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Henry Eccleston, on coming of age, married 

 Eleanor, daughter of Robert Blundell of Ince Blundell. 

 Their son and heir Thomas, educated at St. Omer's 

 and at Rome, when only a few 

 years of age succeeded to the 

 estates, and remaining loyal to 

 James II took service in Ire- 

 land in 1688, receiving a cap- 

 tain's commission. Afterwards 

 in a duel he killed his antago- 

 nist, which so affected him 

 that he relinquished a secular 

 career, became a Jesuit, and so 

 ministered, chiefly in England, 

 for about forty years, dying 

 at the end of 1743. He 

 was the last of his family, 

 and reserving 300 a year 



from the estates for the use of the Society of Jesus 

 he entailed them on his second cousin, John Gor- 

 such of Scarisbrick, with remainder to Basil Thomas 

 Scarisbrick, a cousin by his mother. Hitchmough, 

 a priest who turned informer, told the Govern- 

 ment of the arrangement as to the 300, and the 

 estates were confiscated as being devoted to 'super- 

 stitious uses.' ' John Gorsuch was, however, able to 

 obtain possession, and assumed the name of Eccleston ; 

 at his death without issue in 1742 the estates passed to 

 Basil Thomas Scarisbrick, who also took Eccleston as a 

 surname.' On the death of his brother Joseph with- 

 out issue he became heir to the Scarisbrick estate, but 

 resided at Eccleston till his death in May, 1789. 



His son, Thomas Eccleston Scarisbrick, succeeded 

 almost simultaneously to the combined estates of 

 Scarisbrick and Eccleston, but resided at the former, 

 offering the latter for sale in I795- 3 It was, how- 



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ever, his son Thomas who disposed of it in 1812 to 

 Samuel Taylor of Moston. 4 From the latter the 

 lordship of the manor descended to his son Samuel 

 Taylor of Windermere, who died in 1881, being 

 succeeded by his grandson (son of his son Samuel), 

 Mr. Samuel Taylor, of Birkdault in Haverthwaite. 6 

 The heir in 1892 sold the 

 manor and estate to Sir Gil- 

 bert Greenall, of Walton near 

 Warrington, whose son and 

 heir, Sir Gilbert Greenall, bart., 

 is the present lord of the 

 manor. No manor courts have 

 been held for about sixty 

 years. 8 



In 1835 a lease of mining 

 rights in Thatto Heath for 

 twenty-one years was granted TON ur 

 by the crown to Samuel Taylor. 7 buly, plain 



Robert de Beauchamp granted three bugle-t 

 10 acres of his demesne in f'>>'j>"t. 

 SCHOLES to the canons of 



Cockersand. In 1268 the tenants under the abbey 

 were Peter de Burnhull and Roger de Molyneux. 8 



Scholes was towards the end of the thirteenth cen- 

 tury held, with Eccleston, by Robert de Eccleston, 

 who granted it to Richard de Molyneux, son of the 

 above-named Roger, and Beatrice his wife. 9 Their 

 eldest son Thomas had a daughter and heir Agnes, 

 who married Henry de Atherton, and she and her 

 husband afterwards claimed Scholes and other 

 properties ; 10 during life, however, it was held by 

 Sir John de Molyneux, a younger son of Richard 

 and Beatrice. 11 Afterwards it was held by Ralph de 

 Standish, whose descendants retained it until the 

 seventeenth century. 12 In 1630 Oliver Lyme was 



