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WIRRAL

NOTES AND QUERIES,

BEING LOCAL GLEANINGS,

HISTORICAL .^ND ANTIQUARIAN,

THE HUNDRED OF WIRRAL,

from mans Sources.

BDITBD BY

F. SANDERS, M.A.,

VICAU of HOYLAKEf

W. FERQUSSON IRVINE,

HON. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHEt

THE WIRRAL HORN
REPRINTED. AFTER REVISION AND CORRECTION, FROM THE "BIRKENHEAD HEW8-"

VOLUME I .

Jmnumry to Daoemlwr, 1892.

BIKEENHEAD : Pbinted ajjc Pobushed by Willkkr Brob. and Co., Ltd., Chbstbe St.

CHESTER : Philupsoh and Qoldeb, Eabtqate Row.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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MONUMENT OF ARCHDEACON TRAVIS IN CHESTER CATHEDRAL .. 25

THE *< STANLEY ARMS " INN, AT EASTHAM, BEFORE ALTERATIONS . . 27

HAWTHORNE'S HOME IN ROCK PARK 34

PORTRAIT OF REV. RICHARD SHERLOCK, D.D 63

THE WIRRAL HORN 90

WIRRAL

NOTES AND QUERIES

BEING

HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN GLEANINGS, RELATING

TO THE HUNDRED OF WIRRAL.

VOLUME I.

JANUARY 2nd, 1892.

INTBODUOTION.

The foUowlDg pagei oootain a laige number of
■hort artiolM reUUiog to Um history and antiqaitiee
of the HuHDHKD or Wzbiul^ whioh origioally ap-
peared in the ooliiinna of '* The Birkenhetid News,*'
We trast that they will ahow that the singalar
diBtrict oalled the ^^rral peninsalar, although
wanting in important eoclesiattical and aeoolar
bnildingi, yet contains mnch of great arohfoologioal
interest. Our oorrespoodents faa?e thrown oonsider-
al»le light on many of the ancient chnrohes, manor
booses, and old families ai the distriot ; some of
the plaoo and field names have been discussed ;
while the pablication of the Bzdston BsaiSTSBs is
aa important contribation to the early history of
Birkenhsad.

Whan the tfant comes for writing the History of
Wiiral, we donbt not that oar pages will be carefully
studied by its anthor. He will find bronght together
many facts and many theories which will prove of
the greatest Talne to him in his labours. Here he
will see the correction of an error committed by
Ormerod or Mortimer; there an attempt to get at
the meaning of some obeoore place name. On one
page a family pedigree will be traced oot; on
another falnable information on the conatraotion
of an ancient building will be found. Efcry
contribution, no matter how slight it may appear,
will thus help to render more complete and more
trustworthy the history of a district teeming with
arehsological interest and deeerriog the most
attentiTO study of cTcry Ioyot of bygone days.

[1] WIBBAL W0RTHIB8.

I. —Sib Bowabd Btanlit, Kniobt.

The Stanleys of Hooton and Btoreton an the
oldest branch of that illustrious family. The subject
of this article was a natural son of Sir BowUnd
Stanley, who, born In or about 1618, lived to the
patriarchal age of ninety-six, having held the family
estates for about sizty-^ years. Edward Stanley,
who is also called Penleton or Pendleton, was sent
to win his spurs in the low countries, where his
legitimate brother, the notorious Sir William, held
an important posidon in Bliaabeth's army. Here it
wss that the young man performed the achievement
which entitles him to a place among the worthies of
Wirral. I give the account of it as it is narrated
in Motley'a United Nttherlanda.

" During the period which intervened between
the action at Wamsfeld and the death of
Sidney, the siege operations before Zutphen had
been continued. The city, strongly garrisoned and
well supplied with provisions, remained impreg-
nable I but the sconces beyond the river and upon
the island fell Into Leicester's hands. The
great fortress which commanded the Yelawe, and
which was strong enough to have resisted Count
Hohenlo on a former occasion for nearly a year, was
the scene of much hard fighting. It wss gained at
last by the signal valour of Edward Stanley,
lieutenant to Sir V^lliam. That oi&oer, at the com-
mencement of an assault upon a not very practicable
breach, sprang at the long pike of a Bpunish
soldier, who wss endeavouring to thrust him from
the wall, and seized it with both bands. The
Spaniard struggled to maintain his hold of the
weapon, Stsnley to wrest it from hit grasp. A
dosea other soldiers broke their pikes upon
bis cuirass, or shot at him with their muskets.
Conspicuous by his dress, being all in yellow but his
corslet, he wss in full sight of Leicester and of
five thousand men. The earth wss so shifty and
sandy that the soldiers who were to follow him were
not able to climb the wall. Still Stanley graspsd

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUEBIEB.

Jakuabt, 1802.

hli adfentrj*! pike, bat, suddenly ehftnging bis
plan, be allowed tbe Spanitrd to lift bim from tbe
groand. Tben, sssistiDii bimself witb bis feet
against tbe wall, be, mnob to tbe astonisbment of
the Bpeetaton,8orambled quite over tbe parapet, and
danbed sword in band amoogst tbe defenders of the
fort. Had be been endowed witb a bnndred lives it
seemed impoesible for bim to eseape death. Bnt his
followers, stimolated by bis example, made ladders
for tbemselYes of eaoh other's shoulders, sorambled
at last witb great exertions over tbe broken wall,
oveipowered tbe garrison, and made them-
selYes masters of tbe soonoe. Leicester, tran-
sported witb entbnsiaBm for this noble deed of
dariog, knighted Edward Stanley upon tbe spot,
besides presenting him next day witb £40 in gold,
and an annuity of 100 marks sterling for life.
** BInee I was bom I did never see any man behave
bbnself as be did," said tbe EarL •< I shall never
forget it, if I live a thousand years, and be shall
have a part of my living for it as long as I live." —
Uniiid NMgrlandi, vol. ii., pp. 55, 56.

F. Samobbs.
{T0 be conHmued.}

[$] THE PABI8H BEGIBTEBS OF BIDSTON.
OHESHIBE, 1581-1780.*

The earlieft Begister-Book now at Bidston oom-
menoes In tbe year 1670, from which date to the
present (witb the exception of two years, 1727 and
1728, when tbe marriages have been deliberately oat
out), tbe register is complete.

One would like to know when and under what
drcumatances tbe register book or books previous
to 1679 disappeared. This must have taken
place more than a century ago, seeiog that, in a
terrier now in the Diocesan Begiatry, at Chester,
dated 1778, the Oburohwardeoa of Bidston state that
the Begister oommences in 1679.

Fortunately, however, we do not rely solely on the
Begister at Bidston. Late in tbe 16th century an
enactment was passed which required that a true
copy of tbe names of all persons christened, married,
or buried in the year before, was to be transmitted
by the churchwardens every year to tbe bishop of the
diocese, within a month after Easter, to be preserved
in the episcopal archives.

If this bad been more fully obeyed and the early
Begistran bad taken better care of the transcripts
when sent, tbe loss of a register book would not

* I ihould like to take this opportunity of thankicg
those who have so kindly assisted in this work. In
the first place I have, particularly, to express my
sincere thanks to the rector of Bidston, the Bev.
J. F. Buckler, who has allowed me free access to the
regiiters at aU times, and without whose invaluable
aid these registers could pot have been published ;
also to John Gamon, Eeq., the Eegistrar of the
diocese, by whose permission I have been able to
make use of the transcripts at Ohester ; to Mr. Price,
tbe very obliging clerk at tbe registry ; and kg
J. Paul By lands, Esq., F.B.A., aud J. G. Prentice,
Esq., whom I have to thank for doing the tedious,
l/mi necessary, task of checking my work,

have been snob a vital matter i bat nnf oitmiataly
the number of transcripts of an earlier date than
1666, now at Ohester, is very small, and the Bidston
ones are no exception to tbe ml*.

By this means, however, tbe register ean b« taken
back with tolerable completeness to 1666, befdre
which date there is a lamentable gap of twenty-
seven years extending over tbe troAlous times of
the Civil War and Commonwealth. On picking up the
thread again in 1639, it runs baok with fair legularity
to 1610, when it breaks off once more^tbe period,
from 1610 to 1581, being bridged by only four
transcripts, via., 1606, a fragment of 1696, 1688,
and 1581.

Another seriei of documents of th« greatest
possible value to the local historian an tbe early
wills, now preierved in the Probftte Court at
Cheater.

There are upwards of a hundred of these between
the years 1581 and 1730, relating to tbe parish, all
of which I have carefully oopied.

There are two short doeuments referring to tbe
parish which, so far as I know, have not been
published before, and which may serve as a sort of
introduction to tbe register. The first is a list of
tbe tenants of tbe Birkenhead Priory, about tbe
time of its dissolution in 1537, and the second, a
report of the condition of Bidston Church in 1554.

It must be borne In mind that tbe anment parish
of Bidston included tbe four townships of Baugball
Massey, Moreton, Bidston, and Claugbton-oum-
Grange.

The list of the tenants, which is from a document
at tie Becprd Oflice, liondon, is as follows, via :—

MoBROir. — Margery Billings, Jno. Griffiths,

William Fembertoo, John Pemberton, William

Butter, Biohard Pemberton, junior, Thomas
Fletcher (?), Johne Bathbone.

Cliohton. — Thomas Hiooodk, Bichard Hiooock,
Margery Hays, Oliver Deene, Bandle Drinkwater,
Jakob Woodward, Beg. Walker, — Watt, — Par.
bott, David Woodward, George Deane.

Sauihal (SAuaHAUrMA88BT).->George Kemps.
BiDSTOH.— — Smyth.

Tbe other doomnent from a MS at tbe Diocesan
Begistry at Chester being Yiaitation Enquiries of
George Cotes, Bp. of Chester, is as follows :—

1554.— Bidston : Dominus Arthurus Swift, ric,
Domlnus William Bymson, our. (11 Joannes
Bennet (2) Georgius Shirlaoers (Shurlock) gardiani
eoclesis, Biohard Dean, Joannee Belg (Bellinge).
The cbancell wants repairing— they wnnte an amisse
and a eerples (3), the vestry is — -, the oburcb-
wardens have (? ordered) them and tbe oban-
oelle is makings. (4) Also in the returns as to
« church goods " made in the third year of Edward
VI., is the following reference to Bidston:—
Bjddeston bas one chides and a rings of iii bells.

NoiBS.— (1) John Bennet, of Moreton ; (2)
George Shurlock, of Clanghton ; (3) An amice and
a surplice ; (4) I am indebted to E. M. Hanoe, Bdq.,
of Liverpool, for this document.

William Febqusson Ibvxni.

ClaogbtoD, Chesbire.

Januabt, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

[Bl

QUEBY,

Oan any of your readers snggest a more reason-
able exptanatioQ of the origin of the name Birken-
head than the Offnally aeeepted one, via., that it
meana the town at the head ai the stream oalled
the Birketf BNQUiaaB.

JANUARY 9th, 1892.

WIBBAL WOBTHIEB.
L^SiB EnwABD Stahlbt, Kmioht.

[Cmdmu/9d from No, 1, January 2mi.]

Adward Btanley was quite inDooent of the
tnaeheroos surrender of Deventer to the Boaniards,
the aet which has rendered the memory of his half
brother. Sir William, so infamons. He was sent
out of the way to England with despatehes, in
whiah he was described as *' a discreet, braye gentle-
man," while his brother and his fellow traitor, 8hr
Bowland York, were taking stepe to consnmmate
their long-meditated treachery. (York to Walsing
bam, 7th January, 1687.)

Stanley was subsequently employed hy Queen
Eliaabeth to drill and discipline troops to oppose
the Spaniards riiould they succeed in landing in
England in the great expedition of 1588. He gaTe
but a gany account of the choicest soldiers of
Gheshirs and Lancashire, whom he wss sent to
inspect. ** I found them not,*' he says in a letter to
the Privy Ooonoil, ** according to your expectation
nor mine own liking. They were appointed two
years past to haye been trained six dayi by Uie yeir
or more at the discretion of the muster-master, but
as yet they Aom not be§m trained one day, so that
th^ have benefited nothing nor yet know their
leaders. These is now promise of amendment,
which, I doubt, will be Tery slow in respect to my
Lord I>erby*8 absence."

Stanley found a general indisposition in the rural
districts to expend money and time in military
business until the necesdty should become impera-
tifc. Professional soldiers complained bitterly of
the canker of a long peace. " For our long quiet-
ness, which it hath pleased God to send us," said
Btanley, '* th^ think their money Tery ill bestowed
which they expend on armour or weapon, for that
they be in hope they shall never have occasion to
use it, so they may pass muster as they have done
hyffctofore. I want greatly powder, for there is
lit:le or none at all." (E. Stanley to Privy Council,
February March, 1688.) These despatches help to
show the unprepared condition of England on the
eve of the Armada.

I ha?e followed Motley in identifying the hero of
the Zntphen sconce with the Sir Edward Stanley
employed to drill the troops raised to oppose the
Bpaniah Invasion, though I do not feel quite certain
on the point. Someone learned in the Stanley
pedigree may be able to correct me. Of the
subsequent life of Sir Edward Stanley I can find no
parUenlaia. p. Samdbbs.

THE BIDSTON BEGISTEBSL

(See No. 9, Jan. 2).

All christenings, weddings, and burieings, anno
domini 1581, within the p'rishe of Biddiston.

OBIiTUNmCMI.

Ellyinne Hough, christened the xth of Maye*
Bobert Soholefield, christened the xiii of Maye.
Thomas Martyn, christened the xxii of Maye.
Henry Bennett, christened the xxiii of Maye.

(1) Biohard Pemberton, christened the first of iune.
Henry TaUlonr, christened the vth of iulie.

(2) William Tottie, christened the eyght of iulia.
Bichard Gyll, christened the xxii (rf iulie.
John* Willcocke, christened the xxiii of iulie.

!S) William Butter, christened the xxiii September
4) Bobert Hiccocke, christened the xiiii of October.
John' Haococke, christened the xxviii of Octot>er.
Alice Jonson, christened the vth of Januarye.
Bobert Parbould, christened the xxiii of Januarye.
Thomas Sherte, ohristened the second of Marche.

WnnniHos.

Thomas Waide and Ellyn Hande, married the

im of Maye.
Thomas Treadgood and Anne Farbold, married

the xxix of October.

BUBtALLB.

Willism Butter, buried the seconds of Marche.
William Pemberton, buried the first of Julie.

(5) Eliaabethe Letherland, buried the xxlU of

August.
Henry Bennett, buried the vi of September.
Bobert Bathban, buried the xvii of Novembar.
John* Hancocke, buried the ix of December.
John' Hancocke, buried the seconde of Januarye.
Jonne Hancocke, buried the xvth of Februarye.

Per me Bobertu Urmistont

de Biddlston cnratv.

OHBIBTSmNGB AT BiDDISTON, 1588.

Sara Truman christened the [torn] of Maye.
Thomas Gylle, christened the [torn] of Maye.
Bichard Hancocke, ohrietened the vii. of June.
Thomas Bathbon, christened the xL of June.

(6) Thomas Bellinge, christened the ill. of July.
Elizabeth Watte,christened the [torn] of August

(1) A oommon name In this and anrronnding parlshea
daridff the 16ih and 17fch oerknrles : there was a etrong
branon settled at Moreton. where the name stiU eziata.

(2) A common name in the 16th and 17th oentarlee In
North Wirral ; the earliest mention of the name that I have
come across Is in connection with West Klrby, which fad
gives some colour to the soggesllon that It is a oorraption
of the Norse name Tostlg.

(S) Probably a son of Wm. Batter, of Moreton, who died In
in9, and grandson of Wm. Batter, who was one of the
tenants of the Priory in 1537, and who died on the 2nd of
March, 1581. _

(4) A son of Thomas Hlooook.of Olanghton : the following
is from the London Stationer's Company's Becords, via ,
—"Thomas Hiccocke, sonne of Thomas Ulooooke, of Cloy-
ton, coantle of Chester, hasbandman, hath pat himself
apprentice to John Harrison, the elder, staofoner, for 7
years from this day. 8 Aag.. 1586.**

(5) The Lltherlands had long been settled In this neigh-
bourhood, and at one t<me held a third of the Manor at
Wallasev, [vide Ormerod, vol. llMn 1407 Matthew Llther-
land and others petitioned for and obtained right to " in-
close and make a park of 800 acres within the Lord-
ship of Bldston,**— (of this endosnre I shall speak later on.)

(6) Probably a son of William BllUnge, of Moreton, who
flgoree as wi.ness of several wills at this period, and grand-
son of John Billlnge, of Moreton, who was lideiman
iQl964.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Januabt, 1892.

John TayUioar, ohristened the [torn] of Angost.

Bliiabeth Parboold, ehriitened the [torn] of
Beptember.

Robert Hioooeke, ohriitened the W. of Sep-
tember.

BUyn BobinBon, chriitened the is. of September.

EUyn Pemberton, ohristened the xxii of Septem-
ber.

Anne Hioeooke, ohriitened the iiti. of Oetober.

Edward Pemberton.ohriBtened the Tiii of October

Biohard Lynnaohar, ohriitened the ziii. of
NoTember.
(1) BUyn JooBon, ohristened the xiz. of November.

Bandie Kempe, ohriitened the izz. of NoYember.
(9) Katheren Hirby. ohristened tfae [torn] of
December.

Thomas Wade, ohristened the xii. of December.

Thomas WiUoooke, ohristened the x. of January.

Alioe Martyn, ohristened the ziii. of Jannarye.

Eiiyn Mynshaw, cliristeded the xvii. of Jannarye.

Henry Dany, ohristened the zxz. of Jannarye.

Bliiabeth Gk)bbyn, ohristened the iii. of Jannarye
(8)Katheryn Bennetsohristened the zii. of Marebe.

WlDDZVOS.

Thomas Robinson and Alioe Hanoook, maried

the T. of Maye.
Riehard Blendell uid Maud Wade, maried the

Ti. of October.

(4) John Worsley and Anne ffell, maried the ix. of

Febmary.
Thomas Henrison and EUyn Maddooke, maried

eodem die.
John Maoksayll and Katherine Stbimnyoha^

maried eodem die.

BuBTiaai.

Gorge Pemberton, bnried the Itii. of Janoary.

(5) John Tmman, bnried the xiii of Jannary.
Thomas Pemb'ton, bnried the ii. of Febmary.
Thomas Bathbon, bnried the ▼. of Febroary.
Bichard Bathbon, bnried the ix of February.
Eddward Martyn, bnried the xvi of Febmary.
Margerye Pemb'ton, bmried the viii of Febrnary.

(6) EUyn Breerton, bnried the zxx of Febmary,
Henry Martyn, bnried the xriii of April.
Elisabeth Drinkwater, bnried the xxi of April.
Blanche Helsbye, bnried the ix of Maye.
Katheren Hioooeke, bnried the iii of Jnoe.
Bichard I^naehar, bnried the xy of Jnne.

jT ] Marten, bnried the ▼ of October.

Thomas Smyth, buried the z of October.

(1) A family Iodv lettled al West Klrby and Wallasoy.
Qaery— is Ihls another example of None names In Wirral f

(2) This Bhonld of oonne be Irby. She was probably a
daoghtor of Riohard Brby, of Moreton.

(3) In all probabllUy a danghfter of Arthor Benael, of
Uplon. WuU **Benneta of Saaghall-Massle.*' by B. M.
Banoe, L.L.B. ; page H,)

(4) John Worsley. of Woodchoroh, and Anne Fells, of
Bidston, daughter of Miles Fells, who seems lo have been
Lord Derbyl steward or hallifl for his Bidston property.
Miles Fells was possessed of considerable property in
Wlrral. and appears in the Liverpool Borgess Bolls for
1S6S. 1572, and 15N. He died prior to 1603.

(5) A family which existed at Bidsion uniil the middle of
last century : there is a field at Bidston called Traeman*s.

(6) This family died out about 1670. They have left their
name behind In a field In Moreton, called Brereton*s
meadow. The name wai a very uncommon one in Wlrral
at this period, in fact, I find no other example of it except
In Wallasey. This being so, It is suggestive to find In Hari
M.& 2074. p 148. that *^In 1345, WUflam de Brereton. of
Brereton, gave by deed one messuage to his son, Jehn de
Brereton, * Parson of the Madleiy oi the Ohoroh of Waley * "
iWaUaiey.)

Henry More, bnried the xxx of December.
William Lynnaohar, bnried eadem die.
Alice Adieon, bnried the xii of Febmary.
Thomas Bellinge, bnried the xrii of Febrnary.

(1) Per me Bobertn* UrmiBton de Biddiston, onratn,
Anno dom 1688.

{To he continued,)

JANUARY 16th, 1892

[6] BRIEFS IN THE PABIBH OF

WOODGHUBOH.

Brief 0, or royal letten patent of reeommendation,
anthoriaing ooUectione for charitable pnrpoBee, were
pnblioly read in parish chnrchea, when the amount
ooUected and the object of the collection were
entered in the parish register. When the Oi?il
War broke ont the Honse of Oommons took pre-
oantions against the royal prerogati?e being exer
cised inissning briefs to raise money for the supply
of the king's wants, or for the relief of sufferers In
the royal oauBC, and on January Slst, 1643, Henry
Martin,bronght in * an order for inhibitiog any collec-
tions upon any brief under the Great Seal.' A further
order was made on January 10th, 1648, that no col-
lections should be made on briefs, except sneh as
were issued under the GreatSeal under the direption
of both Houses of Parliament, and under this order
a ooUection was authorised on May Slst, 1658, on
occasion of a great fire j^t Marlborough. After the
Bestoration briefs became an abuse, and Pepys has
the following note in his diary :^

* 1661, June 90, Sunday. To church, where we
observe the trade of briefs has now come now up to
BO constant a course every Sunday that we resolTe to
give no more to them.'

This note will account for the ludicrously small
amount of many of these oolleotions.

Briefs for the redemption of Englishmen ont of
slavery were better responded to ; but the danger of
being sold into captivity by Mediterranean pirates
was so well appreciated at the end of the seventeenth
century that there were insurance offices in London
and other capitals, where an insurance conld be
effected that prorided the ransom exacted by the
pirates.

Briefs are mentioned in the Bubric of the Prayer
Book of 1662, and so long as there was no means of
insuring against losses by flood and Are, something
of the kind was wanted to relieve indiridual
enfferers and spread the loss over a wider area.
But briefs Fere a olnmsy expedient, and it was soon
found that the aaooess ot the collection depended
less on the merits of the oause than on the skill
with which the machinery was worked. This led to
a bad system of farming briefs by professional
undertakers, who contrived to put into their own
pockets the lion's share of the proceeds. The
abnses of this system engaged the attention of
Parliament in 1704, and an Act was passed in the
next year *' for the better collecting of charity money

(1) Bee appendix (AHin next week's issue.

Januabt, 1892.

WntRAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

on briefB, preveiitiiig abnseB in relation thereto.*'
By this Act the Lord Ohftncellor was empowered to
grant brielii for what he oonaidered deser?ing objeets,
and a maohinery was created for dealing with the
proeeedB. There were oflQoea in eziitenee at thif
period to insure honiee against fire, althongh their
operations, nntil 1710, did not extend beyond the
Mils of mortality. It might, therefore, be expected
that, under the reformed system, a brief wonld be
withheld when the loss wss ooeasioned by the
wilfnl neglect of the sufferer to insore. Bowyer,
the printer, however, obtained a brief from Lord
Ohaneellor Oowper in 1718, under which
£1,614 130. 4d. was collected towards making good
his losses by the fire which consumed his pramises
and stock in trade on January 12th, 1712.

The statutory fees to patent officers and the
charges of the King's printers made briefs an incon-
venient and expensive mode of raising money for
charitable purposes, insomuch that the charges of
collecting £614 12s. 9d. for repairing a church in
Westmoreland amounted to £330 168. 6d., leaving
only £283 16s. 8d. for the charity. Statutory
briefs accordingly fell into disrepute, and were
abolished by Act of Parliament in 1828, but the
royal prerogative was not affected by the statute,
and Queen's letters have been granted on several
occasions duriog the present reign in aid of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and
other favoured charities.

It should be borne in mind that it was formerly
illegal to have any collection in churches for other
tlian parish needs without the consent of the
Grown.

The following list of bilefs occurs in the Wood-
church Begisters for the year 1707 :—

Joseph Wakelin, loss by fire £612 and upwards

June 18, collected 00 03 01

Sbire-lane, loss by fire £3505 and upwards

Aug 17, collected 00 03 02

Loss by fire at Iniskilling in Ireland £8166

GoUectedin this Parish 00 10 00

Brosely Ohurch, damage £1390 an dnpwards

Aug 81, collected 00 03 01

Spilsby loss by fire £6989 and upwards
Sept 14 (sum collected not stated)

Another list of briefs, with the sums collected
through them, is found in the Begisters, but the
dates are not given.

Sontham Briefe in Go Warwick... 00 03 00

Orford Ghurch 00 02 06

Heavitree in the Oo of Devon 00 08 03

Dursley Ghurch in Go Glos 00 02 06

ShadweU in Go Middlesx 00 02 10

SS.A.

[7] SEVEBB FB0ST8 IN 1607 AND 1688.

The following extracts from the Begisters of
Wallasey, published in Mr. E. M. Haoce's admirable
paper on that parish io Vol. 85 of the Transactions
of the Lancashire and Cheshire Historic Society
throw light on two 17th century winteis.

1607.

**Mem*dum. In the yeare of o* lord god 1607
there was a great frost that people did goe over the
Poole (over against Poolto'), vppon the yce (at a full

1683.

« Memorand' that in the year 1688 there was A
great ffoet soe that people went over the pooli any
where at any time of the tide and It was thought
by seuerall that a man at A low water at some time
xnight have gone to IHuerpoole : all passage out oc
these pts to Liuerpoole was by Warrington or
ifidlers feny, where they went over on Ise, there
wss noe getting to the Market till the 9th of ffeb.*'

HOLLT.

[8],

THE BIDBTON BEQIBTEBS.

(See No. 6 — January 9).

(Appendix A).— Thb Bbv. Bobibt Ubmbton, a
member of the local family of Urmston, of Moreton,
West Kirby, and Wallasey, was probably bom at
Wallasey, and may have been the son of Martin
Urmston, who was buried there In 1580. He held
the livingofBidstoo— certainly from 1581 to 1588—
possibly until his death in 1604, though after 1589
his successor, th? Bev. John Martin, seems to have
officiated at Bidston, (though, ho miy have
only acted as curate), siDce the fragment of the
transcript for 1596 ia in John Martin's handwriting
and nearly all the wills, from 1589 to 1608, bear his
signature both as scribe and witness.

Mr. Urmston died at Wallasey in 1604 1 his will,
which is preserved at Ghester, though in a much
torn condition, written on paper, is as follows : —

" In the name of God, Amen. The viii dale of
[torn]— 1608, 1, Bobert Urmeston, sioke in hodie,

but howle in mynd and of [ '\ and p'fect

memorie, make this my last will and testaments in
manner and form foUowinge. First and before all
other thinges, I geve, committ and bequeath my
soule to God, etc., and my bodie to be buried in
Wallaaie Ghurche."

And for the true p'f ormance of this my last will
and testament, I institute and make my true and
lawful executor, Bobert Urmeston th' elder of
Wallasey, to sey all thinges herein conteined truyle
p'formed kept and done and at my decease I geve to
the Sonne Bobert Urmeston all such things, ss God
shall then lende and suffer mee to have at that tyme
as bowse and all other things, moveable and im-
movesble whatsoever, etc."

Dettes oweing unto me the Testator.

Uxor wttdew glege (widow Glegg) xvs

John Billings £iii xv

Nioholss Urmeston £iii

Witnesseth— John Harrison, Bobert Urmeston, the
younger, with others.

The inventory of ** Bobert Urmeston, clarke *' is
appended to the will— it was made by '* three
honeete men, John Younge, John Harrison, and
William White '* on the 23 May 1604 and is as
follows, vis :

Item one ould fetherbed xiiis iiUd

Item ons ould frisegowne lis

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

January, 1892.

Item two oaM ooverlels & two ihetes

raxniiui totalii

iiiid

There ub fortnnetelyeboiit e dozen Wills releting
to the Pftrieh which help in lome degree to bridge
the period from 1668 to 1605, daring which time
jyith the ezeeption of the fragment of 1596) the
Truueripte tA Obeeter are all miiilng. The flret
Will (dated 1589) is that of—

« Ajaom Busts, of Saugham [Banghall Massej],
widdowe." She mentions her ** Sonne Ohristopher
Smith" and her grandson "Thomas Smith," her
*' Sonne Thomas Smith and his ehildren, Peter,
Margery, Elinor.'* She leaves to her servant ** John
Gray the bedde that be lyeth inn," and to
" Katheren Goyle my newe felte hatt."

The ezeentors are her son Ohristopher and her
two ** sonnee-in-law, Thomas Newton and Henry
Watte."

Amongs^. a number of people who owed money to
the testatrix are the following :—

John Bridd [Bird] th* elder, of Knooketeme
[Noetomm] ; Robert Bennett, of Bangbam ; John
Billinge and William Urmeston, of Moreton ;
Thomas Harrison, of the towns ; Thomas Gill, sonne
of Balphe Gill ; and Mris. Bolde, of Upton. One of
the witnesses of this will was John Martin, olarke.

In 1590 we haye the will of Bogbb Watt, of
Olaghton, bnsbandman. (1) Mootions bis two
dangbters, Ellen Goodiear, widow, and Jone
Holme. In the list of debts are the names Thomas
Robinson and Arthur Sherloek, of Claigbton, and
" Ellen Watt, my dangbter-in-lawe."

JANUARY 23rd, 1692.

[9] ANCIENT STONE AT BRIMSTAGE.

A fortnight or so ago, I fonod at Brimstage a
enrions pieoe of stone among some old debris, that
bad psrtly formed fragments of some andent boild-
ing. This stone is abont nine inches long, five wide,
and f onr thick. On its upper surface is a perfectly
smooth semi-oval oavity, which is distinctly artificial,
as if worn by a wooden socket-hinge : the cavity is
abont 4J inches long, 4 wide, and 2} deep. Possibly
this stone has formed part of the contrivance for
turning the upper stone of a quern or handmill. One
of the modes of working a quern was to place it on a
fixed stand, and instead of a handle to the upper
stone, a stick was set upright in the bole for the
ban^e, reaching to a beam or stone in some part of
the structure above it, like a shaft or axle. Thus
the upper quern stone was kept steady, and people of
different stature oould use it.

The stone in question has apparently formed part
of a longer one, probably built at one end into a wall ;
it has been broken off and broken acrofis. A stone
of very similar character was waebed out from the
remains of primitive dwellings on the Meols shore
during last autumn. Pxktaole.

[10] ACOIDKNT IN TRANMEBE POOL

IN 1659.

The following verdict of the Ooroner*B Jury under
date 7 Oct, 1669, in the Liverpool ReeoreU,^ vol.
iii., p. 668, may be of interest, as showing some of
the risks encountered by travellers going from
Birkenhead to Tranmere and Bebington, 900 years
sgo.

"Verdict: That the above named Robt. Greene
(Iste Oorporall of Major Boulton's Troope), the
sixt day of Ootober, in the yeare of or Lord 1659,
about ten of ye Clock in the forenoone of the asms
day, being on horseback and goeing towards Chester,
at a oertaine Place on Cheshire syde of ye Eiver
M*rcie ealled Birkett Poole [the old name for Tran-
mere Pool] in ye usnall Place of the same roade,
bee entered into the Poole, the water being deepe by
reason of ye tyde and his horse plunged inn and
haveing lost bis footeing, bee tumeid severall tymes
about hk the water, and then they both sunek downs,
and for some tyme were und' water ; then the horse
came up and landed on the further syde, but the said
Bobt. Greene was then and there by accident, mis*
adventure, and misfortune drouned and found lying
there c^ead in the Bottom, being left by the 1^*s
ebbing neere Uie place where hee entered into y
Poole." W. P. L

[11] A CHURCH BRIEF RELATING TO

TR4NMEBE.

(See No. 6 -January 16).

The following extraet from the Churchwsrden*s
Accounts of Prestbury Parish, edited by Mr. J. P.
Earwaker, should interest your Tranmste readers.
Under " Collections by Briefs," in the year 1679,
occurs :«

10th Aftffust.-^Roheri Malpas and Margery, his
wife, of Holt Hill, in the Parish of Bebington, in
behalfe of Andrew Malpas, who was taken by
Turkish Pyrates belonging to Argier [Algiers], being
in a ship called the John of Dubline.

The sum contributed towards Andrew's MalpasPs
ransom at Prestbury was eight shillings.

The brief appears to have accomplished its objeat
in restoring the captive to his native land. At any
rate I find the burial of Andrew Malpas, of Poole,
entered in the Eastbam Register, under the date
Jnly 6th, 1687. Perhaps the sufferings he underwent
in Algiers shortened the poor man's days. p^g^

[12].

THE BIDBTON REGISTERS.

(Continued from No. 8— January 18).

In 1691, William LiNEOiB, of Moreton, husband-
man (1). Mentions ** Jane Linekar, my wyffe,**
*' Richard Ltnekar, my sonne,** ** Margaret aod
Ellen, my two daughters." Overseers [trustees]
•* my brother John Linekar and John Pemberton."

(1) The tenn hasbandman mnst not be taken In our
modern aense of farm lat>oarer; it ralber signifled
** tenant farmer.'*

JjuiuuT, 169fl.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

In tb* IM of debU ua tii* tollowiiig dudm :—
*■ John HMwn, my bmtb«r-iB-U« " " Peon Lowe,
oIUptMi. fori jokaoloxaB"; " Vnillun DtTjw,
■J bnitbai'in-U*.''

mtMNN, " Arthur Pmbatton, th« aUar, WilUvn
Babon (lUibboat), Ednrd Dimiitoa, and Jobu
Mir**") elaika.

In UM, JoBi DuBiw&in, of OUghton,
" yomui," UantioDa " my Mn-in-Uv, Junea
WUmo, ftnd hi* wile Biwclia, 07 dkngbtH."

ffli pownalt; wu nlDed bj William HoUnax,
TboBu Hioooek [of Omnsblon], Oilbut BI»gboina
[of Iba Vord] , utd William Bare [of OUubton] ,
it«USi.lOd.

in the aama jMt (bwe dl«d alw Hmn Pmusa-
mi, of Uorctao, jMOua. In hU will ba mentions
bia wife '• tnu Pembuton," hfa aUeat son '■ Hjlw
FambNtoe." to wbomhalMTtaall Ualanda, ala., in
"Itr^crt" [Llaoatd] and llotaton. Hla otbar
oUUron ara " Wlliam, Eatbarine, Tbiuaaa, John,
and Hargaret," tba Uiiae laltar being nndei 16 yaan
of aga. At the oloae of the will la tba following
latanatlna danae, Ti>., " Item.— I manUaate jt nnto
aU mao Et tbia my laate will and teatament that
wbaieaa I gaie onto Mr. William Olegga, of Oaton,
aefabe, and Maria GHcwge, bla wyfle, tha ionma of
£• for and In eonddaratloa ol Agieamenta aboot A [
aactalo little ekaare of gromide oalled the hobSMlda 1
(1), lobDwefa firrianDea [r la tbia a legal term],
aboQt tba aalda gronode waa begoooe Belweane oue
Edward Plankuuja (3), gent and father onto tba
aaid Haiia Olagga, and one George Pembertoo, of
HoretoD, and nnole nnto me, tha id. Henir
PembarUm. And then I bad gotten zriil wjtneaaea
Beadle to ba awerae abonl the aayd eloanra o(
grododa, and In tba maaoa apaee the aalda Edward
Planheneja dyed, and I doa proteate tbat the lame
oloswa of gronnde la oonlejned wltUn the deedaa of
my other I^nda in Horaton,"

" Ofmaara : Hy brothel Jimea Pambarton and
my brother-in-law William Croeee."

Debti due teatator from " Hslatrea lUrle aiegga

isa. Id. and Charles Bonlda [ol UptQii] tUIi." His

Talaad at £173 las. 9d.

In IBM, there la also the will of <' Uuour
Huamoa, ol Sangball Uaaale, wydowe ;" aha laaiea
"to Hr. Fembarton of the Oitle of Gh«atar my
Unneanmn, my nagge" — "to the ohlldren ol
Thonma Haniaon that ii to aay, Thomea, Nloholaa,
William, Ellen aod Anne Hairison, S/i ^>eeoe."
"I glie nnlo William HaniaoD's wyafe of The
Xaolea [Great Ueola] my brawns sllke faatt and my
bonnatt "—a small beqneit to " Hlr Bobert
Dimaton " (S). Exeealon ■■ William Unnaker,
Biebolas Harrlaon, John Pambarton and John

In 15M la tba will at Wiujui Bbhhk, at
Moreton : he baqnaaiha bis Implementiof hnabaitdij
and bla furniture, tha Uttw of whieh ba deairaa may
remain at bla boose as "IretoaMa" to hla aon
Williaoi ; mentions bis wUa BUan, hla aon Edward
and bla two danghteia Margaret and Annr. [I am
indebted to E. M. Hanee, £Uq., LLB., ol UTarpool,
for an abatiaot of thia will.]

A remnant of a Itanseript lor 15M, still exlsta,
apparantly In the handwriting ot the Be*. John
Martin ; of tba 17 ahrlatanings wbioh took plaea tba
following are aL thai are legible, the maniagea and
deatfaa ara tomoS.

[torn] Wilooeka, ziil Jone.

[ditto] Wade [torn] Aogoat.

[ „ ] Drmlaton [ „ ] September.

[ „ J Ooodlear [ „ ] Beptembet.

[ „ ] Hieoooke [ „ ] Septembar,

[ „ ] MaddoolEa[ ,. ]I>eoamb«.

In 1597 is tha will of Muoaui QuniTH, ot
"Moreton In Wlrral," " widow," who lesTsa avary-
thlng to " Henry Watta tb' alder, ot Moreton,
hnsbandmaa " (I), whom aha also makes ezeontor. .

Among tba dabta dne are variona aoma from
"John Biliinga, th' alder, of Moralon," "John
Man," and " John Pembeitoa." Wltuemea,
" Arthor Pemberton, th' elder, and John Martin,

In 1609 la an InTsntocy ot tbe goods of Juoa
Humoocu ot HotetoQ, hnabandman. valned by
Henry Watt, Thomas Batbbone. John Gyle, and
Wm. Bandoooke. st £67.

Among tbe Tarloos Itema oasiir the following,

Item ! Money layd ont in beatea whiah

ars not dyrlded yat iiHl

item : Ooe BTble with other Engllab Bookes lOi
Itam i Hla app'rel for his owns bwUa .... Ida

to the Foolasaf
Poole t Oimerod givas four members of the bmily
aa Baators of BeUngton, tIi., Hogh Poole (1)
1603-1617 ! Balph Pools, 1617-1663 i Bngh Poola,
12)1687-1706; andBogh Poole (&>, 1716-1789.

m«M and urlbe of mveral Bldiloa wlUe
■IblBi hawsTei, tbM he wu mecalr a kind
10 Ui« nelabboDilioad, '^

WIRBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Januabt, 1692.

JANUARY 80th, 1892.

CW].

WIBRAL WORTHIES.
II. Bit. John Muboot.

John Mnreot wu one of the ahlest and moit
interestinff of the pnritan miniatera stationed in
Wiml daring the time of the Oiyil Were. A
biography of him was prefixed to one of his worka,
now exceedingly aearoe, entitled Motes in the Mount,
From thia a fall aocoant of him was oompiled by
the Rev. W. Urwiok for Nonconformity in Oheshire.
Thia aeoonnt, with a few additions and alterations,
ia giTen below.

John Hnroot was bom at Warwiok in 1628, of
parenta both reapeotable and pioos* Hia father.
Job Moroot, waa a lawyer. He waa eommitted to
the oare and tnition of an able and godly school-
master, Mr. Dagard, who inatilled instmction both
with his lipa and hia life, dedroaa to make him
not only a acholar bat a Ohriitian. Being com-
petently fnrniahed for the oniveraity, his father sent
him to Oxford, where he oontinaed his atadies
under the taition of the fidthfol and religiooa
Mr. Bat ton, of Merton Ck>llege. When he had been
there two yeara, in conaeqaence of the oooapation of
Oxford by the King'a foroea (1642-3}, be waa obliged
to flee from the univeraity disgoised, and re-
paired to the honae of Mr. Leigh (or Ley) of Bad-
worth, ** an ancient, grave, able, learned man,*' and
miniater of that plaee, and there he atadied hard
both day and night, allowiog himaelf bat foor hoara
for Bleep. The doad being blown over, he repaired
a aeoond time to Oxford, completed hia college
ooarae, took hia degree, and retamed to hia old
friend Mr. Leigh, to whom he waa in varioaa waya
naefnl.

He began with mach fear and trembling to appear
in public and to preach. " Being preaaed and
egged on," aaya hia biographer, ** by hk frienda, and a
oall f^om the inhabitants of Aatbnry, he entered
into the Lord'a yineyard, pat hia hand onto the
ploogh, and waa ordained a miniater at Manchester.
He professed, to nse his own words, that he waa
drawn aa a bear to the atake, complaining and often
bewailing hia want of a aafficient atook of nnif eraity
learning." The following notice of hia ordination ia
extracted from the Minntes* Book of the Manobeater
olaaais : —

** Whereas Mr. John Moroot, B.A., aged abont
twenty-foar yeara, haa addressed himself to na
(anthoriaed by both Hoaaea of Parliament of the
26th Angnat, 1646, for the ordination of miniatera),
deairing to be ordained a Preabyter ; for that he is
ohoeen and appointed for the work of the ministry
in the ohoroh of Aatbnry, in the oonnty of Oheater,
aa by a certificate now remaining with na teaching
that hia election and appointment appeareth ; and
having likewise exhibited aafficient teatimoniala of
his taking the National Oovenant, of hia diligence
and proficiency in hia a^ndiea, and nnblameablenesa
of life and eon?ersation ; — He hath been examined
accordance to the rnlea for examination in the aaid
ordinance expreased, and thereupon approved ; and
there having been no jaat exception made against hie
ordinance and admission s—These may testify to all

whom it nuqr concern that upon Wednesday, the Mil
of the month of Febraary , we have proceeded ■ftifiwwiy
to set him apart to the ofllee of a Presbyter and
work of the ministry of the gospel by the laying on
of oar hands with fasthig and prayer; by vfitoe
whereof we do declare him to be a lawfai sod
soffloiently anthorised minister of Jesos Christ ; and
having good evidence of hia lawful and fair calling
not only to the work of the miniatry baft to the
exereiae thereof in the charch of Aatbory in the
eoonty aforeaaid, we do hereby aend him thither
and actually admit him to the aaid oharge, to
perform all the offices and dutiea of a faithful paator
there, exhorting the people in the name of Jeaus
Ohriat willingly to receive and acknowledge him as
their miniater, and to maintain and encourage him
in the execution of hia office that he may be able
to give up auch an account to Ohriat of thAr aolsmn
obedience to his ministry as may be to his joy and
their everlasting comfort. We the Preabyters of the
firat olasaia in the county of Laneaater have heceto
act our handa, thia 9th day of February, 1647.
Signed:— Richard Hey rick, Robert Oonatantine^

John Jonea, Edward Woolmer.

John Angler, John Hanaon.

Job Finnee, Thomaa Holland.

According to this certificate, Mr. Muroot went to
Aatbnry, and aa hia biographer aaya, ** the Lord was
pleaaed to own him in hia firat attempta and endeav-
oura, giving him a aeal to hia ministry by the con-
version of two especially, who being awakened by
his sound doctrine, smart expreaaion, and powerf A
delivery, aadly bemoaned themselves and mourned
over their lost condition even in public." He did
not, however, remain long at Aatbnry, but removed
in 1647 to Eastham, the vicar of which pariah, the
Bev. William Seddon, had been deprived for hia
loyalty. Mr. Muroot was not at Eastham more than
twelve months, but we are told by hia biographer
that **he gained mightily upon the affeetiona of
many, eapeoially the godly, whoae hearta began
betimes to be knit unto him, and here, likewiae, the
Lord waa pleaaed to water hia laboura with the dew
of hia bleasing." While at Eastbam and in the 26th
year of hia age, ** being reaolved to change hia con-
dition, and discoursing with a friend about it,
there waa propoaed unto him Hester, the daughter
of Mr. Balph Maraden, (minister of West Eirby, of
note and useful in his generation) whom be after-
wards took to him to be the companion of hia life."
But before the oonsommation of the marriage, the
people of West Kirby, (Mr. Marsden departing thia
life) gave him a call which he complied with. He
aigned the Oheahire atteatation in 1648 as minister
of West Kirby.

F. 8a>ndsbs.
(To be GontinuedJ.

[16]

THB BIDSTON BBaiBTERS.

(Oontinaed from No. 12— January 23).

Regiater for Bydston priabe of Ohriateninga, Wed-
dings, and Bnrialls, for the yeare Anno dni, 1605.
Began tiie xxvi. of Marohe. John Marting, curate.

Ghbisteninos.
Randulphe Aynsdale, the xxvi. of Aprill.
Peter Bennett the vii. of Maye.

Januabt, IBM.

WntRAL NOTES AND QUEBIB8.

[torn] BiehaHioD, Uie zizi. of Maje.
[Kajtberen Bennett, the xziii. of Maje.

SHe] Diy Wfleoeke, the iz. of Jane,
ohn Hntton, the zfi. of June.
Thomu Ooodikar, the xiiii. of Julie.
WUlm Pemberton, the t. of Angnat.
(1) Willm Meolee, the zzte of Aagmt.
Anne Gnje, the xzUi^* of Angost.
Willm Pembertoo, th« TxiL of September.
John Woodwortb, the zx. of September.
Elfawbeth Bennett, the xxii. of September.
Mjlee Addison, the Tiii. of Oetober.
Heniy Bennett, the zrxi of October.
John Penkett, the zvii of November.
ICaigant Bennett, the xt of Deoember.
KWiaheth Hioooek, the zziii of Febniaiy.

WsDnnroB.

(2) John tf artin and Ellen Kempp, the vi of Aprill
(8) Xpopher Shinglinton and Margaret Mattin, nri.

Maifi.
4) Henry Shepp'd and EUen Wade, the zvi of Jnne.
Bio Hastie and EUen Meadowea, the vii of

Jnlie.

(5) Thomas Brabon and Alee Graye, the vi of

Oetober.
Bie Oyll and Oatheren Femberton, the zzii of
October.

(6) John Hiooook and Hargaret Buaooe, the !▼ of

Deoember.
Danniell Talier and Oatheren Ebj, the zi of

Deoember.
WOm Bylling and Eliiabeth Key, the 18 of

Febrnary.

(7) Henry Brydd and Eliaabeth Byllinge, the 37 of

Febmaiy.
Danniell Meiteere and Eliiabeth Martin, the
iii of March.

BURIALIB.

(8) John Penkett, the yii of Maye.
Anne fbll, the tsw of Maye.
Thomas Hiooooke, the 26 of Maye.

(9) Ellen Hanoocke, the iii of Jnne.
Izabell Hiooooke, the viii of Angast.
Thomas Pemberton, the 81 of Angast.
Elizabeth Upehone, the viii of October*
Ales Wilcooke, th«) zvi of Jasiaary.
Alee Oraye, the zvi of same.

Ellen Blaokbome, the iii of Febrnary.
Elisabeth Bathbon, the vi of same.

ilnis.

(1) WHlUm MeolM. third son of WUIiam Meoles, of
MeoU. BMlro, by his wife Bleanor, daughler of Thomu
Bonbary, ox Stanney, BaQuirei

(2) Both of Bidslon Pariah.

(3) Margaret Martin was the only anrvlvinf daughter of
the Bev. John Martin, Incumbent of Bldston at this period
-^▼Ide the Bev. John Martin's will. Appendix 0.)

(4) Henry Sheppberd, of West Kirby Parish.

(5) 1 homes Brabon, of Thnrstaston Parish.

(6) Both of Clanghton.

(?) William Biflinge, of Moreton, who died In 1646,
mentions in his will my ** nephew Henry Bird."

(8) Sae Aopendix B.

(9) ** BUen Hancooke. of Moreton, wlddowe ** in her will
dated Slst May, 1C06. mentions *' my brother Thomas Bath-
bone,** - *' John Bathbone*s ohllder.*' — " my daaghtor
Blisabeth Hanoooke.** Among tbe debts owing to testatrix
ooenrs ** Myles Bennet of Banghan [Saughail Massey] for
one yoke of oxen to be paid at mldsomr nexte £984"
■* Bobert Urmiston— manled man £3," Ber peraooalty wai
Talaedat«lia5 4*

FEBRUARY 6th, 1899.

[16]

WIBBAL W0BTHIE8.

I.— Bbt. John Muboot.
(Oontinned from No. 14— Jan. 80).

Mnraot's anonymoas biographer gives this qvainl
aooonnt of his laboan in his jparish : — ** Two
Yillages of the parish of West KIrby are
sorely iddted with the pestilence and the Lord
scatters abroad the black tokens of his diepleasnre,
the products of which are many fasts, tears, prayers,
importanate requests that the Lord would shew
onto his people why He had thus oontended
with them. Mr. Mareot had his ears
open to instraetion. This thundering
proTidenoe awakens him to a more exact serutiny,
and he is now penuaded that he had been too lax
and general in the administration of the sealing
ordinances, so that he resolf es to forbear ; however
he perseveres in preaching work, and waits on provi-
dence to see how the Lord will dispose and encline
the people's hearts. An Irish Iwd, quartering al
West Kirby, being bound for Lreland, was observed
to be a prodigious swearer, belching out most horrid
oaths in great abundance. Mr. Muroot hearing of It
Is impatlMit of brooking these high dishonours that
were done unto liis Majesty. Wherefore taking with
him a friend, he rides the same night six miles to a
magistrate, and procures a warrant ; the trembling
constables at first are astonished to think of
approaching in such a way to guilty greatness, but
being animated by Mr. Mureol, they served their
warrant, and the horses of the nobleman were selied
and kept till he paid 20A, which was employed as a
stock for the poor of the parish. This exemplary
act of justice procnred and prosecuted by Mr. Mnr-
oot's active seal, so daunted and overawed his
lordship that during his abode there, he held his
tongue and mouth as it were with bit and bridle.**

** It was a common practice in those parts to have
AUtf as they called them, a/uw good fellow meet-
ings, in which' the night was consumed in rioting and
drunkenness, the creatures abnsed, and God most
shamefolly dishonoured. One revelling night, he
and a good neighbour (Oaptaio Johnson) went to the
constables, engage their assiBtance, advance and
enter the house, or rather tbe den of dragons, at
whose approach and presence, the rabble rout scatters
like a mist before the rieing sun. Borne run
sighted out of doors, and leave their ale behind
them, others hide in secret places ; tbe flight was so
foil of confusion, yon would hsve thought It
oooaeioned by the incursion of the enemy, and that
their lives were rather invaded than their purses and
reputations. One only of the companv assnmes the
confidence to stand it oat, and, bavug a brow of
brass, thinks to oat face both sacred and dvil ofHoers,
and saitb, *• Bhall I fear Mnroot ?" calls for more
beer and in a bravado drinks to him, who pledsed
him with stern silence and frowning aspect. The
names of tiie ringleaders are re tamed to the
jastioes, and tbey constrained to pay their imposed
fines. Bot did this son of impndence (who dares
thus aflh>nt God'a ministers) thus escape t Thoo^

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Fbbbuabt, 1892.

thftt BiekneM ftt the time was oomfortebly abated,
aod the family to wbioh be was related not in the
least tainted, yet this man is very shortly after visiti-d,
and by that Bi^nal stroke from the band of the Lord
harried oat of tbe land of the living. The following
Sabbath Mr. Marcot chose a subject to treat on suit-
able to tbe occaiion, laid before them the blackness
of gailt coatraoted, the dread fulness of wrath
deserved, and so severe and catting were his rebakes
that they oaased in tbe eongregation strong paogs of
afteotion and nnwonted traosportation."

These quaintly told stories illastrate for ns, not
only the zeal and courage of Mr. Marcot, bat also the
habits of the aogodly and the beliefs of the godly in
those timee. They show how strong was the faith
of the people in special providences and divine
Judgments, and how unhesitatingly the power of
the magistrate and of law was made nse of in order
to enforce morality and religion. The drunken and
disorderly habits of the people were owing, in part,
to the oontinual travelling carried on from Chester,
throogh Watt Kirby to and from Ireland.

F. B.
{To he continued.)

[17] THE NAME ** BIRKENHEAD."

(See No. 3, January 2nd).

I was interested to see the question In the first
number of your "Notes and Queries" aa to the
origin of the name, ** Birkenhead."

The nsuaUy accepted one, as your correspondent
points out, is that it means " the town at the head
of the stream Birket." Now, though I do not
profess to understand much about the origin of
place-names, I must join issue with the advocates of
this meaning, for the very good reason that there
never was a stream called the Birket, until the
name was invsnted by the Ordnance Surveyors fifty
years ago. The stream called the Birket in the
map, rises In West Kirby parish, and fiows into
Widlasey Pool ; but if you speak of the Birket to the
old inhabitants of Meols and Moreton, they will one
and all tell you, ** Well, they calls it the Birket
now, but we never heard it called ought but the
Fender when we was young.*'

The stream which fiows down the valley between
Upton and Bidston Hill, is also called the Fender ;
both names being, I understand, simply a very
slight corruption of an old British word, meaning
" a slowly fiowing brook."

The only water that ever bore the name of
Birket was Tranmere Pool ; but is it not much more
likely that this name was derived from the place or
headland of the birch-trees than that the name of
the place was derived from that of the pool 7

I might add that Birket-head, or Birkenhead
proper, is some three miles from the mouth and
eight from the head or source of the so-called Birket.

Holly.

[18] THE BIDSTON REGISTERS.

(Continued from No. 15— Jan. 80.)

[Appeu'lix B.] — John Peoketh's will being aa
interest ing one, as well as the earliest recorded
of a Birkenhead man, I give it more m extonso :—

" In the name of God Amen. I, John Pknckrt,
of Birkett alias Birkene<l, of the Diusses of Chester,
yeoman, sioKe in bodie bat of souode and p*fecte
memorie, doe make this my laste will, etc." — ** bodia
to Parishe Ohurche of Bidston."

** Item.— I give to my sonne Thomas Penkett £7,
slsoe my table with frame and forme belongioge to
hit, and I give him more my greate brasse panne."

" Item. — I give and bequeath unto Riohazd and
Thomas Ghamook, my wyeflSo's two sonnes« zU
sheepes, to be eqnallie devyded between them."

** Item. — ^It is my will that zx s. be delivered to
my brother-in-lawe, William Heare, of Claughtott,
and that ye ssyde William Heare doe sett hit forthe
yearUe after at ii shyllinges the yeare, and [with]
the sayde lis., nppon the Monday in Bogation
weeke, the sayd William shall p*vide drinke with hit
for the Corat of Bidston and tbe parishoners that
com with hym, and that the drinke be drunken on
the grene in Olaughton when they come thetber as
their acoostome is, and that the sayd William Heare
shall see it so done yearlie, as my truste is in hym,
dnrioRe his lyffe, and after that he take sache order
that hit may be so used yearlie for ever." (I)

Bemainder of his property between Jane, his wife,
and his son and daughter Thomas and Ann Penkett.

Executors : Jane and Thomas Penkett.

Witnesses: Biohard Bennet, Thomaa Bnrsoowe,
Hichard Penokett, and others.

John Peokett's personalty was sworn at
£151 198. lOd. In tbe Inventory occurs the
following : ** Imprimis ii oxen, whereof the landlord
had th' one for the bariot [heriot] , £7 58. 6d.

The following are some of the names of those who
owed the testator mont»y : —

Thomas Bennet, Arthur Bennet, James Lowo,
John Qill, and Robert Rathbone, John Hoagh, Henry
YoQog (all of Uptoo) ; Henry Smith, Thomas Lyne
[Leen], Thomas Robinson, William Ball (all of
Lancoon, [Landican]) ; William Pe>mberton, of
Moreton ; Mylles Beunet, William Rntter, John
Bennet, William Martin, John Bordman, Lawrence
Robinson, Edward Barscowe, Thomas Harrison, and
Henry Wiloooke, Thomas Martin, and Thomas Moss,
John Tottie, the father, John Tottie, the son,
Robert Hiococke, Richard Hiccocke, Robert Riding,

(1) In Bishop Gastreirs Notlftla, vol. I., p. 155 Ta.d. 1720],
In the Hat of Bids'on charltieB. ooonm the following :—
" Interest of £5 left by 3 persons unknown to be spent In
Bread and Drink apOn persons yfc walk ye Bonnds of the
Parish."

Rogation Monday was the nsnal day for perambulattng
the various parishes to ascertain their exact llmlta.

I am Informed by the Rector of Bidston that this bequsst
is not now " bo used yearlie.**

Fkbbuabt, 1892.

WmRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

WUlimnk Formbie, Thomas I>enton, RMhard Pember-
loD, and John Moneley (of places nnipeoified),
Biehurd Young, of Groebie, John Pemberton, of Oxen
pxton], A'r. WUliam Donaternle [of Raby], Mr.
Henry Bold, Mr. Tbomas Bold [of Upton], and
Thomas Boraoowe, of Thornton. The amonnta of
the debts ranged from £9, in the case of John Bennet
and William Martin, to 28. » in the case of John
Moneley.

The following is a short abstract of a docoment
(which is printed in exteruo in vol. iy. Trans Hist
Soe, Lane and Chezh) bearing on the subject.

DepoeitionB of witnesses at the King*8 Oourt of
Ezehequer, Chester Castle, 7th May, 1607.

Upon the plea and behalf of Gilbebt Ubmbsior
defendant against John Ubmsston complainant.

Hbmbt Wattb of Morton, hosbandman, aged 8
■core years and upwards, sworn, saith he knoweth
the parties and hath known them for 30 years, and
also knew Wm. Urmeston and that defendant is son
and heir to William.

A surrey was taken by Henry Connye, John
Boberts, and Mylee Fells, officers for Henry late
Earl of Derby present at surrey, William Bennett,
and Biohard Boberts.

Other witnesses, Wm. Martin of Saughall Massie,
yeoman, Thos. Babon [Bathbone] of Moreton,
husbandman, Henry Smith, Arthar Urmaton, and
Heniy Irby of Moreton, husbandmen.

FEBRUARY 13th, 1892.

[19]. WIBBAL WOBTHIES.

n. Bby. John Mumcor.

(Continued from No. 16— February 6.)

Mr. Murcot being dissatified with the condition
of his congregation, and not deeming it right to
celebrate the ordinances promiscuously among them,
resoWed at length to leave West Kirby. He re-
oeiyed an inyitation to settle at Chester in the place
of Mr. Knowles, who had been propagating
Socinian doctrines here. In the words of the old
biographer : —

** There appears to be a formidable and blazing
comet at Chester, one Blr. Knowles, who exercised
as public preacher to the garrison there, and in
public sermons, private conferences, and by a
manuscript by him framed, denied Jesns Christ to
be the Most High God. Several in the city,
professing godliness, are dangerously ensnared,
and swallow down that poison which will turn to
gall and wormwood in their bowels. Mr. Murcot,
with others, especially Mr. Eaton, labours to
establish the people in the truth received, and to
pluck up the stinking weed which has began to spread
and fasten its contagious roots. Upon complaint
made, the flaming firebrand is removed, yet left be-
hind him those unquenobed sparks that break forth
into fresh flames. Some godly people in Chester
being embodied, and wanting a pastor to take Uie

charge of them, expressed their desires of enjoying
Mr. Murcot, who is sent unto and requested to
preach smong them by way of trial and in order to
hit future establishment, but withal entreated not
to intermeddle with the present controversy or
engage against Mr. Knowles."

The writer goes a^ to say that Mr. Mnreot visited
Chester, and pcaached from John zxi, 17, vindicating
the divinity of Christ, but that he declined the
people's invitation to become their pastor, saying,
** I cannot live without the ordinances at West
Kirby, nor like a Salamander in the fire at Chester,"

Murcot crossed over to Dublin, where he became
pastor of an Independent Church, and died greatly
regretted in that city at the dose of 1654. He was
boried in St. Mary*s Chapel, near Christ Church,
Dablin. His death ia thus mentioned by Henry
Newcome :— ** The next day (May 80. 1655), I
called at Harding (Hawarden) of Mr. Eaton, who
had then lately returned from Ireland, and preciout
Mr. Murcot was then just dead, and he' told me of
the precious name and savour he had left behind
him there.*'

Mr. Eaton says of John Murcot, ** He wm, wUle
he lived in Wirrall, the glory of that country. A
very quick and lively and powerful preacher he was,
and mighty in prayer. Eminent for piety, gravity,
and holy innocenoy. Dearly loved he was by some,
and greatly reverenced by others. In a word he was
a most industrious, vigilact pastor, and a most
austere and self-observing Christian. He may be
reekoned among the Lord's worthies, of whom the
** world was not worthy."

The printed works of John Muroot are for the
most part expository and practical sermons, namely,
Circunupect Walking, on Ephesians v. 16, 16 ; The
Parable of the Ten Virgins ; The Sun of Righieoue-
nesSf Malaohi iv. 2 ; Christie udUingnets to receive
hunile §inner$, on John vi. 87.

F. Samsxbs,

THE BIDSTON BEGISTEBS.

(Continued from No. 18— Feb. 6th.)
In 1607, Hjbmby Watt, of Moreton, husbandman,
left his ** goodes to be devyded into two partes,"
•< the one parte to Anne my nowe wyefe,*' ** th'
other parte to my children." " Anne my wyefe my
executor ;" " my well- beloved friendes, Bobert Watt
my brother d( John Bennet of Saugham," Overseers.

Witnesses, John Tassie, William Bylling, James
Byram.

Inventory taken 16th January, 1607, [o.a.] by
William Butter, William Bylling, Thomas Harrison,
of the Carr, Thomas Handoocke; Bumma totalis
£144.

In 1609 Janb Pxnkxth, of Birket Wood, widow, in
her will dated 8rd August, left " to my two sonnefl
Bichard and Thomas Charnock either of them £20,
also the corne growinge in the ould wood." ** To
Thomas Penketh my biggest potte ;" ** to my sonne
John Charnock one potte ;" "to my daughter Anne
the great combe;" "to brother Hare his children
20/- ;'* "to Margaret Penketh one oanlfe." The will

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

FkBBUABT, 1S92.

doiei with a bequest tlmiUr to t^e one left by her
hubuid John Penketb, in 1606, «g follows : ** I geve
and beqneathe zxs. to ye towne of Olaoghton to be
sett fortbe at ii ehiUiogee for the poonde, the eayde
two BhillingB to be yearlie npon Mondaie in Oroeee
weeke dninken in the lame town A the stoeke to
remain whole for ever."

Exeentore: Biohard and Thomaa Ohamook.
**And I heartilie desire my lo^inge friende Mr.
Edward Yawdrey, gent, to be my overseer." (1).

Witnesses: Thomas Penkith, Biohard Hiooook.
Oodioil : ** I give A bequeathe all interests whioh I
have in the gronnde in the onld wood aforeseid to
my sonnes Biohard A Thomas Oharnook exrept one
halfe whioh I g^To A bequeath to my son Thomas
Penketh."

** Debtes oweinge to the testator.

Imprimis: John Tottie for ye hyre of two kyne
xtIs," als3 from Peter Gill, John Qill, Biohsrd
Hiooooks, Thomas Harrison, Biohard Nitohell, of
Banghan-on-the-hill, Peter Gnyle, and Biohard
Hastie.

** Dettes whioh I ows.

Imprlmia t To my sonne Thomas Penkith, £4 12s."

Inventory taken 8th Angnst, 1609, by James Wjlson,
Bobert Bjding, James Woodward, and William
Hare. The following are interesting items : —

«( Imp : one eowe wh was taken for ye hariot £8.

Item 1 one browne oowe given onto Anne Bennet.**

[Appendix 01. There Is not mnoh to be said abont
the Bey. John Martin, exoept that he was inonmbent
of Bidston, oertainly from 1604, possibly from 1689,
imtU his death in 1610.

As will be seen from his will, printed below, he
was a married man, and bad at least one danKhter,
who married, In 1605, a oertain Ghrietopher Bhiog-
Ungton ; (2) he wrote a beantifnlly olear hand, whidi
one wishes he had exsroised it more in sending np
trsnsoripts to the Bishop's Begistry.

His will is written on paper, and is as follows .*^

"In the name of God, Amen. The six and
twentieth day of September, An. domini, 1610.
WItnesseth that I, John Martio, elarke. sioke in bodie,
bnt whole in mynde, make this my last Will and
Testament as followeth. First, I leaye my sonl to
Almighty God, and my bodie to be buried within
the ohansell of Bidstone, at the north end of the
table where I was wont to read the oommandments.
As for the other oauses, I leave Alls, my wife, in
the same state [estate] that I am in, together with
the lease of the sayd cottage during her life, and,
after her decease, the remainders of the said lease
to come to my daughter Margaret according to the
terms thereof. All my worldlie goods I give to my
wife Alls, giving to my daughter's children a noble
apseoe to goe forward with. And for the true
p*formanoe of this present, I make my lawful
oxeontor, Alia, my wife being god [good] to my
daughter's children at her decease. I joyne Chris-
topher Shingliogton (2) my soDne-in-iaw, exeoutor
with my wyffe Alls to p'forme this present.*'

(1) Bdward Yawdrey, of the Blddlngi, Biqalxe.
(I) 71ds manrlag •• for year 1606*

Debts oweinge nnto mee the sdd testator :^

Imprimis.— Mr. Edward Glegge (2) of Getoa osth
Qnio me behinde with wagis due at All Saint's next
the some [of] nineteen nobles and lid.

Item.— Fson Tounge, for six bookss, %m ahOI-
Inges, or else the bookes againe.

Item.— Behonle Mr. Wm. Fleoher in mon^
lentfiis.

Item.— Mr. Thomas BUnnge (8), the preaoher. Is
bdebted nnto mee for a satohell full [of] baods,
liiiis., havinge [them] in his custodies fours years
past.

Debtee that I owe ;—

I owe unto James Wilsonn, of OUughton, Us., If
he will have fonre lett my exeoaton satMe him
some ways.

I owe nnto my daughter Margaret vUIb.

These being witn e ss o i i . . .

John GUI, the elder.

Edward Psmberton.

WUliam Bntter."

Attached to the will Is the foUowing Inventoiy:—
•*A true Inventorie of aU such goods and
implements as were Sir John Martin's, olerke, who
depHed this life the xxiiid. dale of November last
past. Ano Dona 1610, the same praised, the third of
December, 1610, by Gilbert Urmston and Wm.
Bntter.

Imprimis.— In Bookes • • • ^^

Item.— lo Brasse, one smaU potte, with two
pewter dishes, fire tongues, pot hooks, rerkons, and

one little panne xUis. iUid.

Item.— His bed and bed stooke xiils. Uiid.

Item. — His appareU and oloeke xz>"

Summa totalis (4) x. xiils. UUd.» per me, WUliam
Butter.

FEBRUARY 20th, 1892.

[21] ON OEBTAIN OHABAOTEBISTIOS OF
THE ANOJENT OHUBOHEB OF WIBBAL.

Before the remnants of the andent ohurehes of
this district disappear, from natural decay, or the
frequent overkindness of the *' restorer," in substitu-
ting his peeuUar theories of art, or his so-oslled
** copies" of old work for the Inveluable originals,
which, if once lost, can never be replaced, it would
be well if those entrusted with the oare of such
buildings, or others who are interested In their
preservation, would make careful notes of such
fragments as remain. Hardly as our old buUdings

(1) The QleRgsof Oayton wae leBseee •* »5'!L **™t ^»mt
Beolorial Tithes of BldBion. and were bound by the torms
of the leue to pay half the curate's Btipend, namely
£6 138. 4d. per annum. ^ ^ - « ^ »«-u-

(4) Thomae Blllinge was Bector ol Wert Kirbf . ^^^„. ,.

(3) Mr WUliam Batter'i acitluneUo seems somewnai

naoooraie.

Fbhbuast, 1892.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

have been nsed in this neighbourhood, and more
especiaUy in the well-to-do parishee, by praise-
wortby, bat often ill-Jndged liberality, there
Btill are many traeea of eztreme intereet to the
antignary, from whieh the original bnildinge may be
onderetood. The amaUest fragments of andent
Btooe or woodwork showing any character, or even
plain masoniy, will often reveal to a practised eye
the date or s^le of a bnilding, and shoold be eare-
folly preserred. Old fonndations when nnoofwed
shoold be drawn, messnred, and planned, and the
nature of their materials exactly recorded. If this
were earefnlly done, mnoh ooold be learned of worth
to the antiquary and the historian. Take only one
or two instanoes of what may be done. In a pile of
stones, earefnlly kept, perhaps a score altogether,
ftom. the materials of Bromboroogh Ohorch, we can
recover traces dating from the Saxon period down to
the sixteenth century of the orighial stmotore.
From one fragment only a few inches in length and
breadth, we recognise the style and date of the
North doorway.

In another ease where the original church Is
wholly destroyed, a single stone enables ns to reooTer
the date of the bnildiog, the dimensioDS of its main
doorway, the thickness of the wall, the existenoe of
a former porch, and many other details.

It may be of some nse to those who care to study
our ancient bmldings, to know what were the pre-
Tailiog types of the old churches in Wirral, at the
Tarious periods of the Middle Ages, as they may be
thus enabled to follow with greater exactness the
indications that they find.

Of British churches the only trace is to be found
in place-oames, such as '* Landican " and *' Poulton
Luicelyn.'* The word **Iilan " sigoifled ** a village
or town with a church," that is *' a chnrohtown.'*
The old British name of Wirral, KUgwry Is said to
mean '* an angle '* : it is quite as likely that the
word Kil signified *< a cell or monastery,*' as it does
In Ireland, and that it indioates some early Ohristian
settlement. This would be the more likely, were the
long-disputed geolo^cal question settled in favour
of an entirely different coast-line from the present
one having existed in British times.

Samn remains are numerous : tbeyconsistt so far
■s I have been iU>le to ascertain, entirely of church-
yard and sepulchral crosses, or tombstones. One
found at Upton is an inscribed Saxon stone. None
of these are structural remains : doubtless nearly aU
the Saxon churches were of wood or wattled-work.
This is quite consistent with Saxon practice. A
crop, usuaUy highly ornamented, was set up in the
saored endoeure, around which the people assembled
lor worship. The church was a very small and
simple structure, often only sufficient in siae for the
ministering priest to nse sa a sanctuary. It is no
aaarvel that we have no trace of Saxon building,
when it is conddered how Wirral was the track,
over which Dane and Norseman marched, scarody
opposed, against the great dty of Chester.

In the JVorman period we have the earliest indica-
tions of building in Wirral. None now existing are
very early. Curiously enough some of the Norman
work of Birkenhead Priory, which from its extreme
plainness might be mistaken for early work, has the
known date of jud. 1160. Two types of Norman
shnzohee are to be found : none of them are now entlrSf

and the Norman work has to be separated from later
additions. The first type consists of a nave and ehancd
without aides. Such were the Norman Churches of
Wallasey, Bromborough, Bhotwick, Ince, and Over-
church, of which only Overchnrch had a tower, ^le
second type was a church with one aide on the
North, or on dther side, and an aideiess ohancel. The
class with s North aide only was the more numerous.
Bebington and West Kirby are instances. In the
latter church a Norman base in ntu^ and a detached
capitd remain. Neston is the only Church In
Wirral that seems to have had in the Norman period
both North and South aides, and this was extremely
late in the style. I am quite prepared for a contra-
diction in the case of Bebington { but I may here-
after show the curious system of changes to which
that building was subjected, which will oonfirm this
view.

Lower Bddngton.

Edwd. W. Cox.

{To he mmHnued,)

[32]. THE BIDSTON BEGISTEBS.

COontlnued from No. 21 -February 18th).

The next Transcript preserved at Chester Is
dated 1612, and is in the handwriting of the Bev.
Evan Piers, who succeeded to the living of Bidston,
on the death of Mr. Martin ; unfortunately it has
been exposed to damp at some time, and is now
hardly legible, the marriages aod deaths having
completely perished. The following Is aU that can
be dedphered: —

BZDBTOH.

Baptizat hoc anno dom 1612.

Margareta Watte, baptizata fuit [ ]

Maria Milner, baptiaata fuit, xxviii die [ ]
Bodulphus Kempe, baptizatus viii die JunL
Anna [?] Bathbon, baptizata xziii die Juni.
Ellen Hancocke, baptiaata * • dleJnll.
[ jPemberton, baptizatus li die Auguatl.
[ ]TaUer[ ]

[ ]EempeL ]

ElizdMtha Copp[ock] [ ]

Margeria Lath, bap [ j

Johannes Bathbon, baptizatus [ j

[ ]^ilcock[ ]

Then follow four or five mora ohristenlngB qoite
Ulegible.

In this year, probably late In Deoember, died
*'Bir. William Fills, yeoman,'* of Bidston, a
man of considerable substance, who rented the
recently built Manor House and the Manor £Wm of
Bidston (i; from the Earl of Derby, and a mdety of
the Manor of Arrowe in Woodchurch Parish from

(1) In Hark MSB Index.— Vol U. p. 476 Is following.
"Original Arttoles of AgreemenI mMe between Blohard
Kellie of London gentleman, and WUUam FeUes of Arrowe
yeoman. 10 May, 1609.

For a lease of the Manor House and Park etc.. of Bidston
In Wirral, whloh KelUe bold of the Barl of Derby for whloh
FeUes was to pay Kallle A140 mk annum, and a ohief rent

toUieiauiaaaofMaos.ia.''^ ^

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

Fkbbuabt, 1892.

the GlMeonxs of Lm (2) as wall u owning freehold
property in liyerpool, Leighton, and The Hooee.

Aa he atatee in hia will, mnoh of thia property had
deeeended to bim from hia father, Milea Fella, who
aeema to lia?e heen Lord Derbj'a bailiff for hia
Bidaton properly.

Hia only daoghter, Oleely, married, in 1<M>7, John
Bherloek, of Oxton, a brother of the Key. Biehard
Sherlock, aometime Beotor of Woodohorob, and
poeaibly oonain of Dr. Biohard Sherloclc, Beotor of
Winwiek, the celebrated theological writer. Dr.
Sherlock ia, perbapa, not aa well known aa hia
■aintly nephew, Thomaa Wilaon, Biahop of Sodor
and Man, anoeator of the preaent Lord Winmar-
leigb.

The faet that Mr. Fells left £6 to the aohool of
Bidaton ia intereating, aa showing the exiatence of a
achool at that date, 1603. Thia fact ia corrobor*
ated by the mention in the Bey. John Martin'a will
in 1610, of the achoolmaater, Mr. William Fletcher ;
the old Boboolhooae wbich ia atiU atandiog beara the
date 1686, and ia aaid to haye been bult by sub-
aeription, on land giyen by Jamea, Lord Sirange,
afterwarda the Martyr Earl.

It will be noticed that the foUowing will is dated
1603, but Mr. Fella did not die until some ten yeara
later.

'* In the name of God Amen, etc 28 Deo 1603 . .
I William Fella of Arrowe [and Bidaton] yeoman
being in aonnde mind and bodie eto-; I giye to the
Pariah of Bidaton towarda the mentynance of their
schoole aa tha reate of their atocke and aett ont to
that nee the anmme of flye ponnds. Also I give to
the Pariah of Woodohurch ffive poanda to be
employed for the nae of kine aa their order ia, to
the nae of the poore of their parishe."

Lands in Leighton, ** which I pnrohaaed of the
Bt Hon Wm Earle of Derbie," together with reaidne
of property '* eqnalUe between Margaret my wiffe,
Henry Joanea her sonne and Gecely F^ my
daughter."

Lands in Liyerpool and also ** my lands upon the
Houlse [Hoose] , Countie of Chester, I give and
bequeathe to my brother Stephen Fells, and his heirs
male foreyer, in default of aucb issue to my brother
Ohristopher Fells and hia heirs male foreyer," in
default to go to the rest of *' my bretbern and their
heirea, whoae namea are Fells ; for aa these lands
came unto me from my Father My lea Fells, I leaye
them unto one of the name of Fells."

Executors : <* Margaret my wiffe and said Henry
Jones her sonne."

Oyerseers, Thomas Betson, John Bharpe of
Neaton, Thomaa Coventry of Enooktoxum and
Edward Gwyn of Greasbye.

FEBRUARY 27th, 1892.

[23]. ON OEBTAIN 0HABA0TEBISTI08 OF
THE ANCIENT OHUBOHES OF WIBBAL.

(Oontiniied from No. 20— Febraaiy 20).

It ia aingular that though the Early EnglUh period
waa yery prolific in building, and tluit Cheater tiad
line examples of it, the only buildings in Wirral that
ahowed anything in thia style were Wallaaey and
Bidaton* Chnrchea. Out of the ruined walla of
Wallaaey, taken down after the Churoh waa burned,
oame beautifully aculptured capitals and baaea, show-
ing that a North aisle had been then added to the
naye, and a ohapel to the chanoeL

Towarda the end of the thirteenth, and during the
fourteenth century, North aisles were added to tha
Norman chnrchea ; and the churches generally were
re-modeled. At Weat Kirby a South aiale waa added,
making it a church with centre and aide aialea to the
naye. Shotwiok waa extended by a North aiela
throughout its length, and by the elongation of the
chanceL At Bebington the churoh waa remodeled
in the fourteenth century, but retained its plan,
having a North aisle only in the Norman period,
which waa afterwarda changed into the main body of
the church.

Eaatham was built in the early part of the four-
teenth century, with a north nave idale ; afterwarda
a north chancel aisle was addedi and a aouth aisle to
the nave, hot at no distant period, making it a
three aialed church. The church of Stoak ia a
different type from the rest : it seems to haye been
built in the fourteenth century, and had a south
transept, but is aialeleas. Baokford datea late in the
fourteenth or early in the fifteenth eentury. The
naye ia lost, but it has an aisleless chanoel.

A farther peculiarity in the Wirral ohurohea ia
that none of them show any indication that they
possessed towers either in the Norman or early
English period, except Oyerchuroh. The earlieat
steeples are Eastham and Bebington, dating about
1820. Neston is a little later; every other t-ower
in the district is fifteenth and aixteenth century
work. Probably all these latter, except West Eirby,
Woodeburob, and Heewall, are of the aixteenth
Century. In this late period towers were added to
Wallasey, Bidston, and Backford, slso to Shotwiok,
almost identical in design ; and many of the exterior
walls were repaired and windows altered by the
insertion of new traceries in the fashion of the
time ; but little or no change waa made in the plans
of the churches, with the notable exception of
Bebington.

It will be noticed from this sketoh that there ia
in the district no example of a oruciform churoh.
Only one church, Stoak, has a single transept. There

(2) In the will of William OUseoar, of Lea. Esqalre, dated
1568. he leaves to his bod Hugh, "octi moyiie ot the manor
of Arrowe and lands thereunto belonging whioh are In the
occupation of Mylei Veils of Byddeston.*'

*The nave of Bidaton was very fine Early English, with
round pillars and moulded capitals. The restorallon is not
comparable with the old work. It had two aisles of this
pexlodi bat the outer walls were Uter.

Fbbbitibt, 1892.

WntBAL NOTES AMD QUERIES.

is BO iofUnea of « oentnl tower, and in aU eases
the towff oeeapiea a poeition at the weetem end.

In no etee do we find a elereetozy as an original
feature, nor ie there any ina'anoe of a foliated
capital to any of the arcadee (Wallasey excepted, to
whidi a special legend is attached) thou|(h modem
qpecim«ns have heen stock into ancient work. There
are scarcely any carred hosses or oorhel heads,
exsept on the fifteenth and sixteenth century oentoiy
towers. The character of the architectnre throngb.
oat IS grave, simple, and well proportioned, and
depends for its efieet on good proportion and effec-
tive monldings : all is soited to the climate and to
the material, a red or grey freestone, and diows an
agreeable contrast to the OTcrdone, modem restora-
tions, which haTo sapplanted too much of its orig-
inal simplicity. .

It is proposed to make separate notes of some of
the ehnrohes, and I shaU begratefol for the loan of
any particnlars, plans, or drawings of any kind
made previouB to late aUertUiont^ to assist in this
pnipose.

Lower Bebingtoo. Edwd. W. Ooz.

[M] THE MEANING OF THE ENDING BY
IN PLAGE NAMES.

A large number of townships in the Wirral have
their names ending in the snffix by, thereby showing
their Norse origin. Soch are Eirby, Frankby,
Qreasby, Pensby, Irbyt Whitby, <fto. The following
extract from Oanon Atkinson's delightful book.
Forty Yean in a Moorland Parith, gives a clearer
notion of the real meaning of the sofflk than is to be
found elsewhere.

** What is the meaning of the term by 7 Maoh
too generally this question is answered in a half
flippant, careless, inexact way, with the explanation
••a honse, a dwelling.' Oanon Taylor himself
writes, ** The word orif^nally meant a dwelling, or a
ringle farm, and hence it afterwards came to denote
a viUage," and he rdegates to a note what is not
merely the most Hignifleant part of the reqoisite
explanation of ^the syllable in aU such
names, bat the altogether essential idea
that onght to be conveyed; for in that
note he says that the by at the end of place names
"denotes Danish colonisation. In places visited
only for purposes of trade or plonder, no dwellings
wonld be required." Jast so, ** it denotes Danish
oolonisation,'* and colonisation, in all leases of poss-
ession and occopation for oaltiural pnrposea, meant a
good deal more than merely a dwelling to cover the
bead of the colonist himself against the assanlts of
the elements or the winter's cold. True, there
most be the settler's ** shanty," bat there most be
also shanties, meaner than the master's, for the men
who came with him for the colonist's work in the
forest and on the land ; there most be stables for
the horses, byres for the cows, sheds for the oxen,
refnges for the shoepi the swine, and the other live
stock necessary to make the settlement efficient
from all the reqoisite points of view. So that a by
from the first, instead of being an isolated dwelling,

wasa farmstead in the old fall sense, when the mcB
who worked the land were all thoaght of and pro-
vided with adequate dwelling -places, however roogb,
as weU as the live and dead stock of the agricalturist.
It was in this way that, when the clearings and the
cultivable area became enlarged, and the popolatioa
increased and went on increasing acMtfdingly,
the by afterwards came to denote a village."
Forty yeart in Moorland Pariih, pp. 264.5.

Oanon Isaac Taylor tells as that a by-law is so
called as being the local law enacted by the
townahip. M.A.

[26]

THE BIDSTON BEGISTBBa

(Oontinaed from No. 22, Febnaiy 20.)

The Inventoiy which includes a list of the debti
due to the deceased is an interesting one; the fdUowhiig
extracts are worth recording :—

«<Inventorie of Mr Wm Fell, lately deceased
praised at Bidston 28 Jan 1612 by John Sharps [of
Neston], Gilbert Blackbum [of the Ford], Thomas
Ooventiy], and John Houghe [of Nootorum]."

All come in the newe barae at Bidston.. .8511 Os. Od.

All come in the Hall bame 9U Os. Od.

Mault and barleye in the lower Idhie

at Bidston 1511 Os. Od.

45 young beasta at Bidston 6411 Os. Od.

2 young bullodu at John Shurlocks 411 18s. 4d.

etc. etc

For plate that is pawned lOli Os. Od.

Wheat and Rye sowen in Bideton Psrk 1111 Os. Od.
Half e of the barke caUed " The Bride "

and a quarter of the barke called

'* The Mayflower" 45U Os. Od.

Tacks of Ground.

The tacke of Mr.Thomas Bould's ground 1811 6s. 8d«
The tadte of Richard Hattons [of

Landioan] ground, 5011. Os. Od.

The taoke of Geo. Langford's ground 911. Os. Od.

Gk>ods and chattels of Mr. Fells, at Arrows, pndaed
by aforesaid.

Thomas Worrell, of Warrington, oeth

for 200 new measures of wheat 6411 Os. Od.

Richard Griffin, by bill , 8li Os. OJ.

Thomas Bould and Henry his son 611 9s. Od.

Mr. Peter Bould for wheat 511 Os. Od.

Mr. Glegg, of Geaton, in barleye 611 Os. Od.

Mr. Adams [of Woodchuroh] oweth

for a cow 811 6b. 8d,

John Mason and Edward Griffiths

for a cow 211 13s. 4d.

Richard Bird of Leverpool oeth by bill 511 Os. Od.
John Hey ofLancan [Landican] for mault Hi 15b. Od.

Thomas Young of Upton 7s. Od.

George Umstey [?] of Puddington 11. 6s. Od.

William Urmston, drover, oeUi by bill 211. 18b. 4d.

William Whitmore 2U. 6b. 8d.

Richard Oorder 11L16b. Od.

Mr. Henry Bould for beef and mault 81i. 7b. 4d.
William White oweth lent money .••••. 21 lOs. Od.
Thomas Robinson •••«. .•••• 21 6s. Od.

WntBAL NOTES AND QTJEBIE8.

Uasob, 18M«

Bander Toang • 2116fl.0d.

Mm Jane Brian 51 Oa. Od.

Heniy Jonee [deoeaaed'a atepson] 21 Oa. Od.

Mr.ObariM Bonld. 9l.l8a.4d.

Biehard Golboome, of Dablin 151 Oa. Od.

Lawrenoe Bathbon of Oolerane, l^ bill 101 Oa. Od.

Bobert Qtll, of Walliaey 81 Ob. Od.

Jobn Toang, of Walliaey 21 10b. Od.

Smaller amonnta from Biobard Erbie, Bobert
8taiin0y, and Tbomu Boblnaan, of Wallizey, Joan
Green, of The Deny, in Ireland and Boger White-
hmd.

The toUl unoimt of hii penonal^y was abont
£600.

MARCH 6th, 1898.

WIBBAL VESSELS IN 1544.

The following Ust of Teaaels hailing from Wirral
porta wbieh paid town dnea at Oheater, between the
27th of Ootober and the 80th December in the year
1544, ia worth preaerring. The original la amongat
the aplendid ooUeetion of oity doonmenta at CheiSer

zzril October.— The Nottorke, of Helbre, of
which the master ia Bio Ijytill.

nx Ootober.— The Bfiohaelle, of Hilbre, of whioh
the maater ia Thomas I^till.

ii Nofember.— The —— of Hilbre. of whioh
the maater ia Bobert BadoUff [of Oreaal^].

iii November.— The Marten, of Neaton, of whioh
the maater ia Biohard Kempe.

X November.— The Peter, of Hilbre, of whioh the
maater la Biohard Sheppard.

xii Not ember.— The Trinitie, of Weat Kerkbye, of
which the maater la Peter Warrington.

xiii November.- The Boae [?] , of West Eirkebye,
of which the maater ia Thomas Wright.

ziii November.— The OhrlBtopher, of HilbrSi of
whioh the master is John Wright.

zxii November.— Tlie Marten, of Nealoii« of whiah
the maater ia Biohard Kempe.

zxiz November.- The Pride of Weat Kirkebye, of
whioh the master is John Ooaentrye.

— Deoember.— The Goodloeke, of Code [Oaldey]
of which the master is Thomas Hogg.

xzix Deoember.— The Nattook, olHilbfe^ of whioh
the master is Biohard Ijytill.

The cargoes, whioh are in each oase detailed in
fnllinthe original docnment, oooaiated ohiefly of
herrings, aheep akina, wool, and oorn ; and the ton-
nage of the vessels ranged from five to sixteen tons.

GiangbtoiL

Wk. FneuBBox Ixvini.

[27] THE NAME " BIBEENHEAD.'

(See No. 17, Feb. Q.

Tonehing the origin of the name " Biiksnhsad,"
I cannot give an opinion aa to the trae origiBal
meaning, bnt the following notee which I made aomo
time ago may intereat year readen, and pecfaaps lead
to a eolation of the proUem.

In A.D. 1158 Hamon de Maarie fonnded a prioiy it
Birk&ned (ao spelt in the original dooamentjl

In the time of Edward III., Hanum de Massto
granted to the Monks of Birken4d the light to oLaot
their own Prior.

In the grant to the Prior to keep an inn p7 Bdw«
III.], the place is spelt In the same dooament,
Btrtsnhedukd Bwhsn^d,

In Bowden Ohoroh there Is, or wis, • window
placed in 1580 to Sharp Priori ie Bvrkmth§ad.

In the Beport of the Oommiaaioners prior to the
Diasolntlon of the Monasteries, the Affonaatery de
Birked ia apoken of, aa well aa landa called Birhet
Orange, Strange to aay John Birkenhed was ooa
of the oommiaaioners.

In a Betnm of Miniater^ profits, itmp 85 nad 86
Henry YUI., BirkenedensU is named.

In 1545 the Priory estate and townsliip or haBtlel
of Byrkenhedde were (amongst others) granted to
Balph Worsley.

In the 16th eentnry Leland speaks of BiVM,
** late a Priory of aixteen monks."

In King's Vale Boyal written in 1616 varions
plaoea in the locality are named, among oth«n,
** BWket Waodt whioh hath been a ftunooa priory.**

In the Liverpool Corporation Becords [1541], I
find a payment of eleven shillings to a ** monks of
Birket for byndynge a boke.

I myself possess an engraving of Birkenhedde
Priory, pnbliahed in 1785.

So mnoh for the difbrent ways of spelling BirkiB-
Birkonhead. A. Ck

[88] DEAN SWIFT AT DAWPOOL.

Dawpool in the township of Little Oaidy
formerly a starting and landing plaoe to and from
Ireland.

Dean Swift aet sail from Dablin for England,
28th Nov., 1707, and landed at *' Darpool,"
and next day rode to Parkgate, on his wi^ to
Leicester. He spent 1708 in England and set aaU
from ** Darpool " for Ireland 29th Jane, 1709, and
landed next day at Bingsend, and went to Laraoor,
where he waa vloar.

Birkenhead.

W. LoWKSBOBOUOa.

Febbuabt, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

[89] THE BIDSTON BEQISTEBS.

(Oontinned from No. 25— February 27).
Apnd Bidston Anno dom, 1614.

MAfgretft Milner baptizata fnit 80 die Martis.

(1) EUena Martire bapUaata xxix die Aprilis.
Thomaa Martin, filina Tho. Martin, bap. xz

die Maii.
Elizabetba Lea bap. tii die Jnlii.
Henricu Addiaaon bap. vii die JaliL
Biohardna Parbolte fUins Bia Parbolte, bap. z

die Jnlii.

(2) EUaabetha Anderton bap. fnit zziii die Jnlii.
Maria Ohamooke bap. zxzi die Jnlii.
Jacobaa Wiloocke iUine Jo. Willcooke bap.

zzsi Jnlii.

(3) Margareta Shingleton bap. nltimo die Jnlii.
Jobannea Waley bap. (nit xiii die Aognati.

(4) Eliaabetba Jonea filia Hen. Jonee, bap. zzi

die Ang.

(5) Jobannea Qondiker bap. (nit zi die Septem-

bria.
Anna Befton baptizata fnit eodem die.
Henriona Kettle baptizatna fnit eodem die.
Gnliehnna Stoneton baptizatna fnit eodem die
Henriona Gk>bin baptizatna fnit eodem die.

(6) Tbomaa Gill bap. fnit eeonodo die Novembria
Henry Watte baptizatne fnit zUi die Not-

embria.
Georgina Handoooke bap fnit zz die Deoem-

brla.
Janeta Lathe bap fnit nltimo die Deoembris.
Johanee Martin fllina. Jo. Martin, bap ii die

Jan.
Biohardna Taller filina. Willm- Ta. bap zil

dieMartia.

Matrimonia.

(7) Jaoobne Geirard et £franoiBoa Poole zzz die

Maii.

(8) Jaoobna Anderton et Margareta Hamnet ziii.

die Jnnia.
Johannea Haneooke, et Anna Gill, 17 die

Deoembria.
Biohardna Lea el Anna Wade qninto die

Febmarii.

(9) Johanee firanoiaBon et Alioia Tronghton,
die Feb.

(1) DAUghter of Daniel Meiteer by hlB wife BUxabeth
Martin. Vide weddings 1605.

(2) Danghier of James Anderlon by his wife Margaret
Hamnet. Vide weddings same year.

(S) Daoghler of Onrlsiopber BhInKleton byhis wife Mar*
garet danghier of the Bey. John MarUn. vide wedding!
U06 and the Bev, John Martin's wllL

(4) Henry Jones, of Bidston Hall, *' gentleman." as he Is
described In his will; he ooonpled Bidston Hall Farm from
1(03, having snooeeded to the lease on the decease of his
stepfather, Wm. FeUs (Tlde-Wm. FeU*s wUl) aniil his death
1111619.

(5) See burials same year.

(6) Ihe aiU family had been settled for many generations
In this and the surroonding parishes ; the nead branch
seens to haye been at Wallasey. In the preyioas year to this
namely 1613, a oert<»ln John alii, of Potuton, ** dlsolalmed *'
at the Heralds Visitation.

(7) James Oerrard of Bidston, and Frances Poole, probably
of Bebington.

(8) James Anderton. of Olanghton : this his first wife,
Margaret, died on the 12th of Aagost. 1624 Tq.v.), and in the
following Noyember he married for his second wife, Anno
Haneooke, of Moreton.

(9) Neither of these names ooonrs ag^n in the Beglster
there was a family of Xroughton at woodoharoh about
this:

Sepnlt.

Thomaa Kettle aepnltne zxzyii die Martia.
Alioia Newton sepnlta ultimo die Martia.
Alioia Bennett eepnlu zix die Jnnia.

(1) Johanee Goodakar eepnltna xi die Beptembrla

(2) Jobannea Billings eepnltna ziii die Novembiia
Anna Dean sepnlta z die Deoembria
Isabella Clayton sepnlta zviii. die JannariL
EUena Sicowfleld sepnlta xiz die Jannarii

Per me, Eyann Pienu

MARCH 12th, 1892.

[80] BISHOP FEABSON AND THE WOOD-
GHUBOH OOW OHABITT.

In 1625, James Goodaere (misoalled Ooodier by
Ormerod), of Bamaton, gave 80 marks, that is
£18 6s. 8d., to bny 20 yoke of bnllooks for the poor
of the parish of Woodohnreh. By order of the
** Oonmiissionera for Pions nses," (the Charily Oom-
missioners of the time), the aaid bnlloeks were oon-
verted into couu— a notable miraole even for a
Pnritan board to aooomplish! The bnllooks had
been donbtless intended to plongh the land. The
ohange seems to show that Rraaing was inereasing,
while oom growing was diminishing in the pariah.

The management of the oliarity led to freqnent
diepotes, to pnt an end to whioh it waa agreed to
refer the matter to the Bishop of Chester. The
bishop at that time waa John Pearson, tlie world
renowned anthor of the Treatise on ihe Creed. Dr.
Pearson devoted a long aammer's day at Wigan,
where he was then reaidiog, to the fnll hearing of
the oaae, and then the ^ndioator of St. Ignatina
did not disdain to employ his pen in writing down
some business-like mles for the prevention of further
dispntes, and the use and improvement of the stook.
To give the arbitration more authority, it waa agreed
to have it enrolled at Oheater, where it may be seen
in the Bishop's Aot Book. It has never been printed
in fnll, though it is, I think, sujQIoiently onriona to
deserve to be so. I aooordingly subjoin it here : —

" To all Ohristian people to whom these presents
shall oome, be seen or may any wise appertaine,
and espeoially to the inhabitants of Woodohnroh in
the deanery of Worrall, within the oonnty and
diooese of Oheater, John, by divine permissioii, Lard
Bishop of Cheater, sendeth greeting :

(1) See christenings same year. _

(2) John Billingenn his wlU dated 10th Hovember, 1614,
mentions "my wife, Margaret Billinge,** and **my son
William Pemberton," whom ho constitntes Bxors.

He appoints *' my trnstie and well-beloved freades, John
Dsanoi Ollbert Urmston, and William Billinge, oversee rs.**

** Dettes owlnge by testator.

To Henry BawIInson,of Neston, A3 6s. 8d«
To Isabell Mory [?] A2 Ss. Od.

To William Billinge £0 7s. Sd.

There are small debts dne testator from Mr. Hemry Bonld,
Thomas Kettle. John Irbie. and John Farbott. Witnesses :
Henry Watt, and Evan Piers, clerk. _._ ^ _

His personaUty was valued at £83 3s. by OUbert Urmston.
William Baiter. William Billinge, and a!homas Hanoooke.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QTTEBIEB.

WIi«r«u there h»a been tor aevenl jeus put
gieftt dlfferenoei kmoDgBt the pKriahioDerB of the
Mid parlsb of Woodnbaroh. conoeriiog tbe dLsposiig
ol th« ptriBb cowa tnd stock from ibecce trleing,
being IIiB improTement ftod Increase el twentj
maika given of a plotu lateiitbii br one Jamea
a«odaaie, of Btmatoa, in the Baid puigh ol Waod-
obanh ; now, in order to the quieting and oompoelag
tlu uid di9ereneea, a tail bearinti of (he s&id piriab-
louMS in «U nuttere relftting tbereto being lately
held beloie oh, it wu there nnuiimoaal; agreed and
oonwQted ante, that dl former order obtained, oon-
Mming tbe mtnagement o( the fttoreeaid charity,
should from tbenceForlh be Told ftnd of none efleot,
mnd that the diBpoaitlon of the aald pftrisb oowiand
stock Irom theuos arUng lot the benefit of the *ald
pariib, iball klwafi lor the fatnre be mviaged
■ooording to the puUealac direotiooi in tbe tallowing
wder.

Know ;e thenfote that we the bUI Bppe. of
Oheater la pnniunoe of the asid aftreement doe
hereby order and decree. That from henoelorth there
shall alwrniee be twelve aovemon, wbereol the
owti«n of the Eoiue of Prenlon BaooesalTel; to he-
one, thePuion of the uid Pftrieb of Woodohnrcb
foi ye time being another, sad the Ohorobwaidene
i^ ue Mid petiib alaoe for Ihe time being two more.
The other elgbt to be elestad yearly oat of tbe eight
townahip* of tbe Bftid patlih. one out of «aoh by the
votes ol the InhabitanCe ol eaoh parlienlir towuahip.
That eaob man aoe eltoted may overeea and take
care of the oowee of bia partlenlar township sndnpoo
the abnee or embeaztement ol any of them may give
Dotioe to the two oveneers of the whole to take eare
of them.

It la also hereby farther ordered that tbe twelve
governor* shall jointly bava power to nominate and
eleot two overseer* jearly. And if it shall aoe
happen tbat upon tbe nomination and ohoioe of the
two overrcers, the goierDats ehall be eqaally dinded
Id their votei, That the owner* of the Honse ol
Fnntoo HDooeaaively ahsU alwaiea have the oasting
vote, and the two overse'-rB daly eteated wiib ihe
oonsent ol the twelve goTernore or ye major part of
then, shall bave pow«r to diapoae of the Cowca that
■hall be boBgbt tor their year, and if they aee
oeoaalon to alter or oaoee to be eiohanged any ol
tbeae Oowea for younger ; and every pereon having a
parish Oow or Cowee, shall pay Into tbe hand* of
the two overseer* lor tvery Cow the enm of two
shlllingB and eightpence a Cov, oo the Fiiday t>etore
Whitsnntide ; and tbe overaeetti eball have power to
dl*po*e of Ihe hire of tbeaa Oowes to keep np and
improve the steak; and tbey eball give ap their
accounts to the twelve govornora overy year, both ol
tbe receipt of je moneys and Improvement of the
stock. And the Hid twelve governor* oi the major
part ol them ahall have power to allow and approve
of their Booonnta.

It la alsoe farther ordered that every Cow sball be
marked on Ihe cne home with W.P. (aignifyiog
Woodohnroh Parieh), and on the other borne with
the two first lettcis ol the parson's name tor the time
being, that they may be loiown to prooetd from tbe
aforeaaid ohoritable gnift, and naod aooordingly.
And tbe parsoaa of the Mid pacieh anooeeHively shall
keep a book wherein shall be written yearly tbe
■oooaoli of ye two overseers for the Ume to oome.

It Is alaoe farther ordered, That «nrj pawn who
hath a pariah Oow or Oowes ahall bring tham oi
oaase tben to be hrooght every lUday
before Wbitsontlde Into the parson*'* ooart, and tie
them to ye slaplea that ar« there provided for the
same ose, that so* they may be viewed 1^ tbe
governor* and overseers, aod, II tbey be over t«elve
years of age the overseers aliall oaose tbton to be
eiohanged (or yonnger. Aod If any perMD shall UUa
either paying his hire at the day appointed, or not
bring hi* Oow or Oowes into tbe parson's oonrt to
be viewed *a aforeaaid. That then he shall notcmly
forfeit his Oow or Oowee to be tsken frmn Um, but
shall be rendered inMpabls of haveing anj other fcr
tbe spaaa of three years.

Lastly It is hereby ordered and deeraed. That a
copy of this order shall be entered in tbe Blsbi^*
B«^try at Oheeter, and tbe Order itult deposited
in ibe pariah obeat of whieb the Parson of the Pariah
and the Ohnrohwardens for the time baiag an to
keep tbe keyea.

In wltne

seal epiaoopall to be set, and have mbaeribed the
same. Qiven at WiRsn this seventeenth d^ of
Jnly, in tbe year of onr Lord Qod 1679, and Id ths
seventh year ol ou oanse«ntloa.''

The obsrlty la still In exiBtenee, and the ml** laid
down by Bishop Pearson are atill observed, eioept
that tbe eowa are not brought annnally lor eiamina-
tion to the Sector's Oenrt. Bat sinoe the EneioenrM
Aot, there has not been tbe Mine amonnt of free
paetarage *a in fDrmei times, and oonseqoently, not
tbe same demand for oow*. There are now only
tweaty-flve, by tar the grMter nnmber ol whloh ars
hirwl in the township of BainstoD. p, 8ua>*tM.

[31.] THE BIDSrON BEQIBTEBS.

(0(»tinned from No. 3G— Maioh 5.)
Ohrietenlngs, Anno dom, lOlG-
William WlllBon, baptised Ibe 4th ol April).
Elisabeth Femberton, baptized the 6th of ApriU.
Nathanaetl Kettle, baptized the uv of ApiJU.
(1] Edward Bennett, baptized the ith of Jane.
Thomas Ooppowe, baptized the vUth of July.
William Batter, baptized the 39th of Jaly.
Bobert Bennett, baptized the i of Aagwrt.
(3) Adam Eempe, baptized the S9th of Angoit.
(3) Ales. Bennett, baptized the 8rd of September.
(1) William PembertOD, de rake, Inptized the 8th
ol Ootober.

MiBCBy 1898«

WIBRAL NOTES AMD QUERIBS.

William P^enton, baptised the zii of Oetobtt.
UnUiaiii Peyton, baptise 1 the zzii of Oetober.
Ifargeij Tiathhon, baptised the Bame day.
^^lliam Rotter, baptised the zii of November
John Lea Ohziatene J, the 20th November.
John WHIianwon, baptised the 8lBt of
November.

(1) Stephen ^nUeoeke, baptised the 26th Deeember.
Ellen Pemberton, baptised the 28rd of Febniaiy.

(2) Slinbeth WiUaoo, baptis-^d the 4Ui of Mueh.

Wmnniee.
(8) Btephea FfeQB and Jane Wrighte, manied zz. of

^nUtam Hflsketh and Anne Hioooeke, married

the iii. of Angnat.
William Bobineon and Bari>ara Howe, minied

the Tiii. of Oetober, at Neeton.

(4) Heniy Willcooke and Katherine Brereton,

manied the vi. of October.
Biobaid Lioftker and Margaret Batter, married

the iL of Jannary,
William Hodgeeon and Margery Qoadiker,

married the zi, of February.
Gilbert Pemberton and Joan Smythe, married

the ▼. of Febmaiy.

BOBIAIfA.

ElUn Maitin, boned the zziz. of Mareh.
Bobert Baefey, bnried the ▼. of Jane.
'Bobeit Ooney, boned the last of Septembor.
Jdoa Gobin, boned the zi. of Oetober.
Katherine Smyth, boned the zzth of Oetober.
Ellin Martin alias Gontton, boried ziii. of
Janoary.

(5) Elisabeth Willion, bnried tbe zfl. of Mvoh.

pier me Evano* Piers,
eorato'ibid.

MARCH 19th, 1892.

pa]

THE NAME HAZLEHUfiST.

My attention has been called to the frequent
variations hi the spelliog of old names by the eon-
tribntor to yoor ** WutdX Notes and Queries," npon
the name of oor town ** Birkenhead."— (See No. 27.)
I think I oan make an interesting commonicatio^
npon the subject of the variation of the spelliog of
names. We are aware how illiterate derke, and
sometimee divines (?) murdered in old time the
names of those whom they had to write down, but it
will, perhaps, be a curiosity to fiud the surname of

(1) Bon of Henry Wiloooke by hU wife Kafeberine
Brereton : vide marriageB same year. Katherine Brerelon
was tbe danghfeer of — BreretoD, probably of Bidslon, by
hia wife Margaret, who, on hia decease married seoondly

— Jonea,of 1 and thirdly, \^illiam FeilB, of Arrowe

and BIdston ; (vide WlUlam FeU'i wiU 1613.)

(21 Vide burials same year.

(S) Stephen Fells, of Bidakon,and Jane Wrighte, probably
of Greaaeby ; Stephen Fella waa a son of Milea Fe Is, of
Bldaion and brother of William Fella of tbe same, mentioned
In preoedlng note.

(4) Ylde aapra note Na L

(5) Vide obrisleDinga lame year.

one family spelt in eighteen difforent ways, as it is in
the Bidston Begisters. The family ia that of
<* Hailehnrst**

to a dispote aboot the ownership of vny
considerable lands and property in Lanoaahire (a
dispote which I believe is yet unsettled). I was asked
some four years ago to investigate the Begisters in
order to give the kdstory of tbe Haalehuist family,
from the marriage of John Hailehnrst and Qraoe
Bosooe (1734 or thereabouts) to the present day.
This marriage does not appear in the Bidston Books,
but John and his wife must have settled in Bidston
immediately after it, as nearly all their ehildren
were baptised, married, and boried there ; and their
deeoendants on the female side are still to be
counted by the soore or more in the parish. Seveniff-
teven entries ooeur in the Begisters between the
years 1744 and 1877, the last of these being that of
the burial of an old John Hazlehurst, aged 93.
The name is spelt in the following various ways :—
Hosier, Haslehurtt, Hajswell, Hcutel, HiMtel, BasMlt
Hazelhurst, Httselhust, Easehurst, Hixsel Hwrst,
Hatlehurst, Halsuhuti, Hashelhurst, BazUr, Hotel
hurst, Baselhurst, BastUhurst, Hasselhurst, The
different entries of these are appended : —

1744 Deor. 16 James ye son of James (f) and Graoe

Hosier of Olaighton.
1747 Feb. 8 Benjamin son of John Haslehurst of

Bidston Hill, Labourer, and Graoe his wife.
1749 (or 1750) Catherine d. of John and Graoe

HoMweU. Feb 18th.
1758 Martha d. of John and Graoe floss/. July 36th.
1754 Graoe d. of John and Grace Hotel, bom Novr.

21. Baptd Deer 88.
1758 Thomas s. of John and Graoe Hassel Feb 18tb.
1769*Samnel s. of Samoel and Margaret HosleMui.

Feb 8th.
1770 Jane d. of Jamesf and Margaret Htueihuti of

Oarr. April 8th.
1778 Catherine d. of James and Margaret Hosehwrsi

of Carr. Sept 13th.
1773 William s. of Samoel and Margaret Hosel Hurst

bom Angst 8 Angst 89.
1775 Peggy d. of Bamuel and Margaret tHozUhurst

Deor 17th.

There is a breok in the Baptisms of this family
from 1790 to 1809.

1809 Angst 27 Mary d of John and Catherine

Halnihust (sic) Bidston.
1811 May 5 Ann d. of John and Catherine HasM-

hnrst Bidston.

Markiaqss.

1761 March 86 Bamuel Hazier of Bidston and Mar-

garet Gibson.
1769 May 30 James Hazelhurst and Margaret

Meadow both of Bidstou.
1781 Jaor 1 Tbos Haselhurst and Nanoy Lineker

both of Biddton, wituees John Haselhursi,

Burials.

1752 Martha Hastlehurst Janr 11th.
1796 Got 30 Wm e. of John and Sarah Hosselhurst of
liverpool aged 1 ysar.

^Samuel waa (eldest ?j son of John and Qraoe Haaleharat.

f James was probably the third aon of John and Qraoe
Hazlehurat. « .. . .w

{This ia the M»i entry among the Baptiima In the present
form of the name*

WmRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Masoh, 1892.

ThefamilieB with whom the HazlehnntB inter-
mftrried were those of Boacoe, CHbaon, MeadoWt
Leavy, Whittle, Lineker, Carter, Otoent (Wood-
ohnroh), Price, Corfe, Ac, and the preaent repres-
entatWeB of the family in the Parieh of Bidston ere
to be fooDd amoDg the Whartons, PoTalls,
WiUiimB, and otherB.

GnrioiiB Tariations of spelling can be noted alBO io
Ihe Boeeoe family, of whioh ten or a dozen entries
are found in the reffiBtera. It is spelt indifferently,
RoBCoe— BoBOow— -Itosohall— BoBOo — Bosiooe— and
BoBkoe. The name altogether disappears after 1770.

Bidston Bectoiy. J. F. Buozlsb, M.A.

[38]

FABEGATE A DAWPOOL.

The following eztraots from the Oent!eman*§
MoffOMine respecting the above-named places may
be interesting to yoor readers : —

^* September l^th, 1806. The King George
packet of and from Parkgatefor Dublin was lost this
night near Hoyle Bank, and it is said all on board
except 8 or 4 perished. She had upwards of 100
passengers, bat only 4 cabin passengerB."

Vol. Ixxvi, pt. a, p. 869.

1828. ** The establishment of the Port of Dawpbol
near Chester is in progress and a speedy report is
expected on the subject from the engineer Mr.
Telford.

Independently of the general accommodation
which packets would afford at that station, the
ready communication between Dnblin and the depot
at Chester, where nearly 40,000 stand of arms are
kept and the warlike stores, is of vital importance,
especially at a time when the sister island is in a
state of dangerous fermentation."

VoL xcii, p. 864.

Birkenhead. W. Lownsbobouoh.

[3A]

THE BIDSTON BEGISTEBS.

(Continued from No. 81.— March 12.)

BiDSTOH. Anno Dni 1617.

A Beglfter of all christenings, weddinges A bnrialls
att Bidston. Anno pdi.

Ohbistbhinos.

(1) Thomas Watte ohristened the iU of Aprill.
William Lath christened the yi of ApriU.
Jo: Parbold Alius Bid Parbold the 27 Aprill.

(2) John Bennett ohristened the xii of Blay.

Elisabeth Martin chrietened the first of June

(8) Ellen Kempe ohrifltened the x of June.
* ^

(1) Bon ot Robert Watte, and grandson of Henry Watt, of
Bangball MaBsey, hnsbandman, who was witness al the trial
between Qtlbert and John Urmslun in 1607 (vide page 13) :
▼Ida also following wills: Alice 8mith of BaaghallHassey.
1589 : Margaret Qrifflths, 1S96, and Henry Watt, 1637.

(2) Bon of OhrlBtopher Bennett of Baaghall Masaey died
same year, vide borlals 22nd June.

(3) Ellen Kemp, daoghter of Thomas Kemp, married,
aboat 1640. Jolrn Faaakerlyi of Barnaton (Tlda Lettioe
Semp'B wlli lfi87>i

(1)

(8)

(7)

William Heeketh christened the xviii of July.
Jane Taller obristeoed the 19 of July.
William Kempe christened the 20th of August
Katherine Brereton ohristened ultimo Sep*

tem er.
Elizabeth Lea christened the vi of October.
Ellin Lea chriBtened the 9 of October.
William Calvin christened the xri of October.
Gilbert Wilson ohristened the zi of November,
William Gobin christened eod die
John HodgoBon ohristened the xiii of

NoTeml>er.
OhrlBtopher Bennett christened the 22 of

November.
James Wilson christened the xxii of Deeember
Thomas Kettle christened the 9th of Januaiy.
Hester Rathbon christened the 13th of

January.
Elizabeth Woodward christened the 19 of

February.

WBDDiNas. Eod Anno.

Jone Pemberton,

Heniy Bobinson and
maryed ye iii of May.

WiUiam Gill and Ellen
last day of Januaiy.

BuEiALLS. Anno dni.

maryed the

(8)

William Lynaker buried ye 4th April.
Tho: jney buried ye xri of May.
Elizabeth Pemberton buried ye vii of June.
John Bennett buried ye 22nd of June.
Ellin Troman buried ye xvi of September.
Katherine Lurting buried ye laet of September
Tho: Coppowe buried ye 10. h of October.
Henry Hamnett buried ye 7 of January.
Thomas Urmston buried ye ixf of January.
John Lea, buried ye 25th of January.
William Adkinson, buried ye 26th of January.
John Hodgeson, buried ye 28th of January.
(10) William Gobbin, buried ye 20th of Februazy.
Margery Bathbon, buried ye xi of March.
EUzabeth Martin, buried ye 20ili of March.

per me Eyanu* Pien
curat ibid.

(1) Vide weddlnn. 1615.

(2) Daughter of John Brereton of Motelon and Margaret
his wife ; this child died in 1624 (Tide burials IGM, alao wUl
of John Brereton of Moreton 1664).

<3) Son of Henry OaWln or Oolvin of Moreton.

(4) Gilbert Wilson, eldest son of Biohard Wilson, ot
Claaghton who died in 1629 (vide Biohard Wilson's will of
that date) ; Gilbert, who is described in 1649 as ** Yeoman **
of Olaaghton, signed tho Cheshire Bemonstranoe, at Bid-
ston in 1642 ; see also Note 10.

(5) See borialB same year, 20lh Feb.

(6) Bee botials same year, 29th Jan.

(7) James Wilson, son of James Wilson of Olanghton :
nephew of Biohard Wilson of Olaoghton (vide note 7), and
grandson of James Wilson of the same township, by his
wife Cecily, daughter of James Drinkwater. of Giaughton
(Tide also will of James Drinkwater, 1592). About this
period there only appear to have been these two house-
holds in the pariah bearioR the name of Wilson ; later in
the century, however, the family increased very rapidly, so
that it is the name that ocours most frequently in the
BeglBter, between 1581 and 1750.

(8) An honoured Liverpool name, but one that was not at
all common in Wirral at this period ; this is the only oocor*
renoe of the name in the Beglster.

9) Vide Christenings same year, ziil Nov.
(10) Vide Christenings same year, xi Nov.

Maboh, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES,

MARCH 26th, 1692.

[36]

WIBRAL WORTHIES.

m.— Abohdiaoon Tratib.

George Tra^ wae the only son of Mr. John
TnTu, of Heyside, in the parish of Royton, near
Oldham. His gnmdfather, also named George, who
died in 1739, was descended from the family ef
Travis, of Inchfield, in Boohdaie parish, wluch had
migrated thither from Blackley, near Alanchester, in
the time of Qneen Elizabeth.

Yoong Travis reoeived the early part of his
edneation from bis nnde, the Bey. Benjamin Travis,
then loonmbent of Boyton, and had a high opinion
of the learning and ability of his first preceptor.
At the beginniog of 1756, he was sent to Manohester
Grammar School, then under the headmastership of
Hr. Pnmell. Some of the pnpils of this gentleman
attained to high positions both in obnroh and state.
Among the contemporaries of Travis may be
mentioned Cyril Jackson, afterwards Dean of
Christ Ohnroh, Oxford ; Arden, who became Lord
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and was raised
to the Peerage as Baron Alvanley ; Aroald, Senior
Wrangler in 1766, and sub-preceptor of George IV. ;
and Bower, afterwards Archdeacon of Bichmond.

On Deo. 9, 1759, the Manchester Grammar School
boys performed Addison's Goto, despite the
remonstrances of John Byrom who had a corres-
pondence with Pnmell on the subject. Arden
represented Cato; Travis, Jnha; Aroald, Marcus;
and Bower, Marcla.

Travis entered St. John's College, Cambridge, as
a sizar in 1761, and was placed nnder the tatorsbip
of Mr. Abbot. That he employed his time at the
Uuiversity well was shown in 1765, when he appeared
as 6th Senior Optime, and the Chancellor's Senior
Medallist, that is, he was the best classic of his
year. In the same year he was made deacon by
Bishop Young of Norwich (March 8) and ordained
priest by Bishop Green of Lincoln (Dec. 22).

In 1766 he was nominated by the Crown, to which
the presentation had lapsed, to the Vicarage of
Eastham, in which Wirral village he resided for the
remainder of his life.

It seems somewhat strange that a scholar of such
eminence as Travis did not become a fellow of his
College. This is piobably accounted for by his
marriage, which took place in 1766. His wife was
Ann, daughter and coheiress of James Stringfield,
Esq., of Whitfield, who survived her husband many
years.

Mr. Travis appears to have been in very easy
drcumstances, which enabled him to hold a living of
such small value as Eastham then was. At the
time of his appointment the entire value of the
benefice was little more than £30 a year. The pre-
ceding vicars of Eastham had, as far as the memory
of the parishioners went back, *' lived for the
greatest part of their lives on charity, and died

insolvent." <* Unable." wjn Tra^, " to assert the
rights of the Ticarage, they bartered them away in
unequal compacts, or abandoned them throa|^ a
despair of enforcing their payment.'* The new
vicar was resolved to vindicate these rights to the
utmost. Having first made himself a master of
the Law of Tithe, on which he became an eminent
authority, he eommenced proceedings against the
principal land owners in the parish, who, headed by
Sir William Stanley, of Hooton, leagued themselves
together nnder the formal objection of a bond to
resist Travis's demand. Single-handed the ^oar
carried on the contest, knowing that the law was on
his side. His opponents sought to stop him, by
carrying the case from court to court. ** Belying
on their wealth," he writes in 1778, ''th^ ara
determined that even my successes shall be ruinous
to me, and have accordingly carried the principal of
the causes, after two unanimous decrees in the Gk>art
of Exchequer against them, before the highest court
of judicature in the kingdom. . . They do not
depend on their own strength, but on my weakness
and inability to puzsoe them."

In spite of the strength and wealth of his oppo-
nents, Travis sncoeeded in defeating them on every
point; and after expending some £2,000 in the
struggle, he had the satisfaction of raising the
value of the living to over £100 a year.

(To be eotUinued.)

F. Saiidibs.

[86]

WIBBAIi VESSELS IN 1571.

(See No. 86— Msroh 5.

Licences to sail from the port of Chester to certain
other specified ports were granted on the 28rd and
25th of May, 1571, by Sir Lawrence Smith, Mayor
of Chester, to the following men and for the following
vessels. It is interesting to compare this list with
the one dated 1544 :«

Thomas Warrington, of HUbre, mariner,and Simon
Montford, of the City of Choicer, merchant. The
Michael, of HUbre, which belongetii to the aforesaid

Thomas.

William Baddiff, of Chester, and Thomas Bad-
cliff, of Hilbre, The Eliaabeth, of Hilbre, which
belongeth to the aforesaid William.

Wx. FiBOUSSoif laviNi.
ClaughtoB.

(2b be eoniinned,)

[87]

THE BIDSTON BEGISTEBS.

(Continued from No. 34«Maroh 19.)

A Begistry of all Christnings, Weddings, and Burials
att Bidstone, an. dom. 1618.

Elizabeth Williamson baptised the lasts of
March.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

. 1892.

(1) Thomae Oolbame baptized ye ?ii of Aprill.
ThomtB Dod beptiKed the xvii of AprilL
Anne Wilcooke MptiBed tbe til of ICaye.
(8) John Bennett beptized the ?i of Maye.
(8) William WiUoooke baptized tbe ziU of ICuje,
(4) Ana Smyth baptized the yU of Jane*
Alioe Gill baptized the zfi of Jane.
Thomas Handoocke baptized the Ti of July.
Thomas Batter baptized the zUi of Jaly.
Jane Bennett baptized the zzz of Jaly.
William Bolton baptized the zt of September
Elizabeth Smyth baptized the zzvii of Sep-

tonber.
Elizabeth Pemberton baptized the vii of

October.
Mary Bennett baptized the same day.
(6) Gilbert Waley baptized tbe zzriil of October.
StiTen Pemberton baptized the zzii of No-

Tember.
Henry Wilcooke baptized the zzv of No-

▼ember.
Mary Anderton baptized the z? of Deoem-

ber.
Alioe Lea baptized the zziii of December.
Margery Hale baptized the ziii of Janaary.
Elizabeth Welsh baptized the zzv of
Janaary.

(6) Bcwrj Boold baptized the zzriil of Jannaiy.
Dorothy Pemberton baptized the zr of

Febroary.
Boger Eempe baptized the zzi of Febmary.

Weddings Anno pd.

Bobert Hesketh and Joane Pemb'ton maiyed
ziii of Aprill.

(7) Thomas Smyth and Mary Bennett maryed

the z of Jane.
Bobert Lant and Anne Tewdea maiyed the
iiii of Jaly.

(8) Biohard Pelin and BUin Bobinson maryed

the zTi of Aagast.
Lawrence Okill and Jane Moores maryed the

vii of Janaary.
Thomas Lea and Elizabeth Higginson

maryed the last of Janaary.
Nioholas Hale and Mary Lloyd maryed the

iiii of Febraary.

BUBIAIU.

(9) William Erby baried the vth of April!.
Walter Ohambers baried the zviii of Aprill.

(1) PoiBlbly A Bon of Biohard Oolbame, of Dnblin and
LlTarpocl, Tide list of debts hi Wm. Fell's will, and in
Henry Jones* will; the name is not a common one* and
this Is the only case In whioh it oooars at Bidston.

2) Probably son of Christopher Bennet. of Salghall-
Maasey, by his wife BUsabeth, daaghter and oo-heiress of
Benry Coney, of Parkslde, In the ooanty of Lanoaster,
gentleman.

(3) Son of Henry Wllloooke, Tide weddings, 1615.

(4) In the Bromborongh Registers for this year, Is the
following entry nnder burials : '* Anna fiUa Petri Smith
de Birket Wood sepalt zz die Decembrls."

(5) Vide Burials same year.

(6) A son of one of the Bolds. of Upton, a branoh of the
Bolds, of Bold. Mr. Peter Bold, of Upton, who died in 1605,
bad siz sons, several of whom were settled in Upton parish
at this period.

dated 1589 (9.0.) Mary BeDuet, third daaghter of John
Benet, of Baughall-Massey, by his wife Ellcaboth| daughter
of Thomas Potter, of Presoot, In the ooanty of Laocaster,
Beoiilre.

IS) Ulchard Pelln, probably of Woodchnroh parish.

W William B^byi of MorelODi Xaaner (?ide his wiU infira ).

ftranceB Bawl^y baried the laat of AprilL
Gieorge Handooeke baried the tI of May.
Oabrieli Jooes baried the vii of May.
Thomas Kettle baried the Til of Jone.
Thomae Oooey baried the aame day.
Jane Lathe baried the iii of Jaly.
Ellen Pembertoa baried the xii of Jaly.
BUzabeth WilliamMm baried the ziiil of

Aagael.
Aone Mosoa baried the last of Aagosl.
Boger Williams baried the izth of September.
Hagh Mo«e boried the same day*
Henry Bennett, infant, baried the zzriii of

October.
Alioe Giill baried the same day.

(1) Gilbert Waley baried the tI of Nofamber.
Ellin Pemberton baried the ?ii of No?amber.
Anne Bennett baried the udii of November.
Ellen Batter baried the xiz of Janaary.
Elizabeth Welsh baried the xzz of Janaary.
Thomas Batter baried the seoond of Mardu

(2) William Goglin baried tbe t of Maroh.
(8) Gilbert Urmeton baried the tI of Maroh.

Heniy Watte baried the zviii of Maroh.

p. me Bvana* Pien
de Bidston

APRIL 2nd, 1892.

[88] INSOBIBED AND DATED H0UBB8.

Before the days of the Jerry Bailding Fiend,
when a man erected a hoase, he meant it to remain
for some years at least, and being prond of his work
he freqaently had his initials and the date of baild-
ing oat on a stone and bailt iato the wall in some
prominent plaoe. Many of these simple inscriptions
are still to be seen in oar Winal vUlages, some of
which have weathered two and three hnadred
winters.

These relies of a former time are yearly diminish-
ing in namber, and it has oocorred to me that it
might be worth while pablisbing in yoar oolamo,
from time to time, partioalars of those etiU existing;
it woald also add very maoh to the interest of sach
a list if the names for which the initials stand
ooald also be added. This can be done with a little
troable, as saoh information oan osoally be derived
from the Parish Begisters.

The following are from Bidston Pariah, with
saggested explanatioos of the initials : —

The earlieet. so far as I have been able to
discover, is the old school boose standiog on the
left hand side of the lane leading from the ohardh
to the Moss. It bears the date 1686 over the old
and DOW disased doorway.

(1) Vide christenings same year.

(2) Ihe only
the Register. The name still exists at Lingham, near the

I) Ihe only case in which this name oooon in

Leai^owe ligtithoiiBe, where there is a field called Qhoglin's
yard.

