturne, Blore, Grendon ; the tithes of Calfdon, Sfcone,
Linton, Trueleigh, Mosedene, Waterfale, Haselbache, New
ton, Haunton, StapenhuU, Drachelowe, Hefcote, New HaU,
and Stanton. The Conqueror gave Oifra, Little Offra, Wilen-
ton, St. Mary of Derby, and Henovre. The abbot having sorae
rough hUly ground, about a mile from the abbey, called it
Sinai, and it is now so called. The annals of Burton, from
1004 to 1263, were printed among Gale's Scriptores Angliae,
Ox. 1684, p. 246.
After the Dissolution, in 1540, it was constituted a collegiate'
church, which continued only four years ; but in October, 37
Hen, VIII, the dean and chapter, ex quibusdam causis justis et

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 347
before the Conquest ; and was of that credit, that the
abbots, having great lands, rising to the estimation of
a barony, were called to the parliament-house,
20 Conq. belonging to the said house, in Stafford
shire, were these towns following ; viz, one hide and a
half of land and demesnes in Stafford, Brauntestone,
rationalibus eos, et conscientias suas moventes et instigantes,
voluntarife et spontfe, surrendered the church and all the lands
to the king, who in the January following granted the manors
of Burton, Branston, Bromley, Stretton, Horninglow, Wight-
more, and Anslow, co. Stafford ; and the manors of WinshaU,
StapenhuU, Caldwell, Overa Magna, Overa Parva, and Findern,
CO. Derby, to sir William Paget, who was created baron of
Beaudesert in 1550, in whose posterity the greatest part has
since continued, though not without some interruption from the
attainder of Thomas, lord Paget, his younger son ; but the
estate was re-granted to his son and heir, and charged with a
rent of ^.700 per annum. It is now the property of his de
scendant Paget, first (1820) marquess of Anglesey.
The ancient beautiful church was taken down,, and the pre
sent was erected in 1720. The monument mentioned by our
Author, much defaced, was lately preserved in the belfry. In
1255, the town was burnt nearly to the ground. Thomas, earl
of Lancaster, was defeated here in a rebellion against Ed
ward II. Mary, queen of Scots, was here in her way from
Chartley to Fotheringhay. During the civil war it was often
taken and retaken by both parties. The bridge of 36 arches,
extending 515 feet, was standing in the time of abbot Bernard,
between 1 159 and 1 175. Robert de Bersingcote gave an acre
of land adjoining the Trent, towards the building of it. At one
end stood a chapel, supposed to have been erected by Edw, II,
in memory of his victory over the earl of Lancaster. The lord
of the manor enjoys the privileges which the abbots formerly
possessed. He has a court of record, whose pleas can be
maintained to any amount ; and here is a court of requests for
the recovery of small debts.
Burton anciently sent members to Pariiament, Oldfield,
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348 THE ANTIQUITIES
Witemere, Stratbne, Brunleye, Derlavestbne, Witte-
stone, Mannbn, and Beddinton.
In that part of the church, which, 1 think, then be-
longect to the parish, (for it is now used as a parish-
church, but joins unto the decayed; abbey church, which
seems to have been a very goodly one, for the ruins be
very large,) there lies a monument, which, whether it
were ever in the same place it now lieth, or removed but
bf the part that is decayed, I stand in doubt, for it lieth
close to the new wall that now divides the church from
the ruins, and is so broken and defaced, that one would
think it had been removed : which monument the com
mon fame, of the unskilful, reports to have been the
tomb of the first founder, Wolfricus Spott ; and that
cannot, in any wise be so ; for, being of alabaster, it is
fashioned both for armour, shield, and all other things,
something like to our new monuments ; so that it cannot
be ancienter than Edward the Third's time. But a man
would rather think, by the shield (for it is square at
both ends, and flourished with gold both above and ,
beneath, as the Londoners set out their shields in their
pageants), it were of Edward the Fourth or Henry the
Seventh's time ; and yet I can by no means learn whose
it should be, and writing there is none. The shield is
of gold, and a blue cross engrailed, charged with five
mullets silver thereon. If it be indeed the founder's
shield (as it may be, for I have seen the coat, well and
old, in other places, both of the church and town), then
did some of the abbots of late time make this monument
new, in respect of some old one that was decayed, as, it
might be, they did : for that, you know, the monks were
very careful to set out gay things for their founders ; to
the end it might be thought, they were not unmind
ful of good men, which were their benefactors. But
surely, I rather conjecture, it was made for some bene-

OF STAFTORDSHTRE. 349
factor bf theirs, that had Lived in later times than Wol
fricus Spott did.
There is a goodly bridge, well wrought of very good
stone, with thirty^seven arches over Trent ; for Trent,
beginning before it comes there to be a reasonable big
river, some be of opinion also that the first founder built
the same bridge : which cannot be, for the bridge
seemeth much newer than it would do, if itshotild be of
so great continuance ; and, besides, there are evidences
yet extant to be seen, that were made by one William
de la Warde, wherein is expressed, that the same Wil-
liatn, in the time of Bernard, abbot of Burton, dedit ter^
ram Pbnti de Burton, reddendo sex denar. annuatim
sibi et haeredibus suis in perpetuum. I take it this Wil
liam de la Warde, was father of Robert de la Warde,
that lived in Henry the Third's time, who had much
land in the country, as New-Hall, Stanton, and much
other ; and to induce me so to think, the arms of the
said Robert, and the rest of the De la Wardes (being
varry Argent and Sable) stand very old, in Burton
church'. Also, Robert de Bersincote gave one acre of
land, in prato de Burscote, juxta Trent, pro fabricS.
pontis de Burton. So that, it is clear, that the bridge
was made of much later time than the abbey was
founded'.

' Robert de la Warde had leave given him by WiUiam Beau
champ eari of Warwick, to hunt in his (de la Warde's) woods
at Hints, Edw, I. Dugdale's WarW, T, B. Vid, Gent, Maga
zine, Sept. 1751,
" Vid. in libro 1""° of the bishop's registers, a commission
from Roger, to empower certain persons to receive alms
throughout the diocese of Lichfield, for repairing of the bridge,
and the chapel thereon, anno 1322, T. B.

350 THE ANTIQUITIES
In Burton is alsb a hbuse bf the Blounts, which has
been there for a good continuance'.
Trent, holding on its course norlh-east, at the parting
receiveth Dove, a very fair river, having one of the best
banks of any river in England. It is the Mear between
Staffordshire and Derbyshire, from its first spring until
it comes into Trent.
Dove then takes its beginning at the Three Shires'
Mear ; where the very spring stands between Cheshire,
Staffordshire, and Derbyshire : and so holds on, its course
through a mountainous, wild country ; and hath jueither
gentleman's house, nor good town. For, .until it be
passed -the mountain-country, the bank is not of the
estimation I have before spoken of;" being very narrowly
pent in with mountains ; so that, the name of the bank,
for a good space, is called" Narrow-Dale ; in the end
' This house was, by its last owner of that name, sold to sir
George Gresley, bart, who did not long retain it. It passed to
Daniel Watson, a barrister of Gray's Inn, and captain for the
parliament in the civil war. John Blount, 18 Hen. VIII. Sir
George Blount, 6 Edw. VI. and 14 Eliz. were sheriffs. Arms :
NebuM, Or and Sable, a border gobonated Argent and Gules.
Sir Edward Rawleigh, 4 Hen. VIII. died seized of lands and
tenements in Burton, called Wightmore, which he held of the
abbot ; which he left to George Rawleigh, son of Edward, son
of the same sir Edward's grandson. Degge.
George Rawleigh, esq. was son and heir of sir Edward, of
Farnborough, co. Warwick ; but George did not die till 37 Hen.
VIII, and left John his heir, so that the above account is not
right, Smyth,
' Plot says the mountains are so high, that in rainy weather.
he has seen their tops above the clouds, and they are so narrow
that the inhabitants, in that time of the year, when the sun is
nearest the tropic of Capricorn, never see it ; and when it; does
begin to appear, they do not see it till about one o'clock, which
they call Narrow-dale-noon, using it as a proverb when any
thing is delayed.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 351
whereof, a gentleman hath his seat, the place, and the
man, having both the name of Beresford', Edward
Beresford hath now his seat there. This Edward was
the son of Sampson, the son of Robert, the son of John,
the son of John, which first John, lived in Henry the
Sixth's time.
Dove, being past Beresford, leaveth Alstonfield,
whereof ' Beresford is a member, like a mile westward.
' From whence sprung the Beresfords, lord Tyrone, and
marquess of Waterford. John de Beresford was seized of this
manor in 1087, and Aden Beresford had it, 17 Edw. II. In
1411, John Beresford of this place, gave to Aden his son all his
land in Alstonfield. Temp. Ch. I. it belonged to sir George
Cotton, knight, whose son Charles is mentioned by lord Cla
rendon as a most elegant and accompUshed gentleman. He
was the father of Charles Cotton the poet, who was born here
April 28, 1630. He married, in 1656, Isabella, daughter of sir
Thomas Hutchinson, knt. In 1658, at his father's death, he
succeeded to this estate. His second wife was the countess
dowager of Ardglas. He was the friend of the ingenious and
excellent Isaac Walton, whom he called bis " father." The
situation of his house, which he says, " was upon the margin of
one of the finest rivers for trout and grayling in England," was
well placed for the exercise of their favourite diversion of ang
ling. Near it he built a small fishing-house, dedicated to ang
lers. Over the door of this little edifice, the initials of his own
name, and of Isaac Walton's, were placed in a cipher. This
buUding was erected in 1674, and is almost decayed. He died
about 1687. His son, Beresford Cotton, succeeded him, one
of whose daughters married George Stanhope, dean of Canter
bury. Arms of Beresford: Argent, three bears rampant Sable,
muzzled Or. Arms of Cotton: Azure, a chevron between
three ropes tied up Argent.
» Bechesword et Rob'tus de OUye de eo. Domesday.
Among the lands of comes Rogerus, there is Enestanfield et
WUl'us de eo. Domesday. Near this place, in Plot's time,
were the remains of a fortress, called Bonebury, including
about an hundred acres. He supposes that it was made by

352 THE ANTIQUITIES
20 Conq. WiU'us de Malbanc held the same' de comite
Rogero Montegomerici ; which William had issue
Hugh, who had issue William, who had issue three
daughters ; of whom see more when I speak of Nampt'
Ceolrid, king of Mercia, the successor of Kenrid, when he was
invaded, in the seventh' year of his reign, by Ina, king of the
West Saxons, in 716, cujus anno septimo Ina rex West-Saxise,
magno exercitu congregate contra eum apud Bonebury strenufe
prseUvat, says the abbot of Jourvall. (Brompton Chronicon,
apud regn. Merc.) Nothing of this extensive fortress now re
mains, nor is the name of Bonebury remembered. From
the family of Malbanc it passed by marriage to Henry de Al-
dithley, 11 Hen. III. It is now, 1819, the property of sir
Henry Grew, bart. the descendant of Harpur.
It was here that Cotton with his friend Isaac Walton, took
so much delight in angling ; and here wrote the following lines:
O my beloved Nymph ! fair Dove,
Princess of rivers ! How I love
Upon thy flowery banks to lie.
And view thy silver stream,
When gilded by a summer's beam,
And in all that wanton fry,
Playing at libeVty,
And with my angle upon them,
The all of treachery,
I never learned to practise, and to try.
' It does not appear on what authority Erdeswick here, and
afterwards in Warslow, adds the surname " de Malbanc."
Shaw's printed Domesday has none such ; but higher up, in
the same column with " iEnestanfeldis," are four towns together
held by a Witts ; which name Witts, where it first occurs (as
noticed in note, at Cubleston, ) is printed the surnarae Pantul ;
and it seems reasonable to suppose, that it vras one and the
same Witts, who held these four places, and also " iEnestan-
felde," with its member " Wereslei," and " Celtetone," which
both appear before the ending of the same column ; as does
also " Bechesword," (Basford) "quae pertinet ad ipsum M."
(manerium) i. e. Celtetone, at head of the next. S. P-W.

bj! STAFFORDSHIRE. 353
Wyche in Cheshire, by reason of the three daughters,
who also, in process of time, had issue daughters.
Alstonfield (no man affecting to seat himself in that
cold, wild country) was divided into many parts. For,
although 9 Edw, II, Hugo le Despenser, and Nicholas
Audley, are said to be only lords thereof, yet were there
divers other lords, which (their purparty being but small)
were omitted to be spoken of in the record ; the most
whereof are now come, by purchase, to Harpur, of
Swarkstone in Derbyshire,
Alstonfield is a large seigniory, hath many hamlets,
and also hath been in old time forest land, and hath
many privileges belonging unto it.
Dove having past by the side of Alstonfield, for three
or four miles, without any matter worth the noting, at
last receiveth on the west side, a pretty brook, for its
many turnings (by reason of the mountains, and the un-
evenness of the ground) called Manifold ', which taketh
its beginning within a mile of the head of Dove, and,
fellow-like, keepeth its course with it, not being above
two miles from it until they meet.
Somewhat more unto the head thereof, is Longnore",
' The vale of Manifold is between Wetton and Butterton,
where the waters of the Manifold are absorbed by the fissures
under the Limestone hiUs, and are discharged again at Ham,
Here is Thyrsis' cavern, which has been derived from Thor's
House Cavern, from Thor the god of thunder, a large excava
tion on the side of a lofty, precipice. Plot mentions several
harrows in this neighbourhood, and conjectures that it was the
scene of some Roman conflict.
Thomas Hall died seized of the chapel of Sheen, near War-
slow, and other lands, 29 June 15 James I. and left them to
Charles his son, then fourteen years of age. Degge.
' Longnor is a small market town, with a modern church.
Flash is in the northern extremity of the county. In the same
2 A

354 THE ANTIQUITIES
a village now something spoken of, but, I think, being
in sb wild a country, lay waste at the Conquest, and
long after was not inhabited ; for I cannot once find
it named in any record, no, not in the Nomina Vil-
larum, which was taken in Edward the Second's time.
I find another Longnore (being but a member of Water
Eaton, and in another hundred), spoken of in divers re
cords, whether a man may judge it to be a member of
Warslaw, being four br five miles Ibwer on the same
river, I dbubt.
Warslaw, I think, is in Alstbnfield parish (thbugh it
be four br five miles from it) ; but it is a distinct manor
of itself. 20 Conq. William Malbanc held it (as he did
Alstonfield, de comite Rogero de Montegomerici).
A mile lower, and half a mile westward from Mani
fold, stands ' Butterton, 20 Conq. Robert Stadford's

neighbourhood is Meerbrook. Upper Elkstone is a village
near Warslow. Onecote is a hamlet in the parish of Leek.
These villages are situated in a wild and romantic country.
' Near Butterton the rivulets Hamps and Manifold make
their subterraneous course :
Where Hamps, and Manifold, their cliffs among.
Each in his flinty channel winds along ;
With lucid lines the dusky moor divides.
Hurrying to intermix their sister tides.
* * * * ji
Three thousand steps in sparry clefts they stray.
Or seek, through sullen mines, their gloomy way ;
On beds of lava, sleep in coral cells.
Or sigh o'er jasper fish, and agate shells ;
Till where fam'd Ham leads his boiling floods.
Through flowery meadows, and impending woods.
In playful groups by towering Thorp they move.
Bound o'er the foaming wears, and rush into the Dove.
Darwin.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 355
land' ; and being p^st Butterton, runs to Wetton% stand
ing on the east side of the river's bank.
A little lower on the west side (like a mile off) is Gren
don, which Rob, de Stadford held 20 Conq, 1 Hen,III,
William Audley held it and Blore of the baron of Staf
ford; and 9 Edw, III. Johanna le Strange was lady
thereof, of which you shall see more when I speak of
Blore'.

' Shaw's Domesday, terra Roberti de Statford, does not
shew what name Erdeswick could have in his eye in this men
tion of Butterton, as part of that terra. S, P-W.
= Here it is supposed the Druids performed their rites.
Richard Floyer had Wetton, 7 Eliz. ; and the eari of Devon
shire in 1660,
John Crime, 2, 3 Phil, and Mary, died seized of the manors
of Wetton, and Butterton, Casterne-Milne, and the tithes of
corn in Butterton, and of corn, hay, wool, and lamb, in Cas
terne, and in Mathfield ; and left them to Henry his son, 23
years old. Degge.
' Which he does somewhat contradictorily. S, P-W,
At Grendon, Hamps and Manifold begin to join their
streams, after they have emerged from their subterraneous
course. Near it is Stanshope, once the inheritance of the
Bradburnes of Bradburne, co, Derby, Bradnop was given by
lord Audley to the abbey of Hilton, After the dissolution it
was given in exchange to sir Edward Aston, , for lands at Es-
tede, Michel, &c. In 1684, it was possessed by lord Aston.
There are deeds. Ego Thom' Meverell d'no Throughley,
dedi Will'mo filio Henrico de le Fulthorp, unu' messuagiu' et
unam bovata' terrae in villa et territorio de Grendon. Dat.
apud Fredeswall, anno xvij Ed. III.
Ego Rogerus de Fulthorp, miles, posui Johannem de Lyle ad
liberandam seisinam, nomine meo Hugoni de Redehugh et
Agneti uxori ejus de manerio de West Grindon, &c. Dat. an,
d'ni 1377.
Carta Agnetis quondam uxoris Hugonis del Redhough, mili- '
tis, &c, Dat, apud West Grendon, anno 4 Ric. II. She was
afterwards the wife of Thomas Beeke, knt.
2a2

356 THE antiquities
Manifold being somewhat past Grendon, receiveth
into it Hams, eastwardly, commonly called AVaterfall;
for that after it hath continued running from the spring,
some seven or eight miles, it falls into the ground, and
riseth not again, until it come into Manifold. There is
not upon this brook any town worth the speaking of,
except a town called Waterfall ; which is also of so
small estimation, that I never find it named (except it be
known by some other name) in any records.
Within less than half a mile of the place southward,
where Manifold receiveth Hams out of the ground, is
Throwly, a fair ancient house, and goodly demesne,
being the seat of the Meverells, a very antient house of
gentlemen, and of goodly living, equalling the best sort
of gentlemen in the shire ; though God hath not, for
two or three generations, blessed their heirs with the
best gifts of nature. Whether it be a member of Caul
dron or of Blore, or of Grendon, I know not. But I
cannot find the name of Throwley in any record ; only
I find that Oliver de Meverell held it, 5° regis Johannis;
who I suppose had issue William, and William had,
issue Thomas, who, 2 Edw, I^ had married Agnes, eldest
daughter of five, and one of the heirs of Gislebert de
Gayton. Manifold having left Throwley, runneth down to
Ham ' by Casterne, sometime Ipstone's lands ; from
Robert de Grendon was in the wars of king Edw. I.
Ego WiU'mus fiUus Will'mi fiUus Henrici de Grendon, dedi
WiU'rao fiUo Henrici de Grendon patri meo, omnes terras in
Grendon, &c. Dat. apud Grendon, anno 31 Edw. III.
O'ibus, &a. Henricus de Brailesford, mUes, et Johanna, uxor
ejus, sal'tem, &jc. Dat. apud Grendon, anno 39 Edw, III,
Arms of Grendon : Argent, two chevrons Gules,
¦ Ham is remarkable for the tomb and well of St, Bertram,
the scholar of St, Guthlac, who here led an eremetical life. The

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 357
whom it descended to the Walkers, in which name it
continued for a good space, until this our age, that one
of them sold it to Lawrence Wright ; and having past
Ham enters into the Dove.
At the meeting of which two, but a little southward
from them, is Blore', a goodly antient house and park.

rivers Hamps and Manifold, after having flowed underground
for six miles, here break out at one mouth, near the church.
In a grotto here, which then belonged to the Ports, Congreave is
said to have written some scenes of the " Old Bachelor." This
estate is now the property of Jesse Watts Russel, esq. sheriff
59 Geo, III,
The Ports owned Ham, 4 PhU, and Mary, John Port died
15 April, 25 Eliz. and was succeeded by his son and heir John,
who left Robert his son and heir, who had issue John, a cap
tain in the civil war, who married a daughter of Robert Hurt,
of Casterne, by whom he had issue John, who married the
eldest daughter of WUliam Fitzherbert, of Tissington, esq.
Sir John Port was son and heir of  Port, of Chester, in
1486, judge of the Common Pleas 19 Hen, VIII, died 5 PhU.
and Mary. Arms: Azure, a fesse engrailed between three
doves Or, each carrying in its beak a cross forme fitche Or.
Degge, Casterne is in Ipstone's' parish, Richard Hall, 21 Hen, VII.
had land here, and had issue John, his son and heir, who held
the same of Humphry Okeover, in soccage. It was sold by
them to Lawrence Wright, who sold it to Nicholas Hurt, a
lead-merchant, whose son and heir Roger Hurt succeeded to
it, and both were living in 1660. Degge.
' Blore, et Edricus de eo. Domesday.
Hugh earl of Chester lived in the time of the Conqueror,
aut reg. sequ, T, B,
Peter Clericus must be of Thornton in Cheshire, son of Ra
nulf clericus comit. Cestrias, or Agnes was sister to Peter,
Smyth. Of the antient mansion of these barons, scarcely a vestige
remains. It was standing in 1662. The founder of this antient
family was Thurstan, a Norman baron. William Basset, who

