LEYLAND HUNDRED 



STANDISH 



Hugh de Worthington appears,* but he did not hold 

 the manor long, William de 

 Worthington contributing to 

 the aid of 1302 for half a 

 fee, except the tenth part, m 

 Worthington.* William, who 

 appears to have had four sons 

 or more,^ was still in posses- 

 sion in 1320,^ and perhaps 

 in 1332,* but his son Hugh 

 de Worthington and John de 

 Heaton paid in 1346-55 to 

 the aid in respect of the 

 half-fee in Worthington and 

 Heaton.® The wardship of 

 the manor and lands of Hugh 

 de Worthington and of John his son and heir was 



Worthington, 

 Argent three dung-forks 

 sable. 



in 1369 granted to Thomas de Worthington and 

 Nicholas his brother/ William son of Hugh, how- 

 ever, seems to have succeeded,^ and the manor de- 

 scended to Hugh Worthington, who held it in the 

 time of Edward IV by the ancient services." Pedi- 

 grees were recorded in 161 3 ^** and 1664,'^ and the 

 sale of the manor took place between 1682 and 

 1690." The purchaser was Thomas Clayton, and 

 the manor has descended, with the adjoining Adling- 

 ton, to Mr. J. R. B. Clayton Dawbeny.'* Sir Richard 

 Clayton was almost sole landowner in 1783.^^ 



WORTHINGTON HALL, now a farm-house, 

 stands on the east side of the high road from Wigan 

 to Chorley, 3-^ miles north of the former town and 

 about 1 J miles north-east of Standish Church. It is 

 a rather lofty two-story building very much altered 

 and renewed, the back and end walls having been 



scough suit at Michaelmas 1282 and his 

 son Hugh in the following Jan. j De 

 Banco R. 47, m. 63 d. ; 48, m. 21, 



^ He was a juror at an Aughton inqui- 

 sition in Dec. 1282 ; /ny. and Extents, 

 i, 258. In 1288 he was found to render 

 a pair of spurs annually for having common 

 in the Ferrers holding in the Standish 

 district j ibid, 272. Hugh de Worthing- 

 ton and Dionysia his wife occur at Halsall 

 in 1280 ; Final Cone, i, 157, and see the 

 account of Halsall. 



Henry son of Henry del Lee in 1290 

 called Hugh de Worthington to warrant 

 him respecting a tenement in Worthington 

 claimed by Adam son of Roger de Thornley. 

 It had once been held by Thomas de 

 Tumley, whose sister and heir Isabel had 

 released to William de Worthington 

 father of Hugh; Assize R. 1288, m, 

 12 d. 



There was more than one William de 

 Worthington in the place in 1292—1302. 

 Thomas son of Richard de Worthington 

 was non-suited in a claim for land against 

 William de Worthington ; Assize R. 408, 

 m. 36 d. John de Chisnall established 

 his right to lands against William son of 

 William de Worthington, Ralph de 

 Catterall and others ; ibid. m. 74 d. In 

 1302 William son of Thomas de 

 Worthington was one defendant to Ellen 

 de Torbock's claim for common of 

 pasture ; ibid. 418, m. 4d. 



2 Inq. and Extents, i, 315; the name 

 is wrongly given as Writington. 



William son of Hugh de Worthington, 

 perhaps acting as trustee, in 1310-11 

 granted land in Standish to Hugh de 

 Standish (of Duxbury) and Alice his 

 wife, with remainder to the right heirs of 

 Robert de Haydock ; Kuerden fol. MS. 

 96, no. 72. 



3 A settlement of part of the estate of 

 William and Alice his wife was made in 

 13 18, by which two messuages with land 

 and meadow in Turley Moor were to re- 

 main to Hugh and John sons of William. 

 Henry son of William de Worthington 

 and Henry son of John le Waleys put in 

 their claims ; Final Cone, ii, 29. Two 

 years later the manor of Worthington, 

 apart from the portion just referred to, 

 was settled on William son of William 

 de Worthington ; Henry de Worthington 

 again put in his claim j ibid, ii, ^9. 



The position of Henr}' son of William 

 de Worthington, who 'put in his claim,* 

 has not been clearly ascertained. To 

 Henry his son William son of H-ugh de 

 Worthington granted lands in the town- 

 ship ; Kuerden MSS. iii, W 26, a. d. 

 Hugh was in 1339 called to warrant 



Richard son of Hugh de Standish in a 

 claim for dower by Alice widow of 

 William de Worthington ; De Banco 

 R, 319, m. loi d. There are several 

 notes of charters by Henry son of William 

 de Worthington from 13 18 to 1334, and 

 by Alan Henry's son in 1344, in the 

 Kuerden MSS. vi, fol. 96, Mabel widow 

 of Henry de Worthington is named in 

 1340 and William son of Henry in 1347; 

 ibid. 



