A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



the barons of Manchester. One moiety was included 

 in the Barton fee, 5 the Hulton family being the 

 under-tenants ; 4 while the other half was held with 

 Worthington, 5 but afterwards severed, and held as 

 the tenth part of a knight's fee by a family which 

 assumed the local name. 



The earliest known is a Randle de Heaton, 6 

 followed in hereditary succession by Ellis, John, and 

 John. 7 The younger John made a settlement in 

 1332, from which it appears that he had sons John, 

 Adam, and others. 8 He or his son John was living 

 in 1355.' The son is said to have married a daughter 

 and co-heir of Robert de Huyton of Billinge, and thus 

 acquired the Birchley estate. 10 Richard de Heaton 

 was in 1385 appointed a keeper of the peace in Sal- 

 ford Hundred. 11 Richard's son and heir William 

 married Joan daughter and heir of Gilbert de 



Billinge, 12 and thus increased the family estate in 

 Billinge. William and Joan were living in 1 422," 

 but for the succeeding century little is known of the 

 family. 13a William Heaton 

 was holding the manor in 

 1473 by the ancient ser- 

 vice. 14 



The next to occur is Richard 

 Heaton who recorded a pedi- 

 gree in 1533, from which it 

 appears that he had been twice 

 married. 15 William, his eldest 

 son, left two daughters, Jane 

 and Alice ; and by his second 

 wife Elizabeth, daughter and 

 eventual co-heir of Sir Richard 

 Aughton of North Meols, he 



HEATON of Heaton. 

 Argent on a bend en- 

 grailed sable three bulls' 

 heads erased of the feld. 



9 Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 54. By 1241 the four oxgangs of 

 land in Heaton seem to have become 

 separated from Barton and held by Richard 

 son of Christiana de Alreton ; Final 

 Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 88. 



4 From the later descent it is probable 

 that the above Richard son of Christiana 

 was the younger Richard de Hulton, who 

 was quickly succeeded by his brothers 

 William and David, the latter continuing 

 the line. Thus in 1256 David de Hulton 

 was holding half a plough-land in Heaton, 

 in which his brother's widow was claiming 

 dower; Final Cone, i, 122. In 1302 

 Richard de Hulton son of David was 

 holding the tenth part of a fee in Heaton 

 of Thomas Grelley ; Inq. and Extents, 

 i, 314.. In 1324 Richard de Hulton was 

 returned as holding half a plough-land in 

 ' Davyd Heton ' by a thegnage rent of 

 6s. %d. ; Duchy of Lane. Rentals and 

 Surv. 379, m. 13. In the later division 

 of the Hulton lands this probably went to 

 the families of Farnworth and Halliwell ; 

 and some part was obtained at a later time 

 by the Hultons of Over Hulton. Thus 

 William Hulton of Farnworth was in 

 1613 in possession of lands in Heaton ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 266 ; and Randle Barton of 

 Smithills, who died in 1611, also had 

 lands in Heaton ; ibid, i, 208. 



5 Inq. and Extents, i, 54. Thomas de 

 Worthington was holding half a knight's 

 fee of Robert Grelley in 1212. In 1282 

 the manor was called Worthington, 

 Coppull, and the appurtenances ; ibid. 

 250. Later Worthington is called 'half 

 a fee, except the tenth part," the tenth part 

 being Heaton. It is unlikely that there 

 was only one manor in Heaton and that 

 it was held in succession by the Hultons 

 and Heatons ; for Richard de Hulton 

 and John de Heaton are mentioned 

 together in 1320, when, however, only 

 the latter is stated to have held the tenth 

 part of a fee, the former holding by the 

 rent of a pair of spurs or zd., and puture 

 of the Serjeants and foresters ; Mamecestre 

 (Chet. Soc.), 288, 290. 



6 The Heaton family were perhaps the 

 successors in title of Henry de Bolton, 

 who in 1 22 1 offered himself against 

 Robert Grelley in a plea concerning the 

 fixing of boundaries between Henry's 



ands in Heaton and Robert's in Hor- 

 wich ; Cur. Reg. R. 79, m. 24. Li- 

 cence of deafforestation in Heaton was 

 in 1225 granted by the king to Robert 

 Grelley for Henry de Bolton ; Cal. Pat. 

 1216-25, P- 576. By fine in 1227 

 Robert Grelley acknowledged Henry's 



right to land within the following boun- 

 daries : from Yaresworth Brook up by 

 Ridley Syke to the middle point between 

 two brooks falling into the syke towards 

 the west, and so up between the brooks to 

 the great road between Halliwell and 

 Rivington, and to the High Edge, then by 

 the Edge around Helmshead to the 

 boundary of Halliwell ; Yorks. Feet of F. 

 file 1 8, no. i. 



Randle de Bolton was plaintiff in 1246 

 respecting lands in Heaton ; Assize R. 

 404, m. lod. 



