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of age. 1 By his will, made a few weeks before his 

 death, Henry Starkie desired to be buried at Aughton 

 church, ' in that place where his ancestors had been 

 buried ' ; to John, his son and 

 heir, he gave two long boards 

 and forms in the hall as also 

 a screen there, with the wish 

 that these might remain as heir- 

 looms in the house.' He died at 

 Aughton on 6 March, 1593-4, 

 and was succeeded in the manor 

 of Aughton by his son John, 

 then 39 years of age. The 

 manor was said to be held of ~ . 



the queen by the fortieth part TO J AR ^-,' a ^r'k 



of a knight's fee ; it and the sable membered gales, a 

 lands were worth zO clear. 3 mullet for difference. 



John Starkie was almost im- 

 mediately involved in disputes with his neighbour 

 Lawrence Ireland of Lydiate. 4 Shortly before the 

 death of John Starkie in 1626, his windmill and 

 various lands, including the Furlongs and Broad 

 Carr, 4 were the subject of family disputes. His 

 son Henry, to whom he had refused to make any 

 allowance for many years, put in a claim to them. 

 The rector of Aughton expressed his belief that the 

 ' unnaturalness ' of the father to plaintiff and the 

 persuasions of the stepmother and others would 

 greatly endanger Henry's overthrow and be the ruin 

 of that house. 6 Possibly this anticipation was justified, 

 as the family seems to have declined in importance. 

 For instance their manor was ignored in 1657, when 



AUGHTON 



it was awarded that Uplitherland was a particular 

 district and a distinct manor, Bartholomew Hesketh 

 being sole lord ; and that Aughton was another 

 distinct manor, Caryl Lord Molyneux, Lawrence 

 Ireland, and Bartholomew Hesketh being the three 

 lords of it ; boundaries were then fixed by the 

 referees. 7 In 1640 the lands of Richard Tatlock 

 were said to be held of Lord Molyneux, Edward 

 Ireland, Bartholomew Hesketh, and Edward Starkie 

 ' as of their manor of Aughton.' 8 



Henry Starkie, the son, died in 1639. His will 

 mentions his wife, Edward his son and heir, and 

 other children. 9 Edward Starkie was one of the 

 ' commanders and officers ' in 

 the siege of Lathom House, f__Bai__ 

 thus taking part with the Par- | 

 liament. 10 He recorded a pedi- 

 gree at the visitation of 1664, 

 describing himself as forty-six 

 years of age." 



His younger son John seems 

 to have succeeded to the manor 

 shortly after the father's death, 

 for early in 1682 he and Mary 

 his wife by fine transferred to 

 Roger Bostock the 'manor of 

 Aughton,' various lands and a grain mill." He died 

 about a year later, administration of his goods being 

 granted to his widow Mary on 12 May, 1683. ls 

 This appears to have been the end of his family's 

 connexion with the place. In 1687 an agreement 

 was signed by Lord Molyneux, Sir Charles Anderton, 