358 THE ANTIQUITIES
now the seat of the Bassets of Staffordshire. 20 Conq.
Edricus held it of Robert de Stafford ; and 33 Hen. III.
Will'us de Blore, who had married Agnes, daughter of
Peter Thornton, cleric. Hugonis comitis Cestrie, was
lord of it. William Blore, by the said Agnes, had issue
dementia, married to William, a younger son of Henry
de Audley, and Eleanora his wife. William de Audley,

was living in 1590, married Judith, daughter of Thomas Osten,
of Oxley, in this county (widow ofWilliam Boothby, ancestor
of the Boothbys, of Broadlow Ash, and after the death of her
second husband, re-married to sir Richard Corbett) by whom
he had Elizabeth, his sole daughter and heir ; first married to
Henry Howard, third son of the earl of Suffolk, and secondly,
to sir William Cavendish, K. B. afterwards duke of Newcastle,
to whom she carried this estate, and of whose children she was
the mother. In the church, the splendid memorials of this
powerful family are falling rapidly to decay. A few broken
fragments of painted arms and inscriptions yet remain in the
windows, John Basset, 1 Hen, V. ; Ralph Basset, 16 Hen. VI. ;
Thomas Basset, 6 Edw. IV, ; sir William Basset, knt. ; 13, 21
Edw. IV. ; sir WiUiam Basset, knt. 34 Hen. VIII. ; and 5 Edw.
VI. ; and William Basset, 29 Eliz, were sheriffs of the county.
Arms : Or, three piles Gules, a canton Argent, charged with
a griffin Sable.
Sealed with these arms is a deed. Ego Radulphus Basset de
Nuplace, dedi Ricardo Beke, capellano, omnes terras quas
habeo in villis et campis de Nuplace, Parkhall, CheduU, &c."
Dat, apud Nuplace, anno ix H. IV.
Another deed sealed with the same arms, bearing a boar's
head couped and armed Gules, gorged with a chain Argent,
Ego Edmundus Basset dedi Johanni Meverell, &c, maneria
mea de Blore super le Moores ; et Grendon super le Moores,
&c, Dat, apud Blore, anno x Hen, IV,
Ego Humfridus Hastang, rector ecclesiae de Bradeley, dedi
Johannae quae fuit uxor Joh'is de Hastang, tertiam partem
duarum partium maneriorum de Blore et Grendon, &c, Dat,
apud Blore, an, Dom, 1332, 6 Edw, III.
Stanton, near Blore, was the birth place of Gilbert Sheldon,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 359
and dementia, (who had Blore and Grendon in
partition) had issue John, dominus de Blore; who
had William dominus de Blore ; who had issue
Alane, lord of Blore and Grendon, in the latter end of
Edward the Second's time, whose daughter, or sister,
and heir, married, as I suppose, to John, the son of
John Basset, or else to sir Henry Brailsford, knt." and
his daughter and heir Joan, was married to sir John
Basset, knt. ; which sir John Basset was son to the
aforesaid John, son of John ; and the first of these three
Johns, was the second son of Raufe Basset, of Cheadle*,
who was the son of Raufe, second son ofWilliam Basset,
justice in itinere, 22 Hen. II. : which William was
youngest son of Richard, youngest son of Raufe, justi
ciarius Angliae ' ; son of Thurstan, 20 Conq. Sir John
Basset, before spoken of, had issue Raufe Basset, of
New Place, and Cheadle ; who had isSue another Raufe,
who had issue William, who had issue another William,
who had issue a third William, who had issue sir Wil-
archbishop of Canterbury. In the room in which he drew his
first breath, bishop Hacket, who took a journey hither on pur
pose to visit it, left these iambics :
Sheldonus Ule Prsesulum primus pater
Hos inter ortus aspicit lucem Lares ;
O ter beatam Stantonis villae casam,
Cui cuncta possunt invidere marmora.
He was the youngest son of Roger Sheldon, and born July
19, 1598. Wood's Ath. IL 1162.
• She married to sir Henry de BraUsford of Brailsford, co.
Derby ; who left Joan, wife to sir John Basset, of Cheadle,
being his second wife, by whom he had Thomas BraUsford, of
Brailsford, esq. who left Joan, his daughter and heir, wife to
sir Ralph Shiriey, of Sbirley, co. Derby. Smyth.
« Of Sapcote, Smyth.
There is no genealogy of Basset in Wyrley, T. B.
' He was justice of England, in the reign of Stephen, and in
anno quarto Hen. Primi, Plott 449.

360. THE ANTIQUITIES
liam Basset, knt. who had issue William, father of Wil
liam Basset, now living, and lord of Blore and Grendon.
Dove, beginning at Blore to enlarge his banks, pas
seth on to Okeover', where is another fair old bouse,
and a park, and goodly demesnes, of which a gentleman
of the name of Okeover, hath the present. possession; as
descending to him from his ancestors, of the same sur-.
name, whicji have continued there ever since the Con-,
quest.. At the Conquest, one Ormus was lord thereof,, who,
had issue Raufe, of Okeover, who had issue Adam, who,
had issue sir Hugh% who had issue sir Robert, who bad-
issue sir John Okeover, who had issue sir Roger, who
had issue sir Thomas^ who had issue sir Philip, all
knights. Sir Philip had issue Thomas, who had issue
Thomas, who had issue Philip, who had issue Raufe,
who had issue Humphry, who had issue Philip,, that
died in the life-time of his father, and had issue Raufe,
' Acovere was granted to Ormus, by Nigel abbot of BUrton,
paying to the convent 20 " orae" yearly. The same abbot
granted him six bovates in Stratton, in fee and inheritance
for 6s, yearly. Ormus had issue Ralph, who had issue
Hugh, who had issue Robert de Acovre. Robert had a
son William, who sold all his lands in Stretton to John de
Stafford, abbot of Burton, for 26 marks, about 1276. Reg,
Burton, fo, XVII. XXVIII— IX. and p. aft. fo. XLV. Abbot
Robert grants to Ralph, son of Ormus, in fee-farm, Acovre, for
the same service by which his father held, viz. two marks yearly,
et venire debet ad placita abbatis, et si abbas ad consilium, vel
ad curiam regis ire debuerit ; tunc idem Rad. eidem abbati de
equis suis juvamen praestare debet. Si vero heres Jordani filii
Fucherii eandem Acoveram gra. abbatis vel alio modo recu-
peraverit, salvo ejusdem Rad. homonagio, sine mutuo vel
excangio eidem heredi reddere abbas potest. Testes sunt,
Jordanus prior, &c. Ibid, fo, XX, b, S, P-W.
' 40 and 42 Hen. HI. Smyth,
' 12 Hen, VI.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 3Bl
Philip, and Rowland. Raufe died, leaving five daugh
ters, and, having never a son, left his lands to his bro
ther Philip, who also having no children, but one
daughter, hath married her to Raufe, eldest son of his
brother Rowland, for his heir".
Dove having washed the banks of Okeover, passeth
on to Matherfield, vulgariter Mayfield". At the Con
quest it was in the king's hands; but after, given by
the Conqueror to Henry de Ferrers, and was by him, or
his heirs, afterwards given to the priory of Tutbury (as
they say) in liberam elemosinam, in whose possession it
continued until the dissolution of the house : when,
after it came into the king's possession, he gave the
same, also the site of the abbey of Hilton, Bradnope,
and divers other lands, to old sir Edward Aston, in ex
change for his lands at Estede, Michel, Herlaveston,
and Landsthorpe, which, they say, sir Edward had by
descent from his ancestors, and which Radulphus fil.
Will'i camerarii, immediately after the Conquest, gave

' This pedigree of Okeover agrees with Wyrley. T. B,
Okeover is remarkable for the barrows of Hallsteds, and
Arbour Close ; which are supposed to have been of Roman
construction. The old mansion has been taken down, and ano
ther erected on its site. Among the valuEtble paintings in this
elegant residence is " the Holy Family," by Raphael, It is
now, 1820,, the property of Haughton Farmer Okeover, esq, who
is also lord of Swincoe and Woodhouse, From Rowland Okeover,
it descended to his son Humphrey, who had issue Richard, who
was knighted, and living in 1665. Ralph Okeover, 6 and 27
Eliz, ; Ralph Okeover, 10 Ch, II. ; Edward W, Okeover, 20
Geo. Ill, ; and Haughton Farmer Okeover, 41 Geo, III, were
sheriffs. Arms : Ermine, on a chief Gules three besants,
" In this neighbourhood are many barrows, perhaps, of Ro
man construction. Hen. VIII. by letters patent, 22 Nov, 32 of
his reign, granted to Francis, earl of Shrewsbury, lands in
Rocester, Blore, Mayfield, Swinscoe, &c. Degge,

362 THE ANTIQUITIES
to William de Mara, whose heir the said sir Edward
was. From Mayfield, Dove passeth to Calwich', whereof I
can only make this report, that being, or belonging to a
cell", or house of religion, now a Lancashire gentleman
is owner, thereof' ; who, as I have heard, hath made a
parlour of the chancel, a hall of the church, and a
kitchen of the steeple, which may be true, for I have
known a gentleman in Cheshire, who hath done the
like. Dove being past Calwich, visits Ellaston. 20 Conq.
Wodeman and Alfi held Elacheston of Rob'tus de Stad
ford. Also, I find, about the latter end of king John's
time, Will'us de Audeley, cum particibus suis, held, of
' Calwich is in Ellaston parish, and had a convent of Black
canons, which was founded, before 1148, by Nicholas de Gre-
selei Fitz-Nigel. 27 Hen. VIII, it was given to the monastery
of Merton, in Surrey, in exchange for the manor of East Moul-
sey ; and, as parcel of the same, was again granted, 34 Hen.
VIII, to John Fleetwood.
^ Kenelworth, in Warwickshire. Smyth.
' Fleetwood ; and in 1660, was the property of sir Richard
Fleetwood. John Fleetwood, esq. 2 Edw, VI, and 10 Eliz, ;
sir Richard Fleetwood, bart, 12 James I, ; were sheriffs. Sir
Thoraas Fleetwood, bart. descended from sir Richard Fleet
wood, had also lands at Prestwood, in this parish. It passed
to the families of Granville and Dewes, The family of Dewes
have taken the name of Granville, and are, 1820, the present
possessors. Arms of Fleetwood : party per pale, nebula Or
and Azure, six martlets counterchanged.
Wotton is at the south declivity of Wever Hill, From its
local situation, it is supposed, arises the proverb, although it is
much exposed to the sun :
Wotton under Weever,
Where God came never.
Here are estates belonging to the families of Unwin, and Da
venport. The seat of the latter is remarkable for having afforded
an asylum to J. J, Rosseau,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 363
Robert de Stafford, Blore, Grendon, and Athelaston ;
and, in Henry the Third's time, Nigellus ^e Longford'
and Theobald de Verdon held it of the baron of Staf
ford ; and, 9 Edw, II, Nicholas de Longford and Theo
bald de Verdon, were lords of Athelaston '.
Dove, having left Ellaston, approacheth.Rowcester'.
20 Conq, Hervey held Rowcester of Robert de Stadford,
and some of the Staffords, of Sandon, either founded, as
I take it, there the priory, or were thereunto great bene
factors ; for, in that part of the church, which yet
' Of Longford, in Derbyshire, where was their seat, Smyth,
" From Theobald de Verdon it passed, by marriage with
Joan, his eldest daughter, to Thomas lord Furnival and his
heirs, 3 Quite otherwise, — " Rex tenet Rowcestre," says Domesday,
as printed in Shaw, S, P-W.
This abbey for Black Canons was founded and endowed by
Richard Bacoun, about 1146, who was nephew to Ranulf, earl
ot Chester. The site of this house was granted, 31 Hen.VHI.
to Robert Trentham, esq. and no vestiges of it remain. The
monuments of some of the Staffords yet remain in the church.
Francis Trentham, the third of the family, having five sons,
settled his land on the issue male successively. His son, sir
Thomas, enjoyed it, who had issue Francis, his only son, who
raarried a daughter of sir William Bowyer, by whom he had
only one daughter. He was succeeded by his uncle sir Chris
topher, whose brother William succeeded him, and both dying
without issue, the estate went back to the daughter of Francis
Trentham, who married Brien Cockeyne, son and heir of
Charles Cockeyne, viscount CuUein, who enjoyed it in 1660,
and who afterwards pulled down the house, and sold the estate.
With her he had also Castle Hedingham in Essex, and had by
her Charles, third viscount CuUein, Trentham, George, Eli
zabeth, and Mary. The priory lands were lately the property of
Thomas Bainbrigge, esq. whose seat here is called Woodseat,
a famUy descended from the Bainbrigges of Lockington. He
had also Combridge, Denstone, Calton, Waterfall, and Quixall.
Nicholas Kniveton, 15 Hen. VH. held Quixall, and was sue-

364 THE ANTIQUITIES
Standeth for the parish-church, there are monuments yet
remaining of them, and very few of any others. The
seat of the house, with the demesnes, (being both plea
sant and very profitable, for that it stands between
Dove and Churnett, a good pretty river, where it en
ters into Dove) is "now the seat of Francis, the son of
Thomas Trentham ; which Thomas, his father, being in
kin'g Henry the Eighth's time, a great favourite, ob
tained it of the king.
The Trentham's derive themselves from a house of the
Trenthams, in Shropshire, which, in Henry the Sixth's
time, were of good account, but now quite decayed or
gone; for I know none of the house remaining, this of
Rowcester excepted, which it pleaseth God to advance
in good sort.
Churnett, at Rowcester, entering into Dove upon the
west side, hath its first spring within less than two miles
of Dove head, though it wanders something further
off than Manifold did, and therefore longer ere it shakes
hands with it,
Churnett, passing from the head, through one of the
barrenest countries I know, hath not any place worth
the naming, till it come to Dieu le Cresse', an abbey
founded by the last Ranulfe, earl of Chester,
ceeded by John, his son and heir, whose seat was at Murcas-
ton, CO, Derby, Thomas Trentham, 13 and 21 Eliz, ; si
Francis Trentham, knt, 34 Eliz. ; Francis Trentham, 9 James I.;
and Thomas Bainbrigge, 42 Geo, III, were sheriffs. Arms of
Trentham : Argent, three griffins' heads erased Sable,
Henry Talbot, esq, son of George earl of Shrewsbury, died
20 Jan, 38 EUz, seized of three messuages and 320 acres of
land in Swinscow, Rocester, and Blore, late belonging to the
abbey of Rocester, having issue Gertrude and Mary, Degge;
' Dieulacres, a Cistertian abbey, was founded by Ranulph
BlundeviU, earl of Chester, in 1214, who transferred hither
the monks from Pulton, co. Chester. It was granted, at the

OF STAFFbRDSHlRE, 365
: The said house, with the most things belonging to it,
was given, in king Edward the Sixth's time, to sir Raufe
¦Bagenholt, for his advancement. But sir Raufe (good
fellow like) dispersed it, et dedit pauperibus ; for he sold
it to the tenants, for the most part to every one his own,
at so reasonable a rate, that they were well able to per
form the purchase thereof, and spent the money he
received, gentleman like, leaving his son, sir Samuel
Bagnall (now lately knighted at Cales, anno 1596) to
advance himself by his valour, as he before had done.
Churnett, a little beneath Dieu le Cresse, receiveth
a pretty brook, westward, called Dunsmore brooky
coming from Russeton James' ; which Ulviet held before
the Conquest ; and 20th of his reign, the Conqueror
held it.
'Dissolution, 6 Edw. VI. to sir Ralph BagnaU, with the manors
of Leek Frith, Leek Westwood, Grange, and Wobdcrofts, and
land in Tettesworth, Thornesley, Essinglow, Bradnope, Birch-
holt, Weston Horwood, and Field. There are yet some remains
of this abbey.
After sir Samuel Bagnall had sold the lands in Leek and
Dieulacres to the tenants, he sold the site of this abbey, and
the lordship of Leek, to Thomas Rudyard, of Rudyard, esq.
who left the latter to descend to his son Thomas, whose grand
son Thomas possessed it in 1660 ; and he gave the site of the
abbey to Anthony, his son, who also possessed it in the same
year. Ralph BagnaU, 2 Eliz. was sheriff. Arms : Barry of six, Or
and Erniiine ; over all, a lion rampant Argent.
' This paragraph is much altered in Chetwynd's MS, but
is the same in the MS, of Huntbach. T. B,
Rushton-James seems to have once belonged to a family of
the name of James, Rushton- Spencer is so caUed for the same
reason. Robert de Statford also held one third of a hide in Heltone
and Risetone ; and Ulviet, who had held this too in king Ed
ward's tirae, continued to hold it of Statford. S. P-W.

366 THE ANTIQUITIES
This brook leaveth Rudyard', standing on the side of
Dun (a great mountain), a mile northward, whereof is
owner one Tettesworth, as Somerset" reported his name
to be, but now called Rudyard, who have continued
lords thereof for a long time. Raufe was owner thereof
in Henry Eighth's time, and had issue Thomas, father
of Thomas, now living at Rudyard.
Over against Rudyard,, like a quarter of a mile from
Dun, bn the South side of the bank, is Herracles, where
one John Wedgwood', who advanced himself, from a
freeholder's son, to the estate of a gentleman, hath now
seated himself; but his son, seeking further to advance
himself, enters into a course of contentions ; and, I
doubt, will prove nothing commendable, if it be true
what I hear.
Dun, being past Herracles, dischargeth itself into
Churnett, a little above Leek, a market-town, in the
king's hands, 20 Conq. and, before, Algarus Comes held
it. Aftet, it was given by Ranulfe, earl of Chester, to
the house of Dieu le Cresse, which he founded *.
' The earl of Macclesfield now possesses Rudyard and Leek
• Frith. Arms of Rudyard: Argent, frett Sable, ina canton
Gules, a rose Or.
Ego, Normannus Panton, confirmavi- Ranulpho de Tetes-
worth, et haeredibus suis, villam de Rudierd, &c, : confirmo
predicto Ranulfo, et haeredibus suis, ut libere et quiete habeat
et teneat omnes libertates quas Alicia-de Verdon mater mea,
consensu Willi' Panton fratris mei in ipsa villa de Rudierd
dedit, Testibus  No date,
^ Robert Glover, Somerset Herald.
3 Arms of Wedgwood : Gules, four mullets and a canton
Argent, * 6 Stephen, the manor of Leek, called anciently Lee, was
the property of Ranulph de Gernoiis, fourth earl of Chester,
whose wife Maud, daughter of Robert earl of Gloucester, ille-
gitimate son of Henry I. was the founder of Repton priory.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 367
Churnett leaves the Wall Grange (which the ancestor
of sir Walter Leveson hath bought), and there receives
Endon water, which takes its name of a lordship called
Endon, or Horton.
In Domesday Book I find Hortbury ' ; I' take it to be
this Horton. Endon is said, in the same book, to be
Ranulph gave the tithes of his mill here to the monks of Saint
Werburgh, at Chester, His son Hugh succeeded him, and died
here in 1181, 27 Henry II, and was succeeded by Ranulph,
his son and heir, who gave this manor to the abbey of Dieu
lacres. In the churchyard are the reraains of a pyramidal cross,
ten feet high, having three steps at the base. In the church
yards of Ham, Chebsey, and Checkley, are simUar crosses,
serving, says Gough, " where single, as crosses ; where more,
as sepulchral monuments, probably of the Danes," There is
here a large surface of rough unpolished stone, upon a sup
porter of the sarae, on the brow of a hill, a little declining at
one end, caUed the Hanging Stone ; similar to which, supposed
to have been heathen altars, are to be seen in the Isle of An-
glesea. Parker, earl of Macclesfield, who was lord chanceUor
in I7I8, was born here, where also his descendant, the pre
sent earl, has (1820) extensive property,
Apesford was given by Henry de Audeley to HUton abbey.
Mixe-Hay was given to Hilton abbey by Henry de Audeley.
After the Dissolution it was, amongst other lands, exchanged
with sir Edward Aston, the elder, whose great grandson sold
it to sir WUliam Bowyer, whose son John enjoyed it in 1660.
Degge. ' A raisreading for " Nortberie." " Ipse comes (Rogerius)
tenet Nortberie, et Regerius (probably Rogerius) " de eo,"
S, P-W,
Enedune Duning tenet, Domesday, It is now the property
of Edward Antrobus, esq,
Fernyhough was long enjoyed by a family of the same name,
though the estate is small,
Oldall Grange, or Wolvedale, is, in the Lichfield tax-book,
called Wlvedale,
On Wetley Moor is HewaU, or Hyvall, Grange, called, in
the Lichfield tax-book, Hunehalgh.

