James II. visit of, to Tutbury castle castle, 769.
Dr. memoir of, 1193. Jennings, Sir Stephen, Esq. 861. Ilam, parish, 986; romantic situation, ib.; subterraneous rivers, ib. ; wild flowers, ib. ; petrefactions, ib --779; tomb, well, and ash, of St. Bar- tram, Congreve wrote his first play in a grotto near this place, 980. Inge, Wm. Esq. a celebrated justice, 809, 822.
Ingestre Hall, 910; seat of Talbot
John Chetwynd, 911; church, ib. Ipstones, 1021.
John, King, singularly unfortunate, 989.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, memoir of, 798, 816; his account of Fenton the poet, 950.
Junction canal, Severn and Trent, 736.
Leigh parish, 996; population, ib.; rectory, ib.
Leveson, Catherine Lady, the chari- table, 937.
LICHFIELD, neighbourhood of a fa- vourite chase of, the Mercian kings, 720; Dyotts of, attached to the house of Stuart, 723; cathedral of, when founded, 726; constituted an independent archbishopric in 786, 727; supposed origin of, 786; re- presentatives, when first sent to Parliament by, 787; municipal go- vernment of, 788; different courts held in, 789; situation of, 790; houses of, ib.; sail cloth manufac- ture of, ib.; divisions of, 791; sieges of, ib.; cathedral church of, 792; cathedral, Rev. Dr. Adden- brooke's memorial of, 797; monu-' ments, ib. ; choir, 798; St. Mary's chapel, ib.; library, 802; St. Pe- ter's chapel, 802; sacristy, 803; members of, ib. ; prebend, 828; division of the city into parishes, 807; market house, 808; market days, ib.; guildhall, ib. ; gaol, ib. ; theatre, ib.; English school, ib. friary, ib.; free grammar school, 810; hospital of St. John, ib.
Kingsley parish, 997; population, Little Aston, splendid mansion, 828.
ib; rectory, ib.
King's Bromley, 781,
Kinver, 851.
Ladford Pool, 737.
Lakes and Springs of Staffordshire,
Lane, Colonel, John his tomb, 860. Langton, Bishop, 799; his figure, 801; rebuilt a palace, 805. Lapley, 872; priory, ib. Leek, 1039; trade and manufac- tures, ib.-1040; market, ib.; church, ib. ; meeting houses, 1041; alms houses, ib.; population, ib.; sun sets twice at, 1042; manor,
1043; incursions of the Romans, ib.; gave birth to the founder of the earldom of Macclesfield, 1044; Delacres abbey, 1049; now an ab bey of French nuns, 1051; Roches,
Little Wirley, hamlet, 831; manor
Littleton, Bishop, 851.
Longdon, village of, 785.
Longnor, 1169.
Loughborough, Lord, 818.
Mercia, Staffordshire a portion of,, Norbury, Rev. J. G. and wife, ther
the kingdom of, 720.
Mercia, Wulfhere King of, persecutes
the Christians, 726.
Methodism, its influence, 1071. Mill-dale, 1005.
Milley, Dr. his hospital, 811. Manifold, the river, 732. Minors, Thos. Esq. founder of an English school, 808.
Minstrels, King of, whom elected by,
Monarchs, Mercian, two where de- posited, 802.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, her monument, 797.
Moore, Ann, the fasting impostor of Tutbury, 1132.
Morse, Richard, 1170.
Moseley Dole, 836.
Moseley, the, hiding place of Charles Overstonall, hamlet, fortification, 828.
Sir Oswald, 1122. Muccleston, village, 926.
Narrowdale, 1016. Needwood forest, extent of, 773, 1132; proprietorship of, 774; di- visions of, ib.; officers of, ib. ; court of, ib. ; aspect of, ib; soil of, 775; Yoxal, a village to the south ex- tremity of, 776; Wichnor, or Whichinoure, a village to the S. E. of, ib.
