Chap. 6.] OLD HALLS, &c. 151 



in Staffordshire, and from thence, after a year and a half, proceeded 

 to St. Edmund's College, Old Hall Green, co. Herts. Shortly after the 

 English College at Rome was re-opened under the rectorship of Dr. 

 Gradwell, Mr. Eccles was admitted a student in 1820. Here he dis- 

 tinguished himself as a medallist among a body of students embracing 

 names identified with the history of Catholicity in England during the 

 first half of this century — Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop Errington, 

 Bishops Baggs and Sliarples, Dr. Rock, and others. He was ordained 

 priest in 1825, and on presenting himself to Bishop Pojiiter was 

 appointed to the temporary charge of Weston Underwood, where, in 

 the event, he spent the remaining fifty-eight years of his life. 



" Wlien Northampton was elevated to an episcopal see, after the 

 re-establishment of the Hierarchy in 1850, one of the first appointments 

 to Chapter was the pastor of Weston Underwood, and on the death of 

 its first Provost he was nominated by the Holy See to the vacant ofiice. 

 This was not the first time his name had been brought under the notice 

 of Rome, for when he published his work on ' Justification,' the 

 honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon him on the recommenda- 

 tion of Bishop Amhurst. 



" At the age of 71 he rehnquished the pastoral charge, and two-and- 

 a-half years before his death he became so feeble that he was unable 

 to rise from his bed. He died on July 10, 1884, aged 84. 



"Weston Underwood, Newport PagneU, co. Bucks, was formerly a 

 chaplaincy to the familj- of Throckmorton." — (Gillow's Biblio. Diet., 

 vol ii.) 



Robert Dewhirst. = Katherine, dau. Sir Richard 

 I Houghton, of Houghton. 



John Dewhirst, natus 1603, = Anne, dau. Ralph Walkden. 

 vixit 1665. j 



Robert Dewhirst, natus 1637. = Frances, dau. Edward Wood, 



of Claytou. 

 (Had issue one daughter.) 



