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TOMKINSON, Mrs., 24, Lower Seymour Street, Portman Square, London. VICKERSTAFF, T. J., Esq., 6, Mill Street, Macclesfield. VILES, EDWARD, Esq., Pendryl Hall, Codsall Wood, Wolverhampton. WESTON, JOHN, Esq., The Heysoms, Hartford. WILSON, Rev. Canon, Prestbury Vicarage. WILSON, J., Esq., LL.D., Town Clerk of Congleton. They hold
a grave consultation, and are persuaded to sit out the scene. They disliked the surplice and would not wear it, and
they objected to many of the ceremonies the Church prescribed. His wife, Mary
Lago, was a woman imbued with strong religious feelings, well read,
and of an education superior to that usually possessed by persons in
her station of life. He grew up silent, pensive,
and thoughtful. He interrupted
the preacher, and for doing so was cast into prison. On regaining
his liberty he proceeded to Mansfield-Woodhouse, where he was again
"moved to go into the steeple-house and declare the truth to the priest
and people;" but the people fell upon him, put him in the stocks,
and threatened him with "dog-whips and horse-whips." Fox's hearers were
not, however, all moved by the same spirit. So great was the uproar, that some tumbled over
their seats for fear. here are my arms, head, and cheeks!" Close behind him, close beside,
Foul of mouth and evil eyed,
Pressed the mob in fury. On regaining his liberty he passed into Westmoreland,
and thence to his constant friends, the Fells, of Swarthmoor. In the meeting they
threw at me coals, clods, stones, and water. Yet the Lord's power bore
me up over them, that they could not strike me down. The officers came in
while I was declaring the word of life to the people, plucked me down,
and haled me up into their court. I asked them why then did they did not appease
the people, and keep them sober? for one cried "I'll swear," and
another cried, "I'll swear." At last they bid the constable take me to my lodging; and there be
secured till morning, till they sent for me again. At night we went to a justice's house in the town, who was
pretty moderate; and I had much discourse with him. After I had laid the sufferings of
the Friends before him, he bid me come to his house. So I returned to
Kingston, and next day went to Hampton Court to speak further with
him. But when I came he was sick, and--Harvey, who was one that waited
on him, told me the doctors were not willing I should speak with him. So I passed away, and never saw him more." Or in favour
of him, George? His life, if thou knew it, has not been a merry thing
for the man, now or heretofore! I fancy he has been looking this
long while to give it up, whenever the Commander-in-chief required. The waft of
death is not against _him_, I think--perhaps against thee, and me, and
others. judges, who had been hung, drawn, and quartered." But," he added, "Mistress Fell must not keep
great meetings at her house, for they meet contrary to the Act. But she
refused, and the jury found for the King. And we asked him who should do it, then? and he said the King; and then the judge spoke to him, and said, they
should not do so, but let them have prisons fit for men." For the officer that fetched me to
Howlker Hall wasted his estate, and very soon after fled into Ireland. She
replied, "the children knew that." Whereupon I asked them, "whether,
if their mother married, they should not lose by it?" I told them, he adds,
"I was plain, and would have all things done plainly; for I sought
not any outward advantage to myself." "Then," she says, "I was to go up to London again, for my husband was
intending for America." Fox was
generally welcomed, and received more kindness and courtesy from all
classes than in his own country. He suffered from a lingering sickness, his
life at one time being despaired of. On regaining his liberty Fox returned northwards, accompanied by his
wife. Now
of the truth of this I desire to know, and, with a witness or two,
to prove it; for justices of peace do not deny appeals here." "It is," he says, "all the land and
house I have in England; and it is given up to the Lord, for it is for
his service, and for his children." Concerning John, the father of Daniel Abraham, who married the daughter
of Margaret Fell, the following particulars are given in a publication
called the _British Friend_, published at Glasgow, 1845:--
In Market Street (Manchester) is a pile of building called Abraham's
Court. He was a man of good
parentage, and of standing and estate, of a family originally
descended, it is said, from the Abrahams of Abram near Wigan; but
his immediate ancestors resided at or near Warrington, where he was
brought up to the trade of a grocer. It is not
a village--it can hardly be called a hamlet, the houses are so few. Artists, one and all, hide your diminished heads! The Hon. Sir John Stanley was absent at the time;
