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heirs, and a new grant in socage to the Hollands ; but 

 one heiress of the Golbornes*' appears to have sold her 

 right to Thurstan de Holland/ whose descendants 

 continued to be regarded as its lords." 



Thurstan, however, granted all or most of his moiety 

 to his son Simon,® whose descendant Amice carried 

 the manor of LIGHTSHJJV in marriage to Nicholas 

 de Tyldesley." From this family by another heiress, 

 it passed to the Kighleys of Inskip," and from these 

 again at the end of the i6th century, to William 

 Cavendish, first Earl of Devonshire, and Thomas 

 Worsley, in right of their wives, the Kighley co- 

 heirs." The former of these secured it, and it de- 

 scended in the Cavendish family for over a century,^' 

 but there is no further mention of Lightshaw as a 

 manor. The estate was purchased by Peter Legh of 

 Lyme in 1738 from the Duke of Devonshire, and is 

 now the property of Lord Newton.^* 



The Hospitallers had lands here.** Cockersand 



WINWICK 



Abbey had a tenement called Medewall," for which 

 the free tenants, a family named Langton, paid a rent 

 ofzj. 6d}' 



The Hoghtons of Hoghton were landowners in 

 Golborne from an early date,^® and the Haydocks 



K.IGHLEY of Inskip* 

 Argent a Jesse sable. 



Cavendish, Duke of 

 Devonshire. Sable three 

 bucks' heads cabossed 

 argent. 



In 1599 Thomas Langton, baron of 

 Newton, took action against certain ten- 

 ants of Golborne for encroachments oa 

 the waste and withholding suit and ser- 

 vice at the courts ; Ducatus Lane, (Rec, 

 Com.), iii, 402. 



fi The Golborne family held the third 

 part of a knight's fee of the lords of Maker- 

 field. This consisted of the three plough- 

 lands necessary to make up the nine and a 

 half in the knight's fee ; two of these ap- 

 pear to have been in Golborne (Lightshaw), 

 and one in Lowton (Byrom), probably that 

 held by Richard de Winwick in 1212. 

 The earliest member of the family recorded 

 is Augustine de Golborne, who gave three 

 oxgangs to William son of Hamon in the 

 time of Henry II ; Inq, and Extents, i, 74. 

 His son Thomas paid 335. 4^. as relief in 

 1 1 S6 on succeeding, and contributed to the 

 scutage in 1206 ; Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 

 64, 216. As already stated, he was in 

 possession in 121 2. His son may have 

 been the Ralph de Golborne whose 

 daughter Levota sold her right to Thurs- 

 tan de Holland. That there was a new 

 grant by the lord of Newton to Thurstan 

 de Holland seems proved by the change of 

 tenure ; see note below. 



Though the principal family thus early 

 disappeared, others bearing the local sur- 

 name appear from time to time. Adam 

 de Golborne had a messuage and an ox- 

 gang and a half of land in 1374, but being 

 outlawed for felony the king took posses- 

 •ion ; Inq. a.q.d. 48 £dw. Ill, no, 1 9. 



7 In 1292 Hugh son of Richard de 

 Woolston, and Qucnilda his wife, sought 

 against Simon son of Thurstan de Hol- 

 land certain lands in Golborne asserted to 

 be the right of Quenilda, to whom they 

 should have descended from her grand- 

 mother Levota, the daughter of Ralph de 

 Golborne. Levota had a son and heir 

 Richard, whose son Henry dying without 

 issue, Quenilda his sister succeeded. It 

 was, however, proved that Levota had re- 

 leased all her right to Thurstan, father of 

 Sir Robert de Holland, and that Thurstan 

 had granted the disputed land to Simon de 

 Holland the defendant; Assize R. 408, 

 m. 38 ; see also m. 25. 



8 There is but little to show the con- 

 nexion of the Holland family with Gol- 

 borne. 



In 1278 Juliana daughter of John Gilli- 

 brand, mother of the Simon de Holland of 

 the last note, complained that Robert de 

 Holland and others had disseised her of a 

 messuage, croft, seven oxgangs of land, and 



half the site of the mill ; Assize R. 1238, 

 m. 31 9 1^39) "!• 39 ; also R. 408, m. 

 70 d. 77 d. 



After the death of Simon de Holland an 

 inquisition was taken in 1325, when it 

 was found that he had held nothing of the 

 Crown, but had held a certain tenement in 

 Golborne as of the manor of Holland (in 

 the king's hands) by the service of a pound 

 of cummin. There were a messuage worth 

 izd, a year ; 20 acres of arable land worth 

 9^., &c. He had also held an alder-grove 

 in Abram, of Richard de Abram, by the 

 service of zs. ^d. and a wood called Brook- 

 hurst in Pennington. His son Simon, 

 then twenty-four years of age, was the 

 heir; Inq. p.m. 18 £dw. II, no. 33. 

