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About Nicholas Assheton
Nicholas Assheton (1590–1625), a country squire and writer who lived at Downham, Lancashire, near Clitheroe, is noteworthy on account of a brief diary which he left. It illustrates the character of the country life of that part of West Lancashire which is associated with the poet Edmund Spenser. Assheton belonged to a branch of the Assheton family of Middleton, in the same county, and was the son of Richard Assheton, of Downham.
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- diarist
- Born
- 1590
- Died
- 1625