. Traditions of Lancashire . y the Seventh, it appears, theRadcliffes were lords of Smethells; but Joan, daughterand sole heir of Sir Ralph Radcliffe, having married Ro-bert Barton of Holme, he became in that reign seised ofthe manor and lordship, where his posterity continued,until Grace, sole daughter and heir of Thomas Barton, thelast male heir, was married to Henry, eldest son of the firstLord Fauconberg, whose descendant Thomas, in the year1721, sold the manor, which afterwards passed into thehandsof the Byrons of Manchester, by whom it was sold to Ainsworth of Halliwell, a desce
. Traditions of Lancashire . y the Seventh, it appears, theRadcliffes were lords of Smethells; but Joan, daughterand sole heir of Sir Ralph Radcliffe, having married Ro-bert Barton of Holme, he became in that reign seised ofthe manor and lordship, where his posterity continued,until Grace, sole daughter and heir of Thomas Barton, thelast male heir, was married to Henry, eldest son of the firstLord Fauconberg, whose descendant Thomas, in the year1721, sold the manor, which afterwards passed into thehandsof the Byrons of Manchester, by whom it was sold to Ainsworth of Halliwell, a descendant of the Ains-worths of Pleasington, in this county *, the present owner. Smethells is dependent upon the superior manor ofSharpies, the lord of which claims from the owner of thisplace a pair of gilt spurs annually ; and, by a very singularand inconvenient custom, the unlimited use of the cellarsat Smethells for a week in every year. f Baines Lancashire, p. 540 f Wliitakers Whalley, p. 424. s 3 GEORGE MARSH, THE At the close of a cold keen day, about the early part ofspring, in the year 1554-, there came two men across ableak and barren tract of land called Dean Moor, near toBolton in the Moors. When at some distance from themain path, and far from the many by-roads intersectingthis dreary common, they,—first looking cautiously around,as though fearing intruders,—fell on each others neckand wept. The suns light beamed suddenly through acleft in the heavy clouds near the horizon, along thestunted grass and rushes, stretching far away to many agreen knoll in the distance, behind which the dark hillsand lowering sky looked in wild and terrific blacknesss 4 264 GEORGE MARSH, THE MARTYR. over the scene. The sun, descending fast below the hillstowards Blackrode, beamed forth as if to cast one short rayof gladness on the world of sorrow he was just , and the dark chill moors stretchingfrom it eastward, were bathed in a wide and stormy burstof l
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