A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



his marriage with Alice, sister and heir of Henry de 

 Bury, by which the important manor of Bury was 

 acquired by the family. 79 He died about I347, 30 

 being followed by his son, the third Roger in succes- 

 sion. The new lord, who was made a knight before 

 1365, attended John of Gaunt on the expedition 

 to France in 1359;" he served as knight of the 

 shire in six Parliaments between 1363 and 1384.*' 

 He died in 1407, holding the manor of Pilkington of 

 the lord of Manchester by knight's service. His son 

 and heir, Sir John, was thirty-four years of age." 



Sir John de Pilkington, whose age must have been 

 understated 84 at the inquisition just quoted, is first 

 heard of as marrying Margaret, widow of Hugh de 

 Bradshagh, and heiress of Sir John de Verdon ; she 

 was a ward of the duke, and her husband procured a 

 pardon in 1383 for having married her without per- 

 mission. 35 He was one of those who were appointed 

 to attend the king in the Scottish expedition of 14.00.** 

 In 1413 he obtained a confirmation of the grant of 

 free warren in Pilkington and other manors. 87 He 

 was one of the Lancashire knights who fought at 

 Agincourt, 38 and he continued to serve in the French 

 wars, 39 dying early in 1421. His son and heir, Sir 

 John, was then twenty-eight years of age. 40 



The younger Sir John also fought in the French 

 wars. 41 He was knight of the shire in 1416, and in 

 141 8, as a reward for his services, he was made escheator 

 in Ireland ; 4I this office was confirmed to him in 1 42 3 . 4I 

 He died without issue in 1451, and his honours 

 descended to Thomas, son of Edmund Pilkington. 44 

 The elder Sir John and Margaret his wife had a son 

 Edmund, on whom the manor of Stagenhoe in Hert- 

 fordshire was settled in 1399 for his life ;" Thomas 

 was no doubt the son of this Edmund, who was living in 

 I438. 46 Thomas Pilkington enjoyed the favour of 

 Edward IV ; in 1469 he obtained licence to fortify 

 his manor-house at Bury, 47 and was several times 

 sheriff of the county. 48 He was made a knight of the 

 Bath in 1475, and a banneret at the capture of 

 Berwick in 148 1. 49 As a zealous adherent of 

 Richard III he fought on his side at Bosworth ; 50 

 was attainted by the victorious Henry, and his confis- 

 cated manors in Lancashire were given to the newly- 

 created Earl of Derby. 51 Sir Thomas Pilkington 

 does not seem to have become reconciled at once to the 

 new king, for in 1487 he fought at Stoke for Lambert 

 Simnel." His son and heir Roger contrived to obtain 

 or retain the manors of Brisingham and Clipston ; ** 

 he left six daughters as co-heirs. M 



33 See the account of Bury. 



80 Alice, widow of Roger de Pilkington, 

 occur* in 1350; Assize R. 1444, m. 4. 

 There were various suits in later years in 

 which she and Roger son of Roger de 

 Pilkington were concerned ; e.g. Duchy 

 of Lane. Assize R. i, m. 7 ; Def. Keeper's 

 Rep. xxxii, App. 342. 



The Bishop of Lichfield in 1 360 granted 

 Alice, lady of Pilkington, licence for an 

 oratory there for two years ; Lich. Epis. 

 Reg. v, foL 3. 



In 1375 Henry de Pilkington, adminis- 

 trator o? the goods of Alice de Pilkington 

 deceased, called upon Roger son of Roger 

 de Pilkington for account ; it appears that 

 he had brothers Richard and Robert, and 

 that all were brothers of Sir Roger ; De 

 Banco R. 456, m. 598 ; 458, m. 80 d. ; 

 460, m. 323 d. 



81 The grant of protection given him on 

 this occasion was shown in court in Sept. 

 1359 ; Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 7, m. 4 ; 

 *ee Dtp. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 334. 



sa Pink and Beaven, op. cit. 34-40. 

 He is called 'chivaler* in the return of 

 Jan. 1364-5, p. 35. 



When over sixty years of age, in 1386, 

 lie appeared at the Scrope-Grosvenor trial ; 

 Nicolas, Scrape R. 289. 



88 Lana. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 86. 

 The manor of Bury had been given to his 

 on, Sir John, before his death. 



Isabel daughter of Roger de Pilkington 

 married (i) Thomas son of Sir Thomas 

 <le Lathom, and (2) Sir John de Dalton ; 

 ibid. 10, 20. 



84 As he was married, apparently of his 

 own will, in 1 3 8 3, he would probably not be 

 far from twenty years of age. He was over 

 twenty years of age, and a knight, on ap- 

 pearing at the Scrope-Grosvenor trial in 

 1386 ; Scrape R. 290. 



85 He paid a fine of 20 marks for him- 

 self and his wife for the pardon of the 

 Duke of Lancaster ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 86 ; Def. Keeper's Rep. 

 xl, App. 522 ; also ibid, xxxii, App. 

 356. 



