A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



side. The chief landowners were \\'illiam Dicconson 

 and Dennis Halliwell, both double assessed for 

 religion, Mrs. Rigby, John Nelson and Lady 

 Tyrrell. In 179S some additional owners appear: 

 Edmund Newman Kershaw, Mr. Millson (?\\ ilson), 

 Mr. Heskin's heirs and James Tunstall.^ 



From the account of the manor it will be seen 

 that the old subdivisions were altered and perhaps 

 increased in number early in the 1 7th century.^ 

 The lordship thus became uncertain, and manor 

 courts have long ceased to be held. 



At an inquiry made in 1540 it was stated that the 

 custom of the town had been for the executors of a 

 deceased tenant to keep possession of his land till the 

 following Candlemas, and for fire and fodder till 

 3 May ; also that the eldest son should have his 

 father's tenement, paying the accustomed rent at 

 Whitsuntide and Martinmas.^ 



For the services of the Church of England St. James's 

 was built in 1857; the vicars are presented by the rector 

 of Eccleston.^ There is also a mission chapel at Appley. 



The Primitive Methodists have two places of 

 worship." 



Jonathan Scholefield, the curate ejected from 

 Douglas in 1662 for nonconformity, found a refuge 

 at Tunley. He died in 1667, and there is no 

 information as to his adherents, but a chapel was 

 built in 1691. The congregation, about a century 

 later, became Unitarian, but the building was after- 

 wards given to the Scottish Presbyterians, and it now 

 belongs to the Presbyterian Church of England." 



Roman Catholicism was never extinguished in the 

 township,' but there are few records of its worship. 

 Fairhurst Hall was at one time the mission centre, 

 and Wrightington Hall Chapel was used from I 806 

 until the building of St. Joseph's in 1892. 



Iperbolt, 1 195 

 Perbalt, Perbald, 

 Perbot or Parbot. 



PARBOLD 



Perebold, 1202 ; Perbold, 1212 ; 

 [292. The local pronunciation is 



Parbold appears to have been taken from Wright- 

 ington. It has an area of 1,159 acres," and the 

 population in 1 90 1 numbered 579. The surface is 

 hilly, the general slope being from a height of 400 ft. 

 on the north-east border down to the Dougl-is, 

 which here forms the boundary on the south and 

 west, being also the boundary of the parish and 

 hundred. From the summit mentioned there is an 

 extensive prospect, the mountains of Cumberland and 

 Wales and the Isle of Man being visible. 



The principal road is that which goes westward 

 from Wigan to Ormskirk, crossing the Douglas by a 

 bridge ' at the south-west corner of the township. 

 The village lies in the same quarter. The Lancashire 

 and Yorkshire Company's line from Wigan to 

 Southport runs west near the southern border, and 

 has a station at the village. The Leeds and Liverpool 

 Canal passes through the township between the rail- 

 way and the river. 



There are quarries of good building stone 

 worked. 



The soil is a strong clayey loam with subsoil of 

 marl, stone and coal. Wheat, oats and potatoes are 

 grown. 



Fifty hearths contributed to the hearth tax in 

 1666 ; the largest house was that of John Crisp, 

 with six hearths.'" 



The early history of PJRBOLD is 

 MJXOR involved in that of Wrightington. Before 

 1242 it had come into the hands of 

 Robert de Lathom, who held it of the lord of Man- 

 chester by the service of the fourth part of a knight's 

 fee.'i Robert de Lathom gave it to Richard his son 

 and his issue, and Richard had four daughters — 

 Lucy, Alice, Katherine and Cecily. Two died 

 without issue, and in 1 35 1 the claimants were 

 Henry de Trafford in right of his wife Lucy daughter 

 of Alice, and Thomas son of Richard de Bradshagh 

 of Pennington by Cecily his wife.^^ The Lathoms of 

 Tarbock and their heirs also claimed the manor of 

 Parbold ^' ; but the head of the family, Sir Thomas 



^ Land tax returns at Preston. 



* According to the atatements re- 

 corded above about 1700 Dicconson of 

 Wrightington held a moiety of the manor 

 and Hesketh of Ruffbrd a sixth part — the 

 only 'manors' thenceforward claimed; 

 while other fractions were held by Nelson 

 of Fairhurst, Rigby of Harrock and 

 Towneley of Barnside. But sales and 

 transfers may have been made which have 

 not been traced. 



