. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BoTELER. 01 indented a%ure. a chief Stanlit. Argent on a bend azure three stags1 heads caboshed or. of Amounderness, and as an appurtenance of their lordship of Weeton was acquired by the The Earl of Derby remains the chief landowner to the present time. For a long time part of Wesham was held by the Grcenhalgh family," but was sold to the Masons in the time of One or two other holders MOlf'BRECK was from an early time in the possession of the Botelers of Ireland.,s Of them it was held,


. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BoTELER. 01 indented a%ure. a chief Stanlit. Argent on a bend azure three stags1 heads caboshed or. of Amounderness, and as an appurtenance of their lordship of Weeton was acquired by the The Earl of Derby remains the chief landowner to the present time. For a long time part of Wesham was held by the Grcenhalgh family," but was sold to the Masons in the time of One or two other holders MOlf'BRECK was from an early time in the possession of the Botelers of Ireland.,s Of them it was held, like Wesham, by the Heaton family, the immediate tenant in 1286 being Adam de Bradkirk, who rendered \s. yearly,36 which continued to be the service due from the manor. The manor was settled on William de Heaton and Anilla his wife in 132S-30, the free tenants being Nicholas del Marsh, John de Bradkirk, Thomas de Greenhalgh and John son of Roger de About 150 years later the manor was held by one William Westby,28 per- haps by descent from Nicholas del Marsh, and in 1479 he settled it upon his son John and Mabel daughter of Richard Boteler. They had issue two daughters—Beatrice, who married Lawrence Pres- ton, and Alice—but John by a second marriage had. Wistbt of Mow- breck. Argent on a ehn'eron anure three einjuejoils pierced of the field. 16 Fairer, op. cit. 439. The homage •nd service of Alexander de Wesham was included. l^ Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 48. Sabina widow of Roger de Heaton had dower from Wesham in 1203-4 ; Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 181. 16 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 231. The value was 161. a year. 19 Duchy of Lane. Inq. x, no. 17. 80 In 1286 William de Hoton (Heaton) was mesne tenant between Theobald le Boteler and Adam de Bradkirk ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 265. Two plough-lands in Wesham and Mowbreck were included in the Earl of Ormond's estate in 1346 ; Survey (Chet. Soc), 52-4. The two plough-lands may have been composed thus : Wesham,


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