. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. ASTLEY. Azure cinquefoil ermine. in 1617.^1 Thomas his son survived his father six years and died seised of the ' hall of Stakes ' in Livcscy, leaving Thomas his son, aged nine years.^^ The last-named Thomas was father of Thomas Astle}-, who entered his pedi- gree in 1664.^^ and died in 1667. His great-grandson the Rev. George Astley, who was the last representative in the main line, sold the estate before his death in 1777. It passed to the firm of Turner, calico printers, who demolished the hall and
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. ASTLEY. Azure cinquefoil ermine. in 1617.^1 Thomas his son survived his father six years and died seised of the ' hall of Stakes ' in Livcscy, leaving Thomas his son, aged nine years.^^ The last-named Thomas was father of Thomas Astle}-, who entered his pedi- gree in 1664.^^ and died in 1667. His great-grandson the Rev. George Astley, who was the last representative in the main line, sold the estate before his death in 1777. It passed to the firm of Turner, calico printers, who demolished the hall and erected print works upon the site. The locality bears the name of ' Stakes Hall.' In 1843 a portion of the estate was purchased by Mr. Joseph Eccles and has since been largely built upon.^ A messuage and tenement named Ewood was the property during the i6th and 17th centuries of the family of Holden, who held it of the Astleys of Stakes in socage.^^ WHITE ALGH (Quithalwe, Quithalc, 1300; Withalgh, 1339) in Livesey was given in the time of Edward I by William son of Henry de Livesey to Richard his brother subject to a yearly rent of 2/. Other land here was also given by Adam de Livesey in the time of Edward II to his son William Pakoc, who resigned it to William son of Richard de Livesey in the next reign.^^ This William adopted Whithalgh as surname and was ancestor of Uriel son of Henry Whithalgh, who released lands in Livesey called ' Streket croft' and 'Pighel' in 1413 to John Livesey.*' James Whithalgh probably held the estate in 1524 and was father of Richard, whose eldest son James died in 1568 seised of a capital messuage in Livesey held of Richard Livesey in socage by a yearly rent of 2/. zd., and other lands in Mellor, Cuerden and Oswaldtwistle. His brother Lawrence's son, John Whithalgh, aged twenty, was heir to the estate,'** but died shortly after and appears to have been succeeded by his brother Richard, who passed the estates by fine in 15 81 to trustees for settl
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