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Hoghton and Frances his wife to William Shaw the 

 younger." The present lord is stated to be Mr. 

 William Cross of Red Scar in Grimsargh. 



In 1357 the tenants of Dilworth and those of 

 Ribchester arrived at a settlement of various disputes 

 as to the wastes and common rights." 



Few of the minor landowners' names occur, but 

 some of those in Ribchester seem to have held in this 

 township also. The Knights Hospitallers had some 

 land." Dilworth" and Moton," Catterall 14 and 

 Ravenshaw," have left some record of themselves." 

 Later the Cottam family, who seem to have had the 

 mill, became prominent.** Of this family was the 

 B. Thomas Cottam executed for his priesthood 



RIBCHESTER 



in 1582." Whitacre if named as if it were a 

 hamlet." 



In 1788 the principal owners were John Cottam, 

 double assessed for his religion, Margaret Wharton 

 and William Bowen. 



Longridge Church is in Alston ; it has a chapel of 

 ease in Dilworth, St. Paul's, built in 1890. 



The Wesleyan Methodists opened their first chapel 

 in 1836. It was called Mount Zion, and situated on 

 the Alston side of the boundary. The present chapel 

 was built in 1884-5." The Particular Baptists had a 

 Sunday service in 1888." The Congregationalism 

 began to hold meetings in 1860, the minister of 

 Knowl Green leading ; the chapel was built in 1865." 



" Pl. of Line. Feet of F. bdle. 387, 

 m. 114. 



" Add. MS. 32106, no. 763. Sir 

 Adam de Hoghton, Thomas ton of Sir 

 Adam Banattre, William de Hornby, 

 rector of Ribcheiter, Robert de Singleton 

 the elder, Richard de Catterall and Richard 

 de Knoll are the tenants of Dilworth 

 named ; those of Ribchester including 

 William de Whalley, Adam Bibby, Henry 

 de Kuerdcn, Robert Moton, Simon de 

 Pretton. Ribcheiter it called a Till and 

 Dilworth a hamlet. 



" Alan ton of Richard de Singleton 

 confirmed hit father's gift of 4 acres to 

 the hoipital of St. Saviour under Long- 

 ridge and the brethren there serving God. 

 The land was between Cronkshaw Brook 

 and Whitacre Brook ; Dugdale, Man. 

 Angl. vi, 686. See the account of Stidd. 



" In 1 284 it was found that Juliana 

 widow of Hugh de Dilworth had died 

 seised of two-thirds of a messuage and 

 land in Dilworth, tenanted by Margery 

 daughter of Hugh. Richard son of Hugh 

 and Juliana teems to have been the plain- 

 tiff. The tenant called the Prior of St. 

 John to warrant her; Assize R. 1265, 

 m. 4. 



Uctred de Dilworth granted to his son 

 William lands held of Sir Adam de 

 Hoghton; Add. MS. 31106, no. 109. 

 A rent of 6J. was due to the Hospitallers. 



Margery daughter of Adam de Dilworth 

 gave lands to Sir Richard de Hoghton in 

 1339 ; ibid. no. 113. 



>4 This teemt to have been a junior 

 branch of the Moton of Ribchester family. 

 In 1344-5 Thomat ton of Gilbert ton of 

 Alan de Singleton claimed portions of 

 land in Dilworth against Robert son 

 of Adam Moton and Henry and William 

 his sons, against Adam de Dilworth the 

 younger and Margery hit wife, and 

 against Henry son of Beatrix de Kuerden ; 

 De Banco R. 339, m. 109 ; 344, m. 162. 

 The plaintirf was a minor. 



Sir Adam Banaitre had in 1331 given 

 the third part of hit approvement in 

 Hetmundehalgh to Henry ton of Robert 

 Moton of Ribchester and William hit 

 brother ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 87. 



* Richard de Catterall of Whittingham 

 and Isabel his wife gave lands in Dil- 

 worth, &c., to their son Alan in 1369 ; 

 Add. MS. 32106, no. 96-7. 



M Adam de Eller in 1327 gave all his 

 land in Osbem riding to Adam Chyry of 

 Ribchester ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 102. 

 William ton of Adam Chyry gave it to 

 John ton of John de Ravenihaw in 1355; 

 ibid. no. 86. From this deed it appears 

 that the land had earlier been granted by 

 Alan ton of William de Singleton to hit 

 daughter Agnes. 



William son of Hugh son of Hugh 

 de Dilworth granted land to Randle de 



Singleton and Mabel his wife in 1343 ; 

 ibid. no. 99. Margaret widow of Thomas 

 de Knoll and daughter of Randle de 

 Singleton in 1358 granted her land in 

 the high field of Dilworth together with 

 half a messuage to the above John ton of 

 John de Ravenihaw ; ibid. no. 126, 106. 

 The same John and Ellen his wife in 

 1376 obtained other grants from the lords 

 of the manor, Sir Adam de Hoghton and 

 Sir Thomat Banastre ; ibid. no. 90, &c. 

 In 1386 Ellen de Ravenshaw hit widow 

 held hit lands, with remainder* to hit 

 daughters Agnes, Christiana, Iiabel and 

 Margaret ; ibid. no. 83. 



