considered to be manors. 5 The township is scarcely 

 ever named in the records, but in 1228-9 a man date 

 was issued to the sheriff respecting Lewe de Treales, 

 who had found ancient coins while ploughing. 6 



Thomas Firth (Styth) of Wharles in 1631 was 

 fined 10, having refused knighthood. 7 Sir Edward 

 Osbaldeston in 1637 had a small rent from Treales. 8 

 Some ' Papists ' of Treales and Roseacre registered 

 estates in 1717.' 



Christ Church, Treales, for the worship of the 

 Church of England, was built in 1855. The vicar 

 of Kirkham is patron. 10 



The Presbyterians had a licensed meeting-place in 

 Roseacre in 1689," but it does not seem to have been 

 permanent. 



GREENHALGH-WITH-THISTLETON 



Greneholf, Dom. Bk. ; Grenhole, 1212; Grenele, 

 1242; Grenehol, 1 244 ; Grenole, 1 249 ; Grenolf, 



I33I- 



Thistilton, 1212 ; Thistelton, 1242. 



Estebrec, 1249. 



Greenhalgh or Greenalgh, in which are Esprick 

 and Cornoe, occupies the southern part of this com- 

 posite township, Thistleton being the northern part. 

 The two portions measure 1,187 an d 710 acres 

 respectively, or 1,897 in all l ; the population in 1901 

 was 408. The surface is flat, sloping gradually from 

 south to north and from west to east, the extremes 



KIRKHAM 



being 100 ft. above sea level at the south-west border 

 and 25 ft. in the north-east corner. There is 

 moss land in the south. 



A road goes north-north-west through the whole 

 length of the township, passing through Corner Row 

 and Esprick. From it another road goes west to the 

 hamlet of Greenhalgh. turning south to reach Weeton ; 

 while yet another in the north turns off to the east 

 and north to reach Thistleton, from which it turns 

 towards Elswick. 



The soil is clay ; potatoes are grown, but most of 

 the land is permanent grass. 



For this township there is a parish council. 



In 1 066 three plough-lands in GREEN- 

 MANORS HALGH formed part of Earl Tostig's 

 Preston lordship. 1 Afterwards there 

 seems to have been a division ; so that one of the 

 plough-lands, Medlar, was granted out in thegnage, 

 while the others, Greenhalgh proper and Thistleton, 

 were given to the ancestors of the Boteler family, 

 and held as members of the Weeton lordship, the 

 superior manor descending in the same way.* 



By Hervey, the grandfather of Theobald Walter, 

 Thistleton and Greenhalgh were given with his 

 daughter Alice to Orm son of Magnus, and thus 

 descended to Roger de Hutton, lord of the adjacent 

 Medlar. 4 Roger and his son granted the whole or 

 greater part out in various ways. 5 Chiefly by purchase 

 the Butlers of Rawcliffe appear to have acquired the 

 greater part, 6 and were regarded as lords of the 



was 1091. 8(/., including \%d. the value 

 of their works ; for Roseacre the amounts 

 were 6 I 51. 5</. and 41. jd. respectively. 

 5 The 'township' of Wharles and 

 Roseacre is named in 1526; Add. MS. 

 32106, no. 998. 6 Close R. 39, m. 20. 



I Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 



i, 221. 



8 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvii, 

 no. i$. 



9 Henry Johnson and John Ward of 

 Treales ; William Crooke and John 

 Miller of Roseacre ; all leaseholds ; Est- 

 court and Payne, Engl, Cath, Nonjurors, 

 91. 91. For the convicted resusantt c. i 670 

 see Misc. (Cath. Rec. Soc.), v, 196-7. 



A separate ecclesiastical parish was 

 constituted in 1858 ; information of the 

 vicar. See A. Hewitson, Our Country 

 Churches, 365, where is also an account 

 of the Primitive Methodist Meetings, 

 369-72. 



II Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 

 232. 



1 1,898 acres, including 8 of inland 

 water ; Census Rep. 1901. 



2 IS.C.H. Lana. i, 288*. 



3 The members of Theobald Walter's 

 fee of Weeton were not named separately 

 in 1 212, but Thistleton and Greenhalgh 

 occur in 1242 ; Lanes. Inq, and Extents 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 37, 153. 

 The assessment of Greenhalgh as one 

 plough-land was recorded in 12495 ' D 'd- 

 i, 172. Thistleton is named among the 

 Countess of Ormonde's lands in 1355 and 

 among those of Sir John Stanley in 1431 ; 

 Feud. Aids, iii, 90, 95. 



One oxgang of land was in 1286 in 

 the lord's hands, and rendered 181. 

 yearly ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 265. 

