Lilburne, and yt yor pet', hauing spent at least 100lib to obtaine ye said execcution, and owing great sums of money for ye Goods so plundered, is in danger to lose all, to ye utter ruyne of his wife and children, unlesse by yor Highnesse speedily relieued.

"The premisses considered, and forasmuch as the said Hugh Anderton has a considerable estate in ye said County now under Sequestracõn, and appointed by Act of Parliament to bee sold, yor Petr humbly prayes your Highnes order to ye Trustees at Drury house to examine ye truth of his peticõn, and to give such satissfaction to your petr out of ye said Anderton's Lands as may consist with Justice.

"And yor petr will ever pray, &c.

H. T."

'Wee, the Major, Aldermen, and Comon Consell of the Towne of Preston, whose names are subscribed, doe hearby mack bold humbly to certify his hignes yt we know ye contents of the above sd petition to bee true, in testimony whearof wee have severally subscribed our names.

"It is referred to the Trustees at Drury house to

examine ye truth of this peticõn, and to give such releife to ye petr as may consist with Justice, 1" and bee agreable to the Lawes,"

"1654.

(Signed) "OLIUER P."

[Suggested in the margin by someone "an original document."]

Isabel Anderton, Widow.

(First Series, Vol. Ixiv., No. 2,050, fols. 189, &c.)

fo. 189. Petition from John Kirkby, of Kirkby, and John Townley, of Hirst Wood, which shewed that Isabell Anderton, widow, being then seised in fee of a certain tenement in the Chase and Forest of Pendle called Nether higham, and of a parcel of ground and meadow called Furtherley, in Higham in Pendle, held by copy of Court Roll of the manor of Ightenhill, in the said county, according to the custom of the said manor, she in October, 1649, surrendered up the said tenement, &c., to the lord thereof, who admitted petitioner's tenants to the same, as by copy of Court Roll (produced) appeared, they having paid their fine for the same to the lord before their admittance. That petitioners were admitted tenants in trust for the use of the said Isabell for her life and after for the payment of £500 to certain persons in the last mentioned copy of the Court Roll, expressed, which sum was to have been taken out of the profits from and immediately after her decease.

That she died in May, 1652, so that possession of the premises ought to have come to petitioners, yet, as the premises were under sequestration at the time of her death, the Lancashire Commissioners refused to permit them possession. Prayed for an examination of the title, &c. (10 June, 1652). Referred to Mr. Reading.

These words and the signature are the writing of O. Cromwell.

(First Series, Vol. xcviii., No. 3,872, fol. 557.)

fo. 557. Communication from Preston, dated 6 September, 1652, mentioning that in observance of an order of the 10 June preceding, made upon the petition of John Kirkby, of Kirkby, and John Towneley, of Hurstwood, touching their title to a certain tenement and a parcel of ground called Furtherley, in Higham in Pendle, held by copy of Court Roll of the manor of Ightenhill, and surrendered (as was alleged) by Isabell Anderton, in October, 1649, to the uses mentioned in the petition, mentioning also that they had taken the examinations (enclosed) in the behalf of the petitioners, and certified that two-thirds of the premises then claimed had been under sequestration from 1643 for the recusancy of the said Isabell Anderton, and had so continued; that long before the said surrender (January 160 Ch. I. [1641]) she had been convicted of recusancy, as by the convictions for the county appeared.

fo. 555. Examinations of John Stevenson, of Bearley, in the Forest of Pendle, and Thomas Tarleton, of Berkes within Pendle, sworn 12 July, 1652.