he was on the road home, returning from Chester, where he had gone
the day before--he arrived when the whole was nearly consumed--very
little of the furniture was saved. He was accompanied in the expedition by his two
sons, Lydulph or Lyulph and Adam de Aldithlegh. The other grandson, William, the son of Adam de Audithlegh,
acquired with his wife the lordship of Thalck, better known as Talk o'
th' Hill, in the same county. 4d. ), an investment he turned to profitable account by marrying
his young ward to his daughter. In this way the estates of Weever
and Alderley became united, and so they continued until the reign of
Henry VI. She adds that her informant, Finlow,
was a lad then, and used to get up behind the carriage. It is recorded that in 1799 he enclosed the Edge,
with other waste lands on the estate, and, at the same time repaired
or rebuilt the old Beacon which had been in existence from the time of
Elizabeth, if not from a still earlier date, and which was then in a
state of decay, covering in the square chamber with the pyramidal roof
which, until it became obscured by the thick umbrage around, made it
one of the chief landmarks in Cheshire. Feb. A bright, happy, eager childhood seems to have been his. Upon her marriage I left Leighton Cottage, and until my mother's
death I remained at home. It is related
that on one occasion word was brought to him that a riotous crowd had
assembled on the confines of his parish to witness a desperate prize
fight. He
rode into the field, and just looked quick round (as if he thought the
same) to see who there was that would be on his side. Henry Raikes. Arthur was sorely puzzled between his fear and his curiosity. Arthur stayed with me and the pony, but when I said I would
go, he said, colouring, he would go, he _thought_. "But, mamma, do
you think there are any wild dogs in the cavern?" She made one ashamed of the ease and idleness of one's own life,
compared with hers. They have to deal with such a population--25,000
souls. She asked afterwards why it was, and one of them
said, "Eh, we knowed what you were at, and so we did without." She went three times into the room
before she had resolution to wake her outright, as was necessary. This she said to Mrs. Blackburne, who was at the
moment within three months of her time. Isaac Bell, his curate, the father of the
present worthy rector of Alderley, the Rev. What it
cost me to leave Alderley, it is for myself alone to feel." "I can give you the
facts," wrote one who was present, "but I can give you no notion of
how impressive it was, nor how affecting. A beautiful sunshine lit up everything, shining into the
cathedral just at the time. Arthur was quite calm, and looked like an
angel, with a sister on each side." Died Sept. 6, 1849, aged 70. When nine years of age he was sent to a private
school at Seaforth, near Liverpool. He is a little
less shy, but not much. ; shortly after he proceeded to the
higher degree of M.A., and in the Autumn of 1839 was ordained. As we mount the higher ground the prospect
widens, and looking round the eye takes in a broad expanse of country. we will not stay to inquire, but leave
others to determine. [11] Such a night of prayers,
tears, and groans I was never present at in all my life. Henry enjoyed the
title only for a short time, and died before attaining his majority. I beseech you spare
not, but be expeditious and industrious. Willoughby was evidently not the kind of general that a soldier of
Cromwell's daring and resource could patiently act under, and that
worthy was not long in expressing his opinion to the Parliament, for we
find him a few months later in the House of Commons complaining of "my
Lord Willoughby's backwardness as a general." Willoughby was
a staunch Presbyterian, determinedly opposed to kingly prerogative,
a devoted admirer of the Parliament, and possessed withal of much
real zeal for the liberties of his country, but he was not altogether
destitute of loyal feeling or prepared to
Hew the throne
Down to a block. In whose
favour and esteem he was so high that they voted him to be general
of the horse under the Earl of Essex, and afterwards to be an Earl. Rupert was at the time carrying on privateering hostilities against
the Parliament with such energy that, as was said, a packet-boat
could hardly sail from Dover without being pillaged, unless it had a
convoy. Willoughby accepted a commission, and became admiral of the
Prince's fleet, and in the month of August, 1648, while in the Downs,
was fortunate enough to intercept and capture a vessel returning from
Guiana with a cargo of merchandise and £20,000 in gold. king. James Bertie, eventually second
Earl of Lincoln. Thus, he
writes:--
May 5 (1694). The Lord Willoughby was with me, and the Lord helped me,
to deal plainly with him, and he took it as I could desire. p.