(3; Gilbert Urmston, of Moreton, yeoman (yide hli will
infra).

Apbxl, 1692.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

The next oldeit dated honee is in Banghall
U%mej (it miiBt be borne in mind thet Banghall
Ifaney, Moreton, and part of Olanghton, were
inolnded in Bidaton Parish nntil about SO years ago) ;
it stands on the right hand side of the road as one

goes towards Moreton : the inscription is (} ^ And

the date below it 1670. I take this to be Geoige
Sutton and Ann liis wife, tiiough I am not quite
dear about it; it may allude to a family of the
name of Button, who were in Saoghall-Massey about
this date.

Going towards Newton from Baughall-Hassey, on
the left hand side of the road, built into the western
gaUe of the Itst house in tlie Tillage is a stone bear-
ing the insflription, a E '^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^* Ahont
this there is no doubt ; it alludes to Arthur Godwin
and EUen his wife, who were the anoestors of a
widespread family, some of whose desoendants are
lifing in Birkenhead to-day.

In Moreton vilUige, on the ehimney stack of a
oottage, which is on the right hand side as one goes
towards the Bailway station, is the inscription

and the date 1690. This refers to

Uniliam Bennett and his wife Margaret. Wm.
Bennett was a yeoman of oonBiderable substance,
and representative of a junior branch of the ancient
iaaily of Benet of Saughall-Massey.

One has to travel across the parish to Mr.
Mueh's farm at The Ford to get the next house.
The inscription and date, irregularly cut on a stone

in the North gable, are j n 1694, and refer to

John Wilcoek, described in the Register, as of The
Ford* who married in 1685 Mary Day of West
Kirby Parish.

Mr. Boyden's house in Bidston Village furnishes the
next example, which is however not quite clear : it is

^^^ T. k ^^ t.^'b. ^^ *^ ^*® ^ ^^^'^' ^'"^
hoose belonged in 1697 to Bobert Wilson of Bidston
Hall, and he bequeathed it in that year to his son
Obadiah, whose wife's name was Blanche, so that the
meaning of the initiab is not quite apparent.

It is interesting to notice that all these houses are
bidlt in stone, whereas all the dated houses in the

dsh, for the next century, with one exception, are
t in briek. Hollt.

(To he Continued),

THE BIDSTON BEGISTEBS.

(Ooolinaed from No. 37— February 26).

WiLUAM lBBin,of Moreton,in the couotie of Ohester ,
Tanner, mentions in his will "William Pemberton,
Henry Bennet, Thoinas Yonnge, George Pemberton,
MUes Pemberton, my son-in-law, and hia two
youngest children, Thomas and John ; my brother,
Biehard Erbie ; my sister, Margaret Lowe."

He leaves " to the poore of the Parish, ixll xris
iiiid, oweinge uoto me from Bicbard Hogge and
Biobard Johnson, the intereste on the said sum, to
be given to the blinde, lame, and impotent, of the
parish, upon Good Fridaye yearlie tor ever, in
Bidston Churchyard." (1)

Executors : Miles Pemberton and EUen his wife.
Witnesses : Evan Piers.

Biobard Lane [?] clerke.

William Kemp.

Inventoire praissed iii April, 1618, by John Bennet,
William Butter, Bobert Pemberton, Thomas Hand-
cocke, John Gill, Biobard Erby.

Bumma totalis, cclxxiv, iiiis, iid.

Dettes oweinge onto William Erbie.

Peter Pemberton £4 8

William Billlnge and Henry Willcoke. • • • 8 6

Thomas Benoet 14

Henry Pembertoa de Wallizey 1 2

Henry Bonnet and Thomas Toung 84 18

John Bennet and Christopher, his son. . • • 88 18 4

John Pembertan de Car 19 19 4

William Maddook 10 10 4

ThomasBould 4 8

Thomas Martin 22

Biohard Johnson and Richard Hogge 9 16 4

John Martin and Thomas Eempe 9 18

Thomas Smythe and Thomas Martin 7 14

Henry Lowe and Peter Pemberton 9 14

also from John Tottie, John Tassie, John Truman,
John Gill, Jonn Bathbon, and Tlios Hankin.

GiLBiBT UmcsTON of Morctou, yeoman, requests
that his " bodie be buried in the church or chapeie
of Bidston."

" Item.^1 give and bequeathe to Bobert Pember-
ton the younger of Moreton, his two
children xxi a piece.*'

*<Item.-*I give and bequeathe to Mr. John
Hockenhull his children xx«. a pieoe.*'

'*Item. — To my servants, Edward Burgee,
Edward Jones and my maid servante
Elisabeth Brownrigge, a heffer a
peeoe."

" Item. — To my sister Ellen Pemberton v<.**

Best and Residue to " Elizabeth my wife."

'*Item.— I make John Hockenhull of Prenton
Esquire and Elizabeth my wife my
Executors, 8 March 1618.

In Witness: Bobert Pemberton.
Edward Burgos.
Edward Jones.
Biobard Lane [t] cler.

Inventorie of Gilbert Urmston, of Moreton who
deceased 5th March, praised the x of March 1618 by
John Bennet, Henry Bennet, Baphe Acksen (of
Landican) and Robert Bennet.

Dottes due to the said testator.

Imprimi8.^Henfrie Bould £9 8s. 8d.

Item. — Thomas Benet and Thos.
Smyth of Sanghan-Massey £7 8s. 8d.

(1) This beqaest was In ezlgtenoe In 1710. as there Is a
note in the Beglster Book relatiag to the apoolntment of
OTerBeera to distribnte the IntereBt: in the official retami
of charities, however, made in 1787-8( It is not menttoae^
■o it was probably lost between these dates.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Afbili 1893.

Item.— Wiiliam Bntter £6 128. Od.

Item. — John Benet and OhriBtopher

Benet of SaDgham-Maesie £19 6b. 4d.

Item.— Biohard Ohamberlaine £8 6e. 8d.

Item.— Biohard Singe £1 Os. Od.

The will was proTed ziz March 1618 by Elizabeth
UrmBton, widow.

Tied up in the bnndle, with the will, la an anto-
graph letter from Mr. John Hoekenhnll, the other
exeeator, to someone whose name he does not
mention, probably an official at the Probate Ooort.
This letter is as follows :

** LoTinge Ooaen,
I oommend my self e onto your goodness ; this is
to lett yon understand, that whereas I am joyned
exeentor with this widdowe, which was my cozen
Ormstons wife and should have oome to paie probert
the will, I give all the authority for the probacon
at this tyme, into her handes by reason, I have
some uigent ocoaoons [occasionsj that I could not
oome and you know that my health is coarse, and
that I am loth to ryd so for as yett. BeceiTe my
bflste wishes, I am your loveiDge cozen,

John HodkenholL" [sgd.]

[40]

QUEBT.

Oan any of your readers inform me whether the
Oheshire Domesday Book is still in existence f

Oowdroy, in his short account of Oheshire, pub-
lished in 1791, thus speaks of it : — Peter Leycester^
in his " History of Bucklow Hundred," says, ** There
,was a Domesday book in our Exchequer at Chester
formerly, wherein many deeds and records were
enrolled I but this book is now lost." And again "In
the roll of the ancient Charters called Domesday,
anciently remaining among the records at Chester;
but now lost and taken away," Ao,**

Cowdroy proceeds to say : '* But with the leave of
this great antiquary, this invaluable record was at
least a record which ascertains the lineal, and un-
interrupted succession of almost every siogle acre in
Cheshire, for at least five hundred years, is now in
my possession. I should be sorry to suppose it was
stolen, and the precious casket of ancient charts,
which Sir Peter teUs us was taken away. But I own
my heart leaps with a provincial joy when I reflect
that accident has put io my power to oblige my
countrymen with this opiu aureumt this golden re-
cord, so infinitely superior to any record now exist-
ing, either in the archives, or in the annals of any
other ooun$y in Great Britain.

If this were not the Cheshire Domesday, what
was it t and what has become of so valuable a docu-
ment or set of records f E. W. Cox.

Lower Bebington.

APRIL 9th, 1892.

[41] WIBBAL W0BTHII8.

ni.— ABCHDEACON TBATI&

(Continued ft>om No. 86— March 96.)

Travis appears to have been an excellent ptrish
priest. His answers to the Visitation Artides of
Bishops Porteus and Cleaver throw a great amount
of liRht upon the state of his parish at the time.
The Yicarage-honse and out-buildings, which were in
ruins at his accession, were put in a state of com-
plete repair by liim at an expense of upwards of
£500. The church which was exceedingly dilapi-
dated was also put in good repair. The church
services were frequent, and two sermons wen
preached every Sunday— a somewhat unusual ooonr-
ence in tbe ei^hteeoth century. Everything with
wbiob Travis bad to do bears evidence of the careful
and conscientious work of a good man.

With Eastham, Travis held from 1767, the
perpetual curacy of the adjacent parish of Brom-
boroQgh, the annual value of which was then about
£18. This living was held in conjunction with
Eastham through nearly the whole of the century.

In 1783 Travis was made a Prebendary of Chester
by Bishop Porteus, and three years later, 1786, was
appointed Archdeacon of Chester by the same
prelate. Porteus was certainly a promoter of men
of learning and merit. Few bishops of the age were
assisted at the same time by two such archdeaoons
as George Travis aod Thomas Townson.

The publication in 1781 of tbe third Tolnme of
Gibbon*0 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
with its reference to the persecution by the Arian
Vandals, in Airioa, and an offensive passaKC and note
on the text concerning " The Heavenly "Vntnesses "
(I John V. 7), brought Travis before the notice of the
learned public. He addressed some letters to the
historian which originally appeared in the Gentle*
man's Magazine^ but were afterwards collected by
their author and published io a volume in 1784
under the title of "Letters to Gibbon." These
letters commonly known under the title of the
«« Defence of the three Heavenly Witnesses," estab-
lished Travis's character as a very able contro-
versialist. They show that he was a learned
theologian and an able dialectician, with the power
of expressing his meaning lucidly and welL

Travis's book produced in 1790 a rejoinder from
the famous Bichard Person , who pronounced
strongly against the authenticity of the disputed
passage. It is no reproach to the memory of the
learned archdeacon to say that the progress of our
critical knowledge of tbe manuscripts of the New
Testament has established in the opinion of the
most competent scholars the spuriousness of the
verse. The Christian Church does not rest on any
particular texts of scripture for its foundation, but
on the traditionary teacliing of the church from its
oommencement. And in this point of view the

I -

• •

ARCHDEACON TRAV

IN CHESTER CATHEDRAL.

Aprxl» 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Letten to Oihbon will always retain some valne as a
dear and Buoeinot collation of some principal passages
from tiie Fathers, tending to prove that the doctrine
of the Blessed Trinitj was receiyed by the Ohnroh
Oatholio in their time. The Archdeacon's style is,
as may be expected from the period when he lived,
not free from acerbities, then too common among
controTsrsialiBts. Pntting aside altogether the
qnestion of the anthentioity or spnrionsness of the
▼erse« we must always owe a debt of gratitude to
Tiavis for having called forth Person as an antago-
nist, and thus being the means of prodndng one of
the most delightfol critical works in the language,
a rare componnd of learning, aoateness, keen
sevetity, and controversial skill.

Macaolay writes:—*' 25 December, 1850. In
bed, and at brei^ast, I read Porson's letters to
Archdeacon Travis ..... it is a masterly
work." In another place he says " Bead Person's
Letters to Travis. I am never weary of them."

In 1787 Travis was appointed to the Bectory of
Handley, which he held with his other preferment
till his death. This took place at Hampstead, where
he had gone for chaoge of air, on Febmary 14,
1797. He left no children.

There is a monnment to his memoiy in the north
aisle of the choir of Ohester Oathedral, with a
profile portrait. It bears the inscription :—

** Sasred to the memoiy of the Bev. George Travis,
MJL, late Archdeacon of Ohester, and Vicar of
Kastham in this oonnty, who departed this life
Feb. XXIY, MDOOXOYII. He was a man whose
extensive learning, active mind, and generous heart
were assidnonsly exerted in the service of religion,
bis oonntry» and his neigbbonr ; Us loss will be long
regretted and his memoiy ever revered. Beader,
this enbgy is no flattery, bnt the sincere testimony
of a surviving friend." p, Bahdbbs.

[42]

WIBBAL VESSELS IN 1571.

(Continued from No. 86— March 26.)

BIchard 1^1, of ■, and Xfer MorvUe, of

Ohester, The BgU, o/Hylbre, which belongetb to the
aforesaid Bichard,

Thomas Miiner, of , and William

Goodman, of Ohester, The Marten, of HUhre^ which
belongeth to the aforesaid Thomas.

Wm. Fbboubsoh iBvm.
{To le oonitiimed.)

[48] THE BIDSTON BEGIBTEBS,

(Oontinued firom No. 89— April 2.)
OHRisniaiias, Amko Dox. 1619.
Bichard AdUnson baptised the 29th of March.
Elisabeth Martin baptised the 26th of April.

(1) John Gmffith baptized the ii of May.

(2) Henry ffells baptized the 4th of May.
(8) John ffells baptized the same day.

Elizabeth Lath baptized the 18th of May.
Eatherine Ireland baptized the 19fch of May.
Susanna Bioklage baptized the 23rd of May.

(4) Elizabeth leaker baptised the 21st of

.June.

Katheriue Tf^lliamson baptized the xi July.
John Gobin baptized the 15th of July.
William Lea baptized the last of August.
Jane Smyth baptized the 9th September.

(5) Michaell Kemp baptized the 29th of

September.
Judith Earle baptized the 11th of October.
Bebaeoa Martin baptized the 14th of October.
Eatherine Oopocke baptized the 25th of

October.

(6) John Brereton baptized the 28rd of

November.
Anne Smyth baptized the 28th of November.
William Gill baptized the 5tb of December.
Margaret Pemberton baptized the 19Ui of

December.
Anne Smyth baptized the 14th of January.
John Moore baptized the 27th of Januaiy.
Margaret Batter baptized the 6th of Febnuuy.
Jane Watt baptized the viith of February.

(7) Margaret Hodgeeon baptized the 27 of

February.

(8) Peter GiU baptized the 1st of March.
WUliam Pemberton baptized the 16th of

March.
Margery Handoocke baptized the 19th of

March.
James Wilson baptized the 20th of March.

WSDOINOS.

^miiam Wyrrall and Anne Toung maiyed

the xzxth of May.
(9} Peter Gill and Susanna Truman maryed the

vth of Jane.
John Tittle and Bllen Irby maiyed tha

xxii of November.

(10) William Hammet and Maiy Ooplin maiyed

the 19th of December.

John Scarsbrick and Eatherine 'IHIliansoo,
maiyed the 15th of February.

(11) James Tassie and Oioely Bedson, maiyed the

20th of February.

(I) Vid4 Burials same year, zll May.

J 8) Henry and John Fells, twin loni of Blephen FeUs, of
iBton, by hla wife Jane, daogtaler of — Wright. vHe
Wedding!. 1615.

(3) Vide Mote 2.

(4) Probably a daoghter of Blohard Lynaker, who was bom
In 1588. {Vide ohrlstenlnffs that year), and who married In
1615, Margaret Butter. (Fide weddlogB 1615).

'5) Signed The Cheshire Bemonstranoe at Bidston In 1648.

6 j Son of John Brereton, of Moreton, and Margaret, hla

te. {Vide will of John Brereton, 1664).
(7) vide weddlnfrs 1615.

8) Vide weddings same year, ▼ Jane.

.9) Vide ohristenings same year, ist Maroh.

(10) Wm. Hamnet of Moreton, hasbandman.

(II) James Tassie of Moreton, and Ceolly Bedson, nrob*

ably of West Kirby Parish : James Tassie signed the
Cheshire Bemonstranoe at Bidston in 1642. Wallasey seems
to hare been the headgoarters of the Tassey family : a
Thomas Tassie was for many years onrate there, where ne
died in 1582.

The name still exists at Bidston. in a field on The Moss,
called Tassey's Thwaite, thoogh tiie last of the family left
the Parish aooat 1650.

WERRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Apbui, 1898.

(8)
W

BUBUL0.

Iffurgant Bennelt, buried tiie 9Ui of April.
Biohard Bennetti buried the nine daj.
Margerj Hale, buried the 2Mi of ApriL
William Oopoeke, buried tbe zii of May.
Joba Grnfflth, infant, boried ye lame daj.
Tbomaa Bennett, buried tbe 88th of Maj.
Jane Hamnet, boried the x of Jnlj. .
William Ballard, buried the 80th of Joly.
Henry Jonee, boried the let of Aogoit.
Peter Smyth, boried the 16th of Aogost.
William Bntter, boried the 17th of Aogost.
Biohard Talyer, boried the 28rd of Aogost.
Heniy Dayy. boried the 17th of Ootober.
Katherine WilUanuon, boried the 22nd of

Ootober.
Bandle Hill, boried the ziii of Janoaiy.
Thomas Kemp, boried tbe 9th of March.
Anne Smyth, boried the 28th of Maioh,

per me, Evano* Piers,

de Bidston OonUn*.

APRIL 16th, 1892.

[44] BANDLE HOLM'S flOUSE IN OHBSTEB

IDENTIFIED.

The HohOB of Traamere were a well-known
WhEral family. Their pedigree may be foond in
Helsby's Ormerod, vol. II., p. 466. Three members
of this family, iH bearing the name of Bandle,
father, son, and grandson, are known as the most
indostrioDS, oarefol, and aooorate collectors of local
histo^ in the Ooonty of Chester. Their M8S.
reoordiB extend to over 260 Yolomes, and are
deposited in the British Moseom. These yolomes
have nefer been completely printed, althongh later
historiMis are greatly indebted to them for the
details they contain of the Heraldry, (Genealogy, and
history of the district in the 17th oentozy. It was
BOpposed that all trace of their reddenoes had
ceased to exist. In ezamlDing one of the ancient
timber hooses In Bridge-street, Ohester, near to the
comer of Oastle-street, I was fortonate enoogh to
find the coats of arms and crest of the first Bandle
Holm, over the mantelpiece of one of the rooms.
Throogh the kind assistanoe of Mr. Henry Tayhnr,
I'.S.A., doenmentary evidence was foond showing
that Bandle Holm possessed this hoose, which
appears to have been boilt in 1616 or thereaboots.
In that year the first Bandle Holm was Sheriff, and
In 1688 Mayor of Ohester.

The hoose is an admirable example of those
timber-fnuned stroctores, once plentifoi in Ohester.
It is now dirided into two and is in a dilapidated

(1) 7ld0 ohrlBtoBingB same year, il May.

(2) ProlMbbly 9nd Km of Benry Bennet of Baosball-
Maueytbytaii wife Alloe. daoghler of Henry Kutyn, of
BaashaU-MaBwy.

(3) Henry Jonei ot BldBton Hall, Btop-Bon Of Wbu Telli
Of the Bame,(«(d« tali will fn/yo.)

(4) Peter Smyth ol Birkentaeaa Wood.

condition. Two of the rooms contain handsome
ornamental fireplaces, and one is panelled with oak.
It is moch to be derired that this most inteiestfaig
strootore shoold be doly cared for.

Lower Bebington. Enwi^. W. Ooz.

[46]

WIBBAL VESBSIiS IN 167L

(Oontlnoed from No. 48.— April 9.)

Thomas Ooventrie, senior, of

-, andXfer

Morvile, of Ohester, The Bride of Bi&re, which
bdongeth to tbe aforesaid Thomas.

Thomas Badoliff, of Qreat Hilbie, nuoinsr, and
William Badclifle, of the Oi4fy of Obester, SBerehsnt,
and Niehohui White, of the Oity of Ohester, sur-
chant. The ElixahHh ,of HUhre,

Henry Allen, of Bebinton, mariner, and WHBam
Smith, of the Oily of Ohester, glover, 2^ JoAn,
of TVanmoTt whioh belongeth to the aforesaid Henry.

John Wright, of West Ehrkeby, and David
Bichardson, of the Oity of Ohester, fishmonger. The
Oeorg, of HUbre, whioh belongeth to the aforiwaid
John.

Bobert OieU of Mneh-Mdase [Gieat Meols] snd
Bobert Dawby of the same. The Peter of Hetbrff,
which beloDgeth to the aforesaid Bobert GUell.

Bobert Dawby of Mooh-Melsse snd Bobet GleU of
the same. The NvUoek of Helbrey, whioh belongeth
to the aforesaid Bobert Dawby.

Thomas Wright of West Kirkeby and Henry
Lynacer of the same. The QaUey of Weet SSrheby
which belongeth to the aforesaid Thomas.

Henry Lynacer of West Kirby, and Thomas
Wright of the same. The Margaret of Heewttt^
which belongeth to the af oreeaid Henry.

Bobert Madook of Heswell and Henry Brid of the
same. The Elieaheth of HesweU, whioh belongeth
to the aforesaid Bobert.

. Henry Brid ot Heswell and Bobert Madock of tbe
same. The Jame$ <2f HeweU, whioh belongeth to
the aforesaid Henry.

Biohard Bennet of Neston and WilUaa Waley of
the same. The TrinUie of Neeton, which belongeth
to the aforesaid Biohard.

William Walley of Neston and Biohard Bennet of
the same. The Marten of Neeton^ wliioh belongeth
to the aforesaid William.

Boger Garret of Neston and John Lawnsel«y of
the same. TAa fa^Amm o/ ^Mton, which belongeth
to the aforesaid Boger.

John Lawnsley of Neston and Boger Garret of the
same. The Margaret of Little NetUm, which
belongeth to the aforesaid John.

John Ledsam of and Thomas Wright of

West Kirkeby. The Trinitie of Helbry, which
belongeth to the aforesaid John.

Thomas Ooventrie of the Oity of Ohester, mariner,
and Wm Wall of the same oil^, hronmonger. 7^
Jesue of Hilbre, whioh belongetii to the aforesaid
Thomas.

The original of this dooament, in Latin, is
preserved in Ohester among the Oity Becords.

Olanghton.

Wx. FnaussoH IbvimB'

THE STANLEY ARMS, EASTH

Mevious TO f

Apbil, 189S.

WntBAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

«r

[M] THB 'STANIiBy ABMS* INN AX

EA8THAM.

Thli inn hai Jnsl been altered and enlArged,
alMKMt rebnill in iiot Bill an Interesting rello of
the tibne wium the Btanleye raled in the ndghbonr-
hood lull been bvongfat iiom obeenrifj, and plaeed
in a eoDipieaomi poeitlon. This is notning leas than
the old Stanley oraat, earred in atone, which was
femoved from otar the prinetnal antranoe of Hooton
HaH, When Mr. B. C NayleriMde his eztensiTe
aMeffatiaM 4hsciSb IthaaiiowbcssMathaaignaf the
fiUagalnn.

in spHa off tlio gseat inffOTemenCa nadein the
* BSsal^ AfBM,' one aanaot bat regret the ohanged
apfearanoe of tho old hooae wUeh was made hiatoii-
aal^ Nathanial Hawthone, He visited Saatham
wMi Us son JaUan on Bandaj, Apitt 1, 1864. After
densrihing the eimrohjaid nd the exterior of the
ehnrah, he writea :—" After passing through the
ehoiohyard, we saw the Tillage inn on the other side.
!rhe doors ware fastened, btil a girl peeped ont of
the window at ns, and let ns in, nshering OS into a Terj
neat parlour. Then was a oheerfnl fire in the grate,
a straw earpet on the floor, a mahogany sideboard,
and a mahciBany taUe in the middle of the room;
and on the walls the portraits of mine host (no
denbt) and of his wife and danghtere^a Tery nioe
narloor, and looUng UIm what I might have f onnd
la a ooontiy tafein at homob only this was an
andent honse, and there is nothing at home like the
gBmpae from the Window of the ohoreh and ita red
iVy-grown tower. I ordered some Innoh, being
watted on by the ghd, who was neat, inteUlgiBnt, and
eomely, and more respeotfnl than a new England
maid. As we oame ont of the inn, some Yttlage
moUns left their play and ran to me begging, oalling
me * ICaster.' They turned at onoe from play to
begging, and, as I ga? e them nothing, they tamed
to thefar play agauu'*

The boose, ihos daseribed by Hawthorne,
foimerly a iannboaie, whidh was eonferted into an
inn about IMO. P. Sahdds,

[«.]

THB BIDBTON BSaiSTEBS.

(Oontinned from No. 48— April 9.)

Umrw Jonea, of Bid8toB» gentleman, in his will
novedlii 1620^ desires « that his bodls be bnried in
bidston Ohnroh," mentions '* my eldest sonne
William Jones and his mother Katberine^ that is my
wife,** and he deshres that ** my brotlier (1) Btiven
VellB and my Unsman Thomas Ooreotry, shall hate
my tenement oalled the Oanre Home in Sanglian
[Sanghan-Mass^l nntill Sttoh time as they shall
ha?e taken ont of it profitts eqnal to £150," and
diieots them to pay ** the sum of £50 a-pieoe onto
Maroaret, Btiven and Bllzabeth Jonee my three
ehilfien,'*— ihen the said Osrre Honee to become

Tne

,i) In raellty a brother of his ■tepfaiher. William Fella.
__ie terms, bNther and oooiliii. were used In a yerf Ioom
way, eren vntQ a himSied and flf ly years later than this ,

the property of ** Nathanael Jones my seoond sonne."
**I beqaeath nnto my mother Margarett Fella a
chamber that riie doth nsnally inhabit. Ston:
My Sonne William Jones and Eatherine Jones my
wife."

Henry Jonea doth owe £ s. d.

To Mr. Williamson of Liverpool 11 18 8

n BiohardTatlookofOonsoowe P] 11

,1 Thomaa Fox of Tranmoor •»•«.« 18

„ MylesFells 10

II John Dod of Moreton 6

„ John Urmeton of WalUa^y 8

„ Henry Williamson of GUnghton. . 1 10

„ William White my serrant about 4

I, Thos.TonDgof theHnlse[Hoose] 1 €

„ Peter Bonnet of Ohester 10

„ miliam Taller of Bidston 8 6

„ Peter Bonld of Upton 8 8

Debtee oweinge to Testator (1)

Thomas Hesketh of the Meoles in Lanoa-

ahire •••• » 8

Biehaid OUlibtand of Lathom 18

Margery 0«ile of the Meoles 8

John Addison in the right of my daughter

Margaret ...•• • 18

Ohristopher Bennet of Sanghan-Mass^ . • 18 8

BiohardGolbnrne of Dublin «.•.•• 80

Bichard Griffin by bill 8

Lawrence Bathbon of Ooleraioe, by bill*. 10
Ohristopher Enidale, attendant on my

LordofHoutb , « 10

Inventory valued by Thomas Wilkinson, Thomaa
Handcooke, William BiUinge, and James Woodworth.

[Inter alia].

Item.— Four Hives of Bees • • 18 4

Item.— Peas and beans in Gregory's

Oroft(2).
Item.— Barley in the Mosse Hey (8).
Item,— Wheate in the Eilloanlfe f4)*
Item.— Barl^f in the nearer Marled

H^(5).

Iteak-Slifw spoons and plate 18 8 8

IlsBS.— Pewter and Bran • 16

Bnmmatotalls 807 6 6

APRIL 28rd, 1898.

[48]

XA8THAM IN 1778.

As a sapplement to the aocount of Arehdeaeon
Travis, whkh lately appeared in your oolumns (see
Noe. [861 and [41], I send yon his answeea to the
Visitatadon Articles of Bishop Porteus in 1778.
These answers are iateiesting, both as showing tlie

(1) It Is interesting to compare this list with the almUac
one appended to waiiam FeUi* will in 16ia.

(2) Tnere li no field in Btditon whloh now bean tbli
name, thonsh It was in aie as late as ITSSiaa I find It
mentlaand in eevetal old l o aeee of the Ball nurm i I find,
from an old aarrey taken in IBiSSt that it lay to the North of
Wooton Hey, aorosB the road from the Bait end of the
Rhododendron Oardene.

i^i ThiB field lay to the North of Oregory'i Oroft, both are
BOW merred in Orick Lot.

(4) Thli field is Bifll in ezlBtencei it llee aoroBs the roaA
Ii0m%he Weet and of the Hhododendron Oardens.

(6) Xhe Marked Sey Ueato the Weet of KUloalf.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

ApbxLi 1892.

oondition of a well-worked M^rral parieh a hnndred
yean ago, and at giving evidence of the oarefal
and boBineM like nature of the writer.

Abxiouu or Bnquiby ab io Eastbak.

(1.) What is the Extent of yonr Pariah? What
"^uagea or Hamlets and what Namber of Houses
does it comprehend t What families of Note are
there In it.

Atuwer.^The parish of Eastham is in length
about 6 miles, sod in breadth, upon a mediam,
about 8 miles. It is bounded on the East by the
River Mersey ; on the West by the parish of Keston ;
on the North by the parish of Bromborongh ; and on
the South by the parishes of Baokford and Stoke.
It comprehends seven towoships and part of an
eighth, confessedly within the parish, viz :—

(1.) Eastham cum Plymyard and Oarlett ; (2 )
Ohilder Thornton ; (8.) Little Sutton { (4.) Qreat
Button ; (5.) Hooton cum Bovacre ; (6.) Over.poole ;
(7.) Nether-poole ; and (8.) Wiiitby, half only of
wbioh township lies in this parish, the rest belong-
ing to the adjacent parish of Stoke.

There are two other bamlets, or townships, adjoin-
ing to this parish called Stanlaw and Great Stanney
which, if testimony of andent records, supported by
traditions, may be credited, formerly belonged to
this parish. These however now claim to be
eztraparodiial, and prescribe in n<m»deeimando.

The eight townships contain exactly 190 houses,
wldch are inhabited by 968 persona. Stanlaw has
one house, and Oreat Stanney, two ; the number of
inhaUtants in which are 17.

It appears by the certificate of William, bishop of
Chester, to the Privy OouncU (18 Eliz.) that this
parish then contained only 148 houses.

The only family of note now resident within the
pariah ia that of the Stanleys of Hooton. They
came thither A.D. 1401, by an intermarriage with
the only daughter and heiress of Adam de Hooton.
The present head of the family is Sir William
Stanley, Bart, a Soman Oatholic, unmarried and
about 24 years of age.

(2.) Are there any Papists in your Parish 7 and
how many, and of what rank ? Have any persons
been late^ perverted to Popery, and by whom, and
l^ what Means f How many, and who are they t
Is there any place in your parish in which they
assemble for Worship; Does any Popish Priest
reside in your parish, or resort to it ? Is there any
Popish School kept in your Parish ? Has any Oon-
firmation or Visitation been lately held in your
Parish by any Popish Bishop, and by whom and
whan t And how often is tliis done f

^nnoer.— There are no persons within this parish
who dissent in any respect from the Ohuroh of Eng-
land aave Papists, whose number in 1767, by an
accurate survey, was found to be 49. The only
persons of raiJi in this number are Sir William
Stanley before mentioned and his sister.

Few, or none, of the parishioners of Esstham have
been perrorted to Popeiy during my incumbent

which began in 1766 ; but the number of Papists
within the parish was, about 4 years ago, increased
to 61 by the accession of the household of Sir W.
Stanley, who was abroad and under age in 1767.

The place of worship to which the Papists of this
parish resort is a private chapel within the Hall at
Hooton. The domestic chaplain of Sir W. Stanlej
for the time being officiates therein each Sunday
morning, whether the ftunily at Hooton are at home
or abroad.

There is no Popish Behod within the parish nor
have any confirmations or visitations been lield there
by any Popish bishop within n^ inonmben<qrf M fsr
as I know or have reason to believe.

(8.) Are there in your parish any Presbyterians,
Independents, Anabaptists, Quakers, Methodists, or
Moravians? And how many of each Sect, and of
what Bank? Have they any Meeting Houses in
your Parish, and are they duly licensed? Is tlielr
number lessened or increased of late and by what
Means?

^Muw.— Answered nnder the last head of En-
quiry.

r4.) Are there any persons in your Parish who
profess to disregard Religion, or who eommonly
absent themselves from all public Worship of Ood
on the Lord's Day? From what motives and prind-
plee are they understood to do so? What is the
Number and Rank of such Persons ? And are th^
increased of late, and by irhat Means P

Aruwer. — There are no families within the parish
who profeas to disregard religion ; and none (savs
Buch as are disabled by age or infixmities) who oom-
monly absent themselves from all public worahip,
except two or three persons, whose evil habits in this
reapect, I hope soon to be able to overcome by
affectionate uid earnest persuasion.

(6) Do you reride constantly upon your eure
and in the house belonging to it ? If not, where
and at what distance ? How long in each year are
you absent ? And wliat is the reason of such
absence? Have you a licensed curate residing in
the parish? Or at what distance from it, and who
is he ? Does he serve any other, and what cure ?
What salary do you allow liim? And is he in
deacon's or priest's orders?

Ati8u>tr,—l reside constantly on my cure in the
vicarage houae at Eastham, except during some
short occasional absences, when I am compelled to
watch over the concerns of this vicarage in another
place. The cause of these occasional absences is
humbly stated in the answer to the last of these
enquiries.

I keep no resident curate, but on these ocoarional
abaenoee (which never exceed the limits prescribed
by statute), the duty of this parish is discharged by
the curate of the nrighbouring parish of Burton.

F. Sandxbs.
{To he continued.)

Apbil, 1892.

WIRBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

[49]

THE BIDSTON BEQISTEBB.

(Oontiiiiied from No. 47— April 16.)
1620 [BO endoned].

[TIm «pp«r portton of this tnuifloript has 1)6en torn

olt]

Heiny Pembefton baptiMd the zvii of Jannaiy.

SI) ThomaB Unnston baptised the zzz of Juiiutfy.
[3| John am baptised the last daj of JannaiT.
8) Hauy OalTln baptised the sdi of Marah.

WSDDIHGS.

(4) Thomafl Howell and Maigant Foater maiyed

the ziiii of May.
(6) Thomas Oill and BUen Dm maiyed tha zii

of May.
Bobert Gylbert and Elisabeth Erby maiyed

z?ii Jane.

(6) John Bobinson and Isabel Pemberton maiyed

zzlof Jnne.

(7) Thomas Urmston and Maigaret Pemberton

maryed zziz Jnne.

(8) Blehaid Bennett and Margery Badley maryed

ill of AngoBt.
^SnUiam Billinge and Mary Johnson maryed
ziii of Angnst.
(D) Biehard Greene and Jane Tomon maryed
Tii of January.
John Btoneton and Margarett BoUnaon
maryed the last of NoTember.
(10) Edward Ffiyer and Elisabeth Orme maiyed
ix Jaonary.
Thomas Williamson and Katherlne Bail^
maryed z Febmary.
(U) Bobert Bobinson and Margaret Gill maryed
zi Febmary.

BUBIALS.

E^atherlne Ohamooke bnryed z?i of May.
Mary Anderton bnryed the first of July.
(12) John Cterard bnryed the zed of Angnst.

(h) Bon Of Thomaa UrmBton of Horeton, {vide wedding
xxix June, also Thos. Urmston's will 1678).

The Urmfltoni were at this period the wealthiest and most
Inflaentlal family in the Parish ; they wera oonslderable
land owners in Moreton, as well as in Wallasey and West
Kirhy* in both of which piffishes branches of the family

Vtam as early as 1460* possibly eyen earlier, down to
within the last few years, the Urmstons hare been amongst
the foremost, if not the foremost family in the Parish.

(8.) Probably a son of Thomas QIU, {vide wedding zxl
May, and burials illl February).

(Sb) Son of Henry Oalrin or Oolrin of Moreton ; either the
lather or son, signed the Cheshire Bemonstrance at Bidston
inlMS*

(4.) Probably both from some neighbouring parish, the
name Howell does not occur again in the Begister, and
Vbeter only once.

(5.) Vide christenings 31st January.

(6.) John Bobinson, probably of WaUasey, where the
name was a Tery common one.

(7.) Vide christenings 30th January, also Note 1.

(8.) Possibly Biohard Bennett of Thingwall, who was
baptised at Woodchnrch, 9th Jaly, 1596 ; the name Badley
does not occur again in the Begister.

(9.) Biehard Greene, probably eldest son of Edward
Oreene of Ponlton-Lancelyn, Ksquiie, he died without
issue, before his father {vide "Cneehire and Lancaehire
Funeral Certijlcateet" p. 96^

(10.) Bd ward Fryer, probably of Neston Parish : H Usabeth
Orme, probably sister of Jonn Orme of Toroock, who
married about this time, Anne daughter of John Bennet of
Banghall-Massey .

(U.) Probably the ** Bobert Bobinson of Ozton, gentle-
mauj^who in 166B left £10 to the poor of the Parish of

(12.) A son of James Qeraid of Biditooi {9idt wedding
1B14;.

(1) Thenuui Handooeke bnryed the iz of Oetober.
Maxy Handeoeke bnryed zziil of Oelober.
Margery Tassie boryed the ix of Jannaiy.

(2) John Gill bniyed the iiii of Febmaiy.
Ales Martyn bnryed z of Marohe.
William Handoooke boryed the same dsy.
Ales Willoooke bnryed tiie zi of Marsh.

Per me ETano' Piers,

Oorat* de BidstoB.

APRIL 30th, 1892.

[60]

EA8THAM IN 1778.

(Oontiniied from No. 48^April 28.)

(6) Is Diyine serrioe dnly performed twloa
every Lord's Day in yonr ohnx^ and one sennon
preaohed t If not» what is the reason r On what
days besides are prayers read there? How often,
and at what times do yon oateohiae in yonr ehnx^ f
Do yonr parisliioners dnly send their oldldren and
servants to be instmeted and oateoldied bj Jon f
Do yon either expound it to them yourself, or make
nse of some printed exposition, and what is it ? How
often is the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper admini-
stered 7 How many usually reoeiTe at each time?
In particular, how many received it last Easter
Sunday?

^fui0tfr.— Divine service is duly performed twice,
and two sermons are preaohed on every Lord's Day
within the church at Eastham, except on the first
Sunday in each month, when I officiate one part of
the day at the neighbonriDg curacy of BrombMOUgh,
and exeept on such occasional absences as are men-
tioned under the last preceding article of enquiry.
At these times one sermon only is preached on the
Lord's Day in the church of Eastham.

Prayers are read here on each Wednesday and
Friday in the season of Lent, and on each usual
Feast or Fast Day observed by the Ohnroh of Eng-
land throughout the year.

It has not been the custom to catechiae publicly
m this church save for some weeks previous to an
expected Confirmation ; at which time the childraii
and servants of parisUoners dnly attend. I make
use of no printed exposition of the Oateddsm, but
endeavour to collect from the catechumens their
own sense of its meaning and intention, wUoh
explanation of their own, if in any respect deficient
or misconceived, I supply and set right in the beet
manner I am able.

The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is admini-
stered at Eastham eight times in each year. The
usual number of communicants on oommon oooadons
is from 40 to 50 ; and on the great Feetivals from
90 to 100. Upwards of 90 received the Sacrament
at Easter last in the church of Eastham.

(7.) Have you any Ohapels within your Parish?
What are the names of them ? How far are they
distant from the Parish Ohurch? How are they

1) Fide baptism TlJaly 1618.
8) FI4tf baptiim zzzi Jannaiy^

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUSBIEB.

»dT B7 wbMt, asd ftt «hkt tlHM an the;
Mn»dr la the Ovate ddlr ^ulUM and IleenMdT
Bj wkooti Mid irtken, via M DOBlnatad t Hare jon
an; Ohapal tn Bolna, In wUeb no DMna flanlM U
nrfoniMdt Hia 70111 awn Okoreb, or an; ol tbe
ChapeU bsluigiBg to U, or In jom Pariah, MoslTed
an; aunwitatlOQ b; baufaaUon Of lottaMtQiuen
Anne'i Boiint;,Md how mnoh, anl at iriiat timet
Haa there bean any pnrabaaa of landa, fte., In
OMUtqBMMa ol (hat aagmantaUon t And what doea

ealfednT

wUUn thii

Anttetr. — Thais
FmriA. Thia vicarage Iiath reear
tion tram the Bonnt; of Qnaen Anne.

(8.) Who Ii tha patron ol jom benafloe. Ara
joor panonage-lioiiaa and onthooaea, jov ahmeh
and enanad, ut good repalrT Haie ;on a pattest
teiriw of jonr gi^he landi, traUdlnga, tUbaa, and
othet aealMUtlealdiiMf la tbMaa pnip« regirter
ol baptltnu, marriages, and bmiala lu ;0Dr pariah,
Md b it regnlail; and aoeotatcl; IrapL

JiuiMT,— Tba right of prewntatlon to thii baneflea
la in the Dean and Chapter of OhMter. Tba
8lante;a ol Hooton did Imna^ dlipnta Uilj right ;
bnt dnriog the praaanl *Ioara Incmabaney tU<
matter hatti been thoron^ilj Inftatlgated, and tlie
dilm of the Stanlsf bunil; Is now totaUf

la and ontbon^U m
'aaeaaaalon. Tbe e

■oon alt« hia tndaetioo, pat in oom^ctel; good
repair, the loRner b; tlie viear attlie expenae ol

Swarda of £600, and the lattar at tka evenae of
) pariah at large; in wUeh atata tba; atiU
eontlniie.

There are two tecrien ol ^ebe and tithea ol tUa
vlearage now pteaarred In the E^laoc^ Begiair;,
dated raapeotlTCl; ISM and 1709, beildea « third
wbkfarelataatothegUbelandoal;. Bat tlw; aiw
in^erfaot and inaagwaU. Whan the appeala wUah
tile praaant Tiear lonnd hlinarif aoBineiied to maka
to the iawa of hia eoDntrj, or to anbmit to Ihi altar-
native of batra;iD2 the ligbta of hii Tloarage ahall
hare recaired their Bnai determination, it ahall b«
hia Otat and molt uudom ears (Ufa and health per-
mitting) to enppl; the defldanaaa ot former tarriera
br one eomplete m lla detaila ol facta, and ooDoloBlTe
^ItoatteaUtloninlaw.

The pariah ref^iten are proper and ragnlarlf kept.

(Tq ha OmtUtmtd).

{SI] THE BID3T0N BEGIBTEKS.

(OonllDoed from No. 49— April SB.)

Atmaand perleot Bisletrie of all Ohiiitanlnfiea

Weddtaiga and Biirialla att Bldaton, Anno Dm 1631.

John Joboaon buitlaed the last da; of Harah,

(1) Hear]rHBmnettbivtiiedtheliilda;ofi^rlU.

m Maigerie Taaaie bapUaad the xl of ApriU.

> TboNMi Saaapa bapUaad tba ixia of ApdU.
William SbilBbaptiaed the x da; oIHa;.

?jamea Andeitonbaptlied the nil of Um.
AUee miaoeka bapOaad the KtUl of Mm;-

: Mar; miMi Uptlaed the nv of H«.

) John Ohamocka baptiaed tbe tU of lu

Bjmon Handoooke baptUed tbe nl ol

BliaabetbOtlSthbi
ri Maiy Bennett ha p tta ' ad the xxri of HoTwnbat.
U CbilalfeBlffnahKb«ptiaed(heliofJ«n«Br;.

Uargarat&Ua bqitiaed tbe s ol tmaxrj-

Barbara EHapab^tlaad tba zUU af Jaonc;.

Ellen ffinkiva bapUied tlie nil at Tabrwar;.

WIHIamAdMiiaMhH.BaadthalaMolgWwmT
I) Hergarett Bennett baptiaed Uw aeeond ol
Maroh.

Kathwine Wiloodte baptiaed tba iU a( MaiA.

SUnabath Batter baptb«d tba T of Marck.

WIBiam BoUnMn aaS Kattaiaa Brb;

man7ed tha »ii ot ApriL
William Bradrimwe and Ellen Settle manlad

tlia fliat ot Ma;.
(10) John Ohadodte and Ifar; H&ggea mariTed

the laet of Jnne.
fll) Peter Benaet and HargaratBraretoBtnaRTod

the Tl ol Jul;.
Thomaa Croioa and HatgRett Wada BarjFId

zriil of Ootobar.
Bobvl Kowna and Dorotfa; Handooeka

maiTod the Till of Daoembor.
WlHam Patbold and men TaMianiKjredtka

ili ol Jannar;
WiUiam Draaton aal Anne Dan marrcd

tbeWotFafaftiar;.

aajr

WIBfiAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

I) Arthn BhwltMke ballad the xU a( iorilL

Dnid Dod WM buried the T of Mw.
I) JHiiwABdartonlnbnt buried ^Ibr-

WlUam DenstU burled the iUl of June.
1^ lakn ObatMdU Intent boded the xrUl irf

Jue,
L) VUUun Pembarton it done bmled the zxf
Jbm.

ICerguet UnHtoii bniied the dU Jnlr.

teheU 8eel«: Inried xxt Jnlr.
I) Hut miKo bnried zrll of B^tember.

JoM Wade waa buried the skI of Nortmber.
I) Uaiguet UnaatoB da Gone boded the lU of

n Mlei waa boded the zrl ot Deaamber.
WfUka UpehoQ bttrled ttie aame diy.
Ellen Boblnaon boried the neond of Febntaiy.
7 HatsKotFelliiiitHt buried the fill Febnu;.
I) Ohristiui Ijnaker bnried the tU at BUrofa.
Aooa Onv onded the X oIMusb.
p. ma Btana' Reta.

De Blditm Oniatn'.

MAT 7th, 1899.

pf] 1A8THAM IB 1778.

(OontlnaBd btn Ko. 60— April 80).
N.) lathenasj Fne Bohool or Ohadtj Behoo]

lae iiwJntatned tn joor pariihf

If Ihsa la, irtien end bj wbon wae the aehoM foimd-
adr Bowlaitnoweniiportedr Who la the meater
or Bfatreait What nnmbei of ohUdnn, bo;« or
^^ an tM^ In It, and In what langURe t An
tbe7 efethed, iwJntriiied and ledgedt Wbel en
tbt^tantfitr Are tba7 emplored In iKvUng, and
af t wwaaii |«t ont te baabondir. trade*, tx %u-
Haml IfoMpartienlaitrla eera teken to tnatniet
them in the pnndplee oTthe CHidetiaD reUglon, and
to Mng them nguadr to Chnrob t

^MMM-— Tbva b n tMe lehool at OUlder Thoti^
ton, within the pariah. When or I^ whom it waa
founded la not within the reeeh of anj etidanee or

tttta the 7Mrl7 Intereat of £7fi left to it I^ diren
beneboton, and from a popetnal rcnt-ohaiBe of 90
BfaiUlngi pec annnm payable (torn an eatate in tha
nelghboDring mOA of Stoke. In oondderatloit el
tble Inaome, the maator ia boond to taaeb 14 poor
obildren of Uw pariah, nondnated by the tnuMM,
withoDt espense to theli parenta, bat not to elMtb,
maiot^. Of lodge them. The reat of the aeb^an,
abont eij^j in number, par lor tbetr taetmoUoo.
The pnaaot ■uvter'e name la Atn wm bmtom, and
he proteeeM to teaoh the Lntin and B^iab kn-
gnifea, writing, aadacithmetla.

ThseUldreneomengnlarirtoChnnhon BnndVi
end two Biblea en annnellj glTcm by tho pariah to
two of Uie moat deserving of tbe fourteen poor
ohUdnB who ace on tbe (onndatioa.

(10) la thcte In Tonr pedah any atvahonaa, hoa.

a Of other oharitable endowmentP Have auj
or tenamenta been left foi the repair of ;onr
ehnreb, or to an; other pioua uaaaf WIm haa the
dlnotloD of ineh benetaoUona r How are the; man.
agedt Po yon know, or baTe jm beaid ol any
ebueea eommltted in tbe aanagemant al then T Bj
^uxn and to what uaao la tbe mona^ gtrco at tbe
offitterT dli^OMd ol.

Jnnwr,— Then an no abBabonaes or hoa^tali In
the peilih. The money given at the oSeftocr !■
annnally diitdbnted aniong tbe poor oI tbe pmlib at
the tUeiwetion of the riear and ebncehwaMena, at
Obriatmaa in eMb year, together with en annnal
■am of £6 eha^ed on tbe eatate at Stoke.mentlonad
tn tbe anewer to tbe laat enmilry, and tiie yearly
Intereat of ffl left aa ft legney for that pvpoae.

(11) le then any other matter relating to yeor
pariati of whloh It may be proper to ^Te me lalotmft-
tiOQ,and«betIlitt

jbuewr^-It will not, I hnmUy hope, be thoogbl
•ntinly foreign to tbe obJeet of tbeee anqniriee U I
ahell pnaome bricdy to enbjoin a few pertioolan
vhleb aeeni to ■"■""g^'*' tUe padah from moot, if
not all otben, from whieb yoor Lotdehip hath
reqnlrad an intonnntlon.

The Tieara pteeeding the preaenl inonmbnt, aa
tar boak aa the rememfoonoe of lidng pereone md
reeoh, lived for (be gieeteet put of thafr Uvea upon
oherily, and died [aaolvsQL Duable to aaaect tha
rigbta ef tbe Tiearage, they bartered tbem away In
nneqnal eommota, or ebandoned then tbrongh a
deip^ of enlorolng their payment. From tbeie and
similar oanaea the ueome of thia vieorage, whan the
pMoant Tieac Bueeeeded tbento, amonnted to very
little men than £80. Almoot tbe whole of faia In-
onmbanoy hath been ipent in nnremltting efforti to
leatlfy theae ahnaae, and to remon theee usiirpB.
tloni. Tbe iiflMiMf bilagrity ol the Court of
Eseheqner hath given ■ aanotlon to hli elaima by
four anooMdve deoceea In Ua favonr. Bnt the eom-
bInatloD whldi la leagned together agidnst him undec
the locmal oDU(atiu at a bond [at tbe bead vbece-

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

M^T, 1892.

of ie Sir W. Stanley) ia powerful and perfleverinff.
Belying on their wealth, they are determined that
even h& BaooeoBeB Bhall he minoiu to him, and have
aooordingly oarried the principal of theae oanseB
after two nnanimoiiB deoreei in the Gonrt of Ex-
cheqoer against them, before the highest Ck>iirt of
Jodioatnre in the kingdom. They do not, it is pre-
sumed, expeot that their opnlenee or interest oan,
even in the smalleet degree, inflaenoe the deoidons
of that most angust honse. They do not depend on
their own strength, hot on the vicar's weakness and
inability to porsoe them.

Oonsoions of my obligation to lay every f aet in my
power before yonr Lordship, I hnmhly beg leave to
add that in these contests, to which I hope I may
say a sense of dnty alone originally impelled the
present vicar, he hath expended npwards of £1,600,
and that the income of the vicarage doth not yet
amoont to £100. p. Saidbu.

[68]

THE BIDSTON BEQISTEBS.

(Oontinned from No. 61— April 80.)

k legestrie of all Christenings and Weddings and
Burials at Bidston, Anno Dm 1622.

Baptiaat.

(1) James Anderton christened the xi of Aprill
Stephen Taller christened the xxvii of Aprill
John Wilcocke christened the first day of

May
Anne Pemberton christened the v of May

(2) Anne Oroxton christened the vii of JiUy

(3) Bichard Leftwich christened the xx of July
Jane Ohamocke christened the xvi of Angust
Mary Weekes christened the vii of September
Bridget Williamson christened the xiiiof

September
Bobert Urmston christened the xv of

September
Margery Woodworth christened the xz of

September
[Thjomas Gobbin christened the vl of October
Elizabeth Watt christened the xvii of

November

(4) Katherlne Eempe christened the xzi of

November
Anne Martyn christened the xziii of
November
(6) Lettice Martyn christened the xziz off

November
(6) John Dod christened the zxvi of December
John Bathbon christened the xzvii of Decem-
ber

(8) Judith Bathbon christened the xzviii of

December

(9) Margery Upshon christened the Ist of

Jannazy

(L) Bon of Jamea Anderton (vide weddings 1614).

(2.1 Daagbtor of TliOB. Oroxton (vide weddings 1621).

S.) Posthamons, son of Bicbard Leflwiob, soboolmaater
of Bidston, wbo died Til If ay same year.

(4.1 Vide burials zxt April, 1623

(6.) Vide burials xzz January same year.

(6.) Vide burials zxx Deoemoer same yeart

(7.) Vide burials xzv Ootober, 1623

(8.) Vide burials vi January same year.

(9.) Vide burials zzz January same year.

Sliaabeth Smyth christened the vl ol
January

(1) John Hall christened the xi of January
Thomas Kempo christened the idiii ol

January
John Gill christened the xviii of January

(2) Biohard Unaker christened the xv ol

Febmary
Anne Hancocke christened the xziii of

March
Thomas Davisson chilsteaed the xx? €l

March

Matrimon :

John Ormston and EHiaheth Coney t&M
Kitchin maryed the xxv of of Joly

John Harrison and Anne Meoies maiyad the
the xxviii of October

John Pierson and Margaret C[o]6 the niii
November

Sepnlt:

Biohard Leftwich Sehoole Mr buyed the vii

of May
Elinor Lath was bntyed the xviii July
r. . . W] ade was bnryed the xxx Jnly
Ellen Handcocke was boryed the xix Aagost
Ellen Parbott was bnryed the xx September
Margaret Erby was bnryed the ix of October
Eliaabeth Pemberton bnryed the x of Ootober
(8) Thomas Eempe, Infant boryed the r^ of

October

(4) Elizabeth Urmston, widows, buied zzi

December
John Pemberton, Infant, burled xxx Decem-
ber

(5) John Dod, Infant, bnried the same day

(6) Jodith Bathbon, Infant bnried vi January
Isabell Scarsbrick bnried the xiii of January
Anne Deane was buried the xviii of January

(7) Margery Upshon Infant bnried the xix

January

(8) Lettuce Martyn Infant buried the asme day

(9) Anne Sherlooke wydowe buried tlie xxx

January
Margery OyU was buried the viH Fehmary
(10) Margaret Billinge, widow, buried ii Manh
Alice Pemberton buried the xv March
Ellen Parbott buried the xxiii March

p: me Evann* Piers de Bidston, Onntn'

John Parbott) ^^ .km
Henry Watt / 8*^***

Bichard Bennett
Oylbert Blagbume
Thomas Handcocke
John Breretoa

Jurat :

(1) Vide burials zzv Oolober, 1683.

ii,) Bon of Bicbara Lynuker {vide weddlngi 1615).
3.) Vide obrisleniDRS zziz April, 1621.
4.) Widow of Gilberl Urmston. of Morelon, wbo died
▼i Harob, 1618 19 {vide bis Will also BUsabelh Urmtloo'i
Will infra),
15,) Vide cbristenings zzvl Deoomber same year.
(6.) Vide ohristenlngs zzviii Deoember same yeaz^
(7.) Vide ohrlstenings i January same year.
(8.) Vide ohriateninjrs zziz November same year.
(9.) Widow of Artbur Bberlook, of Olaugbloni who WM
buried zii April, 1621.

(10.) Widow of John BlUiog. of Moreloo, who wu bmied
ziii Kovember, 1614.

Mat, 1692.

WmBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

MAY X4th, 189M.

[M] JHSOaiBED AND DATED HOUSES.

(Oontinned from Ho. 88~April 2).

The dated honaes of the 18th eentuy in Bidston
Pariflh, lo far M I htare been aUe to diaeoTw them,
are only 5 in nnmber, of whioh Sanghall-Muaey
yielda three.

The eeiBeet eiample Ib on the right hand aide of
the load as one goea towarda Moreton from
Banghall Manaey, where, within a Teiy florid border,

af^tlwiBitiala, ^j, and the date 1714, wUeh

ataad lor John Peaoook and Jane (n^ Webater),
his wife. The Peaeoeka were a family of oonaider-
aUe aobataaoe, and a little later in the eentni^
owned the adYOWBon of Woodehnreh, from whom it
deeeended by heira female to the family of the
praaeot ineninhent, the Bewerend Oanon BoUn*

The next honae in point of date ia the one wUeh
stands at the f onr oroaa roads oalled ** Three lanea
flod,'* near Newton, afanoat on the bouidaiy of the

pariah, and the initials an ^ ^2 and the date 1721.

This aeeau ta refer to Thomaa Dalby, of Sanshall-
Maaaey, and Katheilne, his wife, though of this
I am not gnite oertain.

As to the next insoriptioo, howeyer, there Is no
danbt : it is to be iamid on a honae atanding in eloae
prozhnity to Hr. Peaoook'a (mentioned abo?e), and

isasfollowB ^ £ 1788, The allusion being to

TImmiiss Hairiaott and EUen, his wife, who Uwed in
it for many yean, and were parents of a muterona
family.

Agap of (lOyeanhasto be eroaaed before the
neaLtdafeeiareaefaed; on the eaatem dope of Bidaton
Hill aosM two hondred yards below the obaervatory
stands a howe with the dale 1776 and theiaitiala

^^ toot in a atone over the door.

I liafe not been able to find oat to whom this
iieifln,tho*UisprobablytoafttDilyto thenameof
Ooila*

The last dated honae for this oentiuy atands at
The Fbrd, on the ri^t hand ride of the road, aa one
goes towards Upton: the date is 1790, and

the fadttals ^g, the letten repreaenting

Thomas and Sarah Bonrowa ; the date, I
take it, does not refer to the honae, whioh
ia sridantly of an earlier date (probably a
handled yean earlier), bat to the oat-
boilding, into whioh the atone bearing the inaoription
is bailt,at the eaat end of the hooae.

I trost that theae few notes may intereat yoor
readen and be the flnt of a aeriea from variooa pena,
ontil there iaplaoed on record a oomplete liat of
theae interesting memorials of payt generatiiODS in
WlrraL

Obuighton HobLY.

[56] MILITABT TBANSPOBTS IN THE
EEION OP QUBEN SLIZABSTH.

The following doenment, from a bundle of
Assembly Ordera of the Oheater Ooiporation, la in-
tereating from aevefal pointa of riew, and ia, I
think, worth printing.

In readtog it, what pasalee one, ia to know iriiere
they atowed the wretched aoldieie,— 200 men on
boiid a yeaael of 70 tone, not to mention the arma,
ammonition, offieera* horaee, and the adlora? A
▼oyage to IreUnd in thoae daya aometimea took
three weeke : What a aobjeot for an Eliaa-
bethan Mr. Plimsoll 1

Shipping atayed for aervioe into Ireland by vertoe
of Ires llettera] from the Ida [Lorda] of Her
Majeetiea moat honorable pry ^rivyj ooanaell of
the 22nd of October, and Bed [reeei? ed] the 26th
thereof for taUnge np ahippinge for 900 men.

26 October, 1588.

80 [men] : The Margate ofOheiter, of the bnrthen
of 20 TofUMf , whereof Mr. and owner John Warton.

200 [men] : The Trenity of Chester, of 70 Timnee
whereof ia owner and Mr. Nioholaa White.

: The Michael of HeJhry, of 80 IVmtiM,

whereof ia owner Thomaa Oonatantine (1)

80 [men] : The Date Stat of Helbry, of the borthen
of 20 Tonnet, whereof Wm. Ooventry ia Mr.

800 [men] : The Drauneee Stuan of LiuefpooU^
whereof Thomaa Wofall ia part owner, of the
borthen of - — ,

70 [men] : The Henry of Cheeter, whereof part
owner ia Henry Fella, of the burthen of 24 Tonnee.

Obuighton.

Yoor etc.,

Wm. FiBouaaoM lavni.

[56] THE BIDBTON BEOIBTEBa

(Oontinned from No. 58.^May 7.)

EuiABBTB UBMBTON,of Moieton, In her will dated
ahortly before her death in 1622, deairea. that her
body be burled in Bidston Oharoh, aa *' neare to my
late belof ed hoaband Qilbert Urmston, as may bee,"

BheleaToa, " to John Smith of Storeton all that
land, which I hold by lease from the Bight Hon.
William, Baric of Derbie,'*

To John Smith of Lankonne, [Landican] aha
leaTca, ** the greate cnpborde, one pott one tnmell,
[a brewing tab] one dreaaing panne, one pair el
gebottea and one of the beat pewtei diiBhes."

To Edward Pemberton of Oheater, one cowe. To
her god children :--" Katherine, daaghter of Edward
Pemberton ; John Eemp'a daaghter ; Henry Watte'a
daughter; Izabel BoMnaon; the two children of
Robert Urmaton of Wallia^ ;—varioas small

(L) On a rough dnti appended to the document thia aaaa*
isWissiBiiier*

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

M^T, 1892.

To " Anna Smith mj tister tb."

To " Ellen Pombeiioii mj hiulNUid*a (Mar ▼ s."

••Onehoope of barley," to the following, tIb.,
Mugeiet Shlogleton, Heniy CalTin, Wm. Hemnet*
James Handoooke, IzabalMom, Thomas Oonney,
Elisabeth Ck>pooke, Elizabeth Hamnet, Wm. Kempe
and Maigafet Kempe.

** I beqneathe the snme of xz s to be dellTered into
the Ohnrohwarden's hands, and the same from yeare
to yeare forever to snooeed, the vth of it to be dealt
upon erery Good Fridaie to the poore of this Parish
in the Ohoreh Poroh of Bldston ^' (1)

Further bequests to ** William Smith of Thornton,
his eldest danghter."

To *• William Sennet's dhildren.'*

To •'Ohlldren of Hogh Bennett, and Edward
Pemberton."

To " David Dod*s wife,"

Eieontor: •* John Smith, of Storeton.**

Witnesses : ** John Urmston de Waliiea,
William Batter, jnnior,
Evan Piers, olerk."

Inventofy, valned by Thomas Shaipe, Thomas
Handooeke, ^VHUiam Billioge,'and Thomas Inglefleld.
[Inter alia.] ." Item : Biz oowgates in the Doan '* (2)

** Dettes owinge testator :

Stephen PeUsoweth for sheeep •• iv. vil. L

John Parbold, for wheat .. •• ziL iL

John Bathbone, of Upton, for malt zvL iv.

Margaret King, of Shotwiok .. L ii. ill.

Biohard Ohamberlain the elder . . viii. vi. viii.

John Bonnet, of Sangham, gent .. ii. z.

Blohaid Pemberton, Thomas Kempe, William
Billinge« and Henerie Iiowe, for small amoonts.*'

[57] THE OLOSINa OF FOOTPATHS IN
WIBBAL IN THE FOUBTEENTH OENTUBT.

The following abstraet of a doonment ftom the
Welsh Beoognisanoe Bolls {vide BGth Rep of Dep»
Keeper) is of Interest, as showing the importanoe
attaohed, even at his early period, to the claims of
the general pablio in the matter of rights of way :<-

** April 11, 1897. license from the King to Hugh
Holes and Margery, his wife, to dose [inter alia]
two ways on the land of the said Hugh, one
leading from Thyngwall towards Thometon Mayow,
and one from Bmastath [Brimstage] towards
Thometon ; on an Inqnisition taken before Adam de
Kyngelegh, esoheator of Chester, finding that the

(1) Thli Is Inftoresklng m itaowlng the exiitonoe of a Okazoh
Poroh, aft Bldsfton, aft fthie time.

(2) A oowKftfte 18 fthe rlgbft of paiftnnRe for one animal,
generally aied wlfth referenoe fto common londi or ftown
meodowi*

The Duani ore a aeriee of fields in BaaKholl MoiMy rann-
log weeftword from near fthe Leasowe UghthouM ; fthey were
town meadows aft fthla time. In whloh fthe Torloai teaanfta
hod dghti of pasturage In proportion to the Quantity of land
lielda

same ways were never need as common wan, hot h7
consent of the Lords of Bmnstath, the said Hngh to
make other ways In lien of those dosed.

Tous, etc.,

Hanowms.

[68] THE OHESHIBE DOMESDAY BOOK.

(See No. 40-April i.)

In reply to Mr. E.W. Ooz*s recent enqidir In yoor
eolnmn, concerning the Cheshire Domesday Boll, and
Dr. Gower's granSose statement wiUi reference to
it, mKj I point ont that in 1851 the late Dr. Ormerod
printed, for private dronlation, a catalogue of as
many fragments of this lost record as he had been
aUe to collect from existing M.S. abstraets. The
original document seems to have been lost between
the years 1680 and 1647, and there are, so far as I am
aware, no grounds for Dr. Gower*s eflhslve self con-
gratulations. He no doubt made the statement under
some miiapprehension, and possibly also with an ^ye
to encouraging subscriptions to his proposed History
of Oheshire. The document in question is entirely
distinct from the Oheshire portion of Domesday
Book, with which it is sometimes oonfosed.^ Yours,

UAY »lth, 1892.

[69] HAWTHOBNE*S HOME IN BOOK PABE.

The celebrated American author, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, was appointed United States Oonsul at
liverpool in 1868. On his first arrival in England
he took rooms for a month at the Bock Ferry Hotel,
of which he speaks in warm commendation. He
then took a house in Bock Park, where he redded
till the autumn of 1866, when he removed to 163,
Duke-street, liverpooL

Being anxious to ascertain the house in Book
Park where Hawthorne lived, I made some reoent
enqiUries on the subject, in which I was greatly
assisted by the Bev. W. Paige Oox, the vicar of Bt.
Peter*s. Our investigations established, beyond any
doubt, the fact that the house now nundfered No.
26 was that occupied by the great author. He took
it furnished, from a widow lady named OampbelL

In his English Notebook Hawthorne speaks of
his residenoe as '*a stone edifice." In this he was
mistaken, as it is a brick building, plastered over,
and painted cream colour. The house is conspicuous
by a dome-shaped erection at the top. This was
built after Hawthorne's time, as an observatory, by
Mr. Boberts, so well-lmown in the sdentifio world
by his astronomical discoveries. He now lives near
Tunbridge Wells, but still owns the house in question,
which is at present tenanted by Mr. Murphy.

In the course of his enquiries, Mr. Paige Oos
wrote to Thomas H. Sherman, Esq. the United

No. 26. BOCK PARK,

THE HOUSE OOCUPIEO BY

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.

MikT, 1892.

WntBAL NOTES AND QITESIEB.

Btal6B Ck>iiaiil aft LiTeipodL Mr. Sherman was
kind enough to write on the matter to Ifr. Jnllan
Hawthorne, the eon of his predeeessor, and himself a
writer of no mean repate. To his letter Mr. Haw-
thorne sent the following letter, whioh I haTO re-
eeiTed pesmiflsion to pobliih :—

Bag Harbour, N.T., Deoenber 11th, 1891.

My Dear Sir x~

I have Just leeelyed yonr letter of RoTember
SSkh. I am mneh gratified to bear of the proposed
pladng of a tablet on the house fotmerlj ooonpied
by my father in Book Park.

The honses, so far as I am aware, were not nnm«
bered at the time we lived in Book Park. I find in
my mother's diaiy, under the date of October 2nd,
1868, that the honse was ** of oastellated form with
large pleasant rooms, a pretty trim garden, and
lolerably famished.** Yon are oorreot in yonr sur-
mise that Ihe boose was not bnilft of stone. The
walls were eo?ered with dark grey plaster, made to
nmreaent stone. Oar next door neighbonrs on the
left, as yon Uoed the boose, were, I believe, named
Banner. Mr. Watson ahw lived in the Park at that
time.

This, I regret to say, Is all the Information
towards fizfaig the identity of the boose that I am
able to give. All letters addresaed to os were
direeted ffimply to " Book Park, Book Feny.'*

Believe me, with great respeet, Sinoerely yoors,

(Signed) JuuAn HAWTBoamk

Thomas H. Sherman, Esq.»
liverpool.

Hawthone*s own aoeoant ol the hoiue shall be
Sf ven In your next namber. p, Saxpibs.

(To he coniinmedj.

[60] OABGOES OF WIBBAL SHIPS IN

15419.

The f ollowiDg partleolars of the eargoes of WIrral
vsBsels, wUeh diseharged in Gbester in 1541-2, are
from ii» original doooments in the possession of the
Chester Ooiporation :—

vth die Oet : Introlt oojnsdm NaviooU voo* i$
TrmyHe de HObru eojos snb Deo Willlm"- I^ynygar
estmagister.

Meieatort Thomas Bog'son : ill paee shepef ells

ill paee ohekkers
andawey of Tallow

ifat die Oet : Introlt* i$ Laurence de Hylbree oojas
sob Deo Bie'os Shepp'd est magister.

Msnatorai: Bie'os Giymsdioh sen'« lib: w ton'

■am' rr salmon]

and j barrel of heryngs
Bie'os Bhepard: viii banralfl of

Heiynges
Bie'os Andertott, libs v parrels of

Heryngea

eod die: Introlf le Qeorge de West Eirbey, oojos
sob Deo Willm's Ooventrye est matter.

Mereatores: Johes White lib; U ftomies d
Heijmges
^niliams Ooventryet vl banela d
Herynges

eod die: Introlt' le Oodeloehe de Wett KirMy^
eojos sob Deo Thomas Hogg est matter.

Mereatores; in^llms Dabe : ill tonnes of

Heizynges
Thomas White: x barrels of

Herrynges
Thomas Hogg : 1 tonne of Henyngei

XX Oet : Introlt' le Katrina de Netton eojos sob
Deo John — ^— est magister.

Meroator i Henry Hop' : ill tonnes of herynges

eod die : Intrdt le Margaret de Weet Kirkebye,
eojos sob Deo Thomas Hogg est magister.

Meroator : John White : vl barrels of hervnges

John Cootdyre : x barrels of herynges

iii Nov : Introlt' le Satherin Hieeoek de West
Kirkeby, eqjos sob Deo Bio's Hiooook est magister.

Mereatores: NichohM Pentony : ivpaeosohekken
Thomas Bogers, 11 paeos ohekkers
Thomas Barrow jon, ] paee de shepe-

skynes
Ban' Maynwarying, 11 roOs da

K«»ip]

XX Jan. ! Introlt' le Seot de West Eirkebye oojos
sob Deo Wtthns Ijnager est magisfter.

Menatores : Bio'os Marten, ono' H [ogs] H [ead]

Alios.
Bio'os PerdvaU ona' H [ogs] H

[ead] AUes.
Bio'os Snedye, li baneUes halles

[eic],
Johee Smyfth, Oait' U barreUea

[t ].

XX Fbb. : Introlt* Le Bryde de Hiibrye eojos sob
Deo Henry f&ramway [?] est magister.

Mereatoces: Johes Wartoniiiitownes of heiynges.
Thomas Whyte, vli barrelhi of
herynges.

W. FSROUSSON Ibvqu.
{To he eantitmed.)

[61] THB BIDSTON BEOISTEBB.

(Oontinoed from No. 56— May 14.)

A tnie and perfect Begistrle of all and singalar
Ohrlstenings, Weddings and BoriaUs at Bidston.
Anno. Dom, 1628.

(1) Gilbert Urmston baptised the ix of April.
John Urmston da pale baptised the vli of

September.
Thomas WillsonbaptiBedthexxi of September.
John Pemberton baptised the vl of Ootober.

(1.) Bon of John Uimiton of Moietoa, wko died zjeI
Deoembet, Mme yeaie^

WIBBAL NOTES IND QUEBmS.

da tlMwiiaii hMHinwl sx OMober.
mohud Sill da 6iriMtt Up. ix NonmbeK.
JaoftHal* basUMd tb« n^eoenbtr.
Amy OowlM Mptiud ths niU Fthnuj.
Hent7 Wlllluuan bkpUMd tbe mdm ter.

Weddlngi.
rifflth I
B«llii, msnled tl

Dunltd tbe eeooad ol iTebniaij.
Uobwd B«imett ud Ellea HIU mn
ButnjtA tbe Is olFsbnuir.

Bllan Pemberton bvrjeS the t1 ol AfriL
I) millam Sempe, Infut, buried xt ^viL
Uatgutj Eampe, Infant, bnried zrill ApiU,
Bdward f embertMi, biuUd xxil ot April.

Herj^HuideookB, tbasxUI

Henij Bennett, Intent, boiTed tbe Mme (Uf.
(El' "*—• -° — ' — ^-'-TTrin-rilnffliiilninliriT

(6) Jobn BetbboD, inlani, boried xr Ootobef
H*iu7 FembwtoB, buried xxlll Oetobei.

(7) Jobn Hell, inlut, bntfed tbe xn OMbot
Anna Onr, bocMiil 0' ~

s: ^

(10) Ifargwet BtUa, vUoir Obealer, ud buiwl
betmen tbe jtntrj and m; lo [tda] pwe
tbs 4lb of Jimury.

Hergarr PKbott, bnled tbe lia o( JsMUfy.

Hanety Qabin, buried tba zH at Jannarr.

Joane Hill, buried tbe xfU of [ ]

\?miani BnUer, Knlor baried[ ]

[ ^1 Infant, bmied ^[ ]

[ Plenberton buried zri [ ]

[ 1 neanb WOUaniMn [ ]

batjad the tooEtb dar ot Blandi

MAY aath, ia9A

[690 HAWIHOBHB'a. HOHV IH BOOK PABE.

(Oontinnad faom No. S9— Mar 91>)
NatbHiUl Hawtbotne wtUm <d hia Iuhim m

Stpttmbtr kuj, 1SB8.-Wa out Mo onnav hoHe
Id IhMkPaikj«eteidnr, Itb q^Agood bOHa,
wHh three M art aa nta beaidea fc iteha n t n i pantni.on
tbe lowN floor; and U ie tbiaa Hariea high, «ttb

Inmlahed, It ia one bnndred and tiitr poonda.
Book farfc, aa tbe loealitr la Mlled, la nifale
property, and ia now nearij ooreied wlUi reddenMe

and tho ofieer on

lodlM pe)
piaelnaaaal

. _ _ qsleteat plaea J Magln-
polloe BtMlon trt iba BDlranoe,
dotj iUoiM no ntsadroi ill-
paaa. Tb»n biiig n< ted, it

were tbwem
wUeb siTS aooaaa to tbeae prattr raiidenaca. On
tftberddatbetaiaa tUek ■bnbbair, wltb ^bnpaea
tbrongb it of tbe omunental portalt, or into ttaa
trim gardana with amooth-abaven lawna, ol no great
extent, but atUI affording reaaocaUa brenUdOg
■paoe. Thay are really an ImpTorement on aiiTUiing,
aave what tha Teiy rioh eta enjoy, in Ameiloa. ^e
focaer oowqwDti of oar bonae (Ura. OamplMlI and
landlr) baring bean toad ol flowen, there are manf
rare Tarieilea in tha garden, and wa are told Uiit
there ia aoaroel; a montb in the Tear when a flowar
wfll not be toand there.

Thaboaaelaraapeetritlr. though net TWy elegantly
(omlahBd, It waa a diamal, rainy daj yeatardaj,
and we had a ooil flre in tbe altting-rooat, beride
wbioh I aat Uat eTening al twilEgbt oame on, and
tbonght nther aadly, bow many timea we had
ebaeged oor home rieoe we were married. In the
flreC plaoa, onr three fears at tbe Old Uanaa ; then a
brief reddenea at SUen, then at BoMon, than two
ortUree yeata at Balen again t t*-- -1 'itanr, l*""
Wuet Newton, and then a^alnat- Oanoord, whwe wa
Imaj^nad that we were- teed- tor Me, bat ^panl only
a year. Then, tbla farther fli^ to England, wbeia
we expeottoapendfonryean, and then another year
or two ia ItaVi dutinK-aU'Whieb time we ahall hare
no real home. For, ae I aal in Ibis EngUah honaa,
with the ehiU, rainy EngUah iwiUgbt broodiiw orer
lbelawn,andAoaal&reta kammeoomtortahle on

H&T, 189fl.

WITRAL NOTES AND QUBBEES.

the flzst ereniDg of September, tnd the picture of %
Btnmger— the dead hoBband of Mni. Oampbell
gasing down at me from above the mantel-pieoe— I
fdt that I Bhoold neTer be quite at home here.
NevertheleaB, the fire was Tory comfortable to look
at, and the ehape of the flrephice— an arch with a
dem oafltj*— was an improvement on ths square,
ahsllow opening of an Amerioan coal grate.

It will be remarked that Mr. Jnlian Hawtboine
qpeaks in his letter of a tablet whioh it is proposed
to place on the honse, to commemorate its
ooonpancy by his distinguished father. In Fhmce
and Italy we always see a small tablet with a
suitable inscription on the houses which have been
inhabited by great men. Hawthorne's fame is great
and growing, and it is sorely to be desired that the
fast of liis abode in our peninsula should be
commemorated in this way. It would be very easy,
with the consent of the owner and occupants of 91,
Bock Park to raise the small sum needed for the
purposo. All who are idUing to assist are asked to
communicate with the Bev. W. Paige-Oox, St.
Peter's Vicarage, Bock Ferry, or with yours, Ao,,

Hoylake Yioarage F. Sahpbbs.

[63] OABGOES OF WIBBAL SHIPS IN 1641-2.

(Oontinaed from No. 60— May 21.)

iil Mar. : Intrdt' U Mieha4U de Wett KerMye
oujns sob Deo Thomas Babon est magister.

Mecoator: Bic'us Babon viii H[ogs] H[ead]
Alice.

BE Mar. : Intrait* Le TrinUU de Hilbre CQJus
sub Deo ^nUms Brabon est magister.

Mffoatetw : Johes GhaUoner : viU pace yame, pace

chekkets, iiii lose
ronles. of chekkers,
one peso [piece] of
whyte blaoiikyt, one
fflookebed.
Thomas Case: vipaccyame.
Martin Blaker : iii pace yame.

: iii pace more yame.
xzvi April: Introit Le Martin de LyteU Neeion
onjns sub Deo Thomas Blaoune est ma^^ster.

Mercator: Johes Ofleley : i tonne trayne oyl.

: XV bnsheU barleye.
: xviiH[ogB]H[ead8]BBlt
izMay: Introit Le Cristofer de Wett Kerhebye
eqjus sub Deo Johes Whyte est magister.

Mercatoies : Bicns Hanket : iii pace chekkers

yame and lamfells
Arthur Skelnor : ii pace chekkers

and lamfells.
Johes Toung : i ftedell chekkers and

iiH[ogB] H[eads]
tellow.
: i pace more.
Blcns Eowtroke : iii pace, ii chekkers

i yame, vi rolles
chekkers, i small
ftu-dell chekkers
i ffloke bed.
Johes Ohalloner : i pace fleyhes [f]

iii June: Introit, Le Peier de BetoaU IHemalQ
oujus sub Deo Johes Warton est msgister.

iiii belisa A a pace 4k certayne biass pottoSL

W. Sbboubson iBvna.

[64] WIBBAL WOBTHIBS.

U.-BBy. JOHN BHTBOOT*
(See No, 19, Feb. 18.)
Sinoe writing the account of Marcot, given in
[14], [16 1, and [19] , I have gleaned soma •^^itiffnal
mformation as to the latter part of his lif^

In 1653 he styles himself in the Yestiy Book of
St. Miohan's Dublin, as preacher of the Gospel at
St. Owen*e. He seems to have been previously
engaged in the same capacity at St. Miehan*s, for
the Vestry Book (29 August, 1651) mention the
engagement of Mr. Thomas Seela as preaoher,
** before Mr. Mooreoott was settled in the y^'H*

Muroot came to Dublin in 1651 at the Isfltation
of Sir Bobert King, whose guest he became. Hosooa
attached himself to the oongre^stisn of Dr. Samuel
Winter, Provost of Trinity Oollege. whieh worshipped
as Independents in the Church of St. NichoUw
Within; and he undertook at thev request the
whole of the ' tesching * among them, the pastorate
being left to Dr. Winter. Muroot became sub-
sequently the pastor of the Independent oongregation
worshipping at St. Miohan's; and in 1658 we find

him still established aa pastor at St. Omdeon's. He
He died aged 29, 20 November, 1654.

F. SiHDlBS.

[65] THB BIDSTON BEaiSTBB&

(Continued from No. 61— Mi^ 21.)

John Hill, of Moreton, in his will dated 80th
April, 1623, mentions, "Alice HiU, my wife,"
** Margaret HiU, my daughter," '* John and .Thomas
Hill, my sons," ** Thomas HiU, son of John HiU,
my son," and the "four chUdren of my son-in-law,
John Deanes ; " he leaves the balk of his property,
including <• my land leased from Sir John Egerton,
Knight, late deceased, for fourscore years," to his
wife and daughter, whom he nsakes his CKeeators.

He appoints WilUam Billinge, John OiU, Heniy
Willoecke, and Bichard aill, o?erseers.

Debts are due to testator by John Mason, of Little
Neston, butcher, and Elisabeth Harrison, of The
Meoles, widow.

The f oUowiog is the Ust of teatator'a "irfrfUttts c—
To Elizabeth Harrison, for a yard and a

quarter of kfreye • • 8 4

To James Wilson for oates 110

To Bobert GiU of Brombro' for oats ••.. 10
To Thomss Sherlock of Seaoombe for oats 4 8

To Thomas Dunne of Poulton •« 6

To Thomas Picke of Oreaeeby 8 17

To John 9myth of Stourton for Eye ••••824

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIEB.

June, 1892.

Witnenes: John Gill, Thoi. BUhbone, John
Toiug, E?Bn Peires, olio.*

InTentory taken 1^ John Gill, Wm. BiUInge,
Wbl Bennett, and Thoe. WHoookd.

Bnmmft totalis, £87.

Thokab HAMDOocKiy of << Mooreton," in hiB wHI
dated 26 September, 1628, leayea the bnlk of hia
property to " my ondy aonoe Henry EEandoooke,"
whom he oonatitntea sole ezeentor, he alio leaves
small bequests to **my sister Margery Pamberton
and her children," and to " my youngest sister Ellen
Hand.*'

Witnesies : Biehard Gill, Bobert Malpas, der (1),

The following persons owed testator money, via.,
Wm. Butter, Ales. Hill, Henry Willcocke, Bobert
Bimmer, Mr. John Whitmore, John Tottie, Biehard
Hatton and Wm. Fleetwood, Humphrey Wood and
Thos. Spenoer, William Gill, Peter Younge.

The testators liabilities were as follows, viz :—

To Biohard Ck>Tentry £10

To Thomas Dunne 8

To William Coventry 8

To Heniy Pemberton 9

Inventory taken by William Butter, John Gill,
William Billings and William Bennett.

JVNB 4th, 1892.

[66] BEOOUiBOTIONS OF OLD TBANMEBE.

Both the houses at T^ranmere onee ooonpied by
the eminent theologian Bishop lightfoot have now,
alas ! disappearod. In his early boyhood, he was
aooustomed to spend part of the summer at Tran-
mere Old Hall, onoe the seat of the lords of the
manor. A good description of this house, by the
late Mr. Joseph Mayer, is to be found in the
TrofnaaetionM of iht Lancashire and Cheshire
Hietorieal Society vol, 8.

During Us residence at Book Park, Nathaniel
Hawthorne visited the old house, which he thus
descnibes: —

" March 7th, 1866. J and I walked to Tran.

mere, and passed an old house, which I suppose to
be Tranmere HalL Our way to it was up a hoUow
lane, irtth a bank and a hedge on each side, and
with a few thatched stone cottages, centuries old,
their rid^e poles crooked, and the stones time-worn,
scattered along. At one point there was a wide,
deep well, hewn out of the solid red freestone, and
with steps, also hewn in solid rock, leading
down to tt. These steps were much hollowed by the
feet of those who had come to the well ; and they

(L) There wm a Mr. Malpas, aohoolmaster of Wallasey
aboat tlili period, who. aoooralng to old Mr. Bobinaon's
acooont In hli M.B. history oT Wallasey, 1721, wasdis-
charged lor misoondaot.

reach beneath the water which is very hii^ The
well probably supplied water to the old cotten and
retainers of Tranmere Hidl five hundred yearn ago.
The Hall stands on the verge of a long hill iHiich
stretdies behind TMnmere and as ftur as Birken-
head.

It is an old, grey, stone edifloe, with a good many
gables, and windows with mulli<»s, and some of
them extending the whole breadth of the gaUe. In
some parts of Sie house, the windows seem to have
been built up ; probably in the days when daylight
was taxed. Tlie form of the Hall u multiplex, the
roofs sloping down and intersecting one another, so
as to make Qie general result indescribable. There
were two sun-£als on different sides of the house,
both the dial plates of which were of stone ; and on
one, the figures, so far as I could see, were quite
worn off, but the gnomon still cast the shadow over it
in such a way that I could judge that it was about
noon. Tlie other dial had some half-worn hour
marls, but no gnomon. The chinks of the stones of
the house were very weedy, and the building looked
quaint and venenbie; but it is now converted into a
farmhouse, with the farm yard and the out-buildings
closely appended. A village, too, has grown up about
it, so that it seems out of place among modem stnocoed
dwelliDgs, such as are erected for tradesmen and
other nuKlerate people who have their residences in
the neighbourhood of a great dty. Among these
there are a few thatched oottages, the homelieet
domiciles that ever mortals lived in, bdongiog to
the old estate. Directly across the street is a
wayside inn, ** licensed to sell wine, spirits, ale, and
tobaooo." The street itself has been laid out sinee
the land grew valuable by the increase of Livezpool
and Birkenhead ; for the old Hall would never have
been built on the verge of a puhlio way."— Ai^lif A
NoU Books,

Tranmere Hall was demolished in 1862, and its
site is now occupied by mean cottages. Bishop
Lighfoot wrote of it in 1888 :— *' The house, when I
knew it, was occupied by a farmer, whose name wm
Hitchmough or Hitchman (1) ; but the greater pari
was let as lodgings durinff the summer. During my
father's lifetime, we used to oeoupy these lodgings
for several weeks during the summer. I think that
our first year there must have been 1886, when I
was eight years old ; and so far as I can remember,
we returned every successive year till 1841, when we
took up our residence at the * New HaU ' whioh I
believe, is still sUnding. There we lived till the
beginning of 1844.

Last year, 1891, the so-called New Hall also dis-
appeared. On the occasion of its demolition, the
following interesting communication appeared in
print.

** There hae just disappeared, through the pulling
down of a farmhouse and outbuildings on the estate
of Major Orred, adjoining the line of Ohureh Boad,
Higher Tranmere, one of the relics of former days.
The farm-house in question was a stone bidlding,
its walls, and those of the briok-built bam rising
sheer from the roadway on the east or river side,
the outbuildings stretching on the same line in a
southerly direction towards th; white cottage hous^
now enclosed by a front garden and wall, wUoli, for

(1) Mr. Joseph Bitohmosgh, father of the late Alderman
' Bltohmongh.

JuMB, 1892.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QTJEBIES.

more than a eentiny, waa a little oonntiy ale hooae,
known aa ** The Haie," and in tlie bar parlour off
wfaifliiiitiB more than piobaUe (seeing there were
well atoeked game pro e or T c g not far ofl), many a
ooa^aB^ of poadiers have qoaflbd their beer after a
nMeemral f oraj and trolled out some eneh stayeaa,
Mi|«B mj delight on a ahiny night, in the aeaeon of
the year," Ae. At any rate '• The Hare," whioh is
now a private hooae, the reaidenoe^of Ifr. Sam Jonea,
a veteran and mneh reapeoted emploj6 of
the Mera^ Doek Board, will go down to poaterifty
embahned in the literature of the late Nafthamu
Hawthorne, the graoefol Amerlean writer, who in
hia Enaluh Nate Booki deeeribea a anmmer day*a
atroU from Clangfaton or Ozton aoroaa the fields,
buiy with harreoting, to Book Ferry, and a oall for
"refraahment by the way," at the little ale-honae
iHioae foaming nut-brown ale and neatly sanded
floor, laid oat in onriomi patterns, he admiringlv
mentiona, . Tho adjoining fann-hovse, near whiw
Blood the Old Tranmere Hall, with its stone door-
way into the orohard garden, carved overhead
*• Labor ^ndt Omnia," and the andent eross long
ainee demolished, is said to have been one of the
oldeat, if not the oldeet, in the neighbourhood, and
to hava been boilt A.D. 1660. From Mr. Biehard
LeOk iriio ia well-known in Birkenhead and Tranmere,
and waa a sohoolfellow of the late Alderman
Hitehmongh, we have gained aome interestiog
ffoadp. He am, ''lly father reaidad at the old
uimhonse whioh has jost disappeared. He resided
there in 1819, and died there ui 1889. I was bom
there in 1824, and left with the famUy in 1889, after
my fathor's death. Binoe then the farm has been
ooeopied by Mr. Quirk, Mr. Qpigley, Mr. Hitoh-
moDgh, Mr. Boss, Mrs. Maiy Jones (the late), for
her son4nplaw Mr. Thomas Baveoshaw, and others.
Latteriy it had bean divided into tenemanta for
farm labomers, and for aome years paat had no
ooeapant, being, in faet, UDtenantoble. It was a
qmdnt atrootmre with little comfort abont it, aooording
to modern ideas. The stone walls inside the honse
were lined with rushes and twigs interlaced, and
plaaterad over with clay. The farm boildinga were
creeted long after the boose, and as could be seen
during the recent operationa of polling dowo, were
of modeni daaign and constrootion.

{To ho eontwutd,)

[67]. THB BID8T0N BEOISTEBS.

(Oontinoed from No. 66— Blay 28).

Joea Ubmstos, of Moreton, yeoman, in Ua will
made a few days before his death in 1623, mentions,
'*my lands in Moreton," *<my wife Anne," '*my
eldeat aonne John, towards maintaininge and bring-
ing of him npp," ''my yoongeat chil£en, Gilbert,
Bllen, and Ann," ** my tenement in Wallazey, natil
Gilbert come to the age of 21 yeres," •' my fields,
whioh I rent, called the Handstacke Hey and the
Long Ditch Hey," [1] <*my brother Bobert
Urmaton," *• my brother's daaghter, Eatherine."
« ■

(1) The name Handitaoke Hay does nol now ezlat In
Moreton; Long DItoh Bey, now oalled DItohfleld, Um on
the weel dOe^Ihe road. alx>at half way between 0?ei-
ohoioh Hill and MoretoD vUlaaoi

Oveneen : William Bennett and Bobert Tassiei
TO t a fl Bs eo : Bobert Pemberton, Thomas Bnstale.
Bobert Malpas, der.

Debtea owinge to ad testator.

JohnBayln£f. •«•• • •••vile. —

Vniliam White i*xii!i—

JohnOhaddook ••••z"^

William White xd. — • —

Debtee owdnge by Testator.

JohnToonge x" — * —

John Bobinson, jon ii . iiiP —

Doctor 8neU[l] iU . vt —

Invent<»v taken 18 December, 1628, \fj Wm.
Billing, Henry Willoooke, John BoMnaon, Wm.
Parbott.

Mabgabit FauiB, of Bidston, widow, in her will
dated xziz December 1628, leaves, ** to Stephen
Jones Sonne of Henry Jonea late deceased five
poonds; "

** To Margaret Jonea ten poonda.
** Elizabeth Jonea five poonda.
" John Brereton three poonds.
** Mary Brereton three poonds.
** Thomas Brereton three poonds.
M Stephen son of Henry Willcocke three

pounds.
•« William son of Henry Willoodm three

poonds.
M Alice daoghter of Heoiy WUlcodn three

pounds.
" My daughter Eatherine, the wife of Heniy

Willoooke ten poonda."

Item : I give and beqoeathe all my date onto
William Jones and my will is that Mr. Piute and
Stephen Fells shall have the oostody of ye same,
ontiU ye said Wm. Jonea be married."

"I give to ye said Stephen Fdla his children,
dther of them two ewes a-peeoe."

** And laatly, I aadgn all the reat of my goodea*
etc towards the maintaininge and bringing opp of
Henry Jones his diildren."

Executors, Mr. Tboa. Paiker and Thomaa
Ooventiy of Enooktorn.

Witnessea, Stephen Fdla and Evan Piers, deik,

♦

JUIJE 11th, 1892.

[68]

FIiAOB NAMES IN WIBBAL

It baa freqoently been pdnted oot \j writera on
the subject, that the Hundred of Wirral is possessed
of a particularly tnteresting aet of place names, and
it has ocourred to me that it would be very instructive
to arrange all the namee, as far as peedble, under
the three headings of Oeltio, Norse, and English,
and then to compare their idative podtiona on a
map.

U) Dr* Oeorce BnelL Beotoi of WaUaiey, Pnbendary of
Oheiter 1621, afterwarda Dean of Oheitec,

WIBBAIj notes and QUEiOBS.

JuMS, 180i.

There ia, howeyer, perhaps no sabjeet on whioh
*' dooton diifiBr " more oompletely than on the oiiflin
of w ort i, and ao fthoagh we cannot ezpeot to be able
todaoiily the names with anything like complete
aooonu^, still, let os hope, it is possible to get
soffidentiy near to leam a good ieai from the resolt.

TotUaend, I would snggeai that the following
naMsa are Brttiah,and tnut that this and saooeeding
artieles may elidt eorrespondenoe on the sobjeot
from those who are far better able to pronomMO an
opinion than thb miter :—

Vmamaki The second syllable being the Oymrie
word dictf meaning water.

Luidioah: The iirst syllable being the sane as
the Welsh Uan, a ohueh ; it is worthy of note
that though there are no traces of a ohorohnowi
Domesday mentions a priest there.

TsiNXBBB : In old documents always spelt Tran-
moll, or Tranmoel, being a shortening of the
words Dre^n-moel, the town on the hill, a
▼cry good deseription of tibat salubrious neigh-
bourhood !

AuBowB : Oanon Isaac Taylor, in his Words and
Places, dtssifies the name as Oeltio when used
as a riyer name.

DoTi Point : Dove from the word Dhu, dgnil|ying
black, a very good description of the Point in
question, distinguiBhed as it is for its " black
earth,*' or peat bed.

NooTOBTTH : The early form of this peculiar name
was, aocoriing to Domesday, Ohenotrie (the Ch
having the v due of k) ; if this be so, and not
due to the blunder of a Norman offldai, the
terminal syllable is, probably, the Oymrio tre,
town. In a document dated 1272, however,

{^reserved at Eaton, the name is spelt Enook-
orum, and in dl subsequent documents which
the writer has had an opportunity of examin-
ing — some score between the years 1800 and
1600— this form is retained, subject to trifling
variations of spelling.

If, thenfore, as seems very probable, the present
spdUng fdrly represents the origind name,
the derivation seems to be from &e Gadhdic
knock a hill and possiUy the Brae word dimtifi
(modem Irish drum) a ridge i one ooald hardly
wish for a better description of Noctorum to-day
than the hill ridgs.

The other place names wUdi may be Odtio, and
which will be treated more at length in the next
artide, are Idsoasd, Pooltoo, Beaooabe, Oarlet, and
Poole.

The foregoing is merdy a tentative list, and put
forwurd in the hopes of obtaining suggestions and
opinions from those interested in the subject.

Yours eto.,
Olaagblcii. HoLLT.

[69] BBOOLLEOTIONS OF OLD TB/kNMEBE.

(Continued from No. 66— June 4).

My great grandfather, Bichard Lee, redded at
the Old Priory, Birkenhead, in 175S, and farmed
Boioly the whole townsiap of

The nearest farms were Orange I!armSi stand-
ing where Orange Mount now ii, and Bhode
HiU, oppodte to the H^ybriok Hill aemeteiy.
My great grandfiUher, Ua wife, my .gisad-
father and grandmother, my asother'a great
aunts, and nearly dl the Leea were boriad
in the Old Abbey Ohurehyard at Birknnlmadj
in the endoaure adjoining tlie present Old
Abbey Ohapd. My 2ather*s aunts who were bom at
the Priory — a distinct building from the dd
monastic establislmient known as the BiEkeahead
Priory, and standing in a iqiiadooa wooded endoaoze
about where St. Maiy's-gate and White-street now
are— long redded at Tianmere Hall (the prso o n t
bdlding, not the Old Hdl pulled down in 1862).
They were living there in 1798| and the last Miss
Lee died in 1842. having left the hall the year
previous. They were well posted m in the eontem-
porary history of Birkenhesd and Tnamexe afidra ;
and it is upon thdr authority that I fix the age of
the old farm jost demolished, for they used to say,—
•* It was boilt in the year of our Lord 1660."

Whether the site will be built upon remaina to be
seen. Major Orred does not lake kindly to the idea
of selling any of his land for the purpose of running
up " jerry " houses thereon. The removd of the
farmhouse and buildings, wliich stood on an devated
position, have opened up a fine view of tlie river
Mersey and the south end of Liverpool to the
occupant ot Did House (immediatdy oppodte), Mr.
Thomas Moulsdde, and to the traveller dong that
part of Oburch-road it disdoses a very picturesque
view of Mersey Park. As showing the oomparaUve
antiquity of some neighbouring bdldings, it may bo
stated that the Black Horse Ion, No. 889, Ohueh-
road, bears a tablet in front inseribed

I M

1767,

While Mr. Bted's farmhouse, a little foither on,

No. 845, the last house in Ohurdi-road, haa a similar

tablet inscribed

1764.

[70]

THE BIDSTON BE0I8TBBS.

(Oontinued from No. 66— June 4.)

A Begister of the Parish of Bidston for the years
1624.

OHUSflNXHCMI.

Bridget Bathbone, orianed the seventh of

November.
Eliaabeth Kempe, the one and twentieth of

December.

(1) Margaret Oarrard, the zvith of Janiaiie.

(2) Ann Taylor, the xiith of Maroh.
WUUam KelUe, the xth of Aprill.
Ellen Ley, the xith of Aprill.

(1). Dangbter o( James GerrMd IHde Waaaing|ia4):^
W* Probably daogbier of Dadal Tayloi (dd« WeMtasif

June, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES-

(3) Peter Ormo, the xiuth of ApriU.

(4) Ann Fells, the zvifch of May.
Oioelie Benet, the Tiiith of Angnst.
Martin Pemberton. the xzixth of AngOBt.
Thomas Tassie, the ziiith of September.

Ghrifitened Ano Domin 1625.

Eatherine Batter, the iiiith of ApriU.

Buried in the P'ish of Bidston Ano Dom 1624.

(5) Anoe QUI, infant, buried the first of Aprill.
John Gobbio, Junior, boried the eighth of

Aprill.
Mary Brereton, bnried the twenty of May.

(6) Eatherine Brereton, bnried the xiith of May.

(7) Thomas Lea, boned the zUiith of Joly.
Henry WiUiamson, buried the last of Joly.
John Urmston, boried the first of Angost.

(8) Anne Fells, boried the viith of Aogoat.

(9) Margaret Anderton. boried the ziith of

Aogost.

ilO) Jane Fells, boried the zzizth of September.
11) Evan Piers, boried the zzyiiith of February.

1625.
Margery Troman, boried the zzvth of Aprill.
Married within the P'ish of Bidston 1624.
William Gorryn and Margaret Gallaway,

ill April.
Thomas Robinson and Jane Gill, the iiii of
Joly.

(12) Btene Fells and Oioely Lysaker, zzy of

November.

(13) James Anderton and Aone Hancooke, zzz

November.

(14) John Erby and Elizabeth Sharplesse, ziii

Febroary.
WUliam White and EUanor Williamson, zzvU

Febroary.
WiUiam Eeile and Margaret Hare, zzvii of

Febroary.

(Appendiz D). There is little to be said of the
Bev. Evan Pibbs, beyond tbe faot that he seems to
have held the Uving from 1610 ontil his death, and
also that he never appears to have been married.

The miserable pittance on wbioh the onfortonate
Inoombent of Bidston, at this period, had to Bobsist,
is brooght forcibly before one by the following
simple docoment from the Probate Court at
Chester : —

** An ioventory of the goodes of Evan Piers, oorate
of Bidston, made ye zzvth day of Aprill, 1625.

Imprimis: Pephos [fpoce] shute [soit], doblet
and breeches and and a frize jerkin ziiiis.

(3). A son of John Orme. of Torbook, by hia wife Anne,
daaghfeer of John Bene!, of Saugball-Massey, by his wife
Klixabeth, daughter of Thomas Polter, of Presoott, Co.,
Lano.

(4). Vid4 barlalB vil Aagasfe same year.

(S). Vide ohristenlngs xx Maroh, 1623 4.

(6). Daaghter of John Brerefcon, of Moreton (vide ohrlsten*
inin zix September, 1617).

(7). Thomas Lea, of Uoreton, veoman. Administration
of his goods was granted on thel4feh of Augast following, to
Klixabeth, his widow and relict ; hispersonalty was valued
by John Pemberton. Wm. Biiiinge. Vvm. Pemberton, John
Tassy, and John Urmston, smyth, on the same day, at
£60 4s.

(8). Vide ohristenlngs xvl of TdAj same year.

(9*. Margaret Anderton, wire of James Anderton {vide
weddings 1614. also wedding xxx November, 1624).

(10). Jane Fells, wife of Stephen Fells {vide wdddlngs 1615,
also wedding xxv November, 1624).

<ll). The Bev. Evan Piers, Perpefeaal Carate of Bidston
{vide Appendix D).

(12). Stephen Fells, son of Miles Fells of Bidston, yeomaa
{vide Note (10) eupra).

(13). James Andertou of mghton [vide Note (9) eupra),

(14). Probably a son l BiJ-iard Irby, of Moreton.

Kem: Two pair of stookinges, one
pair of shooes, one pair of slippe
shoes and a paire of garters <. iiiis.

Item: Two flaxen shirts and three
bands iiiis. Tid.

Item : All his books xs

Summa totalis ...xzxiis * vid.

Bichard Gregory, Praissers :

one of ye witnesses. Wm. Talier.

John Trauian.
Peter Gjll."

JUNE 18th, ' 1892.

[71]

WIBRAL WORTHIES.

IV. SIR ROWLAND STANLEY, KNIGHT.

Rowland, the seoond son of Sir William SUuilej,
of Hooton and Storetoo, by Grace, daughter of Sir
WiUiam Griffiths, of Penrhyn, Chamberlain of N.
Wales, was bora ^ or about 1617. In 1536 he
sncoeeded his elder brother William, in the possession
of the family estates, and became tbe head of the
▼arions branches of the house of Stanley. He
married at a very early age, Margaret, daaghter of
Hagh Aldersey, of Chester, and, according to the
pedigree in Ormerod, widow, of Henry Bnnbnry of
Stanoey, Esq. By this lady yonng Stanley became
the father of two sons, William, afterwards tbe cel^
brated Sir William, of Deventer notoriety, and John,
afterwards a member of the Society of Jesns.
The birth of the elder son was probably about 1534.
By his second wife, Ursula, daughter of Sir Thomas
Smith, of Hough, in the ^antwioh Hundred, he had
two daugbters, Margaret, who became the wife of
Sir John Egerton, of Egerton, and Maxy, who
married fl) John Poole, junior, of Capenhurst, heir
apparent of John Poole, of Poole, Esq., whom he pre-
deceased in 1600, and (2) a gentleman named Browne,
whom I have so far failed to identify. Mary
Browne was buried at Eastham, April 1st, 1638.

Bowland Stanley was knighted on the morrow of
Qoeen Mary's coronation, 1553 (Maohin's Diaiy,
p. 34.) Four years later, the Queen having declared
war against Frauce, in support of her husband
Philip, the French, in retaliation, incited the Scots
to invade England. Levies were hastily raised to
oppose the intended invasion, and Sir Rowland
Stanley's name occurs as captain of a hundred men
in the Cheshire levy (Lodge's Illustratims I. 281.)

In 1560, Elizabeth sent a force under Lord Grey
and a fleet under William Winter, to assist tbe
Scotch Lords of the Congregation against tbe French
troops, brought oyer by the Regent, Mary of Guise.
Sir Rowland served under Qr*^y in this expedition.
(Stowe, Illustrations of Queen Mary's Reiffn, Mait-
land Clnb, p. 82). F. Samdbbs.

{To be continued J.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Juns, 1892.

[72] THB CHAPEL AND PARSONAGE HiLL
OF Id. NICHOLAS, CHESTER.

At a short diitanoe from the centre of Cheater, on
the eastern side of Northgate, a narrow passage
leads to the ancient and now desecrated chapel of
St. Nicholas, which stands in the rear of the street,
and reaches to the Cathedral close. It has been a
Urge and important strnotnre, of which the outer
waUs, west door, and the traces of two or three
decorated wiodows, and others of the later Gothic
fashion, remain. A short distance southward of
this, the parsonage of the chapel is believed to have
stood. The chapel itself was given for the nse of
the parishioners of St. Oswald's Chnrch, when the
site of that edifice was taken by the monks of St.
Werbnrgh's to bnild the great south transept of
their chnrch, now the Cathedral, in the 14th cental j ;
but in the latter part of the 15th century they, the
parishioners, again obtained leave to occupy the
south transept of the Cathedral, which baa
always borne the name of St. Oswald's; and
QntU 1880, when Dean Howson once more added
it to the Cathedral, it was occupied as a
separate place of worship. The chapel of
St. Nicholas, with its appurtenant buildings,
stood just within the sooth-west angle of the great
endoBure wall of St. Werbargh*s Abbey. A plan
made by Raudle Holm, showing the Monastic build-
ings at the date of the dissolution, shows this chapel
and its adjacent buildings, so that we are partly able
to identify what was then standing. Daring the
rebuilding of the premises of a wine and spirit
merchant in Northgate, several cottages and poor
buildings were cleared away, and during the excava-
tions a fine Roman hypocaost was discovered below
the passage, about thirty yards in rear of Northgate,
and th9 fact was duly recorded. A Liverpool
antiquary was the first to observe the exposure of
this relic. When I afterwards went to examine this,
my notice was attracted by a massive piece of oak
framing of early character, and having obtained
permission to ezamiue it, I found it to be the eastern
side of an ancient hall or house which, having been
enclosed by recent brickwork, bad been wholly
forgo Itexi and overlooked, though a valuable re lie of
antiquity. It went by the name of the ** Ohapel "
among those occupying the premises, and was used
as a lumber room. I communicated this informa-
tion to some of the Chester antiqaarians, who did
not know of the bnUdiug. The building had
originally been wholly of timber, most of which
remained sound and in good condition, though poorly
repaired with brick ; and the date of the structure,
judging from the mouldings and style of the roof,
was about a.d, 1320. No other domestic building in
Chester dates so far back as this very perfect
example of a small domestic hall. The edifice was
built in three stories, the lowest being a half-sunk
basement on the same level as the floor of the
Roman hypocaust. Above this was a low but hand-
some room on the level of the row, showing that the
Roman and Medieval cities were nearly on the same
level. The ceiling was divided into square panels
by handsomely moulded beams. At the intersection
of one bay of these, a finely carved rose boss still
remained. At some time in the 17th century these
panels had been enriched with good plaster orna-
ments consisting of flears de lys, with a centre of
delicately wrought scrolls and roses, one of which

was still entire. The room above was, however, the
most interesting ; part of its walls still showed the
ancient framing, with braces formed into pointed
arches at the sides, and to the east were traces of
the original long windows. The fine and massifs
open umber roof was its chief ornament ; it was
frame J with three principals, the southernmost
forme 1 like a depre£sed arch, with curved braces
above the apex, pierced with good flowing decorated
tracery on each side of the kin j post, from which
sprang fore and aft braces from a moulded and
crenelated oorbel. E. W. Cox.

{To be continued.)

[78]

THE BIDSTON REGISTERS.

(Continued from No. 70.— June 11.)

Between the yean 1624 and 1632, no Transoipts
seem to have beeo sent to the Episcopal Registry :
at all events there are none now to be found iMtween
these dates, and so we have to fall back onoe more
on the wills from the Probate Court, in order to
bridge the gap in some degree.

GiLBBBT BLiOEBOBNB, of the Ford [1], in his will
dated 20tb April, 1628, leaves his property to be
divided between his wife [Jane], his eon, John
Blackborne. and his daughtsr, Ann.

Executors: John Blackborne [son of testator]
and Hr. Thomas Parker [of Bidston] .

Debts are due from testator to John Deaae [of
Bidston] . James Wilson, the elder, James Wilson,
the yoonger [of Clanghton], Henry Williamson, of
Glaughton, aud ** my son-in-law, Richard Yoxen.*'

Debts are doe to testator from John Tottie, of
Upton, and '* Oald Thomas Bould."

InvcLtory taken a few days later by John Gill, of
Pulton, Thomas Coventrie, of Enocktorine, James
Wilson, of Ciaughton, and Richard Yoxeon, of
Bebington,

Summa totalis, £101 6s.

RiOHABD Wilson, of Clanghton, oarpenter, in his
will proved in 1629, leaves to James Wilson, his
brother, all his lands, tenements, etc., towards the
" maintaioing and relief " of his wife and children.

Witnesses : Gilbert Wilson,
Wm. Corvin [?]
Richard Runchome.

Inventory valued by Tho0. Bursoowe, of
Thorleton, Jas. Woodward, senior of Clanghton,
Richard Bennet, Thos. Williamson, of ye same
towne yeomen.

Summa totalis, £123 16s. lOd.
Debts unto testator,

Richard Parbott, zxs.

Richard Gregory, Ixvis.

John Benbt, of Saughall-Hassey, who died 28
September, 1631, in his will which is witnessed by
William Maddocke, John Martin, and Robert
Malpas, clerk, mentions his eldest son, Christopher,
his other sons, John, Thomas, and Henry Bennet,
and his daughter, Elizabeth, ** Cosen Robert
Grjse *' and *' Cosen Sherlocke " [probably his

[IJ He oooupied the farm on the right hand iida of the
road as one goes to Upton from Birkenhead.

JuMB, 1892.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

n^hew by inaniage, the Bev. Biehard 8h«rloeke,
R^otor of Woodohnrob] , and his wife, Elizabeth.

Ezeontora: Teetator'e wife, Eltaibeth, and his
sons, ChriBtopher and John.

Mention is made of tbe following fields, "Ger
Hey," " Awebntt Hey," •* nUson Hey," and "land
in the New Car."

The Inventory was made 12 Oot 1631, by Qeor^e
Bonnet, Thomas Kempe, John Mortayue [? Martin]
and Henry Bennet, and in the list of debts owing bj
deceased, are yariona sums, to Wm. Bennet of Irbj.
Biehtrd Bennet of COaoghtoo, and John Totty and
Wm. his son [2].

JUNE 26th, 1892.

[74] THE CHAPEL AND PAB80NAGB HALL
OF BT. NICHOLAS, CHESTEB.

(Oontinned from No. 72— Jane 18).

The Northern end had a similar arrangement, bat
plainer, and the eentral principal was formed into a
fine high pointed aroh. Eaoh pair of tbe rafters was
strengthened by a collar beam, and a monlded
loogitndinal rib ran below them, connecting them
with the principals. The design, thoogh simple, was
▼ery good and was an exceedingly ingenioos piece of
ancient carpentry. No trace was fonod either of
fire place or loaTre above tbe centre of the roof, to
carry away the smoke from tbe hearth that nsoally was
placed in the midst of saeh a hall, apen an appropriate
stone hearth ; bat in the soathero gable there had
been two three«light square windows : the original
molliona and jambs showed they had ne?er been
glazed, and these served to carry off the smoke. This
featnre, ao far as I know, does not exist in any other
ancient halL Below thesonthem principal had been
fixed the screen : the sockets still remained,
apparently fitted for two doorways ihrongh it, and a
still more cnrioas feature was that a similar screen
had divided the first floor room on the same line i
Ums there was a kind of doable hall, one over the
other, a most imasaal and interesting feature. These
rooms had been reached by a staircase on the west
side, now removed, and on the same side were traces
of another large room similar in style to the bidl.

It is greatly to be regretted that the plans of the
alterations did not admit of these remains beiog
left in tihi, and that they were not carefully taken
down for re-ereotion. One of our most enterprising
men of business in Cheshire would have been williog
to do this, and it is hoped that some portion may
Btm be saved.

This age claims to be one of ** culture " and in-
telligence ; professions of regard are lavishly made
for andent art and history. Yet I venture to thick
that no period has been more destructive of ancient
monuments than our own. We respect such thiogs

fS] I MB Indebted to B. IL HanoetBia^ of Livorpool for

this I '

only conditionally, and are not willing to sacrifice
any of them that atand in tbe way of our convenience,
our pleasure, or our interest Even our eathetioism
does not scrapie to (rim into the form of the latest
fashion of taste our priceUss antiquities out of mere
desire to conform them (o modern standards of
beauty or supposed fitness. So St. Nicholas Chapel,
after being a storehouse and a theatre is now a
mosic hall, and its parsonage hall will be a billiard
room and a drinking bar. Now and then, but too
seldom, the voioe of protest is heard to eti^ the losa
of some venerable shrioe. Would that it would
break in as loudly as the roar of the curfew bell that
in that same music hall startled a great
music composer in the midst of a concert, and com-
pelled ten minutes of silence. Well might its waru-
iogyoioeery over thedisbonooring of the past by
those who sacrifice too muoh to the pleasures of tbe
senses. " The day is far spent, the night at hand,
be ye therefore sober and watQh onto prayer."

E. W. Cox.

[76]

PLACE NAMES IN WIBBAL.

(Oontinned from No. 68, June 11.)

IdscABD : From tbe Gadhelio word lU, an earthen
fort ; (io Ireltnd the word is embodied ia some 300
names). Liskeard in Cornwall is no doubt the same
word ; the medieval spelling of both places being
usually Liskert, Lisoart, or laskerret, though the
Wirral ooe was also sometimes spelt Ltskirk and
Liscark.

Bbacoxbk: Canon Isaac Taylor says, ** The word
cwm is frequently used in Wales, where it denotes a
cup shaped depression in the hills. This word in
tbe Saxonised form combe, often occurs in English
local names, especially in those counties where the
Celtic element is strong, thus in Devonshire we have
Ilfracombe, Yarcombe, etc." (Taylor's Words and
Placet, p 151).

PooLTow: Tbe same authority (p 831) says,
"Pool" Welsh pw2, an inlet or pool.

Dr. Veitch, in his History of the Scottish Borders,
says, " of the Celtic root-woids in the valley of the
Tweed, we have .... pol (Irish pol. Arm, poull,
Welsh, pwll) .... Pol, is usually softened into pow,
in the vernacular of the district."

It is interesting to notice that the above three
names are those of the three townships in Wallasey
which, it is generally admitted, means the Walleae
(or Britons) ea (or island).

Cablet: From tbe word caer, a hiIl-fort| and
after srards used to denote the bill itself.

There is an English word ear frequently used in
Cheshire, meaning a damp marshy place, but Oarlet
can hardly be described as damp and marshy.

PooLi: Has been discussed under the bead of
Poolton.

Claughtoik

HOLLT.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

July, 1892.

[76] AN EARLT LEASE OF BIDSTON UALL

FARM.

In Vol. 2107 of the Harleian Mannieripts at the
British Ma8eom, is " An agreement between Richard
Eellie, of LondoD, gentleman, and Wm. Foils, of
Arrovre, in the Ooantie of Chester, yeoman, relative
to the Manor Honse and Furm of Bidetoo." As
reference is made in it to snoh a very local matter
as the Bidston Hill Wind Mill, it is possible that a
short abfitraot may interest some of yonr readers.

The document is dated 10th May. 1609, and
Richard Kellie, on the one part, andertakes to let to
Wm Fells on the other part, ** the Manor Honse of
Bidston and the Oourt and Orchard, and one close
or pasture invironed about with the ston wall, to-
gether with all the parke and lande oalled Bidston
Parke, etc., and the WyndmiUoe Btandinga on the
east syde of the aaid parke upon the ComoDS
thereunto belongiuge, situate anl being in Worrali,
in the Countie of Ohester, and now of late in
the tenure and occupation of the said Riohaid
Kellie, of London, etc., etc., duringe the con-
tinuance ol all such term and intereste as the sd,
Biohard Kellie nowe hath or olaimeth to have
by force j ?J of a certaine Indenture of Lease bearing
date 10 August, xxxviii, late Elizabeth, by and from
the late Right Hon. Margaret, late Oountess of
Derby, and the Bight Hon. William, then and yet
Earle of Derbie, to one Richard Lasher, gentleman,
etc., etc."

The rent of '* £140 to be payde yearlie on the
lOth October " and a chief rent of £88 6b. 8d. to be
paid yearly to the Earl of Derby.

Wm. Fells, on his part ** to keep np all houses,
wails, pales, ditches, fences, etc. " and Wm. Fella to
*' have liberty to marie one dose or pasture called
the midle close, wherein the crosse standeth, con-
tayning 16 acres or thereabonts, the same to be
done and performed this present year 1609."

And ** Wm. Fells to find pasture for 2 geldings
for said Richard Kelly and also lodgings within the
Manor House, of bidston, at such tyme or tymes as
he shall repair or have occasion to come thither."

Witnesses, Richard Hartley,
Wm. Wright.

It would be interesting to find where the Village
Cross stood, which is alluded to above.

Yours, etc.,

OUnghtoo.

WX. FlBQUSBON IfiYINB.

[77] THE BIDSTON REGISTERS.

(Continued from No. 78. — June 18.)

BoBEBT Pbubebton th^ elder of Moreton in bis
will dated 4 Feb. 1631 [1632], mentions his son
Edward Pemberton. daughter Ellen, son Myles
Pemberton, son [in-law] B^bert Gill, and his grand-
child Henry Pemberton, also his grandchild Robert
Member ton.

Meution U made of *' a revereioa of a 'acko which
I ha?e in a field of John Tottie of Upton called
Overohurch Hill," *< another (aeke in Moreton
called the Black LoundeB, also two louodes and the
Pocket Hey which I bonld of Thos. Bathbone." [1]

Besiduary legatee, Bobert Pemberton ; Overseer,
«* my consio Ciiarles Pemberton."

" My grandchild Bobert Pemberton to be bronght
npp with learning at the sohole."

Witness: Wm. Butter, Miles Pemberton, Bio
Bnnoorne, derions.

Debts due to testator from Wm. Kempe, John
Likherland, Bobert Mnlpas, John Toung, and John
Brabon.

Inventory takfn 20th Feb 1681 [163*2] by Poter
Pemberton th* elJer of Upton, Wm. Bei.net the
younger, Wm. Butter of Moreton, and B.ohard Hill
of Wallazey, yeom. Summa totalis £84 80. 4d.

On the ZYth of February 1628 9 the goods of
Arthub Pbm£erton of Moreton, deceased, were
▼aluei by Henry Watt, James Low, Henry Han-
cooke, and Thomas Hand, at £52 6a. Od.,
and administration of them was granted, on the
let May following, to Margery Ptmbertoa, his widow
and relict.

Debts were due testator by Thomas Hand, Robert
Bennet of Brinston, Wm. Buckley and John Martin.

JULY 2nd, 1892.

[78]

WIBBAL WOBTHIES.

iy.->SIB BOWLAND STANLEY, Knight.

(Continued from No. 71— June 18.)

Unlike the Lancashire branch of the family, the
Stanleys of Hooton remained firm opponents of the
reformed religion. They did not besitae, however,
to add to their already large possessions some of
the abbey lands, which at that time were to be
procured at very easy rates, as the original grantees
were, as a rule, ready to dispose of them. But a
friendly relation seems to ha?e subsisted between
the two branches of the family, as we find Sir
Bowland assisiing the chief monmer at the funeral
of Edward, Earl of Derby, in 1672, on which
occasion he and Lord Stourton offered on
the altar the deceased nobleman's coat of arms,
having Clarenoieux, Sling of Arms, before them. —
(Seacombe*9 HUtory of the House of Stanle^t Ed,
1810,1). 111.)

[1] The Black LoandeB, or, as It is now called ** The B laok
Looms," is a field ia Msreton, about 150 yards to the north
of the road leading from Moreton to Saughall-Massey, Jusl
before one reaches the bridge over the Arrowe Brook.

Pooket Hey Is now divided into two parts by the Hoylake
Railway, it is Bltuated almost at the western boandory of
Moreton township.

A • lound," "lend," "loom," or "land,** In Cheshire, Is
nearly synonym ous with the word *' butt,'* and slgnlflea a
strip of land, divided from a similar strip lying besiae It by
some mark, other than a hedge or fence, nBoally by a large
stone ; one field will tomeUmes contain a doaan " lanOii"
let to different tenants.

Jdlt, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

In 1573 th» Eoigbt, " togelhar with bia frleodB,
laboured to obtftin to be High Bheriff of OtaeHhirs,"
bat witboat buoobbe, bIdoo '' be wai doabted to bs a
penoa aDrmpt in religion." It wu moreover
MB«rt«d tbat be saaght ths ihrieTilt; in order to
mlat tbe prooeawfl iuned iguiiBt bim !□ & enit with
blfl wUe; and ^bo to gnmmoD a Jnr; in anatber
aanie wbieh he bid deptudiiig laapMliog the llTing
01 Btibingioa.

Ta oonttol the movementi of her Nortbem
•abjeolB, EUiiabetb ftppoiuted Laid HanlinRdan
Iiord PreiidsDt o( tbe Ooaooil of tlie North, When
Sir Rsnland met ibia Doblemaa " be would not
Tonohatte to Balnte him, barthetiel belike," as bis
etiemj Fletcher oharitabl}' saggeetB, " with a ([oilt of
eODsoienoe." {S<rj,p»'. Grindal, p. 183 ) Whether
HantlDgden allerwaTda Babjeeted Sir Bowland to
the eame BarreiUanoa wbieh ha eierdaed orer Lards
Derby and Snasei doet not appear. To bis otber
poninitt Baiuea aaalgns to the owner ot Hooton that
ot baing a roTar on the aea. He states tbat Sir
Thomaa ((k) Btanley, ol Hooton had, temp. Eliz,,
k privateer on the Heriey. The Ghtlstlaa name
would appropriate the Teaiel to Lord Derb^'B uoond
■on and oonneot it with the meani oaloalated on for
Uary Stnart'i efcape. (« urtJin, p. 99.)

Bj 1576 Bir Bowlaud mnat hate regained his
SoTereign'a eonfldanoe alnoe he beaame Sheriff ot
Ohcahlre in tliat year. Bnt the tteaoheionB oondnot
ot hU lOD, Sir WUilam, who io 1587 betrayed
Derenter to the SpaDiardi, miut hkTS biongbt the
father onea more Dodar the Qneen'e laipioloiiB. It
wai padiapt to afert tbeae tbat he anbiorlbed in
16B8 £100, a large anm In those dayi, towards
oppoilng the Armada.

F. SANSaBB.

\To bt eontinutd.)

[79] THE POOLES OF BEBINQTOK.

(Bee No. 19.— Janaary 38.)

No reply hariag been girea to joni oarreepondeiit

athlng for the lelationabip of the Poolea ol Bebing-

lon 10 the Poolea of Poole, 1 beg to sead the

following Intormation ; —

In Vol. TI. ot the Record Booletj, p 168, ia the
foneral oeitifloite ot Edward Poole, geutlenan,
dated 1618. He ii dsBortbed 4b tbe " eldest Bonne
to Biffe Poole, who wat eeoand Boane to Br WUlm
Poole, EDisht, sonne to Br Ttaomia Poole oI Poole,
intbeUoontj ol Oheeter, Kaight. The aforesaid
Edward Poole was never maryed."

TtiU oertlScate la ilgned by Hugh Poole, and a
hoaimile of hie sigDatnie is gWea la the abors
meotioned volnme. Now on oompiiing tbia eigoa-
tare with eome thirty siKnatareB DlHoRh Poole, wbo
waa Hector ol Bebington from 1603 to 1647, there ia
not the leaat doobt that we see in the hauilwtiling
ot the same peraon. Tbe only poiot to be settled
is tbe niatianahlp ot this Hngb Poola with Edward
Poole. Tbe eeitilleate waa generally algned by the
M«wt telkttn, and tbU Mema to p^t to tbe fast

ol (he two men being btothers. It thia la tbe oaae,
the dBsoent of the Bebingtoa Poolaa from (ha main

stock is made oiear. M.A.

[80] A. NOTE ON DOMSSDAT BOOS.

Wirral, and in aneh a oonneotlon that I bare bean
forced to eonddec it a disneed name tor what Is now
haown as Bromboroogh Pool, thongh I had no
direet eridenee to prove that snob waa tbe oase,

A few days ago, however, in going throngh that
portion of Domesday Book whioh relates to Wirral, I
was inteieated to notice, nnder the head ot Pontone,
[Ponlton-emn-SpittleJ the statement that " Qamel,
who was a Ireemau, held It."

The jutapoBilion of the names ta fnggeative, and
it may be that tbe Pool continned to be oalled by
the nime ol its former owner, 600 yean after he
had ceased to be ita lord.— Ifonn, etc,

OhmghtoD. Wm. FuaosaoH lanHi.

THE BIDBTON HEQISTEB.

(Ocntlnneil from No. 77.-

iaoipiando et Bnendo Marti 3S die Ordine ait de
aeciTODtr.

Baptisat.

(1) Lettioe fiUa Thomae Eempedle 87 Hartia.

(2) QnllelmtiB fillns JacoU Wilaoa 80 Hartit.

(3) Margareta fliia Nathanieli Jonaa, April 6.
Arthnma fllioa Jobannls PembertondieAp.S.
Thomas flllna Jacobi Teatie, UaU die 13.
Oollelmns filins Biohardi Tewda Mail die 30.
Oolielmns filins Oolielmi Holt Hail die Bl.

(4) QolielniDS fllina Qolielml Jones Janii die 19.
Hargareta Qlia Edwardl Boephton Jonll 21.

(6| Pdtma filiuB ObriBtopheri Bennet, Aagoet 19.

(0) MarUfiliaJohannia WilloookeS^tembriaSO.

JohanncB filias Thomae Pembeiton Ootobria

11.

Wllliim Pirboll. 0( BLditor
Bubtldy leilad in IMi, t,al

(pcobablr Ibe AiUiar ment .

