Abbot's Bromley, 875; government
876; school, ib.; alms house, ib.;
church, ib.; trade, ib.; popula-
tion, ib.; remarkable custom, ib.
Adams, Dr. his opinion of Dr. John-
son, 817.
Agardisley Park, 1131.
Arderne, Sir Ino. 820.
Armitage, village and parish of, 784
Ashcomb House, 1166.
Asheburn, Tho. an opponent of Wick-
liff, 901.
Ashmole, Elias, celebrated antiquary,
memoir of, 801-812.
Aikin, Dr. his description of the pot- Aston, Lord Edward and Lady Ann,
teries, 1057-1066.
Aldridge, 831.
Allen, Thomas, mathematician, 951;
character of by Selden, Camden,
and Burton, 952.
Alrewas, parish of, 144, 780.
Alsager, Mr. his improvement in the
potter's wheel, 1062.
Alstonfield parish, 1009; Dove river,
lines upon, by Cotton, ib.; a fortress
called Bonebury, formerly near
this place, 1009.
Alveton, 993.
Anecdotes of fasting persons. See
Moore, Ann.
Anson, Thomas, Esq. memoir of,
1086-1087.
Ansons, Shuckborough family seat of,
1087; statues, ib.; monument, ib.;
Chinese house, 1088.
Anson, Lord, the celebrated naviga-
tor, memoir of, 1089-1095; voy-
age round the world; literary his-
tory of, curious, 1095-1098.
their altar tomb, 893.
Aston, Sir Edward, and Lady Joan,
their monument, 894.
Aston, Sir Walter, 878, 907, 905.
Aston Hall, 938.
Astrologers, the first in Europe, 813.
Atner, or Atene, parish, 926'; Saxon
antiquities, 927.
Atterbury, bishop, 814.
Audley, Lord, 924-926.
Brereton, Sir Wm. his curious letter, | Burton upon Trent, a description of,
Betley town, 930; two handsome
seats, 930; Audley, a small village
near, 931; church, 1161.
Biddulph, parish, 954; antiquities,
955; character of the inhabitants,
1071.
Billington, fortification, 903.
Bilston, 862; houses, ib.; manufac-
tures, ib.; mines in the neighbour-
hood, ib.; chapel, ib.; school, ib.
Birmingham canal, 736.
Bishop's Woods, 923.
Black Canons, priory of, at Stafford,
Blithfield, seat of the Bagot's, 877;
its paintings, ib.; church, 880,
Blore, village remarkable as connect-
ed with the illustrious family of
Bassets, 968; church, 973, 975.
Bloreheath, scene of a battle, 924.
Bloxwich, hamlet, 858.
753; great antiquity of, ib.; ab-
bey of, 755: alabaster works, for-
merly famous for, 757; Thomas,
Earl of Lancaster, defeated at, ib.;
civil wars, several times taken
and retaken, 758; streets of, ib.;
grammar school of, ib.; church of,
remarkable bridge of, 759; court
of requests in, 760; senters court
in, ib.; inhabitants of, exempted
from serving on county juries, ib. ;
celebrated ale of, ib.
Bushbury, village, 866; manor of,
ib.; church, ib.; tumulus near,
867.
Butterton, hamlet, 1056; Hamps and
Manifold, their subterraneous tran-
sit, ib.; Darwin's poetical descrip-
tion, 1057.
Byana, residence of the Bosviles, 923.
Blundeville, Richard, Earl of Ches- Caldwell, Dr. Richard, 1171.
Blythe, the river, 733.
Bond-tenants, what, 1126.
Boothby, Sir Brooke, his generosity,
Boscobel, 1154.
Bottom hall, 1167.
Bradley, hamlet, 663; phenomenon
at, ib.
Bradley hall, 848.
parish, 994; chapel, ib.; po-
pulation, 1057.
Bramshall, a parish, 996; population,
ib.; rectory, ib.
Brewood, a market town, 867; po-
pulation, 868; free school, ib.;
custom of adorning wells, ib.
Britain, arch-druid of, chief seat in
the vicinity of Sutton Coldfield,
Brindley, Mr. some account of, 734.
Bromwich, Andrew, memoir of, 1170
Brook, Lord, impious vow of, 779.
Broughton hall, seat of Sir Thomas
Broughton, 924.
Browne, Isaac Hawkins, memoir of,
1177.
Burslem, 954; population, trade,
market, church and meeting, ib.
Burston, village, 938.
Calwich, parish of Ellaston, 1015.
Canals of Staffordshire, 734.
Cannock, 869; a forest of the Mer-
cians, ib.
Canwell, hamlet, its priory, 827.
Careswell parish, 991; population,
ib.; castle, ib.; church and monu-
ment, 992.
Castle church, an ancient building.
Castle Hay park, 1131.
Cattishill, a Roman barrow at, 1175.
Charles II. his hiding-places, 1153.
Chartley, reidence of Mary Queen
of Scots, 944; remains of the cas-
tle, 945.
Cheadle, 962; surrounded by barren
hills, 963; church, 967; trade, ib.;
market, ib.; population, ib.; free
school, 968; meeting houses, ib.
Chebsey, parish and village, 921.
Checkley hamlet, 962.
Chedleton, 1173.
Chesterton under Line, 931.
Chetwynd, Sir Wm. his barbarous as-
sassination, 909; church, 911;
Walter, his monument, 912; co-
rious account of its consecration by
Doctor Plot, ib.
