LEYLAND HUNDRED 



STANDISH 



names of Pierpoint,' Slack,' Bulhalgh,' Broad- 

 hurst * and others.' 



The following landowners contributed to the 

 subsidy of 154.2-3 : Thomas Asshaw, the wife of 

 Roger Asshaw, Ralph Arrowsmith, John Shaw, the 

 heirs of Alexander Street, John Piggot and George 

 Allanson ° ; Thomas Asshaw and Katherine Shaw 

 are named in 1564.' Richard Croston, Thomas 

 Halsworth and Miles Nighgall in 1 649 compounded 

 for their ' delinquency ' in adhering to the forces 

 raised against the Parliament." Sir Frank Standish 

 and Thomas Willis in 1786 paid about two-thirds of 

 the land tax.' 



ADLINGTON 



Adelventon, 1202 ; Adlinton, 1292 ; Adlincton, 

 1295 ; Addelyngton, 1346. 



This township is bounded on the south-east by the 

 Douglas, and is separated by Buckow Brook from 

 Worthington on the west and by the Ellerbeck from 

 Duxbury on the north. The village or small town 

 of Adlington lies near the north-east border ; in the 

 south is the district called Crawshaw. The area is 

 1,064 acres,'" and there was in 1901 a population 

 of4,253._ 



The principal road is that from Manchester through 

 Blackrod to Chorley and Preston, which is crossed at 

 the village by a winding road from Wigan to Riving- 

 ton. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's rail- 

 way from Bolton to Preston passes through the village, 

 where there is a station, and a junction with the joint 

 line of the same company and the London and North 

 Western, coming from the south, with a station called 

 White Bear. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal also 

 passes through, to the west of the railway. 



The soil is clayey, with subsoil of clay ; wheat, oats 

 and potatoes are grown. Cotton-spinning, bleaching 

 and printing works are the chief industries. 



A monstrous birth in 1 6 1 3 was the subject of a 

 pamphlet by Mr. Leigh, the rector of Standish." 



Sixty-two hearths in all were enumerated for the 

 hearth tax of 1666, the largest houses having six 

 each." 



A local board was formed in 1872 " ; this has since 

 1894 been replaced by an urban district council of 

 twelve members. The cemetery is controlled by a 

 board of six members. 



A grammar of the dialect of Adlington, by 

 John Hargreaves, was published at Heidelberg in 

 1904." 



JDLINGTON appears to have been 

 MANOR part of the five plough-lands belonging to 

 the barony of Penwortham granted by 

 Warlne Bussell to Randle son of Roger de Marsey,'* 

 and held in later times by the Ferrers family and the 

 lords of Leylandshire. In this way it became joined 

 with Heath Charnock in the feodaries. In 1378 it 

 was stated that Sir Nicholas de Harrington and his 

 parceners held the third part of a knight's fee in these 

 townships,'* and in 1445-6 Lord Ferrers of Groby 

 and Thomas Harrington held the same third part." 

 There seems to have been a partition between them, 

 for in the later inquisitions certain lands are stated to 

 be held of Lord Mounteagle, the successor of the 

 Harringtons, while others were held of the lords of 

 Leylandshire. 



The immediate lordship was held by a local family, 

 but in 1202 Walter de Adlington granted 6 oxgangs 

 of his land to Siward de Duxbury," and thus it was 

 found that in 1288 Adlington was held of William de 

 Ferrers in moieties, Hugh de Adlington holding one 



' Richard ' de ' Pierpoint the elder 

 was a defendant in 1301 ; Assize R. 1321, 

 m. 13. Richard Me' Pierpoint contri- 

 buted to the subsidy in 1332 ; Exch. Lay 

 Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 44. 



^ John del Slack paid to the subsidy of 

 1332. In 1445 the estate had come to 

 a number of co-heiresses. Robert Hcaton, 

 Joan his wife, William Cartwright, Alice 

 his wife, John Dobson, Agnes his wife, 

 Cecily Slack, Joan Mather, Katherine 

 Sheppard and Alexander Langton, 

 chaplain, claimed from Ellen Taylor and 

 John Slack a messuage and lands in 

 Heath Charnock granted by John Slack 

 to his son John and his heirs by Ellen 

 daughter of Adam de Gamersley of 

 Rivington. John and Ellen had a son 

 John (temp. Ric II), whose son was John, 

 whose son was Thomas, who died with- 

 out issue, his sisters being his heirs — 

 Joan, Alice, Agnes, Cecily, Ellen (repre- 

 sented by her daughters Joan Mather, 

 Katherine Sheppard) and Margaret 

 (represented by her son Alexander Lang- 

 con) ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 8, m. 16 ; 

 12, m. 16. 



