Chapter XIX: Appendix: A.—Page 10

STRUTT, quoting from the book of St. Alban’s the sort of birds assigned to the different ranks of persons, places them in the following order:—

The eagle, the vulture, and the melona for an emperor. The ger-falcon and the tercel of the ger-falcon for a king. The falcon gentle and the tercel gentle for a prince. The falcon of the rock for a duke. The falcon peregrine for an earl. The bastard for a baron. The sacre and the sacret for a knight. The lanere and the laneret for an esquire. The marlyon for a lady. The hobby for a young man. The gos-hawk for a yeoman. The tercel for a poor man. The sparrow-hawk for a priest. The musket for a holy-water clerk. The kesterel for a knave or a servant.

Of some of the later and milder measures taken to protect the hawk, it may be remarked that the 5th of Elizabeth, c. 21, enacts that if any person shall unlawfully take any hawks, or their eggs, out of the woods or ground of any person, and be thereof convicted at the assizes or sessions on indictment, bill or information at the suit of the king, or of the party, he shall be imprisoned three months, and pay treble damages, and after the expiration of three months shall find sureties for his good abearing for seven years, or remain in prison till he doth, § 3.

The last statute concerning _falconry_ (except a clause in 7 Jac. c. 11, which limits the time of hawking at pheasants and partridges) is that of the 23rd Eliz. c. 10, which enacts that if any manner of person shall hawk in another man’s corn after it is eared, and before it is shocked, and be therefore convicted at the assizes, sessions, or leet, he shall pay 40_s._ to the owner, and if not paid within ten days he shall be imprisoned for a month.

B.—_Page_ 41.

Mr. Eyton, to whose learned and valuable work on the “Antiquities of Shropshire” the author again acknowledges his obligations, as all who follow that painstaking writer must do, with regard to the holding at the More, says, “The earliest notice of this tenure which occurs in the Roll of Shropshire Sergeantries, is dated 13th of John, 1211, and merely says that Richard de Medler holds one virgate of land, and renders for the same annually, at the Feast of St. Michael, two knives (knifeulos). A second contemporary roll supplies the place of payment, viz., the Exchequer; a third writes the name, Richard le Mener. In 1245 Nicholas de More is said to pay at the Exchequer two knives (cultellos)—one good, the other very bad—for certain land which he holds of the King in capite in More. In 1255 the Stottesden Jurors report that Nicholas de Medler holds one virgate in More, in capite of the Lord King, rendering at the Exchequer two knives, one of which ought to cut a hazel rod, and he does no other service for the said land. In that of 1274 Jurors of the same Hundred say at length that Nicholas de la More holds one virgate in that vill of the Lord King, in capite, by sergeantry, of taking two knives to the King’s Exchequer, at the feast of St. Michael in each year, so that he ought to cut a hazel rod with one knife, so that the knife should bend (plicare) with the stroke; and again, to cut a rod with the other knife. The record of 1284 describes Nicholas de la More as holding three parts of a virgate and two moors, by sergeantry, &c. The Jurors of Oct. 1292 say that William de la More, of Erdington, holds one virgate in the More, by sergeantry of taking two knives to the King’s Exchequer on the morrow of St. Michael, and to cut with the same knives two hazel rods.”

C—_Page_ 49.

This bold projecting rock is called, from Major Thomas, “Smallman’s Leap,” from a tradition that the major, a staunch Royalist, being surprised by a party of Cromwell’s horse, was singly and hotly pursued over Westwood, where, finding all hope of escape at an end, he turned from the road, hurried his horse into a full gallop to the edge of the precipice, and went over. The horse was killed by falling on the trees beneath, but the major escaped, and secreted himself in the woods. Certain historical facts, showing that the family long resided here, appear to give a colouring to this tradition. Thus, in the reign of Henry III. (57th year) William Smallman had a lease from John Lord of Brockton par Shipton, Corvedale, of 17½ acres of land, with a sytche, called Woolsytche, and two parcels of meadow in the fields of Brockton. John Smallman possessed by lease and grant, from Thomas de la Lake, 30 acres of land in the fields of Larden par Shipton, for twenty years from the feast of St. Michael, living 4th Edward II. (1310) 41st Edward III. (1367), Richard Smallman, of Shipton, granted to Roger Powke, of Brockton, all his lands and tenements in the township and fields of Shipton, as fully as was contained in an original deed. Witnesses—John de Galford, Sir Roger Mon (Chaplain), Henry de Stanwy, John Tyklewardyne (Ticklarton), of Stanton, John de Gurre of the same, with others. 1st Henry VI. (1422), John Smallman was intrusted with the collection of the subsidies of taxes payable to the Crown within the franchise of Wenlock. Thomas Smallman, of Elton, co. Harford, and Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, afterwards a Welsh judge, purchased the manor of Wilderhope, Stanway, and the teg and estates, and had a numerous grant of arms, 5th October, 1589. Major Thomas Smallman, a staunch royalist, born 1624, compounded for his estate £140.

