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Lathom of Parbold. 

 Or on a chief indented 

 azure three pi'utes. 



de Lathom, recovered the whole and granted it to 

 his younger son Edward/ ancestor of the Lathoms 

 who continued to hold the 

 manor down to the end of 

 the I Jth century. 



Edward de Lathom, after 

 receiving Parbold from his 

 father,^ was further endowed 

 with a fourth part of the 

 manor of Wrightington by 

 his elder brother Sir Thomas,^ 

 and these manors appear in 

 later times to have been treated 

 as one. The descent is thus 

 given in a plea of 1511"*: 

 Edward — son, Robert ® — 



son, Edward — son, Robert. Some time during 

 the 15th century, perhaps by the second Edward, 

 the manor of Allerton in Childwall ^vas acquired 

 together with other lands in that neighbourhood.^ 

 Robert Lathom^ died in 1516 holding the manor 

 of Parbold and the fourth part of the manor of 



About the same time the said Richard 

 laid claim to the manor of Parbold, and 

 his namesake of Parbold summoned the 

 lord of Lathom to warrant him ; De Banco 

 R. 263, m. 240 d. The reasons for the 

 claim are not given, but it was prosecuted 

 for thirty years. Richard son of Henry 

 de Lathom was still prosecuting hia claim 

 against Richard de Lathom of Parbold 

 in 13295 ibid. 2T7, m. 82. In 1332 

 Lucy widow of John de Warburton was 

 the defendant, and two years later the 

 claim against her was continued by 

 Richard son of Richard de Torbock ; ibid. 

 292, m. 53 ; 297, m. 12. There are 

 ref:rences in subsequent years, and in 

 1346 Sir William Carles demanded the 

 manor in right of his wife Emma ; 

 ibid. 346, m. 264 d. ; 358, m. 19, It 

 was declared that Thomas le Strange and 

 Lucy his wife (the above-named Lucy) 

 had in 1349 *no lands in Lancashire* ; 

 ibid. 358, m. 64 d. The Carles claim 

 was still put forward in 1355 ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Assize R. 4, m. 18 d. 



* Sir Thomas de Lathom in 1344 

 claimed twelve messuages, two mills, 

 lands and rent in Parbold against two 

 chaplains, probably feoffees of the Lathoms 

 of Parbold, for they summoned Thomas 

 le Strange and Lucy his wife to warrant 

 them ; De Banco R. 340, m. 402 d. ; 

 348, m. 404. In 1348 Sir Thomas de 

 Lathom the elder claimed the manor 

 against Edward son of John de Warbur- 

 ton, who was still a minor j ibid. 356, 

 m. 511. He appears to have made an 

 agreement, for in 1352 Sir William Carles 

 and Emma his wife pursued their claim 

 for the manor against Edward son of Sir 

 Thomas de Lathom, who, being a minor, 

 called Sir Thomas to warrant him ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 2, m. 3 (Pen- 

 tecost), m. 2 d. (Mich.). In some of the 

 suits previously referred to Sir Thomas 

 de Lathom, Eleanor his wife and Edward 

 de Lathom were the defendants. The 

 whole matter seems to have been settled 

 ^y '3 56* when all the pleas ceased : for 

 instance, Sir Geoffrey de Warburton the 

 elder did not in Dec. 1355 prosecute his 

 suit against Sir Thomas de Lathom the 

 elder and others ; ibid. 4, m. 240. 



^ Edward de Lathom in 1371 claimed 

 a messuage and land in Parbold against 

 Richard the Parker of Lathom ; De 

 Banco R, 443, m, 306 ; 448, m, 75, 



Wrightington of Thomas Earl of Derby by knights' 

 service and the rent of a rose and z^t/., the earl 

 holding the same of Lord La Warr by like service, 

 and Lord La Warr of the king as of his duchy 

 of Lancaster by knights' service. The manor of 

 Parbold was worth jf 10 a year and the fourth part 

 of Wrightington ^5. William Lathom son and heir 

 of Robert was sixty years of age and more.^ 



The estates descended ^ to Thomas Lathom, who 

 died in 1597,^** and his son Richard, who died in 

 1 602, leaving as heir a son Thomas, fifteen years old.^^ 

 Thomas died in 1623 holding Parbold and the 

 fourth part of Wrightington as before, together with 

 another fourth part recently bought of Roger Kirkby ; 

 his heir was his son Richard, only five months old.^^ 

 The family adhered to Roman Catholicism, and in the 

 Civil War to the king's side.^^ Hence Richard 

 Lathom's estates were confiscated for treason in 

 1652 ^** and ordered to be sold.^^ Allerton had to 

 be alienated, and though a pedigree was recorded in 

 1664^® and the family retained Parbold a little 

 longer, they were unable to retrieve their losses. 



3 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. ii, no. 7 j 

 Edward de Lathom was still living in 

 1385, and in 1389 [Pan duz of Ric. U) 

 he became bound to Robert Banastre ; 

 Towneley MS. OO, no. 1187. 



■» Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 112, m. 18 d. j 

 Robert Lathom v. Thomas Stopford, con- 

 cerning four messuages, 50 acres of land, 

 &c, which Thomas de Lathom the elder 

 gave to Edward his son and the heirs 

 male of his body. 



^ Eleanor widow of Robert Lathom in 

 1446 claimed dower in a messuage and 

 land in Parbold against Ellen widow of 

 Richard Woodward ; ibid, g, m. yb, 



John Lathom, canon of Beverley, was 

 perhaps of this family. His will (1470) is 

 printed in Test. E bar. (SurtcesSoc), iii,i73. 



^ See the account of Allerton. 



^ Robert Lathom was in possession in 

 1473 ; Mamecestre, ili, 479. 



^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, no. 7. 

 Besides the three manors he had lands in 

 Woolton and Walton-on-the-Hill. 



' At this point there Is some obscurity, 

 perhaps due to illegitimate succession. 

 William is said to have had a son William, 

 whose son Richard was father of the 

 Thomas named in the text; Piccope 

 MS. Pedigrees (Chet. Lib.), ii, p. 37. 

 William Lathom was described as * a great 

 man in those parts ' in 1527 ; Duchy Plead. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 148. 



Richard Latliom was in possession in 

 1546, when he purchased two gardens, 

 &c., in Parbold and Wrightington from 

 Richard Banastre ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 12, m. 170. See also Ducatus 

 Lane. (Ree. Com.), i, 182, 222. He was 

 still living in 1 567, when he claimed from 

 Richard Stopford and others suit to the 

 halmote court ; ibid, ii, 348, 353. 



Thomas Lathom was a defendant in 

 1578 ; ibid, iii, 69. He and Isabel his 

 wife sold land in Walton in 1577 ; Pal. 

 of Lane, Feet of F. bdle. 39, m. 83. 



John Lathom of London claimed the 

 manors of Allerton, Parbold and Wright- 

 ington (one-fourth) and various lands as 

 son and heir of Robert brother and heir 

 of William son and heir of Robert. This 

 last must be the Robert who died in 

 15 16, 80 that at the date given for the 

 petition John Lathom must have been a 

 very aged man. He asserted that various 

 deeds came into the hands of Richard 

 Lathom of Parbold, who wrongfully 



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entered and took the profits. Sec Duchy 

 of Lane. Plead, cciii, L 16. 



^^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvii, no. 

 32. The estate included the manor of 

 Parbold, with a capital messuage there, 

 water-mill, &c., a fourth part of the 

 manor of Wrightington, a chantry 

 founded in the chapel of Douglas, with 

 lands belonging to it, the advowson of 

 Eccleston, &c. Richard the son and heir 

 was thirty-four years of age. 



'^ Ibid, xviii, no. 44. His mother 

 Isabel was still living. He made a settle- 

 ment of Allerton on behalf of his wife 

 Elizabeth and his younger sons, Edward, 

 Peter, William, Richard and John. 



^^ Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Ree. Soc. Lanes. 

 and Ches.), iii, 404-6. Elizabeth his 

 mother was still living, 



>3 See Gillow, Bibl. Diet, of Engl Cath. iv, 

 1 46, where it is stated that Thomas Lathom 

 appeared on the recusant rolls in 1605. 



Richard Lathom took part in the attack 

 on Lancaster in 1643, when the town 

 was burnt by the Royalists j CaU Com, 

 for Camp, i, 21. 



^* Index of Royalists (Index Soc.), 43. 



^^ Royalist Comp. Papers (Ree. Soc, 

 Lanes, and Ches.), iv, 68. Richard 

 Lathom was seised of quit-rents due to 

 the lord of the manor of Parbold worth 

 j^3 I2J. 4c/. a year, and of customary 

 works worth 51., and of court baron and 

 court leet fines, &c., 21. 6d. ; also of a 

 messuage called Parbold Hall, water grist- 

 mill and hinds in Eccleston and Wright- 

 ington worth ;^I04 I2J, a year. George 

 Hurd of London, merchant, purchased 

 the manor of Parbold, &c. 



16 Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc), 176; 

 Richard's son and heir Thomas was aged 

 seventeen in 1664. From the Piccope 

 pedigree already quoted it appears that 

 Thomas left two daughters. He had 

 five brothers — Richard, William, Chris- 

 topher, George and George — and five 

 sisters. Of the brothers William suc- 

 ceeded ; Christopher was a priest, and at 

 one time served at Puddington, As 

 William presented to the rectory of 

 Eccleston in 1704 and 1706 it is pro- 

 bable that he became a Protestant. He 

 is said to have died about 1730, and 

 members of the family occur in Parbold 

 later ; Trans. Hist. Soc. (new ser.), xi, 

 211. Peter Lathom, founder of the 

 charity, is said to have belonged to it. 



