A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



lands in the township, of the Earl of Derby, Lord 

 Mounteagle, and Hugh Shlreburne as of the manor 

 of Chorley in socage by a rent 

 of 5/. 8<^.^ John, his son and 

 heir, who was then twenty- 

 two years of age,- died in 

 1564. holding the manor as 

 before and six burgages in 

 Wigan ^ ; his heir was his 

 son Gilbert, thirty-four years 

 of age, who recorded a pedi- 

 |ree in 1567^ and made a 

 settlement of his estates in 

 1588.5 



The family seem to have 

 acted a more consistent part than their neighbours 



Langtrce. 

 cAcveron argent^ a canton 



ofStandish, being found among the ^recusants con- 

 vict.'* The heavy penalties resulting probably 

 contributed to their ruin, for though Thomas Lang- 

 tree, lord of the manor during the Commonwealth, 

 did not take any active part against the Parliament, 

 his lands were sequestered for recusancy, and he was 

 overwhelmed with debt/ The estate was confiscated 

 in 1652 and sold,^ and the family disappears from 

 view.^ The manor also ceases to be named. 



BRJDLET was formerly part of the Duxbury 

 estate.^^ The hall was at one time the property 

 of the Claytons of Adlington.^^ The Bradshaghs,*^ 

 Gidlows,^^ Fords of Wigan '* and other neighbouring 

 families had lands in Standish.^^ 



In addition to Cockersand, the Hospitallers^* had 

 lands in Standish. The holding of Thomas Fleet- 



years later received £Zj portion of 

 damages awarded him against Lawrence 

 Standish ; Standish D. no. 180. 



^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vi, no. 55. 



* John Langtrce's name appears in 

 the y'tsit. of 1533 (ChcL Soc. 191), but 

 the herald had not spoken with him and 

 no particulars are given. 



^ Duchy of Lane, Inq. p.m. li, no. 18 ; 

 the estate included a water-mill in Stan- 

 dish and Langtree. 



John Langtree had in 1562 purchased 

 messuages in Standish, &c., from Richard 

 Ruttcr ; PaL of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 22, 

 m. 87. For the Ruttcr family see ibid, 

 bdles. 12, m. 34 ; 24^ m. 13Z. 



* yiiit, (Chet. Sec), (>6. 



* PaL of Lane Feet of F. bdle. 50, 

 m. 212. Administration of Gilbert's 

 estate was granted in Feb. 1596-7; 

 Jrills (Chet, Soc. new ser.), i, 218. 



His son Edward succeeded, and died in 

 1619 holding the manor of Langtree and 

 various landj as before \ Thomas, his son 

 and heir, was not quite of full age ; Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. (Rcc Soc. Lanes, and Chcs.), 

 ii, 207. 



Thomas Langtree made a settlement 

 of his manor and lands soon after coming 

 of age 5 Pal, of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 99, 

 no. 13. 



^ Miic. (Rec. Soe. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 167, Thomas Langtree in 1631 paid 

 ^10 on refusing knighthood ; ibid, i, 214. 



' Royaliit Comft. Papers (Rcc. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), iv, 59—64. Though 

 Thomas Langtree appears to have avoided 

 any share in the war, his son Edward 

 served with Prince Rupert. Hence the 

 father's whole estate in Lcyland Hundred 

 was sequestered for ' delinquency ' and 

 two-thirds of that in Amoundcrness for 

 * recusancy only.' 



® Index of Royaliits (Index Soc), 43. 

 The purchaser was Samuel Foxiey of 

 Westminster, the estate being described 

 as * half the manors of Langtree, Standish, 

 Coppull, Worthington and Swarbreek * ; 

 CiiL Com. far Comp. iv, 2660. 



^ Thomas Langtree, Edward his son, 

 Samuel and Joshua Foxiey were defor- 

 ciants in a fine of 1655 relating to the 

 manor of Langtree and lands in Standish, 

 Langtree, Wigan and Worthington ; Pal. 

 of Lane Feet of F. bdle. 15-', m. 97. 



^^ Henry dc Langtree gave Bradley to 

 Hugh son of Robert de Haydock, rector 

 of Standish ; FCucrdcn MSS. iii, W 26. 

 It was perhaps the estate In Standish 

 settled by fine in 1304 ^ Final Cone. I, 204. 

 In Kuerdcn MSS. vi, fol. 96, are a num- 

 ber of short notes of Stand ;h of Diixbury 

 deeds relating to acquisitions of land in 

 Stindish by Hugh de Haydock (Standish) 



and his successors. Bradley was in 1471 

 in the possession of Christopher son and 

 heir of James Standish ; no. loi. 



A * manor of Bradley,' of tenure un- 

 known, was held by Thomas Standish of 

 Duxbury in 1517, being occupied by his 

 mother Alice ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 V, no. 1 1 ; see also Lanes, Inf. p.m, 

 (Rec Soc Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 398. 



H ugh Cooper, the benefactor of Chorley, 

 records in his will (1682) that he had 

 purchased Bradley from Sir Richard 

 Standish ; be bequeathed it to his grand- 

 son Hugh Warren. 



