A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Alan's charter was alleged in a dispute in 1292 

 between Hugh son of Hugh de Mitton and Roger 

 de Wedacre, when Richard son and heir of William 

 son of Alan de Tarnacre was called to warrant. The 

 Prior of the Hospitallers had granted the land to 

 Maud daughter of Hugh de Mitton ; she married 

 Roger de. Wedacre and bore him a son Robert, whose 

 estate was in his father's hands. 80 The Cockersand 

 lands 81 were after the Dissolution purchased by 

 John Braddyll, 8 * and the Hospitallers' lands by the 

 Shireburnes. 83 



The pleadings afford some details of the mediaeval 

 tenements M ; the inquisitions also preserve the names 

 of landowners there. 84 In the i8th century and 

 later the house called Turnover Hall was held 

 successively by Shuttleworth 86 and Westby. 87 



Stockenbridge was owned by a family named 

 Blackburne. Richard Blackburne of Eccleston and 

 Tarnacre, holding in the latter place of the king, 

 died in 1641, and had for heir a son John, aged 

 forty-four. 88 Richard and Edward Blackburne, re- 

 cusants, in 1654 sought to compound for the seques- 

 trated portions of their estates. 89 A later Richard 

 Blackburne, described as of Stockenbridge, yeoman, 

 in 1717 registered his estate as a 'Papist.' He died 

 about I7Z5- 90 John Blackburne of Field Plumpton, 

 who had a son Thomas, made a settlement in 1727 

 of the capital messuage called Stockenbridge, lately 

 in the possession of Richard son of (the said) John 

 Blackburne, who had died leaving a daughter 

 Margaret wife of Thomas Eccles of Dil worth." From 



a deed of 1748 it appears that another daughter, 

 Ellen, had married William Hathornthwaite, and 

 their son John had Stockenbridge. 9 * The estate 

 afterwards passed by marriage to Leckonby of Great 

 Eccleston and to Phipps. 93 



Tarnacre Hall, now St. Michael's Hall, near the 

 church, was owned by the 

 Longworth family, who re- 

 corded a pedigree in 1664. 

 Isabella Longworth had it in 

 1770; next year, after her 

 death, it was advertised for 

 sale. 94 The Butlers of Out 

 Rawcliffe had from an early 

 date estates in Upper RawclifFe 

 and Little Sowerby which 

 were sometimes called 

 manors. 96 



LITTLE SOWERBT was 

 included in the Singleton 



estate; thus in 1293 Joan widow of Thomas de 

 Singleton released to Thomas Banastre and Joan his 

 wife all her right in land there. 96 Richard Balderston 

 had land in Sowerby in I456, 97 and the Earl of 

 Derby's rental for 1523 shows lands in Upper 

 Rawcliffe and Tarnacre. 98 It was reckoned as a 

 manor, for the manors of Great and Little Sowerby 

 occur in feoffments of the Derby estates. 99 The 

 manor is held together with the manor of Upper 

 RawclifFe by the present Earl of Derby, and courts 

 are held. 100 



LONGWORTH. Argent 

 three wolves' headi 

 erased sable. 



80 Assize R. 408, m. 73 d. 



81 For the tenants 1450-1537 see 

 Cockersand Chartul. iii, 1270-1. 



82 Pat. 36 Hen. VIII, pt. ii. 



83 See the account of Stidd. Richard 

 Shireburne held land in RawclifFe in 1628 ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvi, no. 4. 

 The family, however, had held lands much 

 earlier, for a pleading of 1334 already 

 cited shows that Sir Robert de Shireburne 

 held two messuages and half a plough- 

 land in Old Upper Rawcliffe a designa- 

 tion which has not been noticed again 

 and that Nicholas Boteler, Richard son of 

 Richard Travers, and Thomas son of 

 Thomas de Rigmaiden were also owners ; 

 Coram Rege R. 297, m. 103 d. 



84 In 1291 Richard son of William 

 de Eccleston claimed a toft, the moiety 

 of a water-mill and the fourth part 

 of a fishery against Geoffrey son of 

 William de Eccleston and John de Rig- 

 maiden, but did not succeed ; Assize R. 

 407, m. 3 d. In the following year 

 Roger de Wedacre claimed the moiety of 

 a water-mill against the same Richard 

 (whose father William had died in seisin) 

 and John de Rigmaiden, to whom Richard 

 had demised it ; ibid. 408, m. 63, 71. 



