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A History of the County of Lancaster
… Hall, Peckers Hill Lane, and Sutton Moss. From St. Anne's Well to Thatto Heath the pebble beds of the bunter series … the last to suffer there on that charge in Mary's reign. Gillow, Bibliog. Dict. of Engl. Cath. iii, 353. Ibid.; Foley, … Anne, as a widow, appears on the recusant roll of 1634; Gillow, as above. Mr. Holland of Sutton (i.e. the father) was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… held of the Earl of Lincoln the eighth part of a knight's fee in Thornley and Wheatley. 7 John shortly afterwards … being a minor, because John his father had held by knight's service. 10 Thomas de Knoll died between 1350 11 and 1354, … died a prisoner in Lancaster Castle the following year; Gillow, Bibl. Dict. of Engl. Cath. iii, 25964. Misc. (Cath. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… three manors in this township, all members of Earl Tostig's Preston lordship, viz. Thornton, assessed as six … by William son of Robert de Winwick, who rendered 20 s. a year. 8 The other plough-land, lying in STANAH, was held … Cardinal Allen's career is from the Dict. Nat. Biog. and Gillow, Bibl. Dict. of Engl. Catholics, i, 1424 (with full …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Furness. 6 Their tenure was sometimes described as knight's service and sometimes as socage. A rent of either 20 s. or 13 s. 4 d. was payable to the heirs of Lancaster; … tidal water and 240 of foreshore. Time-honoured Lanc. 577. Gillow, Bibl. of Engl. Cath. i, 272. V.C.H. Lancs, i, 288 b. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Fall, on the boundary of which were places called Herbert's Clough, Cart Leach, Wych Brook, and Fairhurst Sike. 9 Henry … two beadles whom he kept by custom to serve in his lord's court and fee of Warrington and acquitting him from all … Foxe, Acts and Monuments (ed. Cattley), viii, 564. Gillow, Bibliog. Dict. of Engl. Cath. Liverpool Cath. Ann. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to Chorley. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company's line from Liverpool to Preston crosses the western side of … it was held by the service of the fifth part of a knight's fee by a family surnamed Walton. 7 The earliest known … the garden had originally been used as a burial ground'; Gillow, Bibl. Dict. Engl. Cath., ii, 547. He states that the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… with two of the old houses. Major Longworth of St. Michael's Hall was said to have haunted the place after his death. To … 1242 Lambert de Multon held the twelfth part of a knight's fee in Rawcliffe 7 He was then apparently the immediate … Their names are given as William, Thomas and Edward in Gillow, Bibl. Diet. of Engl. Cath. iv, 53. Royalist Comp. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… called Rice Lane. 3 The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's line from Liverpool to Preston passes through the township, … through the township. The London and North-western Company's branch line from Edge Hill to the docks crosses the … House had a chapel and was 'full of hiding-places'; Gillow, Bibl. Dict. of Engl. Caths. ii, 233. Liverpool Cath. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… urban purposes is divided into four wards. The Working Men's Institute was erected in 1881 at the charge of Mr. Richard … Corporation (Blackburn, 1874). Dict. Nat. Biog. Ibid.; Gillow, Bibl. Dict. of Engl. Cath. i, 157. Gillow, op. cit. i, 297; he became a Benedictine in 1811. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… town of Warrington huge factories line the water's edge. With the exception of a fringe of open country on the … about half a century, and wrote some scientific essays; Gillow, Bibl. Dict. of Engl. Caths. i, 267. In 1717 those who … 117, 123. Liverpool Cath. Ann. 1894, 1903; also J. Gillow in Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), xiii, 157, where it …