[Footnote 88: Lancashire is said to have enjoyed the privilege of a palatinate in the time of Roger de Poictou, but the evidence is not convincing.] [Footnote 89: So described on his tomb in Westminster Abbey.] [Footnote 90: Baines' "History of Lancashire," i. 45 (second edition).] [Footnote 91: The records of this court are preserved in the Record Office.] [Footnote 92: In 1850 the revenue account of the duchy shows a very long list of estates in many counties. One half of the whole yearly income was, however, derived from Salford, the largest rent being £285 for land in Pendleton. The Corporation of Salford still pay in lieu of tolls a fixed rent of £5 a year. In 1850 the payments from the duchy to the Queen amounted to £12,000, which in 1893 had increased to £48,000.] [Footnote 93: See Baines' "History of Lancashire," i. 57 (second edition).] [Footnote 94: Meyrick's "Ancient Armour," i. 137.] [Footnote 95: Report of Deputy-Keeper of Public Records, xxxiii. 21.] [Footnote 96: Stubbs's "Select Charters," p. 40.] [Footnote 97: See "The Parliamentary Representation of Lancashire," by W. J. Pink.] [Footnote 98: See "History of Rochdale," p. 33.] [Footnote 99: Baines' "History of Lancashire," ii. 359 (second edition).] [Footnote 100: Report of Deputy-Keeper of Public Records, xxxii. 354.] [Footnote 101: See detailed account of the plan of this castle in _Lanc. and Ches. Hist. Soc._, vol. vi., new series.] [Footnote 102: Record Office, Roll of Fines, etc., chap. xxv., A 7, No. 14; also Coucher Book of Furness.] [Footnote 103: Turton Tower, near Bolton, claims to be a very ancient foundation, but as its name never occurs in the ancient charters heretofore discovered, it appears doubtful if it dates back beyond the fifteenth century.] [Illustration] CHAPTER VII. LANCASHIRE IN THE TIME OF THE TUDORS (A.D. 1485-1603). As soon as Henry VII. was firmly seated on the throne, he proceeded to reverse the attainders which his predecessor had passed against certain of the prominent adherents of the House of Lancaster, and at the same time confiscating the estates of (amongst others) Sir Thomas Pilkington, Lord Robert Harrington and Sir James Harrington, all of whom took part in the battle of Bosworth Field, and were natives of Lancashire, their properties were nearly all at once given to Lord Stanley, who was at the same time created Earl of Derby, and elected a member of the King's Privy Council. Not ten years after this, Sir William Stanley, brother of the Earl, became mixed up with the Perkin Warbeck rebellion, and notwithstanding the influence of the latter, he was arraigned upon a charge of high treason, and, being found guilty, was executed on February 15, 1495; his chief seat was at Holt Castle, in Denbighshire.