 In 1705 Lord Gerard conveyed the manor to trustees to be sold for the payment of debts.The manor of Preston-on-the-Hill passed to the Fleetwood family by whom it was conveyed to the Grevilles who sold it to Thomas Brock of Chester and then he bequeathed it to Thomas Yates his nephew.He held the manor at the time that George Ormerod wrote his History of the County Palatine and City of Chester in 1817.