“Castri: strvctor: eram: domibvs: fossis: que: cemento. Vivvs: dans: operam: nvnc: clavdor: in: hoc: monvmento.” Which Dr. Plot informs us was Englished thus:-- “Sir William of Caverswall, here lye I, Who built the Castle, and made the pooles by.” In a spirit not altogether inaccordant with the original, another hand added this couplet, as Dr. Plot further says:-- “Sir William of Caverswall here you lye, Your Castle is down, and your pooles are dry.” In the south wall of the chancel is a mural tablet in memory of Matthew Cradock, Esq., the founder of the present Caverswall Castle. In its style, this monument bears [Illustration] marks of the age in which it was constructed,--the reign of Charles I. It is worthy of note, however, that, whilst the hand of man, as well as his foot, has continually warred against the monumental memorial of his great predecessor for more than five hundred years, without being able to obliterate the recognition of his name and merits, the inscription on that of Matthew Cradock, although not of half the antiquity, protected and even partially renewed, is now, in the main, irrevocably effaced. It has commenced in these terms, “Hic sepelitvr Matie Cr rmig.” The rest is so greatly defaced, as only to allow us to make out that he married Elizabeth, the daughter of a Salopian esquire, and that his first-born child married the daughter of John Saunders, M.D., which agrees with the inscription on the mural tablet of George Cradock, Esq. Some lines in white paint below profess to have derived their origin from “ I. M. R. E. de Stoke.” Matthew Cradock, we believe, was a merchant, and was returned to Parliament, A.D. 1640, 15 Charles I., for the City of London. His arms appear upon the tablet.