Part 23

We can imagine therefore St. Plegmund paying his frequent visits to the neighbouring city, only three or four miles distant, taking up his position at one or other of its gates (for it was surrounded by its Roman walls, and though then “waste” must have had some inhabitants), and instructing out of his laboriously-acquired learning those who were willing to pause and listen to his discourse. The anxious inquirer might return with him to his island home and, after further preparation as a catechumen, receive the grace of Holy Baptism at the well above referred to. His supply of books or manuscripts would be but small. The Bible of course was his constant companion, and it has been suggested with confidence that Boethius’ _De Consolatione Philosophiæ_ would certainly be one of his treasures. This treatise was afterwards translated by King Alfred, a task in which Plegmund may have helped him. There is in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, a copy (the oldest in existence) of the Saxon Chronicle, said to have been translated by Plegmund, for which assertion there is internal evidence of an indirect nature. This, however, was probably done after he left this neighbourhood; but the fact may be taken as showing what his powers were, and what a diligent student he must have been, especially when we consider the scanty materials which would be at his service. He must have acquired some reputation for his learning, and his fame reached the ears of King Alfred, who sent for him to his Court to act as his adult tutor. There he would find Grimbald, Werefrid, Asser, and others, and with them would be associated with the monarch in the promotion of learning and in furthering the best interests of the nation.

We speak of the king as “Alfred the Great,” but then he was known as “England’s Darling.” Alfred came to the crown in 872, and died in 900. How soon after his accession he summoned Plegmund to his side to be his tutor and instructor we cannot say, but that the relations between them were very close and intimate and mutually advantageous, we can have no doubt. In the year 890 the see of Canterbury was vacant, and, having been declined by Grimbald, was offered by the King to Plegmund, a step which was received with general approbation, for the entry in the Saxon Chronicle runs thus: “This year 890 Plegmund was chosen of God and of all the people Archbishop of Canterbury.” Plegmund was consecrated at Rome by Pope Formosus, but as some doubt and discredit was thrown upon the actions of this pontiff, he paid a second visit to Rome, and was re-consecrated by Pope Stephen, thus submitting to a rite of more than questionable propriety. He cordially seconded the King in his endeavours to establish a learned priesthood. Some justification has been alleged for the fact that several sees and posts were for a time kept vacant, in the consideration that men of sufficient learning and education were not to be found for them. At anyrate Plegmund, scholar and theologian as he was, did all that lay in his power to remove the reproach which was fastening upon the Church that it had an ignorant and illiterate clergy.

In conjunction with the King, he published _The Pastoral Care_ of Gregory the Great, a copy of which was sent to every English bishop, with a noteworthy preface from the King himself, in which the sovereign acknowledged what he had “learned of Plegmund my Archbishop, and of Asser my bishop, and of Grimbald my presbyter, and of John my presbyter.” It is interesting to know that the copy addressed to Plegmund is still preserved, as well as those addressed to the Bishops of Worcester and Sherborne. It is reasonable to conclude from this that Alfred would find in _his_ Archbishop a zealous assistant in all his efforts to promote sound and religious learning, and that the two would heartily co-operate in endeavours to secure an educated clergy. Whether he ever visited the scene of his former labours, it is impossible to say; but the late Mr. Thomas Hughes, F.S.A., in a fancied description of the laying of the foundation of St. John’s, Chester, writes thus: “First there were Ethelred and Ethelfleda, the joint founders--near them might stand their Royal Ward, Athelstan, the Etheling, heir to his father’s throne. Prominent among the group would be Plegmund, the Archbishop of Canterbury, a native of Mercia, and but a few years before a modest recluse at the hermitage in that island of Chester.” We cannot give a detailed account of Plegmund’s episcopate, which lasted for twenty-four years; but we are sure that, as he assisted his royal master when at his Court and before he became Archbishop in promoting learning amongst his people, so in the higher position and with the larger opportunities he must have done the like. Himself a student, he knew the advantages of learning, and would be anxious to make them as widespread as possible.

