AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



Civil War period," recording pedigrees at the visita- 

 tions in 1613"* and 1664.." 



He died in 1668, and was, it appears, succeeded 

 by his grandson Thomas. The estate descended in 

 the male line " to Richard Whittingham, who sold it 

 in 1779, and died soon afterwards without issue. 

 It was purchased by Edward Pedder of Preston, and 

 descc&ded in his family till about 1 866, when it was 

 again sold. It now belongs to the asylum. 



CH INGLE HALL first appears by name in 1354, 

 when it was held by Robert son of Adam dc Single- 

 ton,** a descendant of the Alan de Singleton who held 

 part of the manor in 1 242. It was about I 500 settled, 

 apparently by a family arrangement, upon John Single- 

 ton, a younger son of William Singleton of Broughton 

 Tower." He died about 1 5 30," and his son William 

 in 1541," ChingleHall being then recorded as held 

 of the king by the twentieth part of a knight's fee.* 1 

 John the son and heir was twenty-nine years old, 

 but he died only three years later, leaving a son 

 Thomas, aged one year," and Thomas dying shortly 

 afterwards, a younger son John became heir.** John 

 Singleton held the manor of Chingle Hall, with 

 windmill, &c., till his death in 1 57 1, and then, his 

 son William having just died, the heir was a daughter 



KIRKHAM 



Eleanor, four years old." She became an idiot," 

 and died in 1585, when her heirs were Anthony Wall 

 of Preston, Thomas Preston, Katherine wife of 

 Thomas Eccleston and Jane wife of Christopher 

 Harris." After some disputation" the hall became 

 the property of Anthony Wall, 7 * in whose family it 

 remained till 1764. It was then purchased by a 

 family named Singleton, and about 1 860 was sold to 

 Richard Ncwsham of Preston. 71 Soon afterwards the 

 hall was acquired by the trustees of Goosnargh 

 Hospital, the present owners. 7 * 



The hall stands on rising ground a little less than 

 half a mile to the north of the Blundel brook. It 

 is now a two-story farm-house very much modernized 

 and retaining little of its ancient appearance. The 

 front faces south with a projecting gable towards the 

 east end, and a new wing has been built at the back. 

 The walls appear to be of brick on a stone base, but 

 are now covered with stucco, and all the windows 

 are modern, but the front door is the original 1 7th- 

 century one of oak with Y knocker and ornamental 

 hinges. The chief interest of the house lies in 

 the well-preserved remains of the moat on the 

 south side, crossed by a ' bridge ' or passage-way 

 with cobble paving and low brick walls. 



" Thomas Whittingham mud have been 

 certainly known at a Protestant before 

 1643, for he wai made captain of a troop 

 of horse for the Parliament, which troop 

 he actually raised when Prince Rupert 

 came into the county ; War in Lanes, 

 (Chet. Soc.), 43. 



* fiuV. (Chet. Soc.), 63. He paid 10 

 in 1631, baring refused knighthood ; 

 Miu. (Rcc. Soc. Lines, and Ches.), i, 221. 



" Ougdale, fin'/. (Chet. Soc.), 333. 

 The ages of Thomas Whittingham and 

 his ton are given wrongly. The descent 

 is thus shown : Thomas -t. Godfrey 

 -f. Thomas. Some further genealogical 

 particulars can be obtained from the 

 Prttnn Guild K. (Rec. Soc.), and there 

 is pedigree in Fishwick's Gotanargh, 

 185-8, from which the later details in the 

 text have been derived. 



M The descent it thus given in the 

 work quoted : Thomas, died 1710 -h.ilf- 

 bro. Richard, d. 1717 -t. Henry, d. 1753 

 -i. Richard, d. 1777 -s. Richard, the 

 vendor. Richard, who died in 1717, gave 

 hit landt to trustees to the use of hit 

 ton Henry, ' provided that the said Henry 

 conformed himself to the Protestant 

 religion according to the Church of 

 England ' which Henry refused to do 

 in default they were ' only to allow com- 

 petent maintenance for him and his wife 

 and children'; Fishwick, op. cit. 188. 

 Henry Whittingham was a Jacobite ; 

 Gillow, Hiydock Pafert, 45. There is a 

 note of his marriage in Piccope MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), iii, 271, from roll 18 of 

 Ceo. II at Preston. 



59 Shi reburne Abstract above cited, which 

 also thowt that the manor of Chingle 

 Hall, with lands in Whittingham, Haigh- 

 ton, Preston and Ncwsham, was in 1431 

 held by Thomat and Robert Singleton and 

 Richard Clitheroe. A division was ar- 

 ranged. (The Singletons concerned appear 

 to be those of Broughton and Withgill.) 



*' William Singleton and his feoffees in 

 1484-; made a grant of all hit landt to 

 hi* son John ; Kucrden fol. MS. 382. 

