ISAAC GREENE
A LANCASHIRE LAWYER
OF THE i8xH CENTURY
Only 250 copies printed.
ISAAC GREENE
from the portrait attributed to Hogarth at Hale Hall.
ISAAC GREENE
A LANCASHIRE LAWYER
OF THE i STH CENTURY
WITH
THE DIARY OF IRELAND GREENE
(MRS. IRELAND BLACKBURNE OF HALE)
1748-9
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BY
RONALD STEWART-BROWN
M.A., F.S.A.
WITH THREE PORTRAITS
LIVERPOOL
1921
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PREFACE
THIS is an account of a remarkable personality who
has escaped the close attention of the historians
of eighteenth-century Lancashire. As a member of
the same profession, I have always felt that it would
not be without interest to collect what could be found
about him, his career and his large estates which lay
on or near the borders of Liverpool, and are now
for the most part within the City. In my researches
I have to some extent reaped the fields of others,
but I think that I have been able to collect something
new.
Isaac Greene left to inherit his wealth only
two daughters, now represented by Colonel Robert
Ireland Blackburne, of Hale Hall, and the Marquess
of Salisbury. How the latter comes to be the owner
of so much land in and near Liverpool is a question
often raised and seldom clearly answered.
I am much indebted to Colonel Ireland Black-
burne for his permission to print the Diary of his
ancestress, Ireland Greene, one of Isaac Greene's
daughters, and also for leave to reproduce the three
portraits from the originals at Hale. To my friend,
Richard Duncan Radcliffe, M.A., F.S.A., I am under
a very particular obligation for handing over to me
notes which he has collected for some years about
Isaac Greene. Mr. Radcliffe took an especial in-
terest in the Diary, and intended that it should form
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PREFACE
the subject of a paper. I cannot pretend to the
wide knowledge of eighteenth-century Lancashire
and Cheshire families with which he would have
illuminated the entries.
If I seem to have paid too much attention to
legal details, my excuse must be that they interested
me, and seem inseparable from the subject and
necessary also for the sake of accuracy, without
which I am aware it has unfortunately been con-
sidered possible to write much that passes for local
history.
R. STEWART-BROWN.
LIVERPOOL, 1921.
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CONTENTS
PACK
PART I. ISAAC GREENE i
II. IRELAND GREENE'S DIARY ... 29
III. THE PEDIGREE . . ... 71
INDEX 81
PLATES
Isaac Greene frontispiece
FACING PACK
Ireland Greene (Mrs. Blackburne) . . . . 29
Mary Greene (Mrs. Gascoyne) . . . . 71
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ISAAC GREENE
PART I
ISAAC GREENE
IT is surprising that as late as 1907 it had to be
recorded in the pages of the Victoria History of the
County of Lancaster?- in the case of Isaac Greene
of Prescot, Liverpool, and Childwall, a celebrated
Lancashire lawyer and a remarkable character who
died in 1749 possessed of so many large and impor-
tant manors and properties 2 in the county, that * his
parentage is unknown.' An ancestor, in the female
line through the Gascoynes, of the Marquess of
Salisbury, who has succeeded to a large portion of
his estates, it seemed impossible, in spite of repeated
efforts by many interested in local history, to ascer-
tain even the name of his father. It was thought
by some, and even definitely stated by others, that
he was of the family of Greene of Poulton Lancelyn
in Wirral, but this was incapable of proof, and indeed
is now completely disproved unless, before the date
when a Greene married the heiress of the Lancelyn
1 Vol. iii. no a.
2 Childwall, Much and Little Woolton, Wavertree, West
Derby, Everton, Eltonhead, and Hale.
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family, the two families came of a common stock.
The origin of the Poulton family is not clear, and
has not been investigated. We find they were
closely connected with the Bolds of Bold by marriages
in two successive generations in the seventeenth
century, by which they acquired the estate of Cran-
shaw at Rainhill, in which parish the ancestors of
Isaac Greene resided for hundreds of years. No other
link between these two families of Greene has been
discovered except that money appears to have been
owed by the progenitors of Isaac to a member of the
Bold family somewhat distantly connected with the
branches into which the marriages of the Poulton
family took place. 1
It was not until 1911 that, by the publication
of parts of the Registers of St. Nicholas' Church,
Liverpool, 2 it became possible to identify the father
of Isaac Greene and the date of the latter's birth ;
but although the father, in the person of * Mr.
Edward Greene, Merchant of Liverpool,' was un-
earthed, the genealogy could not be carried further
until the discovery of some entries in the Prescot
Court Rolls identifying the Liverpool merchant as a
Prescot copyholder, and the son of another Edward
Greene of that place. Then, in 1920, Mr. John
Brownbill found among the Palatine of Lancaster
Chancery Records, a suit 3 brought in 1707 by Isaac
Greene himself, which carried the genealogy back
1 See pedigree of Greene in Ormerod's Cheshire, ii. 444 ; and
of Bold in Baines's Lancashire (Croston's ed.), v. The alleged descent
of these Greenes from those of Greenes Norton seems to have been
abandoned in recent years.
2 Lanes. Parish Reg. Soc., zxxv., dated 1909, but not actually
published until 1911. I drew attention to the entry relating to
Isaac Greene's father in a review of this book (Liverpool Courier,
March 10, 1911).
3 See below, p. 24.
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GREENES OF RAINHILL AND WHISTON
two further generations, and thus linked it up with
a Richard Greene of ' Greene's House ' in Rainhill,
yeoman, who died in 1620. With this as a basis to
work upon, the writer succeeded in finding the wills,
not only of Richard just mentioned and his son and
grandson, but also those of his father and grandfather,
and in proving his great-grandfather, with the result
that it is possible to place on record for Isaac Greene
an unusually lengthy yeoman ancestry reaching back
to the later years of the fifteenth century. The
pedigree is now one of thirteen generations from
living persons, and it seems unlikely that it will be
possible to carry it further back ; but it is a matter
of considerable satisfaction and interest that one has
been able to ascertain so much. The details of
the descent are given later, and are capable of the
strictest proof.
THE GREENES OF RAINHILL AND
WHISTON
It appears that a yeoman family of Greene (the
spelling is, of course, very varied) is found resident
in Rainhill and Whiston in the parish of Prescot at
least as early as 1490 ; how much earlier it is not
yet possible to say, but their house there appears at
an early date under the name of ' Greene's House.'
This remained the family home until the eighteenth
century, and is probably still in the possession of
their descendant, Lord Salisbury. In 1621, on the
occasion of the inquisition post mortem of Richard
Greene, the property was found to consist of some
twenty-seven acres of land held by the ancient
military service of one hundredth part of a knight's
fee, King James I being the feudal lord, and the
property part of the Manor of Widnes, attached to the
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honour of Halton. In addition to this estate, which
was in effect freehold, the family had some other land
near by which was copyhold of the Manor of Prescot.
The earliest occurrence in the records of these
Greenes is in 1513, when we find Thomas Greene
(II) 1 (who was a son of Hugh Greene (I) of Rain-
hill), concerned in litigation 2 with Sir Richard
Bold of Bold, Kt., with reference to enclosures on
a piece of alleged common pasture known as the
' Copt Holt ' in Whiston. This was near ' Greene's
House ' and where the watch trade is said to have
been started later on by a Huguenot named Woolrich
who settled there. 3 The disputes were still going
on in 1526 ; and that the Greenes still took an active
part in them is clear from a suit brought by Sir
Richard Bold against Sir William Molyneux, Lady
Gerard (of Bryn), and others, to decide whether the
Copt Holt belonged to Whiston or Rainhill. Brian
Garnet, notary public, took evidence ' in a certain
High Chamber called the New Work in the manor
and dwelling place ' of Sir Richard Bold on June I,
1526. The Greenes had objected to Sir Richard
building houses on the Copt Holt, and so interfering
with the right of pasture, and they seem to have
resorted to somewhat high-handed methods of
maintaining their alleged rights. Evidence was
given that Thomas and Richard Greene, sons of
Hugh Greene of Rainhill deceased, had threatened
to burn Sir Richard's houses, and that in conse-
quence his servants had guarded the Copt Holt with
arms, but failed to prevent it. Ellen Greene, a sister,
stated that the day before the burning, ' Sir ' Thomas
Bulkeley, parson of Brindle, sent for her brother
1 The Roman numerals refer to the pedigree below.
2 See the pedigree notes.
3 Viet. Hist. iii. 3 5 3 n.
GREENES OF RAINHILL AND WHISTON
while he was digging turf on Blackhill Moss. The
same night when she and her mother, Grace Greene,
had gone to bed, the brothers came with others
and ' took fire ' from the house, and that very same
night the Copt Holt houses were burnt. They took
the ' fire ' from her mother's house rather than from
Richard Greene's house which was nearer Copt Holt,
because there were many children in the latter. She
had been sworn at Prescot ' not to tell,' and promised
* secure lodging ' with Lady Gerard and the parson
of Brindle (who had been Sir Thomas Gerard's
chaplain), and that * she should have a house in
Rainhill of her own for life worth a rent of 2.6s. 8<^.
and be honestly married if she kept quiet ; if not
her mother would be turned out and she herself
would suffer.' The mother had asked John Glover
to advise her son Thomas to fly the country lest he
should be troubled for the burning. We do not
know what, exactly happened in the suit, but the
same year Thomas Gerard and Richard Lancaster, as
the owners of both moieties of Rainhill, renounced all
claim to the Copt Holt and acknowledged it to be
in Whiston. Lancaster, then aged fifty, ' calling to his
remembrance the short time of this transitory life and
fearing the eternal damnation of his soul,' repudiated
' the feigned and false title ' which had been set up. 1
Thus the Bolds won.
The Greenes seem not to have suffered as, in
1572, Hugh (III), William, and Elizabeth Greene
(the children of the alleged incendiary Thomas) are
termed ' of great wealth and substance ' in litigation
over a trespass at Halsnead. One generation then
succeeded another without any noticeable event being
on record. Edward Greene (V) seems to have been
one of the leading men in Prescot when in 1652 it
1 Ogle Roll, quoted F.C.H. iii. 369 a.
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ISAAC GREENE
was visited by the plague. The town was shut up
for more than a week and great distress caused to
many poor people, who had no means of subsistence
* by reason of being debarred from liberty or trade.'
A petition was signed by Edward Greene and others
recommending the condition of the poor for the
consideration of the Justices of the Peace. 1 The
Greenes seem to have been a yeoman and farming
family for many generations, only taking up the
business of merchants in Prescot and Liverpool in
the late seventeenth century. Edward Greene, the
father of Isaac, appears to have been engaged in
business in both places, and in Liverpool he rose to
a fairly prominent position, as we find that in 1677
he was selected as one of the first Common Council
appointed for the town by the charter of Charles II.
Shortly after this, however, he met with misfortune
in his business, failed and went overseas. His death
is stated in the Chancery suit of 1707 to have taken
place * about twelve years ' before that date. It is not
known where he died, and no will has been found.
These facts are sufficient explanation why his iden-
tity as father of Isaac Greene has remained so long
unknown.
THE CAREER OF ISAAC GREENE
Isaac Greene, born in 1678, commenced life with
no special advantages, though his father's failure in
business does not seem to have involved the loss of
the family property, which was probably entailed.
The Greenes had many influential friends in Prescot
and Liverpool, and Isaac was apprenticed to the law
as an attorney. At the date when he entered upon
his legal career, the position and work of an attorney
1 Paterson's Prescot (1908), 14.
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THE CAREER OF ISAAC GREENE
bore very little resemblance to those of a modern
solicitor. The attorneys were then an unorganised
class, who had indeed to serve their time before
being eligible for admission to the various courts
in which they wished to practise, but their work was
mainly concerned with the practical steps in pro-
cedure, and many of them were little more skilled
than a modern * common law clerk.' The personal
advising of clients, advocacy, the bulk of the con-
veyancing work, the preparation of all but the simplest
of documents, the arranging of mortgages, all these
were still mainly in the hands of ' Counsel,' and it
was not till later that it became the rule that an
attorney must be interposed between them and the
* lay gent,' as the client was called. All this was
changed during Greene's own life, and the alteration
naturally took place later in London than in country
districts like Lancashire, where counsel could then
only be found in a few of the larger towns. The
client in the country had perforce to consult the local
attorney on his affairs, and it was natural for the
latter to acquire gradually the necessary skill and
learning to enable him to draft and complete docu-
ments ordinarily prepared by counsel, as well as to
arrange for mortgage investments. Greene appears
as one of the earliest Lancashire attorneys who ob-
tained a firm grip of these lucrative branches of legal
work which had never before come within their reach.
There is reason to think Greene served his time
with Daniel Lawton, a Prescot attorney of large
practice, who was acting at -the end of the seventeenth
century for the Moores of Bankhall in the manage-
ment of their estates, then hopelessly mortgaged to
Sir John Moore, of London. Greene was certainly
employed by Lawton, and in 169798, as his clerk,
witnessed leases by Sir Cleeve Moore of his Bankhall
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and Liverpool properties. By 1700 he had left
Lawton, and is found up in London attending to the
execution by Sir John Moore of deeds relating to
an exchange of lands between Sir Cleeve and the
Corporation of Liverpool. 1 He is then called Mr.
Lawton's ' late clerk,' and in 1735 hi mse lf deposed
that he had been in that position. 2
From a letter to Richard Norris we find that in
1 707 Greene had thought of applying for the lucra-
tive post of Officer of the Customs at Liverpool,
then vacant, but did not know whether he would
please the people of the town or not. 3 Probably
his career would have been very different if he had
received the appointment.
In his earlier years Greene is found in close
association with ' Mr. Edward Blundell,' of Prescot,
and opinions and letters are in existence in Greene's
writing, but signed by Blundell, from which a partner-
ship might be inferred. But this is unlikely, and the
explanation probably is that Blundell was a barrister
resident in Prescot. To him Greene sometimes
refers his clients for the examination of a compli-
cated title or the drafting of a family settlement,
and as already indicated these instructions would be
given by a personal visit of the client to the * lawyer,'
as counsel was then sometimes termed in distinction
from the * attorney.' Blundell's name does not
appear in the pedigrees of the Crosby or Ince families,
though Nicholas Blundell, of Crosby, consults him
about family affairs, and Greene seems to have acted
for the Blundells of Ince in certain matters. A suc-
cession of Blundells of Prescot are on record, several
of them being barristers, and probably Edward was
1 Norris Papers (Chatham Soc.), 50.
2 Pal. of Lanes. Chanc. Dep. (Lathom v. Bennett), 166.
3 Norris MSS. (Liverpool Public Library).
THE CAREER OF ISAAC GREENE
a son of William Blundell of Prescot, town clerk of
Liverpool in 1662, who, owing to living so far away
from his duties, resigned in 1664 in favour of Samuel
Fazakerly. A Blundell acted for Lord Molyneux
in the sale to the Corporation in 1 700 of the lordship
of Liverpool, and if this was Edward Blundell, we
probably get the explanation of the fact that Isaac
Greene subsequently appears as ' the Molyneux
family attorney.
The lists of attorneys both in the Public Record
Office and at the Incorporated Law Society are defec-
tive, and there seems to be no record of the original
admissions of Isaac Greene to practise in the courts.
This would be a gradual process from about 1697,
as it was necessary in those days to be formally
entered on the rolls of each court, local or in London,
before work could be done there. An act regulating
the admission of attorneys was passed in 1729, when,
of course, Greene had been practising for many years.
His name appears then in the roll of attorneys of the
Common Pleas of Lancashire, and as c Isaac Greene of
Liverpool, Gentleman,' he took the oath afresh for
that Court on June 29, 1730, before Sir Edmund
Probyn, and for the Chancery Court on June i, I73I. 1
We do not know a great deal of Greene's early
career, but he was evidently clever and hardworking,
and he prospered exceedingly, rapidly acquiring
round Liverpool and Prescot a large body of clients,
mainly from the county families. Before he had
reached the age of forty he had not only attained a
remarkable position in his profession, but had become
owner by purchase of the manors or lordships of
Childwall, Much and Little Woolton, West Derby,
Wavertree, Everton, and Eltonhead, with considerable
1 P.R.O. Roll of Attorneys, Pal. Lanes. 23/6, and records at
the Law Society, Chancery Lane.
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lands in those places, as well as at Rainhill, Whiston,
Sutton, Windle, Hardshaw, Thornton, Sefton, and
Lunt. At a later date he acquired the manor of
Hale by his marriage, and the story goes that it
was a saying of his in after life ' that if he had his
days over again he would have all Lancashire in his
hands.' 1 At the personality of the man, one can only
guess. His portrait, attributed to Hogarth and now
at Hale Hall, gives the impression of a sagacious,
long-headed man of affairs, capable of turning matters
to advantage, and one fond of the good things of
life. His handwriting, often a good guide to char-
acter, is clear, large, and round, and indicates a
methodical and even temperament.
Greene's rise to success and prosperity coincided
almost exactly in point of time with similar advances
in commerce and riches in the town of Liverpool.
The first twenty-five years of the eighteenth century
were times when the foundations of enormous for-
tunes in trade were being laid. It became fashionable
to be making money in this way, and the impoverished
country gentleman is found sending his younger sons
into the town, where in many cases they quickly
succeeded in outstripping in wealth their elder brother,
whose position kept him on the family estates. It was
natural that in such a rapidly expanding community
there should grow up quite a number of shrewd
lawyers, to whom the squire and the trader alike
would turn for advice both in regard to the regula-
tion of their properties and the manifold legal matters
arising out of a commercial life. There were other
reasons also for the appearance at this date of a
strong body of legal advisers ; they were a necessary
outcome of the Restoration. The confiscation of the
1 See A Collection of Papers, Etc. (during the Liverpool election
of 1780), 31, and Aikin's Manchester, 377.
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THE CAREER OF ISAAC GREENE
estates of the Cavaliers had resulted in vast quantities
of their land passing into the hands of the spoilers
of Church and Crown, from whom it was with diffi-
culty recovered ; and in the mortgaging of estates to
pay the heavy fines exacted by the usurping govern-
ment. The process of recovery, coupled with the
disentangling of lands from the heavy encumbrances,
lasted for many long years. The technicalities of the
law of real property were already sufficiently serious
without these added troubles, and there was never a
time when it was more necessary to seek the advice
of astute and learned advisers.
It may not be an exaggeration to attribute to
Greene a considerable share in the commercial
successes of the town, for besides assisting the
merchant with good legal advice there can be little
doubt that the attorneys not infrequently were joint
adventurers with their clients in a ship or cargo, and
arranged for the necessary advances and outlays
required to secure the handsome profits which could
then be earned by men of enterprise. By his asso-
ciation as legal adviser with such men as Richard
Norris, Mayor of Liverpool in 1700 and afterwards
' of Speke,' Sir Thomas Johnson, the Claytons, and
others, Greene must have had many opportunities of
turning over his spare money, for it was not at all
uncommon for three large profits to be made practi-
cally in one joint adventure by sending a ship from
point to point with different cargoes. The West
Indies were the source of most of Liverpool's riches
in those days, and it is worth noting that its merchants
did not enter the slave trade until Greene's future
was assured. If it was to any extent secured by
commercial means as opposed to legal, his money
was probably not derived from a traffic which, though
regarded at the time as legitimate and meritorious,
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has long been thrown in the teeth of the eighteenth-
century makers of Liverpool and their descendants.
There are among the unpublished Norris MSS. 1
a large number of letters which passed between Isaac
Greene at Prescot and Richard Norris, the Liverpool
merchant, at London. The latter eventually came into
the Speke property after the deaths of his brothers,
Sir William Norris, Bart., who died at sea when
returning home from the Embassy to the Great
Mogul in India in 1702, and Dr. Edward Norris,
who died in 1726. Under the former's will moneys
had to be laid out in land, and Lady Norris, 2 the
widow, seems to have made many difficulties.
Between 1703 and 1706 numbers of investments
were suggested by Greene, including properties at
Whiston, Mr. Brettargh's estate at Aigburth, the
Shuttleworth paternal property of * Light Oaks ' at
Bedford-Leigh, the joint estate of Lady Stanley and
Thomas Tyldesley at Holcroft in Winwick, and
Alexander Hesketh's at Aughton. The letters do not
show what happened, but amply illustrate Greene's
wide acquaintance, when well under the age of thirty,
with South Lancashire family affairs, and also his
careful attention to all necessary legal precautions.
Other letters show that Norris looked to Greene to
assist in getting voters for himself and Thomas
Johnson in the Liverpool election of 1705, when
Norris failed to be returned.
The earliest letter of Greene's in this collection 3
is one dated August 5, 1700, addressed to ' Madame
Norris ' at Speke, and, though trivial, may be given
1 Liverpool Public Library. See Liverpool Post, Sept. 6, 1921.
2 She is not given in the printed pedigrees but was Elizabeth,
widow of (l) Nich. Pollexfen, and (2) Isaac Meynell, both of
London. Her will was proved at Chester in 1713.
3 No. 203.
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THE PURCHASES OF HIS ESTATES
in full, as the mention in it of his * Aunt Legay '
has raised a question of relationship, which has not
yet been solved.
' Madam, I have received orders from my Aunt
Legay (who has the disposall of Mr. Legay's
concernes) to send Mr. Legay's horse (which
is with you at Speake) to her into Sussex, and
therefore have sent the bearer for him, by whom
I desire you will send him to
* Your most humble servant,
* ISAAC GREENE.
' 5th August, 1700.
* Liverpool.
4 For Madam Norris att Speake, with service, these.'
' Mr. Legay ' of this letter was Samuel Legay of
Childwall, who was buried there on July 23, 1700.
He was the son of Isaac Legay of Childwall and
West Stoke, a London merchant, whose widow,
Katherine, daughter of Edward Williams, was, no
doubt, Greene's ' Aunt Legay.' The relationship
probably came through Isaac's mother, Mary, whose
maiden name is unknown. Mrs. Katherine Legay,
by her will of October 5, 1716, left a legacy of 100
between ' Mrs. Mary Greene then of Childwall and
Mr. Isaac Greene her son,' but no further light can
be thrown upon the matter. 1 It was, of course,
from Mrs. Legay that Isaac Greene purchased some
of his Lancashire manors, as mentioned later on.
THE PURCHASES OF HIS ESTATES
The first considerable purchase of property
which Greene seems to have made consisted of the
1 For the Legays see articles by Mr. J. Brown bill in Notes and
Queries, May 1921.
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mesne manor and Hall of Eltonhead in Button, not far
from his own estate in Rainhill. As usual, he went
into the title very carefully, and has left an account
of the devolution of the property. 1 It seems that it
had been purchased in 1684 by Thomas Roughley,
whose sons got into financial difficulties. Greene,
acting as agent for the creditors, took possession in
1710, and in 1712 he seems to have paid off his
clients and acquired the estate, which forms part of
his property which has descended to the Marquess
of Salisbury.
In 1707 Greene had become concerned, appar-
ently as agent or legal adviser to Lady Anglesey
(afterwards Lady Ashburnham), the daughter and
ultimate sole heiress of the 9th Earl of Derby, in
complicated matters arising out of her inheritance.
