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it tlieir request, that I (Charles Hoghton) would allow a cottage to be 

 built upon the waste within my manor of Alston for the conveniency 

 of a poor man, one Thomas Kighley, a Blacksmith." This request 

 was granted by Charles Hoghton most willingly. 



The " affair at Preston " in 1715, does not immediately concern this 

 history. But its effects were felt very severely all over Lancashire. 

 "The country was laid under martial law. The luckless insurgents 

 were hunted like wolves amid the neighbouring hills of Preston, and 

 small troops of Hanoverian soldiers were posted throughout the 

 country in bands, and vigorously enforced their presence on the Lanca- 

 shire peasants, who cherished a faithful devotion to the unfortunate 

 exiles. On the northern slope of Longridge Hill, near Chaighley, one 

 of these barracks was established. It is now in ruins, roofless, di- 

 lapidated, and ivy-grown, and is stiU pointed out as the seat whence 

 the soldiery sallied to harass the lands and humble abodes of the 

 outlaws."' 



In 1715 the following were returned as non-jurors : — 



DILWORTH. 



Lawrence Cottam, gent., leasehold at Ribche«ter. £27. 



ALSTON. 



Robert ToirUnson, It .seliold, IO3. 



John Duckworth, at Duckett, and Anne, hia wife. Estate in her right. 



Leased to her when Anne Dewhurst 

 W. Walmsley, yeoman, eldest son of late W. Walmsley. 2 houses and 33 

 acres, leasehold. 

 In 1745 a fund was raised in Lancashire "for the purpose of 

 defraying the expenses, and paying a Military Force, in defence of the 

 County from the threatened invasion of the Scottish Rebels." 



Alston contributed £41 lis. Od. ; the total amount raised in the 

 County being £16, 261. ' 



The result of the rising of 1745 is well known. A high compliment 

 was paid to Preston and its fair ladies at that time by Mr. Kay, the 

 author of " A Compleat History of the Eebellion," the ladies being 

 described as beautiful and "very agreeable." This writer also states, 

 that " after I had secured the prisoners before mentioned, I fled across 



'Stanyhur.st Mag., July, 1S35. ^" History of Lancashire Militia." 