 This, no doubt, was the oxgang not held 

 by knight's service ; ibid. 173. 



The Derby rental of 1522 (at Lathom) 

 records the payment of 181. gd. the gd. 

 in lieu of services for a tenement and 

 oxgang of land containing 24 acres, in 



the occupation of Gilbert Wilkinson ; 

 31. \d. for a cottage newly built, and 

 2 acres, lately of Henry Fleetwood 

 deceased, and then of Robert Wilkinson ; 

 and \^d. for certain lands in Greenhalgh 

 Field held by Rowland Cornay. These 

 rents were from Greenhalgh in the 

 Fylde ; from Greenhalgh in the Holme 

 came 101. for a tenement lately Henry 

 Fleetwood'*. Another Greenhalgh gave 

 a name to Greenhalgh Castle near Gar- 

 stang. 



4 Lanes, Inq. and Extents, i, 37. 



8 Part was included in the gift of 

 Medlar to his daughter by Roger, and 

 thus came into the possession of the 

 Hospitallers and of Cockersand Abbey 

 viz. the mill of Greenhalgh and the ser- 

 vice of Adam de Cornoe ; Lanes, Inq. 

 and Extents, i, 47 ; Cockersand Chartul, 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 168-71. 



Ellis son of Roger de Hutton made 

 grants in Greenhalgh and Thistleton to 

 Cockersand, as will be seen below. To 

 Adam de Cornoe he gave part of his 

 demesne in Greenhalgh, and this was 

 confirmed by his son Robert ; Dods. 

 MSS. liii, fol. 91. The same Ellis 

 granted an oxgang of land to Jordan son 

 of Richard the Clerk of Kirkham, and 

 another to Walter son of Ailsi de Ros 

 (the land of Adam de Cornoe, the mill, 

 Whitaker, and the croft of Raun being 

 excepted) ; ibid. fol. 85^, 87. 



In 1242 the immediate tenants were : 

 In Thistleton John de Thornhull ; in 

 Greenhalgh Roger de Nutshagh, Adam 

 de Bradkirk, William de Kirkham, Robert 

 son of Thomas, and Richard son of 

 William 5 Lanes, Inq. and Extents, i, 

 152-3. 



6 Geoffrey de Pleasington, with the 

 consent of Alice his wife (probably the 

 heir), released to Richard le Boteler all 

 right in Greenhalgh, Whitacre and 

 Cornoe ; Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 98. 

 Richard le Boteler gave his son Edmund 



179 



all his land in Greenhalgh, Whitacre, 

 Esprick, and Cornoe Row ; ibid. fol. 97^. 

 The same Edmund ie Boteler acquired 

 for 27 marks an oxgang and a half of 

 land from William son of Robert de 

 Greenhalgh, who in 1274 at Little 

 Hoole released all his land in Greenhalgh 

 to Edmund ; ibid. fol. 92, 86 (no. 44). 

 Edmund also acquired first an acre of 

 land and then the whole inheritance in 

 Wh'tacre of William son of Adam de 

 Whitacre ; ibid. fol. 85, no. 25, 35. 

 From Geoffrey de Pleasington he ob- 

 tained a release of all the land held by 

 Geoffrey of the Hospitallers ; ibid. fol. 97. 



Nicholas le Boteler in 1291 released 

 to an uncle Henry the la,nd in Green- 

 halgh formerly held by the uncle Edmund 

 just named ; and a little later gave his 

 sister Alice all his land in Greenhalgh, 

 with the services of Adam de Bradkirk, 

 William de Esprick, and others ; ibid, 

 fol. 98, 97. William de Elswick, son of 

 Alexander the Clerk, grantsd to Henry 

 le Boteler, son of Sir Richard, the 

 homage and service of his brothers Alan 

 and Thomas, apparently in Thistleton ; 

 ibid. fol. 85. 



Alice sister of Nicholas le Boteler 

 was no doubt the wife of Adam de 

 Walton, to whom in 1302 Henry le 

 Boteler gave all his land in Greenhalgh ; 

 ibid. fol. 876. 



Mabel widow of Nicholas le Boteler 

 in 1300 claimed dower in six messuages, 

 6 oxgangs of land, &c., in Greenhalgh, 

 against Adam de Walton and Alice. The 

 free tenants named were Adam de Brad- 

 kirk, William, Adam and John de 

 Esprick ; De Banco R. 135, m. 227. 



Ranulf de Singleton and Mabel his 

 wife in 1304 claimed her dower in certain 

 land in Greenhalgh held by Adam de 

 Walton and Alice hi wife, and William 

 son and heir of Nicholas le Boteler, a 

 minor, was called to warrant ; DC Banco 

 R. 153, m. 1 157, 164. 



