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| | Bolton History, Lancashire genealogy |
 | | Bolton, or Bolton-le-Moors, a market-town and parish, in the hundred of Salford, in the deanery of Manchester, and in the archdeaconry of Chester, is 197 miles from London, 12 south of Blackburn, 11 northwest of Manchester, the like distance south-east of Chorley, and 6 w.s.w. |
 | | In 1651 a reverse in the fortune of war was the means of conducting the earl to Bolton, as a condemned criminal, when his blood was shed upon the scaffold; his remains were conveyed to Ormskirk, and interred in the family vault of the Stanleys. |
 | | All Saints chapel, in Little Bolton, is in the patronage of the lord of the manor, and incumbency of the Rev. |
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