LEYLAND HUNDRED 



une by the joint 

 took their surname 



Courts are held annually in J 

 lords.i 



A resident family or families 

 from the place, but few notices 

 of them occur ^ ; some char- 

 ters relating to their estate at 

 Mosshouses are in the British 

 Museum.^ Among the other 

 landowners recorded are 

 Aughton,* followed by Bold * ; 

 Banastre * ; Beconsaw,^ suc- 

 ceeded by Hesiceth*; Boteler 

 of RawclifFe,9 by Walton lo ; 

 Shireburne,!! Shuttleworth,^^ 

 and Waleys.^' 



WarinedeVilersand Robert 

 son of Richard le Waleys 

 gave land in Much Hoole to Cockersand Abbey.'* 



Peter Martindale in 1649 desired to compound 



PowYS, Lord Lilford. 

 Or a lion^s jamb erased 

 /n betiii between f-zvo 

 crosslets^tc/iy gules. 



HOOLE 



for his small estate, sequestered by the Parliament for 

 'delinquency/ ^^ Edward and Henry Stananought, 

 as 'Papists/ registered their estates in 1717.^^ 



The land tax return of 1783 shows that the owner- 

 ship was greatly subdivided ; the principal names 

 were those of Peter Legh and Thomas Stananought.^^ 



Among the leaseholders in 17 17 and later were 

 the family of Buck, who afterwards succeeded to 

 Agecroft in Pendlebury.^^ 



_ The church of ST, MICHJEL is 

 CHURCH situated close to the road at the south 

 end of the village, and consists of 

 chancel, nave, south porch and west tower. It is a 

 small building of red brick on a low stone base, 

 erected in 1628 — replacing, it is said, an older struc- 

 ture which stood on another site ^^ — but added to 

 subsequently at difterent periods. The original 

 building forms the present nave, and was a simple 

 parallelogram about 55 ft. long by 2 1 ft. 6 in. wide 



For pedigree sec Ne-wton Ckapelry (Chct. 

 Soc, new ser.], ii, 224. 



^ Information of Mr. John B. Selby, 

 agent to Lord Lilford, who states : * Lord 

 Lilford's predecessor, Mr. Keck, and the 

 (ate Mr. Rothwell held a manorial court 

 at least as far back as 1858. This annual 

 court ceased to be held about 1866, but 

 was revived in 1895 at the wish of both 

 Lord Lilford's and Mr. Rothwell's tenants, 

 to ensure the proper cleansing of the 

 main watercourses through the township,' 



* Some mention of them has been 

 made in a preceding note. In 1 324 

 William son of Richard son of William 

 de Hoole did not prosecute his claim 

 against Thurstan dc Northlegh and others 

 regarding a tenement in Much Hoole ; 

 Assize R, 426, m. 9. In 1331, however, 

 he recovered a messuage and land ; 

 ibid. 1404, m. z^a. Margery widow of 

 Thurstan in 1346 complained that John 

 and William sons of William de Hoole 

 had broken her close at Much Hoole ; 

 De Banco R. 349, m. 280 d. Again four 

 years later Richard de Legh made a like 

 complaint against William son of William 

 son of Richard dc Hoole and others j ibid. 

 362, m. 14 d. 



' The following are notes of these 

 charters : (i) Richard son of Roger in 

 1296 released to Adam de Walton, clerk, 

 lord of Much Hoole, all right in a house 

 and land at the Mosshouses ; B.M. Add. 

 Chart, no. 26026. (ii) John the Judge 

 of Much Hoole gave two selions in the 

 place to John de Burscough in 1303 ; 

 ibid, no, 26028. (iii) William brother of 

 Isoude de Longton and Maud daughter of 

 Richard son of Ralph of Much Hoole his 

 wife granted John de Burscough 3 1 rood- 

 falls next the Outelm at the Mosshouses; 

 ibid. no. 26031. A proviso was added 

 that should Maud claim the tenement 

 after William's death the chief lord should 

 have 20f. and the lord of Leylandshire 

 20J. out of the goods and chattels, 

 (iv) John son of Richard son of Ralph 

 granted a building at the Mosshouses to 

 John de Burscough in 1315 ; ibid. no. 

 26036, (v) Agnes daughter of John de 

 Brethcrton and widow of Benet son of 

 Richard son of Ralph of Much Hoole in 

 1316 granted to John de Burscough a 

 messuage at the Mosshouses formerly 

 belonging to Benet and an acre of land, of 

 which two selions lay in Longacre field 

 between land of the lord of Hoole and of 

 John the Demand; ibid. no. 26035. 

 (vi) In 1336 John de Burscough son of 



Benet the Clerk of Leyland gave to John 

 his son by Margaret daughter of Richard 

 son of William of Much Hoole all his lands, 

 &c., in Much Hoole ; ibid. no. 26041. 



* Sir Richard Aughton died in 1543 

 holding half an acre in Much Hoole of 

 Peter Legh and Andrew Barton In socage; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. viil, no. 3. 

