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A History of the County of Lancaster
… was once the school garden. This original house was an old dwelling of the Picard family, which they had inhabited … values of the parish and its townships are shown by the old assessments. In 1624 the county lay required the parish … of Methodists), and two 'Popish.' The Quakers were of old standing there, but it is remarkable that Methodism had …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… some of the highest peaks of the Fells, including Coniston Old Man, but the altitudes diminish going south, at Ulverston … restored, a new roof erected over the south aisle, and the old square pews and other early 19th-century fittings done … with white freestone selected from the remains of the old walls. The chancel and nave are under one continuous …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Hall of the Earl of Derby by 20 d. rent-half of the old rent of the manor; Thomas, his son and heir, was … in 1909 to provide space for the organ some fragments of old wrought stone were found, including a piece of the shaft … rough-cast, and the east window is a restoration of the old one taken out in 1850, the tracery of which was given …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the townships of Walton, Bootle, and Kirkdale to the old church. There was a parsonage house worth 4 2 s. 4 d. a … 97 The effect of the Restoration was to bring back the old order to some extent; the existing rector's presentation … has a few special endowments. 106 In connexion with the Old Toxteth chapel there was, in 1828, a sum of 2 a year …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Friars, and at the point where this new street crossed the old road to Prescot a market was established about 1260. 10 … Hulme. 33 About 1730 Warrington looked 'a large, populous, old built town, but rich, and full of good country tradesmen. … in two bays with a modern ribbed vault springing from old corbels, and lighted by two two-light windows on the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Priest Hutton. 10 For the county lay of 1624, based on the old fifteenth, Warton with Dalton contributed 7 2 s. 3 d. … arcade until the year 1848, when it was rebuilt on its old lines. The date of the 15th-century rebuilding may have … aisle, were renewed, the roof reconstructed, 14 and the old pews which formerly filled the nave removed, their place …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Church; Oswaldtwistle; Huncoat; Altham; Clayton-Le-Moors; Old Accrington; New Accrington; Haslingden; Higher Booths; … With WheatleyBooth; Rough Lee Booth; Wheatley Carr Booth; Old Laund Booth; Colne; Marsden; Barrowford Booth; Foulridge; … This is in accordance with the tradition that the old name of the place was 'White Church under Lea,' a 'white …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in 1638, leaving a son and heir Henry Brabin, five years old. 35 Henry recorded a pedigree in 1664, when his son William was seven years old. 36 Thomas Brabin, one of the family, owner of lands in … a quatrefoil or. Newton Hall is built on the site of an old building of which little remains but a door with the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… down and rebuilt from the foundations in 1850, much of the old material being however used. The Gerard chapel, rebuilt … the plan is out of the question. The tower is at least as old as the 13th century, and in the course of rebuilding some … piers of four engaged shafts of good proportion. All the old stone has been retooled at the rebuilding of 1850, and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… curatus erat simul hic tunc. The tower retains much of its old facing, though the surface is much decayed. It has a vice … all that had been appointed since the termination of the old arrangement. Again in 1325, on the death of John de … Greenforth, who paid a rent of 14 s. A chalice and two old vestments belonged to it. Valor Eccl. v, 220; Lancs. …