LEYLAND HUNDRED 



William F.-irington died in 1610/ and Worden 

 was left to his grandson William, whose father, said 

 to have been a spendthrift, was still living.^ The 

 younger William, as stated, purchased the manor of 

 Leyland In 1 61 7. He was sherlft* of the county in 

 1636^ and on the outbreak of the Civil War took the 

 king's side, as an official of the Earl of Derby, and is 

 distinguished from his namesakes as * the Royalist.' 

 He was at once appointed a commissioner of array 

 and reported by the opposite side as one of ' the most 

 busy and active,' his servant, William Sumner, taking 

 possession of the stock of powder at Preston in 1642. 



LEVLAND 



He accompanied Lord Strange to the siege of 

 Manchester in the same year. He was the principal 

 adviser of Lady Derby at the first siege of Lathom In 

 1644. His name was removed from the list of 

 magistrates and his estates sequestered by the Parlia- 

 ment at the beginning of the war/ He was again 

 a prisoner in 1646, after which he compounded for 

 them, taking no further part in the struggle.^ Dying 

 in 1658 he was succeeded by his son William, also a 

 Royalist sufferer,'^ and he by his son Henry " and 

 grandson William, high sheriff in 1714.^ The last- 

 named William dying in the same }'ear without issue, 



WoRDEN Hall, Leyland 



rarl'a council aS fellows : * Ilalsall is a 

 lawyer, presented these last sessions as a 

 recusant in some degree. Farington is as 

 cunning as he : not anything sounder 

 in religion, though much more subtle to 

 avoid the public note than he. Rigby is 

 as cunning and unsound as either, and as 

 grossly to be detected therein as Hal sail. 

 All three of them as busy contrivers of 

 dangerous devices against the peace of the 

 ministry and free course of the Gospel 

 and direct proceeding of justice, in all 

 common opinion, as any that ever bore 

 authority among us.* See the letter (from 

 Strype) in PP^igan Church (Chet. Soc), i, 

 168, 1 70. See also Hht. MSS. Com, Rep. 

 xiv, App. iv, 585. 



In the Farington Papers (Chet. Soc), 

 p. 140, is a significant letter from one who 

 evidently regarded William Farington as 

 disregarding his conscience. For the Dr. 

 Draycott referred to see Gillow, Bibl. 

 Diet, of Engl. Cath. ij, 105. 



^ Lanes. Inq, p.m. (Rcc. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 180, Worden was held of 

 the king, as of the late priory of St. John 

 of Jerusalem, by a rent of 4J. The ' Ten- 

 marks land ' was held of Dame Dorothy 

 Huddleston in socage. Thomas, the son 

 and heir, was forty years of age. He was 

 passed over with an annuity by his father, 

 who had been displeased with him j 

 Stanley Papers, ii, p. Ixxxiv. 



^ Thomas Farington father of the heir 

 made an unsuccessful attempt to secure 



Worden ; ibid, p. Ixxxix, Sec. He was 

 buried at Leyland 14 October 1622. 



A pedigree was recorded in 1613 j 

 Visit. (Chet. Soc), ig, 



William Farington paid a fine of 

 £11 6s. SJ. on refusing knighthood in 

 1 63 1 jM/jC (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 214, 



8P.R.O. List, 73. The records of 

 his year of office are printed in Farington 

 Papers (Chet. Soc), 1-55. A short 

 sketch of his life and character is given 

 in the introduction to the volume. He 

 founded an almshouse at Leyland. 



He was a member of the Short Parlia- 

 ment of 1640 J Pink and Beaven, Pjr/. 

 Repre. of Lanes, yi. 



^ Ci'Lil War Tracts (Chet. Soc), 327, 

 329, &c 



^ Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), ii, 287-95. William Faring- 

 ton the elder held Worden, with its 

 demesne lands, Littlewood in Ulncs 

 Walton, &c., together worth ;^i 8 8 13J. ^d, 

 a year ; other lands in Leyland, called 

 Shaw Hall, worth £^6 135. \d. a year; 

 and others in Lancashire and Cheshire. 



Family letters of the Civil War period 

 are printed in Farington Papers, 73-116. 



^ The younger William was perhaps 

 the * Captain Farington ' captured at 

 Preston in 1643. He took part In the 

 defence of Lathom House in both the 

 sieges. See Ciuil War Tracts, 73, 184, 

 212. 



13 



He had d messuage and lands in Ley- 

 land and occupied Shaw Hall. These 

 were sequestered and in 1649 ^^^ peti- 

 tioned for leave to compound ; Royalist 

 Comp. Papers, loc. clt. 



He was fifty years old in 1664, when a 

 pedigree was recorded {Visit, 107), and 

 was buried at Leyland 27 February 1672-3. 

 His will is at Chester. 



^ Aged thirty in 1664. Letters to 

 him as * Major Farington' are printed in 

 Farington Papers, ^76-9. The account of 

 the later generations is based on the pedi- 

 grees in Gregson, Fragments (ed. Harland), 

 256-7; Burke's Commoners, lii, 341-2; 

 Foster's Lanes. Pedigrees ; and sheet pedi- 

 gree, s.d. It should be noticed expressly 

 that tlie children (and their descendants) 

 attributed in these pedigrees to the Rev. 

 William Farington, rector of Warrington, 

 have now assigned to his younger brother 

 Henry, said to have been a sailor. 

 William is left childless. 



A settlement of the manors of Pen- 

 wortham, Leyland and Ulnes Walton was 

 made in 1684 by Henry Farington, Susan 

 his wife and William Farington ; Pal. ot 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 213, m. 30. Henry 

 Farington was buried at Leyland 14 

 March i6gi-2. 



8 P.R.O. List, 74. 



In 1696 William Farlngton's n.imc 

 occurs In a list of the justices ' thought fit 

 to be turned out* ; hist, MSS. Com. Rep, 

 xiv, App. iv, 411. 



