A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



purchased it from ThomadcHautrey.' This alienation 

 was not sanctioned by the superior lord, Henr)- de 

 !^C)-, who thereupon declared the manor forfeit and 

 gave 'it to Edmund Talbot of Bashall.'" In 1304 

 the king granted the new lord a charter of free 

 warren in his demesne lands of Hapton," and in 

 131 I the heir of Sir Edmund Talbot was stated to 

 hold I plough-land in Hapton by the eighth part 

 of a knight's fee, 13a'. rent, and suit to the court of 

 Clitheroe." 



The chief incident of the Towneley tenure was the 

 imparking of a large part of the township in 151+." 

 The services of the park-keeper were in dispute in 

 1 546 and later." A survey of the manor made 

 about 1645 states that the number of acres within 

 the manor was 1,857 ; the rents amounted to 

 j(^2iS 10/. id., besides fines and foregifts ; when a 

 tenant died double rent was paid to the lord as 

 relief; the lord had the right to keep a court baron 

 twice a year, but no courts had been held for forty 

 years." 



In 1632 Christopher Towneley of Hapton com- 

 pounded for the two-thirds of his estates liable to 

 sequestration for recusancy by an annual fine of j^zo, 

 and Jane Towneley by one of ^^63 6s. 8<j'." Jane 

 was the widow of Richard Towneley of Towneley, 

 and Christopher one of her sons. He is noteworthy 

 as the transcriber of the numerous volumes of deeds 

 to which later historians have been greatly indebted ; 



Lact. Or a lion ram- 

 pant furpure. 



Tai bot of Bashall. 

 Argent three lions idlunt 

 pur pure. 



Dower from the mar.or was in 1325 allowed to 

 M.irj.iret widow of Thomas de Hautrc\," but the 

 Talbots continued in possession till 1328," \\ hen 

 John son of Edmund Talbot sold his right to Gilbert 

 de la Legh.'* Gilbert's son J"hn married one of the 

 co-heirs of Towneley, and had two sons Gilbert (with- 

 out issue) and Richard. The latter and his issue 

 succeeded to the whole inheritance of Hapton and 

 Towneley, and having adopted Towneley as his 

 surname, the 5tor>' of his family is more properly 

 related under that manor." 



The old res Jence^ of the lords of the man^r are 

 denoted by Hapton Castle and Hapton Tower." 



Towneley of 

 Towneley and H.npton. 

 Argent a fesie sjble, in 

 chief three mullets of 

 the seconJ. 



v^/ 



Bertie, Earl of 

 Abingdon. Argeitt 

 three battering-rams bar- 

 ivays in pale proper 

 headed and garnished 



he afterwards lived at Carr Hall and Moorhiles, and 

 \'. .IS burled at Burnley in 1674." 



» Ab Thnm-^ de Alta Ripa, lord of 

 Carlton in Crnvcn, he in Fcr^. 1303-4 

 gave the manor of Hjpton, his lands in 

 Craven and the advowBon of Arncliffe 

 being cxpressv excepted, to Gilbert de 

 la Legh; H arl. MS. 2077, fol. 281; 

 Towneley MS. C S, 1 3 (Chct. Lib.), A 42. 

 The purchaser i» alBO called Gilbert Atte 

 L\c of CUviger i C'ram Rege R. 297, 

 m. 26 d. 



Gilbert de la Legh and John his son 

 .it tested a local deed in 1 310-1 1 j Towneley 

 MS. C 8, I 3, S 112. 



"^^ Lanes. In-j. and Fxrcit!, ii, 219; 

 Towneley MS. GG, no. 3097. 



" Charter R. 97 (32"E.iw. I), m. ^, 

 no. 31. 



^^ Lanes. Inq, and Extents^ ii, 10. 

 Edmund Talbot had been killed in Scpr. 

 I ^10, for Adam de Clitheroe in 1^23-4 

 pleaded a pardon for the deed (or his 

 share in it) ; the pardon had been granted 

 for Adam's servic?^ to the king in Scot- 

 land ; Coram Rege R. 2 54, m. 45 d.. Rex. 

 The heir was a son John, still under age 

 and in ward to the king in 1325 ; Ljkcs. 

 Ir^. and Extern^ ii, 220. 



