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tree; and the latter having in 1724 obtained a 

 decree in the Court of Chancery confirming the 

 same, Thomas Hesketh surrendered possession. 1 



Of the ancestry of John Plumbe, the purchaser of 

 the manor, nothing has been ascertained. He was an 

 attorney in Liverpool.' He must have been born 

 about 1670, and is stated to have married Sarah Marsh, 

 niece and co-heir of James Vernon of Liverpool. 3 His 

 eldest son William died before his father, who survived 

 until 1763,' and left a son Thomas, who succeeded 

 his grandfather at Aughton. Thomas Plumbe 5 married 

 Elizabeth, eldest daughter and heir of John Tempest 

 ofTong near Bradford, and his son John in 1824 

 assumed the name and arms of Tempest. 6 John 



Argent, a bend between 

 six martlets sable. 



Plumbe Tempest dying on 6 April, 1859, was suc- 

 ceeded by his son Thomas Richard, who on his death 

 in 1881 was followed by his nephew Robert Ricketts, 

 son of his sister Henrietta by her husband Sir Corn- 

 wallis Ricketts, baronet. Sir Robert succeeded to the 

 baronetcy in 1885, having in the previous year 

 assumed the name and arms of Tempest in lieu of his 

 own, and died at Torquay on 4 February, 1901. His 

 son and successor, Sir Tristram Tempest Tempest, 

 baronet, of Tong Hall and Aughton, was born 10 

 January, 1865. 



The old hall of Uplitherland (now a farmhouse) 

 was rebuilt in stone about 1686. 



Litherland was used as a surname. In 1246 Edith 



AUGHTON 



de Litherland complained that Yarwerth de Lither- 

 land had taken her cow ; but he proved that she was 

 his ' native ' and that he seized the cow in lieu of her 

 service. She was poor and had been abetted in the 

 matter by Richard le Waleys and Henry de Standish. 7 



4UGHTON proper is supposed to have been granted 

 to Thurstan Banastre about the middle of the twelfth 

 century, and to have been carried by Margery his 

 daughter to Richard son of Roger de Lytham, 

 who died in or about 1201, leaving five daughters 

 his co-heirs. One of these was Quenilda, wife of 

 Roger Gernet the Forester, 8 and after her death in 

 1252 it was found that she had held one plough-land 

 in Aughton in chief of William de Ferrers, earl of 

 Derby, by knight's service ; but that she received no- 

 thing from it except wardship and relief. Her next 

 heirs were Robert de Stockport and Sir Ralph de 

 Beetham, as representing her sisters. 9 The superior 

 lordship descended to their heirs, and in 1327 two- 

 thirds was held by Robert de Beetham and the other 

 third by Nicholas de Eaton, in right of his wife Joan 

 de Stockport, in socage by homage and fealty. 10 The 

 Beetham share, in this as in other cases, came before 

 the sixteenth century into the hands of the earls of 

 Derby. The Stockport share disappears ; perhaps it 

 was united with the other. 



In the meantime, however, the manor had been 

 divided among two or three subordinate holders. It 

 is supposed, from their names, that they were descen- 

 dants of the Welshmen who settled in Lancashire in 

 1177, when Robert Banastre was expelled from Rhudd- 

 lan by Owen Gwynedd, and that Aughton being a 

 Banastre manor, lands were granted to them there. 

 Early in the thirteenth century the three mesne lords 

 seem to have been Richard le Waleys (or, the Welsh- 

 man), who had a third of the manor ; Madoc de 

 Aughton and Bleddyn de Aughton. These three 

 were defendants in a suit touching the advowson of the 

 church in 1235." 



I. Richard le Waleys settled at Uplitherland, and 

 the descent of his portion of Aughton has been traced 

 in the account of that manor. Though the matter is 

 not quite clear, the Waleys third seems to have 



