AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



PRESTON 



E Y v E s . Sable a 

 che-ueron between three 

 crosslets argent. 



to Ralph Eyves and became the family dwelling.' 7 

 The family being recusants and Royalists quickly felt 

 the displeasure of the Parlia- 

 ment on the outbreak of the 

 Civil War, and Richard 

 Eyves's estate was in 1643 

 sequestered for the combined 

 offences. 18 Richard Eyves 

 died in 1644, but his father 

 Ralph survived, and his estate 

 was under sequestration for 

 recusancy. 19 Thomas Eyves, 

 another of the family, had 

 two-thirds of his leasehold 

 estate sequestered for the same 

 reason ; he was eighty years 

 of age. 20 Another Thomas 

 Eyves, son of Richard, recorded a pedigree in 1665." 



The estates of Richard Eyves, Richard Kellet and 

 Richard Sudell were sold under the Act of 1652." 

 James Melling, a recusant, in 1654 requested to be 

 allowed to compound for his sequestered estate. 13 In 

 1717 Alexander Hudson, linen weaver, registered a 

 small holding as a Papist.' " The estate called 

 Frenchwood, formerly owned by Thomas Starkie 

 (great-grandson of John Starkie of Huntroyde) and 

 Nicholas his son, was carried by the latter's daughter 

 and co-heir in 1815 to Colonel Henry Bence 

 Bence M of Thorington Hall, Suffolk, whose de- 

 scendant, Mr. P. Bence Trower, is the present 

 owner. 26 



Roger the Clerk alienated 4 acres in Fishwick to 

 Sawley Abbey. 17 



The tenants of the township had a right of turbary 

 on Penwortham Moss. 18 



BROUGHTON 



Broctun, Dom. Bk. ; Brocton, 1 200 ; Brecton, 

 1256 ; Brochton, 1261 ; Broucton, 1262 ; Broghton, 

 1292 ; Brogton, 1297. 



Blundel Brook, running west, forms at first the 

 northern boundary of this township and then flows 

 across it. On the north bank stand the church and 



Broughton House. Most of the area lies to the 

 south of the brook ; near the centre was the Tower, 

 with the hamlet of Sharoe adjacent, Durton or Urton 

 to the north-east and Fernyhalgh on the eastern 

 boundary. Lightfoot Green and Ingolhead are on 

 the west side. A small detached portion lay in 

 Woodplumpton, to which it was added about 1882. 

 The area measured 2,367 acres, 1 and in 1901 there 

 was a population of 6 1 6. The surface is compara- 

 tively flat, the heights above sea level ranging from 

 100 to 1 80 ft. 



The principal road is that going north from 

 Preston ; it crosses Blundel Brook by a bridge, from 

 which a road goes eastward to Haighton, with a 

 branch turning south to Fulwood ; westward a road 

 goes to Cottam and Lea. The London and North- 

 Western Company's railway runs north through the 

 western end of the township. 



The land is pasture ; the soil clayey, with varying 

 subsoil. 



There is a parish council. 



Remains of a number of ancient crosses are known 

 in the churchyard and elsewhere.* There are, or 

 were, some reputed holy wells. 3 



In 1066 BROUGHTON, assessed 

 MANORS as one plough-land, formed part of 

 Earl Tostig's lordship of Preston or 

 Amounderness. 4 After the Conquest it appears to have 

 been held in thegnage, perhaps by the old lords and 

 their descendants. Between 1153 and 1 1 60 William 

 Count of Boulogne, son of King Stephen, confirmed to 

 Uctred son of Huck and his heirs 8 oxgangs of land 

 in Broughton by the service due, viz. 8/. a year. 5 

 Uctred and his family took their surname from Little 

 Singleton, which they held by serjeanty of the 

 wapentake of Amounderness. 6 



Richard son of Uctred succeeded, but was ejected 

 by Theobald Walter, after whose forfeiture and death 

 King John detained the manor and it remained in 

 the hands of Henry III. The township during this 

 time gave an increased revenue to the Crown. 7 In 

 1261 Henry III, after inquiry, restored it as a matter 

 of right to William de Singleton, grandson of Richard, 

 who paid 3 marks of gold. 8 William had already in 



17 Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 280-1. For pedi- 

 gree sec Fishwick, op. cit. 332. 



