fairly refer the coat to that family. It is quartered by Ernley, whose ancestor married an heir of a family of Best, who had married an heir of Malwyne. The Malwynes or Malwaynes were of Echilhampton, in Wilts, and in the 44th of Edw. III. John Malwayne held lands at West Grafton, in Wilts. A William Malwyne was also the incumbent of Draycot, in 1458, to which living he was presented by John Long. The shield on the left bears simply Long.

The identity of this monument, without particularly referring to Aubrey's authority, is sufficiently established by the centre shield of Long, and its impalement of the coat of Darell. In accounting for the introduction of some of the other coats, we have only a glimmering to guide us. The coat of Seymour and the coat of Berkeley (in spite of its annulets) are to be traced to the monument at Wraxall. With respect to the shield bearing St. John quartering Delamare, I am not aware of any connexion of either of these families with the Longs. Private friendship and propinquity of residence were not unfrequently the grounds for the introduction of coats of arms in houses, and even on monuments. There was an early match between the Delamares and Newburghs, and also between them and the Seymours; but to neither of these would I refer the coat in question. I have strong doubts whether any St. John ever intermarried with an heir of Delamare. Leland states that the three daughters and heirs of Peter Delamare, who was the Lord of Bromham and Steeple Lavington, married St. John, St. Amand, and De-la-Roche, dividing his lands; but he afterwards corrects this statement on the authority of Mr. Baynton, whose ancestor (Dudley) had married the heir of the last Lord St. Amand, and the name of St. John is in a note replaced by that of Paulett. St. John married the heir of De-la-Bere, and hence I imagine the mistake to have occurred. I will not here enter at large into the history of the Delamares, excepting to observe that the

heiress of Peter Delamare married Dela-Roche, whose heir married Beauchamp, whose son having married

the heiress of the Lord St. Amand, was summoned, jure uxoris, in that barony. His son, the next Baron St. Amand, of the Beauchamp line, died without legitimate issue, when the Bayntons inherited, as being the representatives of his aunt, Elizabeth Lady Dudley. The last of the Delamares of Nunney, was Elias Delamare, and his sister and heir intermarried with William Paulett, the second son of Sir John Paulett. She died in 1413, and was buried at North Petherton, in Somersetshire. I have said that I would not embarrass my narrative by a long digression about the Delamares, although there is much interest in their hitherto unexplained history; but I cannot refrain from noticing the fact, so characteristic of the race of churchwardens, and which 1 myself saw (not the operation, but the result) in the last year, viz.—that, in order to effect a consolidation of monuments in a corner of the north aisle of Nunney church, one of the Delamares and his wife were required to suffer amputation (a little below the knee if I rightly remember) and that they are now accordingly to be seen jammed in upon their stumps !!

In the time of Aubrey, much painted glass existed in the windows of the old house of the Longs, at Wraxall, of which not a single vestige is now visible, nor is there the slightest clue by which to trace the cause of its destruction or dispersion. This is perhaps the more remarkable, as Aubrey's notes appear to have been made subsequently to the civil wars, when the marching of troops, and the lawlessness of the times, necessarily produced much damage to the houses of the gentry, and might have accounted for the loss, had it taken place sooner. As my memoranda are transcribed from transcripts of Aubrey, perfect accuracy is not guaranteed. The original MS. is at Oxford, as is well known.

Windows in the hall at Wraxall. This window semée of stag's horns Or. Coats as follow:

1. Or, three Torteaux, a label of three

points Azure, each point charged with three Plates. [This is Courtenay of Powderham. Sir Philip Courtenay married a daughter of the Lord Treasurer

2. Cardinal Beaufort's coat.

Hungerford, which may be the ground for its appearance.]

2. Or, an eagle displayed Gules. [This is probably for Walrond, an ancient Wiltshire family.]

3. Quarterly: 1 and 4. Azure, a lion rampant Argent, crowned Or, Darrell; 2 and 3. Argent, two bars voided Sable, in chief two demi-lions rampant Gules, Calston, [Darell married the heiress of Calston, of Littlecote.]

4. Gules, three fish hauriant Argent. [A coat of Lucy. This family was of Dorsetshire, and intermarried about the 15th century with a Long of Purse Candel, in that county-a cadet, no doubt, of the Wraxall line. There is a fine monument in the church at Purse Candel, bearing the coats of Long and Lucy.]

