. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. 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 troops. As soon as Prince Rupert had departed, the garrison at Manchester sent for John Valentine, and under threat of imprisonment and loss of his estates, he was ordered to bring in £zo in money and j^io worth of provisions ; and this was perfo
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. 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 troops. As soon as Prince Rupert had departed, the garrison at Manchester sent for John Valentine, and under threat of imprisonment and loss of his estates, he was ordered to bring in £zo in money and j^io worth of provisions ; and this was performed. In spite of this ready compliance a Parliamentary Com- mittee ordered sequestration, and he redeemed his estate in 1651 by the payment oi £2^'^ 4/. ()d.^ A charter of incorporation was BOROUGH granted to ECCLES in i892,«»and a grant of the commission of the peace was made two years later,'' armorial bearings following soon afterwards. A new council chamber and police courts were opened in 1899. The town is provided with parks, library," baths, sewage works, cemetery, electricity station, fire station, tramways," and other conveni- ences under public control. The area within the borough, in addition to Eccles proper, includes Patricroft, Monton, Winton, and Barton village ; it is divided into six wards, each with an alderman and three councillors, viz. North- east or Monton and Park, East Central or Eccles, South-east or Irwell, West Central or Patricroft, West or Winton, and South-west or ; Gas and water are supplied by the corporations of Salford and Manchester respectively. MONTON^" was the manor of the monks of Whalley, being held of the king in socage as 2 ox- gangs of land, by a rent of ; The tenure of the. Borough of Eccles. Or on a mount vert a church proper ,â on a chief azure befween two branches of the cotton plant proper a pale argent itnth a steam- hammer sable thereon. ^ Mr. John Harland prevented the coins from
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