AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



POULTON-LE- 

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descended 18 until the middle of the 1 6th century, when 

 it was acquired by Thomas Fleetwood. 19 It was given 

 to a younger son William, who in 1596 conveyed it 

 to his brother Edmund. 20 From that time it de- 

 scended in the same way as Rossall until 1 841, when Sir 

 Peter Hesketh Fleetwood sold it to Thomas Clifton. 21 

 The estate of the Botelers of Marton descended by 

 marriage to the Crofts of Dalton and Leghs of Lyme. 22 

 There were a few minor holders of land in Marton 



whose names occur in charters and pleadings, 23 as 

 also in the later inquisitions. 24 



LITTLE MJRTON descended like Weeton, 28 

 the Earl of Derby holding it in the 15 th and 16 th 

 centuries. The manor was in 1522 farmed out to 

 William Lache, William and Robert Whiteside and 

 Thomas Gaulter for £9 6s. %d. a year. 20 It was after- 

 wards (about 1600) acquired by Molyneux of Sefton 

 and sold in 1606 to Cuthbert Clifton, together with 



14.5-7. The son became a ward of Sir 

 William le Boteler of Warrington, who 

 in 1323-4 granted the lands to Cecily 

 widow of Richard le Boteler ; Raines 

 MSS. xxxviii, 103. A description of 

 house (with chapel), &c, is given. 



John ton of Richard Boteler of Marton 

 appears in 1357, 1358 and 1361 ; Raines 

 MSS. xxxviii, 105 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. 6, m. 4 J. ; Assize R. 441, 

 m. 2. John Boteler of Marton granted to 

 feoffees in 1362 all his lands, with the 

 reversion of those in Little Layton held 

 by Agnes widow of Nicholas Boteler, and 

 in 1367 the feoffees regranted them to 

 John Boteler and Margaret his wife ; 

 Raines MSS. xxxviii, 107. The seal to 

 the former charter shows a cheveron with 

 three fleurs de lis between three covered 

 cups. In 1369 Agatha daughter of John 

 Boteler gave a quitclaim to her father 

 and Margaret his wife ; ibid. 389. 



John Boteler of Marton was living in 

 1385 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 22. 

 John the elder had a protection on going 

 to Ireland in 1386; Cal. Pat. 1 3 S 5—9, 

 p. 189. 



18 The Botelers of Warrington were 

 usually regarded as the chief lords of 

 Marton. Thus William Boteler and 

 Edmund Boteler in 1302 held half a fee 

 and the tenth part of a fee in Great (and 

 Little) Marton ; Lanes, Inq. and Extents, 

 i, 316. In 1324 William Boteler held 

 the manor with Layton, &c ; Dods. MSS. 

 exxxi, fol. 40. 



In 1346 William Boteler held two- 

 thirds and Nicholas Boteler one-third of 

 the third part of a knight's fee in Great 

 Marton, paying yearly 5*. for castle ward ; 

 Survey of 1346 (Chet. Soc), 58. 



Sir William Boteler in 1355 answered 

 for the tenth and twentieth parts of a 

 knight's fee formerly held by William de 

 Marton ; Feud. Aids, iii, 90. 



Sir William Ferrers of Groby was said 

 to hold by knight's service in Marton in 

 right of his wife Elizabeth in 143 1 ; ibid. 

 95. She was the widow of Sir William 

 Boteler. 



Both lordships were recognized in 

 r 445-°> when John Boteler (under age) 

 and Nicholas Croft held the third part of 

 a knight's fee in Great Marton in the 

 proportions of two to one ; Duchy of 

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



Great Marton is named in 14 16 among 

 the manors of Sir William Boteler of 

 Warrington 5 it was held by knight's 

 service ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 

 113. Similarly it occurs in 1472 (ibid, 

 ii, 82) and later ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. v, no. 13. 



John Boteler of Rawcliffe in 1488 

 held messuages and lands in Great 

 Marton of Boteler of Warrington by 

 the third part of a knight's fee, and 

 nis great-grandson, James Boteler, died 

 in 1504 holding lands in Great Marton 

 j>f Sir Thomas Boteler (of Warrington) 

 <T knight's service ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. iii, no. 43, 109. 



Thomas Fleetwood in 1565 purchased 

 the Great Marton estate of Richard and 

 Henry Butler (of Rawcliffe) ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 27, m. 191. 



19 It was sold by Sir Thomas Butler 

 of Warrington together with Layton to 

 Browne; Thornber, Blackpool, 325. In 

 1550 the estate was sold by John Browne 

 to Thomas Fleetwood ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 14, m. 276. See also 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, no. 2 ; 

 held by Thomas Fleetwood by knight's 

 service in 1576. 



20 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 279, m. 7 d. 

 81 Fishwick, op. cit. 23. Marton is 



named in fines, recoveries, &c, among 

 the Fleetwood manors. 



22 In 1383-4 an agreement was made 

 for the marriage of Ellen daughter of 

 John Boteler of Marton with Nicholas 

 son and heir of John Croft ; Raines 

 MSS. xxxviii, 583. She had in 1378 

 been married to Edward son of Sir 

 Thomas de Lathom the younger, lands 

 in Layton being settled on them in that 

 year with remainders to John Boteler of 

 Kirkland, Thomas son of John Boteler 

 of Marton and John son of Nicholas 

 Boteler ; ibid. 109. See Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 20, 141, and the 

 account of Dalton in Lonsdale. Nicholas 

 Croft was in possession in 141 7 ; Dep. 

 Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. 14. 



23 To Stanlaw Abbey Richard son of 

 Henry de Marton, with the consent of 

 Margery his wife, gave half a selion in 

 Marton fields, lying between land of 

 William de Marton and Amery son of 

 Simon de Thornton in Kettlesholme- 

 wathwra ; Whalley Couch, ii, 450. 



Hugh son of Richard le Rous of Marton 

 had an oxgang of land tenanted by Henry 

 de Whittington at a rent of zd. He gave 

 his whole right there to the canons of 

 Cockersand about 1240, and made other 

 grants ; Cockersand Chartul. i, 15 1-3. 

 Henry de Whittington son of William 

 son of Swain appears also in Carleton. 



William le Boteler of Warrington 

 granted to Thomas son of William de 

 Bispham an oxgang of land in Marton 

 for his homage and 2J oxgangs for 6d. 

 rent ; Brockholes of Claughton D. 



Adam son of Hugh de Marton in 1283 

 claimed lands in the township against 

 Stephen and Paul sons of Henry de 

 Marton ; De Banco R. 48, m. 56. 



The above-named Amery de Thornton 

 appears more prominently at Thornton 

 in Sefton. In 1282 Amy widow of John 

 de Warton claimed dower in a messuage 

 and oxgang of land in Marton against 

 Amery de Thornton; ibid. 44, m. 32. 

 In 1344 Alice widow of Amery de Thorn- 

 ton claimed dower in a messuage, &c, in 

 Great Marton and Great Layton against 

 John de Bradkirk ; ibid. 337, m. 33. 



Joan widow of Richard de Thornton 

 in 1292 complained that William le 

 Boteler of Warrington had disseised her 

 of common of pasture in Great Marton, 

 but the jury found that the 6 acres of 



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marsh referred to were in Layton ; Assize 

 R. 408, m. 70 d. 



24 From a charter cited it appears that 

 the Shireburnes held land in Great Marton 

 in the 13th century. In 1492 Robert 

 Shireburne held there of the Earl of 

 Derby in socage ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. iii, no. 92. 



George Allen of Rossall in 1579 held 

 two messuages, &c, in Marton of William 

 Fleetwood in socage by 2od. yearly ; ibid, 

 xiv, no. 80. They were held of Sir 

 William Fleetwood in 1593 5 Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 

 197-9. 



In some cases the tenure is not stated, 

 but the following held of the king by 

 knight's service : JohnHulton of Darleys, 

 1606 ; Robert Bamber, 1607, by the 

 two-hundredth part of a knight's fee — 

 son and heir John, aged fifteen ; Anthony 

 Veale, 1609 ; William Greenbank, 1610 

 — cousin and heir Lawrence Greenbank, 

 aged fifty; John Massey, 1618, by the 

 two-hundredth part of a knight's fee ; 

 ibid. 68, 77, 163, 177 ; ii, 117. 



John Butcher died in 1623 holding 

 land in Great Marton, and leaving a son 

 and heir John, aged thirty-four ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvi, no. 6. Thomas 

 Butcher (grandson of Robert) died in 

 1632 holding a messuage and lands in 

 the same place ; his heir was his brother 

 William, aged nineteen ; ibid, xxvii, 

 no. 6. 



William Moore in 1632 held a mes- 

 suage, &c, of Sir Paul Fleetwood ; Hugh 

 his son and heir was two years old ; 

 Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 

 861. 



25 The heir of Theobald Walter held 

 three plough-lands in 1212 ; Lanes. Inq. 

 and Extents, i, 37. Sir Theobald le 

 Boteler in 1249 had three plough-lands 

 in Marton with Lynholme, worth ^8 to 

 £11 yearly; ibid. 172, 173. Again in 

 1285 it was found that Theobald le 

 Boteler had had 24 oxgangs of land in 

 Marton, each worth ioj. in the hands of 

 free farmers, with land in Lynholme 

 worth 261. %d. ; ibid. 26;. 



Edmund Boteler held in 1302; ibid. 

 316. John son of Edmund in 1324; 

 Dods. MSS. exxxi, fol. 40. The Earl of 

 Ormonde in 1346 held three plough-lands 

 in Little Marton, and paid 10s. rent (or a 

 sor goshawk) for the fishery called Marton 

 Mere ; Survey of 1346, p. 54' 



In 1355 Eleanor Countess of Ormonde 

 leased to John Boteler the hamlet of 

 Little Marton for ten years at a rent of 

 10 marks, with right of turbary there ; 

 Dods. MSS. xxxiii, fol. 426 ; liii, fol. 

 86. 



In 1445-6 Sir Thomas Stanley held the 

 three plough-lands and fishery, paying for 

 the latter 20s. a year or a sor goshawk ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, bdle. 2, 

 no. 20, fol. 8. 



26 Derby Rental at Lathom. For the 

 fishery in Marton Mere 10s. was paid to 

 the king as formerly. 



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