LULLINGTON parish, contains the townships of Lullington, and Colon-in-the-Elms, 2,911 acres of lands and in 1851, had 145 houses, and 679 inhabitants, of whom 337 were males, and 342 females; rateable value £4,926 15s.

LULLINGTON, a township and well built pleasant village, 7½ miles S. from Burton-upon­-Trent, contains 1,756 acres of light but rich land, particularly celebrated for the excellent quality of its cheese, 67 houses and 303 Inhabitants, of whom 153 were males, and 150 females; rateable value £2,894. Charles Robert Colville, Esq., M.P., is sole owner, lord of the manor and impropriator. The Church, dedicated to All Saints, was presented by Edward III. to the priory of Gresley, it is a vicarage, valued in the King’s book at £4 11s. 10d., now £140, in the patronage of the Crown. Rev. Theodore Echalaz, M.A., is incumbent. It is an ancient structure, with nave, chancel, tower and spire, with 6 bells. The vicarage is a handsome mansion west of the church, with 60 acres of glebe. A hand­some school was erected near the east end of the church, by the lord of the manor, in 1843,

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which he partly supports, the average attendance about 40. The village has been considerably improved within the last few years. The lordship adjoins several preserved manors and forms part of the Atherstone Hunt. It is a salubrious and picturesque district of productive forward land. The village is 5¼ miles from Walton Railway station, and 4¼ miles from Oakley station. The manor of Lulletune was in the Gresley family in the reign of Edward I., and the church was given by that family to the priory of Gresley, and appropriated to that monastery in the reign of the second Edward. Lullington, written in Domesday book Lullitune, had a priest, a church, and a mill, at the time of the Norman survey.

COTON-IN-THE-ELMS, township and pleasant compact village, 6 miles S. by W. from Burton-upon Trent, and 1½ N.N.W. from Lullington, contains 1,163 acres of fertile lend, 78 houses, and 376 inhabitants, of whom 184 were males, and 192 females; rateable value £2,102 15s. Lady Wilmot Horton is the principal owner and lady of the manor. The executors of the late Charles Arkwright, Esq., John Curzon, Esq., Mrs. Sarah Bach, and Mr. Edwin Mallaber, have also estates here. The tithe was commuted in 1841. The rectorial belong principally to the landowners, but £165 is payable from the vicarial to the trustees of the late Sir Roger Gresley, Bart. A Church, dedicated to St. Mary, was erected at a cost of £1,200, raised by subscriptions towards which Lady Horton gave £500, and the late Charles Arkwright and Thomas Matthew Gisborne, Esqrs., were liberal contributors. The manor house, an ancient building, is now used as a school which the lady of the manor endows with £30 per annum; 60 boys and girls attend. In 1773, Thomas Wagstaff left £50, the interest on which is paid for instructing 5 children out of the largest and poorest families in the village. At Domesday survey this manor was held by the Abbot of Burton by the service of presenting a hound in a leash to the King whenever he came into Derby­shire, but it soon passed into lay hands; for in the year 1328, it was purchased by Stephens de Segrave, of the co-heiresses of Stephen de Beauchamp. Henry, Lord Berkley, a descendant of the Segraves, sold it in 1570, to Sir Wm. Gresley, Knight.

CHARITIES.—Henry Boylstone, in 1661, gave £10 to the poor of Lullington. In 1664, Catharine Gresley gave £10. John Ramsor alias Milner, in 1667, gave £10. Hartington Drayton, in 1703, gave £20, of which only £2 19s. was received. Thomas Darby, in 1713, gave £10, and Sarah Darby £4. Of these benefactions £43 only remained in 1750, which was placed in the hands of Sir Thomas Gresley, Bart. On the death of Sir Nigel Bowyer Gresley, Bart., in the year 1808, the total sum due to the charity, £54 5s., was paid by the executor. The sum of £4 5s. was distributed to the poor in bread in the ensuing December. The sum of £50, left in the hands of Mr. Henry Cooper, who had received it from the executor, was paid to C. R. Colville, Esq., who placed it in the bank, the interest on which was not received for some years but added to the principal, thereby making it about £70, the interest on which is distributed to the poor every Christmas.

