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A History of the County of Lancaster
… and Prescote, 1440. The township of Prescot, cut off from Whiston as a manor for the rectory, is comparatively small, … 1646 for his sequestered estate. 20 In 1717 John Ashton of Whiston, watch-maker, as a 'Papist,' registered his estate as … occurred respecting the boundaries, the township of Whiston claiming Prescot Hall to be within its limits. It …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and Juliana his wife, who in 1246 held part of Halsnead in Whiston, acquired from William de Rainford part of his three …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the Copped Holt, which they acknowledged to be within Whiston, not in Rainhill. Richard was then fifty years of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and Smithdown, Gorehouses in Altcar, Heath Charnock, Whiston, Heapey, and Cronton; and a rent of 7 19 s. from …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the forest fee. 6 The Travers mesne manor descended like Whiston, but the exact fate of it is unknown. The Holand … by William Dacre, adding the name of Robert Travers of Whiston as tenant; Dods. MSS. cxxxi. fol. 33 b. Sir Robert de …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… was given as 70. At the same time Alexander Holland, of Whiston, watchmaker, registered his estate of 19 in Sutton; … the manor of Burtonhead and lands in Sutton, Bedford, and Whiston. James Pemberton in 1558 made a settlement of his … Pleadings, Phil. and Mary, xxxiv, P. 4, and the account of Whiston. William Sergeant appears as deforciant of the manor …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… measure formed by two little brooks which divide it from Whiston, running one east and the other west, and uniting … are several cross-roads, including one from Prescot and Whiston to Halewood, passing Tarbock Hall and crossing Ditton … 14 He and his wife Ellen gave lands in Ridgate in Whiston to Burscough Priory, the gift being confirmed by …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Whiston WHISTON Quitstan, 1245; Wystan, Quystan, 1278; Whystan, … Whyghtstan, 1292; Quistan, 1346; Whistan usual, but Whiston occurs as early as 1355. This township has an area of … amongst patches of treeless waste ground. The village of Whiston is almost continuous with Prescot. The roads are …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1592 there was a dispute between John Ogle, of Roby and Whiston, and Alexander Standish, of Duxbury, respecting the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in 1307; Assize R. 431, m. 3 d. John son of Roger de Whiston, Cecily his wife, and Emma, the sister of Cecily, … fuller history of the family see the account of Ridgate in Whiston. William, son of Richard de Holland of Cayley in …