forth. The Countess of Montfort came to see them, and received them with great joy."—

     Froissart

    , by Col. Johnes, vol. ii. p. 9.

    The Butlers continued to occupy Bewsey till the year 1603, when Edward Butler sold this estate to the Irelands of Hale. It then passed from the Irelands to the Athertons, and is now enjoyed by Thomas Powis, Lord Lilford, of Lilford, Northamptonshire, in virtue of the

    marriage of his father, in the year 1797, with Henrietta Maria, daughter and heiress of Robert Vernon Atherton, of Atherton Hall, Esq.—

     Vide

    Baines's

     Lancashire

    .

   Oh listen to my roundelay,

    Oh listen a while to me,

   And I'll tell ye of a deadly feud

    That fell out in the north countrie.

   The summer leaves were fresh and green

    When Earl Derby forth would ride;

   For King Henry and his company

    To Lathom briskly hied.

   A bridge he had builded fair and strong,

    With wondrous cost and pain,

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