368 THE ANTIQUITIES.
holden of the king, and that Duning held it beforethe
Conquest, Hortbury was then held by one Rogerius, de comite
Rogero de Montegomerici, Not long after the Cbn-
vquest, Enedon, or Horton, call it whether you will,
came to the possession of Audeleys, and in that line
continued ; and was, after, parted between the sisters ;
the third part whereof my lord of Bath hath, and holdeth
to this day, as being descerided to him from his ances
tors : but the other two parts were sold lately by the
lord Audeley (Touchett), who did also inherit them
from his ancestors (Audleys), and the third co-par
cener (Hillary), to Egerton of Wall Grange, and Wedg
wood of Herracles, Enedon, or Horton, being a large
and goodly manor (and saying it lieth in so barren a
acountry), is thereupon called Horton Court,) occupieth
almost all the ground Enedon water passeth through,
until it comes to Churnett,
A little beneath the entry whereof, on the south-east
bank, standeth Chetelton, I find, in Domesday Book',
' What Erdeswick found in Domesday must be understood
to end here, with the word " Montegom." He did not find, in
that book, that " it belongs to Warslow." S, P-W.
Sir John Egerton was seized of Chedleton 3 James I. It
now (1S20) belongs to Parker,, earl of Macclesfield.
Moseley was a seat of the family of HoUins, which they had
possessed for some generations in the seventeenth century. —
Degge, Ashcombe is the seat of William Sneyd, esq, built upon the
site of Bottom-hall, which belonged to the JoUiffes, His fa
ther was John Sneyd, esq. of Belmont, who cultivated and
adorned a great extent of that barren country.
Within Chedleton i.s a small manor, which long belonged to
the family of Finney. The old house was taken down in 1610.
John Fenis, or de Fiennes, now corrupted into Fynney, came
over with the Conqueror, who appointed him constable of

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. Sgg
that one William held Celtetone de com. Rog, Monte
gom, and that it belongs to Warslow, in Alstonfield
parish, and is now reputed as a member of Alstonfield,
In Rufus's rime, one Sirardus was lord of Chetelton ;
which Sirardus had issue Petrus ; which Peter, or his
son, had issue sir William de Chetelton, knt. who had
issue Robert Sirard, lord of Chetelton ; which Robert
had issue Henry Chetelton, who had issue sir William
Chetelton, knt. who had issue Matthew, who had issue
William, who died without issue; and Amabilla, his
sister and heir, married to Wilham Bromley, second
brother of Walter Bromley ; and, after the death of the
said William Bromley, she married John de Lasci;
Dover castle. He had issue WiUiam and Maud, wife of Hum-
' phry de Bohun, earl of Hereford. A descendant of WiUiam
was sir John Fenis, temp, Edw, III. who had issue sir Wil
Uam Fenis, knt. father of sir William Fenis, knt. father of sir
Roger and sir James, both knights. Sir Jaraes was ancestor of
lord Say and Sele. Sir Roger had issue sir Richard, knt. who
married Joan, daughter and heir of sir Thomas Dacre, son and
heir of Thomas lord Dacre, and was, on that account, 37
Hen. VI. declared a baron of the realm, and summoned to
parliament. He had issue John, who, dying in his father's
life-time, had issue four sons. The eldest, sir Thomas Fynes,
knt, was lord Dacre, whose descendant, Margaret, married to
Sampson Lennard, of Chevening, co, Kent, WUliam, the third
son, inherited the Fynney estate here, and here died in 1584,
and was buried at Chedleton. He had five sons ; WiUiam, the
eldest, was seated at Cannock, and had a numerous issue,
Thomas, the second son, had issue William, father of Wil
liam, born in 1626, father of WiUiara, born in 1647, Richard
in 1650, and Thomas, in 1651, who became S, T. P, and
was a great benefactor to Worcester college, Oxford, Wil
liam, the eldest, had issue James, born in 1687; and Sa
muel, born in 1692, who had issue Fielding Best, born in
1743, The property was alienated from the family in the last
century,
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370 THE ANTIQUITIES
which Walter Bromley had issue one only da,ughter,
Alice by name, married to John Frodsham'. Williaoi
Bromley, and Amabilla, his wife, had issue Amabilla,
married to sir John Hawkeston, knt." who had issue
Ellen, married to William Egerton, who had issue
Raufe Egerton, who had issue Hugh, who had issue
Ranulfe, who had issue John, who had issue sir Raufe
Egerton, knt, father of Edward, now living, anno 1597,
and lord of Chetelton,
Two miles lower, on the same side of Churnett, is
Cunsall ^ given by William de Chetelton, in king John's
time, to Philip Dracote, in whose posterity it conti
nues, John Dracote being now owner thereof.
From Cunsall this river passeth to Kingsley, being
on the same side of the river, and two miles lower,
20 Conq, Chingesley was the land of Radulfus', fil,
Huberti. Like a mile lower is Ipstones, 20 Conq, Robert de
' See note, article Ashley,
¦^ Sir John Hawkeston was of Wrine Hill, See page 78,
^ John Leigh, esq, is (1820) the present proprietor,
' But Radulf held only one hide, which Robert de Buci held
of him, Radulf and Nigel (de Statford), again, of R, de Buci;
while this Nigel held in capite, in the same Chingesleia, three
hides, S, P-W,
44 Eliz, WUliara Bassett, of Blore, possessed Kingsley ; from
whom, by marriage, it passed to the earl of Newcastle, who
sold it to Richard Hunt, of Shrewsbury, whose son, colonel
Thomas Hunt, possessed it, together with Forgall, Degge.
It is now (1820) the property of James Beech, esq.
Thornbury was the ancient seat of a family of that name.
Sharpcliffe and Whitehaugh were ancient seats of the White-
halls, Booths was a seat of the Pyotts. From them descended
Richard Pyott, an alderman of London, whose eldest son,
Richard, had his seat at Streethay, near Lichfield, and, 11
Ch, I, was sheriff. Arras of Pyott : Azure, on a fess Or, a

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 371
Stadford held Hulstone of the king ; and, about Edward
the First's or Second's rime, one sfr John de Ipstones,
knt. whose father had married the daughter and heir of
sir Henry de Cresswell, knt. was lord thereof. Sir John
Ipstones had issue William, who lived 22 Rich. II. and
had issue Alice, married to Ranulphe, second son of sir
William Brereton, as you may see where I speak of
Creswell', Churnett, being past Ipstones, leaves also Cauldron*
more than two miles northward, 20 Conq. Rob. de
Stadford held it of the king. It would seem, that not
long after the Conquest, Cauldron came to the hands of
the constable of Chester ; for I have seen a record
which saith, that the earl of Lincoln, which was Ed
mund Lacy, constable of Chester (whose father, John,
a lion passant Gules, three bezants in chief. Crest : a lion
rampant issuant Or, langued Gules. Degge.
Carta Rogeri de, Everden de Herteshorne, p' quam confir
mavit Hugoni de Meygnill, miUti, et Aliciae uxori ejus, et
Thomae filio eorundem Hugonis et Aliciae et haeredibus de cor
pore predicti Thomae procreatis totum jus suum in Kyngesley,
&c. Dat. apud Newhall, anno 24 Edw, IV.
' Sir Ralph Brereton sold Ipstones to Matthew Cradock, of
Caverswall, whose son's daughters sold it. The hall and park,
and demesne, were bought by Joseph Woodhouse, of Glass-
well, CO. Derby. Bertram de Verdon granted it, upon certain
conditions, to. William, his brother, vritnessed by Ralph Bas
set de Chedelton, WiUiam Basset de Cheadle, Hugh Chedelton,
Hugh Dracote, Gilbert de Beck, Henry de Hum, and Henry
de Clifford. Degge.
' 30 Hen. VIII. Francis Cockayne, of Ashborne, died seized
of the manor of Calton, and Thomas was his son and heir.
They had also lands in Longnor, Kingsley, and Cheadle. —
Degge. Rolandus Sprott, 20 Dec. 15 EUz. died seized of Caldon
chapel, and divers messuages belonging to it, and left them tq
Thomas Morsden, his cousin and heir. Degge.
2b 2

372 THE ANTIQUITIES
had married Margaret, daughter and heir of Robert
Quincy, earl of Lincoln), held Cauldron of Robert,
baron of Stafford, in Henry the Third's time. In
Edward the Second's time it came to the earl of Lan
caster, by marrying Alice, daughter and heir of Henry
Lacy, earl of Lincoln.
Churnett, keeping on its course eastward, enters into
Alton park, and runneth under the walls of the castle*
Elvetone was, 20 Conq. in the king's hands. Before-
time, one Juvar held it. About king Stephen's, or the
beginning .of Henry the Second's time, it should seem
that Alveton descended to one Roisia, who was heir
thereof, but whose daughter she should be I can-
riot learn. She was married, as I take it, to one
Bertram de Verdon, or his father, whom she over-lived ;
and in her widowhood held Alveton, as her own
inheritance, and founded the abbey of Croxden ; and,
as I think, she had issue by her said husband' either
' The entire pedigree is inserted in Dugdale's Warwick :
p. 29. T, B,
Bertram founded Croxden abbey, and Rose was his second
wife, by whom he left Thomas and Nicholas, heir to his bro
ther, 9 Ric. I. and to Rose, his mother, 16 John. Nicholas
died April 16, Henry III. leaving Rose, his daughter and
heir, married to Theobald de Butlers (a branch of those in
Ireland, after, earls of Ormond) by whom he had John, who
took the name of his mother, whom he succeeded at her death,
31 Hen. III. John died 2 Edw. I, leaving Theobald his son
and heir, then twenty-six years of age, who died 3 Edw, II.
leaving the second Theobald, who died 10 Edw, II. having
married, first, Maud, daughter of Edmund, lord Mortimer, of
Wigmore, by whom he left three daughters, his coheirs ; Joan,
then thirteen ; EUzabeth, ten ; and Margaret, seven. Joan
married Thomas, son and heir of Thomas, lord Furnival, and
died in childbirth 8 Edw. III. ; Elizabeth, the second, married
Bartholomew, lord Burghersh ; and Margaret, the third, had
three husbands, sir WiUiam le Blount, sir Michael Huser, and

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 373
Bertram, and he had issue Nicholas^ or else Nicholas
de Verdon ; who also, I think, had issue John Verdon,
who had issue Simon, who I also suppose had issue
Theobaldus de Verdon, who hved 29 Edw, I, and 9
Edw. II, and had issue William, that died without
issue ; Joan, married to Thomas lord Furnival ; and, I
think, Margaret', married to James Beriers, and to sir
John Crophull, knt. ; and Isabel, his fourth daughter,
married to Henry, lord Ferrers, of Groby, who held
Alton 23 Edw. III.
Broughton sets down a piece of Verdon's descent in
this sort : first, that John, before spoken of, had issue
Theobald, who, he saith, had issue another Theobald,
which last Theobald should have the foUr daughters. I
am not very perfect in Verdon's line, and therefore will
take upon me neither to approve nor correct what he
hath set down.
Thomas, lord Furnival, who married Joan, eldest
dabghter and heir of Theobald de Verdon, and had
sir John CrophuU. By EUzabeth de Burgh, his second wife,
he had another daughter, Isabel, wife to Henry lord Ferrers,
of Groby. Smyth.
' Instead of this Margaret and James, more accurate Ver
don pedigrees (see one in Nichols's Leicestershire, III. 640,
in art. Belton) have, Elizabeth, second daughter, married to
Bartholomew de Burghersh ; and, on turning back to Bucken
hall, such a co-heir appears. S. P-W.
From Bertram de Verdon, the founder of Croxden abbey,
was descended Theobald de Verdun, constable of Ireland. He
was a great baron in his time, and married Elizabeth, daugh
ter and coheir of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester, widow
bf John de Burgh, earl of Ulster.
On the north side of Belton church, co. Leicester, was a
very ancient monument of stone, raised, with a proportion of
a woman, carved, which was erected for Roise Vernon, founder
of- Grace Dieu nunnery* She was wife of Bertram de Verdon,
the founder of Croxden abbey, 23 Hen. II.

374 THE ANTIQUITIES
Alveton in the partition of his lands, 39 Edw. III. had
issue Thomas Furnival, lord of Hallamshire, who had
issue a daughter and heir, married to Thomas Nevil,
second brother to Raufe, first eari of Westmoreland,
who had issue by him Maud, her daughter and heir,
married to John Talbot, first earl of Shrewsbury, whb
had issue John, who had issue a third John, who had
issue George, who had issue Francis, who had issue
George, who had issue Gilbert, now living, all earls of
Shrewsbury and lords of Alveton '.
Churniett, having taken leave of Alveton, maketh
haste to meet the Dove, which also, holding on its
course, receiveth, westwardiy, another little brook,
which hath its first head about Madeley Alphore (as
some write it), but, I think, rather Madeley Ulfar ; for
that, one Ulfar, 20 Conq. held it of Robert de Stadford,
whose name was after used to make a distinction be
tween this and the other Madeley before spoken of. In
the beginning of Henry the Third's time Raufe Basset
held it of Robert, baron of Stafford ; and not long
after, Raufe, I think, another of the same name. 2 Ed
ward II. it was in the king's hands, by reason of the
minority of Richard Basset ; and now, I take it, that the
' Alveton is still (1820) the property of the earl of Shrews
bury. Its great ornament consists in the ruins of its castle,
which was destroyed in the civil war. It is now a favourite
residence of the earl of Shrewsbury, who has an elegant seat
here, adorned and embeUished with all the beauties of art.
John de Verdon, 48 Edw. III. and 3 Rich. II, was sheriff.
Arms : Or, frett Gules. Arms of Talbot, earl of Shrews
bury : Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed Or,
armed and langued Azure, Furnival : Argent, a bend between
six martlets Gules.
Nos Johannes Talbot, d'nus de Fournyvall, constituimus
Edmundura Basset, senescallum n'r'm dominii et maneru.n'ri
de Alveton, in com. Stafford. Dat. anno 9 Hen. V.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 375
lord Windsor is lord thereof, and had it by descent from
Blount, lord Mountjoy',
A little lower, upon the same brook, is Croxden,
20 Conq. Alwoldus held Crochesden of the king; and,
after, Roisia de Verdon built there a goodly house of
religion, aud endowed it with fair lands". I am doubt
ful, whether this Roisia were wife to the first Verdon,
and heir to Crochesden, Alveton, and the rest of the
lands in this country, which the Verdons afterwards pos
sessed ; or else, that she was heir to some of the Ver
dons, and so, never meaning to marry, and held the
lands during her life, and founded this abbey; and
afterwards, dying without issue, left the rest of the
lands to descend to some Verdon, her uncle, or other
kinsman.

' The lord Windsor sold most of the estates to the tenants,
and the manor to Nicholas Barnesley, of Alkmonton, co. Derby,
or his father, whose grandson sold it to John Deakin, of Fur-
nival's Inn, London, who sold it to one of the name of Sher
burne, of Sherburne, co. Lancaster. Degge.
^ The ruins of this once extensive abbey" are very venerable.
Bertram de Verdon, in 1176, gave to the Cistertian monks of
Aulney,' in Normandy, a piece" of ground at Chotes, to build
an abbey of their order, which, three years after, was removed
to Croxden. The two Theobalds de Verdon, who lived temp.
Edw. I. and Edw. II, and died at Alveton castle, were buried
in this abbey. Bertram de Verdon, the founder, died at Joppa,
in the Holy Land, in 1192, and was buried at Acre, but most
of his descendants were buried in this abbey. The heart of king
John was buried here. At the Dissolution it was granted to
Geffry Foljambe, whose son, Godfrey Foljambe, sold it to sir
Thomas Herrys, serjeant-at-law, whose only son, soon after
the purchase, died. He passed this, and Tong castle, in Shrop
shire, ' to WUliam Pierpoint, esq, younger son of the earl of
Kingston, who married the Serjeant's daughter. Arms of Fol
jambe : Sable, a bend between six escaUops Or, within a bor
der engrailed Gules.

376 THE ANTIQUITIES
After the suppression of abbeys, a younger brother
of the Foljambes, of Dalton, in Derbyshire, obtained it,
and left it to Godfrey Foljamb, his bastard son, who
hath both sold it, and all other the lands his father
left him.
A little lower stands Denston', where one Madeley
hath a pretty seat of a gentleman's house. The king
held Denston 20 Conq. and, before, Juvar.
This brook, at Combridge, enters Dove, which, more
than a mile lower, receiveth also Taine, which hath its
head something above Dilhorn.
Walbertus held Dulverne, 20 Conq. of Rob. de Stad
ford. In Henry the Third's time Raufe de Dulverne
was lord of it ; and, 9 Edw. II. Richard de Caverswall
was lord'-
Like two miles lower, Taine receives, from the north,
Cheadle brook, which comes from Chedle. Robertus
held Celle of Robert de Stadford 20 Conq. and
22 Hen. II. Osbertus Baswine gave Chelle, or Chedle,
to William Bassett; which William had issue ^ sir Simon
and Raufe ; which sir Simon had issue Raufe, lord of
' Denston, with the parish of Alveton, passed with it, when
it was possessed by the Verdons and the Furnivals. William
Madeley, the last of that name here, died in 1745, and his
descendants removed to Uttoxeter. It is now the property of
the earl of Shrewsbury. Sealed with the arms of Verdon is,
carta Thomae de Verdon mUitis, dat. apud Denston, anno 30
Edw. III.
^ There are deeds — Nos Rad's Shirley, miles, Thomas Me-
vereU, &c. confirmavimus Joh'ae Basset, viduae, nuper uxori
WiU'mi Basset R, defuncti, raaneria n'ra de Befcote, ab New-
place, in comitatu Sta^ordi, Dat, anno 15 Hen. VII.
Carta Thomae Beche, militis. Dat. apud Newplace," paroch'
de DuUande, anno 9 Rich. II.
3 Sir Simon, ancestor of lord Basset of Sapcote, and Ralph
of Cheadle. Smyth.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 377
Cheadle and baron of Sabcote ; which Raufe gave to
Raufe, the son of Raufe Basset, his u-ncle, the Park
hall in Cheadle, of whose descent you may see more
where I speak of Blore,'.
Raufe, lord of Sabcote, had issue Simon, who had
issue Raufe, 21 Edw. I.; who had issue Simon, 20
Edw. II.; who had issue Raufe, 2 Rich. II. who had
issue AHce, married to sir Robert Mutton, of Peckle-
ton, in com. Leic. knt. ; and Elizabeth, married to
Richard, lord Grey, of Codnore. Sir Robert Mutton
and Alice had issue sir William Mutton, knt. who had '
issue another sir William, who had issue Robert, who
had issue Elizabeth, married to sir John Harrington,
knt." who had issue sir James, father of sir John=, now
living. Richard, lord Grey, and Ehzabeth, had issue Henry,
lord Grey, and Elizabeth, married to John Zouch*.
Henry, lord Grey, had issue Henry, lord Grey, who
died without issue. John Zouch and Elizabeth had
issue John, who had issue sir John Zouch, knt. cousin
and heir to the last Henry, lord Grey, of Codnore.
Sir John Zouch had issue George Zouch, who had
There was a " particion made of the parke de Chedill, in the
shyre de Stafford, between sir Robert Moton, knt, and Ralfe
Basset, esquire, anno xxx Hen, VI,"
20 Hen, III, Simon Basset, knt, built a college for a warden
and priests at Sapcote, co, Leicester. William ^Basset was
patron of the church of Sapcote, 5 Hen. III.
There is, Indentura inter d'num Joh'em Basset de Chedle,
ch'l'r, ex una, et d'num Thomam de Marchinton, ch'l'r. Dat.
anno 7 Rich, II.
' Vide Dugdale's Antient Usage of bearing Arms,
' Of Exton, in Rutlandshire.
' Afterwards, lord Harrington, of Exton,
* Of Kirtlington, co, Nottingham, second son of William,
lord Zouch, of Harringworth,

378 THE ANTIQUITIES
issue sir John Zouch of Codnore, father bf John, now
living '-
Taine Water passeth on to the two Taines, Over
and Nether, Robert de Stadford held Taine, 20 Conq,
of the king. About Henry the Third's time, Robert de
Beke was lord of both Taines, who had issue Gilbertus
de Beke, who was lord of both Taines : also, Gilbert
had issue Robert, who had issue sir Richard Beke, knt.
' Cheadle is a market-town. The manor is the property of
Dopglas, earl of Moreton, by marriage with the only daughter
and heir of sir John BuUer Yarde, bart, by the only daughter
and heir of John Holliday, esq. It was the ancient seat of the
great baronial family of Basset, of Drayton, Hints, and Blore.
"The Delfhouse was the seat of one of the Colcloughs,
Richard Colclough, 46 Edw, III.
Hugo Colclough, 48 Edw, III,
Ricardus, 7 Hen, V,
Johannes Colclough,
Thomas, 11 Hen. VI,
Ricardus, married Blaunch, daughter of Richard Davenport,
Major Novi Castri.
Johannes de Blurton, 1 Edw, V,=pAgnes,
Thomas, of Delfhouse, Ricardus, married Eleanor,
Bartholomew, married Eliza- daughter of sir John Drai-
beth, daughter of Thomas cot,
Madeley, of Denston, Sir Anthony, 13 Eliz,
George, obiit 1639, married Sir Thomas, married Martha,
Elizabeth, daughter of Tho- daughter of sir Adam Lof-
mas Keeling, tus,
Adara,=pCatharine, daugh. of Sir Adam Colclough,
Edward Street, of Sir Caesar Colclough,
Kidlington, co,Ox.