ann. belonging to it, & for a more
full proof of ys, I here give my following Testimony. Immediately after ys I put into
ye Chappel a Conformable clergyman, who has supplied ye Cure ever
since, wch is above one whole year; and tho' I gave him ye Surplice
Dues of ye Chappelray wch is all yt belongs to me in yt part of ye
Parish, & two pounds p. ann. Bishop Gastrell, in his "Notitia," describes the chapel as "ancient"
and "consecrated." (el) an. (no) 1693, bet. and Ld. Willoughby of
Parham. He enjoyed the title only for a few months, his death
occurring in April of the following year. He was more of a philosopher than a polemic, and a liberal
patron of literature and art. George. Also of Eleanor, daughter of William Wood, of Aspull, Esq., and wife
of Charles Leigh, grand-nephew of the above Hugh. She died 21st of
January, 1858, in the 57th year of her age. Elizabeth, the younger sister of Lord Willoughby, became the
wife of John Shaw, of Rivington, and had by him a son, named after his
father, and a daughter Hannah, who, as already stated, married her
cousin, Ebenezer Roscoe. Surviving him, she again entered the marriage
state, her second husband being the Rev. A quiet, picturesque spot is this same little village of Rivington. The pews were gray and worm-eaten,
of all sizes and shapes. One was distinguished by a wooden canopy over it, and
had once belonged to that _rara avis_, a dissenting peer. But it did just as well; a lord's
a lord all the world over, and Burke's Extinct Peerage had not come
out. The bier stood at one end, a perpetual
_memento mori_, and over it hung the bell-rope, looped up on a peg. The graveyard was grassy, still,
and peaceful; not a gravel walk up to the door; all was grass, silent
and calm. Also of Eleanor, Lady Willoughby, who died in
1665, aged 67. Also of Anne, his Lordship's first wife,
who died in 1690, aged 52. Here, as the Son, the Brother, the Friend, above all as the
Christian his name is perpetuated. Helena, wife of Baxter Roscoe, Esqr., and the Honble. Elizabeth, the wife of John Shaw, Esqr. Friends we have had--the years flew by,
How many have they borne away? Man like the hours is born to die,
The last year's hours, oh, where are they? Elizabeth had sent an army to assist the Protestant people of the
Low Countries to maintain their civil privileges and their religious
faith against Philip and against Rome. The engagement was hot, and cost the enemy many lives,
but few of the English were missing. Willoughby was extremely forward
in the combat; at one moment his basses, or mantle, was torn from
him, but recaptured. and was adjudged to him as his prisoner. He was not less
magnanimous than brave; and, disdaining the servility of a Court life,
is thought to have enjoyed on this account less of the Queen's favour
than her admiration of military merit would otherwise have prompted her
to bestow upon him. His son was afterwards created Earl of Lindsay, and the title of Duke
of Ancaster has been borne by his descendants. A branch of the family was seated at High Bullough, in Anglezark, in
the reign of Henry VIII. Francis Pilkington, the fourth son, died in 1597. In due time
he obtained the degree of doctor of divinity, and was also elected
a fellow of his college. Your cures all, except
Rachdale, be as far out of order as the worst in all the country. If your Grace's
officers list, they might amend many things. If your Grace would, either yourself or
by my Lord of York, amend these things, it were very easy. I beseech you, be not weary
of well-doing, but with authority and council help to amend that is
amiss. Thus after commendations I am boldly to write, wishing good
to my country, and furtherance of God's glory. God be merciful to
us, and grant _ut liberè currat Evangelium_. The revolt was quickly suppressed, and a terrible vengeance followed. Thee, Norton, with thy eight good sons,
They doom'd to dye, alas! His wife, Alice, was a
daughter of Sir John Kingsmill, a Hampshire knight, but it is not
known with certainty when they were married, the fact having probably
been kept secret for some time on account of the strong prejudice
that society--Protestant as well as Roman Catholic, acting under the
influence of old traditions--had against married priests; for marriage
with the clergy was then accounted as hardly respectable, and even the
wives of bishops--bishops' women as they were sometimes contemptuously
