DIRECTORY. ] . MORLEY. 303 Bonsllll Richard, Ivy house Briddon Saml.frmr.TheCales,One Ash' Housley Ann (~rrs.), farmer Critchlow William Bunting Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Johnson Edwin, mason Ford Rev. Wm. Hy. B.A. Rectory Critchlow Jas. farmer & cattl6 dealer Lamas Geo. farmer, One Ash grange Harrison Thomas CritcWow John Henry, shopkeeper Melland Stephen, farmer & landowner Melland Stephen Dutton Joseph, farmer MelIor Benjamin, farmer, Whim farm Frost David, farmer Millington R. & Co. marble merchants OOMMERCIAL. Greensward Mining Compa.ny (Thos. Millington John, farmer, Endmoor Andrew W~lliam, farmer, Highlow HampSdn Brown, managor), pro- Keedham Mary Ann (Mrs.), Golden Bagshaw James, farmer prietors of lead & ochre mines Lion P.H Bembridge Job, huckster Harrison Jas. farmer&tallow chandler Palfreyman William, butcher&grocer, Bonsall Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Hawley Thomas, wheelwright Post office Bonsall Richard, farmer, Ivy house Hawley William, farmer, Summerhill Parkin Wm. J. Spurr, Bull's Head P.R Bonsall William, farmer & carrier Heathcote Robert, wheelwright Webster George, farmer, Rake end Bramwell Thomas, blacksmith Hibbert John, coal merchant Wigley Wm. Bull's HeadP.H.Hurdlow Briddon James, farmer & carrier Housley John, farmer MORLEY is a parish and township, 2i miles eRAt the north side of the chancel, with the figures of from Little Eaton station on the and Riplev the knight in plate armour, his head resting on his branch of the Midland railway, 2 north of helmet, and his two wives, in flowing robes, one on either station on the Burton, Derby and Nottingham branch lIide: there are various shields of Morley and Stathum, of the Great Northern railway anei 4 north-east from impaling the coat·s of Langley and Curzon ~ and at the Derby, in the likeston division of the county, hundred base an inscription in Latin, giving the date of his death of Morleston and Litchurch, Smalley petty sessional as- 27th July, 1470; the son of this Sir Thomas, Henry division, Belper union, Belper and county court Stathum, reposes under a slab of Purbeck marble, in­ district, rural deanery of Ilkeston, archdeaconry 01 Derby laid with brasses, beneath a canopied arch opening from and diocese of Southwell. The church of St. Matthew the south chapel into the chancel, which bears figures consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, with arcades of himseli in plate armour, with his head on a helmet and of two arches (the aisles being continued eastwards as his feet resting on a lion, and of nis three wives, one chapels), south porch and an embattled western towel' on the right and two on the left: below is a Latin in­ of Early Perpendicular date, with lofty spire, containing scription, witlt the date of his death, 30th April, 1480; a. clock, placed in 1887, and 3 bells, two of which were and beneath this, figures of one son and four daughters; given to the church by "John Statum, squyer, somA­ the four shields formerly on the tomb are now wanting: time lorde of this towne," who died! in 1454, a.nd re­ another brass in the south chapel commemorates, in spectively inscribed, "Ora pro nobis, beate Andrea," and Latin, John, son and heir of Ralph Sacheverell, who, as "illS Nazarenus Rex Judooorum; " the third was recast noticed above, fell at Bosworth Field; the general in 1614: the early church was reared, probably, in character of the brass, however, being not earlier than Saxon or very Early Norman times, since the arcades, c. 1525 I on a large slab, between the chancel and north which belong- to the reign of Stephen, or the beginning aisle, are portrait brasses of Sir Henry Sacheverell, son of that of Henry IT. were formed by cutting through of the aforementioned John, and his wife Isabella, himself the original nave walls: the stained east window is B in plate armour, and she in a gown with puffed sleeves; memorial to a member of the Sitwell family: the piscina he died 21 July, 1558: at the east end of the north aisle is Decorated: the north aisle was rebuilt in the 16th is the tomb of Katherine, daughter of Sir Henry Sach­ century and enlarged in order to receive the windows everell, and wife of Thomas Babington of Dethick, who and stained glass from the refectory of , died 241h August, 1543; it bears also in front a. shield dissolved in 1539; only three of the windows now retain with eight quarterings, flanked by the figures of eight any of this glass, the most interesting portion of which, lions and five daughters: there are besides no less thau in one of the north windows, represents in seven com­ ten other monuments of the Sacheverell family, dating partments, the legend of Hobert, the hermit of Knares­ from 1625 to 1724; one to Richard, 'son of John Harpur, a borough: another window depicts the legend of the Holy former rector, who died in childhood, 25 March, 1660; Cross, with inscriptions below each of the ten compart­ as well as mural monuments in the chancel to other past ments, and a third has been filled as a memorial to rectors of the Wilmot, Sitwell, and Wilson families, Harriet, wife of the Hon. W. M. Jervis, died Jan. 22nd, 1741 to 1844: a monument has also been placed in the 1875; the ancient glass was carefully restored in 1847, church to Sir Hugh Bateman bart. of Hartington Hall, at the cost of the late T. O. Batl'man esq.. : the east .d. March, 1824; and a brass to ~amuel Fox, an ·eminent window of this aisle has full-length figures of the Virgin Anglo-Saxon scholar, and rector here for 26 years, d. and Saints, with subjects illustrating the Te Deum, the Sept. 3, 1870: a memorial to R. S. Sitwell and his wife centre light containing figures of the twelve Apostles, was erected in 1893: the shaft of the churchyard cross and above this is a representation of the assumption of still remains, but has been much ,shortened in {)rder St. Ursula: the porch and its doorway, said to have been to receive a sundial plate, dated 1762 = the graceful also brought from Dale Abbey, are Decorated: in the shaft of another cross, with its steps and nearly perfect south aisle are the remains of an obituary window, with head, stands a little to ,the west of the church; the heraldic adornments to John Sacheverell, slain at Bos­ church plate includes a covered chalice, given by Eliza­ worth Field, 21 Aug. 1485; a window in the south wall beth, wife of Jonathan Sacheverell, and is dated 1663: has figures of St. Roger, Bishop of London (1229-41), the chancel was reseated in 1884, and an organ erected and other early ecclesiastics, and one near it a. figure in 1885: there are 160 sittings. The registers, which are of St. Catherine: various collections of encaustic tiles, in a very fair condition, date from 1540 for baptisms from different parts of the church, were in 1850 placed and 1544 for marriages and burials. The living is a at the east end of the north aisle, besides simple initials rectory, tithe rent-charge £325, gross yearly value £600, these exhibit a large number of heraldic examples, in­ net, £550, including III acres of glebe and residence, cluding the coats of Lancaster, Grey, Beauchamp, Zouch in the gift of R. S. Sitwell esq. and held since 1883 by and others: several carved bench ends, of Perpendicular the Rev. Charles John Boden B.A. of Trinity College, date, have been worked up in the present open seats: in Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. There are six' the north aisle is a fine oaken chest, 6 feet 6 inches long almshouses founded by Jacinth Sacheverell esq. in 1656, by 1 foot 7 inches broad: there are three brasses in com­ and endowed with £5 each yearly; three for the town­ memoration of John, son of Thomas Stathum, and a ship of Morley, and three for the township of Smalley: great benefactor to this church; the first is a simple other charities amount t