[37] This Alex. Rigby must not be confounded with the gentleman of that name mentioned in the former chapter, and who in the civil contests was a parliamentary general. A. Rigby here denoted, was a royalist officer.

[38] A Discourse of the Warr in Lancashire, edited by William Beamont (Cheetham Society.)

[39] A Discourse of the Warr in Lancashire, edited by William Beamont.

[40] A discourse of the Warr in Lancashire, edited by William Beamont.

[41] Hist. Collect. P. 4, vol. I, p. 22.

[42] Tour, p. 20.

[43] From a M.S. of Peter Le Neve., Norroy, among the collection of Mr. Joseph Ames. The knights of this order were to wear a silver medal ornamented with a device of the King in the Oak, suspended by a ribbon from their necks. The following is a list of persons in the county of Lancashire who were considered fit and qualified to be made Knights of this Order with the value of their estates:—

Thomas Holtper annum£1000
Thomas Greenhalgh”1000
Colonel Kirkby”1500
Robert Holt”1000
Edmund Asheton”1000
Christopher Banister”1000
Francis Anderton”1000
Col. James Anderton”1500
Robert Nowell”1000
Henry Norris”1200
John Girlington”1000
Thomas Preston”2000
Thomas Farrington of Worden”1000
Thomas Fleetwood of Penwortham”1000
William Stanley”1000
Edward Tyldesley”1000
Thomas Stanley”1000
Richard Boteler (Butler)”1000
John Ingleton, senior”1000
⸺ Walmsley of Dunkenhalgh”2000

[44] “This year (1715) provisions were plentiful and cheap, as also corn and hay”—the Journal of W. Stout of Lancaster.

[45] A tract in the library of the British Museum, entitled “Catholic Chapels, Chaplains.” etc., and bearing the date 1819.