. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED BLACKBURN Fiton was succeeded before 1271 by his son Edmund, who gave the manor to his kinsman Richard Fiton before-mentioned for a yearly rent of 30/. and died in 1296, when the interest of the Fitons of Bollin in this manor practically ; Richard Fiton, kt., the grantee was living in 1283, but died before 1288, having probably survived his only son William, whose widow Margaret then held the third part of the manor in dower. She afterwards married Alexander Hurel. In or before 1288 a partiti
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED BLACKBURN Fiton was succeeded before 1271 by his son Edmund, who gave the manor to his kinsman Richard Fiton before-mentioned for a yearly rent of 30/. and died in 1296, when the interest of the Fitons of Bollin in this manor practically ; Richard Fiton, kt., the grantee was living in 1283, but died before 1288, having probably survived his only son William, whose widow Margaret then held the third part of the manor in dower. She afterwards married Alexander Hurel. In or before 1288 a partition of the manor was made between the three daughters and co-heirs of Richard Fiton and their respective husbands, namely, William de Hesketh and Matilda, Edmund de Leye and Amabel, Roger Nowell and ; In 1289 Hesketh became possessed of two-thirds of the manor, having acquired from Edmund de Leye and Amabel their portion of the Fiton inheritance.'* In 1310 for j^2 3 he purchased from John son of Ed- mund Fiton the lordship of the manor, including his own service of 20/. per annum and other 10/. due yearly from Adam son of Roger ; In 1306 a dispute between the lords of this manor and Adam de Huddleston, kt., lord of Billington, touching the share of the wastes belonging to each manor, which had been commenced in 1301, was terminated in the presence of the Earl of Lincoln at Altofts.'^ This was followed in 1310 by the con- cession to the monks of Whalley of common of pasture and estovers which they and their predecessors had enjoyed time out of mind in the waste lying between the boundary of Billington and Roulegh Clough in ; In 1313 John de Hesketh and Adam Nowell were complaining of the waste made in the manor by their respective parents, who held their tenements by the courtesy of England, in felling timber,'* and in 1324 an inquest was held by the king's order to certify to the King's Bench what waste Margaret relict of William Fiton had
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