TOPOGRAPHY 



THE HUNDRED OF LEYLAND 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



LEYLAND 



PENWORTHAM 



BRINDLE 



CR03T0N 



HESKETH-WITH- 



BECCONSALL 



TARLETON 



RUFFORD 



CHORLEY 



HOOLE 



ECCLESTON 



STANDISH 



Before the Conquest the hundred and manor of Leyland were the king's, 

 and both seem to have been conterminous except for Penwortham. King 

 Edward in 1066 held in demesne in Leyland i hide and 2 plough-lands, with 

 a wood 2 leagues long by i broad in which was an eyry of hawks, while 

 twelve berewicks ap- 

 purtenant were held 

 by twelve free men 

 for as many manors. 

 In these there were 

 6 hides and 8 plough- 

 lands, with woods 

 6 leagues long by 3 

 leagues and i furlong 

 broad. In Penwor- 

 tham were 2 plough- 

 lands, held by King 

 Edward. The men 

 of the hundred had 

 the same customs as 



those of Salford. The manor of Leyland and hundred together rendered 

 /ig iSs. 2d. yearly to the king. Penwortham rendered \od} 



In 1086 Girard held \\ hides of the land of the manor, Robert 3 plough- 

 lands, Ralph and Roger 2 plough-lands each, and Walter i plough-land ; 

 4 radmans, a priest, 14 villeins, 6 bordars, and 2 neatherds had 8 ploughs, 

 but part of the land was waste or unoccupied. The woodland had decreased 

 to an area of 3 leagues by 2 with 4 eyries of hawks. The value was 5oj-. 

 Penwortham had a castle, and was worth £1? 



The lordship of the hundred descended, in the same way as that of West 

 Derby ,^ to the Dukes of Lancaster and the Crown. The principal officer was 

 the bailiff of the hundred, who in 121 2 was Gerald de Clayton.'* In or 

 before 1246 his descendant Robert de Clayton sold his bailiwick to William 

 de Ferrers, lord of the land ' between Ribble and Mersey,' ^ from whom it 

 passed to a younger son William, ancestor of the Groby family. As in the 



^ F.C.H. Lanes. \,2i7B. 'Ibid. ' C<7/. C/w^ 1227-3 1, p. 221. 



« Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 3 3- See also the account of Clayton-lc- Woods. 



* Assize R. 404, m. 17 d. 



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