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demesne, with all its appurtenances, including fish- 

 ponds, honey, and hawks. For this the canons gave 

 him 50 marks. 10 



SRINSOP, in the extreme north-western corner of 

 the township, also came into the possession of Cock- 

 ersand. In 1235 it was granted by Gilbert de Barton 

 to Richard de Bracebridge, being reckoned as three 

 oxgangs of land. 11 Probably it reverted to the Bartons 

 and was included in the grant of Henry de Sefton. 

 The manor-house of the canons seems to have been at 

 this place. 



In a suit of some seventy years later it was declared 

 that in 12612 Adam, Abbot of Cockersand, had 

 held half the oxgang at which the vill was assessed ; 

 and Roger son of Ellis de Westhoughton and John 

 de Rylands each held a moiety of the remainder. In 

 the year named the said Roger granted his fourth 

 part to the abbot, so that three parts of the lordship 

 were in the hands of the canons in 1 3 34.^ It is 

 probable that the Rylands' share was subsequently 

 acquired by the canons; but this family long after- 

 wards continued to hold land in the township. 13 



10 Cockersand Chart, ii, 688 ; for Henry 

 de Sefton see further in the accounts of 

 Ince and Aspull in Wigan. The abbot 

 -was to render i%d. to the chief lord for 

 all services and customs. 



The Cockersand estate had been derived 

 from variou* benefactions. Hugh son of 

 William son of Nest granted ' the whole 

 third part of the vill,' with the homages 

 and services appurtenant, for which he 

 received 31 marks ; ibid, ii, 678. It 

 is possible that this was the ' third part ' 

 afterwards held and surrendered by Henry 

 de Sefton. William son of Nest had 

 granted to Thomas son of Ellis de Pendle- 

 bury land in Ballesley, bounded by the road 

 from Houghton to Aspull, Ridley brook, 

 Green lache, and Aldersnape head, &c. ; 

 and Thomas, in turn, granted it to the 

 canons ; ibid. 679. 



Thomas de Houghton, clerk, made 

 aeveral grants of land ; between Well 

 brook and Town brook, and between the 

 latter and Ballsdean brook ; in Birchley 

 and by his grange at Conware ; and all 

 his land of Birchley and Sandeveshurst. 

 Cecily his wife confirmed these grants ; 

 he appears to have received the lands 

 from Austin de Houghton, being confirmed 

 in them by Robert the rector of Winwick; 

 ibid. 680-3. This may be the land of 

 Thomas son of Swain for which Gilbert 

 <le Notion and Edith his wife also granted 

 a confirmation ; ibid. 687. 



Roger son of Adam de Pendlebury gave 

 all his lands in Westhoughton, except 

 Snydale ; ibid. 677. There were also 

 donations from the Rylands family ; ibid. 

 685. Ellis de Pendlebury granted the 

 Priest's croft ; its bounds followed the 

 Town brook as far as the road to Aspull, 

 then by a syke by Recingpool moss to the 

 lache going into Bradley brook, across 

 from this brook beyond the carr, and as 

 far as the Town brook ford lying on the 

 north side of Hugh's house ; ibid. 688. 

 Robert the mercer of [West] Derbyshire 

 afterwards surrendered his claim to this 

 croft ; ibid. 687. 



Several rentals of the abbey are known ; 

 ibid, iii, 1232, &c. In 1251 and 1260 

 the farms of Westhoughton amounted to 

 91. 8^f. ; Thomas de Whittleswick was 

 the chief tenant. The rentals of 1451 

 and 1461 give long lists of tenants ; John 

 Rigby held Ballsdean ; Thomas Laith- 

 waite, Brinsop ; and James Holden, Wind- 

 yates. 



11 Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 61. A service of four barbed 

 arrows, or i</., was due from it. The 

 place is not named in the Cockersand 

 Chartulary, though it occurs in the rentals; 

 and the Cockersand manor seems always 

 to have been reckoned as one oxgang. 



la Coram Rege R. 297, m. 121, printed 

 in Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Notes, i, 6. The 

 rating of the township at one oxgang of 

 hide land seems an instance of beneficial 

 assessment ; two plough-lands would have 



been more reasonable. It appears, indeed, 

 that in 1296 Margaret widow of Ellis de 

 Turton claimed against the Abbot of 

 Cockersand dower in a messuage and 

 plough-land in Westhoughton ; De Banco 

 R. 1 14, m. 86. 



The abbot's moiety must have been the 

 result of the grants recorded in the pre- 

 vious note ; nothing is said in the suit as 

 to his lordship of the whole vill granted by 

 Henry de Sefton. Roger son of Ellis de 

 Westhoughton granted to Cockersand all 

 his claim in the waste in return for 8 acres 

 lying near his land of Birchley and another 

 8 acres lying near his land of Rylands. 

 This is the only grant in the Chartul. 

 (691), and is no doubt that mentioned in 

 the text. 



John son of Thomas de Houghton in 

 1331 did not prosecute a claim he made 

 against the abbot in Westhoughton ; As- 

 size R. 1404, m. 19. 



18 An account of the family, with illus- 

 trative deeds, by Mr. J. Paul Rylands, was 

 printed in the Gen. (1880), iv, 170-8. 

