AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



in 1874," and the patronage is vested in the Dean 

 and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford. The building 

 contains an old oak pulpit 

 removed from Kirkham. 1 * 



The Wesleyan Methodist* 

 had a chapel in 1814 ; their 

 present one was built in 1885. 

 The Primitive Methodists 

 have one dating from 1861." 

 The Congregationalism 

 formerly held services there, 

 but do not seem to have 

 established themselves." 



The Society of Friends had 

 a meeting place from 1668." 

 They still have two ancient 

 burial-grounds, and a meeting 



house, first built in 1720. No meetings are now 

 held, but the room was in 1903 let to the Plymouth 

 Brethren." 



Roman Catholics have the small school-chapel of 

 the Holy Family, served from Kirkham. 



WARTON 



Wartun, Dom. Bk. ; Warton, 1242. 



This township lies along the Ribble, and much of 

 the surface in the south-west is less than 2 5 ft. above 

 sea level. In the east and north-east is h gher land 



BUTLII of Rawcliffe. 

 jizuft a ckmtron bi- 

 ftvetn tkrtt covtnd cuft 

 tr. 



KIRKHAM 



and on it the village is situated Warton Bank and 

 Warton Brow overlook the river, and formerly there 

 was a ford from this side to Hcskcth, a guide being 

 stationed there to conduct travellers across. The 

 area is 2,540$ acres, 1 including 8 acres of salt marsh. 

 In 1901 there was a population of 446. 



The principal road is that going west from Preston 

 to Lytham, which divides into two branches after 

 passing through Warton village, these joining again 

 later. Cross roads go south to the Ribble and north 

 to Wrca Green. 



The soil is clay, and the land is almost entirely in 

 pasture. 



The township has a parish council. 



Before the Conquest WARTQN, then 

 MANORS assessed as four plough-lands, was one 

 of the members of Earl Tostig's Preston 

 lordship.* After the creation of the barony of Pen- 

 wortham it is found incorporated therewith, 1 passing 

 from Bussel to Lacy and the Earls and Dukes of 

 Lancaster. By the Bussels it appears to have been 

 granted to a younger member of the family to be 

 held by the third part of a knight's fee, for about 1 190 

 it had come into the possession of Quenilda daughter 

 of Hugh son of Acard Bussel, who was married to 

 Roger le Botelcr, 4 and had a number of children 

 Richard, Stephen, Thomas, Adam, Roger and 

 Siegrith. 6 The family were benefactors of the 

 religious houses at Lytham and Cockersand, 



w Land. Gat. 30 Jan. 1874. 



Fithwick, Kirkktm (Chet. Soc.), 67. 



" li.iinrj, loc. cit. 



* Lewii'i To/>og. Diet. 1831-44, at- 

 tigni them a chapel. 



" Information of Mr. R. Mutchamp. 



In 1689 Lawrence Coulborae't home 

 at Freckleton was a certified Quaker 

 meeting-place ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rtf. 

 xiv, App. iv, 230. 



*>Quakir C/itr. Rtf. 1905, p. 19. The 

 1720 room wat pulled down in 1870. 

 The meetings celled before 1800 ; Bainet, 

 loc. cit. 



1 The Ctnnti Rtf. 1901 gives 1,633 

 acret, including 3 of inland water ; thrre 

 are alto 87 acret of tidal water and 697 

 acret of foreshore. 



r.C.H. Lana. i, i88. The later 

 attessment wat three plough-landt only ; 

 possibly one plough-land may have been 

 added to Ribby. Sometimea Warton 

 wa> ttated (at will be teen) to have three 

 plough-lands and a third ; but thit may 

 be an error, due to the 'third part of a 

 knight's fee ' being taken to refer to a 

 fee of ten plough-lands inttead of nine. 



' Ibid. 33;, n. i. The lordt of Pen- 

 wortham retained part in their own hands 

 for tome time, for about 1 1 54 Richard 

 Buttel confirmed grand to Evetham 

 Abbey of two-thirds of the demesne tithes 

 of Freckleton and Warton ; Farrer, Lanes. 

 Pifi R. 313. Thit explains the i 

 received from the tithes of Kirkham by 

 the Prior of Penwortham in 1291. 



' Lytham Charter! at Durham, I a, 

 2 ae, 4 ae, Ebor. no. 46 j a confirmation 

 of the grant of an oxgang of land which 

 Quenilda's husband Roger had given to 

 the priory. Roger's grant (no. 47), made 

 ' with the content of my wife Quenilda 

 and my heirs,' wat attetted by 'Stephen 

 my ton, Martin my brother,' and other*. 

