Richard Lathom, "Of Parbold & Ollerton"

Richard Lathom (22), son and heir of Thomas (19), was eight. months old when his father died

Richard is mentioned in his grandmother's will as follows:

During her long widowhood, Elizabeth the wife of Richard 1563-1602, occupied Allerton Hall. And by her Will and Codicil, both executed in July, 1624, gave her second son, Edward, the occupation and profit of “this my hall in Allerton," and the houses and lands for three years after her death for the better discharging of her debts and to keep her other sons, Richard and John, “with dyet." and until her grandson, Richard (of Parbold, son of Thomas who died in 1623), then an infant of about two years old, the heir of Parbold and Allerton, "came of age".

Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allerton_Hall

It is thought that Richard fought alongside his uncles in the Royalist Army during the English Civil War.

Richard survived the war but his Estate was "forfeited in the name of treason" by Cromwell's parliament in 1652.

"The commissioners" (of parliament who had confiscated the estate) sold it in 1654 to a John Sumpner of Midhurst, Sussex. for £2,700. Notwithstanding that the Lathoms, father, mother, and children, now dispossessed, were frequently convicted of recusancy and suffered the penalties accordingly, they contrived to hang on to both Parbold and Allerton a little longer. Indeed it was not until 1670 that the Sumpners managed to eject the Lathoms, and only then by increasing the amount of the original purchase price.

His uncle Edward's family were living at Allerton Hall at first, but the house went to Richard as per his grandmother's will probably around 1643. Whether Richard ever took occupation of Allerton Hall or whether Edward stayed on, we will never know. Either way the Hall was lost to the Sumpner's in 1670.

Richard was buried at Eccleston on the 31st October, 1667. He had died of “a terrible dropsy ". William Blundell of Crosby writing one of his annual mortuary letters, dated 13th September, 1668, to his friend Laurence Ireland of Lydiate says: “ I fear he hath not left the value of 5s. either in goods or lands among his eight poor children, yet I hope his wife will have some £40 per annum by title of dowry ", (B). Like so many of the Lathoms, Richard was a Royalist and a recusant and took part in the attack on Lancaster in I643. His wife was Catherine Massey, daughter of Sir William Massey of Puddington and the number of their children is variously given as eight, ten, and eleven.

Richard is mentioned in the House of Commons Journal Volume 7 Thursday, the 28th of October, 1652 as one of many Royalists to have "forfeited" their Estates "in the name of treason".

The family, having adhered to Roman Catholicism and to the king's side in the Civil War, resulted in the estate being confiscated for treason in 1652 (fn. 20) and ordered to be sold. (fn. 21) Allerton had to be alienated, and though a pedigree was recorded in 1664 (fn. 22) and the family retained Parbold a little longer, they were unable to retrieve their losses. Their possessions were therefore sold about 1680 to John Crisp, (fn. 23) whose descendants retained them for a century, (fn. 24) the manors of Parbold and Wrightington with various lands being sold to William Dicconson of Wrightington about 1791. (fn. 25) They have since descended with Wrightington. Manor House Farm is now known as Damstead Wood Farm. (fn. 26). http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53093

18 November, 1652 (from http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56478)

The several names of those persons whose Estates are hereby adjudged to be forfeited for Treason.

Whereas the Estates of John Gifford of Eastbury in the county of Berks Gent. Stephen Frewen Doctor in Divinity, late of the University of Oxford, (many other names)... John Lathom of Hugton in the same county; William Lathom of Allerton in the same county, Gent. Richard Lathom of Allerton aforesaid in the same county, Esquire; Edward Lathom of the same in the same county, Gent.; Richard Lathom of Perbold in the same county, Esquire; William Laburn of Torisholm in the same... (many more names).

(The following) have been, and are hereby Declared and Adjudged to be justly Forfeited by them for their several Treasons against the Parliament and People of England.

