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it in I324, 17 and appears to have been succeeded by 

 a brother William, who alienated it to Thomas de 

 Goosnargh. 18 This last held the lordship and two- 

 thirds of the vill in 1 346, and Nicholas Boteler of 

 Rawcliffe held the other third. 19 Of the Goosnargh 

 family next to nothing is known. 20 The manor 

 descended to Alexander Goosnargh, who died in 

 I 524 at Mansergh holding the manor of the king by 

 a rent of 5^. His son Thomas having died before 



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him, his heir was his grandson Alexander Waring 

 (son of a daughter of Margaret), aged eight. 21 It 

 appears, however, that there was another daughter 

 Maud, afterwards wife of Robert Parker. 22 They 

 sold the manor to the Butlers of Rawcliffe, 23 and the 

 whole descended with Rawcliffe till the forfeiture in 

 1716. This estate seems to have been sold in parcels 24 ; 

 the Bournes of Hackinsall became the principal pro- 

 prietors, 25 but the manor has disappeared. 



William seems to have died about 1316, 

 in which year Nicholas de Oxcliffe claimed 

 a messuage and 9 acres of land against 

 John son of William de Norbreck ; 

 De Banco R. 216, m. 363. In the year 

 following Alice widow of William de 

 Oxcliffe claimed dower in a messuage 

 and 24 acres in Stalmine against Nicholas 

 son of William de Oxcliffe ; ibid. 220, 

 m. 231 d. 



Nicholas was plaintiff in 1318 (ibid. 

 221, m. 9 d.), in which year he came 

 to an agreement with the monks of 

 Furness as to certain approvements ; Dtp. 

 Keeper's Rep. ut sup. From this it 

 appears that Nicholas had a salt-pan on 

 the waste and the monks had a water- 

 mill by their grange. 



17 He held the manor of Stalmine and 

 Little Staynall by a rent of icu. and doing 

 suit to county and wapentake ; Dods. 

 MSS. cxxxi, fol. 40^. 



At the same time the doomsmen of 

 Stalmine and Staynall are named in the 

 court roll of the hundred ; Lanes. Ct. R. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 115. 



18 In 1338 Thomas de Goosnargh 

 claimed to hold by grant of William son 

 of William son of John de Oxcliffe ; 

 Assize R. 1425, m. 4. A William de 

 Oxcliffe had been defendant in the case 

 in 1334 ; De Banco R. 298, m. 57 d. 



Thomas de Goosnargh and Margaret 

 his wife in 1357 obtained from John son 

 of William Beaufront a release of his 

 claim in the manor of Stalmine ; Dods. 

 MSS. liii, fol. 83. 



19 Survey of 1346 (Chet. Soc.) 47; 

 Thomas de Goosnargh held two plough- 

 lands and paid 6s. %d. of the rent, while 

 Nicholas Boteler held one plough-land 

 and paid 35. 4^. ; but Thomas did the 

 whole suit to county and wapentake. 

 Later the manor seems to have been 

 held in moieties, each paying 5*. 



Thomas son of Walter de Goosnargh 

 was in possession of the manor in 1354 ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 3, m. 5. He 

 and his wife Margaret occur a year later ; 

 ibid. 4, m. 15. 



10 In 1363 John de Oxcliffe appeared 

 against John son of Thomas de Goosnargh 

 to claim a messuage and land which 

 Ralph Gentyl had given to Nicholas de 

 Oxcliffe and Alice de Slyne and their 

 issue ; in default to remain to Nigel son 

 of the said Alice, and in default to the 

 right heirs of Nicholas. Nicholas, Alice 

 and Nigel had died without issue, and so 

 the right came to plaintiff. John de 

 Goosnargh said that Thomas his father 

 died in possession, and he was himself 

 under age, whereupon the trial was 

 deferred ; De Banco R. 416, m. 455 d. 

 John de Oxcliffe had claimed in 1360 ; 

 Dtp. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 342. 



Thomas Goosnargh and Nicholas 

 Boteler held in 1445-6 just as in 1346 ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, bdle. 2, 

 no. 20. 



Robert Goosnargh son of William 

 agreed with Joan his father's widow as to 



dower in 1452 ; Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 92^. 

 Robert and Maud his wife in 1459 

 demised Redeford in Plumpton and a 

 messuage in Catterall for a term of 

 twenty years ; ibid. fol. 90^. Robert was 

 summoned to warrant by James Pickering 

 in 1473 in respect of a manor in Stalmine ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Writs Proton, file 13 

 Edw. IV. 



31 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, no. 55. 

 Alexander was separated from his wife 

 Agnes daughter of John Boteler by an 

 arbitration in 1496, he retaining the 

 custody of the children ; Dods. MSS. liii, 

 fol. 91. He must have married again. 



In 1518 Alexander Goosnargh made a 

 feoffment of the manor of Stalmine Hall, 

 &c., with remainder to his son Thomas ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 123, m. 9. This 

 son probably died oon after, for no 

 remainder was stated in another feoffment 

 in 1522; ibid. 131, m. 2. At his 

 death Alexander held lands in Stalmine 

 and Staynall, Hambleton, Goosnargh, 

 Woodplumpton and Catterall. By his 

 will (recited in the inquisition) he charged 

 his lands with a yearly stipend of 5 marks 

 for twenty-three years to find a chaplain 

 to celebrate at the altar of St. George in 

 Kirkby Lonsdale Church. 



