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- [S328] History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. 3, George Ormerod, (Lackington, Hughes, et al, London, 1819).
In Brereton Church is a large marble monument with half figures of William Smethwick and his wife Frances Coleclough inscribed:
"Here lieth the body of William Smethwicke of Smethwicke esq. who, mindful of his death, erected this monument for himself and, his wife, pious to God, pious in good workes which William was born Oct. l, Anno D'ni 1551 and died June 16 Anno Dni' 1643."
On a similar tablet under the female:
"Here alsoe lieth the body of Frances Smethwicke, daughter of Sir Anthony Coleclough, Knight, married to William Smethwicke aforesaid and lived in wedlocke with him S8 years a devout and hospitall matron, born Anno Dom: l557, in the Castle of Kildare, in Ireland, Novemb. 6, and died lst of May, 1632."
- [S327] Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, Armytage and Rylands, (The Record Society, 1909).
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