Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume 32 |
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Page 23 - I to the Church the living call, and to the grave do summon all, AR 1728.
Page 85 - One has the principal figure represented without a head. In the churchyard is a cross on a sculptured pedestal, on which is represented a hare and hounds. 1893. One of the carved finials of the canopy moulding, which surmounts the west window of the porch, shows a rose enclosing two heads. This is supposed to represent the union of the Houses of York and Lancaster under Henry VII., at the conclusion of the Wars of the Roses, and thus to determine the date of that part of the building. On the tower...
Page 40 - ... straw into the grave, which was not far from the house, and went and laid him down in the said grave, and caused clothes to be laid upon him, and so departed out of this world. This he did because he was a strong man, and heavier than his said nephew and a serving-wench were able to bury. He died about the 24th of August. Thus was I credibly told he did, 1625.
Page 86 - Panis enim Dei est qui de caelo descendit, et dat vitam mundo. For the use of Gawsworth Church Easter day April 16 1843 ;" small paten, old but no date, " Verba quae ego loquor spiritus sunt et vita;" small chalice, same date, " Caro non prodest quicquam, spiritus est qui vivificat;" large chalice, " IHS The gift of Wm Hall, AM, Reef of Gawsworth, 1763.
Page 91 - ... Cheshire. We visited Macclesfield, but I forgot its factories, its ribbons and sarcenets, silks and satins and velvets because of the valiant Leghs. Two of them sleep in the old church of St. Michael, under a brass that states in a stanza ending as abruptly as human life itself : "Here lyeth the body of Perkin a Legh That for King Richard the death did die, Betray'd for righteousness; And the bones of Sir Peers his sone, That with King Henrie the fift did wonne In Paris.
Page 116 - Wigan)." A marble tablet has inscribed : " Underneath lyeth the body of Michael Heathcote, Esquire, gentleman of the Pantry, and Yeoman of the Mouth to His late Majesty King George the second, who died June the 22nd, 1768, aged 75 years.
Page 84 - In the chapel at the east end of the south aisle is the pew of Lord Stanley of Alderley.
Page 40 - ... dep'ted out of this world ; this he did because he was a strong man, and heavier than his said nefew and another wench were able to...