24 From the inquisition it might be 

 supposed that Margaret Waring was dead 

 in 1525, but in 1528 Richard Waring 

 and Margaret his wife demised to Edward 

 Mansergh certain messuages and lands in 

 Stalmine, together with seven saltcotes 

 there ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. n, 

 m. 157 d. 



In 1540 Nicholas Butler purchased 

 from Robert Parker and Maud his wife 

 (she being the heir of Thomas Goosnargh) 

 a moiety of the manor of Stalmine, with 

 various lands (including thirty salt-pits) 

 there and in Staynall, Preesall, &c. ; ibid, 

 bdle. 12, m. 28. Possibly Alexander 

 Goosnargh had been married twice, and 

 Maud was half-sister to Margaret but 

 whole sister to Thomas. The purchase 

 of this moiety was confirmed by Maud 

 Parker, widow, with George Knott of 

 Canterbury and Joan his wife Joan being 

 the daughter of Maud by a former husband 

 (William Cowper) and her sole heir to 

 Richard Butler and Henry his brother 

 in 1564; ibid. bdle. 26, m. 101 ; Dods. 

 MSS. liii, fol. 83. 



The other moiety seems to have been 

 obtained in 1537-45 by Nicholas Butler 

 from Margaret Waring, widow, daughter 

 and co-heir of Alexander Goosnargh ; 

 Dods. MSS. ut sup. ; Pal. of Lane. Plea 

 R. i8i,m. gd. It was perhaps a daughter 

 of Margaret who married Arthur Bayne, 

 for about 1556 he and Margaret his wife 

 complained that Nicholas Butler was 

 wrongfully holding lands in Stalmine 

 Manor and detaining their title deeds ; 

 Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), i, 291. In 

 1559 a rent of 4 191. 8</. from 

 lands in Stalmine, &c., was settled on 

 Arthur Bayne and Margaret his wife, with 

 remainder to James Bayne ; Pal. of Lane. 



253 



Feet of F. bdle. 21, m. 117. Yet some- 

 what later (1562) Agnes Warren and 

 Maud Parker claimed messuages, &c., in 

 Stalmine Manor against Richard Butler 

 and Margaret Waring ; Ducatus Lane, ii, 

 258. Again in 1565 James Bayne and 

 Margaret his wife (widow of Waring) 

 claimed the estate of Alexander Goosnargh, 

 Margaret and Maud being daughters and 

 heirs, against Richard and Henry, sons 

 of Nicholas Butler, who defended by 

 alleging the feoffment by Margaret 

 Waring ; ibid. 303. 



23 The available evidence is given in 

 the preceding notes. In 1571 the manor 

 of Stalmine was reckoned as part of the 

 Butler estates ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 33, m. 79. 



It will have been seen from the text 

 that this family had long held certain 

 land in Stalmine, and there are some 

 charters in the Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 

 xxxviii, 380-1. In 1323-4 Nicholas son 

 of William Boteler claimed a messuage 

 and land against Nicholas de ' Oxcleve ' 

 and William son of Adam, to which 

 Nicholas replied that his name was 

 'Oxclyf,' and that William Boteler had 

 held his land of him by knight's service, 

 on which account he had taken posses- 

 sion. The jury did not accept the spell- 

 ing and also decided against him as to 

 the tenure, giving a verdict for the 

 plaintiff; Assize R. 425, m. 5. In 1502 

 the tenure of the lands in Stalmine and 

 Staynall was grouped with that in Thistle- 

 ton, Kirkham and Freckleton, as of the 

 Earl of Derby by knight's service and a 

 rent of Ss. ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 iii, no. 45. Shortly afterwards James 

 Boteler, who died in 1504, was stated to 

 have held messuages, lands, &c., in Stal- 

 mine and Staynall of the Earl of Derby 

 in socage ; ibid, iii, no. 109. This 

 same tenure was again recorded of Wil- 

 liam Butler, 1639, though the estate had 

 been increased by many purchases, so that 

 he held the manor of Stalmine with Stay- 

 nall, messuages, lands, twelve saltcotes, 

 two windmills, a ferry boat on the 

 Wyre and a fishery there ; ibid, xxx, 

 no. 1 8. 



The manor is mentioned in a settle- 

 ment by Richard Butler in 1714 ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R. 501, m. 2 d. 



24 In 1752 Richard Harrison the 

 younger purchased from Nathan Arderne 

 and Elizabeth his wife a third of the 

 eighth part of the manor of Stalmine with 

 Staynall, court baron, &c. ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 349, m. 60. 



* 5 John Bourne of Stalmine (d. 1841) 

 was reputed to be lord of the manor in 

 1836; Baines, Lanes, (ed. i), iv, 550. 

 He was followed by Cornelius Bourne, the 

 reputed lord in 1850 ; Raines in Notitia 

 Cestr. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 443- 



According to the pedigree in Foster's 

 Lanes. Peds. John Bourne (d. 1783), 

 grandfather of the above-named John, 

 married Jane daughter and co-heir of 

 Cornelius Fox of Stalmine Hall. 



