AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



GARSTANG 



Thomas. 9 Thomas son of Lawrence Travers was in 

 1331 contracted to marry Eleanor daughter of John 

 de Kirkby, 10 but Lawrence was still living in I339- 11 

 Thomas son of Lawrence Travers in 1349 g rante d 

 to John his son and heir and to Alice daughter of 

 Robert de Pleasington a windmill and lands in 

 Stanah in Thornton, Ribbleton, Ashton, Elswick and 

 Ingol, and in default of issue to his other sons 

 Lawrence, Edmund, Thomas, Roger, William and 

 Richard. 12 John Travers died in 1361 holding 

 lands, &c., in Tulketh, Ribbleton, Thornton and 

 Winmarleigh in the vill of Garstang, this last being 

 held of the moiety of the manor of Wyresdale for- 

 merly William de Coucy's, by a rent of 4/. 13 His 

 son and heir Roger was eight years old. Roger 

 occurs from 1389 to 1420. 14 His son Thomas was 

 forty years old in I429, 18 and appears to have been 

 still in possession in I448. 16 Robert son of Lawrence 

 Travers was in 14523 contracted to marry Katherine 

 daughter of Richard Radcliffe of Clitheroe. 17 At 

 this point there is a defect in the evidence. 18 



William Travers died on 28 July 1524 holding 

 messuages, &c., in Nateby and other places, having in 

 the May previous bequeathed * the whole manor of 

 Nateby ' to his wife Margaret for her life, two tene- 

 ments only being excepted. The Nateby lands were 

 said to be held of the king in socage by the rent of 

 \i. yearly. The heir was a son Lawrence, aged 



thirteen. 19 William Travers, said to have been a 

 younger brother of Lawrence, succeeded, dying in 

 July 1558 in possession of the capital messuage 

 called Nateby and lands, &c., there held of the queen 

 as of her manor of Nether Wyresdale in socage by a 

 rent of 4J. 20 His son and heir Richard, then fifteen 

 years of age, died in April 1576 holding in addition 

 a messuage in Little Nateby in Garstang of the queen as 

 of her castle of Lancaster in socage by a rent of zs. id. 

 and a pair of gauntlets worth 6^. The heir was 

 again a minor, being his son William, aged thirteen. 21 

 A pedigree recorded in 1 6 1 3 22 enables the descent 

 to be carried a little further. William Travers and 

 Richard his son in 1626 sold the manor to George 

 Preston of Holker, 23 and he gave it to a younger son 

 George Preston, who had a command in the royal 

 army in the Civil War and was killed at Bradford. 24 

 His son George in i654 2S transferred it to Walter 

 Strickland of Sizergh ; his son Robert gave it to 

 George Leyburne of Cunswick, who had married a 

 daughter of George Preston. The new owner 

 resided at Nateby, and was in 1 704 succeeded by his 

 son John Leyburne. Being a Jacobite, he joined the 

 Highland force in 1715, and his estates were con- 

 fiscated. 26 Nateby was re-purchased, and through 

 a sister descended to Michael Anne of Frickley, and 

 was by him sold in i8o6. 27 After passing through 

 the hands of several owners 28 it was in 1868 



father and Alice his wife ; Kuerden, loc. 

 cit. John Travers in 1323-4 was author- 

 ized to grant lands in Bolton-le-Sands, &c., 

 to his daughter Katherine ; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlix, fol. 78^. 



9 Final Cone, ii, 8 ; the following put 

 in claims Ingram de Gynes and 

 Christiana his wife, Gilbert de Lindsay, 

 Isolda widow of John de Rigmaiden and 

 Lawrence Travers the elder. 



From the accounts of Ashton near 

 Preston and Ribbleton it will be seen that 

 Lawrence Travers the younger married 

 Aline daughter and co-heir of Henry de 

 Haydock, and so acquired lands in those 

 townships. 10 Kuerden, loc. cit. 



11 Ibid. The account of Stanah shows 

 that Thomas Travers was in possession in 

 1346. 



13 Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 78*. John 

 Travers occurs at Ribbleton in 1362. 



13 Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, no. 52. 



14 Roger was a juror in 1389-90; 

 Lanes. Inq, p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 38. In 

 1402 he made a settlement of the manor 

 of Nateby, lands in Preston and Elswick 

 and the reversion of the fourth part of the 

 manor of Ashton ; the remainders were 

 to his sons Thomas and John, and in 

 default of male issue to Katherine 

 daughter of Roger and Alice, formerly 

 his wife, daughter of John de Thornton ; 

 Kuerden, loc. cit. (Two versions are 

 given ; in one John is called son not 

 brother of Thomas.) Thomas seems to 

 have been in possession as early as 1415 ; 

 account of Ribbleton. As late as 1420, 

 however, the feoffees regranted to Roger 

 Travers of Nateby and Joan his wife the 

 manor of Tulketh with remainder to 

 Thomas the son of Roger ; Dunken- 

 halgh D. 



ls Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 25. 