I r I — I
George, married  Lightfoot, Catharine, married Samuel
daughter of John Lightfoot, Adderley.
Professor of Logic. Jane, married Richard Ash,
Magdalen, married Thos. Booth- of MUwich.
by, of Tooley-park, Leicester
shire.
Arms of Colclough : Argent, five spread eaglets crossways
Or, 1, 3, 1 Sable.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 379
who had issue sir Nicholas Beke, knt. who had issue
Helen, his daughter and heir, married to sir Robert
Swinnerton, knt. who had issue sir Robert Swinnerton,
knt. who had issue Maud, his daughter and heir, first
married to sir Raufe PeshaU', knt, and, after, to sir
John Savage*", knt. Sir Raufe Peshall had issue by the
said Maiid sir Richard Peshall, knt. and sir John Sa
vage, knt. had issue by her another sir John Savage,
knt. who, after long contention betwixt thein for Beke's
lands, at length so compounded it, that Peshall had
Over Taine, and Savage, Nether Taine.
Sir Richard Peshall, knt, had issue Humphry Peshall,
who had issue sir Hugh Peshall, knt, who had issue
Katherine, his only daughter and heir, married to sir
John Blount, knt, who had issue sir George Blount,
knt. Henry Blount, Elizabeth Blount, mother to Henry
Fitzroy, duke of Richmond, and another daughter,
called Anne, married to Richard Lacon, of Willey, Sir
George had issue a daughter, married to John Purslow',
who had issue ,by her, Henry Blount had issue also a
son, called George ; but sir George gave both Taine,
Hopton, Knightley, and all his Shropshire lands, both
from his daughter and her children, and from his bro
ther Henry and his son, to bis sister's son, Rowland
Lacon, of Willey, who is now lord of Taine, the cause
being unknown why he did so.
Sir John Savage, son of sir John and Maud Swin
nerton, had issue a third sir John, who had issue a
fourth sir John, who had issue a fifth sir John, who bad
issue a sixth sir John, who had issue a seventh sir John,
father of John, both living ; but this last sfr John hath
' Of Knightley park. In some copies it is Humphry Peshall.
« Of Clifton, CO, Chester,
' Of Sidbury, co, Salop,

380 THE ANTIQUITIES
sold his Taine to Rbger, the sbu of Richard Wilburn--
faam, of Namptwyche ',
Taine water, being past both the Taines, passeth on
by Checkley. 2b Conq, Otha held Cedla of the king :
it after came, about king John's time, to be parcel of
Ferrers' barony, but the means I know not. Now, the
parson is the best man in the town, for he hath both
a good tithe and a fair house, and a good deal of glebfe
land, and is lord of the town ; apd yet Beke and his
heirs were ever patrons of the church. In the church,
being a goodly country church, is a fair monument of
the Bekes, which the tenants of Taine seek to deface
and suppress, by reason they would conceal a parcel of
the tithes '' due for Beke's lands, which, I think, was his
demesne. There be also, in glass, divers fair monu
ments of the St, Maures and others 3.
Taine Brook, leaving Checkley, passeth between the
two Foldes, anciently called Failed, Over Folde is
a member of Leghe, and the Nether, of Madeley.
9 Edw. II, Henricus St, Maure was lord of Folde, which
is parcel of Madeley Holme, and now the lord Wind
sor, but by what title I know not,
A little lower, on the same brook, is Strangeshide*.
20 Conq. Alricus held Stra'guiceshoUe, of the king.
Rbisia de Verdon was afterwards lady, both of Croches
den, Stranshill, and Crakemarch, and held them all of
Ferrers, earl of Derby.
' The two Tainfes, together with Checkley, are now (1820)
the property of John PhilUps, esq.
* Taske. Huntbach.
' In the church-yard are three pyramidal stones, intended,
perhaps, as sepulchral monuments, and of Danish construction.
* " StagriceshoUe" (Shaw's Domesday). I conceive it will
prove, on the record being examined closely, something like
" Stra'guiceshoUe," S, P-W.

OF STAFTORDSHIRE.

381

20 CbUq, the king held Crachemers'. Crakemarsh is
a gbodly and prbfitable lordship, lying in a very good

' Before the Conquest, Crakemarsh belonged to Algar, earl
of Mercia.
Bartholomew Burghersh married Elizabeth, daughter and
coheir of Theobald Verdon, and passed the manor of Crake
marsh. From the family of Feme, and, by raarriage, of Sheffield, it
passed to Robert Collier, whose son sold it to Gilbert Gerrard,
master of the rolls. It then passed to the Cottons, and is now
( 1820) the property of Cotton Sheppard, esq. only son of sir
Thomas Sheppard, bart, of Thornton, co. Bucks, as heir to his
mother, the heiress of the Cottons,
William Feme, occisus in praelio Franc, temp, Edw, III.
Sir John Feme, married Beatrice, daughter of Walter
Rochford. Sir John Feme, knt,
WiUiam Feme, of Feme haU, co, Essex, nunc in poss, d'ni
Ric. Thomas Feme, married Alice, daughter of George Whit
greave, CO. Stafford.
WilUam Feme, of Parwich,=pJane, daughter of Adam Beresford,
CO. Derby. | of Fenny-Bentley, esq,
I — -^  '  '  1 .„
John Ferne=pFelicia, daughter of Robert Mil- Thomas Feme,
I ward, of Eaton, CO, Derby. ofHognaston.
Ann, married John
ofTera- bert Sheffield, esq. Fitzherbert, of So-
ple Bel- brother of Edward, mersal, co, Derby.
wood, lord Sheffield, Elizabeth, raarried

Edward.
John, of
Crake
marsh,

Anthony Rokeby.

Sir John Feme, of Temple=pElizabeth, daughter of John, son

Belwood, CO, Lincoln,

1, WiUiam:

Jane, dau.
Feme, ter of Ro-
ofTera- bertWalk-
pleBel- er, of Is-
wood. lington.

of sir Henry NevU, of Need
ham, CO, Hertford,

2, John,
3, George,
4. Thomas,
5, Edward,
6. Matthew,

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Jane,

7^ 1^
7. Isaac,
8, Henry, 2, Elizabeth,
bishop of 3, Anne,mar,
Chester. J. Kaye, of
Woodham, CO. York,

382 THE ANTIQUITIES
soil, between Taine Water and Dove, at their meeting.
It was Delves his land, and descended to the lord Shef
field ; and this last lord's father sold it when he sold
Hilderstbn, of whose descent I have said what I know
before. Dove, being past Rowcester, and having received
Taine Water, passeth on till it comes past Utcester,
where it receives a brook, that takes its beginning
above Bromeshall. Robert de Stadford held Bramsele
of the king 20 Conq. ' MiHcent de Stafford and her
husband, Hervey Bagot, gave it their younger son, sir,
William Stafford, knt. in whose name it continued until
12 Edw. III.; that Thomas Erdeswick married the only
Arms : per bend indented Or and Gules ; in chief, a cres
cent Sable. Crest: on a wreath a garbe Or, between two
wings displayed and pursed pileways, counterchanged Gules,
and of the last. Degge.
' As " Bagod tenuit deeo (scilicet Stafford), it might be
either Milicent's, or possibly Hervey Bagod's own, by descent,
from the Domesday Bagod tenant under Statford. S. P-W.
BromshaU is yet ( 1820) the property of lord WiUoughby
de Broke.
Delves hall, 31 Edw. I, was the seat of John de Delves, His
son Richard was constable of Heleigh castle. He had two sons,
John and Henry. John was one of the four esquires who at
tended James, lord Audeley, at the battle of Poitiers, where
they highly distinguished themselves. (Froissart's Chronicles.)
He died without issue 11 Rich, II, 1387, and was succeeded by
his brother, sir Henry, whose son and heir, sir John Delves,
16 Rich. II. was knight in parliament for this county. From
him descended sir John Delves, who was in favour with king
Henry VI. and was slaip at the battle of Tewkesbury, 1471.
His son was beheaded two days afterwards, by the remorseless
king Edward IV. Sir Thomas Delves, the last male of the
family, was created a baronet. His only daughter and heir,
Elizabeth, about 1710, married sir Brian Broughton, bart. and
brought Doddington, co. Chester, and other estates, into that

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 383
daughter and heir of sir James Stafford, knt. ; and from
that time the Erdeswicks were lords of it, until Henry
the Seventh's time ; that sir Robert Willoughby, lord
Brooke, son of sir John Willoughby, knt. and Ann
his wife, Elizabeth, the widow of sir John Coleshull,
knt. and Eleanor, the widow of Thomas Strangeways,
put the same in suit, claiming as heirs to Alice, mother
to the said Elizabeth, Eleanor, and Anne, and wife of
sir Edmund Cheney, knt. ; which AHce was aunt and
heir to Humphry Stafford, lord Stafford, of Southwick,
and earl of Devonshire ; which Humphry, earl of De
vonshire, was son of William, son of sir Humphry
Stafford, knt, with the Silver Hand, and brother of Alice
Cheney, Sir Humphry with the Silver Hand (brother
of William and Alice) was the son of Humphry, lord
Stafford, of Southwick, who was the son of sir John
Stafford, knt, and elder brother of Raufe Stafford, of
Grafton, Sir John Stafford was second son of William
Stafford, of Bromshall, and younger brother of sir
James Stafford, knt, of Sandon. Now, sir Fulk Grevile,
knt, is lord of Bromshall, as being son and heir of sir
Fulk Grevile, knt, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and
coheir of Edward, son of Robert Willoughby, lord
Brooke, son of Robert, made lord Brooke, and steward
of the household to king Henry VII, son of sir John
Willoughby and Ann his wife, daughter of Alice Cheney,
daughter of sir Humphry Stafford,
In Bromshall, about Hen. Ill, Edw, I. and Edw. II.'s
time, was a house of the Verneys,
This brook, being past Bromshall, leaveth Lockesley
family. From him sir John Broughton, the present baronet, is
descended. Arms of Delves : Argent, a chevron Gules, fret
ted Or, between three Delves Sable, The chevron was part
of the arms of Audley, given to sir John Delves, by lord Aud
ley, for his bravery at the battle of Poitiers,

384 THE ANTIQUITIES
half a mile southward. I have seen something that
might move a man to think', that one of the Ferrers of
Tutbury gave, to his younger son, Lockesley ; for, in
Henry the Third's time, there was one Robert Ferrers
of Locksley ; whereupon a man would conjecture that
Kinnersley, now of Lockesley, his first ancestor, of that
place, should marry the said Ferrers of- Lockesley's
daughter and heir, whereunto I am persuaded by the
similitude of the armoury which now Kinnersley bears,
and so hath done for a long time, for I have seen a seal
of it, 18 Edw. Ill, The mark is silver, afess(ofFer-
' Erdeswick's idea was right, A junior Ferrers, of Tutbury,
must have had Locksley at a very early period, not later than
the second Henry's reign. In an existing Locksley deed, Wil
liam, earl de Ferrers, grants in (or near) "Lockesleia, Will'o,
filio WiU'i, filiolo meo ;" Henry, the earl's son, and Henry and
Robert, the earl's uncles, among the witnesses. In a deed of
lord Bagot's, Robert de Ferr', " avunculus com. de Ferr."
grants eight bovates in Lochesl' to Osbert, " homini raeo de
Lockesleia :" yet, besides this Robert, " avunculus," there was a
Robert de Ferrariis de Lokesle, co-witness with Robert, avun
culus, in Monastic. Angl, II, 506. After some generations,
two or three at least, from Robert Ferrets of Locksley, a
Johanna, daughter, seemingly, to a second Thomas de Fer
rariis, appears, in 1327, wife of John de Kynardeseye,
jun. Whence this John, does not appear : but both he and
three brothers were advanced with estates (mostly return
ing to John or issue) by an uncle, " dom's John's de Kynarde
seye, cleric's, Thomae com, Lancastr,'' in 1309 ; and, in 1330,
John, the nephew, is written " Dominus de Lockesleye,'' An
impression is extant of his seal, the same Erdeswick describes,
as early as 1338 ; but the seal of the elder Thomas de Ferers
(so its legend spells) was three horseshoes, two and one, not
in shield ; and the first Robert de Ferrers has left one large
seal-impression of a single rude horse-shoe, John de Kyner-
desley jun.'s great grandson, John " Kynerdesley," lord of
" Loxley," sealed, in 1456, with arms nearly the same with
the coat ever since used, S. P-W.

OF STAFFbRDSHlRE. 385
rers), varry gold and red, between three eagles dis
played Gules, Whether Ferrers of Lockesley ' bare it so,
or that Kinnersley added the eagles, or in some sort
imitated the armory, I know not. 18 Edw. III. as I
have said, John Kinnerslfe was owner of Lockesley.
How long before, the Kinnersleys had been owners of
it I know not ; but ever since, to this day, his pos
terity is.
A little nearer Utcester is a house bf the Blounts,
called Blounts'-hall, whereof Blount, of Osbaston, in
Leicestershire, is owner. A man would think it should,
by the name, be the ancient seat of the Blounts, but
that is not so ; for this is a house of no great account,
and but lately built, by one that (being a little glorious)
would have called it by his name*.
' Nine horse-shoes (the arms of Ferrers) varry, &c, Bp.
Lyttelton. Ferrers, of Locksle, was a witness to the charter, when
Radulphfts le Funn founded a preceptory at Yeaveley, co.
Derby. Thomas Kinnersley, esq, 30 Hen. VIII. died seized of
the manor of Loxley ; of lands in Birdhurst, Milne, Nether-
field, Gromes, Dovedales, Holly Ridding, New Ridding, Per-
rycroft, Blith Meadow, High-field, Kentish-wood ; the manor
of Marchington, and a capital messuage and lands in Uttoxe
ter. This manor is now ( 1820) the property of Thomas Sneyd
Kynnersley, esq. Thomas Kinnersley, 22 Ch, I,; Craven
Kinnersley, 7 Geo, IL ; and Clement Kynnersley, 10 Geo, III. ;
were sheriffs.' Arms: Argent, a fess varry Or and Gules, be
tween three spread eagles Sable.
2 Blount's haU is the property of Thomas Sneyd Kynnersley,
esq. It was long the estate of the Blounts. In ClerkenweU
church was inscribed, on a stone, " Ann Blunt, daughter of
Walter Blunt, of Blunt Hall, and sister to the lady Paulet and
to the lady Sidenham, died 24 AprU, 1503." The haU was taken
down. in 1770: the moat shews its site. The Blounts were
descended from John Blount, third son of sir William Blount,
knt, who bad lands in Burton and RoUeston, Edward Blount,
c c

386 THE ANTIQUITIES
This brook, passing by Utcester, enters into Dove.
20 Conq. the king held Wotochesede. It came, not
long after, to Ferrers, earl of Derby, his possession;
the last whereof (amongst his other lands), in a sort,
forfeited the same ; so that now (as all the rest of Fer
rers' lands in Staffordshire do) it belongs to the duchy
of Lancaster '. In Utcester is a house of the Minors ;
very ancient gentlemen they are ; for I find testes to a
deed in Henry the Third's time, or I think, rather, in
king John's time, John de Evereus, Rob. de Baskervilla,
Walter de Evereus, Richard de Talboth, Roger de Mi-
nores, Reginald de Minores, Radulfe de Baskervilla,
&c. I have also seen a deed of Edward the First's
time, whereunto were testes, John de Minores, Henry
de Hounhill, Thomas de Pipe, Robert de Beke, and
Philip de Dracote ; and I have also read, that sir John

10 Rich. II, died without issue, and his property passed to
Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Blount, younger brother of
Thoraas. She married Thomas Pope, who took the name of
Blount, Their son, sir Thomas Pope Blount, was the founder
of Trinity college, Oxford.
' The manor is divided into many shares, Leland says,
" Uttok-Cestre has one paroch-chirch. The menne of the
towne useth grasing, for there be wonderful pastures upon
Dove, It longeth to the erledom of Lancaster, A frescole,
founded by a prest, Thomas AUen," It was, as the name im
ports, a Roman station. The family of Minors, remarkable
for their attachraent to a sea-faring life, lived at HoUingbury,
of which captain Richard Minors, temp, Ch, II, was proprietor.
It was afterwards sold to James Wood, Admiral lord Gar
diner, another naval officer of celebrity, was born here in 1742.
This town also gave birth to sir Simon Degge, knt. an anti
quary, well known for his useful researches into the antiquities
of this county. He died at the great age of ninety-two ; and
he mentions this place as remarkable for the longevity of its
inhabitants. Arms of Minors: Gules, on a fess Argent a
mullet Sable, between three plates Argent,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 387
Miribres was a knight 6 Edw. Ill, Sb that by this it
may appear, that the Minors are both of a very ancient
house, and have been of very good estimation.
A man would think, and verily believe, seeing so
many de Evereus', so many Baskervilles, and Minors,
together ; and considering that the eldest house of the
De Evereus bear. Gules, a fess Argent, and three
plates in chief; the younger house, Silver, a fess Gules
between three torteaux; another. Argent, a chevron
Gules between three hearts ; and another, a chevron
blue between three torteaux ; and that Minor's bears
Gules, a fess Argent between three plates ; that the De
Evereus, Baskervilles, and Minors, should be all of one
house. Utcester is a very good market, standeth in a rich
soil, and was of reasonably well built, but (great pity it
is) hath suffered of late great losses by fire.
About two miles lower, upon the south bank of Dove,
is Marchington ', At the Conquest, Henry de Ferrers
held it of the king. It is within the bounds of the forest of
Needwood, In Henry the Third's time, William Cham-
berlen or Cambden, and Roger Selman, held it of Fer
rers, earl of Derby, by the twentieth part of a knight's
fee. 9 Edw. II, the earl of Lancaster was lord of it.
' Marchington was granted by Wulfric Sprott, founder of
Burton abbey, to Wulfag, and was afterwards part of the
honour of Tutbury, 30 Hen. VIII, Thomas Kinnersley, of Lox
ley, possessed it, by inheritance from the Ferrers, 4 Ch, I. it
passed, with other manors, to the trustees of the city of Lon
don ; it then passed to deputy alderman Clarke, who left it to
his son, by whom it was sold to the earl of Bridgwater, In
1711, Simon Degge, esq. purchased it and Agardsley from
Charles Egerton, esq. and Scroop, earl of Bridgwater, whose
devisees, in 1718, sold it to John Chetwynd, esq. It is now,
with Woodlands, Newborough, and part of Uttoxeter, the pro
perty of earl Talbot, c c 2

388 ¦ THE ANTIQUITIES
Like a mile from Marchington, and as much from
Dove, is HoundhiU', an ancient seat of a hbuse of gen
tlemen carrying the same surname. It is now, as I take
it, a divided manor between Edward Leigh, of Rushall,
and one of the Vernons, that dwelleth there. Leigh
came to it by descent; for, about Henry the Third's
timcj sir Henry Handbury, knt. lord of Handbury, vul
gariter Hanbury' (a town standing two miles lower, but
' HoundhiU passed, by marriage, temp. Hen. VI, to Robert
Hylle. 2 Hen. VIII. Henry Hill sold it, and lands in March
ington, Newland, Stubby-lane, &c. to WiUiam Smith, of El
ford ; who, two years afterwards, sold it to Robert Dormer ;
and he, 6 Hen, VIII, to Humphry Vernon, third son of sir
Henry Vernon, knt, of Haddon, co. Derby ; in which family
it yet (1820) remains. Arms of HoundhiU: Vert, 6 Hound
hiU, 1, 2, 3, Argent. Arms of HiU : a chevron between three
cinquefoils Sable.
' Hanbury is from the Saxon Hean, high. There was a
monastery near the church, of which St, Werburgh, daughtei:
of Wulfere, and sister of Ethelred, kings of Mercia, was ab
bess. She died here, and was buried at Chester, where a
splendid shrine was erected in honour of her. From Bowles
the manor passed, by marriage, to Robert Gobbere, whose
son WilUam assumed the name pf RushaU, whose daughter and
heir Eleanor, by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of John
RoUeston of RoUeston, and Eleanor his wife, afterwards the
wife of Thomas Totty, carried it, in marriage, to sir John
Harpur, knt. From this family it passed, by marriage, to
WiUiam Leigh, of HoundhiU, son of sir Roger Leigh, of Che
shire. The manor, with the rectory, was given by Hen. VIII,
to Sampson, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and his suc
cessors ; and here the bishops frequently resided.
At Newborough, soon after the Conquest, Robert de Fer
rers estabUshed here a new borough, at Edgarslei, now Agards
ley, where was a hermitage, granted to the priory of Tutbury
by WiUiam de Ferrers, eari of Derby. Thomas, eari of Lan- ..
caster, 4 Edw. II. granted the manor to Robert de Whitfield.
Temp. Hen. II, it belonged to the family of Tamhorne, and

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 389
something further from Dove), married the daughter
and heir of HoundhiU, and by her he had issue sir
Henry Handbury, knt. that, I think, died without issue;
Agnes, married to William Bowles, of Rushall ; and
another daughter', which, I take it, was married to
Vernon's ancestor, who dwelleth there. From Bowles
it descended to Leigh (as you may see before, where I
speak of Rushall).
Between HoundhiU and Handbury there is a town
called Draycote^, 20 Conq. Henry de Ferrers held it
of the king. l6 Edw. III. there was one Richard Dray
cote, lord of this town'. As I take it, these Draycotes

afterwards passed through the families of Kinnersley, Whitting
ton, and Egerton, to that of Chetwynd. It is now (1820) the
property of earl Talbot.
' It is quite a mistake, Vernon being but an almost recent
purchaser. See Shaw. S. P-W.
" Temp. 2 Edw. II. Thomas, lord of Boyleston, co. Derby,
had also Draycote sub Needwqode, and held it of Ferrers, by ,
the service of hunting. This Thomas left issue Hawise, who
had by her husband, Reg. de Gresley, Reg. de Boyleston, who
died without issue. Nicholas, his brother, left issue Matilda
Pecche, his daughter and heir. It afterwards passed to sir
Thomas de Pipe, with the heiress of Jarpenville, and from
them to the Vernons, who now (1820) possess it.
3 From the chartulary in possession of Mr. Gresley, of Seale,
compiled, mostly, by sir Thomas de Rydware, in 2° Edw. II.
it appears that this Draycote was most undoubtedly the estate
of the said Thomas, who died between 15o Edw. II. and 1°
Edw. III. ; that it went to his posterity by a second wife, Isa
beUa ; and in right of Johanna, one of them, her husband,
WiUiam de Pipe, stiled himself of Draycote subt. Needwood,
in 30O Edw. III. and left it to his son, sir Robert. But it is a
question, whether Draycote was the estate of sir Thoraas de
Rydware. I have a deed in ray possession, belonging to C. B.
Adderiey, esq.' of 16 Edw. III. by which Robert de Pype, of
Draycote, grants to his son William, and Johanna his wife,

390 THE ANTIQUITIES
were of another house than the Draycotes of the Moorr
lands, and differed; for the other bare, as I have before
set down, gold, fretted Gules, a carton Blue, with a
white cross patt^e therein ; and this I have seen a seal
of, l6 Edw. III. and it was a fess between three billets,
and about the seal was written S. Ricardi de Draycote.
You may see he was a Needwood-forest man by his
billets. Now, I think, Mr. Edward Stanley possesses it,
as heir to his mother.
I have but a few more words to say before I step
down to Tutbury, and the castle, though it stands on a
high hill ; which is, that I take Handbury, who was lord
of Handbury, to be a Dayernon ; for that he bears, as
he doth. Blue, a chevron gold, only he had one of Lan
caster's lions in chief for a difference : and that, about
two miles lower from Handbury, and one mile from
Dove, is a town called Houndesley, vulgariter Annesley ',
whereof Edward Mainwaring is owner.
Lower towards Tutbury stands another Fauld^, vul-
various rents, inter alia, in Coton juxta Draycote, reserving
the heriots and suit of courts of the tenants. See Shaw's arti
cle Draycote. S. P-W.
' Annesley belonged to the family of Tok ; after them, to
the Bougheys and Mainwarings of Whitmore.
^ Stephen Curson was of Faulde, by the gift of WilUam
Ferrers, earl of Derby, from respect to whom he bore his
arms. He married Joan, daughter of sir Henry de RoUeston,
of RoUeston, and had issue John, who died without issue, and
Agnes, who raarried Richard Burton, from whom were de
scended Burton, of Faulde, and of Lyndley, Leicestershire, and
William Burton, author of the antiquities of Leicestershire.
Smyth, Fauld continued in the family of Ferrers till the attainder of
Robert eari of Derby, in 1266, Temp. Hen, III, it was held
by Curzon, under the earl of Lancaster, From them it passed,
by marriage, to Nicholas, son of Adam de Burton, of Tut
bury ; which Adam was living 2 Edw, I, and 14 Edw. II. and

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 391
gariter Falde. 20 Conq. Hubertus held dimid. hid.'
in Fauld, of Henry de Ferrers. In Henry the Third's

was a witness to the roll of Burton abbey in 1321. From them
it descended to William Burton, the historian of Leicester
shire, who died here April 6, 1645. Robert Burton, the learned'
author of the " Anatomy of Melancholy," was his brother.
This manor passed from Cassibelan Burton, by purchase, to
Botham, of Mickleover, co. Derby, from whom it passed to
Orme of Orme, of Bomaston, who, about 1682, transferred it
to Joseph Werden, of Derby. In 1792, it was the property of
Thomas Hmit, of Castle Hay,
Curzon's descent from Grey,
Henry Grey Baron Powis,
 -"  -,

Richard Grey,:^  Elizabeth, married  Kynaston,

baron Powis,

Of this line the Kynastons derive
their title to the barony.

