Appendix.
The following documents have come to light since the volume
was in the press:—
This is the final concord made in the court of the lord
King on the morrow of All Saints in the seventh year of the
reign of King Richard [2nd November, 1195], at Westminster,
before Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, Richard, bishop of
London, Ralph of Hereford and Richard of Ely, archdeacons,
William de Warren, master Henry de Castellun, Richard Heriet,
Osbert, son of Hervey, Simon de Pateshill, and other faithful people
of the lord King then present there.
Between Roger de Boston [rectius Burton] and Horm, his
brother, plaintiffs, and Robert, son of Bernard [of Goosnargh],
tenant of 5 carucates of land with the appurtenances in Wrstincton [Wrightington] and in Dauton [Dalton, par. Wigan] and in
Iperbolt [Parbold] and in Moston, whereof there had been a
plea between them in the aforesaid court, to wit, that Robert has
remitted the whole half part of the aforesaid 5 carucates of land
with the appurtenances from himself and from his heirs to the
said Roger and Horm, brothers, and to their heirs for ever, that
is, one carucate of land with the appurtenances in Wrstincton,
that is, a half of the whole vill, and one carucate of land with the
appurtenances in Iperbolt, and half a carucate of land with the
appurtenances in Dauton. And for this demise of half the aforesaid claim of Roger and Horm, the said Roger, and Horm, have
quitclaimed the whole right and claim which they had in the
whole remaining part which remained to the said Robert from them
and from their heirs to the said Robert and his heirs for ever.
And the same Roger and Horm will warrant the whole aforesaid
half part of the land which remained to him to the aforesaid
Robert and his heirs against all the other infants of Roger, son of
Horm, father of the same Roger and Horm, brothers. (fn. 1)
Note.
This interesting Lancashire Fine of 1195 has hitherto escaped
notice. In considering it, a later Fine of 1202 must be examined
with it. (fn. 2) The vills of Dalton, Parbold, and Wrightington had
been given to Orm, son of Ailward, by Albert Grelley, senex, in
marriage with his daughter Emma, to hold by the service of one
knight. (fn. 3) From this union descended the family of Kirkby of
Kirkby Irleth, mesne tenants of these vills and of Ashton-underLyne, for some centuries under the barons of Manchester. Some
time between the date of this grant and 1195 a sub-infeudation was
made of this knight's fee by the Kirkbys in favour apparently of
a certain Richard de Lancaster, who was not improbably a younger
brother of the De Kirkby who enfeoffed him thereof. In 1195
the inheritance, it appears, had descended to Robert, son of
Bernard, thegn of Goosnargh, and to the two sons of Roger, son
of Orm (whom I propose to identify as the then late tenant of
Ashton-under-Lyne, and ancestor of the notable Lancashire
family of Assheton), (fn. 4) in right of the respective wives of Robert
and Roger. These two sons respectively bore the names of
Roger de Burton, (fn. 5) of Burton in Kendal, and Orm de Ashton
of Ashton-under-Lyne. In 1202, Margaret, relict of Richard
de Lancaster, for a consideration of 3 marks, released her dower
right in these vills to the three heirs, Robert, Orm, and Roger. (fn. 6)
Apparently some time between 1202 and 1242 another infeudation
of these vills was made by the Grelleys in favour of the Lathoms
of Lathom, for in 1242–3 Robert de Lathum held one knight's
fee in Wrightington and Parbold of Thomas Grelley. (fn. 7)
Inspeximus, dated 17 Nov., 15 Ric. II. [1391], of a fine levied
in the court of the lord the King, on the octave of the Purification of the B.V.M., 9 Edw. III. [9th Feb., 1335], before William
de Herle, John de Stonore, William de Shareshull, John Inge,
John de Shardelowe, John de Treuaignon, and Richard de
Aldburgh, justices, and afterwards recorded before the said
justices there in three weeks from Easter, in the said year,
between Robert de Langeton and Margaret, his wife, plaintiffs,
by Roger de Faryngton put in the place of Margaret, and Henry,
son of Adam de Mauncestre, chaplain, deforciant of the third
part of the manor of Langeton, co. Leycestre, of one messuage
and one carucate of land in Hendon, co. Middlesex, and of one
messuage and 38½ acres of land in Walton in le Dale, and of
the manor of Hyndlegh and the moiety of the manor of
Goldeburn, co. Lanc. [See Lancs. Fines, Part II, p. 194.]
Exemplified at the request of John de Langeton, son and heir
of Robert de Langeton, son and heir of the said Robert de
Langeton and Margaret. (Lancs. MSS., vol. xxxviii, p. 179.)
At Lancaster, on Saturday [&c., see p. 48, no. 131], before
John de Markham and John Woderoue, justices.
Between Ralph de Langeton and Joan, his wife, plaintiffs, by
Henry de Walton put in Joan's place, and John de Blakeburne
of Gerstan, deforciant of a messuage, 60 acres of land, 3 acres of
meadow, and 3 acres of pasture in Walton in le Dale, which
John de Sothworth of Walton in le Dale holds for the term of
his life.
[Ralph acknowledged the tenements] to be the right of John
de Blakeburn, for which he granted that after the death of John de
Sothworth they should remain to Ralph and Joan for their lives,
to hold of the chief lords of the fee; remainder to Nicholas, son
of Ralph, and Joan and his heirs male; remainder to Thomas,
brother of Nicholas, and his heirs male; remainder to Geoffrey,
brother of Thomas, and his heirs male; remainder to the right
heirs of Ralph for ever. [Towneley's MS., E.E., nos. 575, 630
(Addit. MSS., no. 32,106, f. 102, 113b).]