A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



The Hospitallers had an estate in Heath Char- 

 nock * ; their tenants about 1 540 were Nicholas 

 Dinklcy, John Wigan and James Crosse.* 



Another ancient estate was that of Street, which 

 gave a name to the owners.' During the i6th 

 centur}' there was a great amount of disputing — legal 

 and otherwise — as to the posses ion.* In 1623 

 Alexander Waddington held it of Thomas Standish 



and Thomas Charnock by a rent of 12 J/ ; his son 

 and heir was also named Alexander.* 



The Shaws of Shaw Place appear in the 15th 

 century.® They held lands in Rivington also, and 

 can be traced down to the present time.' 



The Standishes of Standish* and Pilkingtons of 

 Rivington' had lands in Heath Charnock, and 

 among the minor owners at different times occur the 



^ This place is named in the list of 

 the Hospitallers' lands In 1292 ; PUc. de 

 Quo fVarr. (Rec Com.), ^,-z,. 



* Kucrden MSS. a, tV.l, S3A ; each of 

 the tenants paid I2.d. rent. 



Of one Wigan family some details are 

 known. In 1365 William dc Hauschagh 

 granted Richard son of Adam de Wigan 

 and William his brother a moiety of all his 

 lands, &c., in Heath Charnock \ Townelcy 

 MS. GG, no. i7i,S, 18S4. In 1370 

 Richard and William de Wig^rin made an 

 exchange of certain of their lands between 

 the Ridge lejrh and the wntcr of Yarrow 

 in Heath Charnock; ibid. no. 1876-7. 

 Cecily widow of Richard de Wigan and 

 William his son rfcfi\cd lands Irom the 

 trustee in I 388 ; ibid. no. 1 892. Wiiiam 

 dc Wigan made a settlement of lands in 

 Heath Charnock in 1426 on the marriage 

 of his son Richard with Beatrice daughter 

 ofRichard del Shire ; ibid.no. 18+8, 1851. 

 Richard WiL,'an the elder in 14S2 made n 

 feoffment of his lands j and they were 

 rcgrantcd to him with remainders to his 

 son Richard Wi^'an the younger :ind to 

 uthcr children \ ibid, no, i84''>, 2046. 

 James son and heir of Richard Wi^an in 

 1517 gave Ralph Arrowsmith his mes- 

 suage, &c,, called Ridiigh ; ibid. nn. 1887, 

 189;. Soon afterward':, in is 2-, Mar- 

 garet wid<'\\ of James Wigan released to 

 Richard Pilkinirton of Rivington all her 

 right in lands formerly belonging to her 

 husband ; ibid. no. 16-6. Ralph Arrow- 

 smith had sold to Pilkington in 1520; 

 ibid. no. 1 674. 



The Cr-s^c family had some land in 

 Hi ith Charnock as early as 1428 ; 

 Ti)wndey MS, GG, no. 2636-7. Roger 

 Crosse of LivtTp">ol in 1522 held a mes- 

 suage, \c., of St. John of Jcni-^alem by a 

 rent of 12./. ; Duchy of Lane. Iii^i- p.m. 

 \\y 18. Jt was sold to Otoffrey Vate in 

 1580 by John Crosse and Alice his wife ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 42, m. 

 160. 



* Robert de la Street occurs in 1272 

 and Adam de la Street in 1278 ; Curia 

 Regis R. 20-, m. 8 d. ; Assize R. 1238, 

 m. %z d. John son of Adam dc la Street 

 of Heath Charnock claimed common of 

 pasture in 1301 and lyoz against Adam 

 son of Hear)* de Assh.iw, but did not 

 prosecute it ; .Assize R. 1321, m. g ; 41 S, 

 m. 12 d. In 1331 Ralph son of WiHimi 

 Gogard made a claim against William srn 

 of Richard del Street, who called Adnm 

 son of Richard del Street to warrant h:ni, 

 Adam in turn calling upon William del 

 Street ; De Banco R, 2 8 7, m. 332 d. An 

 Adam son of Robert del Street was 

 defendant in the previous year ; ib.l 

 279, m. 27;; d. Cecily widow of Adam 

 son of Adam de Asshaw in i;^l grnnted 

 her right in Reddeccarr to Adam son oi 

 Robert del Street ; Towneley MS. GG, 



QO. I ~S6. 



John son of John del Street in i^:;6 

 made a claim, which he did not proscc te, 

 against Robert Huggeson Hulcockson 

 and Margery his wife ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. 5, m. 20 d. In 1^13 was 

 issued a precipe to Edward Street to 



render to Robert Chetham and Ellen his 

 wire messuages and lands in Heath Char- 

 nock and Rivington, Ellen being daughter 

 of Thurstan son of Robert son of John 

 son of John de Street, to whom the lands 

 had been granted in former times. John, 

 it was stated, had a son and heir Henry, 

 whose son and heir was Richard ; Pal. 

 of Lane Writs Proton, file 4 Hen. 



vin. 



Robert srn of William del Street in 

 I V > gave the Milne croft in Charnock to 

 Hi nry de Asshaw at a rent of 401.; 

 Towneley MS. GG, no. 180^. 



From the above it will be seen that 

 there were several families of the name 

 hoi iing lands in the township. 



