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A History of the County of Lancaster
… held lands in Dalton. In 1600 William Ashhurst and William Moss were the only freeholders recorded. 44 The Knights … in Dalton in which Richard Holland, Ralph Crosse, Philip Moss, and Edward Prescott were plaintiffs, and Richard … (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 239, 241. In 1653 Edward Moss of Dalton, two-thirds of whose estate had been …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… b. An agreement as to the bounds of their turbary on the moss called Ashton Moss and Denton Moss was in 1479 made between Sir John Ashton and Richard …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… known as Broad Oak, with land in Didsbury Moor and Hough Moss in Withington was in 1576 secured to Thomas Rudd. 16 One … was founded in 1894. Use has been made of Mr. Fletcher Moss's Didsbury (1890), a book of 'sketches, reminiscences, … Jackson's Boat, and another passage across the river; Moss, Didsbury, 61, 62. Ibid. 48, 49; a description of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… a grass-plot in the garden at Dinckley Hall, covered with moss and weeds, the other was used in the house as a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… are formed in great measure by two small brooks, Moss Brook dividing Ditton from Widnes, and what was formerly …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… salt.' 2 There is abundance of brine under Barton Moss, but though a company was formed to pump it, nothing was … by twelve riotous persons, had invaded the 4,000 acres of moss and pasture in Downholland, called Holland Moss, and had dug and carried away 3,000 cartloads of turf …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… coal-mines at Clayton; potter's clay has been found on the moss. In 1859 the older people still clung to farming and the … Higson, op. cit. 11, 15. 'The boundary line across the moss [at the east end] before its reclamation and allotment … of from 20 to 30 yards apart'; ibid. 10. For the tenants' moss rooms see ibid. 160. The local legend respecting it is …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Adam Award de Dutton of lands called Canfall (by Dodhill Moss), Hichetleys, by the Stonebridge, Codee, Bernardacre and … there seems to have been a separate chaplain, for one John Moss was there in 1574. He gave a certificate that Edward Ash …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the bounds of Prescot, and so leading between the Healley moss and Prescot, by the Liverpool gate to the Wellsyke, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… a claim against the earl respecting 50 acres of moor and moss, but withdrew; Assize R. 408, m. 61 d. In the same year …