. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE forty-five years of He had three sons, but Rossall went to a nephew Richard,07 son of his brother Francis. This younger Richard had a son Edward Fleetwood, whose daughter Margaret in 1733 married Roger Hesketh of North Meols, and carried the estates into that Their great- grandson Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, (1801- 66), was the founder of the town of Fleetwood. He 6old Rossall Hall to the founders of the public school there. Also connected with Rossall, as lessees from Dieu- l
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE forty-five years of He had three sons, but Rossall went to a nephew Richard,07 son of his brother Francis. This younger Richard had a son Edward Fleetwood, whose daughter Margaret in 1733 married Roger Hesketh of North Meols, and carried the estates into that Their great- grandson Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, (1801- 66), was the founder of the town of Fleetwood. He 6old Rossall Hall to the founders of the public school there. Also connected with Rossall, as lessees from Dieu- lacres Abbey, was the family of Allen, which had a considerable scattered estate in the district. In 1534 the Abbot of Dieulacres granted the grange of Rossall to John Allen and George his son for their lives70 ; the abbot afterwards in 15 3 8-9 gave a seventy years' lease of the rest of the abbey lands, including Rither- ham, a windmill in Norbreck, &c, and this seems to have been confirmed about the same time for fifty years by Nicholas Whitney of Walden, a rent of £13 6s. Sd. being payable to the king and £ 10 to John Allen's will, dated 1569 and proved 15 70, was formerly among the Worthington of Blainscough deeds. His son George had the queen's licence in 1574 to go with his wife to the Spa in Germany. He died in August 1579 holding messuages and lands in Poulton, Thornton, Norbreck, Great Bispham, Marton and many other places ; part at least of his Thornton lands was held of the Earl of Derby in John, his son and heir, was fourteen years of age, and Elizabeth, the widow, sister of John Westby of Mowbreck, took charge of the estates. She was a zealous Roman Catholic, and in 1582 was indicted for not going to church. This was the beginning of more serious trouble, for at the end of the following year (1583), Sir Edmund Traffbrd becoming sheriff, it was deter- mined to arrest her, partly perhaps out of hostility to her brother-in-law, Dr. William Al
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