AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



BRYNING-WITH-KELLAMERGH 



Birstaibrinning, 1200; Birstatbrunning, 1239; 

 Burstad Brining, 1242; Brunigg, 1252 ; Brining, 

 1257. 



Kclfgrimeshercg, 1200; Kelgrimisarhe, 1239; 

 Kelsimshargt, 1249; Kelgrimesarth, 1254; Kel- 

 grimsargh, Kelegrymesarch, 1251 ; Gelgrumysharagh, 

 1292 ; Kelgremargh, 1405 ; Kellermargh, 1444. 



The township has an area of 1, 06 1 acres,' and in 

 1901 the population numbered 129. The hamlets 

 from which it takes its name are situated in the centre 

 of it, Bryning at the north end and Kellamergh at 

 the south end of a strip of land rising above the general 

 level, though attaining only 64 ft. above the ordnance 

 datum. About the same height is attained again on 

 the eastern border. 



A road from north to south passes through the two 

 hamlets, from each of which other roads go off towards 

 Lytham. 



KIRKHAM 



At the Conquest BRfNlNG and 

 MANORS Kellamergh were included in Ribby.and 

 like it became part of the demesne of the 

 honour until, about 1 190, they were granted by John 

 Count of Mortain to Richard son of Roger, thegn 

 of Woodplumpton. They were assessed separately 

 Bryning as two plough-lands and Kellamergh as one 

 and were to be held as the fourth part of a knight's 

 fee. Richard died in izoi, and John as king con- 

 firmed his former grant to the five daughters and 

 co -heirs. 2 This part of the inheritance in the main 

 descended to the Beethams 3 and then to the Middle- 

 tons 1 ; the portion belonging to the Stockport 

 family seems to have been given to a John de 

 Baskervill,' whose descendants continued to hold it in 

 the 1 4th century. George Middleton had a number 

 of lawsuits with tenants and others. 6 The manor and 

 estate seem to have changed ownership several times 

 after l68o, 7 and nothing is now known of any claim 

 to the lordship. 



1 Including 2 acrei of inland water ; 

 Ccniui Kef. (1901). 



' Ckan. K. (Rec. Com.), 90. The 

 daughters are named as Maud (wife of 

 Robert de Stockport), Margaret, Avice 

 (wife of William de Mulhum), Quenilda 

 and Amuria. Robert de Stockport had 

 in i 200- 1 paid part of 10 marks (for two 

 palfreys) for confirmation of three plough- 

 lands in Bryning and Kellamergh ; Farrer, 

 Lanci. Pi ft R. 132. 



Accordingly in 1212 and 1236 the heirs 

 of Richard son of Roger held the fourth 

 part of a knight's fee; Laaet. Inf. and 

 Extcnti (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 40, 144. Roger Gernet, Thomas de 

 Beetham and Robert de Stockport were 

 the heirs in 1242 ; ibid. 153. The share 

 of Thomas de Beetham in 1249 was 

 9^ oxgangs of land, each worth 51. a 

 year, and a part of the windmill, 31. +./. ; 

 ibid. 171. It is noted that twelve plough- 

 lands there went to a knight's fee. 

 Quenilda widow of Roger Gernet in 1252 

 also held 9} ozgangs of land, worth in all 

 431. ; ibid. 190. Her share was divided 

 between Beetham and Stockport, so that 

 Ralph de Beetham in iz$4 held 13] ox- 

 gangs of land by knight's service and a 

 rent of 17}^. Each oxgang was then 

 worth 61. a year and the tallage of the 

 bondmen 151. ; his three-fourths of the 

 windmill was worthless, the mill being 

 waste ; ibid. 194, 201. The Beetham 

 share was called the seventh part of a 

 knight's fee in I2C.6-8 ; ibid. 221. 



Afterwards a division of the whole of 

 Richard son of Roger's estate seems to 

 have been made, and in 1297 the 'heir 

 of Beetham ' held all Bryning and Kella- 

 mrrgh of the Earl of Lancaster, paying 

 21. kd. (for castle ward), and having in 

 1301 the fourth part of a knight's fee 

 there ; ibid. 290, 298, 316. 



* In spite of the statements quoted in 

 the last note the extent of 1324 shows 

 that the Beetham family had not obtained 

 the whole manor. Thus in Bryning 

 Ralph de Beetham held three-fourths of 

 the rill and 12 oxgangs of land by the 

 service of I ;</. and the fourth part of a 

 knight's fee ; while John de Baskervill 

 held the other part and 4 oxgangs by the 

 service of $</. for castle ward and the 

 trnth part of a knight's fee. In Kella- 

 mergh, described as a hamlet of Bryning, 

 Ralph de Beetham held 2} oxgangs 

 of land, John de Baskervill ij, and 

 Thurstan de Northlcgb in right of his 



wife Margery 3 (?8), each paying ij</. 

 per oxgang for castle ward and holding 

 by knight's service ; Dods. MSS. cxxxi, 

 fol. 40. 



