. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED WINWICK Southworth family,' and their lordship is the only one appearing in the later records, apart from that of the barons of Makerfield. Two junior branches of the dominant family were seated at Middleton and at HOUGHTON PEEL. They seem to have descended from Matthew de Southworth,' a brother of Gilbert de Southworth, living in the early part of the reign of Edward III. Their possessions were ac- quired by the Southworths of Samlesbury in the i6th ; Middleton appears to have been retained wi
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED WINWICK Southworth family,' and their lordship is the only one appearing in the later records, apart from that of the barons of Makerfield. Two junior branches of the dominant family were seated at Middleton and at HOUGHTON PEEL. They seem to have descended from Matthew de Southworth,' a brother of Gilbert de Southworth, living in the early part of the reign of Edward III. Their possessions were ac- quired by the Southworths of Samlesbury in the i6th ; Middleton appears to have been retained with Southworth, and to have de- scended like it to the present time. Houghton '" was sold Richard son of Hulcock (or Hugh) de HoughtOQ leased to Gilbert de South- worth half an oxgang in the vill of Mid- dleton and Houghton, together with six butts of land between Leveng Bridge and Houghton Riddings j'Towneley MS. HH, no. 1933) i?^^- ^1^ years later he sold it outright; ibid. no. 1790. A suit of July 1354 shows the sub- divisions. It concerned the partition of 4J acres approved j John son of William de Middleton had received 1 acre ; John son of John de Middleton, 1 acre ; William son of John de Middleton, ij acres ; Richard son of John de Middleton, J acre; and Richard Post of Middleton, ^ acre. Richard de Feamhead complained that he had been deprived of his common of pas- ture ; Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 3, m. 4 d. William son of Robert Ormsson was one of the defendants. An Orm de Middleton occurs in the 12th century ; Inq. and Extents, i, 73. The name seems to have continued, as Robert son of Orm made a grant of land in Houghton in 1309, attested by Simon son of Orm ; Towneley MS. 1798. 7 Some of the grants have been recited in the previous note. William de Win- wick, son of Robert formerly rector of Winwick, granted to Gilbert de South- worth, his chief lord, all his land in Mid- dleton and Houghton; ibid, no. 1699. GcoiFrey son of Adam Hcnne of Hough- ton granted
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