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night of the same daye, and brought him to the house of the 
said Henry Wigley, who conveyed him by the said Dethicke 
and one Rob’t. Mason to Mr. Bentley, who detaineth him from 
his right gardeine in socage.” The date of this lawless pro- 
ceeding does not appear. Edward Lowe, Esq., subsequently 
married Jane, daughter of Henry Hall, of Cortlingstock (now 
called Costock), in Nottinghamshire, by whom he had a 
family of thirteen children. It is certainly significant that 
Elizabeth, another daughter of this same Henry Hall, should 
have been the wife of Richard Wigley, Esq., of Wigwell, one of 
the sons of Henry Wigley, of Middleton, who took such a promi- 
nent part in the abduction of Edward Lowe, from his lawful 
guardian, as above mentioned. He took an active share in 
the civil wars, suffering severe privations and great hardships 
through his unswerving devotion to the cause of his Sovereign. 
In 1643, he presented a petition to the crown, setting forth his 
losses and praying for restitution in these terms :— 
“*May it please y™ excellency that whereas y* petitioner, Edward Lowe of 
Alderwasley in the County of Derby, esq* did aboute 12 months since cause 
his eldest son and five other of his sons to take up arms for the king and did 
att his owne great charge furnish his eldest son with a compleat troop of horse 
and armed them all, and the rest of his sons going along with their other 
‘brother as officers in the said troope and have been ever since in service and 
still are, all but his eldest son, who lost his life in the said service : and your 
petitioner was thereupon driven away from his house by the enemy, and hath 
ever since been kept away by them, his house hath been plundered since then 
26 times and all his household goods, 500 sheepe, fourscore and ten beasts, 44 
horses, and all his rents taken, his woods cut down and taken away by them, 
and his hay and corn both the last year’s cropp and this, in all amounting to 
the value of 43,000, to the great prejudice of your petitioner and the utter ruin 
and destruction of his whole family.” 
“That your excellency will be pleased to grant unto y® petitioner all such 
; men whose names are hereunder written, being delinquents and all others his 
_heighbours delinquents that’ have been a great cause of his undoing, and 
_ withal a sequestration of all their estate both goods and lands, &c., &c.” 
The losses which he sustained are elsewhere enumerated, as 
follows :— 
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