" Baine% Lanct. (ed. 1870), ii, 161. 



'' A branch of this family settled in 

 Langtree, as appears by a deed and plead- 

 ing already cited. Their estate went 

 back to the middle of the 13th century, 

 when Henry de Langtree gave Ralph son 

 of Adam de Bradshagh land adjoining 

 Perbum ; Standish D. (Mr?. Tempest's 

 abstract), no. 4. In 1 313 Thomas de 

 Langtree demised to Robert de Bradshagh 

 and his heirs by Cecily his wife land 

 between HodpuU Moss and the Brewster- 

 field and a headland at the Saltersgate, 

 with remainder to Adam brother of 

 Ralph for life ; ibid. no. 25. 



Adam son of Ralph de Bradshagh was 

 in 13 ;i refeofTed of his lands in Standish 

 and Langtree ; the remainder was to 

 Cecily daughter of Adam and his wife 

 Hawiae ; ibid. no. 42. 



Cecily daughter of Hawiae daughter of 

 Austin the Harper in 1332 claimed a 

 messuage, &c., in Langtree against Henry 

 son of Robert and kinsman and heir of 

 Adam de Bradshagh and Adam son of 

 John dc Bradshagh; Assize R. 1411, 

 m. 12 ; De Banco R. 294, m. 152. 



William son of Adam de Bradshagh of 

 Langtree in 1380 held his father's lands 

 in Shevington ; Standish D. (Mrs. Tem- 

 pest's abstract), no. 97. An agreement 

 was made in 1475 between Richard 

 Bradshagh and Gilbert Whalley, both of 

 Langtree, for the marriage of the former's 

 son Ralph to Gilbert's daughter Kathe- 

 rine ; ibid. no. 159. In the following 

 year there was a partition of lands in 

 Standish, Langtree and Shevington be- 

 tween Lawrence Claughton (grandson of 

 John Claughton) and Robert Moody, heirs 

 of Adam Bradshagh; ibid, no 166. 



Margaret widow of Gilbert Bradshagh 

 in 1543 claimed dower in her husband's 

 lands against Ralph, who was son of 

 Henry brother of Gilbert and heir male. 

 Gilbert's daughters Ellen and Grace also 

 claimed portions. Next year Ralph 

 Bradshagh sold his estate to Ralph Stan- 

 dish of Standish; ibid. no. 230, 233. 

 The purchase appears to have been com- 



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pleted by Edward brother and heir of 

 Ralph Standish in 1548; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle, 13, m. 170. This pur- 

 chase may be the origin of the * manor 

 of Langtree * which afterwards appears in 

 descriptions of the Standish family's estate. 



" For this family see the account of 

 Aspull. 



Ralph Gidlow, who died in 1531, held 

 part of a tenement in Langtree of John 

 Langtree by the rent of \zd. It had 

 descended from one John Perlebam 

 (f Perburn) to the representatives of his 

 three daughters, viz. to Ralph Gidlow as 

 son of John son of Ralph son of Joan, to 

 Roger Haydock as son of William son of 

 Hugh son of Katherine, and to James 

 Aspinall as son of Hugh son of Margaret. 

 Robert Gidlow was Ralph's son and heir ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 6 ; 

 vi, no. I 2. Roger Haydock in I 547 pur- 

 chased Robert Gidlow's part of the in- 

 heritance in Langtree and Coppull ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 13, m. 256. 



The Haydock family occur from time 

 to time, and produced one of the rectors 

 of the parish, but no account can be 

 given of them. John Haydock of Coppull 

 died in 1622 holding land of Thomas 

 Langtree by a rent of i id. ; Lanci, Inj, 

 p.m. (Rcc. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 314. 



'* The Fords have been mentioned in 

 preceding notes. In 1569 Alexander 

 Ford of Swinley purchased a third part of 

 a messuage in Standish, Langtree and 

 Shevington from Roger Breres ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 31, m. 69 ; see 

 also ibid. bdle. 31, m. 88. In another 

 fine Roger Breres and Jane his wife 

 appear among the sharers of another tene- 

 ment, Robert Langton, Ralph GiUar, 

 Alice his wife, Margaret Chorley, Thomas 

 Osbaldeston and Elizabeth his wife being 

 the others i ibid. bdle. 41, m. 73. 



'^ Thus Alexander Standish of Dux- 

 bury in 1622 held lands, &c., in Standish 

 and Langtree, but the services were un- 

 known J Lanci. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), iii, 400. 



Nicholas Worthington and Agnes his 

 wife had a messuage. Sec, in Langtree in 

 1589 ; PaL of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 51, 

 m. 250. 



William Taylor in 16 18 held lands in 

 the same of Thomas Langtree by id. 

 rent ; Thomas, his son and heir, was 

 forty years of age ; Lanci. Inq. p.m. (Rec 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 152. 



Ellen Chamberlaine, widow, held land, 

 &C., of the Fairclough inheritance ; ibid, 

 iii, 346. 



'*P/«. de Quo Warr. (Rec Com.), 

 375. Emma widow of Richard de 

 Molyneux of Sefton was a tenant in 