^ Kuerden MSS. vi, fol. 42*. 



^A district was assigned m 1877; 

 LonJ. Gaa. 17 July. 



^ One in Carrhouse Lane was built in 

 1831. 



^ Nightingale, Lanes. Ncnconf, iv, 

 23-36 ; a view is given. The chapel is 

 also known as Mossy Lee. 



^ See list of recusants in 1628 in 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 

 187-9. -^ ^'^^^ forty or fifty years later 

 in date is printed in Misc. (Cath. Rec. 

 Soc), V, 93-+. 



* The Cemiu Rep. of 1901 gives 1,161 

 acres, including 1 7 of inland water. 



5 This bridge, called Three Bridge, is 

 perhaps the successor of the * Risenebrige ' 

 of the Cockcrsand charters, quoted below, 



"^ Subs. R. Lanes, bdle. 250, no. 9. 



" Lj-.;s. Inj. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 154. See also the 

 account of Wrightington, 



Robert de Holland seems to have held 

 the Lathom share of Dalton and Parbold 

 in 1320, and his successor Lord Lovel 

 about 1480 ; see Mamecestre (Chet. Soc), 

 ii, 288 ; iii, 515. These occupy exactly 

 the same place as the Lathoms do in 

 other rentals ; ibid, iii, 479. There was 

 payable 35. for sake fee and ^s. for castle 

 ward, of which Parbold contributed 41. 

 (ibid, iii, 491) J also puture of the Ser- 

 jeants. A mesne manor must therefore 

 have been created for the Hollands. 



*^ This statement of the descent is from 

 Duchy of Lane Assize R. 2 (Pentecost, 

 2, Duke Henrj), m. 8. At that time 

 the four daughters were all dead. See 

 also Genealogist (new ser.), xvi, 201-6. 



Richard de Lathom being of full age in 

 1291 claimed 5 acres in Parbold against 

 Roger Banastre ; De Banco R. 91, m. 

 268 d. Richard claimed against Geoffrey 

 son of Roger Banastre in 1316; ibi J. 

 214, m. 250. He was one of the 

 defendants to a claim for land put forward 

 by Edmund de Rigby in 1325 ; Assize R, 

 426, m. 3. He was still living in 1328, 

 when he released to Katherine de Lathom 

 his right in lands formerly Robert de 

 Lathom's ; Kuerden MSS. iii, W 26 d. 

 His death took place between 1329 and 

 1332, in which latter year his daughter 

 Lucy as widow of John de Warburton 

 had to defend her title to the manor ; Dc 



178 



Banco R, 292, m. 53. Cecily, a sister, 

 was under age in 133; ; ibid. 304, m, 

 43 d, In 1344 Lucy made a feoffment 

 of the manor of Parbold ; Final Cone. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and ChcR.], ii, 120; and in 

 1 346 she was wife of Thomas Ic Strange j 

 De Banco R. 348, m. 404. By her first 

 husband she had a son Edward, who 

 must have died before 1350; ibid. 358, 

 m. 19; 361, m. 59. 



The last reference marks the appear- 

 ance of Henry de Trafford and Thomas 

 de Bradshagh as claimants of the manor ; 

 Thomas was still a minor. Their claims 

 were prosecuted for several years. Thomas 

 de Bradshagh sued for thirteen messuages, 

 two mills, &c., at Easter, 1354; Duchy of 

 Lane. Assize R. 3, m. 4. Henry dc Trafford 

 and Lucy his wife continued their claim 

 for the manor in 1355 \ ibid. 4, m. 4« 



^^ Richard son of Robert dc Lathom 

 granted to Alexander de Lathom lands in 

 Parbold, &c. ; Kuerden MSS. iii, W 26 d. 

 Ellen widow of Henry dc Lathom (of 

 Tarbock) in 1288 claimed dower against 

 Richard dc Lathom, Alexander de Lathom, 

 Roger Banastre and others in two mes- 

 suages, two mills, &c., in Parbold ; De 

 Banco R. 7^, m. 38 d. Richard son of 

 the later Henry dc Lathom (of Tarbock) 

 in 132^ chimed a messuage and land in 

 Parbald against John son of Alexander 

 dc Lathom ; ibid. 25", m. 36. 



