A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



in 1614. was held by Richard Haughton and 

 Margaret his wife. 19 Later it likewise was called 

 the 'manor of Great Carluon/ Wa and was sold 

 to Edward Moore of Bank Hall, 30 and probably 

 sold by his heir to the Shireburnes, for their ' manor ' 

 was the only one known in later times. 31 In 1572 

 Sir Richard Shireburne had purchased the fourth 

 part of an estate — no ' manor ' is named — in Great 

 Carleton, &c, from Lancelot Bold and Grace his 

 wife. 32 The whole descended to Edward Joseph 

 Weld of Lulworth, who about 1866 sold his interest 

 to a number of small proprietors.* 3 



NORCROSS in Great Carleton was at an early 

 time held by a Norcross family, 34 but by 1281 had 

 come into the hands of John de Shireburne and Eva 

 his wife, being probably her inheritance. 35 It 

 descended with the other Shireburne estates, 36 but 

 no doubt became merged in the manor of Great 

 Carleton. The manor courts were held at Norcross. 17 



LITTLE CJRLETOS was held by Henry de 

 Whittington, who was a son of William son oi 'Swain, 

 about 1230." He was succe JeJ by a son Henry 

 surnamed de Carleton. 3 ' The descent cannot lc 

 traced clearly. In 1347 among the tenants oi 

 William de Coucy's lordship of Wyresdale was 

 Henry de Carleton holding a plough-land and a halt 

 in that town by knight's service." Thomas Carleton," 

 who died in 1499, held similarly of the king, Margaret 

 Countess of Richmond and John Rigmaiden as of 

 their manor of Wyresdale. 41 His son George Carleton, 

 then twenty-two years of age, dieJ in 1 5 1 3 holding 

 of the king and Thomas Rigmaiden, and leaving as 

 heir a son William, aged eleven." William's son 

 Lawrence, who died in 1558, was the last of the 

 male line. He held a capital messuage in Little 

 Carleton called the Hall of Carleton, and w.ri'»us 

 messuages, &c, in both parts of the township, of the 

 duchy by knight's service. His heir was a sister 



**■* Evan Haughton purchased from 

 Thomas Chaddock and Joan his wife 

 their fourth part of the manor in 1566 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 28, m. 99. 

 Evan Haughton of Pennington die! in 

 1608 holding a moiety of eight mes- 

 su:fze% &c, in Carleton of the king by 

 bd. rent 5 Lar:s. Inq. p.m. (Rec Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 125. His son and 

 heir was the Richard named in the text, 

 who with hi3 wife enfeoffed EdwarJ, 

 James and William Stanley of the manor 

 of Great Carleton, with lands there and 

 in Warton, Lancaster, &c ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 85, no. 16. 



*** Richard Haughton died in 1630 

 holding the manor of Great Carleton, 

 with various lands, of the heirs of George 

 Carleton by fealty only. The heir was 

 a son Evan, aged forty. By an indent-ire 

 of 1614 the remainders were to Dorothy 

 and Francis Haughton 5 Towneley MS. 

 C S, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 523. 



30 He purchased it from Mrs. Dorothy 

 Shelvock, 'daughter to that Mr. Haugh- 

 ton which lived in Wavertree Lane ' ; 

 Irvine, Liverpool in tirr.e of CAas. II y 

 68-9. Among the Moore D. at Liver- 

 pool are leases ot" houses, &c, at Great 

 Carleton by Richard Haughton of 

 Wavertree and Margaret his wife ; no. 

 765-6. Alexander Rigby of Burgh 

 seems to have been tenant in 164.0, leasing 

 Carleton Hall and the demesne wis to 

 Everill widow of Edmund Fleetwood ; 

 ibid. no. -6-. 



Sir Cleave Moore and Margaret Moore 

 spinster held the moiety of the manor of 

 Great Carleton in 1691 ; PaL of Lane, 

 Feet of F. bdle. 226, m. 22. 



From the Shireburne abstract bok it 

 appears that Sir X. Shireburne p-rchased 

 in 1 -01-2 some at least of Sir Cleave 

 Moore's j<t.ue; the 'manor' is not namei- 



s » Barnes, Lanes, (ed. i8;6), iv, 439- 

 40. The manor of Carleton or Gre^t 

 Carleton was regularly entered amc:.; 

 the family estates in the 18th century ; 

 e.g. Pal. of Lane Plea R. +52, m. 7 

 {1090, Carleton); 544» m - 13 (i*3"< 

 Great Car'.eton); 62 >, no. 10 d./l6. 



sa Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle, 34, 

 m. 56. 



» Barnes, Ljkcs. (ei. iS~c\ ii, 51Q. 



54 From the Cockertani charters 

 alreadv quote-i it appears that Thomas 

 de Norcross was a son of Walter de 

 Carleton, son of Swain, and that Nor- 

 cross was rated as hal: a pli-ugh-land. 



** In the year named Christiana widow 



of Thomas de Norcross claimed dower in 

 a messuage and 2J oxg^ngs of land in 

 Xorcro:! against John and Eva ; De 

 Banco R. 43, m. 3. A later note shows 

 the origin of another part of the Shire- 

 .urae e tnte in Great Carleton (1348). 