^3 Ibid. 219; Thomas had died in Nov. 

 1324. The manor was said to be held by 

 the fourth part of a knight's fee. 



1* In 1322 John Talbot, then about 

 eighteen, was said to hold Hapton by the 

 third part of a knight's fee; ibid. 134. 

 One-third of the manor was held as dower 

 by the wife of Edmund Talbot \ the other 

 two-thirds was let to Adam del Clough at 

 a rent of 10 marks ; ibid. 143, 202. 



1^ Towndcy MS. C 8, i3,"T 102. In 



I 3 ^,0 John de Dinel.iy and Isabel his wife 

 (as her dower) claimed a third of two- 

 thirds of the manor of Hapton against 

 Gilbert ; De Banco R. 2S2, m. 277. 

 Isabel was the widow of John Talbot ; 

 she and her second husband in 1338 

 augmented their claim to a third part of 

 the manor, Edmund Talbot's widow 

 having probably died ; ibid. 313, m. 

 314 d. The defendant, Gilbert son of 

 John de la Legh, called John son and 

 heir of Gilbert de la Legh (i.e. his father) 

 to warrant him ; ibid. 316, m. 425. 



Thomas son of Robert Dautrcy in 1333 

 claimed two mills and 60 acres in Hapton 

 against Gilbert de la Legh ; ibid. 296, 

 m. 191. 



" Whitaker, fVhallcyy ii, 190 (pedi- 

 gree) ; also the account of Towneley. 

 Gilbert de la Legh was living in 1336, 

 when he granted the manor of Hapton to 

 (his grandson) Gilbert son of John de la 

 Legh; Towneley MS. C 8, 13, L 159. 

 Gilbert son of John de la Lc?h in 1344 

 gave to feoffees the manor of Hapton, and 

 in the same year the feoffees regranted it 

 to him and his wife Alice. The following 

 homagers are named : John de Shuttle- 

 worth, Henry del Green, John de Haberg- 

 ham, Adam de Aspden, William son of 

 Richard de Birtwisle and Nicholas son of 

 William de Hayleighs ; ibid. L 193, D 32. 

 Other feoffments of i 344 show that the 

 manor of Hapton was held by Gilbert son 

 of John and Alice his wife for the life of 

 Katherine daughter of Richard de Baldcrs- 

 ton, with remainder to John son of Gil- 

 bert de Legh and Cecily his wife, daughter 



of Richard de Towneley ; Towneley MS. 

 C S, 8 (Chet. Lib.), Edw. Ill, no. 29, 30. 

 In 1349 Gilbert de la Legh and the 

 heir of John de Catt(.rall held the vill of 

 Hapton in demesne and service for the 

 third part of a knight's fee ; Lansdowne 

 Feodary in Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1870), ii, 

 693. Gilbert was in 1380 found to hold 

 the manor of Hapton of the Duke of 

 Lancaster by knight's service and \zd, 

 rent ; Inq. p.m. 4 Ric. II, no. 87. He 

 died before 1388, when his widow Alice 

 died in possession, having had no issue by 

 her husband. The heir was John son of 

 Richard de Towneley, brother of Gilbert, 

 who was thirty-eight years old j Inq. p.m. 

 1 1 RIc. II, no. 3 3. The later inquisitions 

 usually record the tenure of Hapton as of 

 the Duke of Lancaster by knight's ser- 

 vice, sometimes adding izd. rent ; Lanes. 

 Inq, p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, i 57, 160 ; ii, 59, 

 &c. It was called the moiety of the 

 fourth part of a fee in 1445-6 ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Knights' Fees, bdlc. 2, no. 20. 



^^ The sites are known ; Whitaker, 

 fVhalley, ii, 64. No * castle * is named 

 in the charters. 



^ Ibid.; Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bk*. 

 xxii, 36. 



^^ Dueatut Lane, (Rec, Com.), ii, 94, 



314. For the park and pasturage see 



ibid, iii, 178, 193. 



*^ Whitaker, op. cit. ii, 65. 



^^ Trans. Hist. Soc. (new scr.), xxiv, 



176, 17s. 



^ Whitak'-T, op. cit. il, 545. M.iny of 



his %olume« of transcripts are now in the 



British Museum, others in the Chctham 



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