. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. Lindsay, Earl of Craw- ford and Balcarres. Quar- terly^ I and 4 : Gules a feise cheeky argent and azure for Lindsay ; 2 and 3 : Or a lion rampant gules debruised by a ribbon sable, for Abernethy, His son Sir Roger, the last baronet, died in 1787 without issue," the heir to the manor and estates being his sister Elizabeth.*' She married John son of Sir Humphrey Edwin,'" and her daughter and heir, Elizabeth, married Charles Dalrymple of North Berwick, whose daugh- ter and heir, Elizabeth Brad-
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. Lindsay, Earl of Craw- ford and Balcarres. Quar- terly^ I and 4 : Gules a feise cheeky argent and azure for Lindsay ; 2 and 3 : Or a lion rampant gules debruised by a ribbon sable, for Abernethy, His son Sir Roger, the last baronet, died in 1787 without issue," the heir to the manor and estates being his sister Elizabeth.*' She married John son of Sir Humphrey Edwin,'" and her daughter and heir, Elizabeth, married Charles Dalrymple of North Berwick, whose daugh- ter and heir, Elizabeth Brad- shaigh," married Alexander Lindsay, sixth Earl of Bal- carres. He thus became lord of the manor of Haigh," which has descended regularly " with the title to James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, who succeeded in ; His son. Lord Bal- carres, is the member of Par- liament for the Chorley divi- sion of the county. At the Hall is a valuable library, including a Mazarin Bible among the printed ; Apart from the Bradshaw family there do not seem to have been any important landowners'° in the town- ship, though in 1600 Ralph Charnock was also re- turned as a ; A poor man named John Rycroft was in trouble with the Commonwealth authorities during the Civil War ; he explained that he had assembled with the king's men on Westhoughton Common but had not joined them later/' In connexion with the Established Church St. David's, Haigh, was consecrated in 1833 as a chapel of ease to Wigan ; a district was assigned five years later. The rector of Wigan is ; At New Springs, St. John Baptist's, an iron church, was licensed in 1871 ; and rebuilt in brick in 1897. A schoolwas founded here about 1660 by the ;" ASPULL Aspul, IZI2 ; 1292 ; Hasphull, 1277 ; Haspehull, 1292; Aspehill, 1292 ; Aspell, 1301; Asphull, 1304, common ; Aspull, 1356, common. Aspden and Asp- shaw occur in the district. This towns
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