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display scriptural figures rudely carved, and interlaced Rev. Francis Gisborne, sometime ,rector of Staveley, are. foliage similar to that on the cross at Bakewell; in fOIl' distribution.1 The :Rev. Sir Richard Fitz-Herbe~ 1886 they were rescued from their ignoble position by bart. M.A. of Hall, who is lord of the m&nOl. A. Hartshorne esq. F.S.A. and placed in the church, S. H. Chandos-Pole-Gell esq. Rev. Rowland German together with an arm of the cross, which had been taken Buckston M.A. Yicar of Sutt

BRADLEY is an agricultural parish and picturesque tury, is styled in the register" the Muses' Friend." Tilt but scattered village on the road, 3 miles east from living is a rectory, net income under £200, with residence Ashborne station on the North Staffordshire railway, in and 60 acres of glebe, in the gift -of the Dean and Ohapter the Western division of tlle county, Appletree hundred, of Lichfield, and held since 1887 by the Rev. James Furly Ashborne union, petty sessional division and county court Trevitt RA. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. John district, rural deanery of Ashborne, archdeaconry of Derby Walker, in 1691, gave £1 per annum to be paid to the poor, and diocese of Southwell. The church of All Saints, an which is distributed to poor widows not receiving other edifice in the Decorated style of the early 14th century, relief: the Rev. Francis Gisborne, sometime rector of consists of a small chancel and nave under a single roof, Staveley, who died in July, 1821, by his will dated ]th south porch and a wooden turret at the west end contain- May, 1818, left £5 19S. 2d. to this parish, which is distri· ing 3 bells, two of which date from 1722, the tenor being buted amongst the most necessitous poor. Bradley Hall, undated: ·the east window has three lights, the mullions the property of George :Moore Dixon esq. J.P. who is intersecting each other diagonally in the head; the win- lord of the manor, is now Qccupied by Archer A. Christy dows on either side the nave are all good examples of esq. G. ~I. Dixon esq. the Rev. Lord Scarsdale, Mrs. Decorated work : in 1893 the south window in the chancel Philps, Mrs. Henry, Godfrey Franceys MeyneIl esq. of was filled with stained glass: the eastern wall of the chan- MeyneIl Langley, and William Richard Holland esq. are eel retains two stone brackets, carved with bearded faces, the principal landowners. The soil is mixed; subsoil, but the most interesting feature of the interior is a fine chiefly gravel and clay. The .crops are hay, wheat, barley, circular font, the shaft of which has all the appearance of oats and turnips, but the land is chiefly in pasture for the upper part of a clustered pier, the bowl is divided into dairy produce. The area is 2,419 acres; rateable value, eight compartments by round-headed trefoil arches: the £2,838; the population in 1891 was 217. church contains a wooden mural achievement of the Knive- Parish Clerk, Thomas Mellor. tons, about 300 years old, gaudily repainted; Sir Andrew Post Office.-William Clarke, sub-postmaster. Letten Kniveton died at Bradley in 1696, and there is a monument arrive from Ashborne at 7.50 a.m.; dispatched at 4.5~ to his eldest son, Godfrey, who died in 17°8, besides others p.m.; there is no sunday delivery or dispatch. Postal to William Byrom, who died in the 17th century, Thomas orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money Byrom, his son (1714) and Dorothy, his wife (1730), and order &; telegraph office is at Hull &; Ward, 2 miles Emma Harriet Sgambella (1821): in the chancel are the distant arms of the Meynell family: the communion plate of silver l\"ational School (mixed), erected with master's residence. gilt was the gift of Lady Frances Kniveton and is dated in 1873, for 90 children; average attendance, 47; Fred. 1572. The register dates from the year 1579, but its Hardaker, master earlier portions are in a very dilapidated condition; the Carriers.-WooIley, to Ashborne, everv sat. Derby tues. last Kniveton entry is in 1633: Thomas Bancroft, an &; fri.; Redfearn, to Ashborne, every sat. Derby, tues. epigrammatic poet who flourished here in the 17th cen- &; fri Christy Archer A. Bradley hall Clarke William, farmer, Post office Holloway Edward, cowkeeper Trevitt Rev. Jas. Furly RA. Rectory Copestake Jane (Miss), dress maker Holmes Henry RA.Camb. priva~ COMMERCIAL. Copestake Mary (Mrs.), farmer tutor, Bradley lodge Alsop Thomas, farmer Edwards William,fanner &; blacksmth Hooson Joseph, farmer Ball George, cowkeeper Ford Samuel, farmer & cowkeeper Litchfield Joseph &:; Son, farmertr Bates John, cowkeeper, Kennels Gregory David, farmer, The Knob Crow tre.3S Black William, cowkeeper Hallam Frederick, cowkeeper Litchfield Thomas, frmr. The Nook Brindley George, head gamekeeper to Hammersley Elizabeth (Mrs.) & Mansfield J()hn. farmer H. A. Christey esq. Bradley hall Son, farmers Marple Thomas, farmer Bunting Alfred, farmer, Brook house Harrison:Ann (Miss), cowkeeper MeIlor Charles, cowkeeper, The DaIll Clarke Joseph, farmer, The Folly Hodgkinson 1\Iary (Mrs.), cowl..eeper MelIor Thomas, cowkpr. &:; shoe malt