[13] Then follows the
account, more particularly developed in our own story, of the adventures
and moving accidents which have been liberally used to adorn the
"Garland" of his descendant William, Earl of Derby. "For many
generations this was the recognised chronicle of the family, until, in
the time of James the First, a clergyman of Chester translated the
rhymes of the Bishop into English, carefully retaining the mistakes of
the original, and adding long and dull disquisitions of his own."
In the days of our valiant King Edward, while the fame of Cressy and
Poictiers was fresh and stirring in all true and loyal hearts, while the
monarchs of two powerful kingdoms were held captive in these realms,
lived a worthy knight, of whom we had a brief notice in the preceding
narrative. Sir Thomas Lathom of Lathom was a nobleman of great wealth
and possessions. According to the Calendarium Rotulorum from the Charter
Rolls in the Tower, he held lands, besides, in Knouselegh, Childewall,
Roby, and Aulusargh. In Liverpool, he was proprietor of the tower, a
structure of but little note until rebuilt and fortified by Sir John
Stanley during his government in Ireland, of which we shall have more to
say anon.
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