MEMORANDA RY TITUS WHRATCROFT, A.n. 1 722. 3 1 



points. The list is singularly rich in place-names, many of which 

 are now forgotten, though all are worthy of prcser\-ation. During 

 the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the headstones of the 

 villagers were seldom more than two feet in height, and were 

 usually inscribed with initials in relief within a quadrangular plaque, 

 the letters being divided by roses or floral designs, and occasionally 

 the date appears. These stones are rapidly diminishing, for the 

 hands that invaded the resting-place they marked, seldom spared 

 the humble memorial. The neighbouring churchyards of Morton, 

 Shirland, Blackwell, and Wingerworth have several in good 

 preservation — Morton particularly. If the date is given on the 

 stone, it is an easy matter to identify the memorial from the Parish 

 Register, and it is from this investigation, that the editor has dis- 

 covered the exceedingly defective character of the burial entries in 

 several old registers of Derbyshire ; hence the little headstones are 

 often found to be the only memorials of the deceased in this world. 

 There is another register, however, in which we trust the names 

 have been duly recorded. — Ed.] 



Adams. This family lie buried at the head of Samuel Everard's 



stone. 

 Allsop of Martin Green, is buried by Richard Hopkinson's 



stone. A flat stone, with ' C ' and ' A ' on it. 

 Allwoods are buried at the foot of Samuel Haslam's stone. A 



tombstone with letters on it. 

 Ai.LEN of Dicklant is buried at the feet of Will. Hopkinson 



of Eastwood. A headstone, with ' E.' and 'A.' on it. 

 Allen of Badger lane Yate ; at the head of Thomas Millington's 



stone. A headstone with ' A ' and ' A ' on it. 

 Andrews bury on the north side of the View-tree, at the head 



of John Shemild's stone. 

 Allen, (Job's wife of the Lea) was buried just at the feet of 



Thomas Bowler, at y* chancel end. 

 Allsop of Hill Top is buried just betwixt John Siddon's stone, 



and Samuel Stringfellow's. 

 Allen (John of Hay) was buried just at the feet of Sarah 



Boden, close by Edward Henstock's stone. 

 Beardsleys of Slack are buried at y'' head of Christopher 



Hunt's tombstone, betwixt the View tree and the Bellhouse 



nook. A headstone with ' A ' and ' i^ ' on it. 

 Briddons are buried on the left hand of Beardsleys, just under 