styled--occupied an unpleasant position in the ranks in which their
right reverend husbands were accustomed to move. Elizabeth had a rooted aversion to married priests, and took
delight in subjecting them to annoyance and humiliation. It is recorded
that in a progress she made into Essex and Suffolk in 1561, the year of
Pilkington's appointment to the see of Durham, she expressed high
displeasure at finding so many of the clergy married and the cathedrals
and colleges so filled with women and children. "A bishop," he wrote, "is a name of office, labour, and
pains, rather than of dignity, ease, wealth, or idleness. Is He weary, that He must rest Him in those days? If God
gave to stars such power that things cannot prosper on those days, then
God is the author of evil. If stars do rule men those days, then man is
their servant. But God made man to rule, and not to be ruled; and all
creatures should serve him." Do we not all
come of Adam, our earthly father? And say we not all, "Our Father
which art in heaven, hallowed, &c."? Up start the carle, and gathered good,
And thereof came the gentle blood. And although no nation has anything to rejoice in of themselves, yet
England has less than any other. We glory much to be called Britons;
but if we consider what a vagabond Brutus was, and what a company he
brought with him, there is small cause of glory. For the Saxons, of
whom we came also, there is less cause to crack. The voters had to take
an oath before the election, the governors and spokesman at election. 14s. 13s. 4d. (2). (3). (4). (5). (7). (8). This, and nothing more. 8d.). The English never recovered the blow struck by the maid
for the freedom of her country. and the Duke of Burgundy, the news of which caused
the young King Henry to weep. In July the French King invaded Normandy, Somerset had to submit
to the capitulation of Rouen. It was an overthrow which spread sorrow and dismay through Scotland;
patriots bewailed it, poets sang dirges over it, and long was it
remembered as one of the greatest calamities that country had sustained. Sir
Edmund Howard commanded the right wing, and Sir Edward Stanley the
left. The fight began about four o'clock, and the contest was fierce
and furious. Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on! The English for ance, by guile wan the day;
The flowers of the forest, that fought aye the foremost,
The prime of our land, are cauld in the clay. The English loss was also very severe, the number slain being estimated
at seven thousand; but the men of rank who fell were not nearly so
numerous. [26]
Fulleswise[27] full feil,
was fallen to the grounde! Sir John Stanley, who was about seven years older than his youthful
bride, was an illegitimate son of James Stanley, warden of Manchester,
and afterwards Bishop of Ely, a younger son of that Thomas, Lord
Stanley, who according to popular tradition, which, by the way, is
in this instance a popular error, placed the crown of the vanquished
Richard upon the head of the victorious Henry of Richmond on the field
of Bosworth. Sir John Stanley that stowte knight,
That stern was of deedes! Sir John left an only son, bearing his own baptismal name, who was an
infant at the time of his parents' divorce. He was living in 1551, but after that all trace
of him is lost, and with him the line terminated. Amen. Amen. His wife, "Dame Helenour," bore him a family of nine sons and three
daughters. and has issue three sonnes and two daughters, viz. Urian first
sonne died young, Richard third sonne died young, Jane eldest daughter
died young. He was of a sober, serious turn, and
imbued with strong religious feelings, but his attachment to the Church
could neither have been very strong nor very exclusive; he was fond of
"spicy" sermons, and seems to have listened with equal satisfaction
and delight to the discourses of a Brownist or Anabaptist as to the
ministrations of the most eminent of the preachers of the Church of
which he professed himself a member. He was not a deep thinker,
and evidently looked at things from a purely matter of fact point of
view; his observations are confined in a great measure to a description
of what he saw and heard, and not unfrequently comparison is drawn
between the places he visited and those of a kindred character in his
own country, generally to the advantage of the latter. At Amsterdam he "dined
