SIR JOHN STATHAM, OF WIGWELL. 4I 
match w' an heiress toS Thomas Booth of Barton, now Earles 
of Warrington.* And the estate at Morley John Sacheverell 
acquired by marriage of Joan the Daughter & Heir of Henry 
brother of S‘ Thomas Statham of Morley, and Sacheverell enjoys 
Morley and y* Earles of Warrington Barton to this day. But 
diverse of the Collaterall branches of Statham’s Family flourished 
in the neighbourhood and Match’d with some of the Best 
Familys in Derb’ Lanc’ Nott.: as y* Curzon’s, Cliftons &c. t 
Were owners of Horsley, Edlestall, Tansley & Matlock com’ 
Derb’ & diverse of them served for Sherriffs of the said Countys 
& were eminent in their generations, as S' Rowland Statham & 
S' Nicholas were Barons of y* Exchequer,{ and St John Statham 
an eminent Lawyer who wrote Statham’s Abridgement of y* Law, 
and was afterwards a Judge of y* Comon Please (were my lineal 
_ Ancestors).§ He amonge other things in his Abridge™ takes 
notice of his Miller of Matlock Mill who hearing y® Preist at 
Mass say tolle, tolle, went home & tolled twice, which Mill my 
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great grandfather sold to M' Hodgkinson for 860" 
Another branch of the Family went into Cheshire where they 
_ lived in very great repute, till y* Eldest branch haveing only one 
_ Daughter, S' Thomas Booth y* ancestor of y*® Earle of Warrington 
married her & had a great estate by her, & y° whole Towne 
call’d Statham in Cheshire still enjoy’d by y® Earl of Warrington ; 
_ there is a Constablery there call’d Statham’s Constablery within 
which High Legh stands. The-remainder of the estate which 
_descend’d to my Father’s great grandfather was only 360" p’ Ann’ 
_w was kept till y° Rebellion in K. Charles y* 1% time,|] & then 
my Fathers’ Grandfather raised a Troop of Horse for y® King’s 
‘Service, was long a Prisoner in Nott: & Derby Goales for his 
3 *V. Herald’s Office, Earle of Warrington tombs; monts, &c. at Morley, 
Horsley, &c. “! 
+ Naston’s Book of Heraldry in possion of H. Bradshawe, of Marple, 
{ History of Exchequer ; Fuller’s Worthies ; Statham’s Abridg™. 
§ V. Descent in Her : Office. 
|| Vide Deeds, Evidences in my Father’s possion hereafter named, but many 
were lost when plundered. 
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