A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



his seven daughters became co-heirs. 21 A pedigree 

 was recorded in i$6j. 2Z 



With Dorothy, one of the daughters, the manor 

 had been given to Robert Shireburne, who died in 

 I57Z holding a capital messuage called the Crow's 

 Orchard, &c., in Catterall of the queen as of her 

 duchy by the fortieth part of a knight's fee, lands 

 called Conigree in Claughton, and others in Mitton. 

 The heir was his son Thomas, aged six. 23 Thomas 

 Shireburne died in 1636 holding the manors of 

 Catterall and Little Mitton by knight's service, and 

 leaving a son Robert, aged forty-four. 24 Under the 

 Commonwealth Robert's estate was sequestered for 

 recusancy and delinquency, 25 and finally confiscated 

 and sold in i65z. 26 



The Shireburnes, being apparently much in debt 

 already, were not able to clear their estates, and about 

 1665 these were finally sold to Alexander Holt, 

 citizen and goldsmith of London. 27 His descendants 

 in 1704 sold Catterall to Thomas Winckley of 

 Preston ; from him it descended to Lady Shelley, 

 whose trustees in 1876 sold to Joseph Smith of Lan- 

 caster (d. iSSg). 28 His executors sold the Catterall 

 Hall estate about 1906 to Mr. Yates. 29 



It does not appear that any manor is now 

 claimed, and it is difficult to trace the third parts 

 held by the Mitton and Longford families. The 

 former third seems to have been granted to a junior 

 Mitton family, who assumed the name of Catterall, 30 

 and to have passed later to Croft, 31 Winkley, 32 



which he forfeited by attainder in or 

 before 1471 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. IV, 

 no. 35. He may have descended from 

 the Aln of 1380, who had land in 

 Goosnargh. 



There is a difficulty at the next point. 

 At an inquisition in 1504 it was found 

 that Richard Catterall died in 1487 

 holding the manor of Catterall of the 

 king as duke by knight's service, also 

 Little Mitton, &c., and that his heir 

 was his son Richard, aged thirty at his 

 father's death ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 ii, no. 12. But already, in 1478, Ralph 

 son and heir of Richard Catterall and 

 Elizabeth his wife had made a settlement 

 of messuages, lands, &c., in Catterall and 

 other places ; Add. MS. 32104, no. 513. 

 The same or another Ralph and Emma 

 his wife (widow of Robert Boteler) were 

 in 1482 bound to William K.irkby of 

 Rawrliffe to abide an arbitration ; Dods. 

 MSS. cxlix, fol. 99 d. Ralph as son and 

 heir of Richard Catterall made a grant of 

 land in Little Mitton in 1481 ; DD, 

 no. 36. In 1 501 he exchanged a messuage, 

 &c., on the west side of Howath with 

 James Boteler ; ibid. no. 28. 



Ralph Catterall died on Christmas Day, 

 1515, holding his part of Catterall of the 

 king as duke by the thirty-sixth part of a 

 knight's fee and a rent of T,d. He had 

 in 1508 made a feoffment of all his 

 manors and lands for the fulfilment of his 

 will, assigning part to {Catherine daughter 

 of John Langley, who was to marry his 

 son John. The actual deed, with some 

 others of the family, is in the possession 

 of W. Farrer. John Cattera'l, the on, 

 succeeded, being thirty-six years of age ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, no. 62. 

 He died less than two years after his 

 father (1517), and by his will made 

 provision for his five sisters ; ibid, iv, 

 no. 4. The descent is given as Richard 

 -s. Ralph -. John. John's son Ralph 

 succeeded, being ten years old. 



Ralph died in or before 1526, and was 

 succeeded by his brother Thomas, fifteen 

 years old. He was stated to have been 

 born at Mitton in 1510 and baptized at 

 Whalley ; ibid, vi, no. 4. The inquisition 

 in the Record Office (vi, no. 77) is almost 

 illegible, but a brief abstract is given in 

 Towneley'sMS. 'Lancs.Tenures' (fol. 75) 

 in the possession of W. Farrer ; this states 

 that the manor of Catterall, with some 

 other lands, was held of the king as duke 

 by the sixth (thirty-sixth) part of a 

 knight's fee and 3</. rent. 



A settlement of the manor was made 

 by Thomas Catterall in 1557 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 204, m. 2. 



81 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiv, no. 4 ; 

 he held the manor or capital messuage 



of Catterall, called the hall of Catterall, 

 ten messuages and two water-mills, 10*. 

 free rent, &c., in the township. All was 

 held of the queen as duke by the old 

 service, the thirty-sixth part of a knight's 

 fee. He had in 1561 granted his manors 

 of Catterall and Little Mitton to Robert 

 Shireburne of Gray's Inn, who had 

 married his daughter Dorothy. (This 

 was confirmed in 15623 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 24, m. 235 ; 25, m. 59, 

 94.) Robert Shireburne died, leaving 

 a son Thomas, and Dorothy, who after- 

 wards married Richard Braddyll, was 

 living at Catterall in 1579, aged thirty. 

