. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Longford,'" having no children, sold Withington and left other estates to his sister's ; The purchaser of the Withington manor in 1597 was Rowland ; He was the son of Nicholas Mosley,' cotton man' of Man- chester, to whom, in 1568, Hough End House had been leased by Nicholas Longford," the freehold being purchased by Rowland and Francis Mos- ley in ; Rowland was »bout fifty-three years of age at his father's death ; he served »s high sheriff in 1615-16,"
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Longford,'" having no children, sold Withington and left other estates to his sister's ; The purchaser of the Withington manor in 1597 was Rowland ; He was the son of Nicholas Mosley,' cotton man' of Man- chester, to whom, in 1568, Hough End House had been leased by Nicholas Longford," the freehold being purchased by Rowland and Francis Mos- ley in ; Rowland was »bout fifty-three years of age at his father's death ; he served »s high sheriff in 1615-16," and died in 1617, leaving a son and heir, Edward, born a few months before the father's ; Edward Mosley, in addition to the large paternal estates, also inherited RoUeston in Staffordshire and other lands by the bequest of. Mosley of Hough End. Sable a che'ueron between three pickaxes argent. his uncle Sir Edward Mosley, attorney-general of the ; By his marriage he acquired yet further ; He was created a baronet in ; Adhering zealously to the cause of Charles I he sup- plied the king with money, and fought in Cheshire, where he was taken prisoner at Middlewich in 1643.⢠His estates were sequestered, but he at last made peace with the Parliament by a fine of ^^4,; His own dissipated and extravagant habits further impoverished ; He died at Hough End in 1657, leaving a son and heir, Edward, nineteen years of ; The second Sir Edward was nominated as sheriff in 1660, but does not appear to have ; He died at Hough End in October 1665. He had married earlier in the year, but had no children, and his next heir was his sister Mary, wife of Joseph Maynard of ; By his will he left all his manors and landsâincluding his purchase of Hulme âto his cousin Edward Mosley, the second son of Oswald Mosley of Ancoats, but with the obligation heath, moor, a water-mill and 40J. rent, of all whi
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