AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



allotted to the former," and descended in the main 

 line until 1819, when it was given to a younger 

 branch," and $o descended to the trustees of the 

 Earl of Burlington, who, with the Hon. Charles 

 Compton Cavendish, in 1 843 M sold it to the thirteenth 

 Earl of Derby, whose successor is now lord of Inskip 

 and Great Eccleston. Manor courts are held." 



A manor of Inskip was claimed by the Cliftons of 

 Westby." This appears to have been the tenement 

 of the Whittingham family* which about 1308 passed 

 to the Shireburnes of Stonyhurst." A family sur- 



ST. MICHAEL- 

 ON-WYRE 



named Inskip " and a few other landowners occur in 

 the records." 



Cockersand Abbey " and the Knights Hospitallers " 

 had lands in the township. 



SOff'ERBt" was in 1066 assessed as one plough- 

 land, and, like Inskip, formed part of Earl Tostig's 

 fee." Afterwards Great Sowerby was part of the 

 Wyresdale lordship, 51 and the chief owners appear to 

 have been the Banastrc " and Hoghton ** families. 

 The Earls of Derby have long been lords of the 

 manor, 1 * and courts are held." 



Knhwick, op. cit. 30 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 59, m. no. Crou Moor 

 belonged to the lordi of Inikip in 1580 ; 

 Exck. Dip. (Rec. Soc. Lino, and 

 Chet.), 2. 



" William Lord Cavendith had Inikip, 

 tec., in 1614 ; Pat. 12 J.n. I, pt. xxvi. 



** See the account of Brindle. Inskip 

 was among the manors of the Right Hon. 

 William Cavendith in 1747 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. $67, m. 6. 



** Fish wick. op. cit. 19. 



" Information of Mr. Windham E. 

 Hale. 



* In 1 5 14 it wai found that William 

 de Clifton about 1300 had had the 

 homage and tervice of Richard Shireburne 

 for hit manor of Inikip at parcel of the 

 manon of Clifton and Weitby, and that 

 thii had descended to Cuthbert Clifton, 

 who died in IJIZ ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. iii, no. 3. Similar atatementi are 

 made later ; ibid, ii, no. 6. 



* Richard ton of Warine de Whitting- 

 ham gave 2 acrea in Inikip to Cocker- 

 aand Abbey ; Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), i, 184. 

 In 1246 Geoffrey de Whittingham ob- 

 tained an oxgang of land, Ac., irom Richard 

 de Whittingham and Hawiie his wife ; 

 Final Cone, i, 99. Richard de Whitting- 

 ham gave an oxgang of land in Inikip to 

 Roger de Wharlei with hit daughter 

 Alice in exchange for an ozgang in 

 Elswick, and Roger and Alice afterward* 

 releaaed it to John lord of Whittingham, 

 on of Richard ; Towneley MS. DD, 

 no. 1906. John ion of Richard de 

 Whittingham in 1279 claimed land 

 againtt Walter dc Carleton and William 

 hii son ; De Banco R. 31, m. 32. John 

 ion of John de Whittingham in 1 30; 

 claimed a messuage, 2 oxganga of land, 

 Ac., in Inikip againit his father and his 

 brother William, with whom wat joined 

 Adam de Lever ; Aisize R. 420, m. 6. 

 There are two charter! relating to it in 

 Kuerden fol. MS. (Chet. Lib.), 330(68), 



JJ 1 (9)- 



17 The Shireburne abatract book at Lea- 

 gram affords the following notea : John 

 de Whittingham to John hit ion, all hii 

 Undi in Sowerby (i.d.). John de Whit- 

 tingham of Sowerby to John ion of 

 Nicholaa de Sowerby, all landi in Great 

 Sowerby which he had from Sir Henry 

 de Kighley (i.d.). William ion of John 

 de Whittingham to Robert de Shireburne, 

 homagea and services in Eliwick, Inikip 

 and Sowerby (Inikip, 1 308). 



In 1354 John the Chapman of Preston 

 claimed againit Alice widow of Robert 

 de Shireburne two mettuagea, too acre* 

 of land, Ac., at nephew and heir of John 

 on of Nit hoi is de Sowerby, being ton of 

 John's litter Margery. The land had 

 been granted to Roger de Sowerby, but 

 hia ion and heir (John) had died without 

 ittue. Alice alleged that Roger wat a 

 baitard, to that hit landi ctcheated to 

 her, but the jury found for the claimant ; 



Duchy of Lane. Aitize R. 3, m. v d. 

 Margery widow of Nicholai de Sowerby 

 occurt in 1292 ; At ire R. 408, m. 36. 



Sir Adam de Howick in 1358 pur- 

 chased messuages, Ac., in Inikip from 

 John the Chapman of Preston, William 

 le Grigour and Alice hit wife ; f-tnjl 

 Cone, ii, I 59. 



Inakip is named among the Shireburne 

 estates in the later inquisitions, but the 

 tenure it not recorded. It can only be 

 gathered from the Clifton inquitit ont 

 cited already. 



10 Adam de Inikip to hit ton Thomat 

 land on Moorbreck (perhaps in Upper 

 Rawcliffe), for which ]J. rent wai due to 

 Lytham Priory; Kuerden fol. MS. 188. 



Richard de Inikip granted to Richard 

 le Boteler the watte pertaining to I ox- 

 gang of land in Inikip, also part of the 

 windmill ; Kuerden MSS. iv, S 4. 