George Clarke, gave by will, in 1659, £20 to the poor of Coton. The annual sum of £1 is paid in respect of this charity from Land called Walton Ways, belonging to Walter Bach,. and is distributed soon after St. Thomas’s day.

Thomas Wagstaffe, in 1773, left £25 to be placed out at interest and the proceeds distributed to the poor on St. Thomas’s day. He also gave the sum of £50 to be placed out at interest, to be applied to putting poor children of Coton to read. The sum of £75 is in the hands of John Stratton, on bond dated 30th October, 1815, at four per cent. interest, amounting to £3, of which £1 is distributed to the poor, with Clarke’s charity; and £2 is paid to a schoolmaster for instructing 5 poor boys or girls of Coton.

LULLINGTON TOWNSHIP.

Post Office, at Thos. Wardle’s; letters arrive from Burton-on Trent, at 9 30 a.m., and are despatched at 4 30 p.m.

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COTON-IN-THE-ELMS TOWNSHIP.

MEASHAM parish contains the townships of Measham, and part of the hamlets of Donisthorpe and Oakthorpe, locally situated in the West Goscote Hundred, Leicestershire, which form a joint township, principally in Church Grealey parish, and contains 1792A. 3R. 28R. of land, a rich brown soil, and in 1851 had 365 houses, and 1663 inhabitants, of whom 830 were males, and 833 females; rateable value £4,653.

MEASHAM is a large and well built village and township, on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Tamworth road, 3 miles S.S.W. from Ashby, and 16 miles S. from Derby, contains 1578 acres of land, and in 1851 had 352 houses, and 1607 inhabitants, of whom 804 were males, and 803 females; rateable value £4,096. The executors of the Marquis of Hastings, are lords of the manor and owners. George Moore, Edward Stevenson, Wm. W. Abney, Joseph Simmonds, G. Hunt, and John Eames, Esqrs., with several others, are also owners. The Church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, was given to Repton priory, but afterwards belonged the priory at Gresley. It is a handsome stone structure, with a tower and 4 bells, was repewed and a gallery erected in 1842, at a cost of £1,600, raised by subscriptions, aided by a grant. It is very tastefully fitted up, and the windows are all adorned with stained glass, it contains 616 sittings, of which 316 are free. The living is a perpetual curacy, value £97, has been augmented with £1,600 Parliamentary grant. The executors of the Marquis of Hastings are patrons and impropriators; and the Rev. John Hewetson, M.A., incumbent. The parsonage is a neat residence, situated a little west of the church. The Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal passes through the village at the south end. Measham Mills the property of Mr. George Hunt, have been greatly enlarged, and consists of two factories, for the manufacture of gimp, fancy cords, silk bindings, &c., one of which is worked by a steam engine of 40 horse power, and the other by water; they give employment to upwards of 250 persons. Gas Works have recently been added. In the front of the premises is a neat garden tastefully laid out and ornamented with a small sheet of water, containing a pleasure boat, and in different parts of the grounds are grottos, one of which contains an ancient stone, with the word “Water M.A. 1636,” engraved on it. On the 30th of November, 1836, a tape factory was burnt down, and on the front of an adjoining corn

