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A.R.P., iff? civil defence Christopher, 40 Abashy, Duke, 100 William, 40 Abomey (Africa), 101 Anderton Ford (Lanes.), 34 Abyssinia (Africa), 108 Anglicans and Anglicanism, 31, 36, Acts of Parliament: 40,55,61-3 Common Lodgings Act 1851, Angola (Africa), 97 209 Anne, queen of England, 31 Liverpool Merchants Trading to army, 34, 40, 43, 56, 64 Africa Act 1752,95 Ashburn, William Hindle, 197 Military Training Act 1939, Ashhurst, Sir Henry, 60 117-19 Ashworth Hall (Lanes.), 57 River Weaver Navigation Act Assheton: 1720,70 Anne, m. Edward Braddyll, 5, 23 Road to Prescot Act 1725, 71 Richard, 5 Trent and Mersey Canal Act Aughton (Lanes.), 23 1777,84 Austin and Lawrence, 98 Turnpike Acts, 69, 83 Austria, 11 1 Africa, 94-5, 97-102, 104-5; and see Azores, 103 Abomey; Abyssinia; Angola; Bonny; Calabar; Cameroons; B.B.C., 109, 123 Cape Coast Castle; Dahom­ Baddeley.John, 73 ey; Sao Tome; Sierra Leone; Baden (Germany), 90 Whydah Bailey (Lanes.), 26 Aikin: Bamber: Anna Laetitia, 91 Ann, see White John, 76, 90 John, 28 air raids, 108 Banks, Mr, 100 precautions, see civil defence Barbados, 97 Alders, , 68 Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, see Aikin America, North, 70, 72, 75, 95, 98; Barber, Thomas, 28 and see Boston; Carolina; New­ Barkley, Susanah, 104 foundland; Norfolk; Phila­ Barnacre (Lanes.), see Wedacre delphia; Virginia Barnside (in Foulridge, Lanes.), 24 Amsterdam, 106 Barrowford (Lanes.), see Carr Hall Anderton: Barton, Sir Thomas, 32-3 Sir Charles, Bt, 40 Bashall Eaves (Yorks.), 24 230 Index battles, see Boyne; Cape La Hogue Bostock, Robert, 92 Baxter, Richard, 43, 61 Boston (U.S.A.), 104 Beke family, 52 Bowdon (Ches.), 43, 56 Belgium, 127, 129; and see Flanders Bowland (Yorks.), 8 Bellasyse, Sir Rowland, 40 Boyne (Ireland), battle, 44 Bentley, Thomas, 77-91 Brabin, Thomas, 40 Bentley and Boardman, 79, 85 Braddyll: Berbice (Guyana), 96 Alice (b. 1593), m. (1) Richard Biggar, Mr, 198-9 Townley, (2) Christopher Towne- Billington (Lanes.), 4, 22 ley, 24 Birch (Lanes.), 56 Alice (b. 1639), 24 Birmingham, 72, 88 Anne (b. 1530s), m. (1) John Lunar Society, 88 Chew, (2) Thomas South- Bispham (Lanes.), 205 worth, 17-18,23 Black, Mr, 100 Anne (b. 1562), m. (1) Thomas Blackburn (Lanes.), 61, 197-9 Southworth, (2) John Fisher, Blackrod (Lanes.), 48 9-10, 23 Blakey: Anne (d. 1586), see Assheton Bernard, 23 Anne(b. 1580), 24 Cecily, see Braddyll Anne(b. 1616), 24 Blundell: Brian, 23 Bryan, 193 Catherine (b. 1570), 23 Henry, 40 Catherine (b. 1627), 24 William, 40 Cecily, m. Bernard Blakey, 23 Boardman, Samuel, 67 8, 78; and Cuthbert, 23 see Bentley and Boardman Dorothy, w. of Richard, see Cat- Bolden, William, 98 terall Bolton ('Worktown') (Lanes.), 36, Dorothy (b. 1572), m. John Tal- 85,107-31 bot, 1,9-11, 16-20,23,26 Communist party, 115, 120, 126 Dorothy (b. 1599), m. Thomas council, 108 Vavasour, 24 education, 124-5 Dorothy (b. 1630), 24 hospitals, 125 Edward (1480-1553), 4, 22 M.P.s, 108, 110-11 Edward (1533-1607), 5, 8-10, mayor, 115 17-18,22 Methodists, 115 Edward (b. 1563, priest), 10, 23 vicar, 115 Edward (b. 1583), 17,24 Bolton Conservative Association, Edward (1633-84), 24 110 Elizabeth (b. 1565), 23 Bolton Evening News, 108-22, 125, Elizabeth (b. 1596), 24 127-9, 131 Elizabeth, w. of Edward, Bolton Journal, 123, 126 see Pollard Bombay (India), 96 Elizabeth, w. of John, see Brock- Bonny (Africa), 98 holes Booth,43,56 Henry, " Lord Delamere, 41, Emma, see Pollard Gilbert, 23 Bootle: Helen, see Starkey Edward, 55 Jane, m. Thomas Brockholes, 10, Elizabeth, see Riley 23 Index 231

