NOTES ON THE RECTORS OF STAVELEY. 75 
the present Rector of Staveley, contains the following extract, in 
the handwriting of James Gisborne :— 
“James Gisborne, born at Derby Dec: 14 1688, went from 
Loughborough School to the University of Cambridge ; chosen 
Fellow of the Delightfull old College of Queens ; in the Begin- 
ning of the year 1716 presented to the Rectory of Staley by his 
most honour’d Patron and constant Friend till Death, the Right 
Hon" the Lord James Cavendish, on the Death of Mr. Ralph 
Heathcote, whose Predecessor Mr. Roger Stear Rect" of Staley 
was buried June 4th 1661 (1662 NS) and Mr. Gisborne Suc- 
- cessor to the said Mr. Heathcote wrote this memorandum July 
the 21st, 1759, having been collated by his learned Patron and 
Friend Dr. Chandler to a stall in the Church of Durham in the 
year 1742 which he always was most thankfull for as he was most 
justly bound ; and to the said L* Bishops son and Daughter the 
Hon’* Mr. and Mrs. Cavendish had as had also his wife the 
highest and most binding obligations. 
“The Lord James Cavendish by his last will left me a 
Legacy of one hundred Guineas; and Lady Cavendish 
(Daughter of Elihu Yale, Esq™ many years Governour of 
Fort St. George) by her last will gave my Daughter Anne 
Gisborne who was her God-Daughter, one hundred pounds.— 
But the greatest Instance of my Worldly Happiness was in my 
marriage Octob: 28th 1718 with Mrs. Anne Hinton Relict of 
Charles Hinton of Lichfield Esq™ She was Daughter of George 
Jacson Dr. in Physick of Derby, and had been a Widdow eight 
years when we married.—We have had ten Children; and in all 
Virtues and Accomplishments, no Woman ever surpass’d her, nor 
_ was there in more than 4o years any abatement.—May Heaven, 
which only can, reward her fully for her Goodness to me and to 
her Children !” 
Copy of a letter, in the handwriting of the same “J. G.,” 
 superscribed, “To Mrs. Gisborne at Staley near Chesterfield 
Derbyshire. Turnat Doncaster.” Seal, Erminois, a lion rampant, 
on a cantona garb. Crest, a demi-lion, issuing out of a mural 
crown. These were the arms granted to Gisborne in 1741 :— 
