Cudworth (sixth son of John Cudworth, Esq., of Werneth), who was distinguished as the supreme civil
judge of the fleet, afterwards designated "the unsuccessful fleet," in consequence of the great object of the undertaking having failed.

Joshua Cudworth, Esq., son of Joshua Cudworth, Esq., and nephew of the Naval Judge, sold Werneth about 1685, to Sir Ralph Assheton, of Middleton, Bart., on whose death, May 3rd, 1716, it became the property of Thomas Lister, Esq., of Arnoldsbigging and Gisborn Park, in Yorkshire, as a part of the portion of his lady Catherine, second daugher and co-heiress of Sir Ralph Assheton. John, eldest son of Joshua Cudworth, Esq., is said to have settled in Dublin, where his son John, or Joshua, was living in 1776. Thomas Lister, Esq., was the fifteenth of his family in descent from John Lister, of Derby, living in 1312, who married Isabel, heiress of John de Bolton, bowbarer, of Bowland. Mr.Lister, who died in 1745, was father of Thomas Lister, Esq. (died 1761), father of Thomas Lister, Esq., afterwards Lord Ribblesdale, who, on the 24th March, 1792, five years previous to his elevation to the peerage, sold the estate of Werneth, to Messrs. Parker and Sidebottom, of London, for the sum of £25,500; - the two joint purchasers sold the property on the 1st of May, 1795, to John Lees,Esq., cotton manufacturer, of Church-lane, Oldham, for £30,000. At the time of the taking of the Testa de Nevill survey 1320 - 1340, the annual value of the estate would be about £1 5s., which would form an aggregate value of £31 5s. This property consists of 102 acres of land, exclusive of 152, at and near Greenacres-moor, various chief rents with valuable minerals, chiefly of coal, and extensive common rights. The present annual value of the property is about £3,000. The late John Lees, Esq., was the son of Daniel Lees, a farmer and manufacturer, at Barrowshaw, in Oldham, and was brother of Daniel Lees, Esq., of Bankside, manufacturer. He erected Church-lane mill, and

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