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INTRODUCTION.
The Memoirs contained in tlie present volume, are addressed
to the Local Antiquary and Genealogist, and to such readers
little explanation of the subject matter itself "will be requisite ;
but it may be desirable to prefix, even for then: mformation,
some introductory statement as to the principle observed in
the selection of these Memoirs from other ]MSS., and as to
their* connexion "witli an earlier work by the same Author.
They form part of a series of miscellaneous Essays con-
nected with Cheshire and Lancasliire Antiquities, to wliicli
the Author has made additions, from time to time, since his
completion of the History of the former County. The
Norres Memoir, a portion of this series, and mentioned be-
low, has been printed by the Historic Society of Lancashire
and Chester. Other portions of the same collection have also
been printed by the Society of Antiquaries, and by tlie
Chetham Society, including a Memoir- on the Swords of
State of the Cheshire Palatinate, and an annotated Edition
of the Civil AVar Tracts of Lancashhe.
The portion which still remains in MS., includes, among
other subjects, an identification of the Chesbire ajid Lan-
cashire witnesses in the Scropc and Grosvcnor Suit, prc]3arcd
at the request of the late Sir Harris Nicolas, as a contribu-
tion towards his unfinished Avork ; and this may perhaps be
printed hereafter, in continuation of the present volume.
The ^rst portion of the present volume consists of Gene-
alogies connected Avitli the two sister Palatinates, which it is
n IXTKODVCTIOX.
deemed desirable to insert, as -well -with reference to tlie
local importance of the several families themselves, as in the
hope of removing the errors and confusion found in earlier
compilations. All these flmiilies have been noticed more or
less fully in the History of Cl/esl/ire ; but from the origin of
these Houses, or from the ramification of their greater lines
Ipng out of Chesliire and beyond the range of its Records,
the scope and limits of that work, and the state of general
National Records at the period of its compilation, did not
allow that attention to be then given to the entire, subject,
which is here attempted.
The second portion , the ^lemoir on the Cheshire Domes-
day Roix, has its OA\ai prcflitory Introduction.
- In returning to the subject of the Genealogical Essavs, it
may be proper to state that the Xorrks ^[e.moir is a rcim-
pression of what was published by the Historic Societv, \\ ith
some additions as to the rrocccdings of the several branches
of that Family in the Great Civil War. The points illus-
trated in it are, the reconstruction of the descent of the
parent line of Norres of Sutton and Daresbury, which is
much confused in the llerahlic Visitation of 1567, antl the
deduction of the junior, but greater line of Speke, from
original sources, with idontlHcations of its military achieve-
ments, and the ramification of its various younger lines.
The Memoirs on liATuo.M and Arderne are extensions of
previous Es-<ays, severally inserted in the Topograplu^r, and
in the Collectanea TopoyrapJiiea.
In tlie first of these, each successive descent of Lathom is
proved, from Records, from the time of Rufus down to its
representation in female line by Stanley, and tlie applicability
of the celebrated Legend to any representatives of this House,
either at the time alleged by traditions, or at any other period
within rani^e of Records, is disproved by direct evidence.
IN'l'UODVCTlON. Ill
The second is an extension of an Essay on tlic earlier part
of the AuDEUNE Pedigree, printed in the Collectanea T<jpo-
graphlca, and of the entire Pedigree given in the Hisfory of
Cheshire. Documents then collected hy the Author enabled
him to express disbelief in Vincent's deduction in male line,
fi-om the Warwickshii-e Ardens, of the first Su- John do
Arderna, Lord of .Addford Castle and Fee, a f\iVoured
Knight of the Crusader, Earl Ranulph III ; and, also, to
displace the later illegitimate Aldford line from their in-
trusion into the representative rank belonging to the Alvan-
ley branch, and to substitute the subsequent genuine descent
of the Alvanley line for that which Vincent had introduced
in his private :MS. in the College of Arms. The statements
and conjectures then advanced on these points are now con-
firmed, the male descent is traced clearly from Arden of
Northamptonshire, and the entire genealogy rewritten, much
additional matter being inserted.
With respect to the Moxtalts, the Hereditary Sene-
schals OF THE Palatinate, as their chief seats did not lie
within range of Chesliirc Records, it was thought best to
introduce Dugdalc's deduction, professedly as his. in the
History of that County. Facilities of access to Records,
under later arrangements, have now enabled the Author to
trace the descent of these Barons from original sources, as
was previously done in the case of the other Barons of the
Palatinate.
The brief Introduction prefixed to the Memoir on the
early descents of the Barons of Stokeport, and their con-
nexions with the Lancashire Houses of Fitz-Roger, Banas-
tre, and GERNET,M'in sufficiently explain tlic objects of that
portion.
It may be proper to add, that the Memoirs (as here col-
lected) arc intended for private distril)ution only, and limited
IV . IXTKODUCTIOX.
to one hundred and twenty copies The Autlior lias great
pleasure in returning his thanks to Sir Charles G. Young,
Garter, Thomas Duhus Hardy, Esq., and William Hardy,
Esq., for severally facilitating his searches in the College of
Ai-ms, the Tower, and the Office of the Duchy of Lancaster,
and to AVilliam Langton, Esq., Treasurer of the Chetham
Society, for various communications from his own Lancashii'c
Collections,
^edbur>j Purl; Gloucestershire, May 31, 1851.
A MEMOIE
ON THE LANCASHIRE HOUSi:
OT
LE NOREIS OR NOKEES.
A MEMOIR
ON THE LANCASHIRE HOUSE
LE NOEEIS OR NORRES,
AND ITS SPEKE BRANCH IN PARTICULAR,
WITH KOTICES OF
nS CONNEXION WITH MILITAEY TRANSACTIONS
FLODDEN, EDINBURGH AND MUSSELBURGH.
BY GEORGE ORMEROD, D.C.L, F.R.S., F.S.A,
OF TYLDESLEY AND SEDBUBY PARK.
LIVERPOOL :
PRINTED BY T. BKAKELI.
1860.
The following pnges comaiii a private re-impression, with a few adJitious, of n
Memoir read on April -1, 1850, at the Meeting of the Historic Society of Lancashire
and Cheshire, and printed in the Second Volume of tlieir Proceedings.
A MEMOIE
ON THE LANCASHIRE HOUSE
OF
LE NOEEIS OR NORRES,
AND ITS SPEKE BRANCH IN PARTICULAR.
BEAD AT A MEETING OF THE HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LAKCASHIBE AKD CHESHIRE,
APRIL IV, MDCCCL.
The K\NCASHiEE House of Noeres, and its Speke branch in particidar,
are among the strongest instances of the difficulty of investigating fiunilv
history, where traditional antiquity and chivah'ous descent have been
acquiesced in from generation to generation. In such investigations the
evidence of Records and Chai-ters will often be found ample, but the labom*
of searching out and arrajiging it -mil as often be tiifling when compared
with the ungracious process of explaining errors in early compilations gi'o\\ii
venerable from time ; and such difficulty is created m the present case by
the pedigree entered by Sir William Norres in the Visitation of 15G7.*
A MEiroTR on numerous and complicated points, where requisite limits
render much condensation requisite, admits of little vanety in the way of
popular illustration, but it is hoped that the documents brought to view
vdW throw light on many points besides mere genealogy, and tend to aid
any futui'e investigator of the venerable pile, to whose antient o^-ners the
memoir relates.
1 Sec Ai'peinlix, Note IV.
6
The armngemeut is as follows.*
I. An account of tlie first settlement of Hugo le Xokeis at JBIackrod,
above which nothing relating to the origin of the Lancashire famihj can Le
found, is prefixed ; and tliis is followed by genealogical details of the hne
of Blackrod, of that of Sutton and Daresbury, of the connexion between
the Sutton and Speke branches, and of the descent of the last down to its
acquisition of the Mauor of Spekc bj marriage ^Tith the heiress of Emejs.
II. The second division relates to the derivation of the mauerial interest
in Speke from the Geniets of Ilaltou (Forestei-s of Lancashire in fee, and
tenants of Speke by tliat Serjeanty from the Honor of Lancaster) by
Molyneux of Sefton, and from Molyncux by Enieys of Chester, whose
heiress Norres married : and, next, to consideration of the mode in \^hioh
representation in blood has also been deemed to have passed from Gemet
to Emeys through the Croshy line of ]Molyneux.
III. The third is directed to the identification of the junior male lines
of NoiTes which ai'e considered to have branched from Speke.
IV. And tlie last to the continuation of the Speke line from the mairiage
with Emeys, and to identificatiou of the members of it connected with the
militaiy transactions at Floddcn, Eduiburgh, and MussclborouTh.
I. 1. — The first Settlement of Hiujo le Novels in Lancashire.
The origin of the parent house of Blaclirod is uukno\TO. In the reign
of Ricliard I. it emerges at once from obscurity under the Charter of Piince
Jolm, then Earl of Moreton, abstracted in the notes.^
There is nothing in the name of Le Xoreis, Norres, or Nonis, as it was
written by tlie last generation of the SjX'ko family, to mark descent. It
was spread widely in Normandy and England, and may imply ciiher the
Korlhcountnjman or ihe Noruetjian, as l)y contemporary documents.
In the first sense, the Chronicle called the '' Liber de antiquis le<Tibus,"^
states, as a pecuhar ciicumstance, that the Barujis hostile to King John,
• See Aiipondix Note I, for r.utlioritif-s of the Memoir.
' See Aiipendix, Note II.
• Ptiblislied !))■ tlie C'nnuleii Society, .^ppriulix, p. QOl.
though really from different parts of England, yet were all alike called
" Norenses" or North countiy men.
The other frequently occurs, as in a Eoyal Order of 12Q2 for pa}-meut
of V moi'ks as a gift to Ico le Norels and others, Messengei-s to Heury the
Third from the Iving of Xorwoij}
In the first chai-ter, however, in which Hugh le Noreis occurs, Noricus,
and not Xorensis, is given as the equivalent for Noreis, and tliis seems to
strike the halance in favour of Norenisce or Xorwegian.-
None of the family occur before Hugh le Noreis, but an Alan occurs in
the Charter Rolls as contemporaiy %nth him, described as Master Alan the
Physician, Royal Secretary, and brother of Henr\' Norrensis.^ His grants
near Retford and Bolsovcr are wide of the subject, but he is mentioned
with reference to the probable consaugttinitj' which these names of Alan
and Henry Norrensis point to, and the possibility of some otlter olUcial con.
nexion between King John and his grantee in Blackrod also.
I. 2. — Le Noreis of Blackrod.
The discussion now turns to the first appearance of the Lancashire
family, in Records, in the person of Hufjh le Noreis, Norensis, or Xoricu<,
named also in the Testi de Neville as Hiujh de Blacrode, whose acijuisiti'-iu
therein may be absolutely fixed between 1189 and 1199.''
Blakeeode is stated to be held of the Honor of Peverell in a precept
from Henry III. to the Sheriff of Lancashire in Vl'2\. The grant of tliis
forfeited Honor from Richard I. to his brother John is fixed by Roger de
Wendoverin 1189.^ On Oct. 10, 1199 (1. Johan) Iving John confiraied
to Hugh le Noreis a Carucate in Blackrod, to be held as gntnted to the
same Hugh Noricus by the King, when Earl of j\Ioreton, and which mu-t
have been part of the Peverell grant, as Blackrod has been shewn to be a
portion tliereof. In 1202 Hugo Norensis was indebted to the Trea^ur^-
one mark, as part of the charge for confirmation,^ and seems to have di-.J
shortly before 1223.
> Rot. Lit. Claus. 1. p. 508 b. 'See Index to Layninon.
» Rot. Cart. (Hardy) 4S, •!>* b. * See Appemlix, Note II. * Vol. 2, p. 4.
* See .Appendix, Note II.
8
On May IQ, 12Q3, " Hugh le Xoreis, son and heir of Hugh le Noreis,"
had a writ for seisin of his late father's land in Blalicrode.^ After him the
pedigrees give a Wh-liam and a Hucii. The first, or one of his name,
occiu's repeatedly as a witness in the Whallcy Couchcr Book,^ and Hugh
is generally assumed to have heen father of Mabelle l\ Noeeise, the
heiress of this Hne, wife of AVilliam de Bradeshagh, with whom she was
joint defendant, '23. Edw. I, respecting rights in Standish and Haigh.^
The first connexion of NoiTes with Blackrod terminated with this lady,
who was the foundress of St. Catherine's Chautr}- there, and heroine of
tliat romantic tale, which, resemhling that of the noble Moringer, has been
worked up by Walter Scott and Roby, and appears in gi"aver histoiy.*
It is imcertain whether Mabcli left issue by her husband, Sir William
Bradeshagh, or otherwise, as the pedigrees of that house are confused and
contradictoiy at this period.
The Bradsitatghs are, however, uniformly assumed to have inherited the
Manors of Blacki'od, West Leigh, and Haigh//-o»i Mahell, either by descent
or grant. After family partitions Haigh vestt'd in the line of Bradshaigh
represented by the Earl of Balcarres, and the rest in another line of Brad-
slrnigh which manied an heir general of Verdun of Wolfage in Bricksworth
in Northamptonshire and of Bri^ingbam m Norfolk.
After alliance of a yoimger bnuich of the Lords Hanington with the
heu-ess of this united line of Bradshaigh and Verdun, and after the
death of Sir James Harrington, Lord of Wolfage, Blackrod, and West
Leigh,* (whose Inquisition post mortem was taken 1-4 Hen. VII.) Clemence,
his fifth daughter and coheir, brought the cliief part of Blackrod once more
1 Excerpt. Rut. fin. p. 103. ^pp, C7, 879, 902. » Originalia 1. p. IIO.
* See Wottou's Baronet.ige 111. p. C.'iO, Sir W. N.'s Drclaraiion, and Notes tliercou iii
Nichols's Topographer, II. '^■J'^. See also Raines's GastrcU's Notitia II. i47, which
nentions her fmindation of o Cliaulry iu Wi-jan, as widow of Sir 'Willium, in I'.i-iS, auJ
her prcbeuiiiig to it.
*Sutlon and Riiynhill aro souiflimfs aihled to the list of Mahell's Manors, hut incor-
rrrtly. 'riif^y art- pri'vcd t" have h-.'t'n "bt.iiued by thv Sutton line in niiirriage with th«
hfircss <>f I'ajpsbiirv.
LE NOEEIS OR NOEREYS OF SUTTON AND DARESBUllY, WITH THE CONTEMPOKARY
DESCENT OF LE NOREIS OF BLACKROD.
From the Tower Records, Leycester's Collections and tlie Couclier Book of ^Taalley.
" Hugo le Noreis (Norensis or Noricus) de Blacrbdc," grantee of lands therein from
Prince John, when Earl of Morgton, temp, tlic, I, coniirmed by John a» King, 1199.
Deceased 1223. ^
Hugo le Noi
tor of Jlalu
28 ]:<lw. I, \
reversion of
eia, successor to his fatlier'fl lands in Blackrod 1223, and ances-
lle la Noreiso, living and wife of Sir William Jiradeshagli in
'/Inch Jlahelle is stated by Sir William Norres to have settled
her lands on Alan le Noreis of Spekij, ns kinsman and heir male.
Alan le Noreis of Sutton, in co. Lane, within Widnese in the Barony
of Haltiui, with whom the Ped. in Via. 15G7 commences, and who coin-
cides witli "DominuH Ahmus", named as Seneschal of John de Lascy,
liavon of Haltoii, Ijetween 1223 and 1227, also between 1232 and 1240.
Alan le Noreis of Sutton (son of Alan before mentioned, Vis. 15G7), coinciding^
with " Alanus de Norei.s, Ballivus de Halton," between 1237 and 1240, 'and
Alan le Norres, witness to tlie grant of part of Speke by Sir Patric de Hasel-
wall to Alan le Noreis, and his daughters ?dargaret and Nicola, about 1252.
4^
Williain de Derisbury, Lord of one Knight's fee in
Sutton and Eccluaton, in co. Lane. (Testa, do Nevill.]
Alan, Ilobert, and Jolin les Noreiwes,
witnesses to their brother Heniy's
grant to IStanhiw Abliey in 12!J2.
('*Vce *S//ie/i*t; I'edif/ire.J
Henry le Non-eis, son and h. of Alan le Noreis=
of Sutton (Vis. 15ti7) occurswith hia wife in the
Fine Rulls, June 25, 1209, 53 Ilcn. III. grants
J.tiid;, \u JUreribui-y to "Will. }>;Lnycrc;, 12;)1, avA
to Stanlaw, 1292. Deceased 1314.
I
^Jlargaret^ daur. and co-heir, of
William de Daresbury, bom be-
fore 124S ; liad the manor of
Daresbury n»id Innd^ it> Wirral ;
names her father, late liusband
andson, 1314, beinff then a widow.
Beatrix, daur. and co-heir.,
wife of lloger, son of Robert
de Ireland, had horfatlier's
lands in Liverpool.
I
Alau le Noneys, son of Henry and of Margaret, daughter^
of William de Daresburj-, Uli. Lord of Laresbury and
Over Walton, eo. Cest., tern]). Edw. 11, and finally of
SuttoUj Ki.'cluston, and llaiidiill, co. Lane. Deee.'iHcd,
before 25 Edw. Ill, 1351.
^Mabell, daughter of Ranulph do Morton,
fron> hi
ThoiiiJLH le Norrey.s, son ,and heir ajtjt. o
temp. Edw. 11 (erroneously stated to be ;i
of N. of Spolce in Vis. 15«7). O. S. P.
25 Edw. HI, 1351.
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wife of
temp.
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Gilberf; le NoxToys, Jun., temp, Edw. II,
then posscBsed of the manors of isntton,
Ecclf;Mton, and Kainhill, wliich afterwards
devolved to Alan.
3, daughter and finally heir nf Alan le Norreys,
0 25 i';.lw. Ill, and wife of William sou and heir of
Sir John ])inuery, wlm had custody of Iior manors of Dares-
bury, Over Walton, SiiUun, Eccleaton, ami IlahihiU; from
wliotii Danyell of Daretibtiry.
j [To face pa.jc 8.
9
to Norrea, and was mother of Sir William Norres, of Speke and Blackrod,
who died in 1508.'
In the opinion of Sir William Xon'es, as stated in the extract subjoined,
the Speke family were " heirs masole," as he expressed it, of the Blackrod
line, in blood, and also heirs in reversion under Mabell's settlement, and
he exulted in his succession to Hanington, as bringing back the ancesti'al
inheritance.^
Probability is in favour of his fondly cherished behef, although no direct
evidence has occurred in support of it. There is an ob%-ious confusiou in
the Visitation of 1507, where the Herald describes Alan Xoreis " of Sutton,
out of the House of Suttoji, as h]j deed sans date," and all would be cle;u-,
and confiiTii Sir William's statement, if he had written "out of Blaclrod'
and cited ]Mabeirs alleged settlement,^ but it would be unsafe lo allow mere
conjectm'e to pass the outline indicated by official admission.
I. 3. — Le Nereis of Sutton and Dareshunj,from xchom the Sjj^Ice line
is deduced in the Visitation of 1507.
The next branch is that of Le Xoreis of Sutton in Lancashire, as this
line is named in the Visitation of 1507, kuowm more generally as Le Xoreis
of Daeesbury in Cheshire. It was the behef of Sir Wilham Xorres that
Sutton, Eainhill and Wyston were the inheritance of the original Blackrod
line,* but these Lordships appeal- urst in the evidences of the Daresbury
branch, and it is clear that a Knight s fee, described as " in Sutton and
Eccleston," belonged to William de Derisbury,* and that Heniy le Xoreis
manied Margaret daughter and heiress of this William about the time that
Alan and John le Xoreis, as hereafter mentioned, acquii'ed tbeir mesne
interest in Speke in fmnk marriage from Haselwal.®
* This general statemcut is the result of a minute collation of genealogical ilocunients
connected 'witli Wolfuge anil Blackrod, and accords with the official amiugcuieut of tlie
qiiarterings of Harrington, Bradih;ugh and Verdun, as appended to tlie liultuu podigr-'e,
Norfolk 3. p. W. Coll. Arm.
- See Apponilix, Note III. ' See Remarks on Vis. l'iC7, in Note ] V.'
* Declaration of Sir W. N. Ilarl. MS. 1097, p. «'» b.
* Testa de Neville, fo. 3^0. * See descent following.
10
Tliis belief of Sir William is the key to the errors of the Visiting Heralds
in placing the Sutton line as the parent line of Speke instead of a collateral
one, and the consequence has been a numerical extension of descents so as
to put back the contemporaries of King John to the time of King Stephen,
and induce James, in his poetical " Iter Lancastreuse," to confound Alan
le Noreis of Sutton with the Baron d'Espeo distinguished in the battle of
the Standard.'
With respect to deductions of the Sutton line, the entry in the Vis. of 1567
commences with tuo successive Ahms ; Grafton's Lancashire (another MS.
in the College of Anns) gives only one. Both MSS. then proceed ^vith,
III. Sir Henry, IV. Alan, V. Henry, VI. Thomas ; and correctly so, saving
the insertion of the second Henry in error, and the deduction of the Speke
line from Thomas, who will be jiroved to have died issueless.
The illustration of this part will be given chietly from the Coucher Book
of WTialley and from Leycester's collections, and will be made clearer by
reference to the tables subjoined. The evidence is as follows: —
I. Alan le Noeeis, first named, is described in the Visitation as of
Sutton, and as " out of the House of Sutton, Lancashire." If such interest
of his in Sutton existed it would clearly be independent of the manerial
interest subsequently acquired therein by his grandson Sir Henry ; but
this early connexion with the Widiies portion of Halton Barony may be
true; and it is observabk' that a Sir Alan, "Seneschal of Halton," followed
by an Alan le Noreis, Ballivus do Halton, is precisely coutemporaiy with
the Alan of the pedigree, and most probably identical. Confii'uiations
drawn from armorial analogy will be noticed hereafter.^
This Alan the Seneschal (whose identity with Alan le Noreis is thus
supposed) was Steward of the principal Barony of the Cheshire Palatinate
in the time of its celebrated Lord, John de Lascy, the Crusader, ami wit-
nessed a grant from GaltVid de Dutton to Andrew, Prior of Norton between
r2'23 and l^'il, as " DomiiuH Alanus Senesrallus,"' and another to the
Abbev of Stanlaw between 1C!:V-J and lilO as " Dominus Alanus, Senescallus
' Iti^r LiiiiciLhtii'ii-p, ipiit'liblicd b_v llie t'liotli:iiii Soricty, p. 1^.
'ScP ,\j>j.fii.lix, Sow V. 3 \V),nllf.y C\>u«lirr Donk, ■'fO'^.
11
Domini Comitis Lincolnie," preceding Roger, then " Slieriff between Ribble
and Mersey," in order of signatures.^ The same Alan similarly described,
occurs also in the Cheshire Domesday Roll,- as holding the Earl's C< 'urt
at Chester, along -with the Justitiary, four of the Barons, and Sir Walkelvn
de Ai'deme, Lord of Aldford, in the fii-st year of Eai'l John, 123--i.
II. Alan le Noreis, second in the Visitation, is considered, for reasons
hereafter mentioned, to be also the Alan 'named first in the Childwall
inscription relating to the Speke line, and the same with Alan le Xorres
vritness to the marriage grant of Mai-geiy, daughter of Sir Patric de
Haselwal, mesne Lord in Speke, shortly after 1:252.^ Alanus le Xorrevs,
"Ballivus de Hal ton" with whom he is also considered identical, and who
is distinguished from Alan the Seneschal by absence of the knightly prefix,
witnesses a deed betvreen two laiights of the Dutton fomily and the Abbot
of Stanlaw together with his Lord, John Earl of Lincoln, and Sir Richard
Draicote Justitiary, which fixes a date between 1:^37 and 1Q40.
III. "With Hexry le Xoreis (son of the second Alan according to the
Visitation) the direct evidence of Charters commences. Before Jime '^T,
53 Hen. 3, 12G9, he manied Margaret daughter and heiress of "William do
Derisbmy,* who is stated in the Testa de XevUle to have held one knight's
fee in Sutton and Eccleston, Lancashire, and had also with her the Cheshue
Manors of Daresbury and Over-W'alton, and lands in Pulton, Wallesey,
Secumbe and Liscard.^ He occurs with her as grantor of lands in Dares-
bury to "William Danyers in 1291, and of other lands to Stanlaw Abbey in
1292.
In this last remarkable Charter, which is abstracted in the Appendix,*^ he
quitclaims land between Daresbury and Acton Grange to the Monks, as
" Dominus de Daresbuiy," dating his Charter at SuinlsLW, " Hiis testilnis,
Alano, Eoherto et Johanne les Norrci/s fratribus meis."' This attestation
1 ILid. 578.
* Extracts iu Flower's MS. 1. D. 14, Coll. Ai-ni. and MS. Fragments of DomosJay
Roll, Charter XXIV.
3 See Appendix, Note VII. < Rot. Fin. vol. 1, p. 41)2, and Hist. Clicsli. 1, 041.
* Kuerdou's Collections in Chethani Library, p. 273.
* Note VI. 7 WTialley Coiioher Book, p. 412.
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is considered to indicate the precise connexion of the Sutton and the Speke
lines, and will be adverted to hereafter.
Margaret, \ddow of Henry, survived in 7 Edw. II. 1314, and identified
her fother, her late husband, her son Alan and Mabcll his \Nife in Charter
of that date aftcrmentioncd.
IV. Alan le Noreis, son and heir of Henry and Margaret, as by deed
last named, had grant thereby of the manoi-s of Dai-esbury and Over-
Walton to himself and his vdfe Mabell de Merton.' He occurs as Lord of
Daresbury and Over-Walton in the Feodary of Halton compiled in the
reign of Edw. 11.,^ and mention is also made therein of Gilbert le Noeeets,
Jxmior, as holding Sutton, Eccleston, and Raynhill, from the Lordship of
Wydness, in Halton Barony, as one knight's fee. From a Charter relating
to ■V\Tiiston it seems that this Gilbert was brother of Alan, and that he had
issue ;' but whatever his interest in these thi-ee vills (Sutton, Eccleston and
Eaynhill) might be, it is certain that they returned to Alan of Daresbury,
and that they were inherited by Clemeuce his daughter, as under-
mentioned.
V. Thoills le Xoreis, son and heir of Alan, had a gi"ant, when an infant,
and together with his contracted wife Helewisa, of the estate in Over-
Walton, previously Stocktons,* which his father granted to him as " Alauus
Douiinus de Daresbury," ^\ith remainder to himself, if Thomas died
issueless.
Tliis Thomas is evidently the Thomas whom the Visitation of 1-567
en-oneously describes as grandson of Alan lastmentioned, and progenitor
of the male line of Speke.* But it is clear that he died issueless before
1351, when Sir John Danyox-s, son and heir of William Danyei-s, by deed
dat€d in September, •:.'.j Edw. III.," granted to William his son all the
manors and lands within Darc-^bury and Over- Walton in Cheshire, and in
Sutton, Eccl'-'-ton and riaynhill in Lancashire, which were the inheritance
of Alan, Lord of Daresbury, deceased, to hold until full age of Clemence,
^ lli.-<t. Cli.sli. 1, i>. .')41. 2ii,ij. p_ .-,.23.
' Decil iucorporatitl witli ilio Sprkf deciU in the Iloline iibstruct, p. S7 h.
* Sec llic Cliarior in Hist. Cliesli, p, .'ill.
' Sco Lxlruct in .\ppcniiix, Note IV. « Cliarter in Hist. Chebh. p. MO.
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daughter and heir of the said Alan, and uife of William Damjers, son an.l
heii- apparent of the grantor, as fully as the late grantees thereof held the
same of the gift of the Duke of Lancaster.
From her descended Danyees or Dakyell of D^u^esburt, and so ended
this branch of Le Nereis, which it was necessary to identify, in order to
distinguish what part of the Norres pedigree in the Visitation of 1007
related to Sutton, and what part to Speke.' -
I. 4. — Examination of Evidences illustratinfj the mutual connexion of
the Collateral Sutton and Speke lines of Norres.
Before entering on the genuine Speke line it must be enquired how far
evidences hitherto unknown, namely, Charters contained in the A^lialley
Coucher Book, aided by an inscription formerly existing in the window> of
Cliildwall Chm'ch, supply a deduction of Speke, as a collateral of Sutton,
fit to be substituted for that which is improperly traced, in the Visitation,
from Thomas Ic Xoreis last mentioned. This must be done by identif\ing
John, son of Alan in the inscription and the first Le Noreis of Speke, as
brother of Henry son of Alan in the Visitation and the first Le Noreis of
Daresbury.
Both were exactly contemporaiy, both are affinned to be sons of an
Alan le Noreis,'^ both acquired estates about 1260 by their sevei'al maniages
with the daughters of Dcrisbury and of Haselwal within the same Bai-ony
of Halton.3
Tlie ^Vhalley Coucher Book moreover proves Heniy of Daresbuiy to
have had three brothers, Alan, Bohcrt, and John, and from other authuri-
iln Church Notes taken at Daresbury iii 1572, (Ilarl. MSS. 2151, p. 10?,) the foDow-
ing Arms are given, as then remaining on the Window, " over the High ^Utar in the
Quire or Chancel."
For DanycU — Argt. a pale fusillii sable, with a bordure argent. For Norres —
Quarterly argent and gules in the second and third quarters a fret or — ovor
all a fesse azure.
This is precisely the same Coat as that borne by the Speke family, but some older
notes of this window (Ilarl. MSS. 2129) instead of the /esse give a harrulet.
*Harl. MS. 1997, 83 b. ' See ante. p. 11 and Note VII. in .(\ppendii.
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ties, au Ahm and u John le Xoreis will be proved to be contemporary joint
proprietoi-s at Spekc, and a Robert le Noreis, will also be proved as brother
of an Alan and a John, whose identity with these cannot reasonably be
doubted.
This may be done as follows.
Alan le Xorei^^, and John le Xoreis (who is proved hereafter to be Alan's
brother, and identified as son of au Alan by the inscription) married seve-
rally Margery and Nicola daughters of Sir Patric de Haselwal, and obtained
his mesne interest in Speke. A grant of a fourth of Speke in frank
raan-iage to Alan mid ]\Iargery, and another grant to Nicola, were made
shortly after 1252, and Alan le Noreis, presumed to be the father above-
mentioned, was Viitness to both.^ Nicola's marriage followed. Alau and
John being thus settled at Spekc, the mutual relationship of the three
brothers, as supposed, is confumed by a grant to Stanlaw Abbey of waste in
Gerstan (which is adjacent to Speke), executed between 1277 and 1283 by
Simon de Gerstan, and witnessed by Sir Henry Lee, Sheriff, Alan le Norreys
and Robert his brother, and by a release of land there to the same, in 1292,
by Alice widow of Suuon de Thornton, "Testibus Alano le Norrexjs,Johaniie
fratre ejusdem.'"'
The order m which Alan, Robert, and John, thus connected with Speke,
are mentioned, is always the same with that of the three brothers who wit-
ness the Daresbuiy Charter of their brother Henry. No others of these
names occur coinciding in place and time, or indeed at all, and their impor-
tant position in Lancashire is proved by the Commission of Array directed
to Alan and Robert le Norrcys in 1300, and by the Summons of the sur-
vivor, John, to the Great Council at Westminster in 1321.
After such proof of exactest coincidence, if not of identity, between the
known brothers of Hcnrv' Ic Noreis of Daresbmy and the known acquirei-s
of Speke, and under universal admission of the genei-al fact of the two
lines beuig from a common ancestor,' it only remains to add, that it has
' See Appendix, Note VII.
« Whalley Couclicr Book, pp. 0S:2, 588. Appendix, Note VIII.
' As to the identitj of ilie anus used by the two several lines see Note in p. M.
II. N0RKE5 OF SPEKE.
I. Le Norkis or NoKitE3 of Speke, fi-oiu its finst set':.lt;ment therein to tlio ac-tuisition of the Miuior of Speke by the alliance with EnNETS, temp. Eic. II.
From tlio Abistractb of Speke Charters, the ancient inscriptions in the windows of CliikhvaU church, and other original authorities.
Anns — Quarterly, arr/ent and f/ulrs ; a fesse, azure. In the second and third ciuartcrs", a fret, 0'\
Crest (as in antient painted glass in the Childwall window), on a wTeath, a lady's lieadj coupcd at the t-houlders, proper, vested, guks.
#
^j,
Alan le Noreis, considered to lie identical with Alan=
lu Noieis, ]iailift' of Ilaltoii, and with Alan Norres, wit-
ness to the grants of 8irFatric ele Haselwal (see p. 14S),
with which Alan the Childwall memorials and Sir William
Norres's account of the Speke line commence.
1st wife, Blother=
of Da-v-id dc Haselwal
(Hist. Chest, ii, 278).
4®
^S:e P.iTEic DE Haselwal of Hasehval,-
"niurstanston, and Great Caldey, . co.
Cest., Kt., Lord of a moiety of Speke
underMolineux ; Sheriff of Chesterli!77.
Surviving in 1300 {ibid.)
'Agnes, grand-
daughter and
heiress of
"William de
Thurstanston,
2d wife {ibid.)
Henry le Noreis, Lord
of Sutton anil Dares-
liiiry, and hrotlicr of
Alan, Uohert, and John
Ic Jsorei-s, as hy Charter
of l-2a2. (See Sutton
Pedigree.)
I.I
Alan leNoreis of Speke. — Margaret, daughter of Robert le
son of Alan, named with Sir Patrick de Haselwal, Noreis,
his brother John, his had a fourth of Speke brother of
wife Margaret, and his in frank marriage from Alan,
sister in law Nicola, in him after 1252 ; died in Gcrstan
Indent.respcctinrrSpeke before 6 Edw. II. deeds 1277.
Mill, 12 Edw. I r living
7 Edw. II.
John, son of Alan le — Nicola de Haselwal ;
Novels, had one fourth
of Speke with his wife
and another on the
death of bis nephew
Patric, 11 Edw. II.
Survived in 1 Ed. III.'
had one fourth
Speke from lier father
after 1252, and occurs
with her liusljand,
brother, and sister
Margaret in Speke
deeds, 12 Edw. I.
I I I
A ^Ties de
Haselwal,
William
de Haselwal,
— Haselwal,
third son.
(Hist. Ch. ii,
27S.)
Sir Williaji =
J[OLIf;EUX of
Sefton, Ivt.,
descend, and heir
of Adam des
Molines and
Annota Gemot
(C. 37, Coll. Ann:),
Jlcsne Lord of
SrEKEunderGemet
Isahel de
Scaresbreke
(C. 37,
Coll, Ai-m :)
J I
-rjane, wife of Sir Kichard
1 Robert Ei-neys Molyneux
(C. 37, Coll. of Sefton,,
I Arm :), with Kt., son and
Sheriff thereof whom her heir (C. 37, .
1280. Lord of I father gave Coll. Arm:)
Speke in right Speke in frank
of his wMfe.
Piitric K
and heii
mothcr'e
7 Kdw.
11 Edw.
, had
hinds
II, S.
is of Speke, son
release of his
from his father,
cd in or before
1'.
Robert,
Sir Henry le Noreis ff
Speke, Kt., had refeoff-
ment of lands, 1 Edw. HI,
and, if elder brother of
Alan died without surviv-
ing issue.
Man le Noreis of Speke, son,=Ellyn, daughter of
! I
John Norreys,
tu Cicely, dau.
<le JIa.-.sey of
temp. Ed-.v. I.
Henry le Norn
ill releoflinent
Si,eke, 1 EJw.
and ultimately, if not pr
rily, heir of .Tohn and Xicola,
named with his father in a
release there, 1 Edw. HI.
Has demise of Speke manor
from Kichard Emeys, 13
Edw. Ill; names his children
in feofiineuts, 10-lSEdw. HI.
1
named with
her husband in de-
mise of tenements
in Speke, from
Kichard Erneve, S
Edw. III.
Kichard Emeys of Speke and
Chester, Mayor of Chester
1327-8, giants lands inSpeko
to Alan le N. and Ellj-n his
wife, 8 i:Jiv. HI, and de-
mises that manor to Alan,
son of Jihn le Noreis, 13
Edw. Ill, for three lives.
contracted
of Hamon
Kodington,
of lands i
IH.
J. . ~
Sir John le Noreis of Speke, Kt., son=
and heir, named first of the children
of Alan in settlement, 10 Edw. Ill ;
grantee of two carucates in Speke
from his father Alan, 13 Edw. Ill ;
enfeoH's priests as trustees of Speke.
as Sir John Norreys, Kt., 43 Edw. HI.
Katherine, daughter of
Kobert Kalderston, Esq.
CO. Lancast. (wife of Sir
John and mother of
Sir Henry, in Vis. Lane,
of 1507).
William, in
settlements of
10 and 18
Alan, 10, 13, IS
Edw. Ill, one of
the lives in demise
of Speke, 13 Edw.
III.
• I
Hugh, IC. 13, IS,
Edw. HI, one of
the lives in demise
of Speke, 13 Edw.
HI.
Roger Erueya, — Ja
Lord of Speke as
heir of Robert and
Jane Knieys,
citi:!en of Chester,
(Vis. L. of 15C7).
ane. sole daughter
and heiress of
William Molyneiix
of Little Crosbie,
Esquire.
(Vis. L. of 1567.)
Katharine, wife of Roger
le Rruyn, Lord of Stiqile-
ford CO. Cost., .^farr. c.p\t
dated 1 Rich. II. (Hist.
Cliest. ii, 1721.
Sir Henry le Nori'
Hon and lieir (as bvA'is. 1507)
lastmentiuued iii'the painted
glass at Childwall, in the
genealogicaldeduction there.
.Surviving 1 Hen. V.
Kt.,=Alice, sole daughter and
licire.s.s (as by Visit. 15C7),
with whom lands, in Speke,
Cluster, and Clieshire ; mar-
ried temp. Kich. II ; sur-
viving 5 IK,.. V.
9
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never been supposed that they separated hcfore this period, and thev cer-
tainly could not divide after it, as all the successors of Henry of Dare>burv,
son of Alan, and all tliose of John of Speke son of Alan, inherited by primo-
geniture.
It is believed by the writer, that, agi'eeably to the deduction indicated
by the tenor of these authorities, Alan might safely be taken as common
ancestor of both lines. He has however thought it better to leave the
conclusion to the reader, and to give the Speke line in precise accordance
with the Childwall Inscription,^ commencing with Ala>', and proceeding
•with John (his second son and ultimate heir,) Ala^' and Sir Johx to Sir
Hknky the husband of Axice Ekneys, and this may be proved as follows :
I. 5. — Norres or le Noreis of Spelte, previous to the connexion with Erncys.
I. Alan le Noeeis has been already noticed as second of that name in
the acco'.mt of the Sutton line, with reference to his supposed identity with
Alan, the progenitor of that line, and uith Alan the " Ballivus de Halton."
Here he occurs as FoltvDer of the Speke line from his position at the head
of it in the Childwall Inscription, as father of Alan and Jolm (the acquirers
of manerial interest in Speke), and, according to Su* Williiim Xorres, as the
ovnier of some previous estate ^nthin it,* and lastly as the Alan Xorres
■witness to Sir Patric Haselwal's grants thereof to his daughtei-s.
From him the next step is to Alan, husband of Margery dc Haselwal,
to Robert, considered to be the next brother of Alan, and to John, husband
of Nicola de Haselwal and ancestor of the Speke line.
II. Alan le Noreis, lii-st named, seems to have been the eldest of these
brothers, though Sir William considers John such. xYlan is uniformly
named first of these, and manied the elder daughter of Haselwal, Nicola
her younger sister being then immarried.'
Shortly after 1232, as shewn hereafter,* Su- Patric de Haselwal settled
on him one-fourth of his mesne interest in Speke. Between 1277
* See Inscription in Appendix, Note IX.
« See Declaration, Harl. MS. 1997, p. 83 h.
' See the marriage grant in Appendix, Note VII. *Ibid.
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and 1283, an Alan, seemingly identical with him, witnessed the Gers^tan
deed, already mentioned, aljiig with Robert le Noreis his brother' ; and he
survived in T Edw. III. 131 3, as by deeds cited below.
lu the Placita de quo Warranto and Writs of Summons, an Alui le
Noreis, whose identity it would be fastidious to doubt, occurs as witness in
a suit respecting Hornby, at Lancaster, and as a defendant against the
Crown respecting Hale lands, in 1292 ; as a Justice of Oyer and Tenniner
for Lancashu-e, 1300 ; as a Commissioner of Array along with Robert le
Noreis in 1300 ; and again with Robert do Lathom and others in lo07.
Mai-gery, his vaie, was one of the three daughters of Sir Patric de Hasel-
wal, liaight, Lord of Haselwal, Thui'stanston and Great Caldey, and Sheriff
of Cheshii-e, 5 Edw. .1. 1277.^^ She is named as li\-ing, 12 Edw. I. in a
demise of Speke mill, made jomtly with her husband, her brother-in-law
John le Noreis, and her sister Nicola ; and she died before 6 Edw. II.
It is observable, that though these ladies u-cre not heiresses, yet Non-es
quartered HaselwaP in their right, agreeably to antient but ii-regular prac-
tice, where laud descended by mai'riage.
By Alan le Noreis she had issue Patric le Noreis, to whom, as heii- of
his late mother, the said Alan, in G and 7 Edw. II., releases her lauds in
Speke, and also Robert, both of whom died issueless. On the death of
Patric, in 11 Edw. IL, liis interest in Speke finally passed to his uncle
John le Noreis and his aunt Nicola.*
II. Robert le Noreis considered to be next brother of Alan, and also
to be the Robert named after Alan in the Charter of Henry of Daresbmy,' is
named after, and as brother of Alan, in the Gcrstan Charter already cited,
between 1277 and 1283,'^ and he occurs with Alan le Noreis in 1300, as
jomt Commissioner of Array and leader of the Lancaslm-e forces as far as
Carhsle,''
II. JoHX LE NoKEis, son of Alan, is next, the contimcer of the SpeJ^e
> Wlialley Couclior Book, p. 5S3. 2 Hist. Chcsh. 2, 278.
' Az. a chief or. See Grafton's Lancashire. It is slightly varied, the real coat leing
argent a chief aznro, as qunrtcreil by Whitniore of Thurstanstou.
< Holme Abstract, Hail. MS. 1097, 88 b. * Wialley Coucher Book, p. U2.
•Ibid. p. .0y2. T wi^tg of MUitary Summons.
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line. The Declaration of Sir William Norres fixes this John lo Xoreis as
son of Alan, and brother of Alan the younger,^ with confirmation as to tho
latter point from the Gerstau Chaiter of 1"^9'2,^ and as to the fonncr from
the Childwall inscription.
His wife Nicola had grant of one-fourth of Speke from her father Sir
Patric de Hasehval by Charter subjomed,^ made before her maixiage and
shortly after IQoQ, and she and her husband succeeded to the other fourth
of Alan and of ^Margaret his ^yife on the death of Patric le Xoreis, son of
the latter, 11 Edw. II.
A release of dower in 1 Edw. III. from the widow of Richard Molyueux
to John le Nereis, his son Alan and the wife of Alan, proves him to have
been then surviving. He seems to be the Jolm le Noreis summoned to
select jurors on a trial respecting the advowson of Walton-on-the-Hill, in
Placita de quo Warranto, 1"^92, and also the John le Noreis summoned
from Lancashire with many Knights and I\Ien at Anns to attend the Great
Council at AVestmiuster 13'24.* This John (as the compiler of the Speke
Abstract states) " Ijvcd many yeares."'
The parentage of Nicola his wife is proved by her father's Charter to
her. She is named (as previously mentioned) in the demise of Speke IMill,
12 Edw. I. ; and she survived 17 Edw. I. when she and her sifter Agues
de Haselwal were severally seized of the two moieties of Little Caldey in
Cheshii-e.®
The issue of this mamage were Alan Ic Noreis, son and heir, and possi-
bly, although not identified as son of John and Nicola,
Sir Henry le Noreis, Knight, who had a refeoffment of lands in Speke. .
1 Edw. III. and was father of John le Noreis, contracted in the time of
Edw. I. to Cecily, daughter of Hamon Massey of Podington ; and also ci
Henry, Uving 1 Edw. III.''
It is possible that tliis Sir Henry may be the person whom the Visitation
of 1567 has obtruded into the direct line.
1 Harl. MS. 1997, 83 b. - Whalley Couclicr Book, p. OST.
3 See Appendix, Note VII. * Writs of Summons. * Harl. MS. 1907, p. Ss b.
6Hist. Chesh. 2, -278. ^ Harl. MS. 1097, •'•C J.
B
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III. Al.\n le No};fjs is named as sou of John in the release before-men-
tioned in 1 Edw. III. In 8 Edw. III. he had a grant of lands from Pdohard
Erneys to him and his uile Ellyne of messuages and lands m Speke : and
in the same jcoi' he exchanged Spcke Greaves with Sir Jolni Molyneux,
(being described as Alan son of John le Xorrcs) for lands between his and
those of Erneys' stretching lengthways from the bank of Mersey " ad altam
viam duceutem dc Manerio dicti Alani in cadem villa usque ad Ecclesiara
de Gerstan."^ It is probable that Maneriitni, in one of its primary senses,
here gives the fii^st notice of the original Hall of Speke.^
In 13 Edw. III. the same Alan "son of John Norres" has a demise from
Richard Enieys, Citizen of Chester, of all his interest in Speke, manorial
or othenvise, to hold by yearly pajnueut for three hves (his own and those
of his sons Alan and Hugh); and 17 Edw. III. has releases of dower in
Speke from the wife and daughter of Adam Molineux.
Ellyne, his wife, has been already noticed, and his issue were John,
Richard, ^Yilliam, Alan and Hugh. All named in feoffments from 10 to
18 Edw. III.
IV. John le NoErvEYS, son and heu-, fii-st in this list, appcai-s in the Visi-
tation of 15G7, as Ivjiight, and as father of Sir Henry. He had a grant from
his father Alan, in 13 Edw. III. of two Carucates in Speke, the original
measure of the manor; and in '^8 Edw. III. he occurs as deforciant of two
parts of the manor of Huyton in a fine at Preston. In 43 Edw. III. he
enfeoffs two priests, as trustees, with his estate in Speke, described as
Sir John Norreys, Knight.^
By his wife Catiierini::, daughter of Robert Balderston, Esq., he had
issue Su" Ileniy, son and heir, and Catherine, wife of Roger le Bruvn of
Stapleford in Chcsldre, whose mai'riago was given to Geoffrey Osbaldeston
by Nicolas Bruen her grandfather, for this purpose, G R. 2.*
V. Sm Henry KoitnEvs of Spoke, Knight, married, in the time of
Richard II., .-Uice, solo daughter and heir of Roger Erneys of Chester.
J Hurl. MSS. 1007, p. 87.
^ As " pnv'ipiin fcuili doinus." Ste Duoimije in voce, Eilit. Adelunpr.
» Holme Abbtnicl, H. .MS. 1007, bb b. *Vi3. l.'jC?, and llisl. Clicsh. 2, 172.
19
With them the series of names in tlie Childwall genealogical inscription
terminated, and from them the line of their knightly descendants is
regvdarly deduced m public Eecords.
II. 1. — Descent of the 'Manor of Speke from Gernet to Norres, through
Molyneux of Sefton and Erneys.
II. 2. — Deduction of representation in blood as derived from Gernet hy
Norres throujh Molyneux of Crosby and Erneys.
On the fii'st of these points, the derivation of Speke Lordship by Norres
from Gernet, through the intermediate Houses of Molyneux and Erneys,
there can be no doubt. Records prove decisively that the Norman family of
Geknet held Speke in capite from the Hoxon of Lxs-
CASTER, of which Domesday proves " Srrc" to have been
a component part under the grant of land between Fiiblle
and Mersey made to Roger Pictavensis. Such tenure is
recognized in the Inquisition taken after the death of
Sir Rogee Gernet (heir male of this family), 30 Hen. 3,
\nth regard to the paramount interest contmuing, by
feudal usage, in the heirs of the grantor.
It states that he held Spclcc, Whiston, Pan- and Skelmersdale in Derby
Hundred, Fishwick in Amoundemess, and Halton and Heysham in
Lonsdale, in fee, by Forester's sen-ice, as guardian of vert and venison in
Lancaslure Forests, from WiUiam Earl of Feirers ; and that "Willia^i
MoLYXEUx held Speke under him ly frank marriarjc,^
the said Roger Geniet receiving nothing therefrom.^
The House of IMolyneux, which thus held Speke from
Gernet, descended (as is well known) from William dos
MouUns, who is named the eighteenth in a list of Nonnau
wan-iors given by HoHnshcd,' and prefixed, as a citation
from " the Chronicles of Normandy," to his copy of the
iTliat is, l)y tenure founded on the pre%-ious graat in frank aic.rniij
2 luq. p. m. no Henr. III., Tower Records.
Miolinshed, vol. ■>, p. i, ecUt. 1807.
20
Battle Abbey Roll, with which latter unauthentic document, Collins and
"NVottou, in their several Baronetages, confound it.
Dugdalt's Visitation of 1064 states that Annota, only daughter and heir
of Benedict Gernt.t, was the wife of Adam des Molines.^ The Speke
extract from the old Lancashire Feodary makes Borjer Gemet the grantor
in frank marriage, and Blchard Molyneux the receiver.* The fact seems
to be, that xVdam des Molhies married an heiress^of one of the Geruets of
the Halton fomily, and that he received Speke in frank mairiage, either
from the father of the bride, or her near kinsman the head of the family,
and this fact of grant from Gemet generally is shewn by the tenm-e above
mentioned.
The ne.xt step is to Ekneys. The Feodary, again correct in general
descent, but not in detail, states Speke to ha^•c been
granted in frank marriage to William Erneys byBichard
Molyneux, kinsman and heir, (meaning descendant heir)
of the former Moljaieux who was gi'antce from Gemet
Dugdale names the husband as jRo&erf Erneys, and the
bride as Joan, daughter of Sir William and sister of Sir
Richard MolynciLx of Sefton, which seems correct.
Gref^oiT King, Lancaster Herald, and well read in ]\Iolyneux and Blmi-
dell Charters, is most precise. " Tliis Sir William did grant his manor of
de Speke in man-iage with Joan his daughter, to Robert de Enieys, with
ward and relief of Sir Patric de Haselwal, to hold of him for xvi pence by
the year."'
