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CHAPTER VI.
THE PEDIGREES OF ANCIENT FAMILIES.
ALLEN OF ROSSALL HALL.
The Allens who resided at Rossall Hall for a period
of more than half a century, and by intermarriage
became connected with the Westbys of Mowbreck,
the Heskeths of Mains, and the Gillows of Bryning,
sprang from the county of Stafford. At the time of the
Protestant Reformation, George Allen, of Brookhouse, in
the division just mentioned, held a long lease of the Grange
and Hall of Rossall from a kinsman of his family, one of the
abbots of Deulacres, a Staffordshire monastery, to which the
estate had been granted by King John. George Allen at his
death left one son, John, who resided at the Hall, and subsequently
married Jane, the sister of Thomas Lister, of Arnold
Biggin, in Yorkshire. The offspring of this marriage were
Richard, William, Gabriel, George, who espoused Elizabeth,
the daughter of William Westby, of Mowbreok; Mary, afterwards
the wife of Thomas Worthington, of Blainscow; Elizabeth,
subsequently the wife of William Hesketh, of Mains Hall; and
Anne, who married George Gillow, of Bryning. Richard Allen,
of Rossall Hall, the eldest son, left at his demise a widow with
three daughters, named respectively, Helen, Catherine, and Mary,
who were deprived of their possessions and rights in the Grange
in the year 1583 by Edmund Fleetwood, whose father had
purchased the reversion of the lease from Heury VIII., at the
time when the larger monastic institutions were dissolved in
