AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



GARSTANG 



heirs were the representatives of his three sisters, 

 Helewise, Alice and Sarot, married respectively to 

 Peter de Brus, William de Lindsay and Alan de 

 Multon ; but the last-mentioned sister having no 

 children the Lancaster inheritance was divided 

 between Brus and Lindsay. 



The Brus moiety of Nether Wyresdale or Gar- 

 stang descended to Peter son of Peter and Helewise, 

 and on his death without issue in or before 1274 

 his four sisters were found to be co-heirs, namely 

 Margaret married to Robert de Ros, Lucy to 

 Marmaduke de Thweng, Agnes to Walter de 

 Fauconberg, and Ladarena to John de Bel'.ew. 9 

 Of these Margaret de Ros had Kcndal and appears 

 to have had little or nothing to do with Wyres- 

 dale 10 ; and the others, concerned chiefly in York- 

 shire, granted their rights to John de Rigmaiden, 

 who appears about 1290," and founded the family 

 of Rigmaiden of Wedacre or Woodacre, seated for 

 over three centuries in the adjacent township of 

 Barnacre. 



The Thweng family, however, remained for about 

 a century the nominal lords of part of Wyresdale. 1 * 

 Marmaduke de Thweng died in or before 1322 

 holding part of the Lancaster inheritance, but Wyres- 

 dale is not expressly named. 13 He left a son and heir 

 William, thirty years of age, who soon afterwards 

 began a long series of lawsuits concerning the lord- 

 ship and various lands against John son of John de 

 Rigmaiden and others. 14 It was in 1333 alleged for 

 the defence that Marmaduke de Thweng had alienated 

 the tenement in dispute to John de Rigmaiden and 



Isolda his wife before iz85. 15 William de Thweng 

 died in 1340 or 1341 holding die fourth part of a 

 knight's fee in Garstang, Ellel, Scotforth and Ashton 

 of the Earl of Lancaster, but 

 took no profit to his own use 

 beyond the rent payable to 

 the earl. His heir was his 

 brother Robert, aged forty- 

 six. 16 



Robert de Thweng died 

 within three years, leaving 

 another brother, Thomas, to 

 succeed him. 17 In 1346 

 Thomas son of Sir Marmaduke 

 de Thweng is found prose- 

 cuting the claim to the fourth 

 part of the manor of Garstang, 

 &c., already referred to. 18 He 

 died in 1374 holding four messuages, &c., in 

 Garstang, and leaving four nephews and nieces as 

 heirs. 19 Of their descendants Sir John Lumley 

 occurs in 1420 as holding the tenement in Garstang. 20 



The Fauconberg and Bellew families scarcely 

 appear in this lordship. Walter and William sons of 

 Walter de Fauconberg in the father's lifetime were 

 concerned in various local suits from 1276 to 1292." 

 John son of Walter de Fauconberg in 133343 

 claimed a rent of 10 from Garstang, alleging that 

 it had been granted by John de Rigmaiden in 1305 

 to his father Walter, lord of Whitton in Lincoln- 

 shire.** John's son, Sir Walter de Fauconberg, 

 renewed the claim in 135 1-2. 23 



THWENG, Argent a 

 Jesse gules between three 

 popinjays vert. 



9 Torks. Inq. (Yorks. Arch. Assoc.), j, 

 14750. For the Brus or Bruce of 

 Skelton family see Ord, Cleveland, 249-50. 



In 1278 Roger de Wedacre claimed a 

 messuage and lands in Garstang against 

 William dc Lindsay, who replied that he 

 had a share of the inheritance of William 

 de Lancaster in conjunction with Walter 

 de Fauconberg, Agnes his wife, Marma- 

 duke de Thweng, Lucy his wife, John de 

 Bellew, Ladareaa his wife and Margaret 

 de Ros. These were accordingly sum- 

 moned, Margaret being in Westmorland ; 

 De Banco R. 24, m. 50 d. The land 

 claimed may have been in Barnacre, 

 'Garstang' being used for the whole of 

 the fee within the parish. 



Later in the same year Richard de 

 Tresal (? Threlfal), Ellen his wife and 

 Agnes daughter of Warine de Blyth 

 claimed 60 acres in Garstang against John 

 le Tailor of Garstang (Kirkland), and 

 he called to warrant him the repre- 

 sentatives of William de Lancaster, viz. 

 William de Lindsay, Walter de Faucon- 

 berg, Agnes his wife, Marmaduke de 

 Thweng, Lucy his wife, Margaret de Ros, 

 Sibyl and Joan, daughters and heirs of 

 Ladarena de Bellew, which Sibyl and Joan 

 were under age and in custody of John de 

 Bellew, who lived in Yorkshire ; De 

 Banco R. 27, m. 41. Margaret de Ros 

 does not appear again in connexion with 

 Garstang. 