 The fields now called 'Ryelands' lie to 

 the south-west of the Quakers' meeting- 

 house on the road from Westhoughton to 

 Hindley. 



John son of Robert de Rylands granted 

 to the canons of Cockersand all his land 

 in Ballesley, and followed this by a sur- 

 render of his claim in the waste, founded 

 on a charter by Adam de Pendlebury, in 

 return for 14 acres by the Wallbrook and 

 Warcock Hill ; Chartul. ii, 685, 686. 



In Fine R. 80, 10 E i, m. 10, he is 

 called John del Rylondes de Halughton. 



He was a juror at Manchester in 1282 

 to inquire into the value of knights' fees, 

 &c. ; Mamecestre (Chet. Soc.), i, 1 68. 



The abbot and canons of Cockersand 

 about 1280 leased to John the Jew the 

 land which they had from Richard de Ry- 

 lands in Westhoughton ; John also held 

 the land granted by John de Rylands, and 

 another portion bought from William de 

 Rylands ; Cbartul. ii, 694. 



Richard son of John de Rylands (Duchy 

 Misc. 3/9) was probably a clerk, as he is 

 styled Master Richard in 1282 ; Assize 

 R. 10 Edw. I (Rec. Soc. xlvii, 175). He 

 is named in 1302 ; Assize R. no. 418, m. 

 2. He was the first witness to a settle- 

 ment, dated at Hulton 3 Nov. 1338, of 

 Adam de Hulton's lands in Westhoughton; 

 Mr. Hulton's D. Richard de Rylands 

 was a juror re Bradshagh in 1317. He 

 had at least two sons, William de Rylands, 

 named in Duchy of Lane. Misc. 3/9 and 

 Misc. R. div. 25, bdle. 2, no. ii, and 

 John de Rylands, who married a kins- 

 woman of Adam de Hindley, and in 1306 

 was wounded in an affray at Wigan ; As- 

 size R. no. 421, m. i d. 



William and Robert de Rylands of 

 Westhoughton contributed to the subsidy 

 in 1327 and 1332. 



In the Coram Rege Roll of 1334 (R. 

 297, m. 83) it is recorded that the Abbot 



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of Cockersand successfully claimed 14 

 acres of wood against John son of John de 

 Hulton, Robert son of Robert de Pendle- 

 bury, Richard de Bradshagh and Roger and 

 Adam his sons, and William de Rylands. 

 The jurors stated that the abbot was sole 

 lord. In the same roll (m. 121), how- 

 ever, it is also recorded that William de 

 Rylands and Agnes his wife claimed com- 

 mon of pasture in 100 acres of wood, and 

 200 acres of moss and pasture against the 

 abbot, Robert de Rylands, and Roger 

 Walet. 



In this action William claimed as son 

 of Thomas son of the above-named John 

 de Rylands, the abbot admitting that in 

 1262 John de Rylands had held one-fourth 

 part of the lordship, and that the same had 

 devolved by descent upon William. It 

 therefore appears that in the year 1334 

 the Rylands family still retained their 

 right to one-fourth part of the lordship, 

 and the finding of the jury was in accord- 

 ance with the abbot's evidence. But it 

 seems probable that they were in fact 

 mesne tenants of the Abbot of Cocker- 

 sand, though in all probability their tenure 

 of their lands in Westhoughton com- 

 menced at a period anterior to the acqui- 

 sition of the manor by the abbey. 



In the De Banco Rolls of 1333 and 

 1334 (296, m. 387, and 300, m. 232) 

 there are records of a dispute between 

 Ellen and Margery, daughters of Maurice 

 de Rylands, and Adam son of Richard de 

 Bradshagh regarding a messuage and land 

 in Westhoughton, from which it appears 

 that Ellen and Margery were sisters and 

 heirs of Richard de Rylands. 



In 1348 Agnes widow of William de 

 Rylands granted to her nephew (nepos] 

 Adam son of Richard del Grange her part 

 of a messuage, water-mill, and horse-mill, 

 &C., held of the Abbot of Cockersand ; 

 Thomas Hodgeson de Rylands is men- 

 tioned ; Chart, ii, 755 (Add. MS. 32107, 

 fol. 190^). 



In 1371-2 Robert de Maunton, chap- 

 lain, and John le Mort, executors of the 

 will of William son of Robert de Rylands 

 appeared against the Abbot of Cockersand 

 claiming that 30 acres of land and 10 

 acres of wood demised by the abbot to 

 William were unjustly held against the 

 said executors ; De Banco R. 443, m. 



122. 



The Abbot of Cockersand in 1395-6 

 leased to William Rylands and Thurstan 

 and Thomas his sons a tenement 'upon 

 condition that if they die within the term 

 [19 years] the abbot may re-enter, and 

 that they shall not alien without licence, 

 and that they shall repair the houses dur- 

 ing the term, and after the death of every 

 one to pay 1 3*. 4</.' ; and in the next year 

 the abbot gave a reversion to Thomas, 

 Lawrence, and John Rylands ; Local 

 Glean. Lanes, and Cbes. ii, 225, from 

 Duchy of Lane. Misc. R. div. 25, Z./u. 



Lawrence de Rvlands of Wexham 



