WIGAN, IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER. "By the Commissioners for Sequestration, February 14th, 1630. UPON the petition of Thomas, James, Robert, Edward, Bridget, and Mary Stanleys, sons and daughters of Mr. Peter Stanley, desiring a fifth part of their father's estate towards their maintenance, and that it may be set forth in specie or particulars; it is therefore ordered, that the agents for sequestration, where the petitioners' father's estate lieth, shall allow unto the petitioners one full fifth part of their said father's estate, together with the arrears thereof due, since December 24, 1649, deducting a due proportion for all lays and taxations, and observing the instructions concerning fifth parts. "Intra, Edward Wall." "P. Holt. The fifth part of the said Peter's estate being obtained by his children as aforesaid, Peter their father died, and was buried in his own chapel, at Ormskirk, July 24, 1652, and was succeeded by Edward his son, who in his father's life-time married the only daughter and heiress of Houghton, of Gousnarch, Esq. and by her had issue several sons and daughters, the eldest whereof was Peter Stanley. The said Peter Stanley married a daughter of Wolfall, of Wolfall, Esq. and by her had three sons, Edward, Thomas, and William; but how his younger sons were disposed of in the world I cannot discover, nor who his daughters married. Edward, his eldest son, married the only daughter and heiress of Gerrard, Esq. of Aughton, by whom he had two sons, William and James. William, his eldest son, died young, and was buried in his father's chapel, at Ormskirk. He was succeeded by James, his second son, who had issue a son, named Edward, but by whom I cannot discover; also two daughters, Ann and Elizabeth. The said James died in the year 1653, and was buried in his own chapel, the first of January that year, at Ormskirk. P Ann, his eldest daughter, married Richard Wolfall, Esq. but by him had no issue, and died in the year 1730, aged eighty years and upwards; and Elizabeth, her younger sister, died unmarried. Whether Edward their brother ever married, or to whom, I am not informed of; for since the taking away the Court of Wards, in the time of King Charles II. all history of families, and their predecessors, and lineal successors, are laid aside in the heralds' offices, where they were wont to be preserved, and nothing is now more to be found or met with but what the parish registers contain of the birth or death of such a person at such a time, &c. THE GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE BARONS OF STRANGE, OF KNOCKING, in SALOP. THE history and full description of this very ancient and honourable family, will, from its long duration and many inter-marriages with the leading nobility, be attended with much difficulty in giving the reader a true and intelligible idea thereof, insomuch that I find myself constrained to introduce it by that of the earls palatine of Chester, without which, as I conceive, he will never rightly apprehend how the family of Derby became entitled to, and dignified with, the several honours I have annexed to it in the history of James, the last earl of that honourable house. The Earls Palatine of Chester. THE first whereof was Hugh Lupus, nephew to William the Conqueror, who gave to him the city and county of Chester, and conferred upon it the honour and dignity of a county palatine, with barons under him, and a chamberlain or chancellor of all his courts, with all other proper officers attendant thereon, as a principality. Richard, the eldest son of Hugh Lupus, was second Earl of Chester, but being accidentally drowned, continued not long in that honour. The third earl was John Bohun, who had married Margaret, sister to Hugh Lupus, styled Countess of Cumberland, by whom he had a son, named Randulph, and was succeeded by him. Randulph Bohun, his son by Margaret, Countess of Cumberland, commenced the fourth Earl of Chester, in the twenty-first year of Henry I. 1120, and died in the' year 1130, and was succeeded by his son Randulph. Randulph, the second of that name, and son of the former, was the fifth Earl of Chester, and continued to the year 1152, and dying that year, was succeeded by Hugh, called Kavelock, his son, as sixth Earl of Chester, who had the misfortune to be taken prisoner, but was ransomed in the year 1174. He died in the year 1180, leaving issue one son and four daughters. He was succeeded by Randulph his son, surnamed Blundeville, who was the seventh and last Earl of Chester of the Lupus line, and who had conferred upon him the Earldom of Lincoln. He died in the year 1232, and was buried with his ancestors at Chester. Maud, the eldest daughter of Hugh, called Kavelock, Earl of Chester, married David, son to the king of Scots, who died in 1219, and left issue a son named John, surnamed Scott, who was also Earl of Chester, in right of his mother, but died in the year 1237, by which the Earldom of Chester expired with him. King Henry III. then took that earldom into his own hands, and annexed it to the crown, as being too popular in the hands of a subject; from which time the king's eldest son has been styled Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, and Prince of Wales. Now if any reader here has a curiosity to know the further particulars of the Earls of Chester, I must refer him to their history, and proceed to show the occasion I had to bring them in by way of introduction to the history of the Barons of Stanley, by informing the reader that Hawisse, the fourth daughter of Hugh Bohun, alias Kavelock, Earl of Chester, married to Robert Lord Quinsey, Earl of Lincoln, descended lineally from Robert Lord Quinsey, who came into England with ~ William the Conqueror. This Robert Lord Quinsey, Earl of Lincoln, had issue by Hawisse his wife two daughters. Margaret, the eldest, daughter, married to John Lacey, Baron of Halton. And the second daughter married to Hugh Audley, Baron of Healey Castle, in the county of Stafford, a near relation to the house of Stanley, John Lacy, Baron of Halton, had issue by Margaret his wife, the eldest daughter, and one of the coheiresses of the said Robert Lord Quinsey, a son named Edmund, who succeeded his father in honour and estate. This Edmund was likewise Baron of Halton, and married Isabel, the daughter of the Marquis of Saluce, by whom he had issue a daughter named Elinor, who married to Ebulo Lord Strange, of Knocking, who had issue by her in 1335, temp. Edward III, a son named Robert, whose mother Elinor dying soon after, Ebulo Lord Strange, his father, married to his second wife Alice, the daughter and heiress of Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and widow of Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, who died in the year 1322, as by Mr. Mills, page 945, and Mr. York, page 193, Robert Lord Strange, the son of Ebulo aforesaid, sueceeded his father in the baronies of Strange, of Knocking, and of Halton, and married to his wife one of the daughters and coheiresses of Thomas Lord Basset, by whom he had issue a son named Roger, Roger Lord Strange, the son of the above Robert, married the only daughter and heiress of Hugh Lord Barnwell, by whom he had issue a son, named John. John Lord Strange, the son of the above Roger, by Lady Barnwell, married Maud, the daughter of J. Lord Mohun, by whom he had issue a son named Richard. The |