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Catterall), Beatrice daughter of Robert and Michael 

 de Athelaxton or Ellaston held the same by knight's 

 service. 8 Bernard was lord of Goosnargh, and the 

 descent of that manor shows that of Catterall, the 

 three daughters of his son Robert sharing the inherit- 

 ance. Of the two portions of Catterall named, each 

 seems to have been considered one plough-land ; 

 Halecath probably included Howath, Stirzacre and 

 Landskill, Catterall in its wider meaning thus ex- 

 tending over the southern half of Barnacre with 

 Bonds. 9 



Richard son of Swain, who married Isolda or Iseult, 

 one of the daughters of Robert de Goosnargh, appears 

 to have had Catterall proper assigned to him in right 

 of his wife, and he and his descendants assumed the 

 local surname. Richard died about 1220, and between 

 1222 and 1226 it was found that his son Richard was 

 of the king's gift and in ward to Henry de Whitting- 

 ton. 10 He died about 1243 holding land in Catterall 

 of William de Lancaster, and leaving a son Ralph, 

 twelve years of age. 11 Ralph de Catterall occurs in 

 various ways down to 1305 12 ; his eldest son John 13 

 had a son John who was living in 1346 but appears 



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to have died without issue. 133 In virtue of a 

 settlement made in 1287 Ralph was succeeded by 

 another son Alan, 14 who obtained the manor of 

 Little Mitton with Loretta 

 his wife, daughter of Richard 

 de Pontchardon, and died in 

 1322 holding a capital mes- 

 suage in Catterall, with lands 

 in demesne and service, of John 

 son of John de Rigmaiden 

 by the eighteenth part of a 

 knight's fee and paying 3./. 

 yearly for castle ward. Richard 

 his eldest son was thirteen 

 years of age. 15 



Richard CatteralPs son 

 Adam 16 died in 1397 hold- 

 ing a third part of the manor of Catterall of Thomas 

 de Rigmaiden by knight's service and paying 3^. for 

 castle ward. 17 His son and heir Richard, then fifteen 

 years of age, 18 proved his age in 1404. 19 The descent 

 appears to be clear and uneventful from this time 20 

 until the death of Thomas Catterall in 1579, when 



Catterall. 

 three mascles or. 



Azure 



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

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 3 ; also the account 

 of Goosnargh. 



In 1242 Richard de Catterall, Hugh de 

 Mitton and Henry de Longford held of 

 William de Lancaster III by knight's 

 service ; ibid, i, 1 54. 



At the partition of the Lancaster 

 inheritance in 1281 the following were 

 lords of Catterall — Adam de Hoghton, 

 Hugh de Mitton and Ralph de Catterall ; 

 Cal. Close, 1279-88, pp. 105-6. Eustace 

 de Cottesbech in 1293 obtained a messuage 

 and two plough-lands in Catterall from 

 John de Knyttecote of Leicester ; Final 

 Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 176. 

 The meaning of this fine is unknown ; 

 ' plough-lands ' may be used in a sense 

 other than that of the ancient assessment. 

 Hugh de Mitton in 1295 did not prosecute 

 his claim against Eustace de Cottesbech, 

 Ralph de Catterall, John de Rigmaiden, 

 John de Knightcote and Christiana his 

 wife, Thomas de Singleton and John de 

 Fetherby; Assize R. 1306, m. i6d. 

 Hugh de Catterall — apparently identical 

 with Hugh de Mitton — claimed the manor 

 of Catterall in 1306, Master John de 

 Leicester and Christiana his wife being 

 concerned ; De Banco R. 161, m. 145. 



9 William son of Alan de Tarnacre 

 about 1220 released to Michael de 

 Athelaxton and Avice his wife all that he 

 and his predecessors had in the third part 

 of a plough-land in Halecath, which he 

 had claimed in the court of Dame Hele- 

 wise de Stuteville at Garstang ; Dods. 

 MSS. liii, fol. 9jA. Richard son of John 

 Perpont perhaps fifty years later released 

 to Henry le Boteler son of Sir Richard 

 all right in lands in Catterall, Rowall and 

 'Aleke' ; ibid. fol. 91. 



10 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 134. 



11 Ibid. 159-60; his Catterall lands 

 were worth 30s. lod. a year in demesne 

 and in service. He also held land in 

 Goosnargh, Threlfall, Chipping, Preston 

 and Wrightington. He was living in 

 1242, but dead in 1244, when the king 

 granted the wardship and marriage of his 

 heir to William de Lancaster for 40 

 marks; ibid. 154, 160. 



After Ralph had come of age two 

 further iaquisitions were made in 1257-8 ; 

 by one it was found that Richard had 



held 5 J — corrected to 5 J — oxgangs of 

 land and one-third part in Catterall by 

 knight's service, where twenty-four 

 plough-lands made a fee ; also land in 

 Howath of the Hospitallers; ibid. 210-12. 

