A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



The descent of the mesne lordship it is not possible 

 to trace clearly. The descendants of Orm were the 

 Kirkbys of Kirkby Ireleth, who long retained an 

 interest in part of the fee of Dalton, Parbold, and 

 Wrightington. Dalton and Parbold as half a knight's 

 fee seem very early to have been granted to the 

 Lathom family, 4 and Parbold and part at least of 

 Dalton were in turn granted to younger sons. In 

 the 1 3th century Dalton was held by Richard de 

 Orrell, Richard le Waleys of Aughton, and Henry de 

 Torbock, but how their interests had arisen there is 

 nothing to show, though the Torbocks no doubt held 

 their quarter of the manor by a grant from the 

 Lathoms. 



The Orrell portion, called a fourth part of the 

 manor, 6 was like Orrell itself acquired by the Holland 

 family, 7 and descended in the same way to the 



Levels, 8 and, on forfeiture, to the Earls of Derby. 9 

 The latter sold it about 1600 to the Orrells of 

 Turton, 10 who soon afterwards sold all their rights to 

 the Ashhursts. 11 The Dalton family, who took their 

 name from this township, but who are better known 

 as lords of Bispham in Leyland and afterwards of 

 Thurnham, probably held under the Hollands and 

 their successors." 



The Waleys portion was divided, half being given 

 to a younger branch of the family. Richard le 

 Waleys had a brother Randle, whose son Richerit was 

 a benefactor of Cockersand Abbey. 13 Adam the son of 

 Richerit sold his quarter share to Robert, lord of 

 Lathom, who granted it to the priory of Burscough. 14 



The priory continued to hold this quarter of the 

 manor to the Suppression, after which its fate has 

 not been ascertained ; but all or most was probably 



6 Inq. and Extents, i, 55 ; see also Final 

 Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 18. 

 Robert de Lathom was holding the 

 knight's fee in Parbold and Wrightington 

 in 1242 (p. 154). Robert de Lathom 

 was one of the tenants in 1282, but 

 Thomas de Ashton did suit ; Mamccestre 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 136. The Lathom tenure 

 was remembered in 1349 ; ibid. 443 ; 

 and even in the Feodary of 1483 it is 

 stated that ' Lord Stanley holds Allerton 

 and Dalton of Lord la Warre ' ; sec also 

 Feud. Aids, iii, 94. 



6 In the grants to Burscough of a 

 quarter of the vill John de Orrell has the 

 position of a superior lord, confirming 

 the grant ; Burscough Priory Reg. fol. 

 3 1 A. The same John granted to Bur- 

 scough land held of him by Robert son of 

 Henry the Smith of Lees ; ibid. 



He and his father Richard were bene- 

 factors of Cockersand Abbey. One of 

 the father's grants was the half of 

 Lithurst, the other half of which seems 

 to have belonged to Richard le Waleys, 

 with lands of Burscough Priory adjacent. 

 John de Orrell made grants of Nelescroft 

 and Fernyhurst and of a piece of land, the 

 bounds of which cause the naming of 

 Full clough, Mickle clough, the Hill, 

 Edwin's ridding, Barn lache, the Dyke, 

 the carr, Lithurst and Buke side ; ac- 

 quittance of pannage for thirty pigs in 

 Dalton Wood was allowed with other 

 easements ; Cockersand Chart. (Chet. Soc.), 

 ii, 621-5. 



' See the account of Orrell. 



In 1320 Sir Robert de Holland was 

 the principal mesne tenant, Richard le 

 Waleys, the Prior of Burscough and Ellen 

 de Torbock following ; Dalton and 

 Parbold are joined, but the tenant of the 

 latter is omitted ; the service was 31. for 

 sake fee and 51. for ward of the castle of 

 Lancaster. From the later statement of 

 rents it is evident that half of this was 

 due from Dalton, and the other half from 

 Parbold ; thus each of the four quarters 

 of the former should pay u. 



In 1341 and again in 1349 it was 

 found that Maud de Holland held the 

 fourth part of Dalton of the lord of 

 Manchester in socage by a rent of i^d. 

 and the lord of Manchester of the Earl of 

 Lancaster by the same service ; Inq. p.m. 

 15 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 30; 23 

 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 58. In the latter 

 year it was worth, in all issues, 535. 4</. 



8 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 2. 

 The rent is this time stated as 6d., so 

 that half had been alienated, probably to 

 the Daltons. 



A Manchester rental of 1473 shows the 

 division of the manor at that time : The 

 Prior of Burscough, 6d. ; William Orrell, 

 jun. (of Turton), izd. ; Richard Bradshaw 

 of Uplitherland, izd. ; William Arrow- 

 smith of Warrington, 6d. ; Lord Lovel, 

 6d. ; Dalton, 6d. (making 41.) ; Edward 

 de Lathom (of Parbold), 41. ; making up 

 the 81. paid for sake fee and castle-ward 

 as in 1320 ; Mamccestre, 491. 



