* SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF LOWE. 161 
the Sunday before the feast of the Annunciation, 1454. They 
appear to have had issue five (if not six) sons, all of whom are 
named in contemporary charters. 
By a charter dated in 1453, certain lands in Pexall (a small 
township about three miles from Macclesfield), were granted by 
John Hough, of Pexall, and Nicholas Hough, of the City of 
Oxford, to Laurence del Lowe, son of Geoffrey del Lowe, of 
Macclesfield, who reconveyed the same to George del Lowe, his 
younger brother. This George, who was living in 1472, as 
appears from a charter of Thomas del Lowe, his brother, which 
will subsequently be referred to, had no male issue, and Margaret, 
his only daughter and heiress, became the wife of William 
Swetenham, of Somerford Booths, in or about the year 1479, and 
carried certain lands in Pexall, Bollington, and Macclesfield, into 
the Swetenham family. According to a fine old emblazoned 
pedigree in Somerford Booths Hall, wherein the arms of Sweten- 
ham appear, impaling Gu/es, two wolves passant argenf—the 
ancient arms of Lowe—this Margaret Swetenham was living a 
widow in 1491. Previous to 1473, the Lowes had quitted 
‘Macclesfield and were seated in the neighbourhood of Northwich, 
__as is seen from a charter, dated September the 1st, in that year, 
whereby William Coton, of the town of Derby, Peter del Lowe, 
_ of Northwyche, John Halyn, “ preste” of Wytton, Thomas del 
‘Lowe, William del Lowe, and Laurence del Lowe, all of the same 
place, testified that they were witnesses to a certain charter 
_ whereby Thomas Whytington, of Belper, in the County of Derby, 
and Margery, his wife, granted a messuagé and seven acres of 
land in that place to John Whytington, their eldest son. As will 
subsequently be shown, the Thomas del Lowe of this charter 
_ became the ancestor of the Lowes of Alderwasley ; Laurence del 
Lowe was ancestor of the Lowes of Denby; and either from 
Peter or William del Lowe sprang what, so far as can be ascer- 
tained, is now the sole existing branch of the family.* 
-* A branch of the family who were descended either from Peter del Lowe 
or his brother William (more probably the latter), continued for some genera- 
tions at Hartford, a township in the immediate vicinity of Northwich. This 
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