Braddyll: Jane, see Braddyll Janet, m. Ughtred Morley, 9, 23 Thomas, 23 Janet, w. of John, see Forster. Joan Bromley, William, M.P., 54 (or Janet) Broughton (near Preston, Lanes.), Joan(b. 1584), 18,24 205 Joan(b. 1585), 18,24 Broughton in Furness (Lanes.), Joan (or Janet), vv. of John, see Tower, 41 Forster Brown, Thomas, 100 John (11. 1330s), 4 Browne, Anne, m. (1) Nicholas John (b. c. 1455), 22 Talbot, (2) Richard Shire- John(d. 1578), 4-9, 17,22 burne, 26 John (1557-1616), 10, 18,23-4 Bunyan, John, 43 John (1588-1655), 24 Burden, Peter Perez, 89-90 John(b. 1599), 18,23 Buronzo, John Alberio, 11 John (1618-43), 24 Burslem (Staffs.), 68, 70, 72, 75, 80 Lettice, m. (l)John Novvell, (2) Butler: Covel, 23 Henry (fl. 1611), 20 Margaret, 23 Henry (fl. 1687), 40 Millicent, w. of John, see Talbot John, 20 Millicent (another), 24 Byerley, Thomas, 67, 78 Nicholas (?), 20 Ralph (b. 1564), 23 CALABAR (Africa), 95, 97, 100 Ralph (b. 1594), 18,24 Cambridge: Ralph (b. 1600), 18,24 Christ's College, 8 Richard, 23 St John's College, 8 Roger of (d. by 1211), 4 Cameroons (Africa), 97, 99 Roger (1634-1714), 24 canals, see Bridgewater; Sankey Stephen, 23 Bank; Trent and Mersey Thomas (b. 1574), 23 Cape Coast Castle (Africa), 101 Thomas (1591-1616), 24 Cape La Hogue (France), battle, 44 Thomas (c. 1621/2-1 706), 24 captains: William, 4 privateers, see Dawson; Fayrer; family, 1- 30; family trees, 22-4 Hasslam; Hutchinson, Wil­ Brandon, Lord (later earl of Macc- liam; Ward; Wright, Fortun- lesfield), see Gerard, Charles atus (d. 1701) slave ships, see Copeland; Earle, Bridgewater, duke and earls of, see William (1721-88); Fenny; Egerton Hindle; Ingram; Norris Bridgewater canal, 71, 83, 85 other, see Strickland Brindlcy, James, 83, 86 cargoes, 97-101, 104-6 Bristol, 104 insurance, 99 British Broadcasting Corporation, Caribbean, see West Indies see E.B.C. Carleton, Mabel, m. Edward Tal­ British Guiana, 94, 96 bot, 27 Broadstone Hall (in Reddish, Carolina, North and South (U.S.A.), Lanes.), 41 79, 98-9 Brockhall (Lanes.), 4-5, 22-3 Carr, Robert, 104 Brockholes: Carr Hall (in Barrowford, Lanes.), Elizabeth, m.John Braddyll, 17, 23-4 9, 17-18,24,26-7 232 Index

Carter, Samuel, 97 Clitheroe (Lanes.), by-election, 51 Carus, Christopher, 41 coal, 124 Catterall, Dorothy, m. (1) Robert Cobh (Ireland), 103 Shireburne, (2) Richard College of Arms, see London Braddyll, 23 commissions of the peace, 40-2, Chamberlain, Neville, 108, 110-12, 63-4 114-16, 119-20 Commons, House of, 63 4, 115 Channel Islands, 129 Communist party, see Bolton chapels of ease, 51, 60-1, 63; and see Compton Census, 204 Birch; Ellenbrook; Hall Fold; Coningham, James, 57 Hindley; Horwich; Platt; conscientious