A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



de Kighley and Ellen his wife obtained from Alice 

 widow of Richard le Boteler the manor of Inskip and 

 two-thirds of the manor of Great Eccleston. 5 Henry 

 de Kighley was knight of the shire in 1297, 1298 

 and 1 30 1. 6 Sir Richard de Kighley in 1330 settled 

 the manor of Inskip and other estates, with succession 

 to his son Gilbert and his heirs by Clemency his 

 wife. 7 



Gilbert de Kighley appears to have had a son 

 Sir Henry, 8 whose three sons John, Hugh and 

 Richard were in the remainder to ' Nicholas Manor ' 

 in Tyldesley in 1385.' Of these Richard 10 is prob- 

 ably the knight who was slain at Agincourt, 14I5, 11 

 and was followed by a son Henry, 12 who occurs down 

 to I446. 13 Then came another Richard, described as 

 son and heir of Henry in \<\.6j. u Sir Henry 

 Kighley 15 died in 1526 holding the manor of Inskip 

 with messuages and lands in Inskip and Eccleston of 

 the heir of Richard Eccleston in socage by the rent 

 of a barbed arrow. His grandson Henry Kighley, 

 aged thirty, was his heir. 16 The heir, who recorded 

 a pedigree in 1533," left a son Henry, who was dead 



in 1554, when his heir was a son also named 

 Henry. 18 This Henry Kighley proved to be the last 

 of his name; he died in July 1567, leaving two 

 daughters as heirs Anne, aged four years, and 



KIGHLEY. Argent a 

 feise sable. 



CAVENDISH. Sable 

 three stags' heads ca- 

 boshed argent. 



Katherine, aged four months. 19 The former married 

 William Cavendish, ancestor of the Dukes of Devon- 

 shire, and the latter married Thomas Worsley of 

 Booths.* On partition the manor of Inskip was 



5 Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 163-4; should Henry and 

 Ellen die without issue the manors were 

 to revert to Alice. In 1296 the same 

 Henry and his wife acquired a further 

 part of Great Eccleston and the manor 

 of Bedford in the parish of Leigh ; ibid. 

 1 8 1 2. The surname is derived from 

 Keighley in Yorkshire, where Sir Henry 

 de Kighley held six plough-lands in 1303 ; 

 Kirkbys Inq. (Surtees Soc.), 192-3. 



6 Pink and Beaven, Parl. Repre. of 

 Lanes, n, 12. 



7 Final Cone, ii, 193 ; the other estates 

 were a moiety of the manor of Great 

 Eccleston and the manor of Keighley. 

 The trustee in the settlement was Thomas 

 son of Henry de Kighley. Nicholas le 

 Boteler put in his claim. The manor of 

 Bedford was at the same time settled on 

 Gilbert and Clemency ; ibid. 77. Robert 

 and John, apparently other sons of the 

 same Richard, had land in Eccleston in 

 1326 ; ibid. 64. Sir Richard de Kighley 

 was in 1346-7 engaged in disputes with 

 Sir Nicholas le Boteler as to the manor of 

 Inskip; De Banco R. 347, m. 217 d. ; 

 349, m. n8d. He, with others, acted 

 in 1351 as surety for William de Balders- 

 ton, clerk ; Assize R. 431, m. I d. 



8 Gilbert de Kighley was in 1353 con- 

 cerned in a dispute as to a mill in Bed- 

 ford ; Assize R. 435, m. 5, 32. In 1356 

 he attested a Sowerby deed ; Add. MS. 

 32106, no. 3. 



Henry son of Gilbert de Kighley was, 

 together with Roger de Bradshagh of 

 Westleigh and others, charged in 1375 

 with wrongfully imprisoning Adam son 

 of Robert de Buckley the tlder at Pen- 

 nington ; De Banco R. 4157, m. 34 d. 



Henry de Kighley of Leigh was named 

 in a recognisance of debt in 1378 ; Add. 

 MS. 32108, no. 1657. 



Gilbert's brother was Nicholas de 

 Kighley, who was executor of Sir Richard's 

 will (1366-70) ; De Banco R. 423, 

 m. 318 ; 438, m. 344. Nicholas de 

 Kighley and Joan his wife transferred in 

 1378 various messuages and lands to 

 Robert [?de Urswick] ; they were situated 

 in Inskip, Great and Little Eccleston and 

 Elswick ; Final Cone, iii, 4. See the 

 account of Hapton in Whallcy. 



9 Final Cone, iii, 26. 



'" Richard' son of Sir Henry de Kighley 



in 1396 obtained the manor of Lightshaw 

 (ibid. 49), which descended like Inskip. 



Richard de Kighley is named in writs 

 in 1409 and 1411 ; Add. MS. 32108, 



no - IS95, 1533- 



Sir Richard de Kighley and Katherine 

 his wife, widow of Sir Peter Maulcverer, 

 occur in 1410 ; Final Cone, iii, 69. 



