ECCLESHAL, (Staffordshire) 110 cm. 136 mm. from London, stands near the r. Sow, and is a pretty place, noted for pedlars
wares, and a good ch. sc. It has a Mt. on Tu. and Fair on Holy-Th. It bel. in the R. of K. Stephen, to Will. de Novell, or
Noel. Here was a castle built, or rather rebuilt, (for historians differ) in the R. of Edw. I. by the Bp. of Litchfield,
then Ld, high-treasurer, and Ld. of this manor; and the present Bp. has a seat at that called Eccleshal-Hall.