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taxes payable to the Crown within the franchise of 

 Wenlock. Thomas Smallman, of Elton, co. Harford, 

 and Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, afterwards a Welsh 

 judge, purchased the manor of Wilderhope, Stanway, and 

 the teg and estates, and had a numerous grant of arms, 

 5th October, 1589. Major Thomas Smallman, a staunch 

 royalist, born 1624, compounded for his estate £140. 



Underneath this bold projecting headland, sometimes 

 called "Ipikin's Rock," is Ipikin's Cave, an excavation 

 very difficult of approach, where tradition alleges a bold 

 outlaw long concealed himself and his horse, and from 

 which he issued to make some predatory excursion. 



The term hopCj both as a prefix and termination, is of 

 such frequent occurrence here that it is only natural to 

 suppose that it has some special signification ; and looking 

 at the positions of Vxesihope, East/io^e, Millic/io^j^, Middle- 

 liope, WA^exhope, Hopessbj, and Hojje Bowdler, that sig- 

 nification appears to be a recess, or place remote between 

 the hills. Easthope is a rural little village about two 

 miles beyond Ipikin's Rock, pleasantly situated in one of 

 these long natural troughs which follow the direction of 

 Wenlock Edge. 



It appears to have been within the Long Forest, and is 

 mentioned in Domesday as being held in Saxon times by 

 Eruni and Uluric ; it was afterwards held by Edric de 

 Esthop, and others of the same name. There was a 

 church here as early as 1240, and in the graveyard, be- 

 tween two ancient yews, are two tombs, without either 

 date or inscription, in which two monks connected with 