Underneath this bold projecting headland, sometimes called “Ipikin’s Rock,” is Ipikin’s Cave, an excavation very difficult of approach, where tradition alleges a bold outlaw long concealed himself and his horse, and from which he issued to make some predatory excursion.

The term _hope_, both as a prefix and termination, is of such frequent occurrence here that it is only natural to suppose that it has some special signification; and looking at the positions of Prest_hope_, East_hope_, Millic_hope_, Middle_hope_, Wilder_hope_, _Hope_say, and _Hope_ Bowdler, that signification appears to be a recess, or place remote between the hills. Easthope is a rural little village about two miles beyond Ipikin’s Rock, pleasantly situated in one of these long natural troughs which follow the direction of Wenlock Edge.

It appears to have been within the Long Forest, and is mentioned in Domesday as being held in Saxon times by Eruni and Uluric; it was afterwards held by Edric de Esthop, and others of the same name. There was a church here as early as 1240, and in the graveyard, between two ancient yews, are two tombs, without either date or inscription, in which two monks connected with the Abbey of Wenlock are supposed to have been interred.

Near Easthope, and about midway between Larden Hall and Lutwyche Hall, is an enclosure comprising about eight acres, or an encampment, forming nearly an entire circle, surrounded by inner and outer fosses. The internal slope of the inner wall is 12 feet, and externally 25, while the crest of the parapet is 6 feet broad. The relief of the second vallum rises 10 feet from the fosse, and is about 12 feet across its parapet. There is also a second ditch, but it is almost obliterated. It is supposed to have been a military post, forming an important link in the chain of British entrenchments which stretched throughout this portion of the county. Near it a mound resembling a tumulus was opened some years since by the Rev. R. More and T. Mytton, Esq., and in or near which a British urn of baked clay was discovered, on another occasion, while making a drain.

D.—_Page_ 66.

“Proavus meus Richardus de isto matrimonio susceptus uxorem habuit
Annam Richardi dicti Forestarii filiam qui quidem Richardus filius
erat natu minor prænobilis familiæ Forestariorum (olim Regiorum
Vigorniensis saltûs custodum) et famoso Episcopo Bonnero a-Secritis
Hic Suttanum Madoci incolebat, et egregias ædes posuit in urbicula
dicta Brugge, sive ad Pontem vel hodie dictas Forestarii Dementiam,”

E.—PEDIGREE OF THE FORESTER FAMILY, _Page_ 69.

In his “Sheriffs of Shropshire,” Mr. Blakeway in speaking of the Forester family, says: “They were originally Foresters, an office much coveted by our ancestors, which latter seems probable, from the fact, that on the Pipe Rolls of 1214, Hugh Forester accounts for a hundred merks that he may hold the bailiwick of the forest of Salopscire, as his father held it before him.” King John, however, remits thirty merks of the payment in consequence of Hugh having taken to wife the niece of John l’Estrange, at _His Majesty’s request_. It does not seem clear, however, that Hugh, the son of Robert, can be traced to have been in the direct line of the Willey family, he having been ancestor to Roger, son of John, the first of the king’s six foresters. The other, Robert de Wellington, the late Mr. George Morris, in his “Genealogies of the Principal Landed Proprietors,” now in the possession of T. C. Eyton, Esq., to whose kindness we are indebted for this extract, says was the earliest person that can certainly be called ancestor of the present family of Forester. His sergeantry is described as the custody of the King’s Hay of Eyton, of which, and several adjoining manors, Peter de Eyton, lineal ancestor of the present Thomas Campbell Eyton, of Eyton, and grandson of Robert de Eyton, who gave the whole of the Buttery estate to Shrewsbury Abbey, was the lord.

