A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Longford share, 36 appear to have acquired part of the 



Catteralls', 37 and the manor was spoken of as theirs 



absolutely. About 1630 38 the 



manor was purchased from Sir 



Richard Hoghton out of the 



marriage portion of Charlotte 



wife of James Lord Strange, 



afterwards Earl of Derby. 39 



It was acquired by Hugh 



Cooper, lord of the manor of 



Carnforth, 40 and about 1680 



was held by John Warren of 



Poynton in Cheshire, 41 who 



married the daughter and 



heir ; and so descended to his 



great - grandson Sir George 



Warren, 41 and from him to 



Lord de Tabley, who about 1860 sold the right of 



toll at Inglewhite fair to Mr. R. Baillie of Fulwood. 



That was supposed to be the only remaining manorial 



right." 



The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem had a con- 

 siderable estate in THRELF4LL," possibly the half 

 plough-land noticed above as wanting, and, as the 

 Catteralls were their tenants, 45 the predominance of 



WARREN of Poynton. 

 Cheequy or and azure on 

 a canton gules a lion 

 rampant argent. 



this family was assured. They appear to have been 

 the only manorial family resident within Goosnargh 

 proper. Their estate was known as the manor of 

 BULSN4PE,* 6 and on the partition became the resi- 

 dence of Thomas Procter in right of his wife Eliza- 

 beth daughter of Thomas Catterall (i579). 47 After 

 several changes of ownership, 48 Bulsnape was in 1650 

 acquired by James Fishwick, 49 and it continued in his 

 family till I777, 50 when it was again sold. Bulsnape 

 Hall is situated about \\ miles to the east of Ingle- 

 white, and is a three-story building, now used as a 

 farm-house. It was originally E-shaped in plan, with 

 wide end gables and a narrow middle one over the 

 porch, which is the full height of the house. The 

 left-hand wing, however, has disappeared and the 

 building is very much modernized, nearly all the 

 windows being new and the walls covered with 

 stucco. An oak staircase with carved balustrade still 

 remains, and other evidences of the original building 

 are visible in the interior. Remains of a moat 

 could be seen up to about 1856, but have now dis- 

 appeared. SI 



WHITE LEA, another part of the Catteralls' estate 

 in Threlfall, 61 was sold, as a third part of the manor, 

 by Gervase Strickland and Katherine his wife to James 



36 See preceding notes as to Hoghton ; 

 in a later one (97*) will be found indica- 

 tions that the Bartons of Barton held that 

 third, perhaps as tenants of Hoghton. 



37 Richard Hoghton in 1591 pur- 

 chased two messuages, &c., in Goosnargh 

 and Bulsnape from the above-named 

 James (son of Thomas) Strickland and 

 Katherine his wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 53, m. 162. 



Thomas Hoghton had in 1570 pur- 

 chased the estate of William Catterall and 

 Joan his wife in Goosnargh, Whitting- 

 ham, Cumberhalgh and Dilworth ; ibid, 

 bdle. 32, m. 67, 105. In other deeds the 

 vendor is described as of New Hall (in 

 Rathmell) in Craven ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, 

 fol. 70 ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 780. 



In the following year Thomas 

 Hoghton purchased various lands from 

 Thomas Singleton of Chingle Hall and 

 Isabel his wife ; they were situated in 

 Goosnargh, Whittingham, Fishwick, 

 Lea and Claughton ; ibid. no. 774, 

 no. 199 (fol. 277). 



Sir Richard Hoghton and Sir Gilbert 

 were in possession of Goosnargh (among 

 other manors) in 1616 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 89, no. 41. 



38 The inquisitions show the transfer 

 to have been made between 1626 and 

 1638. 



89 Cal. Com. for Comp. ii, 1102. 

 William Earl of Derby, James Lord 

 Strange and Charlotte his wife were in 

 possession in 1642 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 141, no. 31. 



40 Watson, Earls of Warren, ii, 151. 



41 Fishwick, Goosnargh, 172. 'Mr. 

 Justice Warren ' was John Warren, one 

 of the Council of the Welsh Marches, 

 Judge of Chester, &c., who died in 1706. 

 For pedigree see Ormerod, Ches. (ed. 

 Helsby), iii, 686-7 ? ' 626. The 

 Warrens had land in Goosnargh as early 

 as 1667 ; PaL of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 179, m. 24. See also V.C.H. Lanes, vi, 

 255- 



42 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 585, m. 6. 