John Grey, baron Powis:^.
r  -¦ r 
John Grey,=^. . , , John Ann,=^Tho-
baron Powis, | Lud- mas
r  1 low, Ver-
Edw, Grey, last ba- s. p, non,
ron Powis, s, p.

Elizabeth==John Ludlow,

Alice,:

Hum phry
Ver non.

J

n  1 
Thomas Vernon. Elenor.==Francis Curzon.

Henry Vernon, s. p,
r-i— I  -¦ 
John Curzon,
Sir John Curzon, bart.
Sir Nathaniel Curzon,
bart, =f=

Richard
Vernon,s,p.

George Vernon,=p
- I III I  '
John Vernon,
Sir Robert Vernon,
 Vernon,
 Vernon,
Sir Richard Vernon,=F

Harriot Ver
non,

Sir John Curzon, Sir Nathaniel Diana Ver-
bart, s. p, Curzon, bt.=?: non,
y  J
Sir Nathaniel Curzon, bart, created April 9, 1761, baron
Scarsdale. =^
 r
Nathaniel Curzon, baron Scarsdale, 1820,

And Rogeri's another dimid hid, Domesday,

392 THE ANTIQUITIES
time, Stephen Curson held quartam partem feodi. in
Faiiled. I think this Stephen was of Crockeshall, in
Derbyshire : and that either he, or some ancestor of his,
had married a daughter and heir of some younger bro
ther of the Ferrers : for Curson, of Crockeshall, quar-
ters'varry. Or and Gules, a chief Sable, with three horse
shoes Argent.
Although I know Mr. Henry Ferrers', of Badesley, to
be better acquainted with the antiquities of his own
house than myself can be, by any means possible, (being,
as he is so great an antiquary, and having the view of
such a number of good things, and, as all men are,
cannot but be, most inquisitive of his own parentage),
yet since Tutbury, the chief seat of the Ferrers, falleth
out to be in Staffordshire, and that I should leave my
work very imperfect if I should omit it, I will therefore,
under his correction and yours, express the little I know
thereof. First, then, I find that Henry Ferrers, coming in
with the Conqueror, the 20th of his reign, had these
lands following':
Coton was, for a long series, the inheritance of a family of
the same name, who bore Azure, on a chevron Argent three
Catharine wheels Gules. From them it passed to James Blount,
lord Mountjoy, who sold it to Ralph Adderley, a younger son
of Adderley, of Blackhaugh, in whose descendants it yet
(1820) continues. Arras of Coton: Varry, Or and Gules, a
border Sable, charged with three popinjays Argent. Arras of
Adderley : Argent, upon a fess Azure, three lozenges of the
first, charged with three pheons Sable,
' Mr. Henry Ferrers was descended from' the noble family
of Ferrers. See an account of this branch of the Ferrers in
Dugdale's Warwickshire, first edit, p, 712 ; where, in a note,
he complains of the heir to the family, then in existence, for
refusing to contribute towards the expense of engraving the
tomhs of his ancestors. Arms : lozengy. Or and Azure,
' In PirehoUe hundred. Terra Henrici de Ferrers, Hen-

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 393
In Burton, he held half a hide of land, in quS., saith
the record, sedet castellum ejus : so that, by this record,
it would seem, that Tutbury was then reputed to be a
member of Burton; for I cannot perceive any other
likely place near Burton, where the ruins of any such
castle appear ; and besides, Tutbury being within three
miles of Burton, is not once named in the record'. So
that surely, by this half hide, which is said to be
Burton, the town, priory, and castle, of Tutbury, are
meant. He is said also, in the said record, to hold Rolveston,
Merchampton, Edgaresley, Draicote, Feled, Morton,
and Chebbesie.
He held also, de com. Rog, Montgomerici, Tickeshall,
In Henry the Third'stime he" had also added to his
barony Utcester, Crachesmers, Clifton, Hornulveston,
Strangeshull, Checkle}', Crochesden, Wolstanton, and
New Castle. But whether they were given him to in
crease his barony by the Conqueror, or some of the suc
ceeding kings, or that they descended to him by the
marriage of the earl of Chester's sister and heir, as
Chartley, and the tenure of Sandon did, I know not.
This Henry founded the priory of Tutbury, pro anima
Will'i regis, et Matildae reginse, et pro salute animae pa
tris sui, et matris, et uxoris Bertse, et filiorum suorum,
Engenulfi, Will'i, et Roberti, et filiarum suarum ; where
was a monument made for him, having this inscription
upon it:
ricus de Ferrers habet castellum de Toteberie. In burgo circa
castellum sunt 42 homines, de mercato suo tant' viventes, et
reddunt cum foro 4 libros et 10 solidos. Domesday.
GuUelmus primus, anno 1070, Henrico Gualchelini de Fer
rariis filio, castrum Stutesburie (quod Hugo de Abrincis pri
mus tenuerat) concessit. Order, Vital, p, 522,
' An extraordinary omission of " Toteberie" in the copy,
from which Erdeswick wrote, S, P-W,
s Or his successors, *

394 THE ANTIQUITIES
Hie jacet Henricus de FerrarUs, comes, hujus-s
Ecclesiae fundator, imago, nomine cujus I Ano 1089.
Anno miUeno domini quatuor atque viceno J 2 W. Rufus.
Tutburiaeque novo domus est fundata patrono.
I find also a confirmation made, per Rob'tum de Fer
rariis, filium, et haeredem, nobilis viri Will'i de Ferrariis,
comit. Derbiae, Deo, et beatse Mariae, et ecclesie de
Tutburie, et monachis, ibidem Deo servientibus, de
omnibus quiecunque Hen. de Ferrariis fundator ejus
dem ecclesiae, sen Engenulf. de Ferrariis, vel Rob. de
Ferrariis, vel al. Rob. de Ferrariis, vel Will'us de
Ferrariis, vel al. Will'us de Ferrariis, avus suus, vel
Will'us de Ferrariis, pater suus, sive aliquis anteces-
sorum suorum dederunt.
So that by this confirmation, and the foundation be
fore, it appears that Henry de Ferrers' had issue Enge-
' Henry de Ferrers", son of Wakeline, came into=pBerta.
England with the Conqueror. j
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r I I I T
Engenulf, WUliam, Robert,=p  Gundred. Emmelyn.
s, p, s, p, I
r  ¦¦  n  -^  1 ,
William, s. p, * Robert, earl Ferrers,^. . . Wakelyn de Ferrers.

» Henry Ferrieres, or de Ferrariis, took his name from the castle of
Ferrieres, in Normandy. He was one of the commissioners appointed by
the Conqueror to the important employment of making the general sur
vey of England, recorded in Domeday Book, He was the son of Walche-
line de Ferriers a baron of great wealth and power, and possessing twenty
lordships in Berks, five in Essex, three iu Wilts, seven in Oxfordshire, six
in Warwickshire, two in Lincolnshire, two in Buckinghamshire, one in
Gloucestershire, one in Herefordshire, three in Hampshire, three in
Nottinghamshire, thirty-five in Leicestershire, one hundred and fourteen
in Derbyshire, besides the castle of Tutbury, where he resided, and seven
in Staffordshire.
l" Robert de Ferrers succeeded Henry, his father, in 1139, and stiled
himself Comes de Ferrariis and de Nottingham. He was a great bene
factor to the abbey of Merevale, co. Warwick, which he founded, and in
which his body was deposited, wrapped in an ox's hide, according to his
desire.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 395
nulf, William, and Robert; and it would seem that both
Engenulf and WiUiam died .without issue, and that
a
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Robert, earl Ferrers.:^. . . .
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•= William, earl Ferrers.=p. . . .
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William, earl Ferrers.:^ 
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"• WiiUam, earl Ferrers and Derby.sp a

c William de Ferrers certified, 12 Hen. II. on levying the aid for the
marriage of the king's daughter, that he held seventy-nine knights' fees
(about as many times seven hundred acres), for which he paid sixty-eight
marks. He accompanied king Richard I, tb the Holy Land ; on whose
return, at his second coronation, he was one of the four noblemen who
carried the canopy over the king's head. He was in great favour with
king John, and was one of the witnesses to that charter by which John
gave up his kingdom to the Pope. By his marriage he obtained all the
land between the Ribble and Mersey, in Lancashire, which had formerly
belonged to Richard de Puitou, third son of Roger de Montgomery, the
great earl of Shrewsbury; also the manor of Chartley. He died 31
Hen. III. M. Paris affirms that he lived in marriage with his wife seventy-
five years.
<1 By his first wife he had seven daughters ; and by his second, two
sons. William, the younger, resided at Groby, co. Leicester, which was
part of his mother's inheritance; died in 1204, and was buried in the
abbey of Merevale. From him descended the family of Ferrers, barons of
Grob^. William, the fifth and last baron of that race, died in 1445,
leaving two sons, Henry and Thomas. Henry died before his father,
leaving by his wife, Elizabeth Mowbray, daughter of Thomas duke of
Norfolk, an only daughter and heiress, who married sir Edward Grey,
second son of Reginald, lord Grey de Ruthin. , Sir Edward Grey was sum
moned to parliament as lord Ferrers of Groby, 27 Hen. VI. and was suc
ceeded by sir John Grey, who married the daughter of Woodville, earl
Rivers. He was slain at the battle of St. Albans, 39 Hen. VI. leaving two
sons, sir Thomas and sir Richard Grey. Their mother became queen of
Edw. IV. Richard was beheaded at Pomfret by order of king Richard III.
Thomas was created earl of Huntingdon and marquis of Dorset ; and his
grandson Henry, was created duke of Suffolk by king Edw. VI. He was
the father of the accomplished and unfortunate lady Jane Grey, and was
himself beheaded on Tower-hill.
In the reign of James I. sir Henry Grey, nephew of the duke of Suffolk,
became baron Grey of Groby ; and his grandson, lord Grey, was by king
Charles I. created earl of Stamford, from whom the present earl is de
scended.

396 THE ANTIQUITIES
Robert de Ferrers had issue Robert, who had issue Wil
liam, who had issue another William, who had issue
a
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^ Robert, earl Ferrers and Der- WiUiam de Ferrers, lord of
by, lost his estate, temp. Groby, ob. 16 Edward I.
Hen. III. and died 1278.
John, baronFerrers, of Chartley. WiUam, baron of Groby, 18
Edw. II.
Robert, baron Ferrers, of Chart- Henry, baron of Groby, ob.
ley. 17 Edw. III.
John, baronFerrers, of Chartley, William, baron of Groby, ob.
44 Edw. III.
Robert baron Ferers, of Chart- Henry, baron of Groby, ob.
ley. 1 1 Ric, II,
Edmund, baron Ferrers, of William, baron of Groby, ob,
Chartley, 23 Hen, VI,
William, baronFerrers, of Chart- Thomas, lord Tamworth,
ley,
Agnes, daughter and heir, mar- Sir Thomas Ferrers, knt,
ried sir John Devereux f.
« Robert was the. last earl of this great family, and his vast estates,
now called the duchy of Lancaster, came to the crown. From him de
scended, by the female line — 1. The family of Devereux, viscounts Here
ford and earls of Essex. 2. The family of Shirley, now earl Ferrers, and
owners of Chartley. 3. The present marquis Townsend, who, in right of
his grandmother, wife of the first marquis, and great great grand-daugh
ter of earl Ferrers, enjoys the barony of Ferrers dc Chartley and the
castle of Tamworth. This castle descended, by a female, from the Mar
mions, its ancient possessors, to the Freviles; and from them, in like
manner, to a branch of the family of Ferrers. The male line of this
illustrious name is still preserved in the person of Edward Ferrers, esq. of
Baddesley, co. Warwick, who is lineally descended from sir Henry Fer
rers, knt. secund son of sir Thomas Ferrers and Elizabeth Freviie, and
who is married to a daughter of the second marquis Townsend j by which,
after a separation of above three hundred years, the two lines were again
united. Robert, the last earl of Derby, married, 1st, Mary, daughter of
Hugh le Brun, earl of Angouleme, and niece to king Henry III. by whom
he had no issue ; 2d. a daughter of lord Basset, by whom he had a son,
w ho was called sir John de Ferrers of Chartley.
' Sir John Devereux was summoned to parliament 2 Edw. IV. 1460,
as lord Ferrers of Chartley. He was slain at Bosworth Field,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 397
a third William, who had issue Robert, that made the
confirmation.

S John Devereux, baron Fer- Sir John Ferrers, knt,
rers, of Chartley.
Walter, first viscount Hereford, ' Sir John Ferrers, knt.
created by Edw. VI.
Sir Richard Devereux. Sir Humphry Ferrers, km,
•' Walter, viscount Hereford, Sir John Ferrers, knt.
created earl of Essex.
> Robert, earl of Essex. Sir Humphry Ferrers, knt,
1" Robert, earl of Essex, Sir John Ferrers, knt,
Dorothy, sister and heir to Ro- Sir Humphry Ferrers, knt,
bert, earl of Essex, married
sir Henry Shirley.
Sir Robert Shirley, bart., obut Sir John Ferrers, knt.
1656,
'Robert, baron of Chartley, Sir Humphry Ferrers,
summoned to parliament, as knt,
lord Ferrers. I

Robert Shirley. =pAnn Ferrers '", heir to her grandfather.
Elizabeth Shirley, baroness de=pjames Compton, earl of
Ferrars. | Northampton.
I  '
Charlotte Compton, ba-=pGeorge Townsend, viscount Towns-
roness de Ferrars. j end, marquess Townsend, 17S7.

8 John, married the sister and heiress of Henry Bourchier, earl of
Essex. h Walter, died in Ireland, 18 Eliz. 1576.
• Robert was the great favourite of queen Elizabeth. His history is
well known.
* Robert, the last earl of Essex, commanded the parliamentary
forces against king Charles I. and died without issue in 1646. The title
of viscount Hereford descended to sirWalter Devereux, grandson of Walter,
first viscount, from whom the present viscount Hereford is descended.
' According to the ancient writ of summons in 1298. He was after
wards created viscount Tamworth and earl Ferrers.
"" By this marriage, the estates of the two branches of Ferrers,
Chartley and Groby, were again reunited, after a lapse of more than four
centuries.

398 THE ANTIQIUTIES
This Robert was the man that overthrew the greatness
of his house by joining with Simon Montfort, earl of
Leicester, and the rest of the barons, against king

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George Townsend, baron de Ferrars,=j=Charlotte EUiker, of
created earl of Leicester, 1784. | Risby, co. York.
I  '
George, marquess Townsend^  Gardner,
Robert Shirley, baron of Chartley, created Earl Ferrers.
Robert Shirley, married Ann Ferrers, heir to her grand
father, Washington, second son of Robert, earl Ferrers, who raarried
Mary Levings, was second eari,
Henry, next brother, was third earl, unraarried,
Laurence, next brother, was fourth earl, married Mary
Meredith, Washington, next brother, was fifth earl, married Anne
EUiot, Robert, next brother, was sixth earl, married Catherine
Cotton, of Etwall, co. Derby.
Robert, son of Robert, sixth earl, is seventh and present
earl, raarried Elizabeth Prentise,
Robert Sewallis, viscount Taraworth, married Sophia-Caro
line, daughter of Nathaniel, lord Scarsdale,
THE SAXON LINE, THE NORMAN LINE,
Algar, seventh earl of Leices- Robert Bellomont, earl of Lei-
ter, ob. 10.59. cester, 1118.
Lucia, sister and heir of Mor- Robert, second earl of Leiees-
car and Edwin, earls of ter, ob, 116S.
Leicester, married Ra
nulph de Meschins, earl of
Chester.
Ranulf, second earl of Ches- Robert, third earl of Leicester,
ter, ob. 1 ] 53. baron of Groby and Hinckley,
ob. 1190.
Hugh, third earl of Chester, Margaret, sister and heir of
ob. 1181. Robert, third earl of Leices
ter, raarried Saier de Quincey,
earl of Winchester.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. S99
Henry III. for which offence he was fined fifty thousand
pounds (which fine the king gave to his son Edmund),
for the payment whereof there entered into bonds, as
mancupators for the said sum, Henry, son of Richard,
king of the Romans, cousin-german to the said Ed
mund, William de. Valence, earl of Pembroke, uncle to
the said Edmund; John de Warren, earl of Surrey ; Wil
liam Beauchamp, earl of Warwick ; Roger de Somery,
Thomas de Clare, Robert Walronde, Roger Clifford,
Hamon Strange, Bartholomew de Sudeleghe, and Ro
bert Bruce ; all knights and (I also take it) barons ; to
be paid, simul et semel, in uno die, sc't quindeno
Joh'is Baptistse proxime sequen. : which Robert, for
the saving of the said noble men harmless, granted
by his deed to them all his lands (except the manors
of Chartley in Staffordshire, and Holbroc in Derby
shire,) until the said sum of fifty thousand pounds,
to the said Edmund, were paid ; and, if the said sum
were not paid at the day, that then it should be lawful
for them to grant the said lands unto the said Edmund,
until the said sum were paid.
I have also seen a copy of a supplication to this
effect' : — Significat sanctitati vestrae Joh'es de Ferra
riis, fil. et haeres Roberti de Ferrars, olim com, Derb.
q'd pro servienti guerra, et dictus Rob'tus tradidit ter
ram annul valoris trium millium librar. sterling. Ed-
mundo filio regis Henrici, sibi et haeredibus suis, donee
idem Rob'tus, vel hseredes sui, solverent praefato Ed-
Agnes, sister and coheir of Roger Quincey, earl of Win-
Ranulf, married WiUiam Chester, ob. 1264.
de Ferrers, earl of Ferrers i__^
and Derby. I

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William, earl of Ferrers=Margaret, daughter and heir of Ro-
and Derby, ger, eari of Winchester,
' To the Pope. Bishop Lyttleton.

