A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



RoyaIi=ts,™ and in 1716 the estate was forfeited, 

 John Pleasington being convicted of high treason." 

 His uncle John Pleasington was a priest, residing 

 chiefly at Puddington Hall in Cheshire. In the 

 excitement created by the Oates Plot private malice 

 caused him to be denounced and arrested. It was 

 difficult to procure evidence against him, but three 

 former members of his flock who had become Pro- 

 testants swore to his having said mass and otherwise 

 exercised his office. He was thereupon condemned and 

 executed at Chester 19 July 1679/' The cause of 

 his beatification was allowed to be introduced at 

 Rome in 1886. 73 



LINGART, Lingard, or Lingarth is another estate 

 of which some particulars are on record. It belonged 

 in part to the abbey of Cockersand, 71 and gave a surname 

 to the family holding it.' 4 A branch of the Faring- 

 tons succeeded 76 ; a pedigree was recorded in 1567.' 7 



Few other references to the township occur." An 

 inclosure award was made in 1772. 79 



In 1689 the Presbyterians had a licensed meeting- 

 place in Barnacre and the Quakers one in Wedacre." 

 These do not seem to have resulted in permanent 

 buildings. In 1828, however, a meeting-house for 

 the Society of Friends was built in Bonds, near 

 Calder Bridge, and it continues to be used." 



The Roman Catholic church of St. Mary and 

 St. Michael was built in 1858 in Bonds, near Garstang 

 Bridge, to replace the older chapel in Garstang. ,J 



CATTERALL 



Catrehala, Dom. Bk. ; Catrehal, 1272; Kater- 

 halle, 1277; Caterhale, Caterale, 1292 



Catterall lies along the southern bank of the Calder 

 and the Wyre, with Rohall at the extreme west ■ it 

 has a detached portion,' in which is LanJskill, some 

 distance to the north-east. This detached part lies 

 upon the slope of Blcasdale Fell, and a height of 

 745 ft. above sea level is reached on the east ; but 

 the main portion of the township is low-lying and 

 comparatively level, though the surface rises a little 

 from west to east. The area is ■ ,741 ^ acres,' and in 

 1 90 1 the population was 317. 



The principal road, on which the village is situated, 

 is that from Preston to Garstang and the north. The 

 London and North-Western main line crosses the 

 eastern end, as does the canal from Preston to 

 Lancaster. 



The detached portion above named was in 1887 

 added to Barnacre with Bonds.' In it is the hamlet 

 known as Calder Vale, founded in 1 83 5 by Richard 

 and Jonathan Jackson, who built a cotton-mill by the 

 river and added houses for the workpeople.' 



In the main part of the township a little wheat 

 and oats are grown, but the land is mostly in pasture. 

 The soil is heavy, with clay subsoil. A century ago 

 there were large cotton-printing works at Calder 

 Bridge, but they were given up in 1830.* 



A parish council governs the township. 



Earl Tostig held CATTERALL in 

 MANORS 1 066 as part of the lordship of Preston ; it 

 was assessed as two plough-lands.* After- 

 wards it was included in the Garstang or Nether 

 Wyresdale fee held by the Lancaster family and their 

 successors. 7 William de Lancaster II gave two 

 plough-lands in Halecath and Catterall to Bernard 

 son of Eilsi, and in 1212 Richard son of Swain (de 



70 Robert Pleasington's estate calle ! 

 Dimples Farm was confiscated and sold 

 by tie Parliament in 1652 ; Index of 

 Royalists (Index Soc), 43. Ralph Long- 

 worth had purchased it in 1653 ; Col. 

 Cjm.for Comp. iv, 3 1 34.. In the fol- 

 lowing year Robert Pleasington, who is 

 described as 'uf Kirkland in Garst-iru;,' 

 desired to contract on the recusants' Act for 

 two-thirds of his sequestered estate ; ibid. 



71 Fishwick, op. cit. 2?2, where the 

 subsequent history of Dimples is thus 

 traced : 1719, Wi'liam Greenhalgh of 

 Myerscough j 1736, by will to Edward 

 Styth of Great Eccleston, who took the 

 name of Greenhalgh and d. 1769 -s. 

 James, d. 1799 -«. Edward, who sold to 

 Henry Fielding -s. Henry Barrow Fielding 

 in 1852 sold to Jonatha 1 Jackson, one of 

 the founders of the Quakers' meeting- 

 house near Dimples. It remains in his 

 family (see note 56). 



' a Challoner, Missionary Priests, no. 201. 

