BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



MITTON (PART OF) 



The following is a list of the rectors, who have 

 since 1841 been lords of the manor also: 1794, 

 Marmaduke Stone; 1808, Nicholas Sewall ; 1813, 

 John Weld (son of the donor of the site) ; 1 8 1 6, 

 N. Sewall (2) ; 1817, Charles Plowden ; 1819, Joseph 

 Tristram; 1827, Richard Norris ; 1832, Richard 

 Parker; 1836, James Brownbill ; 1839, Francis 

 Daniel; 1841, Andrew Barrow ; 1845, R. Norris (2) ; 

 1 846, Henry Walmesley ; 1 847, Richard Sumner ; 

 1848, Francis dough; 1861, Joseph Johnson; 

 1868, Charles Henry; 1869, Edward Purbrick ; 

 1 879, William Eyre ; 1885, Reginald Colley ; 1891, 

 Herman Walmesley; 1898, Joseph Browne; 1906, 

 Pedro Gordon ; 1907, William Bodkin. 194 



WINKLET was part of the Hospitallers' estate in 

 Aighton and Bailey, which was treated as part of their 

 manor of Stidd. 195 There appear to have been 

 several families surnamed Winkley. Adam son of 

 Alexander de Winkley gave lands in Aighton to the 

 Knights of St. John, 196 and Robert de Manneby, 

 prior of the order in England, gave to Adam son of 

 Richard de Winkley all the land they had of the 

 gift of Adam de Winkley and others, 197 and the re- 

 mainder of their land in Winkley they gave to Robert 

 son of John de Winkley ; each of the grantees was 

 bound to render zs. a year and the third part of their 

 chattels at death. 198 These estates appear to have 

 been consolidated later, a rent of 4*. being paid. 



The descent can be traced only with uncertainty. 

 In 1246 Ralph son of Robert de Mitton sued John 

 de Winkley and his son Robert for 10 acres in 

 Aighton which they had had from Simon de Green- 

 hurst, 199 and a Richard de Winkley complained that 

 a roadway had been interfered with by Richard de 

 Daniscoles, Osbert his son and others. 200 Robert de 

 Winkley was living in 1278, holding land in Aighton 

 which was claimed by Ralph de Mitton, 201 and 



possibly it was the same Robert who appears in 

 I292. 202 Richard son of Robert de Winkley and 

 Amery widow of William de Winkley were concerned 

 in other pleas of the same year 203 ; but Robert was 

 dead in 1294, when his widow Cecily and his sons 

 Adam, Richard and Henry were accused of having 

 disseised Nicholas son of William of messuages, land 

 and rent in Aighton. Nicholas, a minor, alleged 

 that his father was Robert's eldest son, but it was 

 found that the plaintiff was born out of wedlock. 204 



Adam de Winkley was in 1318 pardoned for his 

 adhesion to Thomas Earl of Lancaster. 205 John de 

 Winkley in 1321 granted all his manor of Pleasington 

 and his lands in Aighton to Adam his son and heir 

 on marriage with Maud daughter of Gilbert de 

 Scarisbrick. 206 Two years later Adam son of John 

 de Winkley and Maud his wife exchanged a messuage, 

 &c., in Winkley with John son of Walter de Bailey. 207 

 In 1332 Adam headed the subsidy list in Aighton. 208 

 John son of Adam de Winkley gave land at Stonyhurst 

 to John de Bailey for life in I352, 209 and in 1354, 

 in conjunction with his son Adam, he had to defend 

 his title to land in Aighton claimed by his brother 

 or half-brother Adam, son of Adam de Winkley the 

 elder by Margery, then deceased. 210 Isabel widow of 

 John in 1371 granted her son Adam the third part 

 of lands and mill in Aighton. 211 



Adam de Winkley seems to have been a minor in 

 1371 but of full age in I373- 212 As Adam son of 

 John son of Adam de Winkley he was party to an 

 exchange of lands in I376. 213 He may have been 

 the same Adam whose widow Margery in 1436 

 released her lands in Aighton to John the son and 

 heir of Adam. 214 In the next year John Winkley 

 granted lands to his son Thomas, who married 

 Margaret daughter of Henry Holden of Bowland. 215 

 John died in or before I443, 216 and in 1447 Thomas 



194 Taken from Stonyhurtt Chronology. 



195 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 375. 

 A list of the tenants in 1609 has been 

 preserved by Kuerden (MSS. ii, foL 1 326). 

 It includes in Aighton Thomas Winkley 

 paying 41., Edward Loude 6d. ; in 

 Chaigley, Richard Aughton I2< ; in 

 various places, Richard Shireburne, pay- 

 ing in. 6d. in all, of which sum 6d, was 

 for a moiety of Bailey Hall. 