400 THE ANTIQUITIES
mundo, sive haeredibus suis, simul ac semel, uno die,
quinquaginta millia librarum sterlingorum.
Sunt nonnulli Angliai praelati, qui ejusdem Joh'is
moleste ferentes incommoda, eidem aliquid dfe bonis suis
contribuere curarent, quo citius dictam pecuniam satis-
facere possit, si auderent propter pasnam nuper a vobis
editam in contrarium,
Supplicat idem Joh'es Sanctitati vestrae, et praelati in
hac parte, ut affectionem in ipsum Joh'em valeant adim-
plere, dignemini auctoritate apostolica indulgere.
Moreover, I find that. Quant; E, fils le roy prist sa
conge d'alleren la terre seint et soy conseila du roy H.
son p^re, il eust pitie del dit countie Rob. de Ferrers, et
vient a Wallingford, et delivera le countie hors de la
haute tour, et lui bailla son noir Pallefra.
I find also, after his offence committed, and before
things came to this extremity, viz. 50 Hen, III. that
Rob'tus de Ferrers, comes Derb, liberavit in Gardrio-
bum regis unum Pottum auri cum lapidibus preciosis,
pro gratia regis habenda. But it would not do,
Tutbury castle ' is a goodly ancient house, walled on
>
' The castle is supposed to have been anterior to the Nor
man Conquest, and perhaps was the residence of Ulfric Sprott,
the founder of Burton Abbey, as it belonged to him. In 1269
it was forfeited by Robert de Ferrers, earl of Derby, by his
rebellion against Hen, III. who bestowed it on his son Ed
mund, earl of Lancaster. In 1322 it was again seized by the
Crown, by the rebellion of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, who
fortified it against Edw, II, He lay at Burton abbey when the
royal army advanced against him. The king being prevented
from passing over Burton bridge, crossed the Trent at Walton,
and Tutbury castle was obliged to surrender, and was demo
lished. It was rebuilt and enlarged by John of Gaunt, in 1350,
This magnificent residence of the dukes of Lancaster was long
distinguished as the scene of splendour and festivity, and
crowds of minstrels assembled here to contend for pre-emi-

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 401
all sides but one, where the hill is so steep (for it stands
on a high hill, and steep on all sides except one), that it
needs not, with respect to fortification, any wall there,
and yet it is inclosed with a high strong pale there also.
The house, and gatehouse (being a fair one), and
walls, and all, were builded, I think, by John of Gaunt,
duke of Lancaster. Although, I know, there was an
nence, and contribute to the entertainments. Mary, queen of
Scots, was confined here in October, 1568, and continued till
November, 1569, under the care of George Talbot, earl of
Shrewsbury, when she was removed to Coventry. After en
during a series of indignities for several years, at different
places, she was again removed to Tutbury in March 1585,
where she remained till the close of the following winter, when
she was conveyed to Chartley, and from thence to Fotheringay
castle, the scene of her trial and execution. During the civil
war it was garrisoned for the king, but was taken by the par
liamentary forces; and an order of the parliament, in 1646,
finally reduced this splendid edifice almost to its present ruinous
condition. Here was a monastery of Cluniac monks, founded by
Henry de Ferrers, in the tirae of the Conqueror. WilUam II.
conferred upon it extensive possessions. Berta, his father's
wife, gave the town of Doveridge, and manor of Estanfort ;
Robert, earl de Ferrers, gave the tithes of Newborough, The
parish-church forms part of the ancient priory, the west en
trance of which is richly adorned with Saxon architecture. At
the Dissolution it was granted to sir WiUiam Cavendish, and is
now (1820) the property of his descendant, the duke of De
vonshire, Monk's Bridge was built by John Stafford, abbot of
Burton, between 1260 and 1280, The IkenUd-street passes
this way into Derbyshire, The ceremony of electing a king of
the minstrels, and of buU-hunting, has been discontinued. Sir
Simon Degge, knt. was steward of this manor for many years.
Richard Wakefield, who had been town-clerk of Lichfield for
forty years, and was a great benefactor to that city, left also
lands and tithes of great value, to the poor here. GUbert
Wakefield, the critic, was of this family. Tutbury was once a
parUamentary borough. Oldfield, vol. VI. p. 312.
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402 THE ANTIQUITIES
ancient house and castle there before, but I think it was
decayed. by reason of the rebellion which Thomas earl
of Lancaster made, who before his overthrow fortified it
against the king.
It stands, as I have said, on a high steep hill ; and
somewhat lower (yet a good height) upon the same hill,
the priory stood (being' now the house of Henry Caven
dish), and the town below, in a valley under them both,
upon Dove bank.
The hill is, as it were, thrown out of the forest (a great
woodland and a high ground) into the meadows and
brave pasture-grounds, both upon Dove and Trent, It
hath a large and brave prospect both to it, in it, and
from it. North-west and north it looks up the goodly
meadows and pastures to Utcester, Rowcester, Ash
bourn, and Derby. Eastward, it looks down the rivers
Dove and Trent, even to Nottingham. South-east,
towards Burton, Drakelow, Greseley castle, and Ashby-,
de-la-Zouch. Upon the south-west and south it is sha
dowed, as it were, by the woodlands, where is a goodly
forest, and a great number of parks, I think, a dozen at
the least, whereof many belong to the said castle and
honour, and a great part of the country about it are
homagers, and hold thereof.
The Ferrers (as you may perceive before) were owners
of it from the Conquest, until that this Robert (before
spoken, of) forfeited it, as I have rehearsed, the de
scent of whose posterity is set down where I speak of
Chartley, By descent in blood, Robert, now earl of Essex, is
heir to Robert Ferrers, who forfeited it; and if it
be lawful for me to say so much, the gentleman
being, so brave a soldier, and daily serving his prince
and country in so many noble enterprizes as he un
dertakes, it were a gracious and magnificent work

OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 403
in her majesty to restore his castle and the appen-
dances unto him, having been anciently the. inhe-'
ritance of his ancestors; and although it may be ob
jected, that, being now a member of the duchy of Lan
caster, it were a great inconvenience to disfurnish the
said duchy of it ; yet let it be considered again, that it
came to the crown from this nobleman's ancestors, and
the means by which it came, and the greatness which
the duchy is of otherwise, this small portion will be no
great blemish unto it.
Underneath Tutbury, at the meeting of Trent and
Dove, between them both, is Roleston'. Henry de
Ferrers, 20 Conq, held it of the king. It is, and hath

' RoUeston was once appendant to the abbey of Burton,
and afterwards to the priory of Tutbury. By a charter dated in
1008, Ethelred gave it in exchange for the villages of Eldes-
wirthe and Elfredinton, to abbot Wulfget, The boundaries
are minutely described in the charter. Temp. Edw, the Con->
fessor, it was the lordship of earl Torti, at whose death the
king gave it to Morcar, earl of Northumberland, William the
Conqueror gave it to Henry de Ferrers. It ,was forfeited to
the Crown, ,in 1269, by Robert de Ferrers, last earl of Derby
of that name, who was taken prisoner in 1266, at the battle of
Chesterfield. The name of the family of RoUeston is found in the confir
mation charter of Robert, second earl Ferrers, to the priory
of Tutbury, The raanor was possessed by this family till it
was purchased by sir Edward Moseley, knt, attorney-general
of the duchy of Lancaster, and younger son of sir Nicholas
Moseley, knt. lord mayor of London, who died in 1612, It
is now (1820) the property of sir Oswald Moseley, bart. Os
wald Moseley, 12 WiU, and Mary, and 1 Geo, I, ; and sir
Oswald Moseley, bart, 55 Geo, III, were sheriffs of the county.
Arms of RoUeston: Argent, a cinquefoU Azure, on a chief
Gules a lion passant guardant Or, Arms of Moseley : Sable,
on a chevron Argent three mullets Gules between three mill-
pecks Argent. D D 2

404 THE ANTIQUITIES
beep Iqng, the seat of a gentleman that takes his name
of t}ie place, whom I imagine originally to have been a
IVIutton ; and that being a. younger brother, changed
his Ra?r^e, when he became lord of this town, which his
armory induceth me to think, being a cinquefoil blue,
^nd differs only from the coat of Mutton, by having a
red chief charged with a lion passant guardant Gold ;
which chief was added, that he might thereby differ
from the elder house, given, as it should seem, by some
of the Lancastrians since they came to have the. Ferrers'
revenues : and yet I have seen yery old monuments of
the coat ^nd chief ; especially one in glass, in Adbas
ton churcti, so old, that a man would think it to be
of Henry the Third's time, and therefore, I think,
set up by the first owners of Roleston, being of this
house. And now, having through this shire in a short and
brief sort, but as mijich as my little knowledge yet ex
tends unto (though I be in hopes to enlarge it some
thing ere it be long), I would gladly confer with you
upon one point more ; which is : —
Since the shire consists of five hundreds, and every
hundred of several cqnstablewicks, viz. PirehiU, wherein
are Offlow, Cathelarton, Seysdone, and Tatmoaslow, I
would first fain know your opinion whether there were,
at the beginning, when the shireS were first divided,
any hereditary earls of the said counties, in manner as
the names do import ? and as there is a certairi shadow,
by naming of divers to be earls, some of one county
and some of another, though many times the said earls
have little or no lands in the shires, whereof they take
their title or dignity, or that the said shires were dis
posed of to some men at the prince's pleasure, to remain
officers for a time, as for life, or certain years, or biit for
one year, as now the sheriffs do }

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 40S
Since the Conquest, a man niay perceive by the re-
icOtds, that there have been sheriffs of every shire, coro-
iiersj and other officers, who have, by the princes) beerl
removeable at their pleasure ; and yet there have been
justices in itiiiere, ahd of th& benches, Stc, also, from tiine
to time^ at the priilce's appointment. But whether it ivai
so established by Egbert, Alfred, or Edward, wfhefa they
had brought it into a inonarchy, and shired it out into
patts; or that they appointed earls in eVery coUnty,
which had an inheritance therein, and had jUrisdictioiii
as by the county court and sheriff's turns it would seem
it had, is the question I desire to be resolved of.
The hundreds likewise, whether they were bardllies,
and that certain had them, whereby they held their hun
dred courts (being bbth court-leets and court-barohs) or
hot, is the like question.
And surely, methinks, the said huiidreds should not^
at the first, be jumbled together with the sheriffs' juris
diction ; nor that so mean men, as ever since the Con
quest, have been sheriffs and bailiffs of hundreds, should
have such eminent jurisdiction as those officers wouldy
at the beginning, seem to have. As for my part, there
fore, I rather conjecture, that upon uniting of the king
dom into a monarchy, the kings placed their greater no-
blemeii (as being either their sons, kinsmen, or otherwise
allied, or wise and faithful unto them,) in the government
of the counties, and gave them jurisdiction, and made
them hereditary ; and also, either at the desire of the
said earls, appointed their kinsmen or friends, or others,
at their pleasure, under them, to hold the hundreds
over, as they did.
How can it come else to pass, that by the ancient
Jaws of this land, an earl's fee should be set down so
fcertainily what it is, and likewise a baton's fee i And
why should they be compelled to pay them, if they

406 THE ANTIQUITIES
should not have earldoms and baronies, but were only
called by writ to the parliament house, as of late time
they have been; and as I have known many, both
antiquaries and lawyers, hold opinion, that it should be
the most ancient means, whereby noblemen were erected,
which surely cannot be so; for, how should it then
come to pass, that such a man, and such, should have
such manors and such, by an earl's or a baron's fee.
But this I do conjecture it to be, that at the first
uniting the heptarchy of the Saxons, and the shir-
ing out of the kingdom, it was first divided into shires,
and the shires again into Hundreds, as it fell out, in
some more, in some less ; which shires the king gave, as
I have said, to such as he pleased, and to their heirs, to
hold of him by an earl's fee. And that likewise the said
earls granted the hundreds to other persons, and their
heirs, to hold by a baron's fee. And they again, over
manors and townships, likewise to be holden by knights'
fees. And that, after (partly through the invasion of
the Danes, and treachery, and rebellion of the nobility),
the government being troubled, and all things out of
order, the kings were forced to restore the liberties of
many. And the Conqueror, finding things out of order,
and the government uncertain, framed his estates, as he
thought best, for the keeping both of his nobility, and
inferior subjects, in obedience; and so framed justices
in the courts, and itinere, and bailiffs, or sheriffs, of
shires, who should only have authority by commission
from him, revocable, without the breach of any law, at
pleasure : and yet cunningly framed a certain form of
ancient government ; but so mingled his nobility, that
the greatest had not in any one county (except the
county palatines), any absolute authority ; but had
divers, his equals in the same county, so placed with
him, that, without a general revolt both of the nobiUty

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 407
and inferiour subjects, any rebellion could be hardly
practised ; when no one had any absolute government,
but removeable upon any displeasure, or but suspicion
of infidelity. And those of great living are without ju
risdiction, except it pleased the prince for a time to
grant them any ; and, as I have said, were so placed,
as both such as had government by commission, or
others ; and that a good convenient number in every
place, where they had lands ; and their own lands were
also dispersed into several counties ; and not the same
in every county joined, but others placed with them :
that, as I have said, without a great disliking and gene
ral revolt, both of the great estates, officers that were
temporary, and the plebeians altogether, no danger of
rebellion could possibly be practised in any sort, but
that it might be discovered and prevented ; except that
the prince was so simple and negligent, as yielded him
impotent for government. And yet, in a sort, the Con
queror, in his division, though not in jurisdiction, imi
tated the ancient estate of the land, as you may perceive
by the allotment in Staffordshire ; where, reserving to
himself a greater portion than any of his subjects had;
for though he had not so many lordships, or manors, in
number, as some of them had, yet were they greater,
larger, and best inhabited by likelihood ; for they lay,
the most of them, in the midst and fruitfuUest places in
the county ; the greatest part of the rest be divided into
five parts (as though they had been Hundreds, but they
were not), between the Bishop, Comes Rogerius Mont
gomerici, Henric' de Ferrariis, Rob'tus de Stadford, and
WiU'us, filius Ansculfi, What was either in any clergy
man's hands, or lay, were nothing so many, and divided
into smaller allotments, as may be seen in the book,
called Domesday, kept amongst the records of his
majesty's exchequer; a brief whereof I have annexed

408

THE ANTIQUITIES

hereuritor, that you may see the policy of the Conqueror,
who would seem, in shew, to follow the ancient laws
and government, but, in substance, quite altered it;
which' after bred great contentions, and sometimes open
wars, between his successors and their subjects, as all
histories do plainly shew.

Terra Regis.

Swinesford. Cocretone.
Totehala.Contone,
Wisteuuic, Billestune. Bresmundescote.

[Modern Names,]
King's Swinford.
Cocretone,
Tettenhall, .
Compton.Whitwick.
Bilston. Bescote.

' The Norman compilers of Domesday-book, not well under
standing the Saxon Alphabet, have made great mistakes in the
names of places. T. B.
Bishop Littleton had a list of the names of places collated
with a MS transcript of Domesday, by Wyrley. T. B.
Hie annotant, tenentes terras in Stadfordscire.

1, Rex Willielraus.
2, Ep's de Cestre.
3. Abbatia Westmonast'.
4. Abbatia Bertonensis.
5. Eccl'a S. RemigU Rera'sis.
6. Canonici de Stadford et
de Handone.
7, Sanson Clericus,
8, Comes Rogerius,

9, Hugo de Montgomerici,
10, Henricus de Ferrieres.
11. Robertus de Stadford.
12. WiU'us filius Ansculfi.
13. Ricardus Forestarius,
14. Rainald' Balgiole,
15. Radulf filius Hub'ti,
16, Nigellus.
17. Chenuin et aUi Taini.

By the " Terra Edwardi Regis," is raeant, demesne lands
formerly belonging to king Edward: and " Terrae Regis" means
lands forfeited by those who took the side of Harold against
the Conqueror.
The record, caUed Nomiria ViUarum, often quoted by Erdes
wick, was taken 9 Ed. II. 1315.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE,

409

Wadnesberie. Blocheswic. Scelfeld.Pancriz.
Turgarestone. Draitone. Comegrave. Dunestone.Coulau. Beficote.Trenham, Wigetone. Winehala,
Alrewas. Bromelei.Scandone. Cer telle.
Wlstanetone. Pinchetel. Rowecestre. Crachemers.Wotocheshede. Bertone. Lee. ^
Rugelei. Medevelde. Mera, Chenet, Eleford, Chenevare, Patingham, Clistone, Draitone,Opewas,

[The Modern Names.]
Wednesbury. Bloxwich. Sheffield,Penkridge. Uggerson, or Wolgaston.
Drayton. Congreve. Dunston. Cowley.
Bescote. Trentham. Wigginton,
Willenhall, Alrewas. King's Bromley,
Sandon, Chartley. Wolstanton,PenkhuU.Rocester, Crakemarsh, Uttoxeter. Barton under Needwood.
Leek,Rugeley, Mayfield, Maer, Chenet, Elford. Kinver.Pattingham. Clifton. Drayton, near Tamworth.
Hopwas.

410

THE ANTIQUITIES

Horulvestone.
Bidolf.Buchenole.
Aclei, Heolla,Mess.Scelfitone.
Hetone.
Fuleford. Melewich.Cote.Hentone,
Hildulvestune, Cotewoldestune.
Helcote. Estone.
Wodetone. Stantone,
Musedene, Sceon.
Stanesope,Fernelege, Elvetone,Denestone, Cuneshala,Cedla.Niwetone,
Lufamesles,Fotesbroc, Enedun,Rugehala,Rudierd,
Risetone.

[The Modern Names.]
Harlaston.
Biddulph.
Bucknall.Oakley, near Elford.
Heyley.
Millmeese. Shelton. Heaton.
Fulford. .
Milwich.
Cotes.
Haunton.
Hilderston.Cotwalton.Hilcot.
Aston, near Stone.
Woodeaton. Stanton, in the Moorlands,
Museden Q,
Sheen,Stanshop.Farley,
Ellerton Grange,
Denston,
Cunsall. Cheadle.
Newton.
Lufamesles Q,
Fosbrook.Endon. Rudge,Rudyard,
Rushton.

Breude, Bercheswic,
Waletone,
Actone, Broctone,Bedehala. Haiwode".
Hustedone. Ulselei.
Frodeswelle. Ecleshelle', Offeleia,
Fletesbroc,
Cervernest, Ceter ville,
Dorueslau,
Cerueledone,Cerletone, Cota,
Mess, '
Badehale. Slindone.
Broctone,
Hareborgestone. Haspeleia,
Crochestone,
Edelachestone ',
Lecefelle,
Padintone,Duse Hameruuich.
Tichebroc,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE,
Terra Ep'i de Cestre.
[The Modern Names.]

411

Brewood,Baswich. Walton.
Acton. Brocton.
Bednal, Haywood.
Hixon or Hickson.
Wolseley.Frodswell.Eccleshall.
OfHey.Flashbrook. Charnes. Chatkill.
Dodsley.
Charlton,
Charlton, or Chawton,
Coton or Cotes,
Millmeese,Bednal,Slindon.Brocton.
Horsley.
Aspley. Croxden.
Ellaston."Lichfield.Packington.Two Hammerwiches.
Stichbrook.

S'c's Cedde tenuit.

412

THE ANTIQUITIES

Nortone.
Wereleia. Rouueleia,
Scoteslei,
Mortone.Dregetone.Sotehelle ',
Bramelie,
Podemore.Tunestal.Suesneshed.
Linehalle.
Waletone.
Edboldestone. Wodestone.Chnitestone. Cesteforde.
Estone.Dochesig.
Bridgeford,
Cote.Hortone.Tamahore. Hadesacre.
Hintes, Lochesale,
Riduuare.Weforde.Burouestone.
Litelbeck". Fraiforde.
Timmor. Horebome.

[The Modern Names.]
Norton,
Wirley.Rowley.
Scotesley.Morton, near Wolseley.
Drineton.Suggenhall.Gerrard-Bromley.
Padmore.Tunstall.
Swineshed.
Linehill.
Walton, near Chebsey.
Adbaston. Woodeaton.
Chesterton.
Seighford.
Aston, near Stafford.
Doxsey.
Bridgeford.
Coton, or Cotes.
Horton, in Fisherwick Park.
Tamhorn. Handsacre.Hints.
Locksall.Pipe-Ridware.
Weeford.
Burweston.
Littlebench'' Q.
Freeford.
Timmore. Harborn.

' Perhaps SogeheUe.

Perhaps Littlehay.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 4iy
[The Modern Names.]
Smedeuuich. Smethwick.
Tibintone. Tipton,
Terra SVi Petri Westmohasf.
Pertone. Perton.
Terra S'cee Marie de Bertone.
In Stadford 1 hid. et _ „
dim. ^*^^°'^'^-

Brantestone'.

Branston.

Witmere.

Whitmoor, near Burton

Stratone.

Stretton.

Brunlege.

Abbots-Bromley,

Derlavestone,

Darlaston,

Lege.

Leigh,

Acovre.

Okeover,

Witestone,

Whis,ton,

Beddintone,

Bedinton,

Terra S'c'i Remigii.

Mepford.

Mayford, near Stone,

Rideware.

Ridware,

Canonici de Statford.
In Statford civitat, 3 c-^ «• j
, , Stafiord,
hid,^ Terra Clericorum de Handone.'
De Sanson 1 hid,
Ernelege, Arley,
Biscopesberie, Bishbury,
Cote, Coton,
Totenhale, Tettenhall,
' Brantestone, comitissa Godeva tenuit.
^ In Statford civitate habet rex 13 canonicos prebendarios,
et tenet 3 hid. de rege in elemosina.
' Wolverhampton. .

414

THE ANTIQUITIES

[The Modern Names,]

Bilrebroch.

Bilbrook,

Haswic,

Haswic Q,

Wadnesfelde. Wednesfield.

Winenhale,

Willenhall.

Peleshale,

Pelshall.

Iltone,

Hilton.

Hocintune,

Hocintone Q.

Sanson tenet de Rege.

Hargedone,

Hatherton.

Chenwardestone, Kinnerston,

Haltone,

Hilton.

Ferdestan,

Fetherston.

Pancriz.

Penkridge.

Geneshale,

Gnosall.

Terra comitis Rogerii.
Claverlege,
Claverley.
Nordlege,
Norley.
Alvidelege,
Alveley.
Cobintone.
Cobintone Q.
Halas,
Hales, near Tirley,
Chenistelei,
Knightley,
Mortone,
Morton,
Otne,
Otne.
Mertone,
Merston, near Lapley,
Nortberie,
Norbury,
Waltone.
Walton,
Erlide.
Yariet, near Stone.
Gaitone,
Gayton.
Cote.
Cotes.
Coltone.
Colton, near Rugeley,
Colt.
Ridvare,
Hamstall-Ridware.
Lochelei.
Loxley.
OF STAFFORDSHIRE.