11 Nicolas, Agincourt (ed. 1827), 

 ccxxxii, ccxxxvi. 



12 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 1 1 6. 

 The lands in Inskip were said no doubt 

 wrongly to be held of the heir of Sir 

 William Boteler (of Warrington). Henry, 

 the heir, was twenty-four years old. 



Henry, as executor of his father, 

 rendered account of sums expended in 

 the Agincourt campaign ; Army Accts. 

 Exch. K.R. bdle 44, no. 29. Sir Richard 

 had taken in his retinue fifty Lancashire 

 bowmen at 6d. a day. One of them was 

 William Tailor of Inskip, who died at the 

 siege of Harfleur. 



A contemporary, Sir John Kighley, 

 was bailiif of Rouen in 1420, and is 

 otherwise mentioned ; Dep. Keeper's Ref>. 

 xlii, App. 388, &c. Sir Gilbert Kighley 

 also occurs ; ibid, xliv, App. 579. 



18 Henry Kighley was a trustee in 

 1432 and 1446 ; Final Cone, iii, 99, 113. 

 In 1473 tne executors of the will of 

 Henry Kighley were Constance the 

 widow and James, Ralph and Christopher 

 Kighley ; Pal. of Lane. Writs of Assize, 

 bdle. 13. 



14 Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. ioib ; in a 

 bond of 40 to abide by an arbitration 

 as to disputes with John Kirkby of Raw- 

 cliffe. Richard Kighley, esq., was plaintiff 

 respecting a tenement in Great Eccleston 

 in 1459 ; Pal. of Lane. Writs of Assize, 

 bdle. 5 (37 Hen. VI). He was a juror 

 in 1464 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), 



", 77- 



15 He was made a knight by Lord 

 Stanley during the Scottish expedition of 

 1482 ; Metcalfe, Bk. of Knights, 7. 



16 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vi, no. 44. 

 The heir was son of Richard son of Sir 

 Henry. The other Lancashire estates 

 were the manor of Lightshaw, with lands 

 in Golborne and Pemberton ; also others 

 in Bedford. 



17 Visit, of 1533 (Chet. Soc.), 92 ; his 

 wife was Cecily daughter of Thomas 

 Boteler of Bewsey, and his son Henry 



280 



had married Elizabeth daughter of Sir 

 Alexander Osbaldeston. 



18 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. x, no. 49 ; 

 it is noteworthy that the manor of Inskip, 

 called Inskip Hall, was stated to be in 

 the vill of Eccleston. The inquisition 

 recites the provision made by Henry the 

 father on his son's contract of marriage 

 (1523) with Elizabeth Ofbaldeston. His 

 father's widow was named Isabel ; she 

 had married Nicholas Tempest before 

 1552. Part of the younger Henry's will 

 is given, naming daughters Margaret and 

 Anne. Of these the former married 

 William Hulton. 



In 1552 an annuity of 30 wag 

 settled on Isabel Tempest for life ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 14, m. 97. 



19 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, no. 10 ; 

 the manor of Inskip, or Inskip Hall, 

 with messuages and lands in Eccleston 

 and Cross Moor, was held of the heir of 

 Richard son of Roger de Eccleston by 

 the rent of a barbed arrow. 



The will of Henry Kighley, 1567, 

 is printed in Richmond Wills (Surtees 

 Soc.), 198. He desired to be buried 

 in St. Michael's Church near the place 

 where his father was buried. Mary 

 his wife, Anne his daughter, Isabel 

 Tempest (widow of Henry Kighley his 

 grandfather) and Mr. Justice Carus his 

 father-in-law are named. He left ' to 

 every one of my servants and to every 

 one of my mother's servants at Light- 

 shaw one whole year's wages.' 



Elizabeth Kighley of Lightshaw, widow, 

 was a recusant in 1577 ; Gibson, Lydiate 

 Hall, 215, 217. 



80 A moiety of the manor of Inskip, 

 with view of frankpledge, &c., was in 

 1585 held by William Cavendish and 

 Anne his wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 47, m. 133. The other moiety was 

 in 1589 held by Thomas Worsley and 

 Katherine his wife ; ibid. bdle. 5i,m. 13. 

 An agreement seems to have been made 

 in 1 593; ibid. bdle. 55, m. 1 61, 1 80. In 

 1594-5 Thomas Worsley and Katherine 

 sold messuages in Inskip and Cross Moor 

 to John de Cardenas and Nicholas and 

 William Thompson ; ibid, bdles. 56, 

 m. 122 ; 57, m. n. 



John de Cardenas sold his land to 

 Sir Richard Shuttleworth in 1596 and it 

 descended with the Gawthorpe estates ; 



