. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. H-oLLAND. y^cwrc, Molyneux, A%urc poit-'dered 'zvith Jlciin lie a cross moliiie or, lisalion ra^itpaiitguarjavt aridity o'var all a bendlct gules. The growth of this branch of the Andertons is somewhat obscure. They do not appear to have owned any land in the township till 1600, though they resided there from the latter part of the 15th century and long farmed the ;-' Oliver Ander- ton of Anderton, who died in 1466, by violence as it is said, had a younger son Hugh, described as ' of Euxton.' He was succeeded in 1
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. H-oLLAND. y^cwrc, Molyneux, A%urc poit-'dered 'zvith Jlciin lie a cross moliiie or, lisalion ra^itpaiitguarjavt aridity o'var all a bendlct gules. The growth of this branch of the Andertons is somewhat obscure. They do not appear to have owned any land in the township till 1600, though they resided there from the latter part of the 15th century and long farmed the ;-' Oliver Ander- ton of Anderton, who died in 1466, by violence as it is said, had a younger son Hugh, described as ' of Euxton.' He was succeeded in 1516 or 1517 by a son James, who acquired lands in Bretherton and other places,"" and in 1538 claimed lands in Healey, near Chorley.' His son was another Hugh," who Grlmbald and William were defendants in a suit about a tenement in Ellel in 1301 ; Assize R. 1321, m. 5 d. 1 Charter R. 95 (30 Edw. I), m. 6, no. 2 Inq. 17 Edw. II, no. 54. The whole was valued at about ,^12 a year. The Hospitallers' land comprised an in- closed hey, containing 30 acres of waste and 30 acres of wood. la addition to his Euxton estate William held lands also in Vines Walton, Ellel and Ncwsham. The age of the heir and the remarriage of Joan, the widow, to William de ScargiU appear from Cal. Close 1323-7, p. 361. Sir Robert de Holland was said to hold three plough-lands in Euxton ; Lansdowne MS. 559, fol. 23, quoted in Baincs, Lanes, (ed. 1870), ii, 692. ^ Robert son of William de Holland of Euxton appears in an Ellel plea in 1332; De lianco R. 288, m. 379. In 1327 and 1332 Margery de Holland was a contributor to the subsidy in Euxton ; Lay Subs. R. 130, no. 5 ; ExcA. Lay Subs, (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 53. Robert de Holland was in 1335 exempted from serving on assizes, &c. ; Cal, Pat. 1334-8, p. no. Robert son of Roger le Spenser, a minor, in 1337-8 claimed a free tenement in Euxton and Ellel against Robert de Holland and others, the latter asserting that the plaintiff's
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