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Excerpt from Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected With the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Vol. 22

Dedicated to St. Michael. Value in 1834, Registers begin in 1728.

The Manor of Croston was given by Edmund Leigh, who, in the 17th Edward I. Married Annabella, daughter and coheiress of Richard Fitton, Lord of Great Har wood, to Sir William Heskayte, who had married Matilda, another daughter of Richard Fitton; and this donation was confirmed by Sir William Leigh in the 22d Edward III. 1343. A moiety of the Manor, however, appears to have been vested in Sir John De la Mere before this time, and Isabel and Isolda were his daughters and coheiresses; the former having married Sir Thomas Fleming, Baron of Wath and the latter, William del Lee, who, in the 46th Edward III. Held the moiety of the Manor of Croston and Maudislegh. Elizabeth, the daughter of William, and sister and coheiress of John Fleming Esq. Baron of Wath, married Thomas Heskayte Esq and Alice, the daughter and heiress of William Lee, married Thomas Ashton, the father of Sir William Ashton of Croston, about the time of Henry VI.; and the moieties of the Manor of Croston became vested in the families of Ashton and Hes keth. Ann, daughter and coheiress of Richard Ashton Esq. Married John Trafford Esq. Who died in the year 1686, whose representative, Sir Thomas Joseph de Trafibrd Bart. Is now seized of a moiety of the Manor of Croston; and Monacha, the other daughter and coheiress of Richard Ashton Esq. Married Alexander, son of Bar tholomew Hesketh of Aughton Esq. And conveyed the other moiety to his family, which was sold by Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh Bart. To the Rev. Streynsham Master D.D. Rector of Croston, who conveyed it by sale, about the year 1825, to Thomas Norris Esq.

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