 This grant wat no doubt in trust, for in 

 1501 a division was arranged by which 

 Richard Singleton (ion of Robert ton of 

 William) should have landi, &c., in 



Broughton, Warton and Preston, and 

 John Singleton should have the manor of 

 Chingle Hall and messuages and lands in 

 Whittingham, Haighton, Goosnargh and 

 several other townships ; ibid. 383 ; Final 

 Cone, iii, 1 50. 



11 John Singleton and William his son 

 and heir-apparent occur in receipts and 

 bonds in 1525, 1527 and 1028-9; 

 K.uerden fol. MS. 383 ; Add. MS. 32106, 

 no. 796. In 1530-1 Elizabeth widow of 

 John Singleton and her trustees agreed 

 with William as to her dower ; Kuerden 

 fol. MS. 381. 



* William Singleton married Anne 

 Heaton some time before 1534, when the 

 1 10 marks he received with her was 

 fully discharged ; ibid. 382. 



63 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. viii, no. 9. 



64 Ibid, vii, no. I e ; his brothers Richard 

 and Henry are named, also hit wife Alice 

 and daughters Anne, Elizabeth, Kathe- 

 rine and Jane. 



There was a divorce between Alice 

 Duckctt and John Singleton pronounced 

 in the eccletiattical court at Ribchetter 

 in 1531 ; yet she teems to be the Alice 

 named in the inquisition, and claimed 

 dower in 1 569 (being then wife of Lancelot 

 Marten) as widow of John Singleton the 

 elder ; Court of Wardt and Liveries, box 

 86, no. i, i. 



45 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vii, no. 12. 

 The wardship and marriage of John 

 Singleton were in 1 545 granted by the 

 king to Sir John Perient ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Mite. Bkt. xxii, 21 9 d. Anthony 

 Laton, apparently the actual guardian 

 of John Singleton, was of Chingle Hall 

 in 1549 ; Kuerden fol. MS. 247. John 

 wat probably potthumout. 



'* Duchyof Lane. Inq. p.m. iiii,no. 16 ; 

 an agreement of 1571 it recorded, by 

 which William the ton and heir wai to 

 marry Mary daughter of George Astley. 

 John Singleton married Isabel, afterwards 

 wife of Richard Livetey ; the wat living 

 at Chingle Hall in 1 585 ; ibid, xiv, no. 67. 



a Ibid. >iv, no. 74, dated 1581 ; her 

 age wai then given at fifteen. 



** Ibid. 67. Her father's sisters above- 

 name,! were married at follows : Anne 

 to William Wall of Preston -s. Anthony ; 



211 



Elizabeth to Richard Preston -t. Thomas ; 

 Katherine to James Bolton -s. Nicholat 

 and da. Katherine wife of Thomas Eccles- 

 ton ; Jane to Christopher Harris. See 

 the pedigree in Fishwick, op. cit. 1 92. 



K1 Many references will be found in the 

 Ducaius Lane, (ii, 237, Ac.), and abstracts 

 of some of the pleadings are given in 

 Fishwick, up. cit. 191. Christopher Harris 

 and Joan his wife in 1568 claimed a 

 moiety of certain lands bequeathed by 

 Alice Singleton, mother of Joan, but her 

 brother John, to whom Joan had trans- 

 ferred in 1 564, refused to pay ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Plead. Eliz. Ixxii, H 20. 



Nicholat Kolton in 1586, on behalf 

 himself and the co-heirs, complained that 

 one Roger Burton and Elizabeth hit w. 

 had wrongfully obtained possession of part 

 of the estate ; ibid, cxliv, B 8. 



William Farington of Wordcn in 1596 

 complained that Nicholas Bolton, who as 

 heir of Chingle Hall had sold him certain 

 land, wat trying to evade the performance 

 of his bargain by hiding himself and chang- 

 ing his name ; ibid, clxxiii, F 3. 



William Farington in 1611 held landt 

 in Whittingham of the Earl of Derby ; 

 l.anci. Itttf. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 OKI.), i, 182-4. 



The following refer to the estate i Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 49, ra. 267 ; 

 50, m. 194; 51, m. 57) 52, m. 199; 

 59, m. 97, iSi. 



70 Anthony Wall of Pietton died in 

 1601 holding lands in Whittingham, of 

 which the tenure it not recorded ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xviii, no. 6. His ton 

 William died in 1626 holding of the king 

 by the hundredth part of a knight't fee ; 

 ibid, xxvi, 50; Towneley MS. C 8, 13 

 (Chet. Lib.), 1301. A pedigree of Wall 

 'of Chingle Hall ' wat recorded in 1664 ; 

 Dugdale, fin'/. (Chet. Soc.), 313. Sec 

 further in the account of Preston. 



Thomas Eccletton of Great Eccleston, 

 another of the heirs, in 1592 held lands 

 in Whittingham, but the tenure wat nut 

 recorded ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvi, 

 no. 38. 



1 Fiihwick, op. cit. 192. 



71 Kid. Char. Rif. for Kirkham, 113 ; 

 the hall and 4 1 tcrct of land. 