Her father, as grandson of Earl James who was
executed in 1651, had succeeded to a large part of
the family estates which had been sequestrated by the
Commonwealth, but subsequently recovered. On
his death in 1702, disputes arose with his brother,
James (who succeeded him as loth Earl), as to the
properties which passed to him and Lady Anglesey
respectively. Litigation took place, and we learn
that on July 14, 1707, Greene attended a sitting of
the Privy Council at Windsor, Queen Anne being
present, when a petition by Lord Anglesey, apparently
as to the place of trial, was debated for several hours,
and decided in favour of Lord Derby. Greene made
an interesting private report 2 on the matter to his
friend and client, Richard Norris of Liverpool. The
disputes lasted for some years, but eventually a
settlement seems to have been arranged, under which
Lord Derby retained a considerable part of the family
1 Hatfield MSS. 682/10 and F.C.H. iii. 360.
2 Norris Papers (Chatham Soc.), 172.
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THE PURCHASES OF HIS ESTATES
estates, including Knowsley, 1 but lost Lathom, West
Derby, Wavertree, Everton, and other properties, as
well as any rights to recover Childwall and the manors
of Much and Little Woolton, which had been mort-
gaged many years before by his predecessor in title.
No doubt Greene's association with Lady Anglesey
(who became the wife of the Earl of Ashburnham in
1714) suggested the purchase of some of her manors.
The matter was conducted through the medium of
his friend, Jonathan Case, of * The Red Hassles ' in
Huyton, who had married the heiress of the Ogles of
Whiston, several of whom had been stewards of the
manor of Prescot. The manors of Childwall, Much
and Little Woolton had been among the estates of
James, Earl of Derby, sequestrated by the Common-
wealth, and the history of the subsequent mortgages
thereon and their eventual transfer to Isaac Legay,
of London, has been related elsewhere. 2 The Legays
as mortgagees seem to have gone into possession of
Childwall, and resided there. Isaac Greene, as we
have seen, called Katherine Legay, the widow, his
aunt, and may himself have been named after Isaac
Legay. He was probably their attorney, as appar-
ently he was also for Lady Ashburnham, who, as
heiress, had an interest in these properties subject to
the mortgage advances by the Legays. In February
and March 1717/18 arrangements were made by
which Jonathan Case ' recovered ' the three manors
from the representatives of the Legays, and cleared
off any possible claims by Lord and Lady Ashburn-
ham or the loth Earl of Derby. In July, Greene,
being freed from any difficulties of buying from his
own clients, appeared as the real purchaser, and paid
4,600 to the heirs of the Legays. He thus became
1 7.C.H. iii. 165*., 252 n., etc.
2 Ibid, iii. 109, etc.
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lord of the manors of Childwall, Little and Much
Woolton, and owner of the demesne lands of the two
former, and of the manor-house of Childwall. 1
In October of the previous year (1717), Greene
likewise had begun to effect another purchase from
Lady Ashburnham's trustees, namely, the manors of
West Derby (with Ackers Mill), Wavertree (with
the Mill), and Everton, which she had inherited
from her father. On her second marriage in 1714
to Lord Ashburnham, these manors, with many other
properties, were by settlement dated July 22, 1714,
vested in trustees for sale. 2 Greene again employed
Case, who appears as the nominal purchaser for
3,6 1 1, and after various other interests had been
bought out, Greene formally took over the properties
1 Bargain and sale 23/24 October 1717, Lord and Lady
Ashburnham and her trustees to Jonathan Case (3,611 to trustees,
5-r. to Lord and Lady Ashburnham) (Hatfield Deeds, 672/5);
conveyance 20 November 1721 (i) George Farington of Worden,
(2) John Harrington of Huyton Hey, (3) Margaret Armetriding of
Leyland, widow, Henry Greatrix of Sheeson (?) Green, Co. Chester,
and Anne his wife, (4) Isaac Green, consideration $s. (? to mortgagees)
(Hatfield Deeds 672/6) ; release 13 February 1722/3 George Tyrer
to I. Green (ibid. 672/7); conveyance 21/22 December 1722
Jonathan Case to I. G. (ibid. 672/8) ; conveyance for better assurance,
ii December 1725, John Lord Ashburnham and trustees to I. G.
(Hatfield Deeds 672/10, enrolled King's Bench, Easter, 12 George I).
The property was included in the fine of 20 Mch. 1718/19, and settle-
mentofi725- See note, pp. 22-3. In 1720 Greene, as lord of Much
Woolton, sold for 6 a rent of 4*. created by the Hospitallers of St.
John of Jerusalem in the I2th cent. (Birch Chapel, Cheth. Soc. I4).
2 On August 30, 1716, Lady Ashburnham by deed poll trans-
ferred the unsold properties from her trustees to those of her husband
upon trust to sell and pay his debts. The trustees in 1717 were,
for her, Ric. Wareing, Bryan Fairfax, jun., Thos. Ashhurst ; for him,
Francis Brace, Charles Barnard, Morgan Matthew, and Jas. Mack-
burnie. Many of the properties were sold to pay the debts, including
the Tower of Liverpool, 31 Jan. and I Feb. 1717 (Trans. Hist. Soc.
Lanes, and Ches., Ixi. 60-1).
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from Case in 1722, his title being finally completed,
after the death of Lady Ashburnham in 1718, by a
further assurance in 1725 from her husband and the
trustees of the settlement. In this way three more
manors and lordships and a quantity of land were
added to Greene's possessions. 1
Mr. Brownbill has pointed out to the writer a
curious result of the purchase of the manor of West
Derby, in that Greene thus became the feudal superior
of his client, Viscount Molyneux, the owner of
Croxteth Hall, which was copyhold of that manor.
Mr. Brownbill recollects seeing a note by Greene,
stating that after his purchase he found that the
Molyneux family had neglected for two or perhaps
more successions to appear at the manor court and
make fine on the admittance of the heir, a matter
which Greene took care to insist should be put right.
Greene had been steward of the manor of West
1 Mortgage 19/20 August 1657, Earl of Derby and others
(Commonwealth Trustees) to Dame Elizabeth Finch of Kensington,
widow, and Edward Bagnall of St. Dunstans in the West, for 8,550
(including Knowsley) (Hatfield Deeds 656/12, enrolled Chancery,
27 August 1657) ; transfer (except Knowsley) 14 October 1658 to
Peter Legay junior and Isaac Legay of London, merchants, for
4,700 (Hatfield Deeds 649/31, enrolled 30 October 1658) ; transfer
26 February 1658/9 Peter Legay junior to Isaac Legay (Hatfield
Deeds 649/10) ; covenant for recovery 3 February 1717/18 to
Jonathan Case of Prescot and his son Thomas, including the rights
of Henrietta Lady Ashburnham (Hatfield Deeds 665/9); recovery
March 1717/18 (see Viet. Hist. iii. uo.); transfer for 4 ,600 and
declaration of use to Isaac Green, 16 July 1718, between (i) Thomas
Hollis of London and Hannah his wife, one of the coheirs of Kath.
Legay, late of West Stoke, widow, and sister and coheir of Samuel
Legay deed, son and heir of Isaac Legay of London, merchant, and
said Kath., (2) Nicholas Solly of London, son and heir of Martha
another daughter and coheir of Kath. Legay, (3) Isaac Greene
(Hatfield Deeds 665/2, enrolled King's Bench, Mich. 5 George I).
The property was included in the fine of 20 March 1718/19 and
settlement of 1725. See note, pp. 22 and 23.
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ISAAC GREENE
Derby before he became lord by purchase, after which
he would be entitled to preside as his own steward
at the sittings of the Halmote Court. This was held
for both West Derby and Everton at the Court
House in West Derby, and Greene is said to have
been in the habit of appointing a deputy steward
and appearing as his own advocate in cases involving
his manorial privileges. He became the legal ad-
viser of the Molyneux family, and in 1721 purchased
a portion of the * New Hall ' estate from Lord
Molyneux. There is at Croxteth a remarkable letter
written by him in 1726 to Richard, 5th Viscount
Molyneux, making proposals to take over his large
estates, and guaranteeing him a fixed annual income.
Greene was made a trustee under the Molyneux
Estate Act 1729 (2 Geo. II. c. 9), for selling Lord
Molyneux's properties.
Greene appears to have acted as deputy-steward
of the Hundred or Wapentake Court of West Derby,
of which the Molyneux family were hereditary
stewards under a grant from Henry VI. He also
held other manorial stewardships for them. They
were owners of the manor of Great Crosby in those
days, and in 1725 we find Greene holding the Hal-
mote Court there. He also kept their court of the
manor of Sefton, which in 1726 met at an alehouse
near Sefton Church. Another stewardship held by
Greene was that of the court baron and court leet of
the manor of Whiston, of which the Case family were
the lords after a marriage with an Ogle heiress.
There are several references in the Diary of Nicholas
Blundell of (Little) Crosby to occasions on which he
met ' Mr. Greene the attorney ' at both serious and
convivial gatherings, 1 and we find that Isaac Greene
often combined business with amusement. We hear
1 Blundell's Diary, 157, 194, 210, 222, etc.
THE PURCHASES OF HIS ESTATES
of him on the bowling-green at Crosby, and at the
races. One of his letters to Richard Norris mentions
4 the great race to be run on Childwall Hills,' and in
another of September 7, 1705, written from Prescot
on business connected with the Scarisbricks of
Scarisbrick and property belonging to Alexander
Hesketh of Aughton, he tells Norris that he had dis-
cussed the affairs at ' the horse race at Childwall
where my Lord Mollineux and his son's horses ran
against Mr. Harrington's and his son's, and the
two latter did win.' 1 Nicholas Blundell was also at
' Childoll Rase ' that day, and from his Diary we find
that it was Mr. Charles Harrington whose horse
was successful. 2
On the occasion of most of Greene's purchases,
a complicated set of legal documents was executed,
and no possible effort was spared by him to perfect
or improve his titles. After his acquisition of the
manorial rights of Everton he appears to have compiled
an elaborate historical note with the object of showing
that it was a distinct manor and township from that
of West Derby. 3 Greene also set to work to regularise
some other matters arising out of his purchase of
Everton and West Derby, securing to himself and his
1 Norris Papers, 141, Norris MSS. vol. ii. 392.
2 Blunders Diary, 32.
3 Gregson, Portfolio of Fragments, etc. (1869 ed.), 143 ; Holt
and Gregson MSS. (Liverpool Public Library), v. 25 ; also Syers'
Everton. Greene became entitled to the ' lord's ' rent of 5 1 5*.
from the copyholders of Everton, being one shilling an acre for the
115 Cheshire acres of unenclosed lands sold in 1716, for a pound
an acre plus the rent for 1000 years, by Lord and Lady Ashburnham
to the copyholders. This land became of great value. See Liverpoo
Mercury, Feb. 20, 1818 ; Herdman, Relics of Anc. Liverpool (1843),
i. 102 ; Syers' Everton, and V.C.H. iii. 21, etc. Greene's Notes from
the Records of the Duchy of Lancaster are at Hale Hall, and there
is a copy in the Warrington Public Library. See Palatine Note
Book ii. 171-2.
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ISAAC GREENE
successors substantial advantages, while at the same
time the inhabitants of both places ultimately derived
considerable benefit from the arrangement. For a
long period there had been disputes between Lord
Derby and his copyhold tenants of West Derby and
Wavertree both as to the amount of the fines payable
on succession and the right of the lord to enclose the
wastes and commons. In 1 667 a compromise seems to
have been made on the basis of the fine being fixed at
one-third of the yearly rent, and of leave being given
to the lord to enclose a third of certain wastes known as
The Brecks, Blackmoor, Clubmoor and Gill Mosses,
Wavertree Common and Liverpool Lowe, the remain-
ing two-thirds to pass to the copyholders free of the
lord's rights. The last arrangement was not carried
out ; and in 1718 there was also trouble between the
owners of lands in West Derby and Everton over the
right to common on the Brecks. Finally in 1723
Isaac Greene agreed with the representatives of the
commoners to sell to Everton, for ^200, the West
Derby portion of the Brecks after settlement of the
boundaries, Greene to be allowed to make certain
further enclosures on Lowe Hill, and to retain some
ponds on Clubmoor for keeping fish, the rest of the
West Derby wastes to be leased out ' for the public
benefit of the township.' Greene fully exercised his
rights to enclose, but the interests of the township
were allowed to suffer by the apathy and neglect of
those who should have maintained them. The matter
was revived after Greene's death, and in 1753 it was
agreed between Mary Greene, lady of the manor of
West Derby, and trustees for the copyholders and
freeholders, that she should retain the enclosures and
rights of her father, but should transfer all the other
wastes to % the trustees for a nominal rent. The docu-
ment contained other provisions for the management
20
THE PURCHASES OF HIS ESTATES
of the waste lands, which are now of large value and
controlled by the Charity known as the Trustees of
the West Derby Waste Lands constituted in I874. 1
The Town Clerks of the day were not accustomed
to parliamentary matters, which was probably one of
the reasons why in 1719 Greene's services were en-
listed by the Corporation of Liverpool in connection
with the Act of Parliament (passed in 1720) for
making the river Weaver navigable so as to open up
the salt trade of Cheshire. He was asked to go to
London to assist the local members of Parliament in
this Bill, and also to obtain payment from the Treasury
of the cost of fortifying the town in the rebellion of
1715.2
Greene, though not himself a Roman Catholic,
acted for quite a number, including the Blundells of
Ince Blundell. In 1736 he took the opinion of
' lawyer ' Starkie of Preston on behalf of Robert
Blundell and his wife (nee Stanley of Hooton), with
reference to a threatened prosecution of them under
the penal laws by a Mrs. Mollineux of Preston. 3
1 The following are some of the documents, etc., many being
in the possession of the West Derby Waste Lands Commissioners :
West Derby and Wavertree Copyhold Act (29 & 30 Charles II,
c. i) ; Articles of agreement, etc., recited in last ; agreement I Dec.
1718 between the freeholders and copyholders of West Derby and
certain Trustees; agreement 12 March 1723 between Isaac Greene
as lord of West Derby and the surviving Trustees; 13 Aug. 1753,
agreement between Mary Greene, lady of the manor of West Derby,
and certain freeholders and copyholders ; conveyance of the commons
of West Derby by Mary Greene to Trustees, 19 Jan. 1756 ; scheme
for regulation of West Derby Waste Lands, printed, Liverpool 1873 ;
article by Benson Blundell in Liverpool Courier, 16 Oct. 1868, etc.;
see also Syers' Everton, passim,
z Picton, Municipal Records, ii. 51.
8 Lydiate Hall, etc., 130. The Starkie is there said to be
Thomas, who was an attorney, but was more probably Nicholas
or his son Edmund, both barristers.
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ISAAC GREENE
GREENE'S MARRIAGE
It has been thought that Isaac Greene was married
twice, and that the first time was in 1719, when we
know that he arranged what was called a ' final con-
cord ' or < fine ' of all his estates, which he declared
were to be held in future upon such ' uses ' as he
should direct. 1 There seems to be no evidence of
any such marriage, and probably the ' fine ' was
merely a way of perfecting his titles, which he was
always very careful to do. We know he had a son,
Edward, buried, not at Childwall or Hale, but at
St. Nicholas' Church, Liverpool, in 1732; but this was
after the date of the only marriage on record, and
there seems no reason to suggest that Edward was
not an infant son of that marriage. However this
may be, at the rather late age of 46, Isaac Greene
made what was probably considered a successful
marriage. His wife was Mary Aspinwall, the ulti-
mate heiress of the ancient Lancashire family of Ireland
of Hale and Hutt. By this marriage Greene became
lord of another manor, with large lands attached.
The manor of Hale had been heavily encumbered by
Sir Gilbert Ireland, Kt., a man of unbounded hospi-
tality and extravagance, who died without an heir in
1675, having assigned his estates to trustees for a
period of thirty years, in order to discharge his debts.
One of his sisters married Edward Aspinwall, great-
grandfather of Greene's wife. Greene must have
been well acquainted with the value of the Hale
estate, as his client, John Case (died 1719), the father
of his ally, Jonathan Case, of 'The Red Hassles,'
1 20 March 1718-9, parties, Jonathan Case, Thos. and Hannah
Hollis, Ric. and Ann Solly, and Isaac Greene, to Ric. Norris and
Edward Blundell of Prescot (Hatfield Deeds 672/12).
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GREENE'S MARRIAGE
was one of Sir Gilbert's trustees. The thirty years had
elapsed, and probably many of the encumbrances
upon the property had been cleared off, which may
possibly have influenced Greene in entering upon the
marriage. On this occasion he executed a settlement 1
of his estates, which, it seems, he intended should
ultimately pass to whomsoever he should by will or
deed direct ; but he does not appear to have taken
any steps to do this, and as he died intestate and with-
out a son the settlement had practically no effect, the
estates falling to his two surviving daughters as his
heirs, a legal result which he had probably anticipated
and taken into account.
After the purchase of Childwall, Isaac Greene
went to reside there, and rebuilt Childwall Hall before
I728. 2 He had been acting for the churchwardens
as early as 1703, and from 1719 onwards took a very
active and influential part in local and parochial
affairs. Many of the orders in the vestry books be-
tween that date and his death are entered in his own
large round and clear hand he signs his name
with an ' e.' He was responsible in 1724 for an
order designed to redress many abuses in the manage-
ment of the parish funds. In 1739 he complained
that, although lord of the manors of Childwall, the
Wooltons and Wavertree, and a very large contri-
butor to the parish leys and taxes, yet he had no seat
1 Dated 20 April 1725 ; parties (i) Isaac Greene, (2) Ric. Norris
of Liverpool, (3) Ireland Aspinwall of Hale, and (4) (Mary his
sister), whereby the manors or lordships of Childwall, Great and
Little Wool ton, West Derby, Wavertree, Everton, and Eltonhead,
with lands there and in Rainhill, Whiston, Sutton, Windle, Hardshaw,
Thornton, Lunt, and Sefton were settled upon such trusts as he
should by deed or will appoint, being declared as the * uses ' of the
fine of 20 March 1718-19 (Hatfield Deeds 649/12, enrolled
Chancery 24 Sept. 1725.)
2 His ' new house ' is mentioned in the church papers of that year.
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ISAAC GREENE
in the church in any degree fit and convenient.
Eventually in 1744 he obtained a faculty to build a
chapel, which still remains in the hands of the Mar-
quess of Salisbury. Other local activities of Greene
at Childwall are set down in the writer's Notes on
Childwalll
After his marriage he became a benefactor to the
parish of Hale, being concerned there in the erection
of a school for which he gave some land, the school-
house being transferred to trustees by his daughters
after his death. 2 He was one of the trustees of
the Marrow Charity at Prescot, founded with
400 in 1708 by the will of Joshua Marrow for
the benefit of the poor of Prescot ; he was also
a governor and trustee of the Liverpool Bluecoat
Hospital in 1741.
The Chancery suit which has thrown so much
light upon the ancestry of Isaac Greene seems to have
been commenced by him in 1707 to recover some
land in Rainhill which he said belonged to ' Greene's
House,' and had been enjoyed by his ancestors for
many generations. The claim was made against one
Thomas Forber of Rainhill, the field in dispute being
known as the ' Further Ground ' or the ' Little Hey '
in Rainhill. The details of this suit are only of interest
in so far as they throw light upon the pedigree, and
many of the facts proved have been incorporated in
the pedigree which is given below. Evidence was
given by a large body of witnesses who knew Isaac's
father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, in each case
stated to have been the eldest son and heir. Thomas
Standish of Eccleston, mason, aged 66, knew the
great-grandfather well. He had known the fields in
1 Trans. Hist. Soc. Lanes, and Cheshire, Ixv. 47, and privately
published 1914.
2 V.C.H. ii. 622.
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GREENE'S MARRIAGE
dispute as part of * Greene's tenement,' and his own
father had over forty years ago farmed it under John
Walls, who was then trustee for Edward Greene,
Isaac's father, then an infant. Edward shortly after-
wards became old enough to choose a guardian, and
he then received the rent of the fields himself. Ed-
ward Greene died about ' twelve years ago.' Standish
also said that in the time of Edward the great-grand-
father, deponent's father leased from him some meadow
ground, and carted the hay to the house through the
field in dispute. Savage Sutton, of Whiston, hus-
bandman, aged 80, deposed that he had himself held
the plough in the field (then arable) as a servant of
Edward Greene, the great-grandfather, who paid him
a penny a day and his meat. 1
1 Palatine of Lancaster Chancery Records 6/52, 7/115, 10/13?
(Chancery Bills, vol. lii. 66, Answers cxv. 13, Depositions 137).
The result of the suit is not stated. The following gave evidence in
addition to those mentioned above : Elizabeth Orme of West Derby,
spinster, aged 31 ; Edward Halsall of Rainhill, shoemaker, 70 ;
Henry Thompson of Rainhill, husbandman, 68 ; Ann Tunstall of
Rainhill, widow, 56'; Henry Flitcroft of Eccleston, carrier, 53 ;
James Ros bottom of Rainhill, wheelwright, 68 ; William Woods ;
Thomas Tyrer of Liverpool, Esq., 58, who had purchased ' Greene's
tenement ' on Edward Greene's bankruptcy some twenty years before ;
William Ackers of Cronton, butcher, 60 ; William Marsh of Black-
rode, husbandman, 45 ; Ann Aspinwall of Ashton, spinster, 47 ;
Henry Thompson (formerly examined for complainant) ; James
Skath of Huyton, coalminer, 44 ; Margaret Rigby of Rainhill, widow,
63 ; Robert Kenyon of Rainhill, husbandman, 67 ; Katherine Booth
of Ormskirk, wife of Robert Booth, 5 5 ; Edmund Tunstall of Eccles-
ton, husbandman, 60 ; Simon Rigby of Rainhill, husbandman, 70 ;
Sarah Blundell of Prescott, widow, 71 ; William Rigby of Eccles-
ton, yeoman, 80 ; William Woods of Sutton, yeoman, 46 ; and
Adrian Tucker of Prescott, gentleman, 47. Some deeds of the Elton-
head family were produced for the defence. (I owe this reference to
Mr. John Brownbill.)
ISAAC GREENE
THE DEATH OF ISAAC GREENE
The Gentleman's Magazine^ under the date July 27,
1749, records the death of * Isaac Greene of Lan-
cashire, Esq., of an apoplexy when stepping into his
coach.' The Diary of his daughter, Ireland Greene,
shows that she and her father had left Childwall by
coach on July 10, and arrived at Scarborough on the
1 6th, where Isaac Greene died on the 25th of apoplexy.
The Diary also tells us that he was buried at the side
of his (deceased) daughter (Katherine) in the chancel
of Hale Church on Tuesday, August I. (The family
vault was closed in 1874 and a brass tablet "In
Memoriam " was erected by John Ireland Blackburne
on which the names of some of those buried there
are recorded. Isaac Greene's name and that of his
daughter Katherine are omitted, but those of his
wife and daughters Ireland and Mary, appear with
many of the Blackburne family.) Isaac Greene left
no will, and the whole of his large estates passed
to his two daughters as co-parceners, but they were
subsequently divided by a partition. The manor
of Hale was taken by Ireland, who is said to
have been given first choice. She married Thomas
Blackburne of Orford, from whom has descended
the family of Ireland Blackburne of Hale. The
remainder of the estates were allotted to Mary, who
married Bamber Gascoyne, and was the ancestress
of the Marquess of Salisbury. No opportunity
has occurred of seeing the partition deed, but the
apparent inequality in the division of the estates will
be accounted for by the fact that comparatively little
land went with the manorial rights taken by Mary
Greene. As, however, what lands she got are now
mainly within the modern boundaries of the city of
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THE DEATH OF ISAAC GREENE
Liverpool, and Hale is still agricultural, the share
which has descended to Lord Salisbury must now
be by far the more valuable. 1 At the time of the
marriage of Ireland Greene, the Gentleman's Magazine,
with the usual impertinent freedom of those days,
specifies her fortune as 30,000. Assuming that her
sister had the same, we get a sum of 60,000, which
may have only represented their father's hard cash
without his lands. The equivalent of this in money
of to-day would certainly be not less than half a million
and probably more.
