and Nether-Tabley I believe this Town was Waste in the Conqueror's time Ex Chartulis Daniell of Over-Tabley I find little mention thereof before Henry the Third about that time Robert de Bexton seems to be possessed of a moiety thereof at least for he and Sibill his Wife by the consent of Matthew de Bexton their Son and Heir do give to Randle Son of Thomas de Picmere with Margery their Daughter totam quartam partem medietatis totius Villae de Bexton Reddendo annuatìm unum Denarium Argenti ad Nativitatem Beati Johannis Baptistae Lib. C. fol. 240. e. John Son of Matthew de Bexton releaseth to Adam de Tabley and Beatrix his Wife all the Lands which Maude Mother of the said John held in Dower in Bexton under Edward the Second Whereunto another John de Bexton is Witness Lib. C. fol. 241. f. Adam de Tabley was Lord of half of Bexton 1304. as appears by the Agreement made inter Johannem de Lostocke Dominum medietatis Villae de Bexton ex unâ parte Adamum de Tabley Dominum medietatis ejusdem Villae ex alterâ supèr Clausturas bladorum suorum de Bexton Datum apud Knotsford Anno Domini 1304. Lib. C. fol. 241. h. And then Adam de Tabley Son of the other Adam settles his Dominium Parcenarium de Bexton after his death on Thomas Son of Thomas Daniell 35 Edw. 3. 1361. Lib. C. fol. 241. k. Since which time the moiety of Bexton hath belonged to the Daniels of Over-Tabley even to this present 1666. Concerning this Adam de Tabley see more in Over-Tabley In a loose Paper among the Evidences of Daniell of Over-Tabley I find a Copy of a Deed wherein John de Bexton gives Ricardo filio Johannis de Croxton Margeriae Uxori ejus filiae meae tertiam partem totius medietatis Villae de Bexton excepto Capitali Messuagio Habendum sibi Haeredibus inter eos Remanere Hawisiae Elianorae Filiis meis remanere rectis Haeredibus meis Testibus Willielmo de Massy Johanne de Legh Militibus Rogero de Leycester c. Sub Edw. 3. Memorandum Quòd praedicta Hawisia nupta fuit Willielmo de Moulton Et Elinora nupta fuit Willielmo Filio Roberti de Winnington This Memorandum was writ in the bottom of the Paper Lib. C. fol. 244. p. This John Bexton I take to be the same with John Lostock above-named and called Bexton from the Place of his Residence I find also John de Bexton gave to William Son of Robert de Winnington and to Elianour his Wife totam tertiam partem totius medietatis Villae de Bexton tempore Edw. 2. John Booth's Book Lib. H. pag. 117. h. The Original penès Leycester of Toft And Hugh Toft of Toft grants to Sir Hugh Venables of Kinderton all his Land in Kinderton apud Rushford and a place of Land in Sproston in exchange pro sextâ parte Manerii de Bexton 24 Edw. 3. 1350. Lib. C. fol. 226. l. Penès Leycester of Toft In an ancient Feodary of Halton we read Johannes de Bexton tenet medietatem Villae de Bexton pro vicesimâ parte unius Feodi Militis And over the head of John de Bexton are writ Thomas Daniel Raufe Hulse and Thomas Croxton These last as I conceive as the Present Tenants about Henry the Sixth's time when that Rental was renewed the other as he stood in former Records of Edw. 1. or Edw. 2. Lib. C. fol. 86. Thomas Holford of Holford held Land in Bexton of the Baron of Halton in Knight-Service as appears by his Office 12 Eliz. a small Parcel So Robert Bromfield of Witton died seised of Land in Bexton held of the Barony of Halton in Knight-Service by Office taken 12 Eliz. but this Land was sold afterwards by Bromfield to the Lady Mary Cholmondley of Holford who gave it to Hugh Cholmondley her younger Son Sir Randle Manwaring of Over-Pever had Land in Bexton and Baggiley found by Office Anno 5 6 Phil. Mar. to be held of Edward Legh of Baggiley by Fealty and rendring a Red Rose yearly Sir Raufe Leycester of Toft had Land in Bexton and Plumley found by Office 14 Eliz. to be held of the Honour of Halton Paver of Northwich had a Messuage in Bexton found by Office 5 Eliz. to be held of the Barony of Halton and so Anne Pavers Office 40 Eliz. Thomas Winnington of Ermitage nigh Holmes-Chappel had Land in Bexton found to be held of John Croxton by Office 34 Eliz. a small Parcel William Croxton of Ravenscroft died seised of the third part of the Mannor of Bexton found to be held of Halton by the third part of the twentieth part of a Knights Fee by Office taken 32 Eliz. and John Croxton's Office 41 Eliz. tenuit medietatem totius Villae de Bexton But Croxton's Land in Bexton was sold to the Lady Mary Cholmondley of Holford aforesaid who gave those purchased Lands in Bexton to her younger Son Hugh Cholmondley whose Son and Heir Robert afterwards became Heir to all Cholmondley-Lands and is now Lord Viscount Kelles in the County of Meth in Ireland and living 1666. So that now Anno Domini 1666. the Town of Bexton is possessed by these Persons following 1. Robert Lord Cholmondley Lord of the moiety of Bexton He hath about 70 Cheshire Acres in possession of his Tenants there who pay one Shilling Chief to Halton yearly 2. Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire Lord of the other moiety of Bexton He hath about 65 Acres in possession of him and his Tenants there 3. George Leycester of Toft one Tenement in Bexton in possession of William Highfield about 20 Acres 4. Thomas Deane of Nether-Pever one Tenement in possession of George Swinton about 30 Acres This formerly belonged to one Hulse of Middle-wich * Of Clyve near to Middle-wich and payeth a Chief to Cholmondley and also to Halton 5. Thomas Cholmondeley of Holford Esquire a small Cottage about four Acres in possession of Hugh Woodward his Tenant This anciently belonged to Holford before the Lady Mary Cholmondley purchased any Lands in Bexton Bollinton THis Town hath its Name from the River of Bollin which runneth along after the side thereof It is not mentioned in the Record of Doomsday-book so that it seems to be Waste in the time of the Conqueror Hamon de Massy Baron of Dunham-Massy gave unto Geffrey Dutton Son of Geffrey Dutton all his Land in Bolinton to wit all the moiety of Bolinton with Agnes his Daughter in Free-marriage Rendring yearly a Pair of Gilded Spurs at the Nativity of St. John Baptist About the beginning of Henry the Third Lib. C. fol. 150. a. The same Agnes in her Widowhood by the name of Agnes de Nechel perhaps meant for Etchells late Wife of Sir Geffrey de Chedle gave unto her eldest Son Geffrey de Chedle all that Land of Bolinton which she had of the Gift of Hamon Massy her Father Lib. C. fol. 150. b. William
Scythians Celto Scythae ut habet Strabo omnes olìm ad occasum Populi dicti waxed strong in Ireland Orosius writes That in the time of Honorius and Arcadius Emperors Ireland was inhabited by the Scots about Anno Christi 400. These Scots came out of Spain into Ireland and part of them going again out of Ireland into the North of Brettain sub Duce Reudâ à quo Dal-Reudini vocantur Bede de Hist Ang. lib. 1. cap. 1. Seated themselves there and added a third Nation in Brettaine to the Picts and Brettans and afterwards from those Scots the whole North of Brettain was called Scotland even to this day And from those Scots inhabitng Ireland that Kingdom was by Isidore and Bede called Scotia Haec propriè Patria Scottorum est saith Bede of Ireland l. 1. de Hist Ang. c. 1. Anno Christi 684. Egfrid King of Northumberland wasted Ireland Bede ib. l. 4. c. 26. Anno Christi 838. the Norwegians under the Command of Turgesius for 30 Years miserably wasted Ireland but he being slain by Treachery the Inhabitants slew all the Norwegians Giraldus Topogram Hiberniae Distinct 3. cap. 37. These Norwegians without doubt were those Normans who as Rhegino saith in the Times of Charles the Great setting upon Ireland the Island of the Scots were put to flight by the Scots Afterwards the Oustmanni that is The Eastern Men came from the Sea-coast of Germany into Ireland under pretence of Merchandize and soon after raised a great War About the same time almost Edgar King of England overcame a great part of Ireland and subjected it under his Dominion Cambden's Britannia pag. 731. But besides these there arose great Dissention among the Irish themselves which made way to the conquering of Ireland for the King of England Hen. II. taking notice of these Jars Treated seriously with his Nobles of England about the Year 1155. concerning the conquering of Ireland for the use of his Brother William of Angeau but by the Advice of his Mother Maude the Empress the Matter was at that time deferred Not many Years after Dermot Mac Morrog King of Leinster being driven out of his Kingdom by Rodoric King of Connaught and Monarch of Ireland implores the Aid of Hen. II. who condescending thereunto Dermot prevailed with Richard de Clare Earl of Pembroke sirnamed Strongbow Son of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Pembroke which Gilbert was a younger Son of Gilbert Earl of Clare in Suffolk to raise Forces for his Assistance Covenanting to make Strongbow his Successor in the Kingdom of Leinster and to give unto him Eva his Daughter in Marriage Hereupon Strongbow gathers an Army of select Soldiers in Wales and England accompanied with Fitz-Gerald Fitz-Stephen and other Gentlemen and in few Years obtained so great a part of Ireland that Hen. II. fearing his Power sends out his Proclamation in Anno 1171. That Strongbow and other his Associates should return back out of Ireland by Easter next or else be utterly Disinherited for ever Strongbow returns into England the King is pacified with him Conditionally that he surrender Dublin to the King with the Cantreds adjoyning and also all the Maritime Towns and Castles the residue of his Conquest he must acknowledge to hold from the King of England and his Heirs So Giraldus CHAP. II. Of the chief Persons in the Conquest of Ireland I. RIchard Strongbow Earl of Pembroke a Man much in Debt had large Possessions but had much lesned his Estate by his profuseness and therefore more easily drawn in to the getting of new Territories Chron. Joh. Brompton pag. 1069. Vir plus nominis hactenùs habens quam hominis plus senii quà m ingenii Giraldus Hib. Expug li. 1. cap. 12. Of a ruddy Complexion Freckled great Eyes a womanly Face a small Voice a short Neck Bountiful and of a mild Nature being fixed in Battel was a Standard for his Forces to resort unto not puffed up with a Victory nor dejected with a Defeat Giraldus Hib. Expug lib. 1. cap. 27. He was sirnamed Strongbow from the strong Bowe which he used to draw having Arms of an extraordinary length of whom it is reported that standing upright he could touch his own Knees with the Palms of his Hands Brooke in his Catalogue of Nobility Title Pembroke The King of England Hen. II. gave him what accrued unto him in Right of Eva his Wife and what he had got in War and gave him the Counties of Weshford Ossery Caterlogh and Kildare to hold of the Kings of England Cambd. Britan. pag. 731. Ireland He died An. Chr. 1176. and Dermot King of Leinster his Father-in-law died at Fernys about the Calends of May Anno 1171. full of Days Annales Hiberniae at the end of Camb. Britan. II. Hugh Lacy was also very instrumental in the Conquest of Ireland to whom Hen. II. gave all the Land of Meath in Ireland with the Apurtenances by Charter to hold of him and his Son John for the Service of 100 Knights Fees He gave him also in custody the City of Dublin with its Apurtenances and appointed these following to belong to the Service of Dublin all the Land of Offlan with its Apurtenances and Wilkechelon with its Apurtenances and the Service of Meath and the Service of four Knights Fees which Robert Poer ought to do for the Castle of Dunavet Hoveden pag. 528. 566. He was Descended of Walter Lacy a great Baron who Founded Lanthony-Abby in the Valley of Ewyas in the Borders of Monmouthshire to which Walter William Earl of Hereford gave great Possessions in those Parts Cambden in Monmouthshire This Hugh was of a black Complexion hollow Eyes the right side of his Face even to his Chin was disfigured by Burning which hapned in his Youth a short Neck a hairy Body strong Sinews of a little Stature and a deformed Shape firm to his Trust intent on his own Business and very vigilant in the Affairs of Government a good Soldier much trusted by his Prince who made him Lord Justice of Ireland 1172. Hoveden pag. 528. He Fortified Leinster and Meath with many Castles and had his Head chopt off with a Hatchet by an Irishman treacherously as he stooped down Anno 1186. at Dernath where he intended to have built a Castle Hoveden pag. 631. also Annales Hiberniae He left two Sons of great eminency in Ireland Walter de Lacy Lord of Meath and Hugh Lacy Earl of Ulster afterwards III. Robert Fitz-Stephen was the first of Strong-bow's Forces who entred Ireland with three Ships containing about 130 Soldiers of his Friends and Allies Landing at Banvan about May Anno 1167. besides 60 other Horse and 300 Foot Archers among whom Hervey de Mont-Morice The Day after Maurice de Prendergest followed with two Ships of Soldiers more raised out of Cardiganshire or thereabouts De Rosensi Walliae Demetiae Provinciâ These with 500 Soldiers more sent by Dermot out of his own Countrey under the Command of his Bastard Son Donwald Assaulted Weshford but were beaten
Johannis apud Westmonasterium die Lunae proximè post Quindenam Paschae Anno Regni ipsius Henrici vicesimo tertio recognovi concessi quietum clamavi de me Haeredibus meis dilecto Fratri meo Simoni de Monteforti Comiti Leycestriae totam partem Honoris Leycestriae cùm omnibus pertinentiis in Regno Angliae adeò plenè integrè sicut Comes Simon Pater noster vel Robertus Comes Leycestrensis illam unquà m meliùs pleniùs liberiùs tenuerunt Habendum tenendum eidem Simoni Fratri meo Haredibus suit de Corpore suo procreatis de praedicto Domino Henrico Rege Haeredibus suis in perpetuùm c. Actum apud Westmonasterium Anno Die praenominatis 1239. Which the King at that very instant confirmed unto him But this was after the death of Randle Earl of Chester and Lincoln Howbeit this Simon lost the same again by his Rebellion and was slain at the Battel of Evesham 4 Augusti 49 Hen. 3. 1265. Randle sirnamed Blundevill was Earl of Chester 51 Years These followidg Notes I received from Mr. Dugdale This Earl of Perch was slain at the Battel of Lincoln 1217. Mat. Paris pag. 296. of the Edition put out by Wats A. Dom. 1640. THis Earl Randle was but of low stature as we may observe by the Earl of Perch his words to him at Lincoln What said he have we staid all this while for such a Little Man such a Dwarfe To whom Earl Randle replied I vow to God and our Lady whose Church this is that before to Morrow Evening I will seem to thee to be higher than that Steeple So Walter de Wittlesey a Monk of Peterborough a Manuscript now in possession of the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough King John gave to this Randle Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire to hold by the Service of one Knights Fee Chart. 17 Johannis num 25. and also the Custody of all Simon Montfort's Lands with the Forests to the use of the said Simon Ibidem Membrane 19. Pat. 1 Hen. 3. mem 4 mem 7. Pat. 2 Hen. 3. mem 10. 1 Hen. 3. the King gave to this Randle the Custody of the Honour of Lancaster and the Castle of Montsorrel which Randle demolished 2 Hen. 3. the King gave him the Custody of the Honour of Brittany in the Counties of Cambridge Norfolk and Suffolk And he executed the Office of Sheriff by his Deputies in the Counties of Salop and Stafford 2 3 4 5 7 Hen. 3. and in the County of Lancaster 3 4 5 6 7 Hen. 3. as by the Pipe-Rolls of those Years appeareth Pat. 11. H. 3. mem 6. 11 Hen. 3. the King gave him all that part of the Honour of Richmond which he formerly had of the Grant of King John to hold for Randle's Life upon condition that he should make no Agreement with the Earl of Brittany to surrender the same up to him unless the Earl of Brittany could obtain those Lands in Normandy which the Earl of Chester had lost in the Service of King John CHAP. VII Of John sirnamed The Scot Earl of Chester Or three Piles Gules His Father David Brother of William King of Scotland was Knighted by King Henry the Second 1170. Hoveden pag. 518. and made Earl of Huntington 1184. Hoveden pag. 622. and David died about Anno 1219. So that John Scot was Earl of Chester and Huntington Take here the Charte remaining among the Evidences of St. Werburge Church in Chester as followeth OMnibus Christi fidelibus praesens scriptum visuris vel audituris Johannes de Scotia Comes Cestriae Huntindoniae salutem in Domino Sciatis me concessisse confirmasse Deo Domni Sanctae Werburgae de Cestria Abbati Monachis ibidem Deo servientibus in puram perpetuam Elemosynam pro salute meâ Comitissae meae pro Animâ Comitis Davidis Patris mei Comitissae Matildae Matris meae pro Animâ Ranulfi Comitis Avunculi mei pro Animabus omnium Antecessorum meorum omnes Donationes Dignitates Libertates quas Comites Antecessores mei Barones eis dederunt Insupèr ego ipse do concedo praesenti scripto confirmo praedictis Abbati Monachis quietantiam de tribus Panibus quos aliquando solebant dare diurnè ad Turrim Castelli mei de Cestria quietantiam de Putura servientium in Villis suis scilicèt Huntington Cheveley Idinchale Wyrvin tempore Pacis Prestbury Gostrey in perpetuùm c. Testibus Domino Ricardo Phiton tùnc Justiciario Cestriae Domino Warino de Vernon Willielmo de Venables Hamone de Massy Hamone de Phitton Willielmo de Malo-passu Willielmo de Boydell Ricardo de Sonbach Ricardo de Wibinberie tùnc Vice-Comite Cestershiriae aliis This was made about 18 Hen. 3. 1233. II. This John Earl of Chester and Huntington conceiving that an Earl might not lawfully be Summoned in any other County than that whereof he was Earl did except against the Summons in Northamptonshire upon a Writ De rationabili parte brought against him there by the other Co-heirs to Randle Blundevill but was ordered to answer The Record I have here transcribed as it is cited by Selden in his Titles of Honour pag. 643. ex Fragmentis tempore Hen. 3. quae in Archivis Arcis Londinensis servantur Orta est ista lis in 18 Hen. 3. quod satìs constat ex placitis 18 Hen. 3. Rot. 14. NOrthampton Johannes Comes Cestriae Huntingdoaiae summonitus fuit ad respondendum Hugoni de Albiniaco Willielmo Comiti de Ferrariis Agneti Uxori ejus Hawisiae Comitissae Lincolniae quarè deforciat eis rationabilem partem suam quae eos contingit de Haereditate Ranulfi quondà m Comitis Cestriae undè ipse obiit Seisitus in Comitatu Cestriae computâ cùm eisdem Hugone Willielmo Agnete Hawisia parte suâ rationabili de Terrâ quam nùnc tenet alibì de eâdem Haereditate Et Comes aliàs respondit quòd noluit respondere ad hoc Breve nisì Curia consideraverit consideratione Parium suorum per summonitionem factam in Comitatu Northamptoniae de Terris Tenementis in Comitatu Cestriae ubi Brevia Domini Regis non currunt Et quià usitatum est hùc usquè quòd Pares sui alii qui libertates habent consimiles sicùt Episcopus Dunelmensis Comes Mareschallus respondent de Terris Tenementis infrà libertates suas per summonitionem factam ad Terras Tenementa extrà libertates suas Ideò consideratum est quòd respondeat III. This John Scot Earl of Chester carried the Sword before King Henry the Third at the Marriage of Queen Elianour Anno Domini 1236. 20 Hen. 3. at which time all the Great Men of this Kingdom used those Offices and Places which had of ancient Right belonged to their Ancestors at the Coronation of the Kings and is mentioned by Matthew Paris in these words
Cambden's Britannia Printed 1607 pag. 693. Matthew Paris put out by Wats 1764. pag. 430. where also it appears that in Anno 1236. Alan had a Brother named Thomas and also a Bastard Son called Thomas who by the assistance of their great Allies sought by force to possess themselves of Galloway in Scotland which the King of Scotland had distributed to the three Daughters and Heirs of Alan but these Rebels were beaten and dispersed by the King of Scotland Anno 1236. But to return to our Earls of Chester The Line of the ancient Earls of Chester now failing this Earldom was by King Henry the Third taken into his own hands Anno Domini 1237. 21 Hen. 3. It remains that I now shew the Earls of Chester of the Royal Blood since this time which in the next Chapter I shall briefly reckon up And observe that the County of Flint appertaineth to the Dignity of the Sword of the Earls of Chester and that the County Palatine of Chester is still preserved in the Crown as a County Palatine if there be no Creation of the Prince into the Title of Earl of Chester If the King 's eldest Son be created Prince of Wales then usually is the Title of Earl of Chester also conferred with it but upon the death of every Prince so created these Titles are preserved in the Crown till a new Creation These Notes following I had from Mr. Dugdale HElen the Widow of John the Scot held these Lands following till a Dower was assigned out viz. Fotheringhay and Jarwell in Northamptonshire Keweston in Bedfordshire Totnam in Middlesex Bramton Conington and Limpays in Huntingtonshire Bado in Essex and Exton in Rutlandshire Claus 22 Hen. 3. memb 20. The Sisters of John Scot had these Lands following Devergoil Daughter of Margaret eldest Sister of John had the Mannors of Luddington and Torksey in Lincolnshire with the Farm of Yarmouth in Norfolk Tower of London Pat. 22 Hen. 3. memb 11. Isabel had Writtell and Hathfield in Essex Maude the third Sister died without issue Pat. 22 Hen. 3. mem 4. Ada the fourth Sister had Bromsgrove in Worcestershire Bolsover in Derbyshire the Mannor and Castle Oswaldesbeck in Nottinghamshire See Stat. 32 H 8. cap. 29. the Mannor and Sok of Maunsfield in Nottinghamshire and Oswardbeck Wapentake and Wurfield Stratton and Cundover in Shropshire Wigginton and Wolverhampton in Staffordshire Pat. 22 Hen. 3. memb 4. Claus 22 Hen. 3. mem 12. After this to wit 31 Hen. 3. the Earldom of Chester with the Castles of Gannok and Disart * * Disart Castle is in Denhighshire in the Borders of Wales were annexed to the Crown for ever Pat. 31 Hen. 3. mem 7. CHAP. VIII Of the Titles of Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester since they were invested in the Crown of England and who have been so created with the time of their Creation I. KIng Henry the Third brought Lhewellin Prince of North-Wales into Subjection and made Peace with Lhewellin Anno Domini 1228. 12 Hen. 3. upon Condition that Lhewellin and his Successors should be called Princes and do Homage to the Kings of England Whereupon King Henry received from him three thousand Marks Knighton pag. 2436. And then King Henry made a Charter to Lhewellin which was confirmed by the Pope Anno 25 Hen. 3. 1241. David the Son of Lhewellin obligeth himself to King Henry to hold all his Lands in Capite of the King and to free his elder Brother Griffith * Stowe saith Griffith was a Bastard Son of Lhewellin pag. 185. and Owen the eldest Son of Griffith out of Prison whom he had unjustly detained and that the Land of Englesmere should remain to King Henry and his Heirs Mat. Paris put out by Wats pag. 625 and yet did this David acknowledge to hold his Lands in Wales of the Pope endeavouring to shake off the Yoke of his Fealty to the Kings of England and Griffith promised by Sureties if he obtained his portion of the Lands due unto him to pay 300 Marks yearly to King Henry and to his Heirs for ever Now David rebelled and after much perplexity and destruction of his Lands in Wales by King Henry he died Anno 1246. King Henry the Third Anno Domini 1254. 38 Hen. 3. gave Wales to his eldest Son Prince Edward by the Name of unà cùm Conquestu nostro Walliae as also Gascony Ireland and some other Territories recited in the Charter This was upon the Marriage of Prince Edward with Elinour Sister to Alphonso King of Spain Yet saith Selden notwithstanding the Grant of Wales I find no warrant that therefore the special Title of Prince of Wales as it belongs to the Son and Heir Apparent began in this Prince Edward Selden's Tit. Hon. pag. 594. Matthew Westminster sub Anno 1254. Also Matthew Paris put out by Wats 1640. pag 890. Nor were the ancient Princes of Wales of the British Blood at this time quite extinct for Wales was not absolutely subdued till this Prince Edward was King of England Scilicèt 1283. 11 Edw. 1. So Stowe Neither did this Edward whiles he was Prince ever assume the Title of Prince of Wales as far forth as I can find And for the Earldom of Chester Cambden saith it was given by Henry the Third to this Prince Edward who being taken Prisoner by the Barons surrendred it up to Simon de Monifort Earl of Leycester that he the Prince might be redeemed Sed Simone statim interfecto ad Regiam Familiam citò rediit Cambden's Britannia Tit. Cheshire ad finem And indeed by the Charter of Maxfield Dated 45 Hen. 3. 1261. This Prince Edward seems to be possessed of the County of Chester Howbeit in this Charter and all others that I have seen he useth onely the Title of Edwardus illustris Regis Angliae Primogenitus and not at all the Title of Comes Cestriae The Charter made to Simon de Montfort of the Earldom of Chester bears Date 24 die Decembris 49 Hen. 3. 1264. at Woodstock Vincent upon Brook pag 108. whereunto the King was forced to make his Peace for both the King and Prince Edward his Son were then Prisoners to Simon taken at the Battel of Lewis in Sussex 12 die Maii 48 Hen. 3. 1264. See Stowe Yet Simon enjoyed it but a little space for he was slain at the Battel of Evesham the fourth day of August 49 Hen. 3. 1265. and then all Montfort's Estate was forfeited by his Rebellion and so the Earldom of Chester reverted back to Henry the Third And I have seen the Copy of the Deed whereby Prince Edward confirms to the Barons of Cheshire all the Liberties which Randle sometime Earl of Chester had formerly granted unto them by his Charter and in this he is onely stiled Edwardus illustris Regis Angliae Primogenitus Dated 27 die Augusti 49 Hen. 3. which is but 23 Days after the Battel of Evesham so that the Prince soon had the Earldom again but I find
milites de Anglia VVardam suam facient ad opus de eis non fuerit Salvis mihi Servitiis suis quae facere debent Concedo etià m eis quòd in tempore Pacis tantùm duodecem Servientes itinerantes habeant in terrâ meâ cùm uno equo qui sit Magistri Servientis qui etià m Prebendam non habeat à Pascha usquè ad Festum Sancti Michaelis nisi per gratum Et ut ipsi Servientes Comedant Cibum qualem in Domibus Hominum invenerint sinè emptione alterius Cibi ad opus eorum nèc in aliquibus Dominicis Baronum Comedant Et tempore Guerrae pèr Consilium meum aut Justiciarii mei ipsorum Ponantur Servientes sufficientes ad terram meam Custodiendam prout opus fuerit Et sciendum est quòd praedicti Barones Petitiones Subscriptas quas à me requirebant omninò mihi haeredibus meis de se haeredibus suis remiserunt ità quòd nihil de eis de caetero clamare poterint nisi per Gratiam Misericordiam meam Scilicèt Seneschallus Petitionem de Wrec de Pisce in terram suam per mare dejecto de Bersare in Forestâ meâ ad tres Arcus de percursu Canium suorum Et alii Petitionem de Agistamento Porcorum in Forestâ meâ de Bershare ad tres Arcus in Forestâ meâ vel ad cursus Leporariorum suorum in Forestâ in eundo versùs Cestriam per Summonitionem vel in redeundo Petitionem de Misericordiâ Judicum de Wich triginta Bullionibus Salis sed erunt Misericordia Leges in Wich tales quales prius fuerint Concedo igitùr praesenti Chartâ meâ confirmo de me haeredibus meis Communibus Militibus omnibus liberè Tenentibus totius Cestershire eorum haeredibus omnes praedictas libertates habendas tenendas de Baronibus meis de caeteris Dominis suis quicunque sint sicut ipsi Barones Milites caeteri liberè Tenentes eas de me tenent Hiis Testibus Hugone Abbate Sanctae Werburgae Cestriae Philippo Orreby tùnc temporis Justiciario Cestriae Henrico de Aldithley Waltero Deyvell Hugone Dispensario Thoma Dispensario Willielmo Pincerna Waltero de Coventrey Ricardo Phitton Roberto de Cowdrey Ivone de Caletoft Roberto de Say Normanno le Painter Roberto Dispensario Roberto Deyvell Mattheo de Vernon Hamone de Venables Roberto de Massy Alano de Waley Hugone de Columbe Roberto de Pulford Petro Clerico Hugone de Pasey Joceralino de Hellesby Ricardo de Bresby Ricardo de Kingsley Philippo de Terven Liulfo de Twamlowe Ricardo de Perpoint toto Comitatu Cestriae This Charter I have here for the satifaction of some translated also into English as followeth with the exposition of the hardest words RANDLE Earl of Chester To his Constable Steward Judge Sheriff Barons Bailiffs and to all his Tenants and Friends present and to come that shall see or hear this Charter Sendeth Greeting Know ye that I being Signed with the Cross * * Those were said to be Signed with the Cross in these Ages who had undertaken a Voyage to Jerusalem in defence of the Holy Land and as a Badge of their Warfare they wore a Cross on their right Shoulder So Spelman for the love of God and at the Request of my Barons of Cheshire have granted to them and their Heirs from me and my Heirs all the Liberties in this present Charter underwritten to have and to hold for ever to wit That every one of them may have his own Court free from all Pleas and Plaints moved in my Court except such Pleas as belong to my Sword ††The Pleas of the Sword were the Pleas of the Dignity of the Earl of Chester who held that Earldom as freely to the Sword as the King held England to the Crown And if any of their Tenants shall be taken for any Offence within their Fee or Lordship he shall be Replevied without any Ransom so as his Lord bring him to three County Courts and then he may carry him back as acquit unless * * Sakerboth Sakber and Sacraber is as much as a Pledge to Sue one that puts in Surety to Prosecute another Spelman Sakerborh do follow him And if any Stranger who is faithful shall come upon their Land and desires to dwell there it shall be lawful for the Baron of that Fee to have and retain him saving to me the Advowries who shall come to me on their own accord and others who for any Trespass elsewhere shall come unto my Dignity and not to them And every one of my Barons when need requireth shall in time of War do the full Service of so many Knights Fees as he holdeth And their Knights and Freeholders shall have their Coats of Mayle and Haubergeons and may defend their own Land by their Bodies although they be not Knights And if any of them be such a one that he cannot defend his own Land by his Body he may put another sufficient Person in his Place Neither will I compell their Villanes to take Arms but I do hereby acquit their Villanes which by Randle of Davenham shall come to my Protection and other their Villanes whom they can reasonably shew to be their own And if my Sheriff or any Officer shall Implead any of their Tenants in my Court he may defend himself by Thirtnic * * Thiertnic or Thirdnicht is Trium Noctium hospes Hoveden pag. 606. Here it seemeth to signifie three Nights Charges for the Sheriffs-Tooth Sheriffs-Tooth was a common Tax Levied for the Sheriffs Diet. for the Sheriffs-Tooth which they do pay unless fresh Suit do follow him I do also grant unto them acquittance from the Corn and Oblations which my Serjeants and Bedells were wont to require and that if any Judger ††It is in the Deed Judex which is sometimes taken for a Judge sometimes for a Jury-man or Freeholder which Freeholders are by Law the Judges of a Court-Baron or Suitor of the Hundred or County-Court shall be Amerced in my Court the Judger shall be quit from his Amercement for Two shillings and the Suitor for Twelve pence I do also grant unto them liberty of Inclosing their Lands within the Boundaries of their Tillage in the Forrest And if there shall be a Land or parcel of Ground within the Boundary of their Township which hath been formerly Manured where no Wood groweth it shall be lawful to Till the same without Graizing And they may also take Housebote and Haybote in their VVoods of all manner of VVood without the view of my Forester and may give or sell their dead VVood to whom they please and their Tenants shall not be Impleaded for the same in the Forest Court unless they be found in the manner or very act And every one of my Barons may defend all his Mannors and Lordships in the County or Hundred