objectors, 129-30 Rivington; St Helens conscription, 117, 119 Charles II, king of England, 38 Copeland,John, 95 Charnock, Heath (Lanes.), see Coppull (Lanes.), 51 Heath Charnock Cork (Ireland), 104 Cheshire: Coson: lord lieutenant, see Booth Bridget, see White monasteries, 203 John, 28 and see individual place-names Cottam, Richard, 7 Chester, 40, 102,209 cotton industry, 207 consistory court, 1 2 Cove, see Cobh Chetham's Hospital, see Manchester Covel: Chew: Lettice, see Braddyll Anne, see Braddyll , husband of Lettice, 23 John, 23 Croft, Gabriel, 41 China, 108, 118 Crombock: Church (Lanes.), see Ponthalgh Janet, m. Edward Braddyll, 22 Church Lawton (Ches.), see Lavvton Margaret, m. John Braddyll, 24 Church of England, see Anglicans Cromwell, Thomas, 6 Churchill, Winston, 127 Crook, Samuel, 51, 64 Cistercians, see Whalley: abbey Cross House, see Great Eccleston civil defence, 125 Cross Street chapel, see Manchester air-raid precautions, 109-10, Crosse: 113-15, 118-19 Isabel, 20 air-raid shelters, 124 William, 41 blackout, 123, 126 family, 19-20 gasmasks, 113, 115, 125-6 Crump, George (?), 192 Home Guard (Local Defence Cumberland, 17; and see White- Volunteers), 128 haven mortuaries, 108 Curacao (West Indies), 104, 106 Civil War, 33-5 Czechoslovakia, 112-17 Clarendon Code, 36 Claughton (Lanes.), 23-4 DAHOMEY (Africa), 101 Clayton, William, M.P., 94 Dalton, Robert, 40 Clerk Hill (Lanes.), see Whalley Danzig (Germany), 1 18 Clerkenwell Green (Mdx), 47 Darwen (Lanes.), 199 Clifton, Sir Thomas, Bt, 40 Darwin, Erasmus, 84 Clifton Hall (in Eccles, Lanes.), 55, Davenport, William, 93, 95 57 Davyhulme (Lanes.), 61 Index 233

Dawson, John, 105 Ellenbrook (Lanes.), 49 Dcane (Lanes.), 54, 56 Enfield, William, 82-3, 90 Dee. River, 86 Erasmus, Dcsiderius, 8 Defoe, Daniel, 47 Eresby (Lines.), 52 Delamere, Lord, see Booth Essex, see Saffron Walden Denham, John, 96 Etruria (Staffs.), 80, 85, 89 Derby; earl of. see Stanley Eyes, John. 192. 194 Derbyshire, 89 Dicconson, Hugh, 40 FAYRER. Joseph. 104 Diggles: Fell, John, bishop of Oxford, 39 John, 55-6 Fenny, Henry, 101 Robert sen., 56 Fenton (Staffs.), 68 Robert jun., 56 Fieldens of Todmorden. 213-14 dissenters, 31,40-5, 51, 58,60-1 Finch, Mary, m. John Earle, 94 Droylsden (Lanes.), 57 Finland, 120 Dunster, Thomas, 49 Fisher: Anne, see Braddyll EARLE: John, 18, 23 Eleanor, see Tyrer Flanders, 51; and see Belgium Sir George, 93 Flintshire, see St Asaph Hardman, Mrs, 105 Forster: Jane, 105 Joan (or Janet), m. John Braddyll, John, 94 22 Mary, see Finch Luke, see Foster Ralph, 94-6 Foster (or Forster), Luke, 197-9 Sarah, 94 Foulridge (Lanes.), see Barnsidc T. & W, & Co., 96-7 France, 79, 102, 130-1; and see Cape Thomas (1719-81), 94-7 La Hogue; Laon; Rheims Thomas (1754-1822), 96 Frodsham (Ches.), 70-2 William (1721-88), 94-6 Fyfe, Margaret, m. Nicholas White, William (1760-1839), 96 28 family, 93-106 Fylde (Lanes.), 19 Eccles, W, 198 Eccles (Lanes.), 58; and see Clifton GARSWOOD HALL (in Winwick, Hall Lanes.), 40 Eccleston, Great (Lanes.), see Great Gaskell: Eccleston Daniel sen., 55, 57 Eden, Anthony, 110 Daniel jun., 57 Edward VI, king of England, 5 Elizabeth Cleghorn (author), Egerton: 65-6 Francis, duke of Bridgewater, 85 Nathaniel, 55-7 Dame Honora, see Leigh Nathaniel (another?), 58 John (d. 1686), 2nd earl of Gawthorpe Hall (in Padiham, Bridgewater, 47 Lanes.), 26 John (d. 1 700), 63 Genoa (Italy), 96 John (d. 1701), 3rd earl of gentry, 44 Bridgewater, 64 Gerard: Ralph, 61 Charles (d. 1694), 1st earl of Sir William. 47,49 Macclesfield, 40 234 Index

