[56] Faerie Land, Song, edit. A.D. 1622.
[57] This is incorrect, as the Ribble and not the Darwent separates the Hundreds of Leyland and Amounderness.
[58] Record Office, 28 Henry VIII., V. S., c. 6.
[59] This Sir William de Clifton was accused in the year 1337 of having taken possession of twenty marks belonging to the Abbot of Vale Royal, and of having forcibly obstructed the rector in the collecting of tithes within the manors of Clifton and Westby; also with having inflicted certain injuries upon the hunting palfrey of the latter gentleman.
[60] Sir Cuthbert Clifton espoused as his second wife, Dorothy, daughter of Sir Thomas Smyth, of Wotton Walwyns, in Warwickshire, and had three sons, Lawrence, Francis, and John, captains in the royal army, and slain in the civil war, besides seven other children. Sir Cuthbert purchased Little Marton and the monastic portion of Lytham from Sir John Holcroft in 1606. He was knighted by James I. at Lathom House.
[61] See Out Rawcliffe in [the chapter on St. Michaels’ parish] for the Wilson-ffrance descent.
[62] See [page 72.]
[63] Dugdale’s Visitation.
[64] Richard Longworth, of St. Michael’s Hall, a justice of the peace.
[65] The small Lᵈ of Roshall was Edward Fleetwood, of Rossall Hall, who at this time was thirty years of age.