AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



PRESTON 



and some small tenements were registered by 

 'Papists' in 17 17." 



BARTON 



Bartun, Dom. Bk. ; Barton, 1 2 1 2 and usually ; 

 Berton, 1226. 



The surface is for the most part level or slightly 

 undulating, but rises a little more sharply in the 

 north-east corner, a height of about 230 ft. being 

 attained. Barton Brook, formed by Westfield Brook 

 nud Sparling Brook from east and north-east respec- 

 tively, runs diagonally across the area from north- 

 cast to south-west, the Old Hall being to the north 

 of it and a water corn-mill upon it ; Barton Lodge 

 and Tunsteads lie to the south of it. The township 

 contains 2,707 J acre6 and had a population of 3 1 5 

 in 1 90 1. 1 The hamlet of Newsham in Goosnargh 

 was included in the township of Barton in 1894.* 



The principal road is that from Preston to Lan- 

 caster, running along the western boundary ; upon 

 it, near the centre, is the church. The London and 

 North-Western Company's main line to the north 

 crosses the north-west corner. 



The land is chiefly meadow and pasture ; the soil 

 is clayey. 



A parish council administers the affairs of the 

 township. 



There are remains of ancient crosses near the 

 eastern border. 3 



In 1066 the manor of B4RTON, 

 MJNOR assessed as four plough-lands, was a member 

 of the lordship of Preston held by Earl 

 Tosttg. 4 It was no doubt larger than the present 

 township, which in 1 2 1 2 is found assessed as only 

 two plough-lands, being then part of ten held of the 

 king in thegnage by Walter son of Osbert, ancestor 

 of the Cliftons of Westby, by the service of £2 

 annually. 6 



The Cliftons and their heirs retained the mesne 

 lordship of Barton, 6 which in 1 2 1 2 was held imme- 

 diately by the heirs of Gilbert de. Barton. 7 Of this 

 family very little is known 8 ; their rent was 8/., 

 being the proportion due for two plough-lands. A 

 mortgage or settlement of the manor of Barton, with 

 lands in Goosnargh, was made by John de Barton in 

 1 323,' and another settlement by a later John de 

 Barton and Denise his wife in 1381. 10 



Gilbert Barton was in 1496 an outlaw for trespass, 11 

 and was succeeded by another Gilbert, who died in 

 1 5 1 6, leaving a son and heir Thomas, only four years 

 old. 12 The manor was held of Sir William Molyneux 

 and Elizabeth his wife, in her right, by a rent of 8/. 

 She was the daughter and heir of Cuthbert Clifton. 



Thomas Barton died in 1554 holding the manor 

 by a like tenure, the mesne lord being Henry Halsall 



holding a messuage in Haighton, with 

 common of pasture for all cattle, of 

 Gilbert Hoghton, 'as of his manor of 

 Haighton,' in socage. Hugh, his son and 

 heir, was seven years of age ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. xxx, no. 62. Henry son 

 of Hugh Charnley in 1653 desired to be 

 admitted to compound for the two-thirds 

 of his father's estate sequestered 'for 

 recusancy only' in 1643 ; Hugh had died 

 about 1650 ; Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. 

 Soc Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 20—2. 



Thomas Beesley of Haighton forfeited 

 his lands for some delinquency, but on 

 the petition of his son John in 1653 the 

 sentence seems to have been reversed ; 

 Index of Royalists (Index Soc), 41 ; 

 Royalist Comp. Papers, i, 171-2. 



John Hunt was found to have been 

 convicted of recusancy and to have com- 

 pounded for his estate in 1634 ; Cal. 

 Com. for Comp. iv, 3144. 



23 Evan (son of John) Gerard of 

 Haighton and Brindle, Thomas Rogerson, 

 James Chester, Anne Sudall, Henry 

 Sudan, Roger Livesey, John Bolton (or 

 Bilton), Lawrence Simpson and John 

 Slater; Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. 

 Nonjurors, 105, 137-8. 



1 The Census Rep. of 1901 gives an 

 urea of 3,055 acres, including 13 of inland 

 yater, and a population of 423 ; but in 

 these figures Newsham in Goosnargh is 

 included. 



8 Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 32199. 



3 These are called Barton Cross and 

 Oak Bank Farm Cross ; Lanes, and Ches. 

 Antiq. Soc. xx, 179, 180. In the former 

 case a new cross has been placed on the 

 old pedestal. 



* V.CM. Lanes, i, 288a. 



6 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 46, 139. 



