. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED lying ; The entrance is from the porch in the south-west corner, and there is a door on the north-west, opposite, indicating that the plan pre- served the old arrangement of screen " and passage. The windows to the rooms over the hall are now bricked up, and other windows at the east end have been similarly treated. The back of the house is in a very dilapidated condition, and the shafts of the large projecting chimney at the east end have dis- appeared. The front windows of the inhabited wes
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED lying ; The entrance is from the porch in the south-west corner, and there is a door on the north-west, opposite, indicating that the plan pre- served the old arrangement of screen " and passage. The windows to the rooms over the hall are now bricked up, and other windows at the east end have been similarly treated. The back of the house is in a very dilapidated condition, and the shafts of the large projecting chimney at the east end have dis- appeared. The front windows of the inhabited west wing are all of seven lights, and the gable preserves its original ball terminations. The interior, how- ever, is of little interest, having been almost entirely modernized. BLACKBURN 1246 of harbouring the sons of Roger, parson of Blackburn, who had burned down the grange belong- ing to Stanlaw Abbey at Staining in Amounderness.™ Adam occurs in 1292 and was the father of Adam de Ewood living in 1324. and one of the largest contribu- tors to the subsidy of ; Adam, probably son of the last-named, held lands and tenements in Nether Darwen in 1362 of the heirs of Thomas de Arderne, kt., by a rent of 13/. 4a'.'' In 1404 the estate was settled upon Margaret Ewood, widow, for life with remainder to Catherine the wife of Edmund Ains- worth of Pleasington.^' At the beginning of the next century it was in the possession of William Astley, said to have been descended. LivESEy Hall from the South The hamlet of EWOOD was granted out of the demesne in the time of Geoffrey the younger, Dean of Whalley, by Adam de Bury to Adam son of Philip the priest, namely ' all the land of Hewode between the water of Derewint and Elfeletische and Ferni- hurst.' '* Adam assumed the name of Ewood and was ancestor of a long line of possessors. Richard de Ewood, son of Adam, was one of the many Black- burnshire people who were convicted at Lancaster in from the house of Astley of Patshull, co. S
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