AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



There are but few other details known regarding 

 estates in this township. 17 Henry Gregson paid \o 

 in 1631, having declined knighthood. I7m Robert 

 Hothersall '" and Henry Walmesley 19 had their 

 estates sequestered under the Commonwealth. Two 

 or three ' Papists' registered small estates in 1717.* 



Apart from Mr. Cross's land the principal holding 

 is that of the Goosnargh Hospital, comprising the 

 tenements called Marsh House (or Elston Hall), 

 Salisbury and Moorfields, in all about 220 acres. 11 



John March's house in Elston was in 1672 licensed 

 for a Presbyterian meeting.* 1 



FISHWICK 



Fiscuic, Dom. Bk. ; Fiswich, 1 202 ; Fiskwic, 

 1203 ; Fyswic, c. 1 220 ; Fischwic, "1 2 2 5 ; Fisscwyk, 

 c. 1250; Fiswike, 1251; Fixwyk, 1297; Fisshe- 

 wyke, 1302 ; Phisick, xviu cent. This last shows 

 the local pronunciation. 



This township extends from the south-east border 

 of Preston to the Ribble. A large part of the surface 

 is low-lying level ground in bends of the river, but in 

 the west and north the surface rises steeply and 

 irregularly, a height of about I 50 ft. above sea level 

 being attained. The hall is in the eastern part of 

 the township, near the foot of the slope and at the 

 opening of a small clough. The Swillbrook was the 

 boundary between Fishwick and Preston ; it has now 

 disappeared. Frenchwood lies between it and the 

 Ribble, to the west of the road to Walton. The 

 area is 692 J acres, and the population in 1901 was 

 4,884. 



The ancient highway from Preston to the south, 



PRESTON 



by way of Walton-Ie-Dale, passes through Fishwick, 

 and the bridge across the river there has long been 

 pre-eminently Ribble Bridge.' From the bridge a 

 minor road leads north-east towards the hall and 

 thence to Preston, while another road and footpath 

 lead west towards Avenham Park. 



Dwelling-houses have spread over the border from 

 Preston, with which town Fishwick has been joined 

 for municipal and parliamentary purposes since the 

 Reform Acts. In 1894 the township ceased to exist, 

 being now part of the enlarged township of Preston. 1 

 The manor of F1SHWICK was in 

 M/tNOR 1066 a member of the Preston lordship 

 of Earl Tostig, and was assessed as one 

 plough-land. 1 Some time after the Conquest it was 

 given to the Forester of Lancaster, as part of his fee, 8 

 and descended in the same way 4 as the Gernet 

 moiety of Eccleston in Ley- 

 land, coming into the hands 

 of Richard Molyneux of Sefton 

 in 1539.' The manor of 

 Fishwick and the lands, &c., 

 in Fishwick, Ribbleton and 

 Hrockholes were in 1 5 69 

 found to be held of the queen 

 in socage by fealty only 6 ; 

 and this statement of the 

 tenure was repeated later. 7 



It does not appear that the 

 lords of the manor ever re- 

 sided there, and the chief 



interest of the Molyneux possession arises from the 

 fact that in the I jth century the hall became the 

 centre of a Roman Catholic mission, 8 and it was 



MOLYNIUX. Anun 

 a crott moline or. 



Thnma Walmtley of Eliton and hit 

 sons Thomas and Richard were burgesses 

 it the Preston Guild of 1782 ; Abram, 

 Mem. of the Guilds, 104. 



17 Sir Thomai Aihton (i 5 14) purch.iied 

 land* in Eliton and Haighton from hit 

 father-in-law Sir Jamet Harrington, but 

 the tenure it not stated ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. IT, no. 80. 



Ralph Eltton't capital mettuage in 

 Brockholes was in 1 51; 7 described at ' in 

 the town of Eliton ' ; ibid, x, no. 3. 



" Miu. (Rec. Soc. Lanct. and Ches.), 

 i, 122. 



18 Hit ettate was sequestered for recu- 

 sancy. In 1650 he tettled part on hit 

 wife {Catherine, who after his death told 

 her interest, and the purchaser in 1654 

 detired an examination of hit title ; 

 Riyaliit Comp. Paftn (Rec. Soc. Lanct. 

 and Chet.), iii, 261. 



u Henry Walmsley, hutbandman, wat 

 in 1653 'suspected of popery,' and there- 

 fore tummoned before the committee for 

 compounding. On hit refuting to abjure 

 hit religion, two-thirds of hit ettate wat 

 scquettered ; Cat. Com. fir Comp, i, 656. 



