A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



1551 granted to Anthony Browne, who also had a 

 moiety of the manor of Eccleston, &c. 9 Soon after- 

 wards Browne transferred it to John Charnock and 

 Thomas Clayton. Subsequently the ' manors ' of 

 FULWOOD and CADLEY are named, but little 

 satisfactory evidence exists. 10 Hyde Park was at the 

 east end of the township. 11 Inquiries as to the wastes 

 of Fulwood were made in 1638 and i64O. 18 



Lambert Stodagh of Stodday died in 1511 holding 

 lands in Preston and Fulwood of the king in socage. 13 

 His son Lawrence founded the school at Broughton. 

 The Claytons of Whittle-le- Woods in the 1 7 th century 

 became the principal residents in Fulwood. 14 Their 

 estate descended to Robert Clayton, Bishop of Clogher, 

 who died in lyjS, 15 having bequeathed it to his 

 relatives the Claytons of Adlington. 



Several of the inhabitants had their estates seques- 

 tered under the Commonwealth, 16 and a number of 

 ' Papists ' registered estates in 1 7 1 7- 17 



An Inclosure Act for Cadley and Fulwood Moors 

 was passed in i8n. 18 



For the Church of England Christ Church was 

 built in 1865. The vicar of Lancaster is patron. 19 



There is a Congregational church, founded in 

 1894. 



A school at Cadley was founded in 1 707 by John 

 Hatch. 20 Brunswick Chapel was purchased for the 

 use of the school in 1865. 



MYERSCOUGH 



Mirscho, 1258 ; Miresco, 1265 ; Mirescowe, 

 1297. It is pronounced locally Masca. 



This township, lying between the parishes of 

 Preston, Garstang and St. Michael-on-Wyre, has 



an area of 2,707 acres, 1 and the population in 1901 

 numbered 423. The surface slopes from east to west 

 from about 1 20 ft. above sea level on the border of 

 Barton to between 30 and 40 ft. at the other side. 

 The Brock crosses the northern end on its way west 

 to the Wyre ; north of it are Myerscough House, 

 Light Ash and Stanzaker ; to the south is Myer- 

 scough Hall, between the Brock and another brook 

 flowing west. The latter is a two-story i8th- 

 century building with barred sash windows, hipped 

 roof and deeply overhanging eaves, erected by 

 William Greenhalgh, high sheriff in 1729, in the 

 place of an older building of the same name. On 

 the brook is the mill ; near it is the Lodge, the 

 former home of Sir Thomas Tyldesley. Badsberry is 

 near the centre, and Midghalgh at the southern 

 end of the township. 



The great highway from Preston to Lancaster 

 passes along the eastern boundary. There are several 

 minor roads, including one passing westward near 

 the hall, towards St. Michael's. The London and 

 North-Western Railway crosses the south-east corner, 

 and the Preston and Kendal Canal winds northward 

 through the centre. 



The population is agricultural. The soil is heavy, 

 with subsoil of clay. Wheat is grown, and much of 

 the land is in pasture. 



The township has a parish council. 



Henry Borron Fielding, son of Henry Fielding of 

 Myerscough House, was a botanist of some note. 

 He lived at Bolton near Ulverston and then at 

 Lancaster, dying in 1 8 5 I ? 



MTERSCOVGH seems to have been 



FOREST part of one of the forests, possibly that of 



Amounderness, and then to have been 



9 The grant was of waste lately approved 

 in Fulwood Forest ; Pat. 5 Edw. VI, 

 pt. vi. 



John Charnock of Leyland, &c., by 

 his will in 1571 gave Joan his wife all 

 his lands and tenements in Fulwood 

 lately purchased of Sir Anthony Browne, 

 deceased, and other lands there ; they 

 were held of the queen by knight's ser- 

 vice ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, 

 no. 35. 



10 Parcels in Hyde Park, Cadley, Brede- 

 land, Killanshaugh and Fulwood were by 

 James I granted on lease to George 

 Whitmore and others and by Charles I to 

 Edward Ditchfield and others in fee ; 

 Pat. 8 Jas. I, pt. xxvii ; 4 Chas. I, pt. xxxiii. 

 This may have been the origin of the 

 reputed manors of Cadley and Fulwood. 

