Henry Fishwick - A History of Lancashire

Bentham (in Yorkshire), Wennington, Tatham, and Tunstall are described as four manors, where there were three churches.

Now Titeup.

Authorities differ on the exact area, but probably the above is not far from the figure.

Fishwick’s “History of St. Michael’s–on–Wyre,” Chetham Soc. , xxv. 3 (new series).

Honour of Lancaster granted to him June 30, 1267, and letters patent issued to the tenants of the honour to do their homage and be obedient to him as their lord, February 16, 1268. In 1269 a similar letter was sent to William le Boteler, and in 1270 to Henry de Lacy, Robert de Stockfort, and the Abbot of Furness.

Charters of duchy. See 31st Report of the Deputy–Keeper of the Public Records, p. 6.

Toll for swine feeding in the woods.

A fair in 1255.

Carta de Foresta: Record Office.

Rossendale Forest adjoins this parish.

Plac. de Quo War., Edw. I.: Record Office.

Duchy Chancery Rolls, chap. xxv., A 2 b.

The honour of Lancaster.

See Fishwick’s “History of Kirkham,” Chetham Soc. , xcii.

Royal Letters, Henry III., No. 185.

“Letters from Northern Register ,” p. 97.

See “Popular History of Cumberland,” p. 231.

The original rolls are in the Record Office. They have been printed by the Chetham Society, vol. cxii.

All the extracts refer to the Lancashire part of the honour, and to the years between 1295 and 1305.

Authorities differ on this point, but all agree that money in the thirteenth century was worth many times its present equivalent coin. At the very least, it requires to be multiplied by ten.

Treasury Receipts, 21a/3 Record Office; also English Hist. Review , 1890.

Lancashire is said to have enjoyed the privilege of a palatinate in the time of Roger de Poictou, but the evidence is not convincing.