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court were claimed for the superior manor of Pen- 

 wortham as late as I544- 21 



The chief resident family was that of Whitting- 

 ham, but in the 1 6th century that of Singleton of 

 Chingle Hall became important for a time. There 

 were several minor houses. 



Warine de Whittingham occurs as early as 1210," 

 and is no doubt the Warine who had possession of a 

 share of the manor in 1242 and 1246.^ In 1232-3 

 he made an agreement with Alan de Singleton and 

 his partners of the vill of Whittingham for a division 

 of the wood into two parts, of which Warine was to 



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have the northern part and Alan and the others the 

 southern." Warine was apparently succeeded by his 

 son Adam, 25 who was living in 1 2 5 y, 26 and he by his son 

 John. Adam's younger son Geoffrey became an idiot,* 7 

 and on his death in I 3 i o his heirs were found to be his 

 sisters Alice (wife of John de Singleton) and Margery, 

 and another Margery daughter of his third sister 

 Christiana. 28 



John de Whittingham,* 9 who was living in I 309," 

 was succeeded by a son William, 31 who made nu- 

 merous grants of lands to his children, 3 ' and was 

 about 1347" succeeded by his son Adam, 34 followed 



does not occur again among the family 

 manors, but Land in Whittingham was 

 sold by Sir Henry Hoghton in 1772 to 

 William Shawe ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 

 615, m. 7 d. 



31 Duchy Plead. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), ii, 200. 



22 Farrer, Lanct. Pipe R. 115, &c. 

 Warine was a benefactor of Cockersand 

 Abbey, giving the canons an acre in 

 Kilnehalgh ; Chartul (Chet. Soc.), i, 232. 



23 He was plaintiff in the latter year ; 

 Assize R. 404, m. 3. He complained 

 that he had been disseised of common of 

 pasture by Robert de Freckleton and 

 others, and recovered. 



At the same time Maud widow of one 

 Thomas de Whittingham claimed a mes- 

 suage against Alexander the Clerk, Maud 

 his wife and Randle de Goosnargh. 

 Maud said she had recovered the land 

 c. 12289 a g amst Alice de Singleton and 

 had had possession for seventeen years. 

 She recovered ; ibid. m. 5. 



It should be noticed that Warine had 

 a son Richard, occurring 1246 ; Richard 

 had a wife Hawise and a son Warine ; 

 Cockcrtand Chartul, i, 184 ; Final Cone. 

 i, 99. He had also a son John in one 

 deed described as 'lord of Whittingham ' ; 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 1906. 



24 Add. MS. 32106, no. 327. The 

 bounds began at ' Barndehurt ' and were 

 defined by marked oaks, brooks and 

 ditches as far as the White Oak at Cros- 

 tanesnape. 



Warine granted land within certain 

 bounds to Simon his son, Richard de 

 Goosnargh and Randle his brother being 

 witnesses ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 1909. 

 To Henry, another son, he granted an 

 oxgang of land to be held by knight's 

 service, eight plough-lands there making a 

 knight's fee ; ibid. no. 1838. Geoffrey 

 the clerk, another son, had land on the 

 west of Smalldene, the service for 1 ox- 

 gang of land to be rendered for it ; no. 

 1853. The date of this lies between 

 1235 and 1241, Simon de Thornton being 

 sheriff. It was probably this Geoffrey 

 who was a juror in 1247 5 Lanes. Inq. 

 and Extents, i, 1 66. 



K Warine de Whittingham granted hi 

 son Adam an assart within certain bounds ; 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 1835. 



26 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 2IO. To 

 Cockersand Abbey he gave two-thirds of 

 an oxgang of land, the bounds touching 

 Whitacreley, Brundene and Blenesgill ; 

 Cockersand Chartul. i, 230. As Adam son 

 of Warine he attested a grant made by 

 Robert son of Warine to his son Adam 

 of land in Hevesclough ; DD, no. 1907. 

 From John de Whittingham and Adam 

 son of Geoffrey be Whittingham he ac- 

 quired the sixth part of a mill called 

 Cowanthwaite, also a part of Hurst from 

 John son of Richard de Whittingham ; 

 ibid. no. 1892, 1900. To Richard Drury 



he gave 8 acres in the north of Comber- 

 halgh ; no. 1901. 



27 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 274. An 

 account of his lands is given in 1297 ; 

 ibid. 283. As his sisters were heirs, the 

 father must have married twice. 



38 Ibid, ii, i. His ' manor' of Whit- 

 tingham was held of John de Whitting- 

 ham by a rent of $d. ; he also held a 

 messuage and land of the Prior of St. 

 John of Jerusalem by 2s. \od. rent. 



William de Whittingham, clerk, ac- 

 knowledged that he owed the prior 431. 4^. 

 in 1292 ; Assize R. 408, m. 51. This is 

 perhaps the William who is mentioned 

 in 1293 and took precedence of John de 

 Whittingham in 1297 ; Lanes. Inq. and 

 Extents, i, 281, 282. 



A grant of land by William de Whit- 

 tingham to Richard his son was attested 

 by William de Whittingham, clerk, and 

 John de Whittingham ; DD, no. 1873. 



