STAMFORD AND CROMPTON FAMILIES. 213 



year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-two, 

 by me, 



" JOSH. "WINTEE. Min r . 

 " This marriage was solemnised between us, 



" THOMAS BENTLEY. 

 "MAEY STAMTOED. 

 " In the presence of 

 " THOMAS STAMFORD, 

 "MAETHA STAMFOED." 



The Stamfords were a family of considerable standing 

 in Derby, and the half-brother of Mrs. Bentley, Thomas 

 Stamford the younger, was mayor of that borough in 1769. 

 Thomas Stamford, the father of Mrs. Bentley, was twice 

 married, she being the issue of the second marriage. His 

 son Thomas was also twice married ; by his first wife he had 

 no children, but by his second who was Sarah, the eldest 

 daughter of John Crompton, of Chorley Hall, of the wide- 

 spread and prosperous family of Crompton, to which Samuel 

 Crompton, " the inventor," Sir Charles Crompton, the 

 present respected judge, and the families still resident in 

 Derby, in Lancashire, arid in Yorkshire, belong he had two 

 daughters, one of whom was married to James Caldwell, 

 Esq., of Linley Wood, Staffordshire, and was the mother of 

 the gifted and popular authoress of " Emilia Wyndham," 

 and many other works Mrs. Marsh Caldwell. 



In 1773 Messrs. Wedgwood and Bentley, whose London 

 warehouse was in Great Newport Street, issued their first 

 catalogue of goods ; and as this edition is of excessive rarity, 

 I transcribe its title-page in full for the purpose of com- 

 paring it later on with succeeding editions. It is called 



" A Catalogue of Cameos, Intaglios, Medals, and Bas-reliefs, with 

 a general account of Yases and other ornaments after the antique ; 

 made by "Wedgwood and Bentley, and sold at their rooms in Great 

 Newport Street, London. 



" ' Quoniam et sic gentes nobilitantur.' 



" PLIN., lib. xxxv., De vasis fatilibus. 



" London : printed in the year MDCCLXXIII., and sold by Cadel, in 

 the Strand; Eobson, New Bond Street; and Parker, printseller, 

 Cornhill." 