Gerard: Hilton: Charles (d. 1701), Lord Brandon, Elizabeth, see Riley later 2nd earl of Macclcsfield, James, 55-7 40-2,50-1,64 Hindle, William, 99 Fitton, 51 Hindley (Lanes.), 86 Thomas, 40 chapel of ease, 49,60, 63 William, 40 Hitler, Adolf, 110-18, 120-1 Sir William, Bt, 40 Hodgson: Germany, 111, 120; and see Baden; Robert, 96-7 Danzig; Hamburg; Munich Thomas, 95-7 ghost (Hugh, 12th Lord Willough- family tree, 96 by), 65-6 Hoghton, Sir Charles, 42, 60 Girlington,John, 41 Hoghton Tower (Lanes.), 42, 60 Gladstone, Robert, 189 Holcombe (Lanes.), 61 Glover, Richard, 69 Holcroft, Sir Thomas, 7-8 golf, 216 Holland, see Netherlands Gower, earl of and Lord, see Hollingworth Lake (Lanes.), see Leveson-Gower Littleborough Gray's Inn, see London Holt, Robert, 41 " Great Eccleston (Lanes.), 11, 19-20, Home Guard, see civil defence 28 Hooper, Joseph, 55 Cross House, 19 Hordern (Lanes.), 36 Green, Guy, 70, 73, 75-6, 85, Horwich (Lanes.), 32, 34-6, 38, 45, 89-90 63 Guinea, Gulf of, 100 chapel of ease, 35, 45 Guyana, see British Guiana Hotteshead, Joseph, 58 Houlden (?), Anne. m. George HALL FOLD (Lanes.), 59 Talbot, 26 Halliwell, Ann, m. Hugh Hulrne, William, 41, 61 Willoughby, 36 Hulme (Lanes.), 41 Hallowes: Hulton, Middle (Lanes.), see Middle Matthew, 57, 59 Hulton his daughter, 58 Husband, Stephen, 40 Hambleton (Lanes.), 186 Hutchinson: Hamburg (Germany), 126 Messrs, 100 Hamer, James, 58 William, 105 Hand, Charles, 192 Harrison, , 68 INDIA, see Bombay Hasslam, James, 103-4 Ingram, Francis, 97, 102-3 Hauge(?), Mr, 199 Ireland, see Boyne; Cobh; Cork Heath Charnock (Lanes.), 63 Ireton, Henry, 33 Hellevoetsluis (Netherlands), 101 Islington (Mdx), 47 Henbury (Ches.), 77 Italy, 106; and see Genoa; Her­ Henry, Matthew, 48, 64 culaneum; Leghorn; Rome; Henshaw (Lanes.), 58 Venice Herculaneum (Italy), 88 ivory, 97, 100 Herle, Edward, 51, 64 Heywood, Oliver, 58 JACOBITES, 52, 64 Highfield (in Lancaster), 17, 23 Jamaica, 99 Index 235

James II, king of England, 31, Leveson-Gower: 39-42,51" Granville, earl of Gowcr, 84 Japan, 1 18 John, Lord Gower, 64 Jesuit, 1 1 Leyborne, George, 40 Johnson, Thomas, 58 Leyland, Thomas, 92 Jollie, Thomas. 61 Liberals, 108, 111, 117 library; see Liverpool KEARSLEY (Lanes.), 41 Lincolnshire, see Eresby; Newton on Kcnyon: Trent Alice, 54-7 Lister, Thomas, 204 George, 48 Little Mitton (Lanes.), 23, 41 Roger, 40, 43, 49, 51-5, 58-9, Littleborough (Lanes.): 63 Hollingworth Lake, 185-6 Kingston, Richard, 52 Littleton: Kirkby, Isabel, m. Robert White, 12, Sir Thomas, M.P., 47-8 28 his wife. 47 Kirkham (Lanes.), 205 Liverpool, 56, 58, 67-91, 93-102, knighthood, compounding for, 1 2 189-95 Blitz, 218 LABOUR PARTY, 117, 124 castle, 193 Lancashire, 10-11, 44, 204, 208 Chapel St, 192 Jacobite