A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



whose son lo^eph in 1609 purchased it.^ The new 

 owners, who adhered to the Roman Catholic religion,- 

 had several distinguished ecclesiastics in the family. 

 One of them was Joseph's second son John, born at 

 Fanngton in 1608 ; he assisted Charles II in his 

 flight from England after the overthrow at Worcester 

 in 165 1, and then becoming a Benedictine monk was 

 from 1 660 to 1698 chaplain at Somerset House to 

 Queen Henrietta Maria and then to Queen Catherine. 

 It was he who in 1685 reconciled the dying king to 

 the Roman Church.^ 



Though Joseph Huddleston resided at Farington, 

 the estate, not afterwards called a 'manor,' appears 



soon to have been sold to relatives the Pennmgtons 

 of Muncaster, who long had lands in the township. 



A younger branch of the Farington family held an 

 estate called Little Farington,' which de-^ccnded to 

 the five daughters and heirs of Peter Farington in 

 the time of Queen Elizabeth. About 1655 a large 

 part, or the whole, was purchased by Richard 

 Gardner of Leyland, and seems to have been acquired 

 later by the Crooks of Abram.^ 



A few other estates in the township appear in the 

 inquisitions and other records, but it is not possible to 

 give connected accounts of them.^ 



To the subsidy of 15+2-3 the following con- 



Hutton and Charles his brother (of Little 

 Wood), to Roger Farington of Leyland 

 and to Richard Chamock of Leyland 5 

 Duchy of Lane. Plead, Eliz. Ixxi, F 20 ; 

 Ixxix, F I, 2. Such a settlement as that 

 alleged might have been made by Henry 

 Farington in 1519-20; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. 128, m. 2d. 



Edmund Huddleston and Dorothy 

 made a settlement of the manors of 

 Farington and Leylnnd, the fourth part 

 of the manor of Cl.iyton le Woods Sec, 

 in 1570; Pal. of Lane. Ytct of F. bdlc, 

 32, m. 14^. Five years later Edmund 

 came to an agreement with John Faring- 

 ton ; ibid. bdle. 17, m. 209. Later 

 still, in 1590, Sir Edmund Huddleston 

 (mndc a kniglit in i ^79) and Dorothy his 

 wife agreed with WiUiarti Farington (of 

 Wordca) and Anne his wife as to the 

 manor of Farington j ibid. bdlc. 42, m. 

 68. Three years later they made a 

 feoffment of their manors and lands in 

 Fiirington, Leyland, &c. ; ibid. bd!c. 55, 

 m. 51. 



In 1606 the deforciants in a fine re- 

 g.irding the same manors were Sir Edmund 

 Hu idleston, Dorothy his wife and Henry 

 their son and heir-apparent, the plaintiffs 

 being Sir Robert and Sir John Dormer ; 

 ibid. bdle. 70, no. ^4. 



' Ibid. bdle. 76,00. 59; the deforciants 

 were Dorothy Huddleston, widow, Henry 

 Huddleston, esquire, and others. 



* The pedigree of the family in Hut- 

 chinson's CumberhnJ^ 1,416, shows the 

 descent — Andrew Huddleston of Hutton 

 John (in right of his wife M iry Hutton) 

 -«. Joseph —8. Andrew — s. Andrew, 

 'the first Protestant of this house, and a 

 warm friend to the Revolution.* Many 

 details of the family history may be seen 

 in the 'Huddleston Obituarj'* in Misc. 

 (Cath. Rec Soc), i, 123, &c. 



The first Andrew (who died at Faring- 

 ton about 1601) was one of the * schis- 

 matics' of the time, conforming to the 

 e-tablished church to avoid the heavy 

 fines imposed on recusants, but sending 

 his sons Andrew and Richard (the latter 

 bom at Farington in i^S^) to a Roman 

 Catholic schoolmaster at Grange-over- 

 Sands, where Richard was reconciled to 

 the Roman Church, and then to St. Onaer's 

 and Douay. Richard became a Bene- 

 dictine monk at Monte Cassino, and in 

 1619 was sent on the English mission, 

 probably to Farington at first. He died 

 in 1655. A little treatise by him was 

 printed "in 1688. See Gillow, Bibl. Diet. 

 of Engl. Catho ;. ■, iii, 466-S ; Diet. Xat. 

 Bi:g. ; Foley, Rec. S, J. v, ^87-91. 



Joseph was the second son, and in 1603 

 he and his wi'd, described as of Farington, 

 were fined for recusancy ; he was still 

 living there in 1674, his elder brother 

 Andrev being probably at Hutton John. 



In 1 6 14 he had a dispute with Richard 

 Fleetwood as to Farington manor ; Exch. 

 Dep. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 15 ; 

 Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), ii, 291-2. Joseph's eldest 

 son Andrew succeeded to Hutton John, 

 and, zealously espousing the king's side, 

 had all his estates seized by the Parliament 

 for * recusancy and delinquency ' ; Gillow, 

 op. cit. iii, 463 ; Cal. Cm. Jor Comp. iii, 

 2226 ; Index of Royalists {Index Soc), 39. 

 3 G;llnw, op. cit. iii, 463-5 i ^i^^- 

 Nat, Biog. 



