A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



had some of it, which was sold in 1587 to Robert 

 Bindloss of Berwick, 61 and he died in 1595 holding 

 the Lower End of Pilling, but the tenure is not 

 recorded. 62 



At the byrlaw or burley court of Robert Bindloss 

 in 1 590 various persons were fined for non-attendance, 

 including John Smith of Stalmine Grange. It was 

 ordered that the watercourses must be ' scoured and 

 drawn' before St. Helen's Day, 'being the 3rd day of 

 May.' Fines were ordered for foldbreak (breaking 

 the lord's pinfold), rescues, bloodwick and hubble- 

 showe (affray), playing unlawful games, keeping 

 unlawful fences and neglect to ring swine. Turf 

 was not to be taken without the owner's leave ; 

 scolding women were to be punished by fine ; and 

 ' inmakes or bysiers ' were not to be entertained by 

 anyone in the lordship." 



John Lawrence was a partner in thevill in 1346," 

 and his estate may be that subsequently held by 

 Beconsaw and Clifton of Westby." 



Though it is Preesall which is named in Domesday 



Book, the manor in later times seems to have been 

 known as Hackinsall ; yet in the i6th century and 

 later a manor of Preesall is separately mentioned, 

 usually in connexion with Hackinsall. 56 A family of 

 Bradshaw of Preesall occurs." 



It would appear that Hereward Abbot of 

 Cockersand (1216-35) undertook, in return for the 

 gifts to his abbey, to find a fit monk to celebrate in 

 the chapel of Hackinsall for the souls of King John, 

 Geoffrey and Eva and others, but the chapel is 

 not mentioned again. 58 



There are now two places of worship in the 

 township. St. Oswald's was built in 1898 in con- 

 nexion with the Church of England, and is a chapel 

 of ease to Stalmine. Bethel Congregational Chapel 

 was built in 1835 and enlarged in 1888. Services 

 were first begun about 1830, owing to the efforts 

 of the minister of Elswick, who described this district 

 as 'destitute of the Gospel,' but 'ready to attend 

 it if preached.' " 



Two schools were founded in Preesall about 1 700.* 



ST. MICHAEL-ON-WYRE 



UPPER RAWCLIFFE WITH TARNACRE 

 OUT RAWCLIFFE 

 GREAT ECCLESTON 



INSKIP WITH SOWERBY 



ELSWICK 



WOODPLUMPTON 



The church from which the parish takes its name 

 lies in the township of Upper Rawcliffe, on the 

 south bank of the Wyre, which river divides the 

 area into two unequal parts. The district is for the Upper Rawcliffe 

 most part flat and lies low, except in the extreme Out Rawcliffe . 

 south, where a height of about 120 ft. above sea Great Eccleston 

 level is attained. The acreage amounts to 1 8,888 J, Elswick . 

 and the population in 1901 was 3,691. Inskip with ) 



The history of the parish has been extremely Sowerby j 

 placid, and there is even yet no railway line within Woodplumpton . 

 its boundary. The population is employed almost 

 entirely in agriculture, and the land is now occupied 

 as follows ' : 



Arable 

 land 

 ac. 



1.565 



IOOJ 



HSi 

 944 

 178 



4,539 



Permanent 



grass 



2,437 

 1,125 



',8/5 

 4,49 2 



I 2,6 1 I 



Woods and 

 plantations 

 ac. 



49 

 46 



3 

 '5 



10 



154 



61 Dalton probably purchased from 

 Adams. An estate of forty messuages, 

 500 acres of salt marsh, &c., was in 1 586 

 granted to feoffees by Anne Dalton, 

 widow, Barnaby Kitchin, Hugh Hesketh 

 and Alice his wife j Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 48, m. 48. In the following 

 year the feoffees, in conjunction with 

 Roger Dalton, sold the greater part to 

 Robert Bindloss ; ibid. bdle. 49, m. 21. 



51 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvii, no. 7. 



u Preston Guard. 29 June 1878. 



54 See a former note. Edmund Law- 

 rence of Lancaster had land in Preesall in 

 1358 ; Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 7, 

 m. 4 d. 



M Cuthbert Clifton in right of William 

 Beconsaw of Wray claimed in 1574 a 

 messuage, &c., in Stalmine, with common 

 of pasture on the waste grounds of Preesall 

 called Preesall Park and Park Moss, and 

 other wastes of Hackinsall and Preesall. 

 Beconsaw also had messuages and lands in 

 Preesall and others, known as Wheatholme 

 Carr, in Hackinsall. He conveyed all to 

 Cuthbert Clifton, whose right to common 

 was denied by Robert Dalton, partly in 

 virtue of a lease of Cockersand Abbey 



lands and partly in virtue of his lordship 

 of part of the manor ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Plead. Eliz. c, C 6. 



Cuthbert Clifton died in 1580 holding 

 lands, &c., in Hackinsall and Preesall of 

 the heirs of Thomas Booth in socage by 

 suit at the court of his manors ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiv, no. 76. In 1585 

 the Clifton lands were stated to be held 

 of the queen as of her duchy by the 

 service of two crossbows ; ibid, xiv, no. 21 ; 

 Ct. of Wards Inq. p.m. xxi, 238. 



In 1581 Roger Dalton claimed turbary 

 in Preesall Moss and a messuage called 

 Quatholme (or Wheatholme) against 

 Robert Carter, whose right was derived 

 from William Beconsaw ; Dueatui Lane. 

 iii, 94, 126. Thomas Carter died in 1622 

 holding land in Hackinsall of the king at 

 duke in socage ; George his son and heir 

 was fifteen years of age ; Lanes. Ina. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and dies.), iii, 317. 



56 The manor of Preesall is named 

 separately in a deed of 1642 by Henry 

 Philpott and Robert Swayne ; Com. Pleas 

 Recov. R. Trin. 18 Chas. I, m. 5. 



Maud daughter of Sabina de Preesall 

 in 1319 claimed a messuage and land in 



26O 



Preesall from William son of Robert de 

 Leyland ; De Banco R. 230, m. 92. See 

 note 10 above. 



Christiana widow of William Wilcock- 

 son claimed dower in a messuage in 

 Preesall in 1342 against John son of 

 John de Poulton ; ibid. 332, m. 524 d. 

 Maud daughter of William Wilcockson of 

 Preesall claimed lands there in 1357; 

 Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 6, m. i. 

 Henry Blundell and Alice his wife in 

 1371 claimed (in Alice's right) amessuage 

 and land in the same place against Maud 

 daughter of William Wilcockson ; De 

 Banco R. 443, m. 306. 



Thomas Dobson of Preesall made a 

 purchase there in 1355 from Richard 

 Page and Amabil his wife ; Final Cone, ii, 

 148. 



57 Dugdale, Visit, 5 5. They occur also 

 at Scale in Skerton. 



58 Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 216. 



69 Nightingale, Lanes. Nonctnf. i, 

 166-73. 



60 Richard Fleetwood's, 1687-95, and 

 Robert Carter's, 1710; End. Char. 

 Rtf. 



1 Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905). 



