. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED. Lander of New Hall. Sable three mullets in bend argent between tivo btndlets indented or. Under the Commonwealth the Gerard estates, as above related, were confiscated ; the properties of Hugh Orrell ^ and Elizabeth Rogerson, widow,*' were also sequestered for recusancy. In 1717 John Darbyshire, Thomas Naylor, Elizabeth Aray of Chorley, John Taylor of Lydiate, Edward Unsworth, John Boardman, and Andrew Moore registered estates as ' papists.'" The family of Lander of New Hall appears during the 17th ce
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED. Lander of New Hall. Sable three mullets in bend argent between tivo btndlets indented or. Under the Commonwealth the Gerard estates, as above related, were confiscated ; the properties of Hugh Orrell ^ and Elizabeth Rogerson, widow,*' were also sequestered for recusancy. In 1717 John Darbyshire, Thomas Naylor, Elizabeth Aray of Chorley, John Taylor of Lydiate, Edward Unsworth, John Boardman, and Andrew Moore registered estates as ' papists.'" The family of Lander of New Hall appears during the 17th ; This estate was acquired by the Gerards about 1796, and became their principal ; The Sorocold family were seated at Eyebridge in the 17th ; A troop of yeomanry cavalry, commanded by Sir William Gerard, existed in 1804, when two companies of infantry volunteers were raised for the protection of the country from ; There i? no record of the origin of CHURCH St. Thomas's Chapel at Ashton, which is first named in the pleadings in i 515 respecting the dispute about Tumshea Moss between Sir Thomas Gerard and his namesake of Ince ; it was then deposed that the priest at Ashton Chapel had given public notice that Sir Thomas intended to make a straight ditch through the moss that his turf- rooms might be the ; Little is known of it for a century after this ;" but the new services were certainly used there, Sir Thomas Gerard about 1562 forcibly carrying to it his relation Nicholas Gerard as a too obstinate adherent of the old.'* The ministra- tions were probably irregular; in 1590 there was ' no preacher' there," and more than twenty years later 'seldom a curate,' there being, it would seem, no income except what the rector allowed.'* The WINWICK Commonwealth Surveyors of 1650 found everything in order, and recommended it to be made a parish church; to the minister had been assigned the seques- tered tithes of the
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