Thomas, a son of Robert Forester of Wellington, in the Hundred Rolls, in 1254, is said by the king’s justices itinerant to hold half a virgate of the king to keep the Hay of Wellington. Roger le Forester of Wellington, who succeeded Robert, appears to have died 1277–8, and to have left two sons, Robert and Roger. Robert had property in Wellington and the Bailiwick of the forest of the Wrekin, and is supposed to have succeeded his father, whom he did not long survive, having died the year following, 1278–9. Roger his brother succeeded to his possession, and held also the Hay of Wellington, of which he died seized in 1284–5. Robert, the Forester of Wellington, Mr. Blakeway says, occurs in the Hundred Roll of Bradford in 1287, and is shown to have held the Hay of Wellington till 1292–3, when Roger, son of Roger, proving himself of age, paid the king one merk as a relief for his lands in Wellington, held by sergeantry, to keep Wellington Hay, in the forest of the Wrekin, &c. This is the Roger de Wellington before-mentioned, as one of King Edward’s foresters by fee, recorded in his Great Charter of the forests of Salopssier, in the perambulation of 1300. He died 1331.

John le Forester, as John, son and heir of Roger le Forester de Welynton, succeeded to the property, and proved himself of age in the reign of Edward III., 1335. With John de Eyton he attested a grant in Wellington, and died 24th of Edward III., 1350.

William le Forester succeeded his father, John, in 1377, and died 19th of Richard II., 1395.

In 1397 Roger Forester de Wellington is described as holding Wellington Hay and Chace. He died in 1402.

Roger, his son and heir, was in 1416 appointed keeper of the same haia by the Duchess of Norfolk and the Lady Bergavenny, sisters and co-heiresses of the great Thomas Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel.

His son and successor, John, died 5th of Edward IV. 1465, seized of the lands, &c., in Wellington, and the custody of the forest of the Wrekin. He had two sons, William and John, also a son Richard; and William, son of the above, appears to have been the father of another John, the former John having died without issue. John, in 1506, witnesses a deed of Thomas Cresset, as John Forester the younger; he married Joice Upton, the heiress of Philip Upton, of Upton under Haymond, and obtained the estate of that place, which is still inherited by his descendants.

This John Forester first resided in Watling Street, where his ancestors for several generations had lived, in the old timbered mansion, now occupied by Dr. Cranage, but he afterwards removed to Easthope, whilst his son William resided at Upton; and Richard Forester, alias Forster of Sutton Maddock, secretary to Bishop Bonner, who built the old mansion in Bridgnorth, called “Forester’s Folly,” which was burnt down during the siege of the castle, when the high town became a heap of ruins, appears to have been a son of John Forester, of Easthope; and Anthony Forester or Foster of Sir Walter Scott’s novel, who was born about 1510, was a son of his.

In the 34th of Henry VIII., 1542–3, Thomas Foster and Elizabeth his wife, account in the Exchequer for several temporalities in connection with the monastery of St. Peter’s, Shrewsbury. Sir William Forester, KB., married Lady Mary Cecil, daughter of James, third Earl of Salisbury. He was a staunch Protestant, and represented the county with George Weld, as previously stated, with whom he voted in favour of the succession of the House of Hanover, and the family came into possession of the Willey estates by the marriage of Brook Forester of Dothill Park, with one of the Welds, the famous George Forester, the Willey Squire, being the fruit of that marriage. George Forester left the whole of his estates to his cousin, Cecil Forester, of Ross Hall, who was allowed by George the Fourth, whose personal friendship he had been permitted to enjoy for many years, to add the name of Weld in 1821. Cecil Weld Forester, Esq., was ennobled the same year by George the Fourth, who, when Prince of Wales, honoured him with a visit at Ross Hall. He married Catherine, daughter of His Grace the fourth Duke of Rutland, and was not less renowned than his cousin, as a sportsman. His eagerness for the chase was happily characterised by the late Mr. Meynell, who used to say, “First out of cover came Cecil Forester, next the fox, and then my hounds.” A famous leap of his, thirty feet across a stream, on his famous horse Bernardo, has been recorded in some lines now at Willey which accompany the portrait of the horse. He is supposed to have been one of the first who instituted the present system of hard riding to hounds, and a horse known to have been ridden by him, it is said, would at any time fetch £20 more than the ordinary price. Speaking of the classic proportions of a horse, and the perfection of the art of riding in connection with his lordship as a sportsman, Colonel Apperley, remarked some years ago, “Unless a man sits gracefully on his horse, and handles him well, that fine effect is lost. As the poet says, he would be incorporated with the brave beast, and such does Lord Forester appear to be. His eye to a country is also remarkably quick, and his knowledge of Leicestershire has given him no small advantage. On one occasion he disregarded the good old English custom of ‘looking before you leap,’ and landed in the middle of a deep pool. ‘Hold on,’ a countryman who saw him, shouted to others coming in the same direction. ‘Hold your tongue—say nothing, we shall have it full in a minute,’ said Lord Forester.” The Colonel added, “In consequence of residing in Shropshire, a country which has been so long famous for its breed of horses, he has a good opportunity of mounting himself well. He always insisted on the necessity of lengthy shoulders, good fetlocks, well formed hind legs and open feet; and knowing better than to confound strength and size, his horses seldom exceeded fifteen hands. On anything relating to a hunter his authority has long been considered classic, and if Forester said so it was enough. Lord Forester will always stand pre-eminent in the field, whilst in private life he is a very friendly man, and has ever adhered to those principles of honour and integrity which characterise the gentleman.” He died on the 23rd of May, 1828, in his 61st year. He had, as we have said, ten children, the gallant Frank Forester, as Colonel Apperley styles him, being one. The oldest was the present Right Hon. J. G. W. Forester, whose popularity in connection with the Belvoir Hunt is so well known.