Alice Erneys, as before mentioned, brought this manor
in marriage to Sir Henky Xorreys, and in the time of
her grandson, Thomas Norres, the Inquisition was taken,
which was preserved in the Feodary and states the sub-
infeudations which decisively confirm the matter of this
deduction, as follows : —
1 C. 37, Coll. Arm.
* Ilarl. M.S. 1997, p. 88. The Citation is from the "libcr rco.lormiV rnuniiiiiig iii
tlie Duchy Ofiice nt Westniiiistpr at that time, about l.'')On.
'Cited by Wotton, Bar. 1, 145, antl this aj^'rees with llie Speke evidences, HmiI. MS-
1997, p. 88.
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" Thomas Norres holds Speke from Thomas Molyneux of Seftou, ond
he from Lord Dacres, Idiisman and heir of Roger Gcriiet, and Lord Dacres
himself from the Honor of Lancaster."^
II. 2. — As to representation of Genwt hy Norres in blood, through
Molyneux of Crosby, and Erneys.
It is to be observed of the preceding deduction, that though it carries
descent of property from Gernet to Norres, it does not cany represenUi-
tion. Such representation through successive heirs general was claimed
by Non-es in another way, by tracing from Sefton through the Crosby line
of Mol>Tieux f and the question is, uhether William Molyneux of Crosb>,
tvhose heiress Eoyer Erneys married, was regularly descended from Sefton,
Every thing else is admitted.
Wotton states, without authority,^ that Sir John Molyneitx of Crosby
(younger brother of Sir William of Sefton, created Banneret in 13GT) had
three daughters and coheirs, severally wives of Blundell, Erneys, and Char-
nock. The marriages of Blundell and Chamock ^vith coheii-s of the Crosby
line were admitted in the Visitations of 1507 and 1013, but with reference
to a very different father and earlier period.* After their maniages in
the reign of Edward I. a collateral line continued in Crosby, of whom were
John Molyneux of Crosby, returned to the Great Council at V.'estminster
in 17 Edw. IT.,' and Sir John ^Molyneux of Crosby, who made exchanges
of lands in Speke in the time of Edw. III.« To this continued line the
framer of the Speke pedigree refers the maternal grandfather of ^Uice
Enieys.
The question, in fine, must rest on usage and admission. Molraeux of
Sefton man-ied successively the heiresses of Gemot of Speke and \'iiliers
' Ibidem. 2 Kones ped. Ilarl. MS. SOTO.
^ Biironetiige, 1, 145.
* Collins in hisIMolyneux ped. (Baronetage p. 1!)) mentions three duuglit.T?, I'Ut J.irs
not aver any marringes. The co-heiress wlio nmrried Bhindeil was a uiil'>if in ili.- time
of Edw. I. (Blundell deeds) and the Jolin ."Molyneux, whom ^Yotton gives as /nr/.it'.r.
waa younger hrollier of William Mohnieux of Seftan, ajcd cmly 1.) years In OO Edu: I IT.
Eseb. in the Tower, .36 Edw. III., part I. No. 1.20, and C. 07 Coll. .Ann.
* Writs of Summons. « Speke Evidemcs, Hurl. MS^. l:il"7.
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of Little Crosby. That tlie fii-st liue of Molyneux of Crosby bi'anched from
Sefton is admitted officially,^ and tliat this was after the acquisition of
Little Ci'osby hij the Sefton line is shewn by the junior branch inheriting
Crosby manor from it, which Bhmdcll still possesses. The continuance
of a later male lino iu Crosby, of landed estate and liigh consideration,
is also proved ; and the claim of Norres to representation through this later
line, in right of Jane Erneys daughter of William MohTieux, is supported
by annorial usage from the time of Elizabeth.^
Of the fiimily of Erneys, which thus preceded Noires as mancrial pro-
prietors of Speke, little is known. EomSET Erxets occui-s iu the civic
lists of Chester in its early days of monastic splendour and Cambrian war-
fare. He served the office of SherilT of Chester in ] 280, which was the
year following the last mayoralty of Sir John Ameway, celebi-ated in the
annals -of dramatic mysteries, and again in I'^Sl, 1280, and 1291. Tradi-
tion considers his family to have had a joint interest \vith the Troutbecks
in the custody of the Bridge Gate, previously held by Raby of Eaby, and,
after the tcnnination of these families in heu'S female, by the Earl of
Shrewsbury and by Norres jointly.^
Richard Ernexs, successor of Robert, was Sheriff of Chester iu 1325
and 1326, and Mayor in 132T and 1328. Li 1335, 8 Edw. III., he occurs
as holding lands adjacent to those of Sir John Moljueux in Speke, and in
13 Edw. III., being described Citizen of Chester, he demised his estate in
Speke "as well in Lordship as demesne," with serN-ices of free tenants and
bondmen, for three lives, to Alan, son of John le Noreis,* as before-men-
tioned, subject to annual payments.
The next that occru'S is Wiluam Erneys, not as possessed of Speke,
but as father of Roger Erxeys,^ who was most probably grandson, and
clearly descendant heir of Robert Erneys and his wife Jane Mol}-neiL\, and
of the estate settled on them and theu' descendant heirs in frank marriage.
With Alice, sole daughter and heir of this Roger Erneys by his \rde
1 As shewn by the allowuuces of quarterings to Bhindell and Cliarnock.
2 As in draft of cjuartcriiigs, Ilarl. MSS. 2075.
3 See Bridge Gate and Kaby iu Hist. C'hcsh. * Sec page 18 previous.
eUarl. MS, 207.'), pp. 2 h. and 36.
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Jane Moljjieux of Crosliy, and the wife of Sir Ileriry Norreys, the com
meuiorative inscription which formerly existed m the window of Childwoll
Church concluded.
To that inscription was attached, in painted gla<;s, the
aiitient Crest of Norres,^ " a Lady's head, coupcd at
the shoulders, and attired gules." Subsequently, and
according to a practice usual in those days, the Speke
Ime of Norris adopted for a Crest the bearing of Erneys,
which is blazoned in the Visitation of 1507, as "on a
mount vert an Eagle with wings indorsed sable," but is
slightly varied in Dugdale's Visitation.* The Crest thus
adopted has been continued by nearly all the lines of
Norres that claim descent from Speke by ramification
below this alliance ; and where it is officially recorded as
an authorized bearing, it may be considered to strengthen
such family traditions.
III. — Collateral Male Lines of Norres of SpeJie.
The following ai-e the principal collateral male hues believed to have
branched from Speke, before the tune of Elizabeth, and subsequent to the
alHance of Noitcs and Enieys.
I. Norres of Park Hall in Blackrod, Bolton Parish. Thomas NoiTes,
brother of Sii- William, and born in the time of Henry VII., had issue
five sons, of whom four are included in the entail of Speke made by Sir
William in 15GG.' They were— 1. Henry, Steward of the Miu^iuis of
Winchester, S. P. ; 2. Edward; 3. William, of Staples Inn, in Ij73;
4. Thomas, a Student at Oxford, also S. P. ; 5. James.
Edward, the eldest by survivorship, was sometime of BLi.'on, Sir
William s occasional residence, and ultimately of Pai-k Hall, under his
1 Harl. MS. 1997, 88 b. Sec Appeudix, Note IX.
2 DugJale gives the Engle " proper, with wings clev;itecl," describing it h\ the c.rijriuftl
draft by the allusive name of " Erne."
sWliich is recited in his Iu<i. p. ni. For Thomas, wlio is omitted in it, sre pod. in
HrvI. MS. 2075.
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uncle's demise. He left male issue, by his vr]Se, Dorothy Brettergh, of
Brettergh's Hull, living lo73 ; and James also had male issue living at
Blackrod in 1598,^
II. Norres of West Dcrbi/, {ihe second line settled there,") branching
from "William Norres, uncle of Sir William, included in his entail, and
almost ceitiiinlj progenitors of the third line of West Derby hereafter
mentioned. ^
III. Norres of Fijfidd, Berks, descendants of Edmund Norres, younger
brother of the first Sir William Norres of Speke. This line was last in
the entiiil.*
IV. Norres of West Derby, third line, represented by Henry Norres in
1604, when his son Richard entered a pedigree in the Visitation, not
connected with the parent line, but he had allowance of Anns ■nith a
difference of tlnree mullets on the fesse. ^
V. Norreys of Middleforth in Penwortham, previously of Tarleton,
entered a pedigree in the same Visitation, and had allowance of xUtqs, but
with a difference of tlu'ce plates on the fesse, from a similar want of proof
of connexion with the parent line.'' A conthmation of this entry was
recorded by the late !Mr. Norreys of Davyhulme.'
VI. Norres of Bolton omitted to enter in any Visitation, but has
had rep»eated allowances of the Arms of the Speke line, subsequently,
without the least variation. * Their earlier documents, though iliiling in
precise identification, point to close connexions \\ith Andeilon, Gerai'd and
Tyldesley, all of whom intermanied with Speke. The recorded pedigree '
commences with Alexander Norres, bom in the time of Henry VIII.,
settled at Bolton in that of Elizabeth, and father of Piobert, Piaphe, John
and Christopher, all named in the will uf the eldest sou in 10-^0.
1 Pedigree drnwn from r'loniUi)t,'s in Ducliy Office, nnd uow at SeJbur)-.
2 For ilic first line see page i8, and note tliere. 3 c, 37^ QqH^ Arm.
* Recitals in Imi. of Sir W. N., IOCS, and Vis. 1-">C7.
fiC.ar, Coll. Arm. Hbid.
' Priuted iu Grogson's Frngtnrnt-;. Tlie Record iu the Coll. of Arms is limited to
continuation only,
*= .MSS. Coll. Arm. Noif. 0, p. 104. »Il.id.
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VI. 1. Robert Xorkes of Bolton, the eldest, born 1501, was father of
sevenil sons by a fii-st mai-nage, from whom male descendants existed in
Great Lever in 1007.^ By a second miUTiage he had one daughter,
Margaret, found heiress to her mother, Isabel, by Inquisition in l;J
Charles I.,^ and then -svife of Thomas Blackburn of Xe\ytou, afterwards
purchaser of Oiford,^ from whom the present family.
VI. 2. Raphe Norres, second sou, bom-15T0,^ had issue five sons, of
whom Robert, the eldest, was grandfather of Chi-istopher Noitcs of Bolton,
whose daughter and ultimate heir, 3Iary, married in 1703,* Thomas
Johnson, then of Bolton, afterwards of Tyldesley by purchase. On the
deatli of his grandson, Thomas Johnson, Esq., in 18:23, the representation
of this branch vested in Ford of Abbeyfield, and Ormerod of Tyldesley
and Sedbm-y Park, as co-heir's.
VI. 3. John Norres of Bolton, third son, had numerous issue, of whom
two sons coincide with John and Alexander Xorres of Bolton, Royalists,
named in the Parliamentary Record of Compositions. — Jomnials, v. 110.
VI. 4. Christopher Norres, fourth sou, purchaser of " Haugh in the
Wood," and other estates of the Browulows of Tonge, ® was father of
Alexander Non'es, builder of the well-known mansion there, and Treasurer
to the Parliamentary Lieutenancy of Lancashire.' He was succeeded in
1G7J2 by his two daughters Alice, wife of John Starkie of Huntroyd, Esq.,
and Anue, wife of "William Bordmau, Clerk. ^
All these branches were entitled to the bearings of the Spoke line, with
the Crest marking descent from Erueys. The descent of the following is
more uncertain.
VII. Sir William Norres, a Cheshire Knight, whom Sir Samuel
Meyrick refers, conjecturally, to the Speke Hne, husband of Anne Tudor of
^ Plenclings iu Duchy Office, auil Judguieut in tbiU year,
2 In Duchy Office.
* Plea of Jouathan Blackburn, 1C85, in Duchy Office, aud Record iu Coll. Ami.
* Pleas ibid u\ Ajres v. Cronii)ton, 1632, and Record Coll. Ann.
* Reg. of St. Catherine's, Blackrod. * Inq. p. m. IG, Car.
" See Civil War Tracts of Lancashire.
^Cliestcr Wills, and miiuiiucnts at Huntroyd. Comuiunicated by the Rev. .I.T. Allen.
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PenmenydJ, in Anglesca, sister of Owiiin Tudor. His descendants
adopted the patronymic of RoLiuson, (as stated, in Dwnn's Visitation of
Wales, by Bishop llobinson, whose elevation to Bangor might be helped by
this relationship to Elizabeth,) and they were of Gwcrsylt in Denbighshire,
in the seventeeth centur}-, as shewn by the monument of the Royalist,
Colonel Robinson,' at Gresford.
VIII. NoRra:s of Okford, was an unrecorded but admitted branch.
John Norres of Orford died in 1 Henry V., leaving a sou John, aged Vi
yeai-s in 1410, and Thomas Norres of Gray's Inn, and of Orford (grandson
of another Thomas) left, m 1595, one daughterand heir, Elizabeth, wife of Sir
Thomas Tyldesley, Attorney- General for the Duchy. The ruin of the Orford
family followed the preceding one of the Tyldesleys of Wardley, and the i-cprc-
sentation of the imited houses was vested in Brercs and Mort in 1C85.-
The several hues of Norres of H.ulsned, H.vrdieshaw, Eltonhe.u),
and some others, are acknowledged by Sir WiUiam Norres as kinsmen, and
stated to have assumed local names in some instances.^
IX. The most distinguished fomily of the name, that of Norreys of
Ockwells and Yattenden, from whom came the Lords Norreys of Ricot,
Earls of Berkshire, has been reserved to the last.
The Visitation of 15G7 states that " Sir Hcnrj-e Norres, husband of
Alice Erneys, had issue — WiUiam Norres, son and heirc, John second son,
Sir William Norret/s of Yatendcn, in Com. Bark, third son.''^
Grafton's Lancashire* mentions the same sons, adding that this John
was named of Bray, Co. Berks, and that Lord Norreys of Ricott descended
from him, by his ^\ife Millicent, daughter and heir of Bavenscrojt of Allan
End, Co. Northampton," which explains the arms of Ravenscroft adopted
by this fomily, and still remaining in the windows of Ockwells Manor House
at Bray, as the arms of Norreys of that place."
^Dwiui's VisitiUion, 11, l:(3. Bliss. Ath. Oxon. 2, 708, nml reiinanfs Wiiles, 3, 300.
* From Inquisitions and ritii(ling:s iu tin; Ducby Office, aiul 'J'vklosley Deeds. Their
Arms varied from those of Norres of \Yest Derby in the fesse being snhlc {C. 37), and
riower grunted a Crest in \')S\. — .\sliin. MSS 814.
3"P.;olnmtion" in Marl. MS. r.t'.»7. j). s.i //. * Sec Appendix, Note ]V.
* MS. Coll. Arm. * See Appendix, Note IV. ' L) sons' Mugiui Biil.umia, 1, p. ..'J 7.
III. NORUES OF SPEKE.
NoRBKS OF Speke, from tlie alliance with Erney-s to tljo commencement of the entry in Dugilale's Visitation, compiled from the Visitation of 1507, w
atUIitions from the abstract of yi)ul;c jDcotls, sepulchral memorials, tlie Iiuiuisitions and Fleas in the Duchy OtHce, and other original autho
Arum, as heforc in No. II. Crcsl {,is allowed by the Vsitation of 15G7), on a wreath, on a mount, tcrt, an erne cr eagle, wings iuilorsed, sahk, beaked ;
t.h corrections ■:
■itios.
il.d memhered,
9
Sir Ilemy Norrcs of Speke, Kt., partly in right of his ancestress— Alice, d;
Nicola de Haselwal, and partly in right of his wife. yur\i
1 Hen. V.
^
^
xughter-and heir, of Roger Emeys, citizen of Cliestor
■d of Speke, by Ids wife Jane, 'laughter and heir, of
William Molyneux of Crosby, Esquire ; wife of Sir Henry Norrcs,
temp. K. II.
Thomas Norrcs o
Derby, in Co.
living 21 Hen. V
fWest =
Lane
* William
Esq., son and heir, snrvi
2i Henry VI.
of Speke, =* Elizabetll, daughter of Sir
James Harrington, Kt.
Man", contract, 1 Hen. V.
(Percivale, daughter of John,
in Vis. 1567.)
Robf
I I
■t, James, and Richard
Norres, as by Indent. 8 Hen.
VI. Harl. MS. 1997, 87, b.
(John, stated to be ancestor
of Norreys of Ricot, in Graf-
ton's MS., and also inserted
in Vis. 1507.) See Note rv.
(Sir Willi
descritjed
Vis. 156".
am, erroneously
as of Y.'itendon in
) See Note iv.
'IIk
Norres — ♦ Lettlcc d:iu.
of Speke, Esq., sou
andl,.app.24Hen.
VI,died311en.VIl,
nsby Inq. p.]n. Aji.
29, IS Hen. VII.
and h. of The.
mas
of W,
Marr.
dated
VI.
I
Robert,
* Riciiard
2d in p.lhit- Sdinglassal
Norres ed gl.a.ss of ChildwaU.
Derby. ChildwaU
covt. church, 3d
M Hen. iiiVis. 1567.
I 'I
» WilliiLm, • John,
a priest, 4th 5th in glass,
in glass and 2d in Vis.
in Vis. 1567. 1567.
IN I ,1 I I
6 » Edmund *C.atli.ariue, * Agnes, * Elizabetl;, ♦ Jfargaret
7 * Henry wife of Ro- wife of John wifeofl'hes. . wife of
8 * Christo- bert Gros- Buubury of GcVard of Robert
plier, in venor, of Stanney. Ince. MaiT. Lathom
glas
not Eaton. Mar. Ma
in Visita-
tion.
covt. S Edw.
IV.
; £dw. IV.
co\-t. :.*(» of ParboKl.
Hen. VI.
I
* Beatrix,
wife of John
Ireland of ,
Lydiate.'
. I
* Ales, wife
of John
Evans of
Hawarden,
CO. Flint.
• Jane, not in
glass, (v.-ife
of Wnii.am
Worthinc'ton,
Vis. i.m;7).
See Elizabeth,
in line below.
* Sir "William Norres of Speke, — Kath;
Kt., son and heir, bom 1-15!
aged 2,S years at his father's
death, 3 ilen. VII. Knighted
before A]>. 29, IS Ilen.^VIl ;
died Sep. 1, 22 Hen. VH. luq.
p. ra. 21 Hen. VII.
of Sii
llionias. second * Richard,
Henry Bold of Bold, in settlement of 9 9 Edw
Kt. M.arr. contr. 8 . Edw. IV ; recited third sou.
Edw. IV ; surviving, in Inq. of Henry
and aged about sLxty NoiTes in 16 Hen.
years, 152i. VIII.
* Edmund, 9 Edw.
IV, fourth son,
named as 2nd son
in Vis. 1567. An-
cestor of Norres of
Fyfield, co. Berks.
* Christopher,
9 Edw. IV,
fifth son.
9 Edw. IV,
si.vth sou.
(^'.'icholas, !
Vis. 1507,
glass or entail
of June H,
9 Edw. IV.)
I I I
* 1 Elizabeth.
* 2 Jane.
* i Beati-ice.
I I ■ ■
* 3 J:iizal)eth, * 5 Alice, w.
w. of WiUm. of James tox-
son of Hugh teth of Aigh-
Worthington burgh. MalT.
of Worthing- cort. 1 R. III.
ton. Mar. cov.
licnryNorvosofSpeke, Esq., =Clemence, fifth dau. and co-h.
son and heir, aged 2S years, of Sir James Harrington of
21 Hen. VII; died at Speke,
July 7, 1521. Inq. p.m. 16
Hen. VIII. (Brass at Child-
waU).
of Sir Janies Harringti
Wolfege, CO. Northton. Mar.
covt. July S, 1500, 15 Hen,
VII ; sun-ived in 10 lieu
VIII. (Brass at ChildwaU)
William Norres of West= daughter James, third Edward,
Dei-liv, second soo, deceased of James son. Harl. fourth son.
before ent:di of 1565; "was Passmyche. JISS. 19S7 ILarl. MSS.
at Flodden with his brother, Harl. MS. and 2075 1937 and 207i
andwithS'rWm.Molyneux." 2075
Harl. 5IS. 2075
I I
Joan. Margaret, wife
Harl. MS.S. of .lohn Ogle of
19S7 and 2075 Prescot, Esq.
(Harl. MS. 19S7)
,* The asterisks
denote the per-
sons mentioned
in the former
painted glass
of ChildwaU
church.' See
Note IX.
Anne, eldest ilau. and co-=Sir William Norres of Speke, Kt.=Elleu. dau-h. of Rowland
h. of David Myddleton of '" ' . - .- - ■- —
Chester, Esq., married be-
fore 1535 ; died in Feb.
1563;buricdatChihhvall.
ged 23 years in 152-1 ; entered
descent in the Vis. of 1507 ; died
Jan, 30, 156S ; buried at Child-
wall. Feb. 3. Inq. p.m. 10 Eliz.
1568.
Tho
i Nones of Blacon,=Anne, daugl
liidkeley i.f 'Wateroft,
Cust., Esq., Marr. covt.
dated Apnl 12. 12 Hen.
Via, 1521; 1st wife.
CO. Cest., nnmed in Inq.
16 Hen. VIII, and de-
ceased befoie his brother's
settlement of loi^iO.
Bramjtton o
Steward of -
ICarl of Sufse
Blaekrod I5S:
of William
Xoribll:.
RaiUlvfi.-,
Anne, only daughter, un^
married 16 Hen. VIII
wife of Percival Harring-
ton of Huyton Hey.
1
Edward Norres of=
-Margaret, dau.
2lieUI
C John, 2nd
Elizabeth, w.-
Jane, w. of
Margaret, w.
1
William
1 ;
1 Clemence,
3 Alice, w. of
Ellen, wife o
Speke, Esq., son &
and h. of R,.._.er
* John
surviviuo-
of Barthol.
William
of Jtoly-
Norres,
w. of Adam
Adam ~ '
Lloyd.
h. a]>p. loG7, aged
Sinallwood of
5 George
son in 1506;
Hesketh of
Ball of
neux of Wood
eldest son' and
HuKun of
Hawarden
28yeai>i, 10 Eliz.;
We.stndnster.
7 Anotherson
served the
Aughton
Chester.
h. ap., slain at
Huiton.
of \Volston.
Margaret, w
buried at Child-
not. named, •
E. ofDorbv.
-
Anne, died
Jlusselburgh,
of ■I'hurst.an
waU, M.iy21,li;00.
die.1 S. P.
and died in
Is.abel, W-. of
Mary,
S.P.
Sep. 10, 1547,
2 Cath.-rine,
i Enuna.
Tyldeslcy of
Invy. ]u-ovcd at
before 1566.
London S. P.
Robert
S.P.
w. of Hugh
U'ardley.
Chester 1607.
Charnock
of Astley.
in 1591.
ap Richard
of Wales.
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I I I I I I I ,
1 Ileury, Steward ol
the Ji.of Winchester
2 Edw. of Park HaU,
. Blaekrod.
3, Wm. of Staples Inn.
4 Thomas, died at Ox-
ford S. P.
5 James of Blaekrod.
1 Dorothv, unmarried
in ]5'78.
2 iMar-., wife of .lohn
Ogle ofWhiston.
[To .face pojc ;C.
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But DuGr>ALE (following E. 10, a MS. in the Herald's Office)' makes
Sir William NoiTcys of Yatendou son of a Sir John Norreijs, vflio (accord-
ing to other authority) obtained that place by marriage with the heiress of
Merbroke,- and makes this Sir John Norreys great-grandson of another
John, " the second son of Sir Henry Non-eys of Speke," whioij jast
mentioned John he describes as H\dug at Bray 35 Edw. III.^ or lOGl.
Such date would require an earlier Sir Henry: than the husband of Alice
Emeys, who was party to his eldest son's maixiage contract in 1413.
Ltsons's deduction of this line from another family/ namely, from
Richard Xorreys, the Queen's Cook, who certainly obtained Ockwells by
patent in 12G7,* would cut through these difficulties, but it is better to
look to the chance of future discoveries, than renounce connexion between
Speke and the noblest of her reputed descendants, and disturb mutual
recognitions respected in days of real chivalry.
lY. ^Continuation of the Speke line from the alliance icith Erncys, icith
particular notices of the members of it connected uith military
transactions at Flodden, Edinburgh and Musselburgh.
v. On retuiTung to consideration of the main line, we revert to Sir
Henky Norres, possessed in right of liis wife of the Manor of Speke, « and,
in the situation of " Chambcriain of North Wales," exercising that part of
the office limited to Anglesea. Caernai-von and Merioneth," where, ac-
cording to a MS. note by T.andle Holme, he was in high estimation under
the name of the "Pied Chamberiain."^
Sir- Henry Norres occurs in the deed cited below, 1. Hen. V., and is said
to have survived four years afterwards.
From this point the Childwall Inscriptions and Speke Can-ings combijic
1 Baronage, vol. 2, p. 403. ^ Lysous' Magna Britannia, 1, 445.
s Misprinted as 30 Hen. III. in Gregsuu's Fragments.
« Magna Britannia, 1, p. 445. ' Tat. 52, Hon. 3, mem. :.
« Harl MS. 1997, p. 88 •bovl'icb adds, of all the F.rnrys estate in Chester and Cheshire.
' Doddridge, p. 45. ' Harl. MS. 2075, p. 3. h.
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with Charters and Records in illustration of descent, and the collaterals
will bo left to the genealogical tables, and the 7nain line onhj followed.
VI. William Norres of Speke, Esquire, son and heir of Sir Henrv,
mai-ried, according to the Visitation of 15G7, Percyvnle, daughter of John
Harrington of West Leigh, but the contract of marriage, 1. Hen. V.,
between Sir Hemy Norrcs and Sir James Hanington, ^ describes the con-
tracted parties as William and Elizabeth, and so did the painted glass at
Childwall, which was put up by themselves. -
VII. Thomas Noitcs, eldest son and heii- of Wilham Xon-es of Speke,
is so described in an Indenture between the latter and Thomas Xorres of
West Derby, 24. Hen. VI. ,^ being the mariiage contract of theii- children,
namely, this Thomas son of Wilham, and Lctitia heiress of the fi-vst hne of
Norres of West Derby. ^
By Inquisition taken at Lancaster, 29. Ap. ]8. Hen. VII., 1503, the
said Thomas Norres of Speke is found to have died 3. Hen. VII., 14ST,
seized of the manor of Speke, and lands, &c , in Formby and Derby. Sir-
William Norres, Kt., son and heir, aged 28 years at the death of his
Father.
VIII. Sir William Norres, Kt., son and heir of Thomas, born in or about
1459, married Catherine, daughter of Sir Henry Bold of Bold,^ in 8 Edw. IV.
1468, as by contract of that date, to which the respective fathers were
vritncsses.
The contracted bride had not exceeded her fom-th year, and in 1-324 she
continued to possess the land settled in 14C8, having sumved her husbiind
and son.®
By Inquisition taken at Lancaster, June 15, 24 Hemy VII. 1508, Sir
J Hail. MS. 1997, p. 87. 2 See Appendix, Note IX.
Mlarl. MS. 1097, p. 87, «».
*Tbe origin of tliis liiic is iinknowTi. They were a distinet family in ■■}7. EJw. TIL,
as by a pardon for entrj' on lands panted to Thomas, son and heir of William Norres of
West Derby. Abbrev. Rot. Original. 2, 279.
^ Harl. MS. 1997, p. 87 6. His kuightliood is erroneously omitted in Vis. 1007, and
Sir Iliiiry l?old called Sir Edmund.
' Dodsworth's Bold pod. and Iiui. after death of Henry Norres, 10 Henry VII I.
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William is stated to have died, 1 Sep., 22 Heu. VII., 150C, hoKliii" the
manor of Speke, and other lauds in Lancashire. Ileni-}- Xorros, Esquire,
sou and heir, aged 28 years at the time of tliis Inquisition.
IX. Ilemy Noires of Speke, Esquire, son and heir, bora in or almut
1481, succeeded in laOG, under an ent;iil created by his grandfather, an J
by wiU settled his lauds on his son William hi tail male, with remainder
to liis second son, Thomas, and so on in tail male,-bequeatlnng his woods
to liis wife Clemence, " to help to many Anne his daughter," afterwards
wife of Percival Haningtou of Huyton.^
With this Heniy the series of genealogical can-ings commences, which
decorates the ancient mantle-piece in the great parloui* at Speke, and
which, for reasons hereafter mentioned, seems to have been erected by his
son Sir William shortly before 1500.
In this GENERATION' the House of Speke rose in local importance by
alliance with Clemence fifth daughter and coheir of Sir James Han-ington
of Wolfage, the knightly representative of branches of the Verdun and
Bradeshagh famiUes, and (what above all gi'atified Sir William Norres, who
was issue of this marriage) the possessor, by inheritance from Bradeshagh,
of the ancesti-al Lordship of Blackrod.-
The manner in which the male line of these Harringtons ended is told
by Sir William, but made clearer by the Chm'ch Notes of Eandle Holme.
WTT.T.TA-\r H^\JiKiNGT0N, only son of Sir James, returning from TralTjrd
with his wife, a daughter of that House, perished along with her in attempt-
ing to ford the ^Mersey, near Northenden. The body of Harrington was
inten-ed by the care of his sister, Eleanor Leycester of Toft, at Mobberloy.
where an altai'-tomb with liis anned recumbent figm-e and the date of
March 4, 1-490, were remaining in 1595. The Harrington estates wore
divided between his sisters, of whom ten married, and half of Blackrod
came, with other lands, to Heniy Xorres.
In 1513, five years after the succession of Henry Xon-es to Speke. was
fought the Battle of Flodden. An inaccurate passage in Seacomes
^ Recitiils in Iiiq. after death of Henry Norrcs, 10 lien. VIII.
* See details iii p. 8, of the descent of lihickrod from the first Hue of Norres.
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House of Stanlky,* relative to the conuexion of the " Owner of Speke''
with this and other miUtary transactions, commands attention from the
controversy v,-hich it has excited, and, hackneyed as it is, must he quoted.*
After mentioning King Henry's thanks to Lord Montcagle and Sir
William Molyncux,^ Scacome adverts to the hraveiy of the contomporaiy
o^Mier of Speke, describing him as " Sir Edward Norris, son of Sir William
Norris, uho was slain at the battle of Musslebarrow in the tune of
Henry VII. ;" an obvious error for Edw. VI., which is unimportant.
" This valiant ajid heroic Gentleman," (Seacomo proceeds, continuing to
speak of this Sir Edward Norres,) " commanded a body of the Army under
General Stanley at Flodden Field, where he behaved with so much
courage and good conduct that he was honoured by the Eng, his master,
mth the like congratulatonj letter for his good sendee in the victory of that
day;" " in token whereof " (it is added) he brought away all or most
of the Royal Library, and " from the said Palace the wainscot of the Kuig's
Hall, and put it up in his own Hall at Spcke."
The words " own hall" fix Henri/ Norres, owner in 151B, and then aged
thkty-three, as the person intended, and render it unnecessary to remark
upon a conjecture which has been made,* that Edward his fourth and
youngest brother, of whom nothing further is known, was the legendaiy
" Sir Edward:'
Seacome's statement, here as on other occasions, is a mixture of truth
and eiTor,' ''Sir Edward" is a combination of three military generations at
once. Henry Xon-es of Spcke fought at Flodden," Su- William (liis son)
brought plunder from Edinburgli, William (his grandson) fell at Mussel-
borough. As to the Command, Seacome may be right to a certai)i extent,
» P. 47, eilit. 1741, and 2iul edit. 17C7.
* Sf'ft an aecouut of tlie Discussions iu Appendix, Note X,
'A copy of tlio Circular L.!t>T of Thanks, sent to Molynciis, is given by Collins from
Stow's Cbroniclr, as well as by Scacome, Daronetage 1, p. 23.
* Arcliirologia Sroticn, Vol. -1, pp. 7 and 12.
'"Coininlod by the lu'lp of original autliorities, wbicli shoidd have fallen into better
Lands." ^Vhilaker■s Riclimondsb. 2, 2'i'^.
• See AjipeniUx, Note XI.
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for a principal feudatorj' of Sir William Molynciix was likely to a?>i<t liim
in the command of the Sefton contingent ; and as to the Eoijal t/umhs,
" loving letters" were sent by King Henry in such profusion, that (as
Holinshed states) " everie man thought himself well rewarded."*
If the sen-ices of Henry Norres at Flodden had exceeded a soldier's duty
they could scarcely have escaped local and contemporaiy writers, whose
notices, (if we allow for chieftains absent with Lord Derby and the King at
Terouenne, and for the ineffective from age or otherwise,) must particularize
most of the flower of the Palatinates. The ballad of Flodden Field. = the
work of one who knew Lancashire and Cheshire well, names seventeen in
Lord Derby's Hirewell to the chieftains whom he conjectures to have fallen
there, before then- followers could have broken and fled in the nvmner
described in the tidings first brought to the Pioyal Camp, and wliich seem
to have related to part of the Cheshire and Lancashii-e men which had
been separated from Sir Edw. Stanley and their compatriots, and placed
under the command of Edmund Howard.^ Twelve of the seventeen
consist of Sir Edward Stanley, aftenvards Lord jMonteagle, the young
John Stanley, (supposed of Handford,) leader of Bishop Stanley's con
tingent, Sir Henry Kyghley, a veteran from Breton wars and Seneschal
of Lathom, Richard Ashton of Middleton, Sir Thomas Ashton of A^^hton,
Sii' WilHam Molyneiuc, Sir John Booth of Barton, Sir Thomas Butler.
Richard Bold of Bold, the Baron of Ivinderton slain, Kichai-d Done of
Utkinton, the hereditary Bow-bearer of Delamere, and Edwai-d Fitton of
Gawsworth, one of the few prisoners.* The remaining five of the local poet's
'Iiiqiiiry Las been made at the State Paper Office iiuder permission of the P.t. Hon.
Sir Geo. Grey, but no traces of these letteis remain.
2 The poem printed by Weber among the illustrations of the longer poem of the
same name in 180S, p. 300. It is noticed hi Mr. T. Heywood's " Earls of Derby," p. 11.
3 "The Cheshire and Lnncushire men never abode stroke, and fewe of the GoiitJuit-u
" of Yorkshire abode, but Iled."-State Papers printed by the Eecord Commission, iv. p. 1.
The same document, although it takes no notice of tlie final charge by Stanley, atlmiis
the pre-i-ious defeat of tlie Earl of Lynewis (Lennox) and Argyll by his division.
* All these are confirmed by Hall, Holinshed, Bishop Stanley's Metrical Hist, of the
Suuley Family, or the Battle of Brampton Field, and luive been ideutiticd from tiieir
several pedigrees.
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list ai'e ToMNTioley, Southeworth, Christopher Savage, Atherton and Dutton.
The Visitations of 1530 and 1507 paiticulaiize the achievements of Ashton
of Middleton and of Molyneux ; ColHns adds Sir Thomas Gerard and his
Brindle Archers ; Hall and Ilolinshed, in addition to many here named,
fix four, -who would he Brian Tunstall of Thurland, John Laurence of
Ashton Hall, Eandle Breretou of jNIalpas and Pdchard Cholmondelcy of
ChoriBSBibley. Norros of Spcke occurs in no document that has been
found, except Seacome's naiTative and the direct statement of the pedi'^ree
compiled about 1590 for his gi'audson. But presence on that day, and
position with 3Iolyneux, (which is the position stated to have been occupied
by Henry Korres,) whether as his friend or as a principal feudatoiy,
would be honour sufficient. Weber judiciously supposes that the only
period during which Stanley's f^dlowers would be opposed to Huntley, at
least the only pc'riod dming which the banner taken from Huntley by
Molyneux woidd be likely to bo won, woid.d be tlie severest portion of the
contest, when the Earl, (according to Lyndsay of Pitscottie,)^ separated
from Home, after his first success, to attempt the Royal rescue. This
was the \ery agony of the sti-uggle, when the final charge of Stanley
and the onset of Lancashire and Cheshire tinder their own leader ternunated
the conflict.
Hemy Non-es died at Speke, July 7, 1524, 10 Hen. VIII.; and his
Inquisition taken at Chorley, in the same year, names his son and heir
"William, aged 23 years and upwards at his fiither's death.
The Arms of Hemy Xoires formed part of the old painted glass of the
Church of St. Nicholas at Liveqiool, but were inaccm-ately blazoned, the
quarters being transposed, and Erneys introduced in the second and third
quarters of Norres, instead of being quartered by Norres as a separate
shield.2
'Dalyell's edit. vol. i, p. 279, and Wobcr's Appendix to tlie Bidlud of Floddeu Field.
' The bkzon is ^\on vcibully ill Ilarl. MS. 211^, p. ISO, being a note taken in 1590,
as follows: — " In aiicitlier wiiidowe, Norres (llenn-, de Speak). G, n fret or, and nr^xent
cbarg'd an Krrou volant sa, qrlie; el sur le tout a fosse b." Tbe "Erroii" is probablv
iuteuded for "Erne," as Duf,'dale's note, in the original draft of this Visitation, verbally
describes it, in bla/oning the Norres Crest. See p. "23.
S'latt )].
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The same errors, in all respects, appear in the Anns shewn on the talarJ
of a Norres represented on a brass still remaining in Chjluwai.l Ciiiurn,'
and formerly fixed in the Nonces Chapel there. It represents a waniiT in
plate armour, with the " Erne" on the Helmet upon which his head repose^,
and has heeu deemed the effigy of Sir William Norres, who died in l-jnO.
There is no inscription remaining, and costume would suit either ICni>dit
or Esquire, Sir William or his son Hemy. .
With this is associated the figure of a Lady in a pedimental head dre;$,
which again, would suit the wife of either : ■ hut the wife of Sir WilUam
was a Bold, and the Arms on the mantle, where antient custom woull
place the husband's,' and later caprice either, are neither Bold nor Nones,
but Harrington quartering Radcliife, as is still shewn, (see jAite 10,j
though the enamel is gone.
As Clemence wife of Henry Norres was daughter of Sir James Harrington
by Isabel Radcliffe * of OrdsaU, this seems decisive. It is true that Isabel
was no heiress, and the OrdsaU EadclitTes generally used two bendlets and
not one bend engrailed, as here, ^ but these errors would be trifles to tlic
artist who designed the husband's tabard.
X. In the next descent the family vras represented by Sir Wiixum
Norres, who was aged 23 years at his father's death, and of course bom in
1501.
He married to his firet wife EUen daughter of Rowland Bulkclcy, Esq.,
ancestor of the Lords Bulkeley of Beaumaris, but described as of Whatcroft
in Cheshire,in lus daughter's maniage contract, Ap. ] 2, 1521 (12 Heu. VIII.) '
to which indenture both the fathers were witnesses.
The issue of tliis marriage, as given in the Visitation and in the Spcke
* See Appeuilix, Note XII,
2 Boutell gives specimens from 1514 to 153t2.
'lu Dugd. Warw, p. 321, the ilaugliters of Thomas E. of Wanv. have the husbands'
Arms — at p. 4'.2-j, Lady Comptoii (temp. lien. VIII.) has her own. In a ^Yill^vick braiS
Lady Lcgl) has both.
* Ibid-'el will not be found in Vis. 1.007, vrhieh omits five desct-nts in this prdi^Tee.
* In the OrdsaU brass in the Choir of Manchester Catheilral, only one bind is u;'-J.
« Harl. MS. 1097, p. 87. b.
C
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pcdigi'cc, ^vcre "William, slain at Mussclborougli, and six daugbtcra. These
are represented on Sii* Williams left hand in the carved mantle-piece.
Before 1535, he manied to liis second wife, Anne eldest daughter and
co-heir of David Myddleton, Esquire,^ who was Mayor of Chester in 15Q3
and 1538, and yoimger son of David Myddleton, (Receiver-General of
Nortli Wales,) by his ^\ife Ellen, daughter of rachard Done of Utldnton,
Esq., Hereditaiy Forester of Delamere.' In 1535 she occurs as late wife
of Thomas Seyton, along with her husband Sir William Norres, in a suit
against Margaret, Marchioness of Dorset, respecting Fumess and Conished
lands,' and tliis is the fn*st mention of her husband's knighthood.
Anne Lady Norres, and ticelve of her children (of whom two, unnoticed
in the pedigrees must have died young) also occur in the caiTcd mantle-
piece hereafter noticed.
Shortly before the date last mentioned, Leland, the antiquaiy, visited
Lancasliire and Cheshire xmder the Eoyal Commission. He names " Spcke"
as Sir William's dwelling, but adds " BJakenhedde," near Chester, " an olde
Manor Place" of Lord Oxford, as his occasional residence.* With that city
and its neighbourhood Sir Wilham was connected by his hereditaiy Seijeancy
of the Biidge Gate and his first mai'riage, and at Blacon he was attended
by his favourite nephew Edward NoiTes,^ " his Aiithful servant and dearest
nephew," as he terms him in a formal grant. It is probable that Speke
might be undesirable as a constant residence from the progress of restora-
tions, or from the decay which preceded them.
In 1544 Sir WiUiam engaged in the Scottish expedition of the Earl of
Hertford. The name of one previously knighted, as matter of cour-e, does
not appear in Hollinshed*' among the numerous Lancasliii'e and Cljeshire
Esquires knighted on Sunday, May 11, 1544, after the burning of Edin-
bui'gh ; but his owii autograph in the books identified by him as brought
' Vis. l.')G7. 2 Lewis Dwnn's Vis. of Nortli Wiiles.II., 3.35, and Hist. Chcsb. II., I:]:3.
3 Ducat. Ldiio. Plemliiigs, 1. 105.
* Itincnirj-, vol 7, pt. 1,50, ami vol. 5,54, Tlic iiivcsligutious were from 15-JS to 1504.
*Aftcrw»nls of Blackroil (p. QO), but described of Blacon in Grafton's Lanc-asliire
MSS. Coll. Ann. «Vol. 3, p. .IOC.
u
a:^
s ^
< "^
fi « -
== I i
J" .2 5
t^ -^ C' >i
£ 3 S
2 S "^ ■*
to ^ „
r3 >H
^ Z'^
1727125
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from the ruins, left ns an licir-Ioom for Spckc, ami now houourablv inv
served in the Athenocum at Liverpool,' proves him present in that citv on
such occasion Other possible spoils, limited hj the more judicious con-
sideration of later antiquaries to figures attached to the disputed wauiscot,
liave been recently described in the results of local investigations.-
On Sep. 10, 15 17, William Norres, eldest son of Sii* William, aged about
Q5 years, sending in the Duke of Somersets band, was engaged at tlio
battle of Pinliie or Musselburgh. Holhnshed^ expressly names " Norris,"
as one of the Lord Protector's own band of Cavalry, leading in the despe-
rate charge on the Scottish Pikemen, in which the most part of the Gen
tlemen named by him were slain. The passage is subjoined' and rnay
relate to either father or son, but the Visitation of 1567 gives the death
of the sou in the pedigree recorded by the father.
The presence of the fcither there is conjectured from his possession of the
Pennon of David Boswell of Balmuto, sketched in the Holme abstmct of
the Norris evidences, and delineated also in the draft of the Speke pedi-
gree.* In the former MS. is an attested copy of Sir William's own
autograph account of it. " This G^yddon was wonne by Sir William Nonvs
in Scotland." The Arms and initials on the Pennon are those of
David Boswell of Balmuto, whose sons fell at Musselborough, as mentioned
more at length in the note subjoined.®
Sk years after this, in 1553, Sir William appears with the Earl of Derby
and five Lancashire ICnights — Atherton, Gerard, Holcroft, Legh, and
Molyneux, as a Collector of the subsidy voted by Edwards last Pia-hanicnt.''
In the same year, after Mary's accession, he occurs once more in military
arrangements, in a list of Knights and Esquires nominated Commanders of
the proposed muster of West Derby Hundred.'^
» See Note XIII.
' Remarks on Spoke by H. C. Piilgeon, Esq., in Archeeol. Journal, vol. v, p. 31'J.
Mr. Iliuclicliffe's coujectures, in 1800, were uinch to the same purport as to liuiituiioii
of possible trophies to minor relics, insteatl of conslilering the Waiuscot itself as such.
3 III. p. 878. * See Appemlix, Note XIV.
ORorl MS. 1997, (p. 80 b.) and 207o.
® See Appemlix, Note XV. ' Collins's Baiouetage, 1, p. 101.
'Gregson's Fragments, p. IS.
o.»>»x> ^> J
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In tlie folloNving year the Dutchy Pleadings presence his answers, when
defendant as Mayor of Livei-pool, along with other local officers, on lehah'
of that Borough, \\-ith reference to municipal claims, the Fony and the
Customs, agamst Sir Richard I\Iolpieux the Farmer of the Revenue.^ In
the same year he represented the Borough in Pai'liament.
Shortly afterwards, in the course of the Marian persecution, the Martyr
George Marsh, mentions Sir William NoiTes, Sir Peers a Lee, Master
More and others, sitting as members of the Earl's Council in the Presence
Chamber at Lath um, in March, 1555, at his primary examhiation. The
same Martyr's Diary notes the absence of both Knights at his second
examination.^
Four yeai-s after this, Lord Derby retimied to the Earl of Slu*ewsbury as
President of the North, in 1557, Sir William's inability for mihtary service,
but his readiness to provide a Captain, for musters then raising in expec-
tation of a Scottish irnaption. ^
It is probable that restorations of the ancestral Mansion at Speke by
Sir William now succeeded to more active occupations. The cai'ved mantle -
piece of the great paidour representing three generations with his o^-n figure
in the centre, and bearing some analogy to the richer mantlepiece in the
Palais de Justice at Bniges put up in 1529, seems to testify to this. It
may be referred to a date ^\ithin one or two years of 1560.^ Mr. Whatton,
supposmg an entire re-erection of Speke in 1598 from the appearance of
that date in the East Front with reference to additions only, still agrees
with others that the introduction of tivo children only of Edwiud and
Margaret Korres in the mantlepiece and the occupation of the remaining
space by a shield seem to indicate that they had no more than two children
bom at the period of its execution.* Four other children, in addition to
these, were born before the Visitation of 1 507, and arguments from the
date thus gained, as well as from general probability, point to Sir William,
who survived to 1508, and who is the prominent character in the centre of
1 Pleadingrf temp. Th. M., Vol. XI., No. 1. - Fox's Martyrs, EiUt. lOil, III., ii').
3\Miitaker's WliaUey, SJ Edit. r)33, aiul Bftiues, 1, 507.
* See Appeiulix, Note XVI.
* Memoir iu Arcliicol. Scot., p. 9, imd pedigree attached.
IV. NORRES OF SPEKE.
NORBES OF Speke, from the Visits.tion of Lancashire by Dugdale in 1664, with additions and continuations fi'om original authorities.
Arm$, as before. Crest, as allowed in 1664, on a wreath, on a mount vert, an erne or eagle, wings elevated, proper.
Edward Noi
of Sir Willia
of speke. Esq,, third sou and heir-r Margaret, daughter and co-heiress oi Koger Small-
• oi-reSj buried at Childwall, 160G. wood ofWestminster.
Sir "William Non-es of Speke, =
K.B., eldest son :ind heir,
created K.B. July 24, 1603,
previous to the coronation of
James I ; died about 1026
(l>ugdale),inl63i(R.Holme,)
Eleanor, daughter
of AVilliam, eldest
son and heir appa-
rent of Sir Richard
Jlolineus: of Sef-
ton, Kt.
Edward Norres,
second son, had
issue Margaret,
wife of Edward
Ireland of Lydi-
ate, Esq.
Perpetua, wife of
Thomas Westby,
brother and heir
of John Westby
of >Iowbrikj co.
Lane.
- Anne, wife of Sir Tho.
Butler of Bewsey, co.
Lane. , and aftenv'ards
of Thomas Ui-aycot,
Esq. of Payiisley, co.
Staff.
Mary,
wdfe of
lliomas
Clifton
ofWestby,
in CO. Lane.
I
Marg.iret,
wife of
Edward
Tor bock
of Torbock,
in CO. Lane.
I
Emilia, wife
of William
Blundell of
Little
Crosby,
CO. Lane.
Whiifi-ed,
wife of
WiUiam
Banester
of Wem,
CO. Salop
Martha, wife of
Thurstan Anderton
of Lostuclv, after-
wards of Sir Henry
Bunbury of Stan-
ney, Kt.
I I I I I
1 Edv
ilward. S. P.
3 Alan. S. P.
4 Tliomas. S. P.
6 Richard. S. P.
6 Alexander. S. P.
"William Torres of Speke, -j-Jlarg.aret, daughter Henry Norres,
Esq., second son and heir, i of Thomas Salusbury, seventh son, a
died July 10, 1651 ; will of Llewenny.whowas Col. of Foot
dated July9, 1651, proved executed Sept. 21, in Flanders,
in London' Oct. 17, 1654. 15S6. had issue, 1651.
I
Bridget, wife of Sir Thoa.,.
Bold of Bold, Kt., marr.
at Childwall, Ap. 9, 1007,
aftenvards wife of Jol^m
Fleming of Rydal.
Margaret, wife of
Edward Fleetwood of
Penwortham. co. Lane,
man-ied at ChildwaU,
Aug, 27, 1609.
Elizabeth, wife of
Geo. "^Varburton
of Arley, co. Cest.
Anne, wife of
James, eldest son
of Roger Bradshaigh
of Haigh, CO. Lane.
Idward Norres of Speke, ^Frances, daughter of Sir
Esq., eldest son and Col.
in the King's service, bapt.
at St. JIary's, Chester,
1614,die(lMarchl6,16ii,
before his father.
Tho. Powel of Horsley and
Birkenhead, Bart., marr.
secondly John Edwards of
Stansty.
Richard Norres,
baptized at St.
Mary's, Chester,
IGlGjdiedyoung.
Thomas Norres of Speke,— Katharine, dau.
Esq., third son and heir, j of Sir Henry
aged 46 years at the Vis.
of 1664. Estate sequest. bv
Parlt. WiU proved 1686.
Garway, Kt.,
Alderman of
London.
"William,
fourth son,
living 1664,
buried at
Childwall.
I
Christopher,
fifth son,
U\Tngl664.
James,
diedunmar.
before 1664.
G 7
Margaret,
wife of John
Salusbury of
Bachegraig,
CO. Flint.
Edward Norres, Catherine. Thomas Norres of^
Bon and lieir ap- Frances, Speke, Esq., .aged
parent, died be- died young. 11 years, t^p. '23,
fore his fatlu
June 25, 16^3.
(H. MS. 19S7.)
Margaret,
wife of Col.
Robinson of
Gwersylt.
1664. M. P. for Liv-
erpool, Sheiiff of
Lane. 1696: died
in 1700, buried at
Childwall.
Magdalen,
daur. of Sir
"Willoughby
Aston of
Aston, CO.