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mill, which was preserved, is a tablet in remembrance of Sir George Rowland Beaumont, Bart., of Cole Orton Hall, in Leicestershire, who brought his own fire engine and servants and assisted in extinguishing the fire. In 1310, a market on Tuesday, and a fair for three days at the festival of the translation of St. Thomas, the martyr, were granted to William de-Beresford, who then possessed a manor in Measham. A Market House was built some years ago by Joseph Wilks, which was afterwards converted into a dwelling house, and the market discontinued. Fairs are still held here on the 1st of May, and the 1st Monday in November. The General Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists have each places of worship here, the former is a handsome building, which was rebuilt in 1841 at a cost of about £1,000. A National school for boys and girls, was built in 1829, and an infant school in 1833, at a cost of £800, of which £300 was realized from the proceeds of a bazaar, under the patronage of the Countess of Howe, and the Marchioness of Hastings; upwards of 200 children attend. In 1846, a substantial house in the Gothic style was erected for the master. A British school was established in 1844, and is held in the General Baptist school room, about 60 boys and girls attend. In 1852, a Temperance Hall was erected, at a cost of £100, towards which the Earl of Howe gave £10, on condition that it should not be used for religious services. Here are several Odd Fellows Lodges and Sick Societies in the village. The Union Inn, built by Joseph Wilkes, was formerly a great posting house, and the stables which were very extensive, have since been converted into dwelling houses, shopping, &c. Measham Hall, a neat brick mansion, which stands on a lawn of 30 acres, 1½ mile east, is the seat of William Wootten Abney, Esq. Measham Field House, 1 mile N.E., is a handsome residence, erected in 1812, by Joseph Jones, Esq., and is now the seat and property of Joseph Simmonds, Esq.

DONISTHORPE AND OAKTHORPE, township—(For) See Church Gresley parish.

CHARITIES.—Thomas Monk, in 1713, devised all his measuages, lands, &c., situate in the liberties of Austrey, in the counties of Warwick, and Blaby and Countesthorpe, in the county of Leicester. Of this charity, of which the income is about £271 19s. 9d., Measham is entitled to a residue; and in 1856, £5 was paid for the poor, and £30 to Measham school.

Susanna and Deborah Hall, in 1660, gave James Abney and two others £200 in trust for their use during their lives, and afterwards to the poor of Measham, from which eventually, Waltonway close, in Donisthorpe, and three poles of Mease Meadow, and the outdrift every fourth year, and two beast gates in the said meadow, were conveyed, in 1682, to the poor of Measham; and in 1688, Pockey close, in Waltonway, and two leys and a rood of land in a close, called the vale of Belvoir, and four poles in Mease Meadow, and two beast gates in Branbury Meadow, and one beast gate in the Peat Leys pasture, in Donisthorpe, were conveyed for the use of the poor. The above premises let for £36 6s. 11d, per annum. This, with other charities, is distributed to the poor on St. Thomas’s day.

Henry Hullock, Dean of Rochester, in 1704, gave to the poor of Measham, £6 a year, issuing out of his lands at Ringwold, near Dover. In 1805, the estate was sold, and this rent charge secured on a part of it purchased by Mr. John Upton. The yearly sum of £5 4s. is received, the residue, 16s. being deducted for land tax.

In a book containing the account of the charities of this parish, there is an entry dated 23rd December, 1805, stating that the trustees of Mr. Wilkes’ estate paid that day £50, (save £1 to the executor of William Hill,) as the bequest of the late William Hill, of Leicester, to the poor of Measham, with interest amounting to £22 15s., and also £20 for “principal money lodged in his hands,” with 20s. for one year’s interest thereon, making together £92 15s. Of this sum, £90 was, in 1805, placed in the Ashby and Measham bank, and in 1806. £10 was added thereto from the general fund of the charities. In 1818, the sum of £45 was placed in the same bank, the amount of a legacy given by the will of Sarah Hill. The interest on the above sums £7 5s. per annum, is distributed on St. Thomas’s day. In the parliamentary returns of 1786, a donation of £30 to the

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poor is memioned, in the hands of the minister and inhabitants. This sum is lent to the trustees of the Hinckley turnpike road, at 5 per cent., which is regularly paid, and distributed with the others.

Mrs. Salisbury is supposed to have left £60 for a school, but we have not been able to obtain any information to assist us in tracing the gift.

