AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



Margery, thirty years of age, then wife of Thomas 



Almond. 44 She sold in 1561 to James Massey, 45 who 



recorded a pedigree as ' of 



Carleton' in I567 46 ; but the 



manor was claimed by the 



Singletons of Staining, 47 in 



which family it descended for 



some time, 48 and is then lost 



to sight. The hall went to 



decay. 49 



Of the minor owners but 

 few occur in the records. 50 

 The chief family seems to 

 have been that of Bamber of 

 the Moor. 51 The tenure of 

 James Bamber's land in Poul- 

 ton in 1617 was a curious 



pne viz. of the heirs and assigns of William Oudlawe 

 by \d. rent. 5 * William, his son and heir, was eight 

 years old. Richard Bamber, perhaps brother of James, 

 paid 10 in 1631, having declined knighthood. 53 

 The family adhered to Roman Catholicism, and one 

 of the sons, John, was captain of a company in the 



MASSEY of Carleton. 

 Quarterly gules and 

 argent, in the second 

 quarter a mullet sable. 



POULTON-LE- 

 FYLDE 



king's service in the Civil War. 54 Another son, 

 Edward, educated abroad and ordained priest, was 

 sent on the English mission ; after being imprisoned 

 more than once he was captured in Lancashire, and 

 after three years' imprisonment executed as a traitor 

 at Lancaster 7 August i646. 6i The family removed 

 to Aughton, near Ormskirk, but retained their estate 

 in Carleton till I737. 56 



An oratory was allowed to Henry de Whittington 

 in Little Carleton about 1 240," but it does not seem 

 to have continued. 58 



THORNTON 



Torentun, Dom. Bk. ; Torrenton, 1226; Thorin- 

 ton, 1258 ; Thornton, 1297. 



Steinol, 1176 ; Stanhol, I2OO ; Stainhol, 1226 ' ; 

 Staynolf, 1346. 



Brune, Dom. Bk. ; Brunne, 1204 ; Brone, 1262. 



Rushale, Dom. Bk. ; Rossall, 1212 ; Roshale, 1228. 



This township forms a peninsula between the 

 Irish Sea and the Wyre estuary. At the northern 

 end is the modern town of Fleetwood, built on an 



44 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. x, no. 15. 

 He had arranged that William Singleton 

 (who died before Lawrence) and James 

 Massey should succeed him for fifteen 

 years, with remainder to William son of 

 Hugh Singleton. 



In 1557 a settlement of the manor 

 was made by Lawrence Carleton, Thomas 

 Anion and Margery his wife ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 17, m. 45. It 

 thus appears that Anion and Almond 

 were the same. 



45 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 23, 

 m. 91. 



46 Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 56. He was son 

 of John Massey of Rixton. His estates 

 descended to Veale of Whinney Heys. 



47 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 233, m. 16 d. 

 From the pedigree given it appears that 

 William son of Hugh Singleton died 

 without heirs, on which the estate should 

 go (according to Lawrence Carleton's 

 disposition) to his cousin Thomas son of 

 William Singleton (brother of Hugh) and 

 then to John Singleton, brother of 

 Thomas, the plaintiff in 1573. See also 

 Fishwick, op. cit. 175. 



John Singleton in 1582 purchased four- 

 teen messuages, &c., in Little Carleton, 

 Poulton and Norcross from Roger Pendle- 

 bury and Anne his wife ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 44, m. 65. 



The Masseys retained part of the es- 

 tate, including a windmill ; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 

 117-19. 



48 John Singleton of Staining died in 

 1589 holding the manor of Carleton by 

 knight's service, except 4 oxgangs of land, 

 which were held of Thomas Holcroft ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xv, no. 47. 

 The 4 oxgangs would be the share of 

 Lytham Priory, its estates having been 

 purchased by Sir Thomas Holcroft. 



The manors of Staining and Carleton 

 continued to be held in conjunction as 

 late as 1689 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 224, m. 1 50. A considerable estate 

 in the two townships was in 1781 acquired 

 by John Hankinson ; ibid. 405, m. 167. 

 What became of the manor of Little 

 Carleton does not appear, but as many of 

 the Carleton family deeds came into the 

 hands of the Shireburnes they may have 

 acquired it about 1690; Shireburne 

 Abstract book. 



49 Thornber, writing in 1837, says : 

 ' This hall was situated in the field oppo- 

 site the farm-house called the Gezzerts, 

 and its ruins are remembered by the 

 present generation '; Blackpool, 281. 



