three acres of meadow in the same vill, which were held of the said parson of Wigan by socage, and are of the clear annual value of 12s.. He died seised also of other lands in Pemberton, which were held of Henry de Pemberton in socage, and also of certain lands in Pinington. Hugh de Pemberton, son of Thomas, son of the aforesaid Richard, was his heir.[1]
James de Langton died intestate in this same year (1415); indeed, he must have been dead before the above inquisition was taken, for Henry, Hugh, and William de Langton give a fine to administer his goods and chattels, which fine is recorded among those of 2 Hen. V.,[2] and must, therefore, have been made before the 20th of March, 1415, which closes the second year of his reign.
He was succeeded by a certain William de Langton, who occurs as parson of Wigan in 141 5, and who paid a fine to the King for a writ on 8th March, 1417.[3] William de Langton was probably an illegitimate member of the family, for in 1398 William Langton, a secular, was admitted to consecration at Lichfield, notwithstanding defect of birth.[4]
On Easter Monday 8 Hen. V. (24th March, 1420) there was an enrolment of a Charter of Ralph de Langton, Esq., by which he grants to Thomas, Lord Bishop of Durham, William de Langton parson of the church of Wigan, Henry de Kyghley, Esq., and James de Langton, brother of the said Ralph, the manors of Newton in Makerfield, and Walton-in-le-Dale, and all his other lands, tenements, &c., within the county of Lancaster,
- ↑ Towneley abstracts of Lancashire Inquisitions Chetham Tract xcv, p. 103.
- ↑ Chancery Rolls Lanc., 2 Hen. V. No. 15 (appendix to 33rd Report, p. 12). Henry de Langton, the first named of the administrators, will probably have been the intestate's nephew, the Lord of Newton, and William de Langton was probably his successor at Wigan.
- ↑ Chancery Rolls Lane, 4 Hen. V. (same appendix, p. 13). No entries of institutions to the Rectory of Wigan occur in the Lichfield Diocesan Register after 1370, when James de Langton was admitted, until the year 1457.
- ↑ Hill's Hist. of Langton p. 20.
