A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



WINSTANLEY of 



Chaigley. 



his daughter and heir was fifteen years of age. 258 



She married Thomas Brockholes of Claughton, and 



Chaigley was sold to Richard Shireburne in i655. 269 



From that time it descended 



like Stonyhurst till about 1 840, 



when it was sold to William 



Winstanley. It has descended 



to his grandson, Mr. William 



Alfred Winstanley, who is 



called lord of the manor of 



Chaigley. 260 



Overholme in Chaigley is 

 named in is83 261 and Kyt- 

 ridding in i6oo. 262 



BAILEY also was properly 



a member of Aighton, as 



r i i j azure in chief thr 



appears from charters already cntmft /. 

 quoted, but it had greater in- 

 dependence than Chaigley and 



was accounted a manor. It gave a name to one or 

 more families, probably descendants of the Mittons, 263 

 including that which, as has been seen, took Shire- 

 burne as a surname. It is not possible to trace the 

 minor families. 264 



Henry de Clayton 265 acquired land in Bailey in 

 1284 from Adam de Edieles and Christiana his wife; 

 it was to be held by the render of a clove gillyflower 

 yearly to Christiana or her heirs. 266 He then ex- 

 changed it for a messuage, land and the moiety of a 

 water-mill held by William de Winkley and Amery 

 his wife. 267 Henry was in 1290 summoned to 

 warrant the tenant of certain land in which dower 



was claimed by Alice widow of John de Bailey. 26 * 

 Philip de Clayton in 1338 made a settlement of a 

 messuage and land in Bailey and Button ; the re- 

 mainder was to his son Robert, who had married 

 Isabel. 269 Isabel, as widow of Robert, was plaintiff 



in I345. 270 



The Knights Hospitallers had, as already noted, 271 

 an estate in this part of the township. About 1300 

 it was acquired by Robert de Clitheroe, one of the 

 king's clerks and rector of Wigan I3O3~34. 272 Sir 

 Adam de Clitheroe, apparently in consequence of 

 some dispute, carried off a large quantity of cattle, 

 provisions, furnishings and books from the manor- 

 house of Bailey in I332. 273 When in 1330 Robert 

 desired to give his ' manor of Bailey ' to Cockersand 

 Abbey it was found that the said manor was held of 

 the Prior of St. John in England by the service of 

 1 8 d. yearly ; the prior held it in perpetual alms of 

 the Lady Isabel, queen of England, as of the honor 

 of Clitheroe, she holding of the king by knight's 

 service. The yearly value was 6 1 3_r. 4</. 274 This 

 benefaction was not carried through, the chantry 

 being founded instead. Robert, who had many 

 disputes concerning his lands, 276 in 1334 gave his 

 manor of Bailey to Henry de Clitheroe. 276 



In 1350 the feoffee of Henry de Clitheroe granted 

 to Edmund the son of Henry and his wife Eleanor 

 daughter of Sir Nicholas Boteler certain lands in 

 Bailey, with remainders to Hugh son of Sir Adam de 

 Clitheroe, Nicholas son of Sir Roger de Clitheroe and 

 Richard son of Thomas de Knowle. 277 The next in 

 possession, about 1378, was Nicholas de Clitheroe 278 ; 



248 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxx, 

 no. 73. 



859 Shireburne Abstract Bk. 



260 Family monuments are in Preston 

 Unitarian Church ; Hewitson, Preston, 

 517. There is a pedigree in Burke's 

 Landed Gentry. 



261 Lanci. and Ches. Rec. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 260. 



142 Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 458. 



2 Whalley Couch. (Chet. Soc.), iii, 680. 



*** The following notes may be of use. 

 Otes de Bailey and Walter his son attested 

 a charter in the early part of the ijth 

 century ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 654. 

 Ralph son of Walter de Bailey granted 

 2 acres in the vill of Bailey to Alexander 

 son of William de Elland, the grant being 

 attested by Walter de Bailey and John 

 his son ; Add. MS. 32107, no. 921, 875. 

 John son of Walter de Bailey granted 

 liberty of mill to Adam ' Wittandefot,' 

 and John de Bailey, probably the same 

 person, gave land to Adam son of Adam 

 4 Waltandefot," his charter naming the 

 4 land of Otes my brother.' 



In 1284 inquiry was made as to whether 

 Otes de Bailey had had a rent of 91. 3</. 

 from Aighton claimed by his son John 

 (a minor) by Amice de Bradley ; Assize 

 R. 1265, m. 21 d. The occupiers' names 

 are given. In 1291 John son of Otes de 

 Bailey had a dispute as to inheritance 

 with Henry son of Robert the Miller ; 

 Assize R. 1294, m. n d. In the follow- 

 ing year Cecily daughter of Otes de Bailey 

 claimed chattels to the value of 48*. 

 from his executors John son of Avice 

 (? Amice) de Hayhurst and Ralph de 

 Bailey; Assize R. 408, m. 10. 