In 1292 Roger de Wedacre (a grandson 

 of Paulinus) claimed certain tofts, &c., 

 against Ingeram de Gynes, Christiana his 

 wife, Ada widow of William de Lindsay 

 and Walter son of Walter de Fauconberg ; 

 the trial was adjourned to the full age of 

 Lucy daughter of Robert de Thweng and 

 of Joan daughter of John de Bellew ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 38. Joan and her 

 elder sister Sibyl, wife of Miles de 



Stapleton, are named as heirs in 1292; 

 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 383. 



The Bellews do not appear again in 

 Wyresdale except in the statement as to 

 William de Coucy's court (1344) quoted 

 later. 



10 For the partition in 1281 see Cal. 

 Close, 1279-88, pp. 105-6. 



11 In 1290 Marmaduke de Thweng 

 and John de Rigmaiden were defendants 

 to a Garstang claim by one Robert de 

 Hasthorp ; Assize R. 1288, m. I3d. 

 From 1294 onwards John de Rigmaiden 

 appears to have been in sole occupation ; 

 Assize R. 1299, m. 16 ; De Banco R. 

 106, m. 145. In 1301 John and his wife 

 Isolda were stated to have a third part of 

 the lordship of the vill of Garstang ; 

 Assize R. 1321, m. 5 d. In 1309 Isolda, 

 as widow, called Marmaduke de Thweng 

 and Walter son of Walter de Fauconberg 

 to warrant certain land to her ; De Banco 

 R. 179, m. 164. 



13 Marmaduke son of Robert de 

 Thweng, according to later pleadings, 

 granted various lands in Wyresdale and 

 apparently a part of the lordship to his 

 son Marmaduke, which latter Marma- 

 duke had a son William, the plaintiff in 

 1333 ; Coram Rege R. 294, m. 47. The 

 first-named Marmaduke must have been 

 the husband of Lucy and father of the 

 Robert whose daughter Lucy was a Lan- 

 caster co-heir in 1292, as recorded above ; 

 ee Plac. de Quo Warr, loc. cit. 



13 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, ii, 147. 



14 The suits began in 1325 and lasted 

 for many years ; see De Banco R. 258, 

 m. 284 ; 264, m. 61 ; 275, m. 33 d. 



15 Coram Rege R. 294, m. 47. For 

 further details see De Banco R. 304, 

 m. 286 ; 305, m. 339 ; 323, m. 19 d. 



16 Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), 

 no. 4. Among other land he held a piece 



301 



of waste called Solam or Sulam in Garstang 

 (in Barnacre), named in later inquisitions 

 of the family. 



17 Inq. p.m. 18 Ed w. Ill (i st nos.), no. 45. 



18 De Banco R. 345, m. 2 d. ; the pedi- 

 gree is given as Marmaduke de Thweng 

 s. Marmaduke -s. Sir Marmaduke s. 

 Thomas. It appears that Robert and 

 Thomas were priests, the latter being rector 

 of Kirkleatham ; Ord, Cleveland, 269. 



19 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 4. 

 His three sisters (all dead) were Margaret 

 wife of Sir Robert de Hilton, Katherine 

 of Sir Ralph Daubeny and Lucy of Sir 

 Robert de Lumley. The first left two 

 daughters, Isabel wife of Sir Walter 

 Pedwardine and Maud, represented in 

 1374 by her son Sir John de Hotham ; 

 the second left a daughter Elizabeth wife 

 of Sir William de Botreux ; and the third 

 was represented by her grandson Robert 

 de Lumley (son of Marmaduke). 



20 Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Hen. VI, 

 no. 42 ; he held four messuages, &c., in 

 Garstang of John Duke of Bedford, also 

 a messuage in the same place called 

 Sulam, uncultivated. Thomas Lumley, 

 his son and heir, was aged twenty-two in 

 1431, when the inquiry was made. 



The Lumley estate in Wyresdale and 

 Cleveley was by Private Act of 1531 

 granted to the king in exchange for other 

 lands and given to his illegitimate son 

 Henry Duke of Richmond. This son 

 dying in 1536 the lands were granted to 

 Sir William Parr ; L. and P. Hen. Fill, 



*ii(0g- 795 (H). 



21 De Banco R. 13, m. 8 d. ; 17, 

 m. 89 d. ; 51, m. 48 d. ; 55, m. 45 ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. '3. 



22 De Banco R. 296, m. 188 ; 326, 

 m. 204 d. ; Assize R. 1435, m. 52. 



23 Duchy of Lane. Assize R. i, m. 4 

 (Mich.), 5 d. (Lent). 



