. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE the time of Henry VIII/' when on a failure of male issue it passed to a junior branch represented by Robert RadclifFe, Lord FitzWalter, created Earl of Sussex in ; This and other Lancashire estates were sold to provide his daughters' dowries. Sir John Holcroft purchased it/' and it descended to a younger son Hamlet/' whose son, John Holcroft, sold it in 1605 to Ralph ; It appears afterwards to have reverted to the Holcroft family °' and to have descended with their principal ma
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE the time of Henry VIII/' when on a failure of male issue it passed to a junior branch represented by Robert RadclifFe, Lord FitzWalter, created Earl of Sussex in ; This and other Lancashire estates were sold to provide his daughters' dowries. Sir John Holcroft purchased it/' and it descended to a younger son Hamlet/' whose son, John Holcroft, sold it in 1605 to Ralph ; It appears afterwards to have reverted to the Holcroft family °' and to have descended with their principal manor, until the division of their estates, when it was assigned to the Standishes. III.âHOLCROFT was the share of Joan, the daughter of Gilbert de Culcheth who married Thomas de Hindley.*' William le Boteler conceded to them that they should in future provide puture for one bedell instead of two, when doing the services pertaining to the court and fee of Warrington ; he also acquitted them of ' bode and witness.' " From Thomas the manor descended to his son Adam,** after whom no satis- factory account can be given till the beginning of the 16th century,'* when Sir John Holcroft was lord of ^ He was elder brother of Sir Thomas Holcroft, who shared largely in the plunder of. °* Lanes. Inq. (Chet. Soc), i, 94â James de Radcliffe, , with a son and heir Richard, who died about 1441 ; ii, 121. John Radcliffe, 1485 ; ii, 148, 152. In 1483 a dispute about lands in Culcheth between Sir Christopher Southworth and John son and heir of James Radcliffe was decided in the latter's favour by John Hawarden of Chester; Towneley MS. HH, no. 2139. Richard Radcliffe, who died in 1502, held the fourth part of the manor of Culcheth of Sir Thomas Boteler by knight's service and a rent of 3J. 6d. ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. iii, no. 98. His brother and heir John died about 1513, holding the same part of the manor by a rent of 31. ^d. ; ibid, iv, no. 7. *7 In the will of John Ra
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