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RAVENSTONE parish and well built village, pleasantly situated 4 miles S. E. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, partly in West Goscote Hundred, Leicestershire, contains 1086A. 2R. 2P. of rich land, principally occupied as dairy farms, of which, about 580 are in Derby­shire, completely surrounded by Leicestershire, and in 1851 had 66 houses in Derbyshire, and 58 houses in Leicestershire, 396 inhabitants, of whom 186 were in Derbyshire, and 210 in Leicestershire; rateable value £1,866. Of the County rate, one part is paid to Derby and two parts to Leicester. Leonard Fosbrooke, Eaq., lord of the manor and principal owner; Robert Green Cresswell, Esq., also an owner. The Church, St. Michael’s, is a rectory, valued in the King’s book £5 1s. 1½d., now £300, in the patronage of the Crown, and incumbency of the Rev. James Thomas Alderson. It is an ancient structure, with nave, chancel, side aisle, tower and 3 bells, was thoroughly repaired in 1838, and an organ was put up in 1832. In the chancel are several marble tablets to the Fosbrooke family. The rectory, west of the church, is at present being greatly enlarged. The open fields were inclosed in 1770, when 165A. including ancient glebe land, were awarded in lieu of the tithe. The Methodist chapel, erected in 1838, a neat brick building, cost £150, is in Leicestershire. Here is a National school. The Hall, at the west end of the village, is a handsome mansion which has of late been much improved, the seat of Leonard Fosbrooke, Esq. John Wilkins, Esq., who was possessed of this estate before the year 1689, built a noble mansion, which after his death was sold with the manor to Roger Cave, Esq., after whose death it was purchased by an ancestor of Mr. Fosbrooke, who pulled down the large house and erected a smaller for his own residence. An hospital for 29 aged women was built and endowed by John Wilkins. Esq., and Rebecca his wife, in 1712, to have three able-bodied women as nurses; since which, 2 more houses have been provided for the nurses. The women are to be of the parishes of Ravenstone, Swanington, and Cole­-Orton, or, in default of proper objects, of other neighbouring parishes, to be 50 years of age at the least, unless blind or impotent, of good fame, and members of the church of England. Mrs. Wilkins, by her will, endowed it after the death of her husband with all her lands in Thorpe-Ernald, Higham, and Sutton Cheney in Leicestershire, and states that the foundation was in memory of her son, Francis Wollaston Wilkins, who died in 1711. The endowment consists of about 800 acres of land, producing an annual income of £940. Each of the inmates now receives 5s. per week, besides a liberal allowance of coal and clothing. There is a master or chaplain who has a salary of £60 per annum. The present chapel and house for the master were built in 1784, from the accumulated funds of the charity. It is in Derbyshire. Here was formerly a castle, a little north of the church, which was dis­mantled in the reign of Henry II.. of which no traces remain. The Ancient Druids have a lodge here, held at the Plough Inn.

Post Office, at Charles Joseph Derbyshire’s; letters arrive by mail cart from Ashby-­de-la-Zouch, at 7 45 a.m., and are despatched at 5 30 p.m.

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REPTON, is a large pleasant well built village and parish, consisting principally of one long street, and many scattered farm houses. It is 4½ miles N.E. from Burton-upon-­Trent, and 7½ miles S.S.W. from Derby, contains 4797A. 1R. 6P. of strong clay land, which was enclosed in 1766., 398 houses, and 1863 inhabitants, of whom 930 were males, and 933 females; rateable value £8,091 8s. Sir Robert Burdett and Sir John Harpur Crewe, Barts., are joint lords of the manor and principal owners. Mr. Francis Holbrook, Rev. J. T. Smith, William Prince, Esq., Mr. James Marples, Mrs. Eliza Somers, Mr. James Smith, and Mr. John Marbrow, are also considerable owners. 3A. 2R. 10P, of land, let for £10 10s., belongs to, and is let for the reparation of the Church, dedicated to St. Wyston, which is a perpetual curacy, certified at £123, and has been endowed with £200 Queen Anne’s bounty. Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart., is patron, and Rev. Joseph Jones, M.A., incumbent. The Church is a large ancient edifice, with nave, chancel, side aisles and tower, surmounted by a handsome spire 210 feet high. It was repewed in 1795, and galleries on the south side and west end were erected in 1842, and an organ added in 1844, at a cost of £320. The crypt beneath the chancel is perhaps the most perfect specimen existing in the Anglo-Saxon style. It is supported by four pillars of singular character, with a spiral band or moulding round each, and was entered from the church by means of two winding passages. It doubtless formed a part of the conventual church, destroyed by the Danes. The church contains many ancient monuments to the masters of Etwall hospital and Repton grammar school. The school is a large stone building covered with flat tiles. The scholars on the foundation are reduced to 8 poor scholars, who are appointed by the governors in rotation; 4 of which receive £40 per annum for their board and education, and the other 4 have £45 each for the same purpose. The head master’s salary is £360; first usher, £180; second usher, £150 per annum. There are two exhibitions of £50 per annum to either university. The man­sion in which the head master resides belongs to Sir R. Burdett, Bart. (For particulars of this charity see Sir John Port’s charity, Etwall.) The church school-rooms erected in 1833, for which Sir George Crewe, Bart., gave the land, were defrayed by subscription; they were enlarged in 1844, and form a neat ornamental building. Each room will accommodate 100, average attendance 50 boys and 90 girls. The Independent chapel was built in 1836, at a cost of £460, and enlarged in 1839, at a cost of £177, and will seat 400 persons. A house and garden for the minister cost £476; and in 1845 a school-room was added at a cost of £200, in which a day and Sunday school are kept; about 60 children attend. The Wesleyan Methodists have a neat brick chapel, erected in 1815, to seat about 200 persons. In the village is an ancient stone cross, approached by eight steps; it has a plain round shaft with a ball on the top, and formerly had a market, long disused, but fairs are held for cattle on the third Monday in April, and the third Monday in November, and a statute for hiring servants on Tuesday before Old Michaelmas Day. A troop of Yeomanry cavalry was raised here in 1833, under the command of C. R. Colville, Esq., M.P. The Freemasons and Odd Fellows have lodges here, besides several societies. The Mechanics’ Institute, Reading Room and Lilrary, were established in March, 1853. The library contains about 370 volumes; Mr. Thomas Kirk, is the secretary, and Mr. Robert Drewe, librarian. Here is also a Saving’s bank, a branch of the Burton-upon-Trent bank, open every Saturday night, from 6 to 8 o’clock. Repton Park is a large ancient mansion, one mile S.E., the property of Sir J. H. Crewe, Bart., and seat of Edmund Lewis Crewe, Esq. Norbury Hays is another ancient mansion, 1¼ miles S.E. by S., the property of Sir J. H. Crewe, Bart., and seat of Charles H. Crewe, Esq.

