. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED WHALLEY £4 yearly value of land, and lived until the end of '539' having tvfo years before contracted for the marriage of his son Richard to Elizabeth daughter of John Cudworth of Werneth, gent.^^ Richard Grimshawâthe family name had now assumed this form âwas assessed to the subsidy of 1543 upon £^ yearly value of land, and in 1554 purchased from John Moore of Kirkdale the latter's estate in Eccleshill. He died in 1575, leaving John his son and heir, aged twenty-four years,^* who acquired a further estate
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED WHALLEY £4 yearly value of land, and lived until the end of '539' having tvfo years before contracted for the marriage of his son Richard to Elizabeth daughter of John Cudworth of Werneth, gent.^^ Richard Grimshawâthe family name had now assumed this form âwas assessed to the subsidy of 1543 upon £^ yearly value of land, and in 1554 purchased from John Moore of Kirkdale the latter's estate in Eccleshill. He died in 1575, leaving John his son and heir, aged twenty-four years,^* who acquired a further estate by his marriage to Mary daughter and co-heir of Thomas Catterall of Catterall and Little Mitton. John Grim- shaw died in 1587, leaving Nicholas his son and heir, aged thirteen ' Nicholas married Ellen daughter of Riddlesden, near Keighley,. Grimshaw of Clay- ton. Argeitt a griffon segreant sable croivned of Robert Rushworth CO. York. He was assessed to the subsidy of 1599 '^pon lands of the yearly value of ^£3 6s. SJ., and in 1626 paid double assessment on ^^3 10/. value as a convicted recusant, his wife being also charged upon that conviction.^^ Three or four years later he compounded for two- thirds of his sequestered estate,^^^ paying ^£20 a year fine. John Grimshaw succeeded Nicholas his father in 1641, and the year following leased to Nicholas Townley of Royle and Henry Townley for a term of eighteen years the mines of coal on his demesne lands or lands let to tenants in Clayton for the main- tenance and education of his two younger sons.^' His own and his mother's estates were sequestered for their recusancy, and two-thirds leased in 1652 to a Preston linen-draper. The valuable coal mines upon the estates in Eccleshill and Clayton brought in a considerable revenue, but the county commissioners were extremely backward in making allowances to the lessees for permanent and needful outlays to maintain the mines in working order.'" John Grimshaw marrie
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