Pedigrees and Coats of Arms of Prominent Families in Cheshire and Lancashire

Archive Unit

Scope and Content

The contents of the volume, which contains emblazoned coats of arms, include:

  • notes on the tenure of Nether Alderley (p. 26);
  • the descent of the Earls of Chester from Robert Duke of Normandy (pp. 32-33);
  • pedigrees of the Stanley of Alderley family (pp. 46-77);
  • an account of Sir William Stanley, knight, of the Holt Castle in Denbighshire (+ 1495) (pp. 78-183);
  • grant of £5 p.a. by Sr Peter Warberton to Butler's free school at Warrington, 1612;
  • copies of inquisitions post mortem of various members of the Stanley family (pp. 230-276);
  • contents, index, etc. (p. 277).
 Old number, 66.