AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



their son Thomas. 36 This portion was sold to 

 Tunstall, 37 then to Starkie. 38 The other eighth part 

 seems to have been held about 1555-68 by Thomas 

 Bewley. 39 



In 1555 an agreement was made as to the 

 partition of the manor between Sir Marmaduke 

 Tunstall, Thomas Bewley, William Butler and 

 William Mordaunt and Anne (Agnes) his wife. 40 



The fourth part of the manor held by Robert 

 Dalton of Thurnham in 1578 resulted from the 

 purchase of the Tunstall and Bewley shares 41 ; the 

 tenure was not known. 42 This part was purchased 

 by the above-named Paul Fleetwood in 1618. 43 



The three-fourths of the manor was in 1729 sold 

 by Edward Fleetwood of Rossall to the executors of 

 Edmund Hornby of Poulton, and to Robert Loxham, 

 vicar of Poulton, in moieties, and in 1797 the 

 former moiety was sold to James Bourne by Geoffrey 

 Hornby the younger. 44 



In 1 8 1 3 the manor was held by Daniel Elletson, 

 James Bourne and Robert Loxham. 45 The second of 

 these seems to have become the chief owner, and 

 Hackinsall Hall descended to his brother Peter, who 

 died in 1846, 46 and was succeeded by his son 

 Sir James Bourne, bart. 47 Dying in 1882, he was 

 followed by his son Sir James Dyson Bourne, who 

 survived his father only a year, and the inheritance 

 then passed to his sister Harriet Anne Dyson, who 

 married Mr. James William Seaburne May of 

 Liverpool. He took in 1897 the additional sur- 

 name of Bourne, and Mrs. Bourne-May continues to 

 own the estate, which is said to include two-thirds of 

 the manor. 



PART OF 

 LANCASTER 



HACKINSJLL HALL, now used as a farm-house, 

 is a large irregular two-story building of 17th-cen- 

 tury date with mullioned and transomed windows, 

 but it retains few or none of its original architectural 

 features, having undergone a very thorough restoration 

 about the year 1873. The walls are entirely of 

 rough-cast, the roofs covered with blue slates, and the 

 mullioned windows throughout are modern. The 

 restoration, however, probably reproduces more or 

 less the original characteristics of the building, though 

 little of the actual structure but the masonry of the 

 walls remains. Built into a low gable on the south 

 side is a stone inscribed : — • 



GODS PROVI- 

 DENCE 1656 



the initials being those of Richard and Anne Fleet- 

 wood, and the date probably that of the erection of 

 the house. 



' The famous boggart of Hackinsall Hall had the 

 appearance of a huge horse, which was very industrious 

 if treated with kindness ; thus we hear that every 

 night it was indulged with a fire, before which it 

 was frequently seen reclining, and when deprived of 

 this indulgence by neglect it expressed its anger by 

 fearful outcries.' 48 



The Cockersand Abbey estate, chiefly in the 

 LOWER END of Pilling, was in 1346 considered a 

 third part of the vill. 49 After the Dissolution it seems 

 to have been granted out in parcels. 60 Roger Dalton 



36 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, no. 18; 

 Mabel died before her husband. Thomas 

 Preston was twenty-two years old. The 

 manor was said to be held of the king as 

 duke by the serjeanty of rendering to the 

 king two crossbows or 41. 



37 Sir Marmaduke Tunstall (of Thur- 

 land) in 1543 purchased the manor of 

 Hackinsall from Wilfrid Preston and 

 Joan his wite ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 12, m. 69. He died in 1557 hold- 

 ing an eighth part of the manor of 

 Hackinsall and Preesall, with land, &c, 

 of the king and queen as of their duchy, 

 by knight's service ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m. x, no. 5. His son Francis and Alice 

 his wife in 1563 sold to Geoffrey Starkie ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 25, m. 138. 



38 Geoffrey Starkie has already been 

 mentioned as interested in the manor 

 through his wife Barbara. 



Thomas Starkie, as nephew and heir 

 of Geoffrey (viz. son of Richard Starkie 

 of Stretton), claimed the manor in 1568 

 against Richard Hothersall and Edmund 

 Clerkson, who alleged a conveyance from 

 Geoffrey. Hothersall had married Anne 

 daughter of Geoffrey, whose wife Bridget 

 (apparently a second wife) survived him ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Plead. Eliz. lxxvii, S 16. 

