LEYLAND HUNDRED 



LEYLAND 



becoming sole lord in 1630 when he succeeded his 

 father.^ 



In religion the Andertons in Elizabeth's reign were 

 temporizers,^ but eventually openly avowed their 

 Catholicism.^ The;- toolc the king's side in the Civil 

 War, and James Anderton, who seems to have been in 

 command, was captured at Preston in 1643,' his lands 

 being sequestered and at last sold by the Parliament 

 to Richard Bell.* Practically the whole was re- 

 covered by 1661,^^ but at the cost of a great burden 

 of debt necessitating sales and mortgages. Evcntuallv 

 in 1683 the manor and estates were acquired b\' 

 Lord Molyneux/ and in 1717 were sold to John 



Wright.' The manor was afterwards acquired by 

 the Booties of Lathom/ and has descended in the 

 same way as Lathom to the present lord, the Earl of 

 Lathom. 



Cla\ ton Hall, now a farm-house, is a picturesque 

 17th-century two-story brick building on a high 

 stone base with low mullioned windows and stone 

 slated roof. The front, which ficcs east, is 50 ft. in 

 length with a wide gable at the north end projecting 

 5 ft. 9 in. and a gabled pon h going up the height of 

 both stories in the middle of the main wing 

 pn>jccting 8 ft. 9 in. The south end of the house 

 appears to have been rebuilt, the windows being 



Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 64, no. 2 ^ ^. The 

 Orrell part had not then been purchased. 

 i6o6 — Sir Robert and Sir John Dormer 

 ^. Sir Ednuind Huddleston, Dorothy his 

 V. Ife and Henry their son and hclr- 

 apparcnt 5 manors, including a fourth 

 part of the manor of Clayton ; Ibid. bdle. 

 70, no. 84. From the account of Hes- 

 keth it will be seen that Dorothy was 

 the daughter and heir of Henry Beconsaw, 

 above-named. 



160S — James Anderton the yotmger 

 V. Sir John Cotton and others, a lourth 

 part of the manor of Clayton, lS:c. ; ibid, 

 bdle. j;^f no. 6(;. 



^ James Anderton died 8 Nov. 1630, 

 at Clayton, holding a moiety of the manor, 

 also a fourth part of the manor, &c., 

 purchased of John Orrell, and other lands 

 in Clayton, Chamock Richard, Whittle-le- 

 Woods, Ulnes Walton, Cuerden, Faring- 

 ton, &c. The jury did not know of 

 whom the manor of Clayton was held j 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvii, no. 56. 

 James Anderton, the son and heir, was 

 fifty-five years of age. 



Dorothy the wife of the elder James 

 brought him the manor of Bardsea ; Exch. 

 Dej>. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 16, 17. 



1631 — James Anderton, Anne his wife 

 and James son and heir-apparent, defor- 

 ciants of the manors of Clayton and 

 Whittle-le-Woods, &c. ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. izo, no. 27. 



^ This is shown by the account which 

 Hugh Anderton gave of himself and his 

 family on entering the English College 

 at Rome in 1 600, as follows : 



' I am second son of James Anderton, 

 esq,, of Lancashire, and was born at my 

 father's house called Clayton, and educated 

 in neighbouring grammar schools till my 

 fourteenth year. I am now 22 or 23 

 years of age. My parents are of the 

 higher class. I have three brothers and 

 two sisters ; all these and most of my 

 relatives are schismatics, but a few are 

 Catholics. I studied at Oxford for about 

 seventeen months ... I was then sent 

 to Gray's Inn, London, to study the law, 

 but after staying there for six entire 

 years I made little or no progress. I 

 was always a schismatic until the feast 

 of St. George of the present year of 

 jubilee, when by the grace of God and 

 assistance of Fr. Blount I became a 

 Catholic. By his advice and that of 

 Fr. Gilbert Gerard, and of my own will, 

 I left England and came to Rome for the 

 sake of religion and study about four 

 months ago, and it is my great desire to 

 embrace the ecclesiastical state of life ' ; 

 Foley, Rec. S. J. zii, 489. He died during 

 his coliege course in 1603. 



As to the father James Anderton's dis- 

 position in 1595 see Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. 

 x'lVy App. iv, 585. In a dispute between 



William Farington of Worden and James 

 Anderton in i';96 concerning the Con- 

 ^t.ibleship of Lancaster Castle the former 

 sent to Lord Burghhy a long statement 

 about the obstinate recusancy of most of 

 the Clayton household, alleging in par- 

 ticular that in the last Tassion Week 

 ('lOO James Anderton himself had sent 

 for one Peter Makinson, * being .1 massing 

 priest made in Queen Mary's time,' and 

 very early in the morning received com- 

 munion from him with wafer bread, 

 although * there was at that time a very 

 sufficient minister of his the said Master 

 Anderton's parish church of Leyland, who 

 was no priest but only a minister made in 

 the queen's majesty's time that now is.' 

 Anderton warmly repudiated all the 

 charges, and the jury found against 

 Farington, assessing the damages at 100 

 marks ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 279, 

 m. H-13 d. 



