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A History of the County of Lancaster
… down. The whole of the seating was likewise renewed, the old square pews, which had filled both aisles, nave, and part … the date 1708 and the initials i.t., r.w., i.p., w.w. The old pulpit had the initials of the Rev. Wm. Bushell and the … The bounds began at Pepper Syke, following it to the old hedge, under the land of Avice daughter of Robert son of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… is evidence that the Stockport Road, on the line of the old Roman road from Stockport to Manchester, was not taken as … chemical works, iron works, and tanyard. There was an old custom, discontinued in 1841, of 'giving an heraldic peal … Gorton, and at Longsight. The former represents the old Protestant Dissenters' chapel, built in 1703 and now …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Bank Street into Little Bolton. At their crossing was the old market-place, 4 with its cross. From Deansgate Bridge … still stands on the south side of Church Gate, near the old market-place: a low two-story building with modern … with the initials A.W., occurs on a stone over the old kitchen fireplace. Two relics of the earl are preserved …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 50 Great Crosby Marsh was enclosed in 1816. 51 The old bull-croft, belonging to the township, stood in Marsh … that it might be made an independent parish church. 54 The old chapel of St. Michael was replaced in 1774 by a brick … Luke, on the main road, some quarter of a mile from the old one, was built in 1854. There is a graveyard. The church …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… son of John Dautry was next of kin and heir, and six years old; Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. III, pt. ii (1st nos.), no. 112. By …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… road leading through it to Rishton and Blackburn. The old and almost disused road from Clitheroe to Blackburn … and has consequently lost much of its picturesqueness. The old mullioned windows, however, remain as well as the stone … forms the outer wall of a later north-west wing. The old north doorway in the screens is therefore now entirely …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… fillet painted on the glass on each side. The roofs of the old portion of the house, as well as of the chapel, are of … moulded wood mullions, but some, with plain chamfers, are old. The interior arrangements are so much altered that the … features on the ground floor. The rooms are low, with old oak beams running across the ceilings, those in the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… he left a widow Cecily and a son and heir Ralph, ten years old; Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), iii, 418. … m. xxix, n. 11; Edmund, his son and heir, was seven years old; Cecily, mother of Ralph and then wife of Richard …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… George (son of Richard) Greenhalgh, about twenty years old; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. xii, no. 23. Not long … of Henry Butler. Lawrence his son and heir was fifty years old; ibid, xxx, no. 35. In 1317 Alice widow of William de … by 3 d. rent. His son and heir John was thirty-two years old; Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc), ii, 272. John Thompson died …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… is a brass inscribed 'Near this Pillar lieth the Body of old Robert Eskrigge of Eskrigge and Richard his son and … Non imagine loquamur sed vivunt.' In the vestry are an old oak chest and two old chairs. There is one bell by Luke Ashton of Wigan …