. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE seneschal.^ This descended with Clayton for some time,- but at length was perhaps sold or surrendered and granted out to others, becoming the origin of several estates occurring in the records. Philip de Penwortham made settlements of messuages and lands in 1333 ^ ; part of these appears to have been given to John de Ellisley in 1376,^ and in the 17th century ' Ellislev lands' were owned by Alexander RIgby of ^ In 1542-3 ^he following contributed to the subsidy for their lands : Chris- tophe
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE seneschal.^ This descended with Clayton for some time,- but at length was perhaps sold or surrendered and granted out to others, becoming the origin of several estates occurring in the records. Philip de Penwortham made settlements of messuages and lands in 1333 ^ ; part of these appears to have been given to John de Ellisley in 1376,^ and in the 17th century ' Ellislev lands' were owned by Alexander RIgby of ^ In 1542-3 ^he following contributed to the subsidy for their lands : Chris- topher Charnley, Robert Aughton and William Werden, clerk.® In 1564 John Fleetwood and William Forshaw are named in the same way.^ Ploket,^ Bower,^ Forshaw,^'^ Hesketh/^ Norris/'. Penwortham Priory then Btanding on this site as a 'humble edifice,' three aides of which wtre still entire and inclosed by a moat. The fourth or north side, which he conjectured had contained the chapel, had been re- built within the recollection of people then alive. There was a quadrangle about 40 ft. square, but the structure had been bo modified by the Fleetwoods that it was impossible to trace from it the disposition of the original priory buildings. ' Lanes. Inq. and Extents^ i, 33. The Clayton family does not occur again at Penwortham. 2 Ibid. 149 (1242), 315 (1302). ' Final Cone* ii, 90, 91. Two sepa- rate estates were settled on Philip's son Nicholas, with remainders tn daughters Agnes, Katherine, Joan, Margaret and Alice. Penwortham as a surname is found much earlier ; it may have been used by some of the Bussel family ; Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 180. See also ibid. 323 ; Final Cone, i, 189. William son of Master William de Preston in. 13 10 claimed two messuages and lands in Penwortham against William the Harper, in right of his mother Alice, daughter of Adam son of Walter de Penwortham 5 De Banc. R. 18:;, m. 326. ' Richard de Certeden (as a trustee) in 1365 granted to Ellen daughter of Philip de
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