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Title: A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Hall, James, of Nantwich
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Publisher: Nantwich : Printed for the author
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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rdson for St. Amies Croft % . . . . . . . . .300 The Hospitall Croft usually set for . . . . . . . . . .1200 William Jackson, Tanner, for y Hospitall ho70se . . . . . . ,400 It may be presumed that j^ Hospitall hawse occupied by a tanner in 1659, was inthe previous century the identical residence of John Crewe, of Hospital Street, Gent, whois said also to have been a tanner, and who was the father of Sir Ranulph Crewe, Kt.The house of John Crewe is unmistakeably identified by old heraldic glass still existingin the three lead latticed windows of the upper over-hanging story, namely:— * An authorized copy of the original Indenture in the Office of Land Revenue Records is now preserved atNantwich Reflory, t This meadow has no connefiion whatever with Sir Edmund Wrights Almshouses; and never has been conneaedwith that foundation. X Roger Wilbraham of Nantwich paid an annual rent of los. to his father-in-law, Roger Wilbraham, of Dorfold, Esq.for g butts in St. Alines Croft. (Rent Roll.)
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ST. LAWRENCE HOSPITAL. 53 Window over the Entrance:— A shield Azure, a lion rampant Argent. (Crewe.) In the Window on cither side:— A shield Quarterly. First and fourth, Argent, two barrs Or. (Mainwaring.) Second(the glass of which is -wanting in the west window) and third, Azure, three garbs Or.(?BlundcvilkJ* surmounted by a crest; An Asss head proper, issuing from a ducalcoronet (Mainwaring.) John Crewe, Gent., married Alice daughter of Humphrey Mainwaring of Nantwich,and died in 1598 (see Monuments.) This house belonged to the Goldsmith family in theearly part of the eighteenth century; and in the latter part of the same century to theCaldwell family, whose representatives now reside at Lindley Hall, near Talk-oth-Hill, co.Staff. After the death of James Caldwell, Esq., who was buried on 15th July, 1791, itwas for many years the residence of his son-in-law Joseph Skerrett, Esq., who died thereon the i8th Jan. 1832.t The present proprietor and occupier is Thomas Bower, Esq.,Arcb

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