AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



in 1874,*'' and the patronage is vested in the Dean 

 and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford. The building 

 contains an old oak pulpit 

 removed from Kirkham. 86 



The Wesleyan Methodists 

 had a chapel in 1814 ; their 

 present one was built in 1885. 

 The Primitive Methodists 

 have one dating from 1861." 

 The Congregationalists 

 formerly held services there, 

 but do not seem to have 

 established themselves. 88 



The Society of Friends had 

 a meeting place from i668.' 9 

 They still have two ancient 

 burial-grounds, and a meeting 

 house, first built in 1720. No meetings are now 

 held, but the room was in 1903 let to the Plymouth 

 Brethren. 40 



Roman Catholics have the small school-chapel of 

 the Holy Family, served from Kirkham. 



WARTON 



Wartun, Dom. Bk. ; Warton, 1242. 



This township lies along the Ribble, and much of 

 the surface in the south-west is less than 25 ft. above 

 sea level. In the east and north-east is h'gher land 



BUTLER of Rawcliffe. 

 Azure a chcveron be- 

 tween three covered cupt 

 or. 



KIRKHAM 



and on it the village is situated. Warton Bank and 

 Warton Brow overlook the river, and formerly there 

 was a ford from this side to Hesketh, a guide being 

 stationed there to conduct travellers across. The 

 area is 2,540^ acres, 1 including 8 acres of salt marsh. 

 In 1901 there was a population of 446. 



The principal road is that going west from Preston 

 to Lytham, which divides into two branches after 

 passing through Warton village, these joining again 

 later. Cross roads go south to the Kibble and north 

 to Wrea Green. 



The soil is clay, and the land is almost entirely in 

 pasture. 



The township has a parish council. 



Before the Conquest PF4RTON, then 

 MANORS assessed as four plough-lands, was one 

 of the members of Earl Tostig's Preston 

 lordship.* After the creation of the barony of Pen- 

 wortham it is found incorporated therewith, 5 passing 

 from Bussel to Lacy and the Earls and Dukes of 

 Lancaster. By the Bussels it appears to have been 

 granted to a younger member of the family to be 

 held by the third part of a knight's fee, for about 1 190 

 it had come into the possession of Quenilda daughter 

 of Hugh son of Acard Bussel, who was married to 

 Roger le Boteler, 4 and had a number of children 

 Richard, Stephen, Thomas, Adam, Roger and 

 Siegrith. 5 The family were benefactors of the 

 religious houses at Lytham and Cockersand, 



85 Land. Gaz. 30 Jan. 1874. 



86 Fishwick, Kirkham (Chet. Soc.), 67. 



37 Baines, loc. cit. 



38 Lewis's Tof>og. Diet. 1831-44, as- 

 signs them a chapel. 



39 Information of Mr. R. Muschamp. 

 In 1689 Lawrence Coulbornc's house 



at Freckleton was a certified Quaker 

 meeting-place ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. 

 xiv, App. iv, 230. 



* Quaker Char. Rep. 1905, p. 29. The 

 1720 room was pulled down in 1870. 

 The meetings ceased before 1800 ; Baines, 

 loc. cit. 



1 The Census Rep. 1901 gives 1,633 

 acres, including 3 of inland water ; there 

 are also 87 acres of tidal water and 697 

 acres of foreshore. 



1 V.C.H. Lana. i, 28 8a. The later 

 assessment was three plough-lands only ; 

 possibly one plough-land may have been 

 added to Ribby. Sometimes Warton 

 was stated (as will be seen) to have three 

 plough-lands and a third ; but this may 

 be an error, due to the ' third part of a 

 knight's fee ' being taken to refer to a 

 fee of ten plough-lands instead of nine. 



8 Ibid. 335, n. i. The lords of Pen- 

 wortham retained part in their own hands 

 for some time, for about 1 1 54 Richard 

 Bussel confirmed grants to Evesham 

 Abbey of two-thirds of the demesne tithes 

 of Freckleton and Warton ; Farrer, Lanes. 

 Pipe R. 323. This explains the 2 

 received from the tithes of Kirkham by 

 the Prior of Penwortham in 1291. 



4 Lytham Charters at Durham, i a, 

 2 ae, 4 ae, Ebor. no. 46 ; a confirmation 

 of the grant of an oxgang of land which 

 Quenilda's husband Roger had given to 

 the priory. Roger's grant (no. 47), made 

 ' with the consent of my wife Quenilda 

 and my heirs,' was attested by ' Stephen 

 my son, Martin my brother,' and others. 

