434 . . [KELLY's from , 4 fiouth-south-east from Over, and 5 miles and afterwards was vested in the Lovels. The mesne south-w~st from , in the Eddisbury division manor was formerly possessed by a family who assumed the local name soon after the Norman accession, and from of the county1 hundred of ;Northwioh., union, county court district and petty sessional division of Nantwich, rural whom it passed through an heiress m the reign of Edward deanery of Middlewich and archdeaconry and diocese of Ill. to the Dutton family. After the death of Sir Thomas . The crosses the border Dutton, in the reign of Henry VII. without male issue, of the parish. The church pf St. Bartholomew, erected it passed to the representatives of Eleanor, his filth in 1702 on tfue site of an older s!Jructure, is a daughter, who married Richard de Cholmondeley; a pla.in edifice of brick and: stone, consisting of younger branch of the Minshulls continued the male line, apsidal chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, and and resided here until the demise of John Minshull, in the a western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 year r654, when his estate passed in marriage with bells, cast in 1717 ~ the piers of the arcades appear to be Elizabeth, his sole heiress, to Thomas Cholmondeley esq. the remains of the former church: in r861 the church was of Vale Royal, ancestor of the present Lord Delamere; 'COmpletely restored and re-seated at a cost of £Boo, and in he thus became possessed of the whole property, and died rBgr was further restored at an expense of nearly £s6o, in 1652, and the estate was afterwards sold to Thomas under the superintendence of Mr. Waiter M. Bowden, Brouke bart. of Norwn Priory. Ashb-rook Towers is now architect, of Chester : an organ, in memory of Captain the residence of Charles Frederick Coryndon Luxmoore Charles Luxmoore Brooke, of Ashbrook Hall, d. Jan. g, esq. who is lord of the manor and principal land­ r8go, was placed in the church in 1890 by his wife and owner; Henry Done esq. of Tarporley, also owns children: in the church is a mural monument to Jane, some land in this parish. Lea Green Ball, • for­ wife of Thomas Cholmondeley esq. of Vale Royal, d. 14 merly belonging to the Vernon and families, .April, r866, and there are also .several modern tablets: is a brick residence, the property of Henry Done esq. and in the churchyard, at the foot of the tower, is a dilapi­ now occupied as a farm house. Minshull Hall, an ancient dated tomb, on one side of which is a portion of a skeleton brick edifice, is also now a farmhouse. The township .carved in stone, but the inscription is now entirely gone : comprises 2,344 acres of land, chiefiv used for pasture, and • • this was the burial place of the old family of Wade, from 2S of water; rateable value, £3,932; the population in whom Wade's Green takes its name, and there is a strong 1901 was 31c. local tradition that the remains of the Right Hon. George Wade's Green is a hamlet. . Wade, P.C., M.P. Field Marshal, and commander of the Post Office.-Mrs. Anne Brereton, sub-postmistress. Let­ King's troops during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, who tehull left the interest of £2oo for the support of a Thomas Damme, of Leighton, buried 2oth of February, school, to which was added the interest of £so, by Mr. being of the age of seven score and fourteen." The living Wilbraham, of Dorfold Hall & £so by other dqnors, for is a vicarage, net yearly value £126, with glebe and resi­ the same purpose; this money produces £3 per cent. dence, in thr gift oo Charles F: C. Luxmoore esq. of Ash­ yearly as interest. In 1870 Henry Brooke esq. be­ hrook Tower-s, and held since r884 by the Rev . .Alder queathed the sum of £2oo to the vicar & churchwardens, Heffill, of St. Bees. Chawities : -'l'he poor have £30 the interest to be applied to the Church Minshull yearly, £ro fvom the bequeSits of Wade, Frogge and endowed school, & in the same will a further sum of £s others, which is d~s.trributed in ~1-als and c1othin~ at yearly for the maintenance of the school house & garden. Christmas, and £20 dBrived from the rent of two fields The school also receives £s yearly from a sum of £roo situate at Tetton, and distributed in money on St. belonging to the poor, & it is now endowed with about Thomas's day. Tth:is place was fmmerly in the parish £3o a year, arising out of the aboye bequests, in con­ of Acton, and attached to the barony of Wich .Milbank sideration of which .11mount the master teaches read­ (Nantwich), but on i