A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



of his estate sequestered for recusancy. 43 Thomas Goose 

 of Stirzacre House registered his estate as a ' Papist ' in 

 1717 ; his son Thomas had taken part in the Jacobite 

 rising of 1715, and was executed at Garstang. 44 



L4NDSKILL was part of the estate of Brockholes 

 of Claughton. 45 Other landowners occur from time 

 to time in the pleadings and inquisitions, but little 

 of interest is known about them. The names of 

 Catterall, Rowall, 46 Wedacre, 47 Brereworth 48 and 

 Myerscough 49 occur in the I3th and 1 4th centuries, 

 Brand, 50 Pickering 51 and others later. 82 



Cockersand Abbey had some land in Catterall and 

 Rowall. 63 



A few recusants and Royalists had their estates 

 sequestered under the Commonwealth, 54 and two 

 ' Papists' registered estates in I7I7. 55 



In Calder Vale St. John the Evangelist's was built 

 in 1863 for the Church of England. 56 The vicars 

 are collated by the Bishop of Manchester. The 

 Wesleyan Methodists have a small chapel in the 

 township proper, dating from i825, 57 and another, 

 built in 1900, at Calder Vale. 



CLAUGHTON 



Clactune, Dom. Bk. ; Clacton, 1184; Clagton, 

 Clahton, 1253 ; Claghton, 1284. 



Local pronunciation, Clyton. 



Lying between the Calder on the north and the 

 Brock on the south, this township, sometimes called 

 Claughton-on-Brock, has an area of 3,78 5 acres. 1 

 The population numbered 561 in 1901. At the 

 western end the surface is somewhat undulating ; the 

 hall with its park lies near the centre ; further east 

 the ground steadily rises, till about 740 ft. above sea 

 level is attained at the border of Bleasdale. There is 

 no village or considerable hamlet, Matshead on the 

 Brock having a few dwellings. The north road from 

 Preston passes through the western end ; from it 

 another road goes east until near the Brock ; then 

 turning north-east and north, according to the 

 boundary, passes into Bleasdale at the northernmost 

 point. The London and North-Western Railway 

 and the Lancaster Canal cross the west end of the 

 township. 



43 Cal. Com. for Comf. v, 3185. 



44 Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. 

 Nonjurors, 141. 



45 It was part of the estate given by 

 William de Tatham to Roger son of John 

 de Brockholes in 1338, having been 

 acquired from William de Southworth ; 

 Add. MS. 32105, fol. 94. John de 

 Brockholes had in 1324 acquired all 

 Henry son of Henry de Croft's land in 

 the field called Thevethornlands below 

 the forest of Myerscough in the vill of 

 Catterall ; Add. MS. 32105, SS 680. 



Roger Brockholes in 1496 held three 

 messuages, 40 acres of land, &c., in 

 Catterall of the Prior of St. John of 

 Jerusalem ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, 

 no. 73. Thomas Brockholes in 1567 

 held various lands there of the queen as 

 of her duchy by the service of half a 

 knight's fee ; ibid, xi, no. 6. 



Landskill as a ' chantry farm ' was in 

 dispute in 1589 and 1595 ; Ducatus 

 Lane, iii, 264, 474 ; Exch. Dep. 8 ; Pat. 

 31 Eliz., pt. v. In 1659 and 1690 it 

 was in the possession of the Sheringtons 

 o'f Worsley; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 164, m. 120 ; 225, m. 65. 



46 Roger son of Alan de Rowall was a 

 plaintiff in 1277 ; De Banco R. 18, 

 m. 54. Henry de Rowall about 1320 

 granted land in Ollershaw to William de 

 Tatham, clerk; Add. MS. 32104, no.429. 

 William de Bartail in 1332 complained 

 that Ralph de Rowall, Maud his wife 

 and Roger his son had carried off his 

 goods at Catterall ; De Banco R. 292, 

 m. 312 d. 



47 Hugh Wedacre in 1271-2 charged 

 Benedict Gernet and others with having 

 burnt his grain at Catterall ; Curia Regis 

 R. 208, m. 34. Henry de Wedacre was 

 defendant in 1280 (De Banco R. 36, 

 m. 55 d.), while in 1292 he and Christiana 

 his wife claimed dower against William 

 the Clerk of Whittingham ; Assize R. 

 408, m. I d. At the same time Paulin 

 and William, sons of Henry de Wedacre, 

 and John son of Walter de Wedacre occur 

 in Catterall pleadings ; ibid. m. 32 d. 



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In 1330 Roger de Garstang claimed 

 a messuage, &c., against Thomas de 

 Goosnargh, who held by demise of 

 Edmund de Wedacre ; De Banco R. 282, 

 m. 277 d. Alexander Goosnargh held 



land in Catterall of the king in 1524, but 

 the tenure is not separately given ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, no. 55. 



