AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



joined to the forest of Lancaster. 3 The name does 

 not occur in Domesday Book 3 ', and it is uncertain 

 which of the neighbouring townships then contained 

 it. 4 Unlike Fulwood it does not appear to have 

 been styled a manor at any time. In 1 297 the forest 

 of Myerscough was worth 201. a year to the Earl of 

 Lancaster.' The Earls of Derby were once keepers 

 of the park,' and the Tyldesleys of Wardley and then 

 of Morleys were under-keepers. 7 About 1620 the 

 latter had licence to inclose 90 acres of the Outwood 

 of Myerscough. 8 James I stayed at their house, 

 known as the Lodge, in 1617, and Charles II in 

 165 I. 10 Various grants were made by the Crown." 

 A survey is extant made in the Commonwealth time, 15 

 and a plan of the park in 1769." There are 16th- 

 century Court Rolls at the Record Office, 1 '' and an old 

 plan has been preserved. 14 



Leland, writing about 1536, thus refers to it: 

 ' Ere I came to Garstang by a mile and a half I left 

 Myerscough, a great park partly enclosed with a 



PART OF 

 LANCASTER 



hedge, partly (all on the moor side) with a pale. On 

 the right it is replenished with red deer. The Earl 

 of Derby hath it in farm of the king.' 1 *" 



But few of the inhabitants occur in the records, 14 

 apart from the Tyldesley 

 family, who made it their 

 chief residence, probably for 

 religious reasons. 17 The family 

 have been noticed in the 

 accounts of Morlcys in Astley 

 and Wardley in Worsley. 

 Edward Tyldesley, the first 

 of Morleys, was in I587 18 

 succeeded by his infant grand- 

 son and namesake, who died 

 at Myerscough in 1621, when 

 his son Thomas was about 

 nine years of age." The heir, 



the typical Lancashire Cavalier, 10 was about thirty 

 yean of age when the Civil War broke out ; he at 



TYLDCILIT. Argtnt 

 thru moMilli vert. 



See the account of the forcit, V.C.H, 

 Lanes, ii, 439, 448-9 ; Lanes, and Ckes. 

 Antij. Sac. xix, 19. 



Myerscough it not named in the early 

 Pipe Roll*, or in the perambulation of 

 the forcit in 1228, but wai an ancient 

 foreit 'beyond the memory of man,' in 

 1323 ; Laic. CA. (Chet. Soc), ii, 449. The 

 foreit of Amounderne**, as distinct from 

 thoie of Wyresdale and Lonsdale, occurs 

 in 1246-8 ; Lanci. Inq, and Extents (Ric 

 Soc. Lanct. and Ches), i, 170. It formed 

 part of the gift to Theobald Walter in 

 1194 (Fairer, Luna. Pipe R. 435), but at 

 late at 1 3 37 Myencough wai not reckoned 

 within it ; ibid. 425. About I 322 Thur- 

 ttan de Northlegh farmed the herbage of 

 the parka of Myeracough and Fulwood by 

 demite of John Travcrs, keeper of the 

 lame ; Coram Rege R. 254, m. 54 d. 



* The township may be the lott Till of 

 Aschebi, one plough-land in 1066. 



Tithet were claimed in 1591 by the 

 farmer of the rectory of St. Michael'*, 

 Myertcough being taid to be part of the 

 chapelry of Woodplumpton ; Ducatui 

 Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 261. 



Lanct. Inq. and Extents (Rec Soc. 

 Lanct. and Chet.), i, 290. 



The extent of I 346 appear* to regard 

 both Myencough and Fulwood a* appur- 

 tenance* of Quernmore ; Add. MS. 

 32103, foL 148. The herbage of the 

 park wai then worth & a year. William 

 de Holland and William hit ton had a 

 cottage, &c., called Baggerburgh, next the 

 park of Myencough, paying 71. a year, 

 alto id. a day waget of t parker, and 

 keeping up the park palingi. Thomat 

 Wambergh had a metiuage and landi in 

 Mygelhagh (Midghalgh), at a rent of 

 701. Alice de Shireburae alto had land 

 there. Thomai and Robert de Haldetlegh 

 had pannage, &c., in Myencough and 

 Bradihaw hey. ' Baggerburgh ' ii no 

 doubt Badsberry. 



Richard de Radcliffe had a Irate of the 

 foreign wood of Myencough in 1360 at a 

 rent of 1 8 mark* ; Dtp. Kitptr't Rep. 

 xxii, App. 343. 



Ducntut Lane. (Rec. Com.), i, 294-5. 

 Thomai Bayton wa* matter foreiter in 

 the time of Elizabeth ; ibid, iii, 331, 366. 



' Ibid, i, 148, ic8, &c.; iii, 36. For * 

 complaint byThuritan Tyldetley in 1531 

 ee Ducky Pltad. (Rec. Soc. Lane*, and 

 Chet.), i, 228. 



" Lanes, and Ckes. Rec. (Rec. Soc 

 Lanci. and Chrs.), ii, 262, 294. 



' The king ttayed there from 12 to 14 

 Aug. and hunted, killing teveral buckt ; 

 Atsheton'i Journal (Chet. Soc.), 32-4.. 



10 On 1 3 Aug. on hit way to Worcester ; 

 Civil rfar Tracts (Chet. Soc), 287. 



