. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE thirds of a third part of the manor of Edgeworth, and leav- ing a son and heir Henry, six years of ; This son died in 1408, the manors going to his brother Edmund," known as the Alchemist, from his having procured a licence from the king in 1446 authorizing him to transmute ;*^ Sir Edmund, at Eccles in 1411, married Alice daughter and co-heir of Sir William Venables of Bollin, and thus. Traf^ord of Traf- ford. Argent a griffin segreant gules. acquired a considerable estate in
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE thirds of a third part of the manor of Edgeworth, and leav- ing a son and heir Henry, six years of ; This son died in 1408, the manors going to his brother Edmund," known as the Alchemist, from his having procured a licence from the king in 1446 authorizing him to transmute ;*^ Sir Edmund, at Eccles in 1411, married Alice daughter and co-heir of Sir William Venables of Bollin, and thus. Traf^ord of Traf- ford. Argent a griffin segreant gules. acquired a considerable estate in Cheshire, which de- scended in the TrafFord family for many ; Sir Edmund died in 1458 ^^ leaving a son Sir John,^* who was regularly succeeded by five generations of Edmunds.*^ In the latter half of the i6th century the fortunes of the family began to decline ; several estates were sold,*** and Sir Edmund the fourth, having conformed to the Established religion, appears to have attempted, and with some success, to acquire fresh wealth by an active prosecution of the recusants.^* As sheriff he was specially zealous against them. He also arranged the marriage of his son Edmund with Margaret daughter and co-heir of John Booth of ^8 Lanes, Inq, p,m, (Chet. Soc), i, 63. For the dower of Elizabeth widow of Henry de Trafford and afterwards wife of Ralph de Staveley, see Pal. of Lane. Chan. Misc. 1/8, m. 21, 22. ^ Lanes. Rec. Inq. no. 21, taken in 1414. By this it was found that Henry son of Henry son of Sir Henry de TrafFord died on 20 Feb. 1407-8, seised of the manor of Trafford and two-thirds of the vill, held of the king as of his duchy of Lancaster in socage by the service of 55. yearly, and worth ^^20 per annum clear ; also of two-thirds of three parts of the hamlet of Chorlton-upon-Medlock (* Chollerton'), held of Thomas La Warre; lands in Hulme in Barton, Blackrod, and Edgeworth. Edmund the heir was of full age in 1414. His custody during minor- ity had be
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