STAFFORDSHIRE. Once a Year on the Drakelow Waters
8Q BURTON -UPON-T~EN'J\ STAFFORDSHIRE. once a year on the Drakelow waters. The Burton-on-Trent in number, and though not mitred sometimes sat in Parlia. Cricket Club has a practising ground in Burton meadow ; ment; after it» surrender the abbey church was made col and the Anglesey Cricket Club in the Hay. legiate, with a dean and four Canons, and endowed with the The Infirmary and Dispensary stands between Duke street greater part of the property belonging to the previous and New street, on a site held partly on lease for 99 years, foundation, but this establishment was suppressed in from the sth April, x868, from the Marquess of Anglesey, January, 1549, and granted with all its possessions to Sir and is a structure of brick, from designs by Mr. Holmes, William Paget, ancestor of the present Marquess of Angle. erected in 1869, at an estimated cost of £2,300; it is sey: in the abbey grounds are several stone coffins, and divided into (our wards, and is available for so patients; lying within one of the arches is an alabaster effigy in chain the dispensary is supported by voluntary subscriptions. and plate armour: there are now but few other remains in The charities bequeathed to the poor at various times are Burton coeval with the abbey, and of these, the homestead at Seyney (commonly called Sinai) Park is the only huilding very• numerous and valuable, and are now invested in land and stocks, producing in the aggregate £3,346 yearly ; by which has been fairly preserved : this is a half-timbered a scheme of the Charity Commissioners, dated January structure on stone foundations, forming three sides of a 22nd, 1884, the care and distribution of these funds are quadrangle, and surrounded by a moat, and has some rooms vested in a body of 17 trustees.
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