— . ■"•■•'« taim la BtOiMa now odobpIm

\at Leltloe Bempi' will IWS).
iger ol CUngbloD i,viiU Wm,
I Henrr Jaae^ laM ot Billion
lOQ at HencT lonei, lata ot
ot Saastaall.Hanex, Harriet
h-lieireti ot Qanrr P"-" "■

ld?l0li:'!ia'la%i>lill --

ir aatlqnltr in tbe Puiab; ■-

AiUrai Parboil

r Ooner, ol

lunllT «
a tor iba
tta^ten,oc b

r Hr.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

July, 1892.

(1) Helena filU Tbomae Madooke Novembris 20.
Tbomaa filios Oalielmi Dod, Deoembrifl 9.
Helena filia Johannia Harrison, Decembris 16.
Alies filia Jacob! Anderton, Deoembrie 80.
Helena filia Jobannie Erbie, Jannarii die 7. e
Margeri filia Johannie Wilcook et M argari

Bimner, Jannarii die 12.

(2) CarolQB fllioa Thomae Parker, Jannarii 22.
Anna fiUa Randnlpbi Oowleye Martis die 24.

BepuU.

Alio Pemberton die Martis 27.
Biohard Jarrttt April die 1.
Thomas Bathbone Jonii die 18.
Jane Holme Ootobris die 2.
Elizabetha Goodiker Ootobris die 9.

(3) Maria Wiloooke Pecembris die 28.
Margerie Coppook Martis die 12.

(4) Helena Maddocke Martis die 19.

Napt.

Matrimonim' solemnizata' foit inter
Johannem Bennett et Margaretam Whitlinge
ambo de bac Paroohia, Ootob die 21.
Gabriel Bordman, onrat.
Thomas Williamson ) gnardiani.
Thomas Bmjtb j eolisie.

JULY 9th, 1892.

[82]

WIBBAL WOBTHIEB.

IV.-SIB BOWLAND STANLEY, KNIGHT.

(Oontinoed from No. 78— Joly 2nd.)

The critioal condition of Boman Oatholios under
Elizabeth had foroed Sir Bowland to make some
settlement of his estates seyeral years before the
treason of his son ; but he does not seem to have
entirely relinqnished the possession of them, as
Ormerod supposed.

When over 80 years of age Sir Rowland oontraoted
a third marriage with Joan Brown of Oapenhnrst
(Jane 23rd, 1699). This lady survived him, and
took as ker second husband Henry Stanley, a
natural son of Henry, fourth Earl of Derby.

Sir Rowland lived to extreme old age, being
reputed to be the oldest knight in England. His
son, Sir William, indeed sarvived him in sad exile,
but the old man saw his grandnon laid in the family
tomb, and was succeeded in his estates by his great
grandson, William, a lad of about seven years.

Our knight, who died at Oldfleld, in the parish
of Heswall, was buried at Eastham on April 23rd,
1614, at the a^e of about 96. A brass to his memory

(\,) Vidt Barlali xiz M irch same year.

(2.) Mr. Thomas Pa' ker, as he la usually describes, was
Lord Derby's steward al this time for his Bldston and
Wallasey properly, and probably Uved In Ihe Hall ; one
of his daoghtera, Oharlotle, married Thomas Meoles, of
Ueoles. Bsqaire. ....

(8.) FMs OhrisleDlBCB «x Beplember same year.

(4.) FMs Obrlsteniiigs zx November same year.

let into a tomb of a later date is carefully preserved
in the church. It bears the following inscription :
*< Herelifth the body of Sir Bowland Stanley of
Hutton, Kt., who deceased the 6th day of Aprill,
Anno Dni 1613 (it should be 1614) and was here
buried the 23 day of the same moneth in the years
of his age 96.*'

A full abstract of his will has been printed by Mr.
Earwaker in the Cheshire Sheaf, June 10, 1891.

In the name of Gad Amen, the 27th January, 1618
(14) I Sib Bowlano Stanlbt of Oldfield, Oo.
Obester, Ent. being in good health. My body to be
buried aithin my chapel at Eastham Ohuroh. All
my debts funeral expenses and legaoies shall be
paid oat of all my goods and chattels. I will
that the sum of £140 shall be bestowed upon my
funeral in blacks and other funeral rites, and to be
given to my children, nearest kinsfolk, servants, and
Uie poor. I bequeath to my son John Stanley 40s
to buy him a ring. I give to my daughter Mary
Browne my ring a signet with the hart's head. To
my daughter Anne BurroweB 40s to buy her a ring.
To my eossen Anne Stanley 60b to buy her a ring.
To my oosseu (i.e. his great grandson) WiUiam
Stanley t son of William Stanley, late of Hooton
Esq. deceased, one gilt oup of plate in the case
with the scollops shell, my cross of gold which my
son Sir William Stanley sent me, and also my seal
of arms. 1 give to William Btnnet and Richard
Brooke my servants, if in my service until my
decease, either of them £5. To John Anglizer for
his honest faithful service to me done £10. To my
senrants William Spreeley and Bartholomew Sprecley
if in my service tiil my decease either of them 40s.
After my funeral ezpencee performed and my debts
and legacies paid, I give all the rest of my goods
&o real and personal to Dame Joane Stanley now my
wife and make her solo extcatrix.

" Aod for the better execution hereof I make and
ordain my loviog friends, Edward Qlegge. of Gayton,
Esq., and William Glegge, of Grange, Esq., over-
seers of my said will, aud I give to either of them
one broad silver boule gilt, and to either of them a
mourning cluak."

These being witnesses.

[not signed by the testator.]

Edward Glegge,

Willm Glegge,

William Glegge de Geaton,

George Bennet,

John Anglizer,

Biohard Brooks, his marks B.B.

Preyed 11th May, 1614, by the sole executrix.

Besides his legitimate children, Bir Bowlaid
had a son Edward Isee No. 1, January 2], whom, cu
the authority of Motley, I have identified with a
famous English soldier. F. Bamdibs.

July, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES

[88] THB SUBSIDY ROLL OF 1625.

I propose to land you an extract from the Sab-
My Boll of 1625, oonteining the names of all the
Wirral oontribntore. These names will show who
were as that dale the persons of most importanoe
and wealth in the hnodred, and the amoant^s which
they were required to pay. The oommissiooers
appointed to collect the money were four in number,
▼is. :— Sir Henry Banbnry, Sir William MasBie,
Henry Birkenhead, Esq., and William Glegg, Es).

Their names and eontribations head the list.

/ Henry Bnnboiy Miles

in terr xli . • . . zls.
Willimns Massie Miles

in terr xli •• .. xls.
Henricns Birkenead, ar

in terr ItU • • . . xtIb.
William Glegg, ar

in terr xls . . . • Tiiis.

COKMISSIORBBS

XllS,

▼iils. Tiiid.
▼ills. Tiiid.

xiis.

?iii8.

Wallabit.

^nillmns Meoles, gen' in terr iiili
Johes Robinson in bonis iiili ys . .
Johes Smyth in bonis iiili ts • .

LlSOABT.

Peter Bawley in bon ytli [7. 6. 8 exd] (1) xiiis ivd.

Pulton ou* sect;'.

Johes Litberland gen* in terr xls . • . . Tiiis.

Johes QUI gen' in terr xxxs vis.

Henricns Bird in bon iiili Tiiis.

Thomas Dobb in bon mil Tius.

Mbolxs Maoha.
Miles Pemberton in bon iiiili xs

Mbolib Pabta.

Thomas Wright in bon iiili

(3) HouuB.
HenrioQS Dalbie in bon iiili viiis.

WXST ElBBIB.

Thomas Rabnme in bon tU . . xiiis. iiiid.

Gbamqb.

Willimns Ooventry in bon uill [8. 19. 4. exd] (1)
Tiiis.

Nbwton CX7 Larton.
WUlimns Newbott in bon UiiU . • xs Tiiid.

Qbbsbib.
Bobtos Tonnge in bon iiiili . . . . xs Tiiid.

Ftbamxbie.

Thomas Babnme in bon iiili Tills.

Oauldbt.
Henricns Pemberton in bon tU . . xiiis iiiid.

Thubstznoton.

(3) Johes Wbittmore in terr iiiili . . xs Tiiid.
Simon Warton in bon tII . • . . xiiis iiiid.

(1) The amoanta in sqaare brackete are added In a
different hand from Ihat of (he s'^rlbo of Ihe docament.

(2) Honlae— Hooee, now Hoylake.

(3) In the original. afierihe name "Johes Whlllmore.**
ocmes khe word **ar'* [armlger— esquire], bal (be same
hand that added tbe amounts In braokots has drawn hia
pen throngh this detoription of Mr. Whiimore,

AND QUERIES. 47

BlDSTON. '

(1) Johes Deane in bon iiili xs . • ixs iiiid.

Sauohall Mabbey.

Joh38 Bennett in terr xis . • . . . . iUis.

Henrioos Bennett in bon iiili • . . . Tiiis.

Johes Pemberton in bon iiili . . . . Tiiis.

WlUimas Billinoh (BUlinge) in terr xxs . . iiiis.

MOBBTON.

Miles Pemberton in bon iiili . . . . Tiiis.

Willimns Bennet in bon iiili . . , . Tills.

Clauohton ou' Gbanob.

Jaeobns Willson in bon tU [5. 16. 0. exd] (1)
XlllS uud.

Upton.

Petms Bonld gen* in terr iiili . • • . xiis.

Thomas Bennett in bon iiili Tiiis.

Bions Gill in bon iiUi Tills-

Ibbib.

Willimns Ball in bon iiiU tUIs.

Thomas Yoonge in bon iiili Tiiis.

OXTON.

Thomas Pemberton in bon iiili . . . . Tiiis.

Enocktobum.
Thomas OoTOotry in bon iiili zs . . ixs iiiid.

WoonoHUBOH.

Jaeobns Hancooke in bon iiili xs • • ixs iiiid.

(2) Lanoan.

Thomas Leene in bon iiili Tiiis.

Arthnros Hay in bon iiili Tills.

Abrowb.

Nicholas Birkble in bon iiili Tills.

Fbbnton.

Johes Hookenhnll ar, in terr tU . . • • xxs.
Henricns Bosin in bon iiili • Tiiis.

Tbanmbbb.

Qeorgins Langford gen in terr xxs . • • • iiiis.
Willimns Willson in bon iUli .. .. TiUs.

W. Febousson Ibtinb.
(To he continued, J

♦

JULY 16th, 1892.

[84]

WIBBAL OOW OHABITIES.

(See No. 80— March 12th.)

Mr. Qoodaore*s example in beqneatbing eat tie to
the poor of Woodohnrch fonnd an imitator in Dr. .
Biobard Sherlock, rector of Winwiok, one of the
beat known diTines of bis time. He was a natiTe of
Woodohnrch, and I hope before long to inolnde an
aoconnt of him among yonr Wirral Worthies. In
1677 he gSTe £50 for tbe porpose of providing cows
for the township of Uxton. His deed of gift which
I haTe extracted from the parish books of Ozton is as
follows : —

To all Christian people nnto whom this writing
shall come, I Biobard Sherlock, Doctor of Divinity,
and rector of the high church of Winwiok, in the

(1) John Deane ocoapled a farm al the Ford.

(2) Lancon— Landioan.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIEB.

July, 1892.

ooantj of Lanosater, send greeting. Know yon that
I the said Riohard Sberloek oot of the a£Fectioii which
I baye aod bear UQto the inhabitaDtB of the town of
Ozon in the hnodred of Wirral in the couDty of
Ohester^ and noto the poor people born within that
township have given and by fcheee preaeotB do freely
give the sum of Fifty Poands of carrent English
money stock to their ase and according to such con-
ditions as is herein and hereby mentioned and ex-
pressed, videlicet,

1. That fifteen cows be bought by the feofifees
hereafter mentioned, and by them disposed into the
hands of the poorer sort of 4be inhabitants of the
town of Ozon.

2. That no person shall have or eojoy the use
and benefit of any of the said cows, bat soch as are
bom within the said town of Ozon.

8. That no person enjoying the use of any of the
said cows ehall sell or exchange the cow withoat the
consent of the said feofifees or the major part of
them first bad and obtained.

4. That no person enjoying any of the said cows
if they remoYe oot of the said town, shall carry the
said oow or cows into another lordship, but shall
deliver them np to be disposed by the said feofifees
to other persons that do reside and dwell in the town
of Ozon.

6. That every person or persons enjoying any of
the said cows shall, apon the Feast Day of St. Mark,
yearly bring them into the court or yard belonging
to my father's honse there to be viewed aud disposed
of by the stid feofifees onto snch persons as shall be
in most need.

6. That every cow shall be bnrnt in the farther
horn with these letters, B.S.

7. That every person enjoying any of the said
cows shall give meeting to the said feofifees apon the
aforesaid Bt. Mark's Day, and pay for every cow
two shillings and sixpence yearly as the hire thereof.

8. That no person shall lay claim to any of the
said cows, as if, by several years' possession, they
were as good as their own, which to prevent, the
possession of every cow shall yearly be sarrendered
and yearly disposed of by the said feofifees, either to
the same persons for the year following, or to others
ai their discretion.

9. That the said feofifees shall have oat of the
said stock of the said cows fife shillings yearly, to
pay for their dinners when they meet to view the
said cows.

10. That the hire of the said .cows shall be de-
posited into the hand of one of the said feofifees
chosen by themselves, and that every year a new
election shall be made of a Treasarer of the stock.

If.S.
{To be continued.)

[86]

THE BIDSTON REQISTEBS.
(Oontinned from No. 81.— Jaly 2).
(Anno Domini, 1631.)
Christeninqs.

(1) John, ye son of Thomas Parker, Aprill 6 h.
Ann, ye daaghter of John Ords, Aprill 25th.

(2) William, ye son of John Parr, May 7th.

"Tl) Mr. Tbomaa Parker, of Bldston Hall. Vide note (9)
1632, tupra.
(2) John Parr, flled I6th Feb. 1670. q. v.

(1) Ellen, ye daughter of Christopher Bennett,

bapt. May zi.

(2) Robert, ye son of John Pemherton, May 15th
An, daaghter of Thos. Maddocke, May 15tb.

(3) Samael, son of John Wilcooke, Jane 15th.
(i) Joseph, ye son of Richard Lynaoer, Jane 22nd

(5) Thomas, son of James Woodward, Aag. 10th.

(6) Margaret, daaghter of Wm. Bennett, Aag. 24.
Ellen, daaghter of Myles Pemherton, Oct.zitb

(7) William, son of James Upsbon, Oct. first.

(8) George, ye son of Wm. Martyn, Nov. 6th.

(9) Anne, daaghter of James Wilson, Nov. 25th.

(10) Margery, daaghter of Arthar Parbat, Nov. 26.

(11) Alice, daaghter of Bapb Rollison, Mar. 8th.

Weddings, 1634.

(12) Richard Lathe and Elizabeth Simpson, marr.

ApriU 26th.

Richard Woodworth and Elisabeth flfoster,
marr. May ziih.

(13) Thomas Lynaker and Margaret Moasop,

marr. Jane 25th.

(14) John Pemherton and Elizabeth Gill, marryed

Jaly 10th.

Henry Goldacre and Alice Addison, marr.
Sept. ye 4th.

Thomas Sconce and Ellen Willoocke, marr.
Nov. 25th.

(15) Robert Whyteside and Anne Moreoraft,

Janaary 7th.

BUBULLEB, 1634.

Alice, ye daaghter of Thomas Haneooke, bar.

Aprill 19.
Anne Erby, baryed Aprill ye 22Qd.
Henry Lathe, baryed May ye 23rd.

(16) Samael Wilson, baryed Jaly ye zth.
Ellen Martine, baryei November ye 6tb.
Jone Laoge, baryed Jauaary ye 5th.
Riohard Erby, baryed January 27th.

(17) Robert Pemherton, baryod March ye 8th.

(18) Alice RoUison, baryed March ye 13th.

(1) Christopher Bennes. of Saaffhall Uasaey, by his wife
Elisabeth dan and co-heiress of Henry Coney, of Parkside,
Coanty Lancashire. Vide note (5) 1632 iupra,

(2) Vide burials, March 8th, same years.

(3) Of the Ford, he occupied a farm on the lefl hand side
of the road as one goes towards Upton.

(4) Riohard Lynaker Junior, he signed the Cheshire Be-
monstrance at Bidston, in 1642.

(5) James Woodward, of ClaaRhton: he died In 1612,
aamini>iration of his goods was granted on lOlh Jaly of that
year to his eldest sou John.

16) William Bennett, of Moreton.

(7) James Upshon. Blgned Cheshire Bemonatranoe at
Bidston in 1642.

(8) Qeorge Martin lived (0 be 62 years of age. Vide
burials 27th March, 1696.

(9) James Wilson, the younger of Claaghlon.

(10) Vide note (7) 16S2 »upra.

(11) Vide burials IJth March, same year.

(12; Kiciiard Lathe, signed Cheshire fiemonsftranoe at
Bidston 1642.

(I5j ihomas-Linaker, probably of We^t Klrby Parish; a
Thomas Linakf^r signed the Cheshire Remonstrance al
West Kirby in 1642.

(11 J John Pembcrton, probably of Qreat Ueoles.

(15) Robert Wbiteeide of Bidston.

(16 Vide christenings. 14th November. 1832.

(17) Vide christenittgs, May 15th, same year.

(16 Vide chrlbtening!!, AJarch 8th, same year.

July, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUBMEB.

Begister of all ye ehristeDiiigs, weddings, and
bnrialB within the Parish of Bidston for ye year 1636,
ending March ye 25th daye.

Chribtininos.

(1) ThoB. Bonne of Edwarde Sepbtonne,

March 27th.
Hester, daughter of Biobard Ewds. Aprill 17th
Miles, son of Richard Pembertoo, Jone 26tb.
ObarloB, sonne of Thomas Pemberton, Jaly 5th
William, sonne of Thomas Goodiker Jaly 10th.
Elizabeth, daughter of Balph Bowlinson,

Angnst 7th.
Margaret, daughter of John Troman Angast 8.
Ellen, daughter of William Bennet Oct. 18th.

^ M^arTt^ } *^^°®* ^' '^°^'* ^'^' ^^^- ^•

(2) Snsanne, daughter of Thos. Parker Not. 20.
Robert, sonne of John Dod, Dec. 9th.
Ellin, daughter of Thos. Martin, Feb. 6tb.
Allioe, daughter of Arthur Parbolt, Mar. 16 h.

(3) ADioe, daughter of Henry Ten jett, Mar. 22ud.

Wbdoimos.

(4) Thomas Donne and Elizabeth Wilson, Feb.

17th day.

BUBIALU.

(5) Thomas, sonne of Edward Sepbton, Har. Slat.
Marie Blanehet a travelow [tra?eUer] April 9.
Thomas, sonne of James Bennett April 30th.

(6) Margerie, daughter of Arthur Parbott May 22.
Joann, wife of Gilbert Pemberton, June 19.
Robert, sonne of Thomas Urmaton, Feb. 2nd.

(7) William Bennet, Mvch 1st
Marie Tulgo Windle, March 8th.

Qabriel Bordman, Ourat.
James Woodworth)

William Bennet )

Quardiani.

[86] QUERY.

In the Eastham Register of Burials, under the
date July 20tb, 1608, occurs the name of <' Ladle
Elizabeth Olyffe." Can any Cheshire genealogist
give me any information as to this lady ? F.S.

JULY 23rd, 1892.

[87] THE SUBSIDT ROLL OF 1625.

(Oontinned fh>m No. 8d~July 9tb.)

Babnbston.

ThomaB Bennett in bon iiili . •

HWmuB Bennett in bon iiili

.. YUIB.

• . viiis.

1) Vide barf all, March zzzl, same year.
(3) Vide notes (9) and (1), 1632 and 1634.

(3) Alice, daagnler of Henry Bennelt of Saaghall Uaasey,
by bis wife Johsn, daughter of Robt. ¥oange of Oreaseby:
sne married In 167S Thomas Maddock of Saughall Massey,
by whom she had a sob Peter, who was married at Bidston
In 1711. (Q V),

(4) Thomas Donne, of Poolton In Wallasey.

(5) VVie christenings, March xztII, same year.

(6) Vide christenings. November xzvl, 1634.

(7) William Bennett of Moreton, yeoman ; on the 13th Jane,
In this year, administration of his goods was granted to his
widow SUen. William Bennett was the son of Wm. Bennett
o MoretoD who died in 1594 ivide his will ander that date;.

Thtngwall.

Robtns Dallamore in bon iiili •• .. yiils.

Stoubton.

Adamns Orabtree in bon iiili . . . . Yllis.
Thomas Sharpe in bon iiili viiiB.

Bbinston (Brimstage.)

Andreua Taylor in bon vli [9. 8. 0. exd] xiiis iiiid.

Ou' BSBINOTON.

Rioua Tookson in bon iiili Tiiis.

Jeffridas Hey in bon iiili viiis.

LowBB Bbbikoton.

Johes Huntington in bon iiili . . • , Tiiis.

Pultom-cd'-Spittell.

EdruB Greene gen' in terr zxs . . iiiis.

Edrus Brisooe in bon yli . . . • ziiis iiiid.

Hbbwall.

Robtns Bennett in bon iiili Tiiis.

Rions Bennett in bon iiili . • . . . . Tiiis.

Gkttom.

Willmus Qlegge ar, in terr iiUi . . . . ziis.
Willmus Preeson in bon iiili • • . . viiis.

Oboughtoh.

Rious Oulton in bon iiili viiis.

Stokb.

Thomas Oarrington in bon iiili . , . • viiis.

Stannbt.

Johes Grace in bon iiili viiis*

Whitbib.

Thomas fl^owe in bon vli zs [6. 9. 4. exd] xivs
vUid

Ohoblxton.

Willmus Ashton in bon vli . . • • xiiis iiiid.

BACK70BO.

Nicholas fforster in bon iiili.. •• .. viiis.

Lba.

Thomas Gleasor in terr xls. • • • • • viiis.
Petrus Ooppooke in bon iiili • . • . viiis.

MOLLINOTON TOBRITT.

RioQB Ck>ventrey gen in terr zlvis viiid izs iiiid.
Willmus Barlowe in bon iiili vs . . viiis viiid.
Rions Harrison in bon iiiU vs . . viiis viiid.

MOLLINOTOM BaBNBSTBB.

Thomas Peirson in bon iiili [8. 12. 0. exd]
viiis

{To be Continued.)

[88] LADY ELIZABETH OLYFFB.

(See No. 86— July 16th.)

In reply to the question of F.S. as to Lady
Elizabeth Clyffe, I send you an extract which I
recently made from the Harleian pedigree of the
Olives of Huxley. '* Geo. Olyffe of Huxley milee m.
— fili<i— Copinger Esq. quae postea renupt John
Poole of Poole." No date is given, but the marriage
must have taken place after 1587.

WIREAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

July, 1892.

In the pedigree of the Olives ^iTen in Ormerod,
ike lady is called Sasanna, and is deeoribed as the
daughter of Henry Oopinger Esq.

HOLLT.

[89] THE BIDSTON REQISTEBS.

(Oontinned from No. 85— July 16tb.)

A Register of all and singnlar weddings ohristen-
ings and bnrialla as have been within the Parish of
Bidston in the year of Christ 1688.

(1) Mr. Thomas Meoles and Maigerie lather-

land, married July 31st daye.
William Woodfloe and Katharine Hough,

married November 30th.
William Erbie and Marie Rymmer, married

ftebraary 27.

OHBZSTXHINaiB.

Margerie Jones, May 10.
Anne Williamson, Jane 10.
Alioe Bnierton, Jnlie 8.
Hargrett Hiocook, Julie 22.
John Upshon, Sept. 19.
Robert Johnes, October 2*^.
Alles Lioaker, December 16.
William Dode, December 16.
Elizabeth Pembertonn, December 23.
Henrie Pinchist, Jann 1.
Alice Jocksonn, faebm 2.
Henrie Pembertonn, faeb 9.
Bicharde Willsonn, faeb 14.
James Bobineonn, March 8.
Bobert Bowlinne, March 15.
Edward Oweley, March 17..
Thomas Bennett, March 14.

(2)

(8)

BuaiALLB.

Thomas Newport, March 26.
Oicely Fells, March 28.
William Holt, March 31.
Ann Harrison, April 4.
Katherine Parr, May 6. '
Anne Urmeton. Septem 21.
John GiU, Octob 1.
Bobeit Williamson, Ootob 24.
Ann Oarr, Jannri S.
Alice Watte, Jannri 29.

(5) Margrf t Hiocooke, Jannri 30,
Anne PinglBt, Faeb 5.
Peter Jeff, Faeb 7.

(6) Henry Pinchist, Faeb 15.
Anne Bennett, Faeb 28.
Margaret Addison, Faeb 28.

(1.) Ur. Thofl. Meoles. eldest ron of Wm. Heoles, of
Meoles, Esqalre, by his wife, Eleanor, daughter of Thomas
Banbury, of Stanney, Bsqaire; he marriea aboat 162S, for
bis first wife, Margery, daaghter of John Gill, of Poolton.
This Margerie Lltherland, his second wife, was widow of
Mr. BowlandLitherland, ox Wallasey, and 5th daaghter of
Edward Greene, Esqaire. of PouUon<Lanoelot ; she sur>
viyed her second hasband (who aled in 1640) and married
for ber third hasband a Mr. Lloyd of Anglesey,
(2.) Vide burials zzz January same year.

Vide burials zv Febrnary same year.

Vido burials viil April, 1639.

Vide christenings xxli July samn year.

VUU christenings 1 January same year.

(5.)

Katherine Bennett, March 4.
Jone Thomasson, March 6.
Elizabeth Bashell, March 18.
Richard Qili, March 20.

[90]

PLAGE NAMES IN WIBBAL.

(Oontinned from No. 75— Jnne 25th.)

In Wirral, as in most parts of England, a large
majority of place names are of Anglo-Saxon, or to
speak more accurately, English origin.

Shortly after iBthelfrith's victory at Ohester in 618,
Wirral must have been colonized by the Tiotorions
Northnmbrians, and from that date nntil the advent
of the Norsemen, early in the ninth oentnry, the
English probably held it in comparative qnietneas.

Their first settlement seems to have been at
WiLLASTOK, which gavc its name to the Hnndred.
Until the beginning of the present oentnry, it was
nsnally described as ** Wirral or Willaston Hnndred*'
From this centre, tbe early colonists threw ont a
branch station towards the East and called it
Easthau, and followed it by a fnrttier development
in a Bontherly direction to Sutton, or the south
town. HxNDBRTON donbtlcBS marks their next
extension, this time towards the West, and Bubtoh,
or ai we should call it now, The Btokyard {Words
and Plaet p. 79), was probably an outlying home-
sead from the parent settlement.

Stokb, or the stockaded place, situated as it was
on tbe borders of the wild moors and marshes of
Inoe and Frodsham, would need the protection ci its
fortifications against the wild beasts which made their
lair in the surrounding waste, if not against the
unsnbdned Britons who may still have occupied the
marsh-bound islands of Ince, Elton and Thornton,

The two MoLLiNOTONS, or Mill towns, (spelt in early
documents Milneton, Mulneton, and in Domesday
Molintone) are undoubtedly English.

Capsnhubst, would also fall naturally into tbe
same category, if it were not for Domesday's curious
spelling of the same, v»., Oapelles. This spelling
may, however, almost certainly be put down as the
error of a Norman official, since in a document dated
1809, as well as in many later ones, the name is
written Capenhurst.

The two Sauohalls, near Ohester (spelt Solhare
in Domesday, bat Salghal in most 181 h and 14th
century documents), Puddinoton, (Domesday
Potintone, in documents dat^d 1315, jPodynton)^
liEiaHTON, (D., Lestone, 1310 to 1350, Leychtone^
Leffherton, and Leghton), Gatton (D., Gaieton, 1359,
Gayton)^ Habgrave, (D., Haregrave, 1300 Hargrave),
Stannet, (D., Stannei, 1278 Staney), Lsdsham (D.,
Leveisham, 1364, Leuedesfiam) , Choblbton, Lea
CaouoHTON, Oldfxbld, and Ltdutb, form a gronp
in South Wirral, which one may with tol^ble
certainty describe as Eoglish.

The early forms of Ledsham (Levetsham and
LenedeBham) are interesting when one finds from
Domesday that the English owners of the neigh-
bonriog manors of Prenton and Bamston, were Leu-
vede and Leviett, no doabt descendants of one of the

June, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND" QUERIES.

early Norfchnmbiian ooloniBts, who planted the
"ham" or home-town of bia family in the heart of
Wirral, and called hia land after his own name.—
Yonn, etc., Hollt.

Olaoghtoa.

JULY 80th, 1892.

[91]

WIBBAL OOW CHABITIES.

(Cootlnaed from No. 84— Jnly 16th.)

11. That the men whom I nominate and empower
to be OYerseera to the OTereeen and diaposera of
theee cows as feoffeea accordingly are and ahall be
the Beotor of Woodohoroh tJwaye for the time
biding, Bobert Ohantrell, of Knootornm in the
county of Oheeter, gentleman, Nathaniel Wilson of
Barton in the conoty of Ohester, yeoman, and
Thomas Sherlock of Winwick in the connty of
JLianoaater, yeoman.

12. That npon any of the new feoffees dying, I
do hereby empower the major part of the samTing
feofCeee to elect another in the room of the pturty
deceased.

18. Ihat no person enjoying any of the said
cows shall at aoy time hereafter be elected or chosen
to be a feoffee.

14. That the hire of the said cows with what may
be either by myself or any other in charity added
therennto ^lall be employed, JirBt to maintain the
fall number of Fifteen Oows, and afUrwardt to the
relief of any such person within the said township
and to binding approutice poor children born therein
according to the discretion of the Treasurer with
the cousent of any two of the said feoffdes, with
respect had to the continuanoe of euffioient stock to
maintain the aforesaid nomber of cows, all which
conditions I do hereby require the feoffees in trust
to see them faithfully observed to the intent that
thia my gift of charity to the poor people of Oxon,
the placo of my birth, may endure and continue
towards their relief. In witness whereof I have
hereunto put my Hand and Seal the twenty-fifth day
of April, in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of
oor most gracious sovereign Iiord, King Oharles the
Second. iUchard Sherlock.

The funds arising from this charity are now
expended in coals, all demand for cows having
ceased in the township of Oxton. JT.S.

[93] PLAGE NAMES IN WIBBAL.

(Oontinaed from No. 90^Jaly 28.)

Qoiog farther up the Wirral, one finds EngUsh
settlements at Stobbtom. Bibxnoton, Pbxnton
(Domeaday» Prestune, 18ch century documents.

Prentune)t Woodohuboh, Oxton, OLiuonroM, Wool-
ton, Upton. Sidston, Ovbbobuboh, Mobiton,
SAuaBALL-MASsxT, Nbwton, astd Labtoh.

Wirral at this remote period seems to have been
well supplied with ehnrches ; North Wirral enjoyed
fonr, Woodchurcb, Overchnrob, and the two which
in the Norsemen's eyes gave the distinctive features
to the settlements at the extreme comers of the
Wirral, and induced them to call both places Kirkby
or Ohnrchtovn, though to distinguish them they
named the one West Kirby and the otlier Kirkby in
Walea, now Wallasey. Bromborongh also seems to
have been possessed of a church from a very early
period, making five ehnrches within a comparatively
small area, and no doubt the rest of Wirral was
equally well supplied.

Perhaps the most interesting English names in
North Winal are Moreton and Overchurch ; M oreton
meaning the " Town on the mere," and Overchurch,
** the Church on the shore " (vide Wordt and Plaeu
p. 881).

Until the Burkenhead Docks were built 60 years
ago, the high tides coming up Wallasey Pool used to
spread over the Bidston marsh, as far aa the
boundary between Moreton and Bidston, and a
week's heavy rain would flood 8,000 acres of the low
lying lands np to Hoylake.

That theae 8,000 acres, which are all below the
level of high water, were the bed of a tidal lagoon a
thoosand years ago, is proved oondnsively, not only
by the nature of the sou, but also by the field names
which, without exception, indicate the fact that they
have been reclaimed (some comparatively recently)
from the marsh.

The following are a few examples of these field
names, Oxholme, — "holm" meaning an island in a
river or near the shore, e.^., Flatholm, on the Severn,
Linghoim, on Windermere, — Big Holme, South and
North Holm, Holme Hay, Holme Itch, Holme In*
take, and Liogholme, or as it is sometimes written
Lingham, (near the Leaiowe Lighthouse) ; Carr — a
middle English word meaning a marsh, — Old Oarr,
New Carr, Sanghall Oarr, Newtoo Oarr, Moreton
Oarr, Moory Fiaftgs, Land Pool, Dr^e Hooks, Big
and Little Ley Hook, — Hook being afieldjatting
out into a lake,— The Moss, the Town Moss, The
Lords Moss, The Moss Hay, The great salt thwaite,
The Pingle, the little Piogle, Pingle meaning an
enclosure entirely surrounded by deep ditches or
drains, etc., etc. ; there is also a lane leading from
Moreton to Lingholme, which, in a survey dated
1665, is called The Lake Way.

It is a significant fact, as showing at how com-
paratively late a period these islands in the mere
came under cultivation, that **holm" ia a Norse
word.

Hollt.

(To he continued.)

WIRBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

July, 1892.

[93] THE SUBSIDY BOLL OF 1625.

(OoBtinned frem No. 87.— Jaly 88.)

Sauohall P'ua«

Jaoobos Doe in terr xzfis Yiiid • • ' ts iiiid.
Bicos Barlowe in ban iiili zs • • iu iiiid.

SAuaHiLL Magna.
Bioni Ohamblene in bon iiiiU • • ze viiid.

Shotwioki.
Thomas Whitehead in bon yli • • ziilfl iiiid.

WoODBANOSa.

Thomas Hiooooke in bon iiiili . • za viiid.

Oapxnhubst.

Thomas Heeketh in bon iiili •« .. viiis.

Thomas Harrison in bon iiili •• •• viiis.

PUOOINOTON.

Johes Bobinson in bon iiUi [8. 18. 4exd] viiis.

BUBTON.

Thomas Browne in bon tU . . • • ziiis iiiid.

NaasB.
Johes llilner in boD Yli .. .« ziiis iiiid.

LiTTLB NaSTON.

Johes Oottingham in bon yli • • ziiis iiiid.

Neston MAaRA.

Johes Sharps in bon iiili ts. • • • viiis Tiiid.
Andreas Blaoon in bon iiiU ts yUIb viiid.

LaiOHTON.

Willmns Whittmore ar in terr vli . • . . zzs.
Lawrentins Woodes in bon iiili . • • . Tills.

Thobnton floUGH.
Biona Bjlanoe in bon iiili zs

{To be Continued.)

izs iiiid.

[94] THE BIDSTON BEGI8TEBS.

(Oontinaed from No. 89— July 28.)

The Begister for Bidaton Parish till Mareh 25th
day, 1639, as follows :~

Marie Oharnook, baptized March 80.
Edward Copper, baptised llaieh 80.

Katherine Parr, baptized April 28.
Margerie Bennet, baptized May let.
Margaret Martine, baptized May 19.
Thomas Ainadall, baptized May 26.
Bobert Holm, baptized May 80.

Alice Urmston, baptized Jane 80.

Hten 'S.n «}«••"»-» Wti.ed Sept. 4.
Edward Truman, baptized September 8
Hilee Keire, baptized September 21.
Jane Bennet, baptized NoYember 10.
Anne Hntton, baptized November 14.

(4) Anne Whalley, baptized December 26.
Margaret Kempe, baptized Feb. 2.

(5) Ellen Taylor, baptized Feb. 16.
John Erbie, baptized March Ist.
William Wexran, baptized Maroh 17.

Wbddings.

John Tonog and Ellen Moase, Jnly 25tb.
William Wayley and Margerie Spenser,
September 17.

BURIALLS.

Anne Holt [?] buried Marah 27.
Edward Sefton, April 6.
Bobert Bowline, April 8.
Qeorgd Seftonn, April 23.
Thomas Seftonn, May 7.
Anne Woodworth, May 18.
James Woodworth, May 27.
Stephen Ffells, Joly 8.
Jane Leftwiob, July 28.
William Goodiker, Aognst 16.
Ellen Addiaon, Aognst 22.
John Addiaon, Angnst 26.

(6) Tbomas Martins, September II.
Henrie Bowlinaonne, September 12.

(7) Margerie Bennet, September 26.
Alies Bowline, September 80.
Anne Harrison, October 29.
Adam Tarbock, October 29.

(H) Margaret Martine, October 80.

Bicbard Parbonit, November 8.

Allea Pemberton, December 6.

Anne Ewda, December 8.
(9) Anne Whalley, December 27.

Ellen Erbie, December 80.

William Lee, March 7.

(10) Qabriel Bordman, Onrat.

SiSSr }««*'««•

(1) Danghler of John Parr.

(8) Vide bariaia zzvi September same year.

(S) Vide bariaia xzx October same year.

(4) Vide bariaia xzvli December aame year.

(5) Daaghter of Wm. Taylor of Bidaton, who waa tenant
In tbe farm now oocapied by Mr. Lamb. Ellen Tayioir
married, about 1660, Bobert Wllaon of Bidaton Hall Farm.
and died in 1703, vide her will.

(6) Administration of the goods of Ttaomaa Martin was
granted to his widow 3 December of thla year : bla perso-
nalty was valned at £61 4s. by Richard Bennet, Thomas
Kempe. John Martin and Wm. Ireland.

(7) Vide christenings i May aame year.

(8) Vide christenings xiz May same year.

.Al Z^ ohnstenlnss zztI December same year.
(10) Vide Appendix (B).

PORTRAIT OF riCHARD SHERLOCK,

AuausT, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUEMBS.

AUGUST 6th, 1892.

[96].

WIBB4L WOBTHIEB.

y.<-BIOHABD SHEBLOOE, D.D.

Biohard Sherlock, a well-kaown divine of the 17 (h
oentiiry, was bom at Oxton, November 11, 1618, and,
aoeofdins to the Woodoboroh Begieter, was baptised
on tha 16 th of tha same month. From a oarefnl
examination of the entries in the Begiater, the pro-
bability aeema to be that he was a son of WilUam
-Bberlook, of Oxton, who died in 1626. A brother of
this William, also named Bichard, was Beotor of
Woodohnroh for many years, and was buried there
September 1, 1643.

Yoong Sherlock was blessed with an excellent
mother, who determined to give her son the best
education. in her power. Although a widow, she
contrived to send him to Oxford, where he is sup-
posed to have been a student of Magdalen Hall. But
finding her means inadequate to maintain him there,
she removed him to Trinity OoUege, Dublin, where
he took his M.A. degree in 1688.

According to Anthony & Wood, he was ordained
immediately on taking his MA. degree, and soon
after became minister of sevtral small parishes in
Ireland. If this was the ease he must have received
Holy Orders before the canonical age.

The Irish Bebellion of 1641 drove Sherlock back
to England, where he became ehaplain to one of the
regiments sent by the Marquis of Ormoode to the
King's aanatanoe. On the rout of this regiment at
Nantwieh, he went to Oxford, where he was elected
one of the chaplains of New Oollege, a post which
he retained till he was ejected thence by the Parlia-
meutary visitors. During his residence at Oxford,
he preached often before the Court, became OtiapUin
to the Governor, and in 1646 had his B.D. degree
bestowed upon him. A. Wooi teUs us that this
degree waa conferred upon htm in consideration of
several sermons that he preached either at Oourt or
before the Parliament in Oxford.

On being driven from Oxford, Sherlock became
curate to Dr. Jasper Maine, of Gassington, near
Woodstock, until both the Doctor and his Ourate
were ejected. About this time Sir Bobert Bindlosse
of Berwick in Lancashire, returning from his travels,
Mr. Sherlock was well recommended to him, and as
kindly received for his chaplain.

" It was at this time, and in this neighbourhood,"
says Bishop Wilson, the nephew and biographer of
Sherlock,. ** that George Fox began to broach and
vent his new doctrines. Mr. Sherlock being of
reputation for learning and piety, Fox had the
vanity to attempt to make him his proselyte, or,
which was more likelff to make himself more
famous by so remarkable an adversary. To this end
he sends him a set of queries, and demands an
answer, in terms exceeding coofiJent of victory.

Mr. Sherlock was a man by no means fond of con-
troversy; ** Practical Christianitj " was his talent
and delight ; and but that this proud boaster gave
him an insnfliBrable disturbance delvding many poor

people into an opinion that his queries were
unanswerable, perhaps he had never engaged in any-
thing of that nature.

At last, to prevent the spreading mischief, he
published several small tracts, namely, **The
Quaker's Wild Questions Briefly Answered," to
wbicdi he annexed, "A Discourse to the Holy
Spirit, His working and impressions on the souls of
men ;*' as also ** A Discourse of Divine Bevehidon,
mediate and immediate ;" and another *' Of Error,
Heresy, and Schism.*' All which by the blessing
of God had their e£feots, although that hen^
spread too fast abroad, by being over much despised
in other places. F. Saxdsbs.

[To he continued,)

196] WIBBAL SUBSIDY BOLL FOB 1625.

(Oontinned from No. 98*July 80th.
Babu.

Johes Dnnsterfleld in bon iiili vs . . vUis Tiiid.
Thomas Penkett in bon iiiU vi • . . . vUis Tiiid.

WZLLASTOV.

Bobertns Bennett in bon iiiili .. .. xaliiid.
Thomas Bennett In bon iiiili •• .. xsiiiid.

Lbdsax.

Georgins Oottingham in bon vli [7.6.8 ezd]

ziiisUUd.
Bboxbbouoh.

Elizabeth Bavand vid in terr iiili . . . . ziis.

Bobtus GiU in terr iiiU vis.

Bobtus Whittle in bon iiiiU xUs.

Pools.

Johes Poole ar in terr xli •• .. •• .. zls.
Bobtus Einge in bon iiili viiis.

SUTTOK P*VA.

Hugo OoweU in bon vli [4.U.4 exd] . . zUis Uild.

Sutton Maona.

Thomas Hale wood in terr xxzs vis.

Bobtus Watt in bon tiiU vs .. .. villa viiid.
Johes Whitehead in bon iiili vs. . . • Tiiis Tiiid.

OHfLDlB THOBMTON.

Willmus Huntington in bon vli zs . . Jdlia Tiiid.

HOOTON.

Willmus Standley ar in terr ziUU Hb viiid

liiisiilid.

Easthak.

Johes Anglizer in bon iiili • . Tills.

Willmus Bnshell in bon iiiU viiis.

Henry Bunbury [sgd].

Wm. Massey [sgdj.

Henry BirkeneadTsgdj.

Wm. Glegge [sgdj.

Wm. Fiboubson Ibvxnb.

Olanghton.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

AuouBT, 1892.

[97]

THE BIDSTON BEQISTEBS.

(Oontinaed from No. 94.— July 80.)

Appendix (E). The Bev. Qabriel Bordman first
appears in 1632, when he sends an elaborate and
carefolly written transcript of his Begister for that
year to the Bishop.

He seeBks to have held the li?ing from 1632 to
1647, when he was remo?ed by the Parliamentarians
to make way for " a godly orthodox di?ine."

As the BeT. E^an Piers died in 1625, the living
most have been yaoant for six or seven years, and
was probably served by one of the local clergy, hi aU
likelihood by the Bev. Bichard Bonohome, who was
the Inonmbent of Overohnroh, and appears as scribe
and witness of several Bidston wills, aboat this time.

Whatever tnith there may have been in the charge
against Mr. Bordman, detidled below, it may be said
in his favonr that he wrote a very scholarly hani,
and with the exception of the years 1638 and 1639
took some paiBS to make hii transcripts fnll and
complete, for which, at least, he deserres the gratitude
of the genealogist.

Birkenhead chapel seems also to haye been in nse
at this time, slMce in 1635 the Bav. Oharles Adams,
described as **Carate of Birkenhead," paid his
portion of the ship-money levied by the Eiog.

The following interesting extracts are from three
massive MS. volames preseryed at the British
Mosenm, described as "Proceedings of the Oom-
mittee for Piandered Ministers,*' containing a vast
qnantity of most inttresting information, which is,
fortnoately, made easily available by means of a
good, though rough, Index Locorum : —

** August 14th, 1647.— It is ordered that ye cause
conoeroiog Gabriel Boardman, minister of Bidston,
in ye county of Chester, be heard oo Tuesday next."

** August 17th, 1647.— It is ordered that ye cause
coDceming Gabriel Boardman, curate of ye Paridh
Church of Bidston, in ye county of Ohester, in ye
presence of ye said Mr. Boardman aod counsell of
ye prosecutors, and upon hearing his defence therein
before this Committee, it appears that ye said Mr.
Boardman is a common frequenter of alehouses and
oftentimes drunk, and a singer of lewd and idle
songs ; It is therefore ordered that ye said church
and curacie anJ all profitts thereto belonging
be forthwith sequestered from him, ye said Mr.
Boardman, to ye use of some godly orthodox
divine."

" September 4th, 1647.— Upon ye humble petition
of Gabriel Boardman, from whom ye curacie of
Bidston, in ye Oouoty of Ohester, is sequestered : It
is ordered that ye said Mr. Bordman shall have all
rents, stipends, fees, and profitts due and payable
unto him before ye 17th day of Aognst last, on
which day ye said curacie was sequestered from him,
aod this Committee doe refer ye said Mr. Boardman
to ye justices of peace in ye said county to relieve
him in his recovery of ye premisses accordiDg to ye
late ordinance of Parliament in that behalf."

What became of poor Mr. Bordman does not
appear, the only other mention of him that I have
come aorosB is in the will of Jane Wilcoeke, of

Bidston, dated 10th April, 1649, where she leaves to
John Whiteside, of Bidston, ''a bond for £8, whioh
Mr. Gabriel! Boardman is due unto mee long sinoe,
if the same can be gott in."

AUGUST 13th, 1892.

[98] THE PBESBTTEBIAN CHAPEL AT

UPTON.

1690-1780.

It will probably surprise some of your readen to
koow that 200 years ago Wirral was possessed ot two
fiourishing dissenting chapels, one at Upton and the
other at Bromborough. In the following notes I
propose to giye a slight sketch of the history of the
former : —

Upon the passing of the Toleration Act in 1689,
the two dissenting chapels mentioned above were
opened and-appear to haye flourished for 40 years,
after whioh time they died out, and now not even the
site of either of them is known.

Upton was at this time a place of no little con-
sequence in Wirral, being regarded as the capital of
the Lower Mediety, and having two annual fairs of
considerable importance. During the Common-
wealth the Parish Church was occupied by the Bey.
Henry Hatton, a Presbyterian, who signed the
Cheshire Attestation in 1648, but seems to have
either died or removed before the passing of the Act
of Uniformity.

The first minister of the Presbyterian chapel,
which must have opened very shortly after the
accession of William III, was Mr. Thomas Lea, who
in 1691, sigued tha Act of Union between the Pres-
byterian and CoLgregatioual Ministers, as '* Thomas
Lea, of Worrel." (Urtoick't Nonconformity in
Cheshire,)

Mr. Lea entered Mr. EVankland's academy, at
Natland, as a student, on May 11th, 1678, and
probably became pastor of the Upton congregation,
immediately on his leaving college, and continued to
labour there faithfully for eighteen years from that
date. He attended the meetings of the Cheshire
ministers, and was much respected and beloved by
his brethren.

At first he seems to have been tolerably well
supported, as he had among his congregation
several of the minor gentry and better class yeoman
from Bidston, Moreton and West Kirby, such ss
Mr. Bobert Wilson of Bidston Hall, some of the
Qleggs of Arrow and Grange.the Balls of Irby Hall,
the Days of Larton, the Urmstons of Moreton,
and the Pembertous of Upton.

Mr. Bobert Wilson, in his will, whioh Is dated
1697, and proved a few months later, instructs his
" three sons to pay £5 yearlie to Mr. Thomas Lsa,
if he oontinne to preaeh to that people to whioh hs
now stands related."

August, 1892.

WmBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

We learn, howover, from ** The Oheehire M ioote
Book/' (guot^dy Urwick), ihAi despite Mr. Lea*e
anidiiity, the oaufle was a lodng one and in 1709
whan a " dear eall" came to bim from the ohapel at
Knntsford, ooneidering that he was laboorlng,
*' under great disoonragements, the congregation
being dwindled to next nothing ; bnt Line own
oommanieants and some of those that bad been
members being a great grief to him," he decided to
aeeept it, aod in June of that year preached at Upton
for tba last time.

{To b0 eontinued.)

[W]

PLAGE NAMES IN WIBBAL.

(OontiDoed from No. 92.--Jal7 80.)

Perhaps the most interesting feature in Wirral
Place Names is the presence of so many that can,
without any doubt, be described as Norse.

Oanon Isaac Taylor, in his book to which refer-
ence has been made so frequently in this series of
notes {Words and Placet, p. 116), says, ** In
Cheshire, with one remarkable local exception, we
find no Yestiges of Norse Colonists. Bat the spit
of land oalled the Wirral, bi tween the Dee and Mersey,
seems to have allmed them by its excellent liarbours,
and the protection afforded by its almost insular
ohazaoter."

The Dee side seems to have been the part which
was moat affected by the settlements : in fact, be-
tween Burton and Meols, there is hardly an English
place name to be found.

Beginning with Maou (Domesday, Meku), we go
along the coast through Hoosa fboth names describ-
ing tne sand hills which still give tbat part of the
coast its distinotive feature), to West Eibbt ; to the
east we have the vOlage crowned bills of FaAMZBT,
GaiASBT (Domesday, Oreavetberrie, 13th century,
and later documents Ortavesbye), and Ibbt ; before us
Oaldt (Domesday, Caldert, 18tn oeDtury documents,
Caldeye and Cawiye), Thubbtaston (Domesday,
Turoitaneton ; 1826. Thuntaneaton ; 1853, Thurttat^
ton, later, Thur$tington), Pbmsbt and Abswall
(13th century, HatelweU and H<uelwaltj .

Going inland from Heswall, we find a most interest-
ing relic of tbe Norse settlement at Thinowaltj
(Domesday, Tuigvelle), the place of the Thing, or
assembly in which tbe little colony exercised its
accustomed privileges of local self-government.

Whtt strange sights that curious abrupt little hill
at Tbingwall, on which the mill now stands, muat
have witnessed, when the heathen Norsemen gathered
on its slopes to bold their open air Parliament.

Babnston (Domesday, Bemeston), Bbimstaob
(early documents, Bfunttath, Brynstath and later
Bn'fwton), Thornton (Domesday, Torintonet early
documents, Thoreton and Thorleton) and RaVy
(Domesday, Raby) form a group in central Wirral.

Betumiog to tbe Dee side again, we find the
hybrid Norse and English names of Gatton and
Nestoit and tbe pure Norse. Nxsse, Denwall and

a mile or two nearer Chester, Shotwick (Domesday,
SoUnoicket 18th century documents, Schotewyk,\

On tbe Mersey side of the YHrral, though not
nearly so numerous, there are several undoubted in-
stances of Norse place names, viz., Eibkbt-Wallst
(now Wallasey), Bibkbnhsad (12(h century docu-
mects, Birkheved), Brombobough (18th century
documents, BrunUnrugh), Childeb Thobmton, pro-
bably HooTON (Domesday, Hoton) and Whitbt.

Clanghton.

HOLLT.

(To be Continued.)

[100] THE BIDSTON BEGISTEfia

(Continued from No. 97~August 6.)

For 27 years, from 1639 to 1666, through all the
troublous times of the Civil War and the Common-
wealth, the Parish Register seems to have been
neglected : of course no transcripts were sent into
the Bishop's Registry (1).

Probably, too, the living was vacant for some
time ; it does not appear who was appointed to the
living after Mr. Bordman's removal unless it was
the Mr. Wright, whom Oalamy mentions as havii g
been obliged, in his turn, to give up tbe curacy at
the passing of tbe Act of Uniformity in 1662.

{l^ The following are short abstracts of most of
the Bidston wills proved during this blank : ^

U Adminlstrallon of goodi of Willuk Buttkb, of
llorelon, was granted on tbe xx April, 1642, lo
Aim Batter, tafs widow and raiiot. Pereonaity
▼alaed al £95 by John Hatlon. Robert Pember-
Ion, John Urmeton, and Handle Banadale.

II. Admfnlstrallon of Ihe goods of Jaxbs Woodwabd,
of Claughlon, waa granted ix. Jnly. 1612, to
John Woodward, eldest son of deceased.
Personalty valued al £96 by Richard Bennett,
Robert Hodskln, James Wilaon and Thomas
Williamson.

lil« An Inventory of the goods of AWM Buttbr,
widow, of Moreton. was filed xxi. Jaly 1642.
valued al £122, by Rlohard QUI, Robert
Pembeilon, Randle Eansdale, and John
Urmslon.

Iv. Administration of the goods of Jahx Bl40KBX7bii,
widow, of Mdston Ford, was granted xxli
September, 1642, to Ann Blaokbarn, daughter
of deceased. Personalty valned al £80 by
Richard Goventrie, James Wilson, and Thomas
Hankln.

V* In the Index of wills is mentioned an Inventory
of Thomas Bmith, of Saogball Maisey, yeo-
man, In the year 1642, bat no such docament
Is now te be found at tbe Probate Court.

▼I. In his will dated xxviil Jane, 1643, Hbmrt
Baxoookb. of Claaghlon. carpenter, mentions
a " deed of assiKnmonI of my properly lo my
loving fdend John Rowland and Marie his
wife. *

He leaves a small sum to his nephew Rlohard
Hanoooke of Oxton.

Witnesses: Richard Bennett, Robert Robin-
son, John Holywell, and Henry Coarsey.

vil« In hh will dated zx Deo 1642 and proved xlx
January 1643 [o.s.] Thouab Williaxsoh ol
Claaghton yeoman, leaves his property bet wee d
his wife and hli son Henry.

WntBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

AuduST, 1892.

WltaiatMi : Bloharfl BaxKt and Jamai Wilion.
In the iBvenlory taken zix Jen. mention Ib
made of *' his Barnston honse ** and of plots of
croand which deoeaaed had held on lease at
Bloreton and Brby. Total ralne of bis
_^, personaltv. £221.

TiU. Administration of the foods of JoKir Psmbsrtoh
of Moreton, was nanted 6th Febrnarj. 1646, to
Blisabeth, hla widow and rellot, and Thomas
Pemberton, of Moreton, hnsbandmtn.

Ix. In tblB will dated xxii Jan. 1645 [o-s.] Johh
Mabtxm of Banfhall Hansey* leaves his
property egaally between his two daughters
BUiabethandBlUn.

Bxeoators: ** My faithful friends and sonnes-
in-law Bobert Maddook and Thomas Taeale."

Witnesses : Christopher Bennett and Henry
Bennett. Personalty Tatned ▼! Feb. by
Christopher Bennett. Blohard Harrison, John
Batton, Thomas Martin, John Harrison, and
Thomas Watt, at £67.

z. In his will dated xx Feb. 1644, bnl not proved
nntll XXX May 1648. William BiLUHai of
Moretonyeoman, leaves "my lands in the
House [Hoose] Co. Chester, which I purchased
from wm. Joanes of Bidsion to Ann my now
wyfe and her assigns** and in default of issue
to " James Tassie, of Moreton, Wm. Bird and
Henry Bird my nephews,** small bequests to
*' Wm. Bbarlook the younger,** ** Margaret
Bharlock my niece,** "unto him that shall
make my grave 5s.**

Bxecutors : ** My wife, and nephew Henry
Bird.**

Witnesses : John Brereton, John Hatton and
Henry Ooursey. Inventory xxx May. 1646,
valued by Henry Handoocke, Blchard Linaker,
Wm. Bird, and Thomas Bharlocke, al £218.

xl, Admlnstration of the goods of Thomas Ibs*
LAHD, of Birkenhead Weod, was granted xfii.
Nov. 1649, to Mary Ireland, his widow and relict,
and Blohard Sharp, of Baughall Massie, gentle*
man.

zli. In her will dated if. April, 1649. Jani Wiloookb,
of Bidston, widow, leaves bulk of her property
to John Whiteside, of Bliston, huBbaodman.
Bemalnder to Joane Margell, her sister-in*law,
Jane Oayle and Isabel Smyth, her cousins.
Bxeonton: John Whiteside and Joan Mar*

II.

the list of debts due to testatrix, are debts
from William Taylor, the younger, Richard
Addison, Ales. Bnsdale, John Whiteside,
Lawrence Littler, Richard Lathe, Bobert
Addison, and Mr. Boardman.

Witnesses: Thomas Eansdale and William
Joanes, oler.

Inventory valued by William Taylor, of Bidston
and Qiibert Wilson, of Olaughton, yeomen, at
£16.

AUaUST 20th, 1892.

[101] THE PBESBYTERIAN OHAPEL AT

UPTON.

1690—1780.

(Oontinned from No. 98— Angail 18).

It seems probable tbat after this, the two chapels
of Bromborongh and Upton were worked by the one
minister, the Bey. Leoline Edwards, a stndent from
Mr. Owen's aoademy at Wrexham (Urwickp, 87).

The cause seems to have revived somewhat nnder
the ministry of the Rev. Thomas Perrot who
sncoeeded Mr. Edwards m 1715, as he is said by
Mr. Urwiok to have had 180 bearers, 12 of whom
were gentlemen of position. Bishop Gastrell in bis
Notitia enumerates 49 families of Dissenttrs as
residing in Wurral in his time (1714.1726), and

mentions both chapels ; of the 49 families, Bishop
Qastrell locates 17 in Bidston Parisb, who no doabi
attended the Upton Ohapel.

The Bev. Tbomaa Woodcock appears to liave
followed Mr. Perrott, being ordained by the Oheahire
ministers, August 8th, 1721. The following aooonnt
printed in Urwiok from tbe **Oheshire Minute
Book,'* relates to his ordination. *' In a nunerooa
assembly of ministers and people met together in the
New Ohapel (Enutsford) he (Mr. Woodcock) was
solemnly set apart for the omoe and work of tbe
ministry. Mr. Ligbtbown (of Allostock) began with
prayer and reading some portions of scnptnra. Mr.
Onlcheth (of Macclesfield) prayed before sermon.
Mr. Qarduer (of Ohester) preached from Jobni. 16.
And of Hitfulnett have all toe received and grace for
grace. After sermon ended Mr. Owen fof Warring,
ton) called for a coofenion of his faith which he
made before the congregation and then pat the
osnal qnestions to him to which he answered verhit
conceptis. Afterwards he was set apart by prayer
and imposition of hands of Mr. Owen, Gardner,
Onlcheth, Waterhonse, Sydebottom, Jones, Lea,who
prayed over him. Then followed the exhortation by
Mr. Sydebottom from Nambers xzvii. 18, 19, and so
eondnding with prayer, thanlcsgiving, singing, and
pronooncing the blessing, the congregation was
dismissed."

Mr. Woodcock was resident at Upton from which
place he worked both chapels, until his death in
1728, as the following extracts from the Bishop'e
Transcripts of the Parish Begister for Overchoroh
show (the original Begister ha^og disappeared) : —

1724: Mrs. Elizabeth Woodcock wife of Mr.
Thomas Woodcock of Upton ye Presbyterian
Minister ther [buried] June 22.

1725 : Qeorge son of Mr. Woodcock of Upton tbe
Presbyterian Minister there [burled] July
2.

1728: Mr. Thos. Woodcock ye dissenting Minister
at Upton, widower, [buried] Maieh 2.

With Mr. Woodcock, the existence of both tbe
Chapels seems to have been brought to a dose, and
for eighty years, until 1809, when an IndependeDt
Chapel was opened at Farkgate, no effort was made
by the Nonconformists to regain their lost footing in
WirraU

Tours etc.,

Olaughton.

W. Febgusbor Ibvinb.

[102] PLACE NAMES IN WIBBAL.

(Continued from No. 99—18 August.)

In addition to the evidence of Norse colonization
contained in the names of the various townships, we
find scattered thronghoat Wirral a number of bamle^.
and field names of distinctly Norse origin, aod
these in some oases in parisbis where the townships
are called by English names.

AnausT, 1892,

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

The only pArish wliioh the writer hu had an
opportunity of ezhaiuitiTely examining, namelf,
Bidflton yields many traoes of a None aettlement,
thoogh all the townahips, Bideton, Olaaghton,
More ton, and Baoghall-Maaaey, are EngllBh.

OaDon laaao Taylor mentiooa amongst the test
words of Norse oeonpation, thwaite, €laie, and ffiU^
all of whioh we find in Bidaton Parish ; on the marsh
between Wallasey and Bidaton we have The Great
Salt Thwaite, Tassey's Thwaite, The Little Thwaite,
Whinny Thwaite, The Oomhill Thwaite, eto. ; dale,
we find in Lingdale, on the boaodftry of Bidston and
Olaaghton, (mentioned as LyngedaUt in a doooment
dated 1320), and giU in the QiUbrook, whioh has
giTen its name to the Oillbrook estate, belonging to
the Birkenhead Corporation.

The following are a few of the ddle» in Wirral,
with the parishes in whioh they ooear.

In Bboxbobouob, DUMtimdaUt so well known to
all lovers oC the piotnresqne, and elose to it,
Amtubbiedale and Shotdale or ShoddaU.

InEiSTHAM, Cooperidale, in Woodohttrch, Camca-
dale, and Bamtdale in the township of Bamston,
and in ThingweU, Shoekingdale,

In A 13th oentnry doonment, relating to Thnrstas-
ton, there ii mention of a *' certain dale, called
Steynoolesdale, whioh the writer has not had an
opportonity of identifying.

Ifr. Blaok, in his report on the Manor of Tran-
mere, gives it as his opinion, and addnees substantial
proof in snpport of it, that an early name of Tran-
mere was Somibvobd, and that it is miderthis name
tbat I>omesday alludes to the manor. If this be the
case, the/orrf is no donbt an example of *' the fords
of the Soandinarian sea-rovers,** whioh Oanon Taylor
desoribes as *' passages for ships np the anna of the
ses, as in the ease of the fiords of Norway and Ice-
land and the firths of Scotland," and adds that
" these Norse fords are found on the coasts which
were frequented for parposes of trade or plunder **
(Wcrde and Place, pl07). Tranmere pool certainly
would be admirably adapted for a harbour to shelter
the Northmen's keels.

It is probable that we see the Norse word twistle,
a boundary, in the field name of Twittle Hey, at
Foulton-cum- Seacombe.

If the field names of the other parishes in Wirral
are examined oarefully, they will no doubt prove as
rich in Norse names as Bidston has done. — Yours
truly, HoLLT.

Claughlon.

[103] AN INCIDENT AT BIBKENHEAD IN
THE CIVHi WAB.

In maldng an abstract of the will of " John
Smith, late of Birkett- wood, waterman." dated 1648»
at the Probate Court, Chester, I was interested to
find the foUoving document tied up in a bundle
with the Adrnmistration —

18 September, 1665.

" Maria Syers, aliaa Smyth, wife of John Syexs
and late wife of John Smyth, saith, that John

Smyth made a will like unto abovr, and sett his
sign and seal in presence of Biohtri Walley and
John Hill eto.

And aboute two or three months after the
deceased's death, [in 1648], she the deponent had
about two troapee of horse quartered att her house
[at the Woouside Ferry] for aboute eight or nine
days altogether, in order to their transportation to
Ireland, in those sadd times of warre, at whioh tyme
being in great distraction, the said Will and
Inventorie of the goods as they were then praised
[valued] was casually lost and other writeings with
the same, and was never nnce found that ahee
heard of.**

In the appended Inventory is mentioned :

'* Alsoe one ferry-boate worth about twentie
poinds.*'

Yours, etc.,

Wm. FssauBSON Isvim.
daughton.

[104] THE BIDSTON BEGISTEBS.

(Continued from No. 100— Aug. 18 )

Note (1) continued.

xlU. In hlf will, proTsd In London, Jane, 1K5,
BioBABS BikHBrr. ol CUaghioo, beqaeaths lo
his son John, £220. The Utile zneasaaRe in
Claaghlon . whioh formerly belonged to Richard
Bhariook, he devises to Ills son Petar, with
remainder to John, and final remainder to hie
grandson Thomas, natural son of William
Wilson, of Olaaghton.

Bxecator, his son Peter.

Witnesses: Thos. and Wm. Wilson, and
Thos. Bnsdale.
zlr. In his wili dated let Aagust, 1660, and proved at
Chester in 1662, Pkteb fixiiiiKTr, of Claaghton,
leaves legacies to his brother John, and hie
sisters Ann and Mary, to the ohildren of said
brother and sisters, and appoints hia wife
Margaret exeoutriz.

The Inventory was made on 24th March,
1661-2, by Bobert Chantrell, Wm. and Thos.
Wilson. Henry Williamson and Richard
Oharnock.
zv. Administration of the goods of CmusTOPHsa
Benmxtt, of Balgball Massey, was granted
in 1663 to Elisabeth, his widow and relict,
andihis son John ; the Inventory was prepared
by Bemy Bennett, Nathaniel Jones, and
Thomas Maddook.
zvl. In her will dated Deo. zii. 1663. Alice Whaixet,
of Birkett-lease. widow, leaves small legacies
to Barbara Walley, "John Brooke, aua my
sister Anne Jeokinson," ** my brother William
Walley," Henry Heare, and appoints as her
ezecators and residuary legatees, her "brother
Michael Jenkinson " and John Brooke.

Witnesses: Edward Eenncke [?3 and
Henry Hayes. Inventory by ihomas
Ecoleston, Richard Charnook, and Wm.
Walley.
zvU. In his wiU dated March vlil. 1664, John
Bbsbeton, of Moreton, yeoman, leaves his
messuages and tenements between his
wife Margaret and daughter, Ellen, with
remainder to hllen.

Small legacies to John Brereton, his eldest
son and Wm. Brereton his "other sonne,"
to Margaret Urmiston. to Thomas Brereton
his brother, and to "landlord Urmiston.**
To his grandchild Wm. Brereton his " filUe*
and all his " plowe geare.'*

Executors, Margaret Brereton his wife and
John Wltcocke of the Ford.

Witnesses : Uenry Dalbe. Robert Urmston
and W illiam Joanes cler,

WIRBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

AuauBT, 1892.

InTeDtory xtII M uroh made bj Bobart Urm-
■ton and Ihomat OIU of Moreton and
Nathaniel Joanei of Sangham, total Talao.
£3# 61 5 *.
ZTlll. Administration of the soods o( Jona BiCTrH, of
Birkett-Wood, waterman, was granted on the
18th September 1665, to John Brooke, hasband
of Anne, dtiaphier of deceased, Elisabeth,
alias Oorfe, wife of John CorfOi Jane and
Thomas Smitb, all chlldien of deceased.

AUGUST 27th, 1892.

[105] THE SOLEBIN LSAaUE AND
OOYENANT IN WIBBAL.

One is Bometimefl inolined to think of the Solemn
League end CoTenent, as an ezoloBiTely Soot oh
doenmenti and to oyerlook the faot, that it wai
widely signed in England in 1646, in f olfllment of
one oi the olanses of the treaty between the Bootoh
and the Parliament.

In Wirral it was probably signed in most of the
Parishes, though so far as I hsTS been able to And
ont Woodchnreh is the only Register in which the
signatnree are still eitant.

Robinson, the sohoolmaster of Wallasey, in his
MS History of Wallasey Parish, preserved in the
Ohnroh Ohest, (date aboot 1720) recounts how one,
Ball by name, out out from the Register Book of
that parish, the list of eignatures to the Solemn
Leagae and Covenant in which bis own name
appeared.

At Woodchnreh all the signatures are complete,
but the preamble has been subjected to such
emendations as some enthusiastic Royalist seems to
have judged appropriate. The emendationB are
printed in italics.

"An Ezhobtatxon to the taking of the Solemne
League and Covenant for deformation [the letter
d is written over an r erased] and pretenee [dif/ence
erased] of Religion the dithouoxu and unhappioess
of the Elnge and ye exUrpaiion of the peace and
safetie of the three Eiogdomes of England Scotland
and Ireland."

Then follow several pages of the text of the
document closely written, after which come the
signatures as under :—

Thb National Covsnant taken by the p'ishioners
of Woodchnreh in the County Palatine of Chester,
the 14th day of March, 1646. Wee, the inhabitants
of the Parish of Woodchnreh, with our bands lifted
up unto the Most High God, doe sweare, etc.

Ohas. Adams, rector
Blohard Hockenhnll
Henry Hookenholl
William Barges
Oeorg Ball
Tho Tonnge
Thomas Bennett
Jhon Smith (a)
Wlllia Ireland
Tho Piatt (a)
Tho Heresse (a)
Biohart Dranf ord
Orlsto Bennett
Hen Haasnett (a)
Bobert Ooodaker <a)
John Hanoooke (a)

Thomas Leene
Biokard Hosse
Bol>ert Taylonr (a
Btoh Taylonr (a)
Bioh AindBWorth (a)
William Channtreil
Blohard Watt (a)
Henry Ball
Thomas Coventry
Blchard Ad dames
Arthnr Lowe
John Gloave (a)
Bobert Lee e (a)
John Balye (a)
William Ball
Jebn Bichardaon

Henry Potter (a)
Robert Watt
Thomas Joeneson
BobtWatt (a)
Henry Hunt («)
BobtDanlelUa)
William Wise
John Bennett («)
John L«a (a)
Rich Hnnt (a)
John Pepper (a)
John Boason (a)
Bich Achnrley (a)
William Brosooe ( t)

Thomas Ooodecar (a)
Thomas Wattmough
John Borsoowe
Thomas Bally
Henry Coventry
William Pioke (a)
Bobert Boghkin (a)
RotHsrt Qon-iron (a)
Peter Dason u)
Rowland Witfl Id
BotMrt Prenton (a)
William Lester
Bobert Owin (a)
Henry Walnwilght (a)

Joha Brewell [Tj (a)

Thomas Browne
Henry Dobie (a)
Blohard Handoooke
Thomas Plerson (a)
Blohard Jones (a)
WtUlam Tranghton (a)
Bobt Batcher (a)
Thomas Booleston (a)
Blchard Ptarlngton (a)
William Browne

Joha Hayes (a)
Anthonle Gnamooko
Henry Noblet (a)
Thomas M oase (a)
Richard OoTcntry
John BaU
Henry Coventry
Cnbord Harrison Ca)
Thomas Oovent^ (w
William Bennett

John Ffasakerly.

ClaughtOB.

Yours, Ac,

Wx. F1BOU8BON Ibvihi.

[106] A BIBKENHEAD NEWSPAPER

IN 1642!

The following is an eztraot from Mr. W. B. A
Axon's Oheahire OUaninga, pp 101, 102 :—

**Mr. James Grant's Hutary of the Newepap^r
PrsM was the subject of some unfavourable com-
ments on its appearanoe. Perhaps its most extra-
ordinary mistake escaped the notice of its orities.
At page 198 of Volume 8, we read:— * The next
newspaper which has any claims to belong to the
category of provincial journalism was eaUed
Merctariua AtUicus, Those who know what an
obscure and insignificant place Birkenhead was at
that time will be surprised when informed that Ibis
newspaper, brought out in 1642, was printed in that
locality. But, though printed in Birkenhead, the
Mercuritit Aulicus was not published there. It was
avowedly printed for a bookseller near Queen's
College, Oxford, and published by him in the latter
town.* The notion of scholarly Oxford being unable
to print a news pamphlet like the Mercuriue Aulicutt
and sending it to Birkenhead, 169 miles away, to be
put in type, is a rich one. Probably everyone in-
terested in the fourth estate, with the solitary ex-
ception of the historian of the nevrspaper press,
knows that the Mercurius Aulicua was both printed
and published at Oxford once a week, and sometimes
oftener from 1612 to 1645. Its chief author was
John Birkenhead, a CbCsbire man, who for this and
similar services was knighted in 1662 by Charles II."

M.A.

(a) His mark.

August, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Ko. [107] THE BIDSTON BEGISTEBS.

(Oontinned from No. 104.— 20 Aug.).

Chri8t6nixig8 and BarialB and Weddings in ye
Parish of Bidston An. Dom. 1C66.

li) Peter sonne of William Totty March 29.
(2) John flonne of Joha Truman Ap let.

Elizabeth dan of Wm Dalby Ap let.

John Sonne of Tboe. Biooock Ap 4th.

Margaret dan of Wm Totty Jnne 29kh.
(8) Daniel Sonne of Bobeart Wilson Jnly 11th.

Elisabeth dan of Biobard Harrison Aug 12.

Thomas sonne of Wm Bennett Sept 9.

James sonne of John Ck>nnely 8ept 9.

Margaret dan of John Parbolt Sept 9.

Margaret dan of Henry Watte Oot 2.

Thomas sonne of John Whitehead Deo 86.

Panl Sonne of Daniel Wiioook Feb 24.

Bnrials.

Katherine Jones, Bnried April 28th.
YTilUam Qill, Bnried Not 16th.
James sonne of Wm Pendleton, Deo 5.
John Bonoe of Henry Eery Deo 25.
Ales Martin, bnried March 13.
Peter sonne of Wm Totty, March 16.

Weddings.

Joseph Phillips and Margaret Pemberton

married May 12.
Bobert Dnnne and Elizabeth Hancook,

Ang, 80.
William Williams and Elizabeth Hiocook,

Oot 16.
Henry Bennet and Anne Piatt Feb 18.

A Register of all Marriages and Ohristenings and
Bnrialls within ye Parish of Bidston for ye yeare
1668. (5)

Vide Boiia^i xwl HaroU lame year. ^ ,

(2.) John Tram&n of Bidaton ; he was tenant of a farm
which has tinoe be«n absorbed In that now oooapied by
Mr. Walters. John Trnman died in 1690 vide his will.

(3.) Bobert WiUon at this time was tenant of the farm
now oooapied by Hr. Lamb, he afterwards rented Bidston
Ball Farm. Be died in 1698 vide his will.

(4. 1 Vide Christtalnn xziz March same year.

(5.) In tUs year the following will was proved and
Inventory fifed at the Probate Ooart, Chester :

LBTTioa KufP. of Baagham-MasBle, spinatar. in her will
dated 7th Hay. 1867. leaves legacies to her slater Ellen
Fazakarley. wife of John Faaakerley, of Barnston. and to
Bllen*s danghters, Mary Hannah and ^lioe.— to her brother
Adam Kemp's daughter Barah<-to her brother Thomas
Kemp and oooida Joane Pemberton.

The following olaase occors in the will, '* Whereas by the
will of my dear father, there was a sam of £50 left to be
raited on the lands and to be paid to me by my brother
John Kemp, and whereas I have bad many ealtes and con*
troversles for the remainder of the said £50. etc., etc.. and
as he has promised to pay the balance on his retarn from
Ireland, and hath given me as seoorlty the lease for 15
years of the olose of land loalled * The Baoke of the Barne,
and the Lower Bay,* eto., eto.**

This will is witnessed by

Margaret Philips,
Edward Lltherland.
And la proved by Joseph Philips, the sole executor, on the
4lh April. 1668.

Admimstrailon of the goods of Thohas Boolsston. of
Olaoghton, was granted — November, 1666, to Margaret, nis
widow and relict ; and his personality was valued by Henrv
Wiuiamson^homas Pemberton, John Brisooe, and Biohard
Toxoa, at £66.

Christened.

Thomas sonne of Biohard Wilson of Bidston

May 18th
Margaret dan of Wm. Dalhie Jane 7.
Mary dan of John Brookes Jnne 80.
Margaret dan of Bobt Enisdall Ang 28.
(1) Thomas sonne of Wm Langford Sept 12.
Obadiah sonne of Bobert Wilson Sept 8.
Elizabeth dan of Biohard WiUion Nov 1.
Elizabeth dan of Hngh Boberts Jan 81.

Married togeather.

Hogh Boberts and Ellinor Pae, May 11.
Hngh Boberts and Margaret Powell Jnne 80.
Thomas Bnport and Ellen Goodiker Oot 18.

Borried.

William Dod of Moreton Maroh 26.
Jane dan of John Hand April 6.
William Bennett of Moreton, April 14.
Margaret wife of Wm Langford, 12 Sept
John Brookes of Birkett, 18 Sept.
Thomas son of William Langford, Deo. 8.
Edward Leatherland of the parish of Lan-
caster, January 26.
Margaret wife of Thos. Anderton, Mar 22.
(8) Hngh Borohes, carat.

6 Jn?w:&}<^^™^^-^---

SEPTEMBER 3rd, 1892.

[108] A BUNAWAY M^TOH IN THE 18tb

OENTUBY.

The following interesting docament is pablished
in abstract in the 28th Beport of the Deputy Keeper
of the Beoords, and is a refreshing change from the
list of legal grants, writs, fines, eto.

The William de Stanley mentioned is a common
ancestor of the Earls of Derby, the Lords of
Alderley, and the Stanleys of Hooton.

" Writ and Inquisition post mortem, 12 Edward L,

[1284].

Tbis loquisition taken before Brother Bobert of
Yale Boyal, the King's Escheator for Obeehire,
relates to the death of Philip de Bannyile [Bamvile]
.... Chief Forester of the Boyal Forest of
Wirral.

il.) One of the Langfords of Tranmere.

(2.) Vide John BmUh's will 166S.

(3.) Beotorof Woodohorch.

(4.) Of Bidston.

(5.) Of Moreton: this the first ap]>earanoe la the
BegUter of the family of Webster, now of Orerohoroh and
Leasowo.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

SSPTEHBBB, 1892.

Joan, hiB eldasft danghter, aged 20. Ellen, his
second daughter, aged 9, and Agnes, bis yonogest
daughter, aged 8 years, are returned as his coheirs.

Annexed is a second writ and return to inquire
into the truth and droumstanoes of an aesertion
made by one William de Stanley, that a muiiage
had been contracted between him and the deceased's
eldest daughter Joan, ''per Terba de pmsenti,*'
words spoken in the presenoe of witnesses ; and the
return of this writ giTcs the following curious
account of the betrotlial and the oiroumstanoes
under which it was made:^

The jurors say that on Sunday after the feait of St.

Matthew, Apostle and E^angeUst, two years ago,
which would be on the 27th of September, 1282,
Philip de Baunvile, with his wife and family, was at a
banquet given by Master John de Stanley, on which
occasion Joan, suspecting that her father intended
to marry her to her stepmother's son, and not beiog
herself at all desirous of such a matdi, took means
to SToid it by repairing with William Staoley to
Ashbury Ohurch, where marriage was contracted
between them by the utterance of the following
mutual promise ; he saying, *' Joan, I plight thee my
troth to take and hold thee, as my lawful wife unto
my life's end," and she replying, ** I Joan, take thee
William, as my lawful husband." The witnesses of
this Terbal contract were Adam de Hoton [Hooton]
and Dawe [DaTy] de Ooupeland.

This runaway match brought William Stanley
much wealth, and lauds (amongst other things the
offloe of Head Forester of Wirral), and from it sprang
a race of men who for six hundred years have stood
in the front rank of Engliah statesmen.— Tours, etc.,

Birkenhead.

Omtbiax.

[109] WIBEAL SUBSIDY BOLL FOR 1545.

Following on the small though complete Subsidy
Boll for 1625, which you have been printing for
some past, I propose to send you extracts from a
yery much fuller one for the year 1645.

In the index to the Subsidy Bolls, at the Becord
offloe, it is described as ** A Fragment," but it is by
far the most complete Boll reladng to this Hundred
that I hsTC been able to discover, containing as it
does nearly 700 names, though a few townships are
missing.

Tbe following is the list of the inhabitants of
Glaughton and Ozton, who paid tbe tax, and is
interesting as being, perhaps, nearly the earliest
existing Directory of these now flourishing suburbs.

Oliohton.

Willmo Deane, pro iiiili • .iiild.

Hagone Hiocooke, pro iiili • Uid.

Alicia Woodward, pro xxs. •••... id.

Willmo Hare, pro sis «««.f«fif« iid.

Willmo Wylocke, JiS^pro iUU iiid.

Johe Parbott, pro xxs .id.

Bicardo Hycoke, pro iiii li iiii d

Uxor' Jacobo Woodward, pro xls iid

Uxor' Bogero Wylcooke, pro iii 11 iii d

Uxor' Johe Beynyn' [?] pro xl s ii d

Willmo Penkythe, pro xl s ii d

Johe Hyggyn, pro xl s ii d

Johe Yoxton, pro iiiili iiii d

Willmo Ohamocke, pio xxs id

Petro Werburton, pro xls ..ii d

OXTOM.

Gilberto Hough, pro ▼ li x d

Thoma Hougb, pro xxs i d

Boberto Hough, pro xxs i d

Margareta Hough, pro xx s i d

Blanche Hough, pro xxs id

Johe Wau'ton, pro xx s i d

Hamone Wau'ton, pro xxs i d

Jacobo HoggdstoD, pro xxxxs ii d

Henrico SharUcre, pro iiili iiid

Alicia Shuflage, [?] pro xx s i d

Thoma Hyll, pro xx s 1 d

Henrico Hyoooke, pro xls iid

Boberto Deane, pro xxs id

Willmo Whytfeld, pro xl s ud

Oecilia Whytfeld, pro xl s ii d

Henrico Ohalner, pro xl s ii d

Johe Bobinson, pro iiiili iiii d

Thoma Hancocks, pro xls ii d

Agneta Ohalner, pro xxs id

Agoeta Hancoke, pro xx s i d

(2b 60 Continued.)

Glaughton.

Wx. FiBausso!* iBYm.

[110]

THE filDSTON BEGISTEBB.

(Oontinued ttom No. 107— iSth Aug.)
The true Begister for Bidston 1669.

Ohbibtinimcw.

(1) John Sonne of Wm Dol May 9th
Martha daughter of Thos Newbnt July.
Bobert sonne of Daniel Peacock, Aug 15th.
Henry sonne of Thos Jones, Aug Slst.
Alice daughter of Henry Watt, Feb 6th

Mabbuobs.

(2) WmEudes and Margery Newbut, married

July 6th.

(1) WiUlam Dod of M orelon,

(a) William Bwdes of Moreton. This name la now aaoally
spell YoaOs, and Is probably a oorxupUon of Beywood.

Seftbmbkb, 1892.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

BUBIALLS.

ETin Hioflook, buried April 19th.
Robert Pemberton, buried Jaoe 12tli.

(1) Arthur Parbnt. July 22.
Wilii«m Bennett, July 29.
Martha WiUon, AuRUst 15th.
Bijfihard Sharloek, NoTember 11th.
Henry Jonef , November 28th.
Anne Wilooek, December 5th.
William Eemp, December 6th.
John 'Vnieoek, Dfoember 8th.
William Taylor, December 10th.
William Bennett, January 18th
Elisabeth Erby, February 6th.

[Rest of transcript destroyed]

A true copie of ye Begiiter lor Bidston for ye
yeare 1670.

Ohbistkninos.

(2) Martha daughter of Wm Eodes. Aprill 24th
Martha daughter of Henry Williamaoo, July

24th
Heniy son of Henry Newport, September 2.

Marbuoeb.

Thomas Ohrooe and Elizabeth Taylor .married
12tfa of May

(3) Robert Quale and Oatherine Button, 16th

of August.
John Onrry of BebUngtoa and Ellen Hiokook,
Feb 21.

BUBIALLB.

(4)

Blanch Quale ye wife of Robert Quale, died

Jan 2

Francis Oranwicb^ August 8rd
Anne Maddocks, Augiut 29th
Anne Wilson, OototKur 26th
Richard Littimer, October 26th
(5) John Rathbone, Ootober 28th
Henry Bennett, NoTomber 27.
William Jones, December 8rd.
Mary ye daughter of Henry Williamson,

Dec 4th
Ellen Halton, December 13th
William Pembeiton, December 25th
John Pemberton, January 4th

(1) The following is a short abBtxacfe of his will: "I
AaTBTTB Pabbott. Of Bidston, yeomaD, being sickle in
bod ie, etc., will and beqaealh to.

William Parboti mj eldest son all that messaaRe eto.,
wherein I sow dwell, he paying all my dettes and main*
talnlDg Margaret my wife in snfflclent meate and drinke etc

To John Parbott my son £S, when he come oat of his
prentlceshlp."

Smaller soma to his daaghten Margaret, Ann, Ellen, and
Allo^.

"Id wire me trusty and well-beloved friendes John Fells
and Henry Newbott of Bidston to be my exeoators," 19th
July 1669

Witnenes: Blobard Wilson.

William Joanes. oler

Proved by both Bxecutors, l5th Jan 1675.

lnTonU>Ty valaed 14 Jan 1675 by Daniel Feaoook and
Thomas Maddook at £15 13 8.

Arthnr Parbott (or Parboltj was tenant of the farm now
ocoapled by Mr. Parkinson

(8) No doabt meant for Ewdes, vi'^e weddings prevloae
year.

(3) Vide barials Jan li same year.

(4) Vid4 Wedding August zvi same year.

(5) Administration of goods of John Hathbomb, of Bidston.
[Ford] was granted 19th January. 1670, to George Bennet, of
banghall-Maseey, and John Bathbooa. of Uotoa.

(1)

Mary WiiliamsoD, January 10th
Elizabefch Bathbone, January ISth
Elizabeth Parr, flfebruary 14th
John Parr, fiebruary 16 'h
Biohard Chamook, ffebruary 19th

Daniel Willoocke [ Church
John Urmson (?) j Wardens.

SEPTEMBER 10th, 1892.

[HI]

WIBBAL WOBTHIES.

v.— BIOHABD 8HERL00K, D.D.

(Oontinued from No. 95— August 6th.)

Wbile Sherlock acted aa chaplain to Shr Bobert
BlindloBse, he ahowed a tree Christian contempt of
bis own interest by the uprightness of his conduct.

** His patron,*' says Bishop Wilson, **had a just
esteem for the Church and her Ministers, both at
that time under a cloud ; and being eveiy way what
they call ao accomplished gentleman, it was no
wonder that very many were fond of the honour of
conyersing with him ; which had this unhappy effect,
that it made him in love with company and many of
the evils that attend it» and too many of the family
followed nis example. To make some amends, as
they thought, for these liberties, tbey expressed an
uncommon concern for the interest of the suffering
Church; not confidering that if we shall be shut
out of HeATcn for our sins, it will he no great com-
fort to us what Church we were members of on
earth.

*' The chaplain saw this with grief, and, therefore
after general discourses and intimations had had
little or no effect, he applied to his patron more
closely, and in a letter he wrote to him, laid down
his and the Tices of the family in terms so serious
and yet so mannerly, that one could not imagine a
mind so void of goodness, as to be offended with his
holy freedom. He desired him to consider what
injury he did to the distressed Church, for which he
always expressed so commendable a aesJ. He inti-
mated to him that this was both the cause of her
sufferings, and that which made her the scorn of her
enemies ; that her friends did her more dishonour
than they could do her hurt, so that she may truly
say in the words of Zeohariah, 'These are the
wounds which I receiyed in the house of my friends.*
He assured him that for his own part, he durst not
Ecem to countenance such criminal liberties, lest the
enemy should say that the Ordinances of the Gospel
were profaned with the consent of her Ministers.

(1) AdminiBtratlon of tbe goods of Biohaed OhAbmook, of
Dirkett Wood, was granted Srd June, 1671, to John Chamook
his son, and Dorothy Oharnook, his widow and reliot.

Bis personalty was valaed Jst Maroh, 1670, by Daniel
Wiicocke, William Wilson, and Henry Williamson.

Administration was also granted of the goods of John
ftvEBs, of Birkenhead Wood, on the 4th April. 1670, to If anr
his widow and reliot, and Thomas Crane and Biohard
Barrows, of the oity of Chester, and John Cranage of
Blrkenbead.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Septembbb, 1892.

And then, forgetting, or rather deepieiog his own
ioterest, the nnoertaioty of the timet, and all the
ezpeotationB he might hare from a person of so good
an interest in the world, he eamesuj preised either
to be hearkened to in this matter, or to be imme-
diately discharged from his offloe.**

It mnst be remembered that Sheiloek took this
step at a time when the regular clergy were starriDg,
and he himself wonld not have known where to
procure a snbaistenoe.

*' His patron was so far from being oflCended with
thto jnst Uberty of his faithful obaplain, thai he
heard him with submission, knowing well whose
ambassador he was, and ever after honoured him as
his friend ; and wonld by no means part with him,
until he thought his own entertainment too mean
for so worthy a person ; and then he most efifeotually
recommended him to a true son and loTer of the
Church, the Bight Honourable Oharles, Earl of
Dtrby, who made him his domestio Chaplain, and
reposed so much confidence in him, that upon the
Restoration of the Boyal Family, he entrusted him
with a commiesion to settle the aflkirs of the Chnreh
of Man, which during the Great Bebellion had
suffered in her Doctrine, her Discipline, and her
Worship.

" This difficult work he went through, while his
fellow commissioners settled the Ci? il and Military
affairs, to the entire satisfaction of the Lerd and
people of that island ; which, by the blessing of God
continues as uniform in her worship, as orthodox in
her doctrine, and as strict and regular in her
discipline as any Christian Church in the world.

F. Sinnns

{To be cofUtntMcQ.

[112]

THE SUBSIDY BOLL OF 1545.

(Continued from No. 109 -Sept 8rd.)

Tbanmob.

Boberto Newton pro xzs id.

Johe Bmmbrugh pro vli xd.

Willmo Madocke pro iiili bon iiid.

Johe Bobynson pro xxs id.

Thoma Huotyngton pro xJs lid.

Johe Home pro iiili iiid.

Margareta Home, vid. pro iiili iiid.

Bicbardo Home pro xls iid.

Thoma HoUne pro xls iid.

Agneta Holme pro xxs Id.

Willmo Hyll pro xls iid.

Willmo Younge pro xls iid.

Johe Adelston pro xls iid.

Bicbardo Hiccooke pro iiili iiid.

Johe Hyll pro xxs iti.

Willmo WilUamson pro xls iid.

Johe Harryson pro iiiiU iiiid.

Willmo Mylner [f] pro xxs id*

Willmo Jenson pro xls iid*

Willmo Boole pro iiili iiid.

Bicbardo Inglefield pro iiili iiid.

Thoma Willuunson pro iiiili Uiid.

Thoma Pynnyngton pro xls iid.

Johanna Godelston pro xls iisi.

Richardo Asthocke pro xxs id.

Yours, Aw.,

Wx. FsBOUBSOii Ibtxnb.
Claughton.

[118] THE BIDSTON BEQI8TBB8.

(Continued from No. 110— Sept. 8rd.)
A true Begister lor the Parish of Bidston, 1671. (1)

CBBismnNflw.

Samuel, the eonne of John Truman, ApriU 18.

Margarett, ye dau. of Thomas Jones, Oct. 17.

Samuel, ye daughter [tic,] of James William-
son, of LeTerpoole, Oct. 17.

Daneall, ye sonne of Danneall Peaoook,
Deo. 12.

Hugh, the Sonne of firands CoTentree, Deo.
12.

Mabbuoks.

William Kemp and Ann Dod, of Moreton,
Aprill24.
(2) Thomas 'VTilson, of CHghton, and Mary Lene.
of Woodchnreh, were married Oct. 12.
Arthur Bathbone and Margaret Laith, Nor. 7.

BuBUia.

EUiabeth Kitchin, of Moiei<m, Manh 26th.
Bobert Peacock, of Saughall, Aprill 7th.
Margaret Parboe, of Bidston, Apiill 14L
(8) Thomas Maddock, of SaughaU, Aprill 15th.
(4) Katrhen, ye wife of Bobert Quale, Aprill 19th.
Mary Parboe, of Bidston, was boned April

29th.
William Sires, June 16th.
(6) Sushan, ye daughter of Thos. Giell, June 27th
Elisabeth Cranwich, of Birkett, Sept. 27tb.
John Parboe, of Bidston, Oct. 15th.
Margaret, dau. of James Anderton, Oct 18.
Jane, the dau. of WilUn. Dolby, Not. 7.
(6) Dorothy Chamook, of Birkett, widdow, Jacy.
27.
Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Nnpori, of Bidston,

March 18.
Henry, son of Henry Nnport, of Bidston,
March 18.

Thomas \nison.
Joseph Phillips.

(1 ) In the following year. 1679, adminlatcatlon waa siaatea
on zz Jan. of gooda of Hiubb PxMBBaTow, lale of Baaghan-
Masale, to ThoB Hall, Joyner of the Oity of Chester, and
Bebeoka Pemberton, widow anS rellot.^

(2) In the Tranaoripte of the O^erohoroh Begliter this
wedding between Thoa. Wllaon and Maif Lene ii entered
as having taken place at that ohorch.

(3) Administration of the goods of Tboxab Middo«k, late
of Banghall-tfasser, was granted 30(h Aogaat, Un. lo
Margery, his widow and relict, and mention is made of bis
sons Richard, William, and Peier, and his eldeil Mm
Thomas.

(4> Fidtf Weddings zvi Aogait, 1670.
(5) There are two copies of this Transorlpl at Ghester;
this entry is only present in one of them.
6 J Widow of Biohard Ohamook. who died IMh IMKoary,

16^1

SVTBMBaB, 1692,

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIEB.

QBURXAniOB AT BiDBXOH, 1673.

ThomM, Sonne of Wm. Tendes, je 18 Aprill.
Heeter, dan. of Wm. Dode, ye same day.
Sarah, je dan. of Thos. Newbnt, ye 80th

Deeember.
William, aonne of Wm. Kempe, ye 8th of

Febraaiy.
Elizabeth, dan. of Btnry Carey, Maieh 8th.

WlDDXNOe Yl TlAB 1678.

Blehard Leadbeader and Alioe Xieneker,

married April 2.
Siflbard Pemberton and Ann Soitonn married

7 of July.
Biohard Woodvorth and Katrhen Waaltfngion,

26 Not.
Thomas Ooodakcr and. Ann Satlef, married

23 Feb

BuBiiLB n Tbabb 1678.

Gilbeard WiUson waa bnried ye 7tl& pt Aprill
Elizabeth ye wife of Henry Bobinaon, of Ozon

16 April
Marey ye wife of Biohard Pemberton, bnried

ye 18 May.
Dorothy EieUaton waa boried ye 2 of Jone.
Bobert ye son of Biohard Willion boried 7th of

Jane.
Ann Ormaon waa bnried ye 26th of June.
John ye eon of Biohard Kaye bnried ye 14th

of Jnly.
Biohard Leneker waa bnried ye21at of Angoat.
John Pemberton waa bnried yo last day of

Oetober.
Allioe ye wife of William Dode was boried ye

7th of Not.

(1) Daniel Willliook waa bnried ye 24th of Not.
Margree ye wife of John Parbnt waa bnried

26 of NoTomber.
Elizabeth ye wife of John Ormaon, 28
Deoembtr.

(2) Biohard Stokton of ye pariah of Medstnn-in-

Eent, bnried January 27th
Jaeob ye eon of Thomas Obanook boried 22

Feb.
Daceall son of John Bathbon was boried 16
olMarob.

SEPTEMBER 17th, 1892.

[114]

WIBBAIi WOBTHIES.

v.— BlOHABD SbERIiOOK, D.D.

(Ootttinoed from No 111.^ September 10th.)

"Upon the Doctor's retom flrom that happy
ialand, by the fcvonr of his noble patron, he obtained
a preeentation (1664), to the Parsonage of Winwick

(1) Admlnlitratlon of the gooda of Danxxl Willooox. of
BIdslon-oam-Itea, wm giftnfted to Bilen, his widow and
feUel.

(DThaonlyioggestion that I can make to explain the
pteMooe of a man of Kent at Bideton !•, that aSoat this
period Sir Bobert Vyner beoame poBseNed of ^he Bidston
estate, and thli man may liaTe been his steward or bailiff.

from King Oharles II., the patronage belog at that
time in dispute, and immediately after, npon the
expiration of a lease of ninety-nine years, his living
beoame one of the best in England."

Bherlook passed the rest of his life at Winwiok,
with which place bis name is indissolnbly oonneoted.
He was in all respects a model parish priest. " The
first thing he set himself to, hesides the ordinary
dnties of the Ministry, was to compose and publish
a short and plain Paraphrase npon the Ohnroh
Oatechism, exceedingly well suited to the oapaoities
of his people. After this, to use his own words,
beoanse " Doctrine without praotioa is but a body
of religion without a soul to quicken it,*' he pub-
lished a Summary of Ohristian Practioe, under the
title of " The Bractwal ChrUiian.'' And haTW
freely giTen a oousiderable number of both these
worlu amongst his parishioners, the good effect soon
appeared in such a number of constant, dsTout
oommnnieants, as at that time was hardly to be seen
in any parish in England.

His preaekdng waa like bis doTOtiona, plain and
praotioal. And, although, till he grew much into
years he was a constant preacher, yet he always
entertained in his house at least three curates for
the serrioe of his Oburch and Ohapels. So thtt
both on account of the Doctor's primitiTO example,
as also the choice he made of persons to senre at the
Altar, Winwick became a Tery desirable place for
young dlTinea to improTO themaelTes in the work of
the Ministry.

Sherlock set himself Tery earnestly to bring
his people to a decent uniformity in the
public worship of God. And this he
brought about in a short time ohiefly by the
example of his own most humble and deTont
behariour ; and where that would not do, he made
use ef rebukes, and a aeal which few people were
proof against.

As an instance of this, it is stated that " a person
of the first quality being at his church, aod a gentle-
man of his retinue not beharing himaelf with that
dieoretion and seriousness which the place and
service required, the doctor, without any regard to
the number or quality of the geotleman'a friends,
ordered him to be turned out of the church. This
unexpected rebuke soon changed his behaviour ; and
being l^ the chnrclkwardeos permitted to atay tut ihe
aerviee was ended, he then, according to the
notorious profane way of that gentlemao, said to
his company : ** They threaten us with the devil, hot
I fear him not half so much as I do that old gentle-
man in the long beard, meaning the Doctor."

Dr. Sherlock was so strict a rerident that for
nearly thirty years he was scarce so many weeks, all
put together, absent from his flock. During this
time he kept up ** a constant and decent hospitdlity,
but the greatest part of bis revenues he emplojcd in
charities of one kind or other. Indeed he coneidered
his income as a mere depoeitum, and himself
only as a steward ; and therefore though
he was kind enough to his relations, yet he did not
think fit to confine his Idndness to them. Potatsaio
Eccleaiae aumpttit est figenaruijn was his maxim as well
as St. Ambrose's.

*< Any worldly aim or concern had so little share in
his affections, that after he had been for ao maey

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

SXPTXMBBB, 1892.

76an poflBMsed of one of the beat livingB in Eogland,
At his death he left behind him not aboTe one year's
profits, and even these in a great measure to pions

uses.

He always satisfied himself with the bare neoes-
sities of life, and his temperanoe was every day snoh
that one of his corate's allowance would have de-
frayed all his personal expenses."

F. Sahdibb.

{To he Continued),

[115] THE BUBSIDT EOLIi OF 1545.

(Oontinned from No. 112 -Sept. lOtb.)

LOUOHAB BbBTNTOB.

Eogero Alyn pro iiili iild.

WiUmoMaodyn [?] proiiiili iiiid.

Boberto Mawrie pro xxs id.

Johe bearysbryoke pro zxs • id.

Willmo Hoggeston pro xxs id.

Johe Bratt pro iiili iiid.

Jaoobo Hole pro iiili iiid.

Willmo Hole pro iim iiid.

Willmo Warehoose pro iiili iiid.

Johe Alen pro iiili iiid.

Willmo Hnntyngton pro xxs id.

Johe Gierke pto xxs id.

WiUmo Ooke pro xla .lid.

Tours, Ao.,

Wk. Fbboussoh Ibtisb.

{To be continued,)

[116]

THE filDSTON BEGIBTBEB.

(1)

(Oontinaed from No. 118— September 10th.)

OHBISTBNINaS Yb TbAB 1675 AT BlDSTON.

James sonae of Richard Willson of Bidston

April 15th.
James sonne of Jacob Wright 11th Joly.
Thomas sonne of Thos. Newbnt 10th Angost.
AUoe daughter of Ather (Godwin, Sept. 2.
John, son of Hen Newbntt, 14th Dec.
Biohar J eon of John Hiocock, 12th March.

Noo Weddings.

(1.) Arthur Oodwin was a bod of John Godwin, of Brom-
ley. Go. Stafford, who married, about 1640, Alice Bennet.
2nd daughter of Richard Bennet, of Saushaii MasBey.by hli
wife Blisabeth daughter of John Ley of the same place.

Arthur Godwin married on the 26th July, 1672, at West
Klrby, Ellen Harrison of that Pariah, and became the father
of a numerona family, some ef whose descendants are still
lining in tfce neighbourhood. He occupied the farmhouse,
whion stands on the left-hand side of the ro&d as one goes
from Baughall towards ^ewton, on the western gable of
which are still to be seen his initials and those of his wife
oat in the stone, above the date 1690.

(1). BUBIALLBS Tb Tbabb 1675.

Martha dan of Henry Hamlet boried 11 Mi^r*
(9) Henry Robinson of Oztoo bnried 21st Msy.

Bobert Benet boried 26th of May.

Alice ye late wife of Bobert Benet, 16 ione.

Ellen wife of Daneall Peakock, 18 inly.

Edward Cranage, buried 1st November.

William Waley bnried 8rd Noyember.

Bichard Pemberton boried 25 MoTember.

Margery Madock boried 25 NoTember.

Henry Oaoliyen bnried 2 December.

Eatrhen Williamson bnried 20 December.

ICargaret Williamson of LcTerpoole 25 Decem-
ber.

Margaret wife of Nathanael Johnes 20th Jan.

Jane dao of Thomas Lankfort 27 Feb.
(3) John Eaton, Onrate.

William Willson, Ohorah
William Bennet, Wardens.

Ohzistened at Bidston the yeare 1676.

Hannah daughter of Thomas Hiocock Hay

26th
Maiy danghter of John Leene May 29th
John son of James Wagg Jnne 4th
Henry son of Arthur Bathbone June 29th

(4) Peter son of Thomas Madox Sept 17th
Hannah dauof Bichard Gill Sept 18th
Bichard son of Bichard Eitohen Oct 5th
Thomas son of Bichard Woodworth Dec 5th
Anne dan of Wm Dod Dec 7th
Margaret dan of Thomas Newbnt March 18th

(6) William son of John Sires March 20th
Mary danghter of Wm Parbnt March 22.

WBDDiiras.

Bichard Edwards and Grace Oalyin, March

27.
John Nicholas and Bliaabeth Wilson May

29.

^— i^ — ^^— ^^— ^ ■»

(1.) In his will dated 28th Jane, 1672, proTed 19th Febru-
ary, 1674, JoHH KzHOSTON, of Bidston [Ford], leases *' £5
yearlie to his eon, Paul Kingston during the life of Mistress
Annie Deane"and "£8 yearlie to my dear wife [Blary],"
whom he also makes Bxeoutrlz.

Witnesses : Bobert Wilson,

Bdward Litherland,
Daniel Wilcooke.

Administration of the goods of UxoHAan LxraiBZiAim, of
Birkenhead Leys, was granted October 2l8t, 16^ to Henry
Tonng, of Poolton, Seaoombe, nephew of deceased.

Administration of the goods of Janb Lithxbz.ahd« widow,
late of Birkenhead Leys was granted 18th February, 1675,
to Henry Tonng, in virtue of a will which deceased made
by word of month, leaving all the property to tbe said
Henry Young.

Her personalty was valued by Henry Bird and Bichard
arifath8at£2078.2d.

(2) On the last page of the Beglster Book there is a copy
of a portion of the will of a certain Mr. Bobert Boblnson. of
Ozton, gent, dated 1652, in which he leaves £10 to the poor
of the Parish of Bidston, in return for wiilch he stipulates to
be buried " betwixt the Church porch and ye ohannoel door
as near the church wall as may oe,** and leaves the balk of
his property to his son Henry, who la probably the Henry
Boblnson, of Ozton, here mentioned.

(3) This is the first appearance of Mr. Baton In the
Beglster, the transcript is in a clerk's hand, bat the algnature
is Mr, Eaton's own.

(4.J On the 29th September, 1675, a licence was Issued at
Chester " To the ministers of Bidston and Holy Trinity.
Chester " for the maniage of *' Thomas Maddocke, of
Baughall- MasBie, and Alice Bennett, of the same," In con-
nection with which license it is added, ** Nicholas Tubman
was sworn" [Mueellanea Qenealoaica el Heraldica. NJ3*
vol. iv.)

(5.) Of Olaaghton.

1892.

WIBBIL KOTSd JiKD QUBBIB3.

(L) HeBiyBcufil Mif Kck
ThomM WihBtm Jn« S5A
IIA17 HieeoQk Oel 4|h
OetScik
■« of Jote Sld^v «C

Join MB of Wa Doi D«e aik
(S) TboMM UnMQB fab 13ik

SEPTEMBER 24th, 189$

[117]

WIBBAL WOBTHISS.

y.— Bnauas Shkilocx« DJ>«

(OoBtiBwd from Ko. 114~8^plaiiber 17tb.)

"About thiM yeuB boTora bis deatb, b^iog
informed that the next adTOVBon of Winvick bad
bMO obtainod for the Master of UniTersity C. Itegi*,
O^ord, tbo doctor immediately iDrited him down
into the eovotryi and, withoat being cffended at the
Bigbt of hia a n o oe aaor, be not on j received him
oovrteondyy but thinking himself in hi« old age
noeqiiial for so great a harden, be d€€ir- d him to
aooept of the oare and the profits of that Rreat
Beotory, reaerrtng to himself a very mo^lermte share
of the inoomea for bis own fatnre sabaisteoce.

Sberlook died some months after the BevoIntiOQ
and before any measores were taken to try who did
not approve of the ways engaged in to brinit it abont,
BO that it would be impertinent to say what lie wonld
have done had he lived a few weeks longer in a ease
in which he was exceedingly resenre 1. As he had
lived a life of the strictest temperance and had
enjojed an nninterrapted health, soar je knowing by
e^Mffienoe what sickness was, his dissolntion was
accordingly wlthont violence or any remarkable
agonies.

He was of a body so spare and light that until a
few days before he died he ooald walk as nimbly as
a youth, which was his constant ez^roise for a
quarter of an hour before he eat ; and which no

(L) Admlnfitraiion of Ihe goodB of Henst BcmriT, of
BaoiAiaU Hassey waa granted on the 30lh Jane, 1676, to hit
■0D|40hn Bennet.

The lavenlory of hit ffooda wai prepared by Oeorm
Bennet and George Martin* Among the debts owing by
deoeased are amoants dae to Tho^. and Robert Wilson.
Edward Olea. Bsq . Henry HookenhuU, o( Tranmere, Aun
Warrlsston and Henry Robinson, of Ozton.

(2.) Thomab Ubmstom, of Moreton, in hla will proved In
1678, mentions his cousin, Wm. Coventry, his uncle Mr.
Roger Qlegg, of Arrowe, hla aunt, Martha Qlegg, his uncle,
Qlegg of Orange, hla cousin Henry Dai by, of Little Meola,
and coualn Thomas Mosae, of Woodcbaroh. and cousin,
ThoB.QiU. And appoints aa Ezecntora, ** my klDaman, Evan
Marsh, of Liverpool, Henry Pemberton, of Upton, and
Bobert Baaadale» of Qreat Meola.'* His peraonalty war
Taloed%IM87,

aa age, lor he

hlshl«le

Rpilafh to ha s^fimfM

&ICHAKDI SBBRLOCS, aTA

ESDiosissDa Hrars BOCLBSuia

omT m ris ^Trxn« ar. abtjltis

AKKO POM 1G&

SAL isTArrArcM

laK. HflMy Preseot, of OhestsTi wlM
the Doctor*^ life aal marimfe and who
regard lor hia

d a

this

m TiBi sahctisbimi modbstia i

QUI KPITAPHrCll SB IKDIONUM
IN8CSIBI VOLSBAT, CUM TITA
BT XBBITA bus LAUDB3 (MUOHI
LOSOB SCPBBABBdIT

His Foneral Setmoo, pteaehed hf hia friaod and
tte, BeT. T. Crane, oontaina maBj intensitBg
partie:ilars of the Doctor's life.

Bishop Thoasaa Wileoo, the weithisal of Wiiral
Worthitfl, was a nephew of 8heriock*s» being the eon
of the Doctor's sister. WiImq was^ one of hia
nncle'o enrat«s from 1636 to 16di. baring th«^ oharge
of New Cbnreh in the pariah of Wlawieh. It ia to
him that we are mainlj indebted for wiiat we know
of Sherlock's life.

In 1677 Sh-rloek gave £50 to form a oow charity
at Oxton, the townehip in whieh be waa born* His
deed of gift has been alreadj printed In yonr
oolomas. (See Mo. 8i, Jnlj 16th, and No. 91,
JnlySOth.) F. iiAKSSM.

[118J •• BOMISH RECUSANTS ** AT THURS-
TA8X0N IN THE 16th CENTUBT.

The care with which, in £liiabeth*s reign, any
signs of popish disaffection were buutei oat is
exemplified by the following little dooomeat from
the Bishop of Chester's Beglatry.

Written st the foot of the Transcript of tba
Begiaier for the year 1581, for the Parish of Thnr-
Btaaton, are the following notes.

" Master John Wytbmore and alener hia wife (1)
do no en' [come] to the obnrohe nor reoene*

Thomas Haddocks and Johann hia wife do not oa*
to the ohnrche nor Becene.

Wyliyam Wythmore gentyilman doth on* to tha
obnrohe bnt not rect ne.

Ales his wife (9) doth nether os' to tha ohnreha

nor reoene

X. T. Z.

(1) Daaghter of Blotaard Done of Flaxyarda Bag.
k2) Daughter of William Hoagta of Leighton ana Xboratea
Baq«

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Sbptembbb, 1892.

[119] WIBRAL SUBSIDT BOLL FOR

1645.

(OoDtinaed from No. 115— September 17feh).

OtBE BflBTNTON.

Roberto Home pro iiili • iiid.

Johe GoTet pro xli . . • . . • iid.

Willmo Bjlej pro zla iid.

ThnrftADDO Oolley pro ulili iiiid.

Thoma Alen pro zla iid.

Willmo Knowealey pro iiiU iiid.

Henrioo Penny pro zz0 id.

Hngho Hoggleston pro zzb id.

Henrioo Lont pro zu iid.

Bichardo Tozton pro xzs id.

Tlumui Hidde pro iiiili iiiid.

POTON OUM BpTTTELL.

Henrioo Dobbe pro Tili ziid.

Boberto Brnsoo pro iiiili iiiid.

Willmo WiUiameon pro iiiili iiUd.

Hngone Lecke pro iiili iiid.

Boberto Hogeeton p] pro zla iid.

Bichardo Brnsoo pro zls iid.

Boberto Boland pro zla iid.

Biohardo Hogeeton pro zzs id.

Boberto Leoke pro zza • • • .id.

Magna Stannkt.

Milone Whyteof pro zla iid.

Willmo Wbyteof pro zla .Ud.

{To be eonHnued.)

[120]

THE BIDSTON BEOISTEBS.

(Oontinaed from No. 116. — September 17tb.)
(1) A Begiater for the Parish of Bidaton for the

year 1679.

Chsistininos.

Blohard son of John Obarnock of BirkeDhead
Mar 27

(1) On tbe 28ib Janaary 1678 (o.b) an Invenfeory was
exhibited of the goods of TH0X4.g Maddook of Saaghall-
HasBey, Talaed by Artbar Qodwin and John Balhbone at
£98 28. Od.; and at tbe same time, custody of tbe two obll-
dren, Peter Maddo(*k aged 10 years and Anne Maddook a ged
9 years was granted to Alice widow and relict of tbe late
Thomas Maddook.

In bis will dated 3 January 1678, William Tatlob of Bid*
Bten yeoman, leaves to bis wife Ann Taylor, "one moiety
of tbe tenement in Bldston wherein I now dwell, and also
one half of the tenement In Olaagbtoncam Orange acoord*
ing to Articles made at ye marriage of my eldest daagbter
Buen, daring her life and then to descend to my 8on*ln-law
[Bobert] Wilson.'*

Mentions. " ye children of my sonne Orosse. my grand*
children Hannah and Jeremiah Wilson " and " my foare
daagbters."

"1 give £8 to my daughter Ellen for repairing and boild-
r tbe Kitcbln House.'*
To my sister Jane in Obester a cow."

** To my man John Anderton a befler with a starr In ye
forebesd "

Bzors. : Wife Ann Taylor and Bobert Wilson, son-in-law.

Witnesses: James Anderton,
Matthew Wilson,
John Anderton.
Proved by both Bxecators, June 28th, 1673.

Inventory valued 6tb March, lt78, by Balph Bellln,
Blchard Wilson and John Beonct.

Debts due testator from Balph Bellln. £40; Thomas
Banoook, of Moreton, £19; Jane Curreye, of Neston, £1 10s.

Ingi

Hen son of Thoa Wilaon of ye aame, Ap 24.
Mary dan of Wm Towda of paatnreaide Ap 27.
Mary dan of Jaa Wagge of Moreton, May 25.
Margaret dan of Jaa Anderton of paetnreaide,

June 29.
Eatherine dan of PanI EiogBton of ford, May

80.
Martha dan of John Hiooook of Qanghtoo,

AngS.
Artfanr aon of George Jeyoaon of Moretoiit

Ang 28.
Margaret dan of Oven Steele of Bidaton, Oct

10.
Joseph Bon of Geo Bonnet of Sangham, Oct

11.
Barbara dan of John Leene of Olaogfatos,

Oot 12.
Eliz dan of Hen Newport of Sangham, 9br

20.
Mary dan of Wm Dod of Moreton, 9br 30.
Margret dan of John Upahon of paatnreaide,

Deo 4.
John aon of Arthur Godwin, of Sangham.

Deo 26.
Hanna dan of Samnel Lea of Sangham, Dec

26.
Joana aon of Wm Longley of ford, Deo 30.
Ann dan of Thoa Jones of Sanghan-Carr,

Mar 9.

Weddinos.

Thoa Leveraedge, of Middlewioh p*iah and
Bebeooa Pemberton, of Bidaton p'iab. May
16 by lioenoe dated May 14.

Hen Taylor and Anne Pemberton of Bidaton
p'iah by pnb'oon of banns, Deo 26.

Wm Leyeraedge of Middlewioh p'iah and
Martha Pemberton of Bidaton p'iah were
married by due pnblioation of banna let
Jan.

BUBTALS.

Bobert aon of John Bathbon de Moreto*i,

bnried Ap 20th.
Jane dan of Heory Oarey de Moreton, Ap 20th
Ajme dan of Geo Martin de Sanghan-Oarr,

Jnne 8th.
Martha dan of Wm. Dod de Pastnre-Side

Sept. 3.
Mary dan of Pan! Kingston de Ford Sept. 18.
Martha dan of John Hioock da Olanghton

Sept. 28.
(1) Ellen Newbnt de Sanghall-Masaey Sept 29.
Barbara dan of John Leene de Clangliton

Oot. 16.
Anne Bennet de Sanghall-Maaaey Oot. 28.
Margaret dan of Oven Steele de Bida'on

Deo. 5.
Stephen Wiloook de Moreton Deo. 14.
Mary wife of Thoa. Hanoooke de Moreton

Deo. 24.

Joho Eaton, Miniater.

^'or8°];t, } 0"= ^■""»''-

(1.) This Is the first entry In the old hegister u )uk at
Bldston; for earlier records one is told to * consalt
the old book," which however, is not forthcoming, having
been lost at some time previous to 1779.

On the fly leaf of this back, which Is comp3sed of 64
membranes of parchment and vellam, are somepartioalara
concerning the Poor-stock and ttie signatare, "Benjamin
Clarke, schoolmaster of Bldstoa" tnd ** Pretiam naias
Libri, IBs,"

OOTOBKB, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

OCTOBER 1st, 1892.

ORNAMENTS OF NE8T0N OHUROa
[121] IN 1548.

la the Library and Maseam, beqaeathed by the
late Joeeph Mayer, Efq. to the Parieh of Bebington
there are two Tolnmee of nnpnblished dooaments,
one of whioh oontaine many onginal medinval deeds
of great intereet and Talne relating to the Handred
of Wiira], uid we are pleased to be able to state
that, by the kindness of the Managers, permission
has been obtidned to publish snob of the doenments
as are likely to interest readers of Notes and Qaeries.

lir. Irvine has undertaken the work of trans-
eribing the doenments, with the kind assistanoe of
Mr. Harding, the obliging Librarian.

The first doonment we print is :—

The Inventorie of all the Ornaments of the parbhe
ehnrohe of Neston, taken afore Sir John Massye
Knyght and Boland Stanleye Esqoier,* appoynted
the King's Oommissioners in this behalf the xi days
of Marohe Ao : rrg : Ed : sezt : ii. [1^18]

Imprimis : ] ehalioe with a paten.

Itm : ] vestment of satten of bmdges [Bmges]

Itm : ii eopes j of fostian j other of bostian.

Itm : j Testment of blaoke nsted [?worsted]

Itm : j vestment of bostian very olde.

Itm : j Testment of «ylk of ij colors verey olde.

Itm : j Testment of oanTSS djed blewe and wronght
with sylke old and ragged.

Itm : j eope with one Testment of sylke.

Itm : j oroBse of oopper and gylt.

Itm : ti j bells in the steple.

John Massey [sgd]

Boland Stanley Esquire [sgd]

[123] BTANLAW— A FORGOTTEN ABBEY.

On the banks of a great riTor in the north of
England, within a short distanoe of each other, there
formerly stood four Priories, an Abbey of imporianoe
and wealth, beside more than one stately Monastic
Orange of other wealthy eommnnitles, whose boild*
ings exoeeded in grandenr those of some of the minor
abbeys, one being a walled and moated fortified
honse. Tfaeri?er itself was noted for its prodnotiTO
i&aheries, from which snoh abondance of fish was
eanght, that ap to the middle of the eighteenth
eentnry the snrplns supply was spread in the fields
for manure. On the right bank, wide fields of fertile
and undulating land were bounded by wider h» aths,
and woods, and among these was a stately Boyal
Castle and park. The left band, beautifully undu-
lated, was chiefly woodland, and stretched away to
loftier hills and crags, on whioh was another great
n^al forest, wherein was an ancient Saxon town.

Winal Worthlea Nos. 171]. [78] and [R].

and beyond that again, one of the chief Boman
stations in Britain. The Tiew was dosed by
range upon range of lofty mountains,
blue with distance. The scene was one of
the loTcliest among the many that England
could show. With so many distinguishing marks,
thia locality should, one would think, be easy of
recognition; but who, looking at it to-day, could
find in tliis description the Biver Mersey. Where
now is the Boyal Castle of Liverpool, with its
park of Toxtethr The Priory of Birkenhead
is a neglected ruin; Norton Priory, a country
mandon ; the Friary of Warrington only traceable
below oottage foundations; Buncom Priory
has long ceased to exist ; Ince Grange is a bam ;
and of Stanlaw, the most important of all, eTon the
name is unfamiliar, and few men know its lonely
site, or that it cTer had existence. Tet of thi4
Abbey there exists one of the most complete and
perfect books of ancient records, whioh goes by the
title of *' The Concher Book of Whalley," this being
the chartnlary of that great Lancashire Abbey,
glTing a list of the Tast and Taluable lands of that
Institation, of which Stanlaw was the mother hoase.
The Abbey belonged to the Cistercians, an order
which practised the greatest austerity, who usually
ohose lonely and seoladed places for their abode and
whose buil^ngs, thoagh usually simple in style, were
among the most beautiful and dignified of their age,
The Monks had not been fortunate in the choice of
a site for their buildings at Stanlaw. It is true
that the solitude so dear to the Cistercian Order
was complete. The Abbey stood upon a rocky
knoll by the riTorside, close to the point where the
small river Gowy falls into it. This little stream
bears a British name, '* Gwy," the ** fiowing water."
It is also called TarTin Water, and its course is
through the wide marshes that separate Stanlaw
from the higher and more fertile fields of Cheshire.
The name of the rocky knoll is older than the
Abbey. *' Steinlaw *' or low means the Stony bill,
and the name has a Saxon derivation. Although
built on rocky ground, the site of the Abbey was
low, and some of its buildings stood on flat ground,
In the year 1278 it is recorded that a great
tide and storm flooded the lower buildings of the
Abbey and caused the Monks much damage.
The Abbey was founded by John, Constable of
Chester, in 1178, on the eve of his departare for
the Holy Laud, and he endowed it with the Manors
of Stanney and Askton. For fifty years we learn
little of the Abbey, hot after that date, benefaotions
began to pour into the hands of the community, and
it became by the middle of the 14th Century, one of
the wealthiest in England. The following are
among the lands granted to the Abbey by Tarions
donors. Boger, Constable of Chester, endowed it
with lands and lordships at Bochdale, Caetleton,
Merland, the waste of Brendewood, and the
township of Little Woolton, John de Lascy gSTC
Blackbnrne, Eccles, and Steynioges, Adam de Garston
gave several lands at Garston, Aigbarth, and
Cbildwall, and many other grants were made to the
Abbey, the chief one being that of Wballey by
Edmund Earl of Lancaster. The low and
marshy lands surrounding the Knoll, on which the
Abbey itself stood, were liable to fioods, and in 1279
they sufiered from a great inundation, which
destroyed much of th^ land, and the water

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

OOTOBEB, 1892.

atood three or fonr feet deep in their oathuildings,
and a similar disaster two years afterwards oansed
additional loss to the Abbey. We are told of the
deetraotion of 160 acres of land, and the roads were
broken up and destroyed. It seems scarcely credible
that an ordinary flood or storm could cause such
permanent damage, and it has been supposed that
the submergence of the land was oaused by its sub-
sidence. Some oonfirmation of this theory is based
on the fact that beds of decayed Tegetable matter,
apparently an ancient surface, have been found in
cutting the Manchester Bhip Oanal, below the
level of ordinary tides. In the year 1287 the tower
of the Abbey was blown down by a storm, and soon
afterwards a fire destroyed many ef the buildings.
Discouraged by these frequent disasters, the Monks
petitioned Pope Nicholas lY to permit their
removal to Whalley, to which in 1289 he gave assent.
The Bull was revoked by his successor, Boniface
Vm, but permission was flnaUy granted and in
1294 the Monks removed to Whalley, where they
erected the magnificent Abbey, of which the ruins are
etui visible ; and in 1806 the new abbey was conse-
crated. Stanlaw was not wholly abandoned ; the
old Abbot and four monks remained, and it became
a cell to its great and wealthy successor, and so con-
tinued till the Beformation, when it was dissolved
together with Whalley. E. W. Ooz.

{To be eofiHnued.)

[128] THE BIDBTON BEQIBTBBS.

(Oontimned ftromKe. 120^Beptember 24.)

(1) 0HBX8TSNIR0B AT BiDilOM 1680.

Henry son of Hichard Edwards de Pastoreside

AprUlS.
(2) Judeth dau of Qeo. Martin Saughall-Oarre

Aug 17.
William son of Thos Newbut de Saughall-

Massey Aug 29.
Micah son of Wm Kemp de Bidston, Sept 12.
Thomas son of Wm Webster de Moreton

Sept 30.
(8) Margaret dan of John Hiooook de Olanghton

Nov 2.
(4) Joseph son of Wm LBversage de Saughall-

Carre Nov 16.
Elizabeth daughter of Bichard Kitchens de

Pastureside Nov 80.
Joseph son of Bic Gill de Moreton Jan ii.
Johu son of Paul Kingston de Ford feb 2.
Mary dau of James Anderton da Pastureside

Mari.
Martha dau of Hugh Jones de Pastureside

Mari.

No WsDDiNos this yeare.

(1) Tbe GhriBtenings are from the TranBoripta at Ohester
but the Burials from the Beglatar Book at BlUfton*
(2t Vide Burials Aprlal zviil 168L
(5) Vide Burials zxz January.
(4) Fid«BarlalsxzvUl November.

Burials from Marofa 26th 1680.

Henry Newbut de Saughall-Massey June 21
William Dod de Park-gate July 2.
Jane dau of Thos Bobinson de Ozon July 6.
Ellen dau of Thos Ley de Banghall-Massey

Sep. 10.
Margaret Brereton de Moreton widdow Sep 19
Tho : son of Sam Share de Newbold in the

parish of West Kirby Oct 28.
ThoB Davies de Moreton, Nov. 4.
John Pemberton de Bidston Nov 5.
Anne dau of Thos Jones de Saugall Oar Not
18.
(1) Joseph son of Wm Leversage de Sangal Oar
Nov 28.
James Wilson de Claugbton Dec 2.
Eleanor Lye de Id ogham, widdow. Deo 10.
John Wilson de Clanghton. Deo 19.
Ellen Wilson de Olanghton Deo 22.
Katherine dan of Paul Kingston de ford Jan
80.
(2) Margaret dau of John Hioook de Olanghton
same day.
Anne dau of Bichard Wlllson de Bidston, feb

22.
John son of Bichard WHlson de Bidston,
Mar 12.

John Eaton Minster.

S2ite;r}<^^w..deo.

OCTOBER 8th, ^ 1892.

[124] STANLi^W-A FOBGOTTEN ABBET.

(Oontinued from No. 122— October 1.)

