54 BASSANO S CHURCH NOTES. 



Thomas Blore, the historian of Wingfield Manor, and of Rutland- 

 shire, and who, had Derbyshire men of his date been sensible 

 enough to appreciate his learned works, would, doubtless, have 

 been the historian of the county. 



Thomas I51ore apparently did not know much about the author, 

 but he recorded the fact that he believed it was part of a collection 

 by one Brailsford. Subsequently, I found loose, amongst the 

 Dakeyne MSS., a large number of sheets in the same hand- 

 writing, and Mr. Cannon, having with great kindness allowed me 

 to carry them off, I have sorted and arranged them, and now they 

 form a most valuable volume in the Dakeyne Collection, com- 

 pared to which the copy in the Heralds' College is of comparatively 

 small importance. 



I make no doubt of this, because amongst them are little notes 

 relating to the writer, which indicate from internal evidence, that 

 they were made at the time of the compilation, and, besides this, 

 the information is much more explicit than that contained in the 

 Bassano volume, which is simply an abstract of the contents, such 

 as a mere painter would require for his work ; but these notes 

 make us acquainted with the author, and we feel that he was a 

 good and kindly man. His handwriting is that of a past age in 

 the time of Charles II., and is probably that of the time of 

 James I., retained by one who was a stickler for old forms. 

 There is a note under Matlock which gives the writer's age 

 approximately. He writes — " I well remember Mr. William 

 Woolley, of Riber ; my first acquaintance with him was when I 

 was about twenty years old, in the time of the grand Rebellion, who 

 had the character of an honest worthy gentleman ; his hospitality 

 and charity, his keeping of a pack of hounds for his own pleasure, 

 and of giving thereby a sociable entertainment to his neighbouring 

 gentlemen that loved that recreation, was well deserving. I never 

 heard that he married. Anthony Woolley was his brother and 

 next heir." 



The writer records the burial of an Anthony Woolley. A note 

 to the account of the monument of Sir John Stanhope at Elvaston 

 would indicate that his admiration of the grand rebellion was of a 