6 So in the inquest of 1324; Dods. 

 MSS. exxxi, i, fol. 39*. 



7 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 46. 



8 Walter de Barton occurs in 1 244 and 

 Grimbald de Barton in 1253, both in 

 Amounderness ; ibid, i, 158, 192. Walter 



de Barton and William his son attested a 

 charter copied in Towneley MS. DD 

 (no. 1835). 



Ralph de Catterall in 1292 claimed 

 certain land in Barton against John de 

 Barton, but afterwards said it was in 

 Goosnargh j Assize R. 408, m. 34 d. 

 John de Barton appears again in 1297 

 and 1 307 ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 289 ; 

 De Banco R. 163, m. 253. 



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

 Ches.), ii, 56. John Travers the plaintiff 

 (? trustee) received two-thirds of the 

 manor, with the reversion of the re- 

 mainder, then in the possession of Alice 

 wife of Richard de Bury as her dower. 

 In 1334 Iseult widow of William son of 

 John de Barton (and afterwards wife of 

 Adam the Spinner) claimed dower in 

 Goosnargh against William son of Richard 

 de Bury and against Sir Richard de 

 Hoghton, the latter holding by demise of 

 John son of John de Barton, to whom her 

 second husband had granted the messuage, 

 &c, claimed ; De Banco R. 297, m. 

 230 d. ; 300, m. 143 d. Alice widow of 

 John de Barton made a claim in 1342 

 against Adam de Waley and Iseult his 

 wife ; ibid. 309, m. 289. 



John, de Barton was described as a 

 knight in charters of 1335 and 1348 ; 

 MS. C 8, 5 (Chet. Lib.), Edw. Ill, no. 17; 

 Kuerden fol. MS. fol. 387. 



Sir John de Barton and John his son 

 were witnesses in 1340 ; DD, no. 1879. 



Katherine daughter of William de 

 Barton in 1370 claimed the manors of 

 Barton and Bilsborrow against Richard 

 de Catterall ; De Banco R. 438, m. 



253- 



10 Final Cone, iii, 10. The remainder 

 was to Thomas eon of John and Denise. 



In 1443 lands of Thomas Barton of 

 Barton in Amounderness were taken for 

 debt 5 Pal. of Lane. Chan. Misc. 1/7, 

 no. 31. 



Christopher Barton, son and heir of 

 Gilbert, was in 1485 to wed Margaret 

 daughter of William Singleton and widow 



127 



of — Elston ; Kuerden fol. MS. fol. 59. 

 Christopher Barton was living in 1500 ; 

 ibid. fol. 63. 



11 Duchy Plead. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 10. 



He was no doubt the Gilbert Barton 

 the elder who in 1493 made several 

 grants to his sons and daughters — 

 Anthony, Lawrence, Richard, Hugh, 

 Gilbert, Etheldreda and Isabel ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 76, m. 4, 4 d., 5 d., 8. 

 Holmes, Kirks Place and Stokkolhede in 

 Barton are named. 



This Gilbert died in or before 1508, 

 for William Ireland, who had married his 

 widow Clemency, was then claiming her 

 dower in certain messuages, &c, in Barton, 

 held by Lawrence Barton ; ibid. 104, 

 m. 4. 



12 There are three inquisitions taken 

 in this order — Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 v, no. 33, iii, no, 7 (both 1520), v, no. 6 

 (1521). (1) The first of them relates 

 particularly to lands held by Gilbert's 

 wife Margaret, who survived her husband 

 for over two years. It mentions the above- 

 named Lawrence, Gilbert, Anthony,Hugh, 

 Constance, Etheldreda, and Isabel Barton 

 as still living in 1520; also William, 

 Thomas and Christopher Barton, younger 

 sons of Christopher Barton, and Gilbert 

 son of the Gilbert of the inquisition. 

 Thomas Barton the heir had been in 

 the custody of Sir John Warren, and 

 then of his son Lawrence Warren. See 

 Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), ii, 24. (2) 

 The second document relates to the 

 claim to wardship made shortly after- 

 wards by Sir William Molyneux and 

 Elizabeth his wife, they alleging that 

 Barton was held of them by knight's 

 service, viz. by the tenth part of a 

 knight's fee and the rent of %s. (3) The 

 third inquisition reaffirms the socage 

 tenure of the manor of Barton. It gives 

 field-names in the demesne, including 

 Ovall, Tonstedes, Akame, Flethycrokes 

 and Alpham, and a number of tenants' 

 names. 



