. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED WHALLEY was followed by another brother, Sir John ; he died the following year, when the baronetcy became extinct, and on a division of the estates the manor of Whalley went to his nephew Sir Ralph Assheton of Middleton,^^ son of his sister Anne, and descended to the Curzon family, who alienated it.^" The Braddyll estate, or moiety of the manor, on the death of John Braddyll in September 1578, descended to his son Edward, then aged forty-four.^'^ Edward Braddyll acquired the Portfield estate,'^ which be
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED WHALLEY was followed by another brother, Sir John ; he died the following year, when the baronetcy became extinct, and on a division of the estates the manor of Whalley went to his nephew Sir Ralph Assheton of Middleton,^^ son of his sister Anne, and descended to the Curzon family, who alienated it.^" The Braddyll estate, or moiety of the manor, on the death of John Braddyll in September 1578, descended to his son Edward, then aged forty-four.^'^ Edward Braddyll acquired the Portfield estate,'^ which became the chief resi- dence of the family, and died at Billington in 1607, leaving a son John, aged fifty.'' This John died at Portfield in 1616, leaving a son of the same name, aged twenty-five or more.'* In 1633 a settlement of the manor of Whalley and various lands was made by John Braddyll and Margaret his wife.'^ On the outbreak of the Civil War he took the Parliament's side,'* and his eldest son John at once raised a company of ' stout men' who made a. Braddyll of Whalley. Argent a cross loxengy •vert over all a bend gobony ermine and azure. name for themselves,'' but their captain was killed in July 1643 at the siege of Sir William Lister's house at Thornton in ; John Braddyll the father survived till 1655, and was followed by his son Thomas, who recorded a pedigree, in 1664," and lived to see the Revolution, dying in 1706, aged eighty-four.^" His son John, who married Sarah Dodding, the heiress of Conishead, lived at Ulverston, and his descendants retained it till some fifty years ago. The Whalley estate was sold by Wilson Gale Braddyll to James Whalley of Clerk Hill. Thus in 1794 the lords of the manor were Penn Assheton Curzon and James Whalley.*"" No manor is now known. The Cistercian ' Locus Benedictus de JBBET Whalley' was founded in 1296, and none of the buildings on its site are anterior to that date.'*! Gregory de Northbury, Abbo
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