His lordship, whose portrait we give at the commencement of this work, and who is now in the 73rd year of his age, has added very much to the Willey estates, both by purchase and by improvements, and is very much esteemed by his tenantry.

The Right Hon. General Forester, who succeeded his brother in the representation of Wenlock, has sat for the borough for forty-five years, and is now the Father of the House of Commons. Whether out-door exercises, associated with the pleasures of the chase, to which the ancestors of the Foresters have devoted themselves for so many centuries, have anything to do with it or not we cannot say; but the Foresters are remarkable for masculine and feminine beauty, and the General has frequently been spoken of by the press as the best looking man in the House of Commons. Neither he nor his elder brother, the present Rt. Hon. Lord Forester, are likely to leave behind them direct issue. The younger brother, the Hon. and Rev. O. W. W. Forester, has one son, Cecil, who has several sons to perpetuate the name of Forester, which we hope will long be associated with Willey.

INDEX.

Abbot of Leicester, 15 ,, Salop, 6 „ Tavistock, 15 Addison, 80 Albrighton red-coats, 30 Aldenham, 32 Alfred, 19 Algar, 19 Apley, 32 Apperley, Col., 84 Arrows, 22 Atterley, 22, 32

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Bachelors’ Hall, 104 Badger, 52 Barons’ War, 25 Barrow, 32 Battle of Worcester, 26 Baxter, 65 Beacons, 168 Beaver, 4 Bellet’s, Rev. George, Antiquities of Bridgnorth, 66 Belswardine, 32 Benson, M., Esq., 48 Benthall, 32 Benthall Edge, 53 Bernard’s Hill, 23 Bishop Bonner, 66 ,, Percy, 65 Bittern, 5 Black Toms, 182 Bold, 32 Boney, 167 Bowman’s Hill, 26 Bow, the weapon of sport and of war, 22 Brock-holes, 52 Broseley, 32, 40 Brown Clee, 96 Brug, 40 Buck, 16 Buildwas, 100

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Cantreyne, 32 Castellan, 23 Castillon, 14 Cask of wine, 24 Castle, 22 Caughley, 32 Chace of Shirlot, 31 Chaucer, 46 Chesterton, 18 Chester, Earl of, 25 Chetton, 31 Childers, 88 Christmas Day, 38 Claverley, 25 Clee Hills, 39 Cliffords, 40 Coalbrookdale, 40 Coed, 19 Colemore, 32 Collars of gold, 9 Constable, 45 Coracle, 6 Corbett, 24 Corve Dale, 51 Cox Morris, 115 Craft of Hunting, 16 Cressage, 49 Creswick, 45

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D—n the Church, 116 Danesford, 19 Dastardly devils, 157 Dawley, 58 Dean, 32 Deer, 31, 36, 37, 39 Deer Leap, 36 Dibdin, 141 Ditton, 39 Dodos, 4 Domesday, 71 Dothill, 65 Druids, 46, 50 Drury Lane, 144 Duke’s Antiquities, 28 Duke of York, 171

