"The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890"
{32b} A wag is said to have scratched on the stump of a tree at Hawarden the following couplet: "No matter whether oak or birch-- They all go like the Irish Church." {33a} _Homer_. _Iliad_ xxili. 315 "By skill far more than strength the woodman fells The sturdy oak." _Ld. Derby's Translation_ {34} 1889-1890. {35a} Buckley Church, towards which a grant of 4000 pounds was made by the Commissioners for Church building, was designed by Mr. John Gates of Halifax, and holds 740 persons. The first stone was laid by the youthful hands of Sir S. R. Glynne and his Brother Henry, afterwards Rector, and the Consecration was performed nine months afterwards, by the Bishop of Chester, Dr. Gardiner, Prebendary of Lichfield, preaching the Sermon. The Schools and Parsonage had been previously erected by the exertions of the Hon. and Rev. George Neville Grenville (afterwards Dean of Windsor), at a cost of about 2000 pounds. {35b} Much improved by the recent addition of a Chancel, the gift of W. Johnson, Esq., of Broughton Hall. {35c} Built by Sir S. R. Glynne: Vicarage and Schools by Lady Glynne. {36} In the Journals of the House of Commons occurs the following entry, dated 23rd February, 1646:--"An Ordinance from the Lords for Mr. Bold, a Minister, to be instituted into the Church of Hawarden, in Flintshire.