demised premises, with liberty for the lessor & his servants & friends to enter the said premises and take and carry away such fish."1 The diarist tells how he counted a kiln of bricks for Mrs. Gordon in 1766. She was wife of the lord of the manor of Poulton. In 1774 he lent a book to Capt. Smith, who succeeded to the manor of Poulton. Among various small sums of money lent he notes "1772, July 15th. More at Bank House, 00:01 03." It is interesting to note that there are still families in the parish, descendants of those he mentions, such as Peers, Molyneux, Deane, Pemberton, and Bellis. What changes have occurred in the district since John Hough was lord of the manor.1 Of the church he took such an interest in, all the portion he saw rebuilt has been destroyed by fire, and only the tower remains. His house has been demolished, and the fields he knew by name are covered with houses and shops. The rabbits which caused such heartburnings have disappeared from the Hoes, which are reduced to a fringe of sandhills bordering the sea at Wallasey, instead of the sandy wastes which in his day extended from a line joining Magazine Lane and Leasowe Road to the sea. " Where is Liscard Moor, on which John Forshall's unfortunate cow was turned out at 1 a.m., so that the shippon might afford a good night's lodging for Pretty Johnny and his friends? The pits which contained the fish are drained, and the surface of the "moor" is covered by a labyrinth of streets, traversed by electric trams and motors, which would surprise John Hough were he to return. 1 Abstract of Title of land belonging to Atherton and Rowson. Thomas Penkett == PENKETT PEDIGREE. Arms : Argent, 3 hawks sable, billed and armed gules. of Gt. Neston Richard Penkett Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Corbett, of Dovaston, Co. Salop = William Penkett Ann, daughter of Thomas Shaw, of Ditton Hall, and Everton, Lancs. = John Penkett, Hannah, daughter of Rev. Thos. Maddock, b. 1752, d. 1838 Rector of Liverpool Elizabeth, d. 1778. T Samuel Maddock= b. 1689 (1) Rachel daughter of Rainford (2) Margaret Damme widow of T. Woodcock = T (3) Catherine Aldersey Edward Maddock of Inner Temple, Fanny, youngest daughter of Rowland Atkinson, youngest son, b. 1763, d. 1794 = b. 1757, d. 1819 lord of the manor of Liscard. John Dennil Maddock, lord of manor Mary Anne, daughter of John Penkett, of Liscard, J.P., D.L. (1842), Co. Cas., youngest son. b. 1790, d. 1854. COMMUNICATIONS. THE WOODWORK OF ENGLISH FROM By Philip Nelson, M.D., F.S.A. ROM the beginning of their employment, circa 1350, alabaster panels were made to be affixed to a wooden background, in order to constitute a reredos, though no example of a wooden frame of the earliest period now survives. That such was the case is obvious, for latten wire loops are found leaded into the backs of the earliest alabaster panels, e.g., those from Kettlebaston church. It is clear from their carefully moulded edges that the panels of this period were made to be affixed to a plain wooden background, enhanced no doubt with painted ornament, but without the wooden stiles which became a feature of the reredos throughout the succeeding periods. Beneath each scene would be painted its description. The scenic panels were about 17 ins. in height by 11 ins. in width, and would be arranged in sets of three or five, with a narrow figure panel of a saint, about 5 ins. wide, at each end. Alabaster retables set in wooden frames are to be met with, however, from the latter part of the fourteenth century down to the cessation of their production about the middle of the sixteenth century, and are divisible into two main types, viz., those that could be closed and those that could not-the triptych and the fixed reredos. |