 A rent of 19 71. jd. was paid for 

 Cadley and Fulwood in 1670 to the 

 Crown by Hugh Wadsworth ; Pat. 22 

 Chas. II, pt. ii, rot. l. In a recovery of the 

 manors of Little Cadley and Fulwood in 

 1705 the vouchees were Hugh and Robert 

 Wadsworth of Haighton; Nicholas Starkie 

 and William Shawe were the tenants ; 

 PaL of Lane. Plea R. 481, m. 5. 



In a fine respecting the manors of Gnat 

 Cadley and Fulwood in 1718 the defor- 

 ciants were Sir Thomas Abney, Nicholas 

 Starkie and William Shawe, and the 

 plaintiff was John Dorsett (> Barrett) ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdlc. 279, m. 

 102. This was probably the same estate. 



The manors or lordships of Great 

 Cadley, Little Cadley and Fulwood, with 

 lands, &c., in Haighton, Broughton and 

 Fulwood, were in 1773 held by Thomas 

 Barrett; PaL of Lane. Plea R. 618, 



m. 10. An abstract of the title of Thomas 

 Barrett may be seen in Piccope MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), xiv, 123. It shows that the 

 * manors ' were those of the Wadsworth 

 family, but does not give the origin of 

 their title, as the earliest deed cited it 

 dated in 1682. 



11 The name occurs as early as 1257 ; 

 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 222. It may 

 refer to the hide of land (6 carucates) in 

 Preston. In 1583 Oliver Wrigan and 

 other* (who had received from Queen 

 Elizabeth in 1 576)let to Thomas Singleton 

 part of their lands in Cadley, Little Cadley 

 and Hyde Park in Fulwood ; also in Kil- 

 lawneshauge ; and the water-mill ; Pic- 

 cope MSS. xiv, 68. 



12 Duchy of Lane. Spec. Com. 851, 

 1041. 



18 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, no. I. 



" See the account of Crook in Whittle. 

 Thomas Clayton died in 1591 holding 

 the moiety of two messuages, &c., in 

 Fulwood of the queen by the hundredth 

 part of a knight's fee ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xv, no. 3. The pedigree (com- 

 piled by Mr. R. Stewart-Brown) reads : 

 Thomas, d. 1591 -s. William, d. 1631 

 -s, Thomas, d. 1669 -s. Robert -sons 

 Thomas (s.p.), William (d. 1715), and 

 John, Dean of Kildare. 



16 Diet. Nat. Biog. Thomas Clayton, 

 who was fifteen years of age in 1 664, 

 when the pedigree was recorded (Dugdale, 

 Visit. 85), became a barrister-at-law ; 

 Foster, Alumni Oxon. He died without 

 issue, but had a brother William (d. 1715), 

 a Liverpool merchant, who left several 

 daughters as heirs. William's younger 

 brother John was the father of the bishop, 



I 3 8 



who was born at Dublin in 169;. Dr. 

 John Clayton was incumbent of St. 

 Michan's, Dublin, and Dean of Kildare, 

 1708-25. His son Robert was educated 

 at Westminster and Dublin ; D.D. 1730. 

 He was made Bishop of Killala and 

 Achonry 1730, held other sees, but was 

 refused the Archbishopric of Tuam, being 

 accused of Arianism, and afterwards 

 threatened with a prosecution for heresy. 

 He published various works. Mr. F. 

 Clayton of Morden has afforded the 

 editors information about the family. 

 See also H. Peet, Liverpool in the time of 

 Queen Anne. 



18 Thomas Lingard (dead in 1651), 

 Lawrence Sharrock (dead in 1654), both 

 of them recusants, and Lawrence Sudall ; 

 Cal. Com. for Camp, iv, 2749; v, 3196;^, 

 3090. Sudall's estate was put in the Act 

 of 1652 to be sold for treason j Index of 

 Royalists (Index Soc.), 44. 



17 Anne Kitchen, John Newsam, 

 Lawrence Tomlinson, John Kendall, 

 James Hatch, John Chew, John Sudall, 

 Thomas Werden, Thomas Coseney, 

 Thomas Miller and William Cowpe ; 

 Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. Non- 

 jurors, 95, &c. 



The Kendall family here named pro- 

 duced several notable ecclesiastics ; Gillow, 

 Bibl. Diet, of Engl. Cath. iv, 4-12. 



IB 51 Geo. Ill, cap. 55. 



19 A district chapelry was formed in 

 1865 ; Land. Gax. 15 Dec. 



20 End. Char. Rep. (Fulwood), 1902, 

 p. i. 



1 The Census Rep. 1901 gives 2,708 

 acres, including 30 of inland water. 

 " Diet. Nat. Biof. 



