. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. Langton. Argent three cheverons every three ; The manor of Newton, with its members, Lowton, Kenyon, Arbury, a moiety of Golborne, and the advowson of Wigan Church, was so held ; the other manors of Newton fee —Southworth, Wigan, Ince, Hindley, Abram, Ash ton, Pem- berton, Billinge, Winstanley, Haydock, Orrell, Winwick- with-Hulme, Woolston, Poul- ton, Middleton, Houghton, and the other moiety of Gol- borne—were held by fealty ; At Newton a three- weeks court was kept for the ; A grant
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. Langton. Argent three cheverons every three ; The manor of Newton, with its members, Lowton, Kenyon, Arbury, a moiety of Golborne, and the advowson of Wigan Church, was so held ; the other manors of Newton fee —Southworth, Wigan, Ince, Hindley, Abram, Ash ton, Pem- berton, Billinge, Winstanley, Haydock, Orrell, Winwick- with-Hulme, Woolston, Poul- ton, Middleton, Houghton, and the other moiety of Gol- borne—were held by fealty ; At Newton a three- weeks court was kept for the ; A grant of free warren was obtained by Robert Banastre in 1257," and licence to crenellate his mansion by Robert de Langton in ; Manorial rights are still claimed, but no court has been held for many years. A number of grants by the Banastres and Langtons'" have been preserved. A resident family or families took the local name ; one of them in the time of Edward III was known as Richard the Receiver, from the office he held under the lord of the ; Another also had an official name—Serjeant ; the family remained here down to the end of the 17th ; Among the other Banastre. Argent a cross patonce sahle. some plough irons, and the spirit of his departed mistress, who begged him to have masses said for her in her torment ; from a Narracio de celebracione Misse by Mr. Ric. Puttes, 1372, in Trin. Coll. Oxf. MS. vij, fol. 49, kindly transcribed by the Rev. H. E. D. Blakiston, , fellow and tutor. ^^ Baines, Lanes, loc. cit. 18 Lanes, i, 286. About I141 Raadle Gemons, Earl of Chester, con- firmed a grant of the demesne tithes of Newton to the abbey of Shrewsbury, which appears to have been first made by Roger of Poitou ; Farrer, Lanes. Fife R. " Lanes, i, 366-75. For a manumission of villeins by Robert Banastre in 1256 see Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 125. A deed of sale of the barony of Newton in 1594, Thoma
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