served as an archer under Edward the Black Prince, in the French wars. He had his pass for England, 29th Elward III. and is supposed to have subsequently become possessed of lands in the township of Yeardsley-cum-Whaley, in Cheshire. He m. in 1855, Agnes, daughter of Robert de Bradshawe, and was father of Roger Jaudrell, of Yeardsley, who was for many years esquire of the body to King Richard II., and for his good services in that reign had granted to him for life (17th Richard II.) the town of Wheston in Leicestershire. The fifth in lineal descent from this Roger was another Roger Joudrell, Esq., of Yeardsley, who m. first, 16th Henry VII. Isabel, daughter of John Sutton, Esq., of Sutton, and secondly, Ellen, daughter and co-heiress of Roger Knutsford, of Twemlow, by whom he had a son and heir, Edmund Jodrell, Esq., of Yeardsley and Twemlow, who espoused Katharine, daughter of James Kelsal Bradshawe, and was s. by his son, Edmund Jodrell, Esq., of Yeardsley and Twemlow, who served the office of sheriff for Cheshire in 1650. He m. Mary, daughter of Robert Holt., Esq., of Stubley and Castleton, in Lancashire, and was s. by his son, Edmund Jodrell, Esq., of Yeardsley and Twemlow, high sheriff of Cheshire, in 1670, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Frauneys Burdett, Bart., of Fore mark, in the county of Derby. His son and heir, Edmund Jodrell, Esq., of Yeardsley and Twemlow wedded Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Molyneux, Bart., of Tevershal, in the county of Nottingham, and was s. by his son, Francis Jodrell, Esq., of Yeardsley and Twemlow, b. in 1689, who served the office of sheriff of Cheshire in 1716, and marrying Hannah, only daughter and heiress of John Ashton, Esq., had a son, Francis, b. in 1723, who m. Jane, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butterworth, Esq., and predeceasing his father about 1750, left issue, Frances, of whom presently Elizabeth, who inherited the Twemlow estate, and m. Egertont Leigh, Esq., of High Leigh, in the county of Chester. Frances Jodrell, elder granddaughter and heiress of the Yeardsley property, espoused, in 1775, John Bower, Esq., of Manchester, who upon his marriage assumed, by sign manual, in compliance with the testamentary injunction of his wife's grandfather, *This lady brought Twemlow to her husband. the surname and arms of Jodrell. He afterwards bought Henbury, where he settled in 1779, and became possessed of the Taxal estate, upon the demise of his brother, Foster Bower, Esq., barrister-at-law, and recorder f Chester, by whom that property had been purchased towards the close of the last century. Mr Bower-Jodrell had issue by his wife Frances, three sons and two daughters-viz., Francis, his successor; Thomas Marsden, cap ain in the 35th regiment of foot, who fell at Rosetta while acting as aide-de-camp to General Oswald; Edmund Henry, lieutenantcolonel in the Grenadier Guards; Harriet, m. to Shakespear Phillips, Esq.; Maria, m. to John Stratton, Esq. Mr Bower-Jodrell d. in 1796, and was 8. by his eldest son, Francis Jodrell, Esq., of Henbury, Yeardsley and Taxal, who was sheriff of Cheshire in 1813. He m. in 1807, Maria, daughter of Sir William Lemon, Bart., of Carclew, in the county of Cornwall (by Jane, daughter of James Buller, Esq., of Morval), and had issue, John William, present proprietor; Foster Bower, b. in 1810, and d. at Oxford, in November, 1830; Francis Charles, b. in 1812, an officer in the Grenadier Guards. Mr Joddrell d. 5th March, 1828, and was s. by his eldest son, John William Jodrell, Esq. Arms-Sa. three buckles arg. Crest-A cock's head and neck, couped, or wings elevated arg. combed and wattled gu. Estates-In the county of Cheshire and Derby. Seats-Henbury Hall and Taxal Lodge both in the county of Chester ED. Keplies. HOUGH CHAPEL, ALDERLEY EDGE. (Query No. 481.-July 23.) [521.] Our correspondent "Lindow" will probably have seen a reply to his question in the Wilmslow Advertiser of last week under the head of Wesleyan Chapel, Alderley. In the front of the Hough Chapel is a tablet which records that the interesting little edifice was erected in 1838. "Lindow" will see, therefore, that the story as to the great John Wesley having preached there is a silly fabrication, the building itself bearing a refutation of such a foolish mistake. Our esteemed correspondent "W. N." was ED. present, we believe, at the opening. PETER WALKDEN FOGG. (Query No. 91.-March 12.) [522.] In the "Microscope" for July 11, 1828, there is reprinted under the heading "Stockport in the Olden Time" a Hudibrastic poem "written by the late Mr Peter Walkden Fegg, a gentleman of no ordinary talents as a preceptor of youth, and well known to the principal inhabitants of this town. It is entitled "An Iliad rising from a day's campaign; being an account of that memorable engagement between Mr Charles Davy and Mr William Lee on the banks of the Carr Dam,near Stockport, in the county palatine of Chester, apon Thursday, 27th of March, 1783. friend in imitation of Hudibras.