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FEUDAL BARONAGE

grandson of John Fleetwood of Penwortham, and of Joan, eldest daughter of the first Thomas Langton, kt.^[1] Thomas Fleetwood, bart., son and heir of Richard Fleetwood, the first baronet of Colwick, sold the reputed barony of Newton with the members in 1660 to Richard Legh of Lyme, esq., for a consideration of £3,500, having previously alienated to the same purchaser other portions of his estates in the years 1655-6-7.^[2] From Mr. Legh the reputed barony has descended to his present representative, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, second Baron Newton (cr. 1892), who is the twenty-fourth reputed baron of Newton-in-Makerfield in succession from Robert Banastre, the first grantee.

1. Chetham Soc. xcix. 93-100; ibid. li. (Old Ser.), 246-255. A pedigree of the Langton family will be found in Baines, Hist. of Lancs, ed. Croston, iv. 382-3; and of Legh of Lyme and Golborne, 384-90.
2. MS. Abstr. of title, penes W. Farrer.