[66] John Westby, of Mowbreck, was probably the builder or purchaser of Burn Hall about the middle of the sixteenth century. See pedigree above at that date.
[67] Pawnage, or Pannage, signified the food of swine to be found in woods, such as acorns and beech-mast, etc.
[68] Regist. S. Mariæ de Lanc. MS. fol. 1.
[69] Regist. S. Mariæ de Lanc. fol. 77.
[70] Regist. of Cockersand Abbey, and S. Mariæ de Lanc.
[71] Baines’s Hist. of Lanc.
[72] Regist. S. Mariæ de Lanc.
[73] John Hull, M.D., F.L.S., commenced his professional education at Blackburn in 1777; and in 1791, after graduating in medicine, settled at Manchester, where he attained to considerable eminence both as a physician and writer on botanical and medical subjects. He retired from practice to his native town of Poulton in 1836, and remained there until his demise.
[74] “Enter and pray, if you have raised to heaven your open palms you will have performed sacred duties, and will fly from evil things.”
[75] Mr. Rudhall, as we learn from the following entry in the registers of the 30 men of Kirkham, was in business at Gloucester:—“1749, April 14. Paid old Mr. Rudhall for coming from Gloucester to take notes of the bells when the 2nd. was recast, £3 3s. 0d.”