 He was ' indicted of high treason for 

 having taken orders in the Ch .rch of 

 Rome and remaining in this kingdom 

 contrary to the statute of 27 Elizabeth.' 

 His last speech is given. 



75 Pollen, .las of Martyrs, 382. 



" Walter de Fauconberg (about 1280) 

 granted to the abbey the service of 

 Walter de Lingart for his whole tenement 

 in Garstang, his rent being half a mark ; 

 Cockersand Chartul. i, 60. The rent of 

 61. id. was in 1 + 5 1 paid by the heir of 

 John Lingart mi in 1501 by Henry 

 Farington; ibid, iii, 1272, Sees. 



,s Walter de Lingart was living in 

 12-6; De Banco R. 15, m. 41. John 

 son of John de Lingart made complaint 

 of waste by Ellen widow of John de 



Linert in 1 306 ; ibid. 160, m. 289. 

 Probably the same Jol.n, a minor, made a 

 release to the Abbot of Cockcreand in 

 1313; Kuerden MSS. iv, G 4. William 

 de Thweng in 13^2 claimed land in 

 Garstang against John de Lingart, Isolda 

 his wife and others j De Banco R. 290, 

 m. 273 d. 



In 13+7 John de Lingart held 2 ox- 

 gangs ol'land of the lord of Nether Wyres- 

 dale (the Coucy moiety) by knight's ser- 

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

 no. 63. 



The feoffees in 1356 gave a mess'iagc, 

 *c, in Garstang to Robert son of John 

 de Lingart and Christiana his wife ; 

 Kuerden, loc. cit. Five years later the 

 same Robert granted a messuage to 

 Richard his brother and Roger de Cocker- 

 ham ; ibid. John son of Robert de 

 Lingart and Ellen his wife made a feoff- 

 ment in 14 1 6 ; ibid. Edmund son of 

 John Lingart in 142 1 became bound to 

 the Abbot of Cockersand ; ibid. In the 

 same year John son of Robert de Lingart 

 made a feoffment of his estate in Gar- 

 stang and Little Eccleston ; Brockholes D. 



76 Alice (or Cecily) wife of Henry 

 Farington was in possession in 1461 ; ibid. 

 In 1537-8 the Abbot of Cockersand made 

 a grant of the wardship of Henry son and 

 heir of Nicholas Farington deceased ; 

 Kuerden MSS. iv, W51. Thomas son 

 of Henry Farington died in or about 

 1592, bequeathing to Richard Whitting- 

 ham of Goosnargh his brother ; ibid, and 

 G4. From other deeds here preserved it 

 appears that there ensued a division be- 

 tween Whittingham and John Farington 

 of York (brother of Henry), and that 

 both portions were in 1601 sold to James 



■?20 



Anderton of Clayton. It is named in his 

 inquisition, 1630; Duchy of Lane. Inq. 

 p.m.xxvii,no. 56. The tenure isnotitated. 



Richard Whittingham of Lingart, 

 'Papist,' was a freeholder in 1600; 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 232. 



In 16c 3 complaint was made that 

 Lingart had been sequestered by the 

 Parliament as James Andcrton's, whereas 

 it really belonged to John Preston ; Cal. 

 Com. for Comp. iii, 1903. 



Richard Ackers of Claughton, as a 

 ' Papist,' registered his estate in 17175 it 

 consisted of a house called Lingart and 

 36 acres at Barnacre ; Estcourt and 

 Payne, Engl. Cath. Nonjurors, 141. 



77 Visit. (Chet. Soc), 48. 



79 John Mercer of Barnacre had hid 

 two-thirds of his estates sequestered for 

 recusancy only under the Commonwealth 

 and in 1653 desired to contract for it ; 

 Cal. Com. for Comp. v, 3186. 



r » Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Rec Soc 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 55. 



M Hist. MSS. Com. Rtp. xiv, App. iv, 

 232, 230. That of the Quakers still 

 existed in 1717; Gastreu, Notitia Can. 

 (Chet. Soc), ii, 408. 



1,1 Hewitson,0«r Country Churtkn, cil. 

 An account of the Jackson family is .-iven. 



82 Fishwick, op. cit. 121 ; Hc»it»on, 

 op. cit. 487. 



1 It is known as Higher CaUeralL 



1 1,279 acres, including 29 of inland 

 water ; Census Rtp. 1 90 1 . 



* Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 2CC97. 



4 Hewitson, Our Country Ckurckti, 530. 



4 Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1836), iv, 471. 



6 V.C.H. Una. i, 288,1. 



1 See for example Lata. Inj. anJExuna 

 (Rec. Soc Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 147-9- 



