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beautiful lead work in pipes and pipe-heads from the Prebendal 

 House at Winchester, and also some plainer examples from Sher- 

 borne, Dorset, and from Claverton, Somerset ; but we think it 

 may again be safely repeated that there is no other place in Eng- 

 land that can be compared in this respect with our famed Derby- 

 shire Haddon. 



At Chaddesden Hall there are two downcast leaden pipes, with 

 the lion and unicorn on the cistern heads, and the letters r v j. There 

 are also devices, such as a pelican and a cock, on the joints of 

 the pipes. The initials obviously refer to Robert Wilmot, father 

 of the first baronet, who married Joyce, daughter and co-heiress 

 of William Sacheverell, of Morley. He rebuilt Chaddesden Hall 

 early in the reign of Queen Anne. 



The finest leaden pipes and cistern 

 heads of the time of Queen Anne 

 that are in the county of Derby, are 

 to be found against the little church 

 of Trusley. It was rebuilt by Mr. 

 William Coke, and opened on Aug. 

 6th, 1 7 13. The zincotype gives so 

 good an idea of the massive, well- 

 moulded head and wall fasteners of 

 these pipes that detailed description 

 is unnecessary. The engraving repre- 

 sents one close to the south entrance. 

 The arms are those of Coke, of 

 Trusley {gules, 3 crescents and a 

 canton, or) impaling Ballidon (argent, 

 2 bars, vert, each charged with 3 

 cross-crosslets, or). William Coke, 

 of Trusley, the only son of Robert 

 Coke, was born in 1679. He mar- 

 ried his first cousin, Catherine, 

 daughter and heiress of Paul Ballidon, of Derby, in 1693. He 

 was at that time only 13 years of age, whilst his bride was more 

 than double his age, being 29. They had a son born to them in 

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