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Early features of the country, 8 Earl of Derby, 26 Earl Dundonald, 171 Easthope, 49 Egret, 5 Elk, Gigantic, 11 England, The, of our ancestor, 79 Evelith, 66 Eyton, 58 Eyton, Sir H, 63 Eyton, T. C, 63

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Falcon, 9 First iron barge, 170 Fishing a recreation for the sick, 7 Fishing an attractive art, &c., 6 „ practised by primitive dwellers, 5 Forest Lodge, 28 Forest Roll, 58 Forester, Brook, 76 „ George, 76 ,, Hugh, 58 „ John, 63 „ Robert, 58, 60, 63 „ Roger, 63 „ Squire, 76 „ William, 73 Forester’s Folly, 66 Forster, Richard, 64 Foster, Anthony, Lord of the Manor of Little Wenlock, 64 Foster, Anthony, a different character to what Sir Walter Scott represents him, 67, 68 Fox-holes, 52 Fox-hunters’ Christening, 120 Fox-hunting Moll, 121

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Gammer Gurton’s Needle, 26, 29 Gatacre, 26 Gentlemen nearest the fire, 175 George Earl of Shrewsbury, 29 Goats, 25 Grant, singular, to John Forester, 63

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Hangster’s Gate, 145 Harold, 48 Harpswood, 33 Hay Gate, 59 Haye, 60 Haye of Shirlot, 40 ,, Wellington, 58 Hawking, 10 Hermitage, 26, 27 Heron, 10 Hill Top, 49 Hinton, 115 Honest old Tom, 89 Hope Bowdler, 49 Hughley, 49 Hugh Montgomery, 39 Hunting as old as the hills, 1 Hunting-matches, 61

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Imbert, 40 Incledon, 143 Ipikin’s Rock, 49 Iron, 41

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Kennels, 86
King Canute, 12
„ Edward I., 24
,, „ VI., 29
„ Henry I., 13
„ „ III. in Shrewsbury, 14
,, ,, III., 28
,, ,, VII., 29
„ „ VIII., 10, 63
„ John, 10
,, Richard I., 13
„ „ II., 28
„ William I., 12

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Lacon, 73 Lady Oak, 49, 50 Larden, 48 Larry Palmer, 109 Latimer, 15 Legend, 20 Leland, 41 Lilleshall, 5 Linley, 42 Little Wenlock, 10 Lodge Farm, 36 Long runs, 96 Lutwyche, 48

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Major Forester and his Volunteers, 159 Marsh and forest periods, 8 Maypoles, 86 Merrie days, 16 Mog Forest, 49 Moody, 11 Moody’s Horn, 127 Morfe Forest, 17 „ Volunteers, 172 Morville, 31 Mount St. Gilbert, 57 Muckley Row, 34 Needle’s Eye, 56

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Oaks, 51
Offenders in forests, 14
Old boots, 138
Old Hall, 73
„ Lodge, 29
„ names, 27
„ records, 96
„ style of hunting, 84
,, Simkiss, 96
„ tenures, 41
,, Tinker, 96
„ trees, 50, 55
„ Trojan, 130
Ordericus Vitalis, 13, 18
Original letters, 90, 91

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Parson Stephens in his shirt, 111 Parson Stephens and the poacher, 119 Pendlestone Mill, 57 Phœbe Higgs, 95 Pigmy, 88 Pilot, 88 Piers Plowman, 14 Prince Rufus, 13

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Quatford, 21

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Red deer, 30 Robin Hood, 23 Roger de Montgomery, 21

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Savory, 92 Seabright, 130 Second Wenlock Loyal Volunteers, 165 Shade of Tom Moody, 146 Sherwood, 47 Shirlot, 34 Shipton, 51 Smallman’s Leap, 49 Smith, Sidney Stedman, Esq., 66 Smithies, 42 Sore sparrow-hawk, 9 Spoonhill, 48 Sporting priors, 37 Sporting visitations, 38 Sportsmen attend, 136 Squire Forester’s gift to Dibdin, 143 Squire Forester among his neighbours, 173 Squire Forester and the rioters, 177 Squire Forester in Parliament, 151 Squire Forester not a model for imitation, 177 Squire Forester notorious for his amours, 180 Squire Forester, Death of, 185 ,, „ Extracts from the will of, 185 Stoke St. Milburgh, 40 Stubbs, 89 Sutton Maddock, 65 Swainmote, 24, 37 Swine, 20 Sylvan slopes, 47

