The Stanleys, Lords Stanley, and Earls of Derby, 1385-1672: The Origins, Wealth, and Power of a Landowning Family |
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2nd series August Bradshaigh burgesses Burghley Burscough Castle Cheshire Chester Childwall commission Countess countess of Derby court crown debts deputy lieutenants Derby's duchy duke Earl Charles Earl Edward Earl Henry Earl James earl of Derby Earl William earl's eighth earl Elizabeth English February Ferdinando fifth earl Flintshire fourth earl gentry granted heirs Henry VII History House Ireland island Isle July king king's Knowsley Lancashire Lancashire and Cheshire Lancaster land landowners later Lathom leases Liber Scac Liverpool London Lord Stanley Lord Strange Macclesfield manor Manx Museum March marriage Molyneux north-west England parliament parliamentary peerage privy council reign Rigby royal royalist second earl settlement seventeenth centuries shire Sir John Stanley Sir Richard Shireburn Sir Thomas Sir William Stanley sixteenth and seventeenth sixteenth century sixth earl society SP Hen Stanley estates Stanley household Stanley Papers Stanley's Statutes steward Strange's tenants third earl tithes town trustees Tudor Yorkshire