DANIEL HAY, a large farm in the Southwood division, 6 miles S.E. from Repton, con­tains about 260 acres of land, the property of Sir J. H. Crewe, Bart., and is occupied by Mr. John Newbold. In 1839, a good stone bridge of five arches, was erected across the Trent to Willington, on which there is a toll-house, It was built by subscription, at a cost of £9,000, and the approaches to it about £3,000 more, for which the public are much in­debted to Mr. Stephen Glover, of Derby.

MILTON, a hamlet and small village, 1 mile S.E. from Repton, contains 1,330A. of

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land. In 1821, an exchange was made between Sir Francis Burdett and Sir George Crewe; Sir George giving his portion of the hamlet in exchange for Sir Francis’s portion of Southwood hamlet and the Hays of 65A. 3R. 9P. in Repton.

SKADOWS, a district of 4 cottages, belongs to Sir J. H. Crewe, Bart.

SOUTHWOOD, in Repton, a hamlet of scattered farms and cottages, 5¾ miles SE. from Repton.

SICKNALL, in Repton, adjoins the lower extremity of Ticknall. Here are some exten­sive lime works, and a brick yard.

REPTON, anciently called Repington, is supposed to have been the Roman station Repandunum. Under the Saxon dominion it was called Repandum, and was the Capital of the kingdom of Mercia. Before the year 660, here was a nunnery, in which Ethelbald and others, of the Mercian kings, were interred. A priory of black canons removed hither in 1172 from Calke.

CHARITIES.—Repton Free School.—Sir John Port, Knight, in 1556, devised certain lands to Sir Thomas Gifford, Knight, and four others, his executors, for the foundation of almhouse at Etwall, and a grammar school at Etwall or Repton. (See Etwall.)

Thomas Whitehead, second master of the free school at Repton, in 1654 devised the Ferry Acres to his Executors, and directed them to permit the head master of Repton school for the time being, to hold and take the rents and profits of the said meadow, under the yearly rent of 30s., payable at Michaelmas and Lady-day, to be distributed to 30 poor people of Repton. The land, consisting of 4 acres on the Trent, is held by the head master, and the rent 30s. is regularly distributed by him to 30 poor persons.

Ralph Hough, citizen of London, by will, gave £100 to the inhabitants of Repton, for raising a rent-charge of £5 for the poor of the said place. In 1657, two closes, containing 2A., called the Further Hough Woods, on Nun Irons, situated in Oslaston, in the parish of Sutton-on-the-Hill, were conveyed on trust, and £5 yearly is paid by the tenant, which is given to the poor.

William Gilbert, in 1706, gave lands at Repton, upon trust, yearly, at Christmas and Easter, to distribute the profits to the poor of Repton who should be at church, not exceed­ing 12. In lieu of the land devised, the commissioners for the Repton inclosure, by their award, dated 11th May, 1796. allotted a parcel of land in the “Good Field,” containing 2A. 0R. 8P., to Thomas Gilbert, as trustee for the parish of Repton. The land forms a part of a close called the Upper Newton Brook Close, which in August, 1826, was in the occupation of George Gilbert, who, in respect thereof, paid 12s. on Christmas day, and 12s. on Trinity Sunday, which he distributed to 12 poor widows. It appears the whole rents were given to the poor. We apprehend that there is no doubt that a fair rent ought to be paid by the occupier for their benefit. Since our enquiry took place, Mr. Gilbert has agreed to take the land at £5 per annum. It is to be observed he is bound to make a fence between his own property and the land belonging to the charity, when required to do so.

William Hunt, in 1736, bequeathed to the vicar and churchwardens of Repton the sum of £20, the interest to be distributed by them to eight of the poorest parishioners. The above sum is in the hands of Richard Somers; originally placed in his father’s hands at 4½ per cent. The yearly sum of 18s. is paid to the vicar, and distributed to the poor.

Richard Comings, of Cambridge, deposited £70 with Robert Wedd, to be by him invested in the purchase of £100 three per cent. consols, upon trust. By indenture dated 22nd July, 1801, the sum of £60, part of the said &70, was invested in the purchase of £100 three per cent. consols, in the name of the vicar of Repton and churchwardens, on trust, to expend the dividends annually in bread, and distribute it on the day before Christmas day. The dividends are distributed and laid out according to the donor’s intention.

Mary and Dorothy Burdett’s Charities —(See Foremark.)

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Church Lands.—By the award of the commissioners for inclosing the open fields in Repton, 3A. 1R. 21P. on Repton Marsh was set out to the churchwardens, and is now let for £12 per annum, and expended in the repairs of the church.

Post Office, at Mr. John Marshall’s Bull’s Head Inn, letters arrive from Burton-on-­Trent, by foot post at 8-30 a.m., and are despatched at 5-0 p.m.

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MILTON HAMLET.

ROSLISTON, a township, parish, and pleasant village, 5 miles S. by W. from Burton-­upon-Trent, and 4 miles N.W. from Oakley station, contains 1189A. 3R. 37P. of fertile land, and in 1851 had 86 houses, and 379 inhabitants, of whom 189 were males, and 190 females; rateable value, £1903 17s. 7d. The principal owners are, John Hamp, Esq., Trustees of the late C. Arkwright, Esq., Miss Evans, John W. Daniel, Esq., Mr. Daniel Moor, and Mrs. E. Cox. The Church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a perpetual curacy annexed to the rectory of Walton-upon-Trent. Rev. Thos. Perrott, incumbent. It was re-built, with the exception of the steeple, in 1819, by subscription, aided by a grant of £50 from the Incorporated society, and 200 sittings are unappropriated. Here are 58A. of glebe, and the tithe was commuted in 1840 for £100. There were 307A. tithe-free, and 517A. were covered by a modus. A New school was built in 1849 by subscription, the site for which was given by John Hamp, Esq.; the average attendance is about 50. The

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Feast is on the first Sunday after September 12th. Coton Park, two miles S.W., a compact farm of 300A. of land, with a good house, the property and residence of John Wilks Daniel, Esq.

