County Families of Lancashire and Cheshire #267428

The subject matter is derived from original and authentic evidences and other sources of information more or less scattered, which, in the form it is presented, will, it is hoped, be not only acceptable to the general reader, but enable the representatives of these ancient houses to possess a convenient and trustworthy history of their family connections and kin. It only remains for the Author to express his obligation to those friends who, by ready offers of information and in other ways, have made him their debtor. His thanks are specially due to W. W. B. Hulton, Esq, of Hulton Park; Thomas Helsby, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn; John Eglington Bailey, Esq., of Stretford; John Paul Rylands, Esq., of Heather Lea, Claughton and Edmund R. T. Molyneux-seel, Esq., of Kensington.