 Similar statements are made In other in- 

 quisitions. In 1550 a rent of izd. was 

 stated to be due ; ibid, ix, no. 4. 



^ Ibid, xviii, no. 43 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), I, 254. 



^ Henry son of Wen gave the Great 

 Holme of Much Hoole to Thomas 

 Banastre in free marriage with his 

 daughter Agnes ; Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 46. 



In 1348 John Trussell of Cublesden 

 and Pernell his wife claimed dower in 

 three messuages, land and rent in Much 

 Hoole, held by John son of John Banastre; 

 and the tenant called upon Sir Adam de 

 Hoghton to warrant him, as guardian of 

 the body and lands of Thomas son and 

 heir of Adam Banastre ; De Banco R. 

 354, m. 232. 



This property Is not named in the in- 

 quisitions of Banastre of Bank. 



^ Edward Beconsaw in 1534 held four 

 messuages, 60 acres of land, &c., in 

 Much Hoole of the heirs of Maurice son 

 of Robert le Waleys by a rent of id. \ 

 Duchy of Lane, Inq. p.m. vlil, no, 30. 



^ The land, &c., in Hoole was In- 

 cluded in the purchase (1555-61) by Sir 

 Thomas Hesketh from the heirs of 

 Beconsaw ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdles. 

 16, m. 173 ; 23, m. 189. 



^ James Butler died in 1504 holding 

 lands in Much Hoole of the king by 

 services unknown ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. iii, no. 109. The manor of Little 

 Hoole, as will be seen, is in one Instance 

 called a moiety of Much Hoole. 



'"John and Henry Walton in 1591 

 purchased messuages, &c., in Much Hoole 

 from Henry Butler of Rawcllffe, Anne 

 his wife, William his son and heir and 

 Elizabeth his wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 53, m. 201. A Christopher 

 Walton had lands In Much Hoole In 

 1481 ; Mr. Dalton's deeds. Another 

 appears in 1534 and 1548 as a tenant in 

 Little Hoole ; Duchy Plead. (Ree. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 49 ; Ducatus Lane. 

 (Rec. Com.), ii, 98. 



' Mr. Walton, that dwelt about Hoole 

 chapel,' is said to have raised a company 

 of soldiers to fight for the Parliament in 

 1643 ; ff^ar in Lanes. (Chet, Soc), 43, 



151 



Margaret Walton, 1776, was a bene- 

 factor. 



" Sir Robert Shireburne in 1338 gave 

 his lands in Much Hoole and Formby to 

 his son John ; Kucrden MSS. ii, fol. 260. 

 Richard Shireburne died in 1 51 3 holding 

 lands of Sir Peter Legh and John Barton 

 in socage ; Duchy of Lane. Incj. p.m. iv, 

 no. 4.6. Lands in Much Hoole were in- 

 cluded in a feoffment by Richard Shire- 

 burne in 164; ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 145, m. 4. 



"In 1588 Thomas Shuttleworth 

 claimed a rent of ^^20 in Hoole against 

 Richard Shuttleworth, serjeant-at-law, 

 and Margery his wife ; ibid. bdle. 50, m. 

 181. 



Messuages and lands demised to John 

 Woodroff by Richard Shuttleworth were 

 the subject of a suit in 1583 ; Pal, of 

 Lane. Plea R. 252, m. 30 d. 



'^ Their holding has been noticed above 

 in the grants to Merivale and the Becon- 

 saw estate. In 1324-5 Richard son of 

 Alan son of Richard le Waleys was non- 

 suited in a claim for lands in Much Hoole 

 against William son of Richard de Hoole 

 and Thomas Stone of Walton ; Assize R. 

 426, m. 9. 



" Cockersand Cliartul. (Chet. Soc), ii, 

 457-8. 



^^ Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), iv, 120. 



^^ Estcourt and Payne, EngL Cath. Non- 

 jurors^ 109. 



^' Land tax returns at Preston, 



^^ From deeds at Agecroft it appears 

 that Christopher Buck of Tarleton had a 

 lease of a messuage In Much Hoole from 

 Richard Crook. His son Robert Buck 

 succeeded in or before 1731, when the 

 lease was renewed by Thomas Yates of 

 Whitchurch, Lydia his wife and other 

 heirs. He died in 1736, leaving * natural 

 sons ' Christopher and Richard. The 

 former was an apothecary and surgeon in 

 Liverpool and UphoUand ; the latter 

 lived In Hoole. By Christopher's will, 

 1763, he left his estate to his wife Alice, 

 with remainder to his two sons Robert 

 and Richard equally ; his wife's brother 

 Richard Hull, apothecary, of Chorley, 

 was to be executor. Alice Buck, widow, 

 was living at Poulton In 1789. In 1796 



Robert Buck of and Richard Buck 



of Magdalene Coll., Camb,, demised a 

 messuage In Much Hoole to Hugh Norrls. 



^^ This popular opinion may preserve 

 a tradition of the Little Hoole chapel 

 recorded below. 