 The easements included rights in tur- 

 baries, moors, marshes, waters, tands and 

 fisheries. Quenilda lady of Warton, with 

 the consent of her heirs, gave to Lytham 



the homage ot Henry ton of Efward ; 

 ibid. no. 1 1. 



A ton of Acard (perhaps Hugh) attested 

 an agreement on behalf of Warine Bussel 

 of Penwortham c. 1 145 ; Farrer, op. cit. 

 321. Roger le Boteler attetted charters 

 of the time of Henry II, one at least as 

 early at 1164 ; ibid. 375, 409. He paid 

 half a mark in 1177 for some default ; 

 ibid. 38. In 1184-7 ne appean to have 

 claimed Claughton ; ibid. 56. His wife 

 it sometimes called absolutely ' the lady ' 

 or 'Lady of Warton,' at other times 

 le Boteler' or 'de Warton.' She 

 rendered account in 1 2OOt-i for part of 

 the scutage due from the fee of Pen- 

 wortham ; ibid. 132. She occurs again 

 in the Pipe Rolls of 1202-4 (ibid. 170, 

 178), but teemt to have died before 

 Oct. 1207, when Richard her ton was 

 defendant to the claim by Hugh de 

 Morton and his wife ; Curia Regis R. 45, 

 m. 3. As Quenilda daughter of Hugh 

 she, with the consent of Richard her ton 

 and heir, granted 5 acret in Warton, 

 with the land between Baunebrcck and 

 the ditch, and between the road called 

 Highgate and Gotchecarr, to the canont 

 of Cockersand ; Chanul. (Chet Soc.), 

 i, 196. She and her husband had for- 

 merly given the canont 3 acres ; ibid. 



ii 95- 



A William le Boteler, their contem- 

 porary, was, with Aline his wife, a bene- 

 factor of Lytham ; Charters, ut sup. no. 5. 

 The seal thowt a man standing, holding 

 a cup in hit right hand. A similar teal 

 wat used by some of the Botelers of 

 Warton. 



* Richard, Stephen, Thomas and Adam, 

 at sons of Quenilda, witnessed her Lytham 

 grant above quoted (no. 46) ; Roger and 

 Siegrith are known from other deedt. 

 Thomat does not occur again. 



Stephen le Koteler (or de Warton) gave 

 to Lytham Priory half an acre in Redcarr- 

 furlong upon Stubbegate, and a perch in 

 the marsh between Blakefield and Stubbr- 



171 



gate ; Lytham Charters, la,: ae, 4 ae, 

 Ebor. no. 4. About 1240 he gave land 

 in Wallfurlong and elsewhere ; ibid, 

 no. 42. At Stephen ton of Roger he 

 gave to the same, with the consent of 

 Ivetta hit wife, the house in Warton in 

 which he lived, with land by the shore 

 between Oubeck (or Howbeck) and Crow- 

 pool ; ibid. no. 33. It appears that this 

 was ' at the Bank ' from a further charter 

 by Stephen made about 1247 ; no. 36. 



Quenilda daughter of Stephen le 

 Boteler released her right to ceitain lands 

 held by Lytham Priory ; ibid. 2 a, 2 ae, 

 4ae, Ebor. no. 5. Adam son of the 

 priest of Lytham granted to the priory 

 certain lands purchased from Stephen le 

 Botelcr ; ibid, i a, 2 ae, 4 ae, Ebor. no. 8. 

 This benefactor may be the Adam ton of 

 Roger the chaplain of Lytham of another 

 deed ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 143. 



Adam is named in grants to Cockerund 

 by hit brother Richard ; he had held 

 3 oxgangs of land by the gift of Quenilda ; 

 Cot krr mnd Ckartul. i, 1 92. Alice daughter 

 of Adam ton of Roger de Warton, who 

 gave land to Henry ton of William the 

 Carpenter of Kirkham, may have been 

 his daughter ; Lytham Charters, no. 6. 

 In 1 246 Alice, at daughter and heir of 

 Adam de Warton, recovered 4 acret in 

 Warton ; Assize R. 404, m. 4 d. Mabel 

 widow of Adam le Boteler in 1251 claimed 

 dower against Maud daughter of Richard 

 de Newton (half an osgang), John ton of 

 Alice (i acre), and Robert de Conyen and 

 Alice his wife (i J oxgangs) ; Curia Regit 

 R. 14$, m. 41 d., 43 d. John ton of 

 Alice de Warton wat a benefactor of 

 Lytham, giving land (with house) on the 

 Bank, between the toft which had be- 

 longed to Stephen le Boteler and the 

 three thorat ; Lytham Charters, no. 44. 

 Avice at widow of John ton of Alice de 

 Warton released her claim in or about 

 128; ; ibid. no. 12. Richard ton of thit 

 John had a grant from Roger Collan and 

 Alice his wife ; ibid. no. i*. 