There are at Hale Hall portraits (here reproduced)
of Isaac Greene, attributed to Hogarth, and of his
two daughters, painted by Thomas Hudson, sometime
Reynolds' instructor.
There is no record that this Greene family was
entitled to bear arms, but it is stated (in the grant
mentioned below) that Isaac Greene used (without
authority) ermine^ on a pile a leopard's head jessant de
Us. (His daughter, Mary Greene, used a seal in
1753 and in 1756, bearing six cross-crosslets fitchee
and three martlets on a chief ^ with a crest of five feathers,
possibly based on the Arderne arms and certainly not
her own. 2 ) In 1803 John Blackburne of Orford and
Hale obtained a grant of the arms of Aspinwall and
Greene as quarterings, the latter being blazoned as
erminois, on a pile per pale gules and azure a leopard *s
face jessant de Us or? After the death in 1799 of
Mary Gascoyne, the coheiress, a hatchment was
1 The Return of Landowners, 1873, for Lancashire, shows that
Lord Salisbury then had 1,796 acres in the county and Col. J.
Ireland Blackburne had 3,143 acres, both then of about the same
annual value.
2 She uses it on the deeds relating to the West Derby Waste
Lands (ante, p. 21 .).
3 Genealogist, xxxiv. (N.S.) 87, and Hale Hall (coloured plate).
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erected in Childwall Church of the arms of Gascoyne
and Bamber quarterly with an escutcheon of pre-
tence bearing the arms of Ireland (then assumed for
Greene). 1
1 Notes on Childwall (loc. /.), 90, and see the hatchments at
Hale Church mentioned below.
IRELAND GREENE (MRS. BLACKBURN E)
from the portrait hy Hudson at Hale Hall.
PART II
IRELAND GREENE'S DIARY
IN the possession of Colonel Robert Ireland Black-
burne of Hale is a little Diary kept by his ances-
tress Ireland Greene, one of Isaac Greene's daughters.
The book is about 4^ by 3 in., with a metal clasp now
broken. Inside it is written ' Ireland Green's Book,
Jan. the 3Oth, 1747-8.' All the entries appear to be
in her writing, and at the beginning and the end she
has written some verses. After the Diary mentioned
below follow a number of family entries, beginning
with her own marriage in 1752, and ending with
the entry in 1784 of the birth of a granddaughter.
She herself died in 1795. The Diary consists of
three portions, namely, visits to London in the early
springs of 1748 and 1749, and a visit to Harrogate
and Scarborough in the latter year, brought to a close
by the death there of her father. The Diary is of
little or no literary value, being simply notes by a girl
of eighteen of the people she met and the places she
visited, but it has considerable interest as a record
of Georgian society and its amusements, and is worth
printing. A few footnotes have been added by way
of identification and elucidation. Some of these are
tentative and may prove to be wrong on fuller in-
vestigation than the writer has been able to give.
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ISAAC GREENE
The absence of initials or Christian names in many
cases has made completely satisfactory identifications
difficult.
Isaac Greene was aged 70 at the time of his
daughters' first visit to London. He had business
and social connections with the greater part of Lan-
cashire and Cheshire, and there was a large colony in
London from these counties, so that his young
daughters had a gay time. They would be known, of
course, to be heiresses of a wealthy man, and doubtless
considerable attention was paid to them on that ac-
count as in those days it was customary for the fortunes
of young girls to be much canvassed and often publicly
mentioned. The society in which they found them-
selves appears to have consisted largely of persons
who had had Jacobite tendencies, but, having them-
selves escaped the severe penalties inflicted on some of
their relatives and friends, had found it wiser to sink
their convictions and were gradually recovering their
social position.
Horace Walpole in his Letters has much to say
of the gaiety of these two London seasons. ' We
divert ourselves extremely this winter (1748), plays,
balls, masquerades and Pharaoh are all in fashion.'
From his lively accounts of these entertainments and
of his visits to Ranelagh and Vauxhall, a very good
idea can be obtained of the kinds of amusement
which are briefly alluded to in the Diary. It seems
likely that some of them were not entirely new to
the girls, as Liverpool had at this time its own
Ranelagh Gardens, where entertainments, with music,
fireworks, and dancing, similar to those given at
Vauxhall and the Ranelagh in London, were given.
The Liverpool Ranelagh was on or above the
site of the Adelphi Hotel, and features of these
Gardens were * a noble terrace,' with flowers, straw-
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IRELAND GREENE'S DIARY
berry fields, and a pond stored with tench, dace,
and perch. 1
The Greenes left Childwall on their first visit to
London on February 12, 1747-8. They travelled
by coach, and the journey occupied nine days. The
Diary gives little information as to the movements of
Isaac Greene in London, but for his daughters there
is a record of innumerable tea parties, routs, visits
to the theatre, and so on. Their chief sponsors in
society seem to have been Mr. and Mrs. Fazakerley
and Mrs. Starkie. Nicholas Fazakerley, of Prescot
and Lincoln's Inn, was M.P. and Recorder for
Preston, and his wife was a Miss Lutwych. At his
house in Grosvenor Square and elsewhere the Greenes
met many of their Lancashire and Cheshire friends.
These included Lord and Lady Strange, and the
former's sisters, with members of the families of Bold,
Patten, Meredith of Henbury, Poole, Farringtori,
Clifton of Lytham, Grosvenor of Eaton, Hunt of
Mollington, Pulteney, Caryll, and many others, such
as Sir John Hynde Cotton, the Jacobite politician,
and the Barrett-Leonards, afterwards Lord and
Lady Dacre of the South. The journey home took
six days. The following spring another visit was paid
to London, and on this occasion the party went on
horseback as far as Holmes Chapel, and then by coach
up to town. Much the same people are met with again,
with the addition of the elder Pitt, who is found playing
' Lottery Tickets,' Lady Newburgh (whose husband,
Charles' Radcliffe, titular Earl of Derwentwater, the
Jacobite, had been beheaded in 1746), her son and
daughter (Lord Kynnaird and Lady Mary Radcliffe),
Lord and Lady Burghley, Lady Watkin Williams
1 Brooke, Liverpool, 86 ; Herdman, Relics of Anc. Liverpool
(1858), ii. 78 ; Picton, Memorials of Liverpool, ii. 232 ; Stonehouse,
Streets of Liverpool, 82.
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ISAAC GREENE
(Wynn), the Duke of Modena, then paying a visit to
London after the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, Lady
Sydney Beauclerk, who, as Miss Norris, was a neigh-
bour of the Greenes at Speke, and others. The party
visited many theatres and witnessed performances of
several of Handel's new Oratorios, and plays acted
by Garrick and Peg Woffington ; they were also present
at the elaborate firework display in the Green Park to
celebrate the peace.
During the summer of 1749 Isaac Greene set out
with his daughters from Childwall for a visit to Scar-
borough, probably on account of his health. The
Diary shows that they stopped among other places
at Harrogate, where they visited Knaresborough and
the Gardens at Studley Royal, and while staying at
York they went to see Castle Howard. A week
was spent at Scarborough drinking the waters at the
Wells and dancing at the Long Rooms, but the visit
was brought to a close by the sudden death of Isaac
Greene from apoplexy on July 25, 1749, in the 72nd
year of his age. His daughters at once returned to
Childwall, and the body came back after them attended
by two mourning coaches. Most of the tenants went
to meet the hearse at Warrington, and were fitted out
with the usual hatbands and black gloves. The
Diary ends with a record of the burial of Isaac Greene
in the chancel of Hale Church by the side of his
daughter Katherine. Then follows in the book the
family entries made by Ireland Greene after her
marriage to Thomas Blackburne of Hale, full records
being given of the births and deaths of her children
and some of her grandchildren, with details of their
infantile illnesses and inoculations for smallpox.
FIRST VISIT TO LONDON
[FIRST VISIT TO LONDON
12 Feb. 1747-8 14 May 1748]
Friday^ Feb. ye iith. We set out from Childwel
in our own coach, went thro' Prescott to Warrington
where Mrs. Grimes came to see us. We stay'd att
night.
Saturday [i3th]. Din'd at Holmschappel, in the
road from there to Lawton lost one of our small
wheels, so walk'd to Lawton & stay'd there. Then
the coach was mended, And look'd at the Church,
nothing remarkable in it. Lodg'd at Talk [o' th'
Hill].
Sunday [i4th]. Stay'd at Newcastle all day ;
went to church in the afternoon ; lodg'd there that
night.
Monday [ijth]. Breakfasted at Stone, din'd at
Whoosley Bridges, 1 lay at Litchfield.
Tuesday [i6th]. Din'd at Coleshill & lay at the
King's Head in Coventry. These two last days
excessive cold, hard frost with a little snow.
Wednesday [i7th]. The fast day ; breakfast'd
and din'd at Coventry ; lay at Dun Church.
Thursday [i8th]. Breakfast'd at Daventry, din'd
at Towcester and lay at Stoney Stratford ; the weather
still continued very cold.
Friday [i9th]. Breakfast'd at Brickiln, 2 din'd at
Dunstable and lay at St. Albans.
Saturday [2oth]. Breakfast'd at Barnet, at Noon
arrived safe in London. In the afternoon Mr. and
1 Wolseley Bridge, over the R. Trent, near Colwich.
2 Brickhill, Co. Bucks.
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ISAAC GREENE
Mrs. Faz[akerley] x and Mrs. Lutwych 2 came to
see us.
Sunday [2ist]. We din'd with Mrs. Faz., in the
afternoon Lady Strange 3 and the Ladys Stanley 4
came to see us.
Monday [22nd]. Mrs. Faz. and Miss Patten 5
drank tea with us.
Tuesday [23rd]. Stay'd at home all day.
Wednesday [24th]. In the afternoon Mrs. Chet-
wynd 6 and Mrs. Starkie 7 came to see us ; after-
wards we went to a private party at cards, to Mrs.
Fazakerley's.
Thursday [2^th]. Stay'd at home all day.
Friday [26th]. Morning went to the china and
necklace shop ; in the evening went to an Oratorio
call'd Judas Maccabeus 8 with Mrs. Faz., and Mr.
Farrington 9 came to see us.
1 Nicholas Fazakerley, of Prescot and the Inner Temple, lawyer
and politician, M.P. Preston, and Recorder, d. 1767 ; m. 1723
Ann Lutwyche of Holm Rook, Co. Cumb. He drew the impeach-
ment against Sir Robert Walpole in 1742. Horace Walpole calls
him ' a tiresome Jacobite lawyer.'
2 Probably Lucy, dau. of Sir Charles Hoghton, Bt., of Hoghton
Tower, Co. Lanes., who m. in 1721 Thos. Lutwyche of Holm
Rook.
3 James, called Lord Strange, eldest son of the Earl of Derby,
b. 1717, m. 1747 Lucy, dau. and coh. of Hugh Smith and Miss
Barrett- Leonard, and died in his father's lifetime.
4 The sisters of Lord Strange.
5 Probably Frances, b. 1730, dau. of Thos. Patten of Winmar-
leigh, Co. Lanes., m. 1752 to Sir Ric. Brooke, Bt., of Norton, Co.
Chester.
6 Probably Martha, widow of Thos. Hesketh of Rufford, Co.
Lanes., m. 1738, to Walter Chetwynd of Brocton, Staffs.
7 No doubt Sarah, dau. of Val. Farington of Preston and wife
of Nic. Starkie of Preston and Riddlesden.
8 Recently successfully produced by Handel.
9 Probably Henry Farington of Prescot, Mrs. Starkie's brother.
Mayor of Preston, 1736, etc.
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FIRST VISIT TO LONDON
Saturday [27th]. Went with Mrs. Faz. and Mrs.
Lutwych to Mrs. Winford's * ; whilst we was out
Mrs. Barrett 2 came to see us.
Sunday 28th. In the morning went to Queen
Str[eet] Chappel, afternoon return 'd Lady Strange's,
Miss Patten's and Mrs. Starkie's visit. Mrs. Leigh,
Miss Hinchliffe 3 and Mrs. Meredith * came to see us.
Monday [29th]. Morning call'd of Mrs. Faz. and
bought our clothes at Harris's at the Wheatsheaf in
Bedford Street Covent Garden ; in the afternoon
Mrs. Winick, Mrs. Soley, 5 Miss Wentworth, 6 Miss
Bold, 7 and Miss Bromfield came to see us.
Tuesday [March ist]. Morning went to the
Mantua makers, 8 in the afternoon Mrs. 9 and Miss
Harcourt came to see us.
Wednesday [2nd]. Morning went to see Mrs.
Faz., in the afternoon drank tea with her. Mrs.
1 Probably related to Sir Thos. Winford, Bt., M.P. Worcester,
ob. s. p. 1744.
2 Anne, dau. of Sir John Pratt, C.J., and sister of the first
Earl Camden, m. 1739 Thos. Barrett (Leonard) (1717-1786), of
Belhus, who became Lord Dacre of the South in 1755. They were
friends of Horace Walpole.
3 Frances Wentworth, aunt of Mrs. Peter Bold (see below), m.
Thos. Hinchliffe of London, and this may be a dau.
4 Joanna, dau. and heir of Thos. Cholmondeley of Vale Royal,
Co. Chester, m. 1718 Amos Meredith (ob. v. p. 1745), a would-be
Cheshire Jacobite, son of Sir Wm. Meredith, Bt., of Henbury,
Co. Chester.
5 Probably the widow of Ric. Solly, whose father, John Solly
of Sandwich and Ash, was the husband of Martha, dau. of Isaac
Legay of Childwall and West Stoke (see N. fcf Q., May 1921).
6 One of the daus. of Godfrey Wentworth of Woolley, Co. York.
7 One of the six daus. of Peter Bold of Bold, Co. Lanes, (d. 1762),
and niece to Miss Wentworth.
8 The eighteenth -century name for the dressmaker.
9 Probably Elizabeth, dau. of John Evelyn of Wotton, widow
of the Hon. Simon Harcourt (ob. v. p. 1720), son of the first Viscount
Harcourt.
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ISAAC GREENE
Child, Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Winford and Miss, all there ;
afterwards went to see Miss Thornhill l at Mrs.
Harding's 2 in Pell Mall.
Thursday [3rd], Afternoon return'd Mrs. Bar-
rett's and Mrs. Meredith's visit, drank tea with Mrs.
Faz., both the Mr. Lutwychs there ; went with Mrs.
Starkie to the Ridotto 3 ; called of Lady Strange and
Lady Stanley.
Friday [4th]. Drank tea with Mrs. Faz.
Saturday [5th], Stay'd at home all day.
Sunday 6th. Morning went to Queen's Street
Chappel ; afternoon to St. Dunstan's ; in the evening
to Mrs. Harcourt's, met Mrs. Faz. and Mrs. Lutwych
there.
Monday [7th]. Drank tea with Mrs. Winick &
Mrs. Soley, Miss Hunt 4 & Mrs. Spence 5 there ;
return'd Mrs. Cobdin's 6 visit and to Mrs. Faz. ; Mrs.
1 A dau. of John Thornhill of Stanton, Co. Derby.
2 Either Anne, dau. of John Thornhill of Stanton, Co. Derby,
wife of Caleb Hardinge, M.D. (d. 1776), of Mansfield, Physician
Extraordinary to the King ; or her sister-in-law, Mrs. Nicholas
Hardinge (see below).
3 The famous Ridotto a! fresco, a musical and dancing entertain-
ment introduced at Vauxhall Gardens in 1732, with the assistance
of Hogarth, who is said to have painted some of the pavilions.
Ranelagh imitated Vauxhall. ' Twice a week there are to be
Ridottos, at guinea tickets, for which you are to have a supper and
music.' Walpole, Letters (1742) (Toynbee), i. 228.
' They went to the Ridotto ; 'tis a hall
Where people dance, and sup, and dance again ;
Its proper name, perhaps, were a masqued ball.'
Byron, Beppo.
4 Sister or dau. of Thos. Hunt of Mollington Hall, Co. Chester
(who m. Mary Robartes, sister of third Earl of Radnor, and their
son Thos. m. Mary, dau. of Peter Bold of Bold, Co. Lanes.).
5 Probably Anne (Barrett), widow of Thos. Spence (d. 1737),
Serjeant-at-Arms to the House of Commons, grandparents of the
first Lord Lilford.
6 Wife of Dr. Edward Cobden (see below).
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FIRST VISIT TO LONDON
Winford and Miss, Mrs. Jones's & her daughter
and Mrs. Perriz was there.
Tuesday [8th]. Went with Mrs. and Mr. Starkie
to D[ruryj Lane Playhouse, the Play As Tou Like 7/, 1
Farce The Virgin Unmasked. Mrs. Robinson 2 came
to see us.
Wednesday [9th]. Mrs. Faz. drank tea with us
and Mrs. Starkie came to see us.
Thursday [loth]. Return'd Mrs. Leigh's, Miss
Bromfield's, Miss Hinchcliffe's and Miss Went-
worth's visits. Mrs. Leigh and Miss Leigh at home
and Mrs. Bold.
Friday [nth]. Went with Mrs. Faz. to the
Concert at Hickford's Room. 3
Saturday [i2th]. Went to D. Lane Playhouse,
with Mrs. Faz. and Mr. Lut. ; The Suspicious Husband*
for the benefit of Mrs. Pritchard ; Farce Dragon of
Wantley ; a crowd'd house, we sat in a box above
stairs.
Sunday I3th. In the morning went to Church,
afternoon drank tea with Mrs. Faz. Mrs. Molineux 5
came to visit her.
Monday [i4th]. Morning Lady M. & Lady B.
1 The play on this night was to have been the new comedy,
The Foundling, but this was deferred owing to Garrick's illness.
2 Dorothy, dau. of John Thornhill of Stanton, m. (Sir) Wm.
Robinson, s. and h. of Sir Tancred Robinson, Bt. (d. 1754), ancestor
of the Marquess of Ripon.
3 A dancing room in Panton Street, Haymarket, then recently
converted into a concert hall.
4 A comedy by Dr. Hoadly. ' Mrs. Pritchard had a freedom
and fire of expression in Clarinda that has seldom or never been
surpassed.'
5 Either Mary, dau. of Oliver Marton of Lancaster, wife of
Capt. Rigby Molyneux of Preston, High Sheriff Co. Lanes., 1749
(whose dau. Jane afterwards m. Henry Lutwyche of Holm Rook) ;
or Maria, relict of John Errington, m. 1746 to Thos. Molyneux of
Croxteth, and became mother of the first Earl of Sefton.
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ISAAC GREENE
Stanley's 1 came to see us. Miss Hunt din'd and
drank tea with us.
Tuesday [i^th]. Drank tea with Mrs. Spranger
and went to see Mrs. Winford but she was not at
home. Mrs. Meredith return'd our visit.
Wednesday [i6th]. Went to the Oratorio call'd
Joshua 2 with Mrs. Faz. & Miss Jones.
Thursday [i7th]. Went to see The Foundling*
at D. Lane Playhouse, Farce Dragon of Wantley ;
coming home at night our coach was overturn 'd but
thank God met with no greater harm than a slight
bruise upon my forehead, my sister was not hurt
at all.
Friday [i8th]. Morning went with Mrs. Faz. to
look at Ladylsabelle Scot's 4 furniture in Uper Grovoner
Street, intend'd for an Auction, and to an Auction ;
in the afternoon Mrs. Faz. and Mrs. Lut. drank tea
with us.
Saturday [i9th]. Afternoon Mrs. Faz. came to
see us.
Sunday 2oth. In the morning went to church,
din'd with Mrs. Faz. & Mr. Winford's family ;
return'd Mrs. Starkie's visit, 2 Miss Poultney's, 5
1 The Ladies Margaret, Mary, and Isabella Stanley, sisters of
Lord Strange, all died unmarried.
2 Handel's oratorio, first produced at Covent Garden this year.
3 One of Garrick's successful plays, by Ed. Moore, acted with
Macklin, Barry, Peg Woffington, and Mrs. Gibber. Horace Walpole
gives an account of an attempt to damn it. Letters (Toynbee),
ii. 305.
4 Second dau. of Anne Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch, by her
second husband, Baron Cornwallis. Lady Isabel died unmarried
this year, hence perhaps the sale.
5 Daniel Pulteney (d. 1731), cousin of the Earl of Bath (d. 1764),
had been M.P. for Preston, and these may be his daughters who
might thus know Mrs. Starkie. His surviving dau., Frances, became
wife of Sir Win. (Johnstone) Pulteney, Bt., and was mother of
Henrietta, cr. Countess of Bath, 1803.
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FIRST VISIT TO LONDON
Miss Dowsall 1 & Mr. Pusey there. Mr. Farrington
came to see us.
Monday [2ist]. Morning took a walk to Turn-
stile, 2 in the afternoon Mrs. Harding and Miss
Thornhill drank tea with us.
Tuesday [22nd]. Morning Miss Kitty Markland 3
came to see us and in the afternoon Miss Harcourts,
Mrs. Winford & Miss drank tea with us.
Wednesday [23rd]. Morning went to see Lady
Strange and Lady Stanleys. Mr. Whally and Mr.
Cason 4 dined with us ; in the afternoon Mrs. Soley,
and Miss Roberts 5 drank tea with us.
Thursday [24th]. Miss Kitty Markland dined
with us & Mr. Penny 6 came to see us ; in the evening
went to Mrs. Starkie's rout ; Mrs. Faz., Mrs.
Chetwynd, Mrs. Neale, Mrs. Bradshaw, Mrs. Turt,
Miss Tichburn, and Miss Yong, Mr. Knowles, Mr.
Tilson, 7 Mr. Walton, Mr. Farrington & some
others there.
1 Probably intended for Miss ' Dowdeswell,' and perhaps this
was a sister of Wm. Dowdeswell (1721-1775) of Pull Court,
Worcester, M.P., Chanc. of Excheq. 1765, who m. Bridget, dau. of
Sir Wm. Codrington, Bt. (see below).
2 Between Holborn and Lincoln's Inn Fields.
3 Perhaps a dau. of the Rev. Ralph Markland (d. 1721), Vicar
of Childwall.
4 There were Warrington and Preston families of Casson. This
was probably either Ric. or Alex. Casson, both of Gray's Inn.
5 Probably ' Robartes,' of the family of the Earl of Radnor, and
thus related to Miss Hunt (f.&.).
6 There was a Lancashire family of this name. H. Walpole
mentions a Peter Pennee, of French extraction, in the Customs
Department, about this date. Letters (Toynbee), i. I54.
7 An Oliver Tilson m. 1749 Lady Frances Brudenell, sister of
the Earl of Cardigan.
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ISAAC GREENE
[1748]
Friday [25th]. Morning went to see Mrs. Faz.,
in the afternoon returned Mrs. Meredith's and Mrs.
