A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



taking part in the Civil War on the king's side their 

 estate was sequestered," and on their afterwards 

 joining in the rebellion of 1715 it was forfeited, 78 

 and has since had many owners. 77 Some other 

 estates in Threlfall have points of interest in their 

 history. 78 Higher Lickhurst was acquired by the 

 trustees of the Goosnargh Hospital in 1819.'* 



The Ven. William Marsden is said to have been 

 born at a farm called the Mountain, on the east side 

 of Beacon Fell, about 1563. He was ordained priest 

 at Rheims in 1586 and sent on the English mission, 

 but the ship he sailed in was driven ashore on the 

 Isle of Wight. Marsden was captured, and, rejecting 

 the equivocation suggested by a lenient judge, was 

 condemned and suffered death as a traitor 25 April 

 I586. 80 



In the Church tithing the KIRKHOUSE was about 



1600 held by a branch of the Helme family, 81 of 

 whom other branches appear in Goosnargh and Chip- 

 ping. 8 * It was purchased by Sir Nicholas Shireburne 

 of Stonyhurst in i694- 8S 



M1DDLETON at one time gave surname to a 

 local family. 84 Afterwards it occurs in connexion with 

 the Coore, 84 Greenhills 86 and Singleton families, 87 

 the story being made clear by pleadings of 1447 

 and later, in which Alan Singleton claimed three 

 messuages, 6 acres of land and I zd. rent in Goosnargh 

 against John Catterall, late of Flasby in Craven. It 

 appeared that Richard son of Grimbald de Coore in 

 the time of Edward II gave the property to Geoffrey 

 son of Grimbald de Coore (by fine in 1323), and it 

 descended to Adam son and heir of Geoffrey to Adam's 

 daughter Christiana (wife of William de Greenhills in 

 I 393)> w ^ had two children William, who died 



Kidsnape and legatee of Sir Thomas 

 Hesketh of Helsington, whose estate 

 went to Cuthbert's eldest son, a 

 younger son Gabriel having White 

 Hill. A pedigree of the family under 

 the title of ' Hesketh of Preston ' was 

 recorded in 1664 ; Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. 



Soc.), 137- 



Notices of two priests of the family 

 Roger Hesketh, D.D., and Bartholomew 

 Hesketh, O.S.B. will be found inGillow, 

 op. cit. Hi, 287-9. 



7 * For recusancy and delinquency ; Cal. 

 Com. for Comp. iv, 2960; Royalist Camp. 

 Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 

 18694. 



76 Gabriel's son Cuthbert, who died in 

 i 702, settled White Hill on his nephew 

 Gabriel. This Gabriel and his son Cuth- 

 bert were both attainted of high treason 

 in 1716. Under the settlement the heir 

 was John Sallom, son of Anne, the sister 

 of Gabriel, and under a Private Act of 

 17356 (9 Geo. II, cap. 36) he obtained 

 possession ; Fishwick, loc. cit. Gabriel 

 Hesketh and his sons Thomas and Roger 

 were parties to an agreement as to a re- 

 covery of White Hill in 1725-6 ; Piccope 

 MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, 230, from R. 12 

 of Geo. I at Preston. The forfeiture may 

 have been partial only. 



n John Sallom sold in 1737 to William 

 Lucas, who died in 1771. His trustees 

 sold to Thomas Cardwell, whose son sold 

 it to Edward Harrison, and after the death 

 of his son in 1826 it was sold to Robert 

 Snell. In 1871 it was owned by George 

 Hargreaves of Leyland. See Fishwick, 

 loc. cit., quoting the title deeds. 



78 By a deed passed in the early part of 

 the 1 3th century Richard Fitton granted 

 to Adam de Hoghton (Hoyton) and his 

 heirs all his right in the land of Loud- 

 scales (Ludecholis), which the grantor's 

 father had of the gift of Avice daughter 

 of Bernard ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. nb. 

 Loudscales was owned by Christopher 

 White in 1657, and by Thomas Knowles 

 in 1 674 ; Preston Guard. Loc. Sketches, 

 no. 629. It now belongs to the Knowles 

 charity. The forest bounds c. 1230 

 ' ascended the Loud between Chippingdale 

 and Threlfall ' ; Farrer, Lanes. Pife R. 425. 



In 1246 Michael son of Michael de 

 Thornton claimed 2 oxgangs of land in 

 Threlfall against Richard son of Michael, 

 but he was non-suited ; Assize R. 404, 

 m. 6. 



Of Crombleholme Fold an account may 

 be read in Fishwick, op. cit. 175. A sun- 

 dial bears the inscription 

 1697. 



Walter Curwen of Caton held lands 

 in Goosnargh by Fairhurst of Sir Richard 

 Hoghton in 1457, an< * Gilbert Curwen 

 held of Sir Alexander and his partners, 

 lords of Goosnargh, in 1484 ; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 64, 114. Thomas 

 Curwen and Nicholas his son and heir in 

 1587 sold a messuage to Robert Walker ; 

 PaL of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 49, m. 113. 

