A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



was succeeded by his brother William, 38 a physician, 

 who recorded a pedigree in 1 664-5. 39 On his death 

 in 1671 the lord of the manor took up his residence 

 there. It was sold with other of the Duke of Hamil- 

 ton's estates in 1854, and became the property of 

 William Thompson of Underley and Kendal, whose 

 daughter and heir Amelia married the Earl of Bective, 

 who in 1870 after her death became Marquess of 

 Headfort and died in 1 894. Their son Thomas Earl 

 of Bective had died in 1893 and his daughter Olivia 

 wife of Lord Henry Cavendish Bentinck succeeded 

 to Wedacre, Green halgh and other estates." 10 Wedacre 

 and the Barnacre estate, together with Greenhalgh 

 and Lingart, were purchased from Lord Bective's 

 representatives in 1899 by the late Thom.is Henry 

 Rushton. On his death in 1903 they descended to 

 his son, the present owner, Mr. James L. Rushton 

 of Barnacre Lodge. 40 ' 



Wedacre occurs as a surname. 41 Of the other 

 tenants there is little record. 42 Stirzacre is partly in 

 Catterall. 43 Sandholme, Sullam and Eidsforth are 

 other places in Barnacre occasionally mentioned. 



Bonds does not appear to be an ancient name, but 

 in this part of the township are several estates once 

 of some note. HQWATH was a general name for 

 the southern part, 44 which, like much of Barnacre, 



was regarded as pertaining to Catterall, 45 but the 

 ' manor of Howath ' was the estate of the Knights 

 Hospitallers there. It was described as the mansion 

 of St. John Baptist upon Howath with the chapel 

 and lands, and about 1 200 was given to the order 

 by Robert son of Bernard lord of Catterall, together 

 with other lands. 46 There appears to have been 

 a small hospital there. 46a Roger de Wedacre was the 

 tenant in 1302, when the prior complained that 

 goods seized in distraint for a fine imposed at the 

 prior's court had been rescued by Robert son of 

 Simon de Garstang. 47 Afterwards it was acquired 

 by Richard Shireburne of Stonyhurst together with 

 S.idd, 48 and descended with his estates till the 1 8th 

 century. 49 The chapel of St. John there is not heard 

 of later. The Hoghtons of Hoghton 50 had lands 

 in Howath and Catterall held of the Hospitallers 

 by zs. 6J. rent. 81 William Baylton died in 1638 

 holding a messuage, &c., in Catterall and Barnacre 

 of the king as of the Hospital of St. John of 

 Jerusalem. 62 His son William, then thirty years of 

 age, was a Royalist, and in the Commonwealth period 

 had to compound for his lands." 



Cockenand Abbey had land in Howath 64 and 

 BYREWATH which latter place was held by 

 Brockholes of Claughton. 66 



38 William Fyfe of Wedacre in 165 1 

 held the demesne with mill and kiln by 

 lease from Lord Kilmorey. Great 

 damage had been done by the incursion 

 of the Scots in 1648. 'Old Mrs. Fyfe,' 

 the mother of Captain John Fyfe, had 

 paid ,200 a year under the lease, the 

 fines and perquisites of Wyresdale Court 

 being included. Mrs. Fyfe, ' a staunch 

 Parliamentarian,' had lost two sons and a 

 son-in-law in the service, at Bolten, but 

 had been put out by Ewan Wall, clerk to 

 the Sequestration Committee at Preston ; 

 ibid, i, 1625 i Ctl. Com. for Comf. ii, 

 1284. 



39 Dugdale, Vint. (Chet. Soc.), 114. 

 See also the account of Hackinsall 

 and Preesall. There is an anecdote of 

 Dr. Fyfe in Fishwick, op. cit. 220 ; 

 Lanes, and Che:. Antiq. Notes, i, 63. 



40 Hewitson, Narth-warJ, 68. The 

 Countess of Bective, mother of the 

 heiress, used to live at Barnacre. 



4 a Information of Mr. Rushton. 



41 Roger de Wedacre has been named 

 in preceding notes. In 1276 he claimed 

 two messuages, land, &c., against William 

 de Lindsay; De Banco R. 14, m. 50 d. 

 He also occurs in 1292 ; Assize R. 408, 

 m. 4 d. 38. 



Robert de Wedacre was plaintiff in 

 1246 ; Assize R. 404, m. 10 d. William 

 dc Wedacre was plaintiff in 1276 ; De 

 Banco R. 15, m. 45 ; 17, m. 128 d. 



For an early pedigree see De Banco R. 

 321, m. 294. See also notes 47, &c., 

 below. 



43 John Hudson of Barnacre, a ' delin- 

 quent' who had been 'in arms against 

 the Parliament,' compounded for his 

 leasehold tenement in 1649 ; Royalist 

 Comf. Ptfcrs, iii, 306. 



