A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



1 5 67"" and 1664," and Banastre 131 and Blun- 

 dell 131 in the latter year. In 1613 pedigrees were 

 recorded by two families named Breres, 133 one of 

 them holding the old Friary. 1 * 4 In 16645, in 

 addition to those named, the families of Ashton, 1 " 

 Chorley, 136 French, 137 Hesketh, 138 Hodgkinson, 139 

 Johnson, 140 Kuerden, 141 Law, 1 " Legh, 143 Lemon, 144 

 Mort, 145 Pigot, 146 Shaw ur and Winckley 148 recorded 



their pedigrees as ' of Preston.' Other well-known 

 names appear in the iyth century as Addison, 14 * 

 Patten, 150 ancestors of the Earls of Derby, 1503 Pedder, 1 " 

 Sudell 15> and Walmesley. 143 Many of these were 

 lawyers. In later times others become prominent, 

 as manufacturers brought wealth to the town and 

 increased its population. 164 



Under the Commonwealth the estates of several of 



to the duke for felony, and in 1359 was 

 regranted to Roger and his heirs at a rent 

 of 2J. ; Dtp. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 340. 

 129 Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 49. 

 Anthony Wall, the grandson and heir of 

 Evan (already named), terminates the 

 descent. He acquired Chingle Hall in 

 Whittingham by his mother, Ann Single- 

 ton. He died in 1601 holding nine 

 messuages, a windmill and lands in 

 Preston (tenure not stated), and lands in 

 Whittingham and Haighton ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xviii, no. 6. William 

 his son and heir, then aged eight, died at 

 Whittingham in 1626, leaving a son 

 William, eight years of age ; ibid, xxvi, 

 no. 50. 



180 Dugdale, Vhit. (Chet. Soc.), 323. 

 Their arms are Argent a bend gules 

 between three boars' heads couped sable 

 armed argent. For the later descents 

 see Fishwick, Preston, 241. 



In 1664 the Walls of Moor Hall also 

 recorded a pedigree ; Dugdale, op. cit. 324. 

 They were descended from the above- 

 mentioned Lawrence, brother of Evan 

 Wall. Further descents may be seen in 

 Fishwick, op. cit. 243-4. 



181 Dugdale, Visit. 25. Their arms 

 were entered as Argent a pair of water- 

 bougets sable, on a chief of the field three 

 fleurs de lis of the second. One of the 

 later members of the family is supposed 

 to be the ' brave Banastre,' innkeeper, 

 who entertained ' Drunken Barnaby ' ; 

 Fishwick, op. cit. 350. 



132 Dugdale, op. cit. 40. Blundell of 

 Preston differenced the arms of Blundell 

 of Ince by changing their canton into 

 argent with a squirrel sejant gules. 



188 Vhit. (Chet. Soc.), 93, 95. See 

 also Fishwick, op. cit. 3237. 



184 Oliver Breres purchased a messuage 

 and land in Preston in 1544 from 

 Humphrey Newton and Etheldreda his 

 wife, and made a further purchase in 

 1564 in conjunction with Elizabeth his 

 wife, from Richard Greenacres ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 12, m. 135 ; 26, 

 m. 58. Oliver Breres and John his son 

 and heir were at the guild of 1562 ; 

 Preston Guild R. 20. 



Oliver died in 1572, leaving as heir his 

 above-named son John, then twenty-seven 

 years of age, and husband of Elizabeth 

 daughter of William Lister. The site of 

 the Grey Friars, the church, belfry, ceme- 

 tery, &c., was held of the queen by 

 knight's service ; a kiln house, horse- 

 mill, windmill, &c., were held of the 

 mayor and burgesses by free burgage ; 

 there were also lands in Bowland ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiii, no. 13. Oliver's 

 widow Cecily was living in 1592 ; Ex- 

 chequer Dep. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 7. 



In 1608-9 Oliver Breres of Hamerton, 

 Mary his wife, Thomas his brother and 

 Bridget his wife conveyed to Roger Langton 

 of Preston a burgage in the market-place 

 with ij acres appurtenant, the house of 

 the Friars Minors or Grey Friars and 

 lands therewith, with right of turbary in 

 Penwortham Moss, and a windmill in 



Preston ; Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 

 xiv, 73. From other deeds (p. 74) it 

 appears that the burgage referred to was 

 the Castle Inn. For the Langton family 

 see the account of Broughton. 



185 Dugdale, Visit. 12 ; they were a 

 branch of the Ashtons of Croston, whose 

 arms, Argent a cheveron between three 

 chaplets gules, they differenced with a 

 crescent. 



186 Ibid. 82 ; see also Fishwick, op. cit. 

 329. They bore the arms of Chorley of 

 Chorley. 



187 Dugdale, Visit. 112. The family 

 was descended from Matthew French, 

 rector of North Meols, whose son Edward, 

 as already stated, married Anne daughter 

 and heir of James Walton of Preston. 

 No arms were exemplified. 



138 Dugdale, Visit. 137; a branch of 

 the family of Whitehill in Goosnargh. 

 They differenced the arms of Hesketh of 

 Rufford with a canton argent. 



189 Ibid. 142. They bore arms Or a 

 cross quarter-pierced and five cinque- 

 foils vert. An account of the family, 

 with pedigree and abstracts of deeds, ap- 

 peared in the Pal. Note Bk. iv, 163, 188, 

 221. Among other local names appear 

 the Rushy heys, the Knoll heys (between 

 a venella called Ribbleton Lane on the 

 south and a road called Daykergate on the 

 west), Rawmoors and Farthing Hill. 



