Charles Style (1738)

Post date: Jan 22, 2013 5:31:29 PM

The following extract from Country Journal or The Craftsman (London, England), Saturday, November 18, 1738; Issue 645.

has been kindly contributed by Larry Illot

Over 100 years later the following, written by an unknown local person long after the Styles had left Wateringbury Place (at least for the first time) appeared in

London Daily News - Thursday 20 March 1851

RED HAND.-First, when I was a boy at school I was shown the hatchments in Wateringbury church, in Kent, by my master, and informed that Sir Thomas Styles had murdered some domestic, and was consequently obliged to bear the "bloody hand;" and lastly and lately at Church-Gresley, in Derbyshire, at the old hall of the Gresley family, I was shown the marble table on which Sir Roger or Sir Nigel Gresley had cut up, in a sort of Greenacre style his cook; for which he was obliged to have the bloody hand in his arms, and put into the church on his tomb.-Notes and Queries.