Prehistoric Stone Circles By W. F. Andrew, F.S.A. 70 Swarkeston Bridge By W. Smithard 89 Derbyshire Monuments to the By Rev. J. Charles Family of Foljambe Cox, LL.D., F.S.A. 97 Repton: Its Abbey, Church, By Rev. F. C. Hipkins, Priory and School M.A., F.S.A. 114 The Old Homes of the County By J. A. Gotch, F.S.A. 133 Wingfield Manor House in Peace and War By G. Le Blanc-Smith 146 Bradshaw and the Bradshawes By C. E. B. Bowles, M.A. 164 Offerton Hall By S. O. Addy, M.A. 192 Roods, Screens and Lofts in Derbyshire Churches By Aymer Vallance, F.S.A. 200 Plans of the Peak Forest By Rev. J. Charles Cox, LL.D., F.S.A. 281 Old Country Life in the By Sir George R. Sitwell, Seventeenth Century Bart., F.S.A. 307 Derbyshire Folk-Lore By S. O. Addy, M.A. 346 Jedediah Strutt By the Hon. F. Strutt 371 Index 385 PLATE ILLUSTRATIONS Haddon Hall: “Dorothy Vernon’s Bridge” _Frontispiece_ (_From a water-colour Sketch by Mr. Frank E. Beresford_) Facing Page Melbourne Castle 14 (_Survey, temp. Elizabeth_) Wingfield Manor 20 (_From a Drawing by Colonel Machell_, 1785) Revolution House at Whittington 32 (_From “Gentleman’s Magazine,”_ 1810) Plan and Section of Chambered Tumulus, Five Wells, Derbyshire 42 (_From Drawings by John Ward_) East Chamber at Five Wells. View from the North-East 44 (_From a Sketch by John Ward_) Plans of “Chambers” at Harborough Rocks and Mininglow, Derbyshire 46 (_From Drawings by John Ward_) Section of Barrow at Flaxdale, near Youlgreave 50 (_From wood-cut by Llewellynn Jewitt_) Section of Barrow at Grinlow, near Buxton 50 Plan of Burial at Thirkelow, near Buxton 50 (_From Drawings by John Ward_) Dolichocephalic Skull from “Chamber” at Harborough Rocks. Side and Top Views 52 (_From Drawings by John Ward_) Brachycephalic Skull from Grinlow. Side and Top Views 54 (_From Drawings by John Ward_) Typical Examples of Bronze Age Burial Vessels, Derbyshire 56 (_From Drawings by John Ward_)