A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



heir of Ughtred de Bradshagh, lord of Bradshagh in 

 1253.' Between 1320 and 1330 the lords of the 

 manor were Richard son and heir of Roger de 

 Bradshagh and Joan his mother, relict of Roger.' 

 From 1330 to 1336 Richard de Bradshagh, Richard 

 de Pennington, and Adam de Pennington were the 

 principal landowners.' In 1338 in an exchange of 

 lands between the lord of the manor and Richard son 

 of William de Pennington, these names occur : 

 Etheriston, the Merlache, Stockheye, the Kattysbutts, 

 the Tunfilde, Hosforland or HofFurlong, the Demys- 

 hevid and Mauributts.* Richard de Bradshagh also 

 made a number of exchanges of land with Richard de 

 Bradshagh of Westleigh and Roger his son, in places 

 called West Croft, Clay Acres, Prestes Croft, and 

 Richard's Field.' By his first wife, Christiana, he 

 had issue Richard, Roger, and Thomas ; * by his 

 second wife, Cecily daughter and coheir of Richard 

 de Lathom of Parbold, a son Thomas, a minor in 

 1352-5.' 



In 135 I Richard de Bradshagh the elder granted 

 the moiety of the manor after his decease to Alice, 

 daughter of his son Richard de Bradshagh the 

 younger.* Before the end of 1357 Alice had become 

 the wife of Sir Richard le Mascy ' of Tatton, knt., who 

 died without male issue, and was succeeded in the 

 family estates by his younger brother, John,'" but 

 having one daughter Eliz.ibeth, this manor descended 

 to her Jure matris. She was twice married, her first 

 husband— whose name is not recorded — dying before 

 1403, in which year, describing herself as Elizabeth le 

 Mascy, daughter of Sir Richard le Mascy, knt., she 

 gave in her widowhood to feoffees her manor of 

 Pennington," which the feoffees delivered to her and 

 her second husband, Richard de Werburton, of 

 Burghes in Coggeshall, county Chester, in I4i4,"and 

 five years later granted four messuages in the vill of 

 Pennington to William le Mascy, son of Hamon le 

 Mascy of Rixton and Pernell (Petronilla) his wife, 

 daughter of Richard de Werburton, and their issue, 

 failing which to William le Mascy for life, with 

 remainder to the heirs of Pernell." 



Elizabeth Werburton was still living in 1432, 

 when she gave to her daughter Pernell a yearly rent 

 of /lo to be taken from her manor of Pennington, 

 or elsewhere in the county of Lancaster." By dis- 



pensation issued by Pope John XXIII in 141 5, 

 Pernell married her cousin William, eldest son and 

 heir of Hamon or Hamlet Mascy of Rixton, with 

 whom she was related in the fourth degree." They 

 had issue, Hamlet, who died in 1462," by whom the 

 manor appears to have been mortgaged to Roger 

 Starkey, who, describing himself as of Pennington, in 

 1467 granted his manor of Pennington to James 

 Starkey, clerk, in trust." In 1479 Roger Starkey 

 gave to Hamlet Mascy of Rixton the messuages and 

 lands here which Cecily Urmston and Margaret 

 Gnype held for a term of years." Hamlet, son of 

 Hamlet Mascy, succeeded his father in 1462 ar.d died 

 in 1502." There is no evidence that he had other 

 issue besides Margaret, the wife of John Holcroft of 

 Holcroft, and Alice, the wife of Robert Worsley of 

 Booths, esq., who predeceased his father. John 

 Starkey, who is believed to have been son and heir 

 of Roger Starkey named above," was associated with 

 Holcroft and Worsley in 1506, when they .icknow- 

 ledged that they held their lands in Pennington of 

 Sir Thomas Butler, knt., by the seventh part of a 

 knight's fee, for which they did homage the same 

 year." Notwithstanding this, John Mascy of Rixton, 

 brother and heir of Hamlet, at his death in 1513, 

 was described as holding lands here of Sir Thomas 

 Butler, knt., by the seventh part of a knight's fee 

 and y. lod. yearly rent." It is probable that John 

 Starkey acquired his estate here through his father, 

 and not by marriage with a supposed third daughter 

 of Hamlet Mascy. In a deed of 1554-5 George 

 Starkey, son and heir of John, and Sir John Holcroft, 

 son and heir of John Holcroft, esq., are described as 

 holding their lands here in coparcenary." 