What was done with the ancient buildings, we
have no record to tell. The Abbey became, or
rather continued to be, a farm { and the buildingB
now standing on the site were erected during the
18th century, chiefly of brick. A few shafts of
round pillars, used up in the farm*buildings. and a
passage out in «he rock, probably a drain, were, till
recently, the only visible relics of the ancient work.
Tbe farm stood widely parted from the busier ways
of men by flat, marshy meadows, almost without
roads, and, in winter and bad weather, almost
impassable. A few years ago the Manchester Ship
Canal cut through the peninsula on which it stands,
and for a tinre the secluded spot was crowded with
workmen's huts and excavating engines. These in
tbeir turn disappeared, and the Abbey site, which
can now only be reached by a ferry-boat, is once
more a solitude, more melancholy than before ; for
the devastating work of the canal has opened a huge
quarry in its fields, and carted away the soil and
rook to make up the new embankments, and the
green meadows are now a waste of red olay and the
dibris of the quarry.

(1) Vide Ohrlstenlngs zvl November.

(2) Vida OhrUtenlngi il No? ember.

OOTOBBB, 1892.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUEBIfiS.

This excavation has oat aoross the andoDt grave-
jard, aad the mioaeroaB bones, far more than the
interment of the Monks oonld have supplied, seem
to proye that the *' Looos Beoediotns of Stanlaw *'
has for ages kept its repnte as saored groaod, and
been used as a burial place for the sntroandlDg
country. The skeletons appear to have been buried
without coffins, or any other objects, and no grave-
■tonee have been found : it may well be surmised
therefore, that these were people of the poorer class.

The chief compensation for this desecration is to
1m fonnd in the fact that some of the finely cut
and moulded stones of the Abbey were dug up
during the progress of the work. These, together
with the Oommissioners Report at the Dissolution
assist OS to form some idea of what the Abbey once
was. Fragments turned up of a finely moulded door-
way, presumably the Western door ; it bad a double
tier of shafts on each Bide, and the width of the open-
ing was 8 feet 6 inohes dear. The jambs of several
windows with shafted sides were found, and mould-
ings of their arches, finely and deeply out, and
noulded. The base of a pUlar and some fragments
of the arcade of the chapel and the cloisters also came
to light. The style is extremely fine Early English
work, much richer and more elaborate than was
usoal with the work of the Oisterdans, one of the
stones being beautifully ornamented with carved
foliage. It is evident that the Abbey was begun in a
style of unusual beauty. We may, however, gather
Arom the Oommisloners Report that the repairs after
its acddent were carried ottt in a less costly manner.
It would appear that the tower was never rebuilt, as
the Report says the Ohapel had only one bell, and
that hung, not in the tower, but at the end of the
Gfaapel. In the Ohapel, the Altar slab was of alab-
ter, and there were images in the same material of
Bt Katherine and St. John, and a wooden image of
St. Michael. The image of our Ladye of Grace
was ** old and gylte " and had a plate of sylver upon
the ileete and zv pence nailed about the tabernacle "
i,e. the niche. . The hall had two windows, which
must have been small ones, for the glass in them is
estimated at 18 feet only.

The other buildings mentioned are the Kitchen,
the Buttery, the Bam, the Gamer, the Waynhouse,
the Brewhouse, and the Servants Ohamber.

The vestments and fittings are few, and mostly
old and broken ; but the ploughs, harness, and farm
fittings are in good order, and the Monks owned 22
cattle, 2 oxen, 4 horses, 100 sheep, 32 lambs, anj
8 swine. Only one croft is sown with peas and two
with grain— the Abbey ground having evidently been
mainly pasture land, ae it remained till the Ship
Oanal desolated it. Four cushioned seats are
catalogued, doubtless for the four monks, and the
establishment seems to have numbered twelve in all.

The excavations showed that the walls of the
building had been grabbed up to the very
foundations, almost every useful stone having
been removf^d. One has only to look along the
stretches of sand or shallow water of the Mersey,
where the long sinuoas embankments cnrb the tide
from wasting the marshy and treeless meadows, to
estimate pretty surely the use thej have been put to.
The few stones that have been spared were unfitted
by their ivit of solidity, due to their beautiful and
deeply uddereut monlcUngs, for the repair of the

banks. When twilight drops upon the bare farm-
buiidings, and the wasted meadows, veiled with the
rising marsh mists, and the only sounds of life are
tbe wailing of the seagulls, ss they settle oa the
sandbanks of the estuary, it would be hard to find a
more sad and weary solitude than the forgotten Abbey
of Stanlaw (I). E. W. Ooz.

[125] THE BID8T0N REGISTEES.

(Oontinued from No. 128— Octobelr 1.)
(2) Ohbistbnincm, 1681.

Ellen, dau. of John Whiteside, de BidstoBt

Mar. 27.
Mary, dau. of John Sayem, de Olaiigfatoo.

Ap. 12.
Martha, dau. of Hen. Eeiry, de Moreton,

Mayl.
Joseph, son of Hen. Newby, de Woodside,

May 12.
Alice, dau. of Thos. Ley, de Saogkall-MagBey,

June 9.
Elizabeth, dau. of Sam. Ley, de Saughall-

Massey, Aug. 16.
Richard, son of John Walley, de Birkenhead-

Leas, Nov. 8.
Ellen, dau. of Thos. Wilson, de Olaughton,

Dec. 20.
(8) WUliam, son of John Eaton (clerk), de

Olaughton, Jan. 2.
Ellen, dau. of Arthur Godwin, de Saughall-

Massey, Jan. 5.
John, son of Wm. Leversage, de Saughall-

Oarre, Jan. 6.
John, son of Wm. Longley, de fford, Jan. 28.

(4) John, son of Stephen Wilcooke, de Moreton,

feb. 11.
John, son of Wm. Dod, de Moroton, feb. 21.
Abigail, dau. of John Hicock, de Olaughton,

Mar. 9.

Weddings.

Joseph Eennion, of Wallezey Parish, and

Sarah Troeman, of Bidston, were married

by pub : of banns, April 8.
John Joynson, of Baokford Parish, and Mary

Ainsdail, of Bidston Parish, April 4, by

banns.
John Rathbone, of Overohuroh Parish, and

Alice Madooke, of Bidston Parish, by

banns, April 7.

(5) Robert Gill, of Brombroe Parish, and Hannah

Wilson, of Bidston, were married (by
license bearing date April 2) May 28.

(1) Daring the time that the Monks of Stanlaw contem-
plated removal— Tbomas, Earl of Lanoaster granted lo
them the park of Toxteth on which to boild their new
Abbey. They elected to settle at Whalley and the transfer
was never completed. Liverpool, therefore, oame very near
to having in her vicinity one of the greatest BngUsh
Abbeys.

(2) Christenings and Weddings from the Bishop's Tran-
scripts the Burials from the Register Book at Bidston.

(3) Vida Burials January iv same year.

(4) Vide Weddings January xix and burials Veb. zU
same year.

(5) Hannah Wilson was a daoghler of BolMrt Wilson of
Bidston Hall,

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

OOXOBEB, 1892.

(1)

(2)
(8)

(4)

(«)

Stephen WUoooke, of Bidflton Parish, and
Elizabeth Bird, of Wallaz.^y Parish, by
banns, Jan. 19.

BUBXALB.

Jndith, dan of George Martin de Bangal-Oar,

Ap. 18.
ThoB, son of Hen. Williameon de Birkenhead,

May 27.
Jane, wife of ThoB. Jones de Bangall«MaSdey,

Not. 4.
Henry Eeiry de Moreton, Deoember 8.
William Erby de Moreton, Ddoember 18.
John ye son of Wm. Bennet de Moreton,

Deo 25.
Margery wife of Daniel Peaooeke de Saogall-

Massey, Dec 26.
William sonne of John Eaton de Olaaghton,

clerk, Jan 4.
William Longley de ford ffebmary 2.
John son of Stephen Wilcoekc de Moreton,

ftfb 12.
Elizabeth dan of Widdow Eeiry (deoeased)

de Moreton, Mardi 8.

John EatoD, Miniater.

li?hM^^'^}<»»^ Warden.

[126]

QUEST.

Oan any of yonr correspondents snggest a deriTa-
tion for Slatey-road, a road which constitntes the
bonodary between Olaoghton and part of
Birkenhead f

The 7ery apparent one that it is so named be-
cansa of the nature of the soil will not hold good,
as it is all either sandstone or day, with no trace
of slate anywhere.

It is a name of at least 200 years standing,
probably mnch longer.

Tonrs, &o,
Birkenhead. Oubiosity.

.OCTOBER 16th, 1892.

[127] POPISH BEOUSANTS AT KESTON
m THE 16th OENXUBT.

(See No 118-Sept. 24th)

The following interesting document is from the
Mayer Oollection ; the first part is in Latin.

It is endorsed: —

•*An Abeolntion for Mr. Hoogh and Jane his wyf."

(1) rid4 OhtlBfcenlngs, Feb zi and borlala Feb xii same
year.

(2) Vide OhrlstenlngB AnguBt zvli. 1680.

(3j AdmlnlBtoaftlon of the goods of Thomas Williamson
of Olaaghton, waa granted on the following iil Febraary to
Biohard Span of Brombovoagh, prinoipal creditor.

(4) Vide OhriBtenlngB.Janaary 11. same year.

(5) Vide OhrlBtening Feb zi and Wedding, Jan ziz same
year.

**At Nobthwtohb the 17ih day of September
1578, before Mr. Bobert Longher, Doctor of Law,
in the presence of me, Henry Proctor, Notary
PnbUc.

Ni^TON : Action against Master William Hoagh (1)
Esqnire and Jane his wife (2).

It is ordbbed and deored that the said Mr.
Wyll*m Honghe and his wief shall resort once a
month to Mr. Goodman (8) or Mr. Lane, preacher
of the Worde, for their better resolnoon in matters
of religion (wherewith they are entangled). And
if they be not before Easter nezte resoWed
in conqyence by the traTaile perwasyon and con*
ferenoe to be had with the said godly preachers
or th*one of them, then to abide snch further order
as shall be thought good to the Lord Arohbeissdp of
York and his asaocyates orthre of them on this
bebalfe.

They and eyther of them ar also lawfully
absoWed from the sentence of ezcommnnioation
prononnced against them for ther non-appearance at
Ohester before the Tysitores of the Lord Arch*
beisBopp of York.

[sgd] Henry Proctor."

What the result was of the " travaile perswasyon
and conference with the said godly preachers," does
not appear, but as the Houghs still adhered to their
old faith a generation later, it is probable that the
desired end was not attained.

Wk. FuausBoii Ibtzni.

[128] WIBBAL SUBSIDY BOLL FOB 1645.

(Oontinned trom No. 119^Sept6mber 24).
West Etbkxbt.

Biohardo Johnson pro iiiili • < . • . .iiiid.

Thoma Bathbon pro ?li. • • • zd.

Johe Wryght pro zls. • . . • iid.

Johe Gobbyn pro zls • iid.

Bichardo OoTentre pro zls • iid.

Henrico Ffazakarley pro ids zld.

Boberto Bidoliffd pro iiili iiid.

Willmo Smyth pro zz9 id*

Biohardo Shepard pro iUlli iiiid.

B jberto Wryght pro zzs. id.

Willmo Brabon pro zls iid.

Georgio Werynton pro iiiili • . • .iiiid.

Hngone Ooventre pro zls iid.

Willmo Idnacre pro iiiili iiiid.

Pabua Mbolbs.

Johe Lyttell pro iiili • . .iiid.

Johe Browne pro iiili. iiid.

Elena Browne pro zls iid.

Edwardo Wryght pro zls iid.

(1) The Houghs were an anolent OheBhire famllT whose
pedigree may be seen in Ormerod, VoL IL. p. 552. Thornton
Hoagti is named after them.

(2) An illegitimale daughter, of Thomas Oromwell, Earl
of KBsez, the renowned MaUeu$ Mofiaehorwn,

(3) This is probably the well-known Ohrlatopher Good-
man. A full aeoonnt of him may be found In we JoarMi
of me OhMter Arehael 8oc* Vol I* p. 198.

OOTOBBB, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUEMEB.

Thoma Wryght pro zls iid.

Bioo ^ hnrkaore pro zli « . . .iid.

JoheBimmcr [?] pro us id.

Oaldbt Gbansb.

Thoma J^jnnaore pro iiiili iiild.

Henrioo Wajriogtoa pro xx" id.

Johe Lyonaore pro xxs id.

Margareta OoTentre pro iiiili iliid.

Willmo OoTentre pro zls iid.

Elaabethe Ljnnaore pro xxs id.

Biehardo Totty pro xxa id.

(To be continued J

Werrall twenty poands. To the poor of the Oitty
of Obester twenty poaDds. In all one hnndred and
fifteen ponnde. And towards the finishing of the fEiree
flohool of Warrington I give ffive ponnds.

(To he Continued.)

THE WILL OF BIOHABD SHEBLOCK, D.D.

[129] See No. 117— September 24th.)

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost, Amen. The foorteenth daye of
Jane, in the year of onr Lord God one thousand six
hnndred eighty and nine, I, Biohard Sherlock, Dr.
of Divinity, of the Ohorcb of England Priests, and
Beotor of Winwiok, being tho* far in years y. t (God
he hlease') of sonnd mind and perfect memory,
and mindfall of the great aoconnt I mnst give op
before the jost Jadge of the world of all my aotfona
and in joyments in this presont life in order there-
unto I do make this my last will and Testament,
Bevoking all other by these presents heretofore
declared hy mee either in word or writing. Fibbt,
In all humility and godly sorrow for my sins, my
many, very many sins, both of my yonth and riper
age, I do beqneath my sonl into the meroifoll hands
of my dear Bedeemer, who cfiered np his innocent
son] a sacr.fioe for my sonl and fcr the many sinfall
poUntions thereof. All which I hnmbly beg may be
washed away through faith in his blood which was
shed for them. Sbgondlt, as to this oorrnptible body
of mine (when dead) that the steooh thereof may not
ofi^nd the senses of the livirg I desire it may be
bnried in sooh decent manner as by my executors
shall be thonght fit betwixt the Ohanoell and the
body of the Obnroh under a stone laid there for that
end with ihis inscription upon the stone in Brass
Exuviae Biohabdi Bhbblock, D.D., Indignissimi
Hojos Ecclesiae Beotoris. ObUt 20"=" die Jonii Anno
iEtatis 76, Annoqae Domini 1689. Sal infatuatum
oonouloatf . Thibdlt. As to that temporal Estate
of goods Ohattells and debts that god hath been
pleased to bestow upon mee, I do order give and
bequeath the same as followeth. Inpbiuis. Instead
of a Doal at my funerall I bequeath to the Poor one
hnndred and fifteen pounds To be thus distributed
Immediately upon my ffnnerall (vizt) To the poor of
Winwiok and Holme ten pounds To tbe rest of the
poor of the parish of Winwiok fifteen ponnds. To
(he poor of Warrington parish ten pounds. To the
poor of PrOECot parish ten ponnds. To the poor of
Wiffan Parish Ten Pounds. To tie poor of LeiKh
parish ten pounds. To the poor of Eoclea parish
ten pounds. To the poor of Wood Church parish in

(1) Ttae datei were filled In after the testator's death.

[180] THE BIDSTON BEGISTEBS.

(Continued from No. 125— October 8.)
Baptismes 1682.

(1) George son of Geo Beonet de Sanghall-
Massey, Bapt. July 10th.

Margaret dan of Sam Price de Bidston Not.
5.

(2) Daniel and Thomas, twins, sons of John
Obarnocke de Woodside Not 27th.

William son of Paul Kingston de Ford Deo

14.
Martha dan of Thos Hieoock de Birkenhead

Wood, Feb 15th.
Thos son of Thos Newbot de Sanghall-

Massey, March 1st.
William son of Biohard Kitchens de Mor^ton,

March 6th.

Noe Marriages 1682.
(8) Burials, 1682.

Margaret dau of John Upshon de Moreton

buried April 19.
Alice Oards de BiJston, widdow, April 28rd.
Margaret Watt de Saoghall-Massey, May 2.
Hannah dan of Samuel Lea de Sanghall-

Massey, May 18.
Ellen Dod de Moreton, widdow, May 19th.
John son of Samuel Lea de Sanghall-

Massey, May 27th.
Peter Bennet de Bidston, Orphan, June

29th.
Mary Cranadge de Birkenhead, Orphan,

June 29tb.
Thos son of Thos Newbot de Sanghall-

MasFoy. July 22nd.
Daniel son of Daniel Peaoocke de Sanghall-

Massey, Asgust 14th.
(4) William son of George Bennet de Sangball-

Massey, Angust 28th.
Margaret dau of Thos Bobinson de Oxton,

September 30tb.

(1) Vids Burials May ili, 1683.

(2) Vide Burials November xxiz aad Deoember Tilf, 1682.

(3) On the lOtta April of this year, Ihe will of '* Wxluav
WILSON of Clanghfeon yeoman,'* was proved by his widow
and relict Anne WIlBon.

In bis will, which is dated 5?th September IG77, he men-
tions, "my wife Anne Wilson,"-*' my children Biohard
Wilson, Thomas Wilson, Ann Hiooook, William and John
Wilson," and left ves, "to my sonne Richard's children one
littell hefler," " to each of my Bonae Thomas' children one
BhillinRe a*pecce," and to "my sonne liiohard the fore
Lot* er fields " [the present Birkenhead Park covers part ol
these fields].

Bis persunalty was valued at £43. 13. 4 by Benry William-
son and Robert Heele [7] on the lOtb April 1678.

(4) This Qeorge Bennet occurs as a freeholder In
Baughali Massey, tn a Ust of the Freeholders of Wlrral
dated 1668«

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

OOTOBBB, 1802.

Margaret wife of Arthur Rathbone de

Moreton, October 4th.
Margaret wife of Thoi Gill de Moreton,

October 17tb.

(1) Thomai eon of John Cbarnock de Woodeide,

November 29th.
Alioe wife of Miobael Cempe de Moreton,
November 80.

(2) Daniel Ron of John Ohamook de Woodside

December 8th.
Henry son of George Benaet de Banghall
Maasey, Feb 7.

John Eaton, Miniater.
John Bathbone ) Ohoroh
Jamea Andertonj Wardeos.

OCTOBER 22nd, 1892.

[181] THE WILIi OF BIOHABD
BHEBLOOEi D.D.

(Oontinaed from No. 129-»Ootober 15tb).

My Will and mind is that all anma of money that
have by mee been laid ont for the poors stock of bread
and are conolnded Irrecoverable shall be paid by my
executors, Bo that all given and laid oat for that use
by mee and others be made Three hundred pounds
compleat to be layd upon land for the use of the
poor for ever. Itim to my consen (3) Toomas
bherloek I do freely give him his bond of twenty five
pounds which he owes unto mee. To Anne his now
wife ffive pounds, Amongst all his children fflfty
pounds Twenty pounds whereof to my god son John,
and to Henry, Thomas, and Cicely Ten pounds a
pieoe which must be paid At or before they come to
age as my Executors shall think fit. Moreover to
my godson John Sherlock I order that the Lease be
renewed for Hunt's house in Oxton, and that he
sacoeed his fOettber in it. Itik I do bequeath to my
Cousen William Sherlock of Oxton in Werrall ten
pounds, But my executors are to dear the rent of
his house therewith for one year. And I give to
bis now wife fflfty shillings. And hereby I order
that the Lease for Oxton house be renewed for the
use and behoof of Biohard Sherlock, his sod, and
that the Debts intrusted with Mr. Orane and Mr.
Willett be imployed for the taking of the eaid lease.
Howbeit my will is that William Sherlock the
father shall injoy it whilst he payee duely the
Lords rent which is ten pounds per Annum,
And that fflfty pounds be put forth for the
nse and benefit of William Sherlocks children, his
son Bicbard and the rest proportionably to be
paid At or before they come to their age as my
Executors shall think best. Item I give to my
Cousen, Bicbard Sherlock, of Oxford, Twenty
pounds and ten pounds amongst his children, in all
Thirty pounds. Itbm I give to Samuell Aynswortb,

my Steward, Twenty pounds, and to Mary, his wile.
Thirty pounds, and to each of his children five
pounds a piece. Iteu I give to my brothers
Nathaniell and Jonathan Wilson, and to my Cousen,
John Wilson, of Williston, to each ten pounds (vizt)
thirty pounds in all to be bestowed amongst their
respective children. And moreover. To my nephew,
Thomas WUson (1), being my Curate, I do give Ten
pounds with a mourning &ng of twenty shillings
price. Iteu to Margaret Bennet, of Holme, I give
Twenty pounds, and to my servant Thomas flrith
ten pounds, And to Alioe Pickering Ibrty
shillings, in all Thirty>two pounds. Itbm I do
give to him that shall preach my Ifiineral
Sermon two pounds (2) and a mourning ring
of twenty shillings price. To William EUam Clerk
twenty shillings. To Adam Orford Sexstone
ten ehillings. Itsh I give to Elizabeth Lant fflve
pounds. And to Balph Cook ffive poinds, But to
06 bestowed upon them at my executor's discretion.
And to each of my servants that hsye lived above
twelve months with me twenty shillings a pieoe.
Itim I do desire that Mr. Thomas Bennet Attorney
in the Exchequer of Chester and Mr. Henry Preseott
Dfpnty Begister of the Ecclesiastical Court would
distribute the Twenty pounds ordered to the poor of
Chester ; and that each of them have a Olnney for
their pains. Itbm I do order that if the arrears due
to mee from Mr. Widdowes for the Tythes of Lowton
be discharged. That then fflve pounds shall be
returned thereupon. Itbm It is my will that the
remainder of my Estate shall be equally divided to
the ffamilies of Thomas Sherlock of Winwidi,
William Sherlock of Oxton in Werral, Biohard Sher-
lock of Oxford, and Samuell Aynsworth my
steward for the nse of all their respective ohild-
ren, and that each ffamily have its proportion
whether the children be more or less. Li^TLT I
do constitute aud ordaineMr. Thomas Crane and my
nephew Thomas Wilson, my Carates, Mr. Henry
Byrom of Lowton, and Christopher Boardman of
Bisley, Executors of this my last Will and Testa-
ment, and do bequeath to each of them ffive
pounds a pieoe with mourning Bings to each of the
four besides the charges in the execation of the
same. Whereunto I have set my hand and seal the
day and year fflrst above written.

(Signed) Biohakd SHxyXiOCK
Signed, Sealed and Pablished in the presence of
Jonah Cropper, Peter Eden, John Oerard.

[182]

THE BIDSTON BEOISTEBB.

Vide OtaristonlngB November zzyii laBie year

Vide OhrlsteningB NoTomber zxyil same year.

Be la said to be nephew lo Ibe testator In the Inventory.

(Continued from No. 180.~Ootober 15th.)

Baptismss 1688.

Henry son of Stephen Wilcooke de Moreton,

baptised April 1st.
Mary daughter of Bichard Wilson de Clangh-

ton, May 6tb.

(1) Afterwards Bishop of Sodor and Man.

(2) The faneral Bermon, preached bv the Bev. Thomas
Crane, one of his carates. was printed In 1G90 for Philip
BnrtODi bookseller in Warrington,

OovoMBii IBM.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QT7EBIES.

Margaret danghter of Timothy Wilson do
' Heathside, May 13.

Mary daughter of John Eaton do Olanghton
(olerk), May 29.

Nehemlah son of John Wilson da Olanghton
(mariner), June 19.

(1) Balph son of Balph Langford and Bliza
Pemherton de Moreton, illegitimato. Jnne 28

(■) BUeabeih daughter of fiohert GUI do
Brainbroe, Jmie 28.

Bayers son of Peter Shaw de fflahriok,
Angnst 12th

Mary dan. of Hogh Edwards de Moreton,
September 16th

Margery dan. of Thomas Enowles de ITordi
Sept. 80.

Henry son of Heniy Newby do Woodside,
Oel.4.

BUen dan. of James Anderton de Pistore-
side, Oct 28.

Martha dan. of Biehavd Gill de Moreton,
NoTomber 11.

Bamnel son of Bamnel Lea de Banghall-
Maasey, Not 16.

Martha daughter of Bamnel Sharp de
OUuighton NoTomber 27.

John son of John Ormston de Moreton
Jan 10.

(8) Martha dan. of Thomas Kemp do Moreton,
Feb. ff.

Mabbimbs 1688.

{4l) Thomas Kemp and Alice Whitfield both of
the Parish of Bidston married by publica-
tion of bannes, April 8.

(5) John Waring of the Parish of Sephton
(dork) and Hannah Potter of Presoot
Mrish were married August 12th by
licence dated August 11th

Daniel Dod and Elisabeth Truman both
Bidston Parish by publication Aug 14.

BOBIALB, 1688.

Thomas son of Thos Lea de Moreton, buried
April 5th

William Kemp de Bidston, April 20.

Elizabeth wife of Biohard Gognel de Moreton,
April 29.

(<l) Oeorge son of George Bennet do SanghaU
Massey, May 8.

Ann OalTin de Moreton, Widdow, June 2nd.

(1) Balph Langfoid was the son of Thomas Langford of
Morelon, and seema lo have diapleaaed his father,— possibly
ilils entrjr explains the oanse of dlspleasare— as he is only
tMqaeathed the snm of one shilling by his father, in his
fHu {q,v) proved in 1696.

(8) Fld«, WeddlngB May zzlil, 1681.

(3) Vide Weddings April viii and burials, Mar. II same

(1) Margaret Eccleston de Broom^yatOi widdow-t

October 4th

(2) Thomas Ormston de liferpool, NoTembev

29th.

Ann Davies de Moreton, Deoembsv 16th.

William son of Arthur Godwin de SanghaU«
Massey. Deo. 80.

Mary Hamnet de Upton, widdow, January 1.

(8) John Obarnock de Ford, January 28.

EUen wife of John Truman de Bidston, Feb. 8.

Mary Wilson de Olanghton, Feb. 16.

(4) Martha dan. of Thomas Kemp de Moreton
March 2.

John Eaton, Minister.
Thomas Wilson, \ Ohnroh
Thomas Harrisonif Wardens.

OCTOBER 29th, 1892.

(4) Vids Chziiteninga Feb.T and burials March 11 following

(6) The Potters of Presoot were related by manlaga to
the Benneta of Banghall Massey.

(5) F<d«. OhrlBteningB July z, 1682.

[183] WIABAIi SUBSIDY BOLL FOB 1546.

(Oontinued from No. 128— October 15th.)

Byddtston.

Bichardo Wylcocke pro iiili bon iiid

Willmo Parbolt pro iiili iUd

WiUmo HoUande pro iiUli iiiid

Willmo Sburleacre pro iiiU iiid

Bichardo Hancooke pro zzs id

Georgio Sburleacre pro iiiili iiiid

Bannlpho Taylyer pro iiiili iiiid

Martyno Deane prt> tU • • zd

Johe Blaokbonie pro iiili iiid

Johe Wylcocke pro iiiiU iiUd

Gbevbsbt.

Thoma Tounge pro iiiili iiiid

Bichardo Tounge pro iiiili iiiid

Elsbethe Tounge pro zxs id

Elena Ooventre pro xxs id

Bichardo Harrison pro iiili iiid

Elena Harrison pro zls iid

(1) In her will dated 30 Angnst in this year, *' Maboabbt
EooLXBTON of Broomyate " leaves small bequests to "James
Bcoleston and his wife," "John Stringer's [of Tranmere]
wife." " Margery wife of John Bennet." Henry Lont and his
wife," " John Briscoe Junior and Dorothy Brisooe." *■ Bio
Toxon Junior " [of Bebington] and makes her daoghter
Mary her reeiduary legatee and exeontriz,

WItnesss : Biohard Yoxon.
John Eaton.
Inventory of " Margaret Eocleston of Birkett head,** valaed
at £11 by Thos Bobinson, Biohard Yoxon and Jas Kooleston.

(2) On the 1st of March of this year an Inventory was
lUed of the goods of Thouas Ubhstom. shipwright, of Liver-
pool, late deceased, valued by Bio Zoung and Henry
Bobinson. yeomen of Wallasey.

Administration of his goods was granted Sth March same
year to Anne Urmston, widow and relict.

(3). On the 87th November, 1686, the right of Tuition of
John Obarnock, aged 10, Biohard Obarnock, aged 8. and
Daniel Ohamock. aged 3, sons of John Obarnock, late of
Bidston. was granted to Hester Obarnock, widow and
relict of said Jonn Chamock. and at the same time admin-
istration of the goods of the said John Ohamock was
granted to her. ^ ^

(4). Vid4 Weddlngi April Tllli and Ohriatenlngs VelH t
same year.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES,

OoTOEaa, 1899.

til lid

NlohoOobbinprolUlU lUld

Bogato Hewbott pnliUi iUd

Tbonw HaddoAa pio ill Ud

BobartWHMton proililU iiiid

Jidw ^miMM pro ill Ud

Jobt S joIm pra ziB id

WUlmoOobbrnpraillUl Uiid

(To UwittitmtA.)

[lU] TEE BID8I0N BGQIBTBBS.

(OontliiMd boot No. ISS-Oatoba SIsd.)
BAmwBi, ISM.
Dudtl tan of Joba Ohunoek da Ford,

B^ptUed April Sa
Hut dinsbtn of Thomii Lm da BMuhtU-

ICUM7, JdIj 37.
Hut dingbter of Duiol Dod de Biditon

Anaoat 17.
Bemih danghlar ol Wm. Unnftge de

SftDAbkU.Cu, Sept 11.
Thomts eon of Blourd Gdmcdi da Hoiaton,

Oct. 19.
(1) Jobn Hn tl Jobo Oroomi de Olughtan

(Olatk), Hot. 80.
Heniy son of Aitbni Qoodwln da B*Q8)>*U-

HuM7, Deo. 4.
Jobn ion of Oeoige UMtin da Bkngtudl-Ou,

Deo. BO.
Hann.ii diDgbtar ot Bobirt LetTsi da Wood-

dda, Ju. S3.

(I) Hoe Uuriftgai 1631.

BCBULI, lS8i.

Anna Farboe de Olaogfatan, buried Hat. 38.

Margaret Onnilon de Moreton, April 19.

John Bobiawn de Clinghton, Ma; lit.
(8) WUllam Iiea de Horeton, Exooni. May 8.

Anne dan. of Junae Anderton da Honton
JnnsSa.

Anne Taylor de Bidaton, Wddov, Aoffoit S.
(1) Jamea Bird de HoietOD, Angnet 22.

GUiabeth danghtsi ot TAomas Oumoek de
Birkenhead Leal, Angnet 37.

Eitfaer wife of John Wabetw da Koratoa,

Oatober 1.
Bobart Km ot Wat. Bannett de KonAaa,

Not. 6.
EUzabcth trife of Jtmn Wegge da Uotaton

Not. 7.
Ellen Bridge da Moieton, NoTembei 15.
EltEabath Joynson de Horeton, wlddow,

Norambar IB.
Bobert Pan; de Birkenboad, NoTembar 26.
EUaibath WtUUmt, a itnngw, Dea. SSi4.
Mary Brooke da Woodride, Dae. SSrh.
ThomiB am de Moratan, Jaunat; lit.
Jftmd Pendleton da Olanghton, Jannaiy 10.
Franoea Watte de fiaoghaU Umujp, aieam..

Fab. 4th.

(3] BidhMdaognel de Moraton, Feb. Seth.
Dorotbj wife ot John WkUe; de Blrkenhaod,

Leei., Mar. IGth.

John Baton, Widiter.
WiUiam Bennett ) Ohnreh-
Artboc Bathbone i wudena.

(1)

(8) I^dla d. of John Hioook de Olanghton, Ap 7.

(4) WUlm I. of Wm Dod de Moretoa, Ang 26.
Bobert i. ot Bobt QUI de Blditon, Ang 18.

(5) Tboi 1. ol Thoa Kemp de lingbam, Oet 18.
Rath d. ot Timothy Wilaon de HeMfaride.

NotM
Gilbert ion ol John Ornwton de HoretoDi

Jan 8.
Anne d. ol Hngh Edmidi de Moreton,

Feb 14.
John B. of Stene WUoobe de Moreton, Feb 38,
John I. at Bam Bhtrp de dangbton, Mar 28.

TboB Hanoook and Maty Harttson, both ol
Bidaton P'lali, by Banna. Ma; 13.

Bobert Maddoek ol Weat Ekby and Eatbar-
Ine Sharp ot thii P'lib, Uaj 2B, by lia.
dated May 13.

(6) John Wiloooke and Mary Day, both of Wait

Elrby P'i^ July 19, b; Lie dated July 11 .

(7) Thomas Danion and Jane Brookee, both of

Walton FiEh, Jnly 34. hj Ida dated Feb 6.
(B) Wm Dod and EliBabeth WllliamE, both of
BidstoD F'Ub, by banne, Jaly 38.
Heory Kmmar do OTetohnnih and Ellen

LoDgley de Blditon P'lsh by banna, Ang 80.
Hatthsw Bongbley and Mary Nelson of
Wallezey P'iah, fieb 8.

Ja{ AdmlDlilTfttion ot Ibe Eoodi ol SlOHlBD 0<
UotelDO, «■ gianUd, i IJBicti 1S», M Uarr I

|b| Jobn V'lkacrandhliwlteBfteilbfllTmanlinMtlMI
allhe Bi^ion Farii In ibe turn now oosuplaif bi Hn

KOTSMBXB, 1892.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Edwtrd Bennett de Bidsion, May 21.
fl) John Groome de Olanghton (olerk) June 4t
(8) I^diA dao. of John Hioocke de Oianghtou Jane
14
TbomaB Wilson de Olaoghtoni Joly 2
^RIliam8onofBxoEdwazdfldeMoreton,Jaly2
Nehemiah son of John Wilson (maiiner) de

Olanghton, JnlyS
Taomas son of lUo Edwaids de Moieton,

Jnly20
liary Gill de M oreton, July 80
Mary dan. of John Eaton (olerk), Sep 5
EUen d. of Thoe Dalby de Sanghall, Sep 27
(8) Thomas Wilson de Olanghton (maiiner), Got

Mary wife of Bio Gill de Moreton, Got 28
Mary Willson de Oxton widdow, Get 24
Mary d. of Jas Anderton de Moreton, Not 20
Mary wife of John Oranadge de Hinderton,

Deo 14
Win son. of Geo Martin de Oarr, Deo 22
Mary d. of Wm Yends de Moreton, Deo 81
Abigail dan. of John Hioock of Olanghton, Jan

11
Sarah Gill de Moretoo, Jan 13
EUaabeth wife of John Upshon de Moreton,

Maris

John Eaton, Minister.
Samnel Sharp,) Ohnrch
Joeeph Philps, j Wardens.

NOVEMBER 5th, 1892.

[186] MUSTEB BOLL OF MB, HOUGHS
TENANTBT IN WIBBAL, 1590.

The following Master BoU from the Mayer ooUeo-
tion, the probable date of whioh is 1590 (certainly
sot earlier tlum 1585 nor later ihan 1592), is inter-
esting as shewing the style of armament npon which
£ogland had to depend at the time ol the Spanish
Armada.

In the xith yol of the ProcMdinga of the Hist. Soc
of Lane and Chat, are two Master Bolls of abont the
same date as this one, which werepabliehed together
with an intereating paper by the late Joseph
M^yer, Esq.

Of the " fnmitare " alladed to in the docament
I may mention, that ''sallet" and **marrlon'
.nearly the eame article, ou., a metal cap or

(1) On tba Sfch Aagaat this year, administration of the
gooos of J OHM Qbook. Clerk, (at one time rootor of Thars-
aaton). bat at the time of his death, of Claughton, waa
gxanted to Hargaret his widow and rellot.

(2) Fide ebrlsteniJigi, April vii.

1 3) On the 6th . of this year, administration of tha

sooOa of Thoxas Wilsoh. late of Olaaghton, was gnuloa to
9olui WUioD. teotber of aeoeaied.

hat resembling in shape an ordinary hard felt hat
only that the rim was flat and narrow ; the " sonll
was a oap nsaally made of leather.

NnTON : Bio* Whitte : a bowe, a sheaffe
arrowea, sworde, dagger, and seall.
George Hanoooke: in like manner
Whitte.

Wausati: Bio' Stanton: a sonll, swordei dagger,
byll, and obaoke.
Wm. Byrde: a byll, swoide, daggar,
sonll and ohaoke.

PuuTON Bobt Ansdell, a ealiTor, Flaztoohe box,
oxj* Sioxj* : sworde, dagger, and mnrian.

Widowe Ansdayll, a byll, sworde, salett,
dagger, sonH A id ohake.

Thubst* : Willm Whitmo'« a bowe, a seafFe of

arowes, sworde, dagger, and sonll.
Bio* Ball, a byll, salett, swoide, dagger,

and ohaoke.
Bio' Pjokote, a bowe, a seaffe of arrowes,

sworde, dagger, and sonll.
Symonde Byrde, a bowe, salett, sworde,

daggar, and ohaoke.
WilUn Hande, a oaliver, Fiaxtnohe boxe,

sworde, and daggar.
Edmonde Smythe, a oaliyer, Fiaxtnohe

boxe, sworde, ond dagger.
Widowe Benett. a byll ma' and mfftolent

fomitar.

Ebbz : Thomas Totty, a byllt salatt, Bwoide,
daggar and ohaoke.

Tbanuob: Bobert Hnhne, a byll, salett, sworde,
daggar and jaoke.
Bio' Oowes, a byllma' wyth all famitnr

PouLTo* : Widowe Dobe, a byll ma' wyth all fnmit.
[ Bfittlb] Wilhn Hnlme, a oaliver, wyth all fornit •

Thobton : Willm Parre, a byll, salett, sword, daggar
[Hoxjqb] and ohaoke.

Boger Berye, a eallTer with all fnmit*.
John Goodyoare, a oaliver with all

famit*.
Nioh: Harrysonn, a byllma* with all

fornit*.
Thorn: Lenarde, a bowe, seafBs of arowdi

with all the rest of fnmitnr.
Geffireye Geompe, a byllma' with all

fnrnit'.
Bobert Pemberton, a byllma' with all

fnmit*.
Hngh Boardman, a byllma* with all

fnmit*.
Bio' Bnrsooe, a byllma* with all fnmit'
John Bylands, byllma' with all famit.'
Bio* Genion ) Betwixt them three a
Widow Parre [ boweman with all
Thom: Whitla(i>ej fnmit.'
Bondle Beweman, a byllma* with all

fnrnit.*
James Gnrterey, a oaliver with all ftimit.'
John BeUin, a byllma' with aU fnmit*
John Worall, a byllma with all fornit.'
John Leene, a byllma' with all fnmit.'
John DnttoD, a oaliver with all fninit.'

WntBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

NOVBUBBB, 1892.

LnGBTON : Willmo Ooooke, a byllma' with all farnit.
^Hdowe Qantte, a Bowema' with all

fomitor.
John Ooolton, a bjUma' with all f nndtor.
Willmo Manowe, a byllma' with

fnmitur.

This goodly miuter was the ferae that Mr. Hongh,
of Thornton Hongh pnt into the field when England
was threatened by the Spaniards, and Borely is a
vei7 ereditaUe performanoe for one, who as a
'* Popiah Reonaant,*' was daily being snbjected to
eyeiy oonedvable indignity and injnatioe.

Olanghton.

Wm. FsBauflBov Imvtsm,

[186] THE BIDSTON BEQISTEBB.

<Ooiitittiied from No. IM^Oetober 29th.)
BAFnfiMB 1686.

Hemy \ twins, Bon A daughter of The:
and V Haneooke de Moreton baptised
Anne j March 29.
Thomas son of Thomas Wilson de Olanghton

(Mariner) April 20th
John son John Eaton de Olanghton (Olerk)

April 27th
Susanna daughter of Thomas Newbot de

Saugball-Mtssey, May 2nd
Thomas son of John Wilsoa de Olanghton,

M^y 2nd
Samuel son of Samoel Jackson de Morton,

May 12th
Peter son of John Wilson de Olanghton, May

16th

(1) Hannahdanghter of John Hioookde Moreton,

May 16th

"'^'■P''] twins, son A daughter of Biohard
^ ^ J Edwards de Moreton, Jnne 13th

Biehara son of George Bennet de Saughall-
Massey, Jnly 15th

(2) Thomas son of Wm Dodd de Moreton, August

1st
Alice daughter of James Wharton de Moreton,

September 6th
Elenaor daughter of John Sayen de Olanghton

October 5th
Thomas son of Thomas Hiooek de Birkenhead

Wood, Oet 2l8t
Peter eon of Samuel Lea de Sanghall-Massey

Dec 26
8) William son of Aum Wilcooke de Olanghton,

illegitimate, baptised September 17th

(IJ Vide boiials Jane xIt.
(2) FM« weddingB July za
(» Xiiie eBtKyis imiea

rolir zzvUl 168S4,

(2)
(3)

(6)

John son of John Whalley de Birkenhead-

Leas, January 24th
Anne daughter of Jamee Anderton de

Moreton, Febratry 2nd
Thomas son of William Liyersage de Sanghall-

Oarre, Febmaiy 9th
Igrdia daughter c& John Leene da danghton,

February 24th.
William son of Wm Bennett de Moreton,

March 18th

MaBBTAIUSi

James Wagge and Ellen Ensdale both of
Bidston Parish, were married Aug. 19th

John Tompson and Katherine Hsyss both of
Walton Parish Ootobr 15th

Samoel Briscoe and Margaret Daviea of
Bidston Parish Novembr 7th

Hugh Worrall of Eastham Parish and Mar-
garet Bennet of Bidston Pariah Jan 1st

Stephen fiell of Overohuroh and Esther
Ohamoek of Bidston Parish, Jannary 12th

in^lliam Oorke and Elisabeth Oook of
Bebington Parish, January 18th

BufilAUk

Jeremiah son of Bobert Wilson de Bidston

(April 5th) bnried.
Margaret wife of Joseph Philips de Moreton,

buried AprU 30th
Hannah daughter of John Hioocke de Moreton

Jnne 14th
Joseph Philips de Moreton, August 20th
Margaret wife of Thomas Lea de Sanghall-

Massey August 26th

John Eaton, Minister.

along Ike ausgin of the

(1) Walton Parish oontalned Ltverpoo], at thia time.

(2) In a BlBbop'i ViBltation Book, presenred at the Bpls-
copal Beglstry at Ohester, under date 1686, Hngh Woml
and his wife, of Eastham, are presented for having heer^
clandestinely married by the minister at Burton; In the
next book however there is preserved a letter from ihe
minister denying that he had ever married any people
without either a lioenoe or dae pnblioation of banns.

Evidently therefore, either by mistake or wilfmlly, the
parish ohnroh had been reported to the Bishop as Barton

instead of Bidston. . _ .

(S; Bobert Bennet of Upton In his will dated 1086 (•UU
p 128, vol zxxviii Traru. uiMt Boe, Lone. <f ChuK) left to hl§
grandson. Sephen Fell his best '*shnte of clothes ana
coate," and to his "Bon4n-law John Fell 8/6.*' John Fell
who married Anne Bennet daughter of the above mentioned
Bobert Bennet, was a son of Stephen Fell of Bidston by
his wife Jane Wright, (vide weddings 1615); and tUi
Stephen Fell 'grandfather of the Stephen mentioned In the
text) was second son of Myles Fells of Bidston (vMs Wm

Fells win p 15) . .. . ^ . M^M ^

(4) Bobert Wilson, as mentioned before was of Bidston
Hall and was a strong Nonconformist, which latter fiot
probably accounts for the following document amongst the
Earl oflKlImorey's MSS, (vide 10th Bep, HM. MBS Com. p
363) ; 1683, July 5, Warrants from Peter Wilbraham, etc, to
Thos. Needham, Esq., captain of a troop of horse, etc
Warrant to make diligent search for arms In the houses oC
Sir Bowland Stanley, Sir James Poole, Wm. Massey of Pod-
ingtoD, Esq., Mr. Glegg of Qrange. Mr. Utherland of
Poulton [Oeacombe], Mr, Bobert wUeon of BidstOK Hdl
Mr. Ihos. Swinton parson of Wallasey, etc.

On July 29, 1683, the Deputy-Lientenants report that they
have seized 122 guns pistols etc, from various hoosec
••bom Swinton Paoon of Wallaaey aM

amongst them
tromOlegg of the Oi

iw n

^ts

vaagei"
liSiMay

Bfl.

NofVBMBm, 1892.

WIBRAL NOraiS AKD QTJBRIBB.

NOVEMBER 12th. 1892.

[1S7J THS WIBBAL SUBSIDY BOLL, 1M5.

(Oontiniud from No. IBS, Oct. 29).

Pabva SxjLNxn:.

Bidhardo Walton pro xlfl lid

Thoma Somson pro izs id

Biobardo Hiooooke pro zla iid

Katheiina Baohdale pro xls iid

Biohardo Milner pro xIb iid

WUimo BmBoo pro iiiU iiid

HieboGobbyn proiiiiN iiiid

Boberto Andrew pro iiili iiid

Johe Smythe pro iiiH iiid

Thoma Hyceoke pro xIb iid

WiBmo Deynson proiiiili iiiid

WiUmo Si^mnley pro iiili iiid

Jolie Hyne pro zIb iid

WUImo Moidynge pro zza id

Joba Kyndarlon pK> us id

Bkhacdo Baohdale prozle iid

SXOKB.

Thema Hale pro xlB iid

Jobe Davye pro ila • iid

Hngone Adam pro zls iii"

Biohavdo Wade pro zla iid

Thoma Grey pro iiili iiid

Edmnndo Hanyeonpro zla iid

Bqgero Oowper pro iiili •« iiid

Jobe Sef ton pro zza id

Biohardo Spenser prozla iid

Henfioo Spenser pro zla ii'l

Thoma Jannyn pro zza id

Jolie Lightfote pro zls iid

Bioo Idgbtf ote pro zls tid

Boberto Hyeeokepr o zls ^ tid

£138] THE BIDSTON BEQISTEBS.

(Oontiniied fromNe. 186— November 5.)

Baptibub, 1687.

Bobi son of Wm IConls de Woodside, Mar Slst
Eatherine daogbter of Jas Wagge de Moretou
June 12th
Jane daughter of Artbnr Goodwin de Sangball

Aag. let.
Josei^i son of Joseph Yonnge de Clanghton,

Aug 16th
Eatherine daughter of John Wilson de

Olanghton, Ang 25th
Mary daughter of John Little de Moreton,

Oot 16th
Thomas son of Thos Ashley de Bidston, Not

8th
Eliaabeth daughter of John Sayeis de

Olaughton Deo 19th
John SOB ol John Hioook de Moieton, Deo

S7th

Anne dan of Bio GUI deMoreton, Jan 5th
Thos son of John Ormston de Morton, Feb
2nd

miBuaas.

Wm Milner of West Eirby PsiMi and Alios
Dalby of Bidston Pansh, married Jane
28rd

BUBIALS.

Eatherine daughter of Seniy WHUamson ae

OlanghtoD, Ap Ist
Thomas Wilson de Olangbton (infant),

April 5th
John son of Thos Bobinson 4e t>zton, Msy

lOtb
Ljdia daugbter of John Leene 6e Glaogbton,

Sept Ist
Margaret dan of Bio Eltohena de Moreton,

Sept 8rd
Elizabeth dsQ of Bie Eiteheng tie Moreton

Sept 9th
John son of John Eemp de Sanghall Oarr.

Oot 20th

(1) William soBofWmBsBnet(Janr) deMoreton
Not 17th

John son of John Upshon do MoMtoB, Nov.

26th
Anne Wilson de Olaogbton Widdow, Jan

8th
Thomas E«iiy de Moioton, Febmaiy 2nd
Margaret wife of J<^ Eemp de Sanghall-

Carre, Feb 9th
Mary Eingston de HaigieaTO fiebraary
22iid

John Eaton, Minister.

William Wilson ) Oh.
Thomas Eemp j Wardens.

Baftxsus, 1688.

Alioe daogbter of Thos Haaeook do Moreton

Bapt Ap 24th
(2) John son of John Webster de Moreton, Bf«y

8th
Mary daogbter of Henry Bird de Moreton,

May lOtb

Sarah daughter of Timothy WilMm de Heath-
side, June 6th
Eatb dangbter of Stephen Wiloodk de Moreton,

June 17tb
TboB son of Sam. Sharp de Glaugbton, June

19th.
John son of Thos Eemp de Lingham, Sept 11th
John son of Joseph Cbamook de Bidston,

Sept 27th
Esther daughter of John Wilooek de Ford,

Oot 2nd
Thomas son of Henry Hanooek de Moreton,

Oot 4th
William son of Wm Bonnet de Moreton,Oot 9tb

(1.) Vide Chi Isteniogs March xili, l'86<7. William Benaet,
Junior (Bon of Wm. Bennet of Moreton, and bis wife BUeni
married, a year or two prevloaa to this, Margaret ;

be lived in a house, which is still standlog In Moreton
Village, on the right hand side of the road as one goes from
Upton to the Btation, on the chimney stack of wnloh are
to be seen the iniUala, W[llllam..andJ M[argarei] B[ennett]
over the date, 1690.

W2) Now of Oreroborob Hill anA Leaiowo Batik* Tbe
ebslexaal iblatlmeowBaO co a rtOei a Me lan fteO i iwpei tf
iBiieralon.

WmRUi KOTEB AND QUEBIES.

NOTXHBBB, 189S.

a«mrd (on of John Eaton de OUoghton

(Olttk), Deo 11th
Hartlu dinuditar of Wm Dod de Horrton, Fab

Utb
BMhel duthtar of Sainael Lm d

Hmhj. Hat &.

Dalbr ol Bldrton Pulah, Lag. 19 Ji bj

IJaenflc dated Ang. 17tb.
J<dm UpBhon & Bllen Benaet both of Blditon

Pariih by Pnblio. of Btums, Dm Sod
Hngh Haddock & MandUQ Hughes of Bldston

bj Pnblio, of Bmuu, Dm STth.
ytm Oook de Babtegton & Uartlw Pewook da

BldgtoQ Ptriih Ju STtb, t? LlewM dated

JinUUi.

BuBUU 1088.

(3) John flbU de Blditon buried April 19.
Utfguet Wllaoii de Heathside April 1«.
Jane WUeooh de Uaraton April 23.
Alioe dita of Thoe Hanoook da If oretoii Ap 37.
Uaigant wUe oI Hugh Bobarta de SangbUl-

Oure Jtma 11.
Thoa son of Sam Shatp de Olaogb ton Jane 89.
Ifai7 E1I7 da Uoreton widdow Jnl; 8.
Margaret Beunet de Uoreton wlddow Sept

16.
UargeiT Lea de SanghaU-HaHa; Bept aS.
Babakali wife of Xhonus LiveriRge da

BangbaU-Oarre Sept 98.
Oatherine dan of Stephen Wlloook de

HontoD Del IS.
John son of Joseph Ohamook de Bldtloo

OellS.
Jofan Whltal sarTBnt to Samnel Sharp de

(Raoghton Out 98.
Blobard Laa de Sanghall-HaBaj Deo 17.
John Uttle de Horeton Jan St.
Biehaid EltobeDa de Horaton liar E.
Jcdm Baton, Mlnieter.

John Tnunan) Ob.
Sam Jaokaon f Wardeni.

dini Id BBQElikll-

NOVEMBER 19th, 1892.

BBOUBOBOUQE IH 1T6L

The pariah ot Brombomtgh In tba Bunted ol
TFimJ, and Oonnt; of Chetttr, is bonnded on the
south b; Etuiham, and on tba eaat hj the ti*ea
Uerttji, and on the north and wait bj BMngtam.
One lowosbip belonging to thla parith ealled Bnm.
ttagt, la entirely aepacated from the reat. The
eiteot ol Bnmbonyugh township la not mneh aboto a
mile In leogtb, and in breadth la nearlj tba same.
The BoU la moeh of the same natnrs as in Etuiham
piriab, and the prodnea la alike, the rook Ijing Tary
naai the aorlaM ot the earUi in the parts near the
aea. The ohoroh (1) only oouslata ol two aniall iake
and a obaneel : thete is a wooden stasia at the weat
end wbloh eonlaloa only ona small ball. The tvo
tamiliea ot Jtrat'ntmrtn; and Sard\eare bory in it.

Bnunborongb la an appropriated rectory, all the
tltbee of whloh belong to CKarltt MatnmirMjr, Esq.,
who pays a ponad raie to the Dean and Oh^tar of
Ohttter, and Lhay allow the Tioar ot Eattluim six
poaada ptr annum to preaoh bare ones a month. He
hath aJao Ihe BorpUoa leea and Queen Anna**
bannty.

The seats in the parish are Browtborovgh Hall,
ballt by John BHJsman, a Bishop of Cheilnr in the
last oantnry. and now belonging to the sud Mr,
ifaintmrin;, who hath lately rebaflt It In part ; and
tba Court llouit, a seat ot the Hardwam, iold to
the sama geDtleman's father.

lying in it some tUne, inabeantitolm
otraptilea oalled by tiia Inhabitants long worau is
vary oommoo here in the sandy lanes and badges,
and a poor girl who lired here onoa ted one ot tbsm,
wiiiah bsoame so tame as to oraep roand her ann
and reodre ita food from hw witbont injnriog her.

There waa formerly a Presbyterian meeting (9) to
Bromborovgh ohiefly supported by tba Soraiaare
family, bnt at'preeenl tliat SMt is in amanner extinct,
the inhabitaniB being mostly of tba Hatabllahed
Ohurob, eioept a few papists who reaort to Boaton
In foifAoM parish tor the performanoe of th^
woiBbip.

ThepMplearea hardy rsoe, and live npon the
ooareeet tare, aa the InhatiltantB of these parta
chiefly do. I hsTO formerly obeerred a partlealar
oostom ol abanglng tba letter ; into a w at the
beginning ot warda ; (bna they proaonnoa the word
(uinA as i( ll were apelt teiek\ thej also prononnea
tbe words thst end with U as If they wars spalt

(1) Tlili ObDcafa waa parllT ot Honaao Atohlleotare. A
Dcman door la Qgnrad In Ocmarod. Xlili mDOIinl otanrol)

.Fluii li to bo loDDd In UrirTck'a^oKgVgnitt* <■ oluiUn
]. U-S$. Tne (uniDiu UitUiaw Hiiui wu rtUted M Uia
■ra<riua>, sad wai aaoiulomBl H Mai with tham at Uis

NovsKBiB, 1892.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Thero Me iIao the remaiDs of an old orora 1) in
ihe middle of the Tillage, on which a dial is now
plaeed. The great road between Cheater and the
woodaide ienj oj^posite Liverpool leads throogh this
village. There is a bridge bailt over Bromborough
pool whioh separates this parish from Btfb&tn^ton,
and is formed of ao inflox of the waters of tberiyer
IftfTitfy and together with the adjaoeot woods and
rooks, a water-miU and serpentine oorrent of fresh
water nttke a beantifol landseape. A gentleman
•ad lady some years sinoe, passing over the bridge
In a ehidsei the horses took fright, and went over a
wall at the end of Uie bridge ; bnt the shafts of the
ehaiae breaking, the gentleman and lady were
providentially saTsd.

I beUeve the tytbes and some lands in this parish
onee belonged to the Abbey of Oheeter (2), for have
seen a pedigree of the Spanns (3), onoe a oonslder-
aUe family in this parish, in whioh some of that
family are said to have hcJd lands of the Abbot of
Chetler, and the rents now paid to the dean and
ehapter of that Cathedral seem to eonflrm my
eonjeotnre. iHomuus.

Dee. 18, 1762.

From OmUleman*t Moffogine, 1762.

[140] THE BIDSTON REGISTERS.

(ContinQed from No. ISS^Notember 12.)
Baptismis, 1689.

IFniliam son of William Brby de Moreton,

baptised Mar Slst
Blohard son of Riohard GUI de Moreton,

Jnly28rd
{4t) Robert son of Daniel unison de Liogham,

Aug 18th
(6) Esther dan of Thomas Hanooek de Moreton,

Aug 26th
Jane dan of Stephen Wiloook de Moreton,

Septlst
Mary dan of Wm IdTorsage de Banghall-Oarre

Oct 6th
Mary dan of Samuel Sharp de Olanghton,

Get 15th
Anne dan of John Wilson de Olanghton, Not

4th

(1) Thli wai raitorei by BIx O. Gilbert Booll la 1874.

i2) The manor of Bromboroosh was granted by Eazl
Baodle Qeraans to the Abbey of gt. Werbargh*

(3) The Bpaiuii only became extinct in the parish darl ng
thepteeent oentory, when their heirs CEirried the property
So Mr. Whitelaw. The piotoreBque re*<i(lcnoe of the family
Is itlU ttaiidlag. It la now oocapled by Mr. Harwood.

(4). Thia entry is made in a aifTerenfe handwriting from
the rest •! the Begister. along the margin of the pa(<o,
0Tldently at a later date; the explanation is probably
that siaoe Daniel WilsoB (who was a son of Bobori
'Wilson of Bidston Hall) was at this time a Preaby*
terlan, he had his children baptised at the Ohapel in
Upton, bat after his father's death in 1697, he conformed to
the Establishment and entered the dates of the binha of
his chlidren in the Begister with his own hand. Vide
barlalB November Iz.

(5). Daughter of Thos. Hancock of Moreton by his se oond
wife. Henry Hancock of Moreton, in hia will dated 170 j,
leaves beqneats to ** my honored father Thomas Hancock "
and "my fathers daughter Bather Hancock when abo
atta<n the age of 16 years."

Arthur son of Arthur Qodwin de Banghall*

Massey, Nov 14th
Thomas son of Henry Smith de Moreton,

Noyember 21st
Esther dan of Stephen Fell de Ford, Not 28th
Anthony ann of Jahn Wright de Birkenhead,

Deo 2nd
Thomas son of John Sayers de ^Olanghton,

Deo 15th

WBsther 1 (^Qg^ dangters of John Peaooek de
El^n ) S>^b<^l-M<^ey> I>do 21st

Peter son of Gryffith J<mes de Saoghall*

Massey, Jan 14th
(2) Edward son of Nioholas Tnbman de Ford, Feb

11th
William son of John Ormston de Moreton,

Feb 18th

Mabbuobs, 1689.

(8) Kendriok Jones and Aliee Kemp, married

Jane 21st
(4) Nioholas Tubman of Bidston and liBabeth
QUI of Woodehuroh Parish, Sep. 8rd
Ralph Lyon and Mary Bali of ThursUmton

Parish, Sept. lOth
James Metoalfe and Elizabeth Wilson of
Wallesey Parish, Deo. 9th

BuBUis, 1689.

(6) Alios Wluteside de Bidston, widdow, bnried

Maroh 81st
Thomas Wright de SanghaU-Maasey, June

22nd
Oatherine wife of John Bathbone de Moreton,

Oot. 17th
Mary wife of Thomas Hanoook de Moreton,

Oot. 24th

(6) Robert son of Daniel Wilson de Moreton,

November 9th
Hagh Worral de Moreton, Dee. 10th
Riohard son of Riohard Gill de Moreton,

December 27th

(7) Esther and Ellen, twins, daughters of John

Peaoook de SanghaU-Maasey, Jan. 8th
Margaret Ormston de Moreton, widdow, Feb.

5th
John Hioook de Moreton ^ Maroh 1st
Thomas Pemberton de Holt-HiU, Maroh 16th

John Eaton, Minister.
John Wilson ) Oh.
Wm. Liversagej Wardens.

(1). Vide bnrlals, Janaary viil.

(2U Vide weddings, September ill.

(3). Kendriok Jones appears to have been a clerk In
Holy Orders, since, under date 1682, we find the following
entry in the Bastham Begistera :— " Johannea Day et
Elizabetha Bobinaon de Eastham conjancti faeront in
matrimonio clandestine per Kenricks Jonoa in Caroere die
AprlllB 9 die." (P. 120 The Eautham Rugistcn, edited by Bev,
F. Stindcrs,) He lived in West Klrby*pariab. Boveral of his
children were christeaed tbere from 1690 onwards.

(4) Vide christenings. February lltb following.

(5). Alice Whiteside lived in the hoaae now ocoopied by
Mr. PoTall, and only rented one field which la deacribed as
"ye crofto nezte ye Lorda Btablo,"~'* ye Lorda atable "
now being ased aa cow-house and barn in the Hall farm.

She was the widow of Joho Whiteside, of Bidston, who
died previous to 1655.

It is interoBting to notloe that Jane Wilcocke, of Bidston,
in her will dated 1649, leaves to John Whiteside, of Bidston,
" the oorne nowe growing in the little croft neate onto my
Lord's stables."

(6). Vide chriatenlngs Angnst xtUI.

(7). Vide christenings December xzl.

WmB&L NOTES ADD QUBBIBS.

KonMsm. MM.

NOVEMBER S6th, 18911.

WntBiL GENIBT IN 1879.

^1 Nanis ov ill uid anraiTLiB EinaBiB,

KiquiBn, Gbmtlhiir, A Pbobouhib

IK Oom: Uwtuu.

[Bwlaiw USB. 1131 and leOf.]
tno UTS, aaa EUl.

Wmbu. RmooiD.
II) 8r Btnriftnd SIftnle; ti Hooton, Knt.
(3ji Oeoige Hmoj ol PMIngtoa [Pnddiiigtoli]
E«qr.

(8) John Poole of Fools, Eiqr.

(1) WillUm HoMfth ol Ldafaton, Eiqr.
(S) ThMDM Boi^nr7 [BaobiirrJ of Btkiuuy,
E»qr.

finillam OUgg oI O^tod [<h7tan], ftsqr.
John WhltmoK of Thnratuitaii , Eaqr.
Jolin HoekiMU [QoakanlniU] of PMnton,
Eaqr.

(9) EoliertPwtcifBakefori[Baakford].Esqr.

(10) John HelM (HUea) [Ueola] of Helw
[MeolB] geo.

(11) 3olin Netheriind [UtherUnd] gen.
CkrMoph« BenneU of BMgL>i]>U tlbMVl

ui].

{16} Bieb>rdOovMUiTotHiilUii8toii(lloKios(«

John Oairda [Caldy] ol Omtt Hnton [»•■

Pethivi tiM humI fnteiMtliig Mtloi of loniruDla
(rem tfae Utyer ooUmUob la ons itdaUi^ to tba
llosoclnit ol PiibUo HoDMi for Wiml ia Um third
yawolQnem ~

Iha HniM «

IS rain deaLng with the question, Isid down by the
■wambled Jnitloes ol the Pe»M for tba Oonnty, and
le loUawed by an addition to tiie rolea ntads a witek. or
two later, and finally by a .oamplet« lUt of tbs
lioeiuea gnrnted, aonie 67 In all ; thii iiti 1« tw7
eomplete, there being 9 different ooplea of it amongal
the dooameata, in one ot wbleh the niatw <ut Uta-
mretiee are added to SMh name :

ABTTOLn AQBBED ufFOR be the oom'on eonsente
of all the Joatyoea of the Boyie at Hoithwyaha the
zti daje ol Jnne in the iij jere ol the Qoeanu
Beygne.

Ftaan: Hod bapetmyttod to kepe lodgyngeor
vyttallynge tjUa they be bonnde aarerally with llj
an^oieuce snetTa* in xl poandes to thya ooadltloa
berealLerwrytten ; that ja jf the above booadan i.b,
dnryuga the tyne he kepe Alehouse typpalynge or
ry otaalljDge nonae do not nae nor sofbe to be naed
In bja honae ani nnliwfnl gaua or games p'taibyted
be aoi laws or atatnte ot tbya realma, or anpportB
aal offandor or oSandoia tharala with maala drjtika
orlodgynge nor alao reoepte ant Btollengoodeaor
oattallas nor lodge sapporte or nuinb^"* ■&!
BoapMted paraon or persona notorionaly known or
repntad tor anoh nor allao nie nor snSer to be naad
am myaorder or lyke rale wUhla hya honsa oontiary
to the aajd lawea and atatntea that then or elaa eto :
Iiw : That the aald baadea abalba taken and
oertylyed to the oonnMlJe afore the ilU daj of
iolie neite.

Inu : At the Ume ol tba takynge ot the «yd
boades to aware all onnslablea to present the nanea
of all that have at aln tyiae sjna after laat, within
there townabypaa kept loJgyngd or Tyttaling hoaaeai

flJ) 1

a ai«aaoii)iGas,iu

_ , ,. ,, J AribacOLaaa d( aanoa.

.<;j5 IP- 521. ■ JarauB Doa ot Ll'llla SaushaU arpaate aa

'?i5J°llicna[i'L:ut']'irTn>i''))DrlaA at Baektord la UtS
inil wai Ibe gaa at WillJain OoTealr; ot Omuf& Paiun 01
IV est KIcby, by his wlla Jaaa daughMi and halrau ot Wm
Koblaioa oE CbaiHr. Ua muilaa Maiaaial dascbM and
lelraeii ol Ihgnui Jump of Saaablgo.

HcfiMJiUi 18M«

WIRRAL MOTEB AND QTTEBIES.

Itsm : Thai all thej who dialbe f oand appon the
njd preaeatmant to lui? a lodged or aelled ani kynde
of fyttalle lynae after l%it, of theyre owne aaetorytye
wytbont lyoenee and beyiige aobaodan ehalbe
imaediatelje appreheoded ud oomytted to the
Gayle there to reoeaTO puDyehement aoeordyoge to
the atatate with oat farore.

Inn : That aaoh a presentiiiie&t take plaee onoe
every inoiith*

Itu: That the eonetaUea also preeeat eaoh
peiaoiia otber than ale-hoose-keepen who lodge
fagabonde or snspeotB or Boflbr ** gamynge in theire
honiee or gronndea. '

Ikbii t Tbat the oonitablee abalbe Bwome that yf
aai beggar or ▼agabonnde of what eetate lo erer he
be, eome within ani of theyr lownebypee other than
•ooh aa be lyeensed, under the eommon aeale of the
■une hundred, that the eayd oonatablea shall itooke
and whyppe aU Boohe aeoordynge to the etatnle and
theye artiolea to take eflTeet from and after the iii o
JoUe.

Izbm: That eommon and known freqnentere of
gaming bonsse be boond over to "good aberynge."

Izbm: That lioeneeB be only israed I7 the common
oonaent of all the Joetieee whose names are
snbeeri b ed.

Ituc : T ya agreed that Randall Warren gentyll-
man shall have lybertye tyll Myghelmas nnbnnden
to Qtter hys wyne kepyoge good ordre in hys honse
In the mean whyle.

Ikbii : That there shalbe no love ales, bonfyeie,
nor other nnlawf nil assembles nppon payne of im-
prisonDBient of the eonapyrars of tbe same there to
oontynewe without meeepryse Ihespaee of viii dayes.

Item: That no seale of Testimonyall for ani
tespeet shalbe admytted ezoepte yt be ether the
great aeale of England or ye aeale in ye Marohea of
Walea.

Jtwm : That everye Joatyee ahall afore the iy of
JnHe, revoke and take onto hya handes and oancell
all aseh reeognlaanoee that hatbe beene heretofore
taken for syoynge that ani information of tbe same
reeogidaanoe be afore the iiii daye of Jnlie.

John Savage Kt., Banffe Egerton, Vio Oom-Oestr,
Peter Leghe, William Dampori, Edmund Fytton,
Hugh Ohohnondley, Urion iSrereton, Phylipe
Egerton, John Dutton, Robert Tat ion, Qeorge
Calvel^ John Bryne, John Delves, and Byoharte
Hooghe.

Endorsed : For the Queenes Ber^oe within the
Hundred of Wirrall.

A few days after tbe passing of these Artiolea
tbe Jnstioes met again and added tbe foUowiog
nlea to their Oode :—

Febst: That all maner of p'sona which be or
shalbe admitted or alowd to kepe alehooses,
vieteUynge or typpelynge bowses, shall within tbe
space of zz dales after date hereof or within viii
dales after they sballbe admitted, enter Becog-
nizance in z poundes, the same person which is or
shalbe admitted, altho' witboot any sureties to this
condition hereafter following : —

The condioion of this Recognizaooe is such tbat if
th'above bounden lb. durynge the tyme be kepe
ale-howBO or viotuellinge bowse do not sell or utter

or suffer to be sold or uttered any ale or beaiv abeve
the price and rate of fourpence the gallon, twopence
the pottell a penny the quart, the halfepeny the
pynt and so ratably for ail small measures and all
tbe sayd measures to be accordyng to tbe Statut.
That then etc ; and it is agreed that all the latter
addidons of articlee ehalba set upon churche doore
before St Bartholomew's daye nezt comynge.

(7*0 he continued.)

DECEMBER 8rd, 1892.

[148] THE WIRBAIi LIOBNSINO BB8SI0N8

FOR 1561.

(OontiBued from No. 142— Not. Mtb).

Thb HIKK8 of all p'sons which kepa Alehouses
within this Hundred of Weroll, beyngCi bunden be
obligee' the zzviii dale of June, iij Eliz :

Thomas Rathbone de Weet Kyrkbye,
Eleyn framwall de WeBtekyrkbebye.
Christof er Johnson de Weetkyrkbye.
Nicholas Pemberton de Melee.
Thomas Doby de Melse-
Rycharte Hogge de Oalday.
John Gouldeewene de Oalday.
Thomas Badolyffe de P'va Kyrkebye.
Robert Newbot de Qresbye.
Thomas Lioaker de Graunge.
WiUiam Ball de Yrby.

Robert Btanney de Kyrkeby-Walley.
Harry Tonge de Eyrkeby-Walley.
Margaret VYylsoQ de Kyrkeky-Walley*
Robert Tassey de Eyrkeby-Walley.
Eleyne Enadall de Beoum.

Thomas Anlone de Thurstynton.

John Qenson de Heswall.
Hughe Borowes de HeswalL
John Bobynson de Heewall.
Thomas Beoke de Qeton.
John JoDSonde Geton.

William Bathbon de Murton.
Thomas Bmythe de Saugon-Maasle.

Thomas Monely de Upton.

Thomas Ireland de Woodehurch.

Bycharde Bobynson de Neaton.
Elizabeth Bacater de Neston
Thomas Danson de Nesse.
Thomas Mylner de Nesse.
Thomas Goodeker deThorton.

Thomas Badley de Burton.
Byohart Harvey de Burton*
Davy Massey de Burton
Bobert Darbyshire de Burton.
John Gardener de Burton.
Thomas Wesbyogton de Podyngton.

Jone Helyn de Shotwek.
Byohart Bpencer de BaogbalL
George Martin de Sanghall.

WntBAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

DSOEMBBB, 1892.

Thomas Ohamberlftio de SaogbaU

Gylbarte Asmoro de Baok(art»
Agnee Fonhaw, de Baekfort.
Margeri Cotton de Stanney.

Hani Frannos de Estom.
Bjcbard Fyaaher de Eetam.
Jofm Powell de Sntton.
Hngh Helde de Button.
John Oonrnve de Sntton.
Bjdbarte Fleteher de Whytbye.

Wylliam Daiy de Brnmbrowe.

John Platte de Nether benyngton.
Bobert Soonoe de Nether benyngton*
Byeharte Boland de Stnrton.
John Bolande de Stnrton.
Boberte Ley de Stnrtoo.
Thomas Johnson de Trenmore.

Olanghlon.

Wm. FKBansaoR Ibtimi.

[144] THE BIDSTON BEQISTEB.

(Oonthmed from No. 140.— November 19th.)
Baptibmbb, 1690.

fl.) Sarah daughter of John l^^cook de Ford, Mar
27th
Geo son of Geo Bnrgeese de Woodside, Ap 25th
(2) Elisabeth daughter of Jas Anderton de More-
ton, May let
Baohel daughter of Joseph Ohamook de

Bidston, June 15th
Elizabeth daughter of Hugh Edwards de

Moreton, June 29th
Ellen daughter of Evan Heylin de Woodside,

July 6th
Joseph son of John Walley de Birkenhead leas,
Aug 4th
(8) Margaret daughter of John Oranadge de

Woodside, Nov 14th
'(4) Sarah daughter of Daniel Wilson, baptiseu Deo
29th.

(5) Margaret daughter of Bio Oill de Moreton,

Jan 5th

(6) Mary daughter of Timothy WUson de Heath-

kry <
due,

side, Feb 5th
Margaret daughter of Wm Bonnet juor de

Moreton, Feb 25th
Maiy daughter of Wm Dod de Moreton, Feb

25th

Mabbiaobs, 1690.

John Jones of West Eirby Parish and Mary

Daily of Bidston Parish by banns, June 28th
John Bradley and Margaret Worrall of

Bidston Parish by public, July 27tb.
John Ellis of Weet Kirby Parish and Margaret

Parboe of Bidston Parish by baons Sept 9th
Thomas Swift and Anne Dolby, of Bidstoii

Parish by pub., Sep 19th
George Bennet and Anne Anton of Bidston

Parish by Pub, Dec 28th

(1) Vide BorialB Febraary ▼!,

(2) Vide BnrlalB December ▼!.

(3) Vide Burials November xzlii.

(4) This entry is written along the margin of the

^5i Vide Burials February ▼.

(6) Vide BorialB Febraary ztU.

BUBIAM, 1690.

Esther dan of Thoe Haneook de Moreton,

May 4th
Eliaabeth Pemberton de Moreton, May 8tlt
Mary d of Thos Bobinson de Oitcn, June 3rd
Henry Bobinson de Oxton, June ii
Joshnah Huntingdon, sehoolmtr de Bidstoo*

Aug 27th
Margery wife cf Wm Ormston de Moreton,

Sept 19th
Sayers Shaw de fflabriok, Oot ISth
Thomas Goodaker de Saughall-Oarre, Get ISth
Sam s. of Thos Bobinson de Oxton, Nov Ist
EUen Boydell de Bidston, November 8th

(1) John Trueman de Bid[8ton], November 11th
Alioe daughter of John Kemp de Baughall-

Oarre, Nov 11th
Otitherine wife of Bobert Ainsworth de

Moreton, Nov 18th
Margaret wife of John Oranadge de Woodside,

Nov 18th

(2) Margaret daughter of ye sd John Oranadge,

Nov 28rd
Anne wife of Joseph Ghiest de Woodside,

Nov 25th
(8) Elizabeth daughter of Jas Anderton de

Moreton, Deo 6th
Mary d of Biohard Wilson de Bidston, Der 8th
Alioe Bird de Moreton, Widdow, Deo lOtn

(4) Henry Bird de Moreton, Deo 29th

Ellen wife of Sam Jaokson de Moreton, Jany 4th
Jane Hamnet de Moreton, Jan 9ih
John son of Arthur Bathbon de Moreten,
Jany 15th

(5) Samuel Jaokson de Moreton, Jany 81gt

(I) John Truman oooapied a farmhouse on the site of
that now held by Mr. walters« and in the 1665 sarrey
already quoted, he is mentioned as holding, beoiaee

the bouse and garden, 32 acres of statute measure ,
The following is a short abstract of his will:—
"In the name of Qod Amen, 9(h June 1688.
**I JoHH Tbusmak of Bidston, husbandman etc,
"After dettesand funeral expenses Bafd, I leave to Mary
my nowe wief one featherbed, two bouldsters, two Uanketi
etc, one pyed heffer and 20s. in money."

" lo son John Trueman all husbandrr geare*' Remainder
of property to " my sonnes John and bamuel Trueman.**
•• To my brother-in-law Joseph Kenion of Liskett husband-
man 1B.*>

Bzecuton : John Trueman and Bamuel Trueman.

Witnesses: Bdward Goo [?] John Trueman [sgd]

Ann Biundell.

John Biundell [scribe of document].
Proved by John Trueman 13 Nov 1G90.

(2) Vide Christenings Nov ziv.

(3| Vide Christenings Hay 1.

(4) On the 8 January 1830, administration of the goods o
HxiTBY BiBD late of Moreton, was granted to Thomas
Bradford his father [in-law] and Ellen Bird, aliae Brad-
ford his widow.

(5) In the name of Ood Amen : 20 Jan 1690.

I Samuel Jackson of Moreton, yeoman, sicke In bodle
etc. bodle to be buried at Bidston as neare my late
deceased and deare wife as may be."

"To Bamuel Jaoksen my son, all my tenement etc in
township of Upper Bebington. also that paroell of ground
belonging to me in the Anstubble Dale."

" To my daughter Anne, household goods at Bebblngton
house and also at Moreton."

Mentions "my landlord Bgerton," "my father Thos
Jackson," "bringing up of my fon," "my sister Barah
BoblnsoB," and "my daughter's unole John reovn."

Executors: "John Peover, Peter Wilson of Beaoombe,
and John Bobinson Junior of Babington."

Witness : Thos Langford, Qeorge l.angford, Wm. Bennett,
Junior, Henry Bobinson.

Proved 23 June 1691 by John Peover and Peter Wilson,
power reserved. ^ ...

Inventory 2, Feb 1600, valued by Thos Hanoook and Bio.
Wilson.

[Inter alia]. ^^

144 cheeses 1127

1 ho gun and sword •• # 4/-

BXOEXBBB, 1892.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIfiB.

(1) Mugaret dan of Bio Qill de Moreton, ffeby StU

(2) Sarmh dan of John Wilcook de Ford, Feb 6th
(8) Maxy daughter of Timothy Wilflon de Heath-

Bide, Feb 17th
Margaret Bobinaon de Heathdde, ITI^ddow,

Feb 19th
Alioe Harrison de SaoghaU-MaBBey, Widdow,
Feb 25th
(4) Elisabeth wife of Henry Haneoek de Moreton,
Marehl2th

John Eatoo, Minister.
JohnWiloooki \ Ohoroh
Hen. Hancock, J Wardens.

DECEMBER 10th, 1892.

[145]

EA3THAM IN 1761.

EoMiham lies in the Hondred of Wirral and is
bounded on the north by Bromhorough and BehHng-
ton, on the west by Neston, and on the south by
Bockford and Stoks parisheB, all which are in the
same county and hundred, and on the east by the
riTer Mersey, which diTidee Cheshire and Z^nctuhire.
The signification of the word East is too obviouB to
want explanation, and the word Ham denotes a
street or village, so that the compounded word meana
tbe EaBtem village, which agrees with its situation
on the eastern extremity of the Hundred of Wirral,

Tbe extent of the parish is in length between
three and four miles, and in breadth almost two miles.
There are in it, besides the village of Eastham,
where the Ohnrch stands, six hamlets, viz,, two
Suttoriif Childer^ThomUm, Hooton, Pooltoton and
Whiihy, The parish in general is very level, and
the lands produce barley, wheat, oats, and much
dieese is also made here. In some parts near the
river, the roek comes near tbe surface of the earth,
but in other parts the soil is deep and olayiah. Marl
and lime are the chief manure.

Great damage hath been done in this parish by
inundations of the Mersey some years since, which
ehiefly happened to tbe estates of Sir Francis Poole
(5) and Mrt, Bennet (6).

A kind of red stone is dug up in a wood near the
river Mersey, which is much used in building (7).
The great road between Chester and Liverpool
passes through this parish. Part of Backford-heath
and Eastham-heath are the only commons in the
parish. There is a feny in the parish over the

VJfU Chriflenlnga Janaary ▼.
Vide OhrlBteninga March zztUI.
Fide ChristeningB Febraary ▼.
Iln Ihe same of God Amen, 19ih Febraary, 1682.

** Bemainder amongafe my 5 daoghters eqoaUle.**
OcmMb"' H*rrl«on my son and John Harriaon ol

WitaaaaeB:ThOB Newport. Bamael Lay.

-SffSnoS^ISSfea'S'dra.bT "^"^ ** """

^ B. T. £12 138. 6d.

Proved »N0T« IG91 by Thoa. Harriaon.
^iJl-H' '*^^" Poole, tod baronet, married FVanoea,
iMh Fe? 17«l *°^ Polham. of Lewea, Saaaex. and died

taiSJE?*i.!I" i*®{*yj^ •"»• ^^^ o* Henry Bennet, of
"'rtfKS?^'?*'^® **•*•? •■••*••* Whitby.
(Tj The dlaoMd auany isaow eoelcsed la Oatleli Pack

Mersey to Liverpool, which is reckoned five miles
down the river.

The only seats in the parish are Hooton Hall
belonging to the Stanleys, a baronet's family from
whom the Earls of Derby are descended. This
family is Roman Oatbolics, but greatly distinguished
by good nature. The house is a large ancient
structure built with timber and plaister and hath a
stone tower in the middle, equal in height to many
steeples. There are in the ball some antique
pictures, which, I am told, represent some of the
old Earls of Chester (1) j there is also an old erosB
in the road leading lo the house. The other seat is
PooU Hall, belonging to a baronet of the same name.
This family was also Boman Oatbolics till the pre-
sent baronet, Sir Francis Poole, member for Lewes,
in Sussex, embraced the Protestant religion.

The church stands in the diocese and archdeaconry
of Chester, It consists of a nave, two side isles, and
a large chancel. At the west end is a steeple which
eonsists of a tower with a spire upon it. The cbuzoh
and steeple are said to be the work of the famous
Inigo Jones (2), but the spire being become ruinous,
was taken down and re-built about ten years since.
In the steeple is a dock and five bells. At the east
end of the north isle is a chancel where the Stanleys
of Hooton are interred, and there are monuments to
their memory. The Pooles of Pool^ Hall also bury
in the church. The Dean and Chapter of Ohester
are tbe patrons of the living, which is a vicarage
worth about 60/ per annum. The Vicars have been
-^Griffiths (8), and Honorafus Leheg (4). The Yicar
hath all the fish taken in the river Mersey within the
extent of bis pariah on SundMfs and Fridays, There
is a neat vicarage house buut by tbe present incum-
bent (6).

Childer Thornton is a charity school worth
about bl per annum to the master, who is elected
by trustees. There is no chapel in the parish nor
any meeting-house, the inhabitants being of the Estab-
liebed Ohurch, except some Papists who go to mass
at Hooton, No wake is kept in this paridi, but, as
I have been informed, the time is the feast of the
Annunciation.

Hares and partridges afford good diversion to ttfe
sportsman, and woodcocks abound in the winter
season. The inhabitants are a robust, hardy race
of people, and many of the poorer sort live chiefly
upon barley-bread, and potatoes and buttermillL
The concourse of passengers to Liverpool occasioned
by the great increase of trade in that town afforda
them an opportunity to get some money by the hire
of horses, which they furnish at a very easy rate.

The parishioners some time since purchsBed the
two foUo volumes of Mr, Staekhotui's History of
the Bible which are kept in a wooden case in the
church for the use of well-disposed persons.

If yon thiidc this account conducive to Four
design of procuring a good history of England, It is
at your disposal. I am yours, Ac.,

Nov. 11, 1761. BmsvoLUS.

From Oentleman*s Magagine, 1762.

(1) These are now In Cheater Town Hall. . ^

(2; It would be Intereatlng to diaoover the origin of the
Inigo Jonea legend. In the Ohnrohwardea'a acooanta for
the year 1752 ocoora the entry : " Paid Mr. Bephton for the
aplre. 31( lOs. 9d.

(3) Bobert Qrliaths, vioar from 1695 to ITU.

(4) Honoratna Lebegi vioar from 1728 to 1760.
S)Xha»is&LsSS

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Dmskbib, 1892.

[140] THB BIDSTON BBGISTEBS.

(Ocmtiiiiied from No. 144, Deoomber 5.)
B^mBios Binoe Mar. 26, 1691.

John Bon of Thomas Fell do Bidston baptlBed

Ap 12th.
William Bon of John Kemp de Moreton,

April 28lh.
John Bon John Morris de WooclBide, May

28th.
Bllen daughter of Samnel Ley d6 Saughall-

MaBBey Jnne 17kh.
Valentine eon of Wm Rimner de Birkenhead

Jn^ 5th.
Thomas eon of Thomas Almond de Saughall-

Massey Bp Jy 14th.
Mary dangbter of John Wilson de Olanghton

July 20th.
Bliaabeth daughter of John Wiloook de Ford,

August 18th.
Sarah daughter of John Sayers, de Claughton

Jany 7th.
JameB son of James Wagge de MoretooFeb

14th.
Samuel son of John Ellis de Saughall Massey

Mar 6th.
Daniel eon of Timothy Wilson de Heatbside

Mar 8th.
Eliaabeth d [blank]
Maudlin daughter of Hugh H^ydook de

Olaughton Mar 12th.
Elizabeth daughter of Richard Gill of

Moreton Mar 13th.

Mabbuobs 1691.

ITHlUam Ormston and Hannah Hamnet of

Bidston Parish married Ap 13th.
Jacob Williamson of Bidston Parish and

Mary Sheen of Ooddington Parish Sept

lltb.
Thomas Harrison and Ellen Bird of Bidston

Parish Sept 26th.
John Truman of Bidston and Mary Oook of

Bebington Parish No? 9th.
Wm Wilson and Mary Povd of Bidston

Parish Jan 2nd

BuBULS 1691,

Bllen Hell de BidBton buried April 8rd.
Elizabeth Harrison de Saughall Massey May

25th.
Martha daughter of Richard Qill deMoreton

May 80th.
Dorothy, wife of William Brby de Moreton,

June let.
William son of John Kemp de Moreton,

August 24th.
Thomas son of Henry Hancock de Moreton,

Aug. 26th.
Martha Hill de Moreton, Sept. 6:h.
Maiy daughter of John Wilson de Olaughton,

Oct. 2nd.
Elizabeth Pembeiton de Moreton, Oct. 8rd.
Alioe daughter of Thomas Hancoofc ie

Moreton, No?. 8th.
Anne Wilson de Olaughton Widdow, Deo.

Btta.
Robert Ainsworth de Moreton, Deo. 9th.
Hugh Edwards de Moreton, Deo. 28rd.
Jane wife Wm Dolby de Lingfaam, Jan. 19 th.
Mary Bird (dan of Henry Bird deceased)

Jan. 20th.
Martha wife of Wm LiTersage de Saighall-

Oarre, Jan. 25th.
John Batbbone de Moreton, Jan. 80th.
Maudlin wife of Hugh Haydook de CAaughtoo,

Mar. 12th.
Alioe latherland de Olaughton widdow. Mar.

18th.

John Eaton. Ifinister.

John Leene ) nvvr
John Webster J "■^•

DECEMBER 17th, 1892.

[147J THE LEGEND OF BEBINQTOM SPIRE.

Among the many predictions attributed to Robert
Nizon, the Oheshire poet, is one relating to the ify
on Bebington Ohurch. He is said to hkye foretold
that, when the iry topped the spire, the end of ttie
world would be nigh. On this prophecy Mr. Egerton
Leigh wrote the following verses :—

Ify I thou art fresh and young,
Gleaming in the morning sun ;
In thee change is neyer seen,
Through the year an eTergreen,

II.

When at banquet held on high,
The maid KUsot merrily
Danced and Bacchus oft embraced.
As midst gods she wanton raoed ;

Whilst Bhe frolicked up and down,
Down she sank upon the ground ;
Exhausted dosed her eyes in death,
Panting fled her fluttering breath.

IV.

Ivy sprang up round the maid,
By the Greeks hence named ('tis said)
Kiasoi, which the oak entwines,
As KiMoa once the god of wines.

Ivy, though so bright and green.
Oft near death is met, I ween i
Midst th* old castle's ruins oreeps ;
From winding-sheet of snow-wreath peeps.

VI.

Throws it tendrils round the oak.
Which its fond embraces choke ;
Like the snake-enoiroling coils, ^
Whelming hapless prey ia toils.

Dbosmbxb, 1892.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUEREES.

vn.

I^, twined with gloomy yew,
Too oft meets the monmer'B Tlew,
Slowly following the dead
To their iaet oold chnrohyard bed.

vin.

Haet thon heerd what hu been said
By fleer Nixon, prophet dread,
Of Behington'i high>8oaring epire 7
Thw he spoke in words of fire :^

Nixov'b Pkophbot.

IX.

*• When that spire's fane shall elaep
Ivy with its fatal grasp,
Thon the last stem tnimpet's oall
Lire and dead shall sunmoa all.

Then shall hap the erash of doom ;
Then the dead shall burst the tomb ;
Together erashed the world shall roll,
like a parohed, flame-shrlTelled seroll."

XI.

Many years sinee then have passed,
BUll the world and spire last ;
Nor yet the ivy's fatal grasp
Dares the fatad point to elasp.

xn.

Ones it almost reached the height,
Filling Cheshire with affright ;
¥rhen the lightning's seorohing blast
Through the threatening ivy passed.

XTII.

Twice since then, in utmost need,
Ohance hath baulked the ivy*s greed ;
Still the tendrils seek the skyi
Stmgglittg towards the spire on high.

Ksy onr hearts to heaven rise,
Then we ne'er shall fear surprise ;
E'en should the ivy top the spire.
And the doomed world wrap in fire.

MtA«

[148] THE BIDBTON BEQISTEBS.

(Oontinned from No. 146— December 10).
Baptibmis, 1692.

Samuel son of John Eaton (de Olanghton)

Clerk Bapt Ap 12.
Henry son of Nicholas Tubman de fford Ap

28d.
Mary daughter of Evans Heylin de Woodside

May 10th.
Wm son of Wm Harrison de Baughall-

Masiey May 26th.
John son of John Peacock de SaughalU

Massey Blay 81st.
Thomas son of Daniel Rawllos de Oxton

June 12tb,

Elizabeth dau of Stephen Wilcook de More-
ton Aug 28th.
(I) Jerimiah eon of Daniel Wilson bapt Sept 5.

Ellen dan of John Tmeman de Bidston
Sept 20tb.

Elizabeth dan of Joseph Oharnock Oct 9th.

John son of John Wilson de Olanghton
deceased Oct 18th.

Peter son of William Wilson de Moreton
Oct 28d.

Margaret daughter of Wm Ormston de More-
ton Nov 10th.

Margaret daughter of Wm Erby de Moreton
Dec 8th.

Samuel son of Henry Smith de Moreton Feb
16th.

Heniy son of Henry Hancock de Moreton
Feb 2l8t.

Joseph son of Samael Nangreave de Moreton
Mar 7th.

Allice daughter of Thomas Harrison de
Saoghall Massey March, lUh

WUliam son of John Webster de Moteton
March 16th

MiBSiiflBs 1693.

Thomas Peodleton of Bidston Parish and

Hannah Garter of Bebington Parish were

married April 6th
Bobert Ooventry and Sarah fiTorbume of

Bidston Parish Biay, 22nd
William Pierce of Eaetham Parish and

Margaret Hesket of Bidston Parish August

9th
Thomas Wharton of West Eirby PariA and

Margery Smith of Bidston Parish

August 9 th
William Dolbin and Margaret Eeiiy of

Bidston Parish January 16 ih

BuBuis 1692.

John Parboe de Olanghton buried April 8rd
Maudlin daughter of Hugh Haydock de

Olaughtoo April 14th
Bachel daughter of Joseph Oharnock de

Bidston April 29th
James Anderton de Moreton May 22nd
John Wilson de OUughton May 26th
Sarah daughter of John Bayers de Olaughton

Jnne 8rd
Samuel Bird de Moreton June 6tb.
Ellen wife of William Bennet June 14th
Elizabeth dan. of Bobert Wilson de Bidston

September 8th

(1) Thii entry Is added In a later hand, along the mar-
gin of the Beglster.

(2) '* In the name of God Amen :
I J(

roHX WiLsoH of Olanghfton cam Qraoge yeomaa iloke
In bodio eta

I leaye my property to my levins wife Mary for the
bringing opp of my children.

I leave to my three children Thomai Catherine and Anne
the sam of one hundred ponndB, etc."

Exeontora : " Hy loving onole Biohard Wllion of Blditon
and Mary my wife."
Wltneuee. Thos Pendleton

Wm Johnson John WUaon [egd]

Hen. Robinson
Inventory 2 Feb 1692^ valaed by John Leane and Xlmolby
Wllson.-4am total AIM 17 8.
Proved M Jane USA by Mary Wileon wMow and teilel.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Dboembsb, 1892.

llaxgaret dM. of Timothy Wilson do Hoath-

Bido Novembor 27th
Mary Farboe Jnor Janoaiy 6th
Mary wife of Henry Williamaon de Oiangh-

ton January 7th
Margaret daoghter of William Erby de

Moreton Janaary 17th
Mary daughter of William Erby de Moreton

Maroh 9th
John Kemp de Sanghall Oarre Maroh 14th
John Eaton, Miniater

SSTnel^N^l^y Ohorehwarden.

[U9]

QUERY.

In Mn. Oamlin'8 Intereating book on Birkenhead,
it is stated that Holt Hill derifes its name from
Oromwell's army haviog been called to haU there ?
Can any of yonr oontribntors tell me whether this
is the trae deri? atlon of the name f X.T.Z.

DECEMBER 24th, 1892.

[ISO] A CHOIR DIFFIOULTT OF THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Last oentniy organs were to be met with in only
a small number of ohnrohes. Their place was
asnally taken by a band of stringed and wind instni-
ments, such as fiddles and Antes. The following
extraots from the Ohorohwarden's books of the
Parish of Baetham show how muoh heat oonld be
eyoived by the attempted introduction of a fresh
instrument.

June 11th, 1764. Being Monday in Whitsun
week, at a Legal Vestry Meeting tor settling the
Churchwarden's Accounts— afterwards agreed that
there be an Instrument, oalled a Bassoon, bought for
the use and assistance of the smgers in the Parish
1^ the ChnrehwardoDB at the Parish charge.

Witness our hands in the name of the Parish.

Honor. Lebeg, Vicar.
John Corfe,
Wm. Whitehead,
William Onrrey,
Thomas WIIbod.

Notwithstanding this resolution, no bassoon was
procured ; but in 1770 a fresh step was taken in the
matter. Mr. Lebeg had died in the meantime, and
Mr. (afterwards Archdeacoo) Travis was now Vicar.

May 24th, 1770. At a legal meeting, held in the
chancel on the above day, it was proposed that an
order made in 1764, for buying an instarnment called
If he tethwith oarried into operation hj

the Churohwardens, Mr. Cnrrey and John Wilkinson,
at the Parish expense— which proposal was agreed to
by the following persons who signed their names
aooordingly.

William Onrry,
John Wilkinson,
J. WhitUe,
Geo. Bobin,
Saml. Cross,
Handle Edwards,
John Johnson.

ThoB, Wilson,
Thomas Jones.
Robert Lean,
John Corfie,
James Bell,
William Corffis
John Williams.

The underwritten persons, being unwiUiog that
that this order be oarred into ezeoution, ai the
parith expeme, have signed theur names in this page,
In witness of their dissent.

John Arrowsmlth
Ralph Davies
Robert Pickering
John Pickering
John Lee jnnr

ThoB Edwards
Samuel Beeoe
Thomas Briscoe
Wm Whitehead
Thos + Maaiee
his mark

N.B. July 8th 1770

Tiie Vicar of Eaetham, fiading with concern that
great heats and divisions were gaining ground in the
Parish about the purchase of a bassoon, and Uiink-
ing it very improper that a parish should be
disiracted and divided about so very inconsiderable
aa object^ doth hereby put a stop to the Toting
oonoeroing it, in virtne of bis authority as Vicar.

Qbobge Tbavib, Vioar.

At a legal V«stiy meeting held April 17th, 1774,
it was agreed finally that as several small snms of
money have already been voluntarily subscribed to
the purchase of a bassoon ; and as it is apprehended
and hoped that the music of the ohnroh wul be much
benefited by such a purchase,

That the remainder of the money requisite for
such a purchase shall be disbursed by the Church-
wardens out of the Ley for the year ensuing, and
that such bassoon shall be purchased by them in
manner aforesaid.

There is a subsequent entry of six ffuineat as the
prioe of the disputed instrument. The bassoon was
played till some half ceotury ago by Mr. John
Woodward, the late clerk, and the rest of the music
consisted of a bass viol (which in 1829 cost £8 8s.),
played by his father, Mr. Joseph Woodward (who
was clerk for 80 years), and a elarionei, by Mr.
Matthew Bake of Childer Thornton.

The bassoon Is still in existence : it is now owned
by Mr. Thomas Woodward, of Bastham.

F. Sabdbu.

[161]

HOLT HILL.

(dee No. 149 —December 17th.)

In reply to your correspondent " X. Y. Z.,'* I beg
to say that Mrs. Gamlia has made a very ludicrous
mistake in her derivation of the place name *' Holt
Hill." The name existed many years, probably
many eentories, before the Civil Wan. Aa a pioef

Dboxxbbb, 1892.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

of UiiB. I may glTS the followliig entry from the
BeblDgton Baptimnal RegUtera for the year 1615-6 :
•« Margeiia filia Johie Gleare de HoU HiU:*

The trae origin of the name is donbtiess from
the Anglo Saxon word RoU (German, Holz), a eopse.
Holt Hill mnat at one time hare been a wooded
height. Many plaoe-namee in England haye this
word aa a component, e, g, Sparsholt. The word is
▼ery oommon in its contracted form Hot, appearing
in the names of the hare heaths to the sonth-weat of
London, which seem to have been at one lime
partially coYored with forest. Bnch are Bagshot,
Bramshot, aod Alderahot.

Yonr correspondent has rightly described Mrs.
Oamlin's book as interesting, but be most be
eaatioiu in aeoepting her as a golde in the origin of
Plaoe Names. Hibtobioub.

[169] THE BU>STON BEGISTEBS.

(Conttnned from Ko. 148— December 17.)

Baptibioes 1698.

Martha dangbter of Thomas Bennet de

Moreton bapt Ap 11th.
James son of John Sayers deClanghton Apl2th
William son of Boger Stanninangbt de Wood-

idde Maj Ist.
Hannah dan of John Kemp de Moreton May 4th
Esther dan of Bamnel Newbald de Sanghall-

Massey Jnne 6tb.
John ) Twins sens of Hngh Haydock de

& \ Olanghton Jnly 26.
Bamnel j

(1) William Wilson the son of Matthew Wilson

was borne 9th Jan.
Mary dan of Peter Shaw de fflabrick Sept 10th
Ellen dan of Wm Bennet jnn de Moreton

Sept 26th
Jolm son of Wm Bimner de Woodside Oot 9th.
Mary dan of Thomas Spencer de Woo Jside

Not 18th.
Martha dan of Tbos Browne de Birkenhead

Not 80.
Robert son of Biohard Gill de Moreton Deer

8»h.

(2) Biohard son of William Erby de Morton Deer

8th.
Thomas son of William Ormston de Moreton

Jan 30th.
John son of Thomas Ensdaile de Sangfaall-

Oarre ffeb 25th.
Jd^n son of Samnel Lea de Banghall-Massey

Mar 18lh.
Ellen dan of Thomas Fell de Bidston Mar 20th

Mabbiaqss, 1698.

Joseph Minshall de Bidaton Parish and Allioe
Dnke of OTcrchmrch Parish married May
14(h.

(1) Added In a later hand; the date evidently refers to
the eaeoeedins Janaary, as amongst the entries for that
month there bos been an attempt made to insert this one,
bat it baa been snbseqnentty erased and added at the top
uf the page.

(3) Fide barlals, Deoember iz and s foUowing.

BURULS, 1698.

Mary wife of Artbnr Batfabone de Wood-

chnrob, bnried Ap drd
Martha dan of Thomas Bennet de Morton,

AprU 13th
Joseph son of Henry Bird de Moreton, Jnly

9tb
Samnel son cf Hugh Haydock de Olanghton,

Jnly 2Sth
John Hioock cTe Moreton, Angnst 81st
Eleanor wife of John Bayers de Olanghton,

Oot 3rd
Ellen Troeman de Bidston, widdow Oot 15th

(1) Elizabeth wife of John Wbiteside de Newbald,

Oot 15th
Thomas Newbald de Sanghall-Oane, Oct 17th
Mary dan of Peter Shaw de fflaybriek, Not

22nd

(2) Anne wife of Wm Erby de Moreton, Deo 9th
Elizabeth Bradley de Moreton, widdow Dee

10th
(8) Biohard son of Wm Erby de Moreton, Deo

10th
Mary dan of Thomas Spencer de Wooddde,

Dao 10th
Ellen wife of Timothy Wilson de Heathside,

Deo 20th
Bobert son of Biohard Gill de Moreton, Dec

22od
Margaret dan of John Oraaadge, Jan 15th
Elizabeth dan of Peter Shaw de fflabrick,

Jan 24th
John son of Thomas Ensdail de Sanghall-

Carr, Mar 8rd
James son of John Bayers de Clanghton, Mar

13th
Willlsm Dod de Moreton, March 22nd

Jolm Eaton, Minister.
Jacob Williamson \ ^. «,
John Kemp J ^' ^•

DECEMBER 31st, 1892.

[168] WIBBAL SUBSIDY BOLL FOB 1545.

(Oontinned from No. 137— Not. 12tb).

Easthaic.

Henrico Fox pro Viiili • zrid

Gylberto Ooke pro xls iid

Johe Gybson pro xls iid

(1) Newbald or Newbold is another name for The New
honte In the parish of West Kir by.

This venerable farm house, which Is still standing, passed
aboat 1668 from the CoTentry'B( who had bought It a hun-
dred and fifty years before from the monks of Boslngwerk
Abbey) into the hands of Thomas Bennet of Newton, who
left it in his will a few years later to the Parish of West
Eirby, to form part of the still existent Uennet's charity.

Among the deeds in the Charity CheBt at West Klrby le
Btlll preserved a lease of the farm bearing date 25th Deo.
1689. from Henry Youn^r.cf Chester, to John Whiteside of
Bidbton, carpenter, iho annual rent being AS9.

(2) Vids Christenings Deo. vili and burials Deo. z«

(3) Vide Christenings Deo. Tiii and bariala Deo. izi

WIRBAL NOTES AHD QUEBEBS.

DicsmiB, 18M»

Roberto Oorf pro iiiill iiUd

Gylberto Braderton pro zx8. • • .ii

Edward Burgs pro Tiiili .xvid

Boberto Hopge Jaoior pro zla .iid

Boberto Aflsheton pro ids. iid

Danelo Bkynner pro iiiili iiiid

Simone Harryson pro zls iid

Henrico Francis pro zxs id

Johe AnRleshaigb pro zls ,...,..... .iid

Willmo Burgs pro xls iid

Roberto Hey pro Tiiili .zrid

Jeneta TelUott pro Tiiili ZTid

Bichardo Hamphrey pro zzs • .id

Gylberto Frances pro Tiiili xrid

Thoma Harrey pro zzs id

Matheo Anglesargh pro iiiili iiiid

Alida n«fibrd pro zTs iid

BjLOKrOBD.

Edwardo Banbury pro Tiill xiTd

Baamilpho Kelaall pro iTli iiiid

Boberto Smarley pro zls . • ^ iid

BIptiardo Tnnmattae [P] pro zzs ..id

Willmo Sclaster pro zzs id

Oylberto Astmole pro zzs. .id

Milone Newton pro zzs. id

Boberto Wbitley [obliterated]
Patrioo Scot [ ditto ]
BogeroForshaw [ ditto ]

MOLLTNTON BaNASTBB.

Thoma Ooke pro Till . • zitd

Boberto Totty pro Tiili ziTd

Fbanxbt.

Thoma Newbott pro xls .iid

Bico Balbbone pro zls iid

Bogero Tonnge pro zls iid

Thoma Yoange pro iiiili iiiid

Willmo Pycke pro UiU iiid

Ibiusbti.

Willmo Leighton pro xls • . • .iid

Thoma Urmston pro xls «iid

Johe Ball pro xls .iid

Johe Batbbone pro tU . • xd

Johe I^ynnard pro iiiili iiiid

Willmo Ball pro xls iid

Galfrido Hey pro zzs id

WoonOBUROHE.

Johe Leyne pro zzs .id

Robto Eawley pro liili iiid

Johe Hondo pro iiiU iiid

Tboma M esse pro zzs id

Willmo OoTcntre pro zzs id

Enoctobum.

Henrico Brydde [f ] pro iiiili bon ^ iiiid

Bobto Ohanntrell pro iiili iiid

Johe Ck>Tentre pro iiiili iiiid

Lankan [Landioan.)

Henrico Bmythe pro iiiili iiiid

Johe Smythe pro zls iid

Bobto Mawree pro zls .lid

Willmo fEuakarley pro xlc iid

Henrico Leyne pro zzs id

Willmo Bayliff pro zzs id

Tboma Hey pro zzs id

[164] BEOOLLEOTIONS OF OLD TBANMEBE.

(See No. 66— Jane dth.)

Tear eorrespondent " M.A." in his infcerseting
note on Old l^nmere fell into a serions nuatake
which oaght to be corrected. He has oonfoonded
the farmhoase Ao.t palled down last year on Major
Orred's estate with the bailding known as the New
Hall, or Tranmere Hall Farm. The latter is still
standing. It is a satisfaction to know that one of
the hoases connected with the boyhood of Bisliop
Light! oot has so far been spared. Lsotob.

ri55] THE POOLES OF BEBINGTON.

(See No. 79— Jaly 2nd.)

In my last note on this family I stated that the
only point which required to be settled, in order to
establish its relationship to the Pooles of Poole,
was to show that Edward Poole and Hogh Poole
were brothers. Tlus can be conolasively done by
referring to the will of Balph Poole (of Wnitby), an
abstract of which is printed in Lancashire and
Cheshire WUls, edited by Mr. J. P. Earwaker.
This will mentions '* Edward my eldest sone," and
<• Hagh my second sone." There can therefore be
no farther doabt as to the ezact connection of the
two branches of the family. M.A.

[166]

THE BIDBTON BEOISTEBS.

Oontinaed from No. 162— Deoember 24.)
Baftismb, 1694.

Mary dan of Henry Bird de Moreton, bapt
May Ist

Thomas son of John ElUs de SaDghall-MsMey,

May 20th
(1) William son of Wm Oorfe de 0range-hoase,

batlaed Jaly 10th
Anne dan of Wm Wilson de Sanghall-Hassey,

Jaly 16th
Bobert son of John Ormiton (janr) de

Moreton, Jaly 22nd
John son of John Traeman de Bidston,

Aagaet 6th.
Elizabeth daa of Henry Smith de Moveton,

Aag 26th

(1) This entry haa been added In » later hand along the
margin of the Begister. Orange Honse Farm, which wu
BtandlDg until within tfce last 30 or 40 yearg, was titoated,
between what ia now Bniton-grove and Altred-road (vmw
Mrs. Oamlin'B Memolra of Birkenhead, p. 3), and oeoapied
the Bite of the Grange. Vhich in the middle agea ~"^'
attaohed to the Prioty of Birkeahead.

Decembeb, 1892,

WIBEAL NOTES AXD QUEBIES.

(1) HumAh dra of Peter Shaw de lUyWok,

OetTth
Edward son of Peter Joaee da Woodado.

Not 26th
M uj dan of Heozy Heaeoefc do linghuB,

Not 29th
Daniel eon of John Peaooek do SoaghaH-

Maseey, Not 29th
Eleanor dan of Nieholaa Tohauui do Ford,

Dee 18th
Anne dan of Hatthew Barton do Ffoid,

baptised Dee 26th
M arj dan of Joseph Ghamoek de BSdston,

Deo 80th

(2) Mary dan of Bandlo BOlito do Lingham,

Jan 8th
Pradenoe dan of Brans Heylin do Woodade,

Jan 9th
Biebard son of Biofaard OUl de Horelon, Jan

24th
Thomasson of William Harrison de San^^hall-

Massey, Jan 80th
Alioe dan of James Wagg de Moreton, Mar

25th

MABBiAais. 1861.

Thomas Wilson and Hannah Duigfoid both
of Bidston Parish were married Sept. 25th

(li This entry baa been added later along the maigltt of
thB BMdBtect

(8) The name BOlito or BOUtoe if by no meana a oommon
one, BO that it is wcrth notteing thata Handle Sllleio was
▼lear of Ctaaroh Lawton. in the Deanery ol Mlddlewieh from

grior to 1648 to 1662. The Bandle Billeto in the text may
aTe been his son or grandson.

BUBIA£B 1694.

■MS Wagg, buried April 2nd
nomaa Bobinaon deOzton

irfJi

MaySSrd
Margaret dan ol Wm Ormaton da Moreton

June 19th
Margaret wilto ol Wm Bonnet de Morton

Jnly20th
John son of Thomas fTeU de Bidston Ang 7th
Anne Maddoek do Sanghall Massey Ang 11th
Thomas son of John Ellis de . Sanghall

Maawy Aog 16th
Martha Fnllon de Moreton widdow, Ang 29th
Biohard Edwards de Moreton Oot 13th
Elisabeth dan of Stephen Wilooekde Moreton

Not 11th
Mary Keiry da Moreton Deo ISih
Anno dan of Matthew Barton de fford

Dee 29th
Elenaor dan ol Nioholas Tubman deflford

Jan 5th
John Upahon de Moreton Jan 20th
Hesiiy son of Henry Haneook de Moreton

Jsn24th
Elisabeth wife of Niebolas Tubman de fford

Feb 7th
Anne Kemp de Bidston widdow ffeb 15th

John Eaton minister.
John Wileoek ) nk w
Wm. Bonnet ["'*• ^'

(1) Matthew Barton was sohoolmaster of Bidston at this
time.

(1)

* "f" r f"<r^' >

I « k « *

TH E WIRRAL HORN

Index of Names.

M.B.— The Mombers refer to the seetitms, not the pages.

The Bidsion BegisUrs care not Indexed.

.— A^Ann; OMGeoige; H., Hflniy ; J., John; K., Katharine ; M.,Mai7;
Ifg., Maiguet; Bb^Bobert; lUe^ mduod; T., Thomas; W^ William.

Abbott, Ifr^aib
Aehmtey, BJ&f IfiS*
AdaflM(Adam,AddainM),G.,]flS:Ha8li, Uf; Blo^

IflSw
Adalfltoa,J^lU.
AelbfdfEilta, 90l
Aindiworttie ( Aynwortb}, IL, ISl : BiOn lOB ; SaiiL.

AM— My Wngli, 7I, 141 ; My. T1,

AOeo (Alan, Aljn), H^ 4S : J^ 115; Bofer, 116 ;

T., US.
AlniiMj, ItfHcd, K.
AndArtoD, BiOif OOL
Andrew, Bb^ Ul.
Angiar.J-U.

A]i^Mr(Aiitfanrgb),J^ 0,901 US; 1IaL,U8.

AmSaU {AnsdArn), BK, ISS; Widow, US.
Aiden, Chief, Jnstioe, K.

A ii»id,a 6.

AicowBinith, J>, UO.

Aihton (AnheWn), Bb., US; W., 87.

Aamore, GObert, 14a.

AUbooke, Bio., lU.

Alton, Bridget, 141 ; J., 141.

AtUnaon, Ceaon J. 0, 94.

Axon, W. E. A., UflL

Baohdide, KAUl, 187; Bio., 187.

BMsrter, Elia., 14&

B«fl J (Bolje), ;., 106 ; T., IflOw

BAi]iee,78.

Bake, ICal, liSO.

Ball,a., 106; H.,106; J., 106,168; Bio.,lB6; W.,

88, 106, 148, 168 ;— 96.
BuBTile (BannTile), Agnee, 108; Ellen, 108; Joan,

108; Pbil.,10a
Banner, Mr^ A.
Barlowe, Bio., 98; W.,87.
Barrow, Blix., 141; T., 141.
BftTaad, Elis., 9&
Beylifl,W., 168.
Beoke. T., 14&
BeU, Jaa., 160.
Beiiin, J., 186.
Bennett (Benel, Benett, Bennet), Chris., 106, 141 ;

G., Si; Hm 88; J., 88, 106; Big., 88, 181; Bio.,

46, 87; Bb., 87, 96; T., 88, 87, 96, 106, 181,

Widow. 186. 146; W., 88, 82, 88, 87, 106.
Berye, Boger, 186.
Beweman, Bandle, 186.
Bevnyn, J., 100.
BiUiage (BUlinoh), W., 88.
BindloBM, Sir Bb., 96, 111.
Bird (Biid, Brydde, Byrde), H., 46, 88, 168: BImon,

186 : W., 186.
Birkbie,Nia,88.
Birkenbeed (Birkenead, Birkenbedl, H., 88, 96;

Sir J., 106; J., 27.

Mr. W. H., lOL

j.,uaL

Blaoon (Blaeone^ Andrew, 98; Tn 88L

Blaker, Martin, 68.

Wnardinan, Chri&a Ul ; Ho^ 186^

BoUad (Bolaade), J. 118 ; ^te., US ; Bb^ 118.

Boniface 8th, P<^pe, US.

Boold (Bold), Lenranoe, 141; Mg., lU; Peter, 88,

Ul ; Rb., 141.
Boolton, Major, lOL
Bower, ArohdeaoonlG. B.,86.
Bowyer, W., the minter, &
Brabon, W., 68, ifiB.

Bnderton. OUh, 168i

Brett, J., 116.

Brereton, Urion, 148.

Brewell, J., 106w

Brid,M<Bird.

Biidgmaa, Biahop J., 189.

Briaooe, Edw., 87 ; Mt alio|Bnuoo.

Brooka, Bic, 82.

Browne (Brown i, Ellen. U8 ; Joan, 88, 141 ; J^ 118 ;

M., Tl : Ty 98, 106TW., 106 : — 71.
Brombm^^, J. 118. ^

Bnuoo, j7i06: Bio., 119,186; Bb., 119; T., 160;

W., 106. 187.
Bryne, J, 148.
Bonbary (Bonbnry), Edw., 168 ; H., n, 88, 86; T.»

Bargee, W., 10&

Barge, Edw., US ; W., US.

Borrows (Borowes, Bonow, Bortowes}, A., 89;

Hog^, 148 ; Sarah, 64 ;^T., 64, 00.
Barsoowe, mc fimaoo.
Barton, Phil, 181.
BasheU. W.,98.
Batcher, Bb., 106.
Batten, Mr., 14.
Byrom, H., 181 ; J., 86.

Calyelj, G., 14S.

Campbell, Mrs., 69, 68.

Carrmgton, T., 87.

Carter, lamily, 88.

Case, T., 68.

Cawde (Caldy), J.. 141.

Challoner (Chalner), Agnes, 109 ; H., 109 ; J., Sa

Chamberlain, (Chamblene), Rio.. 98 ; T., 148.

Chantrell (Chaontrell). Rb., 91, 168 ; W., 106.

Chamooke, Ant., 106 ; W.. 109.

Chester, J., Constable of, 198; Boger, Constable of,

128 : W. (Downham), Bishop, 48.
Cholmondlev, Hugh, 142.
Cleaver, Bishop Wm., 41.
Clarke, J., 116.

Clyffe (Olive), Ladv Ells., 86, 88 ; Sir Gea, 88.
Coke, GUb., 168 ; T^ 168; W., 116 ; t«e dUo Cook.
Colley, Tharstan, 119.
Congreve, J., 148.
Constantine, R, 14 ; T., 66.

INDEX TO NAMES.

Oook (Ooooke), Ralph, 181 ; W.. 186 i|te< abo Ooke.

Coppinger, H., 88.

Coppooke, Peter 87.

Oorfe (Ck>rfle), J., 160 ; Rb., 168 ; W.| 160 ; family,

82,64.
Ooltlngbam, G., 96 ; J., 98.
Cotton, Mg., 148.
Coolton, J., 186.
Coapeland, David, 108.
Coatdjre, JT, 60.
Coventry (Ooventre, Ooventrey), Ellen, 188; H.,

106; Hagh, 128; J.. 28, 168; Mg., 128; Rio., 87,

106. 1287141 : T., 46, 88, 106 ; W., 66, 00. 88. 128,

141,168.
Oowdroy, 40.
Gowell, Hugh, 96.
Cowes, Rio., 1S6.

Cowper, lid. Chanoellor, 6; Roger, 87.
Cox, B. W.. 68 ; W. P., 60, 62.
Grabtree, Adam, 87.
Crane, T., 117, 181.

Cromwell, Earl of Essex, 127, 141 ; Jane, 141.
Cropper, Jonah, 181.
Cross, Sam., 160.
Calcheth, T., 101.
Carrey, W*, 160.

Dalby (Dalbie, Dabe). H.. 88 ; Kath . 64 ; T., 64.

Dalliunore, Rb., 87.

Damport, W., 142.

Daniel, Rb., 106.

Danson, T., 148; ««« alto Deynson.

Darbyshlre, Rb., 148.

Dasf ]n, Peter, 106.

Davies (Davy, Davye), J., 187 ; Ralph 60 ; W., 148.

Dawby, Rb., 46 ; W., 60 ; •«« aUo Dalbyfand.Dobie.

Day. M., 88 ; family, 98.

Deane, J., 88 ; Martin, 188 ; Rb., 100 ; W., 109.

Delves J 148.

Derby.' Earls of, Chas., HI ; Edw , 78: H., 4. 82 ;

W., 76 ; Mg , Countess of, 76 ; family, 146.
Deynson, W., 187 : ns alio Danson.
Dobb (Dobe, Dobbe). H., 119 ; T., 88 ; Widow, 186.
Dobie (Doby\ H., 106 ; T., 148 ; «m aUo DaXby and

DOHfbjf.

Doe, Jas., 98, 141 ; T., 141.
Donall, J., 186.
Dranford, Ric, 106.
Dagard, Mr., 14.
Donsterfield, J., 96.
Dutton, J., 186, 142.

Barwaker, J. P., 11, 82, 166.

Baton, Mr. Saml., 19.

Eooleston, T.. 106.

Eden, Peter, 181.

Edwards, Leoline, 101 ; Randle, 160 ; T., 160.

Egerton, Bir J., 71 : PhU, 142 ; Ralph, lO.

EUam, W., 181.

Ensdall, Ellen, 148.

Farrington, Rio., 106.

Fasaokerley (Fazakarley), H., 128; J., 106 ; W., 168.

Pells, H., 66 ; W., 76.

Pinlowe, T., 87.

Finnes, Job, 14.

Fitton (Fytton), Edm., 142 ; Sir Edw., 141 ; Susanna,

141.
Fletoher, Rio., 148 ; — 7&
Forshaw, Agnes, 148 ; Roger, 168.
Forster, Nio., 87.
Fox, J., 06; H.,168.
FramwaU, EUen, 148.
Framway, H., 60.
Francis (Frances, Frannos), Gilbert, 168 ; H., 148^

168.
Frankland. Mr. Rio., 98.
Frith, T., 181.
Fyssher, Ria, 148.

Oamel, 80.

Oamlin, Mrs.. 149. 161.

Gardener (Gardner), J. 148 ; Mr. J., 101.

Garret (Garratte), Roger, 46 ; Widow, 186.

Garston, Adam de, 122.

Gastrell, Rishop, lOL

Oenion, Rio., 186.

Genson, J., 148.

Geompe, Geilr., 186.

Gerard, J., 181.

Gibbon, Edm., 41.

Gib on (Gybson), Mg., 82 ; J., 168 ; family, 82.

GieU, Rb.. 46.

GiU, J.. 88 : Rio., 68 ; Rb., 96.

Gleasor, T., 87.

Gleave, J., 106, 161 ; Mg., 161.

Glegg (Glegge) (of OaMton)^ Arthur, 141 ; Edw., 82 ;

%, 141; Mg., 141 : W., 82, 88. 87. 96, 141.
Glegg (of Arrows and Qranfie)^ 96.
Gobbvn, J., 128 ; Nio., 188, 187 ; W., 188.
Godelston, Johanna, 112.
Godwin, Arthur, 88 ; Ellen, 88.
Goodacre (Goodaker, Goodeker, Goodyoare), Jas.,

80, 84 : J., 186 : Rb., 106 ; T., 106, 148.
Goodman, Chris., 127 ; W., 42.
Oouldeswene, J., 148.
Ooulson, Rb., 106.
Gtovet, J., 119.
Gtower. Dr. C , 40, 68.
Graoe, J., 87.
Grant, Jas., 106.
Green (Greene), Edw., 87 ; Rishop (John), 86 ; Rb.,

10.
Grey, T., 187.

Grey, de Wilton, William. Earl, 71.
Griffiths, Graoe, 71, 141 ; Rb., 146; Bir W., 71, 141.
Grymsdioh, Rio.. 60.
Gurterey, Jas., 186.

Hale, T., 187.

Halewood, T.,96.

Hamnett, H., 106.

Hanoe, E. M., 7.

Hanoook (Hanooke), Agnes, 100 ; G., 186 ; Jas., 88 ;

J., 106 : Rio., 106, 188 ; T., 100.
Hands, W.. 186.
Hanket, Ric. 63.
Hanson, J., 14 ; T., 64 ; Ellen, 64.
Harding, Mr., 121.
Hardware, family, 189.
Hare, W., 109.
Harrison, Cuthbert, 106; Edmund., U7; EUen, 188;

J., 112 ; Nic, 186 ; Rio.. 87, 188 ; Simon, 168 ; T.,

98; W., 13S.
Hartley, Rio., 76.
Harvey. Ric, 148 ; T., 168.
Harwood, Mr. C. H., 189.

Hatton, H.,98. _

Hawthorne, Julian, 46, 60, 62, 66 ; Nathaniel, 46, 60,

62,66.
Hay (Hey, Heyes), Arthur, 88 ; Jeflr., 87 ; Rb., 168 ;

T., 168 ; Wilfrid, 168.
Haslehurst, various ways of spellixig, 82 ; A., 82 ;

Ren., 82 ; Oath., 82 ; Graoe, 82 ; Jas., 82 ; Jana,

82; J., 82; Mg., 82; Martha, 82 ; M., 82;

Peggy. 88 : Sam., 88 ; Sarah, 82; T., 82.
Helde, Hugh, 148.
Helyn, Joan, 148.
Henry, Mat, 189.
Heress, T., 106.
Hesketh, T., 98.

Heyrick, Ric, 14. _ .^

Hiooook (Hioooke, Hyoooke, Hyeoke), H., 100;

Hugh, 109 ; Ric, 60, 100, 112, 187 ; Rb., 187 ; T.,

98, 187.
Hidde, T., 119.

Hill CHyll), J., 108. 119 ; T., 109 ; W., 112.
Hitohmough (Hitohman), Alderman, 66 ; Jos., 66.
HookenhuU, H.. 106; J., 88, 141; Mg., 141; Peter,

141 : Ric, 106.
Hogg (Hogge), Ric, 148; Rb., 168 ; T.,9& 60.
Hoggeston (Hogeston, Hoggleston), Hugh, 119;

Jas., 109 ; Ric, 119 ; Rb., U9 ; W., U6.
Hoghkin, Rb., 106.

Hohenlo, Count, 1. _ ^ ,,^

Holes (Hole), Hugh, 67; J., 116; Mg., 67; W., 116;

<M aUo Hoole.
HoUand (HoUande). T., 14 ; W., 188. .

Holm (Holme, Home), Agnes, 112 ; J., 112 ; Mg .

112; Randle, 44, 78; Ric. 112; T.,112.
Hondo, J., 168. _ ,

Hoole, Rb., 119 ; W., 112; m« also Hole.
Hooton (Hoton), Adam de, 46, 108.
Hope (Hop), H., 60.
Hough (Hbughe), RIanohe, W; Gilbert, MO ;JMa.

127 ; Mg., 109 ; Ric, 142 ; Rb., 109; T., 100 ; W.,

127,186,141.
Howson, Dean J. S^ 72.
Halme, Rb., 136 ; W., 186.
Humphrey, Ric, 168.
Hunt, H.. 106;Ric, 106. ,
Huntingdon, H., 8rd Earl of, 78.

INDEX TO NAMES.

Hontinston (Hontyogton', J., 8f7 : T^ 112; W^

08,116.
Hynixi, J^ 109.
Hjne, J., 187.

Inglefleld, Ric, US.
Ireluid, T.. 14S ; W., 106.
Irvine, W. F., 121.

JftckaoD, Dean CjtU, 86.

Jumyn, T., 187.

JenBon, W., US.

Johnson (Jonaon, Joeneson', Captain, 16; Chris.,

148: J., 118, 160 : Ric, US ; T., 106, 113.
Jones, Ii^, 145: J., 14, 101; M., 86; Ric.,106:

8am., 06; T^ 16a
Jmnp, Big., 141 ; T., 141.

Kawley, Bb., 168b

KelUe, Bie., 76.

KelaaU, Ralph, 168.

Kempe, Rio., 26.

King (Kinge , Sir Rb., 64 ; Rb , 96.

Kirkea. J., 141.

Knowesley, W., 119.

Knowles, Mr. J., 19.

Kowtroke, Rie., 68.

Kynderton, J., 187.

Kyngelegh, Adam de, 67.

I«ancaster, Edm., B. of, 122 ; W. 141.

Lane, Mr., 197.

Langford, G., 88.

Langton, Eleanor, 141 ; Rb., 141.

Lascy. J. de, 122.

Iiawnseley, J., 46.

Lea, J., 106 : T., 96, 101.

Leavy, family, 82.

Lebeg, Honoratas, 145, 150.

Ledsam, J., 46.

Lee, J., 160 ; Ric. 66. 60.

Leeke, Hogh. 119; Rb., 119.

Leene (Leyne, Lean, Leen), H. 168 ; J., 186, 168 ;

Rb.. 106, 160; T., 88, 106.
Lesh (Leghe), Peter, 142.
Leieester, Earl of (Rb. Dudley), 1.
Leigh (Leighe), Egerton, 147 ; Mr. J., 14.
Leighton, W., 168.
Leland, J., 27.
Lenarde, T., 186.
Lester, W., 106.
Ley, Rb., 148.
Leyoester, Peter, 40.
Leyne, m« Leene.
Lightbown, Mr. J., 101.
Lightfoot (Lightfote), Bishop J. B., 66, 164 ; J., 187 ;

Ric., 187.
Linaore (Linaker, Lineker, Lynacer, Lynnacre,

Lynager, Lynygar), Elis., U3 ; H., 46 ; J.. i28,

188; Nancy, 89; £., 128, 148; W.. 60, 128;

family, 82.
Litherland, J., 88, 141.
Lont, H.. 119.
Longher, Rb., 127.
Lowe, Arthur, 106.
Lnnt, Elix., 181.
Lnsher. Ric, 76.

