B.ARLICHW.A.Y HUNDRED. STR.A.TFORD DIVISION. '197 The Primitive Methodist Olwpel is also in Guild pits. Besides the &ee grammar school, for which see Charities, two handsome National &hools, with houses for the master and mistress, were E'rf:'cted in 1846, of brick, with stone facings, on the Alcester road; each school will accommodate 180, average 80 boys and 105 girls; John Guppy, master i and Jnliet Woodward, mistress; connected with these schools, is a public library. The British Schools, Rother street, are connected with the Independent chapel, estab· lished 1824; consists of three rooms, for boyR, girls, and infants; Wm. Pardoe, master; Ann Eliz. Steed, mistress; and Esther Smith, infant mistress. Infant School, College street, founded by Miss Mason, .is a convenient room, will accommodate 200, average 100; Mary Jordan, mistress. The Savings' Bank, established September, 1834; Wm. Chattaway, Esq., treasurer, and Mr. J. S. Leaver, actuary. Public Infirmary, Chapel lane, is a neat building, erected in 1840, at a cost of £1,200. defrayed by subscription; president, Sir Gray Skipwith, Bart.; bon. secretary, Rev. T. R. Medwin; assistant-secretary, Mr. F. Ward; physician, Thomas Thomson, M.D.; surgeons, David Wright, and dispenser, and T. S. Burman; matron, Mrs. Margaret Edkins. Gas Worl1s, Birmingham road, were removed from Chapel lane, in 1838, where they were first established, in 1834, at a cost of £3,000., raised by a number of shareholders ; Mr. Thomas Deacle Gill, superintendent and secretary. County Court, at the Sbakspeare rooms, Warwick road, comprises the following places, viz.: Alveston, Alderminster, Atberstone-on-Stour, Billesley, Binton, Charle­ cote, Clifford Chambers, Combrook, Compton V erney, Dorsington, Eatington, Fulbrook, Grafton, Hampton Lucy, Kineton, Loxley, Luddington, Moreton Morrell, Marston­ Sicca, N ewbold Pacey, Old Stratford, Preston-on-Stour, Snitterfield, Stratford-on-Avon, W el1esbourne Hastings, W ellesbourne Mountford, Whitchurch, W elford, and W eston­ on-Avon; F. T. Dinsdale, Esq., judge; R. H. Hobbes, Esq., clerk; and John Ashfi.eld, high -bailiff. Union Workhou.~, situated on the north-west side of the town, is a large neat brick building, erected 1837, at a cost of £5,444.; Thos. Wm. and Lucy Salmon, master and matron; Rev. Cornelius Griffin, M.A., chaplain; Harriet Bark, sehoolmistress; James Pritchard, house surgeon; R. H. Hobbes, Esq., clerk, and superintendent registrar; registrru:s of marriages, Edwd. Ashwin, for Stratford dist., and John Davis, for W ootton dist.; registrars of births and deaths, Rt. Flint, Stratford dist.; John Tombs, Old Stratford dist. ; Rd. Pitt, Esq., W ellesbourne dist.; J. M. Brown, Esq., Kineton dist. ; and Wm. Ensall, W ootton dist.; relieving officers, Rt. Flint, Stratford dist., and John Tarleton, W ootton dist. The Union comprises the following parishes, viz., Alveston, Atherstone-on-Stour, Alderminster, Bearley, Billesley, Beaudersert, Binton, Corn brook, Charlecote, Compton Verney, Clifford Chambers, Claverdon, Dorsington, Eatington, Fnlbrook, Grafton, Hampton Lucy, Kineton, Langley, Loxley, Luddington, Moreton Morrell, Marston-Sicca, Newbold Pacey, Old Stratford, Preston Bagot, Preston-on­ Stour, Stratford-on-Avon, Snitterfield, Whitchurch, Wellesbourne Hastings, Welles­ boorne Mountford, Welford, Wo1verton, Wootton Wawen, and Weston-on-Avon. John Branston Freer, Esq., chairman. Glopton House, onE' mile north by west, the ancient mansion of the family of that name, was a large, heavy, square, compact brick building, of that deep red almost approaching to purple, and bad in front a spacious court yard, entered through a gate­ way, the massive pillars of which seem to have been surmounted-like those of the Baron of Bradwardine-by grim heraldic monsters; and within, the old place wM just such as naturally gives rise to startling legends. It bad also its haunted chamber, wherein there bung a portrait "'singularly beautiful," of Charlotte Clopton, a lovely member of that family, who, during an epidemic sickness, had been too hastily interred in Stratford church ; and who, upon another of the family being shortly after interred~ .