Alan son of William de Eccleston, 

 William son of Geoffrey de Whittingham, 

 Roger son of Alan de Rowall and Mar- 

 gery widow of Richard de Sale were 

 concerned in pleadings in 1292 ; ibid. 



m. 44, 3 2 > 54 d- 



In 1334 John son of Amice daughter 

 of Alan de Sowerby claimed messuages, 

 &c., in Upper Rawcliffe against John son 

 of Roger Tunnison and John de Birewath ; 

 De Banco R. 300, m. 70 d. ; 304, m. 45 d. 

 The Hornby family have been mentioned 

 in the account of the Kirkbys ; see also 

 Final Cone, ii, 145 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. 6, m. 2 d. 



There are a number of pleadings re- 



specting Tarnacre in Ducatus Lane. (Rec. 

 Com.), i (2), ii (3). 



In 1492 Agnet and Margery, daughters 

 and heirs of Richard Walton, had lands 

 in Upper Rawcliffe ; Pal. of Lane. Plea 

 R. 78, m. 4 d. Agnes married John son 

 and heir of Richard Boteler, and about 

 1528 her land in Upper Rawcliffe, Wood- 

 plumpton and Ncwsham was sold to 

 Bartholomew Hesketh ; ibid. 144, m. 

 19 d. ; 154, m. 5 d. 



85 William Walton of Walton-le-Dale 

 in 1638 had the reversion of a messuage, 

 &c., in Tarnacre ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xxv, no. 3 5, 49. From the pedigree 

 in the Visit, of 1613 (Chet. Soc.), 100, it 

 appears that this was inherited from 

 William's mother, Priscilla daughter of 

 John Cottam of Tarnacre and wife of 

 Thomas Walton. John Cottam was a 

 freeholder in 1 600 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 233. 



Thomas Eccleston in i 592 held three 

 messuages and land in Tarnacre ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvi, no. 38. 



James Raby died in 1635 holding a 

 messuage and land in Tarnacre of Robert 

 Viscount 'Kilnemurrie' and Eleanor his 

 wife (in her right) as of the manor of 

 Nether Wyresdale by knight's service ; 

 also, of the king, 2 acres improved from 

 the waste there. His son and heir Richard 

 was eight years of age ; ibid, xxviii, no. 22. 



86 Margaret Shuttleworth of Turnover 

 Hall, widow of William, in 1717 registered 

 her estate as a ' Papist ' ; Estcourt and 

 Payne, op. cit. 141. A later William 

 Shuttleworth died in 1745, leaving a son 

 Thomas (s.p.) and a daughter Margaret, 

 who married Thomas Westby of White 

 Hall ; Fishwick, op. cit. 167-8. 



87 The house was bequeathed to another 

 Thomas Westby, who died in 1830, 

 leaving it to three daughters ; ibid. 



88 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxix, 



272 



no. 8 1. This family is stated to have 

 been the senior branch of the more con- 

 spicuous (Protestant) family of Blackburne 

 of Orford and Hale ; Dugdale, Visit. 36. 

 89 Cal. Com. for Comp. iv, 3178, 



3185. 



% Estcourt and Payne, op. cit. 92. 

 His wife Mary was daughter and heir of 

 Lawrence Livesey of Ravenhead. 



91 Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, 234, 

 from R. i and 2 of Geo. II at Preston. 



93 Ibid, iii, 354, from R. 22 of Geo. II. 



93 Ibid, i, 361. 



94 Dugdale, Visit. 190 ; Piccope MSS. 

 ii, 244. According to this, Ralph Long- 

 worth, d. c. 1634, was the first of Upper 

 Rawcliffe -s. Richard, d. 1660 -s. Thomas 

 -s. Richard, who married Fleetwood 

 daughter and co-heir of Edward Shuttle- 

 worth of Larbreck, by Alice daughter and 

 heir of John Woodhouse of Larbreck 

 -s. Edward -s. Ralph. A letter from 

 R. Longworth, St. Michael's, 1690, is 

 printed in Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, 

 App. iv, 247. 



95 Lands in Upper Rawcliffe and Little 

 Sowerby are named among the Boteler 

 possessions in 1333 ; De Banco R. 295, 

 m. 102. See also ibid. 287, m. 307 d. 

 The tenure is not recorded in the inquisi- 

 tions beyond the statement that these 

 (with others) were held of the king ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. viii, no. 8. 



Among their charters was a grant by 

 Thomas de Galwayth in 1386 to Roger 

 de Birewath of lands in Little Sowerby in 

 the vill of Upper Rawcliffe 5 Dods. MSS. 

 liii, fol. gob. 



96 Kuerden MSS. iv, 83. 



97 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 63. 



98 Rental at Lathom. 



99 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 175 

 (1665), m. 143 ; 260 (1708), m. 53. 



100 Information of Mr. Windham E. 

 Hale. 



