WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



de Bradshagh of Pennington, 1 and Eleanor, who 

 married Thomas de Formby. Roger de Bradshagh's 

 name appears among the attesting witnesses of charters 

 from 1371 onwards.* 



There is some uncertainty as to the exact succession 

 at this point. Richard may have left a son, 3 but if so 

 he died without issue before 1372, when Eleanor had 

 brought to her husband a moiety of the estates, which 

 was settled upon them by fine in that year ; she had 

 the third part of Aughton, the fourth of Dalton, and 

 a moiety of the advowson, so that to her sister Up- 

 litherland was left. 4 This sister and her husband 

 Roger de Bradshagh were in possession of the whole 

 in 1381, when they enfeoffed Richard de Sutton and 

 Henry de Bradshagh.* 



Richard, the son and heir, must have been over 

 thirty years of age when his widowed mother in 

 1418 covenanted with Sir Henry de Scarisbrick that 

 he should marry Isabel, daughter of Sir Henry ; she 

 agreed to surrender to Richard and Isabel all her 

 manor of Uplitherland, the windmill alone being 

 reserved. 6 Richard's son and heir was Thomas, 

 whose name occurs in a deed of 1457-8. In 1472 

 Thomas agreed that his son Richard should marry 

 Alice, daughter of Joan the wife of William Main- 

 waring. 7 Thomas was succeeded by his grandson 

 James, the son of Richard and Alice. 



James Bradshagh died 28 November, 1527, his son 

 and heir William being then fourteen years of age. 

 The service of los. is duly recorded in the inquisi- 

 tion, which gives the value of the manor as 20 marks 



AUGHTON 



clear. 8 As soon as he came of age William Brad- 

 shagh 9 began to dissipate his inheritance. In 1535-6 

 he demised Aughton Meadow to Brian Moorcroft, 

 clerk, who transferred it to Peter Stanley of Bicker- 

 staffe. Eight years later he sold other lands to the 

 same Peter Stanley. 10 In 1551 

 he sold the manor of Uplither- 

 land, the third part of Aughton, 

 and all the demesne lands not 

 previously disposed of, to James 

 Scarisbrick of Scarisbrick ; and 

 this was confirmed by fine in 

 the following year." In 1599 

 William Bradshagh of London 

 exhibited a bill of complaint in 

 the duchy chamber, apparently 

 with a view to testing the validity 

 of his ancestor's alienations. The 

 answer of the defendants re- 

 viewed their title and disposed of any doubt as to 

 its soundness. It appears from the complaint that 

 the William Bradshaw who sold Uplitherland died 

 about 1565, leaving two sons Edward who died 

 about 1587, and William who died a little later, 

 leaving a son, the petitioner. 12 



James Scarisbrick held Uplitherland for less than 

 ten years, selling it to Gabriel son of Bartholomew 

 Hesketh, who had already an estate in the parish. 13 

 In 1561 George and Gabriel Hesketh mortgaged the 

 manor to Edward Halsall for 500, recovering part 

 of the land two years later, 14 the manor being restored 



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