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Tasley, 32 Taylor, the water-poet, 60 Tevici, huntsman to Edward I., 12 Thursfield, Thomas, 44 „ William, 84 Tickwood, 100 Tom Moody, 122 Tom Moody’s last request, 135 Trencher hounds, 130 Tumuli, 18 Turner, 114

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Venison, 35 Vivaries, 5 Volunteers, 158, 166

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“Walls,” The, 18 Wastes, 25 Weirs, 5 Welds, The, 73 Wenlock (Loyal Volunteers), 159 Wenlock, 38, 152 Wheatland, 45 Who-who-hoop, 129 Wild boar, 29 Wilkinson, 114 Willey, 70 ,, Church, 173, 186 „ rector, 118 ,, Wharf, 170 Williley, 72 Wilton, 79 Windfalls, 35 Woodcraft, 14 Worf, 18 Wrekin, 55

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Encaustic & Geometrical Tiles,

JACKFIELD WORKS,

NEAR IRONBRIDGE, SHROPSHIRE.

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Elementary Geological Collections, at 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each, and every requisite to assist those commencing the study of this interesting branch of Science, a knowledge of which affords so much pleasure to the traveller in all parts of the world.

A collection for Five Guineas, to illustrate the recent works on Geology, by Ansted, Buckland, Lyell, Mantell, Murchison, Page, Phillips, and others, contains 200 specimens, in a plain Mahogany Cabinet, with five trays, comprising the following specimens, viz.:—

MINERALS which are either the components of Rocks, or occasionally imbedded in them—Quartz, Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Garnet, Zeolite, Hornblende, Augite, Asbestos, Felspar, Mica, Talc, Tourmaline, Spinel, Zircon, Corundum, Lapis Lazuli, Calcite, Fluor, Selenite, Baryta, Strontia, Salt, Sulphur, Plumbago, Bitumen, &c.

NATIVE METALS, or METALLIFEROUS MINERALS; these are found in masses or beds, in veins, and occasionally in the beds of rivers. Specimens of the following Metallic Ores are put in the Cabinet:—Iron, Manganese, Lead, Tin, Zinc, Copper, Antimony, Silver, Gold, Platina, Mercury, Titanium, &c.

ROCKS: Granite, Gneiss, Mica-slate, Clay-slate, Porphyry, Serpentine, Sandstones, Limestones, Basalt, Lavas, &c.

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SECONDARY FOSSILS from the Rhætic, Lias, Oolite, Wealden, and Cretaceous Groups.

TERTIARY FOSSILS from the Plastic Clay, London Clay, Crag, &c.

In the more expensive collections some of the specimens are rare, and all more select.

JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist (by Appointment)
to Her Majesty, 149, Strand, London, W.C.

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THE
OLD HALL SCHOOL,
WELLINGTON, SALOP.

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RESIDENT MASTERS:

Principal.

J. EDWARD CRANAGE, M.A., Ph.D. of the University of Jena; Author of “Mental Education;” Lecturer to the Society of Arts, &c., &c.

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Head Master.

DAVID JOHNSTON, Esq., M.A., Aberdeen.

Second Master.

THOMAS WILLIAMS, Esq., B.A.,
(In Mathematical Honours) Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Modern Languages Master.

MONSIEUR VIDAL, of the University of Louvain.

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TERMS FOR BOARD AND LODGING.

(EXCLUSIVE OF SCHOOL FEES, FOR WHICH SEE SEPARATE CIRCULAR.)

PER QUARTER. £ _s._ _d._ Private pupils above 18 years of age, with separate 42 0 0 bedroom, horse riding, and other privileges Ditto, without horse exercise, under 18 26 5 0 Boarders 12 12 0 Ditto, under 10 years of age 10 10 0 Separate bedroom for one boy 5 5 0 Ditto, for two boys (each) 4 4 0 Ditto, for three boys (each) 3 3 0 Washing, according to clothes used, generally 0 15 0

DR. CRANAGE’S undeviating aim is to train the boys committed to his care, not only in mental acquisitions, but in their whole moral and physical being; believing, that as much pains and unremitting attention are required for the latter as the former. Attention is given not only to the studies which the boys pursue, but to their recreation, games, and amusements—upon the principle that almost every incident affords materials for improvement, and opportunities for the formation of good habits.

