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CHAPTER IX.
THORNTON, CARLETON, MARTON, AND HARDON-WITH-NEWTON.
Torentum, or Thornton, was estimated in the time of
William the Conqueror to contain six carucates of
land fit for the plough, but this computation was
exclusive of Rossall and Burn, which were valued
at two carucates respectively, so that the whole townships held ten
carucates, about one thousand acres of arable soil, or farming
land, a large amount for those days, but insignificant indeed when
we recall the nine thousand seven hundred and thirty acres
embraced by the township at present, either in use for grazing
and agricultural purposes, or forming the sites of town and village
buildings.
Thornton was held immediately after the Conquest by Roger de Poictou, and subsequently by Theobald Walter, after whose death it passed to the crown.
During the reign of King John, Margaret Wynewick held two of the six carucates of Torentum, or Thornton, in chief from that monarch, and her marriage was in his gift. In 1214-15 Baldewinus Blundus paid twenty marks to John for permission to espouse the lady and gain possession of her estate.[1] The request was granted conditionally on Blundus obtaining the consent of her friends; and in this he appears to have been successful, for we learn from a writ to the warden of the Honor of Lancaster in 1221, that Michael de Carleton paid a fine of ten
- ↑ Rot. Lit. Claus. 16 John, m. 7.
