AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



LYTHAM 



occurs. 85 George Waring died in 1557 holding two 

 messuages in Over Whittingham of Thomas Whit- 

 tingham by a rent of 5/. 3^., and owning land in 

 Nether Whittingham also. 86 The family can be 

 traced down to the i8th century ; the site of their 

 house, Got Field, is part of the Asylum estate. 87 

 Thomas Salisbury died in 1630 holding Lower House 

 in Whittingham of Thomas Singleton 68 ; Christopher 

 his brother and successor died in i64i. 89 A number 

 of other owners occur in the inquisitions. 90 



Cockersand Abbe) , 91 the Knights Hospitallers, 9 * 

 and the Franciscans 93 of Preston had land in the 

 township. 



Only one or two sequestrations appear in the 

 Commonwealth period, 94 but some ' Papists ' registered 

 estates in ijiy. 9 * 



The Presbyterians had a licensed meeting-place in 

 l689, 96 but it has disappeared. 



The Wesleyan Methodists began services in a dis- 

 used cotton factory, but in 1831-2 a chapel was 

 built, which continues in use. 97 



There was a large number of convicted recusants 

 in Whittingham about i67o, 98 and Roman Catholics 

 formerly had a chapel at Duxendean at the west 

 end of the township, but it was taken down ID 

 1840." 



LYTHAM 



Lidun, Dom. Bk. ; Lithun, Lithum, c. 1190; 

 Lethum, 134.7. 



The township occupies a level tract of land at the 

 mouth of the Ribble ; Lytham proper is at the 

 eastern end, and is bounded on the south by the 

 Ribble ; while St. Anne's, formerly called Heyhouses, 

 occupies the north-west portion and looks out over 

 the Irish Sea to the west. The area between the 



two extremes is known as Ansdell ; the new residential 

 district called Fairhaven is here, 1 while Heyhouses 

 is more inland. Formerly a large part of the total 

 area of 5,309^ acres* was occupied by sandy wastes 

 on the sea side and mosses inland, but there was 

 arable land to the north-east of the village. The 

 township by the county lay of 1624 had to pay 

 2 6s. i\d. to each 100 levied on the hundred.* 



de Preston, but the defendant showed a 

 release from William himself ; Assize R. 

 1404, m. 19. 



Henry Preston of Preston died in 

 1 549 holding land of Richard Whitting- 

 ham by I2</. rent ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. ix, no. 19 ; x, no. 10. Margaret 

 widow of Henry Wilkinson was occupier 

 of Preston House in 1563-6 ; Ducatus 

 Lane, ii, 273, 333. George Preston in 

 1602 held of the king by the two- 

 hundredth part of a knight's fee ; Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc.), i, 103-4. The 

 same estate was in 1608 held by Leonard 

 Chorley, who was succeeded by a son 

 William ; ibid, ii, 9. 



To these may be added Thomas 

 Bretherton, who died in 1443 holding 

 among other lands a messuage and 30 

 acres in Whittingham of Sir Richard 

 Hoghton by 10*. net, and 6 acres of 

 Thomas Singleton the elder by 2s. rent ; 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 1490. John 

 Catterall of Eaves Green and Sclby, 

 attainted of high treason in 1461, had 

 lands, &c., in Whittingham which were 

 bestowed on Sir John Pilkington ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. ii Edw. IV, no. 33; 19 

 Edw. IV, no. 77. 



84 Henry Waring of Whittingham was 

 a debtor in 1448 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 

 10, m. 8. 



86 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiii, no. 1 8. 

 John his son and heir was twenty-five 

 years of age. He died in 1592 holding a 

 capital messuage called the Moor House, 

 &c., and his son George, aged eleven, was 

 i.jir ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxxxvi, 

 3 1 - 



A William Waring appears in 1579- 

 82 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 41, 

 in. 151, 196; 44, m. 139. His son 

 John died in 1 594 holding messuages, &c., 

 of the Earl of Derby by the hundredth part 

 of a knight's fee and 4^. rent ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xvi, no. 10. The heir, 

 his brother Richard, then seventeen years 

 old, died in 1598 holding the same estate, 

 with the addition of 7 acres approved 

 from the waste and held of the queen by 

 the hundredth part of a knight's fee ; ibid. 



xvii, no. 12. The heir was his son 

 William, three years old. 



