A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



wl,-n rhc heire??, FJizabeth, married Edmund son 

 and heir of W ilii.im Starkie of Barnton, near 

 Frod^ham, and carried it to the family which still 

 retains it." 



Edmund Starkie J'ed in 1511 holdmg the htth 

 part of the town of ^imunsrone of the kmg in socage 

 by the rent of two spurs, and leaving a son James, 

 aged twenty-four years.'^ In 1558 it was declared 

 that the land was not held by knight's service. 

 The estate descended regularly/ and was increased 

 by the marriage of Nicholas Starkie 



with the heiress 



of John Parr of Kempnough,*' and of John Stark'e 

 with Alice Norris of Tun-c." The family appear to 

 have been Puritans. John Starkie, son and heir of 

 the above-named Nicholas," was a member of the 

 Presbyterian Clasiis in 1646." As Colonel Starkie 

 he took an active part on behalf of the Parliament in 

 the Civil War,** and it was his son. Captain Nicholas 

 Starkie, who was killed by the explosion after the 

 capture of Hoghton Tower in 1643." The eldest 

 son of John and Alice Starkie Inherited Huntroyde,^' 

 but his son Piers dying without issue in 1760,** this 



H-.ntroydc is named in a deed of 14.12 

 by which Rob.rt Simonstonc gave to John 

 his son, who had married Margaret 

 daughter of J'-'hn Livesev, a messua-e 

 called 'Hir.trcie, which Henrv Sankcy 

 had occuf.c:, and land in the Marshey ; 

 ibid. H 20, 21. By i +19, however, John 

 «on of Robert Simonstonc had married 

 Kathcrine daughter of John LUicr of 

 M;ddop, and Huntrnyde was settled on 

 them and their issue j ibid. H 23. 



In 1 + 36-- settlements were ma (e by 

 Jnhn Simonstonc, Kathcrinc his wife and 

 Richard his son and heir (a minor) being 

 named; ibid. H 25-g. John son of 

 Richard Wlitakcr of N'orthwood was a 

 Irustre. John Simonstonc made another 

 Ico'tmcnt of all his mcssuapcs and lands 

 in Si-ii.^nstonc and HuntmyJc in 1446 ; 

 ibid. H ; I, 32. John son and heir of 

 Robert Simonstonc "^cur* again in 14^ 1 ; 

 Townelcy MS. DD, 121^, 120-. 



^'" The Simon'tMnc records give little 

 infor;nation mr the latter part of the 

 15th ccntTv, but a certificate has b-cn 

 preserved 'tatin^ that Edmund Starkie on 

 II Jan. 1464-^ appeared before Ra'ph 

 Langley in the church of Manchctcr, 

 and, he bein^ seventeen and his wife 

 E'iz:tbet'.i t'rirteen, they pubiicly professed 

 their willingness to ratify the contract of 

 m-r"a?c bct\\cen them; Huntroydc D. 

 En x^ii. 



1.1 1475 Edmund Starkie and Elinbeth 

 his wile granted to his father William a 

 lease of tlic messuage in which William 

 then dwelt in Sim n-tnnr, with all the 

 lands cACcft the Huntroydc (which he 

 had alrcal)); note by Mr. H. Incc 

 And rton. 



The follow inz seems to be the ancestry 

 of Edmund Starkie : GcoflTrey -s. Ra'idle 

 (1315) -i. Hujh (Ij55) -9- Wi liam 

 (1389) -s. Ralfh (1.^90 -'• '^^''illiam 

 {14^--;^) -s. Edmund; Huntroydc D. 

 Bn i-x\ i. 



In I ^^4 Rlth-ird son and heir of 

 Edmund Starkie paid sums of mincy to 

 Ellen Law; ibid. H ;;3, u- El./abcth 

 wife of Edmund Starkie occurs in 1 ^07 ; 

 ibid. H ^;. In the same year Edmund 

 made an a~rcen ent for the marriage of 

 James his son and heir-apparent to Jane 

 .:au:hter of John Tempest, the manor of 

 Bamton being settled on them ; they were 

 to live at Huntroydc, paying the rent of 

 261. $J. ; ibid. H 36. At that time, 

 therefore, Huntroydc had not become the 

 chief residence. The Simonstonc Hall 

 occupied by the Starkie family is said to 

 have been within the park of Huntroydc. 

 It has long since d.sa7p:fared. 



8S Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, no. 20. 

 In 151- James S:?.rk.;e of Simonstonc 

 made a feotfment of his lands in Simon- 

 stonc and Bamton, with remainder to his 

 son ani heir Lawrence ; but Huntroydc 

 was to be given to another son, Thomas, 

 'r life ; Huntroydc D. H 42.. Jane the 

 H,:e of James Starkie is mentioned in 



15^5 ; ibid. H49. A year later a deed 

 by James Starkie 'of tlie Huntrode,' 

 Lawrence his son and heir, William 

 bastard son of James and Alison Han- 

 cock mother of William gave a rent- 

 charge of 4 marks to William and his 

 mother for life; ibid. H 51. James 

 Starkie seems to have died soon after- 

 wards, Lawrence being in possession in 



1577 ; ibid. H ^ ^ 



Another Lawrence St.irkie — the 

 •cousin' of J mies (ibid. H 44) — w.is 

 the acting sheriff of Lancashire from 

 1497 onwards to 1^25; P.R.O. L.'sr, 

 72. Some letters rcl.itmg to him are 

 printed in Wliitaker's ff'//jii-y, ii, 46-8. 



