A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Royalists, 70 and in 1716 the estate was forfeited, 

 John Pleasington being convicted of high treason. 71 

 His uncle John Pleasington was a priest, residing 

 chiefly at Puddington Hall in Cheshire. In the 

 excitement created by the Gates Plot private malice 

 caused him to be denounced and arrested. It was 

 difficult to procure evidence against him, but three 

 former members of his flock who had become Pro- 

 testants swore to his having said mass and otherwise 

 exercised his office. He was thereupon condemned and 

 executed at Chester 19 July 1679. The cause of 

 his beatification was allowed to be introduced at 

 Rome in i886. 73 



LINGART, Lingard, or Lingarth is another estate 

 of which some particulars are on record. It belonged 

 in part to the abbey of Cockersand, 74 and gave a surname 

 to the family holding it. 75 A branch of the Faring- 

 tons succeeded 76 ; a pedigree was recorded in 1567." 



Few other references to the township occur. 78 An 

 inclosure award was made in ijjz. 73 



In 1689 the Presbyterians had a licensed meeting- 

 place in Barnacre and the Quakers one in Wedacre.' 

 These do not seem to have resulted in permanent 

 buildings. In 1828, however, a meeting-house for 

 the Society of Friends was built in Bonds, near 

 Calder Bridge, and it continues to be used. 81 



The Roman Catholic church of St. Mary and 

 St. Michael was built in 1 8 5 8 in Bonds, near Garstang 

 Bridge, to replace the older chapel in Garstang. 88 



CATTERALL 



Catrehala, Dom. Bk. ; Catrehal, 1272; Kater- 

 halle, 1277 ; Caterhale, Caterale, 1292. 



Catterall lies along the southern bank of the Calder 

 and the Wyre, with Rohall at the extreme west ; it 

 has a detached portion, 1 in which is Landskill, some 

 distance to the north-east. This detached part lies 

 upon the slope of Bleasdale Fell, and a height of 

 745 ft. above sea level is reached on the east ; but 

 the main portion of the township is low-lying and 

 comparatively level, though the surface rises a little 

 from west to east. The area is 1,741^ acres, 2 and in 

 1901 the population was 317. 



The principal road, on which the village is situated, 

 is that from Preston to Garstang and the north. The 

 London and North-Western main line crosses the 

 eastern end, as does the canal from Preston to 

 Lancaster. 



The detached portion above named was in 1887 

 added to Barnacre with Bonds. 3 In it is the hamlet 

 known as Calder Vale, founded in 1835 by Richard 

 and Jonathan Jackson, who built a cotton-mill by the 

 river and added houses for the workpeople. 4 



In the main part of the township a little wheat 

 and oats are grown, but the land is mostly in pasture. 

 The soil is heavy, with clay subsoil. A century ago 

 there were large cotton-printing works at Calder 

 Bridge, but they were given up in i83O. 5 



A parish council governs the township. 



Earl Tostig held CATTERALL in 

 MANORS 1 066 as part of the lordship of Preston ; it 

 was assessed as two plough-lands. 6 After- 

 wards it was included in the Garstang or Nether 

 Wyresdale fee held by the Lancaster family and their 

 successors. 7 William de Lancaster II gave two 

 plough-lands in Halecath and Catterall to Bernard 

 son of Eilsi, and in 1212 Richard son of Swain (de 



70 Robert Pleasington's estate calle.l 

 Dimples Farm was confiscated and sold 

 by the Parliament in 1652 ; Index of 

 Royalists (Index Soc.), 43. Ralph Long- 

 worth had purchased it in 1653 ; Cal. 

 Com. for Comp. iv, 3 1 34. In the fol- 

 lowing year Robert Pleasington, who is 

 described as ' of Kirkland in Garstang,' 

 desired to contract on the recusants' Act for 

 two-thirds of his sequestered estate ; ibid. 



71 Fish wick, op. cit. 232, where the 

 subsequent history of Dimples is thus 

 traced : 1719, William Greenhalgh of 

 Myerscough ; 1736, by will to Edward 

 Styth of Great Eccleston, who took the 

 name of Greenhnlgh and d. 1769 -a. 

 James, d. 1799 s. Edward, who sold to 

 Henry Fielding s. Henry Barrow Fielding 

 in 1852 sold to Jonathan Jackson, one of 

 the founders of the Quakers' meeting- 

 house near Dimples. It remains in his 

 family (see note 56). 