Alfred is looked upon as the founder of the University of Oxford, or of University College, its first hall, and we can understand how in that work, in the conception as well as in the performance of it, the advice and counsel of his own tutor, Plegmund, would be most valuable. During his pontificate the West Saxon Episcopate was sub-divided, and the number of sees thereby increased, a clear indication of his vigorous and strenuous rule. In 909 on the same day no fewer than seven bishops were consecrated by Plegmund, three of them for newly-founded sees, and one of these for the extreme west in Devonshire. This was for Kirton, identified as Crediton, and it is interesting to note that the millenary of the consecration of Eadulf as the first bishop of Crediton has just been celebrated at that place. On that occasion the Bishop of Bristol (Dr. G. F. Browne), who is an eminent historian, gave a most instructive address, referring specially to the work of Plegmund, and to an earlier Saint connected with Crediton, S. Boniface. It was probably owing to that connection that Crediton was chosen as the seat of the Bishops of Devonshire, a position it retained for more than a hundred and fifty years. The Archbishop of Canterbury was also present on the occasion, and expressed the hope that the work they were doing now, the things they were now starting, and the works they were taking in hand, might give as good cause to people a thousand years hence to thank God and take courage, as was given a thousand years ago to them by Plegmund and the seven Bishops of whom they had heard that day. Plegmund died on July 23, 914, and was buried in the Cathedral of Canterbury. No likeness of him has been left, not even on the coins which bear his name. His life in Cheshire must have been singularly quiet, and yet we cannot doubt that he was thereby nerved and braced for the battle of life, and fitted for the arduous duties of the high position to which he was afterwards called.

Allusion has been made to St. Plegmund’s Well. It is interesting to know that whilst it bore this title in very early deeds, it has for generations been designated “the Christening Well,” as the water for the Font for Holy Baptism was drawn from it. Moreover, in the old churchwardens’ accounts of the parish, mention is made of an annual payment made to the clerk for cleaning out this well, and keeping it free from weeds. There was some danger of the well being overlooked, as it is very much overhung by bushes in the hedge at the back of it. The original stone work at the side and bottom had decayed. In the autumn of 1908 a new curb and back were erected at the expense of Mr. Osborne Aldis, and dedicated on November 10th, when a goodly congregation assembled, and after a short service in the church, when the story of St. Plegmund was unfolded, proceeded to the well where the dedicatory prayers were said. On the stone-work the following couplet is carved:--

“Hic fons Plegmundi functus baptismatis usu Regnante Alfredo tunc hodieque solet.”

This may be freely translated as follows:--

“Here as in days when Alfred erst was king Baptismal water flows from Plegmund’s spring.”

It is hoped that by this restoration of the well the memory of S. Plegmund may be preserved: and it is not improbable that the ceremony of dressing the well, not uncommon in the adjoining county of Derbyshire, may be adopted as a village festival on July 23rd, the day of St. Plegmund’s death.

_Note._--The preceding chapter embodies the substance of two papers by the same writer, read before Meetings of the Chester and North Wales Archæological and Historic Society.

INDEX

Abbess of Ely, St. Etheldreda, 266 Abbey, Birkenhead, 14, 34, 36 ---- Combermere, 14, 34, 35 ---- Mobberley, 14, 34 ---- Norton, 14, 34 ---- Pulton, 14, 35 ---- Runcorn, 14 ---- Stanlaw, 14, 34 ---- St. Werburgh’s, 9-13, 33, 34, 38-48 ---- Vale Royal, 14, 34, 35 Abbot’s Well, 260 _Academy of Armoury, The_, 136, 137 _Account of the Rolls of the Honour of Halton, An_, 107 Acton Church, 16 ---- Lord, 18 Adlington, 200 ---- Hall, 16, 84, 94 Aganippe’s Well, 260 Alderley Edge, Celtic legend, 252 ---- ---- farmhouse, 94 Aldford Castle, 51, 52 Alfred the Great, 272 Almshouses in Commonhall Lane, Chester, 86, 87 Alvanley, fire-worship at, 261 Ancient poaching, 108 ---- timber houses at--Adlington, 200; Baguley, 200; Bramhall, 200; Little Moreton, 200 Anselm, St., 8, 269 _Anti-Christ_, a Mystery Play, 163 Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Plegmund, 273 ---- of York, Thomas Savage, 14 Architecture of Cheshire, half-timbered, 80-99 Arley Hall, 198 Arneway, author of Mystery Plays, 148 “Articles of Surrender,” Chester, 186 Ashley Hall, 197 _Assumption, The_, a Mystery Play, 160, 163 Aston, Sir Arthur, 119 ---- Sir Thomas, 119 Audley and the Welsh raids, James, Lord, 10 ---- James, Lord, 115 ---- Lord, 13 Author of Mystery Plays--Arneway, 148; Ralf Higden, 147

