A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



the inquisitions 28 and the sequestrations of the 

 Commonwealth period. 29 



In connexion with the Church of England 

 St. Luke's was built in 1876 and enlarged in iSSj. 30 

 The patronage is vested in the Hon. Misses Ellinor 

 and Elizabeth Wilson-Patten, daughters of Lord 

 Winmarleigh. 



NATEBY 



Natebi, Nateby, 1204. 



Nateby is a level and low-lying township, the 

 highest land, on the eastern side, not rising much 

 above 70 ft. over sea level. The small hamlet of 

 Nateby lies near the centre of the township, but the 

 hall is near the northern border. The area measures 

 2,087 acres, 1 and in 1901 the population was 297. 



Along the eastern border goes the road from 

 Garstang to Cockerham, while through the centre 

 goes that from Garstang to Pilling. The single-line 

 railway between these places also runs through the 

 township, and has a station called Nateby. The 

 Preston and Lancaster Canal crosses the north-east 

 portion. 



The old divisions into Great and Little Nateby 

 are now forgotten. The former was in the north 

 and the latter in the south. 



Wheat and oats are grown, but more than half 

 the land is in pasture. The soil is light with clay 

 subsoil. Tiles are made. 



The township is governed by a parish council. 



Sir Roger Strickland, admiral and Jacobite, was a 

 son of Walter Strickland of Nateby. He was born 

 in 1640, and died at St. Germains in 1717.* 



As a part of Wyresdale NATEBT was 

 M4NOR held by the Lancaster family and their 

 successors. William de Lancaster II, who 

 died in 1 1 84, granted an oxgang of land there to 

 Hugh the Northman. A rent of 4;. was to be paid, 

 but all easements and common rights of the vill of 

 Garstang, ' both within the Wyre and without,' were 

 allowed. 2 * William de Lancaster III gave the lord- 

 ship of Nateby, or part of it, to his clerk Gilbert de 

 Garstang, as pertaining to land in Scotforth. 3 



The oxgang named appears to have been in Great 

 Nateby. The owners adopted the local surname, 

 and in 1292 William son of Ralph de Nateby sold 

 his estate to Lawrence son of Lawrence Travers. 4 

 This was afterwards transferred by Lawrence to his 

 brother Thomas. 8 It descended in this family, who 

 also held part of the manors or lands in Ribbleton, 

 Tulketh, Esprick and Trunna in Thornton down to 

 the time of Charles I. In 1 347, however, the tenants 

 of William de Coucy for this part of Wyresdale 

 were stated to be John de Pleasington for I oxgang 

 of land in Great Nateby, Robert de Pleasington and 

 Robert de Bour (Bower) for an oxgang in Little 

 Nateby, all holding by knight's service. 6 Little 

 Nateby, which was later held by Travers, was probably 

 the messuage and 40 acres in Nateby claimed by 

 William de Layton from Ingram de Gynes and 

 Christiana his wife in 1292. Their defence was a 

 technical one that Nateby was not a vill. 7 



Thomas Travers in 1308 transferred an oxgang of 

 land in Garstang to his son John, 8 while two years 

 later John Travers surrendered 2 oxgangs of land 

 there to Thomas Travers and Alice his wife, with 

 remainders to Lawrence and Alexander sons of 



88 For Rowall and Rigmaiden see earlier 

 notes. John Sale or Saule compounded 

 for refuiing knighthood in 1631 ; Misc. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 222. He 

 died in 1634 holding a messuage, &c., in 

 Gargtang and Winmarleigh of Dutton 

 Lord Gerard as of his manor of Winmar- 

 leigh. Christopher his son and heir was 

 thirty-two years of age ; Towneley MS. C 8, 

 13 (Chet Lib.), 1087. 



William Ambrose of Woodplumpton 

 had land in Garstang in 1421 ; Final 

 Cone, iii, 79. It wat perhaps in Winmar- 

 leigh, for William Ambrose and John 

 Kuerden sold a messuage, &c., there to 

 John Rigmaiden in 1567 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 29, m. 58. 



49 Anne Molyneux had two-thirds of 

 her tenement sequestered for recusancy, 

 and died in 1654, the heirs at law being 

 William Latus of Catterall, Dorothy his 

 wife and John Goose of Winmarleigh. 