86 Cal. Pat. 1399-1401, p. 353. In 

 1402 he went to Germany in the retinue 

 of the Lady Blanche ; Rymer, Feed. (Syl- 



labus, ii, 544) ; see also Rolls 'of Par!. 

 iii, 634. 



8 ? Cal. Rot. Pat. (Rec. Com.), 262. 



88 Sir H. Nicolas, Agincourt, 360 ; he 

 had with him three esquires, ten lances, 

 and forty-five archers. 



89 Norman rolls in Def. Keeper's Rep, 

 xli, App. 711, 71$, 788 ; ibid, xlii, App. 



39 2 393- 



40 Lanes. Rec. Inq. p.m. no. 25, 26 ; the 

 jury did not know by what service the 

 manor of Pilkington was held of the lord 

 of Manchester, but gave its clear annual 

 value as 60. He died 16 Feb. 1420-1. 



His widow Margaret died in Nov. 

 1436 ; her next heir was her grand- 

 daughter Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William 

 Bradshagh and wife of Sir Richard Har- 

 rington ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 

 181-4. 



41 He is perhaps the John de Pilking- 

 ton who had Cheshire archers in his 

 retinue ; Def. Keeper's Rep. xlii, App. 

 392. He occurs in 1427 as in debt to 

 his tailor ; Cal. Pat. 1422-9, p. 430. 



He held the manor of Pilkington in 



1431 ; Feud. Aids, iii, 96. 

 Immediately after his father's death 



Sir John granted his mother the pasture 

 called Outwood and Ringleys, the tene- 

 ment of William Walwork in Pilkington, 

 and various rents and lands as dower ; 

 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxxviii, 3. In 



1432 he granted to feoffees manors and 

 lands in Bury, Pilkington, and Cheetham ; 

 ibid. 7. Three years later he married, at 

 the door of Manchester church, Elizabeth 

 daughter of Sir Edmund Traffbrd, and 

 made a settlement in her favour ; ibid, 

 7, 9. In 1438 he again made a settle- 

 ment of his manors and lands in Lanca- 

 shire, and his brother Edmund confirmed 

 it ; ibid, n, 15. Sir John made his will 

 in Oct. 1446, in which he mentions 

 Elizabeth his wife, and desires a fit priest 

 to be procured to celebrate for him, and 

 two years later he confirmed the arrange- 

 ments made ; ibid. 15, 17. 



42 Def. Keeper's Rep. xli, App. 727, 

 760 ; Rot. Norm. (Rec. Com.), 234. 



48 Cal. Pat. 1422-9, p. 51. 



44 The inquisition relating to the Lanca- 



9 



shire estate is not known to exist ; but 

 that relating to Bricklesworth in North- 

 amptonshire is printed in Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Chet. Soc.), ii, 184. It had been settled 

 on him by his mother in 1430, with re- 

 mainders to Edmund and Robert Pilking- 

 ton, and to her granddaughter Elizabeth 

 Bradshagh; ibid. 180. Sir John died 

 23 Feb. 1450-1 ; his heir was Thomas 

 son of Edmund Pilkington, then of full 

 age. Two later writs of Diem clausit 

 extremum were issued in 1456 and 1459 ; 

 Def. Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, App. 175, 177. 



45 Lanes. Inq. p.m. ii, 176. By a fine of 

 1430 Stagenhoe was settled on Edmund 

 Pilkington and his heirs male, with rever- 

 sion to Elizabeth daughter of Sir William 

 Bradshagh ; ii, 181. 



46 A difficulty is created by the state- 

 ment in a plea in the Rolls of Parl. (vi, 

 34, 35) that Thomas was the son of 

 Edmund son of Katherine, sister of John 

 Ashton (of Ashton-under-Lyne). The 

 solution may be that Edmund was son-in- 

 law of Katherine, i.e. that she was his 

 wife's mother. 



47 Def. Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, App. 179. 



48 From 1467 to 1473 and from 1480 

 to 1484; P.R.O. List, 72. In his first 

 term he was esquire," and in the second 

 knight.' 



49 Metcalfe, Knights, 4, by the Prince in 

 1475, and p. 5, by the Duke of Glou- 

 cester, 1481. 



40 Pilkington, Pilkington Family, 26, 

 quoting Harl. MS. 542, fol. 31. 



51 Rolls of Parl. vi, 276. 



M Harland, Pilkington, 2 (quoting Blom- 

 field's Norf. i, 33, x, 42), erroneously states 

 that he was killed at the battle of Stoke. 

 He was pardoned in 1508; Towneley MS. 

 GG, no. 2041. 



53 Cal. Inq. Hen. VII, i, 220 ; Sir 

 Thomas Pilkington, attainted in 1485, 

 had in 1467 granted his manor of Clip- 

 ston to his son Roger, who had been in 

 possession from that time until 1487. In 

 1502 it was alleged that the grant to 

 Roger was made without the knowledge 

 of Sir Thomas ; PaL of Lane. Plea R. 

 95, m. 5. 



64 Harland, ut sup. 



