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A History of the County of Lancaster
… as one and were to be held as the fourth part of a knight's fee. Richard died in 1201, and John as king confirmed his … Edward was killed at Marston Moor, fighting on the king's side, and a younger son, Richard, born in 1605, became a … s.; his three-fourths of the windmill was worthless, the mill being waste; ibid. 194, 201. The Beetham share was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… is a footpath by the Lune. The Midland Railway Company's line also runs along close to the Lune; and the Lancaster … the river, and there is a public path over it. A silk mill was worked for many years, but closed about 1880. Just … William Singleton, a tenement held by a rent of 4 10 s. 2 d. and at the exchange of every lord and tenant a penny …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and go east through the centre of the town as St. James's Street; after passing through the town the road divides … also important manufactures of weaving machinery and other mill requisites, some iron foundries, paper works, breweries … of 1626 this chapelry contributed as follows: Burnley, 2 2 s. 5 d.; Briercliffe and Extwistle, 1 11 s. 10 d.; …
A History of the County of Stafford
… east of the city which were claimed as part of St. Michael's. Both had become independent by the 1830s 1 and are … runs along Big Crane brook and follows it through Biddulph's Pool, evidently formed in 1734. 8 Further south the brook … Redmoor brook and then runs along the line of the former mill stream taken off Redmoor brook for Coney mill. 11 It …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… they were granted to the Gernets as part of the forester's fee, 3 and were subdivided among younger branches of the … being Richard and Matthew de Burgh, holding by knight's service; he also had a mill there; ibid. 187. Roger Gernet of Burrow was acting in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1536 the manor remained for ten years or more in the king's hands, and the accounts which have been preserved throw … and the earl of Derby had rented it of the king's commissioners in 1538. 27 Others of their lands there had … Smith, together with the water-course, for the site of a mill. Burscough Reg. fol. 9, 8 b, 23 b. Benedict the prior …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the forest of 12245, and was retained in the king's forest within boundaries extending from Hardsty on the west … or Bewsey. 11 As early as the commencement of Edward II's reign the lords of Warrington had made this their country … or between three plates each charged with a griffon's head erased sable. The origin of the name of the mesne …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Bridge over the Roch. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's railway from Manchester to Accrington passes north through … to Tottington branches off from this. The same company's line from Bolton to Rochdale crosses the other at right … Fragments (ed. Harland), 347. The rights of Adam's mill were in 1256 acknowledged by two of the tenants, who …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… road. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's railway from Rochdale to Todmorden passes through Belfield, … the same places goes along by the line; the same company's line from Rochdale to Oldham has stations at Milnrow and … Clegg, Gartside, Ogden, the two Hollinworths, &c, with the mill and demesne, also the homages and services, except that …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… dependence continued until 1885, when a payment of 2 10 s. due annually to the lord of Hornby for Tunstall and … the three plough-lands in Farleton, and Hugh releasing 12 s. 4 d. out of the 39 s. due to him for the manor and mill of Cantsfield and from the multure of the said six …