Lynnard, J., 162. See aUo Lenarde.
LyttU (Lyttell), J., 128 ; Ric, 26. 42 ; T , 26.

Maoanlay, Lord, 41.

Mac]7n,W., 116.

Madaot^e (Madock, Madocke), Joan, 118 ; Rb., 45 ;

T., 118, 188; W.,112.
Maine, Jasper, 96.
Mainwaring (Maynwarying), Chas., 189 ; Randle, 60 ;

family, 189.
Malpas, Andrew, 11 ; Marjory, 11 ; Rb., 11.
Marowe, W., 186.
Marsden, Hester, 14; Ralph, 14.
Martin (Marten), G., 148; H., 6 ; Ric, 60.
Mary, Qaeen, 71 of Guise, 71.
Massee, T., 160.
MasssT (Massie, Massee, Masey),' David. 148 ; G ,

141 : Hamon, 27 ; Sir J., 121 ; Kath., 141 ; Sir

W.,68,96; W., 141.
Mawrie (Mawree), Rb.. 114, 168.
Mayer, Jos., 66, 181,185.
Meadow, Mg., 82: family 82.
Heoles (Meles, Miles), J., 141 ; Katb.. 141.

Milner (Mylner), J., 98; Ric, 187 ; T., 42, 148 ; W.,

11?.
Minsboll. J., 141 ; Kath., 141.
Moldynge. W., 187.
MoneIey,T.,l4S,
Montford, Simon, 86.
More, Mg., 141;— , 141.
Morvile, Chris.. 42, 46.
Mosse, Ric, 106 ; T.. 106, 168.
Motiey,J.S,l,4.
Moolsdale, T., 69.
Morcott, Job., 14 ; J., 14, 16, 19, 64.
Match, J.. 88.
Murphy, Mr. Jas., 69.

Naylor, R. C, 46.

Netherland, J., 141.

Newbott, Rb., Itt; Roger, 188 ; T., 153 ; W., 83.

Mewcome, H., 19.

Newton, Miles, 158 ; Rb.. 112.

Ivioholas IV., Pope, 122.

Nixon, Rb., i47.

Noblet, H , 106.

Offeley, J., 68.

Ogle, Edw., 141 : Isabel, 141.

Orford, Adam. 181.

Ormerod, G., 68.

Ormonde, Marquess of, 96.

Orred, Major, 66, 09, 154.

Oulton, Ric, 87

Owens (Owen), Mr., 101 ; Rb., 106 family, 82.

Parbott (Parbolt), J., 100 : W.. 138.

Parr (Parre), Rb., 141 ; Widow, 186 : W.. 185, 141.

Peacock, Jane, 54 ; J., 64.

Pearson (Peirson, Pier8on\ Bishop J. BO; T.,87;

106.
Pelham, Frances, 145 ; H., 146.
Pemberton, H., B8; J.. 83; Miles. 83; Nic, 143 ;

Rb., 136 ; T., 83 ; family. 98.
Penkett iPenkythej, T., 96 ; W., 109.
Penleton (Pendleton), 1.
Penny, H., 119.
Pentony, Nic. 60.
Pepper, J., 105.
Pepys, 8am., 6.
Percivall, Ric, 6a
Perrot, T.. 101.
PhilipII, of 8pain,7l.
Picke, W., 106.

Pickering, Alice, 181 ; J., 160; Rb., 160.
Pigot, Dorothv, 141 ; T., 141.
Plankenay. Edw., 141 ; M., 14 •.
Platte, J., 148; T., 106.
Plimsoll, Sam., 65.
Poole, Edw., 79. 166 ; Sir F., 146 ; Hugh. 18, 79. 15&;

J., 71, 88, 96, 141 ; Ralpb, 18, 79, 156 ; Sir T., 70;

Sir W., 79.
Person, Ric, 4'.
Porteus, Bishop Beilby, 41, 48.
Potter, H., 106.
Povall, family, 82.
Powell, J., 148.
Preeson, W., 87.
Prenton, Rb., 106.
Prescot (Prescott), H., 117, 181.
Price, family, 82.
Proctor, Hy., 127.
Pyoke, W., 168.
Pyckote, Ric, 186.
Purnell, Mr., 86.
Pynnyngton, T.,112.

Quigley, Mr. 66.
Quirk, Mr., 66.

Rabon (Raburae), tee Rathbone.

Radcliffe (Radolyffe), Rb.. 26, 128 ; T., 86, 45, 148;

W.. 86, 46.
Radley, T., 148.

Randle. Gemons, Earl, 180. ^^ ^ ^„

Rathbone iRathbon), J.. I68; Ric.,6S, 1C8; T., 03,

83. I2«, 148; W.,148.
Ravenshaw. T.. 66.
Rawley. Peter. B8.
Reece. Sam., 150.
Richardson. David, 46 ; J., 106.
Rimmer, J., 128.

Roason, J.. 105. _ , ,^^

Robert. Brother, of Vale Royal , lOB,

INDEX TO NAMES.

Roberts, Mr., 60.

Robin, Canon P.R., 64 : Oeo., 160.

RobisBon (Robynson), Jane, 141 ; J., 68, 98, 109, 118,

148 ; Rio., 148 ; W., 141.
Rogers, T., 60.
Rogerson, T., 60.
RoBcoe, Oraoe, 82 ; family, 83.
Rosin, H., 88.
Ross, Mr., 66.
Royden, G., 88.

Rylands ^Rylanoe), J., 186 ; Rio., 98.
Ryley, W.. 119.

Bayage, Bir .T., 148.

Bcarysbrioke, J., 116.

Bolaster, W., 168.

SooDoe, Rb., 148.

Scott (Boot), Bir a.G., 189 ; Pat., 168.

Beddon, w.,14.

Beele, T., 64.

Befton, J.. 1 87.

Bemson, T., 187.

Bephton. Mr., 146.

Shaip .Bharpe), J ,9fii Prior of Birkenhead, S7;

Bhepp'ard (Bhepard), Ric, 36, 60, 1S8.

Bherlock (Bharlacre, Shurleaore), A., 181 ; Cicely,

181 ; G,. 188 ; H., 109. 181 ; J.. 181 ; Rio., 84, 96,

111, 114, 117, 128, IS9, 181; T., 91, 181; W., 96,

181, 188.
Bherman, T. H., 69.
Bhaflage. Alice, 109.
Bidney, Bir P., 1.
Bkelnor, Arthur, 68. •
Bkynaer, Dan., 168.
Bmarley, Rb., 163.
Bmith (Bmyth, Bmythe), Edm., 186 ; H., 168 ; J., 60,

88,108, 106. 187, 168 ; Bir Lawrence, 86 ; Bir T.,

71. 141 ; T., 148 ; Ursula, 71, 141 ; W., 46, 188.
Bnede, Ric. 60
Bpann, family, 189.
Bpencer, H., 187 ; Ric. 187, 148.
Bpreoley, Bart., 88 ; W., 82.
Btaokhouse, T.,146.
Stanley (of Hooton and 8toreUm\ 1, 46, 48, 60,

108, 146; Ann. 82; Edward Bir, 1, 4, 88;

Joan, 88 ; John, 71, 88 ; Kath., 141 ; Mg., 7i. ;

Mary, 71, 82 ; Rowland Bir, 1, 71, 78 88, 181,

141 : Thomas Sir, 78 ; WUliam Bir, (1), 141 ;

William Bir, (8), 71. 78, 88 ; William Bir, (8),

86, 48. 62 ; WUliam, 108.
Stanley, H., 88.
Btanney, Rb., 14&
Stanton, Ric. 186.
Steal. Mr.. 69.
Stourton, J., 8th Lord, 78.
Btrlngfleld,A.,85 ; Jaa., 86.
Sutton, A., 88 ; G.. 88.
Swift, Dean, 88.
Swynnley, W., 187.
Byche, J., 188.
Bydabottom, Mr. Silas, 101.
Syers. J., 108 ; M., 108.

Tassey, Rb., 148.
Tatton, Rb., 148.
Taylor (Taylour. Taylyer), And.. 87 ; H., 44 ; Isaac

(Canon), 84, 68, 76, 99, 102; Ralph, 188; Ric,

106 ; Rb., 105.
Telford, T., 88,
Telliot, Jenet, 168.
Totty,Rio., 128 ; Rb., 168 T., 186.
TQwnsoQ, Archdeacon T., 41.

Trafford, Alioe, 168.
Tranghton, W., 106.
Travis, A. 86; Ben, 86; Archdeacon, 9, 86,41,48,

160 ; family, 86.
Tummathe, Ric, 163.

Urmston, T., 168 , family, 98.
Urwick, W., 14, 98, 101.

Veitch, Dr., 76.

Wade, Ric, 187.

Wainwright, H.. 106.

Wakelin, Josepit, 6.

Waley (WaUeyj, Ric, 106; W., 46.

Wall, W., 46.

Warehouse, W., 116.

Warren, Randle, 148.

Warrington (Wayrington, Werynton), G., 128; H.,

188* Peter 86* T. 86.
Warton (Walton, Wauton), Hamon, 100; J., 66, 00,

68, 100; Ric, 187; Simon, 88.
Washyngton, T., 14&
Waterhouse, Mr. Nic, 101.
Watson, Mr., 69.
Watt, Ric , 106 ; Rb., 90, 106.
Wattmough, T., 106.
Waverton, Rb., 188.
Webster, Jane, 64.
Werberton, Peter, 109.
Wharton family, 88.
White (Whitte., J.. 60, 68; Nic, 46, 66; Ric, 186 ;

T.,60.
Whitehead, J., 96 ; T., 98 ; W., 160.
Whitelaw,Mr.J..189.
Whitfield (Why&eld;, CeciUa, 109; Rowland, 105

W. 100.
Whitla^ye,'T., 186.
Whitmore (Whitmo*, Whittmore, Wythmort),

Alioe, 118 ; Eleanor, U8; J., 88, 118, 141 ; W ,

08, 118, 186.
WhitUe (Whitley), J., 160 ; Rb., 96, 168 ; family, 82.
Whyteof, MUes, 110 ; W., 119.
Widdowes, Mr., 181.

Wiioock, J., 88, 188 ; Ric, 188; Roger, 100 ; W., 100.
Wilkinson, J., 160.
Willett, Mr , 181.
WilUams, J., 160 ; family, 88.
Williamson, J., 62 ; T., 112 ; W., 112, 110.
Wilson (Wylson), Blanch, 88 ; Jas., 88 ; Jonathan,

181 ; J., 181 ; M., 148 ; Nat., 91, 181 ; Obadiah,

88; Rb., 88, 98; Bishop T., 96, 111, U7, 181 ;

T.,160; W.,e8.
Winter, Dr. Bam., 64 ; W., 71.
Wise, W., 106.
Witfleld, tee Whitfield.
WofaU, T., 66.
Wood, Antony &., 96.
Woodcock, Elix., 101 ; G., 101 ; T., 101.
Woodes, Lawrence, 9B.
Woodward, Alice, 109; Jas., 109 ; J., 160; Joi., 160 ;

T., 160.
Woolmer, Edw., 14.
Worsley, Ralph, 87.
Wright (Wryght), Edw., 128; J., 96,46,128; Bh.,

128; T., 86, 46, 88, 188.; W., 76.

Yookson, Ric, 87.
York, Rowland, 4.
Young (Younge, Yonge), BUx., 188 ; Harry, 148 ; J.,

68; Bishop Philip, 186; Ric, 188; Rb., 88;

Roger, 168 ; T.. 88, 106, 183, 168 ; W., 112.
I Yoxton, J., 109 ; Ric, 119,

Index of Places, &c-

N.B.-~The Numbers refer to the seetions, not the pages.

TTu Bidston R^qisUrs arc not Indextd.^

A]dvte7,ll»L
Ald«nfaot.l5L

AMmmmm. Keepen o( ia U8B. liaL
A]gian.PfntMOf,U.
AUortoek^ lOL
ASBOVB, 6B, TB.8B, 98.
AihUm.ltf.
Aitlwry. 14,108.
141.

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Bacdobo, 48, 87, 141, 148, 145, ISS.

M Ghnreh, ebftnetadstics of, 9.
Bacdiot,lU.

Babxrom, 80, 87,90, 90, lOS.

BiUMTOH, 10, 11. U| 4S, 78, 19. 9S, 191« 188, 149, 147,
155.
^ Lower, 87, Itfi, 1481

„ Upper, 87, 119.

„ Ghonh, Characteristics of. SI, iSL

„ Spire, Legend of, 147.

BiMTOV, SI, 8S, 92, 98, 101, lot, 1S3. 141.
n Cboreh, Characteristics of, SS.
Field Names, 99.
Hall Fium, earl j lease of, 76.
Hill, 17.

Inscribed and dated houses at, 88, 54.
Manor House, 78.
Marsh, 92.

Recisten, S. 6» 8, 12, 15, 18, 90. 23, 35, 29, 81,
84, 87, 80. 48, 47. 49, 61. 68, 56. 61, 65, 67.
70. 78, 77, 81, 86, 80. 94, 97. 100 . 104, 107,
110, lis, U8, ISO, 19S. 185. IS •, 13S, 181,
188. 188^140, 144, 148, 148, 152,156.
Windmill, 78.
BnnHnAD. 10, 88, 66, 99. lOS, 196, 149.
Dooks, 99.

Incident at, in Ciril War, 103.
Name, 8, 17, 97, 88.
Newspaper in 1642, 106,
„ Priory, 91, 68, 129.

Birket Pool, 10.
Birket,BlTer,8,17.
Bfarket, Wood, 108.
Blackbnm, 199.
BlaoUey, 85.
Borwiok, 96.
Boston, U.8., 89.
Bowden, Ohoroh, 97
Bramahot, 161
Brendewood, 192.
BrlefiL History of, 6 ; relating to Tranmere, 11 ; to

Woodohoroh, 6.
Bbustaob, 07, 87, 90, 180.

„ Ancient stone at, 9.

Bbombobovob, 41, 48. 60, 99, 06, 98. 99, 101, IDS, 148.

145.
„ in 1769 180.

„ Church, Characteristics of, 91.

Broseley, 8.
Bncklow. Hundred, 40.
Bndwortn, 14.

BmsTOM, 90, 01, 98, 99, 141, 148.
ify, Bfeaning of Ending, 24.

Oaldt, 96. 88. 99, 148.
„ Orange, 19&

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Little, 8a

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Csmbridc«t 85.

., St JohD*s,$.x
CAmxHrasT. 71 c^90 SS, 141.
Cargoes of Wirral Ships in 154l<4S, 80, 6S.
Carletl, 48, 68, 75, 145.
CmrTt meaning of, 9i ; compounds of,I9Ei.
Gassingtoii. 9&i
Casdeton, US.

18, 19, 21, 9S. 96, 88. », 41, 44, 45, 80, 86, ST,
80. 71, 7:2, 74. 80, 101, lOS, 182, 180, ISl,
183, 141, 145.

Northgate, 72.

Bandle Holme*s House, 44.

84. Nicholas, Chapel and Paiaonage Hall,
78,74.

8i. Oswald*s, 78.

St. Werbargh'ft,7t.
Chetwynd. 141.
CHiu>Ka THoanoir, 46, 68, 8S, 88, 145, 16a
Childwall, 128.

Choir, DifBcolties in 18th Century, 160.
Crobltoh, 87. 90.

Charohes, Characteristies of Wirral, 81, 93.
CX.ACGHTON, SB, 66, 88, 99, 108, 100, 196.
Coapeland. 106.

COTenant, Solemn Leagaa and, at Woodohoroh, 183,
Cow Charities, 80, 84, 91.
Cbouohtob, 87, 90.

Dak, Compoonda of. 108.
Dawpool, Dean Swift at, 28,

„ Port of, 88.
DenwaU,99.
Deyenter, 4,71,78.
Domesday Boll, 40. 88, 80.
DoTe Point, 68.
Dablin, 11, 19, 28. 83, 64, 96.
Darsley,6.

Eastham, U, 14, 35, 41, 46. 48, 60. 69, 71. 89, 00, 06.
102, ISO, 141, 148, 146, 160. 168.
Charch. Characteristics of, 28.
in 1761. 146
„ in 1773, 48..60, 68.
Baton, 68.
Eocles, :92. 190.

S[erton, 71.
ton, 90.
Erby, <m Irby.

Fender, River. 17, 68.

Fiddler's Ferry, 6.

Field Names, 08.

Flatholm, 09.

Flaybriok Hill, 69.

Footpaths, Closing of, In 14th Century, 67.

Ford, The, 64.

Fbambby, 94, 88, 99, 168.

Frodsham, 90.

FrosU, Beyere in 1607 and 1668, 7.

Oarston, 128.

GawBworth, 141.

Gatton (Qeyton, GetonS 82, 87, 00, 09, 141. 148.

Gentry, Wirral in 1579, 141.

OiU, Compounds of, 109.

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INDEX OF PLACES, &c.

Gbahob, 82, 88, 98. 141.

„ Farm, 60.

„ Mount, 69.
Gbbabbt (Qrevesby), 26. 88, 99, 188, 148.
Gomull (Gamall) Pool, 80.
Gowj River, 122.

Handley, 41.

Hargrave, 90.

Hawarden, 19.

Heavitrea, 6.

HasWALL, 23, 45, 68, 87, , 141, 148.

Heyaide. 86.

HiLBBX, 26, 86. 42. 45, 66, 60, 68.

„ Great, 45.
Hinderton, 90.
Hookenholl, 141.

Holm. Meaning of, 92 ; Compounds of, 92.
Holme, 129, 181.
Holt Hill, 11, 149, 151.
Hook, Meaning of, 92 ; Ck>mpoand8 of, 92.
Hoo8a,88,99. ^ ,^„ ,„„

HooTOM, 1, 85, 46, 48. GO, 71, 78, 82, 96, 99, 108, 189,

141. 146.
Hough, 71. 141.
Houlse.tM Hoose.
Hoylake,92.

Hoyle Bank, Ship lost on, 88.
Huxley, 38.

llfraoombe, 75.
Ince, 21. 90, 122.
Inchfleld. 85.
Inniskillen, 6.

InBoribed and Dated Houses, 88, 54, 69.
lEBY (Irrebye, Yrby, Erby), 24, 88, 98, 99, 185, 148,
158.

Kllgwry, 21.

Kirby-Walley, 99 See dUo Wallasey.

Klrkby, 92.

Knootorum. See Noctorum.

Knutsford, 9&

Land Pool, 02.

Lamsioam, 21. 68, 88, 158.

Laracor, 28.

Labtom, 88, 92, 9a

IiXA.87,90,141.

Leasowe, 02.

LxosHAK (Ledsam), 90. 96.

Leioester, 28.

Leigh, 129.

LxiOHTOif . 90, 98, 141.

Lenox, U. 8., 62.

Licensing Sessions in 1660, 142, liS.
Linooln, 85.

LlSOBAM. 92.

Lingholm, 92.

LisoARD, 68, 75, 88.

Liskeard. 75.

LitUe Kirby, 148.

Liyerpool, 7, 55. 59, 66, 69, 122, 189, 145.

Lowton, 181.

Lydlate,90.

Macolesfield. 101.
Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 95.
Man, Isle of. U1, 181.
Manchester, 14, 85.

„ Ship Canal, 122, 124.

Marlborough, Fire at, 6.
MxOLS,17,99, 141.148.

„ GaBAT, 45. 88,

„ LiTiXK, 88, 1.28.

„ Shore, 9.
Merland. 122.

Mersey, River, 48, 69. 7B, 145.
Merton College, Oxford, 14.
Military Transports in Elizabeth's reign, 55.
Minshuil. 141.
MOLLIMOTOM, 87, 141, 158.
Moore, Flaggs, 92.

MOBBTOM, 17. 88, 54, 83, 92, 98, 102, 148.
Mou Compounds of in Field Names. 92.
Moston.115. , ^ ,„^

Muster Roll of Mr. Hough's tenantry in IbdO, 135.

Nantwioh. 71. 95.
Natland, 98.

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Nbssb 98 99 143.

NxsTON, 26. 45. 48.' 60. 93, 99, 121, 127, 185, 141, 143, 145.

Church, Charaoteristios of, 28.

Ornaments at, in 1548, 121.

Romish Recusants at, 127.
„ Little. 45, 63, 93.
Nbthbbpool, 48.
New College, Oxford, 95.
Newohuroh, 117.
Newtox. 88. 54. 88. 92, 141.
Nicholas, Chapel of St.. Chester, 72.
NooTOBUU. 68, S8, 91, 153.
Norse Names, 24, 92, 99.
Northwich. 127, 142.
Norton Priory, 122.
Norwich, 35.

Oldfibld, 82, 90, 141.

Oldham, 85.

Orf ord, 6.

Ornaments. Ecclesiastical, at Neston in 1548, 121.

Overchurch, »ee Upton.

OVBBPOOL, 48.

Oxford, 14, 95. 181.

Oxholme, 92.

OxTOM (Oxon),66. 83.84,91.92,95.109, 117, 181.

Parkgate, 28, 88. 101.

Penrhyn, 71, 141.

Pbnsby 24 09

Pingle, Meaning of, 92; Compounds of, 92.

Place Names, 24, 68, 75. 90, 99, 102.

Plymyard, 48.

PooLB, 1 1, 18. 68, 71, 75, 79, 87, 96, 141, 155.

Pooltown, 145.

PouLTOM, 7. 68, 76, 88. „ i* i

Poulton Lancelyn. ue Poulton-oum-Spltal.

Poulton*cum-Sbaoombb, 102, 185.

PotJLTOB-cuii-SpiTAL, 21, 80, 87, 119, 185.

Poutone See Poulton

Pbbnton, 80, 88, 90, 92, 141.

Prestbury, 11.

PaDDiNOTOM, 90, 98, 141, 148.

Queen's College. Oxford, 106.
Quern at'.Brimstage, 9.

Rabv,96,99.
Rhode HiU, 69.
Ringsend, 28.
Risley, 181.
Rochdale, 85, 122.
Rook Ferry, 59, 62.
Rock Park, 69, 62, 66.

„ Hawthorne's house at, 59, 62.

Romish Recusants at Neston, 127; at Thurstaston,

118.
Rovacre, 48.
Roy ton, 85.

Runaway Match in 18th*Century, 108.
Runcorn, 122.

Bag Harbour,'N.Y., 60.

Salem, U.S.. 62.

Sadohall Grbat, 90. 93, 141,'148.

„ LiTTLB, 93, 141.

Massby, 88,(54. 88, 92, 102, 141, 148.
Baughton, 141.

Bbaoombb (Secum), 68, 75, 148.
Shadwell, 6.
Shirelane, 6.
Shotwick, 2 1 , 28, 98, 99, 143.

„ Church, Charaoteristios of, 28.
Slatey Road, 126.
Somerford, 102.
Southam, e.
Sparsholt, 151.
Spilsby, 6.
Starulw, 48, 122, 124.

„ Forgotten Abbeylof, 122. 124.
Stanley Arms, Easiham, 46.

Stamnby, Great,!48, 71. 87, 90, 119, 122, 187, 141, 143.
Steyninges, 122.

Stoak, 28, 48. 52, 87, 90, 187, 141, 145.
„ Church. Characteristics of, 28.
Stone, at Brimstage, Ancient, 9.
Stobbton (Stourton), 1, 71, 87. 92. 141, 143.
Subsidy Roll of 1545, 109, 112, 115, 119, 128, 188, 197

158.
„ Of 1625, 83, 87, 98,:96.

INDEX OP PLAGES, &o.

8UTTOV,90,148,146.
M Gbiat, 48, 96.
„ LxTTLB, 48, 96.

Tarrin Water, las.
Thimowall, 87, 99, 102.
TmotanoM iThorton), 148.

„ HoooH or Mayow, 67, 98, 99, 185, 141 .
__^ „ le Moon. 90.
THDMTinoir, 88, 99, 103. 118, 186, 141. 148.
^^ ,, RomiBh Recoiants at, 118.
ThwaiU, 9S. 102.
Tozteth, 122.

TBAjntmaM, 10, 11, 17, 44, 45. 66, 68, 60. 88, 102, 112,
185,148,168,164.

„ Brittf relating to, 11.

„ 01dHaU,66.
—_. ." ^ ReooUeotlons of , 66. 69, 154.
Trinity Collie, Dablin, 96.
Tonbridge Wells, 60.
Tweed, Riyer, 76.
Tviatle, meaning of, 102.

Uniyeriity College, Oxford, 117.
Unoif (or Oyerohurch), 17, 21, 64, 88, 92, 98, 101.

141,148.

N Chorch, CharaoteristicB of, 28.

„ Preabyterianism. 98, 101.

„ Bnnlo itone at, 31.

Vale Royal, 108.

Velawe, 1.

VeuelB, Wirral in 1644, 26 ; in 1871, 86, 42, 45.

Visitation Articles of BUhop Porteus, 48, 60, 62.

W^rx^T (W»««jg.l7^ «ja. 76. 88. ». «,. IM.

Chorch, Characteristics of, 28.

Wallasey ool, 17.
Wamsfleld, 1.

Warrington, 7, 101, 122, 129, 181.
Warwick, 14.

Wbst KiaBT, 14, 16, 17. 19, 21, 28, 24, 26. 88. 46, 60 68,
88, 9i, 98, 99, 127, 143.
„ Chorch, Characteristics of, 21, 23.

West NewtOD, U.S., 62.
Whalley, 122.
Whiston, 141.

Whitbt, 24, 48, 87, 99, 148, 145, 155.
Whitfield, 86.
Wigan, 80, 129.

Will of Richard Sherlock, 129, 181.
WlLLASTON , 90, 90, 181.
Winwlck, 84. 91. 114, 117, 129, 181.
Wirral, Chorohes of. 21, 28.

„ Vessels in 1544, 26 ; in 1671. 86, 42, 4&

,, Worthies—

I. Sir Edward Stanley, Kt., 1, 4.
11. John Morcot, 14, 16. 19, 64.

III. Archdeacon Travis. 85, 41.

IV. Sir Rowland Stanley, Kt, 71, 78. 82.
V. Richard Sherlock, 95, 111, 114, 117.

WOOOBANK, 98.

WooDCHUBOH, 6, 28. 80. 64, 88, 84, 91, 92, 95, 102, 106,
129, 148, 158.

„ Briefs relating to, 6.

„ Chorch, Characteristics of, 28.

„ Cow Charity, 80.

„ Solemn League and Covenant, 106.

Woodside, 108.
Woodstock, 95.
Woolton, 92.
Woolton, Little, 122.
Wrexham, 101.

Yaroombe, 75.

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[157] WIBRAL WOBTHIEB.

YL SIB WILLUU BTANLET, Kt.

(ThB BSTBllBB OV DbTEMTSB).

Sir Williftm Stanley was the eldest son of Sir
Bowland Stanley, of Hooton and Storetoa [See Noe.
71. 78, 82] by hia flnt wife, Biargarot Alderaey. The
year of hia birth is not quite certain, but it was
probably 1534. He marziea Eliaabeth, danghtepr of
John Egerton, of Egerton, by whom he had two
Bous, William and Rowland, and three danghtera,
Joanna, the wife of John Fitzmanrioe, of Ireland,
Mary, and Elizabeth, who married Thomas Glasier,
of Lea.

Stanley made his first otmpaign in the Spanish
serHoe. Philip and Elizabeth had not yet beoome
avowed foes ; and the Spanish army was then the
best training school in Eorope. Stanley serred in
that splendid host, whose advance from Italy to the
Netherlands under Alva in 1567 made so great a
sensation thronghont Eorope. The marrelloos dis-
cipline of the troops excited the general admiration
of Alva's contemporaries, and made this march one
of the most memorable events of the period.

After the seizore of the Spanish treasure ships
(Dec 6, 1568), and the support of the Datch by
Elizabeth, and of the Bising of the North by Philip,
besides other matmal incivilities, an Englishman in
tbe Spanish army seemed ont of place. Stanley
quitted the service about 1570, and joined his
Sover^gn's forces in Ireland, where he served for
fifteen years.

Irelaod provided an excellent field for turbulent
spirits at this time. Stanley was one of the captains
of Bix William Drury, President of Munster, by whom
he was knighted in 1679 at Waterfozd, for his gallant

eonJuc. in an inroad into Lim tick. The new
knight took part in the battle of ^Oiaster Neva, and
distinguished himself at the defenoe of Adare. At
this time Baleigh was in Munster ** ezposiog himself
to the land servioe of Ireland, a mititia which did
not yield him food, nor raiment, nor had he patience
to stay there." In this force, Stabley too had his
command, but he did not experience those intervals
of court favour which refreshed Baleigh.

Ormerod says that our koight particularly dis-
tiognished himself by an attack ou the lands of
Diamond's brother, and by the gallant manner in
whioh he sustained a charge of four hundred foot
and thirty horse, in close fight for eight hours, not
having himself in his "companie above six score
persons at the uttermost."

Sir William received a commission, Au^ni^t 80th,
1581, from L^rd Grey, the Vceroy. to follow the
Oaveoaghs ; and in October we find Grey complain-
ing of the want of a commander in Mnnateraod
of some emulation amongst the oaptains, caasing
great alaokness in the service." It aeams probable
that Stanley did not see unmoved the pariition of
the great Desmond cerates, whioh he had largely
helped to subjugate, among others, while bis own
daims to a portion were disregarded. Sir John
Perrot, Grey's successor, who recognised these
claims, complained that the forfeited estates in
Munster were distributed without his advioe being
taken. But Baleigh, Pci ham, Noniv, and the oth er
adventurers who had got possession of the landa of
the Geraldines were indispose 1 to disgorge any of
their acqaisiiions, and their iuflaenee sneoc'eded in
procuring the recall of Stanley from Irtflani after
fifteen years service there in 1585. It wae doubt-
less this unjust treatment whioh first put disloyal
thoughts into his head. The nominal reason of his
being removed from Ireland was that the Queen
required him to take the command of some troops
in the Netherlands. Sir William left Ireland with
discontent in his n^nd and ready to listen to any
scheme whioh might bring about the downfall of

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Januabt, 1893.

Elisabeth and pat Mary Stewart on the throne.
Though the war in Ireland in the main had been a
religiouB one, and Stanley was an adherent of the
nnreformed religion, he had yet bo far served Eliza-
beth with fidelity. Oamden*f testimony ia : ** Qui
■ingnlaii fide et fortitudine in Hibemioo belio
meroerat.'* F. Bamdibs.

(To he continued,)

[158] THE INOUMBENTS OF BIDSTON.

In attempting to oompile a complete list of the
Inoombenta of Bidston, one if yery mnoh hampered
by the almost oomplete lack of oontemporary
docomenta for the period of the Oommonwealth.

Oharoh matters were of ooone in a condition of
the most hopeless oonfosioo ; and it is yery difficalt
to tell who snooeeded the Bay Gabbibl Bobdman,
of whose ejection from the living, I sent yon an
acoeant some months ago. [vide No. 97'Ang. 6th,
1892J.

Mr. Urwick in his Nonconformity in Oheahire,
states that ** Mb. Wbiaht was ejected from this
parish [Bidston] in 1662 bnt he afterwards con-
formed." I have not been able to corroborate this
inany way, nor to discover any trace of this Incum-
bent.

From the Transcripts of the Reg'e'er, we find
that in 1668 the Biy Hugh Buboabb, held the
living in plurality, together with the fiectory of
Woodcborcb and the Gnracy of Overohnrch. He
appears to have done so for only a short lime, how-
ever, as in a Bishop's Visitation Boole dated 1674,
preserved at the Episcopal Begistiy, Chester, it is
stated that the Onrate of Bidaton in that year was
the Bev John Enowlbs, B.A., and that he was
ordained deacon by William [Nicholson] Biahop of
Gloucester, on the 27th February, 1669, and priest
by Benjamin [Laney] Biahop of Ely on the 19th of
March 1670, and had been presented to Bidston by
John [Pearson] Bishop of Ohester on the 18th July
1673.

Mr. Enowles' stay seems likewisd to have
been brief as in 1675 the Transcript is signed by the
Bay John Baton, who continued (o hold the cure
until his death in the beginning of 1696.

Tne living at this time, and indeed until this
century, was an extremely poor one, but an un-
anccesafnl attempt was made a few years previous to
this to augment it, an order having been made on
the 10th June, 1646, by the so-called Oommittee for
Plundered MiniBtere, that " from the profits of the
said Rectory [Eastham] 501 a year to be paid
towards the support of the minister at BidstonJ**

It appeared however that the profits of the rectory
at Easibam were compounded for, and the order of
the committee on June 10th, 1646, was nullified.^
{Urwiek'i Nonconformity in Cheshire.)

From the Bishop's Visitation Book for 1680, we
learn that the Bev. John Eaton was a Bachelor of

Arts, and had been ordained by Humphrey [Hench.
man] , Bishop of London, on the 15th ol March, 1673,
and presented to the liviog of Bidston, 19 September,
1675, by the Bishop of Ohester.

Unlike his predecessors the Bev. Gabriel Bordman
and the Bev. Evan Piers, Mr. Eaton appnars to have
been a married man and had a larne family, most of
whom were baptised at Bidston. From the Register
entries relating to the christening of his children,
we learn that he lived in the township of Claughton,
as there was no Parsonage House until well on into
the present century. There is uo foundation for
the tradition that Mrs. Halliweirs house, neit to the
Ohnrch, is the " Old Vicarage."

Mr. Eaton died in July 1696, behig boiled on
the 15th of that month.

On the 7 of August in the same year administra-
tion of the goods of '*JoHN Eaton, clerk of Bidston,"
was granted to ** Elizabeth Ealoo, vidua de Bidston
and John Fishwick de Vico Boreali [Northwich],
cler " [?] and on the same date the following docu-
ment was filed at the Probate Registry at Ohester.

** A true A p*fecte Inventory of all the Goods and
Oattle and Ohattels of Mr. John Eaton clerke of
Bidston in the Oounty of West-CbeBter deceased as
they were appraiavd by Edward Web iter, Thomas
Syer, both of ye Hoord [?] in the Oountie of Lan-
cast^ and John Seyets and John Leene of Claghton
in the Oountie of West-Ohester afd the 15ih day of
July 1696.

Imprimis : In beasts young and old ... • 22 00 GO

Item : In come and hay ••••... 10 00 00

Item: Twoswine 01 00 00

Item: In brsMC and pewter 02 00 00

Item : Goods in the parlor, one olooke,

one bed, five stools, one table, one

looking glasse 03 00 00

Item : Goods in the lower chamber : one

bed one table, one standish 01 00 00

Item : Goods in the higher chamber. Two

bedds 01 00 00

Item : In his study fai books and other

goods 10 00 00

I em : In the room over the house one

chest of Idnnen, one bed, two trunks,

and other goods 04 00 00

Item: In the brew honie, one cheese

presse, and in treene ware of all sorts 01 00 00
Item : In sacks window sheets and other

husbandry goods 00 10 00

Item:Inmogg8 00 04 00

Item : In poultray 00 04 00

Item: Goods in the house 00 14 00

Item : One grate with tonges and other

necessaryee 00 06 00

Item : One gun and two Pistells 00 10 00

Item : In provisions 06 00 00

Item ; Two pack belU and two pillions... 00 05 00

Item : In debts owing to deceased 12 00 CO

Item: The deceased's wearing-apparrel

sadle, Bridle and horse 03 00 00

Total 83 13 00

Yours, etc.,

Olanghton. Wh. Fbbgubsor Ibtinb.

♦

Jakuabt, 1898.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

JANUARY 14th, 1893.

[169] WIRRAL WORTHIES.

VI. SIR WILLIAM STANLEY, Kt.
(The BETaiLYEB of Dbveitteb).

(Oontioned from No. 157 — Jannary 7.)

The Netherlands, which were to be the oew field
of Stanley's warfare, had revolted from Philip II. of
SpaiD, and In 1581 had formed themBetveB into a
Federal Oommoowealth. Mnoh against her natural
iDclinationa, Elisabeth was forced by political
neoessities to support the newly-oonstitated State.
Her fayonrite Lsiceeter was sent over sea with a
considerable force at the end of 1585, and at first
met with some success ; bat the Qaeen's parsimony
and the Oenerars incompetence prevented any im-
portant progress being made. Leicester had been
accompanied by Stanley, who probably snggested to
him to reqceat from the Government six bnodred or
a thousand ** of your Irish idle men, such as be not
only in her Usjesty's pay, but very mete to be out
of that country " {LeycesUr Corretpondence, Oamden
Sodety, p. 26). Elizabeth, though unwilling to part
with English troops, was not opposed to this uish
squadron being sent ; and Stanley was despatched
to Ireland in the spring of 1586 to superintend the
levy. Leicester eagerly awaited the arrival of these
reinforcements, " with our English Master, Sir
William Stanley, which, above all other, I desire"
(Ibid, p. 292;.

" Half and more than half of the brave men who
had eome over [to the Netherlands] in the past
September were dead. Tbeir places were taken by
new levies gathered in haste upon the highways, or
by mutinous regiments of Irish kernes, confessed
Oatholics, aod led by a man who was only watching
an opportunity to betray his sovereign. Sir William
Stamev, who had for some years been employed in
Ireland, was called to London with as many Irish
as he could bring with him. His ancestor, by
distinguished treachery on Bosworth Field, had
given the crown to Elizabeth's grandfather. The
inspiring example had perhaps worked upon his
imagination. He, too, might play a part in a change
of dynasty. He came over with a considerable force.
While in London he was in tbe confidence of the
Jesuits. He knew part, if not the whole, of the
Babington conspiracy. He corresponded with
Mendoaa, and contrived to communicate with Lord
Arundel, in the Tower. When ordered to the low
countries, he made pretexts for delaying in London,
in the hope that the Qaeeo might be killed, or that
the Spanish fliet migbt arrive from Cadiz. When
excuses would serve no longer, and be was obliged
to sail, he undertook to watdi his moment, and,
when he could do most iojury, revolt with his regi-
ment to Parma [tbe Spanish commander]."—
{FYoude^a Huiory of England, Vol xii, pp 79 80.)

The above extract from Mr. Froude contains more
than one ioaccuracy, but there can be little doubt
that Stanley returned to the Netherlands with a
determination to play the traitor. To the discontent
ezdted in his mind by the want of recognition of his

Irish servicf s, there was added a strong religions
feeling. The Gounter-Beformatlon was goipg
forward vigorously. The early Jesuit Missionaries
were everywhere working with untiring energy.
Whole provinces were being won back to Rome.
Stanley fell under the inflaence of the Movement
and took advantage of his position to fnrther its
progress.

The reinforcement taken over by Sir William
numbered some fourteen hundred men. J:*art of
these seem to have been regular soldiers ; but others
were mere * wild Irisbry.' Strada describes them as
** a rude and savage race, covered only in the middle
of the body and under the navel, the rest naked,
raised on stilts or long staves. In the use of which in
crossing rivers tbey greatly excelled, and threatening
with bows and arrows." (Vol. il, lib. 8.) Stowe,
while he admits thdir courage, dwells on the sUll in
burning, killing, and thieving of these kerns.

F. Sardibs.
(To &a eowHnuAd,)

[160] WEST KIBBT PABISH OHUBOH.

The following extract from a paper read by Mr. E.
W. Cox, at tbe opening of the Obarles Dawson
Brown Museum, at West Eirby, on November 22nd,
1893, may interest some of your readers.

" A reference to the relics or fragments of this
ancient building, now treasured up in the new
museum, shows that we have traces of four re-build*
ings or material alterations in the structure. The
first trace is late Norman — about a.d. 1150, a church
with a nave, and one north aisle and a chancel,
possibly with a semi-circular apse. Of this we have
a quarter of the base of a column still in its place to
begin from, a capital of a respond or half-pillar from
the west end, anJ base of one round eolnmn, and
possibly a pieoe of the coping of the semi-circular
apse ; also a piece of a oolunm capital, which may
be either from the cross-arch of the north chancel
aisle or from an important door.

The next rebuilding, about 1815, extended the
chancel to its present size, and there still remain the
ancient walls, buttresses, and sedilia, and one win-
dow, being the eastern one, also a section of one of
the pillars of the arcade dividing the chancel from
the north aisle.

The church required enlarging, and In the year
1470 or 1480 they built a south aisle to the nave and
tower, which most likely superseded the ancient
Norman belfry.

Then, In the 18th century, all the Interior was
gutted, the south aisle was pulled down, and the
buildiug reduced to the chilling respectability of a
Quaker meeting house ; and, last of all, came the
restoration of the present beantif al church, and with
it the recovery of the ** stones." Within the church,
no doubt, lay the ledger stones, or grave stones, not
earlier than the 15th century, when incised lines
weie employed to define the forms of its ornaments.
But there are earlier stones than any of these. The
great cross was most likely the churchyard cross, of

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Januabt, 1898.

whioh we hATe pftrt of the head and shaft, and the
fashion of its knot- work shows it (o be kte Bazon or
early Norman. The triple knots sjmboUse the Holy
Trinity, the olrole eternity and the glory of the
Gross. The cable ornaments are merely ornamental,
and are copies of late Boman monldiDgs, similar
ones being foond in the Boman tombstones from
Chester wall. It is of freqaent ooenrrenoe that
oroeses were set np at the Saxon place of worship
long in ad?anee of amy dhnroh masonry. It is
nnoertain whether there be any remnant of a British
chnrch edifice. Doubtless they used the Boman
boildings while they lastec. We most remember
that the Saxons came to this district in tbe 7th
eentnzy, and hence we faave no 7ery early Saxon
relies. Very many of their ohnrches were of wood
or wattled wotk, but the cross was set np at the
station and very commonly beside some (spring or
well, and it may well be that this great cross was
so set np. The slab with the cross is late Saxon or
Yery eatly Norman, and the croEshead late Saxon,
both being sepnlchral. Tbe style is early Norman,
and the workmanship is of the Saxon type. The
beet and most yalnable stone ii late Saxon. It is
monumental, and lay horizontally and not upright.
By the tool-markings we know it to be Saxon, tbe
carnuR being done by a kind of drill, not a mallet
and chisel. Almost certainly it was laid within the
earliest church, for it baa, after more than one
thousand years, not lost its freahneas or become
weathered by exposure. Similar tombs are not very
uncommon. Tlua is peculiar, hot not unprecedented,
in having an imbricated or tiled pattern at the top
— doubtleas bo: rowed from lidmilar features found on
Boman sarcophagi.'*

[161] WIBBAL SUBSIDY BOLL 1545.

(Oootinued from No. 153— December Slat.)

Thtmowall.

Boberto Dalamore pro iiiili iiiid

Edmnndo Ley pro xxs id

Agneta Prmberton pro iiiiii iiiid

Henrico Whatt pro xxa id

Thi-bstaston.

Pemella Madleton [7] pro xxa id

Thoma Bryd pro xla iid

Johe Wanerton pro xla iid

Henrico Stoneton pro xls iid

Bico Ball pro xxs id

Bogero Pygot pro zxs id

Willmo Annyon pro xls iid

Parya Oaldbt.

Hogooe Pemberton pro vili xiid

Jacobo Colley pro xxa id

Willmo L^dyaham pro iiili iiid

Johe Totty pro xxa id

Thoma Brabon pro xxa id

Bico Andrew pro xxs. « id

Bogero Oorniaae pro iiili iiid

Willmo Wauerton pro zla iid

Thoma Whytmor aenior pro xle iid

Xopf ro Johnson pro xxs id

Wilhno Holhu&de pro vili

Thoma Whytmor junior pro xxa id

Bade WhytteU pro Till xiid

WUlmo Andrew pro iUU iiid

[162]

QUEBT.

Oan any of your readers inform me whether there
is any history attached to the old wall which aUrts
the wood on the western slope of Bidston HiU,
running from near tbe observatory past the wind-
mill almoet to the Upton Boad, then turning west-
ward until it meets the Ford Bill on the Upton
Boad jast above where the new Eleanor Boad
eroseesit?

The wall Is of exceptional hdght and thickness,
and must have been a very expensive one to
build.— Tours, etc., Esouxbb.

BiBKBNEBAD.

JANUARY 21st, 1893.

[163] WIBRAL WORTHIES.

VI. SIB WILLIAM STANLEY, Kt.
(Thb Bbtbateb of Dbyehtbb).

(Oontinaed from No. 159— January 14).

As soon as his reinforcements arrived, Leicester
determined to dear the river Yasel of Spaniards,
Zntphen being their principal station. The oppor-
tunity seemed favourable, aa the rcdoutable Parma
was abaent on a campaign in Germany. In Septem-
ber, 1586, Stanley waa appointed to assist Sir John
Norria in atormiog Doeaborg. The place, however,
yielded on anmmons, and the women passing out
were plundered and maltreated by the soldiers,
whilst fiasex and ** other gentlemen interposed, and
by amiling and beating the aoldiers made them leave
o£f rifling them.*' Doubtless Stanley's Irish kerns
were among the offenders. Ftom this time accord-
ing to the subsequent evidence of one of liis
attendants he entertained a dislike to Leicester,
** for his unkynd deling," and Essex's ** yviU tising
of bUn was a grete mialyldng to him."

Later on in the month (22nd) Stanley dis-
tinguished himself at the battle of Warnsfield. In
this engagement the English troops signally defeated
the veteran Spaniards under the Marquess of Guasto.
The Joy occasioned by the victory was, however,
tempered by the loss of the noble-minded Philip
Sidney, who received his death wound in the battle.
In his despatch Leicester writes :~" There was not
in the field of ours, of horse, in the whole two
hundred, whereof these Lords and Gtutlemen, with
their followers to the number of sixty at the most,

Janua&t, 1898.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

did tU ih« tete, with the help only of Sir WiUiam
SUniej, who had bat three hundred for their three
thonstiid foot, and he did most yaliantly himself,
and hie own hone reeeiyed eight shott of the
mmqnet, and yet lumself not hurt. He and old
Baade are worth their weight in pearl ; they be two
aa rare eaptaine as any living Frinoe hath.
{Leyceiter Carrespondencet p. 417.)

Stanley nezi assisted at the takiog of Zntphen
BCOBoe, which was maioly efieoted by the great
gallantry of Edward Stanley, who was probably Sir
Vniliam's illegitimate 1 roiher. (See Nos. 1 and 4.)
The town itself was relieyed by Parma, and remained
in Spanish hands for a few years longer ; bnt the
■eonoe was garrisoned and serted (o restrain the
enemy*s foraging parties to one side of the river.

Leicester next proceeded to Deventer, at that time
after Antwerp and Amsterdam, the most important
town in the Netherlands. It was *' fair, strong, and
large," and able to defend itself against enemies from
without, yiotnalled for ** three years withoat any
relief," bnt " a stnbbom town." Tbe Dntoh towns
at this period were practically independent repnbliof,
and Deyenter was '* stnbbora *' in wishing to keep
ontside itn walli ai^ force which nnder tke pretence
of defending it wonld really become its master. Bnt
by a clever stratagem, Stajiley contrived, in spite of
five thousand armed citiaens, to introdnoe twelve
hundred men, and in ooojanction wiih Sir Will*am
Pelham, to secure the place. Groiius tells us
that the citizens were provoked to madness by a
garrison of Irish soldiers, strangers both to humanity
and civility. **They were half naked, and extra-
ordinarily savage, and rude in their manners ; they
spoke an unintelligible language, and could not have
any intercourse with the inhabitants."

Leicester gave Stanley (November 18th) authority
to act independently of the Governor of the province,
and empowered him to require assistance from the
neighboaring garrisons. The apology for thas
nominating Stanley, and with such unusual powers.
Governor of Deventer, is stated to have betn
'* suspicion of revolt," that is of revolt to Sptin. Tbe
States of the Netherlands protested agait.st Sir
"William's appointment, for they distrusted his fi it-lity ,
and referred to hia previous service in the Spanish
Army. Leicester o£f red to pledge himsi^lf, body and
Boul, for the loyalty both of Stanley and York. A few
weeks later Leicester returned to Englaod and every
obstacle in the way of these men's contemplated
treachery was thus effectually removed.

F. Sandebs.

[164]

(To he continued.)

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

MILITABY TRANSPORTS TO IRELAND IN
THE 16th century.

The following short document from the Mayer
Oolleotion recalls to our minds the unhappy wars
which, eapecially throughout Elizabeths reign, were
waged with such bitterness against the Irish Chief-
tains, and which, with the subdequent persecution,
did so much to estrange the Irish from England.

The Earl of Sussex, it will be remembered, was
the last Deputy appointed by Mary, which office he
continued to bold for several years after ber death,
being finally recalled by Elisabeth about the close of
1566. His disastrous campaign in Ulster in the
summer of 1661 against the famous Shane O'Neill is
an incident which has rendered his name notorious,
if not celebrated.

It is ra'her a curious ooinoidence that the name of
the West Eirby mariner, whose vessel was *< apoyn-
ted to serve " nnder the Deputy, should be the same
as the Earrs, namely Rub.n Radoiiffd.

The document, the original of which, aa stated
above, is preserved at the Mayer Museum, Bebington,
is as follows :

Robert Radoltffb [of Greasby] the owner of a
barke called the Sundaif beynge apoynted to serve
under the Ryght Honorable Earle of Sussex, Lord
Debytye of Ireland with tenne mariners whose
names be subscribed, Wyllyam Pemberton, Ryoharte
Wryghte, George Wryghte, Peter Lunte, Harry
Ensdale, Wyllyam Dyall, Thomas Betson, Nyoholas
Pemberton, Robezte Stronge."

Robert Radcliffe in his will, which is dated the
10th Ootober, 1569, describes himself aa '* yeoman,"
and speaks of his house, lands, farm, etc., an 1 a
Leasd of the Grange Mill on West Eirby Hill, as
Well as leaving his share in the family barke, ** that
I have with my sonnes 1 homes and Wyllyam Rad-
cliffe, which is one third share," to his son Robert
Radcliff'', so that he must have combined his mari-
time interests with the more prosaic one of tilling
the ground.

Yours etc..

OUughton.

Wh. Fsbgusbor Irvine.

[165] RENT ROLL OF BRIUSTAGE IN 1567.

A pfte rentrowle of the reoepts of ihs Baylywyke
of Bryostoo and Oston due to the Qaenes hynes be
the myuoryty of John Talbot Esquire made in the
yere of our Lorde 1557.

Mtdsombb Rents : Bbtmstafte. £. s. n.

John Hooghe for the Manor Honse vii xvi

[John Goodyear y ]

*Roger Goodyear for a tenement. . . . v

John Fyssher for a tenement ill

Roger Jonson for a tenement iU vi

[Robert Haosted for a tenement .... iiii ii ]

•WiUiam Hausted for a tenement . . iiii ii

Robert WorroU for a tenement .... iiii 11

R)ger Hely for a tenement vi v oh

John Dake for a tenement vi viiioh

Robert Telyar for a tenement .... vi oh

Henry Barbar for a tenement ii viii

John Radley for a tenement vii

*Thl8 list is copied from two docaments nearly Identical*
dated 155 1, the flrat being Mydsemer and the second
Martinmas Bents. Those marked with an asterisk do not
appear In the second and their places are taken by the
two in brackets.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Jamuabt, 1898.

Bartylmewtt Jdhnson for a eottage zii

Edwtrde Bljnde for a cottage zz

James Ooodjear for a tenement .... x til

WyUyam Stanton for a teoement . . li ob

Wyllyam Smith for a tenemeot .... til

James Qoodyear for a tenement .... iii ti

^yohard Home for a oottage iii tI

Qylbatt Beljn for a tenement t! fiil

Bdward Ohamooke for the mjlne . • zt fill

Robert Efanee for a tenement .... z
Xha same Robert for hys pte of gre

thorne • ••• ti viii

Gylbarte Belyn for hys pte of gre

thorne •• ii iiob

The medow hey cf tie wboa'e towoe-

shyppe zz

The brode medowe iii

Snm total z? 11 lliob

[166] OHUBOH GOODS IN WIEBAL IN THE
TIME OF EDWABD YI.

In what a condition of poyerty and bareness the
Parish Ohnrches of England were, after the Royal
ooffers had been filled with almost everything of
Tftlne that the obnrohfs possessed, la shown by the
following short doooment preserved at the Record
OlBce, London.

I am indebted for a copy of it to E. M. Hance,
E-q., LL B., of Liverpool.

lM\|.iTOBT OV ChUBCB OoODS M WlBBlL, III.,

Edwabd YI.

Eyrkeby Walley [Wallasey] ii o aUss a rings of

ill belles.
Burton, one obalessa rings of ii belles.
Stoke, ooe ohaless a rings of iii bellea.
BiUifcrt, Ii obaleis a rioge of ill belles.
Shotwyoke, one ohales a ringe of iii belles.
Brombroghe, one ehales a ringe of 11 belles.
Wodehnrobe, ill ehtles a ring of ill belles.
Neston. one ohales with a paten, a ringe of ii

beUes.
Heswall, une ohalis with a ringe of lil belles.
BebbyntoD, ii ohales with a ringe of iii belles.
Oaerohoreh [Upton] , one ohales with a ringe of lil

belles.
ThnrstertoD, one ohales with a ringe [pblitercUed]
Moreton Ohapell, one ohales with a ringe of 1 belle.
West Eyrkeby, ii ohales with a rings of ii [or iii]

belles.
Estham, 11 ohales with a ring of 11 belles
Byddeston, ons ohales with a rings of ill belles.

John Massit, Et.
HowLAMD Staklst, Eiq.

Olaoghton.

Tonrs, etc.,

Wm. Fbboubson Ibvinb.

JANUARY 26th, 1893.

[167]

WIRRiL WORTHIES.

VI. SIR WILLIAM STANLEY, Et.

(Thb Bbtbatbb ov Dbvbntbb).

(Oontlnaed from No. 168— January 31).

There can be no doobt that religions feeling
entered largely Into Stanley's treaoheroas ooodnot.
The Society of Jesna, the foremost ohampioos of tne
oonnter-reformation, had won his ardent sdmiration.
** With this order he is ezoeedingly enchanted, and
to them wholly anbjeoted," writes one of bis con-
tempories. His brother John was a member of the
Sodetv* Boger Aahton, a member of an ancient
Lancashire family, seema to have been the cfaltf
agent in persaading Stanley to aorrendar the city
placed In his charge. Sir William nezt eommnni-
eated his plan to Rowland York, and was by bim
introdaoed to Jean Baptists Tassis, afterwards an
important Spanish diplomats, who reported the
matter to Parma. Stanley always protested that he
was impelled by oonsoienoe to deliver np the town.
The negotiatiotis between Stanley, York, and Tassis
were carried on under the pretext of an Interchange
of presents, and this continued until a liberated
prisoner at Arnheim told the magistrates that be had
seen the captain of the Eogliah guard with Tassis at
Zatphen, whioh information being sent to Deventer,
Stanley placed the captain in prison, but soon
released nim. The first design waa to originate a
brawl between the soldiers and the bnigbers, and to
call in the Spaniards to protect the former. But the
citisensgave no opportunity for carrying out this
plant they only oomplained to the States of the
intolerable tyranny of the Irish garrison ; and sus-
pecting what was about to happen, many of them
left the place.

The States meanwhile were anzionsly deliberating
with Sir John Norris, the general in Over Yssel, as
to the best means of preventing the impending
loss of Deventer. He addressed a letter to Stanley,
as to a aubordinate oflloer, but the latter produced
Leicester's authority, giving him an Independent
oonunand. Stanley knowing that he was discovered,
and that Norris contemplated vlaiting him, deter-
mined to give up the town to Tassis. He placed
three hundred Irish in a tower near the gate, a
large round building with many courts. The
citizens remarked this proceeding, but, divided into
factions, they had no power to interrogate the
(Governor. The town was paralyssd by religious
difierences; the Protestants themselves were dis-
united^ and many deprecated opposition, lest Stanley,
though naturally amiable, might be driven to ez-
tremities. On the night of January 87tb, 1587,
many of the townsmen kept themselves ready to
take np arms ; and on the 28th the magistrates were
assembled to hear Stanley's complaint of the
suspicion with which he was regarded, and his pro-
testations of fidelity. His andienoe were deceived,
and even apologized for the distrust that had been
entertained. Afterwards, at a feast, Stanley made

Januabt, 1893.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

daolantions, which remove I all doabte. On ihat
eyening the exeentioo of the plot was predpitated,
owing probably to the movements of Norrie. Stan-
ley told hlB ■oldien " that beoanae he required the
pay dae to them from the town, the dtiaena
were preparing an attack, bat he weold
attend to thi^ir safety by brioglng more
troops. Then, mounting his horse, and with a troop
of cavalry, as though about to surprise an enemy,
and leaving two guards of his most trusty soldiers.
Sir William set out, and returned between five and
six the next morning, bringing Tassis from Zutphen,
six mites distant, with 600 foot and 800 horse.
These were quietly received, marched into the
market place, it being yet dark, and there paraded.
The magistrates snppoiMd this n^litary movement
was the arrival of the soldiers procured by Stanley ;
bni when the captain o( the town bauds went to
the market-place, he was soon made aware of the
real state of matters. Stanley meeting him, bade
him be of good cheer, for nothing would go wrong.
Then, taking his hand, he led him to the centre of
the third line, and calling Tassis, advised the
captaia to meet him as a friend. Hearing the
name of Tassis, the offloer exdaimed, '* What 1 then
there is treason and so we are betrayed I '* Then
Tassis, in Stanley's presence, said the surrender was
wi.h the intention to serve the king ; and taking
hold of the captain's right hand requested liim to
summon the magistrates and promieed that no one
shonld be injured. Of the authorities, some left the
town ; others visited Stanley and Tassis. The latter
courteously sainted them, and referred them to
Stanley to give the reasons for what had occurredi
and he, by an interpreter, thus made Ids defence :
" The deUvery of the city was the act of the divine
vill ; that he had regarded neither honour nor
rewards, but the words o( our Saviour. * Render unto
every one honour ; to God, the things that be God's,
and to Oaesar that which is Caesar's." He offered
this full of hesitation, and with trembling and a con-
fa -ed sperch. Tassis interfered, apptrently im-
patient of Stanley's moraliaing, and sidd that the
troops drawn up in the market place had passed the
night without rest and under heavy rain. These
were immediately billeted in the town, and there
carried themselves with moderation* The Irish
broke into some houses, for which Tassis had a few
executed. F. Samdbbs.

{To be Continuedj,

[166] THE BEV. PETER MORRET.

BSOTOB OF ThUBSTABTON AND ViOAB OF NbSTON.

This clergyman was made deacon by Bishop
Pearson, Sept. 19th, 1680. and ordained priest by
the same prelate Feb. 24th, 1683-4. He was a
minor canon in Chester Cathedral, which post he
held at the advent of Bishop Cartwright, in 1686.
In the Bishop's diary under the date January Slst.,
1687, occurs the entry : — » Mr. Morrey preached in
the cathedral, and I admonished him to mend his
prayer, in which he gave not the King his titles, and
lo be wary of refl ding so improdently as he dttd
npoo the King's ieli|^D, which lie took thuikfully.

and promised amendment." It will be remembered
that Cartwright was a creature of James II., whose
wishes he supported by every means in hie power.

In the autumn of the same year another mention
of Morrey is found in the disry. The bishop writes
(September 4tb) : " Mr. Morrey preached a gooi
sermon." He had probably taken care this time to
say nothing to offend Ids diocesan.

In the Will of James Ardeme, the excellent
Dean of Cheater, who died in 1691. he left the whole
of his property to the Dean and Chapter of Chester,
** Excepting only, out of this my whole grant to
them, my best suit, as gown, cassock, hat, silk
stockings, doublet, and breeches, which I desire
may bo given to my Curate, Mr. Poter Morrey, and
that my Executors do take care of Ids preferment,
he leaving a very good place to come to me."

Mr. Morrey was preeented during the Dean's
lifetime to the Beotory of Thuzstaston, to which he
was instituted by Bishop Stratford, Cartwright's
succrstor, Oct. 16, 1689. Three years later he
resigned this living for tlie Vicarage of Neston,
which had been held by Dean Ardeme himself op to
the time of his death. In consideration of his
connection with their benefactor, the Dean and
Chapter presented Mr. Morrey to Neston, of which
he remained Vicar till his death. He was buried at
Neston March 28, 1719, according to the entry in
the Parish Registers. His will was proved at
Chester in the following year. M.A.

[169] INSCRIPTIONS ON WIBBAL BELLS.

Your readers will, I am sure, be interested in
knowing the inscriptions on the bells hung in the
towers of the Parish Churches of our Peninsula. I
hope to send you a complete list of them.

Eastha)!.

I. Gloria in Eicelsis Deo (new)*

II. Fear Qod and honour the &ing.

III. When we ring, we sweetly sing (nsw bell, old
inscription).

IV. We were all cast by Abel Rudhall, of
Gloucester a.d. 1767.

V. I to the church the living call, and to the
grave I summon all.

VI. Of Thine own have I given Thee (new).

Wbst KntBT.

Treble (new). *• Venite Exoltemus."

2nd (new). " Dona Dei Deo."

Brd. *« Prosperity to this Parish."

4th. *<Mr. Thos. Richardson, Curate, 1719.

6th. ** Joeh Jennings, John Totty, Chut ohwardens
1719. '

6tb. ** Abraham RuJhall cast us aU. 1719."

7th. " Mr. John Glegg, a gooi Benefactor, 1719,"
was the original inscription; but the bell being
cracked about the year 1850, it was recast, and now
bears " Bathgate aad Wilson 1854."

Tenor (new). "Gloria in Excelsis Deo." «*In
Memoriam Thomae Eaton, hnjus Eoclesiae Reetoris,
1889." Caxpaholooist.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Febbuabt, 1893.

FEBRUARY 4th, 1893.

[170]

WIRRAL WORTHIES.

yi.-SIR WILLIAM STANLEY, Et.
(The Betbatkb ov Dbvbhtbb).

(Oontinned from No. 167, Janaarj 26).

On tbe same day that Stanldy betrayed De?enter,
hie fallow traitor, Rowland York, surrendered the
Zatphen Soonoe. The doable treaohery eaiued the
utmoet indigoation. Stanley made a feeble effort
to jastify hie condaot ; and Oardinal Allen published
a loog letter ?indioating Stanley's action. The
letter is entitled ; ** Conoeming the Yeeldtng np of
the Citie of Daveotrie onto his Oatholike Maiestie by
Sir William Stanley, Koight. Wherein is shewed
both howe lawful, honorable, and neoessarie that
aotion was : and also that al others, espeoialUe those
of the English Nation, that detayae anie townes or
other places, in the lowe cenntries, from the King
Oatholike, are bouud apon pains of damnation to do
the like."

Abont six weeks after the snrreoder of De?6nter,
<• Ibon Fmd,'* sent by Sir William with letters and
meseages to friends in England was seised and
examined. His depositions endorsed " The Examina-
tion of John Flud, servante to Sir William Stanley "
are among the Harleian M SS. (287. fol. 65). As some
of his answers conoem inhabitants of the Wirral, It
is worth while gtnng extracts from this document

Question 2. What Lettrs, or message, was sent
by you in to Eoglaod to anny p'sone (person) frome
8r Willm Standly, Rowland Yorcke, or annyother in
Deventer ?

He oonfesseth that Sir Willm Standly willed him
to doe his commendations to his father, and to tell
him, that which he hadd done was for his contiens
(conscience). And that this exammynat shoulde doe
tbe lyoke comendation to my L. Strange, by that
token that he talked with his L. in the chamber at
Greenwcb, when he locke his leve at his Ls, and
also to comend him to his brother John Pole by the
same token that he gave him a eoltte which he
trusted shortly to requite with a Jenett.

On Stanley's father, S r Rowland, see Nos. 71, 78,
and 82. Tbe Lord Strange referred to is Ferdi-
nando, afterwards.;S/lfA Earl of Derby. It is here
shown that the heirs of the two great Stanley houses
of Hooton and Lathom were on terms of great and
sospiciona intimaoy. The * John Pole ' is John Poole
of Capeuburst, who died in 1601 during Ids father^s life-
time and ojDB^qaeutly never attained to the family
estates. He married Sir William's sister, Mary, by
whom he had three sons. Perhaps Pool joined
Stanley. A Mr. Pool ismeotioned (Strype's Annals
iv. 280) IIS living abroad 1596. He is described as
** no practieer " and ** enemy to none but himself."

Question 7. Whome have yon harde Sr Willm
Standly saje, or llowland Yorcke, that they reposed
ttoaieTroflt 'n?

He confrssath be bad II letters, one to my L.
Strange and tbe other to John Pole wrytten by 8r
Willm Standly, but what was wrytten in them he
knoweth not, and that he bunt the same letters at
Ryne.

He further oonfesseth that he willed him to send
one Swyfte his fawknor dwelling in Whorel (Wirral)
over to him.

In the Eastham Registers occurs the burial of one
Peter Swyfte, 16 April 1599. This may prohaUy
have been Sir William's falconer.

In a later examination, Flud confessed that
among oiher persons whom Stanley wished to join
him were "his cosen Hooknell and Mr. Whytt-
more."

Hookenhull of Hockenhull and Prenton, and
Whitmore of Thurstaston were both Wirral families
allied to the Stanleys.

F. Sahpiib.

{To be Continued.)

[171] THE OLD WALL ON BIDSTON HILL.

(Vide No. 165. January 2 1.)

I was interested to see "Engineer's" question in
a recent issue, with reference to the old wall
surrounding the wood on the western slope of Bidston
Hill, As I have been several times asked about this
wall by frequenters of that most charming of
breathing spaces, and have been at some pains to
make out its history.

There is no doubt that it is a wall of considerable
antiquity, having certainly been in existence for
more than 300, possibly nearly 500 years. A good
deal of it has, doubtless, been renewed from time to
time, especially near the Observatory, but much of
the original work still remains.

It encloses what is still called by the farmers, the
Park, and what in an old map, dated 1665, is Mlled
** The Deere Parke."

Beginning at the gate, just above Mr. Yyner's late
cottage, close to the Obiservatory, it runs along the
ridge of the hill, above the wood, until it reaq)ies a
thatched white cottage on the south-western slope. At
this point it turns almost at a right angle, and runs
down the hill-side, skirting the ground of Mr. Angus'
new house, to the Upton-road, which it crosses,
past the fir wood, which Mr. Hudson has bought,
between Mr. Hodson's and Mr. Wainwright's
grounds, until it reaches the Upton-road once more,
crosses this, though here all traces of the wall baTc
disappeared for about 150 yards.

Bat on being found again in tbe next field,
it bears away to the right until it nearly reaches
the Fender, with which it runs parallel, a field's
width away, for some distance, when it turns
once more to the right, and can be Iraoed np
to ,ihe Hall farmyard, from whenoe to the

Fkbbuart, 1893.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Btariing poiat only a few trAoee renuun. Ihus
enoloeiog a yerj oooaiderable inot of land, orar
whieh, in the days of the Derby owneraUp, hecda of
deer need to roam.

Nowaatoitehiatory. It waa eertainly atandiiig in
the same poaition ae now in 1665, at which date a
very carefally made eor? ey of the Bidston property,
on a loale of abont 25 inehaa to the mile, was taken
for Lord Kingston, the then owner. Thia aurrey ia
now in poaaeadon of Mr. Yyner, through the eonrte^
of whooe agent, I have been enabled to make a
eirafnl traeiDg of the nme. It ahows the wall
marked in thick doable linea, as oppoied to the
tUn linea for hedgerowe.

Alao in nearly all the leases of the Hall farm,
ranging in date from 1690 to the preaent eentnry,
special mention is made of the ** big stone wall
ronnd the Park," and a eUnse ia naoally inserted
providing for the repair and maintenanoe of the
same by the tenant.

The earliest distinot notice of the wall that I have
so far been able to find is in a lease of the Bidston
Manor Farm dated 1609, presarred at the British
Mosemn, among the Harleian MSS., and published
io The Colamn last year (Jane 25, No. [76]). in
which mention is made of '* the ston wall together
with all the parke and lande called Bidston Parke.*'

The Hall waa boilt abont this date, and it is
pcasible that the same time saw the erection of the
wall, bat on the other hand there ia a coriona tradi-
tion in Bidston Village that the men who bnilt the
wall were paid a peony a day, and the wall is atill
called by the Tillagera ** The Penny-a-day-dyke."

If there be any fonndation to tlds tradition, and
I for one do not wish to discredit it, it woald
place a mnch greatw antiquity on the wiJl than
1609, and it woald take as back almost to the
time of the Edwards. The tradition receivea
a oertain amoont of support from the fact,
that among the Chester Beoogniaance Bolls,
under date 1407, eziata a petition from Matthew
de litherland, John do Leyland, chaplain, and
Tbomas de More of Liverpool, to be allowed to
mteloMS and make a park in their Manor of Bidston,
and to have free warren in the same.

This date of 1407 would certainly fall in with the
traditional wage of the wall- builders and may be the
period of its erection, but it seems difflonlt to believe
that any dry-atone dyke could possibly stand the
atonna and winds of 500 winters. It is only fair to
add however that the wall ia immensely strong,
being nearly four feet thick at the base, andatUl
atanda in placet over aiz feet high.

Yours, etc.,

Wk. Fsrousson Ibvinb.

Olaoghton.

FEBRUARY 11th. 1893.

[172]

WIBBAL WORTHIES.

VI,— SIR WILLIAM STANLEY, Et.
(The BaTBAYSB of DavaNTaB.)

(Oontinued from No. 170.--February 4.)

The Jesuits, having won Deventer, immediately
wrote to the Pope, Philip, Parma, and AUeo, magni-
fying the importance of the service, and claiming
reward and countenance for Stanley and his regi-
ment. Thomas Worthington, of Blainseow, a
Lancashire man, was sent by Allen to be chaplain to
Stanley and his soldiers, and, says Strype, ** as at
Bheims and Bome there were seminaries for ecdeai-
astica, so this, being conducted by so worthy a
Catholic aa Sir William Stanley, might be a oon*
tinaal nuraery and aeminary of soldiers to fi^ht for
the Roman Oatholio cause." (AnnaU iii, 428).

Differences speedily aroae between Stanley and his
fellow-traitor York, who was sohemiog to supplant
bia former friend in the govemorahip of the town.
Affairs took such a turn, that many expected Sir
William to restore Deveoter to the States. But the
Spaniards at last succeeded in getting the Irish
troops out of the town, and the knight deprived of hia
followers lost the power, ev^a if be had the will, of
retraoiog his steps. Some of his frieods wrote to
Philip •• of his worthiness and virtae/' and *< of bia
ezperienee in the sea coasts of England and eapeo-
ially of his intelligence as to Ireland." Ia conse-
quence of this, Stanley was sent for to Madrid, and,
beiog introduced into the Oounoil of War, urged
Philip to make Ireland the basis of his operationff in
the approaching attack on England. Philip, who
had rajected the advice of Parma on the subject of
the Armada, paid no attention to Stanley, who wrote
of "great disoont'^ntment and signified that hia
entertainment was far colder than he expected."

He went next to Ooranna to advise Medina
Sidonia as to the best method of invading England,
His counsel was that the debaroation should take
place at Milford. About this time a foreigner
offered Stanley a wager tfiat the English fieet would
not abide the attack of the Spaniards. Sir William
seems quietly to have replied that he thought
otherwise.

Stanley returned to the Netherlands, and although
hia own regiment hardly existed yet in July, 1688,
he appeared at Nieuport at the head of 700 men,
called the EngliBh legion, but chiefly consieting of
foreigners, rea^y to join the Armada. It is doubtful
whether these men ever embarked. Meanwhile the
English refugees among them sorrowed to see how
they were disdained by the Spaniards.

Sir William's father, Sir Bowknd, subscribed
£100 towards opposing the Armada. This gift waa
apparently intended aa an open disavowal of hia
son's proeetdiuge.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Mabch, 1898.

p*Biime to tnoBgreMe th«m then yon an to p'Mnta
raohe and the manner of ther ofEenoe to the Lord
Biahopp or his Ohanoellor or to any thm depntiea
to bee oorreoted lor there oontempt.

George Snell, Beotor, ibid.
Biohard Adama [Sherlook] , eler.
Oharlee Adams, oler.
Robert Kighley [mk.]
John Dean [mk.]

MARCH 18th, 1893.

[188] XNTENTOBY OF THE GOODS OF THE
OELL OF STiNLOW, 1587.

(See No. 179 -March 4).

This iDYentory, the original of which is in the
Public Record Ofiee, has been already printed twice ;
first by Mr. Mackenzie Walcott in VoL 24 of the
TraDsactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Hitiaric
Society, and then in The Religmrif for January
1898. It is howeyer f niBoiently YalnaUe to repro*
dace in yonr Notes and Querise,

The In?entory of the gudea »nd cattails »t the
Sell of Staolowe belongyng to the late monastery of
Whnlley taken and ezamyned before Byohard Sdow
(Soeyd) Eaqnyer and Tbomas Bnrgoyn Andyttd the
zvii day of Aprell in the zzfili yere of the reign of
^yng Henry the Sight.

THE OHAPPELL.

Tjni, A Yestement of rede sylke bawdykyn (1)
with all tbyogcB (2) therennto belongyng for tne
prest, witboat any deacon or snbdeacon.

lim. A nother vestement of olde domyze (8) with
all tbyngs themnto belongyng for the prest.

It' On ohalles of eylver with a patton paroell
gjlt the valne Ms iiiid.

Itm. Oo other olde Tcskement to serre for lent,
cheked without an albe.

Ii* U old alter clothes.

Itm. Ao alter table of allyblaster with a blewe
clothe hangyng before the aame.

Itm. On image of onr Lady of Grace old gylte
with playtes of sylv r opon the ffeyte and xt pens
najlled abowte the tabemade (4).

Itm. Image of wode of eeynt Miohell.

Itm. On lytyll image of allyblaster of Saynt
Kateryn.

Itm. On other image of allyblaster of Saynt John
Baptyst.

I'm. ii crewettes.

_(1). Oloth Btlfl with gold, ■opposed to have originated in
Babylonia or Bagdad. Henoe in Italian, BtUdacehinot a
canopy of itate from Bagdad.

(8). Tha appartenanoes, i.«., amioe, fanen (maniple),
■feole. and girdie.

(3). GoarM damaak, lo ealled from Doomlz or Tonrnay.

(4). bUver pennlee naUed lo it ai oflerlnga.

It' ii Bacarylng beUes.

It' on olde dyoper TowelL

If at the ende of the sayd alter an Almery (1) of
wode.

Itm. on oandylstyk of ierne. (2)

Itm. ij alter candylatyks of latten.

Itm. ii new tapers o( waze lytyll wasted.

Itm. dyyerse other small candylls of waxe hangjng
before the sayd image of onr Lady.

Itm. on lampe hangyng in brasse.

Itm. ii new trenails (8) of wai lytylle wasted.

Itm. on alter clothe to hange before the alter
flkrenged with rede ^Ike bawdykjii.

Itm' on other dyoper toweU.

Itm' on olde hangynge for lent, to hange before
the Alter.

Itm' on lytyll pyllowe to ly the boke opon at the
mase tym.

Itm' on old maseboke of parehment.

Itm' on old procession orosse of brasse.

I'm' on lytyll bell hangyng in the ende of the
Chapell.

Iim' on pyxe of Brasse with a canopy (4).

Itm. Oattell xzii whearof iiii of on yere olde ; t of
ii yers hold ; ▼ of iii yers olde ; and other iii of ill
yers hold called elBEers, and v kyen.

Itm' ii oxen claymed by Antony Derwent.

Itm' on horae ii mares and on colt, wyche mares
and colte are claymed by Antony Derwent and John
Wbyttacar (6).

I m* 7 score aheype and mil lambes.

Itm' fii swyne.

Itm' on olde baner clothe of old toyke.

I'm' in the Berne by estymacyon Ti thrayf (6)
of imthrashen barlyoome.

Itm in the Garner by Bilymacyon iii hopers of
barly and peyse together.

Itm on bnahell of grene peyse dlsymed by William
WhyttelL

Itm on bnshell of whete.

Itm zyi bnsshells of barly by Estymacyoo.

Itm owt of the serrants chamber i crowe (7) of
ierne i roade ; on teyme of yerne (8), ii Toks, iiii
payer of old trase, on payer of caofaae shetes, on
blanket, ii ooTcrlette, on bedecasci now layde into
the ohapelL

Itm in the si^d chamber, on conmbe (9) or tnbbe.

Itm in the madens chamber on payer of oanfaa
shejtes, on eoverlett, on blanket, on mattcres Tery
olde, now bronghte into the chappelL

[Itm in the sayd chamber on copeboard and on
oowfer Tery old] (10)

Itm owt of the bntteiy on measden (11) basen,
and an Ewer Tery olde and broken, on chafl^nV
dyshe, iii ooonterfettes (12) otherwyse oalled
podngers (18) of pewter whearof on olde, ii candyl-
BtyUm of latten brought into the chappell.

(1) Armarium, for holdhig the laored plate and booki
[alw" -.----.. M . *

. Jm the ohriBm need in baptism and oonflrmaUon and the
holy oil for the ilok].
(8) Iron.

Trendlea, colled wax tapen.

A tent like ooTering for the pendent pyx,

Marg, Bold for zxxli*. llUd. ....

Thraf or ThraTe— a north ooontry word for M or 12
Bheayei of wheat. (7; ▲ gayelook or crowbar. (8) Ox.
chain of iron. (9) Comb^A vat. (10^ Coffer. (ll)Mulln.
a yellow metal uke brass. (U) According to BalllweU
pieces of imitation crockery were known as connterfeiM.
Those mentioned in the inventory seem to have been pewter
dlBhM for paddings. (U) Porringers with ears.

\\\

(5)
(6)

Mabqb, 1898.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES,

Itm in the Mjd bnttary an olde eovmbe or tabe,
on ol4e afanery, on old oofer and iii stands.

Itm owi of the keohen iii braaae pots, ii brass j
pofloets (1), on old brasse raa, on ffirying pan ;
▼ii pewSer dyshes, on ehaf^yng dyshe, ii old oobyemes,
(8) iii spyttes, on brandyeme, (8) broaght into
tbe ohapell.

Itm Jn the brewyng Honse on brewyng lead«>, ill
tobfl. on tronghe, ii old standes.

Itm In the wayne honse, ii oartes, on ladder, ii
newe plowes.

Itm Owt of the same waynhoose on payer of
plow yernes sett into the ohapell.

Itm in the same waynhonse on plow and on
harrows.

Itmintheoompaae of the hold honse xii bed-
stoeks.

Itm ii bnkketa fallen in to the weU.

Itm in tlie hali on long borde, on flborme, on
lytyU eoonter (4), iii qneshens, iii ohaym, and
glasse in the ii wyndows of tlie same hall, by Esty-
maoyon XTiii fibyte.

Itm On oroft ealled sawen with peyse

eoateyng by Estymaoyon ....

Itm ii Crofts at tl e Oowhonse sawn with ots, by
Jamys Bnshell and William Danson for half parte.

Muc. That Willm WhytteU is admytttd to tbe
possessyon, enstody, and kepyng of the sayd Sell
with the appnrtenannos and all the gndds and oat tails
sibresayd, to the Kynges nse nntil t' e Kynges
pleasor be fnrther knoweo.

BiOBABD Smbtds. Thokas Bubootr.

[184] WIRBUi SUBSIDY BOLL FOB 1546.

(Oontinncd from No. 181— Mareh 4).

KhUUBT-WaLLIT. [WALLiSBY.]

Johe Hyll prozls bon •....• .Ud

Bloo Hyll pro iiiUi bon iiiid

Johe WyU^son pio iiili bon .liid

Willmo ftobyoson proxis • ..id

Joho Bol^ynson pro zis .id

ElsabeUie Shnrlaore pro xzs bon .id

Jaeobo Williamson pro iiili bon iiid

Bioo Shurleaere pro xss id

Johe Marten proxzs. .••......•.. id

Johe Bobenson Junior pro iiiili • iiiid

Bobto Thomasson Junior pro xzs • .id

Petro Hyll pro xls bon iid

Bioo Bolton nro xxsbon • ...id

Willmo Pendleton pro xis bon. . • • .id

Willmo Potter pro xxs boo id

Henrieo Stanney pro iiili bon iiid

JoheHyme [7] pro iiili boo iUd

Thoma Stannie [?] proxzs bon ....id

Willmo Owen' pro iiiU bon uld

Johe Stanney pro iiili bon iiid

Johe Tassy pro Till bon xiid

Jenet Tas^y pro iiili. iiid

Thoma Aynsdale pro xxe , • ,id

Bobto Williamson pro iiili boo iiid

Bogero Wermynoham pro xlfi. • . .iid

Willmo Wylkynson pro xzs id

Petro Oregorie pro zxs id

Qalfrido Williamson pro xxs id

MARCH 26th, 1893.

[185] K WIBBUi HUNTINa BONO, 1616.

The following extraota are from a maansoript in
the possession of Heoiy Boddington, Esq., of
Fownall Hall. Wilmslow, wLioh has been oommnnl-
eated by J. P. Earwaker, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., to the
Httlorie Society of Laneathire and Cheshire, to be
printed in the forthooming Yolnme of their Trans-
aotions.

By the eonrt«^ of the Oonneil of the Historio
Sodety, however, we are enabled to print the
eztraots giyen below, whieh refer more pakionUrly

to ynnti.

The song whioh is entitled ** Oibtatki tibsxs

WBITTBN BY A. WlBBALTTn TO Tl TUHB OV ' UpP

WzUiTs US TTHi TO BTsi,* 1615,*' desoribss the
ionrney and adventures of a hare, whioh starting
from near the Point ef Ayr in Flintshire, travels
firstly to Talaere, the seat of a braaoh of the
Mostyn family.

From Talters the hare makes for Mostyn, the
followiog lines bei*ig interesting, as showing the
early working of the Flintshire ooalpits :

'* Yett ye hare had oare of her f eete
For fere of falling in an onld oole pitte."

A trade in ooal seems to haie been earried on
between Mostyn and Dawpool to Judge from what
follows,

<« Upon ye sd syde of ye top of Knole

She [the hare] was ware of a botte well Uden with

oole.
Into ye boate ye hare did hye,
And was ware of a prifie plaoe to lye.
Ye hare crept in and their laye olose
And oyer ye water thenoe she goes.
And when ye sealers fell aslsepe
Ye hare in f eare away did ereepe."

And now the hare lands on Wiml ground and,
as will he seen in the foilowiog lines, ksepe along
the Dee bank until she reaches Chester.

" To Wytemores [1] of Thurstinton she is gon
He keepes a bore and kyld a man.
Then to Ouldfleld over tbe meddowe

(1) Uttla pota. (BJ
(4) Ooverlei for a bM.

Dogs for the ipiti (3) Andiron.

[1] The Whitmorei of Thoritaiton were a family of
coDBlderable emlnenoe about Ihia lime, and febe paifeloalar
member of Ibe family bere alluded lo was probably Jonn
Wbilmore.

WntBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Uabcb, 1898.

W¥il iioe nuui bays a wappe at a wlddowe ?

8he mut marrie a pore man if ahe doe right

Aod follow ye etepe of ye onld Koight. [1]

Then to Geaton to Mr. Glegges [3]

Hele Buffer no poore at his hoaae to begge.

He hath noe honnde to nme at ye hare

But kepea a enrre againat poore aod bard [f bear] .

Ore Barton Hill to Poddingeton Halle [8]

There ahe woald be boold to ealle«

And ahe hoped that ahe might pan

For he was att lerrioe and ahe was at maas.

Ye hare did aboate as ahe went bye

And then they eame ont with a gallant erye.

Ye hare did thinke ye world went roande

4 hantinge horaee at oroe did sonnde.

She foand them paatyme for a whyle,

In a leawge [leagae] ahe dabbled tbey lost a mjle.

To Sbotticke Parke ye hare ahe eroat

And then ye hoonda ye game had loat.

They did noe good on Sangho [Saoghall] groande

Beoanae ye paver had atomeo ye hoande [4]

They were aogrie at hym and ?eit in mynde

For stealing a whelp of ye bests kynde."

Ttom thenee to the Oity of Oheeter, the hare did
not meet with any alarming adyentare; and next day
after giving some of the Ohester people good sport,
eroaaed over Saltney Marah to Bretton EUdl, where
she met with her matoh at last in a paok kept there
by a oeiiain Oaptain [Bavsnseroft], wUoh after hnnt*
ing ber over bill aod dale finally killed on Dobbs
Hill, near Hawarden. The following is the laet
dying speeoh of the hare :

"Of Bre'tona hoonda I stood in donbte
1 wonld I bad gon a myle about.
I have bene oyer ye world ao wyde
In fiEUut shire reared, in fflint I djed.
God Bend na all in heaven a plaee
Till tverie bare rone saoh a race ;
And evtr lett ns be merrie amonnge
And Boe ile ende my hnntinge sonnge.*' -

[186] THE INCUMBENTS OF BID8T0N.

(OontiaiMd f^om No. 178— February lltb).

(Appendix I). The Bsv. Edwabd Moobh was
presented to the living by Wm Glegg of Gaytoo,
17 Deo 1742.

He is desoribed as an IiJi.B. of Oambridge
(Trinity Hall) and as having been ordained Deaoon
by William [Baker] , Biahop of Norwioh, 22 Deo 1728.

[I] The r aid knight wai Sir Bowlaad Stanley of Hooton,
.. AO died at Oldfleld the MeTloai year, aged 96. The widofr
wai hl8 third wife. Joan Browne of Oapenhorst, whom Sir
Bowland had inarrled at Eaaiham In lo99. This lady, who
BeemB to have beea of homble origin, took aa her seoond
hashand, Henry Stanley, a nalnral ion of Henry, 4th Barl
of Derby.

[21 Edward Olegffe borled at Beiwall, 1623.

[3] Paddington Hall, the seat of the Maeseyi. The
repreaentatlve of the family in 1615 waB William Haeaey,
who waa kclghted two yeara later by James I. His wife
was Catherine, daoghtor of Sir Bdward Herbert of the Rbd
Castle,Go. Montgomery.

[4] * Te payer * seems to have been William Oamnl i thii
most be an allaslon to the original trade of (he family.

In the Blahop's Visitation Book for this year
(1742), the Rey. Bdward Oolqtdtt B.A. is mentioned
aa Oorate of Birkenhead Ohapel, and it is stated that
Moreton Ohapel in Bidsfcon Pariah is minons.

Though Mr. Mocre was only presented to Iks
liying in 1742, he aeema to haye reaided in the
Pariah as early aa 1740, aa his aon George is entered
in the Begieter as being ohiistened on Uie Ist
Jannaiy 1740-1

Early in 1743 Mr. Moore was sooeeeded by the
BiY. J. Latham (so we are informed by a note in
the Begieter Book), bat BIr. Latham in his turn gsye
plaoe in the antomn of tlis same yesr to the Bay.

Fbasois Ellkiosi.

Six months later, namely in May 1744, Biy.
EnwAKD Pass appears from the Bee^Mer Book to
be in pow ea s i on of the liying and we leftm from
doenments at the Bishops Regiatry Chester, that be
was presented by Wm Glegg of Gayton«

He is desoribed as being a B.A. of Ozfoid (Brsse-
noee), and Mr. Glegg states in a letter to the Biahop
that he has made Mr. Psrr ** promise to leaye ye
plaoe if he marries."

He was a son of Thomas Psir of Bainhill in
Famworth OhapeLry, and was baptiaed 7tti M»,
1721.

Mr. Parr dissppesrs from the soeno^wfaether
owing to liis haying married does not appear— in
1746, being aoooeeded by tie Bey. Johii Cbsokhall

glso Bector of Woodohnreh) in 1746, the Rxr. Johh
ODSON in 1747, the Bay. Bobxbt WASBXifaTOH
iHlso onrate of Birkenhead Chapel) in 1748, and the
tay. WiLLUM HuoHES in 1749.

Mr. Hughes, who is desoribed as late Oorate of
SUpbonme, Oo. Kent, held the Hying for 25 years,
being saooeeded in 1774 by the Bsv. Beyan Eiao.

Mr. Kfaig died in 1798, and was sooeeeded by the
Bay. Wm. Shbwbll, «bo held the liying ontil 1819,
when the Bar. Joskfh GATa was appointed.

Daring the iDoambeney of Mr. Gate's saooessor,
the Bay. Cbbistqphbb ALBXAanaa GaAHAM
(1851-81), the liying became a Beotory.

Mr. Graham's plaee was taken in 1881 by the
Ret« John Fnu>LAT Buoklkb, M.A., tlie preaent
Beetor. Toozs eto..

Olaoghton.

Wm. Faaaoasoa iBYnra.

L187] INSOBIPTIONB ON WIBB&L BELLS.

(Contiooed from No. 169— Janoary 28).

BaoHBoaouGH.

These beUs are all modem, haying been out in
1880, by Taylor of Longhboroagb. The insoriptions
were composed by the Rector, the Be?. E. Dyer
Green :—

Haboh, 1898.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

L Whan Um foil ring Its tnnefiil toIm ■haU imise,
Let ma be first to lead the eaU of praisa.

8. ffladsoma we peal, from oat tha Ohnrah's tower,
To Qod's great gloiy, and His loTe aad pover.

8. To wotahip dnlj Heaven's Aimighty Lord,
Our sweetest ohimee imifce with one aeeord.

4. When wedded bve makes two as one abide,
Tbair joy we sharp, and spread it far and

6. From Mersey's bank soonds forth onr saored gl e,
And eonrts responslTe eehoes from the Dee«

6. Aloft are we, bat loftier polote the spire,
Tliat lieaTonward man sbonld raise bis heari*s

desire.

7. May ereiy strain melodions we ontponr,
Stir all who hear God's goodness to adore.

8. Gloria in Bzeelsis Deo.

In oaram memoriam Garoli 8. Bamford (qni
doodeeimo die Novembris Anno l>omiol mooooi^xi,
anno mtatis so» vioesimo qnarto, hao vita ezocsbit)
campanas basse oeto dedieafit atqne in hae eedeaia
pawjehlali Bmnborgensis pool onravit Oarolns Bam-
foid de BxookbuBt pater <^ jns.

HiSWAIilk.

1. Gloria in exoelsis Deo 1687 B.B. (1) E.B.
Ohariee John Oliff Toasel M.A. Bector.

Besaat 1^ John Warner and Bon, London, 1881.

8. GoUelmiia Bamsbotham, Beotor, 1678.

O.W. W.B. J. P.
CPmrles John Qliff Tooael, MA., Beotor.

Beoaat 1^ John Warner and Bon, Lon^n, 1881.

8. Doloedine Voois Oantabo Tao Noe 1672.
Obades John Oliff Tooael M.A Beotor.

E^iB^ )Oh«chw«d.n..
Beoast by John Warner and Bon, London. 1881.

4. Oharles John Oliff Tonzel, M.A., Beotor.

Em^ }0h«rehw«dea..

1884.
Oast by John Warner and Son, London.

5. Oharles John Oliff Tonsel, M A, Beotor.

STm^;?' }Oh»«hw.rfeo..

1884.
Oaat by John Warner and Son, LondoD.

(1) Prebably Richard Brown, one of tbe patrona of the
Qdag.

APRIL 1st, 1893.

[188] k TOUTHFaL MABRUGE IN 156a

(See No. 177-Feb. 25th.)

A few weeks baok in my notes on Sir William
Stanley, I mentioned that a doonment had been
brooght to light whioh eocolosively proved that the
ordinary date giTea for his birth, ?ii , 1532, was far
too early. This doonment, firom whioh I send yon
extraots. Is preserred in the Bishop's Begiatry et
Cheater, and relates to an early marriage of Sir
Wm. Stanley, whioh was sabseqaently dissolTed. The
Bobert Leohe, Dr. of Law, before whom the deposi-
tions were made, was Ohanoellor of the Diooeae.
Hatton. Hall, the setne of ihe marriage, was the
seat of the Dn'tons in the Parish of Wayerton. The
teettmooy of the witnesses shows Sir William to
haye bsea l)orn in 1548.

Depoeitions taken xzii November, 1666, Itefore
Bobert Leobe, Dr. of Iaw, eto., oonoerning the
marriage of Wm. Stanley and Ann Datton
minors:

Boger Pott p Potter] of the Parish of Eastbam,
aged zxyi years— says— that he was present whan
mariag was had and eolemniaed be.weene the p*iles
libelhur' in a ohappell at Hatton in the Christmas
tyme fyye yeres oome Xmas next thersd Wm. beinge
at that tyme abont th* age of zii yeres or thereabout
as this deponent hard [heard] h&i Mr. Sir Bowland
Stanley report at the same tyme and the said Annee
was about th' age of x yeres to this deponents
Judgement at the sd tyme and he sales he thynkes
the sd Wm is nowe muoh about xvii yerea old, eto.

This Deponent saith they neu' [never] dwelled
together nor nen' eame together but on gestwise and
further the ad Wm hath for the most p'te bene sins
the aayd mariag at Lathom at sohole there and in
s'vioe with Th'erle of Derbie and recnayoed ther for
the moot p'te and the sd Anoee hath dwelled at
home with her father or els where out of the oom-
paoy of ye sd Wm eto.

And further the deponent saieth he hath hard the
sd Wm divers tymes say he wold not take her as liis
wieff whereby he verily thinkes the mariage was
never oonsnmate between tbem.

Oliverus Totty of the parish of Soto Magna [?] ntat
U annos, eto.

This deponent saieth that he was present at the
mariag l>etween the p'ties libellar* in a ohappell at
Hatton Hall lo Xpas time woh shailbe v yeres at
Xpaa nixt ensueinge the aayd Wm. beinge at tyme
Bomewbat above xi] yeres olde and under thirteene
as he well koowes beoause the Deponent hath
Imowne him from his infanoie and the sd Annee as
he thinkes was muoh about th'age of x yeres in his
jadgement eto.

This deponent saith that the ad Wm. hath been at
Sohoole at Lathom with one Doctor Standishe and
with Therle of Derbie in s*viee for the moste p'te
bAdb tjme of the sd mariag and the sd Annee liath

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Apbil, 1898.

been sepftrit from the Bd Wm. in sneh plaoM m her
father hath appoynted her and they ha? e new eome
together bat on geot wiae [gaeet wiee], Ac

Olifenu Tarleton of the parish of Baatham at- tat
Izvi anoi— eaietb— that he oame to Ha! ton Hall
within two dayee nezte after that aa he hard it
reported by dinen worship fall and other that were
preeent at the sd mariag that mariag was solemnized
between the sd p*tica lUiellar* in a ohappell tbre in
Xpas tyme wh Aalbe 6 yeres ago oome Xpaa oez e
the sd Wm. beinge at the tyme under th'age of ziQ
yerefl and the sd Annee to ms deponents Judgement
was mnoh abt th'age of z yeres.

This deponent saies that the said n'tifs hafe
dwelled in snnder sins the tyme of the sa mariag for
the sd Wm. bath beene for the moat at Bohole and
in s'Yioe at Lathom and the id Annee hath been at
her fathen appoyntment eto.

F. Saxdibs.

[189] THE BAOKFOBD OBABITIES IN 1720.

The following eommuDieation respeeting the
Baekford oharities was made in reply to qaestlons
sent by Bishop Qastrell to erery parish in his
diooese, when engaged in oolleoting the valuable
information oontained in his NotUia Ce»trUn$ii*

The Ber. John Tomer who furnishes the informa-
tion was, aooording to Ormerod,yioar of the Parish,
from 1691 to 1720.

(•

BCr. Stratford,

Theae eome to eertifie yon wt Charity is
ginn to the Ohuroh A to the Parish of Baokford, as
it now stands this 26th day of Aprill 1730 fBrst,
John Barret of Lea hath 6 ponnds of the poor's
money for whioh he hath giren land seourity, to pay
6 shillings upon efery Easter M unday upon woh
day it is distributed to the poor of the parieh
afforcs*d. Alsoe Elizabeth Hizon, of Baok'ord
widow hath sizteen pound for woh she payeth 16
shillings to the said poor yearly riz. 1 shilling per
month and 4 shilling more upon erery Qood Ffriday
to be giren to the poor of the sd parish in Bread
aooording to the Will of the Donor and for this 16
pound we hare good Personal Beeurity, this is all the
Old Charity.

Now lately John Welabey, of Baokford who was
bnryed Maroh 26tb 1719 and left in his last Will and
Ti stament the snme of 20 ponnd the use whereof is
equally to be divided betwixt the Minister and the
poor of the parish of Baokford upon every Good
£Briday, that is to eay 10 shillings to the miniater
for preaohiog a sermon npon every Good flriday and
the other 10 shilUoga to be dietribnted to the poor
of the said parish npon tha same day yearly for ever
and aooordiogly the last Good ffriday I reoeived lOs.
for preaohing a sermon and the remainder given to
the poor woh was the ffirst paymt. This same 20
pound is new in the hands of Samuel Kettle this
Testator's Son-in-law who bath given his Bond
for it.

Lastly Mary Welabey of Baekford widow fiate
wife of the said John Wtlsby) hath left 5 pound to
the poor of the sd parish woAi sd 5 pound is now pot
into the Ohuroh Ohest there to remaine untiU we
oan hear of a good plaee for it. This is all that
off«n att present fl^om your Humble Servant

John Turner riear ibid."

[Endorsed] "To Mr. William Stradford Deputy
Begeeter to the Oonsiatory Court of Chester.
These presents.*'

[190] WIBBAL SUBSIDY BOLL FOB 1545.

(Continued from No. 184.— Maroh 18.)

Ltsoabt.

Thoma Bridd pro iiili bon tiid

GUberto Dobbe pro iiUU bon Uiid

WUlmo Dobbe junior pro zls iid

Henrico Aynysdale pro zzs id

Willmo Dobbe Senior pro iiiili liiid

Johe Sampeon pro zls lid

WUimo Pemberton pro iiiili iiiid

Thoma Smythe pro iiili iiid

Johe Thomasson pro iiili iiid

Bioo Johnson pro iiili iiid

Henrioo Tounge [?] pro vili ziid

Johe Smythe [f] proiiiiU iUid

Jaoobo Smythe [?] pro zzs id

Thoma Smythe pro zls • iid

Henrico Biydd pro zzs . . • • id

Johe Shnrlaore pro vili. ..•• • • • • .zii

Thoma Shurlaera pro zls. iid

Petro Deane pro zzs id

Bioo Sampeon pro zzs • id

Henrioo Bydynge pro zls • iid

WiUmo Bobynson pro zld • • • iid

Jdie Thomasson pro zls M

Johe Bryd pro iiiU iiil

Johe Harryson pro iiili iiid

Thomas Tounge pro zzs .id

Agneta Smyihe pro zzs ..••.••. • id

[191]

QUEBT.

In Mr. Egerton Leigh's BdUada and Legend* of
Chethir§ ooours the following song foommnnioated
by Sir Edward Cusi) whioh was sung by theohildrea
in Wirral when they went round * Pace Egging * :—

" Please. Mr. WhUeUg,
Please give us an Easter egg.
If you do not give us one,
Tour hen shall lay an addled one.
Tour oook shall lay a stone."

Can anyone tell me whether tbis song Is still sunff,
and whether * pace egging ' still exists in our
peninsula ?

F.8.

Apbil, 1898.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

APRIL 8th, 1893.

[192] aATTON WAKE, OB MART DOD AND
HER UBT OF MERITS.

The aboT6 U the title of a poem byRiehard
Llwyd, piibUahedaiOheeterinl804. The heroine
ie an enonnonsly fat woman, who aeema to hare been
a well-known Tendor of eatables at Chester. The
poem deseribes her Tisit to Gajton on the oeeasion
of Its wake, and her adTentnres on the retain
jonmey.

The work opens with the muse greeting her mral
friends. It then prooeeds—

Up rose the son— the sky was dear.

And gently ebb'd the Dee ;
The winds of Hea? en were fast asleep,

Though Gayton all was glee.

The lads of Wirral same in erowds,

The nymphets neat and trim;
To stay at home on snob a day.

Is rexy near a sin.

And love, who nerer miss'd a wake,
Broogbt qniTers flll'd with darts s

He's mneh to do on all sneh days,
And wonnds a world of hearts.

And Oambria's yonth from Edwin's sbons.

An annnal Toyage take ;
What lass wonld stay on that side Dee,

When Lore's at Qayton Wake f

Tontb, manhood, age, eren ehildhood

To share this Joeond day ;
The hedges shone with gandy shops,

And Gayton all was gay.

Dwarfs, giants, players, learned pig.

With other ereatores odd ;
The Dee brought oargoes rieh idth eakes,

And with them Mabx Dod.

When Mabt first approaebed the plaoe,

To get on shore was irjfing ;
That the was there, on every roiee,

Throofl^ all the Wake was flying.

A erowd ooUeeted— bonght her eakes,

And gased till they were weaiy ;
And they who'd of the Mammoth read,

Conoloded it was Maby.

The poet then goes on to deolare his heroine a
liTsl to the most obese persons of the time, to
Daniel Lunbert of Leioester, to the * large woman,'
wbo orertamed a ooaoh at Kenningtoa, and to Mr.
Bright of Maldon, who weighed 616 pounds.

From Hoylake hall to Gayton oome

Fine Isdles— gentlemen ;
They eome, my friends, to look at you,

And ycu may look at them.

A note explains Hoylake Hall to be ** a magnlfi-
oent inn lately bnilt at the extremity of Wirral by
Sir J. T. Stanley, Btrt., and a most delightfal
sitnation for sea-bathing."

On fmmenty, that day deTonred,

The Mnse is not eolargiDg,
Bnt plaoes that, with other fkeaks,

A rostio row, per margin.

A note here explains frnmenty to be "wheat
boiled in milk, an indispensable mess at a Obeehire
Wake I and in sneh fa? onr was this staff of life held
in this eonntry that aboTe 60 families in it bear
wheat-sheafs, in diffisrent ooloors and positions, in
their armorfad bearings."

The "freaks" alluded to are elnoldate by the
following :—

Gat TOM.

One Mile heat, by asses ; with nsnal attendant

jFViii til the extreme.

A raoe by women was won, after two heats.

By a Virago, oailed Blaek-legged Moll ;

who was ehaired, arrayed in a smook and ribbons,

the reward of her speed.

A Jumping Match, by 8 men in saoks, sooeeeded.

A Pig, with its tail shared and soaped, was oanght

by Tom Brisooe.

Bobbing for Apples in Ale— Eating a Qaart of Hot

hasty pudding— Grinning throngh a Oollar. The

ugliest grinner to be the winner.

Among a variety of other laughable amusements

For a eaddle three ponies will shew their high mettle.
And dogs try their speed for a fine oopper kettle;
'Tis a tea-kettle^ mind i and a man in a seek,
Is to run against one with a wife on his back.

The poet goes on to deaoribe two well-known
qnack-dootors present at the Wake, Dr. Solomon
and John Truman ; also a foreign adTenturer oi the
Dousterswifel genus, who. pretended to disooTer
metals by his di?ining rod.

De Linden also crossed the Dee,

And brought his magie rods i
A foreign figure— thoughtful — tUn,

No Un of Mart Don's.

He likewise came, whose monstrous maw,

All Wales with terror fills ;
They dread his drawing near the ooast,
Lest he should eat their hills.

The last named worthy was a Stone-eater, wbo at
this time amused the public by eating Stone, Glass
bottles. Tumblers, dto.

Other frequenters of the fair are enumerated
ending up with the dandng bear. But the day with
all its amusements comes too quickly to an end and
then all begin to return homewards.

The day wax'd short -the Waxk grew thiUi

8 )me sail'd adown the Dee,
While others tunf'd against the tide,

And row'd to Hilbuifee.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Apbil, 1898.

Among the first went Mabt Dod

Her empty beekets— pelf,
The boat woald hold bat liitle more,

Being near k freight herself.

Bat hesTj laden though they wersi

They met with no delay ;
And evening saw th»m safe on shore,

At Oonnah's crowded quay.

The crowded qbay with laughter rang

('Twas soon in echo's reach)
Wbea Mabt panting left the boat,

Aod wadill'd np the beach.

The sailors eanght th' nnganeiovs Joy,

When first she came in view,
Aod swore the sea had th?n prodnoed

A creature odd and new.

A showman who sees our heroine here fdims %
project to engage her to exhibit throngh the
oonntry.

Bat one demur there did remain

To damp this schemer's notion ;
The showman's eurious boast is fain.

Without the power of motion.

Bat Where's the thing yet unoonoeiTed,

The fertile pate to plod i
The huge mat^ine in which to moYe,

The mountain, Mabt Don r IIJL

(To he eoniinued.)

,108] INSOBIPnONS ON WIBBAL BELLS.

(Continued from No. 187 -March 85th.)

8H0TWIGK.

These bells hsTs perhaps the highest uTerage of
aotiqaity in the Haodred : the inscriptions are as
follows : —

(1) • Gloria in Eicelsis Ddo 1621

(2) t lenu be o?r Speed 1616

BtfU founders mark on No. (2)^ within an angular
shield, the letters W. O.

(8) 1664. Gloria in Excdlds Deo, W. W D. I B

W
• Bellfounder^i mark on N >. (8), I S, which without
doubt refers to J* ffrey Boott, of Wigan, a celebrated
bellfoander. [Vide a paper on Lancashire and
Cheshire Bellfounders in Vol. 42 of the Proceedings
of the Hist. Soo. of Lan. and Ohee., by J. F.
Earwaker, Esq., M.A.F.8.A.)

(2) R. J. Fairobngh M.A. Vicar.

W. Taylor and B. Difies, Ohurehwsidens.

Oast in theyear of Jubilee in commemoration of
the Fiftieth Tear of the Beign of Qaeen Yictorift.
1887.

(8) Let none be in anger,

We were oast by Bichard Baunden, 1714.

(4) J. T. 1714

(5) John Birkened Bsqre 1714.

(6) John WeMie, William Haftton, Oh. WaidaM.
1714.

The iidtials J. T. on the 4tk BeU are thooe off
John Turner, Vicar of Badrford, from 1691 to ITM.

OaKPAHOLocnnr.

APRIL 16th, 1893.

(1)

BACEFOBD.
A.D. 1888.

A M.D.G. et in Piam Memoriam BoTcrendisslmi
la X o Patris Gul Jaoobaon Oestr nuper Episc. D.D.
B.J Faifclough.

[m] GAYTON WAKE, OB BIABT DOD AND
HEB UST OF MEBITS.

(Oonttnued from No. 192— April 8.)

After weighing the matter in Ua mind, the abow-
man at last deternrined to audke proposals to liary.

But when his plan, with preface mileh«

He Tentur'd to adfanee ;
She smilM and with a gentUpat,

She knook'd him down at onoe.

Now Night i^pcoMh'd, the waTSt of Doo

Dcclar'd the winds awake ;
And Home, though distant, hinted still

Another Yoysge take.

A larger boat, with sails and oaii.

Was launoh'd with mudi ado ;
At d Mast Don, when got on boaid,

Weighed half the twenty-two.

Bat Fortune stlU, the flokle dame.
That holds the " LoaTss and Fishes, '

Will sometimes with in?erted tooebt
Ufihinge our fsYouitte wishes.

She now on ndsoldef fully bent.

Her inmost thoughts employ'd ;
To close in wayward mood the Day.

Which Wirral all enjoy'd.

The tide ran in, the breeae was fafar,

The rising sails expanded ;
Thf*7 fleir before the growing gale.

Bat all at onoe were itranded.

Here Fortune plao'd th' impeding shoal.

Where Dee difided glides ;
RoU'd deep on either side the boat

Her tantattaing tides.

Ann.. 1808.

WISBAL NOTES AHD QUSSIE8.

Nov aU llnl Fkm^ 90ft hM
Or toogiiat eontrived to

And aU the Man htf «?«
To Una toad msm ii

WeUb,

•a.

And
AMOond

d-'OoiifnB'd tin .. ,
fdnn'd, Willi
Babel hm.

Baoh wia the npioar, wild and load.
That iUl*d the aflright'd afar ;

That MtoDS, in the Inin of Dm,
Got o«t of bed to itare.

The Barton people beard the dbi,

Th^ seamper'd to a
The women and the

Ware all awak'd and

too.

Th^ grop'd in fvbi to Und their nlofluo.

In haate there'a nothing fonnd;
What feeling fair would hunt a eoat,

When Mast Don's a^roumd.

In Bale wiga— red wonted oapo,

In eotton f olda enwrnpp'i ;
The men of Barton earefnl folk.

Had aneh liia noddle eapp'd.

ChM)d aMO and trae— let no alarm,

From eape to eraniania ereep ;
Theae red hot eepe ean only mean.

That Barton nmn ean aleep.

The Bala wig ii eiylained ai a flannel ooforing
for the head, in imitetion of a wig-HUid latterly
mnoh worn in raral and homble file. ** The red
night eap, ao eommon in oottagea, haa notUng to do
with the Botmgt roiug€\ tot the Ifnae doea net
beliefe that there la an oonoe of Jaeobiaim in the
whole pariah of Barton.**

Throogh thiek and tUn, they aooor along,

Tbroagh flelda of oom and hay 1
And rolbi and damplina, yet onbom.

Were tnunpl'd on that day.

And Oambrie'a aona and daoghten lUr,

Thoagh distant heard the roar ;
Btill ready when the virtaes oaU,

Th«y erowded to the shore.

The '^rtoes now, as heretofore,

Delighte^l saw them fly
On BmnUtion's swiftest wing.

When Danger rds'd her eiy.

Now llABT Islt the tiying henr,

And trembling with dismay.
Fen down and on imploring faieei

Lift np her Toloe to pray.

One savage swore, that heedlMS heard

This joit appeal to Ood ;
The boat got deeper in the mod,

As dewn fall Maix Dob.

AnonUing saint, se date and desk,

With grate onholy grin,
Dcehff'd that Mint's teltet sidei

Were one hnge heap of sin.

And farther said, with Implons Toise,

ThBf ne'er ooold hope to float,
While that great monster— mass immense,

Shoold hkig aground the boat.

He broo^ OS other pleaden do,
What often Law eoaunands ;

A praeedent of BMB that thrsw
Their goddess on the sands.

Meek Ohaiity oft pleate in tain.
The bigot's ne'er perpleit^

He flies, a ready fort toflndi
In Seriptore's testar'd UaL

At onee the Zealot's rage

The dread portending word ;
That Jonaa hke, to aore the

She anM< go oTerboord.

Now an on Mabt tam*d their ^^m.

That heerd again the tale ;
And some, HesTen Uess them, look*d«boat,

As if to And a Whali.

Boor Mabt knew the ehapter weB,

And heard the dreedfal wish;
Bat never yet had heard that DeOi

Had nnrB*d so Und a Ihih.

Here ooears the following note :— ^ Vary, not
being a oonveyaneer, did not know that Whalis
are among the contingent adTantagee of Uie Manor
of Inee, near Ohester, as appeers from the adrer-
tiMment for the aale of it, in October 1808, •« All
waifs, stmys, wreoks, Wbalbs, Ae., Ao.

Alael No whale that ploogbs the deep,

Or oTor wared a iin;
How'er disposed to eaTO her lils^

Could take onr Mast in.

For thongh down soeh eapaeioas threats,

A fall-fed man goee handy;
Yet sueh eompar'd to Mabt Don,

At best is bat a Dan4y.

(To be eoatinued.) M.A.

[195] PAGE BaOINQ IN WIBBAL.

(See No. 191 - April l8t.)

In reply to year enqaby with relersnoe to this
eoatom, it may interest yon to know that it is stiU
persisted in by many of the children nroond Oieesby.

They oome roond in bands of two or three or
more to the farioas fkrmhoaies and eing the follow-
ing doggerel linee. (I need not add that there is not
mooh tone to be detected.)

"Please Mis. Whlteleg,
Be pleased to giie as an Easter egg
If yon don't glre ns an Easter egg
May yoor hens liyr addle eggs
And year oodu lay stones.
One for Peter two for Panl
And three for the one who made ns all."

This appeal is not often refosed, and I know of
one farmer who this year gsTO eggs to aboat a dozen
different sets of children, a special store of eggs
hsTing been laid in against Easter.

A SXPTUAOMMABIAH.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QITEBIEB.

Afbil, 1898.

[196] WIBBAL SUBSIDY ROLL FOB 1545.

(Oonttoned from No. 190— April Itt.)

POUTOH BlOUM.

Margeria Donne pfo xli • • • • lid

Jobe Donne pro uili • Hid

Johe WilliAmaon pro iiilU iiiid

Thomo Gyll pro mm mid

Mtfgerio Oyll pro imi md

Henrico Bzyd pro vm • • xiid

Tbomo Brjd pro zzs. • id

Willmo Donne pro zn id

Petro Bobenaon pro zifl lid

Jobe Totty pro iUU md

TbomoHyli [f] proiiim imd

If orgeria Hali pro imi md

BiooBhorleoreproiim md

Bieo Jobnson prozla •••... iid

Bioo Bryd pro Til zd

Jobe Toonge pro Um •. liid

Alezondro Toonge pro tU • zd

Sauoball-Hasizt.

TboBtt HftityiOB pro iimi .•«...*«.**imd

Margarela Smytbe pro imii imd

Kdmnndo More [?] proiim boo ••••.•.md

Henrioo Pemberton pro zls lid

Agneta Marten pro iim boo md

Henrico Bennet pro Hm bon md

Jobe Ley pro Um bon md

Thoma Herryoon pro zli lid

Jobe Bennet proiim bon., md

[ ^r] Bmythe pro Till ziid

Morgano Bennet pro zls • iid

Bieo Bobyton pro zli .lid

Uftoh.

Edwardo [?] Pemberton pro iiili liid

Tboma Bol^aon pro zli lid

Bobto Bmytb pro zn id

— ] Martyn [?] pro iim md

00 Toonge pro ill 11 , • • . . md

Hogone Gyll pro iim bon md

John Bayloffe pro iiili bon • md

Jobe Walton [r] prozzsbon id

Thoma Toonge pro tU bon zd

Johe Williamion pro zzs • • • • id

Tboma Byrie [r] pro zzs •••.. id

APRIL 22nd, 1893.

[197] GATTON WAKE, OB MABT DOD AND
HEB LIST OF MEBIT8.

(Oontbioed from No. 194— April 15.)

The Saint again repeated—said,
That 9hipt bad sunk wllb evil ;

And that they then had in the boat,
In Mabt's shape— the DaTil.

Poor Mamt stm was on her knees.

In dreadfol trepidation ;
Of slips in lore and trifling fknlts,

She made an odd eonfesrion.

Wbate'er distress the erew ivete iiit

AU Uogb'd alond at that ;
Sorpris'd that Lots eoold And a heart,

So hid in folds of fat

Poor homan Und, we*re all to Uame,
Oor faolts need not be heighten*d ;

And those that think need not be told,
Thai Mabt Dod wu fdgbten'd.

The enw, by fear, the bigot led,

To Maby now drew near ;
Bat how to lift their Yiotim op,

Was not, as yet, so elear.

One hop'd their strength, onited foree,

Might in the end prmU ;
If one great eObrt well was made,

They sorely oonld not fail.

One talk*d of taekle roond her wi^,

Bot that a weight so fast,
Woold, in the aot of hoisting op,

Bring down the strongest mart.

A tboosand plans were now propoa*d

(loTentions every shift) ;
Bot That their every scheme defy'd,

Whioh eranes alone eoold mt.

And bow the thing was to be done,

To ooonsel deep they fell ;
For not a tongoe in twenty-two,

Pretended yet to tell.

In this dilemma leave them Mose^

O'er Mast's watry grave ;
For thee Heaven opes a happier Boen<>,

Thy dear delight— to save.

Th' involving oloods of Night dlipera'd,

Aroond a radiance shone ;
And Mabt, still at earnest prayer,

Seem'd as if left alone.

An Angel Herald read alood.
Her deeds of good^her IIirxts i

When sndden, at the sommons blest,
Game groops of sainted spirits.

Her aged Parent first approached,

With Angel sweetneai smil'd,
And elaqp'd to his patenial breast.

His long sopport — his ohild.

In aiore vests, on sUver wings.

Two orphans nezt appeared.
With more than mother's fondnen'nms'd.

To Mast's sool endeared.

They streteh'd their friendly pinions wide,

They raia'd her drooping head.
They grasp'd the hand that prop'd their yooth,

Th& helpless ehlldhood fed.

Apbil, 1898.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

They mw, delight'd— gts d again,

The face they loVd ao dear }
Th^ iooih'd the itorm that aweli^d her breast,

And dried the falling tear.

The next, a fair and manly fonn,

Game floating on the surge,
And itretoh'd a firm and sinewy arm,

The tardy boat to urge.

This yonth, an infant orphan too,

By Maet's kindness rear'd ;
On sneh his ooantrr leans for aid,

'Tis sneh her foes haTO fear'd.

Thefar parent, Mast's sister now,

Had left the abodes of bliss,
And gently laid on Mart's lips

A mothei^s gratefnl kiss.

Aerowd of fairy ehembs oame,

She'd often seen at Wakes ;
They'd often met her friendly smile.

And eaten of her oakes.

With looks of oomfort, words of hope,

A gratefnl erowd attended ;
Whom Mabt in her nsef ol life,

Had Ohriatian-Uke befriended.

And Deva, by oelestial fonnds,

Attraoted to the boat ;
Came followed by a train of wares.

That set it soon afloat.

It mor'd ; Despair gafe plaoe to Joy,

It left obetraoting strands.
The HesTenly Host exalting rose.

And elasped their Hauk>wbd Haidb.

The Mnse again to earth retoms.

To paths by Mortals trod ;
And homeward gnldes, with happier steps,

The worthy Maxy Dod.

The breexes that, in steeriog home.

Had bred the briny riot,
WerepasB*d, and glossy Dee dedar'd,

The wearied winds were q[aiet.

The erew reri? 'd, again regain'd

Their sank dejected sbirits ;
The Saint, though 8a?6d, wUl nerer own

Twas done by Mast's Mssns.

Now Lona, who with laxy stepe.

Up Broxton hilia had orept i
Sbooe Inrigbt— as if to take a peep

At Mast, ere she slept.

GK)t home — ^her good and grateful heart

Ob^'d its bast direetor ;
She rais'd her Toioe (her neighboars heard).

And t\iank'd her blest Proteotor.

They orowd'd — listened to her tale,
Thongh loDg, ne sonl was weary ;

So happy were they, one and all.
To find at home their Mabt.

One firm resol? e she since has made.

To go no more to Gay ton,
In boat or barge, to Fair or Wake,

Aod ean'Mo Ooaoh or Phn'.on.

From this poem, it would seem that Gayton Wake
had a considerable reputation. Perhapa one of your
readers can giro the date of it. This might giro a
elue to the original dedioation of HeswaU
Ohuroh, the Wake being generally held on the
dedioation festifaU The present Ohuroh is dedioated
to bt. Peter, the original title baring been forgotten.

M.A.

[198]

WntRAL LIVINGS IN 1717.

The following is another of the original replies
from whioh Bishop Gastrell oompUed his NotUta,

These are to oertify whom it M^y Oonoem That
ye parish Ohuroh of Bidston is sdtuate
in ye Town or Village of Bidston in
Wirrall in ye Dlooes of Oheeter, distant from
London about 160 miles, and ye whole adrantage
ariaeing to ye Biinister or Ourate there annually is
only Twenty pounds per Annum payable by those who
olaim under Sir William Glegg deoeas'd who had a
lease of ye Tithes and other dues belonging to ye
Ohuroh of Bidston from ye Bight' Bererend ye
Bishop of Ohester and Snrplioe Fees woh one year
with another amount not to more than twenty
ahilliogs. Witnes our hands this 28:h of Marob,
1717.

John Barker, Ourate.
John Webiter.
Henry Smith [mk]
Heniy Hanoooke [mk]
Mar. asth, 1717.

The Berd John Barker Olerk, ouiate and John
Webster, Henry Smith, and Henry Hanoook,
Inhabitants or pariahioners of Bidston made oath
of ye Truth of the abore written Oertifioate

before us

Bio. Bouehier,
Edw. Roberts.

[199] WIBBAL SUBSIDY BOLL FOB 15i5.

(Oontinued f om N:>. 196~April 15.]

Nebsx.

Johe Swone pro ixli x?iiid

Bieo Mylner pro xla lid

Katherina Harper pro irli iiiid

Hamone Treydegold [?J pro xxs id

Henrieo Brusoo pro riiili xvid

Rico Swone pro fill xiid

Thoma Deynson pro fill xiid

Willmo Deynson pro xxs id

Thoma Treydegold pro vili xiid

Thoma Hampton pro iiili iiid

Wilbbo Swone pro rili xiid

Thoma Ooke pro iiiU iUd

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

AsBiL, 1898.

Thoma Ooke pro zl8 lid

Henrioo Bennet pro xli • .Ud

Hagone Bennet prozls .....lid

Willmo Ooke pro xli iid

Thoma BarreU pro Till xii

Hamone Weyley pro iiiU ' iiid

GaUrido Hancoke pro iUUi iiUd

Klsabethe Davj pro urn iii

APRIL 29th, 1893.

[200] NATHANIEL HAWTHOBNE AT

BEBINGrON.

(See No. 60 -Maj 2l8t, 1892.)

itodfe Ferry, ilu$nM< 29th (1858) .—Yesterday, we
all took a walk ilito tke eoontry. It was a fine
aftemooD, with olonds. of oonne, in different parts
of the aky, hot a olear atmosphere, bright sonshloe,
and altogether a Beptembiish f eeling. The ramble
was Tory pleasant slong tbe hedge-lined roads, la
whieh there were flowers blooming, and the Tarnished
hoUy, oertainly one of the most beantifnl shmbs in
the world, so far as foliage goes. We saw one cot-
tage whl<^, I snppoM, was seTeral hundred years
old. It was of stone, filled into a wooden frame,
the blaok.oak of whioh was visible like an external
skeleton ; it had a thatohed roof and was whitewashed.
We passed through a Tillage— Higher Bebington, I
belie? e— with narrow streets and mean hooses, all
of briek or stone, and not standing wide apart from
eaeh ottier, as, in Amerioan oeontiy Tillagee, bat
000 joined. Tliere was an immense ahnshonse in the
midst ; at least, I took it to be so. In the centre of
the Tillage, too, we saw a moderate-siaed briek boose,
built in imitation of a castle with a tower and turret
ia whieh an upper and an under row of small cannon
were mounted — ^now green with moss. There were also
battlements along the roof of the house, whioh looked
as if it might have been built eighty or a hundred
years ago. In the centre of it there was the dial of a
olook, but the inner machinery had been remoTcd,
and the hands, hanging listles^, moved to and fro
in the wind* It was quite a noTcl symbol of deeay
and neglect. Onthe wall, close to the street, there
were certain eccentric inscriptions out into slabs of
stone, but I could make no sense of them. At the
end of the house opposite the turret, we peeped
through tbe bars of an iron gate and beheld a little
paTed court-yard, and, at the further side of it, a
small piassa, beneath which seemed to stand the
figure of a man. He appeared well adTanced in
years, and was dressed in a blue coat and buff
breeches, with a white or straw hat on his head.
Behold, too, in a kennel beside tbe porch, a large
dog sitting on his hind legs, chained ! Also, close
beside the gateway, another man, seated in a kind of
arbour I All these were woodeh images ; and the
whole castellated, small. Tillage dwelling, with the
inscriptions and the queer statuaiy, was probably
the whim of some haU-crasy person, who has now,
M> dottbt. been long asleep in Bebington chniolgrard.

The bell of tbe old diureh was ringing as we went
along, and many respectable-looking people and
deanly dressed children were moTing towards the
sound. Boon we reached the church, mid I hsTe
seen nothing yet in England that so completely
answered my idea of what such a thing was, as this
old Tillage church of Bebington.

It Is quite a large edifice, built in the form of a
ones, a low peak^ porch in the side, OTer which,
rudely cut in stone, is the date 1.800 and sometldng.
The steeple has iTy on it, and looks, old« old, old ;
so does the whole ohnrch, though portions of it hsTc
been renewed, but not so as to impair the aspect of
heaTT, substantial endurance, and long, long deeay,
whieh may go on hundreds of years longer before the
ohurch is a ruin. There it stands, among the sur-
rounding grsTes, looking just the same as it did in
Bloody Mary's days ; just as it did in Cromwell's
time. A bird (and perhaps many birds) had its nest
in the steeple, and flew in mid out of the loopholes
that were opened into it. The stone frameworfc of
(he windows looked particularly old.