All the Manors, Lands, &c. of the said persons vested in Trustees for sale.; Except Rectories and Tithes.; Trustees names.; Tenure.; The Trust.; Saving the right of others.; Before 20 May 1642.; Claims to be delivered in writing before 1 February 1652.; and to be allowed before 1 Apr. 1653.; 16 July, 1651

Be it therefore Enacted by this present Parliament, and the Authority thereof, That all the Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments which they the said John Gifford, Stephen Frewen, William Lord Powis, Joseph Jean, Walter Langdon, George Collins,... John Lathom, William Lathom, Richard Lathom, Edward Lathom, Richard Latham,...

From http://wiki.standish.org.uk/index.php/Standish_and_the_English_Civi...:

At the outbreak of the Civil War, local sympathy was for the most part with the King. On 19th July 1641, the parliamentary deputy-lieutenant, Alexander Rigby, MP for Wigan, took from the constable of Standish a warrant directed to him alone, for the summoning of all in the township to the Royalist muster at Preston the following day; "which warrant had that very day, being Sunday, been published in Standish Church by Mr. Chaddock, the parson thereof." Ralph Standish, perhaps on account of age, appears to have taken no active part in the war; but two of his sons fought on the royalist side. Thomas Standish of Duxbury was one of the members for Preston of the Long Parliament. He had three sons who participated in the war. The eldest was killed while among the royalists with Lord Derby at Manchester in 1642. The father died in the same year, and a second son, Alexander, described as "Colonel," died in 1647. The third son, Richard, who succeeded, became the leading parliamentarian in the Wigan and Chorley district; he was a colonel in the parliamentary forces.

The other gentry sided with King Charles. William Hoghton, of Charnock Richard, fell at the first battle of Newbury; John, son of Hugh Adlington, was killed at Chester. At the famous siege of Lathom House, in 1644, Edward Chisnall of Coppull distinguished himself. Captain Robert Charnock was also there, and Ralph Brideoak, who had been nominated to the rectory of Standish.

There are some indications of actual fighting within the parish; the Presbyterian rector, Paul Lathom, was accused of being in arms at Wigan, Warrington, and Standish Moor - and there was certainly a good deal of fighting on its borders. Cromwell pursued the Duke of Hamilton's forces through the parish after the battle of Ribble Bridge, in August 1648. There was a skirmish near Red Bank, indicating that the belligerents took the road from Chorley through Duxbury towards Wigan. [1]

  * See also The Battle of Wigan Lane 

One tragic result of the Civil War was the suffering inflicted on the Royalist sympathisers. The Langtree family were reduced to poverty; others, such as the Woodwards of Shevington and Worthingtons, of Blainscough, hardly recovered from the fines imposed.

There was, perhaps, some retaliation, when the fortunes of the King's party were in the ascendant. Parishioners complained that their cattle had been taken for rent, and they themselves made prisoners of war for carrying food to parliamentary soldiers and refugees, when Prince Rupert came into the country.

But the exactions imposed on Royalists were severe. Edward Chisnall, Mr Standish of Standish, and William Hoghton of Park Hall, were said to be among those present at the burning of Lancaster in 1643, from whose estates the inhabitants of the town who were not delinquents were to be compensated to the extent of £8,000. The third Act of Sale, 1652, contained the names of those who were to lose their estates entirely. The following were included: Edward Standish of Woolston (eldest son of Ralph Standish); George Hornby, Lawrence Standish, Edward Prescot, John Brown, John Rigby, all of Standish; Hugh Pilkington and James Rigby of Coppull; William Norris of Adlington, John Hoghton of Park Hall, William Anderton of Anderton, and Thomas Langtree of Langtree.[2]

see also http://wn.com/English_Royalists

House of Commons Journal Volume 7 Thursday, the 28th of October, 1652.

Prayers.

RESOLVED, That Mr. Nye be excused for preaching before the Parliament, on the Fifth Day of November next, in respect of his present Indisposition of Body.

