A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



apparently the immediate lord of the manor, but may 

 not have retained it long. 



William de Lancaster III gave part at least of 

 Upper Rawcliffe to Richard son of Roger de Kirkby, 8 

 no doubt of Kirkby Ireleth. 9 Richard acquired from 

 his brother Roger 2 oxgangs of land in Rawcliffe, 

 with tofts and part of the meadow called Meadow- 

 gate, also the proportion of the fishery pertaining to 

 2 oxgangs and liberty of grinding at the mill without 

 multure. 10 Roger had had the same from William 

 de Tarnacre for the rent of a pound of cummin. 11 

 Richard made some further acquisitions, 12 and at his 



UPPER RAWCLIFFB : ST. MICHAIL'S VILLAGE 



death left a son John to succeed him. 13 Another 

 son Peter is also named. 14 By them Upper Rawcliffe 

 was given to William de Whittingham, clerk, and 



Ellen his wife, 15 and in this way apparently passed to 

 William de Southworth, 16 who was in possession of 

 the manor in I3H, 17 and in 1316-17 granted it to 

 his son Thomas, together with the reversion of lands 

 held in dower by Ellen widow of John de Kirkby 

 and by Elizabeth widow of Nicholas de Southworth, 

 son of William. 18 



Thomas de Southworth in 1331 obtained a messuage, 

 &c , from William son of Robert the Miller of Upper 

 Rawcliffe. Part of the tenement was then held in 

 dower by Ellen widow of John de Kirkby. 19 He 

 obtained from Ellen daughter of Nicholas de South- 

 worth a release of her 

 interest in the manor 

 in I336. 20 Edmund 

 de Wedacre in 1 348-9 

 claimed common of 

 pasture in Upper 

 Rawcliffe against 

 Thomas son of William 

 de Southworth and 

 Alice his wife. 21 



The next step shows 

 the Urswick family in 

 possession, but the 

 story is confused and 

 doubtful. It would 

 seem that Margaret 

 the daughter and heir 

 of Thomas de South- 

 worth married one 

 Robert de Hornby, for 

 Robert and Margaret 

 occur in 13 50-2. 22 

 Soon afterwards Mar- 

 garet de Hornby 

 married Robert de 

 Urswick, and in 1367 



obtained the papal dispensation for an impediment 

 of which they had been in ignorance at the time 

 of marriage. 23 In 1369 Robert de Urswick and 



8 John son of Richard de Kirkby in 

 1x85 gave to William de Whittingham, 

 clerk, and Ellen his wife all the tene- 

 ment and demesne in Upper Rawcliffe 

 which his father Richard had had from 

 William de Lancaster ; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlix, fol. 75. 



9 Richard was probably the son of 

 Roger of Kirkby Ireleth by a daughter of 

 Gilbert Fitz Reinfred, who is mentioned 

 in 1222 ; see the account of Kirkby 

 Ireleth. 



10 Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 75*. 

 Ibid. 



18 Walter de Sowerby gave to Richard 

 son of Roger de Kirkby the homage of 

 two tenants of an oxgang of land in 

 Rawcliffe for the rent of two barbed 

 arrows ; Kuerden fol. MS. 380. 



Richard de Kirkby obtained half an 

 oxgang of land from Richard de Rise, 

 also a fishery from Sir William de 

 Carleton, who had received it from 

 William de Lancaster for a rent of 6J. ; 

 Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 96, 97. 



11 John son of Richard de Kirkby 

 granted to Roger son of Henry de 

 Forton a toft and a selion called Croft- 

 land in Upper RawclifFe, and William de 

 Whittingham, clerk, renewed or con- 

 firmed the gift; ibid, fol, 85*. The 

 same John also granted to Sir William 

 son of Sir Richard Boteler the moiety of 



hit fishery in Out RawclifFe ; ibid. fol. 

 97/>. To Ralph de Catterall he gave half 

 an oxgang of land, &c., in Upper Raw- 

 clifFe at id. rent ; Add. MS. 32104, 

 no. 497. The same John son of Richard 

 de Kirkby held 2 oxgangs of land of 

 Henry de Beconsaw, who transferred 

 his homage and service to Thomas son of 

 Thomas Banastre ; ibid. no. 1317. 



14 Peter son of Richard de Kirkby 

 released to William de Whittingham all 

 his right in the lands in Upper RawclifFe 

 which should have descended to him 

 after the death of Roger de Kirkby his 

 brother ; Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 96. 



14 See preceding notes. In 1281 John 

 son of Richard de Kirkby gave land, in- 

 cluding a piece by the mill called Peule, 

 to William de Whittingham ; ibid. fol. 

 95, 96. 



William de Whittingham acquired half 

 an oxgang of land from Richard son of 

 Adam de Inskip, part of the mill of 

 Skippool from John son of William son 

 of Richard de RawclifFe, and the fishery 

 (formerly John de Kirkby's) in Out 

 RawclifFe from William son of Sir Richard 

 Boteler ; ibid. fol. 85*, 96*, 97 A. 



19 It is possible that Whittingham and 

 Southworth were the same person, or 

 that the latter was son of the former. 

 See Claughton. 



17 In that year William de Southworth, 



clerk, granted turbary in Upper Raw- 

 clifFe Moss to Henry son of Henry de 

 Croft of Catterall, who had married his 

 daughter Joan ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 

 13. In or before 1315-16 he made an 

 exchange of lands with Adam son of 

 Richard del Hall, who transferred his 

 part to John de Celer -, Dods. MSS. 

 cxlix, fol. 90^. 



18 Ibid. fol. 97. The settlement was 

 confirmed by fine in 1318, with re- 

 mainder to Adam the brother of Thomas. 

 There was an exception of two mes- 

 suages, 2 oxgangs of land, &c. ; Find 

 Cone, ii, 26. 



19 Kuerden fol. MS. 257. 



30 Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 90. 



21 De Banco R. 357, m. 27 d. 



22 Maud daughter of John de Celei 

 (see above) in 1350 gave all her lands to 

 Robert de Hornby and Margaret his wife ; 

 Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 95. In 1352 

 Roger de Kirkby gave to the same Robert 

 and Margaret a messuage and garden in 

 Upper RawclifFe ; ibid. 



3 Towneley MS. HH, no. 925. 



There appear to have been several 

 Roberts, and this creates some uncertainty. 

 Adam de Urswick, who had land in 

 Westmorland, died in 1361, leaving as 

 heir his son Robert the younger, of full 

 age ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt, ii 

 (ist nos.), no. 88. In 1 366, Sarah widow 



