Storeys of Old.

BAILRIGG.

Part of left hand edge missing I find in the 6th Henry VIII. (1515) that one Lambert Stedaghe (probably allied to Stodday) held the place (Bailrigge), and that in the 12th Charles I. one George Southworth held Balrigge. The Hinds, Lunds, Langtons, Shawes, and Brackens, subsequently appear as residing at Balerigg.

The John Southworth and the Matthew Southworth, mentioned in the will, may have been ancestors of the George Southworth, of Bailrigge, named in the Inquisitionum, circa 1515.

Bailrigg is described as a manor in old deeds, and it appears, according to the foundation of the alms-houses and the chantry, it had twelve messuages, three hundred acres of land, one hundred acres of meadow, two hundred acres of pasture, forty acres of wood, and four shillings in rents, with the appurtenances in Bailrig, Quernmoor, Hutton, Gressingham, Scotforth, Preston, Goosnargh, and Winmarley.

In the Harlcian MSS. reference is made to John Gardyner, of Lancaster.

The father of John Gardyner was most probably John Gardyner, Clerk of the Peace, Lancaster, in 1439. See Mr. W. R. Williams's* compilation of the officials of the County Palatine of Lancaster, printed for private circulation.

In the "Ancient Ministers Accounts" for Lonsdale, 1097, Bailrig is included in the list of manors with their returns.

By Indenture, dated the 12th June, 1485, the ffeoffees of John Gardyner, he being dead, stood seized of the Manor of Baylrig and lands in divers other places, to the uses of his will, and especially to found a chauntry in Lancaster Church, etc., etc. (Simpson's Lancaster, p.251).

In the "Index Villarum" which includes cities, market towns, parishes, villages and private seats in England and Wales, by Adams of the Inner Temple, 1680, Bailrig appears as a ville, inserted as Balrig.

"Balrig, Lanc., Loynesdale Hundred. Lat. 54.08, Longitude 2.31. W. R. Camps. 39, 16, 08." (A ville usually is used as a synonym of manor.)

The early lords of Scotforth, as we have seen in Cross Fleury's Journal for August, 1904 (No. 96), were Aylward, who was probably Lord of Bailrigg; Roger, his son; Adam de Bailrigg, and John, son of John de Bailrigg and Matilda . . .

PAST OCCUPANTS AND TENANTS OF BAILRIGG AND ITS LANDS.

After John Gardyner's time the manor of Bailrigg appears to have passed into the hands of one Lambert Stodaghe, who was at Bailrigg in 1515. Then the Soothworths or Southworths appear. George Southworth is described as of Bailrigg in or near this period. The Bailiffs of Lancaster seem to have had charge of the manor, and to have at times taken turns of residence there.

In the thirtieth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1588), Sir Moyle Finch, Knight, of Eastwell, Kent, and John Ridley, gentleman, held the property in a sort of trust, and about ten years later, 1598, Sir Moyle Finch caused the chantry lands to be conveyed into Chancery. Subsequently Sir Thomas Heneage, Knight, vice-Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth, and a member of Her Majesty's Privy Council, disposed of the chantry lands and all appurtiances thereunto belonging to Edward, Earl of Worcester, Henry, Earl of Southampton, and to Sir John Fortescue, Knight. These owners, or their survivors, as the various deeds indicate, also disposed of the said property to Thomas Hesketh, Esq., Attorney-General, and