_Roger Wilbraham, Esq.'s, Cheshire Collection_ (Vol. viii., p. 270.).--It
is probable these MSS. are still at the family seat of the Wilbrahams,
Delamere Lodge, Northwitch. When Ormerod published his _History of
Cheshire_, in 1819, they were in the custody of the family. He says (vol.
iii. p. 232.):
"In the possession of the family is a curious series of journals
commenced by Richard Wilbraham of Nantwich, who died in 1612, and
continued regularly to the time of his great-great-grandson, who died
in 1732. As a genealogical document, such a memorial is invaluable; and
it contains many curious incidental notices of passing events, and of
minute particulars relating to the town of Nantwich, of whose rights
the Wilbrahams of Townsend were the never-failing and active
guardians."