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sold their moieties to John and Thomas Clayton," 

 stated to have been the sons of Ralph Clayton of 

 Clayton.' John's moiety, known as the New Crook, 

 descended to his son, Dr. Richard Clayton, Dean of 

 Peterborough,' who died without issue,* and then to 

 the -issue of another son, Ralph. Richard Clayton, 

 grandson of Ralph, died without issue in 1659,' and 

 was succeeded by his sister Dorothy, wife of George 

 Leycester of Toft in Cheshire." The Old Crook 



descended from Thomas Clayton ' in the male line ' 

 to Captain Robert Clayton of Fulwood, near Preston, 

 who sold it to the above-named William Crook.' 

 The New Crook came soon afterwards into the 

 possession of the same family.'" 



Other families occurring in the records as holding 

 lands in the township were those of Bank," Farington,''' 

 Foster," Garstang," Gerard of Brindle," Shireburne 

 of Stonyhurst,'" Swansey " succeeded by Walmesley," 



for twenty-one years to William Garstang 

 at ,^6 i6s. rent } Kucrdcn MSS. iii, W 13. 

 Another lease of Crook Hall was made in 

 1564. to Cecily widow of Thiirstan 

 Garstang and William her son by Henry 

 Richardson, Katherine his wife, ]ohn 

 Ward of Denford, Northants, and Mary 

 his wife ; ibid, ii, fol. 2.(.o. 



* Sir Henry Richardson and Katherine 

 his wife conveyed their moiety of the 

 mansion house of Crook, alias Crook Hall, 

 and of messuages, &c., in Whittle, Clay- 

 ton, and Crook Manor, to John Clayton ; 

 while John Ward of Denford and Mary 

 his wife conveyed their moiety to Thomas 

 Clayton. Oliver Breres and Cecily his 

 wife and William Garstang were in pos- 

 session under a lease ; James Anderton 

 was their tenant. See Duchy of Lane. 

 Plead. Ixxxii, C 10 ; Ixxxi, A 5, 13; 

 Draft Dec. 15 Eliz, no 21. The sale 

 of a moiety by John and Mary Ward 

 to Thomas Clayton was made in 1569 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 3 1, m. 40. 

 The sale of the other moiety took place 

 the following year, Henry Richardson, 

 Katherine his wife and the lattcr's son 

 Anthony Smalley being the vendors ; 

 ibid. bdle. 32, m. 6. See also Trans. 

 Hist, Sec. (new ser.), xxv, 55, for the 

 Clayton family ; Geti. xxvi, 129, 



''Pedigree recorded in 1664; Dug- 

 dalc, Visit. (Chet. Soc), 85. 



^ John Clayton had sons William, 

 Richard and Ralph and daughters Jane 

 (wife of Richard Ashton), Ellen (wife of 

 John Leigh) and Janet (wife of William 

 Johnson) ; and the eldest son William 

 having died before him he seems to have 

 made contradictory settlements, one giv- 

 ing the preference to Richard and the 

 other to Ralph. John died in January 

 1585-6 and disputes arose. Richard, * a 

 poor student at Cambridge,* seems to have 

 established his right. See Duchy of Lane. 

 Plead, cxlv, C 5 ; cxliv, A 20 ; cxlix, 

 C 18. See also Lanes. Inj. p.m. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 22—3 ; the 

 capital messuage and lands in Whittle 

 were held of the lord of Whittle le 

 Woods by services unknown. 



* Ibid, i, 213 ; the moieties were held 

 of Alexander Standish of Duxbury and 

 James Anderton. The heir was John 

 Clayton son of Ralph (brother of Richard), 

 fifteen years of age. 



Dr. Richard Clayton entered St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, in 1572, and became 

 scholar and fellow (1577). He was 

 elected master of Magdalene College in 

 1 593, and two years later returned to his 

 old college as master, being welcomed as 

 * a man of business and very sociable.' 

 He caused the erection of the second 

 court at St. John's, b\it in his time tlie 

 reputation of the college for scholarship 

 declined. At the same time the Calvin- 

 istic Puritanism which had distinguished 

 it also died out. He became Archdeacon 

 and Prebendary of Lincoln in 1 59;, Dean 

 of Peterborough 1607, and warden of a 

 hospital at Lincoln 1609 ; in his college 



he obtained a double share of the revenue 

 for the master and a lease at his choice. 

 * By s\ich means as this,' says the college 

 historian, * this master . . . heaped up 

 great riches, but did not know who should 

 gather them ; for dying suddenly of an 

 apoplexy 2 May 1612 without a will, his 

 next relations not agreeing about the 

 division, his wealth became a rich booty 

 to t]ie men of the law * ; T. Baker, Hist, 

 of St. John's Coll. (ed. Mayor), i, 190-7. 

 Administration was granted to Jane Ash- 

 ton, widow, his sister ; ibid. 



* John Clayton died at Whittle in 

 December 1625, leaving n son and heir 

 Richard, eight years old. In addition to 

 his moiety of Crook (held of James 

 Anderton), and other lands in Lancashire, 

 he held the manors of Sotby and Bleasby, 

 in Lincolnshire ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. xxv, no. i 5. 



