. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. Whallky Abbey. Gules three ivhales hauriant %vith the heads of croziers iisuant from their mouthl part of a luight's ; Ralph Assheton the elder died in 1587 holding the 'manor or house and site,' and was succeeded by his son Ralph.** This Ralph died in 1616 holding Whalley by the above tenure, and leaving a son Ralph," whc was created a baronet in 1620,^ and made Whalley his principal residence, selling Great Lever in 1629. In 1635 he had some trouble with Archbishop Laud concerning the lease of the rectory
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. Whallky Abbey. Gules three ivhales hauriant %vith the heads of croziers iisuant from their mouthl part of a luight's ; Ralph Assheton the elder died in 1587 holding the 'manor or house and site,' and was succeeded by his son Ralph.** This Ralph died in 1616 holding Whalley by the above tenure, and leaving a son Ralph," whc was created a baronet in 1620,^ and made Whalley his principal residence, selling Great Lever in 1629. In 1635 he had some trouble with Archbishop Laud concerning the lease of the rectory,^* and about the same time the Star Chamber fined him X3°° f"'' various acts of adultery and incest.^^ Like other members of the family he took the Parliamentary side on the outbreak of the Civil War, and was appointed a justice of the peace and sequestrator by the Parliament.'' He died in October 1644 and was buried at Whalley. His son Sir Ralph, born about 1605, was educated at University College, Oxford,^* and admitted to Gray's Inn. He represented Clitheroe from 1640 till he was excluded from the House in 1648.*' He was a Parliamentarian like his father and appointed on the committee of the county in 1645 ^' ; he was also a member of the Presbyterian Classis in 1646. He succeeded to Downham in 1657. At Whalley he pulled down what remained of the abbey church and tower in 1661-2.'' He died in London in January 1679-80 and was buried at ;^ His brother Sir Edmund succeeded, and at his death in 1695 AssHiTON of Greal Lever and Whalley, baronet. Argent a mullet table pierced of thejield^ a canton , . ,Jbr di^erence. '^ Without evidence or probability Taylor concludes by alleging, as the most annoying charge possible, that JoUie and the others had been merely * the constant tools of popery' in this as in other matters. *^ Thomas Jollic replied by a Vindica- tion of Dugdalc as no impostor (1698). It is the best tract of the series. 'An Impartial Hand,' signing
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