Post Office, at Henry Hollis’s letters arrive from Burton-on-Trent at 7.20 A.M. and are despatched at 5.30 P.M.

SMISBY OR SMITHSBY, 1½ miles N.N.E. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, is a pic­turesque, pleasant₅ and well-built village and parish, contains besides the village, three small hamlets; viz.:—The Forty, consisting of 6 cottages, 1¼ mile N.E. The Fifty, con­taining 2 cottages, 1 mile N.W.; and the Wicked Nook, which has 6 cottages, 1¼ mile N.E. The parish contains 972A. 1R. 17P. of fine corn land, with a good proportion of excellent dairy land, and had in 1851 73 houses and 293 inhabitants, of whom 149 were males, and 144 females; rateable value, £1351 14s. 0d. Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart., is the principal owner and lord of the manor, which is subject to a chief rent of 27s. to the Crown. Here are also several small freeholders. The Marquis of Hastings is lay impropriator and patron of the Church, St. James’s, which is a perpetual curacy, value £58, has been augmented with £400 Queen Anne’s bounty, and was appropriated to Darley Abbey. The Rev. Marmaduke Vavasour, M.A., is the incumbent. At the old enclosure, 140 acres of land were appropriated to the Marquis of Hastings, in lieu of tithes. The Church is a neat edifice, situated on an eminence, was repaired in 1838, at a cost of £450. It is endowed with 20A. of land, producing £42 per annum, for its re­paration and maintenance of high and bye roads, or any other object that the trustees may think proper to benefit the parish. In the church is an incised alabaster monument to Wm. Kendall, Esq., of the date of 1500. About quarter-mile S. of the village, a tournament is said to have taken place, which is recorded in Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe. The Wesleyan Methodists have a small chapel here, erected in 1845, and a National, and Infant school in the same year. The Town-well is situated in the centre of the village, and is an excellent spring of pure water. Smisby House, a little W. of the church, is a large ancient stone mansion, enclosed by a thick heavy wall; it is supposed to have been strongly fortified, and was built by Sir John Kendall, in the year 1300, it was unoccupied for 50 years, when the present occupier, Mr. J, E. Hassall, came to it in 1848, it is the property of Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart. Pistern Hills, ½ mile N. of the village, is a neat residence, the seat and property of Wm. Wilder, Esq.

This manor, at the Domesday survey, was the property of Nigel de Stafford. It afterwards belonged to the family of Coming, whose heiress married Shepey. In 1330, John Shepey, in answer to a quo warranto, stated that his ancestors had from time immemorial had a park within their manor there. The heiress of Shepey married Kendall, of whose family it was purchased by an ancestor of the present proprietor. In the parliamentary returns of 1786, it is stated, that some person unknown had

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given to 7 poor widows land then vested in John Tims, and producing 7s. a year. A house and garden and an acre of land near Smisby church, is now held by Miss Eliz. Tims, daughter of the late John Tims, who in respect thereof ought to dis­tribute 7s. a year to the poor widows of Smisby, but it has not been distributed for many years.

STANTON-BY-BRIDGE is a pleasant village and parish, situated on an eminence overlooking the vale of the Trent and surrounding country, 6 miles S.S.E. from Derby, contains 1,273A. 0R. 34P. of rich land, 35 houses and 215 inhabitants, of whom 100 were males and 115 females; rateable value £1,811. Sir Robt. Burdett, Bart., Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart., and the Rev. Thomas Wright Whitaker, are the principal owners; the two former are joint lords of the manor. The living is a rectory, valued in the King’s book at £6 12s. 8d., now £345. Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart., patron, and the Rev. Thomas Wright Whitaker, M.A., incumbent. The Church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small ancient structure covered with ivy, and has nave, chancel, north aisle, and wooden turret with two bells. It was rebuilt by Augustine Jackson, rector, in 1683. Here is an ancient monument, with male and female figures of William Sacheverel, Esq., and Mary, his wife; also one to Katharine, wife of William Francis, Esq., who died in 1530. The rectory is a neat mansion, with 180A. 1R. 13P. of glebe and common allotment. Near the Church are the remains of a chimney, said to have belonged to a large mansion, of which this is the only part left. The late Sir George Crewe, Bart., gave land near the Church for a school, and with the rector, defrayed the expense of its erection. The children pay 2d. per week. A moiety of the manor, which had belonged to Burton Abbey, was in the Francis family in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, now of their descendants the Burdetts. The other moiety probably descended from the Finderns. In the parish very good building stone is got, with which the greater part of the stone work on the Derby canal was constructed. Feast, the day after Michaelmas day.

CHARITIES.—Richard Shepperd, by will, in 1727, left all his lands and tenements subject to the payment of 20s. a year to the poor of Stanton, 12s. thereof having been left by the will of his late father. The annual sum of 20s. is now paid in respect of some land in Chellaston, and laid out in sixpenny loaves, which are distributed at the Church on Christmas-day.

Rev. John Clarke, in 1716, granted all the great and small tithes in Shuttington, in the county of Warwick, to trustees after the death of his wife, to employ the profits for the maintenance of a minister at the Church of Shuttington, provided he was appointed by the consent of his trustees for the time being; but if placed there without their consent, the profits during such time should be disposed of for the putting to apprentice poor children whose parents should not be reputed worth £10 a piece, resident in Stanton-by-Bridge, and

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Shuttington. In lieu of the tithes and glebe conveyed to the trustees two farms were allotted about the year 1806, under the Edingale inclosure act, which together contain 144A. 3R. 25P. of land, let for £232 3s. From the year 1745 to 1792, two successive ministers were appointed without such consent, and in consequence only small payments were made to them, and of the residue premiums were paid for apprenticing poor children but which did not exhaust the income; and the trustees are possessed (1827) of £1,525 3 cent. consols, and £314 16s. 3 per cent, reduced annuities, producing together £54 5s. 10d., which is applied in placing out apprentices. The trustees meet annually at Wichnor Bridge, on the third Wednesday in June, when all children who apply are placed out with premiums varying from £9 to £15 15s.

