Warwickrhire
190 MONKS KIRBY. WARWICKRHIRE ' • as follows : t' '!'his roof was beat down, and the middle reredos arranged in panel!!, containing beautifully carved roof and -the two side aisles, the :asth December, 1701. groups of angels. The Earl of Denbigh, Count of Hapa Thomas Crooks, J ames Buswell, churchwardens ; Thomas burg, J.Janfenburg and Rheinfelden, in Germany, C.V.O., Bewl&y, plumb,r, 1702:" the church contains several A..D.C., D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor and chief land ancient monuments of the Feilding family, Earls of owner. The soil is various, light and heavy; the sub Denbigh, including one to Sir William Feilding, ob. soil, clay, sand and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, 1539 ; and another to Basil Feilding, his son ; and beans, barley an-i oats. The area of Monks Kirby town Goodeth (Willington), his wife, ob. xsBo; a marble ship is 4,563 acres; rateable value, £5,824; the popu monument has been erected in memory of William lation in 1901 was 589. The ecclesiastical parish of Ba-sil Per<>y, 7th Earl of Denbigh, d. 25 June, 1865; Monks Kirby is partly in the county of Leicester; the Mary Elizabeth Kitty (Moreton), his wife, d. 16 Dec. population of the entire parish in x_goi was 1,793· 1842; and there is another to Lady Augusta Feilding, Post & T. Office, Monk!! Kirby. Mrs. Emily Hall, sub d. 17 Jan. 1848, and in 1905 a memorial tablet was postmistress. Letters through Lutterworth at 7.5o erected by Lady Louisa I. H. Feilding in memory of a.m.
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