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Clifton. 10 ' Of Higher Barker there is little to be 

 said 103 ; Lower was about 1670-80 the residence of 

 the lord of the manor of Goosnargh, John Warren 

 of Poynton, 109 who in 1674 procured the royal charter 

 for holding two fairs annually at Inglewhite in this 

 tithing. 110 INGLEIVH1TE was the estate of a family 

 named Sidgreaves, 11 ' of whom Christopher was re- 

 corded as a freeholder in 1 6oo,"' and James recorded 

 his estate asa 'Papist' in 1717. 113 He died in 1759 

 and was succeeded by a son James, whose great- 

 grandson dying without issue in 1853 the estate was 

 sold. 114 In 1869 it became the property of William 

 Shawe of Preston, and is now held by the Knowles 

 trustees. 



BLACKHALL or Blakehall 115 was long the seat 

 of a family named Midgehall. 116 George Midgehall 

 died in 1557, leaving a son Robert, aged thirty-three, 

 heir to an estate comprising Brabinfield in Goosnargh, 

 held of Richard Hoghton by 1 %d. rent, two messuages 

 held of the Crown as of the dissolved monastery of 

 Cockersand by I zd. rent, 3 acres held of the heirs of 

 Ralph Catterall by the rent of a catapult, and two 

 messuages in Threlfall held of the heirs of Richard 

 son of Adam de Woodacre." 7 Robert's son George 

 died in 161 2, leaving a son Robert as heir, 118 and he 

 in turn 119 left a son George, who died in 1626 under 



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age and without issue, the estate then reverting to 

 his uncle Edward Midgehall. 110 This Edward was in 

 trouble in the Civil War time, for he took the king's 

 side and his estates were sequestered and ultimately 

 sold by the Parliament for his ' delinquency.' 181 The 

 family about that time became Protestant, and 

 the estate continued in the male line till 1807, 

 when it was sold to James Sidgreaves of Inglewhite 

 and was in 1847 purchased by William Shawe of 

 Preston. 1 ' 2 



LATUS House had more anciently the name of 

 Clifton House. 123 The family of Latus or Latewise 

 held it in the time of Elizabeth and later, 131 but by 

 1650 it had passed to the Rigby family. 126 About a 

 century later it was in the hands of Parkinson, a 

 wide-spreading family found in several parts of the 

 township. 126 It afterwards went to Talbot and was 

 sold to Philip Park of Preston. St. Anne's Well is on 

 this estate. A Longley charter dated 1494 men- 

 tions Benetfield, the highway to the church of 

 Goosnargh, Tinklerfield and Stonyford. 127 



Of Aspenhurst there is little record except of the 

 estate of Fairhurst held by the Rigbys of Middleton, 

 already mentioned. 



Little need be said of other estates and landowners 

 occurring in the records. Cockersand Abbey I28 and 



107 From a deed quoted in Duchy of 

 Lane Inq. p.m. iv, no. 48. 



108 Fishwick, op. cit. 171. Barker was 

 said to be in Threlfall in 1626; ibid. 174. 



109 He was the ' Mr. Justice Warren ' 

 spoken of ibid. 172. The stocks were 

 placed near this house. It was sold to 

 John Lucas of Goosnargh about 1760. 



110 Pat. 26 Chas. II (21 Sept.). 



111 Their house was called the Lodge. 

 For the family see Fishwick, Goosnargh, 

 173—5, where 14th-century deeds are 

 referred to, and the later pedigree is given 

 thus : Christopher (1588) -s. James (will 

 1626) -s. James, d. 1671 -s. Christopher, 

 d. 1702 -s. James, d. 1759 -s. James, d. 

 1780 — s. James, d. 1808 — s. James, d. 

 1838 -s. James, d. 1853. See also Mr. 

 Gillow in Misc. (Cath. Rec. Soc), v, 148. 



112 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 



'. 2 33- 



113 Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. Non- 

 jurors, 95. 



114 See note 1 1 1. 



115 A family of this surname occurs in 

 1410 ; Dods MSS. cxlii, fol. 61A. 



116 Fishwick, op. cit, 168, &c, with 

 pedigree. 



ThomaB son of Thomas Goosnargh 

 was in 141 8 enfeoffed by his trustees of 

 lands in Goosnargh, Barton and Chipping, 

 with remainder to William son of Robert 

 Midgehall (Miggehalgh) and Alice his 

 wife, daughter of Thomas son of Thomas ; 

 Dods. MSS. hex, foL 161. 



117 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. x, no. 22. 

 By the inquisition of 1626 it appears that 

 Robert Midgehall in 1577 made provision 

 for his son George on his marriage with 

 Ellen Parkinson. Robert was living in 

 1600; Misc. (Rec. Soc), i, 232. 