Cest., Bart.,
marr. 1695
died 1709.
AVilliam NoiTes,
aged 6 years, 1664,
created a Bart.
T»ec. 3, 1698, M.P.
for Liverpool and
Ambassador to
Aurungzebe, died
inOct.^1702, S. P.
Sydney Beauclerk, fifth=
eon of Charles first Duke
of St. Albans, died Nov.
23, 1?44, buried at Gars-
ton.
■Mai-y, only daughter and
heiress, succeeded toSpeke
after the deaths of her
uncles without male issue,
man-ied Nov. 9, 1736, died
Nov. 20, 1766, buried at
Gaistou.
1 opham Bcauclere of
Speke. Esq., born 1739,
died :\[arch 11, 17^0,
buried at Garston.
Diana, daughter of Charles third
Duke of Marlborough, whose
marriage vnt\i Frederic Viscount
Bolingbroke had been dissolved,
S Geo. Ill, remarried Jtarcli 12,
1768.
I t I , .
John, Henry, aged one Edward Norris of=T=ATine, sole daugh.
aged year, 1604, Fel- Chester and Speke, I and heir, of Peter
2 years, low of Brasenose M.D. of B.N. Coll.
1664. Coll.,Oxf.,16S7, Oxford, 1695, died
0. S. P. B.D. 1697, died July 22, 1726, A^
unmarried, June ait. 62, buried at
2S, 1702. Garston; will
proved at Chester
1730.
dofCrewood,
CO. Cest., married
at St. Michael's,
Cbester, July 12,
l7^'o, died Jan. 3,
:w29, aged 53,
buried at Garston.
Jonathan
0. S. P. 1697-
Richard,
Mayor of
Liverpool
1700, M.P. in
1708, Sheriff
of Lane. 1718
0. S. P.
1 ^largaret,
died unm.
(Norris Pa-
per.s,p.xxi)
2 Anti, wife
of William
Squire of
LiveiTOol,
mercht.
I I.
3 Katiiarine,
w. of Rich.
Percival of
Royton, i6.
4 Elizabeth,
wife of John
Hopv:ood of
Hopwood.
0^,
Norris,
only son, bom in
1712, died young
and S. P,
Hugh Williams-
of Botel-
wyddan, . Esq.,
first husband,
S.P.
Susanna,
eldest
daughter
=;"Hugh Warburton
of Penrhyn, co.
Caernarvon, a
General in the
army, second
husband.
Ralph Leyeester of=Katherine, second
Toft, CO. Cest.
Esq.j died Dec. 20,
1770, aged 77,
buried at
Knatsford.
daughter and (
heiress, died Feb.
25, 1799, aged 89,
buried at
Knutsford.
Anno Susanna, wife of Richard Pennant, afterwards
Lord Penrhyn, 0. S. P. IS16.
Cliarles George Beauclerk, Esq., son and Itcir, by whom
the e.^tate of Speke was alit-natcd. ,
Ralph Leyccstcr of Toft. Esq.,
sou and heir, died 1S23.
[To face page 3(5.
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the piece, as its erector; aud if local investigation can detect anytliiiig
incorporated with the wainscot of the Hall adjoining that may be likely to
be a memorial of achievements in 1544, there remains nothing, in question
of time, to cause difficulty in referring such memorial to him also.
In 1563, Sir William lost his second wife. The settlements recited in
the Inquisitions and in pleadings shew that he w"as at this time occupied in
providing for the sous of his deceased brother at Park Hall in Llackrod.
About the same time liis domain was increased by the purchase of Gaiston
Manor from Laurence Ireland of Lydiate.^
The date of 1503 is also attached to his " Gexealogicvl DECL.vnATio.N,''
in which his recovery of Norres estates, through his mother, haunts him
everywhere. It is a singular composition, full of proofs of genealogicul
knowledge without power of arrangement, the legend of Mabell standing
out in bold rehef, as if really taken down in the words attributed to
Su' Roger Bradshaigh on the moors of Blackrod and in the Halls of Ilaigh
and Staudish, The same strong feelings appear in the settlement of Ids
estates, in 15 GO, extendmg successively over the Blackrod, West Derby
and Fyfield lines, and the same confusion in the entry made by him in the
Visitation of 1567, where most of the materials are true, but the dislocated
series of descents extended far beyond his power of verification.
On Jan. 30, 1568, Sir William Norres died, as proved by his Inquisition,
after a winter of recorded severity, and his remains were deposited at
Childwall on February 3 following. His Inquisition taken at Wigan,
Ap. 8, 10 Eliz. recites his gi-ants to his nephew Edward Norres, his long
entails, and the age of his surviving son and heir Edward.
The tenures of his estates were as follows: — Speke was held from
Molyneux as from his Lordship of Sefton, Garston ]Manor from tlie Queen,
and part of Ditton from the Hundred of West Derby, and Blacki-od from
the Hundred of Salford. Other lauds in Hyndley, Halewood, Allcrton
and Ditton from manerial proprietors.
XI. Edward Norres of Speke, or Espcke-Gai-ston, (as it was temporarily
called after Sir William's pm-chase) succeeded, as eldest son by s:.ir\ ivoi-
ship, at the age of twenty-eight, and was the person with whose child an
» Harl. MS. \[V.)7, p. 87, b.
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the family can-ing closes, aud with whom tlic pedigree in Dugdale's
Visitatiou of IGGt commences. He was born about 1540, and manied
young, and occurs only in scenes of peaceful life, as bearer of the principal
banner at the funeral of Edward Earl of Derby in 1574, as airan'^inrr
family munnnents about 1585, directing restorations of Speke in 150S,
joining in an early address of loyalty to James with his Lancashii-c com-
patriots in IGOo, and, to the last, occupied in improvements of his ancestral
mansion, as by the initials of himself and his Lady on the western porch
in 1C05. Dying in May, 1000, he reposed with his ancestors at Childwall.
The continuation of the family history has been told elsewhere by a
member of this Society, in an interesting Memoh:,' and the sequel is there-
fore hmitcd here to the separate genealogical tables.
Such are the details of the Norres descent as they have occurred to the
writer in Evidences and llecords. The object in an-angement of them h;is
been to prove the establishment of the Lancashire House in the time of
Tuchard I., to authenticate the collateral branches of Sutton and Speke,
and (with every thing short of precise legal proof) to shew the mutiuil
connexion of these hues. Tlie further endeavour has been to supply the
descent of the Lordsliip of Speke as well as that of its owners, to tk dates
that may illustrate points beyond the range of this Memoir, establish by
proof or official admission the lines of various collaterals, aud bring contro-
verted legends to the test of more regular evidence.
Documents requisite for such pm-poses are necessarily of a dry and severe
chai-acter, but their application will, as it is hoped, possess interest in the
eyes of the antiquaiy with reference to the departed ott-nei-s of a mansion
of antient importance and of celebrity even in decay. And this has been
avowed in no ordinaiy manner. ^Yhen Livei-pool and the Society there
centralized welcomed Arcluieology ^rith hospitality such as rarely, if ever,
welcomed Archaeology before, this Mansion was selected as one of the
most prominent objects of interest, and the attention of the visitants was
divided between the gi-ave of :Molvneux aud the Hall of his compatriot
and companion in Arms, Xoiires of Speke.
' Intioiliulioii to tlio " Norris rniK rs," cilitcd by Mr. Tlionias Hc\v\vooil f"r the
CholliLiui Society, wiih uiliUtioiib ul Uic mil of the '• Mouio Itcutid."
3Q
Illustratjoks of the Preceding Memoik.
I.
Autliorities for the Statements in the Memoir.
The details regarding the parent House, Le Noreis of Blackrod, are proved bv
Records, and tliose of the next branch, that of Sutton and Daresburj-, by the collections
of Sir P. Leycester, still extant in his MS. "Liber C," and abstracted in his Cheshire
Antiquities. ^Vith the last, so far as concerns Sutton, the Visitation of 1007 nearly
coincides.
The Connexion between the Speke and Suttox lines is cliiefly drawn from recorded
facts, contained in the Coucher Book of \^1ialley, and the ancient inscriptions at ChUdwall
Church, which correct the Yisitatiou of lOGT.
With respect to Norres of Speke, the Visitation is rejected above the Sir John Norros
who married Balderstou, and a descent substituted which accords with the Childwidl
Inscriptions, the Speke Charters, and Duchy Records. Below this point, die Visitation
of 15C7 (as corrected from Inquisitions) and the Visitation of 1004 continue the descent
to the time where information from family documents commences.
The Abstracts of Speke Charters above mentioned form a part of a Collection in
Harl. MS. 1997, No. 12, loosely entitled in the Cat;Uogue " A Declaration of the descent
of Sir William Norres, Knight, itc," but really consisting of the documents undermeu-
tioued: —
1. A transcript of this Declaration, composed in 1.503, and described in the Memoir,
exteniling from p. 83 b. to 80 b.
• '2. A Sketch of the Boswell Pennon taken by him in Scotland, p. 80 b.
3. An Abstract of Speke Charters, seemingly made by the copnst of the Declaration,
and under the direction of Mr. Edward Norres, as the basis of a Pedigree. It
is headed "found in serche among the Evidences at Speke of Mr. Norres." —
Pp. 80 b.—SO.
4. The Geneahiijical Inscriptions formerly part of the painted glass at Child u.dl
Church (p. 88 b.) have adilitions as to the kueeluig figures ui the hand of one
of the later P;uuUe Holmes. These are also adverted to in the "Declaration," as
existing at Cldldwidl in 1003.
5. A furtlier Series of Abstracts, seemingly sent to the Compiler, after liis visit to
Speke, pp. 89 — 89 b, headed " Extracts, from Mr. Norres of Speke."
As Uiis document formed part of tlie Holme Papers (as the Contents by tlie last
Ilobnc, prefixed to the vohimc, shew) it is termed " IIotME abstract" in the ,A[eiii>ir,
and perhaps the first Handle Holme may have assisted in making it, .Jtliougli lip a
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young. It is priiUeJ by Mr. NIcliols in liia Topograper (II. pp. 357 — 383) with notes,
partly coinmumcatcJ by tlie writer of this Memoir, as tliere inciitioncil.
A draft of the Pedigree founded on this exists in tlie Harl. JIS. 2075, much iujured.
It is assigned to the date below for these reasons.
The Declaration mentions Sir W. N. as deceased, and it and the Pcihgree (Ilarl. MS.
2075) both mention his son as of Speke, the latter particularly, as " Edivard Korres, Lord
of Espeake-Garsfon." This fixes a date between 15C3 and 1G06. Again, Edward's six
elder children only are named in the Pedigree, and the fire younger omitted. A minute
calculation as to the time of birth of Bridget Norres, the ijounrjesl daughter mimed in the
Pedigree, and married in IC07, fixes it between 15SC and 1590, and such, in all likeli-
hood, will be the date of the Collection and of the Petligree which was obdously dra^l^^l
from it.*
II.
Translations from Records, relative to the grant and possession of Blakerode, Inj Hugo
le Koreis, and its connexion ivith the Honor of Peverell, ichich fixes the date of
grant between 1189 and 1199. (P. 6.)
I. As to the Grant by John, Earl of Moreton.
"John by the grace of God, <S:c. Know ye, that we have given ajid granted and by
"this our Charter confirmed to Hugo le Ts'oreis, for his homage and service, a
" Carucate of land in Blakerode ^ritli all appurtenances to be held to huu and his lu-lrs
"from us and our heirs by the service of XX shillings per annum (direction for quiU-terly
"payments) for all services and customs, Whekefore We will and firmly command
" that tlie said Hugo Nobicus shall have find hold tlie same land and his heirs after
"Lim, by the service aforesaid, from us and our heirs well and in peace, ic. itc, as we
"granted to him and by our reasonable Charter confirmed, ichilst We were Enrl of
"Moreton. Witness G. Archbishop of York, H. of S:uum and R. of St. Amlrews,
" Bishops. Given by the hands of T. Archdeacon of Wells, and J. dc Gray, at Le Mans,
" the Xth day of October in tlie year of our Reign the First." — Rot. Cart. 1199, 1 Johan,
Mem. 5.
In the Eofuli de Oblatis, 1 Johan, 1199, Mem. 13, this occurs —
Lancaster. Hugh le Norrcys gives to the Lord King X Marks and 11 Caszures for
Confirmation of liis Charter.
In tlje Rotulus Canccllarii, 3 Johan, m. 7.
Lancaster. Hugh Norrensis accounts to the King for II Marks and II Chascurs
for the Confirmation of Ids Charter. II Marks are in the Trcasiuy, and V,
Marks for the Chascurs, and he still owes I Mark.
• For abstracts of llio inliro scries of tho Ni.rics Inciiiiiitioiis in the Ducby Oflicc the writer is
inJcbtcd to Uic kio'lness of WLllium Haidy, Escj., FS.A.
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II. As to Blackrod being a component jjnrt of Peverell fee whicli was frantol to Join
Earl of Moretou iii 1189.
The Testa de Nevill (80G) states "The snme William (Eurl of Fcmrs) h..ias
Blacrodc from the same Honor (that of Peverell) and it is worth X\'- j.-r
Annum.
The same Record (827) states " Hugh de Blakerode (called Hugh le Norr?y« iu
372) holds one Carucate of laud in Blakerode, which was of the Fee of
William Peverell, by payment of XX"- and he has the Eoyal Charter.
III.
Extracts from the "Declaration" of Sir William Korrcs, (Hurl. 3TS. 10')7j relative to
his representation of Norres of Blackrod. (Pp. 9, 29, f)7.)
In Harl. MS. 1997, p. SC, he mentions his moiety of Blackrod, "of nn untieut liiue
"past, my Ancestor's iidieritance — by the Grace of God come to me agiun."
And with respect to a reversionary interest in Haigh, another part of >rabeirs l-.uiJs,
h9 gives a citation from a speech made by Sir Eoger Bradshaigh of Haigh, in Ojc
presence of Ridph Standish, Uucle-in-law of Sir William Norres the narrator, by Lis
marrLage with EUen Harrington.
"This Man" (Sir W. N.) "is next heyre mascle to me and my two brotliers; and yf
"my brother William weare without yssue, as I and my brother Eauff are, this
" Gentleman ys my heyre mascle by uiteyle of Dame Mabell Bradshawe, who was hoire
"generall to this Manor of Haw, and Blaclcrode, and also of Westeley." p. ^4.
And in the Settlement of Haigh mentioned ibidem — " and in default of such yssue
"of hys (tliat is Bradshaighs, Mabell's husband's) body, lawfully begotten, then the
" sayd Manor of Haw and yts appurtenances to her cossen Alan Norres of Spthe, and
" hys heyres for ever." — Ibid. p. 85.
IV.
Descent of the Sutton and Sjycke lines of Korrcs, as given in the Visitation of 15G7. —
D. 3. Coll. Arm. (Pp. 10, 18, 20.)
The Eecord itself is in narrative form with much circumlocution, but the fcjllowing
abstract is made iu the words of tlie original. The objectionable parts are iu itjdics.
I. "Allan Norris of Sutton in Lane. Ar. who descended owt of the IIowsc of Sutf-u
in the saide Cotmtie as appearethe by a deede, S.D."
II. " Allai\ Norrj-s, sonne and heire to Allane."
III. " Sir llenrje Norrys Kuight, soinie and hcirc to Allane." ■ . .
IV. " jVllaue Norrys soimo imd heire to Sir Hcnrye."
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V. " Ilcnrye Norrys S'ouie and hcirv to AUanv."
VI. " TLomas Norrjs soimc ami Loire to Ilcurje."
VII." William Korn/s of Spcike in Com. Lane. Ar. Sonne and luire. Married
Johan, daughter to Sir John Mobjncux of Sifton in Com. Lane. Knijghtc, and
hij her hathv y<isuc Henryf, Sonne and htirc, by the wldchc Johan he had the
Lordfhip of Speakc."
VIII "Sir Henry e Norris Knyghte, sonne and hcire to William."
IX. " Sir John Norris Kuyghte son and heirc to Sir Henrye, married Katlieriue,
daughter to Robert BalJerstone iu Com. Lauc. Ar.
X. " Sir Henrj-e Norris Knighte, who lyved iu the IX^ yere of the reigue of Kiiigo
"Henrye tlie Cfte, sonne and heire to Sir John, married Alyce donghter and
"heire to Koger Knieys of Chester Gent, and of Jane his wife, doughter and
" sole Leixe to William Molyueus of Crosbyc m Com. Lane. Ar.
" And the saide Sir Henrye Norris had yssue,
'' William Norris sonne and heire. John seconde sonne. Sir William Norris of
" Yatendtn in Com. Bark, third sonne.
I. The descent of the Sutton line contains V. Henrye — who must be struck out — and
it ought to end >rith VI. Thomas, who died issi;eless and was succeeded by his sister
Clemeuce. See page 12.
In the Speke line, the VII <*• William must be struck out. The wife given to him her
was ^^'ife of Kobert Emeys, (DugdiUe's Vis. 1004). — See page 20. Sir Henry (VIII.)
was a collateral. IX. Sir John, and X. Sir Ilenrye, were veritable ancestors of Speke,
but descended in a mimner varjuig from this statement. See p. IS.
II. As to John and Sir William, alleged sons of Sir Henry and Alice, (Lady Norres,)
Grafton's MS. in the College of Arms has as follows : —
" habuerunt exitum Willielmum, et Johannem nunrupntum de B ray, VsiWiAmwm
"Norris de Yatinden in Com. Berk. Mil. et uotaudura est quod Bnro
"Norreis TE EicoTT, descensus est ab codcm Johaune et Jlillisccnsia uxore
" ejus filia et hercde Rjivenscroft de Allen End in Com. Northtou. Ar. ut postea
" apparet."
The inaccuracy of tliis statement with respect to " Sir William," and the difliculiies
with respect to John being, the ancestor of the Ilicot line are noted in page 20.
For an extract of tliis descent, and otlicr kind and liberal aid in ilic course of his
researches, the writer is indebted to Sir G. G. Young, Garter.
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Jiespcclhi'j the prolahh origin of the Arms of Nurres. (P. 10.)
Zl
The Arms used by NonnES, wliicL would be adopted about tliis
time, seem to be founded on those of Uieir feudal chief, Joiix de
Lasct, Baron of Haltou, on the principle of what are called "Anus
of Affection." A seal in Whitaker's "SMialley, (p. 01,) gives tlic
latter as " quarterly, a baton, over all a label of iive points.''
Henry de Lascy substituted a bend. — (Hist. Chesh. 1, p. 514.)
The DcTTOXs, who, like Norres, were feudatories of Halton, and
frequently Seneschals, used precisely the same Coat as Norrcs,
saving tlie fesse, as shewn on the seal of Sir Thomas Button, Lonl
of Button from lo'^lG to 1381.— (Hist. Chesh. 1, 478.)
The BESPEXSERS,who are also considered by the best authorities
a brancli from Button, used the same Coat ^vith the difference of a
bend, temp. H. 3, (Boll of Arms by Nicolas, 2, 3,) as if in acknow-
ledgement of conunon descent. — See Willemeut's nuto on Bakers
Xortliamptoushire (1, 108) in Blore's Monumental Itemains.
It is proper to add tliat Br. Gower has stated in his Sketch of
Cheshire materials (page 47) that Button and the other Ksquires
of Lord Audley added /;r/s to their Arms out of deference U> the
wish of Lord Audley in 1300, but this remark is appended to a
citation from Baniell (Kennet's Collection) without any authenti-
cation. If correct, it would not ilisprove prenous use by Buttou ;
but it is observed by Lysons, that neither Button, who was Sheriff
of Chesliire in 135C, the year of Poictiers, nor any other of the
traditional Esquires ai-e even named as such by Fruiasart, or by
any of the old English historians.
This conjecture as to tlie origin of these Amis has been ndoptetl
in the Topogi-apher II. 370, from the communication of the writer.
Abstract of the Charter of Henry Korreys of Duresbury, 1'202, in ichich he recvyniwi
AUin, Robert and John Ics Norreys as his bbotuebs. (Pp. H, 13.)
Henry le Norreys, Lord of Beresbury, grants to the Abbot and Convent of Stanlan
land Ijing between Deresbury and Acton Grange, covenanting for his Wife's conlirmatiou
in the County Court at Chester, if requisite, and hulemnifying the Monks from all
consequences of his Pleas against tlicui, and engaging to restore two Oxoii ond u Coll
given to bim by them, if he should die before completion of gnuU, luider pcrndty of XX
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shillings to the works of tlie F.iirl of Lincoln at Hdtoii Castle and of nniinaJvcrsiou
from the Ordinaries in case of fnuid or perjury. "IJiis Tistihus Jluiio Rvhiilo,
Johaiine hs Korrcys, J'mtrihus mcis," &:c. Dated at Stanlaw, on the Vigil of JSaint
Fabian and Sehastiiui, (January I'J,) 120,'. — Wialloy Coucher Book, p. -ill.
VII.
Grant of a mesne interest in one fourth of Speke hy Sir Pafric de Hasehcal to Aim
Norres irith Manjery his daiujhter in frank marriufje, and in his remuininy fourth to
his dauyhtcr Nicola. (Fp. 11, 14, IC, 17.)
I. " Yt appearethe by a deede sans date tliat Sh- ratrick Haselwall dyd graunte withe
"Margeryehis dougbter to Alan Norres the IIII"' part of tlie I-orship of i>])eke in
"libero moritagio. lliis Testibus, Domiuis Benedicto Garnett, Henrico de Lee MUiiibus,
"Willielmo de Moliners, Rogero fratre Suo, Bicardo de Holland.. Johanne de Garston,
" Alano le Norres, Johanne Ganiett, Adanio de Toxtethe, et aliis."
II. Yt appearethe by another deede sans date that Patrick Haselwall did geave by
" tliese woords "Dedi, concessi, et hac present! carta mea conflnnavi Nicholaoe tiliae
" meae pro horuagio et servitio suo /o/«m ^((c/t-m n!e«m totius Villae de Speak, scilicet
"^urtr/am pa/-/«?j totius predicte \-illc, etc: Hiis Testibus, Dominis Benedicto Garnett,
"Sec, exactly as before." — Holme Abstract, Harl. MS. 1997, p. 88.
These Charters have no date, but were later than Jime 20, 1252, when Benedict
Gerxet, who occurs as a Knight here, had not received Knighthood, and did homage on
succeeding to the Lancashire estates of his fatlier Sir Roger Gernet. — (Rot. Fui. 11. 133.)
The witnesses are observable.
Gemet was tenant of Speke in capito from the Honor of Lancaster.
William de Molincrs, from whom Haslewall the grantor held, was mesne Lord under
Gernet.
Alan le Norres was, almost doubtlessly, Alan the fatlier of the grantee.
The rest of the witnesses rcciu in later deeds after the settlement of Norres at Speke.
Nicola do Haslewal, seemingly unmarried when grantee, occurs as wife of John le
Norres, 12 and 17 Edw. I.
VI IL
Lancashire deeds witnessed hy Alan and Robert le Norreys, brothers, and Rolert and
John Ic Norreys, brothers, contemporary with the Cheshire deed witnessed by the
three as brothers of Henry. (Pp. 14, 10.)
Cliarler from Syraou son of Hinry de Gerstan of lands hi .\ykcbcrghc, Sec, to Stanlaw
Abbey. NVitncsscs, Su- lUuiy de Lcc tlieu Sheriff of Laucasliirc, Sir Robert ilvland,
4!S
Jolm Wiilfal, RiclinrJ Jo Holanil, J/((*» le X'>rrei/s, Rvhert his brother, Jolm dc Ger.sbiii,
Adam de Tocstath and otliers — Between 1470 and 1483. — Couclier Book of Wlmili'v,
p. 5!S4.
Quitclaim from Alice relict of Symon de Thorneton to Stanlaw Abbev. 'Wiliiossrs
Sir R. de Iloland, Alan Ic Xorres, John brother of the snnw, llicliard de lloland, Adam
de Tocstath, and otliers. Dated at Gerstau three weeks after Easter, (Ap. 27,) l\l'J>.
Ibid. p. 587,
IX.
Former Mtmorials in the Parish Church of ChildwuU. (Pp. 10, 23, 48.)
The following Inscriptions are given in Harl. MS. 1907, 88 b, bv the person whi>
abstracted the Spekc Charters between loSG and 1J90, (see p. 39.) "These fullowiii^' [
found in the Glasse Windows of Childwall Churche." They are also mentioned in Sir
W. 'Norres's "Declaration" of 15C3.
The first gives the descent from Alan Norrcs to Sir Henry and Alice Lady Xorres —
the second, containing the children of Henry's son William, was added by William and
his wife Elizabeth Harrington ; the tliird, containing those of his gi-andson Thomas,
was added by Thomas and his wife Letitia Norres. — The abbreviated words are given
here at lenfrth.
1. ''Orate pro animabus Alani Norres, Johaunis Norres, Alani Norres Annigeri,
" JohannisNorris Militis Heurici Norres Militis et Alicie usoris ejns et auinia-
"bus uxonim predictorum, quorum animabus propitietus Deus."
2. "Orate pro bono statu ac animabus WLUielmi Norres Armigeri, et Elizabcthe
"uxoris sue, et omnium propmquorum suonim (qui) hanc fenestram fieri feee-
"runt; ac specialiter pro Thoma Norres Armigero, Ricai'do, Roberto, Willit-lmo
"presbitcro, Johaune, Edmuudo, Henrico, Christophero, Elizabetha, Alice, Mar-
" gareta, Beatrice, Agnete, Katerina, quorum animabus propiiietur Deus."
3. " ObaxdIiM est devote pro statu et animabus Thome Norrvs Armigeri et Lcticie
"uxoris sue qui hanc fenestram lieri fecerunt, et pueronmi suorum videlicet,
"Willielmi, Thome, Jacobi, Christophori, Ricardi, Eduuindi, Elizabetlic,
" Johanne, Elizabethe, Beatricis et Alicie quorum animabus propicietur Deus.'"
One of the Handle Holmes has added, in a later hand, that these were accompamed with
the usual kneeling figures of the parents and children. The figure of William Norres
was in a wliite dress, with a " greate brode giirdeU." Those of Thomas and Letiiia in
blue.
The antimt Cnst of Norres was appended to thefirst of iliese inscriptions. — See p. 43.
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In the part wliicli corrcspomls willi the second inscrlptlou, thcVisltfttlon of 1&G7, gives
"Perci/vulle" (is the mother insicnd oi Elhdbelh, and in the ntimes of ]icr issue oiuits
Robert, Edmund, Henry, and Christopher, and adds Jane wife of William Worihiu"tou.
This ludy appears as EHzuheth in the Speke deeds, and in the next generation.
In tlic generation which corresponds with the third inscription, the painted glass and
a settlement recited in the Norrcs Inq. p.m. of 10 H. 8 agree as to names, except tlie
insertion of " James" in the transcript from the glass instead of " Edward," probably by
error of the transcriber.
Edmund is the only one of these younger sons tliat is noticed in the Visitation, w^hich
adds " Nicolas," who does not occur in the settlements or abstracts.
X.
Notice of the successive Discussions on the Tmdiliun connected with the Wainscot
at Speke. (P. 30.)
The matter of the legend given by Seacome (edit. 174.1, p. 47) as to the Wainscot
and the "Royal Library" was adopted by Enfield (Hist, of Liverpool, p. 115), and has
been repeated by Gough in his edition of Camden, and by a host of minor Topographers.
In 1800,3//-. ninchrUffe contributed an Article on Speke to the Arch jeologia (vol. xiv.
p. 20). Local tradition had transfiTred the legend, somewhat whimsically, to the family
representation; but he considered judiciously that Sir William must have directed the
carving of which he is tlie centre, that minor caniugs and not tlie wainscot must have
been the articles removed, and that the story probably regarded the plunder of Edinburgh
in 1543.
In 1S;28, Mr. Whatlon of ;^Lanchester presented a Memoir to the Scottish Antiquaries
extending far beyond tlie disputed points. With respect to them he conjectured
that Edward Norres (the youiiiji-H brother of tlie owner of Speke) might be the "Sir
Edward," and had Uamed that JrHliiim Norres, heir apparent of Sir WUlium, was the
person slain at Musselborough in 1547. The inscribed books had not then been
recovered, and a misapprehension as to the object of the date 1598, and the reference of
it to a re-ercction of the entire mansion, and the completion of the wainscots, and to a
consequent miscalculation of the ago of Edward's two children represented in the last
carved compartment, led him astray on subjects comiected therewith, as mentioned in
tilie text.
The conjectures of the Editor of the Scottish Archx-ologia were much nearer to reality.
Baines's Lancashire (vol. iii. p. 755) at last announced the recovery of the volumes
brought from Ethnburgh and Sir William's autograph inscription, and the asport^ition
thence was settled. Subsequently the subject has been renewed in Hall's Majjsions,
Nichols's Topographer II. -JIT, and tlie Prospectus to Nash's English Miuisions, vol. iv.
The clearest and best account of the Wainscot is given in the Archaeological Journal, V.
'j.'laCt 11.
%:^mdi
sieM^ejrjD. GTtJ^m^^^^ cytuncff..
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p. 312, in tlic ropovt of Mr. Pi.l'^c^oii's aJJrcss to the Arclincologiciil Associiiiioii, If^lO, iit
Speke, limiting ivny pmbability of Hol^Tt1o^l relics to some li^'iires resembling tlic carved
supporters of anticut roofs, which are still comiected with the wainscot, and ndtliug oilier
remarks, the result of minute local investigations.
XI.
Extract from the Dnift of the Speke Pedigree (Hurl. .1/^'. 2075), stating the jtrcscnce
of Willium Norris of West Derby, and of his brothers, at Flodden. (P. 30.)
Sir William Xorres Kt.,Lord of Espcke, = Catherine, dau'. of Sir Henry Roldo
married 13 Ed\v. IV. and had issue. I of Bukie, in Co. Lane. Kt.
I 1 i i i I
Henry Norres WillLam Norrcs second son,
Lord of E speke placed at D.urby,
in the Co. of married and had issue.
Lancastre, This William was at Flodden
died A"; 15",'4.. Field icilh his brothers, and
Iicilh Sir William Molyneux.
I
No Commissions of Array or Summonses for military service .are endorsed on the
Clanse Roll of 4 Hen. VIII. or 1513, according to the more antient practice, neither are
any such Commissions or Muster Rolls known to be in the Duchy Office.
James
Edward
John and Margaret
third
fourth
dyed sans issue.
sou.
sou.
xn.
Brasses in Childwall Church. (P. 33.)
The stone pavement which covered tlie Norres Chancel in Childwall Churcli was broken
up after the sale of Speke, during alterations therein made by the purchaser, and these
brasses, then torn from their previous position, were long conccided in a niche, but arc
now fixed up in the vestry. The figures appear to have been finislied with enamel, as
tliose at Winwick were, wliich related to Sir Piers Legh and Sir Thomas Gerard. This
has been destroyed, but indentations remain, which shew tlie outlines of the former
armorial decorations.
A Bexch-head handsomely carved, is now attached to the Vicar's pew, and has a
shield with the Anns of Norres and Harrington quarterly, the latter quartering Banastro
of Walton. It was probably put up by Edward Norres who died in 1C06, as it h;X3 llie
Taiiations used by him, namely, transposed quarters and two mullets on the fesse.
For impressions of these Br.>.sses and a driwing of the Caning the writer is indebted
to H. C. Pidgcon, Esq., and, for iafonnation on tlie same subject, to Uie Rev. A. Campbell,.
Vicar, and the Rev. Dr. Ilume.
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XIII.
Copy of Autograph Inscription in a volume uf Bartnlus (f,,L Ft'/if/. 1-100) J'lj Sir iniliam
Norres of Sjw/cf, similar stat'-mciits bciiir/ also insrribtd by him in thirteen other fulio
volumes, of which the icholc are preserved in the Alheiiautn Library at Liverpool.
From Facsimile in Baines's Lancashire, ii. 755. (Sre p. 3i.)
"Ml y*. Ediii Borow wasse wone yc \iij daye of May in auo xxxvi. H. viij et ano Did
" m° ccccc? xlilij"? nuil y* this boke called Bartolus sup' pmm degesti veteris was gottvu
"and broughte awaye by me Willm Norres of the Speike K. ye xi day of Mave foursaide>
"and now ye Boke of me ye foiirsaid Sr Willm, geven and by me left to remayne att
" Speke for an heirelowme. In wittenes whereof wreityn this, set my none haude and
"subscbed my name." "P. mc Willm Norres Milit."
XIV.
Extract from Holinshed (vol. iij. p. 878), mentioning Norris among the r^Jficcrs distin-
guished in the fatal charge on the Scottish Pikonen at Musselburgh. (P. 35.)
"The valiant Lord Greie, Edward Shelleie, Little Preston, Brampton and Jemingham,
" Balleuers, Eatclitfe the Lord Fitzwater's brother, Sir John Clere's son and heire, Rawleie
"a gentleman of right commendable prowesse. Digs of Kent, Ellerker a Pensioner,
"Segrave; of the Duke of Summersets band, Stixndley, Woodliotise, Conisbie, Horgill,
"Karris, Denis, Arthur and Atkinson, with other in the forerauke, not bemg able in this
"earnest assault, both to tend to then- fight afore and to the retire behind, the Scots
" again well considering herby how weake they remained, caught courage afresh, ran
" sharplie forward upon them, and without ante mereie slue the most p;irt of them that
"abode foremost iu prease, six more of Bidleners, and other than before are named, to
" the number of twenty six, and most part gentlemen."
These particulars arc derived by Holinshed from the account given by Paitcn in his
narrative of Somerset's Expedition, edit. 1708, p. Gl.
XV.
As to the Pennon of Boswcll of Balmuto taken hy Sir W. Xorres in Scotland. (P. 35.
The fact of the tjiking of this Pennon is shewn by a note attached to the drawing of it
in Harl. MS. 10!3~, p. SCi b. — '^ This Gicyddon ivas u-onne by Sir William Xorres in
Scotland;" over which the Lranscnbor has \mtteu, "This is a Coppie verbatim after
Sir William Xorres s own hand writing."
The banner was green, with the inscription " Vray Foy" in golden letters, and the .Arms
Crest and Cypher of David Boswell of Balmuto. The Arms consisted of the bearings of
Abemethy of Balmuto and Boswell of Bdmuto quarti'rly, the intermediate Coat of Glen
of Balmuto (through whom the property descendfd) being omitted. Precedence was
irregularly given to Abemethy, as the older possessor. These points, with r«.ferenccs to
Wood's Douglas's Bai-onage and Nisbut, are stated by Mr. Nicliols iu an able note iji the
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Topogniplier, II. p. 373, ■where a wood-cut of the banner is given fioni the authority
here cited.
David and Robert Boswell, giandsous of Sir Alexander Boswell who fell at Flodden,
and sons of David Boswell of Balmuto, whose initials and amis, thus peculinrlv arran"cd,
identify the Pennou, fought at Musselborough or Pinkie (as it is variously called), and
fell tliere. The fate and the presence of these young ■warriors there, the precise identiQ-
cation of tlieir Pennon, the fall of the younger Norres tliere, and the autograph statement
by Lis father as to the capture in Scotland, form a circumstantial chain of evidence as to
the trophy being gained at Musselburgh or on tlie ground traversed by the Scots in their
flight thence to Edinburgh.
XVI.
Inscription attached to the Carved Mantlepiece in the Great Parlour at Spekc,
This Inscription has been given in the Archaeologla (vol. xiv. p. 20) and also in the
Archaeologia Scotica (vol. iv. p. C), in each of which elevations of tlie niantlepiece will
be found. The carved work itself has been noticed in p. 3(3, and the inscriptions are
added here, as genealogical memorials, from Mr. Hinchcliffe's transcript in 1800.
I, In the left compartment over the figures of Henry and Clemence Norres, and their
two sons and three daughters below, tliis remained.
-who married Clemens, one of the X daughters and heirs of Sir James
Harrington, who had, by her, William Norris, Thomas, .\nne, Clemens, and Jane Norris.
II. In tlie middle compartment over the figures of Sir William Non-is, and his two
wives, the son and six daughters under the first, ami the six sons and six daughters
under the second wife, this remained.
had two wives, Elen daughter of Roland Buckelye Esquire, and after
married Anne, one of the daughters and heirs of David :Middleton, Alderman of the City
of Chester, and by these t'n'o he had nineteen chilch-en.
III. In the compartment on the right, over Edward and Margaret Norris, their eldest
son and eldest daughter, as follows : —
This bringeth us to Edward, the third son and heyer of the latter, who after tlie deaih
of William and .... his two elder brethren, married Margaret daughter of Robert
Small woode. Esquire.
The Peiligree subjoined will exhibit these descents in tabulated form, but it may be
better to add that Clemence and Jane, here named as daughters of Henry Norres, and
one of the children of Sir William by his second wife (of which three none are nientionc<I
D
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in the Pedigrees) probably ilied younjr. The Cnrviiifj, as stated in tlie text, inav be
supposed to h;ive been executed about lOCO, as tbe two children of Edward liere repre-
sented, and four otliers, were living in 1007, three more being boni subsequenilv.
It has been tb'euied unnecessary to add Clemenee and June, on the authoritv of this
Inscription, to tlie Teiligree (_No. Ill), but the unnamed -to;/, represented in the carving,
is added lliereiii to those other younger sous of Sir Williiun Norres that are inserted in
the Visitation of iOCT, but are omitted in the entail niade.bv him in 1500.
Before taking leave of Siu William Norres it may be proper to advert to the chari^es
of disaflection to the Protestant Establishment of Elizabeth recorded by Strype, (Annds, 1,
part 2, 8vo, edit. 1824, p. 2o0,) as brought forward by Sir Edward Fitton and Sir Edmund
Trafford against him and others, seemingly during Bishop Dowidi;un's Visitation in the
autumn of IOCS. If, as it seems, Strype intended tliis and is correct, the chiir>'es must
have been retrospective, as the Inquisition of April 8, 10 Eliz., luid the Cliildwall regis-
ters prove tliat Sir WilUain luid then rested in tlie grave of Ids lathers.
XVII.
Notices of the purl tnhen by the Spc/:e famili/ mid other Lriinushire hraiichiS of that
House in the War between King Chttrlcs and his Parliament.
In the Memoir read before the Historic Society the narrative is closed ^\-ith Edward
Norres who died in 1000, and the continuation of tlie family History is referred to the
tabulated Pedigrees and to the publications of Mr. Heywood, but as the latter do not
particularize the coimexion of the Norres family with the local movements of the Civil
War, such circumstances as have been recovered are here added.
The Diary of the Siege of Lathom mentions "Colonel Norris" as Governor of War-
rington, and as having surrendered, " after five dayes siedge," on or about May 27, 1043,
■when tlie Queen professed herself unable to assist Lord Derby, in consequence of Goring's
disasters.* Whether this Governor was William Norres of Speke, his son and heir
apparent Colonel Edward Norres, his second son and successor Thomas, his brother
Colonel Henry Norres, (with any of whom dates would accord,) or any other of tlie
name, has not appeared.
William Norres op Speke, owner of it at this time, died in lC51,t and has not
occurred as committing himself in the struggle. His Will, dated July 9, ICOl, and
proved at Westminster, Oct. 17, 1C;')4, by his yoimger son William, sole Executor, names
his brother Henry witli his wife and children, and his own four survivhig sons,
• Lancaxbire Civil War Tracts, p. ICO. + Diigdole Vi-iitat 1G64.
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Thomas, William, Christopher ami James. He directs burial with his nncf st,>rs in his
Choiirel on the south side of Childwiill Church, and devises to his eldest sou Thonms
his interest iu X'DOO (part payment of ii'i^OO) advanced on lands purchased iii 12 Car. 1
namely, tlie Outlauds iu JIalc, Ilalewood, Ditton and Tf'ooltun.
CoLOXEL Edward Nokres,* eldest sou of William, had died before his father in
1644, Ids own and only son having died previously. Iu the year followiji^ tin' death of
his father, on Oct. 28, 10")2, diuiug the debate of the Coiunions respectiu" t'ori'titiu-es for
Treason, it was resolved that the name of Edward "N'orres, Gentleman, oi Hide, deceased
be put into this Bill,+ but the deceased is not otherwise identified.
Thomas iSORRES of Speke, second sou and heir of William, is noticed more pre-
cisely. He was fined £008, J and his estate was sequestered. On Nov. 10, lC'f2, a
Certificate in his favour was sent from Goldsmiths' Hidl, the seat of the Committee of
Sequestration, and it was ordered by the House diat, if his fine and interest thereon were
paid, the Sequestration Uiereou slioiUd be discharged. |';
Egbert Is'orres of Kirkby, of whom nothing more lias occurred, (excepting that
the WLU of one of that name aud place was proved at Chester iu 1C74,) compounded, as
a delinquent, for a fine of J6107 lis. 8d.§
The names of Philip Norbzs of Formby and of Willloi Norres of Adlixcton
appear among the delmquent owners of estates which were sequestrated by the Parliament,
(Journals, vii. 201,) but are not mentioned in the printed Catalogue of the Royalists who
compomided.
Alexander Norres of Boltox aud Johx Norres of Boltox, (noticed in p. '2'i,)
compounded in mmor sums, the fonner for living in Royalist quarters, the latter lor
inviting Ids neighbours to join the Royal Standiud at Nottingham •;■
Another Ai.exaxdeb Norres of the same branch engaged ou tlie side of the Parlia-
ment, and was appointed Treasurer of die Lancashire Committee of Lieutenancy by
Ordinance of Aug. ID, 104o. He was eldest sou and heir of Christopher Norres of Tontre,
and has been noticed iu the preceding Memoii-.** Dying ou May 11, I'iT2, he was
interred in the Church-yard of Bolton, where his brief memorial, existing, although in n
mutilati'd state, in 1848, mentioned his parents, and Ids own resi "in the ijnac vj his
mother Alice Korres''^^
• So described in the peJ. of Col. IJobinson of Gnersylt, his son-hi-Iaw. .Sop p. SO.
•♦ Journals of llie Commons. X List of Comrositions. Il Journals of tl;c C>mmoni
} List of Compositions. 1^ Journals of tho Commons. •• See p. 2o.
■t+ A Biniilar expression occurs on the adjoining gravestone of liis kinsmnn li'up'i'-, fattier of
Christophir Norres of Bolton, ami graniiscu of Itaplie nnticcd in p. S.j. " Kaplie Norres dicJ
" Feb. iho 2J, 1674, and hero rcsteth in tbo Grave of his priudfilhor liapbe Norrc"
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The House of Nokkes of Orkorp, closely coiiuei'tt-il, by iuteriniirri»f»e9, with Speke
and with the Koynlist family of Gerard, was rci)rP3entecl nt the outbreiik of tlif Civil W'lir,
by the daughters nnd coheirs of Elizabeth Lady Tyldesley, wife of Sir Thomas Tyldesley
of Gray's Inn, and daughter and lieir of Thomas Norrcs of Orford.* Auno Tyl(li>li'y,+ the
younger of these cohfirs and widow of Thomas Southworth of Samlesbury, iifii-rwards
married Adam Mort of Preston, a most zealous Royalist, Mayor of that tow n nt the
time of its redaction by the Manchester forces, nccortling to most but not uU nuihoritiea.
His intention of ilring the town in preference to siurender, and commcnchig with his
own mansion, is stated in coutempor.u-y Tracts, but the execulio!) was prevented by
his fiill at push of pike, together with liis sou, iu desperate resistance to the storming
party of Parliamentarians. J
• See Memoir, p. 26.
+ The dedaction of the later Southwortlis from this lady inWiiitaker'a Whalley(p. 430) is incor-
rect. All Ler chil.lren by the first marriage died issueless before 16S5, as by Ploailin^'s iu the
Bucby Office.
t Lancashire Civil War Tracts, p. 74.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE
Inti'oductoiy Piemarks 5
I. 1. Settlement of Le Noreis in Blacla-od in the time of Richard I... G
2. Accomit of the Blackrod line of Le Noreis 7
3. Le Noreis or Norrejs of Sutton and Daresbury, fi'om whom the
Speke line is deduced 9
4. Examination of the Evidences illustrating the connexion of the
Sutton and Speke lines of Norres 13
5. Non-es or le Noreis of Speke, previous to their connexion vciih
Emejs ofcijefter and Speke 15
II. 1. Descent of the Manor of Speke from Geruet to Norres, tln-ough
Moljneux of Sefton and Emejs 19
2. Deduction of representation in blood as derived from Geniet
by Norres, through Molyneux of Crosby and Erneys 21
m. Collateral male lines of Speke 23
1. Noires of Park Hall in Blackrod t7..
2. of West Derby (second Hue) 24
3. of Fyfield, Berks ib.
^. of West Derby (third line) t7-.
5 of Middleforth and Davyhulme t7'.
C. ofBolton ib.
'^- alias Ilobinson, Bishop of Bangor 2-3
8- of Orford, and the lines of Noitcs stated to have adopted
the local names of llalsned, Hardicshaw, Eltonhcad, Sec. .. 20
0. Noreys, Earl of Berkshire <f>.
54
PAOB
IV. Continuation of the Spt'ke line from the ulliaiice with JCnieys to
the determination of the direct u\d\c hne Q7
The descents previous to Uenry Norres tlie husband of Clemence
Harrington j7y.
Henry Xorrcs of Spelve and Blackrod, and examination of the
legend ^vhich confounded him with an imagiuaiy Sir Edward
NoiTes .-, o g
Sernces of Lancashire and Clie>hire Knights and Gentry at
Flodden 31
Brasses of Henry and Clemence Norres at Childwall Church 33
Biograpliical Xotico of Sir "WilUam Norres, and notice uf his
connexion mth the transactions at Edinhurgh and Mussel-
burgh, and the death of his son at the latter 34
Notice of Ed wai'd Norres son of Sir William 38
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE TEFXEDING MEMOIR.
I. Authorities for the sevend Statements 39
II. Ilecords relative to the possession of Blackrod by Hugh le Norres 40
III. Extracts from the " Dechu'ation" of Sir William Norres relative
to his representation of the Blackrod line of Le Noreis 41
IV. Descent of Le Noreis, as given in the Visitation of 1507 ih
V, Probable origin of the Arms of NoiTes 4J
VI. Charter of Heniy le Noreis, recognizing his brother's, who are
considered identical Nvith the founders of the Spekc line ib.
VII. Documents relative to the grant of the Haselwal interest in
Speke to the Noires family 44
VIII. Lanaxshire deeds witnessed by Alan, Robert and John le Norei,
coasidered to be the brothers of Henry le Noreis abo'e-
mentioned H>.
IX. Former Memorials of Norres at Childwall 45
X. Notice of Di>cussions on the Wainscot at Speke 40
XI. Extract from the Speke Pedigree proving the presence f the
several brothers of the Speke family at Fluddcn 47
65
FlOl!
XII. Brasses in CliilJwall Church 47
XIII. Autograph Inscription by Sir William Xorros in the Books
brought from Eilinburgh as trophies 48
XIV. Extract I'rom Ilolinshod relative to the death of William Xorres
in the battle of Musselburgh ih.
XV. Notice of tlie Banner of Boswell taken bj[ Sir WilUam Noitcs
at Musselburgh ib.
XVI. Inscription attached to the Carved jSIantlepiece in the Great
Parlour at Speke 49
XVII. Notices of the part taken by Noires of Speke and other Lanca-
shire Branches of that House in the War between Iving
Chai'les I. and the Parliament 50
DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE PLATES AND SEP.\EATE
PEDIGREES.
I. Brasses of Henry and Clemence Noxtcs atChildwall Church 33
II. Pennon of Boswell of Balmuto taken by Sir William Norres in
Scotland 35
III. Benchend with annorial carvings at Childwall Church -17
I. Pedigree of the Bl.-vckrod and SurroN lines of Le Noreis B
II. of the Speke line to the marriage with the heiress of
Erneys of Chester and Speke 1-^
III. of the same line to the issue of Sir William Noitcs
livmg m l5o/
IV. of the same line to its termination hi heirs general ... 30
FINIS.
MISCELLAN K\ PA 1. AT I N A,
PAllT II.
GENEALOGICAL MEMOIUS
ILLl-STRATITE OF THE
CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE FA:\rTLTKS
ALDFORD, ARDERXE, BAXASTRE, BRKD]U"HY. DON
FITZ-ROGER, GERXET, LATHOM, MOXTALT,
ORRERY, STAXLEY, and STOKEl^ORT,
COMPILED FROM ORIOIXAL Al TIIOKITIKS.
GEORGE ORMEROD, D.C.L., E.R.S., F.S.A.
OF TYI-nrSLEY AND SEDCl"RY PARK.
NOT I'UBUSIIF.I).
M.l>CfC.I.I.
59
LATIIOM OF LATHOM, IN LANCASIIIFJ'
LATIIOM OF ASTBURY, IN CHESHIRE.
A Memoiu on the Stanley Legend, the roiuaiitic fiction of the
Eagle and the Foundling Sir Oskatel, and also on the curly con-
nexions of the Lathom Family, was compiled from records by the
writer of this a few years ago.^ The last-mentioned inquiry rchted
to the estates o])tained by the founder of Bui-soough Abbey. Robt rt
Fitz-Henry de Lathom, by marriage with the heiress of Orme Fit/.-
Ailward or de Eston, who was deduced from the Saxon Lords of
Halton, the Gresleis, 13arons of Manchester, and the Lanca^hire
Botelers of Araoundenicss whose arms were the basis of those of
Lathom.^ In the other part, complete evidence was adduced fnjin a
series of records, as to the legitimate descent of the traditional
foundling, the Thomas de Latjio.m, to whom his sister IsADKi.r-,\,
afterwards wife of Sin John Stanley, ultimately succeeded.
Further investigations have enabled the writer to trace from its
Saxon source this fixmily, which, for six centuries, has presided, witli
little interruption, over the civil government of Lancashire, atid
J Printed in Nichols's Collcctunea, vol. vii.
* The arms of Botelcr of Amouiiderness and Lathom differ only in the
addition of bcsants to the chief by Lathom, as shewn in p. C2, following',
•which ."speaks as plainly as Heraldry can speak. The illustrative points
connected with lands arise chiefly from the traditional >iesceut of Onu>-
kirk from Orme the .'ion of Ilerveus to Robert de L;ithum, for which sec
Baines's Lancobhirc iv, 235, the " Stanley Legend", and p. V>2 following:.
F.
GO LATIIOM OF I-ATIIOM.
wliich, after the succession of the House of Stanley to its represen-
tation, long exercised a corresponding inlluence over Cheshire.
