A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress (1880)
Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893, Fawcett, Benjamin, Lydon, A. F. (Alexander Francis) · London, Edinburgh, Dublin, William Mackenzie · leaf 111
stood for more than five hundredand fifty years, the date of its erection being attested by the original grant. The family of Lord Cholmondeley derives fromHugh, Baron of Malpas, in Cheshire, whose son,Robert, left a daughter and heiress, Lettice, who married Richard le Belward, and their son (or… … WORSLEY HALL, NEAR MANCHESTER, LANCASHIRE. EARL OP ELLESMERE. One of the Crusaders, one of the earliest of them, by name Elias, or Eliseus, the founder of the family of Worsley, is recorded to have heldthe manor of Workeslegh, or Workedlegh, so early as the time of the Conquest. In Hopkinsons…
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