WARTON, (Lancashire) in the p. of Kirkham, is an agreeable little obscure T. near the mouth of the Ribble, on a lake called Ware, and at the foot of a hill, called Wharton-Cragg, on the top of which there used to be a beacon. The T, is royal demesne, and was part of Q. dowager Catherine's jointure. Here is a neat Ch. with a good grammar-sc. and a library, founded and endowed, in 1594, by Dr. Matth. Hutton, then Bp. of Durham, but soon after Abp. of York, who also founded and endowed an hos. here for 6 poor men, one always from Prist-Hutton, where he was born.