 The service due was the thirty-sixth part 

 of a knight's fee. 



In 1246 Alice widow of Richard de 

 Catterall was in the king's gift and 

 marriageable ; Assize R. 404, m. 22. 



11 Henry son of William de Catterall in 

 1292 complained of loss of common of 

 pasture caused by approvements by the 

 three chief lords of the vill, Henry son of 

 Richard le Boteler, Hugh son of Hugh de 

 Catterall and Ralph son of Richard de 

 Catterall; Assize R. 408, m. 61. 



13 John de Catterall is mentioned in 

 1302; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 318. 

 In 1323 Robert de Grotton and Agnes 

 his wife, she being widow of John son 

 and heir of Ralph de Catterall, claimed 

 dower in three plough-lands in Catterall, 

 Goosnargh and Wrightington ; De Banco 

 R. 248, m. 229. Agnes was one of the 

 co-heirs of Towneley of Towneley. An 

 earlier dower claim had been made (in 

 1 3 16) against Alan de Catterall respecting 

 the manor of Catterall, and against Adam 

 de Catterall respecting 4 oxgangs of land 

 there ; ibid. 216, m. I9d. 



lte V.C.H. Lanes, vi, 458. 



14 In 1287 Ralph granted to Alan de 

 Catterall and his issue a messuage and the 

 third part of two plough-lands in Catterall, 

 with remainders to Adam and Paulin de 

 Catterall ; Final Cone, ii, 124-5 i Towneley 

 MS. DD, no. 8. 



In 1305 he granted to Alan his son his 

 lands in Wrightington except the portion 

 already given to another son Adam ; 

 W. Farrer's D. 



John de Hudleston granted land in 

 Arnolby in Millom to Alan son of Ralph 

 de Catterall for life ; Dods. MSS. xci, 

 fol. 159. 



15 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, ii, 140-2. 

 Lora the widow and Richard the son 

 of Alan de Catterall were plaintiffs in 

 1334 ; Coram Rege R. 297, m. 3 d. A 

 fine already quoted indicates some dispute 

 as to the inheritance, for in 1347 Richard 

 son and heir of Alan arranged with John 

 de Catterall, ' cousin and heir ' of the 

 Ralph of 1287 ; Final Cone, ii, 125. 



321 



Katherine widow of John son of Richard 

 de Catterall the elder and William son 

 of John occur in 1421 ; ibid, iii, 87, 123. 



The writ of diem cl. extr. after the 

 death of Richard de Catterall was issued 

 in 1381 ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, 

 App. 353. 



16 The descent is thus stated in a 

 pleading of 151 1 : Richard -s. Adam 

 — s. Richard -s. Richard -3. Ralph (plain- 

 tiff) ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. no, m. 2, 3. 

 A charter was adduced by which Richard 

 de Catterall gave a messuage, &c, in 

 Catterall to Adam his son and his issue. 



Adam son of Richard de Catterall in 

 1392 granted land called the Slyched to 

 John Boteler of Kirkland and Alice his 

 wife ; Dods. MSS. lxii, fol. 90. 



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

 The other lands, &c, were in Little 

 Mitton, Goosnargh, Wrightington and 

 Inskip. Isabel mother of Adam was 

 living. Her name seems to identify the 

 Richard de Catterall who sold a moiety 

 of the manor of * Cundeshalgh ' in 1380 

 to Alan de Catterall ; Final Cone, iii, 9, 42. 

 This manor may have been in Goosnargh. 



18 Lanes. Inq. (Chet. Soc), i, 67 ; the 

 wardship and marriage were granted to 

 Sir Ralph de Ipre. See also Pal. of 

 Lane. Chan. Misc. bdle. I, file 12. 



19 Towneley MS. DD, no. 1468. 

 Nicholas de Singleton was then guardian 

 of the heir. Thomas de Hesketh stated 

 that Richard was born in Easter week 

 1382, and baptized at Garstang Church 

 by Richard de Preston, the vicar, Richard 

 de Winkley and Cecily the Webster 

 being his godparents. 



20 Richard Catterall the elder made 

 a feoffment of his manor of Catterall, &c, 

 in 1432 ; Add. MS. 32104, no. 501, 503 

 (fol. 116). He names his son William 

 in a deed of 1457 ; ibid. no. 511. To 

 Roger, another son, he gave 200 oaks in 

 Mitton woods in 1460 ; ibid. no. 515. 

 In 1467 Ellen widow of Richard claimed 

 dower against his son Richard Catterall ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Writs Proton. 7 Edw. IV. 



Robert (cousin and heir of Robert) 

 Shuttleworth released lands in Little 

 Mitton to Richard Catterall in 1468 ; 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 30. A John 

 Catterall the elder of Selby had lands in 

 Goosnargh and elsewhere in Lancashire 



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