 The easements included rights in tur- 

 baries, moors, marshes, waters, sands and 

 fisheries. Quenilda lady of Warton, with 

 the consent of her heirs, gave to Lytham 



the homage ot Henry son of Efward ; 

 ibid. no. 1 1. 



A son of Acard (perhaps Hugh) attested 

 an agreement on behalf of Warine Bussel 

 of Penwortham c. 1145 ; Farrer, op. cit. 

 321. Roger le Boteler attested charters 

 of the time of Henry II, one at least as 

 early as 1164 ; ibid. 37$, 409. He paid 

 half a mark in 1177 for some default ; 

 ibid. 38. In 1184-7 nc appea" to have 

 claimed Claughton ; ibid. 56. His wife 

 is sometimes called absolutely ' the lady ' 

 or ' Lady of Warton,' at other times 

 Me Boteler' or ' de Warton.' She 

 rendered account in 12001 for part of 

 the scutage due from the fee of Pen- 

 wortham ; ibid. 132. She occurs again 

 in the Pipe Rolls of 1202-4 (ibid. 170, 

 178), but seems to have died before 

 Oct. 1207, when Richard her son was 

 defendant to the claim by Hugh de 

 Morton and his wife ; Curia Regis R. 45, 

 m. 3. As Quenilda daughter of Hugh 

 she, with the consent of Richard her son 

 and heir, granted 5 acres in Warton, 

 with the land between Baunebreck and 

 the ditch, and between the road called 

 Highgate and Goschecarr, to the canons 

 of Cockersand ; Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), 

 i, 196. She and her husband had for- 

 merly given the canons 3 acres ; ibid, 

 i, 195. 



A William le Boteler, their contem- 

 porary, was, with Aline his wife, a bene- 

 factor of Lytham ; Charters, ut sup. no. 5. 

 The seal shows a man standing, holding 

 a cup in his right hand. A similar seal 

 was used by some of the Botelers of 

 Warton. 



4 Richard, Stephen, Thomas and Adam, 

 as sons of Quenilda, witnessed her Lytham 

 grant above quoted (no. 46) ; Roger and 

 Siegrith are known from other deeds. 

 Thomas does not occur again. 



Stephen le Boteler (or de Warton) gave 

 to Lytham Priory half an acre in Redcarr- 

 furlong upon Stubbegate, and a perch in 

 the marsh between Blakefield and Stubbe- 



171 



gate ; Lytham Charters, I a, i ae, 4 ae, 

 Ebor. no. 4. About 1240 he gave land 

 in Wallfurlong and elsewhere ; ibid. 

 no. 42. As Stephen son of Roger he 

 gave to the same, with the consent of 

 Ivetta his wife, the house in Warton in 

 which he lived, with land by the shore 

 between Oubeck (or Howbeck) and Crow- 

 pool ; ibid. no. 33. It appears that this 

 was ' at the Bank ' from a further charter 

 by Stephen made about 1247 ; no. 36. 



Quenilda daughter of Stephen le 

 Boteler released her right to certain lands 

 held by Lytham Priory ; ibid. 2 a, 2 ae, 

 4ae, Ebor. no. 5. Adam son of the 

 priest of Lytham granted to the priory 

 certain lands purchased from Stephen le 

 Boteler ; ibid. I a, 2 ae, 4 ae, Ebor. no. 8. 

 This benefactor may be the Adam son of 

 Roger the chaplain of Lytham of another 

 deed ; Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 143. 



Adam is named in grants to Cockersand 

 by his brother Richard ; he had held 

 3 oxgangs of land by the gift of Quenilda ; 

 Cockersand Chartul. i, 192. Alice daughter 

 of Adam son of Roger de Warton, who 

 gave land to Henry son of William the 

 Carpenter of Kirkham, may have been 

 his daughter ; Lytham Charters, no. 6. 

 In 1246 Alice, as daughter and heir of 

 Adam de Warton, recovered 4 acres in 

 Warton ; Assize R. 404, m. 4 d. Mabel 

 widow of Adam le Boteler in 1251 claimed 

 dower against Maud daughter of Richard 

 de Newton (half an oxgang), John son of 

 Alice (i acre), and Robert de Conyers and 

 Alice his wife (i J oxgangs) ; Curia Regis 

 R. 145, m. 41 d., 43 d. John son of 

 Alice de Warton was a benefactor of 

 Lytham, giving land (with house) on the 

 Bank, between the toft which had be- 

 longed to Stephen le Boteler and the 

 three thorns ; Lytham Charters, no. 44. 

 Avice as widow of John son of Alice de 

 Warton released her claim in or about 

 1285 ; ibid. no. 12. Richard son of this 

 John had a grant from Roger Collan and 

 Alice his wife ; ibid. no. 14. 



