The Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire

Note 69 — An Elegy Upon the Death of all the greatest Gentry in Darley-Dalle, who loved Hunting and Hawking, and several other Games. The Poet's view, well known to you, to be too true, and so adieu, by me LEO. W. 1672.

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The Milwards held Snitterton for a long time. The last of the family, John Milward, died circa 1670, when the estate passed by marriage of his heiress with Adderley.

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