Notitia Cestriensis: Or Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester, Volume 21Chetham society, 1850 - Chester (England) |
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¹ Dedicated Abbey Advowson ancient annum Asheton Atherton Baron belonging Bishop Blackburn Blundell Bradshaigh built Burnley Burscough Certif Chantry Chapel Chapelry Charities Chester Childwall Clitheroe coheiress conveyed Culcheth dated daughter and heiress Dedicated to St descendant died Diss Earl of Derby Edward Edward III Elizabeth endowed erest Estate Gastrell gave Gent Gerard Gilbert given granted Hall Halsall held Henry III Henry VIII Hindley Inhab itants James Lacy Lamb Lancashire Lancaster lands Langton Lathom Legh Leigh Lord Manor marriage married Mary Minister Molineux Newton Ormskirk paid Parish Church Patron Peter Legh Prescot rebuilt Rect Rector Registers begin reign of Henry Richard Roger Samlesbury School Sir John Sir Robert Sir Thomas sold Tithes Town Townley Township Trustees Vicar Vicarage Walton Wardens Warrington Whalley Whalley Abbey wife Wigan Winwick worth ye Curate ye Master
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Page 290 - ... carved with great elegance, and the compartments of the roof painted with figures of saints, while the outsides of the building are adorned with profile heads of wood, cut in bold relief, within huge medallions, it is curious to observe that the inner doors are without a pannel or a lock, and have always been opened, like those of modern cottages, with a latch and string.
Page 163 - The family became extinct in the male line on the death of General Rigby, in the early part of the present century, when the property passed by female succession to Townley Rigby Shaw, Esq., of Fishwick.
Page 113 - From the report of the committee, we perceive that among ether things th« utmost advantage has resulted from that great measure of precaution, the act empowering His Majesty to secure and detain persons suspected of conspiring against his person and government — a measure which has been attended with the most beneficial effects at moments the most critical, in breaking up the designs of the conspirers, when they approached nearly to the period of their execution.
Page 199 - Notitia Monastica," Vol. ii. pp. 16 and 315. asserts that " on the suppression of the Alien Priories in the reign of Henry V. the tithes and other spiritualities of the establishment were given to the Dean and Canons of Windsor ; but the Priory and the Manors of Great and Little Ogbourn were granted by Henry VI. to the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge, which he had founded.
Page 314 - ... which suddenly rises from a fine vale, in which, towards the North, at the distance of half a mile, runs the Ribble ; and a mile (three miles to the SE) to the South, stands Pendie Hill, which seems to lift its head above the elouds.
Page 131 - Immediately upon his elevation to the See of Chester he appears to have commenced his Notitia Cestriensis, which he compiled from a great variety of public and private documents, from his own Episcopal Registers, (some of which are now lost,) as well as from personal investigations,2 and printed circular queries.3 Abbots of Chester from the foundation, along with a Catalogue of the Prebendaries, after it became a Cathedral, for Dr. Browne Willis
Page 230 - Right Reverend Father in God, and trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well. Whereas we have received information of the factious and...
Page 180 - ... interfering in the business, whieh has been shorn of some of its marvels by a Diseourse published by the Rev. George More, Minister of Caulk in the eounty of Derby, who, with Darrell, and others, undertook to dispossess the members of Mr. Starkie's family. He says that Mr. Nieholas Starkie having married...
Page 239 - Chureh passed by the marriage of Aliee, daughter and heiress of James Banastre, to Sir John de Langton; and in the year 1349, 23d Edward III. the Judgment given in favour of Robert Banastre in the year 1280, was revoked by reason of errors, and the King was adjudged to have his aetion against Robert de Langton, Baron of Newton, in right of his mother, the daughter and heiress of Robert Banastre. The Advowson appears at this time to have been obtained by the Crown, but the right of presentation was...
Page 312 - Steward, or his sueeessor, at their General Meeting at Bury St. Edmund's, whieh would be in June next after the death of the Testator. " I give and bequeath to the Master and ffeoffees of the Free Sehool in Burnley in the eounty of Laneaster, all my Library of Books in my possession in Stansfield as shall be set down and left in a Catalogue thereof made, to be used and taken eare of by the Protestant Master and ffeoffees of the said Sehool in Burnley, and their sueeessors, for ever, to be sent to...