NEWCASTLE UNDER LINE, borough and market town, 932; origin of the name, ib.; first charter, ib. ; members of Parliament, ib. ; alms- houses, 931; manufactures, ib. ; market, ib.; device for the cure of shrews, ib.; race course, ib.; po pulation, 935; neighbouring gentle- man's seats, ib.; coal trade, ib. ; its early history, 1071-1074; Dis- senters, ib.; Gallows field, ib. ; in- stance of great strength, 1075; birth place of Major-General Tho- mas Harrison, and John Goodwin, 1075, 1076.
Newport, Thomas, his epitaph, 944. Newton, Andrew, Esq. his alms house,
Thomas, bishop of Bristol,
Lord, his monument, "99. Palace of the bishop, its scite, 805. Parker, Thomas, founder of the earl
dom of Macclesfield, some account of, 1044-1049.
Pattingham, parish and village of, 855; church, ib.; gold torques found at, ib. Pattishul, parish, $56;
Paynesley. 1170. --, Hugh de, his prelacy, 804. Penkridge, 871; Pennocrucium of the Romans, ib.; church, 872: trade in iron work, ib.; population, Peshall manor, 923. ib.; charity school, ib.; fair, ib.
Pitt, Mr. his valuable hints on im- proving barren wastes, 963-967, 1019.
Plants, rare, as given by Mr. Gough, 1036, 1037.
Plot, Dr. History of Staffordshre,
825, 827-829, 836, 848, 856, 858, 864, 865, 874, 876, 882, 952. Pole, Reginald, archbishop of Canter- bury, 852. Pope, Alex. 817.
Potteries, substance of the account from Dr. Aikin's description, 1057 -1069
Potteries, district, 954. See Wedge- wood, Josh.
Powder plot, 1149, 1150.
ment of, ib.; Dr. Robertson's ac- count of, 768. See Mary. Scroop, Bishop, his tomb, 801.
Prestwood, built by Sir John Little- Seasdon village, Abbots or Apewood
Processioning, custom of, 862. Pulesdome, Sir Roger de, his exploits, 805.
Pye, Thos. a celebrated author, 843. Pyrehill hundred, 875.
Radmore, its abbey, 871. Rees, Ralph, 1173.
Reformers, their fanaticism, 950. Richardson, 818.
Rivers of Staffordshire, 730. Robins, Benjamin, an eminent mathe- matician, 1093.
Rocester parish, 994; population, ib.; church, 995; cotton manufac. tory, ib.
Roches, Leek, 1169. See Leek. Rolleston Park, 1119, 1131. Ronton, village and parish, 920. Rowley Regis, 849.
Rudgeley, 873; its manufactures, ib.; market, ib.; fair, ib. ; goveru- ment, ib. population, ib. ; church, ib.; handsome seat near, 874. Rufus, Sir Wm. 837. Rushall village, 834; church, 835; lime and iron stone, ib.; account of the former possessors of this estate, 1098, 1102. Rushton Spencer, and Rushton James, 1051; St. Helen's Well, ib.; su- perstition of the people, ib. 1052; chapel ib.; population. ib.
Seisdon Hundred, King's Swinford, 846; Ashwood heath, 848; Row- ley Regis, 849; Clent, ib.; Over Arley, 850; Kinver, 851; Stourton castle, 852; Enville, 853; Pa- tringham, 855: Sedgeley, ib.; Seasdon, 856; Pattishul, ib. Sedgeley, a place of considerabla ́ trade in iron work, 855; curious species of coal, 856.
Severn, the river, 730. Seward, Miss, her residence, 806. Shareshill village, 868; encampment near, ib.
Shaw, Rev. Stebbing, memoir of, 1196. Sheldon, Gilbert, archbishop of Can- terbury, memoir of, 1006-1008. Shelton, village, birth place of Elijah Fenton, 948. Shenstone, 854.
Shenston village, 828; church, ib. Sherrold Park, 1131.
