A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Langton bequeathed it to his sister Jane, 32 who in 

 1735 married Lawrence Rawstorne and it became her 

 husband's property, 33 descending by the issue of his 

 second marriage to his grandson Lawrence Rawstorne, 34 

 who sold the Broughton estate in 1 8 1 o. Broughton 

 Tower with part of the land was sold to James 

 Rothwell and has descended like Hoole ; the rest of 

 the land was purchased by the trustees of Kirkham 

 Grammar School. 35 The Tower was demolished 

 about 1800. 



INGOLHEAD gave a surname to a family dwelling 

 there, 36 whose estate seems to have been acquired by 

 the Blundells of Preston. 37 Some of this land was 

 sold to William Hoghton in I49O. 38 There was 

 also a family of Singleton of Ingolhead. 39 



BANK HALL, at one time owned by the Singletons 

 of Brockholes, 40 had a more interesting history. In 

 the I yth century it was held in moieties, one half 

 being in trust for the Roman Catholic missionary 

 priests of the district, for whom it served as a centre. 41 



Moor) ; Challoner, quoting Castlemain, 

 Cath. Apology. 



In 1666 William Singleton of St. Mar- 

 tin's-in-the-Fields, son and heir of John 

 Singleton of York (will 1644), and others 

 old to John Farnworth of Euxton and 

 Ralph Farnworth of Preston tenements 

 called Church House in Broughton, 

 Sharoe House, &c. ; Piccope, loc. cit. 69. 



32 For deeds see ibid. ; for pedigree, 

 Fishwick, op. cit. 258-9. Roger Langton 

 died in 1644. His son William, Recorder 

 of Liverpool, was a member of the Presby- 

 terian Classis in 1646, and represented 

 Preston in Parliament from 1645 to 

 1653 ; Baines, Lanes, (ed. Harland), i, 

 228 ; Pink and Beaven, Parl. Repre. of 

 Lanes. 152. Dying in 1659 he was 

 succeeded by his son William, who in 

 1664 recorded a short pedigree ; Dugdale, 

 Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 173. In 1678, in 

 conjunction with Elizabeth his wife, 

 William Langton made provision for his 

 younger brothers, John, Richard, Roger, 

 &c. Jane, the father's widow, was living. 

 A messuage in Sharoe was sold which had 

 formerly been occupied by Henry Charn- 

 ley and Elizabeth his wife ; Piccope MSS. 

 xiv, 70. 



William the younger died in 1680 and 

 his son Roger in 1714. This Roger, 

 described as of Chester, bequeathed all his 

 lands in Broughton and Durton to his cousin 

 William Langton of Liverpool, merchant. 

 He names his uncles Richard and Thomas, 

 also William Clayton, his partner in sugar 

 works; ibid. 74. In 1715 a settlement 

 of the manor of Broughton, &c., was 

 made by Richard Langton and William 

 his son and heir-apparent ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 273. 



William Langton in 1732 bequeathed 

 the manor to his sister Jane, and she in 

 1733 made a new settlement of it, with 

 lands also in Broughton and Cheethamnear 

 Manchester, at the same time petitioning 

 the Lord Chancellor for protection from 

 the schemes of her niece Mary daughter 

 of Roger Langton and niece and heir-at- 

 law of the said William. She stated that 

 William Langton had in 1732 started for 

 Scarborough for the benefit of his health, 

 but died at Ripon, where he made his 

 will. Mary Langton was waiting till 

 Jane's death to dispute the will on pre- 

 text of unsound mind and defect of 

 evidence for its validity and to claim the 

 estate ; Piccope MSS. xiv, 712. In Mar. 

 1735 Jane Langton, spinster, acquired a 

 rent of 10 settled by William Langton 

 on Mary wife of Stephen Butcher ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 313, m. 35. 



83 It appears that she was seventy 

 years of age at her marriage ; Fishwick, 

 op. cit. 260. Lawrence Rawstorne and 

 Agnes his wife had the manor in 1742 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 326, 

 m. 143. 



84 See the account of Hutton. 



35 Piccope MSS. xiv, 75. Broughton 

 Tower and 102 acres of land were sold for 



,11,500 to James Rothwell, who also 

 bought the small tithes, a private chapel 

 belonging to the estate, and the timber. 

 The rest of the estate was sold to the 

 school trustees for ,14,500. 



36 Thomas son of Thomas de Ingolhead 

 granted to three of his children Edmund, 

 Helen and Joan 40 acres each in 

 Broughton ; Harl. MS. 2042, fol. 171. 



Cecily widow of Thomas de Ingolhead 

 in 1310-11 claimed dower in Broughton 

 against Henry the Marler ; De Banco R. 

 184, m. 107. The heir was Richard son 

 of Thomas ; ibid. 192, m. 89 d. 



Thomas de Hale and Maud his wife in 

 1352 claimed a messuage, &c., in 

 Broughton against William de Bolron, 

 Robert son of Adam de Singleton and 

 others. Maud was daughter of Joan 

 (daughter of Thomas) de Ingolhead by 

 her second husband Matthew de Abram ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 2, m. vi. 



