LEYLAND HUNDRED 



STANDISH 



Richard." Hence in 1288 Henry de Lea and 



Henry de Charnoclc each held a moiety of William 



de Ferrers by rents of 5^. and 



2s. respectively.' 



Henry de Lea in 1284 



obtained a royal charter for a 



market every Friday at his 



manor of Charnoclc, and an 



annual fair on the eve, day 

 and morrow of St. Nicholas ; 

 also free warren in his de- 

 mesne lands.' The market 

 and fair do not seem to have 

 prospered, but the grant of 

 free warren led to the forma- 

 tion of a park,' and the dis- 

 tinguishing name of the Park or Park Hall ' for that 

 share of the manor. Like the other Lea manors, it 

 descended to the Hoghtons of Hoghton 1 ower," 

 and in 1606 was acquired by Richard Hoghton, an 

 illegitimate son of a former Sir Richard, who had 

 probably settled him there at first.' Richard Hoghton 

 of Park Hall died in 1622 holding the moiety of 

 the manor of Charnock Richard, with various lands, 

 water-mill, dovecote, &c., of Richard Shireburne and 

 Edward Rigby, by the ancient rent of 5/. ; also 

 other lands in Welch Whittle, Heskin, Chorley, 

 Euxton and Lancaster. Richard's son Alexander had 

 died before his father, leaving a daughter Anne, 



twenty-eight years of age, and wife of Thomas 

 Bradley ; but Park Hall descended to Richard's 

 younger son William.' 



This branch of the family adhered to the Roman 

 Catholic faith," and William Hoghton zealously 

 espoused the king's cause on the outbreak of the Civil 

 War. He was made a lieutenant-colonel, but fell at 

 the first battle of Newbury in 1643.'° The estates 

 were at once sequestered by the Parliament, and in 

 1652 John, William's son and heir, petitioned for an 

 allowance from his inheritance, as he was 'in no way 



Charnock. -Urgent 

 on a bend sable three 

 crosslets of the feld. 



Hoghton. Sablt 

 three bars argent. 



Dalton. A%ure a 

 lion rampant guardant 

 •within an orle of crosslets 

 argent. 



guilty of delinquency, but was a recusant.' " The 

 estates were, however, sold under the third Confisca- 

 tion Act of 1652," but in some way regained. John 



In 1296 Richard son of William 

 Banastre put forward a claim to the 

 moiety of the manor of Charnock held 

 by William de Lea, but the latter was 

 excused from answering at the time, as 

 he was in Scotland on the king's service ; 

 De Banco R. iiz, m. 31 d. ; 122, m. 73. 

 The suit went on for several years ; ibid. 

 131, m. 102. 



' Richard de Charnock, living in 1 242, 

 is the earliest member of the family 

 known. 



^ Lanes. Jnq. and Extents, i, 270. 



^ Charter R. 77 (12 Edw. I), m. z, 

 no. 8. When William son ofHenrywas 

 in 1292 summoned to show his right to 

 the market, fair and free warren the 

 date of the fair was stated as St. Botulph's 

 day, &c. ; Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 

 369. 



* Richard the Demand released to 

 Henry de Lea all his right in the park 

 which Henry had formed in Charnock ; 

 and Adam son of Thomas de Thornton 

 admitted that he had no right to break 

 down the park which Henry had formed 

 with the leave of Thomas son of Richard 

 (de Charnock) his coparcener ; Kuerden, 

 loc. cit. no. 16, 28. 



* In 1422-3 Richard Hoghton demised 

 to Henry Bradshagh for twelve years the 

 manor of Charnock Richard called Park 

 Hall; ibid. no. 58. Later, in i443-4> 

 Sir Richard Hoghton leased to Thomas 

 Riding land within the park of Charnock 

 together with the mill ; ibid. no. 59. 



« To a grant of land in Charnock to 

 William the Carpenter by Henry de Lea 

 the latter's seal was appended ; it showed 

 a bend fusilly ; ibid. no. 7. Henry died 

 in 1288, when it was found that he had 

 held the manor of Charnock with the 

 park and \\ oxgangs of land of the heir of 

 William de Ferrers (in demesne) and 

 another oxgang in service, rendering 

 yearly JJ. ; Inq. and Extents, i, 273. 