9 Pat. 4 Hen. VII, 25 Feb. 



' Bridgeman, Wlgan Cb. (Chet. Soc.), 

 257. Bishop Bridgeman recorded the 

 division of the manor among four lords, 

 of whom the Prior of Burscough was 

 one; and says 'All these four lords 

 called themselves lords thereof, and some- 

 times kept courts all jointly and some- 

 times severally' ; 258. 



11 Thomas Parker, who died in 1600, 

 held various messuages and lands in 

 Dalton of William Orrell, which in 1622, 

 when the inquisition was taken, were 

 held of Henry Ashhurst } Lanes. Inq, 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 



37- 



12 Robert de Dalton is mentioned as 

 early as 1293 ; Inq. and Extents, 276. 

 In 1305 Robert de Dalton was claiming 

 common of pasture from Ellen, widow of 

 Henry de Lathom, and from the Prior of 

 Burscough ; De Banco R. 154, m. 252 d. ; 

 156, m. 119. There was another family 

 bearing the local name, who held of the 

 Torbocks ; thus Gilbert son of Alan de 

 Dalton speaks of ' my lord, Henry de 

 Torbock' ; Kuerden MSS. iii, T, 2, 

 no. 15. Robert de Dalton allowed the 

 Prior of Burscough to approve in the 

 hey of Dalton ; Burscough Reg., fol. 



34*- 



The most conspicuous of the early 

 members of the family was Sir John de 

 Dalton, kt., whose exploit in carrying 

 off Margery de la Beche in 1347 has 

 been mentioned in the account of 

 Upholland. Robert de Dalton, his father, 

 was then living. Sir John died in 1369 

 holding 40 acres in Dalton of Roger La 

 Warr, lord of Manchester, in socage, by 

 the rent of gd. yearly ; Inq. p.m. 43 

 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 31. The service does 

 not agree with the 6d. named in the 

 rental previously quoted. Ellen, wife of 

 Robert de Urswick, was executrix ; De 

 Banco R. 454, m. 141 d. For later 

 descents see the accounts of Bispham in 

 Leyland and Thurnham. 



18 By a charter made in the first quarter 

 of the 1 3th century Richard le Waleys, 

 with the consent of his brother Randle, 

 gave land to Cockersand ; Dolfin and 



9 8 



Itharthur were two of the tenants ; 

 Cockersand Chart, ii, 6 1 6. This was 

 followed by grants and confirmation from 

 Richerit son of Randle le Waleys ; the 

 first of these states that the quittance of 

 pannage had the consent of John de 

 Orrell ; while another was for the benefit, 

 among others, of 'the soul of Thomas 

 Grelley, my patron" (advocates) ; ibid, ii, 

 617-20. These charters contain a num- 

 ber of local names, as Hawk's nest 

 clough, Rushy lea, Rodelea pool, Sandy- 

 ford, &c. Adam the son of Richerit 

 was also a benefactor ; ibid, ii, 621. 



The Cockersand lands were afterwards 

 held in 1451 by Henry Birchinshaw by a 

 rent of izd., in 1501 by the Earl of 

 Derby, and in 1537 by the Prior of 

 Burscough (who denied) ; ibid, iv, 

 1244, &c. 



14 Burscough Reg. fol. 31, 31 b. 



John le Waleys released to Sir Robert 

 de Lathom the annual rent of a pair of 

 gloves due to him from the fourth part of 

 the vill, which Richerit de Aughton and 

 Adam his son had held of the lord of 

 Uplitherland by that rent ; ibid. fol. 33. 

 John le Waleys also granted lands in 

 Bokeside, the bounds beginning at Livelds- 

 bridge ; this charter mentions the house 

 which Robert de Legh founded on the 

 land of Blessed Nicholas of Burscough ; 

 ibid. fol. 33^ ; see also fol. ^zb for another 

 gift. His son Richard confirmed these 

 grants ; ibid. fol. 35. 



The other Burscough charters include 

 an agreement between the prior and 

 Richard son of Stephen de Lees and 

 Denise his wife as to land in Rodelea 

 carr ; an engagement by Richard son of 

 Simon de Haselhurst for himself and his 

 heirs, to pay 6d. a year to the prior and 

 canons to the end of the world ; and a 

 grant of Gibhey, between Priors' Hey 

 and the Douglas, made by Geoffrey de 

 Wrightington ; ibid. fol. 34, 35. 



At the Dissolution the priory was 

 drawing a rent of 6 31. from its lands 

 in Dalton, viz. 4 from Dalton Hey, 

 Richard Prescott being tenant at will ; 

 loj. from Gorstilow or Gorstifield, the 

 same tenant ; 25*. from Haselhurst, 

 Buckshead, and Willins carr, leased to 

 John son of Ralph Orrell for 509 years 

 from 1533, when Edward Prescott was 

 tenant ; the second best animal, or 6s. 8</., 

 was paid as heriot ; and Ss. from a 

 quarter of the Helde in Dalton, formerly 

 Walsh's, William Shaw being tenant ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Mins. Accts. bdle. 136, 

 no. 2198, m. 7 d. 



