. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Wilson,' and Woodcock.' William and John Hilton were freeholders in 1600.' The heir of John Clayton ii named in 1628.' Under the Commonwealth the estate of Hugh Tootell was confiscated for treason and ordered for sale'; but Tootell was afterward; allowed to compound for part at least.' James Crook, Ralph Davenport, Peter Hcatley and Richard Wilson, as 'Papists' in 1717 registered estates in ; In 17S9 the chief landowners were Sir Frank Standish of , Samuel Crook of Old Croo
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Wilson,' and Woodcock.' William and John Hilton were freeholders in 1600.' The heir of John Clayton ii named in 1628.' Under the Commonwealth the estate of Hugh Tootell was confiscated for treason and ordered for sale'; but Tootell was afterward; allowed to compound for part at least.' James Crook, Ralph Davenport, Peter Hcatley and Richard Wilson, as 'Papists' in 1717 registered estates in ; In 17S9 the chief landowners were Sir Frank Standish of , Samuel Crook of Old Crook, Thomas Crosse of Shaw Hill, Thomas Townley Parker, Dr. Lowe and John Threlfall.^ The Shaw Hill estate, now the most prominent in the township, is said to be the result of a number of small purchases, added to lands inherited from Sarah daughter and heir of Robert Ashburner of Preston, who married Thomas Crosse of Cross Hall in Chorley in The Knights Hospitallers held lands in Whittle from early in the 13th century; the Mol\ncux family were in later times.'â¢" For the members of the Church of St. John's was built in |S',o and rebuilt in 1SS2. The i. vested in the vicar of Lc\- ; .\ school \\3i founded in ; The Wcslcyan .Methodists had a chapel 1839, now replaced by one built in 1897. The Roman Catholic church of St. Chad, South Hill, represents a mission known to have existed in the adjacent of Brindle in the 17th centur^â ." The fir^t fixed place of worship was the upper room of a house at Slatedclph in Wheelton, secured from William Blacklidgc and Henry his son in ; It remained in charge of the Jesuits " till the death of. CuniEf. of Shaw Hill, Quarfet.'v gulet and or, in the Jirit and f'jurth quarceii a cr',11 p^itcnr argftir. built in Fr. George Clarkson in 1S13 ; he was a native rf the place and built a new church at South Hill in 1791,'^ This was rebuilt in 1896, It is in the hands of t
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