Alan son of Henry de Worthington in 

 1343 demised to Matthew son of John 

 de Derwaltshaw of Wigan land in Worth- 

 ington between the moor and the long 

 acre, one head extending to Crawlache 

 and the other to land held by John de 

 Worthington of Alice his mother ; Stan- 

 dish D. In 1373 Henry son of Alan de 

 Worthington claimed a messuage and land 

 in Worthington against William son of 

 Hugh de Worthington and against Hugh 

 de Standish (of Duxbury) ; De Banco R. 

 452, m. j6. Henry son of Alan de 

 Worthington in 1407 made a grant of 

 land in Worthington to William son of 

 Hugh de Worthington ; Kuerden MSS. 

 iii, C 33. 



In the account of Burgh in Duxbury a 

 notice will be found of Henry de Burgh 

 son of William de Worthington. 



Robert son of William de Worthington 

 (who may have been a different William) 

 made grants to Hugh de Haydock, who 

 in 1 299 gave land to William son of 

 William de Worthmgton. The last- 

 named soon afterwards regranted it to 

 Hugh de Standish ; Kuerden MSS. vi, 

 fol. 96, This Robert may have been 

 ancestor of the Worthingtons of Blain- 

 scough. 



In 1334 William son of William de 

 Worthington claimed common of pasture 

 against William son of Hugh de Standish 

 and others. It appeared that Thomas de 

 Worthington, lord of the manor in the 

 time of Henry III, had granted the tene- 

 ment to Thomas de WallhuU, who was 

 succeeded by a son Richard. Afterwards 

 by escheat it returned to the lord of the 

 manor William de Worthington, father 

 of the claimant, who made grants both 

 to Hugh de Standish and to his own son 

 William ; Coram Rege R. 297, m. 115. 



^ Mamecestre, ii, 288. 



5 The name occurs first in the subsidy 

 roll of that year ; Exch, Lay Subs. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 49. On the 

 other hand Alice widow of William de 

 Worthington was claiming dower as early 

 as Michaelmas 133 1 ; De Banco R. 287, 

 m. 127. 



fi Feud, -dids, iii, 89. Hugh son of 



223 



William de Worthington claimed the 

 custody of CoppuU during a minority in 

 1362 ; De Banco R. 411, m. 76. 



' Kuerden MSS. iii, W 27. Ellen 

 widow of John de Worthington occurs in 

 1403 ; ibid. C33. 



^ Ibid. W 27 ; William son of Hugh de 

 Worthington granted to Gilbert rector of 

 Standish and to Thomas de Worthington 

 the manor of Worthington, The same 

 William is named in a deed of 1384-5 ; 

 ibid. 



^ Hugh Worthington was tenant in 

 1473 5 Mamecestre, iii, 479. In the same 

 year Hugh son of William Worthington 

 agreed with Thomas Norris of Speke that 

 his son William should marry Elizabeth 

 daughter of Thomas ; Norris D. (B.M.), 

 no. 950. Hugh occurs also in 1461 and 

 1483 ; Kuerden MSS. iii, B 16. He is 

 probably the Hugh with whom the 

 recorded pedigree begins. From Blain- 

 scough inquisitions it appears that Richard 

 Worthington was lord of the manor in 

 1526 and Edward Worthington in 1578 

 and 1591. Thomas the father of Edward 

 Worthington died in 1566 ; Manch. Ct. 

 Leet Rec. i, 108. 



10 Fisit. (Chet. Soc), 125. The 

 succession given is : Hugh — s. William 

 -3. Richard — s. Thomas — s. Edward — s. 

 Thomas (living) -s. William (aged sixteen). 



William Worthington in 1631 paid 

 ^lo on refusing knighthood 5 Misc. (Rec, 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 214. The 

 manor of Worthington and various lands 

 were in 1635 sold or mortgaged by William 

 Worthington to James Halsall of Altcar ; 

 Lanes, and Ches, Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 32. 



1^ Dugdale, Visit. (Chet, Soc), 344. 

 The last-named William was still living, 

 and had a son Thomas, aged thirty-four. 

 Thomas died in 1670, and the heir was a 

 brother Edward, who sold the manor ; 

 Piccope MS. Ped. (Chet, Lib.), ii, 314. 



^^ A fine was made in 1682 respecting 

 the manor of Worthington, with mes- 

 suages, water-mill, lands, &c., in Worth- 

 ington, CoppuU and Charnock Richard, 

 the deforciants being Edward Worthing- 

 ton, Jane his wife and two others, perhaps 

 mortgagees ; Pal. of Lane Feet of F. 

 bdle. 208, m. 38. In another fine two 

 years later the plaintiff was Reginald 

 Bretland and the deforciants were Edward 

 Worthington, William Salvin and Dorothy 

 his wife ; ibid. bdle. 212, m. 19, In 1690 

 the plaintiff was Thomas Clayton and the 

 deforciants were Edward Worthington and 

 Jane his wife ; ibid. bdle. 225, m. 20, 



^^ See the account of Adlington. 



^* Land tax return at Preston, 



