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A History of the County of Lancaster
… service, and leaving a son and heir Charles, two years old. 8 In 1624 it was sold by Sir Charles Gerard and Penelope … by 1 d. rent; his son and heir Richard was ten years old. 10 By the end of the century it appears to have been … considered to be joined with the possession of the old manor-house and certain land, was afterwards sold to the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Winamoor, and Creacre. Coxhead farm is of ancient date; an old form of the spelling is Cocksshed. MANORS The history of … a sheep dead of the plague, and 18 s. for the timber of an old sheepcote blown down by the wind; the expenses were 8 s. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… is that from Manchester to Westhoughton on the line of an old Roman road; from it others spread off to Farnworth on the … and the pitch of the roof altered, but the line of the old gable still remains at each end. The house has been … with three gables to the front. All that is left of the old hall is part of the moat, which has been made into an …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… on Bunker's Hill, where there are traces of many adits to old workings, and down to 1850 there were large … the north side of the township, a little removed from the old high road from Blackburn to Preston, about 2 miles from … on the walls. The turned balusters and newels of an old Jacobean staircase are lying about. 34 The entrance is …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the income was about 14. 55 The income is now 194. The old chapel was rebuilt in 1770 56 and again in 1887, the … in 1443; ibid. no. 1490. Hugh, his son, was four years old. Afterwards, in 1466, Hugh Bretherton grandson of Henry …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 24 On the outbreak of the Civil War he, like others of the old religion, espoused the royal cause, 25 but appears to … with many panels.' The drawing in Philips's Views of Old Halls of Lancashire and Cheshire shows a half-timbered … were regarded as appurtenant to the manor of Rumworth, the old service of the third part of a knight's fee and 4 s. 6 d. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… fee. Anne his daughter and heir was fourteen years old; Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), iii, 436. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Robert Heap for 3 16 s. 8 d., as against 53 s. 4 d. the old rent; while Constable Lee and Oakenhead Wood, formerly … in 1891, and in 1894 was formed into a township, the old townships being obliterated. 10 This completed the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Ruddelache and so straight to Grimesputtes, thence to the old cross, to the Asheneclogh and so down to the water of … the building has been modernized internally and all the old windows have been replaced with sashes. Otherwise the … a chapel replaced by the present one in 1873, when the old one was taken by the Primitive Methodists. 42 The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to stand close by. 'Rushbearing Day' was kept up till the old chapel was pulled down in 1777. 3 The maypole also was … flukes also are caught. There is a corn mill at Cark. The old road from Cark to Holker was known as Dobbie Lane, being … north and south, is covered with modern blue slates. The old stone mullioned windows remain, those to the ground floor …