. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 1 y a rnt of 2;. 9*/., suit to the wapentake court, aid half a pound of cummin, valu- I-J^/"., while A^am ie Duxbury held the other by a rent of 2;. ^d} Of the Adllnc^ton family there are but scanty records till the 16th century.' Hugh Adlington died 28 1525 holding messuages, occ, in Adlington, Duxbury,Lhor- ley, Coppull, ^^'orthington and Thornton. The estate in Ad- lington and Duxbur}', which is not called a manor, uas held of Lord Mounteagle by fealty and a rent of 3/. 9^. Hugh's son
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 1 y a rnt of 2;. 9*/., suit to the wapentake court, aid half a pound of cummin, valu- I-J^/"., while A^am ie Duxbury held the other by a rent of 2;. ^d} Of the Adllnc^ton family there are but scanty records till the 16th century.' Hugh Adlington died 28 1525 holding messuages, occ, in Adlington, Duxbury,Lhor- ley, Coppull, ^^'orthington and Thornton. The estate in Ad- lington and Duxbur}', which is not called a manor, uas held of Lord Mounteagle by fealty and a rent of 3/. 9^. Hugh's son Robert having died before his father, the heir was Hugh son of Robert, then ten years old.' Hugh Adlington the herald * spake not witbai' at the viritation of 1533 \ he died in 1556 holding the same estate and leaving as heir his. Adlington. Sable a cheveron hetzvetn three antelopes' heads argent attired or. '•ox\ John, .ipcd eighteen ye irs.* Pedigrees were recorded in i ;6-, 1613 and 1664," yj that the descent of the estate is clear for this period. Hugh AJhngton died at Adlington in 1640 holding the -manor' of Lord Morley and Mounteagle by the old rent of 3/. 9*2'., but no other lands are named in the inquisition. His son and heir Hugh was forty )e:irs of age.' Hugh's eldest son John died before him—being killed, it was stated, while a^^sting the king's forces at the siege of Chester in 1644"—so that he was succeeded by a younger son, Peter ; but, he having no surviving issue, the manor de-cendcd to John's daughter Eleanor, who married Samuel Robin- son of Chester, a settlement of the estate being made in 1664.® It was before 1700 purchased by a merchant, Thomas Clayton, who also acquired Worthington, and died in 1722, aged ninety-one. The estate descended to his grandson Richard Clayton, chief justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland. After his death in 1770 it went to his nephew, Sir Richard, created a baronet * Lanes. Exten'iy i, 2'')9, 270. ' From
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