AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



KIRKHAM 



or the Butlers"; olhers, such as Haw, 18 Hudson," 

 and Thompson," resided in Thistleton itself. Several 

 * Papists ' registered estates in 1717." 



CORXOE,** or Corner Row, gave a surname to 

 its tenants." It, like Esprick* 4 and Whitacre or 

 Whitter, 1 * was usually regarded as part of Greenhalgh. 



The Hospitallers* and Cockersand Abbey had 

 lands." 



Peter and John Winstanley in 1653 petitioned for 

 a rent-charge due to them from their father's estate 

 in Cornoe, sequestered for the recusancy of their 

 brother Francis. 18 



A Congregational chapel was in 1851 built at 

 Corner Row, and provided with a small endowment.* 9 



There is a school at Esprick said to have been 

 founded by John Cooper about 1 760.** 



LITTLE ECCLESTON-WITH- 

 LARBRECK 



Eglestun, Dom. Bk.; Eccliston, 1212. 



Lairbrec, 1212; Leyrebrec, 1242; Leirbreck, 

 1329. 



The component parts of the township are divided 

 by Thistleton Brook flowing north-east to join the 

 Wyre, which river is here the northern boundary of 



township and parish. Little Eccleston, with an 

 acreage of 445^, lies to the east of the brook, thus 

 adjoining Great Eccleston in St. Michael's ; while 

 Larbreck, or Larbrick, containing 835 acres, lies to 

 the west. The total area is 1,280^ acres. 1 There 

 was a population of 188 in 1901. The surface is 

 comparatively level, rising a little on each side of the 

 brook to over 80 ft. above sea level on the east and 

 over 60 ft. on the west, thence falling again to the 

 north and further west. 



The principal road is one going west and south- 

 west from Great Eccleston through Larbreck hamlet 

 to Little Singleton ; from it other roads lead south to 

 Little Eccleston hamlet, joining there and going on 

 to Elswick, while another, in the north-east corner of 

 the township, goes north, crossing the Wyre by 

 Cartford Bridge. 



Dr. Leigh about 1 700 wrote : * The most remark- 

 able cold spring in these parts is that at Lar-breck. 

 . . . Upon immersing your hand into it the part 

 immediately grows extremely red and you will then 

 perceive a most violent pain. Fishes of several sorts 

 I have seen put into this spring, which make but one 

 effort and instantly expire. It is an Aciduta or Chaly- 

 beate Water.' f 



The soil is clayey ; wheat, oats, beans and potatoes 

 are grown, and there is much pasture land. 



claimant was hi* nephew Walter dc Goos- 

 nargh. He had held a messuage, 4 ox- 

 gangs of land and 33 acres. In 1292 

 Thomas T ravers and Cecily his wife held 

 the messuage and 2 oxgangs ; William 

 son of Robert held \\ oigangs and Alice 

 de Newton held ozgang, in dower of 

 William's inheritance ; three others held 

 13 acres of land, the remaining 20 be- 

 longing to the Abbot of Cockersand. 

 Travers called Roger son of Alexander de 

 Pilkington to warrant him, while William 

 called Nicholas son and heir of William 

 son of Nicholas le Boteler, minor ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 37, 8. The suit 

 against William son of Robert de Thistle- 

 ton and Alice (now called Dulcia) was 

 continued in 1301, when William son of 

 Nicholas le Boteler, a minor, was called 

 to warrant; Assize R. 1321, m. lod. 

 Some of this mar hare been acquired by 

 the Newton family, who had half an oxgang 

 of land in 1332 ; Final Cone, ii, 88. John 

 Ifcwtuu of Preston in 1596 sold a mes- 

 suage, &c^ in Thistleton to James Ander- 

 ton of Euxton, and he transferred it to 

 Edmund Raw; Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 

 139, 139* ; PaL of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 59, m. 66. 



17 Henry Holme of Uprawclifre had 

 land in Thistleton about 1468 ; Final 

 GMT. iii, 133. George Kirk by of Upraw- 

 cliffe was in 1561 found to hare held his 

 lands in Thistleton of the Earl of Derby 

 by ^d. rent ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xi, no. 8. Richard Parker of Salesbury in 

 1638 held his land of James Lord Strange ; 

 Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (CheC Lib.), 

 p, 967. 



James Anderton of Euxton in 1552 

 held of the Earl of Derby by \\J, rent, as 

 did his son Hugh in 1566 ; Duchy of 

 Lane Inq. p.m. ix, no. 14 ; jri, no. 31. 



