AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



POULTON-LE. 

 FYLDE 



augmented by i or 2 oxgangs. 10 To the Hospital 

 of St. John Baptist outside the North Gate, Chester, 

 an oxgang and a half of land was given " ; a meadow 

 and a small piece of land were granted to Stanlaw 

 Abbey. 12 



GREAT CARLETON was held by William son of 

 Swain about I zoo. 13 He was succeeded by his 

 brother Walter, 14 whose son William became a 

 knight. 15 In 1246 this William de Carleton called 

 upon Robert de Stockport as mesne tenant to acquit 

 him of the services demanded by William de Lan- 

 caster, including suit to the three weeks court at 

 Garstang. 16 He had to renew his plea ten years later, 

 when Agnes de Lancaster revived the claim, and then 

 Robert agreed to acquit him accordingly. 17 Sir 



William was succeeded by a son Walter, 18 living in 

 1 28 1, 19 but from that time little seems to be known 

 of the family. 20 Their estate appears to be the 

 ' manor of Carleton,' afterwards held by the 

 Lawrences of Ashton near Lancaster, 81 and after the 

 partition among their heirs lands in Carleton are 

 found in the possession of Rigmaiden, 22 Butler, 83 

 Skillicorne, 24 and Molyneux. 26 There seems to have 

 been a partition,* 6 Richard Skillicorne receiving 

 Carleton, no doubt the * manor of Great Carleton ' 

 which was in 1608 in the hands of Lawrence Livesey 

 and Elizabeth his wife. 87 The Livesey estate was 

 in that year purchased by Richard Shireburne of 

 Stonyhurst. 18 A second fourth part was acquired by 

 Evan Haughton, so that he had a moiety, which 



Walter's house) for eleven on the Smithy 

 flat ; ibid. 150. 



The half oxgang in Norcross was in 

 1322 held by Richard Boteler of Marton 

 by a rent of izd. ; Inq. p.m. 16 Edw. II, 

 no. 59. 



For the rentals 1451 to 1537 see 

 Chartul. iii, 1266-7. 



The Cockersand lands were in 1560 

 granted by the Crown to Giles Parker, &c., 

 to be held of the manor of East Green- 

 wich in socage ; Pat. 2 Eliz. pt. iv. 



10 Richard son of Roger gave an oxgang 

 of land in alms ; Cockersand Chartul. i, 

 143. William de Millum and Avice his 

 wife, daughter of Richard son of Roger, 

 gave an oxgang of land in Little Carleton, 

 with toft and croft, and with the toft of a 

 second oxgang lying towards a messuage 

 formerly the Prior of Lytham's, and they 

 gave also a piece of land in Hayholme in 

 Little Carleton, viz. as much as pertained 

 to 9^ oxgangs of land ; ibid, i, 141-2, 326. 



Isoud daughter of Henry de Whitting- 

 ton gave 8 acres and 6 acres of her land, 

 lying together on Langfield in Hay- 

 holme, adjoining the other Cockersand 

 land and abutting towards Bispham 

 Church ; ibid. 145-6. Henry (de 

 Carleton) son of Henry de Whittington 

 also gave an acre, extending from 

 Milanesmur west to the road from Great 

 Carleton ; ibid. 147. He also made 

 other gifts, from which it appears that his 

 part (Little Carleton) was nominally two 

 plough-lands, for the sixteenth part of 

 Ellercarr meadow pertained to the oxgang 

 of land given by Richard son of Roger, 

 and a sixteenth part of the waste ; ibid. 

 147-50. Afterwards, as will be seen, it 

 was contidered to be a plough-land and a 

 half. A number of place-names occur in 

 the charters. 



The Abbot of Cockersand made claims 

 against various persons in Little Carleton 

 in 1297 ; De Banco R. 151, m. I59d. 



11 Roger the prior and the brethren of 

 the hospital gave Henry de Whittington 

 the said oxgang and a half, with the sons 

 of Maud de Carleton, lately the tenant, 

 at a rent of i zd. payable at Chester fair. 

 Should any dispute occur Henry and his 

 heirs were to maintain the title by 

 warrant of the charter which the hospital 

 had had from Hugh de Moreton and 

 Margaret his wife, daughter of Richard 

 son of Roger ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 7 3 b. 

 Henry de Walton and Richard de Meath 

 were among the witnesses, so that the 

 date was about 1230. 



12 Henry de Whittington gave 3 acres 

 on the south side of Little Carleton, 

 wliile Henry son of Henry de Carleton 

 gave a meadow called Ellercarr in Little 

 Carleton. The bounds of this meadow 



began at the ditch of Cecily de Layton, 

 where it went down to Staining ditch, 

 and extended east to Blacklache and west 

 to Stockenbridge ; Henry reserved the 

 watercourse for the use of his mill. The 

 former grant was confirmed by Robert de 

 Stockport ; Whalley Couch. (Chet. Soc.), 

 ii, 444-6. 



About 1540 'Whitbent' was occupied 

 by William Carleton at a rent of it. 6d. ; 

 ibid, iv, 1244. 



