SEDGLEY, (Staffordshire) near Dudley, the S. side of Wolverhampton, had a park, anciently bel. to the Lds. Dudley, in
whose family it continued, till it rested in the Lds. Ward, and is the seat of the present Ld. of that name. It is said,
that a vast trade is carried on here, by not less than two thousand men and boys, in working plow, cart, and tire-irons,
horse-lecks and shoes, bolts and hinges for doors, bars for windows, squares for trunks and coffins, staff-heads, buckles,
and nails. In this p. is a fat shining coal, which some prefer before Cannel-coal. It burns with a silent bright flame
into white ashes; and there are mines of it, that lie 14 yards deep, insomuch that some acres have been sold hereabouts,
for 100 l. an acre; and one single acre was sold for 150 l. 500 l. worth of coal having been drawn up out of one shaft.