** See the account of Catterall. 



44 ' Howath bridge over the Wyre ' 

 shows that Howath extended over all 

 Bonds, though the name is now applied 

 to the south-east corner. Halecath or 

 Holcath seems to have embraced both 

 Howath and Stirzacre ; Lanes. Inq. and 

 Extents, i, 3. 



45 Stirzacre in Catterall has already 

 occurred. 



46 Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 93* ; Du'dale, 

 Man. vi, 806 ; Kuerden MSS. v, fol. 82. 

 The bounds began at the bridge of 

 Howath, followed the Wyre as far as the 

 bridge over the Wyre towards St. Helen's, 

 and so to the dyke near the donor's 

 house in Catterall ; thence to the road 

 from Preston, crossing it and going along 

 the road towards Slireshagh as far as land 

 formerly Sparling's, and thence to the 

 Wyre. 



Howath is named in the list of Hos- 

 pitallers' lands in 1292; Plac. de Quo 

 Warr. (Rec. Com.), 375. 



46a Lands situated by the Brock, be- 

 tween Hecham and Duuenshaw, were 

 granted to St. John and the hospital of 

 Howath by Matthew son of Adam ; 

 Add. MS. 32107, no. 2998. 



The brethren of St. John the Baptist 

 of Howath, with the consent and advice 

 of the brethren of St. John of Jerusalem, 

 ma-le a gift to Hawise wife of Robert son 

 of Bernard ; Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 89*. 



47 De Banco R. 143, m. 176. Hugh 

 de Wedacre and William his brother had 

 been tenants in 1274-6 ; De Banco R. 6, 

 m. 8 ; 13, m. 17. 



48 Sec the account of Stidd in Dutton. 

 A rental of 1613 shows that a court was 

 held and that the Hospitallers' lands in 

 Claughton, Bilsborrow and other adjacent 

 townships were subject to it j Kuerden 

 MSS. ii, fol. 132. 



49 Howath occurs in Richard Shire- 

 burne's lands in 1628 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xxvi, no. 4 ; also among the 

 Duchess of Norfolk's possessions in 1737 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 544, m. 13. 



60 Richard de Wedacre about 1280 

 granted to Adam son of Sir Ad-<m de 

 Hojhton and his heirs all his Ian 1 in 

 Howath in Catterall inherited from his 

 father ; a rent of 31. was to be paid to 

 the Hospital of Jerusalem ; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlii, fol. 61, no. 54. Richard son of 

 Adam de Hoghton gave all his land in 

 Howath, with part of the mill, to Richard 

 de Bury and William his brother, for the 

 donor's life ; the remainder was to his 

 son Richard de Hoghton ; in default to 

 Edmund, Richard and Adam, sons of 



318 



William son of Adam de Graystock ; 

 ibid. fol. 68A. 



In 1351-2 Adamde Hoghton obtained 

 releases from William brother of Richard 

 de Bury and from Edmund son of William 

 de Graystock ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 725, 

 fol. 286, \\'i< 



61 Lanes. Inf. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 146, 

 127. The same estate occurs in later 

 Hoghton inquisitions. In 1559 it was 

 said to be held of the queen as of her 

 duchy in socage ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xi, no. 2. 



M Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 

 54* He had compounded for refusing 

 knighthood in 1631 ; Mite. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 222. 



53 Royalist Comf. Pafe rt, i, 1557. His 

 ' delinquency ' was that he had refused to 

 take the covenant, he living within a mile 

 of Greenhalgh Castle, then one of the 

 king's garrisons. He took it in May 1646. 



The same or a later William Baylton 

 was a benefactor. 



54 Adam de Wedacre gave the canons 

 half an acre in Howath on the field called 

 the Lawe, the south head abutting on 

 the great moor of Catterall, with ease- 

 ments of the vill of Catterall ; Cockersand 

 Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), i, 276, 286. 



56 Byrewath was held, in part at least, 

 of the church of Garstang, and Henry de 

 Casterton (son of Gilbert) released all 

 right in it to Cockersand ; ibid, i, 277. 



* Robert de Byrewath released to 

 Roger de Brockholes and Christiana his 

 wife certain land, probably in Byrewath ; 

 Add. MS. 32105, fol. 84; 32106, no. 1105. 



In 1268 Adam de Brockholes held the 

 Cockersand parcel, paying 31. f>d. a year 

 and half a mark at death ; Chartul. loc. cit. 

 In 1290 Adam was stated to have held 

 an oxgang of land in Byrewath in Gar- 

 stang of Walter de Londe by 1 2t/. yearly ; 

 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 274. 



This estate descended in the line of 

 Brockholes of Claughton, and Roger de 

 Brockholes was in i 347 found to hold an 

 oxgang of land in Byrewath of the king 

 (in right of William de Coucy) as of the 

 manor of Wyresdale, by knight's service ; 

 Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 63. 