* In 1628 James Anderton (I.e. the 

 son of the squire), Anne his wife and 

 Thurstan Anderton were recusants ; 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 1, 182, 

 where the list for the township is printed. 

 James Anderton and his brother Hugh 

 had both been sent to Gray's Inn in 

 1593 ; Pah of Lane. Plea R. 279, m. 13 d. 



James Anderton In 1631 paidj^'13 6s.^{i, 

 as composition on declining knighthood j 

 ibid. I, 214. 



*'01d Master Anderton of Clayton, 

 their great popish commander. Is taken,' 

 says the report ordered by the House of 

 Commons to be printed ; Cii'il PFar 

 Tracts (Chet. Soc), 75. In another 

 report he is described as * one of the 

 most considerable men for estate and 

 activity in the country' 5 ibid. 72. 



Three sons of James Anderton lost 

 their lives In the king's cause : Matthew, 

 at Sheriff Hutton, 1642} Nicholas, at 

 Greenhalgh Castle, 1645 ; and Thomas, 

 1646 ; Giilow, Bibl, Diet, of Engl. Catk. 

 i, 38, 42; Towneley MS. C 8, 13 

 (Chet. Lib.), fol. 45 ; Castlemain, Cath. 

 Apology. 



^ The estate was sequestered In 1643, 

 and James Anderton sent in his petition 

 for an allowance from It in 1650, and 

 Ann his wife had before that had a fifth 

 part allowed her, which was stopped. 

 The estates included Clayton Hall, 

 Bardsea Hall, and the tithes of Euxton. 

 James Anderton was in 1655 described 

 as *very old and infirm,' See Royalist 

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

 i, 8 1-4 ; Index of Royalists (Index Soc), 41 . 



In 1654 Richard Bell was plaintiff 

 and James Anderton of Clayton and 

 James his son and heir-apparent deforci- 

 ants in a fine respecting the manors of 

 Clayton, Whittle and Bardsea ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 156, m. 182 j 

 Close, 1655, pt. xiv (3844), no, 23. In 



31 



the following year Bell purchased the 

 entile Anderton inheritance from the 

 P.irliamentary trustees \ Lntljom House D. 



James Anderton was burled at Leyhmd, 

 31 May 1658 ; Parish Reg. 



''^ This appears from a settlement of 

 166 I by James Anderton in favour of his 

 half-brothers Thurstan, Christopher and 

 William j Lathom House D, 



'' From a statement dr:iwn up by Isaac 

 Greene, now at Lathom House. 



The third James Anderton is said to 

 have * mortgaged the lordship toDIcconson 

 of Wrightington, esq. After several years 

 it was redeemed by Caryll Molyncux, 

 Viscount Maryborough, on behalf of 

 Thurstan, Christopher and William 

 Anderton, who were all living In 1672. 

 The two latter, after the death of Thur- 

 stan, sold their right In the lordship to 

 Viscount Maryborough, and retired to 

 another lordship of theirs in the north, 

 called Bardsea' ; Balnes, Lanes, (ed. 1836), 

 lii, 466, from Kuerden's account in Harl. 

 MS. 7386, fol. 2 12^. The statement 

 requires some correction, for Thurstan 

 Anderton appears to have joined in the 

 sale to Lord Molyneux just before his 

 death ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 437, m. i. 

 See also the account of Bardsea. 



James Anderton and Jane his wife 

 were In possession in 1 674. ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of. F. bdle. 192, m. 82. James is 

 said (in a document at Lathom) to have 

 died in London about 1676 Intestate and 

 Insolvent j he Is probably the James 

 Anderton buried at Westminster Abbey 

 II July 1676 ; Reg, of JVestm. (Harl. 

 Soc), 189. His widow, as Jane Anderton 

 of Bardsea, occurs in 1679 ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Plead, bdle. 438, Anderton v. 

 Douglas (note by Mr. Anderton). 



Thurstan Anderton was burled at 

 Leyland 29 Aug. 16S3 ; Parish Reg, 



^ Pal. of Lane Feet of F. bdle. 280, 

 m. 66 ; Lathom House D, Clayton boxes. 

 Wright purchased the larger part, but not 

 the whole of Clayton, 



^ From a deed at Lathom it appears 

 that in 1739 Anne widow of John 

 Wright, linen-draper, of London, and 

 Francis Wright their son and heir con- 

 veyed the manor of Clayton to Thomas 

 Bootle ; note by Mr. H. Ince Anderton. 



The land tax return of 1788 shows 

 that the Bootle family had then the 

 largest estate in the township j and In 

 1 8 1 5 Edward Wilbraham Bootle pur- 

 chased (a moiety of) the manor of 

 Clayton, &c., from Isaac George Manley, 

 William Cunllffe Shawe and their wives ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. Aug. 55 Geo. 

 Ill, m. 31. The origin of their title 

 does not appear, but the wives were 

 daughters and co-heirs of Charles Pole 5 

 Burke, Commoners^ iv, 708 ; Brooke, 

 Lii-erpool as it wasj 295, 



