DIRECrORY.] STAFFORDSHIRE. BREWOOD. 53 and North Western Railway Co. as compensation for damage CmLLINGTOY 2! miles south-west, Engleton :r north-east, done to the Brinsford land, yields £1: the Wyrley and Ess­ Gunstone 3 sonth-west, Hattons 3 south, Horsebrook I ington Canal pays the fixed rent or£ I l'I s. 6d. : and there is north, and Somerford r east-by-south, are liberties. a bequest by Mr. Salt of ros. derived' from land occupied by KmDEMORE GREEN liberty is included in the ecclesiastical the Catholic Church. Brewood was formerly one of the resi­ parish of Bishopswood, which see, and Coven liberty will be dences of the Bishops of Lichfield, and the names of Bishops­ found under a separate heading. wood and Park Farm still show the extent of their domains ScnooLs :- Rrewood Hall, a mansion of the Elizabethan period, built by The Grammar School was founded in r553 by Dr. Knight;.. the Fowke~, and for some time the seat of the Plimleys, from ley (of the Knightley family of Gnosall, in the county of whom it was purchased by the Hon. Edward Monckton, is Stafford, now represented by Lord Knightley, of J<'awsley now occupied by the Misses Monckton. Chillington, since park, Daventry), & endowed by him with property of the reign of Henry II. has been the seat of the Giffards, considerable value in houses & lands & in 1630 was recon­ and was honoured by a visit from Queen Elizabeth in 1575: stituted by a decree in chancery : the net income is about in the Civil Wars, Peter Giffard, r3th Lord of Chillington, £400 yearly & the school has also exhibitions to the Talue was an active adherent of the King, and defended the man­ of £." 140 a year, left by the late Rev. H. Kempson, a for mer sion for two days against the Parliamentary forces ; it was head master & by the late Mr. William Parkes of Wolver­ eventually left almDiit ruinous, but the great hall or saloon, hampton, a farmer pupil : there are residences standing in in the centre of the present house, occupies the exact site one in closure for both head & second master : the dormi­ of the old hall, which formed the east side of the building, tories and the head master's house were rebuilt in 18 56 & a and is now inclosed by the portions erected by Peter Giffard lofty school-room, with class-rooms attached, wa!! erected in 1724, and Thomas Giffard in r787 : the Hall is delight­ in r 866 : in I 83o the western extremity of the school croft fully situated in an extensive and well-wooded park of about was taken for the Birmingham Junction Canal : the croft, 445 acres, and presents an imposing appearance from every however, is still a spacious playground, though in part point; a fine avenue of trees extends for a distance of :;a encroached on by the school buildings ~ a considerable miles, directly in front of the building: the gardens, plea­ number of eminent men have been educated at this school, sure grounds and plantations are laid out with great taste, amon~ whom may be particularly mentioned the Right and the whole was much impro\•ed by the late owner. Rev. Richard Hurd D. D. bishop of Worcester (t t81-1:8o8); Thomas William Giffard esq. whose grandfather formed Dr. Beddoes, an eminent physician of Bristol; the rst i.e. the extensive lake at Chillington: it is now occupied by the grandfather <>f the present lord-Lord Hatherton, & Richard Holt Briscoe esq. J.P., D.L. Giffard's Cross was his uncle, Sir Edward Littleton M.P. for Staffordshire, erected in memory of Peter Giffard esq. who from his hall 178o-18I:l ; the Rev. Edward Burton n.n. regins pro-­ door shot with his bow and arrow a panther which had fessor of divinity at Oxford; Sir George Chetwynd hart.; seized the arm of a child, the distance being about half-a.­ and Sir H. P. Amphlett kt. baron of the exchequer: mile. On the north-west corner of the market place, the Rev. Jeremiah Smith n.D. wh~ was for 30 years the looking down Stafford street, is a singular building called well-known high master of the Free Grammar school at "Speedwell Castle," or the "Lantern House," erected by Manchester, was born here 22 July, 177I, & received his William Rock, an apothecary, with money won on the Duke · education under the Rev. Dr. Croft, who became head of Bolton's horse Speedwell. Long Birch, formerly the master of Brewood Grammar school in 1768 ;- Dr. Smith jointure house of the Giffard family, and till x8xg the resi­ died in x854: on the death of the Rev. William Rushton dence of the Clitholic Vicars Apostolic of the Midland dis­ in 1875 the office of