54 THE MANORS OF KIRK LANGLEY AND MEYNELL LANGLEY. 



and secondly to William, Earl, and afterwards Duke, of Newcastle. 

 On the restoration the Earl of Newcastle presented to this rectory. 

 In the eighteenth century the advowson and next presentation 

 were repeatedly sold ; but during the present century it has been 

 in the gift of the Meynells, of Meynell Langley." 



& Visit to llctibgsfjire in 1630. 



AMONGST the Harleian manuscripts is preserved the note- 

 book of Justinian Pagett, Esq., a lawyer. It is headed : — 

 " Remarkable things wh. I observed in my journey thro' Warwick- 

 shire, Darbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire, Flintshire, etc., 

 Anno 1630." 



The part relating to Derbyshire is very brief, and is as follows :— 

 " In Darbyshire we went into poole hole, a vast hollow rock, 

 wherein are several roomes, as it were, one on th' other. 



1. A river's head is heere. 



2. Stone hanging like icesickles, like a flitch of bacon etc. 



3. The Q. of Scott's pillars. 



4. Picture of a Lyon. 



In the town of Buxtons we saw a pretty little brick house where 

 in a lowe roome is a bath with 7 springs, 6 of them being hot, and 

 the seventh cold, so that with a span you may lay your thumb on 

 a hott spring, and your little finger on the cold. From hence we 

 went thro' Castleton, where we saw the ruin'd castle and the 

 great hoale called the Divillsarse. From thence to Mantaur, a 

 high hill at one ende whereof the earth doth run doune con- 

 tinually like unto the sinking and gliding of sand in the lower 

 part of an hower glasse. From hence to a well neere a town call'd 

 Tideswell, wh. ebbs and flows sometimes 3 or 4 times a. day, and 

 from hence we went to Darby and Nottingham." 



