ECCLESTON

ECCLESTON. Parishes and townships in cos. Lancaster and Chester. An ancient family were seated at Eccleston in the latter shire, temp. Henry III., and continued in possession until the last generation when it was sold, and the estate of Scarisbrick, with the name acquired by marriage about the same i)eriod. Sliirley's Noble and Gentle Men of England, p. "ll7.

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