11 In 160; Rippon Park in Myencough 

 wai granted to Charles Earl of Devon ; 

 Pat. 2 Jat. I, pt. rii. 



Bannerhurtt and Colthey, parti of 

 Stanzacre by Myertcnugh Park, a water- 

 mill, a metiuage and landi called Midg- 

 halgh, etc., were granted to Edward Bradley 

 and othert in 1623 ; Pat. 20 Jat. I, pt. iii. 



Several leaie* of the herbage in the 

 park are known ; e.g. Cat. S. P. Dim. 

 1638 9, p. 62. 



In 1 809 Myertcough Park wai leated 

 to William Heatley for thirty-one yean, 

 and he in 1815 transferred to William 

 Fitzherbert-Brockholei ; D. at Claughton. 



11 Lanct. and Out. Rtc. i, 43. 



u Ibid, i, 25. 



14 Duchy of Lane. Ct. R. bdle. 79, 

 no. 103 5-6. 



15 Lanes, and Ches. Rect. i, 24. 



14a Itin. v, 98. The deer were de- 

 ttroyed about 1778 ; Aitheton't Journal, 



Inc. cit. 



10 Leonard Helme in 1601 held two 

 messuages, &c., in Myertcough, but the 

 tenure i* not stated ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xviii, no. 20. 



The Richardson family appear at Over 

 Wood and Nether Wood before 1530; 

 Ducaaa Lane, ii, 43, 232. Thomai 

 Richardson, ton of William, held landi in 

 Woodplumpton, &c., deitined for the 

 maintenance of the ichoolmaiter of Gar- 

 tang ; he had the reversion of a mettuage, 

 water corn-mill, ice., in Myencough, 

 where he died in 1637. Hii mother 

 Janet wai living. Hit son William wai 

 only a year old ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xxviii, no. 76. 



Elizabeth widow of Thomai Richard- 

 ion afterward! married Hugh Kighley 

 and then Thomai Jepson j being a recu- 

 sant two-thirdi of her landi were lequet- 

 tered in 1645, and a petition for the 

 removal of the lequeitration in 1654-; 

 leems to have failed. William Richard- 

 ion wat then living ; Royalist Cornf*. 

 Papers (Rec. Soc Lanct. and Che*.), iv, 



*9- 



Walter de Myencough occur* m 

 1262-$ ; Lanes. Inj. and Exma, i, 229, 

 234. Familie* of this name are after- 

 ward! found at Lancaster and Penwor- 

 tham ; final Cane. (Rec. Soc. Lane*, and 



139 



Ches.), ii, 24 ; l.ancs. Ct. R. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanci. and Ches), 42, 45. 



17 Morlcyt it known to have been a 

 Roman Catholic misiion station. Myer- 

 scough wai secluded and nearly 1 5 miles 

 from Lancaster parith church. Elizabeth 

 Tyldetley (of Morlcys) in 1628 com- 

 pounded for her lequeitration for recu- 

 i.incy by an annual payment of 15. 



18 Duchy of Lane, Inq. p.m. xiv, no. 10. 

 He wai buried at Leigh. By hit wife 

 Anne, the daughter and heir of Thomai 

 Leyland, he had not only Morleys but a 

 number of small estate! scattered over the 

 county, e.g. in Preston, Chipping and 

 Lancaster. Myencough ii not named in 

 any of the inquisitions, perhaps because 

 it wai held in right of a subordinate office. 

 The heir wai Edward Tyldetley ion of 

 Thomai ion of Edward deceased, aged two 

 yean. 



Two inquisitions were taken reipecting 

 the eitatet of Thomai Tyldesley, father of 

 the heir ; ibid, xv, no. 30, 37. Itappean 

 that he died at Myencough on 23 Feb. 

 1585-6. He wai buried at Leigh. One 

 of his daughter!, Elizabeth, wai Abbew of 

 Gravelinei in Flanders. 



" Lanes. Inf. p.m. (Rec. Soc Lanct. and 

 Ches.), ii, 261-9. Elizabeth Tyldesley 

 widow of Thomai (the father) and Eliza- 

 beth Tyldesley widow of Edward were 

 living at Myerscough. Edward'* will ii 

 in Stanley Papers (Chet. Soc.), iii, 

 p. cccxxxi. 



10 There are numerou! reference! to 

 him in Civil (Par Tracts, Lanes. War and 

 Stanley Papers (all Chet. Soc) ; a memoir 

 in Did. Nat. Biog. 



There ii no queitinn a* to Sir Thomas' s 

 religion, but at the beginning of the struggle 

 a leading Parliamentarian told Sir Gilbert 

 Hoghton and Mr. Tyldeiley 'he could 

 like them well if they were not 10 familiar 

 with Papists'; Civil ffar Traett, II. 

 Another of the tame tide wished the Par- 

 liament to ' end for thit Tyldeiley, for 

 he it a captain, one of the commistion of 

 array, and doth more harm than any man 

 I know ' ; ibid. 23. A more generout op- 

 ponent wrote : 'In Amounderness among 

 the Papists there were several companiel 

 railed under the leading of Mr. Thomat 

 Tyldeiley of Myencough at colonel, a 

 man much esteemed in the country ; molt 

 were willing to comply with him. All 

 the captaini railed by him were Papists,' 

 except one ; they included William Butler 

 of Myencough. 'There wai not a man 



