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A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 2. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1908.
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20. LATHOM ALMSHOUSE
This was a foundation, similar to the last, for a chaplain and eight bedesmen, founded by the second Earl of Derby in 1500. It also survived .the Reformation, or was soon refounded, and exists to the present time. (fn. 1)