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king in chief by a rent of 6J., being assessed 

 as 2 oxgangs of land. Alan son of Richard 

 (de Singleton) and John de Bilsborrow were the 

 tenants.' Afterwards the grant seems to have been 

 enlarged and the service changed and augmented, for 

 in 1226 Alan de Singleton held 2 oxgangs of land 

 there in drengage by a rent of 2/.,* while a century 

 later, in 1346, his heir Thomas Banastre held half 

 a plough-land in Bilsborrow by the twentieth part 

 of a knight's fee and 21. a year, payable at the 

 four terms. 6 Several free tenements existed in the 

 1 3th century.' The manor descended, like other 

 Singleton manors, 7 ' to the heirs of Balderston, and 

 on the division in 1564 was assigned to Gilbert 

 Gerard.' Afterwards the manor was held with 

 Barton by the Shuttleworth family.* 



The Bartons of Barton, predecessors of the Shuttle- 

 worths, had long held lands in Bilsborrow." 



In 1324 it was stated that the Banastres held the 

 hamlet half in demesne and half in service." The 

 latter half seems to have been held for several cen- 

 turies by a family named Cottam. Thus Richard de 

 Cottam held an oxgang of land in 1227," and a 

 later Richard in I 548 held a third part of the manor 

 by the fortieth part of a knight's fee and 6J. rent 

 i.e. a moiety of the military service and a fourth part 

 of the rent." The principal estate passed to the 

 Parkinsons, but the Cottam family are found in 

 the township down to the beginning of the 1910 

 century." 



There are numerous references to families using 

 the local surname, but they are disconnected." 



4 Lanes. Iitj. and Extents (Rcc. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Chet.), i, 48. 



1 Ibid. 140. In 1244 Alan died seised 

 of z oxgangs of land in Bilsborrow, 

 held in chief of the king by 21. rent ; 

 ibid. 1 60. 



The Earl of Lancatter in 1297 had 

 21. a year from this Till ; ibid. 289. 



In 1^24 Adam son and heir of William 

 Banastre held the manor of Bilsborrow 

 by the service of it. yearly ; Dods. MSS. 

 cxxxi, fol. 39/1. 



Survey of 1346 (Chet. Soc.), JO. 



7 Alan de Singleton about 1220 granted 

 all hit land in Bilsborrow to his brother 

 Richard for a rent of two iron spurt, 

 reserving timber from the wood for 

 building hit home, &c. ; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlix, fol. 52. 



Adam son of John de Goberthwaite 

 granted Richard de Singleton an acre of 

 land ; ibid. fol. 516. Alice widow of 

 Richard de Singleton gave Thomas son 

 of Gilbert de Hetom a release of her 

 right in the lands held by Thomas ; ibid. 

 Avice daughter of Richard de Singleton 

 in her widowhood gave her ton Henry 

 all her land ; ibid. fol. 52. This grant 

 wat attetted by William de Singleton and 

 Alan his ton. 



Alan de Singleton about 1 280 granted 

 to his ton Thomat all his land in Bill- 

 borrow with its appurtenances ; also a 

 fourth part of the wood. Heybotc and 

 matt for pigt were reserved for the grantor 

 and hit men of Singleton. The services 

 of the following free tenant! were ex- 

 cepted : Geoffrey de Cottam, Euttace 

 de Bilsborrow, Michael de Greenhalgh, 

 William ton of Roger ton of Maud, 

 Richard ton of William Pelle. The 

 service from land held by Sir Richard le 

 Bolder of John de Bilsborrow wat also 

 excepted ; ibid. fol. 52^. 



' Land here wat among Joan Banattre't 

 poitetsiont in 1 30} ; Final Cone. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Chet.), i, 201. Thomat 

 Banastre acquired 2 acret from Henry 

 ton of Avice de Singleton and a release 

 from Walter son of Jordan de Goosnargh ; 

 Dodt. MSS. cxlix, fol. 46, 48. 



Richard Baldertton in 1445-6 held 

 half a plough-land for the twentieth part 

 of a knight's fee ; Duchy of Lane. Knights' 

 Fees, bdle. 2, no. 20. 



In the 16th-century inquisitions Bils- 

 borrow it named among the Baldertton 

 landt in those of Edmund Dudley, Rad- 

 cliffe of Winmarlcigh, the Earl of Derby 

 and Sir Alexander Osbaldesron. 



Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 216, m. 10. 



Gerard obtained an increase of his pot- 



^ sessions in the township on the partition 



of the Butler of Rawcliffe inheritance in 



1571 ; ibid. 231, m. 8. Gilbert Gerard 

 and Anne hit wife made a settlement of 

 the manor in 1574 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 36, m. 269. 



Jamet Andcrton of Lottock acquired 

 the manort of Clitheroe and Biltborrow 

 from Sir Thomas Gerard in 1602 ; ibid, 

 bdle. 64, no. 70. 



9 Both manors were held by Richard 

 Shuttleworth in 1709, by Richard Shuttle- 

 worth and Jamet his son and heir-apparent 

 in 1742, and by Robert Shuttleworth in 

 1773 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 490, m. 6 ; 

 557, m. 7; 618, m. 6. 



