lis A HISTORY OF LONGEIDGE. [Chap. 6. 



Henry Townley, tlie son and heir, married Alice, daughter and 

 co-lieiress of Abraham Colthirst, Esq., of Burnley, and had six 

 children. Henry Townlej', of Dutton, probably leant towards the 

 Royalist cause in the civil war (1642-51), and on a levj' of arms for 

 the Parliament in Dutton and Ribchester, about December, 1642, 

 ' Henry Townley, of Dutton,' was required to furnish ' one muskett.' '" 

 He died in 1645. 



Richard Townley was 1 5 years old on his father's death. He died 

 unmarried in 1670, aged about 40 years. 



Abraham Townley, brother of Henry, succeeded to the family 

 estates. He married Jennet, daughter of W Shuttleworth, Esq., of 

 Asterley, near Whalley, and by her had two sons and three daughters. 

 Abraham Townley's name figures prominently in the parish registers 

 of Ribchester. He was frequently Churchwarden, and was a member 

 of the "twenty four." He was also a governor of Blackbiu'n Gram- 

 mar School, being elected in 1690. "In 1694," says Mr. Abram, 

 "he was a juror on the celebrated trial of the Jacobite gentry for 

 treason at Manchester."' Abram Townley died in 1701, aged 66. 



Henry Townley, eldest son of Abraham Townley, married Anne, 

 daughter of Mr. Thomas Wilson, of Giggleswick. He died before 

 1731, leaving three daughters, between whom the property was 

 divided. His widow married Mr. John Nock, of Preston, the builder 

 of " Nook's Folly," in Marsh lane. 



On the partition of the Townley property in 1738, Dutton Hall was 

 settled on Mr. Edward Entwistle, of Ribchester, who had married the 

 eldest daughter of the last of the Townleys, of Dutton. In 1805, Mr. 

 W. Joule purchased the estate, and in 1823 sold it to Mr. James 

 Rothwell, imcle of the Marquis de Rothwell, of Sharpies Hall, Bolton, 

 the present owner. 



Heyhouse, OB High House. 



This farm house is situated on the lower side of Longridge Fell.. 



Here it was that the Earl of Derby, the grandfather of the present 



Earl, Dicky Swarbrick, and the late Dr. Eccles, with the Cottams, 



used to meet during the hunting season. The Earl of Derby often 



i.Vnc. Lane. Families. —i4n(i'g. Notes. ^Commonly known as the " Lanca- 



Laiic. Inq. shire Plot. 