 George Curwen died in 1629 holding a 

 messuage in Threlfall, tenure unrecorded, 

 and leaving as heir his nephew, the son of 

 his sister Janet by William Trout ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxviii, no. 24. 



Richard Singleton of Brockholes in 

 1499 held land in Threlfall by unknown 

 tenure, but in 1556 William Singleton 

 held his land (probably the same) of the 

 Prior of St. John; ibid, iii, no. 52; x, 

 no. i. 



79 End. Char. Rep. 44. 



Lickhurst, which had formed a part 

 of the Hospitallers' estate, was held by 

 the Catt eralls. In 1480 Ellen widow of 

 Robert Beesley was ordered to render to 

 Richard Catterall the manor of Lick- 

 hurst ; Pal. of Lane. Writs of Assize, 

 20 Edw. IV. It passed to Townley of 

 Barnside, as already shown. 



80 Gillow, Bill. Diet, of Engl. Cath. ir, 

 464; Liverpool Cath. Annual, 1888; 

 Pollen, Acts of Martyrs, 66-82. Marsden 

 acknowledged Elizabeth to be lawful 

 queen, ' and took himself bound to obey 

 her majesty, so far as his obedience im- 

 peached not his duties to God and to the 

 Church,' but refused to promise ' not to 

 deal with any of her Majesty's subjects in 

 matters of religion.' The introduction of 

 the cause of his beatification was allowed 

 at Rome in 1886 ; ibid. 379. 



81 George Helme was a freeholder in 

 1 600 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 233. For the estate see Fishwick, op. 

 cit. 184-5. 



In the Commonwealth time one Robert 

 Helme had two-thirds of his estate 

 sequestered for recusancy, but in 1650-1 

 Edward Rigby claimed it as part of his 

 grandfather's estate, the said Helme having 

 become tenant in 1641 ; Royalist Comp. 

 Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 

 179. 



8J Notices of several members of the 

 family will be found in Gillow, Bill. Diet. 

 of Engl. Cath. iii, 261. 



83 A number of deeds relating to Kirk- 

 house are catalogued in the Shireburne 

 abstract book at Leagram. It appears 

 that in 1662 and later Thomas Helme of 

 Kirkhouse and William his son mortgaged 

 the estate ; William had succeeded by 



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1669, and his son, also named William, 

 sold to Sir N. Shireburne, who arranged 

 with the mortgagees. 



84 In 1292 Richard son of Patrick de 

 Middleton was non-suited in his claim 

 for a tenement in Goosnargh held by 

 Hugh son of Patrick ; Assize R. 408, 

 m. 32 d. 



Middleton, Greenhills and Coore all 

 appear in the subsidy roll of 1 3 3 2 ; Exc h. 

 Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 59. 



85 Geoffrey son of Gilbert de Coore 

 (Couer) secured four messuages, an ox- 

 gang of land, &c., in Goosnargh and Mid- 

 dleton in 1323 from Richard son of 

 Grimbald de Coore. The remainders 

 were to Geoffrey's children Adam, John, 

 Christiana and Hilda and then to his 

 brother Richard ; Final Cone, ii, 53. 



Sir Adam de Hoghton was plaintiff in 

 1367 against John son of Geoffrey de 

 Coore (Covere) in respect of certain pas- 

 ture ; Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 5, m. 8. 

 A messuage, half an oxgang of land, &c., 

 were in 1359 recovered by Jane wife of 

 William de Caton she being daughter 

 of Richard son of William de Coore 

 against Robert de Middleton ; ibid. 7, 

 m. i d. 



88 This family probably took its sur- 

 name from a place in Medlar. William 

 de Greenhills in 1315 obtained a mes- 

 suage and land in Goosnargh from Richard 

 son of Adam de Greenhills and Alice his 

 wife. It was Alice's right and was to 

 descend to John son of William ; Final 

 Cone, ii, 22. 



In 1393 Alan de Catterall acquired 

 from William de Greenhills and Christi- 

 ana his wife three messuages, &c. ; ibid, 

 iii, 42. 



William and Christiana were concerned 

 in suits as to land in 1368 and 1371 ; 

 De Banco R. 432, m. 449 d. ; 444, 

 m. 425. 



A William de Greenhill was outlawed 

 in 1381 5 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 



354- 



87 The pleadings recited in the text 

 probably indicate that Alan Singleton had 

 part but not all the Greenhills-Coore 

 inheritance. Alan's estate in the main 

 descended by Anne his daughter and 

 heiress to her husband Sir William Ley- 

 land of Morleys (Visit, of 1533, p. 88), 

 who died in 1547 holding lands, &c., in 

 Goosnargh of the king by the third part 

 of a knight's fee ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. ix, no. 43. The tenure of his heir 

 Edward Tyldesley in 1621 was not re- 

 corded ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc.), ii, 

 261. 



