Communications. NOTES TAKEN IN THE CHURCHES OF IN Edited by J. Paul Rylands, F.S.A. N preparing these church notes for the press, a careful copy, recently made from the original manuscript in the British Museum, by my brother, W. H. Rylands, F.S.A., has been used. The trickings of arms have been rendered in modern blazon, and abbreviated words extended where necessary, all additions being placed within brackets. Notes, identifying and explaining some of the shields depicted in the old church windows, have been added, with the object of imparting interest to the comparatively unattractive blazon of the manuscript. [Preston, co: Lanc:] [Harl. MS. 2129, fo. 72.] In ecclesiæ] fenestr[æ] de p[ar]ochi[a] de Preston in Amoundernes. Com. Laner [circa 1591].* [1] G[ules] a + [cross] eng[railed] Ar[gent] bet[ween] 4 [fleurs-de-lys] Ar[gent] Ashurst Sr Adam de Ashehurst. [2] B [Azure] a lion Ra[m]p[an]t gard[an]t Argent] le champe semy de [fleurs-de-lys] Argent] difference] a[n] [annulet] sa[ble] Holland [in] alia [fenestra] [bend] engr[ailed] sa[ble]. [3] Argent] a [bend] Ratcliff. [4] Argent] on a fesse sa[ble] a lion pass[an]t Argent] between] 2 escall[ops] Ar[gent] [not] a [but in] ch[i]efe 3 [drawing of] wheate eares g[ules] bands or [not] Holand Sr Wm [but Leyland of Morleys] Impaled w[i]th g[ules] 3 A [chevrons] Ar[gent] Singleton of Wightgill, co. York [in] alia fenestra [5] Houghton [and] Asheton [of Ashton] Vnd[e]r Lyne q[ua]rtered w[i]th lea Q[u]ar[terl]y et lea p[er] se. [in] alia [fenestra] [6] in another wyndow Lea of Leahall sa[ble] 3 barre [Argent]. [7] Argent] betw[een] a A [chevron] sa[ble] (bosons }pass[an]t pr[o] Byram [Brock 1 Some of the church notes in Harl. MS. 2129, in the same handwriting, are dated 7th August, 1591. 2 66 Hedgoges" has been added below "bosons"; the latter is a Northcountry name for the badger (Halliwell). In the Visitation of 1613, printed by the Chetham Society, the arms of Brockholes are given as Argent, a chevron sable between 3 badgers [boars] of the last." [in] alia [fenestra] [8] B [Azure] a lion Ra[m]p[an]t gard[an]t Argent] le champs semy de Holland. [9] B [cross-croslets] Or. [Azure] a lion lion Ra[m]p[an]t gard[an]t Argent] le champs semy de escallops Argent] Holland. [10] G[ules] a [fret] Or q[ua]rtered w[i]th Argent] quarter]le[y] a lion Ra[m]p[an]t cu[m ?] q[ua]rters g[ules]. [11] Argent] a lion Ra[m]p[an]t gard[an]t V[er]t [Sherborne of Stonyhurst]. [12] Quarterlie Ar[gent] & [Gules] the G[ules] charged [with] 3 ▲ [chevrons] Ar[gent]-G[ules] 3 ▲ [chevrons] Ar[gent] [Langton ?]. [13] Bolde a second brother mar[r]ied the doughter of Langtons, viz: Argent] 3 A [chevrons] gules] q[ua]rtered w[i]th Ar[gent] a + [cross] patonce sa[ble] [Banastre] q[ua][ter]lie. [Manchester, co. Lanc:] [Harl. MS. 2129, fo. 66.] Manchester Church [1652] on the north side of the Earl] of Darbies chappell formerly dedicated to St. John the] Bapt[ist] in Brasse over the entrance is this inscription. Vanitas vanitatū et oia vanitas Obsecrame vt adiuvet[is] uos Jacob Stanley Elyen Epu 3o. Stanley3 3 Sir John Stanley was a natural son of James Stanley, Bishop of Ely, and married Margaret, daughter and heiress of William Hondford, of Handforth, co. Chester. He fought at the Battle of