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part of the estates went by will to the issue of a 

 younger son Nicholas, who had 

 been a prominent lawyer about 

 lyoo.*-' From Nicholas's 

 grandson, Le Gendre Starkie,'" 

 Huntroyde has descended re- 

 gularly to the present owner, 

 Major Edmund Arthur Le 

 Gendre Starkie,^' who suc- 

 ceeded his father. Colonel Le 

 Gendre Nicholas Starkie, in 

 1899. 



HL'iXTROrDEstmdi close 

 to the eastern boundary of 

 the township about a mile to the north-west of 



Stark'ie of Hunt- 

 royde. ^r^c«/(i bcmi sable 

 bet-ween six storks proper. 



Padiham, and is a large house built at three separate 

 periods and altered and added to at the close of the 

 last century. A plan and elevation of the old 

 building," portions of which still remain, show it 

 to have been a 16th-century house following the 

 usual type with central hall and end projecting wings, 

 and having a total frontage to the south of 80 ft. 

 The hall was 35 ft. by 20 ft., including the passage 

 behind the screen at the west end, and was directly 

 entered by a door, without porch, in the middle of 

 the south wall with two windows on each side. 

 The original arrangement, however, was probably 

 slightly diflerent from that shown in the plan, 

 alterations having apparently been carried out in the 

 17th century, to which period probably the central 



Plan of Huntroyde 



and the capital messuages of Huntroyde, 

 Shuttleworth Hall in Hapten, Snydale in 

 Wcsthoughton, Hall of the Wood in 

 Tonge and Sunderland in Balderston to 

 the uses of Edmund Starkie, Nicholas 

 Starkie, Le Gendre his son, Thomas 

 Starkie and William Starkie, merchant. 



A lease and release of the manor of 

 Tonge near Bolton and lands in Simon- 

 stone (dated 171 3), Padiham, &c., is in 

 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Hil. 17 Geo. HI, 

 m. 40, 42. 



*' See the account of Lydiate. He 

 matriculated at Oxford (Christ Church) 

 in 1678 (Foster, Alumni), and was burled 

 at Preston 17 Aug. 1735. Some of his 

 letters are printed in Hist. MSS, Com, 



Rep. xiv, '"^pp. iv, 206, &c., and there arc a 

 number of references to him. He was 

 attorney-general for thp county palatine. 



His eldest son Eamund, also a lawyer, 

 succeeded to Huntroj'de ; he represented 

 Preston as a Tory from 1754 till 1768. 

 He died in 1773. 



°^ Son of Edmund Stark le's brother 

 Nicholas. 



A Private Act was passed in 1798 

 allowing leases for long terms, sales of 

 portion and timber to be cut on the 

 settled estates of Le Gendre Piers 

 Starkie. 



^^ There arr pedigrees in Whitaker, 

 PF/irlUy^ ii, 45 ; Foster, Lams. Teds. \ 

 Burke, Landed Gentry. The following is 



SOI 



an outline : Le Gendre Starkie (d. 1791) 

 -s. Le Gendre Pieis, sheriff 1806 

 (d. 1807) -s. Le Gendre, sheriff 18 15 

 (d. 1 822) -bro. Le Gendre Piers (d. 1 849) 

 -bro. Le Gendre Nicholas (d. 1868) 

 -s. Le Gendre Nicholas, sheriff 1868 

 (d. 1899). For the more recent descents 

 see Howard, Vhit. of Engl, and Walei^ vi, 

 150-1. In the house there is a portrait 

 of the first Le Gendre Starkie by Gains- 

 borough. 



^2 'The Elevation of the South Front 

 of Antient Huntroid together with a 

 Plan of the Ground and Chamber Floors 

 taken in 1777.' The drawing now hanga 

 in the upper corridor of the middle, or 

 south wing, of the house. 