Act of Parliament 27 Hen. 8. Lib. C. fol. 163. y. after seven Years Suit and above The Lands allotted to the Co-heirs were the Lordships of Church-Minshull Aston in Mondrum and Kekwick and all the Lands which the Ancestors of Dutton hold in Kingsley Norley Chorleton Codynton Pulton-Lancelyn Bradley Budword in le Frith Milneton Barnton Over-Whitley Aston nigh Moldesworth Hellesby Frodsham and in the City of Chester The Lands allotted to Sir Piers Dutton of Hatton and now adjudged the next Heir Male were The Mannor of Dutton the Advowry of the Minstrels in Cheshire the Advowson of Poosey Chappel the Lordships of Weston Preston Barterton Little Legh Nesse in Wirrall Little Moldesworth Acton and Harpesford and all the Lands which the Ancestors of Dutton held in Weston Clifton Preston Barterton Legh Nesse Little Moldesworth Acton Harpesford Stony Dunham Michbarrow Stoke Picton Arrowe North-wich Halton Thelwall Oneston Middle-wich Stanthorne and Over-Runcorne And now before we proceed to the next Lord of Dutton we must look back to the first Ancestor of this Sir Piers Dutton of Hatton which branches out of the Family of Dutton of Dutton and bring that Line to this Sir Piers Dutton and then proceed So then we find Hugh Dutton the first Dutton of Hatton in Right of Petronill his Wife Daughter and Heir of Peter de Hatton juxtà Warton branching out under Richard the Second This Hugh was a younger Son of Edmund Dutton which Edmund was a younger Son of Sir Thomas Dutton of Dutton 1. This Hugh had Issue John Dutton Son and Heir Lawrence Dutton another Son Randle Rector of Christleton nigh Chester also Hugh another Son Lib. C. fol. 146. n. Elizabeth a Daughter married Richard Manley of Manley Hugh Dutton of Hatton was Sheriff of Cheshire 10 Hen. 5. 1422. and had a second Wife namely Emme the Widow of Hugh Venables of Golborne and Daughter of Nicolas Warren of Pointon 16 Hen. 6. John Booth of Twamlow's Book of his own Collections Lib. H. pag. 125. a. b. 2. John Dutton of Hatton 19 Hen. 6. Son and Heir of Hugh and Parnell was Mayor of Chester 30 Hen. 6. and married Margaret Daughter of William Athurton of Athurton in Lancashire and had Issue Peter Son and Heir Richard another Son Geffrey another Son Cicely married John Byrd of Broxton Ellen married one Gilibrand 3. Peter Dutton of Hatton Esquire Son and Heir of John married Elizabeth eldest Daughter and one of the Heirs of Robert Grosvenour of Houlme in Allostock Esquire 1464. and had Issue Peter Dutton junior Rafe Richard and Randle 4. Peter Dutton of Hatton Esquire Son and Heir of Peter married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Robert Fouleshurst of Crew in Cheshire and had Issue Sir Piers Dutton who was adjudged next Heir Male to all Dutton Lands 26 Hen. 8. Elizabeth married Sir George Calveley of Lea nigh Eaton-boat Elinour married Randle Brereton of Malpas Jane married George Leech of Carden This Peter died about 20 Hen. 7. for Elizabeth his Widow married Thomas Leycester of Tabley Esquire 22 Hen. 7. 1506. and she was the third Wife of the said Thomas Leycester T. num 1. XVIII Sir Piers Dutton of Hatton and Dutton both Son and Heir of Peter Dutton of Hatton Esquire was a Knight 19 Hen. 8. Lib. C. fol. 162. s. and adjudged next Heir Male to Lawrence Dutton of Dutton Esquire 26 Hen. 8. 1534. Lib. C. fol. 163. y. He is the eighteenth Lord of Dutton since the Conquest and the fifteenth Person in Lineal Descent from Odard He built the Hall and New Buildings of Dutton-House which he joyned to the Chappel Anno 1539. before which time the House stood a little more remote from the Chappel He had two Wifes Elinour Daughter of Thomas Legh of Adlington was his first Wife by whom he had Issue Peter Dutton eldest Son who died without Issue Hugh Dutton second Son Rafe Dutton third Son to whom his Father gave all Hatton Lands from whom the Duttons of Hatton yet in being 1666. are propagated Katharine a Daughter married Sir Roger Pilston of Emrads afterwards she married Richard Grosvenour younger Son of the Grosvenours of Eaton-boat Elizabeth married William Manley of Manley afterwards she married Thomas Brown of Nether-Lee Anne married to Hamnet Massy of Sale in Cheshire after to Edward Barlow of Barlow in Lancashire Margery married John Booth younger Son of Sir William Booth of Dunham-Massy Margaret married Raufe Sherman Mary married Matthew Ellis of Overley Alice died unmarried See the Inquisition post mortem praedicti Petri Dutton Militis 37 Hen. 8. which names the Daughters but their Husbands I had out of the Herald's Books Sir Piers married to his second Wife Julian Daughter of William Poyns of Worthokiton in Essex Esquire who with her Husband built the Hall of Dutton and the new Chambers there 1539. as appears by the Inscription round about the Hall of Dutton within the Hall Obiit 1546 He was Sheriff of Cheshire 34 Hen. 8. and died 37 Hen. 8. 1546. and had a Bastard-son called John Dutton and a Bastard-daughter called Elizabeth as appears by the Office taken after his death Hugh Dutton second Son and Heir to Sir Piers married Jane Daughter of Sir William Booth of Dunham-Massy 12 Hen. 8. Lib. C. fol. 167. and had Issue John Dutton Son and Heir and Anne married to Cristopher Son and Heir of Thomas Holford of Holford nigh Nether-Tabley in Cheshire Esquire This Hugh died in the Life-time of Sir Piers his Father and Jane his Widow married Thomas Holford aforesaid XIX John Dutton of Dutton Esquire Son and Heir of Hugh and Grandson to Sir Piers married Elinour Daughter of Sir Hugh Calveley of Lea nigh Eaton-boat and had Issue Peter eldest Son who married Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Richard Massy of Aldford in Cheshire 27 Eliz. 1585. Lib. C. fol. 163. aa and died the thirtieth day of May 35 Eliz. 1593. without Issue Male of his Body then living in the Life-time of his Father See John Dutton's Office 7 Jacobi Also John Dutton second Son and Hugh third Son both died without Issue Thomas fourth Son succeeded Heir to his Father Lawrence Raufe Adam Geffrey and George all five died without Issue Jane died unmarried Anne married one Hersey and Elinour died unmarried This John had also John Dutton Bastard-son who was after Gardiner at Dutton and died 1664. And Elizabeth a Bastard-daughter married Mr. Marshall Chaplain to the Lord Gerard of Gerards-Bromley in Staffordshire Mother to the two famous Women-Actors now at London called The two Marshals The same John sued Raufe Dutton of Hatton his Uncle for all Hatton Lands as Heir at Law But this Suit was composed by the Award of Robert Earl of Leycester the fifth day of July 14 Eliz. 1572. wherein he gave to John Dutton the Lands of Claverton and in Honbridge in the City of Chester and in Littleton in Cheshire and the Lands in Harden and Mancote in Flintshire and also 500 Marks to be paid by Raufe
all the old Rents reserved to Radcliff amounting in the whole to 23 l. 00 s. 00 d. yearly or thereabout by Deed dated the 19 of April 4 Jacobi 1606. for which he paid 1530 l. Purchase-Money Randle Blackshaw This was bought from Sir John Radcliff of Ordsall by Deed dated the eighth day of August 1611. and is said to be the Ancient Demain-House of Mobberley which did belong to Radcliff Peter Legh of Booths Es Esq hath three Tenements in Radcliff's Part now in Tenure of George Leycester Cookson and the Fox-house John Gleave of High-Legh Owner of Holden-Cliff-House in Mobberley Roger Symcock lately Purchased from Mrs. Martha Hurleston formerly Oldfield's Lands Homfrey Cherry lately Purchased from Mrs. Martha Hurleston formerly Oldfield's Lands William Coppock lately Purchased from Mrs. Martha Hurleston formerly Oldfield's Lands Rafe Shaw lately Purchased from Mrs. Martha Hurleston formerly Oldfield's Lands Richard Parker for Mere-House sold away by Mr. Robinson Richard Yarwood for Bowers John Anson sold by Mr. Robinson Richard Seddall of Wood-end Richard Bruch formerly Duncalf's Thomas Hield of the Broad-Oak in Mobberley John Strethull late Bateson's House Roger Hewet of Pavement-Lane Henry Hasselhurst Richard Rowlinson of Roanes pro Fox-house VVilliam Hobson George Stubs John Symcock of the Dub'd-Hedge Daniel Yarwood formerly Oldrinshaw's Homfrey Lea. John Baggiley of the Mosse-side Widow Strethull of the Town-Lane John Holland of Dam-head hath certain Parcels of Land in Ratcliff's Part sold away by Mr. Robinson 1639. Urmeston's Lands in Mobberley bought for Pious Uses Thomas Whitchcot late John Radford's Peter Bradbury of Brook-bank a Cottage Robert Ridgeway a Cottage More THis Town of More is of the Fee of Halton Roger Lacy Constable of Cheshire and Baron of Halton had a Brother called Richard to whom he gave the Town of More and afterwards the said Richard became Leprous and was buried in the Chapter-house of the Canons of Norton Monasticon Vol. 1. pag. 860. This was about the Reign of King Richard the First The Name More signifieth a more barren Ground than Marshes be a Miry and Moorish Soil yet serveth not to get Turfs thereon Coke upon Littleton fol. 5. a. The Inhabitants of More and Runcorn were formerly Copy-holders to the Barons of Halton but have lately bought out their own Land to hold in Fee-farm in Free and Common Soccage of the Mannor of Enfield in the County of Middlesex the Kings Grant bearing date the ninth day of September 4 Car. 1. 1628. save onely these Persons following who now are and their Ancestors anciently before them were Free-holders in the Mannor of More and not Fee-farmers as followeth Free-holders or Charterers in More 1666. 1. Henry Porter of More This hath continued in the Name of Porter since Edward the Fourth This Free-hold before belonged to one Peter Arderne in the Reign of Edward the First as by the Deed now in Possession of this Henry Porter appeareth 2. Sir Richard Brooks of Norton Baronet hath now about twenty Cheshire Acres of Free-Land in More as late belonging to the Priory of Norton and also about six Acres more of Free-hold Land adjoyning lately bought from Crosby of Over-Whitley 3. These were all purchased from Brook of Norton and Brook bought them of Harper of Newton Robert Pickering of Thelwall Esquire Counsellor at Law hath one Janion's House Richard Rutter hath also other Free-hold Land Richard Dutton of Mosse-end other Free-hold Land 4. Widow Harper hath now also certain Free-hold Land in More Newton juxta Daresbury THis Town according to its Name is not of so great Antiquity For I find it granted by Parcels and Enclosures and Closes some in Henry the Third's Time some under Edward the First and some in the Reign of Edward the Second by the Ancestors of VVarburton of Arley before they had relinquished their proper Sir-name of Dutton who were Lords thereof from King John's Time unto this present 1666. The Charterers now in Newton 1666. Sable a Cross engrailed Ermine And in 11 Edw. 4. 1471. Thomas Chickford and Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Heir of Robert de Hallum Son and Heir of William de Hallum sold the Mannor of Hallum to Sir John Nedham sometime Judge of Chester who setled the same upon Robert Nedham his younger Brother whose Line failing at last for want of Heirs Males it descended to Robert Nedham of Shenton Esquire 21 Eliz. from whom the Lord Kilmorie now Owner of Hallum 1666. I speak here out of the Lord Kilmorie's Evidences 2. Rafe Starky of Morthwait in Newton Lawyer whose Ancestor Thomas Starky married Agnes Sister and Heir of Thomas Harper and Daughter of Richard Harper of Newton 32 Hen. 6. Lib. C. fol. 205. g. 3. Grimsdich of Grimsdich in Nether-Whitley hath also Lands in Newton which Thomas Grimsdich then of Hallum by Lease bought of John Daniell of Daresbury 12 Hen. 8. Lib. C. fol. 194. num 44 46 47. And which Lands John Daniell Ancestor of the said John had in Marriage with Jonet Daughter and Heir of Thomas Hallum of Newton 1 Hen. 6. Lib. C. fol. 193. num 36 37. 4. Robert Venables of Anterbus in the Lordship of Over-Whitley hath Lands in Newton 5. John Starky of Newton Norton THis Township of Norton was given by William Constable of Cheshire the younger Son of William Fitz-Nigell unto the Canons of Runcorne in exchange for Lands in Runcorne and so he removed the Canons of Runcorne to Norton about the Reign of King Stephen Anno 1135. Monasterium de Norton in Comitatu Cestriae Fundatur à Willielmo Filio Nigelli Constabulario Cestriae Historia Aurea Johannis Tynemytensis lib. 19. cap. 41. A Manuscript in the Publick Library at Oxford inter Libros Juris v. 4. num 4. Wherewith also agreeth Polychronicon lib. 7. cap. 17. Monasticon Vol. 2. pag. 187. tells us William Fitz-Nigell Founded a Religious House of Canons Regular at Runcorne Anno Domini 1133. And afterwards William Constable of Cheshire the younger removed them from Runcorne to Norton Which agrees with the Deed Lib. B. pag. 199. num 1. After the Dissolution of Abbies in England by Henry the Eighth Richard Brooks Esquire Purchased from the King the Mannor of Norton with its Members and Appurtenances to wit Norton Stockham Acton-Grange and Aston-Grange in Cheshire and Cuerdly in Lancashire with other Lands The Charter is dated decimo die Decembris 37 Hen. 8. 1545. whose Heir now enjoyeth these Lands 1666. There is a certain Hamlet or Place called Endley now belonging to the Township of Norton and enjoyed as Part and Parcel of the same which William Fitz-Nigell Baron of Halton held as a distinct thing by it self in the Conqueror's Time as appears by Doomsday-book This afterwards came to Aston of Aston For Richard Aston of Aston Son of Gilbert gave to God and St. Mary and to Randle Prior of Norton all his Land of Hendeley with all its Appurtenances about King John's Reign Lib. B. pag. 200. num 8. Here was anciently a Church belonging to
after the death of Sir Robert de Monte alto his Uncle except the Rents formerly given unto Queen Isabel Dated 24 Edw. 3. Lib. C. fol. 230. y. The Original of this Deed remained among the Evidences of the late Lord Cholmondley and the Copy of the Fine Levied hereon in the same Year is Enrolled in the Leiger-Book of the Abby of Vale-Royal fol. 30. b. which Book was in possession of Thomas Merbury of Merbury nigh Comberbach Esquire 1666. Vide Tom. 2. of my own Evidences in principio In the Year of Christ 1364. die Veneris in Festo Sanctae Luciae Virginis John Pool came before Thomas then Abbot of Vale-Royal in the said Abby and did Fealty to the said Abbot for this Moiety of the Mannor of Nether-Pever which he acknowledged to hold of the said Abbot by the yearly Rent of Twelve Pence to be paid at the Feast of St. Michael onely and by paying to the said Abbot two Shillings for Relief as appears by the same Book Lib. C. fol. 230. z. From Pool of Hartington this Moiety was granted to George Holford of Holford about the Time of Henry the Seventh In which Family of the Holfords of Holford it continued till Mary Daughter and Heir of Christopher Holford Esquire brought the Inheritance of all Holford-Lands unto Sir Hugh Cholmondley of Cholmondley the younger in Marriage in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Concerning which Inheritance great Suits fell between the said Lady Mary Cholmondley and George Holford of Newborough in Dutton uncle to the said Mary and next Heir-male of the Holfords These Suits lasted above forty Years At last towards the end of King James's Reign the matter was compos'd by Friends The Lady Mary had Holford-Demain and George Holford had the Demain of Iscoit in Flintshire near to Whitchurch in Shropshire The Lands in Nether-Pever Plumley and Lostock-Gralam belonging to the Holfords were promiscuously allotted Part to the one and Part to the other as at this day they be enjoyed So that in the Year 1659. Robert Cholmondley Earl of Leimster in Ireland Son and Heir of the said Lady Mary and James Holford of Newborough Esquire Son of Peter Son of George Holford abovesaid did enjoy this other Moiety of Nether-Pever between them In which Year the said Lord Cholmondley died without any Lawful Issue of his Body Concerning the Chappel of Nether-Pever see above in Budworth Picmere This Township of Picmere is not in Doomsday-book whereby it seemeth to be Waste at that time It was anciently of two Fees in the Reign of King John One Moiety Raufe Manwaring sometime Judge of Chester gave unto Henry de Aldithley or Audley in Free-Marriage with Bertrey his Daughter together with the Towns of Smallwood and Snelston and a Mark of Annual Rent in the City of Chester of the Land which belonged to one Fagun Unto which Deed Philip Orreby then Judge of Chester was a Witness The Original is in Cotton's Library at Westminster Lib. B. pag. 1. a. Henry of Audley by the consent of Bertrey his Wife gave to Thomas Son of Randle de Longsdon libero homini suo half of his Land in Picmere and half of his Wood there Rendring yearly 3 s. 4 d. as I find the Deed extracted in Vernon's Notes This Moiety of Picmere is now enjoyed by these Persons following 1666. 1. Thomas Merbury of Merbury Esquire hath one half of this Moiety which formerly belonged to the Cockers of Picmere ever since the Reign of Henry the Third until Hugh Cocker of Pickmere sold the Reversion hereof after his Life unto Thomas Merbury Father of Thomas aforesaid Anno Domini 1604. Probably this was that Part which Henry Audley gave to Thomas Longsdon 2. Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire hath four Tenements here in Lease These were formerly held by William Wiche and called Wiche's Lands which upon the Attainder of Sir William Stanley of Holt-Castle Anno Domini 1495. Lord Chamberlain to Henry the Seventh Escheated to the King and were afterwards given to George Sutton one of the Grooms of the Chamber 14 H. 8. Sutton sold them to Richard Sneyd 7 Novembris 14 Hen. 8. and William Sneyd sold them to Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire 36 Hen. 8. 3. Sir Peter Leycester of Nether-Tabley Baronet hath one Tenement here now in Possession of John Perceivall which was Part of Wiche's Lands and was sold by William Sneyd to Gawen Legh of Northwood in High-Legh 35 Hen. 8. 1543. before he sold the rest to Daniell And this Tenement afterwards Richard Legh of Northwood Gentleman sold among other Lands to Peter Leycester of Tabley Esquire 1633. whose Son now enjoyeth the same 4. John Swinton of Nether-Knotsford hath one good Tenement here But part of this lieth in Winsham formerly Crocket's Land of Nantwich 5. John Key of the Yate in Picmere Part of Crocket's Land formerly 6. Peter Deane of Over-Tabley hath Land in Picmere lately bought from Key of the Yate 7. Philip Anterbus of Over-Pever one Close belonging to his Free-hold Land in Aston juxtà Picmere 8. Sir George Warburton of Arley Baronet hath about one Acre and a half in Possession of Robert Deusbery and Thomas Starky of Feldy The other Moiety of Picmere together with the Mannor of Winsham William Venables gave to Maud his Sister in Free-Marriage to be held by the Service of half a Knights Fee whereunto Roger Lacy Constable of Cheshire is a Witness Which Roger died Anno Domini 1211. 13 Johannis Regis saith Matthew Paris in his History Lib. B. pag. 50. a. This Maud had two Husbands The first was Raufe Son of Roger the second was Hugh de Bixis or Brixis This Hugh and his Wife grant to Hugh Venables all the Land which William de Offley held of them in Picmere and the Wardship of the Children of Hugh Son of the said William de Offley till they come to such Age as to govern the said Land Lib. B. pag. 50. e. Ex Chartulis Glover de Picmere Hugh Venables grants to Hugh de Picmere and his Heirs the whole Moiety of the Village of Picmere for the same Service contained in the Deed of William Venables his Father the Donor of the same Lands This was tempore Henrici Tertii Lib. B. pag. 51. num 1. Afterwards William Son of Guy of Winsham grants to Henry Son of Hugh de Picmere all his Rent in the Township of Picmere to wit 3 s. 1 d. ob which he yearly received from Hugh de Picmere Rendring a Pair of White Gloves yearly Lib. B. pag. 54. num 19. And Pagan Son of Raufe de Wastneys Lord of Winsham releaseth to the said Henry all his Right in 3 s. 1 d. ob Rent which he received of the said Henry So that now he was onely to pay 3 s. 1 d. ob yearly from henceforward and a Pair of Gloves for all Services And this was in the Reign of Edward the First Lib. B. pag. 51. num 2. Hugh Picmere Son of Henry was
seised of this Moiety whose Son Hugh had three Daughters Isabel Alice and Margaret 1343. Lib. B. pag. 52. num 6. And in Anno 1356. he settles his Mannor of Picmere for want of Heirs-Males of his Body on Hugh Bruyn of Stapleford and Margaret his Wife Daughter of the said Hugh Picmere Lib. B. pag. 53. num 12. Margaret the Widow of Hugh Bruyn of Picmere grants to Hugh Hulse of Picmere all her Lands of Picmere 42 Edw. 3. Lib. B. pag. 52. num 10. This Hugh Hulse was Lieutenant-Justice of Chester 20 Rich. 2. to Thomas Earl of Nottingham and married Ellen Daughter and Heir of Hugh Bruyn and Margaret 36 Edw. 3. The Marriage and Wardship of Ellen was granted by Margaret her Mother to David Hulse Vicar of Great-Budworth to marry Hugh Son of Sybill Daughter of William Son of Hugh de Norbery 36 Edw. 3. Lib. B. pag. 52. num 11. pag. 54. num 21. This Sir Hugh Hulse dying 3 Hen. 5. or thereabout it was found by Inquisition That he died seised of seven Messuages in Picmere 200 Acres of Land and 20 Acres of Wood ibidem quae tenentur de Willielmo Leycester ut de Manerio suo de Wethale sed per quod Servitium ignoratur Inter Recognitiones Scaccarii Cestriae Bundle 3 Hen. 5. Afterwards John Troutback Esquire married Margery Daughter and Heir of Thomas Hulse in the Reign of Henry the Sixth Lib. B. pag. 53. num 17. And Margaret Daughter and Heir of Adam Troutback married John Talbot of Albrighton in Shropshire from whom the Talbots of Grafton in Worcestershire descended whose Posterity at last came to be Earls of Shrewsbury And George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury sells all his Lands in Picmere to wit the Moiety of Picmere unto his Tenants there Anno 1620. every Tenant buying his own and so are become particular Free-holders at this day Thomas Starkey's Lands now in Picmere were Purchased from Raufe Bostock of Moulton by John Starkey his Father 14 Aprilis 7 Jacobi 1609. and was originally given by Henry de Picmere unto Richard his younger Son 1192. A Parcel thereof was given to the said Richard by Hugh Picmere his Elder Brother 1308. Lib. B. pag. 58. a. b. c. Plumley ROger Manwaring gave Plumley to the Abby of St. Werburge in Chester when he made his Son Wido a Monk there William and Randle his Sons being Witnesses Which Grant with many others Richard Earl of Chester confirmed 1119. 19 Hen. 1. In the Feodary of Halton about Edw. 2. we read Thomas de Vernon tenet Villam de Lostock cùm Parvâ-Lostock medietatem de Plumley pro medietate unius Feodi Militis This Thomas de Vernon was second Husband of Joan de Lostock in whose Right he held these Lands Her former Husband was William de Toft younger Son of Roger Toft of Toft The Posterity of which William assumed the Sir-name of Holford from the Place of their Residence at Holford according to the Custom of those Ages This Place or Hamlet called Holford lieth Part in Plumley and Part in Lostock-Gralam and hath its Name from the Ford which runneth under the Mannor-Hall which because it is situate in a Derne Hole was therefore called Holford as if you should say A Ford in a Hole Or else from the old Word Hale which we now call Hall and so denotes as much as A Ford under the Hall Or possibly from the old Word Holt A Wood quasi Holt-Ford for that the Ford anciently was environed with a Wood round about All the Tenants of Plumley at this day do Suit of Court to the Mannor of Barnshaw which formerly belonged to the Abby of St. Werburge in Chester but was bought by Manwaring of Carincham since the Dissolution of Abbies in England Agnes the Daughter of Walthef de Plumley by Henry her Son Attornatum positum ad lucrandum perdendum by Fine at Chester 2 Edw. 1. 1274. passeth the eighth Part of Plumley unto Thomas the Smith of Plumley and to William his Son This William in his Seal calls himself Willielmus Filius Ceciliae de Plumley And by another Fine 2 Edw. 1. the same Agnes passeth over one other eighth Part of Plumley unto Richard Sladehurst of Plumley and Lettice his-Wife which Lettice in her Seal calls her self the Daughter of William de Plumley Lib. A. fol. 157. h. k. The Originals Penès Manwaring of Carincham 1666. I find also that William Mobberley of Mobberley had certain Lands in Plumley about Edward the Second Lib. A. fol. 124. y. which were held of the Baron of Halton by the yearly Rent of a Pair of White Spurs or Six Pence See suprà in Halton And Sir Raufe Mobberley of Mobberley gave his Mannor in Plumley unto Thomas Toft and Margaret his Wife and their Heirs 1357. 32 Edw. 3. Lib. A. fol. 129. II. One half of these Lands now belong to Leycester of Tabley and the other half to Bradshaw of Marple as you may see more at large in Mobberley So that now Anno Domini 1666. the whole Township of Plumley is enjoyed by these Persons following âšœ Thomas Cholmondley of Holford Esquire and James Holford of Newborough in Dutton have one Moiety of Plumley between them The other Moiety is enjoyed by these Persons following 1. Sir Peter Leycester of Nether-Tabley Baronet hath five Tenements here now in Possession of Robert Massy Geffrey Wright William Ridgeway Thomas Wright and Thomas Hough 2. Mr. Bradshaw of Marple a good Farm in Possession of Thomas Buckley 3. The Land late Litler's of Wallers-cote nigh Northwich three Tenements in Possession of Hugh Yanes Homfrey Mere and Widow Bebington 4. George Leycester of Toft Esquire one Tenement in Possession of William Highfield 5. Robert Venables of Anterbus in Over-Whitley hath three Closes in Plumley in Possession of Raufe Henshaw 6. Reynolds of Middlewich late belonging to Bostock of Moulton one Tenement in Possession of Raufe Newhall at the end of Plumley-Moore 7. John Hall of Norley one Tenement in Plumley in Possession of John Kirkman 8. Manwaring of Pever's Land sold to Holford of Holford one Tenement at the side of Plumley-Moore in Possession of Richard Eaton 9. Earl of Bridgewater a small Parcel about four Cheshire Acres Now followeth the Descent of Holford of Holford Argent a Greyhound Passant Sable Hugh de Runchamp Lord of Lostock Lib. C. fol. 126. ll Ricardus de Runchamp Gralanus Filius Ricardi de Runchamp in memory of whom the Town was called Lostock-Gralam for distinction He gave the Town of Lees unto Lidulf of Twamlow about the Reign of King John Lib. C. fol. 227. z. This Gralam also sold Houlme juxtà Nether-Pever to Richard Son of Randle * Ranulfi con Radulfi Grosvenour 1234. Lib. C. fol. 120. a. Gralam de Lostock Letitia Uxor ejus Tempore Hen. 3. Galfridus de Lostock â—ui Frater dedit medietatem de Rode Gralam de Morton Robert de Lostock Lib. C. fol. 182. b. Richard Son of Gralam de Lostock married
Newborough in Dutton Brother to Christopher Holford and now next Heir-Male of the Holfords hapned long and tedious Suits concerning holford-Holford-Lands which continued above forty Years At last the Matter was composed by Mediation of Friends and the Lands parted between them The Lady Cholmondley had the Mannor-House of Holford with the demain-Demain-Lands thereof and George Holford had the Mannor of Iscoit in Flintshire The Lands and Tenements in Lostock-Gralam Plumley and Nether-Pever were parted promiscuously as they be now enjoyed This George Holford married Jane Daughter and Heir of Charles Awbrey of Cantriff in Brecknockshire and Widow of Henry Masterson and by her had Issue Thomas Holford and John Twins Edward third Son Peter fourth Son * Peter the fourth Son waited on James Earl of Darby and married Frances Daughter of William Wolley of Warrington Mercer and Widow of one Pikford of London Haberdasher and had Issue James Peter and George and also Frances Mary Anne and Hannah George Charles and William Also Mary married to William Harcourt of Winsham Gentleman 1629. both yet living 1666. George Holford of Newborough died 1635. and Thomas Holford of Iscoit Son and Heir of the said George died without Issue-Male Wherefore his Inheritance is descended now unto James Holford †This James Holford married Margaret Daughter of Matthew Carleton of Lincolns-Inn in London and had Issue Thomas Holford a Son and Mary a Daughter James Holford died 1666 Margaret his Wife died 1662. of Newborough Son and Heir of Peter fourth Son of George for all the other Brothers of Peter died without Issue But the Mannor of Iscoit was sold by Thomas Holford eldest Brother unto one Mr. Adams of London The Lady Mary Cholmondley survived her Husband and lived at her Mannor-House of Holford which she builded new repaired and enlarged and where she died about 1625. aged 63 Years or thereabouts King James termed her The Bold Lady of Cheshire So ended the Family of Holford of Holford XIII Robert Cholmondley of Cholmondley Son and Heir of Sir Hugh and Mary Holford his Wife was Created Baronet in June 1611. and after Created Viscount Cholmondley of Kellis in Ireland about 1635. and lastly Lord Cholmondley Baron of Wich-Malbeng * Made Baron of Wich-Malbank Sept. 1. 1645. id est Nantwich in Cheshire and also Earl of Leinster in Ireland 21 Car. 1. 5 die Martii 1645. He married Katharine Sister of Charles Lord Stanhop of Harrington but had no Issue by her This Robert Lord Cholmondley died 1659. aged 75 Years without any Lawful Issue of his Body leaving Robert eldest Son of Hugh Cholmondley his Brother to succeed in his Inheritance Which Robert was Created Viscount Kells in the County of Meath in the Kingdom of Ireland 29 Martii 1661. 13 Car. 2. But this Robert Earl of Leinster estated Holford-Lands which came by his Mother on Thomas Cholmondley his Son by one Mrs. Goldston to whom as some think he was affianced though never married to her This Thomas Cholmondley died at Holford in Festo Epiphaniae the sixth of January 1667. and was buried at Nether-Pever on Thursday the sixteenth day of January following on whom Mr. Kent his Chaplain in the Funeral Sermon truly observed That he was a Loyal Subject a Good Husband a Good Father a Good Master a Good Landlord a Good Neighbor a Good Friend a Good Christian and a Good Man This Coat of Arms as it is here inserted he had granted unto him by the Patent of William Dugdale Norroy at Arms about Anno 1666. Preston juxta Dutton THis Township of Preston was Purchased by Hugh Dutton of Dutton from Henry de Nuers and Julian his Wife Rendring eight Shillings yearly at the Feast of St. Martin exceptis Foranis Servitiis propter hanc Concessionem dedit Hugo Dutton quinque Marcas Argenti praedictae Julianae de Recognitione unum Palfridum Nigrum unum Annulum Aureum as the Words of the Deed be This was about King John's Reign This Grant was Confirmed by Randle Earl of Chester sirnamed Blundevill Lib. C. fol. 155. o. p. The Originals to possession of the Lady Kilmorey at Dutton 1649. Since which time this Township hath belonged to the Duttons of Dutton Charterers in Preston 1666. 1. Thomas Barker of Preston 2. Thomas Baxter of Preston Rosthorne HEre is an ancient Parish-Church Dedicated to St. Mary their Wakes or Feast of Dedication being on the fifteenth day of August This Parish comprehendeth these Villages following besides the Parochial Chappelries of Knotsford and Over-Pever which see in their due Places  The Mize  l. s. d. Rosthorne 00 14 00 Tatton cùm Norshagh 00 11 08 Over-Tabley cùm Sudlowe 00 13 04 Mere 00 19 00 Millington 00 09 04 High-Legh with its Hamlets of Swineyard Sworton and North-wood 01 13 00 Agden one half 00 01 10 Bollington one half 00 03 00  05 05 02 That there was a Church at Rosthorne before Anno 1188. appears by this following Deed collected by Samson Erdeswick of Sond in Staffordshire out of the Evidences of Venables of Kinderton Lib. H. num 1. UNiversis Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Filiis Willielmus de Venables Miles salutem Noverit universitas vestra me concessisse Hugoni de Venables Clerico id juris quod habui in Ecclesiis terrae meae scilicet in Ecclesia de Rosthorne in Ecclesia de Eccleston in Ecclesia de Estbirie c. Facta vero est haec Donatio Synodo apud Cestriam proxime celebrata post confectionem Venerabilis Episcopi nostri Domini Hugonis de Novant existente Custode Honoris Cestriae Domino Adamo de Aldithley Datusque est Tutor Praenominato Clerico Hugoni de Venables Adam Panton ejus Avunculus Hiis Testibus G. de Venables R. Michaele ejusdem Fratribus N. G. Capellanis Willielmo de Monte alto Magistro Philippo de Cestria Clerico R. Capellano Waltero Ecclesiae Sanctae Trinitatis Presbytero Domino Nigello Hugone Filio Andreae Husbanda Ecclesiae Sancti Johannis in Cestria Canonico Warino de Vernon R. Fratre ejus Liulfo de Crokeston Willielmo Donne multis aliis Hugh Novant was Consecrated Bishop of Coventry 1188. So Hoveden in his History But the Advowson of Rosthorne-Church came afterwards to Massy of Tatton and Sir Richard Massy of Tatton releaseth all his Right in the Advowson of St. Maries Chuch of Rosthorn unto Sir Hugh Venables of Kinderton in the Reign of Edward the First Lib. H. num 61. And ever since the Barons of Kinderton have been Patrons hereof to this day 1666. The Steeple of this Church was built in Stone Anno Domini 1533. 25 Hen. 8. as appears by the Figures cut in Stone on the South-side of the said Steeple Over these Figures is written Orate pro Anima Domini Willielmi Hardwick Vicarii hujus Ecclesiae pro animabus omnium Parochianorum suorum qui hoc sculpserunt This Town of Rosthorne was held in the Conqueror's