72 Challoner, Missionary Priests, no. 201. 

 He was ' indicted of high treason for 

 having taken orders in the Church of 

 Rome and remaining in this kingdom 

 contrary to the statute of 27 Elizabeth.' 

 His last speech is given. 



73 Pollen, Acts of Martyrs, 382. 



74 Walter de Fauconberg (about 1280) 

 granted to the abbey the service of 

 Walter de Lingart for his whole tenement 

 in Garstang, his rent being half a mark ; 

 Cockersand Chartul. i, 60. The rent of 

 6s. 8</. was in 1451 paid by the heir of 

 John Lingart and in 1501 by Henry 

 Farington ; ibid, iii, 1272, &c. 



75 Walter de Lingart was living in 

 1276 ; De Banco R. 15, m. 41. John 

 son of John de Lingart made complaint 

 of waste by Ellen widow of John de 



Lingart in 1306 ; ibid. 1 60, m. 289. 

 Probably the same John, a minor, made a 

 release to the Abbot of Cockersand in 

 1313; Kuerden MSS. iv, G 4. William 

 de Thweng in 1332 claimed land in 

 Garstang against John de Lingart, Isolda 

 his wife and others ; De Banco R. 290, 

 m. 273 d. 



In 1347 John de Lingart held 2 ox- 

 gangs of land of the lord of Nether Wyres- 

 dale (the Coucy moiety) by knight's ser- 

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

 no. 63. 



The feoffees in 1356 gave a messuage, 

 &c., in Garstang to Robert son of John 

 de Lingart and Christiana his wife ; 

 Kuerden, loc. cit. Five years later the 

 same Robert granted a messuage to 

 Richard his brother and Roger de Cocker- 

 ham ; ibid. John son of Robert de 

 Lingart and Ellen his wife made a feoff- 

 ment in 1416 ; ibid. Edmund son of 

 John Lingart in 1421 became bound to 

 the Abbot of Cockersand ; ibid. In the 

 same year John son of Robert de Lingart 

 made a feoffment of his estate in Gar- 

 stang and Little Eccleston ; Brockholes D. 



76 Alice (or Cecily) wife of Henry 

 Farington was in possession in 1461 ; ibid. 

 In 1537-8 the Abbot of Cockersand made 

 a grant of the wardship of Henry son and 

 heir of Nicholas Fnrington deceased ; 

 Kuerden MSS. iv, W5i. Thomas son 

 of Henry Farington died in or about 

 1592, bequeathing to Richard Whitting- 

 ham of Goosnargh his brother ; ibid, and 

 G4- From other deeds here preserved it 

 appears that there ensued a division be- 

 tween Whittingham and John Farington 

 of York (brother of Henry), and that 

 both portions were in 1601 sold to James 



320 



Anderton of Clayton. It is named in his 

 inquisition, 1630 ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m.xxvii,no. 56. The tenure is not stated. 



Richard Whittingham of Lingart, 

 ' Papist,' was a freeholder in 1600 ; 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 232. 



In 1653 complaint was made that 

 Lingart had been sequestered by the 

 Parliament as James Anderton's, whereas 

 it really belonged to John Preston ; Cal. 

 Com. for Comp. iii, 1903. 



Richard Ackers of Claughton, as a 

 ' Papist,' registered his estate in 1717 ; it 

 consisted of a house called Lingart and 

 36 acres at Barnacre ; Estcourt and 

 Payne, Engl. Cath. Nonjurors, 141. 



77 Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 48. 



78 John Mercer of Barnacre had had 

 two-thirds of his estates sequestered for 

 recusancy only under the Commonwealth 

 and in 1653 desired to contract for it ; 

 Cal. Com. for Comp. v, 3186. 



79 Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 55. 



80 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 

 232, 230. That of the Quakers still 

 existed in 1717; Gastrell, Notitia Cestr. 

 (Chet. Soc.), ii, 408. 



81 Hewitson, Our Country Churches, 518. 

 An account of the Jackson family is given. 



82 Fishwick, op. cit. 121 ; Hewitson, 

 op. cit. 487. 



1 It is known as Higher Catterall. 



2 1,279 acres, including 29 of inland 

 water ; Census Rep. 1901. 



3 Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 20097. 



4 Hewitson, Our Country Churches, 53- 



5 Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1836), iv, 472. 



6 V.C.H. Lanes, i, 288*. 



7 See for example Lanes. Inq. and Extent! 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 147-9. 



