AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



PRESTON 



land there in drengage, rendering zs. yearly. 6 This 

 appears to have been the whole service due from the 

 township, though the land is only a fourth part of the 

 old assessment, for in 1297 the vill of Haighton was 

 found to pay zs. yearly to the Earl of Lancaster. 7 In 

 1324 a portion was held by John de Bolton, who paid 

 it., and the rest by Adam son of William Banastre, 

 who also paid is. 8 In 1346 the whole was held by 

 Thomas Banastre, as half a plough-land, by the rent of 



2J. 9 It descended like Balderston, being held by 

 Richard Balderston in 14456 for the twentieth part 

 of a knight's fee, the land being half a plough-land. 10 

 Haighton does not seem to have been usually regarded 

 as a separate manor, and in a document of the i6th 

 century is described as ' in Broughton '. u 



A family which took a surname from it can be 

 traced for some time 12 ; but the land seems to have 

 been very much divided, 13 the Elstons, 13a Singletons, 13b 



6 Lanct. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lance, and Ches.), i, 51. Richard de 

 Haighton held the same land by the same 

 service in 1226 ; ibid, i, 140. He was 

 living in 1248, but Walter son of Richard 

 de Haighton appears in 1251 and 1261 ; 

 ibid, i, 176, 183, 228. Robert son of 

 William son of Walter de Haighton was 

 plaintiff in 1334 against Paulin son of 

 William son of Walter and Gilbert son of 

 Walter de Haighton, also against William 

 son of Amry dc Haighton : Assize 

 R. 1417, m. 7d. 



* Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 289. The 

 Banastre estate may have been derived 

 in part from Robert son of Walter de 

 Haighton, who gave all his wood in 

 Haighton (within certain bounds) to 

 Thomas Banastre of Bretherton ; Kuer- 

 den MSS. iv, H 5. 



8 Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 39 ; John de 

 Bolton held a messuage and 40 acres, and 

 Adam Banastre the whole remainder of 

 the hamlet of Haighton. 



In 1326 it was found that William son 

 of Ellen de Haighton had held i acre 

 (worth 6d. a year) in the vill of Haighton 

 of Adam son and heir of William Banastre, 

 a minor, by id. rent ; a messuage and 

 9 acres of Richard de Haighton by 3^. 

 rent; 12 acres of John de Haighton by 

 zd. rent ; and 8 acres of Walter de 

 Haighton by ^d. rent, the annual value 

 of these 29 acres was %d. each. The 

 heir was William's son Richard, aged 

 twenty-four ; Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. II, no. 5 1. 



John de Bolton is stated to have 

 received lands in Haighton, with acquit- 

 tance of multure in the mill, from John 

 de Coppull, the remainder being to Robert 

 son of John de Belton and his heirs by 

 Joan daughter of Thomas le Waleys ; 

 the grant was made in 1318. After- 

 wards Robert sold to Roger de Elston, 

 living in 1363, and he died without issue 

 by Joan ; Memo. R. (L.T.R.) 128, m. xxi. 

 Margaret (then wife of William de 

 Childers) widow of Robert son of John 

 de Bolton claimed dower in 1366 ; De 

 Banco R. 425, m. 234. The surname 

 Bolton long continued in the township. 



9 Sur-v. of 1346 (Chet. Soc.), 50. Sir 

 Thomas Banastre held in 1379 ; Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 15. 



10 Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees,bdle. 2, 

 no. 20. In 1456 Richard Balderston held 

 the manor of Haighton by Goosnargh of 

 the king as of his duchy in socage by a 

 rent of 21. ; its clear value was 4 marks 

 a year ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 

 63. Thi-s is one of the rare instances in 

 which it is called a manor. 



Portions of the Balderston estate are 

 named later in the possessions of Edmund 

 Dudley (1507), Thomas Radcliffe of 

 Winmarleigh (1521), Thomas Earl of 

 Derby (1523) and Sir Alexander Osbal- 

 deston (1544) ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 iy, no. 13 ; y, no. 3, &c. ; v, no. 68 ; 

 viii, no. i. No particulars of tenure are 

 given for Haighton. 



u The warden* of Broughton Chapel 



in 1539 demised to William Singleton of 

 Chingle Hall a messuage in Haighton in 

 Broughton at a rent of loj. lod. ; 

 Towneley MS. HH, no. 1575. This 

 may only mean ' in the chapelry of 

 Broughton.' 



13 One branch has been named in pre- 

 ceding notes. 



John de Haighton occurs in 1244 ; 

 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 159, 160. 

 Alice daughter of Adam de Blackburn 

 in 1276-8 complained that John de 

 Haighton, Ellen his wife and Katherine, 

 Maud and Joan his daughters had dis- 

 seised her of her free tenement in the 

 place, and recovered ; De Banco R. 17, 

 m. 27; Assize R. 1238, m. 32; 1239, 

 m. 37. In 1292 Katherine daughter of 

 John de Haighton withdrew her claim 

 against John de Haighton ; Assize 

 R. 408, m. 69 d. Much of the land of 

 this family appears to have been acquired 

 by Hoghton of Hoghton, as below. 



Godith de Elston and Roger son of 

 William de Elston agreed with Joan 

 widow of John de Haighton for a lease 

 of their lands to her; Add. MS. 32106, 

 no. 783. 