Robinson's visits. Lady Stanleys, Mr. Butler, and
Mr. Pennee was at Mrs. Meredith's. Mrs. Thorn-
hill 1 was with Mrs. Robinson, Miss Bold and Miss
Wentworth came to see us.
Saturday [26th]. Morning Mrs. Starkie came to
see us ; in the evening went to see The Provoked
Husband at D. Lane Playhouse, Farce Lying Valet \
for the benefit of Mr. Cooke ; we sat in the box with
Mr. Bold's 2 family.
Sunday 27th. In the morning went to church,
in the evening drank tea with Mrs. Faz., Mrs.
Winford & Miss there. Lord Strange din'd there
and wou'd have pay'd us a visit, if we had been
at home.
Monday [28th]. Drank tea with Mrs. Poole. 3
Tuesday [29th]. Morning bought Mrs. Bramhall 4
a stuff gown at Coventry Cross in Chandois Street ;
in the evening Mrs. Faz. and Mrs. Lut. drank tea
with us.
Wednesday [joth]. Drank tea with Miss
Roberts's ; afternoon went to Mrs. Fazakerly's rout.
1 Wife of John Thornhill of Stanton, mother of Mrs. Robinson.
2 Peter Bold of Bold.
3 Bridget, dau. of Ric. Huddleston of Millom Castle, wife of
Rowland Poole, third son of Sir Jas. Poole, Bt., of Poole, Co.
Chester.
4 This seems to be Mary, dau. of Edward Aspinwall of Toxteth
Park, bapt. 6 March 1655, at Walton on the Hill, Co. Lanes, m.
20 Nov. 1 68 1 at St. Nicholas', Liverpool, to Thos. Bramhall of
Maxfield and Liverpool, doctor of physic. She was the last of the
Aspinwalls of Hale, being great-aunt to Mrs. Isaac Greene. She
died at a great age, 19 Dec. 1758 (see below).
4
FIRST VISIT TO LONDON
Lady Farra. ./ Lady Hume, Mrs. Hume & Lady
Ann, 2 Sir Robert Grovoner 3 & his lady, Mrs. Mr.
and Miss Winford, Mr. & Miss Clifton, 4 Mr.
Bold, 5 Miss Wentworth, 2 Miss Chetwynds, Mrs.
Starkie, Mrs. Mr. & Miss Hill, Mr. Warburt(on),
Miss Ash, 6 Mr. Carey, Sir J. Hynd Cotton, 7 Miss
Johns, Mrs. Barry, 8 Mr. Vernon 9 and several others
was at ye rout.
Thursday [3ist]. Drank tea with Mrs. Winford,
afterwards went to the Ridotto with Mrs. Faz. &
Miss Winford ; a greater crowd of company than had
been at a Ridotto for seven years. Mr. Freeman
hand'd me out.
Friday [Apl. ist]. Miss Kitty Markland din'd
with us & she and Mrs. Winick drank tea with us.
1 The ending of this name is not clear. It may be
' Farrars,' and represent the widow of the second Earl Ferrers
of Chartley.
2 Lady Anne Hume (Campbell) was either the sister or the dau.
of the third Earl of Marchmont, d. 1793.
3 Of Eaton, Co. Chester, Bt., d. 1755, m. Jane Warre.
4 Thomas Clifton of Lytham, Co. Lanes., b. 1728, and his
sister, children of Thos. Clifton of Lytham (d. 1734), and his wife
Mary, dau. of Richard, fifth Viscount Molyneui.
5 Probably Peter Bold of Bold.
6 Horace Walpole, in his Letters, about this date, has several
references to a Miss (Elizabeth) Ashe, ' the little Ashe, the pollard
Ashe,' who was a friend of Lady Caroline Petersham and had many
matrimonial adventures.
7 Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt., of Landwade, Cambs., d.
1752, Jacobite politician. He was very tall and stout, and
when appointed in 1744 to be treasurer of the King's Chamber,
was represented in caricature as being thrust by Ministers down
George II's throat. ' The last Jacobite of any sensibility '
H. Walpole.
8 Probably Dorothy, sister of Lady Strange, and dau. of Hugh
Smith, m. 1746 Hon. John Barry, of Marbury Hall, Chester, son
of the fourth Earl of Barrymore.
9 Perhaps one of the Vernons of Hilton Park, Staffs.
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ISAAC GREENE
Saturday [2nd]. Miss Merediths * drank tea with
us & Mrs. Starkie came to see us ; afterwards we
went to Mrs. Faz., Mrs Hume & Lady Ann,
Mrs. Winford & Miss there.
Sunday 3rd. Went to church morning and after-
noon ; drank tea with Mrs. Faz.
Monday [4th]. Morning went to Ranelagh with
Papa, a great deal of company.
Tuesday [5th]. Evening went with Mrs. Faz.
and Miss Winford to the Musick at the Hay Market. 2
Wednesday [6th]. W T ent to the play with Mrs.
Starkie, Othelo, for the benefit of the Poor People
that suffer'd by the fire 3 ; Mr. Walton hand'd me
out. Miss Markland came whilst we were there.
Thursday [yth]. Mrs. Harcourt and Miss Har-
courts, Mrs. Faz. & Mrs. Lutwych drank tea with us.
Good Friday [8th]. Morning went to church.
Saturday [9th]. Morning went to Mrs. Le
Gay's, 4 to a Pattern shop and to see the Waxwork ;
in the afternoon Mrs. and Miss Preston and Miss
Ashurst drank tea with us. Miss Markland left us.
Sunday loth. In the morning went to church,
afternoon drank tea with Mrs. Starkie, Mr. George
1 These were the daus. of Amos Meredith (g.v.) : Eliz. m.
Wm. Bankes of Winstanley, Co. Lanes. ; Henrietta m. Hon. Fredk.
Vane ; Martha unm. ; Anna m. (i) Barlow Trecothick, (2)
Assheton Curzon cr. Viscount Curzon ; Mary m. (i) Lawrence,
fourth Earl Ferrers, (2) Lord Fred. Campbell, brother of the
fourth Duke of Argyll. H. Walpole writes much about Lord
Ferrers, who was separated for his cruelty from his wife and
executed in 1760 for the murder of his steward. Neither these
ladies nor their brother, Sir Wm. Meredith, left issue.
2 Samuel Foote was giving musical entertainments there this spring.
3 The fire was in Cornhill. 218 I2S. \d. was realised by this
performance, given gratis by the actors at Covent Garden.
4 No doubt one of the descendants of Isaac Legay (d. 1691) of
Child wall and West Stoke, after whom Isaac Greene was probably
named.
4 2
FIRST VISIT TO LONDON
Sturt and Mr. Walton there, afterwards went to see
Mrs. Fazakerley. Mrs. Caryll, 1 Mr. Clifton, 2 Lady
Strange, and Lady Stanleys, and Miss Hinchcliffe
came to see us.
Monday [nth]. Drank tea with Mrs. Hardinge
and return'd Mrs. Bold's 3 visit, none of 'em at home.
Tuesday [i2th]. Stayed at home all day ; Mrs.
Gorst came to see us in ye afternoon.
Wednesday [i3th]. Drank tea with Mrs. Faz.,
Mrs. and Miss Harcourts, Mrs. and Miss Winford
there.
Thursday [i4th]. Morning went to Ranelagh
with Miss Ashurst, in the afternoon went to Mrs.
Meredith's Drum : Mrs. Crew, 4 Mrs. Eveling &
Mrs. Chetwynd, Miss Shirley, 2 Miss Wrights &
Miss Hambleton, Mr. Dalton, 5 Sir Edmund Bacon, 6
Mr. Barry, 7 2 Mr. Grovoners 8 and several others
there.
1 Dorothy Frances, dau. of Ric., fifth Viscount Molyneux, m.
1738 John Baptist Caryll, who was bapt. at Harting, Sussex, 13 Jan.
1716, succeeded his grandfather April 1736 as third ' Baron' Caryll
of Durford (title cr. by James II. in exile), Sec. of State to Prince
Charles Edward 1768-77, and by him cr. K.T. Mr. Caryll d. at
Dunkirk, 7 March 11788 ; Mrs. Caryll d. Nov. 1760; and he m.,
secondly, Mary, dau. of John Scarisbrick of Garstang, Co. Lanes.
See Crisp, Visitation of Eng. and Wales, Notes, ix. 143.
2 Thos. Clifton of Lytham was the son of Mrs. CarylFs widowed
sister (see ante).
3 Anna Maria, dau. of Godfrey Wentworth, wife of Peter Bold
of Bold.
4 Probably Anne, dau. of Ric. Shuttleworth of Gawthorp, wife
of John Crewe (d. 1752) of Crewe, M.P., father of ist Lord Crewe.
5 Probably a Dalton of Thurnham, Lancashire Jacobites, allies
of the Radcliffes of Derwentwater.
6 Of MildenhaU and Redgrave, Co. Suffolk, Bt., of the family
of Sir Francis Bacon.
7 See Mrs. Barry (ante).
8 If these were the sons of Sir Robert Grosvenor of Eaton, they
were only boys at this date.
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ISAAC GREENE
Friday [i5th]. Morning walk'd in the Park with
Miss Harcourts and drank tea with 'em in the after-
noon. Capn. Harcourt came to see 'em.
Saturday [i6th]. Morning Mrs. Gorst call'd to
see us ; went to Covent Garden Playhouse, the
Tragedy of Cato ; sat in the box with Mrs. Winford
and Mrs. Lut. Removed to Red Lyon Square.
Sunday i yth. Mrs. Faz. came to see us.
Monday [i8th]. Morning went to Ran(elagh)
with Miss Harcourts, Miss Roberts's drank tea with
us in the afternoon.
Tuesday [i9th]. Morning Mrs. Starkie came to
see us ; in the afternoon we drank tea with Mrs.
Faz., Mrs. and Miss Winford there.
Wednesday [2oth]. Went with Miss Thornhill
to the Tragedy of Othello, the Farce The Judgment of
Paris, for the benefit of Mrs. Arne. 1
Thursday [2ist]. Morn, went with Mrs. Faz. to
Ranelagh and met Mrs. and Miss Winford & Miss
Charlton there ; in the afternoon Mrs. and Miss
Harcourt drank tea with us.
Friday [22nd]. Morning Mrs. Faz. went with
us to the Mercers, and to Mrs. Winford's, after-
wards Miss Winford walk'd in the Park with us.
Mrs. and Miss Winford, Mrs. Faz. and Mrs. Lut.
drank tea with us in ye afternoon.
Saturday [23rd]. We went with Mrs. Faz., Mrs.
and Miss Winfords to Foot's Auction 2 ; after walk'd
in the Park ; in the afternoon drank tea with Mrs.
1 Cecilia Arne, ' the nightingale of the stage,' took the part of
Venus in this farce, which was Congreve's masque set to music
by Dr. Arne, the composer of ' Where the Bee Sucks,' sung by
his wife.
2 An Auction of Pictures, a burlesque by Samuel Foote, at the
Haymarket Theatre. ' For the sufferers by a late calamity, this
day, at his Auction-room, late the Little Theatre in the Hay., Mr.
Foote will exhibit a choice collection of Pictures ' (advt.).
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FIRST VISIT TO LONDON
Caryll. Returned Mrs. Leigh's, Miss Hinchcliffe's
and Mrs. Robinson's visits, and call'd upon Mrs.
Harcourt.
Sunday [24th]. In the morning went to church,
drank tea with Mrs. Starkie in the evening, Lord
Burleigh, 1 Mr. Walton and Miss Molly Turt 2 there.
Monday [25th]. Went to the Play with Mrs.
Faz. Mrs. and Miss Winford, Mr. Faz. & Mr. Lut.
sat in the box with us.
Tuesday [26th]. Morning went to see Miss
Markland. Call'd at 2 shops. In the evening with
Mrs. and Miss Winford to the Opera of Dido, for
the benefit of Regend . 3 ' Mr. Walton hand'd me out.
Wednesday [2yth]. Drank tea with Mrs. Winick
and call'd for Papa at Mrs. Faz. Miss Bromfield
return'd our visit.
Thursday [28th]. Morning went to Ranelagh
with Mrs. Winford, Miss Harriot and Miss Charlton ;
in the afternoon drank tea with Mrs. Winford, saw
Mrs. Faz. and Mrs. Cooke in their masquerade 4
dresses which was Venetian, Mrs. Faz. a light dress,
blue trim'd with silver & Mrs. Cooke a loose dress,
1 Lord Burghley, eldest surviving son of the eighth Earl of
Exeter, succeeded in 1754. His wife occurs below.
2 This seems to be an error for ' Sturt ' (see later). She may be
Mary, dau. of Humph. Sturt of Horton, afterwards wife of Geo.
Shirley, a son of the first Earl Ferrers of Chartley.
3 No doubt Reginello the actor, who was still appearing in
opera, ' So old and so tall that he seems to have been growing
ever since the invention of operas.' Walpole, Letters (Toynbee),
ii. 262.
4 ' We had last night the most magnificent masquerade that
ever was seen : it was by subscription at the Haymarket : everybody
who subscribed five guineas had four tickets. There were about
seven hundred people, all in chosen and very fine dresses. The
supper was in two rooms, besides those for the King and Prince,
who, with the foreign ministers, had tickets given them.' Walpole
to Mann, 29 April 1748, Letters (Toynbee), ii. 307.
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ISAAC GREENE
white trim'd with blue and silver gauze. Mrs.
Poole return'd our visit.
Friday [29th]. Drank tea with Lady Strange,
return'd Miss Robert's, Miss Bromfield's and Mrs.
Poole's visits ; call'd on Mrs. Starkie.
Saturday [joth]. Morning went to see Mrs. Faz.,
afternoon drank tea with Mrs. & Miss Harcourts.
Sunday May ist. Morning, went to church,
din'd at Mrs. Faz's., and Mr. Winford's family,
came home so soon as dinner was over. Mrs., Mr.
and Miss Leigh, Lady M. and Lady B. Stanley, 4
Miss Merediths. Mrs. Caryll, & Miss Clifton all
drank tea with us.
Monday [2nd]. Din'd at Mrs. Winford's &
Mrs. Faz's. family ; in the evening went to Ranelagh
with Mrs. Faz., Miss Jones & Miss Winford.
Tuesday [3rd]. Went to Ranelagh with Mrs.
and Miss Winford.
Wednesday [4th]. Morning Miss Markland
breakfast'd with us, afternoon drank tea with Mrs. Faz.
Thursday [5th]. Mrs. and Miss Harcourts and
Mrs. Poole drank tea with us ; in the evening Miss
Harcourts went with us to Ranelagh.
Friday [6th]. Morning went with Mrs. Faz. to
Ranelagh. Mr. Spranger's family din'd with us.
Mr., Mrs. and Miss Winford, Mrs. Faz. & Mrs.
Lut. came to see us in the afternoon.
Saturday [yth]. Morning walk'd to Mrs.
Starkie's and to Mrs. Harcourt's, they not at home ;
in the afternoon walk'd in Gray's Inn Gardens and
Miss Hinchcliffe came to see us.
Sunday [8th]. Went to church morning and after-
noon ; Mr. Prichard din'd with us ; in the evening
Mr. and Mrs. Faz. & Mrs. Lut. drank tea with us.
Monday 9th. Set out in our own coach from
London ; din'd at St. Albans & lay at Dunstable.
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Tuesday [loth]. Breakfast'd at Brickiln, din'd at
Towcester and lay at The Wheatsheaf in Daventry.
Wednesday [nth]. Breakfast'd at Dunchurch,
the road from there to Coventry where we din'd
very [bad] & lay at Coleshill.
Thursday [i2th]. Din'd at Whoosley Bridge
and lay at Newcastle.
Friday [i3th]. The axletree of our coach broke
at Chesterton where we breakfast'd. Din'd at Holms
Chappel and lay there ; the road was so bad we could
go no further that night.
Saturday [i4th]. Breakfast'd at Budworth, din'd
at Warrington & lay at Childwell.
[SECOND VISIT TO LONDON
7 Feb. 1748/9 20 May 1749]
Feb. 7. We set out from Childwell for London on
horseback, lay at Warrington, went from there to
Holms Chappel where we din'd ; set out from there
in our own coach, lay at Newcastle.
Thursday [9th]. Breakfast'd at Stone, din'd at
Whoosley Bridge, lay at Litchfield ; had a very bad
cold all this day.
Friday [loth]. Din'd at Coleshill & lay at
Coventry. My cold better.
Saturday [nth]. Breakfast'd at Dunchurch,
din'd at Daventry, & lay at Towcester ; quite well
of my cold.
Sunday [i2th]. Din'd at Stoney Stratford and
stayed there all day.
Monday [i3th]. Breakfast'd at Brickiln, din'd
at Dunstable & lay at St. Albans.
Tuesday I4th. Breakfast at Barnet, arriv'd safe
at London about noon ; our lodgings a house in
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Southampton Street, Bloomsbury. Mrs. Faz. &
Mrs. Lut. came to see us.
Wednesday [i^th]. In the afternoon Mrs. Faz.
came to see us.
Thursday [i6th]. Went to the Ridotto with
Mrs. Faz. & Miss Bold.
Friday [lyth]. Went to a Concert at Heckford's
Room with Mrs. Faz. Mrs. Starkie came to see us.
Saturday [i8th]. Went to Mrs. Faz.'s rout ;
Lady & Lord Strange, Ladies Stanley, Mr. Hesketh, 1
Mrs. & Mr. Chetwynd, Mrs. Starkie, Lady Nuberg 2
and Lady Mary Radcliffe, 3 Lord Canairn, 4 Mrs. &
Mr. Carrol, Miss Clifton, Miss Wentworth, 2 Miss
Bolds, Lady Grovoner and Sir Robert, Lord North-
ampton, 5 Sir Edward Turner, 6 Mr. Shuttleworth,
Mrs. Barret, Miss Rushit, 7 Mr. Warburton, Mrs.
Coke & a great deal more company was there.
1 The Heskeths of Rufford were closely connected with the
Stanleys.
2 Lady Charlotte Maria Levingstone, Countess of Newburgh,
only child of Charles, second Earl of Newburgh, Viscount Kynnaird,
etc. ; wife of (i) Thos., second son of Hugh, second Lord Clifford
of Chudleigh, d. 1718 ; (ii) in 1724, Charles Radcliffe, third son of
the second Earl of Derwentwater, a Jacobite, beheaded on Tower
Hill, 1746.
3 Lady Mary Frances Guglielma Radcliffe, b. 1732, youngest
child of Charles Radcliffe and Lady Newburgh, m. in 1755 Francis
Eyre of Hassop.
4 James Bartholomew Radcliffe, b. 1725, Viscount Kynnaird,
third Earl of Newburgh, jure matris, eldest son of Charles Radcliffe
and Lady Newburgh. An Act of this year (1749), the Derwentwater
Estates Act, provided 30,000 to be paid to him and to his brothers
and sisters, out of the forfeited estates.
5 The fifth Earl of Northampton, d. 1754.
6 Second Bt., of Ambrosden, Oxon., b. 1719, of Lincoln's Inn,
M.P., etc.
7 Probably a dau. of Sir John Rushout, fourth Bt, M.P., ulti-
mately ' father of the House of Commons,' m. a dau. of the fourth
Earl of Northampton, and was father of Lord Northwick.
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Sunday I9th. Went to Queen Square church in
the morning ; in the afternoon came to see us Miss
Wentworth, & 2 Miss Bolds, Mrs. Winick, Mrs.
Soley, Mr. Hollis 1 & Miss, Mr. and Mrs. Pole
and Miss Hinchcliffe.
Monday [2oth]. Morning Mrs. Spranger call'd
to see us ; in the afternoon Mrs. Harcourt drank tea
with us.
Tuesday [2ist]. Drank tea with Mrs. Faz.,
Mrs. Tofnal there, Miss Meredith came to see us.
Wednesday [22nd]. Morning went to the
Mercers & to Mrs. Faz's., in the afternoon to
Mrs. Dorrell's, 2 not at home. Drank tea with Mrs.
Starkie.
Thursday [23rd]. Morning went to the Mantua
Makers ; while we was from home Ladies Stanley
came to see us. Afternoon Miss Robinson drank tea
with us, & Mrs. Faz. & Mrs. Lut. came to see us.
Friday [24th]. Went to Hickford's Concert.
Saturday [25th]. Went to the Opera with Mrs.
Starkie & Miss Tichburn.
Sunday 26th. In the morning went to Queen
Street chappel, in the afternoon drank tea with Mrs.
Harcourt, Mr. Edwards & Mr. Freeman was there.
Monday [2 yth]. Morning call'd of Mrs. and Miss
Harcourt, we went with 'em to see Grout's 3 Enamell'd
1 Thos. Hollis, of Sheffield and London, a benefactor of the
former place ; m. Hannah, one of the daus. of Isaac Legay of West
Stoke and of Childwall, and a sister of Martha, wife of John Solly
of Sandwich and Ash. For an account of the Legays see an article
by J. Brown bill, M.A., in Notes and Queries, 128. viii. 341, etc.
2 Probably the wife of John Chambers Dorril (170951) of
Merton, Surrey, who m. in 1735 Mary Wood.
3 Probably a foreign artist. 'Mr. La Grote showed me some
pictures of his painting at Mr. Fazakerley's ' (Blundell's Diary,
28 Feb., 1706-7). A family of De Groote, limners, occur in the
Registers of St. Nicholas', Liverpool, about this date.
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Pictures ; walk'd in the Park and call'd upon Mrs.
Dorrell. In the evening went with Mr. and Mrs.
Faz., Mrs. Lut., and Mrs. Carthwrite to the first
part of Henry ye 4/^2, for the benefit of Quin 1 at
Covent Gardn. P. H. 3 of the yong Princes, Lady
Augusta and Lady Elizabeth, 2 were there.
Tuesday [28th]. Return'd Lady Strange's, Mrs.
Bold's, Miss Wentworth's and Mrs. Spranger's visits.
Doctr. Cobden 3 and his wife and Mrs. Starkie came
to see us. There was at Lady Strange's, Mr. and
Mrs. Barret, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Harding, 5 Mrs. Taylor,
and 2 other sisters 6 of Mrs. Barret's, Mr. Dawson,
and Mr. Hans Stanley. 7
Wednesday [March ist]. Drank tea with Mrs.
Poole, Miss Huddleston 8 there. Afterwards went to
Mrs. Meredith's, Miss Harriot and Miss Patty &
Mr. Meredith at home.
Thursday [2nd]. Went to the Ridotto with Lady
Strange, Lady Marg. and Lady Charlotte Stanley, 9
1 James Quin, wit and actor, much patronised by the Prince
(George) of Wales, and when he, as George III, made his first speech
to the Houses of Parliament, Quin said, ' I knew he would do it
well, for I taught the boy.'
2 Five of the children of Frederick Prince of Wales and Augusta
of Saxe-Gotha.
3 Dr. Edward Cobden (1684-1764), poet, chaplain to Geo. II,
Archdeacon of London.
4 Afterwards Lord and Lady Dacre of the South (see earlier).
5 Nicholas Hardinge (16991758), clerk to the House of
Commons, M.P., m. Jane, dau. of Sir John Pratt, L.C.J., sister to
Mrs. Barrett (Leonard), Lady Dacre.
