An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell . de Lacy, who, after the death of Alice de Aquila, his first vvife, without issue, mar-ried Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Robert, son of Saher de Quincy, earl of Robert married Hawys fourth sister and coheiress of Randal Blundevil, earl of Chesterand Lincoln, who gave to her in the distribution of his lands and honours, the latter earldom, * It is curious and edifying to contrast the scenes which took i)
An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell . de Lacy, who, after the death of Alice de Aquila, his first vvife, without issue, mar-ried Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Robert, son of Saher de Quincy, earl of Robert married Hawys fourth sister and coheiress of Randal Blundevil, earl of Chesterand Lincoln, who gave to her in the distribution of his lands and honours, the latter earldom, * It is curious and edifying to contrast the scenes which took i)lare respectively before tiiis obscure and remoteplace (St. John de Acre) at the close of the 12th and 18th centuries. In the former, the armies of France and Englandare seen fighting together against the Moslem infidels, under the common banner of the cross ; in the latter, appearsa Christian knight leading a Mohammedan army against an host of ajjostate Frenchmen, crusading in the cause ofatheism. t The above affords a similar instance in the family of Neville, and probably of the same date. scilicet Siatl/ii Do/ni/ionim V,-tfrt///i ih BftirUn/msliird. />. Mll^ TBXalesio ri^ ClMave Mnistro _ Sodaii^ jnamdi/simv ae^Cl (0\0)a i,un(„u. Il-liri iitjmiim IlUic tnhiilniH vovct Ml^itahi: Book III.—Chap. II.] HLSTORY OF WHALLEY. 179 scilicet quantum ad me pertinuit ut inde comitissa existat. From her it descended to Margarether daughter, who marrying John de Lacy as above, Henry III. by patent dated 23 Nov. 1232,reg. 17, re-granted it to the said John, and the heirs of his body begotten upon Margaret histhen wife. John de Lacy granted the two medieties of the rector} of Blackburn to the monksof Stanlaw, and the manor of Little Merlay to WiUiam de Novvell, and dying July 22, A. D.] 240, was interred with his ancestors at Stanlaw *. His son and successor was Edmund de Lacy, who, dying in the life-time of his mother, never assumed th
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