Shugborough vale, 1084; Haywood, ib.; horse bridge, prospect from, 1085, 1986; seat of Lord Anson, 1087.
Small, Dr. W. his urn, 840. Smallridge, George, 814. Smith, Bishop, re-erected the hospital chapel, 811.
Sneyd, John Esq. 1022, 1024, 1031,
William, Esq. 1167. Soho, manufactory, 838; house of,
Sow, the river, 736.
Springs and lakes of Staffordshire, 737.
Stafford, Ralph Lord, 898, 899; Ro- bert baron de, 900; Earl Gower, Marquis of, 900; John, a friar, ib. ; Edmund, chancellor, 901. STAFFORD, County town, 881; name and origin dubious, ib. ; castle, 882; church, 893; its first charter, 886; Queen Elizabeth established assizes, and sessions here, 887; situation of, ib.; borough, ib.; government, ib.; public buildings, 889, 890 ; parks, 891, churches, ib.-897;
St. Chad's church, Stafford, 896. St. Chad, parish of, 811; his well, ib. St. Mary, parish of, 807.
St. Michael, parish of, 812; remarka- ble cemetery, ib.
Sutton Coldfield, waste, 834. Swinnerton village, a royal residence, 929; manor, 929; mansion house, ib.; school house, 930; church, ib. Swilcar, remarkable oak tree, the name of, 775.
vision of, 717; churches and cha-St. Modwen, the celebrated, some ac- pels of, ib.; original inhabitants of, count of, 754; curious epitaph of, whether the Iceni Ordivices is dis- ib. puted, ib.; a decisive battle fought in, 722; Charles II. concealed in, 744; Scotch rebels posted in at Leek. ib. : ecclesiastical history of, id.; Parliament supported by, 723; inbabitants of Pagans, 725; as- pect of, 727, Pitt's survey of, 728; sod of, 749; climate of, 730; ri- vers of. ib.—734; canals of, ib.- 737; bases and springs of, ib.- 758, minerals ot, ib -741; agri- culture and products of, ib.-746; tuber plantations, and woodlands 0512-707; waste and unimprov- eu canas at, ib.; roads, bridges, de to; manufactures and com- merce of, ib.-148; peculiar cus- soms of, ib.-749; market towns and parishes of, ib.-753. Sord, Earl of, 853. Ney, Captain, his statue, 800. Sir John, 820.
Sir John Thomas, 1110. Sir Humphrey, 909, 1111.
Stansley, 1172. Stanton, township 1006; population, b.; birth place of Gilbert Sheldon, archbishop of Canterbury, ib. Stockley park, 1131. STONE, market town, 946 ; population, ib.; religious foundations, ib.; church, 947; free and charity school, 948; alms house, ib. Stonefield, station of the Duke of Cum- berland in 1745, 1070; singular dislike of the people to a military life, ib. 1071. Stoke, 953. Stour, river, 736. Stourton castle, 852. Stow parish, 943. Stretch, Mr. Samuel, 1154. Stretton village, 873; mansion house
of Mr. Monckton, formerly be- longed to the family of Congreve, ib.
St. Catharine, her shrine, 811. St. Chad, his shrine, 799.
Tame, the river, 753. Tamworth, its situation, 822; royal residence, ib.; history, 823; mu- nicipal government, ib. ; castle, market, ib. 824; church, ib.; hos- pital, 826; grammar school, ib.; manufactures, ib. ; population, ib. ; meeting houses, ib.
Tatenhill, parish and village of, 760, 863; former lords of the chief manor 761; parish church of, ib; ham- lets of, ib.; origin of the name, 864; severe battle fought near, ib. ; college at, ib. Tean, river, 738. The Blue hills, 1035. Theophania, daughter of Thos. Ko- ningsby, her monument, 802. Three Shire Stones, 1174. Thorpe Cloud hill, 752. Throwley, 1172.
Thorpe Constantine, village, 821; church, ib.