50 Robert Clerk of Poulton in 1599 had 

 a messuage in Carleton also ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xvii, no. 44. 



Land in Carr meadow in Great Carleton 

 was in 15578 claimed by Alice widow 

 of William Hull, who afterwards married 

 Thomas Pateson ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. 

 Com.), i, 298 ; ii,23i. Hull family deeds 

 at Agecroft show that Richard Hull of 

 Carleton, whose will was dated 1703, had 

 land called Highfalong from his father- 

 in-law Richard Rossall, whose family 

 resided there in the I7th century. The 

 family and their relatives the Bucks ac- 

 quired a considerable estate in the district. 

 John Hull, vicar of Poulton 1835-64, 

 was son of Dr. John Hull, the botanist, 

 who was son of John Hull of Carleton 

 and Poulton, apothecary ; Fishwick, op. 

 cit. 85. 



01 William Bamber, perhaps of this 

 family, purchased a messuage, &c., at 

 Norcross and Great Carleton in 1565 

 from William Butler ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 27, m. 15. 



52 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc.), ii, 74. 

 James Bamber was of the Moor in Carle- 

 ton, as appears by the registers, but his 

 lands were in Poulton and Great Bisp- 

 ham. 



53 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 221. Richard's will was proved in 

 1636, his estate descending to his eldest 

 son Thomas ; Fishwick, op. cit. 180. 

 There is, however, an inquisition after 

 the death of one Richard Bamber of 

 Layton and Carleton, in which he it 

 stated to have died in 1639. The tenure 

 of his estate in Carleton was not known. 

 The heir was a son Thomas, aged thirty- 

 six ; Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 

 5 8. 



04 War in Lanes. (Chet. Soc.), 19, 25. 

 John Bamber's estate he is called 'of 

 Layton' was in 1652 ordered for sale 

 by the Parliament ; Index of Royalists 

 (Index Soc.), 42. He had died in the 

 Isle of Man in 1651, and his son Richard 

 in 1653 petitioned for the discharge ot 

 the Lower Moor, in which his father, 'a 

 Papist and delinquent,' had had a life 



231 



interest in accordance with the settlement 

 by Richard Bamber the grandfather in 

 1636 ; Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 1204. 



Captain Roger Bamber of the Moor 

 was in 1650 guardian of Edward Bamber, 

 aged about ten, his kinsman, whom he 

 was bringing up in the Protestant religion, 

 the father's estate being sequestered for 

 recusancy and delinquency ; ibid. 124. 

 Edward was probably a younger son of 

 John, but in Cal. Com. for Comp. iv, 2644, 

 he is called son of Edward. 



50 Challoner, Missionary Priests, no. 

 184 ; Gillow, Bill. Diet, of Engl. Cat A. i, 

 120-2. The cause of his beatification 

 was allowed to be introduced at Rome in 

 1886 ; Pollen, Acts of Martyrs, 382. 

 The story is inaccurately given by 

 Challoner, if this be the Edward Bamber 

 alias Leonard Helmes who was arrested 

 at Plymouth in 1626 on a ship bound to 

 Newhaven. He had studied at St. Omers 

 and Seville, and had been ordained priest ; 

 Cal. S. P. Dom. 1625-6, p. 487. He con- 

 formed and was pardoned 5 ibid. 1627-8, 

 p. 84. A little later an Edward Bamber 

 was labouring in Lancashire ; Misc. (Cath. 

 Rec. Soc.), i, 115. 



46 John Bamber as a ' Papist ' registered 

 his estate in 1717 ; Estcourt and Payne, 

 Engl. Cath. Nonjurors, 1 1 2. His son 

 Thomas left his estates to his nephew 

 Thomas, son of Robert Brownbill of 

 Liverpool, who became a bankrupt ; 

 Gillow, op. cit. i, 122 ; Piccope MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), iii, 272, from R. 18 of 

 Geo. II at Preston, &c. 



57 Lane. Ch. ii, 428-30. Henry might 

 maintain a priest at his own expense, but 

 no injury to the tithes or other rights of 

 the parish church was to be caused. As 

 a guarantee he gave a rent-charge of 3.5. 

 on his water-mill in Carleton to the Prior 

 and monks of Lancaster. Henry his son 

 made a further agreement with the monks ; 

 ibid. 433. 



58 Robert the Chaplain occurs in 1332 ; 

 Exch. Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 64. 



1 Two places of the same original name, 

 now distinguished as Stanah and Staynall, 

 lie on the west and east sides of the Wyre. 

 It is not always possible to determine 

 which of the two is intended in the 

 mediaeval references. 



