A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



traced, but Thomas de Hothersall held the manor 

 in I324 24 and his son Robert in 1346 by the 5/. 

 rent. 25 In 1445-6 the 2 oxgangs of land were held 

 by the heir of Adam Hothersall by the same rent. 26 



Robert Hothersall died in 1558 holding the manor, 

 i.e. the capital messuage of Hothersall with other 

 messuages, lands, &c., of the queen as of her duchy 

 of Lancaster by free thegnage and a rent of 5-f. 27 

 John his son and heir was fifty-four years of age in 

 1577. John Hothersall was in 1576 reported to the 

 Privy Council by the Bishop of Chester as one of 

 those 'of longest obstinacy against religion,' whose 

 resistance had encouraged many others to refrain from 

 ' embracing the queen's majesty's proceedings.' 2ii He 

 made a settlement of his estate in I579- 29 His suc- 



cessor seems to have been Richard Hothersall, who 

 was a freeholder in i6oo, so and died in 1 6 10, leaving 

 a son John, aged twenty-five. 31 John was in 1632 

 succeeded by his brother Thomas, 32 who recorded a 

 pedigree in 1665, being then about eighty years of 

 age. 33 John, his eldest son, had been killed at the 

 siege of Greenhalgh Castle in 1645, and George, 

 another son, lost his life at Liverpool in 1644, both 

 fighting for the royal cause. 34 



John's eldest son Thomas succeeded to Hother- 

 sall. 35 He had several children. The eldest son, 

 John, took part in the Jacobite rising of 1715, and 

 was captured at Preston ; escaping, he managed to 

 elude recapture, and lived secretly with his sister 

 Anne, wife of William Leckonby. 36 This sister and 



on succeeding ; Originalia R. 41 Hen. Ill, 

 m. 2. 



Adam de Hothersall and Richard his 

 brother gave half a mark for a writ in 

 1258-9 ; ibid. m. 6. They seem to have 

 been sons of Thomas. 



Robert chief lord of Hothersall about 

 1280 granted Adam de Gouldebrough a 

 plat on the eastern side of Bradley, the 

 bounds beginning at Bolkin (or Bolin) 

 Brook and descending Ayothalgh, and 

 thence by lands of Sir Adam de Hoghton 

 and Richard de Bradley to the starting- 

 point ; ibid. no. 47, fol. 248. 



Robert son of Thomas de Hothersall, 

 Richard de Byron and Margery his wife, 

 Robert son of Stephen and William son 

 of Roger de Hothersall allowed Sir Adam 

 de Hoghton to make a mill on the Kibble ; 

 ibid. no. 36. Margery was probably one 

 of the sisters Margery and Isabel, daughters 

 of Robert son of Stephen, who made a 

 grant in 1288 to Robert Ward of Hother- 

 sall and Mabel his wife ; ibid. no. 38. 



In 1292 the various disputes which had 

 arisen between Robert de Hothersall and 

 Adam son of Adam de Hoghton were 

 referred to the judgement of six men of 

 the district ; ibid. no. 40. 



In the same year Simon son of Agnes 

 de Ribchester and grandson of Henry son 

 of Hawise de Ribchester claimed various 

 messuages and lands against Thomas son 

 of Robert de Hothersall, against Robert and 

 William other sons, and against Adam 

 and John, other sons of Robert, but the 

 jury decided against him ; Assize R. 408, 

 m. 35. Edusa daughter of Thomas de 

 Hothersall and widow of Adam de Dutton 

 formally acknowledged that she had re- 

 leased to Adam son of Thomas de Hother- 

 sall her right to certain land in the place ; 

 ibid. m. 20. Edusa seems afterwards 

 (1308) to have denied her charter ; De 

 Banco R. 173, m. 418 d. 



2 Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 39. Thomas's 

 parentage is shown by a claim made in 

 1 308-9 by Robert le Ward of Hothersall 

 respecting the eighth part of certain lands ; 

 the defendants were Master Richard de 

 Hoghton and Thomas son of Robert dc 

 Hothersall, whose widow Ellen was joined 

 in the defence ; Assize R. 428, m. i. 

 The father may be the Robert son of 

 Robert of 1292. 



Richard son of Adam de Hoghton gave 

 Thomai son of Robert de Hothersall, in 

 free marriage with his daughter Margery, 

 lands in Eastwood, Uckemonsriddings, &c., 

 in 1311; Add. MS. 32107, no. 349. 

 In 1339 Sir Richard de Hoghton, Thomas 

 son of Robert de Hothersall and Robert 

 le Ward claimed a tenement against John 

 son of Hugh de Stapleton ; Assize R. 427, 

 m. 3 d. 



Sur-v. of 1346 (Chet. Soc.), 58. In 

 the preceding year Adam son of Sir 

 Richard de Hoghton, as feoffee, granted 

 to Robert de Hothersall and Maud his 

 wife various lands and services and the 

 reversion of those held as dower by Mar- 

 gery widow of Thomas de Hothersall ; 

 Add. MS. 32107, no. 349^. That 

 Robert was the son of Thomas appears 

 from a suit in 1348; Assize R. 1444, 

 m. 8. He had a brother Richard living 

 in 1349 (Add. MS. 32106, no. 293), and 

 to Richard son of Thomas de Hothersall 

 had in 1331 been granted by Agnes 

 widow of Richard de Turnley 2 acres in 

 the vill of Hothersall ; ibid. 32107, no. 

