ANNALS OF HORESTON AND HORSLEY. 27 



the manor and estate, including the castle, to the Sitwell family 

 about the year 181 7. 



ADDENDA. 



Philip Kinder, in his History of Derby, writes : — * 



" All y* I can find by reading or relation about this place is 

 that King James went one day a hunting into Horsley Parke, and 

 from thence in progress to Derby." 



In the 4th vol. of the Reliquary is given the following instance 

 of longevity : — 



"Frances Barton, of Horsley, Derbyshire, died in 1789, aged 

 107. She was a midwife for 80 years. Her husband for 70 years had 

 been sexton of the parish. They used to say that she had twice 

 brought into the world, and he had twice buried or taken out of 

 the world, the whole parish. It is said she well remem- 

 bered the Revolution of 1688, and that she danced at a merry 

 making on that occasion. "t 



About the year 1848, the late Mr. Sam. Else, of Horsley Park, 

 gave me a fine perforated stone hammer, which he discovered 

 with several flint celts, when making a drain below the house 

 some years before. The celts had been given to the children for 

 playthings, and had been lost for years, but the hammer had been 

 used for a "clodding mall" for 30 years, and as such I found it 

 affixed to a long handle in a corner of the cowhouse. 



" Have it, my lad ? Aye - take it and welcome " was his good 

 natured response to my petition. 



In a religious census of Derbyshire, taken in 1676, Horsley is 

 returned as having 293 conformists, with neither papists nor 

 nonconformists. % 



N.B. — The compiler of these notes is indebted to Mr. Pym 

 Yeatman's Feudal History of Derbyshire for the extracts from 

 the Pipe Rolls and from some other early documents. 



The items for the years 1226, 1287, 1307, 1322, 1324, 1328, 

 x 33°> x 345> x 375> anci 1453, have been kindly contributed by 

 the Editor. C. K. 



* Kinder's MS., Reliquary. t Derby Merettry, January 15th, 1790. 



% Journal "VII., 34. 



