Che:3Hire. Lis~Ard
DIR~CTvRY.] CHE:3HIRE. LIS~ARD. 417 enlarged in 1913: an ancient alt.ar cros3, hammered in who by will, dated 1736, in the event of the death of John err.bossed brass, was the gift of Edward Henry Loyd i Harrison, an infant, without issue, left his estate to Mrs. esq. Col. C. H. France-Hayhurst, ef Eostock Hall, a~d I Ann Smith, of Berkeley square, London: according t.o their wives, in 1904: the church affords 230 sittings. Ormerod, the historian of Cheshire, this lady bequeathed The register dates from the year 1849. The living is p. the estate to William Pulteney, Earl of Bath, whose heir vicarage, net yelTly value £202, with residence, in the and brother, Lieut.-General Henry Pulteney, died in 1767, gift of the Bishop of Chester, and held since 1902 by leaving the Bradford estates to his oousin Frances Pulteney, th~ Rev. Robert James Douglas Keith-Chalmers B.A. wife of William Johnstone esq. who thereupon took the of the University of London; the vicarage, adjoining the name of Pulteney, and succeeding his brother in 1794 in church, is a building in the Elizabethan style. The soil the baronetcy of Johnstone, of Westerhall, became Sir is principally clay, also the subsoil. Nearly all the land William Johnstone-Pulteney bart.: on his death, in 1805, is pasture, and cheese is made about here. The area is Minshull Vernon passed to William Henry (Vane) grd Earl 3,903 acres; the population of the ecclesiastical parish of Darlington,and in 1812 his lordship sold the manor,with in 1911 was 424.
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