. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. and his son Sir Richard Cradock nodoubt were really living Knights. (See Annals, p. 83). t It is interesting to note that the Cradock family have, in modern times, been long connefted with Audley andBetley, having had possessions in some of the townships on the Wybunbury side of Nantwich and in the neighbourhoodof Stafford; but whether the Staffordshire branches of the family and the Cradocks of Nantwich are descendedfrom a common ancestor, I have not been able to ascertain. A Thomas Cradock, Ge
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. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. and his son Sir Richard Cradock nodoubt were really living Knights. (See Annals, p. 83). t It is interesting to note that the Cradock family have, in modern times, been long connefted with Audley andBetley, having had possessions in some of the townships on the Wybunbury side of Nantwich and in the neighbourhoodof Stafford; but whether the Staffordshire branches of the family and the Cradocks of Nantwich are descendedfrom a common ancestor, I have not been able to ascertain. A Thomas Cradock, Gent. who lived and died at Nantwich, was buried at Audley 27 April 1762.—(Nantwich Par. Reg.) He was the brother of John Cradock of Betley, Esq., whodied leaving two daugliters; and was the last male descendant of the Betley branch of that family.—(Information byT. F. Twemlow Esq. of Betley Court). J Sir John Griffin held the manor of Bartherton near Nantwich, which continued to be held by his posterity, until itwas sold by Richard Griffin in 1666 to the Delves family of Doddington. NANTWICH.. Cfje Cljurt}) ^imt tfje ^Reformation. FTER the great changes in Ecclesiastical affairs that hadtaken place during the reigns of Henry VIII and EdwardVI, Nantwich was classed amongst the discharged livings;that is, such as were exempted from the payment of first-fruitsand tenths to the Exchequer, on account of the smallness oftheir incomes. Such livings were often called scandalouslivings during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, because they had been deprived of their glebe lands, tithes, &c.; the revenues therefrom being either retained by theCrown, or diverted to individuals who could show a claimby purchase. Thus the Tithe-hay of Nantwich, and the Tithes of corn, grain, and pulsein Woolston-wood, Willaston, and Alvaston, belonged to the Mainwaring family of Nant-wich ; until Thomas Mainwaring, the elder, Gent., and William Mainwaring, Gent., soldthe same, in 1635, to Raphe Judson