Rosthorne to wit quartam partem Villae quam Petrus Chanu Avunculus meus tenuit For which was a Suit per Breve de morte Antecessoris between the said William Chanu Demandant and William de Massy and Margery his Wife Tenants Testibus Philippo de Orreby tunc Justiciario Cestriae Willielmo Venables Hamone de Massy c. Sub initio Hen. 3. Ego Ricardus de Rotherston Filius Ricardi Clerici de Rothesthorne dedi Margeriae Filiae Homfridi de Rothesthorne Clerici unam Bovatam Terrae in Rothesthorne quam Petrus Chanu tenuit scilicet quartam partem Villae Pro qua Margeria dedit quatuor Marcas Argenti And so released to Richard all Covenants which had been between Richard and his Father and Wimar his Sister on the one Part and the said Margery and William her Son and Amabilia her Daughter on the other Part Testibus Philippo de Orreby tunc Justiciario Cestriae c. SCiant praesentes futuri Quod ego Rogerus de Hale Carpentarius dedi Thomae de Massy Filio Domini Willielmi de Massy totam Terram meam Tenementum meum tam in Molendinis quam in Terris quod habui in Villa de Rosthorne Faciendo inde Servitium Dominis illius Villae quod continetur in Charta Originali quam sibi deliberavi quando istam Chartam sibi feci c. Testibus Ricardo de Wilbraham tunc Vicecomite Cestershiriae Ricardo de Vernon Willielmo de Massy Willielmo de Carrington tunc Ballivo de Doneham c. This Deed was made 1270. OMnibus Christi fidelibus Willielmus Filius Willielmi Filii Gilberti de Tabley salutem Noveritis me remisisse Roberto de Massy Domino de Tatton totum jus meum in omnibus Terris quae fuerunt Margeriae Proaviae meae in Villa de Rosthorne c. Sub. Edw. 2. Richard Bruncroft gives to Richard Massy Son of Sir William Massy Knight certain Lands in Rosthorne in exchange for Lands in Quiter-hall towards the Bounds of Norshagh in Tatton Testibus Willielmo de Venables c. The Prior and Convent of Norton give to Sir Richard Massy Knight the Homage and the Service of the Lands of Henry the Hunter in Rosthorne Testibus Hamone de Massy Roberto le Grosvenour tunc Vicecomite Cestershiriae c. This was made in Anno 1286. or thereabout Robert Massy Lord of Tatton and John Legh of Booths make an Agreement and Partition to each a Moiety of Rosthorne-Mill and to each the Mulcture of their own Tenants They exchange Land and release Rent to each other and Legh is to hold a fourth Part of Rosthorne of Robert Massy in Fee by the yearly Rent of Twelve pence Testibus Hugh de Heelegh Chief-Justice of Chester * This was Hugh de Audley of Heeley-Castle in Staffordshire c. 1315. So far out of Mr. Halsey's Notes Inter les Fines Cestriae 18 Edw. 3. Finalis Concordia coram Henrice de Ferrars Justiciario Cestriae Johanne de Arderne Radulfo de Vernon Petro de Thorneton Willielmo Boydell Militibus Johanne de Wetenhale Willielmo de Praers Thoma Danyers Inter Ricardum Filium Hugonis Massy de Tatton Aliciam Uxorem ejus quaerentes Hugonem Filium Willielmi Massy de Tatton deforciantem de Mannerio de Rosthorne cum pertinentiis c. So that Massy of Tatton was Lord of the other Moity of Rosthorne ever since the Reign of Edward the First if not the Royalty of the whole How these Lands descended to the Earl of Bridgewater see the Pedegree in Tatton Charterers in Rosthorne 1666. 1. George Massy of Denfield whose Ancestors descended out of the Massies of Tatton under Edward the Third 2. Edward Allen of Rosthorne Runcorn Superior Inferior THese two Townships now distinguish'd into Over-Runcorn and Nether-Runcorn are Mized together in our Common Mize-book and are very hard Mized Here at Runcorn that Magnanimous Virago Elflede Countess of Mercia and Widow to Ethelred the Chief Governor of Mercia and Sister to King Edward the Elder did build a Town Anno Domini 916. as Florentius Huntington and other our Historians do affirm A Town and Castle saith Stow pag. 81. Probably it was then in a more flourishing condition than now it is For now it is a very poor Village and seems to be Waste in the Conqueror's Time for it is not mentioned in Doomsday-book Both these Townships comprehend not fully 300 Cheshire Acres upon a Survey of the Assessors made by estimation in the Time of our late War These little Villages are both of the Fee of the ancient Barony of Halton and were formerly Copy-hold Land to the Manor of Halton until the several Owners bought out their Lands in Fee-farm to hold in Free and Common Soccage of the Mannor of Enfield in Middlesex the King 's Grant bearing date the ninth day of September 4 Car. 1. 1628. as you may see also above in Moore Some Lands in these Townships are ancient Free-hold Land For Sir Hugh Dutton of Dutton by Office taken at Frodsham 22 Edw. 1. 1294. was found to hold seven Bovates of Land in Runcorn with other Lands of the Honor of Halton which are termed The third Part of Over-Runcorn in the Feodary of Halton Vide supra at the end of Halton But these Lands were sold lately by Gilbert Lord Gerard unto Savage of Rock-Savage in the Reign of King James Here is seated on the Bank by the Riverside an ancient Parish-Church Alhallowes of Nether-Runcorn Dedicated to All-Saints William Son of Nigell Baron of Halton founded here a House of Canons Regular Anno Domini 1133. And afterwards William Constable of Cheshire the younger Son of William Son of Nigell removed their Habitation unto Norton about the Reign of King Stephen All which Donations of William Constable of Cheshire the younger and of the Churches of Runcorn and Great-Budworth and many other things Henry the Second confirms to the Canons of Runcorn as you may see the Charter in Monasticon Vol. 2. pag. 186. Ratified also by the Charter of Edward the Third wherein he Confirms Donationem quam Hugo de Duttona Filius Hugonis de Duttona fecit per Chartam suam praedictis Canonicis de duobus Solidis octo Denariis de redditu de Pulseya ac de Terra de Frodsham cum pertinentiis de Terra de Pulles-eya cum Capella tota Terra Assartata Pastura ad sexaginta animalia ibidem ante Publicationem Statuti praedicti de Terris ad manum mortuam non ponendis editi Datum apud Glocester 30 die Augusti 3 Edw. 3. See more of the Priory of Norton of the Order of St. Augustine supra in Norton The Church of Runcorn seems to be before the Norman Conquest For we read in the ancient Roll That Nigell Baron of Halton gave the Church of Runcorn to Wolfaith a Priest his Brother in the Reign of the Conqueror This Church hath now for its Patron Christ-Church College in Oxford For after the Statute of Dissolution
Co-heirs for then he would have had another Sir-name and have been subscribed before the other two Witnesses Wherefore it seems that he had a Sister illegitimate married to Estbury who was Mother to this Randle of Estbury and so was Nephew to Earl Randle or else a base Brother sirnamed de Estbury who was Father to this Randle of Estbury Nephew to the Earl of Chester And therefore Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester had either another Base Daughter omitted in the place aforesaid or else another Base Son Place these two Sheets after Fol. 392. being the End of the Fourth Part. Addenda in Mobberley Part IV. Concerning the Descent of Mobberley of Mobberley Pag. 320. I find William de Mobberley Witness to a Deed of Gervase Son of Hugh de Mobberley about 1230. Lib. C. fol. 296. T. num 1. which seems to me very probable that he was Father of Rafe Mobberley I mean that William I. Rafe Mobberley was Lord of the Moyety of Mobberley in the Reign of Henry the Third This is certain by good proof and had Issue William Mobberley and Henry de Mobberley who gave Lands in Mobberley to Mary Daughter of William Mobberley the younger about 1324. Lib. C. fol. 14. M. num 1. II. William Son of Rafe de Mobberley was Lord of the Moiety of Mobberley and purchased the Moiety of Nether-Pever from Richard Bonetable 1281. and had Issue as is mentioned before in the Book This William died about the beginning of Edward the Second He had a Wife called Maud who after the death of her Husband married John Boydell of Limme living 1359. Lib. C. fol. 17. M. num 32. III. William of Mobberley Son and Heir of William had a former Wife as I conceive by whom he had Issue Sir Rafe Mobberley and Cicely a Daughter who married John Domvill of Mobberley the younger as by and by will better appear both under Age 3 Edw. 3. 1329. Lib. A. fol. 128. cc. His other Wife was Maud Daughter and Heir of Robert Downes of Chorley by whom he had those other Daughters and Co-heirs to their Mothers Lands in Chorley as is mentioned in the Book before This William dying 1 Edw. 3. 1327. Maud his Widow afterwards married John Domvill the elder Father of John Domvill the younger who married Cicely And this Maud survived both her Husbands and lived 1 Rich. 2. 1378. Lib. A. fol. 130. kk IV. Sir Raufe Mobberley of Mobberley Knight Son and Heir of William had a Wife called Vincentia by whom he had a Daughterr called Margaret whom he held not to be his Daughter and therefore estated all his Lands on John Leycester his Nephew as appears by the Certificate of Sir John Wynkfield 35 Edw. 3. M. num 33. which hereafter followeth and is transcribed at large He had a Concubine called Alice Rode by whom it may seem that he had a Son called Jenkin of Mobberley Esquire who served under John Leycester of Tabley in the Wars of France 47 Edw. 3. 1373. as appears by John Leycester's Account in my possession dated at Southampton on the Eve of St. John 49 Edw. 3. 1375. But this Jenkin died without Issue Nor is he there stiled Son of Sir Rafe but I conjecture him to be so Margaret the Daughter of Sir Rafe married Thomas Toft both living 1357. Afterwards she married Hugh de Chaderton living 1361. And therefore Page 320. the last Line but one these words without any Lawful Issue of his Body are to be expunged and in the very next Line these words by Alice Rode his Concubine are also to be expunged The Deed wherein John Spendelow and William Geffeson two Chaplains entrusted do settle all Sir Rafe Mobberley's Lands on John Leycester of Nether-Tabley 1359. The Original remaining among the Evidences of Leycester of Toft 1672. M. num 32 SCiant praesentes futuri M. num 32. Quòd nos Johannes Spendelow Willielmus Geffeson de Modburlegh Capellani dedimus concessimus hâc praesenti Chartâ nostrâ confirmavimus Johanni de Leycester Haeredibus suis duas partes Manerii de Modburlegh Advocationem Ecclesiae ejusdem Manerii cum omnibus suis pertinentiis quas priùs habuimus de dono concessione Radulphi de Modburlegh militis in eodem Dedimus etià m concessimus praedicto Johanni de Leycester Haeredibus suis omnes terras tenementa nostra in Norshagh Fernilegh Holey cùm omnibus suis pertinentiis Concessimus etià m quod tertia pars praedicti Manerii de Modburlegh omnes terrae tenementa in Norshagh Fernilegh Holey cùm suis pertinentiis quae Johannes Domvill senior Matilda uxor ejus tenent in dotem ipsius Matildae de Haereditate nostrâ quae post mortem ejusdem Matildae ad nos Haeredes nostros reverti deberent integrè remaneant praefato Johanni de Leycester Haeredibus suis in perpetuùm Volumus insupèr concessimus quòd omnes terrae tenementa cùm suis pertinentiis quae Johannes Boydell de Limme Matilda Uxor ejus tenent in dotem ipsius Matildae in Holey de Haereditate nostrâ quae post mortem ejusdem Matildae nobis haeredibus nostris reverti deberent integrè remaneant praedicto Johanni de Leycester Haeredibus suis in perpetuùm Habendum tenendum duas partes Manerii praedicti Advocationem Ecclesiae praedictae omnes terras tenementa praedicta Reversiones Dotum praedictarum cùm acciderint praedicto Johanni de Leycester haeredibus suis suis Assignatis in Dominicis Wardis Releviis Escaetis Terris Pratis Boscis molendinis Aquis Stagnis Turbariis Redditibus Servitiis liberorum Tenentium nostrorum scilicèt Mariae de Leycester Thomae de Toft Margaretae Uxoris ejus extùnc de Plumlegh Johannis Laurensson de Modburlegh Willielmi Dawson cùm omnibus aliis libertatibus commoditatibus approviamentis proficuis communis aysiamentis praedictis Manerio Advocationi Ecclesiae praedictae Terris Tenementis Redditibus Servitiis ubiquè adjacentibus liberè quietè integro jure haereditario in perpetuùm De Capitalibus Dominis feodorum illorum per Servitia indè debita de jure consueta Et nos verò pradicti Johannes Spendelow Willielmus Geffeson Capellani haeredes nostri dictas duas partes Manerii praedicti Advocationem Ecclesiae praedictae omnes terras tenementa praedicta tà m de Dotibus quà m de aliis unâ cùm redditibus servitiis praedictis cùm omnibus suis pertinentiis praefato Johanni de Leycester haeredibus suis suis Assignatis contrà omnes homines Warrantizabimus defendemus in perpetuùm In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Chartae nostrae Sigilla nostra apposuimus Hiis testibus Willielmo de Maynwaringe Thomâ de Davenport Hugone de Mascy de Tatton Hugone de Toft Adâ de Tablegh aliis Datum apud Modburlegh die Veneris proximè antè Festum Sancti Ceddae
Historical Antiquities IN TWO BOOKS The First Treating in General OF GREAT-BRETTAIN AND IRELAND The Second Containing Particular Remarks CONCERNING CHESHIRE Faithfully Collected out of Authentick Histories Old Deeds Records and Evidences BY Sir PETER LEYCESTER Baronet Whereunto is annexed A Transcript of DOOMSDAY-BOOK so far as it concerneth CHESHIRE taken out of the Original Record Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora LONDON Printed by W. L. for Robert Clavell in Cross-Key Court in Little-Britain M.DC.LXXIII TO HIS Most Serene and Most Excellent Majesty CHARLES II. By the Grace of God OF GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE and IRELAND KING DEFENDER of the FAITH c. THIS VOLUME OF Historical Antiquities Is with all Humility DEDICATED BY HIS MAJESTIES MOST LOYAL AND MOST OBEDIENT SUBJECT PETER LEYCESTER THE AUTHOR TO THE READER I Have in this Volume presented to your view two Books The first more general entituled Historical Antiquities of GREAT BRETTAINE and IRELAND containing a Collection of the Chiefest Things Observable out of our most Ancient and Authentique Historians vouching my Authorities all along to every Particular And although it be but a Brief Abstract which is ever best for Memory of what others have delivered more at large yet the diligent Reader may perhaps find some Remarkable Things which otherwise he might not easily meet withal The other more Particular entituled Some Antiquities touching CHESHIRE And this is divided into four Parts whereof the three first concern that County in general but the fourth Part treats onely of the Antiquities of Bucklow-Hundred Here is also added in the Close of the Whole Work A Transcript of Doomsday-Book so far as it concerns Cheshire taken from the Record it self kept in the Tally-Office at Westminster Which Book was begun and finished between the Fourteenth and Twentieth Years of the Reign of William the Conqueror Which I doubt not but will be very acceptable to all the Gentry of that County and especially to such as love the Study of Antiquities Wherein every Man may see who held any Lands in any of the Towns of Cheshire at the time of the Norman Conquest and who enjoyed the same by vertue of the Conquest in the Time of the Conqueror Howbeit many Towns are now Inhabited in this County which being at that time Waste are not to be found in that Record And whereas some Gentlemen of Cheshire have been formerly at great Charge in taking Copies of Part hereof out of the said Record every Man may now spare that Cost and Trouble having here the Whole at large before him P. L. January 1. 1673. THE PREFACE BEcause I intend to search into the Beginning of Things it will be necessary to shew in the Frontispiece the Original Plantation of Nations as we find them Recorded in Holy Scripture the most Ancient True and Perfect History in the World I. Adam the first Monarch and the first Man who with Eve his Wife were both Created by God in the Beginning of the World to whom God gave Power of Begetting their Like and to multiply by Generation as he did to other Creatures This Adam lived 930 Years and had several Sons and Daughters but three have their Names especially Recorded in the First Book of Moses called Genesis Chapter v. 1. II. Cain eldest Son of Adam was a Tiller of Ground He slew his Brother Abel and was therefore banished and dwelt in the Land of Nod on the East of Eden Gen. c. 4. He built a City and called it after the Name of his Son Enoch III. Enoch Son of Cain IV. Irad Son of Enoch V. Mehujael Son of Irad VI. Methusael Son of Mehujael VII Lamech Son of Methusael had two Wives Gen. 4. Adah Jabal an Orderer of cattel the first Heardsman Jubal the first Inventour of Instrumental Musick Zillah Tubal-Cain the first Artificer in Brass and Iron Naamah a Daughter 2. Abel or Hebel the second Son of Adam was a Feeder of Sheep he was kill'd by his Brother Cain Gen. 4. v. 8. 3. II. Seth born Anno Mundi Adami 130 He lived 912 Years and died Anno Mundi 1042. III. Enos Son of Seth was born Anno Mundi 235 lived 905 Years and died Anno Mundi 1140. IV. Kenan Son of Enos born Anno Mundi 325 lived 910 Years and died Anno Mundi 1235. V. Mahalaleel Son of Kenan born Anno Mundi 395 liv'd 895 Years and died Anno Mundi 1290. VI. Jared Son of Mahalaleel born Anno Mundi 460 lived 962 Years and died Anno Mundi 1422. VII Enoch Son of Jared born Anno Mundi 622 lived 365 Years and was then translated into Heaven by God Anno Mundi 987. VIII Methusalah Son of Enoch born Anno Mundi 687 lived 969 Years and died Anno Mundi 1656 in the Year of the General Deluge IX Lamech Son of Methusalah born Anno Mundi 874 lived 777 Years and died Anno Mundi 1651. vivente Patre ejus X. Noah Son of Lamech born Anno Mundi 1056 lived 950 Years to wit 350 Years after the General Flood and died Anno Mundi Conditi 2006. ⚜ Hence it is saith Sir Walter Raleigh in his History of the World Lib. 1. Cap. 6. Sect. 4. that the Heathen Gods fetch their Original Many Learned Men conceive that Adam was the first Saturn Cain the first and ancient Jupiter Jabal the first Mercury Jubal the first Apollo Tubal-Cain the first Vulcan which hath some resemblance in the Name Lactantius Lib. 4. Cap. 27. Lamech the seventh from Adam had 77 Children saith Josephus in his History of the Jews But those four above-named were very famous Of the Posterity of Sem after the Flood Noah was an Husbandman and Planted a Vineyard Gen. c. 19. In the six hundredth Year of his Age Anno Mundi Conditi 1656. hapned the General Deluge wherein all the People of the old World were drowned except Noah and his three Sons and their Wives Gen. c. 7. And from those three Sons was the whole Earth again replenished Noah lived 950 Years and died Anno Mundi 2006. Anno post Diluvium 350. I. Sem Son of Noah had Issue five Sons Elam and Ashur and Arphaxad and Lud and Aram. And the Children of Aram were Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash Gen. 10 ver 22. Sem was born 98 Years before the Flood lived 600 Years and died Anno Mundi 2158 Anno post Diluvium 502. Cham or Ham younger Son of Noah Japhet Son of Noah Some think he was the eldest Son II. Arphaxad Son of Sem was born the second Year after the Flood lived 438 Years and died Anno Mundi 2096. post Diluvium 440. ⚜ Sem and his five Sons inhabited the Countrey of Asia beginning at Euphrates and extending to the Indian Ocean Of Elam came the Elamites whence proceeded the Persians Ashur made his abode in Nineveh and called his People Assyrians Of Arphaxad came the Chaldeans Of Aram came the Aramaei called by the Greeks Syrians And of Lud came the
1108. King Henry the Frst with sundry Expeditions brought under the VVelshmen and sent all the Flemmings who came over into England when a great part of Flanders was drowned to inhabite in Ross in VVales where Penbrooke Tenby and Haverford are now built where they remain to this day as may appear by their Speech and Conditions far different from the rest of the Countrey VVelsh Hist pag. 163. Anno 1132. died Meredyth ap Blethyn Chief Ruler of Powys Anno 1137. died Griffith ap Rees ap Theodor Prince of South-VVales who had by his Wife Gwenlhiam Daughter of Griffith ap Conan Rees commonly called Lord Rees and others Anno 1137. towards the end of the Year died Griffith ap Conan Prince of North-VVales 20. Owen sirnamed Gwineth Son of Griffith ap Conan is made Prince of North-VVales and the Name of King is no further used in the British Book VVelsh Hist pag. 139. a With Powel's Notes Also pag. 6. Owen died Anno Domini 1169. after he had Reigned 32 Years 21. David ap Owen Prince of North-VVales assumed the Government because the eldest Son of Owen called Jorwerth Drwyndwn that is Edward with the Broken Nose was counted unmeet for Government Anno 1190. died Griffith Maylor Lord of Bromfield a Nobleman and a Wise man VVelsh History pag. 242. He was Lord of Bromfield Yale Hope-Dale Nanhewdwy Mochnant is Rhayard Chirke Cynlhayth and Glindoverdwy Ibidem pag. 211. This was part of Powys Vadoc Powys before Offa's time reached Eastward to the Rivers of Dee and Severn and had to Wife Angharat Daughter of Owen Guyneth Prince of North-VVales by whom he had a Son called Madoc who died 1236. leaving a Son called Griffith Pag. 293. Anno Chr. 1194. 22. Lhewelyn ap Jorwerth peaceably received all North-Wales to his Subjection He Married Joan base Daughter of John King of England by Agatha Daughter of William Ferrars Earl of Derby Anno 1206. Vincent upon Brooke pag. 204. Speed's History pag. 518. calls her Daughter of Robert Ferrers and had Issue two Sons Griffith and David and for Daughters he had Marret married to John de Bruse 1219. Welsh Hist pag. 279. and Gladys another Daughter married to Sir Rafe Mortimer Ibid. pag. 298. And it is certain he had another Daughter called Hellen married to John the Scot Earl of Huntington and afterwards Earl of Chester She was married about 1222. and this was for a Final Agreement and Peace between Randle Earl of Chester sirnamed Blundevill and this Lhewelyn Prince of North-Wales who before-time had many Conflicts and Wars one against the other Knighton pag. 2430. Matt. Paris pag. 380. See also my Antiquities touching Cheshire in this Book But Helen had no Issue by John Scot who saith Matt. Paris was consenting to the Poysoning of her Husband After she married Robert de Quency third Son of Saher de Quency Earl of Winchester Vincent upon Brooke's Catalogue of Nobility pag. 260. About the Reign of Henry the Second Crogen when he made a Voyage against the Welsh to the Mountains of Berwin as he lay at Oswestrey a number of his Men who were sent to try the Passages to have passed Offa's Ditch at the Castle of Crogen were met withal and slain The Englishmen afterwards used to cry Crogen to the Welsh as much as to say Remember Crogen that they should expect no favour from the English But this Word in process of time grew to be an opprobrious Word when the English would in disgrace call the Welsh Crogens Welsh Hist pag. 257 258. This Lhewelyn was a valiant Prince and brought all Wales to subjection He died tertio Idûs Aprilis scilicèt die Sancti Guthlaci Anno Christi 1240. Matt. Paris pag. 525. And having tamed Griffith his Son who rebelled against him he left the Principality of Wales unto David his younger Son He died in the 46 Year of his Reign and was buried at Conwey Welsh Hist pag. 298. 23. David younger Son of Lhewelyn Prince of North-Wales with all the Barons of Wales did Homage to King Henry the Third for all the Lands which they had in Wales Hist of Wales pag. 299. This David imprisoned Griffith his elder Brother alledging also that he was a Bastard Senana the Wife of Griffith Petitions the King of England for the Release of Griffith her Husband and Owen his Son who was imprisoned with his Father Henry the Third makes an Agreement with Senana dated 25 Hen. 3. 1241. and Roger de Monte alto High-Steward of Cheshire was a Surety or Pledge for Senana to observe the Agreement David consents to deliver Griffith and Owen his Son and to stand to the Judgment of King Henry's Court about Griffith's part of the Land and to restore to Roger de Monte alto all his Land of Moald in Flintshire And David acknowledgeth to hold his Lands of Wales of King Henry in Capite Matt. Paris pag. 624 625. Griffith is sent by David unto King Henry who imprisoned him in the Tower of London but Griffith endeavouring to make an Escape fell down and broke his Neck 1 die Martii 1244. Matt. Paris pag. 617. David Prince of Wales took the Castle of Mould by Storm 1245. Matt. Paris pag. 655. And after it was taken and razed to the Ground by Griffith ap Gwenwynwyn 1268. Welsh Hist pag. 326. Anno Chr. 1246. David died without Issue 1246. Matt. Paris pag. 695. 24. Lhewelyn ap Griffith ap Lhewelyn was the last Prince of Wales of the British Blood who with his Brother Owen Gogh divided the Principality between them Lhewelyn ap Griffith married Elianour Daughter of Simon de Montfort Earl of Leycester Anno 1279. 6 Edw. 1. the Marriage being Solemnized at Worcester at the Charge of the King of England Walsingham pag. 48. Welsh Hist pag. 336. Matthew of Westminster placeth it Anno 1278. I find mention of a Daughter he had for whom the King of England promiseth to provide honourably and to give Lhewelyn 1000 l. Sterling and some Honourable County in England if Lhewelyn would upon his Submission put the King in possession of Snowdon This was Anno 1281. upon a Treaty to be had Welsh History with Powel's Notes pag. 365. But what became of this Daughter I find not but her Mother Elianour was now dead This Treaty took no effect Obiit 1282 Concerning the Death of this Lhewelyn it is variously reported by our Historians Matt. of Westminster saith He was slain in the Battel betwixt the English and the Welsh Anno 1282. when Edmund de Mortuo mari rushing with others into the Army of Lhewelyn he was slain among other Welshmen and his Head cut off which was carried to London and set upon the top of the Tower of London With whom agreeth Walsingham who placeth the time one Year later The Welsh History pag. 374. saith That Lhewelyn retiring to a Grove near Buhelt or Buelht whiles some of the Welsh were sent to defend the Bridge called Pont Orewyn suddenly there
ancient word for a Hill and that upon the Sea between Ireland and Scotland the Shore of Scotland seems to rise up into Mountains and so gained the Name of Albin Hist Scot. lib. 1. pag. 12 13. But when the Scots came unto the Picts in Brettaine though they ever and anon did make War and Excursions upon the Brettans yet did they not advance very soon but lived in that Angle where they first arrived They continually warred against the Kings of Northumberland for the space of 127 Years till Edan King of the Scots and his Army were totally routed by Ethelfrid King of Northumberland Anno Domini 603. Bede de Hist Ang. lib. 1. cap. 34. And when the Picts were almost rooted out and the Kingdom of the Northumbrians through Civil Discords and Incursions of the Danes About the Year 800. fell to decay then was all the North part of Brettaine called Scotland from Cluyd and Edenborough-Frith And on this side Cluyd and Edenborough-Frith was part of the Kingdom of Northumberland and possessed by the Saxons as every man knows But at this day Scotland is divided from England by the Rivers Tweed and Solway And hence it is that all those who possess the East part of Scotland and are called Lowland-men are descended of the English Saxons and speak the English Tongue and those that inhabit the Western Coast of Scotland called Highlanders be descended from the Scots and speak Irish and are maliciously bent towards the Lowland-men who speak English II. The People of the Scots have been noted of their best Writers for some barbarous Customs one whereof was If any two were displeased they expected no Law but banged it out bravely one and his Kindred against the other and his Kindred This Fighting they called their Feids These deadly Feids King James the Sixth in his Basilicon Doron adviseth his Son to redress with all care possible But it pleased God to give this King so long a Life as to see it remedied in his own days An Act indeed truly Royal and worthy himself Dr. Heylyn's Cosmography pag. 331. Another Custom they had of a strange nature never was the like heard of among the Heathens That the Kings of Scotland should have the Maidenhead or first Nights Lodging with every Woman who was to be married to a Husband that held Land immediately from the Crown and the Lords and Gentlemen should have the like of all those whose Husbands were their Tenants or Homagers And this was by a Law made by Eugenius a lascivious Prince of Scotland But this Custom in the time of Malcolme the Third sirnamed Cammoir was made redeemable for half a Mark of Silver about the Year 1070. which Pension the Scots at this day call The Marchet of the Women Buchanan lib. 7. pag. 214. The reason of the Name Skene in his Interpretation of Old Words thinks to come from March which in the Ancient Scotch Language signifies A Horse and so metaphorically denotes a Pension for the Leaping of a Woman ascendere Mulierem Spelman in his Glossary saith That Merch in the ancient Language of the Brettans signifies a Daughter or Woman-Sex and so denotes a Pension for a Woman's Marriage to the Lord or King CHAP. III. Of the Picts in Scotland THe Name of Pict was first introduced by the Romans saith Buchanan in his History of Scotland lib. 2. pag. 54. because these People painted their Bodies with the Pictures of all manner of Living Creatures It was not their ancient Native Name Herodian saith Neque vestis usum cognôrunt sed ventrem cervicem ferro cingunt Ornamentum id esse ac divitiarum argumentum existimârunt perindè ut aurum caeteri Barbari They put Iron Plates about their Bellies and Necks which they reputed an Ornament and an Argument of Riches as other Foreign Nations esteemed Gold and painted their Bodies with the Forms of all manner of Living Creatures Wherefore they put on no Clothes that they might not hide their Bodies so carved and painted Buchanan supposeth them to be originally Scythians or Getes pag. 55. Hergust their King dying about the time of Victorinus Lord Deputy of Brettaine under Honorius the Emperor who reduced the Picts to the Roman Province about the Year of Christ 412. forbad them to make any new King but what should be given them by the Romans and that it was prophesied of old That the Picts should be rooted out by the Scots Buchanan ibid. pag. 129. And at last Brudus King of the Picts not able to compose the Differences already begun between the Picts and the Scots died for grief and Drusken his Brother who was the last King of the Picts was overthrown in Battel Buchanan li. 5. p. â—65 166. about the Year of Christ 838. by Kenneth the Second King of the Scots and the Picts utterly subdued Since which time the Kings of the Scots have been Lords of all Scotland who before had onely a Part of Scotland It is said That the Nation of the Picts came first out of Scythia into Ireland and from thence into the North Parts of our Brettaine So Bede de Hist Ang. lib. 1. cap. 1. And this as many will have it about Anno Christi 78. Judicious Cambden thinks they were very Brettans who before the coming of the Romans were seated in the North part of our Island with such other Brettans who fled unto them as unwilling to submit to the Roman Servitude In his Britannia pag. 82. For my part I think the Brettans and the Picts do signifie the same thing one being a Greek Name and the other Latin This of Latin being given by the Romans in later Times in distinction from our Brettans of England who submitted to the Roman Government and were stiled as formerly and perhaps more civilized by the Romans Those other more rude and flying into Scotland and continually opposing the Romans were by them called Picti which Name continued afterwards I find not the Name of Picti in any Author mentioned till 300 Years after Christ and more And that as well the Brettans as the Picts were Peopled from the ancient Galles and those originally descended from the Scythians and Getes as Sheringham de Anglorum Gentis Origine doth probably demonstrate There were also two other sorts of People among the Picts in Scotland in the time of the Romans the Maiatae and the Attacotti as they were stiled by the Romans Of whom see Buchanan lib. 2. pag. 57. and also Cambden's Britannia pag. 655. pag. 91. These inhabited the Borders of Scotland CHAP. IV. Of the Kings of Scotland âšœ THe Kingdom of Scotland was never totally Conquered either by the Romans or Saxons for which they may thank their great Barren Mountains whether they fled from the Enemy as a Shelter It consisted as you have already heard of two sorts of People Picts and Scots It remains that I set down the Catalogue of their Kings as far as truth of History will bear For the
divers others of the better sort of the Irish rebelled against the King of England Hoveden pag. 567. Joh. Bromton pag. 1128. The Princes of Ireland who submitted to the Rule of the King of England Henry the Second Anno 1172. Chartis subsignatis Romam transmissis Cambd. Britan. pag. 731. ROtheric O-Conor-Dun Fuscus Hiberniae Monarcha Dermot Mac-Carty King of Cork Donald O-Bren King of Limrick O-Carel King of Uriel Mac-Shaglin Rex Ophaliae O-Roric King of Meath O-Nele King of Ulster and the chief Noblemen of them all Now followeth a Catalogue of all the Lord Deputies of Ireland CHAP. III. A Catalogue of the Chief Governors of Ireland under the Sovereignty of the Kings of England since the Conquest thereof by Henry the Second to the Year 1670. Stiled sometimes Lord Justices sometimes Lord Lieutenants sometimes Lord Deputies of Ireland Ann. Dom. 1171 HEnry the Second King of England landed at Croch in Ireland eight Miles from Waterford the 17 of October 1171. and staid there till Easter following In which space the Princes of Ireland submit and swore Fealty to him Roderik King of Connaught being as it were the Chief Head and Monarch of Ireland Hoveden and Giraldus The Conquest of Ireland was before prepared for him Anno 1168. by Richard Strongbow who then entred Ireland with his Forces and very victoriously winning one Place after another Hoveden The King of Connaught agreeth to hold all his Lands under the King of England Ut Rodericus sit Rex sub Henrico paratus ad Servitium suum and to pay him Tribute as the words of the Deed run which you may see at large in Hoveden's History or Annals bearing date in the Octaves of St. Michael 1175. made at the Parliament at Windsor in England 1. Hugh Lacy Lord Justice of Ireland 2. Richard Strongbow Lord Justice Obiit 1176. Hoveden 3. William Fitz-Aldelme Justice of Ireland Hoveden But Giraldus Hiber Expug lib. 2. cap. 15. saith Reymund was elected Governor of Ireland while Messengers were sent to the King of England to certifie him of Strongbow's death who forthwith sent William Fitz-Aldelme Procuratorem in Hiberniam joyning with him John Curcy Robert Fitz-Stephen and Milo de Coggan in Commission 4. Hugh Lacy again made Generalis Hiberniae Procurator Robert le Poer the King's Marshal being joyned as an Assistant to him which Robert was then Governor both of Waterford and Weshford Giraldus 5. John Lacy Constable of Cheshire and Baron of Halton with Richard Peche Bishop of Chester were sent into Ireland about the Calends of May 1181. and made Governors of Dublin for the King had sent for Hugh Lacy as jealous of his Strength and Power in Ireland having now married the Daughter of Roderik King of Connaught without the King of England's Licence first obtained Hoveden 6. Hugh Lacy again in the Winter following eodem Anno Robert of Shrewsbury a Clergy-man being joyned with him 7. Philip of Worcester vir Dapsilis Militaris Hib. Expug lib. 2. cap. 24. called by Hoveden Philip de Breos sent Governor into Ireland about the Calends of September 8. John the King's Son afterwards King John went into Ireland but soon returned after he had appointed Justices and settled the Garrisons there Hoveden But who those Justices were he mentions not Hoveden saith That Anno 1176. the King of England gave Ireland to his Son John and then after at a Parliament at Oxford Anno 1177. the King did constitute him Regem in Hiberniâ Concessione Confirmatione Alexandri summi Pontificis And Anno 1185. 31 Hen. 2. the King Knighted him at Windsor the last day of March and sends him forthwith into Ireland where he staid not long indè eum Regem constituit Certain it is That this John after he became King of England assumed the Title of Dominus Hiberniae to his other Titles which also the succeeding Kings of England ever since retained until the Year 1542. 33 Hen. 8. at which time by a Parliament in Ireland King Henry the Eighth was declared King of Ireland as a Title of greater Majesty which Title of Rex Hiberniae the Kings of England have used ever since Probably when the King gave unto his Son John Dominium Hiberniae 1176 it was as much as King of Ireland in effect whereby the Supreme Power was implied and from thence we see he assumed the Title of Dominus Hiberniae afterwards But it is not probable that the King did create him Regem Hiberniae by Charter though possibly he might sometimes be so called for then he would have assumed the Title of Rex Hiberniae and not of Dominus Hiberniae which afterwards we find he assumed but never Rex Hiberniae Ann. Dom. 1211 9. John Grey Bishop of Norwich Lord Justice Matt. Paris King John went then into Ireland 10. Henry Londers Archbishop of Dublin Lord Justice Annales Hiberniae Sub Henrico Tertio 1224. The same Archbishop of Dublin Fuller's Eccles Hist lib. 3. pag. 58. 1230. 11. Geffrey de Maurice Lord Justice Matt. Paris These following are Collected out of the Annals of Ireland apud Cambdenum in Britannia sua to the Year 1420. 1248. 12. Sir John Fitz-Geffrey Lord Justice 1255. 13. Alan de la Zouch Lord Justice 1259. 14. Stephen de Longspée Lord Justice See Vincent upon Brook pag. 447. 1259. 15. William Dene Lord Justice Obiit 1261. 1261. 16. Sir Richard de Capell Lord Justice 1267. 17. Sir David de Barry Lord Justice 1268. 18. Sir Robert de Ufford Lord Justice 1269. 19. Ricardus de Exoniis Lord Justice 1270. 20. Sir James Audley Lord Justice He was kill'd with a fall from his Horse in Toomond 1272. Sub Edwardo Primo 1272. 21. Maurice Fitz-Maurice Lord Justice 1273. 22. Sir Geffrey de Genevill Lord Justice 1276. 23. Sir Robert de Ufford Lord Justice But going to England Anno 1279. Robert de Fulborne Bishop of Waterford was put in his Place Ufford returns 1280. and is Lord Justice 1281. 24. Stephen de Fulborne Archiepiscopus Turonensis Lord Justice eodem Anno. Ufford goes into England and Fulborne dieth Anno 1287. 1287. 25. John Sampford Archbishop of Dublin Lord Justice ad Tempus 1291. 26. William Vescy Lord Justice 1294. 27. William D'oodyngzele Lord Justice Obiit 1298. 1295. 28. Sir Thomas Fitz-Maurice Lord Justice Obiit 1298. 1295. 29. John Wogan Lord Justice Sir Thomas Fitz-Maurice surrendring the Place to him Sub Edwardo Secundo Ann. Dom. 1312. 30. Sir Edmund le Butler is made Deputy to Sir John Wogan Both died 1321. 1314. 31. Sir Theobald de Verdon Lord Justice He came into Ireland the 20 of June 1314. 32. Sir Edmund le Butler Lord Justice He received his Commission on Friday after St. Matthew's day 1317. 33. Sir Roger de Mortimer Lord Justice but going into England to the King makes William Archiepiscopum Cassiliensem Custodem Hiberniae who was Lord Justice Chancellor and Archbishop all at a time 1318. And in Anno 1319. Sir Roger returns and is Lord Justice
