. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED CROSTON their surname from the township of that name on the western side of the Douglas. Sir Robert de Dalton was in possession about 1324,1 and died in He and his son Sir John fought at Crecy in 1346.^ Sir John made himself notori- ous by the violent abduction of Margery de la Beche from her manor-house at Beaumes (Beams), near Reading, in 1347 ; he afterwards married her.** He was pardoned for this offence and apparently received into the king*s favour once more.^ Sir John died in September 1369 holdi
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED CROSTON their surname from the township of that name on the western side of the Douglas. Sir Robert de Dalton was in possession about 1324,1 and died in He and his son Sir John fought at Crecy in 1346.^ Sir John made himself notori- ous by the violent abduction of Margery de la Beche from her manor-house at Beaumes (Beams), near Reading, in 1347 ; he afterwards married her.** He was pardoned for this offence and apparently received into the king*s favour once more.^ Sir John died in September 1369 holding the manor of Bispham. Dalton of Bispham. A-z-u re crustily a lion ram- tarit gtiartiant argetift of Sir William de Ferrers and the other lords of I,ey-- landshire by the rent of 3/. 4^^. John his heir, a son by a later wife, was six years of age.^ This John, afterwards a knight,^ left two sons, of whom the elder, Richard, by Katherlne his wife, left a daughter and heir Alice. She married one William Griffith in or before 1448,^ and soon after- wards the manor appears to have been sold to the Stanleys of Lathom,^ for in 1521 Thomas Earl of Derby held various lands in Bispham by the ancient rent of ^ai, payable to the lords of Leylandshire-^^* It appears to have descended regularly with Knowsley to the present Earl of Derby.^^ John de Dalton's younger son Robert, though he failed in his claim for the manorofBispham,^^ recovered various lands there.^^ His son Richard married Elizabeth, one of the daughters and co-heirs of William above - named Amery who married Matthew son of Robert de Holland, for this Matthew and Amery hii wife made an agreement with Sir John de la Mare, perhaps about 1250, regarding disputes as to the woods of Mawdesley and Bispham ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 44^. Henry de Bispham son of Warine Banastre occurs ; Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xiv, 42. He may be the Henry, defendant in 1292 to a claim for a tenement in Bispham and Chorley brought by William son of W
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