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estate was first sequestrated, but, as deponent had heard, was in the enemies' quarters, that for several years after the estate was sequestred Mr. Ashton did not address himself to the committee by whom the sequestration was laid on, nor did show himself aggrieved for being sequestred as a delinquent, nor did he make an attempt to ascertain what the charge of delinquency against him was until then of late, or why he was adjudged a delinquent, and further, deponent said he had paid a fifth of the profits to the wife and children during the time the said committee acted, which fifth part had been allowed on petition.

fo. 44-45. William Hodges, Richard and William Eccleston were also examined.

fo. 47-48. Letter from Preston, signed by E. Aspinwall, John Sawrey, and Robt. Cunliffe, dated 19 November, 1652, referring to the different orders received and proceedings taken, and mentioning the examinations which they had taken, enclosing copies and other points.

(First Series, Vol. xcix., No. 3,963, fols. 367, &c.)

fo. 370. Letter from Preston, dated 21 February, 1650[-1], signed by Peter Holt, Robt. Cunliffe, and G. Pigot, mentioning that in observance of the order made on the petition of Matthew French, dated 24 December then last, they had taken examinations of witnesses touching the rent charge or annuities on the said order mentioned (copies sent), and they certified that the lands out of which the said rent charge was issuing were those under sequestration for the delinquency of Richard Asheton, of Croston, Esq.

fo. 367. Examination of Richard Ashton, of Croston, Esq., taken at Preston 18 January, 1650[-1], which mentioned that Thomas Ashton, his late grandfather, who died in 1621, shortly before his death lawfully conveyed to feoffees all his messuages, &c., in Croston, Mawdsley, and Longton, in trust to the following uses,-from his death to them and their heirs for fifty years, on condition that they should pay to Henry, Hillary, and John Asheton, grand

children of the said Thomas (whose father died in the lifetime of the said Thomas) £20 each, and also for raising portions for his granddaughters, and payment of his debts and annuities, which the said feoffees did; and subsequently examinant, as heir-at-law to Thomas Ashton, his elder brother, who was heir to Thomas his grandfather, continued the payments until the estate became sequestered, but could not longer continue them. He could not certainly say where the deed of feoffment then lay, but he had heard it was in the hands of Elizabeth Finch, of Croston, vidow and relict of William Finch, one of the feoffees.

fo. 368. Peter Wilding, of Croston, and William Patten, of Preston, gentlemen, were also examined.

Roger Asbton, of Newton.

(First Series, Vol. iv., No. 72, fol. 299.)

fo. 299. Petition of Roger Ashton, of Newton; prayed that he might be admitted to contract for his estate, which was sequestrated for recusancy, according to the Act of 21 October, 1653. Referred 6 January, 1653[-4], to Mr. Readinge.

See also under Thomas Fnce and Tbomas Price.

Tbomas Asbton, of Penketb, Gentleman.1
(Second Series, Vol. xxviii., No. 1,473, fols. 151, &c.)

fo. 151. Delinquency; in arms against the Parliament. He laid down his arms and submitted himself unto Sir

1 The particulars here given furnish an important link in the descent of Ashton, of Penketh, and confirm the partially tentative pedigree set out by Dr. Venn (Trans. Hist. Soc. of Lanc. and Cheshire, N.S., Vol. ii., p. 13). Thomas Ashton, the compounder, was the second, but eldest surviving, son of Thomas Ashton, of Penketh, by Katharine, daughter of Robert Brock, of Upton, Cheshire. He was baptised at Warrington, 28 July, 1616, and buried at Farnworth, 18 February, 1675[-6].

John Meldrum, knight, and to the Deputy Lieutenants in the county, in November, 1644, as John Holcroft, Esq., one of the members of the House of Commons, certified. Took the National Covenant in the county, and subsequently took it before Benjamin Spencer, minister at "Bowe," 10 April last, and the Negative Oath 7 May, 1646.

He compounded on a particular which disclosed that he was seized to him and his heirs in possession of the manor of Penketh, in the county of Lancaster, and of divers lands and tenements to the same belonging, and of a wind mill and water mill there, being of the yearly value of £28. 10s.; also of an estate in old rents, parcel of the said manor, worth £9. 15s. 8d.; also in right of his wife of certain lands, &c., in Newtown, Cheshire, worth £27 a year; also from the death of his mother, Mrs. Katherine Ashton, of other lands in Penketh, worth £60 a year; also of other lands in Penketh and Great Sankey coming to him at the expiration of eight and a half years, held for that period free by one Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzwilliams, worth £50 a year.

