WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



WIGAN 



The mesne lordship of the Burnhulls appears to 

 have been surrendered, and the lords of Makerfield 

 had the various Hindley families as immediate tenants. 

 It appears, however, down to 1330, and the Pember- 

 ton holding was part of it. 10 Gospatric's immediate 

 successors seem to have been the Waleys or Walsh 

 family. 11 



The two oxgangs of Adam de Hindley may 

 have been joined to that half plough-land or to 

 the half plough-land of Richard de Hindley to 

 form the moiety of the manor held by a family bear- 

 ing the local name. Gilbert de Culcheth was over- 

 lord of this in 1300. In November 1302 Adam 

 de Hindley complained that a number of per- 

 sons had joined in disseising him of a free tenement 



in Hindley, a messuage with an acre of land, and an 

 acre of meadow, which he had had from one Adam 

 de Plumpton, who had purchased from Hugh de 

 Hindley. Gilbert de Culcheth replied as chief lord ; 

 he had taken possession fearing that the feoffment 

 made by Adam de Plumpton was contrary to the 

 statute. 1 * Some settlement was made, and the claim 

 was not prosecuted. 



This moiety was divided into four parts, the descent 

 of which can be traced for some time. 13 



In 1308 half of the manor was claimed by Robert 

 son of Fulk Banastre. 13a This was afterwards re- 

 covered by Robert de Langton, baron of Aewton, 

 from Jordan de Worsley, 14 and about 1330 the lord- 

 ship of the whole manor, together with lands in it, 



halgh, and a land called Crokeland, 

 one head of which lay towards Platt and 

 the other towards Thuresclough, and 

 another portion bounded in part by the 

 Lanulache. These grants conveyed the 

 usual easements, including quittance of 

 pannage for pigs in Hindley Wood. Go- 

 dith daughter of Adam de Hindley gave 

 Tunkercroft by Glazebrook, lying north 

 of the Hospitallers' land. Robert Ban- 

 astre gave land in Fernyhalgh, and Robert 

 his son confirmed the preceding and other 

 gifts to the abbey. Thurstan Banastre 

 gave all his portion of the water called 

 Glazebrook from Marefalford to the ditch 

 of Henry the Hosteller of Hindley. In 

 1501 the heirs of Thomas Turton (6d.) 

 and Gilbert Langton (6</.) held these 

 lands ; Cockersand Rental (Chet. Soc.), 4. 



10 Katherine wife of Hugh de Venables, 

 as widow of Peter de Burnhull, in 1331 

 claimed dower in two-thirds of an eighth 

 part of the manor of Hindley ; De Banco 

 R. 284, m. 119; 287, m. 185 d. Peter's 

 sisters and heirs, then minors, were called 

 to warrant ; ibid. R. 286, m. 170. Wil- 

 liam son of Adam de Pemberton was the 

 tenant. 



11 Gospatric also had a grant of land in 

 Lathom, supposed to be represented by 

 the Cross Hall estates, of which in the 

 1 3th century the tenants were named 

 Waleys (i.e. Welsh). In Hindley Richard 

 le Waleys and Eleanor his wife held lands, 

 of which a portion was given in arms to 

 Cockersand Abbey ; Cockersand Chart, ii, 

 648. 



"Assize R. 418, m. 3, 13. The de- 

 fendants were : John de Langton and 

 Alice his wife, as chief lords of the fee ; 

 Gilbert de Culcheth and Gilbert his son, 

 as lords of Hindley ; Henry de Atherton; 

 Richard de Molyneux of Crosby and 

 Beatrice his wife ; Alan de Windle ; 

 Robert son of Fulk Banastre ; Adam de 

 Bradshagh ; Adam de Urmston and Isa- 

 bel his wife ; Robert Bulgut ; Henry son 

 of Roger de Ince ; Hugh de Hindley ; 

 John son of Henry le Suur of Hindley ; 

 and Richard son of William Hert. 



18 Some tenants occur in the last note. 



In 1306 and 1307 Beatrice widow of 

 Hugh de Hindley claimed dower from 

 Hugh son of Roger de Ashton and others. 

 Hugh de Ashton called to warrant him 

 Adam son of Hugh de Hindley ; Adam de 

 Bradshagh and Margaret his wife also 

 called Adam de Hindley and John de 

 Broadash ; Thomas son of John son of 

 Maud called William son of Simon de 

 Warrington and Emma his wife ; John 

 Gillibrand called Hugh and Gilbert sons 

 of Richard de Culcheth ; De Banco R. 

 1 6 1, m. 132 ; 164, m. 212. Henry de 

 Atherton and Beatrice his wife in 1330 



claimed 25 acres in Aspull, Hindley, and 

 Ince from Cecily the widow and Robert 

 the son of Robert de Hindley ; but it 

 appeared that Beatrice while sole had 

 demised them to Cecily, and the latter's 

 title was therefore admitted ; Assize R. 

 1411, m. 12 d. 



In the following year Henry de Ather- 

 ton the elder and Beatrice his wife did 

 not prosecute a claim for lands in Aspull 

 and Hindley ; Henry de Atherton the 

 younger was one of his sureties ; Assize 

 R. i44 m - 1 8. Their sons were Henry, 

 William, John, and Thomas ; De Banco 

 R. 297, m. 103. 



The younger Henry married Agnes 

 daughter and heir of Thomas son and heir 

 of Richard de Molyneux of Crosby and 

 Beatrice his wife; Assize R. 1411, m. 

