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Cheshire, whose daughter married, first, Mr. Peach, and secondly, 

 Mr. Cheney ; (2) Dorothy, who married; first, Mr. Warden, and 

 secondly, Mr. Hodgkinson ; and (3) Susanna, who married Mr. 

 Lord, of Little Chester, and who was the executrix of her father, 

 Thomas Meynell, the rector of Langley. 



The father of the late Mr. Meynell was buried in the chancel, 

 by order of his father, Thomas Meynell, but as the father himself 

 died in the autumn following, the son's widow removed the body 

 of her husband to the choir, where it now lies. Thomas Meynell 

 wished the chancel to be the burial-place, but the late Mr. 

 Godfrey Meynell was laid by his father, Godfrey, in the choir, 

 nearly under the monument since erected to Mr Cheney and his 

 wives ; in the same place were buried two other children of his 

 father who died young. 



KIRK LANGLEY. 



With regard to the manor of Kirk Langley, this at the Conquest 

 belonged to Ralf Fitz Hugh, as one entire place. It then passed, 

 in the time of Henry III. (1218), to Ralf Fitz Nicholas; then to 

 the Pipards of Oxfordshire, who, I think, assumed the name of 

 Twyford. In the time of Edward II. (circa 1264) it was possessed 

 by a Twyford, for Dugdale in his History of Warwickshire (page 36) 

 says that Sir John de Twyford made his residence at Stretton 

 Baskerville, County Warwick, though Kirk Langley in Derbyshire 

 was his ancient residence; this was the 17th Edward II., and in 

 the year 1302, and it was then called their ancient residence. 



At what period they first settled here I do not find. It appears 

 that Henry Pole, of Whittington, son of Peter Pole, of Heage, 

 married a daughter of Twyford, probably the daughter or sister Of 

 Thomas Twyford, who died in 1523, and whose monumental in- 

 scription will be hereafter given. 



I find by an ancient deed, anno 3 Henry IV., 1446, that Robert 

 de Twyford was then Lord of Kirk Langley : — 



Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego William Dethic Miles dedi Roberto de 

 Twyford domino de Langley, Rado ftatri ejus, Johanni de Garforth, Thome 

 de Dethic, filiis meis, omnes terras etc in villa de Raddeburne praeter terras 

 quasdam Johannis Annesty et Isabel uxoris ejus anno 3rd Henry 4th. 



