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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… road. The soil is in general rich and gravelly, and the Ellesmere and Chester canal passes through the chapelry. The …
A History of the County of Chester
… and a dry dock were built shortly after the opening of the Ellesmere Canal's Wirral branch in 1795. Much of the site …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… by whose descendant it was sold in 1840 to the first Lord Ellesmere, in whose family it remains. 69 Richard son of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1 Monton, and Chorlton Fold on the northern boundary. Ellesmere Park is in the north-east corner. The greater part … lord of Barton, made a grant in Swinton; ibid. (quoting Ellesmere D.); and Eda (Edith) daughter of Matthew, already … Monton, 2 s. 3 d. in Swinton, and 3 s. in Little Houghton; Ellesmere D. no. 218. In 1465 Ottiwell Worsley, Rose his …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… knt., lord keeper of the Great Seal, 23 afterwards Baron Ellesmere (1603), and Viscount Brackley (1616), ancestor of the Earl of Ellesmere, the present lord of the manor. 24 Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere. Argent, a lion rampant gules between three pheons …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… dissented from the opinion of the majority and caused Lord Ellesmere to say that 'two Thomases doubted.' 61 During the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Hugh's mother, at the rent of a pair of white gloves; Ellesmere D. no. 223. Alice daughter of William the Clerk was … up Norden Brook to the Fennes stock, where it began; Ellesmere D. no. 224. In 1533 the herald found that Mr. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… son were witnesses to a Farnworth charter in 1292; Lord Ellesmere's D. no. 142. Ellen widow of James Banastre in 1291 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 65, no. 69; Thomas Lord Ellesmere, Alice his wife and others were deforciants. See …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… part of the Worsley estate, now owned by the Earl of Ellesmere. Some of the Lever estate in Farnworth was granted … of Robert land in Farnworth beginning at Walkden Brook; Ellesmere D. no. 78. To John son of Emma de Lever he … with Siward de Middleton. From a charter quoted below (Ellesmere D. no. 85) it appears that Adam's father was named …