 The other daughters were Anne wife of 

 Thomas Townley, aged forty ; Elizabeth 

 wife of Thomas Procter, thirty-eight ; 

 Katherine wife of Thomas Strickland, 

 thirty-five ; Dame Margaret Atherton, 

 then wife of William Edwards, thirty-four; 

 Mary wife of John Grimshaw, thirty-two ; 

 and Jane, aged twenty-five. 



Further particulars are given in the 

 account of Goosnargh. The Procters 

 seem to have had some claim on the 

 manor of Catterall ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 43, m. 130. 



" Viiit. (Chet. Soc.), 39. 



13 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiii, no. 

 10. There were three children in all 

 Thomas, Robert and Jane. Their, uncle, 

 Sir Richard Shireburne, was guardian ; 

 Catterall D. (W. Farrer). For an account 

 of this branch see C. D. Sherborn, Family 

 of Sherborn, 91-9. His widow married 

 for her third husband John Whipp, and 

 died in 1620 holding the manor of 

 Catterall, Sec., of the king as duke by the 

 fortieth part of a knight's fee ; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 228. 



Robert Shireburne granted land in 

 Catterall (held of the queen as of her 

 duchy) to William Parkinson, whose son 

 Edward died in 1631 holding lands there 

 and in Myerscough and Claughton, his 

 heirs being William Butler and Anne 

 Shireburne, widow. The former (aged 

 sixteen) was son of Cecily daughter of 

 Edward Parkinson, and the latter (aged 

 seventeen) daughter of Isabel, another 

 daughter of Edward ; Duchy of Lane. Inq, 

 p.m. xxviii, no. 74 ; xxvii, no. 57. 



A deed relating to the manors is en- 

 rolled in Common Pleas, Easter 1599, 

 R. 9 (19). 



24 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxix, no. 43. 

 A settlement of the manors had been 



made by Thomas Shireburne and Isabel 

 his wife in 1629 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 112, no. 23. 



25 Cal. Com. for Camp, iv, 2 5 14-1 5. Sir 

 Edward Mosley of Hough End had a 

 mortgage on the Catterall part of the 

 estate, and secured this on the sale. 



322 



36 Index of Royalists (Index Soc.), 44. 



a7 For disputes see Exch. Dtp. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 49, 50. 



2W This account is from Fishwick, 

 Garstang (Chet. Soc.), 239-42, where full 

 details are given. For the Holt family 

 see Whitaker, Whalley, ii, 24, and for 

 the Winckleys the account of Brockholes 

 in Preston. 



The following references may be added : 

 1686, William Daniellv. Robert Holt, 

 manors of Little Mitton and Catterall, 

 lands, &c. ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 216, m. 27 ; 1704, purchase by Thomas 

 Winckley; Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.); 

 iii, 318, 326; 1710, Thomas Winckley 

 v. Alexander, Edward and William Holt, 

 the above manors ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 264, m. 83 ; 1745, John Winckley 

 and Nicholas his son and heir-apparent, 

 vouchees in a recovery of the manor of 

 Catterall, &c. ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 

 560, m. 2. 



88 Information of Mr. Richard Smith. 



80 Hugh de Mitton was party to several 

 suits in 1292 concerning obstruction, &c. ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 57, 63 d., 67, 73, 74. 

 He seems to be called also Hugh son of 

 Hugh de Mitton and Hugh de Catterall, 

 as above. Roger brother and heir of Hugh 

 son of Robert de Wedacre successfully 

 claimed common of turbary in 5 acres in 

 Catterall against Hugh son of Hugh de 

 Mitton, alleging that his brother had been 

 disseised by Hugh the father ; ibid. m. 50 d. 

 Margery widow of Ralph de Mitton 

 claimed dower against Hugh son of Hugh 

 dc Mitton in respect of three messuages 

 and 3 oxgangs of land in Catterall ; 

 against Henry le Boteler in respect of 

 2orf. rent ; and against William de Wed- 

 acre in respect of a messuage and f)d. 

 rent ; ibid. m. 62. 



81 The mode in which this family ac- 

 quired part of Catterall is unknown. 

 They appear in Claughton also. 



In 1314-15 Gilbert de Southworth, 

 clerk, gave Henry son of Henry de Croft 

 and his issue by Joan daughter of the 

 grantor free turbary in Upper RawclifFe 

 Moss for the manor of the said Henry in 

 Catterall; Dods. MSS. xci, fol. 159. 

 Henry de Croft the elder in 1325 demised 

 all his arable lands in Catterall Field to 

 William de Tatham for three years at a 

 rent of 4 marks ; Add. MS. 32104, no. 

 408. Edmund de Myerscough in 1344 

 complained of novel disseisin by Henry 

 son of Henry de Croft of Catterall ; Assize 

 R. 1435, m. 37. John de Croft occurs 

 in 1371 ; De Banco R. 443, m. 370 d. 



M John son of Roger de Croft in 1 3 74 

 released to Richard de Winkley and 

 Margaret his wife his manor (house) of 

 Catterall, the third part of Howath water- 



