THE CHURCH OF ST. HELEN'S, DARLEY DALE. 2j 



other, wilh an escutcheon between them. Below them in bas- 

 relief are representations of eight daughters of different sizes 

 opposite to three sons. Three of the daughters and one of the 

 sons are represented as holding skulls in their hands, indicating, 

 we suppose, their decease at the time the monument was 

 erected. At' the foot of the monument are two tablets, one 

 of them being blank, and the other bearing the following- 

 inscription : — " To the pious memory of Anne Millward, 

 daughter of James Whitehalgh, of Whitehalgh, in the county 

 of .Stafford, gent., and wife of John Millward, of Snitterton, Esq., 

 who had issue by her, three sons and eight daughters. She 

 departed this life the 20 of June, in the yeare of our Lord 1658. 

 The 49 year of her age." The arms on the monument are : — 

 Erm., on a fesse, git., three plates (Milward), impaling arg. a 

 fesse chequy, git. and sa., between three helmets, proper 

 (Whitehalgh). During the repairs of 1885 a slab came to light 

 under the altar steps, on which was a brass plate recording 

 that John, eldest son of John Milward, of Snitterton, married, 

 for his second wife, Joyce, younger daughter of Henry 

 Sacheverell of Morley, and died October 3rd, 1669. The 

 rector removed the tablet, and, thoughtfully, had it fixed on a 

 blank space which was left by the side of his mother's inscrip- 

 tion on the base of the large monument. 



The manor of Snitterton, in this parish, was originally held 

 by a family of that name, whose heiress was married to William 

 Sacheverell, of Ible, in the time of Henry VI. The Sacheverells 

 held it for several generations, but it passed early in the seven- 

 teenth century to a younger branch of the Milwards, of Eaton 

 Dovedale, six generations of whom are mentioned in the 

 Visitation in 161 1. John Milward died in 1670, and his 

 surviving male issue in 1681, when his eldest ultimate co-heiress, 

 Felicia, brought a moiety of the manor of Snitterton, including 

 the ancient manor house, to her husband, Charles Adderley, 

 who sold it to Henry Feme. 



There was formerly a chapel at Snitterton, but all traces of 

 it are now lost, and whether it was attached to the manor 



