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1st s. of Thomas Farington of Worden and 1st w. Mabel, da. and coh. of George Benson of Hugill, Westmld. m. by Aug. 1607 (settlement 28 May 1609, with £500), Margaret (bur. 3 Jan. 1660), da. of Henry Worrall of Wysall, Notts. 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.).Lancs. RO, DDF/1058, 1062; DDF/Box/24, will of William Farington 1657; Farington Pprs. ed. S.M. Farington (Chetham Soc. o.s. xxxix), iii-iv; Baines, Lancs. iv. 169-70; Reg. Bk. of Leyland ed. W.S. White (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xxi), 188. suc. fa. Oct. 1622. bur. 20 Apr. 1658 20 Apr. 1658.Reg. Bk. of Leyland ed. White, 3, 181.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Preston by 1602–?d.;Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 54, 78, 111. Wigan by Mar. 1640–?d.;Sinclair, Wigan, i. 216. Liverpool 1 Oct. 1640-bef. Jan. 1645.Chandler, Liverpool, 269, 329.

Local: j.p. Lancs. 1618–4 Aug. 1646.D.J. Wilkinson, ‘The commission of peace in Lancs. 1603–42’, in Seventeenth-Century Lancs. ed. J.I. Kermode, C.B. Phillips, Trans. Historic Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, cxxxii. 64. Capt. militia horse by Apr. 1628–?;Lancs. RO, DDN/1/64, ff. 46–7, 112; QSC/4–38. col. militia ?ft. by 4 July 1642–?Farington Pprs. ed. Farington, 78–9. Commr. knighthood fines, 19 June 1631.J.P. Earwaker, ‘Obligatory knighthood temp. Chas. I’ (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xii), 199. Sheriff, 1635–6.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 73. Dep. lt. 12 Feb. 1638–?Lancs. RO, DF/388. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), 11 June 1642.Farington Pprs. ed. Farington, 77.

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FARINGTON, William (d. 1658), of Worden, Leyland, Lancs.
: of Worden, Leyland, Lancs.
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Commons 1640-1660
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FARINGTON, William (d. 1658), of Worden, Leyland, Lancs.

Will
4 June 1657.Lancs. RO, DDF/Box/24.
Estates
in 1610, inherited from his gra. an estate inc. capital messuages of Penwortham and Worden and property in Aughton, Becconsall, Bickerstaffe, Bretherton, Eccleston, Howick, Hutton, Leyland, Longton, Ormskirk, Penwortham, Preston, Ulnes Walton, Whittingham and Whittle-le-Woods, Lancs.Lancs. RO, DDF/1062, 1446; Lancs. IPM ed. J.P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. iii), 180-5. In 1649, estate inc. lands, mills and leases in Farington, Penwortham, Shaw Hall and Worden, Lancs., valued at £221 p.a.Lancs. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.H. Stanning (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xxvi), 287. Estate at his d. inc. manor of Penwortham; manor, manor house (Littlewood) and demesne lands of Ulnes Walton; and lease of a mill and kiln in Ulnes Walton, Lancs.Lancs. RO, DDF/Box/24, will of William Farington 1657; Blackwood, Lancs. 120. In 1675, grandson’s estate valued at £1,131 p.a.B. G. Blackwood, ‘The economic state of the Lancs. gentry on the eve of the civil war’, NH xii. 55.
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