Note 43 — Chapter III · JAMES THE FIRST TO QUEEN VICTORIA.
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From a M.S. of Peter Le Neve., Norroy, among the collection of Mr. Joseph Ames. The knights of this order were to wear a silver medal ornamented with a device of the King in the Oak, suspended by a ribbon from their necks. The following is a list of persons in the county of Lancashire who were considered fit and qualified to be made Knights of this Order with the value of their estates:—
Thomas Holt per annum £1000
Thomas Greenhalgh ” 1000
Colonel Kirkby ” 1500
Robert Holt ” 1000
Edmund Asheton ” 1000
Christopher Banister ” 1000
Francis Anderton ” 1000
Col. James Anderton ” 1500
Robert Nowell ” 1000
Henry Norris ” 1200
John Girlington ” 1000
Thomas Preston ” 2000
Thomas Farrington of Worden ” 1000
Thomas Fleetwood of Penwortham ” 1000
William Stanley ” 1000
Edward Tyldesley ” 1000
Thomas Stanley ” 1000
Richard Boteler (Butler) ” 1000
John Ingleton, senior ” 1000
⸺ Walmsley of Dunkenhalgh ” 2000