 382. Another brother was Roger, to 

 whom in 1340 Robert de Hothersall 

 granted land in a place called the Leigh ; 

 ibid. no. 378. 



36 Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, 

 bdle. 2, no. 20. 



In 1362 Adam de Threlfall, Silicia his 

 wife, Adam son of Robert de Hothersall, 

 Joan his wife and various others had a 

 dispute with Sir Adam de Hoghton re- 

 specting tenements in Hothersall ; Add. 

 MS. 32107, no. 352 ; 32106, no. 39 

 (fol. 246). 



In 1394 Adam de Hothersall made a 

 feoffment of all his lands, &c., in Alston ; 

 Add. MS. 32107, no. 356. Adam in 

 1406 allowed Sir Richard de Hoghton to 

 alienate land for the endowment of the 

 new chantry in Ribchester Church ; Add. 

 MS. 32106, no. 290. In 1414 Adam 

 on of Robert Hothersall granted Aspel- 

 carr in Ribchester to his son Richard ; 

 Kuerden MSS. iv, R 14. Adam was still 

 living in 1427, when he gave land called 

 the Intakes in Alston and Hothersall to 

 Ughtred Hothersall and Joan his wife, 

 daughter of John Catterall ; Add. MS. 

 32107, no. 365. At the same time Adam 

 and Ughtred made a feoffment of lands in 

 Alston, Hothersall and Ribchester ; ibid. 

 no. 373. 



Ughtred was probably a grandson of 

 Adam. He was living in 1458 (Add. 

 MS. 32106, no. 295) and had a son and 

 heir Robert, named several times in the 

 reign of Edward IV ; Add. MS. 32107, 

 no. 361, 376. Bernard was another son 

 (ibid. no. 383), who occurs in 1447 ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R. 10, m. 42. Katherine 

 wife of Ughtred Hothersall gave a receipt 

 to Ellen widow of Richard Catterall in 

 1468 ; Add. MS. 32107, no. 386. Ugh- 

 tred in 1470 released to William Cottam 

 of Alston various lands in Hothersall in 

 Alston which had belonged to Thomas 

 Hothersall ; ibid. no. 366. 



In 1479 Richard Towneley complained 

 that Ughtred, Robert and Gilbert Hother- 

 sall had broken into his close at Hother- 



64 



sail and cut down trees to the value 

 of 401. ; Pal. of Lane. Writs Proton. 

 19 Edw. IV. Robert Hothersall seems 

 to have been the head of the family in 

 1487; Add. MS. 32106, no. 310. In 

 1493 Jh n Towneley complained of 

 trespass by Robert Hothersall, Richard 

 Hothersall the elder and Richard the 

 younger 5 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 77, m. 2. 

 At this point the succession is un- 

 certain, but in 1533 John son of Robert, 

 son and heir of Richard Hothersall, was 

 contracted to marry Anne daughter of 

 John Talbot of Salesbury ; Shireburne 

 Abstract Bk. at Leagram. 



27 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, no. 21. 

 The inquisition was not made until 1577. 

 No land in Alston is recorded, but he had 

 held i acres in Ribchester of Robert 

 Lynalx. 



Robert Hothersall was involved in 

 tithe disputes in 1536-41 ; Ducatus Lane. 

 (Rec. Com.), i, 155, 160. 



28 Gillow, Bibl. Diet, of Engl. Cath. Hi, 

 410. 



George Hothersall, a son of John, was 

 educated for the priesthood at Rheims 

 and Valladolid (1585-93); he returned 

 to England on the mission, but was 

 arrested and exiled, becoming a monk at 

 Douay in 1615. It is believed that he 

 returned to England and died in Lancashire 

 in 1633 ; ibid. 



29 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 41, 

 m. 182. 



30 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 232. 



31 Lanes, and Ches. Inj. p.m. (Rec. Soc 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 166. 'Shuffling 

 John Hothersall ' is mentioned by the 

 Puritan Nicholas Assheton in 1618 ; 

 Journal (Chet. Soc.), 99. 



32 Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 

 505. Thomas Hothersall is described as 

 thirty years of age and more. 



33 Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 153. 

 84 Gillow, op. cit. iii, 408. 



35 A settlement of the manor of 

 Hothersall and lands there and in Alston 

 was made in 1673, Thomas Hothersall 

 being the plaintiff in the fine and William 

 Hothersall, with his son and heir Thomas, 

 the deforciants ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 190, m. 70. William would be the 

 uncle of the former Thomas. William 

 Hothersall, Grace his wife and Thomas 

 Hothersall were among the recusants of 

 Alston in 1667 ; T. C. Smith, Ribchester, 

 62. Thomas was outlawed for the same 

 in 1679-80 ; ibid. 63. 



86 Smith, op. cit. 227. As the father, 

 Thomas Hothersall, was living the estates 

 were not forfeited, but were left to the 

 daughters. The father died in 1720. His 

 will is in the Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 