86 Robert Shireburne died in 1492 

 holding lands in Carleton and Norcross 

 of George Carleton in socage ; Duchy 

 of Lane In<j. p.m. iii, no. 92. His son 

 Sir Richard in 151 3 was said to hold 

 in Carleton of the heirs of George 

 Carleton and in Norcross of the Abbot 

 of Dieulacres ; ibid, iv, no. 46. This 

 statement is repeated later. In 1 594 

 Norcross wis called a manor, but the 

 tenure was not recorded ; ibid, xvi, no, 3. 

 A ' manor of Carleton ' was said to be 

 held by Sir Richard Sbirebjrne of Stony- 

 hurst in 1579 (Feet of F.) and 1594 and 

 by his ton Richard in 1628. The 

 tenure v a= unknown. 



17 Fishwick., op. cit. 19 ; he states 

 that 'the manorial rights were sold with 

 Norcrors Farm.* 



38 See the notes on the Lytham and 

 Cockersand holding above ; as Walter 

 was the brother and heir of William, 

 Merry must have been illegitimate. 

 Henry de Whittingu n occurs in 1 222-6 ; 

 Lana. /*?. jrj Extents^ i, 131, 134. He 

 was rector of Whittington — hence his 

 surname — and is called a clerk ; Lytham 

 D. at Durham, 4 a, 2 ae, 4 ae, Ebor. 

 no. 2. 



K Henry de Cane: -n — probably there 

 were two of the r.ir.c in succession — 

 occurs from 1258 to 129" ; Lana. Jnq. 

 and Extents, i, 21 1, 29-, &q. Henry de 

 Carleton the elder and Amabil his wife 

 in 1283 leased to Henry le Boteler of 

 Rawdiifc l:r seven years an oxgang of 

 land with hous- formerly tenanted by 

 Roger the Carpenter, another oxgang 

 (widiout a house) occupied by Richard 

 de JCendal, a third (with house) formerly 

 held by Robert the man of Gervase, 

 and other lands, with easements appur- 

 tenant in Little Carleton ; Dods. MSS. 

 cxlii, foL 82a. Wal:er de Carleton was 

 a witness. 



40 In}, pjn. 2c Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), 

 no. 63. 



Henry de Carleton at that time held 

 land in Great Carleton alao, and in 134S 

 he and his wife Margery complained of 

 disseisin there br Alice widow of Sir 

 Robert de Shi-eburae, Agnes widow of 

 Robert de Wash: gron, William de Eires- 

 ford, Adam Any en and John Beaver. As 



to one moiety Alice replied, saying she 

 held by gift of the Abbot of Cockersand 

 and of John de Shireburne ; as to the 

 other moiety Agnes said she entered as 

 heir of her father Randle te Gentyl. The 

 jurors said that Henry and Magcry were 

 lords of a moiety of the v ill, and had 

 been disseised by the defendants, except 

 as to the portion held of the Abbot of 

 Cockersand ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol, 8 in ; 

 Assize R. 1444, m. 7. It appears thai 

 AJice and Agnes were sist-.-rs. 



The name of Henry de Carleton occurs 

 r^8^ to 1408 j Lana. Inf. p.m. (Chet. 

 iroc), i, 2<;, 91. One John Carleton and 

 Alice his wife made a settlement of lands 

 in Lancashire, Sec, in 1408 ; Shireburne 

 Abstract Bk. He is probably the John 

 son of Henry Carleton of another deed ; 

 ibid. In 1420 the king ordered all pro- 

 ceedings to be suspended against the sure- 

 ties of Henry oc Carleton the elder, 

 Henry the younger, Thomas de Carleton, 

 and William de Carleton of Norcross, 

 bastard, who were absent in the king's 

 service in the parts of Aquitaine ; Dtp, 

 Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. 1 S. It appears 

 that Henry de Carleton had been out- 

 lawed for debt ; ibid. 



One Thomas son of Nicholas of Little 

 Carleton occurs in 1352; Raines MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), xxxviti, 103. 



41 Thomas Carleton of Little Carleton 

 in 1476 granted to feoffees a tene- 

 ment in Little Carleton, another in 

 Hayholme in Great Carleton, and a 

 meadow called Cardales in Norcross j 

 Add. MS. 32106, no. 791. In 1492 an 

 agreement was made that George ton and 

 heir-apparent of Thomas Carleton should 

 marry Elizabeth daughter of Robert Clif- 

 ton deceased ; ibid. no. 800. 



A deed of about the same time (1491 ?) 

 represents John Carleton as holding the 

 manor of Little Carleton and providing 

 for the wardship and marriage of his son 

 and heir George ; Anct. D. (P.R.O.), 

 C29-8. 



** Duchy of Lane Inq. p.m. iii, no. 



49- 



tt Ibid, iv, no. 71. Joan widow 01 

 Thomaa Carleton was still living, as was 

 E Lzabeth wn'e of George. 



Deeds of William Carleton, inelud - 

 * settlement in 1548 on his »»n Law- 

 rence's marriage with Margaret daughter 

 of George Singleton of Staining, with 

 remainder to Mirgery sister of Lawrencr, 

 are recited in Fishwick's /W',*, 174. 

 from the Shireburne D. 



