A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



The soil is various, with subsoil of clay. Oats 

 and potatoes are grown. There are 646^ acres 

 of arable land, 1,472^ in permanent grass and n of 

 woods and plantations. 



The township has a parish council. 



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

 V.C.H. Lanes, i, 288*. 



5 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rcc. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 47. 



6 Ibid. ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. 

 163. 



7 He gave 6 oxgangs of land to Si-ward 

 son of Huck in marriage with his daughter 

 Eva, chiefly, it would appear, in Staynall, 

 2 oxgangs each to his sons Henry and 

 Alan ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 47. 

 From the Cockersand and Lancaster 

 charters it appears that Alan had a 

 son Geoffrey and a daughter Maud, 

 who married William the Marshal and 

 had a daughter Godith wife of Randle 

 son of Michael the Clerk. John the son 

 of Randle de Stalmine was contemporary 

 with John son of Adam de Stalmine. 



Mabel widow of Geoffrey de Stalmine in 

 1235 released her dower in half an oxgang 

 of land to the Abbot of Furness ; Final 

 Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 68. 

 John de Stalmine (probably the son of 

 Randle) in 1256 released to Adam de 

 Stalmine his hereditary right in 3 oxgangs 

 and 30 acres of land ; ibid. 120. 



8 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 205 ; he paid 

 i mark to the scutage. From the charter 

 above referred to it appears that Peter's 

 wife was named Adelisa. The name of 

 Peter de Stalmine, paying los. for three 

 plough-lands held inthegnage in Stalmine, 

 occu r in the Pipe Roll of 1226, but he 

 may nave been dead at that time ; Lanes. 

 Inq. and Extents, i, 139. 



^ In a grant to Furness Robert is called 

 son of Peter de Stalmine, so that William 

 must also have been a son ; Dep. Keeper's 

 Rep. xxxvi, App. 163. William was lord 

 of Stalmine in 1230; Lane. Ch. (Chet. 

 Soc.), ii, 362. William de Stalmine and 

 Robert his brother attested a Cockersand 

 grant ; Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), i, 105. 



Henry and John sons of William de 

 Stalmine occur as benefactors to Furness ; 

 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, loc. cit. As they 



survived their father yet did not inherit 

 they must have been illegitimate. 



10 Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 306 ; Robert was to pay ioj. as relief. 



11 Orig. R. 23 Hen. Ill, m. 2 ; Adam 

 son of Robert owed los. for relief. He 

 was a benefactor of Cockersand Abbey ; 

 Chartul. i, 86, &c. He gave a toft and 

 an acre in Fernbreck to Lancaster Priory 

 in 1256 ; Lane. Ch. ii, 375. He occurs 

 as juror from 1242 to 1255. 



Adam's wife Helen survived him and 

 married William de Chamber, and was at 

 one time described as lady of Stalmine ; 

 Cockersand Chartul. i, 8990. She claimed 

 dower in 1278 against William son of 

 William de Hambleton and against John 

 de Thornton and Clarice his wife ; De 

 Banco R. 24, m. 70. 



13 John son and heir of Adam de Stal- 

 mine did fealty for his lands in 1259 on 

 succeeding, and had to pay zos. as relief ; 

 Excerpta e Rot. Fin. ii, 312. He gave an 

 acre on Harecarr Furlong to Cockersand, 

 and as 'lord of Stalmine' confirmed 

 another gift ; Ctckersand Chartul. i, 109, 



"3- 



John de Stalmine was summoned to 

 warrant two of the tenants of the manor 

 in 1288 ; De Banco R. 73, m. 7 d. 5 78, 

 m. 5 d. 



In 1297 the i CM. rent was paid to the 

 Earl of Lancaster by the vill of Stalmine 

 with Staynall ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 

 289. 



13 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 379- 

 80. He stated that Ellen de Stalmine 

 held 8 acres as dower, the Abbot of 

 Furness one plough-land, the Abbot of 

 Cockersand another, Simon the Clerk an 

 oxgang of land and Adam de Stalmine 

 another. 