About 1226 William de Carleton 

 releaied to Dieulacrei Abbey hii right in 

 Richard ton of Richard ton of Alan de 

 Inikip ; Dieulacrei Chartul. (Wm. Salt 

 Soc.), 352. 



* An agreement wat made in 1271-2 

 between Richard ton of Geoffrey de 

 Chipping and Gilbert ton of Paulinui de 

 Wcdacre and God.th hii wife at to land, 

 Ac., in Inikip and the twelfth part of the 

 mill ; Anct. D. (P.R.O.), C 1912. 



Adam de Catterall in 1 397 held a 

 messuage, Ac., of the duke in tocage ; 

 Lanei. Inj. f.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 66. 



Jamet Anderton of Clayton and 

 Dorothy hit wife had an ettate here in 

 1602 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 64, 

 m. 233. In the inquisition he it laid to 

 hare had 201. rent from Inikip ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvii, no. 56. 



*> Chartul. i, 184. 



11 Plat, de Qua ffarr. (Rec. Com.), 375. 

 V.C.H. Lane,, i, 288* There it 



nothing to show whether thii referi to 

 Great and Little Sowerby or to one 

 portion only. 



u Ingram de Gynet held Sowerby in 

 1324 ; Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 39*. 



* The Banaitre of Bretherton ettate 

 wat probably derived from the Singletons. 

 In 1346-8 John Truitell and Petronilla 

 hit wife were claiming her dower in 

 various messuages and landt in Sowerby 

 againit Robert de Haldelegha and hit ton 

 John; De Banco R. 347, m. 165 ; 

 354, m. 300. 



In i $21 the Banaitre eitate wai held 

 by Thomai Radcliffe of Winmarleigh and 

 Thomai Earl of Derby ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. T, no. 3 (and later), 68. The 

 tenures in Sowerby are not recorded 

 separately from the rest of the Baldertton 

 etlate. 



In 1563 Edward Earl of Derby acquired 

 land in Great and Little Sowerby and in 

 Myeracough from John Otbaldeiton and 

 Jane hit wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 2;, m. 104. 



In 1662 a rent of 161. M. for the 



28l 



manor of Sowerby wai due to Moore of 

 Bankhall, Kirkdale ; Pat. 14 Chat. II. 



35 John the Chapman of Preiton in 

 13(6 granted to Sir Adam de Hoghton 

 all hii mettuagei and landi in the hamlet 

 of Great Sowerby in the Till of Inikip ; 

 Add. MS. 32106, no. 3. From a pleading 

 above cited it appears that the grantor 

 wai heir of a John de Sowerby. Maud 

 Chapman, widow of John, wai living 

 sixty yean later, releasing her dower 

 right in the vill of Sowerby to Sir Richard 

 de Hoghton in 1417 ; ibid. no. 670. 

 Sir Richard de Hoghton in 1387 demited 

 hit landi, &c., in Great Sowerby to 

 William de Hornby the younger for life ; 

 ibid. no. 64 (2). 



Sir Adam de Hoghton in 1358 com- 

 plained that Sir Nicholai Boteler had 

 teized certain cattle of hit in the vill of 

 Intkip in a place called the Highneld in 

 Great Sowerby. Sir Nicholas replied 

 that his tenant John Chapman, who 

 thould pay 61. 8</. a year, wai in arrean ; 

 but the jury found that the place of 

 teizure was outside Boteler'i fee, and he 

 wai fined +od. ; Assize R. 438, m. 9. 



Sir Richard Hoghton in 1415 wai 

 found to have held of the heir of Adam 

 dc Winkley ; Lanct. Inj. f.m. (Chet. 

 Soc.), i, 146. In later Hoghton inquisi- 

 tiont the tenure it recorded at of the 

 king by knight's lervice ; e.g. Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. v, no. 61. A fiihery in 

 Sowerby mere it named in 1519; ibid, 

 no. 66. 



M The rental of the Earl of Derby in 

 1522 (in pottetiion of the Earl of 

 Lathom) thowt that from Great and 

 Little Sowerby and Myericough 

 ,27 141. id. wat received from Sir 

 Henry Kighley, who farmed the eitate, 

 and that the following free renti were 

 paid : To the heirs of Jamet Boteler, 341. ; 

 Richard Hoghton, I 51. ; the chaplain of 

 St. Michael-on-Wyre, 141. ; Hugh 

 Shireburne, ftn. \oJ. ; and the heiri of 

 John Lawrence, 331. 4^. For the 

 Balderiton landi 461. 8</. wai paid, of 

 which one half went back to the Earl 

 of Derby and the other to Radcliffe and 

 Oibaldetton. Thomai first Earl of 

 Derby had purchated landi belonging to 

 Roger Birewath and Hyde producing 

 3 31. %d. a year. 



It doet not appear that the larli of 

 Derby, though they muit have owned a 

 Urge part of the land, claimed any manor 

 at that time, but in 1665 the manort of 

 Great and Little Sowerby were held by 

 Charlotte Dowager Countcts of Derby an 1 

 in 1678 by William Earl of Derby, 

 while in 1708 they were among the 

 Derby eitatei in the handt of John Earl 

 of Anglesea and Henrietta Maria hii 

 wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle*. 175, 

 m. 143 ; 201, m. 37 ; 260, m. 53 ; 

 167, m. 75. 



" Information of Mr. Windham E. 

 Hale. 



