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sketch was taken an old inhabitant of the village stated that he remembered a long stone terrace in front of the house on the south side. This has long since been removed. Some old ball finials were lying about, along with the remains of an arched stone doorway, probably a portion of the old entrance porch.

The panel, Fig. 5, was set up in the lifetime of Charles, eighth Earl of Derby, and is dated 1654. There is another and older panel, with shield, crest, helm and mantling, in the east wing of Holland House, dated 1619, but it has suffered so much from damage and weather that it is difficult to make out the details of the carving with certainty. The arms are evidently intended for those of the Holme family, who had been settled in Upholland since 1605, but they are incorrectly represented, and it is clear they were carved by some one who had no knowledge of heraldry. Instead of displaying Barry of eight and a canton charged with a chaplet, there are two thin bars, and on a canton four crosses patée 2 and 2. The crest, which should be a lion's head erased, ensigned with a cap of maintenance, appears as a demi-animal, with one paw, which looks like a badly-formed griffin. In the interior of Holland House there is a fine oak-panelled room, the panelling now painted white, and at the back of the house an old

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leaden spout-head marked EM. These initials probably refer to Edward Holme and his wife, who was a daughter of Walter Hastings, a direct descendant of Francis Hastings, K.G., Earl of Huntingdon. Their son Hugh Hugh married Ann Bankes of Winstanley in 1731 (see Lanc. and Chesh. Hist. and Gen. Notes, vol. ii. page 207).

Over the lintel of the back-door may be seen the initials I.A., which perhaps relate to one of the

Ashurst family, and on the south side of the house there is another leaden spout-head bearing the

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letters and date R C. These may relate to some tenant or possibly to one of the Bootle family.

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Fig. 6 represents a panel on an old stone-built house, on the north side of the churchyard of Upholland, locally known as 'Derby House," and perhaps formerly used for the Court's Leet of the Earl of Derby. The carving is considerably weathered. This panel, dated 1633, was set up in the lifetime of James Stanley, seventh Earl of Derby, known as "the Martyr Earl," who was beheaded at Bolton in 1651.

At the back of "Derby House" there is another panel showing the Legs of Man, another cognisance of the Stanleys, with the initials, R.C. IC. and the date 1633; this is figured and described in "Inscribed and Dated Stones," page 50.

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Close to Pimbo Lane Station and about a mile from the village of Upholland there is an old house known as "the Balcony.' It is built of stone, and is approached through a pair of fine gate-piers with ball finials. The house is entered from a square porch, over which is a stone panel of the Eagle and Child. No date is visible, and the panel is much weathered.

COMMUNICATIONS

EXEMPLIFICATION AND

CONFIRMA

TION OF THE BOOTH ARMS AND
QUARTERINGS BY ROBERT COoke,
ESQUIRE, CLARENCEUX KING OF ARMS, TO
WILLIAM BOOTH, ESQUIRE, OF LONDON, Ist
April 1580; 21st Elizabeth.1

Communicated by W. Harry Rylands, F.S.A.

THE subjoined document has been copied verbatim from an old copy made by Samuel Evans, who appears to have examined it with the original. The blank which will be observed between the words "jure" and "derivetur" occurs in Evans' copy, and also the inaccuracies which have been here corrected in square brackets.

Clarenceux evidently took the pedigree contained in the recitals from that entered at the Visitation of Cheshire in 1580 (Harleian Society, vol. xviii. pp. 35-37), which begins with "Thomalin Booth of Barton in Lancastr," whose actual name was John.

The quarterings are: (1) Booth; (2) Mascy, of

1 So dated, but the 1st April in the 21st year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth was in 1579.

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