Magna Brittanica; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain . royed, condemn him with the devil. After the diflb-lution of monafteries, King Henry VIII. gave this manor to the dean and chapterof Chefter, from whom this and other manors belonging to that body wereobtained for certain annual rents, by Sir Richard Cotton % in or about the year1553; Sir Richards fon, a few years afterwards, conveyed this manor to SirRowland Stanley, anceftor of Sir Thomas Stanley Mafley Stanley Bart., theprefent proprietor. The manor of Plimyard was purchafed in or about the ye
Magna Brittanica; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain . royed, condemn him with the devil. After the diflb-lution of monafteries, King Henry VIII. gave this manor to the dean and chapterof Chefter, from whom this and other manors belonging to that body wereobtained for certain annual rents, by Sir Richard Cotton % in or about the year1553; Sir Richards fon, a few years afterwards, conveyed this manor to SirRowland Stanley, anceftor of Sir Thomas Stanley Mafley Stanley Bart., theprefent proprietor. The manor of Plimyard was purchafed in or about the year1590 by the Stanleys of William Huntington : there is an old farm-houfe on thefite of the manor, belonging to Sir T. S. M. Stanley Bart. In the parifh church of Eaftham are fome monuments of the Stanley church was in ancient times a chapel to Bromborough : the tithes ofEaftham were given by Hugh Lupus Earl of Chefter to the abbot and con- * ^ Randal Holmes Narrative of the fiege of Chefter. Harl. MSS. N° Dr. VVilliamfon-s ViUare Ceftrienfe, J See p. 573, in the notes. vent. THE OT HOOTOI? HAXX, CME SIELIIRLE <Tlu- iin^umL S<-a( L-f Uu ^\ Tarnih. takejt down ai i-;-v . j\, ? 7--J^f vir/i /<^....-7,..j CHESHIRE. 655 vent of St. Werburgh : they now belong to feveral perfons: Sir T. S. M. StanleyBart, is impropriator of the townfhips of Eafthanij Hooton, and Childer-Thornton ;Mr. Jofepli White of Sutton-Parva ; the Rev. Thomas Edwards of Sutton-Magna ; the Rev. Sir Henry Poole Bart, of Over, and Nether-Poole ; and JohnHignet Efq. of Whitby. The dean and chapter of Chefler are patrons of thevicarage. The townfliip of Hooion lies about nine miles N. by W. from Chefter ; thisplace was the property and feat of the ancient family of Hooton, or Hoton, whichbecame extincl in the male line in the reign of Henry II., when it pafled by mar-riage to the family of Wallenfis, or Welfhman, generally called, after this alliance,by the name
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