Ann was locked in her room but escaped through the window with an improvised rope and joined Edward who pulled her across the moat and went to Wardley Hall and were married.

[4] After the Reformation, the family of Sir Thomas Tyldesley were recussants and allowed Ambrose Barlow, a Catholic priest who ministered to those who kept the old faith in the Leigh parish, to say mass at Morleys.

The old hall and some land was bought by Josiah Wilkinson, who left it to his son John; the rest was purchased by Thomas Lyon.

The Morleys estate was bought by Tyldesley Urban District Council in the early 20th century to build a sewage works.

[3] John Leland visited Morleys in 1540 and referred to the house as "an all timber building on stone foundations which rises six feet above the water of a great moat".