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| | GENUKI: Ecclesfield Supplementary |
 | | Of the personal character of this great man, it is said that there was not a serviceable man under his command whose name he knew not; not a week passed but be paid his ships; and not a prize but his seamen shared in as well as himself. |
 | | The chapel here appears to have been founded as early as 1412, by Sir Robert Rockley; originally a private chantry of that family, though it came at length to be used as a place of public worship by the inhabitants of the manor, living at a great distance. |
 | | The Chapelry of Bradfield is a "bleak, high, and mountainous tract of country, lying between the Riveling and the Don, extending north westward to the point, where meet the three counties of Chester, Derby, and York." Some portions of it are among the highest grounds of the English Apennines. |
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