-1783." speaks of the time Written to a The poet When wenches spun on little wheels, Ere all its wealth was cotton wool. But the action of the piece takes place in a later time When Jennies drove out little wheels, A week later in the same periodical there was also reprinted a continuation of the poem, which is thus introduced:-"It appears that the gentlemen of Stockport did not believe that Mr Fogg was the author of the Iliad published in our last. In the introduction to the following poem, however, he most unequivocally claims it as his own. The poem is entitled The Supplement, with an address to the gentlemen, &c., with an epigram; by the author of An Iliad arising from a day's campaign.'-'For who can write so fast as men ruu mad.'-Young. 1783." It begins : Ye muses nine (if nine there be, STOCKPORT PRINTED Books. K. E. (Queries 1, 91, 108, &c.-Feb. 12, Mar. 12, 19, &c.) (523.] "The Microscope, or Literary and Scientific Miscellany. 'From grave to gay, from lively to severe.'-Pope. Stockport, printed and published at the Albion Office by J. H. Swindells, and sold by him at his shop in the Market Place." This appeared in weekly numbers of eight piges each. After the title in each number it was announced that this miscellany contained literary, scientific, and biographical notices poems, essays, anecdotes, witticisms, and other interesting matter, select and original, which at that imPortant era, might be entitled to the attention of Bociety, but for which sufficient space could not be то found in the columns of a weekly newspaper. escape the paper duty all news was left out. It seems, however, to have had a eirculation extending over the surrounding districts to judge from the list of places where it was said to be on sale. It would appear that it originally appeared under the title of "The Albion, or Cheshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire Microscope,' though for how long I do not knoTM. I have recently seen No. 1-18-F.iday April 11, 1828, to Friday, August 8, 1828. The price for the first 13 numbers was 24, but was then raised to 3d, which, considering that there were only eight pages to a number, would seem a high price nowadays. I do not know what was the future history of this periodical. The whole bibliography of Stockport newspapers deserves attention, and stands in need of elucidation. K. E. INTRODUCTION OF SILK TRADE INTO STOCKPORT. (No. 506. Sep. 2nd, 1881.) [524.] I feel greatly interested in the query made by your correspondent "K. E." on the silk trade. It has been asserted by Dr. Aikin that the first English mills for winding and throwing silk in England were erected at Stockport. The names of the individuals who began the business in this town were Thomas Eyre, of Stockport; Talbot Warren, Esq.; Thomas Hadfield and George Nicholson, of Heaton Norris, Lancashire; Chapman and John Gurnell, of London, merchants. The time when this business was com menced is not stated, but it must have been prior to its introduction into Macclesfield, for in the year 1752, John Clayton, an experienced silk throwster of Stockport, went to Congleton, and erected a silk mill on the banks of the Dane. It may not be out of place to remind our readers that silk was first brought from India in the year 276 of the Christian Era; the manufacture of it in Europe was introduced by some monks A.D. 551, and it was first worn by the clergy of England, A.D. 1534. Your correspondent "K. E." fixes its introduction into Derby about 1717, which is also stated in "Bagshaw's Derbyshire Gazetteer, 1846," Page 94. E. H. STOCKPORT COMMON LANDS. (Query 878. June 25.) [525] Heginbotham (Part II, page 164) says, "They (ie. the burgesses of Stockport) formerly had the right of pasture over several commons, but they were enclosed in 1805, under the powers of 'An Act for dividing, selling, or disposing of the common lands or waste grounds in the Manor, Barony, Town, and Township of Stockport." This Act was the 45 Gee, III., cap. 91. I have not a copy of the Act, but if anyone who has would would give an abstract, he would confer a favour on all those interested in matters local. K. E. Queries, GRAVES IN WESLEYAN CHAPEL, NEW MILLS. [526.] In going over the gravestones at the Wesleyan Chapel, New Mills, a few days ago, I found the following inscription :-" Sacred to the memory of Peter Bate, who departed this life October 1st, 1826, in the 105th year of his age. Also Martha, his wife, departed this life April 22, 1815, aged 86 years." I was informed by the sexton that another person of the same age was also buried in the same ground. Another inscription reads :-" Sacred to the memory of Paul Mason, who departed this life April 9th, 1813, aged 33 years. Hannah, daughter of Paul and Margaret Mason, departed this life December 13, 1821. aged 18 years." I was informed that Paul Mason, with two others. were executed at Derby for burglary, Mason being buried here and the others at Mellor. Can any correspondent give particulars of the affairs ? J. OWEN. [527] MOBBERLEY STOCKS.