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held the manors for about fifty years.' He was 

 several times knight of the shire,' and dying in 

 1385' was succeeded by his son Sir Richard de 

 Hoghton, one of whose first acts was to obtain the 

 royal licence for an extension of the park.* In 1383 

 and 14.02 he was knight of the shire.' He died 

 in 1415° holding the manor of Hoghton with its 

 members, viz. CLiyton, Wheelton, Heapey, Roddies- 

 worth and Gunolfsmoors, of the king (as Duke 

 of Lancaster, Earl of Lincoln, and lord of 

 Penwortham) by knights' service and the payment of 

 2/. o^J. yearly. He also held a moiety of the manor 

 of Whittle-le-Wood<, and a great number of other 

 manors (including the above-named moiety of the 

 manor of Heaton in Lonsdale), with messuages, lands, 

 &c. His son Sir William having predeceased him 

 the heir w.is his grandson Richard son of Sir William, 

 of the age of twenty-four or more.' 



Pink and Bcaven, Pari. Rcpre. of Lanes. 

 20-26. 



In 1334- Richard de Hoghton and 

 Henry son of Henry de Hoghton claimed 

 80 acres of wood against Maud widow of 

 Robert de Holland and many others. 

 The defence was that the wood claimed 

 was partly in Samlcsbur)' ; Coram Rege 

 R. 297, m. 96. 



* In 1346-55 he and his tenants were 

 holding Hoghton, Clayton, &c., as once 

 held by Richard Fitton and Robert de 

 Clayton, for the third part of a knight's 

 fee; Feud. Aids, iii, 86. In 13+7 he 

 made a feoffment of all his manors and 

 lands in Lancashire, and another in 

 1359 ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 722, 701. 

 He was in 1354 acquitted for life from 

 serving on juries, &c. ; Dep. Keeper s 

 Rep. xxxii, App. 333. Five years later 

 he had the king's protection on going 

 abroad in the company of John Esrl of 

 Richmond ; ibid. 347. 



^ In 1347, 1363 and 1365 ; Pink 

 and Beaven, op. cit. 29, &c. 



^ Writ of diem cl. extr. issued 2 Sept. 

 1385 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. jotxii, App. 358. 

 For the Cheshire Inq. p.m. see Ormerod, 

 Ches. (ed. Helsby), ii, 574. Richard his son 

 and heir was stated to be thirty years of age. 



His seal (1359) showing his arms 

 (three bars) is sketched in Dods. MS. 

 Ux, fol. 1574. Margaret wife of Adam 

 occurs in 1364; ibid, cxlii, fol. 36^. 

 His widow, however, was named Ellen ; 

 Add. MS. 32106, no. 26. 



* Dods. MS. Ixx, fol. 153 ; ii licence 

 from John Duke of Lancaster for the 

 enlargement of the park of Hoghton by 

 the addition of Holmeley, dated at 

 Plimpton, 17 May 1386. See further 

 Cat. Pat. 1388-92, p. 459. For his 

 manors sec Add. MS. 32106, no. 893, 

 and Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 358, 

 no. 99. Joan his wife is named. 



Geoffrey de Breres in 1401 gave to Sir 

 Richard de Hoghton land in Hoghton cal led 

 the Moreacres ; it had descended to him 

 from his father, John son of Henry de 

 Hoghton ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 15. Sir 

 Richard's acquisition of other lands of the 

 other Hoghton family has been mentioned 

 above ; see ibid. no. 30, 721, &c. 



In 1405 Sir Richard agreed with William 

 son of Richard de Hoghton (i.e. apparently 

 his son) and cousin and heir of John the 

 Ward of Hoghton as to certain lands in 

 the vili ; these were delivered to William, 

 his age being proved j ibid. no. 19. 



For Sir Richard's brother Sir Henry 

 de Hoghton see Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet, 

 Soc), ii, 12, 42. 



' Pink and Beaven, op. cit. 40, 46. 



In 1406 he founded a chantry at 

 Ribchester ; Inq. a.q.d. 8 Hen. IV, no. 18. 



^ Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 

 145-6. The date is doubtful, as the writ 

 diem cl. extr. was not issued till 20 July 

 1422 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. 21. 



' Lanes. Inj. loc. cit. In it are re- 

 cited grants by Sir Richard the father for 

 his son Sir William and Alice his wife 

 (Goosnargh), also for his grandson Richard 

 and Margaret his wife (Charnock Richard, 

 1410). For the livery of his manors, &c., 

 to tlie younger Richard, see Dep. Keeper's 

 Rep. xxxiii, App. 21. Alice widow of 

 Sir William is named in 141 9 ; ibid. 17. 



® Feud, Aids, iii, 93. The members 

 of Hoghton were then considered to be 

 Clayton, Heapey, Roddlesworth, With- 

 nell and Gunolfsmoors ; Harl. MS. 2085, 

 fol. 447i. 



^ Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, bdle. 

 2, no. 20. 



In 1443-4 Lawrence Ribbleton gave 

 to Sir Richard Hoghton the fourth part 

 of his water of Ribble, on the north side, 

 in the vill of Ashton ; Towneley MS, 

 C 8, 7 (Chet. Lib.), no 125. 