Post Office, at Mrs Caroline Proudman’s; letters arrive by mail gig from Atherstone, at 6 a.m., and are despatched at 8 p.m.

MELBOURNE parish, with the hamlet of King’s Newton, contains 3,463A. 3R. 5P. of land, including 62 acres of public roads, and 37A. 2R. 27P. of the river Trent, and had in 1851, 596 houses and 2,680 inhabitants of whom 1,288 were males and 1,392 females

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rateable value £7,606 16s. The executors of the Marquis of Hastings, Lady Palmerston, Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart., and Mr. Thomas Hemsley are the principal owners, the former are lords of the manor; there are also many other small freeholder,. Melbourne, is a small, pleasant, and well built market town, 8½ miles S.S.E. from Derby, and 6 miles N.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, is noted for market gardeners, the largest of whom is Mr. Samuel Robinson, of Shaw house. The Church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a large venerable edifice, with nave, chancel, side aisles, a low embattled tower, and four bells, has a gallery at the west end, and an organ. Here are some ancient monuments to the Hardinge family, particularly that to Sir Robert Hardinge, Knight, who died in 1760, and of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Sprignall, of Highgate, who died in 1673, with their effigies cut on white marble slabs. The Church is open to the road on all sides, the church­yard being at some distance, in which about the year 1550 was a handsome Gothic structure, but which has long been demolished. King John granted the Church of Melbourne to Benedict de Ramsay, about 1203, and afterwards to Simon de Waltham, after whose death Walter Maclere, Bishop of Carlisle, either by grant or purchase, annexed the Church with the parsonage manor to that See. In 1229 the Bishop had the grant of a fair. The living is a vicarage, valued in the King’s books at £9 13s. 4d., now £179. Bishop of Carlisle patron and appropriator, and the Rev. Joseph Dean, M.A., incumbent. The vicarage is a neat stone residence near the south side of the Church, and has 72A. 0R. 22P. of glebe land. The chantry of St. Catherine was founded by William Bars, in 1379, and was a detached building near the Church; that of St. Michael by Simon de Melbourne, clerk, and others, in 1400. The chantry roll speaks also of one founded by Lee Hunte. The General Baptists have a handsome chapel to seat about 700 persons. The Independent chapel, built in 1779 and enlarged in 1841, is a stone building with brick front and stone dressings, will seat 280. The Wesleyan Methodists have a neat brick chapel, erected in 1826, at a cost of £600, to seat 200. The Swedenborgian chapel was opened in 1825, will accom­modate 120 persons. The National Schools, which consist of a large brick building of two stories, were erected in 1821, through the exertions of the Rev. Mr. Bagge, the curate; when a house, in which the master of Lady Elizabeth Hastings’ school had been permitted to reside, was in part puiled down, and the present school built on the site, the remainder of the old building being fitted up for the master’s residence. Towards the expense, which amounted to £550, the sum of £250 was given by the National School society, and nearly £100 was raised by private subscriptions and such part of the master’s salary as accrued during the progress of the building; the rest was advanced by the Rev. Mr. Bagge, and the schools were opened December, 1822. £19 10s. is paid to this school from Lady Hastings’ charity, for which 12 boys are educated free. A market is held on Saturday, for butter, poultry, vegetables, &c. In 1836, a neat post for a lamp was erected in the centre of the Market place. The Feast is held Sunday after 11th of October, or, that day when Sunday, and a statute for hiring servants on the Monday. The Odd Fel­lows, Druids, and Forresters have lodges here, and here are also 1 male and 2 female benefit societies. The Athenæum is a handsome brick building with stone dressings, erected by subscription in 1853, at a cost of about £1,200, exclusive of the land, which was the gift of Lady Palmerstone. It contains the Savings’ bank and the Mechanics’ Institu­tion, which was established in 1841, by subscription, to which the late Joseph Strutt, Esq., gave 150 volumes of books and £5, and the late Lord Melbourne £10. It has upwards of 400 volumes, 16 honorary and 80 other members. Mr. John Holland is treasurer and Mr. Wm, Salsbury. secretary and librarian. The Gas works, Castle street, erected in 1853, by Mr. Thos. Atkins, civil engineer, of Oxford, at a cost of £2,200, raised by a company of £10 shareholders; the gasometer will hold 9,000 cubic feet, there are 5 retorts; Mr. Stephen Smith, manager, Mr. Chas. Stuart Barker, secretary, and Mr. John Earp, treasurer. Here are about 160 lace machines, principally used for manufacturing silk gloves. The manor of Melbourne was part of the ancient demesne of the crown. Henry, Earl of Lancaster, had in 1327, a charter for a market on Wednesdays, and a fair for 3 days at the festival of St.

