HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 87 



stock, vestments, albes, altar clothes, with other things belonging 

 to his private chapel in Longdon."* 



The Stony wells continued to reside here for several ages : the 

 ancient mansion is now destroyed, and a modern brick farm-house 

 built for the use of the tenant. 



Liswis-Hall was originally the property of an ancient family of 

 the name of Liswis, the first record of whom is an old deed, without 

 date. In the time of Henry III. Roger de Lisewis held a sixth 

 part of a Knight's fee in Longdon, of the barony of the Bishop of 

 Chester. " In 1356, William de Lysweys de Longdon, granted to 

 his son Richard, and Margaret his wife, in frank marriage at the 

 church door, all his lands, tenements, rents, and services, &c. in 

 Longdon, and all his demesne there, with suit of court, amercements, 

 wards, marriages, reliefs, &c. belonging to that manor, and all the 

 liberty in the forest of Cannock, granted to his ancestors, rendering 

 to the said William, during his life, one mark of silver ."f 



Richard Leswys left a daughter and heiress, Margaret, who car- 

 ried this estate in marriage to John Legydd, with whose daughter 

 it devolved to James Arblaster. In this family the estate continued 

 till 1769, when Edward Arblaster, of Over Stonall, sold it to 

 Francis Cobb, Esq. of Lichfield. Liswis-hall is a neat mansion, of 

 brick, faced with stone, at a convenient distance from the turnpike- 

 road, with a lawn and meadow in front, through which a serpentine 

 river glides within its banks. 



Hunch-Hall is situated on the turnpike-road leading from Lich- 

 field to Abbot's Bromley, and about a mile east of Longdon-green. 

 This ancient mansion was built in the reign of Edward I. by one of 

 the Astons, of Hay wood, and was the residence of his successors for 

 several generations. It afterwards came into the possession of a 

 family of the name of Orme, the first of whom, William Orme, of 

 Hanch-hall, married Grace, daughter of Nicholas Hurt, of Casterne, 

 in this county. On his demise, in 1623, his son William succeeded 

 to the estate, and suffered greatly for his loyalty to Charles I. 

 during the Civil war. 



" William Orme, of Longdon, gent, to settle the tithes of Upper 

 Mayfield, of the value of <36. per annum for ever, upon such place 

 as the Parliament shall appoint, for which he is allowed <360. so 

 his fine of cl,39.5. is reduced to <1035. Yet afterwards, upon 



* Athene, Vol. I. p. 680. 

 f Dr. Wilkes's Antiquities of Staffordshire. 



