. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE the heralds' visitations in 1567,ni 1613' l66v'; The Cliftons adhered to Roman Catholicism,'' and in the Civil War to the king's Thomas Clifton had his estates sequestered as a re- cusant and delinquent,39 and at length they were sold by order of the His eldest son, Colonel Cuth- bert Clifton, was taken prisoner at Liverpool in , and died at Manchester,41 and three other brothers are stated to have lost their lives in the king's Thomas died in 1657, and his. Clifto
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE the heralds' visitations in 1567,ni 1613' l66v'; The Cliftons adhered to Roman Catholicism,'' and in the Civil War to the king's Thomas Clifton had his estates sequestered as a re- cusant and delinquent,39 and at length they were sold by order of the His eldest son, Colonel Cuth- bert Clifton, was taken prisoner at Liverpool in , and died at Manchester,41 and three other brothers are stated to have lost their lives in the king's Thomas died in 1657, and his. Clifton of Clifton and Westby. Sable on a bend argent three mullets pierced gules. second son Thomas He was made a baronet in 1601 as a recognition of his family's loyalty,4,1 and he was accused of treason after the He died in 1694, and his son having died before him the baronetcy expired, while the manors descended to his nephew Thomas Clifton of Fairsnape, who registered his estates in 1717 as a ' Papist,' the annual value being given as £1,548 17/. 2i0 and was sheriff in 185 3,51 died in 1882, having returned to the Roman Catholic He was succeeded by his grandson Mr. John Talbot Clifton M widow, formerly wife of Thomis Clifton (father of Cuthbert), and Dorothy, Cuth- bert's widow, were living at Westby. The younger son, Cuthbert, entered the Society of Jesus in 1630 and laboured in the Lancashire mission from 1642 till his death in 1675. He is stated to have reconciled the seventh Earl of D^rby to the Roman Church while on his way to execution at Bolton, 1651 ; Foley, Rcc. S. J. vii, 139. •' Visit. (Chet. Soc), 42. » Ibid. 88. »6 Ibid. 86. 37 Sir Cuthbert was present at the meeting (or pilgrimage) at Holywell in 1629. It was then stated that he had two priests at his house, at which place were kept Ft. Arrowsmith's clothes and the knife that cut him up ; Foley, op. cit. iv, 534, citing S. P. Dom. Chas. I, cli, 13. Two of his daughters we
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