Plot, 50-2 coffee house, 81 lord lieutenant, see Gerard, Common Garden, 192 Charles (d. 1701); Molyneux, customs house, 193 Caryll; Radcliffe Dale St, 77, 88 Presbyterians, 60 docks, 7I-2,85L 94 royalist lands, 34 Harrington St, 73 united ministers, 60-1 Haymarket sugar house, 96 wakes, 214-15 HighSt, 192 ' witchcraft, 204 James St, 193 working children, 21 1 John St, 73, 77 and see individual place-names King St, 78-9, 88 Lancashire Association, 59 library, 81 Lancaster, 10, 183-6; and see Manchester Stocking Ware­ Highfield house, 79 Lansdowne House, see London mayor, see Earle, John; Earle, Laon (France), 10 Ralph; Earle, Thomas (1719-81); Lawrence, see Austin Tarleton,John Lawton (? Church Lawton, Ches.), MoorSt, 193 70 Old Hall St, 89 Leek (Staffs.), 85 Paradise St, 78, 87 Leghorn (Livorno, Italy), 95, 97 Philosophical Club, 81 Leigh: porcelain, 205 Hester, m. Thomas Roughlcy, 58 privateering, 102-6 Honora, m. (1) Sir William Eger- St Nicholas's chapel, 192 ton, (2) Hugh Willoughby, Society of Artists, 87,89 Lord Willoughby, 47-9, 54, Temple Court, 82 63, 65 Tower, 192 Lever (Lanes.), 5, 23 town hall, 192 236 Index

Liverpool: Misson: Unitarians, 82, 89 James, 47-8 Water St, 192 (or Rose) Mary, 47-8, 50 workers, 218 Mitton, Little (Lanes.), see Little Wyke's Court, 89 Mitton Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Molineux, John, 58-9 Railway, 217 Molyneux: Livesey, Joseph, 211-13 Caryll, Viscount Molyneux, 40, 51 Livorno (Italy), see Leghorn Thomas, 96 Lloyd, William, bishop of St Asaph. William, 40 39 Moorhiles (in New Laund Booth, Local Defence Volunteers, see civil Lanes.), 24 defence: Home Guard Morley: London, 38, 71, 75, 79-80, 83, Janet, see Braddyll 100 Ughtred, 9, 23 College of Arms, 38, 44, 52 Morris, D., 70 Gray's Inn, 8, 10 Mosley, Edward, 41-2, 45, 51 Lansdowne House, 88 Munich (Germany), 112-13, 116, 118 Lords, House of, 42, 45, 49, 61, Mussolini, Benito, 11 1 64 Lunar Society, see Birmingham NANTWICH (Ches.), 85, 87 Lyme, Oliver, 41 Naughton, Bill, 121 Lytham (Lanes.), 205 Navy, Royal, 104, 115 Netherlands (Holland), 33, 127, MACCLESFIELD, earls of, see 129; and see Hellevoetsluis Gerard New Brighton (Ches.), 210 magistrates, 41, 45, 50, 55-61, 64 New Laund Booth (Lanes.), see Manchester, 42, 50, 56-9, 64, 78 Moorhiles Chetham's Hospital, feoffees, Newcome, Henry, 49, 55, 57 55-6 Newfoundland, 106 Cross Street chapel, 49, 55-8 Newton: evacuees from, 125, 129 James, 47 Free Trade Hall, 215-16 Samuel, 36 Withy Grove (Withingreave), 55 Newton on Trent (Lines.), 32-3 marble, 96 nonconformists, see dissenters Mary I, queen of England, 5 Norfolk (Virginia, U.S.A.), 98 Mass-Observation, 110-12, 115, Norris, Robert, 101 117, 119-23, 126, 130-1 North Channel, 103 Massey, Edward, 47, 49 Northwich (Ches.), 70 Mearley (Lanes.), 26 Norway, 126 Meredith, Sir William, M.P., 76-7, Nottinghamshire, see Ossington 84,86 Nowell: Mersey, River, 71-2, 85, 193, 219 Anne, m. George Talbot, 26 Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, John, 23 219-20 Lettice, see Braddyll Methodists, see Bolton Middle Hulton (Lanes.), 47 OGLE, Edward, 41 Middlesex, see Clerkenwcll Green; Old Calabar, see Calabar Islington Ordsall Hall (Lanes.), 4 Index 237

