Alice Bordrigg on 16th February, 1734, married Oliver North, whose son and heir Miles North inherited his mother's third share.

Ann Bordrigg died unmarried and bequeathed her share to the said Miles North, her nephew.

Ellen Bordrigg married John Smith of Arkholme on 5 June, 1740, and he sold his wife's third share to the said Miles North in 1796. Thus Miles North became the sole owner and the manor devolved on his descendants, of whom Brigadier-General B. N. North, C.B., C.V.O., of Newton Hall, is the present representative.

NEWTON WITH DOCKER.

The last third of the manors of Whittington was that now known as Newton with Docker, and appears to have belonged to a native family which had accepted the Norman king. Ravenkil son of Raganald is the first of this family to be named, as he attested the charter of Roger of Poitou to the monks of Lancaster in 1094; he was also a holder of lands in Woodplumpton. His son Roger gave land in Linacre to the Hospital of Jerusalem and was the father of Richard who died in 1201.1

This Richard son of Roger married Margaret daughter and co-heir of Thurstan Banastre and was the founder of Lytham Priory. Margaret is named in her husband's charter of 1-5 Richard 1 [1189-94]. Richard had five daughters and was fined £100 for marrying his eldest daughter, Matilda, without the King's licence. This fine is accounted for in the Pipe Roll of 1179-80. His children

were:

(i) Matilda, married to Sir Robert de Stockport, who died in 1205 leaving a son and heir, Robert de Stockport, whose inquisition post mortem is dated 27 March, 1249, who also left a son and heir, Robert de Stockport of full age,

1 Farrer, Lancs. Pipe Rolls, 44.

2 Ibid. 346, 348.

who had livery of his lands by writ dated 4 May, 1248, having given 33s. 4d. for his relief. He died in 1292, leaving a daughter and heiress, Joan, who married Sir Nicholas de Eton.

(ii) Quinilda, was married twice, first to Jordan de Thornhill and secondly to Roger Gernet of Halton. She, however, died without issue in 1252, when an inquisition post mortem, held on 13 May, found that her heirs were Robert de Stockport and Sir Ralph de Betham, greatnephew and nephew respectively, and that she held in chief of the heirs of Sir William de Lindesey 5 bovates of land in Whittington by the service of 4s. 5d. In June, 1252, her heirs paid 40s. and had livery of her lands.

(iii) Margaret, married in 1206 to Hugh de Morton, died s.p.

(iv) Avice, married in 1201 to William de Millum; both died s.p. before 1235.

(v) Amuria, married before 1206, to Thomas de Bethum, on whom an inquisition post mortem was held on 17 April, 1249, which found Sir Ralph de Bethum to be his son and heir. In 1252 this Sir Ralph was found to be one of the heirs of his aunt the Lady Quinilda. He died 8 March, 1254, and his daughter Joan, who was seven and a half years old, was found to be his heir by inquisition post mortem held on 8 June, 1254, when it was stated that he held 7 bovates of land in Whittington of Walter de Lindesey by the service of 6s. 81d. Joan, however, died shortly afterwards and her uncle Robert, brother to Sir Ralph, was found heir and had livery of his lands on 5 March, 1257. He was living in 1283 and was dead in 1297, when his heirs rendered 8s. 8d. for the lands in Botle. He had a son and heir Thomas de Betham, who appears in an inquisition a. q. d. of the year 1300 regarding the proposed gift of the church of Whittington to the Prior of Cartmel. This Thomas was knight of the shire for Westmorland in 30 Edw. I and in 2, 4, 5, and 7 Edw. II.

The following fields are those named in the Cockersand Chartulary as lying in LATHBOTE:

A. Beautifer.

B. Great Beautifer.

C. Gatelands.

D. Bramfields.

The following are named in Thomas
2. Beckside.

1. Low Bleaze.

E. Scalebank.
F. Guilda.

G. Borrons.
H. Butcher Fallows.
Brabin's composition in 1649:
3. New Close and Cyersmoor.

x x x x Show the boundary of the manor of Newton with Docker.

Thomas was succeeded by his brother Sir Ralph de Betham, who is named in the extent of the lands of the duke of Lancaster made 20 May, 1346,1 and in the minister's account of the same in 1348.2

From the above it will be seen that the heirs to this manor were Robert de Stockport and Sir Ralph de Betham in the year 1252. Thomas de Betham does not appear by his Inq. p.m. in 1249 to have held any land here; but his son Sir Ralph de Betham is returned in his Inq. p.m. on 8 June, 1254, as holding 7 bovates, which may be regarded as the nominal carucate generally mentioned in the extents of these lands as a holding in Whittington.

If this is so it would appear that in the division of the lady Quinilda's estate Robert de Stockport had taken other lands in south Lancashire for his portion and left the Whittington land to Sir Ralph de Betham.

Now the Lady Quinilda and her sisters held the manor of Aughton in the hundred of West Derby, and in the year 1235 there is a fine by which they sold the advowson of the church at Aughton to Blethin de Aughton and his son Madoc. Later, in 1258 and 1259, we find Madoc de Aughton bringing law suits against William Sturnall and Walter de Lindesey regarding land in Whittington; from which the conclusion may be drawn that the manor of Newton with Docker had been sold or given to this Madoc by the heirs of the Lady Quinilda. Madoc, however, sold it by fine on 3 November, 1259,4 to Walter de Lindesey, who was the chief lord of the fee; he having now got this manor into his own hands appears to have enfeoffed one of the Morthings, who were military tenants under him in south-west Cumberland.

This appears in the extent of 1346 (quoted above) in which, under the head of Whittington, we read : Ado1 Lancs. Inq. and Extents (Record Soc.), iii. 91, 92, 111, 112.

2 Ibid. iii, 178, 179.

3 Lancs. Feet of Fines (Record Soc.), i. 63.

4 Ibid. i. 131.

marus Darcy renders for the said carucate of land in Whittington as above 3s. 4d. at the four terms and suit of county and wapentake and puture. William de Morthing holds a carucate of land and John de Hotelston a carucate in Witinton, which are held by knight's service as above and suit of county and wapentake."1 We know that Huddleston held the Westhall manor and Aymar Darcy had received the escheated manor of Lathebote from the king, hence William de Morthing must, at this period, have been in possession of the third manor, viz: Newton with Docker.

The next record (in point of time) which appears, is that contained in the inquisition post mortem on Thomas Tunstall, chivaler, of Thurland, held at Lancaster on 25 January, 1416, which states that among other possessions he was seised of the manor of Newton and Hoburthornes and held it of John, duke of Bedford, in socage and by a rent of one pound of pepper a year, which is worth beyond reprises IOOS. The said Thomas Tunstall died on Tuesday before the feast of St. Martin the Bishop last past [5 November 1415]. And that William Tunstall son of the said Thomas is his next heir and aged 24 and more.' Hoburthornes," properly Hubberthorne, is a messuage (sometimes called a manor) in the township of Warton.

"2

Apparently the Tunstalls of Thurland held this manor, as in 18 Elizabeth, on Monday in the fourth week in Lent [12 March 1576] a fine was levied at Lancaster between Francis Tunstall, esq., plaintiff and John Warrener and Katherine, his wife, deforciants of the manor of Newton with the appurtenances and 20 messuages, six cottages, a watermill, 26 gardens, 26 orchards, 500 acres of land, 300 acres of meadow, 500 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood, 300 acres of furze heath, 20 acres of turbary and ten shillings of rent in Newton in Lonsdale, Docker and

1 Lancs. Inq. and Extents (Record Soc.), iii. 152.

2 Towneley, Abstracts of Lancs. Inq. (Chetham Soc), i. 115.