-Can any of your numerous antiquarian readers tell me when the stocks at Mobberley were last used ? [528. LINDOW. LEVENSHULME.-Where were the marriages of the inhabtants of Levenshulme celebrated at the beginning of last century ? Are any registers of such marriages still in existence? and if so, where? Levenshulme was then, I believe, called Lancsom, as Macclesfield was Maxfield. (cf. Maxfilt, 390). Why they are now known by the longer names has always puzzled me. K. E. [529.] FEAST DAYS.-When are the feast days of St. John the Baptist and St. Martin the Bishop in winter? Who was the latter? K. E. [530.] SIR EDMUND SHAA.-Is anything further known of the founder of our Grammar School than that he was Lord Mayor of London in 1483, when Richard III. seized the throne, and appears as such in Shakspeare's play? K. E. [531.] CURIOUS CUSTOM AT NORTHWICH.-I have seen it stated that-" At the town of Northwich, in this county, a whimsical privilege is allowed, by the charter of the church, to the senior scholar of the Grammar School-viz., that he is to receive marriage feos to the same amount as the clerk, or instead ereof, the garters of the bride." Is this custom still observed, and if not, has it died out within the memory of those now living? K. E. Cu correspondent, "E. H.," has previously asked for this infogation in Query 460, but the subject, being one of peculiar interest, inay well be brought forward for enquiry again. ED. THE WEATHER. "General Rules and Observations on the Weather, by the late Dr. Dalton : 1. The barometer attains its greatest height during a long frost, and generally rises with a north-east wind. It is at the lowest during a thaw following a long frost, and is often brought down by south-west wind. 2. When the barometer is near the high extremes for the season of the year, there is very little probability of immediate rain. 3. When the barometer is low for the season, there is seldom a great weight of rain, though a fairy in such a case is rare. The general tenor of the weather at such time is short, heavy, and sudden showers, with squalls of wind from the south-west, west, and north-west. 4. In summer, after a long continuance of fair weather, with the barometer high, it generally falls gradually, and for one, two, or more days before there is much appearance of rain. If the fall be sudden and great for the season, it will probably be followed by thunder. 5. When the appearance of the sky is very promising for fair, and the barometer is at the same time low, it may be depended on that those appearances will not continue long. Whereas when the barometer is low, it not unfrequently rains almost without any appearance of clouds. 6. All appearances being the same, the higher the barometer the greater will be the probability of fair weather. 7. Thunder is almost always preceded by hot weather, and followed by cold and showery weather. 8. A sudden and extreme change of temperature of the atmosphere, either from heat to cold, or from cold to heat, is generally followed by rain in the course of 24 hours. 9. In winter, during a frost, if it begins to snow, the temperature of the air generally rises to 32°, and continues there whilst the snow falls; after which, if the weather clears up, severe cold may be expected. 10. The aurora borealis is a prognostic of fair weather." Some proverbs on the weather from "Hone's Year Book:" "If red the sun begins his race, If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way, A cloudy morn-a fair afternoon. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1881. Notes. CHESHIRE FAMILIES: LATHAM OF BRADWALL. [532] The following is from Burke's "History of the Commoners :" This is a junior branch of the ancient Cheshire house of Lathon, of Lathom aad Knowsley, which terminated in an heiress, Isabella Latham, who married Sir John Stanley, knight ancestor of the earls of Derby, by which alliance the Stanleys acquired, with other lands, the estate of Knowsley, in Lancashire, which has since been their chief seat. This line divided itself into various branches, amongst which the estate was partitioned, and immediate traces of connection lost, but in the reign of Henry VIII. Alexander de Latham occurs in existing deeds, as seised of lands in Astbury, and using the same arms; and from him property descended lineally to the present proprietor of Bradwall. Alexander Latham, of Congleton, in Cheshire, living in the time of Henry VIII. was father of John Latham, of Congleton, who married 9th February, 1578, Margaret, daughter of Wardle, and was succeeded by his son, ; John Lathar, of Congleton, born 25th October, 1579. married 2nd February, 1607, Priscilla, daughter of Ley, and had issue, John, his successor, Edward, who left issue, John, in holy orders, vicar of Bedding field, in Suffolk, father of John, rector of Westleigh, in the same county; Elizabeth, Aune, Margaret. John Latham died 31st December, 1631, and was succeeded by his eldest son, John Latham, of Congleton, bora in 1609, and dying in 1670, was succeeded by his son, The Rev. John Latham, rector of Lawton, in Cheshire, born in 1636; married 31st March, 1692, Maria, daughter of Moreton, and had issue, John, his successor; Hester married to the Rev. William Hall, rector of Gawsworth, and died sine prole. Mr Latham died 5th June, 1705, and was succeeded by his son, The Rev. John Latham, minister of Bunney, in the county of Notts, and of Woolstrop, in Leicestershire, born 11th November, 1694; married Margaret, daughter of William Knott, Esq., of Great Gonerby, in Lincolnshire, and had two sons, John, his successor; Charles, of Waltham, in Leicestershire, married, and had issue. Mr Latham was succeeded by his elder son. Latham John, Esq., of Bradwall Hall, in the county of Chester, M.D. of Brasenose College, Oxford, late President of the Royal College of Physicians, London, F.R.S., L.S., &c., born 29th December, 1761, married 12th April, 1784, Mary, eidest daughter and co-heiress of the Reverend Peter Meyer (see family of Meyer at foot), Vicar of Prestbury, and has issue, John, LL.D., sometime of All Soul's College, Oxford, born 18th March, 1787; married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Dampier, knight, late one of the judges of the court of king's bench. Peter-Mere, M.D. of Brasenose College, Oxford, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, born 1st July, 1789; married Diano-Clarissa, daughter of Major-general the Hon. Granville-Anson ChetwyndStapylton. Henry, M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford, in holy orders, born 4th November, 1794; married Maria, daughter of James Halliwell. Esq., of Broomfield, in Lancashire. Sarah, married to George Ormerod, Esq., of Sedbury Park, in the county of Gloucester, and has issue. Frances died unmarried in 1829. Doctor Latham succeeded his father 21st June, 1783. Arms-Erm. on a chief indented az. three besants, over all a bend gules. Crest-On a rock ppr. an eagle with wings elevated erminois, preying on a child ppr. swaddled az, kanded ar. Estates -The manor of Bradwall, in Cheshire, purchased by the present proprietor, with various other minor estates, in the some county, inherited from the Meres and Ardernes. SeatBradwall Hall, Cheshire. FAMILY OF MERE.-Peter Mere, of Hough, son and heir of William Mere, married Frances, daughter of John Gerton, of Burton-upon-Trent, and had issue, Peter, died sine prole in 1737; Henry, died sine prole in 1746; Nathaniel. Peter More died in 1720, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Peter, who dying sine prole was succeeded by his brother Henry, but he dying like. wise issueless, the estates and representation devolved upon the youngest son, Nathaniel Meyer, of Macclesfield, who married Sarah, daughter of William Lingard, and had issue, Peter, his successor; Henry, in holy orders, M. A., fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and rector of Cottingham, in Northamptonshire, married Eton, daughter of - Jefferies, of Northwich, but died sine prole in 1780. Mary died 4th January, 1733. The eldest son, the Rev. Peter Meyer, vicar of Prestbury, in the county of Chester, born 30th March, 1728; married 26th December, 1753, Martha, second daughter and co-heiress of John Arderne, Esq., of the Oak, in Sutton, Cheshire, and of Romsey, in Hants, and left at his decease, in 1785, two daughters, his co-heirs-viz.: Mary, married to the present John Latham, M.D., of Bradwall Hall; Frances, married to the Rev. David Davies, D.D., of Macclesfield, and died 15th October, 1797, leaving an only daughter, Frances Davies. ED. GREGORY OF WIRRAL. [533.] Gregory of Wirral was a Cheshire man who found it profitable to settle himself down upon lands in the Vale of Clwyd, A.D. 1335, and as a piece of curious information I copy the following out of an old record printed a few years ago. He is said to hold "two acres rendering at the afores id seasons 61; and 30 