A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



in right of Anne his wife. 18 Richard Barton, the son 



and heir, then twenty-two years of age, recorded a 



pedigree in 1567, 14 and died 



in 1572, leaving as heir a son 



Thomas, aged sixteen. 16 This 



son lived till 1603, and his 



son Richard having died in 



1 600, Thomas's heir was 



Richard's daughter Fleetwood, 



born in 1595. The manor 



was held of Sir Cuthbert 



Halsall in socage by a rent of 



Barton of Barton. 

 Argent three boars 1 

 heads couped sable armed 



When four years old Fleet- 

 wood Barton was married to 

 Richard son and heir of Sir 

 Richard Molyneux ir ; but 



this union was afterwards annulled, and she then 

 married Richard Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe in 

 Habergham Eaves near Burnley. 18 Barton descended 

 like Gawthorpe till the death of Robert Shuttleworth 

 in 1 8 1 6, when — he having divided his estates — Barton 

 was inherited by the elder son James, the younger, 

 Robert, having Gawthorpe. James Shuttleworth in 

 1833 sold the manor to George Jacson of Preston, 

 a member of the firm of Horrocks, Jacson & Co., 

 whose son Charles Roger Jacson succeeded to it. 19 

 Having no issue he directed the manor and lands to 

 be sold at his death, which took place on 3 October 



1893, for the benefit of hi» nephews and nieces. 

 Portions have been sold, but the lordship of the 

 manor is said to be vested in his trustees. Barton 

 Lodge is the manor-house. 20 



The Charnley family held an estate in Barton in 

 1415. 21 A few other families holding land are known 

 through the inquisitions. 22 



Richard Shuttleworth of Barton being a zealous 

 Parliamentarian and Presbyterian, the township seems 

 to have escaped the attention of the Commonwealth 

 authorities ; but William Cardwell, tanner, and some 

 others registered estates as ' Papists 'in 171 7." 



There was probably a chapel at the 

 CHURCH hall from an early time, but there are no 

 records of it. 24 In 1650 St. Lawrence's 

 chapel had neither minister nor maintenance. 25 In 

 1723 Richard Shuttleworth, retaining the right of 

 presentation, made it a semi-public chapel and gave 

 some endowment, a grant from Queen Anne's Bounty 

 being apparently obtained. 26 It was made parochial 

 in 1850, and was pulled down and rebuilt in 1896. v 

 The patronage is vested in the Bishop of Manchester 

 and the representatives of the late Col. Marton 

 alternately. 28 The following have been incum- 

 bents : — 



1832 Thomas Duell 



1870 John Denby Harrison, Ph.D. (Rostock) 

 1905 Herbert James Bardsky, M.A. (Worcester 

 Coll., Oxf.) 



Margaret the widow of Gilbert after- 

 wards married Francis Morley, and was 

 claiming dower in Barton in 15 18 ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R. 123, m. 4. 



In 1 5 18, i.e. before the above inquisi- 

 tions, Thomas Barton had summoned 

 Lawrence Barton to answer for the 

 waste, sale and destruction of houses and 

 woods which Gilbert Barton (grandfather 

 of Thomas, whose heir he was) had 

 granted to Lawrence for life ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Writs Proton. 10 Hen. VIII. 



The above statements as to the descent 

 are difficult to harmonize. According to 

 the recorded pedigree Gilbert was great- 

 grandfather of Thomas, which would clear 

 the matter. 



18 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. x, no. 50. 

 He held the manor, also twelve messu- 

 ages, a water mill, a windmill, &c, in 

 Barton, and lands in Goosnargh, Bils- 

 borrow and Chipping. 



14 Visit, of 1567 (Chet. Soc), 57. 

 This gives the descent thus : Thomas 

 Barton -s. Gilbert -s. Christopher -s. 

 Gilbert -s. Thomas -s. Richard -s. 

 Thomas. 



For a settlement by Thomas Barton in 

 1599 see Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 61, no. 198. 



15 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiii, no. 8 ; 

 the tenure was unchanged. The inquisi- 

 tion names Richard's uncle Gilbert, 

 mother Maud, sister Elizabeth, wife 

 Anne, and children John, Andrew and 

 Maud. His will is recited in it; his 

 wife was to hold Barton Hall, the de- 

 mesne lands, &c, till his son should 

 attain full age. 



For a recovery of the manor in 1573 

 see Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 233, m. 13 d. 

