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commence. We roamed up the steeps on the other side of the 
stream, 
** Old as the hills that fed it from afar,” 
till we reached the open moor, where we saw the curious pile of 
rocks called Owler Tor, some half-mile off. This gave us a better 
knowledge of our precise position, and we descended again into 
the leafy labyrinth, where 
“The chequered earth seems restless as a flood 
Brushed by the wind. So sportive is the light, 
Shot through the boughs, it dances as they dance, 
Shadow and sunshine intermingling quick, 
And darkening and enlightening (as the leaves 
Play wanton) every part.” 
We explored to the south, and presently came to a bower on an 
elevation overlooking a most delightful prospect ; this must be 
Cicely Tor, mentioned by Dr. S. T. Hall in his “‘ Locterings near 
Longshaw.” Numbers of brilliantly-coloured fungi which were 
scattered about the moist earth were very beautiful. Part of our 
explorations were made while Tillett was unpacking and packing 
our apparatus. All of us were loath to leave this charming spot, 
but time was flying very swiftly, and we had taken several pictures, 
and were anxious to get some of the old chapel ; so after a stiff pull 
we reached the road again, and retraced our steps till we came to 
the gate leading to the Saw-mill and Upper Padley. 
We found the farm-house of Mr. Seth Thorpe, and, close by, 
the ruin we were in search of, now used as a barn and cow-house, 
I explored its interior, and in the hay-loft saw some good carved 
corbels for supporting the roof-timbers. Sir Thomas Fitzherbert, 
who married the heiress of Sir Arthur Eyre, lived at Padley Hall, 
and here it was that, in the year 1588, two Catholic priests were 
arrested, and afterwards barbarously executed in Derby, together 
with another priest, Richard Simpson. The two priests taken at 
Padley were Nicholas Garlick, one time schoolmaster at Tides- 
well for the space of seven years, and Robert Ludlam, who was 
born near Sheffield. Tradition says the estate was confiscated, 
and that the Earl of Shrewsbury, then Lord Lieutenant of the 
