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defigned, there not being any reafon to fuppofe that it was 6 or 9, and that a part had been obliterated. N 2., (PI. XII. fig. 4,) is drawn from the impoft of a door-cafe flopped up, in a building fituated in a field not far from the barn. Mr. Hafted ftyles it an cw/houfe, an error of the prefs, as I imagine, for 0tf/?houfe, becaufe w r hen he faw it it was ufed for drying hops. He might alfo have given a fac fimile of this infcription as corrobo- rative of his opinion that 1103 muft be the date meant, there not being any room for the fmalleft addition to o or to i that immedi- ately precedes the cypher ; though fome have thought that the fe- cond unit might be defigned for 5, and you feem inclined to be- lieve it denotes 3. The infcription on the oafthoufe, as it appears to me, was the more eligible of the two for a Plate, becaufe T. C. is twice carved ; once with the fhield that has on it the arms of Colepeper only, and again with a fhield on which the fame coat is quartered with the arms of HardreJhuJL T. C. are unqueftionably the initials of Thomas Colepeper ; and it is obferved by Mr. Hailed, that there was no perfon of thofe names poiTefled of Prefton Hall between " Thomas Colepeper, fon of John Colepeper, who about the middle of the reign of Edward III. mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter and heir of fir John Hardreihull, and who was therefore the firft who could ufe the arms of Hardreihull quartered with his own, and Thomas Colepeper who died feized of this eftate in 1587^]." ['] Vol. II. p. 174. Mr. Hafted notices fir John Hanlrefhull as being of Hardrefliull in the county of Warwick. He was alfo poQefied of the manor of Athens in Alhton, in Northamptonfiiire, which came to fir Thomas Colepeper, fon of John Colepeper, who married Elizabeth Hardrefliull. Sir John was biried in Afhton church. In Bridges's Hjftory of Northamptonfhire there is a plate of his monument, and in the in- fcription on it he is called Hartefiuill. (Hilt. V. I. p. : 83, &c.) Sir John Colepeper, probably a defcendant of fir Thomas, was high fheriffof Northamptonfhire in the reign of Henry VI. i Certain