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as of his honour of Lincoln.*' John Brockholes, the 

 son and heir, was fourteen years of age. His eldest 

 son Cuthbert died before 

 him,* 7 and he was succeeded 

 by another son Thomas, who 

 died in 1567 holding the 

 manors of Claughton and 

 Heaton, various lands, &c., 

 the estate in Claughton and 

 Bilsborrow being said to be 

 held of the queen as of her 

 duchy by the hundred and 

 twenty-eighth part of a 

 knight's fee. Thomas Brock- 

 holes, the son and heir, was 

 six years old.* 8 He made a 

 settlement of the manor of 



Claughton in I597, 29 and recorded a pedigree in 

 1613, when his son John was twenty-seven years 

 old. 3 " Thomas died in 1618" and his son John 

 in 164.3," when John's son Thomas, thirty years of 



BROCKHOLES of 

 Claughton. Argent a 

 che-veron between three 

 brocks sable. 



age, succeeded. He married Mary daughter and 

 heir of John Holden of Chaigley. 



The family remained Roman Catholic at the 

 Reformation, appearing on the recusant rolls from 

 the time of Elizabeth. 33 They took the king's side 

 in the Civil War, and the estates were sequestered 3i 

 and then declared forfeit by the Parliament. 35 As in 

 other cases, the estate was recovered for the owner, 

 and in 1665 Thomas Brockholes registered a pedigree 

 as ' of Claughton.' 36 He was succeeded in 1668 by 

 his son John, who in 1717 registered his estate as a 

 ' Papist.' 3r Two of his sons joined the Jacobite 

 rising in 1715, but appear to have escaped prosecu- 

 tion ; the elder of them, John, died before his 

 father, so that the younger, William, succeeded. 38 He 

 died without issue, and, his three brothers having 

 been priests, 39 the manors and lands went to his 

 nephew Thomas Hesketh of Mains in Singleton, 40 

 who took the name of Brockholes. On his death in 

 1 766 they passed to his brother Joseph, 41 and then to 

 a third brother James ; but as all died without issue 



holes and Roger his son in 1474 granted 

 Galgate House, Walgrefe Close and 

 Herldonsoe upon White Carr in Claugh- 

 ton to Ellen Dore for life ; ibid. Thomas 

 was dead in 1476, when his widow 

 Elizabeth made an agreement as to her 

 dower with Roger the son and heir ; 

 ibid. 



76 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 73. 

 Provision made for Ellen his wife and his 

 five daughters is recorded, and a fuller 

 statement of various settlements is con- 

 tained in a later inquisition (ibid. no. 77). 

 Roger Brockholes (of 1441) married 

 Margaret ; his son and heir Thomas was 

 succeeded by his son Roger, who married 

 Ellen Chorley, as above, and she survived 

 him. 



The wardship and marriage of John 

 Brockholes were in 1500 granted to 

 William Smith ; Dej>. Keeper's Rep. 

 xxxix, App. 551. 



n In 1527 Cuthbert son and heir of 

 John Brockholes was contracted to marry 

 Margaret daughter of Thomas Rigmaiden ; 

 Towneley MS. C 8, 13, B 216. Twelve 

 years later further arrangements were 

 made as to the succession, Cuthbert and 

 his wife being still alive ; the remainders 

 were to Thomas, younger son of John, 

 Edward second son of Thurstan Tyldesley, 

 and to Mary daughter of John Brockholes ; 

 ibid. B 161, 217-18. Cuthbert must 

 have died soon afterwards, for in 1541 

 Thomas son and heir of John was engaged 

 to marry Dorothy daughter of John 

 Rigmaiden, or Mabel her sister if she 

 should die ; ibid. B 223. 



The will of John Brockholes is dated 

 1546; ibid. 6224. He died shortly 

 after, and livery was granted to Thomas 

 in 1557; Add. MS. 32105, fol. 217; 

 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxix, App. 551. A 

 settlement was then made ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 201, m. i. 



18 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, no. 6 ; 

 Margaret widow of Cuthbert was living 

 at Hulme. The will of Thomas Brock- 

 holes is recited ; Claughton was to be 

 held for a term of years for the benefit of 

 his daughter Elizabeth, only four years 

 old, and then to his son Thomas. In 

 default of issue the remainders were to 

 the said daughter Elizabeth and heirs, to 

 his sister Mary, another sister Katherine 

 Kydde, to Robert Parker all for life ; 

 and then to the next of kin of the name 



of Brockholes. The sister Mary had in 

 1541 married William Singleton of 

 Brockholes ; Brockholes D. The daughter 

 Elizabeth was in 1580 contracted to 

 marry John son and heir of Edward 

 Braddyll ; ibid. 