The deduction of the House of L.vruoM in tlie male line has
generally commenced with Hionky, father of Robert Fitz-Henry de
Lathom, tlie founder of lUirscough Priory, between IISO and 1100 ;
but a document preserved in the Testa de Nevill carries his prede-
cessors back to a time nearly coeval with the Conquest. It is the
Inquisition respecting alienations taken by seventeen Lancashire
Knights in the time of King Jolni, and referred to 1:^12.'
This Inquisition describes Richard Fitz-Robert as tenant " de
Autiquitate" in thanage, from the king, of iij Carucates, byjxiyment
of xx', of which SiwAED FiTz-DuNNiNG is stated to have alienated
one to Cospatric, and Rodkut, fiither of this Richard, to have given
another in alms to the Religious House founded by him at IJurs-
cough. The measure, tenure in thanage, render and identified grant
in alms, all fix these lands as Lathom ; and tlie documents connected
with Flixtou, mentioned below, confirm the links of connexion be-
tween Siward and Robert de Lathom the founder.*
I. DuxNiXG, father of Siward, the earliest proprietor named in tliis
Inquisition, would be coeval with Domesday. It is not quite certain
whether the Lalune of that Survey, situated between Ribble and
Mersey in Derby Hundred,' relates to Lathom (Ladhun), nor whetlfer
Dunning was a continued possessor or a Norman grantee, but his
name, which was the name also of the Lord of Kingsleyin Cheshire,
a Saxon suffered to continue, marks his race.
II. SiWAKD FiTZ-DuNMXG, who occurs next in the series of pro-
prietors holding " de autiquitate", is, of course, fixed as son of the
preceding by his patronymic.
III. Henry Fitz-Siwakd also named in this Inquisition of 1212,
was grantee of Flixton from Albert de Gredle the elder, who was
Lord of I\Ianchester feC* It is clear that Robert Fitz-Heniy suc-
ceeded to Flixton, for he gave that Church to Burscough ; and the
1 By Mr. RadclyfFe, iu the Radclyffe Pedigree in Whitakcr's Whallcy.
2 Inquisition contained in Testa de Nevill, 812, and the Foundation
Charter of Burscough Priory. Slon. Ang. \i, 458.
3 Latuxk (i, 2G9 b) had a Borcwic attached, aud, in the list of Tctrcd's
lands, immediately precedes Ilirletun and jVerretun, the last of which
belonged to Robert de Lathom. Sec Burscough Charter.
* "Idem Albcrtus (de Gredle senior) dedit Henrico fd' Siward unam
Carucatam terrc in Fli:iton pro x sol. Ilcredes tcnent illara terram. Testa
de Nevill (823).
LATIIOM OF LATriOM. 61
Inquisition cited states the Flixton property to have passed hfre-
ditarili/ to its time, which was subsequent to the doatli of this Founder.
It also, as above stated, fixes the Founder's son, Piiehard Fitz-Uobcrt,
as heir of Siward Fitz-Dunning before-mentioned, and closes up tlio
entire descent of Idood and inheritance from Dunning to this Richard
as necessarily lineal, although it is possible, though not probable,
that there might be two successive Siwards.
IV. riOBEKT Fitz-Hexry, Lord of Lathom, SO describes him-
self hi his Foundation Charter of Burscough Priory, between 11 S9
and 1199, endowing it witii lands in Burscough, Merton, Lathom,
St. Leonard's in Knouseley, and the churches of Ormskirk, Huyton,
and Flixton,' for the souls of Henry II, John then Earl of Mortune,
himself, his wife, parents, ancestors and successors. The Cliarter
is witnessed by Kichard Fitz-Heniy, considered to have been his
brother, and ancestor of the Torbocks, and by Robert Fitz-Richard
and Ricliard his brother, seemingly the Founder's grandsons. Tlie
Inquisition of 13 Job.' names Richard Fitz-Robert as grantee from
Albert de Gredle of what is written (seemingly corniptly) iVJla/fshar,^
then vested in his heirs, and also mentions his grant of lands to the
Nuns at Chester, who had land in Lathom at the dissolution. His
death was in or before 1201. The name of the wife of Robert
Fitz-Henry docs not appear, but it is demonstrable from the tenor of
Records that she was daughter and heiress, or co-heiress of Okme
FiTZ-AiLWARD,'' who is named in the Inquisition above-mentioned
(in the paragraph preceding the notice of Henry Fitz-Siwards grant
in Flixton) as having received Estone (afterwards Ormsstone and
Urmston) in marriage with Emma daughter of Albert de Gredle the
elder, and as having previously and similarly received from him
Dalton. Parbold, and Wrightingtou, which are expressly sjiocilicd
in the Testa de Nevill to be held by Robert Fitz-Henry 's descendant
Buhcrt lie Lathom in one passage, and in another by the heir "/
Onue above-mentioned, thus fixing Robert de Lathom as that heir."
1 Mon. Ang. vi, 458. * Testa de Nevill (608).
3 Perhaps A d^lasar', held by the Lathoras from GreJle's heirs.
* The Visitation of 1613 and the old genealogists absurdly state this
Oriuc Pitz-Ailward (whose son-in-law diod w J-'U Jiiiting issue then of
age) to have been father of Sir Thomfis Asntouyi.^\ ardcn'of the Lnujue
Ports in 1381, and trace Ashtou of Ashton from him, confounding the two
EMoiies in I\Iauehc»tcr Barony. See note to " Stanley Legend"', p. 12.
5 llercJes Orui tcucut (b3t)) Kubertua de Lathom tenet {ibid. 71)1).
62
LATHOM OF I.ATIIOM.
.00 O,
It further appears almost certain that tlie said
yw Ormc inherited Ormskirk (afterwards possessed by
Eobert Fitz-Henry) from Ormus :^.raguus, whose wife,
Aliz, was sister of Herveus Walter, the ancestor of
BoTELEn of Amounderness,^ and it is well luiown
that the Lathoms had adopted, in the middle of the
thirteenth century. Arms corresponding with those of
Botekr, varied only by an addition in chief. Burs-
cough Pktory, in memory of its founder, and the
Torbocks, spnnig from his brother, also assumed the
same, with ditfcrent distinctions.
Y. PacnARD FiTz-RoRERT DE Lathom, SOU and lieir of Kobert
Fitz-Henry, was a witness to the foundation charter of Lythom
Priory (1189-99), and had succeeded to his father in 1301, when he
gave ten marks and two palfreys to the king, as Lord of West
Derby, for his relief.'^ He was one of the knights who held the
great Inquisition for Lancashire in I^IQ, cited above, and died in or
shortly before 1221, leaving issue Pachard, and Robert. His widow
Alice,' is mentioned in the Testa de Neville,^ as having laud worth
xxs., and as having been disposed of in marriage by the king.
VI. 1 . Pilchard Fitz-Richard, son and heir, had writ to the sheriff of
Lancashire, 27 January, 1221, 5 Hen. iij, stating that he had fined
in C^-, as son of Richard Fitz-Robert, for relief of iij carucates of land
in Ladhun', which he ought to hold hereditarily in capite from the
king, and had done homage and fealty, and directing giving of seisin.'
VI. 2. Sir Robert do Lathom, brother and heir of Richard, was
founder of that great interest in Lancasliire, which the successoi-s
of his family, the house of Stanley, have continued to the present
day. He succeeded about or before 1230, which may be fixed as
the probable date of his charter of confirmation to Stanlaw Abbey
of lands once belonging to his grandfather Robert Fitz-Henry.^
About the same time he had assumed tlie .uims afterwards continued
by his house, "a chief indcnied, charged with three besants". They
appear in a triangular shield, circumscribed " sig:rober(ti) do(mini
1 « Theobaldus Walter tenet, etc., et iiulc llcrveus pat' Ilervei Walter
dedit OrnilV (Orino) M:iiri' cum filia sua Aliz iu .Alaritag' iiij Cavuc' terre,
etc. etc.'"— Ttda de lyevill, p. 403.
2 Mou. Ang. iv, 2S2, and Rot. de Oblatis, etc., p. IIG.
3 p 372 (GOa). * Excerpta e Rot. Fiuium, i, p. CO.
5 Coucher Rook of Whullcy, pp. 5."A>, 551.
LATIIOM OF ],ATI1()M. 63
DE LA)TnvM", and attached to tlie manumission of Roger Fitz-Gun-
hilde, witnessed by William Prior of Burscogh, Simon do Ilalsale,
Robert Walensis, Walter de Scarisbric, and Adam de .Ijikerbtat.'
In 1250, lie had grant of the custody of the IIoxou and Casti.k
OF Lancastek, an office of dignity almost commensurate with that
of an Earl Palatine, and had gi-ant again of the custody of the
Honor in 1254.^ He also occurs as Sheriff of Lancashire in IQoLi,
from 1248 to 125G, and again in 1203, in Militaiy Summonses
against Llewellyn, 1277; again in 1282, twice; and in Summons to
the Earl of Coniwall's Military Council at Gloucester in 1287.^
VII. Sir Robert de Lathom, son and heir of this knight by his wife
Amicia, daughter and co-heir of Robert de Alfretou, of Alfrt ton. Nor.
manton and Marnham, Avas in possession in 1291,^ as by summons
of that date against the Scots, ^yas summoned to meet the peers in
the Great Council at W^estminster, 17 Edward H, 1324, and was
deceased in 18 Edwai'd II, when his Inquisition post mortem was
taken. It names his eldest son Thomas, who was
issue by Catherine, daughter and heir of Thomas de v/0\^\/V
KxousELEGH, his wife, who suryiyed him. Hugh and
Philip de Lathom, of Astbury, his younger sons, are
identified by the former painted windows of Astbury
Church, and will be reverted to hereafter.^
* From an abstract of the deed and impression of the seal, communi-
cated by "William Langton, Esq., and given in p. 59.
2 Rot, Original. ALbr. i, pp. 11. 13.
3 The Lancashire Pedigrees give to this Sir Robert a second son,
Thomas, grantee of JMosltorough, and of lands in Raynforth, from his
brother Sir Richard of Lathom in 1292, 20 Edward I, from whom the
Lathoms formerly of Moshorough.
* The Lathom estates acquired before the accession of this third Sir
Robert de Lathom, will be found in the Testa do Nevill, as follows : —
In Lancashire, i. The three Carucates of Lathom, held in thanagc
from the King, " dc antiquitate" (812).
II. Estates held from Grcdle, Baron of Manchester, in Childwall, Par-
bold, and ^Yrightington (791). In Flixton, Estone, Aspull, Turton, and
Brochal (822, 823). In IMilafeshar 1 (823). For the last, see p. Gl.
III. Estates held from the Earl of Lincoln in Widues Fee, Kuowsley,
Iluyton, and Torbock (79(5).
^ The Inquisition after the death of Sir Robert dc Lathom, mentioned
above, is printed in the notes to the Whalley Coiichcr Book (p. 'i')-2), and
goes into tuiautc details relative to the manors of Lathom and Knowalcy,
64 LATHOM OF LATIIOM.
viil. TnoMAS DE IjAtiiom, sou and hoir of this Sir Robert, did
homage in 18 Edward II, to the king as Lord of West Derby, on liis
succession to Lathoni, and occurs in numerous rolls of summons
and royal charters from that period to 1370, when he died, leaving
issue, Thomas, son and heir, by liis wife Eleanor, daughter of Sir
John de Ferrers, as by Inquisition p. m. after mentioned. His arms
are given in a roll of arms, 1337-50:^ " Or, on a chief indented,
azure, tliree besauts".-
IX. SiE TnoMAS Lathom of Lathom, Knight, son and heir (con-
founded in Vincent's pedigree with the Sir Oskell of Bishop Stan-
ley's version of the legend),^ made settlement of Lathom, 49 Edward
III (enrolled in 51 Edward III), and died 0 Tdchard IT, 1382.
From the Inquisition of 1383, cited afterwards, it appears that he
married Isabel, daughter of PiOger de Pilkington ; and from a
later Inquisition of 1385 (March G, 8 Pi. II), it appears that he
married, secondly, Joanna or Jane, who is identified in the Records
of the Herald's College as Jane, daughter of Hugh Yenables of
KiNDERTON.'' The same Inquisition states that Sir Thomas was
imbecile for three months before his death, on which event his
widow Jane, then enceinte, sent his body for burial at Burscough
Priory, without j)ricst or other attendance, and married her previous
paramour, Roger Fazackcrley, in conjunction with whom she
the former of which was held Ijy Sir Ilobert de Lathom, jointly with
Catherine Lady Lathom his wife. Thomas de Lathom, their son and
heir, was aged twenty-four years at the time of the Inquisition, and of
course was boru in or before loOO. The Render for Lathom xs*, as in 1212,
1 Roll of Arms jaiblished l>y Sir Harris Kicolas.
* This Thomas seems to be the person intended by Sir Peter Leycester
in mentioning daughter of llamon de Massy, sixth and last Baron
of Dunham j\Iassy, who juan-itd Thomas Lathom, and had issue four
daughters. — Hist. Chesh. i, 319.
3 The tradition as given by Bishop Stanley, in his " Ilistoricall poem
touching y* Family of Stanley", according with Vincent's version, and
recently published in 3Ir. Ilalliwell's Palatine Anthology, states as fol-
lows, lie describes the .Lord of Lathom, issueless and aged "fewer
score", as adopting an infant " swaddled and clad in a mantle of redd",
which an eagle brings unhurt to her nest in Terlestowe wood, and which
he names Oskell, and makes heir of Lathom, where he becomes the father
of Isabel Stanley, stolen away in the first instance by her knight, and
afterwards forgiven by Sir 0.-.keIl.
^ In Dodsworths MSS. iu the Bodleian Lil)rary,vol.L\xxvii,fo.]Oaud 11.
I,ATiro.\r OF LATIIOM. Go
claimed dower on "Wrightington, wliich was put to award in 7
Ricliard 11.^
The issue of Sir Thomas Avere Thomas, son and heu-, Edward.
S. P. (filius Thome de Lathom Militis Junior. June 1377. hwwo
deeds) and Isabel, afterwards Lady Stanley, issue by the marriai^c
\\\i\\ Jane Venables in the Pedigrees of the Herald's College, but
more probably sprung from that AA-ith Isabel de Pilkington.-
The beautifid seal of this knight, representing an eagle displayed,
charged on the breast with his shield annorial, was attached to a
grant of part of Wrightington to his brother Edward Lathom of
Parbold, and also to a grant to his younger son Edward and his
contracted wife Ellen daughter of John le Botillcr of ^lerton, (after-
wards wife of Croft of Dalton) made on April 14, lL>78. 1. R. II.'
X. Thomas Latliom of Lathom, son and heir (the Sir 0>;kaiell
of Seacomc's version of the legend),^ entered on Knowslcy, Child-
' Award cited in Coucher Book of "WhiiUey, p. i3,j3.
■- Her name of Isabella points to this, and as her brother Thornas wa-!
at least of age, when he entered on Lathom at his father's death iu 13S-,
at which time the second Lady Lathom was left enceinte, proliability
points to him also as issue by the first marriage with Isabel Pilkiugton.
' Appended to this account from an impression communicated by "\V.
Langton, Esq., with an abstract of deeds. The grantee of "Wrightingcc-n
was contemporary with Edward Lathom the elder, one of the parties iu a
recogTiizance respecting Joan Lady Lathom's claim of dower on Wright-
ington, Aug. 22, 1383, and with Edward Lathom, a witness in the Scropc
and Grosvenor Cause, aged forty years in 13SG. From him is deduced
the Parbold line of Lathom.
•• Seacome's version v.as communicated to him by the representative
of the Lathoms of Irlam in Lancashire and Hawthorne in Cheshire, who
imagined themselves to be descendants of the legendary founrlling.
Their tradition stated that Sir Thomas de Lathom, son of Sii- llo^vrt
(one descent being omitted), living in the reign of Edward III, had
Isabella by his vife, and an illegitimate son by an intrigue. That the
son was introduced to his wife's notice as found under a tree near the
eagle's aer\', and adopted under the name of Oskatel. but discardcl before
the death of Sir Thomas, Irlam and Urmston in Lancashire, and Haw-
thorn in Cheshire, being settled on him and his heirs, and the rest of the
estate descending duly to Lady Stanley. That on this adoption ^ir
Thomas dc Lathom had assumed for his crest an Eagle on Wing, turning
her head back and looking as for something lost, but that on his beiiig
disowned, tlic Stanleys, " eitlier to distinguish or aggrandize tliemselvi-.-,
or in contempt and derision, took on them the Eagle and ChiKF', thus
manifesting the variation ai\d the reason of it. — Jlovs'e of Stanh'i/, p. £.">.
66 LATIIOM OV LATHOM.
wall, etc., in 1082, and died November 5; 1383, leaving his wife
Isabel enceinic of a dausbter, afterwards ward of John Duke of Lan-
caster, under whom Lalhom was held in thanagc, and whose com-
plaint with reference to her rights and his own privileges is extant
in the printed rolls of Parliament, 9 Richard 11.'
> After the death of this Thomas de Lathom, fom- successive In(pai-
sitions v.ere taken, finding as follows : —
I. Inquisition taken at Oriiukirk, Juhj 1383, 7'R. 2. Thomas Lathom,
knight (son of Thomas de Lathom) after marriage with Isabel daughter
of Roger de Pilkington, was seized of the manor of Lathom, previous to
a feoffment of same (speciiied), and held the same manor in thanage from
John King of Castile and Duke of Lancaster. Val. per ann. xl. (Dods-
worth's !MSS. in the Bodleian Library, vol. 87, fo. 11.)
II. Inquisition talen at Manchester in Lent, 1384, 7 R. 2. Thomas,
son of Thomas de Lathom, Knight, died Thursday after the feast of All
Saints (Nov. 5), and held the manor of Knowsley of the Earl of Lincoln's
fee ; and the manor of Lathom remains to the heirs of the said Thomas,
son of Thomas de Lathom, Knight, between him and ^Mabel (Isabel),
daughter of Roger de Pilkington, lawfully begotten. Ellex, daughter of
said Thomas, son of Thomas do Lathom, Knight, next heir, aged six
weeks. {Hid. p. 13.)
III. Inquisition taken at Lancaster in Lent, 8 R. 2, 1385. Chiefly
relative to the conduct of Johanna, widow of Thomas de Lathom (son of
Sir Thomas), of which the matter is given in p. Gb. {Hid. fo. 10.)
IV. Inquisition taken in Lent, 8 R. 2, 1385, relative to four successive
generations. It states that Thomas, son of Robert de Lathom, Knight,
died seized in feetail of the manor of Know^^ley, comprehending Knowsley,
Roby, Iluyton, and Torbock, held of the Duke of Lancaster, of wluch a
feofiuicnt had been made to said Robert, and Catherine his wife, for then-
lives, remainder to Thomas, son of Robert, and the heirs of his body,
remainder to Joan his sifter, etc. ; and also a feoflincnt of the manors of
Childwall, Anglesarkc, and one-fourth of Wrightington, to said Thomas,
and Eleanor his wife, daughter of John de Ferrers, Chvr, and the heirs of
their bodies, remainder to right heirs of said Rol-ert. And that the said
Thomas died (holding other e.-iates, irrelevant to this sid)jcct) Tuesday
after feast of the p:\altation (Sep. M), 41 Edward 111, 1370, and that
Elena, daughter and heir of Tlionias, son of Thomas do Lathom, Knight,
son of Thomas son of Roberi., Chvr, is cousin and next heir of the afore-
said Thomas, son of Robert do Lathom, and is (ciiat is to say, in 13 --3) of
the age of one year and one month.
And further, tliat Sir Thomas do Latliom, Knight, son of Thomas son
of Sir Roboit, entered in i;{7(i, after his faiiier's death, and received
proOts for twelve years (saving of Wrightington, which he alienated to
Edward hi.s iTOther) and then died in 1:5^2.
LATHOM OF LATHOM 67
Dodswortli's transcript of a lost Inquisition p. m. of IMarcli 1 9,
7 Richanl II, 13"^ J, fixes the death of this Thomas on Nov. 5, 1383,
his wife Isabella' (who is named 3/abella in error) as the dauglit(T of
a second Roger de Pilkington, and the age of his daughter and heir
Elena as six weeks at the time of this Inquisition, and she occurs
ag:\in as aged thirteen mouths iu the Inquisition taken March
21, 1385.
X. Elena de Lathom, this posthumous daughter and heiress of
Thomas de Lathom, born in February 1381, has escaped the notice
of previous genealogists. The Duke of Lancaster took possession
of her lands as superior Lord within that year. In 1385, 9 Richard
II, he complained in Parliament- of Sir John Stanley having entered
thereon, under pretext of an entail on his wife Isabella, ^\^thout
livery or process in the Palatine Courts, which the Judges condemned
on reference to them, but the complaint was limited to this point.
x\n Inquisition taken after the death of Sir John Torbock, military
tenant of Knowsley iu 12 Richard II, mentions that Knowsley was
in the Duke's hands at Sir John's death, February 8, 1387, by reason
of Elena's nonage. She is not precisely named as living in any
known document, after 1385 ; and whether her aunt subsequently
succeeded by course of law, or on her niece's demise, does not
appear.'
AxB further, that then came Thomas, son of the aforesaid Thomas de
Lathom, Knight, and entered on the premises as in the Inquisition, and
took profits for a year and a half, and that after the death of the aforesaid
Thomas (in 13S3) the lands were seized into the Duke's hands, by reason
of the nonage of Elena, daughter of Thomas before-mentioned, Roger de
Fazackerlcy taking the x>rofits for half a year, and the Duke subsequently,
\\z. up to Lent 1385. (Duchy Records. Inquisitions, vol. ii, No. 7.)
1 Dodsworth's JNISS. vol. 87. Isalella is so named iu the original
Inquisition of 13S.5, in her writ for dower and the precept for giving
seisin.
2 Rot. Pari. 9 R. 2, 13So, p. 205.
3 The documents in the Duchy Close Rolls from 1382 to 1386, when a
writ of redesseisin for lands iu Lathum was obtaiued by Ralph de Barton,
are very numerous, but rebate principally to disputes respecting the Jowcr
of Joanna Lady Lathom, between her second husband Roger razackcrley
and Trustees, writs for repeated Inquisitions, and arrangements ot the
dower of Isabella Lady Lathom, widow of the last Thomas de Lathom.
A list of the greater part is given in the Memoir on the Stanley Legend,
and has been collated with accurate copies iu the collection of IMr. A\ illiam
Laugton, to whom the writer is also obliged for other references.
F
68 LATHOM OF LATIIOM.
Isabel, sister of the last Thomas de Latiiom, and wife of Siu
John Stanley, a younger brother of Hootoii, rested her claim on an
alleged settlement brought forward after her brother's death, as
stated by the Duke of Lancaster. In 9 Henry IV, and perhaps
previously, she had succeeded to Elena, and was in possession
of the domains of her fathers, as in that year her husband, after-
wards Steward of the Household, had charter of Fee AVarren in
Lalhum, Knowslegh, Childwall, lioby, and Aulasargh.^
From this Lady and her husband Sir John Stanley descended
the noble Houses of Derby, Monteagle, and Stanley of Alderley, other
male branches of Stanley, and numerous female lines, through which
descent from this House is claimed by most of the ancient families
of either Palatinate.-
1 It is proper to mcntioQ, that Isabel Scauley, second wife of Sir Geoffrey
Worselcy of Worselcy, has been identified in some Pedigrees with Isabel
de Lathom, the wife of Sir John Stanley. Sir P. L., who mentions her
story under Tatton (Hist. Chesh. i, 345), does not affirm this, and no
evidence has occurred in support of it.
There were also daughters and co-heirs (about the same time) of a
Thomas Latliom, with one of whom, Margaret, 1^'icholas Harrington
obtained estates in Huyton (See Vis. 1613, and Radchffe's Harrington
Pedigree in Whitaker"s Richmondshire), but no evidence has been found
to identify this Thomas with the last heir-male possessed of Lathom.
2 Acknowledged collateral lines of Lathom, branching otf before this
time, resident at Torbock, Jlosborough, and Parbold, in Lancashire ; others
v.-erc of Huyton and Irlam, the last of which has been most unnecessarily
illegitimatised by Seacome's exploded narrative. Another acknowledged
Ime, settled in the time of Edward II at Astbury in Cheshire, requures
particular attention, from the testimony which its former memorials gave
against the accuracy of the traditional legend. From this branch ramified
male lines, which settled at Congleton, Kuutsford, and Tabley in Cheshire,
and at Denbigh in Wales; and to them must be added four representative
female lines, sprung from Blanche, daughter and sole heiress of Robert
Lathom of Congleton, and wife of Richard Massey (a younger brother of
Su- Geoffrey Massey of Tatton), which may be traced in the recorded
descent of Somerford. Newton of Pownall, IMcre of .Mere (represented by
LatL'im, now of Bradwall, anciently of Congleton in Astbury before-men-
tioned), and Moreton. Authorities for these collaterals M-ill be found in
llarl. MSS. 2151, p. 4, 2119, p. 78; the Stanley Legend in Collectanea,
vii, pp. 8-12; Hist. Chesh. iii, pp. 14, 19, 20, (54; and Dwnu's Visitation
of Wales, ii, 340.
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PEDIGREE OF LATHOM OF LATIIOM, IN LANCASHIRE, AND OF LATHOM IN ASTBURY, IN CHESHIRE,
EKO'. GUT UOWN TO THE HeIKS GeXEUAL OP THOSK BeA:VC1I£S.
oo o
N/vVVv
Dunning, livinj^ at, or shortly after, the Conquest, as proved by the luqui:
1 of 1-J12, cited Lelo
Arms.— BoTELEU oy Ajioundeiiness, from whoao House Lathom
I : 1 is considered to descend, Ijore or, a chief daiicette, a:ure.
SiWAED FiTZ-DuNNiXG, tenant of three carueates from the King, in thanage, constituting the subsequent Lordship=j= and three plates at a later period ' '"'''"' " '^'^ "*° ^ '" '^ '
of Lathom, gi-anted one of these to Cospatric, whose heira held from Kichard Fitz-Rohert de Lathom in 1212. I ' ■ ' ■■ -
Lathom of Astbury added a bendlet, r/ules.
Heney FiTZ-SnvARP, grantee of one carucate in Flixton fro
Albert de Gredle, and either tin- simewith, or father of, Henr
born about 1130 and father of Robert Fitz-Henry.
Okme Fitz-_\jl\vakd, supposed to have possessed Ormskirk by descent from 0rmu3=f Emma, daughter of Albert de Oredi.e, had a Kni^difs fee in Dalton Parbold and
llagnus ami his wife Aliz. sister of Herveua Walter, ancestorof the BoTELEHS,-n-hoie I V/rightington, _.,j,d E.stone (afterurtrds Ormeston)°in Flixton in marria"o which
arms Were sssumed by Lathom. , were afterwards inherited by Lathom. ' '
llicHARD Fitz-Henky, witness to his brother's charter to Burs-
cough Priory, 1189-99, and ancestor of Torbock of Torbock.
Sir Robert FiTZ-HENRY, Lord of Lathom, founder of Burscough Priory, 1189-99,=
grantor thereto of the churches of Ormsldrk and Flixton abovemenliioned, and
grantee of lan;ls fi'om ^Vlbert de Gredle.
- wife of Robert Fitz-Heniy, marrieo before 1199, and seemingly daughter
of Orme and Enuna, whose estates (as above) passed to Robert de Lathom^and
were inherited by him as from them. Test, de Nevill.
Richard Fitz-Robekt de Latuom, son and heir, seised of Lathom in 1201 ; Hi
1 1212 ; died before 1221.-j-Alice, snrrived her husband, and was given in second marriage by the King
Richard Fitz-Ricbard de Lathom, son and heir, had Sir Robert Fitz-Richard de Lathom, Kt., brother and heir. Sheriff of Lane. 1236, Custos of the Castle aud=i=AMiciA, daughter and coheiress of Robert de Aefreton, Lord of Alfreton, Nor-
seisin of Lathom in 1221, 5 Hen. 111. 0. S. P. County 1250, and of the Honor 1254 ; survi\-ing 1287. Sealed with the arms of lioteler, and difference in chief. I manton, and" JIarnham (J'arliameutary Baron) ; married before 1252.
Sir Robert de Lathom of Lathom, Kt., occurs in summonses .against the Scots, 1291, — Kaiheri:>t, daughter and heiress of Robert de Knowseley,
and finally in summons to the Council at "U'estminster, 1321. Inq. p. m. IS Kdw. 11. | Lord of Ivnowseley, co. Lane.
Thomas de Lathom of Mosboeodgh, grantee thereof from his brother, 1292,
Thomas de Lathom of Lathosi, son and heir, aged 2-t years, 18 Edw. II ;=j=Eleanor, daughter of Sir Jolm Jane, sister of Thomas, >and heiress in remr.
died in Sep. 13/0, 44 Edw. Ill ; bore " or, on a chief indented, azure, three I de Ferrers, ChevaUer. as to Knowaelegh, 18 Edw, II,
besants," (Sir H, Nicolas's Roll.) |
Hugh de Lathom, "filius Dni. Robti. de Lathom", bore a PmLip de Lathom of Astbuiy, "iiliusDni.
bendlet for difference, witii the crest of Lathom, as i-epresented Roljti.de Lathom", bore arms and crest
in former painted gUiss at Astbury church. 11. MS. 2151. as his brother Hugh. (Astbury windows.)
PvOGES FazIkeelegh of=,jANE, daughter of Sir Hugh Venabi.es=Sir Thosias de Lathom of Lathom. Kt., son an.l heir, seiied, in 1370, of=f- Isabella, daughter of Roger de Pilkingtov,
Fazackeelegh, second of Kinderton, mother of Isabel in JISS, Lathom, died tj Rich. H, 13,-i2 (being the .S7r Oshlt of the nietrical legend), , the elder, first wife, and most probably tlie
Lusband, 1352. Coll. Arm., which is improbable. Seal, an eagle displayed, charged on the breast with the shield of Lathom. [ mother of Thomas and Isabel.
Edward Lathom, grantee of Parbold from his IIughde IjATUOM, ''fdiusPhilip])i", pourtrayed
father, and part of Wrightington from his wilh his father and four sons in the Astbury
brother. windows. ^
3 I
i I
i I I 1 ■ 2 i , .
Thomas de Lathom of Lathom, son and heir (the Sr_ISAEEi.LA, survived her husband S R. 11, daur. Sir John Stanley, L'.G.,_Isabella, in whose right her hus- John Lathom of Asteury, son and h., repre- Robert L.ithom. of Congle- William Thomas Lathom, purchaser of lands in
OsLutd of the Irhim Legend), entered on the Lathom I of RoaER DE Pilkington, JuN. (named Jlabella Steward of the Household I band entered on Lathom in 13So, sentedwith his three brothers, as filii Hugonis, TON, surviving 15 Hen. VI, Lathom of Cosgleton, 5 Hen, VI, as "Thomas
estates in 1352 ; diedXov. 5, 13S3. Inq. p.m. S Ilic. II. in Do Isworth's transcript of Inq. 7 li. II.) and l;ord of llan. | and possessed it in 9 Hen. IV. fil.Philippi, filii Dni.'Robti doL.athom. ancr. of Lathom of Derbigh. Concleton, fil. Hugonis de Lathom."
Elena, sole p-jsthumou-s riau. and heir., b.'ni Feb. 1384 ;
ward of John, D-ake of Lancaster ; survivii,g S Hie. II.
Sir John Stanley of Lathom— Isabella, sister of Sir William Ot'iier
and Know.sley, Kt., s. and h. Hai'rington of Honiby, K.G, is^.ue.
Nicolas Lathom ; will dated
1461 ; Thomas Lord Stanley
and Sir W. Stanley exors.
Thomas L.mhom, Robert L.vtuom, had lands in=PAR.NEL, d.au of Thomas Danvel of Tabloy, Janet, wife of John
univingOHen.VIL Congleton from his brother by Maud, daj. of John Leycester of Tab- Burgess of Knutsford.
Nicolas, 1 Rich. III. ! ley; married 4 Hen. VII.
#
1 I 2
Richard JIassey, younger brother of Sir l.ieoffiryMassey-pIii„iNCHE Lathom, ouly=John Davenport of Davenp-ort, co. Cost., aged=f Ifatilda, dau. of Sir Andriiw Brere
ofTatton, CO. Cest., Kt, Hist. Chesh. i, 315. daughter and heiress. 30, 12 Hen. VIII Inq. p.m. 1554. II. C. iii,40. Brereton, Kt. Hist. Ches!.. iii, 51.
Staslet, Karl of IJef.by.
S7ASLET, L/JRD iloSTEAGLE.
SmSLST, LoBD Stanley of Alderley.
ELIZ.VBErU Massey, si
William Someiford oft
id dau. and co-heir., wife of Jane Jtassev, eldest dau. and co-heir., second=7=John t)avenport of DavenporC, aged 48 years, 1554 ;=pEIeanor Holland of Denton, first wife
erford R:uInor, co. Cest. wife of John Daveiipjrt, had female issue only, died 24 Eliz. 15S2. _[_h,'id male issue. Hist. Chesh. iii, 40.
I I
William Newton of=Pai-nel, elilest dau., co-heir, to her n-, jthe
' Pownal, CO. Cest. the .Mere Chancel at Rosthorne, lti03.
Hist. Chesh. iii, 310.
NKMTi.tN OF POWN.VLL.
ed iny William Mere of Mere, Esq.; bi
ibidem, 1C25. Hist. Chesh. i, 3(j
Mei:e of .Meiie.
Anne, wife of John .Moreton of L. Moreton i
Astbury ; living 1580. Hist. Chesh. iii, 29.
69
NOTE
AS TO THE CRESTS OF LATHOM AND STANLEY, A SIMILAR BEARING IN THE
ARMS OF CULCUETH, AND A RECENT ESSAY ON THE SAME, IN THE
JOURNAL OF THE ARCH J'.OLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, VOL. VI.
Memorials of the Astbury Branch of Latuom have been mentioned
in the preceding note, as illustrating the subject of the Legend. They
consisted of painted glass inserted in the windows of the church at Ast-
bury near Congleton, delineated in Vernon's Souierford MSS., and in
Ilarl. JISS. 2151, and particularly described in Hist. Chesh. vol. iii, p. 20
Several of these windows were occupied by delineations of successive
periods; but the Lathora paintings were of one style and design. They
represented Hugh and Philip de Lathom, described as sons of Sir Robert
de Lathom, Knight, and girded with swords. Hugh, son of Philip, in
plate ai-mour, with white tabards, and four sons of Hugh (named in the
intercessory inscriptions) represented -n-ithout swords, and of varying
stature shewing their successive ages, kneeling. All v.'ere in dresses cf
corresponding costume, and kneeling on corresponding pavements.
The figure of the grandfather was underwritten. " Orate pro aniraa
rhilijij^i Jilii Domini Roherti Lathom Jlilitis," and over it were the anus
of Lathom, diflcreuced by a bendlct gules, and on the helmet a cradle,
on which was an Eagle regardant and rising. The figure of Hugh cor-
responded in all respects with that of his brother.
In the recent Essay on the Stanley Crest (mentioned below), Mr.
Planche has assumed that these figures were put up by descendants of
the persons represented, in the reigns of Richard III or Henry VII, and
has described the persons as living in the middle of the fifteenth, instead
of fourteenth century. It is deemed that they were more probably put
up before all the grandsons had attained maturity, and, as the grand-
father was brother of Thomas de Lathom, born in 1300, it is clear that his
date lies, at all events, v:ithin the time of Edward III.
As the time of Philip de Lathom, to whom the Crest is distinctly
referred, is indisputably within this reign, these paintings on that account
derive interest from being the only known authority for attriltuting the
Crest of the Eagle and Cradle, conjointly, to any Lathom living before the
a;ra of the Legend, though the Eagle alone, in one form or other, has much
earlier authority.
The Essay by Mr. Planche, above referred to (Proceedings of the
ArchjEological Association, vi, 199), has been recently published, and
suggests the illustration of the " Stanley LtgemV from a new source.
It admits the successful demolition of the old Legend by the author of
70 LATHOM OF LATIIOM.
this, and offers two theories. One of these alludes (in p. 207) to the
naiL of Orme Fitz-Ailward (living in the time of Richard I, and to ^hom
the Lathoms were heirs) as conjuring up " visions of an Elm Tree and an
Eagles Wai-r, and " an Anglo-Norman Rebus of the name of a Sasun
ancestor" is suggested. The other theory (in p. 205) rests on the possi-
bility of these figures pointing to some tradition of the Boteler family, by
inferring connexion with it ("as holders under the same fevxhl chietT)
both m^Lathom, who adopted the Arms of Boteler of Amounderness, and
in Calcheth, who was a military tenant of Boteler of Warrington, and by
shewing that three heirs general of Culcheth bore or quartered as Arms
what Lathom used as Crest. The first theory is matter of fancy ; the chief
objection to the other, seems to consist in limiting probability of common
origin to descent from Boteler, and turns on the following points:—
1. As to CuLCiiETii, it is certain that a family of the local name was
settled, in the time of King John, at Culcheth, which is separated by the
Irwell from former outlying Lancashire estates of the Lathoms m Flixton
Parish, derived by them from marriage with an heir or co-heir of Fitz-
Ailward about the same time. Camden (Brit. 1607, p. 612) states that
Gilbert Culcheth, in the time of Henry III, had four daughters and co-
heirs, whose husbands severally assumed names from the subdivisions of his
estate, Culcheth, Holcroft, Peasfalong, and Risley. It is shewn from
various proofs that Culcheth and Risley assumed the Eagle and Child for
Arms, and that Holcroft quartered this bearing, which might indeed be
proved directly, by re-ular heraldic evidence, namely the \isitations of
1567, 1613, and 166-1, as to Holcroft, Culcheth, and Risley. It is fair to
consider, with Mr. Blanche, that Culcheth once bore, what three lines of
heirs general, referred to Culcheth, adopted; and it is certain, from the
Testa dc Neville, that Culcheth was military tenant oi Boteler o/ ^^ar-
rington. .
2. As to Lathox, there is the strongest moral evidence that he de-
scended through Orme and Fitz-Ailward from the ancestors of Boteler of
Amounderness, and he assumed the Arms used by that ancestor s descend-
ants, a chief dancette, differenced with besants or with plates. He was
not, however, military tenant of Boteler, but held only from the Crown
in thanage as to Lathom itself, and, elsewhere, from the Baronies of
Ilalton and Manchester. And here a further difficulty occurs, that
there is no proof of the common origin of the two lines of Boteler men-
tioned. The best genealogical account of these Houses has been recently
given in the notes to the " Coucher Book of Whalley", and the existence
of proof on this point is there abandoned. (Coucher Book, pp. 414, 410-
Perhaps there are few persons wlio will dissent from Mr. Planches
general proposition (p. 206) that " the Eagle and Child have been derived
from the same source in loth cases', without travelling to the Boiclers,
who arc not known to be coimcctcd with any such tradition or bearing.
There is no difficulty in supposing the Culchcths to have been collaterals
LATIIOM OF LATIIOM.
71
of the older House of Lathom, either in male line as Torbock <lcsccndcd,
or as mutual descendauts from early co-heircsses, and the resemblance of
their several bearings would accord with the usual practice in marking
collateral relationship by continuation of former Arms after variation, of
local names. This, however, regards a well known general principle only,
and gains no step towards identifying the possible ancestor of the several
lines of Lathom and Culcheth.
At the close of his Memoir on the Stanley Legend, the writer of this
summed up, as proved, the legitimacy of every line of descent down to
Isabel and her competitor Elena, inclusive ; secondly, the general fact of
the bearing being much older than the period to which the legend refers it ;
lastly, the fact of the Stanley Crest having no reference to a tradition
■which has been disproved, but being a continuation of that of Lathom, as
proved by the former painted glass at Astbury.
Proof of such bearing being derived by Lathom and Culcheth, severally,
from any one source, if attained, would in no vray affect these deductions.
Common origin in imde line could not be found on this side of the reign of
Richard I, nor on this side of a period much more remote, if discoveraljle
•.hrough Boteler ; and be the origin what it may, Rebus, Myth, or Legend,
it is still left indefinite to an age unknown.
Descriptions of the two Seals, of which engravings are prefixed and
ajpended to this account, will be found in pp. 63, 65, preceding.
72
II.
ARDERXE, OR ARDEN, OF ALVANLEY.
r.EPRESENTATlVE OF THE ARDEliNES OF ALDFORD CASTLE, CHESHIRE,
AND OF ELFORD IN STAFFORDSHIRE.
The parentage of Sir John Arderne, male ancestor of tbe Cheshire
house of Arderne, or Arclen, and Lord of Aldford Fee, within tha;
palatinate, in the time of Ranulph III, by a charter from him, Avhicl
might eitlier be an original grant, or a confirmation, was matter cf
uncertainty when the History of Cheshire was compiled by tbs
writer.
It was there stated,' that he might be either son, or son-in-law, :>{
Sir Richard de Aldford, to whom he succeeded in estate ; but it -sms
observed, that there was veiy great difficulty in the younger Vincem's
deduction of him (MSS. Coll. Arm., 120), which describes him as
son of Peter, Clerk of the Earl of Chester, wliich Peter was "ir
John's own contemporary and feudatoiy, and which states the iden ity
of this Peter with Peter the Clerk, son of Ralph de Hampton an
alleged male descendant of Turketill de Arden, the Saxon Gove.aor
of AVarwickshirc in the time of Edward the Confessor."
Documents proving the real descent have now been recovired.
It continues highly probable that Sir John was son-in-law of Riciard
de Aldford ; but it is clear that he was younrjer son of Eustag"; de
Arden, or De Walfnrd, as he is variouslv described, son of an arher
JE ••
1 Hist. Chesh. ii, p. 37.
^ Dugdale's Warw. p. COG. Resnectiiig Turchill or Turketill, se same
•work, pp. 302, G75, and Camden's Britannia, 1(107, p. 42(5, rcspcctng the
Celtic origin of the name. Turchill is styled Dc Warwic in Donesday,
and De Eardcne in the Register of Abingdon Abbey, " being ont of the
first here in England that, in imitation of the Normans, assinr.d a Sir-
name." (Dugd. G7">.)
DE ARDEN OF AVATFORD.
73
EosTACE, Avhom Vinceut (MSS. Coll. Arm.. 10, p. 9 h) slates to be
son of Alexander, sou of Agxes de Arden.' On this last unau-
thcuticated statement it is unnecessary to remark, and the descent
of the parent line will be here commenced with Eustace.
It may be true that an Agnes de Arden was wife of this Alexander,
and that his issue really derived, through her, from the Warwick-
shire Ardens, that name which the successive Eustaces used inter-
changeably with the local one of De Watford ; but the statemenis
followiug are limited to direct evidence.
I. DE ARDEN, OTHERWISE DE WATFORD,
OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
MALE AN-CESTOES OF AKDEKNE OF CHESHIRE.
I. Eustace, who was probably bora about 1140, and was the first
of four successive Lords of Watford, in Northamptonshire, bearing
the same name of Eustace, and given above, seems almost indispu-
tably to have been the Eustachius de Arderae who granted Watford
Church to the Abbey of St. James, at Northampton (Bridges, i, 501,
from the Register) ; which grant was followed by donations to Sulby
Abbey by Eustace, son of Eustace de Watford. (Ibid, i, 557 ; and
Mon. Ang. \i, 90-1, from Pat. 9, Edw. II.)
n. Eustace de Arden, or de Watford, the next in Yiucent's
Pedigree, was in possession 1 John, 1199, when he impleaded
Wilham Fitz Adam, his tenant, at Watford (Curia Reg., i, 400 ; ii,
42, 100) ; and occurs 3 John, as paying scutage for one knighfs fee
in Northamptonshire (Rot. Cancellar., p. 87),-Eustace de Arden
and Eustace de Watford occurring previously, in the second and
third scutage of Rich. I. He was deceased in 1213, as by writ of
Nov. 7, 15 John, to the Sheriff of Nortliampton, to set out the
dower of his widow, Hawysia, in Watford and Silvesworth, the Earl
of Chester being security for her not remarrj'ing without license.
(Clause Rolls, 1213.)
The said Eustace had issue, Eustace, son and heir, and John de
Arden, or Arderne, afterwards Lord of Aldford.
1 A Memoir on the subject will he found in Nichols's TopograpLer, i,
p. 47, written with the object of expluining some passages on this siil jcct
in Ilist.Chcsh., seemingly misunderstood by Mr. Drummond iu compdmg
Lis Histories of Noble Families, part.J, p. G.
74 ARDERNE OF ALDFORD.
III. Eustace, son and heir, described as " E. de Arden,' fined to
tlie king in forty marks, in 1213, for the land of which
his fatlier, Eustace, died seized.^ lie had grant of
hinds in Wathcford,//*ow his hrother, John de Ardenie,
as hereafter, between 1209 and 1228. His lands, as
those of E. de Watford, were granted to Robert de Say,
during the king's pleasure, 18 John, 1210;'^ and the same were
restored, by writ, to the Sheriff of Northamptonshire, in 1 H., 3,
1217.' He died in or before 1221.
IV. Eustace de AVatford, son and heir, had writ to the Sheriff of
Northamptonshire for seizin of one knight's fee, late belonging to
his father, Eustace, in 1221,^ when assignation of dower was made
to his wife, Margery ; his Watford estate being one knight's fee,
held, in capite, from the king.
V. By extent of March 22, 4 Edw. I, 1275, this Eustace last
mentioned is stated to have had four daughters and coheirs : Aveline,
wife of William Le Broun, issueless ; 2, Mary,^ wife of John de
Burneby ; 3, Jane, wife of William de Paries ; 4, Elena, unmarried.
These were aged upwards of thirty years, did homage, and had
seisin same year. (Rot. Orig. 4 Edw. I.)
The arms of this family — " ijidcs, on a chief argent, a label az,"
e.xemplified as a quartering of Buniaby by Hawlcy, Clarenceux,
give the basis of the arms of the Cheshire Ardernes, who substituted
three cross crosslets in the field for the label in chief.
11. ARDERNE OR ARDEN OF ALDFORD,
FROM THE ACQUISITION OF THAT FEE BY SIR JOHX DE ARDERXE, TO
THE SETTLEMENT OF ALDFORD ON THE ILLEGITIMATE LINE.
The deduction of the Cheshire House of Arderne began hereto-
fore with Sir John Arderne and liis possession of the great Fee of
Aldford ; but it now commences with the proofs of his ramification from
the Ardenis of Watford in Northamptonshire, which are as follow.
in. On November 28, 1213, 15 John (Rot. de Fin., p. 510), John
1 Rot. Fin. l.J Job. p. 509. 2 Clause Rolls, Hardy 281, b.
8 Clause Rolls, p. ?A\. * Excerpt. Rot. Fin. 5 Hen. Ill, p. G3.
5 Called " Sarra" in Abbr. Plac. p. 198. Maria and Sarra in old text-
hand are easily confounded.
AKDKRNK OF AI.DFOKl). 75
de Ardcrne, as I. dc Ardcn, compounds ^vlth the King for acquittance
from annual pajTncnt to the Exchequer of L\x^ fonncrly ])aid by
his father, Eustace ("Eustachius j^ater ipsius Johannis"), with
reference to a debt of the Jews charged on hind in Watford and
Northampton, given by the said Eustace to the said John in his life
time, by undertaking to put at the King's disposal a valuable /lorse,
for which Geofiry de Mande\-ille was pledge. The horse was
rendered, and acquittance made, January 18, 1214. (Ibid., p. -517.)
By another deed,^ John de Arderne grants to Eustace hishrotlicr
all the lands of Watheford, which he had of the gift of the same.
Witnesses: Philip de Orreby, Just. Cest.,^ Henry de AuJlcy,
Richard Phiton, William Vernon, David de Malpas, William Fitz-
Hugh Dcspenser, GeofFry his brother, Robert de Say, Ralph his
brother, etc.
The first Charter fixes John de Arden as son of that Eustace de
Arden, Lord of Watford, who was dead in 1213, namely the second
Eustace, and as brother of the thu-d Eustace, who died in or about
1221. To this last Eustace John de Arden re-grants land in Wat-
ford by the third Charter (1209-1228), and is identified as the Lord
of Aldford, not merely by the locality w'here it was executed, as
shewn by the Cheshire witnesses of it, but by that seal of the three
garbs being attached, with which John de Ardcrne successively seals
his confirmation of Thornton, ^'part of Aldford Fee, to Peter, the
Earl of Chester's Clerk, and to Ranulph son of Peter. "^
On Aug. 7, 1216, 18 Joh., Sir John de Ardeme had grant of the
lands of GeofFiy de Sautemaris, as by the King's writ to the Sheriff
of Worcester (Clause Rolls, p. 280), being described as a "Knight
of Ranulph Earl of Chester'"; which Earl was then absent in tlic
Holy Land (Matt. Par., 303, 309). This description of his military
tenants was not limited by Earl Ranulph to his knights of the pala-
tinate, but is also applied to his knights in England generally ;*
and, under such description of " miles mous". Sir John Ardcrne had
grant of the Avhole Fee of Aldford from the Earl Palatine, by deed
1 Ilarl. MSS. 2077, p. 17.
2 Justice 1200-28. Robert do Say was grantee of WatforJ during
pleasure in 121G (sec p. 74). The other names, excepting Ralph de Say,
are tho.^c of Cheshire Magnates and the Justiciary, probably assembled
on some public occasion at Chester.
=» Ilarl. MSS. 2131, p. 30.
* Charta Cestrcsiric, Hist. Chcsh. i, p. 50.
G
76 ARDERNE OF ALUFORD.
S.D.' He subsequently granted Thornton (parcel of that fee) to
Peter the Earl's Clerk, and confirmed it to Ranulph, son of Peter and
the Earl's godson, hy deeds S.D. Tlicy were scaled 's\-ith the seal
of three garbs, before mentioned, perhaps an official seal,
from the circumstance of the arms being those of the
Earl Palatine, but the o-sN-ncr of the seal is proved by the
legend, s. . . .s. Dt abd, .e.- He also granted lands in
^VcthuU (adjacent to his lands in Alderlegh) to Pulton
Abbey, in exchange for lands in-Aldford, and confirmed
the grants of Piichaid de Aldford to the same abbey, the charters
of both being confirmed by Earl Ranulph.^ To Chester Abbey also
he gave lands and privileges within his manor of Elton, a de-
pendency of Aldford.^
For particulars relative to the great lordship thus bestowed on
Sir John Arderne by his local sovereign, reference is made to the
}Iistory of Cheshii-e, but an outline is subjoined in the note below.=
> Harl. MSS. 2074, p. 173. Hist. Chesh. iii, p. 411.