performed Earl Leofric granted the Townsmen a Freedom by Charter Polychronicon lib. 6. cap. 26. Westminster pag. 424. which Charter Mr. Dugdale in his Warwickshire pag. 86. conceives rather a Freedom from Servile Tenure than onely Toll This Illustrious Leofric died at his own Town of Bromley the last day of August Obiit 1057 Anno Domini 1057. So Florentius and Hoveden pag. 444. and also Matt. Westminster and was buried at Coventry in the Monastery which he had built there the richest Monastery then in England VI. Algar Son of Earl Leofric succeeded his Father in the Earldom of Mercia Anno Domini 1057. Hoveden pag. 444. and is stiled Earl of Chester by Huntington pag. 366. and also Earl of Leycester by Ingulphus pag. 898. Anno Domini 1053. the Earldom of the East-Saxons which before Harold Son of Earl Godwin held was given to this Algar And in the Year 1056. he was banished by Edward the Confessor but by the aid of Griffith King of Wales after the Slaughter of many he was reconciled to his Prince and received his Earldom In the Year 1058. being the Year after his Father's death he was again banished for Treason but by the help of King Griffith and the Norwey Navy he recovered his Earldom by force He had to Wife the Sister of William Mallet as Burton in his Antiquities of Leycestershire affirmeth pag. 168. and had two Sons Edwine Earl of Mercia and Morcar Earl of Northumberland and two Daughters Aldith first married to Griffith King of Wales and after to Harold King of England and Lucio who had three Husbands Ivo Talbois Earl of Angeau the first Husband of Lucy Roger de Romara Son of Gerold the Second Husband of Lucy by whom she had Issue William de Romara Earl of Lincoln Randle de Meschines Viscount Baieux in Normandy Lord of Cumberland in England and afterwards Earl of Chester was the third Husband of Lucy by whom she had also Issue But she survived all her Husbands Ingulphus pag. 898. Hoveden pag. 443 444. Ingul pag. 902 903. Ordericus vitalis pag. 511. 871. Cambden's Britannia in Leycestershire Obiit 1059 Anno Domini 1059. Algar died and was buried at Coventry Ingulphus pag. 898. VII Edwine Son of Algar succeeded Earl of Mercia Anno Domini 1059. He and his Brother Morcar stoutly opposed William the Conqueror Anno 1066. But the Conqueror prevailing he lost his Earldom He lived to the fourth Year of the Conqueror's Reign Anno 1070. Obiit 1070 When fearing to be imprisoned he conveyed himself secretly from the Court of William the Conqueror and rebelled against him and unable to withstand he intended to have gone to Malcolme then King of Scotland but being betrayed by his own Men was slain by the way Ordericus pag. 521. Florentius pag. 437 438. Some say Morcar was taken by the Conqueror and died in Prison Howbeit Ingulphus pag. 901. saith Comites Edwinus Morcarius ambo à suis per insidias trucidati I find no mention of any Issue either of Edwine or Morcar Finis Primae Partis Of the Earls of CHESTER Since the Norman Conquest PART II. CHAP. I. I. AFter that William Duke of Normandy had vanquished King Harold in Battel and obtained the Crown of England which hapned Anno Christi 1066. as all our Histories unanimously declare he by degrees conferred many great Patrimonies and large Possessions upon his more noble Barons as just Rewards for their Service by whose assistance he had got a new Kingdom So Ordericus Vitalis a Writer who lived near to those Times lib. 4. Eccles Hist pag. 521 522. as it is set out with other Histories by Andrew du Chesne and Printed at Paris Anno Domini 1619. tells us in these words Rex Guillielmus dejectis Merciorum maximis consulibus Edwino scilicèt interfecto Morcaro in vinculis constricto Adjutoribus suis inclytas Angliae Regiones distribuit ex infimit Normannorum Clientibus Tribunos Centuriones ditissimos erexit Amongst those of the meaner sort newly raised the principal were Geffrey de Clinton Rafe Basset with some others which Ordericus expresseth more at large pag. 805. II. But concerning the distribution of his Counties in England to his greater sort of Nobles and Barons who accompanied him in this Service see Ordericus pag. 522. Among others Anno 1070. the King gave to William Fitz-Ozberne Dapifero Normanniae that is High Steward of Normandy the Isle of Wight and the County of Hereford Which William with Walter Lacy and other tried Champions the King set as a Curb to the Welsh whose boldness first Invaded Brachavianos or Brecknockshire and slew Risen and Caducan and Mariadoth three Welsh Kings with many others Chester and the County thereof the King had but lately given to one Gherbod Gherbod first Earl of Chester after the Norman Conquest a Nobleman of Flanders who had gallantly behaved himself as well against the English as Welsh and afterwards being sent for by his Friends whom he had left in Flanders and to whom he had committed his hereditary Honour there he obtained liberty of King William the Conqueror to go thither and to return very quickly again but by misfortune he fell into the Hands of his Enemies when he came into Flanders and there endured a long and tedious Imprisonment In the mean time that is to say sub Anno Domini 1070. King William gave the Earldom of Chester to Hugh de Auranges Son of Richard sirnamed Goz. This Hugh with Robert of Rothelent and Robert of Malpas and other cruel Potentates spilt much of the Welshmens Blood And the Castle of Stutesbury now called Tutbury in Staffordshire which Hugh de Auranges held before was given to Henry Son of Walceline de Ferrars And divers other Lands were conferred on other Persons as you may see more at large in Ordericus III. But before I proceed to our Norman Earls of Chester it will not be amiss to note out of Ordericus who that Robert of Rothelent was whom I mentioned before with Earl Hugh for both he and the above mentioned Robert of Malpas were of the prime of the Noblemen and Barons belonging to Hugh Earl of Chester This Robert of Rothelent or Ruthelan is described by Ordericus pag. 669. thus He was a valiant and an active Soldier eloquent Facundus formidabilis but of a stern Countenance liberal and commendable for many Vertues Hic Edwardi Regis Armiger fuit He was one of those who attended the Person of King Edward the Confessor from whom he received the Honor of Knighthood Touching his Descent his Father was Umfrid de Telliolo Son of Amfrid of the Progeny of the Danes His Mothers Name was Adeliza Sister of Hugh de Grentemaisnill of the famous Family of the Geroians He was Commander in Chief at the Siege at Rochester 1 Willielmi Rufi At which time Griffith King of Wales Invaded the Coasts of England and had made a great Destruction about Rothelent For his Works of Piety he
it first given to him by the Conqueror who enjoying it but a little while is commonly omitted without any notice at all But this Hugh was the first Earl of Chester of the Norman Race since the Conquest The Description of Earl Hugh out of Ordericus Lib. 4. Eccles Histor pag. 522. Hic non Dapsilis sed prodigus c. He was not abundantly liberall but profusely prodigal and carried not so much a Family as an Army still along with him He took no account either of his Receipts or Disbursements He daily wasted his Estate and delighted more in Falconers and Huntsmen than in the Tillers of his Land or Heavens Orators the Ministers He was given much to his Belly whereby in time he grew so fat that he could scarce crawle He had many Bastard Sons and Bastard Daughters but they were almost all swept away by sundry Misfortunes Again Ordericus Lib. 6. pag. 598. Ex his Hugo Abrincatensis Richardi cognomento Goz filius inter caeteros Magnates effulsit Cui Postquà m Gherbodus Flandrensis ad suos recessit Rex Comitatum Cestrensem consilio Prudentum concessit Hic nimirùm Amator Saeculi Saeculariumque Pomparum fuit quas maximam beatitudinum putabat esse portionem humanarum erat enìm in militiâ Promptus in dando nimìs prodigus gaudens ludis luxibus mimis equis canibus aliisque hujusmodi vanitatibus Huic maxima semper adhaerebat Familia in quibus nobilium ignobiliumque puerorum numerosa perstrepebat Copia Cùm eodem Consule commorabantur viri honorabiles Clerici milites quos tà m laborum quà m divitiarum gratulabatur esse suarum Participes In Capellâ ejus Serviebat Abrincatensis Clericus nomine Geroldus religione honestate peritiâque literarum praeditus Azure a Wolves Head erased Ar. He had Land in twenty Counties in England for in the Catalogue of the Counties wherein certain Great Men held Lands in the twentieth Year of William the Conqueror as it is put in the Appendix to the ancient Norman Writers set out by Andrew du Chesne and Printed at Paris Ann. Dom. 1619. we read thus Comes Hugo Hampshire Berkshire Dorset Somerset Devonshire Buckingham Oxford Glocester Huntington Northampton Warwick Shropshire Derbyshire Cheshire Nottingham Rutland Yorkshire Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk Concerning certain Lands in Oxfordshire which he gave to the Monastery of Abbington I find in an old Lieger Book of that Monastery remaining in Cotton 's Library noted Claudius C. 9. fol. 137. of the whole Book but lib. 2. fol. 35. of that particular part of the History of the Church of Abbington as followeth Viculus est Burgo Abendonensi contiguus Scipena dictus hunc de Abbatiâ tempore Edwardi Regis quidam ipsius constabulus nomine Eadnotus tenebat Cujus viri terrarum metas posteà Hugo Cestrensis Comes adeptus cùm didicisset praedictum viculum hujus Abbatiae Juri pertinere commonitu Rainoldi Abbatis Baronum suorum consultu tertio Regni Willielmi Junioris Regis anno pridiè Calendarum Aprilium ipse Comes in Sanctuario Ecclesiae istius consistens toto conventu Fratrum ibi praesidente quicquid in illo loco posse videbatur habere Deo Genetrici ejus id obtulit manu cultellum Altari supponendo ut in perpetuùm ratum constet verbis illud prosequendo Affuere illo cùm Comite Engenulphus Willielmus uterque nepos ipsius Godardus etià m de Boiavillâ cùm Engerardo alii plures Charta de Scipena DE hâc ut dictum est re determinatâ cùm primo apud eundem Comitem oriretur Sermo literas Abbati indè direxit Quarum hujusmodi extitit Textus Hugo Cestrensis Comes Rainoldo Venerando Abbati charissimo Amico suo Salutem Mando tibi quòd de terrâ quam ergà me petiisti locutus sum cùm uxore meâ cum meis Baronibus inveni in meo Consilio quòd concedam eam Deo Sanctae Ecclesiae de quâ Pastoralis Cura super te imposita est Tali Pacto quòd dones mihi XXX libras denariorum de tuâ Pecuniâ ut frater vester sim uxor mea pater meus mater mea in orationibus vestris ità ut simus scripti omnes in Libro commemorationum ut sit factum tale obsequium pro nobis quale debet fieri pro uno fratre de Ecclesiâ ubicunque moriamur Quicquid itaque pro illâ terrâ exactum est nil fieri relictum nam pecunia data caetera quaesita omninò impensa What Lands this Earl Hugh held in Demaine in Cheshire appears in the Record of Dooms-day Book Title Cestre-Scire where in the beginning of the same after the Laws of Chester it is said The Bishop of Chester holds of the King the Lands in Cheshire which belong to his Bishoprick and those Lands are immediately reckoned up and set down All the rest of the Lands of the County Earl Hugh held of the King cùm suis hominibus where cùm suis hominibus I conceive is not there meant that the Earl and his Tenants held their Lands of the King but that the Earl held all Cheshire of the King with his Tenants also that is and the Tenure and Services of all his Tenants in Cheshire he holdeth of the King also for every Person in Cheshire except the Bishop held what Lands he was possessed of immediately from the Earl and the Earl held all from the King The Names of such Towns in Cheshire as Earl Hugh held in Demaine at that time Anno Christi 1086. WEverham Kennardsly Doneham on the Hill Elton Trafford Manly Hellesbye Frodshum Alreton Alderly Inferior Done Edesbery nigh the Chamber in the Forest Eaton in Broxton Hundred Lay in Broxton Hundred Cotinton Lay. Rushton Upton juxta Rushton Little Budworth Olton Over Estham Trafford Edlave Macclesfield Adlington Gowesworth Merton Chelford Hungerweniton Henbury Capesthorne Henshall Tingtweezle Hollinworth Wernith Ramiley Laiton Alsacher Sanbach Clive Sutton nigh Middlewich VVimboldsly Weever Occleston Upton in Wirrall Stanney Anterbus in Overwhitley In all forty eight The Descent of Earl Hugh Ansfrid or Amfrid a Dane Umfrid de Telliolo Governor of Hastings in England 1068. Ordericus pag. 512. Son of Amfred the Dane Ordericus pag. 669. Married Adeliza Sister of Hugh de Grentemaisnill Governor of Leicester and had Issue Robert of Tothelent Castle in Wales also Ernald and Roger both Monks of Utica in Normandy and William Abbas Sanctae Euphemiae Ordericus pag. 671. Robert of Rothelent Son of Umfrid whom Ordericus pag. 670. calls Consobrinum Hugonis Comitis Cestriae Cosin to Earl Hugh He was slain Anno 1088. Of whom see more suprà pag. 24. Turstine sirnamed Goz Son of Amfrid sometime Governor of Oxima kept the Castle of Faloys in Normandy against Duke William being yet a Child But Rodulfus Waceiensis who Commanded the Forces for the young Duke besieged him therein Turstine not able to hold out long
County which was his ancient Inheritance and also the Castle of Belvoir with all the Barony and all the Land of William de Albiney then Lord of Belvoir and Graham vulgo Grantham with Sok And if the Heirs of Graham should Compound with the King yet the Barony to remain till the King gave other Lands for it By the same Charter the King gave him New-Castle in Staffordshire Socam de Roeley Torksey Derby Mansfield Stoneley the Wapentack of Orwardebek and all the Lands of Roger de Busley with all the Honour of Blithe nigh Tickhill and all the Lands of Roger de Poictu from Northampton to Scotland except what belongs to Roger de Montbegon in Lincolnshire also all the Lands between Ribbell and Mersey and the Land which the King had in Demaine in Grimsby in Lincolnshire and all the Land which the Earl of Glocester had in Demaine in that Mannor of Grimsby And also he restored for Randle's sake unto Adelize de Condy all her Lands viz. Horncastle in Lincolnshire when the Castle was demolished And all his own other Lands the King restored unto him Ex Charta Originali nuper in Castro de Pomfret Which Note I had from Mr. Dugdale ei dedi Et Nottingham Castle Burgum quicquid habui in Nottingham in feodo haereditate sibi haeredibus suis Dedi totum feodum Willielmi Peverelli ubicunque sit nisi poterit se dirationare in meâ Curiâ de scelere Proditione exceptâ Hecham Et si Engelramus de Albemarle non voluerit se capere mecum neque Comes Simon illud vi capere potero praedictam Hecham reddo Comiti Ranulfo si eam habere voluerit Et Torcheseiam Oswardebek Wapentack Derbeiam cùm omnibus Pertinentiis Et Maunsfield cùm Soca Roelay cùm Soca Stanleiam juxtà Coventreiam cùm Soca de Belvario tenebo ei rectum quà m citiùs potero sicut de suâ haereditate Et sex Baronibus suis quos elegerit cuique centum libratas terrae dabo de his quae mihi ex hostibus meis adquisita acciderint de me tenendas Et omnibus Parentibus suis suam reddo haereditatem undè potens sum de hoc undè ad praesens potens non sum rectum Plenarium tenebo ex quo potens ero Testibus Willielmo Cancellario Reginaldo Comite Cornubiae Rogero Comite Herdia Patricio Comite Salisburiae Umfrido de Bohun Dapifero J. Filio Gilberti R. de Hum. Constabulario Guarino Filio Ger. Roberto de Curcy Dapifero Manassero Bysset Dapifero Philippo de Columbe Ex parte Comitis Ranulfi Willielmo Comite Lincolniae Hugone Wac G. Castell de Fines Simone Filio Willielmi Thurstano de Monteforti Gaufrido de Costentyn Willielmo de Verdon Ricardo de Pincerna Rogero Wac Simone Filio Osberti Apud Divisas And here I cannot pass by Vincent's Error in the Review of the second Edition of Brooks's Catalogue of Nobility pag. 662. where he saith thus That the Barons of the Earls of Chester were chosen in the time of Hugh Lupus I doubt for what should move Henry the Second when he was but yet Duke of Normandy and Earl of Anjou among divers Grants that he made to Randle de Gernouns Earl of Chester to say in his Charter Et sex Baronibus suis quos elegerit cuique centum libratas terrae dabo That he would give to the six Barons quos elegerit which he shall chuse not quos eligerit which he hath already chosen a hundred pound Land apiece c. if they had been chose in Hugh Lupus's time Thus Vincent But to pass by his gross Distinction of Elegerit and Eligerit for it is Elegerit in both Tenses Future and Preterperfect Tense nor is Eligerit any true Latin word at all Methinks he reads not the English to a proper and genuine Sence for I conceive the meaning to be plainly thus Et sex Baronibus suis quos elegerit cuique centum libratas terrae c. that is To six of his Barons whom he shall chuse or appoint out he will give to every one of them a hundred Pounds-worth of Land apiece So that there might be many more Barons at that time for all this And indeed the Charter of Hugh Lupus of the Foundation of the Monastery of St. Werburge in Chester Anno 1093. mentions Barons at that time which you may see at large suprà pag. 109 110 111. In the Subscription whereof it is said Ego Comes Hugo Barones mei confirmavimus And I pray you how comes the Duke here to know Randle's mind to elect Barons if they were yet to be chosen But where he renders it And to the six Barons which he shall chuse I should render it And to six of his Barons whom he shall chuse or cull out For the Grant being made to Earl Randle there was so much to be given to six of his Barons but left to the appointment and nomination of Earl Randle which six Barons he would have to be the Men to enjoy those Lands for if we should render it And to his six Barons c. implying onely that set number and no more the following words quos elegerit would be superfluous for being given to six Barons equally there is no choice left at all to the Earl where there be no more Barons unless we suppose six Barons to be made and that there were none before which evidently appears to the contrary Therefore indeed these words rightly understood do imply there were more Barons at that time out of which Randle had the nomination of the six here intended left unto him But of these Barons I shall speak more particularly in the third Part of this Book Take here a Deed or two of this Randles which are in one of the great Couchir-Books in the Dutchy-Office at Grays-Inn The first being of certain waste Lands in Leycestershire which this Randle gave to Henry the Second and the King gave them to Robert Bossue Earl of Leycester Ibidem Tom. 2. Comitatus Leycestriae Num. 66. HENRICUS Dei Gratiâ Rex Angliae Dux Normanniae Archiepiscopis Episcopis c. Salutem Sciatis Quia Ranulfus Comes de Cestria dimisit concessit mihi habere in Dominio Cernelegam Cernewodam Aldremanchagam in Defenso sicut aliquod defensum chariùs habeo omnia nemora quae fuerunt de Feodo Comitis de Cestra quae attingunt Forestam Legrecestriae praetèr Parcum suum habere in Defenso de Wasto de Bestiâ Salvagiâ Sicut autèm praedictus Comes Ranulfus mihi haec dimisit concessit ità Ego concedo Roberto Comiti Legrecestrae habere haereditabilitèr cùm alio Feodo suo Et volo firmitèr praecipio ut benè quietè honorificè teneat cùm omnibus consuetudinibus suis Testibus Theobaldo Comite Blesense Gualeranno Comite de Mellent Willielmo de Tano Nigello de Albiun
pro tribus Solidis annuatìm mihi Haeredibus meis ad duos terminos reddendis de illo de Haeredibus suis pro omni Servitio Exactione scilicèt ad Nativitatem Sancti Johannis Baptistae decem octo denarios ad Natale decem octo denarios In hujus autem rei Testimonium praesenti scripto Sigillum meum apposui Hiis Testibus Radulfo Filio Simonis Simone de Seis Andrea Filio Willielmi Willielmo de Maletoft Willielmo de Haghe Ricardo de Bunington Ricardo de Harderna Alano Filio Ramgoti aliis The Issue of Hugh Cyveliok by Bertred The Legitimate Children of Hugh 1. RAndle the Third sirnamed Blundevill He died without Issue and his four Sisters shared his Inheritance 2. Maude eldest Daughter of Hugh Married David Earl of Huntingdon Brother to William King of Scotland of whom he begot John sirnamed The Scot Earl of Chester in his Mother's Right She had the Earldom of Chester and the Lands in North-Wales to her share 3. Mabill second Daughter of Hugh by Bertred Married William d' Albiney Earl of Arundel She had the Manor of Barow with 500 l. Lands This was Barow in Leycestershire 4. Agnes third Daughter of Earl Hugh by Bertred Married William Ferrers Earl of Derby She had the Castle of Chartley * Chartley in Staffordshire with the Castle and Manor of West-Derby and all Earl Randle's Lands between the Rivers of Ribbel and Mersey in Lancashire Buckbroc in Northamptonshire and Navenby in Lincolnshire Claus 17 Hen. 3. Memb. 1. and the Lands in that part of Wales anciently called Powys She confirmed to the Church of St. Mary at Mirival the Manor of Great-Hole and part of the Wood of Alteker which William her Husband had before given One of the Couchir Books in the Dutchy-Office Tom. 1. fol. 133. Claus 17 Heâ— 3. memb 17. Pipe-Rolls 17 Hen. 3. Lincolnshire 5. Hawise fourth Daughter of Earl Hugh by Bertred Married Robert Quency Son and Heir of Saher de Quency Earl of Winchester She had the Earldom of Lincoln to wit the Castle and Honour of Bolingbroke and all the Lands of Earl Randle in Lindsey and Holland in Lincolnshire for which she gave 50 l. for Relief On Hawise was Estated for Joynture Bukby Grantesset Bradeham and Herdwick as appears by this Deed in the Couchir Book of the Dutchy-Office Tom. 2. Honor sivè Soca de Bolingbroke num 26. pag. 508. SAherus de Quency Comes Wintoniae omnibus Hominibus Amicis suis praesentibus futuris salutem Sciatis me concessâ—sse dedisse praesenti Chartâ meâ confirmâsse Roberto de Quency Filio meo Haeredi ad dandum in liberum Donarium Hawisiae Sorori Comitis Cestriae Uxori ejusdem Roberti Bucehebeiam Grantesset Bradeham Herdewich cùm omnibus earundem terrarum pertinentiis pro centum Libratis terrae Et si hae praedictae terrae non valeant per Annum centum Libras Ego in aliis terris meis de propriâ Haereditate meâ in Anglia ei tantum perficiam quòd plenariè habeat centum Libratas terrae per visum considerationem legalium Militum hominum videlicet Comitis Cestriae meorum Et praetereà Dedi eidem Roberto Feoda duorum Militum scilicet Feedum Matthei Turpin in Winterslawa in Wilteshire pro servitio Feodi unius Militis ad dandum simul cùm terris nominatis praedictae Hawisiae Uxori suae in liberum donarium Testibus his Comite Davide Willielmo Comite de Ferrars Philippo de Orreby Roberto de Basingham Ricardo de Lindeseia Willielmo de Grumpington Henrico de Braibroc Willielmo de Syelford David Giffard Willielmo Picot Hugone Thoma Henrico Dispensariis Waltero de Coventrey Waltero Daivilla multis aliis This Hawise had the County of Lincoln * To wit all the Lands of Earl Randle in Lincolnshire given unto her by her Brother Randle a little before his death about 16 Hen. 3. 1232. in these words which Deed is transcribed in one of the Couchir-Books in the Dutchy-Office Tom. 2. Honor sive Soca de Bolingbroke pag. 500. num 11. It is also transcribed by Vincent in his Corrections upon Brooke pag. 317. which he affirmeth he took from the Original it self in Cotton's Library thus RANULFUS Comes Cestriae Lincolniae omnibus praesentibus futuris praesentem Chartam inspecturis vel audituris Salutem in Domino Ad universitatis vestrae notitiam volo pervenire me dedisse concessisse hâc praesenti Chartâ meâ confirmâsse Dominae Hawisiae de Quency Sorori meae Charissimae Comitatum Lincolniae scilicet quantum ad me pertinuit ut indè Comitissa existat Habendum tenendum de Domino meo Rege Angliae Haeredibus suis liberè quietè plenè pacificè integrè jure Haereditario cùm omnibus pertinentiis suis cùm omnibus libertatibus ad praedictum Comitatum pertinentibus Et ut praesens scriptum Perpetuitatis robur obtineat illud Sigilli mei appositione roborare dignum duxi Hiis Testibus Venerabilibus Patribus P. Wintoniae Alexandro Coventriae Lichfeldiae Episcopis R. Marescallo Comite Pembroke Willielmo de Ferrars Comite Derbiae Stephano de Segrave Justiciario Angliae Simone de Monteforti Willielmo de Ferrariis Philippo de Abiniaco Henrico de Aldith Willielmo de Cantilupo aliis Hawise transfers the Earldom of Lincoln to John Lacy and the Heirs of his Body which he shall beget on Margaret his Wife Daughter of the same Hawise 1 Patent Anno 17 Hen. 3. memb 9. num 35. It is also in the Register of the Dutchy of Lancaster Honor sive Soca de Bolingbroke pag. 500. num 10. HENRICUS Dei Gratiâ Rex Angliae Dominus Hiberniae Dux Normanniae Aquitaniae Comes Andegaviae Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd ad Instantiam Hawisiae de Quency dedimus concessimus dilecto fideli nostro Johanni de Lacy Constabulario Cestriae illas viginti Libras quas Ranulphus quondà m Comes Cestriae Lincolniae recepit pro tertio Denario Comitatus Lincolniae nomine Comitis Lincolniae quas praedictus Comes in vitâ suâ dedit praedictae Hawisiae Sorori suae Habendas tenendas nomine Comitis Lincolniae de nobis Haeredibus nostris ipsi Johanni Haeredibus suis qui exibunt de Margareta Uxore suâ Filiâ praedictae Hawisiae in perpetuum Et in hujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras Patentes ei fieri fecimus Teste meipso apud Northampton 23 die Novembris Anno Regni nostri 17. IV. The base Issue of Hugh Cyveliok PAganus Dominus de Milton whom I have seen Witness to a Deed Subscribed thus Filius Bastardus Hugonis Comitis Cestriae Roger Witness to a Deed of his Brother Randles to the Abbey of St. Werburge whom I conceive was a Bastard Amicia the Wife of Raufe Manwaring sometime Judge of Chester
Dooms-day Book where among all the rest of the Barons he is put down first next after the Earl and by which it appears also that he held more Land in this County than any one of the rest except William Malbedenge But this Difficulty is easily removed if we consider the uncertainty of Subscription of Witnesses but especially admitting him to be the prime Baron till certain Offices were annexed to other Barons After which time the matter is without controversie for William Fitz-Nigell Baron of Halton being made Constable of Cheshire in Fee carries it clear by his Office annexed to his Barony And for further satisfaction take this Charter remaining in one of the Couchir Books in the Dutchy-Office at Gray's-Inne London Scilicèt Tom. 1. Comitatus Cestriae num 2. fol. 41. which Deed was made in the Reign of King Stephen by Randle the Second sirnamed Gernouns to Eustace Fitz-John who Married the elder Daughter and Coheir to William Fitz-Nigell for William the younger died without Issue RANULFUS Comes Cestriae Episcopo Cestriae Dapifero Baronibus Justiciariis Castellanis Vice-comitibus Ministris Ballivis omnibus hominibus suis Francis Anglis Clericis Laicis Salutem Proculdubiò Scitote me reddidisse dedisse Eustachio Filio Johannis totum honorem qui fuit Willielmi Filii Nigelli Constabularii Cestriae in rebus dignitatibus omnibus Et ipsum Eustachium constituisse haereditariè Constabularium Supremum Consiliarium post me supèr omnes Optimates Barones totius terrae meae Ea proptèr volo firmitèr praecipio de sicùt ei rectum suum reddidi donavi concessi Constabulariam honorem integrum Constabulariae Cestriae totius terrae meae quòd in omnibus rationabilitèr ei intendatis sicut Corpori meo Proindè Praecipio quòd ipse Eustachius haeredes sui de me de haeredibus meis praedictum honorem terram tenuram totam pertinentem eidem honori scilicèt Constabulariae teneat ità benè honorificè liberè quietè sicùt unquà m Willielmus Nigelli Filius meliùs liberiùs tenuit sicùt Willielmus Constabularius ejus Filius in vitâ suâ honorabiliùs tenuit die quâ fuit vivus mortuus Teneat etià m ità liberè quietè sicùt unquà m Willelmus Filius Nigelli tenebat in tempore Comitis Hugonis Comitis Ricardi tempore Patris mei Ranulfi in villâ extrà in foro mercato in bosco plano in pratis pascuis in viis Semitis in Forestis in molendinis aquis in Piscariis Stagnis in omnibus aliis locis cùm Soccâ Saccâ Tol Theam Infangetheof cùm Sciris Hundredis cùm omnibus consuetudinibus libertatibus omnibus quietantiis Testibus Willielmo Comite Lincolniae Willielmo de Percei Turstano Banester Simone Filio Willielmi Normanno de Verdon Ricardo Pincernâ Roberto Basset Simone de Tuschet Gaufrido Dispensatore Ivone Constabulario de Coventriâ Ricardo de Vernon Walchelino Mamicoc Hugone de Nueris Rogero de Maletoc VVillielmo Malebenge Hugone de Sancto Paulo VVillielmo de Vecy Huberto de Muntehan Rogero Flamiagvill VVillielmo Filio Guerii Reginaldo Basset VVillielmo Capellano Herveo Filio VVillielmi VVillielmo Capellano Comitis Cestriae Rogero Filio Ricardi Gisleberto de Aquilâ Apud Coventriam By this Charter you find first the words Optimates Barones explaining and expounding one another Next you have the Preheminence given to the Constable of Cheshire who was the Baron of Halton above all the other Barons of the Earl and this appears also in the form of all the Charters made by the Earls of Chester in those ancient Times where the Stile runs Ranulfus Comes Cestriae Constabulario Dapifero Baronibus c. Salutem where the Constable is first named then the Steward then the Barons in general onely in this Chart abovesaid the Constable is omitted in regard he was Party to the Deed and in whose room it is directed to the Bishop But Dapifero follows in his proper place So that the Constable had the first place the Steward next after him and then the other Barons followed in their order And in this order they are ranked by Cambden and Spelman 1. Baro de Halton He was High-Constable of Cheshire in Fee 2. Baro de Monte alto He was High-Steward of Cheshire in Fee 3. Baro de VVich-Maldebeng id est Nant-wich 4. Baro de Malpas 5. Baro de Shibbroke 6. Baro de Dunham-Massie 7. Baro de Kinderton 8. Baro de Stockport According to this order I think little scruple can be made unless it be for the Barony of Malpas why he should not precede the Baron of VVich-Malbeng notwithstanding the Offices annexed to the two first Barons Now the Issue of Robert Fitz-Hugh failing who was the first Baron of Malpas another came in his room of as distinct a Stock and Linage but where or how to be placed let the more curious determine I have here placed him next after the Baron of VVich-Malbeng VI For the number of these Cheshire Barons it is not yet sufficiently agreed Spelman in his Glossary on the word Baro with its several Notions saith thus Ab Hugone Lupo institutos esse Barones certum est Sed de numero non ità convenit Quidam XII asserunt ipsumquè Conquestorem Hugoni Persuasisse ut pauciores non crearet Pollicitus se largiturum eis idonea Patrimonia in Angliâ si Comes hoc nequivit in suâ Patriâ Reperiuntur verò de quibus praecipuè constat octo tantùm Nam quos alii Suggerunt suspecti habentur Nigellus Baro de Halton seu potiùs VVillielmus Filius Nigelli * Robert de Monte alto was not Baron till the end of Hen. 1. or beginning of King Stephen but the rest except Stockport were Barons in the Conqueror's time and so was the Ancestor of this Robert Robertus Baro de Monte alto VVillielmus Malbeng Baro de VVich-Malbeng Ricardus Vernon Baro de Shibbroke Robertus Filius Hugonis Baro de Malpas Hamo de Massy Baro de Dunham-Massy Gislebertus de Venables Baro de Kinderton N. _____ Baro de Stockport But for the better clearing of this Point it is certain that in the Conquerour's time there were some other Barons and Men of eminency about the Earl than what are here reckoned up but these are all whose Heirs and Posterity have been certainly known and accounted Barons by long continuance to the successive Earls of Chester And of all these their Names and Families were long since extinct except the Line of Gilbert Venables whose Name and Family continueth at this day and is yet commonly stiled Baron of Kinderton all the rest with their whole Possessions are devolved to other Persons and Families by Marriage of their several Daughters and Heirs and so became extinct long time ago
