A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



case of other lands of the younger William de Ferrers the bailiwick became 

 divided between several tenants, who were known as the ' lords of Leyland- 

 shire,' ^ but by the beginning of the 17th century was held in moieties by 

 Shireburne of Stonyhurst^ and Rigby of Burgh.^ 



As more than half the hundred was within the barony of Penwortham it 

 might have been expected that conflicts would arise between the bailiffs of the 

 hundred and of the barony. This, however, does not seem to have been the 

 case, perhaps because both officers were officers of the Duchy," but the hundred 

 courts were held at Eccleston, a place central enough, yet outside the limits 

 of the barony. Some notices of the wapentake occur.^ 



The subsidies show the relative wealth of this part of the county. In 

 1237 a contribution of one-thirtieth of movable goods yielded ^^28 5J. 2</., 

 or rather more than an eighteenth part of the total raised from the county.^ 

 In 1332 another subsidy, the basis of the later 'fifteenth,' produced a few 

 shillings more, being under a tenth of the gross collection.'' According to 

 the county lay fixed in 1624 Leyland Hundred had to contribute £() 

 towards each J^ioo required from the county.* 



According to the certificate of the general muster of 1574 the men 

 furnished with weapons by the county included 259 from this hundred, viz. 

 59 archers and 200 billmen ; the unfurnished men were 40 archers and 90 

 billmen.^ 



On the formation of the diocese of Manchester in 1 847 the whole of 

 this hundred was included in it. 



' The descent is shown in the account of the manor of Chorley. 



In the sherifFs accounts for 1348 appears a sum of 13/. /^d. from John Harrington and partners, 

 bailiffs of the wapentalie, for leave to appoint a deputy ; Duchy of Lane. Var. Accts. 32/17, fol. 4. 



William de Ferrers of Groby died in 137 1 seised of a fourth part of the wapentake of Leylandshire, 

 worth 2/. ; a fourth part of the services of free tenants there, 13/. \rl. ; and a fourth part of the bailiwick of 

 the serjeanty of the wapentake, nil ; Inq. p.m. 45 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 22. John de Arderno in 1395 held 

 (for life) of the Inheritance of William de Ferrers a fourth part of the bailiwick or wapentake of Leylandshire, 

 with all the issues, profits, fines, and amercements of the court ; also three-parts of another fourth part of the 

 wapentake ; Inq. p.m. 18 Ric. 11, no. 1. At this time, therefore, the Ferrers family held a moiety of 

 the bailiwick. Their portion was afterwards held by the Earls of Derby, who in 1523 had a moiety of the 

 wapentake ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, no. 68. This was sold in 1597 to Roger and Alexander Rigby ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 36, m. 258. 



John de Harrington died in 1359 seised of a fourth part of the same bailiwick, held of Henry Duke 

 of Lancaster, and worth 40/. a year ; Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. I, no. 99. This descended to the Lords 

 Mounteagle, and was in 1574 sold by William Stanley, Lord Mounteagle, to Sir Richard Shireburne ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 36, m. 138. As Sir Richard held a fourth part of the wapentake of 'Eccleston' 

 already by inheritance, his share thus became a moiety ; see Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vi, no. 65. 



' Richard Shireburne died in 1628 holding the hundred, bailiwick, and view of frankpledge of 

 Leylandshire ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvi, no. 4. The hundred of Leyland, like the other Shireburne 

 manors, &c., was in the possession of Thomas Weld in 1777 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 625, m. 10 d. (16), 40. 



' Edward Rigby died in 1627 holding a moiety of the wapentake of Leylandshire, rendering the sen'ice 

 of bailiff of the hundred ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvi, no. 5. 



* About 1526 Henry Farlngton was high steward of the wapentake and hundred, and in 1544 the 

 same Henry was high steward of the fee of Penwortham ; Dachy Plead. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 227, 

 203. 



' In the sherlfTs accounts of 1348 it appears that the following sums were due : for 4 burgages in 

 Chorley, \s., and £^ from the park of He.iley ; Duchy of Lane. Var. Accts. 32/17. 



For an under-bailiff's troubles in making a distraint see Duchy Plead, ii, 226. It appears that notice of 

 the holding of the wapentake court was given on Sunday at Standish Church, and probably at the other 

 churches In the hundred. 



^ Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 50. 



' Exch. Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 53. 



" Gregson, Fragments (ed. Harland), 22. ' Ibid, 31. 