10 John de Barton in 1299 claimed 

 moietiet of small parcelt of wood in Bilt- 

 borrow againtt a number of pcrsont ; 

 De Banco R. 130, m. 213 d. John wat 

 called to warrant in 1304; ibid. 152, 

 m. 22 d. In 1370 there wat a suit as to 

 the manort of Barton and Bilsborrow 

 between (Catherine daughter of William 

 de Barton and Richard de Catterall ; ibid. 

 438, m. 253. Gilbert Barton of Barton 

 in 1476 released to (Catherine Urswick a 

 messuage, &<:., in Bilsborrow ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 45, m. 14. 



In the first inquisition after the death 

 of Gilbert Barton (1516) his estate in 

 Bilsborrow was said to be held of Edmund 

 Parkinson in tocage by \d. rent, but in 

 the later inquisition the tenure wat un- 

 known ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, 

 no. 8 1 ; v, no. 33. Thomat Barton in 

 1554 wat laid to have held three mes- 

 suages, &c., of Henry Cottam in tocage, 

 at also wat Richard Barton in 1572 ; ibid, 

 x, no. 50 ; xiii, no. 8. 



John Barton of Claughton in 1623 

 held a little land in Biltborrow, tenure 

 not recorded ; ibid, xxvii, no. 7. 



11 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, ii, 160. 



11 Geoffrey de Glazebrook and Edith 

 hit wife in 1227 released to Richard d< 

 Cottam an oxgang of land in Biltborrow ; 

 Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanci. and Chet.), 

 i, 47. He it believed to be the Richard 

 ton of Robert who granted land to Cocker- 

 sand Abbey (Ckanul. [ Chet. Soc. ] i, 269), 

 Robert being ton of Uctred and brother 

 of Richard de Singleton, also benefactor! 

 of the abbey ; ibid. 264, 268. John 

 de Cottam wat plaintiff in 1304 and 

 William de Cottam defendant in the 

 following year; De Banco R. 152, 

 m. 22 d.; 155, m. 144. William de 

 Cottam wat again defendant in 1311 ; 

 ibid. 184, m. 23d. He contributed to 

 the tubiidy of 1332; F.xck. Lay Subi. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanct. and Chet.), 60. 



Sir Adam de Hoghton (at guardian of 

 Thomat the heir of Sir Adam Banastre) 

 gave Adam de Singleton the wardship of 

 John ton and heir of John de Cottam 



331 



of Bilsborrow, the tenure being of Banastre 

 by knight's tervice ; Dodt. MSS. cxlix, 

 fol. 1 1 8. 



The Cottamt then fall into obscurity, 

 but from a pleading of 1570 it appear! 

 that in the time of Henry IV Richard 

 ton of William Cottam married Margaret 

 daughter of John de Fleetwood and then 

 had land in Biltborrow settled on him. 

 The descent continues : t. Oliver -t. 

 Richard - s. John -I. Richard -tont 

 Richard (who had a ton John), Nicholat 

 and Henry. Henry's daughter Elizabeth 

 married Chrittopher Parkinson, and these 

 were plaintiff! in 1 570, Joan Topping, 

 widow, being defendant ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 228, m. lod. The duchy rent 

 was claimed by the king's bailiff in 1522 ; 

 Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), i, 212. 



13 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. ix, no. 24. 

 He had married Margaret Clerk of Preston, 

 and left a ton John, two years old. Dubber- 

 field, Holecrott and Wheatfield are named ; 

 also a water-mill. 



Chrittopher and Henry Poulton in 1552 

 obtained land from Nicholat Cottam : Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 14, m. 75. A 

 tettlement of twenty messuages, Sec., in 

 Bilsborrow, Scotforth and Lancaster wat 

 in 1585 made by Christopher Parkinton 

 and hit wife Elizabeth daughter and keir 

 of Henry Cottam ; ibid. bdle. 47, m. 127. 



Thomat Parkinton (ton and heir of 

 Edmund) wat defendant in 1564 ; Ducatus 

 Lane, ii, 299. He had landt, &c., in 

 1587 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 49, 

 m. 260. William Parkinson of Goosnargh 

 in 1592 held Holme and Scotsholding in 

 Bilsborrow j Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xvii, no. 21. The tenure it not given. 

 He purchased from Richard Walton (Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 40, m. 188), 

 whose father William had had a rent of 

 31. from Biltborrow ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xi, no. 27. Edward Parkinton 

 in 1617 held a chief mettuage of the king 

 at duke by knight't tervice ; Lanci. Inj. 

 f.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanci. and Chet.), ii, 

 215. 



14 William Cottam and Oliver hit ton 

 regittered their estates at ' Papist! ' in 

 1717 i Ettcourt and Payne, Engl. Calk. 

 Nonjurori, I 36. 



There it a short continuation of the 

 Cottam pedigree in Fithwick'l Cantang 

 (Chet. Soc.), 256. 



11 John de Bilsborrow in 1212 hat 

 been named. He wat probably the John 

 ion of Matthew who gave land to Cocker- 

 land Abbey (Clurtul. i, 262), for Paulin 

 de Garttang, a contemporary, in granting 

 land in Stiholmet mention! land formerly 

 belonging to Matthew de Bilsborrow at 

 adjacent ; Add. MS. 32104, fol. 231. 



