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mond, the mother of Henry VII. On the 

 death of Margaret, Hawarden defcended to 

 Thomas Earl of Derby, grandfon to the 

 late earl, and continued in his family till 

 the execution of the gallant James Earl of 

 Derby, in 1651 ; foon after whofe death it 

 was purchafed from the agents of fequef- 

 tration by Serjeant Glynne.* 



On the reftoration the lords made an 

 order, on the I7th July, 1660, that the 

 eftates of the Earl of Derby, and feveral 

 other noblemen, which had, in the late 

 ufurpation, been fold without their con- 

 fents, mould be re-poifeffed by them with- 

 out moleftation This induced Glynne to 

 make an offer to the earl of the furrender 

 of Hawarden for a leafe of three lives. 

 The propofal however was eithet rejected 

 or not immediately accepted, the confe- 

 quence of which was the lofs of the whole 



* Pennant's Tour, I. 98. 

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