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William Greenvile, gent., with a view to a sale.'^' 

 Part of it with a free rent of i ^J. per annum was 

 acquired before 1598 by John Braddyll of Portfield, 

 esq., who died in 161 6 holding a small estate here of 

 Sir Edward Osbaldeston, kt. '^ ; other portions were 

 acquired by the predecessors in title of Thomas 

 Sallom and Robert Shaw, who respectively held here 

 in 1650 small estates which paid wapentake rents of 

 6</. and 31^. respectively.^' As regards therefore this 

 half of the manor, it descended with other members 

 of the Braddyll estate. The other moiety of the 

 manor was held by the Osbaldeston family together 

 with the mesne lordship of the manor. 



It does not appear that any lordship is now claimed. 

 Captain J. H. Feilden of Witton is one of the chief 

 landowners by inheritance from his grandfather 

 Joseph Feilden, who purchased in i8i8.'' 



SUNDERLJND. — Behie 1172 Ailsi son of 

 Hugh lord of Balderston and Osbaldeston gave 

 Sunderlandesholm to the monks of Sawley.^^" Its 

 boundaries lay between Sunderland Brook and Ribble 

 unto Clippende-esche-cloh and along the wood beyond 

 Langhirst-ker unto Smalelei Brook, thence by the 

 western boundary of Smalelei unto Sandiford. He 

 also gave them land and woodland towards Osbal- 

 deston upon the bank of Ribble from the upper end 

 of the hanging bridge unto Ribble in one direction 

 and past oak trees marked with crosses to the nearest 

 ' cloh ' (clough) falling into Sunderland Brook in the 

 other, with common rights, liberty to fish in Ribble 

 and for their swine to fatten in his woodlands. For 

 this they gave him 40 marks and a charger, and 

 agreed to give him at his obsequies a service equal to 

 that of a monk, and if he should desire to take the 

 cowl, to admit him whether he be rich or poor, in 

 sickness or in health.** Early in the 13th century 

 the monks exchanged Sunderland with Adam son of 

 Ailsi, called ' de Sunderland ' or ' de Winkedley,' 

 and his wife Christiana daughter of Ughtred de Pay- 

 thorne, for lands in Scosthrop, Paythorne and 

 Rimington in Craven, co. York.*^ Later Adam 



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gave to his son Robert a plot of land here called 

 Lebbeley, which he afterwards sold to Richard de 

 Balderston, and the monks of Sawley acquired again 

 the residue of Sunderland from Adam and continued 

 to hold it as before the exchange. ^^ 



After the suppression of Sawley Abbey the grange 

 of Sunderland was granted to Sir Arthur Darcy, kt.*^ 

 In 1540 Darcy conveyed it by fine to Sir Alexander 

 Osbaldeston, kt., who settled 

 it with lands in Balderston 

 and Osbaldeston upon his 

 second son Richard Osbaldes- 

 ton.** In 1551 there was a 

 dispute between the last- 

 named and John Osbaldeston 

 touching lands and commons 

 with their boundaries in Sun- 

 derland and Osbaldeston.*^ 

 Richard Osbaldeston died in 

 1556** seised of this estate, 

 Alexander his son and heir 

 being aged about eleven 

 years."' This Alexander 

 rebuilt Sunderland Hall or 



Grange in 1 596,** and died two years later. His 

 brother Edward married Margaret daughter of John 

 Molyneux, and was living at Sefton in 1599. He 

 was the first of the line of Osbaldeston of Hunmanby, 

 CO. York., where he died in 1639.*^ 



Alexander Osbaldeston, the fourth in descent from 

 the last-named Alexander,'" married first Isabel 

 Brockholes of Claughton, and in 1706 Lettice relict 

 of Thomas Ainsworth of Pleasington, registered his 

 estate as a 'Papist' in ijlS/^ and died in 1729." 

 His grandson Alexander was the last of the line in 

 possession, for the estate was in 1756 alienated to Piers 

 Starkie of Huntroyde,''' ancestor of Major Edmund 

 Arthur Le Gendre Starkie, the present owner. 



Sunderland Hall is a modern farm-house, built in 

 1856, a short distance to the west of the site of the 

 old hall, on the bank of the Ribble, at the north-east 



Osbaldeston of 

 Sunderland. Argent a 

 mascle sable between three 

 pelletsy a canton gules. 



'Sa Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 59, m. 226. 



