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- [S742] Final Concords of the County of Lancashire: 7 Richard I. to 35 Edward I. A.D. 1196 to A.D. 1307, 1899, pp.141-142.
Broughton was given by William, count of Boulogne and Mortain, and Earl of Warren, to Ughtred, son of Huck, to hold by the service of 8s [Dodsworth MSS., cxlix, f.49]. It descended to Richard, son of Ughtred, who was put out of seisn by Theobald Walter. King John afterwards seized it, upon the death of Theobald, and in the Survey of 1212, it was described as being in the King's hands [Testa, ii, f.822]. Aterwards the King gave it to William le Sauser, but it was restored to Alan de Singleton, son of Richard, by Henry III, and was in the hands of Alan's son and heir, William de Singleton, on 22 Mar 1261, when it was found by inquisition that the manor ought not to be tailaged [Escaeta, 45 Hen. III, no. 37]. He was the father of Alan de Singleton, and probably of Thomas, both named in the concord.
- [S743] The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey of the Premonstratensian Order, Volume 1, Part 2, 1898, pp.262-263.
William, Count of Boulogne, Warren, and Mortain (1153-1160), gave one carucate in Broughton to Huck de Broughton, to hold by homage and service of 8s. (Dodsworth MSS, vol cxlix. fol 49.) He is also said to have given th the said Huch half a carucate in Little Singleton, to hold by serjeanty, as chief bailiff to keep the sapentake of Amounderness. (Keurden MSS.) Ughtred, son of Huck, occurs frequently in the Pipe Rolls of Henry II. Ughtred had issue of a daughter, Matilda (see note, p. 114) and three sons: Robert, son of Ughtred, sometimes called "clerk," the grantor of land to Cockersan Abbey in Billsborough, - whose son, Richard, afterwards confirmed his father's grant [Billsborough, No. 13]; Ralph, "son of Ughtred"; and Richard, son of Ughtred, called "Sir Richard" in the Plea Rolls.... The said Richard died before the year 1212, when his son and heir, Alan de Singleton, was returned in the Survey made that year as holding the serjeantry of the wapentake of Blackburnshire ... Alan de Singleton died before 16th November, 1244, this being the date of the writ... William de Singleton was found to be his son and next heir... William de Singleton had a son Alan, who was twice married. By his first wife, Hawise de Cottam, he had a son, Thomas, who died s.p., and a daughter, Joan, who married Thomas Banastre, and so carried the Singleton estates ... By his second with Catherine Conyers (daughter of Robert Conyers by his wife Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir Adam de Yealand), ... he had two sons, Gilbert, his heir, and Ranulf.
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