. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE plague in 1623 and later"—the Civil War shows the dispu-ition of the ; For the Royalists Sir John Talbot and RadclifFe Assheton of Cuerdale were for the hundred.'" In October 1642 Sir Gilbert Hoghton, while conveying away the arms which had been stored at Whalley, was set upon at Blackburn by the clubmen of the hundred and his purpose ; The town was then made a garrison for the Parliament, and an attack upon it by the same Sir Gilbert on the Christmas Day
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE plague in 1623 and later"—the Civil War shows the dispu-ition of the ; For the Royalists Sir John Talbot and RadclifFe Assheton of Cuerdale were for the hundred.'" In October 1642 Sir Gilbert Hoghton, while conveying away the arms which had been stored at Whalley, was set upon at Blackburn by the clubmen of the hundred and his purpose ; The town was then made a garrison for the Parliament, and an attack upon it by the same Sir Gilbert on the Christmas Day following was ; About the same time it was supposed that Sir John Talbot had prepared a trap for the local leaders for the Parliament, inviting them to a friendly conference, but having 100 armed men at hand to fall upon them. About 300 of 'the Manchester men' thereupon set upon his house, put him to flight and killed or drove into the river many of his men, and in the house itself 'they found good pillage.'" In March 1643 the Royalists took Blackburn and rifled it, but were quickly compelled to give it ; For more than a year it seems to have been left at peace, but in June 1644, when Prince Rupert was marching into Yorkshire after the relief of Lathum and the capture of Liverpool, he passed through the town, and some fighting took place. Colonel Shuttle- worth being defeated by ; Walton-le-Dale, from its position at the passage of the Ribble, saw a little more of the war in 1644 " and ; The Parliamentary rule was accompanied by the sequestra- tion or sometimes confiscation of the estates of those who had taken the king's side" or were Roman. ^* Lanes, and Ches. Arttiq. Notes, i, 97, 99. In 1631 the plague was prevalent in the neighbourhood, but the town of Blackburn remained free j Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 48. 1? In 1629 and a little later the follow- ing compounded for the two-thirds of their estates liable t
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