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A History of the County of Lancaster
… which he had in 1445 demised to Isabel, daughter of Robert Legh of Adlington; she still held them in 1506. They were …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… on the Ashton boundary, and Golborne Park, a seat of the Legh family, at the southern end. Cotton-spinning and … of Lightshaw as a manor. The estate was purchased by Peter Legh of Lyme in 1738 from the Duke of Devonshire, and is now … 37, &c. See e.g. the account of Ince in Makerfield. In the Legh deeds in Raines MSS. xxxviii the family is often …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 14, m. 238. Thomas Bruche sold land in 1563 to Sir Peter Legh; ibid. bdle. 25, m. 75. The grant of the manor to Coxe …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in the following year granted to John son of Gilbert de la Legh all the lands she had by reversion of dower in Towneley, … de Gretton and Agnes his wife complained that John de Legh and Cecily his wife, Philip de Clayton and Isabel his … appear again in 1322 holding as in 1302. 43 John de Legh was in 1323 charged with unlawful hunting in the East …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Traditions, 31. There are portraits at Hale Hall and High Legh. Norris D. (B.M.), 152. Farrer, Lancs. Pipe R. 249, 253. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… part of a knight's fee. 8 Soon afterwards Gilbert de la Legh purchased it from Thomas de Hautrey. 9 This alienation … John son of Edmund Talbot sold his right to Gilbert de la Legh. 15 Gilbert's son John married one of the co-heirs of … 26 whose descendant Henry in 1356 sold it to Gilbert de la Legh. 27 Gilbert, as above related, inherited the principal …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… other manors to the family of her first husband, Peter de Legh of Lyme in Cheshire. 28 She afterwards married Sir … Church. 29 The manor has since remained a part of the Legh inheritance, 30 Lord Newton being the present lord as … 34 Katherine Arrowsmith, a leaseholder under Sir Peter Legh, had two-thirds of her tenement sequestered by the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… an exchange of certain of their lands between the Ridge legh and the water of Yarrow in Heath Charnock; ibid. no. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Lancs. (ed. 1870), ii, 6934. William Birtwisle and John Legh held the thirtieth part of a knight's fee in Huncoat in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and others had captured and imprisoned Gilbert de la Legh, robbing him and putting him to ransom at 100. 39 In …