Collections for a history of Staffordshire . de Peshale and John Giffarcl, to have altogether dis-appeared by The only visible portion of the present housewhich remains to show what it was before Lady Wilbrahams timeis the western wall of the kitchen, which faces the churchyard,and is fully three feet thick ; but in the course of the alterationseffected this year (189!)) by the present Earl of Bradford a con-siderable amount of old masonry was discovered in different places,*the most interesting fragment of which was a large stone built into 1 The earliest known print of Weston Hall is
Collections for a history of Staffordshire . de Peshale and John Giffarcl, to have altogether dis-appeared by The only visible portion of the present housewhich remains to show what it was before Lady Wilbrahams timeis the western wall of the kitchen, which faces the churchyard,and is fully three feet thick ; but in the course of the alterationseffected this year (189!)) by the present Earl of Bradford a con-siderable amount of old masonry was discovered in different places,*the most interesting fragment of which was a large stone built into 1 The earliest known print of Weston Hall is that engraved for Shaws Historyof Staffordshire in 1801. 2 See ante, pp. 53, See ante, p. GO. A Mr. Hope, Lord Bradfords head gardener, who has heen uninterruptedlyemployed at Weston since 18G5, informs us that in laying out the flower garden onthe south side of the Hall he came across the foundations of what were apparentlyonthuildings, and that he found in one place a quantity of coal, showing where thecoal yard must once have , IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD. 331 the chimney at the back of the breakfast-room, which was probablyonce an outside wall ; on this stone is carved in relict a shield withtwo letters upon it, the second of which is clearly M, and the first,which has been partially defaced, is apparently cither C or G, butmay possibly be E; if the latter, the erection of this part of thebuilding may be ascribed to one of the two lords of Weston whobore the name of Edward Mytton, and most probably to the earlierone (originally Edward Harpesfield), who succeeded to the estatein the reign of Henry VIII; if the letter is really C, it must havebeen the work of his grandmother Constance Mytton, who seemsto have had a life interest in the manor of Weston after herhusbands death ;] in either case it would date from about themiddle of the 16th century. The stone has now been put up inone of the passages inside the house. In the copy of Palladios Archit
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