The tenure in some cases Hesketh, 

 Westby, Alien, Duddell, and Shireburne 

 is not recorded; Gilbert Latus in 1568 

 held of the lord of Thistleton in socage ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, no. ii ; 

 and see Dneatms Lame, iii, 469. Sir 

 Thomas Hesketh and Alice his wife sold 



lands in Thistleton to John Bold in 

 1558 ; PaL of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 20, 

 m. 109. 



To Alexander Banyon were granted a 

 messuage, windmill, &c^ in 1608 ; Pat. 

 6 Jas. I, pt. xxii. 



15 Richard Haw died in 1592 holding 

 a messuage, &c~, of the queen as of her 

 duchy by the two-hundredth part of a 

 knight's fee, and leaving a son William, 

 ajed fifteen, as heir ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xvi, no. 21. William died in 1603, 

 his heir being his brother John, aged 

 se ren teen ; and John died in 1607, the 

 heir being a sister Janet, wife of Chris- 

 topher Parkinson, twenty-eight years of 

 age ; Lanes. Inq. pjm, (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 15, 100. 



19 Christopher Hudson died in 1605 

 holding a messuage, &c., of Henry Butler 

 as of his manor of Greenhalgh by i$J. 

 rent. His heir was his son William* aged 

 twenty-eight ; ibid. 106. On William's 

 death in 1626 he was succeeded by 

 his son Christopher, aged twenty-six ; 

 Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 

 p. 506. 



Henry Thompson made a purchase 

 from Hugh Hesketh and Alice his wife 

 in 1586 ; PaL of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 48, m. 224. Henry Thompson the 

 elder died in 1620, holding land of the 

 Earl of Derby by 3</. rent. His son and 

 heir John was thirty-two years old ; 

 Lanes. Ina. p.m. (Rec. Soc.), ii, 272. 

 John Thompson died five years later, 

 leaving a son William, two years old ; 

 Towneley MS. C 8, 13, p. 1180. 



n Estcourt and Payne, Engl. CatJk. 

 Nonjurors, 135 ; Gabriel Wilkinson, 

 James and Robert Carter. 



** In 1 1 89 Roger son of Augustine de 

 Heaton held the land of Cornoe by grant 

 of William de Lancaster ; Fairer, op. cit. 

 437. In 1346 it was found that William 

 de Coucy held 2 oxgangs of land in 

 Greenhalgh, William Banastre being the 

 occupant ; Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 nos.), no. 63. 



a Robert and Rowland Cornoe were 



181 



charterers in 1593 ; Ducatia Lane, iii, 

 282, 298. 322. Robert Cornoe in 1604 

 held land in Cornoe and Greenhalgh ot 

 Henry Butler as of his manor of Green- 

 halgh by lid. rent. Rowland, his son 

 and heir, was fifty years old ; Lares. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc.), i, 107. Rowland died 

 in 1609, leaving a son Henry, aged 

 twenty-nine; ibid. 124. The spelling 

 seems to have become Cornall at times. 



* William Clifton of Kidsnape in 

 I > 17 held lands in Esprick of the Earl of 

 Derby by \\d. rent ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. v, no. 21. Cuthbert Clifton of 

 Clifton in 1512 held of John Butler oi 

 Rawcliffe ; ibid, iv, no. 12. 



John White of Eccleston in 1557 held 

 a messuage in Esprick of William Kirkby 

 in socase by a rent of 3</. ; ibid, xi, no. 

 55. William Travers of Nateby in 1558 

 also held of William Kirkby by a red rose ; 

 ibid, xi, no. 68. 



Esprick was described as a manor in 

 1586 ; Duejtjs Laif. iii, 169. 



** Ellis son of Roger de Hutton gave 

 his demesne land in Wh tacre to Cocker- 

 sand Abbey, with easements in the vill of 

 Greenhalgh. The bounds were : on the 

 west, the syke going down north from the 

 moss between Watfoth and Whitacre, 

 across to a great stone, eastward to the 

 highway and southward to the moss ; 

 Cockersand Chart*!, i, 1 60. 



* Plae. de Qua ff'arr. (Rec. Com.% 375. 



97 The rentals, with tenants' names, 

 1451 to I $37, are printed in Cockersand 

 Chart*!, iii, 1262-;, 1266-9. 



* Col. Com. for Camp, iv, 2973. The 

 father, also Francis, had made his will in 

 1638. 



" Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf. i, 103. 

 The ministers of Kirkham and Elswick 

 maintain the services. 



End. Char. Rep. for Kirkham, 21. 



1 The Census Rep. 1901 gives 1,158 

 acres, including 8 of inland water ; there 

 are also 29 acres of tidal water aed 3 1 of 

 foreshore. 



C. Leigh, Nat. Hist. tfLana. bk. i, 



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