The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19

have barns in which the grain paid as rent or 1.-the was received and stored It was also usually the residence of the steward of the monastic estate, and had rooms set apart for the monks, who came over from time to time to act as repre- sentatives of the monastery, on rent aud it's and like festivities. So the grange was an important local center. Appar- ently at some time or other some of the Bollings, probably through their influence as local landowners, were installed in this grange It is assumed that they went there as stewards of the monastic estate, and that, as commonly happened, the office became hereditary, passing from father to son, and the house with it.
 The Bollings of Boiling Hall, meanwhile, had checkered fortune Called upon, "at his peril" to abandon his policy of watch ful waiting in the Wars of the Roses, the owner of Boiling Hall of that period came down off the fence-upon the wrong side! For very little while later the side he espoused was finally beaten, and he found himself punished with the loss of his es- tates. There is a record of pitiful ap- peals to Edward " by Robert Boiling, late of Boiling Hall," but somehow the hold on the monastic grange at Chellow stil seems to have been kept. It was prob- ably an exceedingly welcome shelter in aQVerSlty, lOT ItODcIt IoOlliii6 WeS O. NCi y old man indeed, before his unlucky loyal ty to Henry VI was pardoned by the new master, Edward W, and the Boiling estates were restored to him.
 We still hear of the Bollings having a1 estate and residence at Chellow at date 20 or 40 years earlier than the dissolution of the monasteries, and they seem to have retained the Chelow grange through all troubles and changes in the realm, eventually coming into possession of the freehold. Even before this event they apparently weye content to make Chellow tleir principal seat And so we come along to one of the many Tristram Boll- ings, a grandson of the Boiling who came to grief during the Wars of the Roses This Trstram had a fair daughter (and only child) named Rosamund.
 Toward the end of the fifteenth century this Rosamund Boiling married Sir Rich ard Tempest of Bracewell. It was bril- lis mt marriage, and the brides father hon. ored it by making his daughter and hei husband a present of Boiling Hall. an6 taking up his own residence at Chellow At the time of the daughters marriage Tristram was a widower, and he may quite well have fancied that for his ole age his monastic grange, across the val ley from Boiling Hall, would suffice. And so the present was made. But Tristran altered his mind, married again and hai at least three sons and two other daugh ters His daughter Rosamund and hel husband kept Boiling Hall, the eldest son Edward, took Chellow. This was early 1T the sixteenth century. By Sir Richard Tempest and his wife Boiling Hall wal partly rebuilt, and part of the building which forms Bradford's new museum be- longs to that epoch. Both the Hall and ths grange. by the bye. are mentioned 1T Domesday book.
 At Chellow, meanwhile. the Edware Boiling, who succeeded old Tristram, was succeeded by a son also named Iris tram, and this worthy squire it was. il all probability, who was the father ol that Qater) Col Robert Boiling, who lief,