James Whitlok Winifrid Wife of Peter Derby near Leverpool in Lancashire Ellen Wife of George Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropshire Gentleman a younger Brother Ursula Wife of Geffrey Holcroft of Hurst in Lancashire also Richard a Bastard-son who lived at Rock-Savage and died at Halton 1616. This John exchanged certain Lands in Whitley with Richard Starky of Stretton Esq for Lands in Aston 1 Elizabethae He died 5 Augusti 15 Eliz. 1573. Margaret his Widow married Hugh Beeston of Torperley in Cheshire Esq 27 Eliz. XV. Sir Thomas Aston of Aston Son and Heir of John was Knighted 1603. and married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Arthur Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropshire 11 Eliz. 1569. and had Issue John Son and Heir Sir Arthur Aston of Fulham in Middlesex second Son who had Issue Richard Aston and Sir Arthur Aston a Colonel in Germany and Governor of Oxford for the King 1644. but was barbarously killed after at Tredagh in Ireland having surrendred the Town to the Parliament-Rebels upon Conditions 1655. and had Issue Sir Thomas Aston third Son of this Sir Thomas married Elizabeth Daughter of John Shugborough of Burdenbury in Warwickshire Esquire and had Issue Frances eldest Daughter of Sir Thomas Aston of Aston married John Hocknell of Hocknell in Cheshire after to Richard Davys of Croughton and thirdly to Owen Longford of Burton in Denbighshire Grace second Daughter died without Issue Margaret third Daughter married Sir Thomas Ireland who bought Beusy nigh Warrington in Lancashire and was Vice-Chamberlain of Chester Elizabeth another Daughter married Richard Dod of Cloverley in Shropshire Mary Wife of Richard Brown of Upton nigh Chester Gentleman after to Jaques Arnodio a Frenchman Anne another Daughter married Richard Allen of Green-Hill in Nether-Whitley in Cheshire Gentleman Katharine another Daughter married Peter Legh of Ridge nigh Maxfield Gentleman Sir Thomas had a second Wife called Mary Daughter of William Unton of Draiton in Shropshire but had no Issue by her This Sir Thomas was Sheriff of Cheshire 1601. 43 Eliz. and died Anno Dom. 1613. Mary his Widow afterwards Married Edward Paler of York Esquire Sir Thomas bought Lands in Aston from John Witter of Torperley and Margaret his Wife 20 Eliz. 1578. XVI John Aston of Aston Esquire Son and Heir of Sir Thomas was Sewer to Queen Anne Wife of King James and Married Maude Daughter of Robert Nedham of Shenton in Shropshire Esquire Anno Domini 1611. and had Issue Thomas Son and Heir John Aston second Son died unmarried 1648. Robert third Son died young Maude Married Thomas Parsons of Cubbington in Warwickshire Esquire after to John Shugborough now of Upton in Wirrall 1666. a younger Son of the Shugboroughs in Warwickstire Anne another Daughter died young Elizabeth another Daughter died unmarried 1628. This John Aston of Aston died 13 Maii 16â—5 13 Jacobi XVII Sir Thomas Aston of Aston Baronet Son and Heir of John Married Magdalene Daughter of Sir John Poultney and Sister and Coheir to John Poultney of Misterton in Leycestershire Esquire 1627. by whom he had Issue Robert who died young 1634. and Thomas who died 1637. at the age of six years and two Daughters Jane and Elizabeth who died Infants as appears by the Monument in Aston Chappel Magdalene his first Wife dying * 2 die Junii 1635. he afterwards Married Anne Daughter and sole Heir of Sir Henry Willoughby of Risley in Derbyshire Baronet 1639. by whom he had Issue Sir Willoughby Aston now living 1666. who Married Mary Daughter of John Offley late of Madeley in Staffordshire Esquire and also two Daughters Magdalene and Mary both living 1666. This Sir Thomas was made Baronet in July 4 Car. 1. 1628. and was Sheriff of Cheshire Anno Domini 1635. He died in the time of the late War between the King and his rebellious Parliament He was Loyal to his Prince and was unfortunately beaten by Sir VVilliam Brereton of Honford's Party of Rebels near to Nantwich January 28. 1642. but Sir Thomas escaped and got away after he was taken at another Skirmish in Staffordshire and brought Prisoner to Stafford where endeavoring to make an Escape a Soldier espying him gave him a Blow on the Head with which and his other Wounds he fell into a Feaver whereon he died at Stafford not long after to wit 24 Martii 1645. and was buried at his own Chappel of Aston in Cheshire which Chappel he procured to be Consecrated by John Bridgeman Bishop of Chester Anno Domini 1637. with liberty of Baptism and Burial and repaired the Chancel thereof very handsomly though much defaced afterwards in the late War Aston-Grange IT seems to me that Roger Fitz-Alured was possessed of Aston-Grange in the Reign of Henry the Second See Monasticon Anglicanum Pars 2. pag. 186. which was held of the ancient Barons of Halton and was afterwards given to the Priory of Norton But after the dissolution of Monasteries in England by Hen. 8. Richard Brooke Esq purchased this Village from the King together with the Mannor of Norton and other Lands 37 Hen. 8. 1545. and hath since been enjoyed by his Posterity unto this present 1666. there being no Charterer at all within the same Aston juxta Great Budworth THis Town of Aston juxta Budworth was held of the Earl of Chester by William Fitz-Nigell Baron of Halton in the Reign of William the Conqueror and one Pagan then held it under the said William scilicèt sub Anno Domini 1086. This appears by the Record of Dooms-day Book and at this day it is within the Fee of Halton John Constable of Cheshire and Baron of Halton The Originals penes Leycester de Tabley gave the Mannor of Hield in this Aston unto Methroso Punterlinge in the Reign of Henry the Second rendring yearly a Welsh Lance on the Feast-day of St. Bartholomew M. num 1. Afterwards Geffrey Son of Adam de Dutton Ancestor to Warburton of Arley buyeth the same from one Hugh the Welsh Deacon Son of Hugh del Hield for twenty four Marks of Silver in the Reign of Henry the Third and gave it to Agnes de Dutton his Daughter M. num 2. num 5 6. But after towards the latter end of Henry the Third Robert de Denbigh and Margaret his Wife purchase it again from Geffrey Son of Geffrey Son of Adam de Dutton for three Marks of Silver and a Wich-house in Northwich I. num 91. which Margaret was Daughter of the said Geffrey Son of Geffrey but Robert Denbigh dying without Issue the said Margaret his Widow Married Nicholas de Leycester about 1276. afterwards Sir Nicholas Leycester Knight unto whose Issue it remained till John Leycester of Tabley sold it again unto William del Heild and Goditha his Wife and to the Heirs of the Body of the said William reserving the yearly Rent of forty Shillings Anno Domini 1355. 29 E. 3. M. num 14. num 13. And afterwards it became to be divided by the two Daughters and Coheirs of William del Heild
de Massy being then Parson of Rosthorne and William de Baggiley Parson of Chedill under Henry the Third Hereby it appeareth That one moiety of Bolinton was of the Fee of the Barons of Dunham-Massy and also that these Duttons assumed the Sir-name of Chedill 21 Edw. 3. Henry Clayton of Thelwall had this moiety In another old Rental of Dunham-Massy dated 3 Hen. 4. Henricus Ratcliffe he was Brother of Sir John Ratcliffe See Lib. C. fol. 262. g. ut de jure Uxoris suae tenet medietatem Villae de Bolinton in Socagio reddendo in Termino Johannis Baptistae unum Par Calcarium deauratorum vel octo decem Denarios Lib. B. pag. 209. And Robert Ratcliffe Earl of Sussex selleth all his Land in Bollinton and Thelwall unto John Carington of Carington Esquire Dated 15 of August 28 Hen. 8. 1536. The Original among the Lord Delamere's Evidences at Dunham-Massy And lastly Sir George Booth of Dunham-Massy married Jane sole Daughter and Heir of John Carington of Carington about the end of Queen Elizabeth's Reign whose Grand-son George Lord Delamere of Dunham-Massy is now possessed of this moiety of Bollinton Anno Lomini 1666. The other moiety of Bollinton is held of the Barony of Kinderton One half of this moiety Robert de Marâ that is Mere of Mere gave to Richard Son of Gilbert de Quike and to Robert Son of Hugh de Ditton in the Reign of Henry the Third Lib. C. fol. 208. q. rendring three Shillings yearly Whereunto are Witnesses Robert Chaplaine of Rosthorne Alan of Tatton Gilbert of Bolinton Robert of Tabley that is Over-Tabley William his Brother and another William de eadem Villâ and others The Original among the Evidences of John Mere of Mere Anno Christi 1650. Adam Filius Roberti Juvenis de Ditton releaseth all his Right in Bollinton to Richard Son of Gilbert de la Quike Lib. C. fol. 206. a. Afterwards Thomas le Eyr de Bolinton grants this fourth part to William Mere de Mere Domino suo for twenty Pound Sub Edw. 1. Lib. C. fol. 210. n. William Mere of Mere Esquire sells it to James Brampton of Toynton next to Horn-castle in Lincolnshire for 350 l. 42 Eliz. Lib. C. fol. 250. f. And James Brampton of Legborne in Lincolnshire sells it to Sir George Booth of Dunham-Massy for 450 l. 45 Eliz. 26 Novembris Lib. C. fol. 250. g. So that the Lord Delamere hath now three parts of the four of the Village of Bollinton ⚜ The other fourth part of Bolinton Robert de Marâ the elder gave to Gilbert de Bolington to be held by the eighth part of half a Knights Fee because the said Gilbert had resigned it up in plenâ Curiâ Roberti about King John's time Lib. C. fol. 206. b. This fourth Part now Legh of Booths hath Charterers in Bolinton 1666. 1. Thomas Warburton of Partington hath one Cottage in Bolinton 2. Sir George Warburton of Arley Baronet hath about two Acres in Bolinton called Heskith-Acres lying in Bolinton-Ees 3. Edward Allen of Rosthorne hath one Meadow in Bolinton Bowdon THis Town of Bowdon takes its Name from our two old Saxon Words Bode which is yet in use with us for a Dwelling or Habitation and Don or Dun which is as much as a Plain upon a rising Hill for which we now use the word Down So that Bodon signsfies as much as A Town or Dwelling on the Downs Unless perhaps we write it Boge-don for so we find it anciently written in Doomsday-book and then it may denote a Down or Hill by a Bog at the side whereof towards Ashley lieth a great deep Bog Hamon de Massy the first Baron of Dunham-Massy held this Town of Bodon in the Conqueror's time under Hugh Lupus then Earl of Chester Ex Chartulis Georgii Baronis de Delamere apud Dunham-Massy Roger Massy of Hale Son of Geffrey Massy being possessed of one half of Bodon sold all his Land in Bodon to wit totam medietatem Villae de Bodon unto Agatha de Massy for 4 l. 7 s. 0 d. in Money and two Robes one for himself and the other for his Wife Rendring therefore yearly one Pound of Cummin-seed at the Feast of St. Martin About the beginning of Henry the Third's Reign Lib. C. fol. 252. I. Which Agatha by another Deed styling her self Agatha de Theray gave the same moiety of Bodon to Robert her younger Son whom she made Heir thereof by consent of Sir Hamon de Massy her eldest Son Lib. C. fol. 252. k. Robert de Massy by the consent of his Wife and Heirs gave unto Adam de Bowdon two Oxganges of Land in Bowdon Rendring yearly one Penny upon the Altar of St. Mary of Bowdon on the Nativity of St. Mary the Virgin which is the eighth day of September in perpetual Alms for the Salvation of the Souls of the said Robert his Wife and Ancestors and of his Heirs and for the Soul of Matthew de Hale Sub Henrico tertio Lib. C. fol. 252. h. From which time there hath been a Family of Gentlemen of the Bowdons of Bowdon who had a fourth part of Bowdon until Vrian Bowdon of Bowdon 4 Junii 7 Elizabethae sold to William Booth of Dunham-Massy Esquire certain Parcels of Land in Bowdon nec non omnia Messuagia Terras quae habet in Bodon Hale Doneham And 11 Elizabethae Thomas Vawdrey of Bodon and George his Son sell to Hugh Crosby of Over-Whitley several Parcels of Land in Bodon which I conceive Bodon had past away to Vawdrey before by two Deeds one dated 25 Octobris 11 Eliz. and the other dated 28 Junii 11 Elizabethae And Hugh Crosby of Over-Whitley sells all those his Lands in Bowdon unto Sir George Booth of Dunham-Massy for 220 l. which then were in the several Holdings of Thomas Vawdrey Robert Mosse Thomas Hardy George Vawdrey Thomas Nedle and Alice Hardy Widow Dated the 16 of April 8 Jacobi 1610. The Originals now in possession of the Lord Delamere of Dunham-Massy So that George Lord Delamere hath now one fourth part of Bowdon 1666. In the Rental of Dunham-Massy 3 Hen. 4. Ricardus Massy de Rixton Johannes de Bodon tenent medietatem Villae de Bodon per Servitium Militare reddendo per Annum 5 d. Lib. B. pag. 209. Massy of Rixton's part came after to Holcroft and as I have heard was lately sold in the Reign of King James by Sir Thomas Holcroft unto William Brereton of Ashley Esquire whose Heirs are now possessed of one other fourth part of Bodon 1666. The other moiety of Bodon was given by the Baron of Dunham-Massy to the Priory of Birkenhed in Wirral about Edw. 1. And after the Dissolution of Abbeys by Hen. 8. it was given to the Bishoprick of Chester with the Church of Bowdon In this Town of Bowdon is seated the ancient Parish-Church of Bowdon seated most pleasantly for Prospect and the Downs There was a Church here in the Conqueror's time ibì
Vernon of Hulme in Allostock At this day 1666. Cogshull is possessed by these Persons following which were all bought of the King in Fee-farm Rent 1612. being formerly Copy-holders to Halton Elinour Ashton Widow formerly Booth's of Cogshull âšœ and before that Massy's of Cogshull descended from Massy of Rixton Thomas Merbury of Merbury Esq hath Land here Edward Piggot of Cogshull Edmund Massy of Cogshull John Richardson of Cogshull Pownall of Barnton No House Green of Sanbach In possession of Richard Perceivall George Low of Hartford One Close Comberbach ROger Constable of Cheshire and Baron of Halton about the Reign of Richard the First granted Deo Beatae Mariae Fratribus servientibus beatis Pauperibus Sancti Hospitalis de Jerusalem totam medietatem de Comberbach illam scilicèt quam Willielmus de Comberbach de me tenuit unà cùm salina in Northwich quae pertinet ad Astonam juxtà Budworth in puram perpetuam Elemosynam Et si Ricardus Fitton vel Haeredes sui praedictum feodum super me vel supèr Haeredes suos recuperaverit Ego Haeredes mei praedictam donationem praedictis Hospitalariis Warrantizabimus Willielmo Comberbach Haeredibus suis Tenendum de praedictis Hospitalariis in Feodo Haereditate Reddendo eis annuatìm sex denarios pro omnibus quae ad Domum ad Fratres ejusdem Domus pertinent Hiis Testibus Henrico Priore de Norton Ricardo Capellano Ricardo Fratre Constabularii Hugone de Boydell Radulfo Filio Symonis Thomâ Dispensatore Hugone de Dutton Adâ de Dutton Radulfo Filio Rogeri Alexandro Filio Radulfi Liulfo Vice-Gomite Bertramo Camerario Johanne Burdon Hugone de Eccleston Ricardo Filio Henrici Roberto de Pulle Johanne Filio Aluredi Gilberto de Lymme Willielmo de Gamul Alano de Waley Willielmo Filio Matthaei Ricardo Filio Johannis Ricardo Filio Gilberti Aytropo Ricardo Starkey Ricardo de Whitley Willielmo de Tabley Waltero de Toft Johanne de Comberbach Henrico Fratre suo toto Hundredo de Haltonshire Lib. C. fol. 274. num 1. Out of the Book of Legh of Swineyard's Deeds num 1. now in his possession John Son of Henry de Comberbach gave to Adam Son of William de Litley in Aston juxtà Budworth all his Lands in Comberbach unà cùm reversione dotis Elenae Matris praedicti Johannis Piscariâ suâ in Lacu de Budworth c. Entailing these Lands first on the said Adam and the Heirs of his Body and in default of such then on Robert Brother of the said Adam Dated at Comberbach die Lunae Sancti Petri ad Vincula which is the first day of August Anno Domini 1335. 9 Edw. 3. Ibidèm num 28. The Moyety of Comberbach is now 1666. in possession of 1. Richard Legh of Swineyard hath two Tenements Their Tenants do at this day pay the Chief-Rent of Six-pence at Tatton-Vurt 2. Mrs. Ashton of Cogshull two small Cottages Their Tenants do at this day pay the Chief-Rent of Six-pence at Tatton-Vurt 3. Mr. Warburton of the Grange nigh Weverham three little Tenements 4. John Gleyve of High Legh one little Tenement which Thomas Gleyve of High Legh purchased from Thomas Sonkey of Little Sonkey in Lancashire 37 Hen. 8. 1545. Lib. C. fol. 269. num 2. 5. Robert Venables of Anterbus in Over-Whitley one Cottage about two Acres 6. Sir George Warburton of Arley five small Cottages not two Acres in all The other Moiety of Comberbach was granted to the Priory of Norton After the Dissolution of Abbies by Henry the Eighth the King sold all those Lands which belonged to the Priory of Norton unto John Grimsdich of London Gentleman 36 Hen. 8. 1544. then in possession of Robert Merbury George Hulme Randle Worral Agnes Walker Randle Low Lawrence Persivall Roger Grymshaw and George Eaton out of which 7 s. 7 d. ob Chief-Rent is reserved to the King And these were sold by Grimsdich to Robert Eaton and lastly bought by George Low of Hartford from John Eaton of Over-Whitley about fourteen or sixteen Years ago Other two Tenements then in possession of Homfrey Shakeshaft and Thomas Highfield out of which the yearly Rent of 2 s. 1 d. was reserved to the King were bought by Mr. Merbury of Merbury and are lately sold to Edward Piggot of Cogshull who is now Owner of the same 1666. Daresbury THis Town is of the Fee of the Ancient Barons of Halton I find that in the Reign of Henry the Third and before there was a Family of the Daresberies seated here whence they took their Sir-name but whence originally sprung I find not Rogerus de Hiberniâ that is Roger of Ireland grants unto Beatrix Daughter of William de Daresbery and to the Heirs which shall be begotten on her Body by Robert of Ireland Ex Chartulis Daniell de Daresbery 1649. Son of the said Roger all his Land of Leverpool in Lancashire Testibus Domino Roberto de Atherton Vice-Comite Lancastriae Domino Henrico de Thorbock Roberto le Sauvage tùnc Ballivo Comitis intèr Ribble Mersey Domino Willielmo Parsonâ de Waleton Willielmo de Waleton Serviente Domini Regis Willielmo de Molineaux c. Lib. C. fol. 184. a. Anno 1291. Henry le Norreys was Lord of Daresbery which Mannor he had in right of Margery Daresbery his Wife Ego Margeria Domina de Daresbery dedi Alano Filio meo Mabiliae Filiae Ranulphi de Merton quem idem Alanus ducet in Uxorem totum Manerium meum de Daresbery cùm suis pertinentiis unà cùm Dominio Villae de Over-Walton 7 Edw. 2. 1313. Lib. C. fol. 185. e. So in the Feodary of Halton under Edward the Second we read Alanus le Norreys tenet Villam de Daresbery Villam de Wolton superiori pro medietate unius Feodi Militis This Alan le Norreys had a Son called also Alan le Norreys and Clementia Daughter and Heir of Alan the Son married William Danyers Son and Heir of Sir John Danyers of Daresbery 1344. Lib. C. fol. 185. g. h. In which Family commonly now called Daniell it hath continued to this present John Daniell of Daresbery Esquire being now possessed thereof 1666. It seems that Daniell had Land in Daresbery before the Marriage of William Daniell with Clementia Norreys For Henry le Norreys Lord of Daresbery and Margery his Wife howbeit the Original Deed hereof calls her Margaret being miswrit for Margery for so she is called in all other Deeds granted to William Daniers the Elder one Messuage in Daresbery with all the Land which William More formerly held in the same Town and one Water-mill with a Croft called Wallmore and one Wood called The Common VVood also one Wood and Land called Daresbery-Cliff containing 60 Acres by estimation Dated on our Lady-day 1291. 19 Edw. 1. Reddendo unâ—am libram Piperis vel septem Denarios sex Porcos qui Pesonam fecerint per Annum Lib. C. fol. 184. d. Afterwards Sir John Danyers of Daresbury married
VVilliam his Son and Heir to Clemence Daughter and Heir of Alan de Norreys about 1344. And when Sir John upon the death of Alan had compounded for the Wardship of Clemence 25 Edw. 3. he grants the Lands to VVilliam his Son in these Words SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Johannes Danyers Miles Filius Haeres Willielmi Danyers de Daresbury Concessi VVillielmo Danyers Filio meo omnia illa Maneria Terras in Villis de Deresbury Over-VValton in Comitatu Cestriae Sutton Eccleston Raynhull in Comitatu Lancastriae quae nupèr fuerunt Haereditamenta Alani le Norreys Domini de Deresbury defuncti Habendum usquè ad plenam aetatem Clementiae Filiae Haeredis dicti Alani nùnc Uxoris VVillielmi Danyers Filii Haeredis mei apparentis in tà m amplo modo prout Thomas Stanford Generalis Attornatus VValterus de VVhitehorse nupèr habuerunt ex donatione Ducis Lancastriae Reddendo indè annuatìm mihi praefato Johanni 40 l. 00 s. 00 d. durante termino praedicto c. Testibus Thomâ Danyers de Bradley Matthaeo del Mere Thomâ de Legh Johanne Filio Thomae Danyers praedicti Johanne Boydell c. Datum apud Daresbury die Lunae proximè antè Festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli 25 Edw. 3. 1351. Lib. C. fol. 185. m. VVilliam Danyers senior had Issue Thomas Danyers of Bradley senior living 17 Ed. 2. and also VVilliam Danyers of Daresbery junior Lib. C. fol. 233. b. e. fol. 184. d. See more hereof in Over-Tabley Whether of these is the elder Brother is the Quaere Charterers in Daresbery 1666. 1. VVilliam Gregg of Daresbery 2. John Haywood of Kekwick habet Terras in Daresbery 3. Richard Eaton of Hatton hath also Lands of Inheritance in Daresbery Here is in Daresbery also an ancient Parochial Chappel a Daughter of the Mother-Church of Runcorne Dedicated to All Saints AUbert Grelly omnibus hominibus suis salutem Sciatis me concessisse Sanctae Mariae de Norton Omnes Donationes quas VVillielmus Constabularius Cestriae Avus meus VVillielmus Constabularius Cestriae Avunculus meus eis in perpetuam Elemosynam dederunt quae sunt in meo Feodo scilicèt totam Ecclesiam de Piritonâ this is Pirton in Oxfordshire Capellam de Deresbiriâ in Cestershyrâ cùm omnibus suis pertinentiis quae pertinent ad Eccesiam de Runcorne Hanc autèm Confirmationem feci praefatis Canonicis pro animabus Patris Matris meae Antecessorum meorum pro salute Animae meae omnium Haeredum meorum Teste Roberto de Bury VVillielmo Filio VVulfrici Ricardo Filio Henrici Lib. B. pag. 202. num 18. This was in the Reign of Henry the Second Aubert Grelly Father of this Aubert married Maud Sister and Co-heir to VVilliam Constable of Cheshire the younger This Parochial Chappel comprehendeth these Villages  The Mize  l. s. d. Daresbery 00 07 00 Over-VValton 00 06 00 Nether-VValton 00 10 00 Kekwick 00 05 00 Thelwall 00 16 00 Preston on the Hill 00 13 00 Newton juxtà Daresbery 00 10 00 Hatton 00 14 00 Acton-Grange 00 08 00 Moore 00 12 00 Sum Total in the Mize-Book 05 01 00 Dunham-Massy THis Town of Dunham-Massy was the Seat of the Ancient Barons of Dunham-Massy and from those Massy's Lords thereof it is called Dunham-Massy in distinction from another Dunham in this County not far from Trofford-Bridge called Dunham on the Hill Dunham hath its name from these two old English words Dun which is as much as A Rising Hill for which we now use the word Down and Ham A House Home or Dwelling as it were A Dwelling by the side of a Hill A House or Town by the Downs Quarterly Gules and Or in the first Quarter a Lion passant Argent This Hamon had also in Maxfield Hundred Bromhale and Podinton in Wirrhall Hundred at the same time and other Lands This Hamon had Issue Hamon Son and Heir and Robert Massy Witness to the First Randle's Charter of Confirmation to the Abby of St. Werburge in Chester about Anno Domini 1124. or thereabout See suprà in this Book pag. 119. Ex Chartulis Georgii Baronis de Delamere apud Dunham-Massy alibi II. Hamon Massy the Second Son and Heir of Hamon had Issue Hamon Son and Heir Robert Massy from whom the Massies of Sale in Cheshire a Family yet extant 1666. Lib. C. fol. 150. d. e. f. III. Hamon Massy the Third Son and Heir of Hamon the Second had to Wife Agatha and had Issue Hamon Son and Heir Robert Massy to whom his Mother calling her self by the name of Agatha de Theray gave the moiety of Bowdon which she bought of Roger Massy of Hale Son of Geffrey Massy Lib. C. fol. 252. i. k. And John Massy Lib. C. fol. 258. a. Also Agnes a Daughter with whom her Father gave half of Bolinton in Free-Marriage to Geffrey Dutton of Chedill Son of Geffrey Dutton Lib. C. fol. 150. a. b. Sibil another Daughter who gave to Cicely Daughter of John Massy her Brother half of the Town of Norden Lib. C. fol. 271. c. Also Cicely another Daughter of Hamon de Massy to whom her Father gave all his Land of Alretunstall and all his Land of Sunderland Lib. C. fol. 254. b. Another Daughter married Hugh de Dutton which see in Dutton Hamon Massy the Third died about the Reign of King John or sub initio Hen. 3. and Agatha his Wife survived him This Hamon the Third gave unto John Massy his Brother all the Land of Moreton which Matthew de Moreton held with Housebote and Haybote in his Demain-wood of Bidston for the Land of Podington which Robert de Massy his Uncle held Faciendo Servitium dimidii Feodi Milits Lib. C. fol. 258. a. about Henry the Second or Richard the First He also gave to Robert Son of Waltheof all the Land which his Father Waltheof held of the said Hamon and his Ancestors to wit Etchels to be held by the Service of half a Knights Fee ego Hamo retineo ad opus meum Cervum Bissam Aprum de Hulerswood that is Hart Hind and Boar. The said Hamon restored also to the said Robert Bredbury and Brininton finding a Sumpter-Horse and a Man and a Sack for the carriage of his Arms and Apparel when the Earl of Chester shall in Person lead an Army into Wales and shall give aid to the said Hamon for the Redeeming of his Body if he be taken Prisoner and for the making of his eldest Son a Knight and when his eldest Daughter shall be married Lib. C. fol. 258. b. This Hamon Founded the Priory of Birkenhed in Wirrall commonly called Birket-Abby the Church whereof was dedicated to St. James And I find Oliver Prior of Birkenhed subscribed a Witness in the Reign of King John Lib. C. fol. 252. I. K. I conjecture it might be founded about the Reign of Henry the Second and Speed saith they were of the
Order of the Black Monks IV. Hamon Massy the Fourth Son and Heir of Hamon the Third had Issue Hamon Son and Heir William Massy from whom the Massies of Tatton Lib. C. fol. 255. e. Also Margery a Daughter to whom her Father gave the whole Town of Stretford about Anno Domini 1250. And after the said Margery then Widow of Roger Pain of Echburn i. e. Ashburn released all her Right in the whole Town of Stretford unto Henry de Trafford Lib. C. fol. 251. d. e. The Originals of these two Deeds were among the Evidences of Sir Cecil Trafford of Trafford in Lancashire 1666. V. Hamon Massy the Fifth Son and Heir of the Fourth Hamon gave the Advowson of the Church of Bowdon unto the Priory of Birkenhed in Wirrall whereunto Richard Massy Sheriff of Cheshire was Witness which was 6 Edw. 1. Anno Christi 1278. which Priory was Dedicated to St. James Monasticon Anglicanum 1 Pars pag. 484. And this Deed was enrolled in the Cheshire Doomsday-book which is now lost This Hamon married Alice Daughter and Heir of Sir Eustace Whitney and had Issue Hamon Son and Heir and 16 Edw. 1. 1288. the Barony of Dunham-Massy was found to be held of the King in Capite by the Service of five Knights Fees Inveniendo pro quolibet Feodo unum Equum coopertum vel duos discoopertos infrà divisas Cestershiriae tempore Guerrae cùm omnibus Hominibus suis Peditibus Tenentibus terram forinsecam infrà Feodum praedictum Faciendo Servitium suum secundùm purportam Communis Chartae Cerstershiriae Lib. C. fol. 259. P. See this Common Chart above in this Book pag. 162 163. c. VI. Sir Hamon Massy the sixth and last Baron of Dunham-Massy Son and Heir of the fifth Hamon married Isabel Daughter of Homfrey de Beauchamp and on the Marriage-day at night as it hapned she died before Carnal Copulation Afterwards he married Alice Sister of the said Isabell and by her had Issue Hamon a Son who died without Issue and four Daughters Cicely married John Fitton of Bollyn Isabell married Hugh Dytton who had Issue Katharine Wife of Thomas de Belgrave _____ another Daughter married Thomas de Lathom and had four Daughters who had Issue and Alice another Daughter married Hamon de Hilond and had Issue Hamon Lib. C. fol. 259. l. and other Sons Lib. C. fol. 261. b. An old Parchment Roll in a Character about Richard the Second among the Evidences of Dunham-Massy And after the death of Hamon Massy the Son the said Sir Hamon Baron of Dunham-Massy was Divorced from Alice his Wife and married Joan Clinton Sister of the Earl of Huntington and by the counsel of this Joan he sold the Reversion of the whole Mannor of Doneham with its Appurtenances after the death of himself and Joan his Wife in case they had no Issue unto Oliver de Ingham then Judge of Chester for which Reversion Oliver gave him 1000 Marks and 40 Marks Annual Rent for his Life 10 Edw. 2. 1316. Lib. C. fol. 256. q.r. t. x. This Hamon the last Baron being sued at Chester 1 Edw. 2. by Peter Dutton stiled also sometimes Peter de Warburton and Ancestor to Warburton of Arley concerning a Parcel of Waste Ground conceived by him to lie in Warburton the said Hamon pleaded That Hamon Massy his Father was seised of the same and that the Land in question did lie in Doneham and not in Warburton and moreover that he the said Hamon was one of the Kings Barons and held his Lands of the King in Capite as Earl of Chester in Barony immediately aad ought not to proceed to Trial without a Jury of Knights and discreet Men of the County Placita Cestriae ad Festum Sancti Marci Evangelistae 1 Edw. 2. Lib. C. fol. 260. z. Chart. 18 Edw. 1. Memb. 3. Rex concessit Hamoni de Massy unum Mercatum per diem Martis apud Manerium suum de Altrincham unam Feriam per tres dies duraturam videlicèt in Vigiliâ die Crastino Festi Assumptionis Beatae Mariae Lib. C. fol. 260. q. And hereupon he made his Charter to his Burgesses of Altrincham of a Guild-Mercatory See above in Altrincham This Sir Hamon was possessed onely of these Mannors Doneham Kelsall Altrincham Bidston Salghall and Moreton Lib. C. fol. 260. y. But in the Rental of Dunham-Massy dated 3 Hen. 4. John Davenport of Bromhall tenet Villas de Bromhall Duckenfield Baggiley and Etchells per Servitium Militare reddendo annuatim 2 l. 0 s. 0 d. But 13 s. 4 d. of this Rent was remitted by Sir Thomas Stanley and Sir Robert Booth by Deed 22 Hen. 6. Lib. C. fol. 262. h. Davenport de Henbury tenet terram suam in Wernith reddendo per Annum 5 d. Itèm tenet Bredbury Romiley Brunington nuper Adam de Bredbury Matilda Holland per Servitium Militare idem inveniat Domino de Doneham unum Championem ad pugnandum pro eo si fuerit appellatus si dictus Dominus fecerit aliquam Appellationem ad aliquem alium tà m in brevi de recto quà m aliquo alio modo dictus Champio pro eo pugnabit inveniet unum Hoblar Sacket Jugg ad Custodiendum Carriagium suum per quindecem dies in Guerris de Wales So that the Services of these and may other Towns did anciently belong to the Barons of Dunham-Massy Hamon the last Baron of Dunham-Massy died 15 Edw. 3. aut circiter Lib. C. fol. 254. t. So that the Massies continued from the Norman Conquest at Dunham-Massy about 260 Years But now fell great Suits concerning the Barony of Dunham-Massy after the Death of Hamon and Joan without Issue of their Bodies For Richard Fitton and the Heirs of the other Sisters entred into the Mannor of Dunham as Heirs to the said Hamon at which time Oliver Ingham was in the King's Service Beyond-sea to wit Steward of Gascony And then by the King's Command Hamon Massy ef Tatton * This Hamon Massy was a younger Brother of Massy of Tatton and afterwards the first Massy of Rixton in Lancashire in Right of his Wife See more of him in Tatton and others of the Council of the said Oliver came to the Mannor of Doneham and entred in the Name of Oliver and Richard Fitton and his Partners went out of Doneham and so the said Oliver Ingham died seised of the said Mannor with its Appurtenances And after the death of Oliver Ingham Richard Fitton and his Partners entred again and the Heirs of Oliver who were Mary Daughter of John Ccrson and Joan Wife of Roger le Strange of Knocking the Elder brought a Writ of Novae Disseisinae against the Co-heirs And after Henry Duke of Lancaster buys out all the Right of the Co-heirs as also the Right of the Heirs of Oliver and so the Duke being possessed of the Mannor of Doneham with its Members gave it to Roger le Strange Lord of Knocking Lib. C. fol. 261.