196 Winkley Family (1863), by William 

 Winkley, jun., quoting ' title deeds of 

 Mr. Weld, 1861.' Ellis son of Alexander 

 de Winkley, probably Adam's brother, has 

 been mentioned in the text (at Stony- 

 hurst) as living before 1209; Adam de 

 Winkley and John his son are named in the 

 charter to Ellis. Robert de Mitton early 

 in the I3th century gave lands to John 

 and to Adam sons of Adam de Winkley, 

 viz. to the former all the land of Haracks 

 (Horrocks) at a rent of izd., the rent 

 paid in later times for Woodnelds ; and 

 to the latter land adjoining, Bradhurst 

 and its brook occurring in each charter, 

 and Ackhurst clough being named ; 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 672, 654. 

 Geoffrey Dean of Whalley and Robert his 

 son attested the former charter ; Ralph 

 rector of Mitton and Jordan his son the 

 latter. 



Eva daughter of Ralph de Aighton 

 released to Richard son of Adam de 

 Winkley all her claim in half an oxgang 

 of land which Ellis son of Alexander had 

 formerly held ; ibid. no. 651. Among 

 the witnesses were Jordan son of Ralph 

 the rector and Nicholas his brother. This 



release was probably the close of a long- 

 standing dispute, for as early as 1231 Eva 

 daughter of Ralph de Aighton made claims 

 against Adam de Winkley and others ; 

 Cal. Pat. 1225-32, pp. 446, 522. 



197 DD, no. 656. The bounds began 

 at the head of Radwell ford, followed the 

 thread of Ribble as far as the middle of 

 Longnat, and by various lines to the 

 starting-point. Land called Thuwes and 

 Morton brook are named. 



Robert de Manneby was prior in 1251 

 and 1262 ; Dugdale, Man. Angl. vi, 799. 



19 DD, no. 655. The bounds began 

 at Horrockford and went down the 

 Hodder and Ribble to Longnat, across the 

 meadow to Blakeayke and the lower head 

 of Hesceteley, then by the carr and 

 Simonscroft to Hamelin's land and Raven 

 ridding as far as the Stony way ; by this 

 to the Hodder. 



199 Assize R. 404, m. 5 d. John de 

 Winkley (perhaps the son of Adam) gave 

 lands to his son Robert, the mill on the 

 Hodder being mentioned ; DD, no. 671. 



200 Assize R. 404, m. 5 d. Other 

 Winkleys are named ibid. m. 2, n, 1 1 d., 

 14. The name has many spellings 

 Winkedelega, Wynkydele, &c. Winckley 

 was the usual form of the surname in 

 the 1 7th century. 



201 Assize R. 1238, m. 35 ; also De 

 Banco R. 31, m. 93. 



202 Assize R. 408, m. 32, 94. 



203 Ibid. m. 6, 32d. Richard son of 

 Adam de Winkley is also named ; ibid, 

 m. 77 d. 



204 Assize R. 1299, m. 14 ; Adam had 



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been in the service of Robert de la Garde 

 at Warwick. William's widow was named 

 Amery. She was plaintiff in 1304 (De 

 Banco R. 149, m. 63 d.), and against the 

 widow and daughter of Henry de Winkley 

 in 13115 ibid. 189, m. 9 d. In 1321 

 Margaret widow of another William de 

 Winkley and of Robert Atte Hall claimed 

 a messuage, &c., against Margaret widow 

 of Adam Banastre ; ibid. 240, m. 20. 

 805 Cal. Pat. 1317-21, p. 230. 



206 DD, no. 649, 663. Though Adam 

 was heir of John de Winkley, another 

 son John succeeded to Pleasington (see 

 the account of that manor), and in I 344 

 there was some disputing between the 

 brothers ; Assize R. 1435, m. 34. 



207 DD, no. 644. Adam son of John 

 de Winkley was defendant in a Great 

 Mearley claim in 1331 ; Assize R. 1404, 

 m. 1 8. 



208 Exch. Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), 79. 



209 DD, no. 648. In the same year 

 John de Winkley was defendant in a 

 Great Mearley claim ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. i, m. iij ; 2, m. vj. 



210 De Banco R. 3 8 1 , m. 1 1 o d. ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Assize R. 3, m. ij. William de 

 Boston, vicar of Mitton, was called to 

 warrant. 2n DD, no. 658. 



212 Cf. De Banco. R. 444, m. 9 d.; 450, 

 m. 214. 



218 DD, no. 670. 2U Ibid. no. 662. 



815 Ibid. no. 660-1. 



216 Ibid. no. 673 ; his widow Joan 

 agreed with her son as to dower, Margery, 

 widow of Adam, being still alive. 