STAPENHILL parish contains the township of Stapenhill, the township and chapelry of Caldwell, and the joint township and chapelry of Stanton and Newhall, which together contain 4388A. 1R. 38P, of land, and in 1851, had 565 houses and 2,604 inhabitants, of whom 1,327 were males and 1,277 females; rateable value £10,685 5s.

STAPENHILL, a well built, pleasant village, and township, 1 mile E. by S. from Burton-upon-Trent, on the east bank of that river, contains 1,647A. 2R. 30P. of land, soil various, and in 1851 had 153 houses and 635 inhabitants, of whom 319 were males and 316 females; rateable value £3,749 1s. The Marquis of Anglesey, the Earl of Chesterfield, and Henry Clay, Esq., are the principal owners, the former is also lord of the manor, impropriator, and patron of the Church, (St. Peter) a neat stone edifice in the early English style of architecture, with a square tower. It is situated on an eminence, and was erected in 1838, on the site of a dilapidated edifice at the sole expense of the vicar. The old chancel still remains; an organ was placed in the church in 1854, at a cost of about £150, raised by subscription. The living is a vicarage, valued in the King’s books at £5 6s. 0½d, now £373, in the incumbency of the Rev. John Clay, M.A., for whom the Rev. Charles Hind, B.A., officiates. The vicarage, a good residence near the Church, was rebuilt at the same time as the Church, by the vicar who resides in a large handsome mansion at the north end of the village. The tithes were commuted in 1841 for £147, to the impropriator and the small to the vicar, who has also 85A. 2R. 17P. of glebe, situate at Stanton. The parish of Burton, which extends to the east side of the Trent, is much intermixed with this parish and village, about one-fourth part of the township being in Burton parish, with part of the village. The Church was appropriated to the monastery of Burton, to which it had been given by Abbot Briteric, along with the manor. Henry VIII gave these to the collegiate Church he had founded on the site of the dissolved monastery, which being soon afterwards dissolved, the manors of Stapenhill and Caldwell were granted in 1545 to Sir Wm. Paget. The Rev. John Hieron, an eminent nonconformist divine and critic, who made collections towards a history of Derbyshire, was born at Stapenhill, in 1608. The Wesleyans and Reformers have each places of worship here. In 1833 the vicar erected a small, neat National school for boys and girls, which will hold about 200, about 60 boys and 40 girls attend. In 1837 an infant school was built, about 400 yards from the National school, it will hold about 60, and 30 attend. Brizlincote Hall, now a farm house, 1 mile E. from the Church, is an ancient mansion, in a commanding situation with a fine avenue of trees, over the front door is inscribed “Non Ignara Mali Miseris succurrere disco, A.D. 1714,”

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and over the back door is “ Homo. Homini. Lupus.” It contains 281A. 2R. 12P. of land, the property of the Earl of Chesterfield. About half a mile N.W. from the village, on the banks of the Trent, are the gardens and pleasure grounds of Mr. Edw. Cliff, where parties usually resort during the summer season; they are tastefully laid out, and reflect much credit on the proprietor, for their general arrangement and the good taste displayed. Heath Cottage half a mile W. from the Church, is a handsome mansion, the seat and property of Thomas Myatt, Esq. Here is a ferry across the river Trent to Burton.

CALDWELL is a small neat retired village, township, and chapelry, 4 miles S. b. E. from Burton-upon-Trent, contains 1,040 acres of land, 30 houses and 157 inhabitants, of whom 83 were males and 74 females; rateable value £1,783. Miss R. Evans is lady of the manor and considerable owner. Lady Sophia des Voeux, Mr. Edward Pratt, with the Etwall and Repton corporation, Misses Hamp, Mr. Henry Clay, and Mr. John Hopkins, are owners. The Chapel of Ease is a small structure, with a tower and two bells, and was completely renovated in 1843, with funds partly given by the vicar, and partly by sub­scription. The tithes have been commuted for £140, paid to the vicar. The Baptists have a small chapel here. The manor of Caldwell was sold by William Lord Paget, in 1565, to Peter Collingwood, Esq., from whose family it passed by successive marriages to those of Sanders and Mortimer. Hans Winthorpe Mortimer, son of Dr. Cromwell Mortimer, secretary to the Royal Society, sold it to Henry Evans, Esq., of Burton-upon-Trent. The Hall is a large ancient brick mansion, the seat mmd property of Miss Rebecca Evans.

STANTON AND NEWHALL form a joint township and chapelry, which together contain 1,700A. 3R. 8P. of land, and in 1851 had 382 houses and 1,812 inhabitants, of whom 925 were males and 887 females; rateable value £5,153 4s. Stanton, a small hamlet forming the western side of the township, in which the Earl of Chesterfield and Wm. Blake, Esq. are the principal owners. Newhall, a large and populous village, 3 miles S. by E. from Burton-upon-Trent, Earl of Chesterfield, Wm. Blake, Esq., and Jph. and Nathaniel Nadin, Esqrs., are joint lords of the manors and owners. Here are also several smaller owners. The Church, dedicated to St. John, is a handsome Gothic structure, with pinnacled tower, built of brick. It was erected at the sole expense of the Rev. John Clay, the vicar of Stapenhill, at a cost of £7,000, including a neat parsonage house, and commodious National schools, for boys, girls, and infants, which will hold about 400, and 150 attend. The Church was opened for Divine service 9th July, 1832, and will seat 600 persons. The living is a perpetual curacy, valued at £100, and is endowed with £2,000, in the patronage of trustees, and incumbency of the Rev. Roger Taylor Burton, M.A. The Wesleyans and Wesleyan Reformers have each chapels here, the former built in 1816, and enlarged in 1844, and the latter in 1855. A Literary Institute was established here in 1854, for the surrounding neighbourhood. It is held in a large club room adjoining the George Inn, lent by Mr. Wm. Brunt. The library contains 350 vols. and the news room is furnished with several daily and weekly papers; the Rev. R. T. Burton, treasurer and honorary secretary, Wm. Brunt, president, and Hy. Staley, librarian. An Horticultural society in connection with the above was also established the same year, and the exhibition is held about the middle of July. Here is a bed of coal of superior quality, extending over 2,000 acres, and 24 feet thick, which generally fetches the highest price in the market. Messrs. Joseph and Nathaniel Nadin work the collieries. A superior clay is found in the coal mines, from which a neat straw or cane-coloured earthenware is manufactured, of which great quantities are exported to America and other parts. The manors of Newhall, Stanton-Ward, and Heathcote Ward, belonged, in the reign of Edward I., to the family of Ward, from whom they passed to the Meynells, Dethicks, Dareys, Phillips, and others, by marriage. The Earl of Chesterfield purchased two shares, and the remainder having passed into the Stanhope family, Earl Stanhope and his son sold their portion in parcels. There was formerly a chapel at Newhall, which was given by William the Conqueror to Burton Abbey.