acres more will be found in the Oxencarde by measurement, which are released to Adam Birchenshagh (another Cheshire squatter) saving the oak to the lord, if it please the lord &c., rendering annually at the aforementionel seasons 103; and he begins to pay if it please the lord in the ninth year of King Eward. Total, farms of Oxencarde, with the income,' in season 11s 81, and 11s 81; so making annually 23s 41 for four score and two acres of land and wood." Mr Parnell, I should think, must have been studying these old records to get at the letting value of land, but the "squatters of 1335 were but few and very far between, and therefore the supply of land exceeded the demand for it; although then as now Cheshire men had an eye to the main chance. This Gregory of Wirrall was among the keenest of them just then, when the poor Welsh had to pack up their bags and their baggage to leave "grees spots" e npty for the Normans who thought fis to squat upon them. It is also curious to real how the natives must cling to their bit of land, for in this document I read of poor Welshmen who tried to do so, and one of whom was more aggravating than the others, and the record says, "Therefore he is to be removed with his cattle, his effects, &c." Some of these Welshmen, however, would seem to have given the lord the slip, one Elen ap for being named, who had "heed four acres and a half of poor land for which he paid 33 91 per annum, at the aforesaid seasons. And now that land is in the hands of the lord by defeat of tenancy," there being no land court to appeal to, and no native com. missioners to fix the amount of compensation Ap Ior was entitled to, at least none that came up to our modern ideas of the correct thing. Dr Beckle mentions a case where the tenants were dissatisfied with the ruling of the "Escheators" (cheating more properly) "and the case was referred to the lord's council," as being probably more reasonable than the legally appointed judges; a sort of hint that if the lords and tenants are left to themselves all must end well, always remembering that the lords and new tenants were English, for among 37 of the latter there was but one Welshman left-Robert ap Griffith, a minnow among the sparrows to be gobbled up at the first convenient season, by the Spons, Sattons, and Bolis, who surrounded him on every side. R. ECCLESTON. EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART, MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURES, AT THE STOCKPORT MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, 1840. [534] Over 40 years have passed away since the gathering together of an extensive and costly collection of the gems inart, science, and literature, ut the Stockport Mechanics' Institution, then located in a building which was originally the Stockport Theatre, but had been converted into a Mechanics' Institution. There are only a few of the directors at that priod now living to record the particulars of that undertaking. This very beautiful and voluminous collec tion of curiosities and specimens of human ingenuity and labour was opened to the public on the 13th of April, 1840, and it was generally admitted that a more delicious feast of wonders was never before presented to the astonishel gaz) of the people of Stockport. Language describing the various objects is too weak to convey to the mind any adequate idea of the extent, number, and rarity of the various articles there presented for inspection. The productions of nature, genius and art, both from the civilised and barbarous portions of the globe, were found to be valuable and fascinating to the sight and intelligence of the most philosophic observer, as well as those who had a tiste for the antique and the curious, and the people of Stockport at that time were justly prond, and recog nised the skill and taste which pervaded the whole. The picture gallery contained several striking portraits of local notabilities, and also so ne pictures of our Mar. ket Place in the olden time, and other local views. There was also a room devoted to mechanical inventions, under the superintendence of Mr Axon, a model of the Thames Tunnel, a room containing old books, and miscellaneous curiosities, mirrors, &c. At this distant period it is impossible to remember all the varied attractions of that display, which caused a consilerable outlay. A portion of the warehouse adjoining had to be hired to enable the directors to carry out their views, and I am sorry to add when it closed there was a small pecuniary loss, the balance being paid off by a subscription amongst the directors. E. H. STOCKPORT POETS AND POETRY: LINES ADDRESSED TO THE MERSEY. [535.1 The following appeared in a local magazine published in Stockport 40 years ago: |