The antiquities of England and Wales . CHESHIRE. 35 rvalue 108I. and by a in Corpus ChriHi College, Cambridge,it was only reckoned at Sol. In 36 Hen. VIII. it was granted toRalph Worfeley. This houfe is faid by Leland to have been fubor-dinate to the abbey of Chefter; but Tanner does not fublcribe tothat opinion. The grant of free eleftion for a prior, the diftindtvaluation of its pofTeflions, both in Tax. Lincoln, and 26 Hen. VIII,makes me doubt much, fays he, whether this was a cell to Chefter. In the Vale Royal of England, publilhed anno 1656, by Dan,King, there is a view of this prior
The antiquities of England and Wales . CHESHIRE. 35 rvalue 108I. and by a in Corpus ChriHi College, Cambridge,it was only reckoned at Sol. In 36 Hen. VIII. it was granted toRalph Worfeley. This houfe is faid by Leland to have been fubor-dinate to the abbey of Chefter; but Tanner does not fublcribe tothat opinion. The grant of free eleftion for a prior, the diftindtvaluation of its pofTeflions, both in Tax. Lincoln, and 26 Hen. VIII,makes me doubt much, fays he, whether this was a cell to Chefter. In the Vale Royal of England, publilhed anno 1656, by Dan,King, there is a view of this priory, by \\ hich it is plain that muqh?of the buildings have been demolilhed fmce the time when that Annexed to it is the following account: Where thepaflage lies over into Lancafliire, unto Leaverpool, we ftep over intoBerket wood, and where hath been a famous prior}% the foundationwhereof I am not yet inftrudt for ; but now a very goodly demean,and which is come, by defcent from the Worlleyes, men of , now
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