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considerable portions of their own estates. All the houses but one 
remain to this day, some of them in their original state, but three 
of them are let to tenants, viz.: Barcroft, Extwistle, and Heasand- 
forth ; Habergham Hall has been pulled down; the others are 
occupied by their respective owners or by families connected with 
them, viz.: Towneley, Bank Hall, Gawthorpe, Holme, Ormerod, 
Royle, and Rowley. 
The Manor of Ightenhill became vested in the Crown as parcel 
of the Duchy of Lancaster, and was subsequently granted by 
Charles II. to General Monk, then raised to the dignity of Duke 
of Albemarle from whom it has passed to the present Lord, 
the Duke of Buecleuch. I have been favoured with a perusal of 
the original grant from a copy in the possession of Robert 
Handsley, Esq., J.P., and in the fulsome jargon of the time it 
recites as follows :— 
“The King to all to whom &c. greeting. Whereas the 
sweetest fruit which we perceive of our highest power consists in 
the increased opportunity of doing good, and it is most just that 
those who have outshone others in virtue and fidelity towards us 
should likewise be illuminated before others by the most bountiful 
rays of royal munificence and favour. And our most beloved and 
most faithful cousin, and Councillor George Duke of Albemarle 
has so deserved of us that in promoting and daily increasing him 
we seem rather to consult our own honour than to be able 
worthily to reward him inasmuch as when our cause—after our 
exile of so many years, and a tyranny meantime grown up and 
confirmed by the worst acts of bad men for so long a time—had 
become altogether desperate, had not the singular providence of 
God and the divine virtue of one man stood in the way, he with 
wonderful fortune and prudence having seized the turn of events 
with a small force, brought everlasting triumph from Scotland to 
London, and having in a short time brought all the nation into 
his power without bloodshed or condition, all men’s affections 
being ready with the applause of this present age and to the won- 
der of posterity he brought us back to our kingdom and restored 
our kingdom to us. We therefore that we may surround such a 
man with greater riches and splendour, and that we may give him 
opportunity of living more wealthily and richly as is meet for 
him and for his king, and that we may show that these benefits 
which we cannot repay are nevertheless acceptable to and never 
to be forgotten by us. Know ye that we of our especial grace and 
of our certain knowledge and mere motion have given and granted 
and by these presents for us our heirs and successors do give and 
grant to the aforesaid George, Duke of Albemarle, his heirs and 
assigns all that our Castle, Honor, and Lordship of Clitheroe, 
with their rights, members, and appurtenances in our counties of 
Lancaster and York, or either of them parcel of the possessions 