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Michael, long disused. The castle and manor continued attached to the Earldom and Duchy of Lancaster till the year 1604, when King James granted them to Charles, Earl of Not­tingham. The Earl soon afterwards conveyed them to Henry, Earl of Huntingdon; from whom they have descended to the present proprietor. Melbourne castle was for many years the prison of John, Duke of Bourbon, taken at the battle of Agincourt, in 1415. Leyland, about 1550, describes it then in “meteley repair” A survey of the manor made in 1602, describes it as a “ faire ancient castle which her Majesty keepeth in her own hands.” The Earls of Huntingdon suffered it to go to decay. About 50 yards of the outer wall of the castle, which enclosed an area of about 10 acres of land, still remains. A few years ago, on its site, some floors and rooms were discovered of beautifully chiselled stone, with curious ornamented mouldings. The Bishops of Carlisle had a place here with a park, at which they occasionally resided. Bishop Kirkby is recorded to have held his ordination here on account of the Border wars. It was long held on lease under the see of Carlisle, together with the impropriate rectory. The first of the Coke family who settled at Mel­bourne as lessee under the Bishop of Carlisle, was Sir John Coke, secretary of state to King Charles I. In 1701 an agreement was made between Bishop Nicholson and Thomas Coke, Esq., that in consequence of an increase of the annual rent from £45 to £70, and of the vicar’s stipend from £20 to £35, the fee should be vested in perpetuity in Mr. Coke, his heirs and assigns. This agreement was confirmed by an act of parliament in 1704. The sister and heiress of George Lewis Coke, Esq., who died in 1750, brought Melbourne Hall and the parsonage manor to Sir Matthew Lamb, Bart. Sir Penistone Lamb, Bart., his son, was created an Irish peer, by the title of Lord Melbourne, in 1770, and in 1780 he was advanced to the dignity of a Viscount. The palace was taken down about 1830, when many ancient reliques, coins, earthenware vessels, &c., were found. It was a large building with pointed gables, and the park had long been converted into tillage. The Hall, situated near the Church, is a large modern stone mansion, commanding some fine views, having in front a sheet of water covering 28 acres. In the gardens and shrubberies, which are ex­tensive, is a walk of yew trees supposed to be several centuries old. It is the seat of Geo. Briscoe, Esq., and the property of Lady Palmerston. Shaw Hill House, a neat brick residence, 1 mile S.W. is the seat and property of Wm. M. Briggs, Esq. Lodge Hill House, ¾ mile S.E. situated on a commanding eminence, and having extensive views is occupied by Mr. Joseph Hasard, farmer.