He claimed a deduction of £30 per annum, being £10 each to his younger brothers, Andrew and William Ashton, and to his sister, Christian; also a further charge made by his father of £600, £200 each to his three other daughters, Katherine, Elizabeth, and Margarett, and £5 per annum to each of them till the principal was paid. Fine, £192. 8s. 4d. fo. 154. His petition.

fo. 155. Certificate signed by Benjamin Spencer, declaring that petitioner at the time was residing at the house of Mr. Peter Warburton, in the town of Bromley, parish of Bowe, Middlesex, and voluntarily took the National Covenant.

fo. 157. Certificate signed by John Holcroft as to petitioner voluntarily laying down his arms, submitting himself, &c., dated 4 May, 1646. Also on same folio, affidavit sworn by petitioner, 6 May, 1646, before John Page, as to the genuineness of the certificates and other matters.

fo. 159. Particular of his estate; "as for his psonall estate he hathe nothinge but the cloths to his backe."

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Thomas Ashton, of Westbank, Yeoman.

(Second Series, Vol. xxxvii., No. 2,071, fols. 353, &c.)

fo. 353. Delinquency, adhering to the forces "rayed" against the Parliament in the first war.

He compounded upon a particular which disclosed that he was seized of a copyhold estate of two lives of and in two messuages, with certain lands lying in Westbanck, of the yearly value of £8. 2s. Fine, £16. 4s.

fo. 356. Petition.

fo. 357. Particular.

For Elizabeth Askew see John Calvert.

Nathaniel Atkins, of Broughton, Chirurgeon.

(First Series, Vol. xcviii., No. 3,849, fols. 385, &c.)

"Gentlemen,

"Wee have Received some informacõns touchinge the Delinquencies of John Byrom, of Salford, Gent., William Holland, of Clifton, gent., and Nathaniel Atkins, Phisician; wee have given orders for Securing their estates, and have sent Copies of the Informacõns inclosed wch wee humbly submitt to yor consideracons, and desire yt speedie direccõns for our further proceedinges therein may bee given to "Yor humble Servants,

(Marginal Note)

(Signed) "PETER HOLT, ROBT CUNLIFFE, G. PIGOT."

"You have instruccõns wt to doe in such

cases as these if you receive not perticular
order from us."

fo. 385. John Briddocke, of Chetham, yeoman, sworn, said that whilst the house of Lathom was kept as a garrison against the Parliament, he several times, for three or

four months together, saw a gentleman called Dr. Atkins, subsequently married to Mrs. Stanley, of Broughton, in the said garrison, and that he was employed as a physician or surgeon within the said garrison, and said that Raph Fletcher, of Whitefield in Pilkington, who was then a soldier in the said garrison, likewise saw the said Doctor Atkins in the garrison aforesaid.

William Grundie, of Preston, sworn, said that he being then formerly a prisoner in the garrison at Lathom, whilst the same was kept against the Parliament, and continuing there for the space of a fortnight, during that time he saw Dr. Atkins, who since then married Mrs. Stanley, of Broughton, very conversant and familiar with the officers of that garrison, and employed as a physician or surgeon there, and said that being twice called before the governor and officers of the said garrison, he saw the said Dr. Atkins sitting with them in council, as he conceived, and further said that Oliver Hoghton, then servant to Mr. Richard Hind, of Preston, surgeon for the Parliament's forces, being likewise taken prisoner there, the said Dr. Atkins procured his enlargement. Sworn at Manchester, 24 April, 1651, before Peter Holt and Robt. Cunliffe.

(Second Series, Vol. xlix., No. 3,203, fols. 549, &c.)

fo. 549. Delinquency, adhering to and assisting the forces raised against the Parliament in the late wars. He petitioned 18 July, 1651, stating that his estate had then lately been seized, but never sequestred. He compounded upon a particular which disclosed that he was seized in right of his wife (being her jointure by a former husband), and for her life only, she being sixty years of age and very infirm, of and in one messuage and certain lands thereunto belonging, lying in Broughton, of the yearly value of £20. Personal property, £10. 10s. Fine, £31. 15s. (29 July, 1651.)

fo. 552. Petition.
fo. 553. Particular.

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