STONE, (Staffordshire) 5 m. from Stafford, 110 cm. 140 mm. from London, stands on the Trent, with commodious inns, in the
great road to Chester, has a park, a small ch. sc. a Mt. on Tu. and a Fair July 25. It had in the Saxons time a nunnery,
founded by Q. Ermenhild, and much enlarged by the family of Stafford; one of whom also founded a priory, which after the
Diss. was purchased by Will. Crompton, a merchant in London, whose descendants have had their seat here. A great part of
the T. was purchased by the grandfather of Mr. Ja. Collier, who was first of all a taylor, then a draper, and last of all
a woolstapler. The Rev. Tho. Allen gave lands for founding a grammar fr. sc. here.