ldest daughter of Rowland
Manlove, of Lees Hill, in this county, esq.; secondly, Frances,
daughter of Sir John, and sister

of the late
Sir Richard Wrottesly, of Wrottesly, Bart.
and widow of Higham Bendish, Esq.
He died March 6, 1760,
aged 70 years.

[Underneath is the following escutcheon:--

(Wilkes) Paly of eight Or and Gules; on a chief Argent, three
lozenges of the second: impaling, 1. (Manlove) Azure, a chevron
Ermine, between three anchors Argent; 2. (Wrottesley) Or, three
piles Sa. a canton Ermine]

"The children of the late Rev. Thomas Unett, of Stafford, his
heirs-at-law, placed this monument an. 1800."

On the floor of the Lane Chapel in Wolverhampton Church will be found
stones to the memory of the Wilkes family, "seated at Willenhall from the
reign of Edward IV."; there is also a blue slab to the memory of Mary
Unett, who died in 1767.

The old house of Dr. Wilkes, a good specimen of its type of architecture,
stands back from the main road behind iron palisading. Part of it has
been utilised as a stamper's warehouse; had it received the respect due
to its associations, it might flittingly have been a town Museum, or some
such public institution. It was built by the Doctor's father, and the
Doctor was born there.

The house has a white stuccoed front, irregularly disposed, the
semi-porticoed doorway with classic columns having three windows on its
left and two on its right, although the shorter side seems to have been
lengthened at a later period by a red brick wing. Along the line of the
first floor are six windows, whose lights in the Annean period, to which
the building belongs, were doubtless of small leaded panes.

From the tiled roof project three dormers, the centre one having a
semi-circular head, the outer ones pointed. The chimneys stand out from
each gable end, and in the brickwork of each of their sides is a plain
recessed panel; the chimney-heads being noticeable for the absence of the
usual projecting courses. Local tradition says that Hall street was once
a stately avenue of trees by which this residence was approached from
Lichfield Street.

On entering the house, the visitor feels a pang of regret that the
venerable building should ever have been degraded to the purposes of
commerce; particularly as the fa