with Mr. Pageatt," where he had "a neat dinner and strawberries." Hampden had resisted it, and earned for
himself thereby a cheap immortality. to his ancestor,
Sir Urian Brereton. raised his
standard on the field of Bosworth, a century and a half previously. It was an unhappy omen, and whispered words of
sorrowful misgiving passed from man to man. A few shots were fired on both sides, but little or no harm was
done. At Namptwich we agreed to assault them the next
morning, signified the same to Sir Will(iam). He was as forward as
we. Our gent. Hearing that the Earl of Northampton was marching northwards, he
immediately set out to the assistance of Sir John Gell, who was then in
the neighbourhood of Stafford. Brereton, whose
new strung vigour and eager impetuosity seldom permitted him to leave
the saddle or let his sword rest in the scabbard, marched at once with
1,500 horsemen from Nantwich, by way of Newcastle and Stone, until he
reached Salt Heath, a place about three miles north-east of Stafford,
where, on the 19th of March, a week after the fight at Middlewich, he
joined the forces of Sir John Gell. As old Fuller, in his quaint way, observes, "they girt their
own garment closest about the consciences of others." On
his approach the garrison fled in dismay, when the castle was taken
and demolished, except the keep. Brereton returned to his quarters
at Nantwich, and the Lancashire men hastened homewards. THO. SANDFORD, Cap. I expect your speedy answer this Tuesday night at Broadlane hall,
where I now am your near neighbour. Immediately after Stoke, Hurleston, Brindley, Wrenbury,
and the country round was ravaged, and much injury was inflicted. 3d. ;" "Paid in meat and drink to
Sir William Brereton's men, £0 18s. ;" "More, £0 18s. 3d. ;" "Spent
on Captain Manwaring and Captain ---- from London in burned ale and
victuals, £0 10s. 0d. ;" "Burned ale to Colonel Duckenfield, £0 1s. 8d." Right English all, they rushed to blows
With nought to win and all to lose. Rupert was fairly swept off the field, and the hopes
of Charles were completely wrecked. This was on Sunday, the 18th of
August. Hearing that Lord Herbert, of Cherbury, was besieged in Montgomery
Castle, Brereton, with Sir Wm. Meldran, Sir Wm. [43]
After the reduction of Chester, Brereton was free to turn his
attention in other directions. And now triumps, maugre those Nimrods dead,
_Aston_, _Capell_, _Byron_, and _Northampton_ dead. The slaughter'd Irish, and his native soile
Now quiet show his courage, love, and toile. Brereton, though professedly a Churchman, was notorious for his
aversion to the episcopal form of Church government; anxious that his
country should enjoy the blessings of the kirk discipline, he busied
himself in the brief intervals he could snatch from his military
engagements in the direction of the ecclesiastical affairs of his
native county, and the accounts and other memoranda preserved in the
parish chest of many a village church in Cheshire bear testimony to
the suffering and misery inflicted on many a worthy clergyman by his
rough and ready method of effecting reforms. Thomas
Remington, for the comfort and convenience of those who traverse the
lonely fell. 7d. 3d., while Speed, the antiquary,
rates it at £124 2s. 1d., the lowest computation being equal to an
annual income of £2,141 10s. 7d. Answer--Ord. Answer--Ord. No answer. in height, and occupying nearly the
whole of the eastern gable. The choir
is of unusually large dimensions, and worthy almost of a cathedral. IACET. FRATER. DE. WALTONA. PRIOR. DE. KERTMEL. What a world of legend and tradition; what tales of love
and gramarye, of chivalry and romance gather round. Cuckoo, shall I call thee bird,
Or but a wandering voice? A treatise on natural history is not, however, our present theme, and
so we resume our journeying. The Englishmen followed, and in the chase slew many and
entered the town with their enemies. Richard, by the grace of God, King, &c. To all to whom these presents
shall come greeting. An inquisition was taken after
his death of the lands he held, and the jury found that his daughter,
whose name they did not know, was his next heir. They became--he on the paternal,
she on the maternal side--the founders of the house of Legh, of Lyme. Concerning the mother of Piers Leigh, an incident is recorded which
puts her character in an unfavourable light. The Duke himself only escaped by swimming the Isis,
