LEYLAND HUNDRED 



a fragment, the original building, which was restored 

 by Sir Robert Hesketh in 1539, having entirely 

 disappeared. 



About 1324 Walter the Demand or Judge held an 

 oxgang of land in Tarleton, doing suit to the three 

 weeks' court of Leyland for Robert son of Robert de 

 Hephale.^ 



Tarleton gave a surname to one or more families 



TARLETON 



had 



in the district,* but they do not appear to have 

 any lordship in this township. 



Richard Sutton of Tarleton occurs in 1444/ and 

 William Dandy a century later/ A family described 

 as Norris 'of Tarleton* recorded a pedigree in 1664.'' 

 John the Ferryman's son is named in 1345.*^ 



In the 1 6th century there were several disputes 

 about the fishery.' 



Holmes Wood Hall, Tarleton 



^ Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 44, This 

 may have been the oxgang which in 

 1 246 John de * Mundegum ' was called to 

 warrant to Richard de Tarleton and 

 Avice his wife, who held It by charter of 

 Adam father of John ; Assize R. 404, 

 m. I d. 



In 1330 Margery daughter of Thomas 

 son of William the Judge of Sefton and 

 widow of Richard del Lowe released to 

 Thomas son of Adam Banastre of the 

 Bank all her right in lands, &c.. In 

 Tarleton given to her mother Almarica 

 by Walter the Judge, father of the said 

 Almarica ; Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. 

 Lib,), S 82. Six years later William son 

 of John son of Gilbert de Tarleton con- 

 firmed to Alice de Preston two butts of 

 land in. Tarleton, one lying between 

 lands of the Abbot of Coclcersand and 

 Adam Banastre of the Bank, the other 

 being one received from Richard the 

 * Demand ' of Tarleton ; to be held of the 

 chief lords by the rent of i<^. ; ibid. T 63. 

 * Sec preceding notes. 

 William de Tarleton and Margaret his 

 wife (in the latter's right) claimed five 

 messuages, an oxgang of land. Sec, in 

 Bretherton and Tarleton in 1353 j Final 

 Cone, ii, 137. 



In a complaint by James Walton of 

 Preston and Hugh Farington of Ribbleton 



in 1543 it was alleged that William 

 Tarleton granted them a rent of 4 marks 

 *from his manor of Tarleton' to the 

 use of Joan wife of William ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Plead. Hen. VIII, xv, W 2. 

 Nothing else is known of this * manor.' 



The surname occurs In Croston and 

 other neighbouring townships ; also in 

 Fazakerlcy, Garston and others further 

 away. 



Sollom and Holmes in like manner 

 occur as surnames locally. 



3 Pal. of Lane, Plea R. 6, m. 8. 

 Joan widow of Gilbert Sutton occurs at 

 the same time ; Ibid. m. 27, 



* The Dandys occur among the 

 tenants at will in the Cockersand rentals 

 above quoted. Sir Thomas Hesketh in 

 1556 purchased a messuage, &c,, in 

 Tarleton from William Dandy ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 16, m. 57. 



Captain William Dandy of Tarleton 

 and his son, Parliamentarians, were 

 killed at the capture of Bolton in 1644 ; 

 ff^ar in Lanes. (Chet. Soc), 50. 



5 Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc), 218- 

 19. See the account of Penwortham, 

 Nicholas son of George Norris of Tarleton 

 in 1556 obtained from Charles Hesketh a 

 lease of a messuage, &c., including 

 parcels in the town fields of Tarleton ; 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 127, 



117 



James Forshaw In 1563 held a mes- 

 suage and land In Tarleton of the lords 

 thereof by the service of a rose yearly \ 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xl, no. 41. 



^ De Banco R. 345, m. 152. 



^ A dispute occurred between Thomas 

 Hesketh of RufFord and Henry Banastre 

 of Bank concerning the title to parcels 

 of waste and fishing within Tarleton and 

 Holmes, and it was submitted to arbitra- 

 tion in 1552. The land and moss within 

 a ditch lately made by Thomas Hesketh 

 were awarded to him, as also the fishing 

 In the Asland which had belonged to 

 Cockersand Abbey. William Banastre 

 and the tenants of North Holmes were 

 to have the ground they had inclosed, 

 and the fishing in the Asland lying to 

 any such parcel of land. Nine years 

 later a further agreement was made, 

 Henry Banastre renouncing any greater 

 interest than a moiety in the manors of 

 Tarleton, Hesketh and Becconsall. See 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 414, 415 ; also 

 Duchy Plead. (Rec. Soc, Lanes, and 

 Ches.), Hi, 241. 



About 1 571 Sir Thomas Hesketh 

 complained that, being seised of the 

 manors of RufFord and Tarleton, a free 

 fishing in Martin Merc, and lands, &c., 

 in Rufl^ord, Tarleton and Holmes [alias 

 Holmes Wood), he was like to be 