usher or assistant master, under the trict, is now occupied as a farmqouse. BlJ.ckladies obtains provisions of the Public School Act, ceased; the head its name from a small Benedict.ine priory existing here in master has now the power of appointing the assistant the time of Richard I. and dedicated to the Holy Virgin ; masters ; Thomas England Rhodes M.A. head master there were five nuns, and the income was estimated at J:ut National School (mixed), founded in 1816, for 175 boys & £u Is. 6d. yearly; in 3oth Henry VIII. (1538"'"9) it was girls & 75 infants; average attendance, 130 boys & girls granted to Sir Thomas Giffard, whose tomb is in St. Mary's & so infants ; the present building, with resideace for parish church, after its surrender by Isabella Launder, the master, was erected in r85g-6o; the Rev. Henry Kempson, last prioress, I6th October, 153B. Whiteladies (locally in formerly head master of the Grammar school, bequeathed parish of Boscobel, Salop) was so called from a Cistercian £2,000 to theN atwnal school ; John Brant Brodie, master ; nunnery founded in the forest of Brewood about the time of Mrs. Eda Brodie, infants' mistress Richard I. and dedicated to St. Leonard; at the time of its Catholic (mixed), built in 1844, for 8o children; averag& surrender by Margaret Stamford there were six nuns, and attendance, 70; Mrs. Mary Bagnell, mistress the annual income was £17 ms. Bd. ; of this religious house Parish Clerk, Edward Haynes. only the ruined chapel and the terrace remain: the former PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Insurance has long been used as a Catholic cemetery, and contains a & Annuity Office. -Miss Elizabeth Bratt, sub-post­ tombstone inscribed "Here lieth the Bodie of a friend the mistress. Letters arrive from Stafford at 5.30 a.m. ; King did call DAME JOANE, but now she is deceast and gone. dispatched at 8 p.m. Letters for Chillington received Interred Anno Do. r66g." To the mansion which had been through Wolverhampton the nunnery, Charles II. IS believed to have been conducted WALL LEI'THR Box at Kiddemore Green cleared at 5.30 on the day after the battle of Worcester, August 28th, r65x. p.m. week days & at 10 a.m. on sunday. Horsebrook About a mile east of the town is Somerford Hall, a property cleared at 6.50 p.m. week days; sunday u.5 a.m. of the l\'lonckton family, now occupied by Colonel the Hon. PUBLIC OFFICERS:- Richard Southwell George Stapleton Cotton J.P. ; the lion. Assistant Overseer & Clerk to the Parish Council, Thomas Edward Mon::!kton, who purchased it from the Barbors, wa~ Cluett 5th son of John Monckton, xst Viscount Galway: be made Collector of Taxes & Poor Rates, Richd. Wedge, Penkridge a large fortune in India, and married (March 14, 1776) Inland Revenue Officer, Samuel Hughes Sophia, daughter of George, xst and only Baron Pigot of Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, :Brewood Distric~ Patshull, the famous governor of Madras: Viscount Monck­ Cannock Union, John Cornelius Garman L.K.C.P.LOnd. ton represented Stafford in nine parliaments, from I78o to The Laurels 1807: the extent of the park is about 78 acres. Waiter Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Vaccination Thomas Courtenay Giffard esq. D.L., .J.P. of Pendryl Hall, Officer, Brewood Sub-district, & Relieving Officer & Rate Codsall, who is lord of the manor, and Francis Monckton Collector for Penkriuge, Dav1d Dakin, Engleton lane esq. D.L., J.P. of Stretton Hall, near Brewood, are the chief School Attendance Officer for BrewO

PUIVATE RESIDENTS. Docker Mrs. Dean street Rhodes Thomas England M • .&.. Gram- Aldradge Miss, Church street J<'isher Mrs. Somerford mar school Beetlestone Edward, Dean street Garman John Cornelius, The Laurels Simpson Miss, The Chantry, Dean st Bill Joseph, High green Glancey Mrs. The Hollies Smith Mrs. H1cks, Da.wscroft. Bratt Henry Groom Rev. Louis [Catholic], St. Spink J oseph J ames, High green Briscoe Richard Holt J. P., D. L. Chil- Mary's presbytery Taft Thomas, South View cottage lington hall Huffadine Rev.Hy.Hughes [Congrgtnl] V eaU J ames Head Bryans Alfred vYilliam, Deansfield Jones Joseph Humphrey, Stafford st Wa.ltho Miss, Bargate Clifford Thomas, Bargate street Monckton Mrs. Bargate Wheavell Misses, Dean street Cotton Col. the Hon. Richard Southwell Monckton Misses, Brewood hall Wills Arthur T. The Laurels Goorge Stapleton J.P. Somerford hall Plant Miss Annie Woodall Charles Eusta.ce Turley, The Croydon Miss, Stafford street Plant Miss Caroline Den, Dean stree~