gINNINGTON. 



died 1643, unmarried, and somewhere about that 

 time the estate must have passed into the hands of 

 the Lumleys ; for Elizabeth viscountess Luroley, 

 who possessed the estates at Sinnington, Marton 

 great and little Edston, Thornton, Farmanby, 

 &e , directed by her deed-poll, dated October 8 

 1657, that those estates should be sold, to form a 

 fund for the erection and support of a grammar- 

 school and hospitals, &c. at Thornton and elsewhere^ 

 In obedience to this direction the estates were sold. 

 Those of Sinnington, Marton, both Edstones, Sal- 

 ton, Brawby, and Barugh, were purchased by the 

 Bennetts, opulent merchants in London. By the 

 marriage of Frances, youngest daughter, (and sub- 

 sequently heiress) of Simon Bennett, of Culverton, 

 and Beckhampton, county of Bucks , (who died in 

 1682,) with James, earl of Salisbury, they became 

 his property, and remained in the possession of that 

 noble family, until the year 1 796 ; when they were 

 sold by the late marquis, fourth in descent from the 

 earls above-named, to Messrs. Elam, Leatharo, and 

 Dowker : who immediately disposed of the same 



Laus Deo 



Sacred marble safely keep 

 His dust, who under thee must sleep, 

 Until the years again restore 

 Their dead, and time shall be no more. 

 Meaue while, if He (which all things wears) 

 Does ruin thee ; or if thy tears 

 Are shed for him : dissolve thy frame 

 Thou art requited ; for his fame, 

 His vertue and his worth shall be 

 Another monument to thee. 



G. HERBERT* 

 VideDug.Bar.il; p. 416, 