" Duchy of Lane Inq. p.m. xjtii, 19 

 (Lanes, and Ches. Rec. Soc ivi, 109). In 

 1598 Braddyll complained in the Duchy 

 Chamber that, whereas Sir Thomas 

 Gerard had sold half the manor and 

 demesnes of Balderston to William 

 Greenevyle, late of Bushton, who had at 

 once sold them to the complainant, and 

 whereas leases had been made of divers 

 tenements by Gerard to George Wright, 

 Hugh Pilkington, Thomas Wright and 

 Margery Talbot, they having by casual 

 means acquired divers evidences of title 

 belonging to the complainant, withhold 

 from him several parts of the demesne of 

 the manor, not contained in their leases ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Plead. Eliz. vol. 180, 

 B Z3. This was probably an impudent 

 attempt on Braddyll's part to mend his 

 bargain. 



** Abram, op. cit. 770. 



" Information of Capt. Feilden. 



"» Towneley MS. 'Monastic Charters ' 

 (in possession of W. Farrer), 703 — 

 confirmation by Pope Alexander. 



«" Reg. of Sawley, Harl. MS. 112, 

 fol. 61*. Afterwards he gave them 

 licence to lead the watercourse of Thurse 

 Broc to their mill ; foL 62. These 

 grants were duly confirmed by Hugh son 

 of Ailsi, his brothers William lord of 

 Balderston, Robert, Alexander, John and 



Adam and mother Wimarca consenting, 

 and by Peter de Arches ; ibid. 6zb. 



*i Ibid. 63. The monks reserved a 

 yearly service of 2J, for Sunderland. 



6» From the Couch, of Whalley, in 

 Add. MS. 32106, no. 1097. A dispute 

 about tithe of Sunderland and Lebbelay 

 between the houses of Whalley and 

 Sawley was settled in 1333 ; Whalley 

 Couch. 99. In 1522-3 the tenants of 

 Sunderland resisted an attempt to deprive 

 them of common for their cattle in 

 40 acres of land in Balderston ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Plead, iv, R. 3 ; Decrees, Hen. 

 VIII, 209. 



«3 Pat. 30 Hen. VIII, pt. 8. 



" Pal. of Lane. Feet ot F. 12, m. 37. 



»* Duchy of Lane. Plead, lix, O i. 



66 For his will see Land. Wills (Chet. 

 Soc. old ser. liv), 121. Inventory of his 

 goods valued at ^^380. 



" Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. x, 4.3. 

 The estate was held by the hundredth part 

 of a knight's fee of the duchy. Other in- 

 quests of the Osbaldestons of Sunderland 

 are in vols, xvii, 2 ; xxv, 23 ; and a 

 pedigree of the family is in Abram's 

 Blackburn, 419, and Haines, Lanes, (ed. 

 Croston), iv, 56. 



68 Marriage licence 8 July 1590 ; Add. 

 MS. 32106, no. 1060. Hamlet Os- 

 baldeston and Rosamond Osbaldeston 

 were assessed to the subsidy collected in 



317 



1599 upon lands ; Lay Subs. Lanca. bdle. 

 131, no. 274. 



^^ Genealogist (new eer.), xii, 260 ; 

 Hunter, Doncaster, ii, 413. 



^^ The descent is thus recorded : Alex- 

 ander —8. John, d. 1671 — s. Alexander, 

 d. 1681 -3. John, d. 1684. (?i694) -8. 

 Alexander, d. 1729. 



71 Estcourt and Payne, Catb. Non-juror:^ 



lOI. 



''^ A note of the will (1724) of Alex- 

 ander Osbaldeston of Sunderland shows 

 that he had in 1716 granted the capital 

 messuage to feoffees to pay debts. Lettice 

 his wife, Catherine wife of his son Alex- 

 ander and his grandsons Alexander and 

 John Osbaldeston are named ; Piccope 

 MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, 240. In 1726 

 Alexander Osbaldestor, lat; of Sunder- 

 land, was to marry Elizabeth Burgill, 

 widow, on whom ^20 a year was settled ; 

 ibid. 228. In 1728 Alexander Osbaldeston 

 the elder and Elizabeth his wife sold land 

 in Balderston ; ibid. 236. In 1744 Alex- 

 ander son of Alexander Osbaldeston of 

 Sunderland was living^ ibid. 272. 



"In 1756 Alexander Osbaldeston of 

 Preston, surgeon, and Catherine his 

 mother (daughter of John Wcstby) sold 

 the capital messuage of Sunderland to 

 Pirrs Starkie ; ibid. 368, 372. The will 

 of Mary Osbaldeston, dated 1763, men- 

 tious Alexander Osbaldeston (deceased ; 