and fled to the north, whence he sought refuge in the Low Countries. 4d.) John Wall, the translator of the French Metrical History of
the Deposition of Richard II. The Dauphin, whom of succours we entreated,
Returns us that his powers are not yet ready
To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great King,
We yield our lives and town to thy soft mercy. Enter our gates, dispose of us and ours,
For we are no longer defensible. The fortress held out for seven months, the garrison only yielding
when starved out. His body was brought
over to England, and buried in the church of Macclesfield, in the
rebuilding of which he had in his lifetime been a liberal contributor,
as evidenced by the prominent position assigned to his armorial shield
on the west front of the tower. Amen. Margaret of Anjou, repudiating the compromise by which on the death
of Henry VI. It is closely written in Latin on vellum, and forms
a thick volume of 333 folios. The other lands belonging to the estate are then described, the total
rental being set down at £42 9s., but no mention is made of any deer or
of the famous wild cattle. The
times were full of trouble, for though Edward IV. List, youths and maidens debonnaire,
To this most doleful tragedy. Fatal the feud 'tween him and one
Whose sister was his wedded wife;
The proud Earl Derby, whose false son
Did plot to take the Butler's life. No one of the alleged actors, no one of the facts, and no one of the
causes of the supposed quarrel can be true. On the 24th of
August the garrison capitulated, and from that time to the present
Berwick has remained severed from the sister kingdom. died. No strategy could now be of avail, and,
in the effort of despair, Richard made the final charge upon his rival. He was not ungrateful. In
1511 he resigned his post, the reason for which will hereafter appear. His
head is bare, with a tonsured crown denoting his priestly office. His
hands are uplifted, though not closed, and between them is a shield
of six quarterings. EJUS, FILIE JOHIS SAVAGE, MILITIS, CUJUS QUID
ELENE CORPUS SEPELITR. APUD BEWGENETT 17° DIE MENSIS MAIJ, ANNO
DOMINI MILLESIMO CCCCLXXXXJ. IDEMQ. The force marched
upon Edinburgh, which was speedily captured, pillaged, and burnt. The times were, however, troublous. On the 24th October, 1572, died Edward, the great and munificent Earl
of Derby, with whose death, in the opinion of Camden, "the glory of
English hospitality seemed to fall asleep." Raleigh was in his teens, and in the
yeoman's house at Stratford was budding into manhood he who was to
Show, sustain, and nourish all the world. 8d. ;" "To the keeper at Lyme for killing two staggs, 4s. ;" "Unto a man
who broughte a shoulder of a stagge from Lyme, xijd. ;" "Unto a keeper
of Sir Pyeres Legh who brought venison, 5s." ;" "To Sir Peter Lyghe's mane which brought a fatte
buke to Smytheles, vis. ;" "Sir Peter Lyghe's keeper, which brought
the buke to Gawthorpe, xs." But this made mee more violent in persuite of the stagg, to recover
my reputation. Proud of his ancestry, he was
no less proud of the home of his ancestors. On the 24th March, 1603, the most glorious reign in our country's
annals was brought to a close; it was a sad day for "merrie England,"
for it was that on which, in the royal palace at Richmond, in the
seventieth year of her age, and the forty-fifth of her reign, worn out
with the cares of State and wearied with the fierce contest between her
intensely womanly nature and her sense of duty as the queen of a great
people, the most powerful and most beloved monarch in Europe, Queen
Elizabeth, lay upon her cushions wrestling with death, and terminated
a long life of power, prosperity, and glory. Over the head is a shield of arms, and on the face of the tomb is
the following inscription:--
To ye memy. or what else dearer remayneth of yt verteous Lady, La. Margaret Legh, daughter of him yt sometimes was Sir Gilbert Gerrard,
Knt. a peece. The boy here with him, Myles Leighe vli., his footboy
at Blackley vli., and every servant at Blackley xs. a peece. His cloathes to his three servants, the boy at
Blakeley, Ralphe Arnfield, and Myles Leighe. To his brother Tom his
sword at Blakeley, and a gray nage he bought of the barron. a year during her life if she give the porcon in money she
hath to his sisters, which if she otherwaies dispose of them cli. in
money. Munckas. His body was brought from London and interred in
