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A History of the County of Lancaster
… the king in thegnage as part of the estate of the lords of Clifton. 7 In 1372 Robert de Clifton and his men were charged with having seized one … In defence it was pleaded that Garlick was a villein as of Clifton's manor of Westby and had absconded. 8 Except for …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… bequeathed it in 1805 to his cousin Benjamin Gaskell of Clifton in Eccles, whose grandson, Mr. Charles George Milnes …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Adam son of Sir Adam de Hoghton about 1284 (Gilbert de Clifton being sheriff) released to the eame Alexander all his … was not recorded: Sir William Molyneux, 1548 (part of the Clifton estate); Henry Cottam of Haighton, 1592; Leonard …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in some way unknown the possession of the Cliftons of Clifton and Westby, 8 and of them was held by the Botelers of … to the relief when due. 11 The mesne lordship of the Clifton family was then, as usually, ignored; in inquisitions … Soc. xvii, 23, 27. Farrer, Lancs. Pipe R. 374. Gilbert de Clifton was a defendant in 1290; Assize R. 1288, m. 13. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… bequeathed to his nephew George (son of John) Duddell of Clifton, and in default of male issue to another nephew, … no minister is named. The 50 was given in 1646 out of T. Clifton's sequestered estates; Plund. Mins. Accts. (Rec. Soc. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… acres. 1 Land 300 ft. and more in height divides it from Clifton and Kearsley; the slope in general is towards the … Astley, while another brook, rising near the boundary of Clifton and flowing south to the Irwell, divides Worsley … Walkden. There is also a single-line branch from Eccles to Clifton through Swinton. Down to 1860 passengers were taken …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… In 1465 Gilbert son and heir of Lawrence Legh of Clifton released to John Towneley all his lands in … of one of the quarters of Worsthorne. Lawrence Legh of Clifton in 1404 (or 1417) gave to William Halliday of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of his sister Elizabeth, who had married Captain Edward Clifton. She took the name and arms of Dicconson, and died in … a younger son of the first Lord Gerard by his wife Harriet Clifton, who has added the name of Dicconson to his own. 32 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… whose business lies in Liverpool. A large tract called Clifton Park, at the north end of Holt Hill, has been laid …
A History of the County of York
… should be no gate nearer to the city than the north end of Clifton. 14 The proposal was renewed in the following year … the corporation had bought about 163 acres of land in Clifton Without and Rawcliffe parishes for the purpose in …