. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED William died in 1610/ and Worden was left to his grandson William, whose father, said to have been a spendthrift, was still living.^ The younger William, as stated, purchased the manor of Leyland In 1617. He was sherlft* of the county in 1636^ and on the outbreak of the Civil War took the king's side, as an official of the Earl of Derby, and is distinguished from his namesakes as * the Royalist.' He was at once appointed a commissioner of array and reported by the opposite side as one of' the most
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED William died in 1610/ and Worden was left to his grandson William, whose father, said to have been a spendthrift, was still living.^ The younger William, as stated, purchased the manor of Leyland In 1617. He was sherlft* of the county in 1636^ and on the outbreak of the Civil War took the king's side, as an official of the Earl of Derby, and is distinguished from his namesakes as * the Royalist.' He was at once appointed a commissioner of array and reported by the opposite side as one of' the most busy and active,' his servant, William Sumner, taking possession of the stock of powder at Preston in 1642. LEVLAND He accompanied Lord Strange to the siege of Manchester in the same year. He was the principal adviser of Lady Derby at the first siege of Lathom In 1644. His name was removed from the list of magistrates and his estates sequestered by the Parlia- ment at the beginning of the war/ He was again a prisoner in 1646, after which he compounded for them, taking no further part in the struggle.^ Dying in 1658 he was succeeded by his son William, also a Royalist sufferer,'^ and he by his son Henry" and grandson William, high sheriff in 1714.^ The last- named William dying in the same }'ear without issue,. WoRDEN Hall, Leyland rarl'a council aS fellows : * Ilalsall is a lawyer, presented these last sessions as a recusant in some degree. Farington is as cunning as he : not anything sounder in religion, though much more subtle to avoid the public note than he. Rigby is as cunning and unsound as either, and as grossly to be detected therein as Hal sail. All three of them as busy contrivers of dangerous devices against the peace of the ministry and free course of the Gospel and direct proceeding of justice, in all common opinion, as any that ever bore authority among us.* See the letter (from Strype) in PP^igan Church (Chet. Soc), i, 168, 170. See also Hht. MSS. Com, Rep.
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