any as the usual foretokening that its owner, Charles Chadwick,
of Healey and Ridware, would speedily be removed by death from
the seat of his ancestors; and so it proved, for in the course
of a few months he died at Lichfield, _aged eighty-two_. His
great age, though, will be thought the more probable token, the
surer presage of approaching dissolution.

On a stone near the top of the building, on the north side, a
human head was rudely carved in relief, which tradition affirms
to have been a memorial of one of the workmen, accidentally
killed while the house was building.

In 1773, the existing edifice was built, on the ancient site, by
John Chadwick, grandfather to the present owner.

In Corry's _Lancashire_ is the following document, furnished by
the recent possessor, Charles Chadwick, Esq. It relates to the
foregoing John Chadwick, his father--

"In 1745, at the rebellion, when the Pretender's son and his
Highlanders reached Manchester, having obtained a list of the
loyal subscribers, they began (of course) to enforce the
payment of the money for their own use. An officer of the
belted plaid, of the second division, came to the house of Mr
C., in King Street, whilst the master of it was with his father
at Ridware, and, on being told that he was from home, and his
lady ill in bed, he went up-stairs, and opening the
chamber-door, where she was then lying-in, beckoned her sister
to come to him on the stairs, where he told her (in a mild but
decided tone) that the money before mentioned must be paid
quickly for the use of 'the prince (who lodged at the house in
Market Street, now called the Palace Inn), or the house would
be burnt down.' In this dilemma, the man-midwife calling first,
and afterwards the physician, were both consulted by the
ladies; when the former (a Tory) advised to send the money
after them, whilst the latter (a Whig) thought it better to
keep it till called for; consequently, never being called for
in their hasty retreat, the money was not paid. It may be
proper to add, Captain Lachlan MacLachlan, of the first
division (afterwards one of the proscribed), being quartered in
the same house, behaved with the greatest civility and
politeness. On a party of horse coming to the door for
quarters, he called for a l