Ormskirk (Lanes.), 42, 45, 59, 64 Preston Brook (Ches.), 71, 85 Osbaldeston, Edward, 41 Price, Mr, 130 Ossington (Notts.), 33 Priestley, Joseph, 86-8, 91 Ouidah (Africa), see Whydah privateering, 102-6 Oxford, 17, 39 Protestation Oath, 12 bishop, see Fell Brasenose College, 10 RADCLIFFE, Robert, earl of Christ Church, 39 Sussex (d. 1542), 4-6 radio, 109, 123, 126 PACIFISTS, 117 railway, see Liverpool, Crosby, and Padiham (Lanes.), see Gawthorpe Southport Parkgate (Ches.), 86 Rainhill (Lanes.), 59 Parkhead (Lanes.), see Whalley rationing, 124 Parkinson, John, 49 Rawcliffe. Upper (Lanes.), see Upper parliament, see Acts of Parliament; Rawcliffe Commons; Lords Rawlinson, Curwin, 41 Paslew,John, abbot of Whalley, 2, 4 recusancy and recusants, 1, 10, 12, passenger lists, 106 16, 40-1, 52; and see Roman Peel (Lanes.), 54 Catholics Percivall: Reddish (Lanes.), see Broadstone Richard, 55-6 Hall his wife, see Tilsley Reid, William, 70, 73-4 Peters: Rheims (France), 10 Ralph I (1675-1742), 192 Ribbleton (Lanes.), 26 Ralph III (1775-1838), 192 Riley: Petty, William, earl of Shclburne, 88 Anne, m. George Talbot, 27 Philadelphia (U.S.A.), 106 Elizabeth, m. (1) James Hilton, Philosophical Club, see Liverpool (2) Edward Bootle, 57 Pilgrimage of Grace, 4 Rishton, Ralph, 26 Platt (Lanes.), 55-6 Rivington (Lanes.), 34, 36-7, 45, 63 Poland, 118, 121 chapel of ease, 36, 64-5 Pollard: Rivington Pike, 34 Elizabeth, m. Edward Braddyll, Rochdale (Lanes.), 57-8 16,18,23 Roman Catholics, 10-11, 44, 209; Emma, m. John Braddyll, 22 and see Jesuit; recusancy Richard, 4 Rome, English College, 11 Ponthalgh (in Church, Lanes.), 26 Rose, Mary, see Misson Portfield (Lanes.), see Whalley Roughley: Portugal, 88, 106 Hester, see Leigh pottery: Richard, 58 decoration, 73-6, 89-90 Thomas, 58-9 exports, 70, 88 Runcorn Gap, 7 1 raw materials, 72 Rusholme (Lanes.), 56 workers, 72 Russia, see Soviet Union Preesall (Lanes.), 186 Prescot (Lanes.), 71, 88 SADLERJohn, 70, 73-6, 85, 89 Preston, Jennet, 204 Saffron Walden (Essex), 198 Preston (Lanes.): St Asaph (Flints.), bishop, see Lloyd Preston Guardian, 212 St Eustatia, see Sint Eustatius 238 Index

St Helens (Lanes.), 71 Telegraph, 97 chapel of ease, 49, 58, 60, 63 Unity, 101 St Kills (West Indies), 104 Shireburne: St Michael on Wyre (Lanes.), 11, Anne, see Browne 19-20 Dorothy, see Catterall St Thomas, see Sao Tome Richard, 26 Salvation Army, 209 Robert, 23 Sankey Bank navigation, 72 and see Sherborne Sao Tome (Africa), 100-1 Shrewsbury, earl of, see Talbot, Sawrey, Roger, 41 Charles Scholefield: Shuttleworth, Agnes (or Elizabeth), Radciiffe (d. 1708), 58 m. Nicholas Talbot, 26 Radciiffe (d. 1728), 58-9 Sierra Leone (Africa), 104 Radcliffe (another), 59 Sint Eustatius (West Indies), 99 Richard, 59 Skillicorn family, 192 schools: slavery and slave trade, 84, 93-102, Blackrod, 48 105 Rivington, 34, 36, 39 commodities used in, 95-6, 99 schooners. Barrow flat, 72 health of slaves, 100 Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 111 insurrections, 101-2 Seacombe (Ches.), 192 prices, 97, 99 Seddon, John, 81-2 