14 For the gifts to Cockersand in Stal- 

 mine see Chartul. i, 86-113, an< ^ m 

 Staynall, 11436 ; to Furness Dep. 

 Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. 1634; Beck, 

 Annales Furn. Ixxviii ; to Lancaster Priory 



252 



The chapelry contributed as follows to the 

 county lay of 1624, which was based on the 

 older fifteenth: Stalmine with Staynall, l i8/. ; 

 Preesall with Hackinsall, 2 p. 8^/., or a total of 

 4 is. %\d. towards each 100 required from 

 Amounderness. 3 



Earl Tostig held ST4LMINE in 

 MANORS 1066 as part of his Preston fee; it 

 was then assessed as four plough- 

 lands, 4 but in I z 1 2 as three. Later it was held 

 in thegnage of the king or the lord of the honour 

 of Lancaster by a rent of lo/.* The first re- 

 corded possessor is Robert de Stalmine, who with 

 Peter his son granted one plough-land called 

 Corcola at a rent of 8;. to the monks of Furness 

 about 1165.' He also granted other parts of his 

 land to younger children. 7 The Peter just named 

 was lord in 1205. 8 He had a son William, 9 to 

 whom a brother Robert succeeded in I235-6. 10 

 Three years later Robert was followed by his son 

 Adam, 11 and he by a son John," lord of the manor 

 in the time of Edward I. He was in 1292 sum- 

 moned to prove his title, but replied by saying 

 that he held part only. 13 Adam de Stalmine and 

 other members of the family were benefactors of 

 Cockersand and Furness Abbeys and Lancaster 

 Priory. 14 Instead of Stalmine the surname Beau- 

 front was used. 14a 



John de Stalmine transferred the manor to 

 William de Oxcliffe, 15 whose son Nicholas 16 held 



Lane. Ch. ii, 363-75 for Stalmine and 

 355-61 for Staynall. Among the place- 

 names occurring in these charters are 

 Arghole and its pool, Harestane and Hare- 

 carr, Yarsmoor and Warlesmoor, Scaling- 

 stud, Faylid, Lawrence's Cross, Fernbreck, 

 KeHwellbreck, Lamypot, the Greenvray 

 and Oxenholme in Stalmine ; Cumbelow, 

 Alsergate, Argholestan, Risegreve, Wall- 

 gate, Smerepot, Hychum Oxgang and 

 Uttingland. 



Ma John son of William Beaufront, who 

 was a benefactor of Cockersand Abbey 

 (Chartul. i, 95), seems to be the above- 

 named John son of William de Stalmine. 

 John de Stalmine son and heir of Adam 

 Beaufront gave land to Furness between 

 1274 and 1284 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, 

 App. 163. In claims for the manor 

 against the Goosnargh family William 

 Beaufront son of John son of Adam de 

 Stalmine was plaintiff in 1334 and 1338, 

 and William Beaufront (perhaps a different 

 person) in 1354; De Banco R. 298, 

 m - 57 d- ; 311, m- 83 ; Assize R. 1425, 

 m. 4 ; Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 3, m. v. 

 Shortly afterwards John Beaufront claimed 

 the manor ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, 



App. 335- 



15 The Abbot of Furness had in 1313-14 

 to complain of a small encroachment on 

 his land in Stalmine by William de Ox- 

 cliffe, Nicholas son of Nicholas (William) 

 de Oxcliffe, and William son of Alice de 

 Stalmine ; Assize R. 424, m. 2. In 

 defence it was stated that the former 

 William had entered by grant of John de 

 Stalmine, formerly lord of the town, but 

 the verdict was for the abbot. 



William seems to have been a son of 

 John de Oxcliffe ; Assize R. 1425, m. 4. 



16 William de Oxcliffe in 1311 gave 

 all his lands in Stalmine and Staynall, 

 together with the service (8s.) due from 

 Furness Abbey for the grange, to his son 

 Nicholas ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, 

 App. 164. 