 For a claim to the manor of 'Barton 

 Row' in 1575 see Ducatus Lane. (Rec. 

 Com.), iii, 35. 



m Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 7-1 1. 



17 Ibid. 



18 See the account of Gawthorpe. The 

 outline of the descent is : Richard Shuttle- 

 worth, d. 1669 —s. Richard, d. 1648 -8. 

 Sir Richard, d. 1687 -8. Richard, d. 1748 

 -s. James, d. 1773 -s. Robert, d. 1816 

 -b. James. 



A local story relates that ' there was a 

 large forest hereabouts and it contained a 

 wild boar, which played such havoc in 

 the neighbourhood that Barton the elder 

 offered in marriage his daughter, a rich 

 heiress, to the man who would kill it. A 

 great hunt followed, and on St. Lawrence'B 

 Day one of the Shuttleworths slew the 

 animal near the house now known as 

 the Boar's Head ' ; Hewitson, Our Country 

 Churches, 65. 



A settlement of the manor of Barton 

 was made by Richard Shuttleworth and 

 Fleetwood his wife in 1617-18 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 92, m. 9. There 

 were others in 1709 by Richard Shuttle- 

 worth, and in 1742 by the same Richard 

 and James his eldest son and heir ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Plea R. 490, m. 6 ; 557, m. 7. 



19 There is a pedigree in Foster's 

 Lanes. Fed. 



20 Fishwick, Preston, 91, 315. Barton 

 Hall was sold to Alderman William Smith 

 of Newsham. 



21 Final Cone, iii, 73. William Charn- 

 ley was plaintiff and his parents, John 

 Charnley of Erlesgate and Amery his 

 wife, were deforciants. 



82 Robert Singleton of Brockholes 

 (1525) held land in Barton of the heirs 

 of Gilbert Barton by the rent of a rose ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vi, no. 64. 



George Medgeall (Midgehalgh) held 

 messuages in Barton in 1557 of Richard 

 Barton by a rent of 21. ; Robert his son 

 and heir was aged thirty-three ; ibid, x, 

 no. 22. Robert had a son George who 

 married Ellen Parkinson in 1577 and had 

 a son Robert ; and this Robert left a son 

 and heir George, a minor, who died in 

 the king's custody without issue in 1626. 



128 



His heir was his uncle Edward Mighall, 

 brother of Robert ; ibid, xxvi, no. 39. 



The tenure of Sir Gilbert Gerard's land 

 in 1593 is not stated separately. 



Thomas Cardwell died in 1653 holding 

 two messuages, &c, of Richard Shuttle- 

 worth and Fleetwood his wife in socage 

 by a rent of in. 91/. William his ion 

 and heir was sixteen years of age j ibid. 

 xxx, no. 59. 



Nicholas Cross had land in 1484 ; PaL 

 of Lane. Plea R. 61, m. 7. 



88 Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. 

 Nonjurors, 139, 95. William Cardwell 

 was a son of Thomas. The other names 

 are — George Calvert, Richard Arrowsmith 

 and George Turner. 



Among the convicted recusant! of the 

 time of Charles II was a goldsmith, Thomas 

 Kitchin; Misc. ( Cath. Rec Soc), v, 165. 



M It is said to be named in 1577 j 

 Raines in Notitia Ctstr. ii, 469. 



John de Barton in 1348 received 

 licence from the Archbishop of York to 

 have service* in his oratories within the 

 deanery of Amounderness ; note by Mr. 

 Earwaker citing Raines MSS. 



« Common-w. Ch. Surv. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 146. The inhabi- 

 tants desired it to be made a parochial 

 chapel to Broughton. It is not named in 

 the Plund. Mins. Acta. 



86 Gastrell, A'otiria Ceitr. loc. cit. ; 

 ' this chapel was built and has been con- 

 stantly repaired by the famUy who enjoyed 

 the estate and lived in the manor-houic, 

 to which this seemi to have been a 

 domestic chapeL' , . 



An advertisement for a chaplain in 

 1795 shows that he was to be master also 

 of Bilsborrow School; Preston Gurd. 

 Sketches, no. 1526. 



* Fishwick, Pram, HS-7- A "f" 

 of the old building is given. See »U" 

 Hewitson, op. cit. 64-70. 



•» The Bishop of Manchester's right 

 was formerly that of the Jacsons. 