"' Henry Cumaleach, son-in-law of 

 John Walmtley ; Alice and Anne Cham- 

 ley ; Ettcourt and Payne, Eng. Calk. AW 

 jurors, 139, 104. 



" End. Char. Rep. (Kirkham, 1904), 41, 

 I1J. * Cat. S. P. Dom. 1672, p. 2OO. 



' Loc. Con. Bd. Order 31607. 



V.C.H. Lanct. i, 288*. 



1 Land. Inj. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanct. and Chet.), i, 43, 121. In 1252 

 Roger Grrnet held one plough-land in 

 chief of the king by tervice of the forett ; 

 he had all the land except I oxgang 

 and 60 acres, the moiety of a fishery in 



the Ribble, and a mill worth 301. yearly ; 

 ibid, i, 187-8. 



In 1225 an agreement wat made 

 between William and Roger Gernet at 

 to the manor of Fishwick. It was held 

 in dower by Cecily widow apparently of 

 Benedict Gernet, father of Roger and 

 grandfather of William ; Fairer, l.anci. 

 Pipe R. 204, &c. Cecily married one 

 William known at the Villein, and Roger 

 warranted the manor to them, while 

 William Gemet renounced all claim to 

 it on behalf of himself and his heirs in 

 return for half a plough-land in Crophill. 

 Roger Gernet's lordship of Fishwick wat 

 therefore undisputed ; Final Cone. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanct. and Chet.), i, 46. 



William de Dacre held Fithwick by 

 knight't tervice in 1297 ; at that time 

 the vill rendered 71. 8</. to the Earl of 

 Lancaster ; Land. Inj. and Extents, i, 

 298, 289. From a return made in i 302 

 it would appear that the tenure had been 

 altered from forestry to knight't tervice \ 

 ibid, i, 317. The old tervice of matter 

 forester wat, however, recorded in 1324, 

 Randle de Dacre being lord ; Dodt. MSS. 

 cxxxi, fol. 41/1. A further change wat 

 made before 1458, when Sir Thomai 

 Dacre of Gillesland wat found to have 

 held the manor of Fishwick of the king 

 t of hit Duchy of Lancaster in socage 

 by the tervice of a grain of pepper ; 

 Lanei. In/, p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 65. 



In 1324 the annual value of the estate 

 wat returned at 7 181., made up thut : 

 A messuage with fruit and herbage, 21. ; 

 60 acret arable, 301. ; 6 acret meadow, 

 61. ; a fishery in the Ribble, 261. 8./. ; 

 water-mill, 401., and 8 oxgangt of land, 

 held by free tenants who paid 6. 8</. for 



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each oxgang $31. $J. ; Inq. p.m. 18 

 Edw. II, no. 41. Sir William de Dacre 

 in 1358 complained that Robert ton of 

 Henry de Kuenien and others had taken 

 hares and pheasants from his free warren 

 at Fithwick ; Assize R. 438, m. 7. The 

 clear value of the manor was stated as 

 10 marks in 1375; Inq. p.m. 49 

 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 39. 



After theconnscation in 1461 this manor 

 wat granted for life to Eleanor widow of 

 Sir Randle Dacre in 1467 at compensa- 

 tion for dower ; Cat. Pat. 1467-77, p. 26. 



Richard Fiennet Lord Dacre in 1486 

 held the manors of Fishwick and Eccles- 

 ton by knight's service ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. iii, no. 58. His successor 

 Thomas Fiennes Lord Dacre in I 506 

 told them to Edmund Dudley ; ibid, iv, 

 no. 21 ; Dtp. Keeper's Rep. xl, App. (4$. 

 From John Dudley the manors patted to 

 Sir Thomas Seymer in 1530 and to 

 Edward Elrington in I 538 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 1 1, m. 113, 16. 



* Ibid. bdle. 12, m. 15. The manor 

 it named in a Molyneux settlement of 

 1558 ; ibid. bdle. 20, m. So. 



' Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiii, no. 3$. 



' Lanes, la/, p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Chcs.), iii, 390 ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xxvii, no. 59. 



6 In I $86 Evan Banister, an 'old 

 priest,' was harboured by Jane Eyves of 

 Fishwick, widow ; Baines, Lanci. (ed. 

 Harland), i, 180, from Harl. MS. 360, 

 fol. 32. 'It is probable that the chapel 

 within the hall was regularly served before 

 Dom Bartholomew Gregory Hesketh 

 took charge of the mission in 168; and 

 built the chapel there, wherein were 

 organs, bells, vestment! and a pulpit, at 