Tixal Hall, seat of Thomas Clifford, Esq. 907; heath, 909. Tollet, Mr. agriculturist, 931. Totmanslow, hundred of, 955. village, 1173.
Toulmin, Dr. Geo. Hoggart, an ele- gant writer, 1023. Townshend, Marquis, 824. Trentham, 935; Marquis of Stafford's
seat, ib. 936; ancient nunnery, ib. Trees, large trunks dug up at various
times and places, 1054, 1055; Dr. Plot's opinion respecting, ib. Trent, the river, 730,
TUTBURY, Mary Queen of Scots, | Warwick, Earl of, 857. residence of, 723; free borough | Wassailing, an ancient custom, 804.
of, without a right of sending members to Parliament, 762; market of, ib. wool stapling, the business of, ib.; cotton manu- factory of, 768; free school of, ib.; famous castle of, ib.; priory of, 770; phænomenon at, 774; parish and village of Hanbury ad- joining to, 772; bull-running, ori- gin of, 766; castle, 1125, 1129; lordship of, 1128.
Uno, the fasting girl of, 1141. Upper and lower Tean, hamlets in the parish of Checkley, 990; the well in the wall, ib. UTTOXETER town, 955; bridge, ib. ;
market, 956; iron forges, ib. ; healthiness, ib.; (Etocetum of An- toninus, Camden's conjecture prov- ed to be a mistake in, 957, conse- quently must be erased, and the Saxon Vitok-cestre substituted, 957;) Hollingbury Hall in this pa- rish, ib.; lordship, ib.; market, 958; population, ib. ; church, ib.; chapels, ib.; free schools, ib.
Weaver, the river, 755. Wedgewood, Josiah, Esq. 553.
Josiah, celebrated pot- ter, an account of his improve- ments and experiments, 1062— 1064; evidence before the house of Commons, 1066, 1067, 1068; memoir of, ib. 1969. WEDNESBURY, market town, 841, 1195; manufactures, 842; church, ib.; market day, ib.; population,
843. Wednesfield village, 843; battle at, between Edward the elder and the Danes, 844.
Weeford, village and parish of, 827; barrow, ib. church, 828; Little Aston, ib.
Weston village, 1025; Thor's cave, where the Druids are supposed to have offered human sacrifices, poetically described by Dr. Dar- win, 1026.
West Bromwich, 840; Sandwell park, ib.; birth place of Walter Parsons, 841. Whiston, 814. White Ladies, 1154.
Whitgrave Thos. Esq. his tomb, 867 ; protector of Charles II. ib. Whittington, 819.
Whichnour, church of, 780. Wilkes, Dr. historian, 844.
Vernon, Sir John and Lady, their Willoughby, Sir Henry, 828.
Walker, Mr. his account of Rushall, 1102; his account of Wednesbury, 1105.
Wall and Chesterfield villages, Ro- man station, 829; temple, ib.; castle, ib.; wall, 830. Walmesley Hugh, Esq. his monu- ment, 797. WALSALL, town and borough of, 835; manufactures, 836; popula- tion, ib.; market, ib.; manor, 837; church, ib.; Dissenting chapels, 838; grammar school, ib. Walter, Earl of Essex, 878.
first Viscount Hereford, 943. VOL. XIII.
Willowbridge, 928; its water spring, ib. Wingfield, Lord Cromwell, buried at Ilam church, 1037; his epitaph by Cotton, ib. 1038. Withering, Dr. his observations on food and wages, 999. Wittenhall, Edward, bishop of Cork, 909.
Wirley and Essington canal, 736. Wolsey, Cardinal, 827. Wollaston, Wm. a distinguished wri- ter, memoir of, 918. Wotton-under-Weever-hill, township, 1010; Moorland districts, curious distich upon, ib.
Wotton, a Roman via vicinalis, 923. WOLVERHAMPTON town, 857; mo- nastery, ib.; origin of the name, Kkkk
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