"A bird close Argent." Motto, "Dea me judex," with an Esquire's helmet, and floral mantling.

In the south aisle is a brass, very interesting in many ways, especially to Liverpool people. Over a Latin inscription is an impalement, with floral mantling, Argent, on a bend engrailed Sable three mullets of the field," for John Entwistle of Foxholes, Rochdale, obit 5th May 1710, and "Argent, on a bend engrailed Sable, three fleursde-lys of the field," for Dorothy Holt of Stubley, his wife, obit 30th September 1702..

HAC IN SUNT FOSSA

DORATHIE ENTWISTLE OSSA

QUA

IN FESTUM DIEM SANCTI

MICHAELIS ARCH ANGELI

INTER HORAS DUO DECIMAM ET PRIMAM

MATUTINAS

ANNO DOMINI MDCCII

IN CELUM ET SEDEM BEATORUM

DEO AUSPICE IN CHRISTO

1 MIGRAVIT.1

Differences of opinion have arisen as to whether "the feast day of the holy Archangel Michael" referred to the then common belief in the fixture of the Resurrection Day, or to the time of Dorothy Entwistle's death, but I found from the Register that "migravit" refers to the latter.

This John Entwistle built a stone house in Aughton Street, Ormskirk, now the Brewers' Arms beerhouse, in which both he and his wife lived for many years and died, and were both buried intermurally at Ormskirk Church. In the gable is a carved panel with the date 1661, their initials, and the motto "Vivere in excelsis melius," which may be translated "To live in Heaven is better." Colonel 1 See plate No. 1.

Fishwick informed me that this John Entwistle was the only inheritor of the Foxholes estate who permanently lived away from it, which may be accounted for by his position as Sessional Clerk, the Sessions for the West Derby Hundred being then held only at Ormskirk and Wigan. He entered his pedigree at the Visitation of Sir William Dugdale, at Ormskirk, on April 8, 1665, and he was for nearly fifty years Town Clerk and Recorder of Liverpool, at a salary of £525 per annum. On August 17, 1709, he sent in his resignation, dated from Ormskirk, wherein he suggests that "if you pitch on one of my family, it will be a great satisfaction to me." The Corporation took this gentle hint and elected as his successor his son Bertin, so called from a reputed ancestor of that name who was with Henry V. in France. There are many references to these Entwistles in the Liverpool Records.

On the south wall of the chancel, in a very obscure light, is a monument to the Reverend Archippus Kippax, Vicar of Ormskirk and Archdeacon of Man, whose name appears on one of the recast bells of the church, dated 1714. He died May 6, 1718, aged fifty-nine. On this monument is a coat of arms, seemingly "Argent, on a chevron Azure, between three holly branches fructed proper, as many wood-pigeons of the first, beaked and membered, Gules" (?), with a crest, "A badger passant proper" (?). There is no record of a grant of arms to the Kippax family, and these arms, if correctly deciphered, are those of Hollis of Rotherham, as is also the crest. Whether this Vicar was connected with the Hollis family I cannot find, but he had no right to display their arms.

On a monument in the south aisle, to Anne, relict of John Hawarden Fazakerley, Esq., obit 1800, is the crest of this family: "On a mount Vert, a swan, wings displayed Argent." This par

ticular branch of the Fazakerley family long resided at Ormskirk, and there are other, but not armorial, monuments to its members in the church.

During a previous survey of the monuments of this church, some years since, I noted some armorials that are not there now.

In a stained glass window, an impalement— Stanley (as before), and Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale : Or, a lion rampant dechaussé, within a double tressure, flory counterflory Gules," for Edward Stanley of Cross Hall, and Mary, eldest daughter of James Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale. Edward Stanley contested the Southern Division of Lancaster unsuccessfully in 1837, and died about 1860.

In a stained glass window in the north aisle was formerly a coat of arms: "Argent, a chevron Sable, in chief a lion passant guardant Or." Crest, on a wreath of the colours, "A nag's head, couped proper, caparisoned Or," intended for Welsby, but I cannot trace any arms for this family.

