. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Huncoat was considered a member of the manor of Accrington.' Both the free tenancies of 1311 are traceable to Ellis de Pleasington, who in 1241 held 2 oxgangs of land in the township.' He granted one of them to Henry de Clayton, who was to pay a rent of izd. at St. Oswald's Feast.' Henry de Clayton gave the oxgang to James his son for the same service.'" The gift may have failed, for Henry son of Henry de Clayton gave to Richard de Birtwisle all his lands in ; Ellis de Pleasington als
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Huncoat was considered a member of the manor of Accrington.' Both the free tenancies of 1311 are traceable to Ellis de Pleasington, who in 1241 held 2 oxgangs of land in the township.' He granted one of them to Henry de Clayton, who was to pay a rent of izd. at St. Oswald's Feast.' Henry de Clayton gave the oxgang to James his son for the same service.'" The gift may have failed, for Henry son of Henry de Clayton gave to Richard de Birtwisle all his lands in ; Ellis de Pleasington also gave an oxgang of land to Henry de Shuttleworth, rendering the same rent of I zd. on St. Oswald's Day, and the service of the fortieth part of a knight's ; Henry son of Henry de Clayton gave part of his land to John de Shuttleworth for the rent of a pair of white ; This tenement descended in the same way as Shuttle- worth in ; The John de Clayton of i 3 11 was no doubt the mesne lord between Birtwisle and the Earl of Lincoln, for in I 3 16 William de Birtwisle obtained land in Huncoat from John de Huncoat in exchange for Bradley in Hapton," and in 1330 William gave his son Richard all his lands in Huncoat and Hapton.'* The descent can be traced only imperfectly" to Oliver Birtwisle, who died in 1509 holding three messuages, 40 acres of land, &c., in Huncoat of Richard Rishton and Thomas Grimshaw in socage. by a rent of id. yearly. Richard Birtwisle, his son and heir, was forty years of ; Richard and Agnes Birtwisle in 1527 held Huncote HjII, paying l\s. rent.''' Richard Birtwisle in 1531 gave his «on Oliver a rent of S/."' Richard was living in 15 40, when he agreed to an arbitration re- garding a claim for Hancock field by Edmund Ashton of Shuttleworth,*' but Oliver had succeeded by 1545," and in 1560 obtained a grant of ; He recorded a pedi- gree in 1567, showing that his son James, who had married
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