* Ilarl. :MSS. 21.31. From Sir George Booth's Charters.
' Harl. MSS. 20C0. •» Chester Leger Book, 2074, p. 54.
* The great Fee of Aldfokd, although not one of the peculiar Baronies
of the Palatinate, varied little from them in many respects, aud was
formed out of the ^Manors described as the property of Bigot in the
Doomsday Survey of Cheshire, which immediately precede those of
Yenaliles of Kinderton therein.
The list of Vills within the Fee is given as follows, from Harl. MS.
2074, additions from Inquisitions being in italics. In Broxtcn Hundred,
AlJfonl and Lea ; in Bucklow Hundred, Bagulegh, Mobherley, AUerton ;
in Edislniry Hundred, Thornton, Wever, Elton ; in Northwich Hundred,
Ofcle>ton, "Wimbaldslcy. Sutton, %%, Conc/letoii, Sandbach ; in ^laccles-
ficld Hundred, Nether Alderlcy, Yeaton, Xorbury, Offerton, Siddington,
Torkington, Sharleston, parts of Etcheh and JItdme WaJndd, Xorth Rode,
Gawsworth, and Esthull, Bradford and WethuU near Alderley.
The rights, privileges, and indemnities of the Lords of Aldford, which
included trial by duel aud ordeal in their Courts, are given in Earl
Handle's Charter to Sir John Ardeme. (Hist. Chesh. ii, 411.)
It docs not ajipcar what the exact succession of the proprietors lefore
Ardtrne was, but Bigot — Hugh Fitz-Bigot — Jane Lady of Aldford — a
nameless Lord of Aldford, who had a suit with the Earl respecting Sand-
bach advowson, which is recorded in the Chcdiire Domesday — Robert
Lord of Aldford, husband of the daughter of Richard Fitz-Eustacc, Baron
of Halton in the time of Henry II, and Richard Lord of Aldford, fill up
the time from the Conquest to the accession of Sir John Arderne, aud
ARDERNE OF AI.DFORD, ETC. 77
iV. Sir Walkelyx de Arderne, Knt., son and heir of Sir John,
succeeded to his father's Lordship of Aklford in or before 1237-8,
as shown by his grant to Richard de Sondbache (wlio was a military
tenant of Aldford) during the Justiciaryship of Sir llichard Draitote.'
Leycester places Sir Walkelyn among the justiciaries of Chester,
between 1250 and 12-38, but his authority has not been found.
He is named in the Cheshire Domesday Roll, June 2, 1233, as sit-
ting in the Court at Chester with Karl John and his barons, and
then had place ^between Roger de Meinilgarin and "William de
Malpas.* In another entry, Nov. 1236, he is named as presidinj
in the court, "loco Comitis, eo die," the Abbot of Chester, and the
barons of Kinderton, Dunham, and Montalt, being also present, and
of course gi^ing place to him. In 124-1-5, 29 H. Ill, he agam occms
as presiding along with X. de Wilib', Constable of Chester Castle.^
AVith respect to his marriage, it appears from a fine at Chester,
28 Hen. Ill, that Walkelyn de Arderne then made partition with
Fulco de Orreby of his wdfe's family estates, ha\'ing release from
the said Fulco to him and Agnes his wife, and their
heirs, of the vills of Uptox, Fkaxkby, "Willavestox,
and Alvaxdelegh.* This lady was daughter and
heiress of Philip de Okreby the younger, by his wife
Leuca de Moxtalt, through whom the Ai'dernes in-
herited Elfoed in Staffordshire, in the first instance, and the
representation of the Palatine Barons de Montalt afterwards.' The
may be gathered from Charters of the Earls, and the beuefactious to
Pulton Abbey. As no forfeiture is known to have occurred, it is most
probable that he married a daughter and heir of Richard de Aldford.
The Arms attributed to this House, and borne by Fallows or Falwitz
their descendant, were ^^ gules frett>/ ermine''', perhaps pointing to c^a-
ncxion with Audley, whose bearing they closely resembled. The ciiues-
trian figure of the last De Aldford, the precursor and prohalbj thef'ther-
in-laio of Sir John dc Arderne, appears on his Seal in Ilist. Chesh. ii, 411.
In p. 412 is a description of the site of the castle, its moat, and the mound
of the keep, still existing on the right bank of the Dee, between Farndon
and Eaton. The ground-plan, which resembles a harp in form, is given
in vol. iii, p. 448.
> Flower's Extracts from the Cheshire Domesday Roll, No. xlv.
* The Mainwarings at this time took precedence by virtue of connexion
^vith the Earl's famdy. ^ Domesday Roil, Nos. ii, and xxxv.
* Ibid. 14. The Arms of this branch of Orreby were ermine, throe
chevrons yw/tv?, on a canton of the second, a lion passant or.
<8 AKDEKNK OF ALUFOKD, KTC.
manors here named were the paternal estates of OiTeby, those on
which the Lady Alice de Bam\illc, widow of Sii- Philip de OiTeby,
Justiciary of Chester, had assignment of dower in 1230.- Elided
was derived, hereditarily, by the mother of Agnes Lady Ardeme,
from the Earls of Chester, through the lines of Montalt and D'Al-
bini Earl of Arundel.
In 38 Hen. Ill, 1253, Walkelyn de Ardeme had grant of market,
fair, and free warren, in Aldcford, and Aldredeley (Alderley) in
Cheshire, and Elleford in Staffordshire;^ and, in 1255, held Cnoc-
ton or Knotton, near Newcastle, purchased from John de Leye and
Alice his wife, daughter of llanulph de Knotton. The service was
ward at Newcastle for xl days, in war, with lance, breastplate, and
helmet, at the King's cost, Avho confirmed the grant, 41 Hen. III.^
About this time AValkelyn de Ardeme appears to have been a
constant attendant on the court at Windsor, and is witness to almost
all the Charters on the Roll last cited, 41 H. HI.
After this, a release of the manor of Alvandelegh ^ was made by
Sir "NValkelyn de Ardcrne, Knt., to Peter de Ardeme (his son and
heu-) and his heirs ; to which Lucas de Taney is witness, and de-
scribed as Justiciary of Chester. The Chester Annals assign 1264
and 1265 as the years in which this Lucas held such office, during
the usurpation of Simon de Montfort. Sir "Walkelyn does not occur
again, and may have died during the struggles attending Prince
Edward's advance on Chester, or during the subsequent incarcera-
tion, in the Castle there, of Montfort's adherents.
T. SiK Petek de Akdeexe, Knt., son and heir, grantee of Aid-
ford in 1265, from his father, occurs as Lord of Aldford in a grant of
' See the plea of Sir Peter de ^Vrderne following, and the account of
the IMontalt family, also following.
2 Chcsh. Domesday Roll, 18.
3 Cal. Rot. Pat. p. 82, and p. 206. The original Gascon Roll has been
referred to, but is very obscure.
* Testa dc Neville, luijuibitious in Turr. Loud. 30 Ilcn. Ill, and Con-
firmation by the King Rot. Cart. 41 lien. Ill, ibid.
* Su- Walkelra's interest in Alvanley occurs also in the Register Book
of St. AVcrburgh, Ilarl. MSS. 2148, p. 21, during litigation between him
and the Abbot as to Ilaybotc, etc. of the latter, as Lord of Yues, in
Alvaidey Wood.
ARDERNE OF ALUFORU, ETC. 79
the manor of Coiiglcton to his first-born son, John, and
Margery his contracted wife, dauglitcr of Griffin dc
Eromfield> made between 1267 and 1270, as shewn by
the official attestation of Thomas dc Boulton, Just. C'est.,
who held office at that time. The Record mentions
Margery as mother of the infant heir so contracted.'
Between 1272 and 1280, the same Sir Peter de Ardernc grants
the wardship of Thomas de Orreby, of Gawsworth, a minor, to
Thomas de Macclesfield ; tlie said manor having been held by his
father, Richard Orreby, by the service of finding a man, with a hau-
berk, for military service at Aldford Castle, in war time,- at the
lord's cost.
Two documents then follow of especial interest. One, a release
to Sir John dc Orreby of one silver mark, — part of a debt due to Sir
Peter, — dated Nov. 3, 1288, 17 E. I, with a seal appendant of the
Ardeme arms, as at present used, circumscribed, " feange, lkge,
tace".' The other is the record of a suit between Sir Peter de
Ardeme and the Bishop of Lichfield (17 Ed. I), in which he
deduces his right in Elfokd from the house of Moxtalt in
direct terms : from Roger (namely Roger de Montalt) in the time
of Richard I, to Lciica, daughter and heir ; from Leuca to Agnes,
daughter and heir; from Agnes to Peter, the claimant, son and
heir. As the Montalt family still existed, the word "heir" refers
to the inheritance under settlement, and not to the heraldic imjiort ;
but this proves the descent by which the ultimate heirship passctl.^
The Leger Book of Chester Abbey contains a grant of land in
Elton made to the Almoner by this Sir Peter, and also an exchange
wth it of tlic Abbey lands in Aldford for an estate in Alvanley,
between Alvanley and Dunham.^
By Inquisition taken on Sunday after Septen^ber 14, 20 Ed. I,
1292,^ this Sir Peter de Arderne is found to have died seized of the
manor of Aldford, and the vills of Elton, Alderdelegh, and half of
Mobbcrly, held from the King, in capite, by service of two knights'
fees ; the ^■ill of Alvandelegh, held from Richard Fitz Alan, Lord
of Dunham ; and the vill of Upton, by service of one knight's fee,
» Chesh. Domesday, Xo. 54. '^ Hist. Chesh. and Harl. MSS. 2074, ld4.
5 Hist. Chesh. ii, 38. The Charter is in the writer's possession, and an
engraving of the Seal prefixed to this account.
* Original Plea Roll, Easter, 17 E. L Records of Common Pleas.
* Ilarl. 3ISS. 2074, pp. 54, tiO. « Tower Records.
80 AHDEKNE OF ALDFOUI), ETC.
from Robert de Pracrs. John, son of the said Peter, next heir, and
aged twenty-six years.
He was also father of Agnes, Avife of Warin Mainwaring, of
"WamTin^ham, whose beautifid seal, appendant to an Aldford deed
of 35 Ed. I, has on it the conjoined arms of Mainwaring, Ardcrnc,
and Montalt.i
VI. Sir Johx Ahderne of Aldford, Alderly, Alvaxley,
and 1--LE0KD, Knight, son and heir of Sir Peter and Margery, was
born 1266, and contracted as above.
On July 1, 1308, 1 Ed. II,- he was appointed a Commissioner of
Array for the county of Chester, with Hugh Venables, and had the
leading of the levies agamst Bruce as far as Carlisle. In the same
year he made a settlement of the manors of Aldford, Elford, and
Alderley, in contracting for marriage of his eldest son and heir
apparent, John, with Alice, daughter of this Hugh, Baron of Kin-
derton,^ covenanting to endow her with Alvanley. This manor was
granted by him to them ; and in 1 Ed. II, Sir Hugh Venables,
guardian of John, his son and heir, and Alice, -wife of that John,
constituted his brother William his attorney for taking seisin of
Alvanley.
Margaret his wife, according to official records, and the direct
evidences of the Cheshire Domesday Roll as cited, ^ was daughter of
Griffin, or Gruffydd ap Madog, the last Prince of Po-wys-Vadog,
Lord of Bromficld and the Castle of Dinas Bran, near Llangollen,
and a warlike ally of the Earls of Chester. His father, ^Madog, was
the founder of Valle Crucis Abbey, and his wife, Emma, daughter
of Henry Lord Audley, the founder of Hilton Abbey. Eor other
particulars of her princely ancestors, Yorke's Royal Tribes, and
Dugdale's Baronage, may be severally consulted.* Three of her
five brothers died issueless, two being said to have perished, when
infants, in the Dee above Aldford. Their alleged murders were
bitterly revenged by the descendant of the third, Owen Glendower.
The issue of this marriage were. Sir John Ardcrne, and Peter
* Hist. Chcsh. ii, 41. - Writs of Summons, vol. ii, div. 2, 376.
' VcnaMcs Deeds, Harl. :MSS. 2077, 37 b ; and Ardcrne deeds, Harl.
JISS. 2074, 132, and 2077, p. 37.
* Sec references in p. 70.
* Royal Tribes, pp. 59 to 63, and Baronage, i, 747.
ARDEKNE OF ALDFOllD, ETC. 81
Ardcrne, of Over Aldcrley ; ' Maud, -wife of John Lcgh, of Booths, -
and other daughters, who had settlements of land. In this genera-
tion, according to a contcmporaiy Roll, the arms were temporarily
varied to gules, cnisule, or, and a chief of the second,^ instead of
the three crosslcts and the chief.
VII. John Ardekxe, afterwards knighted, and son and heir of
Sir John and Margaret, was a minor in, 1317, 2 Ed. II, when
Prince Edward presented to Aldford Chmxh, as in his right, and
he is named as Lord of Elford in the returns of 9 Ed. II. In 1324,
17 Ed. II, he was one of the knights summoned from Staffordshire
to attend the Great Council at Westminster, and in the following
year was a Commissioner of Array for Cheshire. In 1327 he pre-
sented to Mobberly, in right of his ward, Ralph de Modburlcgh, a
militaiy tenant of xVldford ; and as Lord of Aldford, granted that
ward's marriage, in 1329, to John de Pulford.''
On the death of this Sir John de Arderne, the division of the
' This younger branch of Arderne is as inaccurately given in Yiiicent's
Collections (120 Coll. Arms) as the parent line itself is, to which parent
line a representation of this junior branch returned, as follows : —
Peter, son and heir of Peter de Arderne of Aklerley, above
mentioned, had a son, who died S. P., and two daughters,
Christiana and Margaret. (Abstracts, Harl. 3IS. 2074. 136.)
Christiana, wife of John Fitton of Bolyn, died S. P., leaving
her sister ^Margaret, wife of Richard de "SYever, her heir.
(Lcycester Hist. Chesh. i, 400.)
Edward de Wever, grandson of Richard and ]Margaret, had issue
Edward (Inquisition p.m., 13 Henry VI), whose widow Elizaheth is fuuud
by Inquisition p.m. 1 Henry VII, to have had issue Elizabeth, w. of Sir
John Done, daughter and heiress. This lady was previously wife of John
Stanley, from which marriage Stanley of Aklerley inherits Alderky and
Wever. Her Inquisition p.m. was taken 4 Henry VII, in which year she
died, and throvgh this second marriage the Ardernes of Alvanley (as heirs
of Done of Ulkinton) are co-heirs of her and of Arderne of Aldcrley, along
with Stanley of Alderley, who descended from her first marriage. See
Alvanley, Wever, and Aldcrley, in Hist. Chesh.
2 Hist. Chesh. i, 325. ^ Jficolas's Roll, p. 98 (2-7 E. II).
* Writs of Summons, and Lichfield Episcopal Registers.
82 • ARDEKNE OF ALDFORD, ETC.
family into the iico lines of Alvanley and Aldfonl followed, and the
discrepancies of genealogies are as follows : —
The Visitation of 15G6 gives to this Sir John four sons ; Walter,
S. P. (an error for Walkclyn), Thomas, S. P., Sir John, thu-d son
and heir, and Charles, and is followed in Br}dgcs's Peerage.
Vincent (MS. 120, Coll. Arms) di^"ides this Sir John into two
generations (8 Ed. Ill, and 40 Ed. Ill), giving to his second Sir
John two wives, Jane de Stokeport, S. P., and EUena Wastneys,
with issue, by EUena, Walkeljii, Thomas of Aldford, Sir John
(as ancestor of Alvanley), and Margaret, all given as legitimate.
A Modern Entry in the College of Arms follows Vincent, as-
signing Alice Venables as wife to the first Sir John of Vincent's
inaccurate arrangement.'
In compiling the History of Cheshii'e, the facts of the Alvanley
line descending from Peter de Arderne, legitimate heir of Sir John
and Alice Venables, and of Thomas A. of Aldford and his brother
WalkeUni being illegitimate, were discovered and brought forward ;-
but e^•idcnce had not been then obtained for sho'vnrig Alice Venables,
Jane de Stokeport, and Ellen Wastneys, to have been all successive
wives of one Sir John de Arderne ; of the one, namely, now spoken
of, who was son of Sir John Arderne, husband of Margaret of
Bromfield.
77/ /s may be proved as follows :
By Inq. p.m., Dec. 23, 23 Ed. Ill, 1349,3 ^^ ^^.^^g fouud that John
de Arden, Chev., and Ellen his wife, held no lands in the Counties
of Chester or Flint at their deaths, except for life, by fine levied
in Cheshire : that after their deaths, all their lands therein reverted
to Thomas, son of said Ellen, and heirs male of his body, as by said
fine ; and that Peter de Arden, son of John aforesaid, is his next heir
in blood, and aged upwards of twenty-four years. An endorsement
before the Justiciary orders the Eschaetor to remove his hands from
the lands, as Thomas was "purchasour" (acquirer) by licence.
In fines relating to X. Alderlcy, 20 Ed. Ill, and Aldford, 23 Ed.
Ill, the same description is used as to Sir John Arderne, Ellen his
^\ife, and Tlionras and Walkel}-n, sons of Ellen.^ She had become
his ^-ife in or before 23 Ed. Ill, when both presented jointly to the
Rectory of Aldford.^
' Norfolk iii, 42. Latham Pedigree, compiled by Francis Martin, 1S08.
» Hist. Chesh. ii, p. 38. •• Hist. Chesh. ii, p. 38.
' Records in Chester Exchequer. * Ibid. 414.
ARDERXE OF ALDFORD, ETC. 83
The three A\nves, and the issue of Sir John Ardcme, were as
follows : —
I. Alice, daughter of Sir HrcK Vexables, of Kinderton, con-
tracted wife in 1 FA. II, 1307-8, as by the settlements of Alvanley
beforementioned.
1. John Ardcnie, eldest son and heir apparent by this mamage,
was unavoidably, though inacciu'ately, transferred by Vincent to
the third wife, as the second was childless, and this first was
unknown! to him. This John was born before 4 Ed. Ill, 1330,' as his
father then occurs as John Arderne, Senior, in a fine along with his
second n-tfe Joan, daughter of Sir Ridiaicl de Stokcport, previously
wife of Sir Xicolas dc Eton, and his ^^idow m 1327.'- In an
entail of X. Aldcrley, he occurs as " Johannes fdius Johannis de
Arderne Militis," followed by his younger brother " Petrus fratcr
predicti Johannis filii Johannis."^ In 1332 he occurs again in
divorce proceedings Anth reference to his contracted marriage with
Cicely de Eton, daughter of his stepmother Joan before mentioned,
both being under marriageable years, but both old enough to be
described as protesting against it.^ The words of the fine of 4
Ed. Ill, imply the existence of John Arderne, Junior, within the
period of Sir John's second marriage ; but he could not be
issue by that ■v\'ife, as in 6 Edward III he was contracted to her
daughter by her first husband.
2. Pefer dc Arderne, the ancestor of the Alvanley line, cannot be
doubted to be the " Peter, brother of John, son of John," in the
Alderley settlement cited ; but decisive evidence is given by the
Inq. p. m. 23 Ed. Ill before mentioned, finding him son and heir
of Sir John expressly, and by his owii claim of Alvanley in pleas at
Chester, about 28 Ed. Ill, wherein he describes himself as son and
heir of John (son of Su- John Arderne) and Alice Venables liis wife.
As Founder of the distinct Alvanley line, he occurs hereafter.
3. Margaret Arderne was contracted wife of Xicolas de Eton,
son and heir apparent of her fatlier's second wife, in 4 Edw. 111.
and therefore clearly not the daughter of that lady by Sir Jolm
Arderne, both of whom were living, and as clearly not of the third
•wife. Her Marriage Contract is given by "Watson, Warren, il, 237.
' Watson's House of WaiTen ii, 238. ^ ibid. 240.
' Ilarl. MSS. 2074, 136. * Watson's Warren ii, p. 237,
H
8-1 ARDERXE OF ALDFORD, KTC.
II. Joan pe STOKtroKX, daughter of Sir Pi^crAUD, the second
vife, was wife of Sir Nicholas de Eton in 1320, and widow in 1326,
and mother, by him, of Nicolas and Cecily de Stokeport, which
Nicolas and Cecily were severally husband and contracted wife of
Margaret and of John de Ardcrne before mentioned. She was wife
of Sir John Arderne (as by fine) in 1330, and from tenor of other
fines in Avhich she does not occur, probably deceased in 1332. — in
which last year Sir Nicolas de Eton, her son, released lands to Sir
John Arderne solely, in which she had previously a Joint interest.^
III. Ellena Wastxeys, the third wife, is recognized as wife of
Sir John Arderne in the Alderlegh fine of 20 Edw. Ill, and the
Aldford fine 23 Edw. Ill, in the presentation to Aldford in same
year, and the following Inquisition p. m., finding Thomas Arderne
heii' of Aldford by alienation under licence, and Peter Arderne, son
and heir of the same Sir John in blood. The invariable description
of Thomas, as son of Ellen, wife of Sir John, in all these docu-
ments, might prevent any confusion as to illegitimacy protected by
settlements, but more decided evidence exists. Thomas Arderne
presented to Aldford rectory in his own right Jan. 17, 1349,- and of
course was of age then, and was born in or be/ore 1328, and two vcars
after this date, as shewn by fine of 1330,^ Joan de Stokeporte, the
second Lady Arderne, who was not his mother, was li^-ing.
The Continuation of the illegitimate line, issue of Sir John Arderne
by EUena Wastneys, ultimately the third Lady Arderne, and ^f the
line of Stanley, which succeeded to these Ardcrnes at Aldford and
Nether Alderlcy in Cheshire, and Elford in Staftbrdshire, will be
found in the Ilistorij of Cheshire, vol. iii, p. 301, and Shaw's Staf-
fordsliire, vol. i, p. 380.
The present discussion turns to the legitimate representatives of
the family, the Aederxes of Alvani.ey.
' Finc3 cited in Watson's Warren, 237-8.
' Extracts from Presentations recorded in Lichfield Epi.'^copal Piegi:^tcre,
Ilarl. :\ISS. 2071, Xo. ;33.
' Watson's llisiory of Warren, ii, 238, as in page preceding.
85
III.
ARDERXE OF ALVANLEY.
AFTER THE ALIEXATION OF ALDFORD AND ELFOKD.
VIII. Peter de Arderne has been proved to have been sur-
^•i^•ing son and heir of Sir John Arderne in 1319, by the direct
evidence of his father's Inquisition post mortem. Eighteen years
before this, in Feb. 5 Edward III, 1331, Avhen he would be about
six years old, he is named in his marriage covenant, an indenture
between Mons. John de Arderne et Adam de Bredbury et Cccile sa
feme et Piers le filz de dit Mons. John et Cecile sa feme. By this
deed Adam de Bredbury enfeoffs William de Stokeport, Chaplain,
with half his manor of Romilegh and seven parts of Bredbury, to
himself and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to Piers
and CeciHa, and the heirs of their bodies, with other rent-charges
on Bredbury, Pvomilegh, and lands in Macclesfield. John de Ar-
derne also settles a rent-charge of forty marks from his manor of
Aldford on the same parties.
This is followed by a fine at Chester before William de Clynton
(Just. Cest. 1331-37) and other deeds between the Trustee and
the Grantor.^
The Bredbury estate, obtained by this maiTiage, included
HakdeV, a subsequent principal seat of this family, and Altani.ey
was afterwards recovered. Randle Holmes gives an imperfect date
of the claim and successful suit, which may be corrected fron\ 2 to
28 or 29 Edward III. It took place on a Thursday next after
Trinity, the presiding Justice being Bartholomew Burghersh, whose
predecessor, Hillary, retired in August, 27 Edward III.- The two
dates given fill up the period from this time to 30 Eduardlll, when
Peter de Arderne must have been in possession, since his payment
of arrears of quitrent to Vale lloyal, as " Lord of Alvandclegh", in
33 Edward III, included that year.
The plea was against Thomas de Bulkeley, most probably Trustee
and father-in-law of Thomas Arderne, the Ulegitimate brother of
the plaintiff Peter de Arderne who claimed the manor as settled
» Abstract of Ardcruc Deeds, Harl. MSS. 207-1, 135, b. 133, and 131,
taken from the originals at IlurJen in or about lUo2, by R. Hohno an.l
John liooth of Twcudow.
■^ Lcvcestcr's List of Justiciaricsof Chester. Hist. Chcsh. i, \k -n .
86 ARDERXE OF ALVAXLKY.
by Sir John de Arderne on John his son, and Alice daughter of
Hugh Venablcs, and the heirs of their bodies, himself being son
and heir of that John, son of John and xUice, and the decision was
in his favour.^
From this period Ai.vaxley and Harden became the seats of
this branch of Arderne, an ancient mansion within Stockport itself
subsequently becoming their Cheshire residence.
The family of Bkedbury, which merged in Arderne at this
early period, was represented between 120S and 1229 by Jordan
dc Bredbury, witness to Sir Robert de Stokeport's grant of Marple
to the Vernons at that period.* A later Jordan de Bredbury had
release from Hamon de Massey from suit to his court in the time
of the first Sir Peter de Arderne, witness to it, and was father of
Adam above mentioned, who had a release from Xicolas and Joan
de Eton, as " Adam son of Jordan de Bredbury", temp. Edward !,■'
and who besides Cicely de Aj-dcrne, had a daughter, Catherine, not
known to have married.
The name of Harden in Bredbury (locally pronounced, like
that of its Lords, Ardeii) has necessarily led to much confusion.
Whitaker's Manchester (4to. i, 2G, 348) may be consulted as to its
derivation from the site of British forests, as well as a memoir by
the author on the connexion of the Cheshire Ardernes and War-
wickshire Ardens.* Local conjecture will doubtless continue to
overlook the certain inheritance of this place from the Bredbury
family, and to consider it as the parent locality of the Arderne name,
but this is clearly an error. It is, however, doubtful whether a
Richard de Harderna was not identical with that Sir Richard de
Aldford, to whom the first Sir John Arderne was successor and
probably son-in-luw, and whether, in such case, the variation of the
' The plea, etc., from the Record preserved in Harl. JilSS. 2074, is in
Hist. Chcsh. ii, p. yf).
2 House of "Warren ii, 226. Earlier generations of this house, which
scorns to have been a collateral of .Massky and Stokeport, lore the local
name in the time of lien. H. They occur in the pcrsont; of Alexander,
son of Ilamo de LrcHmri, Jordan, Il;dph, and Adam, sons of Alexander,
Waltheof and John de Brcdl^uri, and Stephen brother of John, all wit-
nesses to the confirmatory Charter granted by the thhd llamo de :Masci to
Robert Fitz-Waltheof, the supposed male ancestor of the Stokeports.
Hist. Chesh. i, p. 39f), iii, p. .384. The Anns of Bredbury, sahle three
buckles, argent, occur in Ordinaries, but want ofiicial allowance.
' Ardei-ne Deeds, 13"), b. 134.
* In remarks on Mr. Drummond's Ar Jen Pedigree. Topographer i, zOS.
ARDEKXE OF ALVANLEY. 87
name as " dc Hardcrna" did not regard the parts of Aldford Fee
whicli entered into the sylvan district round Harden,' and are sup-
posed to have borne such name in the British period. This, liow-
ever, is only matter of speculative curiosity, and in no way con-
nected with the derivation of the family name of Arderne or Arden,
now indisputably traced from a Xorthamptonshire family.
The last deed of Peter de Arderne that has occurred, is a grant
of the manor of Alvandelegh in trust to John de Scolhall, 2 Jan.,
42 Edward III.
IX. Hugh Arderxe of Hakden and Alvanley, erroneously
called son of Sir John de Arderne in the Visitation of 1566, suc-
ceeded as son of Piers and Cecilia, and is expressly so styled in a
precept to Maud, wife of Sir "William Camngton, respecting the
manor of Bothomes,- somewhat later than 47 Edward III, in which
year Sir William was living. He was contracted husband of Agnes,
daughter of Robert de Hulme, 29 Edward HI, and was husband of
Cecilia, daughter of Palph Hyde, 2 Richard II, and survived in
6 Henry V, when he granted his lands in Alvanley to his sur%-iving
son, Ralph Ardern, and his wife Catherine,' having also had issue
. Peter, Ralph, and John.
X. Ralph Abdeen, fourth son and heir of Hugh, succeeded.
Vincent's very erroneous pedigree describes him as son of Henry
Arderne, who is brought forward as son of an alleged but non-
existent Sir John, and grandson of Sir John of Aldford, by Ellen
Wastneys. This Henry was of another branch, that of Dorfold.*
The real parentage of Ralph is fixed by the deed cited above, and,
after this point, the pedigrees agree.
Katherixe, wife of Ralph Ardern, was daughter of Sik Wil-
liam Stanley of Hooton, according to all authorities, and occurs
M-ith him in tiixst-deeds of the manor of Alvanley, and lands m
Bredbury and Stockport, ^ilay 2 and IG, 15 Henry VI. He settled
lands in Stockport, Romilegh, and Wemith, on his son John, and
Alice his wife, Oct., 22 Henry VI, to which Tliomas, William, and
John Stanley arc witnesses, and was deceased before October 3,
« Sec Hist. Chesh. iii, 309, where an engraving and dcscrii^tion of
Harden Hall is given.
- Arderne Deeds, Ilarl. MSS. 2071, 13.3 ^ Il.M. 132 h. 133, 132.
* See Iliit. Chc.h. ii, p. 30 ; iii, p. 183.
88 ARDEKXE OF ALVANLEY.
27 Henry VI, as by release to his widow from Charles Ardcrne.'
She had afterwards a licence for an oratory at Alvanle}-, and mar-
ried to her second Imsband John or Jenkin Hyde, before 38 Hcmy
VI, as by award between him and her eldest son John, besides
■whom she was mother of Thomas, Robert, Hugh, and Ralph, li-\-ing
13 Henry VII.-
XI. John Ardkiini:, son of Ralph and Catherine, as by deeds
cited (called Sir John in Fed. Coll. Arm.) married before 22 Hcniy
VI, Alick, before mentioned, daughter of — Heatox of Heatox
in the Heralds' Pedigree, and afterwards married a second Avife, [Mar-
garet, whose dower was fixed by him on Alvanley, 13 Henn,- VII,
as in a deed containing provisions in favour of his son Ralph, and
Margaret, daughter of Thomas Davenport of Henbury, his intended
wife, with remainder to his four brothers above-mentioned.'' He
had also issue Thomas, son and heir, as below, Mary, wife of
Thomas Dokenfield of Dokenfield, and Jane, successively wife of
Thurstan Hyde of Denton, Sir John Warren of Po}"nton, and John
Davenport of Davenport.^
XII. Thomas Akdekxe, son and heir-apparent of John Ardeme,
is named, together with his wife Isabel, in a deed of 16 Edward IV.
In 22 Hem-y VII, he released lands to his brother Ralph and other
trustees, to the use of his father, John Arderne, Esq., then sur-
viving. In 23 Heniy VII, he granted to trustees his manors of
Alvanley and Bredbury, with lands in Werncth, Romilcy, and
Stockport, and died December 3, 1511 (as by Inquisition p.m. 3
Henry VIII), leaving Thomas, son and heir, aged 40 years, of
Avhom, as of his father, the Visitation of 1566 takes no notice, and
who must have died issueless.
XII. Ralph Arueuxe, who succeeded, is fixed as son of John
Arderne and — Hcaton by the Visitation, and as son of John by the
Inquisition taken after his own son's death (G Edward VI), and
must therefore be the Ralph, whose betrothed wife, ^Margaret Da-
venport, occurs (as above) in 13 Henry VII, and who was trustee
of his brother Thomas, 22 Henry VII, as above. By this wife ^Mar-
garet, daughter of Thomas Davenport of Hcnbur)-, Esq., and of his
' Harl. MSS. 2074, 110 b. 120, 1.34.
* Ibid. 132 b. 134 b. 1.33 b. 3 Ibid. 133 b
* Visitation of Oicshirc l't(>C>, and Hist. Cliosh. iii, 40.
AKDEKXK OF ALVAXLEY. SO
wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Alexander Radclyire of Ordsall, ho
had issue John, Robert, and Elizabeth, and, as by Inquisition p.m.
30 Henry VIII, died seized of lands in Alvanley, the manor of
Harden, and lands in Bredbury, "NVerncth, Komilcgh, Oficrton, and
Stockport. John Arderne, son and heir.
XIII. John Aederxk, Esq., thus found heir, died December 1,
5 Edward VI, lool, seized in Alvanley and Harden, as described
at length in his Inquisition taken at Chester, January 8, 1.553, G
Edward VI, which names his son and heir, Ralph Arderne, aged
27 years, his younger sons Hugh and Robert, and his grandfather,
father, mother, and brother, as before-mentioned. Other children
will be found in the Pedigree in the History of Cheshire.
The Visitation gives his marriage with Agxes orxlxxE, daughter
of RoBEHT Hydk of Hyde and Xorbuky, Elsq.^ She was daugh-
ter by his first marriage with Margaret, daughter of Richard Hol-
land of Denton, Esq.
Ralph Akdekxe of Hakdex and Alvaxley, Esq., son and
heir, born in or about 1524, entered the family Pedigree in tlie
Visitation of 1566, and man-ied, firstly, Fkaxces, described in that
Visitation simply as daughter of JoHX Legh of BAOUEEOir.
This lady, however, was heir (in heraldic sense) to her grand-
father, Henry Legh of Bagulegh, Esq., who died without surviving
male issue, Richard Legh, his brother, succeeding him, after tliC
death of Henry's own son John Legh (father of Frances) without
male issue, about 24 Henry VIII. Her great imcle Richard, ne.\t
heir male, paid her portion, 3 Edward VI, 1549.'-
Thc second wife of Ralph Arderne was Ellen, daughter of Sir
Richard Bulkcley of Beaumaris, marriage settlement 28 Xov. 1588.
Harl. MS. 2074, p. 154.
He had male issue by both wives (Hist. Chesh. ii, p. 42), but
by his first wife, Frances Legh, was father of John Arderne, who
continued the family line.
XIV. Joixx AuDERXE of Hakdex and Alvaxley, E.sq., son
• Their arms were in the painted glass of the Harden c]iaiict4, at
Stockport, at its demolition ; tlie Arderne ihi-jkl, a fine specimen, is now
at Sedlniry.
Lcycestcr's Chcsh. .\ntiq. from Ilagukab deeds, p. 218, with reference
to MS. authority. The quartering^ of Lc,i;h arc allowed in Norfjlk,
III, p. 57, MSS. Coll. Arm.
00 ARDERXK OF ALVAXLEY.
and heir, is the last in the Pedigree entered in the Visitation of
loGG. He married Mary, daughter of Richard Holland of Denton
in Lancashire, and had issue Henry and Frances.^
His Inquisition p. m. (as extracted in "Williamson's MSS.) Avas
taken 12 James I, and states his death on March 20, 1612, and the
succession of his son and heir, Henry Ardcrne, aged 24 years at
his decease.-
XV. Hexry Aederxe, son and heir, with whom Dugdale's
Visitation commences, married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Legh
of Adlington, Esq., and sister of Sir Urian Legh, the next and more
celebrated representative of that most ancient family, and by her
was father of Ralph Arderne.
XVI. Ralph Auderxe of Hakden and Ala'axeet, Esq., son
and heir of Henry, was baptized at Frodsham, December 11, 1G08.
In September 1642, he commanded his tenantry in defence of Man-
chester against the Royalists who besieged it under Lord Strange,
and afterwards served in the siege of Warrington.^ He died in
1651.
Eleanor, his wife, who survived him, was daughter and co-heiress
of Sir John Done of Utkinton, and baptized at Tarporley, January
19, 1609-10. Of her and her ancestors ample notice will be fovmd
in the History of Clieshire. They were a race of warriors who had
lield Utkinton (supposed to be the "Done" of Domesday), as
military tenants of ^'enables, from the time of King Johii, and they
inherited from the Kingsleys of Kingsley the hereditary Forester-
ship of Delamere, one of the high offices of the Norman Palatinate,
which included a capital jurisdiction over fifty townships. The
arms, " azure two bars argent, surmounted by a bend yules, charged
with three arrows", vary only in this official distinction from those
of the Leghs and other acknowledged branches of the Barons of
Kinderton ; and the Chiefs of this house of Utkinton will be found
in the battle-rolls of Agincourt, Blore Heath, and Flodden, and in
the list of those faithful members of the Cheshire Guard of Richard
n, that adhered true to him in adversity.*
» Norfolk, iii, 42. MSS. Coll. Arm.
' The original Itupiiiitloiis of this period iu Chester Exchequer are
inaccessible from disarrangement.
^ Civil War TracLs of Lancashire, ))p. 45, o2, 90, 3.33.
* Seo Hist, of Cheshire in Utkinton, Kingsley and Introduction,
ARDERXE OF ALVANLEY AND DARDEN, WITH THE PARENT LINES OF ARDEN OF WATFORD, Co. NORTnA:\IPTON, AND ARDERNE OF ALDFORD CASTLE, CIIESDIRE, AND ELFOKD, STAFFORDSHIRE,
BKOUGHT POWX TO THE TIME OF SUCCESSION TO THE DONES OF UTKIXTO.V, FROM AUTHORITIES CITED IN '-"HE PRECEDIKG KARnATIVE.
Roger tic Montalt, PalatmeyCecilia,dau.aud co-heir of
Eustace, stated to be £
1 of Agnes de Arden, grautor uf Watford Church to the Abhey of St. James at Northampton.
Eustace de Arden, alias de Watfbrd, temp. Ric. I. Deceased in 1213.
Eustace de Arden, alias de Watford, fined for his late father's lands,
1213; died in or before 1221.
1 of Ila warden, and He
ditary Seneschal of Chester.
W
William d'Albini, Earl of
ibrundcl, and his w. Mabel,
sister and co-h.of Ran. Ill,
Earl of Chester.
John de Ardeni, compounds for lands given by his father Eustace, 1213 ; grants lands in Watford to his brother Eustace after^ PhiUp,eld.sonof SirPhilip=FL-euca,hadEIfordand
1209; named as bis knight by Kanulph III, Earl of Chester, and has grant of Aldford Fee, in Cheshire, from him befo.e 122D. de Orreby Kt. Just. Cest. | Cassia "lond in marr
Eustace de Watford, has s
of his father's lan-is, 1221. Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. I, 12To-t- Margery.
Sir W^alkelyu de Arderne, Et., Justitiary of Chester, succeeded i
■ before 123G ; dieJ about 12C5.=T=Agues, daughter and heiress of Philip do Orreby, and
of his wife Leuca de Montalt.
Aveline, wife of William le Broun. ^lary, wife of John de Burueby. Jane, wife of William de Paries. Elena, .uumarriid.
Sir Peter de Arderne, Kt., of Alvanley and Aldford. Inq, p.m. 20 Edw. I, 1203.YMar''ery.
Sir John de Arderne of Aldford and AlTanley,Kt.,y3Iargaret, daughter of Griffith ap JIadog, Lord of Bromfield, and Prince of
born 12CC; died in or about 130S. Powys Vadog, contracted between 12C7 and 1270.
Agnes, wife of Warin JIainwar
of W^armiucham, 3.5 Edw. I.
Other
daughter;
Maud, wife of John Legh Alice, dau. of Sir Hugh Venables, Kt.,=Sir John de Arderne of Aldford and Alvanley,— Jane, dau. of Sir Richard de Stokeport, widow oi; Sir Kicolas=EIlena de Wastneys, previously concubine, third wife, Petcr'do Arderne, grantee of Over Alderley
of Booths, about 1303.'
contracted in 1307-:
Nicolas de Eton thcj^r^Iargaret de Arderne.
yoimger, 1330. S.P. S. P.
Robert de Eton.
John de Eton.
Both S. P.
Sir Edward Wa
Poynton, Kt., :
husband.
is;
nd heir, 1307-8 ; died 1349.
! Eton, wife of Sir J. A., 1330, by whom
1346 ; died between July 13 and Dec. 23, 1349.
from his brother, 43 Edw. III.
enof^Cecily de^Jobn do Arderne. divorced
eond I Eton. from Cecily de Eton, 1332.
-^ • O.S.P.
I
Peter de Arderne, son and b.,-j-CecUia, dau. and b. of Adam
23 Edw. Ill, possessed of I deBredbmyof Darden; mar.
Alvanley 30-42 Edw. III. | sett. 5 Edw. III.
Thomas do Arderne, ancestor of Walkelyn de Arderne,
Arderne of Aldford and of Elford, brother of Thomas, 20
CO. Statf,, born before marriage. Edw. III.
Arderne, Wever, and
Stanley, of Aldeklev.
ghter of Ralph Hide,
I
ed before 2 Rich. II.=IIu£:b,
of Peter de Arderne, 29 Edw. Ill, settles his Alvanley estate C lie
-Agnes, daughter of Robert de Ilulm, Tnarr
I 2 I 3 I
Piers de Arderne, son and heir apparent, Ralph, second son. O.S.P. John de Arderne, s
46Edw.III. O.S.P. 20 Rich. II. O.S.j
Ralph de Arderne of Alvanley .and Hai:dcu,=f Catherine, daughter of Sir Wil'iam Stanley of Ilooton, Kt.;
died before 27 Hen. Vl] remained to Jobn Hyde before 3S Heu. Vl.
Margaret •
dower settled 13 Den. VII.=John Arderne of Alvanley and Harden, son and hoir.-i-Aiice, daughter of Heaton of Heaton, in Lancashire, 22 lien. VI
Thomas, Robert, Hugh, and Ralph, living 13 Hen. VII.
Thomas Arderne of Alvanley and Harden, son and^lsabel, wife of Thomas Arde:
heir, died 1511. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. VIII. IG Edw. IV.
Ralph Arderne, brother and heir. -r Margaret, daughter of Thomas Davenport of Hen-
bury, CO. Cest. 13 Hen. VII.
Mary, wife of Tho
of Dokenfield.
Dokenfield Jai.c, wife of Thurstan HolJillJsocondly, of Sir John Warr
thirdly, of John Davenport of X>avcnport.
Thomas Arderne, son and heir, loll, aged 40 years. S. P.
John Arderne of Alvanley, son and heir, died Dec. ISJl, Inq, p,m. C Edw, VI.=j=Anne, daughter of Robert Hyde of Hyde and Norbury, Esq.
Elizabetli, wife of Randall JMmshull.
1 I
Ellen, wife of Thon
of Boristal.
Shrigley iMargaret, wife of William Hyde
of Urmeston.
Jane, wife of Williai
Dokenfield.
2 I III
Ilvdeof Ellen, dau. of Richard Eulkcley=f Ralph Arderne of Alvanley .and Frances, daughter am: heiress of Francis, John, and Robert,
of Beaumaris. -^Harden, son and heir, 13(10. jjohn Legh, of Bagult ;h, 1S49. in Vis. IflGO.
John Arderne of Alvanley and Harden, son and heir, died I\IiU'ch 1612. Inq. 12 Jac. 1. -pMary, daughter of Richard Holland of Denton, in Lancashire. Margaret.
Henry Arderne of Alvanley and Harden, Esq., aged 24 in 12 Jac, I. —Margaret, daughter of Thomas Legh of AdUngton, Esq. Frances.
^alpl
h Arderne of Alvanley and Harden, Esq., died IG-DLyEloanor, dau. and
. of Sir John Done, of Utkinton,ICt,
i\Iaiy, wife of Frances Beresford, j\Iargaret, wife of Edw, Warren of Poynton, Frances, wife of William Davenport of Bra
I 1
Sir John Ard.imc, Kt,, son and heir, f
whom lEichiird Lord Alianlcv. Id.SI,
2 I ""31" 4 I
Thomas, died , Henry, front whom Ralph of Cbayton Bridge,
in infancy, feuiale issue. from whom female issue.
Janus Arderne, D,D., Dean of
Chester, 0,S.P, IG!)!,
C 7 I I 8 1
'I'liomas and Edward. Pliilip Arderne of the Oak and Sutton,YMa
O.S.P.' front whom male issue. iiia
llroadhurst of Midgley,
1 a II
Wary and Frances,
o.sir.
ARDKRNK OF ALVANLKY. 91
The last Sir John Done, who entertained King James and his
Court at Utkinton Hall in 1617, and of whom many anecdotes will
be found in Hinde's Life of Bruen of Stapleford, married Dorothy,
daughter of Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhcy, celebrated in Cheshire
tradition as the pattern of female perfection.^ Amon" many chil-
dren, who died young or issueless, he had three daughters, co-
heiresses by survivorship ; Jane, unmanied ; Mary, wife of John
Crewe, M.P. for Northamptonshire, whose issue became extinct in
1715; and Eleanor, wife of Ralph Ardeme, as before-mentioned, of
whose ten children, three sons and two daughters died issueless
before 1642.
The "Will of Mrs. Jane Done directed her property to be divided
into six shares, in the event of the Ardernes succeeding, distribut-
able between Sir John Arderne (the eldest son of Ralph and
Eleanor), who had a devise of two shares, and his four brothers
or their representatives ; and this event was followed by a Chancery
suit between the family and the Dean and Chapter of Chester as
devisees of Dean Arderne, the fourth surviving brother.
RiCHAiiD, THIRD LoHD Alvaxi.ey, and nephew of the late John
Arden of Harden, Alvanley, and Utkinton, Esq., is now descendant
representative of Sir John Arderne, the eldest of these brothers. All
male issue from the other sons of Ralph Arderne is extinct, except-
ing in the line of Philip Akdekxe of the Oak, the youngest sou.*
Of this braxch, the second male line, the following particulars
may be added :
XVII. Philip Arderxf, last mentioned, eighth son of Ralph
and Eleanor Arderne, and fifth by survivorship, was of the Oak ix
Stjttox, near Macclesfield, and married at Gawsworth, Xov. 11,
1664, Mary, daughter of — Broadhurst of Midgley, and on him his
mother settled a rent-charge issuing from lands in "Williugton,
in Cheshire, April 17, 1669.
Nicolas's Roll of Agincourt, and Kali's Chronicle. The Doncs used
SuproRTEiis to their Arms by prescription.
' See Pennant's Chester to London, 4to, p. 8. Her mother, Frnucc.s
Wilbraham, was daughter of a well known Cheshire worthy. Sir ilii^^'h
Cholmondeley, the elder. The descent of her father, Thomas ■\Vi!K>ndiani,
paternally, and also through his mother, Dorothea Grosvenor, of Eaton,
came from the best blood of the Palatinate.
' See Hist. Chesh. ii, pp. 42, 134, and Norfolk vi, p. S, Coll. Arm.
C
92 ARDERNE OF THE OAK.
XTiii. James Arderxe of the Oak, aforesaid, is proved as son
and heir of the said Phili^^, by deeds of lease and release relative
to the said rent-charge, December 1, 1736, and is mentioned in the
Will of his uncle, Dean Arderne. He was a defendant in the suit
above-mentioned, and on October 25, 1725, was adjudged heir to
one-sixth of the manors of Utkinton, Willington, and Tarporley.
He married Mary, daughter of — Broadhurst of Midgley, his
cousin (who was buried at ^Macclesfield, September 30, 1705 ', and
died at Utkinton, ha\'ing had issue, 1, John," 2, James, S. P., 3,
Philip, 4, Ralph, 5, Henry, S.P. In the issue of Philip the repre-
sentation of the nialc line would rest, in case of failure of male
issue of the present Lord Alvanley.
XIX. JonN Akbeuxe of the Oak in Sutton, and of Romsey
in Hampshire, was born at the Oak in 1G90, and was party to deeds
previous to a recovery of the rent-charge before-mentioned, in 1736,
as son and heir of James, son and heii* of Philip, fifth sun"i%-ing
son of Eleanor Arderne; and dpng October 11, 1753, was buried
in Macclesfield church.
By his wife Mary, daughter of James Carter of Romsey, who
died 26 August, 1741, aged 51, and was buried at Macclesfield, he
had two sons, and two daughters, co-heirs by sui-vivorship.
Mary, eldest daughter and co-heir, was M-ife of Jonathan Hulley,
Esq., of Rainow, iir Cheshire, whose son, Jasper Hulley, sold his
share of the Done estates in Utkinton, "Willington, and Tarporley.
Martha Ardekxe, yovmgest daughter and co-heir, baptized at
Romsey, July 31, 1734, was married at Gawsworth, 26 December
1753, to Peter !Mayer, B.A., afterwards Yicar of Prestbur}-, in
Cheshire, and d}-ing at Sandbach, February 20, 1816, was buried
at Prestbur)', having had issue two daughters, 1, Mary, \nfe of
John Latham, M.D., and 2, Frances, wife of David Davies, D.D.
On the demise of John Ardekxe, last mentioned, in 1753,
lca^"ing daughters only, the male representation of this second line
rested in Philip Arderne, his brother, from whom, and from Ralph,
bis youngest brother, male issue is continued.
93
DE MONTALT,
BEKKl.ITAUY SE.VESCIIAL OF CUKSTER, PALATI.NE BAKO:> OF lIAWAIiULN.
y^M;
Dugdale's Genealogy of this house begins with Hugh, R.U)VLPii,
and RoGK K Fitz-Xokmax, brothers, living in the time of Hugh
Lupus, and the evidence is direct.^ All these bore the name of
Fitz-Xorman; Pvadulph, named elsewhere as brother of Roger,
joins in Hugh's grants as brother of Hugh; and the estates of
Hugh and Seneschalship of Pvadulph were combined in the next
generation.
I. Passing over Nokman, the father of these three, of whom
nothing further is known,= the sons occur as folloAVs :
II. Hugo, as Hugo de Maea, occurs in Domesday as Lord of
Lee, Bruge, Radeclive, Calders, Lautune, Bcvelei, and Gostrcl, in
Cheshire ; and as Hugo, simply, with reference to Boselcga, Merc-
ton, and Sumreford. As Hugh Fitz-Xokman, he adds to E.irl
Hugh's grants to St. Werburgh's in 1003, lands in Lostock, CoJ-
dington, and Lea, in which '• Radulfus frater ejus" joins, and he
witnesses the Charter of that date as Hugh Fitz-Xorman.^
Radulphus, joint grantor with Hugh, as "his brother", ni
1093, follows him in the order of witnesses as " Radulj)hus
» Baronage, vol. i, p. 527. Dugdale's account was followed in ili«
History of Cheshire, as no opportunity had occurred of correcting it Irom
original sources.
2 All that Archdnle, in his Irish Peerage, says of him, is as unworthy
of attention as his derivation of Montalt from a Lordship of .^lontc Alto
in Italy (vol. vii, 271). Ducangc derived "Sormamius'' from Sor^na, and
g-ave its meaning as "famulus" a servant. It was probably a soubri-iuet.
