day, out of land on the High Wood. It was not invested in the trustees of Uttoxeter Charities till 1860, when application for that purpose was made to Sir W. B. Riddell, Bart., at the County Court, and granted. Previously those who held the land disposed of the charity themselves.

BEQUEST TO THE POOR OF UTTOXETER, BY MISS ELIZABETH JOHNSON, OF BURTON-ON-TRENT.

Miss Elizabeth Johnson, of Burton-on-Trent, by will, dated 24th December, 1861, for the love her mother had for Uttoxeter, devises as follows:-" I direct my executors, hereinafter named, to purchase the sum of £200, at £3 per cent., consolidated bank annuities, in the names of the official trustees of charitable funds, upon trust, to divide the annual income arising from the same amongst six poor men and six poor women, inhabitants of the parish of Uttoxeter, every Christmas, to be selected by and at the discretion of the churchwardens for the time being of the said parish of Uttoxeter."(1)

BEQUEST OF JOSEPH BLADON, ESQ.

Joseph Bladon, Esq., of Old Field House, whose demise took place January 12th, 1863, left, by will, to the poor of Uttoxeter, £50 a year for five years, to be appropriated as his trustees, Thomas Bladon, Esq., and George Goodwin Bladon, Esq., his ne

(1) The will of the deceased is at the office of A. Welby, Esq., High Street, and for this extract therefrom I am indebted to Mr Cowlishaw.

phews, might deem the best. The first £50 was expended by these gentlemen at Christmas, 1863, in coal, which was distributed amongst the class for whose benefit the money was bequeathed. The same benevolent gentleman likewise built a number of cottages for aged persons, who were allowed to live in them for a mere acknowledgment, which was always returned, and they are still so occupied. The cottages are at the back of a school-room, which he also built, and chiefly supported for many years, in Pinfold Lane, Mr. Bladon, had great confidence, and justly so, in the efficacy of education in diminishing human misery, and in promoting social order and happiness, and, therefore, he was one of the first to aid by his liberality so powerful an instrument for the public weal.

GIFT OF WILLIAM PHILLIPS, ESQ.

William Phillips, Esq., of Springfield House, in the Parish of Uttoxeter, by will, dated September 12th, 1863, and whose demise took place on the 21st October of the same year, gave and bequeathed the sum of £800 to the Vicar and Churchwardens of Uttoxeter, and their successors, in trust, and the annual income thereof to be applied in the purchase of suitable clothing, bed linen, and blankets, to be distributed by the discretion of the major part of them from year to year, for ever, amongst the poor of the same parish of Uttoxeter, and in such shares, at such times, and in such manner, as the said Vicar and Churchwardens should think fit.

The same testator, by the same will, devised £100 to the Masters and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, for the use and benefit of Alleyne's Grammar School, in Uttoxeter aforesaid, in such manner as the şaid Masters and Fellows should decide.

And also by the same will, the sum of £400 to the Vicar and Churchwardens of Burton-on-Trent, the income thereof to be applied in the purchase of fuel, clothes, meat, or bread, for the poor of that parish, from year to year, for ever. (1)

UTTOXETER UNION.

This Union comprises the parishes of Uttoxeter, Rocester, Coxden, Leigh, Bramshall, Marchington, Marchington Woodlands, Draycott, Newborough, Abbots Bromley, Blythfield, Kingstone, Gratwich, and Field, county of Stafford; and Doveridge, Somersall, Sudbury, and Boylestone, county of Derby, all forming an area of sixty-three miles.

PETTY SESSIONS.

These are held on a Wednesday, at the Town Hall, at Twelve o'clock. The late Lord Waterpark presided at these sessions during a period of about thirty years. His lordship, in various other ways, gave his influence and time for the promotion of the

(1) The particulars of this gift I have been permitted to extract from a copy of the will in the possession of the testator's solicitors, Messrs. Blair, Jervis, and Gould, of Uttoxeter, to whom I beg to tender my best thanks for the truly kind and gentlemanly way in which they have permitted me the unlimited use of their copy of the "Manuscript Survey of Uttoxeter," by Peter Lightfoot.

interests of the town, which, he frequently stated, gave him great pleasure to do, when called upon. The other magistrates are Sir William Fitzherbert, T. P. Heywood, Esq., T. C. S. Kynnersley, Esq., J. Broadhurst, Esq., H. M. Ingram, Esq., T. Webb, Esq., W. J. Fox., Esq.

THE BANKS.

The banks at Uttoxeter are a branch of the Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashborne, Union Bank; and one recently formed of the Midland Bank.

NOTICES OF PLACES

IN THE

NEIGHBOURHOOD OF UTTOXETER.

LOCHELER OR LOCKESLEIA.

A junior Ferrers of Tutbury held Loxley, which is about two miles west of Uttoxeter, in Henry II.'s reign, and in the time of Henry III. it belonged to Robert de Ferrers. In 1327 John de Kynardesleye married Johanna, daughter to a second Thomas de Ferrers. John Kynnersley was owner of Loxley eighteen Edward III. Thomas Kynnersley, twentysecond Charles I.; Craven Kynnersley, seven George II.; and Clement Kynnersley, ten George III., were sheriffs. An ancestor of the Kynnersley's was seated at Kynnersley Castle, Herefordshire, at the Conquest. There is a horn preserved at Loxley, with the proud name of "Robin Hood's Horn," which was formerly in the family of Ferrers, at Chartly. There is no particular reason given for its being Robin Hood's Horn, although it bears his initials; but from bearing three horse-shoes (two and one) it probably belonged to the Ferrars, and came into the family of Kynnersley by the marriage of Johanna, daughter of