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- Lancashire Record Office
4 May 1693
Contents:
Grant in fee of an annuity for charitable use
1) John Parker of Bagganley, gentleman
2) Hugh Warren younger son of John Warren of Poynton, Ches, esquire, William Haydock, Rector of Standish, Peter Shaw of Heath Charnock, gentleman, Thomas Wilson of Tunley within Wrightington, gentleman, John Finch of Shevington, yeoman, and Robert Cooper of Charnock Richard, tanner, all Trustees of Elizabeth Cooper's charity for the poor of Standish
An annuity of £3 issuing from two closes of land in Chorley called the Little Hey and the Broad Hey,
part of the Bagganley estate
Consideration: £50, being the amount given by Elizabeth Cooper (widow of Hugh Cooper) for the poor of Standish
Henry de Langtree gave Bradley to Hugh son of Robert de Haydock,rectorof Standish; Kuerden MSS. iii, W 26. It was perhaps the estateinStandish settled by fine in 1304; Final Conc. i, 204. In KuerdenMSS. vi,fol. 96, are a number of short notes of Standish of Duxburydeedsrelating to acquisitions of land in Standish by Hugh deHaydock(Standish) and his successors. Bradley was in 1471 in thepossession ofChristopher son and heir of James Standish; no. 101.
A 'manor of Bradley,' of tenure unknown, was held by Thomas StandishofDuxbury in 1517, being occupied by his mother Alice; Duchy of Lanc.Inq.p.m. v, no. 11; see also Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. andChes.),iii, 398.
Hugh Cooper, the benefactor of Chorley, records in his will (1682)thathe had purchased Bradley from Sir Richard Standish; he bequeathedit tohis grandson Hugh Warren. From: 'Townships: Standish-with-Langtree', A History of the CountyofLancaster: Volume 6 (1911), pp. 192-99.
Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 179, m. 24. In a later fine (1710)EdwardBeresford was plaintiff and the following were deforciants— AnneWarren,widow; Edward, Hugh and John Warren, esquires; Edward and Talbot Warren, gentlemen; ibid. bdle. 265, m. 53. Again in 1761 thedeforciants were Sir George Warren and Jane his wife; ibid. bdle. 366,m. 66. Thomas JamesViscount Bulkeley and Harriet his wife were inpossession in 1802; Pal.of Lanc. Lent Assizes, 42 Geo. III, R. 8. Sir George Warren (K.B. 1761) represented Lancaster in Parliament1758– 80and 1786– 96; Pink and Beaven, op. cit. 126– 7. From: 'Townships: Woodplumpton', A History of the County ofLancaster:Volume 7 (1912), pp. 284-91.
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