Flodden; but in 1528 procured a divorce from his wife, on the ground that they both wished to devote themselves to a religious life, and became a monk at Westminster. Lady Stanley, however, seems to have changed her mind, for about 1530 she became the wife of Sir Urian Brereton, by whom she had a family, who ultimately succeeded to the Handforth estates. The greater part of a shield of the arms of Sir John and his wife, with helm crest, mantling, and the motto, Vanitas Vanitatum et omnia Vanitas, may still be seen, in sixteenth century stained glass, in Cheadle Church. (See Earwaker's East Cheshire, vol. i, pp. 208, 245, et seq.) mil et Margt vṛ eie et parentes e04 in orationibz vestris apud dñi Jesum Xpum qui banc capellā in eie noie et in bonore Jobis Baptist' fabricauerunt año incarcois illie, mdriij. within this spatious chapell is an other on the north side where is a tombe with this inscription— Of yr charity pray for the soule of James Stanley sometymes Bishop of Ely & Warden of this Colledge of Manchester web deceased this transitory world the 22 march in ye yeare of our Lo: God 1525 [sic, for 1515] vpon whose soule & all Xpan soules Jesu baue mercy. the chapel on the south side. This chapel was [built?] by Isabell Beck daughter] & sole heire[ss] of Rich[ard] Bexwike in her widdowhood was giuen to ffrancis pendleton & Cecily his wife dau[ghter] of the s[ai]d Isabell whose successors now or lat[e]ly possesst it 40 Q. Eliz. [A.D. 1598] it is now very ruinous, 1652. it was granted 1506 fro[m] James Stanley warden & ye fellows to Rich[ard] fil. Rog[er] Bexwick to enioy its priuiledges. the foundation of ye Colledge layd by Tho[mas] de la Ward año 9 H[enrici] 5. 20 die Maij [A.D. 1421] Laurence] Holme & Henr[y] Buckley churchwardens these p[ar]ish[io]ners being prsent. Jo le byron kts Esqrs Rad Langford Robt de Hyde This Tho[mas] de la Ward made a deed of ffeofm[en]t (to Tho[mas] bishop of Durham Chanc[el]lor of Engl[and] & founded 2 schooles at Esq's plair [sic] greene on[e] of Robt de Booth Otho de Redish Jo de Barlow Rad de Prestwich Esq's Master: musick &c. & founded ye Colledge Church consisting of I Keeper or 8 fellowes chaplens, 4 clerks & 6 choristers in hono[u]r of St. Mary to whome the parish church was form[er]ly dedicated, & to St. Dionyse ye patron s[ain[t of ffrance, & St. George the patron s[ain]t wch were gathered at the of Engl[and] the s[ai]d sound of a bell. Thomas] de la Ward being partly a frenchman & partly an English man, for w[hi]ch license fro[m] K[ing] H[enry] 5 vnder the duchy seale he payd into the Hanap 200 marc[s]: 22 Maij 9 Hen: 5 [A.D. 1421.] [Eccles, co: Lanc:] [Harl. MS. 2129, fo. 78.] Eccles church [circa 1652]. ex p'te austral[e] tumulu pulchru fact' fuit p' dña dorothea Legh in viduitate bic face[n]t corpora Rich brereton de tatton et Workesley, ar. et dorothea[e] vy eie fil. Ric egger= ton milit' et Ric. fil. eo qui quidz Rich ob: 17 octob: año 1598. et dic' dorothea ob: 4 die apr. año 1639 et dicte Ric. fil. eo4 qui infans obijt año dпi 1575. about this tombe are these seu[er]all escochions. [drawings of 7 shields] [14][1] Argent, two bars Sable [Brereton]; impaling Argent a fesse gules between 3 pheons Sable [Egerton of Ridley, co. Chester]; on the fesse a mullet [?]. |