37 Richard Blundell of Preston made a 

 feoffment of 40 acres in Broughton in 

 1395-6 ; Harl. MS. 2042, fol. 171. 

 The family continued to hold lands in 

 the township, and in 1 546 John son 

 of Richard Blundell granted William 

 Blundell a rent of 8j. %d. from Ingolhead 

 and Tulketh Bank; Harl. MS. 2112, 

 fol. 100/141. 



88 Roger Blundell sold (as stated) his 

 messuages and lands in Ingolhead occupied 

 by Thomas Eccleston ; Add. MS. 32106, 

 no. 639. This was confirmed by John 

 son of William Blundell and cousin and 

 heir of Roger in 1492 ; ibid. no. 174. 

 Lands in Broughton are named in later 

 Hoghton inquisitions, but the tenure is 

 not recorded ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xiv, no. 26, &c. 



89 Richard Singleton of Ingolhead 

 occurs in 1380; Final Cone. Hi, 7. A 

 later Richard was burgess in the Guild of 

 1459, William Singleton and Thomas 

 his son in that of 1542, Thomas 

 Singleton and his sons John and Edward 

 in 1562 ; Preston Guild R. II, 19, 27, 

 &c. 



John Singleton died in 1588 holding 

 Ingolhead Hall, &c., of the Earl of Derby 

 by the rent of a pair of white gloves and 

 id. ; his heir was his son Thomas, aged 

 thirteen. His will recited in the in- 

 quisition names his wife Ellen (who 

 survived him), sons Thomas, Robert, 

 James and Henry ; brothers Edward and 

 William, sister Anne, brother-in-law 

 James Browne ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xvi, no. 48. 



One Henry Singleton- died in 1614 

 holding lands in Broughton of the king, 

 partly in socage and partly (Fernyhalgh, 

 Sharoe and Durton) by the hundredth 

 part of a knight's fee. John his son and 

 heir was fourteen years old ; Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 ii, 9-1 1. 



In the Guild Rolls of 1642 and later 

 appears a family named Beesley of Ingol- 

 head. See Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 



120 



xxviii, no. 62 ; the tenure ii not 



stated. 



40 See the account of this family. 

 After the main portion of the Brockholes 

 estate had been sold, Bank Hall in 

 Broughton and some lands in Brockholes, 

 &c., were retained by the heir male 

 William son of Thomas Singleton of 

 Scale, which Thomas was brother of 

 the Robert who died in 1525. Robert's 

 estate in Broughton was held of the heir 

 of Robert Banastre by a rent of $d. ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vi, no. 64. 

 In 1556 the Bank Hall estate was held by 

 the same rent of Edward Earl of Derby, 

 John Osbaldeston and William Radcliffe ; 

 ibid, x, no. i. 



William Singleton of Bank Hall died 

 in Dec. 1573 holding the capital 

 messuage and other lands, &c., in 

 Broughton of the Earl of Derby by a 

 rent of 51. His widow Ellen continued 

 to reside there. The heir was his son 

 Thomas, two years old. There are also 

 mentioned Thomas the father of William, 

 Ellen wife and Richard brother of Thomas 

 the father. The other estates were in 

 Brockholes (Littlewoodhey), Whitting- 

 ham, Ribchester, Newsham, Wood- 

 plumpton, Scale and Quernmore ; ibid. 

 xii, no. 34. A later inquisition (xii, no. 

 30) states the tenure of Bank Hall 

 differently, viz. of the queen as of her 

 Duchy of Lancaster by knight's service. 

 William Singleton adhered to the Roman 

 Catholic religion and was imprisoned at 

 Chester under Queen Elizabeth. He 

 was released in 1570, ordered to conform 

 and to confine himself to his house at 

 Brockholes ; Fishwick, Preston, 287 

 (quoting the Bishop of Chester's Liber 

 Correct). 



Thomas Singleton the son and heir 

 came of age about 1593, when he in- 

 herited land in Whittingham and 

 Brockholes from a kinsman, Thomas 

 Singleton ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xvi, no. 50. 



Bank Hall is said to have been sold 

 about 1625 (Fishwick, op. cit. 318), but 

 this branch of the Singleton family con- 

 tinued to hold Scale. 



41 Gillow, Haydock Papers, 60. 

 Richard Woodcock, who died in 1633, 



at Walton-le-Dale, held the moiety of 

 the Bank Hall in Broughton and lands 

 there ; his son James was twenty-five 

 years old ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xxix, no. 63. 



Edward French and Anne his wife in 

 1651 asked for an examination of their 

 title to Bank Hall, the estate being 

 sequestered for the recusancy and 

 delinquency of Woodcock and Crook. 

 Anne was daughter of James, eldest son 

 of Richard Walton, who had married 

 Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William 

 Garstang of Broughton, which William 

 had purchased the estate ; Cal. Com. for 

 Comp, iv, 2909. If true this would carry the 

 sale of Bank Hall into the i6th century. 