 Sir George Warren and Jane his wife 

 occur in 1761 ; ibid. 594, m. 6. Thomas 

 Jnme Viscount Bulkeley and Elizabeth 

 Harriet hii wife were in possession 



in 1804; Pal. of Lane. Lent Assizes, 

 42 Geo. Ill, R. 8. 



43 Fishwick, op. cit. 8. 



44 Some or all of it appears to have 

 been given by Robert son of Bernard ; 

 Kuerden MSS. v, fol. 82 (here the name 

 reads Ywulefell, probably for Thralefell). 

 Both Goosnargh and Threlfall are men- 

 tioned among the Hospitallers' lands in 

 1292 ; Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rcc. Com.), 



375- 



45 Richard de Catterall in 1244 and 

 Adam de Catterall in 1397 held lands of 

 the Hospitallers ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, 

 i, 1 60 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), 

 i, 66. Ralph Catterall in 1515 and his 

 son John in 1517 held of the same by a 

 rent of 8j. ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 iv, no. 62, 4. In 1579 the whole estate 

 was recorded to have been held of the 

 Hospitallers ; ibid, xiv, no. 4. 



46 Lawrence Catterall, clerk, who died 

 in 1520, had held the manor of Bulsnape 

 for life by the gift of his father Richard. 

 The heir was his grand-nephew Ralph 

 (son of John, son of Ralph, son of 

 Richard), who was then a minor in ward 

 to the king ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 v, no. 31. The manor of Bulsnape is 

 named in Ralph Catterall's inquisition ; 

 ibid, vi, no. 77. 



47 An agreement between the Town- 

 leys, Procters and others seems to have 

 been made in 1604 ; Exch, Dep. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii. 



48 The Procters were a recusant family 

 and the sequestration of two-thirds of 

 their land in 1607 (Cal. S.P. Dom. 1603- 

 10, p. 383) may have contributed to the 

 need for sale. Feoffments of the manor 

 of Bulsnape and lands in Goosnargh were 

 made by Thomas Procter and Elizabeth 

 his wife in 1581, by Thomas Procter in 

 1610, and again by him in conjunction 

 with John Nowell in 1614 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 43, no. 130 ; 74, no. 19 ; 

 85, no. 43. Shortly afterwards, viz. in 

 1624, John Nowell and Mary his wife 

 sold the manor to Thomas Edge ; ibid, 

 bdle. 103, no. 10. 



The purchaser died the same year 

 holding the manor of Bulsnape in Threl- 

 fall, with mill, &c., of Richard Shireburne 



194 



(as of the late Priory of St. John of 

 Jerusalem) by a rent of zs. $.d. ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxv, no. 2. The heir 

 was his son Richard, then ten years old, 

 and there were other children George, 

 Bridget and Ellen. 



49 The deforciants to the fine were 

 Richard Edge, Sarah his wife, Samuel 

 Shatterden and Bridget his wife ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 147, m. 158 ; 

 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Easter 1650, 

 m. 7. 



The Fishwick family had long been 

 connected with the neighbourhood. 

 Adam de Fishwick in 1383 obtained a 

 third of a messuage and land in Whitting- 

 ham from William de Formby and Alice 

 his wife ; Final Cone, iii, 17. 



In 1523 a jury of twelve freemen of 

 the view of frankpledge in Goosnargh 

 was summoned to inquire whether Adam 

 Fishwick was seised of messuages, &c., 

 in Goosnargh claimed by his nephew John 

 Fishwick as heir ; Pal. of Lane. Sessional 

 Papers, 15 Hen. VIII. 



Adam Fishwick of Newsham in 1 544 

 agreed to give his younger brother Thomas 

 (perhaps as trustee) certain lands in 

 Goosnargh; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 179, 

 m. 13 d. 



50 The descent is thus given : James 

 Fishwick, d. before 1653 -8. Charles, 

 d. before 1680 -. James, d. 1736 

 -s.John, d. 1752 -s. Robert, d. 1788. 

 See the pedigree in Lt.-Col. Fishwick's 

 work already quoted (154); its author, 

 of whose local histories considerable use 

 has been made in the present work, is 

 descended from the Rev. James Fishwick 

 (171193), younger son of the James 

 who died in 1736. 



51 Fishwick, op. cit. 152, where there 

 is an illustration. 



52 In 1570 an agreement was made 

 between Thomas Catterall of Little 

 Mitton and Thomas Strickland of Man- 

 sergh, who had married Katherine 

 daughter and heir-apparent of Thomas 

 Catterall, as to a messuage in Goosnargh 

 called White Lea (occupied by William 

 Parkinson) and others held by William 

 Beosley, &c. ; Catterall D. in possession 

 of W. Farrer. 



