A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



of being one of the very few who were ' soundly 

 affected in religion' in 1590.' He left five daughters, 

 coheiresses ; but Christiana, who seems to have been 

 the eldest, married Hamlet Ashton of Glazebrook, 

 and thus the succession continued in a line bearing 

 the old name.* 



Their son Thomas, who died in 1645,* had a 

 numerous family. The eldest son, John, was killed 

 at Bolton in 1643, on the Royalist side ;* Thomas, 

 who succeeded to the manor, also bore arms for the 

 same cause, but very quickly surrendered, took the 

 National Covenant, and compounded for his estates. 6 



He was succeeded by his son Colonel John Ashton, 

 who was buried at Ormskirk in 1707* As he does 

 not appear to have had any connexion with Penketh, 

 the manor had probably been alienated before his time. 



It was subsequently in the possession of the Ather- 

 tons, and has descended, in the same manner as Great 

 Sankey, to Lord Lilford. 7 



The manor held of the Ashtons by the Penketh 

 family descended from Robert de Penketh, living in 

 1284," to his son Jordan, 9 his grandson Richard, 10 and 

 his great-grandson Roger. 11 The Penkeths recorded 

 pedigrees in 1567 and l6l3, is but afterwards seem to 



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