 She had in 1652 devised her estate to 

 Robert Pleasington of Garstang. There 

 was a suspicion that this was on trust for 

 some priest or delinquent or convicted 

 recusant, but one John Charnock of Cabus, 

 a Protestant and communicant at Garstang 

 Church, claimed ; Royalist Comp. Papers 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iv, 1403. 



30 A district was assigned to it in 1876 ; 

 Land. Ga-z. 5 Dec. 



1 2,088 acres, including 12 of inland 

 water} Census Rep. 1901. 



8 Diet. Nat. Siog. 



3 * Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 77 ; Robert 

 son of Bernard was a witness (dead in 

 1206). Another version of the charter 

 (or perhaps a different grant) is in Kuerden 

 MSS. iv, G 3^>. It gives the bounds as 

 beginning where Rosnyt descends into 



Pilling Moss, and going by various sykes, 

 moor, moss and wood till the ford of 

 Winmarleigh was touched, thence down 

 to Stockenbridge and to Pilling Moss. 



It is possible, if not probable, that the 

 two plough-lands in Scotforth granted to 

 Hugh by William de Lancaster I (Lanes. 

 Inq. and Extents [Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.], i, 4) included the whole or part 

 of Nateby. 



3 Dods. loc. cit. ; in a letter addressed 

 to William rector of Garstang, who 

 occupied land in Nateby. Scotforth and 

 Nateby occur togather in fines of 1 204, 

 by which Hawise wife of Gilbert Fitz 

 Reinfred secured the third part of two 

 plough-lands there ; Final Cone. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 22-3. 



4 Kuerden, loc. cit. ; ' Rosnyt ' is here 

 spelt ' Rasich.' The date is fixed by the 

 accompanying fine ; Final Cone, i, 175. 

 On the same day William de Nateby 

 obtained a release of what appears to be 

 the same tenement from Roger de 

 Wedacre ; ibid. 173. A pleading of the 

 same year shows that Roger was brother 

 and heir of Hugh son of Robert son of 

 Paulin brother and heir of Robert, who 

 had held the same in the time of King 

 John. Roger appears to have proved his 

 right in the court of Ingram de Gynes 

 held at Garstang in 1286 ; Assize R. 408, 

 m. 69. The last-named Robert was 

 probably the rector of Garstang. 



John son of William de Nateby and 

 William de Nateby occur in 1308-9; 

 Assize R. 423, m. 4. 



5 Dods. and Kuerden, loc. cit. ; the 

 date was between 1298 and 1302, Master 

 Richard de Hoghton, then sheriff, 

 attesting. Thomas Travers was sheriff 



308 



in 1302-6; P.R.O. List, 72. In 1301 

 Isabel widow of William de Nateby 

 complained that Lawrence Travers and 

 others had disseised her of a messuage, an 

 oxgang of land, &c., in Garstang, and 

 Lawrence replied that he had found that 

 she and her husband, being childless, had 

 desired to enfeoff Thomas Travers of the 

 same, and he had taken possession ; Assize 

 R. 1321, m. 10 ; 418, m. 13. After the 

 grant to his brother Lawrence in 1301 

 wrote to Isabel to direct her in future to 

 render to Thomas the services she had 

 hitherto rendered to himself ; Dods. loc. cit. 

 In 1300 Thomas Travers, Cecily his 

 wife and Alexander their son were 

 defendants to a claim for a messuage, &c., 

 in Garstang made by Benedict son of 

 Ralph de Nateby; De Banco R. 131, m. 

 33d. The same three with a daughter 

 Margaret were in 1301 defendants to a 

 like claim by Roger de Brockholes and 

 others ; Assize R. 419, m. 13. 



6 Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), 

 no. 63. A Robert de Bure (Bower) claimed 

 common of pasture in Garstang against 

 the Abbot of Leicester and others in 1301 

 and later; Assize R. 1321, m. 12 ; 418, 

 m. 4, 14. Robert son of Adam del Boure 

 was in 1317 summoned to warrant Roger 

 de Wedacre, against whom Alice widow 

 of Adam son of Robert del Boure was 

 claiming dower in certain messuages, &c., 

 in Garstang ; De Banco R. 2 1 8, m. 1 54 d. ; 

 221, m. 16. 



Little Nateby in the town of Garstang 

 occurs in a plea Wedacre v. Catherton in 

 1352 ; Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 2, m. I. 



7 Assize R. 408, m. 42 d. 



8 Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 89*. John 

 Travers restored the same to Thomas his 