* According to the Farington pedigree 

 in the Hsit. of 1567 (Chet. Soc. 75), 

 they descended from Thomas, a yf)unger 

 son of Sir John dc Farington, mentioned 

 above as husband of Joan de Howick, 

 thus : Thomas -s. Peter -s. Thomas -s. 

 Peter. Some of the family deeds, chiefly 

 referring to Longton, are in Harl. MS. 

 2042, fol. 104, &c. 



Thomas Farington died in i 508, leaving 

 a son and heir John, about nine years of 

 age. The estate consisted of a capital 

 messuage and various parcels of land in 

 Farington — Oxhey, Crook, MabnthL-ld, 

 Green, K-iln field by Baron sgate, &c — 

 held of the Abbot of Evesham by a rent 

 of 4^. i with messuages and lands in 

 Longton, Howick, &c. These had about 

 1490 been settled upon Thomas and his 

 wife Agnea ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 i V, no. 4 1 . From a deed of 1 5 2 1 it 

 appears that Thomas had two sons, John 

 and Peter, and that his widow Agnes 

 married James Anderton of Euxton ; 

 Piccope MSS. xiv, 60. 



Peter Farington in 1567 made a settle- 

 ment of twenty messuages, water-mill, 

 lands, &c., in Farington, Longton, Preston 

 and other places j Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 29, m. 116. The eldest daughter 

 Anne is stated to have married John 

 Farington, and there are several fines con- 

 cerning their estate ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 39, m. 79 ; 43, m. 203 ; 53, 

 m. 76. John died in 1596 holding a 

 capital messuage and lands of the queen 

 as of her priory of Penwortham by a 

 rent of 6d. ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xviii, no. 7. Henry, his brother and heir, 

 a London merchant, was forty-sijc years 

 of age, but Little Farington went to Arme 

 Chamock (daughter of Cecily, another of 

 Peter's daughters), who had married 

 Francis Orrell of Wigan. John's widow, 

 Margaret (wife of Thomas Langton), was 

 accused of conveying the deeds to Henry 

 Farington ; Duchy of Lane. Plead. Eliz. 

 cliiiv, O I, O 4. 



Of the other daughters, Elizabeth mar- 

 ried John Kuerden and Alice Richard 

 Shelton and then (1577) Henry N'orris. 

 In I ; So John Kuerden purchased the 

 reversion of the Shelton share of three 

 messuajcs, water-mill, dovecot*-, Sec. j 



64 



Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 42, m. 29. 

 Thus when Alice Shelton, widow, died in 

 1586 this part went to Kuerden ; her 

 heirs at that time were Anne wife of 

 John Farington, Elizabeth wife of Jnhn 

 Kuerden, Thomas son of Isabel, late wife 

 of Richard Banastre, William son of 

 Cecily, late wife of Thomas Charnock, 

 aged respectively sixty, sixty, twenty-nine 

 and twenty-nine ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. XV, no. 51. Other references to the 

 disputes will be found in Ducatus Lane, 

 (Rec. Com.). 



There were other Farington families, 

 but little can be said of them. Thus 

 lands of the gift of Henry Farington were 

 in 1436-7 given to Ralph farington, witll 

 remainder in default of heirs to Thomas 

 Farington the elder ; Kuerden fol. MS. 

 p. 130. Protection was granted in 1441 

 to G<."fFrcy Farington, going to France on 

 the king's service ; Add. MS. 32108, no. 

 1668. Henry, as son and heir of Geoffrey 

 Farington, claimed in 1479 a messuage 

 and lands in Farington and Leyland 

 against William Farington, esquire ; Final 

 Cone, iii, I 37. 



' From Crook deeds in the possession 

 of W. Farrer it appears that Francis and 

 Anne Orrell made a settlement of ' the 

 capital messuage called Little Farington ' 

 in 1601. John Kucrdcn's lands went to 

 four co-heirs — Jane wife of Augustine 

 Wildbore of Lancaster, D.D. ; Alice 

 wife of Richard Burgh of Larbrick j Mar- 

 garet wife of Edward Smith of Knowslcy ; 

 and Cecily wife of James Martin of 

 Walton-le-Dale and widow of Robert 

 Taylor (son, John) ; and some of these 

 between 1633 and 1650 disposed of their 

 shares to Richard Orrell, and all or most 

 was purchased in 1655 by Richard Gardner 

 of Leyland. 



Richard Orrell had in 1649 to com- 

 pound for his estate with the Parliamen- 

 tary authorities by a fine of ^^22 loj. 

 His * delinquency ' was that he had pro- 

 vided a man armed for the king in the 

 first war; Cal, Com, for Comp. iii, 2057, 



Thomas Clayton and Abigail his wife 

 had lands in Farington in 1754 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 350, m. 8. 



'In 1 502 William Holland was 

 ordered to surrender to Henry Farington 

 of Farington a messuage and lands which 

 one William Farington had (apparently 

 about 1400) given to Henry his son (s.p.), 

 with remainder to Nicholas and John 

 Farington ; and from Nicholas the descent 

 was —8. Ralph -8. Ralph — s. Thomas. 

 Henry Farington was claiming as heir of 

 the said John ; Pal. of Lane. Writs Pro- 

 ton. Aug. 17 Hen. VII. This may 

 indicate the origin of the Holland of 

 Clifton holding in Farington and 

 district. William Holland died in 1521 

 holding messuages and lands in Farington 



