. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED POULTON-LE- FYLDE This family retained it for over 300 years,47 frequently residing there,48 and then it passed by marriage to the Rev. J. Benison, who married Anne daughter and co-heir of John After- wards it was sold to Fleetwood and later to Horrocks of ROSS ALL after the Conquest does not seem to have been accounted a manor. It became a pasture ground from which the lords of the honour derived a profit of about £5 a In 1216 King John at the request of the Earl
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED POULTON-LE- FYLDE This family retained it for over 300 years,47 frequently residing there,48 and then it passed by marriage to the Rev. J. Benison, who married Anne daughter and co-heir of John After- wards it was sold to Fleetwood and later to Horrocks of ROSS ALL after the Conquest does not seem to have been accounted a manor. It became a pasture ground from which the lords of the honour derived a profit of about £5 a In 1216 King John at the request of the Earl of Chester bestowed it on the abbey of Dieulacres in Staffordshire,52 and twelve years later Henry III confirmed the The monks obtained surrenders of rights from most or all of the previous landowners there,64 and received also a number of gifts in other parts of Thornton and in In 1291 the goods of the abbot in Rossall were taxed at £61 1 or. a year, but after the Scottish invasion of 1322 at ^16 13/. s^d. In 1498 the abbot was summoned to prove his right to wreck of the sea at After the Dissolu- tion the Rossall estate remained in the Crown for some years,58 but was in 1553 sold to Thomas Fleetwood, who was to hold it by the twentieth part of a knight's A year later he obtained a further grant of monastic lands in Marton, Bispham and Layton, together with the advowson of Poulton He died in 1576 holding Rossall Grange, with wide lands in the parishes of Poulton and Bispham and elsewhere ; his heir was his son Edmund, aged Edmund Fleetwood, who recorded a pedigree in 1613,63 died in 1622 holding Rossall Grange, with Rither- ham and other lands in Thornton, and the manors of Norbreck and Little Bispham of the king by the twentieth part of a knight's fee, and various other His son Paul, afterwards^ knight,04 was forty-six years old. Sir Paul died about 1657, in- volved in His eldest son
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