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

 and Ches.), i, 216-17. The capital 

 messuage in Goosnargh was stated to be 

 held of Sir Richard Hoghton by 2od. rent, 

 and land improved from the waste, of the 

 king by the two-hundredth part of a 

 knight's fee. 



119 Ibid, iii, 407. 



20 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvi, no. 

 19. The capital messuage was held as in 



161 2, but the other land was held partly 

 of the king by knight's service and partly 

 (in Threlfall) of Richard Shireburne in 

 socage. 



121 Index of Royalists (Index Soc), 43 ; 

 Cal. Com. for Comp. iv, 3201 j Royalist 

 Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 iv, 138-9. Part of the estate had been 

 sequestered for the recusancy of Edward's 

 mother Margaret, who died in 1649 ; part 

 also for the recusancy of Alice Midgehall, 

 also dead. Alice appears to have been the 

 widow of Edward's elder brother Robert. 



For a dispute as to the estate in 1667 

 see Exck. Dep. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 45. 122 Fishwick, ut sup. 



128 It is also called Longley Hall } ibid. 

 181. 



124 Gilbert Latus held Clifton House 

 in 1556 by bequest of his father-in-law 

 William Westby of Mowbreck ; Richmond 

 Wills (Surtees Soc), 91. He died in 

 1568 holding a capital messuage, 60 acres 

 of land, &c, of Gilbert Gerard by a rent 

 of 6s., with other lands in Warton, 

 Thistleton, &c. His son and heir 

 William was twenty-four years old ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, no. 11. 

 The tenure shows that it had been part 

 of the Balderston estate, and this again 

 had probably descended from the Banastres 

 and Singletons. Portions of this estate 

 are found from the inquisitions to have 

 been held by Edmund Dudley (1509), 

 Thomas Earl of Derby (1521), Thomas 

 Radcliffe of Winmarleigh and his suc- 

 cessors. The tenure is sometimes de- 

 scribed as of Osbaldeston, at other times 

 of the king as duke ; ibid, v, no. 3 ; viii, 

 no. 26 ; xi, no. 7. Part of it may have 

 been augmented by the Hopersfield sold 

 by William Ward of Otttcy and Alice his 

 wife to Sir James Harrington in 1408 ; 

 Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 90. 



William Latus died in 1609 holding a 

 messuage, &c, of Sir Richard Hoghton 

 by i6d. rent, and leaving as heir a son 

 Matthew, aged thirty ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc), i, 137. William Latus was 

 one of the recusants whose sequestrations 

 were in 1607 granted to Sir Richard 



199 



Coningsby ; Cal. S. P. Dom. 1603-10, 

 p. 383. 



125 These statements are from Fishwick, 

 op. cit. 182. 



126 Richard Parkinson was a tenant 

 under Catterall in 1520-35 for land in 

 Threlfall ; Duchy of Lane. Dep. xxxi, P. 1. 



Complaint was made of the abduction 

 of Edmund son and heir of Thomas 

 Parkinson of Goosnargh in 1540, his 

 marriage pertaining to Nicholas Turner ; 

 Pal. of Lane Writs Proton. 32 Hen. 

 VIII. 



William Parkinson (of Bilsborrow) held 

 Hutchenhey in 1592, but the tenure was 

 not stated ; Duchy of Lane Inq. p.m. 

 xvii, no. 21. His son Edward was in 

 1617 said to hold the same of Sir Richard 

 Hoghton and Catch House of Thomas 

 Catterall by 4*. rent ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. 

 (Rec. Soc), ii, 21;. Roger Parkinson (of 

 another family) held lands in 1622 of the 

 Earl of Derby as successor of the Knights 

 Hospitallers 5 he left as co-heirs three 

 young daughters — Alice, Janet and Mar- 

 garet ; ibid, iii, 309—10. 



Many references to the families will be 

 found in the Ducatus Lane. 



127 Duchy of Lane. Anct. D. (P.R.O.), 

 L 1 1 99 ; a grant from John son and heir 

 of John Westfield to Christopher Leeming 

 of Lancaster, of a messuage, &c, in 

 Longley. 



128 Cockersand Abbey estate has been 

 recorded; for rentals 1451-1537 see 

 Chartul. iii, 1270-1. One grant to the 

 abbey was made by Adam son of Ralph 

 which concerned Fayles, the bounds 

 naming (among other points) Selebrook 

 and Helmer housesteads ; ibid, i, 238. 

 In 1246 Richard son of Robert sought 

 common of pasture in Goosnargh against 

 Robert de Faleghs ; Assize R. 404, m. 5. 



The award in a suit between Lancaster 

 Priory and Cockersand Abbey about a 

 grange in ' Trefeld ' is in B.M. Add. 

 Charter 19818. 



In 1377 John de Elswick made a 

 feoffment of lands in Goosnargh ana 

 Whittingham ; Kuerden MSS. v, 117, 

 00. 10. 



