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it in 1324," and appears to have been succeeded by 

 a brother William, who alienated it to Thomas de 

 Goosnargh. 18 This last held the lordship and two- 

 thirds of the vill in 1346, and Nicholas Boteler of 

 Rawcliffe held the other third. 19 Of the Goosnargh 

 family next to nothing is known. 10 The manor 

 descended to Alexander Goosnargh, who died in 

 1524 at Manscrgh holding the manor of the king by 

 a rent of 5/. His son Thomas having died before 



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him, his heir was his grandson Alexander Waring 

 (son of a daughter of Margaret), aged eight. 11 It 

 appears, however, that there was another daughter 

 Maud, afterwards wife of Robert Parker.** They 

 sold the manor to the Butlers of Rawcliffe, 13 and the 

 whole descended with Rawcliffe till the forfeiture in 

 1716. This estate seems to have been sold in parcels ** ; 

 the Bournes of Hackinsall became the principal pro- 

 prietors, 15 but the manor has disappeared. 



William seems to hare died about 1316, 

 in which year Nicholat de Oxcliffe claimed 

 * messuage and 9 acre* of land againit 

 John ion of William de Norbreck ; 

 De Banco R. 216, m. 363. In the jrear 

 following Alice widow of William de 

 Oxcliffe claimed dower in a mesiuage 

 and 24 acrei in Sulmine againit Nicholai 

 on of William de Oxcliffe ; ibid. 220, 

 m. 231 d. 



Nicholai wai plaintiff in 1318 (ibid. 

 221, m. 9 d.), in which rear he came 

 to in agreement with the monks of 

 Furneii as to certain approvements ; Dtp. 

 Kteftr'i Rtf. ut lup. From this it 

 appears that Nicholai had a salt-pan on 

 the waste and the monks had a water- 

 mill by their grange. 



17 He held the manor of Stalmine and 

 Little Staynall by a rent of lot. and doing 

 suit to county tnd wapentake ; Dods. 

 MSS. cxxxi, fol. 40*. 



At the aame time the doomimen of 

 Stalmine and Staynall are named in the 

 court roll of the hundred ; Lanes. Ct. R. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.J, 1 1 5. 



16 In 1338 Thomai de Goosnargh 

 claimed to hold by grant of William ion 

 of William ton of John de Oxcliffe ; 

 Assize R. 142;, m. 4. A William de 

 Oxcliffe had been defendant in the case 

 in 1334 ; De Banco R. 298, m. 07 d. 



Thomai de Gooinargh and Margaret 

 hii wife in 1357 obtained from John ion 

 of William Beaufront a release of his 

 claim in the manor of Stalmine ; Dodi. 

 MSS. liii, fol. 83. 



" Survtjr of 1 346 (Chet. Soc.) 47 ; 

 Thomai de Gooinargh held two plough- 

 landi and paid 61. 8</. of the rent, while 

 Nicholai Boteler held one plough-land 

 and paid 31. 4</. ; but Thomai did the 

 whole suit to county and wapentake. 

 Later the manor seems to have been 

 held in moietic?, each paying ;>. 



Thomai ton of Walter de Goosnargh 

 wai in possession of the manor in I 354 j 

 Duchy of Lane. Asiize R. 3, m. 5. He 

 and hii wife Margaret occur a year later ; 

 ibid. 4, m. I 5. 



* In I 363 John de Oxcliffe appeared 

 againit John ion of Thomai de Gooinargh 

 to claim a mesiuage and land which 

 Ralph Gentyl had given to Nicholai de 

 Oxcliffe and Alice de Slyne and their 

 isiue ; in default to remain to Nigel ion 

 of the laid Alice, and in default to the 

 right heiri of Nicholai. Nicholai, Alice 

 and Nigel had died without isiue, and so 

 the right came to plaintiff. John de 

 Gooinargh laid that Thomai hit father 

 died in poweHion, and he wai himself 

 under age, whereupon the trial wai 

 deferred ; De Banco R. 416, m. 45 5 d. 

 John de Oxcliffe had claimed in 1360; 

 Dip. Kieptr't Rtf. xxxii, App. 342. 



Thomai Gooinargh and Nieholai 

 Boteler held in 144? 6 just at in 1346 ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Knights' Feet, bdle. 2, 

 no. :o. 



Robert Gooinargh ton of William 

 agreed with Joan hit father's widow at to 



dower in 1452 ; Dodi. MSS. liii, fol. 92.'. 

 Robert and Maud hit wife in 1459 

 demised Redeford in Plumpton and a 

 mesiuage in Catterall for a term of 

 twenty yeari ; ibid. fol. 90*. Robert wai 

 summoned to warrant by James Pickering 

 in 1473 in reipect of a manor in Stalmine ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Writs Proton, file 13 

 Edw. IV. 



11 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, no. 5;. 

 Alexander wai separated from hii wife 

 Agnes daughter of John Boteler by an 

 arbitration in 1496, he retaining the 

 custody of the children ; Dodi. MSS. liii, 

 fol. 91. He must have married again. 



In 1518 Alexander Goosnargh made a 

 feoffment of the manor of Stalmine Hall, 

 Ac., with remainder to hii ion Thomai ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 123, m. 9. Thii 

 on probably died icon after, for no 

 remainder wai stated in another feoffment 

 in 1522; ibid. 131, m. 2. At hit 

 death Alexander held lands in Stalmine 

 and Staynall, Hambleton, Goosnargh, 

 Woodplumpton and Catterall. By hii 

 will (recited in the inquisition) he charged 

 hii lands with a yearly stipend of 5 marki 

 for twenty-three years to find a chaplain 

 to celebrate at the altar of St. George in 

 Kirkby l.onsdale Church. 