CHARITIES.—Daniel Robinson, by will, gave to the poor of this parish land in 1786, vested in Mrs. Henshaw, producing £1 per annum. Mrs. Ayre, lately deceased, daughter

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of Mrs. Henshaw, paid the £1 to the parish officers, but now it is paid by Mr. Clay to the churchwardens, by whom it is distributed at Easter.

—     Cox, by will, gave to the poor, land in 1786, vested in Thomas Sellick Brome, producing £1 10s. per annum. Lady Horton is now the owner of lands sold with this charge; and the yearly sum of 30s. is paid half-yearly by her tenant to the parish officers, and distributed at Easter and Christmas.

Francis Jackson, by will, gave to the poor, land and a house, in 1786, vested to Jph. Watson and J. Wakelin, and producing the annual sum of £1 5s. The annual sum of £1 1s. 8d. is now paid by Thomas Wright; and Joseph Warren pays 3s. 4d. to the overseers, which is, with others, distributed at Easter and Christmas.

Elizabeth Rhodes, as stated on a tablet in the Church, gave £15 to the poor, the interest to be distributed yearly. This sum is now in the hands of the freeholders, and 12s. is paid annually by the overseers for the time being, and distributed at Easter with several others.

Joyce Cox, sister of the said Elizabeth Rhodes, it is stated on a tablet in the Church, also gave £15 to the poor. We could obtain no further information as to this charity.

STAPENHILL TOWNSHIP.

Post Office, at Mr. Wm. Brown’s. Letters arrive from Burton, at 7 a.m.; and are despatched at 6 p.m.

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CALDWELL TOWNSHIP.

STANTON TOWNSHIP.

NEWHALL TOWNSHIP.

Post Office, at Mr. Wm. Wright’s. Letters arrive from Burton at 7 a.m.; and are despatched at 5 p.m.

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STRETTON-EN-LE-FIELD parish, locally situated in the Hundred of Goscote, Leicestershire, contains, besides its own township, a part of the hamlet of Oakthorpe, which forms a joint township with Donisthorpe, described with Church Gresley parish.

STRETTON-EN-LE-FIELD, is a small pleasant village and township, 5 miles S.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, contains 1008A. 3R. 19P. of land, 19 houses, and 105 inhabitants, of whom 53 were males, and 52 females; rateable value £1977 7s. Sir Mylles Cave Browne Cave, Bart., is owner, lord of the manor, and patron of the church, St. Michael’s, a rectory, valued in the King’s book £9 10s. 5d., now £285. The Rev. William Astley Cave Browne Cave, is rector. The Church is an ancient stone structure, with a lofty spire, and two bells. In 1851, a small organ was placed in the church, the gift of Miss Colville. It has lately been repaired, in which are some ancient tombs of ecclesiastics, and memorials of the Browne family, also one to the Rev. George Gretton, M.A., 44 years rector of this parish. The rectory is a good residence, east of the church, was rebuilt in 1845; it has 50 acres of glebe and the tithe, amounting to £217, is paid by commutation. Here is a small National school, situate at No Man’s Heath, about ½ mile S.W. The Hall, a handsome mansion, is a little west of the church, in a very romantic and picturesque situation. This manor was for several centuries held by a family of its own name, under the Earls of Derby. Charles Browne, Esq., possessed it as early as the year 1600, and rebuilt the manor house. William Brown, Esq., the last heir male of this family, died in 1744; his co-heiresses married — Cave, and Chambers John Cave, Esq.; who (possessing this estate by inheritance from his maternal grandfather,) took the name of Brown. On the death of the Rev. Sir Charles Cave, Bart., in 1806, William Cave Browne, Esq., succeeded to the title.

OAKTHORPE hamlet contains 66 houses and 235 inhabitants in this parish.—(See Church Gresley parish.)

CHARITIES.—Thomas Allin gave to the poor of Stretton the sum of 30s. yearly out of his lands, to be divided by his next relations. John Bakewell, and Elizabeth his wife, were entitled to the said lands for their lives, therefore they entered into a bond, in 1750, whereby John Bakewell became bound to Thomas Richards and James Goode in the penal sum of £50; and it was declared that if the said John Bakewell and Elizabeth, and all future owners of a close called the Heath, in Stretton, should yearly, on the feast of St. Thomas, pay the sum of 30s. to such of the poor in Stretton as should be appointed, the obligation should be void. Mr. James Moxon, the occupier of the Heath close, distributes 30s. annually.

Lost Charities.—The returns made to parliament, 1786, state — Hancock, gave £5, vested in John Smith, and that a person unknown gave a rent charge of 8s. per annum, vested in John Cave Browne, and that another unknown person gave a donation to the poor, which was vested with the Rev. Thomas Moore, and produced 10s, per annum;—all which were stated to have been directed to be distributed in bread; but we have not been able to procure any further information respecting them.

DIRECTORY.—Rev. Wm. Astley Cave Browne Cave, M.A., rector; Captain Lewis Conran, Stretton Hall; James Shaw, gamekeeper. The farmers are Thomas Thomas Goodall, Harriet Mousley, James Moxon, Hill Farm, and George Smith, (and miller.)

