WlNSLEY»
Bolton house.
misfortune the ftroke of Heaven. It is a vaft building; its towers!
fteep, and turrets fquare. Part was the work of Fitz-Ralph; parti
of the Lord Nevill, called Farabi *. The hall, kitchen, and chapej
were built by Beaumont, bifhop of Durham f . It was inhabited aJ
late as the year 1609, by Sir Henry Bindley, knight £.
Vifit the church of Winjley. On the floor are feveral carved figure»
on the ftones, probably in memory of certain Scroopes interred there§l
Alfo a figure of Ofwald Dykes, in his- prieftly veftments, withal
chalice in his hand. The infcr-iption fays, that he had bee*
reftor of the pariffi, and. died in 160.7. I prefume by his habit]
he was. only nominal re£tor. Lord Chancellor Scroope defignedl
to make this, church collegiate, and obtained licence for that pur]
pofe from Richard II. but it does not appear that the inten«
was ever executed.
At a little diftance beyond the church is a neat' bridge of confi*
derable antiquity, which Leland fpeaks of as ‘ the fayre bridge ofl
‘ three or four arches,, that is on Ure, at Wencelaw, a mile or ;
‘ more above Midlebam, made two hundred yer ago and more, bjfl
.. one caullyd Alwine, parfon of Wincelam.’
Vifit Bolton houfe, a feat of the Duke of Bolton, finiihed about!
the year 1678, by Charles Marquis of Winchejler. Here are a few
portraits of the Scroopes, the antient owners,
A head of Henry Lord Scroope, one of the Lords w h o fubfcribedB
the famousletter to the Pope, threatening his Holinefs, that if he did!
not permit, the divorce between Henry VIII. and Catherine, that the.«
would rejedl his fupremacy.
* Leland* 4 Willis's Cathedrals, I". 240. J Mr. Grefi.
§ Leland, Itin. viii. 13.
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■ 0 em Clifford, his wife, daughter to the E arl of Cumberland. Here
js another head of a daughter of Lord Dacres ; ■ third wife, according
ÎDugdale** of the fame lord Scroope.
Another Henry, warden, o f the weft marches in the reign of Eliza,
¡ilb ; in whofe cuftodÿ Mary Stuart remained for fome time after her
fcht to her faithlefs rival.
His wife Margaret,, daughter to Henry Earl, of Surry. After the
L a c e of the Earl oiEffex, this lady alone flood firm to him; | for,’
jjys Rowland White,. ‘ ffie endures much at her Majefty’s hands,
f becaufe fhe doth daily doe all the kynd offices of love to the
¡Queen in his behalf. She weares, all black, ihe mournes, and is
fpenfive; and. joies in nothing but in a folitary. being alone;
I and it is thought fhe faies much that few wold venter to fay but
[ herfelf +•’
! A head of the fame Lord, infcribed, Lord Harrie Scroope, Baron of
L * , one of the tilters before Queene Elizabeth, at thet firfi triumphe
!«/ fbe crownacion, æt. 22,1558 J. To thefe may be added the head
!ofhis (on,Thomas Lord Scroope-, and his fon again, ’Lord Emanuel,
¡created by Charles. I.. Earl of Sunderland,, who died the laft of this-
! Crofs thtUre, on. a.bridge of tw o arches, and have from it a fine
view of the river above and below,.each bank regularly bounded by
trees like an avenue. On the right is B o l t o n caftle, built, fays Bolto n c a s t l e ..
Uland, by Richard Scroope, Chancellor of England under Richard II.
: after eighteen years labor, and at the expence of a thoufand marks
* Dugdale, Baron. 1. 657;
I t Sidney's State Papers, II. 132. T h e letter is dated Oft* n t h , 1599.*-
i He was one o f the. Knights-challengers on the occaiion,
a year,-