the family vault at Winwick, the burial being thus recorded in the
parish register:--
1641-2 Feb. 14. It was an eventful period in England's history: the storm which had
so long been gathering upon the political horizon had burst; eighteen
months before, the shot which signalled the commencement of the great
civil war had been fired at Manchester; Edgehill had been fought;
and England's purest patriot had been laid to rest, uncenotaphed but
not forgotten, in the church at Great Hampden, beneath the shadow of
the Chiltern Hills. It had, however, but a
very brief existence. You, I hope, are
settled in your resolution of entertaining him when he comes to Lyme,
which, I hear, will be very soon." His body was removed to Winwick, and there interred in the family
vault on the 6th of the following month, when a sermon, entitled "The
Christian's Triumph over Death," was preached by the Rev. William
Shippen, Rector of Stockport. ), yet
he never joyn'd any Faction in the House." Peter
Legh, like his father, was a staunch adherent of the Stuarts, and after
the abdication of James II. Given at the Court at
Whitehall, the 12th September, 1694.--SHREWSBURY. The Right Honourable
Robert Lucas, Governor-in-Chief of the Tower, or his deputy.' He was a man of much public spirit, and on
the breaking out of the war with France at the time of the Revolution
in 1794, he raised a regiment of horse for the defence of the country. His body was removed to Winwick, and there buried in the
family chapel. Mrs. Legh
died on the 17th January, 1831, at the early age of 19. Leaving an only
surviving child, born 20 Feb. 1830. Mr. Legh married in 1856 Emily Jane, daughter of the Rev. Imperial Cæsar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. It is hung with pictures,
two of them being by Sir William Beechy, and representing George IV. Watson, who was grandfather of the celebrated Rev. Concerning this ancient worthy we have the following obituary notice:--
Mr. Joseph Watson died in the 105th year of his age, and was buried
at Disley in Cheshire, the 3rd of June, 1753. He was Park
Keeper to the late Peter Legh, Esqre., of Lyme and his Father 64
years. Sqr. He was a man of Low Stature, not Bulky, fresh complexion,
and pleasant countenance. He was of a mild Temper,
engaging Company, and fine Behaviour, and allowed to be the Best
Keeper in England, in his Time. They heaped a mound upon his corse--
A mound whereon the fir trees grow;
And many a wail is heard at night,
Coming from the good Knight's Low. Had he
obtained the Royal Mercy or been acquitted, the day of his enlargement
was to have been that of his marriage. It was an inauspicious moment, for at
the precise time the remains of the first rector of St. Ann's, the Rev. Joseph Hoole, were being committed to the grave. It was Sunday, and St. Andrew's day withal. The Prince occupied the warden's seat in the choir,
his retinue being accommodated in the stalls close by. It is added that she did not survive the shock when, a few
days afterwards, she was told of the retreat. The other officers, twenty in number,
were conveyed in waggons under a strong guard to London. Their fate, however, was
far otherwise. Imprisoned first in the cells of Newgate, and afterwards
in the New Prison in Southwark, they passed thence to the scaffold. 'twas all that he could do,
Since God has ta'en their souls. The trials commenced on the 16th July, 1746, in the Courthouse at
St. Margaret's Hill, before the High Commissioners appointed for the
purpose. Townley, the colonel of the regiment, was the first arraigned. The trials
lasted three days, and the whole of the prisoners arraigned were found
guilty. Forgive them, Oh! my Father, for they not
know what they do." And now, Oh! Amen. Withdrawing her gaze,
she leaned back in the carriage, breathed his name, and was no more. How pale was then his true love's cheek,
When Jemmy's sentence reach'd her ear! For never yet did Alpine snows
So pale, or yet so chill appear. Lord Jesus, receive our souls together!' Concerning the final disposition of the relics of poor
mortality which were so long left to moulder in the sun and rain--the
memorials of a barbarous and unchristian revenge--the following
communication was some years ago addressed to Mr. Proctor, the author
of "Memorials of Manchester Streets," and which, though somewhat
lengthy, we venture to transcribe:--