Bebington Cross, 211 Baddiley Church, 67 Baguley, or Baggily Hall, 85-89, 200 Bakers’ Charter, Chester, 147 Ballads, 259 “Banes” or “Banns” of Mystery Plays, 153, 154-160 Bangor Monachorum, 220 ---- Monastery of, 4 Baptistery, Italian font in St. Werburgh’s, 45 Barlow, T. Worthington, 131 Barnston, Roger, 226 ---- William, 225 Barons of Cheshire, 8, 22 ---- wars, 11 Barron, Dr. John, 122 Barthomley Church, 16 ---- ---- alabaster effigy in, 116 Battle of Chester, 12, 220 ---- of Rowton Heath, 74, 184, 190, 191 ---- at Nantwich, 9 “Bear and Billet, The,” Chester, 97 Bell, Congleton, 254 ---- custom, Nantwich, 254 ---- Frodsham Church, 254 ---- “Pancake,” 254 Bells, some Cheshire, 254 Bellin, George, parish clerk, 150 Beeston Castle, 16, 51, 55, 182, 186, 194 ---- Sir George, 117 Bidston Court, 99 “Billy Hobby’s Well,” 260 Bird sayings, 255 Birkenhead Abbey, 14, 34-36 ---- Henry, 124 ---- Sir John, 123 Birket House, 16 Bishop Edward Stanley, 122 ---- Heber, 121 ---- of Bangor and Chester, Dr. Hugh Bellot, 121 ---- of Chester, John Bridgeman, 101 ---- Lloyd’s Palace, 75, 97 ---- Rider, 121 ---- Wilson, 121 Bishops, Cheshire, 121-122 Bishopric of Chester, 14 Blackfriars, Chester, 48 “Blessing of the Brine,” 261 Blore Heath, 13 Blundeville, Earl Randle, 23 Bohun, Earl Ranulph, 11 Bonewaldesthorne’s Tower, 73 Booth, Colonel, 186 ---- family of Dunham Massey, 116 ---- Henry, Earl of Warrington and Baron Delamere, 120 ---- of Twamlowe, John, 129 ---- Sir George, 119 ---- Sir John, 197 ---- Sir Robert, 116 ---- Sir Thomas, 119 Boundary Crosses, 208 Bow Stones Cross, 212 Bradshaw, Henry, regicide, 129 ---- ---- Monk of St. Werburgh’s, 264 Bramall Hall, 84, 89, 90 Bramhall, 200 Bravery of Cheshire men, 13 Brereton, 200 ---- legend, 253 ---- Lord, 118, 128 ---- Sir William, 117, 181, 183, 186 Brerewood, Edward, 127 Bridge, Farndon, 221 ---- Gate, Chester, 72 Bridgewater, Duke of, 204 Bromborough Cross, 210, 212 Bromhal family, 91 Brooke family, 198 ---- of Mere, family of, 63 Broome, Dr., the poet, 124, 204 Broughton Ford, 184, 186 Brownswerd, John, 123 Broxton Old Hall, 95, 96 Bruera Church, 68 Building, Elizabethan, 88 Bunbury, 16 ---- alabaster tomb, 116 Burghall, Rev. Edward, 131 Burney on miracle plays, Miss Fanny, 144 Byron, Lord, 182, 186 ---- Sir Nicholas, 181

