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Carleton to Richard Ie Boteler about 1260." 

 Thomas de Bartail died in 1349 holding a third 

 part of Great Eccleston. 183 Of the Boteler tenure 

 there is little to record. 12 " 



The Bartail manor, or part of the manor, was 

 in 1592 held by Thomas Ecclcston of Henry Butler 



Eccleston held of William de Lancaster by knight's 

 service. 6 In 1347 it was found that in William de 

 Coucy's lordship of Wyresdale Sir Richard de Kighley 

 held one plough-land by knight's service, and the 

 heir of William de Bartail or Bartle held another 

 plough-land similarly. 7 At other times Kighley and 

 Bartail were said to 

 hold two-thirds and 

 one-third respectively. 

 In the absence of 

 evidence it is impos- 

 sible to trace the lord- 

 ships clearly. The 

 Kighley manor seems 

 to represent that of 

 Adam de Eccleston in 

 1242, 8 and to have 

 been joined in practice 

 with Inskip s ; it de- 

 scended to the Caven- 

 dish family. 10 The Earl 

 of Derby is now said 

 to be lord of the 

 manor." The Bartail 

 manor was held of 

 Boteler of Rawcliffe, 

 whose title came, in 

 part at least, from a 

 grant of the homage of 

 William son of Uctred 

 de Eccleston made by Walter son of Sir William de of Rawcliffe in socage," and descended to his son 



Great Eccleston : Raikes Road 



6 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 154. Adam de 

 Eccleston was non-suited in a claim 

 against William de Lancaster in 1246 3 

 Assize R. 404, m. 5. 



Adam de Eccleston seems to have been 

 living in 1258 5 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, 

 i, 212. His successors were perhaps the 

 Roger and his son Richard of whom the 

 Kighleys were later stated to have held. 



7 Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), 

 no. 63. 



s In 1285 Alice widow of Richard le 

 Boteler acknowledged the right of Henry 

 de Kighley and Ellen his wife to the 

 manor of Inskip and two-thirds of the 

 manor of Great Eccleston j these were to 

 descend to the heirs of Ellen, with rever- 

 sion in default to the heirs of Alice ; 

 Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 163-4. Alice was daughter of William 

 de Carleton ; see Out Rawcliffe. Henry 

 de Kighley and Ellen in 1296 purchased 

 the third part of an oxgang of land in 

 Great Eccleston from Roger de Kirkby 

 and Margaret his wife; ibid. 181. 

 Another half oxgang was acquired by 

 Richard de Kighley in 1326, the vendors 

 being John de Thurstinton and Maud his 

 wife j ibid, ii, 64. 



Richard de Kighley in 1323 made an 

 exchange of land in Roscaldcarrfield with 

 Richard son of Robert de Eccleston (see 

 below) ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 87 (fol. 25 5). 



A moiety of the manor (ij oxgangs 

 excepted) was settled by the Kighleys in 

 1330 ; Final Cone, ii, 193. 



Gilbert de Kighley in 1357 granted 

 his share of the stream and fishery of the 

 Wyre— from Crossford to Skepulford — to 

 Robert de Hornby, Margery his wife, 

 and William their son ; Dods. MSS. cxlix, 

 fol. 95. 



9 Sir Henry Kighley in 1526 held the 

 manor of Inskip with lands in Eccleston 



of the heir of Richard Eccleston ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. vi, no. 44. Henry 

 Kighley in 1567 was said to have held 

 of the heir of Richard son of Roger de 

 Eccleston ; ibid, xi, no. 10. 



10 See the account of Inskip. Lord 

 Chesham was recently reputed lord of the 

 manor, but see p. 281 below. 



11 Information of Mr. Windham E. Hale. 



" Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 86 ; the tene- 

 ment is described as 5 oxgangs of land 

 and the third part of an oxgang. 



The tenant is elsewhere called William 

 son of Uctred son of Swain, so that he 

 may have been a relative of William de 

 Carleton. He gave land in the field 

 called Gaseflosland to Cockersand Abbey ; 

 Chartul. (Chet. Soc), i, 190. To him 

 Emma daughter of Roger de Eccleston 

 sold a toft in Eccleston ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, 

 fol. 59. 



William son of Uctred de Eccleston 

 about 1 240 granted his part of the fishery 

 to his lord William de Lancaster, who 

 gave it to Richard de Kirkby 3 Dods. 

 MSS. cxlix, fol. 87, 87*. 



William seems to have been succeeded 

 by Robert de Eccleston, who occurs from 

 1249 t-° J 297 ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, 

 i, 172, 297. 



William son of Robert de Eccleston 

 gave his brother Richard, about 1304, all 

 his right in 2 oxgangs of land in Great 

 Eccleston ; Add. MS. 32106, fol. 254A. 



Robert son of Richard de Eccleston in 

 I 3 19 granted all his lands in the vill to 

 his son Richard ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 53. 

 This Richard son of Robert has been 

 named above (note 8). 



William de Bartail summoned John de 

 Bildeswath in 1330 to hold to a covenant 

 respecting the third part of the manor of 

 Great Eccleston ; De Banco R. 283, 

 m. 231 d. He in 133 1 secured the 

 third part of the third part of the same 



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manor from Thomas de Eyvill and Mar- 

 gery his wife ; Final Cone, ii, 79. The 

 said William soon afterwards purchased 

 half an oxgang of land there $ ibid. 90. 

 The Coucy inquest already cited shows 

 that William de Bartail was dead in 1 346. 



12ft He held of the king (through escheat 

 after the death of William de Coucy) by 

 knight's service. There were 2^ oxgangs 

 of land, worth 2s. ; a fishery (part), 4.1. rent 

 from a free tenant, also half an oxgang of 

 land held of Sir Richard de Kighley by 

 the rent of a pair of gloves. John son 

 of John Dautry was next of kin and heir, 

 and six years old j Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill, 

 pt. ii (1st nos.), no. 112. 



By 1 3 5 3 William de Tarleton and Mar- 

 garet his wife (in her right) had succeeded 

 to this third part of the manor ; Final 

 Cone, ii, 137. In 1361 they claimed 

 lands, &c, in Great Eccleston against 

 Gilbert de Kighley and others, but did 

 not prosecute ; Assize R. 441, m. 1 d. 

 An agreement had probably been made ; 

 Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 58A. 



12 b Richard son of Robert del Hall of 

 Eccleston complained in 1 346 that Nicholas 

 Boteler had taken a horse of his in the 

 shortbutts at Westmeadowend. Nicholas 

 said that he took it for rent due, the 

 tenement being part of 5^ oxgangs of 

 land which he held of the king by paying 

 I2<^. yearly and 35. 4^. to a scutage of 

 40J. ; De Banco R. 346, m. 22 d. In 

 1354 an agreement as to a fishery in the 

 Wyre was made between Sir Richard de 

 Kighley, Gilbert his son and William de 

 Tarleton on one side and Sir Nicholas 

 Boteler on the other ; Dods, MSS. liii, 

 fol. 97^. The manor of Great Eccleston 

 is named among the estates of Nicholas 

 Butler in 1555, but the tenure is not re- 

 corded ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. x, no. 4. 



13 Ibid, xvi, no. 38. Nothing is known 

 of any connexion of this Eccleston family 



