A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



The Holland family do not appear to have been 

 able to overcome their losses. The manor was sold a 

 number of times.*' It after- 

 wards came into possession of 

 the Heathcotes, Captain Jus- 

 tinian Heathcote Edwards- 

 Heathcote being the lord of 

 it.^* The hall was sold to 

 Lawrence Gaskell in 1652, 

 and was his family's chief resi- 

 dence for some generations. 

 It has descended regularly to 

 the present owner, the Rt. 

 Hon. Charles G. Milnes Gas- 

 kell of Thornes House, near 

 Wakefield." About 1 800 Ellis 



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 saltire vair betiueen t'wo 

 annulets in pale and as 

 many lions passant in f esse 



Fletcher, coal proprietor, acquired an estate in Clif- 

 ton ; he was succeeded by his son Jacob, whose 

 daughter, Mrs. Wynne Corrie, is the present owner.'* 

 In 1786 Sir John Heathcote owned nearly two- 

 thirds of Clifton, Daniel Gaskell having the re- 

 mainder." 



Clifton Hall stands close to the Clifton rail- 

 way station and is a red brick house of plain 18th- 

 century type. During its occupation as a private 

 asylum in the 19th century it underwent consider- 

 able alterations. About 1825 Benjamin Hey wood, 

 one of the founders of Hey wood's Bank, lived 

 here. 



St. Anne's was built in 1874 for the Established 

 Church ; Mrs. Wynne Corrie is patron.*' It has a 

 mission chapel — St. Thomas's. 



Lever, but the marriage had not taken 

 place. Besides the mansion reservation 

 was made of certain liberties for digging 

 for coal and cannel, and carrying away 

 from the mines there open. 



As to the delinquency nothing is stated 

 about the father's share, but William 

 Holland had stayed some days in the 

 garrison at Lathom House, and v/as one 

 of the foot company under Captain 

 Rawstorne ; he had asked for a place of 

 command. He had also been seen in a 

 troop of horse at Wigan, when that town 

 was kept by the Earl of Derby against 

 the Parliament. 



'"In 1671 Humphrey Trafford and 

 Elizabeth his wife made a settlement of 

 the manor of Clifton and various lands, 

 &c,, there and in Manchester, Pendle- 

 bury, and Leyland ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 186, m. 138. The wife was 

 the daughter and heir of William Holland 

 of Clifton, but her children did not sur- 



vive ; Stretfard Chapel (Chet. See), ii, 

 142. The estate appears to have been 

 mortgaged to James Butler and others 

 about 1685 and eventually sold ; Pal, of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. zij, m. 57 ; Exch. 

 Deps, (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 73, 

 75, 76. In 1731 and 1743 it was the 

 property of Tobias Britland j Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 305, m. 112 ; 331, m. 4. 

 He died in 1750 and ordered his estates 

 to be sold for the benefit of his daughters; 

 Earwaker, East Ches, ii, 148. 



In 1687 Holland paid 6s, and Daniel 

 Gaskell zs, 3^. to the bailiff of the wapen- 

 take for Clifton. 



In 1777 Richard Edensor and Richard 

 Ireland paid the Duchy 51. iij^. for the 

 manor of Clifton, while James Gaskell 

 paid 21. 6d, for Clifton Hall ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Rentals, 14/25. The total is 

 rather more than the old rent of 8j. 



^ For pedigree see Burke, Landed 

 Gentry, 



^ Information of Mr. Milnes Gaskell. 

 For pedigrees of the family see Foster's 

 Torkshire Fed, and Burke, Landed Gentry, 

 Gaskell of Thomes House ; also Lanes, 

 and Ches, Antiq, Soc. iii, 170, and Baker, 

 Mem. of a Dissenting Chapel, 6g, from 

 which it appears that the Gaskells 

 were worshippers at Cross Street Chapel, 

 Manchester. There is a short notice 

 of the family in Booker's Prestwich, 

 225. 



^ Ellis Fletcher was living at Cliflon 

 House in 1824. He died in 1834. His 

 eldest son Jacob entered Brasenose Col- 

 lege, Oxford, in 1807, aged 16; Foster, 

 Alumni ; see also Manch. School Reg, 

 (Chet. Soc), ii, 22, 23. For Jacob's 

 daughter and heir, now Mrs. Wynne 

 Corrie, see Burke, Family Rec, iSi, and 

 the account of Little Hulton. 



*7 Land tax returns at Preston. 



^ For district assigned see Lond, Gax. 

 5 Feb. 1865. 



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