From “the Height” a most extensive view is obtained--a view unsurpassed in England for singularity and deep interest,--taking in Bolton and Warrington and other towns and villages full of factories; from hence also are seen Billinge Hill and Beacon, the far-famed Pike and Beacon of Rivington; while a deep shadow that hangs over an enormous space, points attention to busy and prosperous Manchester, buried with its prodigious wealth in the centre of a valley some fifteen miles away. FOOTNOTES: [1] The windows formerly contained some rare specimens of painted glass, which the late proprietor permitted a clerical friend to abstract for the purpose of decorating a neighbouring church. [2] Fuller states that Sir John Huddleston “was highly honoured by Queen Mary, and deservedly. Such was the trust reposed in him, that when Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen, she came privately to him at Sawston, and rid thence behind his servant, the better to disguise herself from discovery, to Framlingham. She afterwards made him, as I have heard, her Privy Councillor; and besides other great boons, bestowed the bigger part of Cambridge Castle, then in ruins, upon him, with the stone whereof he built his fair house in this county.” [3] A singular tradition, alluded to by Camden, has long prevailed, that previously to the death of a heir of the house of Brereton, trunks of trees were observed to rise from the bottom of the lake of the neighbouring _Bog Mere_, and to float for several days. One historian of Cheshire, sensible of the credulity of the great antiquary, would resolve the pleasant dream of olden fancy by the laws of modern statics. [4] Brereton is the “Bracebridge Hall” of Washington Irving. [5] The Cheshire carpenters of old seem to have been not sparingly endowed with the “noble” aspiration. In an inscription on the fine carved oak ceiling of the neighbouring Church of Astbury, bearing date 1616 and 1617, in which occurs the name of a William Moreton, we have that also of _Richard Lowndes, Carpenter_;--his work, however, is of no mean desert. [6] Hales and Tonkin state, that “about the middle of the _fourteenth_ century the Treffry family largely contributed towards the building of the church, and erected, adjoining to it, a magnificent castellated mansion for their own residence.” We imagine there is an error in the date of this, and should rather refer it to the middle of the _fifteenth_ century, after the French had destroyed the town; which they did about the year 1453. [7] The following inscription upon the tomb of one of them was “formerly in the Church:”-- “Sir Rowland Vaux that sometime was the Lord of Triermaine, Is dead, his body clad in lead, and ligs law under this stane; Evin as we, evin so was he, on earth a levan man; Evin as he, evin so maun we, for all the craft we can.”