Caer-Leon, 4 Calveley, Sir Hugh, 116 Camden’s description of Cheshire, 32 Canterbury, St. Plegmund, Archbishop of, 273 Carden Hall, 16, 95 Castle Aldford, 51-52 ---- Beeston, 16, 51, 55, 182, 186, 194 ---- Chester, 57, 60 ---- Doddington, 16 ---- Dodleston, 51-52 ---- Dunham Massey, 51, 53 ---- Frodsham, 51, 53 ---- Halton, 9, 51, 54, 106 ---- Hawarden, 182 ---- Holt, 222 ---- Maiden, 51, 52 ---- Malpas, 9, 51, 52 ---- Nantwich, 51, 52 ---- Newhall, 51, 52 ---- Northwich, 51, 53 ---- Oldcastle, 51, 52 ---- Peckforton, 196 ---- Pulford, 51, 52 ---- Rhuddlan, 24 ---- Rocksavage, 51, 54 ---- Runcorn, 51, 53 ---- Shocklach, 9, 51, 52 ---- Thelwall, 51 Capesthorn legend, 253 Cathedral, chapter-house of, 43 ---- _Misereres_ in, 41 Celtic legend, 252 ---- place-names, 7 Cenred, St. Werburgh’s brother, 267 Chadkirk Chapel, 67 Chains, hanging in, 110 Chaloner of Chester, Thomas, 133 Chamberlain of Chester, 30 Chancellors, Cheshire judges and, 124-127 Chapel, High Leigh, 67 Chapter-house of Cathedral, 43 Charles I. at Chester, 181 Charm for warts, rushes a, 239 Cheshire a land of saints, 4 ---- Prince Maurice and Prince Rupert in, 184 ---- “Rounds,” 257 ---- Saints, two, 264-276 ---- Sanctuaries, 220 ---- Saxons in, 5 Chesshyre, Sir John, 203 Chester, almshouses in Commonhall Lane, 86, 87 ---- “Articles of Surrender,” 186 ---- Battle of, 12, 220 ---- Bishopric of, 14 ---- Castle, 57-60 ---- Chamberlain of, 30 ---- Chief-Justiceship of, 29 ---- City plate melted down, 182 ---- Duke of Monmouth at, 17 ---- Earldom of, 8 ---- Ethelfrid attacks, 5 ---- Ethelred, founder of monastery at, 266 ---- Gateways of, 71 ---- Bridge Gate, 72 ---- East Gate, 72 ---- Kale Yard Gate, 72 ---- New Gate, 72 ---- North Gate, 72, 73 ---- Ship Gate, 72 ---- Water Gate, 72 ---- Handel at, 259 ---- High Cross, 188, 208, 209 ---- James II. at, 17 ---- John Bridgeman, Bishop of, 101 ---- King Edgar at, 7 ---- King Egbert at, 5 ---- King John at, 9 ---- martyr, George Marsh, 15 ---- Musical Festivals, 260 ---- Phœnix Tower, 74, 184 ---- Prince Maurice at, 183 ---- Races, 74 ---- Records of, 31 ---- Roman, 70, 77 ---- Roman legions at, 3 ---- Roman wall of, 4 ---- Roman work, 71 ---- St. Bridget’s Church, 69 ---- St. Martin’s ” 68 ---- St. Michael’s ” 69 ---- St. Olave’s ” 69 ---- St. Peter’s ” 68 ---- seventeenth century house in Whitefriars, 99 ---- Siege of, 180-193 ---- Sir Nicholas Byron, Governor of, 181 ---- the key to Wales, 21 ---- Trade Guilds at, 151 Chestnut, a “coppity-co,” 256 “Chief of men,” 2, 32, 203 Chief-Justiceship of Chester, 29 Cholmondeley, 195 ---- family, 202, 262 ---- Hall, 16 ---- Lady Mary, 199 Christleton, 183 ---- Rush-bearing, 239 Church, alabaster effigy in Barthomley, 116 ---- bell, Frodsham, 254 ---- Bunbury, 116, 117 ---- Farndon, 223 ---- of St. John, Chester, 14 ---- of St. Oswald, 41 Churches, music in, 259 ---- timber-framed, 61-69 Churchyard crosses, 208, 210, 211 Circuits, judicial, 27 Civil war in Cheshire, 16 Clarke, Dr. Samuel, 122 Clulow Cross, 212 Combermere Abbey, 14, 34, 35 ---- Field-Marshal, 203 ---- legend, 253 Commonhall Lane, Chester, almshouses in, 86, 87 Congleton bell, 254 Constable de Lacy, 24 Copyhold tenure, Manor of Halton, 113 Cornage, 244-246 Corpus Christi, feast of, 147 ---- procession, 161 Corvysors’ Playe, The, 164, 165 Costume of players, 145 “Counting-out” rhymes, 257 County Flint, 25 ---- Hall, Chester, 30 ---- Palatine of Chester, 1, 19-32 Court, Bidston, 99 ---- Leet, Halton, 106-113 ---- of Exchequer, Chester, 31 ---- Old Consistory, 100 _Creation and Fall_, a Mystery Play, 145 Crewe, 195, 200 ---- Hall, 16 ---- Randolph, 124 ---- Thomas, 124 Crewes, 204 Cross at St. John the Baptist, Chester, 210 ---- at St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill, Chester, 209, 212 ---- Bebington, 211 ---- Bow Stones, 212 ---- Bromborough, 210, 212 ---- Clulow, 212 ---- Disley, 210 ---- Eaton, 213 ---- High, Chester, 208, 209 ---- Lymm, 213 ---- Macclesfield market, 213 ---- Neston, 210 ---- Over Peover, 212 ---- Shocklach, 211 ---- Wallasey, 211 ---- West Kirby, 210 Crosses, boundary, 208 ---- churchyard, 208, 210, 211 ---- destroyed, 209 ---- “High,” 208 ---- Ludworth, 212 ---- Macclesfield Public Park, 212 ---- Market, 208, 212, 213 ---- preaching, 207, 210 ---- Sandbach, 213-217 ---- weeping, 208 Croughton Hall, 16 _Crucifixion, The_, a Mystery Play, 166 “Crypt, ye Olde,” 78 “Curfew,” 254 _Curse, Old Mab’s_, 262 Customs, some Cheshire, 230-263