SWARKESTON, is a small ancient village and parish, in which is a good inn, on the north bank of the Trent, and on the Derby and Leicester road, 5 miles S. by E. from Derby

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contains 853 acres of land, 59 houses and 229 inhabitants, of whom 145 were males, and 144 females; rateable value £1,113 11s. 8d. Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart., is sole owner and patron of the church, St. James’s, a rectory, valued in the King’s books £5, now £182. The Rev. Thomas Wright Whitaker, M.A., incumbent, has 110 acres of glebe and common allotment. Rev. John Moss Webb, B.A., is the officiating curate. The Church, a small Norman edifice, with nave, chancel, a pinnacled tower and 3 bells. In 1828, it received an addition of 100 sittings, of which 70 are free. The Incorporated Society for the enlarge­ment of churches, having granted £35 towards the expense. Here are some handsome monuments to the Harpur family. The Hall is a large ancient stone building, with pointed gables, near the Trent, now a farm house; near which, on the north side of a walled enclo­sure, supposed to have been a bowling green, are the ruins of a banquetting house, and those of the old castle, which appear of great extent. About the beginning of the year 1643, Col. Hastings fortified Sir John Harpur’s house, and threw up some works at the bridge. Sir John Gell marched thither with Sir George Gresley’s troops, when the garrison at the bridge offered a determined resistance on the part of the royalists, but the men were at length drawn from their works with considerable loss. The Trent bridge was built in 1796-7. It is a neat stone erection of 5 arches, and cost £3,000, and is so constructed as to secure a passage over the low grounds, which are often flooded in winter, where, in the parish of Stanton, the roadway is raised from 3 feet to 15 feet for an extent of three-quarters of a mile, which is supported by 21 large and 14 small arches, principally of stone. The old bridge was washed down by a flood in 1795. There being a timber yard above on the south side, the timber floating against the arches, obstructed the passage, and the bridge was carried down. It had 6 arches; part of the piers still remain. The Trent and Mersey canal passes through the parish, and is here joined by the Derby canal, on which are two wharfs. At Domesday survey, the manor Sorchestan belonged to Henry-de-Ferrars, and Suerchestune was in the crown. The manor of Swarkeston was granted Robert de Holand, in 1307. Joan, late the wife of John de Beke, died seized of it in 1322, leaving it to her son, John Roleston, Esq., who died seized of it in 1482. Richard Harpur, Esq., one of the justices of the common pleas, who died in 1576, had purchased this estate, from whom it has descended to the present possessor. Mr. Francis Ashmore, of Cuttles bridge, is in the 92nd year of his age, can see to read and write without the aid of glasses, and his memory is very good. Mr. John Stevens, builder, is in his 83rd year, and Mary Fisher is in her 84th year, both of whom are very active. Petty Sessions are held every other Tuesday, at the Crewe and Harpur’s Arms. Here are several sick societies. Feast, nearest Sunday to St. James. The Lowes a large neat brick residence, pleasantly situated on an eminence overlooking the Trent, ¾ miles N. W. from the church, is occupied by Mr. Richard Gibson, farmer.

CHARITIES.—John Jennings, in 1657, devised all his lands in Hilton to trustees, to pay 20s. yearly to the poor of Etwall, and 20s. yearly to the poor of Swarkeston for ever, and the rest he gave to his wife. 20s. is paid out of promises at Hilton to the poor of Etwall, by William Martin, but no payment has been made for many years to this parish. John Massey paid it till about the year 1810, when certain premises belonging to him at Wilton were sold to different persons; by the returns of 1786, it appears as though some arrange­ment had taken place, by which John Massey, who purchased part of the estate, was to pay the 20s. to Swarkeston; but we apprehend such agreement would not exonerate any part of the premises charged, if there were sufficient proof of the lands in Martin’s possession having been part of Jennings’ property.

Post Office, at Thomas Bird’s; letters arrive from Derby at 5 45 a.m., and are despatched at 7 20 p.m.

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TICKNALL parish, and large well built village, extends nearly 2 miles on the Derby and Ashby-de-la-Zouch road, 9 miles south from the former, and 5 miles north from the latter, contains 1767 acres of fertile land, a clay soil on the south side, on the north and north west a light loam, with limestone of a superior quality on the east side, 284 houses, 1241 inhabitants, of whom 582 were males, and 659 females; rateable value, £3,200. Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart., is lord of the manor and principal owner. Sir Robert Burdett, Bart., and the trustees of Hartshorn school, are also owners. The Church, St. Thomas-a-­Becket’s, is a perpetual curacy, valued at £250, has been augmented with £200 Queen Anne’s bounty, and £1,200 parliamentary grant. Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart., is patron and impropriator, and the Rev. Richardson Cox, M.A., incumbent. The Church is a hand­some Gothic structure, was rebuilt in 1843, at a cost of £4,500, partly raised by subscription aided by a grant from the Incorporated Society, but principally by the late Sir George Crewe, Bart. It consists of a nave, chancel, side aisles, tower, and handsome spire, has 667 sittings, of which 374 are free and unappropriated. It has a gallery at the west end, and the beautiful east window of stained glass cost £100. The parsonage is a handsome residence S.W. of the church, and here is 53A. 2R. 7P. of glebe; the small tithes were commuted in 1844, for £47. About 80 acres of meadow land is detached from the parish, near Barrow-on-Trent. The manor was given by Wulfric Spott, in the reign of King Etheldred, to the abbott and convent of Burton, under whom it was held by William Francis, Esq., in 1528. Edward Abell died seized of it in 1597. About 1652, it was purchased of his son Ralph Abell, by an ancestor of the present proprietor. The parish pays a chief rent of 27s. to Her Majesty, of £13 10s. to the Marquis of Anglesey, and the Corporation of Etwall and Repton have various sums. It extends into the manors of Stanton-by-Bridge and Donnington. A tram railroad from the lime works on the east side of the parish, extends to Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Leicester. These quarries are the property of the lord of the manor. Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart., has extensive brick and tile works here, and the lime is in great repute for agricultural purposes, and is worked by Mr. William Garrard. The railroad now belongs to the Midland Railway Company. About three-quarters of a mile south from the village is a manufactory of brown earthenware. The Wesleyan Methodists and General Baptists have each chapels. A school for 40 girls was erected in 1822, and is supported by the lady of the late Sir G. Crewe, Bart. Feast, second Sunday in July. At the east extremity of the village, is a hand­some entrance lodge to Calke Abbey, and another half-a-mile more south, near the boundary of the parish.