William de Lea, his son and heir, suc- 

 ceeded and in 1298 he gave to Jordan 



son of Richard de Charnock and others 

 land called AldBeld in Charnock ; Kuer- 

 den, loc. cit. no. 10. John de Pilotholes 

 in 1 294 gave to William son of Sir Henry 

 de Lea land in Charnock Richard called 

 Pilotholes ; ibid. no. 48. 



In 1336 Adam de Hoghton gave to his 

 father Sir Richard the reversion of all 

 the lands which Agnes widow of Sir 

 Henry de Lea held in Charnock ; ibid, 

 no. 44. John son of Thomas Wen 

 granted lands in Charnock Richard to 

 Sir Adam de Hoghton ; ibid, no. 43. 



Sir Richard de Hoghton, who died 

 in 1415, held the manor of Charnock 

 Richard, but had in 1410 granted it to 

 Richard his heir and Margaret his wife ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 147. 

 William Hoghton, who died in or before 

 1500, held lands, &c., in Charnock 

 Richard, Welch Whittle and Shevington 

 of the king as of his duchy of Lancaster 

 by the third part of a knight's fee ; ibid, 

 ii, 127. In later inquisitions, however, 

 the tenure is called more correctly the 

 third part of the fourth part of a knight's 

 fee ; see Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, 

 no. 66. 



For Hoghton settlements referring to 

 the manor see Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdles. 43, m. 136 ; 57, m. 178 ; 64, no. 

 173. Thomas Hoghton in 1580 sold a 

 messuage, &c., in Charnock Richard and 

 Welch Whittle to Nicholas Rawe ; ibid, 

 bdle. 44, m. 219. 



' Richard Hoghton was settled at 

 Park Hall as early as 1572, when Thomas 

 Hoghton leased hall, water-mill, &c., to 

 him and his son Alexander for a hundred 

 years ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xv, 

 no. 39. 



In 1592 an informer reported to the 

 queen's ministers that ' Mr. Richard 

 Hoghton of the Park Hall hath kept a 

 recusant schoolmaster I think this twenty 

 years. He hath had one after another — 

 the name of one was Scholes, of the other 

 Fawcett, as I remember, but I stand in 



205 



doubt of the name' ; Gibson, Lydiate 

 Hally 258, quoting S. P. Com. Eliz. 

 ccxliii, 52. He was returned as a free- 

 holder in 1600 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 24.4. 



He purchased the manor, with view 

 of frankpledge, and lands, messuages, 

 dovecote, water-mill, &c,, in Charnock 

 Richard, Welch Whittle, Heskin and 

 Chorley from Sir Richard Hoghton and 

 Katherine his wife, a clause of warranty 

 being added against the heirs and assigns 

 of Thomas Hoghton, father of Sir Richard 

 and another Thomas, Sir Richard's uncle ; 

 Pal, of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 70, no. 76. 

 Fourteen years later he made a settlement 

 of the estate ; ibid. bdle. 96, no. 4. 



^ Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), iii, 454, where is recited a 

 settlement on William Hoghton and 

 Mary his wife, made in 1615, By this 

 his eldest son John (by the first wife) was 

 made to rank after William and his issue, 

 he having roused his father's indignation 

 by the hostility and malfce he had shown 

 to his stepmother ; Gillow, BibL Diet, of 

 Engl. Cath. iii, 329, 636. 



^ See a preceding note and Gillow, 

 loc. cit. The Ven. Lawrence Johnson 

 was chaplain at the hall about 1580, and 

 service seems to have been maintained 

 there until 1751 ; ibid, iii, 330. 



10 Ibid. 



^1 Royalist Comp, Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 285-93, 3®3""4* 

 Anne a daughter of William Hoghton, a 

 lunatic, had had her allowance stopped. 

 John Hoghton, elder brother of William, 

 had had land leased to him in 1641, and 

 his daughter Margaret of Carr House was 

 a petitioner in 1652, as was Margaret the 

 widow of William. Among the field 

 names in the various deeds cited are the 

 Dear-bought and the Hold-back. 



^^ Ibid, iii, 290 ; Hugh Dicconson and 

 Robert Holt, the purchasers, were pro- 

 bably acting for John Hoghton. See 

 also Index of Royalists (Index Soc), 42. 



