AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



GARSTANG 



1858, when the church in Bonds was opened. 41 The 

 old building is now a public institute. 



KIRKLAND 



Kirkelund, 1246; Kyrkelund, 1254; Kyrkelond, 

 1292; Kyrkeland, 1331. 



This township is bounded on two sides by the 

 Wyre, which flows south and then turns sharply to 

 the west at a point where it is joined by the Calder 

 from the east ; on its north bank is situated the old 

 parish church, nearly two miles south of Garstang. 

 The hamlet called Churchtown adjoins. The hall is 

 somewhat to the north of it, and Humblescough lies 

 in the north-west corner. The area measures 974^ 

 acres, 1 and in 1901 there was a population of 274. 



The principal road follows the course of the river 

 from Garstang to St. Michael's ; there is a bridge 

 somewhat to the west of the bend named above, by 

 which there is a connexion with the main road to 

 Preston. The surface is in general level and lies 

 low, the highest ground, about 50 ft. above the 

 ordnance datum, being near the eastern edge. 



The dead-wood of ' Kirkelund ' is mentioned in a 

 charter made before 1245.' There is now very 

 little wood in the township, the land being mostly in 

 pasture. The soil is gravelly, with subsoil of sand 

 and clay. 



A large boulder stone lying about half a mile from 

 the church is called Crappencrop. It is said to 

 have been thrown from the church tower and to 

 turn round when the bells ring. The spot was con- 

 sidered haunted. 3 



The township is administered by a parish council. 



The village cross has a sundial. 4 



Sir Edward Frankland, a distinguished chemist, 

 was born at Churchtown in 1825. After a long 

 and brilliant career he died in Norway in 1899.* 



This formed part of the lordship of 

 M4NOR Nether Wyresdale. All his land of 

 KIRKL4ND was by William de Lan- 

 caster III granted to Robert the Tailor and his 

 heirs, 6 with other land adjacent and free fishery in 

 all waters within his demesne of Wyresdale. 7 The 

 Tailors were sometimes styled ' de Kirkland.' The 

 manor descended regularly 8 to William de Kirkland, 

 who died in 1361 holding various lands of that 

 moiety of the manor of Wyresdale which had 

 belonged to William de Coucy by the service of \d. 

 or half a pound of cummin yearly. He had three 

 daughters, and his wife Margaret was pregnant at his 

 death, 9 but the child if a son must have died early, 

 as Kirkland passed with the eldest daughter Alice to 

 her husband John Boteler and their issue. 10 The 

 descent is not clearly established, 11 but William 

 Boteler died in I 505 holding the manor of Kirkland 



41 Fishwick, op. cit. 121. 



1 975 acres, including 1 1 of inland 

 water; Census Rep. 1901. 



2 Cockersand Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), i, 

 280. 



3 Hewitson, Our Country Churches, 4.49. 

 * Lanes, and Ches, Antiq. Soc. xx, 203. 



The bases of the churchyard cross and 

 Hagwood cross remain ; ibid. 200, 204. 



5 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



6 Dods. MSS. Ixii, fol. 89. 



7 Ibid. William de Lancaster died in 

 1246 and among the gifts he made on his 

 death-bed was one of 56 acres of arable 

 land in the townfields of Kirkland (worth 

 i8j. 8</. a year) and of the wood of Kirk- 

 land (worth 20$.) ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 165. 



In 1253-4 Hilda widow of Robert the 

 Tailor claimed dower in Kirkland against 

 Agnes widow of William de Lancaster 

 and in Ravenmeols against William del 

 Well; Curia Regis R. 154, m. 10. 



8 John de Kirkland in 1253-4 gave 

 the king 201. for an assize of mort 

 d'ancestor ; Orig. R. 38 Hen. Ill, m. 10. 

 John son of Robert the Tailor paid 

 i mark for an assize in 1269 ; Excerptae 

 Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii, 490. John the 

 Tailor was defendant in 1 278 ; De Banco 

 R. 23, m. 62. William son of Alan de 

 Cathirton in 1285 released to John son 

 of Robert le Tailor of Kirkland all claim 

 in forty pigs which of right he should 

 have in the wood of Kirkland by inherit- 

 ance ; Dods. MSS. Ixii, fol. 90. 