 I2d. ; Final Cone, ii, 1 8. Henry and 

 Agnes were concerned in numerous actions 

 as to tenements in Hindley ; among others 

 was a claim in 1345 by Beatrice widow of 

 Richard de Molyneux to her dower in one- 

 eighth part of the manor of Hindley ; De 

 Banco R. 344, m. 442. The latest case 

 in which they are mentioned is in 1356; 

 Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 5, m. lod. 

 Agnes daughter of Henry de Atherton of 

 Hindley, after a divorce between herself 

 and Adam son of John Dickson, released 

 her right to lands in Wigan in 1347 ; 

 Towneley MS. GG, no. 2568. 



In 1358 Beatrice daughter and heir of 

 Henry de Atherton, and then wife of 

 Thomas de Wight, claimed from Richard 

 de Atherton and others a messuage and 

 lands in Hindley. The defence was a 

 grant by Henry de Atherton to Richard ; 

 see Hindley D. no. 25, 26, in Local Glean. 

 Lanes, and Ches. ii, 150. Beatrice alleged 

 that this had been merely in the nature of 

 a trust, she being then under age. Her 

 claim, however, was rejected ; Assize R. 

 638, m. 3d. Beatrice was soon left a 

 widow ; Dtp. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 

 338 ; and afterwards married Thomas 

 Hert ; De Banco R. 462, m. 199 d. In 

 1460 a bond of 100 was given at Wigan 

 by John son of Richard Hert to Charles 

 Hert, who purchased the Hert estate in 

 Hindley and Westleigh ; Ellis son of 

 Charles sold in 1500-1 to Thurstan 

 Southworth ; Trans. Hist. Soc. (new ser.), 

 iv, 166-71. Margaret wife of Richard 

 Tothill and Alice wife of William Edge 

 were in 1519 the heirs of their father John 

 Hert, described as son of Richard son of 

 John on of William Hert ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 128, m. 14 d. 



The share of the manor derived from 

 the Molyneux family was by Thomas 

 Hert in 1390-1 released to William de 

 Charnock of Charnock, Richard and Henry 

 Blundell of Little Crosby, other heirs of 



107 



Richard and Beatrice de Molyneux ; 

 Blundell of Crosby D. K. 282. In 1517 

 the feoffees of Nicholas Blundell released 

 to him their interest in the eighth part of 

 the manor ; ibid. K.. 179. Henry Char- 

 nock was in 1535 found to have held a 

 messuage and lands in Hindley of Sir 

 Thomas Langton by fealty only ; while 

 in 1573 a moiety of (the eighth part of) 

 the manor was claimed for Thomas Char- 

 nock ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. viii, no. 

 28 ; xiii, no. 5. In 1346 Robert de 

 Nevill of Hornby demanded a messuage 

 and land in Ashton in Makerfield from 

 John son of Henry de Atherton of Hind- 

 ley, in right of his wife Joan daughter of 

 Henry son of Hugh de Atherton and heir 

 of the latter ; De Banco R. 346, m. 349. 

 It is probable that her inheritance was a 

 portion of the estate in this neighbourhood 

 held by the Harringtons of Wolfage in the 

 i6th century; Hindley in the partition 

 was allotted to the Standishes ; Norris D. 

 (B.M.). 



The Athertons of Atherton held lands 

 in Hindley under the Hospitallers; Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 107. See also 

 the Inq. p.m. of George Atherton in 1535; 

 v, no. 12. His son John is named in the 

 list of their tenants already given. A 

 decree as to Kidd land in Hindley was 

 made in Elizabeth's time between Stand- 

 ish and Atherton ; Lanes, and Cbes. Recs. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 253. 



The Lathoms of Wolfall in Huyton 

 held their lands under the Culcheths by a 

 rent of id. ; Inq. p.m. ix, no. 10 ; the 

 Gerards of Ince under the Langtons of 

 Lowe by the rent of 3.1. id. ; ibid, vii, no. 

 27. John Urmston in 1508 was found 

 to have held his lands of Gilbert Langton 

 of Lowe by fealty and a rent of zs. "jd. ; 

 ibid, iii, no. 30. 



Hugh Hindley of Aspull was in 1531 

 found to hold his lands in Hindley of 

 Thomas Langton by a rent of iod. ; 

 ibid, vi, no. 22. In this case the mesne 

 lord may have been overlooked. 



Ua Harl. MS. 2042, fol. 60 ; quoting 

 De Banco R. 167. In 1303 this Robert 

 Banastre alienated an oxgang and a half 

 to Jordan son of Richard de Worsley ; 

 Final Cone, i, 202. John son of Robert 

 de Langton and Alice his wife put in 

 their claim as chief lords of Makerfield. 



14 In 1316 and later years Robert son 

 of John de Langton and Alice Banastre 

 claimed from Jordan de Worsley two 

 parts of the moiety of the manor of 

 Hindley which Robert Banastre, great- 

 grandfather of the claimant, granted to 

 Fulk Banastre and his issue, and which 

 after the death of Robert son of Fulk 

 Banastre without issue should revert to 

 him. Jordan at first pleaded that the 