THE CHAPELS

On the survey above alluded to I found, leaning against a wall in the Derby Chapel, a most interesting heraldic display. A hatchment; for Sir Edward Smith Stanley, 6th Baronet, and 12th Earl of Derby, impaling Elizabeth, daughter of James, 6th Duke of Hamilton, and 3rd Duke of Brandon, his first wife, and Eliza Farren, the Liverpool actress, his second wife. In the centre Stanley, Quarterly 1 and 4 Stanley (as before) 2 and 3, grand quarters, I and 4. "Azure, three hedgehogs, Argent," for Herriz, and 2 and 3, "Gules, on a chevron Or, between three bezants, as many crosses pattée fitché, Sable," for Smith. On a canton Azure, the Ulster badge, the bloody hand, for the Baronetcy, and on an escutcheon of

pretence, in the honour point, "Gules, three cinquefoils Argent," for Hamilton. The dexter impalement was: Quarterly, four grand-quarters, 1st and 4th “Gules, three cinquefoils pierced Ermine,” for Hamilton. 2nd and 3rd “Argent, a ship with her sails furled, Sable," for Arran. 2nd and 3rd Quarterly, 1st "Azure, a lion rampant Argent, crowned, Or," for Galloway; 2nd "Or, a lion rampant Gules, debruised by a bendlet Sable," for Abernethy; 3rd “Argent, three piles Gules," for Wishart; 4th "Or, a fess chequy Azure and Argent surmounted by a bend Gules charged with three buckles of the first," for Stewart; over all, on an escutcheon, “Argent, a human heart Gules, imperially crowned proper; on a chief Azure, three mullets of the field," for Douglas; in the honour point, on a small escutcheon brochant-sur-tout, “Azure, three fleurs-de-lys Or,” for Chatelherault, all these quarterings for Hamilton. The sinister impalement was: "Argent, a fess between three horse-shoes Azure," for Farren. The shield was ensigned with an earl's coronet, and on a wreath of the colours the Stanley crest (as before). Supporters, “Dexter, a griffin, sinister, a buck, both Or, and ducally collared and chained Azure, the buck attired of the last." Motto, "Sans changer." The impalement for Farren is very puzzling, as the proper coat of this Irish family is, "Gules, a saltire Or," and the exact blazon belongs to no known coat of arms, but, except in the tinctures of the horseshoes, it is the same as that of Endesor, of Rollesby, Co. Norfolk, “ Argent, a fess Azure, between three horse-shoes Sable."

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The background of this hatchment was entirely black, indicating that all three were dead-Elizabeth Hamilton, died 14th March 1797; Eliza Farren, 23rd April 1829; and Edward Smith Stanley, the celebrated cock-fighter, 21st October

1834. This showed, he being the last survivor, that the hatchment was put up after his death, and in my own recollection it formerly hung on the south wall of the Derby Chapel until the "restoration" of the church. It is a great pity that such an interesting memorial of a former Liverpool actress should have been, as I am told it is, destroyed.

It will be seen from this description that the hatchment was remarkable in at least two pointsthe Farren charges, and the escutcheon of pretence for Hamilton, which indicated that the Earl claimed some honours through his first wife, though he had been divorced from her. From this wife comes the present Earl of Derby, and the only surviving daughter of Eliza Farren married Thomas, 2nd Earl of Wilton.

In the two existing chapels are some heraldic memorials that are not depicted on the drawing of Sir William Dugdale, though a few of these must have been in situ at the time it was made, and there are some more recently added, so it is perhaps more orderly to describe these before dealing with those on the drawing.

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On the east wall of the Derby Chapel is a marble monument, Stanley (as before) impaling Warren, Chequy, Or and Azure" (without the usual canton with a lion), floral mantling, Esquire's helmet. Crest, on a wreath of the colours, the Stanley crest (as before), for Alice Warren of Poynton, wife of the Hon. and Rev. John Stanley, who was successively Rector of Liverpool, Bury, Walton-onthe-Hill, and Winwick, where he died, aged ninetyone, in 1781. The inscription on this monument is remarkable for preserving an archaic style of nomenclature, of which a few examples can be found in the early Liverpool Directories. This lady was the daughter of Edward Warren of Poynton, by his second wife Margaret, daughter