Livery was granted to Thomas Brock- 

 holes in 1582 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxix, 

 App. 551. 



2U Brockholes D. 



so Visit, of 1613 (Chet. Soc.), 31 ; the 

 family is described as ' of Heaton.' 



31 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), ii, 148-9. The manor of 

 Claughton was stated to be held of the 

 king as duke by the twenty-eighth part of 

 a knight's fee ; various lands in Bilsborrow, 

 &c., by the moiety of a knight's fee ; and 

 others in Garstang by the like service. 

 The heir was the son John, aged thirty- 

 one. 



"Pedigree of 1665; C 8, 13, B 

 230. 



33 Gillow, Bibl. Diet, of Engl. Cath. i, 

 306. The two-thirds of Thomas Brock- 

 holes' estate sequestered for recusancy 

 were in 1608 granted out by the Crown ; 

 Pat. 6 Jas. I, pt. xxi. 



S4 The papers in the case of the head 

 of the family seem to have been lost, 

 but the sequestration is evident from the 

 record of his relatives ; Royalist Comp. 

 Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 243-50. John Brockholes, who died 

 in 1643, left a widow Dorothy (who 

 married Captain John Reines) and an 

 infant son Augustine, to whom he 

 assigned an annuity of 10, which was 

 stopped before 1651. Another son, John 

 Brockholes of Torrisholme, adhered to 

 the forces raised against the Parliament 

 and in 1649 applied for leave to com- 

 pound. A cousin, Thomas Brockholes of 

 Heaton, and his mother had their lands 

 sequestered for recusancy and delinquency. 

 This Thomas ' admitted at the beginning 

 of the wars he had acted against the 

 state, but soon seeing his error he 

 subsequently did all he could in the 

 parliamentary interest ' ; he had for two 

 years been imprisoned for, debt in the 

 Marshalsea. 



The will of Thomas Brockholes of 

 Heaton (1638) is in C 8, 13, B 228. 



35 The manors of Claughton and 

 Heaton were sold in 1653 ; Royalist Comp. 

 Papers, i, 249. Three of the name of 



Thomas Brockholes were in the act of 

 sale of 1652 one of Chaigley and the 

 others of Heaton but none is described 

 as ' esquire ' ; Index of Royalists (Index 

 Soc.), 42, 51. 



36 Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 58. 

 His son John was then twenty years old. 

 Two other sons were priests ; Gillow, 

 Bibl. Diet, of Engl. Cath. i, 308. The 

 continuation of the pedigree may be seen 

 in Fishwick's Gars tang (Chet. Soc.), 242 ; 

 Burke, Commoners, iii, 384-6. In 1699 

 a settlement of the manors of Claughton 

 and Heaton was made by John Brockholes 

 and John his son ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 243, m. 16. 



37 Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. 

 Nonjurors, 141 ; the annual value was 

 522 19*. \d. 



88 Gillow, op. cit. i, 307. The will of 

 John Brockholes of Claughton, dated 

 1 7 1 8, in which year he died, is in Piccope 

 MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, 200. 



89 Of these Roger was the priest at 

 Claughton and died in 1743 ; Thomas 

 died in 1758, and Charles, a Jesuit at 

 Wigan, in 1759, being the last of the 

 male line ; ibid. ; Foley, Rec. S. /. vi, 

 454 ; vii, 87. In a recovery of the 

 manors in 1739 the vouchee was Cathe- 

 rine Brockholes, spinster ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 551, m. 3. She was a daughter 

 of John Brockholes by his second mar- 

 riage and in 1739 married Charles 

 tenth Duke of Norfolk. 



40 The licence for the marriage of 

 William Hesketh and Mary Brockholes 

 was dated 1710; Brockholes D. Her 

 sister Anne married Robert Davies of 

 Gwysaney and in 1737 Mrs. Davies, as 

 a widow, claimed the whole estate as 

 next Protestant of kin ; ibid. It appears 

 that Thomas Brockholes had made a 

 conveyance to Thomas Clayton and she 

 probably thought the whole would be 

 sold. Her husband's family intervened 

 to prevent the claim proceeding ; though 

 Protestants they objected to profit by the 

 penal laws. Her descendants are the 

 representatives in blood of the old Brock- 

 holes family. See Burke, Landed Gentry 

 under Davies-Cooke of Owston. 



41 Joseph married Constant a daughter 

 of Basil Fitzherbert and died in 1782. 

 He made a feoffment of ths manors of 

 Claughton and Heaton in 1767 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 377, m. 297. 



