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the manor. The Lathoms also had Parbold, and as 

 early as 1242 Robert de Lathora was stated to hold 

 one knight's fee in Wrightington and Parbold of 

 Thomas Grelley.^ This part was held by the 

 Lathoms of Parbold, who about 1620 acquired the 

 Kirkby portion. Probably the moiety was included 

 in the purchase of the Parbold estates by the Diccon- 

 sons.2 



With the manor thus divided among a number of 

 non-resident lords, the smaller families, as in similar 

 cases, became prominent. The first to be noticed 

 are those which took the local name. The story is 

 extremely obscure. The above-named Roger de 

 Burton was a benefactor of Cockersand Abbey, ^ and 

 it was probably a descendant of him or his brother 

 Orm who as Geoffrey de Wrightington was lord of 



part of the manor in 1282.^ Afterwards this fourth 

 part was sold to the superior lords, the Kirkbys,^ but 

 a Wrightington family, probably descendants of the 

 former one, continued to hold lands in the township.^ 

 A later Geoffrey de Wrightington^ about 1365 

 received from Henry de Torbock the manor of Welch 

 Whittle, with lands in Wrightington and Coppull, as 

 a reward for assistance in recovering his inheritance,^ 

 John son of Robert Wrightington died in or before 

 1503,^* leaving a son and heir Thomas Wrightington, 

 who died in December 1544 holding eight messuages 

 and various lands in Wrightington of Nicholas Butler 

 and Robert Kirkby in socage by a rent of 18/. 4^'. ; 

 also holding the manor of Welch Whittle and lands, 

 &c., there and in Shevington and Coppull. His heir 

 was his son John, aged lifty-seven.^^ Edward Dicconson 



Orm of H96, ever had any interest in 

 Wrightington. Possibly, therefore, It 

 was Orm's right which came into the 

 possession of Robert de Lathom before 

 1242. 



^ Lanes. Inq. and ExtentSy i, 154. ^ three- 

 fourths of the fee was in Wrightington. 

 Thomas son of Robert de Lathom in 

 1385 held a fourth part of the manor of 

 John La Warr by knights' service ; 

 Lanes, Inq, p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 17. It is 

 called a 'third part ' in 1376 ; Final Cone* 

 ii, 190. 



- Thomas son of Sir Thomas de 

 Lathom gave the fourth part of the manor 

 to his brother Edward, and thus it de- 

 scended with Parbold ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. ii, no. 7 ; v, no. 7, &c. As 

 above stated, Thomas Lathom of Parbold, 

 who died in 1623, purchased another 

 fourth part of the manor from Roger 

 Kirkby. See also the account of Parbold. 



Henry son of Robert de Lathom 

 granted land in Wrightington to John 

 son of Henry de Whittle ; Kuerden MSS. 

 iii, W 26 d. Lands in Wrightington were 

 also held by the Torbock family ; idid, ii, 

 fol. 266 ; Final Cone, ii, 139. 



^ Roger dc Burton granted the canons 

 land in Wrightington for building, and 

 2 acres in Linleys near the spring ; 

 Cockersand Chartul. ii, 501. William son 

 of Roger confirmed his father's grants \ 

 ibid, ii, 505. 



A *Rogerde Wrightington son of Orm 

 de Ashton* made a grant to Cockersand 

 of land in the Menewood ; ibid, ii, 504* 

 It is not clear whether the grantor was 

 father or nephew of the above-named 

 Roger de Burton. Appley Wood is named 

 in this and some other charters. 



* Lanes. Inq. and Extents^ i, 248. 



William son of Geoffrey de Wright- 

 ington in 1292 claimed the fourth part of 

 a tenement against John de Chisnall ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 74, 30. In 1293 

 Roger de Burton gave to William son of 

 Geoffrey de Wrightington all the lands 

 formerly held of him by Geoffrey, a rent 

 of zs. 6d. (or 2s.) to be paid j Kuerden 

 MSS. ii, fol. 212; iii, K 8. Agnes 

 widow of Geoffrey was a defendant in 

 1295 ; Assize R. 1306, m. 16. William 

 de Wrightington occurs in 1301 ; Inq. 

 and Extents^ i, 310. William de Wright- 

 ington granted to John son of Henry de 

 Wrightington land in the Scholefields 

 formerly held by William the Smith ; 

 Rev. W. Michell's D. 



* This is clear from the actual descent 

 of the manor. Alice widow of John de 

 Wrightington in 1309-10 demised to 

 John de Kirkby her dower lands for a 

 term of years ; Kuerden MSS. ii, fol, zii. 



In 1324 Thomas son of Adam son of 

 Geofl^rey de Wrightington was non-suited 

 in a claim for lands against Alexander dc 

 Kirkby and others ; Assize R, 426, 

 m. 9. 



6 A Robert son of Robert de Wright- 

 ington occurs in 1284 ; Assize R. 1268, 

 m. 13. Agnes widow of Hugh son of 

 Roger le Ferrer about the same time 

 claimed dower against Bernard son of 

 Mabel de Wrightington ; De B.inco R. 

