entered on Preston Guild Roll 1682; married Mary grandchild" of Thomas Clayton of Adlington, Co. Lancs.; (probably daughter of John Williamson of Liverpool, and Anne his wife daughter of Thomas Clayton of Adlington, who were married at Bolton-le-Moors 30th August 1676); postnuptial settlement 22nd July 1698 (C.D. 215); Mary Crosse married, secondly, on 12th July 1711 at Chorley, James Parker of Bagganley Hall in Chorley, yeoman, who was buried 23rd August 1747; she was buried 21st February 1753; for them and their issue see Wilson, Chorley Church (1914). Thomas Crosse was buried at Chorley 24th June 1706; administration C. C. Chester 30th April 1707 to widow. He left issue.1

1 For the pedigree from this point and the division of the family into the Leghs of Adlington, Co. Chester, and the Crosses of Shaw Hill, in Chorley, reference may be made to Foster's Lancashire Pedigrees, Burke's Landed Gentry, Ormerod's Cheshire, iii., 663, Earwaker's East Cheshire, ii., 249, and the Victoria History of the County of Lancaster.

TOCKHOLES CHAPEL.

By John Livesey.

The following deed (from Close Roll 5556) gives some further information as to the endowment of Tockholes Chapel, recorded briefly in Abram's History of Blackburn, p. 695.

[January 2, 1735-6].

ATHERTON

& HOLME.

This Indenture made between John Atherton of Liverpool, co. Lancaster, merchant and Frances his wife of the first part, the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Ann for the Augmentation of the maintenance of the poor Clergy, and Ralph Livesay of Livesay in the said county, Esq., of the second part, Alexander Osbaldeston of Preston, John Ainsworth of Pleasington, Esquires, John Holme, clerk, and Thomas Whalley, gent., both of Blackburn all in the said county of Lancaster (trustees for the Chapel of Tockholes hereinafter mentioned) of the third part, and Thomas Holme, clerk, curate of Tockholes in Blackburn aforesaid of the fourth part. Whereas the said Ralph Livesay did by his deed bearing date the 9th of February 1724 propose and promise to the said Governors to advance and pay £200 so soon as they should order £200 to be added thereto the whole to be laid out for a perpetual augmentation of the Curacy of Tockholes aforesaid. And whereas the said Governors have ordered £200 to be paid out of their revenue to be laid out together with the moneys so proposed as aforesaid in a purchase of lands and tythes to be settled for a perpetual augmentation of the said Curacy of Tockholes. And whereas the said Alexander Osbaldeston, John Ainsworth, John Holme and Thomas Whalley have agreed and consented to add £105 being part of the Chapel Stock of Tockholes to be laid out together with the moneys so ordered by the said Governors and proposed by the said Ralph Livesay as aforesaid making together in the whole

£505: Now this indenture witnesseth that for and in consideration of £505 to the said John Atherton in hand paid he the said John Atherton doth grant bargain sell and confirm unto the said Thomas Holme and his successors, curates of the Curacy of Tockholes, all that messuage or tenement called Barnsfold and several closes and parcels of land thereunto belonging containing 53 acres I rood 22 perches lying in Goosnargh, co. Lancaster, now in the occupation of John Parsons. To have and to hold the same unto the said Thomas Holme and his successors curates of the curacy of Tockholes for ever for a perpetual augmentation of the said curacy, etc.

LANCASTER JOTTINGS, V.

THE NEW HALL AND ITS OWNERS.

THE

IE New Hall is marked on Speed's plan of Lancaster (1611) as situated on the south side of Church Street, then called St. Mary's Street, near the present New Street. It was the house of Lawrence Starkey in the time of Henry VIII., and he probably built it. Starkey was a prominent official in the county in the reigns of Henry VII. and Henry VIII. A younger contemporary has been wrongly identified with him both in Whitaker's Whalley (ii., 46-48) and in Pink and Beaven's Parliamentary Representation of Lancashire, viz., Lawrence Starkie of Huntroyde. The statement that he ended his days in the London Charterhouse is due to some error on the part of the index-maker of Brewer's Letters and Papers of Henry VIII., or to confusion with another of the same name.

Our Lawrence was a younger son of Geoffrey Starkey of Stretton, in Cheshire, about five miles. south of Warrington, and brother of Richard Starkey who held that manor till his death in 1526. His mother was Joan, daughter and co-heir of Roger Darby of Chester and Liverpool, and by her he was a kinsman of Lady Stanley wife of Sir Edward Stanley of Hornby (afterwards Lord Mounteagle), and probably owed his promotion to this circumstance. became one of Sir Edward's most trusted officials, and was deputy or acting sheriff for him,

1 Letters and Papers, v., 301 (dated 18th June, 1531).

Cheshire Sheaf, 3rd Series, ix., 103.

i., 666, where Lawrence is omitted.

He

Pedigree in Ormerod's Cheshire,

Sir Edward having been appointed sheriff of the county for life in 1485. He was also one of the coroners, and for a time at least was a receiver of the Duchy revenues. Lord Mounteagle, who died in 1523, made him one of his executors, and in that capacity he occurs in the State Papers of Henry VIII.'s time, several of his letters being preserved in the Public Record Office. Starkey served as mayor of Lancaster in 1495-6 and later and was returned as one of the members of the borough in 1529.

The first documents here printed recite complaints against him both as mayor of the town and under-sheriff of the county. Starkey himself, in a letter to Lord Darcy soon after Lord Mounteagle's death, states that Mounteagle's adversaries had prayed the king to remove him (Starkey) from the office of sheriff, alleging that they could not have justice while he held it." Collom bridge, mentioned in the following depositions, is now known as Cowan Bridge; near it is the Lowood School of Jane Eyre. Lancaster Corporation had the tolls of the bridge in 1488, which explains their possession of a house there. There is nothing to fix the date more exactly than the fact that Sir Henry Marney was Chancellor of the Duchy from 1509 till his death in 1523.

To the right honorable Syr Henry Marney Knyght of the garter Chauncellour of the Duchie of Lancastre."

Humbly_shewyth unto your Maistership your Oratour Wyllyam Tunstall of Fayrthwayte Parke in the Countie

For example, see Duchy Pleadings (Rec. Soc. Lancs. & Ches.), vol. i. a Ducatus Lanc., i., 197; ii., 204.

• Brewer's Letters and Papers of Henry VIII., iii., iv.

4 Ibid. iii., p. 2692.

5 Ibid., iii., No. 3187 (17 July, 1523).

• V.C.H. Lancs., viii., 43, note 171.

'Duchy of Lancaster Pleadings, vol. 18, T3.