13 See the Cockersand grants above 

 quoted for the pedigree. From them it 

 appears that this part was assessed as 

 12 oxgangs of land. William son of 

 Swain in 11945 paid loo*, for the royal 

 pardon after the rebellion of John Count 

 of Mortain ; Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 90. 



14 Walter son of Swain in 1202-3 

 owed i mark for licence to withdraw a 

 plea; ibid. 170. In 1212 he held land 

 in Great Eccleston ; Lanes. Inq. and 

 Extents, i, 3. 



15 William de Carleton appears to have 

 succeeded before 1226, when he obtained 

 the wardship of his brother Michael's 

 heir ; Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 136. He was collector of a subsidy in 

 1235 and a juror in 1244; Lanes. Inq. 

 and Extents, i, 142, 160. As shown in 

 the text he was living in 1256. He is 

 frequently styled ' knight,' e.g. Whalley 

 Couch, ii, 444. 16 Assize R. 404, m. 5. 



17 Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 1 20. 



18 He is mentioned in 1256 ; ibid, i, 

 128. He was a juror in 1257 ; Lanes. 

 Inq. and Extents, i, 210. 



19 He was in that year called to 

 warrant by John de Shireburne ; De 

 Banco R. 41, m. 21 d. His possessions 

 seem to have extended over a wide 

 area, for about 1280 as Walter son of Sir 

 William de Carleton he gave his son 

 William the homage and service of Sir 

 Richard le Boteler for lands in Inskip and 

 Eccleston, Adam Laumwale in Norbreck, 

 Richard (son of Sir Richard) le Boteler and 

 John de Thornton in Marton and Lohonis, 

 Roger de Warton in Warton, Hugh de 

 Formby in Formby, Alan le Norreys and 

 John son of William son of Edwin in 

 Ravenmeols ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 83. 



80 Margery widow of William de 

 Carleton claimed dower in land in 

 Carleton in 1298 against Walter son of 

 John de Shireburne and the Abbot of 

 Cockersand ; De Banco R. 122, m. 103. 



The lords in 1317 appear to have been 

 John de Shireburne and Eva his wife and 

 Randle le Gentyl, for they claimed the 

 marriage of Richard son of Richard Boteler 

 (of Marton) as a tenant by knight's ser- 

 vice ; De Banco R. 2 1 8, m. 176. 



An oxgang of land in Carleton was in 



22Q 



1 340 included in a settlement by Robert 

 de Washington the elder and Agnes his 

 wife; Final Cone, ii, 113. Agnes was 

 daughter and heir of Randle le Gentyl 

 (note 40). See also Dep. Keeper's Rep. 

 xxxii, App. 362. 



21 Robert Lawrence in 1450 held a 

 moiety of the manor of Carleton of the 

 king as of his duchy of Lancaster in 

 socage by id. rent ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Chet. Soc.), ii, 56. The rent is the same 

 as that formerly received by Quenilda 

 Gernet, but her estate appears to have 

 been Little Carleton. Sir James Law- 

 rence, son of Robert, held similarly ; 

 ibid. 132. 



22 Thomas Rigmniden of Wedacre in 

 1520 held his lands in Carleton and 

 Sowerby of the king by the tenth part of 

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

 p.m. T, no. 65. 



28 The Carleton lands of John Butler 

 of Rawcliffe were in 1534 said to be held 

 of the king in socage ; ibid, vii, no. 4. 

 His daughter Eleanor inherited, but in 

 1557 her lands were found to have been 

 held by knight's service ; ibid, x, no. 19. 



24 Richard Skillicorne died in 1534 

 holding eight messuages, &c., in Carleton 

 of the king as of his duchy by id. rent. 

 His heirs were four daughters Joan, 

 who married Thomas Chaddock ; 

 Elizabeth, George Livesey ; Anne, 

 Henry Marsh ; and Ellen, Evan Halgh- 

 ton or Haughton ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. x, no. 25. 



Evan Haughton and Joan hit wife, 

 in conjunction with Joan, Elizabeth and 

 Anne, daughters and co-heirs of Richard 

 Skillicorne, granted land in Carleton in 

 1550 to Henry Halsall of Prescot and 

 Isabel his wife ; Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 

 262^. 



* 5 Carleton is named among the Clifton 

 lands held by Sir William Molyneux and 

 Elizabeth his wife in 1532 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 155, m. 8 d. 



26 Ibid. 163, m. 20, where the descent 

 of the heirs of Lawrence is set forth. 



* Lawrence Livesey of Sutton in 

 Prescot was son of George and Elizabeth ; 

 Dugdale, Vhit. (Chet. Soc.), 189. 



In 1563 (15 7 3) Elizabeth, as widow of 

 George Livesey, made a feoffment of the 

 Skillicorne lands ; after her death they 

 were to descend to her son Lawrence ; 

 Towneley MS. HH, no. 1540. A fourth 

 part of the estate was in 1569 held by 

 Thomas Foxe and Elizabeth his wife ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 31, m. 160. 



J8 Shireburne Abstract Bk. at Leagram. 



George Hull and eight others appear 

 to have purchased a number of messuages, 

 &c., in Great Carleton in 1608 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 73, no. 62. 



