. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. Shireburne. Argent a lijfi rampant guarJant in pre t decay. There had been no deer there for many jears.'^ The park was demised to farm for eighty years to Sir Richard Shireburne," and by Elizabeth the fee simple was in 1563 granted to Robert Lord Dudley, afterwards Earl of Leicester,'^ from whom it was at once purchased by Sir Richard.'* It descended in the same way as Stonyhurst to Thomas Weld, who died in 1810. It then passed to his younger son George Weld," whose son John died in i888.'Â
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. Shireburne. Argent a lijfi rampant guarJant in pre t decay. There had been no deer there for many jears.'^ The park was demised to farm for eighty years to Sir Richard Shireburne," and by Elizabeth the fee simple was in 1563 granted to Robert Lord Dudley, afterwards Earl of Leicester,'^ from whom it was at once purchased by Sir Richard.'* It descended in the same way as Stonyhurst to Thomas Weld, who died in 1810. It then passed to his younger son George Weld," whose son John died in i888.'» It is now the estate '""â of his daughter Miss Matilda Weld. The Lawnd, as the house was called, was formerly used as a dower house by the Shire- burnes. Courts have been held since the time of ; Leagram Hall stands on the site of the Old Park Lodge which was an H-shaped building of timber and plaster. This house was considerably altered in the 16th century, when the wing facing east was rebuilt. The remainder of the house survived till it was rebuilt about 1775. The west wing was made the domestic chapel, traces of which still remain, though the present Gothic chapel was built by John Weld about 1856 in his father's lifetime. The existing ea t front was erected in 1822 by George ;^ The family of Hoghton of Pendleton, an illegiti- mate branch of that of Hoghton, were seated at Leagram in the I 5th ; Of LITTLE BOWL^ND there is practically nothing to be related. The principal families living there were the Parkers of Greystoneley" and Lickhurst" ; the Swinglehursts and Harrises of ; Christopher Harris of this family" took the king's side in the Civil War, and as a ' recusant and delinquent' his estate was seques- tered'^ and then sold by the ; Hugh Dobson of Leagram compounded for his estate in .; Robert Holden and Janet Duckworth, widow, both of Leagram, registered estates a
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