In 1292 also Richard Pleyndamours 

 and Alice his wife demanded the third 

 part of messuages, mill, land and rent in 

 Aighton against Avice formerly the wife 



of Otes (Eudo) de Bailey and John her 

 son (a minor), &c. Alice had been wife 

 of John de Bailey, but had left him to 

 live with Richard ; having returned and 

 been reconciled to her husband before his 

 death her claim was allowed; ibid. m. 56 d. 

 The same Richard and Alice were defen- 

 dants to a claim by Adam son of Richard 

 son of John de Bailey ; ibid. m. 10. 

 Robert son of John de Bailey was plain- 

 tiff in 1285 and 1291 ; Assize R. 1271, 

 m. 1 1 d. ; 1 294, m. 9. 



265 See the account of Button. 



266 Final Cone, i, 1 6 1. 



167 Ibid, i, 162. In 1292 Amery widow 

 of William de Winkley claimed a mes- 

 suage and land in Aighton as daughter 

 and heir of John de Bailey. The defen- 

 dants were Thomas de Greengore and 

 Maud his wife ; Assize R. 408, m. 6. 



268 De Banco R. 82, m. 52 d. Henry 

 de Clayton was defendant in 1291 ; ibid. 

 89, m. 28. a69 Final Cone, ii, 109. 



270 De Banco R. 343, m. 102. 



271 See Winkley. 



872 In 1299 Robert was plaintiff 

 respecting lands in Aighton and Bailey, 

 the defendants being Jordan Moody and 

 Jordan de Bailey; De Banco R. 126, m. 

 130 d. In 1301 he purchased messuages 

 and land in Bailey and Clitheroe from 

 John son of Roger de Bolton and Cecily 

 his wife, soon afterwards securing an 

 oxgang and a half of land, &c., from 

 William son of Nicholas de Mitton ; 

 Final Cone, i, 198. Another acquisition 

 was from Edmund Talbot ; Shireburne 

 Abstract Bk. 



8 ? 8 Coram Rege R. 293, m. 52 d. A 

 detailed list is given of the goods carried 

 off, including cattle, horse, barley, oats, 

 salt beef and fish, brass pots, a ' wyndon 

 shete and canevace ' for winnowing corn, 

 frying pan and roast iron, carpets, cushions, 



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' canevaces ' for the lord's bed, cross-bow 

 with sixteen quarrels, wagon, hammers, 

 saw, 4 resting wimbel,' a ' grouell,' pitch- 

 fork, &c. ; valuable resins called ' le 

 Rose,' 4 ipomadon,' ' athis and prophilias,' 

 ' isope," ' luodarie,' 4 troye ' and ' breton ' ; 

 a psalter glossed, missal, legendary, grayle, 

 vestment, altar towels, censer, phials, 

 cross of latten, and other things in the 

 chapel. 



274 Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), 

 no. 106. 



275 In 1327 Robert complained that 

 Margaret widow of Adam Banastre had 

 impounded his plough cattle ; De Banco 

 R. 272, m. 79. For minor disputes see 

 ibid. 199, m. 462 d. ; Coram Rege R. 

 292, m. 17. In 1334 it was alleged that 

 Sir Adam de Clitheroe, then dead, had 

 retained John de Bailey and others to 

 make claims against him, but John was 

 able to show a pardon from the king 

 dated at Berwick 26 July 1333 ; ibid. 

 297, Rex m. 20. 



Sir Adam had claimed the 4 manor of 

 Bailey' from Robert in 1332, the defence 

 being that Bailey was in Aighton and not 

 in Clitheroe. Adam was the son of 

 Hugh de Clitheroe, who was stated to have 

 had possession in the time of Edward I ; 

 De Banco R. 290, m. 116 ; 291, m. 149. 

 John son of Adam de Clitheroe in the 

 same year claimed a messuage, &c., 

 in Aighton against Robert de Clitheroe 

 and many others. The defence was 

 noteworthy that there was no vill in 

 Lancashire called 4 Aghton ' without an 

 adjunct ; Assize R. 1411, m. 12. 



276 Shireburne Abstract Bk. 



277 Dods. MSS. cliii, fol. loib. Edmund 

 de Clitheroe granted a lease in 1351 ; 

 Shireburne Abstract Bk. 



2(8 Isabel widow of Henry de Clitheroe 

 released her dower to him. 



