. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. ; Hence in 1288 Henry de Lea and Henry de Charnoclc each held a moiety of William de Ferrers by rents of 5^. and 2s. respectively.' Henry de Lea in 1284 obtained a royal charter for a market every Friday at his manor of Charnoclc, and an annual fair on the eve, day and morrow of St. Nicholas ; also free warren in his de- mesne lands.' The market and fair do not seem to have prospered, but the grant of free warren led to the forma- tion of a park,' and the dis- tinguishing name of the Park or Park Hall' for that s
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. ; Hence in 1288 Henry de Lea and Henry de Charnoclc each held a moiety of William de Ferrers by rents of 5^. and 2s. respectively.' Henry de Lea in 1284 obtained a royal charter for a market every Friday at his manor of Charnoclc, and an annual fair on the eve, day and morrow of St. Nicholas ; also free warren in his de- mesne lands.' The market and fair do not seem to have prospered, but the grant of free warren led to the forma- tion of a park,' and the dis- tinguishing name of the Park or Park Hall' for that share of the manor. Like the other Lea manors, it descended to the Hoghtons of Hoghton 1 ower," and in 1606 was acquired by Richard Hoghton, an illegitimate son of a former Sir Richard, who had probably settled him there at first.' Richard Hoghton of Park Hall died in 1622 holding the moiety of the manor of Charnock Richard, with various lands, water-mill, dovecote, &c., of Richard Shireburne and Edward Rigby, by the ancient rent of 5/. ; also other lands in Welch Whittle, Heskin, Chorley, Euxton and Lancaster. Richard's son Alexander had died before his father, leaving a daughter Anne, twenty-eight years of age, and wife of Thomas Bradley ; but Park Hall descended to Richard's younger son William.' This branch of the family adhered to the Roman Catholic faith," and William Hoghton zealously espoused the king's cause on the outbreak of the Civil War. He was made a lieutenant-colonel, but fell at the first battle of Newbury in 1643.'° The estates were at once sequestered by the Parliament, and in 1652 John, William's son and heir, petitioned for an allowance from his inheritance, as he was 'in no way Charnock. -Urgent on a bend sable three crosslets of the Hoghton. Sablt three bars argent. Dalton. A%ure a lion rampant guardant •within an orle of crosslets argent. guilty of delinquency, but was a recusant.' " The estates were, however, sold under the t
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