(First Series, Vol. cxiii., fol. 195.)

This agrees with the preceding account.

William Brown, of Wigan, Mercer.

(Second Series, Vol. xxxi., No. 1,654, fols. 113, &c.)

fo. 113. Delinquency, adhering to the forces of the Earl of Derby against the Parliament. He compounded on a particular which disclosed that he was seized of a franktenement for life, remainder to his son Thomas Browne and his heirs, of a house in Wigan worth 30s. a year; also of a term of fifteen years in two acres of land and a cottage in Wigan worth 32s. a year; also for two lives of half an acre of land in Wigan worth 13s. 4d. Debts owing to him: By statute from Edward Bolton, £40; and other debts, £84. Debts owing by him: By bond, £22; other debts, £109. 12s. Fine at a tenth, £20. 12s.

fo. 116. Petition.

fo. 117. Particular, in which he mentions that he held. the two acres of land by lease from Porter; the croft of half an acre from Thomas Gerard, of Ince; the cottage from Henry Forth, of Wigan; that Edward Boulton, of Abraham, gentleman, owed him £40; that he owed sums to Raph Markland, of Wigan; to Mary Grosvenor, widow; Amy Browne, spinster, John Bradshaw.

fo. 120. Certificate from William Ward, rector of Warrington, witnessed by William Unsworth, churchwarden, and Raph Golborne, constable, shewing that William Browne, of Milnegate, Wigan, took the National Covenant and Negative Oath before them, 11 May, 1644.

fo. 121. Certificate dated 25 March, 1647, at Chester, declaring that petitioner submitted himself there according to the ordinance of 5th April, 1645.

Randall Brownlowe, of Pemberton, Husbandman. (Second Series, Vol. xli., No. 2,396, fols. 197, &c.)

fo. 197. Delinquency, adhering to the forces raised against the Parliament; he petitioned 2 May, 1649, and compounded upon a particular which disclosed that he was seized of a franktenement during two lives of and in a messuage and certain cottages lying in Pemberton, held by demise of the heirs of Sir Peter Leigh, deceased, at a yearly rental of £3. os. 4d., and that it was worth beyond that the sum of £6. 13s. 4d. yearly. Fine, £15 (25 June, 1649). fo. 199. Particular.

fo. 202. Petition.

fo. 203. Affidavit of Compounder as to the terms upon which the lease of the above premises was granted to him, Elizabeth Adderton, and Anne Brownloe.

William Brownsword, of Preston.

(First Series, Vol. Ixxxiv., No. 2,887, fol. 581.)

fo. 581. Printed certificate exhibiting that petitioner, then of Preston, co. Lancaster, was a person qualified to preach the Gospel, and therefore fit to receive such augmentation as had been formerly settled upon him or the place where he preached. Signed by John Nye, Regr; dated 12 June, 1654.

Gilbert Burscough, of Aughton.

(First Series, Vol. lxi., No. 1,996, fols. 811, &c.)

fo. 811. Petition from Maximilian Burscough, which shewed that petitioner's elder brother possessed an estate in tail, lying in Aughton aforesaid, and had been sequestered for his delinquency in the year 1643; and in 1644 he died; then the estate descended to petitioner; but the sequestra

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tors in the county had re-sequestrated it, and had received the rents for the years 1651-2, notwithstanding petitioner's conformity to the then present government; he therefore prayed for an order to examine his title. 28 October, 1652, agreed, and referred to Mr. Reading.

fo. 813. Certificates as to what proceedings had been had in the case.

(First Series, Vol. c., No. 4,023, fols. 353, &c.)

fo. 359. Letter dated at Preston, 9 December, 1652, signed by John Sawrey and Robert Cunliffe, mentioning that in observance of an order dated 28 October preceding, made upon the petition of the above, touching an estate laying in Aughton, they had examined witnesses on behalf of petitioner who were produced before them (copies of the depositions and interrogatories enclosed), and they certified that upon perusal of the then former agent's accounts they found the estate was sequestrated in 1643 for the delinquency of Gilbert Burscough, then since deceased, petitioner's brother, and had so continued.

fo. 353. Interrogatories administered to witnesses.

fo. 355. Examinations taken at Preston, 28 October, 1652, of Alexander Breres, of Marton, gentleman;

fo. 356. of Humphrey Moorcroft, Henry Mostock, and fo. 357. of Thomas Rosen, who deposed among other things that Gilbert Burscough died then about seven years ago, without issue, that he was buried at Newbury, and that they knew Henry and Thomas, his younger brothers, and that they also were dead.