 Twelve oxgangs were in dispute in 1345 ; 

 De Banco R. 342, m, 89 d. In the inqui- 

 sition taken after the death of Maud widow 

 of Sir Robert de Holland it was described 

 as half the manor of Golborne, held of 

 Robert de Langton in socage by a service 

 of 6d.; Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 58, 

 Thus the moiety of the manor was held by 

 the Hollands of UphoUand by a service 

 of 6d. ; and of them was held by Simon de 

 Holland and his heirs by the service of a 

 pound of cummin. 



^ See the previous notes. The descent 

 of Simon de Holland's manors has not 

 been clearly ascertained ; see the account 

 of Byrom in Lowton. 



1** At Pentecost 1352 Alice widow of 

 Simon de Holland claimed dower in twelve 

 messuages, windmill, water-mill, &c., in 

 Golborne, from Nicholas de Tyldesley and 

 Amice his wife, the latter being the heiress; 

 Duchy of Lane. Assize R. z, m. 3 d. ; also 

 (July) m. I d. She claimed dower in the 

 manor of Lightshaw from Joan widow of 

 Hugh de Tyldesley ; m. z d. This Simon 

 was probably the Simon son and heir of 

 Simon, 1325. 



Amice appears to have married, secondly, 

 William son of Roger de Bradshagh ; her 

 sister and co-heir Joan married Henry de 

 Bradshagh, and in 1367 they claimed from 

 Thurstan son of Sir William de Holland, 

 and Richard son of William de Holland, 

 six messuages, mill, and land in Golborne 

 by virtue of the grant of Thurstan de 

 Holland to Juliana Glllibrand ; De Banco 

 R. 429, m. 99. 



11 See the account of Tyldesley and In- 

 skip. 



An agreement was made in 1396 be- 

 tween Richard son of Henry de Kighley 

 and Nicholas Blundell of Little Crosby, 

 who married a daughter of Nicholas de 



149 



Tyldesley, as to the manor of Lightshaw, 

 the latter resigning his claim ; Pah of 

 Lane. Feet of F. (Proton, Rec), bdle. 8, 

 no. X. 



In 141 6 the Kighley tenements in Gol- 

 borne were said to be held of Sir John 

 de Holland of Begworth in socage by the 

 rent of id. a year ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. 

 Soc), i, 1 1 6. 



In a settlement on the marriage of Henry 

 Kighley and Elizabeth daughter of Alex- 

 ander Osbaldeston in 1532 it is stated that 

 William Kighley was the tenant of Light- 

 shaw. In the will of Elizabeth's sister, 

 Anne widow of Edward Langton, proved 

 in 1566, the testatrix is described as of 

 Lightshaw ; she left 401. to the repair of 

 the church at Winwick, and a chain of 

 gold and 10 marks to her god-daughter 

 Anne Kighley ; Add. MS. 32106, nos. 

 1065, 1058. 



Lightshaw was in 1555 said to be held 

 of * the heirs of Thurstan de Holland by 

 the service of a pound of cummin' ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. x, no. 40. 



^^ The manor of Lightshaw seems in 

 1589 to have been allotted to Anne wife 

 of William Cavendish ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 51, m. 174. 



1^ In 1738a private Act was passed ' for 

 vesting the manor of Golborne, part of 

 the settled estate of William, Duke of 

 Devonshire, in the county of Lancaster in 

 the said duke and his heirs ' ; 1 1 Geo. II, 

 cap. 2. 



1^ Information of Mr, Arthur C. Leslie. 



1^ The holding is not mentioned in 

 1292 among the Hospitallers' lands. About 

 1540 their rental shows izd. from a mes- 

 suage held by the heirs of Sir Thomas 

 Gerard, and izd. from one held by Richard 

 Pierpoint ; Kuerden MSS. v, fol. 84. 



1^ Land in Golborne called Medewall 

 was, in 1 347, in dispute between Banastrc 

 and Byrom ; Assize R. 1435, m. 19, 



17 Cockersand Chartul. iv, 1242, 1251, 



18 Their estate perhaps came from 

 three oxgangs granted as above to William 

 son of Hamon, the latter being identified 

 as the Hamon le Boteler who was an- 

 cestor of the Hoghton family. In 1500 

 the service was unknown ; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 127 ; also Duehy of 

 Lane Inq. p.m. iii, no. 66. 



Another origin, however. Is suggested 

 by the grant of a rent of 40J. in Gol- 

 borne, given by Robert Banastre to 

 William de Lea and Clemency his wife, 

 daughter of Robert; Add. MS. 32106, 

 no. 543. 



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