Luke Hodgkinson, who had adhered 

 'to the forces raised against the Parlia- 

 ment in the first war,' compounded for 

 his 'delinquency* in 1649. He had a 

 horse-mill and some land in Preston ; 

 Royalist Comp. P. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), iii, 231. 



Two of the name, Luke and Henry 

 Hodgkinson, were attainted for taking 

 part in the rebellion of 1 7 1 5 ; Fishwick, 

 op. cit. 66 ; Preston Guild R. 169. For a 

 Lancashire Jesuit named Charles Hodg- 

 kinson, 1700-70, see Foley, Rec. S. J. 

 vii, 363. 



140 Dugdale, Visit. 164 5 they came 

 from Welch Whittle and bore arms 

 Argent a lion passant gules, on a chief or 

 three acorns vert. 



141 Ibid. 167 ; see the account of 

 Cuerden. 



142 Ibid. 178. Their arms were Argent 

 an eagle double-headed displayed vert. 



143 A branch of the family of Legh of 

 Lyme, whose arms, Gules a cross en- 

 grailed argent, they differenced with a 

 canton or ; ibid. 182. 



144 Ibid. 184 ; a Walton-le-Dale family. 

 A continuation of the pedigree may be 

 seen in Fishwick, op. cit. 234. There is 

 also printed the inventory of the goods of 

 Edmund Lemon, 1609, showing the shop 

 fixtures and household stuff of a prosperous 

 townsman ; ibid. 226-30. By William 

 Lemon's will the estates went in 1724 to 

 his kinsman John Winckley; ibid. 232. 

 No arms were exemplified in 1664. 



145 Dugdale, Visit. 212, where no 

 arms are given. Adam Mort, mayor, 

 killed when Preston was captured by 

 the Parliamentarians in 164.3, ^ as ^ een 

 mentioned. The family occurs also in 



102 



Leigh and Hulton. What became of the 

 Preston branch is not clear ; Fithwick, 

 op. cit. 323. 



From the Royalist Comp. P. (iv, 196-8) 

 it appears that Adam Mort of Preston was 

 the third son of Adam Mort of Tyldesley 

 and in 1622 married Elizabeth daughter 

 of Seth Bushell of Preston. The younger 

 Adam had two children (Seth and Janet), 

 who petitioned the Sequestration Com- 

 missioners in 1651, Seth's estate having 

 been 'secured for acts of delinquency 

 supposed to have been done by him.' 



146 Dugdale, Visit. 233. Their arms are 

 Ermine three lozenges conjoined in fesse 

 sable, quartering Kay and Parkinson. 



147 Ibid. 259 ; they traced their ancestry 

 to ' William Shaw of Shaw Hall in Ley- 

 land,' and bore arms Argent a cheveron 

 ermine and a canton gules. The pedi- 

 gree is continued to the present date by 

 Fishwick, op. cit. 341. A junior branch 

 acquired the manor of Fishwick (q.v.). 



148 Dugdale, Visit. 334. See further in 

 the account of Brockholes. 



149 Thomas Addison, haberdasher, and 

 his three sons were burgesses in 1582 ; 

 Preston Guild R. 44. Thomas Batty Addi- 

 son was recorder of the borough till his 

 death in 1874. 



loo William Patten and his two sons were 

 members of the guild in 1642 ; ibid. 101. 



I50a The inheritance passed by an heiress 

 to the Stanleys of Bickerstaffe and so to 

 the Earls of Derby ; see the account of 

 Thornley in Chipping. 



151 Richard and Thomas, sons of Thomas 

 Pcdder, deceased, were burgesses in 1682; 

 ibid. 173. The Pedders were bankers and 

 acquired great wealth and many estates in 

 the neighbourhood, remaining till the bank 

 stopped payment in 1861. 



Abram (Blackburn, 728) gives the descent 

 thus: Thomas Pedder, d. 1680 -s. Richard, 

 d. 1726 -s. Richard, d. 1762 -s. Edward, 

 d. 1818 -s. Edward of Walton-le-Dale, 

 d. 1835. The last-named had brothers 

 Thomas and James. James Pedder of 

 Ashton Lodge died in 1846. 



Colonel Charles Denison Pedder served 

 in the Crimean War ; Hewitson, Preston, 

 376. 152 Fishwick, op. cit. 3503. 



159 The Walmesleys seem to have in- 

 herited the estate of the Walls of Moor 

 Hall above-mentioned. A fine was made 

 in 1739-40 concerning thirty-four mes- 

 suages, lands, &c., in Preston, Fulwood, 

 Haighton and other places, the deforciants 

 being Lawrence Wall and Elizabeth his 

 wife, Nicholas Walmesley, Elizabeth his 

 wife and Margaret Wall ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 322, m. 1 1 8. Four years 

 later the same estate appears to have been 

 divided between Nicholas Walmesley and 

 Elizabeth his wife on one side and John 

 Hardman and Margaret his wife on the 

 other; ibid. bdle. 330, m. 63. From the 

 pedigree in Fishwick (op. cit. 244) it 

 would seem that Elizabeth and Margaret 

 were daughters and co-heirs of James Wall, 

 elder brother of the Lawrence named. 



154 John Cross made a purchase of 

 lands in 1773 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 400, m. 150. 



