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qui olierunt, Me sixto die Aprllis, Ann DoWi. 1589; ilia quinto 

 Septembris Ann Dom 1582. Sobolem post se relinquentes filios tres, 

 filiasque quinque, quorum animas cum jmtis remanere speram. Jokes 

 duxit Margaret Forde, Egerton celebs mor. Radus duxit Aliciam 

 Leighe. Maria nupt Ambro Arden. Anna nupt Jacob Gibson. 

 Marga nupt Tlio Smith. Eliza nupt Rico Foxe. Felix nupt Rico 

 Hilders^ 



Horton Hall, of which I give a view in the accompanying 

 engraving., as having been in somewise connected with the 

 Wedgwoods and their alliances, is a handsome Elizabethan 

 building, belonging to the family of Fowler, of Leek and 

 Horton. The whole of the manor of Horton appears to 

 have belonged, by descent and purchase, to John Wedgwood, 

 who, by will, dated July 29th, 1749, left his real estates to 

 Phoebe Hollins, wife of Brooke Boothby, and the manor of 

 Horton was sold in 1 796 by Sir Brooke Boothby to Thomas 

 Harding, from whom it has passed by purchase to the 

 Antrobus family. The house at Harracles, still standing, is 

 a picturesque and interesting building. 



The alliance of the Wedgwoods with the De Burslem 

 family, to which I have alluded, took place in the persons of 



