A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



A branch of the Haydocks 79 settled on a small 

 estate known as The Tagg in Cottam, the old dower 

 house of the family, and there were born Thomas 

 Haydock, a publisher, 80 and George Leo Haydock, a 

 priest noteworthy for his edition of the Bible ; he 

 died in i84g. 81 This family is now represented by 

 Mr. Joseph Gillow, whose works have been quoted 

 frequently in these pages. 



A family surnamed Cottam is found in this and 

 neighbouring townships. 82 



Cockersand Abbey 83 and the Knights Hospitallers 84 

 had land in this part of the township. 



The inquisitions show that in general the land was 

 held by the Hoghton family. 85 Under the Common- 



wealth some holdings were sequestered for religious 

 ' delinquency,' 86 and some ' Papists ' registered estates 

 Disputes as to the fishery in 1691-2 



are of interest as showing the customs of the fisher- 

 men. 88 



A pedigree case of much interest concerned the 

 estates of Richard Harrison of Warrington, who died 

 in 1863, a descendant of John Harrison of Lea, who 

 died in 1667. 89 



In connexion with the Church of England St. 

 Andrew's, Ashton, was built in 1836, and a parish 

 was formed for it in the following year. A chapel of 

 ease, St. Michael and All Angels', was built in 1884. 

 The patronage is vested in trustees. 



George Haydock in 1730 recites that 

 William Haydock had agreed to sell the 

 manor of Cottam, and that in 1716 

 Valentine Farington agreed to purchase ; 

 Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, 258, from 

 R. 7 of Geo. II at Preston. Later still 

 (1756-7) in a fine regarding the manor 

 the deforciants were William Gardner, 

 Elizabeth his wife, Nicholas Starkie and 

 Sarah his wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 356, m. 34. Elizabeth and Sarah 

 were the daughters and heirs of Valentine 

 Farington. From deeds at Huntroyde it 

 appears that Le Gendre Starkie sold his 

 moiety between 1769 and 1791 ; infor- 

 mation of Mr. H. Ince Anderton. 



79 For pedigrees see Chron. of St. 

 Monica's, Louvain, ii (end) ; Fishwick, 

 Preston, 272-3. 



80 Gillow, Bibl.Dict. iii, 226-30. He 

 was born in 1772 and died in Preston in 

 1859. 



81 Ibid, iii, 211-21 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 Another brother, James Haydock, priest, 

 served the mission at Lea, and died of a 

 fever caught while attending the sick in 

 1809; Gillow, op. cit. 221. The same 

 editor's Haydock Papers is mainly occupied 

 with this family. 



83 Geoffrey de Cottam was bound to 

 Henry de Haydock to pay half a pound 

 of cummin and 1 5</. to the chief lords in 

 Henry's place ; Kuerden MSS. iv, C 25. 

 John son of Geoffrey de Cottam, Avice 

 his wife and John son of Richard de 

 Cottam were in 1323-4 engaged in dis- 

 putes with the lords of Ashton ; Assize 

 R. 425, m. 2. A little later the same 

 John son of Geoffrey claimed land in 

 Ashton against William de Ingolhead, 

 Christiana his wife and Thomas his son ; 

 ibid. R. 426, m. 8 d. See also De Banco 

 R. 323, m. 32. One John de Cottam 

 had had a dispute as to his inheritance 

 with Richard de Cottam in 1306 ; Assize 

 R. 420, m. 8. Margery widow of Henry 

 de Cottam was plaintiff in 1348; De 

 Banco R. 355, m. 202. 



In 1446 John Cottam claimed the 

 manor against Gilbert Haydock, alleging 

 that Geoffrey de Cottam had given it to 

 his son Richard and his heirs by Margaret 

 his wife, the pedigree being : Geoffrey 

 -. Richard -s. John -s. Robert 8. 

 Edmund -s. John (plaintiff) ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 9, m. lot. John son of 

 Richard de Cottam was claiming a mes- 

 tuage, &c., in Ashton in 1 344 ; De 

 Banco R. 340, m. 430 ; 347, m. 15 d. 



83 Roger son of Richard son of Uctred 

 de Singleton was the benefactor, granting 

 a half acre in Briary Furlong in his 

 demesne and other parcels, Sandibutts 

 being named ; Cockersand Chartul. i, 225. 



84 Roger de Singleton was the grantor ; 

 Lines. Chart. (Bodl. Lib.), Ai, no. 6*. 



85 This was the case in Lea for lands 

 held by John Singleton (Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. vi, no. 32 ; viii, no. 9) ; George 

 Browne (ibid, xi, no. 4 ; xiv, no. 42 ; 

 xviii, no. 23) ; James Holme, who also 

 held in Chipping (Towneley MS. C 8, 

 13 [Chet. Lib.], 507); William Helme 

 (Lanes. Inq. p.m. [Rec. Soc. ], i, 213); and 

 in Ashton by James Stopford of Ulnes 

 Walton (ibid, i, 169 ; ii, 72). 



George Buller of Singleton held a 

 tenement in Lea of Sir Richard Hoghton 

 by a rent of 51. %d. and by suit at the 

 baron's court of the manor of Lea ; he 

 died in 1595, leaving a son William, 

 about seven years old ; ibid, iii, 317. 



