. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. Banastre, -Urgent a cross patoncd sable. twentieth part of a knight's fee anJ a rent of \\J. yearly. Richard Banastre, his son and heir, was forty-four years of age.' The said Richard, who recorded a pedigree in I5i3,' died in 1548 holding an augmented estate ; the Bank was stated to be held of the heirs of Richard le Boteler in socage ; William, his son and heir, was forty-eight years old.' William died in '555' just after arranging for the marriage of his grandson Adam and Dorothy daughter
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE. Banastre, -Urgent a cross patoncd sable. twentieth part of a knight's fee anJ a rent of \\J. yearly. Richard Banastre, his son and heir, was forty-four years of age.' The said Richard, who recorded a pedigree in I5i3,' died in 1548 holding an augmented estate ; the Bank was stated to be held of the heirs of Richard le Boteler in socage ; William, his son and heir, was forty-eight years old.' William died in '555' just after arranging for the marriage of his grandson Adam and Dorothy daughter of Hugh Anderton ; Henry, the son and heir of William and father of Adam, was thirty years of age. The tenure of the ' manor of Brctherton ' was recorded as in ' Henry ' was succeeded by a younger son William, Adam having died without issue, and William by his son Henry," who died in 1617, leaving as heir a son Henry, only a year old. The tenure of the capital messuage called the Bank and lands, windmill, &c., In Bretherton, no 'manor' being named, was recorded as in 1526, viz. of the duchy of Lancaster by the twentieth part of a knight's fee and 4^1/. rent.' Henry Banastre died in London 13 June 1641, and was brought to Croston for burial' ; his eldest son Henry, aged twenty-eight when the pedigree was recorded in 1664,' was killed in Chc>hire by a Manxman named Colcoth,'" and Bank passed to his brother Christopher, high sheriff in ; Christopher, who died in 1690, left two daughters and co-heirs ; the elder, Anne, married Thomas Fleetwood," the first to attempt the draining of Mere, and their daughter and heir, Henrietta ," carried Bank and the moiety of Bretherton to the Leghs of Lyme, from whom it has descended to Lord Lilford," who, as stated above, is now lord of the manor of Bretherton. Courts are held annually. Bank Hall is a fine brick mansion of two stories with curved gables and a square tower centrally
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