In 1346 Sir Ralph de Beetham held 

 two (not three) plough-lands in Bryning 

 and Kellamergh by the fourth part of 

 a knight's fee and a payment of zt. 6tJ. 

 for castle ward ; Survey of 1 346 (Chet. 

 Soc.), 46. At the same time John 

 Davenport held a plough-land (?) in 

 Bryning and Kellamergh and lands in 

 Woodplumpton and Formby ; ibid. 52. 



Just a century later Thomas Beetham 

 held the fourth part of a knight's fee in 

 Bryning and Kellamergh, the relief be- 

 ing 251. j Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, 

 bdle. 2, no. 20. 



By 1473 the Beetham manor of Cow- 

 burn in Warton had been made to include 

 Bryning and others ; l,<inci. Inq. p.m. 

 (Chet. Soc.), ii, 102 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 19 Edw. IV, no. 87. 



As in other cases (see Bootle) this 

 Beetham manor was afterwards held by 

 the Earls of Derby ; Du.chy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. v, no. 68. The tenure is not 

 recorded. The Derby rental of the time 

 (at Lathom) shows that only I n. 6d. was 

 received from tenant*. 



4 Gervase Middleton of Leighton in 

 Lonsdale in 1 548 held lands, &c., in 

 Warton, Kellamergh, Bryning and Wrea 

 of the king by fealty and the yearly rent 

 of 21. ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. ix, 

 no. II. 



George Middleton in 1600 held the 

 ' manor ' of Kellamergh, with messuages, 

 lands, ttc., in Kellamergh, Bryning and 

 Hollowforth, but the tenure is not re- 

 corded ; ibid, xvii, no. $1. In 1640, 

 however, the manor and estate were 

 stated to be held of the king as of his 

 duchy in socage by id. rent ; ibid, mix, 

 no. 64. 



The Middleton manors in 1654 and 

 1666-9 included that of Bryning; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 156, m. 135 ; 

 176, m. 154 (Sir T. Clifton, plaintiff) ; 

 182, m. 94. 



4 For the Baskervill share see a pre- 

 ceding note. The family seems to be 

 that seated at Old Withmgton in Prest- 

 bury ; Ormerod, Ckei. (ed. Helsby), iii, 

 717. John de Baskervill was defendant 

 in 1275 and 1278 to claims for dower 

 put forward by Ellen widow of Robert 

 de Stockport in respect (inter alia) 

 of 4 oxgangs of land in Bryning and 



1*9 



Kellamergh ; De Banco R. 1 1, m. 94 ; 

 23, m. 5 d. In i 372 Richard Mason and 

 Margaret his wife, widow of William son 

 of William de Haskervill, claimed dower 

 in four messuages, *C M in Bryning and 

 Kellamergh against Richard le Buntable, 

 vicar of Prestbury, and others; ibid. 

 448, m. 353d. 



Diuatut Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 114, 

 &c. In 1583 George Middleton of 

 Leighton complained that whereas his 

 father Gervaie and his ancestors had as 

 lords of the manor of Bryning held court 

 baron there at which the freeholders had 

 appeared and done their suit, one John 

 Bradley, a freeholder, had secretly practised 

 with Mrs. Middleton, plaintiff's mother- 

 in-law, to get into his hands all the court 

 rolls of the manor, intending to with- 

 draw his suit. Further orders having 

 been given to sever each man's tene- 

 ment by stakes, &c., Bradley had pulled 

 up the partitions and stakes and had 

 likewise destroyed the common pinfold ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Plead, cxxx, M 1 3. 



In reply Bradley asserted that his father 

 James had been lord of the fourth part 

 of the manor of Bryning, so that plaintiff 

 was not lord of the whole manor. He 

 also asserted that Kellamergh was; a 

 'town or manor' distinct from Bryning ; 

 ibid, cxxvi, M 8. This seems to j be 

 evidence that the Stockport or Baskervill 

 manor was still remembered ; see /also 

 Bradley inquisition below. MiddU 

 in reply drnied the assertions ; /ibid, 

 cxxxiii, M I. 



George Middleton died seised df the 

 manor of Kellamergh and Brynimr about 

 i 98, and was succeeded by nis son 

 Thomas, who soon afterwards made com- 

 plaint of James Crook and John piercer 

 as having wrongfully entered certain lands 

 and refused to surrender the deed^ ; ibid, 

 cxcviii, M 6. 



' The following references a 

 but may not all refer to the 

 manor : 



In 1713 Edward Rigby held t 

 of Bryning-with-Kellamergh, wi 

 lands, Ac. ; Pal. of Lane. Pie 

 m. 5. 



In 1760 Robert Hesketh, 

 wife, Henry Sharpies and Ann 



c given, 

 ieetham 



t manor 

 i various 

 R- +97. 



nne his 



his wife 



held the manor or lordship of Bryning 

 with-Kellamergh, courts le< 

 baron, views of frankpledge, & 

 ing to the said manor ; also 



and lands in the township and 



courts 

 belong- 

 icssuages 



en cattle- 