6 Daughters of Sir John Pratt.
7 Son of Geo. Stanley of Paultons, Romsey ; M.P. St. Albans,
ambassador. Committed suicide in 1780.
8 Probably a sister of Mrs. (Rowland) Poole (see earlier), who
was a Huddleston of Millom Castle ; or a dau. of Win. Huddleston
of Millom and his wife Gertrude, dau. of Sir Wm. Meredith of
Henbury.
9 Two of Lord Strange's sisters.
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SECOND VISIT TO LONDON
2 Miss Chetwynds, Miss Polteney and Miss Stanley.
Danced country dances with Mr. Freeman.
Friday [3rd]. Morning Mrs. Starkie, Mrs. Faz.
& Mrs. Lut. came to see us ; stay'd at home all
day.
Saturday [4th], Stay'd at home all day.
Sunday ^th. Morning went to church, after-
noon drank tea with Mrs. Starkie, Mrs. Faz., Lady
Bu^leigh, 1 Miss Sturt, Mr. Pucey and Mr. Brather-
ton 2 there.
Monday [6th]. Went to Covent Garden P.H.
with Mrs. Faz. and Mrs. Cooke ; The Fair Penitent^
for the benefit of Mrs. Waffenton. 3
Tuesday [7th]. Lady Beauclark 4 and Miss Har-
court drank tea with us.
Wednesday [8th]. Went to Miss Meredith's rout,
Lady Paulets, 5 Miss Reynolds, 6 Miss Worths, Miss
and Mr. Wilbraham, 7 Mr. and Miss Paul, Sir Edmund
Bacon, Miss Ashonhurst, Mr. Harrington, Miss
1 Letitia, dau. and heir of the Hon. Horatio Townshend, was
m. to Lord Burghley (f.v.) probably on 27 July 1748, as this reference
to her is earlier than the alternative date of 24 July 1749 suggested
by The Complete Peerage.
2 Probably Thos. Brotherton (d. 1757), of The Hey in Winwick,
Co. Lanes., son of Thos. Brotherton of Gray's Inn, M.P. Newton-
le- Willows.
3 Peg Woffington, the actress. She took the part of Calista.
4 Mary, dau. and heir of Thos. Norris, of Speke, Co. Lanes.,
m. in 1736 to Lord Sidney Beauclerk, fifth son of the first Duke of
St. Albans. They were, of course, neighbours of the Greenes at
Hale and Childwall.
5 Perhaps daughters of the second or fourth Duke of Bolton.
6 Probably one of the Reynolds of Strangeways, Manchester.
Francis Reynolds of that place (d. 1779), M.P. Lancaster, was
father of the second and third Barons Ducie of Moreton.
7 Roger Wilbraham of Nantwich, Co. Chester, m. first, in
1731, Eliz., dau. of Sir Thos. Brooke, Bt., of Norton, and, secondly,
in 1740, Mary, dau. of Thos. Hunt of Mollington, Co. Chester,
whose son Thos. m. Mary, dau. of Peter Bold.
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Bolds, Mr. Hesketh, Miss Holt, Lady Williams 1
& her sister Miss Shakerley, and several others
were there. Return'd Miss Hinchcliffe's visit.
Thursday [9th]. Morning breakfast'd at Rane-
lagh, Miss Pattee Meredith went with us ; in the
afternoon Mrs. Faz. and Mrs. Lut. came to see us.
Friday [loth]. Morning went to see Lady
Stanleys but they was not at home ; in the afternoon
return'd Mrs. Cobden's & Mrs. Winick's visits,
Miss Bromfield came to see us.
Saturday [nth]. Went to D. Lane Play House
with Mrs. Waller and Miss Pattie Meredith. The
play was The Foundling^ for ye benefit of Mrs. Prichard,
and the farce was The Lottery.
Sunday nth [i2th]. Morning went to St.
Andrew's Church, Holbourn, afternoon drank tea
with Mrs. Faz., Lady Strafford 2 there. Miss Hunt
din'd with us.
Monday [i3th]. Drank tea with Lady Strange
and ye Lady Stanleys, Mr. H was there ;
return'd Mrs. Harding's and Mrs. Robinson's visits.
Mrs. Harding not at home but met with her at
Mrs. Robinson's.
1 Frances, one of the daus. of Geo. Shakerley, of Hulme and
Gwersyllt, was m. 16 July 1748, as his second wife, to Sir Watkin
Williams (Wynn), Bt., who d. on 26 Sept. 1749 fr m a hunting fall.
He was the leader of the Jacobites in the House of Commons. Dr.
John Byrom, of Manchester, was asked to dine with Sir Watkin a
few days after the wedding and found the bride very agreeable.
' The recommendation of this lady by Sir Watkin's last [wife] has
been confirmed to me very circumstantially, she even left it in writing,
so that Sir W. has performed her will and his own, and, to be sure,
that of both his wives at once, which may pass for an obedience
somewhat rare and uncommon.' Byrom, Remains (Cheth. Soc.),
ii. pt. 2, 454.
2 This might be Anne, dau. of the second Duke of Argyll, m. in
1741 to William, Earl of Straflord ; or the widow of Thos., Earl of
Strafford (d. 1739).
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SECOND VISIT TO LONDON
Tuesday [i4th]. Return 'd Lady Beauclark's and
Miss Bromfield's visits.
Wednesday [i5th]. Breakfast'd with Miss
Merediths and went to two Auctions, one in Bur-
lington Street, the other in Albemarle Street, and
walk'd in the Park with Miss Meredith and Miss
Patee ; in the evening to Mrs. Starkie's rout, Mrs.
Chetwynd, Lady Strange and the 2 Lady Stanleys,
Lord and Lady Burleigh, Lady Standish 1 and Miss
Smith, 2 Mr. Hesketh, Mr. Bratherton, Mr. Chester,
Sir Charles Sidley, 3 Mr. Cecil, 4 2 Mr. Hinds and
several others was there. Mrs. Carrol and Miss
Clifton came to see us.
Thursday [i6th]. Went to the Ridotto with Mr.
and 2 Miss Merediths and danced country dances
with Mr. Meredith. 5
Friday [lyth]. Stay'd at home all day.
Saturday [i8th]. Stay'd at home all day.
Sunday 1 9th. Morning to Queen's Street Chappel,
afternoon drank tea with Mrs. Starkie, Miss Hope-
good, Miss Wyver, Miss Hair, Miss Molly Sturt
and Captn. Habson were there. Call'd upon Mrs.
Faz., she was very bad, her doctor and brother with
her. Miss Wentworth and Miss Bolds came to see us.
Monday [2oth]. Drank tea with Mrs. Harcourt.
Tuesday [2ist]. Morning Mr. Warburton and
1 Jane, dau. of Chas. Tumor of Cleveland, wife of Sir Thos.
Standish, Bt., of Duxbury, Co. Lanes.
2 Probably a daughter of Lady Standish's widowed dau.-in-law,
Katherine Standish, who was the widow of John Smith when she
m. Thos. Standish (d. 1746).
3 Sir Chas. Sedley, second Bt., of Southfleet and Nuthall, M.P.
Nottingham.
4 Perhaps one of the family of the Earl of Exeter.
5 This would be William Meredith, brother of the Misses
Meredith, afterwards third Bt. of Henbury, Co. Chester, M.P.
Wigan and Liverpool, Comptroller of the Household, d. 1790.
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Miss Hunt came to see us, she din'd and drank tea
with us ; went to the Musick in ye Hay Market
with Mrs. and Miss and Mr. Edwards, Miss Hamble-
ton and Miss Harcourt.
Wednesday [22nd]. Stay'd at home all day.
Thursday [23rd]. Morning went to Ranelagh
with Miss Harcourt, afternoon drank tea with Mrs.
Faz. Mrs. Starkie came to see us.
Friday [24th]. Morning and afternoon went to
church. Mr. Faz. drank tea with us.
[1749]
Saturday [25th], Morning went to Prayers,
stay'd home all afternoon.
Easter Sunday [26th]. Morning went to church,
afternoon drank tea with Mrs. Faz.
Monday [2yth]. Morning to Ranelagh with
Mrs. Pole.
Tuesday [28th]. Morning Miss Merediths and
Mr. Warburton breakfast'd with us, afternoon Mrs.
Stanley 1 and Miss Shaw return'd our visit. Mrs.
Faz. and Mrs. Lut. drank tea with us.
Wednesday [29th]. Morning danced, evening
went to the comedy of Sir Fopling Flutter 2 with Mrs.
Starkie, for the benefit of Gibber, the farce Gentle-
man Gardener.
Thursday [3oth]. Mr. Hardman 3 din'd and
drank tea with us.
Friday [3ist]. Morning went to ye Mercer with
1 See later for her and Miss Shaw.
2 The play was Man of the Mode, Sir Fopling Flutter acted by
Theophilus Gibber, son of Colley Gibber, with Peg Woffington and
Ryan in other parts.
3 John Hardman, of Rochdale and Allerton Hall, Co. Lanes.,
merchant, afterwards M.P. Liverpool. For the curious history of
the Allerton estates see The Manor of Allerton, 1911.
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Mrs. Faz. and Mrs. Lut., in the afternoon went
with 'em to Mrs. Dorrel's, Mrs. Short and Mrs.
Harcourt there, 1
Saturday [Apl. ist]. Morning walk'd to Turn-
stile, evening went to D. Lane P. H. with Mrs. Faz.
to see the tragedy of Romeo &? Juliet, for the benefit
of Mr. Berry. 2
Sunday 3 [2nd]. In the morning went to church,
afternoon drank tea at Mrs. Faz., Miss Wentworth,
Miss Bold and Mr. Warburton there.
Monday [3rd]. Morning Mrs. Starkie call'd to
see us. Afternoon Mrs. Preston and Mrs. Gorst
drank tea with us, and Mrs. Harding came to see us.
Tuesday [4th]. Went to the Play with Mrs.
Starkie, Miss Sturt sat in ye box with us ; it was
Spanish Frier, 3 for the benefit of Miss Falkner, 4 ye
farce The Beggar's Wedding.
Wednesday [5th]. Drank tea at Mrs. Robin-
(son's).
Thursday [6th]. Morning went to Ranelagh with
Mrs. Dorrill, at night to the Tragedy of Cato 5 at
Covt. Gardn. house, with Mrs. Faz., the farce Appollo
& Daphne or The Borgo Master Tricftd, in which
was the scene of the Man in the Bottle and Don
Jumpedo jumping down his own throat. 6
1 The Harcourts and the Dorrils were related, as Capt. Ric.
Dorril, brother of John Dorril of Merton, m. a Miss Harcourt.
2 Probably Spranger Barry (1719-1777), the actor, rival of
Garrick.
3 Presumably Dryden's play, The Spanish Friar, an attack on
the papists, first produced in 1681.
4 Mary Anne Faulkner was an actress at Drury Lane.
5 Addison's play, first produced in 1713.
6 This was an imitation of a bottle-conjuring hoax at Samuel
Foote's Haymarket entertainment, which drew a crowded audience
expecting to see Harlequin going into a quart bottle and Don Jumpedo
performing the feat mentioned in the Diary. A serious riot took place.
The incident was turned to account profitably at Covent Garden.
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Friday [yth]. Went to Hickford's concert with
Mrs. Faz.
Saturday [8th]. Went to Mrs. Starkie's and
played at Lottery Tickets 1 there with Lady Strange
and Lady Stanleys, 2 Miss Sturts, Mrs. and Mr.
Cocks, Mrs. Chetwynd, Miss Tichburn, Sir William
Codderington, 2 Mr. Will. Pitt, 3 Mr. Walton, Capt.
Hubston, Mr. Bridges and the 2 Mr. Hinds. Lady
Beauclerk came to see us.
Sunday 9th. Went to church morning and after-
noon. Miss Peggy and Miss Kitty Thornhill and
Miss Warrington 4 drank tea with us.
Monday [loth]. Went to D. Lane Playhouse to
see The Beggar s Operaf with Mrs. Dorrill and Miss
Harcourt, the farce Miss [in] her Teensf Fribble by
Mr. Yates.
Tuesday [nth]. Return'd Mrs. Carrol's, Mrs.
Stanley's and Mrs. Pole's visits, they two first was
not at home.
Wednesday [i2th]. Morning went to Ranelagh
with Lady Stanleys and ye 2 Miss Archers 7 ; at
night to D. L. Playhouse to see The Alchymist^ Abel
1 A round game at cards in which prizes, or the pool, were won
by the holders of certain cards.
2 Sir Wm. Codrington, second Bt., of Doddington, Gloucester,
M.P. Beverley.
3 The elder Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham. Other meetings
with him occur below.
4 These were relations. Geo. Warrington of Wrexham, Chester,
and of Aigburth, Co. Lanes., m. Elizabeth, one of the daughters of
John Thornhill of Stanton, Co. Derby, and sister of Mrs. Caleb
Hardinge, mentioned elsewhere.
5 Gay's Beggar's Opera was the greatest dramatic success of the time.
6 Or, The Medley of Lovers, a farce by Garrick. Ric. Yates was
a successful comedian.
7 Possibly the two daus. of Wm. Eyre, of Welford, Bucks, who
assumed the name of Archer, Susanna m. in 1751 to Edward, fourth
Earl of Oxford, and Cath. m. Peter Blundell.
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Drugger perform'd by Mr. Garrick, with Mrs.
Lutwyche and Miss Jones, the farce Dive/ to Pay.
Mrs. Starkie call'd upon us in the morning.
Thursday [i3th]. Drank tea with Miss Mere-
diths, Misses and Mrs. Davenport call'd there.
Friday [i4th]. Mrs. Faz. and Mrs. Lut. drank
tea with us. Miss Hinchclifre came to see us.
Saturday [i5th]. Stay'd at home all day.
Sunday i6th. Morning went to church, in the
afternoon drank tea with Mrs. Starkie, Mrs. Allen,
Mr. Pusey, Mr. Bratherton, Mr. Walton, Miss M.
Sturt, Mr. R. Hind, Mr. W. Pitt and Mr. Cocks and
Mrs. Northey 1 and two other ladies all there.
Monday [i 7th]. Miss Harcourt drank tea with us.
Tuesday [i8th]. Mrs. Faz. came to see us.
Wednesday [i9th]. Din'd at Mrs. Soley's at
Waltham Stow, Miss Edwards and Mr. Sam Solley
was there ; he came home with us. Mrs. Starkie
call'd to see us.
Thursday [2Oth]. Mrs. Harcourt came to see us
and Mrs. Winick, Miss Shore, and Mrs. Gorst drank
tea with us.
Friday [2ist]. Morning went to Vauxhall with
Mrs. Dorrill to the Rehearsal of the Musick for the
Fireworks, 2 but did not get there, then it was over,
the crowd of coaches was so great.
1 Perhaps related to Sir Edward Northey (d. 1723), Attorney-
General, of the Middle Temple.
2 This was the music by Handel for the fireworks display in
the Green Park, designed by the Chevalier Servandoni to celebrate
the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. 'Friday, April 21, 1749, was P er "
formed at Vauxhall Gardens the rehearsal of the music for the
fireworks, by a band of 100 musicians, to an audience of above 12,000
persons (tickets 2J. 6</.). So great a resort occasioned such a stoppage
on London Bridge that no carriage could pass for 3 hours. The
footmen were so numerous as to obstruct the passage, so that a scuffle
happen'd in which some gentlemen were wounded.' Gent. Mag.
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Saturday [22nd]. Morning went with Mrs. and
Mr. Faz., Mrs. Lut. and my father to seethe building 1
for the Fireworks, in the evening to the Opera with
Mrs. Faz.
Sunday 16 [23rd]. Morning and afternoon went
to church. Mrs. Gorst din'd with us, and Mr.
Hollis and Mr. Terry drank tea with us.
Monday [24th]. Morning went to Ranelagh with
Mrs. Faz. and Misses Wild.
Tuesday [25th]. Din'd at Mrs. Faz.'s and stay'd
the afternoon.
Wednesday [26th]. Return'd Lady Sidney Beau-
clerk's, Lady Strange's and Mrs. Starkie's visits,
and call'd upon Mrs. Spranger.
Thursday [27th]. Evening went to Mr. Win-
ford's house in Sackville Street to see the Fireworks 2
1 The Pavilion, etc., was begun in Nov. 1748, shortly after the
Peace, and was only completed this month (April). It was in the
form of a temple, with many embellishments. See the description
in Gent. Mag.
2 Horace Walpole describes the Fireworks, ' which by no means
answered the expense, the length of preparation and the expectation
that had been raised : indeed for a week before, the town was like
a country fair, the streets filled from morning to night, scaffolds
building wherever you could or could not see, and coaches arriving
from every corner of the kingdom. This hurry and lively scene,
with the sight of the immense crowds in the Park and on every
house, the guards, and the machine itself, which was very beautiful,
was all that was worth seeing. The rockets . . . succeeded mighty
well ; but the wheels . . . were pitiful and ill-conducted. . . .
The illumination was mean and lighted so slowly that scarce anybody
had patience to wait the finishing ; and then, what contributed to
the awkwardness of the whole was the right pavilion catching fire
and being burnt down in the middle of the show. The King, the
Duke, and Princess Emily saw it from the Library, with their courts :
the Prince and Princess with their children, from Lady Middlesex's,
no place being provided for them. . . . The Lords and Commoners
had galleries built for them and the chief citizens along the rails of
the Mall. . . . Very little mischief was done, and but two persons
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in the Green Park by the invitation of Mrs. Faz.
There was Mrs. and Miss Harcourt, Mrs. Dorrill*,
Miss Jones, Mrs. Perriz, Mr. Lutwych, and Mrs.,
Mr. and Mrs. Fazakerley. The Fireworks continued
about an hour, was intend'd to have been 3 but ye
Pavilion at one end catching fire they was oblig'd to
put a stop to 'em.
Friday [28th]. Drank tea at Mrs. Harcourt's.
Saturday [29th]. Mrs. Carrol and Miss Clifton
drank tea with us.
Sunday 3Oth. Morning went to church, din'd
at Mr. Pool's and drank tea, Mr. Stanley's family
likewise din'd there, spent the evening at Mrs.
Starkie's, Mrs. Faz., Mrs. Allen and Mr. Pusey,
Miss Sturt, Sir W. Codderington, Miss Foster, Mr.
Wharton, Mr. W. Pitt, and Mr. Bratherton were
all there.
Monday [May ist]. Morning went to Ranelagh
with Lady Stanley, Mr. Pitt and Mr. Hind break-
fast'd with us, we set Mr. Pitt down as we came
home, in the afternoon drank tea at Mrs. Harding's,
Miss Warrington was dress'd for the subscription
Maskerade J in a turekie (?) dress.
killed : at Paris there were forty killed and near three hundred
wounded, by a dispute between the French and Italians in the
management, who, quarrelling for precedence in lighting the fires,
both lighted at once and blew up the whole.' Letters (Toynbee),
ii. 370.
Dr. John Byrom of Kersall also gives a long account of these
fireworks, which he saw from under a tree in St. James's Park. ' I
believe no mischief was done by the rockets, though some pieces of
above one pound and a half fell here and there some the next
tree to my station, and being on the watch, I perceived one fall, and
after a tug with four or five competitors, I carried it off.' Remains
of John Byrom (Cheth. Soc.), ii. pt. 2, 475.
1 ' On Monday there was a subscription-masquerade, much
fuller than that of last year but not so agreeable or so various in dresses.
The King was well disguised in an old-fashioned English habit and
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Tuesday [2nd]. Mrs. Faz., Mrs. Lut., and 2 Miss
Bolds drank tea with us.
Wednesday [3rd]. Din'd and drank tea at Mrs.
Winock's, return'd Miss P. ThornhilPs visits, and
Mrs. Poole and Mrs. Stanley ours.
Thursday [4th]. Morning went to Ranelagh with
Lady Stanleys, in the afternoon Miss Harcourt
drank tea with us.
Friday [^th]. Miss Merediths drank tea with
us.
Saturday [6th]. Went Miss Merediths and play'd
at Lottery Tickets there, Lady Mary Cholmondeley, 1
Sir R. Burduit, 2 2 Miss Worths, 2 Miss Holmans, 3
Miss Paul, Miss Parr, Miss Holt, and Captn.
Walkingshall. 4
Sunday yth. Morning went to church, afternoon
much pleased with somebody who desired him to hold their cup
as they were drinking tea. The Duke had a dress of the same kind,
but was so immensely corpulent that he looked like Cacofogo, the
drunken captain in Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. Lady Rochford,
Miss Evelyn, Miss Bishop, Lady Strafford and Mrs. [George] Pitt
were in vast beauty. . . . Miss Chudleigh was Iphigenia but so
naked that you would have taken her for Andromeda.' Walpole,
Letters (Toynbee), ii. 271.
1 A dau. of the second Earl of Cholmondeley.
2 Sir Rob. Burdett (b. 1716), fourth Bt., of Foremark, Co.
Derby, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Chas. Sedley, Bt., of Southfleet.
3 Probably of the family of Holman of Warkworth Castle, nr.
Banbury. Thomas Eyre of Hassop m. Mary Holman, and their
son Francis, who m. in 1755 Lady Mary Radcliffe (?.#.), inherited
Warkworth under the will of his uncle, Wm. Holman.
Walpole describes a Mrs. Holman, ' whose passion is keeping an
assembly and inviting literally everybody to it. She goes to the
Drawing Room to watch for sneezes, whips out a curtsey and then
sends next morning to know how your cold does and to desire your
company next Thursday.' Letters (Toynbee), ii. 445.
4 Possibly a relative of Clementina Walkinshaw, the mistress of
Prince Charles Edward, the Pretender.
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drank tea with Mrs. Dorrell, she had with her Miss
de Cheir 1 and Miss Benifield. 2
Monday [8th]. Morning went with my Father
to buy a sett of china for Childwell, drank tea with
Mrs. Faz., Mrs. and Miss Northy there.
Tuesday [9th]. Return'd Mrs. Pole's, Mrs. Stan-
ley's, Miss Bold's and Miss Hinchcliffe's visits,
found Mrs. Bold and Mrs. Pole at home.
Wednesday [loth]. Mrs. Soley and 2 of her sons
and Mr. Poirier (?) din'd with us. Miss Paul drank
tea with us.
Thursday [nth]. Morning Mrs. Starkie came
to see us and in the afternoon Lady Sidney Beauclerk
and her son 8 and Miss Bolds ; we went to Marybon
with Mrs. Faz.
Friday [i2th]. Went to Ranelagh with Mrs.
Faz. and Miss Jones, Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Robinson,
Miss Warrington, and Mrs. Spranger and Miss
Bromfield return'd our visits.
Saturday [i3th]. Went to Vauxhall with Mrs.
and Mr. Starkie, saw the Duke of Modena 4 there
1 Very likely a dau. of Dr. John de Chair (son of the Rev. E.
de Chair, M.A., the King's chaplain), who m. Julia, dau. of Sir Wm.
Wentworth, Bt.
2 Probably Miss Bedingfeld, of a Norfolk family, related to
Sir Edmund Bacon, mentioned above.
3 Topham Beauclerk, who m. Lady Diana Spencer (Viscountess
Bolingbroke), so much admired by Horace Walpole.