Richard Clayton was burled at Leyland 

 on 7 June 1659 ; Parish Reg. 



» Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), i, 

 506-7. 



' Thomas Clayton died in 1591 hold- 

 ing messuages, land, &c., in Whittlc-le- 

 Woods and Clayton, of the lords thereof, 

 by services not known. He also had 

 lands in Leyland, Fulwood and Fishwick. 

 William his son and heir was thirty-six 

 years of age ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 XV, no. 3. 



* William Clayton died in 1632 hold- 

 ing a capital messuage called the Crook 

 in Whittle, and various lands there and 

 elsewhere in Lancashire, and leaving a 

 son and heir Thomas, forty years of age ; 

 ibid, xxviii, no. 79. Thomas was still 

 living in 1664, when the pedigree was 

 recorded. His son Robert was then 

 thirty-seven years of age, and had a 

 brother Thomas, from whom descended 

 the Claytons of Adlington. 



Thomas Clayton the elder was a 

 Parliamentarian, and served as a captam 

 in 1643 ; JVar in Lanes. (Chet. Soc), 42. 

 He was buried at Leyland on 13 August 

 1669. 



' Kuerden, quoted by Baines ; Lanes. 

 (ed. 1870), ii, 141. 



'" In 1703 Samuel Crook of CoppuU 

 granted to feoffees his moiety of the 

 manor or reputed manor of Whittle- 

 le-Woods, the messuages called Old 

 Crook and New Crook with lands appur- 

 tenant, CoppuU House, &c., in Coppull, 

 Burgh in Chorley, and other messuages 

 and lands ; Deed in possession of W. 

 Farrer. 



11 John de Bank contributed to the 

 subsidy of 1332; Exeh. Lay Subs. 

 52. William son of William de Bank, 

 Richard son of William and William son 

 of Henry appear in deeds between 1386 

 and 1402 preserved by Kuerden ; ii, fol. 

 156 ; iii, W 22. 



The seal of William de Bank is 

 appended to one deed ; it shows a 

 cheveron between three billets (?). 



'2 William Farington in right of 

 Henry Butler (who had made an ex- 



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change) claimed lands in Whittle against 

 James Anderton in 1594 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Plead, clxiii, F 10. Whittle Green is 

 mentioned. William Farington of 

 Wordcn in 1610 held land of James 

 Anderton and Alexander Standish ; Lanes. 

 Inj. p.m, {Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches,), 

 i, 180. 



^^ William Foster died in 1636 hold- 

 ing lands in Whittle of James Anderton. 

 There were four co-heirs — Thomas 

 Warcing, John Burscough, Richard 

 Farington and William Stopforth ; 

 Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 

 p. 423. 



^^ Lewis Garstang (Gerstan) and 

 Ellen his wife in 1458 gave to James 

 son of Ralph Garstang all their lands, 

 &c., in Whittle at a rent of 6j. 8i. 

 during their lives; Add. MS. 32109, 

 fol. 74. Thomas the son of Lewis in 

 1464 released to James his right in 

 certain lands ; ibid. fol. 87. 



John Garstang of Livesey, &c., in 

 1530 held lands in Whittle of Sir 

 Richard Hoghton by a rent of \d. ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq, p.m. vi, no. 5. 

 His son and heir was James, eight years 

 of age. For Garstang disputes in 1554 

 see Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com,), i, 277. 



William Garstang in 1590 made a 

 feoffment of three messuages, &c., in 

 Whittle ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 52, m. 10. It seems to have been the 

 same William who died in 1638 holding 

 two messuages, &c., in Whittle of Thomas 

 Standish of Duxbury. His son Andrew 

 having died before him, the heirs were 

 the daughters of Andrew — Anne wife of 

 Robert Lowe and Ellen wife of Henry 

 Wright, aged respectively twenty-four 

 and twenty-three ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. XXX, no. 64. 



^^ William Gerard died in 1622 hold- 

 ing lands of James Anderton and 

 Alexander Standish and Thomas son and 

 heir of Alexander ; Lanes, hiq. p.m. 

 {Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 313. 

 Ellen Walmesley was daughter and 

 heir. 



^^ Richard Shireburne died in 1513 

 holding lands in Whittle of John Butler 

 in socage ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 iv, no. 46. A similar statement is made 

 in later inquisitions, 



1' The Swanseys held lands In Whittle 

 in 1493 ; Final Cone, iii, 144. 



Hugh Swansey in 1566 held a mes- 

 suage, &e., there of Thomas Hoghton 

 and Henry Boteler in socage by a rent of 

 41. S^. ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, 

 no. 29. 



^s Robert (the son of Hugh) Swansey 

 sold to Thomas Walmesley the elder in 

 1572 and later; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 34, m, 36 ; 47, m. 48. Thomas 

 Walmesley died in or before 1584, and 

 left the capital messuage called Whittle 

 House, with its lands, &c., to his 

 younger son Edward and heirs male ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiv, no. 72, 

 See also Dueatus Lane, iii, 119, &c. 