Hist. Chcsh. i, 13.
94 DE MO'TALT, SENESCHAL OF CHESTER.
Dapifcr" or Seneschal; in 1119 he and Rop;er, as "iii.ii xor-
M.vxxi", "witness Hugh Fitz-Xorman's grant of Gostrey and Lawton
to Chester Abbey;' and he aftcr.vards, as Ra])Ulpiii:s Dapifek,
follows the Earl's brother, William Mcschincs, and the Baron of
llalton, as a witness to the Charter of Randlc I to the same.-
KoGKR Fitz-Xorma>' and Radulph have been already noticed
as " filii Xormanni".
III. RouKiiT, "FiLius Radulphi fii.ii Normaxxi," continued
the line, after some disputes proved by the Pipe-Roll of 31 Henry I.*
William Fitz-Hugh Fitz-Xomian first appears as accounting for
sums due for the land of his father, which Ralph, " Dapifer of Earl
Hugh", held, and for right in his mother's inlieritance. In a sub-
sequent entry, Robert Fitz-Ralph Fitz-Xorman accounts to the
Treasury for a concord between him and his cousin William. Tlie
lands of Hugh, and the office of Ralph, were afterwards united in
Robert.
The said Robert occurs as fir^t witness to the Charter of Randle
II to Chester Abbey, and also as first Avitness to that Earl's Con-
firmation Charter to the same about 1152 (17 Steph.), and as first
witness to the Charter of Hugh II to the Xuns of Bolinton (1151-
81), signing as " Robektl's Dapiffk de Moxteaeto", and shew-
ing thereby that he had then obtained the Lordship of Mold, from
which and its castellated hill, his family assumed their local name.
In 5 Henry II, it appears from the Pipe Roll, by an entry under
the head of Xorfoik and Suffolk, that "the land of the Earl of
Chester" was farmed from the Crown by Smion Fitz- William.*
The same person and Robert de Montalt farmed the same in 6 and
7HemyII; and Robert de Montalt, solely, in 8 Heniy II. As
these entries do not appear in the Rolls foUo\\-ing, the farm was
probably discontinued. It was subject to repairs of castles fas of
Hodeslca and Wristlcsham) and of the city walls, and to various
payments to the Earl, to his mother, to the Constable, and others.^
' Ilibt. Cliesh. i, 17. - IbiJ. p. 19.
' Published by the Record Commission, pp. 9(5, 113.
* Probably Simon, ancestor of the first line of Montalt of KidJle:-den
(sec Archdale, vol. vi, under ]Montalt), and seemingly son of William Fitz-
Ilugh, above-mentioned.
'•• In the Rolls of the Xorman Exchequer (1198 M. l-j) grants are men-
tioned of land in Xoniuuidy, made to Peter Ru;iut, by Ranulj)h E;irl of
Chcjtcr, and this Robert de Montalt. The land of Montalt was at Le
Tounicur, near Bayeux (vul. ii, p. ccxiv).
DE MOXTAI.T, SKNK8CIIAL OF ClIESTER. 95
This Robert d"e Montalt was called the Black Steward of Clicstcr,
and mamcd Lcucha, named in the Inquisition 4 Edward I, respect-
ing tlic do\\Ty of the successive Ladies of Hawarden, and also in
Ilalph de Montalt's grant of Xeston to Chester Abbey for the souls
of Robert his father and Lcucha his mother. To the same Abbey
Robert, " Dominus de Moaldis,"^ himself granted all Gostrey in
frank almoigne, in the Justiciaryship of Ralph de Mesnilwarin, and
he has not occurred subsequently.
Robert de Montalt, besides Ralph his son and heir, had issue —
2. Robert de Montalt, brother and successor of Ralph.
3. Roger de Montalt, brother and successor of Robert.
4. Ranidph, witness with Roger de Montalt his brother, to his
brother Ralph's grant of two bovates in Eggerley to his frecdman
Hemj-nc. (Harl. MS. 2074, 173 b.)
5. "William, Rector of Xeston, named hereafter.
IT. L Ralph de Moxtalt, " Dapifer Com. Cest.", son and heir
of Robert and Leucha, granted Xeston Church to Chester Abbey,
for the benefit of their souls, with the assent of his mother, on whose
dowry lands it was founded, and of WUliam his brother, who was
Rector thereof.-
The grant was in compensation for alleged injuries, and between
1162 and 1182, as it was confirmed by William Peche, Bishop of
Lichfield, who was Bishop during that period.
Matildis, his wife, is proved by the retrospective Liquisition 4
Edward I, respecting the dower of the Ladies of Hawarden.
IT. 2. Robert de ^Moxialt, brother and heir, confirmed "his
hrother^^ Ralph's donation of Xeston in the time of Philip de Orreby,
1209-1228;^ during which Justiciaryship also his brother Roger
succeeded. He may be considered to have died unmarried, as no
wife of his is named in the Inquisition 4 Edward I, taken to prove
settlement of dower or otherwise, by the successive Lords of
Hawarden.
IV. 3. Roger de Montalt, brother and heir, omitted by Dug-
dale, but inserted by Glover, is proved by the Charter of Raljih
de Montalt to Hernyne, already cited, " testibus Roberto de Mon-
tcalto, llocjero et Ranulfo fratribus suis".
> Ilarl. MS. 2074, 102.
» Chartulury of St. Werburgh, and Ilarl. MSS. 2074. Ral}-h is omitted
by Dugdale, but in.sertcd in Glover's pedigree, MSS. Coll. Arm.
* Chartulury of St. Werburgh.
96 1)K MONl'Al/r, SKNESCHAI, OF OIIKSTEK.
He was Lord of Hawarden, and husband of Nicholaa, as by the
Inquisition 4 Edward I.
}Ic was possessed of Xeston, an appendage of Hawarden, in the
time of Philip de Orreby (1209-28), and had succeeded his brother
Kobcrt therein, as he refused to respect his grant, took possession
of the church with an armed force, and introduced Ralph de Mon-
talt.' And he succeeded to the Scneschalship, as sheA\'n by an
cntrj- in the A/uialcs Ccstricnses, or Chronicle of St. Wcrburtjh,
" I2u2. Obiit Rogerus de Montealto, Senescifllus, de Hawarthin".
These references jn-ovc his succession to the estates and office of
his house, and his marriage, and his distinctness from his successor,
Roger, with whom Dugdale confounds him.
V. Roger de Moxtalt, successor of Roger preceding, and
hitherto confounded Avith him, was most probably his son, as no wife
of any possible younger brother of the elder Roger is noticed in
the Intpiisition above cited, which records the wives of all that suc-
ceeded to possession of Hawarden.
Dugdale mentions the restitution to him of the Castle and Manor
of Mold, which had suffered in the wars with LlewehTi and David ;
also his military' services against Prince David, along with the l-'arls
of Gloucester and Hereford ; his sale of a large part of his Manor
of Coventry (inherited by his wife from the Earls of Chester), to
defray cost of preparation for joining in the Crusade ; and his death
in -12 Henry HI, leaving, by his wife the Lady Cecilia d'Albini,-
• Hist. Chesh. ii, 295, from Chartuhiry of St. Werburgh.
* Ckcilia d'Aluim, here mentioned, was daughter of Wilb'ain, third Earl
of Arundel, grandson of V>'illiam dAlbini, first Earl, and of his wife the
Quecu-I)owager Adeliza, widow of King Henry I, and daughter of Godfrey
Barbatus, Duke of Brabant and lineal descendant from Charlemagne.
IJcr maternal' ancestry was the princely line of the Nonnan Earls Pala-
tine of Chester, of whom she was a co-heir in right of her mother ^Nlabel,
who was daughter of Earl Hugh H, and sister and co-heir of the flower
of Engli^h chivalry, Earl Ranulph HL
■Williiini d'Albini, third Earl of Arundel, and this his Coimtess, had
issue WiUi;ini and Hugh, fourth and fifth Earls, and four daughters.
Dugdale (Baronage, i, pp. 120, 121) strangely confounds this "William
with his father, and otherwise ; but Vincent, on Brooke (p. 538), and his
own subsequent text and references, correct him. In 1221, AVilliam,
elder of tliese brothers, had seisin of his paternal estates (Fine Roll, 5
Henry III, m. fi), and dying on his return from Dainictta, the scene of
his uncle Ranulph's triumiihs, was succeeded by Hugh his brotlier, fifth
DE MOXTALT, SENESCHAL OF CHESTER. 97
John, Robert, and Leucha, "wife of Philip de Orreby.' In his JJ'ar-
tcicksliire also (p. 88, col. 2), Dugdale gives further particulars of
his alienations at Coventry, sa%-ing his Manor-house and Park of
Chcylesmore ; and INIatthew Paris dwells on his losses, and those
of other nobles in similar arrangements.-
His first appearance as Seneschal is between 1232 and 1240, as
witness to EarlJohn's grant of W}Tnbaldslegh to Richard de Phyton.^
In 1243-4, he is named in Pat. 28 Henry III, in the partition of
the Earl of Arundel's estates, along with the husbands of the other
three co-heirs, Robert de Tateshall, John Fitz-Alan, and Roger de
Someri. In the same year, Robert de Tateshall and Roger de
Montalt gave three jjalfreys to the King for making partition.^
Further details as to the Ai'undel inheritance, portions of Chester
Earldom involved in it, and the Honour of Rysing, which passed
to Montalt, will be found in the Lords' Reports on the Dignity of a
Peer, iii, p. 82.
The misfortunes of Roger de Montalt commenced with his pre-
parations for the Crusade, and the close of his life was embittered
by ecclesiastical enmity. In 41 Henry III he succeeded Gilbert
Earl, and a minor. The Fine Roll of 18 Henry III, m. 11, expressly
states his fine to the King in that year, 1233, in 2,500 marks, for seisin,
on attaining age, of all the lands and castles of /iis late brother Eurl
William, and his portion of estate from Raiudjjk, Earl of Chester and
Lincoln, his late uncle.
In 27 Henry III, 1243, the King's Writ was issued to his Escheator
for takuig into his hands this vast inheritance, on-the death of Earl Hugh ;
and in the same year (Pat. 28 Henry III, 1243) it was divided between
his sisters, Mabel, wife of Robert de Tatesal ; Isabel, wife of John Fitz-
Alan ; Xicola, wife of Roger de Someri ; and Cicely, wife of Roger de
Montalt, to whom this note refers.
CiiEYLESMOKE, the castlc of the Earls of Chester at Coventry, inherited
by them from the Governors of Mercia, was the head of the Lady Cicely's
inheritance from the Earls Palatine ; and Elford (named in Domesday
as a member of the demesne of the Earldom) was a minor portion, and
passed from Montalt to Arderne. The castle of Rysixg, in Xorfolk, was
the princely head of the part inherited from the Earls of Arundel.
' Baronage, o27. Great care is requisite in distinguishing between
Roger's successive interests in Mold Castle, sometimes feudal, sometimes
military, and in the latter case under the King.
» Edit. Wats. p. 773.
' Trafford Evidences, communicated by Canon Raines.
* Excerpta e Rotulis Finium, p. 410.
98 HE MONTALT, SEXESCIIAL OF CHESTER.
Talebot as Justiciary of Clicstcr, at Whitsuntide ;^ and in the fol-
lowin<^ Ycar the Chester Annals- accuse him of abusing his power
by extorting the Manor of Brctton from Abbot Thomas for a con-
firmation of his ancestor's grants in Lawton, Goostrey, Xeston,
Bruera, and Codinton, and cite as a judgment the death of his
eldest son within fifteen days, and his own within three years, the
commonalty being ignorant of his place of sepulture.
The same authority places this event at llysing in 12G0, pre-
ceded by his resignation of office as Justiciary in 1259, 43 Hen. III.'
The Mandate of 12G0, 44 Henry III, to the Escheator, directs for-
bearance beyond simple seisin, as to the lands of his widow, the
Baroness Cecilia, who was commanded to attend the King, with
the heir of her late husband, if with her, within three weeks of St.
John's Day.
This heir was Robert ; and Roger de Montalt had also an elder
son, who died before him, mentioned in the Annales Cestrienses,
John, hnproperhj siyled son and heir by Dugdale^ and by others,, on
^ Annales Cestrienses, an. 12.57. - Ibid. 1258.
' Of his transactions with Chester Abbey, much, mingled with curses
and abuse, will be found in its Chartulary, llarl. 3IS. 19G.5. Xo Inqui-
sition was taken after his death (Close Roll, 44 Henry III), but a writ
was issued to seize Lis goods at Rysing, with reference to debts owing to
the King (Excerpt. Rot. fin. 44 Henry III, p. .3.3b). A writ also issued
to take his lands into the King's hands pending proceedings (ibid. p. 3£9),
and tlioir extent may be learned from the Testa de Xeville, under his name,
and also under that of his father-in-law, the Earl of Arundel, in Faken-
ham, Rysing, Snetesham, and Kenynghale. Cheylesmore, in "Warwick-
shire, must be added, also his paternal estates dependent on 3Ioiitalt and
Hawarden, his Cheshire Lordships, and Elford, derived from the Earls of
Chester, which he settled on his daughter, Leuca de Orreby.
* The inaccmacy of Glover and Dugdale, in making John de Montalt
tlder brother, and Robert de 3Iontalt his successor, is at once proved by
the Inquisition after the death of the latter, in 3 Edward I (Tower Records),
Avhich shews him to have held the hereditrii'v estates in the lifetime of
John, who survived in 17 Edward I, fourteen years rt/ft"/- the death of the
reported successor.
John's marriage with Ellen, widow of Sir Robert de Stokeport, cor-
rectly stated by Glover, is proved by deeds connected with Poyuton, the
earliest being of the time of Henry III. Another has the beautiful seals
of the parties, which arc sketched in various ."^ISS., and are engi-aved in
Watson's History of Warren, ii, 2^8, in ^\hich ^lontalt's bearing is a
lion debruised by a label with three points. Among other document?, n
DE MOMALT, SEXKSCIIAL OF CIIKSTEK. 9!)
Glover's authority, and Lcucha, wife of the younger Philip do
Orreby, mentioned particularly hereafter.
VI. RoBEKT DE MoxTAi.T Succeeded his father in 12G0. Ilawar-
den was now, probably, as Mold had been, more of a military for-
tress than a feudal seat, and is mentioned as the place of meeting
and conciliation between Llewelyn ap Grj-ffin, Gryffin ap Madoc,
and Henry do Montfort, in 1264.^
Before the close of the reign of Henry HI, Robert de Montalt
occurs in arrangements with Robert de Tateshall, respecting advow-
sons appendant to his Lordships of Rysing and Snetesham, inherited
from the Earls of Chester. The Hundred Rolls of 3 Edward I
(i, p. 339) distinctly mention him among the co-heiks of Eare
RAXE-LrH Avith respect to Hauteburg in Lincolnshire, and else-
where, with reference to Holflete Port, to Rysing Honor, and
L}Tine Water.
Most extensive details occur also in two Inquisitions, taken 3 and
6 EdAvard I, after his decease, the first particularizing his estates in
Cheshire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, and Norfolk, the
second relating to his estates in Cheshire and Flintshire. The writ
for this is dated September 16, 3 Edward I (1275), and mentions
a claim respecting :Marple, etc., in right of his wife's dovrer (Pari. Pvolls,
i, p. 10) in 6 Edward I ; another in Harl. :MS. 196-5, 35 b (being an ex-
tract from the Cheshire Domesday, relative to a fine between him and
Roger de Stokeport), 2)roves him to hare survived in 17 Edw. /, as ahore.
The alleged second man-iage with Jlilisent de Montalt is clearly refuted
by Records. Dugdule's Baronage makes this lady (who was co-heir of
Cantelupe) wife of this John de Moutalt (i, pp. 527, 731), hut of Roger
de Montalt elsewhere (ibid. p. 690), and married to Eudo la Zuschc, Kcr
later husband, 2 Edward I. She was wife of Zuschc, certaiidf/, in .0
Edward I (Rot. Marcsc. 17 Edward II), as he performed military service
in her right. Subsequent notices are extensive ; and in 27 Edward I,
her son, William la Zusche, did homage for his late mother's estates.
(Rotulorum Orig. Abbreviatio.)
It is clear that this lady, married, certainly iu or before 5 Edward I, to
Eudo la Zuschc as her later husband, and retaining to the lust the name
of 3Iontalt, which was that of her earlier husband, was not likely to 1)C
his divorced wife, and she could not, in 5 Edward I, be the iridoa- of one
living 17 Edward I. She might be a widow of a Montalt of Riddlc.dcu
in Bmgley, within Craven, in which parish she possessed a cattle l-y
paternal inheritance from Cantelupe.
' Annales Cestricnses.
K
100 I>E MOXTALT, SENESCHAL OF CHESTER.
his recent death ; and tlie Inquisition names the age of his son and
heir, Koger do Montalt, as thirteen years at Ladyday preceding.'
Jane, daughter of Roger, Baron de Mo^vbray, ^vas given by her
father hi frank marriage to this Kobert, together Avith h^nd of xx
pounds value m Wcstwood, in the Isle of Axholme, fourteen years
before 3 Edward I, 1274-5.' She survived him, and was dead in
8 Edward II, when her second son, Robert de Montalt, then become
heir, petitioned the Ciown respecting her late dowry lands in Eulowe,
part of Hawarden Lordship. An Inquisition in 4 Edward I,^ re-
specting the liability of Hawarden to such settlements, had decided
against it, and this is the document which has been cited to prove
the wives of the successive Barons.
Yir. 1. RoGEK DE MoxTALT, eldest son and heir of Robert, was
bom in or about 1261, according to his father's Inquisition p.m.,
which was confirmed by a "s^Tlt of 17 Edward II, discharging his
brother and heir, Robert, from arrears of niilitaiy serAice for 10
Edward I, 1281-2, when Roger was ward of the Crown.
From 1281 to 1290, he occurs in various pleas relative to Castle
Rysing, and other estates inherited from the Earls of Arundel, in
Norfolk.^ In 1290 he was one of the Peers protesting to the Pope
against the attempt to appropriate Prebends of the Cathedi'als of
York and Lincoln, and on June 24, 23 I'Mward I, had sunomons
as a Barox of the Realji. In the folloA\ing year, 1295, his
Seneschal joined A^^th the Mayor of Chester, Hugh de Brichull, in
an unsuccessful attempt to oppose the jurisdiction of the King's
Justices within Chester.^ On January 23, 25 Edward I, his Inqui-
sition p. m. was taken at Chester, finding his brother Robert his
lieir, and specifying his estates within the Palatinate, the manor of
Hawerthin, held by serA'ice of the Seneschalship, Xeston manor,
Twertnyk Liberty,^ and property in Middlewich, Alholm, Lcghton,
and Cliester. Another Inquisition was taken for his estates in Suf-
folk, Norfolk, and Oxfordshire.''
' Inquisition p.m., in Tower, 3 Edw. I, Xo. 29, and 4 Edw. I, Xo. 4.5.
^ Hundred Rolls, i, 33S. She is one of the daughters of Roger de Mow-
bray, whose marriage Dugdalc professes himself unable to state.
' Lcucha, wife of Sir Robert de 3Ioutalt ; Maud, of Sir Ralph ; Kicholaa,
of the elder Sir Roger; Cecilia, of the younger Sir Roger. Inquisition
p. m. 3 Edward I, No. &s. Tower Records.
* See Index to Placitorum Abbreviatio. ^ Abbrev. Plac. p. 292.
• Third night, or Sheriff's Tooth. See Hist. Chesh. i, p. 01.
" Towor l?«onrJs. Inquisition p.m. 25 Edward I, No. 37.
DE MONTALT, SENESCHAL OF CHESTER. 101
VII. 2. Robert de Montalt, brother and heir, is described as
ao-ed twenty-three years in the Chester Inquisition, and as aj^ed
twenty-seven years in the other. He was summoned as a Baron,
Feb. 3, 27 Edward I.
The long list of military simimonses addressed to him commences
in 25 Edward I, and in the following year is a writ for the levy of
three hundred Welch foot soldiers from his demesnes. In 28
Edward I, 1300, his attendance at Caerlaveroc gives him a place
among the warriors celebrated in the metrical chronicle of that
siege ;^ and in 1301 he signs as "DoMixus de Hawardyn,"'
among the nobles joining in the letter of remonstrance to the Pope.
In other Records he will be found as summoned in 1 Edward II, to
attend at Dover to receive the King and Queen on returning from
France; in 8 Edward II, in petitions respecting restitution of his lands
in Eulowe ; and, in 15 Edward II, in various ^^Tits connected Avith
the Earl of Lancaster's movements. Other Records give enumera-
tions of his Lordships in the returns of 9 Edward II ; and his share
of the Arundel lands may be followed in various pleadings.
By an Inquisition hereafter cited, it appears that he died Dec. 2G,
3 Edward III (1329), leaving a sxirA-i^-ing widow, Emma, the relict
pre%-iously of Richard Fitz-John. She was buried at Stradsete, and
her monumental memorial will be found in Gough's Sepulchral
Antiquities, vol. ii, pi. v, and p. cxvi.
In Blomeficlcrs Norfolk (vol. ix, p. 45) ^-ill be found an account
of the proceedings relative to the disposal made by this Baron uf
his vast estates, which included the Castle of Cheylesmoke at
Coventr)-, inherited from the Earls of Chester; Castle Rysixg,
afterwards the residence of Queen Isabel ; Hawakdex, near Ches-
ter, still most commanding and magnificent in ruins ; and Mold or
MoxTALT, of Avhich the strong earthworks only remain. They
were settled in trust by fine of 1327, and re-conveyed to Robert do
ISIontalt and Emma his wife, with remainder to the heirs-male of
their bodies ; remainder, in case of failui-e of issue, to Queen Isabel,
remainder to John of Eltham, the King's brother, and to his right
heirs for ever. For this the King paid to Robert de Montalt a
> Published by Sir II. Nicolas, 1S28. His inaccurate mode of deduc-
tion of this Baron from d'All.ini, in p. 108 of that work (with reference to
his claim in Rot. Pari, i, 201), is no part of the document cited there-
from, and is incorrect in .giving the mother of Cecilia d'Albini as ImU.
de Warixn, instead of the Lady Mabel of Chester.
103 MONTALT AND OKUKUY.
thousand marks ; and Queen Isabel purchased his' widow's interest,
in 5 Edward III (1031), by granting an annuity of four hundred
pounds per annum. From the descent of property, the narrative
turns to the representation in blood.
Such representation of [Montalt passed at this time to Sir John
dc Arderne of Aklfovd, in right of his ancestress, Agnes Lady
Ardernc, daughter of Lcuca dc Montalt by the younger Philip de
Orreby ; and this is supported by all the evidence that can be col-
lected and the admission of the College of Arms ; but it is proper
to subjoin a Xote of what was claimed by Morley and Glegge.'
> With respect to Morley, it is clear that after Queen Isaliel had suc-
ceeded in 1331, 4 Edward III, to the estates settled by the last Earon de
Jlontalt, Robert pe :Morley, describing himself as bis " Cosyn and
hcir'V petitioned for an Inquisition to shew his rights of inheritance ; and
that an Inquisition was taken at Chester, 1332, 6 Edward III, with refer-
ence to small quit-rents m Cheshire, and interests in Over Aklerlegh and
Wardhull, omitted in the settlement, and finding Robert de :Morley next
heir of Robert de Montalt, and of full age, icithout specifying any
rdationshipi-
The seeming object of the Inquisition and finding was to obtain technical
assistance for the Queen in confirming her title, which aid was shortly
afterwards given by this Robert de ]Morley, a gallant Baron and soldier
of the time of Edward III and rewarded for this legal service by the
i)i;inor of Framcsden,^ which passed from his descendants to the Rad-
clyffes ; but the accuracy of the Inquisition is extremely doubtful. It is
unsupported by Records : the object of assisting the Queen's title seems
clear, and Sir John Arderne (the real heir, accordmg to all that can be
known, to the trifling property named in the Inquisition) was indulged
with a Royal licence for alienating from his son the manors which he
l)assed over to his illegitimate successor, Thomas de Arderne.*
Blomeficld (ix, 430), citing no authority, describes this Robert de
Morley as a son of Su- A\'illiam de ^ilorley by a nameless sister of the last
I'aron de Montalt ; and Archdale's Irish Peerage (IMontalt, vii, p. 275),
citing Lord HawarJen's pedigree solely, names her Isabella, and innccn-
ratcly asserts that the Inquisition of 4 Edward III calls Robert de ]\IontaIt
Morlefs uncle? There is difHcidty even as to Morley's own male ancestry.
' Rolls of Parliament, ii, p. 49, No. 74. ^ jnq. in the Tower.
' Pugdale's Baronage, supported by Records. * See page SG.
^ Archdale's Pedigree of .Montalt (noticed in p. 102) rests solely on a
MS. drawn up by John Prcstwich, author of the Respublica, in pomts
wiiere no evidence is referred to. (Note in vol. vii, p. 271.)
MOXTALT AND OllUEIlV. 103
The representative descent derived by Ardcrne from Montalt
through this female line, will be best explained by a brief account
of Orreby, beginning with Sir Philip de Orreby the elder.
I. Sir Philip de Orkeby, the elder, with whom the Cheshire
No Inquisition is extant as to his alleged father, Sir "William Morley ;
and Dugdale, noting his succession, does not call him son. The Arms in
his banner were not those of Morley, but of his wife, Hawise Marbhall.
They were challenged by Burnell in 1346 at Calais, and he contented
himself with bearing them for life, by permission after judgment against
him, and surrendered his fmded banner by transmission to his opponent,
on his death-bed. The f\icts are given in Pennant's Wales, 4to, ii, 410,
and less amply hj Blomefield, ii, 437 ; but the Record of the evidence
against Jlorley, forming part of a later trial between his gi-andson and Sir
Thomas Lovell, has been torn out of the Roll in the Tower. In a later
dispute between the Lords Morley and Dacre, respecting precedence, in
25 Henry VIII, the Morley dignities are claimed as from this Sir Robert's
soyi, and both he and his father are omitted.'
Leaving the difficulties in the male descent of Morley, it may bo ad.Ied,
that no evidence wliatsoever has occurred in identification of the mother
of Sir Robert de Morley, either as a Montalt or otherwise. The elaborate
History of *' the House of Yveri", which includes Morley among tlic
progenitors of the Percevals, is silent ; and their arrangements of quar-
terings, both in the old and modern entries in the College of Arms, com-
mence with Sir Robert's v:ife, Hawise de Marshall, omitting all recognition
of that descent from ^Montalt, which is duly allowed to Ardcrne by the
authority of the same College.
In defect of evidence as to ^Morley, the inquiry turns to Glegge of
Gaytox, whose ancestor, Thomas Glegge, claimed an interest in Ilauar-
dcn, 2.5 Henry VI, as son of John, son of Gilbert, son of Godith, daughter
of Robert, son of John, son of Hugh, alleged brother of Robert de Mon-
talt ; and, if such, heir to the last Baron, in preference to Leuca de
Orreby, his aunt. The whole of this is confuted by a plea to a Quo
Warranto (Ilarl. ^ISS. 2115), made hy John, son of this Thomas, \sho
describes his grandfather, Gilbert, not as son of Godith de Mohaut, but
as son of Ellen, daughter of Ranulph de Sutton, which (whether exactly
correct or otherwise) is a complete abandonment of the fonncr claim.
These points, substantiated from precise evidence, leave Leuca do
Orreby (aunt to the last Baron, and sister of his father, Roliert de Mont-
alt) heiress, in the heraldic sense, to !Montalt, at once by evidence and
by oflicial admission.
' Reports on the Dignity of a Peer, iii, 215.
104 MONTALT AND OIUIECY.
Evidences' commence, is said to have been son of Herbert dc
Orrcby, Founder of liagneby Priory in Lincolnshire, to liavc had
an elder brother, John, and a younger brother, Herbert, ancestor
of Orreby of Gawsworth and the Fittons. He held the office of
Justiciary of Chester from 1209 to 1229, resigning at Easter, when
Sir William de Vernon succeeded.
By successive purchases Sir Philip obtained Willaston, Frankby,
and Upton, in Wirral Hundred, Stapleford (afterwards denominated
from his younger son) in Broxton, and Alvanley in Edisbury.
Alicia his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas Bamville of Store-
Tox, Forester of Wirral, had married Sir "William Vernon to her
second husband in 1232-3 (1 Johan. Com. Cestr.), in which year
they and her son Fulco were sued jointly respecting rights in
Alvanley,- as hereafter. The issue of Sir Philip and Alice were as
follows : —
1, Philip de Orreby, the younger, of whom as below.
i 2. Fulco de Orreby, who survived his brother, was party to suit
above-mentioned in 1232-3,^ set out his mother's dower in Upton,
Frankby, Willaston, and Alvanley, in 1230 ;* and released his right in
the same to Agnes, wife of Walkelyn de Arderne (the daughter of his
elder brother Philip) in 1243-4, 2S Henry III.-^ In 12.J9, he succeeded
as Justiciary, on the resignation of his relative, Roger de ]Montalt,
and was succeeded by his " kinsman", Thomas de OiTcby, on his own
death, in 1261.s
II. Philip pe Orreby the younger, son and heir-apparent of
Sir Philip and Alicia, married Lel'CA de Moxtalt, above-men-
tioned. Botli appear to have died before 1229, as Sir Philip de
' Pedigree in Hist. Chesh, iii, 290.
" Agreement between " Domina Alicia de Bamville" (the lady using
her maiden name) and her son Fulco dc Orreby, was made in Court before
Sir William Vernon, Justiciary in 1230 (Domesday, Ko. xv) ; and she
occurs as wife of Sir William Vernon, along with her son Fulco, in a suit
rc-^iiccting Alvanley in 1232-3, and another respecting premises in Chester
in 1234 (Domesday, Xos. xxiv, xxvi). If this second husband was the Jus-
ticiary, she must have been his second wife, as the first is considered to
have been ^largarct, daughter of Robert de Stokeport who died in 1239.
See Citations from Watson, in Hist. Chesh. iii, 386 ; and Pedigree of
Vcrnou of Shipbrook, iii, 133.
' Cheshire Domesday, Xo. xxiv. * Ibid. xv.
* Charter in Hist. Chesh. ii, p. 37, from Brereton deeds.
* Aunules Cestrieuscs, Hist. Chc^h. ii,-43o, iii, 290.
OnilEBY AND ARDERXE. 105
OiTcby, whose ofRcc ended at Easter in that year, purchased, v.liilst
Justiciary, from Roger de Montalt, the custody of Agnes, daughter
of Phihp de Orrchy the younger, and of his wife Leuca, daughter
of Koger do Montalt, and of tlxe inlicritance descending from him
in EUeford and Cassinglond, and the dis2)osal of her in marriage,
with consent of friends.' This Agnes has been akeady noticed,
as wife of Sir "NValkeljTi de Arderne in 1243-4.
III. Sir Peter de Arderxe, son and heir of Sir "Walkclyn
and Agnes, as proved by his deduction of the title of Elford, in a
suit between him and the Bishop of Lichfield, in 1 7 Edward I, has
been already noticed in the Arderne Pedigree.*
From this toixt the descent of Montalt is united with that of
Arderne, and its representation vested in the latter in the life-time
of Sir John de Arderne, possessed of Aldford and Alvanley at the
time of the second Baron de Montalt's death, in 3 Edward III.
Perhaps there was little inducement to traverse the Inquisition of
that year, by which Robert de Morley, the friend of King Edw ard
and Isabel, was found heir to the wreck of the Montalt property.
If it had been otherwise, perhaps inducement to refrain might be
found in the Royal license given to him to settle his Lordships on
the illegitimate issue of the wife of his old age, disinheriting thereby
Peter Arderne, his 0"\\'n legitimate son,^ who afterwards recovered
Alvanley, and became the continuer of the united lines whose descent
has been traced in the preceding pages.
' Domesday Roll, No. XL. 2 ggg p_ g3_
' See particidurs and dates in p. 86.
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107
ON THE EAELY CONNEXION OF THE ANGLO-NOiniAN
FAMIUES OF STOKEPOllT, FlTZ-ROGEIl,
BANASTHE, AND GEllNET.
The intricate connexions of the Bakoxs of Stokeport avIiI. the
houses of MoxTALT and Akdkkne in the thirteenth century, l.avo
been noticed at length in the preceding pages;' and light may he
thrown on those of the ancient Lancashire houses ahovc-mcnlionid,
FiTZ-RoGEK, Baxastke, and GEr.>-i:T, as well as upon that of the
Stokeports themselves, by adding a few remarks fromllecords as
to this last-mentioned family.
In the History of Cheshire, the difficulties and confusion mixed
up with the original constitution of Stockport Barony itself, as well
as the genealogy of its Lords, have been noticed ; and it was statr.I,
and may be repeated briefly, as to the Barony, that Stockport hr.t
occurs as a mesne Lordship under Dunham Massey, not as a hold-
ing in Capite from the Earldom, like the other seven Baronies.
The Despensers are there stated to have held it as a subinfeud-
ation, under Dunham, Robert de Stokeport again holding under
Dcspenser at this early period. Its later privileges are a distinct
point. ,
With respect to the Stokeporxs themselves, Robert de Ma.;c-
port, living between 1189 and 1199, and the first owner known to
have used the local name, was either identical with or hereditary suc-
cessor of Robert Fitz-Waltheof, who held Brinnington, Bredb.iry,
and Etchels, in the time of Richard I (under confirmation Iroia the
third Hamo de Masci of Dunham) immediaUlij from that liaroin,
by military serv-ice with respect to Etchels, and as to the ro:.t
by tenure of providing a sumpter horse in Welsh wars. 'Ihe Stokc-
' Pp. 83 and 9S. The Ardcmes descend from Stokeport and '^^ '■■'''' "^'
through Done and Davenport ; but this is only in the way in ^vliicli n^"-.
funulics of the Palaunales reciprocate descent, and not representatn. ...
At an earlier period, the closeness of the alliances must have =cei..c.
likely to Lave scoured succession to inheritance by Ardcrnc.
L
108 DE STOKEPORT
ports held immediately from Dunliam also, without any suLinfeud-
ation, and were tliercforc, seemingly, hereditary successors of Fitz-
"NValtheof ; and their arms resembled those of several dependants,
and of some collaterals, of the house of Masci of Dunham.'
Nothing has occurred to alter this xiew ; but e\"idcnces have ap-
peared which correct Mr. "Watson's cited opinion as to the idcniitij o.f
Robert de Stokeport of 1189-99, with the Robert de Stokeport who
died in 1239, which was cited in the Histoi-y of Cheshire expressly
on "Watson's authority. It is now clear, from Records then inac-
cessible, that the Robert of 1199 was deceased in 1206, and that
the Robert whose Inquisition was taken in 1239 was his successor,
and evidently son of him by his wife Matilda ; since Robert de
Stokeport (son of this second Robert) was returned co-heir, in
1252, to the hereditary estates of Quenilda Lady Gemet, sister of
Matilda Banastre, who was wife of this first Robert, and grand-
mother of the said co-heir. The information gained by tracing this
connexion -with Banastre, not only illustrates collaterally the an-
cient families above-mentioned, but does something towards ex-
plaining the descent of the Lancashire manor of "Woodplumpton,
which has been considered the most ancient inheritance of the
Stokeports.
The clearest course will be to explain the pomts illustrative of
the Stokeport descent first, and then to subjoin what relates to this
their ancient inheritance, and to their connexions, previously much
confused, Mith Gernet, Fitz-Rogcr, and Banastre.
DE STOKEPORT.
SiK RoBEKT DE SxoKEPoiiT, first of that local name, and either
identical with, or immediate successor to, Robert Fitz-"\Valtheof
(which point may be left open, as it is left in the History of Cheshire)
occurs between 1189 and 1199, as a ^vitncss to the Foundation
Charter of Lvtham Pkiory,- founded by his father-in-law, Richard
Fitz-Roger. Among other witnessess, occur William de Mulhum
or Milium (his brotlier-in-law), and the contemporary founder of
Burscough Abbey, Robert Fitz-Henry of Lathom.
In 1199,^ he occurs along with the said Richard Fitz-Rogcr
' See Hist. Chesh. iii, 384, 380, 398, 300 ; and i, p. xxviii.
' Pugdalc's Mon. Aug. iv, 281.
■■' Curia Ilcgis, i, p. 3-50. The name i:; jirintcd Stocf. us a contraction
of StucfurJ.
AND ITS CONNEXIONS. 109
and Margaret his wife, then claiming privileges as senior co-
heir of Thurstan Banastrc, against her sister Matilda. In 1201,
King John confirms patrimonial lands to Matilda, daughter of
Kichard Fitz-Roger (named as wife of Robert de Stokeport\ and
to her four sisters;' and in the same year Robert dc Stokeport
renders cc marks and v palfreys to the King, for custody of lands
of his •\\-ife and her three immarried sisters, and license for his mother-
in-law (then widow of Richard Fitz-Roger) not being compelled
to remarry.- He was survidng in 3 Johan. {Hot. Cancdlarii, p.
116) when he accounted for a hundred shillings and one palfrey
for Royal confirmation of the Charter of Lithum, made by the King,
when Earl, to Richard Fitz-Roger, compounding also for other Con-
firmations, and was seemingly deceased in 1205, when a writ respect-
ing the marriage of his sister-in-law, Margaret Banastre, of whom
he was guardian, is addressed to her sister Matilda de Stokcportc.
He was certainly deceased in 1206, when his widow Matilda (named
De Stokeporte in Testa de Neville, but by her mother's maiden
name of Banastre in the Fine Roll 3) compounds for not being com-
pelled to remarry.
II. Sir Robert de Stokeport, son and heir of Robert and Ma-
tilda, only requires notice beyond what has been mentioned in the
History of Cheshire, for the purpose of distinguishing him (the sub-
ject of the Inqiusition of 1239, 23 Henrj- HI) from the Robert his
father, who died in 1206, and from his son Robert, living 36 Henr>'
in, which may be done as follows : —
The first Robert has been she^^'n to have left his ^\■ife Matilda
sur^-iving ; the second Robert died before his A\-ife Roesia, which
proves them to have been two distinct generations. Roesia mar-
ried, to her second husband, Alexander Bamville of Storeton in
Wirral, having dower, as widow of Robert de Stokeport, settled on
the manors of Echcls, Stokeport, Brcdburi, Romilcgh, Wcrnet, and
Hatreslegh; and, by deed enrolled in the Cheshire Domesday
between 1274 and 1282,* which recites this, they jointly released
their interest to Richard de Stokeport.
"Robert de Stokeport, son of Robert" (the father of tliis
Richard), was found co-heir by Inquisition of 30 Henry HI, to
Quenilda Lady Gernet, sister of ^Matilda wife and widow of the first
• Rot. Curt. p. 00 b. 2 Rot. de Oljlatii Mcmb. 9.
3 Testa de Neville (^(»o), Rot. dc OLl. et Fin. 3J3.
* Seo abstracts of Domesday Charters, No. 56.
110 DE STOKErOllT
llobcrt, and therefore his descent from the liushand of Matihhi is
clear. Tlic distinctness of the father of this co-heir from Hubert,
the liusband of Matilda, has been proved by the extract from the
Domesday lioll, shewinp; tliis co-heir's father to have married llocsia.
III. SiK KoBKKT vv, Stokkport, grantec of Marple and Wybrcs-
legh from Earl Ranulph 111 in his father's lifetime,' son of I'obcrt and
Ivocsca, and grandson of llobert and Matilda, only requires notice
here, from being found co-heir with Ilalph de Bethum to his great-
aunt, Qucnilda Lady Gernet (younger sister of ^Matilda), by Inqui-
sition p.m. 36 Henry III, r2o2, as before mentioned.
In (//CSC iivo co-heirs the representation of Fitz-Rogek and of
this branch of IjANASTKE vested, and they did homage together,
and had warrant for seisin in the same year.^
FITZ-ROGEll AND BANASTRE.
So far with respect to illustration of the Stokeport descent,
from the evidences of Fitz-Roger and Baxastre in Records.
The same, examined with respect to the families last-mentioned,
represented by Stokeport in female line, illustrate, as prc^'iously
stated, the early descent of the manor of Woodplumpton to the
Stokeports, alleged to be derived through Richard Fitz-Roger,
the Foi'XDER of Lythom Priory, from the Baronial House of
Bussel of Penwortham.
Of this Founder's descent nothing certain is clear, beyond what
his patronymic, Fitz-Roger, proves. Vernon (Harl. MS. 1987),
amidst much error, is perhaps right in making liim a Baxastre.
' This Robert dc Stokeport gave the^-c manors to ^yillialu Vernon, the
husband of his sister ^largarct, sujjposcd to be Sir AVilliam, afterwards
Justiciary of Cheshire. Sec p. in 1, .ind Ilist. Clicsh. iii, 3SG, 40C. Dur-
ton records the gift of the manor of Little Applcliy in Leicestershire,
and of the advowson of Great Api>lcby, by Robert de Stokeport, to the
same WilHara Vernon (V.'atson's Warren, ii, p. 190 ; and Hist. Chcsh.
iii, 384, 3SG). This Appleby was the property of 3IatJlda dc Stokeport
or Banastrc, cither from father or mother, as she fined for recognizance
1 of novel disseisin therein, 12uG. — Rot. dc OM. ct Fin. 348.
\ AVith Sir Richard dc Stokeport, sou of this last Sir Robert, the direct
■ male line of tlicse local Earons ended ; and from his daugliter Jane, suc-
j ccs.>ivcly w ife of Sir Nicolas dc Eton and Sir John de Ardcrne, came the
! Warrens of roynton.
I ' Excerpt, e Rot. Ein. ii, p. 133.
(
i
AND ITS CONNEXIONS. HI
This -.voiild at least account for intermixtures of property; and his
daughter Matilda's assumption of that name after the death of licr
husband, Mould be more easily accounted for, than by regard to
maternal descent. His Foundation Charter of Lytham, in tlic
Monasticon, contains much that might be matter of deep inves-
tigation.^
Eurns- afHrms him to have held "Woodplumpton ; and Lucas (as
cited by Watson, History of Warren, ii, 108) states him to have
inherited it from the marriage of his alleged father, Roger Fitz-
llichard, -with an unidentified daughter of Warin Bussel, Baron of
Penwortham. Of this, documentary evidence has not occurred;^
but Records supply ample proof of the mode in which representa-
tion of this Founder, and of his wife Margaret, descended from
them to Stokeport.
The Charter of Fitz-Roger, granting Lytham to the monks of
Durham, between 1189 and 1199, states the assent of his wife
Margaret to his donations. She was eldest daughter and co-heir
of TiiUKSTAN Banastre, and litigated her rights as such (encscia)
with her yoimger sister Matilda, in 1199 and 1204.* (Rotuli Cur.
' For instance, the description of the shore, sea, and estuary, the mosses,
the mar;h, with its islands, the church of the vill of Lytham (of which
Dr. Whitaker doubts the reality, from non-occurrence of the appropria-
tion deed and vicarial endowment) and the " Foss of the Cemetery of
AV/grimol", where Fitz-Roger, the Founder, mentions his having erected
a Cross. The name and locality of this ancient cemetery seem to point
to some ardecedcnt cell of devotees of the Irish or Culdee sect, who Lad
settlements on the Welsh coast, in Bardsey, and the north-western coast
of England. For the import of Kil, in composition, still preserved in
the name of KcUamergh, near Lythom, see Jamicson's History of
the Culdees, p. 355 ; and for an account of another seeming settle-
ment, refer to Ileysham, with its Chajicl of St. Patric, ancient ccmctcrj-,
traditional processions, and existing remains, in the Richviondshire of
Dr. AVhi taker, who claims for it the highest Saxon antitjuity, but docs
not go further.
- History of Westmorland, p. GIG. He and Lucas both write Dunstan
Banastrc, instead of Tlnrrstan.
^ The Testa dc Neville gives six daughters of Warin Bussel, three
endowed by their father, and three by their brother Ricliard, but not this
marriage ; in no way, however, disproving it.
* An interesting memoir on the B.vxastres of La.nc.\siiikk will be
found in the Archreologia Cambrensis, i, p. 331. They are allcgcl to
have been settled in Prestatyn, in right of Norman Conquest, in the time
112 DE SlOKKl'OUT
Reg.) She was a widow in 1201, as by the license granted to
Robert dc Stokcport above-mentioned, stating composition with
the Cro\ni respecting rights of again giving her in marriage.
The issue of this marriage were as follows : —
1. Matilda," wife of Robert de Stokcport before-mentioned.
2. Margaret, unmarried 1201, and eldest unmarried co-heir in 1205,
when her marriage was purchased by IIuoii de Moreto".
3. AviciA, wife of William de Muliium, 1201.
4. Quexilda, unmarried in 1201, mentioned hereafter.
5. Amuria, named as fifth, and as unmarried in 1201, afterwards
wife of Thomas dc Bethum, with whom she fines for her share of
paternal inheritance in 1206, 7 Johan.
The marriage of Quexilda Bakastke, the fourth of these
daughters, was the subject of feudal disputes between the king,
from whom she held land in farm, and the Earl of Chester, of
whom she was militaiy tenant; and her marriage ^^dth Sir Roger
of the Conqueror ; and their clan were expelled from Wales in the
twelfth century, and fled to Lancashire, where, as appears by a curious
petition preserved in the Parliament Rolls, they were known by the name
of Les Westroys. (Petitions G Edward I, No. 6.)
Thurstan Banastre (the Lancashire chief of this family, husband of
Cecilia, afterwards wife of Richard de ]\IontaIt, and gi-andfather of this
petitioner, was clearly distinct from the Thurstan here mentioned, who was
deceased in or before 1190, tlie former being surviving in 1213. There
was also a Thurstan Banastre named in an Inquisition of 1212 (Testa de
Neville, 817) as being then tenant of lands in Stanedis and Langcton,
(La^ngtre) granted in marriage by Warin Bussel of Penwortham, with a
daughter, to Richard Spileman. This last Thurstan is not likely to have
been the chieftain, and could not have been the other Thtirstan, father-
in-law of Fitz-Roger, if living at this last date.
It may be added, though rather beyond the bounds of this me-
moir, that ^Matilda Banastre, the younger daughter of Thurstan, liti-
gant with Fitz-Roger, her sister iMargaret, and Robert de Stokcport, in
1100 and afterwards, has been considered to bo Matdda, daughter of
Thurstan Banastre, stated by Collins (Peerage, vol. iii, p. 2, edit. 17CS)
to have married — Cumin, and afterwards to have been first wife of
William dc Hastings, who died 11G5. If so, of course, divorced.
1 The confusion in Baines, iv, p. .'51, on the subject of the co-heirs is
here mentioned, lest the writer should appear ignorant of what is so
contrary to his own extracts from Records. All the daughters are named
in Rot. Cart. 2 Johan (p. 00, col. 2) ; and later marriages of Margaret and
Amuria in Rot. de Obi. et Fin. pp. 3-'."), 2')',), and of Qucnilda as above.
AND ITS CONNEXIONS. 113
Gemet, under grant from the Earl Palatine, led to a seizure of liis
lands by the king. (Testa dc Nevill, 401.) On certificate of her
husband's services to King John, made by the Earl of Chester, the
estates were restored. (Kot. Lit. clans. 7, Hen. Ill, ^lemb. 29.)
These, as shewn by her Inq. p.m. 3G Hen. HI, were in Brunigg,
Claughton, Xewsham, Carleton, "Whittington, Bretherton, Asliton,
Bootle, Kirkby, and Fonnby, in which last another Qucnilda (do
Kirkdale) held lands, and has been confounded with her, even in
Vernon's pedigrees.' Her o'snti co-heirs, Stokeport and Bctlium
have been stated.
GERNET OF HALTON.
After this notice of the representation of Fitz-Ilogcr and
Banastre by Stokeport, a few lines may be given to the ancient
house of Gkrxet, whose estates, joined for a time with those of
Quenilda Banastre, separated from them after her death witliout
issue.
Sir Roger Geenet of IIalton, the husband of this lady, was
Hereditary Forester of Lancashire in fee, and held by serjcanty, in
right of that office (partly from the crown, and partly from the
house of Lancaster), a forge within the forest, the lands and ad-
vowson of Halton, lands in Lee, Burgh, and Fishwic, a fishery in
the Ribble there ; the advowson of Prescot, and lands in Eccleston,
Whiston, and paramount rights in Speke.- He was male rci)rc-
sentative of a Norman family (of which one heiress had married, at
an early period, into the house of Molyncux),^ being the younger
• The other QucnilJa was wife of Richard Fitz-Roger, clearly distinct
from the Richard Fitz-Rogcr, Founder of Lythom Priory, who was
fathcr-iu-law of Matilda de Stokeport, as both the Richards died before
their several wives. She was daughter and heir of Roger de Kirkd;ilo,
grantee from William Fitz-Norman of lands acquired by his futlicr
Norman, from Warin Bussel, Baron of Penwortham ; and had two
daughters, joint tenants of lands held (under her in widowhood) l)y tho
service of carrying the King's treasure tluough part of Laucasliiro. J-'or
her, her connexions, and estates in Kirkdale and Formby, sec Rot. Je
Obi. p. 129 ; Rot. Cancellar. US ; Testa dc Neville, GUo, COG, bio, blG,
817, 841.
2 Inquisition p. m. 3G Ilcnry III, Tower Records.
^ From whom the manor of Si)eke, originally hold by Gcrnct, ultimately
passed through Frneys to Norrcs. Sec ^Icnioir on Norrcs, p. 19.
Hi DJi STOKEPOKT AND ITS CONXEXIONS.
son of Vivian Gcrnct, and brotlior and heir of William Gemot,
whose widow, Cecilia, was married to Hamo dc Masci, as second
husband (Testa dc Xevill), and held one-tliird of tlie above in dower
in 36 Ilcn. III. By Qucnilda Banastrc he left no issue, as her
cousins, SxoKKroKT and Ektiium, were her heirs. His own son,
by another marriage, Benedict Gernet (heir, and of full age, as by
Inq. 36 Hon. Ill) did homage in the same year; and Jane, sister
of a Benedict Gernet, afterwards carried these estates into the
Dacrc family. (Dugd. Bar., ii, p. 22.) Tlie duties and powers
of his ancestral office were probably analogous to those of the
Cheshire Foresters of Dclamere and Macclesfield ; but the " Foresta
de Lancaster" was much more extensive, and swept over all the
forest lands intermixed with the several hundreds, as may be seen
by a perambulation of 12 Hen. Ill (printed by Baines), preserved
in the Lansdowne MSS., and recommending dcafforestation of
many of the sylvan districts therein specified.