Church Eaton, a small village, 874.
Mayfield parish, 1006; po-
pulation,
pulation, ib. 5 tumuli, ib.; Roman
coins, ib.
Clent, village, 849; Cnelm murdered
at, ib.
Clifton Campville, 821, 1106.
Climate of Staffordshire, 730.
Coal and cannel coal, Longdon parish
produces an abundance of, 786.
Cockaine, Sir Aston, 1167.
Codsall, 867; church, ib.; monument
of Walter Wrottesley, ib. ; sulphu-
reous well, ib.
Colwich, 881; church, ib.
Comberford family, 1105.
Congreve, birth place of the celebrat-
ed Dr. Hurd, 903.
Cooper, Mary, remarkable longevity
of, 781.
Cornabii, territories of, comprised
Staffordshire, 718.
Coton Clanford village, birth place of
Wollaston, 917.
Cotton, Charles, poet, memoir of,
County hall, 889; infirmary, ib.;
gaol, ib. free-school, 890; alms-
houses, ib.
Coventry Act, origin of the, 1115.
and Oxford canal, 736.
Crakemarsh, 1171.
Creighton, hamlet, 996.
Crompton Barbara, her monument,
895.
Croxden, 988; abbey, 989; church,
Cuddleston hundred, 867; Breewood,
Sharehill, 868; Hilton, ib.; Can-
nock, 869; Radmore, 871.
Cumberland, Duke of, his head quar-
ters at Lichfield, 809.
Cunsel, 1174,
Danes, inroads of, 720.
Darlaston, 843, 937; ruins of a castle
near it at Bury Bank, ib.
Darwin, Dr. ingenious explanation of,
respecting Burton ale, 760; his re-
sidence, 810,
Deanery house, west of the palace,
Deans house, Stafford, 896.
Digby, Geo. tomb and inscription,
941, 942.
Dillorn, 997; improvements and plan-
tations by Mr. Holliday, ib.;
church, ib.
Dove, river, 732; its fertile banks,
1208; limestone, ib.; proverb of the
farmers, ib.; wild or native plants,
1028.-1050; grasses, 1032; neutral
plants, ib.-1034; Pitt's list of
plants, trees, and shrubs, 1035.
Dove dale, 732.
Draycott parish, 994; population,
ib.; church, ib.
Drayton Basset, village, 826; church
ib.
Drayton, Michael, the poet, 908, 925.
Dudley lord, 842, 845.
John, Earl of Warwick, me-
moir of, 984--988.
Edmund, memoir of, 1174.
castle, 844.
extension canal, 737.
Dukes of Lancaster, Tutbury castle
principal seat of, 763.
Dyott, Sir Richard, his monument,
808.
Earl of Uxbridge, the mansion house
of, 785,
Eccleshall castle, bishop's residence,
805.
market town, 921; castle,
922; church, 923.
Ecton hill, mines for copper and lead
1010-1015.
Edward, the elder, brilliant victories
of, 721.
the fourth, a curious instru-
ment signed by, 807.
Egginton, Francis, celebrated painter
on glass, 840.
Elers, two ingenious foreigners intro-
duced into the potteries a new spe
cies of glazed ware, 1060.
Elford, 819; manor, ib.; church, 820;
park farm, 821.
Elizabeth, Queen, 823, 825, 826;
poetry by, 1150.
Ellaston, 996; population, ib.; vi-
carage, ib.
Dee, Dr. Arthur, a writer on the phi- Ellen hall, seat of the Noels, 920;
remarkable trunk of an oak, 920,
Enville, 853.
Erdeswicke, Sampson, celebrated an-
tiquary, 940; singular inscription
on his monument, ib. 941.
Etruria, seat of Josiah Wedgewood,
Esq. 953.
Fainwell, the small village of, 786.
Fald village, 995; birth place of Ro-
bert Burton, the poet, 996.
Farquhar, Geo. landlord of George
Inn, the Boniface in his Beaux
Stratagem, 810; Lady Biddulph
the Lady Bountiful, ib.; one Har-
rison's daughter, Cherry, ib.
Fasting Impostors, account of.
Moore, Ann.
Fenton, Elijah, his birth place,
patronised by Pope, ib. his epi-
taph, 949; his writings, ib.; inso-
lence of Cibber, ib.; Doctor John-
son's description of, 950.
Ferrers, John, and son, monuments,
825.
Ferrars, Wm. Earl of Derby, 945.
Field parish, 1052; Witch elm of a
prodigious size, 1053, 1054.
Fisherwick, village, 819.
Fitzherbert, Thomas, a learned and
ingenious writer, 901; advocated
the cause of Mary Queen of Scots,
902.
Fitzherbert, Mr. his residence, 929.
Flitch of bacon, remarkable history
of, 777; three couples only ob-
tained it, 779.
Fuller, author of the Worthies of
England, 943.
Gardner, Admiral Lord, memoir of,
Garrick, David, 816, 817, 819; his
bust, 798.
Gaunt, John of, 764.
Gell, Sir John, 913, 914.
Gilbert, Samuel, physician, 928.
Gnoshall, 874; church, 875.
Goodwin, John a learned divine, me-
moir of, 1077–108).
Great Barr, 832; seat of the Scot's Hurd, Dr. the celebrated bishop of
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