. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. SALFORD HUNDRED ashton-under-lyne In the reign of Henry II William de Kirkby granted Ashton to one Orm, probably a relative, who thus became the immediate lord, and whose descendants assumed the local surname.'^ A later Orm de Ashton, who is described as the 'son of Roger' in a fine of 1195,'° was living in ; He was succeeded by his son Thomas,'* and Robert de Ash- ton occurs in 1254,'' but the •descent in the absence of evidence cannot be made out quite clearly. In 1274. Thomas de Ashton defended his title to the m
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. SALFORD HUNDRED ashton-under-lyne In the reign of Henry II William de Kirkby granted Ashton to one Orm, probably a relative, who thus became the immediate lord, and whose descendants assumed the local surname.'^ A later Orm de Ashton, who is described as the 'son of Roger' in a fine of 1195,'° was living in ; He was succeeded by his son Thomas,'* and Robert de Ash- ton occurs in 1254,'' but the •descent in the absence of evidence cannot be made out quite clearly. In 1274. Thomas de Ashton defended his title to the manor of Ashton against John de Kirkby,'* and in 1284 an agreement was made between them by which Thomas's right was acknowledged, a rent of id. being due from ; It is perhaps the same Thomas who occurs a number. Kirkby of Kirkby. Urgent two bars gulei, en a canton of the second a cross patonce or. held the manor of the lord of Manchester, rendering zos. at the four terms and a hawk or 40/. at Michael- ; In 1335 he procured from the king a grant of free warren in the demesne lands of Ashton.'* John de Ash- ton, apparently the same per- son, died about 1360, leaving a son and heir under age, his wardship and marriage being claimed by Sir John de Kirk- ; The claim no doubt succeeded, for Margaret the widow of John de Ashton sought dower against Kirkby in 1366," and in 1375 John son of John de Ashton called upon him to give account of the issues of his lands in ; John de Ashton is said to have distinguished himself at the siege of Noyon in 1370," and repre- sented the county in Parliament in 1382, 1388, and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Farrer, William, 1861-1924, ed; Brownbill, J. , joint ed. London [Constable]
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