415

Cressvale,
Dodintone,
Modredeshale.
Almentone,
Ticheshale. Metford.Esselie.
Ridvare.
Blidevelt,
.Snestanefelt,Wereslei. Celtetone.
Bechesword.
Seneste.

[The Modern Names.]
Cresswell. Derington.
Modersall.
Amington. Tixall.Mayford, near Stone.
Ashley.Mavesyn-Ridware.
Blithfield.
Alstonfield. Warslow.
Charlton.
Bechesworth Q.
Shenston.

Terra Hugotiis de Montgumeri.
Wrfeld. ; Worfield.
Terra Henrici de Ferieres.

Toteberie'.Burtone.
Rolvestune.
Merchamtone,
Edgareslege,Draicote,
Felede,"Mortune,Cebbesio',

Tutbury. Burton near Stafford.
RoUeston,
Marchington,
Agardsley, Draycot.
Fald,
Morton. Chebsey.

' Henricus de Ferreres habet castellum de Toteberie, In
Burtone habet dim. hid. in qua sedet ejus castellum.
In villa de Burtone habet Radulfus, miles Henrici, &c,
' Totam hanc villam Felede tenuit S'c'a Wareburg de Cestre.
' Ad hoc manerium pertinuit terra de Stadford, in qua rex
precipit fieri castellum, quod modo est destructum.

416

THE ANTIQUITIES

Terra Roberti de Stadford.

Tillintone.
Tene.Grendone.Caldone.
Bughale.
Halstone.
Bradeleia.
Bernertone,
Abetone. Lutiude.
Belintone,
Burtone,Selchemore,Longenalre, Mutone,
Aluerdestone, UUavestone,
Alverdestone, In burgo de Statford,
Waletone,
Estone,
Sandone parva,
Stoca,
Hotone,
Selte,
Ciseworde,Ceppecanole,
Offelie.
Stantone.
Rigge.
Westone.
Mere,
Sulvertone, "

[The Modern Names.]
Tillington. Tane,Grendon,Caldon,
BughaU,
Haughton.Bradeley,
Bernerton Q,
Apeton,Littywood.
Billington,
Burton,Silkmore,
Longnor,
Mitton.
Alston, WoUaston.
Alston,Stafford,
Walton,
Aston, near Stone.
Sandon,Stoke,
Hopton.
Salt,
Ciseworde Q,
Ceppecanole Q.
OfHey.
Stanton. Ridge.
Weston.
Maer, or Mare,
Swinnerton,

OF STAFFORDSHIRE.

417

Nortone.Mad die.
Heltone.
Risetone. Barcardeslim. Estone.Bernulvestone.
Rontone. Cuchesland.Heldulvestone.
Bradelie. Coltune.
Mulewiche.
Ticheshale. Gestreon.Titesoure. Westone. Crotewiche.
Cavreswelle.Madelie'.Branselle. Elachestone.
Blora. Dulverne.
Celle.Bubintone.
Pecleshella.
Ache. Wrotolei.
Acle.
Fricescote. Wicenore.

[The Modern Names.]
Norton.
Madeley.HUton Abbey.
Rushton.
Burslem.
Aston. Bariaston.Ronton, or Raunton.
Cooksland, near Seighford,
Hilderston.Bradeley. Colton.Milwich.
Tixall. Ingestrie. Tittensor.
Weston. Gratwich.
Caverswall.Madeley. Bramshall.
Ellaston. Blore. Dilhorn.
Chell.Bobbington.
Pateshul. Oaken.
Wrottesley. Oaken.Fricescote, Q.
Wichnor.

' Hanc tenuit Godiva etiam per adventum Regis W. in
Angliam ; sed recedere non poterat cum terra.
E E

418

Rideware.Haltone,
Levintone,Wilbrestone, Brunitone,
Brumhelle, Ruscote, Estrenone. Etone.Gragelie. Orietone. Sardone,Cove. Copchale,Serveshed, Eitone, Levehale, Ricardescote.
Bradelie, Monetvile,

THE ANTIQUITIES [The Modern Names,]
Pipe-Ridware. Hilton, Lointon, Wilbrighton. Brineton.Bromhall. Roughcote.
Stretton. Water, or Church Eaton.
Cragley Bank.
Otherton. Sardon. Coven.Copenal.Serveshed, Q.
Eyton, or Eaton.
Ledhal,Ricarscpt, Bradeley, Monetvile, Q,

i I

Terra Willielmi filii Ansculfi.

Segleslei, Morve.
Gatspelle. Penne'. Overtone.Wamburne. Oxelie. Efnefeld.
Cippemore. Himelei. Elmelecote.

Sedgeley. Morfe,Gospel End.
Penn.
Orton, Wombourn,
Oxley, Enville. Cippemore, Q.
Himley.
Amblecote.

Comitissa Godeva tenuit.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE.

419

Treslei,Cocortone.
Seisdone.Etinghale.
Biscopesberie.Pendeford.Moleslei ',
Eseningetone'. Bradeley,
Alrewic, Barra. Rischale,
Pirio.Barre,
Honesworde,

[The Modern Names.]
Tresle, Cocortone, Q,
Seisdon.Etingsal.
Byshbury.
Penford. Moseley. Essington.
Bradeley.
Aldridge. Barr. Rushall.
Perry-Bar. Handsworth.

Willielmus filius Corbucion tenet,
Sibeford. Seighford.
Turstinus tenet,
Draiton. Drayton.
Terra Ricardi Forestar'.

Turvoldesfeld.Witemore,Normanescote. Heneford.
Hancese. Claitone.
Dulmesdene, Clotone,
Redbaldestone.Estendone,

Thursfield, Whitmore,Normacot,
Hanford.Hanchurch. Clayton.Dimsdale.Clayton.
Rodbaston, Essington,

' Comitissa Godeva tenuit,
E E 2

420

THE ANTIQUITIES

[The Modern Names.]

Terra Rainaldi Bailgiole.

Westone,

Weston,

Bertone.

Biterton, near Weston

Brotone.

Broton,

Niwetone,

Newton.

Terra

Radulfi, filii Huberti.

Bretlei,

Bradley.

Chingeslei,

Kingsley.

'

Terra Nigelli.

Torp.

Thorp.

Terra Tainorum Regis.

Codeshale,

Codsal,

Seresdone,

Seisdon.

Bigeford,

Bickford.

Chenet,

Chenet, Q,

Bispestone,

Bishton.

Chenistetone.

Chesterton.

Moclestone,

Muckleston.

Wennitone.

Wennitone, Q,

Betelege,

Betley.

Baltredelege,

Balterley,

Aldidelege.

Audley,

Talc,

Talk.

Westone.

Weston,

Anne,

On.

StagriceshoUe.

Shareshill,

Crochesdene.

Croxden.

Cedla,

Cheadle.

Sceotestan.

Shuston.

Fentone.

Fenton.

Idem NigeUus tenet.

Chingesleia,

Kingsley.

Mortone,

Morton.

OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 421
So that you may perceive, that, in the Conqueror's
time, there were 334 towns, villages, or hamlets, in
com, Stafford, whereof the king retained 55 of the best,
the rest he distributed, to the clergymen 97, and to the
laity 178',
The clergymen's were divided, so as the bishop had
67, which was his barony, and might well serve : for
the abbot of Westminster had but one, the abbot of
Burton nine, the church of St, Remegius three, the
church or Stafford had three hides (which I take at
least to be three townships, though they be not named)
if they were not more ; but yet, because they were not
expressed in the record, I account it but for one), the
church of Hampton twelve.
One Sampson^ (what he was I cannot learn, but, I
take it, he was of some spiritual profession), had six.
Of laymen (Roger de Montgomerici, earl of Salop,
29. Hugo de Montgomerici, three hides, which sure is
three towns about Wrvilde, which I set down but one ;
for the record naming Wrvilde, which is now in Shrop
shire, and so used: so that I think the meaning is, some
hamlets, adjoining to Wrfelde, and then reputed as mem
bers of it, but lying in Staffordshire, were mentioned.
For Staffordshire and Shropshire join near Wrfeld
Holme', argues it to be a large seigniory, compounded
of many hamlets.
Henry de Ferrers, eight, but a forest also within the
compass of them, and belonging to them, and they both
large, and very good lands.

• This enumeration was made from his copy, which in many
instances was erroneous.
5 In the Conqueror's charter to the church of Wolverhamp
ton, Sampson is described as his chaplain.
3 Holme generaUy signifies River Islands. Bp. Lyttelton.

4^t THE ANTIQUITIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE.
Robert de Stadford, 74.
WiUielmus, filius Ansculfi, 27.
WiU'us Corbution, one, containing ten hides.
Turstine (Basset's paternal ancestor) one, containing
five hides ; which cannot but be divers hamlets,
Ricardus Forestarius, 9-
Rainoldus de Balgiole, 4.
Radulfus filius Huberti, 2.
Nigellus (Gresley's paternal ancestor), 4.
And Taini regis, 20.
So that I reckon the farm to be this : the king had
in demesne the 55, representing the earl's portion and
demesne ; and that the bishop had one barony ; Rogerius
de Montgomerici, another; Henr. de Ferrers, another,
(though he had but few, yet being so large) a good third;
Rob'tus de Stadford, a fourth barony ; WiUielmus,
filius Ansculfi, a fifth : to the intent, that the five baro
nies may answer the five Hundreds, though they were
otherwise divided, and had not such jurisdiction, as the
earis and barons of Hundreds anciently.

A BRIEF
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
OF
BEESTON CASTLE,
IN CHESHIRE.

As in Staffordshire I have begun with Trent, so pro
ceeding to the description of Cheshire, I think it my
readiest course to begin with Weever, a fair river,
which takes its first source or spring from Peckforton
Hills, near Beeston Castle ; and presently runneth, first
south-east, then plain south, then bendeth south-east
again, then plain east, then turneth suddenly plain
north, and so keepeth on its course, though it have
divers windings, sometimes westward, and sometimes
east, for fifteen or sixteen miles still northward, and
then returneth, as it were, suddenly west ; which course
it holdeth on, until it come into the Freet of Mersey,
where it dischargeth itself into a pretty little sea : and,
as Trent doth, divides the shire into two equal parts,
east and west; the one being called the overside of
Cheshire, and the other the lower side.
Not far from the fountain of Weever (as I have said),
stands 'Beeston Castle, which (for that it was more
' The great insulated rock of Beeston is composed of sand
stone, of the height of 366 feet, measuring from the bridge to
the summit. The fortress was erected in 1220, by Randulf
BlundeviUe earl of Chester. It consisted of an outer and inner
area. The outer was defended by a strong gateway and waU,
with round towers. Some parts of the waU, and six or seven
rounders stiU subsist. This castle devolved from the earis of

424 A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF
eminent and famous, than any particular part of the
shire, the city of Chester excepted) I covet to begin
withal ; and you must something bear with me, if a
little I range about the head of Weever, for three or
four miles on both sides of the river : for that, in that
part of the shire, the rivers be not so plentiful, as in
other places thereof ; and besides, the barony of Rob,
filius Hugonis being the first barony, which is spoken
of in Domesday book, which, therefore, I covet to begin
withal, lieth the most of it about this part of Cheshire,
and not far from Weever, between it and Dee, except
some httle of it, which lies in Fhntshire, then reputed as
a member of the county palatine of Chester.
Beeston Castle stands very loftily and proudly, upon
Chester to the crown ; and, after undergoing many vicissitudes,
it fell into ruins, in which it was found by Leland, Having
been repaired, it was again ravaged by the violence of civil war,
and garrisoned by the Parliament, it was surprised and entered
by some of the King's forces ; but was finally dismantled by the
orders of the Parliament, The events connected with the local
history of this strong fortress for several centuries after its foun
dation, are not known. Rich. H. lodged his treasures here
during his expedition into Ireland ; which, on Henry's approach
were surrendered to the usurper. (Stow's Annals, 321.) The
manor had been part of the Barony of Malpas, and was held
under the lords, by the family of Bunbury. In 1271, 56 Hen.
III. Henry de Bunbury, and Margery his wife, gave it to
Richard their nephew, who assuraed his name from the place.
It continued in this family for many descents. Sir George
Beeston possessed it 44 Eliz. and at length by the marriage of
Margaret, daughter of sir Hugh Beeston, with WUliam White-
more of Leighton, it passed to that family ; and was soon trans
ferred by Bridget, his heir, to Thomas viscount Savage, of
Rock Savage ; whose grand-daughter Bridget, carried it by
marriage, to sir Thomas Mostyn, bart. with the manors of
Peckfreton, Leighton, and Thornton, in whose family they yet
remain.

BEESTON CASTXE. 425
an exceeding steep and high rock ; so steep upon all
sides but one, that it suffers no access unto it ; so that,
though it be walled about (for the most part thereof),
the wall is needless), the rock is so very high and steep.
And, where the nature of the thing admitteth access,
there is, first a fair gate, and a wall furnished with tur
rets, which incloseth a good quantity of ground (four or
five acres) which lieth north-eastward, somewhat riseth,
until it come to the overpart of the rock ; and within
the same, a goodly strong gatehouse, and a strong
wall, with other buildings ; which, when they flourished,
were a convenient habitation for any great personage.
In which it is a wonder to see the great labour that hath
been used to have sufficient water, which was procured,
by making (no doubt with great difficulty) a marvellous
deep well, through that huge high rock, which is so
deep, as that it equals in depth the Riveret, which
runneth not far from the said castle, through Teverton,
Hocknell, and so into Mersey.
This castle stands within the manor of Beeston, but
the ground whereon it stands was procured by Randulf,
the third earl of Chester, from the owner of the said
manor to the end he might make and fortify the said
castle there ; which he did accordingly.
The manor of Beeston, whereof tbis place was a mem
ber, before the castle was built, is within the parish of
Bunbury, possessed at this day by sir George Beeston,
knt. whose son and heir Hugh Beeston hath, as I hear,
also purchased the castle of Beeston of the queen.
The Beestons are descended paternally from the Bun-
burys ; who'(as I take it) were lords of the whole parish,
or the most of it, about Henry the Second's time; and
were at the first known by the name of St. Peere ; but
(by reason of their habitation, and the seigniory of Bun
bury together,) changed their name from St. Peere to
Bunbury ; as Henry of Bunbury (to whom his father

426 ACCOUNT OF BEESTON CASTLE.
had given Beeston, about Henry the Third's time,) had
issue a son named David, who was caUed David de
Beeston, by reason of his habitation ; which David had
issue Henry Beeston, who had issue David Beeston,
William (that died without issue), Henry, that begat
Thomas, and William, that had issue John, Raufe, and
Agnes,

ADDENDA.

Page xvi. preface. In the note, for " names" read " arms."
Page 22, note 1. " The instrument (a fine) spells thus,
' Thicknes.' " S. P-W,
Page 77, note, line 10 from the bottom. For " 1562," read
" 1568," A description of Madeley church, written (it else
where appears) by the rev. W. Snape, a careful remarker, in
Gent. Mag. vol. LXXIX. p, 410, gives the death of John Eger
ton, husband of Elyn, " 1 April, 1528," instead of " 1568,"
as I had taken it down, 1796, He may very possibly have
read it rightly : and perhaps the true descent may be some
thing like the following :
Roger Egerton,=p

JIugh, died 1505,=pMargeria, died 1499,
_l_

I  1  , . ^J

John, aged  (3 an error) in Randolph, died=Isabella,
1505, died 1518-19, =p May 7, 1522. |
Two daugh- Daughter. John, husband of Elyn, aged . . ( 13
ters. =5= an error) in 1522, died Ap. 1, 1528,
afterwards a knight, bur. at Taten-
hUl, Sept. 21, 1595, his mother (by
some authorities) being a Griffith of
Wichnor;whichfamily buried there.

Son, aged 6 in 1518-19, coheir with his two aunts, S.P-W.
Page 141, note, Une 15, after the figures " 1728," Add:
It was a very extraordinary thing, alraost out of bounds of
probabUity, if the James, who was next brother to sir Thomas's
father (which father was born in or near 1541), and who has
a difierent wife assigned him by each of the Visitations (the
James, made brother of sir Thomas, appears a very young
child at that of 1583, and that of 1614 gives him no wife;

428 ADDENDA.
and it also very strangely omits Erdeswick's John and Bryan)
— if that senior James was really father of the above Gerrard,
M. D. who by his epitaph at High Ofiley was born as late as
1617." S.P-W.
Page 307, at the bottom, add : Some dispute having arisen con
cerning the boundary between Staffordshire and Warwickshire,
K. Hen. III. in the 20th of his reign, directed his precept to
the justices itinerant, declaring that there should be certain
limits of each county about the parts of Eston in Warwickshire
and Hannewurth in Staffordshire. He gave comraand to the
sheriff of Warwickshire to bring into Lichfield, upon Sunday
next after the feast of St. Jaraes the Apostle, twelve discreet
and lawful knights, there to make and establish such limits and
divisions upon their oaths, and the like to the sheriff of Stafford
shire for as many out of this county.
Page 311. Add : About the beginning of King John's time,
the lord Basset of Drayton, a great baron at that time,
erected a park at Drayton Bassett, which being within the pre
cincts of Sutton Chase, and questioned by Waleran earl of
Warwick, obliged the lord Basset, 3 John, rather than remove
the park pales, to come to an agreement with the earl. To
this agreement were witnesses Thomas de Erdinton, then
sheriff of this county, Geffrey Sauvage, Thomas de Ardern,
Raph de Mutton, Will, de Arderne, Rob. fil. WiUielmi, Hen.
fil. Sewalli, progenitor of the Shirleys, and many others.
Licenses were afterwards granted by succeeding earls of War
wick to persons to inclose their lands and woods lying within
the precincts of this chase : to Raph de Limesi, 17 Edw. I.
to raake a park at Weford of his wood called Ashehay ; to
Raph lord Basset to hunt in his woods at Drayton, 18 Edw. I,;
in 21 Edw, I, to Will, de Odingsells to hunt in the woods and
fields at Weford, Thickbrorae, and Hynts ; to Will, Meignill
and Rob, de la Ward in their lands and woods at Hynts. In
25 Edw. I, John, lord of Little Barre, agreed with Will, de
Beauchamp earl of Warwick, for license to inclose his woods
at Little Barre, paying annually six barbed arrows.

INDEX.

NAMES OF PLACES.

Acton, 151
Adbaston, 104
Aldershaw, 229
Aldridge, 297
Alkmonton, 104
AUeston, 257
Alrewas, 232
Alstonfield, 251
Alveton, 372
Arabrighton, 50
Anc-Hills, 140
Apedale, 21. 22. 82
Apesford, 367
Apeton, 54
Aqualate, 105. 140
Arberton, 121
Arley, 284
Armitage, 171
Ashcombe, 368
Ashenbrooke, 228
Ashley, 91. 96
Ashwood, 274
Aspley, 134
Aston, 34. 38. 46. 59. 60. 61
62. 93. 361
Audley, 22. 79, 82

B.

Baddeley-Edge, 81
Badenhall, 109

Bagenhall, 12, 14, 20
Bagots, 3
Balterley, 8d
Bariaston, 26, 31.
Barr, 298. 304
Barton, 344
Baswick, 152. 153
Batchacre, 90. 105
Beacon-Hill, 54
Beauchief, 14
BeddenhaU, 147
Beeston Castle, 423
Bentley, 303
Beresford, 351
Betley, 74. 78, 79,
Bidulph, 3, 7- 8, 9, 10
Bignall-End, 82
Bilston, 288
Birchwood, 3
Bishton, 160
Blackbrook, 31S
BlakenhaU, 344
Blithfield, 52, 201, 205
Blore, 87- 94, 357
Blount's HaU, 385
Bloxwich, 296
Blythbury, 184
Bobbington, 276
Bonebury, 351
Booths, 370
Bould, 202
Bradeley, 54, 145
Bradnop, 355
Bradwell, 20

430

INDEX.

BramshaU, 200. 382
Branston, 346
Brereton, 55. 172
Brewood, 137
Bridgford, 109. 116
BrimhiU, 136
Brineton, 136
Brinsford, 258
Brocton, 152. 182
Brome, 285, 287
Bromley Abbots, 203
Bromley Bagot, 201
Broughton, 93. 110. 182
Bruff, 94
Buckenhall, 16
Burgh Hall, 143
Burntwood, 229
Burslem, 18
Burston, 33. 35, 38. 39. 40
Burton, 121, 346
Bury-Bank, 31
Bushbury, 257- 259
Butterton, 253

Callingwood, 345
Calwich, 362
Camp-Hill, 94
Cannock, 2, 155
CanweU, 320
Car-Mount, 81
Casterne, 356
Caverswall, 187
Cauldron, 371
Chadley, 82
Chariton, 90, 92, 99
Charnes, 101
Chartculme, 93, 113
Chartley, 3. 44, 49. 50. 52
ChatkUl, 109
Chatteriey, 17, 18
Chaveldon, 109
Cheadle, 376
Chebsey, 102
Checkley, 380
Chedleton, 368
Chell, 17. 18
Chestall, 181

Chesterfield, 311
Chesterton, 21
ChUcote, 340
ChiUington, 27- 132. 133
Chintestone, 109
Church Eaton, 145
Churnet, 366
Clayton, 24
Clent, 285
Clifton, 341
Cnotone, 23
Cobintone, 27
Codsal, 265
Coley, 63
Colton, 45. 47- 63. 166.- 167
Colwich, 160
Comberford, 329
Combridge, 376
Compton, 283
Congreve, 137- 357
Coplow, 94
Corbin, 274
Cotes, 100
Coton, 392
Coven, 133, 257
Cowley, 142
Crakemarsh, 381
Creswell, 39, 116. 117- 121
Croxden, 372. 375
Croxton, 109
Cubleston, 26. 28. 132
Cuddleston, 2
Culmsdon, 27
Curborough, 229
Cunsall, 370

D.
Darlaston, 6, 26, 29, 30, 303
Delves, 22, 382
Denston, 376
Dieulacres, 364
DUhorne, 376
Dimsdale, 21
Dorslow, 101
Draycote, 2. 189, 190, 389
Drayton, 151. 308,
Dreynton, 50

INDEX.

