Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/10

...that the 1673 history of Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester (pictured) questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family?
...that St Lawrence's Church, Stoak has a Tudor hammerbeam roof, a Jacobean altar, a Georgian pulpit, an Elizabethan chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II?
...that Churche's Mansion, Nantwich, one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1583, bears a carved salamander, a traditional protection against fire?