Edward Butler, of Myerscough.

(Second Series, Vol. liv., No. 3,596, fols. 205, &c.)

fo. 205. Report by Mr. Readinge, by which it appears. that he had, by an order of 24 April, 1654, been directed by the Commissioners to state the petitioner's case, so that he

might be able to compound under the third Act for sale of land. Mr. Reading found that in the additional Act for sale there was comprised Edward Butler, of Out-Rawcliffe, and William Butler, of Myerscough. The estate was surveyed and returned on 28th April, 1654, and described as a messuage in Myerscough, in the parish of Garstange, and in Nether-Rawcliffe, in the parish of St. Michael's, late the estate of Edward Butler. He petitioned 24 April, 1654, and desired to compound for a tenement and lands in Myerscough, worth £38 a year, and a tenement and barne in Clacton,1 in the parish of Garstange, worth yearly £1. 6s. 8d. Two other parcels mentioned in the survey he did not desire to compound for.

It was found that upon Mr. Brereton's report on the petition of Leonard Wesham and others, on behalf of Cisley Butler, an infant, £200 was allowed to the said Cisley, the daughter of William Butler, to be a charge upon the said lands, and that the Commissioners of Lancashire should satisfy the same unto the said Cisley. It also appeared by Mr. Brereton's report that the premises were sequestred for the delinquency of the said William Butler, father of Cisley, and were then under sequestration; that William Butler had an estate for life therein, remainder to his sons and the heirs male of their bodies, with like limitations to the said Edward, his brother, and that the said William was slain at Newberry fight in 1643.

fo. 209. Order of reference to Mr. Readinge.

fo. 211. Petition.

fo. 213. Particular.

fo. 215. Order from London Commissioners to Lancashire, dated 2 September, 1652, advising them that on the petition of Leonard Weshton, Rich. Orrill, and Cisley Butler permission had been granted to raise the £200 for the said Cisley according to the indenture (14 May, 1631), and that they, the Lancashire Commissioners, were to let the premises to the best advantage and pay the rents to Cisley

until the £200 should have been paid. (Amount of fine not stated, but on endorsement of the set of papers, "Fine pd.")

See also papers of William Butler.

Henry Butler, of Raukcliffe [Rawcliffe], Gentleman, and Elizabeth Butler.

(First Series, Vol. xii., No. 303, fols. 19, &c.)

fo. 19. Petition from Henry Butler, of Raukliffe, Esq., which shewed that Elizabeth Butler, widow, late wife of Richard Butler,1 gentleman, deceased son and heir to petitioner, having been seised for life only of certain parcels of "howseinge beinge parte of the Capitall messuage called Raukcliffe Hall, and of certaine lands thereunto belonginge," and also of certain other messuages, lands, &c., in lease, lying in Raukcliffe aforesaid and elsewhere in the said county, in lieu of her jointure or dower, since the then late wars two thirds of the property had been sequestered for the popery of the said Elizabeth Butler, and had so continued, notwithstanding that she was dead, so the same should have reverted or come to petitioner at her death, and as he was debarred from enjoying it, he prayed for an order directing the Lancashire Commissioners to examine into the truth of his petition. (17 July, 1655.) Ordered.

(First Series, Vol. Ixiii., No. 2,023, fols. 325, &c.)

fo. 325. A petition by Claudius Terrell and Jane, his wife, executrix of the last will and testament of Roger

1 Richard Butler, the husband of Elizabeth, a captain in the Royal Army, had been taken prisoner at the surrender of Liverpool and sent to Manchester, where he died in prison in 1645, at the age of thirty-six. See "Discourse of the Warr in Lancashire,” Chetham Soc. Pub., vol. lxii., p. 50. William and Edward Butler were younger sons of Henry Butler by a second marriage, and consequently half brothers of Richard above. Edward was father of William Butler executed at Preston for high treason, 1716.