APPENDIX C.

The following list shows some of the lands owned by the Cooke's, lords of Hartshill, and also Inscriptions in the Church of Ansley adjoining, from Bartlett's Manduessedum Romanorum.

One messuage and one cottage, wherein Thomas Hewet dwelt, and Littlefield, Nurselfield, divided into two parts, Ferney croft, Johns croft, the Leyes, Broom close, the Paddoks, Aldermore, three closes called Rideings, the herbage and weeding of Hasellmore and Hillmore.

William Migh the younger, 1 messuage, 1 croft, Cinder hill, the Middlefield or Cornfield divided, the Newes, the Nether meadow, the Furmoore meadow, the Leys, the Ridmore, and the Furmoore, and the herbage and weeding of a spring wood called the Moore.

Thomas Holt, a grist milne, a garden and orchard, the miln dam, and the stream fishing, the miln holm, the hither home, and the farther home.

John Ward, 1 messuage, 1 little croft, the Wallnut yard, the Town croft, the Nine Lands, the Wardshill as divided, the Pinfold croft, and the Mill lane end.

Edmund Harris, 1 messuage, the Town croft, the Hall croft, or Tophills, the Pinfold croft, the Mill lane end, and the Pittle or Pingle.

Ralph Parker, the Marlepit flat, a Pingle in the Moore meadow, the weedings of two orchards, the Moore corner, the Moore belonging to the Brent house, the Moore meadow, a Moore with the privilege of pasturing called Ground Moore meadow, with the dor wast, and green goods, Yard End an orchard near the Hollows the new taken in in two parts.

Henry Stanley, its hay, one garden, one yard, the Rails

flat, Alcots flat or 12 lands, the Wardell, the Hemp yard, the Sope meadow.

William Remington, one messuage, one garden, one orchard, the Pinfold croft, the great Wardell, the Lease, the Moore, the Caldwell as it is divided, the Webland least, the Webland, Eaton lane end, and the Slade meadow.

R. Remington, one cottage, one garden, the Wardell, the Wardell croft, the Hill close, the Bullmear meadow, one piece of meadow in Slade meadow, the herbage and weedings in Allen's moore.

John Wood, one messuage, one orchard, one workhouse, one stable, one garden and orchard, the Yard's end close.

John Alcok vel Alcot, one messuage, one orchard, one garden, one pasture called the Yard, the Hillfield, the Woolvey Oakfield, the Conygree, Eatonlane end, the Moor meadow.

Joyce Parker, one messuage, one orchard, one garden, one little orchard, and oxhouse yew, one close called the Yard, the Town croft, the Nine Lands.

One cottage and backside, the Six Lands. One cottage and backside called Pinfold croft. One little meadow, half Gunne meadow, the new taken in, the Rydeing, the Barn yard.

Robert Burbage, one messuage, one barn, one garden, one orchard, one little yard, the Yard's end croft, the Slade close, and one piece of meadow, the Dearefbank, Burbridge's Moore meadow, the herbage and weeding of Burbridge's Moore wood.

William Mights, one messuage, one stable, one garden, one orchard, the Hoggs Eyon divided, the Falls being two closes, the great Wardell, the upper Wardell, and nether Wardell, the Bednells, the Broom close, the Pyngle, the Moore meadow, Might's Moore, half the Gun meadow.

Alexander Weston, one messuage, one stable, one garden, one barn, one orchard, the Jumbell Flatt or Milllane end, one piece of arable land called the Voxhill close, the house and croft, Weston's key corner in two pieces, Weston's Slade mill, the Hookes, the Heath, the nether Slade, the herbage and weedings of Weston's Moore.

Richard Bentley, one cottage, one garden called the Chappell.

Thomas Holt, one messuage called Wolbey houst, one barne, one stable yard and orchard, one croft and barn, Wolvey field, the Barkers be two several fields, three tostes called the Newso, the nether mead sometime parcel of Barkers, the middle mead, the Pingle, and the Sweet Moore.

Inscriptions in the Church.*

5. At the bottom of the church:**

"Hic jacet Francicus Bacon,
Sacræ Theologiæ
Professor,

Eccl. Lichfeld

Præbendarius,

Hujus Eccl. Vicar.

Obiit an. Dom.

MDCLXXXII.

annoque æt LXXXIV."

Saint John Twycross, heretofore vicar of Ansley (prior to the year 1606) gave 20 marks to be laid out in the purchase of land, the yearly produce of which was to be expended as follows: one moiety or half part to be dis

*Note-Of these inscriptions Nos. 1 and 2 were in Dugdale's edition 1f 1656; 3, 4, 6, were added by Dr. Thomas; the others by Mr. Bartlett.

**Note-This epitaph is entirely gone, stone and all.

tributed amongst the poor of Ansley yearly, by the trustees, within eight days of Christmas or Easter; the other moiety in amending and repairing the highways most needful to be repaired; which sum being encreased by the parish to £17 was laid out in the purchase of an estate, now rented at £10 per ann.

Shakespeare also bequeathed the sum of £3 at what time is unknown: the interest to be given yearly to the poor of Ansley in bread.

The sum of 6s. 8d. yearly was also charged upon a small cottage and croft, late in the occupation of George Izon, to find bell-ropes for the church-bells; but by whom is not now known; which cottage and croft, about 1765, was purchased of the parish by the late John Ludford, Esq., for £30; which, together with Shakespear's and Oughton's gifts, as above mentioned, was expended in rebuilding the poors' houses, and the income is now paid by the overseers to the poor.

The trustees of all the above charities (except Mr. Stratford's) at the time of the donation returns were: John Ludford, Esq., John Barber, Thomas Cheshire, Richard Harrison, John Wagstaff, John Johnson, William Topp, Robert Harrison.

ANSLEY CHURCH.

Incumbentes, & tempora institutions.

Elizabetha R. Angl. Robert Coope cler. XII Jul. 1561, (V. p. r.) H. Hondys) postea deprivatus. Thomas Arnfeild cler. XXVII Jul. 1574. Rob. Cope II Mart. 1575. Will. Foxe cler. XXII Dec. 1591. Jac. Bush cler. X. Junii, 1600.

Rich. Chamberlain, arm. Rex. Francis Bacon, A. M. XIII Sept. 1625. Francis Bacon, XIV Jan. 1638, ob. 1682.*

*NOTE. In the parish register I find the following note: This book was returned by William Wilson late register of Ansley to me, Francis Bacon Vicar, of Ansley, April 24, 1661. This William Wilson had acted as register from the Act's taking place by which the late vicar was dispossessed.

No. 12. Extract from the oldest Register of Ansley. "Compositionem hanc ideo hic inserui quia scriptum chartaceum (quod habui solum) ægre potuit ad posteritatem dedi. F. Bacon, V. Anslei, 1645."

Thomas Shakespear was one of the church wardens in 1633. The same who bequeathed £3 yearly to the poor of Ansley. B. B.

No. 13. Extract from the oldest Register of Ansley, on the back of the leaf where the Composition is transcribed. These records were searche out, and heare inserted the like occasion shall hereafter happen; for the yearly pencon, with all the arrears, were by Mr. Robinson, receiver of the tenths, demanded as payable by the churchwardens of Ansley, being mistaken for Ansley, or Alvesley. Francis Bacon, Vic'lbm, March 9, 1649.