. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Held' which stood on the high close to the south-eastern boundary of the township. If'lTTON was a member of the pre MJSOR Conquest manor of Billington and was probably included in the feoffment made by Henr}- de Lacy to Hugh son of Leofwin of sundry manors including ' half Billington ' to be held by the service of half a knight's fee. In 1242-3 it doubtless formed part of the fee of half a knight which Adam de Billington, great-nephew of Hugh son of Leofwin, held in Billington with the members.*
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Held' which stood on the high close to the south-eastern boundary of the township. If'lTTON was a member of the pre MJSOR Conquest manor of Billington and was probably included in the feoffment made by Henr}- de Lacy to Hugh son of Leofwin of sundry manors including ' half Billington ' to be held by the service of half a knight's fee. In 1242-3 it doubtless formed part of the fee of half a knight which Adam de Billington, great-nephew of Hugh son of Leofwin, held in Billington with the members.* Some forty years later Avice lady of Billington daughter and heir of Adam enfeoffed Roger her son of all her land and demesnein the town of Witton with^oxgangs of land to hold by a yearly rent of 1212'. at the feast of St. Giles' ; but the lordship descended at her death before 1288 to her eldest son Adam de Billing- ton. Before Easter 1288 Adam de Billington gave the manor to Geofirey de Chadderton, who answered in 1302, at the collection of the aid for marrying the king's eldest daughter, for the eighth part of a knight's fee which he held of the Earl of Lincoln in Witton.* At the death of the earl in i 3 11 Richard son of Geoffrey de Chadderton was returned as holding a plough-land here by the service of the eighth part of a knight and is. rent at Midsummer ; but in 1323 his brother William had succeeded and in December paid a fine for respite of his suit at the baronial court of Clitheroe, doubtless in respect of this manor.' de Chadderton died 10 1333, Geoffrey his son being then but a few months old. For twenty ) cars until Michaelmas 1353 Geoffrey was the warJ of Richard de Fiton and Margaret his wife.'' In 1330 as the heir of William de Chadderton he was returned as holding of Henr)' Earl of Lancaster in demesne and service a plough-land in Witton where eight plough- lands make a knight's fee.' He died cirly in 1357, leaving an only daughter Margery as his
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