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to be cast into a small cannon. The Lady Levison, however, who lived at Trentham, rescued it by means of a more valuable metal, gold, and placed it in the church of Lilleshull, where it remained till quieter times, when it was brought back to its old situation. The church-yard contains a remain of very remote antiquity; a round stone pillar, about twenty feet high. It is divided into several compartments by little bands of different patterns; the divisions ornamented with rude sculptures of beasts and birds, and bearing some vestiges or those linear involutions called Runic knots. No tradition ( i -, r s with respect to the time and occasion of its erection; but we made no doubt, from the nature of its ornaments, and comparisons between it and other scuptured pillars we had seen, of its being Danish, and perhaps of the ninth or tenth century. The new church built in 1758 is a good contrast to its venerable neighbour; and proves that our present ecclesiastical structures excel those of our ancestors, at least in elegance and convenience, if not m so- lenmity and majesty, li is in the gitt oi the Karl of Stamford. All the bcautx ot- "Wolverhampton is con lined to these two iabrics; foi lie h js are brick built, and staine i w i ioke it > ma-

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