. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. Stark'ie of Hunt- royde. ^r^c«/(i bcmi sable bet-ween six storks proper. Padiham, and is a large house built at three separate periods and altered and added to at the close of the last century. A plan and elevation of the old building," portions of which still remain, show it to have been a 16th-century house following the usual type with central hall and end projecting wings, and having a total frontage to the south of 80 ft. The hall was 35 ft. by 20 ft., including the passage behind the screen at the west end, and was
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. Stark'ie of Hunt- royde. ^r^c«/(i bcmi sable bet-ween six storks proper. Padiham, and is a large house built at three separate periods and altered and added to at the close of the last century. A plan and elevation of the old building," portions of which still remain, show it to have been a 16th-century house following the usual type with central hall and end projecting wings, and having a total frontage to the south of 80 ft. The hall was 35 ft. by 20 ft., including the passage behind the screen at the west end, and was directly entered by a door, without porch, in the middle of the south wall with two windows on each side. The original arrangement, however, was probably slightly diflerent from that shown in the plan, alterations having apparently been carried out in the 17th century, to which period probably the central. Plan of Huntroyde and the capital messuages of Huntroyde, Shuttleworth Hall in Hapten, Snydale in Wcsthoughton, Hall of the Wood in Tonge and Sunderland in Balderston to the uses of Edmund Starkie, Nicholas Starkie, Le Gendre his son, Thomas Starkie and William Starkie, merchant. A lease and release of the manor of Tonge near Bolton and lands in Simon- stone (dated 1713), Padiham, &c., is in Com. Pleas Recov. R. Hil. 17 Geo. HI, m. 40, 42. *' See the account of Lydiate. He matriculated at Oxford (Christ Church) in 1678 (Foster, Alumni), and was burled at Preston 17 Aug. 1735. Some of his letters are printed in Hist. MSS, Com, Rep. xiv, '"^pp. iv, 206, &c., and there arc a number of references to him. He was attorney-general for thp county palatine. His eldest son Eamund, also a lawyer, succeeded to Huntroj'de ; he represented Preston as a Tory from 1754 till 1768. He died in 1773. °^ Son of Edmund Stark le's brother Nicholas. A Private Act was passed in 1798 allowing leases for long terms, sales of portion and timber to be cut on the settled estates of Le Gend
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