There were monuments about the church, some
lyiog flat on the ground, others elcTated on low
pillars, or on cross slabs of stone, and almost all
looking dark, moM-grown, and Tory antique. But
on reading some of the inscriptions I was surprised
to find them Tery recent ; for, in fact, twenty years
of this olimate suffices to giTO as much or more
antiquity of aspect, whether to graTcstone or edifice,
than a hundred years of our own,— so soon do
lichens creep OTcr the surface, so soon does It
blacken, so soon do the edges lose their sharpness,
so soon does Time gnaw away the records. The
only really old monuments (and those not Toy old)
were two, standing elose together, and raised on
low, rude arches, the dates on whieh were 1684 and
1686. On one a cross was rudely cut into the stone.
But there may haTc been hundreds older than this,
tbe records on whioh had been quite obliterated, and
the stones remoTcd, and the graTes dug OTsr anew.
None of the monuments commemorate people of
rank ; on only one the buried person was recorded
as '* Oent*'

While we sat on the flat dabs restfaig onrselTee,
scTeral little girls, healthy looking, and prettily
dressed enough, eame into the churchyard, and
began to talk and laugh, and to skip merrily from
one tombstone to another. They stared Tery
broadly at us, and one of them, by and by, came up
to U. and J., and gaTC each of them a green
apple, then they skipped upon the tombetones
again, while, within the chnrcb, we heard the
sieging— sounding pretty much as I haTe heard
it in our own pine - built New Bngland
meeting-houses. Meantime the rector had detected
the Toioes of these naughty little girls, and perhaps
had got glimpses of them through the windows i for
anon, out oame the sexton, and addressing himself
to us, asked whether there had been any noise or
disturbance in the churchyard. I sboold not haTC
borne testimony against these little Tillagers, but S.
was 80 anxious to exonerate our own ohildren that
she poiatedout these poor little sinoers to the sexton,
who forthwith turned them out. He would haTe done
the same to us, no doubt, had my ooat been woise

1898.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Uumii

Imi M the maitar iloodt hisdenaftnov

wu lAthor apo}ogetio than mumming, when he ii^
fonnad m tbai tbe reelor had aaal him.

Wa alajad a liftlla loogar, loaUiig aft ftba graTaa,
aoma ol irideh wera batweaa tlie lofttreHaa of the
ofaoroh and qidfta cloea to the wall, aa if the deepen
antieipaied greater eomf ort and eaenitj the m
thej oonld get to the 8Mnd ediiiee.

Aa wa went oat of the ehnehjaid we paaaed the
atoeaaid Uttia giria, who were Bitting behind the
moond of a tomh» and boy habbiiog together. Thej
eailad alter xm, BTprearing their diasonMnt that wa
had betrayed them to the aeston, and aajing tlmt it
waa not th^ who made the noiaa. Ckdng homeward,
wa went aatraj in a green lane, that terminated in
themidat of afield, withontontlet, aothat wa had to
retraoa a good many of oar f ootatepe.

Oloaa to the wall of the OhaToh, berida the door
there waa an aneiaaft baptiwaal font of atone. Infaet,
it waa a pile of rooishly heim atoaa atepa, tire or aiz
feethii^, with a Uoek of at9na at the innudt, m
whieh waa a hollow about ai big aa a waah-bowl. It
fnllof rain-

Tha Ofaozah aeama to be St. Andiew'fl Ohnroh,
Lower Bebingtoo, boilt in l^OO.— (fVoia Bow-
thome*9 Bnglith Note Book»)

[201] WIBBAL SUBSIDY BOLL FOB 1646.

(Ootttinaed from 199~April

TeomoN &b Hooob.

Wiliaeo Wade pro iiii U iiiia

Bieo OoUey pro ixs id

Tboma Bellen pro Uiiii iiiid

WiUmoBellen pro iia • id

Bieo Mlet pro aza id

Thoma Bylande pro iiili iiid

Bioo Hey pro zza • id

Joha Smythe pro tUu • zd

Hogone Ooke pro zza id

Bieo Janyan pro zls. iid

Georgeo Leonarde pro tU zd

Willmo Qyrtrey pro zza id

Bloo Jannyon pro zza id

Willmo Oolton pro mm iiUd

Biee Qarratt pro zza id

Babt.

Wmmo Matthew pro iiili iiid

M iohohu) Hyll pro zla iid

Henrioo Deane pro Tili ziid

Bobto Deane pro iUU iiid

Johe Bobynaon pro jUm iid

Bioo Penny pro zli iid

Oeorgio Ley pro Till ziid

JoIm Penket pro zza « id

Willmo Bobynaon pro ZZ9 id

Thoma Penkett pro iiiill , iiiid

Willmo Hathaw pro iiUli

Bioo Taylyar pro Umi imd

Bieo Whytelaye pro iiim iiUd

Johe Lqr pro zla .iid

Boherto Bennat pro izli zrifi

Wtllastom.

Johe Hyggyn pro zzza ...iid

Johe Deyne pro zls lid

Thoma Ohamoeke pro zze id

Johe Hamnet pro zza id

Henrioo Hyggyn pro zla .....iid

Bado Smyth pro y*f .•••.. ••••••••••..•• .id

Willmo Forahaw pro iiiiU iiiid

Henrioo Hamnet pro zza id

Thoma Obamooke pro zla iid

\nilmo Bennett pro iiim iiiid

Boberto Hoggeeton pro zzza id

Thoma Bennett pro zls • iid

Willmo Bonnet pro zla ....iid

MAY 6th, 1893

[302] ANOTHEB TOUTHFUL MABBIAGB

IN 1660.

(See No. 188— April 16.)

A few weeka ago there appeared an aeeoont of an
early marriage oontraoted between William Stanley
and Anoe Datton in 1660. This waa not the only
onion between the two fammeo. At the same time
and plaoe another marriage waa eelebrated between
Bowlaad Datton and Margaret Stanley, the former
then being nine yeara old and the latter etill yonnger.

An appiioation for the dieaolntion of thie marriage
waa made almoat at the same time aa for that of the
other. Whether the Stanleya and the Dattona bad
oome to a diaagreement la not I think known. Both
William and Margaret Stanley anbaeqiie&tly married
membera of the Egerton family.

The following wero some of tbe depositiona taken.

Depositiona taken 88 Oot 1666 ooneeiniog the
marriage of Bowland Datton and Margarat S anl^.

Bobert Larg of the parish of Wsv ton aet 66
anos. saiea That Boland Datton and Margaret Stan-
ley alisa Datton in the allegation mentioned wero
married together in the Ohappell within the honse of
the Halle of Hatton abont the feast of Xmaa and
aboot tbe eaid deponent thinketh npon the Snnday
nazt after the feast of Xmaa [from nezt deponenVa
statement it appeara that this took plaoe **6 years
agoDO '*]

The sd Boland being at that tyme abonte th' age
of nine yerea and not tenoe and the sd Margarot
beinga at that tyme (Iqr the deponenta estimaeen
younger than the ad BoLoid) and aeUth farther that

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Mat, 1898.

the id ft'^and eter lioB the Bolemnization of the ed
mariag . remained at Hattoa Hall and the said
Margaret hath remayned elsewhere from Hatton
and never remaynedat Hatton hat only on geet-
wiaeandforthersaith that the Bd Roland la of th'
age of 14 years and nnder 15 and for the spaee of
the 18 monthes laat past or thereabonta the sd
Rolaad and Margaret were nefer in house together
to the deponents knowledge and the deponent aaith
moreoTer that the sd Roland with in a small while
after he waa 14 yerea of age did before his ordinarie
dedare that he wonld refoae to take the said
Margaret to hk wife and that he wonld not oonsent
to the said mariag which waa solemnized in his
minoritie whereby this deponent jndgeth in oon-
Boienoe that the said mariag was nefer certified by
any means between the sd Margaret and Roland.

[Next deponent speaks of Roland Dntton aa
Bon of Bandalph Dntton]

[208] THB FUNERAL OF SIR THOMAS
STARLET MASSE7 STANLEY, RARONET, 1841.

The reoent death of Sir John Stanley Errington,
the laat of the aneient line of the Stanleys of
Hooton and Btoreton, gives an especial interest to
the following aoconnt of the foneral of his father,
the laat member of the family who died in possession
of the hereditary estates.

It ia taken from the oolnmna of the Cheaier
CouratU for the Slat Angns^ 1841.

AOOOUMT or THB rUMUULL

OF THKLATS

SIB THOMAS BTANLBT KASSKT BTAHLBT,

BABONBT

AT BABTHAM OHUBOH,

On Thorsday, the 26lh Day of Angnst, 1841.

In car laat pnblioation, it became onr painfnl
dnty to record the demise of Sir Thomas Stanley
Massoy Stanley, Bart, of Hooton and Pnddington,
in this ooanty, an CTent which took place on the
prcTiona Friday morning, bnt which had for a con-
siderable time been anddpated, in conseqnence of
the ftmown state of Sir Thomaa'a health.

THB rUNBBAIi.

On Tbnrsday list, the day appointed for the
interment of the deoeaaed baronet, the village of
Eastbam presented one scene of general monming ;
the blinds and shntters of the Archdeacon, Mr.
Orackanthorp, Mrs. Smith, and others, were all dosed ;
and the dejected looks of the inhabitants Bnffidently
iodioated their estimate of the Iobs they had
BQBtained.

lineage of the deceased; and were confided to
Messrs. W. and H. Brown, and Oo. of thia city,
and far anrpaased anytliing of the kind seen
in tlie neighbonrhood for Beveral years. The body
was, aa is nsnal, endosed in a diell, soldered np in
lead ; the enter coflin being coTered with rich crim-
son Tclfct, mounted with Bil?er, having amongst
other sad emblems a silver croBS, indicative of the
faith in which the hon. baronet so consdentbosly
lived, and also of hia hope in a fntore state. The
coffin was prepared by Mr. Podmore,of Bridge-Btreet
Row, and waa covered by a gorgeous pall, made for
the occadon by the Means. Brown. The eacatdieons
on the hearBc were painted by Messrs. Morris ; the
funeral hatchment (for Hooton and Paddington
HbUb) were executed by Mr. S. Brown, herald
painter ; and the eztendve and handeome supply of
fnnerd carriages were provided by ifessrs.
Willonghby, of the Royal HoteL

Tlie friends of the deceaBcd, together with Ids
tenantry and workmen, were invited to attend the
funeral, and were prood in having the laat oppor-
tunity of publicly admowledging their regard for his
memory* Tliey began to arrive at an early hour in
the morning, and were entertained to breakfast at
ten o'dock. Tablea were Idd with covers in the
stable-yard, for one hundred and fourteen, where the
workpeople and servants in the late Baronet's
employ, together with the servants in attendance
upon the carriages of the gentry who attended the
funeral, were accommodated. At the hall also the
moBt liberd and prof uae entertainment was provided
for the tenantry and friends, there being three rooms
appropriated for that purpose, in each of which as
many tablea were Idd aa wonld not interfere with
the comfort and convenience of the guesta. After
breakfaaty as is the custom in Roman Oatholio
families of rank, the burial service according to the
form of the Roman Oatholio Ohurch, wbb gone
through in the private chapd belonging to the hall,
the offidating dergy behig the Right Rev. Dr. Briggp
(Vicar ApoBtolic of the Torkshire District), the Bevs.
Mr. Oillow, BCr. Oarbery, Mr, lythgoe, and Mr.
Henderson,

Upwarda of three hundred hat-banda and pairs of
glovee were distributed to the tenantry and others
who attended the funerd, and predady at twdve
o'clock the procesdon began to move from the
atable-yard, where it had been formed, to the front
of the hall, from whence again it proceeded on its
route. The distress of the female servants at
Hooton, on the coflin of thdr deceased master being
removed to the hearBc, was deeply affiacting, and
spoke quite bb much in his praise, as the Bdemdty
and pageantiy of the proceaaion.

{To he eofUinued.)

The arrangements for the funerd were directed to
be on a scale oommeneurate with the rank and high

[204] AN OLD aRAYESTONE AT SHOTWIOE.

Yidton to the picturesque little village Ohurch of
Bhotwiek, between Burton and Oheater, may have
noticed lying witUn the dtar rdla In the chancd a

Mat, 1898.

WntRAL NOTES AMD QUEBIBS.

of whioh the f oUowfaif ii m inraifaMto
tloii:-^

ICQ

1/07

Their fail e teel moit have heightened, ae they
beeid the itzton leeonnt, thet voder thie grtTeetone
Ha the bonee of old B^nire HookenhiiU, who one
morning loine 800 sammen ago, rode out, Intent on
■port, end how hie old horM &et liad eeirled him bo
hrnrdj for bo long, etepping in a rmhUt hole fell end
rdOed on hie maater, end how the <; jing eqoireb liad
eharged hie eldeet era, that no ineeription alKHild
nailc hie laat raating plane, bak aimplj a bridle Ut
and two Btirmpe out in tlw atone aiin the date, ao
that all men mi|^aee that the old Bqfoire, like a
true KngHahman, had died aa he had li^, a honta-

The atoiy ia a prettj one and might haTolaated to
amnae aooUier generaUon of vieiton, had not aereral
membera of the Oooneil of the ffiatorie Boeietj of
Laneaahire and Oheahiie ohanoed to Tiait that
aeolnded ipot leat anmmer, when onr Tiee-preeident,
who waa one of the par|j, pointed ont that the bit
and athnupe were meray the lettera I or J.
O. 0., and probably rafened to aome loeal
landed proprietor of that period. The dil&ealty,
howeTer, at onee anggeated itaelf that at
the time in qneatlon anoh a thing aa three
nasMawaaalmoat,if notabaolately,nn£iown. Xhia
waa, howeTOr, explained, when on referring to
Ormerod, it waa found that in the Uat of the inenm-
benta of the pariah there waa liring in 1570 one who
iadeaeribed aa ** John Garter, Ooiate."

Though thia praotieally aettled the qneaiion, the
writer haa fortunately been able to plaoe the matter
boTond diapnte by finding the Bar. John Oarter'a
wiU at the Probate Ck>urt in Oheeter, in the preemUe
of wbieh he deairea that hia "bodie be buried within
the ehanaell of the ehurehe of Sbotwiok," the date
oi the will and probate being 1587-

Tonra, eto.,

Wm. Fuauaaoii IiviNa.
Olaaghton.

MAY 13tk, 1893.

[905] THE FUNXBUi OF BIB THOMAS
STANLST HABBBT 8TANLBT BABONBT 1841.

(Ooatiniied fkom No. SOS— May 6)

Oannn or Paooiaaioii xo thb Obubob.

Mate on horaebeek. Mute on hoiaebaek.

About eighty Teaanta on fooL

About rixty Tenanta on hoiaebaek.

Carriage eontalning the Yen. Arehdeeooa Gierke,
Yiear; the Ber. Joeeph Twiat, Curate, of Baat-
hun ; and alao the Bar. B. Gongrere, Beotor of
Burton.

Prirate Carriage of the late Bir Thoa. Stanley,
eontalning the Biaht Bot. Dr. Brigga, Yiear
Apoatolloal of the Torfcahire Diatriok.

Mute. Mute.

Thb Hbaibb,

With Plumea and Eaouteheona.

FixBt Mourning Goeeh, oontainiog Bir Wm. 8. M.
Stanley, Bart ; Bowland Errington, Eaq, aona ;
and Sir B. B. W. Bnlkeley, Bart, aonan-kw of
the deoeaaed.

Beeond Mourning Goeeh, eontalning Chariea Stanley,
Eeq., and Heniy Stanley, Beq. brothera of the

Third Mourning Goeeh, oontalning the Bare. Mr.
QiUow, Mr. l^hgoe, Mr. HendenoQ, and Mr.
Garbeiy, Buman Gathelie elergymen.

Vonrth Mourning Goaeh, eontainlng the Hon. Bir
Edward Gnat, Lieut Qen Olegg, B. GongreTO,
Esq. and J. Feilden, Eaq.

Fifth Honmiog Goaeh, eontalning William Blundell,
Baq. Groxton Johnaon, Eaq., Colonel Qlegg, wad
the BeT. Jaa. Mainwaiing.

Sixth Mourning Ooaeb, eontalning the Ber. Mr.
Feilden, B. Maaaey, Esq., Gapt Mawdeeley, and
the Gheralier Antonio de Bil?a.

Seventh Mourning Goaoh, oontalning W.Webater,
Esq., W. Latham, Esq., Dr. Llewdlyn Jonea, and
Oeorge Harriaon, Eaq,

Eighth Mourning Goaoh, oootaining Eaton Moualey,
Eaq., Philip Humberakon, Esq., and P. Humber-
aton, jno. SSiq.

Ninth Mourning Goaoh, oontalning Mr. Hayea, Mr.
Gregory, Mr. Dariea, and Mr. William Hayea.

Phaeton of Harrey Crakanthorp, Eaq., aeoompanied
by hia aon, Mr. B. Crakanthorp.

Carriage of ^^lliam Hanooek, Eaq., aeoompanied by
Dr. Larden.

Phaeton of Mr. Smith, followed by thoee of otb-tf
frienda of the late deoeaaed baronet.

Private Garriagea, with blinda oloaed :~

Tbe late Baronet'a Family Carriige.
Sir William S. Maaaey Stanley's Oarriage.
Bowland Errington Eiq's Carriage.
Sir B. B. W. Bolkeley'a Carriage.

WntaAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

Ma, 1808<

BeTeral prifafte OArritgai, with blindi eloMd i in the
. followioK order :<— John Fellden, Esq., B. Oon-
grefe, Esq., BeT. Jas. Mein waring, Oroxton John-
eon, Esq., Rev. B. M. Feilden, Maior-Gten. Glegg,
Oolonel Glegg> B. M aeeej, Baq., B. Oieen, Eeq,
Che? alier Antonio De ailWt w* IaUuuu, Esq.,
dto. Ao, fto*

8er?nnts on honeheek.

The proeeMion alio ineladed levaml of the moet
reepeotable tradesmen of Oheater and other plaoes
la the immediate neighbonrhood, who were andou
to ofier tbia laat trihate of reipeot to the memory of
the deoeaaed Baronet. The mounfnl proeeadon
mored on in aolemn and almoat nobroken aiienoe,
and aearoely a aoond was to be heard OKoept the deep
tone of the viUnge bell, intimating the nign approaeh
of the deoeaaed to hia appointed plaoe of reat. On
arrifing at the Ohnroh, the ooflin was remoTed from
the hearae, the tenantiy on foot were arranged in
line on eaoh aide of the road leading to the Tanlt,
and the tenantry on horaebaok (in the highway) on
the north aide of the ohmwh-yard.

The mownfnl prooeaaion reaehed Eaatham abont
[lalf-paat one o'olook, and during the whole of ita
progreaa, nothing eonid have been more orderly or
proper than the oondnet of the mnltitndea aaaemUed
to ^ew it ; nothing oonld hare been more ereditaUe
to their feelinga. Mr. Whitty, the aUe and reapeeted
polioe officer, reaident in Eaatham, and Mr. Hill,
the anperintendent of the Oheater polioe had ao well
arranged e? erything oonneoted with their dntiea in
keeping the paaaagea leading to the vanlt dear, that,
dthoDgh the ohnrehyard waa erowded with peraona
not the aligkteat diaoider oeoorrod. The body waa
then lowered into the vavlt, under the nerth-eaat
ohanod, to whioh there ii a apadooa entranoe from
the chnrdiyard, and depodted in a niohe bedde I«dy
Haggeraton, mother to the Dowager Lady Stanley,
amidst nnfdgned sorrow for hia losa, and fervent
prayera for hia anooeaeor.

[206] EASTEB EOG OUSTOtf 8 IN WIRBAL.

(See Noa. 191 and 195, April).

Tonr enqdry nnder this bead a few weeks ago aet
me thinking, aa I felt snre that I had qdte reeentlj
read something on the anhjeot ; on further refleotion
it turned out to be in Mra. Qamlin's interesting work
•• Memoriea of Birkenhead.*'

The passage ia at page 85, and it aa foUowa ;— " For
some years after the Park waa Idd out, there were
severd grasiy mounds indde the rdlings, in Ash-
▼iUe-road, which went by the name of '* The Bonke."

... on every Beater Monday children would
bring basketa of coloured egga." . . ''Then a
game was played. First wfek*Ht« were fixed at Inter-
Tals at the foot of the " Bonko," then the children

took thdr sgp to tha top of ilM UUs and nUad
them down, aiming to paaa them unhsokm between
the wieketa.'* • . • • Theae hillookB proved aueh
a popular playground that the grass was destroyed.
The eminences, thus deprived of naturd growth,
became unsightly, and were levelled in oonse*
quenoe.'*

This is voiy Inisniting, but It led to aomething
stiU more so; the question nnturally aroae why
ahodd ohildren dngle out theae pertioular hillooks
for their annnd game (the oboioe of theoaldllocka ia
oertain^ dder than the beginning of tUs century.)

The answer appeals to be thni these ** Bonks '*
were nothing less tlian andent mounda or bairows of
a prdiiatorio people, and if they had ody been opened
in a sdentifTo manner, instead of bdng removed
wholeaale in the Ooiporation mudearts, th^ would
doubtless have yidded the niud proofs of their
anoient use, suoh as atone hammen, iUnt arrow
heads, Acu

The grounds for this sasumpHon aie aa foUowi :~
Firstly : Anoient rurd customs when sssodated with
eertdn spots heve over and over again been proved
to have been snrvivala of aome heathen aupeniitions
observanee i the veiy lad that the ohildren for
generations have ehosen these partioular hUlocks in
preference to a doaen others Just as han^y *Ti^^tiw
that there must have been originaUy aome apssid
f or thsir ohoice.

Seeondly: Mr. Shrubedle In Us pi^er on
** Prehistorie FMpIe in Ddamere Forest^" pubUdied
In the last vdume of the Oheater Areheolofpcd
Bodety'a Jound mentions thai the oountiy pMple
in that part of Oheahiie dmply call theae burials
mounds *' Boooks," Just as the dd InhaUtanta of
Bhrkenhead deaignated the hiUodm in queatioiL*

lUrdly ; Tlie lood name for a bnrid mound Is
Low usually oomHned with a prefix aa Hare-low,
Briar- low, Stone-low, and aa Mr. Shrubeole points
out •'soperdstently is this word Mow* aasodated
with these mounds In Derbyshire and BtsyBtard-
shire that some 800 places so named proved on
Investigation to have been the die of prehistoric
interments.*' And In a conversation whioh the
writer had recently with Professor Boyd-Dairtdns,
the Utter stated that he had Uttle doubt that every
plaoe name In England wiiioh Induded the word
<* low " recorded the site of a grave mound.

Now any old Inhabitant will remember that the
lane wldah ran from iriiat is now Oannon Mount to
the end of the modem Oonwav St., and so pssssd
dose 1^ these mounds was esUed X.oinftdds Lsne,
and though Mrs. Oamlln does not indicate the enet
spot where these mounds were loeated, I have little
doubt that the name of the fidd in which they wtee
will be a further ooiroboratkm of thia theory.

Tours, etOb,

Wm. FsnouBSOM Invraa.

*Bonki. of oonne, Ib the dlaleotto form of Banke.

Mat, 1898.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

[a>7J

OBIOINAL DOOUMENT.

TiM foUowing if anotlMr of the rffXim fron wUoh
Bishop aMtraU oompitod his iVMAia :^

WxuuL Dbaiixit.
Bromboroiigli Oo. Oh»st«r, 1717.

" To whom it nuy eonoeni

I Bobt QrifithB Miniator of Bronhoroogh do
hereby tesUfle jt I reeeifo joeilj from ye Deui end
Ohepter of Obeeter the earn of four jpoiindfl iiz
■hiUioga eightpenoa for eapplying yt Oh o&ee s
month And yk no other paymente tythes or glebe
belong to the Mioiater there (y 1 1 know of) MTe only
ye Bnrplioe f eee, vii. :

for B Burial Ol 9d.

foraCh'ing la. Od.

for a Wedding 8a. 6'.. woh eommnnibiia
annia aaay be abost £1 6 0.

Thia Ohnrah is aitiiate in a Tillage of ye same
nasM in Witrel diatanfe from ye Oity of Obeeter
sbont BtfToo If lie, 'tie a DimatiTe bat whether ye
nomination of ye Oomte there is in Jamea If ain-
wareing Baq. ye Impropriator of ye Tiths and other
Bights belonging to ye flame or ye Dean and Obapter
is snoertain.

Witness my hand,

B. Orifflths de Basthm Vier.**

** Apr 86, 1717. Boberft Qriifiths Olerk and John
Parkinaon made oath of ye tntth of this Aoot.
baf on OS.

Bio. Booehisr
Bdw. Boberts.*'

MAY 20th, 1893.

[208.] DI80LAIMEBB AT THB HERALDS
YIBITATIONB IN WIBBAL, 1618 AND 1664.

The following extraots are from a most interest-
ing paper on the aabjeet of Diaolaimera at Haralda
Yisitationa (partioalarly with referenoe to Lanoaahire
and Oheahire) written by J. Pani Bylands Esq..
F.S.A. and publiahed in the 7tb Yolnme of the
DrttmaetionM of ih4 HiUorie Society o/Loneaehirs
and ChMhvre.

In Mr. Bylanda' paper are printed the fall liit of
DiaolaimerB for both Ooonties for the years 1618
and 1664 and the names at the oonolnaion of this
artiele are of those who were disclaimed in the
Hondred of Wizral at theae two Yiiitations:

*< For the information of those who have not paid
mnoh attention to the stndy of heraldic and
genealogy, it may be aa well, in the flrat pUoe, to
eiplain what the Heralds' Visitations were, in order
that tlie oManing and eifeot of Disdaimera may be
bcltarvidssstood.

Armorial bearings were originally aasomed by
thefar wearers at will, being, at lUat, SMrely intended
to aerte as diiiingnlahing marks in the field of
battle; bat, abont the middle of the thirteenth
eeotary they beeame generally hereditary, and aoon
aeqnired aoharaeter wHieh oaaaed them to be highly
▼aloed and jealooaly gaarded ae eoatgoa of honoar
and aymbols of pairieian rank. Ha? tug thoa beeome
oo?e.ed hereditary diatinotioos, some oheok apon
their Tolaotary aoaomptioe beeame neeeeaary, to
prevent anworthy and anaoitabie peraona diaplaying
iosignia to whieh neither their mililaiy aehieToments
nor aooial atatna entitled them.

To eflfoot this. King Henry Y., apon insiitating
the offloe of Garter King of Anna, made a proola*
mat ion, dated the 8ad day of Jone, 1417, to the
effrot that no man, of what estate, degree, or oon-
dition seerer, ahoold aaanme arma, nnleaa he held
them by right of inheritanee or by the donation of
aome peraon who had anlileient power to gire them ;
and that all peraona ahonld make it appear to offloere,
to be appointtrd by the King for that parpose, by
wkoae gift they enjoyed aneh arma aa they reepeo.
tively bore, ezoepiing these who had bonie arms
with the King at the battle of Agioeoort.

In 1688, aome of tlie offioers of arms weie
oommiaaioned by the Crown to make Yiaitatlons
of, or in other words to visit, oertain ooontiea of
England, for ihe poipoee of preparing an offioial reoord
of the armorial bearings and podigreea of all snob
peraons as were entitled, by their position in life, to
what ii sometimes oalled *■ viaitaiion rank.'* ^Haita-
tions were, in doe ooarse, periodieally made at
intervals for every ooanty in England, and, after
being neglected ander the Oommon wealth, were
revived and eontinaed ontii the year 1686, when they
finally oaaaed.

In paraaasee of his Oommisdon the King of Arms
or Herald, iaaaed a warrant direeted to the High
Oonsuble or Bailiff of the Hundred, or to the Mayor
or other ohief oflloer of the plaoe, where he intended
to hold hia Yiaitation, oommaudiog bim to warn the
several kuighta, eaqnirea, and gentlemen within hia
Joriadiotion, to appear before him at the boaae, and
on the day speoified in the warrant, and to bring
with them their esoatoheoos aud pedigreee, wi h
aneh evidenees and wriiinga aa might joatify the
same, in order to their being daly regiatered.
• ••• •••••

If the evidenoe prodaoed aatiafied the heralds, the
pedigree and arms were daly entered, and were
aigned by the person who proved them, generally the
h^ad of the family. If, on tha other hand the whole
of the descent was not satiafactorily eetabliaheJ the
offioers of arma fr<-qaentiy entered a abort pedisree,
the faota of which were within the peisonal
knowledge of the applicant.

** If there waa any doabt abont the arms displayed
the pedigree waa eoterel witboat them, and r*Bpite
was often given by tue Heralde to allow an oppor-
tanity of verifying aaoh arme, whieh, when satis-
faetorily proved at a later date, were "allowed*' and
daly entered in the Yifitation Book.**

WIERAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

1£^T, 1898.

'* ThoM penona who had disobeyed the rammona
•f the hertldi were pablioly dieoUimed If they per-
■Uiently refused to ehow their right to the arms
need by them i end alio ell those who bed attended
the sammoDB, and ha? log been nnable to pro?e the
arms wrongfally need by them, oontinned sooh use
in deflanDe of lawful anthority."

**The diielaimers wen mads •'aftsr eomd of a
Trnmpett** by prodamation at the marksl erosa
or some other oonvenient plaee, generally at the
time of the Assiies, and a written proclamation was
hnng np dharging the persons, whose names were
written balow, in the name of the BoTereign, " tliat
"they nor any of them do from heneefortk by any
*' ways or means nse or take npon him or them the
«« the names of Eeqnire or Gentlemang nnlesa th^
«'be therennto authorised aeeording to sneh order
•• as is preseribed and set forth by thn Laws of

{T6 bt Omi m%i 9d.)

^>m

[20ft.] OBiaiNAL DOOUMENT.

(See No. SOT^May 18.)

The following is another of the answers Uom which
Bishop GastreU*8 NotUia was oom[^ied*

BuBTON Cbuboh.

A Doaatifo.

ifareh 14th, 1716/7.

The B«v, T^omoB Bainhridgt Olerk, Onrate of ye
pariah Ounreb of Barton icitaate in a Tillage of ye
seme name in Wirral in ye Ooonty and Diooes
of Ohester distant from London abunt 146 miles
appeared and in evidenoe of ye present clear
yearly Ttlne or inoome of ye Onrate of the
parish Ohnrch of Bnrton aforesaid prodnoed one
original Indenture of Lease bearing date ye
Btfoond day of Febmary in ye Eighth year of the
Bf^ign of her late Majesty Qneen Ann, Anno Doi
1709 made betwenn Ward Gray Athenhtntt of
Trinity OoUege in Oambrtdge, gent and Francis
AMhenhuraiot Merton Oollege in O^ord, gent of ye one
part and ye said Thomas Beiobridfle of ye other
part, by whioh ye said Oray AMhsnhurti and
Franeit iliAmAtir«< in consideration of ye yearly Bents
and Oovenante tbcr«*in mentioned did demise to
ye said Thomas Bainhridgs his Ezecntors, Admrs
and Assigns a Manaioo Hoose oalled Denwell Home
situate in ye Township of Burton aforesaid with
appnrtenanoes and all Tith-eom and Hey and all
other Tithes wbatsosTer oblations obTcntions mor-
tuaries and Easter does belonging to ye sd Parieh of
Burton wch have been to them demised by ye Maater
of the Hospital of St. John Baptist without ye Barrs
of ye City of Liohfield (exoept ae therein la ezoepted)
for ye terme of one and twenty yeera Under this
Govenant amongst othen That ye said Thomas his
Exors Admrs and Assigns shall dnreing ye said Term
pay ye sum of Thirty pounda per annum to an able and

sufBoient orthodox parson in holy orders to be named
by ye stid Oray Ashenhurst and Francis Ashe^ihurU
or ye 8ur?iTor of theoa or the Exors Admrs of ye
surrivor of tbem to serre ye euro of ye P«rish end
in ye Ohuroh of Burton aforesaid by equal portions
on ye Feast day of Bt. Miohatl and annuoetatioo of
ye blessed Virgin Mary unless ye sd Thomas Bam-
hridgs shall offleiate ye said Onre himself web sum
of thirty pounds irill be ye whole stipend and clear
yearly Inoome of a Onrate officiating at ye parish
Church aforesaid dureiog ye remainder of ye Term
granted by js said Lssie s» appears by yc aame
befoMia^

Arth : Fogg «
Bdw : Boberts.

[SIO] TBE *« BONES'* IN BIBEENHSAD

PABS.

(8es No. S06.^1Cay 18.)

Xu reply to the interesting notsa on old burial
mounds by Mr. Ir?ine,in your iseus of last Saturday,
I beg to say that the " Bonks ** in the Park, to
whidb I alluded in <* Memories of Birkenhead," were
aituated inside the railings in Asbrille-road, on the
open space between the plantations to the left of the
refreehment rooms. Tliere were two mounds— one
much higher then the other. Ohildren used to
amuse themseWes running or rolling down tbem, for
they were so steep that there was no stopping a
run when once stsrtsd. Old residents will remember
them.~TonrB, Aa H. Gakuv.

Birkenhead.

[The spot that Mrs. Gamlin indieatsa la reiy
intereeting, ss it is one of the points at wliich the
boundary between Birkenhead and Olaughton turns ;
bniial mounds were very frrqaently cbosen as nurks
of parish boundaries, or posribly the reverse was the
case, and these boundariee of townships are even
older than the ftumi/i, and were chosen for some
reeaon as the site for interments.

From a 14th century deed (Dsp, Kf^psr Pub. Rsc-t
VoU 86), we knew that there were at least two such
Irarial mounds on the boundary between Oztoa and
Olaughton. WJf J.]

[211.] WIBBAL SUBBIDT BOLL. 1640.

Pmditoii.

Etsabethe [s^] proxls iid

WillmoScUfeproiiiU iUd

Thoma Bhumythe pro zxs id

Rioo Waynewrygte pro zxs ..••..••• id

Bobto Beskythe pro xxa « id

Baynoldo Smyths pro xis. •••••••. •••••. id

~ ~ Eobynson pro iliU.... •••.••• iild

H4T, 1896.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QtlERIBS.

fiolmrio Bathbone pro zzs id

Th6nMWhft|proiiiiU iiiid

Henrioo Qleyve pro zzs id

Thoaa Pemberton pro xn •• « id

AgneU Bftddeiar pro iiili • iiid

-♦

MAT 27th, 1893

'[319] DIBOLAIMKBB AT THE HEBALDS
VISITATIONS IN WIBEAL, 1616 A 1661.

(CoQiinned from No. QM^Unf SO.)
1618.

WlBRiL HmVDBSD.

. (1) Bobt Lennard of Irby.
(2) Wm Ball of Erresbye [Irl^]
(8) John Tonnffe of Frankby.

(4) John Gill of Ponltoo.

(5) John Bobinaon of Walleqr.

(6) John Bennett of Walleay.

(7) Bobt OUl of Bromborowe.

(8) Tbo: Hallwood of Sntton.

(9) John Doe of Litla Sangball.
(9) James Doe of the lame.

Bio. Clarke of Saoghall.

(1) The Lennardi had heen pettled la Irby foratleaal a
eentary preriooa lo thla, •« appear* from a Sabaldjr hoII
for IMS. Tbof Mem to lia?e mowed looa afler Inio Nation
Pariih.

tt) 'J ta« Bella of Irby were a family of yeomen and rofoor
geokrj aboai this time; In a Bubsidy Boll for li25 Wm Bait
of Iiby pays en a comparatiTely large sum : In 1668 a Oeorge
Ball, probably a aon of ihi^ m<ii, oooari In a liti of Free*
holder! In Wlrral, nnder the tovnahfp of Irby.

This Wm Ball paM a flue of AlO in 16S1 to avoid the
hoaonr of knighthood ; h« apparently died In 1637. aa big
will was prof ed ai Cheater in tbat year.

(Si 'J here was a large family of Toanga aettled In Qreaaby
and frankby about thla time, bai they do not appear to
bare been llre«>noldere on Ml later lo the oeotary. John
Toang*8 will wae proved In 1640.

(4* In the Bnbeldy Roll already qnofeed— for 16S5-John
OUl la deaorlbed aa ** generosna** and payia tax on land,
and mnat therefore have been a m n of some position,
wbiob makes It all the more surprising to find hla ** dls-
ehUmed.'* Bis will waa proved at liheater In 1642. and In It
he Is de^orib^d as ** gentleman.'*

(5) The Boblosoos were yeomen In Wallasey, they appear
t > have held a little land abjot this time, ai^o in 1668, but
they never roae to any gi eat position lo the Hundred.

i6i ffrom the absenoe of the name of Bonnet from the
Wallasey Chnroh Beglater, whioh has been published In
Vol. zsxv of the Tram. HiiL 8oc. of L, and C. down to tbe
year UOO, It aeema posslb e thai this name Is a mistake used
in oonnection with Wallasey, and refers to John Bonnet of
tbe neighbouring townanip of Hsughaii-Uassey. who was a
Treeholder and a man of oonaiderable snbatanoe at thla
time.

(7) Robert Olll,of Bromborongh, seems to have stood on
verymuoh the same tooting as John Olll.of Poalton, to
whom he was probably related, as In the 1625 Subsidy Boll,
hepava the tax on a similar quantity of land, though he is
not oflloially described aa ** gentleman," aa Is the ease with
John Oill. Vids NoU ^4). la 1631 he paid the fine of £10 to
atold being knighted, an honour attended by no little
expense, whIoh waa oompulsory on all whose Inoomes
exceeded A40 per annom. Hla will waa prored In 1641, In
whIoh he Is desorlbed as " yeoman."

•8; Tbe Hailwoods were a f amity of oonsiderablo wealth
in I*a8ttaam Farli-h. and in 16S5 a James Hallwood paid the
eompoaltion of £10 to avoid the honour of knighthood, and
In the same year Thoa. Hallwood figures In the Bubttldy
Bo!l as owning a small quantity of land

(9) It la even more dimoult to underbtand why these two
men should have been ** dlaolalmed," aa aooording to a
pievloua vialtatlon the family had been freeholders aa early
M 1569L James Doe pays In the 1685 Subsidy Boll for land
hele in Lltile Banghall,

(1) Thom'e Barlowe of ye Mtme.

(2) Wm Hely of Newton.

[818] THE WILL OF JOHN ANGLIZEB
OF BASTHAM. ▲.». 1688.

Under the eaet window of tte dMnoel of EMtham
Charoh ie an inaeription whioh long proved a pniile
to antiquaries, Ormerod sayi (vol. II., p. 408~n6W
ed.) :— ** A oonelderable part (of Eastham Chnroh) if
said to have been re-bnilt from the deaigne of Inigo
Jones. There is, however, remaining among some
mntUated letters under the obanoel window a date
17 B.B., vis., 1574, in whioh year loigo Jones would
ooly be two years old." It is well known that
Ormerod was entirely ignorant of the prinoiples and
hietory of medin?al arohiteotnre, otherwise he
wonld not have eommitted the grafe error of
attributing to this great arohiteot any part of
Eastham Oburoh. But what doea the ineoription
mean ? The letters to the right are Jhow Amolizbr
DiBO ; thoee to the left, A. Aholizbb Mat sun. It
is the iZBB in the former name that Ormerod mistook
for 17 BB., <.e., 17 Elisabethae Begioae. His
mistake has been followed by Moriimer and Snlley.

Now who was this John Angliser whose name was
inieribed in enoh a ooDapionona plaee 7 He was a
yeoman of good standing at Eastham. In 1618 he
waa one of the witneeeee of Sir Bowland S^auley's
will, and tbe Koight beqneatha him £10 for his
honest faitbfol eervioe (aee No. 82). In 1625 he
paid a subsidy of eight shillings. He died in 1689.

The following is an abstract of his will :—

In the name of God Amen. 88 day of January
1628.

I John Angliser of Eastham in the Oonntie of
Oheater yeoman, an unprofitable servant of God be-
ing eioke in bodie eto ete. • • e md
my body to be ooffiued and hnrled as near unto the
plaee where my deare father was buried aa may be
?iB, at the Beat end of the Ohanneell amongat my
aooeetoars. • • • e • e
my fnnenti ezpenses whioh I would have done
sparingly in regard my debts are greate, * •

• after my debts are f nlly paid all my goods
ohattels, oattel ete to my son*in-law William Hay.

« e e my debtee are at this time eo
greate that I oannot do that for my freodes as other,
wise I would doe and have intention to doe if God
lend me life and ability, without impoverlehing my
poor ohildren, and therefore I must intreate all that
reapeote me to hold me exoosed.

I will that the remainder of the marriage
portion of my daughter Mary be pajd unto Thomas
Penkett her hosband.

e e • iiy aonne-in.law Wl!]iam

(1) A Biobard Barlowe of Little Faaghall paid on a oon*
aiderable quantity of goods in the bubsidy Boll for 168&.

(S) The Aowton here referred to Is the townahip of that
name, near Cheater— it Is not In WIrral Hundred.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

May, 1898,

Hay and Joan my daughter hii wile.

Ezeontor: Wiliam Hay.

WUnenes : John Hay, 01#ment An«lizer,
Robert Hay, Thomas Penkelt.

[igdj John Angliser.

InTentorie taken 7 May 1629 by John Btranke of
Bromboroagh, and Robert GUI of the aame, Milner,
and Wm. Adam of Sutton, yeomen, nnd Biobard
Bennet and Bobert Oor£Fe of Easthanii haebandm,
B.T. £221 2s. 4d.

[Inter aUa]. AU his books iiiili zs

ProTed 80 Jannnry 1629.

F. Bamdhs.

L2U] INBOBIPIIONB ON WIBBiL BELLS.

(Oontlnned from No. 198.^AprU 8.)

BUBTOH.

(1) Peace and good neighbonrhood 1724

(2) Abr : BndhaU oaet ua aU 1724

(3) Provperity to tbe Ohnreh of England 1724

(4) Proeperity to this Pariah 1724

(6) Wm Wilson and Bcbt Jones Ohnreh wardens
1724.

BmsTON.

The present ring of 6 bells is modem | 5 of them
bearing the iosoriptions :

Bobert Stainbank, Fdnnders, London, 1868.

And on the 6th is the following :

Mears and Btainbank, Fonnders London

Gloria Dei

OB ft EO 1882

[George Bobert ft Emily Olorer]

On the 5th bell in addition to the name of tbe
Fonnder is :

These bells presented to Bidston Ohnreh by
subscription, Angnst 1868.

0. A. Graham, M.A., Inenmbent,
George Boyden 1 w.«i*t»«
Edward Parkinson / W*™*"*

The 6 bells, whioh were oast in 1868, superseded a
ring of 8, on wbioh are said to haTe been the follow-
log inscriptions :

Sanoti Oswald!. O.W: J.W: W.W.
Oaotate Domino Oantionm Novum 1615.
Laudato Dominnm in Sanoto ejus 1678.

It was on the strength of the first of these
inscriptions that the Ohurch was dedicated to Bt.
Oswald, but Mr. Bnlley, in bis History of Wirral,
stat'S that there In a tradition to the effect that this

bell was brought to Bidston from Hilbre al tlie
suppression of that cell in 1586, and tbnt it had
originally come firom the Parish Ohnreh of Bt.
Oswmld, in Obester, OAMPAxoMam.

[215] WIBBAL SUBSIDY BOLL, 1545.
(OontinQed from No. 211— May 20.)

PODYUOTOR.

Thoma Jannyn pro iiili ••• Bid

JoheBmythe pro iiili Bid

Hugone Smyth pro iiili iBd

Henrico Anoyan pro iiili .Bid

Henrico Jensen pro Till ziid

Bobto Mores pro tH zd

Johe Bennett pro iiiili iifid

Boberto Bennet pto iiiili iBid

Jobe Sef ton pro iiili Bid

Johe Oalley pro iiili iild

Edwardo Lightfoot pro xls iid

Bado Speneer pro xzs • Id

Willmo Male [f]proxis id

Bobte Bmy the pro zxs • id

NUWTON CUM LakToN.

Thoma Oarter [r] provli zd

Henrico Newbot pro zxs • id

Thoma Bennet pro zls iid

Bob'o Pbylyp pro iiiiU iiiid

Willmo Newbot pro fli zd

Willmo Gyle pro xzs id

Bioo Piatt pro zls iid

Bioo Bathebon pro zls Bd

Willmo Bathbon pro zls Bd

Willmo Hancocke pro zls iid

Agneta Woodward pro zzs, • Id

JUNE 8rd, 1893.

[216] DISOLAIMEBS AT TBE HEBiLDB
VISITATIONS IN WIBBAL, 1618 AND 1664.

(Oontinued from No. 212^MaT 27)

1664.
Wtbhall Humdbid.
(1) Thomas Glassouer, Lea.

(1) Why the Heralds shoald have ''dUolalmed** Mr.
GUeier, II le dtfflonlt lo eajr. m he was a man of good
f Aindy, and hit grandfather, wllUam Oiuler, entered his
pedigree and arm« at the Visitation in 1580. Mr. Ulaciar
married Kilsabath daaghter of tilt Wm. blanley of Hooloii,
and died on the 8th Deo. 1679i being barled at
Baetham, font dayi later.

Jom, 1898.

WIRBAL NOTES AND QUEKIBS.

i3) Edwai^ Littorluid, Ponlton omn Seaoom.
4) Mr. Hooknell, Sbotwiok.

(6) William Shipley, Btowerton.
(6) Oapt. Shipley, Thortonhoiigh.
n) Mr. Frogg, Whitby.

P17]

WIBBiL WORTHIES.
Vn. BEY. SAMUEL OLARKB.

(Imovmbbht ov Shotwiok).

Tbia well-known Puritan dif ine was born October
10th 1599 at Wolston in W«rwiokshire. Hia father,
Hngh Oiarke, who died in 1634, waa Yioar of Wolaton
for the long period of forty yeara. The yonog

(1) The Oolllngtauna were a famllv of mlDor genlry about
thu time, and held a freehold estate in Little Neatoo. Mr.
Cottlngbam was ijord of the Manor of Little Meaton ; he
married Fraooea daaghter of — . Adwaida.

(S The Uptonsi or aa It was often tpelt Upahona, were
yeomen, ana do not appear to hafe been eventcee&olders
atthla time.

(3) 'ihe Litherlands had for more than a oentarj held a
third of the Manor of Wallasey, ihla Mdward Litherlaad
waa the only aon of ttowland Ulherliind < who died 16S6) by
hia wife. Margery Mb daaghter of Bdward Qreoae of
Ponlton Laooelyn, Bkoaire. He waa born in 1635 and ao at
the time of the vlaltation maat have been nearly 3 J yeara
of age. He appeara to have b en a Puritan, whloh may
be in some way oonnaoted with hit being *' diaotaimed.**

(4) The Mr. ttookenhull here alluded to waa aeoond aon,
and at the time o( thia Tialtatlon, the repreaentative of the
anoient family of Hookenhnll, of Hockenhoil and ShotKiok,
who for many yeara had hell an honoured plao« among
the Ohestiire gentry* Hia ohrlatlan name waa Joseph, born
abont 1616. be married Bilsaaetb, daaghter of itobert
l>avles, of Aahton, in 1636. He died at Hhoiwlok. 17th July,
1679, and waa barled wUhln the altar raiia oi that oharoh.

tae lived in the old Hall, whioh standa near the onuroh,
In one of the rooma of whioh la atiil to be aeen, over the
lire plaoe in plaater work, an inaooarate ooat o( arma. In
the lat and 4th quarters of thli la a plain oroat [7 Shotwiok]
and in the tad and 5rd an ost'a head ertued, the latter being
the ooat of the Hookenhall tamliy. tfealdea the ooat of arma,

on the one aide la a ahield with the lettera ^ [Joaeph and

Slisabeth Hookenhnll]. and on the other the date 1662.

It la probable thai nad the Vialling Herald known of thia
ooait of arma— whloh, of ooarae, muat have bean reoantly
put up— he would have ezerolsed hia power aud detajed It.
as we know waa freQuenily done with bogaa or Inaoonrate
armorial b -aringa.

It la strange that a man with Baoh a dlatlngalahed anoeatry
aa Mr. Huokeuhall ahoold not have uken Ihe trouble to
have hia coat of arma aeourairely emblas jned, and aiao to
haveaatlafled the Herald of hia right to bear arms.

(5) Thia name and ihe next both appear to refer to
one man, captain Wllilam Hhipley, wbjae name oooura
as a Freeholder in the 1666 Uaa. He appeara to have lived
at NewlMll, in Thornton Hough,and waa probdtbly oaplalo of
Boyaliaie I'roopa dorlng the Olvil War. He died la lti69, la
wmoh year ion the37(h Aaguati.admiaiatration ?f his goods
waa granted to andrew bhipidy, his son, and Jonn Taylor,
of Brlmstage; hitf wife JBileo died a few weeks later, and
administration of her goods wad granted oa the 13ih
Ootooer. lo Luke Lloyd, of Brio, in Fiinishlre, her broihir.
Btae Is deaorloed as of ihornton Hough, or Newhall, In
Wirral.

(6) bee preceding Note.

(7) Mr. [Jonnl trogg was a Freeholder In Whitby In 1688.
and wa<i oouneohed by marriage with the fooles of Fooie,
the Btanleya of Uooioa, a'>d ihe Minsha Is of Minshull.

From the Ohu Fun. Oertift , p. 159. we learn laai Franoea
Poole and aon ot Jonn Pouie by hia wife Mary diu of sr
Bowlaud Btanley. married iSdsabeih daa of ihos Frogg of
Mynahall, and from the ViiU: of Chet: 1580, p. 180, that
laabel daaghter of Jonn Mlnaauil ot Minsnuil married
Ohrlatophtfr Frogg, doublleaa aiao of MiaanuU.

Mr. FfOgg must kiaTe been an araent Etoyaliat aa hia
eaiatea were sequestrated and he was obliged tooompound
for them by paying the sum of £58 8j. (Mortimer p 166J.

Samuel waa edaoated by bia fatber till ha waa
thirteen yean old, and waa then aent to the £^:ee
School in the neighbouring oity of OpTantry« Hero
be remained till he waa aoTenteen, when he waa
entered at Emanuel Odllege, Oambridge, where ha
atudied under Tbomte Hooker, ** one of the ohoioeat
tutora of the Univeratty." Tbia oollege waa a gteat
etronghold of the Puritan party, and it waa probably
here that Olarke imbibed the atrong religlona ¥iewi
whioh he ao peraiatenily maintained throogbout hia
life* He waa ordained about the year 1682, and at
ilrat aeema to haTe miniatered at Koowle in hia nati?a
oonnty. Hia etay there muat have been but abort, aa
we find him aoon after in Oheahire aaaiating the Ber.
George Byrom, Beotor of Thomton-lcMoora. We
are told that in thia aitnation he waa expoaed to
great temptationa, "hot it plaaaed the Lord in
merey to hedge up hia way with thoma, and by
atriking bim with extraordinary terror to bring him
to refleotion and deep humiliation, and by degreeato
give him eome oomfort in belieTiog and applying the
promisee of free graoe in Chriat Jeeoa- He here
met with aome trouble from a maliciona peraon who
[.roseonted him for the omiaaion of aome oeremoniea."

The oeremoniea bare alluded to were the oaa of
ihe enrplioe, o( the oroea in baptism, and of the ring
in marriage. The biabop of Oheeter, John Bridge-
man, waa inaiating on the obeerTanoe of theae
oeremoniea, to wbioh a oonaiderable number of the
olergy were atroogly oppoaed. Among theae Olarke
waa reckoned.

Oonatrained to leaTe Thornton, after a two yean

reaidenoe, the young di?ine aooepted the charge of
Shotwiok about the year 1624. The titbea of thia
pariao belonged to the Dean and Ohapter of Oheater,
who paid a small sum annually to a Onrate. The
appointment of Olarke eeema io point to the
Puritan party predominating in the Ohapter.
Aobordiog to hia biograpber'a aeoount, 01arke*a
miniatrationa were ao aooeptable in hia new location
that people oame six or aoTen milee to hear him. At
this plaoe he found the firat aeala of hia ministry, be-
ing an instrument in oonTerting many aoula to Ood«
He set up meetings for prayer and oonferenoa,
wbioh were held at the housee of the rioher people
in rotation, where queationa were disousaed whloh
he had prefionaly propoaed. The beneflta ariaing
from theae friendly asaooiationa he found to be many
and great. Hereby knowledge waa inoreaaed ao that
(says he) I waa neTer acquainted with more under-
standing Christiana in all my life, though the beat of
them Went in russet ooata and followed hnabandry.
Hereby holy affeotiona were kindled and kept allTO.
Matnal loTe waa promoted; ao that all the pro-
fessors of the gospel living ten or tweWe inilea
asunder were aa intimate aa if they had been of o|ia
household. The neoessitiea of the poor being known
were provided for. The weak were atrengthened,
the monrning comforted, the erring reolaimed, the
dejected raised, and all mutually edified in their holy
faith. Moreover they hereby enjoyed opportonltiea
for privatf^ fasts and daya of tiuuikagi?ing aa there
waa oooaiioa.'*

During his reeldenoe at Shotwiok, Olarke married
Katharine, daughter of the Bev. Valentine 0?erton,
Beotor of Bedworth in Warwiokshire, **a pions,
humble, prudent, and aweet-tempered penon.'* The

WIRRAL NOTES AND QTJBBIE8.

JmcB, 1698.

tmoy tfrtiMt of this My an oomflieiiionled in one
of fa»r hmbADd'i workt. A iob Stminl, if kerwai^
A tenoiM difine, wm born In 1686.

AfUr fl?e jMn' midenoe ftt Shotwiok, OlftrlM wai
MBip«ll«d to leave the plue by a proeeeatioa
bconght egftinii him in Um Ubenoellor'g Ooort for tbe
oaiifion of eeremoDiee, aod hie enemlee were ao
iiiTeicnito tbalib^ would not faffir him toprenoh o
fiieweUMonon.

(To be cimHnMd.)

gi^] IHS0BIPXION8 ON WIfiBAL BfiLLg.

(Continued iroM No. 214 --liny 87(h.)

WALLASEY.

The proiont peal of Bells at Wallasey wai oast
by Measn. J. Taylor and Oo., of Looghborongh,
and bears no insoriptlons ezoept the names of
the makers. These replaoed a peal of a similar
number whieh fell from the tower in 1856 on the
ocoasion of the fire whioh destroyed tbe ohnroh.
They bore the following insoriptlons :«-

Treble ! Frssonted by tbe VUlageis of Walkaey and
other parishioners as a mark of attaohment
to thi hOBse of God. A.D. 1858.

Frederic Haggitt, M.A., Beetor.
Joseph 0. Ewart
William Ohambreo

Obnrohwardomk

Lnke Asbton in Wigan made ns all, 1728.

Gloria Deo in Sxeelais 1788 Wig«an.

John Bobinson, Joshna Tonog, OhuohwardeB8«

1788, Wiggan.
Let ns sound to the honour of Ohriot and to the

glory of AU Saints.

Tsnor : I to the ohoreh the liring eall,

And to tbe graTe do summons all.
Memento Mori, 1723.
Mr. Thomas Arson.*

Tbe flte older bells were ornamented with a
erowned ''QB" on the waist, a band of oak leoTSO
roand the top, and one of roses round the rim*

tTbese fife older bells (1728) had nieoeeded a ring
of three, (aooordlng to the ohnrehwaidens' acoonnts),
one of whioh had been oast by Wm. Scott of Wigan
in 1672, and another (tbe *< first bell ") by William
Clibbevy, of Holt in Flintshire, in 1624.

04ii»AifOLoaiBr.

(»)

*Thla urnme la patslbly an error of the ecpyiet, ae It !■ one
which does not oooar at all In eonneotion with Wallaeey al
thi« time. It may be meant for Mr. ThomM Urmaon. who

EA ^ *91^9^ ^* eaitlag of the hew peal In ITIS (the
tfeat aossenplleaK

JUNS JOth, 1898

C219J WIBBAL W0BTBIB8.

YIL— Bit. Bamusl OLAnxi.
(Inonmbent of Bhotwiek).

(Oontinned from No. 217-Jnne 8).

On leaving Bhotwiek, Gierke retnmed to his natifO
wmntj, having aoeepted a leetoreehip at OoTeniry.
In many parishes, espedaily In towns, when the
popnUtion was Oalvinistie, bat tbe inenmbent wm
either a doll preaeher or an Anglioaa, funds had
been provided by the Puritan parishionen for the
foundation of a leotoreship in private patronage.
The ieeturer held a preaehing lieenee from the bishop,
and srrayed in a Qeneva eloak, preaohed a sermon
on Sunday afternoons to an overflowing eongrega-
tion, whioh assembled to hoar the sermon after the
inoumbent had finished reading the servleo to an
almoet empty ohuroh. At Coventry, Clarke soon
found himself in antagonism to the Inenmbent of
both the oity ehurehes, a gentleman bearing the
eaeophooous name of Boggs. Dr. Baggs perauaded
Bishop Morton, in whose dioeesa Coventor lay, to
Inhibit Clarke from preaehing, and aithongh Arah*
bishop Abbott had given him a iioenoe, Clarke was
foroed to leave Coventry. He had, however, a power-
fol proteotor in a loeal magnate, the oelebratcd Lord
Brook, by whose Infiaenoe be was piaeed in aaother
leetureship, this time at Warwiek. Here he s ill
persisted in disregarding the eeremonies, notwith*
standing many oomplalnta of his eonduot. On April
28rd, 1688, he was indnoted to the Beetoiy of
Aleeeter, presented to him by Lord Binok. At
•drunken Aloester," as it was oalled, Clarke made
himself oonepionous by attaokiog Jamps I's Book of
Sports, whieh had been set forth afresh by antboflty
in 1684.

In 1640, Clarke was deputed to visit King Charles,
at Tork, in order to oomplain of the no^^dled
BUttera oath. The oath ran as follows :~** I, A.B.,
do swear that I do approve thodoetrine and dteoipliao
or government eetablished In the Cbnreh of England,
aa eontaining all ihings noosssaiy to salvation, and
that I will not endeavour by myself or any other,
direetly or indireotly, to bring In Popieh dootrine,
eontrary to that whieh is so established, nor will I
give my oousent to alter the government of this
ohuroh hj arehbishops, bishops, deans, and aieh*
deaoons, ^^e,, as it stands now established, and, as
by right it ought to stand, nor yet ever to subjeot il
to the usurpations and superstitions of tbe ttee of
Bome.**

Great ezeeptioa was taken to the Eiutera oooun
ing in this formula, from whieh it eame to be oalled
the BieeUra oath. Tbe King made some difflonlty
in seeing Clarke aod hie oompanione, bnt promised
that they should not be molested till their petition
should oome before Parliament.

On Ootober 28rd, 1642, Biehard Baxter was
preaohing for Clarke at Aloeeter, when the guns of
fildgehill were heard, and next day they rode over
the battlefield. Clarke iooa afterwards went |o

Jvm, lffi)8.

WIS&AJi M0IE8 AND QIJEBIES.

London, where he wu preiied to tako iho mnof
oi St. Benet link, In the gift of the Cbftpter of
Windsor. The former ennte having been e;qp«IIed,
Clarke was elcoted in hie plane by the pariahionere ;
and when the war waa OTer reaigned Aloeater, whieh
waa *' peetered with aeotariea '* la order to retain it.

F. flawDiBii.

{lb be CbfiltiMiMl).

OUGINAL DOOaBtBMT.

JW]

The foUowl^ ift Mother of tho
Btatep OiitreU eompUed bia NatiiuL

whleh

In eom: at Diae : Oeatri^.

««SonvaUlan Pariah Ohnrsh hi the Hwidrad of
Wiml in the Oonnty of Obeoter. aitnate hi the
Tillage of Heawall aforeaaid, diatant fraM London
IJM) eompoted milea, and from the next ohnroh being
thai of Thontantoa 1 mile ).

All the glehe-landa being about 8 aoraa i togelhar
with all the lytbea great and email, all offerings,
Baatev doaa, and all other things of the Hke kind
belonging to the said ohnroh (SnrpUoe-fees only
esDepted) haTs been let lor seTsral years last past at
the yearly U. s d

RaUof 59 00 00

The Snrplioe-flhea amount oom-
monibosaania to about 01 05 00

XaoU... 60 05 00

Thla is a tme aeeonnt of the yearly Talne of the
■aid Ohnroh of Heswall, Witnesa my hand this 90th
di|y of Mareh in the year of onr Lord Ood 1710.

Wm. Birehall, Beetor IhU
William Pitohflahi.
Hote that the Tenths whieh

MO Mi l^. lOd. and

the qrnodAla 8s. 9d« do. , m m nn

dneted, rednoe the >" 58 00 00

nearly mbM of the said

Milii^to

There^ nolhing adraiiosd in the said Fteish by
wj ol ooBttibations.'* .

Hay Sith 1717.

«*Tha abofs luuned Wm. Biiohall and fTiQiam
WehAelA sMbdo oath of yo troth ol thisaoaounft

hsioraiwt

Hen. Preaeott,
Edw. Boberta"

[Ml] BBNTAL OF BIBKENHEAD PBIOBT
AT THE DiaaOLUTION.

The lolk>«ing axtcaets are from % teosieiit pre-
SiKfiiafrlh»P«blloBoeotd OfBeOi London.

The doenment ia not dated, bnt it appoara to be a
retnm made to the Angmentatiou Oflioe, prior to the
grant of the Priory landa to Woraley. It ie prubably
the original from whieh the more oomplete, bnt If b<*
detailed, doenment printeddn Mottimer*a " Wiiral,"
(page 518) waa prepared.

The pertiona below are only thoaa refamag to the
Wirral prc^perty of the Priory.

The Bental ia bonnd np in a folio Tolnmo with a
nnmber of papers, relating lo ot h er snp p rsgsed
BeligioQs HonseBi It is In a good slato of
preserration, bnt the writing la a vaiy bad spsilmau
of the oaligraphy of the period*

ToniSyOto.,

Wm.
Olaighton.

BxBXBmnD: Bentia Ibm.
pro tent.* eto. pdik

Hoasow.

Margaret ByOyng

JohnQiyf&th ,.«,...««,..s?laTid

WiUms Pemb*ton iiiisYid

John Pemb'ton •••••. .ixvis fiiid

WillmsBnttcr uie

Bto* Pemb'ton jnn xzis

Thos fflesshawer [T] iiiisiiiid

John Bathbone xzis

pro ton't nnper Bio' Pemb'ton aen zils

som' villi - Yiis.

Thomaa Heook per annnm .

Bioh:Heeok

Margare Hare

Elen[?01in'] Deene z^s

Bad* : Drynkwater • xiiii iiiid

Jaoobns Woodward ziis yiid

Boger Walkok [WiUooek] Tiiia viiid pj

BogerWatt ••••. zviiia

Boger Parbolt »

Dafid Woodward iii«

Henry I^teeaa pro Ie pole hey iia

gam: fiiUI xiza ivi.
(Ta ie eoaf*«Ne^^

C88t] WIBBAL 8UBSI0T BOLL. Udi.

(OontittQed from No. 815— May 97.)

Stoiatov.

Johe Boland pro zzs id

Bobto Ley pro va • • • -id

Bieo Obantrell pro Till slid

Thoaia Broaoo pro xxa .id

Johe Maeoly n pro zxa • • id

Bieo Boland pro zza «....id

Bioo Bohmd Jnnior pro UUU iiiid

iUoo Jobnaon pro ila ••.••••.••••» lid

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

June, 1898.

ThomaMawrie [f] prozxs •••« • id

Willmn SeryveDor pro iiiill iiiid

Bioo Warmynobam pro iiiili iiiid

Henrico Taylyar pro zzs id

Johe Irelande pro xls • • • • . .iid

Alezandro loglefelde pro UiU Uid

Henrico Hele pro us •..••••••...•id

Jaoobo Ley pro zzs id

Pabta Nbstom.

Bobto Hyohysar [f] prozls iid

Oeorgio Whytelaye f f] pro zzi ..id

Thoma Oownysge pro zzs id

If argareta Betson pro zzs. id

Thoma Blaoon pro iiili iiid

Heorioo Hande pro iiili • • . .iiid

Thoma Betson pro Tili • • ziid

Wilimo Bmsoow pro zzs id

Bobto Lennoelet pro iiiili Utid

Thoma Leightfot pro vli ...«»• .zd

Oeoilia Eempe pro iiili iiid

Bobto Betson pro Till. •• ziid

Bioo Cotton pro zls • ...•••• .iid

Thoma Oharnooke pro zzs id

Wilimo Ifiilner pro iiili iiid

Bioo Weysele pro iiili iiid

Henrico Goodeear pro iiili. • . • iiid

Elena Hende pro tU • • .zd

JUNE 17th, 1893.

[223] WIBBAL WOBTHIES.
YII.— Bet. Samuel Glarze.
(Inoomhent of Bhotwiok).

(Oontinned from No. 219— June 10).

For the nezt twenty years, the principles for which
Clarke had so long aud so earnestly ooDtended were
in the ascendant ; and he oonseqnently took a prom-
nent place among the oiergy of the capital. He
was a governor and twice president of Sion College,
and served on the Committee of OrdalDers for Lon-
don in 1648. Dnriog his residence in London, he
began to oompoee the long series of works by which
he is now chiefly remembered. These are dated
from his stndy in Threadneedle-street. He was one
of the flfty-seTen ministers, who January 20th, 1649,
signed a proteet against taking away the King's life.
He af sisted in drawing mp the Jua Divinum Ministerii
Evangeliei^ issued by the London Provincial Asi^em-
biy in 1658, in defence of a regular miuiatry against
the lay preaching permitted by the Independents.
In 1664 he was an assistant to the Parliamentary
Commission for the ezpolsion of the so-called scan-
dalons ministers and schoolmssters in the City of
London. Dnring the whole of the Bebellioo period,
he appears to have di§approved of the praciices of
the unmerons sectaries whioh arose, and retained
his attachment to the constitution and doctrines of
the Chircb. altbongh he objected to certain points
respecting oerfemoiiiea and disoipliiie.

In 1660, when Charles II pubUihed a deoiaiation
oonoeming ecclesiastical albdrs, the London eletgy
drew up a congratulatory address with a re^oeat for
the removal of re-ordination and surplices in eoUeges.
d^e. This address Clarke was ^»pointed to Dresent
to the King. In the following year, he took part
with Richard Baxter and otherv in the Savoy Con-
ference. At the passing of the Act of Uniformity,
he felt himself unable to adopt the oeremoniea and
therefore gave up his living; but sueh waa his
idea of sohism and separation that he quietly sub-
mitted to a retired and studious life. From ttie
Cburoh which he oonstanUy attended, he says that
he dared not to separate nor gather a private ohureh
out of a true ohureh, which he judged the Church of
England to be. In 1666 he took the oath against
resistance imposed by the Five Mile Aot. Judge
Keeling, before whom he appeared, eongrainlated
him upon the renunciation of the covenant. Olarke
disavowed this interpretation, and to put his motives
beyond suspicion, retired to Hammersmith, April
24th, 1666. Before resigning his living, be married
his friend Bazter to Margaret Charlton, September
10th, 1662.

After soflM yean resldeace at Hanuneranith,
Clarke removed to Islewortib. On retiring into lay
life, he spent most of the time In literary wo^
revising what he had already pnbliahed, and com-
piling other works chiefly on biographical aDhJeoti.

His wife died June 2lBt, 1676, aged 78, and he
wrote a touching life, saying that she had been a ipur
and never a bridle to him in those thinga wUeh wen
good.

Clarke died at Isleworth, December 26th, 1682,
universally respected for his jdety, and especially for
his moderation in the eonlests which prevailed in hii
time, flia words are very numerous, and though
little known, eztremely valuable : they contain the
essence of many abstruse writers, and a multitude of
biographical aneodotes to be derived from no other
source. He had also been attentive to the Illus-
trating them with protndts, which has added in no
small degree to their price and raritv. The follow-
ing list Is given In a life written by hiowelf : —

1. Th$ Marrow of EeclMiaitical History t wmXfiJik''
ing the lives of the Fathers, Schoolmen, Beformeti,
and eminent Modem Divines, dto., 1649. 4to. Okrke
was unquestionably the first who publhdied any
collection of biography in English ; he is reapeetfully
noticed by Fuller as his (predeeessor. In 1660, be
published a second part, and both parts together, with
additions, in a thick quarto of above 1,000 pages, in
1664, with many portraits in wood and copper ; bat
the best edition is that of 1676, folio.

2. The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persona in tkii
latter age. This, forming a third volume of the pee-
needing work, was publiBhed in 1662. It was
reprinted in 1688, with a good engraving by White
of hinlBelf, and another of his wife. Another
engraving of him by Cross is preflied to the 4to
edition of his Ecclesiastical History, 1660 ; another
to the edition of the same, 1676.

8. A General Martyrology, or abridgement of
Foz, and some more recent anthora, 1651, fdUo; to
this he added in 1662 :~

JuNx, 1698.

WntRAL NOTES AND QUEBIEB.

4. An Engliih Martfrology,

Thefe two works were reprinted together In 1660»
•od in 1677, with an additional Mriei of the Utm of
Difinci.

6. Th» Marrow of Divinity with Soxidry Oami of
OoDioienoe 1659, folio.

6. A Mirror or Looking Okus for Saints and
Sinnerg, oontaiDing remarkable ezampleB of the fate
of peraeontori, and fioioos persons of all deaeriptiona,
and notioea of the Uvea of persona eminent for
pieiT- Editiona of thia appeared in 1646, 1655,
1657 ; and in 1671 a seeond ▼olame. Of this work
Mr. Ohalmera oba<rTes that eioentinff Wanley'a
Wonders, and Turner's Pro^idenees, whieh follow
hia plan, he knowa not any book that contains an
eqaid portion of the marTeliooa oombined with the
nst-f nl ; and that be mast ha^e tnraad over a pro-
digiona number of Tolnmea to aocnmnlate aooh a
masa of aneodote.

7. LtVM of English Warrior§ 1671.

8. GotTt Judgment againtt Persoeutort, 1678.

9. Golden Apples or Seatonahle and Serious
Counsel, a book egainat the toleration of achlamatios
and separatiats, 1659, 12mo.

10. A Life of Tamerlane,

11. A Defence of Tithes.

U. A Description of the 17 Provinces of the
Netherlands, 1675.

18. An English Dictionary under an a«amod
name 1670.

11. The Precedent for Princes 1680.

16. A Book of Apophthegms 1681.

F. SANPua.

[894] THE DATE OF CHESTEB WALLS.

The dispota aa to the date of the erection of the
walla of Ghcatar haa waxed warm in reeent yeara.
A diaooTory made through the reeent fall of Pern-
hertmCs Parlour ahowa very clearly the date of this
part. In the loweat atratnm of the rnbble work were
fonod two coina, one an Irish halfpenny with the
date 1686. the other a farthing with the date 1679.
Theae snffieitntly prove the strnotarc to be part of
the rebnildinga of the begioniog of last century.
The masonry was extremely pcor and weak, and
quite inanfBeieut for defcnaiye parpoaes. Pemhtr'
tan's Parlour, whioh fell down after the frobt of laat
wiateTi ia being rebuilt. Eowabd W. Ooz.

[225] BIOHABD LLWYD.

The Author of " Qeyton Wake."

(See No8. 192, 194, and 197.)

The following account of Bichard Llwyd, the
author of Gayton Wake, or Mary Dod and her list
of merits, portions of which lately appi ared in your
colamoB, may interest some of yonr read^ra. It ia
eitracted from the Dictionary of National Biography,

Bichard Llwyd (17521835% poef, known as "the
Bard of SoowdoD," was the son of John and Alice
Llwyd of Branmaris, where he was born in 1752.
The eaily death of his father, a small coast tradt-r,
left the family in neoesaitons cironmstanoes. After
an edacatlon of nioe montha at the Free School,
Beanmaris, Llwyd at twelve yeara of age entered ih'e
domestic serTice of a 'gentleman in the neiithbour«
hood, but utilised trvery apare moment for his self-
improTement. By 1780 he wee eniruated with the
duties of steward and secretary to a Mr. Griffith, of
Gaer Hon, near Conway, than, the only aoiiog
magistrate in that district. He finally acqnlred a
competency, retired to Beaumaris, and published
ihetB bia beat- known poem, entitled Beaumaris Bay,
1800, 8vo., with many historical aud Rtnealouioal
no:ef>. His other produotions were Gayton Wake,
or Mary Dod and her List of Merits, Ch stt-r 18 4,
12mo, with a portrait of tne author ; and Poems,
Tales, Odes, Sonnets, Translations from the British
(with Notea), 2 Tols., Oheeter 1804, 8vo.

Early in 1807, be removed to Chester, where he
died December 29tb, 1835, and was buiied in St.
John's Church. On the south nde of the Obnroh
wall a tablet was plaocd to hia memory. Early in
1814 he married Ann, daughter of Alderman Bingley
of Cheeter.

A collected edition of hia works, with a memoir
and portrait, and an aog aying of hia reaideDce
known aa Bank i'lace, Chester, waa published in
1837, Cheeter 8vo. The notes by L^wyd show him
to have been well Teraed in Heraldry, GiUealogy,
and Welah Archaeology. M. A.

JUNE 24th, 1893.

[226] AN EIGHTEENTH CENXUBT WIBBAL

INCUMBENT.

In 1686 Dr. Cartwright, Biabop of Chester, gave a
license to one Honoratua L beg to practioe aa a
phjsician. The very uuoommon namis borne ly this
gentleman point to a foreign origin ; aud it ia vi ry
probable that he was ooe of the many refugees who
eooght a ahelter in £n)<lafid from the religioua per-
secutions then prevailing upon ttiC contiuout.

We may safely infer that tLis Honoratus Lebeg waa
the father of the divine of the aame name, who b came
yhost of Ettbtbam and Keotor of Wallaa^y. Tba

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

June, 1898.

yonoger HoDoratni mirt htTC bean born aboat the
beginniDg of the eighteenth oentnrj. Ab he wm ft
Heater ol Arte, he mut have been edneeted at one
of the UniTereities ; bat at wbioh, I have not had the
opportunity of aeoertainjng. He waa made a deaoon
bj Sir William Daweii Arohbiahop of York, Septem-
ber sand, 1728, and ordained priest by Dr. Ofaandler,
Bishop of Liohfleld, September 19th, 1725. Snb-
■eqnently he aeema to haTe been Onrate of Wigan,
for *< The Reverend Honoratoa Lebeg, AM., of
Wigan in Lanoashire," appears as one of the sub-
soriben to a translation of Flenry's Eodeeiaatioal
Hietoiy, publithed in 1727. The present Beotor of
Wigan has, howe?er, been nnable to find any traee of
Hr. Lebeg in the paroehial reooide.

On the 11th of Ootober, 1728, Hr. Lebeg was
collated to the Yiearage of Eaatham by Bishop
Peploe, of GQieflter, on whom the presentation had
deyolTed by lapse. At Eastham, Lebeg remained for
thirty-eight years, holding' the Perpetual Ounu^ of
Bromborough with his Yiearage for a portion of that
time. But though a pluralist, he was by no means a
wealthy one ; for Eastham was only worth some £iO
a year, and Bromborough about £12. Arohdeaoon
Traris, who suooeeded Lebeg at Eastham, states
that his pffedeoessors **a8 far baok as the
remembranee of living persons oan reaoh, lived for
the greatest part of their lives upon oharity, and
died imolvent." This poverty was due to their
Inability to enforce the payment of their just dues.
Lebeg appetos to have been involved in oonstant
dii&culties with his tithe-payers ; and being worsted
in the struggle, he adopted, aooording to the looal
tradition, an origioal mode of revenge. He kept no
Begisters. For over twenty years there is indeed a
oomplete blank. But at the eame time a complete
list of the entries which should have been made waa
sent to the Bishop's Registry at Ofaester every year.

Stories ol Yicar Lebeg are still told at Eastham,
wbioh show him to have been a man of ready wit.
On one occasion a couple waited in the Church to be
married till long past the hour of twelve, whilst
'* Parson Lebeg," having forgotten all about it, was
taking a stroll on the shore. On his return he was
told that the aogry pair were about to leave the
Ghuroh, ae, being then afternoon, it was too late for
the wedding. ** Too lale " he exclaimed, hurriedly
putting on his surplice, " not a bit of it i why /
have not had my dinner yet, and it is never after-
noon in Eaatham until the Yiear has dined ;" and
he married them.

Another of these traditional stories Informs us
that a considerable number of gentlemen in the
neighboorhood had lieen created Justioes of the
Peace in a batch. Some of these worthies mounted
on horseback encountered Parson Lebeg trudging
along near Poole Hall. " Why do you go about on
foot, Mr. Yioar," cried one of them ? ** If you can't
afford a horse, you might at least keep an ass."
'* I have been widiing to do so," replied the Yicar,
** but the fact is that all the asses in these parts
have been lately turnecL into Justices of the Peace,
so that I am so far unable to realise my wish."

During Lebeg's inenmbenoy, the Yiearage House
at Eaatham was erected, and the sfdreof the church,
whieh had become ruinous, was taken down and re-
built (Se^ No. 145).

In 1749 Bishop Peploe presented Mr. Lebeg to
the Beotory of Wallasey, vacant by the death ol
the fiev. Oharisa Aldcroft. As this did not
necessitate the resignation of Eastham and Brom-
borough, he held the three livings till 1766, when be
ceded the last mentioned parishes, retaining
Wallas^ alone till his death, wtiicb toek place in
I 1769. Mr. Lebeg's incumbent of Wallasey ii
priodpaUy noteworthy on account of the rebuilding
of the parish church in 1757. He was buried at
Bastham on July 26th, but there is no trace of any
monument to his memory. In his latter years Mr.
Lebeg seems to have been partly imbecile. He was
succeeded in the Bectoiy of Wallasey 1^ the Bev.
George Brigge, who had already worked in the parish
as Mr. Lebeg's curate, and remained Rector till bis
death on February 8th, 1814.

F. SANDEaS.

[227] INSOBIPTIONS ON WIBBAL BELLS.

(Continued from No. 218.— June 8rd.)

BEBINQTON.

The bells, six in number, are all modem, with no
inscriptions save the names of the makers, *■ 0. and
G. Mears, Founders, London, 1845."

WOODOHUBOH.

All six bells are modem. Five bear the inscrip-
tion 0. and G. Mears, Founders, London, 1846, and
the sixth, ** Meam and Stainbank, Founders, London,
1884." Oaxpahologist.

[228]

OBIGINAL DOOUMENT.

The following is another of the replies from which
Bhdiop GastreU compiled his NotUia :—

Shotwiok.

** Tiie whole Maintenance of Shottwick Ohnrch in
ye County and Diocese of Chester is twenty three
pounds fifteen shillings, fifteen pounds of which u
paid by ye Dean and Chapter of Chester who are
the Appropriators, five by Uj Lady Hainwariog who
has a lease of ye Tithes, ye other three pounds
fifteen shillings arises thus i two pounds six shillings
from ye Sur^oe fees ye most that has been of late
years rec'd, and one pound eleven shillings from ye
Offerings, and ye Town is a village scituate an
hundred fifty four miles from ye City of London.

March 4. 1716-7

The Bev. Mr. John Hiocock Curate at Shotwiek,
Joseph Wilson of Saughall in ye p'ish of Shotwiek
Gent, Thomas Chamberlain of ye Same place Gent,
John Davles of ye same place yeoman and Thomas
Downall of Capenhurst in ye same p'ish yeoman
appeared and made oath of ye trath of ye contents
of ye above written Certificate before us.

The: Wainwright
Edw: BoberU."

Jom, 1898.

WntBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

[889] WIBBAL SUBSIDY BOLL. 15i5.

(OoBliBQed from No. 8S2-^iiDe la)

Bbtmitoh [BBmaTAOB].

BobCo DnnsteifleU pro zIb lid

BoMo Jeimdsr?] ptDzb iid

BiooWimhftUpioz]* Od

Johe Goodeoar pro iiiili iUid

Bdbto Ooodeoar pro iiiili Uiid

jMobo€toodewrproiiili Old

Alioim Holme pro iiili iild

Jolie lysahar pro ZZ8 ..id

Hngone Tjldeilj pro zn.... id

AlioiA Wryghi pro zzi id

JobeDokepro iiiili iiiid

WUhno BtantOD pro xls iid

Joho Bftd]^ pro iiUi iiid

WlUmo Smyihe pro Iiili iiid

Bdwardo Oham^eke pro zzs id

Henrioo Barbar pro zzg id

Bobinson [tie] pro xzi ,. . , , id

OeeQIa KogerBon pro jUb iid

Margareto Badley pro zza id

[230] BENTAL OF BIBKENHEAD PBIOBT
AT THE DISSOLUTION.

(OoDtinned from No. 881^Jaiie lOtb).

Etbsbbt-Walut.

Wnimi Berker et Jobn Meolea is

Jobn Hill zzyIs Tiild

Dod Jobn f or tbe Boffg HoUand ilia

Uxor Tbomaa Biebardaon .zzItb

^nilma Biebardaon polfcer t?] lis

Willma Biebardaon zzis

Dniuiota Sliirlaaere zza

Ble* Wjlkioaon ziia

Willma WyUdnaon iia

Tboa M eelaa pro pomlo ziid

Snm ioft : tU ziia Tiiid.

Tbanusi.

WUm HOI...... is

John Hill, alias Newion lis

Drot [r] Holton yis

Bie. Deane •••... tIs

Bobt Holme pro albo redd • is

Wm Brombro' pro like redd »,iis

Sun: zfiils.

Or' BsBTNOTOir.
JohnTokeson iiiid

Backtobd.
Bie. Newton zxTi'sTilid

Salohm.
Oeorgeo Eempe zia

BZDSTON.

HngoSmytti • zlllsl?d

Eswall.
Bie. Tyldealej ilis Iiiid

Upton.
John Hmnfrey ,H^

SlOOMB.

Alezind* Tonoge iiUd

EzTDSton Tiild BebyntonParra M

Mem: To se weU to the wodds tiiak no wasl be
made and If any man presome to medel [wltbl
them, to present Us name what yt yft so ew be be!

JULY lit, 2893.

[881] THE BEY. 0HA8. ALDCBOFT.
SoMBTDffB BiOTOB Of Wallabbt, 1718-1749.

The following faets are drawn tnm a IIS book
preaerred In Uie Dioeeean Be^totiy. Chester,
oontalning a foil digest of eertain pleadings wbleh
took plaee in a anit broogbt hj Obarlea Alderaf t, the
aon of the Reetor of Wallasey, against bis step-
mother. His objeet waa to obtidn the right to
administer the eatnte of bis deeeased father, on the
gronnds that bis father had died inteaUto, and that
be waa nezt of kin, the defendant baTing been
elandestinely married to the pUintliTs father and
that the marriage waa not legal.

lira. Alderoft (as abe maintained she was),
deposed that In 1788, the Beofcor being a widower,
and abe a widow (Margaret Jobnaon by name), the
Beotor had paid bia addreeiea to her and obtained
her oonaent to a marriage being eontraeted between
them, whioh took pUoe, abe sUted, on the 8rd
Deoember In the following year, at Baokford, the
offlelating clergyman being the Be?. Bobert Denaon,
Tioar of that pariah.

She farther stated boweier, that aa abe was n
glo?er or akinner by trade In Cheater, they had
arranged that the faet of the marriage baTing taken
plaee abonld be ooneealed, beoanse if It became
known, she wonld be nnable to oontlnne In her
boBlness. (Probably this woold be owing to the
regulations of the sUnner's gnild).

The licenae to be married was obtained from the
BcT. John Urmson, the Arohdeaoon's SarrogatOi
and there were no witneaaea present at the oeremony,
which waa, bowefer, performed dwlng caaonloal
boors.

Mrs. Alderoft farther statea that after the wedding
ceremony abe rode into Obeeter on horaeba^
behind Mr. Denaon, the Vicar of Backford, who
allowed her to alight at Town Bod, from whence
she walked back to her bonae to a? old aoapioion.

The BeT. Charlea Alderoft, who does not appear to
baTC bad any more aornples abont foraaking his
charge than being party to a deception, took ap bia

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

July, 1898.

reaidenoe in Obeiter, a f«w doon from his wife's
boose, lodging with acme people of the name of
Btanwey.

Mr. Alderoft leeine to bays made Oheater hia head-
qaarltra, aa in the ooaraeof ihe eviddooe tttraDBpiree
that be iuaieted that hia aoo (the plaiatifl), who waa
appreutiof d to a merohant in the Oity. abonld oome
atid life with him, for ** he greatly feared leal hia
aou abonld so ont of eveninga and mix in bad
oompaiiy.*' The aon, bowoTer, appears to have had
a mind of hia own, aa he ahortlj af lerwarda departed
to London and eommeuoed boaioeaa there.

The defendant appeara to have been poaaeiaed of
eonaidfrable afflaeooe, aa ahe atates that ahe lent
her town honae to her brother, Mr. Alderman
Oot grave, dnriog hia mayoralty. John Ootffreave
waa Sheriff of Gaeeter in 1720 and mayor ia 1736.

Mr. Alderoft ia deaeribed as being one of the
Mluor Oanona of Cheater.

Olanghton.

Wm. Feboubson Ibtinb.

[283]

OBiaiNAL DOCUMENT.

The following will, the original of which ia pre-
served at the Probate Court, Cheater, cf Balph
Aosonn (or Azoo),of Landioao, ia intereating from
many points of Tiew. It gives ns rather a onrlons
glimpse into the aooial life of the period, partioalarly
in thiogs matrimooial.

I have not been aUe to find oat anything about
Ralph Aeaon, beyond the partioolara glfn in the
next paragraph eonoemlDg hia aeoond wife, and the
fact revealed by the Woodchnroh Resiaters, that he
waa buried on the 6th November, 1619.

Hia wife, aeoond Anne, waa the dangbter of — For-
sbaw, of Moiling ton. She married latly, . Smith, of
Laodioan ; 2odly, Ralph Aoeoo, after wboae death,
on the 25 '.h December, 1621, at firomborough, she
married John Stranke [or Strength], of Bromborongh
Court, and 4th1y and flually, Thomas Benoet, of
Barnaton. Sbe died in 1656, and waa bnried at
Woodohnrob, on the 17th of February In that year.
^{Vide •* Bennetts of Saogball-Maaaey " eto., by
E. M. flaooe, Eaq., p. 29).

** In the name of Qod, Amen, I, Bapb Aosonn, of
Landioan, in the Conntie of Cheater, yeoman, sioke
in bodie, etc.— I desire that my bodie be bnried in
Woodchnroh Pariah Chnroh*

I leave to Bebekah, my base daughter, 20 marks,
to be her portion, and I leave her to the keeping of
her mother, I meane Ann Aoion, my wife.

I will that my property be divided into two parte,
— tbe one part I leave to Aon Aoaon my wife ao long
aa ahe remain nnmarriad and aingle and Iceep her
Sonne John b^m th and Ann Aokaen my daughter in
sui&eient meate drinke and apparell till tbe boy be
grown up for my will ia that John Smith ahall marry
my daughter Ann Aokaon when he oometh to tbe age

of 16 yeres but If he refuse to marry her then let
him pay her the sum of 100 marks and my wife shall
mtke it 100 poncda, but if my daughter refnae hia
then it to be only 100 markes.

Tbe second half of my property I bequeath be-
tween my son John Aokson'and my daughter Alice
Aokson.

A small legaoy to " my son Wm Aokaon.*'
Eseoutors : ** Sonnsa Wm and J^bn Aoksoo."
Overseer : " My friend John Smith.'*

"I leave to my Godchildren Boberl Msthew
Frances Burges, and Eliitbeth Moilb 6s a peooe and
my blessinge.

I owe Ann Soott my diier zdili and lo Honry
Woodoooke 11 nobles.

Sum : tot : 26U 18s. 4d.

John Howghlon [elsewhere Hattoa] Inteher of
Beviogton [Bebiogton] oweth me XX4.

Antyne Cotton of Saughton for a yoke of Oxen . .

txlt xiuaivd.

John Totty of Uplon xvii.

Adam Kemp baker in Cheater iiiii via viiid.

Wm Babone of Frankbie xlivli.

Balph Aoaon his mark.

WltnesBes :

TboB Mory. Bobt Mory.
John Brideson. John Heyei.

Invantorie of the goods of Baphe Aesonn late of
Luidioan praisaed the 8fch day of November 1619 by
Thoe Leigoe [Leene] Heniy Bowlioson, Wm.
Nioolsa and Baph Anion.

Bomma totalia £394 7s. lOd.

Proved 8th Nov 1620.

I have not so far been able to ascertain whether
John Smith eleoted to pay the 100 marks or marry
Ann Ackson.

Toon, ete.,

Claughton. HoLur.

[288]

OBIOINAL DOCUMENT.

WlBBAL DbANXBT.

Chureh of Stoak in Wirral Co Chester 1717.

Btoax, a DoNATivn. — ^An Aoot of ye olear yearly
value or advantage ariaeing to ye MiiUater or Curate
oi&oiatlng at ye Pariah Gburoh of Stoak a village in
Wirral in ye County of Cheater diatant from ye City
of London about 145 milea vidt.

1. Small Tytbes of several sorts and Easter dae
for woh ye present Ministeror Curate receives
annually ae foil'tb (pursuant to an agreement made
by himseveral years since with ye Inhabitants of
ye severall townships in ye Parish to witt)
from ye lohabitants of ye Township of

VIEW NEAR HOYLAKE, 1915.

JuLT, 1898.

WIRBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

BloAk ye ram of £10 ISi. 9|d., from ye
Inhabitants of ye Township of Btsnny
ye snm of £12 17s. 8d., from ye Inhsbik-
tants of ye Township of Whitby ye snm of
£2 163.6^. la all £26 8

2. Easter does and Small Titbs from
a plaoe called flolm House in ye seme
p*ish wch (oommanibos aonis) are about.. 00 8

8. Titb Herbsffe (onoertaio) for wch
ye present Curat reoeiTed this year .... 02 2

4, Sorpliee Fees odc year with
aooiberabont 00 6

Inall 29 4

•(

M rch 14. 1716-7.

Jobn Wright, Mintr.
Riobard Beevsn.
Thomas Banner."

The Bevtrtd. John Wright, Minister of Btosk,
Bichard Bevan, an Inhabitant of ye Parish and
Thomas Banner parish olerk there made Oath of ye
troth of ye within written aook. before us.

Rio. Bouohier.
Edw. Roberts."

[2B4] THE REV. SAMUEL CLARKE
(leombeot of Shotwidi).

(See No. 22d-Jane 17.)

The following are additional works of Mr.
Clarke:—

16. Th§ Wiek§d Life and Wo/ul Death of Berod
ths Great, London 1664 4to.

17. The Life and Death of Sir Francie Drake,
London, 1671, 4to.

18. The Life and Death of William, aumamed
The Conqueror, 1671, 4to.

19. England'e Remembrancer^ being a eummarjf
of the $noat remarkable eventajrom 1600 to 1676.

20. The Ounpoitder Treason, being a Remem-
brancer to England of that ancient Deliverance.

21. The Hiatory of the Life, Reign, and Death of
Queen BliMabeth, London, 1688, 12aio.

28. A New Deacription of the World, London,
1689, 12mo. F.S.

JULY lit, 1893.

[285]

HOTLAEE IN 1796.

Tba followlttg extract from a letter appearing in
The Oentleman'e Magazine for June, 1796, may be
of iotercAt to some of your Deeiide readers. It is
signed Viator A. : —

*' I am now writing to you, Mr. Urban, from the
extreme point of the Hundred of Wirral in Cheshiro,
near the broad estuary of the Dee, end only seven
miles from the oonflnenoe of the more eommeroial
waters of the Mersey with the Ooeao. Tour Isst
Magazine has notioed Miss Seward's poetioal address
to the proprietor of High Leke, eome of the lines in
which are, indeed, not less elegant than dassioally
desoriptiTc. The Hoyle sand breaks the foroe of
the waTes, bo as to render the lake a safe road for
▼essels of any size in the roughest weather ; and it
is slriotly true that * age and infirmity may securely
plunge * during the highest tides and most boisterous
gales, such, indeed, as we have lately experienced
for a length of time, at this season exceedingly
unusual. The hotel lately erected by Sir John
Stanley, the lord of the manor, is situated within a
few yards of the beach, and contains a Tariety of
commodious apartments, both public and private, very
comfortably furnished. The charges are very moderate,
the table well and amply supplied, and nothing is
wanting on the part of the persons who have the
management of it to render this house ss pleasant end
convenient as can be desind. Although, at the first
glance, we appear shut out from the rest of the
world, a very short time conveys us to Parkgate (the
station of the Dablin packets), across the water into
Wales, into the bustle of Liverpool, or the less busy
capital of this county. The coast of Flintshire,
ricbly wooded, even to the waters edges, and singu-
larly contrasting with this naked district, displays
itsfclf with great beauty on the other side of the
Dee ; whilst the rngged mountains of Wales, boldly
stretching out as far as Anglesea, form the boundary
of the prospect towards the South West. There Is a
great extent of fine, short turf along this coast,
extending nearly to the Mersey, and affording very
dry and pleasant walks and rides ; as does also the
sand, which is firm and compact, and wholly destitute
of pebbles. This shoro is protected by a chain of
sand hills, held together by the star-grass or sea«
reed, whose long fibrous roots penetrating deep into
the sands, ofier a fixed point round wliioh they may
collect. This grass is under the especial protection
of the law ; for if it were out and converted to the
uses of which it is capable, such as making mats and
besoms, the sandhills would qaiokiy be blown away,
and the country beliind overwhelmed with a moving
sand. The sand-hills are the resort of a very excel*
lent breed of rabbits. The Dee afibrds abundance
of fine salmon ; cockles, shrimps, soles, and various
kinds of fiat fish are taken on the sand banks and in
the lake ; and the Liverpool markets furnish an
ample supply of the productions of animal and
vegetable nature. Every vessel that eomes into or
goes out of the Dee or Mericy is distinctly seen
hence ; and the lake li frequently enlivened by brigs
and schooners beating to windward, as well as by the
anchorage of the Dublin packets, whose passengers
aro glad to partake of the amusements
and rofreshments which the hotel affords.
It is well calculated for the inhabitants of the
central counties, who, at no great distance from
their own housee, will here find genteel society, good
accommodation ak reasonable prices, and one of the
most commodious l>atkung places in the island. The
lake is distinguished in the maps by the appellatioo
of Hoyle lake; but Sir John Stanly, having found

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

3vvi, 1898.

It termed HighUike io some old writings belongiBg
to the esUke, htm dedred it to be so printed in the
edTertiiementi relati?e to the eetebUshment of the
hotel* whioh was opened in 1798."

F. Bamdbbs.

[336] A LOYALIST WIBRAL YIOAR.

The following interesting letter is eztraeted fkom a
TOlnme of the Cheiham Sodety'i Publieationt entitled,
Ths Correipondenee of Nathan Walworth and PtUr
Seddon of Outwood. The letter wss sent to the
BoT. John Walker, when be wss eompiling his
famous work on the Suffering* of the Clergy at the
time of the Qreat BebeUion.

Bererd Sir, In pnnnanoe of a promise I formerly
made In a letter to Mr. Webber, I hsTe here sent
yon ye following aoooont of my most honoured
Fatlier's snUerlngs in the late times of rebellion and
oonfnsion, whendn, though, perhaps, I mi^ be noder
some mistakes, In not adjusting OTOiy psssage to its
proper time, or misnomen of some persons men-
tioned in it, yet I hsTe not wittingly and knowingly
trespss'd npon ye truth in any material pert of my
relation, whioh I liope yon'i therefore peruse with
oandour as follows :

The BeTerend Mr. Willm Seddon (my most
honoured Father) MJL of Magdalen Ooll. In
Oamb, being about the year of our Lord 1696,
setl'd a preaeher in one of ye parish ehnrehei, I
think St. Maries, in ye Oity of Ohester, was then
also possessed of a Yiearage at Eastham (about six
miles distant from ye Oity, Talue 68Zt per annum)
where he lived with his wife and family in a yeiy
happy oondition, till ye GIyU War's break-
ing out, and ye Parliament foroee drawing
on to besiege Ohester, he was oompelled to withdraw
his family and e£GBOts Into to Oity for suooonr,
where his great and good friend and Pastor, ye Lord
Bidiop Bridgeman, then Lord Bishop of Chester
aeoommodated him with seTsral rooms and lodgings
In his own Falaoe ; and yet the sged Bishop dreading
the hardships of a siege, Toided the plaoe, leaying
my father In his Palaoe, who oontinued diligent in
his ministry, and freoueut preaoUng to ye Qarrison
there. And the Oity being olosely besieged, and fre-

2uently stormed, my mother was on ye 12th day of
)otob, 1645, dellTered of me, her 9th ohild (all the 9
thenlivlDg) and said to be the last yt was publioUy
baptia'd in ye Font of y t Oathedral there before ye
restoraoion in 1660. The Oity being surrendered
npon Articles, my Father was shortly apprehended,
and made Prisoner, and after some short duranoe
was demanded 1^ ye preTailing Powers, why he
had not, aooording to ye Artioles of surrender,
maroh'd off with ye Garrison to ye King's Quarters,
to whioh he replied, yt he thought his
osssook haA unoonoemed him in those Artides,
belDg a Minister In ye Oity, but above all he liad a

' wife, and many small ehildien there^ whieh if he
oould see tolerably dispos'd of he would, not un-
willingly, aeeept the Artides. Bat many eom-
plaints being made against him, yt he had In Us
preaohing rdleoted upon the prooeedings of the pre-
vailing party, and had animated ye Ghurison to re-
siit even onto blood d^o., he was remanded to Prison
sgain, and his house permitted to be plnnder'd by ye
souldiers, who despoird him not of his goods only,
but of his books and papers, wliioh thty exposed to
sale at a very low rate ; and so by private direetions
to some of his friends, he repurehas'd aome of the
most neeessaiy for his own use.

But then an order was drawn up to export his
wife and ohildren out of ye Oity to Eastham (whieh
aooordingly was done, several of ye younger sort be-
ing put into a wagon with other goods whioh had
esoap'd the j^Uage) where though they had only ye
bare walls of a Vlearage house to resort to, yet th^
found a hearty weloome from ye lolal part of the
parishiooers there, amongst whom tlmy diqpers'd
themselves, and In a short time after, my Father's
ooniinement was somewhat enlarged, and his eseape
eonniv*d at, wliioh gave him ye liberty of going In
quest of Us wife and ohildren, whom he found in
pretty good eireumstanees amongst his loial friends.
Bat another minister (1) (whose name and oharaoter
I have utterly forgot) bemg dispatoh'd with orders
from ye ruling powers at Ohester to sq^ly ye
vioarage at Eastbam, and a rumour disp'sd, that
my f aUier must be apprehended again and redno'd as
prisoner to Ohester, ha seamper'd about privately to
ye houses of ye loyal gentry, to whom his oharseter
and oondition were well known, and then despatdied
a letter to his elder Brother, Mr. Peter Seddon, at
Outwood In Ismeashire (ye plaoe of my Father's
nativity), who was then, at that rate of ye times
tum'd sealous Presbiterian too, and and had a son
a Oaptain in ye Parliament's Army, aoquainting iiim
with ye storm he was under, and requesting him to
oover either all or part of bis family, tiU he oould
weather ye storm ; to whioh letter ye main part of
ye answer he had was yt would he oonfonn himself
to ye Gk>dly party, his own merits would proteot and
prefer him, whioh so insensed my Father yt he never
more held any ooziespondenee with him.

M.A.

(To he contimted,)

[237]

QUEBY.

Oan you inform me how mueh truth there Is in
the statement I have sometimes heard made, that
the first Derby was run on the Wallasey Leasowes ?

Birkenhead.

H.E*S«

(1) Tliii was the Ber. J« Moroot. See Noi. M, U, 19, and 64«

Jui^T, 1898.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

JULY 16th, 1893.

[238]

A LOTALIST WIBBAL YIOAB.

(OontiniMd from No. 936-Jiily 8lh).

*' Bat in his purainhnlftoftni amoDgtt ye loiftUBt8»
eondneted by ye good hand of Provideiioe, he met
with oDe Mr. Bntberton, a Lanoaahire geatlemao
and a hearty Oafalier, with whom he had fonner
aequaintaiioe, and who by Tirtne of a deed of tnnt
from one Mr. Byrom, a ffentleman yt waa slain In
the King's aerrioe, had the donaoon of a Paraonage
oaU*d Qrapenall (whieb waa thai Taoant by ye
death of one Mr. Biehaidson, ita inenmbent) and
the presentaoion to this Beotoiy he freely tendered
to my Fiither, perswading him, with all possible
seereey and ezpediooo, to post ap to ye Oommis.
sioners or Tiyen of Ministers, wiiieh aeooidiogly
my Father did, and npon OTaminaoon was by them
•pproT'd and reoommended to ye Beotory of Grapoal,
a Parsonage worth abont 18011 per annnm, at 16 or
18 milee diataaoe from Ohester and bordeiing upon
Lanoaahire.

Here he settled and flz'd himself, weQ aeoepted and
beloTcd by his Parishioners so y t he had time to ooUeet
his dispersed Family and enjoyed a oalm ; bnt this
eonid not be dnrable, he was soon hannted with the old
mmonrs of a dangerons deUnq[aent. a malignant, &o.,
and this grow no into menaoes of artieles and eom-

Slaints, and at last into a moral assnranoe, yt one
[ajor Brooks, a Farliamenteer oifioer (whose
maliee he had formerly enerienoed) intended to
seise and apprehend him, wnioh oansed him for a
time to absoond and afterwards, npon oTert attempts
made npon him, to flee into Lanoaahire, where he
was by some friends reoommended to one Mr Fleet-
wood of Penwortham (a parish sitnate near to a
great mark* t town ealled Preeton, and abont 22
milcS diatant from Grap'nall in Oheshire) who being
a Tery lolal gentleman and impropriator of ye tytlm
of yt parish entertained him in ye qoality of a chaplain
or onrate, to preach at yt little ehonh near adjoin-
ing to Penwortham HalL

Here my father fixed again in this gentlemans
honse, entirely beloTed of his patron ^who allowed
hiv 4011 per annum) and of all nis pariahioners, and
haTing intelligenoe oat of Oheahire, yt my mother,
whom he had left at Grap'nall with a striot oharge
to gett ye plaoe snpplyed and keep possession as long
as she eonld, waa with her family ejeoted ye
Parsonage honse tbere, and a new Beetor, one Mr.
Bradahaw, a rigid Presbyterian (whether by appoint-
ment of oommoners or nsnrpaoon I know not) pnt
in, he aegnainted his Patron, Mr. Fleetwood with it,
who tberenpon order'd a poor cottage honse at a
little distance firom bis own Hall to be fitted np,
and added 8 or 4 acres of ground to it, to keep a
couple of cows, and hero, as In a little ark of rest,
my Father seated himself with his wife and 9
childnn, supported and maiatain'd by ye good hand
of Providence, which order'd him stiU ye 4011
pehsioo from his Patron and large gratuities from ye
Loyalists in those parts, whoae children he privately
baptia' ' and rerformed other ministerial offices, at

their requests, according to the audent forma of ya
churchi which tho' it gave him snmntimfli ya
trouble of mesq[ne t iew to guard him into Prsston aa
a priaoner, yet upon ye mediacon of the nelgh*telng
gentlemen he was soon dismisnd, andrelum*d to his
family to recount hie hasard, with his olim meminisse
Juvabit I and tho' in all thia time he had not any
allowance of a 5th, or any ye leest part from either
Ua Parsonage or vicaridg In Oheahlro, nor any
temporal eatatea whatever; yet he liv'd oheerfuUy
and oontented||y, and saw many of his oUldren
comfortably diapoa'd of, and presently upon ya
Beotoracon in 1660, he ejected Bradahaw again, who
though a rigid Presbyterian, yet he then trim'd up and
got another benefice call*d Lsm in Oheshire, whero I
think he dy'd.

And my Father being restored to Ua Beotory at
Grapnall resett'd himself and hia family in tho
parsonage house there, whero he and my mother (yt
constant partner of hia sufferings) aged each of
them about 70 years, departed tills lite both In one
month and lye buried both in one grave In the
chanod thero ▲ j>. 1671.

ThuB Br I have recounted those sufBuings wherefai
you'l find me not altogether nnconcem'd, and tho' by
reaaon of my minority and ye lack of memoira In
writing ^or I was in ye station I now am at ye death
of mv Parenta and so could not have my fiUher s
notes) I have made but an imperfect relation of them,
yet I dan avoueh ye truth of my nlatlon
as to all ye material and substantial parta ol it ; for
I was born, nura'd, and train'd up under thoae
dispensacoos, which I think may be allow'd good,
and even sensible, grounds in me for belief of what
I have writt, and render it unsuspected by men (A
candour and ingenuity; and now, tf npon your'
perusal of this paper you find anything whioh yon
a^jndg inooheront or Impertinent, nnj cancel and
cover it ; but if anything worth puuiok notice, pray
make use of It, and may God succeed your
enieaTous to his his own glory, and that peace and
unity of the divided obnroh is the hearty pnder of,

Sr
yor assured Friend and affectionate Br. in the Lard

Edwabd Bbddon.*'

The Bev. William Beddon, of whose life the above
letter contains many particulars, was a member of
the andent family of the Beddona of Ontwood, in
the Parish of Prestwich, Lancasbiro. He waa the
first person that preaohed at Bingley Ohapel, whero
he remained from 1626 to 1629. He was presented
to the Vicarage of Eastham by King Oharies I. in
1687. and with It he held the incumbency of Btoke.
Mr. Bidden wrote a most clerkly hand, as the
Eastham Begiaters evidence. M. A.

[239]

OBIGINAL DOCUMENT.

The following is another of the ropUes from whioh
Bishop Gastreli compiled his Notitia,

WlBBAL DaiMBRT.

OvnOHUBOB IN OoK. GusT. -

HUHDBBD OF WVBBAL.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

July, 1898.

A, DoNATiYi : ** A troe tooonnt of all PaymenU
Daei Oblationi ObTentions, etc., In any maner paid
to the Obaroh of Overoharoh aitnate near Upton a
Tillage litnate in Wirral, abonfc 160 milea diitank
from the Oity of London, Maroh 29. Ano Doi 1717,
Tiz:

Paid by the Bight Worahippfoll 8r Bowland
Staoley Brtt, the preaent Poaaeaaor of all Glebea
and BeoaiTer of all Tjthea OflTerioga and Easter Daei
to the aame belonging tbe anme of Fonr ponnda per
annom to the offloiating miniater.

Thia ia the inme of all paid to the od Ohnreh
exoepting tbe Snrplna Feea whieh are some yean
aome imall anme and aome nothing at all.

Aa for a Terrier we oannot find any in the Parish
Hooka oor any Bemembered liy the Inhabltanta for
the time of eizty yearn paat and npwarda.

Theae ia no Pnbliok Bohool in the Pariah.

Gi?en in the Day and year above written to the
Worshipfnl Oommiasionera, Appointed by the Bight
BeT. Father in Qod, Franoia Ld Bp of Oheatar to
BeeeiTe the aame Aoooonta at Cheater.

<' Maroh ye 80th, 1717.

Bobt Janny, Miniater.'*

The Herd Bibt Janny Olerk, and John Banka of
Upton aod John Denaon of ye aame in ye Pariah of
O?erohnroh made oath of the trath of ye aboTo
written aeoonnt

before aa Hen Preaeott.
Edw Boberta."

[240] WIBBAL SUBSIDY BOLL, 1646.

(Oontinned from No. 229— Jane 24th.)

MoBsToa.

Gilherto Ormeeton pro Till xiid

Willmo Pemberton pro zla iid

Johe Oyll pro iiiiU iiiid

Tboma Grnffith pro iUiU iiUd

Milone Pemberton pro zza id

Johe Irreby pro iiiili iiiid

Willmo Bylly Dge pro iiiili iiiid

Bobto Wade pro TiU xiid

Thome Wade pro iiili iiid

Willmo Urmeston pro xxa id

Johe Ljonacre pro iiiili .iiiid

Heorioo Wade pro iiiili iiiid

Bobto Bennet pro Till xiid

Henrioo B iby neon pro iiiili iiiid

Bannlphu E^'mpe pro xli iid

Ux' Georgii Hanoocke pro iiiili iiiid

Heorioo Pemberton pro xls .iid

JaoolK) Prmberton pro xla • iid

Qeorgio Pemberton pro iiiili iiiid

Willmo Batter pro tiuli iiUd

Pettieo Oitrkj pro xla iid

JULY 22nd, 1893.

[241] WIBBAL DEANEBT IN 1692.

The following eztraets are from a Oonrt Book,
preeerred among tbe Bpisoopal Arehifea at Obeeter,
and are eTideLoe given before tbe Oonaiatory Ooart
whioh aat in September 1692.

The doenment is of oonaiderable historieal falae
from the light whioh it throwa on the atate and
oondition of the Ohorohea daring the onaettled times
of Elisabeth.

The origioal ia a earions medley of Latin and
Bogliah ; for the sake of ooDvenienoe I gi?6 a trana-
latton of the Latin portion and phraaes in italifli.

Tonra, &e..

Olanghton,

Wm. FsaouiaoH Ibtihi.

•* Oora' Toli Yiro Danid Tale (1) lega' Dootor Oar*
Gone' Oeatren' eto zxTi die meoeis Beptembria An'o
D*oi 1692 eto in preeeotia mei Job! aMorgell notarii
pnbliei eto."

BlBDiaTON P'OCB*.

Agaimt Thomaa Boatooke of Spittle and Maigsiy
Ward of the same : —

Married mtha}U proclamation of banm ; thuff
oUegB tbat they weare maried by Sr Bobte Baafoid
Oorat of Bhottwioke without banm or licence and
tajf that Br Bobte had for maiiage of them Ta.

[They were ordered"! to hrmg proof of tki§ «ta(i-
merU by witnei$ot within a month,

Agaimt Joan Maoklioge for adminioterlng the
gooda of John Maoklinge withont anthoritye.

Agaimt Eliaabeth Hodgea and John Gh)odeoar^
fomloatorei.

Agaimt the Ckurehwardem of Bebiogton:^
beeaoee ytt appeareth they harenoe Oolleetoree, bott
the Ohnrohwardene toere admonished bg the Chan-
cellor to proTyde ooUeotore aeoor<fifig to the etatute,

Agaimt Oieely Bibbie and Bobert Daggott—
fomicatorea.

BZDBTOir P'OOK*.

Agaimt the farmen [or Impropriatora of the
liTing] :^tbey have had noe eermona hat one hie a
atranger.

Willms Prison [f] a •eroont of Msry GUggs
appeared and wae enjoined by the Chancellor thtt
bee intimate to hjs miatreas that shoe be betre the
xth of October to abewe her lease wheyther shee
ought to allowe [7] eermona or noe.

Against the Churchwardens : — they Lave no oolleo-
tors for til 6 poore. The Chancellor admonished ths
Churchwardem to appoint collect '^ra according to

David Tale, LL.D., ChAnoeUoc of itM <Uuo«i«* Ircie
10 1624. :.

July, 1898.

WmBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

aiatuU, and (o provide ft Cheite for there BegiBier
Booke with U or iU looks and the mane [numy]
kftiee.

Againtt the Curate at the eame place : —

[Beeaiee he] gere noe wftmingB for ooUeeton.

He toM adnumithed to giro warning hereafter
aeeordinff to the Statute,

BUBTON P*00H'.

Agaimt the farmers [of the living] :«

They [the people] want quarter sermoni.

Mr. Smith ia to be lignified mnto that they want
quarter lermona.

Against the Churchwardens of Barton :—

That they hare no eolleotors.

Admonished to provide oolleeton.

Against John Potter ''eoqnns" peook] at
Pnddington: —

Mailed at Spittle Bonghton without banne or
U<*enBe.

Postponed nntil ▼! October,

Baokfobd P'oob*.

Against the Churchwardens there : •-

A Bible, the flzafc of the tomes of Homiliei, Mr.
Jnella Beplle and Apologia [1] wautinge.

Thomas Whitfell Tor Whitside] one of the Church-
wardens wm enjoined hy the ChanceUor that a
Byble be bought and Mr. Jaells Apologie, before
Christmas dale next and to oertyfye the Oonrt dale
foUowing.

(To he continued.)

[242] THB WILL OF JOHN OOODIOAB,

INOUMBBNT OF BBOMBOBOUGH.

Dated 1628.

In the name of Qod, Amen. On the two and
twentieth dale of Deoember in the/eare of onr Lorde
Qod one thousand six hundred and twentie three, I,
John Ooodioar of the Parish of Eastham in the
Oountie of Ohester, Olarke, siek in bodie but whole
In mynd and of a good and perf eet memorie doe
make this my last wiU and testament in manner and
form foUowing.

Firstly and ohiefiy I bequeath my soul into the
Bands of Almighty God trusting in the merits and
mediation of Jesus Ohrist, my Safionr, Ac,
Secondly I leare my bodie to be buried in deo«nt
Christiaa burial in the Parish Ohurehyard of East-
ham. Andes for my worldly goods, I will and
bequeath them in the manner as foUowetb.

(i) Dr. Jewel. BUhop ol BaUalniry, pobllshed his famoni
▲pologU hooleels AogUoaim in 186Bi lie Olea in 1571.

I gi?e, bequeath, assign, and devise un:o Elizabeth
my wyfTe (during her natural life) and after her
deoease unto Margaret (1) my daughter and her
assigns all my house, messuage, and tenement
wherein I now dwell, and all and singular that
appertains thereunto together with the assignment
and indenture and lease.

I giro and bequeath unto my daughter Eliaabeth
(2) the Bumme of foure pounds in lawful money of
England to be paid unto her (or otherwise to my
ooeen Peter Hayefoot for her nee) when she hath
aoeomplished the age of 16 years or shall be married

I give and bequeath unto my daughters Jane (8)
and Ellin ye snmme of foure pounds of lawful money
of England apeeoe, to be paid unto them when they
haTo attained the age of sixteen yean. [Then fol-
lows a long direetion to the efTeot that if any of fie
daughters should die, her £4 is to be divided equally
among the surriTors.]

The Beet and Bemaicder of my goods movable and
immovable of what quality, eonditlon, or sort soever
I giro and bequeath unto my loving wife Elixtbeth.

And Uatly I appoint my wyffe Eliaabeth my sole
exeentor,

Witnesses

Thomas Totty (4) John Ctoodioar [sgd.]

Bobert Oarrington (6)
John Anglizer (7 Jr.)

A true and perfeot Inrentorle of all goods,
eattle, and ohattels of John Gooddiear darke ourat
of Brombor deeeesed as they were appraised by
John Angliaer, Bobert Oarrington, Jokm Hay, and
John Dnoker (6) xiii dale of Maroh 1628.

Imprimis, one oowe, two sheep, dt two

lambs Ixxxvis viild

Item Geese and Poultry vs

Item Oom and Hay xvis

Item Brasse and Pewter ilLli

Item Bedstoek, bedds, beddlnge-

olothss iiiLli

Item Napeiye, lynnans and yome

ofidlsortes iiUi visviUd

Item four ohestes and eoffers

Item tables, ohairss, stooles, eto.

Item treen ware and spinning

wheeles

Item his appairell

Item his Books

Item Baoon, butter and other
victuals

Item Money owing unto him iiii.li

(1) Murmxet Ooodioar merrled John Beyal Kaslham, Sept.

(9) uiisabelh Ooodioar married Thomes Wlrral el Buiham,
Maiob 30. 1635.

(3) Jane Ooodioar bapllsed at Baslham. Jan. S9, 1611 -IS.

(4) ihomas Tolty. of Ohllder Thornton, nuibandman,
ohorobfrarden of Batthanii 1603; burled at Sastham,
Marob 16.1632—33.

(5) BobertOarrington. ohorohwarden 1SI4, borled at Bast-
ham. May 10, I6S2.

(6) John Dnoker, oharohwarden ol kastham. 1 U.

xUis

ivd

xiihi

ivd

xls

xiiis

ivd

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

July, 1898.

Iftflm One Rreat epU, tongnas,
etc

It«m Ooise, other fael Md

amok ila

SamoiA toUlii (1) ixfii.lt Tt iUld

John Ooodiotr, whoee will ia dTen aboTe, leemi
to hETO been appointed Perpokoal Curate of Brom-
boiongh early in the eentnry. Tbo flrat of hia
Begiaten is that for 1605—6, bat he may hare held
the benefiee a few yeara prefionaly. He died in
Febmary, 1628—4, and in aooordanee with theoem-
mand in his will waa bnried at Eaatham. The entry
in the Begiater ia, " Johannea Goodioar, oleriona,
onratna de Brombronghe aep xzTiil die.*' Hout.

[248] IN80BIPTI0NS ON WIBBAL BELLS.

(Oontiniiad from No. 227^ Jnne 24th.,
STOKE.

(1) Ood aaTO His Ohorob. our King and Bealme.

1631.

(2) Gloria in Exoelana. 1616. H.B.

(8) God aaTe Hia Ohnroh. W.F. T.L. 1642.

Below the Inaoription on (1) ia the foander*a
atamp, within an angular ahield the lettera W.O.,
divided by an arrow pointing downwarda: the
initialadonbtleaaarethoae of William Clibbery of
Holt, a bell-fonnder c^ aome note at that time.

In (2) the fonnder'a Latin ia at fault. H.B.
probably refera to Sir Henry Bnnbuy, Knight, of
Great Stann^y, who died 1684. Thia bell ia the
oldaat dated bell in Wirral, and the 8 belle together
form a gronp with the higheat aferage of antiquity
in the Hnndred.

In (8) W.F. and T.L. refer to William Fiaher and
Thomaa Lowe, Ohorehwardena Uk that year.

Oampamologibt.

JULY 29th, 1893.

[244] THE WILL OF THE BEY. BIOHABD

ADAMS,
BnoTOB ov WoonoHUBOB 1698—1615.

The Be?. Biohard Adama, Beotor of Woodehnroh
from 1598 nntil hia death in 1615, was the father of.
fonr aona (aa will be aeen from the following will),
two of whom, Obarlea and Bandle, took orders. The

(1) Theio leemi lo be an error la the addltton.

Bar. Oharlea Adams is mentioned in a OUrioal
Snbaiuy BoU aa Qorate of Birkenhead in 16S5. and
he aigna the Solemn League and OoTenant aa B?etor
of Woodohuroh in 1646. [Vide No. 109.] The
Be?. Bandle Adama, DJ>., waa Beotor of WaUaa^y
for some yean during the Oommonweatth.

The Be?. Oharlea Adaau married laabell, a
daughter of Thomaa Bennett of Bamaton Iqr hia
wife Ellen daughter of Ohriatopher Bonnet o(
SaughaU-Maasey, and wu father of fl?e aona, two of
whom, Biohard and Thomaa, entered the Miniatiy
but were obUged to relloqnlah, Biohard hia Beeiory
of St. Mildred'a, Biead-atreet, and ThoBBaa hia
Fellowahlp of Braaenoae, on the passing of the Aot
of Uniformity in 1662.

Biohard Adams, the eldeel son andeieeatorof the
BoT. Biohard (see following will] beoame a merehant
in Lirerpool, and had an only daughter, Blary, who
married the Be?. Hugh Burohea [or Bnrgeoa] of
Dublin, whom in 1678 ahe pceaented to the living of
Woodohuroh. S^m her eldest aon the adTOwson
desoended by heirs female to Ellen, the only daughter
of John and Mary Peaooek, of Qrauby, who married
the Be?. Bryan King, of Woodohuroh, and whose
aon, the Be?. Joahna King, M.A.,was reotor in 1847,
when Mortimer's Hutory of Wiml waa pobliahed,
(aee that work p. 280, also Hanee's ** Bonnets of
Baughall-Maaaey, eto.," p. 87).

The BoT. Biohard Bherlook mentioned in ihe will
was the next reotor, uid unole of the otlehnted Dr.
Biohard Bherlook, Beotor of Wlnwiok.

The will is preserred at the Probate Oourt, Ohaster,
and the following is a pretty full abstraot :

** In the name of God Amen : zxi Dee. 1615.

I BiouABD Adams, elarke and Beotor of the
P'ishe Ohurohe of Woodohnrohe, in the Oountie of
Chester, Waieing tiie unoertaintie of this presents
life and oonfessing irith holy Darid that I am a
stranger on earth and a sojourner as all my iathen
were and longinge after and lookinge unto the OitUe
of God and heaTonly Jerusalem and beinge in peif eot
remembranee, thankes be to God therefte doe make
and ordeyne this my lasts will and testsmento in
manner and forme foliowinge, eto. ete.

Item : Whereas I have formerly by my deed Folle
bearing date the 15th date of July in the yeare of
the rdgne ol our Sorereign Lord, Jamas by the
graoe of God of England, Beotland, Franoe and
Ireland, King, eto., xiii and of Beotland xlfiii
rije gimnte and ooniinne unto Bafe Idtler of
Walleseoate in the Oountie of Ohester ffant, and
Boger Broster ol Maodeefield in the sd Oountie
gent, their Exeeutois, Administrators and Asaigna
eto., the first and next Atowsou, donaoon and
presentation and free disposition of the Beetory, of
the F'lahe Ohurohe of Woodohnrohe, I doe by this my
lasts will and testaments oonfirme and ratifle the
same to all intente and purposes, aa may be by tlM
deed ytaelf further appeare.

I leave to Margarett my wife half of my goodea
eto and the other half e I give to my fonr aonnea
Biohard Adams, John Adama, Oharlea Adama, and
Bandle Adaau, equsUis amongst them.

July. 1898.

WIB&AL N0IE8 AND QUSRIBS.

I litm to Ite poon ol the Vkk% iortia
ol bvdb to be fiilriMed at Ibe
ot My eiB C ituii .

I eppoiBft M ay lewfeOe
IV i& led Biflhaid A4mm ay

Hem: B li ay vill ttel aj Kneetofs ekofe
naaad Aell lave pom eed ebtolate uUioritie to
■eU the inhBriteaae ol the Ftknat^ oltlMBaotoffy
olWooiohanhtb i a toe d uple for eier for the
-Mdj^ejeoMe ad pniaaMiile of MeiSMt. Bf

To mf lofinge eod daer fkieodo Mr. IttuhirJ
Bhailoako e paces ol gM ol voloe iziio for e linge
and MMBbnuiee of me, end wfaei bookM he hethe
ia h^ hiada of vjiie.

To Mr. Hagh BoolOt ol BaUagloB, avilkiase
oloehe end I dMiie Umb hoihe to tahaoeteead
the jartezceatiaieoClhiaBy laat wiU and

Oha: Bolde.
Bran PitiOydar.
Marbmlih.

Pkoved xzvii Jenaeiy 1615 [A.8]

Yoaneto.

Wm. F^aaavMoi iBTwa.
danghton.

[245] FUNT nfFLEMENTB IN WIBBiL.

V«i7 f ew and ladiiUnoi are the visible traoss In
Wiiral of tboas pEiaoral nose, who pressded ths
oesapsnfts of whom ws ba?s some ramaaats of hiatoij.
Some f aw roogh flint implementi have baea fonad,
wasbad fhmi the day, oaar Hilbie lalaad, aad now
and then tbaoalaiBad aioDao naad by the eafo men
for oooking, daring the bUasI geologioal agaa, are
fonnd In the moases on the ooast, together with
bones of the wild animals they hnnted and Blew.
Bat of the looal Britiah Inhabitants who ooeiqpled
the land prior to aad throagh the Bomaa and 8axon
InTaalons, the only material traoes in the peninanla
are the am bnrials fonnd some yean ago on Orange
Hill, oo the site of the Beaeoa, a fnu^ent or two of
similar nrasy and the fonndations of andent dwell*
faigs waabad oat of the sands on Meols shore. The
hlUs, and likely . sites for snob early settle-
ments, bate been oarefolly aearehedi bat
hitherto with Teiy lUUe resalt, the hnaband-
man'a ploogh or the bonder's ereetions bare
for the moat part obliterated alike the entrenobed
aettlementa and the bairows and sepnlobral moanda
of the anoient dwellera. A few of the andent roads
and traokways atiU remain, and British names still
ding to many localities, anggesting that thia waa a
well peopled tract of oonntry. ETcry trifling relio
and Indieatlon of this andent oeeapatlon Is oonse-
qaent^ of the highest Talae In the in?estigatlon of
tbose lost tribes on whose sojoomlng In this pUoe
history throws no light, and aren tradition, which

faa maay plaoas la an eadaiiag laemoiy, baa died oat«
Befixe aae lla two silent witaessas of this dark
period, aad trifiiag aa thaj eeemlo be thiwaihea
they saaj aarve lo ahow the latefdepeadettoe of
erideaoe by which aome little of the loot peat aaaj
be nasaaleii Theae are two Ittata, one aboat an
Inch hmg aad a third of an iaoh broad, the other a
thia flake, a little huger ha otae than a maa*8flnger
aailbariag keeaedgea, aad ao aotohed that by hmg
flxed lata a wooden or bone handle It woald form a
small knlf^ Toaaybota practiaad or lastraeted
eye,theaaiisoaroa|y aaythliig to Astlagoish them
from the broken gravel ased to aaead the roads, oo
rade and oo little aerftoaabia do thay look at firat
dghL ▲ Bttle iatelllgant enmlaaUoB wiU aerre to
distiagalah their eharaoler. ▲ flint aoddental^
broken^ a blow or split IqrfiNMt or saa, will oflen
throw off spUnteia or flakes with sharp edgee, that
look at flrat d|^t aiote like weapons ten these, yel
we may dlstingalab that ooly a cnshlng or a blow
given In one dhMOtlon baa oaoaad the fkaotara or the
sharp edge. With these flints their fbim baa been
determined by repeated atrdka^ made oa ooe ddeor
the other towarda the oeatre, each striking off a tiay
flake till the desired form was attained, and la sadi
sooeearioa and with saoh porpoaaas to show that the
foroe that applied the strokaa was the raaalt
of latelllgeBoe and daBtgn^ and to prove
that however rade the rasalt, II was
attained b7 the band of man. Ihase thaa, befaig oo
narked, ace prlaieval slooe wsapooo, or toohi, the
oldest kaown tjp% of boman aaattwoik, passing
backwards beyond all Uatory, aad traditloa, lo that
nnmeaaared period, at which maa*s fliat traces have
been fonnd npon the earth. Bo far baek do each
weapooa carry as thai th^ are to be foaad
with the remalna of the extinct
of the later gedoglcal agea, the
Mammoth, and the Mastodon, the cave bear, aad the
Enropean Idon, and extinct spedes of Oxen. They
are fonnd, together with evidencea of vaat daageo
In the oUmatie conditions of the world. ▲ glacial
and intergladal period senarates the earUeat ^pes
from oar own, daring whiea Interval of time uin
have been chaagee oa the coafigoration of land and
water on oar globe. Throagh all these ooontless
oentories of time, and change, these fanplements of an
Imperishable material, spew to as of the existence
of man, when all other traces of hli presence
have disappeared. With snob tools he banted the
Fanna of the andent world, he sawed and seraped
the bones of his prey and scratched on tbe bone or
Ivory tbe piotares of bis trophies of s a cc e s s . II is
even proved that he was able to perform suglcal
operations reqoiring great aUU. Between the firat
age of these rode flint implements which has been
called the Neolithic and the second named the
Palaeolithic daring which the weapona were mnch
more oareftdly and beaatifolly flnuhed, and often
flnely poUahed, is aa interval of anknown dnration,
dazing whioh great geological and geographioal
changes were taking plaoe, and a coneeqaent flax,
and reflax of the habitation of man in Bnrope and
Asia took plaoe, as the conditions of climate and
natnre varied, yet we have, tranamitted to aa, from
thooe distant agea, one endnring idea at least, If not
more. E. W. Cox.