By this time the reputed manor appears to have 

 lapsed, and the nominal lords had become mere free- 

 holders of the barony of Warrington. In 1523 

 Sir William Stanley of Hooton, knt., George Starkey 

 (son and heir of John Starkey), gent., Richard Hol- 

 croft, esq., and Nicholas Renacres were free tenants 

 here." In 1 548 they were Rowland Stanley, esq., 

 paying 4/. lo*/. free rent, George Starkey 3/. \d.. 

 Sir John Holcroft, knt., y. \d., and Richard Renacres 

 \d?^ In 1546 Sir Robert Worsley, knt., conveyed his 

 interest and estate to John Holcroft, esq.," and in 

 1549 Sir Thomas Butler, knt., possibly as trustee, 



1 Harl. MS. 21 12, 107. 



* Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, 13. 



' Cal.Pai.R. 1330-5, pp. 172,397, 611; 



'333-7. PP- 36'. 535. 7^~^- 



* HarL MS. 2112, 1 + 5. 



^ Ibid. The seal attached to one of 

 the charters of Roger son of Richard de 

 Bradshagh of Westleigh, dated 1350, 

 bears 2 bendlets. 



^ Gen. (New Ser.), xvii, 16. 



" Ibid, xvi, 206. 



s Land. Feet of F. (Rec Soc. xlvi), 

 130. 



' Duchy of Lane Assize R. 6, pt. 2, 

 m. 1 d. 



'» Ormerod, Hisi. of Ches. (ed. Helsby), 

 i, 441. 



" HarL MS. 2112, 145*. 



1" Ibid. They were married before 

 12 August, 1413, when a commission 

 issued to inquire touching the violent 

 entry of the lands of Richard Werburton 

 and Elizabeth his wife at Pennington by 

 certain malefactors. Towneley MS. CC. 

 (Chet. Lib.), 457. 



" HarL .MS. 21 12, foL 145*, 148. 



" Ibid. Richard Werburton died in 



1428. His will, dated 27 Dec. 1427, 

 names his wife Elizabeth and brother Wil- 

 liam. Hill. S'jc. of Lanes, and Ches. (New 

 Ser.], iii, 164. 



" Ormerod, Hist, of Ches. (ed. Helsby), 

 i, 571 n. from Lichfield Epis. Reg. 



" Hisi. Soc. (New Ser.), iii, 78-89. He 

 and his wife Joan appointed attorneys in 

 1456 to receive seisin of the manor of 

 Pennington and other lands there ; Harl. 

 MS. 21 12, 148^. 



'' Ibid. The deed also mentions his 

 possessions in the town of Pennington, 

 CO. Lane, and in Northwich, Middlewich, 

 and Bamton, co. Chester, which points to 

 his connexion with the Starkeys of North- 

 wich ; Ormerod, Hist, of Ches. (ed. Helsby), 

 ii, 161-2. 



'"HarL MS. 2112, foL 145*. 



^' Hamlet Mascy, upon making a set- 

 tlement of his estate in the year 1497, 

 having no male issue, in order to avoid 

 controversies after his death, by the advice 

 of his friends searched his evidences and 

 found that his lands and tenements in 

 Pennington were given to Richard Wer- 

 burton and Elizabeth his wife for their 



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lives, with remainder to their daughter 

 Pernell and her heirs general, ' whose heir 

 I, the said Hamonde am.' Mascy of 

 Rixton D. R. iji ; Hist. Soc, Lanes, and 

 Ches. (New Ser.), iii, 95. 



'"' Roger Starkey died about 1494, when 

 Alice, his widow, was suing John Starkey 

 for dower ; Ches. Plea R. 10 Hen. VII, 

 Dep, Keeper's Rep. xxix, App. 93. 



" Warr. Homage R. (Rec. Soc. xii, 

 pt. i), 19. 



"'' Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, 10. 



2> Dodsworth MSS. liii, 27 ; cxlii, 

 118. 



" ITarr. Ct. R. (Chet. Soc, Ixxxvii), 

 431-2. 



^ PaL of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 1 3, m. 

 142. Stanley's rent appears to have been 

 made up of \2d. for the lands which had 

 descended from the Bradshaghs of West- 

 leigh and the Harringtons, and 31. xod. 

 for the lands held here in 1513 by John 

 Mascy of Rixton. 



*> PaL of Lane Feet of F. bdle. 1 2, m. 

 284 ; Ches. Plea. R. 38 Hen. VIII ; 

 Ormerod, Hist, of Ches. (ed. Helsby), ii, 

 198. 



