AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



allotted to the former," and descended in the main 

 line until 1 8 19, when it was given to a younger 

 branch,' 2 and so descended to the trustees of the 

 Earl of Burlington, who, with the Hon. Charles 

 Compton Cavendish, in 1 843 23 sold it to the thirteenth 

 Earl of Derby, whose successor is now lord of Inskip 

 and Great Eccleston. Manor courts are held." 



A manor of Inskip was claimed by the Cliftons of 

 Westby." This appears to have been the tenement 

 oftheWhittingham family" 5 which about 1308 passed 

 to the Shireburnes of Stonyhurst." A family sur- 



ST. MICHAEL- 

 ON-WYRE 



named Inskip '" and a few other landowners occur in 

 the records.' 9 



Cockersand Abbey 30 and the Knights Hospitallers " 

 had lands in the township. 



SOWERBT was in 1066 assessed as one plough- 

 land, and, like Inskip, formed part of Earl Tostig's 

 fee. 33 Afterwards Great Sowerby was part of the 

 Wyresdale lordship, 33 and the chief owners appear to 

 have been the Banastre 34 and Hoghton 85 families. 

 The Earls of Derby have long been lords of the 

 manor, 36 and courts are held." 



Fishwick, op. cit. 30 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 59, m. 210. Cross Moor 

 belonged to the lords of Inskip in 1580 ; 

 Exch. Dep. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 2. 



11 William Lord Cavendish had Inskip, 

 Sec, in 16 14; Pat. 12 Jas. I, pt. xxyi. 



B See the account of Brindle. Inskip 

 was among the manors of the Right Hon. 

 William Cavendish in 1747 ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 567, m. 6. 



19 Fishwick, op. cit. 1 9. 



81 Information of Mr. Windham E. 

 Hale. 



86 In 1 5 14 it was found that William 

 de Clifton about 1300 had had the 

 homage and service of Richard Shireburne 

 for his manor of Inskip as parcel of the 

 manors of Clifton and Westby, and that 

 this had descended to Cuthbert Clifton, 

 who died in 15x2 ; Duchy of Lane Inq. 

 p.m. iii, no. 3. Similar statements are 

 made later ; ibid, ix, no. 6. 



36 Richard son of Warine de Whitting- 

 ham gave 2 acres in Inskip to Cocker- 

 sand Abbey ; Chartul. (Chet. Soc), i, 184. 

 In 1246 Geoffrey de Whittingham ob- 

 tained an oxgang of land, tec, from Richard 

 de Whittingham and Hawise his wife ; 

 Final Cone, i, 99. Richard de Whitting- 

 ham gave an oxgang of land in Inskip to 

 Roger de Wharles with his daughter 

 Alice in exchange for an oxgang in 

 Elswick, and Roger and Alice afterwards 

 released it to John lord of Whittingham, 

 son of Richard ; Towneley MS. DD, 

 no. 1906. John son of Richard de 

 Whittingham in 1279 claimed land 

 against Walter de Carleton and William 

 his son ; De Banco R. 31, m. 32. John 

 son of John de Whittingham in 1305 

 claimed a messuage, 2 oxgangs of land, 

 &c, in Inskip against his father and his 

 brother William, with whom was joined 

 Adam de Lever ; Assize R. 420, m. 6. 

 There are two charters relating to it in 

 Kuerden fol. MS. (Chet. Lib.), 330 (68), 

 331 (9«). 



87 The Shireburne abstract book at Lea- 

 gram affords the following notes : John 

 de Whittingham to John his son, all his 

 lands in Sowerby (s.d.). John de Whit- 

 tingham of Sowerby to John son of 

 Nicholas de Sowerby, all lands in Great 

 Sowerby which he had from Sir Henry 

 de Kighley (s.d.). William son of John 

 de Whittingham to Robert de Shireburne, 

 homages and services in Elswick, Inskip 

 and Sowerby (Inskip, 1308). 



* n '354 John the Chapman of Preston 

 claimed against Alice widow of Robert 

 de Shireburne two messuages, 100 acres 

 of land, &c, as nephew and heir of John 

 ion of Nicholas de Sowerby, being son of 

 John's sister Margery. The land had 

 been granted to Roger de Sowerby, but 

 his son and heir (John) had died without 

 issue. Alice alleged that Roger was a 

 bastard, so that his lands escheated to 

 her, but the jury found for the claimant ; 



Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 3, m. v d. 

 Margery widow of Nicholas de Sowerby 

 occurs in 1292 ; As ize R. 408, m. 36. 



Sir Adam de Howick in 1358 pur- 

 chased messuages, tec, in Inskip from 

 John the Chapman of Preston, William 

 le Grigour and Alice his wife ; Final 

 Cone, ii, 159. 



Inskip is named among the Shireburne 

 estates in the later inquisitions, but the 

 tenure is not recorded. It can only be 

 gathered from the Clifton inquisitions 

 cited already. 



88 Adam de Inskip to his son Thomas 

 land on Moorbreck (perhaps in Upper 

 Rawcliffe), for which 3d. rent was due to 

 Lytham Priory; Kuerden fol. MS. 188. 



Richard de Inskip granted to Richard 

 le Boteler the waste pertaining to I ox- 

 gang of land in Inskip, also part of the 

 windmill ; Kuerden MSS. iv, S 4. 



