. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. inge, minqk-John Mainewaringe, Robinson,Richard Ghurch. Richard Wilbraham, in his MS. Journal, has the following memoranda relating to aserious flood, and the building of his family mansion, called Townsend. ?^ Mem. The 26th day of November 1574 & Ac. [in the year] of the reigne Eliz. 17th. there rosea fludd upon Wever that drowned in the towne of Namptwich 40 dwellinge howses in the WelsheRowe & 24 wiche-howses so
. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. inge, minqk-John Mainewaringe, Robinson,Richard Ghurch. Richard Wilbraham, in his MS. Journal, has the following memoranda relating to aserious flood, and the building of his family mansion, called Townsend. ?^ Mem. The 26th day of November 1574 & Ac. [in the year] of the reigne Eliz. 17th. there rosea fludd upon Wever that drowned in the towne of Namptwich 40 dwellinge howses in the WelsheRowe & 24 wiche-howses so that all of theym were aboute a yarde deepe w[i]th water in them. Weevercame up to the brydge. Mem. That the byldyng of my howse dyd beygine in ffebruarie Ao. 1575. That my ffirst comyng to Dwelle in my howse was in the vjth daye of August C580. * This List, entitled The names of all and singular Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen and Freeholders in Com. Cestrise,for Nantwich Hundred, Ump. Eliz. 1579, is preserved in Harl. MSS. 1988, f. 121-2. (Brit. Mus.) 104 NANTWICH. %\)t €reat N the night of Tuesday, the loth December, 1583, the greaterpart of the town was destroyed by fire. According to theearliest printed account of the catastrophe, the outbreakoriginated through negligence of undiscreet persons brewing;*and this fully agrees with a Memorandum by Allen Wright,written in the earliest volume of the Parish Registers, whichwas afterwards copied in red ink into the first parchmentRegister, by Hugh Price, who subscribed his , instead ofthe authors, name. The Mem., which has been printedmany times, but not always correctly, is as follows :— The X day of this Monnth [Dec] chaunced a most tereble and vehement fyre begininge at thewater loodt about vi of the clocke at night, in a Kitchen by Bruinge, the winde being very boysterous,increased ye sayd fyre, which very vehemently wasted and consumed (in the space of 15 houres) 600bayes of buildinges, and could not be stayed
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