I was dining some years ago, with the late Dr. S. L. (S. A.?) She concluded by making
him promise, that when she was gone, he would have them taken up and
placed in consecrated ground. Three skulls were found in the garden, as she had stated, and they
were placed, as I understand, in St. Ann's churchyard. "I remember," he says, "once being with Goldsmith
in Westminster Abbey. While he surveyed Poet's Corner, I said to him--
Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur illis. My Lady has
made Mr. Dawson her heir, if he can but come at the money." Died January 4th, 1734. Gen. ob. A.S. 1763, æt 67. Ux. Gul. obt. Elizabeth Dawson died February, 1764. for Blackburn, and sister of
Major-general Randle Joseph Fielding, M.P. for North Lancashire, by
whom he has a numerous issue. As Ben Jonson, in
the "Sad Shepherd," says:
Like a prince
Of swineherds! Sir
Thomas More, who was well qualified to appreciate his character, has
given an account of this prelate in his "Utopia." with Margaret,
daughter of Jordan and sister and co-heir of John de Macclesfield. by 21ft., exclusive of the large bay which projects far out into the
court-yard, and is open to the roof-timbers. A passage behind the hall conducts to the parlour
or drawing-room, 22ft. wide. Of its earlier history we
know little, and that little belongs as much to legend as to actual
ascertained fact. (2,100, fo. "lodged
one night at Myerscoe, Sir Thomas Tyldesley's house," on his advance
from Preston to Worcester. v. pp. 78-9, Ed. Thomas Leyland died July, 1564, at the age of fifty years. It is recorded that "in July, as the
foresaid Thos. In the
proceedings of the Duchy Court of Lancaster, without date, but of the
time of Edward VI. What Rigby was to the cause of the Parliament, Colonel Tyldesley may be
said to have been to that of the King. Sir John Meldrum was sent
after him, and the first encounter took place on Freckleton Marsh. The fight was courageously sustained on both sides,
and for more than an hour victory remained undecided. It is of little consequence--
Praises on tombs are idly spent,
His good name is his monument! By her Thomas Tyldesley had a son, Edward, his heir, and
four daughters. James Tyldesley died in August, 1765. On the 24th July, 1 Charles
I. Concerning Francis, a curious
story is related by Hollingworth in his "Mancunienses." Thomas Barritt, the antiquary, in his MS. pedigrees, gives the
following explanation:--"Thos. Mr. Kenyon,
of Peel, and librarian of the College in this town (Manchester), told
me about the year 1779 the family vault of Downes in Wigan Church had
about that time been opened, and a coffin discovered, on which was an
inscription to the memory of the above young Downes. Mr. Kenyon showed me some of
the ribbon that tied the suit at the arms, wrists, and ankles; it was
of a brown colour. It is related that the keeper of the prison,
who had treated him with kindness, buried him at his own expense. THE MANOR HOUSE,
HALE, CHESHIRE. 7 and 8. [4] "The Fells, of Swarthmoor Hall," p. 139. [8] Lancashire Puritanism and Nonconformity, p. 258, ed. W. E. Gladstone, M.A., the Bishop of Sodor and Man,
and Sir C. A. Wood. [12] Hunter's "Life of Oliver Heywood," p. 63. [13] Worthington's Diary, Chet. Soc. It is the great exchange
of all discourse, and no business whatever but is here stirring and
afoot.... It is the general mint of all famous lies, which are here,
like the legends of popery, first coined and stamped in the church. [20] Wordsworth, in "The White Doe of Rylstone." James Schofield, M.A., Regius Professor of
Greek, Cambridge. [23] Brereton's Travels, Chet. Soc. v. I, p. 122. [30] _i.e._, Fierce men, proud, furious. [32] "Nooks and Corners of Lancashire," p. 314. Brereton, but, being
a Royalist, he withdrew, and was succeeded by George Booth. Ches. [46] From the Cymric Caer, an enclosure or camp, and _mell_ a bare hill
or fell. [50] Chronicles, p. 376. [51] Froissart's Chronicles, I, p. 157. [54] Archæologia, v. xx. Chet. Soc. [59] Redland Heath, on which the battle was fought, is three miles from
Bosworth. [61] Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Life of Himself, p. 16. [69] Ensign Maddock, who was admitted as evidence for the Crown. [72] "Kimber's Barons," vol. i., p. 84, Lanc. Famil. Thos. Tinsley, of Lodge." INDEX. Alban's_, 319
St. Andrew's, Archbishop of, 188
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