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A History of the County of Lancaster
… 100 by Lady Moyer, and in the following year 200 for the old chapel stock was recovered from the trustees by a decree of the Commissioners for Charitable Uses. 29 The old chapel was rebuilt in 1779, 30 and the new one having … Peerage, via, 1568, referring to W. D. Pink in Gen. (old ser.), iv, 349, and to the Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Civil War notices were found concealed in a cavity in an old farm-house at Houghton Green. 3 Manors The manor of … lord of Newton, in socage by 5 s. rent, i.e. the old service for a fourth part of the manor of Middleton; …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… south-west to Stretford. 2 It is on the line of the old Roman road to Chester. Almost parallel to it are City … being merged in the new township of South Manchester. The old Chorlton Union Workhouse, built about 1840, stood in … above Ordsall. It is described by Aikin in 1795 as 'an old half-timbered house,' and from the evidence of sketches …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… (Chet. Soc.), 35. Thomas Birtwisle was sixty-five years old and his son John forty-one. An Edward Birtwisle entered …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Rawstorne for 560. 8 The purchaser, described as of Old Windsor, was of the family of Rawstorne of Tottington. … of 2 d.; Thomas his son and heir was twenty-three years old; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. xxix, no. 87. Kuerden fol. MS. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Prescot. The stocks used to be next to it. 107 There is an old font in the churchyard. 108 MANOR In the time of Edward …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… corner a branch road goes north through it, passing Old Holme and ascending the hill from which the name is … part of the new township of Burnley, so reducing the old area. On the other hand part of Habergham Eaves was … the foundations of the keep could easily be traced. 38 The old draw-well had then been only recently covered up. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the cemetery, and was restored about ten years ago, the old timber work at the back, which was then visible, being … and otherwise modernized, but the roofs retain their old stone slates. The building is now divided into three … front of the house, are said to belong respectively to the old barn and a stable now pulled down. One bears the date …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of volunteers and others using the Altcar rifle range. An old lighthouse stands near this point. A number of minor … it would appear from this that William Blundell was very old, and incapable of business, and that Robert Blundell was … &c., there and in the Moorhouses, North End, Melling, the Old Marsh, the Low Marsh, the Elcom acre, and Black carr; …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… (of Warrington). Henry, the heir, was twenty-four years old. Henry, as executor of his father, rendered account of …