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Excerpt from The Rent Roll of Sir John Towneley of Towneley, Knight, for Burnley, Ightenhill, &C., In the County Palatine of Lancaster: Anno Domini 1535-6; With an Introduction and Notes
HE various items constituting the income Of the Lan cashire estate of Sir John Towneley Of Towneley, Knight, here printed, are contained in a well-preserved vellum roll, consisting Of four membranes, each being about a yard and a half in length, and six inches in Width, and was probably the steward's annual account. It is] legibly written by a methodical and practised scribe on one Side only, although his financial report is not very exact. It was formerly in the possession Of Edmund Assheton of Chaderton, Esq., a contemporary and probably the Auditor Of the estate; and on the death Of his last male descendant of Chaderton, in 1731, it passed from the family. I have placed it in the Chetham Library.
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