74 THE WEDGWOODS. 



family of Venables, of whom Dray ton, in his " Battle of 

 Blore Heath," wrote 



" There Button Button kills ; a Done doth kill a Done ; 

 A Booth a Booth ; a Leigh by Leigh is overthrowne : 

 A Venables against a Venables doth stand, 

 And Troutbeck fighteth with a Troutbeck hand to hand j 

 There Molineux doth make a Molineux to die : 

 And Egerton the strength of Egerton doth trie. 

 Cheshire, wert thou mad P of thine owne native gore 

 So much untill this day thou never shedst before." 



This lady died in 1784, without issue.* The second daughter, 

 Susanna, married John Fenton, of Newcastle, nephew of 

 Elijah Fenton, the poet, of the old Staffordshire family of 

 Fenton and Shelton, and had one daughter, Susannah 

 Fenton, married to John Daniel, of Daresbury, and died 

 without issue in 1770. The third daughter, Dorothy Wedg- 

 wood, married Dr. John Addenbroke, Dean of Lichfield and 

 Rector of Sudbury, and died without issue in 1772 The 

 Dean and his lady were both buried in Sudbury Church, 

 where a tablet bearing the following inscription is erected 

 to their memory : 



"Here lie the bodies of the Eev. Dr. Addenbroke, Dean of 

 Lichfield and Rector of this Parish, who died Feb. 25, 1776, aged 

 64 ; and Dorothy his wife, 3rd daughter of John Wedgwood, of 

 Harracles, Co. Stafford, Esq., who died March 27, 1772, aged 64. 



The estate at Harracles, by the death of these three co- 

 heiresses, passed as before indicated, to the Boothbys, from 

 whom, by sale, it passed through the hands of Mills and 

 Cave to Davenport. 



In Horton Church is a monumental brass to John Wed"-- 



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wood, bearing the arms of Wedgwood with Egerton, arid 

 other quarterings, and figures of the deceased, his wife, and 

 children. The inscription is : 



" Hicjacent sepult corpora Joins Wedgwood, de Haracles, armigeri, 

 ei Marie uxoris ejics, filie Thomce Egerton^ de Walgrange, armigeri^ 



* For a part of this information I am indebted to my friend Mr. 

 Sleigh, the historian of Leek. 



