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ed in a mantle and hood, which reclines upon her shoulders, with her hands over her breast in the attitude of devotion. From the mouth of each figure a label has proceeded, on which was probably a Latin sentence, or some pious ejaculation. At the head and feet of both, has been shields, containing the armorial bearings of the knight and his lady; all these subjects have been enclosed within a narrow marginal brass round the stone, on which an inscription has been engraved; but all have disappeared, except the lady, and the fragments of the knight.

Among the numerous monumental inscriptions for the Chetham family, with which the chantry of St. Mary exclusively abounds, not one memorial is to be found of HUMPHREY CHETHAM, ESQ. the great benefactor, and founder of the Blue Coat Hospital, in Manchester, which of itself is a monument, certainly "more durable than those of brass or marble, and more honourable than pompous inscriptions." Still we think, his collateral descendants, in gratitude for the bountiful fortunes he bestowed upon them, ought to have erected over his departed manes, some tribute of respect, in grateful remembrance of such munificent favours. But, perhaps after all, they might possibly have taken umbrage at his liberal provision for the destitute orphan, and the offspring of the poor, and therefore speedily forgot their noble relation. But what they have neglected to do, and it was what they ought to have done, had it only been an humble record of the date of his death, we shall here supply their deficiency from an authentic source. In the Collegiate Registers we find the following entries of this benevolent individual. Humphrey Chetam, off Chetam, departed this life about eight o'clock upon Tuesday, at night y 20th September 1653." And twenty-one days afterwards, we find the entry of his burial," October 12th, 1653, Humphrey Chetam, of Clayton, Esquire." From the latter entry, it may be concluded that he breathed his last, at the manor-house of Clayton, a portion of which still exists, partially surrounded by a moat but the mansion of Crumpsall, which was a fine old structure of timber and plaster, where tradition says he drew his first breath, was about half a dozen years ago razed to the ground, and the site on which it stood is now nearly forgotten.

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PRINTED BY JOHN STARK, EDINBURGH.

HOR. Carm. lib. iii. Ode ult.

APPENDIX

TO THE

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH.

Page 217.

By implicitly following Dugdale, Blore, and other authorities, we have been led into an error in the pedigree of DE GRELLEY. Since that genealogy was printed, we have discovered that Peter de Grelley, who is there stated to be the grandfather of Joan, the heiress of that ancient family, was not her grandfather, but her grandfather's brother, and was in holy orders, and rector of the church of Manchester. At Winchester assizes, 52 Hen. III. (1268), Peter de Grelley, who in the record is stiled, "custos eccl'iæ de Maincestr'," (warden, rector, or parson of the church of Manchester,) "for himself, his heirs, and assigns, settled the manor of Pirton, in Oxfordshire, with all its appurtenances, on Philip Basset, until Robert, son of Robert, eldest son of Thomas de Grelley, which Robert is the lawful heir of the said Thomas, then lately deceased, should attain his full age; and on whom, as being the right heir, the manor shall devolve, &c."-See Abbreviatio Placitorum, Rot. 1, Vol. 1, p. 172.

There were also two Thomas de Grelleys, father and son, who succeeded each other: the Inq. p. m., taken on the one was in 38 H. 3, and on the other in 55 H. 3.

The latter descents of the DE GRELLEY pedigree, therefore, ought to stand thus:

Page 236.

On the south side of the church was formerly the following Epitaph (not now to be found) for "Edmund Walker, Parish Clerk of the Collegiate Church of Manchester, buryed May 11th, 1708, in the 41st year of his age. A virtuous lover of ingenious arts

All may admire, few equal are his parts."

Upon the same stone was also another Epitaph for "Abigail Walker, Midwife, mother of the foremenconed Edmund Walker, buryed Nov. 7, 1703.*

Help to the Great, the Poors redress,

Her artful hands bless'd with success."

The aforesaid Edmund Walker had a son Thomas, who was an ingenious man, and has left us a curious volume of Poems in MS., containing 252 pages in quarto, which is dated in 1712, and was in the possession of the late Mr. William Ford. He calls it his "Book of Missellanies." Many of them are selections from Shirley, Quarles, Radcliffe, Withers, Dudley Lord North, &c., and others of our early Poets, now of considerable rarity; but the greatest part are original Poems by himself, which evince no mean talent, and prove him also to have been a good Latin scholar, several of them being translations from that language. In the volume is preserved a very curious Epitaph on that great and good man HUMPHRY CHETHAM, ESQ., "per my Reverend Grandfather Thomas Jackson." Among them is likewise preserved a drawing of the head of WARDEN WROE, finely executed in Indian ink, who appears from internal evidence to have been his patron, and to have befriended him on some occasion, which, no doubt, has led to the grateful preservation of his portrait among his collections.

Page 238.

The stone which once covered the remains of Maria Chadwick, mentioned at p. 237, and those of Ashton of Chadderton, p. 241, and Egerton of Shaw, p. 242, were in the autumn of 1831 removed from the church-yard, and carefully deposited beneath the boarding of the new registry in Byrom's chantry, to preserve them from further delapidation.

Page 240.

When the tomb which commemorates the Ethelstone family was taken down, in the autumn of 1831, in order to elevate it above the accumulated earth, we found that it had been constructed on two transverse gravestones which had covered the remains of a family named Leeds, whose parent was a physician, and resided in Salford sometime previous to his death.

One stone is thus inscribed :

"Martha wife to John Leeds, of Manchester, bur jan. 17, 1682, & 25th yeare of their Marriage, & 46 year of her Age, Who Bare to him 3 Sons & 4 Daughters Which 4 Were Burd here.

"Henry Leeds of Manchester Tallow Chandler, bur. Jan. 3, 1675.

John Leeds son to the said Henry Leeds, bur. jun. 24, 1691.”

Of the numerous issue of Mr. Ethelstone, we believe only one daughter survived, who married 16th June, 1763, Thomas Dawson, of Ballynacliffy, in Ireland, Esq.; who, on the death of his relative Henry Lawrence, Esq., Lieutenant in the 52d regiment of Foot, in July, 1781, succeeded to considerable estates in the county of Down, and took the surname of Lawrence in addition to his own. Mrs. Lawrence did not long survive this accumulation of riches, for she died at Lawrence town, in the county of Down, on the 25th of February, 1782.

She married two husbands, both of whom were named Walker.

+ Burials.-1667, June 9, a child of John Leeds, of Manchester.-1676, May 20, Hope, daughter to John Leeds, of Manchester.-1678, Nov. 14, Martha, daughter to John Leeds, of Manchester.-1682, May 17, Sarah, daughter to John Leeds. The following appear never to have been recorded on the stone. Burials.-1695, Aug. 12, John, son of John Leeds, of Salford, Dr. of Physick.-1695, Nov. 19, John Leeds, of Salford, Dr. of Physick.-Extracts from the Collegiate Register.