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i^cmorantia i)v ZiUie ffiSaijcatcroft, 'MM. 1722. 



With a few Notes by the Editor. 



HE Babingtons, the Rolestons, and the Reresbys were 

 once lords of this parish. Each of them had a 

 coneywarren belonging to their manor. Babington 

 lived at Dethic, and built him a chapel (there) in 

 the year 1530. 



[This date appears on the west face of the tower, which alone was 

 erected by that family. The chapel was founded by Geoffry de 

 Dethic in the year 1278. — Ed.] 



Roleston (Rolleston) lived at Edelstall Hall, and Reresby 

 at Eastwood Hall. 



There are also four more halls, as Clattercotes Hall, Overton 

 Hall, and Gorse Hall, and Stubbing Edge Hall. Pearsons 

 lived at Gorse Hall. 



There are likewise belonging to this parish four rich and 

 spacious commons, well furnished with all sorts of moor 

 game, besides foxes, hares, and the like. 



It hath within it ten fair woods, and several very good 

 springs of water for fish to breed in, besides a very good cool 

 bath for rich as well as poor to bathe themselves in for recrea- 

 tion, as well as to cure their bodies of several distempers. 

 There are not many parishes which can be compared to this, 

 for there are 80 springs of running water, besides many mines 

 of lead ore ; and some coals may be got, as at Stubbing Edge, 

 Nutting Fields, and at Milward Wood ; but it is especially 



