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after whose death the whole 4.0*. would be due to 

 the king ; the land was to be quit of tallage thence- 

 forward. 10 The manor of Hackinsall became the 

 chief residence of the lords of Hambleton, so 

 that they took their surname from it, 11 and in 

 course of time their lordship in Hambleton was 

 ignored. 11 



The above-named Geoffrey in 12445 granted 

 all Hambleton to his nephew Robert de Shireburne, 

 the rent of 40^. being payable to the king. 13 Then 

 in 1255-6 Robert de Shireburne gave 2 oxgangs of 

 land in Hambleton to his son John, with remainder 

 to William, Robert's eldest son. 14 John, who was a 

 clerk, also had an oxgang from his brother William, 15 



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and eventually succeeded to the whole. 16 John's son 

 Robert acquired by marriage part of the manor of 

 Aighton near Ribchester, and his descendants were 

 long seated there as the Shireburnes of Stonyhurst. 17 

 Hambleton descended in the same way 1S until i$6j, 19 

 when the land was sold in parcels, 20 and no manor 

 seems to have been recognized afterwards. 



In 1548 an agreement was made by Sir Richard 

 Shireburne as lord of Hambleton with Nicholas 

 Butler as lord of Over Rawcliffe concerning the 

 bounds of their manors." 



At one time a family surnamed Hambleton had 

 part of the land " ; the Botelers of Rawcliffe * 3 and 

 Singletons of Little Singleton 24 and their successors 



for the profit of the souls of King John 

 his father and others, confirmed the grant 

 to William de Colmore for the period of 

 his life ; Cat. Pat. 1225-32, p. 112. 



10 Cal. Close, 1227-31, p. 159 ; Chart. 

 R. 22, m. 1 1 ; 23, m. 8. 



11 See the account of Preesall with 

 Hackinsall. 



In 1263 Geoffrey de Hackinsall de- 

 mised the vill of Hambleton with 4 

 oxgangs of land to John de Hoole for 

 eighteen years, as a marriage gift for his 

 son Geoffrey, who was to marry John's 

 daughter Mary ; Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 8 3 b. 



John de Hackinsall in 1261 held three 

 plough-lands of the king in Hambleton 

 by the yearly service of 40.1. ; the value 

 was ^5 i6s. ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 

 229. The vill of Hambleton paid 401. 

 yearly to the Earl of Lancaster in 1297 ; 

 ibid. 289. 



Richard de Hackinsall held Hambleton 

 by the 401. service in 1292 and 1324; 

 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 377 ; 

 Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 40^. 



Though Richard was the brother and 

 heir of John de Hackinsall, the latter had 

 a son Roger, to whom his father, when on 

 his death-bed, gave a messuage and two- 

 thirds of 2 oxgangs of land in Hamble- 

 ton. Richard in 1292 appears to have 

 disputed the gift, but the verdict was in 

 Roger's favour ; Assize R. 408, m. 34 d. 

 Roger de Hackinsall held two-thirds in 

 1306, Cecily wife of Thomas Travers 

 having the remainder (of Roger's inherit- 

 ance), but it was claimed by the three 

 nieces of John son of Simon de Hamble- 

 ton ; Assize R. 420, m. 8, lod. Roger 

 summoned Richard de Hackinsall to 

 warrant. Geoffrey de Hackinsall was 

 plaintiff in 1352 and John son of Thomas 

 de Hackinsall in 1354, with respect to 

 property in Hambleton ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. i, m. vij ; 3, m. i ; Dep. 

 Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 331. 



John de Hackinsall had some land in 

 the township in 1362 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 82. 



11 The manor of Hambleton was in 

 1321-2 granted to Robert de Shireburne, 

 with remainders to his sons William and 

 Robert, by Richard de Hackinsall ; Kuer- 

 den MSS. ii, fol. 260. The charters 

 referred to below show that this was a 

 final release. The Hackinsall lordship 

 does not seem to have been recognized 

 after 1324. 



18 Kuerden MSS. v, fol. 112. 



In the claim for dower by Eva widow 

 of Geoffrey Arbalaster in 1246 it was 

 agreed that she should have 6s. yearly 

 from the tenement of Robert de Shire- 

 burne in Hambleton ; Final Cone. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 96. 



14 Kuerden MSS. loc. cit. ; Robert'* 

 wife was named Maud. 



14 Ibid. In 1262 an agreement as to 

 the 3 oxgangs of land was made between 

 William son of Robert de Shireburne and 

 John ; the latter's right was acknowledged, 

 and he was to pay William id. at Easter 

 and do the service to the chief lords ; 

 Final Cone, i, 136. At this time the 

 father must have been dead ; nevertheless 

 a Robert de Shireburne was juror in 

 1265 ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 234. 



16 This seems the necessary inference 

 from the descent of the manor. John 

 de Shireburne was living in 1297 ; ibid. 

 289. 



John son of Robert de ' Chireburne ' 

 granted 2 oxgangs of land to William son 

 of Alexander de Hambleton ; Raines MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), xxxviii, 377. 