{To be Continued),

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

AuouBT, 1893.

AUGUST 5th, 1893.

[246] FLINT IMPLEMENTS IN WIRBAL.

(Oontinaed from No. 245.— July 29).

The mipreiiUK^ of man In orettion depends on hia
nbility to nuke nee of the foreee ind prodnoti
of netore, lo m to inpplement, by his intelligenoe,
the oompsrstiTe weskoeis of Us bodily frsme to
oope with the more powerful snimals, with whidi he
bears his allotted share of the world. Man is the
only oreatore that bears arms of his own inrention,
to snpplement his natural powers. Therefore
arms, nowoTer primitiTe, sfe typloal of his mle,
and the first witnesses of his progress, and are
assoeiated with him as emblems of his power. Nor
is this all, a seoond idea seems to some down with
these efidenees. Man so far as we know, ont ojff as
he is from the inner life of the bmte creation, alone
reoognises his own immortality ; thus it ooonn that
fimn the earliest interments of the dead, of whioh
we hare any oTidenoe, the matwial things that
senred him during life were plaoed in his tomb to
■enre their master in the spirit world. It is im-
possible to follow ont the derelopements of this one
▼ast idea, whether shown by the saerifleing of sUtss
and horses or the provision of wine ana food and
money laid in the tomb ; but beforehand, beyond all
other praotioes, the dead took with him to his grave
his arme. The first weapons being of fiint or jade,
or Toloaoio la?a, suoh things became naturally asso-
ciated with the general idea of arms and of burial,
and though tools of metal were iuTented, the
intimate association of the stone weapons with the
rites of burial was continued ages after their actual
use has ceased ; thus we find on ancient burials a
double course of ideas preTailing. While the
deoeased might be buried with arms and
equipments such as he actually used in life, possibly
of metal, bone, or wood, the more antiquated practice
was alio followed unconscious of its true meaning,
and the ohipped fiints, that may be really ancient
ones, were also placed in the grare as the traditional
and typical arms of man, though those who did so
were anconscious of the true deri?ation of the prac-
tice. Thus we find in the highly wrought and
artisticaUy decorated tombs of Egypt, ranging back-
ward for upwards of 6,000 years, at which date they
were already a type and tradition of a year long gone
by, chipped fiints. So also in aallic, and Bomano-
British grsTes, with fragments of Roman pottery
and coins, are often found the primcTal weapons of
stone, as well as in those much earlier mounds and
barrows and the sepulchral cafes of the earlier races
to whom they were actual as well as typical weapons.
The refiection naturally occurs, that if these objects
had, in Tcry early ages, an actual, and in much later
times a typical use, their allotment to any particular
age, becomes much more uncertain and difficult.
Undonbtedly this is true ; therefore it is incumbent
on those who seek to learn from them, to scrutinise and
record most carefully their accompanying CTidences.
Such as are associated only with the remains of
extinct animals, and other evidences of their
practical use, may safely be placed in due order

as pilmeTal; those in combination with later
remains will date naturally, so far as regards their
placing, with the most recent relics, and they liaTe
been used typically. Again it may easilj happen
that the earlier occupy the lowest stratum and the
latest the higher, superimposed in regular sncoession.
By careful and exact obserration and leoord. alone
can thefuU teaching and interest of these obieets be
reached.

Another wonderful rerelation is giTen to as
through these weapons: they are sown teoadcast
OTcr the whole of Europe, Asia, and part of the
Continents of Africa and America, yet the chalk
formation, from which they are geologically
deri?ed, is not a wide area, and flints can only be
procured within a oomparatiTcly limited portion of
the earth's surface. The dispersion of flint tools
oTcr nearly the whole surface of the earth, that has
been inhabited by man, sets li face to faee with
other problems, namely those of the migration of
tribes who bore arms, and the trace off a primi-
tlTc commerce, by means of which these implements
became thus widely distributed from the narrow
limits of those lands on which they were Datnrally
found. In our own district, flint is off extreme
rarity; it is occa^onally found in the gravels and
days of tbe later geological strata, but so seldom and
in such small quantity that it could nerer haTC been
a souroe from which the local supply of implements
was deriTcd. On the southern coasts and in part of the
Yorkshire it is abundant, and evidences exist in the
andent pits, wherdn are found early tools id horn
and bone, together with worked flints, tliat prove
that a trade in these articles existed in the primeval
world with our own countiy. It is suffidently curious
to find that in the narrow bounds of our own Islands
the people should have procured their fanplonents
from the tribes inhabiting the south, or tram the
Yorkshire coast, but the greater marvel for the
ethndogist and historian to nnravd is to be found
in those conditions of ancient life that end>led these
weapons to find their wey over the greater part of
the world from the small centres of their produotion.
These general condderations, useful as they are in
pointing out the serficeablenees of these relics in
recoveiing many points of the lost history of early
man may apply to any suoh objects whose surround-
ings and accessories have been carefully noted,
rather than to Wlrral espeddly, but our two ilinte are
local finds, and we may turn from thdr general teach-
ing to their partioolar data. E. W. Oox.

(To be continued,)

[247] WIBBAL DEANERY IN 1592.

(Oontinued from No. 241— July 22nd.)

Bboxbroi P'ogh.*

Againet the Dean and Chapter , the Ohurch verie
ruinous insomuch they are not able to sale service
and there books and Begister bee spoiled and they
require reformation.

Aucnjsv, 1898.

WIRBAL N0IE8 AND QUBBIBS.

Wkem^om tk^ Chmmeeitor t^ned tie Dttm amd
Ckapier to npiire th* sum mm fnre forth M thtff
^pedflle [^paefilty] a&d to htgta tX MinhinhMi

Agaimt the Ckmekmmdtau fA BronbtM:^

Thiy wuita «olleokoni for Um poon :

Tk§ CJumefUora^ouudtMMnto profite ooUeoioni
forthepoora aeeonUmg to SitOmU %mder pmutUif tU.

SiflZBAM P'OGB*.

Agamtt tke CMwrekwardems tktn :—

They wftoto the eaeond tome of HoaiHfli; Umj
have not lefied xiid. ol the ahtento; Umj vanto

eliwtnil MMMndliUM to toe

On which day amd at which place the Ckmch*
wardcm appeared and the ChanceUor et^amed them
that to^ doe p'fyde a Oberte for a Begietor Booke
wito ifi hMto Mid Hi knyee end to p'fide hj Xmas
the eeeeond tome of OmeUee end to oolleet ziid. off
the aboentfl ead elooe to p'^de there bee ooUeetores
eeeordinge to Btotnto end to eertjfjfe [the eeme]
hi^fbre the Feaet of the Nativity of our Blmed Lord*

Affomut Wlllma Tompeon parieh clerk :—

[Beeeme he wti] noi
Aantient Ouitome,

80, on the xU December 1592 the eaid
i^ppMTwf «le <mif tA^ CAoncfUor 0i|^fiMl Ami to bringe
A oertiilfleto under toe hands of the ehief of hii
patiehe, that they like him and are oontent to lett
him serve as olaite there, bie the zfi of Jannaiie
nezte under penalty,

Againet Lady Elisabeth Stanly :^

[Beoaose she] hato not repaired to ber pish
Oharoh thees ii yearee. Deferred for the hearing of
one of the Queen's Judyet,

Againet Jeno Stooleji Anne Earles and Matilda
Onlebeto wife of John Oaloheth gentleman :—

For not eommnnioatinge at Easter last ; the vicar
eertifieing that Mris Onloketh dotH repaire to Ghnroh
dwtifolUe, the Chancellor enjoinea the Vicar that he
admonishe her to reeeyre dwtifnllie the eommnnion,
or ell hee to eertefye.

HXBWALL P*0€B*

Againet the Curate there : —

For not eateherehisinge and gare noe warnings
for ooUeetions.

Agamet the Churehwardem there :~

For wantinge eoileotions.

The Churehwardem appeared and the ChanceUor
er^foined them to profyde ooUeotoreo aooordinge to
statnte.

Nbstor P'oob*

Against Biehard Hoogbton and Anne Oawdey
fornieatorfS.

Agaimt Alioe Whitmore, wife of William Whit-
more Ssguire, tor not oomiog to Ohorob.

Agatnet HaioBiiei BeuMit for notfnlfimttgnoBUM
Bemieftf s will in not paieing fii viiid to Agnes
Bennett.

Tie CAanetOor Myi thai the kgaele be sted lot
in the Oonto of them thai have interest.

Agaisflt John Kinge and Maiy Webster fm Mthotg
sa BehoolmiB not bctog l i eensed.

Kinge appeared and the OhaneeUor adsMBished
Um to bring a tiMtimTMi*^^ ol his behaviov and
leaning.

Againet the Vicar there :«

Fte not giTinge waning to make bhoioe ol eoOso-
loses Tl« Vicar t^ppeartd amd the ChanceUor a dm o m
uAed Ami to give waniBg aeeoiding to tht stalsto
f or oolleotorss.

^^miitt the Churchwardens there :^

Tke Churchwardens appeared and beeaass ytl
appeweto they have noe ooUeetores, the OhemceUer
admonished them to provide odileeton aeeo i d in g
stotnte.

{To he Continued.)

AUaUST 12ih. 1898.

[M8.] FLINT IMPLBMENTS IN WIBBAL.

(Gonthmed from No. 246— Angnst 5th.)

Flint implements sre not often fonnd in inmL
A few ol the palsoUtbio type have been washed
ont of the day on the Eye, at Hilbre, bnt there is no
direct evidenoe to show whether these were seonleh-
ral deposits, or tools ol the intergladal period em*
bedded in tbe day ; tbdr relations to their sorronnd-
logs bdng lost, no good dne is given to their dato or
ase. Near to Bebington one or two rndely worked
flints bave been fonnd hi the same stratum ol day,
showing their origin to be extremely early and
probably intergUwial, Our two flinU however were
asBooiated with other evidences that give them local
faitereets. Towards one of the two loog ridges ol
hiU, that form the firamework of tbe peninsula of
Wirral, the land rises gradually fkom the MStwavd to
the west. The roads, leading westward, into the
quieter and more seduded distriets of the eountry,
dwindle in many oases from public roads into gras^
field WMS, bordered and almost oboked with thorns
and wUd roses, oders, and goise. In winttt and
bad weather many of these roads sre unpassaUe, yai
some of them represent very sndeni trackways, once
of more importance than at present, and the nmains
of narrow pavements or lines of large stones laid for
the passage of the paok-horsee, that onoe freouented
them, testily to their former importance. Followiog
such a track westwards, we find it ends ina modsn
oiosB road, but a Uttle observation suggests that it
debouched formerly on the open hillside, from which

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

AuausT, 1898.

langis of HMm ham bow ent it oit Beorond the
teldi the hiU xIim more iteeplyteoTeKd with ft wood
of andent oeke, ehoa, and beeobei, aod fir tiees uf more
reeeBt growth, with a tall undergrowth of braeken.
Thnmgh the wood we reaeh the ridge of the hiU, and
the treea thin oot to the weet. For rnUea we haTe
beengradoally aaoending and now befons ua the
dope falle more sharply towarda the wed, and a
wideproapeoteoddenlyopenion the right towarda
Ihe lea, the greatplaia of Oheahire to the Idl, and
before la the long range of the Welah failla,
b^ond the Dee. Joit at the plaee
to whieh the broken^off traokway pointed : the groond
■wella at the ridge of the hiU into a wide low
Bound, ooTered with treea. It la perhaps a hundred
ieot in length by seventy in width. The rabbits
that frequent the wood have seiaped ont their bar-
rows in the sandy ddes of tlie moond, sod thrown
ont the soil in little heaps : from theae eome onr two
flinta, one freslily thrown op frcnn the heart of
the moond, the other bing on its snrftee ftom some
former exeavation. The form of the monnd is sng.
0e0tiTe» and examination made by probing it ahowa
that it is a great pile of nearly pnre sand, while the
Borronnding soil is grsTd, rook, and day. Oonse-
nnently, this moond has been arkifldaUy piled op.
Forther ezanUnatlon proTes that at Tarions points
bdow its Borf aoe email groopa of stones are eoUeoted.

Strongly aa this moond reaemUes an andent-
tomnlos, with these small sepoldiral data, or pUea
of atonea, in whieh it waaosoal to plaoe the ashes of
the dead, it will reqoire forther esamination to
aniTS at a sore oondodon that the flinta foond here
oertainly mark an andent dte, and it ia hoped that
soeh a searoh for forther OTidenoes will shortly be
made. In tiM early part of the present eentny^
this and other oopses were prepared as a ooTert for
foxes, and dianges then took plaee in the groond,
that while they may well hate distorbed an early
depodt, from whidi the flints oame, have slao tended
to eonfose the old with the newer work, and it may
be that this great moond was either adapted for the .
harboor of the foxes, or even at that time piled op
to a greater or leas extent. The alterationa may he
partly traeed in the form of roogh stones aeattered
in the wood, and evidently modem ; and • to
the 800th of the moond, not in it, sooh
atoaea ace laid bdow the aorfaee. In the
form of a roogh drsln, and on the west and sooth
west of the moond there is less appearanee of reoent
distorbanoe, and the great tree roots are twisted
among the groopa of stones, elose to whidi the flints
werefoond. It will, onder these oonditions, reqoire
great diaecimination to separate and diatingoish
the featorea of the dte, the flints themsdvee being,
so far, the ehief witness to its antiqdty, dthoogh

the Bite and the work vidble are endnently soggestive
that we bave here a q>ot onnoted in history, to

whieh no loeal tradition attaohes, and whieh bean no
eignifloant name, whieh may yet give os a eonneetlng
link with those rery remote and early oooopanta of
oor eoontry, whoee annals and even whoae tradifiona
have died oot, and of whose very existenoe, hot for
these small hot sigaifioant tokens, we were ignorant;
and thos (hose two trivial reliea, have beoome
eloqoent with the lore and romanoe of antlqoity.

The dte of the tomnlos being in prirate groonds,
not genevdly aooeodbia, and eomplde examinations

baving still to be made, it is not thooght dedmble to
indioate the looality more definltdy, espeeiaUy aa
qpportonity would be given privately to asoertain
whether the find of these two flints may form a elne
to more important disooveries. Shoold this be the
ease they may form a sobjeet f or forUiernotee.

Bebington.

Edw. W. Oox.

[849] WIRBAL DEANEBT IN 1698.

(Oontinoed from No. S47^Angast 5th.)

OnioBUBOB Pooh*.

Agamit <A« Ourate thetB :—

Doth not instroete the yooth aoeoidlBge to ttie
oontenteo of the Artiele.

Again$i the ChurehtoarOma then :~

Th^ have noe eoUeetore for the poore.

T%e Chaneellor admonUhed them to t^pojfnte the
•ame aeeordmg to SiakUe.

Agoimi John QiU :—

[Beisaosebe] hathall the goods of his maldeaalled
BUaabethe withoot aothoritie.

He exhibited Inventory, etc,

Btooxb Focb'.
AgtUmt the Ohurehtoardent there :~

Th^ have noe Cdleetores. The Chancellor
admoniehed them to provyde the same aooordinff e to
Btotote. "

Againet the Curate there :—

Oave noe wameinge for oolleotorea.

To give wameinge for the same, under penalty.

Shotwiox P'ogh*.
Against the Curate there i -

[3eoao8e he was] not lioensed and gave no
wamelng for Oolleetores.

Admoniehed to give regmtOe wamdng for
oolleotorea.

Against the Churchwarden there :—

They have no ooUeotores. Admonished \o fioiid»
the same accordinge to statute

Thubbtaston P'oob'

Againet the Churchwardens there : —

They have noe eoUeotores. Admonished to mo-
vide the same aooordinge to Stainte.

WOODOHUBOR P'OOB*

Against Elen daughter of Bobert Ohawner, married
in her fathers house bie whom and to whom they
know not Ue reporte. To bring proofs within a
month.

AuouBT, 1898.

WIKRAL NOTES AND QUEBEBB.

ff5

Aganut the Ohurchwardmu there :^

HftT6 Dot leTied ziid, noe ooUeetores.

The Churehwardena appeared and were admoniihed
to lerie sUd of the absenieei and to iee that
ooUeotorai be pfOTjdid under penalty,

Agaimt Qeorge Fembertoo of Moreton :~

For aittinge Qppon the Oroaee tX servioe-time and
would not oome in nt the Oharohwnrdena request.

Agaimt Matgaiet wife of Bdwud Bftfenseroft
came not to Chureh theee zii monethea.

if^ntnft Thomas Oorentrie of Enoektoram. Did
not recei?6 In Ilia piah Ohorab at Eaater laate.

WssT EnsBn Foob'

Againet the Churehwardene there :—

Thej ha?e no eoHectorea for the poore. Ad-
moniihed to proryde aaae.

Agamti Jobn Okea eehoohnaeter within eaid
parieh ;«-

Not hoemed, Diemieeed, beoaoae hee teaehei noe
more ther.

Againtt Anna Malla' widow :—

She doee not attend Chureh and it impritoned.

Agaimt William Qlegge gent :—

Did not Qommnnioate at Eaater laate in hia Pariah
Ohoreh.

Poitponed until Jint Friday in Oetober.

Wallmzh Foob'.

Againet the Rector there ;

Noe preaeher aod thej ha?e not had anj aermona
be gave noe monitions for oollaetorea.

Judgement de/errred [7] and Mr. Maarie of
Caghall is to appear before my Ld xtH Oetober.

Againet the Churehwardene there .'—

Beeanae they haTe noe eoUeetiona.

Thegt^ipearedonthe eame dag and were admoniehed
^the Chancellor to provyde the aame aeeordinge to
Statute under penaUg,

AUaV8T 19th, 1898.

[S50] A OOUBT BOLL OF THE MANOR OF
OLAUQHTON, 1689.

The Manor (Oonrt is an institotion, the origin of
whioh takea la baek to Tery remote antiqnity ; it
ooenpied maoh the position, and did to a large extent
tbe work now nndeitaken hy the Magiatratea, Ooonty
Oomt Jodgea, and Gowty OoODeila.

The following roll, the only one the writer haa
been able to find retetlng to Olaoghton, la In the
posaession of Meaara. Biroh, OnUimore, and Doaglas,
of Ohester, through whose courtesy permlarion to
copy it haa been obtained*

In the yariona ehaigee brought againat the
different tenanta. It may be well to explidn a few of
the tenna.

An ** Innuke " praotieally meant a lodger, and
abont thia time and earlier, there were rery atringent
regulationa in ezlBtenoe againat the harbouring of
strangers without first oommnnieating with the
Mayor of the town or some loeal Justioe or the
Peaee; the objeet being to pre?ent refuge being
afforded to politieal aoapeeta or erimlnala flytng from
Jnrtioe.

The •^poond " refened to In the nest eharga la ol
oourae the ?illage pound ton atray anlmala,

A ** Burleyman " or Byr»4aw-man, {cf our word
Bye-law) waa the Gonatableof the Manor and wag
obliged to 8er?e for a year without remuneration.

The Mallngshay Bridge waa probably the one at
Bridgft f^ In Biriimihnadi

''Breaking the aasfan of farsad or ale," waa
brewing or baking without > lleenae, or In aome
way Infringing the regulationa relating to the one
or other.

The Newfield hme mentioned in the third eonnt
waa probably what la now the vpp&t part of Park
Boad North; the eourse of the Gillbrook is sUU to
be traced aeroas Olaaghton fielda and the name la
retained in the Oorpecation Eatate of that
name. The Lower Heath comprised most of the
land lying between I«ird Street and Park Boad
North. Youra, eto.,

Wm. FnaussoN Lenmia.
OhMighton.

October the S2nd, 1689.

The prsaentment of the Jury of the Oort Leet and
Baron held for the Manor of Olachton cum Grange
and Birkett wood kept at ye Woodaide house the
32 of October for Bamnell Powell Esq of ye Manor
of Berkenhead.

We preaent John Sireae [Sirea] tor takelnge In a
inmake ..Tit Yiiid

Wee pr e a ent John Bheae for a pound Breehe
[breach] iiiflTil

Wee order ye Newefleld Lane leading ttom Bamnell
Bharpa to Thomaa Oharoockea to be repared
betwixt [this] and MiceUmus In paine of U

Wee order the Ditch from ye pits of ye heath to ye
corner of ye Lore [Lower] Heath of ye aide of
ye lane next to ye Qili Brucke [Qillbrook] to be
done betwixt [this] and ye fife A twentieth of
March in paine of uieiid

Wee order ye Ditch betwixt ye Lane and ye Lore
heath A betwixt Thomae Ohamockea croft A
Lore heath and betwixt Thomas Ohamockes croft
Laalea Lea to be done betwixt [this] and May in
pane of z«

Wee preaent Margaret WUaon of Waleay Jnnr for a
pound Breaah •••••...meii'l<i

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

AuousT, 1898.

Wee pceMDft John WUmm for Inoroihlng [eneroMhlng]
of Gliohon Oomiiig [Ooounon]

Wee preaenl Joseph Qost ftenneot pd

Wee pneent Henry [?] Elini tennenfc pd

Wee preeent John Wilson is John Leene Oonstables
and Borleymen for CUohon

Wee present Thomas Ohaniooke, Bsrleman for ye
demene of Berkett

Wee present ye Lord of ye Manor A John WUatm for
not repairing ye MalingB hay Bridge, to be done
betwixt [this] and Midsnmmer in paine of ••••!«

Weepresent Mr. Urmson [?] for not repairing his
bilding aooording to former order in pame of • •?«

Wee present Jaoob Williamson for bresohe of former
order in paine of xOiiiiiiif

Wee present Henery Melse Esqnire for non
appearanee in paine of •«••»«•••• i«

Wee present WUliam Parbertfor non appearanee ..if

Wee present Jaoob Williamson for non appeamnoe.i«

Weepresent Wm Worrell for non appeannoa ••••i«

Wee present William Webster for Breaking ye sise
[assiae] of Bred and Ale i*

Bobert Leene. John Webster

Joseph Walker John Sires

Bamnel Sharps. Jaferery Tomison.

William Shorlooke John Bolin.

Thomas Chamooke John Waley.

Samuel Josson Biohard GUll
Matthew Wilson.

[Endorsed] Olonghton : 22 Oot 1689.

[261]

KING EDWARD I. AT BBOM-
BOBOUaH.

In the Patent Boll of 5th Edward I. I find the
following entry :—

The Eiaa's Wobks at Flut. — Whereas onr
beloredin Ohrist, the Abbot and Oonvent of St.
Werborgh in Ohester, hsTe lately ont of mere ciTility
lent ns 100 men for onr works at Flint, at the ex-
pense of the eaid Abbot and Oon?ent, as long as they
are bdog made : We do not wish howe? er that this
shonld be eonsidered as eostomary, or qnoted as a
preoedent or that it shall be eited at some fntnra
time to the prajadloe of the said Abbot or Oon?ent.
In testimony, &o.

Dated at Brumbergh 13th Aognit.

Tlus proTes not only that the Monks of St.
Werbnrgh'B, helped to bnild Flint Castle, bnt alao
that King Edward Tisited Bromborongh, at any rate
on one oooaiion, during the time be was oarrying ont
his great worke at Flint, whioh he p«rsonelly super-
intended, as Is erii^enoed by entries on leTeral of the
works roUs.

The Monks of St. Werborgh held the Manor of
Bromboroogb, and at the time had a well bnilt
Manor Hoose in a etrong dtnation. whieh together
with the works at Irby, Ormerod says is *' proof of
the fears entertained by the Monke of the inenrsions
of the Welshmen at that eerly period."

Bromborongh is abont irix miles from Hint in a
straight line.

King Edward, as Eail of Ohester, grsnted a oharter
to the Monks to hold a market at Bromborongh
oTsry week, and a yearly fair of three days on the
Feast of St Bamabss, the YigU and the di^ follow-
ing. It would be intereeting if this was prassrred
In full in Wural NoUm and Queriet,

Onnon Pttk, Ohastsr.

Hbmbt Tatlob.

[862] WIRRAL SUBSIDY BOLL, 1846.

(Oontlnnod fkom No. 240— July 16.)

MiOKA Nbstov.

Ueo Bsoke pro iUili iiild

Thoma Anyan pro xxs ...••Id

Willmo Oavday pro liiili iuid

Johe Tounge pro xls iid

Henrioo Tayiyar proxxs • id

Hugone Irrysoheman pro xxs Id

Bieo WaUey pro xls iid

Rieo Jumps proxls iid

Robto Tarleton pro xxs. . • id

Jaoobo Aynysdats pro xxs • id

Henrioo Younge pro xxs id

Elena Younge pro xxs_ id

Johe Younge pro xxs.T id

Blsabetha Bkoon pro liiili iiiid

OeorgioBlaeon pro liiili iiud

Thoma Oawdey pro rli xd

Thoma Bussell pro xls iid

Thoma Qreresby pro xxs id

Rioo Dsneham pro liiiU ..iiiid

Rieo Sbarpe pro tU xd

Margareta Forshaw pro xls iid

Robto Hanooeko pro xls. iid

Henrioo Warynge pro liiili iiiid

Henrioo Oa wd^ proxls iid

Thoma Betson pro xxs Id

Edwardo Warynge pro liiili iiiid

Willmo Myddleton pro xls iid

Johe Orewe pro iiUli iiiid

Willmo Bonnet pro xk Ud

Thoma Heyward pro liiiU iiUd

Thoma Plombe pro xls iid

Alioia Yeatton pro xxs • • • • id

Bogero Heyward pro xxs • • id

Henrioo Blaoon pro xxs .id

WUlmo Sharps pro iiiiU iiiid

WiUmo Forshaw pro xls Ud

Willmo WaUey pro xxs id

August, 1898.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

joor

[253] WIBBAL HUNTINa SONG.

(See No. 185— Mudi 25Ui). >

In the Wiml Hnntiiig Song, printed in
oolnmns e ihort time nnee, oeeni the linee : —

«' Then to Geaton to Mr. Qlegge's^
Heie suffer oo poore et his honee to hegge ;
He hath noe honnde to mne at je hare,
Bnt kepea a oorre against poore and haie.**

A note ezplaina this eonniidgeon to have been
Edward Olegge, who died in 1623. Bat is this
eoireot ? On a reoent risit to Heswall Chnrefa, I
noticed in the tower the monument to John Glegge,
younger brother of Edward Glegge. It is a large
plate, repreoenting a figure kneeling before a de^,
in a long gown, with a rufi; beard, and muataehios,
and a sword suspended at his side. To the following
Tsnea, inscribed on the plate, is attached, ** ObUt.
Jan. 8, 1619." John Glegge was buried on the 4th
Januaiy in that year.

** I have no feelinge now of frende

Or freDdshipp, 'tis all dead and gon :
He heere inclosed, just at his ende

Neare lefte a jot t to any one.
Goe, hast to him, sad sonle of mine,

Li?e, erer where he silts and singes
Enter death's lists, oh, neare decline,

Goe, flie apase with angeli's wings ;
Get hense awaie, prisoner to flesh and bone :

Elisinm's the dwelling place where he is gone."

The man who ** ne'er left a jot to any one " may
reasonably be identified with him who '* would
suffer no poore at his house to begge " and *' who
kept a ouire against poore and bare." But aYarioe
may haye been a nee common to both brothers.
And Edward was presumably the squire.

F. Sandebs.

AUGUST 26th, 1893.

L254] INSCRIPTIONS ON WIRBAL BELLS.

(Oontinued from No. 243 -July 22nd.)

Neston.

The peal at Neston consists of eight bells, four of
which are old, and four modem ; the insoriptions are
as follows :

Treble : Yenite et asoendamus ad domum Dei

Jacob. 1884
2Qd : Peace and good neighbourhood. A.B. 1731
2rd : Prosperity to this Parish. A.B. 1731

4ih : Prosperity to the Ohnroh of England. A.B.
1731

5th : Yenite CKUltemus Domino. 1884

6ih: Afar. Bndhallof Glocester cast ns all. 1731

7ih: Yenite adoremus. 1884

Tenor : Adorate Dondnuminatrio saaetoejus. 1884

Each of the new bells bean also the f onndera'
names, Messrs. Hears and Stainbank, of White-
ebiqpel-road, Loudon.

Eudhall's original peal consisted of certainly fire
bells, possibly six. When in 1884 the number of the
bells was increased, two of the old peal were done
away with. The tenor, which was of ?ery bad lone,
had been cast in 1804 by some unknown fomider
and only bore the Churchwardens names, '* Wm.
Hnchenson and Andrew Gibbons, Churchwardens
1804," and the old 4th bell, with the initials A.B.
1731, was cracked. Botn these were melted down
and the metal went towards making the four new
bells.

There is a curious tradition in the parish that the
original peal was intended for some chuzdi in Wales
but when they a^Ted at their destination the Welsh
ehurehwardens were unable to pay for them and
they were consequently ferried o? er to Neston and
sold to that Church, as it was then in need of a peaL

The truth or untruth of this stoiy could probably
be settled by an appeal to the Churohwardeiui
accounts of Neston for that year.

Campan Loom.

[255] EMBARKATION OF WILLIAM II [*s
TB00P3 FROM HOYLAKE IN 1G90.

In Haroh 1689, James II landed in In laud with
about 1200 adherents and a body of French troops, in
order to attempt the reco?ery of his throne. His
arri?al oaused a great panic among the Irish
Protestants. Many of them fled to England. Among
the fu^itiTes was Dr. Rowland Dftries, Dean of Ross,
who after oflioiating in different parts of England,
was appointed chaplain to one of the regiments raised
by WiUiam III. for the inyasion of Ireland. Dr.
Dariea kept a diary of his doings during the whole
of his exile, which has been printed in the Publica-
tions of the Camden Society. From this diary the
following extracts relating to the departure from
Hoylake are given.

I690.~Aprill 26 (Sat.) -We dined at our lodgings
(in Chester), and after dinner, they all grew Tory
busy in sending their things away to Hoyltke where
lay our recruits of horse, being four hundred, and
the Nassau and Brandenburgh regiments. . . •

27th (Snnd).— In the morning, all our sparks
were in a great hurry, the wind presenting
fair

Maj Srd (3at.)*— In the afternoon I put my trunks,
bed, saddle, and hat-case on board Mr. Thompson's
boat, and sent tbem to Hoylake, where they
shipped off with the M»jor'4 things*

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

AuQUST, 1808.

Maj 6ih fTaefl).— in the moraing we took hone
for HojJake, and pMsIng by Naelon, we oame there
ebont one o'elook. At onr ooming we found the
oommiflieiy at the parson's at dinner with Oonnt
BoraTenmore, where we waited on him, and got an
order f6r a sto to eaio eighteen horses and twenty-
three men. Then we dined at one Barkei's where
It oost ns eaoh two shillings, and in the efening we
went to a fazmer'a honse, where Frank Burton and I
lay together. The snrgeon, being of oar quarters,
we sapped at the Major's qoarters, aboat aqaarter of
a mile from ns, and parted in the erening, with a
resolation to be on board at nine in the morning ;
bat the Major's tambril, hsTlng a wheel broken
within two miles of Ohester, it gsTe as some troable.

May 7th, (Wed.)— In the moming we breakfasted
at oar qaarters, and paid for oaiaelTes and horses
three shillings eaeh. Then aboat nine o'elook oame
on board, and at eleren shipped oar horses, all bat
the major's oairiage, whioh was not yet oome ap.
The major and I walked a mile on the strand, and
went into two Islands in the bay, and then oame on
board, i^ the rest of company bdng on board another
ship linking ; they all oame to as in the erenlog,
and we l«y on board all night.

May 8 h, (Thnrs.)— Sir William Bosieil, Frank
Barton, and I went on shore to a Frsnoh snttler's,
and at oar retam, the major's tambril oame ap. In
the afternoon we shipped it, and oame down to the
roads' month, where we lay at anohor all night.

May 9ib, (Frid.)~In the moming we set sdl, the
wind being E.N.E., and steered N.W. by N.; we had
bat little wind, and got not oat of sight of Wales all
di^.

We are here made aoqaainted with aereral faots
Incidentally. Thns (1) ifc is olear that It was not nn-
asaal for boats to take laggage, and probably
merohandise, from Chester down the river and oTor
the flats to the deep water. (2) It is not anlikeJy
that the aooident to the minor's tambril was
eaased by the bad state of the roads. (3} We
find thai the farmers of the pariah of Weet Kirby,
aboat Orange, Newton, andMeols, made ohargee like
hotela for the aooonunodation afforded to the offloers
bUleted on themi and (4) Hoylake (the water) Is
refdjed to, but there is no notice of a Tillage.

F. B4MDIBB.

[266] FRAGMENT OF A SAXON CROSS
FOUND AT WEST KIEBY.

In digging a reoent graTo in the new portion of the
Ohwebyard, whioh within the last few years has
been added to the old barial groand, a nnmber of
stones, chiefly plain bailding stones, were fonnd in
what had been a small hollow. Among them is a
ftngment of a Sason Cross. Althongh this is small,
betog barely 10 inches long, and aboat the same
breadth, it retains sufficient of its anolent senlptare
to show moeh of its ehsraeitr. On one face mnoh

worn there has been an Interlaced, nndalating baii4 ;
on the other It seems to hare been divided into

ganels, one of which was ornamented with a sqaare,
iterlaoed knot, and the lower one shows a kiod of
key pattern or feet : the side Is marked with a trellis
arranged lengthwise. The fashion of the tooling is
distinotly Baion work, and mi^ be aboat the 8th
or 9ih centaiy.

The oroamentation diflbrs from that of the other
two remnants of crosses saffldently to show that it
most likely formed part of a third cross. It haa
been pUoed by the cere of Henry Bell Esq., in the
Charles Brown Moseam, West Kirby.

EowD. W. Cox.

[257] HOUGH OF THOBNTON AND BAB-
GBAYE OF HABGEA^.

I hare in my possession an early Flint dacd ih a
good state of preser?ation (ezoept as to the seal,
whioh Is of white wax) whioh may be interastlng to
some of oar readers. It is written on puohmenk in
ooarthand (in oontraoted monkish Latin) and
measares 6 by 9| inches. The following is an ab-
stract of it :--

Charter of William de Donecaster, oitlian of
Chester, granting and oonfiimlog to Roger le Baker,
of Peoforton, and Margery, his wife, the third part
of a bnrgage of land with its appttfteoanoes In Ivnt,
lying between the lands of Gilbert Faber In breadth
on one side and the land of Willimn del Hogh on the
other, and extending from the high road of FUnt to
Northstrete. The same contains 20 feet in widtfa
and 100 feet In length by 190, and Is to be held at a
yearly rental of fifteen shillings and eight penoe,
payable at Easter and Michaelmas.

Witnesses, Blohard del Hogb, then eonstable of
Flint Castle and Meyor of the towo, BIchard le
Barker and Adam le Hargreye, then bailiib of the
town, William de Boteras, Thomas da Wyroester,
John de Torperlegh, Gilbert Eaber and others.

Dated at Flint, the Sunday next after the Feast of
All Saints, In the 20th year of King Edward the
Third. (1346.)

The first witness Is a Whfral man, and he is
described in his dnal capaidty, for by the charter of
Edward I to Flint "the Constable of oar Castle of
Flint for the time being shall be Mayor of that
Boroogb." Under the proteetlon of the Castle an
English town sprang ap, and it was for the benefit
of these English bnrgeases that the diarter wae
granted. Many of theee eariy ssttbra oame frana
across the eataiiy of the Dee.

This connection with Wntl oontinaed mtil the
days of ndlways. It is not so long sinoe a eaval-
cade of horsemen crossed the dangerons sands to
attend the wedding of theu kinsman at Flint, aa
was the cnstom of thebr anceetors in d^ys of yore*
Richard del Hoagh married Ellen ttie heiress of
Roger Thornton. Thebr estates throngh the Whit-

WXRRAL NOTES AND QUBBIES.

Hoo^ ti^ly »Ne kadowMn

UBM, AJftm d« HKgian, Muof thstwo "fit ud
■afldnt iMttUb" daeted bf Ui BnrgMMi %nrj
jMT bn amMis IhtBMlTM ud NMMiUd b j Ihua
liillwOaiHltbl«MtMtlbTar. Ha >h ■ nHnbcr
g( Uw finiflj at tbat ume Mmtad at HargnTe, neu
toNaatoB. 1 And Ua iibm maiAMiaa !■ the BUok
VHna ataaitN to not, whlah aata out tha mantdpkl
baululaa,aa holding land In OalMUn, which Is on
Uw north wart dda of tha botasgh. TUaebarterta
datad aoth a^, 1861. Hini Tatlob.

OaaMB Cart, OnatM.

8EPTEUBEB 2nd, 1893.

WIBBUf DEAmBT 16S1.

Tha (dlmring extiaota an fiom ona of tha aaiUart
aslant Nahop'a TUtatlon Booka pnaMrad at Ohsa-
tar. Tha Tolmna ia ol aapaelal intarart. aa It
aontatna a Urt of aU tba CflatgT and Ohanhwaidasi
thtoitfuMit tha Dloeaaa, tha Bsetoca, Tlean, Onralaa,
«te>, and Out variona priaila who bad fanna(l;aanad
In (nuatty Obapati, and who wata

Tba foUowing Urt ii vkj lamaikaUa for tha

Tha Ba*. Thomaa Bharpa, Beetor of
Thwrtarton, la a notable euaple; naaentad to the
Bring during Iba rcdgn of Henry VUL, ha ooatinnad
to h^ Ittlurangb Edwatd'a ohangM, Inio tba Harlan
laMtioD, tbraogh all BllBabath'a atrlnguit legfala>
Uca, afanort Into tba reign dl Jamaa , only radgnlng
in leoi, tantaig held the Bring tor eS jeara.
Tonra traly,

Wm. Fraectsoa Imnra.

BobtnaOartwl ^ ,„,
lohD Wblthed/ ""■ w
Bobt Oarrlngtou.
Jaacdma n«V»«wi [r].

(11 Tti* Bar. PMer Ji

r«t>nuir. un-a.

"tSnT&t

bad died bMora
f'itaawffi'otane JohnOTTM «I Bnmbn', dtMd UM. b* It

Mr TboBU Bobomh, Beat (1).

Doi Joannia Woodward, «ai[ttel.
Wmna Dwirii [J] I ,„
WiUmaWilMB / '*'■

«le.(a).

Jji"}f»iauni]

. la Dean p] .
BogarVUthad.
Wuhr.

Due Arthvraa Birift, m. <S).
Dna Wfllnu B71118011 (7).

jMumea Benet )

Oeorglni Bhetlaoerf B^*

Bleoa Deaue.

Joan Ota Bellng.
(To ha omft'iuwif).

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Septbmbbb, 1893.

[259] MARSHAL SOHOMBEBQ AT HOYLAKE.

(Bee No. 266-Aiigiii( 26th.)

On the news reaohing Bnglend that Jamei II. had
landed in Ireland, a foroe was haatily railed to oppose
him. It eonalBted of eighteen regimenta of foot
and fbnr or fi?6 of horse, and was plaoed under the
oommand of Marshal Sohomberg. These troops
sailed from Hoylake in the summer of 1689. The
following aoooont of their embarkation was written
by the BeT. George Storey, ehaplain to the regiment,
formerly Sir Thomas Gower's, afterwards the Earl of
Drogheda's. It is eztraoted from " An Impartial
Hittory of the Affairs in Ireland^ written by an Eye*
Witnett to the most remarkable passages , 1691.

** 1689.— In Joly most of them were oommandsd to
Ohester, in order to be shipped for Ireland.

Most of them eneampt about a week at Nestoo,
and then on Thursday, the 8th Aagnst, about six
o'oloek in the morning. His Graoe, Dnke Soomberg,
General of all their Majesties' Foroes, Ooont
Solmes, General of the Foot, and soTeral great
offloers more, with not ten thousand foot and horse,
embarked at Highlake for Ireland,

The winds being oross, they lay there till Monday
the 18th, when at foor o*olook in the morning, the
wind being S.S.E. and S.E., the Bonayentore
frigate (Captain Hobson, oommander) fired a gan,
and put his light to the main topmast shrouds,
that being the signal for sailing. There was also
the Antelope, the James Galley, the CleaToland,
and the Monmouth yats, with between eighty and
ninety Tossels more, who all were under sail at six
o'olook, and at eight the BonaTenture put out an
ensign in the mizen shrouds for aU the Captains and
Masters to eome on board, wbioh done, they reoeiyed
orders to sail for Oarriokfergua Bay in Ireland."

While the troops were enoamped at the Meols
prior to their embarkation, an offioer named John
Van Zoelen fell ill, and was unable to sail. He died
on September 8rd and was buried in West Ktrby
Ohurclh, where he was oomemmorated by a monu-
mental slab whtoh still exists. The slab is of red
sandstone on whieh Is a eoat of arms rudely figured,
eonsisting of a plain oross, eagles as support, (feo.,
and surmounted by a ooronet. The following is the
inscription :—

H:S:E: lOHANNES VAN:
ZOELEN: NUPEB DE CI:
VITATE BRISTOLIEN:
SIS GENEBOSUS QUI:
OBIIT 3: TIO DIE BEPTE
MBRIS ANNO DM. 16U9.

F. Sanlbbs.

[260] QUEBY— STANLEY OF FLINT.

The recent Parliamentary Blue Bojk of names of
members returned to serve in Parliament informs us

that " Edwaidos Stanley, de Flynt, Armigw,"
eleoted M.P., for the Flint Boroughs in 1547 and
again in 1558, and he is the fiist borough-member
for Flint of whom we haye any record. Oan any of
your readers giye any particulars respecting kirn or
his genealogy ? I haye taken the following from aa
old Welsh pedigree which, like most Cambrian
genealogical records, is without dates and therefota
is in a great measure of little help. Pyers Stanley,
of Ewloe (Flintshire) married Constance, youngeat
daughter of Thomas Salosbury of Ueweni. (Pyen
was great-grandson of Sir William Stanley, of
Hooton, Koight. Pyers had granted to him in 148d
by Henry YII the office of Escheator and SherifT of
Merionethshire which he held till 1509.) On his
death he was succeeded by his son Pyers Stanley
who married Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Batter.
His son and successor Pyers Stanley married Jana
Parker who had one son Edward Stanley who
married Margaret daughter of Sir James Stanley of
Crossbill, Lancashire. Their eldest son Boberl
married Alice Salnsbury, daughter of ThomAa
Salusbury of Leadbrook near Flint and had a
daughter and heiress Anne Stanley who married
John Mostyn of Coedon, Flint (at Flint Church on
the 3rd Jane, 1607).

Hbmbt Tatlob.
CurzunPdik, Chester.

SEPTEMBER 9th, 1893

[261]

A TBANUEBE DEED OF THE
THIBTEENTH CENTUBY.

Documents relating to Wirral of an earlier date
than 1500 are not Tery common, and it is therefore
pleasant to be able to Uy a translation of the follow-
ing yery early grant of land in Tranmere before onr
readers.

The original is among the Moore ChaHers, in the
possession of Csptain Stewart, which, howeyer, were
some time on loan with the Historic Society of
Lancashire and Cheshire. While they remained in
Liferpool, Mr. John Hargrayes, the weU-known
lecturer on the Hundred of Wfarral, borrowed this
amongst others for the purpose of haying them
photographed, and it is through his kindness that I
haye been able to make a transcript from the nega-
tiye now in his possession.

The deed is not dated, but from the names of the
witnesses, we are able to date it as prior to 1284, in
which year Philip de Banyyle, the first witness, died.

The family of Prent6n of Prenton, mentioned in
the deed, died out a century or so later than this, tha
heiress marrying a Gleaye ; the Gleayes also ended in
an heiress in the fifteenth century, who married a
Hockenbnlt, whose descendants continued to liye at
Prenton Hall until the end of last century.

Perhaps the most interesting point in the deed ia
iLe mention of a fishery in the ** Mersee," probably
on the shores of Tranmere Pool.

Bkftkicbsb, 1898.

WIRBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

The gnuift of "hooMboCe sad haybote" vu ft
gnnft ol the ii|^ to cal ttmbar for hooae Indldiiig
pmpoMs and Jio for maldDg fenoM.

A saOioQ ia " an moartam qiaantilyof landaaoally
imderilood to be the atrip of plovglied land between
two fmiowa.*'

The deed, wbioh la a fine apeoimeQ of early ealli-
graphy, ia written on a amall pie^ of yeUnm about
7ineheab7 4. The following ia a nearly literal
translation : —

" Be it known nnto all men prtaent and fntnre
that I WxiJUAM ion of Wiluam db Pbssitom bave
giren and ooneeded and eonfirmed by this preoent
my charter for myaalf and my heiza in perpetnity to
Okssily my iiaier and her heira or aaBigna soTen
aeUiona and a half of land in the towoahip of
TaxraicuL [Tranmerel thoae whioh Alan the Por-
ter held of my father WiUiam in thai town with one
meetuage and one garden and with two parte of one
fithety in the MsBana pertaining to the aforesaid
lande and one aery tn the woodofTrenemal pertaining
to the aforttaid lande, to hare and to hold of me and
my heiza to her and her heira or aadgna freely,
qoietly, well, and in peace, by right, in perpetnity,
wholly and with all appnrtenanoea and with all
libertiea and eaaementa whataoeTer pertaining to the
town of Trenemni, paying therefor annually to me
and my heirs from her and her heirs or aligns one
silver halfpenny on the day of St. Michael the
Archangel [29th Sept] for aU coetoma aervieea, etc*

And I haye alao eonoeded to the aaid CessUy and
her heira or aflafgni funuebote and haybote and all
necessary [wood] for the building of her fishery from
thefersst of TrenemtU and firewood for her use in
JVenemul and pasture or pannage for six pigs where-
soever it may be had,

Aod I hare granted that whataoeTer lands she
may hold, be free from my [manorial] coort and
from any trials or snits.

And I and my heira warrant nnto Cessily my
aiater and her heirs all those seTon and a half sellions
aboTe mentioned, againat all men in perpetnity.

And in order that this gift and grant and oonfirms-
tion by my charter may stand firm for all time I
haveplaeed my seal to this writing these being
witness, Philip de Banvyle Alexander his son,
Robert de Pulle [Poole], Robert de Bebynton, Hugh
deBemiston [Bamston], John Stanley, Robert the
Clerk with others.

W. Febqussjn Ibvxne.

[262] MISS SEWABD AT HOYLAEE.

Anna Saward, ** the Swan of Liohfleld," was a
popular writer of poetry last oentnry. She is now
ehiefly remembered through her friendship with Dr.
Johnson. Beaidea her poems, she left a large num-
ber of letters whioh were ooUeoted in six volumes
(1811-1818}. These letters are very long-winded
and florid, Johnsonian without strength, metaphor!-

eal beyond all meaanre, and feeble and ahaud to a
degree. The following speoimaa deaoriMi a lULi to
Hc^lake in 1794.

To Jaa. IGtohel E^q.

Hi^h Lake, Sept 6. 1794.

*' I promised to write to yon, i^y dear Sir. when I
found myaelf settled on some ooaat or other, elaa
had you heard from me on my first reoaiTing the
elegant ehaise, for wbieh I am indebted to your
exertions. . . . • •

" Ion know I purposed going to Weymouth ; but
the Gdurt'a reaidenee there rendered lorely Mra.
Oolrille'a obliging efibrta to prooure me lodginga on
that mild eoaat wholly fruiUeaa. . . • It would
have been rashneas to attempt the aeaa of
Searborough or Bridlington, laahed into fuiy,
aa they so aasuredly will be by the equlnootial
tompests. This plane wai reeommeaded to ma
aa yieldmg wavea, aeoeadble, from peouliarity of
aitnatioD, aa thoae of Weymouth itaelf» where they
ereep on the shore, disarmed of all their rage, by the
interporition of Portland Island. A kindred
serenity is produoed here by a ridge of aanda aoma
miles in length. It risea in the oeean, about half a
mile from the diora, and ia oppoaite to theae downa.
The sea, thus difided from the main, ia prcmerly
enough oalled lake, but wherefore the epithet High
is added, it might perhapa be diffiouit to aay. The
apring tidea entirely oover thia sandy entranee twioe
in the twenty-four hours ; but thoae of the ebb leaTe
a part of it Tisible. The glaasy smoothneaa of thia
marine lake afiorda ohamdng bathing for oowarda.
This morning is ?ery stormy, yet I found not on
immersing, that the wayea were higher than an
those of the Torkshire eoaats In their oalmeat houra.
But if Neptnne ia a pladd, he is, howerer, a deepotio
monaroh at High Lake, nor snffers us, from the soft*
ness of his distant sands, to plunge in far reoeded
billows. Near the ooast they are admfa»bly firm and
smooth, two or three miles in extent to right and
left. Whether the watera of the Dee and of the
Mersey, flowing into this lake, do or do not some-
what abate its saline properties is disputed. They
seem, to my taste, leas salt than those of the north
ooast, but exhibit the various tints of the ooean.

** High Lake is a new plaoe ; the house built by
Sir John Stanley, waa floished only in 1792. The
apartments are handsome aud oommodious, and the
accommodation wonderfully oomfortable for a
situation without either town or eren riUage in ita
neighbourhood.

(• The fine downs on whioh this edifloe stonda are
level and extensive, affording the best walking
imaginable. A light and sandy soil leaves them
almost instantly dry, even after heavy rain. They
extend to the olifib all round the house, whose side
front looks like the main ooean. Beyond the sand
island, it is open, and to the eye unbounded. On
the left, it flows down at high water into the river
Dee, in a broad obannel, and the opposite shores of
Wales and her mountains are sufflolently, if not
sublimely, picturesque.

" This has been auoh a soene of resort all aummer,
that numbers endeavourrd to gain admittanoe in
vain. We are now a vtry pleasant sooiety^-gentle-

mSRAL NOTES IHB QUEBIE8.

4iM uBom «f ibeiit tetj.
Kin BiiMiulB itm of f^hfldd, etogiiit in ber
figure AndpleA^og in ber manners, neeooipMiied me
hither. This jonng \nd^, my maid, and mjsell
IrafeUed within ten miles of ibis flaee very
oomf ortably in the Mitehelino npon wheels. With
the odd ancientry o( Chester, we were mneh amnsed ;
it rmders that oity perteefly nnigite. FroTokiogly
detained at Seston bj waituig for horsas, we wsie
obliged to borrow the two dnBl^ horns, between
setm and nine, for trayelUng from tbat
plaee to High Lake. They obliged as to take
1001!, wUflh, being misesable fioainantes, had
lUoiilty enoogh |in dragging m over roads
of tiiMM inggsdosas. If an infant Qynlhia
had nM shed her pale gleams, protons throngh
iainft, 1 icnow not what weald hate beoome of three
eowarda beneath the eloods of night, and hi roads so
fsriioai. Tiie eleon and lonely village on tho ei-
Iseoe f se g e of the paninaala, is properly osUed
llealon^ oilginaily, I iiippoM, Mest-Town. It is
lade o d a nsit from tho atoms of the ooean, whieh it
imwedtetoly overhangs We foond pleasnre in eon-
fcempkting its neat little ehnreh and ehnrohyard on
Ifaat siilMary eminenoe, hyihed by the tempeatooas

We made oor flnt eoM among the bWows bt
Bgh Iishe thia mondng i yet seom th^ searoely to
^ossrre liie aano of bd^owe— ereatorss who fear the
sea need not fear a sea like this. The ooean was
qtfte a new si|^ te tlie bright eyes of Miss Bem-
iirington, and thoogh from Neston promontory it
)ast met them, erimaoned with the glories of a
setting son, Ae wfowed herself disappointed. In the
total aboenoe of its oipeoted sabUmity. She dies to
•ee it animatedly some of its teirible graces; nor
«an I help wiAfaig that OHO of the ine?itable sio^
ef the eqalnos may arise daring onr stay here to
gfiMi her ttat gratlfloatlon.

'* Bat I hoTe not yet told yoa the pleuantest eir- ,
enmstanee of oar ezooraion. Ooy Thomas White
eame to as from Buxton on Friday, and purposes to
stay a f ortniAt. He enchants the compaoy with
Ids deUghtfiu songs. Ton know his Toioe is a clear
oontra-tenor ; thst his shake is fine, end that he
rings with taste and etpresrion. This talent has
prcShieed madi gratification to the company
nassmUed on our marine promontory, where we
teeathe the purest air imaginable ; but^ as yet, I
eaanot boast that it has brought health to me.
Health, which, like competence, though it may
aometimos fail to beatow happineea and requires
auxiliary blesrings to secure thtt rare possesrion,
will yet suffer no happiness to exist independent of
Its inftaenoe.*'— Yol. III. pp 892-7

I*. Bandibs.

SEPTEMBER 16th, 1893.

[268] QEOBGE BNELL,

KBOTOE OF WALLABET.

The following aoeount of the above named dirine
appeared hi a recent number of tbe Cheater Dioceian
Gazette : —

'^Thereaesffshof Mr. Hmasito the HssManllB&
in tho BritiA Mnseom, and that of tbo Beotcr of
WIgan into tbe papers of his aneeatmt, Jobn Bridge-
man, Bishop of Ohester, haye brought to light some
new facts in the life of one who may ftdrly be eslled
the most noteworthy of the Beotors of Waflssey,
and haTe also corrected Tarious little mistakes (as to
dates and other matters) in that wbieh has pfofioosly
been published about hfaa both by Mr. Hanee him-
aelf in the Proceedings of tbe Laneaahlre and
OhesUre Historlo Society, 1888, and bf the kte
Mr. Ormerod in hia weU-lmown History of Cheshire.

The present writer knows nothing of Oeorge
finell's anoestry or of the date of his birth. In 1618
he was appointed Archdeacon of Ohester by Bhdbop
Morton (who was afterwards Bishop of Durham) ; tbe
Archdeaconry of Obeeter in those dsys included the
whole of the county of Ohester, all Lancashire south of
the Bibble, and the detached portion of the country of
Flint, which lies on the EngUih ride of the river Dee
between Oheshire and Bhropshhre. In the following
year Bishop Morton was succeeded by Bishop
Bridgeman, one of the youngest of whose eiffht
sisters, Archdeacon Sndl married ; Ljdla, his wife,
was twin with her sister Frisoilla, uid belonged to a
large family, but ahe herself, as far as we know,
had only one child, Eliiabeth, wlio married Thomas
Bennett, of Bamston.

In 1619 the Beotory of WaUas^y feU vaoant ;
Peter Yaughan of Ohester, perhi^ a son of the
Bishop who was translated from Obeeter to Lendon
in 1604, had in 1616 purchased from the Dean and
Ohspter of Ohester the next presentation to Walla-
sey, and Archdeacon Bnril was appointed— i^liably
by Yaughan or bis heirs ; but there must hare been
some doubt as to the legally of the transaction, for
in 1628 we ifaid James I. daindng the right of
appointment through lapse of time, end naming as
Beotor of a mediety of the Beotoiy of ** Kirby
Walley, aiUu Kirby Walliaey," the Tory man who
had already held it for more tbnn three years ; to
this day the ao-called ** Beotor of WaUssey"
Is, strictly speaking, only the *'Beetor of tbe
first mediety of Wallaoey,*' vli., tha* wUeh
had belonged to tbe Abbey of S. Weri^B^gh
and afterwards to the Dean and Ohaptar of
Ohester ; the other mediety (i.e. half of the tithe of
the parish) belonged in the Middle Ages to the
Priory of Birkenhead and afterwards to the Bishop
of Ohester, but the Eooleriastioal Oommiirionea are
now ** Beotors of Wallasey, second mediety."

In 1620 the Arohdeaoon of Ohester went to Scot-
land, and recelTed the degree of D.D. ftom the
Uni?errity of S. Andrew's. The Archbishop of that
dty was dearly pleased with Bnell, and writee to
Bishop Bridgeman that bis *' worths anu virtue did
merite the same " (Le., the degree of D.D.), " where-
of he has gif en us good proof during his abode here,
and I wishe our Ohuroh were famlriied with many of
the lyke spirit." The Archdeacon rscei?ed a
Oanonry In Ohester Oathedral in 1621, and in tbat
year also he took an ad evndem D.D. degree at
Oxford. In 1681 he escaped a fine for refnring
Knighthood (Us estates being suob as to justify the
King in wisidng to ruse him to that rank) by the
plea that ha was in Holy Orders, and in the aame
year he obtahied a dispensation from Arehbisbop
Abbot that allowed him to hold with tbe

Sbptehbbr, 1898.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

itootoiy of WallftHJ Mm living of W«T6iIoo,
to wliioli he luA baen praMnted « jmt
or iwo before. In 1682 he leeigned his
OenoDfy in feTonr of e kinnmin of hla
wife ; end it wftB in that jeer thet he bnilt Wellfteey
Heetoiy, Ids house form&g the soath-west angle of
the present Beotory. Its predeeessor had been a
thatched building a few yards nortfi of Dr. Bnell's
Beotory, with a «*braTe parloor " in it, bat it had
been allowed to get into sooh a bad state during the
long ineombenoy of Thomas Fletoher (who was
Beetor for nearly 40 years immediately before Snell)
that Fleteher's ezeonlors had to pay o?ee to his
snee e ss or a oonsiderable smn of money towards the
boilding of the new Beotory.

In 1686 Bnell was appointed Bual Dean of the
I>eaner*es of Chester, Kodshem, Melpas, Middle-
wioh, and Nantwioh (t.e., all the Deaneries th«i
exlBting in Cheshire, eie^t Maoolesileld and
Winral) ; he also beoame Bond Dean of Bangor, in
the oat-lying part of FlintsUre. He was oertainly
Beotor of Wallasey as late as 1689, when he
eontribated six gaineas to the fond raieed ** for the
wanes against the Sootts; " bat from 1686 onwards
we iiod a oertain Bandle Adams, DJ)*, working
at Wallas^ ; he had been previooaly in Ireland,
and he probably came as Onrate-in-oharge ander
Bnell, whom he oTentaally saeoeeded in the liTing,
bat, wlien he saeoeeded him, it is not possible as yet
to say ; it wonld probably be in 1642, when Parliament
appointed a *• Committee of Plandered Ministers "
that tamed oat maoy olergy whom its membara, for
any reason (or no reason), disliked, and in most
instanoes pat non-conforming minleters in their
places. Bnell was deprlTed M ail his preferments,
and was thas (as his epitaph osed to remind the
eongregation of Bt. Mary's, Chester) per iniwriam
UmporU in eommunionem luieam r^daettu (i.e., by
the lawlessness of the times redaced to Lay Com-
monion). Uke nearly all the olergy of this diooese,
he had given largely of his sobstaace to support the
King in the 01*11 War, and new he had to oompoond
even for his prlfate estates, to resoae them froin the
datehes of the Parliament.

Some twelTe yean or so of rethwment followed at
Chester, whence his brother-in-law, the Bishop, was
espeUed in 1645. Bnell liTed to see the Presbyterians,
who had OTerthrown the Choroh, themselTes OTcr-
thrown by the Oongregationalists, and these last
pass ondsf the sway of one despot ; but there was no
sign of any relief for the peraeoated Ghoxob, whea
he himself entered into rest on Febraary 0, 1656.
He was boried at Bt. Mary's, Chester, where a short
and simple epitaph marked the place ol his gra?*.''

[2641 ENOLOBUBB OF COMMONS AT NRBTON
IN THB SIXTEENTH CENTUBT.

The following extracts from the pleadings in a
soit between Thomas Bennet, farmer of the tythes
of Neston, and Wm« Forahawe who refnsed to pay
tithes on some rceeotly reolaimed land, giro as an

interesting glimpse into the agriealtnral methods of
Ylixnl farmers in the Tndor period.

The original is preserred among the Episcopal
ArohiTSs at Chester.

*' Evidence glTcn before Mr. Bobert Leche, ete
xlii. of May 1568.

Thomas Bennet of the Parish of Neston, farmer of
the tythes of Neston aged 58 years and apwards,
states that Wm. Forahawe did sows a hay oaued the
Bent Hay the laste yere with rye and paid not the
tiethes of the same to the ftumer becaose they
thooght that they shoalde not ete etc."

Thomas Chanoeke aged 50 years and opwaidSf

John Hamaet aged 69 yeam and oBwasds,

Biohard Coke aged 40 years and apwardsi all gave
evidenisa in sapport of Thomaa Bennett.

The hearing of the ease for the defendant came on,
on the 8th Jane, when l^cholas Hill, aged 79 yean,
Bobert ligbtfoot, aged 84, Hugh Borscowe, sged
i4, and Hugh Bordman* aged 48, gate cTidence for
the defendant.

The last witness *• ssies that at the ilrst, Benty
Hay was a part of the gret hea^h, and that e? eiy
man of the townes adjaeent, might pat on it [cattle]
as upon otaer parte of the said heath before it was
enclosed; and ft was enclosed before this deponents
coming into the ooantry which is about z?i yerea
ago and nowe it is scTerally endosed, so tliat nowe
oertain of the towne of Willaston haTC little oloees
in scTcralty of the said Ben|y Hay, which they do
tiU with great Ubour, first, with delving it with turf
mdes, and after learinge up, when it is dry and
then buminge it, and then spreade the ashes abroad*
and then thoy till it with the plowe^ and some th^
do plowe without delving. Whether they naye rente
or not this deponent knoweth not. On other partes
of the heathe, oattaile be tamed on for a tyme^ but
they are not ahle to have a fuU bitt to flU their
belly, eto."

This method of turning heatUand into arable land
by burning the surface tuif , appean to have been
practised on the western dopes of Bidston Hill,
where Eleanor-road cuta through some of the ridges
that run down the ftee of the hill.

Here, where the various strata are laid bare by the
cutting, is to be seen, immediately above the rock, a
thin line of blaek depodt, evIdenUy caused 1^ born-
ins, and above it again several inches of cultiTated
sou. Above the soil lie a few inehea of decayed
leaTes which have fallen since the trees were planted
on these slopes 50 years ago, for it must be remembered
that before this plantation waa made, it was all
meadow land, and sometimes even planted with oropa.

C'aughton.

Tours, <kc.,

W. FsBGUisoH lavm.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Septeubeb, 1898.

SEPTEMBER 23rd, 1893.

[265] WIBBAL DEANERY IN 1605.

Ai « Beqnel to the BiBhop*a Visitation for 1592,
reeentlj printed (lee Noa. 241, 247, and 249), the
following later Vuitation, for the year 1605, may be
of interest.

As the doonment is a onriens mixtore of Latin and
English, I have given a free translation of the Latin
phrases, bnt have marked their presenoe by printing
these translated passages in italios.

The Rev. Hogh Boiehes, or Burgess, seems only
to have aoted as deputy to Dr. Yale, the Ohanoellor,
as both at a previous and a later session of the
Consistory Court Dr. Yale preaides.

Yours, &o.,

Claughton.

Wm. Fergusson Ibtinx.

WEBBALL DEOANAT*.

CoBAM Mbo Huoomx Bibchks in Abtibus Maoistbo
IN EooLisu Cath: Oestbibn: Our: Oonsibt:
vu DIE Mbmbib rrjsBBUABn 1605.

WOODOHUBOB P'OCH*.

Against Anne fforbeok wife o/— fforbeok : —

[Beoause she] hath absented herself from the
Ohuroh this half yeare at least [andj hath not been
purified after ohildbirtb.

Against John Hookenball gentleman : —

[Beoauae he] hath not reoey ved the oommunion at
Eaater last at his P'ish Church, [added in another
hand is:] Ytt appeareth by a oertifioat bee did
communicate lateUe.

Against the Churchwardens there : —

Neither the ten commandments nor anie other
sentences of Scripture placed in the Church.

On which day and in the said place the Church-
wardens appeared and the Chancellor enjoined them
to take oute a oomndssion when my L :[ord] comes
home to enquire of the said formes and to certifle.

Against Lawrence Pemberton and Alice Robinson :

A'iulteres : have done noe penance.

Case postponed until 2Sfh February,

Afterwards f before David Yale Doctor of Law, 5
April 1606. said Pemberton appeared and confessed
to the adultery with the said Alice, The Chancellor
ordered him to abstain therefrom for ever and to
purge himself by public penarice for four Lord^s Days
or Feast Days in the following manner and form
viz., for one Lords Day or Feast Day in the Parish
Church of Heswallf another in the Church of Thurs-
taston a third in the Parish Church of Wallasey and
a fourth in the Parish Church of Woodchurch in the
Diocese of Chester and k> certify having done the same

before the Feast of St John the Baptist next ensuXng
[24M June"] under the hands of the Curates and
Churchwardens of the said several Churches

Thomas Held :— fomioator

Against the Parish : —

[Because they] cannot agree about pladnge
formes.

Against Joan Goodiker widow : —

Useth hie reporte to praie on beads.

On which day etc she appeared and aflirmeth she
have bourned [burned] her beadee and thereupon
tooke her othe and hath promised not to use anie.

Against Margery Ball :—

Fornicator : bath done noe penance.

Case postponed till 2Sth February,

West Eibebib P'och*.
Nothing to present,

Shotwiokb P*och'.

Against Bobert Forshawe :—

A common disturber of his neighbors and a eon-
teumer of the Minister in tyme of OAteohizinge.

On which day etc he appeared and the Chancellor
enjoined him to confess his falte before the Curate,
Churchwardens and ewornemen on one Sondaie or
Holie Day.

Against Hugh ap Jones :—

For keeping a bowse of Bawdrie in sufforinge David
Norris and Shayne ap Boberts to lye together in his
bowse Bometymes for the space of a weeka together.

Against Anthony Litherland tnd Elisabeth Lip*
trott :—

Baapeoted of adultery.

0/1 which day etc the man appeared and the Chan-^
cellor enjoined him to clear himself before the 2Sth
February ; On which day etc the case wets postponed
until 16 May 1606; When aforesaid Litherland
appeared before the Chancellor and confessed his sin ;
the Chancellor admonished him to abttain for ever
therefrom and ordered him to do penance in the
Church of Burton some one Lords Day or Feast Day
and to certify the same before the Fecut of St, John
the Baptist [24th June] next ensuing.

Against Margaret wife of John Dannatt ;—

A common scold and disturber of the neighbon.
She is ordered to do penance one Bundaie in Shot-
wick Church.

Eabtham P'och.

Against Lady [Stanley] loife of William Stanley,
Knight, the wife of William Stanley Esquire^ [and]
Mary Garratt :—

Becusants: postponed for the hearing of the Lord
Bishop f etc

Against the Vicar of the same : —
Hath not yett his eocU'oaU apparel1»

1898.

WikraL hoiks and QUEBIES.

Swifto:—

8eoldi, [oidcnd] to
bafon

Tha ohaaoall oat al

AgamMi ffinhiril,
John Totti6 :~

OmtnlkMi te

RiehanUtm mmd Mkm

dirtnbe the MmM ud booMM Ttt
wen noik dUknhtn tatt wptJU fi or ttm
ChanedUfr lUtmitmd ike

tie

tkt

Agamat iie exeeuion pfBkhmd BmMU

Par Mdpirwmg ikewOl; am mkkk dtajr Jokm
WiiUam BumMI apfmnd , mmd Ha c
panad wUU tkafoUommg Fridmf.

BsuiA Pogh'*

Tbonifl FinlowiB flC WUttUib
DfloaoB, flC bkHo^v haAtadnfli :—

[Baoraw Ui^l mn« aoft to the Otanfc
Sobbooth Dues; WUUam Demmm a ppaa r a d
fUUedi That ha ii aoa olda haa aauwtt nathar ia
able to goa to Chmoh nor veQ to haaia and ottao
tynMa lydath to Oharah and doth Tanlia onMWil*
eala ordetlia. Tka CkameOlor ditmiaaed the eaaa.

Thomaa Pmlowe appaarad and ike ChameeUar am-
foined him to npan to Oharah aad baeava ha ha^
hjn oagligaot ika Ckamedlor ai^amad him to oonfaH
fak faUa, iriMW ijd the mm publiqaalia in tba
oomta.

AgaiiuiUt.BmDmewraU tbwe:^

Goath not penabidatiooa nor waanth ornamoBta
•a ia appointed by the Ohnrehe. On whieh dap
Bamiet appaarad and ikaChanealloTTafentd the eaaa

to tka Biahop am Ma taming from London,

^^oMul Biehaid Hanell and Maqpuret Baoe [f] :—
fimtnattiitiii

BVMOH P*OQB^.

Agamat tkafarmera ikara ;— noe m anat hlle ■crmoBf.

{To ha ComHnnad.)

[266]

WntBAL DEANEBT, 1664.

(Ctontinned frani No. 258— Sept 2nd.)

EnzBB [West Kirby]

Mr Biem Walker reet (1)
Dna Blena Peren [?]

Biena Hanison )
Biena ShnrUMceJ*^^
Blena Yonnge
BieAndrewe

11) Aoeoreingjo Onnerod, Blobard Walksr wu loittiatea
to die UvtagolYe** Kliby on 18th Metoh, IMO.

UftnnO)

WIDhhi Wijght, net (2)
Botam Balirton [T]

Bobtl^naid 1 mi«a>
Banff Bow^nnMNilS*'^

K A ^0 ^^9 ^0^^^9w9^9^^^^/^aM

SEPTEMBER 30th, 1893.

[267]

WIBBAL DBANEBT IH 1606.

(Oonttaraad Iran No. 266— Sepl 26.)

Bmnon Foob.*
Agmui OObart UnMaton and Edwwd P e mbe rt on;

Betaaed to reeey^ the oominnnlon at Beater
laat. On which dag tha a/oraaaid Oilhart appaarad
and tha ChanceUor a^joinad him to raeaiva tha Hoig
Communion at Eaatar next and to cartify tha aam$
immadiatelg thareafter.

Edward Pambartom t^paarad and tha ChameaOor
anjoinad him to oommnmoete att Beater n«Lt and to
eertify the same at the aane time.

Againat tha/armora tharaof,-^

No monethlie aennonea.
Againat the Cwrata tharaofx-^

Hath noe eloake with ileefea.
il^amtt EUaabeth Bhnrlooke fomieator.

(1) Protiebly one of tba Bennatta of Beniloo (FM«

Bennatl. clerk,- wm <»• <>« •^•.JiSS'SJf •"• ^*" •*

(2) Onnoroe horn not meotloa Ihto BMlot el ell.

(3) JotanAnniondloeinl5(.9

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

SSPTEHBSB, 1898.

BiBIHOTOR P'OOH.'

Affaintt the Ohurehtpordtm of the ume : —

Tb^ WAnt Mr. Jnells *< B^Iye Md Apollogie,'* «
oon'ioge for ibe OoUon Table, tbe tenne eommaiid-
meats not pieced in Uie East end of tbe Obnrobe.

On tohieh day they appeared, and the Chancellor
enjoined them to pVjda tbe Bookee and tbe reite
before Eeeter nezte.

Againet the InhabUanta of Dranmere :^

P*te of tbe Obarobyard belonging to Tnnmen oat
of repareoon.

Againet Aliee Hodgion and Joan Wetlierbie, foniioa
torea.

On which day Hodgson appeared and the Chan-
eeUor enjoined her to do penanee on three day a, one
day at BeUngton, one at Eaetham and the third in
Bromhroe [Oborobaa] and to certify the tame before
JBaeter next and saye tbe mans name is Tbomas
Helde dwellinge in Tranmore.

Againet John Smith and John Wade, barbonred tbe
■Aid Alioa Hodgson and Joan Wetbarbie.

On which day John Smith appeared and ytt ap-
peared by Ids otbe [tbat] be byrad tbe said Alioa
size weekes before ber deliTerie and daposetb be did
not knowe ber to bee wltb cbild and tbat being
qoeetioned tyU the tyme of ber deliTerie sbe dyd
denye byttt the Chancellor diemieeed the ea$e became
he did notjind him guilty.

Wade appeared and becauee it transpired tbat
tbe woBum ?is. tbe said Joan oame to bis boose
beane vaiye greate and labred att tbat instant
bainge a stranger and she wold nott be pottenawaie,
the Chancellor diemieeed the caee,

Againet Robert Pillington and Margaret Finlowe
adoiteres :—

On which day Pillington appeared and the Ohan^
cellar enjoined him to appear on the last Friday in
February be/ore the Chancellor to receive judgement
and to do penanee for three Lords Days in the
Church tf Bebington and to certify the same before
Easternext,

WiLLisn P*O0B.'

Against [blank] :-^

A windowe in tbe Bisbopps ObanoeU not glasad in
whose defanlt not knowne.

Against the Executors of Robert Wtlsoni^

For not pro^ng his will before Mr. Barobes, and

Thomas Coventrie appeared and pleaded [ , f]

the Chancellor granted the petition and postponed
the case until Friday the 28M of February.

Against John Orisley, Ellen Hodgson, Heniy Bird,
Jane Smith, Alioe BiebardsoD, Blobard Aynsdale and
IHiaabetb Bbarloeke f omieators :»

On which day Bird appeared and the Chancellor
enjoined him to prove his innocence or to appear on
Friday the 28th February ; the Chancellor enjoined
Aynsdale to do public penance for three Lords Days
or Feast Days in the Church of Wallesie and to
certify the same under the hand of the Curate and
Churehwardene,

Against Ellen Boblnson widow : —

A eommon bawde. On which day the woman
appeared and beeaose it was alleged tbat neither the

swome men nor tbe Oborobwardens did preaenta
ber and tbat sbe is not oalpable of tbe ofiiBnee, tha
Chancellor enjoined ber to bring a oertifiaate from
them 28tb Feb. next.

Therefore, afterwards fbi. on tbe 88tb Fab. she
appeared and brought the eertifeate,

Nbbton P'ogb'

AgoMist Willm Wbitmore of Leighton gwUlemam
and AUee his wife (1) Eleanor and ChrisUan his
daughters and one of their servants called Tbe Norse.

Have not come to Ohorah this twelve mooths and
more, neither liaYe they m^"*"tnniflated since the 20da
March 1602

Case postponed until 2Bth Feb,

Against Biobard Breaker and Alice DeoBon foni-
catores : —

On which da/y the woman appeared and the
OhwnceUor enjoined her to de pv^lie penance on one
dmf and beeauee ii appeared from a cerHfeate that
shae had done one diUes penance the Chancellor die^
missed the case (2)

Against Elizabatb wife of Bobt : Oottingbam :-*

Hath not receyred tbe o*oi*on this lasts year.

On the third ofMa/y 1606 the Chancellor ahsoloei
the said EUxabeth and restored to her Church
privileges because it appeared from a letter from
Master Seaborne Beetor of Thornton [le- Moore"] that
the said EUzabeth received the Holy Eucharist etc*

HBSWALL FOGH.'

Against JdmBbrd :—

[Beeaose he doaa] not Uve with his wife. The
case postponed because Bird ie over seas, he is
ordered to appear on his return.

Against ths wife of Richard Joluson and Biobard
Borrowa: —

For not communieating.

tJPTOB PVOH.'

Agannst the Clw^chwardens there :—

The Ohorob oote of repaire. On which day ike
Churchwardens a^ppeared and the Chancellor enjoined
them to repaire there Ohorobe by midaomer nezto
aad to p'fyde Belropes aod to certify etc.

Against Joha Gill :—

For takeioge nsserie lizt [r more thaa] ii« in the
pooad ; ai&rmed by Tbomas Toooge that the said
GiU bath takea zU/i for zli ia the jreare. On which
da/y QyU appeared and stated, be dyd reo^?e onlia
ii« ia the pooode aad oot aboTC, the Chancellor e»-
joined him to paie Us^dio the poore mans boze or
els to appeare before my L : [Lord] at Us oominge
home.

(1) Daaglitai of WUUam Hoagli of. Leiglikm and Thorn-
ton Hoasn.

(S) While examining a bundle of papen at the Beaiitry.
nol oonneoted in anj way wiih thii volnme of Vieiiations.
I oame aoroii thli venr oeittfloate. a fall oopy of which 1
append.

u xheie are to oertefya yt Alea Damon of ya Piaha of
Neiton at ye tjme of her pnnrfloatlon wch waa apon
Tewesday In Whlteonweeke laet, hath Cone penanoe openly
before ye oongregation in tyme of Devyne fletrioe aoooco-
Inge to ye Artycuea enJoTiunge. In wttneaae whereof wo
have Mlla to oar handf vl of febr : IGOS. _

Franoia Oraana, Vloar.
William Beonette, Jarak
Bobt. Holme
Thomai Ooltiaahamt

OhDrohwardanB.**

, 1898.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

[268] WmaAL DEANEBY, 1554.

(OoDtlmied from No. 266^Bept 88.)

Thubstamton.

Dob ThomM Sharpe reei (1)
OftUridw Heworfch
JoAoiieB Bnbon

Shotwioz.

Dm TbonuM Hande vie (2)
BiODB HMkoth 1 ..^
Gaoigo Whitfeld/*"*
ThomM Dowe
BftdiuPam
H«mieiii aubert
ThomM Hejlin

Btok.

Dos Bobtw Trlmid (8)
Doi Henricu Oowper

Nio. JoMon I ^.

WmsBiiBhiUj*^'

Wms Taylor

BogenuOowpfr

Willms Swyndle

Baokiobd.

Doa Bleas Garrett vie (4)
Dm Johea Lepangton (5)

Willms Fonhaw

Johamies Eyrkea

BloMBowdon

JoaimeB Ejng

BaOMBBOB.

Dm BiOM Ooke yIo (6)
Willms Daw ) _^
George Bpon f b^*
JevBM

Bobtna JaMOO
BobtM Taylor.

OCTOBER 7th, 1893.

(1) The Bev Thomaa Bharpe waa Institated Beotor of
Thomailoo on the Urd Jane 1542 and held it thtoagh all
the chanmB until 1601 when he resigned.

(S) In the Tftlaation el the Monastery of Bt. Werhargh
nrepared at the dluolalion. mention Ii made of '*Oni
Thomaa Bande, a prleat linglng at Bhotwlck,*' so we have
here another example of the aoqaiescenoe on the part of
theolergy in the ohanges whloh took piaoe. It Is not
known bow Ions Mr. Hande oontinaed to hold Bhotwiok,
bat in 1569, the Rot John Carter was disoharging the daties
so that his holding of the oare moat ha?e oeased prior to
this date.

(8) The name of the Bev Bobert Ireland la act mentioned
InOrmerodi

(4) The Be? Biobard Oarrett was presented to the living
of BaokfordbytheKlng. 18 Deo 1539— he was holding the
living in 1557 and probably oontinaed to do se antii 1579
when Hugh Morrey snooeeded him (Ormerod).

(5) In a MB. book of Depoeltions preserved at the
Begistry dated 1549, mention is made of a " John Lepanston
eleriens of 81 Oswald's, prebendary of Ohester," the John
Lepangton mentioned in the text may have been a relative
of the Prebendary.

(6) The Bev Biobard Coke waa originally a onrate at
Bastham bat, aooording to hla own depositions, printed in
these oolamna aome montha ago [No 179] in or abont 1541
waalnatitnted to Brombro*, whloh he oontinaed to hold
oertainly until Jone of 1S67 and possibly later.

[269] MISS 8EWABD AT HOYLAEB.

(See No. 362— September 9th>v ^

In a letter dated Btgh Lake, Sipt. 20, 1794,
addressed to J. Johnson, Bsq., Miss Seward writes :

•* Amidst many other agreeable oironmatanoeB
for whioh I haye been indebted to yonr friendship, I
thank yon for reeommending High Lake to me m a
marine residenee. I like it extremely, and though
often indisposed, hope to reeeife benefit from its
pore galM and plaeid waters. All my fear 1b an
abated degree of saline strength in the billows^ by
the Inten^tnre of fresh water from the riyers Dee
and Mersey, inoeasantly stealing into the lake amidst
the salt green streama of the oeean.

We haye here a Tery pleasant sodety* to the
nomber of abont thirty. The mnaio at liverpool
allnred a eonaiderable part of it thither ; amongst
thereet m oonsin T. White and Us bright-eyed
friend. I had an ardnou atrnggle with my inolin.
atioM on that oooaaion. OonBideratioM of health,
however, prevailed over eveiy temptation to indulge
myself in the highest loxnry my senses oan ex-
perienoe, and I remained quiet at High Lake.

T. White enohants the drde with his songs.
Some of the party have heard and mention yours
with the highest posdble enoomiuma. Our soeiety
reeeived a great addition to its pleMures by Mr.
Wigley^f oompany during a week." (Letters of Anna
Seward, Vol. IV., pp 11, 12.)

On Ootober 1st, Miss Seward writes to the last
named gentleman, Edmaod ^>ngley Esq. M.P., who
hM returned to Liehfield. She says :~

«• We miss you on the airy promontory, and on the
dl?er sands. A oertain sunny smile 1b wanted to
re-iUuminate our little obele, gloomed by melanoholy
shipwreek, and all its heirt-aiboting partieulars. A
ship sunk, dose to the sand-island on the ooeanside,
yesterday morning at nine o*olook, o?erwheUned by
the heavy and stormy seas. Her seven mariners
periehed, besides the other passengers whieh
probably she had on board. An Amenoan vessel,
whieh put into this Lake a few hours after, and
whioh was itself in great danger, saw her sink
within gun-shot, without being able to afford the
least aseistanoe to the unhappy oreatures, who, with
the dire shrieks of despair, were olingiog round the
niMts and shrouds. Boats have been going off to
the wreok ever since, whose men return with sad
narratioM from hour to hour. Asoending the
highest apartment of this hotel, we saw tlie dismal
wreck distinctly through a telescope, with the several
boatmen which had landed on the island, and were
busied about it ; and some of them bending over the
dead bodies that lay scattered on the sands. Three
of them were found in a dreadfully lacerated con-
dition, and brought into the Li^e in a boat iMt
night.

WmRAL NOTES AND QXJEBIES.

OOTOBBB, 1898.

TImw Aretha ■hoekfag olromiiitaiioef, wiiiob to
inUodtti often oomiterAot the eiEBOt of eoeet mi-
danee, even while they niAke u leal» with the moat
MDBible oomf ort,

" The grove*! bleil iheller on the irtable thore. .
Wliera the tail piiie-tree iliigi beneeui the wlna.**

I hftTa qaotad thoaa pietty Unaa, tranalated by a
frland of mine from an idylfinm of the Greek poet,
If oaohna, thongh there are neither groToa nor pine-
traea at High Lake. Imagination, however, eaaily
Bobatitntea a grove for a feather bad, and for rattl-
ing windows, whiatling treea.

If laa Bemmington and my tnnefol oonain deaire to
preaent to yon very animated remambranoea. I hope
we may all paaa a aooial eTeniog together at laah-
Held on the 16tb.'* (Vol. It., pp 1814.)

Daring her atay at Hoylake, the Jair anthoreaa
eompoaed a poem entitled, " Yeraea written at Hoyle
Lake, and deaorlptive of that aeene." Theae Teraea

fifhieh I hope ahortly to aend to yon) are referred to
the following letter written to a lady friend on
October S5, 1794, after Miaa Seward's retnm to
Liehfield.

" My eoait raeidanoe waa at Hoyle Lake, twelve
ttUea bebw Fark-aate. The air of that graaey
mound ia remarkably pnre, and aeldom annoyed by
ahowera. The anroharged doada, witbont deaoending
there, draw their dark traina towards the Flintahire
monntaina, that riae on the left from the oppoaite
ahorea of the Dee. It ia only the all-day raina that
fdl at High Lake, and bat three of thoae wet days
oooorred daring oar atay. The farther loeal parti-
oolara of this newly-eatablished marine reaidenee the
endoaed poem will plaoe before yon.

Onr party was mrj pleaaant. Being only one
honaa at High laike, we all lived together with tbe
Bodal eheerfnlneaa of a large family. Lord Bagot'a
aiater, If ra. 'V^gfield of Shrewabary, I had, in my
Jarenile years, very alightly known. Lut year at
Searborongh, we renewed oar aeqaalntanoe. She and
her amiable danghtera formed an intereating part of
oar aoeiety at High Lake. They all expreeaed the
moat flattering pleaanre in oar meeting again. They
arrlTed a few daya after na, and left the plaoe on the
same morning that we tnrned onr faoea towarda
StaflFordahire. Several other Bhropahire families
were alao there. The aitnatlon pleaaed ns all, and
the apartmenta are light andapaeiona aa thoae of the
hotela at Boston ; the proviaiona eqoally good.

Ezpraasing my esteem for the pnblio spirit of Sir
John Stanley, in bnUding npon tbla ooeanlo apot,
the oompany prevailed npon me to write its des4vii>-
tion in verse, wbiob, they fancied, woiUd pleaae him,
and oontribata to tbe ridng celebrity of tbe aoene.
Whatever other merit the little poem may want, its
deaoriptlona are atriotly appropriate. Standing on
the edge of the oliflk, from which we daaoend to oor
bathing-maohinea, and, with onr faoes to the aea, we
diaoem every object my verae deaoribea. Miaa Wing,
field was ao good aa to transcribe this poem thrice,
in pity to the many olaima npon my pen. Mrs.
Wingfleld pressed me to send her brother. Lord
Bagot, a copy. However warmly I may a^^rove of
the ariatooratio link in that chain of sabordination,
ao neeaiaaiy to the good of every oottntry, I yet feel
the axtremeat relaotanoe to pash myself opon the

notice of the great, and aomewhat reloetantly
ooaaanted to her propoeal; bat I have had
no reason to repent my aeqaieaoenee. Lord Begot
has written to me twloe on the oeeaaion,
with the most gratifying praiae of thia rhyming
trifle, and with even friendly cordiality, tbongh
personally nnknown to him. Alter warmer oom-
mendationa than I can, in any modeaty repeat,
he tanght me to believe him rath«r partial than flat-
tering, by confeaaing that he thonght one line
obaoare. and not atrietly grammatieal. I altered it
inatantly ; and tranamitting my alteration to him, he
wrote agiin, to amy that I had made it ail he wiahed.
Sir John Stanley haa alao adinowledged my tribnte
to himadf and his place, in warm terms of approba-
tion and pleaanre ; bat I have had the mortification
of seeing it printed in the Shrewsbnry newspaper of
October the 16th, in a form aoarce leaa appalling to
ita hapleaa aathor than that of the mnrdered Banqno
to Macbeth,

**Wlth twenty mortal blonde^ on iti rarfaoe,
The leait a death to nnia.'*

I am promiaed its re-lnaerlion in a more oorreot
state. Bat it will probably be copied from the firat
mangled edition into other papera, and ita dipgraee
conaeqaently apread. Theae are the Mi—ri<Mi of
anthorship." (vol. iv, pp. 19-81).

In a later letter. Miss Seward apeaka of *• the
handsome hotel, the little appen-
dant white cattagee, acattered aroond, to anpply it
with milk, batter, ^to." (vol. iv, p. 87).

F. BiMLnaa.

OCTOBER 14th, 1893.

[270] NOTES ON THE BEOTOBS OF THUBS-
TASrON IN THE IGth A 17th OENTUBIEB.

A.— BIOHABD PBIESTLAND.

The earliest record relating to Thorstaaton that I
have found in the Diocesan Begistry ia that of the
institation of Bxohabd Pbxbsti«and to the Beo-
tory, which runs aa followa when translated from
the Latin in which all theae records are written : —

"To the parish chnroh of Thubsta^ntor,
vacant throogh the death of Sir Johh BaNanrr,
st the presentation of the Abbot and Convent of
Saint Werbnrg at Chester, Sir [dominus] Rio.
PassTLONDB waa admitted by the reverend
father in Chbist, lord [d(minuin'\ (I) Gbovfbbt,
bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and iustitnted to
the same: and by Maater Bobebt Cltitb [hia]

(1) Thli was OeofErey Blyth, oonwonled 150S Bishop of
Ooventi7Bnd Uohfield in whioh dlooese we wore before the
Biahoprio of Oheitoc wm oreated. Benoa all eurlier recoi A«
of Ihontaiton arc in the Lichfield Boalitry.

OOTOBBB, 1898.

WmBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

offidal, lotd [doiMiMMi] wohdaMoa of Ohasicr, 1m
WIS Indpcled into the nine on tha 9tti daj of
Ooiober, a.d. 1607." (1)

Mr. Mflrtluid ia itylod domwttt, wUeh hM s
wide range of maeniag. Probablj the Engliak
eqniyalent ia his ease la Bh^ wbioh waa the general
title for paiaooB in Eliaabeth's daja, if we may lo
infer from "Sir Topas the enrate," in Twelfth
Night. (See aleo the will of Thomaa Sharpe infra.)

In Hr. PriMtland'a timo began Henry Ylll.'a
■weeping eeeleaiastioal meararea, but Thniataaton
leema only to have been aibeted by them in ao far
that after the aoireader and diasolntion of the
Abb^ of St. Werbntg in Oheater, 20 Jan. 1539,
when the new Oathedial of Oheater waa founded in
ita plaoe, 4 Ang. 1641, the ohnreh, i e., the patronage
of Thorataaton waa i^ven to the Dean and Chapter.
Joal preriona to thia, howaver, and probably in
antidpation of the iM of their poaoeaalona, the
Moaaatery had giTon away (for what oonaiderationa
we know not) the next p ie aen tation, aa the following

«* To all the fatthfol of Ohsut to whom tUa
pt e aent writing ahall oome (2) Tbomis by divine
penniaaion Abbot of the exempt (S) moaaatery of
St. Werbnrg of the dty of Oheeter oi tlie order of
Bt. Benediot and ihe oonyent of tbe aame plaoe, tme
and nndonbted patrona of the pariah ohnroh of
THUBaiANBXQH in the eo. of Oheater, diooeae
of Oorentry and liehfield, greeting [salutenh] in
the author of aalvation [saluiis]. Know that we
the aforeaaid Abbot and Oonyent by oar nnanimons
aaaent and oonaent have giTen, oonoeded, and by
this onr preaent writing haTa oonflrmed, to
oor beloved in Obbibt, THoioa Pols Esq.
Otvstii WoBSLiT, gentleman, and Tromab
IfoMKURLDB of the eity of Oheater, skinner,
and to anyone of them jointly and aeverally, their
heira and aaaigna, the iirat and next advowaon (4),
donation, presentation, and free dispoaal of the aaid
parish ohnroh of Thubstanston aforeaaid for
the firat and next vaoanoy of the same only, when
throngh death, retirement, reaignatloo, eeasion or
deprivation or in any other way whatever it shall
liaTe happened that the said parish ohnroh of
Thubbtanbton bo for the first and next time
TBoant : and that it ahall be fully lawful for the
aforesidd Thoxas, Otuxll and Thomas and
anyone of them jointly and severally, and their heirs
and assigns as is aforesaid, to nominate and preaent
any able and fit person whatever to the said parish
ehuroh of Thtjbstamston vaoant in the man-

ffnU

SI) A few of the eerllesl of kheae dooamentiare prinked In
1 lo Ulostrate the style, which oontlnaes Tery maoh
noohaBged to tbe present time. It will be asef al briefly to
explain the teoholoal lerme. A Beotory (or other Benenoe)
hiolndei (1) the aplrltiial oare of Boals, (8) poBseulos of
certain temporal eajolamenta,hoafle, tithe, eto. Tbe care of
■onla tnthewbole dlooese really belonn to the Bishop, who
therefore alone can really appoint a fiector. Hence when
the patronagt or advovton is In other baniB, « 9., of a lay*
nan, the layman nominaie$ or prfewtt bli candidate to tbe
Biabop. If the Bishop admUi (i.«., accept!) him, he will
flret itutUvie him to the care of seals In the place, and
then generally through some deputy induct him Into the
possession of the temporal emolaments of the beneSce.

(S) Thomaa Olerk, elected Abbot about 1537, and flnt Dean
of the Cathedral, called by Ormerod John Clerk.

(S) I.en Kzempt from the dlaaolution of the smaller
monaatenes in 1S36.

t4) Lat. advocatio : the tight of the patron to nominate to
allTinf.

neia aa ia aforeaaid, and to do and fdfll all olhar
matteiB, all and every, ao perfeoify, fully, and oeaa-
pletdy, aawe should do If thia our p r eae n t eon-
eession had not been made ; aaviog to ouroalvea uid
our BUOoeaBora onr annual peaaioif of two (1) shilliagB
to be paid to us in the right of oar monaatery afore-
said annually at the usual feast : In witness where-
of we have aiBxed to these prsaanta our oommon
seal, given in onr ohapter house on the 16th day of
Ootohar a.d. 1588, also in the 80th year of the reign
of King HsKBT Tm, by the graoe of Qod hing of
Englaad and Fkanoe, defender of the faith (2). lord
of Ireland and on earth supreme head of the BngUih
Ohnroh." (8)

Thokas Polb ia probaUy Thomaa *Foola
Baq. of Poole Hall, whioh ha built, son and
heirof Sir ^^Uiam Poole, and aeneaohall of the
priory of Birkenhead at ita diasolutton. He died in
1547, aged 86. Otubll WoaaLir, gent, waa
auditor (t.e. reoeiver) of the monaatery of 8t. War-
burs'a for whioh he reoeived per ann. 66s. 8d. He was
made a Oommissioner for the Deanariea of lialpas
and Wiiral in valuing the Ohureh property for tha
Valor Eeele$ia8tieut. His Christian name is peenliar :
there was an Oithnfrw or Ottiwell, baatard aon of
Hugh Lnpua. He may have been oonneoted with
the Woraleya of Worsley in Laneashire, one of whom
Ralph Worsley, aettled in Cheater and aoquired tha
Bite and a great part of the property of the Prioiy of
Birkenhead when it waa diaaolved ; he died in 1578
at the age of 80. In the aeoount of Cheater in tha
Book ofiht Surveif of the Moiuuteriei we find a good
deal more of information abont Otwell Wondey.
He had a leaae of " Carter'B Hey paatura * for 51
yeara. Among the annual f eea whioh the Abb«y had
to pay were ** To Otwell Worsley, gant* bay^ of
of Upton with the members £4 : to tha aayd OttweUi
baylye of the ranta and fermes within and nere to
the oitye of Oheater £4.** Alao fuller partioulara :
" To Ottwell WorBley, gent, olerke of the ohekker of
the Boyd lata Abbey, and also of alio the oourta of
the seyd lata monasterye within Cheashyre, aa well in
redye money 408, as mete and drynk of the ai^d
Otiwell and of hia aervant 54b. 4d, and alao hia
ohambar within the aeyd late monaaterye 10s. and
suffloient fnell 20s. graaae and provender for tha
f^ndyngeof horssee 80s. and for staUll rooms for the
seyd 2 horsee 6a. 8d., also in the pryoe of 7 loves
oalled payne qurters, 4 gallona of oonvent ale, and 4
gallons of the seonnde ale weakelye 86s. 8d. a
gentilman liverye unto the seyde OttweU 18s. 4d. by
letters pattents bearynge data the 6th day of Sept. .
in the 80th yere of o* seyd sovereign lord the kynga
for time of lyfib grannted £12.** t « , a total pen-
sion of £12 a year, equivalent to £120 of our mon«y.

B.— THOMAS SHABPB

In 1542, probably through age or infirmity, aa ha
hid been Beotor 85 yeara, Mr. Friestland resigned
the benefice, and in bis plaoe Thomas BBAarn

the

(1) In the vaior eccl«i, and all anbseaaenl docamanta
appears as 5s.

{2) FidH dtftntor^ the title oonlened on Henry by Pope
Leo m 1521.

(3) In terra taprtmasi caput seo'stf « OMlieoMM, a title
conferred, or rather appropriated, by himself and re-
laotantly conceded by the Convocations under heary
pressare and threats, and with a saving interpretation
{quantum licet) in ISSl*

WntBAL NOTES AND QUEBIES.

OOTOBBB, 1898.

was pffiiiBlad bf Thomw Pole Bi^,MMidiiig tottw
ioDowiiig MMrd.

"Thoiob Bharpb, derk [cUricuM], was pre-
stBted to the parish ehvoh of TflUBsriHSTOR,
dloo. of OhasUr, vaeant ihroiigh the free resignation
of 6u Bio. PaisruLND, laat Tioar and inenm-
bent there, at the preeentation of Thoxas Poui,
Esq., by reason of the aforeiaid adfowson conceded
to Urn and others with fall right for this torn, on
the 88rd daj of Jane, a.d. 1542: and the same
Thomas Bhaxpi was admitted and institated
into the same rectory with all its rights and belong-
ings by the reT. father and lord in Ohsibt, lord
John (1) by divine pemdsrion bishop of Ohester on
I& xnii day of the month of Jane in the aforesaid
year."

Mr. Bharpe wag probably of a Neston family (of
yeoman rank, there is no record of tbem in Ormerod) .
A Wm Shai^ and a Biohard Sharp paid com-
paratiT^ large sams in the 1546 Babsidy Boll, and
lie also had a coosin living there in 1601, and to
Jadge from his will was a friend of Sir Thomas
Betsoo, Viear of Neston 1562-1605. A John Sharps
was elected Prior of Birkenhead in 1519 and seems
to ha?e been the last one. The connection with
Neston is illnstrated by the following gift of the
next Frsssntation to Tharstaston, made in 1550,
which we qoote in fall to show the slight change
mads by the change of <* Abbot and GonTcnt *' into
'* Dean and Ohapter.**

B. B. BiOKHAM.

{To be eantintted,)

OCTOBER 21$t, 1893.

[271] NOTES ON TBE BEOTOBB OP THUBS.
TASTON IN THE 16th <ft 17tb OENTURIES.

(Oontinned from No. 270^Ootober 14.)

" To all the faithful of Ohbibt to whom the
present wriUng shidl oome, William Olswwm (2),
doctor of laws, dean of the Oathedral Ohoreh of
Ohbibt and the blessed virgin Mart at Ohester
and the canons of the^same place, trne and nndoobted
patrons of the parish chnrch of Thubbtabton
within the co. of Ohester and diocese aforesaid,
ererlasting salvation in the Lord. Know that we
the aforesaid dean and canons with oar nnanimons
consent, sBsent, and will, have c^ven, eonceded and
by oar preaent writing confirmed to onr beloved
in Ohbibt, John Bhabpb of Great Neston, and
Thomab Betbom of Little NcBton and to either
of them jointly and severally and to their hein and
assigns the flret and next advowson, presentstion.

1>. John Bird (first) blahop of Oheiter IS^l 1564.
.8) Third Deen of GheitetlM7-U98.

Bomiiiatioii and free asiigirmimt and dJspusal of CIm
aforesaid parish choroh of Thubstabtoh with all
its rights and eppartenances, so that it aluJl
be f ally lawf al to the af oreeaid John, Thomas mad
either of them and the ezecntors aiid aarigna of
the same or of either of them, for one time only, to
present, nominate and asrign a fit person to the
paiieh Ohnrch of Thubstabtoh aforesaid with all ItH
rights, when for the first and next time it Bhali heppen
to be vacant whether throngh death, or rerigBniion,
deprivation, eesslAn, or ezehange,or in aqy other way
whatever when for the iirst and next time it ahail
happen to be vacant : Saving to as and our
soccessors all other presentationB to the same charoh
after that the presentation of the aforeiaid by virtue
of this onr conceeidon shaU have taken elbet, aod
also saving an annnal pension of 6 shillings to be
paid annnally from the same ohnrch to as and onr
soccessors. In witness whereof we have cansed to
be aflSzed to these presents onr common seal, glTon
in oar chapter honse the 12th day of October, a.d.
1660, and hi the 4th year of the reign of onr moot
illastrioas prince in Christ and lord, lord Edwabd Ti
by tlie grace of God king of England, Fraooe,
and Ireland, defender of the faith (1) and on earth
Bnpreme head of the English and Irish Ohnrch.*'

Ifessrs. Bharpe and Betson however never enjoyed
their right. Most of the property of the Dean and
Ohapter was violently s^Bed by Sir Bichard Ootton
in 1650, and a settlement was not finally made till
1679, when in the royal charter, which to a great
extent confirmed the losses of the Dean and Ohapter,
the advowson of ThoistastoH was restored to them.

In the coarse of his long ineambenoy of 69 years,
Thomas Sharps witnssied ail the great reUgioiu
ohanges of the 16th eentory. He saw the dosing
yean of Henry viii., and lived throogh the reigns of
Edward vi« Mary, and EUxabeth, aaid yet remained
thronghoat Bector of Thnntaston. Bat we mnsi
not be hard imon bim. The changes need not haTc
been, and probably were not, so great as we sappoee
in a small oat of-the-way conntiy Parish ; and so in
fact the Beformation has left little traces of its
history in any of the records of Thnrstsston. If aoh
as the charohes were spoiled and robbed, their great
defaoement rather dates from a later period fthe
Bebellioo), and the nei^eet of Babseq[afint centnnas.
The main effect opon the Parish was the nseof
difliirent prayer boon pat forth from time to time, and
tbehr chief changes consiBted in the ose of Bnglish,and
the greater simpHoity of the service. Bat where the
people, as in the N. and W. coantry diBtricts espedall j,
and the priests loved the old ways, the traditional
manner of oonduotlng the service would oontinae ;
and where there had been no great ritnal preTionaiy
the change wonld not be f At. In a sniall Pariah
like Tharstaston, for instance, there had probably
always been great simplicity in the chnrch serviee.
The cbarch was poor ; I doubt if it had ever possessed
a ** vestment *' at all, or anything more than the
ancient Eoglish "sarplice." In 1548 the Bherifi^
had to mi^e an inventory of Ohnrob plate, and
*<Tbarsteston*' possesBed "one chales" and "'ii beaeo."
The same goods are found in a later Inventory of

(1) The reforming king like all his laooenon cUngs lo hie
pepistloaUy oonf erred tlllei

October, 1898.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

1550 (1.) Fnrthsr, betides the priest and people, the
shief fftmiliei in the WirnU,iiicliidingthe Whitmoree,
were devotedly ettaobed to the old weye, so maoh bo
that when the fioel brcaoh eame in 1570, they east
in their lot with Borne. Up till then, they had con-
tinued to attend their pariih ehnr^es, and as their
ioflaenoe would then haye been greater than it is now,
they would have prevented any startUng innova*
ftiona. However, Pope Pius Y. unfortunately ezoom*
munioated Queen Euaabeth on Feb. 95, 1570, and
those who eontinued fiithful to Borne beeame
*' reeusants," tliat la refused to attend their Pariah
Ohnrob, for whioh they anflered heavy fines and other
penalties. Among these were the Whitmores. In
Wiml Notes and Queries [No. 118] has been printed
already a note from the Begistry at Chester, whioh
is probably the pathetie complaint of Mr. Bharoe, the
rector, in 1561, ["Master John Wythmore and Elener
his wife, do not cu' to the ehnrohe nor Beeene
(the Baorament). Thomas Haddock and Johann
his wyfe do not cu' to the Ohuroh nor
Beeene. WyUyam Wythmove gentyllman dothc
en' to the Oburohe but not Beoeue. Ales his wyfe
doth nether cu' to the Oburohe nor Beceue."] But
though th«y *< refused" to attend Ohnrch, the
Becnsan t s were thoroughly loyal. When the
country was disturbed by the news of the SpaiUsh
Armada* Ifr. William Hough, of Leighton and
Thoraion, mustered bis tenantry, and Us muster roU,
with the curious ** furniture " of each person, has
been puUished in Wirrai Notes and Queries (No. 185).
Six warriors and a widow (presumably 1^ deputy)
eome from Thuntasfcon (14), among them tbis same
William Whlimore,who was Mr. Hough's son-inlaw.
1 the other hand Jobn Whitmore, Esq., the elder
re iresentative of the family at the Hall, (mentioned
lu 1579 in a list of the gentry of the Wirral^W.N.
and Q. 141) seems to have suilered the loss of his
lands, or a good portion of them, for his religious
obstinacy, or fidelity, as we mey term it. For there
is the following Index to a trial at Chester in the
Ezoheqncr Depositions of 1598, '* ^Uiam Grafton
ventu John Oill, Peter GUI, and others. Lease of the
lands of John Whitmore [a recusani] lying in
Thurstaaton .and Cslday (ChesUre) made to the
pUintiit Touohing the forfeiture of the Lease." The
property, however, must soon have returned to Its
rightful owners, for we find a Jobn Whitmore pay-
ing subaldies, etc., in the early part of next century.

In 1561 were held the first Licensing Sessions for
Chesbire and we ilnd there is one alehouse in
" Thurstynton " kept ^ Thomas Anione (W.N. ft Q.
148). In 1592 . the Cuurchwardens are nad up be-
fore the Oonaistory Court at Chester for having ** no
eolleotores" (8) a charge brought against nearly all the
neighbooring wardens also. ** They were admonished
to provide the same according to statute." (W.N.
A Q. 249.)

These are all the bietorical notices concerning
Thuretaston that I have been able to glean during
Mr. Bbarpe's long incumbcDcy, whioh is now drawing
to a dose. Assuming be was at least twenty-three on

hie indnotion, he must have been seventy-seven in
1596, when, through growing infirmity, he scoured the
servioes of a curate. Five years later he resigned the
living. His deed of resignation was signed "before John
Morgell, notary public, on the 5th day of May, a.d.,
1601, in the house of his accustomed dwelling, (1) in
the presence of Henry Tottie derk, Henry Tottia,
yoman and Biobard Cowper," and we give it in full.

"In thb Navx ov Qoi> Amsh. Before you, a
notary public and a public and authentic person, and
witnesses worthy of oredit here present, I, Thomab
Shaepi, clerk [dericwt], rector of the parish
church of Thurstaston, dioc. Chester, willing
and desiring, from certain true. Just,
and reasoname causes Justly moving mc
and my mind thereunto, to be entirely
freed from and for ever unburdened of the burden,
care, and rule of the said church,— the same my
church with all and singular its rights and all its
appurtenances into the hands of the reverend father
and lord inoHBmz, lord Bicbabd (2), by divine per-
mission bishop of Chester, the ordinary and diecesan
of the same place or [into the hands] of his vicar
general in spirituals or of any other person whatso-
ever having the power to receive this my resigna-
tion, not having fallen into error, nor being com-
pelled by violence or fear, nor Loduoed by guile or
baud, but of my own simple and spontaneous will
do reBign,and my tight, title, and poMCssion hitherto
acqnredl by me in the same church, I purely, freelVa
simply, and absolutely renounce, and yield up the
same, and totally and ezpremly retire flrom the same
in these writings.

By me Thomas Bharpe."

B. B. BiCKHAK.

(To he continued,)

OCTOBER 28th, 1893.

. (1) One of thMa belli, lioweyer, a&st have OiMppeered by
iSU when Ormerod onlr mentloni a ** bell taixet.** The
I belli probably bans in Blihop Qeitrell'i '* Heeple."
(I) ImnM leave it lo an talnorian to tell as who these
*oDlleolon"are.

[272] NOTES ON THE BEOTOBS OF THUBS-
TASrON IN THB 16tb A 17tb CENTUBIES.

(Continued from No. 271— Oot. 21st.)

On his rerignatlon (or perhaps after his engaging a
Curate) Bi Thomas Bnarpe retired to Neston, where
he lived in the house of his cousin John Sharpe, as
we learn from his will made at this time, to which
reference has been already made.

** In tei NAitn ov ood, aur. The zviiith dale
of January anno dni 1601, 1 8i Thokas BBinrn Late
parson of Thurstaston doe make this my lAst Will and
Testament in man« and forme foUowinge first I be-
queth my soule to almightie god and my bodle to be
buried in Neston Church in full and certain hope of a
Joyfull resurrection at the last dale to etemall life

(1) ProbftblyiheoldpatfOiiaselioaMioaihotUM ohatoh
or nil home at Meetoo, if he haC alreaCr retired thlthec.
(S) BleherC Yaogfaan Mihop of cneeier issr-lsgSk

WIBBAIi NOTES AND QUERIES.

OCTOBEB, 1893.

throwe the merits end Uoodoheidinge of onr onlie
Lord end Be?ior Ohiiet Jeeni. And es lor my
worldlie goods I giye end beqnetfa them in ivenner
end forme following. Fint I giTe end beqoetb to
Sr. Thoxab BsTSon Vicar of Ne&on one eilTer epooo
woh I age to eet mymeete witiiell— eUw to (1)
BxiiMOH PuBiBTON ouc oowo^es for the reefte of
my goode moveble end immoTeble I gi?e to my
ooeen John Bokwem in oonfideretion thet my eeid
oonein John Bherpe me keep with meete, drinke end
lodgioge dnrring my life. In witneee whereof etc.,
Thomas Bhabpi." In preeence of Robert Penketl,
John Bherpe, Tho. BeUon. The following debtee
were owing to the tseftetor :—

** Thomes Bird of Ohester tenner of lente money. • zls.

John Bennett of Thnrsteston .....zzis vid.

Wilim Whitmore c f Thnrsteston zxs.

WUlmWirraU of Irbie f or e horM (2) ixris.

Item the sd Wilhn [Whitlmoro in debte

tome £5ii8.ixd."

Totel £10 10 8 s £100 of onr money (?).

The will wee prored ICereh 18th, 1006, in whioh
yeer he had probably died full of yeers, 68 sinoe he
had been first made Ileotor of Thnntestoo.

0. — HENBT TOTTIE.

We now oome to e veiy short, bnt Interestittg and
led history.

Hhhbt ToTTn was the eorate appobited by Mr.
Bherpe, in 1697. He wea apparently a natiTe of the
place or neighbonrhood, end of e yeomen fsmily, or
CTcn of lower degree. To judge firom the name, the
** Henry Tottie, yoman," who with him witnessed
Mr. Sherpe's leeignetion, wes his fiither ; there wea
a BIchard Tottie elso lifing (? e brother) ; end on
Mr. Hough's Muster Boll for 1680, we find a
"Thomas Totty" of Irby . Onr Henry howerer though
of low degree must haye early ahown signs of deTcr-
ness or of religions aeal, for he wes sent to the
UniTcrsity of Oxford, where he matrienleted at
Braaenoee OoUege on Not. IB, 1690, et the age of 17,
being thus entered in the Uniyersity Begister,
•• Tottie, Henry, Cheshire, pleb. fiL 17 " (8.) On Feb.
6, 1694, he took hie degree of B J^., end it is possible
thet his title to receiye holy orders wes this nomin-
ation to the curacy of Thurstaston. (4.)

In this euro by the aeelons, diligent, end oereful
discharge of his dutie, and by his often " preachinge
of the word " to Ids' people's *' good lykeingee "»
from whioh we raey infer thet he had probably come
home flUed with the new Pnritan enthusiesm and
wee a preacher— he mede himself Tery popular ; so
much so that on the resignation of Thomas Sharpe
on May 6, there wee a movement, probebly a kind of
petition got up by the parishioners to secure his
eppoiiitmeot to the Beolory. In any cese, we ha?e
the following intereeting end early form of a testi-
monial, evidently not a formal one, but spontaneous
and genuine.

" To all Ohrietian people to whom this present
wrytinge shell come to be scene, heard, or redd.

(1) Probably an old talthfal serraBt.

(S) 7 Hli hone sold on roUiins &rom aotiTO parish work.

(S) PlebeU /Uiut, son of a plebeian, aa dbtlnot from
ge%0roHMiu», son off a saBtteman.

(4) F^r he ooold not be ordained lili he waa 23« which
wan In 1396.

\¥ee the perishioners of the Perieh Ohareh of
Tbnrstanton within the conntie of Oheeter whoee
names are snbiorybed send ffreelinge in or Lord
God cTerlaetinge. Foreemnch es it is e Trrie
charitable end Ohrlstian dutie to teeUfie eod dedere
the truth in ail matters requyriogeteetimonie, there-
fore we doe by theee presents certifie unto aU yor
universell knowledges lor truth that the beerer hereof
HiNBT ToTTia de&e, Batchelor of Arts and minister
of the parish aforesaid, is in our opynions sound in
religion and in his profession leeloue end lieth
served the same oner by the space of these fyve
yeares paste or thereaboute, and dieoherged his
dutie tnerein diligentlie and oarefuUie by
often preachinge the worde unto us to or good
lykeingee end to his owns oomendacion and
eredicte. And that he the eeme Hbnbt
Tomn from the tyme of his nativitie hitherunto
hath bene, and still ii, of good name feme and repu-
tadon and of verie honeste and sober oariege be-
havior geeture and demeanor and never deteeted or
noted of any notorious cryme for any thinga that we
or any of us to C or any of C pertioular knowledge
can declare or doe knowe : all woh to be tme we doe
by these presentee teetifle and to th' intent sabeorybed
C names. Dated at Thustanton aforesaid the 16th
day of May in the 8 and 40th yeare of the raigne of
C souendgne ledie BXiiZABBiH by the Greoe of Ooo
of England Fraunoe and Ireland Queene defender of
the fiithe etc Annoq. Dm. 1601.'*

The testimonial Is signed by twenty-nine persons,
some of whom seem to heve lived in neighbouring
puishee, so that Mr. Tottie's "feme" was wide spreed
—for instence the first three namee are ** William
GLiaaa, OHBisrovia BaNNnrr, Thomas GLBaa."Now
the W. Glegge moet be William Glegge Eeq of Oaldey
Grange who married Alice the widow of W. Leigh of
Irby, and died 1686, and Thomas Glege apparently
the 2nd eon of Arthur Glegge Esq of Geyton, who
died 1616 and was buried at Heewall. Christopher
Bennett wss donbtlees O.B. of Greaeby, gentleman,
who wes undo by merriege, of Mistrees Glegge, the
wife of Wm Glegge of Oaldey Grange. Mo Whitmores
sign, either becense they were still " recusants,*' or
to infer from some evidence of the yeer 1616, be-
cause their moral characters were not such aa would
appreciate Mr. Tottie's often preeoUnge of the
word.

The Dean and Ohapter of Ohester had however
already acceded to the wieh of the parish by nomi-
natiog Henry Tottie to the Bectory on the preceding
day May 16th (admitted by the bhihop June 6th)
and on the back of their presentation we find eome
noticee attested by eignaturee whioh ehow that his
induction and reading*in were quite populer events.
They tell us that on the 18th of June, Henry Tottie
wee inducted into the Bectory and Parsonage by
Thomas Fletcher, olerk, person of Wallasey end
Will. Seaborne clerk, parson of Thornton, in the
preeence of ifouike Edwards, Henry Tottie, Bichard
Tottie, WilL Baben churchwarden and four othen.
On the following Sunday June 14th (the 1st Sun.
aft. Trinity) "thesd Henry Tottie in the Perish
Oburche in time of divine eorvice and in preeence of
the whole perish end of eome othere then pree»nt
reede all the articles of religion which only concera
the confession of the true Xtn faith.*' In witneee
the following members of the oon|r»gati«n signed

OOTOBKB, 1898.

WmRAL NOTES AND QITEBIES.

their namaiWBKHine [aMflCtha%MMQttM']
Tlio. BaftUMD. JohnBawboB. Ika. Toa«^ im.
BtUa, and Bob. Li^ VMdatt.

The nd thing abortibii UMflty is tel after aU
this anthwitartfl begiiunBg, withia afawnonthB, Ia
bj Not. in the aame jear (l)HenijTotlle«aadead
and baried, and that at the eady agaof tvanty-fight.
Dottbtleaa at Ui faaenl the vhola
again aaMBbiad, b^ this time vilh

D.— HUGH BUBOHB&

The wieeeawt whom the Dean and Ghaptar food
to Hr. Tottifl^ and preaentedon Not. 14, and who
was indoeted on the f oUowbg Jan. 15th, waa Hagh
Baieliea,aperionoCaTei7dilSBraatohanoter. Hr.
Borahea waa a nmn ol aoBM yean, aboot ilf^, and
alio of aoma aabetanee. Wo iind from hia Tmj
intereating win, that at the time of hie death, ihoogh
he epeaka of hIa eakate m being "bniiaed," he pea-
■Moo d a home and other proper; j in Walea, a hooae
at Oheater. a aineean Baetoiy in Walea, and the
adTOWion of Baekford, glTon him bj the Biahop;
beaidee,the inTmtory of hia **eattilla, oorae^ and
honieholdatnflb'* ia Tmj oonaidecable indeed, when
oompared with other elaiioalwilli of the tiflM. He
had a family of three daaghtera, and Ato aoaa, with one
of whom a Whitmotadidnotdiadain alUanee. He waa
also of iiteiaiy inatinefei, as he had a library of aome
Talae. Mr. Bnrohea took hia degree of If .A. at
OUnfaridge, bat waa inoorporated into the UmToiaity
of Oxford llJnIy, 1585 (8.). HiaoIeriealpKfennant
hadbeen mainly in Walea, where he alao had property,
and he may haTo been of Welah origin— Beotor of
lilaneilan in Anglea^ 1577, Yioar of Uandinam in
Montgomery 1583, in idiieh year aleo he reoeired
the aineeiire («.«. witliont any aetnal work) Beetory
of Pemuuit in Montgomery, whieh be held till hia
death. At Oheater, where he reeided for the latter
part of hia life, he lield an important poaition; for
(probaUy haring other preferment aa well) he aeted
as depn^ for the Ghanoellor, Dr. DaTid Tale.

Mr.BovsbeawaaliTingat Gheater at hia death and
BO waa no doubt a non-resident Beotor, employing
a oorate at Tbuataaton. The tranaeript of the
Pariah Begisten in 1608 ia rigned by Nioh. SeteheU,
eorate(8). Hie eon (and sneeessor) Biohard Borahea
probaUy held that peat and while liring at Thonrtaa.
ton fen in Ioto with one of the dan^^tera of John
Whitmore, Esq., to wliom be waa married.

B. B. Baokbam.
(To be Continusd.)

NOVEMBER 4,th, 1893.

[278] NOTES ON THE BEOTOBS OP THUB-
8T ASTON IN THE IGiH AND 17th OENTUBIEB.

(Gontioned from No. 272~Oo(ober 28ih.)
Mr. Borchea' later years do not seem to hsTe been
happy. He waa troubled by a painful diaeaae i he
bad roffered losses in his prop^ty and got into debt ;

!ll S? ^'"^ ''°<>* ^^^ ^on peld by him.

iV Hie name la entered m Hasn Boxoher. a Husk
Bnrohes^of B.N.a took the degne of B.Med. ^d waS
JjMnMd kYaotioe In 1003. bat iMoocOd httiuibe the euS

and, ahoTo aU, he had been wr nnhan^y in hia deal-
iB«a wilh the Pnrttan party. U, aa waa eonjeetuad,
Heny Tottie won hia popnlaiity in Thniataaton be-
eanae of l^a anthwriairtfft and noTel preaehing and
Pmitnn doetrine, the inhaMtanta of Thorataaton
mnat have lelt Tery mnoh diai^pointed with Mr.
Buehee, who waa OTidently of Tery diiEKent on*
pathiea. ThiamayhaTeledtodiaeaaBione,thfly auy
haTe nithheld their Uthee— in any eaae Mr. Bnrohea
waaao moketed, as to nae Tery strong aip re a si o na in
hia will, whieh Is a Tery remarkable one and the main
Bonroe of onr knowMge of hia ohametar. It ia
dated Ang. 18, 1614 and mna asfoUowa :—

** Ih Db Noiroim. Amin. I Huoh BuacRn
ao oft and oontinnonaly admonished by a moat
grieTona diaeaae of mine end, and aa I hara
liTsd an vnf ayned proteatant and f althfnU maintayner
of the lalth and forme of aerringe Ood y^ iiiia ohnroh
of England doih hold, aoe to the ende I oontlnne a
ainoere worsliipper of the God of my Fatheia and die
within the nnity of thia ohnrob, nothing altering my
profeasion nor donbtlDge of a gloriooa reanrreotlon
of my bodie to life oTerlaatinge. My wants were
many in the diaoharge of my datie and eapeolaUy
that I did not with more aeale beate down the anbtiu
prooeedinges of the noTeUsts, seekiage or priTily
labonringe an oTerthrow of this rererend eharoh,
and allthongh aome pretendo an npiight intente
and earriage, I proteste that by my oontinnall
BMleatation they are better known to mee for. • • •
preenmptnone and apitefnU erne of aehiamatlea then
to any wieiiinge their amendment and a mature
deliberation to their raw and oneonocoted ezeroiees.

God bleas hinge Jamea onr renowned aoTeralgne,
hia illnatriaoa aponse, theire happie iesne, their
Beelme, goTemment, and peraons, the honorable
Lorda of the Pririe GonoaeU, nobility, eleergie, and
magistraoie of the land, defend and keepe In nniiy,
faith, peaoe, and obe Jienoe, eonrert all f^lae soldeeta
and bring them to aee their f oUy.

For my bmsed estate. My debtee if I shonld now
die, my books will Tery neare dieeharge : bnk if I IIto
some ten weekes, my beneflee of Pennant (1) with
the iMokea will more than pay. The reTersion
whereof I leaTe to my wife. If it pleaae God and
bis good Lordship of Gheeter to admitt my sone
Bioliaid to my parsonage ci ThorBtanton,by Tirtna
of an adTOwaon granted by Deane and Chapter, then
I oharge him with twenty ponndea to eaeh of hia
sisters Jane, Gainor, and Bliaabeth, and tenne
ponnda to eaeh of his brethren Bobert, David, Peter,
(}eorgei or els I oharge the adroweon with them.

The boose, garden, and [Hi] Mayea-y-Traltben-wis
to my wife I lesTo for her tyme, then to my sonne
Biohard and his heirs. The moity of Gaire Menooke
I leaTe to my wife, likewise the moyte of Gahriel*e
ground and the other moytye to my 8 danghtere.
HonecAicdd stuff betweene mother and 8 daughters.
I loaTe eataille and oorce between wife and
daughters and four younger aonneo. An adTOWSon
grannted mee by the Biihop of Gheeter on the
Ticarage of Baokford, I leave to my wife and four
younger boyee, the moytye to the mother.

By me Hugh Burohea.*'

(1). Wm he in the prcoeia ol BvUlng ihlt mneoure
benefloeff

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

NOYKHBSB, 189S.

The will WM proved Dee. aOth, 1616, by wbieh
lime he mnit htTe been dead, end found at laet, we
liope, vast and peaee. The gift of the advowBon by
the Dean and uhapter ii explained by a deed of gift
of the neit preeentation (1) to Nieholas Hookea,
gent of Oonway in Oanuuroo, and Thomai Jobnea
of Pen-y-Werme in Denbigh, 1609. They were
probably fHenda of If r. Bnrehea (whioh agreea with
his sappoaed Welah origin) i in any ease Thomaa
Jolinea iUAUed Ida dying whih by preaenting

E.-RIOHABD BUaOHES.

Ilia eldeat eon, to the Benefice of Thorstaaton on
April 29(h, 1616. In the Yaoanoy of the Bee of
Oheater, he was admitted and inatitnted 1^ Tobiaa
ptfatthew]j Arohbialiop of York, and iadnoted by
BoT. David Tale, D.O.L., If ay 16th, and paid hia
first fraita Ootober 4tb, 1617.

As the laat Immmbeney illnatrmted the growing
eonfiiot with Poritaniam, thia illaatratea the growing
exaetiona of the king, to make np for anppUea, eat
abort by Parliament. Beddea the payment to the king
of the Fir$tfiruiti,i.e., thefirat year'aolearineomeof an
ineambenoy, and the tenth of it ammally (in the oaae
of Thorataaton, ISa. 4d.) we find the following eon-
tribationa. In 1628 there waa a Oantributwn of the
elergy of Cheater towardt the recovery of the
Palatinate, To thiahowe?er •* Mr. Birchea," of Thnra-
taaton, oootribated nil, thoogh West Kirby aent £6,
Heawall, £8, ete. In 1624 there waa a anbeidy : to*
warda thia the Beotor of Tbnntaaton (B.BargeBor Bion
Yenablee f) paid £1 4e. In 16S4-6-6, the elergy eon-
tribated towarda the repaira of Bfe. Paul's Cathedral,
LondoD. Tbe reetor of Thnretaaton paid 6b. 8d. the
first year. In 1686 waa the firat ahipmoney of the
elergy, the Beotor of Thorstaaton paid £1 4a. In
1686 the aeoond ahipmoney, Thorstaaton
11a. Id. I alao the Beotor paid £1 10s.
in aid of the war againat the Bootoh, in 1689.
Nor did tbe laity eaoape. There waa a aobaidy from
them in 1626 when John Wliitmore paid za. Tiiid,
Simon Warton ziiia iiiid both of Thoratington
[W.N.Q. I. 88], William Ball and Thomaa Yoonge,
both of Irbie, pidd Tiiia. each. A new expedient waa
tried in 1681. Oommiaaionera were aent ronnd to
oompel the gentry to reoeiTo knighthood, hot to
ayoid the many f eea, John Whitmore, gent, paid £16
and William Ball of Irby £10.