TATSHALL FEE, 1 mile south from Ticknall, is an extra parochial estate of 60 acres of rich land, the property of Earl Stamford and Warrington, and in the occupation of Wm. Wilder, Esq., but has no house.

CHARITIES.—Ticknall School.—Sir Henry Harpur, Bart., and his mother the Hon. Dame Catharine Harpur, conveyed to trustees, in 1744, a piece of land on which a school had been built by the said Dame Catharine, to teach such of the inhabitants of Calke and Ticknall as should be nominated by her heirs; and also sold two closes called the Hurky

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Cliffs, at Tissington, with a barn and cow-house thereon, upon trust that the rents thereof should go to keep the school in repair, and the residue to the person who should teach the said school. The old school being very dilapidated, was lately taken down by Sir George Crewe, who has built, at his own expense, on the site, a dwelling house for the master, and a school room adjoining thereto, on his own land. The master has for many years received £11 1s., as the rent of the land, but in 1825 Sir George Crewe agreed to pay them £25 per annum, and to make that sum £30 if he did not make £10 more by the scholars, who should pay for their instruction. 40 boys are appointed from the parishes of Ticknall and Calke, to be taught free. The above school is now taught on the National plan. Lady Crewe supports a school for girls.

Dame Catharine Harpur, in 1741, gave £100 on trust, to be laid out in a convenient purchase, and till then to be put to interest, and the profits therefrom to be given for the instruction of 6 poor boys and 6 poor girls of Ticknall. In 1767, an extract from this deed was transmitted by Wm. Cartwright, Esq., the executor of the Countess of Arran; and out of the personal estate, to which Lady Harpur became entitled on the death of her sister, the sum of £100 with 7 years’ interest thereon, amounting to £128, was transmitted to the Rev. Walter Fletcher, the curate of Calke and Ticknall. This sum was placed out at interest, but in consequence of the failure of the party to whom it was sent, was reduced to £80. In the year 1814 this money came into the hands of the Rev. Walter Fletcher, of Dalston, in Cumberland. Until 1821, £4 a year was paid to the master of the school at Ticknall, through the hands of a tradesman in Derby. Since that time it has not been demanded, so that in 1826, the principal and interest amounted to £100. Mr. Fletcher is anxious to be relieved from any further trouble, and we have therefore recommended him to invest the sum of £100 in the funds in the names of Sir George Crewe, and some other person having property in Ticknall, so that the dividends arising therefrom should be applied to the educa­tion of 12 poor children.

HOSPITAL.—Charles Harpur, Esq., in 1770, directed that his brother, Sir Henry Harpur, his executor, should, out of a sum of £9,500 then owing to him by his said brother lay out £500 in building an hospital in or near Ticknall, for poor decayed men and women of Ticknall and Calke; and that the sum of £2,000 should be laid out in the names of his said brother, and James Gisbourne, and — Wilmot, Esqrs., upon mortgage or government security, upon trust, that the interest arising therefrom should be applied to the maintenance of as many poor men and women in the said hospital as his brother should appoint. In pursuance of the above-named will, an hospital was erected in Ticknall, in 1772, with the particulars on an inscription thereon. This hospital contains 7 tenements, each of which comprises a room on the ground floor, a chamber over it, with a small kitchen, and a plot of garden ground, and is kept in repair by Sir J. H. Crewe Bart. It does not appear in what manner the legacy of £2,000 was laid out, but it is understood that the interest of that sum at the rate of 4 per cent. is payable by Sir J. H. Crewe. He accordingly pays £10 a year to each of the 7 inmates, and the remaining £10 is reserved for the expenses of the repairs. 4 poor men or women of the parish of Ticknall, and three of the parish of Calke, are appointed.

Post Office, at Mr. John Hickinbotham’s, letters arrive from Derby by mail cart, at 6-30 a.m., and are despatched at 6-30 p.m.

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WALTON-UPON-TRENT, a parish and large handsome village, pleasantly situ­ated on the east bank of the river Trent, which is here crossed by a handsome iron bridge, erected in 1834, at a cost of £5,500. It is 4½ miles S.W. from Burton-upon­-Trent, and contains 2253A. 0R. 5P. of fertile land, and in 1851 had 99 houses, and 445 inhabitants, of whom 220 were males, and 225 females; rateable, £4659 11s. 9d. The principal owners are the Executors of the late Marquis of Townsend; the repre­sentatives of the late Sir Edward Disbrowe, Lady Wilmot Horton, and the Rev. Thos. Arden; the former are lords of the manor. The Church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient Gothic structure, with a very beautiful east window and tower with three bells, was repaired at considerable expense, in 1827, by subscription. The living is a rectory, with Rosliston annexed, valued in the King’s book at £17 2s. 8½d, now £862. The executors of the late Marquis of Townsend are patrons, and the Rev. Thos. Perrott, incumbent. It contains many ancient monuments of rectors and others, particularly one to Lady Charlotte, daughter of George, Earl of Buckinghamshire, and wife of Edward Disbrowe, Esq., who died 1798; also a remarkable brass, representing a priest, his right hand raised in the act of benediction, and in his left, holding a chalice, with an ornamented foot. The rectory is a handsome mansion, S.W. of the church, has 69A. 36P. of glebe; the tithes were commuted in 1840 for £597 10s. 0d. King Edward II. is said to have forded the Trent at this place, when in pursuit of Thomas Earl of Lancaster, and the rebellious Barons. The Hall, a handsome house in the village, is the seat of Thomas Matthew Gisborne, Esq. The Birmingham and Derby Railway have a station half a mile west from the village. Borough Field, 1½ mile, Hill Farm, one mile, Oaklands, 1½ mile, are farms, S. E. from the village. At Domesday survey, this manor was in the crown, and had a church, a priest, and a mill of 6s. 8d., and forty acres of meadow, value £10. It was afterwards given

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to Hugh Lupus. Queen Isabella in 1337 granted it to Henry do Ferrars of Chartley, from whom it passed by descent to the present possessor.

