. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED CROSTON Near the eastern boundary is a place called Blue Stone ; about a mile to the south is a saline spring, known as Salt Pit.* Charles Leigh about 1700 noticed a sulphur water spring at Humblescough Green in Mawdesley.* In 1666 there were ninety-three hearths recorded in the hearth tax list. The chief house was that of Mr. Mawdesley, with eleven hearths ; no other had as many as six.^ The manor of AUIVDESLET was MANOR anciently joined with that of Croston/ and had identically the same history until a centu
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED CROSTON Near the eastern boundary is a place called Blue Stone ; about a mile to the south is a saline spring, known as Salt Pit.* Charles Leigh about 1700 noticed a sulphur water spring at Humblescough Green in Mawdesley.* In 1666 there were ninety-three hearths recorded in the hearth tax list. The chief house was that of Mr. Mawdesley, with eleven hearths ; no other had as many as six.^ The manor of AUIVDESLET was MANOR anciently joined with that of Croston/ and had identically the same history until a century ago, when the moieties of both were held by Hesketh and Traftbrd. The moiety of Mawdesley, however, was not sold by Sir T. D. Hesketh together with his moiety of Croston ; and thus the present lords of the manor are Sir Thomas George Fermor Hesketh of Rufford and Mr. Sigismund Cathcart de Trafford of Croston. Manor courts are held annually. The townships having been thus closely connected* Mawdesley being sometimes described as a hamlet of Croston,* those who held land in the one usually held it in the other, but some of the resident freeholders seem to have assumed the local nanie.*^ One of these families about the i6th century be- came prominent/ and their house was known as Maw- desley Hall. Pedigrees were recorded in 1613® and 1664.^ The estate descended to the Rev. Thomas Mawdesley, who died in or before ,'° and his executors then sold it to Alexander Kershaw, who resided in the adjacent town- ship of Heskin.'* In 1870 it was sold by the Kershaw. Mawdesley. Sable on a che'^cron betiveen three pickaxes argent as many annulets of the field. * Baines, Lanes, (ed, 1836), iii, 405. * Nat. Hist, of Lanes, bk. i, 31. ^ Subs. R. Lanes, bdle. 250, no. 9. * About 1250 an agreement was made between Matthew son of Robert de Holland and Amery his wife on one side and John de la Mare on the other re- specting woods, wastes, &c., pertaining to John's manor in Mawdesley j Ad
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