About 1226 William de Carleton 

 released to Dieulacres Abbey his right in 

 Richard son of Richard son of Alan de 

 Inskip ; Dieulacres Chartul. (Wm. Salt 

 Soc), 352. 



29 An agreement was made in 127 1-2 

 between Richard son of Geoffrey de 

 Chipping and Gilbert son of Paulinus de 

 Wedacre and Godith his wife as to land, 

 tec, in Inskip and the twelfth part of the 

 mill; Anct. D. (P.R.O.), C 1912. 



Adam de Catterall in 1397 held a 

 messuage, tec, of the duke in socage ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 66. 



James Anderton of Clayton and 

 Dorothy his wife had an estate here in 

 1 602 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 64, 

 m. 233. In the inquisition he is said to 

 have had zos. rent from Inskip ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvii, no. 56. 



30 Chartul. i, 184. 



31 Plac. deQuo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 375. 



32 V.C.H. Lanes, i, 288a. There is 

 nothing to show whether this refers to 

 Great and Little Sowerby or to one 

 portion only. 



33 Ingram de Gynea held Sowerby in 

 1324 ; Dods. MSS. exxxi, fol. 39k 



84 The Banastre of Bretherton estate 

 was probably derived from the Singletons. 

 In 1346—8 John Trussell and Petronilla 

 his wife were claiming her dower in 

 various messuages and lands in Sowerby 

 against Robert de Haldeleghs and his son 

 John; De Banco R. 347, m. 165; 

 354, m. 300. 



In 1 5 21 the Banastre estate was held 

 by Thomas Radcliffe of Winmarleigh and 

 Thomas Earl of Derby ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. v, no. 3 (and later), 68. The 

 tenures in Sowerby are not recorded 

 separately from the rest of the Balderston 

 estate. 



In 1563 Edward Earl of Derby acquired 

 land in Great and Little Sowerby and in 

 Myerscough from John Osbaldeston and 

 Jane his wife ; Pal. of Lane Feet of F. 

 bdle. 2;, m. 104. 



In 1662 a rent of 161. %i. for the 



28l 



manor of Sowerby was due to Moore of 

 Bankhall, Kirkdale ; Pat. 14 Chas. II. 



35 John the Chapman of Preston in 

 1356 granted to Sir Adam de Hoghton 

 all his messuages and lands in the hamlet 

 of Great Sowerby in the vill of Inskip ; 

 Add. MS. 32106, no. 3. From a pleading 

 above cited it appears that the grantor 

 was heir of a John de Sowerby. Maud 

 Chapman, widow of John, was living 

 sixty years later, releasing her dower 

 right in the vill of Sowerby to Sir Richard 

 de Hoghton in 1417 ; ibid. no. 670. 

 Sir Richard de Hoghton in 1387 demised 

 his lands, &c, in Great Sowerby to 

 William de Hornby the younger for life ; 

 ibid. no. 64 (2), 



Sir Adam de Hoghton in 1358 com- 

 plained that Sir Nicholas Boteler had 

 seized certain cattle of his in the vill of 

 Inskip in a place called the Highfield in 

 Great Sowerby. Sir Nicholas replied 

 that his tenant John Chapman, who 

 should pay 6s. %d. a year, was in arrears ; 

 but the jury found that the place of 

 seizure was outside Boteler's fee, and he 

 was fined 40^. ; Assize R. 438, m. 9. 



Sir Richard Hoghton in 141 5 was 

 found to have held of the heir of Adam 

 de Winkley ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. 

 Soc), i, 146. In later Hoghton inquisi- 

 tions the tenure is recorded as of the 

 king by knight's service ; e.g. Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. v, no. 61. A fishery in 

 Sowerby mere is named in 15x9; ibid, 

 no. 66. 



36 The rental of the Earl of Derby in 

 1522 (in possession of the Earl of 

 Lathom) Bhows that from Great and 

 Little Sowerby and Myerscough 

 £27 141. 2d. was received from Sir 

 Henry Kighley, who farmed the estate, 

 and that the following free rents were 

 paid : To the heirs of James Boteler, 341. ; 

 Richard Hoghton, i$s. j the chaplain of 

 St. Michael-on-Wyre, 141. j Hugh 

 Shireburne, 62s. lod. ; and the heirs of 

 John Lawrence, 335. ^d. For the 

 Balderston lands 46$. %d. was paid, of 

 which one half went back to the Earl 

 of Derby and the other to Radcliffe and 

 Osbaldeston. Thomas first Earl of 

 Derby had purchased lands belonging to 

 Roger Birewath and — Hyde producing 

 3 31. Sd. a year. 



It does not appear that the Earls of 

 Derby, though they must have owned a 

 large part of the land, claimed any manor 

 at that time, but in 1665 the manors of 

 Great and Little Sowerby were held by 

 Charlotte Dowager Countess of Derby and 

 in 1678 by William Earl of Derby, 

 while in 1708 they were among the 

 Derby estates in the hands of John Earl 

 of Anglesea and Henrietta Maria his 

 wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdles. 175, 

 m. 143 ; 201, m. 37 ; 260, m. 53 ; 

 267, m. 75. 



37 Information of Mr. Windham E. 

 Hale. 



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