4 Francisco III, Duke of Modena, who had, by the Peace of
Aix-la-Chapelle in Oct. 1748, recovered his dominions, paid a visit
to London this year. Horace Walpole, who had met him abroad
some years before, writes : ' His appearance is rather better than it
used to be, for, instead of wearing his wig down to his nose to hide
the humour in his face, he has taken to paint his forehead white,
which, however, with the large quantity of red that he always wears
on the rest of his face, makes him ridiculous enough. I cannot say
his manner is more polished : Princess Emily asked him if he did
not find the Duke much fatter than when he was here before ? He
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and supp'd there with Mr. and Mrs. Cocks, Sir
William, Mr. and Miss Codderington, and Mr.
Edmundson.
Sunday I4th. Morning went to church, in the
afternoon Mrs. Winock and Mr. Hollis drank tea
with us.
Monday [i5th]. Morning sett out from London
for Lancashire in our own coach, Mary 1 in the
Stage Coach, we din'd at the Cock in Radburne,
drank tea at Dunstable, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley 2
overtook us at Brickiln where we all lodg'd at the
White Lyon.
Tuesday [i6th]. Morning breakfast'd at Stoney
Stratford, din'd at Foster's Booth at the Crown and
lay at Dunchurch.
Wednesday [i7th]. Breakfast'd at Coventry, be-
twixt there and Meredan one of our horses fell sick
so left it behind us and James to take care of it, and
din'd at Coleshill, lay at Litchfield.
Thursday [i8th]. Breakfast'd at Whoosley
Bridge, din'd at Stone, and lay at Newcastle.
Friday [i9th]. Morning one of Mr. Stanley's
horses fell sick so we took Mrs. Stanley into our
coach, Mr. Stanley got a horse-back and her maid
was left behind to follow in their Landau. We all
breakfast'd at Talk o* th' Hill and lay at Warrington.
Saturday [soth]. Morning Mr. and Mrs. Stan-
ley set out from Warrington for Winick on horse-
back, they had travailed all the journey with us from
replied, " En verite, il n'est pas si effroyable qu'on m'avoit dit."
She commended his diamonds, he said, " Les votres sont bien
petits." ' Letters (Toynbee), ii. 376.
1 Her sister.
2 The Rev. Thos. Stanley, D.D., rector of Winwick, Co. Lanes.,
second son of Thos. Stanley of Cross Hall, Co. Lanes., m. 21 Nov.
1748 at York, Betty, dau. of John Shaw of York, lord of the manor of
Bainton.
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VISIT TO SCARBOROUGH
Brickiln. We arrived safe at Childwell but had very
bad roads betwixt there and Warrington and excessive
hot weather all our journey.
[VISIT TO SCARBOROUGH
10 July I749I dug I749-]
[Monday] July loth. We set out for Scarborough
from Childwell and din'd at Warrington where we
found Major Maddan, Mr. Barron * met us there
and we all set out together for Manchester where
we lay at the Bull's Head. Mr. [? Mrs.] Ann
Byrom 2 and Mr. Ned, Mrs. Byrom and Miss Dolly,
Miss Taylor & Mrs., and Mr. Johnson 3 all came
to see us there.
Tuesday [nth]. Morning breakfast'd at Roch-
dale. Mr. Hardman came to see us there. Call'd
at Rippondale where we intend'd to have din'd but
the(y) had no provisions in the house, the gentlemen
overtook us there, we lay at Brighouse.
Wednesday [i2th]. Morning set out from Brig-
house, din'd at Leeds and lay at the Green Dragon
1 Perhaps Wm. Borron of Warrington, m. 1768 Susannah
Braddock, and d. 1799.
2 The Byroms of Kersall, several of whom are mentioned here,
were friends of the Greenes. Elizabeth, a dau. of Dr. John Byrom,
wrote in her "Journal for 1745, ' Rode to see Miss Greenes at
Childa [Childwall], they were gone to Lord Mullinai's, so we rode
round Childa Hills, the pleasantest prospect I ever saw, and then
rode to see Outon [i.e. Woolton Hall], Lady Molineaux's ' (Byrom,
Remains (Cheth. Soc.), ii. pt. 2, 385). Lady Molyneux (Mary
Brudenell), the widow of the fifth Viscount (d. 1738), lived at
Woolton for a long time.
3 Probably the Thos. Johnson of Tildesley and Manchester who
gave the toast of ' The King ' to the Jacobites billeted upon him in
1745-
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at Harrogate. We intend'd to have layn at the
Queen's Head but there was no lodgings empty.
Thursday [i3th]. Breakfast'd and din'd at Har-
rogate, in the afternoon went to Neisborough, 1 saw
the curiosities there, the Droping Well, several
petrified things and St. Robert's Chappel cut out of
the rock, and lay at Rippon.
Friday [i4th]. Morning went to see Mr. Aisle-
bie's 2 Gardens, the Pavilion, Banqueting house,
Grotto and Cave, the finest gardens at Studley I had
ever seen. Din'd at Burrow Brig and lay at York,
saw the Assembly Room there and took lodgings for
the Races.
Saturday [i5th]. Din'd at Castle Howard, saw
the house and gardens there which belong to Lord
Carlisle, 3 the Moseleum and Chapel over it and
Summer House. Lay at the New Inn, Malton.
Sunday i6th. Arrived at Scarborough where
Major Maddin and Mr. Barron lodg'd in the same
house with us.
Monday [i7th]. Morning Lady Betty War-
bot(on) 4 and Mrs. Stafford 5 came to see us. After-
noon drank tea with Lady Betty Warburton and went
to the Rooms with her. Mrs. and Miss Panton,
1 Knaresborough.
2 Wm. Aislabie, M.P. Ripon, a son of John Aislabie (d. 1742)
who laid out the gardens at Studley Royal. He m. a dau. of the
sixth Earl of Exeter. Studley, like Fountains Abbey, descended
to the Marquess of Ripon, whose ancestor, Sir Wm. Robinson, had
m. a sister of John Aislabie.
3 Henry Howard (1694-1758), the seventh Earl of Carlisle.
The Mausoleum and the Temple in the garden were in Grecian
style, and the whole grounds laid out by the sixth Earl to the designs
of Sir John Vanbrugh between 1722-31.
4 Lady Elizabeth Stanley, eldest dau. of the eleventh Earl of
Derby, m. in 1745 to Sir Peter Warburton, Bt., of Arley, Co. Chester.
5 Lucy, dau. of Wm. Tatton of Wythenshaw, m. in 1734 to
John Stafford of Macclesfield, Co. Chester.
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VISIT TO SCARBOROUGH
Miss Harcourt, Mrs. Turner and 2 Miss Lees was
at Lady Betty's.
Tuesday [i 8th]. Drank tea with Mrs. Turner and
in the evening went with her and Miss Lees to the
Rooms.
Wednesday [i9th]. Morning drank the Waters
at the Wells. Mrs. Turner and Miss Lees came to
see us. Afternoon Miss Brooke drank tea with us
and we went to the Rooms where I danced country
dances with Mr. Tatton. 1
Thursday [2oth]. Morning went to the Wells,
Long Rooms, and to the Milliner's shop, afternoon
Miss Brooke drank tea with us and we went to the
Long Rooms with Major Maddin and Mr. Barren.
Friday [2ist]. Morning to the Wells and walk'd
with Lady Betty Warburton, Sir Peter, Mrs. Stafford,
and Mr. Tatton, to the Castle and call'd at a
milliner's. Afternoon Mrs. Turner and Miss Lee's
drank tea with us and we went with them to the Long
Rooms. I danced with Mr. Tatton.
Saturday [22nd]. Morning to the Wells and
stay'd at home all the rest of the day.
Sunday 23rd. In the morning went to the
Quakers' meeting, in the afternoon Major Maddin
and we was invit'd by Mr. Townsend 2 to drink tea
at the Long Room. There was Lord and Lady
Burleigh, Lady Louisa Smith, 3 Sir Robert and their
son and daughter, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Panton, Miss
Aislebie, Miss Broadley, Mr. Warburton, Miss Har-
court, Mr. Barnston and several others.
1 No doubt one of the Wythenshaw family.
2 Perhaps John Townshend of Hem, Co. Denbigh, whose first
wife was a dau. of Sir Wm. Meredith, Bt., of Henbury, and whose
second was a Miss Lee of Darnhall, Co. Chester.
3 Sir Rob. Smyth, second Bt., of Isfield, Sussex, m. Lady Louisa
Harvey, dau. of John, first Earl of Bristol.
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Monday [24th]. Morning went to the Wells,
afterwards to a concert at the Long Room for the
benefit of Sign. Galli, at night went to the Long
Room with my father.
Tuesday [25th]. Morning intend'd to go to the
Wells but was prevent'd by the sudden death of my
dear father then, died of an apoplexy July the 25th
1749 in the 72nd year of his age, he was born the I3th
of June. Lady Betty Warburton came to see us.
Wednesday [26th]. Morning prepared for our
journey to Childwell, in the afternoon sett out, Major
Maddin travail'd in the Coach with us, Mr. Barren
on horseback to Malton where we lodg'd that night.
We left James Hankins to attend the Corps.
Thursday [27th]. Morning Major Maddin re-
turn'd to Scarborough, and Mr. Barron set out with
us in the coach for York where we din'd at Gibson's.
This day the Hearse attend'd by one mourning
coach set out from Scarborough. When we got to
York another mourning coach join'd, so the Herse
was attend'd by two all the rest of the journey to Hale.
We lay at Leeds.
Friday [28th]. Din'd at Elland and lay at Roch-
dale.
Saturday [29th]. Din'd at Hollin Fair and lay at
Childwell. Mr. Barron came home with us.
Sunday [3Oth]. Mr. Barron gave orders for the
Funeral. In the evening Mr. Taylor came and Mrs.
Gorst.
Monday [3ist]. Taken up in preparations for
the Funeral.
Tuesday [August ist]. Most of our tenants went
to Warrington to meet the Corps and had hatbands
and gloves. Mr. Barron and Mr. Taylor likewise
went to Warrington where they all din'd in the after-
noon at four of the clock. My dear father was
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FAMILY ENTRIES
interr'd in the chancel at Hale at the side of my
sister. 1 At night Mr. Barren and Mr. Taylor return 'd
to Childwell where Mr. Taylor stay'd then the next
day. Mr. Barren continued with us longer.
[FAMILY ENTRIES]
Ireland Greene was married in the Chappel at
Hale by Mr. Ellison, to Thomas Blackburne, Jan.
ye 28, 1751-2 old stile, aged 23 years. She had
a dangerous labour and was delivered of a dead girl
Nov. ye 18, 1752 new stile.
John Blackburne, her I st son and 2 d child, was
born Aug st . ye 5, 1755.
Her sister Mary Green was married to Bamber
Gascoyne, Jan. ye 24, 1756.
The said I. Blackburne was delivered of Mary
Blackburne, her 3 d child, Jan. ye 3 I st , 1757. She
was delivered of Thomas Blackburne, her fourth child,
April ye 17, 1758 ; had a good labour & lying-in.
May she always be thankful for it.
Dec r . ye 19, 1758, Mrs. Bramhall dyed suddenly
in Lord Street, Liverpool, and was burried in Hale
Church, Dec r . 22 d .
March ye 22 d , 1759, John Blackburne, the eldest
son of Tho s . and Ireland Blackburne, was innocu-
lated at Orford for the smallpox ; he had them very
full, but it pleased God to spare him to us. May I
ever be gratefull for so infinite a Mercy.
Isaac Blackburne, the third son of Thomas &
Ireland Blackburne, was born at Hale, Nov r . 26, 1759.
Mary, Thomas & Isaac Blackburne were all
innoculated for the smallpox in Sept r . 1762, but
did not take the infection ; they were therefore
all innoculated again the month following, when
1 Katherine Aspinwall Greene, d. 1742.
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they all took the smallpox and had them very
favourably.
Thos. & Isaac Blackburne had the measels in
May 1763. Thomas had them easily but Isaac was
in great danger.
John & Mary Blackburne had the measels in
June 1763. John had them bad but his sister
Mary better than any of them. She had however
a very bad fever soon after.
I. Blackburne was delivered of Ann Blackburne
Oct. ye 3 d , 1763, after an exceeding bad labour, the
worst she had had except her first. Ann Blackburne
was inoculated for the smallpox the beginning of
May 1767 and had them favourably.
My dear husband Thomas Blackburne died at
Hale of a Diabetes the 15"* of Jan. 1768, was burried
in the Chancel in Hale Church under the large marble
Grave Stone.
My dear daughter Mary Blackburne died of a
consumption after more than 3 years illness, Jan. ye
5 th , 1780, and was buried in the Church at Hale.
My eldest son John was marry'd to Ann Rodbard
of Bath in April 1781.
My 2 d son Thomas was marryed to Margaret
Brooke of Norton at Runcorn in Cheshire, April
ye 4 th , 1782. She was eldest sister of S r Brooke
of Norton, Bar 1 . They had a daughter born Feb. I st ,
1783, named Frances.
My eldest son's wife was brought to bed of a
dead child, a son, Feb. 1782, of a living son in May
1783, named John Ireland.
My son Tom's wife had a 2 d daughter ye 13*
of Feb. 1784 named Emma.
[The writer died in 1795.]
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Ye 1 Sons of Men, with just regard attend,
Observe the Preacher, and believe y e Friend
Who's serious Muse inspires him to explain
That all we act, and all we think is vain.
That in this Pilgrimage of Seventy years
O'er Rocks of Perils and thro' Vales of tears
Destin'd to march, our doubtfull steps we tend
Tir'd with the toil, yet fearfull of its end ;
That from the Womb, we take our fatal shares
Of Follys, Passions, labours, Tumults, cares ,
And at the approach of death shall only know
The truths which from these pensive numbers flow
That we pursue false joy and suffer real woe.
But O e'er yet original Man was made
E'er the foundations of this earth were layd
It was opponent to our scearch ordain'd,
That joys still sought, shou'd never be attain'd.
This sad experience cites me to reveal
And what I dictate, is from what I feel.
What 2 tho' the Gods a Nestor's age deny ?'
Let management a longer Life supply
And learn at least to live before you dye.
A little tract well till'd, more profit yeilds
Than realms of wild, uncultivated fields.
'Tis not from len(g)th of years our pleasures flow
Nor to the Gods alone our bliss we owe.
Our happiness and pain depend on us
Man's his own good or evil Genius.
Great ills by art we lighten or remove
And art our meanest pleasures may improve.
Much to ourselves is due, tho' much to Jove,
1 Written at the beginning of the book in the same writing
and probably at the same date as the verses following.
2 Written at the end of the book.
ISAAC GREENE
Yet few with art their happiness pursue
Tho* all mankind have happiness in view.
Some too impatient know not how to wait
Or aim at things beyond their human State.
These last thro' too much delicacy fall
And by refining rob 'emselves of all.
Shun then Achilles, shun the faults of such
Who still propose too little or too much.
Stretch not your hopes to(o) far nor yet despair,
But above all, of indolence beware.
Attend to what you do or Life will seem
But a meer vision or fantastick dream,
Passed in Ideas of delight at best
While real pleasures lost in doubtfull rest.
In short learn when and how to bear ; in vain
He pleasures seeks who is afraid of pain.
Our joys are short and broken ; and in vain
To constant happiness wou'd human race attain.
Be oft content'd to be free from pain.
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MARY GREENE (MRS. BAMBER GASCOYNE)
from the portrait by Hudson at Hale Hall.
PART III
THE PEDIGREE
I. HUGH GREENE, of Rainhill in the Parish of
Prescot ; married Grace . He was
dead by 1526 and probably by 1513. She
was living in 1526. 1
Issue :
1. Thomas (II)
2. Richard, living in 1526 'with many
children ' in Rainhill, a tenant of
Thos. Gerard of The Bryn, esq.
I. Ellen, living in 1526, unmarried.
II. THOMAS GREENE, of Whiston in the parish of
Prescot ; lessee from George Wetherby of
1 8 acres in Halsnead in 8 Eliz (1565-6).
No doubt identical with Thomas Greene,
engaged in litigation 2 in 1513 and 1526
with Sir Richard Bold, Kt., with reference to
enclosures on the * Copt Holt ' in Whiston,
near ' Greene's House.' Married Isabel .
Will dated 17 October, 156- (fragment in
Dioc. Reg. Chester), to be buried upon south
of Churchyard at Prescot ; mentions my wife
1 Duchy of Lanes. Depositions, xvii. B. 3. This is the lawsuit
referred to ante, p. 4.
2 Duchy of Lanes. Depositions, vii. B. 5; xvii. B. 3; Lanes. Pleadings,
etc. (Rec. Soc.), i. 59. For Copt Holt, see Viet. Hist. Lanes., iii.
349 * 35 1 , 353 3 6 9-
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Isabell, three children, Hugh and William
and Elizabeth ; executors, wife and son
Hugh ; supervisor, Wetherbye 1 of ,
gent ; witnesses, Henry and Richard Cooke :
no act or date of probate but probably after
1567 ; inventory (blank) by Hugh Greene,
Lawrence Marshe, John , Thomas
Garnett.
Issue :
1. Hugh (III).
2. William, of Whiston, yeoman. Pro-
bably the testator, William Greene
of Prescot, yeoman, though his
will is apparently dated 17 Nov-
ember, 30 Eliz. (1587), after
death of brother Hugh, pr. C. C.
Chester, 28 November 1587;
to be buried at Prescot; all
goods to brother Hugh ; men-
tions sister Elizabeth Hill ; Jane,
Henry and Thomas Halsall, Ralph
Hunt, William Browne (godson) ;
creditors John Cowp(er), Nicho-
las Marshall, Thomas, Edward
and Margaret Pyke (23 IQJ.) ;
debtors, Thomas Webster of
Eccleston, Richard Worsley,
Thomas Banion of Cheshire,
George Matthewson and his
mother, Edward Chadocke,
Hamnet Potter, Mr. Percival
Harington, Matthew Fennoe,
1 In Duchy of Lanes, Pleadings, Ixxvii. W. 6, ccxiii. W. 21, xcvi.
T. 13, are suits in 1572 in which Peter and George Wetherby,
Matthew Traves" and Robert Wyke of Whiston, Henry More
alias Cooke of Whiston, and John Pyke of Prescot, occur with the
Greenes shown above.
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THE PEDIGREE
John Shingleton, William Pendle-
ton, Edward Angedale. Inven-
tory (blank) 25 November, 30
Eliz. (1587), by Richard Greene
(? nephew), Richard Marshall,
Richard Shawe.
i. Elizabeth, married Hill, pro-
bably after 1572.
III. HUGH GREENE, of Rainhill in parish of Prescot,
husbandman, married Thomasine Roby ;
bur. 14 December 1586 at Prescot ; will
dated 4 December, 29 Eliz.; to be buried near
the Cross in Prescot Churchyard ; mentions
wife Thomasine, sister of Mr. Lawrence
Roby deed. ; son Richard (to whom all
implements of husbandry), and his son's two
daughters Thomasine (elder) and Anne ; Jane
Lowe and Elizabeth ' sisters ' ; Kath. Shar-
rock, testator's daughter and her husband
Richard and two children ; Elizabeth and
Alice Shepley, daughters of son-in-law Hugh
Shepley ; Anne and Jane, daughters of William
Greene deed. ; daughter-in-law Margaret ;
' my two sisters ' (? in law) Margaret Webster
and Margery Kenwright ; Hugh and Thomas
Webster ; executors, son Richard and son-
in-law Hugh Shepley ; supervisors, Thomas
Webster, Hugh Aspenwall ; witnesses,
Richard Houghton, George Lyon, Thomas
Webster ; proved C. C. Chester, 2 January
1586(7) by executors named : inventory 13
December 1586 by Symon Garnett, gent, (of
Rainhill), John Stan dish, gent., Richard Hough-
ton, William Kenwright. (84 4*. %d.)
Issue :
i. Richard (IV).
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1. Katherine, married Richard Sharrock
and had issue.
2. A daughter, married Hugh Shepley
and left issue.
IV. RICHARD GREENE, of * Greene's House,' near
* Le Copt Holt ' in Rainhill, yeoman ; ? mar-
ried Margaret Webster at Prescot, 12 Jan.
1577; d. 17 February 1620/1; will dated
2 December 1620 ; mentions son Edward
and his infant son Richard, testator's grand-
child ; wife Margaret ; daughter Thomasine,
wife of Thomas Milner, and their four
children, John, Thomas, Margaret and Eliza-
beth ; daughter Anne, wife of Thomas Deane,
and * children ' ; sister Kath. Sharrock ; five
godchildren ; sole executor, son Edward ;
overseers, Thomas Milner and Thomas Deane ;
witnesses, William Litherland, Ra. Stocke ;
proved C. C. Chester, 5 April 1621, by son ;
inventory (^74 125. 6<^.) 24 February 1620/1
by Edmund Lyon, Henry Lathom, William
Ackers, and Matthew Cowley. The Inq.
p.m.) 14 July 1 62 1, 1 shows he held 27 acres
of the King of the manor of Widnes in the
Honour of Halton as ^fa Knight's fee ; heir,
son Edward, then aged 25 and more.
Issue :
i. Edward (V).
1. Thomasine, married Thomas Milner
and had issue.
2. Anne, ? bapt. Prescot, 22 July 1583,
married Thomas Deane and had
issue.
V. EDWARD GREENE, of Rainhill, yeoman : son and
heir, ? bapt. Prescot, 27 Aug. 1595; aged 25
1 Lanes. Inq. (Rec. Soc.), ii. 235.
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THE PEDIGREE
and more in 1621 ; married (? Margaret)
daughter of (? William) Ascroft x (of Eccles-
ton) ; she bur. at Prescot, 12 Dec. 1644;
he bur. at Prescot, 21 Jan. 1652-3 ; will
dated 17 April 1650, with Codicil 26 Septem-
ber 1652 ; to be buried in Prescot Church-
yard ' in the usual place appertaining to my
house ' ; settled lands in Rainhill and Whiston
on eldest (surviving) son Edward Greene of
Prescot, merchant and heirs male, he paying
jfioo due to Katherine Bold (daughter of
Richard Bold of Bold and afterwards wife of
Roger Prichard) and 200 in 10 years to
testator's five children, Hugh, Margery,
Thomas, John and Thomasine (infants) ;
mentions daughter Margaret, wife of Peter
Hough of Prescot, victualler ; daughter Anne,
wife of Henry Browne of Whiston, yeoman ;
sister-in-law Alice, wife of Thomas Garnett of
Whiston, and her son Henry ; Ellen Greene
alias Meade, daughter of above Margaret
Hough ; Anne, Hugh, and William Hough,
children of Margaret ; executors, brothers-
in-law James Ashcroft of Eccleston, yeoman,
and William Woods of Sutton ; witnesses,
Thomas Lyon, John Deedone, John Wain-
wright ; overseers, Thomas Walls and son
Edward Greene : proved 12 February 1654
(English style) by son Edward. (P.C.C. 250
Aylett.)
Issue :
1. Richard (ob. v. p.), bur. Prescot, 3 Jan.
1648-9.
2. Edward (VI).
1 Edward Greene is mentioned in 1629 as exor. of William
Ascroft (Prescot Ct. Rolls).
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3. Hugh, bapt. Prescot, 18 May 1634.
4. Thomas, bapt. Prescot, 28 April
1639.
