The Old Halls, Manors, and Families of Derbyshire, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from The Old Halls, Manors, and Families of Derbyshire, Vol. 3: The Scarsdale HundredNo town in the county has come in for such derogatory descriptions as Chesterfield, whether as regards its appearance or inhabitants. The shops, says Jennings, in his Rambles. Are dirty, the ¿esh of the people still dirtier. Such writers as Jennings never know what the sweat of industry is, or ever consider that many luxuries of their own drawing-roorns are the products of the very industry which gives to the buildings and burghers of Chesterfield an appearance distasteful to fastidious compilers. The town stands on extensive beds of coal and ironstone, and the mines in the neighbourhood impart to the town the coloring of their treasures. Had Jennings have turned his attention for a moment to the past lords of the manor he would have had no time to notice any neglect of soap and water - Peverells, Briweres, Wakes, Plantagenets, Hollands, Nevilles, Talbots, Cavendishes. In the Select Charters of Bishop Stubbs, we find how many famous documents of our liberties the name of William Briwere, lord of Chesterfield, is appended: Our annals relate the military exploits of the Wakes, while the Extinct Peerages recount the lives of the Plantagenets, who held the seigniory: The ends of the Hollands and N evilles are a reiteration of thrilling horrors, Margaret, of Salisbury, the last of the Nevilles, who exchanged the manor with the Talbots, was, in her extreme old age, hacked to death on Tower Hill. Gilbert, of Shrewsbury, sold it for an old song to Bess of Hardwiclt, for her son George. And so it passed, like Bolsover, to the Hollesses, Harleys, and Bentincks, till 1792, when it came to the Dukes of Devonshire by arrangement. Such detractors as Jennings have nothing to tell us about the old place being a Roman Station once, or the probable site of the camp of the Emperor Hadrian and his Sixth Legion, or that its environs teem with quaint and historical edifices.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.