Lands were in i^^g settled on Law- 

 reni-c St-irkic ot Simniivtonc and Florence 

 his wife ; Huntroydc D. H ^^y ^6. Law- 

 rence died in Sept. 1^46 holding three 

 messuages in Simonstonc of the k'ng as 

 of his ducliv by the hundrclih part of a 

 knight's fee ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 ir, no. 3~. Edmund the snn and heir 

 was nine yeirs old ; this is probably right, 

 but he was fourteen according to a *note 

 of the extent and clear yearly value ' of the 

 estate among the Huntmydc D. (H61). 

 This shows that the mother, grandmother 

 and great-grandmother of the ward were 

 still li^ n.". Edmund Starkie petitioned 

 for the l;vcry of his father's lands in 

 Uq^ ; ibid. H63. 



'^ This v'.a; a decision of the Court of 

 Wards and Liveries correcting the return 

 made after the death of Lawrence Starkie ; 

 Ct. of W.ir i^ Misc. Bks. ciii, fol. 236. 



*^ Edmund Starkie in 1561 settled 

 Huntnyde and other lands on his wife 

 Anne for jointure ; his mother Florence, 

 then wife of Roger Nowell, had Simon- 

 stonc Hnll for her life ; Huntroydc D. 

 H 66. In 1570 he was exempted from 

 serving on juries owing to chronic ill- 

 henUli ; ibid. H 70. He was buried at 

 Padiham 7 Feb. 1616-17; Reg. Accord- 

 ing to the inquisition after his death he 

 held a hfth part of the viU of Simonstonc 

 of the king, and his son and heir Nicholas 

 was tiity years old ; Huntroydc D. 



*^ Sec the account of Worsley. In 



1578 John Parr of CIcworth and Edmund 

 Starkie became bound to observe cove- 

 nants of marriage ; ibid. H 71. The will 

 of Mirgarct Parr (1594) widow of John 

 is found ibid. T 9. Nicholas had a son 

 John and a daughter Anne by this mar- 

 riage ; it is of them that the story o( 

 demoniacal posscision is related in 1594. 

 The narrator states that * Mr. Nicholas 

 Starkie having married a gentlewoman 

 that was an inheritrix and of whost 

 kindred some were Papists ; these, partly 

 for religion and partly because the estate 

 descen ;ed not to heirs male, prayed for 

 the perishing of her issue, and that four 

 sons pined away in a strange manner, 

 but that M"5. Starkie, leammg this cir- 

 cumstance, estated her lands on her 

 husband and his heirs, failing is^ue of 



her own body, after which a son and 

 daughter \\crc born, who prospered \<icA 

 tin they arrived at the a^c of ten cr 

 twelve years ' ; quoted in Baincs* Lanes. 

 (cd. 1868}, i, 201, Nicholas Starkie 

 died 20 Aug. 1618 holding a fourth part 

 and a fortieth of the vill of Simonstonc 

 of the king in socage by a rent of 2«/., 

 lands in Salford, &c. His heir was his 

 son John, aged thirty ; Inq. p.m. among 

 the Huntroydc D. 



■*■■' Trans. Hist. Soc. (new ser.), xix xx, 

 18. The marriage covenant was dated 

 1654, John grandson and heir of John 

 Starkie of Huntroydc to Alice daughter 

 of Alexander Norris; Huntroydc D. 

 H82. 



■•^ In 1619 John Starkie of Kemp- 

 nough became bound to his briithcr 

 N icholas in respect of certain leases 

 made by Nicholas their father and 

 Edmund their grandfather ; ibid. II 81. 



The inquisition after the death of 

 Anne Starkie {1610) and Nicholas (161 8) 

 was made in 1619 with regard to the 

 lands in Worsley and Tvldeslcy; John 

 their son and heir was thirty years of 

 age ; ibid. T 10. 



John Starkie in 163 1 paid ^^25 as 

 composition on refusing knighthood ; 

 M.'.^ . (Rec. Soc, Lanes, and Ches.), i, 218. 



■*■• Baincs, Lanes, (ed. 1868), i, 227. 



^^ Colonel John Starkie had charge of 

 the levies, &c., in Blackburn Hundred in 

 1642; Lanes. War (Chet. Soc.), 9, i >, 

 &c. He was one of the committee for 

 * sequestering notorious delinquents' es- 

 tates' in 164^, and a member of the 

 county committee in 1645 ; Ci'vil H'a> 

 Tracts (Chet. Soc.), 90, 210. According 

 to Townelcy he was sheriff in 1656 ; 

 C 8, 13, p. 1096. The P.R.O. List gives 

 no name for 1 65 z^. 



He was still living, aged seventy-six, 

 in 1664 when a pedigree (incorrect) was 

 recorded ; Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc), 

 296. He died in 1665. 



■** Ci'vil fVar Tracts, 80 ; he is described 

 as *a worthy gentleman.' He had taken 

 an acti\c part in the raising of forces for 

 the Parliament ; IVar in Lanes. 15. 



His son John husband of Alice N'.rr;! 

 died in 1670, the account of his funeral 

 expanses being among the Huntroydc D. 

 (V ;i). Alice was buried at Bolton 

 29 Ucc. 1683. Administration of her 

 goods was in January following granted 

 to her son John ; ibid. H 84. 



*^ His name also was John. He 

 matriculated at Oxford in 1676 ; Foster, 

 4h'*nni. In Sept. 1682 he eloped with 

 Anne daughter of William Hulton of 

 Huhon, who waj to have been married 

 to Mr. Faringtoo ; O. ffcyv.ood, .-lurohoe. 

 ii, 132 ; Nori/iozuram Reg. 45. He died 

 at the end of Novtnib:r 1697 ; Admon. 

 at Chester. 



^^ The will of Piers SUrkie, dated 

 175S, devises the manor of Tongc, the 

 manor or reputed manor of Wcithoughtoa 



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