 In 1430 the Archdeacon of Richmond 

 gave licence to Thomas Travers to have 

 an oratory at Nateby ; Raines MSS. (Chet. 

 Lib.), xxii, 407. 



16 Thomas occurs at Ribbleton in 

 1445. In 1447 Nicholas Boteler of Raw- 



cliffe claimed a debt of 10 marks from 

 Thomas Travers of Nateby, 'gentleman.' 

 The defendant pleaded that he was very 

 illiterate, and being told that the promise 

 to pay was conditional upon his son John 

 not submitting to arbitration regarding 

 certain trespasses he agreed to it. The 

 verdict was for the plaintiff ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 10, m. 26. Thomas Travers, 

 'esquire,' was defendant in 1448 ; ibid. 

 II, m. ib ; 12, m. 6. 



17 Kuerden MSS. iv, 64, no. 7. The 

 writ of diem cl. extr. after the death of 

 Robert Travers was issued in 1479 5 Add. 

 MS. 32108, no. 1413. 



18 The pedigree in Travers Family 

 (1864) states that Robert Travers died 

 147980 and was 'buried at Calais' 

 (Dods. MSS. Ixxxvii, fol. 1130), and left 

 a son Richard, ' buried in the north aisle 

 of the minster at Canterbury ' ; his son 

 was the William Travert who died in 

 1524. 



19 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, no. 62. 

 * Ibid, xi, no. 68. His will, recited in 



the inquisition, is printed in Fishwick's 

 Garstang (Chet. Soc.), 248-50 . 



21 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, no. 22 ; 

 the hall of Nateby and appurtenances were 

 held of Gilbert Gerard, attorney-general, 

 as of his manor of Nether Wyresdale, by 

 a rent of 41. See note 29 below. 



Richard Travers in 1574 obtained a 

 messuage, &c., in Nateby from Walter 

 Preston and Margaret his wife ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 36, m. 215. This 

 may have been Little Nateby. 



22 Visit, of 1613 (Chet. Soc.), 85. 

 William Travers was then living and 

 had a son Richard, twenty-three years 

 of age. 



23 This account of the descent is taken 

 from Fishwick, op. cit. 250-1, where 

 details are given from the title-deeds. 



24 Misc. (Cath. Rec. Soc.), i, 124. 

 Walter Strickland of Rydal in 1649, 



as cousin and heir, desired to compound 

 for an estate descending to him by the 

 death of George Preston in 1644. He 



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said he had always been well affected 

 towards the Parliament, but desired to 

 compound rather than attend the Com- 

 mittee of Sequestration. This was 

 allowed, 266 being the fine. After- 

 wards it was alleged that George Preston 

 had been ' a Papist in arms and an active 

 delinquent,' and that Strickland himself 

 was a sequestered delinquent. The latter 

 protested that a mistake had been made 

 between George Preston of Nateby and 

 George Preston of Holker, his father. 

 These difficulties delayed the discharge 

 until 1651 ; Cal. Com. for Comp. iii, 

 1888-9. 



25 In 1668 Robert Strickland obtained 

 the manor of Nateby, &c., against Francis 

 and Richard Biddulph ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 181, m. 35. 



26 Tyldesley Diary : Gillow, Bibl. Diet. 

 ofEngl. Cath. iv, 240. 



87 John Leyburne's sister Anne married 

 Thomas Walton of Winder. Their 

 daughter Elizabeth married (i) Thomas 

 Cholmley and (2) George Anne of Frickley ; 

 her daughter by the second marriage gave 

 the estate to her father absolutely. He 

 married (2) Mary Needham, and had sons 

 George and Michael the vendor ; Fish- 

 wick, op. cit. ; Burke, Landed Gentry. 



There was a recovery of the manor by 

 George Anne in 1783 ; Com. Pleas Recov. 

 R. East. 23 Geo. Ill, m. 91. There 

 was a fine concerning the manor in 1803, 

 Henry Maire v. Michael Anne ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Aug. Assizes, 43 Geo. III. 



88 Thomas Swarbrick and John Valen- 

 tine, purchasers in 1806, conveyed to 

 John Birley of Kirkham, who in 1818 

 sold to Thomas Butler-Cole of Kirkland. 

 In 1826 it was purchased by Richard 

 Thompson of Lancaster, whose daughter 

 Elizabeth married John Stewart. He and 

 his son sold it in 1868 ; Fishwick. 



In 1826 there was a fine concerning 

 the manor, Richard Thompson v. Thomas 

 Fawcett and wife and Richard Thompson 

 and wife ; Pal. of Lane. Fines, Aug. 7 

 Geo. IV. 