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CONTENTS OF TART II.
L-VTHOM.
Lathom of Latliom and Knows-
ley -.-.--.-- 5!)
Keiiiarks on Armorial "Wiiulows
at Astbiiry, aiul the I-atliom
ami Stanley Crest - - - - CO
Ahdekse or Ar.DEX.
Early deilnction of family - - 7"-2
De AitUn of 'Watforcl in Norlli-
amptonshire ------ I'i
of Alflfurd Castle ami
Elford 74
of Alvanley and Harden - 8u
of the Oak, iu Sutton - - 91
Descents combinep with .VjtDEnxE.
Norman Lords of Aldlord - - 70
Aederne of Over Alderley - - 81
Brei>bui;y of Harden - - - - 85
Done of Utkiuton ----- !)0
Orreey of Alviuiley - - - 77,103
De iroNT.\i.T,
Hereditary Stiicschal of Chester.
De Montall, Biiron of Hawardon 70, 03
Rupresentaiive (k-^cint of 3Iont-
alt from tlic Pearls of Arundel,
and the Earls I'alatinc of
Chester ------- 9(5
Continuation of descent by
Oneby- - '- Hi>
Fedigice of De Montalt - - - lno
Note as to alleged inteniiai'-
riacres of Morlev and Glejrge
witli Montalt -'----'- lfi>
Connexions or Stokf.port, Banastre,
ETC.
De Stokeport, Baron of Stock-
port 107, 115
FiTz-KoGER, Founder of the
Priory of LYTHOii - - - - 110
Banastre 110
Gernet, Forester of Lancashire
in Fee 11-j
Separ.\te Pl-^tes and Pedigrees.
Pedigiee of Lathom
Pedigree of Arderne
p. CO
- 91
Directions for Plates and Pedigrees of Part I aie given in p. 55.
View of Sedbvry Park to be inserted as Fi;oNTisriECE.
C 0 B Pv I G E N D A,
Part I.
p. 0-', 1. 7. For Choliiiondeley of Cholmoiidcleij, read of Chorlei/.
p. 5.'<, 1. 10. For Srfton and SpL-ke, read Che.iter and Speke.
Part II.
p. 8-1, 1. 1. For Sir llobcrt, read Sir Jiichard.
A MEMOIR
CHESHIRE DOMESDAY ROLL,
FOUMEr.IA" rRKSERVED IN" THE
EXCHEQUER OF THAT PALATINATE,
TO WlllCn ARE ArPENDED
A CALENDAR OF FRAGMENTS OF THIS LOST RECORD,
COLLECTED BY THE AUTHOK,
NOTICES OF THE JUSTICIARIES OF CHESTER
IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
GEORGE ORMEROD, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A.,
OF TVLUESLEV AND SEDBURV TAIiK.
NOT PUBLISHED.
M.DCCC.I.I.
INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR ON THE CHESHIRE
DOMESDAY ROLL.
The following brief essay is limited to such notice of the Cheshire
DoMESD-vv Roll as may serve to explain generally the nature of
the Roll itself, and of the Palatine Court which used it as its Record
of Proceedings. Analytical titles of the portions of it whicli have
been collected are added; but the memoir is altogether an anti-
quarian one, illustrative of recovered fragments useful to the
genealogist and topographer, and ^\'ithout pretension to the cha-
racter of a legal disquisition.
In the Introduction to the Hi sf or i/ of Cheshire (I, p. xxix) will be
found a brief \-iew of the almost regal powers of the Norman Earls
Palatine, their officers of state, and their local parliament or council.
The Palatine Court, the assembly of the " plenus Comitatus Ccs-
tresirie", to which this Record' relates, was distinct from such
Coimcil, and was held by the Justiciary of the Earl, sitting tlicrc,
along with the barons and greater military tenants of the earldom.
The Earl himself presided sometimes, of which there is proof
with respect to Ranulph III in the Sandbach case, although he was
a party to the suit (No. ^^i), and with respect to the Earl John.
(Nos. xxii and xxiii) ; and there is another instance in which a ihpntii
presides for the Earl, namely Sir Walkelyn de Ardcrnc, "sitting
in the place of the carl" {loco comitis eo die), which cannot be un-
derstood as designating the ofhcc of Vice Comes, as the Shcnjfwds
present, and is named a/(cr tlie Abbot, Seneschal and Barons, the
Deputy of the Earl being named before them.
There can be little doubt of the Justlclaryship commencing with
the establishment of the Palatinate, and of the Record of Proceed-
ings, cither in this or some similar form, being coeval with that
office, but the known remains of it only range from tlie time ot
Ralph le Mesnilwarin, Justiciary in the time of Henry II, to 1-2S9.
The Rixoiu) itself has occurred under the nunc of Jiodtlns or
O INTKODVCIOUV MF.:^10IR
Magnus liofHlns, with or without addillon of Ccstric, or Comitntiis
Ccstn'e, or qui vocatur Doineschnj, in all legal documents which the
author has seen, as well as in its ova\ enrollments, and always as Ro-
tulus or roll, not as Liber or hook} Sir P. Leycester, nevertheless, in
citing a Mobbcrly Charter, writes " tliis Booh of Record is now lost"
{Hist. Chcsh., i, 32-2), but in his account of Barterton {Ihid. 548)
he mentions it as "the /iV/ of Ancient Chartes called Doomsday".
A more direct statement is given by :Mr. Black, on the authority
' The following extracts, from the collected fragments from the time
of Richard I to that of KJward I, prove the continuous appUcation of the
tenn " Rotulus" to this Record, both simply, and as " Rotulus }»Iagnu5
Comitatus Ccstrie", and "Rotulus qui vocatur Domesday"; and they
also illustrate the forms connected with eutcrmg the Record in the Roll.
VII. Sandbach Cause. This document is subjoined at length from
Council Rolls, in p. 7, following.
IX. Kc id humanum possit iu postcrum preterire, huic Rotido preseuti
censuimus commendare.
i XXII. Et ut hoc pcipetuc (tradatur) mcmoric ibidem in hoc Rotido
\ decrctum est (iiTOtulari).
j XXXV. Preceptum fuit iuYlcno Comitatu quod ista Fiualis Concordia
j in Magno Rotido irrotuletur.
! . XXXIX. Et banc quieta clamaciouem procm-averunt irrotulari in
I Domesdai/.
j XLii. Et ut perpetue commcndaretur iNIemoric ad instanciara parcium
decretum fuit istud scriptum hie irrotulari et in Rotido qui vocatur
Domesd'.iy.
XLiii. Peraml)ulacio — perfccta est et concordatur, et irrotulatur in
Doraesdny.
XLix. "Willielmus do Venablcs sigilluni Domini Thome de Boulton
tunc Justitiarii Cestrie una cum suo apponi fecit et in Rotalo qui cocatur
Domeutai/ inotulavit.
LXiii. Iu cujus rei testimonium presenti scripto in modum cyrographi
de exprcsso consensu parcima confecto, partes alteruatim sigilla sua;
fecerunt apponi et in Rotido qui vocatur Domesday jtrocuravcrunt
irrotulari.
LXiv. ?crii)to iu modiun cyrographi confecto partes alteruatim sigilla
sua fecerunt apponi et candem (composicionem) in plena curia Comitatus
Ccstrie recitatam in Rotido qui dicitur JJoiiiesday i)rocuravcrimt irrotulari.
LXix. In Maqno Rotudo Comitatus Ccstrie qui vocatur Dontesday irro-
tulari fecerunt.
Lxxi. (Aug. 29, 12S4.) Irrotulata est hec Finalis Concordia do con-
, sensu parciuru in Hotuto qui cocatur iJontcsda)/.
i.xxii. (lil^!).) Ill M-ifjno Rotido qui vocatur D<^m€sdoy irrotulata.
ON Tin: niKsiiiur, domksday. 3
of a document dated 15 Edward I, 1286-7, subscribed "ista carta
irrotulata est in Lihro qiu vocatur Domesday", from whicli he infers
"that the Cliester Domesday was not a Itoll, as repeatedly it is
called in tlie Record before quoted,' but a honh, similar perhaps to
the Black Book and Red Book of the Exchequer of Westminster".-
"NVithout assuming the possibility of the ancient scribe havinij
written libra erroneously in this document, instead of the usual ab-
bre^■iation ^^ ratio'', it may be stated that an agreement, recorded in
the Red Book of St. "Wcrburgh'' in 1289, two years later, has the
expression "in magno Rotulo qui vocatur Domesday irrotulata",
which proves that the -word lihro was not then constantly used ;
and even if the entries of this later day Avcrc made in a book, such
usage in no way disproves the more probable roll of former ages.
Sir Henry Ellis* has she\\ii that the phrase Domesday has been
applied to many records, besides this and the general Xorman
Survey ; but in noticing the Cheshire Record he confines himself to
reciting what Mr. Illingworth has said on the subject in the Intro-
duction to the Abhreviatio Placitoriim. The contents of this Ju<ll
have been strangely mistaken, at different times, and misrepresented,
and by none more than by the late Dr. Gower in his Sketch of
Materials for a History of CheshireJ' The appended summary of
the contents of the several extracts or abstracts collected will at once
explain their nature. They consisted of judgments of the Pala-
tine Court, enrollments of charters, grants, concessions and agrcc-
• The Record of the Sandbach cause, of whicli a copy is here subjoined.
2 First Report of the Deputy Keeper of Records, p. 111.
3 Harl. MS. 2148, p. 4 b. •• Dissertation on the Domesday Rook.
* Dr. Gower cites Sir P. L.'s extracts and account of the disappoarimco
of the Record (p. 13), and adds as follows : " Rut with the leave of our
" great Anti<juary, this invaluable Record, or at least a Record whioh
" asccrtams the lineal and uninterrupted succession of almost every single
" acre of Cheshire Property, for at least five hundred years, is now in my
" possession. I should be soitj to suppose it the stolen and the precious
" casket of ancient Charts which Sir Peter tells us was taken away ; but
"^ I own my heart leaps with a provincial joy when I rcUcct that accident
*' has put in my power to oblige ray countrymen with this Opus Aureum,
" etc. etc." I\Iessrs. Lysons (Magna Rritannia, vol. ii, part ii, p. 4fi7)
suppose that the ]\IS. thus described "was a Calendar of Clause Rolls",
and mention Dr. Wilkinson's assurance that no such documents had
passed with the Cower papers into his possession. Sec Hint. Chciii. i,
p. xiii.
4 INJ'UODICTOUY ME>[01K
merits, wliicli had taken place witliiu the Court, ami also enrollments
of charters, and otlicr documents of antecedent periods submitted
to the examination of the Justiciary. Contemporary grants were
sometimes sealed by the parties in Court, and occasionally by the
Justiciary, and, after recital in full Court, ordered to be registered
in the lloll for preservation, at the expressed wish of parties in-
terested therein. An instance of inspection and authentication,
with reference io charters of earlier date, occurs in the certiiicate
prefixed by Sir Guncclyne do IJadlesmere,, in 8 Edw. I, to the
Foundation Charter of Chester Abbey, and printed together with
it in Leycester, p. 109, and Hist. Chesh. i, p. 12, although it is
not stated that enrollment followed on that occasion.'
The Document or scries of Documents, called the Domesday Roll,
or an ancient volume or roll (as it may be), containing transcripts
therefrom, and bearing its name, was in Chester Exchequer in
1580, when the heralds Flower and Glover •sislted Cheshire, under
Commission for that purpose, and entered in their Visitation Book
extracts, "ex liofulo Cartarum Andqnarum qui vocatur Domcsdm/"' ,
transcribing also some Latin verses, in a later part, headed with
"in initio prefati Rotuli scrihitur sic". Sir Peter Leycester,
stating the loss of this Record, cites extracts from it made by John
Booth of Twemlow, who was born 1584, and deceased in 1659.
The loss was before Feb. 23, 1G57, when Dugdale, A^Titing to
Vernon, observed, "It is a great jnttye that the Roll ichich was
called Domesday for Cheshire is imhccilled, for had ijou hut a short
touch of the particulars ichich were in it, hij way of ahstract, it would
give much light.''-
In tlius writing Dugdale must have overlooked the abstract
preserved in Flower's Visitation, the only one known ; but another
copy of this exists in the Library of Eaton Hall, which the author
transcribed by permission of the late Marquis of "Westminster,
and another is in the Bodleian Library, Dodsworth's MSS., vol.
XXX. The Eaton ]\IS. is the basis of the author's collection,
but has been collated with the original series of transcripts
' In Xo. XI will he found an ciirollmcut rclatiucj to the manors of
Elford in StaiToril.shire, and Cassinglond in Suffolk, li'i/o)id the lymc of
the County or the Palatinate, but these were part of the endowments
connected with a Cheshire wardship.
* llarl. MSS. 10(j."),and printed in Hamper's Dugdule's Corrcbpondcucc.
Sec also Hist. Chesh. i, p. xiii.
ON TIIK CHESIIIRK DOMESDAY KOI.I,. O
and abstracts by pcnnlssion of Sir Cliarlcs G. Younpr, Garter, and
the additions are from the Hohnc M8S., the Chartukirics of Chester
Abbey, and the Couchcr Book of Whallcy, bein<^ charters noted
therein as enrolled. An Analytical Calendar, giving the matter of
these, is subjoined, arranged under the heads of the Justiciaries
during whose years of office they were enrolled.
Specimens of these entries will be found in Hist. C/iesh., i, xiv,
and in various extracts, given in that work, to which this Calendar
of titles will supply easy reference. The accuracy of the herald
Flower's abstract has been tested by collations, where opportunity
occurred, and particularly by comparing its account of the Sandbacii
Case with the exemplification of the same in the record of a later
trial relative to the same advowson, brought by appeal before the
King's Judges in 125p which is still extant in the Council Rolls,
and of which the following account may be interesting, as an illus-
tration of this subject from existing legal e\'idencc.
It may be desirable' to premise as follows :
Saxdeacu, in Xorth\\'ich Hundred, at the time of the general
Norman Sur\"ey, was held from the earldom by Bigot Lord of
Aldfokd, except two virgates and a half, which the Eakl Pala-
tine himself retained. The church and priest are named in the
account of the part granted out to Bigot ; but it appears from the
Domesday Roll (peculiarly so called), as hereafter mentioned,
that Earl Ranulph I who died in 1128, and Earl Ranulph II who
died in 1153, presented to this church as the patrons, and that a
dispute between Earl Ranulph II and the then Lord of Aldford,
respecting the advowson, was appeased by the latter quit claiming
it and also the advowson of St. Bridget's in Chester to the Earl
Palatine.
In 38 Hen. Ill (November 1253) the subsequent dispute took
place, which gives an opportunity of comparing an extract from
the lost Domesday Roll, as preser\-ed by Flower's transcri])t, with
an official one made by the Justiciary of Chester at that period,
' The matter of the Pleadings here abstracted is given in the Abbre-
viatio Placitorum, puMishcd by the Record Commissioners, p. \42, but
very inaccurately. The names of most of the jurors in the Chester suit
of 1223 arc omitted, and also their Verdict here subjoined, the Record of
which (as preserved in the Domesday Roll) was the precipe object of the
return obtained by the Judges, in 125], froni the Justiciary of Chester.
N
G iNTKOornoiiY memoir
received by ihc King's Council, on appcul to it from the Palatine
Court, and still preserved in the Record of that ajjpcal.'
In this year, namely l'2o3, Rogek dk S.vnb.vciie (the mesne
Lord of Sandbach under Aldford, and nulitary tenant of Sir Walke-
Ij-n dc Ardcrnc, who was chief Lord of Aldford Fee under the
Earldom) claimed the advowson in right of the manor of Sand-
bach. The Abbot of Dcidacres claimed the same in right of a
grant from Handle III, still extant, and made between 1229 and
1232.= A claim was also made on the part of the Crown, in which
the Palatine Earldom was then vested.
The cause was brought forward by an application for an assize
of last presentation by Roger de Sandbachc ; and subsequently the
Abbot appeared in full court before Sir Alan la Zuche, Justiciary,
the Abbot of St. Wcrbur.oh, Gcoffry de Dutton, Seneschal of Hal-
ton, Fulco de OiTcby, AVilliam de Boidelc, Thomas de Menegarin,
Ranulph le Rotcr, and other Barons, Knights, and Free-tenants
of the King, as of his Earldom of Chester.
The Abbot stated that it was unnecessary for him to plead, in
consequence of enrollment, in the Cheshire Domesday Roll, of
an Inquisition, admitting the right of Earl Randle II, and of the
grant of the advowson, in frank almoignc, by his descendant, Earl
Randle III, which he produced, demanding judgment. Fulco do
Orreby put in a claim for the Crown, and Roger de Sandbachc ob-
jected to the validity of the Charter, and its irrelevance to a ^\Tit
of last presentation. He furtlier objected to an enrollment, when
made in favour of an Earl Palatine ; using these most remarkable
words, "that the said Earl lianulph, in his time, was so powerful
in Cheshire as prince of the district, that he could at will make in-
quisitions and precepts, and have what he pleased enrolled in
Domesday, then in custody of himself and his clerks".
The parties then left the court, and judgment was given in favour
of Ro"er; and the Abbot, after successive admonitions by Knights,
at last reentered, but refused to accept the judgment, and departed.
A claim for the Crown was theix renewed, and Roger de Sand-
bachc persevering, the Justiciary demanded a warrant of indemnity
to himself from the court, regarding more particularly the claim of
the Kinf, and obtaining it, "according to lav.- and custom of
I Coram Consilio Rolls, ."iS Henry III, a 3, No. 27.
' Ilarl. MPS. 2074, IO.j. Vernon, named as Justiciary, bccamo such
in 12-20, and Karl Riindle HI, the grantor, died in 1232.
ON THE CHESHIRE DOMESDAY ROLL. I
Cheshire", took an inquisition on a writ of last presentation. The
list of the jurors includes the names of Sir William cle Vcnables,
Sir Hugh dc Wavcrton, and Sir Thomas dc Crue ; and they found
that — de Sanbachc, grandfather of Roger, presented the last
parson, now deceased, without dispute, in the last time of peace,
and it was adjudged that Roger should recover his advowson, and
that the Abbot was at mercy.
An appeal was now made, from the Earl Palatine's Court, to the
King's Council by the Abbot, and mandates %\'ere issued to the
Justiciary of Chester for a certified account of the proceedings,
and an extract from the Cheshire Domesday Roll. The preceding
matter is abstracted from his certified account, and the extract
from the Roll may be translated as follows, a few imperfections
being supplied from Flower's copy.^
' The following extract from the Coram Cousilio Rolls, Ilikry Teiiu,
3S Henry III, 12.") 3 (a 3, No. 27) supplies that portion of an enrollment
therein which contains the Mandate to the Justiciary of Chester to return
a Record from the Domesday Roll, relative to the preceding Sandbach
Cause, iu or shortly after 1-223 ; the extract from that Record returned
by the Justiciary, and the judgment given thereon, affirming the autho-
rity of the Domesday Roll.
This extract is printed in words at length, instead of the abbreviations
in the Office Copy obtained, and shews the conformity between this pas-
sage, as given iu the existing Coram Consilio Roll, and as preserved in
Flower's extract from the last Domesday Roll. Both agree in all the
parts which are not distinguished by brackets or italics. The former
indicate the parts, now illegible in the existing Council Roll, which arc
supplied from Flower's MS. ; and the latter mark some small omissions
by Flower, which the Council Roll supplies.
(Mcmb. 10.)
" Cestr M.\x DATUM FUiT eidcm Justiciario quod inspicerct
RoTCi.cM DE DoMESPAV, ctc, ct Rccordum illius mitteret, ct ipse misit
Recordum dc Domesday quod talc est.
*" (Anno quarto) translacionis beati Thome Martiris orta est contencio
inter Dominum Randulphum Comitem Cestrie ct Lincolnie et Ricardum
(de Sant)bachc super advocacione Ecclesie do Santbache. Ita quod clccti
erant scxdeccm liberi et Icgales homines dc (visineto de) Santbache ad
faciendum recoguicioncm per juramentura suum ct erant hii juratorcs :
' The tran.slation of the body of Thomas a-Uecket was on the morrow
of the Octaves of St. Fctcr and St. Faul (July 7) 1220. Roger of Wend-
over, iv, ().j.
8 INTKODL'CTORY MKMOIR
"In the fourth i/ear of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, con-
" tention arose between the Lord Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln,
" and Richard de iSantbache, respecting the advowson of Santlache
" Church, so that xvi free and lawful men of the vicinage of Santbache
" were chosen to make recognizance thereof on oath, and these were the
Robertus de Pultford, (Joceraraus de) Hellesby, Ricardus de Kingsle,
Petrus de Suetonhani, Randulphus de Pr(aers) Randulphus de Alsacher,
Guillclmus de (Sonierford, Ilelias) de Suetenhani, Gilbertus de Tabbelega,
Johannes de Aculvestoua, iVIattheus de llulgreve, Ilarao Brito, Simon
(de Holt, Robertus) de Rode, Philippus de Bruera, Randulphus de
Arkled.
" Veniente igitur Assisa in Curiam Domini Raudulphi Comitis Cestrie
.et Lincolnie (prcscntilms eodcm) Randulpho Comite etPhilippo de Oreby
tunc Justiciario Cestrie Rogero de Monte Alto Senescallo Cestrie, Guil-
lelmo de Venables W(arinodc) Vernona, aliisque Baronibus, ^lilitibus et
fidelibus dicti Comitis, recognovere per sacramcntum suum advocacionera
dicte (Ecclesie de) Santbache ad memoratum Randulphum Comitem per-
tinere, et quod Randulphus ]\Icchinus, proaATis preuominati Raudulphi
Comitis dedit (prefatam) Ecclesiam do Santbache Steinulfo Presbitero, et
postea ipso Steinulfo dccedente, Randul]ihus Comes, heres predict!
Mechini, avus Domini Raudulphi sepedicti Comitis Cestrie et Lincolnie
dedit eandem Ecclesiam de Santbach Randulpho de (Lech, et) tenuit
pacifice et sine contradictione per quadraginta annos.
" Recognovere cciam per sacrainentum suum, quod tempore Randulphi,
avi Domini nostri Randulphi Comitis Cestrie et Lincolnie erat quandoque
discordia inter ipsum et Dominuin de Aldeford qui (ita erant) pacificati,
quod Dominus de Aldeford quieta clamavit de se et heredibus suis Domino
Randulpho Comiti et heredibus advocacionem Ecclesie de Santbache et
advocacionem (Ecclesie) Sancte Brigidc in Cestria, et ut hoc perpetue
(tradatur) mcmorie hie irrotulari decretum est.
" Et quia convictum est per Doiae-Mht)/ Cestrie quod perj^etuam halet
firmitatem et omniaque in eo continentur in perpetuum sunt stalilia, in
quo continctur quod Comes Randuljihus Cestrie disracionavit advocacio-
nem dicte Ecclesie predicto Ecclesie versus Ricardum de Santbache, per
inquisicionem, et quod Comes dedit dictam advocacionem Deo et Ecclesie
de Deulacrcssc, que Ecclesia numquam post tcmpus ipsius Comitis' advo-
cacionem illam disracionavit vacavit, ncc aliquis ab illo tempore usque
nunc jirescntavit, Con-nderadna est quod Abbas de Deulacresse cui pre-
dictus Comes dedit predictam advocacionem, qui cam, ut prcdictum est,
disracionavit, recuperet scisinam suara. Et Justicinrius Cestrie facial
litteras Domini Regis Episcopo, quod ad presentacionem ejusdem Abbatis
idoncam personam admittat."
* Seemingly a clerical error for " post tempus quo dictus Comes"', etc.,
as. in the recital of this judgment in Pat. '6'.) Henry III, Menib. 14.
ON THE CHESHIRE DOMESDAY ROLL. 9
" Jurors, Robert de Pulford, etc., as given in the note preceding. This
" Assize coming into the Court of the Lord Ilunulph, Earl of Chester and
" Lincoln, before Ilanulph the Earl, and Philiiide Urreby, then Justiciary
" of Chester, Roger de Montalt, Seneschal of Cliestcr, William de Vena-
" bles, Guarin de Vernon, and others, Darons, Kniglits, and Lieges of the
" said Earl, they declared on their oath. That the advowson of the said
" Church of Sautbache belonged to the said Earl, and that Rauulph
" Weschin,^ the great-grandfather of the said Earl Ranulph, gave it to
" Steinulf the Priest ; that afterwards, on the death of Steinulf, Ranuli>h
" the Earl, heir of the aforesaid Ranuli>h Meschin, and grandfather of
" the Lord Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, often before mentioned,
" gave the same Cliurcli of Santbache to Ranulph de Lech, and he held
" it peaceably, and without opposition, forty years. They also declared
" that in the time of Ranulph, grandfather of our Lord Ranulph, Earl of
" Chester and Lincoln, there uas discord between him and the Lord of
" Aldford, who were paciilcd by quit-claim on the part of the Lonl of
" Aklford, from himself and his heirs, to the Lord Ranulph the P'arl and
" his hell'?, of the advowson of the Church of J^antbach, and that of St.
" Bridget in Chester. And that this may be handed dov.n to perpetual
" memory, it is decreed that it should be here enrolled."
The judgment is recorded in the pleas already quoted, and re-
cited in the letters patent mentioned hereafter; the latter giving it
more completely with the names of the judges, Henrj' de Bathonia,
Henr)- de Bracton (the celebrated justice itinerant), Henry de la
Mare, and Nicholas de Turre. By these it was decided (in the
Octaves of St. Hilary 38, H. HI, 125f) in the King's Council,
^ " JionrdjJi Jfeschiii" (a soubriquet signifying " the youth" in medi-
eval French) was maternal nephew of Hugh Lupus, and cousin and heir
of Earl Richard. Paternally he was grandsou (through his father Ranulph
Meschiu) of Ranulph Fitz-Anschitel, and from him inherited the Vi-
compte of Bayeiix, as cxjilaiued in Stapleton's Rotuli Normanniic.
A further point as to the descent of Ranulj)h I from Alice wife of
Ranulph Fitz-Anschitel (for which see Vincent's Brooke, p. DG, and An-
selmc's Hist. Gencal. de France, ii, 4()S) must only be glanced at. It
involves consideration of the disjiuted illegitimacy of her alleged brother
Nicolas, Abbot and Restorer of St. Ouen's under the Conqueror's pa-
tronage.
" Ilonuljth the Earl, heir of the aforesaid," was Ranulph Gemons, son
of Randle Meschin by Lucia, daughter of Earl Algar, according to old
authorities, but more j)robabIy daughter and heiress of that e'lrlitr Lnci't,
according to recent elaborate researches by Mr. J. G. Nichols.
" Rifiiidj'h, Earl of Cheater and Lincoln,'' was son of Earl Hugh
Cyvtlioc, successor of Ranulph IL
10 MEMOIR ON THE DOMKSDAY ROLL.
" That became proof has been given bi/ the Domesday of Chester, ichich has
*' perpetual calUUti/, all contained therein heiag stable for ever, that Earl
<' Rauulph of Chester ju.-tifiod his right in the advowson of the aforesaid
" Church, against Richard de Sandbache ; that this Earl gave to God
" and to the Church of Doulacres the said advowson ; that the Church
" has never been vacant since the time when this Yaxv\ justified his right
" in the said advowson ; and that no one has presented from that time
" to this. It is considered that the Abbot of Deulacres, to whom the
" Earl who justified his right in the advowson thereof gave the same,
" should recover his seisin, and that the Justice of Chester should send
" the King's letters to the Bishop, directing him to admit a fit Parson
" thereto, on the presentation of the Abbot."
In the following year the decision was confirmed by the King's
letters patent, dated at Reading, May 8, 39 H. Ill, 1255, and direc-
tions were repeated to the Bishop to admit on the Abbot's pre-
sentation, regardless of the opposition of Roger de Sandbache.
Subsequently however, in August, 43 Hen. Ill, 1259, the Abbey
paid a hundred shillings to Roger de Sanbache for a surrender of
his claim, and for a grant of some privileges as to woods and com-
mons; and the confirmation was ratified by Sir Richard de San-
bache in 1280.
So ended this remarkable contest, which is most important in
the identification of the precise nature and contents of the '• Domes-
day Roll of Chestlk". It affirms its " perpetual validity and
stability forever", on the highest legal authority, that of the Judges
of the King's Council, to whom the appeal from the Court of the
Earl Palatine was made. The extract, certified by the Chester
Justiciar}-, and still preserved in the Record of the pleadings, is
thereby identified, beyond dispute, as having been a part of the
original Domesday Roll ; and the exact agreement of this certified
extract with the corresponding document transcribed from the
Chester Roll, examined by the Herald Flower in 1580, gives fair
presumption of the identity of the Roll, cited by him, with such
original Record itself.
All other citations in the following scries, made in most cases
from Flower's selection from the same Roll, in one case from
Vernon's MSB, and in the rest from Monastic Chartularies, have
their respective authorities appended.
11
CALENDAR OF SUCH EXTPaES IN THE CHESTHRE
DOMESDAY ROLL AS HAVE BEEN RECOVERED
FROM THE DOCUMENTS CITED.^
I. Ix THE TIME OF RaLPH LE MeSXILWARIX, JUSTICIARY IN
THE REIGX OF RiCHARD 1.
1 . Quit claim by Lcuca, \vidow of Ranulph de Kingslcgh (coming
into the full Court of the County of Chester, before Ralph Ic
Mesnilwarin, then Justiciar}-, and the Barons and lieges of the Lord
Earl there present), of the whole vill of Berthreton, on which her
dower was charged, to Richard de Kingslegh. (F. IE)
*2. Quit claim of lands in Upton by Richard, son of Richard the
Clerk, of Chester, to G(eofrry) Abbot of Chester, rer-mng v bo-
vates, ii mess, and common rights within the wastes and approved
lands of the Abbot, after removal of crops. (Legier Book of St.
Werburgh, Harl. MSS. 1965, xxix. Col. i.
II. Lx THE TIME OF Philif DE Orkeby. 1209-1229.
*3. Record of sale of a Wood, Capital Mansion, land, and all
buildings, etc. etc., vnthin the \-ill of Stapleford by William de Sta-
pleford to Philip de Orreby. (F. 14.) The purchaser is not styled
. knight; and the document might have seemed anterior to his Jus-
ticiaryship, had not Richard de Perpunte been named as Slicrif.'.
whose shrievalty is fixed by Lcycester within Sir Philip's time of
office.
4. Enrollment of Grant by Alienor, daughter and co-heiress of
William dc Malbanc, of all her lands in Cheshire within the Lyme,
to Henry de Alditclcgh. Tuesday before St. Mark's Day, seventh
year of the Interdict. (F. 7.)
1 A.-^tcrislc. prefixed imply that the d;itc is collcctc.l from circuinstaiirc^
or persons named hut i^ not expressed ; and the letter F. anpendcl,
shews that each particular extract so marked is prcservc.l in Flower s
Visitation of Cheshire, the numeral denoting the order \n whicli it occurs
in his series.
12 CALENDAR OF KNKOLLMKN TS
5. Quit claim by Gilian, Basilia, and Alicia de PuUc, sisters, of
iv bovates in PuUe, of which they had been previous claimants, to
William le Hare de PuUe, Tuesday before the Feast of St. Simon
and Jude, next after the journey of Ranulph, Earl of Chester and
Lincoln, to Jerusalem. (F. 6.)
6. Quit claim by .\Jan de Tatton of all his land in Bolinton, to
Sir Hamon de Massey, in the second year after the return of the
Earl of Chester and Lincoln. (F. 12.)
7. Record of Proceedings, in the fourth year of the Translation
of St. Thomas the Mart}T, between Ranulph III, Earl of Chester
and Lincoln, and Richard de Santbach, respecting the advowson
of Santbach, reciting a previous dispute between Ranulph II and
the Lord of Aldford. (F. 13.)
8. Claim of John, son and heir of Augustln de Brehtmet, against
his uncle, Patric de Modburli, of the reversion of one moiety of
Modburli, held for life only by the said Patric, with acknowledg-
ment of the same by the latter, and contarmation to John, son of
Augustin, by the Lord of Aldford and Earl Ranulph III. (V. 8.)
On this occasion the Earl Palatine presided along with the Jus-
ticiary.
9. Enrollment of a Grant of the moiety of Malpas, etc., formerly
belonging to Gilbert le Clerc, from Robert Patric to David de
Malpas. (F. 9.)
10. Acknowledgment of agricidtural services due from "William
de Bostoc to Warin de Vernon. (F, 10.)
*11. Agreement between Sir Philip de Orreby, Justiciary of
Chester, and Sir Roger de Montalt, Seneschal, for the purchase by
the former of the custody of estates in Elford and Cassinglond, be-
longins to Afmes, daughter of Philip de Orrebv the younger and of
Lcuca his late wife, daughter of Roger de Montalt, ^by inheritance
from Leuca) and of the future disposal of Agnes in marriage, sub-
ject to the approval of the parties and their friends. (F. 15.)
*12. Enrollment of Writ from Ranulph, Earl of Chester and
Lincoln, to the Justiciary, respecting claims of dower on the estate
of Robert Ic Grosvcnor of Little Budworth. (F. 16.)
*13. Enrollment of acquittance by Ranulph Earl of Chester and
Lincoln, to Hugh de Cholcmundelcgh and his heirs, from suit to
the several courts of the county of Chester and Dudcstan Hundred,
and providing a judger in respect of lands in Cholcmundelcgh.
(F. 5.)
IN TIfK DOMISDAY Kol.l.. 13
In thk time of Sir William dk Veunon. 1220-1202.
14. Memorial of recognition in court, that Walter dc Melcs,
Walter his son, " et corum secjuela," arc free men. (F. 17.)
15. Acceptance, by Dame Alice de Bamville, of dower in Che-
shire, as assigned by her son, Fulco de Orreby, in Frankeby, Upton,
Wylavcston, and Al/<'a5dcley (Alra/fdelcy \ 1230. (F. 18.)
16. Enrollment of grant by Ilcnry dc Vcrdon of vi bovatcs, etc.,
in Teverton, in frank marriage Avith Alice hi? daughter, to Matthew
son of Matthew de Ilulgrevc, 1231. (F. 19.)
17. Enrollment of grant by Matthew de Hulgreve, to Mattluw
his eldest son, of half his lands in Hulgreve, Hcrdeswic, and Fiir-
dac, saving the capital messuage therein, and with engagement
not to give, sell, or pledge, the other moiety, or divert it from said
son or his heirs by Alice his wife, 1231. (F. 20.)
18. Quit-claim by William dc Bulkileh to his sisters, Felicia,
Leuca, Lctitia, and Emma, of his right in one fourth of Presland,
1232. (F. 21.)
19. Note of a charter made by William dc Huxlegh, and the
witnesses thereto, 1232. (F. 22.)
20. Enrollment of grant of ii bovates in liellcsby, by Ricliard
son of Richard de Frodesham, to Adam de Ilcllesby, in 1232, which
Emma, mother of Richard, had sold to Josceramus de Hellcsby.
(F. 23.)
21. Enrollment of quit-claim by Richard and Adam do Upton,
sons of Williani de Cravene, to Sir Richard Pliytun, of their rights
in Falingbrom, 1232. (F. 21.)
In the time of Sir Riciiard de Piiytv x. 1233-1230.
22. Enrollment of verdict in suit between Sir William Vcnables
and Reginald de liradwall, respecting tenure from\'cnables, in 1233,
the first year of investiture of John Earl of Huntingdon with the
sword of the earldom of Chester and Cheshire. (The Earl presided
with the Justiciar)-.) Harl. MSS. 19G7, 30, b. (Vernon's MSS.)
23. Warranty by Alan de Tatton, to Hugh de Mcinilgarin, of liis
previous grant, of one moiety of Xorthsakc, as his demesne. Same
date as last, Tuesday, after Trinity, the Earl of Chester and Hunt-
ingdon presiding with the Justiciar)'. (F. 25.)
24. Record of Robert de Alwaldclcy (Alvandeley) and Maud his
wife, bringing the Earl's writ into court against Sir William du
o
14 CAI.F.NDAn OF r.NUOI.T.MKNTS
Vernon, Alice his wife, and Fulco dc Orrcby, respecting his
free tenement in Ahvaldeloy. In same year of Earl John. (F.
26.)
! 25. Warranty, by William de Boidele to Geoffrey de Dutton, of
• a charter of Hugh de Boidele, granting half of AVarburton to Adam
dc Dutton, in pursuance of writ of warranty of charter in the
Palatine Court. Wednesday, monow of the Assumption, l'J33.
: (F. 27.)
' 26. Final concord between Thomas son- of Hugh the Clerk, of
. Chester, clailnant by antII of entry, and Sir William Vernon, Alice
his wife, and Fulco dc Orrcby her son, respecting ii mess, in city
I of Chester, and three in suburb. In the second year of Earl John.
' (F. 28.)
i ' 27. Enrollment of grant made in the Palatine Court by Robert
I de Mcrburv to his son Peter, and Leuca his wife, daughter of Wrono
; Fitz Osbcrt, to staunch a feud between the grantor and his kindred
and the kindred of Wrono. (F. 29.)
i 28. Enrollment of grant by Henry de Audithlegh, with consent
of Bertred his wife, to Helias son of Walter de Langesdon, of half
his lands in Pikcmere. (F. 1.)
: Before Sir Walkeltx de Audfrxe, peesidixg in
1 THE PLACE OF THE EaKT,. 1236.
29. Enrollment of grant from same to Thomas, son of Walter
de Langeston, of half his lands in Pikemcre, read in Court by
Philip, Seneschal of Sir Henry de Audithlegh. Tuesday after the
Feast of All Saints, in the fifth year of Earl John, 1236. (F. 2.)
Ix THE TIME OF SiR PvICHAKD DrAYCOT. 1237-1238.
30. Agreement, in the Palatine Court, between Mabell dc Mos-
tun, widow of Kanvdph de Kingslcgh, claiming dower in Xorthlegh
by writ of the Justiciary, and Richard de Kingslegh, deforciant,
1237-8. (F. 3, with erroneous date, 1233.)
This is after the appropriation of the earldom by Hen, HI ; and
the entry closes with the words, " et aliis liberis et fidelibus Domini
Kcfjis tunc ibi prescntibus." (F. 3.)
31. Enrollment of grant by William de Venables to his son Sir
William Venables, of the entire vills of Winton and Lyndewood,
1238. (F. 4.)
32. Enrollment of grant from Walkcl}n de Ardcrnc to Richard
de Sandbache. (F. 45.)
IN THE DOMKSDAY ROLL. 15
Ix TIIE TIMK OF JoiIX L'KsTRANGr., 121-1-124.5.
33. Enrollinout of grant from Simon dc Ormcsljic to llobcrt do
Tulford, of his ciistlo of Pidford, and of all hi.s lands witliin and
without that vill. (F. -12.)
Before Sir N. pe Wilib', Constable of Chester Castm:,
A>i) Sir "Walkelyx de Arderxe. 29 H. III.
34. Obligation entered into, in the Palatine Court, by the heirs
of Richard dc Kingslcgh, namely "William de Seneville, Dame
Margery de Cholmondclcgh, Handle le Rotcr, and "William Lance-
lyn, to set out full dower for Dame Jane, widow of liichard do
Kingslegh, as of her late husband's lands. 29 Hen. III. (F. 47.)
Ix TnE time of Sir Joiix le Grey, appoixted 1245.
35. Quit-claim by Robert de Cotes, brother .of Hugh, of a tene-
ment in Cotes (Abbott's Cotton), to the Abbot and convent of St.
"Werbuvgh, and undertaking by the latter for contingent grant of
lands in Aldford, or release of rent to him, etc. Morrow of St.
Bartholomew, 32 Hen. Ill (1248). Red Book of St. Wcrb., Ilavl.
MSS., 2148, p. 21.
*'36. Demise by William Lanccl}"n and Jane (Agnes?), daughter
of Richard dc Kingslegh, his wife, to Robert the Chaplain, of
"Weverham. (F. 43.)
*37. Final concord between Roger de Montalt, Seneschal of
Chester, and Thomas, Abbot of Chester, respecting ii bovatrs in
Ncston and advowson of church, with confirmation of the' grants
by all the said Roger's ancestors. (F. 57.)
*38. Enrollment of grant by Adam de Barwc, and Alice his wife,
to Thomas, Abbot of Chester, of iii borates of land in Great Cott »,
in exchange for lands held by Thomas the Brewer, in Acston, from
the Abbot, subject to homage and rent. (Legier Book of St. Wcr-
burgh, Harl. MSS., 1965, p. xxix. Col. 1.)
*39. Quit-claim of iv bovatcs of land in Wodcchiichc, by Henry
son of Adam de Lacthon i^Landican :) and Margery his wife,
daughter of Hamon de Wodochirchc, to T. (Thomas) Abbot of St.
Werburgh. Ibid., p. xxix, Col. 3.
Ix THE TIME OF Sir Thomas de Orbeby. 1201-1262.
40. Note of an appearance in the Palatine Court of Alda, wife of
William Trumw)n, daughter of Warin dc Vernun, 4G Hen. III.
(F. 48.)
16 CAl-KNDAU OK KNKOI.I.MKXTS
41. Note of a charter by William dc Hathcrton, and ol' the
witnesses thereto, namely Sir Thomas de Orreby, J. C, other
Kni;?hts, and Richard de Orreby, Chamberlain, John de Wetenhale,
Constable of Chester Castle, Robert dc Biilkclegh, Sheriff of
Cheshire, etc. 40 Hon. III. (F. 49 )
Ix Tirr. xiMK OF William l.v Zuciii:. 12G2-12G4.
42. Quit-claim by Richard de Kirkby to Abbot Thomas and the
Convent of Chester, of all rights in the church of Kirkby. Tuesday
after Ascension Day. 47 II. Ill, 1203. (Red Rook of St. Wer-
burgh, Harl. MSS., 2148, p. 24.)
Ix TiiK TIME OF Jamks dk Audlky. 1200-1207.
■^'43. Note of a perambulation of Frankby (as agreed upon in
Court in presence of Robert de lluxlcgh. Sheriff) having been made
by P. (Peter) de Arderne and the Abbot of Chester, who had been
impleaded by said Peter de Arderne, respecting Turbary therein
pertaining to his manor of Frankby. 50 Henry III. Ibid., p.
100, b.
"'•'44. " Robertas de Iluxlegh, Yicccomes Cestresirie, etc., anno
Regis Henrici, patris Domini Edv.-ardi, 1°" This extract was pro-
bably inserted by Flower to mark tlie peculiarity of distinguishing
King Henry as fallicr of the Lord of the Palatinate. (F. 44.)
*4J. Enrollment of a charter by Maud, Lady of Arundel, dated
at Rraundon (her brother's castle in Warwickshire), 52 lien. Ill,
relative to John Fit/. Alan, her son, having assigned the entire manor
of Trohford for her dower. (F. 50.)
Ix THE TIME OF TjIOMAS DE RoLTOX. 1207-1270.
46. Enrollment of grant by Peter dc Arderne, Lord of Aldford,
to Jolm his eldest son, and Margaret his wife, daughter of the
Lord Griffin of Rromfeld, of the entire manor of Conglcton.
A note is added, that the said Peter dc Arderne had to wife
Margaret, mother of the said John. (F. 54.)
47. Confirmation and quit-claim by William de Venables, son
r.nd heir of Sir Roger de \'enables, of a moiety of the vill and the
advowson of Estbury, with recognition in the Palatine Court, that
the same were the rights of tiie church of St. Wcrburgh, ])v gift of
Gilbert and William de Venables, his ancestors. Sealed hv the
Justiciary and by \"enables before enrollment.
Legier Houk of St. W(.rl)uigh. Harl. MS.*^. piO.j, p. x\i, Cul.
4 ; also F. 5L
IN Tlir. noMKSDAY KOLl,. 17
48. Final concord between AVilliam, son and licir of Ko^cr dc
Venablcs, and Simon, Abbot of St. "Worbur^b, wherein the former
recognizes the right of tlic Abbot in a moiely of the xill and the
entire advowson of Estbury. 53 Henry III. (F. 52.)
In the iiMK OF Regixald de Grey's first rERioi)
OF OFFICE. 1270-1274.
49. Enrolbnent of grant from Hamo de Pulford and Mabcll his
wife, to Richard their son, and his Avife Cecilia, daughter of Robert
de Hnxlegh, in Eton and Burwardslegh in the shrievalty of Sir
Richard de Wylburham 54, 55 Hen. 111. (F. 38.)
50. Memorial of Perambulation, made in 5Gth year of King
Henry, father of the Lord Edward, before Hugh de Hatton, then
SherifT, by Bertram de Mclcs, between the vill of Knoctyrum, the
manor of the Abbot of Chester, and the vill of 13ydeston, the manor
of Dame Cecilia de Mascy. (F. 38.)
51. Enrollment of Grant by ^Master Ranulph de Meyngarin of
the vill of "NVcreford, to Laurence his son, to him and Margaret
his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, in the shrievalty of Hugh dc
Hatton (56 Henry IIP. (F. 40.)
52. Enrollment of Grant by Richard lo Vemun, and Mabcli lus
v'ife, of all their land in Bcxton, to Robert, son of Richard le
Grosvenor. (F. 41.)
53. Enrollment of Grant by Edmund Phitun, son and heir of
Hugh Phitun, to Reginald de Grey, of all lands in Rushton and
Great and Little Eyton, which the Lord Edward, eldest son of
King Henry, gave to the Lord John de Grey, father of Lord Regi-
nald. Mention of Richard de Phytun, former Lord of Rushton.
(F. 55.)
Ix THE TIME or GvXCELYN DE B.VDLESMEKE, 1274-1280.
54. Enrollment of Confirmation by William, son of Rol)crt de
Laneelyn, to the cluirch of St. Werburgh, of the advowson of the
chureli of Bebington, with recognition of grant of tlic same to the
same, by his great-grandfather, Richard de Laneelyn, witli his
body, and conhrmation of the same by his grandfather Robert ^son
of said Richard an;] by Robert liis fatlier. (F. 30.)
55. Enrollment ol •^;,'o.nflrmation by Ranulph, son of William dc
Laneelyn! " (F. 31.)
56. Enrollment of Cirant by Hamo de ^lascy, .'.on and luir of
Hamo de Ma.-cv the fourtli, to God and St. James and the con-
18 CALKNDAU OK ENHOLl.MF.NTS
vent of Birklicved, in frankalmoignc, of half an acre of land in the
' territory of Donam, etc. (F. 32.)
This is an imperfect abstract of a Charter given at length in the
Monasticon (New Ed. ii, 211), which conveyed the advowson of
1 Bowdon also. Sir P. L. nicnlions the enrollment of it " in the
; Cheshire Domesday Book, now lost."' Hist. C'hcsh. i, 300.
57. Enrollment of Confirmation by Bertram, Lord of Great Melcs
in Wirral to Fulco, his son, of viii bovates of land therein. (F. 33.)
: 58. Enrollment of Release by Alexander de Bamville, and Kocsia
1 his Avife, of all their right, by reason of dower, after the death of
i Robert de Stokeport, formerly husband of the said Roesia, in the
! manors of Echeles, Stokeport, Bredburie, llomclegh, and Ilatres-
' Icgh. (F. 34.)
! 59. Memorial of Homage done in the Palatine Court by Griffin de
•. Warren, for himself and Isabel his wife, to, and in recognition of
i their tenure of Stretton and Chidlowe from, Alienor, widow of
Robert I'Estrange son and heir of William de Blanchminster, and
1 of subsequent homage done to Robert de Pulford from whonr these
tenements were held by his feoffment of Isabella. (F. 35.)
60. Enrollment of Grant by Robert de Pulford, Rector of Codin-
I ton, to Isabel his sister, of all his land of Cisseley, to be held by
) said Isabel, and heirs of the bodies of her and Gritiin de Warren.
' . (F. 36.)
61. Quit claim by Thomas, son of Ralph de llcllcsby, to Hugh
: his brother, of all the lands, of all his right in all the lands and
• tenements which Adam do llcllcsby gave to said Ralph de ikl-
t lesby, in the vills of Acton and Ilellesby, 4 Edward I. (F. 37.)
t 62. Final C'oncord in the Palatine Court, Tuesday betbre the
feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, 1277, between Simon, Abbot of
[ of Chester and the convent thereof, and Robert, Abbot of Stanlaw
I and that convent, respecting rights in Stanlaw Marsh,
j From the Couchcr liook of ^Vhalley Abbey (published by the
j Chetham Society) p. 540, where it is preceded by Xo. G4, follow-
! ■ ing, a document clearly of later date.
63. Decision at instance of Henry de Lascy, Earl of Lincoln,
before Guncelyn de Badlcsmere, J. C, in the dispute between the
said Abbots, respecting the division of the heath between Wyleby
and Staney. Legier liook of St. \Verburgh, Marl. MSS. 1965, 15 b,
and Whalley Coucher Book, p. 542.
The statement in the Couchcr liook is of greatest length, gives
the preliminary legal forms, and the dosing form previous to En-
rollment, and the dale, Morrow of Epiphany, 6 l-^ilward I, 1278.
IN Tin: nOMKSDAY itoi.i,. 19
64. Agreement between the same respecting marsh laml, be-
tween Ah-iclies llnhne and Holpul, in the marshes near the (Imvv.
1279. Legier Book of St. Werburgh, Ilarl. MSS. ll)G;3, p. lob,
and Couchcr Book, p. 5oG.
The Wluilley Book omits the Uate, but is otherwise mow full,
and ha.s the closing form as in the last article.
65. Enrollment of Agreement between Simon, Abbot of Chester,
on the one part, and Bobcrt de Ilokenul, William son of Hugh,
and Adam son of Richard dc Hoxclcgh, on the other part, contain-
ing the Ab])ot's quit-claim of Estovers, for his manor houst-s of
Boghton and Salhton, reserving his mancrial rights in Iloxelc^di
and Schotcwyk, 1279. Legier Book of St. Werburgh, Harl. MS.>^.
1963, 39, Col. 3.
EXKOLLMKXTS OF DOUBTFUI, DaTK, BUT SF.KMINGLY ABOl'T TllK
CLOSE OF BaDLESMF.KK's rERIOD OF OfFICK.
66. Extract from the Foundation C'liartcr of St. Werburi,'li's,
beginning at "Hugo Comes Cestric atque Ermcntrudis Comitissa,"
etc. (F. 56.)
67. A note of the Earls of Chester, naming the 1st, 3rd, Itli. and
5th, possibh' referring to the series mentioned in succes.sivc Con-
firmatory Charters. (F. 46.)
