CHARTLEY-CASTLE, (Staffordshire) 3 m. N. E. from Stafford, near the coal-pits and brine-pits, and a very large park 2 m.
N. of the Trent. It formerly bel. to the Earls of Chester, one of whom, in the R. of Hen. III. built the castle, now in
ruins. It passed afterwards by marriage to Will. Ferrers Earl of Derby, to whom it gave title of Baron. Thence it passed,
by marriage of a daughter and heir, to Walter Devereux, Esq; whose son in her right became Ld. Ferrers of Chartley, and
was the father of Walter, and grandfather of Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, whose sister married Sir Hen. Shirley, Bt.
whose son, in 1682, was created Ld. Ferrers of Chartley, and in 1711, Earl Ferrers. Dr. Plot mentions a shuffle-board in
the hall of the castle, 10 yards 13 inches long, which, tho' made up of 60 pieces, each about 18 inches long in the
general, yet they are so nicely glued together, that no table is freer from rubs.