Henry Catterall in 1610, in right of 

 his late wife Elizabeth Lubley, held a 

 messuage and lands in Lea and Cottam 

 of Sir Richard Hoghton by a rent of yd. 

 Thomas, his son "and heir, was aged 

 thirty- four ; ibid, i, 212. 



William Critchlow died in 1637 hold- 

 ing a messuage and land in Lea of Sir 

 Gilbert Hoghton, and other lands, &c., 

 in Whittingham and Preston. He left a 

 widow named Grace and a son and heir 

 William, about ten years of age ; Towne- 

 ley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 252. 



Henry Gregson died in 1631 holding 

 land in English Lea and Whittingham of 

 Sir Gilbert Hoghton, and leaving a son 

 Robert, who came of age in Dec. 1633 ; 

 ibid. 465. 



James Wharles died in 1 626 also hold- 

 ing land in English Lea of Sir Gilbert. 

 His son Alexander was thirty years old ; 

 ibid. 1295. 



Evan Browne held land in French Lea 

 of Henry VIII ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. vii, no. 24. John Fleetwood of Pen- 

 wortham held land in Ashton of Queen 

 Elizabeth ; ibid, xiii, no. 26 ; xv, no. 34 

 (St. Mary Magdalene's lands). 



In other cases Clifton, Hesketh, &c. 

 the tenure is not stated. 



The following suits may be mentioned : 

 Alice widow of William Pickard claimed 

 land in English Lea in 1309-10 against 

 John son of William de Charnock ; De 

 Banco R. 179, m. i64d. In 1331 Alice 

 widow of William de Charnock gave an 

 acre in Eastley Field and the Foles to 

 Henry son of William Charnock of Lea ; 

 Harl. MS. 2042, fol. 171. Thomas son 

 of Robert the Mercer of Sidgreaves v. 

 Robert son of Robert Franceys, as to 

 tenements in French Lea and Ashton ; 

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

 Adam de Catterall of Longton v. John 

 de Cottam, &c., in Ashton ; ibid. 3, 

 m. vii d. John del Milne of Cottam v. 

 Thomas son of Walter del Hall of Ash- 

 ton ; ibid. 5, m. 26. Nicholas son 

 of Adam de Singleton and Cecily his wife 

 (daughter of Edmund de Horwich) in 



136 



1371 claimed dower in burgages, lands 

 and horse mill in Ashton and Preston 

 against William de Singleton ; De Banco 

 R. 443, m. 91. Roger Elston v. William 

 Denby alias Cardmaker and Margaret his 

 wife, daughter of William Soperson, in 

 French Lea and Ashton ; Final Cone, iii, 



"3- 



Edward Blackburne in 1450-1 had 

 lands in English Lea, French Lea and 

 Preston, which seven years later he gave 

 to the mayor and burgesses of Preston ; 

 Kuerden MSS. iv, P 120. 



86 The following were recusants : 

 Margery Melling of Lea, widow ; Eliza- 

 beth Wharles, widow, of Ashton ; Cal. 

 Com. for Comp. v, 3185-7. Gabriel 

 Short of Lea, suspected, was summoned 

 before the committee and refusing to 

 abjure his religion had two-thirds of his 

 tenement sequestered ; ibid, i, 656. 



John Bispham of Ashton had had two- 

 thirds of his estate sequestered for recu- 

 sancy ; after his death his daughter Eliza- 

 beth Bispham in 1654 prayed to be 

 allowed to contract for it ; Royalist Comp, 

 Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 

 183. Richard Gregson and John Harri- 

 son, recusants, made similar petitions in 

 respect of the two-thirds of their estates 

 in Ashton ; ibid, iii, 128, 164. William 

 Hollinhead of Ingol and John Hodgkin- 

 son of Cottam did likewise ; ibid, iii, 251, 

 231. 



87 At Lea : Lawrence and William 

 Johnson, Thomas Hankinson (Mason 

 House), Thomas Hankinson the younger 

 (Lea Town), William and Thomas Helme, 

 and William Fidler ; Estcourt and Payne, 

 Eng. Cath. Nonjurors, 93, 106, 139. At 

 Ashton : William Bolton, Elizabeth 

 widow of Oswald Eaves, Margaret Porter, 

 John and William Browne, Joseph Miller j 

 ibid. 92, 101, 102, 138. At Cottam i 

 Roger Higginson, James Holme and John 

 Simpson ; ibid. 93, 138-9. 



88 An abstract of the pleadings is given 

 in Fishwick, Preston, 87. 'It appear* 

 that from time immemorial " stakes and 

 piles " were placed in the bed of the river 

 for the fishermen to hang their nets upon, 

 and it was customary before the com- 

 mencement of the fishing season for the 

 fishermen of Penwortham and [those of] 

 Ashton and Lea to draw lots for priority, 

 and having settled this the river wa 

 fished " right across " from bank to bank 

 by the men from the two manors alter- 

 nately from sunrise to sunset. The season 

 began about Candlemas and closed about 

 Michaelmas.' 



89 J. P. Earwaker, Lanes. Pedigree Can, 

 1887. The landed estates lay in War- 

 rington, Lea, Whittle, Brindle, Clayton, 

 &c. ; there was personal estate of about 

 100,000 value. The evidence at the 