7 In 1278 Adam son of Richard de 

 Heaton was non-suited in a claim for com- 

 mon of pasture brought against Ellis son 

 of Randle de Heaton ; ibid. 1238, m. 

 31 d. Ellis de Heaton appears as plaintiff 

 in 1292, alleging that Randle his father 

 was disseised of two parts of 4 acres of 

 wood and 3 acres of pasture in Heaton 

 by one Roger de Pendlebury, who demised 

 them to William de Pendlebury, from 

 whom they appear to have been acquired 

 by Richard son of David de Hulton ; ibid. 

 408, m. 49. He made a similar claim 

 against Hugh de Halliwell (ibid.), but 

 failed in both cases. 



In 1301 John son of Ellis de Heaton 

 was defendant in a claim made by John 

 del Shaw for reasonable estovers in Hea- 

 ton, without view of the foresters, for 

 housebote and heybote ; ibid. I32i,m. 9 d. 



According to the surveys of 1320 and 

 1322 John de Heaton owed homage and 

 fealty for the tenth part of a fee in 

 Heaton under the Forest, and rendered 

 yearly for sake fee 8</. and for ward of 

 Lancaster Castle izd., and puture of the 

 Serjeants and foresters ; Mamecestre, 288, 



379- 



At that time four oxgangs in Heaton 

 contributed proportionally to the main- 

 tenance of the foresters of Horwich ; ibid. 



376, 377- 



8 Final Cone, ii, 89. The children of 

 John son of John de Heaton named in 

 the remainders are John, Adam, Roger, 

 Robert, Richard, Joan, and Agnes. The 

 estate was the 'manor' of Heaton-under- 

 Horwich ; no other estate there seems to 

 have been so described. 



In 1362 Richard Langtree and Margaret 

 his wife brought a suit against Henry son 

 of Adam de Heaton for waste, &c., in 

 Heaton by Horwich ; De Banco R. 411, 

 m. 217 d. 



9 Hugh de Worthington and John de 

 Heaton held of John La Warre half a 

 knight's fee in Worthington and Heaton- 

 under-Horwich, which William de Worth- 

 ington formerly held ; Feud. Aids, iii, 89. 



10 There does not seem to be any direct 



IO 



proof of this marriage, but it agrees with 

 the descent of the estate. 



Thomas son of Roger Banastre of 

 Wrightington in or before 1361 married 

 Aline daughter of John de Heaton ; John 

 was a witness to the grant of lands then 

 made ; Piccope's MSS. iii, 2 (communi- 

 cated by Mr. J. H. Partington). 



11 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xl, App. 523. 

 Richard de Heaton and Isolda his wife 

 held a fourth part of Billinge in 1374 ; 

 De Banco R. 454, m. 141. 



12 Raines MSS. xxxvii B, 61. Dis- 

 pensation granted in 1398. 



18 Final Cone, iii, 81. 



18a A petition addressed to the Lord 

 Chancellor in 1440 seems to refer to this 

 family. In it Richard Barton of Middle- 

 ton alleged that he had purchased the 

 marriage of William son of Richard son 

 of William Heaton, intending to wed 

 him to his daughter Agnes. The younger 

 William, under fourteen years of age, had 

 been hidden away by Alexander Standish 

 and his sister Isolda Heaton, who desired 

 to procure a divorce between him and 

 Agnes ; Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 9, no. 204. 



Richard is described as ' the heir of 

 Heaton' in a document of 1461 relating 

 to a corrody in the priory of Marrick on 

 Swale, granted by Richard to his cousins 

 William and Oliver Entwisle successively, 

 and then by William son of Richard 

 Heaton to his uncle Robert Heaton ; Ch. 

 Gds. (Chet. Soc.), 29 (from the Weld 

 Blundell D.). 



14 Mamecestre, 480. It was held by 

 ' the service of the tenth part of a knight's 

 fee and puture, and the rent of &d. a 

 year, with izd. for ward of the castle." 



Katherine daughter of William Heaton 

 married Henry son of Nicholas Blundell 

 of Little Crosby in 1488-9 ; Kuerden, 

 iii, C, 34, no. 580. 



15 Visit, of 1533 (Chet. Soc.), p. 194 ; 

 the arms seem to be those of Billinge and 

 Heaton quarterly. 



In 1530 Richard Heaton of Heaton 

 gave to feoffees his manor of Billinge 

 with lands, &c., in Billinge, Birchley, 

 Rumworth, Lostock, and Ulverston. His 

 will mentions his son William and Joan 

 his wife and their children Alice and 

 Jane ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 151, m. 8. 

 He died after the Statute of Uses (1536), 

 and his will was held to be void ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Dep. xxxiv, G, la. 



For pleadings regarding the woods in 

 Horwich, between two of the younger 

 sons, Richard and Bryan, see Duchy Plead. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 119 ; ii, 

 219 ; the former seems to be wrongly 

 dated. 