Another window semée of Marshal's fetterlocks Or. At the bottom, the Salutation of the Virgin. Coats as follows:

1. Sable, a bend Or between six Fountains. Stourton. [This family intermarried with the Hungerfords and Berkeleys, and the mother of the wife of Sir Thomas Long was a Stourton.]

2. On a chief Gules, two stag's heads Or. [Popham. Aubrey calls it Bradley.]

3. Or, an eagle displayed Gules, double-headed, beaked and legged Azure, necked Gules. [Blewett or Bluet. This was a family early seated in Wilts. Sir John Bluet, of Lackham, was living in Edward the Third's and Richard the Second's time.]

4. Long impaling Popham.

5. Gules, a chevron Ermine between eight crosslets Argent. [Berkeley. The chevron Ermine was borne by Berkeley of Stoke.]

6. Same as the last, but the chevron apparently Argent.

7. St. John and Delamare quarterly. 8. Azure, a bend Argent, cotised Or. Fortescue. [John Fortescue is mentioned, together with Philip Courtenay, in Hungerford deeds of the date of Edward the Fourth. It may be in honour of the learned Judge.]

On the chimney-piece Long impaling Carne, Anno Dom. 1598. [This still exists, and with it the Marshal's fetterlock. On escutcheons at the spring of the arches which form the roof of the hall, are shields, five of which bear-1. Long; 2. Long impaling Berkeley; 3. Seymour; 4. Long impaling Popham; 5. Cowdray.]

In the entry that leads from the hall to the parlour a window, semée of stag's branches.

1. Gules, a saltire Argent, charged with a rose Gules and Azure. [In honour, no doubt, of Neville Earl of Warwick and Salisbury.]

GENT. MAG. VOL. III.

3. Or, on a chevron Gules a mitre Or, a border engrailed Sable. Stafford Archbishop of Canterbury. [He was translated to Canterbury in 1443, and died in 1452.]

4. Gules, three lions passant Or, a border Azure semée of fleurs de lis Or. Holland. [Probably in honour of Henry Duke of Exeter, who fled to France after the field of Barnet.]

Window semée of Marshal's locksQuarterly: 1 and 4, Checky Or and Azure, a chevron Ermine, Newburgh; 2 and 3, Gules, a chevron between six crosslets Argent, Beauchamp. [Perhaps in honour of Henry Duke of Warwick, who died in 1445, and was the son of Earl Richard, by Elizabeth Berkeley.

In the dining-room, a very noble one, in the windows.

:

1. Quarterly 1 and 4, Azure, on a bend Or three mullets Argent. [Query, if meant for Burell, of Langley Burell, or Burrell.] 2 and 3, Argent, three demilions Gules, Esturmy. [No one of the Esturmy family, whose heir married Seymour, appears to have intermarried with the Burells, who held Langley in the time of Henry the Third and Edward the First; but the Esturmy pedigrees are very scanty.

2. Gules, a chevron Argent between ten crosslets. Berkeley.

3. Quarterly, France and England. 4. Long.

5. Quarterly, Montacute and Monthermer.

6. Same as 1. viz. Burell and Esturmy quarterly, impaling Long and Berkeley quarterly. The chevron in Berkeley being, in this instance, charged with three Torteaux.

7. Long.

8. Quarterly, 1. and 4. Gules, a lion rampant Or. 2. Gules, a fret Argent. 3. Sable, fretty Or; all within a garter. [In honour, I imagine, of William Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel, whose mother Eleanor was daughter of Sir John Berkeley, of Beverstone, and died in the 3rd of Henry VII. having remarried Walter Lord Hungerford.]

9. Long, impaling Or, three bends Azure, a border engrailed Argent, perhaps meant for Newborough.

10. Gules, a chevron Argent, charged with three Torteaux between ten crosslets. Berkeley, called of Bruton.

In another chamber, in the windows. The edges of this window, Long, with the Marshal's lock, as it used to be with the Saxon crowns.

