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Joan, daughter of a later Ralph, carried the manor 

 to William Huddleston about I42y, 15 and he held 

 the manor in I446. 16 The Huddleston estate, not 

 described as a manor, was sold to the Earl of Derby 

 in I496. 17 



Alan de Singleton's estate descended to Banastre 

 of Bretherton and so to the heirs of Balderston. 18 

 Their right in part was granted to the Earls of 



KIKKHAM 



Derby, 19 who thus became the principal holders in 

 the 1 6th century. 



Richard le Boteler of Rawcliffe obtained a portion 

 of the vill in 1259 from Richard son of Richard de 

 Freckleton, 20 and this descended in his family till 

 1541, about which time part of the inheritance was 

 divided among the daughters of John Butler. 21 The 

 shares were further subdivided by sales, 28 but the 



Freckleton and Alice daughter of Adam 

 de Bradkirk ; it shows that Ralph had 

 mills in Freckleton and lands in Aughton, 

 Maghull, &c. ; Kuerden, loc. cit. In the 

 following year Ralph made a fcoffment of 

 the manor of Freckleton, &c. ; ibid. 



15 In 1428 William Huddleston and 

 Joan his wife were in possession of the 

 manor ; Final Cone, iii, 94. The name 

 is here spelt Hodelston. In 1431 William 

 Huddleston held a moiety of the manors 

 of Freckleton and Elswick by the service 

 of half a knight's fee ; Feud. Aids, 

 iii, 95. 



16 William Huddleston and Joan his 

 late wife held a knight's fee in Freckleton, 

 &c., the relief being iooj.; Duchy of 

 Lane. Knights' Fees, bdle. 2, no. 20. It 

 was, perhaps, the husband who had died, 

 for the writ ' diem clausit extr.' after the 

 death of Joan was not issued till 1454 ; 

 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, App. 175. In 

 it she was described as 'daughter and heir 

 of Ralph de Freckleton.' 



17 Towneley MS. C 8, 5 (Chet. Lib.), 

 Hen. VII, no. i. Thomas Earl of Derby 

 v. William Huddleston nine messuages 

 in Freckleton, &c. Land, &c., in the 

 township is named in the possessions of 

 Thomas the second earl in 1521, but the 

 tenure is not stated ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. v, no. 68. 



The rental of 1522 (at Lathom) shows 

 that 109*. Cf\d. was received from the 

 estate purchased from William Huddle- 

 ston, including 2s. 4</. for fisheries in the 

 Ribble and*4*. 4^. profits of the court held 

 during the year. In addition 19;. gd. 

 was received from the lands purchased 

 from John Coppull. The estate descended 

 to Ferdinando the fifth earl ; Add. MS. 

 32104, fol. 406. 



18 See the accounts of those townships. 

 Adam de Hothersall gave Thomas Ban- 

 astre and Joan his wife half an oxgang of 

 land in Freckleton ; Kuerden MSS. ii, 

 fol. 257. Thomas Banastre granted a 

 capital messuage and the moiety of 2 ox- 

 gangs of land in Freckleton to Roger son 

 of Robert the Forester of Preston ; Dods. 

 MSS. liii, fol. 94. No tenure is recorded for 

 Sir Thomas Banastre's lands in Freckleton 

 in 1385 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 

 14. Nor again in the case of Richard 

 Balderston in 1457 ; ibid, ii, 63. 



From the inquisitions of the time of 

 Henry VIII it appears that the following 

 held lands in Freckleton of the Balderston 

 inheritance, but no details are afforded : 

 Edmund Dudley, Thomas Radcliffe of 

 Winmarleigh (held of Osbaldeston) and 

 Sir Alexander Osbaldeston. 



Other Singletons appear in the town- 

 ship, one of them having been named 

 above. Alice widow of Alan de Singleton 

 claimed an acre in 1246 against Ellis son 

 of Herbert, but Richard de Freckleton 

 warranted the land, being of his demesne, 

 whereupon the plaintiff remitted her right 

 for 4.00". ; Assize R. 404, m. 14. Adam 

 son ol Alan de Singleton granted land in 

 Racarr to the same Ellis ; Kuerden MSS. 

 iv, F 3. Ellis about 1260 granted various 



lands to Gilbert son of Alan de Meols ; 

 Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 95. Later Maud 

 widow of Ellis made a grant to Gilbert de 

 Meols ; Kuerden MSS. loc. cit. 



Maud widow of Adam de Singleton in 

 1294 and later claimed dower against 

 Thomas Banastre of Bretherton and others 

 in respect of ij oxgang s of land, &c.; De 

 Banco R. 106, m. 8 ; 153, m. 410. 



Gilbert de Singleton of Broughton in 

 1326 held his lands in Freckleton of 

 Adam Banastre by the sixty-fourth part 

 of a knight's fee, paying zd. for castle 

 ward. There were a messuage worth 

 I2d. a year and an oxgang of land con- 

 taining 12 acres, each worth izd. ; Inq. 

 p.m. 19 Edw. II, no. 67. Thomas son 

 of Gilbert de Singleton gave his brother 

 John all his land in Freckleton in 1332 ; 

 Dods. MSS. cliii, fol. 73. The tame 

 Thomas granted a lease of the fourth 

 part of an oxgang of land to James the 

 Tailor in 1348; Kuerden MSS. iii, 



F 3- 



19 Pat. 4 Hen. VII ; in a grant of Sir 

 James Harrington's lands to the first 

 earl. Some land also descended to 

 him by virtue of the purchase from 

 Coppull, mentioned in the account of 

 Newton. 



