This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com Journal of the Chester Archaeological and Historic Society Chester and North Wales Architectural , Archaeological , and Historic Society Soe . G . A . Chestos sº 63 4 , sed 1 . 4 . R . Top . 130 CHESTER ARCHÆOLOGICAL AND HISTORIC SOCIETY ' S JOURNAL . 1Reverendus admodum in Christo Pater Dominus Dnus . Thomas Cartwright . Episcopus Eestriensis . 1686 – 1689 . JOURNAL OF THE CHESTER ARCHÆOLOGICAL AND HISTORIC SOCIETY . GOOOOOOO COOOOOOO conoccod CESS DOOO000000 OOOOOOO COOOOOOO CeaDQ00 Cooccer Sonu COCO00 Vococeros COODOOMOOC MN LAS Davog0oca OOOOOO & CCCCOC OOoooc w COCOCOCO cocco PA WOOO00000 WA o Va Ja Uloocco ©ccoco New SERIES . – Vol . IV . FOR THE YEAR 1890 - 91 . PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY . 1892 . 3 . 12 . 92 The Council of the Chester Archæological and Historic Society desire it to be known that the Authors of any papers , printed in the Society ' s Journal , are alone responsible for the statements or opinions contained in such papers . This volume has been edited by Mr . J . P . Earwaker , M . A . , F . S . A . , elected Hon . Editorial Secretary at the Annual Meeting , held on the 14th May , 1887 . 197 JAN . 93 OXFORD COUNCIL AND OFFICERS FOR THE SESSION 1890 - 91 . Patron . His GRACE THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER , K . G . ( Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire . ) COUNCIL . President . THE RIGHT Rev . THE LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER , D . D . Vice - Presidents . The Right HONOURABLE LORD EGERTON OF TATTON . THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR OF CHESTER . ) THE SHERIFF OF CHESTER . THE VERY REV . THE DEAN OF CHESTER . D . D . Exorcio . THE VEN . THE ARCHDEACON OF CHESTER , M . A . His HONOUR JUDGE HORATIO LLOYD , Recorder of Chester . His HONOUR JUDGE WYNNE FFOULKES , M . A . MR . FREDERICK POTTS . Secretaries . Hon . Editorial : MR . J . P . EARWAKER , M . A . , F . S . A . , Pensarn , Abergele , North Wales . General : MR . T . J . POWELL , 14 , Newgate , Chester . hon . Curator . MR . G . W . SHRUBSOLE , F . G . S . , Northgate Street , Chester . bon . Librarian . MR . JOHN HEWITT , Vicarage Road , Hoole , Chester . ' bon . Treasurer . MR , GEORGE FRATER , Bank , Wrexham . vi COUNCIL AND OFFICERS FOR SESSION 1890 - 91 . Elected Members . MR . E . J . BAILLIE , F . L . S . , Upton Park , Chester . MR . ALDERMAN CHARLES BROWN , The Folly , Flookersbrook , Chester , MR . JOHN ROWE DUTTON , Bridge Street , Chester . DR . JOHN ELLIOTT , B . Sc . , Whitefriars Cottage , Chester . Rev . C . LETT FELTOE , M . A . , The King ' s School , Chester . MR . T . S . GLEADOWE , M . A . , Alderley Edge , Cheshire . Rev . H . GRANTHAM , St . Mary ' s Rectory , Chester . MR . ALEXANDER LAMONT , Eastgate Street , Chester . Rev . CANON MORRIS , D . D . , Eaton Hall , Chester . Rev . S . COOPER SCOTT , M . A . , St . John ' s Rectory , Chester . Dr . STOLTERFOTH , M . A . , 60 , Watergate Street , Chester . MR . HENRY TAYLOR , F . S . A . , Curzon Park , Chester . TABLE OF CONTENTS . THOMAS CARTWRIGHT , D . D . , BISHOP OF CHESTER , 1686 to 1689 . PAGE By the Rev . F . Sanders , M . A . · · · · · · I The EARLY CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS OF North WALES . By J . Romilly Allen , F . S . A . ( Scot . ) · · · · · · · 34 THE FLINTSHIRE MILITIA , WITH A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF SIR Roger MostyN , KNIGHT AND BARONET , ITS FIRST COLONEL . By Henry Taylor , Esq . , F . S . A . , Town Clerk of Flint , and Deputy Constable of Flint Castle · · · · · · · · 54 THE ROMAN PIGS OF LEAD DISCOVERED NEAR CHESTER . By the Rev . Rupert H . Morris , D . D . With a Letter , by Professor John Rhys , of Oxford - - - - - - - - - - 68 THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE ROMAN Mines . By F . Haverfield , M . A . , F . S . A . · · · · · · · · 80 ON A SETTLEMENT OF PREHISTORIC PEOPLE IN DELAMERE FOREST . By George W . Shrubsole , F . G . S . 96 The Four RANDLE HOLMES , OF CHESTER , ANTIQUARIES , HERALDS , AND GENEALOGISTS , c . 1571 TO 1707 . By J . P . Earwaker , M . A . , F . S . A . 113 NOTES ON THE NEW WEST WINDOW OF THE CHURCH OF S . JOHN . BAPTIST , CHESTER . By the Rev . S . Cooper Scott , M . A . , Vicar of S . John Baptist · · · · · · · · · 171 NOTES ON SOME MEDIÆVAL GOLDSMITHS IN CHESTER . By Henry Taylor , F . S . A . · · · · · · · · · · 178 THE BELLS OF ST . MICHAEL ' S , CHESTER . By the Rev . J . Godson · 186 LIST OF PREHISTORIC REMAINS FOUND IN CHESHIRE . By G . W . Shrubsole , F . G . S . - - · 190 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SESSION 1890 - 91 . - 191 - 233 Letter from the Dean of Chester - - 195 Excavations in Chester - - . • 207 Resignation of Mr . Henry Taylor , F . S . A . 219 Report of the Council - . 221 Hon . Curator ' s Report - - - - - - - - 227 Hon Librarian ' s Report • 227 Balance Sheet for the Year 1890 - . 230 viii TABLE OF CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE Rules of the Society · · · · · · · · · 234 List of MEMBERS UP TO 31st May , 1891 · · 238 INDEX . 