. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. SALFORD HUNDRED ECCLES house or in a barn adjoining, but no trace of it can now be found. Opposite the hall was formerly an orchard, the re- mains of which existed until recently, where, in August 1864, while laying a new street, an earthen vessel was discovered containing about 6,000 silver pennies, chiefly of the reigns of Henry I, II, and III, several of John, and a few of William I of Scotland. The coins were claimed as treasure trove by the Duchy of Lancaster, but selections were presented to the British Museum and to se
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. SALFORD HUNDRED ECCLES house or in a barn adjoining, but no trace of it can now be found. Opposite the hall was formerly an orchard, the re- mains of which existed until recently, where, in August 1864, while laying a new street, an earthen vessel was discovered containing about 6,000 silver pennies, chiefly of the reigns of Henry I, II, and III, several of John, and a few of William I of Scotland. The coins were claimed as treasure trove by the Duchy of Lancaster, but selections were presented to the British Museum and to several museums in ; BENTCLIFFE was another mansion-house in Ecdes, lying to the south-east of the church, on the border of Pendleton ; it was for a long period the residence of the Valentine family, who died out in the 18th century. They were ori- ginally of Flixton.™ Richard Valentine died in July 1556, leaving a son Thomas, only three years of age. The capi- tal messuage of BentclifFe was held of the heir of William the Clerk in socage by render- ing a pound of incense to the church of Eccles, this rent identifying it with the estate granted by William the Clerk to his brother John about ; Land in Barton was held of the heir of Agnes daughter of Gilbert de Barton by the rent of a gillyflower, and messuages, &c., in Little Houghton and Haslehurst in Worsley of the lord of Worsley, by a pair of white gloves or \d. yearly.'' Thomas Valentine was succeeded by his son John and grandson John.'' The younger John's estate was sequestered by the Parliamentary authorities, because when he was high constable of the hundred of Salford in 1644, Prince Rupert, advancing into. Valentine of Bent- clifFe. Argent a bend sable betvieen six cinq- foils gules. Lancashire, lodged at Bentcliffe, and ordered its owner to send out warrants for provisions for the prince's army ; this he did, ' being,in great fear and terror,' but nothing was actually secured for the troo
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