A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



purchased by John Wilson-Patten, afterwards Lord 

 Winmarleigh. 



Nateby Hall, now occupied as a farm-house, 

 stands in a sheltered position surrounded by a belt 

 of trees, but is a building of no architectural interest, 

 the greater part having been destroyed by fire about 

 1 870 and the remainder modernized. The exterior is 

 stuccoed and all the windows are modern sashes. 283 

 In the garden is a fine mulberry tree. 



In Little Nateby is Bowers House, built about 

 1627 by Richard Green. 29 He or his son Richard, 

 as ' a Papist delinquent,' had his estate sequestered 

 under the Commonwealth, 30 and at last sold by the 

 Act of i653. 31 It seems to have been part of the 

 endowment of the Savoy Hospital. 



The house, though to some extent modernized, 

 preserves a good deal of its original appearance. 

 The building is of three stories with a middle and 



house doubtless possessed originally some architectural 

 features, but, though these have been lost, it retains 

 some degree of picturesqueness, added to by the 

 dwarf fence wall and tall stone gate piers in front, 

 the latter with large ball finials. The chapel is said to 

 have been in the top room in one of the gables. On 

 the lintel of an outbuilding now used as a wash-house 

 are the date 1627 and the initials R. G., G. G., 

 referring to members of the Green family. 



A large part of the soil remained in the hands 

 of the lords of Nether Wyresdale, and in 1853 

 the Duke of Hamilton held 1,802 acres in Nateby 

 and the neighbourhood. This estate was pur- 

 chased by William Bashall of Farington Lodge for 



Among the recusants who in 1654 sought to com- 

 pound for their sequestrated two-thirds was John 

 Miller alias Atkinson of Nateby. 33 There were a 



BOWERS HOUSE 



projecting end wings, but the old mullioned windows 

 have given place in the front to modern insertions 

 and others have been blocked up. The walls are 

 whitewashed and the gables quite plain, being with- 

 out barge-boards or ornament of any kind. The 



number of convicted recusants in this township and 

 Winmarleigh after the Restoration. 34 Three brothers 

 of John Leyburne of Nateby registered estates as 

 'Papists' in 1717, viz. James (Croxteth), Nicholas 

 (Prestwood) and George (Nateby) ; the last was a 



28:1 There is a local legend of a subter- 

 ranean passage from Nateby Hall to 

 Bowers House. 



19 Fishwick, op. cit. 2523. In 1631 

 Richard Green of Garstang compounded 

 for refusing knighthood ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 222. 



Thomas Bower died in 1557 holding a 

 messuage, &c., in Garstang, held partly 

 of the queen as of her manor of Nether 

 Wyresdale by knight's service and zs. j\d. 

 rent, and partly of the queen in socage 

 by 31. $d. rent. His heir was a daughter 



Margaret, a year old ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xiii, no. 29. Another inquisi- 

 tion (later) gives a different account of 

 the tenure, viz. all was held of the queen 

 as of her castle of Lancaster in socage by a 

 rent of zs. id. and a pair of gauntlets value 

 t>\d. for castle ward. Margaret, the 

 daughter, was in 1570 the wife of Walter 

 Preston of Preston in Westmorland ; ibid, 

 xiii, no. 28. This may refer to Bower 

 House in Nateby. 



80 Royalist Comf. Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), iii, 95100. Richard Green 



310 



took part in the burning of Lancaster by 

 the Royalists ; Cal. Com. for Comf. i, 21. 



31 Index of Royalists (Index Soc.), 42. 

 The estate appears to have been recovered 

 for the family, for in 1717 Agnes Green, 

 spinster, registered her leasehold estate at 

 Garstang as a ' Papist ' ; Estcourt and 

 Payne, Engl. Cath. Nonjurors, 141. 



32 Preston Guard. 21 Nov. 1874. 



83 Royalist Comf. Papers, iv, 139. 



84 Misc. (Cath. Rec. Soc.), v, 171-2; 

 in the notes will be found an account of 

 the Green family. 