 55, m. 30 d. John son of Thomas de 

 Wrightington was a defendant in 1306, 

 but the position of the tenement Is not 

 given ; Assize R. 420, m. 8. William 

 son of Alexander de Kirkby gave land in 

 Towncarr to Richard son of Robert de 

 Wrightington in 1339 ; Towneley MS. 

 00, no. 1278. William son of Robert de 

 Wrightington occurs in 1345-6 ; Assize 

 R. 1435, m, 19; De Banco R. 356, m. 



583. 



^ In a pleading of 1441 the descent is 

 thus set forth : Ambrose de Wrightington 

 -8. Geoffrey -s. Henry (s.p.), Geoffrey 

 (s.p.), and Robert, who had -s. Geoffrey 

 -da. Katherine, who married Thomas 

 Halsall ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 3, m. 24^. 

 In 1339 Ambrose de Wrightington leased 

 to Edmund de Rigby and Joan his wife a 

 moiety of Smithscroft ; Towneley MS. 

 00, no. 1281. William his son was a 

 defendant in 1351 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. 1, m. 3d, The children of 

 William son of Ambrose de Wrightington 

 in 1378-9 released their right to Geoffrey 

 the elder son of Ambrose ; Kuerden MSS. 

 iii, W 28. Geoffrey son of Ambrose was 

 a plaintiff In 1 366 ; De Banco R. 423, m. 

 384d. 



Geoffrey de Wrightington and Ellen 

 his wife were concerned in the manor of 

 Billinge in 1374 ; ibid. 454, m. 141. 



8 Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 266. Sir 

 Henry de Torbock in 1414 released the 

 manor of Welch Whittle to Robert son 

 of Geoffrey de Wrightington ; ibid. See 

 also the accounts of Tarbock and Welch 

 Whittle. In 1372 Roger son of William 

 de Kirkby of Wrightington made a grant 

 to Geoffrey de Wrightington ; ibid. Iii, 

 W28. 



In 1 38 1;-6 the feoffee granted to Henry 

 son of Geoffrey son of Ambrose de 

 Wrightington a messuage and land which 

 had formerly belonged to William son of 

 Ambrose de Wrightington, and land in 

 the Carrhouses, Sec, in Wrightington — 

 the tenants being John de Chisnall (3^.)> 

 Nicholas de Tunstall {^d.), Thomas 

 Haunson {^d.\ John son of Thomas (Sc/.), 

 Thomas de Sutton [izd.) — with remainder 

 to Geoffrey the brother of Henry 5 ibid. 

 ii, fol. 266^, no, 14. Geoffrey the father 



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seems to have been living in 1390 ; ibid, 

 no. 1 1. 



In an action for the restoration of a 

 box of charters In 1445 an abstract of the 

 contents was given by John Wrightington, 

 the plaintiff. They included grants by 

 Henry son of Geoffrey ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R, 7, m. 7. 



In 1441 a general settlement seems to 

 have been made. Richard de Langtrce, 

 one of the trustees of Henry de Wright- 

 ington, released various tenements in 

 Wrightington, Welch Whittle and Dalton 

 to Robert de Wrightington ; Kuerden 

 MSS. ii, fol. 266. The trustees stated 

 that Henry had demised the lands to 

 his brother Robert, with remainders to 

 Geoffrey, John, Alexander and William, 

 sons of Robert, and their male issue ; ibid. 

 Robert died about that time, for his widow 

 Katherine was claiming her dower in 

 1442 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 4, m. 14^. 



A long dispute was maintained between 

 the descendants of Katherine wife of 

 Thomas Halsall and those of John 

 Wrightington, the heir male. An arbi- 

 tration between John Wrightington and 

 Thomas Halsall as to Halgh, Peel, &c., 

 was agreed upon in 1455-6; Kuerden 

 MSS. ill, W28, Katherine had a son 

 James, whose daughter Katherine married 

 Roland Kirkby, and by an arbitration in 

 1532, when she was a widow, it was 

 ordered that she should have j^ioo, while 

 Thomas Wrightington, the heir of John, 

 should have the manors; ibid. W29. 

 Two years later she made a feoffment of 

 her lands ; ibid. Ii, fol. 267. See also 

 Ducatui Lane. (Rec. Com.), i, 149 ; ii, 27. 



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

 133 ; Dsp- Keeper's Rep. xl, App. 543, 



^^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vii, no. 26. 

 A younger son Robert had an annuity of 

 53^. /\.d. from messuages In Wrightington 

 and Welch Whittle. 



Thomas Wrightington had made a 

 settlement of his estate in 1 520-1 ; 

 Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 267. 



John Wrightington died in 1558, and 

 desired to be burled in his parish church 

 of Standish, near the place where his wife 

 had been buried. He names Richard as 

 his son and heir-apparent, who had a son 

 John, already old enough to be one of 

 the executors, and other relatives. He 

 desired 6s. %d, to be given yearly to the 

 poor of Wrightington, Heskin and Eccles- 

 ton. See his will In Piccopc's Wills 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 69. Margaret widow of 

 Richard Wrightington made her will in 

 1579 and it was proved in 1580. She 

 also wished to be buried in Standish 

 Church. She was probably a second wife, 

 for, while making John Wrightington, esq., 



