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“At the East end of the North aisle of Bolton Priory Church, is a chantry belonging to Bethmesly Hall, and a vault where, according to tradition, the Claphams” (who inherited this estate, by the female line, from the Mauleverers) “were interred upright.” John de Clapham, of whom this ferocious act is recorded, was a man of great note in his time: “he was a vehement partisan of the house of Lancaster, in whom the spirit of his chieftains, the Cliffords, seemed to survive.”