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A History of the County of Lancaster
… improvement of Rainford Moss was begun about 1780 by John Chorley of Prescot. 35 In 1785 Mr. Samuel Booth, excise …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… heirs of Hugh Lee or Ley were lords of the manor. 9 John Chorley, son of Alexander Chorley of Furnival's Inn, married Elizabeth Ley, a daughter … of the manor of Rainhill and various lands there, John Chorley and Elizabeth his wife being in possession. 10 This …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… respecting a messuage and lands in Reddish between John de Chorley and Joan his wife on the one side and Richard de …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Feet of F. bdles. 43, m. 143; 44, m. 215. Hugh Swansey of Chorley in 1566 held a little land in Ribchester of Robert …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… by his brother John, a clergyman, sometime incumbent of Chorley. 59 The Breres family lived at Rivington, and several …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… conspirators had shut her up in Thomas Anderton's house at Chorley for four days, and by many threats had induced her to …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1. William Tatlock, 'South Heads;' Brick kiln hey, Chorley mounts; 42 a. 2. Nicholas Stopard and Anne Barnes; …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to Preston. From this road a branch goes off northward to Chorley. The London and North Western Company's main line to … Glodwick, Witton and Rochdale; lands, &c., in Duxbury, Chorley, Blackrod, Heath Charnock, Charnock Richard, Ormskirk … Lord Mounteagle, and Hugh Shireburne as of the manor of Chorley in socage by a rent of 5 s. 8 d. 73 John, his son and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in 1879 transferred a detached portion of Farewell and Chorley parish north and east of Curborough House to … as MILLHURST, 114 in the detached part of Farewell and Chorley parish added to Streethay in 1879, originated as part …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and Withnell for the southern, both on the Cherry Tree and Chorley joint line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire and London …