 Barbara's right went to Robert Dalton, 

 and two years later William Mordaunt 

 and Agnes his wife claiming by Charles 

 Booth, her father, sought lands, Sec, in 

 Hackinsall against Richard Hothersall, 

 Anne his wife, Bridget Starkie and Robert 

 Dalton ; ibid, xciii, M 16 ; ci, M 10. 



In 1568 an eighth part of the manor 

 of Hackinsall, with lands in Preesall, a 

 fishery in the Wyre, &c, was held by 

 Thomas Bewley, who in conjunction with 

 W« ion and heir William conveyed to 



Richard Hothersall, John Smith and John 

 Aglaby ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 30, m. 81. Of these three Hothersall 

 appears to have conveyed to Dalton j John 

 Aglaby sold in 1582 to Henry Thompson 

 (ibid. bdle. 44, m. 129) ; and John Smith 

 (of Stalmine Grange) died in 1598 hold- 

 ing two messuages, &c, in Hackinsall 

 and Preesall, tenure not recorded ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvii, no. 47. 



10 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 197, m. 10. 



41 From preceding notes it may be 

 gathered that Richard Hothersall acquired 

 the Tunstall-Starkie eighth and also that 

 of Bewley. See also Dods. MSS. liii, 

 fol. 102^. In 1569 Robert and Thomas 

 Dalton purchased the manor of Hackin 

 sail, with dovecote, lands, &c, from 

 Richard Hothersall and Anne his wife 5 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 31, m. 

 28. 



William Butler in 1571 complained 

 that in the conveyance by Hothersall to 

 Dalton his fourth part of the manor, the 

 thirty years' lease of which had expired, 

 had been wrongly included ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Plead. Eliz. xc, B38. 



42 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiv, no. 

 1 ; the heir was Robert Dalton son of 

 Thomas (brother of Robert), who had 

 left a widow Anne. 



43 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 94, 

 no. 17. 



There are a number of references to 

 the Hackinsall estate of the Fleetwood 

 family (1628-57) in Exch. Dep. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), and some of the 

 depositions are printed in the introduction 

 to that volume, pp. x-xxiv. 



In 1658 Richard Fleetwood held the 

 manor of Preesall and a moiety of the 

 manor of Hackinsall, with lands, free 



259 



warren, &c. j Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 162, m. 164. In 1695 the manor 

 of Hackinsall with Preesall is named 

 among the Fleetwood properties ; ibid, 

 bdle. 235, m. 75. 



44 Abstract of title in possession of W. 

 Farrer. 



46 Pal. of Lane. Fines, 53 Geo. Ill, 

 m. 9 j Richard Dickson was plaintiff. 



46 Foster, Lanes. Pedigrees. There are 

 family monuments in Stalmine Church. 



47 Sometime M.P. for the borough of 

 Evesham. 



« Thornber, Blackpool, 333. 



49 See a former note. Rentals from 

 1451 to 1537 are printed in the Chartul. 

 iii, 1268-71. 



60 Part of the Cockersand lands was 

 leased to Roger Dalton for 21 years in 

 1579, and a lease of the same to other 

 persons was given in 1600 ; Pat. 21 Eliz. 

 pt. xi ; 42 Eliz. pt. xvi. Robert Dalton 

 claimed the messuage, &c, called Tunges 

 in 1 601 against Richard Hoghton ;Ducatus 

 Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 436, 457. In 

 1583 lands in Preesall and Hackinsall, 

 late of Cockersand Abbey, called the Lower 

 End of Pilling, were given to Theophilus 

 and Robert Adams, to be held of the 

 manor of East Greenwich by 55. rent ; 

 Pat. 25 Eliz. pt. iv. Another grant was 

 made to Edward Badby and others in 



1622-3 i P at * zo J a8 * *» P fc * i' lu Land 

 called Tongues, lately of Cockersand 

 Abbey, was in 1588 granted to Edward 

 Wymcock ; Pat. 30 Eliz. pt. vii. 



JameB Fisher died at Preesall in 1640 

 holding a messuage, &c, there of the 

 king as of his manor of East Greenwich. 

 His heir was his son John, aged thirty- 

 three ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxx, 

 no. 16. 