John de Pleasington as trustee granted 

 lands in Catterall and Claughton to 

 Edmund de Wedacre in 1349 ; Add. MS. 

 32104, no. 911. The Pleasingtons them- 

 selves had land in Catterall and Claughton ; 

 Final Cone, iii, 29. The family occurs 

 again in 1483 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 57, 

 m. 1 6 ; 63, m. 14. Isabel daughter of 

 John Pleasington and widow of Sir 

 Richard Sapcote was claimant in 1489 ; 

 ibid. 68, m. 6 d. ; 70, m. 12. 



48 John de Brereworth the elder and 

 Margery his wife claimed messuages, &c., 

 in Catterall and Goosnargh in 1358 

 against Sir Adam de Hoghton, Roger de 

 Wedacre and others ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. 6, m. 3 d. The jury was 

 set aside. 



49 In 1 304 Christiana daughter of 

 Godith and William son of Alan claimed 

 a messuage, &c., against John son of 

 William de Myerscough ; De Banco R. 

 149, m. 266. 



50 This family seems to have succeeded 

 Wedacre, for in 1515 Richard Brand 

 claimed the third part of a messuage called 

 Wedacre's Place by inheritance from his 

 mother Margaret ; Towneley MS. DD, 

 no. 20. He made a settlement of his 

 estate in 1618 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 

 123, m. 4d. William Brand died in 

 1619 holding a messuage, &c., of the 

 king as duke by knight's service ; James 

 his son and heir was nine years old ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes and 

 Ches.), ii, 132, 216 (correcting). 



61 Roger Pickering in 1438 demised a 

 moiety of the Cowfield in Catterall to 

 John Urswick, Ellen his wife and Thomas 

 their son; Anct. D. (P.R.O.), C 815. 

 James Pickering in 1611 held 7 acres of 

 the king as duke by the two-hundredth 

 part of a knight's fee, and left as heir his 

 son John, aged fifteen ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc.), i, 194. 



Anthony Pickering died in 1613 holding 

 his tenement of Thomas Lord Gerard by 

 knight's service and 41. rent, doing suit 

 at the manor court of Catterall. His son 

 William being dead, the heir was a grand- 

 son Anthony, who, though only twelve 

 years of age, had been married to Cecily 

 daughter of James Barnes ; ibid, i, 242-4. 



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Anthony Pickering as a recusant petitioned 

 in 1654 to contract for the two-thirds of 

 his estate sequestered for recusancy ; Cal. 

 Com. for Comp. v, 3186. 



52 John Urswick, Helen his wife and 

 Thomas their son had land in Catterall 

 in 1438 ; Anct. D. (P.R.O.), C 815. 



William Bank in 1497 obtained lands 

 in Catterall, &c., from 'Ralph Hoghton; 

 Final Cone, iii, 146. 



George Hesketh of Poulton (1571) 

 held of Thomas Catterall in socage ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiii, no. 15. 



Thomas Allanson died in 1608 holding 

 of Thomas Lord Gerard in socage by 

 id. rent. His son and heir Ellis was 

 aged fifty ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 135. 



Alexander Rigby of Goosnargh (1621) 

 held of the king in socage ; ibid, iii, 457. 



Thomas Bateson died in 1629 holding 

 a messuage, &c., of the heirs of Thomas 

 Catterall ; Robert, his son and heir, was 

 twenty-eight years old ; Towneley MS. 

 C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 55. 



William Barnes died in 1633, leaving a 

 son George, aged twenty-four ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xxviii, no. 21. In this 

 and some other cases the tenure is not 

 recorded. 



Thomas Adamson in 1640 held his 

 messuage, &c., of Robert Shireburne in 

 socage. His heir was his son John, 

 aged forty ; ibid, xxx, no. 60. Edmund 

 Adamson occurs in 1550; Ducatus Lane. 

 i, 232, 252. 



58 Ralph son of Hugh de Mitton gave 

 land by the Calder, together with a 

 'scaling' in Havedargh, and Beatrice his 

 mother confirmed the same ; Cockersand 

 Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), i, 273. William de 

 Rowall gave land there, and the gift of 

 Nuncroft by Isolda daughter of Robert 

 son of Bernard was probably in the same 

 part of the township ; ibid. 274-5. 



84 The cases of Shireburne, Richardson 

 and Pickering have been referred to. 



55 Elizabeth Melling, widow, and David 

 Cross ; Estcourt and Payne, Engl, Cath. 

 Nonjurors, 142. 



56 A district was assigned to it in 1 864 ; 

 Land. Gaz. 4 Mar. See Hewitson, 

 Our Country Churches, 53 2 - 



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

 1 3,788 acres, including 39 of inland 

 water ; Census Rep. 1901. 