Smeaton, John, 83 Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 1 11 Smith, Ann, m. Lawrence Tomlin- Shaw (Lanes.), 61 son, 1, 13, 20 Shaw Place, 62-3, 65-6 Smithills (Lanes.), 32 Shelburne, earl of, see Petty Society of Artists of Great Britain, Shelton (Staffs.), 73 75 Sherborne, Richard, 40; and see Southport (Lanes.), 216-17 Shireburne Southworth: ships, 98, 189-95 Anne (b. 1530s), see Braddyll Adriana, 97 Anne (b. 1562), see Braddyll Caesar, 104-5 Thomas, 9-10, 17-18,23 Calypso, 95 Thomas (another), 23 Carnatic, 105 Soviet Union, 113, 120-1 Chesterfield, 97-9 Spain, 106, 108 Emdroght, 105 Sparling, John, 98 Enterprise, 102-3 Spencer, William, 41 Fame, 105 Staffordshire, 83; and see Burslem; Friendship, 95 Etruria; Fenton; Leek; Shel­ Harlequin, 97, 104-5 ton Liverpool, 105 Staining (Lanes.), 187 Loestojfe, 105 Standish, William, 40 Mars, 104 Stanley: Mentor, 99, 105 Thomas, 40 Mulberry, 193 William, earl of Derby, 41, 64 Patsey, 105 Starkey, Helen, in. Edward Bradd­ Polly, 96 yll, 16,23 Society, 101 Stewart-Brown, Ronald, 189 Speedwell, 106 Stoneleigh (Warws.), 53 Index 239

Strickland, Isaac, 106 Katherine, 27 sugar refining, 96 Mabel, see Carleton Sumner, , schoolmaster at Margaret (b. 1530s?), 26 Blackrod, 48 Margaret (b. 1602), 18,27 Surcy (Lanes.), see Whalley Mary(b. 1577), 26 Surinam, 106 Mary(b. 1606), 19,27 Sussex, earl of, see RadcIifTe Mary(b. 1663), 27 Sweden, 103 Millicent, m. John Braddyll, 24 Nicholas (d. 1547), 26 TALBOT: Nicholas (d. 1571), 26 Agnes (or Elizabeth), see Shuttle- Peter, see Talbot, George worth Richard (b. 1578), 26 Anne(b. 1545?), 20 Richard (b. 1666), 27 Anne(b. 1601?), 20, 26 Thomas (b. 1573), 11,26 Anne, 1 st w. of George (d. 1629), Thomas (b. 1603), 19,27 see Nowell Thomas (b.c. 1670), 27 Anne, 2nd w. of George (d. family tree, 26-7 1629), jeeHoulden Tarleton: Anne, 1st w. of George (d. c. John, 84 1708). 27 Miss(fl. 1769), 87 Anne, 2nd w. of George (d. c. Taylor, Zachary, 61, 63 1708), wRiley Thornhagh: Anne, w. of Nicholas, see Browne Col. Francis, 33 Benjamin, 27 family, 33, 37 Bridget (b. 1530s?), 26 Thornton (in Fylde, Lanes.), 186 Bridget (b. 1575), 26 Tildesley, Thomas, 40 Bridget (b. 1612), 19, 27 Tilsley: Charles, earl of Shrewsbury, 44 John, 56 Dorothy, w. of John, see Braddyll his daughter, m. Richard Perci- Dorothy, m. Ralph Rishton, 26 vall, 56 Edward (b. 1599), 3, 18-19,27 timber trade, 94 Edward (b. r. 1652), 27 Todmorden (Yorks., formerly Lanes.), Elizabeth, w. of Nicholas, see 213-14 Shuttleworth, Agnes Tomlinson: Elizabeth (b. 1574), 26 Ann, see Smith Elizabeth (b. 1613), 19, 27 Lawrence, 1, 13, 20 Frances or Francis (b. 1610), 19, Leonard, 20 27 family, 19 Francisca(b. 1581), 26 Topcliffe: George (1541P-1629), 17,26 Richard, 4 George (b. 1597), 18,27 Robert, abbot of Whalley, 4 George (c. 1624-c. 1708), 27 Tories, 31, 51-2, 55, 63-4 George (or Peter) (b. c. 1654), 27 Towneley: John (b. 1571), 1, 9-11, 17-20, Alice, see Braddyll 23, 26 Christopher, 24 Johnfb. 1607), 1, 19, 27 Richard (fl. 1556), 8 John(b. c. 1626), 27 Richard (fl. 1687), 40 John(b. 1668), 27 family, 6, 8 Joseph, 27 and see Townley 240 Index