(First Series, Vol. xxxvii., No. 1,159, fols. 167, &c.)

fo. 167. Report by Mr. Reading upon an order made 10 June, 1652, based on a petition of John Kirkby and John Townly, desiring the allowance of a copyhold estate surrendered to their use by Isabella Anderton, widow, then deceased, and which had been sequestered for her recusancy. He found that the said Isabell Anderton having been a copyhold tenant in the manor of Ightenhill, in the County of Lancaster, at the Holmeet Court of the said Manor, held at Higham, 28 May, 1650, it was presented then that she in performance of the covenants of certain indentures made between her and Hugh Anderton, her son and heir apparent, dated 20 May, 1636, did surrender into the hands of the lord, by John Hargreaves, a customary tenant there, the 24 August, 1649, all those

messuages, lands, &c., lying and being within the forest or chace called Neither Heigham, paying to the lord 84 yearly, then in the tenure of the said Isabell or her assigns, to the use and behoof of the petitioners and their heirs, according to the custom of the manor, to such uses as were expressed under the surrender and no otherwise. Whereupon they were admitted. Under which surrender was subscribed that the intent and true meaning of the said surrender and admittance was that the said John Kirkby and his co-feoffee and their heirs, and the survivor of them and his heirs, should stand and be seized and fined of and in all and singular the above-named surrendered premises, and every part thereof, of the annual rent of 6s. 6d., unto the use and behoof of the said Isabell Anderton and her assigns during her life, after her decease, to the use of themselves, until a stated sum should be received out of the clear profits over and above the rents and services; and to be disposed of, £100 to John Townly (one of the feoffees) in five yearly instalments of £20 each, following the decease of the said Isabell Anderton; and the sum of £400 to and for the use of Margaret, Dorothy, Hugh, and Jane Anderton, younger children of Hugh Anderton, for their preferment and livelihood, yielding and paying the rents and services due and accustomed. After the said sum of £500 should have been raised as aforesaid, the feoffees and their heirs, and the survivor of them, should stand and be fined and seized of and in the above-named surrendered premises to the use and behoof of the said Hugh Anderton, his heirs and assigns, for ever, as by a copy of the said surrender, produced under the hand of Edward Stevenson, clerk of the Court, appeared. It was certified by the Lancashire Commissioners, 6 September, 1652, in answer to a communication from the Commissioners above, of the 10 June, that long before the said surrender, the said Isabell Anderton had been convicted of recusancy, as [appeared] by the Book of Convictions returned unto them by the clerk of the Peace of the County. And they also certified that two parts of the premises were

in the year 1643 sequestered for her recusancy, and had so remained. They also sent up the deposition of John Stevenson, who had written in the entry in the Court Roll of the manor of Ightenhill, the 25 May, 1650, and said that it was a true copy of the record itself then remaining in the castle of Clitherow, for the manor aforesaid, and that he had examined the same with Edmund Stevenson, his father, clerk for the said manor; and they sent up the deposition of Thomas Tarlton, who said Izabell Anderton died on the 14 May, 1652, and that he was present when she died. The Indenture of 20 May, 1636, was produced. After referring to one or two other points not material, he submitted to judgment, whether the petitioners should be permitted to enjoy the premises for raising the said sum of £500.

ff. 173-176. Review of the case, and of Mr. Reading's Report, by "the Commissioners for removing obstructions [from] several Lands and Estates forfeited to the Commonwealth for Treason." After a lengthy review they "ORDERED therefore upon hearing of this cause that the Interest and claim of the said John Kirkby and John Townley on the behalf of themselves and the said Hugh, Dorothy, Margaret, and Jane, in and to the said messuage, lands, tenements, and hereditaments within the said forest or chace of Pendle called Nether Heigham, further Heigham in Heigham aforesaid, by virtue of the surrender of the said Isobell, and admittance of the said John Kirkby and John Towneley, their heirs and assigns, as a security for the said Sum of £500 to be raised out of the premises to the uses aforesaid, according to the intent and true meaning of the said surrender, [be allowed] and be as an Incumbrance upon the said Estate, and to be set forth and satisfied to the said John Kirkby and John Townley to the uses aforesaid, out of the Estate in such Priority and course as the same ought to be satisfied by law; and as by the said Act for sale is directed and appointed. And that this Judgment and Determination be transmitted to the Trustees for sale of these lands to be by them entered and observed accordingly. And that it be referred to