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are affixed by screws; these alterations, it seems, cost weaving, and for these industries there are extensive £3· The .smaller mace of silver, and 14 inches long, . factories. Coach, chair and nail making and wood turn­ consistJ:Y of a plain banded staff in three sections, with a ing are also practised, and there are ropewalks, iron and bell-shaped head at either end, the upper being more brass foundries, agricultural implement and machine richly ornamented, and bearing the royal arms of Jas. I works, and in the vicinity, corn mills, gravel pitS' and I. with the cypher I.R. The corporate seal, a. very fine stone quarries; these, unitedly, afford employment t() a. example of 15th century date, is of latten, circular in great number of the inhabitants. shape and I~ inch in diameter, and has for a device a tun A newspaper, called the "Congleton Chronicle" (with floating on the sea, between two conger eels hauriant, which is incorporated the "Congleton & . and surmounted by a lion of ; round the margin MerC'Ilry ") was established in I855, and is published on i:~ a legend: the statute merchant seal o: silver is oval Saturdays by R. Head, I I High street, Congleton. and I! inch long; it hearS' a crowned rose with the The "Cong]Pton Guardian" (I899), a localised edition cypher I.R. encircled by an inscription, and was re-cut of the '' Wari'ington Guardian," is publishe-d on Tues­ in r66r. The corp