1. Gules, 10 billets Or.
[Cowdrey. A moiety of the manor of
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sentences seem to be printed at once, without the Editor, who is responsible to the public, ever taking the trouble to revise them. I will not occupy the pages of your valuable Miscellany, nor the time of your readers, by further comment, but proceed to point out some of those imperfections which, if not corrected and avoided in future parts, will ever prevent this History from ranking with Nichols's Leicestershire, Baker's Northamptonshire, or other sterling topographical works.

In Part XXXV. page 35. George Marsh is said to be "to be apprehended by Edward, Earl of Derby, on Wednesday, the 14th of March, 1555, and brought before him for examination. If the martyr's first examination" were really "before Sir Roger Barton in Smethells hall," as is asserted in page 45, why is it not alluded to in this Memoir?

Page 41, line 4. The Editor has already described two other townships as Over "Hulton" and Middle" Hulton;" why, then, does he call this township Little "Hilton, or Hulton," giving Hilton the precedence. Hilton is a provincialism, which prevails only amongst the lowest class of people, and by them is used also in speaking of the two former townships.

11. Earl Kenyon. There never were any Earls Kenyon. The present peer is only the second Baron, as is correctly stated in the 18th line. In line 22, there is considerable obscurity about the sentence beginning "This George," Roger Kenyon being the person spoken of in the preceding sentence.

Page 42, line 1. For M. Fletcher, read E. Fletcher.

15. "Farnworth Church, on Halshall Moor [Halshaw Moor]" is "not" in this township, but in the adjoining one of Farnworth, under which district parish it ought to have been described.

Page 43, line 14, for parish of Bolton, read parish of Dean.

Page 44, line 20, for Croupback, read Troutbeck.

Page 45. The account of Smithills (or as it is called throughout the work, Smethells) hall, in this and the following page, is a tissue of truth and fiction so curiously thrown together, that it would be as utterly impossible for a stranger to imagine what sort of a place is meant to be described, as it would to correct this account without entirely rewriting it. From the words "court-yard in the centre," in line 29, the reader would conceive that the house itself completely inclosed such a yard; whereas the building

forms three sides of a quadrangle, the south side being open to the terrace or lawn. What the Editor means by "wings," are the east and west sides of this quadrangle. "The domestic chapel," which occupies only a part (not the whole, as we are given to understand) of the east side, seems to fill a great space in his imagination, being again mentioned in page 66, line 26, as a distinct building adjoining to the hall." The shaded walk enveloped in ivy," "at the western extremity of the building," has no existence. The "several paintings on glass, by foreign masters," which are spoken of in page 40, lines 2 and 3, as having been recently introduced into the south window," are in reality the same "stained glass, representing coats of arms, warriors armed cap-a-pee [pie], trophies, &c." with which, we are so sagely told, in page 54, line 34, the library" is glazed."

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We are told, in line 13, of "the unlimited use of the cellars of Smethells for a week in every year," claimed by the lord of the superior manor of Sharples; but the Editor has omitted a very important fact, viz., that this inconvenient custom no longer exists, the late Mr. Ainsworth having purchased the right.

Page 47, line 9. The word "champerty," an old law term, is used (or rather abused) to describe the appearance of the country.

Were there so many peers bearing the title of Willoughby de Parham, that the Editor deemed it necessary, in line 25, to designate the one who was interred in Horwich chapel, as "of Rivington," to distinguish him from his contemporaries. It was certainly necessary to give the bewildered reader some clue to the person intended, as the last Lord Willoughby de Parham, who died in 1779, when the title became extinct, never lived at Rivington, or had any property there. Hugh Lord Willoughby de Parham resided at Shaw-place, in HeathCharnock, died in 1765, and was buried at Horwich it is therefore to be presumed that he is meant by the Editor; but a hatchment only, not a monument," was put up in the chapel after his decease.

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Page 50, line 37. Street-gate is the name given by the country people to that part of Little Hulton which adjoins the turnpike-road to Manchester; and should not have been noticed at all by the author, except in his account of the township, where he ought to have remarked, that the existence of the Roman road from Manchester to Blackrod, was the origin of this appellation.

Page 52. In giving the derivation of

the name of BOLTON, the Editor does not trace it from the original word Botl, mansio, forming Botltune, but sets out with Boltune, omitting the gradations of Bodelton and Bothelton.