** One Richard Street, described as 

 bastard, had a son Thurstan who married 

 Ellen daughter of Robert Unton. He 

 had a legitimate son Alexander, whose 

 daughter and heir Margaret married a 

 Ralph Standish and had a son Richard, 

 who about i s ' o began to claim Thur- 

 stan's lands ; P.jI. of Lane. Writs Pn'ton. 

 file I Men. VIII. Thurstan, who died 

 before 14':", had a bastard son Edward, 

 to whom he gave at hast a part of the 

 inheritance, an I who had possession for 

 over forty years, being succeeded by his 

 son Alexander. Alexander left issue 

 several daughters — I^ibl, 1^"?, Anne, 

 Alice and Margaret — the el Jt^t of \\hom 

 was in i^H only thirteen years of age. 

 It was at this time that Richard Standl^h, 

 no doubt the next rector of Standish, 

 seized the opport ;nit\-, while all the 

 grown-up members of the- household were 

 at church on All Saints' Day, of taking 

 po^seBsion of the house and the children. 

 For the ag^-rcssors It was alleged that the 

 deed of grant to Edward S'.rcct was *Bcaled 

 with a dead man's hand,' but this seems 

 to have been untrue. Sec the depositions 

 in Duchy Plead, n, 60-9. 



The decision was adverse to Richard 

 Standish, but his nephew Richard Haste- 

 ley (son of Lora Standish] in 15!; 9 again 

 put forward the claim. At that time the 

 daughters of Alexander Street were thus 

 married — Jane to Lawrence Waddington, 

 Anne to Richard Dickinson and Alice to 

 Oliver Feilden ; Duchy of Lane. Plead. 

 Eliz. xlii, H 9. 



' Ljr.a, Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc Lanes, 

 and Ches.), iii, 339. Though AUxa'dtr 

 is named as son and heir it appears from 

 the father's will that Lawrence was the 

 elder son and Lawrence died in Dec 1623 

 holding the estate, leaving as heir his 

 brother Alexander ; Towneley MS. C 8, 

 13 (Chet. Lib.}, p. 1308. 



^ It was reported in 1445 that William 

 Shaw of Heath Charnock, having been 

 retained in the king's retinue for service 

 in France, had absconded at Portsmouth ; 

 PaL of Lane. Plea R. 7, m. 18^. 



In 1484 William Shaw of Heath 

 Charnock and John his son and heir 

 were summoned as debtors ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Writs Proton, file I & 2 Ric. III. John 

 Shaw of Heath Charnock became bound 

 to Robert Pilkington in 1488 ; Towneley 

 MS. GG, no. 1 77 1. James Shaw in 



216 



1519 assigned lands in Heath Charnock 

 on his son John's marriage with Katherine 

 daughter ofRichard Pilkington ; Jamei's 

 mother Elizabeth, widow of John Shaw, 

 was then living; ibid. no. 2oi6, 2061, 



1937- 



Thomas Shaw in 1587 came to an 

 agreement with the Pilkingtons as to 

 Tonghurst in Rivington. Robert Shaw 

 of Heath Charnock in 1613-14 sold 

 land in Rivington to Robert Lever and 

 Thomas Breres ; from the Rivington 

 deeds. 



'A pedigree recorded in 1664 shows 

 them to have been of the same family as 

 Shaw of High BuUough in Anglezarkc \ 

 I'isit. (Chet. Soc), 261, 1 his gives 

 the succession as — James -s. John -e. 

 Thomas — s. Robert -s. Thomas -dr. 

 Anne (without issue). The heir was 

 Peter son of Leonard son of John Shaw, 

 and Peter's son in 1664 was named 

 Peter and twenty-eight )'cars of age. 



The younger Pct.i in 1694 and 1699, 

 in conjunction with Thomas his son and 

 heir, made various mortgages and sales j 

 Rivington deeds, 



Hugh Lord Willoughby of Parhani 

 seems to have acquired Shaw Place. Hii 

 nephew Charles Lord Willoughby, who 

 died in 171 S» had a son and daughters 

 named Hi Icna (who married Baxter 

 Roscoe) .nnd Elizabeth (who married John 

 Shaw of Rivington), His son Hugh 

 resided at Shaw Place ; sec Local Glean. 

 Lanes, and Ches. ii, 2^, 37. Esther, the 

 widow and executrix of Charles Lord 

 Willoughby of Parham, married Jamci 

 Walton, who was described as *of Shaw 

 Plate ' in 1730 ; Rivington deeds. 



In 1765, after the death of the above- 

 named Hugh Lord Willoughby, the estate 

 in Heath Charnock was sold to Holt 

 Leigh by Baxter Roscoe, Helena his wife 

 and Elizabeth Shu w, widow ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 373, m. 122. 



See further in G.E.C. Complete Peerage^ 

 vlii, 156-8; Genealogist (old scr.), iv, 



34-9- 



^ They held a small piece of land of 

 Lord Mountenglc ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. vii, no. 17 ; viii, no. 21. In i6i'>, 

 however, it was said to be held ol 

 the lords of Leylandshirc ; Lanes. Inf. 

 p.m. (Rec Soc. Lanus. and Ches.), i, 

 191. 



" The purchase from the Wigan family 

 has been detailed above. 



Richard Pilkington in 1524 acquired 

 lands called HealcyclifF and Whitecarr, 

 held by John Croston and others of the 

 inheritances respectively of James Stan- 

 dish of Duxbury and Lord Mounteaglc | 

 Towneley MS. GG, no. 1685. 



Robert Pilkington in 1610 held his 

 land in Heath Charnock of Robert Char- 

 nock and Alexander Standish ; Lana, In<j. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 151. 

 It was sold with the Rivington estate in 

 1611 to Robert Lever and Thomas Brercs : 

 Pal, of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. ^9, m, 7. 

 Robert Lever in 1620 was found to havr 

 held lands there as before j Lanes. In^. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc), ii, 257. 