431

Dudley, l. 239. 247. 250
Dunstall, 264

E.
Eardley, 82
Eccleshall, 109. llo
EdiaU, 229
Edingale, 344
Elford, 334
EUaston, 105. 362
EUenhaU, 112. 115
EUerton, 90
Elmhurst, 229
Endon, 367
Engleton, 132. 135
Enstone, 43. 134
EnviUe, 278. 282
Essington, 133
Etruria, 20

Farewell, 179
Fauld, 380. 390
Fazeley, 311.322
Feld, 195
Fenton, 19. 29
Fernyhough, 367
Fisherwick, 338
Fleshbrook, 105
Forbridge, 121
Forton, 139
Fosbrooke, 189
Fradley, 236
Freeford, 229
Frodswell, 47
Fulfen, 229
Fulford, 189

G.
Gaiton, 47
Garingshall, 45
Gerrard's Bromley, 82
GnosaU, 143
Gornall, 272

Gosbrooke, 258
Gratwich, 56. 197
Greenway, 15
Grendon, 355
Gunston, 132

H.

Hales, 27
Halfhide, 102
Halmer-End, 82
Hammerwich, 226. 311
Hamps, 356
Hamstall Ridware, 205
Hamstead, 306
Hanbury, 388
Handsworth, 307
Hanley, 20
Hansacre, 169. 172
Harborne, 233
Harborough, 287
Hardingwood, 83
Hardwick, 39
Harlaston, 342
Haselour, 336. 337
Haspeley, 109
Hatherton, 146. 149
Haunch, 182
Haunton, 341
Hawksyard, 171
Heakley, 81
Heckstall, 115
Helegh, 15. 79. 82
Herracles, 366
HewaU, 367
Heywood, 50. 60, 61
Hickson, 50
Hide, 133
Hilcote, 112
Hilderston, 44
Hill Ridware, 185
HUton, 9, 15. 81, 91. 133. 134
Himley, 272
Hints, 320
HogshiU, 341
Holbeach, 274
Holt-HaU, 206
Hopton, 53. 55. 57- 121

432

INDEX,

Hopwas, 328
Horecross, 3, £03
Horsley, 106
Hortbury, 368
HoundhiU, 388
Houndesley, 390
Huntingdon, 149
Huntresdon, 50, 52

Longdon, 179
Longnor, 138, 353
Low-HiU, 259
Loxley, 3. 383
Luyd, 270
Lynn, 317 M.

Ham, 356
Ingestrie, 44, 55. 57- 123
Johnston Hall, 141
Ipstones, 357. 370

K.
Keel, 24
King's Bromley, 173
Kingsley, 370
Kingston, 198
Kinvaston, 146
Kinver, 277
Knightley, 142
Knighton, 105
Knipersley, 10
Knowl-End, 82

Lapley, 138
Lawton, 90
Leacroft, 159
Lea, 270
Leek, 366
Lees-HaU, 197
Leghe, 192
Leigh, 39
Lichfield, 2. 209
LnieshuU, 135
Liswis, 182
Little Aston, 316
Little Hay, 167
Little On, 145
Little Pipe, 229
Longcroft, 209

Madeley, 68. 374
Maer, 93. 96, 139
Manifold, 353
Marchington, 387
Marson, 121
Mavesyri Ridware, 168, 185
Mayfield, 361
Meaford, 28
Milwich, 45. 95
Mitton, 276
Mixe-Hay, 368
Moreton, 144. 162. 163
Morfe, 282
Moseley, 116. 258. 289. 368
Muckleston, 99
Mulnmeese, 101. 102
Mutton, 56

N.
Narrow-Dale, 350
Needwood, 2. 3
Newcastle, 2. 21. 22
Newborough, 205. 383
Newton, 39. 204
NichUs, 288
Norbury, 139
Normanscote, 17
Northcot, 257
Norton, 3. 13. 102. .394

O,

Oakedge, 63
Oakley, 99
Offley, 106
Offlow, 2. 319
Ogley-Hay, 228

INDEX

433

Okeley, 334
Okeover, 360
OldaU, 367
Oldbury, 287
OldfaUings, 259
Olton, 27
Onne, 27
Onneley, 142
Orsley, 141
Orslow, 141
Oscote, 306
Oton, 2. 319
Oxley, 259

P.

Packington, 227- 328
PatteshuU, 268
Pattingham, 268
Paynesley, 3, 189
PelsaU, 296
Penford, 131
Penkridge, 145
Penn, 270
Pensneth, 272, ,2/3
Pershouse, 272
Perton, 267
Perry-Barr, 304
Peshall, 106, 108
Pillaton, 146
Pipe, 90
Pipe Hill, 228
Pipe-Ridware, 175, 208
Podmore, 22, 93
Prestwood, 274
Priory, 152

R.
Radmore, 55. 156
Reynold's-HaU, 300
Ricarscote, 121
Riddings, 317
Ridgehouse, 20
Rocester, 363
Rodbaston, 146

RoUeston, 403
Ronton, 113. 115
Rowley, 144, 208, 2.55
Rudge, 56
Rudyard, 365
Rugeley, 167
Rushall, 298
Rushton, 365

S.
St, Amon's-Heath, 54
St, Kenelm, 2S5
Salt, 43, 44, 121
Sandon, 39. 40, 42
Sandwell, 289, 306
Sai-don, 134
Seawall, 258
Sedgeley, 250, 271
Seighford, 116
Seisdon, 2. 270
Sharehill, 134
Sharpcliffe, 370
Shawford, 102
Shelton, 19
Shene, 32
Shenston, 312
Sheriff-Hales, 135
Shugborough, 63. 153
Sirescote, 103. 325
Shredicote, 145
Slindon, 109
Smallrise, 39
Snellhall, 27- 28
Somerford, 132
Sow, 64
Stafford, 117- 129
StaUington, 189
Standon, 99
Stanley, 12
Stanshope, 355
Stanton, 358
Statfold, 3. 332
Stichbrook, 226
Stockton, 1.52
Stoke, 17- 19. 39

F F

434

INDEX.

Stonall, 312. 317
Stone, 29. 32, 34
Stonywell, 181
Stourbridge, 276
Stourton, 276
Stow, 50. 53
Stowman's Hill, 288
StranshiU, 380
Streethay, 231
Stretton, 137
SugenhaU, 91. 101. 109
Sutton, 139
Swansraoor, 63
Swindon, 273
Swineshead, 90. 92. 109
Swinfen, 319
Swinford-Regis, 273
Swinnerton, 90

Taine, 376. 378
Talk, 12. 20. 82
Tamehorn, 330
Tamworth, 2. 322
TatenhiU, 345
Teddesley, 150
Tern, 96
TettenhaU, 260
Thickbroom, 318
Thickness, 22
Thornbury, 370
Thornes, 312. 317
Thorpe-Constantine, 333
Throwley, 356
Thursfield, 17
Tibbington, 287
Tillington, 117. 121
Tinmore, 330
Tirley, 99
Tittensor, 26
TixaU, 58. 59. 63. 65
Tong, 139
Totmanslow, 191
Trentham, 24
Trescot, 267
Trysul, 271
Tunstall, 17. 83
Tutbury, 2, 390. 400

U.
Uttoxeter, 382 V.
Vselwall, 92 W.
Wall, 216. 228
Wall Grange, 367
WateaU, 2. 301
Walton, 103. 104,
Warslow, 353
Warton, 139
Water Eaton, 97, 138
Wednesbury, 290
Wednesfield, 288, 293
Weeford, 319
West Bromwich, 289
Weston, 44, 51. 185
Weston-under-Lizard, 136
Wetley, 185. 367
Welton, 353
Wever, 362
Whitgreave, 121. 1.52
Whitmore, 66. 68.
Whittington, 277. 334
Wichnor, 237
Wiggington, 326
Wightmore, 350
Wightwick, 260
Wilbrighton, 144
WiUenhall, 302
WiUingsworth, 271
Willowbridge, 95
Wiverstone, 113
Wolseley, 163
Wolstanton, 18, 22
Wolverhampton, 261
Womborne, 271
Woodhouses, 27, 28
Woodton, 109, 110
Worsen, 121
Wotton, 362
Wrineford, 72, 74

INDEX.

435

Wrinehill, 78
Wrottesley, 265
Wybaston, 258
Wyrley, 294

Y.
Yariet, 31
Yoxall, 208. 209

NAMES OF PERSONS.

Adderley, 11. 45.392
Adshed, 46. 47
Agard, 174. 205
Alfreton, 13
Allen, 17.46
Alwardus, 19
Anson, 153. 234
Arblaster, 182. 183. 184
Arden, 178. 209
Astley, 134. 268
Aston, 16. 25. 96. 98, 138,
167. 182, 194, 22S
Audley, 12. 15, 17- 18. 78,
79.81.86.284.353.

B.
Babington, 293. 328
Bagenhall, 12. 14.365
Bagot, 33. 41. 122. 127- 128.
197.200.201.205.218,
Bagshaw, 179
Bainbrigge, 363
Baldwyn, 140
Balgiole, 2
Barbour, 105. 326
Barnesley, 271
Basset, 40. 268. 301. 308 320,
322, 357. 376.
Bath, 18
Beauchamp, 29
Beaumont, 291. 292
Beeston,
Beke, 54. 380
Beresford, 351
Berkeley, 334
Berrington, 328

Best, 262
Besyne, 96. 138
Biddulph, 3. 7. 8, 9. 10,47- 159
Birch, 288, 307
Blount, 48, 50, 54. 62. 89.
142, 146. 167. 310. 350. 385
Blythefield, 52, 197
Boghey, 7
Bold, 202
Booth, 48
Boothby, 139
Botetourt, 275
Boughey, 79. 88. 105. 140
Bourchier, 106. 145
Bowes, 296. 334
Bowyer, 10. 22, 45, 94. 363.
Bradoke, 104
Bradshaw, 46
BraUsford, 358
Brandreth, 312. 319
Brereton, 117
Breton, 327
Brett, 21. 24
Bridgman, 136
Brocton, 183
Bromley, 24. 45. S2. 96. 97-369
Brooke, 139. 177- 218. 336.
337
Broughton, 93. 110. 140, 183.
382
Brown, 49. 181
Buckenhall, 7
Buckeridge, 344
Burdett, 341
Burghurst, 17
Burgh, 143
Burley, 49. 148
Burnes, 181
F 2

436

INDEX.

Burton, 390
Burwash, 17
Bushbury, 257
Byrche, 159 C,
Camden, 3. 89
Campion, 137
Camville, 177- 336, 342
Carswall, 187
Caverswall, 106
Cawarden, 169, 171
Chadwick, 169, 185
Chandos, 85. 87, 89
Charlton, 98. 109
Charnes, 101
Cheney, 149
Chester, 40. 42. 50. 51
Chetelton, 369
Chetwode, 99
Chetwynd, 56. 57. 60. 107-
145- 167- 202
Chichester, 326- 340
Clarke, 341
Clifford, 62, 63, 64- 65
Clinton, 217- 219
Cnoltone, 20. 23
Cockayne, 363, 371 ,
Coke, 69- 70
Colclough, 378
Collier, 30, 31.44
Colwych, 154. 159
Comberford, 293. 326. 329
Coningsby, 159
Congreve, 137- 357
Cope, 113
Corbett, 20. 99. 173
Corbin, 274
Corbution, 2
Cotes, 100
Coton, 326
Cotton, 207- 208. 351
Coyney, 80. 102. 186
Cradock, 187- 296
Creswell, 117- 371
Crewe, 68. 70. 71- 74- 75. 303-
Crompton, 33- 34. 46. 116. 121
Croxall, 297

Cumbermere, 40,
Curzon, 25, 168, 390, 391.
D.
Darwin, 258
Davenport, 362
Degge, 386
Delves, 21. 24, 44, 102. 382
Dethick, 321
Devereux, 50, 51. 52, 53. 310.
Digby, 42. 43
Dorrington, 151 ¦
D'Oyley, 316
Dracote, 39. 49. 50, 189, 193
Drake, 145
Drayton, 59
Ducie, 316
Dudley, 239, 240, 241,248,272
Dunston, 1 13, 284
Dutton, S3, 99
Dymock, 326
Dyott, 226, 230. 232

E,
Eardly, 82
Edgar, 261
Egerton, 72, 74, 76, 78. 343
Eld, 116
ElUngbridge, 134
Endesore, 327
Enisan, 32. S3
Ensor, 198. 203
Erdeswick, 42, 43, 44, 46, 48,
321
Erdington, 19
ErminUda, 32, 33.
Everdon, 133
Eyton, 96, 138

Fenton, 19
Feme, 381
Ferrers, 1, 49, 50. 51, 52, 53.
260. 326. 345, 384. 392

INDEX.

437

Fetherston, 258
Fitzherbert, 91. 128. 208
Fleetwood, 82. 362
Fletcher, 78
Floyer, 181.320. 322, 355
Foley, 274
Foljambe, 375
Forestarius, 2, I7, 20, 66
Fowke, 132, 137. 295
Fowler, 48, 49, 131, 151. 152.
174
Franceys, 342
Freford, 181, 230
FrevUe, 326
Frodsham, 97
Frost, 83
Fryth, 312
Fynney, 368 G.
Gascoigne, 99
Gerrard, 42. 44, 45, 79, 82.
96.98
Giffard, 25, 104, 132. 133. 137
Goring, 194. 197- 202, 236
Gough, 259, 262. 305
Gower, 25, 33, 127
Graham, 133
Grendon, 45, 47- 49, 316, 317-
356
Gresley, 4, 6, 11, 17- 22, 29-
67, 122, 163. 164, 166, 167.
199. 350, 362
Grey, 278. 282
Griffiths, 236. 237- 238
Grosvenor, 257
Grove, 316

HareweU, 98
Harman, 320
Harpur, 299- 353
Harrington, 377
Harwood, 259. 283. 313
Hastang, 80. 101. 103. 297
Hastings, 48. 101. 172. 280.
329
Hatton, 69. 70
Hawkeford, 84
Haukestone, 73. 74
Heath, 227
HeckstaU, 45. 96. 97-116
Hellier, 258, 271.
HeronvUe, 291, 331
Heveningham, 35, 36. 103.
177. 332, 341
HiU, 229, 313
Hillary, 87- 275, 302. 338
Hinckes, 257
Hiftckley, 8, 39, 233
Holgate, 26, 134, 276
HoUand, 208
HoUes, 23. 206, 209
Hoo, 294
Hopkins, 294
Horton, 257
Horwood, 276, 282. 283
Houlditch, 315
Howard, 334
Hugeford, 44
Hulpham, 26
Hunt, 49
Huntbach, 258
Hurd, 137
Hurlburt, 45
Huskisson, 257
Hussey, 146, ISO, 295

H,
Halghton, 95, 10 «- 14
Hamilton, 42
Hampton, 236
Hanbury, 295
Handbury, 389
Hansacre, 169, 172
Harcourt, 49. 101. 112. 113.
115. 134. 135. 143

J.
James, 138
Jerningham, 122. 127
Jervis, 30. 31. 33. 35
Jevon, 272
Inge, 334
Johnson, 220
JolUffe, 187
Jordan, 297

438

INDEX.

K.
Kenric, 97
Kingston, 50
Kinnersley, 161. 384
Knightley, 100
Knipersley, 10

Lacon, .54. lOS. 143
Lane, 133. 171- 175- 261, 303
Langton, 217
Lathrop, 193
Lawley, 319, 321
Lawton, 89
Lee, 38, 131
Leftwich, 41
Leges, 151
Legge, 290, 307
Leghe, 95, 16Q, 193, 299
Leicester, 160
Leigh, 39. 300, 388
Leveson, 25, 135, 258. 261.
268
L^ett, 237. 328. 344
Lewknor, 114
Leybourne, 106
Lister, 17 1
Littleton', 49, 58. 59. 65. 134.
148. 173. 1 SO. 274. 284. 287
Lostock, 104
Lowe, 331
Lutteley, 285
Lydeat, 273
Lynulphus, 81. 84. 85

M.
Macclesfield, 46. 94. 95
Madeley, 376
Mainwaring, 7. 10, 68
Malbanc, 40, 42. 52, 352
Malpas, 244
Malveysin, 169, 185
Manley, 206, 319
Marchenton, 47

Marmion, 139, 324
Marsh, 270
MarshaU, 38, 166
Masterson, 47. 151
Mere, 93. 95
Merston, 58. 65 .
MevereU, 47. 356
MeyneU, 83. 204. 321
Mills, 26
Millwich, 45
MUton, 81
Minors, 345. 386
Mitton, 136. 145
Monckton, 132. 134. 135, 137-
257
Moretoi^i, 132, 135. 144
Morgan, 99, 194
Moseley, 403
Mountford, 297
Moyle, 38
Musard, 159
Mutton, 55. 56

N,
Napton, 93
Needham, 98
Newbold, 345
Newport, 54, 136
Newton, 174
Nigellus, 2, 17
Noble, 179
Noel, 102, 112
Norman, 199
Nugent, 45

O,
OdingseU, 319
Offa, 217
Offley, 70, 99. 238. 303
Okeover, 45. 321. 360
Orchard, 45
Orme, 183
Ormus, 4. 5, I7. 29. 192
Oswy, 217
Overton, 271

INDEX.

439

Paganal, 239. 240, 247- 251
Paget, 69. 156. 157- 181- 203.
346
Palmer, 121
Pantulf, 28
Pargiter, 170
Parker, 12. 185. 366, 367
Parkes, 271- 294
Parsons, 289
PatteshuU, 268
Pealton, 117
Peel, 311- 331
Pershouse, 272- 300
Perton, 267
PeshaU, 54- 92, 106, 107- 136,
142,379
Petit, 45, 46, 116
Peyton, 296
Pigot, 268
Pipe, 90.175. 176. 196. 197-288
Port, 48- 357
Prmsep; 343
Pudsey, 271
Puleston, 105
Pye, 341
Pyott, 370

Q.

Quincey, 291 R-
Rawleigh, 350
Ridding, 317
Ridware, 207
RoUeston, 204- 403
Roos, 90
Rudyard, 365 ,
Rufin, 39
Rugeley, 171- 180. 318
Ryder, 42, 44 S,
Sadlier, 59
St, Maure, 196
Salway, 159
Samson, 2. 263

Sandbach, 193
Savage, 92. 287. 336. 379
Scioppus, 43
Scott, 287. 294, 304
Seawallfield, 258
ShareshaU, 134, 135
Sheffield, 22, 44, 102
Sheldon, 358
Shelton, 289, 290, 294
Shenstone,Shirley, 50, 51,311
Simeon, 34, 177
Skeffington, 171- 331. 339
340
Skrymsher, 95. 105. 139. 140
Slayney, 102
Smith, 19
Sneyd, 16. l7- 20- 24-368
Somerford, 132- 135
Somervile, 237-345
Somery, 240. 264. 273- 286
Sparrow, 17
Spemor, 338
Sprott, 180
Stafford, 1. 2. 26. 32. 33. 41.
103. 122. 123. 124. 125. 126.
127- 128- 129. 176. 177-
196. 256. 309. 363. 382
Stamford, 305. 328
Stanford, 144
Stanley, 12. 20. 29- 37- 38, 60,
102. 177- 290. 332- 334.
343
SroniweU, 181. 183
SugenhaU, 29. 101
Sutton, 241. 253. 258. 273
Swinfen, 319. 338. 340
Swinnerton, 29- 90. 91. 106.
107- 109. 133 T.
Talbot, 56. 58. 364. 374
Temple, 25
Tennant, 312. 317
Tettesworth, 366
Thynne, 311
Tittensor, 26
TixaU, 62. 198
ToUet, 78

440 Touchet, 82. 83. 86
Townsend, 51. 324
Trentham, 25. 363
Tressel, 271
Trumwyn, 158
Trussel, 27. 49, 151
Trustine, 2
TurberviUe, 195
Turton, 233, 290

Venables, 38
Verdon, 7. 16. 27- 29, 84, 363,
372
Vernon, 28, 41, 42, 48. 80, 91,
133. 176, 177- 337- 341- 342
Vyse, 100 U.
UnderhiU, 257
Unwin, 362 W.
Wakering, 296
Walhouse, 151. 300
Walton, 128. 182. 351
Waring, 296
Wasteneys, 58. 66. 67. 166
Watkins, 341
Webb, 345
Wedgwood, 20- 93. 366
Weld, 35- 177- 204. 229
Westcote, 148. 173

INDEX.

Weston, 59- 136. 168. 204
Wetenhall, 59
Whitby, 62. 63. 117
Whitgreave, 116, 257
Whithall, 194
Whitworth, 104
Whorwood, 105, 276- 282, 289.
306
Wightwich, 179; 260. 264
WUkes, 302
WUmot, 82
Wilrich, 121_
Winnesbury, 148
Withers, 117
Wood, 90
Wolferstan, 13. 22. 178, 229.
332
Wolferus, 29, 31, 32. 39. 40
Wolfradus, 29- 40
WoUaston, 47- 103. 267
Wolseley, 154. 160. 322
Woodhouse, 218. 271
Wrottesley, 132. 150. 260.
265. 271
Wynne, 11
Wyriey, 85. 86. 305. 307

Young, 101
Yoxall, 209

Z.

Zouch, 377

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