Dance, morris, 258 Danes, 6 Danish place-names, 6 Danyer, Sir Thomas, 114 Davenport family, 91 ---- of Davenport, family of, 246 ---- Sir Humphrey, 126 ---- Sir John, 63 Davenports, 204 Delamere, 69 ---- Baron, 197 ---- Forest, 74, 82, 245 ---- _Horn, The_, 245 ---- House, 199 ---- Lord, 18, 199 ---- of Dunham Massey, Baron, 119 Delves at Poictiers, Sir John, 115 ---- Sir John, 13 Dernhall, 14 Description of Cheshire, Camden’s, 32 Diary, Slingsby’s, 192 Dieulacres, 14 Disley Cross, 210 Dissolution of monasteries, 14, 33 Doddington, 95, 115, 200 ---- Castle, 16 Dodleston Castle, 51, 52 Dog-whipper and sluggard-waker, 256 Done of Utkinton, family of, 245 ---- Sir John, 13, 199 Dorfold, 200 ---- Hall, 16 “Dot,” a children’s game, 256 Downes of Sutton Downes and Taxal, family of, 246 Dragon legend, 252 Drayton’s Lamentation, 13 Dukinfield of Dukinfield, Colonel Robert, 118 Dunham Hall, or Dunham Massey, 196 ---- Massey Castle, 51, 53 Dutton of Dutton, 24, 115 ---- Sir Thomas, 13

“Eagle and Child” Inn, 94 Earldom of Chester, 8 Earl of Chester, Prince Edward, 25 Earnshaw, Lawrence, 128 East Gate, Chester, 72 ---- Hall, High Leigh, 197 Eaton, 195 ---- Cross, 213 Eccleston Church, 68 Edgar at Chester, King, 7, 74 Eddisbury, 7 Edward I., 10 ---- the Elder, died at Farndon, 220 Effigies at Farndon, 224 Effigy of Sir Robert Foulshurst, alabaster, 116 Egbert at Chester, King, 5 Egerton family, 202 ---- Lord, 197 ---- Sir John, 13 ---- Sir Philip, geologist, 204 Egerton-Warburton, Rowland Eyles, 205, 206 Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor, 125 Elizabethan building, 88 England, Sword-bearer of, 21 ---- the Vale Royal of, 130 Ætheldred, Ealdorman, 7 Etheldreda, St., Abbess of Ely, 266 Ethelfleda, 7, 71 ---- rebuilt Chester Castle, 59 Ethelfrid attacks Chester, 5 Ethelred, founder of monastery at Chester, 266, 267 Exchequer, Court of, Chester, 31

“Falcon,” the, Chester, 97 Falconer, Dr. William, 129 Families, Cheshire, 194-206 Family, Bromhal, 91 ---- Brooke, 198 ---- Cholmondeley, 202, 262 ---- Davenport, 91 ---- Egerton, 202 ---- Grosvenor, 202 ---- Hyde, 205 ---- Legh, 197 ---- Mainwaring, 199, 202 ---- Marbury, 198 ---- Massey, 196 ---- of Brooke of Mere, 63 ---- of Davenport of Davenport, 246 ---- of Done of Utkinton, 245 ---- of Downes of Sutton Downes and Taxal, 246 ---- of Dunham Massey, Booth, 116 ---- of Holmes, 133 ---- of Shakerleys of Hulme, 63 ---- Warburton, 198 ---- Wilbraham, 199 Farndon Bridge, 221 ---- Church, 223 ---- Edward the Elder died at, 220 ---- effigies at, 224 ---- parish books, 224 ---- _Rush-bearing Sunday at_, 225, 238 ---- stained glass at, 223 Farnworth Leet, Widnes or, 112 Feast of Corpus Christi, 147 Festivals, Chester Musical, 260 Fire-worship at Alvanley, 261 Fitton, Sir Edward, 126 Flint, county, 25 Folk-lore, Cheshire, 230-263 Font at Warburton, 66 ---- Marton, 65 ---- of Italian origin in baptistery, Chester, 45 Football at Chester, 74 Forest, Delamere, 74, 82, 245 ---- of Macclesfield, 82, 246 ---- of Wirral, 82, 246 Forests of Cheshire, 69, 82 Foulshurst of Crewe, Sir Robert, 13, 115, 116 Freeman quoted, Professor, 21, 27 “Free-Masons,” 139 Frodsham, 51, 53 ---- Church bell, 254 ---- “Synagogue Well,” 260