Townley: Wedacre (in Barnacre, Lanes.), 28 Alice, see Braddyll Wedgewood: Nicholas, 41 John, 82 Richard, 24 Josiah, 67-91 and see Towneley Susannah. 86 TrafTord: Weld-Blundell, Charles, 217 Edmund, 40 Wentworth, Guicciardini, 41 William, 8 West, Henry, 41 Tranmcre (Ches.), 71 West Indies, 70, 72; and see Bar­ Trenchard, Sir John, 51 bados; Curacao; Jamaica; St Trent and Mersey canal, 71, 83-5 Kitts; Sint Eustatius Turner, Matthew, 77, 86-7, 90 Westby, Thomas, 40 Turton (Lanes.), 125, 129 Whalley (Lanes.), 22-4 Tyrer, Eleanor, m. John Earle, 94 abbey, 1-8, 10, 17 abbots, see Paslew; Topclifle U.S.A., see America, North; Boston; Clerk Hill, 22 Carolina; Norfolk; Phila­ Parkhead, 23 delphia; Virginia Portfield, 7 U.S.S.R., see Soviet Union Surey, 61 unemployment, 107, 126 Whieldon, Thomas, 68, 83 Unitarians, 81-2, 89 Whigs, 31, 52,64 Upper Rawcliffe (Lanes.), 12, White: 19-20,28 Alice, 28 Rawcliffe Hall, 20 Ann(b. 1667), 28 Ann (b. 1678), m. John Bamber, VAVASOUR: 28 Dorothy, see Braddyll Bridget, m. John Coson, 28 Thomas, 24 Christopher, 28 Venice, 95 Edmund, 28 Virginia (U.S.A.), 38; and see Norfolk Elizabeth (d. 1672), 28 Elizabeth (b. 1673), 28 WAKES, see Lancashire Ellen, 28 Wale, Samuel, 75 Gilbert, 28 Walmesley: Isabel, w. of Nicholas, 12, 28 Bartholomew, 40 Isabel, dau. of Nicholas, 28 William, 40 Isabel, w. of Robert, see Kirkby and see Walmsley Jane, 28 Walmslcy, John, 51, 64; and see John(d. 1559), 12 Walmesley John (?) (b. c. 1630), 28 Walton le Dale (Lanes.), 212 Margaret, see Fyfe Ward, John, 106 Mary, 28 Wardlow, G., 199 Nicholas (b. c. 1539), 12,28 Warrington (Lanes.), 71, 80 Nicholas (d. 1640), 28 Academy, 82, 86, 88, 90-1 Robert (fl. to c. 1650), 11-13, 19, brewing, 94 28 Unitarians, 81 Robert (b. 1680), 28 Warwickshire, see Birmingham; Sarah (b. 1665), m. Thomas Stoneleigh Barber, 28 Weaver, River, 70-1,85 Sarah (another), 28 Index 241

White: Honora, see Leigh Thomas (b. 1628), 11, 19, 28 Hugh, 12th Lord Willoughby of Thomas (b. 1710), 19 Parham, 31-66 family, 19; family tree, 28 Jonathan, 39 Whitehaven (Cumb.), 102 Sir Thomas, 32 Whittle: Thomas, 1 1th Lord Willoughby Dorathie, 35 of Parham, 32-9, 41-2, 45 Ellen, m. Hugh Willoughby, Willoughby of Parham, Lords, 32; 34-5, 53 and see Willoughby Henry, 35 Windall, Richard, 194 Hugh, 32, 35 Winsford (Ches.), 70 Jane, 35 Winwick (Lanes.), see Garswood Margaret, 35 Wiswell (Lanes.), 24 Marie, 35 witchcraft, see Lancashire Nicholas, 35 Withingreave, see Manchester: Whittle (Lanes.), 34 Withy Grove Whydah (Africa), 99, 101 Withy Grove, see Manchester Wigan (Lanes.), 36, 43, 50-1, 64 Wom'ball, John, 50 Willet, William, 87 Woodplumpton (Lanes.), 19 William III, king of England, 42, Worktown, see Bolton 44,51-2 Worsley: Williams, Gomer, 103 Major-General Charles, 56 Williamson, John, 98 Ralph sen., 56 Williamson's Advertiser, 105 Ralph jun., 55-6 Willoughby: Worsley (Lanes.), 46-9, 63 Ann, see Halliwell Wright: Edward, 64 Fortunatus, 105 Ellen, see Whittle Joseph, 89 Francis, 5th Lord Willoughby of Wyke, John, 88-9 Parham, 33 Francis, brother of Hugh, 12th YATES, Joseph, 55 Lord Willoughby of Parham, Yorkshire, see Bashall Eaves; 43 Bowland; Todmorden