Page 53, line 12. The names Weffeleg and Fanedisch occur here, as they also do in the note below. I should presume that the transcriber of the document here alluded to, must have mistaken the letters s. t. for f. f.; as the places intended to be named are Westleigh and Standish : Longeree is most probably in the original Longetre.

Page 54, line 19. It seems most likely, that the "Manor of Bolton," mentioned here as part of the possessions of Thomas Earl of Lancaster, was Bolton-le-Sands, and not Bolton-le-Moors ; as in Esc. 1 Edw. III. n. 88, it is placed between Skerton and Wyresdale, along with two other places in the north of the county, and in the Hundred or Wapentake of Lonsdale: while in Esc. 35th Edw. III. n. 122, the name Bolton, meaning Bolton-le-Moors, occurs between Hagh Parva and Brightmet, places in its own neighbourhood.

Page 59, lines 16 and 35, for Akers read Acres.

Page 63, line 33. I am at a loss to know what is meant by the church being "in two divisions." The south porch was probably rebuilt by William Lightburne, or during his wardenship.

line 35. The interior of the church consists, besides "a nave and two side aisles," of a chancel and two chapels. The nave is lighted by clerestory windows, and is separated from the north and south ailes by clustered columns (not "massive pillars plainly fluted") consisting of four equal-sized shafts, connected throughout their whole length by a hollow moulding, the capitals of which are unfortunately hidden by the projection of the galleries. The various figures ornamenting the intersection of the beams sustaining the roof of the nave, are not so "rude" as might be supposed, and consist of the letters I.H.S., the Eagle and Child, the crest of the Stanley family, and the arms of Man (of which island the same family were petty sovereigns), circles, foliage, &c.

Page 64, line 1. "Formerly there were stalls in the church; the eagle and child, emblems of the Stanleys, are carved beneath a moveable seat." Here is a specimen of topographical editorship! The fact is, the original stalls, twelve in number, still exist in the chancel; and all, as is usual, have folding seats; under one of which is the crest (not the emblems) of the Stanley family; and under another is

an acorn, for the Bartons of Smithills. The canopies which surmounted these stalls and the screen which separated the chancel from the nave, together with the tracery environing the Chethan and Bridman chapels (of the former existence of which the Editor says not one word) were all destroyed during the incumbency of the Rev. Thomas Bancroft, when the pulpit and reading-desk were removed from their ancient site to the place they now occupy. On the front of one of the desks before the stalls are carved two angels, supporting between them a square shield, with the bouche for the lance to pass through, which fixes the period of their erection anterior to the middle of the reign of Henry VII., when shields of this make were disused. If the shield ever had any charge, it has been defaced.

Page 64, line 3, for Sir Robert Barton read Sir Thomas Barton.

After speaking of the deaths of Sir Robert [Thomas] Barton, and Sir Rowland and Lady Bellasys, and saying, in line 9, that "the following epitaphs record their interment," the editor gives us a copy of the inscriptions, together with one

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upon a tablet in the wall of a chapel to the north of the altar, to the memory of Humphrey Chetham, esq. founder of the hospital," &c. What in the name of common sense has this tablet to do with Sir Thomas Barton, and Sir Rowland and Lady Bellasys? Even if it were a monument, which the editor would lead us to understand, it ought to have been described in the proper place, viz. where the Chetham chapel is noticed in p. 65; but it is not a monument, nor a tablet in the wall, but merely a few boards painted and framed, and set up across the angle of the north-east corner of the Chetham chapel, for the purpose of recording, in each year, the several Governors of the Chetham hospital in Manchester, who should be chosen for Bolton and Turton, a list of whose names are painted upon it, in two columns, from the year 1651 down to the year 1728 for Turton, and 1737 for Bolton.

We are then gravely told, in line 22, that "Upon a large bookcase in the same chapel, which contains some books, purchased out of the bequest of this benefactor, is inscribed, The gift of Humphrey Chetham, esq. 1655." You will be surprised, Mr. Urban, when I tell you that there is no such bookcase, either in the Chetham chapel, in the vestry, or in any part of the church. Previous to the erection of the north gallery, in the year 1796, there was a bookcase in this chapel, but it was then removed, and what has become of it is doubtful.