Games, children’s, 256-257 ---- unlawful, 107 Gamul of Buerton, Sir Francis, 119, 184, 190 Gateways of Chester, 71 Gawsworth Hall, 94 Gayton, wishing well at, 260 Gerard, Lord, 191 Gerarde, John, 127 “Glorious Sixth of May,” song, 260 “God’s Providence House,” 75, 97 “Golden Phœnix,” 135 Goostrey Church, 68 Governor of Chester, 181 Grammar Schools, Cheshire, 123 Great Broughton burnt down, 183 ---- Budworth, 61 ---- Meols, 3 Greyfriars, Chester, 48 Grosvenor family, 202 ---- Roger, ancestor of the Dukes of Westminster, 119

Half-timbered architecture of Cheshire, 80-99 Hall, Adlington, 16, 84, 94 ---- Arley, 198 ---- Ashley, 197 ---- Baguley or Baggily, 85-89, 200 ---- Bramall, 84, 89, 90 ---- Broxton Old, 95, 96 ---- Carden, 16, 95 ---- Cholmondeley, 16 ---- County, 30 ---- Crewe, 16 ---- Croughton, 16 ---- Dorfold, 16 ---- Dunham, or Dunham Massey, 196 ---- East, High Leigh, 197 ---- Gawsworth, 94 ---- Handforth, 94 ---- Hooton, 95 ---- Huxley, 16 ---- Little Moreton, 84, 91, 92, 93 ---- Marbury, 198 ---- Mere, 198 ---- Peover, 199 ---- Rostherne, 197 ---- Tabley, 198 ---- Tatton, 197 ---- Toft, 199 ---- Utkinton, 199 ---- West, High Leigh, 197 _Halton, An Account of the Rolls of the Honour of_, 107 Halton Castle, 9, 51, 54, 106 Handbridge, 182 Handel at Chester, 259 Handforth Hall, 94 Hanging at Halton, 109 ---- in chains, 110 Harden, moated house at, 200 Harvest Home, 243 Hawarden Castle, 182 Hawkeston of Wrine Hall, 115 Hawkstone, Sir John, 13 Heralds’ College, 137 Hiding holes, Moreton Hall, 92 Higden, Ralf, author of Mystery Plays, 46, 147 High Cross, Chester, 188, 208, 209 “High Crosses,” 208 High Leigh, 197 ---- ---- Chapel, 67 Hill, Peckforton, 194, 195 Historians, Cheshire, 129, 132 _Histories of Lot and Abraham_, a Mystery Play, 163 Holme, family of, 133 ---- of Chester, William, 133 ---- Randle (I.), 134, 187 ---- ---- (II.), 134, 135 ---- ---- (III.), 136, 139 ---- ---- (IV.), 140, 141 Holt Castle, 222 ---- Roman remains at, 218 Hooton Hall, 95 _Horn, The Delamere_, 245 ---- _The Wirral_, 244 Horse hodening at Northwich, 235 ---- ---- at Tarporley, 235 Hospital of St. John, Chester, 36, 73 House, Birket, 16 ---- Delamere, 199 “House, God’s Providence,” 75, 97 Hoylake, 18 Hulse, Dr. John, 122 Hunting parson, a, 108 Huxley Hall, 16, 200 Hyde family, 205

Ince Grange, 46 Incursions of the Welsh, 9 Italian font in baptistery, 45

Jacobites of Cheshire, 197 Jacob’s Well, 260 James II. at Chester, 17 John at Chester, King, 9 Judges and Chancellors, Cheshire, 124-127 Judicial circuits, 27 ---- seals, 28

Kale Yard Gate, Chester, 72 Kenyon, Lord, 126 King, Daniel, 130 _King Robert of Sicily_, a Mystery Play, 163 Kingdom, Mercian, 5 Knowles, Sir Robert, 116 “Knowles’s Mitres,” 116 Knutsford, 196 ---- May Queen, 242 ---- morris dance at, 258