John son of John the Tailor about 

 1285 confirmed a charter granting the 

 dead-wood of Kirkland to the abbey of 

 Cockersand, for which they allowed him 

 and his successors to approve parcels of 

 wood, waste and pasture in Garstang 

 within the bounds of Kirkland ; one 

 piece lay between Ounespool and Pilling 

 Moss and between Humblescough and 

 the Wyre ; another 4 acres lay in parcels 

 from John's manor-house to the gate 

 called the Lodyat, leading to Howath 

 Bridge, also 6 acres by his manor in the 



Hallhursts. Rights of way were allowed 

 to the canons, including one within 

 Kirkland Wood to Fildingford and thence 

 to Pilling Moss ; Cockersand Chartul. 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 26971. Oak trees are 

 named as growing in the wood. Ounes- 

 pool seems to be the brook falling into 

 the Wyre a quarter of a mile west of 

 Garstang Church. Sir Henry de Lea was 

 then sheriff ; Dods. MSS. Ixii, fol. 90*. 



In 1292 John the Tailor of Kirkland 

 was non-suited in a claim for common of 

 pasture in Garstang against Ralph de 

 Catterall ; Assize R. 408, m. i d. This 

 appears to have been the elder John, for 

 John son of Robert the Tailor was plaintiff 

 in 1294; Assize R. 1299, m. 16, i6d. 

 In 1298 William de Wedacre complained 

 that John son of Robert the Tailor had 

 taken his goods at Kenandesaker and did 

 not perform a covenant about messuages, 

 &c., in Garstang; De Banco R. 122, 

 m. 141, 113 d. 



In 1306 John the Tailor of Kirkland 

 released to William le Gentyl common of 

 pasture ; Dods. MSS. Ixii, fol. 90^. The 

 monks of Leicester in 1327 demised to 

 John the Tailor of Kirkland perhaps 

 the same or a son Margaret his wife 

 and William his eldest son a messunge 

 and land situate partly in Boulandwra by 

 Kirkland ; Dods. MSS. Ixx, fol. 161. 

 John and William had previously granted 

 a release of the same ; ibid, cviii, fol. 115. 

 John the Tailor held of William de 

 Coucy by knight's service in 1346 ; Inq. 

 p.m. 20 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 63. In 

 1349 the feoffees granted the manor of 

 Kirkland to John the Tailor and Margaret 

 his wife with remainders to William de 

 Kirkland and his brothers John, Nicholas, 

 Lawrence and Robert ; Dods. MSS. Ixii, 

 fol. 90. At the same time the feoffees 

 gave lands to three younger brothers in 

 Woodslac, Gildouscroft, Halecroft, &c., 

 Kuerden MSS. iv, K 19. It appears 

 safe to assume that the William son of 

 John the Tailor of 1327 was the William 

 de Kirkland of 1349. 



313 



9 Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 102. 

 He had a messuage and 60 acres in Kirk- 

 land, worth 6os. a year ; also 10 marks 

 rent from tenants at will. He had given 

 his manor, &c., to trustees for his wife 

 (for her life) and then for his daughters 

 in succession Alice, Joan and Katherine. 

 The trustees made a grant accordingly ; 

 Kuerden, loc. cit. 



Various inquiries as to the descent of 

 the manor were made in 1365 and later. 

 From these it appears that Margaret the 

 widow married John Boteler, that the 

 daughters were aged five, three and one 

 respectively at the father's death, and 

 that the charter granting the manor to 

 the widow was suspected but proved 

 good ; Memo. R. (Q.R.) 143 ; (L.T.R.) 

 130, xxix ; 131. 



10 A settlement of the manor of 

 Kirkland and i6d. of rent in Garstang 

 was made by John Boteler and Alice his 

 wife in 1392. The remainder was to 

 the sons of Alice, and in default to 

 Margaret daughter of Alice and John and 

 to her sisters Joan, Katherine, Ellen, 

 Elizabeth and Isabel, &c. Nicholas de 

 Kirkland was still living ; Final Cone. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 39. In 

 1397 the feoffees granted to Alan son of 

 William de Warburton and Margaret his 

 wife, daughter of John Boteler of 

 Kirkland, all the lands in Claughton, 

 with the whole demesne, which they had 

 received from Alan, with remainders to 

 Robert de Blackburn of Arley, to John 

 son of William de Bradkirk, to William 

 son of Thomas Rigmaiden, and to the 

 right heirs of Joan de Fetherby ; Dods. 

 MSS. Ixii, fol. gob. 



11 The next in possession after John 

 and Alice was Richard Boteler, at one 

 time (1420 onward) escheator in the 

 county, but his paternity is not stated in 

 the notices of him ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Chet. Soc.), i,i 33. In 1400-1 Boniface IX 

 granted a dispensation for the marriage 

 of Richard Boteler of Kirkland with 

 Elizabeth daughter of Sir John Boteler 



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