FEUDAL BARONAGE 



grandson of John Fleetwood of Penwortham, and of Joan, eldest daughter of 

 the first Thomas Langton, kt.^ Thomas Fleetwood, bart., son and heir of 

 Richard Fleetwood, the first baronet of Colwick, sold the reputed barony of 

 Newton with the members in 1660 to Richard Legh of Lyme, esq., for a 

 consideration of jC3»5oo> having previously alienated to the same purchaser 

 other portions of his estates in the years 1655-6-7.^ From Mr. Legh the 

 reputed barony has descended to his present representative, Thomas Wode- 

 house Legh, second Baron Newton (cr. 1892), who is the twenty-fourth 

 reputed baron of Newton-in-Makerfield in succession from Robert Banastre, 

 the first grantee. 



1 Chetham Soc. xcix. 93-100 ; ibid. li. (Old Ser.), 246-255. A pedigree of the Langton family will be 

 found in Baines, Hist, of Lanes, ed. Croston, iv. 382-3 ; and of Legh of Lyme and Golborne, 384-90. 

 8 MS. Abstr. of title, penes W. Farrer. 



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