. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE was followed by Richard de Altham, his son.' Richard's name occurs in deeds of the early years of the I ;th centur\-.' He was succeeded by a son Hugh, who made a grant in Clayton to Henr\ son of Henrj' the Clerk,' and died before 1242, when his heir was recorded to hold the eighth part of a knight's fee in Altham of the heirs of the Earl of Lincoln ; it belonged to the dower of the ; The unnamed heir was a son Richard, whi^ occurs in 1256-8," and was succeeded in turn by his sons Hug
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE was followed by Richard de Altham, his son.' Richard's name occurs in deeds of the early years of the I ;th centur\-.' He was succeeded by a son Hugh, who made a grant in Clayton to Henr\ son of Henrj' the Clerk,' and died before 1242, when his heir was recorded to hold the eighth part of a knight's fee in Altham of the heirs of the Earl of Lincoln ; it belonged to the dower of the ; The unnamed heir was a son Richard, whi^ occurs in 1256-8," and was succeeded in turn by his sons Hugh and William. The latter was in possession from 1275 to 1299 " ; in his later years he made an effort to recover the advowson of Altham Chapel from the Abbot of Whalley, who had obtained it as appurtenant to the rectory. His successor Simon de Altham" was stated to hold half a knight's fee in Altham and its members in 1302," while in 1311 he held of the Earl of Lincoln one plough-land in Altham and Clayton by the service of the eighth of a fee, rendering ji. ^d. annually and doing suit to the court of Clitheroe.'^ John de Altham appears in 1327," and was recorded from 1349 to 1361 as holding the eighth part of a knight's fee, or one plough-land, in ; He died in or before ;^ John's heir was probably a daughter Joan, who by her marriage with Richard son of John Banastre of Walton-le-Dale began the line of Banastre of Altham. Richard and Joan made a settlement of the manor in 1383 with remainder to their son Lawrence.'^ was living in 1400," but Lawrence had succeeded by I+ 19" and in 1445-6 held the eighth part of a knight's fee in ; He was found to iiavc died in possession of the manor in 145 I, holding it of the king as duke by knight's service and a rent of 3/. ^d. His heir was a grandson Richard, son of his son Thomas Banastre, aged ten ; Some mis- take must have been made, for by a late
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