5. John, bapt. Prescot, 29 Aug. 1641.
1. Anne, ? bapt. Prescot, 10 March
1625/6 ; married Henry Browne
of Whiston.
2. Margaret, bapt. Prescot, 4 Dec. 1636 ;
married Peter Hough of Prescot
and had issue.
3. ? Margery.
4. Thomasine, bapt. Prescot, May 1644.
VI. EDWARD GREENE, of Prescot, mercer ; ? bapt.
Prescot, 1 8 Aug. 1629; married daughter of
Thomas Walles ; will dated 12 March
1655/6 ; to be buried at Prescot ; had paid ^30
of the 100 in will of father to Mrs. Catherine
Prichard (late Bold) and ^20 more of it to
Richard Lathom of Allerton, esq., residue to
be charged on testator's lands in Rainhill and
Whiston settled on son Edward ; mentions
sister Anne Browne, brothers Hugh and John,
and * my younger brothers and sisters ' ;
executors, father-in-law Thomas Walles, uncle
James Ascroft, and William Glover ; witnesses,
Henry Bolton, William Tarbocke, Hugh
Greene, John Walles, Thomas Litherland ;
proved, 4 October 1656, by Thomas Walles.
(P.C.C. 257 Berkeley.)
Issue :
i. Edward (VII).
VII. EDWARD GREENE, of Greene's House, Rainhill,
and Liverpool, merchant (Prescot Court Roll) ;
during minority John Walles as his trustee
and guardian held ' Greene's House ' and paid
76
THE PEDIGREE
tax for 4 hearths in 1662 x ; one of the first
Common Councillors of the town of Liver-
pool, 16772 ; married Mary , 3 who was
resident at Greene's House in 1707 and was
buried at Childwall Church, 24 December
1738 ; he failed in business about 1687, went
abroad, and in 1707 is said to have died
* about 1 2 years ago. '
Issue :
1. Isaac (VIII).
2. Edward, baptised St. Nicholas, Liver-
pool, 31 July 1680, buried there
10 December 1682.
i. Katherine, baptised St. Nicholas, 8
August 1679, buried there 8
April 1694 as daughter of ' Mr.
Edward Greene.'
VIII. ISAAC GREENE, of Prescot, Liverpool and Child-
wall, attorn ey-at-law, son and heir of (VII) ;
his baptism on 13 June 1678 is entered in
the Register of St. Nicholas, Liverpool ;
married at Hale Church, 22 April 1725 (Mar.
Lie. Chester 6 April, bondsman, Thomas Bell
of Liverpool, clerk, M.A., rector of Liverpool)
Mary, only daughter and ultimate heiress of
Edward Aspinwall of Hale, and great-grand-
niece of Sir Gilbert Ireland of Hale, Kt. ;
marriage settlement dated 20 April 1725*
1 Trans. Hist. Soc. Lanes, and Ckesh., lii. 134.
2 Hist. Municipal Govt. of Liverpool (Muir & Platt), 197.
3 Her surname is unknown. In 1673 Edward Greene was
concerned in a fine re property in Rainhill and Lathom with Jas.
Jerrom and Rob. and John Fearnes (Pal. of Lanes. Plea Roll, 417,
m. g/), and also in a recovery re land at Rainhill and Whiston, Thos.
Winckley and Rob. Greensworth, gent. v. Wm. Blundell, gent,
vouchee, Ed. Greene by Sam. Fazakerly his attorney (ibid. 418,
m. 5). * See ante, p. 23.
77
ISAAC GREENE
between (i) Isaac Greene, (2) Richard Norris of
Liverpool, (3) Ireland Aspinwall of Hale, and
(4) Mary (his sister). Mrs. Mary Greene died
31 May 1 73 8, aged 4 1, and was buried in Hale
Church. 1 Isaac Greene died of apoplexy at Scar-
borough on Tuesday, 25 July 1749, intestate,
and was buried at the side of his daughter in the
chancel of Hale Church on Tuesday, I August
(Diary of Ireland Greene) 2 ; letters of adminis-
tration granted 23 September 1749 (C. C.
Chester) to Ireland Greene, spinster, eldest
(surviving) daughter, power reserved to
daughter Mary, a minor, to prove. (The
estates were subsequently partitioned between
the coheiresses. 3 )
Issue :
i. Edward (probably ob. /#/.)>* buried 23
December 1732 at St. Nicholas,
Liverpool.
1. Katherine Aspinwall, died unmarried
3 September 1742 in her i6th
year, 5 and buried in the chancel
at Hale Church.
2. Ireland (IXA.)
3. Mary(IX B .)
IRELAND GREENE, lady of manor and lordship of
Hale, elder surviving daughter and co-heiress ;
married, aged 23, on 28 January 1751/2, by
the Rev. Francis Ellison, at Hale Chapel, to
Thomas Blackburne of Orford, Co. Lanes. 6
1 M.I., Hale Church.
2 On the M.I. Hale Church, his age is wrongly given as ' in his
75th year.' 3 See ante, p. 26. 4 See ante, p. 22.
5 The M.I. at Hale gives her name simply as ' Katherin.'
6 The Gent. Mag., under date 17 Feb. 1752, has ' Ashton [sic]
Blackbourn of Lancashire, esq., to Miss Green of Childers, an heiress
30,000.' Ashton was the name of a brother.
78
THE PEDIGREE
She died on 19 August 1795, a g e d 67,
and was buried at Hale (M. I.). Her
will, dated 31 Dec. 1787, with Cod. dated
4 April 1793, proved at Chester 19 Dec.
1795. ^ e ' born at Orford 19 May 1720,
died of diabetes at Hale 15 January 1768,
and was buried ' under the large marble
gravestone in the chancel of Hale Church.'
Their eldest son, John, of Orford and Hale,
born 5 August 1755, married, at Bath, April
1781, Anne Rodbard, and from him is de-
scended Colonel Robert Ireland Blackburne,
the present lord of the manor of Hale. 1
1 For other children and details see the pedigrees of Blackburne
in Crisp's Visitation of England and Wales, vol. x. 142, and Notes,
vol. ix. 135; Baines' Lanes. (Croston's edn.), vol. v. ; and Burke's
Landed Gentry.
There are in the belfry at Hale Church several hatchments of
the Blackburne family. Some of them are very dark, and the light
was bad when these notes were taken. They appeared to be as
follows :
No. I. Ground: all black (?). Motto, ' Mors est inexorabilis.'
Arms : (i) Blackburne, (2) Norris, (3) Lever, (4) Ashton, and, on
an escutcheon of pretence, Ireland.
This probably commemorates Thomas Blackburne of Orford
and Hale, d. 1768.
No. 2. On a lozenge. Ground: all black. Motto ' Resurgam.'
The same Arms as No. i.
This probably commemorates Ireland (Greene), widow of
Thomas Blackburne of Orford and Hale.
No. 3. Ground : dexter white, sinister black. Motto, ' In ccelo
quies.' Arms : Quarterly, I and 4 Blackburne, ^ and 3 Ireland, im-
paling Rodbard. Crest of Blackburne (probably derived from Lever).
This commemorates Anne (Rodbard), wife of John Black-
burne of Orford and Hale. She d. 1823.
No. 4. Ground : all black ; esquire's helmet. Motto, ' Resurgam.'
A skull (error). Arms as No. 3.
This is for John Blackburne of Orford and Hale, d. 1833.
No. 5. Ground: dexter white, sinister black. Motto, 'Re-
surgam.' Arms : \ and 4 Blackburne, 2 and 3 Ireland, and on an
escutcheon Bamford. Crests of Blackburne and Ireland.
79
ISAAC GREENE
IXe. MARY GREENE, lady of the manors and lord-
ships of Childwall, West Derby, Wavertree,
Everton, Much and Little Woolton, youngest
daughter and co-heiress ; married (marr. lie.
22 Jan. 1756/7 ' for Henry Vllth Chapel in
Westminster Abbey between 8 and 12 A.M.')
on 24 January 1756/7 in Westminster
Abbey, 1 Bamber Gascoyne of St. Clement
Danes, eldest son of Sir Crisp Gascoyne,
Kt., Lord Mayor of London. He died
27 October 1791 at Bath and was buried
7 November at Barking, Essex. 2 She died
8 May 1799, aged 70 (Marble Tablet, Hale
Church, with the arms of Gascoyne, Bamber
and Greene). Her son Bamber Gascoyne
(No. 2) married Sarah Bridget Frances,
daughter of Chase Price, M.P., and their only
child, Frances Mary Gascoyne, married, in
1821, as his first wife, the second Marquess
of Salisbury, 3 to whom passed the above-named
manors and estates, many of which are still
held by the present Marquess.
This is for Anne (Bamford), wife of John Ireland Blackburne
of Hale. She d. 1861.
No. 6. Ground : all black ; helmet. Motto, * In Solo Deo
Salus.' Arms and Crest as No. 5.
This is for John Ireland Blackburne of Hale, d. 1874.
1 Registers of Westminster Abbey (Harl. Soc., vol. 10, p. 55).
For Bamber Gascoyne and his father see Diet. Nat. Biog.
2 Gent. Mag., 1791.
3 For some further details see Trans. Hist. Soc. Lanes, and CkesA.,
liv. p. 196, and the Peerage books. There are hatchments in Child-
wall Church commemorating Mary Gascoyne, her son Bamber
(d. 1824), and his wife (d. 1820). (Notes on Childwall (loc. '/.),
90, etc.)
80
INDEX
Place-names and titles of plays are printed in italics. Names
occurring more than once on a page are indexed once only.
ACKERS MILL, 16
Ackers, Wm., 25 n., 74
Addison, Joseph, 55 n.
Adelphi Hotel (Liverpool), 30
Aigburth, 12, 56
Aislabie, John, 64 n.
Miss, 65
Wm., 64
Aix-la-Chapelle, 32, 57 n., 61 n.
Alchymist, The, 56
Allen, Mrs., 57, 59
Allerton, 76
Hall, 54 n.
Ambrosden, 48 n.
Angedale, Ed., 73
Anglesey, Lady, 14, 15
(see Lady Ashburnham)
Anne, Queen, 14
Apollo and Daphne, 55
Archer, Miss, 56
Wm. (Eyre), 56 n.
Arderne arms, 27
Argyll, Duke of, 42 n,, 52 .
Arley, 64 n.
Armetriding, Margaret, 16 n.
Arms :
Arderne, 27
Ashton, 79 n,
Aspinwall, 27
Bamber, 28, 80, 80 n.
Bamford, 79 n,
Blackburne, 27, 79 n.
Gascoyne, 28, 80, 80 n.
Greene, 27, 79 n.
Ireland, 28, 79 n.
Lever, 79 n.
Norris, 79 n.
Rodbard, 79 n.
Arne, Cecilia, 44
Dr., 44 n.
As You Like It, 37
Ascroft, Jas., 75, 76
Margaret, 75
Wm., 75
Ash, 35 n.
Ash(e), Miss, 41, 41 n.
Ashburnham, Countess of, 14, 15,
16, 17, 17 n., 19 n.
Earl of, 15, 19 n.
Ashcroft, Jas., 75, 76
Ashhurst, Miss, 42, 43
Thos., 16 n.
Ashonhurst, Miss, 51
Ashton, 25 n.
Ashton arms, 79 n.
Aspinwall, Ann, 25 n.
Edward, 40 n., 77
Gilbert, 22
Hugh, 73
Ireland, 23 n., 78
Mary, 22, 40 n., 77, 78
arms, 27
Auction of Pictures, An, 44
Aughton, 12, 19
BACON, Sir Edmund, 43, 51, 61 n.
Sir Francis, 43 n.
Bagnall, Ed., 17 n.
Bainton, 62 n.
Bamber arms, 28, 80
Bamford, Anne, 80 n.
arms, 79 n.
Banion, Thos., 72
Bankes, Elizth., 42 n.
Wm., 42 n.
G 8l
INDEX
Bankhall, 7
Barking, 80
Barnard, Chas., 16 .
Barnet, 33, 47
Barnston, Mr., 65
Barrett (Leonard), Anne, 31 , 35 n. ,
5
Thos., 31, 35 n., 50
Barrett, Anne, 36 n.
Miss, 34 n.
Mrs., 35, 36, 48
Barren, Mr., 63, 64, 65, 66, 67
Barry (actor), 38 n.
Dorothy, 41 n., 43 n.
Hon. John, 41 n., 43
Spranger, 55 n.
Barry more, Earl of, 41 .
Bath, 79, 80
Bath, Countess of, 38 n.
Earl of, 38 n.
Beauclerk, Lady Sidney (Mary),
32- 51. 53. 5 6 . 58, 61
Lord Sidney, 51 n.
Topham, 61
Bedford-Leigh, 12
Bedingfield, Miss, 61 n.
Beggar's Wedding, The, 55
Belhus, 35 n.
Bell, Rev. Thos., 77
Benifield, Miss, 61
Berry, Mr., 55
Bishop, Miss, 60 .
Blackburne, Ann, 68, 79
Ashton, 78 n.
Emma, 68
Ireland, 79 n.
Isaac, 67, 68
John, 27, 67, 68, 79
John Ireland, 26, 68, 80 n.
Mary, 67, 68
Col. Robert Ireland, 29, 79
Thos., 26, 32, 67, 68, 78, 79 n.
arms, 79 n.
family, 26
Blackhill Moss, 5
Blackmoor, 20
Blackrode, 25 n.
Bloomsbury, 48
Blundell, Benson, 21 n.
Cath., 56 n.
Edward, 8, 9, 22 n.
Nic., 8, 18, 19
Peter, 56 n.
Rob., 21
82
Blundell, Sarah, 25 n.
Wm., 9
Bold, 35 n., 36 n.
Bold, Anna Maria, 43 n.
Kath., 75, 76
Mary, 36 n., 51 n.
Miss, 35, 40, 48, 49, 52, 53, 55,
60, 61
Mr., 41
Mrs., 37, 43, 50, 61
Peter, 35 n., 36 n., 40, 41 n.,
43 n., 51 n.
Ric., 75
Sir Ric., 4, 71
family, 2, 5, 31
Bolingbroke, Lady, 61 n.
Bolton, Duke of, 51 n.
Henry, 76
Booth, Kath., 25 n.
Rob., 25 n.
Boroughbridge, 64
Borron, Win., 63 n.
Brace, Francis, 16 n.
Bradshaw, Mrs., 39
Bramhall, Mary, 40 n., 67
Thos., 40 n.
Brecks, The, 20
Brettargh, Mr., 12
Brickhill, 33, 47, 62, 63
Bridges, Mr., 56
Brighouse, 63
Brindle, 4, 5
Bristol, Earl of, 65 n.
Broadley, Miss, 65
Brocton, 34 n.
Bromfield, Miss, 35, 37,45, 46, 52,
53, 61
Brooke, Elizabeth, 51 .
Frances, 34 n., 68
Margaret, 68
Miss, 65
Sir Ric., 34 n., 68
Sir Thos., 51 n.
Brotherton, Mr., 51, 53, 57, 59
Thos., 51 n.
Brownbill, John, 17, 25 n.
Browne, Anne, 75, 76
Henry, 75, 76
Wm., 72
Brudenell, Lady Frances, 39 n.
Mary, 63 n.
Bryn, 4, 71
Buccleugh, Duchess of, 38 n.
Budworth, 47
INDEX
Bulkeley, Thos., 4, 5
Burdett, Lady Eliz., 60 n.
Sir Rob., 60
Burghley, Lady, 31, 51, 53, 65
Lord, 31, 45, 53, 65
Butler, Mr., 40
Byrom, Ann, 63
Dolly, 63
Edward, 63
Eliz., 63 n.
John, 52 n., 59 n., 63 n.
Mrs., 63
CAMDEN, Earl, 35 n.
Campbell, Lady Anne Hume,
41 n., 52 n.
Lord Fred., 42 n.
Cardigan, Earl of, 39 .
Carey, Mr., 41
Carlisle, Earl of, 64
Cartwright, Mrs., 50
Caryll, ' Baron,' 43 n.
Dorothy F., 43 n.
John Baptist, 43 n.
Mary, 43 n.
Mr., 48
Mrs., 43, 45, 46, 48, 53, 56, 59
family, 31
Case, John, 22
Jonathan, 15, 16, 17, 17 n., 22
Thos., 17 .
family, 18
Casson, Alex., 39 n.
Mr., 39
Ric., 39 .
Castle Howard, 32, 64
Cato, 44, 55
Cecil, Mr., 53
Chadocke, Ed., 72
Chair, E. de, 61 n.
John de, 61 n.
Chandos Street, 40
Charlton, Miss, 44, 45
Chartley, 41 n., 45 n.
Chatham, Earl of, 56 .
Cheir, Miss de, 61
Chester, Mr., 53
Chesterton, 47
Chetwynd, Martha, 34 n.
Miss, 41, 51
Mr., 48
Mrs., 34, 39, 43, 48, 53, 56
Walter, 34 n.
Child, Mrs., 36
Childwall, i, 9, 13, 15, 16, 19, 22,
23, 24, 26, 31, 32, 33, 35 n.,
39 n., 42 n., 47, 51 n., 61,
63, 66, 67, 77, 80
Church, 28
Hall, 23
Hills, 19
Cholmondeley, Earl of, 60 n.
Joanna, 35 .
Lady Mary, 60
Thos., 35 n.
Chudleigh, 48 n.
Chudleigh, Miss, 60
Gibber, Colley, 54 .
Mrs., 38 n
Theoph., 54 n.
Clayton family, II
Clifford, Lord (Hugh), 48 n.
Thos., 48 n.
Clifton, Mary, 41 n.
Miss, 41, 46, 48, 53, 59
Mr., 41, 43
Thos., 41 n., 43 n.
family, 31
Clubmoor, 20
Cobden, Dr. Ed., 36 n. t 50
Mrs., 36, 52
Cocks, Mr., 56, 57, 62
Mrs., 56, 62
Codrington, Bridget, 39 n.
Miss, 62
Mr., 62
Sir Wm., 39 n., 56, 59, 62
Coleshill, 33, 47, 62
Cooke, Hy., 72 n.
Mr., 40
Mrs., 45, 48, 51
Ric, 72
Copt Holt, 4, 5, 71, 74
Cornhill, 42 n.
Cornwallis, Lord, 38 n.
Cotton, Sir J. H., 31, 41, 41 .
Covent Garden Theatre, 35, 38 .,
42 n., 44, 50, 51, 55
Coventry, 33, 47, 62
Coventry Cross, 40
Cowper, John, 72
Cranshaw, 2
Crewe, Anne, 43 .
John, 43 n.
Lord, 43 n.
Mrs., 43
Cr onion, 25 n.
INDEX
Crosby, 8, 19
Great, 18
Little, 1 8
Cross Hall, 62 n.
Crowley, Matth., 74
Croxteth Hall, 17, 18, 37 n.
Curzon, Assheton, 42 n.
Viscount, 42 n.
DACRE, Lady, 31 (see Mrs. Barrett-
Leonard)
Lord, 31, 35 .
Dalton, Mr., 43
Darnhall, 65 n.
Davenport, Miss, 57
Mrs., 57
Dav entry, 33, 47
Dawson, Mr., 50
Deane, Anne, 74
Thos., 74
Deedone, John, 75
Derby, Earl of , ion., 14, 15, 17 n.,
20, 34 n., 64 n.
Derwentwater, Earl of, 31, 48 n.
Devil to Pay, 57
Dido, 45
Doddington, 56 n.
Dorril, John, 55 n.
John Chambers, 49 n.
Mary, 49 n.
Mrs., 49, 5. 55. 5^, 57. 59. W
Capt. Ric., 55 n.
Dowdeswell, Bridget, 39 n.
Miss, 39 n.
Wm., 39 n.
Dowsall, Miss, 39
Dragon of Wantley, 37, 3 8
Drugger, Abel, 56, 57
Drury Lane Theatre, 37. 38, 4.
5 2 . 55. 5 6
Dryden, 55 n.
Ducie, Barons, 51 n.
Dunchurch, 33, 47. 62
Dunkirk, 43 n.
Dunstable, 33, 46, 47, 62
Durford, 43 n.
Duxbury, 53
EATON, 31, 41 n., 43 n.
Eccleston, 24, 25 n., 72, 75
Edmundson, Mr., 62
Edwards, Miss, 54, 57
Mr., 49, 54
84
Edwards, Mrs., 54
Elland, 66
Ellison, Rev. Francis, 67, 78
Eltonhead, i n., g, 14, 23 n.
Eltonhead family, 25 n.
Errington, John, 37 w.
Maria, 37 n.
Evelyn, Elizabeth, 35 .
John, 35 n.
Miss, 60 n.
Mrs., 43
Everton, i n., 9, 15, 16, 18, 19, ign.,
23 ., 80
Exeter, Earl of, 45, 53 . 64 n.
Eyre, Cath., 56 n.
Francis, 48 n., 60 .
Mary, 48 ., 60 n.
Susanna, 56 n.
Thos., 60 n.
Wm., 56 n.
FAIRFAX, Bryan, jun., 16 n.
Fair Penitent, 51
Farra . . , Lady, 41
Farrington, Geo., 16 n.
Henry, 34 n.
Mr., 39
Mrs., 34
Sarah, 34 n.
Val., 34 n.
family, 31
Faulkner, Mary Anne, 55
Fazakerley, Mis., 31, 35. 3<>, 37-
38, 39. 4. 4L 42, 43. 45.
46, 48, 49, 5. 5 1 . 5 2 53.
54. 55. 57. 58, 59, 60, 61
Nic., 31, 34 45- 4 6 . 49-.
50.58
Sam., 9, 77 n.
Fearnes, John, 77
Rob., 77
Fennoe, Matt., 72
Ferrers, Earl, 41 n., 42 n., 45 n.
Finch, Eliz., 17 n.
Fireworks, 57, 58, 59
Flitcroft, Hy., 25 n.
Foote, Sam., 42 ., 44, 55 n -
Fopling Flutter, Sir, 54 n.
Forber, Thos., 24
Foster, Miss, 59
Foundling, The, 37 n., 3 8 . 5 2
Fountains Abbey, 64 n.
Freeman, Mr., 41, 49. 5 1
INDEX
GALI.I, Signer, 66
Garnett, Alice, 75
Brian, 4
Hy., 75
Symon, 73
Thos., 72, 75
Garrick, David, 32, 37 n., 38 n.,
55 w., 56 w., 57
Garstang, 43 .
Gascoyne, Bamber, 26, 67, 80
jun., 80
Sir Crisp, 80
Frances Mary, 80
Mary, 27 (see Mary Greene)
Sarah, 80
arms, 28, 80
Gawthorpe, 43 n.
Gerard, Lady, 4, 5
Sir Thos., 5
Thos., 5, 71
Gill Mosses, 20
Glover, John, 5
Wm., 76
Gorst, Mrs., 43, 44, 55, 57, 58,
66
Gray's Inn, 39 n., 46, 51 n.
Greatrix, Anne, 16 n.
Hy., i6.
Green Park, The, 32, 59
Greene, Anne, 73, 74, 75, 76
Edward, 2, 5, 6, 22, 25, 74, 75,
76, 77- 78
Elizabeth, 5, 72, 73
Ellen, 4, 71, 75
Grace, 5, 71
Hugh, 4, 5, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76
Ireland, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 67,
78, 79 n.