18 Royalist Comp. Papers, ii, 285. The 

 claim recorded was for an annuity of 

 10 from Over Hacking in Aughton 

 (Aighton). 



19 Ibid, ii, 279-84. Ralph Eyves was 

 buried at Preston 30 Aug. 1653, aget 

 ninety-five ; Reg. 



20 Royalist Comp. Papers, ii t 286. 



21 Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 105. 



** Index of Royalists (Index Soc.), 

 41-3. 



Richard Kellet had lands also in Ribble- 

 ton (Braggar's tenement) and in Preston 

 (Knowle Hey), the latter by grant of 

 Richard Savage of Winnington, Staffs. 

 The estate was sequestered for the ' popery 

 and delinquency ' of Kcllei, who died 

 before 1652, when his daughter Mary 

 Knight petitioned for restoration, she 

 being 'conformable to the Church of 

 England ' ; Royalist Comp. Papers, iv, 39. 



23 Cal. Com. for Comp. \, 3193. 



24 Estcourt and Payne, Eng. Cath. Non- 

 jurors, 94. 



25 Burke, Commoners, i, 651-3. 



26 Information of Mr. Trower. The 



other daughter of Nicholas Starkie 

 married Bacon. 



17 Pal. of Lane. Chan. Misc. i, 12 

 (1389 and 1395). The gift was probably 

 void. * 8 Fishwick, op. cit. 101. 



1 The Census Rep. 1901 gives 2,357 

 acres ; the difference is probably accounted 

 for by the detached portion within Wood- 

 plumpton. 



* Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. xx, 1 74-6. 

 Some have disappeared; those enumerated 

 are the churchyard cross (steps remain), 

 Daniel's Cross and Duxen Dean Cross 

 on the northern boundary (base of latter re- 

 mains), Durton Lane (now destroyed) and 

 Durton Green Crosses, and Fernyhalgh. 



8 Ibid. ; near Broughton Church and 

 at Fernyhalgh. 



4 V.C.E. Lanes, i, 288*. 



5 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 430. Uctred's 

 ' antecessores ' had held Broughton, ap- 

 parently by the same service. His father 

 may be Huck the reeve, living 116070 ; 

 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 47. 



Uctred son of Huck also had land in 

 Stainall ; ibid. He is mentioned in the 

 Pipe Rolls of 1171-7; Farrer, op. cit. 

 24, &c. 



117 



6 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 52. 



7 Farrer, op. cit. 131;' the increase 

 of rent from Broughton for the whole 

 year 511. 8d.' 



8 The story is told Lanes. Inq. and Ex- 

 tents, i, 192, 226-7. King Henry had 

 given the manor for life to Master William 

 the queen's Sauser (Salsarius). The 

 manor was not liable to tallage. 



In 1194-5 Theobald Walter sued 

 Richard son of Uctred and Robert his 

 brother for the whole town of Broughton, 

 one plough-land, as part of his demesne, 

 having been held by the king or his 

 father in demesne. Richard said in reply 

 that the moiety of the town was of his 

 own demesne, held of the said Theobald 

 by certain services which he was ready to 

 perform. Robert had the other moiety ; 

 Coram Rege R. 5, m. 2 d. 



William the Sauser received Broughton 

 from the king in 1244 ; he had 8 marks 

 of silver ' of his farm ' from William de 

 Singleton in 1261 ; Dods. MSS. cxlix, 

 fol. 50. 



Richard and Robert, sons of Uctred, 

 seem to have succeeded their father as 

 early as 1185 ; Farrer, op. cit. 56. In 

 1205 Richard son of Uctred proffered 



