Apparently the former of these has been hereditary in the Flushing family since the conquest," indicating a (so-called) Norman descent. Lancashire seems to have been the English cradle of this race. It is stated in i4 Burke's Commoners," under the head of Delafield, that Hubertusde la Feld held lands there, (presumibly for military services) in the Third of William I. and that others of the name were proprietors in the same bounty during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In the "Concher book of Whalley Abbey " which has been published by the Chatham Society is a deed of Adam, son of Henry Delffeld of a house and lands at Falenge in Rochdale, Lancashire, and a quit claim of the same by Adam's son Robert. These documents are not dated ; but from surrounding circumstances the time of their execution can be approximately fixed as the middle of the thirteenth century. It was most certainly before the fourteenth, for the Abbey was at the date of these documents at Stanlaw, where it's buildings were mostly burnt in 12S9, and in 1296 all it's community had removed to Whalley. Rochdale stands near the Yorkshire border, and the high road from it to Halifax passes Sowerby in this

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county, which is some ten miles from the former town. Sowerby was in the great manor of Wakefield, which was thirty miles in length. The rolls of this manor exist from about the beginning of the fourteenth century. From the earlier part of them, to about 1650 the dehTelds, or Fields, are repeatedly mentioned. The first entry in 1306, is of a suit of Richard delffeld of Sowerly vs. Robert, son of William de Sattonstall. In 1307 Thomas delffeld of Sowerby was a juror, and in the following year Richard, son of Roger delffeld, held that same position.