26 Decembris and Baptized at Bowdon 1 Januarii 1609. where he was also buried 5 Septembris 1617. John Booth youngest Son now Sir John Booth of Woodford nigh Over in Cheshire Knighted 1660. and yet living 1667. He hath several Children by his first Wife but after her death he married Anne the Widow of Thomas Legh of Adlington Esquire 1659. but they lived asunder Mary eldest Daughter of Sir George was never married Alice married George Vernon of Hastington Esquire afterward Judge Vernon she was buried at Bowdon 8 Martii 1623. Frances third Daughter * Frances died at Chester and was buried at Bowdon 10 Septem 1669. yet living at Chester 1667. but never married Susan fourth Daughter married Sir William Brereton of Honford about 1623. She was buried at Bowdon 6 Junii 1637. Katharine another Daughter Baptized at Bowdon 22 Maii 1606. she is yet living at Chester 1667. and was never married Cicely another Daughter died young Elizabeth youngest Daughter was second Wife to Richard Lord Byron of Newstede in Nottinghamshire both living 1667. but she hath no Issue This Sir George was Ward to Queen Elizabeth and was at the full age of 21 Years October 20. 29 Eliz. 1587. He was Sheriff of Chester 1597. and also 1622. and he died at Dunham-Massy 24 Octobris and was buried at Bowdon 18 Novembris 1652. having compleated the 86 Year of his Age. Katharine his Lady died long before him she was buried at Bowdon 26 Februarii 1638. IX William Booth Esquire eldest Son of Sir George married Vere third Daughter and Co-heir of Sir Thomas Egerton eldest Son of Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Chancellor of England in May Anno Domini 1619. and had Issue Thomas Booth eldest Son Baptized at Bowdon 29 Junii 1620. he died at Chester 3 Januarii 1632. and was buried at St. Werburge in Chester George Booth second Son succeeded Heir William Booth third Son Baptized at Bowdon 28 Februarii 1625. he died young Nathaniel Booth fourth Son Baptized at Bowdon 9 Maii 1627. is yet living at his House in Mottram-Andrew nigh Over-Alderley in Cheshire 1667. He married Anne Ravenscroft Daughter of Robert Ravenscroft late of Bretton in the Parish of Harden in Flintshire Esquire and hath Issue Charles Booth fifth Son Baptized at Bowdon 26 Julii 1628. and was buried at Bowdon 21 Januarii 1634. Elizabeth Booth Baptized at Bowdon 13 Julii 1621. she died young Katharine another Daughter Baptized at Bowdon 25 Maii 1624. she married John Jackson of Hickelton in Yorkshire Esquire about 1647. afterwards created Baronet 31 Decembris 1660. She died 1667. This William Booth of Dunham was buried at Bowdon 3 Maii 1636. in the Life-time of Sir George his Father Vere his Wife was buried at Bowdon 4 Maii 1629. X. Sir George Booth of Dunham-Massy Baronet Son and Heir of William and Grandson of Sir George was created Baron Delamere of Dunham-Massy at the Coronation of King Charles the Second His Patent bears date the 20 day of April 13 Car. 2. 1661. He hath much beautified the Mannor-house of Dunham-Massy by Building the North side thereof answerable to the opposite Part and hath encompassed a large Outward Court with a Brick-wall and a fair Gate of Stone He made a Domestick Chappel there about 1655. by laying two Ground-Rooms together on the South side of the House He married Katharine Daughter of Theophilus Fines Earl of Linooln by whom he had Issue Vere Booth a Daughter Baptized 23 Julii 1643. and is yet living 1667. Dame Katharine his Lady was Buried at Bowdon 5 Augusti 1643. She died in Child-bed Afterwards he married Elizabeth Daughter of Henry Grey Earl of Stanford by whom he had Issue William Booth eldest Son a very hopeful Youth who died Anno Domini 1662. Henry Booth second Son Charles Booth George Booth Robert Booth Cecil Booth all living 1666. Also Elizabeth eldest Daughter by this Lady yet living 1667. Anne another Daughter died at London 1667. Jane another Daughter died young 1663. Diana another Daughter living 1667. Also Nevill Booth another Son Baptized at Dunham 15 Novembris 1666. XI Henry Booth second Son of George Lord Delamere and Heir to his Father married Mary Daughter of Sir James Langham Son of Alderman John Langham of London Baronet in July 1670. George Lord Delamere his Father yet living Dutton I Find this Town of Dutton thrice named in Doomsday-book as held then in the Conqueror's time by three Persons One Part Odard held immediately of the Earl of Chester as it were in Capite Another Part was held by William Fitz-Nigell Baron of Halton of the Earl in like manner Another Part did Osberne Son of Tezzon Ancestor to the Boydells of Dodleston hold also of the Earl of Chester Odard's Part seems to be the greatest Part which one Ravene held before at the coming in of the Normans The Baron of Halton's Part and Osbern's Part one Edward held before and did then likewise hold Osbern's Part under the said Osbern But both Osbern's Part and the Baron of Halton's Part at last came to the Posterity of Odard Ex Chartulis Duttonorum de Dutton For Osbern's Part was sold by his Heir Sir William Boydell who released all his Seignory unto Thomas Son of Hugh Dutton of Dutton in all the Lands which the said Thomas held of him in Dutton 15 Edw. 3. 1341. Lib. C. fol. 158. b. As to the Baron of Halton's Part John Constable of Cheshre Baron of Halton gave to Adam de Dutton younger Son of Hugh Dutton of Dutton and Ancestor to Warburton of Arley those four Oxgangs of Land in Dutton which Walter Heron held This was about the end of the Reign of Henry the Second Lib. C. fol. 140. And Sir Geffrey de Warburton releaseth all his Right unto Thomas Son of Hugh de Dutton aforesaid in all those Lands in Dutton which the said Thomas held by Lease from the said Sir Geffrey Dated at Dutton 28 Edw. 3. 1354. Lib. C. fol. 158. c. So that Thomas de Dutton was now invested in the whole Town of Dutton entirely This Township in the ancient Record of Doomsday-book is written Duntune Dun in the old Saxon Language signifies A Hill for which we now use the word Down So that Duntune signifies as much as A Town upon a Hill or Down now contracted to Dutton From this Town did the ancient Family of the Duttons assume their Sir-name For Odard being seated here in the Conqueror's Time his Posterity were sir-named de Dutton from the Place of their Residence where they have continued ever since to this present 1666. about 600 Years A Family of great Worth and Antiquity and as it were almost a constant Succession of Knights but now alas ready to change its Name being devolved by a Daughter and Heir unto the Lord Gerard of Gerards-Bromley in Staffordshire Out of this Family branched out the Warburtons of Arley under Henry the Second and retained their proper Sir-name of Dutton till Peter Dutton seating himself at Warburton
towards the end of Edward the First his Posterity under Edward the Second were stiled de Warburton and have ever since wholly retained the Sir-name of Warburton The Warburtons Chedills and Ashleys in Cheshire are all originally Duttons About the same time of Henry the Second branched out also Geffrey de Dutton another Son from whom the Duttons of Chedill in this County whose Posterity afterwards assumed the Sir-name of Chedill under Edward the First And out of this Family of Dutton of Chedill branched out Hamon Dutton a younger Son under Edward the First who assumed the Sir-name of Ashley from the Place of his Residence whose Posterity wholly retained the Sir-name of Ashley as you may see more fully in Ashley Besides the Duttons of Hatton nigh Warton in Cheshire more lately sprung hence and other Good Families The Mannor-house of Dutton is well seated and hath great store of Meadowing by the River side belonging to the Demain which is accounted the largest and best Demain within our County comprehending 1400 Statute Acres by Survey This House standeth upon a pleasant Prospect to the opposite Hills of the Forest and hath in it an ancient Chappel built first by Sir Thomas Dutton towards the end of Henry the Third's Reign unto whom Roger de Lincoln then Prior of Norton and the Convent there did grant liberam Cantariam in Capellis suis de Dutton Weston infrà Limites Parochiarum nostrarum de Budworth de Runcorne id est Free liberty of Reading Divine Service or Singing the same so as the Mother-Churches receive no detriment either in their greater or lesser Tythes Lib. C. fol. 155. s. That of Weston is long since vanished but this Chappel at Dutton yet remains and is now a Domestick Chappel within the Mannor-House of Dutton unto which Sir Piers Dutton of Hatton after he was adjudged next Heir Male to the Lands of Dutton by the Award of Henry the Eighth did annex his new Buildings at Dutton Anno Domini 1539. as appears by the Inscription round about the Hall of Dutton yet extant adâ—oyning those unto the Chappel and so making it as one continued Building before which time the old House stood a little distance from the Chappel aforesaid In the Demain of Dutton is also another Chappel of Ease called Poosey-Chappel within the Parish of Runcorne but is now ruinate and in decay It is seated between the River and the Park-Pool within the Demain of Dutton but not in the Township of Dutton for all the Town of Dutton is within Budworth Parish It was called Poos-eye from its Situation Ey in our old English-Saxon Tongue signifies A River or Brook and because it stood close by the River and the Pool also it was called Poos-ey-Chappel as it were The Chappel by the River and the Pool In our old Norman Writing and French way I find it it in Old Deeds written Puls-ey but in our common Language anciently as the Countrey People at this day did call a Pool a Poo and thence it was denominated Poo's-ey-Chappel It was built in the Reign of Henry the Third and the Prior and Convent of Norton granted to Hugh Son of Hugh de Dutton that they would find a Chaplain to Officiate at Poos-ey for ever and a Lamp burning at the time of Divine Service about 1236. 20 Hen. 3. Lib. C. fol. 155. r. which Chappel was constantly frequented by the Neighborhood until Robert Lord Kilmorey and Dame Elinour his Wife came to live at Dutton even in our days who beautified the Domestick Chappel at Dutton with handsom Pews and kept a Chaplain in his House constantly whereunto all the Neighborhood resorted every Sunday Then began Poosey Chappel to be neglected and is now totally in decay some part of the Structure yet remaining 1666. Now followeth the Pedegree of the Duttons of Dutton faithfully Collected from the Evidences of that Family and other good Records and Deeds Quarterly Argent Gules in the second and third Quarters a Fret Or. The ancient Roll of the Barons of Halton saith That with Hugh Earl of Chester came one Nigell a Nobleman and with Nigell came five Brethren to wit Hudard Edard Wolmere Horswyne and Wolfaith a Priest to whom Nigell gave the Church of Runcorne and unto Hudard the same Nigell gave Weston and Great Aston now divided into two Townships Aston Grange and Aston juxtà Sutton pro uno Feodo Militis And from this Hudard came all the Duttons Lib. C. fol. 84 85. Monasticon Anglicanum 2 Pars pag. 187. And in the Record of Doomsday Odard held Aston under William Fitz-Nigell Baron of Halton and also Odard and Brictric held Weston under the said William Anno Domini 1086. Whether those five Brethren afore-named were Brethren to Nigell is a doubt for then methinks he should have said Quinque Fratres sui whereas he says onely Cùm isto Nigello venerunt quinque Fratres and so names them This Hudard's or Odard's Sword is at this day 1665. in the Custody of the Lady Elinour Vicountess Kilmorey sole Daughter and Heir of Thomas Dutton late of Dutton Esquire deceased which Sword hath for many Ages past been preserved and passed over from Heir to Heir as an Heir-loom by the name of Hudard's Sword and so at this day it is by Tradition received and called Lib. C. fol. 163. dd II. Hugh Son of Hodard had those Lands which he held in Capite or immediately of the Earl of Chester confirmed unto him by Randle the Second sirnamed de Gernoniis Earl of Chester about the latter end of Henry the First Lib. C. fol. 154. b. These Lands I conceive were those which he held in Dutton III. Hugh de Dutton Son of Hugh Son of Hodard had the Lands which his Father Hugh held of the Baron of Halton confirmed unto him by William Son of Nigell Constable to Randle the Second and by William his Son on that day when the said William the Father and William the Son did visit Hugh the Son of Hodard on his Death-bed at Kekwick at which time Hugh the 8on of Hodard gave unto William the Father his Coat of Mail and his Charging-Horse and Hugh the Son of that Hugh gave unto William the Son a Palfrey and a Sparrow-hawk This was about the end of the Reign of King Henry the First Lib. C. fol. 154. a. The Lands here confirmed I conceive to be Weston and Kekwick and perhaps some others This Hugh de Dutton had Issue Hugh Dutton Son and Heir Adam de Dutton another Son from whom the Warburtons of Arley are descended Geffrey de Dutton another Son from whom the Duttons of Chedill in this County were propagated who assumed the Sir-name of Chedill and continued to the Reign of Edward the Third till Sir Roger de Chedill the last of that Family dying 1 Edw. 3. 1327. left his Inheritance to be shared by his two Daughters and Heirs Clemence and Agnes Lib. C. fol. 61. h. Lib. B. pag. 10. q.
William de Mere in Staffordshire Lib. C. fol. 156. w. Margaret a Daughter married William Venables Son and Heir of Roger Venables of Kinderton 38 Hen. 3. 1253. Lib. H. num 40. And Katharine married John Son of Vrian de Sancto Petro. So I find it in an old Pedegree This Sir Thomas was Sheriff of Cheshire 1268. 53 Hen. 3. Lib. A. fol. 143. o. He died in the beginning of the Reign of Edward the First Philippa was living a Widow 1290 1294. Lib. C. fol. 156. x. bb VIII Sir Hugh Dutton of Dutton Knight Son and Heir of Sir Thomas bound himself to the Abbot of Vale-Royal to make a Foot-Bridge at Acton and to find a Boat and Ferry-man at Acton-Ford about 1286 Lib. C. fol. 156. aa The same is now made a County-Bridge He also was bound to William Gerard his Squire in unâ Robâ Armigerorum annuatìm ad totam vitam suam ad Festum Natalis Domini 13 Edw. 1. 1285. Lib. C. fol. 156. z. He Purchased Barterton and married Joan Daughter of Sir Vrian de Sancto Petro vulgò Sampier I have no Authority for this but an old Pedegree And had Issue Hugh Dutton Son and Heir and William Dutton who married Maud Daughter and Co-heir to Sir Richard Stockport of Stockport 1305. Lib. C. fol. 146. k. Which William with others was Indicted 35 Edw. 1. for taking away the said Maud by force from Dunham-Massy being then in the Custody of Haemon Massy whom they took out of her Chamber into the Court stripping her of all her Clothes save her Smock saith the Record Lib. C. fol. 215. a. Robert Dutton Parson of Eccleston 1320. Lib. C. fol. 157. II. Also Margaret a Daughter Lib. C. fol. 255. d. Obiit 1294 This Sir Hugh died 22 Edw. 1. 1294. Lib. C. fol. 156. bb Joan his Lady survived she was living 1298. Lib. C. fol. 157. cc. IX Sir Hugh Dutton of Dutton Knight Son and Heir of Sir Hugh born the eighth day of December 5 Edw. 1. 1276. at Dutton and Baptized at Great Budworth the day following Lib. C. fol. 139. y. He sued the Prior of Norton before Adam Burum and Nicolas Gruchundelée Commissaries of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry at the Visitation of the Arch-Deanery of Chester Anno Domini 1315. for not finding a Chaplain and Lamp at Poosey Chappel according to the Original Grant which he there produced And John Olton then Prior confessed the same and was ordered to find them Lib. C. fol. 146. m. This Priory was of the Order of St. Augustine He married Joan Daughter of Sir Robert Holland of Holland in Lancashire and had Issue Thomas Dutton Son and Heir William Parson of Thornton 22 Edw. 3. Lib. C. fol. 157. ee fol. 180. l. Geffrey Dutton another Son Robert Dutton another Son Lib. C. fol. 157. ee kk 11 Edw. 3. Obiit 1326 This Sir Hugh was made Steward of Halton 24 Decembris 20 Edw. 2. Lib. C. fol. 180 m. and died 1 Edw. 3. 1326. at the Age of fifty Years Joan his Widow afterwards married Edmund Talbot of Bashall and after to Sir John Ratcliff of Urdeshall in Lancashire living 11 Edw. 3. 20 Edw. 3. Lib. C. fol. 157. hh kk fol. 157. f. g. X. Sir Thomas Dutton of Dutton Knight Son and Heir of Sir Hugh and Joan was fifteen years old on Whitsunday 1329. 3 Edw. 3. Lib. C. fol. 161. oo He Purchased those Lands in Dutton which formerly belonged to Halton-Fee and also those Lands in Dutton which formerly belonged to Boydell of Dodleston and so made the Township of Dutton entirely his own Lib. C. fol. 158. b. c. as I have more particularly shewed before This Thomas was made Seneschal Governor and Receiver of the Castle and Honour of Halton in Cheshire by William Clinton Earl of Huntington and also of all his Lands and Mannors in Cheshire and Lancashire quamdiù benè se gesserit which the Earl Farmed unto him for 440 Marks yearly Dated at Maxstock 19 Edw. 3. Lib. C. fol. 145. d. It seems he was Indicted for that he and others came with Armed Power when King Edward the Third was out of England within the Verge of the Lodgings of Lionell the King's Son Protector of England and assaulted the Mannor of Geaumes nigh Reading in Wiltshire and there slew Michael Poynings the Uncle and Thomas le Clerke of Shipton and others and committed a Rape on Margery the Wife of one Nicolas de la Beche for which the King pardoned him and he found Sir Bernard Brocas Sir Hugh Berewyk Philip Durdanyt and John Haydoke his Sureties in the Chancery for his good abearing 26 Edw. 3. Lib. C. fol. 153. d. He was by several Commissions employed for the apprehending of certain Malefactors Robbers and Disturbers of the Peace in this County One is directed unto him by the name of Thomas Dutton Equitator in Forestâ de Marâ and to Richard Done Forester of the same Forest 14 Edw. 3. Lib. C. fol. 181. v. fol. 164. e. Anno Domini 1379. 3 Rich. 2. William Eltonhed Prior of the Hermit-Fryars of the Order of St. Augustine at Warrington in Lancashire and the Convent there grant to Sir Thomas Dutton Knight a perpetual Chantry to wit That a sufficient Fryar of the Convent of Warrington shall be especially elected to pray for the Salvation of Sir Thomas his Children and of Philippa his Wife and her Parents and for the Soul of Dame Ellen late Wife of the said Sir Thomas their Children and Parents when they shall die at the Great Altar of their Church yearly for ever and that their Names be written down in their Martyrology Whereunto the Prior and Convent were bound under a Penalty of 3 s. 4 d. to be levied by the Provincial Prior upon omission of such Form of Service and if for a Week or a Fortnight it were omitted then must they double the time omitted in manner aforesaid If neglected for six Months then upon pain of Suspension If for a Year then upon Excommunication until the time omitted be made up Whereunto are Witnesses Thomas Abbot of St. Werburge of Chester Stephen Abbot of Vale-Royal Richard Prior of Norton and Roger Prior of Berkenhed This was confirmed by Henry de Towesdale Provincial Prior of the Hermit-Fryars of the Order of St. Augustine in England with a special Injunction That the said Persons be yearly twice Commemorated before the whole Convent once at the first entrance of the Prior of Warrington into the Convocation-house yearly the other time on the Election-day of a Fellow-Prior for a Provincial Convocation Dated at Warrington on Sunday next after the Feast of St. Martin Anno supradicto Lib. C. fol. 167. a. This Sir Thomas Sealed usually with his Coat of Arms and Crest to wit Quarterly a Fret in the second and third over which upon the Dexter-Angle of the Escocheon a Helmet and thereon a Plume of Feathers Anno Domini 1344. Robert Monning of Tatenhale grants to Thomas de
Antecessores sui de Antecessoribus meis tenuerunt This was the Service for the Ancient Barony of Halton in Cheshire for the Service of half a Knights Fee to be done by him and his Heirs for all Service to the said John Scot and his Heirs Testibus Domino Henrico de Audidelegh Domino Willielmo de Cantilupo Domino Ricardo Phiton tùnc Justiciario Cestriae c. Couchir-Book in the Dutchy-Office Tom. 1. fol. 49. a. Comitatus Cestriae num 24. Lib. C. fol. 65. s. John Lacy had Issue by Margaret his second Wife Edmund Lacy and Maud a Daughter married to Richard de Clare Earl of Clare Glocester and Hartford Anno Domini 1238. 22 Hen. 3. Stow in his Annals Ob. 1240. 22 Julii Anno 1240. 24 Hen. 3. die Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae scilicèt undecimo Calendas Augusti died John Earl of Lincoln after a long and tedious Sickness Mat. Paris p. 533. Margaret Countess of Lincoln afterwards married Walter Marshall Earl of Pembroke which Walter died without Issue 29 Hen. 3. 1245. Mat. Paris Also Vincent upon Broke But Margaret survived both her Husbands and then was stiled Domina Margareta Comitissa Lincolniae Pembrochiae in all her Charters Lib. C. fol. 66. y. Living 33 Hen. 3. I find mention in the Book of Whalley fol. 126. b. of one Peter de Lascy a Bastard called also Peter de Cester Rector of Whalley Church in Lancashire 1249. but whether Bastard-son of this John Lacy I cannot positively affirm IX Edmund Lacy Constable of Cheshire Son and Heir of John Lacy Earl of Lincoln succeeded his Father and was the ninth Baron of Halton His Mother Margaret enjoyed the Earldom of Lincoln while she lived by whom it came and she survived Edmund her Son who was Ward to the King And howbeit Vincent upon Brook pag. 318 319. cites a Record out of the Close Rolls to prove that this Edmund by way of Recitation had tertium Denarium Comitatus Lincolniae yet certain it is he was never stiled in any of his own Chartes by the Title of Comes Lincolniae but onely Edmundus Lacy Constabularius Cestriae Lib. C. fol. 67. c. fol. 1. f. Sometimes Sir Edmund Lacy onely Lib. C. fol. 67. b. Yet Matthew Paris tells us That in the beginning of May 1247. two Girls of Provence in France were by the Providence of Peter of Savoy married unto two very Noble young Gentlemen Edmund Earl of Lincoln and Richard de Burgo whom King Henry the Third had Educated for some few Years in his own Court the King himself staying at Woodstock from the twenty eighth of April to the first of May for the accomplishment thereof Concerning which Marriages there was much murmuring through the Kingdom because those strange Ladies were married as it was said contrary to the desires of the young Noblemen and against their wills Where he stiles this Edmund Earl of Lincoln rather out of Civility in regard it was Hereditarily in him if he had survived his Mother than that in truth he was so stiled in any Deed or Record during his Life ⚜ The young Ladies Name to whom the King married him was Alice Daughter of the Marquis of Saluces in Italy and Cosin to the Queen of England of whom he begot Henry Lacy afterwards Earl of Lincoln Roger Quency Earl of Winchester and Constable of Scotland gave unto his Cosin Edmund Lacy the Mannors of Kypes and Scales in Yorkshire Lib. C. fol. 67. a Tom. 1. of the Couchir-Books in the Dutchy-Office fol. 168. b. Com. Eboraci num 12. Anno Domini 1254. aliqui magnatum utpote Johannes de Warrennâ Edmundus de Lascy apud Doveram transfretantes versùs Burdegaliam lora direxerunt Mat. Paris Obiit 1258 Edmund Lacy died the fifth day of June 1258. 42 Hen. 3. and was Buried at Stanlaw Abby in Wirrall in Cheshire So the Book of Whalley Abby Lib. C. fol. 61. a. fol. 67. e. Alice the Widow of this Edmund was living 1271. 55 Hen. 3. Tom. 2. of the Couchir-Books in the Dutchy-Office Honor sive Soca de Bolingbroke fol. 23. num 49. being a French Deed wherein by Agreement with Henry Lacy her Son she was to hold for her Life all those Lands whereof she was Enfeoffed by the King And she releaseth all her Dower in Halton in Cheshire and in Widneys and in Almanbyrye X. Henry Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Cheshire Son and Heir of Edmund Lacy succeeded his Father and was the tenth Baron of Halton King Edward the First gave unto him the Castle and Lordship of Denbigh in Wales Anno Domini 1284. 12 Edw. 1. Stow in his Annals In this Year on the ninth of April was so great Thunder and Lightning that Men could scarce stand on their Feet His Title in Anno 1286. 14 Edw. 1. and also 1296. 24 Edw. 1. did run thus in his own Charters Henricus de Lacy Comes Lincolniae Constabularius Cestriae Dominus de Roos Rowynock Monasticon 1 Pars. pag. 901. Lib. C. fol. 67. g. He was in greatest Favour with his Prince on whose Fidelity Edward the First did principally rely making him the Chief Commissioner for the Rectifying and Discovering of the Abuses and Briberies of his Corrupt Judges complained of in Parliament 18 Edw. 1. 1290. Among whom Sir Thomas Weyland Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was Banished and all his Goods Confiscate Sir John Lovetot Compounded for 3000 Marks Roger Leycester Clerk for 1000 Marks Sir William Brompton for 6000 Marks These were all Judges of the Common Pleas and other Judges were also Fined About this time 1290. Sir Nicolas Leycester Knight was Seneschal to this Henry Lacy Earl of Lincoln G. num 60. from whom the Leycesters of Tabley in Cheshire Henry Lacy is placed next after the Prince of Wales as the Prime Noble-man of England in the Catalogue of the Parliament at Carlisle 1307. 35 Edw. 1. as they be ranked by Stow in his Chronicle He was very Famous in all Grand Matters of State in the Reign of King Edward the First as Walsingham Stow and other of our Historians do report Anno 1293. he was sent Embassador to the French King to demand Satisfaction for the Goods of the English Merchants which were taken by the French Also after the death of Edmund Earl of Lancaster he was Commander in Chief of all the Kings Forces in Gascoyn and sometime Vice-Roy of the Dutchy of Aquitain Anno 1298. he Marched into the Confines of Tholouse and expelled the French delivering the Castle of St. Catharine from a strict Siege Anno 1299. he led the Foreward of the Battel of Fowkirk in Scotland where the Scots were defeated He was Protector of England when Edward the Second was in Scotland In a word He was Vir Illustris in Concilio strenuus in omni Praelio Princeps Militiae in Angliâ in omni Regno Ornatissimus saith the Book of Dunmow as I find it cited by Wever in his Funeral
this Priory dedicated to St. Mary But this Church of Norton was pulled down after the Dissolution of Abbies The Place of this Priory is now the Seat of Brook of Norton who enjoyeth the whole Town of Norton entirely by himself and his Lessees wherein is no Charterer at all Now followeth the Descent of Brook of Norton since the Purchase This Family is descended from the Brookes of Leighton in Nantwich-Hundred of which Family I find one Adam Dominus de Leighton sub Henrico Tertio whose Son was stiled William de la Brook de Leighton and his Son Richard stiled Ricardus de Doito in an old Deed 5 Edw. 1. that is Of the Brook for Do et in French is A Brook in English and under the said Manour-House in Leighton a Brook runneth from whence their Posterity assumed the Sir-name del Brook Thomas Brook of Leighton Gentleman the last of that Family in the Direct Line died about 1652. very aged having Issue four Daughters but he sold away the Reversion of his Lands to the Lady Mary Cholmondley 6 Jacobi 1608. which afterwards came to Francis Cholmondley third Son of Thomas Cholmondley of Vale-Royal Esquire who now enjoyeth the same 1666. He married Christian Daughter of John Carew of Haccomb in Devonshire and had Issue Thomas Brook Christian married Richard Grosvenour of Eaton-Boat in Cheshire Esquire and Martha married Hugh Starky of Moore younger Son of Starkey of Darley This Richard died 11 Eliz. 1569. Christian his Widow afterwards married Richard Done This Richard Brook was Sheriff 1563. 5 Eliz. II. Thomas Brook of Norton Esquire Son and Heir of Richard had three Wives The first was Anne Daughter of Henry Lord Audley by whom he had Issue Richard Brook Son and Heir George drowned in Warrington-Water Christian married Richard Starky of Stretton in Cheshire Esquire Elinour married John Brook of Blacklands in Staffordshire and Margaret married one Warburton His second Wife was Elizabeth Sister of Thomas Merbury of Merbury nigh Comberbach Esquire by whom he had Issue William Brook Thomas Brook and Valentine Brook also Townesend married Thomas Legh de East-Hall in High-Legh Esquire Elizabeth married George Spurstow of Spurstow in Cheshire Esquire Dorothy married William Barneston of Churton in Cheshire Frances married George Legh of Barton in Lancashire Esquire Anne married Richard Merbury of Walton in Cheshire and Clare Wife of Theophilus Legh of Grange in the File of Lancashire His third Wife was Elinour Gerard by whom he had Issue Andrew who died young and Peter Brook who Purchased the Mannor of Mere nigh Over-Tabley 1652. and was Knighted 1660. of whom see more in Mere Also Alice a Daughter married Thomas Birch of Birch in Lancashire Elinour married William Ashton Rector of Middleton in Lancashire and younger Son of Ashton of Middleton which William purchased the Lands of Booth of Cogshull in Cheshire juxtà Over-Whitley Elinour was Widow 1660. And Rachel Wife of Henry Slater of Light-Okes in Bedford in Lancashire afterwards Sir Henry Slater This Thomas Brook of Norton was twice Sheriff of Cheshire 1578. and 1592. and died Anno Domini 1622. III. Sir Richard Brook of Norton Knight Son and Heir of Thomas was Knighted in Ireland and married Jane Daughter and Heir of William Chaderton Bishop of Chester by whom he had a Daughter married to one Joseline of Cambridgeshire who had all her Mothers Lands But through some dislike after Marriage Sir Richard and Jane his Wife lived asunder Afterwards Sir Richard married to his second Wife Katharine Daughter of Sir Henry Nevill of Billingsbere in Berkshire by whom he had Issue Henry Brook Son and Heir Thomas Brook second Son who married Jane Daughter of one Weston of Sutton nigh Frodsham Tenant to Warburton of Arley by whom he had Issue Richard Brook and Catharine a Daughter both living 1666. Richard Brook third Son of Sir Richard Professor of Physick died at Boughton nigh Chester without Issue Anno Domini 1667. George fourth Son and John fifth Son Mary married Thomas Merebury Half-Brother and afterwards Heir to William Merebury of Merebury nigh Comberbach Esquire Anne married Edward Hyde of Norbury juxtà Pointon Esquire Dorothy married Lawrence Hyde younger Brother of the said Edward Sir Richard Brook died Anno Domini 1632. IV. Henry Brook of Norton Son and Heir of Sir Richard was Created Baronet 1662. He married Mary Daughter of Timothy Pusey of Nottinghamshire by whom he had Issue Richard Son and Heir Henry second Son married Mary Daughter and Heir of Philip Prichard of Bostock-Green in Davenham-Parish and Pusey Brook third Son all living 1666. This Henry Brook was Sheriff four Years together beginning 1644. appointed by the Parliament without the King in the time of the late Rebellion Richard Grosvenour of Eaton-Boat Esquire Son and Heir to Sir Richard Grosvenour of Eaton Baronet then also living being made Sheriff by the King in the same Year 1644. The other being extrajudicial against the Law and Prerogative of the King Sir Henry Brook Baronet died Anno Domini 1664. V. Sir Richard Brook of Norton Baronet Son and Heir of Sir Henry married Francisca-Posthuma so called because she was born after the death of her Father Sister to Richard Legh of Lyme in Cheshire Esquire and hath Issue This Sir Richard was Sheriff of Cheshire 1667. Owlarton IN the Reign of William the Conqueror Hamon Baron of Dunham-Massy held one Moiety of Owlarton and Ranulphus the supposed Ancestor of the Manwarings held the other Moiety This Township was afterwards scattered into several Parcels but Sir Richard Massy of Tatton by Purchase got into his Hands most part of this Township and was Lord of the Mannor of Owlarton in the Reign of Edward the First as may appear by these following Notes extracted out of the Earl of Bridgewater's Deeds 1667. by John Halsey of Lincolns-Inn Esquire Nicolas Lord Audley gave all his Lands in Owlarton and Tatton to Richard Massy and Isabell his Wife about 1286. Sir John Arderne of Aldford gave to Sir Richard Massy and Isabell his Wife omnes Terras suas Tenementa in Owlarton Habendum cùm Homagiis Servitiis Wardis Releviis Redditibus Escaetis c. Reddendo quatuordecem Denarios per Annum pro omni Servitio Sectâ Curiarum c. This was about 27 Edw. 1. Richard Dunne of Owlarton gave certain Lands in Owlarton and two Parts of a Mill with the Pool in exchange with Sir Richard Massy for other Lands in that Township Robert Massy of Sale gave to Robert Massy of Tatton Lands in Owlarton in exchange for Lands in Sale under Edward the Second Anno 1 Hen. 6. there was a Survey of the Mannors and Lands of Sir Geffrey Massy of Tatton by a Jury it was there found That Sir Geffrey was Lord of the Mannor of Owlarton and divers Free Tenants there among whom Ranulphus Manwaring qui reddit pro le Bronteles-Place 5 s. 0 d. Johannes Legh del Booths pro certis Terris vocatis Babrinchull reddendo per Annum 2