" From the inquisition it might be 

 supposed that Margaret Waring wai dead 

 in 152;, but in 1528 Richard Waring 

 and Margaret hit wife demited to Edward 

 Mansergh certain messuages and lands in 

 Stalmine, together with leven saltcotes 

 there ; Pat of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 1 1, 

 m. I57d. 



In 1540 Nicholai Butler purchased 

 from Robert Parker and Mau'd hit wife 

 (he being the heir of Thomai Goosnargh) 

 a moiety of the manor of Stalmine, with 

 various lands (including thirty salt-pits) 

 there and in Staynall, Preejall, &c. ; ibid, 

 bdle. 12, m. 28. Possibly Alexander 

 Gooinargh had been married twice, and 

 Maud wai half-lister to Margaret but 

 whole lister to Thomai. The purchase 

 of this moiety wai confirmed by Maud 

 Parker, widow, with George Knott of 

 Canterbury and Joan hii wife Joan being 

 the daughter of Maud by a former huiband 

 (William Cowper) and her ole heir to 

 Richard Butler and Henry hii brother 

 in 1 564 ; ibid. bdle. 26, m. 101 ; Dodi. 

 MSS. liii, fol. 83. 



The other moiety seems to have been 

 obtained in 15,37-4; by Nicholas Butler 

 from Margaret Waring, widow, daughter 

 and co-heir of Alexander Gooinargh ; 

 Dodi. MSS. ut tup. ; P.il. of Line. Plea 

 R. 1 8 1 , m. 9 d. It was perhapi a daughter 

 of Margaret who married Arthur Bayne, 

 for about 1556 he and Margaret hit wife 

 complained that Nicholai Butler wai 

 wrongfully holding lands in Stalmine 

 Manor and detaining their title deedi ; 

 Diuami Lane. (Rec. Com.), i, 291. In 

 15159 a rent of 4 191. 9J. from 

 lands in Stalmine, Sec., wai settled on 

 Arthur Bayne anJ Margaret hit wife, with 

 remainder to Jamei Bayne ; Pal. of Lane. 



253 



Feet of F. bdle. 21, m. 117. Yet some- 

 what later (1562) Agnes Warren and 

 Maud Parker claimed messuage), tec., in 

 Stalmine Manor againit Richard Butler 

 and Margaret Waring ; Ducatia Lane, ii, 

 258. Again in 1565 James Bayne and 

 Margaret hii wife (widow of Waring) 

 claimed the estate of Alexander Gooinargh, 

 Margaret and Maud being daughter! and 

 heirs, againit Richard and Henry, ions 

 of Nicholai Butler, who defended by 

 alleging the feorfment by Margaret 

 Waring ; ibid. 303. 



13 The available evidence ii given in 

 the preceding notes. In 1571 the manor 

 of Stalmine was reckoned ai part of the 

 Butler eitatea ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 33, m. 79. 



It will have been icen from the text 

 that this family had long held certain 

 land in Stalmine, and there are lomc 

 charteri in the Rainei MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 

 xxxviii, 380-1. In 1323-4 Nicholai ion 

 of William Boteler claimed a messuage 

 and land againit Nicholai de * Oxcleve ' 

 and William ion of Adam, to which 

 Nicholai replied that hii name wai 

 'Oxclyf,' and that William Boteler had 

 held his land of him by knight's service, 

 on which account he had taken posses- 

 sion. The jury did not accept the spell- 

 ing and also decided against him at to 

 the tenure, giving a verdict for the 

 plaintiff; Assize R. 425, m. 5. In 1502 

 the tenure of the lands in Stalmine and 

 Staynall was grouped with that in Thistle- 

 ton, Rirkham and Freckleton, ai of the 

 Earl of Derby by knight'i service and a 

 rent of 81. ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 iii, no. 45. Shortly afterward! James 

 Boteler, who died in 1 504, wai itated to 

 have held messuapes, lands, &c., in Stal- 

 mine and Staynall of the Earl of Derby 

 in aocage ; ibid, iii, no. 109. This 

 lame tenure was again recorded of Wil- 

 liam Butler, 1639, though the eitate had 

 been increaied by many purchases, to that 

 he held the manor of Stalmine with Stay- 

 nail, messuages, lands, twelve saltcotes, 

 two windmills, a ferry boat on the 

 Wyre and a fishery there ; ibid, xxx, 

 no. 1 8. 



The manor ii mentioned in a settle- 

 ment by Richard Butler in 1714 ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R. 501, m. 2 d. 



" In 1752 Richard Harriion the 

 younger purchased from Nathan Ardeme 

 and Elizabeth hit wife a third of the 

 eighth part of the manor of Stalmine with 

 Staynall, court baron, Ac. ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 349, m. 60. 



" John Bourne of Stalmine (d. 1841) 

 was reputed to be lord of the manor in 

 1836; Bainei, Lann. (ed. i), iv, 550. 

 He wai followed by Cornelius Bourne, the 

 reputed lord in 1850 ; Rainei in Notitia 

 Ceitr. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 443. 



According to die pedigree in Foiter'i 

 Lam. PtJi. John Bourne (d. 1783), 

 grandfather of the above-named John, 

 married Jtne daughter and co-heir of 

 Corneliui Fox of Stalmine Hall. 



