THE OLD ASHBURNE FAMILIES. 3 
Warres in Scotland, before his Majesty’s going to Bulleine. 
And in the other, King Edward the 6th hys letters to serve 
under Francis ye Earle of Shrewsburie, his Grace’s Lieu- 
tenaunte, to rescue ye siege of Haddington,” &c. Of 
the portrait of Sir Aston Cokaine, a satirical poet of no 
mean repute, zem. Charles I., several fine prints, engraved 
by different artists, are known. Mr. Geo. Edward Cokayne, 
Lancaster Herald, a representative, through his mother, one 
of the co-heiresses of the last Lord Cullen, has happily lately 
been able to recover at least a portion of the family possessions 
here. Lord Cullen, I may add, along with the Veres, Earls of 
Oxford, represented the old Salopian family of Trentham, who 
had a grant of Rocester Priory, awmo 1540. Thomas Cokayne, 
last heir male, 1672, joined with his father in the sale of ‘his 
fayre lordeshyppe of Ashburne,” to Sir William Boothby, of 
Broadlow Ashe. Of other families, time serves but for the very 
briefest notice. ‘The Adderleys have but lately sold their Thorpe 
property. Glover records 22 generations of the Alsops, of Alsop- 
le-Dale. Thomas Ashburne, D.D., born here, according to 
Fuller, in the reign of the 2nd Edward, was a great opponent of 
Wycliffe. An illegitimate son of Lord Audley, of Helegh, settled 
at “Ashburne-in-ye-Peake,” and the two co-heiresses of this family 
ultimately married two brothers Thorold, of Lincolnshire. Mr. 
Thomas Bainbridge, of Woodseat, purchased the manor of 
Rocester in 1778; and one of his sons, Philip, was killed in 
command of the 2oth Regiment of Foot, at the battle of Egmont- 
op-Zee, in 1799. Many of us remember his son Peter (who 
assumed, in 1832, the name of Le Hunt) as an active magistrate 
here ; and his daughter Harriet, married to Col. Robert Dale, of 
_ the 93rd Regiment, who, too, lost his life in the attack on New 
Orleans, in 1815. The Dales came from Lea Hall, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Ashburne, and have been long and _ honourably 
connected with the town and all its good works. Miss Dale Dolby, 
a direct descendant, still survives. The lordly Bassets, of Blore 
and Grindon, after inter-marrying with the Byrons, Brailsfords, 
Egertons, Okeovers, Fitzherberts, and Boothbys, ended in a soli- 