17 See the account of Aighton. 

 Robert son of John de Shireburne in 



1292 complained that John de Shireburne 

 (apparently his father), Adam Pakok of 

 Singleton, Roger de Hackinsall and others 

 had disseised him of 3 oxgangs of land, 

 &c. John had demised them to Adam for 

 ten years, and then had given them to 

 Robert, who entered at the end of the ten 

 years. Meantime John had extended 

 Adam's term to thirty-three years, to 

 Robert's loss. Adam, however, resigned 

 his right to Robert, reserving only the 

 crops of that year's harvest ; Assize R. 

 408, m. 6. 



The Prior of St. Mary's, Lancaster, 

 claimed a messuage and 2 oxgangs of land 

 against 'John son of Robert de Shire- 

 burne,' but failed, as it should have been 

 ' Robert son of John* ; ibid. m. 59 d. 



John de Shireburne was in 1294 sum- 

 moned to answer Adam Pacock respecting 

 a convention as to 3 oxgangs of land in 

 Hambleton ; De Banco R. 103, m. 24. 



18 In 1346 William de Shireburne held 

 three plough-lands in Hambleton in 

 socage, paying 40*. a year ; Survey of 

 1346 (Chet. Soc.), 52. 



Richard Shireburne died in 1445 hold- 

 ing the manor of Hambleton with its 

 appurtenances of the king in socage, its 

 value being ,10 clear ; Lanes. Rec. Inq. 

 p.m. no. 30, 31. His grandson Robert 

 was tenant in the following year, by the 

 old service of 401. ; Duchy of Lane. 

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



The manor is regularly named among 

 the family estates. Robert Shireburne 

 (1492) was said to hold by knight's ser- 

 vice, but the tenure in socage with 40.5. 

 rent was rightly given in 1528 after the 

 death of Hugh Shireburne ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 92 ; vi, no. 65. 

 It occurs in 1777 among the manors of 

 Thomas Weld ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 625, 

 m. 10 d (16). 



19 Joseph Weld of Lulworth, brother of 

 the Cardinal, was the lord of the manor 

 in 1836 ; Baines, Lanes, (ed. i), iv, 



189 



404 ; Hewitson, Our Country Churches, 

 55- 



20 Baines, op. cit. (ed. 1870), ii, 496. 



21 Shireburne Abstract Bk. 



JJ In 1 246 Simon de Hambleton was 

 a tenant ; Final Cone, i, 96. In the same 

 year one William de Hambleton acknow- 

 ledged that he was the native of John de 

 Hackinsall ; Assize R. 404, m. 4. 



Alice widow of William de Hambleton 

 in 1292 recovered dower against Robert 

 de Singleton alias Broughton ; ibid. 408, 

 m. i, 74. She also complained that 

 Robert had encroached on her right in 

 the common pasture, but the jury found 

 that he had approved with the assent of 

 Geoffrey son of John de Hackinsall, 

 chief lord of Hambleton, and others ; 

 ibid. m. 67 d. 



In a suit already mentioned Maud 

 wife of Thomas (son of Thomas) de 

 Hambleton, with her sisters Agnes and 

 Alice, nieces and heirs of John son of 

 Simon de Hambleton, claimed land in 

 1305-13; Assize R. 420, m. 8, lod. ; 

 424, m. 6. 



Maud widow of William son of Richard 

 de Hambleton claimed dower in the town- 

 ship in 1330 against Nicholas de Oxcliffe ; 

 De Banco R. 283, m. 247 d. 



33 Richard le Boteler about 1280 gave 

 to his son Geoffrey all the land ol 

 Hambleton which he had from John son 

 of Adam Beaufront ; Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 

 9 1 . William son of Sir Richard confirmed 

 the same to his brother Geoffrey ; ibid, 

 fol. 84. In 1294 Richard le Boteler gave 

 two-thirds of an oxgang of land to Richard 

 son of Robert the Cook of Hambleton ; 

 ibid. fol. 91. Richard son of William the 

 Cook gave land to Thomas son of Richard 

 de Stainall in 1315-16 ; ibid. The same 

 Richard also gave land to John Lawrence 

 and Elizabeth his wife ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Anct. D. (P.R.O.), L 1029. 



Richard le Boteler of Marlon in 1322 

 held a messuage and land in Hambleton 

 of Richard de Hackinsall in socage ; 

 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, ii, 146. There 

 are charters in Raines MSS. xxxviii, 



377-9- 



Nicholas le Boteler of Rawcliffe had 

 land in Hambleton in 1331 ; De Banco 

 R. 287, m. 307 d. In 1405 the family's 

 lands here were stated to be held of the 

 king as duke in socage ; Towneley MS. 

 DD, no. 1460. Nothing more definite 

 is stated in the later inquisitions, down to 

 William Butler in 1639. 



* 4 This may be inferred from land in 

 Hambleton being held by Sir Thomas 

 Banastre in 1379, and by the heirs, &c., 

 of Balderston later e.g. Dudley, the Earl 

 of Derby, and Radcliffe of Winmarleigh, 

 as appears by the inquisitions, &c. See 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 15. Land 

 in Hambleton, part of the Balderston 