CHARITIES.—Mrs. Levett and Mrs. Bailey gave £260 for the use of a schoolmaster, with which a close called the Sherrard Heath, at Linton, containing 11A., was pur­chased in 1760, and vested in trustees, to pay the rent to a person they should appoint, to teach poor children. The close is now divided into two parts, and let for £20 per annum. There is also a good dwelling-house, with a garden, in the occupation of the schoolmaster, supposed also to have been given by Mrs. Levett and Mrs. Bailey, and a school room with a small play ground in front. The premises were thoroughly repaired in 1825, partly by the sale of timber from the estate, amounting to £30, and the sale of a small allotment of land at the Linton enclosure, for £13 10s. About 1824, the National system was introduced into the school, and the master instructs all the chil­dren of the parish in reading and writing, including the chapelry of Rosliston, every child, (except those of the poorest description) paying from 1d. to 3d. a week, if any additional instruction is required. The rent of the land is appropriated to the master, with the yearly sum of 25s. which is derived from the gifts of William and Bridget Bedford, the residue of the expense being defrayed by voluntary con­tributions.

The Rev. William Bedford, rector of Walton, in 1659, bequeathed to the poor £10, the interest thereof to buy bread, to be distributed at the church; and he also gave £20 for the maintenance of a school in Walton, as his wife Bridget should think fit. The said Bridget, in 1672, gave £5 to the uses above mentioned. By indenture, 1674, the above sums, amounting to £35, were laid out in a close at Lul­lington, called Walton Way, for a yearly rent charge of 35s., to be issuing thereout. The premises are now (1826) the property of Mr. Walter Bach. His tenant pays 25s. to the rector, which is applied towards the support of a school, and 10s, is expended in bread.

Mrs. Abigail Bailey, in 1782, gave £37 to be laid out in land, the produce thereof to be given to the poor of Walton, yearly. In the year 1820, this sum was lent to the trustees of the school, and in 1825 was repaid, with the arrears of interest, amounting to £13, which was given to the poor at Christmas, 1825. In 1826, £37 was in the hands of the incumbent, the Rev. Edw. Blick; but it had been agreed that it should be laid out in erecting some new pews in the church, and the rents distributed to the poor.

Rent-Charge.—A yearly sum of 30s. has for many years been distributed at Christ­mas, in respect of a field called Birch Close, the property of the late Edw. Cromwell Disbrowe, Esq., but the origin is unknown.

The Rev. Thomas Bearcroft, in 1680, gave his little tenement and close in Walton, the rents to be distributed in bread at Easter and Michaelmas, during the term of his lease, which was for 2,000 years, at a peppercorn-rent. These premises consist of a cottage and garden, with a small piece of waste land adjoining. The cottage was pulled down and two new ones built about 10 years ago, for which purpose £80 was borrowed, but which is now nearly repaid. The property now lets for £11 10s. 0d. per annum, £2 of which only is now distributed in bread, until the whole of the debt is liquidated. They are now in possession of D. Durant and John Sabin.

Robert Tomlinson gave £10, the interest to be distributed to the poor. Richard Tomlinson and Christopher Nevill, having in their hands the above sum, agreed to give £10 each for the same purpose. In 1700, the £30 was invested in a rent-charge of 30s., payable out of land called the Moor Furlong, in Walton. Mr. Hamp was the proprietor of certain lands known by the name of Moor Furlong, and paid 20s. yearly till 1814, when he sold these lands to the late Edward Disbrowe, Esq. It appears Mr. Disbrowe was not aware of those lands being charged with any payment to charitable uses, but if, on ex-

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amination of the title deeds it so appears, he will take proper steps for obtaining compen­sation from the vendor.

Post Office, at Thos. Wm. Draper’s; letters arrive from Burton-on-Trent at 8 a.m.; and are despatched at 6 p.m.

WILLESLEY is a scattered village and parish, locally situated in West Goscote hundred, Leicestershire, two miles S.W. by S. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, contains 788A. 0R. 37P. of strong clay land, 9 houses, and 48 inhabitants, of whom 24 were males and 24 females; rateable value, £934. Sir Charles Abney Hastings, Bart., is sole owner, lord of the manor, impropriator, and patron of the church, St. Thomas’s, a perpetual curacy, valued in the King’s book at £12, now £62. Rev. George Lloyd, incumbent. The Church, a small ancient structure, with tower and two bells, was repaired by the parish­ioners in 1844. Here is no parsonage. Thos. Abney, Esq., about 1782, settled £20 per annum on the curate, and the living has been augmented with £400 Queen Anne’s bounty. In the church are several handsome marble tablets to the Abney family. The Hall an ancient brick building, on the north side of the church, appeals to have been built about the time of Charles I. It has lately been enlarged and repaired. It is situated in a park of 147 acres, and is the seat of the proprietor. In the front of the Hall is a fine sheet of water of 24 acres, covering the site of what was formerly the village; in the centre of which is an old corn mill, which may still be seen when the water is low. This manor was given by Wulfrie Spott to the Abbey of Burton, under which it was held by the family of Ingwardby, whose heiress married Abney early in the fifteenth century. The Abneys resided here for many generations, and became eventually possessed of the manor, which after the Reformation had been granted to the Sheffield family. General Sir Charles Hastings, Bart., married the daughter and heir of Thos. Abney, Esq., and granddaughter of Sir Thos. Abney, one of the justices of the common pleas. Sir Thos. Ahney, of Stoke Newington, in Middlesex, sometime lord mayor of London, and one of the first founders of the Bank of England, was born at Willesley, in 1639. Directory:—Sir Charles Abney Hastings, Bart., The Hall; William Bowler, gamekeeper; Thomas Bradley, brick, tile, and drain-pipe maker, Blackfordby, Lei­cestershire; Thomas Hensor, gardener, and John Smith, bailiff; and the farmers are, Bryan Dewes, The Hill, George Earp, Wood farm, and William Knight, The Park.