An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell . urst, had issueThomas, born 42 Eliz. daughter of John, to whom his father devised Lower Hall, whichhe sold to the Walmsleys; Thomas married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Tildsley, and hadissue John who by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Langton, of Lowe, Esq. had John,Thomas, Edward, and eleven other children: John married and had issue Thomas, who diedwithout issue, and thus terminated this ancient family*. John sold the old h
An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell . urst, had issueThomas, born 42 Eliz. daughter of John, to whom his father devised Lower Hall, whichhe sold to the Walmsleys; Thomas married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Tildsley, and hadissue John who by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Langton, of Lowe, Esq. had John,Thomas, Edward, and eleven other children: John married and had issue Thomas, who diedwithout issue, and thus terminated this ancient family*. John sold the old hall and half the manor to the Braddylls, for little more than ^. D. 1677 ; yet when the next leases expire, this estate is expected to be advanced to ^. annum. The estates of the family appear to have been diminishing for several generations ;but the division of the manor of Samlesbury itself, and afterwards a family of fourteen children,seem to have completed their ruin. * In these descents it will be observed that nothing more is intended than to represent the succession to estates;for which reason the coUateial branches are generally cut oflf. The. 5 Book v.—Chap. I,] HISTORY OF WHALLEY. 431 The residence of this family *, whose estates were once of vast extent in Lancashire,was proportionably magnificent. It is moated round, and has enclosed three sides of a largequadrangle, the centre of which, containing the great hall, a noble specimen of most rude andmassy wood work, though repaired in 1532 by Sir Thomas Southworth, whose name it bears,is of very high antiquity, probably not later than Edward III. Ihe remaining wing, which isbuilt of wood towards the quadrangle, and brick without, (and the earliest specimen of brick-work in the parish), is of the later date. There is about this house a profusion and bulk of oakthat must almost have laid prostrate a forest to erect it. But a critical examination of this fineold building is reserved for the dissertation o
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