12 A HISTOPvY OF LONGRIDGE. [Chap. 1. 



"Given 13 August, 10 Henry 4, 1409. 



"Tenor of the aforesaid Petition : To our Lord tlie King, beseeching 

 very humbly Geoff ray de Werburton de Newcrofte, and Katerine, 

 his wife, complain how they were peaceably seized of a messuage 

 of 14 acres of land and 12 acres of meadow or the appurtenances 

 in ChepjTi in the county of Lancaster for term of the life. The 

 said Katerine had the reversion in respect to Laurance de KnoU, 

 son and heir of Thomas de Knoll, Baron, the said Katerine as if 

 [as well as ?] the King our Lord. The King, by evil suggestion 

 made to his council without any title or business found by him, left the 

 said lands to Robert Singleton for a term at a rent of 20 shillings a 

 year.* " 



John de Chippendale in Boland to Sir Henry de Hoghton, all lands 

 in Hothersall. 3 Henry V. [1416]. 



Henry de Hoghton, letter of attorney to take possession of lands in 

 Hothersall, given by John de Chippendale. 3 Hy. V. [1416]. 



Robert Huthersall, letter of attorney to give seizin to John de 

 Hoghton of aU his lands in Hothersall and Eibchester. 3 Hy. V. 

 [1416.] 



Eichard de Hoghton, son of Henry de Hoghton, Knight, to James 

 , lands in Newton-in-Bolland and Hothersall. 10 Hy. VI. [1432.] 



"In Hen. V. [1413], James Clj'fton and others held the vills. of 

 Goosnargh, Chepyn, and Eybchester." 



HENEY DE HOGHTON, KNIGHT. 



" 3 Henry VI., 28 May, 1425. 

 "Inquisition taken at Preston before Eichard BotiUer, of Kirk- 

 land, on Monday next after the Feast of Pentecost in the third year 

 of Henrj- the Sixth, on oath of William de Farryngton, Hugh de 

 Orrell, Gilbert de Haydok, Thomas Faryngton, Robert de Singleton, 

 John BlundoU, John de Nevcsum, Eichard de Plompton, and others, 

 who say that Henry de Hoghton, Knight, held on the day he died the 

 manor of Chej)yn of the Lord the King in chief, as of his Duchy of 

 Lancaster, in socage, and by service of 2 shillings annually. And it is 

 worth by the year clear 40 shillings. Likewise he held half the manor 



'From a bundle of Inquisitions of the 

 time of Henry VI. 