It is possible that these relate to some inspection of Abbey
Charters, such as that which was made by Guncclyn de Badlcs-
mere, in August, 8 Edward I, 1280. Hist. Chesh. i, p. 12.
68. Notes of various deeds relative to premises in Bridge Street,
Chester, granted by Bertram, son of William dc Ernwey, to Ma^tir
Andrew de Tawell, by the latter, by Austin, husband of Margaret de
Tawcll (grantee from Andrew) to Gcoffry de Tar-s"}!!, and liy him to
John de Eraewey, possibly the "Sir John Arnewcy", ^^ayor from
1268 to 1276, and connected with the Chester Mysteries. Au>tin's
grant is stated to have been enrolled in the Domesday lloll. Legier
Book of St. Werburgh's, Harl. MSS. 1965, p. 40, Col. 3.
69. Quit-claim by Sir Philip Burncll and Isabel his wife (daugh-
ter of William Patrick) to St. Werburgh's Church, of all riglits in
the manors of Salghton, Chcvele, Huulinton, and Boghton. Ibid.
p. 17, Col. 1.
70. Enrollment of Grant by llichard Lord of Cholmondcky, to
Hugh, his son and heir, of lands in Cholmondeley and \\'(glithull.
(F. 53.)
71. Enrollment of Grant from Sir Peter de Arderne, Knight, to
[ 20 CALKNDAK Ol- KXUOI.I.M KNTS, KTC.
Simon, Abbot of Chester, of an Essurt, called Ichincotc, lying bc-
l twcen Alvan(lelc<;h and Donarn, in cxclianpjc for abbey land in
fr Aldford. (This would be between 120.-) and 128U.) llegi.stcr
[ Book of St. Wcrbur-h, llarl. MSS. 2071, 00 b.
In the time of Regixalb de Guey's second tenure of
Office of Jvsticiauy, after his KEArroiNTMENT
I IN 9 Edward I.
I
: 72. Final Concord between Simon, Abbot of Chester, and
Ranulph, son of Peter de Thorneton, respecting reparations of the
bridge and road at Fulford, in the highway from Chester toward
;• Ynes. Lcgicr Book of St. Werburgh, Ilarl. MSS. 1905.
This Agreement is added in a later hand, at the end of Harl.
MSS. 1905, and occurs on a slip of parchment inserted in the other
copy of this book, in Harl. MSS. 2062.
73. Suits of Novel Dcsseisin and a Final Concord, between
Simon, Abbot of Chester, and Hugh dc Hatton, respecting rights in
■ Salghton and Hatton, an Assize being impracticable, on account of
the multitude of Hugh's connexions and relatives, and the Abbot's
friends. Provision respecting mutual use of the heath extending
from the highway leading from the bounds between Castlcton (the
precincts of Aldford Castle r) and Hatton, up to Goldeburnc Ford.
1289. Red Book of St. Werburgh, Harl. :\[SS. 2M8, fo. 4 b.
74. Quit-clainr of Sir Richard de Stokcport to St. Werburgh, in
perpetuity, of all his right and claim in tlie vill and advowson of
Prestbury. Enrolled on feast of St. }>Iattluas, Feb. 24, 17 Ed-
ward I, 1289. Legier Book of St. Werburgh, Harl. MSS. 1905,
fo. 35 b.
J>1
BRIEK NOTICES OF JUSTICIARIES WHO PRESIDEI) IX THE
COURT OF CHESTER DURING THE PERluD TO WHICH
THE PRECEDING CALENDAR RELATES.'
JUSTICIARIES AS'llO PKESIDED BEFORE THE ASSUMPTION OF THE EAKT.POM
BY KING HENRY III.
Sir Ralph le Mesnii.warin, Kt., the first Justicuivy named in the
fragments of the Cheshire Domesday Roll, i^resided in the time of Riehanl
I, and previously, according to Leyccster. He is supposed to be heir
male of Ranulfus, Lord of most part of fifteen Cheshire vills, and also of
Wahrunne in Norfolk, at the time of the Domesday Survey. At that place
the Justiciary founded a priory ; and having married Amicia, a daughter
of Earl Hugh II (the suhject of the celebrated genealogical controversy),
^vas ancestor, by her, of Manwaring of Warmincham, and its numerous
branches.
1:^09. Sir Phu.ii' de Orrery, Kt., Justiciary in tliis year, resigned
at Easter 1229 (Annal. Cestr.). From him came Arderne of Alvanley,
in female line. See Hist. Chesh.,^ii, 37 ; iii, 290 ; Miscell. Pal., p. lo:>.
1229. Sir Wii-i.iam Vernon, Kt., considered to have been a younger
brother of the Shipbrook femily, and identical with Sir William Vernon,
second husband of Aiicia de Bamvillc, widow of his predecessor. Sec
Hist. Chesh., iii, 133, 38(J ; ?>Iiscell. Pal., pp. 104, 109. and references in
Index. He continued to hold olHce in 1232.
1233. Sir Richard Phitun, Kt. (Annal. Cestr.), had ceased to hold
office in 123(; <Chesh. Domesday, xxix). An account of the Fittons, of
Bollin, and of Gawsworth, will be found in Hist. Chesh., vol. iii, 30S.
commencing with Richard Phitun, or Fittou, father of the Judge, and
grantee of Falybrome in Wilmslow, from Earl Hugh II. Tliere was an
ancient liedford.^hire family, whioh l>orc this name as a hod one, at an
early period ; but their connexion with the Cheshire line does not appear.
Maud, widow of Richard de Fitton (alias De Cumton. as Compton was
then written), and Robert, son of Richard, occur in a suit respecting
lands in " Fitou" in Bedfordshire, in 1199 (Rotuli Curiic Regis, i, 3.V.).)
> An asterisk is prefixed to the names of those Justiciaries during
w hose several i>criods of olHve no enrollments have occurred.
I*
22
JusTiciAinr.s OK ( ukstkr.
123G. Siii AVvT.KKi,Y\ DE Akhkiinf;, Kt., j.rcsi.ioil "in jilace of tlic
Earl," Tuesday :iftor All Saints, o Com. Johan. 12:5(1 (Cln.-sh. Domes-
day, xxix). See Hist. Chesh. ii, ]>. 3>^ ; and .Misccll. Pal., p. 77.
In 12:J7, Jun\ Eaiu, of Ciii-stkh, last of the Norman Earls Palatine,
died on June 7, and the list of Justiciaries presiding under this Local
Dynasty closes.
II.
JCSTICI.\.RIF.S PUKSIDIXO .VI'TEIl TlIK ASSUMUTIOX OF Tlin E.VUI.POM
BY KINe; KE.NKY III.
1237. Sill rucii.vui) Dit.vvcoT (of Draycot, Co. Staff.), Kt., was the first
Justiciary after the assumption of the f^arldom liy lien. Ill, the Earl of
Lincoln being its Custos. (Annal. Cestr.) He occurs afterwards wiih Sir
John Gohaud, and Sir Simon do Xorwich, who were as-^ociated witli him.
(Chesh. Domesd. xxxii.)
*1241. Silt John de Lexinto.v, Kt. (Leycestcr). Not noticed in
Annal. Cestr. lie was ultimately a Baron of the realm. Dug\l. iJar.,
i, 743.
1244. Sir Joiix L'Estk.uxue, Kt. (Leycestcr.) It is noticed in the
Annales Cestrionses, that in 1245, '•' Johannes Extrancus" the Justiciary,
was removed from ofHce, and that it was committed to John de Grey. For
the numerous offices held by this ancestor of the Lords Strange, sec Dug-
dale's Baronage, i, 0(53.
N. DE "WiLiB, Constable of Chester Castle, and Siiv Walkelyn de
Arderxe, occur in the Chesh. Domesday Roll, in 29 II. Ill, as presiding',
possibly as Commissioners during vacancy. (Xo. xxxiv)
1245. Jonx de Giiev (Annal. Cestr.). In 33 II. Ill, he had custody
of the King's lands in Cheshire and Xorth Wales (•' Kos, Rcwennyoc,
Differen Cloed, and Englefeld") for one year, for d marks ; and custody
of castles (Rot. Pat. in Turr. L. m. n) ; and iu 34 H. Ill (Rot. Pat. m.
7), had a similar grant, from Candlemas to the Quintaine of Easter,
paying proportionately. For more respecting this Baron, see the article
on Grey de Wilton, Dugd. i, 713.
Leycestcr mentions Sir Roger de ^lontalt, 31 Ilcn. III. He was pos-
sibly ^cw//j ieiit'iix,a.A Henry Torboc is termed in 32 lien. Ill, and Richard
Venion in the year following. About this time he was a Justice Itinerant.
*12"j1. Ai,.\x l.a. Zl-che was appointed (Annal. Cestr.). Dugdale i, GSS,
notices him at length as Baron la Zouche of Ashby ; and in i, 713, states
that he outbid his predecessor, and iu }>. OGS notices his patents of 34
and 37 II. III. The fonner mentions demise of Cheshire and WcKh
Crown lands, for two years and a quarter, for payment of M marks per
annum, and subject to custody of castles in time of peace, repair of houses,
payment of alms and Cliajilains' s.ilaric.-, and saving to the King advow-
Hjns, reliefs, wards, marriages, fisheries, j>arks, vert and venison in forests.
ji sTifiAKir.s OF tiii<rKi:. 23
with limitation of pasture there, t"ll in tVee horoujjhs, aii'l csche;its. Ho
liaJ also letters patent, coniinamling ohclience to hinx as.Justici;ir_v ; and
other letters patent were i.fsncil with respect to his prcdeeessi>r, direct-
ing delivery of castles, etc., in repair as received. Hot. Pat. 31 Ikii. 111.
This Justiciary resigned in 12-").j (Annates Ccstrienscs).
*SiR GiLBKUT T.VLitoT succccdcd Alan la Zuche immediately, at
Michaelmas in l2oo, and was removed about Ascension Day, 1207 (An-
nales Ccst.). lie was most probaWy the Justice Itinerant of that name,
made governor of various castles near Monmouth in that year, and hus-
band of Gwenlliau, daughter of Rhese, Prince of South Wales, for whom,
see Dugd. Bar. i, 32f).
*RoGER i>E ."MoNTALT, Baron of Ilawarden, and Seneschal of Chester,
succeeded at Whitsuntide, and resigned in lHoO (Ann. Cestr.). A memoir
of him will be fouud in ?*Iiscell. Pal., p. 9G. AVulkelyn de Avdernc, in-
Bcrtcd as his predecessor in Leycester's list, seems to be inserted in error,
or to have held office for some brief period only.
* Sir Fulco de Okrf.by (of Stapleford) succeeded Roger de Moutalt
about All Saints' Day 12.50, and vacated by death on the Eve of St.
Bartholomew, 1201. Ann. Cestr. lie was second son of Sir Philij) de
Orreby, and is noticed at length in Dugd. ii, o7, Hist. Chesh., and Mis-
cell. Pal. p. 104. Fulco de Orreby, most probably identical with this
person, appears on behalf of the Crown in the Sandbach case in 12-33.
Sir Thojias de Orrexsy was appointed by Pat. 4.5 Hen. Ill, succeed-
ing to Fulco imme.liately in 12G1, and resigned after Christmas in 12(52,
as by Aunal. Cestr., Avhich ]MS. names him as kinsman of his predece.-^sor.
See Hist. Chcsh. iii. p. 2[)0.
Sir William la Zuche, who succeeded, came to Chester on February
II, 12G1-2 (Ann. Cestr.). His preparations for defence against the
Barons and Welsh, which interfered with the Abbey property, are given
iu Hist. Chc.<h. (i, p. 194) from the same authority, which mentions his
farewell to Chester, at Christmas 12G4, and imprisonment in London for
excesses, after the occupation of Cheshire by Simon de ^lontfort.
* Sir Lccas de Taney was constituted Justiciary of Chester by Ilcnry
de Montfort on his return through Chester from a meeting with Llewelyn
ap Grytlydd, and Gryllydd ap Madoc, at Hawaidcn Castle, in January
12G4-5. The Annals (Hist. Chcsh. i, p. 194) give his defence of Clie^ttr
Castle against the adherents of Prince Edward, and his submis.-iyn, at
mercy, in 12G.), to the Prince himself, from whom, when imprisoned,
Erdswick states him to have had warrant for holding office. Harl.MSS.
2f-(1, p. 54.
It is probable that he was of the family of Staplcford-Taney in E>sc.k.
One of his name occurs in Hunter's Rotuli Sclocli in t!ie reign >.<( Henry
III, anil also in the Patent Rolls of Edward I, as Seneschal of Gascony,
and Justiciary of Forests south of Trent. See also Dug-l. liar, i, :>o:t.
Jamcs pe AfDLEV was Justiciary in 12;;G. and resigned in 1207
24 JLSl ICIAHIKS OF (llISTKi:.
(Aiui. Cestr.). For an ainiile notice of this powerful Baron, sec DulT'I.
Bar. i, 747.
Sir Tuom.vs de Boulton succectlcJ Audlcy in liG7, and rc^-i-ucl in
1270 (Ann. Cest.). One of the same name was a Commissioner of enquiry
into rights of Iloyal .Manors, :ind conduct of Sheriffs in Yorkshire, Octo-
: ber 11, 2 Edward I, l-'74 (Rymer, i, pt. 2, p. 517), but he is not posi-
I tively identified with tins Judge.
SiK Kkgi.nald de Guey (son of John do Grey, an earlier Justiciary
and progenitor of the Barons of Wilton), succeeded in 1270, and continu-
ing after the accession of Edward I, resigned In 1274. Ann. Cest. See
Dugd. Bar. i, 7l;3.
SiK Gi-.NCELY.N m: Baklksmki:!; succeeded in 1274, and with him the
series in the Annales Cestrienscs doses. Dugdale (ii, 57) names him as a
'' great rebel to Henry III", and as afterwards obedient, and as continu-
' ing in office to 9 Edward I.
I Sir Reginald de Gkey was again restored to office by Patent of Q
• Edward 1 (Memb. 2). and continued Justiciary for many years, having
i Ralph Hcgham associated an ith him in 13 Edward I, and Richard de 3Iasey,
I as deputy, in 20 and 25 Edward I. (Leyccstcr.)
i No portions of the Domesday Roll of later date than the Justiciaryship
of Grey have occurred ; l)ut it is desirable to add the Appointment of his
Deputy and Successor, as it is particular in descriptio.x of tue oFricE.
This was Richard de Mascv, considered to he the patriarch of the Pod-
ington line, lie was sheriff in 6 Edward I, and his Pate.\t, dated June
7, 28 Edward I, is addressed to tlie inhabitants of Cheshire, Flintshire,
and Engleleld Cantred.
)
j This Pate.vt states grant of the office of Justiciary of Chester, and of
I the Castles of Chester, Rothelan, and Flynt, and the County of Flynt, with
j farms, rents, appurtenances, purprcstures, and forest rights, excepting/ the
j lead Mine ui EafjhfeU, and saving wards, reliefs, marriages, dowers,
Church advowsons, vert and venison of forests and parks, and with pro-
I hibition of fallage or sale of oak on the hither side of Dee, for five years
I from Micliaclmas cn.suing. reserving rent of m marks.
Then follow other obligations on the Justiciary, to guard the Castles
j during peace, at his own expense, pay accustomed alms, fees to Choter
I Castle, and usual payments to Chester Abbey, Chester Nuns, Hild-
I burgheye Hermitage, Vale Royal Abbey, St. John's Uosj-ital at Chester,
and the Friars Preachers.
, Also to pay a sum of xlv jiounds, charge.l on Chester Mills and on the
Fishery, granted by the king to Hubert de Creve.iuer, in considemtion of
a surrender of one moiety of the .Manor of Suham, and also viii.s. v./. j.art
i t^f a salary granted to Robert the Engineer.
i Charge to the parties addre.vsed is a.lded, rctjuiring due obedience to
Ri-hard Mascy as Justiciary of Chester, and as Cu^tos of the Castles, before
luenti.-ued, in all thing.s regarding su.h oflicc and ^uch custodv.
UO
NAMES OF PLACES MENTIONED IN Till': PRECEDING
CALENDAR.
Ai.ton, CI.
AMfonl, 7, M, 3o, 40, 71, 7:t.
Abich.'s Holm, (54.
Alviuulcloy, 1.-), -Ji, 71.
Hel.ingtoii, 54, 55.
Beitliieton, 1.
Ik'Xton, bi.
liirkevfil, 5ii.
Bojiliton, fi.'^i, U'J.
Bolinton, (».
BowJon, 5(1.
Biulwuitli Little, 1-2.
Bunviir.Wc'-'li, 4I».
'Brailv.all, ■,-,>.
Breilbiino, 5S.
Briilu'e SuveU (is.
Bromfeld. 4(i.
ByJe^tDii, 50.
Cas^iiilciul. 11.
CaslU-lon, 1-i.
C"he>tcr, •■>('>, r.s.
Chester .Vliliey, see Alibot, etc.
in List cif Names.
Chevfley, (lit.
Cliiillowe, 50.
Clioliuiuidelegli, 1:}, 70.
Cisseley, G'>.
Coilinloii, GO.
ConpU'ton, 4G.
Cotes (AMh.i's Cullon), '^b.
Cotes, tlreat, :'.«.
Donaiii, 5ii, 71.
i:.lKles. 5<.
Kllonl, 11.
Kstl.ury, 47, 4-^.
Ktun, 4'.).
Kytuii, Cijvat ami Little, b'-i.
I'alin^liri'iii, "Jl.
lulf.)!.!, 7,'.
IVai.kl.y, 1.5,4:1.
l-Yddi'-liaiii, '-^O.
rur.lue, 17.
(idliltl'iinie, 7:1.
Hativsle-h, 5^.
Hatlou, 7:{.
Hellesby, -JO, (il.
Hcrdeswie, 17.
Holriil, (ii.
Iloxclegli, 05.
Hulgreve, 17.
Iluiitindon, CO.
Ichincote, 71.
KingsleKh, 1, 30, :!4, :U;.
Kiikby, 4-,>.
Knoctynim, 50.
Laiidican, '•}'■).
Lyme of Cheshire, 4.
Lyndewode, 31.
Malpas, !).
Meles, 14, 50.
!\rodburli, S.
Norihlei,'h, :!0.
Northsake, '-i'-i.
Pikemere, '.i^^, -20.
I'ultbrd, :j:!.
Pulle, 5.
Prestburv, 74.
I'reslaii.i ix.
Komele^li. 5^.
lUishtrm, 5-'t.
Salgliton,05, 0!), 73.
Santliach, l,±a.3Z
Schotewyk, 05.
Stauev. 03.
Staulaw Abbev, O-^, 03. 04.
Stanlaw Mar-'h, OJ, 03, 04.
Stajdet'ord, 3.
Stokeport. 5^.
Siretton, 5'.).
I'ivertfiii, Ki, 17.
Troll ford, 45.
Upton, vi, 15.
\Varlmrton, U'5.
^Ve^:ilthllll, 70.
Wtivford. 51.
^Virlton. 31.
^Vodel•hi^■lll^ 31t.
\\vbiveston, 15.
Wyteby, 03.
• Yues, 7'-!.
iv'G
NAMES OF PERSONS MENTIONED IN THE PRECEDING
CALENDAR.
Abbot, see Cbester, Staiilaw.
Aldlonl, Lord of. 7, s, :((), 43, 4(1. //.
AbUteU'-b. Hi-iin-, 4.
Alvambley, llobjrt, y[ivu\, -U.
AiJenu-, SValkflvii, :.!iL 45: *.4
I'cter, 4.!.
I'etor, Marfraiet, Jobii, ^lar-
gavot, 4ii.
Sir IVter, Tl.
Auclitblegb. Sir Henry, ]?orlreil,-2s,-ji).
Bamville^ Alice, 15, -,'4, ,'0.
Alexandei", IJoesia, 58.
Bai'we, Adp.iii, Alice, oj>.
Bbincbmiii'^ter, William, 50.
15i>idele, AViHiain. Hugh, 25.
Bostoe, "VVilliiin, 10.
Bradwall, IleLrinald, -^i.
Brebtmet, .Jolin, Austin, H,
Brewer, Tbumas tbe, 3^.
Bulkelegb, Itul.ort. 41.
Bulkiley, Williaiu, IVlicia, Leuca, Le-
titia, Kninia, 1>^.
Biiniel, Sir I'liill'), Isabel, fiO.
Cbester, Abbot of, '2, :M>, :t7, O-S -V-K i-i,
43, 47, 4-^, 50, 54, 55, (J,>. C3, (i4, ()5,
r.7, 00, 71, 7.2, 7!, 74.
Cliolmundelegli, Hii^b, 13.
Marjien, 31.
Rii-bard, Mugb, 70.
Clerc, Lc, Bicbard, 2.
Gilbert, 0.
llu'.'li, Tbomas
20.
Cotes, B.ibert, Iliiu'b, 35.
Crnvene, ANilliuni, "21.
Duttoii, tlotlVy, Adam, '25.
Kai'.i.dom or Ciir.sTi.n:
Hui^'b I, (iC, t;7.
Krnieiitriidis, Countess, liO..
r.a!nil]di I, ('.7.
Banidi'li 11,7, (.7.
lln-b ][. (-.7.
Kai.uli.b in, 5. (1, 7, H, !l, 12, 13.
Jolin, "2,.'. •-•:!.
Konrv III (Kin^). 30, 41, 5'), .VI.
Kd\vaVd, J'nne., 44, 5o, .-,:;.
F.rnwey, Bertram, 'William, Jolm, H'^.
ritz-Alaii (of .Vrundel), Maud, Jobii,
45.
Fitz-Osliert, "Wrono, '27.
Fitz-llicbard, Itieb. '2.
Frodesl'.am, Bicbai-d, Emma, "20.
Grey, Be-jrituild, .lobn, 53.
Grittin (Grultydd ap ijladoc) Lord of
Bromffld, 4(i.
Grosveuor, Bobert, 1'2.
Bii-bard, Ibibert, 5"2.
Hare, Le, "William (De Tulle), 5.
Hatlierton, "William, 41.
Hattou, llu.Lrb, 50, 51, 73.
Hellesby, .Ailaia, Joscurani, "20.
l'lioinrt'5, IJalub, Ilii.ub,
Adam, 01.
Hokenul, BobLit, 05.
Hulureve, Multbew, Aliee, Ki, 17.
lluxle-b or Ho\lej.'b, William, l:t.
— Bobort,!.!, 44.
llobert, Cecilia, 4'.).
AViUiam, Hu-li, .\da:n. Ui-
cbard, 05.
Kingslegb,Leiica.Btinulpb,Iiicl;:uil,l.
Kanuliib, Kiiliaid, :!''.
Bicbard, Jane, 31.
Bicbard, Jane, .\gnes, 30.
Kirbby, Bicbard, i>.
Baelbon, Henry, .\dam, Martn ry. 3:).
Lancelyn, William, :i4.
— William, .bine, .\uiics :!0.
William.r.icbard.i:..'..Ti.51.
Ban\d]ili, William
T.aiigesdon, Helias, Walter. "2^.
L'KNtran'_'e. Bob.-rt. .Mienor, 50.
^falbanc, William and .Mienor, 1.
.Midpas, ]>avid, 0.
^la^ci or Ma^--ey. Humo, 0.
Cecilia, .""iV).
Hrtiim, Hamo, 50.
^lesnil'.'arin, Huu'b, "23.
.Mebs, Walt.r, W illiam, 14.
Ib-rtriiMi, .50.
BiTtram, l-'ulco, 57.
NAMKS or I'KUSONS.
Moibmy, rti^hort, rettr, Lonon, •■il.
Mo\ii;-,'aryii, Kaiuilpli, Luiircnoo, Mar
M(>iliiiuli, Pati-ic, S.
Mdiitalt, Sir Itn^'ov, 11. :t7.
]Mo>t.ni. Mal.fU, mi.
Onne^bic, Simon, 'V\.
Oneby, As-'iies, 11.
Tulco, 15, -Jl, -Ki.
Lenoa, 11.
rbilip (Sii), ;V 11.
riiilip (Jan.), 11.
Thomas (Sir), lliclianl, 41.
Sof also Bamvillo, .Uice.
Patric, Piobert, !).
— ■■ AViUiar.i, f.O.
Phitun, Kilmnnil, ITut'li, Piichiinl, 5:1.
Phvhiii, Sir Pichnril, -I.
PuUonl, Pobrrt, :!:{.
llamo, :Mabell, PicharJ, Ce-
cilia, 40.
Pobert, Isabel, 00, GO.
Pulle, Gilian, Pasilia, and Alice, 5.
Sec also Hare.
Hoter (Thornton), Pamlle, -31.
Sandbaoh, Pi.-bar.l, ■'^2.,'/.
SencNille, AVilliam, .U. '
Stanlaw, Abbot ami Couv. of, GQ, G:l, Gl.
Sta].lot'ord, AVilHam. ."1.
Stokciiurl, Poluit, Itni'siti. ,')S.
Sir Uicliaril, 7 4.
Tarvyn, Gcntiry. (is.
Tattun, .Man, ti, •.>:;.
Tawell, .Vndrew, Aii-iin. ^Farparct. O^.
Tlionias, Withi'r, 'JO.
Thornton (seePoter), l;aniili>h, Peter.
7-2.
Triuawyn. Williani, AMa. 10.
T'litnne, Piichar.l, Adam, '..'1.
Venables, Sir William, •■>.>.
"WUliara, Sir William, "I.
"William, Poger, Ciiibtrt,
"SVilliam, 47.
^Yilliam. Poller, 4^*.
Venlon, IK-nry, Alice, Ki, 17.
Verdun, ?daud ( rif Animlt'l) 4'i.
Vernon, Sir William, Alice, 21, 2(>.
Warin, 10.
Wc.rin, AMa, 40.
Vermin, Pichard, ^labell, ^>2.
Warren, (Jritlin, IsMbcl, .'jO, (iO.
Wetenhale, .John, 41.
Weverham, Piobert, Cliaiilain of, .'lo.
Wodecliirclie, llamon, ]\Iaryery, ."iio.
Wylbiu-liam, Piihard, 40.
JUSTICIARIES OF CHESTER, I>X'LUDED IX THE
PRECEDING NOTICES.
Akdekne, Wai.kf.i.yx, Q-'i, -i-i.
Avitr.K.Y, Jamts, •,'••(.
B.UiIXSMi;i!K, CilNl KT.YX, i'}.
IJori.TON, Thomas, '^4.
Dkaycot, PieiiAun, '-l-i.
GoBAUi>, John, 22.
Gi:ey, John-, '2-2.
Rkoinalp, 2'^.
L'KsTnANor., .hms, '2-2.
I.KXiNTON, John, ■2"2.
Mascy, Pi(IIai:1), 2L
Messii.wakin, Pvi.i'ii, 21.
Montai.t, Poonr,
Nor.wicii. Simon, ■
Ojuu;i;y, Pjtii.ir, ".'
Fvr.co, 2-
Thomas,
Phitin, Piciiai;ii.
Tanf.y, Picas, 2:i.
TaLI'.OT, (IlI.BKf.T.
A'r.ltNON, WlI.T.IAM,
WlLll;', N., •2-2.
ZrcHK, Ar.AN, 22.
WniiAM,
21.
21.
2-!.
G E X E ]l A I, CO X T E X T S.
!
Part I.
Memoii" ou the Lvnt v^mnr, TTot'sk of Le Noreis, or Norhe?, ami ■
its Speke lirancli in piirticular. ..... o-IS
niuslrations of the iireueiliii;.; MenioLr. .... .10-.5i
Table of Couteuts of I'art I. . . . . . ' 53
Part II.
luTHOAi of L.VTH03I in Lancashire, from tlie Norman reriod to Suc-
cession of tlie HorsE of St.\m,ev. .... TtnOs
Note as to similarity of bearinft in the Crests of Lathoji and
ST.\Nij:y, and the Amis of Clecheth. .... (iO-71
Ardekne or ArtPEN of Aevaneey (representative of the Ardemes of
Aldford Castle and I'dford), and the Families from whicli it de-
scends in female line. ...... 72-0-2
De ^loNTAET, Hkrepitarv Seneschal of CiiEsrER. . . 9">-l(ii!
Tlie Early Connexion of the An^lo-Xorman Families of Stokeport,
FiTZ-ltoGER, Banastre. and Gerxet. .... 10', -11.")
Couteuts of I'art II, and Collections. .... lift
Part III.
^ MEMOIR ON THE CHESHIRE P0ME3DAY ROLL.
Introductory Memoir on the formerly existin^j Kidl. . . 1-10
Calendar uf siicli iMitiies iu the formerly existing lloll as lia\e been
recovered, vith references. . . . . .' . 11-20
Notices of .IrsTiriACiEs pre-.idin^ at Cliester during, the period to
which ilie Calendar ivlatos. ..... 21-2t
Indexes to the Memou- on the Domesday PioU. . . . '2')
i.oxnox :
T. RICirARIi"», ■"?, onKVT ijIKKN STIir.rT.
ADDITIONS Ai\D INDEX
MISCELLANEA PALATINA
CONSISTING OF
GENEALOGICAL ESSAYS
iLLOSTnAxm: of
CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE FAMILIES,
AKD OF A
MEMOIR
OR
THE CHESHIEE DOMESDAY ROLL
COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL AUTHORITIES.
B¥
GEORGE ORMErtOD, D.C.L., T.U.S., F.S.A.,
OF TYLDESLEY A^D SEDBUKY F\T.K.
^^f^^^^"^^^
^
"'■^■'^^r^- i-^
NOT PUBLISHED.
The following brief Additions and Index to the "Miscellanea
Palatixa," uhich Avas printed for private distribution in 1851,
are extracted from a larger private work, of wliicli tlie Palatine
Miscellanies form a portion, for the purpose of transmission to
those friends of the Author to whom the original work was
then presented.
SEDBURV PA UK, CUEl'STOW,
April -JGUi, l^:A\.
AUDITIONS TO MISCELLANEA PALATINA.
Arpex or Akderxe of Che-^hire, alleged descent of, from Arlcn of
WarwlcLsliire (p. 73). Since the precediug memoir v,:i>
piiutcJ, the author has seen the Rev. John Watson's tran-
scripts from Arderue 3ISS. on tliis subject, which merely
allege that there were many collaterals of the Warwick-liire
line; that an Earl of Chester, connected with Warwick-
shire by possessions, might patronize some of these, and
that the crosscrosslcts Jitckee oi the Cheshire Anlernes va-v^ht he derived
from the crosscrossh'ts of the Deauchamps, Earls of Warcich.
This compiler was evidently ignorant of the certain de-
duction of the iKone, arms, and 7ii(de descent of the Chohire
line from those of the Northamptonshire family; or of
Vincent's deduction of the last-named Ardeus in ftuade
line from an earlier family of the same name.
Ardex, James, D.D. (p. 91). Much information respecting the lnoal
proceedings of Dean Arderne, in acquiescence with the olgects of James II,
will be found in Bishop Cartwright's Diary, excellently edited, in lbi;3,
for the Camden Society, by the Rev. J. Hunter.
Chester Domesday Roll (Memoir upon, p. 3.) The matter of a
Lecture on the Palatine Records of Chester, delivered there by W. II.
lilack, Esq., Dejjuty Keeper of Records, after the searches made before
the late removal of them to London, has been printed in Fart in of the
Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society.
It mentions (p. 318) that ■Mr. Black has "again searched for the old
Domesday of Chester," but, as fur as is known, the searches have failed.
A review of the ^Memoir here printed, with further notices of tl:C
subject, will be found in Vol. ii (Third Series), p. ISf), of that able and
interesting Serial, the Archa^ologia Cambrensis.
Q Q QI Latiiom op Latiiom (pp. GG-CS). Most of the records
VvVVv] licre cited have been given at length in the Transactions
of the Arclutological Association, 18-30, p. 41 o, from com-
nnuiications by Mr. W. Langton, made after the i.rinting
of this work.
NouKis, Coi.oxEL, Royalist Governor of Warrington
(Norres Memoir, p. ol). Some requisitions, signed by E. Norris, and
printed by the Lancashire and Cheshire Historical Society, iv, p. l'G, are
considered to prove the i.lentity of this olficer with Col. Edw. Norris of
Speke.
NoRREs AXD DuTTOX FiiETS (Norrcs ;\Iemoir, p. 43). In noticing tiiC
alHuitics of the Arms of De Lascy, Dutton, and Norrcs, allusion was made
to the frets in the two latter coats as being probably earlier than the
battle of PoiOTiEus, at which time, Dr. Gower states, on rather loose
authority, that Button, and the other esquires of
Lord Audley, adopted usage of a fret at his re<iuest.
No authority for this armorial usage by Dutton has
occurred earlier than tlic time of Sir Thomas Dutton,
who lived after, as well as before, this battle, and
this, therefore, proves nothing ; but as the Norres
Coat (which has the addition of the fesse) is sup-
posed to be derived from the Coat of Dutton, and,
therefore, later than it, the early use of the fret
by Norres has some interest, and it is shown, by Mr. ^Yatson's transcripts
from the Arden MSS., to have appeared on the seal of Alan Ic Norois,
Lord of Daresbury, 19 Edw. I, which points to the probability of Dutton,
also, having used a similar bearing before the time assigned by the legend
to the first adoption of it.
NoKRES OF Bolton (Xorres ^lemoir, p. 24.) The will of Alex. Norres,
dated 1002-3, and proved in 1604 at Chester (where it has been found in
recent re-arrangement of the wills), mentions his brother, .James Norres,
and, besides the four sons already mentioned, another son, George Norres,
of Bolton and of Leigh, deceased. The last occurs in Dugdale's Visitation
of 1664 (C. 37, Coll. Arm.) as father of iMargaret, wife of Roger Culcheth,
of Aburghara Hall, three of whose sons fell in the civil war, and their
deaths must be added to the contributions to the national carnage pile
made by this family, and mentioned in the Norres Tract, pp. 50-52.
The Norres Maxsiox, " Halt, ith Wood" {ibid, p. 25). From later
examinations, it seems that only a fiart of this fabric was erected by
Alexander Norres. A tablet, on a western chimney, has the letters
L. B. B., and date 1591, referring, probably, to Laurence Brownelowe,
proprietor in 36 Eliz., as by pleadings in Ducatus Lancastrian, vol. 3,
p. 322.
Christopher Norres, the purchaser of this mansion, was tenant ni 1620
of "the Acres Hall," in Bolton, and a small suburban estate there, which
afterwards passed to his kinsmen, the Johnsons of Tyldesley (sec p. 2-;).
It was through this suburb of Bolton that Rupert's cavaliers stormed
the ill-fated town in 1644. Lancashire Civil War Tracts, p. 192.
TvLPF.sLEY OP Tyldesley {ibid, p. 2f;). The ruinous connexion
of this House with plots and civil discords, from the accession of
Charles I to 1745, may be traced in the Lords' Journals with reicrence
to an alleged Lancashire Tupish Pl^t of 1641, tlie Lancashire Civil ^Var
Tracts edited by the writer for the Chctham Society, the Jacobite
Trials in 1694 printed by the same, and the Trials published m the
Historical Register of 1716.
GENERAL INDEX TO THE MISCELLANEA I'ALATINA.
THE NOnr.ES JIEMOIK, AND THE MEMOIR ON THE DOMESDAY ROM., H v\ E.
SEPARATE C.U.ENDARS ATI'ENDED.
The letters, d and a, affixed to numerals, refer, severally, lo tlie Doniosday
Memoir, and to the Additions wbioli are apiieiuled. Tlie oilier nunicr:ils
refer to the Genealogical JMemoirs generally.
Abbeys, etc., Grants to, see Arden,
Bigot, Chester (F.arl of), Lathoin,
Moiitall, Le Norcis, and S3ndl)ach.
Acres Hall, in lidlton, re-idence of
Norres, and aftenvards of Johnson
of Tyldeslcy, 'j.j, and a 4.
Alhini, Cecilia de, wife of Roprcr de
Jlontalt, illustrious descent of, !)ii.
Aldford, Lordshij) and Castle of, 7G ;
Limits and Jurisdiction of the Fee,
ib.
Aldford, Richard de, TH; Probably
father-in law of Sir John deArderne,
his successor, 77; Arms and Seal
of, ib.
Alvanley, inherited from Orreby by
Arderne of Aldford, 7S ; ejectment
of the illegitimate Klford line from,
by I'eter de Arderne, 85.
Arden ( alias de Wattord), of Watford,
in Noriliam]itonsliire, parent line
of the Cheshire Ardernes, and
descendant from other Ardens in
the female line, 73 ; benefactors to
Sulby Abbey and St. James's, Nor-
tliaiiipton, ib.
Ar.DEN, OR Ardehxe, of Ai-dford,
7-2-Hl; improperly considered to
descend in male line from the War-
wickshire Ardens, 7:1, a, :!: deduced
from Arden of Watford, 7:i; .Vld-
ford granted to by I'larl Kaiiulph
111,70; Benefactors to I'ulton and
Cliester .\bl)oys, 7(i; .VUiances ^vith
Onvby nnd .Montalt, 77, 104; with
the Lords of liromti.ld and Princes [
of l'owy>, 7!l, SO; di>i)lac-d IVoiii
Aldford and Elfurd by an ilkgitimate
line, H4. ' '
Arden, or Arderne, Arms and Seals Af,
7-2, 74, 7(i, 7!), Kl, bl, sil, !)(>, a, •!.
Arden, or Arderne, of Alvanley, h-ir
male of Arden of Aldfi^rd, ^•J, s.', ;
obtains Harden by marriage wiiii
Bredbury, n5 ; and Utkiutiin by
marriage with Done. DO : repre'^i-nted
by the Lords Alvanlev,!)l ; pedigree
of, 00.
Arderne of the Oak in Sutton fmale
branch from Alvanlry), re))ro-i.iit'-d
by Hulley and L.uiiain. '.)1.
Arderne of Alderley (malelaanch frmi
Aldford), 81 ; re'presented by Stan-
ley of Alderley, (7;.
Arderne of Dorfobl, pedigree con-
founded by ^'incent with lliai of
Arderne of' Aldford, 87.
Arderne, or Arden, of Klford and
Aldford, later ami illegitimate li!:e,
Arderne, Agnes, Lady, dantrhter and
heir of Sir- I'hilip de Omby, '>'•,
lO.j.
Arderne, Catherine (see Stanley), has
license for au oratory at Ahanley,
88.
Arderne,Janics.P.D.,Peanofriii-t' r,
suits connected with his b-jur-i-
to the] •( all and Chapter,'.'! ; ii-iiir. s
of him liy Bishop Carlwright, Ad-
ditions, ;!.
Ardi-rne, or .Vrden, Sir John, foinhbr
of the .\ldford line, 7.'i ; lli•^ con-
nections with the Larls of Che-ter
and Barons of llalton, 7.'j, 7(1.
Aid.ri.e, Sir.lolm, of Aldioid, 1. . !• r
of theCheshire levies aguinil I'.iu. -■,
80.
GENERAL INDEX.
Arderue, Sir John, suramoiiod to tin;
(ireat Cnuticil at Wi'siininstLr, nI ;
rtliunatos AliU'onl and l-llt'ord to his
iili'giliniate son, s-,', si.
Ardi'nie, l.ndy M;irt:;avct, d;ui^'hior of
OraHydd ap Madog (last I'lince of
Fowl's Vrtdog), so.
Ardorno, I'hilip, founder of tlie Oak
brancli of Aidoiiie, HI.
Arderue, Ralph (of .\l\anlcy), serves
for the Parlininont at the Sieges of
Manciicster and Warrington, 9(1.
Arderne, Sir AValkelNn, Jn-iliiiary of
Chester, t>, 1-4, 15, '2:>; liis connec-
tion with Orreby and Slontalt, 77,
10.1, 105.
Arundel (Earls of), see D'Alhini.
Asliton, or Eston de, Ornie ( alias Onne
Filz-Aihvard), incorrectly claimed
as an ancestor by Asheton, 01, 70.
Astbury, ancient memorial wiudov.'s at,
CO.
Audley Fret, legend respecting 43,
and A, 4.
Banastrc family, 1 10.
Bigot of Aldford, 70; benefactors to
Pulton Abbey, ih.
Blackburn of Oifi>rd, 25.
Botelerof Amounderness, Armsof, the
basis of the Lathom Coat, 5!), 02, 70.
Bredbnry family, probaldy collaterals
of Slokeport, bC ; represented by
Arderne, ib.
EromfielJ, Lords of, (the last Princes
of I'owys A'adog), SO ; see Arderne,
Sir John.
Castle liysing (scat of Montalt), 09,
101.
Cbeylcsmore Castle, at Coventry, scat
of the Earls of Chester and the
IMontaUs, !)s, loi.
Chester, Earldom of, see Domesday
Memoir.
Chester, Seneschal->hii> of, SCO ^lont alt.
Chester, Earls, repre-^entrd tlirough
co-bcirs by D'.Vlbini and .Montalt. 0(1,
101 ; castles and Idrdsbijis inherited
bv MoJitalt fn>ni tlieni, Os, 101.
Cht^tor, Paiuilph III Earl of, his
jjatronage of Sir John de .Vrdi rne,
" Miles meus," 75 ; successive Earls
of this name n, 0.
Culchttli of CuK'heih, arms of, and
]>os>ibIe connexion with the Laihoni
Crest, 7 0.
Culdcrs, si'ttlcments of, in Lanca-
shire, 111.
Delamere. hereditary forester^hip of,
hidd snci-cs>ivi ly b\ KingsK-y,l)oiie,
and Arderne, '.)(».
Domesday. Memoir on the CiiEsuir.i;
Koi.r. so called (last of the genea-
logical e^says), coiu'ts and rucords
of the Jlarls Palatine, 1 ; notii-es of
the 1 )omes<lay P.'cord as " Jo^tulus,"
2; aulliorities for the quoted frag-
ments of it, 4 ; Sandbach cau-o
identifying flower's collection of
these fragments as genniui', 5-l(i;
calendar of fragments recovered by
the author, 11-20; notices of con-
temporary Justiciaries connected
with these fiagmeuts, 21: names
of places and persons mentioned in
these documents, 25-27 ; additional
notice of, a, 3.
Done of Utkinton, family of, 00:
hereditary foresters of Delamere,
ih.; their military prowess, i'j.; Sir
John Done, last forester in this
line, 91 ; Lady Dune, Pennant's pat-
tern of Cheshire perfection, ib.;
visit of king James to, ib.; division
of the estates, ib.; represented by
Arderne, 00.
Drumniond (Henry, M.P.), correotinn
of his theory with respect to origin
of the Cheshire Ardcrnes, 73. a.4.
Elford, a seat of Arderne of Aldford,
78, 70, 84; derived throu-'li Mon-
talt from the Earls of Cliester, OS,
105.
Fazackerley, PiOger, alleged paramov.r
of Lady Latliom. the motlier of the
legendary foundling, 07.
f itz-ltuger, founder of Ly thorn Priory
110.
Floddon Field, considered with refer-
ence to the services of Lancashire
and Cheshire families, and particu-
larly with respect loeiTors regarding
Nurres of Speke (see calendia- to
Norres Essav).
Ford of Abbeykeld, 25.
Gernet of Halton, family, 113.
(irosvenor of Eaton, descent of Done
from, 01.
Ilarilen in Bredbnry. i^O ; the name
of Ardcu improperly derived from
it, 80.
Hawarden Castle, seat of Montalt, 101.
Johnson of Tyldesloy family, 25, a 4.
Jidnison, Thonjas, of 'I'Udrsley. 25.
Justiciaries of Chester, calendar of,
i>, 21; abstract of pa\meni illus-
trating the purchases anil peniuisit>s
of the ollice, i>, ,4.
Kin^sley of Kingsley, foresters of
Didailure, 0(1.
I.ancu.ster, Juhn D. of, advocates the
GENERAL IXDEX.
cause of Elena de Latlioni, ai?nin<t
Sir John Stanley, 07, (is.
Lathom of I,iUliom, :>'.)-'; I ; proof-; of
the curlier descent from Testa de
Nevill, r.U; heirs general of Ornic
Fitz-Ailuard de Eston, (11, (ivj ; Cus-
tos of tlio Honor and Cattle of Lan-
caster, (5.1 ; 1 tainted windows relative
to, 03, O'.t ; docnnients relative to
the eagle and child legend, and to
the succession of Stanley, OA-fis,
A, 1; seals and arms, ;jl), (i-^', (;:i,
09 ; pedigree, (js.
Lathom, seemingly the Latune of
Domesday, 00; dependent estat.-s
before the a-ra of the thiid Sir
Robert de Lathum, (i-J.
Lathom of Asthury, 0-J, 0;).
Lathom of Lathom, collaterals of, OS.
Lathom of Eradwall, represenialive
(through Mere) of Lathr.m of
Astburv, 08 ; and of Arderne of the
Oalc, Ui.
Lathom. .Tolin. IM.r).. F.Il.S , of Brad-
wall, Os, ii-i.
Lathom, Isabella and Elena, rival
claims of, 07.
Lathom, Kohert, Fitz-Henry, founder
of Bnrsc'ingh Abbey, OF
Lathom, Sir Fobert, Gustos of tlje
Honor and Castlf of Lancaster.
03.
Lathom, Sir Thomas, the'- Sir Oskatel"
of the k-gend, 01.
Lythom, vill. and priory of, 111 .
Mere of ;Mere. representation of, by
Lathom of liradwall. Cm.
IMontalt, .Mohaut, or JMold, feudal and
military fortress. 03, !)0, IDL
Mo.NTALT, I'alaline P.arons of, the
Hcieditary Seneschals of Chester,
!J3-ll)0 ; Aicbdale's trrors ri-spcct-
ing them, 03, 10-2 ; named from
Mold, 04 ; Norman estate near
Hayeux, 01 ; benefactions to, and
struggles uitli, ecclesiastics, 05,
07; Co iir.riis ok tiik F.aut.s or
Chksif.i:, anp of tiif. Fahls of
AKVNin:!,. 00, 07; peers of the
realm, 101 ; sale of estates to tht-
crown, 101; castles, of named, »/>.;
claims of luirsbip by Morley and by I
Gleggc, 103; rei)rL'S(.'ntative"desti-n"t
of Arderne from. 7!). l(i:i, loi; ; p,.ili-
gree of Montalt, IdO. |
Montalt, Mili^i-nt (!.■, errors of Dug
dale rtspceting, 00.
Montalt, llogor de, struggle will
Chester Plonks, 00.
Moutalt, Koger Ue, previously con
en
.li,-
giti-
his
founded with the preceding. 00;
has restitution of ."Mold, //<. ; nvuii.'s
the CO hiiri'ss of l.;,,,! Wi!li.,i,i
d'Albini, Ih.; herillustrious d, -c ,iii.
00; sells part of Coventrv t.> i>ri'-
pare for tlie Cru.-ade, ih.] ih,
mity of the ck-r'.'y ami hi,
tress.^s, !)7.
.Alontalt of Fidlesden, 00.
Movley, Sir Itobert, i>rid.able ill
macy of, 10-.i.
Mowbray. Koger, allianc of
daughter with Montalt, lU'J.
Nor.RKs OF SrF.icE, and cidh.tcral
branches. Memoir upon, nad l.t--
fore the Lancashire an. I Clif-hire
Historical Society, Is.Mi.
•»* An amph Tabic of Caul, iit.-: ix
added at the close of tlua .Memoir,
Xip. 53-55.
Norres and I'utton, allinities between
the arms rf 43, and a, 4.
Norres of F.olton, im-hiding the
branches therefrom stverallv an-
cestors of IJlackbnrne of Hale,
Johnson of TykU-sloy, and Staikic
of Himiroyd, --24, and a 4.
Norres, .-Vkxander, of Hall ith W 1,
Treasurer to the I'arliami ntary
LifUtenancy of Lancashire, ■-.;•'.■. a, i.
Norris, Col. Fdw., Governor ot \\ :.r-
rington, 50, and a, 3.
Norris, '"Sir Edward" (Seacomes
fictitious Hero of Flodden), errors
respecting, 30.
("'rmerod of Tyldeslev. coheir <.f
Johnson and Norres of Fxdii.n. •.:5.
Orreby of Alvanley, 77, 103 ; Sie
Calendars to the iJonr.esday Memoir.
ratronymics, cxemplilicaiion of . ally
v,se of, by the Lathf^ns, (i(t o-j.
Sandbach of Sandbach, betii lacti.-i'.s
of and disputes with Ahl.it^ uf
Fieularres (Domesday MLiiifMr).
Seacome, his perversion of the La-
thom Legend, 05; an<l inaccmatii-s
as to ii fictitious Sir Edward .Wiris
and Flodd.ii Field, .'.D.
Staidey of Hooton, Ku'litrinu, \\ife of
Italph de Arderne. and foundn.ss
of an oratory at Ahaidcy. s^.
Stanley, Sir .bihn, an.'-st..r of iln-
Hou'.sc of n.ii..\, ,Vc., by liis vif-s
Isabel d.- Lathom. Os.
Starkie of Iliniirov.l, heir u'cn. ral of
Norres of Mall iiii Woo,l,'-J.-|.
Stoiu'.I'okt Fa;)Ii.v, connexion of its
Haily duscent with I-'it/-Uou'<'r,
Jiaiiastrc, (ierint. and .NrdcriK-. see
Stokipurt Gciuali't/ical Ksaihj, lui.
GF.NPniAl, INDEX.
Tyldesley of TyUlesloy, JO ; political
cniuliict and niin of, a, 4.
Vciiabli's of Kin(K>i-ton, connexions
with Artlernc, SO, M ; with I.atliom,
fiTi ; su])posed dosceiit of the Dunes
of Ulkintou from, 00.
AVestroys, Les, name of the Banastres
on their first settlement in Lan-
cashire, 11 -2.
Wevi-r, Kliziilieth, heiress of the
"VVeversof Wever and .\Iderley, and
ancestress of Stanley and Done, SI.
CORRECTIONS.
N0RRE3 ME5I0IK.
Page 32, line 7, for " Cholmondeley," read " Chorley."
„ 63, lino 10, for " Sefton," read " Chester."
GKNEALOGICAL MEMOIRS.
Page CI, Note, after " Ashton," read, " Father of Sir Robert."
„ 83, line 12, and 84, line 2, for " Robert," read " Richard."
Arderne Ped., i«s«'i= between Nicolas de Eton (!s: Margt. de Ardenic
„ For Jane, wife of " Thurstan Hyde," read " Holland."
DOMESDAY MEMOIK.
Page 4, Note, for " Norfolk," read " Suffolk."
„ 11, line 12, for "receiving," read "reserving."
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