245 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS , & c . PORTRAIT OF THOMAS CARTWRIGHT , D . D . , BISHOP OF CHESTER . Frontispiece . INSCRIBED STONES AT PENRHOS , LLUGWY , ANGLESEY , AND AT PENTRE VOELAS , DENBIGHSHIRE - - to face p . 43 INSCRIBED STONE AT GWYTHERIN , DENBIGHSHIRE . to face p . 45 INSCRIBED STONE AT PENMACHNO , CAERNARVONSHIRE - to face p . 46 PORTRAIT OF Col . SIR ROGER MOSTYN , OF Mostyn , Co . Flint , ROYALIST GOVERNOR OF Flint CASTLE , 1643 to face p . 52 MOSTYN HALL AS IN 1684 . to face p . 60 SIGNATURE OF Sir Roger Mostyn . on p . 62 PiGS OF LEAD FOUND NEAR CHESTER ( now in the Gros venor Museum , Chester ) · · · · · · to face PIG OF LEAD , FOUND AT THE ROODEYE , CHESTER , IN 1885 on PIG OF LEAD , FOUND NEAR TARVIN BRIDGE , CHESHIRE · on p . 95 SKELETON PEDIGREE OF HOLME OF CHESTER ( WITH ¿ å THE ARMS OF HOLME ) · · · · · to face p . 113 AUTOGRAPHS OF RANDLE HOLME ( I . ) . to face p . 118 SPECIMENS OF THE HANDWRITING AND SIGNATURES OF RANDLE HOLME ( II . ) · · · · · · to face MURAL MONUMENT TO RANDLE HOLME ( II . ) IN ST . MARY ' S CHURCH , CHESTER · · · · · to face p . 134 SPECIMENS OF THE HANDWRITING AND SIGNATURES OF RANDLE HOLME ( III . ) . to face p . 138 VIEW OF LAMB Row , SAID TO HAVE BEEN THE RESI . DENCE OF RANDLE HOLME ( III . ) · · · to face p . 156 SPECIMENS OF THE HANDWRITING AND SIGNATURES OF RANDLE HOLME ( IV . ) . · · to face p . 160 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO US mostom . 236 1891 - eiere i SSD decanoated 010800 . 9100 / 300DDIQDDDDDDDDD THOMAS CARTWRIGHT , D . D . , BISHOP OF CHESTER , 1686 TO 0 1689 . BY THE REV . F . SANDERS , M . A . ( Read 23rd December , 1889 . ) n N examining the list of bishops who have presided U over the see of Chester since its separate existence , we are forced to admit that it is not a list of conspicuously great men . Amidst many sound theologians , eminent scholars , and vigorous administrators , two only of the Cestrian prelates can be called men of the highest dis tinction . No English see can boast of a ruler greater as a theologian than the author of the Exposition of the Creed , the writer " whose very dross is golden , ” ? the ever -memorable John Pearson . And if Chester in the seventeenth century could point with unmingled pride to her Pearson , she has also been able in this nineteenth century to point with no less pride to that eminent scholar , who has done so much to throw light upon many a confused and obscure period of our nation ' s history , and * In the preparation of this paper , I am under the deepest obligation to the Rev . Canon Perry , rector of Waddington , Lincolnshire , for much valu able help . 2 Bentley THOMAS CARTWRIGHT , D . D . , whose wondrous insight and patient thoroughness have won the admiration of all his contemporaries , and made England , as well as Oxford and Chester , to boast of her great historian , William Stubbs . But if the bishops of Chester , taken as a body , have not been conspicuously great men , I think that no one would venture to dispute the fact of their being men of virtuous life and high character . As far as I know , there is but one exception to the truth of this statement , and that exception is the individual whom I have chosen for the subject of this paper . And I will here make the con fession that when I undertook to write an account of Bishop Cartwright , I was not without the hope of doing something to clear his reputation from some of the charges made against it . I thought that there must be some good in a man who met with nothing but abuse from Burnet and Macaulay . But I am obliged to own that I have been unable to discover it . Cartwright ' s career from first to last seems to have been that of an unprincipled and un scrupulous man , whose great object in life was his own advancement , and who shrank from no means , however ignoble , to attain that object . But let the facts of his life speak for themselves . On the 16th of July , 1686 , the death of Bishop Pearson , which had been long expected , took place . On the roth of the same month had died Dr . John Fell , the well - known Bishop of Oxford . Two sees were thus simultaneously vacated , and great anxiety was felt by all true sons of the Church of England as to the men whom King James would nominate to fill them , for those who had the best opportunities of knowing the king ' s mind were suspicious of his intentions towards the national Church . The two sees which had previously fallen vacant since his acces sion had indeed been filled by men of unexceptionable BISHOP OF CHESTER , 1686 TO 1689 . character . Peterborough had been given to Dr . Thomas White , and Bristol to Dr . Jonathan Trelawny . Both of these prelates were afterwards of the illustrious seven who , with the primate , refused compliance with James ' s illegal commands . But at the time of their appointment the king was by no means secure upon his throne , and he dared not venture to offend the Church of England .