s. 8 d. and had also nine Tenants at Will paying in all 8 l. 11 s. 10 d. Rent In the Office after the death of Alice the Widow of Sir John Massy of Tatton 6 Hen. 6. 1427. she was found to hold the Mannor of Owlarton of John Ratcliffe of Urdeshall in Lancashire nigh Manchester How it descended from Massy of Tatton to the Earl of Bridgewater see the Pedegree in Tatton Charterers in Owlarton 1666. 1. Legh of Booths now under Age hath about fifty Cheshire Acres in Owlarton in Lease in possession of Randle Cadman John Wainwright John Ridgeway del Oake Richard Ward William Baggiley's Cottage and Robert Partington's Cottage 43 Edw. 3. Isabell the Widow of Sir John Legh del Booths died seized of the sixth Part of Owlarton which was then found to be held of Hugh Massy of Tatton 2. Edmund Howe of Owlarton hath a good Freehold there 3. Richard Wright of Ashley hath Land in Owlarton 4. William Baggiley junior about four Acres of Priest-land 5. Downes of Shropshire but late of Toft four Tenements in Owlarton in possession of Philip Ridgeway Roger Cadman John Smith and John Clerke These 4 pay Chief to the Lord of Nether Alderley as held of Arderne 6. John Norbury of Harborough in Over-Alderley hath one Tenement in Owlarton and three Cottages These 4 pay Chief to the Lord of Nether Alderley as held of Arderne 7. Humfrey Duncalf bought of Page of Yerdshawe These 4 pay Chief to the Lord of Nether Alderley as held of Arderne 8. John Swinton of Nether-Knotsford hath two Tenements in possession of James Ridgeway and Richard Banks These 4 pay Chief to the Lord of Nether Alderley as held of Arderne 9. Lawrence Barlow one Cottage bought of John Merriman in possession of Hugh Manwaring another in possession of Elizabeth Huet 10. Randle Cadman bought from John Hall of Norley lately Partington THis Township of Partington was anciently of the Fee of the Barons of Dunham-Massy a. Hamon Massy gave to Hugh Bodon Clerk the sixth Part of Partington about Edw. 1. Hugh Bodon Clerk gave to Aytrop de Millington cùm Mabiliâ Nepte meâ sextam partem totius Villae de Partington Rendring to Hamon Massy and his Heirs one Pair of Gloves at Midsummer b. Hamon de Massy gave to Adam Sunderland all the Moiety of his Land in Partington which he bought of Geffrey Holdene Salvo Servitio Homagio Ricardi Bolour in eâdem Villâ videlicèt sextam partem totius Villae de Partington Reddendo dimidiam Marcam Argenti An old Copy of a Deed no Witnesses This is conceived to be the Copy of Mr. Hadfield's Deed of Derbyshire who now holdeth a sixth Part of Partington and pays 6 s. 8 d. yearly to Mr. Crew of Crew 1666. c. Geffrey Son of Robert de Walley gave to John his Brother all his Land in Partington which he had of the Grant of Sir Hamon Massy Rendring yearly to Hamon Massy and his Heirs one Pound of Cummin in Festo Johannis Baptistae that is Midsummer-day about Edw. 1. Lib. B. pag. 211. num 3 4 5 6. The Originals among the Evidences of the Lord Delamere at Dunham-Massy d. In an ancient Rental of Dunham-Massy 3 Hen. 4. Georgius Carington Chivaler tenet Manerium suum de Carington medietatem Villae de Ashton tertiam partem Villae de Partington pro duabus Partibus Feodi Militis So that now Anno Domini 1666. the Mannor of Partington is shared as followeth 1. George Lord Delamere of Dunham-Massy is Lord of a third Part of Partington in Possession which was Carington's of Carington and also Chief Lord of the other two third Parts which are originally held of the Barons of Dunham-Massy 2. John Hadfield of Over-Cliffe in the County of Derby hath now a sixth Part of Partington according to the Original Deed made by Hamon Massy supra b. 3. Thomas Warburton of Partington hath another sixth Part according to the Purchase thereof made by Thomas Flixton from Hamon de Massy tempore Henrici tertii Rendring yearly four Shillings Which Rent idem Thomas Warburton payeth to the Lord of Dunham-Massy at this day Idem Thomas Warburton hath an eighteenth Part of Partington more id est a third Part of a sixth Part which his Ancestor William Son of Peter Warburton had from Richard le Harper of Partington and Agnes his Wife by Fine at Chester 13 Edw. 2. 1319. Lib. B. pag. 212. num 6 7. The Originals now remaining with the said Thomas Warburton of Partington 4. John Warburton of Partington Have another sixth Part lately Purchased from John Millington of Millington according to the Original Deed of Hamon Massy supra a. Who now pay one Penny yearly in lieu of the Gloves to Dunham John Owen of Partington Have another sixth Part lately Purchased from John Millington of Millington according to the Original Deed of Hamon Massy supra a. Who now pay one Penny yearly in lieu of the Gloves to Dunham 5. John Partington of Partington hath two Parts of the three of a sixth Part or two third Parts of a sixth Part of Partington which with Thomas Warburton's third Part of a sixth Part makes up the other sixth Part. Over-Pever IN the Time of the Conqueror Ranulphus the supposed Ancestor of the Manwarings held this Township of Over-Pever or the greatest part thereof and also the Hamlet or Place called Cepmundwich in Over-Pever as a distinct thing by it self as appears in Doomsday-book This Roger Manwaring was Son of Raufe Manwaring Judge of Chester about the Reign of Richard the first In the Reign of Henry the Third Roger Manwaring of Warmincham in Cheshire gave unto his younger Son William Manwaring Totum Tenementum Redditum Boscum quae praedictus Rogerus habuit in Villâ de Pever Salvo Capitali Domino debito consueto Servitio per manum dicti Rogeri Haeredum suorum Reddendo indè annuatìm praedidicto Rogero Haeredibus suis unum Nisum Sorum ad Festum beati Petri ad vincula pro omni Servitio Lib. B. pag. 2. c. The Original Penès Sir Thomas Manwaring of Over-Pever Baronet 1666. Sealed with an Escocheon of Six Barrulets This William Manwaring fixed his Habitation at Over-Pever where his succeeding Heirs have ever since continued to this day and do now pay yearly unto Mr. Crew of Crew Lord of Warmincham one Sore-Sparrow-Hawk or two Shillings in lieu thereof according to the Deed aforesaid In this Township are now onely two Charterers 1666. Ex Chartulis ejusdem Johannis Swinton 1. John Swinton of Nether-Knotsford for Radbrook-House in Over-Pever In the Reign of Edward the First William Manwaring then Lord of Over-Pever gave unto Thomas his younger Son illam Terram quae vocatur Radbroc integram Reddendo ad Nativitatem Sancti Johannis Baptistae unum Denarium vel unum par albarum Cheirothecarum Testibus Domino Thomâ de Manwaring * That was Manwaring of Warmincham Domino Warino Filio suo Domino
of Manwaring but absurdly and not right This Sir Randle the Elder built the Hall of Over-Pever anew 1586. the Fabrick being now of Brick And he was Sheriff of Cheshire 1605. 3 Jacobi Sir Randle the Elder died 27 Maii 1612. 10 Jacobi XIV Sir Randle Manwaring of Over-Pever the younger Knight Son and Heir of Sir Randle the Elder married Jane Daughter of Sir Thomas Smith of Hough aforesaid by whom he had Issue Philip Manwaring Son and Heir George Manwaring of Marthall second Son now living 1666. Margaret the eldest Daughter died an Infant Elizabeth second Daughter marrried first to Robert Ravenscroft of Bretton in Harden-Parish beyond Chester Esquire and had many Children Afterwards she married Sir Francis Gamole of Chester but she had no Issue by him She survived both her Husbands and died at Chester 13 Augusti 1661. and was buried at Harden Anne third Daughter married Robert Brierwood of Chester Counsellor at Law after Sir Robert Brierwood Knighted 1643. and Judge of three Shires in Wales Margaret youngest Daughter married Henry Birkenhed Son and Heir of Henry Berkinhed of Backford nigh Chester Esquire Prothonotary of Chester and had Issue but they all died before they came to Maturity This Margaret died at Chester 25 Julii 1661. This Sir Randle the Younger was Sheriff of Limrick in Ireland 3 Jacobi 1605. Lib. B. pag. 26. t. in which very Year also his Father was Sheriff of Cheshire The same Sir Randle the Younger was Sheriff of Cheshire 1619. and Mayor of Chester also the same Year and died 12 die Januarii 1632. 8 Car. 1. XV. Philip Manwaring of Over-Pever Esquire Son and Heir of Sir Randle the Younger married Ellen Daughter of Edward Minshull of Stoke near Nantwich Esq 20 Jacobi 1622. and had Issue Randle who died without Issue in his Youth Philip second Son died in his Infancy Thomas third Son survived Heir to his Father A fourth Son lived not to be Baptized Edmund died in his Infancy George sixth Son died in his Infancy Another Philip seventh Son died in his Infancy Edward Manwaring youngest Son living 1666. And Jane a Daughter died in her Infancy This Philip was Captain of the Light-Horse of Cheshire and was Sheriff of Cheshire 1639. He died the tenth of December 1647. Ellen his Widow surviving built a neat Chappel of Stone on the North-side of the Chancel of Over-Pever Church with two brave Monuments for her self and Husband and a fair Vault under the said Chappel for Burial Anno Domini 1648. She built also a stately Stable and Dove-house at Over-Pever 1654. and she died 1656. XVI Sir Thomas Manwaring of Over-Pever Baronet Son and Heir of Philip married Mary Daughter of Sir Henry Delves of Dodington in Widdenbury-Parish Baronet and had Issue Philip Thomas Randle who died young all three John Manwaring and William Manwaring both living 1666. Henry died in his Infancy Mary and Helen both died in their Infancy Elizabeth Anne Katharine and Grace all four now living 1666. This Thomas Manwaring was Sheriff of Chester 1657. and created Baronet 22 Novembris 1660. and is yet living 1666. Mary his Lady died at Baddiley the first day of March 1670. and was buried at Over-Pever in the Vault under the New-Chappel there on Munday the sixth of March Anno Domini 1670. Little-Pever THe Township of Nether-Pever though now divided into two Hundreds was anciently but one entire Township At this day it seems to be divided into two Townships Great-Pever which lieth in Northwich-Hundred and Little-Pever which lieth within Bucklow-Hundred severed by the River called Pever-Eye Ee is an old word for a Brook and Ees is a Bank or Land lying by the side of a Brook or River And whether you take them together as one Township by the Name of Nether-Pever or as two Towns called Great-Pever and Little-Pever yet have they jointly or severally been severed into two distinct Fees or Inheritances ever since the Norman Conquest to this day One Moiety of them was held by William Fitz-Nigell Baron of Halton in the Conqueror's Time as appears by Doomsday-book This Moiety I speak now out of my own Evidences was given by Roger Lacy Constable of Cheshire and Baron of Halton unto one Osberne de Wethale about King John's Reign to wit all his Moiety of Pever Rendring yearly half a Mark of Silver and doing Foreign Service as much as belongs to the twentieth Part of a Knights Fee G. num 1. And I find Robert de Pever possess'd hereof in the Reign of Henry the Third to whom William Son of Richard Haddlebert who as it seems claimed some Property there releaseth all his Claim in that Moiety of Nether-Pever which is of the Fee of the Constable of Cheshire that is of the Fee of Halton G. num 3. Hugh Son of that Robert de Pever sells all his Birthright in Pever which was to descend to him after the death of his Father Robert de Pever unto William de Hawarthen for One hundred Pound Sterling about the beginning of Edward the First 's Reign G. num 4. William de Hawarthen sells it to Richard Bonetable and Richard Bonetable sells it to William Son of Raufe de Mobberley for fifty Marks of Silver 1281. whose Son William de Mobberley was possessed of the said Moiety of Nether-Pever cum Homagiis Wardis c. 13 Edw. 2. G. 6 7. Afterwards this Moiety was Purchased as I take it by Robert Grosvenour of Holme nigh Nether-Pever about Edward the second In which Line it continued till Edward the Fourth about 150 Years and at last it descended to Margaret the youngest Daughter and Co-heir of Robert Grosvenour of Houlme in Allostock Esquire with the third Part of Alderley also the Wife of Thomas Leycester of Tabley Esquire by Partition dated 1465. 5 Edw. 4. Z. num 28. whose Heirs do now enjoy the said Moiety of Nether-Pever 1666. and the Rent now paid to Halton according to the Original Deed of Roger Lacy aforesaid Charterers in this Moiety 1666. 1. Thomas Wood of Little-Pever near to Pever-Bridge He pays a Pair of White Gloves yearly to Leycester of Tabley at Midsommer pro libero Tenemento suo in Pever 2. Peter Wood of Little-Pever formerly Robert Cotton's more anciently stiled Minshull-Seat did pay to Leycester 3 s. 4 d. yearly Chief-Rent But John Leycester of Tabley Esq remitted the same to Cotton by Deed dated 17 Hen. 7. 3. Hiccock's Land situate in Great-Pever now enjoyed by Powdrill Thomas Deane and Mrs. Pemberton who pay amongst them yearly 2 s. of Chief-Rent to Leycester of Tabley And all these Charterers do Suit of Court to the Court-Baron of Leycester of Tabley held for his Mannor of Pever The other Moiety of Nether-Pever was held in the Conqueror's Time by Ranulphus as I take it in Doomsday-book This Moiety was given to Richard Pool of Hartington by Robert Morley Marshal of Ireland with all the Rents Homages and Services which descended Hereditarily to the said Robert in the County of Chester
of Abbies Henry the Eighth gave the Rectory of Runcorn and the Rectory of Great-Budworth in Cheshire unto Christ-Church in Oxford by special Grant dated 11 die Decembris 38 Hen. 8. which before belonged to the Priory of Norton This Parish comprehendeth these Villages following over and besides the Parochial-Chappelries of Daresbery and Aston juxta Sutton within the same which see in their due Places  The Mize  l. s. d. Weston 00 11 01 Runcorn Superior Inferior 01 01 04 Clifton now Rock-Savage 00 08 00 Halton 01 02 06 Norton 00 12 00 Stockham 00 08 00  04 02 11 Sale SAle is not in the Record of Doomsday-book The Town of Sale is of the Fee of Halton for we read in the Feodary of Halton sub Edw. 2. Dominus Petrus de Warburton tenet Villam de Sale pro decima parte Feodi Militis Here is Seated the ancient Family of the Massies of Sale which branched out from the Massies Barons of Dunham-Massy about the Reign of King John For I find Richard Massy Son of Robert Massy possessed of Lands in Sale under Henry the Third which Robert was younger Son of Hamon Massy Baron of Dunham-Massy And this Family of Massy of Sale is still continuing 1666. In the Offices of Massy of Sale he is found to hold the Moiety of Sale of Warburton of Arley and some of them have been Ward unto Warburton but Wardships are now taken off by Statute Anno 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. And as Massy was possessed of one Moiety so the other Lands in Sale are possessed at this day 1666. by these Persons following 1. Edward Holt of Sale whose Lands in Sale his Ancestor John Holt Son of Robert Base Son of Geffrey de Holt had in Marriage with Ellen Daughter and Heir of Thomas Sale of Sale 21 Rich. 2. 1397. Lib. C. fol. 273. a. b. The Originals in possession of Edward Holt of Sale 1666. 2. The Lord Delamere of Dunham-Massy hath seven Tenements in Sale These were Parcel of Holt's Lands and were purchased by Sr George Booth of Dunham-Massy from Thomas Holt of Whickleswick in Lancashire and Randle Holt his Son 4 Augusti 2 Jacobi 1604. being then twelve Messuages and Cottages with 4 d. Rent yearly issuing out of the Lands in Sale then in the Tenure of George Massy and also 4 d. Rent then issuing out of Thomas Wrenshaw's Tenement now the Lands of Sir Edward Moseley of Howesend in Lancashire late deceased Lib. C. fol. 273. c. 3. Geffrey Cartwright Gentleman His Lands in Sale were formerly bought from Massy of Sale 4. William Williamson of Sale 5. Richard Wrenshaw of Sale 6. The Lands of Sir Edward Moseley lately deceased to wit five Messuages and Cottages in Sale now in Lease and pays 4 d. Chief-Rent yearly to Mr. Massy of Sale 7. Mr. Gerard of Riddings in Timperley three small Cottages in Sale now in Lease late Vawdrey's Land 8. Edward Legh of Baggilegh Esquire hath one small Cottage in Sale now in Lease 9. Robert Tatton of Wittenshaw Esquire hath certain Land in Sale now in Lease and and pays 3 s. 4 d. yearly Rent to Mr. Massy of Sale 10. James Wrenshaw of Limme one Tenement in Sale now Leased to Thomas Davys So that it seems Massy of Sale had anciently one Moiety of Sale and Holt another Moiety though now scattered as aforesaid For these other Parcels came some from the one and some from the other originally Stockham THis Township of Stockham belonged to the Priory of Norton and was Purchased from the King by Richard Brooke Esquire 37 Hen. 8. 1545 with Norton and other Lands also whose Posterity enjoyeth the same at this day 1666. See in Norton supra In Stockham is no Charterer at all Stretton THis Township of Stretton hath for long time belonged to the Starkeys Starkey of Stretton beareth for his Coat of Arms A Stork possibly in allusion to his Name scilicet Agent a Stork Sable the Bill and Legs Gules since the Reign of Henry the Second For Roger Fitz-Alured granted Stretton to Richard Starkey and his Heirs To hold as freely as any of the said Richard's Ancestors ever held the same for the Service of the tenth part of a Knights Fee Lib. C. fol. 135. a. This was was the Reign of King John This Roger Fitz-Alfred's Daughter and Heir called Agnes married Adam de Dutton the Ancestor of Warburton of Arley Wherefore in the Feodary of Halton under Edw. 2. we read Dominus Petrus de Warburton tenet Villam de Stretton pro decima parte unius Feodi Militis So that it should seem to be held originally from the Baron of Halton But I find it not mentioned in Doomsday-book probably it was then Waste And Sir Geffrey de Warburton released unto Thomas Starkey of Stretton and to his Heirs all his Claim in Villa de Stretton ceu in aliqua Parcella ejusdem ut de Wardis Maritagiis Releviis Escaetis Homagiis aut Servitiis quae praedictus Thomas aut Antecessores sui mihi seu Antecessoribus meis facere solebant Datum 4 die Aprilis 5 Rich. 2. 1382. Yet notwithstanding the said Thomas and his Heirs shall pay yearly to the said Sir Geffrey and his Heirs one Pair of White Gloves on Easter-day for all Service Lib. C. fol. 134. a. The Original hereof was in possession of Starkey of Stretton of the Lower-Hall 1650. Sealed with Warburton's Proper Coat of Arms Warbuâ—ton's Coat Argent two Cheverons Gules in a Canton of the second a Mollet Or. which he assumed upon taking the Sir-name of Warburton to wit Two Cheverons and in a Canton a Mollet inscribed about the Seal SIGILL GALFRIDI DE WARBURTON Sundry of the like I have seen to Deeds of Edward the Third's Time The Starkeys of Stretton branched into two Families here in Stretton long time ago The Lower-Hall and the Over-Hall Starkey of Over-Hall in Stretton is descended of a younger Son of Starkey of the Lower-Hall and branched out first about 16 Edw. 1. 1287. Lib. C. fol. 135. c. f. 134. h. k. Randle Starkey the first of the Family of the Over-Hall being younger Brother to Richard Starkey of the Nether-Hall Lord of Stretton living both 3 Edw. 2. 1309. So that Starkey of the Lower-Hall is the Original Root and Lord of the Mannor of Stretton but now lately in our days hath sold a good Parcel of the Demain of the Lower-Hall called Mosse-wood unto Raufe Jackson of Crowley whose Son Thomas Jackson now of Mosse-wood 1665. enjoyeth the same Also one George Webster alias Bromfield hath lately bought another Parcel of the Demain of Lower-Hall And William Southern late of Hatton hath bought several Tenements in Stretton from Starkey of the Lower-Hall So that this ancient Family * Of Starkey of the Lower-Hall is now languishing from when also branched the Starkey's of Wrenbury and the Starkeys of Olton in Cheshire and other Families originally In this Town of Stretton is an ancient Chappel
Elizabeth second Daughter born at Nether-Tabley on Wednesday the sixteenth day of June 1647. married Samuel Birch younger Son of John Birch of Whitborn in Herefordshire 1666. She miscarried of a Female-Child in November 1667. and soon after died of the Small-Pox on Saturday the last of November at Whitborn aforesaid Anno Domini 1667. and was buried at Whitborn-Church Byron Leycester third Daughter born at Nether-Tabley on Saturday the sixth day of October 1655. and is yet living 1669. Sir Peter Leycester and Elizabeth his Lady are both yet living 1669. He was Created Baronet the tenth day of August 1660. 12 Car. 2. XV. Robert Leycester of Nether-Tabley Esquire eldest Son of Sir Peter and Elizabeth married Meriel Daughter and Heir of Francis Watson late of Church-Aston nigh Newport in Shropshire Esquire 6 die Junii 1667. and hath Issue Robert a Son born at Marcham in Berkshire on Friday the sixteenth day of April Anno Domini 1669. Over-Tabley THe Township of Over-Tabley was held by William Fitz-Nigell Baron of Halton in the Time of William the Conqueror We read in Doomsday-book thus Isdem Willielmus tenet Stabelei Lewinus tenuit liber Homo fuit ibi tertia pars unius Hidae Geldabilis Terra est una Caruca Wasta fuit est Silva ibi dimidia Leuva longa XL Perticis lata valuit X solidos Isdem Willielmus tenet in ipsa Villa unam Bovatam Terrae tertiam partem unius Hidae Geldabilem Segrid Ulsi tenuerunt pro duobus Maneriis liberi fuerunt Terra est una Caruca Wasta fuit est Tempore Regis Edwardi valebat septem solidos But not long after certain it is that this Township was of three distinct Fees One third Part of Over-Tabley Roger de Manwaring gave to the Monastery of Saint Werburge in Chester in the Reign of Henry the Second Lib. B. in principio This third Part came afterwards to William de Tabley * This William de Tabley writ himself Dominus de Tabley that is de Over-Tabley sometimes Dominus de Knotsford tempore Edw. 1. who gave the same to Sir John Grey Son of Sir Reginald Grey and Sir John granted it to Roger Leycester Lord of Nether-Tabley Anno Domini 1296. F. num 1. Which in all the Offices of Leycester of Tabley is found to be held of the Abby of St. Werburge And Leycester of Tabley is now possessed of this third Part at this day 1666. One other third Part was possessed by Adam de Tabley in the Reign of Edward the Third Sir William Boydell being Chief Lord thereof For William Son of John Boydell of Dodleston releaseth unto Adam de Tabley all Services due for his third Part of Over-Tabley for one Penny onely to be paid at the Nativity of St. John Baptist yearly for all Service Dated at Dodleston 17 Edw. 3. 1342. F. num 3. This Adam de Tabley I conceive was originally a Massy for he Sealed with Massy's Coat of Arms. This third Part came afterwards to Thomas Daniell younger Son of Thomas Daniell of Bradley in Appleton the Elder by Joan Norreys a second Wife in Marriage with Katharine Daughter and Heir of William Son of Adam de Tabley 27 Edw. 3. 1353. Lib. C. fol. 241. l. for which Marriage Thomas Daniell the Father gave to Adam de Tabley 46 l. 13 s. 4 d. By Katharine came also the Moiety of Bexton to Thomas Daniell the Son her Husband who was afterwards Sir Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley 6 Rich. 2. 1382. whose Heirs are possessed of this third Part at this present 1666. One other third part remaining was possessed anciently by another Family of the Tableys called The Hall of the Wood in Over-Tabley until Matthew de Tabley was Attainted of Felony 22 Edw. 4. 1483. whose Lands by the Office taken 1 Hen. 7. were found to be held of the Honour of Halton and so were seized into the King's Hands And I find John Leycester of Nether-Tabley Esq excepting against that Office of 1 Hen. 7. and complaining to the Judges and Chamberlain of Chester and alledging That these Lands were held of him by Homage and Fealty and Twelve Pence * This 12 d. Rent is at this day paid to Leycester by Th Warburton of Tabley-Hill which Tenement is Parcel of the Hall of Wood lands yearly Rent and praying that he may be restored to these Lands as Chief Lord of the Fee C. num 31. But he had too Potent a Person to deal with And King Henry the Seventh granted these Lands to Sir William Stanley of Holt-Castle Lord Chamberlain But he being beheaded for Treason 1495. these Lands Escheated again to the King And Henry the Eighth Leased them to Randle Brereton for his Life 2 Hen. 8. And after Roger Brereton his Son had them for his Life Afterwards these Lands continuing in the King's Hands Robert Chornock and Roger Chornock of London purchased the same and sold them to Piers Leycester of Nether-Tabley Esquire for 240 l. whereof one Moiety was paid in Hand and the other he gave Bond for But Peter Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire purchasing these Lands at 9 l. per Annum in the King's Books the Chornocks purchased them after the Rate of 18 d. in the King's Books and cheated the said Piers Leycester by a fraudulent Conveyance so that he could not enjoy these Lands It was Decreed in the Court of Requests 4 Maii 1 Eliz. 1559. That the Chornocks should restore the Money which they had received and deliver up the Bond Obligatory to be Cancelled And so Daniell had the Lands which his Posterity now enjoyeth 1666. C. num 13. Charterers in Over-Tabley 1666. 1. Edward Hewet of Mobberley hath one Tenement in Over-Tabley now in Possession of his Tenant John Kell which is within Mr. Daniell's Part. 2. There is also one other in Leycester's third Part to wit the Tenement in Possession late of Richard Duncalfe of Tabley-Hill whereunto formerly Coithurst-Meadows now part of Mr. Daniell's Demain did belong This payeth 12 d. of Chief-rent yearly to Leycester now paid by William Legh of Tabley-Hill This Free-hold was Purchased by George le Criour from Thomas Monkys 5 Ed. 4. Afterwards this Land was purchased by John Duncalfe of Mere 30 Hen. 8. After it came to Peter Hulse of Over-Tabley Hulse sells it to Whitmore of Sudlow 1604. Whitmore sold it to Peter Daniell Esquire 1611. In this Township there is an Ancient Chappel called Over-Tabley-Chappel or more generally known by the name of The Chappel in the Street for it is situate in the High-street An old pitiful Structure ill seated and now in decay This Chappel of Ease being within the Parish of Rosthorn was built about the Reign of Henry the Sixth by the Ancestors of Leycester of Nether-Tabley and Daniell of Over-Tabley for the Ease and Convenience of these two Families and of all their Tenants in Over-Tabley and Nether-Tabley Probably after the Match of Thomas Daniell and Maud Leycester which
Bradley senior Lib. C. fol. 221. f.g. Adam de Tabley Son of Adam Lord of the third Part of Over-Tabley and of the Moiety of Bexton living 35 Edw. 3. married Katharine _____ and had Issue William and Alice the Wife of William Son of Robert Son of William de Buckley 18 Edw. 3. Lib. C. fol. 229. q. William de Tabley Son and Heir of Adam had to Wife Mary _____ and had Issue Katharine Daughter and Heir married to Thomas Danyers afterwards Sir Thomas Danyers of Over-Tabley Lib. C. fol. 241. l. ⚜ Adam de Tabley Sealed with Massy's Coat of Arms whereby he seems to be Originally a Massy The Sir-name of this Family was anciently written Danyers and I have seen it written De Anyers under Edward the Second but in later Ages it was constantly written Daniell and so at this day they are usually called which I rather chuse to follow He married Katharine Daughter and Heir of William Son of Adam de Over-Tabley 27 Edw. 3. 1353. Lib. C. fol. 233. l. 241. l. for which Marriage Thomas Daniell his Father gave to Adam de Tabley Grand-father of the said Katharine 46 l. 13 s. 4 d. Whereupon the third part of Over-Tabley was setled on this Thomas Daniell the Son and Katharine his Wife to descend after the decease of the said Adam de Tabley He had Issue Thomas Daniell John Daniell living 15 Hen. 6. Lib. C. fol. 242. r. And Jonet a Daughter married John Warwick of Upton in VVirral the younger 15 Rich. 2. 1391. Lib. C. fol. 240. c. Sir Thomas Daniel died 6 Rich. 2. 1383. paulo ante Festum* Sancti Edmundi Archiepiscopi Lib. C. fol. 241. m. Katharine survived and was living 3 Hen. 5. 1416. Lib. C. fol. 217. a. II. Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley Son and Heir of Sir Thomas married Elizabeth Widow of Thomas Boydell of Gropenhale junior and Daughter of Sir Richard Aston of Aston nigh Frodsham-Bridge Lib. C. fol. 281. f. 283. g. and had Issue Thomas John Richard Henry Roger and Lawrence So the Herald's Book Lib. C. fol. 241. o. This Thomas Daniel died 10 Hen. 6. 1431. Elizabeth died 11 Hen. 4. III. Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire stiled The Elder 18 Hen. 6. Son and Heir of Thomas married Isabel Daughter of John Rixton 1 Hen. 5. 1413. by whom he had Lands in Warrington and had Issue Thomas Son and Heir John Daniell another Son was Soldier under Captain Piers Daniell Son of John Daniell of Daresbery 21 Hen. 6. Lib. C. fol. 236. q.r. fol. 244. s. And Elizabeth Wife of John Son of Henry Legh 26 Hen. 6. IV. Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire Son and Heir of Thomas Daniell the Elder married Maud Daughter of John Leycester of Nether-Tabley the Elder Esquire 11 Hen. 6. 1440. Lib. C. fol. 236. s. and had Issue Thomas Son and Heir William Daniell living 12 Edw. 4. Katharine married Roger Millington of Millington in Rosthorn-Parish Gentleman She was Widow 1487. 3 Hen. 7. And Parnel married Robert Lathom of Congleton 4 Hen. 7. 1489. And Cicely another Daughter Lib. C. fol. 236. w.z. 243. g. ⚜ In the Herald's Book of Chester I find That this Thomas Daniell and Maud had Issue Thomas William John and Cicely and that Thomas the Son married Katharine de Middleton or Milneton and had Issue Thomas William Katharine Parnel and Cicely as is above-shewed Sed quaere V. Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire Son and Heir of Thomas married Blanch Daughter of Piers Warburton of Arley Esquire 1472. 13 Edw. 4. Lib. C. fol. 236. x. and had Issue Peter Daniell Son and Heir Thomas second Son Richard third Son and three Daughters Ellen Margery and Margaret living 15 Hen. 7. Lib. C. fol. 237. a. 239. q. This Thomas Daniell died 10 Hen. 7. 1494. Buried in the North-Chappel called Our Ladies Chappel in the Parish-Church of Rosthorn He left by his Will 20 s. per Annum to Cicely his Whore during her Life in those very Words Lib. C. fol. 237. a. Blanch his Wife died on St. James's-day 1508. 24 Hen. 7. Lib. C. fol. 239. r. This Thomas took possession of Cherry-tree-Hurst in Limme as next Heir 1493. For then died Thomas Daniell of Limme without Issue the last Heir of that Family of Limme But the Matter was not fully setled till the Award of William Hill Prebend of Lichfield 23 Hen. 8. when William Daniell of Longdon in Staffordshire who claimed as next Heir to Daniell of Limme as Son of William Brother of John Daniell late of Cherry-tree-Hurst in Limme by vertue of that Award passed all his Right in those Lands to Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley Grand-son of this Thomas Daniell aforesaid VI. Piers Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire Son and Heir of Thomas and Blanch married Julian Daughter of Sir Peter Newton Secretary to the Prince who had the Wardship of the said Piers 15 Hen. 7. 1499. Lib. C. fol. 239. q. and had Issue Thomas Son and Heir Robert Daniell of Bexton second Son Peter third Son living 1522. Anne eldest Daughter married first to Whitmore after to William Hulse Elizabeth second Daughter married first to William Owen after to Anthony Shepherd Parnel married John Bressy of Teerton in Cheshire Lib. C. fol. 240. x. 242. y. 244. n. Piers Daniell had also three Bastard-daughters Margery Daniell Isabel Daniell and Anne Daniell and three Bastard-sons John Daniell Raufe Daniell and Humphrey Daniell by Anne Brachegirdle all living 1522. Lib. C. fol. 242. y. This Piers Daniell Esquire died 1522. 14 Hen. 8. at the Age of 38 Years Julian his Wife died 34 Hen. 8. 1542. Lib. C. fol. 239. s.t. VII Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire Son and Heir of Piers and Julian married Margaret Daughter of William Wilbraham of Woodhey in Cheshire Esq 1521. 13 Hen. 8. Lib. C. fol. 237. e. and had Issue Peter Daniell Son and Heir Thomas Daniell second Son Sir William Daniell Judge of the Common Pleas third Son Richard Daniell fourth Son died 1605. Ellen married John Massy of Codington in Cheshire 1553. Margaret married Christofer Holford of Iscoit in Flintshire younger Son of Sir John Holford of Holford nigh Tabley 2 3 Phil. Mar. 1555. After she married James Barker of Hamond near Shrewsbury Lib. C. fol. 238. I. 243. h.k. This Thomas Daniell died 5 Edw. 6. 2 die Junii 1551. aged 48 Years Lib. C. fol. 238. I. Margaret his Wife survived He Purchased the Lands in Picmere which his Posterity now holdeth 1666. from William Sneyd 36 Hen. 8. called Wiche's Lands which came to the Crown by the Attainder of Sir William Stanley Lord Chamberlain to Henry the Seventh as I have before declared in Over-Tabley Lib. C. fol. 244. o. VIII Peter Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire Son and Heir of Thomas and Margaret married Alice Daughter of George Booth of Dunham-Massy Esquire 4 Edw. 6. 1550. and had Issue onely a Daughter and Heir called Dorothy married to William Massy Son and Heir of Richard Massy of Rixton in
