I02 MISCELLANEA. 



Fearing in the meantime that the interment party had evaded 

 them and deposited the body in the precincts of the old Trinity 

 Chapel, Brackenfield, then an outlying chapel attached to Morton, 

 the churchwardens proceeded further : " Ite given to Thomas 

 Clarke ffor to search whether P'son's wife of Morewood was 

 buried in the chappell yard. Sd." 



TIBSHELF. 

 The " Packman's Grave," in the parish of Tibshelf, is the 

 name given to a mound of earth in the north-east angle at the 

 crossing of the Tibshelf and Alfreton road, and the lane leading 

 from Doe Hill to Blackwell. At the north end of the mound are 

 two stones once forming a scjuare pillar, formerly bearing the 

 initials of the deceased. One old person said she had heard the 

 name was Hopkinson. Others say it was the grave of a packman, 

 who was murdered there by four men (who probably buried him), 

 but that the remains were subsequently removed. None of the 

 reports agree in detail, a circumstance which proves the antiquity 

 of the interment. 



WEST HALLAM. 



The following entry occurs in the Register of West Hallam :— 

 " 1698 April 13th Katharine, the wife of Thomas Smith als 

 Cutler was found felo de se by y" coroner's Inquest & interred in 

 y" crosse ways near y*^ windmill* on y'' same day." 



The body of this poor woman was discovered between fifty 

 and sixty years ago during some improvements in the highway. 

 Kate Cutler, tradition says, drowned herself in " Holbrook's 

 Pool," somewhere in the vicinity. The gravestone bearing her 

 name was taken by one Isaac Warren and used for a mantel- 

 piece. The bones were taken to Mr. Robert Boden, surgeon, 

 at Smalley. 



* One of the timbers of the upper wooden structure on the left of the entrance 

 withm has the date " 1595 " formed with the heads of nails securely driven into 

 the oak. The mill was standintj, though somewhat the worse for wear, about 

 three years ago, and it may be still. 