KING’S NEWTON, is a small well built pleasant village, and joint township with Melbourne, 8 miles S.S.E. from Derby, and 1 mile N. from the parish Church. It contains about 795 acres of land; the rateable value, population, &c., is given with Melbourne. The executors of the Marquis of Hastings are lords of the manor, and the principal owners are Lady Palmerston, Joseph Thomas Cantrell, Esq., Joseph Earp, Esq., Mr. Henry Orton, Mr. John Sims, Rev. Wm. Hy. Cantrell, and Mr. John Briggs. The manor was granted in 1322, with that of Melbourne to Sir Robert Holland. The Hall is an ancient stone mansion, in the Elizabethan style, was erected by one of the Hardinge’s, and was for many generations the residence of that family. It is now the property of Lady Palmerston, and the seat of Robert Green, Esq. King Charles II. was entertained here by Sir Robt. Hardinge, Knight., when, after His Majesty’s departure, some writing was discovered on a pane of stained glass, signed Carlos Newton Regis, hence the name, Newton Regis. Holy Well, a spring formerly much in repute, over which a stone arch was constructed in 1660, with a latin inscription upon it. In the 16th century here was a weekly market and a yearly fair. At the south end of the village is a stone cross on the top of which is a lime tree planted by Mr. Thos. Scott, about 80 years ago, which is very thriving. Near the cross a golden spur was found on removing a mound of earth, about 30 years ago. The manor house was situated near the Trent, of which there are no remains, its site is called the Hall Close. In 1852 a house belonging to Joseph Thomas Cantrell, Esq., was licensed and fitted up by subscription as a chapel of ease, in which the vicar of Melbourne performs divine service every Sunday evening. Mr. Hy. Orton has ex-

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tensive works here, for the manufacture of superior front, floor, paving, and common bricks, quarries, drainage pipes, and every description of ware, suitable for the garden, hothouse, or conservatory.

CHARITIES.—Melbourne School.—Lady Elizabeth Hastings, by indenture, 1738, among many other charities principally in the county of York, appointed the yearly sum of £10 to a charity school in this parish, to be paid to the vicar there; and a provision for enabling the vicars of Ledsham, Thorp Arch, and Cottingham, in the county of York, to advance the sums to each as the rents increased. In pursuance of this power, this school now receives £19 10s.

Henry Greene, in 1679, charged all his estates with the payment of four green waist­coates lined with green galloon lace, to be delivered to four poor women on or before 21st December, yearly. The premises now belong to Lady Palmerston, and in lieu of the four waistcoats, which have not been provided for many years, the yearly sum of £2 is disposed of, part in clothing and part in bread.

Thomas Gray, in 1691, directed his executors to lay out £200 in the purchase of lands, out of the rents or profits thereof six nobles to be given yearly, to buy six waistcoats of grey cloth edged with blue galloon lace, and 40s. to buy three coats of grey cloth to be faced with baize or some other blue stuff; four waistcoats to be given yearly to four poor widows of Castle Donnington, and the other to poor widows of Melbourne, and the coats to be given to two men of each of the said places. He directed copies of his will should be entered in the town’s books of the said parishes and hung up in the Churches, and should be read yearly on St. Thomas’s day or the following Sunday, after prayers; for the perfor­mance of which, he directed the ministers should have 5s. a-piece; and also that 15 dozen of bread should be given to the poor of Castle Donnington, and 10 dozen to the poor of Melbourne yearly, on St. Andrew’s day; and he further directed, that whatever surplus should remain of the rents and profits of the said premises should be distributed, two parts thereof for apprenticing poor children of Castle Donnington, and the third part to the poor children of Melbourne. The yearly sum of £10 15s. 4d. is transmitted to Mel­bourne, as the proportion due; of this, 5s. is paid to the minister for reading the will. The sum of £1 6s. 8d., together with £1 10s. part of Greene’s charity above-mentioned, is applied towards purchasing 3 coats and 3 gowns for poor men and women who are nominated at a vestry. 10s., with 10s. of Greene’s charity is laid out in the purchase of sixpenny loaves, and given away about Christmas; and with the residue of the rent appren­tices are placed out, with premiums varying from £5 to £10. In August, 1826, there was a balance in hand of £48 10s. 5d.

MELBOURNE DIRECTORY.

Post Office, at Mrs. Mary Warren’s, Market place. Letters arrive by mail cart from Derby, at 6 a.m.; and are despatched at 7 p.m.

Money Orders are granted and paid here from 9 a.m., to 6 p.m.

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