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door of which are the figures of a trout, and also 

 a grayling, well portrayed." 



The Beresford family trace from John 

 Beresford, of Beresford, in the Parish of Alston- 

 field, in the County of Stafi'ord, in 1087, and 

 from him the descent has continued to the 

 present time (Glover's Derbyshire, and Lyson's 

 Derbyshire). 



The bulk of the Beresford Estates were sold in 

 the year 1681, but conveyed back that year into the 

 family by John Beresford, of Newton Grange, in 

 Derbyshire. A portion of these estates, including 

 the fishing-house, was sold in 1825 to Viscount 

 Beresford, and shortly after that date the fishing- 

 house was repaired, and its appearance now 

 corresponds externally with the earliest descrip- 

 tions and pictures known of it. In the reign 

 of King Henry VI. a younger branch of the 

 Beresfords settled at Fenny Bentley, about two 

 miles north of Ashbourne, and the Manor was 

 held by the family for many generations. In the 

 chancel of the church are various monuments, 

 erected to members of the family, including one 

 of particular interest to Thomas Beresford, who 

 raised a troop of horse consisting only of his own 

 sons and retainers to fight for Henry VI. in his 

 French wars.^ The present head of the house 



^ The monument consists of a square alabaster altar-tomb -with 

 figurea of two bodies enveloped in shrouds, and upon the sides twenty- 