William Earl of Derby and Edward 

 Stanley sold a messuage, &c., in Freckle- 

 ton to Cuthbert Sharpies in 1597 (Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 58, m. 360), 

 but the manor was reputed to be held by 

 the earl years afterwards, as appears by 

 the inquisitions. It must have been 

 alienated before the Civil War, as it is not 

 named in the Royalist composition papers, 

 or later. 



* Richard de Freckleton granted 2 

 oxgangs of land (which his father Richard 

 had given to the grantor's brothers, 

 Robert and William), and seems to have 

 added in 1259 2^ oxgangs recovered 

 from his brother John ; Dods. MSS. liii, 

 fol. 90 ; cxlix, fol. 117^. 



The Botelers made a number of other 

 acquisitions. Thus Richard son of Michael 

 de Thornton gave Richard le Boteler 

 the service of Gilbert de Meols for 2 

 oxgangs of land, a pair of gloves being 

 the rent ; Kuerden MSS. iv, S zob. To 

 the same Richard land was given by 

 Richard son of John son of Alice de 

 Warton, and Richard de Pemberton 

 granted Sir Richard le Boteler half an 

 oxgang of land ; ibid. F 13. John son of 

 Robert de Hothersall in 1348 gave land 

 to Master Nicholas Boteler ; ibid. The 

 above-named Richard de Pemberton is 

 named in some Lytham Priory charters 

 as a tenant in Freckleton. 



In 1276 William de Meols, nephew 

 of Gilbert, claimed 2 oxgangs of land, 

 &c., in Freckleton and Hutton against 

 Richard le Boteler and the Abbot of 

 Cockersand ; Assize R. 405, m. 2. 



Adam de Meols and William his son 

 attested charters about 1265 ; Lytham 

 D. at Durham, 3 a, 2 ae, 4 ae, Ebor. no. 20, 

 44. Lands formerly belonging to Margery 

 widow of Gilbert de Meols were acquired 



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by Sir Adam de Hoghton ; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlii, fol. 58^, 50 ; Add. MS. 32106, 

 no. 688 ; Kuerden MSS. iii, W 30. They 

 are not named in the Hoghton inquisi- 

 tions. A moiety of Margery's lands 

 went to Richard le Boteler ; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlix, fol. 117. 



In 1364 a settlement of the manor of 

 Freckleton was made by Richard son of 

 Sir Nicholas Boteler (Ralph de Freckleton 

 being a witness), the remainder being 

 to John le Boteler of Marton ; ibid, 

 fol. 115. Sir John (son of Nicholas) 

 Boteler of Rawcliffe somewhat later 

 recovered a moiety of the manor against 

 Nicholas de Croft and Ellen his wife ; 

 ibid. fol. n6. John de Cottam in 1395 

 obtained a mill and an oxgang of land in 

 Freckleton against Nicholas and Ellen dc 

 Croft ; Final Cone, iii, 46. 



The lands of Sir John Boteler in 1404 

 were said to be held of Ralph de Freckle- 

 ton by knight's service and 2s. 6d. rent ; 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 1460. Those 

 of John Butler, who died in 1488, were 

 in 1502 found to have been held of the 

 Earl of Derby by knight's service ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 45. 



81 In the year named Nicholas Butler 

 claimed as brother and heir male ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R. 172, m. ii. A large 

 part of the estate was in 1572 divided 

 among representatives of the four daugh- 

 ters, and the manor of Freckleton became 

 part of the share of Thomas Standish of 

 Duxbury and James Anderton of Clayton ; 

 ibid. 231, m. 8. 



In 1599 the lands of Thomas Standish 

 in Freckleton were said to be held of the 

 queen as of her duchy by the hundredth 

 part of a knight's fee ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xvii, no. 54. As early as 1552 

 James Anderton (father of the Hugh who 

 married Grace Butler) was said to hold 

 of the heir of Michael de Freckleton 

 (cf. Michael de Thornton above) in socage 

 by \d. rent ; ibid, ix, no. 14. 



Some particulars of the Shireburne 

 estate may be added. This was of varied 

 origin. Adam son of Adam de Freckle- 

 ton gave land to Robert de Shireburne 

 in 1324-5 ; Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 86. 

 In 1441 Richard Shireburne was stated 

 to have held in demesne two messuages, 

 40 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow 

 and 100 acres of pasture in Freckleton, 

 of the king in socage ; Lanes. Rec. Inq. 

 p.m. no. 30, 31. Later, however, the 

 tenure was recorded otherwise ; thus 

 Robert Shireburne (1492) held his land 

 in Freckleton of John Butler in socage ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 92. 

 A similar statement was made in later 

 inquisitions. 



22 James Anderton and Dorothy his 

 wife made sales in 1573 (Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 35, m. 23, 98); Thomas 

 Standish and Margaret his wife in 1580 ; 

 ibid. bdle. 42, m. 134. 



In 1631 Richard Butler, who on de- 

 clining knighthood was fined 10, was 

 described as ' of Freckleton ' ; Misc. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lane*, and Ches.), i, 222. 



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