. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE was 91/. 6i^.' The water-mill was then worth I 3/. ^d. a year.' By 1322 the tenures had in some cases been changed, for there were five free tenants, each holding an oxgang of land by the ninety-sixth part of a knight's fee.' Accounts rendered in 1324 show that the net value of the manor was ^^8 4/. 6\d. ; rents came to £4 6s. li^d., Adam Wyot gave his two collars, the demesne rendered £z 6s. <)\d., the water- mill £1 8/. \od., fines for entry, 4;. ; and perquisites of the halmote, 11/. iid. ; while
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE was 91/. 6i^.' The water-mill was then worth I 3/. ^d. a year.' By 1322 the tenures had in some cases been changed, for there were five free tenants, each holding an oxgang of land by the ninety-sixth part of a knight's fee.' Accounts rendered in 1324 show that the net value of the manor was ^^8 4/. 6\d. ; rents came to £4 6s. li^d., Adam Wyot gave his two collars, the demesne rendered £z 6s. <)\d., the water- mill £1 8/. \od., fines for entry, 4;. ; and perquisites of the halmote, 11/. iid. ; while the outgoings included 13/. for two new wheels for the miU and other repairs.' In a complaint as to the possession of a piece of land called Moor Butts, at the southern end of ' Worston Greyne,' in 1566, the defendant prayed ' for an inquiry by his country, viz. by twenty-four customary tenants of the queen's majesty of the old hold.''" The hall having fallen almost entirely to decay was pulled down, and a small house built with the materials on its ; This building has the appear- ance of three cottages thrown into one, with a pro- jecting one-storied porch in front," in which are built three stones with large shields said to have come from Sawley Abbey. The first bears a lion rampant, the second is quarterly France and England, and the third bears three ; Part of the front and side wall of what appears to have been a small fore- court remain, with a narrow gateway, in the head of which the date 1577 and the initials of Richard Greenacres, the builder of the house, may still be traced. Much of the land being copyhold, as it Jtill remains, there is little to be recorded of the tenants, though some of the tenements are noticed '* in pleadings and inquisitions. 1 he Greenacres family was of long standing ; John Greenacres and John Taylor are named as the land- owners in the Subsidy Roll of 1524 and the widow of John Greenacres in 1543.
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