17 Edward Radcliffe in 1617 had lands 

 in Dilworth and Alston, held of Sir 

 Richard Hoghton ; Henry, his son and 

 heir, was of full age ; Lants. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc.), ii, $2. Ralph Radcliffe of 

 the ' Written Stone ' wai probably a 

 successor. 



w In 1466 Henry son of Sir Richard 

 Hoghton granted to William Cottam of 

 Alston and hit tont EUit and Edmund 

 certain land in Dilworth for their lives, 

 the lease to begin at his father'! death ; 

 Add. MS. 32106, no. 94. Uctred 

 Cottam appears in 1483 ; ibid. no. 98. 

 Uctred and Robert hit ion and heir made 

 a feoffment of their messuagei, lands and 

 water-mill in the same year ; ibid. no. 92. 

 Uctred'i wife Ellen, perhapt a tecond 

 wife, appears in the same, year ; ibid, 

 no. 103. Their lands seem to have been 

 given to Lawrence son of Edmund Cottam 

 in 1503 and 1511 ; ibid. no. 105, 107, 

 Sec. From Lawrence Cottam Sir Richard 

 Hoghton purchased in 1529, and Robert 

 cousin and heir of Uctred Cottam 

 (perhaps a grandson) released hit right at 

 the same time ; ibid. no. 89, lot. 



One branch of the family recorded a 

 short pedigree in 1613; f'itit. (Chet. 

 Soc.), loo. 



Lawrence Cottam, Dorothy hit wife 

 and Thomas his ton made a settlement 

 in 1605 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 296, 

 m. 2 d. Lawrence died in 1619 holding 

 a messuage and land of Sir Richard 

 Hoghton by a rent of at. ; Lane:. Iitj. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanci. and Chet.), ii, 1 1 5. 

 Thomas hit ton and heir, then thirty 

 years of age, died two yean later holding 

 the tame estate and leaving as heir hit 

 ton Thomat, aged fifteen ; ibid, ii, 132. 

 These Cottamt were of High House ; tome 

 further particular! of them will be found 

 in Smith's Ribckctttr, 242-3, from which 

 it appean that Lawrence Cottam, who 

 wai fined for recusancy in 1667 and 1680, 

 died in 1682. Hii ion and heir, also 

 Lawrence, registered his estate as a 

 'Papist' in 1717; he had a leasehold 

 house valued at 17 a year ; Estcourt 

 and Payne, Engl. Calk. Naa-juron, 106. 



The Cottams of Knowl Green had a 



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house at one time called Dilworth Hall 

 and now the manor-house ; for an account 

 of them tee Smith, op. cit. 243. John 

 Cottam of Ribchester paid 10 on refusing 

 knighthood in 1631 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanci. and Ches.), i, 218. The landt of 

 Richard Cottam of Dilworth were ordered 

 to be told by the Parliament in 1652 ; 

 Indix of Royalists (Index Soc.), 42. A 

 later John Cottam (son of Ellis), as a 

 4 Papist,' registered his small ettate at 

 Ribcheiter, Dilworth and Wrightington 

 in 1717 ; Estcourt and Payne, op. cit. 91. 



John Walmtley alto registered a tmall 

 ettate ; ibid. 1 04. 



89 Thomat Cottam, brought up at a 

 Protestant, wai educated at Braienose 

 Coll., Oif. (M.A. 1572), and taught a 

 school in London. Here he was recon- 

 ciled to the Roman Church and then 

 went abroad, his desire being to preach 

 the Gospel in the East Indies. Being 

 rejected by the Jesuits on account of ill- 

 health, he returned to the seminary at 

 Rheimt, was ordained priest and sent on 

 the English minion in 1580. On land- 

 ing at Dover he wat recognized from the 

 report of a tpy, arrested and impritoned. 

 He wai racked and tortured in the Tower, 

 But remaining constant wai at last exe- 

 cuted at Tyburn 30 May 1582, together 

 with four other priests. One of these 

 was B. Lawrence Richardson or Johnson 

 of Great Crosby. Cottam was allowed to 

 hang till he was dead. His beatification 

 was allowed by Leo XIII in 1886. See 

 Gillow, BiU. Diet, of Engl. Calk, i, 574 ; 

 Pollen, Acn of Maryrt, 280, 373 ; 

 Challoner, Mia. Prints, no. 1 5. He it 

 claimed ai a Jesuit in Foley, Rec. S. J. vii, 

 174 (portrait). 



" Adam ton of Adam de Morca of 

 Euxton and Ellen hit wife in 1309 

 granted Iiabel daughter of Jordan de 

 Dutton clerk all their land in Whitacre 

 in the hamlet of Dilworth ; Add. MS. 

 32106, no. 91. Roger ion of Thomai 

 Topping and John ion of Roger de Bolton 

 in 1318 granted land in Whitacre to 

 William the Tailor, ton of Henry Moton ; 

 ibid. no. 84, 9$. Six years afterwards 

 Henry Moton in exchange for thii land 

 gave his ton William the Newhey in 

 Ribcheiter, obtained from Robert Moton ; 

 ibid. no. 8t. 



In 1357 Richard son of Adam de Rib- 

 chester acquired a messuage and land in 

 Whitacre and Dilworth from John de 

 Turnley and Cecily his wife ; Fmtl Cone. 

 ii, 152. 



11 T. C. Smith, LtngriJgt, So ; 

 A. Hewition, Our Country Ckurcltn, 103 

 the old chapel. 



" Smith, ibid. 



* Ibid. 78 ; Nightingale, Ltuct. fftnenf. 

 ii, 117, where it it recorded that efforts 

 had been made to eiublish a church in 



