. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED STANDISH Hugh de Worthington appears,* but he did not hold the manor long, William de Worthington contributing to the aid of 1302 for half a fee, except the tenth part, m Worthington.* William, who appears to have had four sons or more,^ was still in posses- sion in 1320,^ and perhaps in 1332,* but his son Hugh de Worthington and John de Heaton paid in 1346-55 to the aid in respect of the half-fee in Worthington and Heaton.® The wardship of the manor and lands of Hugh de Worthington and of John his son and hei
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED STANDISH Hugh de Worthington appears,* but he did not hold the manor long, William de Worthington contributing to the aid of 1302 for half a fee, except the tenth part, m Worthington.* William, who appears to have had four sons or more,^ was still in posses- sion in 1320,^ and perhaps in 1332,* but his son Hugh de Worthington and John de Heaton paid in 1346-55 to the aid in respect of the half-fee in Worthington and Heaton.® The wardship of the manor and lands of Hugh de Worthington and of John his son and heir was. Worthington, Argent three dung-forks sable. in 1369 granted to Thomas de Worthington and Nicholas his brother/ William son of Hugh, how- ever, seems to have succeeded,^ and the manor de- scended to Hugh Worthington, who held it in the time of Edward IV by the ancient ; Pedi- grees were recorded in 1613 ^** and 1664,'^ and the sale of the manor took place between 1682 and ; The purchaser was Thomas Clayton, and the manor has descended, with the adjoining Adling- ton, to Mr. J. R. B. Clayton Dawbeny.'* Sir Richard Clayton was almost sole landowner in 1783.^^ WORTHINGTON HALL, now a farm-house, stands on the east side of the high road from Wigan to Chorley, 3-^ miles north of the former town and about 1J miles north-east of Standish Church. It is a rather lofty two-story building very much altered and renewed, the back and end walls having been scough suit at Michaelmas 1282 and his son Hugh in the following Jan. j De Banco R. 47, m. 63 d. ; 48, m. 21, ^ He was a juror at an Aughton inqui- sition in Dec. 1282 ; /ny. and Extents, i, 258. In 1288 he was found to render a pair of spurs annually for having common in the Ferrers holding in the Standish district j ibid, 272. Hugh de Worthing- ton and Dionysia his wife occur at Halsall in 1280 ; Final Cone, i, 157, and see the account of Halsall. Henry son of Henry del Lee in 1290 called Hugh de Worthingto
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