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“‘ But that a church existed here at a 
periud somewhat earlier, is evident from 
Pope Nicholas’s Taxation, made in the 
year 2294, where ‘‘Ecclia b’e Marie 
Macdalen.de Bermundeseie,” stands at 
the value of eight marks; at which time 
3t paid a pension of two marks to the 
convent.* The edifce was, no doubt, 
founded by the monks. In the reign of 
Henry VIII. 1519, it received the acces- 
sion of a.turret; and 1n 1610, of a south 
aisle: but toward the close of the seven- 
teenth century, became so dilapidated, 
as to reguire taking down.f 
“ The present, structure of brick co- 
vered with plaister, consists of a chancel, 
nave, and two aisles, enlightened by a 
single series of arched windows. At the 
west end Is, a towes, square.at the lower 
part, but ending in a kind, of dome, 
crowned with a ‘turret. The, whole 
length of the church, 1s, seventy-six feet, 
and the height of the steeple eighty- 
seven. 
“ The monumentalinscriptions, which 
are neither numerous or particularly cu- 
yious, are modern, That of Jeremialr 
Whitaker, an eminent puritan, who died 
rector of the parish in 1654, is perhaps 
the most remarkable. 
“The advowson of the rectory con- 
tinved with the neighbouring. monks till 
the dissolution of their monastery, in the 
29th of Henry VUE. when it was granted, 
with thescite of the Abbey,to Sir Robert: 
Southwell.{ Since that: period it has’ 
undergone the same alienations with the 
manor, and:is now in the patronage of 
Mrs. Hamblay. Tn tlie king’s books, the 
living stands at fifteen pounds eight shil. 
Jings and eleven-pence bhalf-penny. 
* The rectors since 1700, have been: 
1724. William Taswell, D.D. 
41727. Witiiam Browning, M.A. 
1740. John Paget, M.A. 
1745. Peter Pinnel, D.D, 
1777. Thomas Hambly, 8.C.L. 
1892. Henry Cox Mason.” 
In a former Supplement we detailed 
the plan of Messrs. Danzrat and SAMUEL 
Ly-ons’s “ Mugna, Britannia.” We have 
nos, to report their progress in.the pub- 
lication of the second. part of Vol. IT. 
containing a concise topographical de- 
seription of “tke County Puiatine of Ches- 
ter.” The foilowing are, the subjects of 
* MS. in. the King’s Remembr. Office. 
+ Aubrey’s Hist. of Surry, vol, v. 
p- 42, 43. 
~ See Manning’s Hist. Surry, vel. i. 
p. 186. Lysons’s Env. of Lond. vol, i. p. 549, 
Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Topography. 
the early sections:—1. Ancient Inhabi 
tants and Government; 2. Historical 
Events; 3. Ancient aud modern Division 
of Cheshire; 4. Ecclesiastical Jurisdic- 
tion and Division; 5. Monasteries, Col- 
leges, and Hospitals; 6. Market-iowns; 
7. Population; 8. Principal Land-own- 
ers; 9. Nobiity of the County, and 
Places which have given ‘Title to any 
Branch of the Peerage; 10. Noblemen’s 
Seats; 11. Baroneis extinct and existing; 
12. Seats of Baronets; 13. Ancient Fa- 
milies extinct and existing; 14. Geogra- 
phical and Geological Descriptions of the 
County; 15. Produce; 16. Natural His- 
tory; 17. Minerai Springs; 18. Rivers; 
19. Canals; 20. Roads; 21. Mannfac- 
tures. Under the general head of “* Ante- 
quities,” we have, 22. Roman Antiqui= 
ties; 23. British’and Roman Roads, and 
Roman’ Stations; 24. Ancient Church 
Architecture; 25 Adcient Painted Glass; 
26. Rood Lofts, screens, &c.; 27, Fouts; 
28. Stone Stalls and “Piscine; 29. An- 
cient Sepuichral Monuments; $0..Mo- 
nastic Remains; 31. Casties and Sites of 
Casiies; $2. Ancient Mansion Houses ; 
33. Ancient Crosses; 34.~Camps and 
Earth-works; 35, Miscellaneous, Anti- 
guities; 36. Custoins. Of these the 
most valuable seem the thirteenth, the 
twenty-second, the twenty-ninth, thirty- 
second, and thirty-third. The section 
entitled Ancient Families extinet and, 
existing,” is a. most curious and elabo-= 
rate memoir. The “ Parochial Topogra- 
phy,” which follows the preliminary sec-. 
tion, Is opened with a concise account of 
all that has been written on the subject - 
of Cheshire, 
“The only part of Cheshire, (Messrs. 
Lysons observe,) of which we have any 
regular history, 1s the hundred of Buck-= 
‘low, written by Sir Peter Leycester, who 
has, with much industry, and apparent 
accuracy, traced the history of property 
and families in that district, from a very 
early period down to the year 1666, and 
10 some Instances a few years later: the 
‘work was published in 1673. Dr. Gower, 
1D his Skeich of the Materials fora His-- 
tory of Cheshire, of which we shall make 
more particular mention, says that it 
had been asserted, that Sir Peter col- 
lected for all the hundreds: his own opi- 
nion,” he tells us, ‘*was, that he did 
not collect for them professedly, but 
that the manascripts which had been 
submitted by Lady Leicester to his care, 
related to, and extended over, the whule 
cquaty; containing a prodigious fund of 
very valuable iniormation, ‘Through the 
indulgence 
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