Re: De Huddlestons
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De Huddlestons
Roy Huddleston 11/05/07
A second manor in Barton probably also arose from a grant made by William de Lancaster, for in 1286—7 Richard de Huddleston was said to hold the 3 carucates of this fee jointly with 'John Grymball.' (fn. 52) Thomas son (fn. 53) and heir of John de Huddleston was returned as joint lord in 1316, (fn. 54) but was still a minor in 1330. (fn. 55) John died before 1338, when Parnel his widow held one-third of tenements in Barforth and Cleasby in dower, (fn. 56) and this manor then passed to the lord of those places.
In 1306 a dispute between the lords of this manor and Adam de Huddleston, kt., lord of Billington, touching the share of the wastes belonging to each manor, which had been commenced in 1301, was terminated in the presence of the Earl of Lincoln at Altofts. (fn. 16) This was followed in 1310 by the concession to the monks of Whalley of common of pasture and estovers which they and their predecessors had enjoyed time out of mind in the waste lying between the boundary of Billington and Roulegh Clough in Harwood. (fn. 17)
From: 'Townships: Great Harwood', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911), pp. 337-344. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53129&strquery=huddlestonhttp://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53129&strquery=huddleston. Date accessed: 06 November 2007.
Of these three manors, in addition to which there was also a rectory manor, the most important, though not the first in rank, was that of WEST HALL, which was granted to a younger branch of the Hudleston or Huddleston family, seated there for nearly three centuries. John de Hudleston in 1301 obtained a grant of free warren in his demesne lands of Whittington and Holme. (fn. 51) In the same year he settled the manors of Whittington and Clayton-le-Dale upon a younger son Robert, (fn. 52) who is not heard of again, with remainder to another son Adam, who succeeded, (fn. 53) and was followed by his son John. (fn. 54) The descent is obscure, but Richard Hudleston died in 1415 holding the manor of West Hall and the advowson of Whittington Church of Sir Richard Hudleston of Millom in Cumberland by knight's service, Sir Richard in turn holding of the king as Duke of Lancaster by knight's service and doing suit to county and wapentake. (fn. 55)
Ralph Hudleston, the son and heir of Richard, was twenty-six years of age. In 1428 he took service in the French wars in the retinue of the Earl of Salisbury (fn. 56) ; he died ten years later. (fn. 57) The lordship descended (fn. 58) to Miles Hudleston, who died in July 1577 holding the manor of Whittington alias West Hall, with the advowson of the church, of the queen as of her duchy by the hundredth part of a knight's fee. (fn. 59) His heir, an infant daughter Anne, afterwards (1589) married Thomas son of Christopher Carus of Halton, (fn. 60) and in 1598 they made a settlement of the manor and advowson. (fn. 61) West Hall descended like Halton for more than a century, (fn. 62) and, as above stated, the other manor or manors became joined with it by purchase from John North.
From: 'The parish of Whittington', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8 (1914), pp. 241-252. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53310&strquery=huddlestonhttp://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53310&strquery=huddleston. Date accessed: 06 November 2007.
The estate in Whittington in Lonsdale was one carucate of land, forming only a portion of the township. Adam de Copeland gave his manor of Whittington and two-thirds of the advowson of the church to Sir John de Huddleston (Inquisition ad quod damnum, 28 Edward I., No. 140). Sir Adam de Huddleston acquired a moiety of Billington in 1288, from Adam de Billington, and the other moiety, and Clayton-le-Dale from Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, at whose death in 1311, he held Clayton and Billington for 10s. yearly service, and by military service. Sir Adam died s.p. in 1322, when Richard, son of his brother, Sir John de Huddleston, was found heir of Billington (Escaeta, 15 Edward II., No. 3).
From: 'Lancashire Fines: 21-30 Edward I', Final Concords for Lancashire, Part 1: 1189-1307 (1899), pp. 176-200. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=52540&strquery=huddlestonhttp://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=52540&strquery=huddleston. Date accessed: 06 November 2007.