' James son of Robert Bulhalgh of 

 Heath Charnock and James son of 

 Richard Bulhalgh of Anglezarke were 

 debtors in 1477; Pal. of Lane. Writs 

 Proton, file 17 Edw. IV. James Bul- 

 halgh (or Buljough) of Charnock Gogard 

 in 1493 granted all his lands in the town- 

 ship to his daughter Joan ; Towneley MS. 

 GO, no. 1853. 



* Roger Broadhurst in 1584 purchased 

 land from Nicholas Lancaster ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 46, m. 32. John 



Broadhurst was a juror in l6l I and later; 

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

 Ches.), i, 178. 



^ Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton had 

 some land in 1623, but the tenure was 

 unknown ; ibid, iii, 383. 



John Singleton in 1530 held land of 

 Lord Mounteagle 5 Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. vi, no. 32. Richard Haydock seems 

 to have purchased this ; Ducatus Lane. 

 ii, 79. 



William Lancelyn in 1526 held land of 

 the heir of Lord Ferrers ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. vi, no. 23. 



Richard Chisnall in 1587 held of 

 Thomas Standish and Robert Charnock 

 by the rent of a peppercorn yearly ; ibid. 

 xiv, no. 39. 



Reginald Allanson in 1598 held a 

 messuage, &c., but the tenure is not 

 stated ; ibid, xvii, no. 10. George Allan- 

 son was a defendant in 1526 ; Ducatus 

 Lane, i, 130. Roger Allanson had had 

 lands in the township in 1569 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 31, m. 174. 



John Rutter in 1540 held lands in 

 Heath Charnock, Rivington and Standish, 

 which appear to have been purchased in 

 1562 by Geoffrey Walkden ; ibid. bdle. 

 12, m. 34; 24, m. 132. A settlement 

 was made by Geoffrey and Thomas 

 Walkden in 1576 ; ibid. bdle. 38, m. 122. 



Christopher Anderton in 1577 pur- 

 chased a messuage, &c., in Charnock and 

 Adlington from Alexander Osbaldeston ; 

 ibid. bdle. 39, m. 19. This may have 

 been the land in Heath Charnock held in 

 1353-6 by Molyneux of Cuerdale 5 Final 

 Cone, ii, 135, 148. 



217 



^ Subs. R. Laacs. bdle. I3i> Qo. 

 126. 



^ Ibid. bdle. 131, no. 210. 



^ Cal. Com. for Camp. iii, 2086. 

 Croston's tenement wa3 held of Richard 

 Standish ; Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 98. For Hals- 

 worth, ibid, iii, 148. Nighgall held of 

 Ralph Standish ; ibid, iv, 218. 



^ Land tax returns at Preston. 



^^ 1,062 acres, including 21 of inland 

 water j Census Rep, of 190 1. 



^^ Fishwick, Lanes. Library^ 377' 



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

 The houses of Peter Adlington and Ralph 

 Bayley were those having six hearths ; 

 Lawrence Worthington's had five. 



^^ Land, Ga%. 13 Sept. 1872. 



^^ Note by Mr. Anderton. 



*^ Lanes, Inq. and Extents (Rec, Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 29. 



The Earl of Lincoln, as lord of Pen- 

 wortham, had in 13 1 1 an ancient yearly 

 rent of 31. from Duxbury and Adlington ; 

 De Lacy Inq. (Chet. Soc), 22. 



The free rents due to Penwortham were 

 claimed as late as 1590; Ducatus Lane. 

 (Rec, Com.), iii, 89, 240. 



16 Karl. MS. 2085, fol. 123. 



1^ Duchy of Lane, Knights' Fees, bdle. 

 z, no. 20. 6 



^^ Final Cone, (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 18. As an assize of mort 

 d'ancestor had been summoned between 

 them the division was perhaps due to 

 inheritance through co-heiresses. Siward 

 de Duxbury, however, was to hold of 

 Walter, paying a rent of 3^. 6d. at 

 Martinmas, 



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