who died in 1755, aged 63; and also of his sister Catharine. A flat stone in the chancel floor further records that he was "singularly beloved" by his truly Christian Diocesan, Dr. Thomas Wilson." On the north wall of the chancel, and near to the aumbry, is the monument of Edward Moreton, Rector of Sefton in 1639, dispossessed in 1643, and reinstated in 1662. The inscription runs :

"Piæ Memoriæ S. Edwardi Morton, S. T. P. Guil. Morton de Moreton in agro Cest. Armig. Filii tandemq. Hæredis. Collegii Regal. apud Cantabrigienses quondam Socii. atq. Eccles. Cathedr. Cestr. Prebendarii. Qui per triginta sex plus-minus annos, (nec iis quidem Exceptis quibus quasi Exul Bonisq. Omnibus spoliatus vixit.) Hanc sollicite regebat Ecclesiam. utriusque Fortunæ hand equidem æque particeps. At Vtriq. par. Qui bene novit secundis rebus sobrie uti. Atq. adversis fortiter, Primitivæ Pietatis atq. etiam Disciplinæ Perpetuus Vindex. Tantum non Martyr fuit. Illustre certe et rarum Exemplar. Obiit Feb. xxviii Anno Domini MDCLXXIV. Atque Ætatis suæ lxxvi.”

[Sacred to the pious memory of Edward Morton, S.T.P., son, and at length heir, of William Morton, Esq., of Moreton, in the county of Chester, formerly a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and also a Prebendary of the Cathedral Church at Chester, who, for thirty-six years more or less, not even those being left out in which he lived as if a banished man, despoiled of all his goods, was wont anxiously to rule this church. Of fortune, by no means equally a sharer, but to either equal. One who well knew how to use prosperity soberly, and, more, adversity bravely. A constant maintainer of primitive piety, and, moreover, learning. He was all but a martyr. Assuredly a bright and rare example. He died February 28th, in the year of our Lord 1674, and in the year of his age 76.]

Upon the plinth is added

"Moestissima Conjux Margareta, Guil. Web Eq. Aur. filia, hoc Monumentum dilectissimo Marito poui curavit."

[His most sorrowful wife Margaret, daughter of Sir William Webb, caused this monument to be placed to her most beloved husband.]

Another marble monument in memory of a former Rector, the Rev. Richard Rothwell, his wife, and several of his children, has been placed on the north wall of the chancel by his son and

successor, the Rev. Richard Rainshaw Rothwell. The Rev. Richard Rothwell was Rector for 40 years, from 1761 until 1801. His son held the rectorship from 1801 until 1880, a period of 62 years; the total tenure of the father and son added together amounting to 102 years. The latter is buried in the chancel, having reached the age of 92.

Beneath the north-eastern screen of the chancel a much-defaced alabaster slab rests upon an altar tomb. This latter, and also the one facing it on the south, may possibly be old, but have been at some time" restored," to the obliteration in consequence of all traces of antiquity. The chapel is said to have been used at some period as a school; if such were the case, it would account for the injuries which the slab has received. Its surface is incised with some elaborate tabernacle work, and has an inscription running round it. The incised. lines have been originally filled with some black material, which has so largely disappeared that the inscription is with difficulty legible. It commemorates Johanna, wife of the Sir Richard Molyneux who was knighted on the field of Agincourt, 1415. It appears to run as follows, when the blanks have been filled up :

"Hic iacet dña Iohña quendam u Petri Legh militis et postea u Molineux militis que fuit dña de Bradley Haydik et lib' fen partis villar de Weryngton Mykill Sanky 't Burtonwōd de.. infra villas de Newton Goldbñе Lowton Bolde 't Walton in le dale que obiit in fō sĉi Sulpicii epi ao dñi mimo ccccmo tricesimo nono cuius aïe ppicietur Deus. Amen."

This inscription, which furnishes a fair example of the abbreviations adopted by the old inscribers when pressed for space, reads as follows:

"Here lies the Lady Johanna, formerly wife of Peter Legh, Knight, and afterwards wife of Molyneux, Knight, who was Lady of Bradley Haydock, and freeholder of part of the townships

of Warrington, Great Sankey, and of

Burton Wood.

within the townships of Newton, Golbourne, Lowton, Bold, and Walton in the Dale. Who died on the festival of S. Sulpice the Bishop, in the year of our Lord 1439. To whose soul nay God be gracious. Amen."

STAINED GLASS.

Some remains of grisaille work will be found in a corner of the eastern light of the square-headed window in the north aisle, though the devices, consisting of oak leaves, acorns, and roses, have become nearly corroded away. The quarries do not appear to occupy their original positions. Upon a lower one appears an inverted three-fold stem, whence, probably the foliage branched, which is now neither continuous nor connected. A ruby and a green quarry, each bearing a device, probably fragments of a coloured border, still remain in a nook of the upper portion of the tracery. The eastern light of the next window towards the west is made up of fragments of yellow-stained glass, with here and there a coloured piece. Traces of a straightlined gable, having beneath it a series in steps of round-topped arches and the outline of a canopy, are just distinguishable in the upper portion. Two pinnacles in yellow stain, edged with black, adjoin the mullion, and in the centre is more yellow arcading; beneath are the remains of some scrollwork. A black-letter inscription runs across the centre of the glass, in which the words "Sact' "Nicola"" are decipherable. This window-opening has sometime undergone structural alteration.

Robert Parkinson, the chaplain, chantry priest, and executor of Margaret Bulckley, appears, from. inscriptions still remaining, to have inserted a window in the south aisle. On the next window is also an inscription

"Orate p bono statu gulielmi [a later and mistaken insertion for Lawrentii] Ireland de Lydyate armigeri et Elene año dñi M°CCCCCXL tercii."

[Pray for the good estate of William Ireland, Esq., of Lydiate, and of Ellen. A.D. 1543.]

Another inscription in the east window of the same aisle runs thus

"Orate pro bono statu Gulielmi Molyn" militis qui istã fieri fecit anno dni Millmocccccxlii."

[Pray for the good estate of William Molyneux, who caused this to be made. 1542.]

On scattered quarries the instruments of the Passion appear-the hammer, nails, pincers, the pillar, the ladder, a cock, either a paten and chalice or basin and ewer, a sword with an ear attached to it, and heads of Judas, Pilate, and the High Priest." Here also are to be found the remains of two seemingly identical examples of a "Trinity" window, a crowned head representing the Heavenly Father, while below the hands of our Lord are affixed to the Cross, on which rests a Dove, symbolical of the Holy Spirit. In a lower corner some bones have apparently formed part of a Golgotha. In this window are two coats of arms, the one Sable, a lion rampant Argent, crowned Or, impaling Gules, a lion rampant lozengy Ermine and Sable, crowned Or. Another shield bears, quarterly, Gules and Argent, in the first and fourth quarters a fret Or, being the arms of Dutton.

Some curious and interesting details are to be found in the windows of the sanctuary. In the upper part of the lights of the south window are indications of groined canopies, probably in their original position. In one, the canopy, supported by

7 A small quarry, on which was depicted a lantern, was found by Mr. W. E. Gregson in the parvise, and placed on the cill of this window, whence it was abstracted in the year 1895.-EDITOR.