F.— SION YEN ABLE S (2)

Nothing baa l>een disoovered to roToal the end or
fate of Mr. Biohard Borohea ; hot the next doooment
wUoh we eome aerosa ohronologioally introdooea oa
to a Tory intereating or atartling episode in the
hiatory of Tboralaston— no leaa than litigation and
eontention o?er the living. We had better begin by
giving a tranalation of the doooment in ^aestion
whioh la a preeentation.

«* Ohablbs by the graoe of Gk)d King of Eng-
land, Sootlandy Franoe, and Ireland to tbe re?, father
in Ohbibt, John (3) by divine peradssion
biahop of Cheater eto. To the Beotory of ThorataB-
ton aUaa ThorBtington of yoor dioceee, now for the
laat time and of right vaoant at oor preeentation be-

(1) We oannol help nolioing how freqaentlr the nexl
PMientaUon of Tharmston has been glTen away.
(S) Blon iB probably doe to Ihe pniltan fashion of glTisg

1^) John BiMaemaii,Bliliop of OlMMer from 1819 to USa.

longing to oa thia tarn tbroogh lapae of tioM we
preaent to yoo oor beloved in Chubt, Btob
Ybmablkb, elerk, M.A. ete. In witnesa whereof
we have eaoaed theae oor lettera patent to be madob
myaelf being witneaa at Weatminater 11 Jo^ in the
9thyearofonrraign [1688].'*

Bofarallisolear. Tbroogh the death or departore
of Mr. Biohard BoroheB, the reotory of Thorataaloii
baa been vaoant, and ao long vaeant tliat the pat-
ronage haa by lapae of time fallen to the etown, an4
the orown appointa Mr. Sion Yenablee. From
dooomenta we are ooming to, we gather that lie waa
of a yeoman family of Nantwieh, poaaiMyaaoflUioot
of the old ooonty family of YenaUea, of KindertoD.
He had alao aome eonneetion with Shr Bandolph
Orewe, of Orewe Hall, probably in respeot of iMing
hia oliaplain. And there ia etidenoe thai Mr.
Yenablee may have been at Thorataaton previously aa
oorate or locum tenene, for in the aobridy liai for 1624,
tbe name of ** Bioh. Bargee " (its laat appearanee) ia
oroaaed oot and ** Sion Yenablea *' written inatead.
However, in spite of the royal prsaentation, the
Biahop Beema to have refoaed, or at leaat to have
delayed, to admit and inatitote Sion Yenablea for
nearly a year, aa we aee from oor next doeomenta,
the first of whioh is " The hombie petition of Bryan
Laaoella, derk,*' «• delivered at Bbor, 11 Apr., 1684.**
It rons thoa : —

** To the right Beverend Father in God John by
Davine provi&nee Lo : Bp. of Cheater • . • The

hombie petition eto

. . . moat hombly

Bheweth onto y' good Lordahip y t yor Honon
petieioner in whose name and behalf a presentatioa
of the Beotory of Thorstaaton waa tendered onto
yr Lo.pp from the right Honble John Lo: DaroQy
of tbe North doth now hombly tender himself onto
yor Lo.pp's Integrity and Wisdoms peticionin^ with
all dew reverenee yor bonob^e laiwxoll f^vor u tbe
lostitation and Indootion of him into tbe afore-
named Beotory whoae rights aa yor hombie applieanl
liopeth both in hia rightfol tytell and qoalufloatlon
are and shall be made apparent into yo' Honor* And
yor Lo«p'a pet' ever mindfoU of yo< honorab^ f^vo^
petitioning yo* honorable positive answer shall for
ever pray for y' Lo : pp loage Ufb inoreaae p* [power]
honor and etemall glory."

Thia explaina the mystery of *' the lapse of time "
By aome meana tbe right of next presentation haa
got into the handa of ** Lord Daroey of the North,"
(I) who presents Mr. LaaoeUa, bot the Biahop
refoaea to admit, mstitote, or indoet him. This
seoond mystery ia explained by the faot whioli
transpires from tbe Oommonwealth sorvey that Mr.
Lasoeila is a blind man. The Biahop jostly reaiata
tbe patron, and in oonseoaenoe of tne delay the
king Btepa in and peaenia Blon Yenablea ; hot now
on the other lumd the Biahop ia afraid to inatitote
Bion Yenablea for fear that Lord Dmj in the litiga-
tion ahready set on foot, might vindioate hia right at
law and obtain heavy damagea. Hence he waita till
he finds forther aokhority in a mandamos, whioh ia
dated the day after Mr. Lasoell's hombie petition.

B. B. BiOXHAK.

{To be Continued,)

(1) This right IB however oonteated, aa wm be seen later
on.

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M^tak iiJM I ■MfciHitiiiii III n ii'T' '"' '-yi'' "r

MiMbtatML

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tba whok ua ov bria, csMKfan 4Bd ■dwBMnton
llMmfy bf tktm iiHiiyimmlfiwUk <m amlM, tfrw

•"-'V << iM4 tatkB lOtb 7

ii Chulw ete. AJ>. 16S1.

TteamdiMM «( tU* abUcMon it iwk thd the
aboTC bondaa SIm Tm*Um, «leAi, !• ■dmUtod
ul ioaUtotad to (te rMl«c7 of Thantoib». al*!
nanUngton tloamji, at U* pfMeatMon of tfaa
ktag>aB(NtasMllMtlb]tsU«ifonHTa: U thm-
bmlbaiiaioBT«tMUM,elc(b,lii mm U» mtfi^
tlliatottaiVdb«Mfi<»*lwUbappantobMlii Uw
•vWed, do auiumlm and giT« npp lata tha haadM
at Uiaiivd ktd Bp tha lettcn of Intitattwi [r] to Um
pantad to baa fi*— "r* or atharwiia ordatad aa
AaU aaao flit nnta bfm the ad lord Bp and likawiae

■etnfan am awlag.

I im adrtad br Sr. Bak. (han to daafaa fr Uf
(or a ifaaUl owaaal to bri^ *■»' Bacteaa te
brfoM r Up to Aawa «a«M wkaralar* t May aM

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

NOYBMBSB, 1898.

hftTe tad eiij<^ quiet poHMiion. I hnmUy beieeeh
yriidptogrftniUm6e,aiidiendU mea bj ihis bMtfer,
and I will wrre it nppon him the next Sabboth
day (1), requiring Urn lo waita nppon y Ldp as j'
Up iball appoint, w^^ I deaira maj bee an Wednea-
day or Thnnday. If I take a oitaoon ont agt him,
it wilbe long before I ahall have an end, and I deaira
ao Boone aa conveniently I oonld to bee with my
lord Ke^MT to oertefie him of yov Ldp'a noble
faTo* towarda me. Mr. Bordman ia too willnll, and
therefore I beeeeehe y Ldp to take it into y* eon-
Bidcraeon, and ao ahall y Ldp for ever bind mee y<
poore aerrant to pray on my kneea for y' Ldp, w^ I
will noTer faile to doe, humbly taking leave and real,

-^ V Ldp'i in aU dnty

Bion Yenablea."

Sir BizinuLFH Ouwb, bom in 1658, waa an in-
tereating peraonage. By Ua labonra and anooeaa in
the legal prof eeaion, he not only reatored the f ortonea
of hia fainUy, pnrohaaed the maoor of Orewe, and
boilt Orewe Hall, hnt in 1625 (Jan. 85) waa appointed
Lord Ohief Jnatiee. In the flrat year of king Oharlea
he refnaed to eonaent to an illegal loan aoggeated by
the king's adTisera, for whioh he waa deprived of Ua
offlee Nov. 9. 1626. Henoeforth he lived in private
life, for the moat part in hia honae at Weatminater,
aeeking readmiaion into the king*a favour, bnt with-
out eflTeot. He died Jan. 18, 1646.

A notiee of the rev. Gabbibl BoABDMiiN has
already appeared fan W.N. A Q. Vol I. No. 97. He waa
vicar of Bidaton from 1632 to 1647. How then he
appeara at Tbnrataaton ia a m jsteiy. He irigna the
traaaoript of the Thnrstaston Begiatera for 1638 aa
Beotor, and ao ia a third elaimant for the Bectory ;
hnt hia ■' wilfnll *' condnot above recorded confirma
hia reputed behaviour at Bidaton, for whioh he waa
expelled by the Parliamentary Oommiaaioneni fan
1647.

What atepa the Biahop took wedo not know, bntllr.
Venableaaucoeeded in aeeuring peaceable poa o ea ai on.
The legal knota were probably aolved by the Biahop
himaelf prteenting, or as it ia termed in case of the
Biahop '* collating *' hUn to the benefice, for we find
another bond dated June 28rd, in which Bion Yen-
ablee ia Ua own aecurity for £200. It runa much in
the same terma aa the other with this alteration :
<* whereaa the above boanden Sion Yenablea ia now
admitted to the Bectory, etc. ... by the colla-
tion of the right reverend father in Qod, the Lord
Biahop of Oheater, aforeaald, etc."

Mr. Yenablea paid hia first fruita on May 17th,
1684. He paid the contribution to St. Paul*a
Oathedral (6b. 8d.) and the ahip money (£1 4e. Od.)
in 1685, and signed the Tranacript of the Begiater
for 1684..

Bnt alaa I like Henry Tottie^ Bion YenaUea did
not live to enjoy the fruita of hia stmgglea, for be
died at the end of 1685 or beginning of 1636. We
ifaid the adminiitration of Us goods granted to Eliza-
beth, his widow and relict, on 29th March, 1686.

B. B. BiCXHAM.

NOVEMBER 18th, 1893.

(I) ard Bnnday a|lw Kaster, April STi

[275] NOTES ON THE BEOTOBS OF THUB3-
TASTON IN THE 16th <k 17th OENTUBIES.

(Oontfanned from No. 274— November lltk.)

a.— EDWABD BOLD.

The death of Bion Yenablea opened the door for
another straggle for the Bectory, The Dean and
Ohapter had in the meantime given the next preaenta-
tion to two new olaimanta, who without deli^ on
Jan. 21, 1686, preaent Mr. Edwaxd Boud. We give
their deed in full aa a apedmen of a preaentatioD.

'*To the reverend father and lord in ohbut,
70HN, by divine permimion biahop of Oheater or to
anyone elae whosoever having power in thia part to
admit thia our preaentation Your humble nnd de*
voted THOMia OHOLicoiiDBLST of Yaic Boyall in the
Oo. of Chester, Esq. and john wibdbm of the Oity
of Oheater in the Oo. of Obester, gent [send] all
manner of reverence and obedienoe due to and
worthy of ao reverend a father with honour. To the
rectory and pariah church of thubstastok in the
Oo. of Oheater of yonr diooeae of Oheeter now vacant
through the natural death of bion vinablbs dark,
laat incumbent there, and belonging to our p rea en t a
tion on the strength of a certain advowaon made
over and conceded to oa for thia tfane by the venerable
men the Dean and Ohapter of the Oathedral Ohurch
of OHBUT and the bleaaed virgin xabt of Ohertsr
true and undoubted patrons of the said reotery
and pariah church Our beloved in ohbist,
BDWABD BOLO clcrk, maater of arte, we pr e a e n t
by tenor of theae presents to your reverend patemity«
humbly aaUng that you may think fit with favour to
admit the add Edwabd Bold to the aaid reotosy
and pariah church and to inatitute him rector of the
same and induct him into the aame and to inveat
him with all its rights, members and appnrtanancea,
and to perform and fulfil all the reat whioh ia
incumbent on your paatoral office in thia part. In
witneas whereof we here afiized our aeals manual to
these preaenta, given on the 21st day of January in
the 11th year oi the reign of our lord Oharlea by
the grace of Qod king of England, Scotland, Iteice,
and Ireland, defender of the faith etc and in the
year of our Lord (Engliah atyle) 1685 [».«. 1686].

Tho Oholmondeley. Jo. Werden."

Mr. Bdd'a bond in £200 ia also dated Jan 22nd.

Meantime the newa has reached York and, though
Lord Darcy ia now dead, •* Eliaabeth Lady Darcy of
Aoton in the Oo. of York widow, relict, and aole
executrix of the noble John Darcy lately defunct "
daima to be "true and undoubted patron for thia
time only " and " with full right *' preaenta again
<* her beloved in Ohrist Bbian Laboblls M.A." to
his lordship's paternity, praying him to admit and
inatitate Mr. Lasoells : dated at York 7 March, 1686,
delivered to tbe bishop March 25. Her prayer waa
in vain for at the bottom of the flrat docnment we
read •'22 Januarii 1685 [6] Fiat Inttitutio, Jq,
Cestrien.'*

NOVEMBBB, 1898.

WIERAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

As Baetor, Hr. Bold pdd hit first fruits on 29
Msrdh 1686 : also ship money in 1686— lis. Id., and
sontrilmtion lor the Sootoh Wsr in 1689— £1 lOs. Od.,
to whibh we mist add ths tenth every year— 188. id.

The Holds were a gentle family of Upton, and
Plm Bold who died in 1605 ga>e the naane of
Xdwabd to his fifth son— no donbt onr Rector. He
went np to Braienose College, Oiford, where he took
his B JL on 7 Jnly 1624, his M.A. 6 Joly 1627. He
would seem not to have resided in Thorstaeton when
Beetor, for a earate Thoma^s Bxallwood signs the
iranseript for 1688, Pitbb Olobub curate of West
Kirby that for 1689. In 1641 Hr. Bold left ns to
beoomeBeotor c^ Hawarden where he died, being
buried in the Ohnroh on 6 Jan. 1656.

H.-BBIAN LASCELLS.

Pttseferanoe eannot fkil of its reward, and on the
resignation of Mr. Bold, the Dean and Ohapter had
compassion on Mr. Lasoells, who had perhaps
obtafaied the iDflaenee of tho Bishop of Linooln to
bask him (aee below), and presented him to the
liYlng. Being thus presented for the third time end
this time by "tme and nndonbted patrons** the
bishop ooold no longer resist, and in his Aot Book
we read:

••On the 28th day of October, 1641, Bbun
Lasoills, elerk, M.A., was admitted and institnted
to and into the Beotory and Parish Obnroh of
Tbxjestastok fai the Go. of Chester at the presenta-
tion of the Dean of the Oath. Ohoroh of Xt and
B.Y.M. and of the Ohapter of the same Obnroh, tme
and nndonbted patrons of the said Obnroh by the
rer. father etc John bishop of Obester."

His first fmits were paid 5 Feb 1612.

What, we now ask, did Mr. Lasoells do? Did he
employ a earate r The living eonld hardly have
aflbrded that, and lie seems to have been redding
oertainly in 1648. In that year the wa?e of reUgloas
ehwBge stirred the Wimll dergy into aetion. The Pres-
byterians were now in the ssooidBnt, and they pressed
open the eonntry adhesion to the Solemn Leagne
and Covenant. Aoeordingly on May 2od, 1648, the
ministen of Oheshire drew np An Attestation to the
Tutimony of our Reverend Brethren of the province of
London to the Truth of Jente Christ and to our
Solemn League and Covenant^ whioh was signed on
July 6th by 59 ministers, inolnding ten from the
Wlrral— and among them wae '* Bbtam Lasoblls,
minister of Thnrataston." It had been pre^onsly
dgoed by olergy and laity in maoy parishes in the
Wirral, e.g. at Woodohnrcb, on llaroh, 16, 1646,
and the list of eignatnres has been printed in Wirral
N. A Q. I. 105. It contains no donbt some names
fromlrby, oertainly many of the Baldb sign, and
from this time the Balls of Irby appear as a leadiog
Dissenting bunily (see Wlrrall N. A Q. J. 98,184 n. 8),
The Presbyterians were opposed to the Independents,
Mid it is with mnch interest th%t we read the follow-
ing paragraph in the Attestation of 1648 : *■ Thongb
we acknowledge divess of onr brethren of tbe Inde-
pendent way to be learned, godly, obaritable, and
Idnd to their Presbyterian brethren • • • yet as
we take tbe tenet of Independency to be an error in
itielf, so do we find it by sonnd reason and sad ez-
perienoe to be, if not the natural mother, yet sndi a
lender nnrse and patroness to heretioal opinions of

all kinds that to it we mi^ aseribe the Inzmiant
growth and spreading of errors, heredes, <ftc. so fhr
over this kingdom. We hope the godly, both Pres-
byterians and Independents, will be so wise as to
beware of snch a breadi as may enoonrage and eon*
firm their enemies, whether popidi, prelatieali or
profane, against them both."

The esse of a blind man always moTcs onr oom-
pasdon, but undonbtedly a blind man is aot a *' fit
and snitaUe person" to hold a living. The unhappy
Mr. Lasoells also seems rather too ready to saerifioe
his prindples to obtain a livelihood* Having
enjoyed noble and prelatiod patronage, be now is
ready to sign the Oovenant. we may be doing him
an injnstioe however, sad be may have always had
Presbyterian sympathies. Bnt in any ease the result
was unfortunate. Tbe nezt year with OromweU the In-
dependents osme into power. A Parliamentary <*«""ff-
don in 1649 enquired Into tbe condition of the Ohuroh,
and of Thurstaston the comndisioners report *' there
is one Mr. Bryan Tsweells, a blinde man, minister
there whoe was presented by the Bishop of Idncolne
and some other lords, and was instituted and
inducted about the zzxth Deeember 1641." They
make an error of faot as to the presentation, bnt it
may suggest that **the Bishop of linoolne and
other lords" hsd used their infiuenoe on Mr.
Lasodls' behalf. This report sounds veir unfavour-
able to Mr. LasseUs. What happened to him r Was
he, like so many others, ejected froni his living f We
f anpy not. Nothing more is heard of him, and
during tbe Oommonwealth the history of Thurstaston
is all but a blank, but we hear of ao other Hector till
1656, so that Mr. Lassells nmy well have been left In
possesdon till then, and indeed he may have ended
his days In Thurstaston.

I.-JOHN WATTB.

On May 20tb, 1656, John Wins paid first fruits
as Beetor of Tborstaston. This is our first intima-
tion of a new Beetor, about whom there is still
much uncertainty. The transcripts of the reg^ters
whioh are misdog since 1649 begin sgaln in 1658,
but in 1658, 69, 60 they are signed by tbe church-
wardens (John Aannion, Biohard HanUn) without
the signature of a Beetor. However, Mr. urwick, in
his hlBtory of Nonconformity in Oheshlrei tells us
that a Mr. Watts was minister at Thurstaston In
1662, and Oalamy reckons him among the " faithful
Two Thousand," that is those who resigned their
liriogs rather than begin again to use tne Prayer
Book on S. Bartholomew's Dey 1662. Mr. Watts,
however, did not retire from Thnrstaston. Jomi
Watts signs tbe Transcript of 1666, and the next
presentation speaks of the living as ** vacant through
the natural death of Williak Watts derk, late
Beetor and incumbent there." Hence Mr. Watts
must have been one of the exceptions allowed to tbe
king, or Oalamy is mistaken.

E.— JOHN GBOOME (or GBOOMS)

On Nov. 6. 1668 •* Piersens Lewis of Bodavon Oo.
Anglesey, true and undoubted patron etc. by rirtue
of a concession made by the Dean and Ohapter of
Obester Oathedral of the next presentation only "
presents ** his bdoved in Obbist, Jobk Gbooxb
deacon of Brass Nose OoU. Oxon, BJk " to the rev.

WntBjyii NOTES AND QUEBIEB.

NOYBMBBB, 1898.

JowK [WiLBn»] loid Uahop of GhaiUr to be
iMliioto4 uid Indoottd to tho Beotoif of Thmtaf-
ton* Tbis John Qroomo wm a nativo of Slape in
Bhrapthin, and bad matiiioaUted at B.N.O. Oxford
Joly 1, 1664 at the age of 16. being deeeribed ae
pUb. JU. (pUbeii JiUu$). In 1668 be took bla B.A
degree, waa made deaeoo, and preeented to tbe
Beetory of Tbontaaton^at tbe age of 20. Perbape
Ua age waa tbe eraee of tbe Biabo^'e refneal to
admit Urn, or it may bave been aeme teohnteal
Inegiilarity. Any bowbe did not obtain the Beetory
nnlii the foHowing year* Then •« on the 18th Sept.
a.d 1669 in tbe Palaee of tbe Loid Biahop of
Obeeter" John Gtoom waa adsdUed and inatitoted
to Thniataaton by tbe Biehop *' at the eoUation of
tbe aald lord biahop belonglDg to liim throogh lapae
of time.*' it la denbtftd whether Mr. Gioomo oame
at onoe into reeidenoe, at any rate be doeo not eign
the taanaoripta titt 1676, when hia name appeara aa
loan Gnoeiia. For aome reaaen er otlier be redgned
the ttfiag in 1679. B. B. Baoemam.

(To he continued,)

NOVEMBER 26th, 1893.

[976] N0TB8 ON THE BBOTOBB OF THURB.
T48X0N IN THE 16ra A 17ni OENTUBISS.

(Contlnned IkomNo. 976'-November 18kh.)

I1.-WILLIAM THOMPSON,

a eanon of Obeeter Oakbedral, waa next preaented by
tbe Dean and Obapter. It la tbe only inatanoe of a
eanon baTlng reeeived tUa email Ufing, and it aeema
to abow that he waaonly formally appointed to oo?er
aome fanegnlarity. For the name of John Gboom
aimply (no longer " Beetor'*) appeara on the trana-
aeript for 1680. That there had been aome irregn-
lerif y, and Ita obamoter, la ahowa by tbe preeenkatton
deed of

M.— BOBEBT BB^BHAW

who waa inatitnted on February 2nd, 1688, ** at the
preaentation of oor lord king Cbablib II. eto.** to
the pariah obnreb of Thnrataakon •* vaoant for thia
tbia time through the depravity of eimony." So there
waa probably aome aimony oonneoted with the
appointment of John Qrooma, whioh led ilrat
perbape to tbe delay in hia inetitntion, then to hie
reeignation, and perbepa thirdly to the teohnioally
irregnlar preeentatlon of ^iniliam ThompaoD. Mr.
Grooma retired to Olangbton : a eon of bla (John)
waa baptiaed in Bidaton Ohnrob on Nov. 20, 1684 :
and be himaelf wee bnried in Bidaton Ohnrobyard
the following year, Jnne 4, 1685, at the age of 87.

Oar new reotor had tbe honour of dining with
biehop Oartwrigbtf Jamee' II*a nominee and tool
(biehop of Obeeter 1686-1689), aa we learn from the
lattet'e diary. <*1686. Deo. 22, Mr. Bradahaw,
reotor of Thnrataston, dined with me. I gaye him a
note to the Ofaanoellor to provide him apaneh derk."
Mr. Bradahaw died in 1689, and waa buried in the

abnrob under the Hdy ^''ft— "HiBiffP Table (aa it
wonld be better deaoribed then). He hi the only
reotor before Mr. Flab (ob. 1868) whom we know for
oertain to have been boried in Tfanrataaton. Hhi
atone ia atill to be aeen bearing tbia ineoriptton :

BOBUTVB BBAOaBAW, BSOTOB TBVBSTAftTOIIXBMiia,

Hoo avBTnn aAzvx nna axpvz«va snAX 17 nin jvliz,
1689 (B. B. Beetor of Thmetaaton, waa dnly boried
beneath tbia etene, 17 July, 1689). Hkaaeoeeaor,

N.— PETEB MOBBBT

waa an intereating peraon* an aeooottt of whom baa
already appeared in WIrral N. A <). (No. 168), ao we
need only mention tbeae faote. He had been
ordained deaoon in 1680, prieat in 1684, ao ha amy
have been now 82 or poAiapa only 29. He waa
a minor eanon of Obeeter Oalhedraland had been
rebaked by biahop Otrtwright for "reaeeting
impradently on the king*a religion" in n eennen
preiMhed in the Oathednd Jan. 81, 1687. However
he "promlaed aaaendment'* and on Sep. 4th
**preaohedagoed eermon." He waa a friend of
the Dean (and aiao Vieer of Neeton) Jamee Aitene
who at hia death in 1691 left him » my beat aott, aa
gown, oaaaook, hat, ellk etobkinga, and hreeebee,
whioh I deeire may be given to my emmte, Mr.
Peter Morrey, and that my exeentora do take oare
of hia preferment, he leaving a very good plaoe to
oome to me.'* Mr. Morrey reelgned the Beotory of
Thnrataaton, in 1691 ; tbhi waa probably to go to
Neeton, whioh Vioarage be reoeived 1692, the
exeentora having tahen good eare of hia preferment.
But it hi poeaible that he reaigned Thnrataaton before
Dean Ardeme'e death, with a view of beooming hia
enrateat Neaton->and Thnrataaton will be the •* good
plaoe " referred to in the wiU. Mr. Morrey held
the Vioarage of Neeton tiU hia death there in 1719.

O.— MILES ATKINSON

waa reotor from 1692 till hia death in 1706. He
had a worthy aooeeaaor in

P.— JOHN HODSON.

Mr. HodaoB waa eldeet aon of Saaiu Hodaw of
Ohriatleton, and on Jan. 6, 1697 married Dorothy,
dangliter of Geo. Hoekenhnll of Fronton* Hie in-
onmbenoy iUla the flret half of the eighteenth eentuy
(1706-1752), dnring tbe whole of whioh time he wee
reeident at Thnrataaton. He proenred the earlieet
of the exiating roister hooka, iHdob he kept in a
very dear and neat band* Fnm it we leem mnoh
about hia faadly, aeveral of bla obiUben died yoang,
and hia dangbtere married neighbonring yeontea^
one a Hongh of Oldfield, a family whioh ie atiU living
there. One of liia aene waa enrale at Weat Eirby,
another waa lioenaed to himaelf in 1780. One of hia
great grandohlldren iMoame Frinoipal of Braaenoae
Ooll. Ozon. a fit retnm to a eoUege whioh, aa we have
aeen, baa given many reotora to Thnrataaton. In
1747 having been for eome thne without aaaiatanee,
through failing eyeaigbt, he engaged Mr. BoUnaon
the aoboolmaater at Weat Kirby aa onrate. Bia
wife died before liim, and we are able to aeoi in
the olienge of hia liandwriting in the Begiater, the
effeot of that ead loaf, and indeed he followed her
himaelf within a year (in 1762).

THE MEOLS SHORE,

I PORTION OF THE SO-CALLEO SUBMARINE FOniST.

NOYEHBSB, 1898.

WIRRAL NOTES ANB QUERIES.

After Mr. HodMn'f dettth the BMloty VM hdd bf
non-iwiteit ndnor ouiou of Ohattor OUiMdral.
UDtil the appolBtiBflBl of tho Btfv. Johv Fhh in
1884. and their hletoiy !«■ bo loeal intenii f or w.

B. B. Backhax.

[277] MI88 BEWABD'S POEM ON HOYLAKB.

(See No. 269.— Oefcober 7ih)

The foUowing poeon wm wriftteo bj Mia Seward
her Yiiil to Hoyleke in 1794.

HOYLE LAKB,

A Poem
Written on thet ooeet, and eddreaeed to ite pro-
prietor, Sir John Stanley.

Thee» Stanly, thee, our ghUUlen'd epirit baila,
Sinoe life'a firat good for xu thy eflbrta gain,

Who, habitanta ol Albion'a inland Talea,
Baaide far diatant from her eirollDg main.

Theae Ilghtaome walla beneath thj geoenwa eaiai
Aroae, the lawnj aeene*a oonviTial boeat,

WbUe at thy voioe elear-oheek'd Hygeia cenra
Her aqneooa altera on thia tepid eoeat.

Thia eoaat, the neareat to oar oeotnd home.
That green Britannia*8 watry aone diaplaya.

Now givea the drooping frame a eheeif ol dome,
Whoae Larea amile, and promiae lengthen'd daya.

Wben gather'd foga the pale horiion ateep,
Fall&g in heaty, deep, oontinnal rain.

If, ere the aon ahriok ahrooded in the deep,
Hia eryatal raya perrade the Taponiy train,

Dry are the tnr^ downa, diilhaiTe apread
O'er the light anrfaee of the aandy mound,

Where e'en the laognld form may aafely tread,
Drink the pore gale, aod eye the blue profound.

Dear aoene !— that, atreteh'd between the ailter anna
Of Deva and of Meraey, meeta the maio.

And, when the ann-gUt day illnmea ita ehidrma,
Boaata of peeuliar graee, nor lyoaaiB in fain.

Tho' near the beaeh, dark Helbrie'a tonely iale

Bepoaee aullen in the wat'ry way,
Hean round her rooka the tidea, returning, boil,

And o'er her duaky aandala daah their apray.

Mari^ to the left, romantie Oambria'a eoaat.
Her eurtain'd monntaina ridng o'er the flooda ;

While aeaa on Orm'a beak'd promontory buat.
Blue DoTa aweUa bar mirror to the wooda.

High o'er that varied ridge of Alpine forma,
vaat Moel-y-Famman towera upon the eight,

Lif ta her maternal boaom to the atorma.
And aereena her filial monntaina from their bUght.

Far on the right, the dim Laneaatrian plaina.
Id pallid dlatanoe, glimmer thro' the aky,

Tho' hid by jotting roeka, thy aplendld fanea,
OoDuneroial Idverpool, elude the eye.

WdB in the front the oonfluent oeeana roll.
Amid whoae reatleaa billowa guardian Hoyle,

To aereen her aanre Lake when ten^eata howl,
Spreada the firm texture of her amber Iale.

And tho* the eurgieg tide'e reeiatleaa wafea
BoU, day and nig^, ita lefol aurf^boe o'er,

Tho' the aUea dariceo, and the wliiriwind raTea,
They fkotli— but ruah innozioua to the ahore.

When feer-atnek aeamen, "mid the raging flood
Hear thundering Shipwreck yell her dire deereea

See her pale arm rend every aail and ahroud.
And o*er the high meat lift her whelming aeai,

If to thy quiet harbour, gentle Hoyle,
The ahatter'd navy thro' the tempest flieii

Seeh foyoua mariner forgeta hia toil.
And earola to the vainly angry akiea.

What tho' they vex the Lake*a eerulean atreim,
And enri ita billowB on the ahelly floor.

Yell in deepite of Faney'a timid dream.
Age and infirmi^ may plunge aseure.

How gay the aoene when 8prlng*8 fair mominga break.

Or Summer-noona illume the graaaj mound.
When aoehor'd naiiee orowd the peopled Lake,

Or deek the diatant oeeana akiey bound I

lake leafleM foreata, on ita verge extreme
Biae the tall maata -or apreading wide their aaila.

Silvering and ahioing in the aolar beam,
Stand on that laat blue line and eonrt the galea.

The peopled I«ke, of aong, and lively oheer.
And boatawaio'e whiatle beara the jovial aound ;

While may pennanta, floating on the air.
Tinge the aoft aeaa of glaaa that aleep around.

Twaa on theae Downa, the Belgian hero apread
Hia ardent legions in auapleious houra,

Bre to lerae'a hoetile ahorea he led
To deathleaa glory their embattled powera.

When, like the eonqneror of the Saatem World,
That Btemm'd with dauntleaa breaat the amnio
flood,

Hia vietor-aword, immortal Wiluam whirl'd,
And Boyne'a pale waten dyed with rebel blood.

Knee now, to health devoted, thia eaUn ahen
Breathea renovation in ite foamy wave.
For the kind Donor ahall eaeh heart ioiploiei
The good hia anergiea to othera gave.

That king on him olear-oheek*d Hygeia'a nhile
And long on all he lovee, aerane may ahine,

Who from thy aparkUag eoaat, benignant Hoyle,
Difltaaad the Mearinga of her oryatal ahriBa

F,8;

DECEMBER 2nd, 1893.

[278]

THE MEOLS SHOBE.

On Thuraday the 16th Nov. Mr. Ohariea Potter,
whoae reeearehea on theMeola Shon are well knowa,
exhibited at the meeting of the Hiatorio Soeietv ol
Laneaahire and Oheahire, the remaina of three
wooden bowla, taken from the upper depodt ol
marine ailt, or elay, overlying the peat beda,
populariy known as the ** SuboMuine Foroat." Two
of theee ^peer to be of flr-wood, and one ol
^yeamon, or willow, their sine belag alsMat nina,

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Deokhbbb, 1898.

or twelve uiohef» rMpeottvelj* Whtn found Ihoy
were well formed, ud neerly perfeot, but have dnoe
■hniDk. The two emeUer bowie have the ftppearanoe
of being tamed, the other wae leooped oat. The
main Intareet of these bowla doea not however oon-
aUt in their make, bat in the OTidenee th^y give of
thehr age, and of the ohangea that have taken plaoe
in the formation and eondition of the land, einee
th^y were depodted where they were found. All
theee ntemdla were taken from a bed of bine elay
silt, a marine deposit abonnding in marine BheUa of
a known ipecies, whloh still eiutB. These shells art
found with their Talvea together, and set upright,
whieh is the natural position they took when li^ng,
their habit being to burrow in the mud, over the
surfaee of whioh they protruded their tentaeles.
The f aot that they aie so plaoed and tbat they art
not separated, or brokeo, or laid promisououtly,
proves oonolnsively thai at the time the bowls were
embedded in the liU, the bed oooupied a tidal
eaiuaiy, oovered at flood tide with salt or braokish
water, or probably forming salt pools on a sea
beaob. Above thia bed of silt Is a traee of a thinner
one containing remains of fresh water sheUs, showing
that from some oause, the sea had retired, and the
low land was in part oovered by shallow lagoons of
fresh water. Together with these are to be found
ftiint traees of marsh Tegetation, and over these
again a bed of sorfaoe soil, that eontains many
remains of oultivation and traees of human habita*
tion, out of whieh the major part of the antiquities
gathered from the Meolse short are washed by the
fide as the land is wasted by the fretting of the sea.
Above this old land sorfaoe is piled the drift sand
of the sandhills, on whose surfaoe, some twelve to
twenty feet above the old eoltivated sorfaoe, are
eottages, some of whioh are of a oonsiderablt age.
Thus we have the series of beds suooeeding each
other like the leaves of a diary, eaeh containing the
reoord written upon it, in the form of its remains,
the separate history of its era. But this set of
strata, whioh we have began and oounted
upwards from the marine deposits, have below
them, first, a peat moss full of tree roots,
and fallen timber, embedded it it, around
whioh onoe grew a strong growth of marsh
plants, and still below this another and deeper peat
bed, ndth an intervening bed of elay and sheUs, all
now far below the level d high water. Here then Is
proof, that at some remote sueoeisiTeperiodsboth these
beds of peaty with growing marsh plants, subsided
beneath the sea ; that the ground was a seoond time
upheaved, and a new growth of peat (the upper
forest bed) was formed t then eame a seoond
snbsidenee, that dipped the upper peat again below
the waters. With these geologieal movements as a
whole, we have only to deal indirectly. We seek
here only to know whether the period of any of them
can be approximately dated, and we eome to our
bowls, to tell their part of the history. It is not
gaite the earliest leaf In our book, but nearly so. In
tne upper peat beds are relics of man, in the form
of rough burnt stones, and the traces of the hunted
beasts of which man made his food. Over these lie
the marine day, and shells, into whioh while the
waters of the sea oovered the land, these wooden
uteniils sank, and were lost, in the mud that has
preserved them. That thia happened at a period
previous to that whioh we caU British (pfobaUy

in the Doolithic, or early stone age) is shown faj the
fact tbat, with a short interval of fresh water, the
sea has become dry land [and upon its
surfaoe soil are the oironlar huts of the
British occupants, which the wasting of the
same UUs reveals from time to time. One aoeh
was said to have recently been disclosed, and scTeral
have been seen at previous times. From the mb-
bish heaps that adjoin these andent dwellings, bavt
lately been taken fragments of early green glaaed
pottery, of Saxon character, a small dasp of bronse,
such as was used to fasten together the scalea or
plates of armour, together with the shells of shell-
fish, and bones, the remains of the food of the
anoient inhabitants. Again, at a higher ievd, an
found the atones and floors of rude houses of
medinval dale, from which relics are taken which
seem to bring the occupation down to about the
middle of the Plantagenet era, after which auoh
remains of habitation cease. The latest rtmaiaa
are now Just below the ievd of high tides, and the
British still lower, proving that the last moTement has
been one of subsidence, in this strange history of
sabmergence and devation of the huid suzfaeta.
Thus we have read from the leaves of our nntual
diary, first, from its vegetable and marine, and
animal and naturd remdos, the tde of the geolog^oal
movtmenti, while from thdr place in the varimu
strata, the relics of man's occupation have told ua,
approximately, the dates during which th^ wera
associated with man's existence. First the hnntar'a
fires and spoils i then the bowls, sunk and loet in ftho
shdlow sea that overwhelmed the former, and then
again the dry land, cultivated by Briton, and Baxon,
and English hands, and last the decline again
towards the ocean. Bo from the lees to the greater
the lesson lies open to the learner, from the atom to
the highest organism. From the poor wooden bowl
lost in the sea by some primevd man ia written hia
plaoe hiatory in the world, and the tde of those
mighty forces of natore, that moulded the oatlinea of
the world out of Obaos.

E. W. Cox.

[279] WIRRiLL DEiNERY IN 1598.
(See Noo. 241, 247, 219, 266. 267)

DXOAHATUB DX WbBBALL.

Ooram ven'ble viro Migro Davido Yde, in legUma
Doctore 7 Beptembris 1698.

MORXTON OaPILLA..

Oontra Bobertum Wade, Willmum Hanoooke el
WiUmam Pemberton : —

Doe utterlie refuse to contribute to the aald
Ohappell. The sdde Parties appeared and the Jadge
hatha iojoined them to pde accordinge as hereto
fore they have done to the said Ohappell sub pens
Juris.

Eastham Paxoohia.

Oontra Deoanum et AP' 6 :—

They haTe no onarter sermones.

The Ladle BuadMth Stanley cometh not to

Chordie.

DXOEXBER, 1898.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Wtyavifghl:—

onto in

Coutim Wiitam %
Kepi tjpliii&6 ai

WOOOCBDICB PlBOOHIA.

Gootn .iixoi«B[- r]Edwiidi-BA

Did nol ooflumiiMto ai Btst
Bfttiir, beoaoie ahae hai proniaed to ad'*
Toniflnl [?1 1 jma.

Oontim BdwHdm BaTCoaoroft al ajai
Noo eolMliitaiil.

Baodovd PiaooBUL
Oontn Gaidiaiioa itkdtm :—

The bodie of tta Ohiirah waalalk datii«a.
Oontn Miii Glaaaor, vuf lo Hugh GUaaaov

Oama not to Obarah to BadcTord.

Oontra Johaonam KaaBegenaraaBmaC cjaa

Did nol odcato al Saatcr laato boi
Podngtoa hia broiban bonaa.

BiBoiaxox Paboobia.

Oontoa Baatonai iUdam :—
Hatb tbraa BanaAoea.

Wnr Kuan Paioohul
Oontra Tbomam Gill for enflorinfce bla aattall to
dafile tba Chorabyird and Porab and ba kaapaib
ale to aail in iba Paiaonaga boaae.

Oontra Beetorem ilndein : —

Did never read daryna Serfica in bia Piaba Obmnb
tba PaiBoa nerer preadbad neytber ba?a tbey fonre
aermonea qnarterlia, nor reddani nor diatiibototb
tba zltb parte.

Oontra Ooratam iUdem :«

Somawbat aadiatad to tba Alebonaa and inanffi-
eient: Qaodla ata: and beaanaa ytt appaaretb ba
bajr aenrad bnge tbera and jt tbera bee ania lalto in
bjin bea irill amende jtt, the Jad^ nppon bopa of
amandmanl bay mada a ti^all of bjm nnlaaa tbera
bea fnrtber eomplrinta mada, and iiatb ai4<7nad
bjm to apply bia plaoa dntif nllie.

Oontra Annam M albom vidnam, ^pofemm Banna! :^
Did not oo'iaato laata Eaater by raaaon of tba in-
enffldanaa of tba Oarala.

OV MB C H U B CH PABOGBIA.

Oontra Petmm WilUnaon :~
Non Uoeneiat and dotb not enter into tba Begiatar
Booke all mariagaa and Xpenin^e.

Contra Oardianoa ibidem : —
Tb^ wanto Hr. Jnella apoUogie, a hnakflrham
aoverlnga for tba Table, and a poora man*a bosa.

Oontra flrmam :«
No qnarter aermonaain dafalto of Patar Bold, gani.

Bboxbqo* Paboohia.

Contra Gtid : ibidem

They want Mr. Jnall'a appologie.
Oontra Petram mUngton :- a awearer.

To do pananee one day in tba P*iab Obnrab.

WAXJiAsn.

BUBSOH.

Want Jnalla Baplia and Apologia,

NnroN.
Want JneUa Beplia and Apologia.
Oontra AUeiam norem WlUmi WUtmora andgari
Janam Obriatianam at Bleanoram filiaa prediati

Wmmi Wbitmora aradgarl : ~

Abaent tbamaalTea from Cbarah. Beapectaanftiir

Doadno.

Contra mUmom WbitaMva armig^om at
Winatanlqr : -did not ooieata at JSaatar laata.

{To be CcaHmud)

DECEMBER 9th, 1893.

[880] A WIBBAL CHILD MABBIAGB.

(Bee Noa. 188 and SOS.)

SoBM motttba ago, tbera appeared aoaonnta of two
rly mairiagea between the famibea of Stanlay of
Hootoii« and Dotton of Hatton, in wbiab thm aoa*
trmctiBg partiea were all aged from 10 to IS. TIm
following intareadttg dapodtioaa ata from an earlier
MS. folnme, preaerred at the fiiabop'a Begiatiy
(1548-54), and idato to a atiU mon yontbfnl mar-
riage^ tba bridegroom being of tbe matnra aga oC
tbrea.

Tba Parreaof Baekford, probably a braaeh of tba
Parrea of Parte in lameaabire, bad been aetrled in
Baokford for aereral genermtiona. Tba Bobert Parra
mentioDedin tbe depodtiona waa eon of WUliam
Parre of Baokford, by bia wife Eliaabatb, daogbter
and beir o aa of Thomaa Barrow of Obeater : be mar*
ried efontnaUy Elisabetb dangbter of Bobert Lang*

ton of Co., Lane., and SieA abant 158S. Tba

Bogeraona were a family of cooddandila noto in
Obeater.

It will be aean tbat tba eeremony waa not merely
a batroibal, bat tbat tbe marriage aervioa waa
Botnally gone tbroogb in ohnrdi, tboogh tbe brida*
groom waa ao yonng tbat bia nnde waa obliged to aay
the worda for bim.

In printing ibe doemnent I bafa giTan a fraa
tranilation of tba Latin phraaea oaed, and baia in*
dioated their piaaenoe by italioa.

Claogbton. W. FnaausaoN Ibtiiib.

Before George WUmdeye L.L.B. [fill Norember
1648.]

" Th€ following depotitiom were taken in a eauee
of Divorce^ on the part of Robert Parre againti
SltMobeth Rogenon,

Gilbert Aamall of the parieh of Backford^ kaving
dwelled there 18 yeart a ui aged about 64, having no
iniereet, part, in the ase etc etc, tei«e that he waa
aerTint to Ur. Parre tbe tyme off the marriage off
Bobert Pana bia ainne with Elaabetb Bogeiaon
aliaa Parra wbiab waa aaont iz or z yeara paeard ea
far aa tbJa deponent rememl>ara att whioh tyme tbe
aaid Bobert aa ha Jogia [Jadgea] waa betwixt iU and
iiii yeraa of age and waa bom to tba Cboroba in tba
armaa of Edward Bonboria bia anela.

Interrogated whether the marriage ha$ been «m*
mmmated, thia deponent aalee yt he baa harda tba
eaid Bobert att divera and aondvie tynee before ba
oamatobiabiwfnlageaaalaoayn'a yt time edeyt

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Deobmbeb, 1898.

he would neTeroonsent to the Mine for he ndd yt
hlfl vnole Edward ipako the words of matrjmonie
for hym, and not he, and y t he wta hired for an apple
bie hia nnde to goe to the Ohnrehe and aa for
oobabitation aynea ye tyme yt the laid Bobert oame
to the age of 14 the nid Elaabeth and he were not
dwelUnge in one honae together for abe waa dwelling
with hyr frendea in the Oitie of Obeater and bee at
home with hia father att Baokford and aa for oamall
knowledge betwixt the nid partiaa thia deponent
aaiea thia waa no for he beyinge aerrante to the aald
Ifr. Parre oontynning for the moite parte in hya
howie dyd knowe very well yt they were never
aafBured to lie together aa he baa herde off the
parreniia of the aaid Bobert.

And farther off hya knowledge thia deponent aaiea
yt hya wiff Margaret [f] thia 8 yerea waa aenrante
att the Hall of Baokford and abe baa told tbia
deponent yt the aaid Elaabeth had never love nor favor
to the aaid Bobert, for whereaa the aaid Elaabeth
and thia deponenta wiff did lie oontynoallie ther
togetheriffatany tyme the laid Bobert oame onto
the ehamber where they twoe dyd lye the ad Elaabeth
wold leepe forthe off the heed and thia deponent baa
herde the aaide Eleabetbe diverae tymea aaye
weeplnge yt abe wold never have the aaid Bobert to
hyr hnabond and wiabed diverse tymea yt abe had

Earte of hyr moneys ageyne ao y t she were ridd from
ym eto ete'*

Similar evidenoe la given by Bobert Whitley of the
Pariah of Baokford, who had lived there for 25
years, and waa aged abont 67^in the eoniae of hia
depoaitiona he atatea that Bobert Parre "waa
betwixt ill and iiil yerea of age and he waa borne to
the Ohorobe in tlie armea of hia onole Edward
Bnnbarie wioh helde hym in hya armea the tyme yt
he waa marled to the aaid Elaabetbe att which tyme
the eaide Bobert eolde aearee apeke bnt yet he waa
oagg't bie the aidde Edwarde bli nnole ete.*'

[981] WIBBAL DEANEBY IN 1698.
(Oontinnad from No. 279^Deor. 2nd.)

BiDBTON PABOOHIA.

Contra flimariun do Bidaton :—

They have had bnt one Beraum thea three ;
Beapeotnator Dno Eps.

Oontra Bobertom Byding:^for not eoi'catinge at
Eaater laate. Qao die oomparait et Dom-
Inos io jnnxlt ei to reeey ve the oo*ion orderlie in bis
own pariabe obnrobe and ytt appeareth bee re-
oeyved att Leverpoole et Dominna dimiait earn.

Oontra Onratom de Bidaton predioto :—

Abaent from the Ohnrob two holidaiea and loveth
to keepe oompanie in Alehonaea.

Quo die oompamlt Onratna and saeth he waa
abaente too dalea in aeaven yearea and baa promiaed
hereafter that bee will doe aoe noe more and aaiee
that he doth nott nae anie Alehooaea inoonvenient
lie.

Dominna dimiait emn, with exhortation and oom-
mandment to bee dntifnU nppon pidoe of disoharge
olbiaenFe.

Oontra Artbnnim Keiiio et Thomam Toonge :—

For bowlinge nppon the Saboath dale. Qao die
oomparoemnt and beoanae ytt appeareth they
never dyd bonle bntt onoe and then nott alt
prayer, Dominna dimiait.

Oontra Thomam Kempe et ejna nxorem :^

Non oohabitant. Quo die oomparait vhr et Dom-
iona injonxit ei to reoeyve his wiefe and to ahewe
cause.

Oontra M argerlam Hare :—

Doth nae to bleaae tbingea : —

Oomparait and ytt la reported that abee la an
boneat poore woman, dominna injonxit that ahea
blesae noe more anie oattell.

Oontra Johem Erble, Aanam Pemberton, Thomam
QUI et Joanam Jolmaon :^fornieatorea.

Oontra Thomam Martyn et Jana M . Smyth als liartyn
fornioatorea. Qaodie oomparait vir et fatetnr
deliotnm et allegat that ete, he marled the aaid
Jane and that be liveth with her in the f eare of
God.

To pale to the poors mana boxe in Bidaton Chnreh
to the use of the poore ijs. before Miohaelmaa nexte.

[282] WIBBAL SUBSIDT BOLLb 1546.

(Oontinned from No. 252.— Ang. 19.)

Tan Lit. [Lea.]

JobeBoylstonpioivU. IHjd.

JoheOlaaa [?] proxxa id.

Jobe Kyrke pro ivU liijd.

Hogone Denwall pro xxa id.

Bdwardo Denwall pro xxa id.

Bobto Bebeppart proxxa ..Id.

Jobe Qraoe pro xxa • id •

Obabacl.

Oeorglo S^yrlM pro ixli • ....xvlijd.

Elaabetbe Annyon nro xls ijd.

Bioo Oowpar pro vli xd.

Willmo Hnntynton pioivli iiijd.

HOLLTHTOH TaBBAT.

laaabela Barrow pioivli •• iiijd.

Thoma Edmnnd pro ivli iiiid.

Bloo OoUey pro xxa.... Id.

Jobe Barrow pro vU • zd.

Thoma Forahaw pro xla ijd.

Margareta Willeaton pro xxa id.

WiUmo Jobnaon pro vli • xd.

Jabe Sefton pro xll. • • • ijd.

Jobe Barrow Junior pro ^ ijd.

Thoma Barrow pro xia ijd.

Agneta Barrow pro xxa • id.

Willmo Bairow pro xls ..iid.

Bhoblbtoh. [Oborlton.]

Jobs Stones pro xxs • . . .id.

Johe Forahaw pro xli • . • • i] d .

Henrioo Finlowe pro xla. . . • ijd,

Willmo Traibrd pro xxs • •••jd.

Dbguibib, 1898.

WntBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Uao Kjng pio Q)U Uijd

Willmo FonhAw prailfl ijd.

HitfgeriaFonlMwpioxlf ••... ijd.

AgnaU Fonhaw proxn Id.

Bieo Oiyae pro xn ....id.

ElisabeUui GfjBM pro xn id.

JoheChTHeprozxi.... ^.id.

Bobio Ook pio xls Ud.

BobtoKjBg ptosis _id.

lUigante Eyiigpiozxs .......id.

Whixbt.

^nOmo QjijBioB pio if li ffijd.

Bioo ^ejMo ?ii jU Xfjd.

HagoM wittily [f] no ItH liijd.

Haoileo Morton pro itB liijd.

Thiioui BiudieD pio fili xijd.

Jaoobo BoHlieD pro Mi ....liijd.

Bloo BdwBid pio *«» id.

Hemiflo WjIUIqre pro Hjli .'.'.' ...W'.fijd!

JoIm Knovii^ pro Hi jU liijd.

Bobto lUftebon pro Uijli iUjd.

Bog«ro Sefton pro iii jli .ii^d.

Joh« Dqjiisod pro xzf id,

TliOBUi D^yiMoo pro i?li ilijd.

BobtoDejmmprofili x^d.

Thoma l^e pro viiili xvjd.

Willmo QyiM pro lis ijd.

Obbbpoolb.

JotaoMAWxie pro fill , xijd.

Tlioaui Weldmuui pro ifli ilijd.

Tluumi Barker pro xxa Id.

Elflna Ony pro iijli .••• iijd.

Bogero Ejnge pro viii xijd.

Bale Sponto pro xla ijd.

Bogaro Da jnsoB pro Uijli liijd.

Jm Weigemaii pro XX8 ....id.

DECEMBER 16th, 1893.

[888] THE ASSISTANT OUBATES OF

THUBSTABTON.

Tbo raoordfl of Thmitaatoii oontaiii lome doen-
menti abonft eoraiea, wliioh throw a good deal of light
on the itate of thingg in eomitiy pariahee laat oenknry.

Our notee on the Beaton of Thnataflton ended
with the BeT. Joeh Hodbon (1705.1762). In 1780 he
nominated hie eon Johh Hodbom B JL. to the Onra^
of Thnntaston at a stipend of £20 a year. Meet
likely this was for the sake of giving hie eon a title (1)
rather than for the need of aasiBtanee, for the Ber. John
HodaoB, Janr*! did not apparently stay long with his
father. In any ease the Beetor had heen a long
time withont a enrate, when he wrote the following
▼ery intereeting letter to hla Bishop (Samnel
Peploe).

"1747 Jane 18. Thnrstaston.
My Lord,
It was not my design aboTe a month ago, to

(1) No one can be ordained wllhont a UUe, that b an ap
lolntment lo a definite pott with a definite etipend.

employ the bearer, Mr. Bouiibon, Marter of Weak

Kiriqr Sehool, as an AasiBtant to me before Mlobaal-
masneit; bat ainoe then my Eyesight haafail*dme
to that Degree, that I am not able bat with great
Diffieolty to diseharge my Daty in the Oharob, and
I iind It onaToidably neeessary to g^ speedier
Asristanoe, withoat whioh the Ohareh Serriee most
be negleeted ; and therefore I moat homUy bag y t
yoar Lordship will be pleas'd to admit the sidd Mr.
BoBiHsoir into the saored Order of Deaoona to-
morrow. If yoor Lordahip shall find him ^ftlifled lor
that ho^ Fonetion, Ikom whom I hope to laap the
Benefit of a good Assistant, and do promise lo aDow
him the yearly salary of fifteen Pbonda, iridM he
ahaU aerre my eare,

Who am, my Lord,

Yoar LordaUp'a f«y obedt.

Son and aerrani,

Ja. HoDooa.**

Mr. William Bobfauon'a*' &' suit "(1) had bean read
in Weat Kirby Ohoroh on Jane 7th, and we farther
learn that ha had been baptiaed at Bentham (T)
OheaUre, MaylTth. 1792, and thai hto aalary aa
Master of ttie Weat Kirby Sehodl waa *«abool£80a
year, oat of whioh Is peld to an assistant £12 per
ann." The Beetory of Tharataaton Is irftiTnatttd al
£40 per ann. in the same dooament

The letter illnatratea the Ideaa then praratol aa
to the preparation neeeaaaiy beloro reeeiTing H^
Ordera. The Biahop aroarent^ ordained liim after
this short notiee on the loUowiBg day, and the Ber.
W. BoUnson beeame Oarate of Tharslaston. In
1749 lie was ordained prieat, his Si gw» haflng bean
rablished in the Ohorohes of Thontaoton and Weal
Kirl^ on Not. 10, while his testimonial was rigned by
Jho. Hodbor, Beetor, Jno. Nonam Beetor of Heaaall,
Oio. HoDBON, Oarate of Weat Kirby, [?] WbubmoUi
Isaac Sxalb, and John Habbboh.

Mr. Bodson signed the B^gistera f or the laat lima
in 1747, and in 1762 he waa aaeoeeded 1^ the Bo?.
Obas. Hbmohicam, bat Mr. BobJason remained on aa
oarate till 1758. In the next Tear we find a petitioii
to the Bishop from an appUeant for the Taeanl
earaoy, whioh oontaiBa some intereating Information
abont Wirral Sdioola.

(> To the Bt. BeT. Father in God, Enicuia), LI
Bishop of Oheater.

This ia to eertify yoar Lordship that I BamuUi
Pmoa whooffiu myself a oandidato for Deaeon^i
Orders to ofilelate in Mr. HiaoHMAH'a oare of
THUBSTASToa, in the Oo. of Oheater, was bom in the
Farish of TAsns, in the Oo. of Oheater, and
edaeated at Tabtqi Bobool, till I beeame 17 years
and 10 months old, at whioh agei ha?lng made eon*
aideraUe progreea in the Latin Lengnage and Matha*
matioal literatore, I waa eleoted master of Eastbax
Pariah Bobool, In the same oo.. endowed with an
yearly stipend of £4 lis., whioh with other per*
qnisites amoanted to £20 per ann. After a resldenoa
of 8 years and 11 months at the said Sohool I waa

(1) Before a man oan be ordained, a notiee of hli forth*
oomlng ordination which becUiB with the wcrdi ■* If anyone
(8i quU)^ has to be read In hie parlih Ghoroh, to glre an
opportunity for any objectlona to be railed.

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

1898.

elfloM Maiter of tlie Gfammtr Bohool of Wood-
GSVBOB, In Ibe nno oOi, eiidowea Willi ab yearly
■tIpMid of £90, whiob, witk other perqaUtM,
•aioaiitt to £95 per enii., et whioh Mhool I bave
leiidejl the iBienm from the reUnqnlshing of
BABiBai Pirieh Bebool to this preeent, whioh hM
been the qpeea of 1 year 8 months (1) end npwnds,

Wltnen eto. Ap 12. 1759.

We bind omreelfee be ihnU not qilt the Oore^ for
the ipnoe ef 6 yeeii after iaeh ordination (9)

Tho. MaottiIw,

Bob. ExjoaoMy

EUmuil Puob,

Thia Ineid aeeonnt of Ida eareer failed however to
latitfy the biabop, aa to the attainmenta, the<dogioal
or otherwiae, of Mr. Frioe, and next year we find
the eoraoy held by Bev. William Ion (P of Swedish
extraoiiOD)t whoee testimooial for Prieats Ordera
waaaignedf on Ap. 10, 17G0, by J. M aflitor, Yioar of
Neston, J. Ubxson, Oorateof Neeton, and J. Fanron,
Onalo of FlemataU. Tho laet named himself
beeame Beetor of Thnrsteeton, in 1761, Mr. Ion
lewalning on aa Ooiate. The aignators of •• W.
Ion " in the Begister, however, oeases in 1768, and
In 1769 bei^ that of <* Williax Dawson." The
laiter,howevsr,*doea not oeenr between 1771 and 1780.
In 1790, again, Mr. Prinee formally nominated ** Bev
W. Dawbon " to the earaqy, at a stipend of £i0 per
annnm. The Be?. Josxpb Eaton beeame Beetor in
1796, and he oontinned Mr. Dawson on advaneed
terms **£42 per annom, with use of parsonage iioaae,
garden and stable.**

In 1801 the new Beetor Jahbb Wihiuld appointed
the Bev. Pnxu Wilson aa hie eorale, at A50 a year
with nae of "Beetory House, garden andstable." Mr.
WIson brings na down to onr own timea almost, for
be oontinned at Xbnrataaton till the eoming of the Bev.
John Fob (Beetor from 1824 to 1858), bis last
algnatnre in the Begister dating April 2d, 1828, and
there are still living parishioners to whom liis name
iaflMdHar.

Binee Mr. Wilson^s time, the servioes of a ennte
have been rendered neoestery only throngh the ege
or infirmities of the Beotors. Xhns at the end of
Mr. Fish's inenmbenoy, the Bev. Tbokab Bounnn
DxoxiNS of Jesns OoUege, Oambridge, now L.L.D.
and Viear of Emsoote, Warwiek, was enrate Oct.
1854 to the end of 1856. He waaaooeeeded by the Bev.
William Oantbill Olau, B.A., Xrin. Hall, Cantab,
for the first few moDths of 1857, and be in tnm by
Ifaa Bev. John Bidnit Bouohkb, MJk., St. John's,
Oamb, then head maater of Hamilton-square, Bir-
kenhead, from 1865-1883 Prindpal of the N. Wales
Training OoUege,, now Beetor of Gedding, Bory St.
Sdivonds. Mr. Bonoher eame over from Birkenhead
for the dnty, nntil the arrival of the new Beotor,
4he Bev. F. E. Thixbland, at the end of 1858. The
stipend of a Thorstaaton enrate at that time seems
to have been £80 per annnm.

B. B. Baokham.

(1) Mr. Price wai then 23 years 11 moakhs old, JUBt one
month under the .required age of 23.

(8) A pledge like thia waa perbara required to prerent men
obtalninff orders on the pretext of a onraoj which they
would gk^e up after a few montha and remain ** Free
laooeSf'^soto speak— nerer a profltable class to the Oborch.

[284]

BEY. JOBS MUBOOT.

(See Noa. 14, 16, 19, and 64.)

Daring a reoent viait to the Pfiaft Boom al the
Britidi Mnaenm, I diaeoierad a portrait of John
Muroot, Vioar of Eastham and Beetor of West
Eirby in the time of the Qreat BebeiUon. This
portrait, whioh I obtained permiaaioo to photogmph,
waa published by W. Biehardaoa, Oaatle-otreet,
Leioeater Fielda. It reprsaente a grave man with
akttll-oap and Geneva gown, holding a biUe in bis
band. Bonnd the piotnre ia the ineeripCfen :— Vera
EfBgies Johannia Mnreot. Aetat 80, Obiit Dee^ Srd.
1654. Under the piotnre are the linea ^-^

Here atand, and live in thy immortall pago-~
Then Qolden Preaoher in as Ives Age,
Ireland lamenta thy losse, whose powerful wwd
Brought on her greater oonq(a«(B than tiia Swoid.
Their bodiee were Snbdned by Armss and Arts,
But thou (bleat oonqaeror) didst win their Heerls.

F. EUaniBB.

[285] WIBBAL SUBSIDT BOLL, 1545.

(Oontinned from No. 282.— Deo. 10.)

NsTHia Pools.
Johanna Hey ward vli zd.

PaBVA SiOBAUta

Jobe Peresoon pro iijli ii Jd.

Jaoobo Oarleyll pro zxa id

Bawdwyno Fydler pro iiijii iiijd*

Bobto Heylyn pro zla ijd*

Bioo Heythe pro iiijU iiijd'

Bioo Doe pro Ujli iijd

Johe Gierke pro iijli iijd*

WUimo Doe pro iiijU uijd*

Unilmo Trongbton pro iii j i liijd^

Maigareta Urmiaton pro sis ijd*

WiUmo Jennyon pro zla ijd.

Thoma Heylyn pro vili . • zijd.

[About a dosen more samea illegiUe.]

Oapzrhxjbst.

WHImo Galley pro viijli zvjd.

J6he Heakoth pro vli zd«

Bade Pair pro ivli iiijd.

Bioo TraiTord pro ivli .iujd.

Bieo Heekyth pro ivli iiijd

Willmo Biynyne pro ii j li ii j d.

Thoma Jenaon prozls. ijd*

Bogero Jenaon prozza id.

Wifimo Mutton pro zzs id.

Thoma l^lierley pro zzs id.

Bogero Bydley pro zzs. ... • id.

Thomaa Wasbynton pro zzs id.

Bbotwtokb.

Thoma Wauerton po iijli. iijd.

Agneta Ball pro vijU zivd.

Johe Hesky pro zzs id.

Edmnndo Whithed pro viijli zvjd.

PORTRAIT OF JOH

FROM »N EMORAVINO IN TH

Dbcsicbib, 1898.

WIKRAL NOTES AND QUBBIES.

ThoBwBkMypiozlfl... ijd.

Thomft Phennd pro zzs id.

Thoma Taylor pro xi j U xxlvd.

BiooOUeproxUi xzijd.

JoheOiio pro xlf •••••• ijd.

DECEMBER 23rd, 1893.

[286] WntBAL BEOUBANT BOLL FOB 1692.

The f oUowisg extraotfl an from a learj oomplete
list of BeenaantB for the Oottnt j of Oheater, preier.
Ted at the Beeord Office in London. There i» eab-
Jolned a Uat of priaonem in Ohester Oaaile, bat aa it
doee not state from what parishea they came, it is
rather difioolt to identify them ; it is therefore
poiMible that I may haye missed some Wirral

Eluabith uxor Willilmi Stanlit militis:—
DeoodlxU Tirtnte oujnsdam aotns parllamenti
apod Westmonaserinm z^xno die Ootobris
anno xxfiii Begine nuio Eliaabethe in
hnJTsmodi oasa editi at pro?i8i, Intitnlati
— ** An Acta for the more apidye and due emeeuUon
(tf cetien BroMfoches qf the Bicntute made in
the zxiii yere of tlu Quenes Ma^sties
reigne Intituled an Acte to rtceave the Quenee
Majesiiee SuXffeeta in there due obedience Et qnod
ipsa* per spaoiam qoatnor annoram proximo ante
sextnm dedmnm diem Septembris anno xxxiiij
•jofldem BegiDCi apod Hooton in parochia de
Estham in Oon^tatn Oestrie oommorans et
inhabitanSf non aooeasit sea resortayit, dorante
tempore predioto, ad ecclesiam paroohialem de
Estham prediota, neo ad aliqnam lUiam ecclesiam,
oapellam sea nsoalem locom oommaniom precad-
onom, sed per totnm tempns prediotom se inde
absenta?it, oontra formam statnti predioii, nnde
oonTieta est die Lane yidelicet xxiij die Aprilis anno
XXX? diote domine Begine.

Auou uxor WiLLciiia Whithorb de Leighton
mayo in parochia Neston in comitatn predioto
armigerl. DOOOOLXU Tirtnte aotns predioti pro
oonsimili.

WiLLHUS WHinxoBa generosns debet xxrju xiij".
ifd.

ICaboauta nxor Edwabdi Batkhsobovtb de Pren-
ton generosi OOXLU Tirtnte aetns predict! pro oon-
similL

Arha M albeax de West Eyrkbye in parochia de
West Kyrkbye Tidna GCXLU yirtate aotns predioti
pro oonsimili.

JoHxs Whitkobx [de Thnrstaston] nnper de
Oastro Gestr' in con^tatn Oeatrie generosns.

Thomas Maddoox [probably also Thnrstaston—
see No. 118, W. N. A Q., Vol. 1] nnper de Oastro
Oeetr* in comitatn Oestrie.

Tours, Ac,
Olaoghton. Wm. Fbboubson Ibyinb.

[2871 EXTBAOTS BELATINQ TO WIBBAL

VBOV

WILLIAM BLUNDELL'S ROTE-BOOK.

The Note-book of William Blnndell, a Boman
Oatholio gentleman, of Orosby, hi Lancashire, was
published in 1880, nnder the title of A Cavaliet'e
Note Booh. From this I hafe extracted a few para-
gTMhs which contains references to WlrraL

The first paragraph la entitled Ebrietae, and mns
as f<^ows :—** Sir William Stanley told me on 14
April, 1668, that he had once at Hooton my Lord
M-*-, the three T*s, and I- think some lew more
for 8 or 4 nights, and that there were consomed in
his honse daring their stay 16 doaen bottles of wine,
2 hogsheads of beer, and 2 barrels of ale." Page 94.

The Sir William Stanly referred to was the first
baronet of the family, being ao ereatad in 1661. He
died in 1678, and was boried at Eastham.

The next extract is called, Eibemicwn heUiim et
caedee, and refers to an incident ao horrible that we
mnst trnst, lor the eredit of Wirral, that BCr. Blan-
dell waa misinformad.

*< The- omelties of the Iridi againat the English
are in everybody's month, and set forth in printed
pageants sold in London. Some emeltiea on the
contrary part are these that follow.

An English parson who lived in Irehmd told me
that one of his own coat, bom in Wirral, In Oheshire,
and beneficed in Ireland, killed with hla own hands,
one Sanday morning fifty-three of his own parish*
loners, most or all of them (aa I remember) women
and children. Thia waa told me at Ohester, A.D.
1644, in the hearing of Mr. Balph Bridoke, chaplain
to the Earl of Derby. Page 280.

The third extract entitled SZe^mofynarOontains an
anecdote of the saintly Dr. JEUchard Sherlock,a native
of Oxton, of whom an acoonnt appeared in Wirral
Notes wnd Queries, Nos, 95, 111, 117, 129, 181.

« John Widdowes, the chorchwarden of Winwick,
when he opened the poor men's box which stands in
the chnrch, called npon Mr. Sherlock (a veiy charit-
able mao) to be present at the opening of it, and
withal said to him, ** Sir, if there be any brass money
yon onght to make it good." « Who I f" said Mr.
Sherlock, " I pray, sir, yonr reason." ** Marryi sir,"
replied Widowes, " there is never a man bnt yoorself
that ever pnta mon^ into it, and therefore yon
onght to make it good, if any be amiss." Pages
282*S. f .D.

[288]

WIBBAL GENTBT IN 1578.

In a recent Issue of the Chester Courant there
appeared an interesting list of of the *' Knights,
Esqnlres, Gentlemen, and Freeholders in the Oo.
of Ohester, together with horse armonr, etc.," having
been transcribed by Mr. Jno. B. Marsh, of Ohester,
from the original at the Beoord Offioe.

As there were some obvioos errors in the nameo,
I have had a ftresh eopy made from the original,
whidi shows, however, that the balk of the mistakes
were committed hj the derk who sent the doooment
np to headqnarters in EiiBabeth's time.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QDERIES.

Dkgekqbb, 1893.

lunattlM

th« dooDBMit in tba CouniiK, 1( dunild b* dfMribad
M k "diMOTMTt" H tba Book bu bMS indued
WBMBgtt tb« BMordi dnM IBSe, tni Bilraota haTa
■Inadj bMn printed bom It, in tlia xizTiii toI. ol tba
Tnni, ol tba Hiitorlo Sooiet; ct Laooubin and
ObMblra. It h alio difflonlt to ondentaod In what
■(nfla "All rigbti" oonld be "naenad." Ilw
date of tba Bjok ii tba Ttb Oatober, 1S78.

Tout, eto..

Wm. FEUuaMH Ibtisi.

WIBBAL HUMDBED.

(1) 8» Sowuan SnilsLn, Eolsbte — One

dimilanee, three Ooralattea, thre Allmaine
BfTattMi, Uire Arehera ud two Oalyrera
fmnlalied.

(2) JoHK Pool.!, Eiqnler— Oae Lijibte bonae

two OoraUttea, two AllmelDe BjTattea or
imtaad tbenot, (Mh of plala, oi brlgaad,
two Ar^ara, and one Oaljfartoniialiad.
(S) WtLUi kfuan, Eaqoier— On« lighte hone,
two Ooialatten, two Allnwine BjTetlee, or
in ataad thwaof, Ootoa ol plato or

bone, one Oonletta or AllmaiDfl Bjvett or
in ataad tbeteol one Brlgandiae and ooe
OalTTer fninlibtd,
(G) BoBtBTFiiHaBnEagidei— One Lighte boHM
one OotaUtt or AUmaine Br*att or in ataad
tbweof one Brlgandioe ud one OaljTar

' Jenr Hoouull Eaqofer— One Ughtehotne,
one Ooralet or AUmaine Bjtett or in stead
"" ' ""» Brlgudine and one OalTrei

(7) THOMia Bdhbuik Eaqnier — One Lighte

boraae Ud two Coralettea (Dmiabed.

(8) BiOHiBD Howoui Eaqoier — One Lighte

honw, one Oonlelt, one Arebat ud one
OaljTai tiuDlahed.
(91 EnwiBB Stuidlii.
(101 Wiujc Glxoob.

(11) BoBTB FABS.

(13) PcT» Bo(nj> SE Dptom.

ill WlUlimVual
(tl Jotiii nhLlmoi

land SUBlMi Dt Booloo, bora abanl UI7iiUea
r Poole, boTD ism, di«a itu.
il« ol PnadliigiaD boni mS, died isn

<S) 1

lore ol ThDniutoo, bom aboal 1U9, d

_. _orl«jr, HHl Droh»bll i

s(yiataherD(t(i8»;iiiofCh8«is>.„, - _

(CI) loba HookealmU ol FisnMD, bom aboal 1540, died
IT) Ibomai Banbari ol BU>tui«Ti bora abanl U43, diad

(1) Jo. Hblu SB HmLLS— Gent— Emtjoim of
theae one Ootelet and OM Pike (oniialMd,
Tbo. Door di Sadohali.
Bio. Shup's sb Q&iaBT.
Wk. BBnnn m Ouanu.!-
Wx. Fbbkton na Hsawtu..
John Wibui. ob Etnt.
Bto. LnroAiTa nn Qiavob.
Edwasd Bubobb si Eabtham.

JoSM HOBTOH.

Edvabd SwaUiOWB,

HBNBt OliOTBk.

Joan YoHBB db Wbstoit.
ecwaid w&ij^ui,
Bobtb. Badclhtb.

Bio. Ootbntbtb— Eaoh of tbOM to fnnlib*
one Fi«le Cote.

DECEMBER 30th. 1893.
[iaS] THE B&OE OOCBBE AT WAI4LA8BT.

(Baa Ho. 337.-J11I7 B.)

Borne mobtbi ago, there appeared in your eolamn
an enqniiy, aa lo wbetlier there wen anj tntb in the
of t-mada aaaattion, that the first Derby waa ran on lb«
Wallaaar Leasowee. A« no reply bas ao far
sppearad, I Tgntnre to send the tollowlog notes on
the Baoea whleh took place there.

The eaillcal dlatlnel referenoa tlul ve bare to
thtae Baees la to he f onnd in an Itinerary of WlrrU,
by Webb (printed in Elng-a Tela Boyal), the date of
whlah appean lo Im about 1630. He aan : — ■> Till
T« noma to the Nortb-Weatern ibore, lying npos
tbe VergiTlsn or Iriab Sea, where are altnate the
lownabtp, parish, and ohnroh ol Eirby In WsUey, or
Walsef, a town wbtob hath fair landa, and where lie
those fair aandt, or platni, apon the ahore of the sea.

UIOTaaa
UMUa M

tllCBU Ol

111) Poulblror BaMbam.

ilit Jobu iDBDn ol Naihm— Vvalon li aolnloal error.
Thg loann wsis n Dnmeroni olan on >ba Daailds ot
Wlrtftl^ulloDlarlr IB Mulon nod Wut Elibr parlatiM

II]) Donblleu aaolbsr olsiloal wioi, lor Dallata' OE
Daliamecc. Tha DtllimorM or DiUamoni wara ol Tiilac-

"114) Bobsit°fMdell Je^ o'lOreMbr. la Waal Elibi Darlth.

(IM Blotaaid OoiaDUT, ol HeobODaa Id NaiiMo, Puiab
ot WmI KiTbj, dIad Id Islsi. inata n* bowarar llTlni u
Iblatlma aBiohudOoTantrioIlloUlDCMn.aluiwubailea
■t Baoklord Id UW, a man ol oooildeiable alaad-

Decehbeb, 1898.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

which, for the fitneea for iiioh « pupoBe. allure the
gentlemeo and others oft to appoint great matcheB
and Yentnre no small snnui in t^ing the Bwif tnaaa of
their horsee."

These races no donbt oontinned to take place
from time to time nntU the Bebellion, when they
appear to have fallen into disuse. With the
Restoration, however, they were revived and in 1683
we have record that the Doke of Monmonth, in bis
progress throogh Obeshire, was present at a meeting ;
and his borse won a principal event, tbe prize for
which (or more probably tbe silver 'escallop sbell
which contained the money prize), be presented to
bis little goddaughter Henrietta Mainwaring,
dangbter of George Mainwaring, tbe Mayor of
Chester, from whom it has descended to its present
proprietor, Oolonel Salisbnry Mainwaring of Sbrews-
bniy. Tbere seems some uncertainty as to tbe exact
year of this event (though not as to the month,
August), since George Mainwaring was not Mayor of
Obeeter in 1688, but in 1682.

Sweepstakes of considerable value were estab-
lished in 1723, and for many years went by tbe name
of ** Tbe Wallasey Stake." The Dukes of Devon-
shire and Bridgwater, the Lords Derby, Gower,
Molynenz, and Barrymore, Sir Biobard Grosvenor,
Mr. Watkin Williams Wynne, Mr. Egerton, Mr.
OboUnondeley of Vale Boyal, and Mr. Buckle
Mackwortb engaged to subscribe 20 guineas a year,
*' to be run for on the course at Wallasey on tbe
first Thursday in May in each year.*' {Racing Calf
vol, i,tp, 56| quoted by Heltby,)

What eventually became of these Stakes does not
appear, but it is said that tbe race was removed to
Newmarket ,and finally to Epsom, and that Tbe Derby
Stakes grew out of this comparatively small beginning.

Whether this particular prize was removed or not,
it is certain that races continued to be run on tbe
Leasowes until quite late in tbe last century. On
tbe entrance to what was once tbe Grosvenor Stable
in Wallasey, until quite recently hung an oak door
on which were four horse shoes. Out with a pen-
knife in tbe centres of the drcles formed by tbe
shoes, were four inscriptions in honour of four win-
ners, dated respectively 1767-69 and 78, though tbe
last date is nearly illegible and may be 1760. One of
tbe inscriptions was undated. This door is now care-
fully preserved in the Museum of tbe Historic
Society of Lancashire and Obeshire.

The position of tbe Bace Oourse itself has been
long a matter of dispute, which I have fortunately
been enabled to settle by finding an original survey
of tbe oourse dated 1787. Through the kindness of
Messrs. Birch, Oullimore and Douglas of Obester, in
whose possession tbe survey is, I have made a careful
tracing of it which has been reproduced by photo-
lithography, and is to be found on the opposite page.

The couree ran, as will be seen from the map, from
within a few yards of the present W«llasey station,
in the direction of Leasowe Castle. It ran due
west for some distance, and then turned at an oblique
angle towards tbe sea ; when nearly on what is now
tbe line of high tide, it turned agidn in a southerly
direction for several hundred yards, after which it
ran straight on towards the Oastle, and, when within a
ebort distance of this, curved round in a loop, and

tbe horses came back over tbe same oourse on which
they bad travelled out.

Tbe course was not at all like what we understand
now-a-days as a race course. Tbere was no attempt at
an enclosure tbe stoops or posts, and to be seen in the
map, were merely marks to guide tbe horses and only
set at long interviUs. Another material point of
difference was the fact of tbe presence of tbe
** distance chair." The rule was that, unless the first
borse passed the winning post 240 yards ahead of the
next one, (this distance of 240 yards being marked
by a *' distance chair **) the race was not considered
settled, and tbe horses were obliged to run it again ;
and if tbe winner again failed to lead by tbe requbred
length, it was run a thbrd time, after which however
the prize was given to tbe horse that had won^in
the modem sense of the term— twice cut of the
three times. As tbe course was about 6 miles in
length, a thrice repeated race would be a severe
stridn on most horses, and seems to have not
unfrequently led to raoem dropping dead during tbe
progress of tbe event.

Tbe old Grosvenor Bacing Stables alluded to
above are still standing in Wallasey though in a very
diUpidated condition : they are daOy falling more
and more into disrepair. They stand in tbe rear of
an empty and ruined house which is locally known as
Bandfield Hall, and is a couple of hundred yards to
tbe east of tbe Wallasey Station. From tbe style
of tbe architecture, they appear to have been built
during tbe reign of Oharles 11., though the fine large
coach-house may be of later date. The stable^
tbe saddle room (in which several of tbe racks hung
until a few months ago), and the ssdtby are clearly
discernible and the well in the garden a few yards to
the north is still to be seen. In the snUthy there ii
a specially fine old ohinmey.

Olaugbton.

Yours &c.,

Wk. Fsbgubsoh iBviin.

[290] THE HUNDBED OF WIBBAL IN 1086.

The earliest detailed account of tbe Hundred of
Wirral is to be found in the great Survey taken in
1086 by tbe order of Tbe Oonqueror, and contained
in what is best known as Tbe Domesday Book.

In Wirral 48 Manors were surveyed, the value of
which was in tbe aggregate about £51, having fallen
from £71 in tbe time of King Edward tbe Oonfessor.
From the map, which forms the frontispiece
of this volume, it will be seen how com-
pletely occupied by Manors tbe Hundred of Wirral
was at this early period, the names being spread
over tbe country side with great regularity, tbe only
blanks (between Wallasey and Saughall Massey and
in the neighbourhood of Stanney) being accounted
for by tbe presence of marshes in tbe neighbour-
hood.

The Surveyors reported that in 1070— the year in
which William finally subdued Obeshire — there were
eleven manors lying waste, doubtless as a punish-
ment for their stubborn isaistanoe. These were
Little Meols, Knocktomm, Landfcan, Storeton,

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Daoeubeb, 1893.

Ponlton-omn-BpltUe, Meiton, Hadlow or WillMfeon,
Paddingten, Great and Little MolUngton, andMioUa
Trafford. At the time of the Borrey howeTdrall
were onoemore in onliiYAtion.

It will be seen from the map that the bonndary of
the Hmidred differed in tnoee days from that

reoogDleed at the preaent time, the Manors of
Gulden Satton, Miokle Trafford, Hoton, and
Wirrin being inolnded in Winal, or, as it was then
oalled, Willaston Hondred.

There is little doabt that at least 10 of our 16
Parish Ohnrobes in Wirrai were in ezistenee at the
time of the Oonqnest, bat the Snrvey only makes
mention of four Priests and does not allude to the
Ohnrehee at all. The priests are plaoed at Bastbam
(whioh inolnded Bromborongb), Neston, Ponlton
(wfaieh inolnded Bebiogton), and I«ndioan, whieh
doubtless embraced Woodohuoh.

There were two water Mills in the Hundred, one
at Bromborongb, which is still worked, and one in
Prenton, which has long since fallen into disuse,
though the mill-dam is still to be seen stretohing
across ** The Dale," just before it embonohes on the
dell through which run the Fender. There were
numerous lisheries, one at Btanney, two at Leighton
(Parkgate), the same at Gayton, one at Blaoon
Head, and another belonging to the Manor of
Baughall-Massey, whioh would either be on the shore
at Moreton or in the Wallas^ Fool. The Hundred
appears to have been Teiy short of woodland, there
was a small patch of wood at MoUiogton, a larger
one at Tranmere (possibly the very Birch wood
from which Birkenhead gets its name), and a tract a
mile and a half long by Uie same broad in the Manor
of Prenton.

I will close this resnm6 (which will be
easily followed by the aid of the map),
with ope of those little touches of local colour whieh
ever and anon light up the pages of Domesday Book :—
"Edelaue (Willaston) It was waste, but there is a
man plonghing there and he pays 2 shillings.'

Yours etc..

Olanghton.

Houii.

[291] WIB&AL SUB8IDT BOLL, 1545.

(Continued from No. 282.— Dec 10.)
Shotwxok.— <OoBtinQed.)

Hugone Fox provli xd.

Thoma Heylin pro lijli izivd.

ThoBM Hartyson pro xis. id.

Thoma Bobynson proxls • >jd.

Willmo BobynsoB pio xls ijd.

Henrioo Taylor pro zzs id.

GeorgloWhyttfleld pro Tjti ...': zijd-

Wiilmo Galley pro ids. ijd.

Bico Danold pro zls. • • ijd.

Wiilmo Ooke pro xb ijd.

Thoma Whyte pro zls ijd.

Henzioo Gregoiie pro xxs ...jd.

BUBTOR.

Thoma Bobynson pro Till aijd.

Bico Bobynson pro iQli *. . . .iijd.

Thoma Wanrhenton pro iiijli • • . . .iiijd.

Bobto Massey pro zxs • • • -id.

Bico Leyne pro iijli iijd.

Thoma Metres pro Txs id.

Johe Gardener pro iijli iijd.

Henrioo Gardener pro Yjli zijd.

Bico Gardener pro iijU iijd.

Bobto Meols pro Tjli xijd.

Johe Ball pro xls. .' ijd.

Jobe Howard pro xzs jd.

Jenn ap Ithell pro xzs jd.

Davyo Massey pro Yili xijd.

Jdie Meoles pn xls ijd.

Johe Bobynson pro yjli xijd.

Thoma Jennsen pro ivli • iiijd.

GUberto Gellyat pro xxs id.

Thoma Badl^ pro xls ijd.

Bogero Mawrie pro xxs i^.

Patrioo Nelston pro iijli iijd.

Johe Befton [?] pro xxs • id.

Bobto GyU pro iijU iijd.

Thoma Harper pro xls — iid.

Henrico Browne pro xb iid.

[BeTeo or dght other names illegible] .

Index of Names.

ll.B.~TBB NVMBEBS BBFEB TO THE SECTIONS, NOT THE PAOES.

Abbbetuttons.— A., Ann ; 0., Oluulee; Q., OMrge; H., Hemy; J., John; E., Katherine;
M., Huy; Ug., Hug&nl; P., Peter; Bb., Bobert; T., Tbomu; W., WiUl&m.

Abbotl,Abp.,l».«l.

BalUn (Bairn, Bellni), QDbBl, IM; J„ni T. 101;

an.

AaKmtlAitm\0.,Wa,W; J., M4 ; Vg^tU; U,

AmM,

MT; Ohr

^gW^f^Sj

M4 ; RftDdla, IH, Ht ; Bio., Ui, (U ; Bb., U8 ;

nunn

1 Ul! R

T„M4iW.«W. ■— ■
AddlKin, — IBl.

A1U1.M1.

n'vL'ios t w., iwi';

Aldorolt, Bar. a, W, ttt ; M«, «.

Alii, bnka ot, lEI.

b, W 1 T^ IH, )»,

ADdrewi lAndraaj, Ble., Itl, «B; V- W.
AD|liE«i, A., Ul ) dl«m.. US ; J., 118, ttt ; Htt„ In i

*IlguiMr:,171.

rsSSSiSS^'-'"'

«M,n>.

Sifel^iS:"*

Anon,T..ue.
AiDDdel, U., isg.

1, m wsi H., SU|

AiDidda, a, UO ; Jh., Ui ; Bid., in 1 T., nt, IM.

i,m.ia8.
'tlBiicb.lH.

w las.

j'.'k1; Ur.,I«; Bid.,

lly,lB2,«e.

Ml; Phll.,W1: taniliy.

Bu)1u,'j„lM.
Bunu,T.,aSai Hi.,lU.

B,MB,m,rt, wBi

B»bu.H.,ias,liB.

I'uk«r, BST. J., 17S, 190. in I BID.. HT 1 T., ISS. :-

SBC

Bvl<>«.BIo.,tll:T.,lia.

ls;S.W*--'

,iM.iniW.tii.

B^rraw. Agasi,t8Z; BlU.nOr IhM. 181 i J^ ■» )

IWtlT.SM.SMj W.,I8!l.

Brook!

Major, WK.

B.,.liell. K.U.., 1T8.

B™«ar

Kdw.,l«iBoMr,M».

HaF.moH, Ld..aee.

^-S

C D^M. 1J8,.»6 i

H,Ml:Jo»a,lWiElo..

riiifigite ud WlHon, IW.

&,1I»

W. U. and 00. wa.

ItEWIe;, J, lis.

BtTd. S

( HIrd.

Ri.wr, Kto , sia, sia.

,W.,t8l

Hccii. Hngh. «M; J., lltl ; Rlfl., IH ; W., IKl.

F., 1«.

Ba^aT^Slt B.

W. B.KW.

ll«il,H.m

Bnnbnrj.Mw.,

».;ilrB

.aUiT.,i88.

29599;'

WIBKAL NUTEB AND QnEBIEB.

Bnrnhw f Burg— t, Dkild, mi Bdw., ns ; Ell..
nS; Fruote, MS; Bklnor, «>] Haih, 116, Ml,
HM. MT. 179, «TB : Jua.lTl; J„1W) Bleu, M ;

Bjiom, ftiT. a., ht : iir, taa

CaJkoU. Rtk. IIS.
OnuT.J., tit; W., MS.
Cvndan. W., 1ET,
Ouben, Rer. Mr., 10B,SU.

1 l|hl,Bn.T,

Cktubj. Rb-.m

<^Tsu(ba, Tha, IR.

Oawdaj {I kwdaj, Oowdaj), A., UI : T., I

OhBlmara.'— Iffl.
Ctuunbeilaln, T., OS.

Ohwltoa, H>„ at.

CharnookaTlido., IH.IB) i T.,lal,na, UO. >M.

Cbawnar. Elian. MS : Bb, tU

; J., tSI 1 P»tr, tW ;

Cliff (Cljflol, Bb.. 370 ; W.. US. ITl.
OloTCr. kmiiy 91< : Q. R„ lU,
Cake.HDEli,iOI; RIs., ITd.tH, MB : Blk.IMi T,
1»*. «1.

Oollar. JsL. ISI ; Bid., »>1, E
OolqulU, Rav. Edw., US.

OorulM, iCssar., 181.

ColUnghul'.'silU., ISTi Kktli., 178; Bb , 187; T.,

Elll

w«

■\;%.

.'.1

IIKI

ri of. Edw„ 1

Si.

'<%:P.H,..»

IM. Iti, &7, iU:

^^Sw^

fM.,

lUi J.»l;IUo

.S8S

Danna. J., IM ; Uc, 1S8 ;- 182

DaDilaiflald, Rb.. tW.

Dallon. A., lae, miBuOolpb, aS;

Fwiii!),sBa.

Dwlila, W., U&
Djall, ff., 181.

1,174: J., U7; Ml., >

Euai B4Ilo(, ISg,
Etuiu, Bb., UI.
E«iiion,T..««8.

B*ut, Jot.O.,lie.
Fab«,Oib.,16T.
Falralongta. Bar. R. J„ IBS.
FmwkHTOliido. Itl.

fJSs^ J.,'taii : RaT. R. H., lOt.
Flalaw*, a., !e9 : Me., K! ; T., tts,
Flib,Bst.J.,nfl.9A
Flibar.J., leg, sat; ff..Ht.

Flatohai, Bl>.,tt
Flud, J., 170.
Fo«, All., 109.

Itoi.Hogh,»l; J.,M«.
Fron, Ohrii., lie ; EUi.,
FioDdo.J. *., IH.

Pydlet, Bftld., tit; T„1TS.

m; il|..HI,

l!:,llM,lfi;wi.

nS; J.,U8|T.,U8.

.'J «■;«!•.?■-. «»j„?"

Ln.f81,Hio.Xll,M8;T

ll,1K,Vg,sa,31L

WIRRAL NOTES AND QUERIES,

GUI fOyll , Hugh., 196; J., 18S, 812, £40, S49. 287 ,

871 ; Mg., 196 ; Pet, «71 ; Rio.. S60 ; Bb., 819, 218.

891 ; T., 196, 279, 881 :-188.
OUlow. Vey. Mr., 8I»» 806.
OlMler (Qlaaaoner), Hugh., 979 ; T., 157, 916; Mn.,

979.
Q1MT6 (Qleyre), H., 811 ; family, 881.
Olegg. Art, 978iE4w., 186, 868 ; J., 169, 868. 858;

M., 841 ; T.. 978 : W., 178, 180 186, 198, 949, 878.

888; OoL,a06; Qen.,906i— 186.
OlobuB, B«T.P.,976.
Olonoeiter, Bp., of 166.
Olover, H., 888.
Gobbyn, Mio., 176.
Goodeowr (GoodoMur). Blli., 849; Ellen, 848; H.,

188 : Jm., 166, 176, 989 ; Jane, 948 ; Joan. 966 ;

J.. 166. 889. 941, 148 ; Hg., 818 ; Rio., 176; Bb.,

929 : Roger, 166 : T., 176; W , 176.
Qorstalowe, Rot. J., 968.
Ooet, Jos., 960.
Gower. Ld^889 ; Sir T., 960.

vraoe, «!,. sm.

Grafton, W., 971.

Graham, Rev. O. A.| 186, 914.

Gray, Ellen, 888.

Green, Ed., 216; Rey. B. D., 187 ; Rot. Fraa., 867 ;

Mg., 816 ; Rb., 806.
Gragory, H^ 891 ; P., 184 ; Mr., 906.
GreTesby, T., 962.
Grey, Lord, 167.
GrifflthB, J., 991 ; Rot. R., 180. 907 ; T., 940 , -, 183,

826 ; Family, 177.
Groome, Bev. J., 876jJI76.
Grosrenor, Sir Rio , 860.
Ghrotiai, Hugo, 168.

Gryoe (Gryee). BUs., 988: J., 868, 889 ; Rio., 889.
Gnaato, Marqnesa of, 168
Gyle. W., 816.
Gyrtrey,W.,801.

Haoket. Bp., 177.

Haggeraton, Lady. 806.

Haggit,BeT. F.,ai8.

Hue, Edw., 181.

HaU, Mg., 196.

Halliwef , Mra., 168.

HaUwood, Jae., 919 ; T., 819.

Hamnet, % 901 ; J.. 901, 964.

Hampton, T., 199.

Hanoo, E. BC. 168, 888, 244, 968.

Hanoook, G., 940 ; Godfrey, 199 ; H., 198 ; Bb., 969 ;

T.,266: W., 906, 916, 979.
Ebmde, T., 268, 968t
Hanell, Bio., 966.
HanUn, Bio.. 976.
Hare, Mg., 981, 981.
Hargraye, Adam, 907.
Hargrayes, J., 961.
Harper, K. 199 : T., 9P1.
Harrison, G., 906 ; J., 190, 988 ; Bio., 866 ; T., 196,

991 ; ~ 188.
Hatton, J., 888 ; W.| 198.
Haoited. Bb., 166 ; W., 166.
Hawthorne, Nat., 900.
Hay (Hey), Joan, 918; J., 918, 949; Bio., 901; Bb.,

918; «V.,918.
Hayefoot, P., 849.
Hayei, J., 888 ; W., 806 ; Mr., 806.
Heook, Bia, 981 ; T., 891.
Held, T., 966.
Hele, H., 828.
Hely, Boger, 166 ; W., 818.
Henchman, 0., 288 ; Bp. H., 168.
Hende, Ellen, 822 ; H., 222.
Hendenon, Bey. Mr., 808. 206.
Herbert, A., 174 ; Cath., 185 ; Sir E., 186.
HeBketh.iHesky), J.. 182, 286 ; Bio., 868, 986; Bb., 211.
Howard, J., 891.
Hewghton, J., 282.
Heworth, Godfrey, 268,
Hezham^ai., 268.
Hey, «•• Bay.

Heylin. Bb., 286 ; T., 208, 886, 891.
Heythe, Bio., 286.

Heyward,Joan, 866 ; Boger, 852 ; T., 268.
Hiooook, Bey. J., 228.
HUl (HyU), J., 184, 880 ; Nio., 201. 264 ; P., 184 ; Blc

182. 184 ; T.. 196 ; W., 280 ; Mr., 806.
BI»m.Blianl80.

Hobion. Oapt., 969.

Hookenhall. Dorothy, 276 : Elis., 816 ; G., 276 ; J.,

265, 288 ; Job., 816 ; — 170, 204, 261.
Hodges. Elis., 241.
Hodgson, Alice, 207 ; Ellen. 267.
Hodson, Bey. G., 288; Bey. J., 18b, 186, 276, 883 ;

Saml. 276.
Hoggeston, Bb., 201.
HoUande, W., 161, 176.
Holme, AUce, 229 : J., 868 ; Band, 177.
Home, Bio., 166.
Hondo, Ellen, 178.
Hooker, T.. 217.
Hookea, Nic, 278.
Hooghe (Hogh, Hooghe), J.. 166 ; Bio., 847, 267, 288;

W., 187, 267, 207, 871, 288 ; — 872, 976.
Haohenson, W., 864.
HadBon, B. W., 171.
Hoffhea, Bey. W. 188.
Haune, Bb., 280, 867.
Halton, D., 880.
HomberBton, PhU.. 906.
Homfrey, J., 980.

Huntington (Hnntynton), Bb., 179 ; W.. 889.
Hyohyner, Bb.. 999.
Hyggyn, H., 901 ; J., 901.
Hyme, J., 184.
Hyne, J.. 179 ; T., 988 ; W., 989.

Inglefleld. Alex., 989.
Ingleaargh, Bio., 181.
Ion. Bey. W., 988.
Irby, J.. 940.
Ireland, J., 999 ; B., 968.
IrryBheman. Hugh, 969.
Irvine, W. F., 910.
Ithell, Jenn, ap., 901.

JaokRon, Bey. P>fl79, 968.

Jaoobaon, Bp., 198.

Janneon (Jannyon), Bic, 901 ; T., 966 ; W., 986.

Janny, Bev. Bb.,989.

Jannyn, T., 916.

Jebb. Mg., 178 ; Bey. Bio., 178 ; Bio., 178.

JenningB, JoBh., 160.

Jenny on, m« Janneon.

Jenaon, H., 916; Bb., 968 ; Boger, 986; T., 986, 901.

JeandB,Bb„999.

Jeyans,— 968.

Jeyanson, T., 966.

Jewell, Bp., k41, 287, 970.

Johnes, T., 978.

JohnBon, (Jonson), Bart, 106 ; Chris., 161 ; Croxton,

906; Ellen, 176 ; Joan. 281 ; J.. 181, 182, 260 ; Mg.,

981 ; Nio., 968 ; Bio^ 100, 196, 982, 267 ; Bb., 188 ;

Bob, 166; Dr B., 8S8 ; T., 181 : W.. 866, 888.
Jonea, Hogh, 266 : Inigo, 818 ; LleweUen. 806 ; Bb.,

814.
JoBBon, B.. 860.
Jompe, Bio., 868; W^ 176.

Keele,~ 188.

Keeling, Judge, 828.

Keene, Bp. B., 868.

Keighlege,(Kighley) Bb., 188.

Kemp, Adam, 888; Oeoilla, 822; G., 880 ; Ralph,

2140 ;T., 281.
Kettle, 8., 189.
King, Bey. B., 186, 244 ; J., 847. 868 ; Bey. Josh.,

844 ; Mg., 288 ; Bic. 88S ; Bb., 889 ; Bog., 858,

888.
Kingston, Lord, 171.
Knowles, Bey. J., 168.
Knowsley, J., 882.
Kyrke,G.,2e8; J., 889.
Kyrl^M, J., 868.

Lambert, Dan., 198,

Laney.Bp» 168.

Langton, Kll.. 880 ; Bb., 880.

Larden, Dr., 206.

Larg, Bb., 808.

LaBcelleBtBrian, 978, 974, 976.

Latham, Bey. J.. 188 ; w., 906.

Launoelot, Bb., 928.

Lebeg, Bey. H.. 896.

Leche, Bb., 186, 964.

Ledsam (Ledysham), Bey. Bio., 968 ; W.,161.

Lee, Edm., 161.

Leene, (Leyne), J., 168, 960 ; Bio, 801; Bb., 960 ;

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

LalonUT, Eul ol, 1», Its. W.

Iialih.AIlM, nil EgertoD. ISl)Bb.,nir

Ltnnuds, O., Ml ; Bb., IIL

LhX., MO.

IripiDgUo, J.. MB.

LtwU, PluMU. tIB.

Lai, a., 9)1; Jh. »9; J., IH, Ul; Bb.,111

LejJani. J., ITl

LUhlfooL ildw., HE ; Rb . IM 1 T., tU.

Bawl_lSt,]
Utiat.ttiilpb >__
lAoyi. IiDta, nt.

UWTd. Alloa, BUi J., W i Bio., IM, lU.
Ejmdaoi Hp of, ICS
Iwwa, T., Ul.
Lonta, P^ IH.
EiDPDL Hiwh,WI.
Iijnud, b£7 IW.

llMolniB. Su HkoUln.

Huuliu llUakUDgaj, Jou, UI ; J„ IK HI i T„

■falnwuliic, Q., M) : HmlaMK,
MiJM.,*^- ■-"-*■ — ""■
Ukle, W., lis.
HkUun (Uilhbu.,
lUplawn, Bar. J.,

»n1, ACDM, uMi I

t.ttli-US.

Hinla, DkTld, W | Sir J., 188 : J., >!> ; B

Wll W.,1BM88I Ui.MSi ODlliMM.
lI>tltaaw,Bb.,iai; Abn.T.,KR: W,101.
Uawdaaley (l(madL*l*TT. Bar., I., ug , OapL,
Mk-ris, J., ta I Bag.. ^1 i X., m
UoOkba, Ona, IIS.

IIsdlu-Bldonla, Dnka of Itl

Uandou.US.

MlDlaa (Main. HailM), H- in< J., W, US,

Bb.,MliT.ll^UI,M,
Uaroar. Jaoa, au.
UUiwi, w..tn.

llliuhDiLIUbd.Ufl; J. 118.

HoUinau (UaUlnaiii), J„ ITS] T., ITS, Ml :

189.
Hoii«T.Bb.,lSliT.,lSl.

HonkMBelil.T.>l).

Uonmonth. Dnka of. ML

Moora, AIL, 181, Bbt. B.. ITS; 1B8 ; O.. US.

Mora. Bdm., UBiT, ITl.

Moray iMp™--' "-- ""-*■ aM--! laa- i

iw,ni

Honal] J

I, Bb^llB : T., Wl i

Dwr, W. W. US, Ml

in,J.,ia§i Bp.T„U

». Bill., m I BUra, II

>ltni, J„ M

«,rs:j

Ho'

UTdd]ataD,"w., m.
]lTlner,J.,m: Blo.,lM.

Hatakm, Pah, HI.

MaTlLle, Blr H.. IT*.

Naiibol, a.. IIB : W., lis,

NavloD,J.,t9a; Ble., !80.

Hloholiotl, Bp., W.. IH.

KjooIi. W.rtl.

NdrIi, Daild, MS 1 all J.. IBT, US, 181 1 Bar

Okal, J., ttt.

Olu J., 1S&

(THalll, Bhuw. U4.

OiDnod, J., in, Ug. US, Wl, IBMK ni.

,Oib.,llO. Sm obo Unuaakni,
OrartOD, Ka'lb., m i BaT. T., »T.

Pac*, Rio., ISL

Parboil (PubartlHocin ; W-.tSO.
Pukei, JuM.iaa,
pHkliuoD,B.,ll«: J.,«DT.

PkiDu, Pitnoa ol, lea, in, in, in.

Pair, Bar. Eda., 188 ; Elb..tW; BtfH, 1

U6 ; Bb., no, te§ ; T., 188 ; W., «0.
PMuywk.Bllan.Ht;.' -'

I., liU ; U.. I

Palham, BbW.tSI, fu.

Paotbarlon, Acnaa. 181 ;. .

■dw.. U& M7 i Q., MO, M( i Hj„ 118, «0 ; Hof
Ulj Jm., fUi J., m iLwuaoa.MB ; Hlla*. Ml;
Mia.. IBt, in : Bio.. Ul ; T.,SI1. W.. IBI. ITO,

iio,:si ua,tTgi — IBL

PenaiatoD. W.. IH.

Pankat. J.mi: U.,n8; Bb.,nE i T„all,tlS

PaoDT, Bio..n).

Paploa, Bp., B.,in,K9.

Paian, Bio.. MS.

Panot, Blr J.. 1ST

Ptiaiaiid,T.,tti.

PbiUpILlET. ISViHl

Pb7lrp,Bb..ltS.

Plan,%aT. Btu. US, IM.

FUlinMon, P., 1» i Bb., KT.

Plo<fl,»71.

Platt^cb, US.

Podmora, i!lr., MS.

Poole (Pole, PoUa) Fru, Slti Bnrii, UI. tW | J.,

ITD, 118^. MS j Bb., Ml ] T., llJIi Bit V., IN ;

Hr., 181.
Polt, Bogar. 188:
PotlaTia, m ; Jm HI ; W.. IM.
Powall,&, —
PnolODi Oeoij J. EOi ; '.i.
Fraiaon, B., IM, MS.
Prioa, a.,MS.
Priaittud, BaT. Bio., ITO.
PriBoa, Ba*. J., ISS.

OD, 6eol^Mt : T., 181 1 W.,«l,«&

ir, Oioat, in.

na)

Badollffa, Bb., IBt. MS, MS ; T., IM ; V.
Badlai, J., US, m : Ug^ 1 T : T.. Ml.

Balalgh. all W in.
BaU»oD,B(.,ltt.

Bio., US 1 Kb.. HI, ai ; T., fri i

n, iTS,»s; iir.,ms, MS.

: Hi., M8 iiTM., lai.

Kalpn, 111 ; fifo , 198, *«li T, IW. Ml i
18^ ISt, 190, Ml. m MB, Ml ; Wld., 181 ^

BobMoa, Bb.. M8.

Bof«Kn,Oaallla,lSi Bill., MO

Bonooni, Bar, T- MS.

BowdOD, Bio., MS.

BowUs (Bolla) J., HO : Bb., ISl ; —181.

BowUaaon, B.,M1; Batpb,M8.

Bofdon. O., Ut.

Rn^mul'Abel.lSi: AbTahui.ln,lll, U4
Baitall. Bdw., 114 ; T., Ml ; Blr W , MC
Rntker, Jana, MO ; Sir T., MO ; W.. Ijl, MS.
BrdlDg |B7«ii|al B., UJ : Bb.. 181.
I BfdlaT, Ronr, MS.

Rrlwa^ J.^., MS I T„ Ml.

I 8aoa,H|.,MS.

WIRRAL N0TK8 AND QUERIES.

StOdaUi, AgnM, 111.

Bmmo, fimilT.m.

BmiIiN, T^Yi.

Soluiiiuli Bbi SIL

Bebo^Mni Htnhkl. Ha.

8ol>fa,W.,tll.

Soott, A., nt I Jaffnr, 198 ; W., 118.

SonTanmon. Count, tH.

BorTTnior. W , m.

8Mlwni«, B»t. W., tn. tri

SsddoD, Bd«..tS8; P-.tK; W., 188,11

Btflon, J., va, sai ; Rk Wl ; T., ITS

BaVib^ EKt. Nls.,m.

Bawud, Amik, SW, an, tS), TIT.

Bbup, I., no, r,
T.. tse. see.

i,Ml,i'

Sbaifoik (Bbatlftkai) DnoBoU, «0 Elii.. 184, «
Q; »e ; J., IBD : Ric, IK.IH. 188, SU. KM, 88
Bb., ITS i T., IBE, 180 ; W., 180 j —181.

Sblplsy, And., nt; S
BlmibHlB,0. W„1D
BbamjUi*, T.,ni.

s, 11(^ Oapl.W., 118; W.,11B

Bl») (BiiaH) J..1G0.

BmkllvDod, 1., ITG.

Smllb |8ninhB)A(au, 190 1 S., 188 : Hiuh, 118 ISO ;
Jh., 190: Jua,a87L!81; J.. IBI, 180, Ul, EU,
181, 187; U(., 188: P., IM i BftLph.iOl; Bai-
nold. 111 ; fib.. 188, SIS : T., 180 ; W., ISD, m ;
Mt,. au, Ul ; Un., SOB ; -181, 198, m.

Sb«11. Zd., :88 : 6cf. O., IBl, 188.

BDijd. Blc, 188.

SUlDbMk, Rb.. ai-.—m.Ui.

SUls. luu, 183.

BUndlih, Dr., 1B8.

SUnlar [of AldatlflT) dli J. T., BlIV, 19!,ise, HI

aw,m

Btantei (of CtouhUi; Sir JM..t8a ; Kf., WO.
atanlar lEkctaf Darbj) Bj., IBS. Sit alas Darbj

(Dd Btnnga.
Blanlaji (of FUdI) A., !8D ; Edw., HO ; |Flan, 180 ;

ii<lkd]r)lBIi i Jokoni,

KowL. 1871 Blr Bool, (lad but.) 180. IBB; Bit
T„ Ban., an, 188 j ffil W„ EL 1 11 180 ; Bit W.,

Kt.,(i)UT. Its, lae, 1ST, m iii,iti,m.i8a,

MM, 118, 188, !8e ; Sir W.. (IM Bart.) BI i Blr
W. (lOtbBuLltOg) W.,in. m, 188; Dowat«
I^adj. tHX ; lamll J, »0, i«m oIid BnliictiHi.
"™ " '"■ VIM:— >8»-
B., ML

[.,181) J^ 184,

Btanwar.— m.
atawar«,0ap.,181.

atrada, E^unlun, 1E9.
Stranea, Iiord.IIO.
smnla, J„£18,>8I.
Btratfocd, Bp His., IflS, ITI
BRangth. Sit Btiaaks.
Strong, Rb.. 181.
Bliypa, J., Ill
Snob, Rb., see.
Bollsj. P., 118,111.
Bnuai, EacI of, 161.

Dwona, 4., un ) lua., iw i w., 188.

BvitHb BaT. an., ITS, Ke ; Blia., 888 ) P., ITO ; - ITO.

B-TUdie, W.,«S

Brai,T., 188.

TalboL J., 181.

Tailaton, 01., ITS, 1B8 ; Bb., tsi.

Taula, Janat, 184 i J., 184 ; Ba*. T., Ill, 188 ;-

Tawii, 3. I'.. IBT. _

TaTloT ITarlTU) Edw., ITS ; H., 111,181, HI

118, lis ; Rio.. 101 i Rb., 188 ; T., vg : W

I., 190 ; Rb^ 1T8. 184, ns ;— Ml.

198, 881, 188. IBS, 188 ', OU 188 : Bio., 1

141, Wt.
Toaiali, BaT. □. T O., 18T.

TraBord, CbKi., 1TB; Kl., ITS'; Si(i.,M8)W.,a
Tratla, ArflbdaaoDD. IM.
TraTdafOld,Hamon,19Sj T.,19S,

Tnniai, Rai. J., 180, 18B, U8
rwlil, Rar. lot., W.

Hncb, ns ; Rio.. 1

T.TW.

TfUailaj,

lie.

ShoIk Orauaton.
DtmMa,HaT. J.,180,n-
niwlok, W. ,188,118.

„ Wt Hg.. tail W.,t40: -181,

'anghao. P., 188 ; Bp. B., 888, CTL

Wada, B., HO; J. MT ; B., 140, ITS ; T., 140 ; 1

»1.
Wadnronb. Jai,, U
WalnwTl«b> JU..IT
Waloott, U

1,111 iT.nSiHr.. IT

HaIley(Wal«i)J.,»a:Sla.,t81i W.,in.
Wallon, J., Its.
Walwonh. Nathan, m

Wud?Ma.,sil. ~

HummatLam Hie., m ; Bof.. ITE.

Warnec J.. In.

Kananton T.UI.

Wanna |Waa»on| J.. 181 ; BHatso.tn; 1

-181.
Warrnia, Edw., 181 ; H.. KL
Waiknrton BaT. Rb., IBfl ; T., ttS.
Wan. If, 181 ; ROf.. Ill ; —let
Watta, RaT. J.. STB ; W , IT8.

Webbai. Mi.,"»8,'

Wabilar Edw., 188 ; J., 186, 180 ; U., MT ; '

n, m, ifv. aoD ;

m.m.

WIBBAL NOTES AND QUEBIEB.

Whytofle, Balph, 179.

^liytteoar,J.,188.

Whntell. Ralph, 181 ; W., 188.

Widaow6a.J.,a87

Wlgley. Bdm., MB.

Wiloook, Bog., 281.

Wilklni. Bp. J., S76.

WilkinaoD. J., 1B« ; P., 219 ; Bio , 880; W., 184, 280.

WiUatton, Mg., 888.

WilUamB, Abp. J., ITT ; Boy. W., 178.

WilllAmion, Godfroy, IBI; Jftoob, 850 ; Jm . 184,

256 : J., 196 ; Bb., 184; - 188.
WlUooghby, Measn., 908.
Wilmeiloy, Boy. Q., 980.
WUson, J., 950 ; Job., 928 ; He., 950 ; Mat.. 960 ; Bov.

P.. 888 : Bb., 987 J W., Itt, 914, 9B8 ; — 188.
Winfleld, Boy. J., 988.
Wlngflold,Mn.,980,
WinatanlOT, A., 279.
Winter, T. 174.

WimJ (Wbrnball), J., 268 ; Bio., 898 : W., 279.
Woodoo<^ H., 288.
Woodoa, Hogh, 178.
Woodward, Ignoa, 216; DaTid, 991 ; Jaoob, 991 ; J.,

968.

Wormynoham, Bg., 184.

Worroi. Bb., 186. JBm oIm WirraL

Wordoy, OttiwoU, 970 ; Balph, 176,970 ; —991.

Worttmigton, T., 172.

Wright, ZUoo, 298 : O., 164 ; Bov. J., 988 ; Nio.. 170 ;

Bio., 164; W., 886 ; Bot. — , 168 : — 180l
WyUibiOjH.. 889.
Wynno, W. W., 988.
Wyrooflter, T. do, 957.
Wyw, W., 176.

Yolo, Dr. DoTid, 9a, 966. 278, 878.

Yoatton. Alioe. 262.

YokoBon, J., 280.

York, Abp. (Noil), of, 974.

York, Bowland. 168, 167, 170, 179.

Yoiiiig,Aloz.,196,980; mioii,26Sj H.. 190, 959 : J.,
106.919,969,988; Jodi..918; Bio., 189. 196. 956,
966 ; T., 176, 190, 196, 967, 979. 278, 281 ; -162.

Yrland, Bb., 268t

Zoolon, J.Taii,888.

Index of Places, &c.

N.B.— The Nambera refer to the sections, not the pages-

ADtmrp/iniin.
Arahdm, W.

Aji,Pi)lirtciCias.

Bunnui, IW, 160,189, IDS, no, HI, 111, MB. m,

ni, 1TB, ISO, ne.

OhullJu In 1710, IBB.
Bud«4,188.
B»k, Wig., 1B4.

a, nt, tu, MS. w. tm.

Hkthknlel Hurtliania it
I, »1.

BraM FiDk, Cbuot o( Bt, K

Bodftvon. S7S.

Bouki, in BiiksDhakd Puk, Ttat, MM, SIO.

BoiwdTtta, IBB.

BlsltoD Hkll. IBS.

BddUngtoD. asi.

BUWTUB (BrrnilMIIa.BTTiuton), IBS, BIB, nO.nO.

„ Soil Boll of, In im, IBI.
Brln.Ue.
Biiitol, tm.
BuDOBOnBM, IM, 1TB IBO, 18T, SOT, lU, tlB, IM,

ifti,H)i,m,iBi,ie§,in, MB, m,

Bmnnr, IBB, IHkUt, IH, BOB, m, lU, >U, MB, «,

„ Vklna ol IdTljii of, MB.
Bnzton, IBB, Kt.

OaidIi,UB.

0>BT^im,llB.

(Mn Hoiooka, BTB.

Ciu>T, IBl, 1TB, ITl.

OuDT Qu*aB,tTl,BBa.

OuDbtfdM; Blmnminl. UT : Juiu OoU., IM:
Hudalaoa, IBBi SI. JohVt, KB;
Trlnitj, MB ; TrioltT Hkll, IBB, IBt.

GiraHHoan, 110, 18B, IM, BBS.

Ouudals. na.

04ITlokIaEal BtT, MS.

CaTalEar'i Hota Book. Bituota frtiDl, 187.

CHiiraB. IBS. ITI.lTS.leO, 181, IBS, IBB, 186, US, Ul,
IN, BOB, Ul, IK, UT, IH, UD, IBl, ISl. IBS, SBB,
Hl,«4.»IO,lel,lU,UT, HB, UB,M^MB,ieB,
no, ITl, Vr:, 91*. ITE, IT^ MO, MB, MB, MB.

Ohaaler Walli, D4M ol, IM.

OHiLoak THOumni, HI,

OBUITLVTOa, ITS.

Cbanb Ooodi In Wtml. (amp. Edwud TI., IW.

Oucanrov, IH, 110, HI, MO, ITS-

g Oouit BoU oi tba MuOE of, UO.

Ooed Onn, MO.
OoladtUl, MT.
Ooiuwh'i qiutj, UB.
OonwaT, IM, m.
Coronnk, 111
Covantrr, IIT, 119, tlo,
OnbhaOiin.
Oiawa, ITl. STl.
Oroabj. WT.
OnutalU.MO.
OnotraBToir, 181.
OiighaU,HB.

DMianr'nl WIml In IBU, BEB, MB, MB.
„ „ lDini,«41,HT,U<l.

„ In ine, m, Ml.
„ iBleDS.ME.sn.
Daa^Tr^ IBS, 18T, IM, IM, UT, MB, MT, MB, MB,

Oaad talMIng (o ^lomlon Homh Mill Hwinkra,

167.
Oslunai* Frnaat, MB.
Denwkll Honia, M».

DtTanter, ICT, IIB, IBB, IBT. 1T», ITl, 17t, in.
Dobbi HUI, ISO.
Doaiboig, 188.
Dublin, IBt, 111.

BaitaiBn Caitoma. IBl, IBS, BN.

EuTBiK, 168, IBB, IBl, ill, ITS, IM. IBt, IBB, BOB,

MS. SIS, BIB, iiB, in, 1S8, n8, ui, ht, ve, Ms,

WT, M8, 171, SBI, SBMBT, MB, MO.
Edalkwe, MO.
SdgahlllJlS.

runwortb. IBB.

randar

Flint, Ml, MT, MO.

„ StMile; lunilf oL ■
Flint Implemaoti In Wlit

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

Frodibun. ttS.

Fnnenl of Sir Thoi. Stanley, t08, 106.

a.»», m. i»^u». !», IX, uf . «.. !». m. »»•

,. Wake, IM, 194, 197, aas.
Oedding, 9B8L

Gentry In 1078, Wlrral, S88.
Ghent, 177.
Glonoeeter, 169. 961.
Oowy, Biver, 179.
Obabm. 164,166. 906, 196.
Grange HUI. 946.
OrappenbAll, 988

OBBA88T, 164, 178, 196, nt, 944, 986, 979, I8&
Oreenwloh, 170.
Gnllden Button, 990.

Hitdlow,99a
Hemmeramith, 9S8.
HargraTe, 967.
Hatton HaU. 188, 108$ 980.
Hawarden. 186, 976.

Herald! Tiiitationa, DiBcIalmen at, 908, 919, 216.
HsiWAXX, 166, 180, 186, 197. 990. 980^ 947, 968, 986, i86.
967.979,978,988,986.
,, Value of Living of, 990.
Hnaan Idand. 199, 914, 946. 948, 977.
HookenbaU, 170,216.
Holm Hooae, Stoke, 988.
Holt, 918, 948.
HooTOX, 167, 170. 174, 186. 908, 916, 960, 980, 986, 907.

HOTLAKS, 199. 986, 966. 989, 969, 966, 977.
„ In 1796, 986.

ft
t,
•I

Poem on, 977
Mils Seward at, 962, 260.
Marshal Schomberg at, 960
(. WUliamin*8Troopa,Bmbarkationat,966.

Hoyle Sandbank, 986.
Hundred of Wirral in 1086, 990.
Hunting Bong, Wirral, 186, 968.

Inee, 194.

Incumbents, Wirral, Bev. O. Aldoroft, 98l ; Bev. H.
Lebeg, 926; Bey. P. Morrey, 168; Bey. W.
Seddon, 286, 288 ; Bey. G. Sneli, 268 ; Beoton of
Thnrrtarton, 270, 971, 979, 978, 974, 276, 976.

IBBT,219,972.278.

Ireland, Bfilitary Transports to, 164.

Iileworth. 998.

Kennington, 199.
KindertoB, 978.
KnooTOBVii, 8m Nootobum.
Knowie, 217.
Kyrby, WaUey. tM Wallasey.

LA]a>iOAV|288.290.
Lathom, 170, 188.
DBA. 167. 180, 916, 988.
Leadbrook. 260.
Leasowe Oastle, 288.
lieasowes, The, 289.
IiBDBBAM, 178 180.288.
Leioester, 199. _

Lbiohtob, 176. 987. 971. 286, 988, 290.
Lioh6eld, 180, 900. 262. 260. 270.
Li^, 17i
Limerlok. 167.
Unooln, 268.

LXBOABD, 189, 190.

LnrBBPOOX., 886, 244.961, 960 977.

lilyings. viane of Wirral, 180, 198, 207, 909. 290, 228.

Iilandinam,272.

lilaneilan, 972.

Llanrhaidr, 968.

Lleweni, 860.

Loughborough, 187, 918.

Lonyain, 174.

Loyalist Wirral Vioar, A, 986, 988.

Macclesfield, 944, 968.

Madrid. 172. 177.

Maldon, 109.

Malpas, 268, 270.

Manchester, 178.

Marriages, Youthful, 186, 909, 980.

Mayes-y-yralthen-wis, 978.

Mechlin, 174, 177.

MeUing, 176.

Mbols, 176, 266, 260. 278, 988, 990.

„ Shore, 246, 97&
Mersey, Biver, 187, 986, 981, 969, 977.
Mickle Trafford. 290.
Middlewloh,9B8.
Mildred's, Bread street, St., 244.
Mnf ord, 179.

BCiUtary Transports to Ireland iBl6th Oentury, 164.
Hinshnll,216.
Moel Fammau, 977.
MoxxneTOB, 282. 289, 288, 290.
Monaster Neva, 107.

Mobbtob, 166, 186, 221, 940, 940, 268, 979. 990.
Morley, 988.
Mostyn,ia6.
Munster, 167.

Nantwich,968,978,974.
Nbssb, 199.

Nbston, 166, 168 180, 919, 947, 969. 254, 966, 267. 268.
960, 269, 964, 967. 970, 971, 979. 276, 279, 986,
988 290.
„ Litlie.9i6,992,971.
„ Enclosure of Ck>mmons at, in 16th Cen-

tury. 964.
(herla

Netherlands, 160.
Nbthbb Poolb, 986.
Newell, 916.
Newhouse, 986.
Newmarket, 980.
NawTON, 919, 28a

„ cum Labtob. 916, 966.
Nieuport, 179.
NoOToauM, 249, 290.
Northstrete. 967.
Northwioh, 168.
Norwich, 196.

Oldfibld, 186, 276.

Ormshead, 977.

Osteud. 174, 177.

Outwood, 986, 288.

QyBBOHXXBOH. 168. 166, 178, 180, 288, 949, 279. 8<«

al«o Upton.
Value of Liying,

GyBBPooL, 989.
Oyeryssel. 167.
Oxford, Brasenose OoU., 186, 944, 979, 976, 976 ; Mere

ton Coll., 909.
OZTOM, 166. 910, 287.

Paoe Egging in Wirral, 191, 196, 206.

Pabk-oatb, 968,968, 280.

Parre, ^80.

Paurs Cathedral, St., 978, 974.

Peckforton. 967.

Pemberton's Parlour, 994.

Pennant, 979, 978.

Penworfcham, 288.

Pen-y- Werme, 978.

Pioton, 290.

Pitnenburg, 177,

Plemstall, 988.

PooLB. 916, 970, 288. 8m alto Netherpoole and

Oyerpoole.
Portland Island, 269.
PouLTOH, 182, 136, 212, 216.
PouLTOH Lahobltm, 216, 288, 990.

Pownall Hall, 186.

Pbbmtoii, 170, 211, 961, 976, 286. 288, 290.

Preston, 988.

Prestwioh. 288.

PuDBiHOTOM, 186, 906, 216, 288, 990.

Babt, 201.

Bainhill, 186.

Bake House Farm, 178.

Beousant Boll of ^ irral for 1692, 986.

Bed Castle. Montgom., 186.

Bibble, Biver, 968.

Binsley Chapel. 288.

Bock Ferry. 900.

Boss (Ireland), 966.

Byne, 170.

Sallney, 186.
Bandfleld HaU, 989.

WIBRAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

BicaHiLL, UC IK. no. WB.

Lrrru,tlt,m.

UIUIT, UM, US, 181, tU. «e, 188, MO.

Vila Bo<r>I,»S.

Sbiod Oto«, M WmI Kiibj, IM.

BowrboToacb, Ml. M.

'1,196.818,180.

— Jt, ISi, IBS, IDS, Kt, IIB, UT, 118, a
SM,»1, Ml, »,«».», 18l>,18a,«I,
Old QniTMtona m, HH.
Talna of UtIdIi •».

ChniohH In 1884, lO.

mOoUagtiMS.

BDOWdM, tU.
BriTu. 841.
SpMlaBaafhlao, M],
etTAodnw^se*.

Siuuw, in,ieB.

Abbar.Notuoii, ITS.
iDiantoiT of. 188.
SruinT. 188, MS, ttS, MO.
Btou, 108. ITB, ieO.SS8, 188, MS, M», 166, MS.
VftlasofI.lTlDi,«eS.

stoutov, 15T. lis, lOB, iia, m, xta

Sabild* Roll at IHCloWlRal.lfll.lIR, 118,181, tU.
180, 186, 199, Ml, HI, US, IS, K8, 110. US, 881,

Wttoriord. in.
WKTiTton, IBS. «». KB.

WUTsrhuD. is~

St., WalliMf , 183.
Warn, 178.
Weal ElibT, ISO. IBt.UIO.W in, MB, tKUa,HW,

168. 166. m. ns. 278, ns, m. »8, m, ns, »s.

„ Pailih Ohnicti. 180.

WhKUai, 179,188.

Wmm, 179, lie, 188, 388, IBl.

Wloh Ualbuit, ut ManMleh.
Wlgui.lle,l»,M.2M.

WUlB, WIml :-ttlB AdMDi,

THmavux. 181, IBS.

TBaanraHaiioi, 101. US. 187, 167, HI, MS.

ThoniloD-la-Maon, 111, MI, VTl.

— 'L'?.?"!!!*^ ..

iV ri' ns, '»T«; iis,' li*',

TonniaT. IBS.
Towa Imd, OhatMc. 181.

Tunnu.BSa 181,187,180. _

Dead talaUDf lo, InlSlh CaalDTy, Ml.

Unint, IBS. 188, ITl, 178, 196, HO, MS. M8. 188, MT
170, 17^ m 8(1 olio Orat^DTob.

Bklph A:
T. Uolii

181; J.Ooodlsu.Ml:

Zalptaan. 188, 187, 170.

T-* . M

OCT 2 2 193.

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