John de Singleton and Alice his wife 

 frequently occur. They were plaintiffs 

 in respect of lands in Whittingham in 

 1308-9, while Geoffrey son of Adam was 

 an idiot and his tenement in the king's 

 hands ; Assize R. 423, m. I d. 



In 1311 William de Ravenshaw ob- 

 tained part of Alice's inheritance from her 

 and her husband, and Adam le Fevre had 

 another portion ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 12, 13. 



Richard de Hoghton in 1324-5 re- 

 covered 40*. rent from lands in Whitting- 

 ham, Haighton and Broughton against 

 Alice widow of John de Singleton and 

 Adam and Thomas hit sons ; Assize R. 

 426, m. 8. 



Alice widow of John de Singleton in 

 131415 gave lands to Adam son of Alan 

 son of Gilbert de Whittingham ; DD, no. 

 1784. She was living in 1329, when an 

 agreement was arrived at between her, 

 her son Adam and Sir Richard de Hoghton 

 as to the wood of Haylegh Shaw in Whit- 

 tingham ; they surrendered it to him for 

 a release of the above-named rent of 401. ; 

 Add. MS. 32106, no. 319 ; also no. 331. 



29 John son of Adam son of Warine de 

 Whittingham in 1306 claimed 6 acres in 

 the township against Richard son of Wil- 

 liam de Whittingham ; De Banco R. 151, 

 m. 206 ; 162, m. 258. John de Whit- 

 tingham had been engaged in disputes 

 with neighbours concerning a mill dam 

 and the diversion of the course of a boun- 

 dary brook in 1284 and 1294 ; Assize R. 

 1268, m. 13 ; 1299, m. 15. 



As John de Whittingham he made 

 grants to William his eldest son, to 

 Richard de Feris (the land by the mill 

 pool), to Henry son of Richard, and to 

 Adam his uncle ; DD, no. 1780, 1807, 

 1834, 1914, 1902, 1905, 1908. 



About the same time there was another 

 of the name, son of Richard de Whitting- 

 ham, who made various grants ; ibid. 

 no. 1896 (in the field of Ashley), 1898, 



209 



1916-17. Also William son of Amery de 

 Whittingham, defendant in 1309 to a 

 claim by John son of Richard de Hother- 

 sall ; De Banco R. 178, m. 255 d. 



30 Inq. p.m. of Geoffrey, above cited. 



81 He attested a deed in 1 3 141 5, so 

 that he had probably succeeded his father 

 by that time ; DD, no. 1784. In 1315 

 he was called to warrant by Richard son 

 of Amery de Comberhalgh ; De Banco R. 

 212, m. 302. The following year he re- 

 ceived land in Will croft from Adam son 

 of Alot and regranted to Adam and Milli- 

 cent his wife ; DD, no. 1804, 1837. 



As William son of John de Whitting- 

 ham he gave to Richard Wawayn (after- 

 wards Wawne) land within bounds begin- 

 ning (on the north side) at the lower head 

 of a certain ditch on Spenclough bank, 

 following the ditch south to the upper 

 head, by a hedge west to the cross-marked 

 oak, thence along Spenclough north to the 

 starting-point, together with another 

 piece of land, at a rent of 2s. Various 

 easements were allowed, including a pro- 

 portion of wood for building and burning 

 from the common wood of Whittingham ; 

 Court of Wards and Liveries, Deeds and 

 Evid., box 13 A, no. FD 17. William 

 son of John also made a grant to Adam 

 de Whittingham the Smith ; DD, no.i852. 



William de Whittingham and Alice 

 his wife obtained certain land in the Eves ; 

 ibid. no. 1889. The same William and 

 Alice obtained a grant from Robert de 

 Greenfield in 1322-3, and were re-en- 

 fcoffed by Robert son of John de Singleton 

 in 1327 5 ibid. no. 1794-5, I 775- 



32 Several grants have been preserved 

 to Roger, William and Cecily ; DD, no. 

 1899, 1903, &c. In 1346 William de 

 Wliittingham and Adam his son made rn 

 agreement whereby the lands formerly 

 belonging to William son of William 

 should go to Adam, who had granted 

 land to his sister Cecily for life and other 

 land to Henry the son of William (son of 

 William) ; ibid. no. 1826. 



Roger had a son Robert who in 1368 

 was married to Maud daughter of John 

 de Clare and had lands in Whittingham 

 settled with remainder to William son of 

 Adam de Whittingham ; ibid. no. 1776. 



33 William son of John de Whittingham 

 and Alice his wife were in 1344 and 

 1347 defendants to a claim for 12 acres 

 put forward by Henry son of Thomas de 

 Comberhalgh; Assize R. 1435, m. 45d., 



33d- 



34 Adam son of William son of John 

 de Whittingham was plaintiff as early as 

 1314-15, his father being defendant, 

 with regard to certain messuages in 

 Whittingham ; Assize R. 424, m. 6. It 

 appears that the father had married a 

 daughter of Adam de Lever of Lever. 



In 1327 his father William gave him 

 land in Whittingham on his marrying 

 Aline ; DD, no. 1787. At the same 



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