In 1445 Sir Richard Hoghton com- 

 plained that some of the Shireburnes and 

 Baileys had broken into his park at 

 Hoghton, hunted there without leave, 

 and taken beasts away j Pal. of Lane. 

 Pica R. 8, m. 2. 



The king in 1464 granted to Sir 

 Richard Hoghton of Lea exemption from 

 service on juries, &c. ; Cal. Pat. 1461-7, 



P- 333- 



1" Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 80. 

 The inquisition recites a feoflrncnt made 

 by Sir Richard in 1458. Sir Henry, his 

 heir, was over forty years of age in 1468. 



" Add. MS. 32106, no. 1107, 700. 



Settlements made by Sir Henry in 

 1468 and later are printed in Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 127 ; also Dep. 

 Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, App. 178-9 ; Final 

 Cone, iii, 134. 



General pardons were in 1469 granted 

 to Henry Hoghton, Ellen his wife and 

 Alexander Hoghton; Add. MS. 32106, 

 no. 366-7. 



'2 Lanes. Rec. Inq. p.m. no. 47-8 ; 

 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxix, App. 539. Sir 

 Henry's son and heir Alexander was 

 twenty-six years of age ; William brother 

 of Alexander is named. 



'^ Alexander was made a knight in Scot- 

 land in the expedition of 1482 ; Metcalfe, 

 Book of Knights, 7. In 1483 he held the 

 third part of a knight's fee in Hoghton and 

 its members ; Duchy of Lane. Misc. cxxx. 



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The heir, Sir Richard Hoghton, was in 143 1 

 found to be holding the manor of Hoghton by the 

 fifth part of a knight's fee,' and in 1445-6 it was 

 found that he held the third part of a knight's fee in 

 Hoghton, Clayton, Whcelton-wIth-Heapey, With- 

 nell-with-Roddlcsworth, and the moiety of Eccleshill.^ 

 He died in or before 1468, being succeeded by his 

 son Sir Henry," who in 1470 and 1475 obtained 

 papal indulgences for himself, his wife Ellen and his 

 children." Dying in 1479,'" Sir Henry was followed 

 by his sons Sir Alexander, who died in 1498,'" leaving 

 an only daughter, and William, who died three years 

 afterwards," holding Hoghton and being succeeded 

 by his son Richard, a minor." 



Sir Richard received an unfavourable character from 

 Thomas Benalt, the herald who visited the county in 

 1533.'° He w.is sheriff in 1540" and knight of the 

 shire in 1553.'" He died on 5 August 1559," and 



Sir Alexander died in November 1498 

 holding the manor of Hoghton, with tene- 

 ments in Hoghton, Clayton, Wheelton, 

 Heapey and Withnell of the king in chief 

 by tlie fourth part of a knight's fee ; they 

 were worth ^^20 a year clear ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 66. Anne his 

 daughter and heir was eleven years of 

 age; she died in June 1524 without 

 issue ; Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), ii, 

 574. The Lancashire inquisition is ille- 

 gible. Her mother was Elizabeth daughter 

 of Sir William Troutbeck ; ibid, ii, 42. 

 For her dower see Dep. Keeper's Rep. x1, 

 App. 544. 



'* William died 18 Aug. 1501 holding 

 the manor of Hoghton, &c., as successor 

 of his brother Alexander. He had in 

 1496 received from his mother Ellen the 

 capital messuage called Alston Hall, to 

 be held by him and Margaret daughter of 

 Sir Christopher Southworth ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. v, no. 66. 



*' Richard was of full age in 1519 

 when the inq. p.m. of his father was 

 taken. The printed inquisition (Chet, 

 Soc. ii, 127) is erroneous in this point. 



In 1503 the custody of the park of 

 Hoghton was granted to William Smith 

 during the minority of Richard son of 

 William Hoghton, deceased ; Dep. Keeper's 

 Rep. xl, App. 542. The wardship of the 

 heir was in 1509 granted to Sir John 

 Southworth ; ibid, xxxix, App. 554. 

 Livery of lands was granted to Richard 

 in 1 5 19; Towneley MS. CC (Chet. 

 Lib.), no. 831. 



Sir Richard was made a knight in ot 

 before 1523 ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 831. 



16 Visit, of 1533 (Chet. Soc), 48, 

 * The said Sir Richard hath put away his 

 lady and wife and keepeth a concubine in 

 his house by whom he hath divers children, 

 and by the Indy he hath Lea Hall [an 

 errorj, which arms he beareth quartered 

 with his in the first quarter. He says 

 that Mr. Garter licensed him so to do 

 and he gave Mr. Garter an angel noble ; 

 but he gave me nothing nor made me no 

 good cheer, but gave me proud words.' 



" P.R.O. List, 73. 



13 Pink and Beaven, op. cit. 62. It 

 was the last Parliament of Edward VI, 

 and Sir Richard was quickly replaced by 

 Sir Robert Worsley of Booths. 



1^ He held the manor of Hoghton as 

 before and the wide estates of his house, 

 having made some additions to them, e.g. 

 Stanworth from the confiscated estates of 

 Whalley Abbey ; Duchy of Lane. Inq, 

 p.m. xi, no. 2. Thomas Hoghton the 

 son and heir was forty-one years of age. 



