l6o PROCEEDINGS FOR COMPOUNDING. 



died on March 7th, 1666, aged 50. The monument in Norton 

 church specially celebrates William Bullock's fervent loyalty. 

 Two of the lines of the epitath run thus : — 



Regiis partibus contra rebelles cum primis se devovit, 

 In quibus pertinaciter cum ultimis fortissimus stetit.* 



" By the Commissioners for Compounding etc. 

 Gent. 



Wee have received yours of the fourteenth of April! 1652 

 wherein you certifie us of one of the third of March last 

 concerning William Bullocke Wee never received any of that 

 date from you and therefore can give noe further answeare till it be 

 transmitted to 



Harberdashers' Hall Your affectionate friends 



19"' April. 1652. 



Edw. Winslow Sam. Mover 



• WiLLM. MoLiNS Ric. Moore " 



BOWDEN, OF BOWDEN. 

 Bowden Edge or Bowden Chapel is one of the four townships 

 into which the large parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith is divided. A 

 family who took their name from the estate, Bowden of Bowden, 

 held the manor as early as the end of the thirteenth century. In 

 the register of Chapel-en-le-Frith, under the year 1661, is the 

 following entry: — "Jan. 17"" The coate of armes belonging to 

 Nicholas Bowden of Bowden, in y'' Countie of Derby, Esquire, 

 beinge quartered with the two coates of his two wives Woodrofe 

 & Barnby, are placed over y® seat belonging to Bowden, by consent 



of us. 



James Hulme Henry Kirke '1 Church 



John Cooper I Wardens "t 



We believe this Nicholas to have been the son and 



heir of George Bowden, of Bowden, who died during the 



* See "Journal of D. A. and N. H. S.," vol. ii., p. 16. 

 t " Reliquary," vol. vi., p. 66-7. 