Ordered, That Mr. Matthew Barker, Minister in Leonard's Eastcheape, be desired to preach before the Parliament, on Friday the Fifth of November next, at Margarett's Westminster.

Sir Wm. Masham to give him Notice of this Order. Nominating Sheriffs.

Ordered, That Tuesday Sevennight be the Day for nominating of Sheriffs: And that the Members of Parliament that serve for the respective Counties, do bring in the Names of Sheriffs accordingly.

Ordered, That the Sum of Three hundred Pounds, ordered by an Order of Parliament, of the 22th of this Month, to be paid to Anne Cook, Widow and Relict of Colonel George Cooke, deceased, upon Accompt, in Part of the Arrears due to the said Colonel Cook, out of such Monies as are appointed for the Service of Ireland, be paid out of the Monies coming in upon the Composition of North Wales; and that the Committee for the Army be authorized and required to issue out their Warrants, unto the Treasurers who are appointed for receiving and issuing out that Money for Payment thereof accordingly.

And the Acquittance and Acquittances of the said Anne Cooke, testifying the Receipt thereof, shall be a sufficient Discharge in that Behalf; and the former Order for Payment of the same, out of such Monies as are appointed for the Service of Ireland, be discharged. Regulating the Law.

Ordered, That the Business of the Law be taken into Consideration on this Day Fortnight. Delinquents Estate.

WHEREAS Sir Henry Griffith, of Agnes Burton in the County of Yorke, Baronet, in the Particular of his Estate, exhibited to the late Committee for Compositions, in October 1646, did insert the Manor of Flamborough in the said County, as charged with a Debt of One thousand Eighty Pounds, due to Matthew Bointon Esquire; which was allowed upon his said Composition: And whereas, upon Sale of the said Manor, by the said Sir Henry Griffith, unto Walter Strickland Esquire, in Hilary Term 1650, the said Debt of One thousand Eighty Pounds was, by the Commissioners for Sequestrations in the County of York, seized in the Hands of the said Walter Strickland, who hath since paid in the same, with Interest, in to the Treasurers for the Receipt of Goldsmiths-hall, according to an Order of the Commissioners for removing Obstructions, in pursuance of an Order of Parliament, of the 17th of February 1651; whereupon the Commissioners for compounding with Delinquents have discharged the said Walter Strickland of and from the said Debt of One thousand Eighty Pounds, and Interest, and from all further Claim for the same; Yet some Doubt being made, whether the said Money ought not to have been paid in to the Treasurers appointed by the Act for the Sale of several Lands and Estates forfeited to the Commonwealth for Treason, as Part of the Estate of the said Mathew Boynton, whose Lands are by that Act appointed to be sold; forasmuch as the said Walter Strickland hath well and truly paid in the said Money to the Treasury at Goldsmiths-hall, for the Use of the State, as by the Order of Discharge from the said Commissioners for compounding, and the Acquittance of the Treasurer, may appear; It is Ordered, by the Parliament, That, as well the said Manor of Flamborough, as the said Walter Strickland, and his Heirs, be absolutely freed and discharged of and from the said Debt of One thousand Eighty Pounds, and all further Claim, Demand, or Trouble, touching the same, as well against the said Matthew Boynton, and his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, as against the said Trustees for Sale of several Lands and Estates forfeited to the Commonwealth for Treason; or of any other Person or Persons claiming the same, to the Use of the State. Forfeited Estates.

The House this Day resumed the Debate upon the Additional Bill for Sale of several Lands and Estates forfeited to the Commonwealth for Treason.

Resolved, (Many Names)...

Resolved, That the Name of Wm. Lathom, of Allerton, be inserted into this Bill.

Resolved, That the Name of Richard Latham, of Allerton, Esquire, be inserted into this Bill.

Resolved, That the Name of Edward Latham, of Allerton, Gentleman, be inserted into this Bill.

Resolved, That the Name of Richard Latham, of Perbold, Esquire, be inserted into this Bill.

(Many more names)

Full list of Names: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=24093