John de Haighton gave his daughters 

 Joan, Katherine, Maud and Margery his 

 house of Brunden, lands held by Roger 

 and Paulin, sons of William de Elston, 

 and homages and services in the vill of 

 Haighton, at a rent of izd. ; Kuerden 

 MSS. iii, H 2. John son of John de 

 Haighton granted Robert de Whittingham 

 certain lands, the bounds at one point 

 following Brunden to the east ; the rent 

 was a pair of gloves or id. ; ibid. In 

 1293-4 Katherine and Joan, daughters 

 of John de Haighton, made claims 

 against John son of Robert de Singleton 

 and Alice his wife, and against Master 

 Richard de Hoghton, in respect of tene- 

 ments in Haighton ; De Banco R. 101, 

 m. 100 d. ; 104, m. 81 d. 



In 1332 Richard de Haighton granted 

 some of his land upon Highfield ; Kuerden 

 fol. MS. fol. 175. Richard made a grant 

 in 1358 ; ibid. fol. 189. In 1377 Maud 

 and Margaret, daughters of Richard de 

 Haighton and Euphemia his wife, had 

 hereditary lands delivered to them ; ibid, 

 fol. 256. 



Robert Greenacre and others, probably 

 trustees, in 1416 gave a tenement in 

 Haighton to Thomas Haighton and his 

 heirs ; ibid. fol. 87. Ughtred Hothersall 

 in 1441-2 became bound to William son 

 and heir of Thomas Haighten for the 

 fulfilment of contracts ; ibid. fol. 189. 

 William Haighton was defendant in 

 1442 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 4, m. i. 

 William occurs again in 1459 and 1464 ; 

 Kuerden fol. MS. fol. 88, 63. 



13 A fine respecting 'Haighton' in 

 1311 may refer to some other place of 

 the name ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), ii, 8. In 1317-18 John de 

 Brockholes claimed land in Haighton 

 against Richard son of Richard de Fish- 

 wick and Cecily his wife ; De Banco 



125 



R. 221, m. 210 <J. Eve widow of Henry 

 de Blackburn in 1336 claimed a mes- 

 suage there against John de Blackburn ; 

 ibid. 306, m. 128. Land in Haighton 

 was among the Clitheroe estates in 1 342 ; 

 Final Cone, ii, 114. In 1347 Simon 

 Breton and Joan his wife claimed an 

 acre of land against William del Hall and 

 Robert son of Robert del Moor ; the last 

 named seems to have been the owner ; 

 Assize R. 1435, m. 16. Isolda widow of 

 William del Hall had lands in 1372 ; 

 Kuerden fol. MS. fol. 87. John de 

 Cottam of Haighton made a feoffment 

 of his lands in 1389; ibid. fol. 88. A 

 John son of William de Cottam was 

 defendant to a claim by Adam son of 

 Richard de Holmes in 1337 ; De Banco 

 R. 311, m. I56d. Henry Cottam of 

 Haighton died in 1592 holding a capital 

 messuage, &c., of Richard Hoghton by 

 6d. rent. George his son and heir was 

 seventeen years old ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xvi, no. 49. 



13a In 1329 Roger and Paulin sons of 

 William de Elston claimed a tenement 

 in Haighton against Henry de Herrys 

 and Cecily his wife ; Assize R. 427, m. 

 3 d. (Henry de Hericy had land in 

 Wheatcroft from John de Haighton in 

 1287 ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 649.) 

 John son of William son of Robert de 

 Elston in 134$ claimed 40 acres of land 

 against Robert and Adam sons of Ellis de 

 Knoll ; De Banco R. 341, m. 226. 



Roger de Elston already named and 

 Anabel his wife had lands in Haighton, 

 and part of two mills, which were in 

 1348 settled on Roger son of John de 

 Elston, Ralph and Thomas his brothers, 

 and the heirs of Roger de Elston of 

 Killanshagh ; Kuerden fol. MS. fol. 291. 

 Robert de Bolton was a witness. 

 William son of Roger de Elston in 1350 

 gave his brother Roger land called the 

 Moss and rents from the tenements of 

 William son of Paulin de Elston, Roger 

 son of Ellis de Knoll and Henry son of 

 William Amricson in Haighton ; ibid, 

 fol. in. 



The feoffees in 1414 granted Margaret 

 widow of John Elston various lands in 

 Haighton, with remainders to Thomas 

 Elston and Nicholas his brother ; Harl. 

 MS. 21 12, fol. 100/141. In 1429-30 

 Roger Elston gave lands, formerly 

 Reginald Elston's, to trustees for Ellen 

 daughter of Thomas Haighton ; Add. 

 MS. 32107, no. 29912. Some of the 

 Elston lands probably went to the 

 Blundells of Preston, for in 1452-3 John 

 Blundell and Agnes widow of Hugh 

 Longton granted land in Haighton to 

 William son of John Blundell ; Harl. 

 MS. 2112, fol. 100/141. 



13b Nicholas son of Gilbert de Singleton 

 in 1384 had lands in Haighton within 

 these bounds : Beginning at Falsnape 

 Cloughhead on the west, following tie 

 Moss Dyke east to Christopher de Whit- 

 tingham's land, then north to Brunden, 

 following this westward to Falsnape 