at Chester 8 Edw. 2. had five Acres of Land and half of the Manor of Over-Walton cum pertinentiis granted unto him by Henry Son of Richard de Walton Lib. B. pag. 204. num 7. whereby it may seem that Standish now had all Over-Walton except the Capital Messuage and the Fishing in Mersey River But afterwards I find Isabel Daughter of Thomas de Elton making Richard Lestwich her Attorney to take possession in her Name of the Manor of Over-Walton and of certain Lands in Nether-Walton together with the Reversion of the Lands of Idonea Grandmother of Thomas Son of Randle Merbury in Hatton 34 Edw. 3. Lib. B. pag. 204. num 13. Not long after Merbury was possessed of Over-Walton for William Danell of Daresbery having the Wardship of the Heir grants to Alice Widow of Randle Merbury two parts of the Manor of Over-Walton during the Minority of Hugh Son of the said Randle Merbury now deceased for the yearly Rent of 01 l. 06 s. 04 d. Dated 3 Hen. 4. 1401. Lib. B. pag. 204. num 14. Since which time the Merburies of Walton enjoyed the same until Sir Peter Brooke of Mere now living 1666. lately bought the same from Thomas Merbury of Walton Gent. with all his whole Estate Charterers now in Over-Walton 1666. 1. John Dunbabbin of Over-Walton 2. Richard Rutter 3. Richard Webster These Lands formerly belonged to Sir Richard Brooke of Norton 4. Thomas Warburton of Partington lately bought from Thomas Merbury late of Walton Nether-Walton THis Town as well as the other Walton seems to take their Name from the multitude of the Springs therein for the ancient Saxons called a springing Water A Wawe for which we now use the word Well Geffrey Dutton of Chedill gave to Richard Son of Robert Massy of Sale all his Lands in Nether-Walton in exchange for his Mannor of Ashley in the Reign of Edward the First Lib. C. fol. 150. f. Sir Hugh Dutton of Dutton 22 Edw. 1. is found to hold half of Nether-Walton of the Baron of Halton Lib. C. fol. 156. bb And in the Feodary of Halton sub Ed. 2. Dominus Petrus de Warburton tenet medietatem de Walton inferiore pro decima parte unius Feodi Militis And in the Offices of Massy de Sale Massy is found to hold half of Nether-Walton of Warburton of Arley But Massy of Sale hath sold his Moiety of Nether-Walton except one Cottage as followeth 1666. 1. Thomas Massy of Nether-Walton This was bought from his Landlord Massy of Sale 2. William Ford of Nether-Walton bought from Massy of Sale 3. John Hatton of Nether-Walton bought from Massy of Sale 4. Richard Massy of Sale Esquire hath now one Cottage in possession of William Wilson 1666. 5. John Dumbill 6. William Norman The other Moiety of Nether-Walton which formerly belonged to Dutton of Dutton is now belonging to Sir Peter Brooke of Mere which he purchased lately from Merbury of Walton as also all his Lands in Over-Walton Appleton Hull Stockton The Mannor-House is situate in Over-Walton but part of the Demain now thereunto belonging lieth in Nether-Walton Warburton HEre is an ancient Free Chappel at Warburton now usually taken for a Parish Church whereof Warburton of Arley Lord of the Town is Patron This Parish comprehendeth onely the Township of Warburton which in our Mize-Book is Rated at 00 l. 12 s. 00 d. The words of the Institution and Induction of the present Parson are Ad liberam Capellam de Warburton medietatem Rectoriae Ecclesiae de Limme So that Warburton hath the Gift of half of Limme as well as of Warburton wholly and he is Presented here to both and ought to supply Warburton every Sunday and Limme every other Sunday by course In the time of William the Conqueror William Fitz-Nigell Baron of Halton held one Moiety of Warburton which Ernui formerly held And Osbern Son of Tezzon surmized to be the Ancestor of the Boydells of Dodleston held the other Moiety of Warburton which Ravene formerly held Adam de Dutton younger Son of Hugh Dutton of Dutton became possessed of both these Moieties of Warburton towards the Time of King Rtchard the First One Moiety he had by Agnes his Wife Daughter and Heir of Robert Fitz-Alured and I take it to be that Moiety held of Boydell Which Adam by the Consent of Agnes his Wife gave to the Religious House of Canons of the Order of Premonstrants here at Warburton about the Reign of King John in these Words Ego Adam de Dutton assensu Agnetis Sponsae meae dedi Deo Sanctae Mariae Sanctae Werburgae de Werburton Canonicis Premonstratensis Ordinis ibidèm medietatem totius Villae de Werburton in liberam Eleomosynam pro salute Animae Johannis Constabularii Antecessorum suorum pro salute Animae Corporis Rogeri Constabularii Sponsae suae pro Animâ Patris mei Matris meae pro Animâ Rogeri Filii Aluredi de cujus Feodo haec est Antecessorum suorum pro Animâ Johannis Filii mei cujus Corpus ibì sepultum est pro salute Animae meae Sponsae meae omnium Antecessorum meorum Testibus Hugone de Dutton Galfrido Fratre suo c. Extracted by me from the Original remaining among the Evidences at Dutton Lib. C. fol. 136. b. This Saint Werburge was the Daughter of Wolfere King of Mercia a Holy Virgin whose Feast is celebrated usually on the sixteenth day of June Some Almanacks place it to the 21 of June And probably from the Church or some Religious House founded here anciently unto the Honour of this Virgin it had the Name of Warburton Certain it is that it gave the occasion of the Sir-name of Warburton to the Lords and Owners thereof For the Posterity of that Adam de Dutton coming to reside at Warburton under Edward the Second Peter de Dutton was then stiled Peter de Warburton from the Place of his Residence as was the manner and custom of those Ages which Sir-name of Warburton his Heirs have ever since wholly retained to this day See more of this suprà in Budworth But to return to the Moiety of Warburton of the Fee of Boydell which was confirmed to Adam de Dutton by Hugh Boydell in the Reign of Richard the First or thereabouts in these Words NOverint universi tà m praesentes quà m futuri quòd ego Hugo de Boydele dedi concessi hâc praesenti Chartâ mea confirmavi Adae de Dutton pro homagio servitio suo totam terram meam in Warburton scilicet totam dimidiam partem ejusdem villae cùm omnibus pertinentiis jure haereditario illi haeredibus suis Tenendum de me haeredibus meis liberè pro XII solidis annuatìm reddendis scilicèt sex solidis ad Festum Sancti Johannis sex solidis ad Festum Sancti Martini unum hominem ad Castellum operantem ad suam expensam pèr octo tantùm dies annuatìm inveniendo
pro omni servitio Hiis Testibus Rogero Constabulario Cestriae Willielmo de Boydell Ricardo Alano de Boydele Johanne de Boidele Willielmo de Radeclyve Hugone de Dutton Galfrido de Dutton Hugone Dispensario Hereberto de Waleton Rogero Venables Ricardo Starky Alano de Daresbery aliis One of these Witnesses Roger Constable of Cheshire died 1211. the thirteenth of King John saith Matthew Paris Wherefore this Deed must be made before that Year Now this Deed was produced in pleno Comitatu Cestriae 1233. before Sir Richard Fitton then Judge of Chester Walter Abbot of Chester William de Venables Hamon de Massy Richard de Wibbenbury then Sheriff of Cheshire and others upon a Writ of Warranty brought against Sir William Boydell by Sir Geffrey Dutton Son of Adam Dutton aforesaid Lib. C. fol. 136. a. Et de Anno 23 Edw. 3. inter Feoda Willielmi Boydell Sir Geffrey Warburton held the Manor of Hull Appleton and half of Warburton of the said William Boydell by the Service of one Knight's Fee and twelve Shillings yearly Rent and two Shillings every third year These Notes I received from the Collections of Will. Vernon late of Houlme in Cheshire Anno 5 Hen. 5. Division was made of the Inheritance of Boydell and six Shillings of the Rent issuing out of Warburton which Sir Geffrey de Warburton's Heirs ought to pay was allotted to Reddish which came after to Merbury of Merbury juxtà Comberbach Lib. C. fol. 282. I So that the Rent of Warburton was divided The other Moiety of Warburton being of the Fee of Halton John Constable of Cheshire gave to Adam Dutton in these Words JOhannes Constabularius Cestriae Omnibus Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Filiis salutem Sciatis me dedisse concessisse Adae de Dutton dare Deo Sancto Johanni Baptistae beatis Pauperibus Sanctae Domus Hospitalis Hierosolymitanae Fratribus in eâdem Domo Deo servientibus pro salute meâ Dominae Aeliz Uxoris meae Infantium nostrorum omnium Parentum Amicorum Antecessorum nostrorum totam partem meam villae de Werburtonâ videlicèt plenariè integrè totam medietatem villae cùm omnibus pertinentiis in puram perpetuam Elemosynam liberam solutam quietam ab omni Seculari servitio Hiis Testibus Henrico Priore de Nortonâ Anselmo Capellano Ricardo Capellano Fratre Roberto Filio Ricardi Hugone de Dutton Gilberto Filio Rondulphi Hamone de Berthinton Willielmo de Camull Mattheo Tuschet Stephano da Muschamp Willielmo Filio Rogeri Johanne Burdon Galfrido de Stretlèe Aytropio Ricardo Filio Rogeri Simone Cusin Willielmo de Baale Henrico Camerario Willielmo de Comberbache multis aliis Sealed with a large Seal the fore-part whereof is broken and cloven off on the back-part A Lion Rampant written about thus SIGILLUM JOHANNIS CONSTABULARII CESTRIAE The Original among the Evidences at Dutton 1649. And this Moiety he held from the Priory of St. John of Hierusalem in England ever since It seems to me that this Adam de Dutton had by Agnes his Wife the Daughter and Heir or Co-heir at least of Roger Fitz-Alfred half of Warburton half of Limme the Towns of Newton juxtà Daresbery Hatton Appilton and the Royalty of Stretton Sure I am the said Adam Dutton and Geffrey his Son about the Reign of King John were possessed of the Towns of Great-Budworth Aston juxta Budworth Nether-Tabley Sutton juxta Frodshum Appilton Hull Newton juxtà Daresberie Hatton Stretton Warburton half of Limme half of Sale half of Nether-Walton But many of these were long time ago given away by Geffrey Son of Adam Dutton and Geffrey Son of that Geffrey Warford WArford in the Conqueror's Time was then held by one Ranulphus or Randle supposed to be the Ancestor of the Manwarings Idem Ranulfus tenet Warford Godid de eo ipsa tenuit libera fuit So are the Words of Doomsday-book This Town is since divided into two Towns Great-Warford and Little-Warford Both of them were within the old Bucklow Hundred but upon the new Division of the Hundreds which I conjecture exceeds not the Reign of Edward the Third Great-Warford was allotted to Maxfield Hundred But Little-Warford continued to Bucklow Hundred and is joyned now with Marthall in one Constableship This small Hamlet of Little-Warford now in Bucklow Hundred was given by Roger Manwaring of Warmincham in Cheshire to Robert de Vernon Militi suo Filio Ricardi de Vernon in the beginning of the Reign of Henry the Third Lib. B pag 59 Extracts out of Sir Thomas Manwaring of Pever's Deeds 1665. Gilbert Lee of Middleton in Yorkshire Esquire sells Little-Warford to John Millington and Henry Hough and their Heirs 22 die Maii 4 Eliz. 1562. Henry Hough of Knotsford Mercer settles his Lands in Little-Warford to his own use for his Life and after to the use of his Nephew Thomas Antrobus of Lincolns-Inn and his Heirs 28 Julii 15 Eliz. 1573. Division is made of the Lands in Little-Warford between John Millington and Thomas Antrobus 27 Julii 18 Eliz. 1576. Thomas Antrobus and Elizabeth his Wife pass all their Land in Little-Warford unto Thomas Colthurst and his Heirs 17 Aprilis 13 Jacobi 1615. Thomas Colthurst by Deed enrolled sells all his Lands in Little-Warford to Stephen Smith and his Heirs 30 Octobris 16 Jac. 1618. Stephen Smith sells all his Lands in Little-Warford to Sir Randle Manwaring of Over-Pever and his Heirs 20 Martii 17 Jacobi 1619. whose Heirs are now possessed of this Moiety of Little-Warford 1666. The other Moiety which belonged to John Millington aforesaid is now in possession of Millington Colthurst of Little-Warford 1666. Charterers in Little-Warford 1666. William Bayly This Freehold-Land of Inheritance in Little-Warford was Purchased from Sir Randle Manwaring of Over-Pever the sixteenth of April 1620. and belonged to his Moiety Great-Warford Roger Manwaring sold to Richard Putra regnante Henrico Tertio and Putra sold it to Randle Manwaring younger Brother to the said Roger and Randle Earl of Chester confirmed it to Randle Manwaring in the beginning of the Reign of Henry the Third Lib. B. pag. 1. z. from whom the Manwarings of Warford-Magna But this Family was long since extinct Weston WIlliam Fitz-Nigell Baron of Halton held Weston of Hugh Lupus Earl of Chester in the Reign of William the Conqueror and Odard and Brictric held it of William Fitz-Nigell In Monasticon Vol. 2. pag. 187. we read That Nigell gave to Odard Weston and Great-Aston And from this Odard came all the Duttons And that Nigell gave to Edward Brother of Odard two Ox-gangs of Land quas Haeredes Willielmi Filii Ranulphi modò tenent Guarinus de Vernon released to Sir Hugh Dutton of Dutton and his Heirs in pleno Comitatu Cestriae Gilbertum de Weston Rogerum Filium suum quondà m homines Guarini cùm Catallis suis c. Pro hâc Concessione dedit Hugo quatuor Marcas Argenti tempore Philippi Orreby Justiciarii Cestriae
B. pag. 50. b. which Grant was confirmed by Randle Earl of Chester and Lincoln sirnamed Blundevill about 1230. Lib. B. pag. 29. a. This Nicolas had married Maude her elder Daughter This Nicholas de Elets gives the Mannor of Winsham to Henry de Elets Lib. B. pag. 50. c. And Maude de Venables confirmed the Grant to Henry de Elets for which Confirmation he gave to her and her Heirs scilicet to Maude de Shirburne sometime Wife of Nicolas de Elets and to Robert Brant and Emme his Wife twenty Marks of Sterling Money Lib. B. pag. 29. d. which Daughters she had by her first Husband Raufe Son of Roger and after she married Hugh de Bixis or Brixis Henry de Elets sells the whole Manor of Winsham with its Apurtenances to William Venables the younger about 1233. 18 Hen. 3. Lib. B. pag. 29. c. pag. 50 d. which Grant was confirmed by John the Scot Earl of Chester and Huntingdon Lib. B. pag. 29. b. This William de Venables the younger thus possessed of the Manor of Winsham bought out certain Lands in Winsham which William Son of Guy of Winsham then stood possessed of but these Lands of William Venables the younger descended to his two Daughters and Heirs by Partition made about 1273. Lettice the elder Daughter married Philip de Baumvile she had all the Outlands to wit Radnour Hulme Castle of North-wich Hulcroft and two Ox-gangs of Land in Congleton and two Wich-houses in Middle-wich Beatrix the younger Daughter married Raufe de Wasteneys she had all the Manor of Winsham except Twambrookes and the Mill of Winsham Lib. B. pag. 31. m. Raufe Wasteneys de Tyxale and Beatrix his Wife gave to Pagan their Son and Margaret his Wife Daughter of Alexander de Baumvyle and to their Heirs all the Manor of Winsham with Wardships Reliefs Escheats c. 21 Edw. 1. 1293. Lib. B. pag. 32. o. rendring six Marks yearly during the Lives of Raufe and Beatrix Margaret after the death of Pagan Wasteneys married Hugh Son of Henry de Pickmere living 14 Edw. 2. Lib. C. fol. 229. o. Placita apud Cestriam 46 Edw. 3. in Crastino Sancti Botulphi RObertus de Cholmondeley Alicia Uxor ejus Johannes Filius Willielmi de Legh Margareta Uxor ejus petunt versus Hugonem Filium Alexandri de Wasteneys unum Messuagium 30 Acras Terrae 6 Acras Prati cum pertinentiis in Winsham quae Radulfus de Wasteneys Beatricia Uxor ejus dederunt Pagano Filio suo Haeredibus de Corpore c. Et quae post mortem Johannis Filii praedicti Pagani Margaretae Uxoris suae Praefatis Aliciae Margaretae Uxori praedicti Johannis Filii Willielmi de Legh ut Filiabus Haeredibus praedicti Johannis Filii praedictorum Pagani Margaretae descendere debent c. This John Legh of High-Legh de East-Hall married Margaret Wasteneys 1365. 40 Edw. 3. Lib. C. fol. 268. num 39. and had a Daughter and Heir married to John Massy of Winsham Lib. B. pag. 33. x. This John Massy of Winsham by his Coat of Arms wherewith he Sealed Anno 19 R 2. Geffrey Son of John Massy of Winsham Sealed with a Cheveron between three Lozenges written about the Seal Sigillum Galfridi Masâ—y Lib. C. fol. 266. num 5. seems to be descended from Massy de Sale originally and had Issue Geffrey Massy of Winsham living 21 Rich. 2. 7 Hen. 4. which Geffrey had Issue William Massy who died without Issue and Maude married to Richard Legh of High-Legh of the West-Hall 1375. and afterwards became Heir to her Father's Lands Lib. B. pag. 35. g. h. Lib. C. fol. 266. num 4 5. So that from about 10 Hen. 6. the Leghs of High-Legh de West-Hall were possessed of the Moiety of Winsham until Richard Legh and Clemence his Wife sold unto Anthony Grosvenour of Ridley in Cheshire Esquire all his Lands in Winsham for two hundred and twenty Pounds Dated the 14. of June 7 Eliz. 1566. Lib. B. pag. 56. b. and Grosvenour sold them to Roger Pilston of the Temple at London and to John Grosvenour of Tussingham Anno 8 Elizabethae And soon after these Lands were bought by Sir Richard Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire Raufe Egerton of Ridley Esq and Sir Richard Egerton his Son and Heir do sell unto Richard Harecourt of Winsham Gent all the their Moiety of the Manor of Winsham with certain Inclosures taken out of the Commons of Winsham by Sir Thomas Venables of Kinderton late deceased and particularly named in the Deed bearing Date the 16. of April 4 Jacobi 1606. excepted out of this Grant all those Lands in Winsham formerly sold by them to Edmund Moldesworth of Winsham Roger Wood and Thomas Norcot but Richard Harcourt after purchased Norcot's Messuage Concerning the Inclosures aforesaid there was formerly some difference between Sir Rich. Egerton of Ridley and Sir Tho. Venables aforesaid but upon an Award made between them Sir Thomas Venables released unto Raufe Egerton of Ridley Esq Son and Heir of Sir Richard and to others all the said Inclosures to revert to the Heirs of the said Raufe Egerton after the Death of Sir Thomas Venables aforesaid and Thomas Venables his Son Dated the 8. of June 16 Eliz. 1574. The Originals of these Penes Harcourt of Winsham 1666. For in truth though the Baron of Kinderton be Lord Paramount yet had he then nothing to do with any part of the Manor of Winsham or Wastes thereto belonging that being given away by his Ancestour long time ago onely the Service reserved in the original Deed was due to him but no part of the Land or Soil as is clear by the Deeds before-mentioned The other Moiety of Winsham which was invested in Robert Cholmondeley's Heirs in Right of Alice his Wife Daughter and Coheir of John Wasteneys came afterwards to Buckley of Eyton nigh Davenham and from that Family this Moiety at last descended to Richard Leftwich of Leftwich Esq in Right of Margaret his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Robert Buckley of Eyton whom he married 13 Hen. 8. 1521. and had Issue by her a Daughter and Heir called Margaret Leftwich who carrid away all her Mothers Lands but her Father's Lands were Entailed on the Heirs Males of the Leftwiches And she had two Husbands the first was Thomas Woodrofe by whom she had Issue Thomas who died without Issue and two Daughters Elizabeth married Robert Edowe and Brigit After the Death of her first Husband who died about 1 Eliz. 1559. the said Margaret Leftwich married William Harcourt Gent. third Son of John Harcourt of Ranton in Staffordshire Esq unto the Issue of which William Harcourt by Margaret this other Moiety of Winsham descended and hath continued unto his Heirs to this present 1666. So that William Harcourt of Winsham now living 1666. having lately purchased Woods Tenement in Winsham and two Water-Corn-Mills in Twambrooke is now possessed of the Manor and whole Township of Winsham excepting these
Margaret and Emme M. num 16. and so this Land of Heild continued to their Heirs until the one Moiety thereof was purchased again by Thomas Leycester of Tabley Esquire Anno Domini 1500. M. num 19. and the other Moiety was purchased by Dorothy Leycester Widow from Richard Sutton of Sutton nigh Maxfield Esquire Son of Francis Sutton Anno Domini 1601. 43. Elizabethae M. num 60. So that the whole is now reverted again to Leycester There is also another Place in this Aston called The Mannor of Wethale which the aforesaid Geffrey Son of Geffrey Son of Adam de Dutton gave unto Margaret his Daughter aforesaid and to her Heirs with all Commons and Easements of the Town of Aston Et Sciedum est quòd ipsa Margareta Haeredes sui Homines eorum qui manebunt in Wethale habebunt Housebote Haybote sufficientèr ad ardendum ad aedificandum de Bosco de Aston sinè visu Forestariorum praedicti Galfridi haeredum suorum habebunt etià m omnes Porcos suos proprios ubicunquè fuerint nutriti in eodem Bosco sinè Pannagio as the very words of the Deed do run R. num 3. At which time also he gave her the Town of Nether-Tabley by another Deed and this about the latter end of the Reign of Henry the Third for in these Ages Gentlemen used to give a large proportion of Lands with their Daughters in Marriage rather than a small Sum of Money Land being then but of little value All which Lands descended to her Heirs by Sir Nicholas Leycester And Peter Dutton Son of the said Geffrey released all his Right in Nether-Tabley Wethale and Heild unto Roger Leycester Son of Sir Nicholas Anno Dom. 1296. 24 Edw. 1. I. num 6. and do now remain in possession of Sir Peter Leycester of Tabley Baronet and his Tenants at this day 1669. The Mannors of VVethale and Heild in Aston juxta Budworth do contain about a third part of the Town of Aston the Demaine Land of Arley being taken out and excepted All the rest of this Town hath been enjoyed by the Ancestors of the VVarburtons of Arley from the time of Adam de Dutton aforesaid even to this present save onely the Lands granted away by them unto the Predecessors of these Charterers following and now 1666. in possession of 1. The Widow Garstid of Chester called Litley Lands formerly belonging to Hayes of Litley and was possessed by Adam Son of William de Litley Anno Domini 1335. 2. Daniel of Tabley hath two small Tenements in Aston 3. Raufe Vernon of Aston called Wethale Farm 4. Gerard of Wimbles-Trafford late Picton's Land 5. Philip Antrobus of Over-Pever one small Tenement in Aston 6. Berry's Tenement in Aston which formerly was the Inheritance of Sneyd of Bradwell and sold by William Sneyd unto Gawen Legh of Northwood younger Son of Matthew Legh of Swineyard in High-Legh 35 Hen. 8. afterwards Richard Legh of Northwood sold it to Peter Leycester of Tabley Esquire 1633. and lastly Sir Peter Leycester of Tabley sold it to his Servant Thomas Jackson of Heild 1 Aprilis 1669. 21 Car. 2. In this Aston is situated the Hall of Arley now the chief Mansion-house of the Warburtons of Arley which House was built by Piers Warburton of Arley Esquire who died 10 Hen. 7. 1495. wherein of late a Ground-Room hath been converted into a Chappel But see more in Budworth of the ancient Places of Habitation of Warburton In the Feodary of Halton about the beginning of Edward the Third we read thus Galfridus Warburton Johannes Fitton tenet Villas de Budworth Aston juxtà Budworth tertiam partem de Tabley Superiori duas bovatas Terrae in Tabley Inferiori bovatam Terrae in quartâ parte de Comberbach unam bovatam Terrae in manu Prioris de Norton in Budworth totam Terram de Lythe ultrà Dee juxtà Cestriam pro uno Feodo Militis pro Relevio l. s. d. 05 00 00 Where Geffrey Warburton is put over the Head as then Tenant to the Baron of Halton for those Services when this Feodary was made the other possibly as it stood in former Rentalls Here should follow the Descent of Warburton of Arley but Sir George Warburton denied me the perusal of his Evidences so as it could not exactly be performed wherefore I have omitted the same Baggiley Or three Lozenges Azure The three first named I take to be Gilbert Venables Baron of Kinderton Ranulfus supposed to be the Ancestor of the Manwarings and Hamon Massy Baron of Dunham-Massy Sunderland is Locus cognitus within the Town of Dunham-Massy About the Reign of King John Hamon Massy then Lord of Dunham-Massy and Descended from the other Hamon before named gave unto Matthew de Bromhale Bromhale Duckenfield and two parts of Baggiley which the Father of the said Matthew held of the said Hamon as his Inheritance in Knights Service to him and his Heirs Faciendo praedicto Hamoni Haeredibus suis liberum Servitium Feodi unius Loricae Quitting all other Service de aratro hosterio * Houe Gallice an Instrument of Husbandry to break up the Earth Segibus secandis Feu †Feu Gallice Fire Fewel Colligendo Homagio faciendo de Averiis de Pannagio Salicher * Salicher puto pro Saligerio carrying of Salt from the Wich a Service in those Ages very usual de omnibus aliis consuetudinibus c. Lib. C. fol. 258. c. as I had it from Mr. Vernon's Notes Certain it is that this Town gave Name to the Family of the Baggileys who were Seated here Sir VVilliam Baggiley was Lord of Baggiley 13 Edw. 2. 1319. and John Baggiley his Son made a Feofment of the Mannor of Baggiley in Cheshire and of his Mannors of Hyde and Leveshulme in Lancashire unto Sir John Legh of Booths nigh Knotsford Covenanting that Sir John shall Settle them on the said John Baggiley and the Heirs Males of his Body and for default of such then to Settle the Mannor of Hyde on Sir John Hyde and his Heirs and to Settle the Mannors of Baggiley and Leveshulme upon William John and Geffrey Sons of the said Sir John Legh and to the Heirs Males of their Bodies in order one after another the remainder to Thomas Son of Richard Massy then to John Son of Robert Legh then to William Son of Piers Legh then to Robert Son of Robert Massy of Kelsall Lib. C. fol. 270 a. The Original in French now remaining with Edward Legh of Baggiley Esquire 1666. a fair Seal with Sir John Legh's Coat of Arms to wit a Bend over two Bars the other Seal is demolished to wit Baggiley's Coat three Lozenges with a Bear 's Head for the Crest There is no Date put to the Deed but Sir John Legh did Settle them accordingly with the Services of all the Freeholders in Baggiley to wit Richard Son of VVilliam Richard Hod Robert Son of VVilliam
Time by Gilbert Venables Baron of Kinderton as appears in Doomsday-book These following Notes were taken out of Will Vernon's Collections In the Reign of Henry the Second or thereabouts the Daughters and Heirs of Homfrey de Rosthorne grant all their Lands in Rosthorne to Robert de Manwaring in these Words SCiant tam praesentes quam futuri Nos Filias Haeredes Homfridi de Rosthorne scilicet Margeriam Sibillam dedisse Roberto de Menilwaring pro Homagio Servitio suo pro 3 l. 7 s. 0 d. Argenti totam terram nostram in Rosthorne cum omnibus pertinentiis suis Tenendum illi Haeredibus honorificè in Feodo Haereditate Reddendo inde annuatim nobis Haeredibus nostris quatuor Denarios in Vigilia Natalis Domini pro omni Servitio quod ad nos pertinet c. Praeter hoc quod praedictus Robertus de Menilwarin Haeredes sui debent facere forense Servitium Ricardo de Vernon Haeredibus suis quod nos illi facere debemus scilicet decimam sextam partem Servitii unius Feodi Militis unde nos illi spontanea voluntate nostra sua in pleno Comitatu Cestriae attornavimus praedicto Ricardo de Vernon in Curia ejusdem Ricardi coram Hominibus suis Testibus Gilberto Pipardo Ada de Aldithley Radulfo Dapifero Willielmo de Mesnilwarin Liulfo de Twamlow Ricardo de Sondbach Roberto de Moldesworth Roberto de Stafford Rogero de Cumbray c. RIcardus de Vernon omnibus Amicis Hominibus suis tam praesentibus quam futuris salutem Sciatis me prece petitione Haeredum Homfridi de Rosthorne concessisse Roberto de Menilwarin Haeredibus suis totum Tenementum illud quod tenuit in Rosthorne de Haeredibus Homfridi de Rosthorne Tenendum illi Haeredibus suis liberè quietè honorificè in Feodo Haereditate cum omnibus libertatibus pertinentiis suis sicut Charta praedictarum Haeredum praedicto Roberto Testatur salvo forinseco Servitio meo unde praedictae Haeredes Humfridi praedictum Robertum mihi Attornaverunt in pleno Comitatu Cestriae in Curia mea coram hominibus meis Testibus Radulpho de Mesnilwarin Willielmo de Mesnilwarin Liulfo de Twamlow Ricardo Hugone de Blakenhall Hugone Willielmo de Lega Gilberto de Hertford Ricardo de Tewa Roberto de Mara Hugone le Bret Petro Chanu Gralam de Lostock Ranulfo de Bertumley Selone Clerico multis aliis SCiant praesentes futuri Ego Willielmus de Massy Uxor mea Margeria dedimus Hugoni de Venables Haeredibus suis vel cui dare aut assignare voluerit pro Homagio Servitio suo certas Terras in Rosthorne Testibus Domino Willielmo de Venables Domino Warino de Vernon Domino Alano de Tatton Domino Willielmo de Venables juvene Viviano de Davenport Ranulfo de Arclid Ricardo de Blakenhall Ada de Legh Willielmo de Mara Willielmo de Mobberley Aytropo de Mulinton Ricardo Clerico aliis Ego Margeria Domina de Rosthorne in ligia potestate mea dedi Hugoni de Venables Heredibus suis certain Lands in Rosthorne Testibus Domino Willielmo de Vebles Domino Warino de Vernon Domino Alano de Tatton Domino Willielmo de Venables juvene Viviano de Davenport Ranulpho de Arclid Ricardo de Blakenhall Ada de Legh Willielmo de Mara Willielmo de Mobberley Aytropo de Millington Ricardo Clerico aliis These two Deeds were made tempore Hen. 3. at one time coram iisdem Testibus SCiant Ranulfus de Starkey Ellena Uxor mea dedimus Hugoni de Venables Haeredibus suis quartam partem totius Villae de Rosthorne cum pertinentiis quartam partem molendini Excepta terra quae prius data fuit Monialibus Cestriae Reddendo inde annuatim duodecem Denarios in Festo Sancti Johannis Baptistae pro omni Servitio Testibus Thoma de Sondbach Johanne Capellano Fraire ejus Henrico Capellano de Budworth Ricardo Capellano de Torperley Thoma Capellano de Rosthorne Willielmo de Massy Ricardo Clerico aliis Ego Ranulfus Starkey confirmavi quietum clamavi Willielmo de Venables Domino de Kinderton Haeredibus suis totum Servitium Homagium redditum duodecem Denariorum annui redditus quae Ricardus Starkey Pater meus annuatim quondam solebat recipere de praedicto Willielmo de Venables pro quarta parte Villae de Rosthorne c. This Deed was made Anno 1286. or thereabouts OMnibus Christi fidelibus Hugo de Venables Miles salutem Neveritis me concessisse Johanni de Legh Ellenae Uxori ejus Haeredibus vel Assignatis ejusdem Johannis totum jus clameum quod habeo in omnibus Terris Tenementis redditibus servitiis quae vel quas dictus Johannes Ellena habuerunt ex dimissione Feoffamento Willielmi Venables Fratris mei in Villa de Rosthorne ita quod nec ego Hugo nec Haeredes mei aliquod jus aut clameum exigere poterimus praeter exitum redditus duodecem Denariorum unius Paris albarum Cheirothecarum ad Festum Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae c. Testibus Domino Roberto de Holland tunc Justiciario Cestriae c. Datum apud Marston die Parasceuae * * On Good-friday 1308. Anno Domini 1308. 2 Edw. 2. OMnibus Christi fidelibus Willielmus Filius Willielmi Venables de Bradwell salutem Noveritis me remisisse Johanni de Legh totum jus in Terris Tenementis in Rosthorne quae praedictus Johannes habuit ex dono Willielmi Patris mei c. Testibus Domino Petro de Warburton Willielmo de Baggiley Militibus Willielmo de Mobberley tunc Vicecomite Cestershiriae Roberto Massy de Tatton Hamone de Ashley Datum 13 Edw. 2. Thus far out of Will. Vernon's Notes This was John Legh of Boothes Son of William Venables of Bradwell by Agnes his second Wife to whom you see his Father William Venables gave these Lands in Rosthorn and they are confirmed unto him by William Son of William Venables of Bradwell Half-brother to the said John Legh And these Lands in Rosthorne here given to John Legh as I take it was a Moiety of Rosthorne and Legh of Booths hath this Moiety at this day 1666. The Notes of Mr. John Halsey of Lincolns-Inn out of the Earl of Bridgewater's Evidences 1667. SCiant praesentes futuri quod ego Mattheus de Alpraham dedi Ricardo de Massy Militi Homagium Servitium Galfridi Filii Ricardi Starkey de Terris Tenementis Feodis omnimodis quae de me ceu Antecessoribus meis unquam in Villa de Rosthorne tenebantur c. Testibus Hamone de Massy Rogero de Domvill Militibus Ricardo de Bonebury Thoma le Cryour Thoma de Legh Johanne de Legh Henrico Heyron Roberto de Massy aliis Sub Edw. 1. William Chanu granted to Richard Son of Richard Clerke de Rosthorne in Fee all his Right in one Oxgang of Land in