87 Fishwick, op. cit. 189. 



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

 1078. He also held Westsnape in Ashley 

 of Thomas Tyldesley of Withgill (at 

 assignee of Henry Singleton, deceased), 

 and his heirs were his daughters Janet 

 wife of Richard Pope, Elizabeth wife of 

 Nathaniel Woodward, Anne wife of 

 Thomas Cowell and Jane wife of Richard 

 Singleton, their ages lying between thirty- 

 eight and twenty- four years. 



89 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxix, 

 no. 77. The heir was a son Richard, 

 aged seven. 



90 The following held of the Whitting- 

 ham family : Evan Browne of Ribbleton, 

 1545, by i8</. rent; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. vii, no. 24. Ralph Clitheroe 

 of Bailey, 1556, by 6d. rent; ibid, x, 

 no. 26. Alexander Rigby, 1621 ; Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc.), iii, 457. Thomas 

 Beesley of Goosnargh, 1637 ; Towneley 

 MS. C 8, 13, p. 72. 



These held of the Crown or the duchy : 

 Leonard Houghton (in right of his wife 

 Anne), 1583, by the hundredth part of a 

 knight's fee ; the heir was a daughter 

 Bridget, aged six ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xiv, no. 89. Edward Robinson, 1608, 

 by the three-hundredth part of a knight's 

 fee ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc.), I, 114. 



John Robinson of Whittle, 1628, by the 

 undredth part ; Towneley MS. C 8, 13, 

 p. 1013. Stopford of Ulnes Walton, by 

 the two-hundredth part ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. i, 

 169 ; ii, 73. Thomas Holden, 1617, by 

 knight's service ; ibid, ii, 57-8. Robert 

 Hesketh of Ruffbrd, 1620, lands in Nether 

 Whittingham in socage ; ibid, iii, 356. 



John Kighley of White Lea in Goos- 

 nargh, 1616, held of Sir Richard Hoghton ; 

 ibid, ii, 33. Henry Gregson, 1621, held 

 of the same ; he left a son and heir 

 Robert ; Towneley MS. C 8, 13, p. 465. 

 Adam Rigby, clerk, 1627, held of the same 

 a messuage, with Lockfield, Dodgecroft, 

 and Cowhey wood, by the two-hundredth 

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

 Inq. p.m. xxvii, no. 30. William Critch- 



213 



lowe, 1637, held of Richard Shireburne 

 as of the late priory of St. John of 

 Jerusalem ; his heir was his son William, 

 aged twelve ; C 8, 13, p. 252. 



In some cases the tenure was not 

 recorded : Sir William Molyneux, 1548 

 (part of the Clifton estate) ; Henry Cottam 

 of Haighton, 1592 ; Leonard Helme of 

 Goosnargh, 1601. 



91 The charters have been cited above. 



9J They had in 1292 lands in Whitting- 

 ham, Heyley (? Alley), and Combeihalgh } 

 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 375. 



9S Lawrence Houghton of English Lea 

 gave to Philip warden of the Friars 

 Minor of Preston a tenement in Whitting- 

 ham in 1509-10; Harl. MS. 2112, f'ol. 

 152^. It was probably a temporary gift. 



94 Richard Waring in 1649 desired to 

 compound, ' being sequestered for delin- 

 quency in the beginning of the wars ' ; 

 Cal. Com. for Comp. iii, 1999. Two- 

 thirds of a small house and acre of land, 

 sequestered for the recusancy of Ellen 

 Jackson, the lessee, was the subject of a 

 petition by Thomas Whittingham in 

 1651 ; ibid, iv, 2768. 



95 Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. Non- 

 jurors, 90, 91, 138-9. The names were 



Richard Duckworth, William Sturzaker 

 (Moor House), Thomas Daniell, Robert 

 and Richard Stanistreet. 



96 At Richard Dicconson's house ; Hist. 

 MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 232. 



97 Fishwick, op. cit. 197. 



98 Misc. (Cath. Rec. Soc.), v, 184-6. 



99 Fishwick, op. cit. 196. 'Over one 

 of the doors was the following inscrip- 



tion : 1611 



.1. E.I There was 



also a wooden cross, which was removed 

 to Hill chapel ' in Goosnargh. 



1 Cross Slack was in the same neigh- 

 bourhood. 



a The Census Rep. of 1901 gives the 

 following acreages for Lytham and St. 

 Anne's respectively : Land, 2,453, 3J34 1 ? 

 inland water, ii, i ; tidal water, 300, 

 402 ; foreshore, 775,4)633. St. Anne's 

 includes part of Marton. 



3 Gregson, Fragments (ed. Harland), 23. 