Isaac, passim
Isabel, 71, 72
Jane, 73
John, 75, 76
Kath., 26, 32, 73, 74, 77
Aspinwall, 67, 78
Margaret, 73, 75, 76
Margery, 75, 76
'Mary, 13, 20, 21 n., 26, 27,
38, 40 n., 62, 67, 77, 78, 80
Ric., 3, 4, 5, 71, 73, 74, 75
Thos., 4, 5, 71, 75, 76
Thomasine, 73, 74, 75, 76
Wm., 5, 72, 73
arms, 27
pedigree, 71
Greene's House, 3, 4, 24, 25, 71,
74. 76, 77
Greenes Norton, 2 n.
Greensworth, Rob., 77 n.
Grimes, Mrs., 33
Groote, Mr. de, 49 n.
Grosvenor, Lady, 41, 48
Mr., 43
Sir Rob., 41, 43 n., 48
family, 31 '
Grote, Mr. La, 49 n.
Grout, 49
Gwersyllt, 52 .
H , Mr., 52
Habson, Capt., 53, 56
Hair, Miss, 53
Hale, i n., 10, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28 n.,
32, 40., 51, 66, 67, 68, 77,
78, 79
Hall, 10, 19 n., 27
Halsall, Edw., 25 n.
Hy., 72
Jane, 72
Thos., 72
Halsnead, 5, 71
Halton, 4, 74
Hambleton, Miss, 43, 54
Handel, 32, 34 ., 38 ., 57 n.
Hankins, Jas., 66
Har court, Capt., 44
Evelyn, 35 n.
Miss, 35, 39, 42, 43, 44, 46, 49,
5i 54. 56, 57. 59, 60, 65
Mrs., 35, 36, 42, 43, 44, 45,
46, 49, 53, 55, 57. 59
Simon, 35 n.
Viscount, 35 n.
Hardinge, Anne, 36 n.
Caleb, 36 n.
Jane, 50
Mrs., 36, 39, 52, 55, 59, 61
Nic., 36 n., 50
Hardman, John, 54, 63
Hardshaw, 10, 23 n.
Harrington, Chas., 19
John, 16 n.
Mr., 51
Percival, 72
H arrogate, 28, 32, 64
Harvey, Lady Louisa, 65 n.
Hassop, 48 n.
Haymarket Theatre, 42, 44, 45^., 54
85
INDEX
Hem, 65 n.
Henbury, 31, 35 n., 50 ., 53 n.,
65 .
H^nry IVth, 50
Hesketh, Alex., 12, 19
Martha, 34 .
Mr., 48, 52, 53
Thos., 34 n.
Hey (Win wick), 51 n.
Hickford's Rooms, 37, 48, 49, 56
Hill, Eliz., 72, 73
Miss, 41
Mr., 41
Mrs., 36, 41
Hilton Park, 41 n.
Hinchliffe, Frances, 35 n.
Miss, 35, 37, 43, 45, 46, 52, 57,
61
Thos., 35 .
Hind, Mr., 53, 56, 59
R..57
Hoadly, Dr., 37 n.
Hobson, Capt., 53, 56
Hogarth, 27, 36 n.
Hoghton, Sir Chas., 34 n.
Lucy, 34 n.
Hoghton Tower, 34 n.
Holer oft, 12
Hollinfare, 66
Hollis, Hannah, 17 ., 22 n., 49 n.
Miss, 49
Mr., 49, 58, 62
Thos., 17 n., 22 ., 49 n.
Holm Rook, 34 n., 37 n.
Holman, Mary, 60 n.
Miss, 60
Mrs., 60 .
Wm., 60 n.
Holmeschapel, 31, 33, 47
Holt, Miss, 52, 60
Hooton, 21
Hopegood, Miss, 53
Horton, 45 n.
Hospitallers of St. John, 16 n.
Hough, Anne, 75
Hugh, 75
Margaret, 75, 76
Peter, 75, 76
Wm., 75
Houghton, Ric., 73
Huddleston, Bridget, 40 n.
Gertrude, 50 n.
Miss, 50, 50 n.
Ric., 40 n.
86
Huddleston, Wm., 50 n.
Hudson, Thos., 27
Hulme, 52 n.
Hume, Lady Ann, 41, 42
Lady, 41
Mrs., 41, 42
Hunt, Mary, 36 n., 51 n.
Miss, 36, 38, 39 n., 52, 54
Ralph, 72
Thos., 36 n., 51 n.
family, 31
Hutt, 22
Huyton, 15, 25 n.
Hey, 16 n.
INCE, 8
Ince Blundell, 21
Inner Temple, 34 n.
Ireland, Sir Gilb., 22, 23, 77
arms, 28, 79 n.
Is field, 65 n.
JERROM, Jas., 77
Johns, Miss, 41
Johnson, Mr., 63
Thos., 12, 63 n.
Sir Thos., n
Johnstone, Sir Wm., 38 .
Jones, Miss, 38, 46, 57, 59, 61
Mrs., 37
Joshua, 38
Judas Maccabeus, 34
Judgment of Paris, The, 44
KENSINGTON, 17 n.
Kenwright, Margery, 73
Wm., 73
Kenyon, Rob., 25 n.
Kersall, 63 n.
Knaresborough, 32, 64
Knowles, Mr., 39
Knowsley, 15, 17 .
Kynnaird, Lord, 31, 48
LANCASTER, 37 n.
Lancaster, Ric., 5
Landwade, 41 n.
Latham, 15, 77 n.
Lathom, Hy., 74
Ric., 76
INDEX
Lawton, 33
Lawton, Daniel, 7, 8
Lee, Miss, 65
Leeds, 63, 66
Legay, Hannah, 49 n.
Isaac, 13, 15, 17 n., 35 n., 42 n.
49
Kath., 13, 15, 17 n., 42
Martha, 35 n., 49 n.
Peter, 17 n.
Peter, jun., 17 n.
Samuel, 13, 17 n.
Leigh, Miss, 37, 46
Mr., 46
Mrs., 35, 37, 45, 46
Lever arms, 79 n.
Leyland, 16 n.
Lichfield, 33, 47, 62
Light Oaks, 12
Lilford, Lord, 36 n.
Lincoln's Inn, 31, 48 n.
Litherland, Thos., 76
Wm., 74
Liverpool, i, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, n, 12,
14, 16 ., 21, 22, 25 ., 27, 30,
40 ., 49 n., 53 ., 76, 77
Liverpool Blue Coat Hospital, 24
Liverpool Lowe, 20
London, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 28, 29,
3, 31, 33, 47- 80
Lottery, The, 52
Lowe, Eliz., 73
Jane, 73
Lunt, 10, 23 n.
Lutwych, Ann, 34, 34 n.
Henry, 37 n.
Jane, 37 n.
Lucy, 34 n.
Miss, 31
Mr., 36, 37, 45, 59
Mrs., 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44,
46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54,
55, 57. 58, 59, 60
Thos., 34 n.
Lying Valet, The, 40
Lyon, Edmund, 74
Geo., 73
Thos., 75
Lytham, 31, 41 ., 43 n.
MACCLESFIELD, 40 n., 64 n.
Mackburnie, Jas., 16 n.
Macklin, 38 n.
Madden, Major, 63, 64, 65, 66
Malton, 64, 66
Man of the Mode, 54 n,
Manchester, 63
Mansfield, 36 n.
Marbury Hall, 41 n.
Marchmont, Earl of, 41 n.
Markland, Kitty, 39, 41, 42, 45, 46
Rev. Ric., 39 n.
Marrow, Joshua, 24
Marrow Charity, 24
Marsh, Lawrence, 72
Wm., 25 n.
Marshall, Nic., 72
Ric., 73
Marton, Mary, 37 n.
Oliver, 37 n.
Marylebone (Gardens'), 61
Masquerades, 45, 59
Matthew, Morgan, 16 n.
Matthewson, Geo., 72
Mrs., 72
Meade, Ellen, 75
Mereden, 62
Meredith, Amos, 35 ., 42 .
Anna, 42 n.
Elizabeth, 42 n.
Gertrude, 50 .
Harriet, 50
Henrietta, 42 n.
Joanna, 35 n.
Martha, 42 n.
Mary, 42 n.
Miss, 42, 46, 49, 51, 53, 54,
57. 60
Mrs., 35, 36, 38, 40, 43, 50
Patty, 50, 52, 53
Sir Wm., 35 n., 42 n., 50, 50 .,
53. 65 n.
family, 31
Merton, 49 n.
Meynell, Isaac, 12 n.
Middle Temple, 57
Mildenhall, 43 n.
Millom Castle, 40 n., 50 n.
Milner, Eliz., 74
John, 74
Margaret, 74
Thos., 74
Thomasine, 74
Miss in her Teens, 56
Modena, Duke of, 32, 6l
Mollineux, Mrs., 21, 37
Mottington, 31, 36 n., 51 n.
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INDEX
Molyneux, Dorothy F., 43 n.
Jane, 37 n.
Lord, 9, 17, 18, 19, 41 n., 43 n.,
63 n.
Maria, 37 n.
Mary, 37 ., 63 n.
Rigby, 37 n.
Thos., 37 n.
Sir Wm., 4
Molyneux Estate Act, 18
Moore, Sir Cleeve, 7, 8
Ed., 38 .
Hy., 72 n.
Sir John, 7, 8
Moreton, 51 n.
NANTWICH, 51 n.
Neale, Mrs., 39
New Hall, 18
Newburgh, Countess of, 31, 48
Earl of, 48 n.
Newcastle (Staff.), 33, 47, 62
Newton-le-Willows, 51
Norris, Ed., 12
Eliz., 12 n.
Lady, 12
Mary, 51 n.
Miss, 32
Ric., 8, ii, 12, 14, 19, 22 n.
23 n., 78
Thos., 51 n.
Sir Wm., 12
arms, 12
MSS., 12
Northampton, Earl of, 48, 48 .
Northey, Sir Ed., 57 n.
Miss, 61
Mrs., 57, 61
Northwick, Lord, 48 n.
Norton, 34 n., 51 ., 68
OGLE family, 15, 1 8
Roll, 5 n.
Orford, 26, 27, 67, 78, 79
Orme, Eliz., 25 n.
Ormskirk, 25 n.
Othello, 42, 44
Oxford, Countess of, 56 n.
Earl of, 56 n.
PALL MALL, 36
Panton, Miss, 64, 65
Mr., 64, 65
88
Panton, Mrs., 65
Panton Street, 37 n.
Parr, Miss, 60
Patten, Frances, 34 n.
Miss, 34, 35
Thos., 34 n.
family, 31
Paul, Miss, 51, 60, 6 1
Mr., 51
Paulet, Lady, 51
Paultons, 50 n.
Pendleton, Wm., 73
Penny, Mr., 39, 40
Perriz, Mrs., 37, 59
Petersham, Lady Car., 41 n.
Pictures, Enamelled, 49, 50
Pitt, Mrs. Geo., 60 n.
William, 31, 56, 57, 59 (twice)
Poirier (?), Mr., 61
Pollexfen, Nic., 12 n.
Poole, Bridget, 40 n.
Sir Jas., 40 n.
Mr., 49, 59
Mrs., 40, 46, 49, 50, 54, 56, 60, 61
Rowland, 40 n., 50 .
family, 31
Poole, 40 n.
Potter, Hamnet, 72
Poulton Lancelyn, i, 2
Pratt, Ann (Lady Dacre), 35 n.,
50 n.
Jane, 50 n.
Sir John, 35 n., 50 .
Prescot, passim
Court Rolls, 75 n., 76
Preston, 21, 31, 34 n., 38 n.
Preston, Miss, 42
Mrs., 42, 55
Pi ice, Chas., 80
Sarah B. F., 80
Prince Charles Edward, 43 n.
Princes, The young, 50
Princess Augusta, 50
Elizabeth, 50
Pritchard, Kath., 75, 76
Mr., 46
Mrs., 37, 52
Roger, 75
Probyn, Sir Edmund, 9
Provok'd Husband, The, 40
Pull Court, 39 n.
Pulteney, Dan., 38 n
Frances, 38 n
Miss, 38, 51
INDEX
Pulteney, Sir Wm., 38 n.
family, 31
Pusey, Mr., 39, 51, 57, 59
Pyke, Edw., 72
John, 72
Margaret, 72
Thos., 72
Rosbottom, Jas., 25 n.
Roughley, Thos., 14
Ruff or d, 34 n., 48 n.
Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, 60 n.
Rushout (Rushit), Sir John, 48 .
Miss, 48
Ryan (actor), 54 n.
QUEEN SQUARE CHURCH, 49
Queen St. Chapel, 35, 36, 49, 53
Quin, Jas., 50
RADBOURNE, 62
Radcliffe, Chas., 31, 48 n.
Lady Mary, 31, 48, 60 n.
family, 43 n.
Radnor, Earl of, 36 n., 39 n.
Rainhill, passim.
Ranelagh Gardens, 30, 36 ., 42,
43. 44. 45. 46. 5 2 - 54. 55. 5 6 -
58, 59, 60, 61
(Liverpool) , 30
Red Hassles (Huyton), 15, 22
Red Lion Square, 44
Redgrave, 43 n.
Reginello, 45
Reynolds, Francis, 51 n.
Sir Joshua, 27
Miss, 51
Riddlesden, 34 n.
Ridotto, 36, 36 n., 41, 48, 50, 53
Rigby, Margaret, 25 n.
Simon, 25 n.
Wm., 25 n.
Ripon, 64
Ripon, Marquess of, 37 n., 64 n.
Ripondale, 63
Robartes (Roberts), Mary, 36 n.
Miss, 39, 40, 44, 46
Robinson, Dorothy, 37 n.
Miss, 49
Mrs., 37, 40, 45, 52, 55, 61
Sir Tancred, 37 n., 64 n.
Sir Wm., 37 n., 64 n.
Roby, Lawrence, 73
Thomasine, 73
Rochdale, 54 n., 63, 66
Rochford, Lady, 60 n.
Rodbard, Ann, 68, 79
arms, 79 n.
Romeo and Juliet, 55
Romsey, 50 n.
ST. ALB AN s, 33, 46, 47, 50 .
St. Albans, Duke of, 51 n.
St. Andrew's (Holborn), 52
St. Dunstan's (West), 17 ., 36
St. James's Park, 59 n.
St. Nicholas' Church (Liverpool), 2
Salisbury, Marquess of, i, 3, 14,
24, 26, 27, 80
Sandwich, 35 .
Scarborough, 26, 28, 32, 63, 64,
66, 78
Scarisbrick, John, 43 n.
Mary, 43 n.
family, 19
Scarisbrick, 19
Scott, Anne, 38 n.
Lady Isabel, 38
Sedley, Sir Chas., 53, 60 .
Eliz., 60 n.
Sefton, 10, 1 8, 23 n.
Sefton, Earl of, 37 .
Servandoni, Chevalier, 57 n.
Shakerley, Frances, 52 n.
Geo., 52 n.
Miss, 52
Sharrock, Kath., 73, 74
Ric., 73, 74
Shaw, Betty, 62 n.
John, 62 n.
Miss, 54, 57
Ric., 73
Sheeson (?) Green, 16 n.
Sheffield, 49 n.
Shepley, Alice, 73
Eliz., 73
Hugh, 73, 74
Shingleton, John, 73
Shirley, Geo., 45 n.
Mary, 45 n.
Miss, 43
Shore, Miss, 57
Short, Mrs., 55
Shuttleworth, Anne, 43 .
Mr., 48
Ric., 43 .
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INDEX
Shuttleworth family, 12
Skath, Jas., 25 n.
Smith, Dorothy, 41 n.
Hugh, 34 n., 41 n.
John, 53 n.
Kath., 53 n.
Lady Louisa, 65
Lucy, 34 n.
Miss, 53
Sir Rob., 65
Smyth, Sir Rob., 65 n.
Solly, Ann, 22 n.
John, 35 ., 49 n.
Martha, 17 n., 35 n., 49 n.
Mr., 61
Mrs., 35, 36, 39, 49, 57, 61
Nic., 17 n.
Ric., 22 n., 35 n.
Sam, 57
Southfleet, 53 n.
Spanish Friar, The, 55
Speke, ii, 12, 13, 32, 51 .
Spence, Mrs., 36
Thos., 36 n.
Spencer, Lady Diana, 61 n.
Spranger, Mrs., 38, 46, 49, 50,
58,61
Stafford, John, 64 .
Lucy, 64 n.
Mrs., 64, 65
Standish, John, 73
Kath., 53 .
Lady, 53
Thos., 24, 25, 53 n.
Sir Thos., 53 n.
Stanley, Betty, 62 .
Lady Charlotte, 50
Elizabeth, 64 n.
Geo., 50 n.
Hans, 50
Lady, 12, 34, 36, 37, 39, 4. 43,
48, 49, 52, 53, 56, 59, 60
Lady Isabel, 37 n., 46
Margaret, 37 ., 46, 50
Mary, 37 n., 46
Miss, 51
Mr., 59
Mrs., 54, 56, 60, 61, 62
Thos., 62 n.
Rev. Thos., 62
family, 21
Stanton, 36 ., 37 ., 40
Starkie, Edmund, 21 .
Mr., 37, 61
90
Starkie, Mrs., 34, 35, 36, 37. 38, 39,
40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49,
5. 5 1 - 53- 54- 55. 5 6 . 57. 58.
59, 61
Nic., 21 ., 34 n.
Sarah, 34 n.
Thos., 21 n.
Stocke, Ra., 74
Stone, 33, 47, 62
Stoney Stratford, 33, 47, 62
Strafford, Countess of, 52, 52 n.,
60 n.
Earl of, 52 n.
Strange, Lady, 31, 34, 35, 36,
39, 41 n., 43, 46, 48, 50, 52,
53. 56, 58
Lord, 31, 34 n., 38 n., 40, 48,
50 n.
Strangeways, 51 n.
Studley Royal, 32, 64
Sturt, Geo., 43
Humph., 45 n.
Mary, 45 n.
Molly, 45, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 59
Suspicious Husband, The, 37
Sussex, 13
Sutton, 10, 23 n., 25 ., 75
Sutton, Savage, 25
TALK o' w HILL, 33, 62
Tarbocke, Wm., 76
Tatton, Lucy, 64 .
Mr., 65
Wm., 64 n.
Taylor, Miss, 63
Mr., 66, 67
Mrs., 50, 63
Terry, Mr., 58
Thompson, Hy., 25 n.
Thornhill, Anne, 36 n
Dorothy, 37 .
Eliz., 56 n.
John, 36 n., 37 n., 40 n., 56 n.
Kitty, 56
Miss, 36, 39, 44
Mrs., 40
Peggy, 56, 60
Thornton, 10, 23 n., 43 n.
Tichburn, Miss, 39, 49, 56
Tildesley, 63 n.
Tilson, Oliver, 39 n.
Towcester, 33, 47
Tower of Liverpool, 16 n.
INDEX
Townshend, Horatio, 51 .
John, 65 n.
Letitia, 51 n.
Mr., 65
Toxteth Park, 40 n.
Traves, Matt., 72
Trecothick, Anne, 42 n.
Barlow, 42 n.
Tucker, Adrian, 25 n.
Tufnell, Mrs., 49
Tunstall, Ann, 25 n.
Edmund, 25 n.
Turner, Sir Ed., 48
Mrs., 65
Tumor, Chas., 53 n.
Jane, 53 n.
Turnstile, 39, 55
Turt, Molly, 45
Mrs., 39
(see Sturt)
Tyldesley, Thos., 12
Tyrer, Geo., 16 n.
Thos., 25 n.
VALE ROYAL, 35 n.
Vanbrugh, Sir John, 64 n.
Vane, Hon. Fredk., 42 n.
Henrietta, 42 n.
Vauxhall Gardens, 30, 36 n., 57,
61
Vernon, Mr., 41
Virgin Umask'd, The, 37
WAINWRIGHT, John, 75
Wales, Fredk., Prince of, 50 n.
Walkingshall, Capt., 60
Walkinshaw, Clementina, 60 n.
Waller, Mrs., 52
Walls, John, 25, 76
Thos., 71
Walpole, Horace, 30, 34 n., 35 n.,
38 n., 41 n., 58 n., 61 n.
Sir Rob., 34 n.
Walthamstow, 57
Walton-on-the-Hill, 40 n.
Walton, Mi., 39, 42, 43, 45, 56, 57
Warburton, Lady Eliz., 64, 65, 66
Mr., 41, 48, 53, 54, 55, 65
Sir Peter, 64 ., 65
Wareing, Ric., 16 n.
Warkworth Castle, 60 n.
Warre, Jane, 41 n.
Warrington, 19 ., 32, 33, 47, 62,
63, 66
Warrington, Eliz., 56 n.
Geo., 56 n.
Miss, 56, 59, 61
Wavertree, i n., 9, 15, 16, 20, 23,
23 n., 80
Common , 20
Weaver, River, 21
Webster, Hugh, 73
Margaret, 73, 74
Thos., 72, 73
Welford, 56 n.
Wentworth, Anna Maria, 43 n.
Frances, 35 n.
Godfrey, 35 n., 43 n.
Julia, 61 n.
Miss, 35, 37, 40, 41, 48, 49,
5. 53. 55
Sir Wm., 61 n.
West Derby, i n., 9, 15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 20, 23 n., 25 n., 80
Wapentake Court, 18
Waste Lands, 21, 27 n.
West Indies, u
West Stoke, 13, 17 n., 35 n., 42 n.
Wetherby, , 72
Geo., 71, 72 n.
Peter, 72 n.
Whalley, Mr., 39
Wharton, Mr., 59
Wheatsheaf Inn (Covent Garden),
35
Whiston, passim
Widnes, 3, 74
Wig an, 53 n.
Wilbraham, Eliz., 51 n.
Mary, 51 n.
Miss, 51
Mr., 51
Roger, 51 n.
Wild, Miss, 58
Williams, Edw., 13
Kath., 13
Lady Watkin, 31, 52
Winckley, Thos., 77 n.
Windle, 10, 23 n.
Windsor, 14
Winford, Harriet, 45
Miss, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43,
44. 45. 46
Mr., 38, 41, 46, 58
Mrs., 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41,
42, 43, 44, 45, 46
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INDEX
Winford, Sir Thos., 35 n.
Winick, Mrs., 35, 36, 41, 49, 52,
57, 60, 62
Winmarleigh, 34 .
Winstanley , 42. n.
Winwick, 12, 51 n., 62 n.
Wirral, i
Woffington, Peg, 32, 38 n., 51,
54
Wolseley Bridge, 33, 47, 62
Wood, Mary, 49 .
Woods, Wm., 25 ., 75
Woo//ey, 35 n.
Woolrich, , 4
Woolton Hall, 63 .
Little, i, 9, 15, 16, 23, 80
Much, i, 9, 15, 16, 23, 80
Worcester, 35 n., 39 .
Wordew, 1 6 .
Worsley, Ric., 72
Worth, Miss, 51, 60
Wotton, 35 n.
Wrexham, 56 n.
Wright, Miss, 43
Wyke, Rob., 72 .
Wynn, Lady Watkin W., 31
Sir , 52 n.
Wythenshaw, 64 n., 65 n.
Wyver, Miss, 53
YATES, Ric., 56
Yong, Miss, 39
York, 32, 62 n., 64, 66
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