His main object in the intellectual culture is to teach the boy to think; without omitting the positive work and hard study to brace “the nerves of the mind” for the making of a scholar.

The system of rewards and punishments is peculiar, with the general absence of corporal punishment; but the experience of more than twenty-four years has fully proved its efficiency.

Above all, his desire is to bring them to Christ as their Saviour, and then to help them to walk like Christ, as their example.

Dr. Cranage finds the most wonderful difference in the progress and conduct of the boys committed to his care according to the measure of moral support he receives from the parents and guardians of the boys. He earnestly solicits their hearty and constant co-operation in his anxious labours.

The skeleton Report will give a succinct view of the subjects of study. The aim is to give a thoroughly liberal education, without too exclusive attention to Latin and Greek. In the study of languages the system of Arnold is considered admirable, but not perfect; the grammar is therefore supplied, and iteration and reiteration of declensions, conjugations, and rules to impress indelibly, by rote even, all the fundamentals are resorted to. Latin, as the basis of most of the modern European languages, is considered—even to boys not going to college—very important; it is deemed also very desirable for _all_ boys to be able to read the Greek Testament before leaving school.

Some objects are taught by familiar Lectures only, illustrated by extensive apparatus; while many other subjects are occasionally thus exemplified.

A report of each boy’s improvement and conduct is sent to his parents or guardians eight times in each year.

At the end of each year the School is examined by the authority and direction of the Syndicate appointed by the University of Cambridge, and a copy of the Report is sent to the parents or guardians of each boy. There is also an examination at midsummer by the masters of the school on the work of the previous half-year; a report of which is sent to the parents.

The boy’s Reading Room is furnished with good Periodicals and a well-selected Library.

There is a well-furnished Laboratory for the study of Chemistry, Photography, &c.; Dr. Cranage himself instructing in science in the school.

A Museum is established for collecting specimens to illustrate natural history, arts, and sciences, together with articles of virtû and antiquity—the boys themselves being the principal collectors and contributors.

There are three orders of distinction in the school conferred for proficiency, combined with good conduct:—1st, Holder of a Certificate; 2nd, Palmer, or Holder of the Palm; 3rd, or highest, Grecian.

The School-house is delightfully situated within a mile of the railway-station of Wellington; it is well adapted for its purpose, and fitted up with the necessary appliances. The school-room, reading-room, dining-room, lavatory, bath-room, and dormitories are spacious, airy, and convenient; the playgrounds very extensive, and well fitted for healthy recreation.

There is a swimming-bath on the grounds.

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AND

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FOOTNOTES.

{10} Appendix A.

{28} Inquis. Henry III., incerti temporis, Nu. 6, 156.

{41} For additional particulars respecting this interesting tenure we refer the reader to the Appendix B.

{49a} There is a legend that Major Smallman, a staunch royalist, surprised by some of Cromwell’s troopers, hotly pursued over Presthope, turned from the road, spurred his horse at full gallop to the edge of the precipice, and went over. The horse is said to have been killed on the trees, whilst the Major escaped, and secreted himself in the woods. Facts and local circumstances concur in giving a colouring to the tradition, and deeds extant show that the family resided here from the reign of Henry III. to the time mentioned. See Appendix C.

{49b} See Appendix.

{63} In 1390, Sir Humphrey de Eyton, an ancestor of T. C. Eyton, Esq., of Eyton, was ranger of this forest.

{64} The Old Hall, which we suppose to have been the old hunting lodge, the residence of Dr. Cranage, Watling Street, is another interesting specimen of the residences of the Forester family, and of the style of building and profusion of wood used therein during the great forest periods. Dothill, now the residence of R. Groom, Esq., is another of the old family residences of the Foresters.

{66} Appendix D.

{69} For a more complete account of the Forester family, we refer the reader to the Pedigree given in the Appendix E.

{171} Lord Dundonald, who lived in the old mansion, still standing, at the Tuckies, was an excellent chemist, and constructed some ingeniously contrived ovens, by which he extracted from coal a tar for the use of the navy, and which also became an article of general commerce.