. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE for some reason passed over by the husband, the manor of Barton and the estate there being bestowed upon Cecil, his son by a second marriage ; it has descended like Stretford.'" Courts leet and baron continued to be held until about ; The vill of Ecdes'* is named in 13th-century charters ; it appears to have been largely in the hands of the monks of Whalley, being a rectory manor/' Possibly MONKS' HALL, standing on higher ground a quarter of a mile to the north-west of the church, took i
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE for some reason passed over by the husband, the manor of Barton and the estate there being bestowed upon Cecil, his son by a second marriage ; it has descended like Stretford.'" Courts leet and baron continued to be held until about ; The vill of Ecdes'* is named in 13th-century charters ; it appears to have been largely in the hands of the monks of Whalley, being a rectory manor/' Possibly MONKS' HALL, standing on higher ground a quarter of a mile to the north-west of the church, took its name from ; In 1632 Christopher Anderton of Lostock, as impropriator of the rectory, sold Monks' Hall to Ellis ;* The Hey family were of some continuance in the neigh- bourhood, and a pedigree was recorded in ;'' In the Civil War they experienced the displeasure of the Parliamentary authorities for aiding the king's ; After the Restoration the hall became the place of worship for a Nonconformist congregation.** By the end of the 17th century it had been acquired by the Willises of Halsnead near ;* Monks' Hall was described in 183635 a 'venerable wood and plaster fabric now a farm-house.' Of this timber building, however, only a portion remains at the back of the present house, and a picturesque black and white half-timber end facing the garden on the east side has been spoiled by the insertion of a large bay window on the ground floor. A stone wing, now entirely modernized, has been added, probably in the 17th century, in front of the old timber building ; it is covered with rough-cast, and has little or nothing to distinguish it from an ordinary modern villa, except that the roofs are covered with stone slates. The building has long ceased to be used as a farm-house, and is now a private ; A stone with the inscription, ' Mrs. Helen Willis, relict of Martin Willis, gent, deceased, me aedifi- cavit,' ^ is sa
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